Planting the Vegetable Garden

30 Replies to “Planting the Vegetable Garden”

1. If alliums grow similar to other plants maybe just snipping the tip will remove apical dominance and stop the current leaf growth as the plant looks for other locations to send out shoots. I also wonder if this would encourage more smaller leaves to develop, and is the size of the leaf an indicator of the thickness of the blub wall/layer, and the number of leaves the actual number of layers

2. Just potted some dahlias today from your other video. Will use tomato trellis and squash stakes this year. Keep doing what you do. Love it

3. Hey Bryan you videos always buffer now for some reason. I have to fast forward past that area. So I'm missing things. It's only doing it on your videos.

4. Would alyssum be good to plant by Zucchini? My alyssum seems to attract a lot of bees, as well. And it's already flowering.

5. Hi Brian, still too early here for outside planting but enjoy watching you.
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6. Salut de belles cultures merci je m’abonne ????????????

7. Without saying where you live, where do you live now? I thought you mentioned in a previous video and now I can't find it. We are in Huntington Beach, looking for property in Ramona but not sure if I could deal with the summer heat.

8. Every step in the plantings is full of helpful ideas! Thank you! Happy you're enjoying some dry days!

9. Hi Brian, I see you using crab and lobster and kelp meal from about a 5 gallon bucket. Just curious, how much fertilizer do you purchase annually and is there a shelf life for full potency?

10. Love the fact you don't use hand tools. I love to get my hands dirty, like a big kid playing in the dirt. Plus love the little stick placement markers, i though i was crazy for doing that for the longest time LOL 🙂

11. When you say blood meal, bone meal….. do you mean both or either or? Thanks.

12. Thank you for the small space tips!! love from zone 9b Sonoma CA

13. Planting legumes into the compost is like a canary in the coal mine on bacteria in compost Jess from roots and refuge has done this.

14. I have used pine shavings for years. The best and cheapest form of mulch. Thank you for the new video.

15. I love this channel!! Love how your garden is coming together too! I don’t know if you read my ether comment, but on your Next Level Homesteading, would you mind doing a video on how to cook Fennel?!

16. Here where I live in Arkansas the last frost date is April 9 th. The weather is warm this week but still have to wait. I fought vine bores last year and lost. I’ll. Definitely try the tool covering. Want to do carrot this year so loved the shade cloth tips. Video is very helpful. Thank you so much. Blessings ❤️????

17. Protip: The pronunciation of Dunja is "DOON-yuh". It can mean "quince" or in your case "quince-like [variety]".

18. We had snow this morning in Bonney Lake, WA. We never get snow this late. Smh

19. Thank you for the heads-up reminder. Pine shavings sound great!

20. Love all the videos lately❤. So much information❤❤

21. My husband recently spotted my copy of your book on our coffee table. He thought "companion plant" meant houseplants best suited per your personality type. ????

22. Brian, I use your fabulous book all the time. I love it and I honestly don’t know what I’d do without it. We’re in zone 10b and grew our zucchini as trees, per your previous example, last year and only took down the trunks at the end of Feb. We had them in a raised bed, but measuring from the soil surface to the tops, the trees themselves were over 7’ tall when we finally took them down. And they were STILL producing. ???? FYI, we used 10’ redwood 2×2 stakes and sank them 3’ into the bed to make sure they were stable. “Overkill is underrated.” ???? Thanks again for all your great info and for staying relatable by allowing us to see when you make mistakes…as well as how to fix them. Keep up the great work!

23. I'm outside in sunny (chilly) Maryland in 7a, up potting herbs and listening to you as you garden. Thanks for the blue hubbard Tip! I am starting it before my zucchini and yellow squashes !

24. Shavings and sawdust bedding material –
    Pine shavings – yes.
    Cedar, redwood, or sequoia shavings or stringy bark cordage – no !!! Cedar, redwood, and sequoia have strong anti-microbial, anti-bacterial properties (yeah !) – but also anti-vegetable, anti-flower properties (no Mister Bill !!!). So leave out any cedar species from shavings – and put this into any UN-vegetable, UN-flower bed arrangement that would also be used for anti-weed properties.

    Preferable vegetable and flower bed shavings – softwood deciduous trees and evergreens –
    deciduous shavings AND leaves – alder, cottonwood, aspen, poplar, birch, elm
    deciduous fruit and nut tree shavings – no leaves ! – apple, pear, cherry, plum, peach, apricot, nectarine
    evergreen – pine, hemlock, spruce, (preferable no yew – toxic like cedar)

    Hardwood and nut tree shavings –
    oak, maple, walnut, filbert/hazelnut, hickory, butternut, heartnut, pecan, almond, chestnut, chinquipin,

    Leaves – first as highly-composted material, then can be spread onto beds – oak, maple, walnut, fruit trees, nut trees
    Evergreen needles – no ! – pine, hemlock, spruce – too rich in acidic vitamin C and bitter antioxidants for plants

    If you have the chance to go to lumber yard – and be able (free or paid) to shovel up their shavings and saw dust, this makes the best use of fresh or composted soil coverage. Further mulching and composting piles with ammonia, then covered over with tarp and some dirt (ammonia nitrogen gas will break down these sawdusts and shavings into black gold soil – that can then be liberally spread onto the garden and flower beds.

    1-4 inches shavings onto garden bed. 1-2 inches on flower bed. 4-8 inches in grape, vine, and berry vineyard. 12-18 inches in fruit orchard. Within a year (with or without rain or self-irrigation) shavings in garden will have 1 inch of black gold soil. HIgher in higher mulched shavings areas.

25. I tried the Blue Hubbard squash as a trap crop last year. I guess you could say it worked as the svb killed it first before moving on to my zucchini and yellow squash…????????‍♀️ Trying again this year with the zucchini planted in a new bed and covered in tulle

26. I always have problems with Mexican Bean Beetles in my bush beans. I’ve never heard anyone talk about them and wondered if you have any suggestions on how to get rid of them. Thanks, keep up the great work!

27. AWESOME TEACHING BRIAN ❤ LOVE YALL ❤

28. I am going to try either cardboard or newspaper when planting my carrots this year.

29. Plant a few beet seeds, same depth. The beets will come up a couple days ahead of the carrots. When they do, flame weed the carrot bed and you'll be weed free long enough for the carrots to get well established

30. Brian– Can cedar shavings be used rather than pine?

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