Hi Veronica. I have been following your videos and gardening adventures for a few years now and I love your approach to every aspect and detail. Your videos are quite informative. My wife and I live on the other coast, in New Hampshire, so our conditions are somewhat different and out growing season is about 15 minutes in the middle of July, but remarkably a lot is the same for us as it is for you. We are addicted to raised beds. I am 66 and, frankly, the entertainment value has drained out of bending over. Our raised beds are all 2 feet tall. We fill the bottom with fresh logs and branches like a Hugelkultur. All of our pruning and harvesting is done standing up at eye level. I highly recommend it.
Awesome to hear! Am totally keen on doing more like this!! I love a hugel but keeping it contained in a raised bed to keep it closer to the house is super ideal.
The way you explain, tells a lot about your love for plants and gardening.. Needless to say, you are "naturally" beautiful. Love to hear you explain. Can't take me eyes off those smiles.
Every successful garden begins with the soil. Too many beginner gardeners assume it’s just dirt that holds the roots. They get poor results and give up. Keep stressing healthy soil equals healthy plants. I love your enthusiasm. I hope you never lose it
I do the same sort of thing. I also like to put some sand and maybe rocks in with the wood. I like to use rotten firewood and pieces of fallen logs but sticks work well too. It takes a couple of years for it to really get good and seasoned. Looking good.
Yeah, she is a pretty girl, never seen her in a dress before. I watch because her gardening is top notch and different from most of the traditional practices.
I've been really getting into Hugelkultur style gardening this year. I have a bunch of large raised gardens I've been building and this style really does help your wallet as well as the health of the garden for past a single season. I always like to be thinking about my garden for the next year or two (or more), not just the current season.
I love your "lipstick police" response haha that's awesome! 😂 No matter what you're always going to have someone trying to bring you down, you just have to rise up and show them that they can't break you! Another great informative video! That dress looks amazing on you btw!! 😊
Excellent tips. As usual, I can watch the whole thing, unlike other gardening channels where I skip, skip, and stop. This channel will be huge in no time, so, keep doing it. And thank you.
You're brilliant, Veronica! I love your videos so much. In my opinion, you have no competition in this category (growing and planting...), because you are a clear winner! All the best!!!
I have to learn to make videos like this. That watering system, I've seen a version of before. I think it is an excellent idea for a series of potted plants. It should also work well with it set up like you have it there. Hugelkultur - a great way to make old rotten wood disappear without having to burn it or send it to a landfill.
Hey Veronica, my friend and I started watching you when we moved out to a homestead to grow fruits and veggies both because you’re super knowledgeable and really cute! I’m so glad you’ve stuck with your channel through your moves! You’re an inspiration, thank you 🙏 🤩
Excellent work! There is certainly a good amount of organic matter in the raised bed now and I love the selection of plants. I always appreciate your playful approach to gardening - do you consider gardening as work and play equally?
I'm in the Inland Empire and our soil in my canyon is terrible. It's all Squamish cell clay... very slippery and slick like slime whenever it gets wet. I use a similar method when I'm planting... I dig out the native soil (With a pick axe) and replace it with branches and about 3 inches of old mulch and dead leaves. Then I add soil that I either bring in or mix heavily with my own compost. If any of the clay is there, it will find its way tot he surface and destroy the water absorption and irrigation. I love your videos and really look forward to these and learning from your insights. How's the pepper/aloe experiment going? Thanks for posting these. You're optimistic and naturalistic attitude is very refreshing!
just discovered your channel,im getting into gardening its awesome,im doing half hydro half soil ,some microgreens too thank you for your passioni wish i had you as a teacher you're awesome.Plus im in quebec so ill use my growing tent!
Looks very similar to the dirt I have. Water it down..break it up to a fine state..amend with compost, some perlite, a bit of peat and some aged soil that's looking to have some life in it. Love the vids you put up. Always informative with ways to solve issues.
Adding browns & greens to the bottom half of a large grow bag is an interesting idea. Might get some heat out of it though. Potentially too much? It could be like a hot bed. Are you watching the temp of that raised bed at all?
I got a little heat initially, but nothing like a true pile (most of the greens were culprit and because they were small cut they wore out quickly.) Probably helps that it's a relatively narrow trough encased in cold brick. 🙂
I did something similar by lining large pots with partially decomposed sticks and yard debris. I filled it with my own enriched soil mix. I call them hugelpots. I planted determinate and indeterminate potatoes in them which had sprouted in storage. Many are ready for "hilling" already and they look so robust. To hill them, I just add more soil to the top and cover them with coir.
Great tips. I just started using wood chips and straw under the new planting areas. Maybe tomorrow I will put in three fence posts and put up a 6-8 foot fence for Hugelkulturculture for tomato plants.
Wow you cleanup nice! Get a narrow trenching shovel when you have hard dirt it's a lot easier on you, but that did look really hard. I've been wanting to try burying branches now i'll give it a shot. Thanks for the tips!
If nobody has mentioned that you look totally stunning in your blue dress, please allow me: You look absolutely stunning in your blue dress. You also look absolutely stunning in ripped-up blue jeans, and everything else ;) Thanks for the vids!
Firstly, do you wear wellies with that gardening dress? More importantly, who mortared that wall? Good vid as always from Portugal. Using pop bottles for watering this year. May is already hitting summer temperatures and the land is starting to bake out.
I did a similar hugelkultur on a seemingly ungrowable hillside using a very similar approach - you and others were helpful and this is affirming. What's with the cocktail dress? I prefer the boots and garden garb. Kidding - thanks as always!
Great video and lots of good information. I am planning on adding one or two new raised beds for next year's garden and was wondering if you would advised filling them at the end of the year before winter and letting them sit a few months until the spring or filling them in the spring and planting immediately? Also, very pretty dress!
Hello Mrs Flores , I have some dry brown leafs on limbs in between very green vibrant ones on my tomato plants , I've been just breaking off the whole limb ,the rest of the plant is great , and I was wondering what causes this and it doesn't seem to bother the rest of the plant ,I use neem oil once a week for insects and organic miracle grow only at the base of the stalk right at the ground ,I'd appreciate your input on this when you get a chance
Hi Veronica, I'm really intrigued by the Crayola system you briefly introduced. I've been designing my own DIY ollas for a few months, playing around with different designs. So I'm very curious about the Crayola system. Does it seem effective in getting water to the plants? How often do you refill that plastic bottle? What is the purpose of that bulb pump? Is it for priming the system once, or do you have to pump often to keep the system flowing? Sorry, I know that's lots of questions. I'd really be interested to hear your thoughts. Great channel, great info! Thanks!
I don't have any experience with the specific product, but the bulb and tubes looks like a siphon system. If so, then yes you would just squeeze the bulb a couple times to force air out of the tube and start siphoning out of the bottle.
Hi Veronica. Amazing video, as usual! I was wondering what is the deal of pairing Aloe with other plants. I don't know if you have made a video on that already. I'd be curious to learn more! By the way: I find the timing really perfect! For the past 2 weeks Ive been studying a bit of hugulkultur and trying to figure out how can I make an improvised small version of it in my pots in the balcony. It's a shame I didn't watch your video before. I just realized how many mistakes I've done! hahaha All the best!
Thanks! I pair aloe bc it makes a good understory plant- I use it a lot in the garden as a root drench and foliar spray (it's high in micronutrients, polysaccharides, and amino acids) and also there may be some symbiotic benefits via soil microbes.
Thanks! I'm about to start building two new raised beds and my plan is to do it Hugelkultur style. Any thoughts on using a pondweed (maybe Hydrillia) as fill between the bottom layer of wood and the soil? We have 4 ponds and around this time of year go crazy with the stuff. We pull a lot of it out (otherwise you can't see the ponds anymore) and leave it to decompose in piles but I've been thinking this might be a good use for it so it doesn't go to waste.
I have a load of 50/50 compost and dirt that looks like that rock clump you had. don't use a pick ax with that kind of stuff. I hit it with a hammer and it turns it to dust. Hugelkultur is king. Nice dress, sort of formal for gardening weird but nice.
I currently have some chili pepper plants in pots and although the leaves are green, they’re a bit droopy. They’re not being under watered, are droopy leaves normal for this type of plant? I would appreciate any sort of advice, thank you!
Hi Veronica, couple questions. Are you planning on mulching the raised bed, saw your mulch video a while back but often see some gardeners not bother with mulch? Also wont the spearmint just grow like crazy in open soil. I always struggle with mint suffocating the neighbours so been growing in pots now. The herbs and green look quite close together around the watering gizmo, do you need to separate it later especially once that basil really takes off.
Thank you Veronica for all your helpful videos! Sent you an email regarding pruning peppers - can you check your Spam folder for it? Thank you kindly! Looking forward to your response!
Did the soil level drop as the material (Sticks, wood chips, trimmings, clippings and compost) on the bottom decomposed? How often would you need to replace the filler? Every year?
It will drop some, I'd just top it off. You don't replace anything - just recondition by adding more compost and biology. Soil isn't made to be disposable, so unless you treat it poorly and it becomes contaminated, it's amendable.
Hi Veronica, thanks for the video. I don't use raised beds but was wondering - As the decomp of the the different layers takes place doesn't the soil level drop? So as it drops do you just add more top soil/potting soil or add more organics then top soil?
So how deep would you say each layer of the hugelkultur is? I'm curious about these terra cotta watering systems. What's the diameter of the area of moisture coverage? Nice dress, btw.
Depth is an illusion since it will compact some, but I'd shoot for 3-4" deep minimum as you start building. The diameter watering is contingent on the soil composition and coverage with live plants, but I'd say at least 10"
I'm learning a lot from your videos - thanks very much from Oz
Hi Veronica. I have been following your videos and gardening adventures for a few years now and I love your approach to every aspect and detail. Your videos are quite informative. My wife and I live on the other coast, in New Hampshire, so our conditions are somewhat different and out growing season is about 15 minutes in the middle of July, but remarkably a lot is the same for us as it is for you. We are addicted to raised beds. I am 66 and, frankly, the entertainment value has drained out of bending over. Our raised beds are all 2 feet tall. We fill the bottom with fresh logs and branches like a Hugelkultur. All of our pruning and harvesting is done standing up at eye level. I highly recommend it.
Awesome to hear! Am totally keen on doing more like this!! I love a hugel but keeping it contained in a raised bed to keep it closer to the house is super ideal.
so beautiful and your garden is nice also
Love this! Great building and feeding the soil
I’m an old man, yet I learn so much from you as I seek to be a more efficient and effective gardener.
The way you explain, tells a lot about your love for plants and gardening..
Needless to say, you are "naturally" beautiful. Love to hear you explain. Can't take me eyes off those smiles.
Possibly the most interesting, informative and elegant gardening video on youtube.
Every successful garden begins with the soil. Too many beginner gardeners assume it’s just dirt that holds the roots. They get poor results and give up. Keep stressing healthy soil equals healthy plants. I love your enthusiasm. I hope you never lose it
I do the same sort of thing. I also like to put some sand and maybe rocks in with the wood. I like to use rotten firewood and pieces of fallen logs but sticks work well too. It takes a couple of years for it to really get good and seasoned. Looking good.
What a beautiful sight!
Dressed really fancy for gardening . It looks nice .
Yeah, she is a pretty girl, never seen her in a dress before. I watch because her gardening is top notch and different from most of the traditional practices.
@@heavymechanic2 I watch for the gardening too , and was just teasing her about the dress because she is usually dressed more casual .
That dress is perfect for draping oneself over a wall and TALKING about gardening, DOING gardening requires a different approach.
I've been really getting into Hugelkultur style gardening this year. I have a bunch of large raised gardens I've been building and this style really does help your wallet as well as the health of the garden for past a single season. I always like to be thinking about my garden for the next year or two (or more), not just the current season.
Fabulous! Everything looks promising. Pray you have many successful harvest from your new raised bed. 🥬
Thanks for sharing your philosophy on building a healthy soil. I certainly will use bits of this info in my garden. You're looking great BTW.
Thanks for turning that brick kiln into an easy-bake oven. Don't forget to put pieces of plastic in there to mimic the bag products from the store.
So much shade for something in the shade. 🤣🤣🤣
I love your "lipstick police" response haha that's awesome! 😂 No matter what you're always going to have someone trying to bring you down, you just have to rise up and show them that they can't break you! Another great informative video! That dress looks amazing on you btw!! 😊
Excellent information
Looking Awesome!!! The garden too ! Lol... Thanks For Sharing!
Excellent tips. As usual, I can watch the whole thing, unlike other gardening channels where I skip, skip, and stop. This channel will be huge in no time, so, keep doing it. And thank you.
You're brilliant, Veronica! I love your videos so much. In my opinion, you have no competition in this category (growing and planting...), because you are a clear winner! All the best!!!
Strawbale raised beds are AWESOME in a dry climate.. Pretty dress!
I have to learn to make videos like this.
That watering system, I've seen a version of before. I think it is an excellent idea for a series of potted plants. It should also work well with it set up like you have it there.
Hugelkultur - a great way to make old rotten wood disappear without having to burn it or send it to a landfill.
Thanks for the intro to Clayola, that looks awesome!
beautiful! the garden looks nice too. :)
Hey Veronica, my friend and I started watching you when we moved out to a homestead to grow fruits and veggies both because you’re super knowledgeable and really cute! I’m so glad you’ve stuck with your channel through your moves! You’re an inspiration, thank you 🙏 🤩
Excellent work! There is certainly a good amount of organic matter in the raised bed now and I love the selection of plants. I always appreciate your playful approach to gardening - do you consider gardening as work and play equally?
Cool!
I'm in the Inland Empire and our soil in my canyon is terrible. It's all Squamish cell clay... very slippery and slick like slime whenever it gets wet. I use a similar method when I'm planting... I dig out the native soil (With a pick axe) and replace it with branches and about 3 inches of old mulch and dead leaves. Then I add soil that I either bring in or mix heavily with my own compost. If any of the clay is there, it will find its way tot he surface and destroy the water absorption and irrigation. I love your videos and really look forward to these and learning from your insights. How's the pepper/aloe experiment going? Thanks for posting these. You're optimistic and naturalistic attitude is very refreshing!
just discovered your channel,im getting into gardening its awesome,im doing half hydro half soil ,some microgreens too
thank you for your passioni wish i had you as a teacher you're awesome.Plus im in quebec so ill use my growing tent!
Very nice work with that raised garden Veronica. 🌱🌿🍀👍🏻
Looks very similar to the dirt I have. Water it down..break it up to a fine state..amend with compost, some perlite, a bit of peat and some aged soil that's looking to have some life in it. Love the vids you put up. Always informative with ways to solve issues.
I luv your videos, makes me want to start a compost pile, cause i know we all throw out a lot of good stuff.
love these vids!
Hi! Just take care with the fig tree. As most of the ficus, their roots are really powerful. In not too many years it couls break the brick walls.
I love your dress, and ur long curled hairstyle
Amazing channel ! :) thanks for teaching me a thing or two, iv watched more than a few vids of yours now.
Absolutely beautiful....The garden is nice too.
Excellent information. Subscribed. Thanks!
What a beautiful flower. The plants are nice too.
Adding browns & greens to the bottom half of a large grow bag is an interesting idea. Might get some heat out of it though. Potentially too much? It could be like a hot bed. Are you watching the temp of that raised bed at all?
I got a little heat initially, but nothing like a true pile (most of the greens were culprit and because they were small cut they wore out quickly.) Probably helps that it's a relatively narrow trough encased in cold brick. 🙂
Lockdown so sort of being forced to try this out with whatever is around the garden. So glad I home compost now.
Great video! I really appreciate the science you bring and the attention to soil health!
Hope your passion fruit does well, i been growing mines since last year in containers and hopefully i get some fruit from them this summer.
Lovely
Very cool video i agree burring waste material is economical but also more healthy soil having mixed
I did something similar by lining large pots with partially decomposed sticks and yard debris. I filled it with my own enriched soil mix. I call them hugelpots. I planted determinate and indeterminate potatoes in them which had sprouted in storage. Many are ready for "hilling" already and they look so robust. To hill them, I just add more soil to the top and cover them with coir.
To cute .....wow
I don't think I've ever seen you in a dress, looking great!
The 1st batch of squash is ready in my yard garden 😀
Great tips. I just started using wood chips and straw under the new planting areas. Maybe tomorrow I will put in three fence posts and put up a 6-8 foot fence for Hugelkulturculture for tomato plants.
Thanks for the excellent breakdown, I'll be putting the info you shared into practice this weekend :)
Wow you cleanup nice! Get a narrow trenching shovel when you have hard dirt it's a lot easier on you, but that did look really hard. I've been wanting to try burying branches now i'll give it a shot. Thanks for the tips!
Wow!
If nobody has mentioned that you look totally stunning in your blue dress, please allow me: You look absolutely stunning in your blue dress. You also look absolutely stunning in ripped-up blue jeans, and everything else ;) Thanks for the vids!
Perfect timing Veronica :)
Holy Grail :D
I could garden with you all day
Woww. Heart Eyes
I love your videos great job
Firstly, do you wear wellies with that gardening dress?
More importantly, who mortared that wall?
Good vid as always from Portugal. Using pop bottles for watering this year. May is already hitting summer temperatures and the land is starting to bake out.
Great video! I think you might have to watch the moisture content in those beds, that brick and mortar will suck a lot of moisture out of the soil.
I did a similar hugelkultur on a seemingly ungrowable hillside using a very similar approach - you and others were helpful and this is affirming.
What's with the cocktail dress? I prefer the boots and garden garb. Kidding - thanks as always!
Very informative! Thank you!
On top of being a wonderful gardener. you are super beautiful!!!!
Great video and lots of good information. I am planning on adding one or two new raised beds for next year's garden and was wondering if you would advised filling them at the end of the year before winter and letting them sit a few months until the spring or filling them in the spring and planting immediately? Also, very pretty dress!
did you her of David the Good and his composting methods > no delicate layering of compost required...?
Hello Mrs Flores , I have some dry brown leafs on limbs in between very green vibrant ones on my tomato plants , I've been just breaking off the whole limb ,the rest of the plant is great , and I was wondering what causes this and it doesn't seem to bother the rest of the plant ,I use neem oil once a week for insects and organic miracle grow only at the base of the stalk right at the ground ,I'd appreciate your input on this when you get a chance
Hi Veronica, I'm really intrigued by the Crayola system you briefly introduced. I've been designing my own DIY ollas for a few months, playing around with different designs. So I'm very curious about the Crayola system. Does it seem effective in getting water to the plants? How often do you refill that plastic bottle? What is the purpose of that bulb pump? Is it for priming the system once, or do you have to pump often to keep the system flowing?
Sorry, I know that's lots of questions. I'd really be interested to hear your thoughts.
Great channel, great info! Thanks!
I don't have any experience with the specific product, but the bulb and tubes looks like a siphon system. If so, then yes you would just squeeze the bulb a couple times to force air out of the tube and start siphoning out of the bottle.
Hi Veronica.
Amazing video, as usual!
I was wondering what is the deal of pairing Aloe with other plants. I don't know if you have made a video on that already. I'd be curious to learn more!
By the way: I find the timing really perfect! For the past 2 weeks Ive been studying a bit of hugulkultur and trying to figure out how can I make an improvised small version of it in my pots in the balcony. It's a shame I didn't watch your video before. I just realized how many mistakes I've done! hahaha
All the best!
Thanks! I pair aloe bc it makes a good understory plant- I use it a lot in the garden as a root drench and foliar spray (it's high in micronutrients, polysaccharides, and amino acids) and also there may be some symbiotic benefits via soil microbes.
@@VeronicaFlores Thank you so much for your reply! Always good to learn new things! 🤩
Thanks! I'm about to start building two new raised beds and my plan is to do it Hugelkultur style. Any thoughts on using a pondweed (maybe Hydrillia) as fill between the bottom layer of wood and the soil? We have 4 ponds and around this time of year go crazy with the stuff. We pull a lot of it out (otherwise you can't see the ponds anymore) and leave it to decompose in piles but I've been thinking this might be a good use for it so it doesn't go to waste.
I have a load of 50/50 compost and dirt that looks like that rock clump you had. don't use a pick ax with that kind of stuff. I hit it with a hammer and it turns it to dust. Hugelkultur is king. Nice dress, sort of formal for gardening weird but nice.
I currently have some chili pepper plants in pots and although the leaves are green, they’re a bit droopy. They’re not being under watered, are droopy leaves normal for this type of plant? I would appreciate any sort of advice, thank you!
nice dress
Hi Veronica, couple questions. Are you planning on mulching the raised bed, saw your mulch video a while back but often see some gardeners not bother with mulch? Also wont the spearmint just grow like crazy in open soil. I always struggle with mint suffocating the neighbours so been growing in pots now. The herbs and green look quite close together around the watering gizmo, do you need to separate it later especially once that basil really takes off.
Thank you Veronica for all your helpful videos! Sent you an email regarding pruning peppers - can you check your Spam folder for it? Thank you kindly! Looking forward to your response!
Did the soil level drop as the material (Sticks, wood chips, trimmings, clippings and compost) on the bottom decomposed? How often would you need to replace the filler? Every year?
It will drop some, I'd just top it off. You don't replace anything - just recondition by adding more compost and biology. Soil isn't made to be disposable, so unless you treat it poorly and it becomes contaminated, it's amendable.
I didn’t hear a word you said, I was to distracted by your beauty.
Gardener? She does gardens?
Enjoyed your video and explanation as to your process....thank you!
Hi Veronica, thanks for the video. I don't use raised beds but was wondering - As the decomp of the the different layers takes place doesn't the soil level drop? So as it drops do you just add more top soil/potting soil or add more organics then top soil?
Gardening in tight blue dress.😋
So how deep would you say each layer of the hugelkultur is?
I'm curious about these terra cotta watering systems. What's the diameter of the area of moisture coverage?
Nice dress, btw.
Depth is an illusion since it will compact some, but I'd shoot for 3-4" deep minimum as you start building.
The diameter watering is contingent on the soil composition and coverage with live plants, but I'd say at least 10"
Wondering if the mortar that bind the brick will release lime into the soil?
Veronica, have you ever used organic humus?
I’m limited to pretty much only growing in raised beds. Can’t dig in my yard because of cables and other things buried in my yard.
other things? like bodies? hahaha... kidding...
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Entrancing young woman.
What growing zone are you in? Thanks!
I'm new to growing. Do you grow edible plants indoors too?
Sometimes! More to come!
How would,I figure out the amount of carbon to nitrogen ratio if,I,were to add it to my my beds .
No sour cream?
Where is this happening?
WOW! You look nice in that dress.
Wooooooow
Help! I'm trying to grow chili peppers for the first time and I don't want it to die 😭
That old soil was unbelievably bad!
Now she just needs a flower (she grew) for her hair, to go with that bammin dress. :OP A different flower for every video? New theme? :O)
**when you have to garden at **6:00**, but have a date with Jay Gatsby at **7:00****
Where you at. It’s time for a video. Miss your brain
Lots of moving parts in the background!!! Thanks for being patient
Great video but did that brickwork, umm.
I use shit. Works real well. My shit is the best.
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