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I’m a 12 year old boy and we just built our first raised bed a few days ago. I’m very exited cause it is my first time growing in a raised bed! Before I used to grow in grow bags in an apartment patio. I am excited to try out growing many new vegetables this year!
I learned how empowering it is to grow your own food and fall in love with the manifestation of your own creation. Marvelous! I pray I win. All praises to the Father that made gardening possible. HalleluYAH!👏🏿🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I am a beginner gardener and I’ve learned so much , from growing tomatoes 🍅 how much birds love the ropes one and so much more , perfect activity for seniors.
I love that you have "thrillers", "fillers", and "spillers" in the raised bed. It makes so much sense and it's something I'm going to try in my raised bed this year. Thanks so much!!
Love all of your videos. Been enjoying them for 10 months now and my garden has grown from carrots and beets to zucchini, lettuces, arugula, kale, spinach, chard, snap peas, herbs, and several varieties of cucumber, tomato, pepper, melons, and pollinators. I'm growing sprouts indoors too. There's nothing like a fresh garden salad every day. I appreciate the DIY trellis tips too. Thanks CaliKim, I couldn't have done it without you!
First year gardening, and I am really excited. I'm most looking forward to teaching my toddler where food comes from, and instilling a love for vegitables. As far as what we are growing, I'm looking forward to tomatoes the most but I think my husband has his eyes on watermelon and greens. I learned how important it is to mulch in order to give the plants some extra protection. This sounds especially important here where the summers run well above 110 degrees.
. As a first year gardener, I've learned a tremendous amount about gardening from you. I’m determined to start eating more vegetables and from what I hear, growing your own is the way to go. You are my go to for each step of this process,
Just found your vids. They’re the best out of all instructional Utube vids because; 1.) no silly self aggrandizing super hyper intro graphics, with fireworks, flames, rockets, lightening... uhg. 2.) and because of what you’re lacking, (see above), a simple intro into the subject matter. 3.) easy to understand, clear demos, Thanks for the help.
We have gardened in ground for over 35 years and that’s all we have known. Recently our daughter moved to CA and we found your channel while looking for ideas to help her start some raised beds in her backyard! You are so informative and we are so excited to help her with some fresh new ideas. The grow bags will be wonderful for her! Looking forward to your give away on the 14th which by the way is my 53rd birthday😁
My husband and I just started our first garden this month! We are so excited to feed our son fresh and healthy veggies that we all plant and care for together. Thank you for all of your awesome videos, we really enjoy them!
Kim, thank you again for another wonderful video and generous opportunity. I learned that you can put cucumbers 2-3 inches apart in your containers! I was putting them way too far apart! We have such a small backyard with thin walkways as a 33 yr old with stage 4 spinal degeneration & 7 herniated discs in my thoracic and 3 in my lumbar gardening is really hard on my back but I LOVE the joy I get watching my plant babies grow & bloom and spending time with my mom as a mother daughter garden project. Having this elevated container would give us so much room to be able to grow more and not be so hard on my back! Thank you so much for always sharing. I always learn so much from you every time I watch your videos! Also leaned that we can start our basil in the milk carton 1/2! That’s awesome. Many Blessings!
I am planting 3 raised beds on legs. One is a vegetable garden, the second is a hummingbird and pollinator garden, and the third is a cocktail herb garden. Thank you so much this video was very helpful for a first time raised gardener!
I have learned so much about veggie gardening through your videos! Years ago, I tried starting seeds indoors, with no success. But then I found your videos and thought I'd give it another try. I now have tomato plants that I started indoors, just waiting to be planted outside! So thank you and Camera Guy for all you do!
Your videos not only inspired me to create a back-yard garden using raised beds, but have made the entire project fun and easy! I've planted a wonderful combination of flowers and vegetables using trellises as you recommended. Now just waiting on the "fruits of my labor": Peppers, tomatoes, peas, cucumbers, zucchini, beans, basil, catnip, sunflowers, and an assortment of herbs. Even planted Lemon and Fig Trees as well a strawberries! Thanks for all you do! Keep the videos coming! D. Jones
Every time I watch your videos I gain more confidence that I can do this!! I'm planting my first raised bed next bed next week and I'm so excited to grow delicious food for my family and become more self sufficient! 🤩
The greatest thing you can put in your garden is your shadow. I'm looking forward to growing enough cabbage for my own sauerkraut. Great tips as always. Thanks Kim
Thanks for this tutorial. I have been mulling over how to make an effective plan to plant in a raised bed, get the most out of it and still make sure everything has the room it needs. Now I have that. This is my first spring planting in 20 years and my very first time planting my own seedlings. I am excited to have finally figured out a way to have a garden with very little garden space. Its experiment time and I've been soaking up all the knowledge I can from your channel. Thanks again from Washington state.
What I learned is "thrillers, fillers and spillers" for a pretty garden! I'm most excited about, as a newbie gardener, is growing my nightly dinner right outside my back door! 🥕🍓🥬🍅😋
I came upon your video by accident or maybe by someone's design as I had no intention of viewing a video about gardening at this time of the evening. However, after watching your video, I realized that it was divine intervention as it helped to push me from contemplating planting a raised bed to actually planning to make one. It also relaxed me before I embark on work-related tasks. You make gardening seem so easy and fun. I hope to have as much fun even if I end up killing a few plants in the process.
I’m a new gardener. At first I was one of the super scared people who thought they were going to kill them. But I started watching your videos and learning and I am successfully growing some jalapeños, tiny tim tomatoes and recently planted a bunch of seeds from your spring seed collection in pea pellets. So much has already started growing. Soon I will begin transplanting into smart pots and a raised bed I purchased. Thanks for the tips in this video it will help me a lot. 😊😊
Hi Calikim, over the last four years, I have learnt a lot about vegetable gardening from your videos. Today, I learnt how to make a cheap functional trellis for my cucumbers and other vegetables Thank you for the information.
You have taught me so much over the last year! I literally got up and planted my sunflower seeds in my raised bed after watching this video! I am so excited to plant my 2 varieties of peppers, 3 varieties of tomatoes, bush beans, peas, sunflowers and marigolds!! Last year (my first year gardening ever) I did containers only, this year I’m doing my first raised bed with some containers too. First time using a fabric pot also! Ooh and I’m using compost from my bin for the first year also, all because of what you’ve taught me. I’m so grateful!
What I have learned is that gardening is not complicated . If you are willing to accept the failures and learn from them you can be successful in the future.
I'm am excited about planting cucumbers, tomatoes, and squash in my raised bed! I have learned that the more fresh vegetables you grow the more you enjoy gardening.
This is my first year with a bigger garden & starting from seed. I was always so intimidated to start from seed but after a little research and watching your videos I realized there was nothing to be scared of. So I am excited to see how my success is this year with more plants. I am growing in smart pots and 2’ x 4’ a raised bed I built out of some leftover wood I had from a different project! The sunniest part of my yard is on my deck so raised beds and smart pots were the way to go! So glad there are options out there for everyone.
I’m so excited for the warmer weather to be able to start eating from the garden again more than just lettuces and such. My kids love to snack in the garden and can’t wait for the tomatoes, peppers and more! Such fun!
This is my second year of gardening. Your videos about companion planting have really helped me. I'm working on growing lots of leafy greens, cucumbers, and tomatoes. Happy gardening!
I love your thriller fillers and spillers when planting. It makes it easier to fill a raised bed. In stead of trying to throw a bunch of veggies in the pots and having shading issue when everything is all grown.
This is my second year in gardening in Mississippi. My first year was not much success so l watched lots of videos and read a lot. Thanks to your beautiful, informative videos, my raised bed garden this year is doing great. My plants are healthy and already started to produce even at this hot and humid climate. I can not wait to pick my tomatoes. Appreciate all the tips that you shared.
This will be my first time planting a raised bed. You were the first gardener I started following and you have helped me so much. This video is what I've been wanting. It showed exactly, step by step how, what, and why what needs to be done. We new type A gardeners need this. 😁
I like how you make a trellis out of inexpensive materials and keep things simple. I just planted some strawberries in a fabric pot with some garlic that’s already established with some annual flowers. Thanks for your down to earth nature and for keeping it simple! 🌻🌻🌻🌻
I love how you explained gardening in small areas. I learned how to assort a variety of vegetables in a raised bed with a trellis and how to place them with thrillers, fillers, spillers and how not to pack your raised beds to full.
Hi CaliKim! I tried posting this a couple of days ago, but the post immediately disappeared-maybe it’s too long lol? Trying one more time! I’m a first-time gardener; we received a 5’x2’ raised bed planter for the holidays-best gift ever! My 4-year-old and I started our garden about a month ago (we live in Florida), and he has been so excited to watch everything grow! I knew nothing about gardening, so researched a little of square foot gardening since our growing space was so small and used that as an initial guide, but found you and your helpful and inspirational videos a couple of weeks ago and have been watching and learning everything we can ever since! I wish I had found you sooner, as I now know some mistakes I made-for example, we direct-sowed everything and from you, learned that we could have planted the tomatoes deeper had we started them as seedlings indoors and transplanted, producing a more productive plant. I didn’t know about “tiny Tim’s” until finding you, which would have been a perfect variety for our small planter; we are growing the “chocolate cherry” variety. I also didn’t realize how many fruit and vegetables could be grown vertically, creating more space and we erroneously planted a watermelon in the front of the raised bed! It’s such a small square (12” across x 9.5” down), we don’t know which kind of trellis would work that could fit and be strong enough to support the watermelon? The tomato plant described above is behind it and we don’t want to shade it out. Any suggestions? We are worried for it to hang over the planter, as it is 3ft off the ground and are worried that the vine may break? And don’t want to it to get powdery mildew, something else we learned from you! Since watching your videos, we also learned how crucial thinning plants is; we are only 4weeks in, but I’ve thinned the seedlings, even though it broke my heart to do so. Your veggies look so healthy and bountiful so we are trying all of your suggestions! Our cut seedlings were added to our compost pile, which we also learned how to start from you! From your suggestions, we have amended our soil with VermisTerra worm castings as a top-dress with amazing results (wish we had known prior to planting, as we would’ve added to the planting hole, but it’s a learning experience!). We are most excited to harvest (although we’ve already started eating some of the mesclun lettuce, using the “cut and come again” method you’ve described), especially the cucumbers, tomatoes and watermelon (fortunately, it’s a “Sugar Baby”!) and hope, with all of your tips, it will be a great first one! Our raised bed is quite small and we would love the opportunity to grow a few more veggies that our current space won’t allow and for our little one to have a growing patch all his own 🍓 Thank you for making gardening more approachable and successful for us novices and more experienced gardeners alike. We appreciate you, CaliKim!
Hi CaliKim! My 12 yr old son and I love watching your UA-cam videos during Covid! Honestly, I wasn't into planting veggies because I don't like dealing with bugs eating the leaves plus our yard is not that that big. However, watching all your videos on ideas of planting sugar baby watermelons and plants vertically, we were inspired! I love that you keep your videos real and don't hide the bad stuff like when your cantaloupe was eaten by rats! 😡😅 We are afraid that would happen to us too! My son just loved it when Camera man rolled his eyes when he asked you to try the cantaloupe first. We just started growing sugar baby watermelons and 8 sprouted! Yay! We get so excited everyday to check how many sprouted! 😂 We have such a great time watching your videos! In this video, we learned that to save money on soil to put sticks, branches and leaves on the bottom layer of the garden bed. We loved how you made your vertical trellis using poultry wire! We will definitely try this! 👍 We were thinking of growing sugar snap peas, eggplants and thai chili using your method of trellis and the raised cloth bed. I usually don't comment videos but my son encouraged me so that we can try for the raised garden bed sweepstakes. He says this would make a cool Mother's day gift for the both of us! 💕 Thank you for all you do! Hopefully, one day you will have a CaliKim garden farm so we can have a family outing. That would be so cool! 😊
I can't wait for my Tiny Tim Tomatoes to start producing. I keep one in a pot on the patio table as a centerpiece. Friends and family can pop off a snack and they always comment about how cute the plant is. I'm growing most of my peppers in smart pots this year. They seem to produce better than in ground. I can also extend my growing season by moving them in and out of the greenhouse. Love the new smart pot colors and the new handles!
I followed you last year and utilized your tips in growing vegetables and flowers. I am here again and learned so much from watching your spring garden series. Thanks for teaching and inspiring.
Love how you always use reusable cloth "pots" and the CaliKim smart pots are perfect for small spaces. This is my first year attempting a vegetable garden and have done research to help with my chances for success. I would be honored to use your 2x4 or any of the pots. I have even researched square foot gardening considering my limited space but have a perfect spot for small raised bed in full sun. Thank you for all of your helpful tips, and at pace that we beginners can understand. Thanks again Kim : )
Thank you Calikim for bringing container gardening to your viewers attention and for this opportunity to participate in a give away. Also putting drip irrigation in these containers.
This year is our first year gardening and we’ve been watching all of your videos from small gardening with great vertical ideas to this one learning how we can be prepared for the changing of seasons - we learned how easy it is to plant together vegetables you actually eat that are thrillers, fillers, and spillers. We also learned how plantings sunflowers (our favorite flower) can be a quick fix to pollinate. We can’t wait to see our spring harvest using your informative tips. Thank you CaliKim!!
Thank you so much for again thinking of people growing on a balcony above other balconies. No one else does. I've learned how to do everything from growing indoors with grow lights to growing on my balcony. I've started lima beans, peas, cucumbers and trying both regular tomatoes and cherry tomatoes. After I got those outside I'm now using my grow lights for microgreens indoors. I can't thank you enough.
Thank you for teaching and encouraging us on planting our gardens! My husband just put in a raised garden bed for me. He is a country guy, but I'm from the city. I have never gone down the gardening road on my own. This is a first. Your videos have been very encouraging. To build my confidence, I'm planning to do tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, and lettuce this year. I really hope it works out.
Love this video. I'm recently retired and my wife felt I needed a hobby, so she bought me a Yoocann hydroponic grow system so I can grow my own herbs and vegetables. I soon started transplanting in Large and small pots. I now want to start a raised bed and your video here definitely gave me something to think about. Thanks for the video!
CALIKIM. I’m new to your channel & I have to say, I love it! I’m recovering from cancer & can’t get down in the garden like I want so I’m sooo excited about your pots! I used to live in apartments so containers were my thing but I moved to a house & couldn’t kick the habit. I also love how you improvise using out of the normal things to trellis. I’m an old school gardener but love learning new ways to grow. Thanks. Oh & I love your pup appearances.👍🥰👩🌾🌿🙋♀️
This series is incredibly helpful. I have learned that it truly doesn’t take as much space as I thought to grow your own food. I also loved your growing on your deck series- small space series and have gone back to watch it several times. Still don’t have all the smart pots that i need, but little by little... Thank you for your knowledge and tips!
64 years young and learning about grow bags. You encouraged me to start seeds and it’s been amazing!Started watching before Covid and WOW I’m a different woman in a great way ‘!!! 🧑🏾🌾🪴💞
I learned another way to make a DIY trellis as well as the concept of thrillers, fillers and spillers. I've learned so much from you this past year and enjoy sharing it with others who are hesitant to start gardening.
Aloha Kim, I am a novice vegetable gardener. I have been watching your videos for months and I appreciate your advice on organic gardening and I continue to learn from you and your expertise in gardening. I started growing seedlings but I continue to fail growing cucumbers and zucchini. I think I’m transplanting them too soon because they die after transplanting. I have several poblano peppers that are growing and I plan to put them in my smart pot containers. Thank you again for sharing your garden and your expertise to the world.
Thank you calikim for teaching me how to make starter soil and start seedlings indoors. It has been such a great experience gardening with you. My kids are excited to start gardening with me.
Planting in a raised bed for the first time. Also this is the first time in several years that I have had a garden. Loved all the info on planting in a raised bed!
Commenting out of competition (I know there is no shipping outside of US): What I learned from you years ago is, that you never can cram enough veggies in a raised bed, haha. Then harvest the greens young and plant some new. Works perfect. This new combination of yours will be a hit! I love your new trellis idea, by the way.
Wow! I learned that a few square feet can produce a lot of food for my family. Most of all, this video has encouraged me to try to growing new vegetables that I normally wouldn't grow. Happy Gardening!
I am so excited about my spring garden. I am growing many new things including eggplants, kajari melons, cut flower garden, wild flower garden and lots more all in containers. I appreciate all the encouragement from Kim. Thank you so much.
I’ve been watching and rewatching your videos the past couple months in hopes of having more success this year with my tiny garden. I think one of the most important things I learned in this video is to include pollinator plants in with my vegetables. Thanks for all the great videos and information. 💕💕
I’ve learned that I can be very creative when trying to figure out trellising and I am so excited that I am growing potatoes this year for the first time in pots.
I came across one of your videos and I am amazed at what you do! I have never gardened before, but you have inspired me! I am a teacher and I see a very gifted teacher in you. Thank you for your generosity in sharing from the wealth of knowledge which you possess. First time trying to grow veggies using grow pots. Excited & praying for success. Really enjoy reading comments from everyone as well.
Love all the useful information. I've been gardening for a few years now, and a lot of my success comes from gardens like you and Gary sharing very helpful tips and pointers. Thank you!!
I love that you planted sunflowers inside a raised bed! I didn't realize you could do that. I'd assumed the loose soil either wouldn't support it or that it would shade my bed. I'm SO excited to pop in some sunflowers all over the garden this year! After all, I live in the Sunflower State! Thanks, Kim.
I learned so much. I didn’t know you could plant flowers in the same container with veggies. I learned that smart pots has a 2x4 raised bed, and I learned how to make my own trellis with fence posts. I also learned how important it is to mulch to protect the plants. And finally I learned that I could directly seed lettuce and kale in the soil. Thanks!
You’ve taught me I can garden abundantly in a small space. I love your seed collections and am grateful for all the knowledge you continue to share with the gardening community. Love the smart pots, would be thrilled to try the raised bed!
I love your simple solution for adding vertical space to your raised bed. The chicken wire and lumber pieces are so inexpensive, and assembling the trellis support looks like it would be so simple to do! I have a raised bed and I look forward to making use of that vertical space for more veggies this spring! I was completely unaware of fabric pots and look forward to adding some smart pots to my deck to add some flowers and veggies there!
I've learned so much from your videos! I never knew about the thrillers, fillers, and spillers concept before. I'm very excited to grow some beans, peas, peppers, and lettuce this spring! I made some grow light boxes for my lettuce so that I can grow them indoors and they are doing great. Thanks for all the tips and gardening lessons. I'm really enjoying growing my own food and learning new things in the garden!
Hi Cali Kim, I’m so excited for spring 🌸. This is my second year of spring gardening with you 👩🏽🌾. I’m growing sugar baby watermelons 🍉, cherry and roma tomatoes 🍅, sweet peppers 🌶, strawberries 🍓, spinach and a wide variety of herbs 🌿. I just can’t wait for my first harvest. Thank you as always for your advice and helpful tips. Happy gardening. 👩🏽🌾🌱
This is my very first year gardening. Unfortunately in the past I've killed everything from cactus to pansies. Thanks to you I've learned about using grow boxes, fertilizing, watering from the bottom. It's amazing how far I've come now I've got over 93 seedlings and can't wait to get them out into the garden. 😂 Thanks so much for all your tips and advice.
Ive learned so much from you . I discovered your channel last year and you really inspired me to start gardening. Ive learned how to grow vegetables in small spaces, how to care for the plants before and after being transplanted. There are so many things I’ve learned from every single video. Thank you so much.
Hi Calikim - Yes; I am planting in raised beds due to my urban setting. I really enjoyed the thriller, filler and spiller concept and would not have considered this visually appealing and functional use of such a small space. Additionally, I would not have thought you could plant so intensively in a 2x4 raised space. Thank you for always opening my mind to new gardening concepts.
This is my very first time gardening *container gardening * and I am doing it on my apartment balcony💜!! Learning how to strategically place my plants "thrillers, fillers and spillers" amazing concept and it makes total sense and easy to remember! I have lalso earned that the fabric pots are very efficient,versatile and easy one the eye when the come in colors!!😍. I 💜 them!
My husband and I are raised garden bed beginners and we are excited to see what all we can grow in our raised bed. We loved your video that gave us some great ideas!
It's amazing how much you're growing in that little bed! That's what I learned from you this week and am so excited to get in my garden and try using every inch of growing space!!
This was very helpful. I like how you planted so much variety in one raised bed. Thorough yet simple. I didn’t realize you had to cover after planting- thanks for showing that
I absolutely love watching you love your garden . You are an inspiration to all the new gardeners . You always make it look so easy . Since starting watching you last year I have tried additional potted garden plants peppers of course . But now I am so going to do the raised bed with multiple levels . I love the way it looks so clean and pulled together . Thank you so much for all your teaching .
Last year was the first year I did raised bed gardening. There were some hits and misses! This year I am hopeful because your video catalog has taught me how to be more observant and proactive in order to tackle pests and disease. 🌹
I've added raised beds to my garden this season and I'm so excited to start growing in them! It's just a bit too early to start planting outside in zone 5, so instead I've been planning what's going in each bed. This video is perfect timing for me with the "thrillers, fillers and spillers" concept. I'm looking forward to incorporating it into my plans. Thanks for a great and timely video!
I have learned so much from watching your videos and reading your book. My gardening fascination started with fruit trees and I was pretty disappointed that fruit trees take a few years to bare fruit so I tried vegetables for the first time last year. This is my first year growing in raised beds (last year I had 1 raised planter). Can’t wait to harvest my watermelon, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash. Also to my excitement, all of my fruit trees are growing fruit this year!
After living in an apt for 5 years I am back in a house with a yard!!! So excited to start gardening again. I have a blank slate, nothing in the yard but a small tree. Love your vids..
What a great tip about lining the bottom of the bed with sticks and leaves to save on potting soil. I love Springtime gardening - everything is coming out.
CaliKim, I LOOOVE this video. You are so skilled at putting a raised bed together, the presentation, instruction, and teaching of it, and all the elements worked perfectly together! I love this new raised bed and the trellis, and the wonderful Smartpots colors available now!
I've been following along the entire series. I am in a new home with nothing but 1/2 acres of grass! This year I decided to just plant veggies in smart pots and next year graduate to a raised bed system. I have learned so much from you. My seedlings are itching to get in the soil...about another week here until the last frost date. Thanks, CaliKim!!
Hi Kim! My daughter's and I always watch your gardening videos and we learn so much every time we watch. In this video I learned how to make the vertical trellis that is compact and functional! This Spring we planted eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, and moringa!! 😊
I was so excited to see your video. My husband's family were vegetable farmers. My kids grew up teething on corn.and green peppers. After my husband passed away, the gardening ended. I have missed fresh vegetables so much that I thought I would try a raised garden. I love the fabric raised bed. I had never heard of it before. After watching your show, I know I can do it and manage it. Plus you explained it so well that I have the confidence to do it. Even if I don't win, Thank you!
I love the thrillers, fillers & spillers. I always have a hard time thinking about what to put in my larger containers. That little tip will help me work through that for sure!
I learned a lot about squash plants in this video, I learned that they don't like having their roots disturbed (I actually had to repot my squash plant 3 times, so now I know why it died on me) and I also learned that I can use squash plants as a "spiller". So I'm absolutely excited about growing them once again this spring and summer. Thank you.
I am having so much fun gardening and learning new things in the garden. Your seeds are doing well in my Oregon garden 😀. Keep doing what you’re doing !!!!!
Love love the idea of Smart Pots! So cool. I always used plastic containers, but now I've learned that 'breathable' pots like Smart Pots prevent roots from getting wound up and root bound. I learn something from Cali's channel each time I watch one of her videos. Thanks Cali!
Things I learned was always put new nutrients in your gardens soil to renew your garden soil after planting in your garden bed, put mulch on your garden beds to protect your plant from the cold or extreme heat and it helps with water evaporation. New things i am looking forward to in spring is growing different types of flowers and watching cali kim. I hope I win it will really benefit my new garden Cali kim.
I have two raised beds. In one, I am growing strawberries (everbearing ones. The second, I am growing kale, lettuce, spinach, green peppers, and carrots. I have out of work since November 2019 and I am a honorable discharged veteran. Thank you so much for your videos. I am subscriber. I think you are smart and beautiful. Keep up the good work.
This is my first year trying gardening and I'm so happy I found this channel! I'm most excited about trying to grow some peppers this year. Starting small!
Your videos are so inspiring! Since I’ve been tuning in, I’ve started seeds from your collections using indoor grow lights. I wasn’t sure how I was going to plant my seedlings once the last frost date passed but this video has certainly given me plenty of ideas and even more inspiration. I can’t wait to start making my own trellis for the cucumbers I’m growing. I also leaned a few ideas for companion planting. My basil seeds and tomatoes are just forming their true leaves and I’m super excited to learn they can be planted together in the same space. I have leaned so much from your videos. This is my first real attempt to grow more than just flowers and tomatoes. Hopefully I too will have green thumbs this year and a good harvest! Thank you so much!
For as long as I can remember, my mum and I have planted Ivy geraniums on our deck. Last fall I built wooden stained raised garden beds where I will be planting Strawberries, Canteloupe, Zucchini, and much more. Your videos have really helped me expand my knowledge. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
I am a new gardener and have been watching your channel. I try things to grow my seeds and even If sometimes they don’t germinate I just go back to your video and try again. Your instructions and videos inspire me to keep on going. I will try with the 2x4 raised bed soon instead of doing planting in containers. Thanks so much for all the great tips.
Thank you Kim for showing how to grow plenty of vegetables using raised beds! I can’t wait to try smart pots this year! I absolutely love the color of the 5 gallon smart pots. So pretty! I loved the tip on how to fill the raised beds with leaves, branches rather than filling them all the way through with soil. Can’t wait to try. Thanks for all that you do! Keep up the great work!
First year gardening, can't wait to have my raised beds ready for planting. I have learned so much with you, for ex. trellis, pollinator plant...etc. Thank you for all your teachings and for the opportunity.
I'm most excited to just be growing vegetables ! I have never grown any before in my life, and I have tomatoes, peppers, onions and basil started so far indoors. My sugar snap peas germinated after only 6 days, and I can't wait to harvest them once it's time! Thank you for your guidance in all of your videos.
I learned that you could garden anywhere. I’ve got 6 small raised beds and lots of pots as well. So far my favorite thing is potatoes! Can’t wait to dig them up! Happy gardening!!!
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Sale - 25% off with the code “letsgrow” at calikimgardenandhome.com. Sale expires Wed, April 14th, 2021. Includes 23 CaliKim Seed Collections (spring garden, container garden, eggplant, pea, herbs, lettuce, heat tolerant and more), my book, “Organic Gardening for Everyone”, all book/seed bundles, and CaliKim SmartPots. NEW: CaliKim 5 gallon Smart Pots in vivid colors with handles now available.
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Thanks for gardening with us!
I'm so excited to buy some of those new pots!!
Kim, by the way I'm from kenner Louisiana and I am a fan of you and all the videos you post.
@@amandagraham8869 I am from nola!
Love your advice even though living in a colder climate then California
U have given me some new ideas for my container garden. THANKS
I’m a 12 year old boy and we just built our first raised bed a few days ago. I’m very exited cause it is my first time growing in a raised bed! Before I used to grow in grow bags in an apartment patio. I am excited to try out growing many new vegetables this year!
I learned how empowering it is to grow your own food and fall in love with the manifestation of your own creation. Marvelous! I pray I win. All praises to the Father that made gardening possible. HalleluYAH!👏🏿🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I am a beginner gardener and I’ve learned so much , from growing tomatoes 🍅 how much birds love the ropes one and so much more , perfect activity for seniors.
I love that you have "thrillers", "fillers", and "spillers" in the raised bed. It makes so much sense and it's something I'm going to try in my raised bed this year. Thanks so much!!
I remember a few years back I started watching your channel and you were the one to make me make the plunge to start my own compost
Love all of your videos. Been enjoying them for 10 months now and my garden has grown from carrots and beets to zucchini, lettuces, arugula, kale, spinach, chard, snap peas, herbs, and several varieties of cucumber, tomato, pepper, melons, and pollinators. I'm growing sprouts indoors too. There's nothing like a fresh garden salad every day. I appreciate the DIY trellis tips too. Thanks CaliKim, I couldn't have done it without you!
First year gardening, and I am really excited. I'm most looking forward to teaching my toddler where food comes from, and instilling a love for vegitables. As far as what we are growing, I'm looking forward to tomatoes the most but I think my husband has his eyes on watermelon and greens. I learned how important it is to mulch in order to give the plants some extra protection. This sounds especially important here where the summers run well above 110 degrees.
. As a first year gardener, I've learned a tremendous amount about gardening from you. I’m determined to start eating more vegetables and from what I hear, growing your own is the way to go. You are my go to for each step of this process,
Wife to husband: Scratched my lip eating soup. You've been gardening with our spoons again.
Just found your vids. They’re the best out of all instructional Utube vids because;
1.) no silly self aggrandizing super hyper intro graphics, with fireworks, flames, rockets, lightening... uhg.
2.) and because of what you’re lacking, (see above), a simple intro into the subject matter.
3.) easy to understand, clear demos,
Thanks for the help.
We have gardened in ground for over 35 years and that’s all we have known. Recently our daughter moved to CA and we found your channel while looking for ideas to help her start some raised beds in her backyard! You are so informative and we are so excited to help her with some fresh new ideas. The grow bags will be wonderful for her! Looking forward to your give away on the 14th which by the way is my 53rd birthday😁
My husband and I just started our first garden this month! We are so excited to feed our son fresh and healthy veggies that we all plant and care for together. Thank you for all of your awesome videos, we really enjoy them!
Kim, thank you again for another wonderful video and generous opportunity. I learned that you can put cucumbers 2-3 inches apart in your containers! I was putting them way too far apart! We have such a small backyard with thin walkways as a 33 yr old with stage 4 spinal degeneration & 7 herniated discs in my thoracic and 3 in my lumbar gardening is really hard on my back but I LOVE the joy I get watching my plant babies grow & bloom and spending time with my mom as a mother daughter garden project. Having this elevated container would give us so much room to be able to grow more and not be so hard on my back! Thank you so much for always sharing. I always learn so much from you every time I watch your videos! Also leaned that we can start our basil in the milk carton 1/2! That’s awesome. Many Blessings!
I am planting 3 raised beds on legs. One is a vegetable garden, the second is a hummingbird and pollinator garden, and the third is a cocktail herb garden. Thank you so much this video was very helpful for a first time raised gardener!
Sounds great! 👍 Nice work, Deborah!!
I have learned so much about veggie gardening through your videos! Years ago, I tried starting seeds indoors, with no success. But then I found your videos and thought I'd give it another try. I now have tomato plants that I started indoors, just waiting to be planted outside! So thank you and Camera Guy for all you do!
Your videos not only inspired me to create a back-yard garden using raised beds, but have made the entire project fun and easy! I've planted a wonderful combination of flowers and vegetables using trellises as you recommended. Now just waiting on the "fruits of my labor": Peppers, tomatoes, peas, cucumbers, zucchini, beans, basil, catnip, sunflowers, and an assortment of herbs. Even planted Lemon and Fig Trees as well a strawberries! Thanks for all you do! Keep the videos coming! D. Jones
Every time I watch your videos I gain more confidence that I can do this!! I'm planting my first raised bed next bed next week and I'm so excited to grow delicious food for my family and become more self sufficient! 🤩
The greatest thing you can put in your garden is your shadow. I'm looking forward to growing enough cabbage for my own sauerkraut. Great tips as always. Thanks Kim
Thanks for this tutorial. I have been mulling over how to make an effective plan to plant in a raised bed, get the most out of it and still make sure everything has the room it needs. Now I have that. This is my first spring planting in 20 years and my very first time planting my own seedlings. I am excited to have finally figured out a way to have a garden with very little garden space. Its experiment time and I've been soaking up all the knowledge I can from your channel. Thanks again from Washington state.
A thing that I am excited about during spring is watching my plants germinate and grow bigger.
What I learned is "thrillers, fillers and spillers" for a pretty garden! I'm most excited about, as a newbie gardener, is growing my nightly dinner right outside my back door! 🥕🍓🥬🍅😋
I came upon your video by accident or maybe by someone's design as I had no intention of viewing a video about gardening at this time of the evening. However, after watching your video, I realized that it was divine intervention as it helped to push me from contemplating planting a raised bed to actually planning to make one. It also relaxed me before I embark on work-related tasks. You make gardening seem so easy and fun. I hope to have as much fun even if I end up killing a few plants in the process.
I’m a new gardener. At first I was one of the super scared people who thought they were going to kill them. But I started watching your videos and learning and I am successfully growing some jalapeños, tiny tim tomatoes and recently planted a bunch of seeds from your spring seed collection in pea pellets. So much has already started growing. Soon I will begin transplanting into smart pots and a raised bed I purchased. Thanks for the tips in this video it will help me a lot. 😊😊
Hi Calikim, over the last four years, I have learnt a lot about vegetable gardening from your videos. Today, I learnt how to make a cheap functional trellis for my cucumbers and other vegetables Thank you for the information.
You have taught me so much over the last year! I literally got up and planted my sunflower seeds in my raised bed after watching this video! I am so excited to plant my 2 varieties of peppers, 3 varieties of tomatoes, bush beans, peas, sunflowers and marigolds!! Last year (my first year gardening ever) I did containers only, this year I’m doing my first raised bed with some containers too. First time using a fabric pot also! Ooh and I’m using compost from my bin for the first year also, all because of what you’ve taught me. I’m so grateful!
What I have learned is that gardening is not complicated . If you are willing to accept the failures and learn from them you can be successful in the future.
I'm am excited about planting cucumbers, tomatoes, and squash in my raised bed! I have learned that the more fresh vegetables you grow the more you enjoy gardening.
This is my first year with a bigger garden & starting from seed. I was always so intimidated to start from seed but after a little research and watching your videos I realized there was nothing to be scared of. So I am excited to see how my success is this year with more plants. I am growing in smart pots and 2’ x 4’ a raised bed I built out of some leftover wood I had from a different project! The sunniest part of my yard is on my deck so raised beds and smart pots were the way to go! So glad there are options out there for everyone.
It is my first year to plant ALOT of container veggies. I have learned and I am still learning so much from your videos.🌹Thanks for all you do!
I’m so excited for the warmer weather to be able to start eating from the garden again more than just lettuces and such. My kids love to snack in the garden and can’t wait for the tomatoes, peppers and more! Such fun!
This is my second year of gardening. Your videos about companion planting have really helped me. I'm working on growing lots of leafy greens, cucumbers, and tomatoes. Happy gardening!
I love your thriller fillers and spillers when planting. It makes it easier to fill a raised bed. In stead of trying to throw a bunch of veggies in the pots and having shading issue when everything is all grown.
This is my second year in gardening in Mississippi. My first year was not much success so l watched lots of videos and read a lot. Thanks to your beautiful, informative videos, my raised bed garden this year is doing great. My plants are healthy and already started to produce even at this hot and humid climate. I can not wait to pick my tomatoes. Appreciate all the tips that you shared.
This will be my first time planting a raised bed. You were the first gardener I started following and you have helped me so much. This video is what I've been wanting. It showed exactly, step by step how, what, and why what needs to be done. We new type A gardeners need this. 😁
I like how you make a trellis out of inexpensive materials and keep things simple. I just planted some strawberries in a fabric pot with some garlic that’s already established with some annual flowers. Thanks for your down to earth nature and for keeping it simple! 🌻🌻🌻🌻
I love how you explained gardening in small areas. I learned how to assort a variety of vegetables in a raised bed with a trellis and how to place them with thrillers, fillers, spillers and how not to pack your raised beds to full.
Hi CaliKim! I tried posting this a couple of days ago, but the post immediately disappeared-maybe it’s too long lol? Trying one more time!
I’m a first-time gardener; we received a 5’x2’ raised bed planter for the holidays-best gift ever! My 4-year-old and I started our garden about a month ago (we live in Florida), and he has been so excited to watch everything grow! I knew nothing about gardening, so researched a little of square foot gardening since our growing space was so small and used that as an initial guide, but found you and your helpful and inspirational videos a couple of weeks ago and have been watching and learning everything we can ever since!
I wish I had found you sooner, as I now know some mistakes I made-for example, we direct-sowed everything and from you, learned that we could have planted the tomatoes deeper had we started them as seedlings indoors and transplanted, producing a more productive plant. I didn’t know about “tiny Tim’s” until finding you, which would have been a perfect variety for our small planter; we are growing the “chocolate cherry” variety.
I also didn’t realize how many fruit and vegetables could be grown vertically, creating more space and we erroneously planted a watermelon in the front of the raised bed! It’s such a small square (12” across x 9.5” down), we don’t know which kind of trellis would work that could fit and be strong enough to support the watermelon? The tomato plant described above is behind it and we don’t want to shade it out. Any suggestions? We are worried for it to hang over the planter, as it is 3ft off the ground and are worried that the vine may break? And don’t want to it to get powdery mildew, something else we learned from you!
Since watching your videos, we also learned how crucial thinning plants is; we are only 4weeks in, but I’ve thinned the seedlings, even though it broke my heart to do so. Your veggies look so healthy and bountiful so we are trying all of your suggestions! Our cut seedlings were added to our compost pile, which we also learned how to start from you!
From your suggestions, we have amended our soil with VermisTerra worm castings as a top-dress with amazing results (wish we had known prior to planting, as we would’ve added to the planting hole, but it’s a learning experience!).
We are most excited to harvest (although we’ve already started eating some of the mesclun lettuce, using the “cut and come again” method you’ve described), especially the cucumbers, tomatoes and watermelon (fortunately, it’s a “Sugar Baby”!) and hope, with all of your tips, it will be a great first one!
Our raised bed is quite small and we would love the opportunity to grow a few more veggies that our current space won’t allow and for our little one to have a growing patch all his own 🍓
Thank you for making gardening more approachable and successful for us novices and more experienced gardeners alike. We appreciate you, CaliKim!
Hi CaliKim! My 12 yr old son and I love watching your UA-cam videos during Covid! Honestly, I wasn't into planting veggies because I don't like dealing with bugs eating the leaves plus our yard is not that that big. However, watching all your videos on ideas of planting sugar baby watermelons and plants vertically, we were inspired! I love that you keep your videos real and don't hide the bad stuff like when your cantaloupe was eaten by rats! 😡😅 We are afraid that would happen to us too! My son just loved it when Camera man rolled his eyes when he asked you to try the cantaloupe first. We just started growing sugar baby watermelons and 8 sprouted! Yay! We get so excited everyday to check how many sprouted! 😂 We have such a great time watching your videos!
In this video, we learned that to save money on soil to put sticks, branches and leaves on the bottom layer of the garden bed. We loved how you made your vertical trellis using poultry wire! We will definitely try this! 👍 We were thinking of growing sugar snap peas, eggplants and thai chili using your method of trellis and the raised cloth bed.
I usually don't comment videos but my son encouraged me so that we can try for the raised garden bed sweepstakes. He says this would make a cool Mother's day gift for the both of us! 💕 Thank you for all you do! Hopefully, one day you will have a CaliKim garden farm so we can have a family outing. That would be so cool! 😊
I can't wait for my Tiny Tim Tomatoes to start producing. I keep one in a pot on the patio table as a centerpiece. Friends and family can pop off a snack and they always comment about how cute the plant is. I'm growing most of my peppers in smart pots this year. They seem to produce better than in ground. I can also extend my growing season by moving them in and out of the greenhouse. Love the new smart pot colors and the new handles!
I followed you last year and utilized your tips in growing vegetables and flowers. I am here again and learned so much from watching your spring garden series. Thanks for teaching and inspiring.
Love how you always use reusable cloth "pots" and the CaliKim smart pots are perfect for small spaces. This is my first year attempting a vegetable garden and have done research to help with my chances for success. I would be honored to use your 2x4 or any of the pots. I have even researched square foot gardening considering my limited space but have a perfect spot for small raised bed in full sun. Thank you for all of your helpful tips, and at pace that we beginners can understand. Thanks again Kim : )
Thank you Calikim for bringing container gardening to your viewers attention and for this opportunity to participate in a give away. Also putting drip irrigation in these containers.
This year is our first year gardening and we’ve been watching all of your videos from small gardening with great vertical ideas to this one learning how we can be prepared for the changing of seasons - we learned how easy it is to plant together vegetables you actually eat that are thrillers, fillers, and spillers. We also learned how plantings sunflowers (our favorite flower) can be a quick fix to pollinate. We can’t wait to see our spring harvest using your informative tips. Thank you CaliKim!!
Thank you so much for again thinking of people growing on a balcony above other balconies. No one else does. I've learned how to do everything from growing indoors with grow lights to growing on my balcony. I've started lima beans, peas, cucumbers and trying both regular tomatoes and cherry tomatoes. After I got those outside I'm now using my grow lights for microgreens indoors. I can't thank you enough.
Thank you for teaching and encouraging us on planting our gardens! My husband just put in a raised garden bed for me. He is a country guy, but I'm from the city. I have never gone down the gardening road on my own. This is a first. Your videos have been very encouraging. To build my confidence, I'm planning to do tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, and lettuce this year. I really hope it works out.
Love this video. I'm recently retired and my wife felt I needed a hobby, so she bought me a Yoocann hydroponic grow system so I can grow my own herbs and vegetables. I soon started transplanting in Large and small pots. I now want to start a raised bed and your video here definitely gave me something to think about. Thanks for the video!
CALIKIM. I’m new to your channel & I have to say, I love it! I’m recovering from cancer & can’t get down in the garden like I want so I’m sooo excited about your pots! I used to live in apartments so containers were my thing but I moved to a house & couldn’t kick the habit. I also love how you improvise using out of the normal things to trellis. I’m an old school gardener but love learning new ways to grow. Thanks. Oh & I love your pup appearances.👍🥰👩🌾🌿🙋♀️
This series is incredibly helpful. I have learned that it truly doesn’t take as much space as I thought to grow your own food. I also loved your growing on your deck series- small space series and have gone back to watch it several times. Still don’t have all the smart pots that i need, but little by little... Thank you for your knowledge and tips!
64 years young and learning about grow bags. You encouraged me to start seeds and it’s been amazing!Started watching before Covid and WOW I’m a different woman in a great way ‘!!! 🧑🏾🌾🪴💞
I learned another way to make a DIY trellis as well as the concept of thrillers, fillers and spillers. I've learned so much from you this past year and enjoy sharing it with others who are hesitant to start gardening.
Aloha Kim,
I am a novice vegetable gardener. I have been watching your videos for months and I appreciate your advice on organic gardening and I continue to learn from you and your expertise in gardening. I started growing seedlings but I continue to fail growing cucumbers and zucchini. I think I’m transplanting them too soon because they die after transplanting. I have several poblano peppers that are growing and I plan to put them in my smart pot containers. Thank you again for sharing your garden and your expertise to the world.
I never knew you could plant so much in a 2x4 bed. Thank you for sharing ,now I know I can make full use of my space in my 2x4 bed.
Thank you calikim for teaching me how to make starter soil and start seedlings indoors. It has been such a great experience gardening with you. My kids are excited to start gardening with me.
Planting in a raised bed for the first time. Also this is the first time in several years that I have had a garden. Loved all the info on planting in a raised bed!
Commenting out of competition (I know there is no shipping outside of US): What I learned from you years ago is, that you never can cram enough veggies in a raised bed, haha. Then harvest the greens young and plant some new. Works perfect. This new combination of yours will be a hit! I love your new trellis idea, by the way.
Wow! I learned that a few square feet can produce a lot of food for my family. Most of all, this video has encouraged me to try to growing new vegetables that I normally wouldn't grow. Happy Gardening!
I am so excited about my spring garden. I am growing many new things including eggplants, kajari melons, cut flower garden, wild flower garden and lots more all in containers. I appreciate all the encouragement from Kim. Thank you so much.
I’ve been watching and rewatching your videos the past couple months in hopes of having more success this year with my tiny garden. I think one of the most important things I learned in this video is to include pollinator plants in with my vegetables. Thanks for all the great videos and information. 💕💕
I haven't heard you before. I am an older woman and will follow your suggestions for using mulch for my herb bed.Thank you! I am glad I found you.
I’ve learned that I can be very creative when trying to figure out trellising and I am so excited that I am growing potatoes this year for the first time in pots.
I came across one of your videos and I am amazed at what you do! I have never gardened before, but you have inspired me! I am a teacher and I see a very gifted teacher in you. Thank you for your generosity in sharing from the wealth of knowledge which you possess. First time trying to grow veggies using grow pots. Excited & praying for success. Really enjoy reading comments from everyone as well.
Love all the useful information. I've been gardening for a few years now, and a lot of my success comes from gardens like you and Gary sharing very helpful tips and pointers. Thank you!!
I love that you planted sunflowers inside a raised bed! I didn't realize you could do that. I'd assumed the loose soil either wouldn't support it or that it would shade my bed. I'm SO excited to pop in some sunflowers all over the garden this year! After all, I live in the Sunflower State! Thanks, Kim.
I learned so much. I didn’t know you could plant flowers in the same container with veggies. I learned that smart pots has a 2x4 raised bed, and I learned how to make my own trellis with fence posts. I also learned how important it is to mulch to protect the plants. And finally I learned that I could directly seed lettuce and kale in the soil. Thanks!
You’ve taught me I can garden abundantly in a small space. I love your seed collections and am grateful for all the knowledge you continue to share with the gardening community. Love the smart pots, would be thrilled to try the raised bed!
I love your simple solution for adding vertical space to your raised bed. The chicken wire and lumber pieces are so inexpensive, and assembling the trellis support looks like it would be so simple to do! I have a raised bed and I look forward to making use of that vertical space for more veggies this spring! I was completely unaware of fabric pots and look forward to adding some smart pots to my deck to add some flowers and veggies there!
I've learned so much from your videos! I never knew about the thrillers, fillers, and spillers concept before. I'm very excited to grow some beans, peas, peppers, and lettuce this spring! I made some grow light boxes for my lettuce so that I can grow them indoors and they are doing great. Thanks for all the tips and gardening lessons. I'm really enjoying growing my own food and learning new things in the garden!
Hi Cali Kim, I’m so excited for spring 🌸. This is my second year of spring gardening with you 👩🏽🌾. I’m growing sugar baby watermelons 🍉, cherry and roma tomatoes 🍅, sweet peppers 🌶, strawberries 🍓, spinach and a wide variety of herbs 🌿. I just can’t wait for my first harvest. Thank you as always for your advice and helpful tips. Happy gardening. 👩🏽🌾🌱
This is my very first year gardening. Unfortunately in the past I've killed everything from cactus to pansies. Thanks to you I've learned about using grow boxes, fertilizing, watering from the bottom. It's amazing how far I've come now I've got over 93 seedlings and can't wait to get them out into the garden. 😂 Thanks so much for all your tips and advice.
Ive learned so much from you . I discovered your channel last year and you really inspired me to start gardening. Ive learned how to grow vegetables in small spaces, how to care for the plants before and after being transplanted. There are so many things I’ve learned from every single video. Thank you so much.
Hi Calikim - Yes; I am planting in raised beds due to my urban setting. I really enjoyed the thriller, filler and spiller concept and would not have considered this visually appealing and functional use of such a small space. Additionally, I would not have thought you could plant so intensively in a 2x4 raised space. Thank you for always opening my mind to new gardening concepts.
This is my very first time gardening *container gardening * and I am doing it on my apartment balcony💜!! Learning how to strategically place my plants "thrillers, fillers and spillers" amazing concept and it makes total sense and easy to remember! I have lalso earned that the fabric pots are very efficient,versatile and easy one the eye when the come in colors!!😍. I 💜 them!
My husband and I are raised garden bed beginners and we are excited to see what all we can grow in our raised bed. We loved your video that gave us some great ideas!
It's amazing how much you're growing in that little bed!
That's what I learned from you this week and am so excited to get in my garden and try using every inch of growing space!!
This was very helpful. I like how you planted so much variety in one raised bed. Thorough yet simple. I didn’t realize you had to cover after planting- thanks for showing that
I absolutely love watching you love your garden . You are an inspiration to all the new gardeners . You always make it look so easy . Since starting watching you last year I have tried additional potted garden plants peppers of course . But now I am so going to do the raised bed with multiple levels . I love the way it looks so clean and pulled together . Thank you so much for all your teaching .
Last year was the first year I did raised bed gardening. There were some hits and misses! This year I am hopeful because your video catalog has taught me how to be more observant and proactive in order to tackle pests and disease. 🌹
I've added raised beds to my garden this season and I'm so excited to start growing in them! It's just a bit too early to start planting outside in zone 5, so instead I've been planning what's going in each bed. This video is perfect timing for me with the "thrillers, fillers and spillers" concept. I'm looking forward to incorporating it into my plans. Thanks for a great and timely video!
I have learned so much from watching your videos and reading your book. My gardening fascination started with fruit trees and I was pretty disappointed that fruit trees take a few years to bare fruit so I tried vegetables for the first time last year. This is my first year growing in raised beds (last year I had 1 raised planter). Can’t wait to harvest my watermelon, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash. Also to my excitement, all of my fruit trees are growing fruit this year!
After living in an apt for 5 years I am back in a house with a yard!!! So excited to start gardening again. I have a blank slate, nothing in the yard but a small tree. Love your vids..
What a great tip about lining the bottom of the bed with sticks and leaves to save on potting soil. I love Springtime gardening - everything is coming out.
CaliKim, I LOOOVE this video. You are so skilled at putting a raised bed together, the presentation, instruction, and teaching of it, and all the elements worked perfectly together! I love this new raised bed and the trellis, and the wonderful Smartpots colors available now!
I've been following along the entire series. I am in a new home with nothing but 1/2 acres of grass! This year I decided to just plant veggies in smart pots and next year graduate to a raised bed system. I have learned so much from you. My seedlings are itching to get in the soil...about another week here until the last frost date. Thanks, CaliKim!!
Hi Kim! My daughter's and I always watch your gardening videos and we learn so much every time we watch. In this video I learned how to make the vertical trellis that is compact and functional! This Spring we planted eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, and moringa!! 😊
I was so excited to see your video. My husband's family were vegetable farmers. My kids grew up teething on corn.and green peppers. After my husband passed away, the gardening ended. I have missed fresh vegetables so much that I thought I would try a raised garden. I love the fabric raised bed. I had never heard of it before. After watching your show, I know I can do it and manage it. Plus you explained it so well that I have the confidence to do it. Even if I don't win, Thank you!
I love the thrillers, fillers & spillers. I always have a hard time thinking about what to put in my larger containers. That little tip will help me work through that for sure!
I learned a lot about squash plants in this video, I learned that they don't like having their roots disturbed (I actually had to repot my squash plant 3 times, so now I know why it died on me) and I also learned that I can use squash plants as a "spiller". So I'm absolutely excited about growing them once again this spring and summer. Thank you.
I am having so much fun gardening and learning new things in the garden. Your seeds are doing well in my Oregon garden 😀. Keep doing what you’re doing !!!!!
Love love the idea of Smart Pots! So cool. I always used plastic containers, but now I've learned that 'breathable' pots like Smart Pots prevent roots from getting wound up and root bound. I learn something from Cali's channel each time I watch one of her videos. Thanks Cali!
Things I learned was always put new nutrients in your gardens soil to renew your garden soil after planting in your garden bed, put mulch on your garden beds to protect your plant from the cold or extreme heat and it helps with water evaporation. New things i am looking forward to in spring is growing different types of flowers and watching cali kim. I hope I win it will really benefit my new garden Cali kim.
I have two raised beds. In one, I am growing strawberries (everbearing ones. The second, I am growing kale, lettuce, spinach, green peppers, and carrots. I have out of work since November 2019 and I am a honorable discharged veteran. Thank you so much for your videos. I am subscriber. I think you are smart and beautiful. Keep up the good work.
This is my first year trying gardening and I'm so happy I found this channel! I'm most excited about trying to grow some peppers this year. Starting small!
Your videos are so inspiring! Since I’ve been tuning in, I’ve started seeds from your collections using indoor grow lights. I wasn’t sure how I was going to plant my seedlings once the last frost date passed but this video has certainly given me plenty of ideas and even more inspiration. I can’t wait to start making my own trellis for the cucumbers I’m growing. I also leaned a few ideas for companion planting. My basil seeds and tomatoes are just forming their true leaves and I’m super excited to learn they can be planted together in the same space. I have leaned so much from your videos. This is my first real attempt to grow more than just flowers and tomatoes. Hopefully I too will have green thumbs this year and a good harvest! Thank you so much!
For as long as I can remember, my mum and I have planted Ivy geraniums on our deck. Last fall I built wooden stained raised garden beds where I will be planting Strawberries, Canteloupe, Zucchini, and much more. Your videos have really helped me expand my knowledge. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
I am a new gardener and have been watching your channel. I try things to grow my seeds and even If sometimes they don’t germinate I just go back to your video and try again. Your instructions and videos inspire me to keep on going. I will try with the 2x4 raised bed soon instead of doing planting in containers. Thanks so much for all the great tips.
Thank you Kim for showing how to grow plenty of vegetables using raised beds! I can’t wait to try smart pots this year! I absolutely love the color of the 5 gallon smart pots. So pretty! I loved the tip on how to fill the raised beds with leaves, branches rather than filling them all the way through with soil. Can’t wait to try. Thanks for all that you do! Keep up the great work!
First year gardening, can't wait to have my raised beds ready for planting. I have learned so much with you, for ex. trellis, pollinator plant...etc. Thank you for all your teachings and for the opportunity.
I'm most excited to just be growing vegetables ! I have never grown any before in my life, and I have tomatoes, peppers, onions and basil started so far indoors. My sugar snap peas germinated after only 6 days, and I can't wait to harvest them once it's time! Thank you for your guidance in all of your videos.
I learned that you could garden anywhere. I’ve got 6 small raised beds and lots of pots as well. So far my favorite thing is potatoes! Can’t wait to dig them up! Happy gardening!!!