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About a month and half ago, we planted my vertical greenstalk planter with pepper plants. These peppers are thriving, so it's time for an update! I'll show how my pepper tower looks today, plus share some tips on what I would have done differently. We planted this pepper tower together here: https://youtu.be/OVZLpbdNQ8A

Growing your vegetables vertically is one of the best gardening tricks I know! Today we'll talk about why I like to garden vertically (and why you might too), some different ideas for vertical gardening, and finally which plants work well grown this way. You can watch how we picked up these cattle panels without a truck here: https://youtu.be/0TbULGnI-Yc

It may be July, but it's not too late to plant seeds! There are some vegetables that do well planted in summer. Today we'll talk about the two categories of seeds that I'm still planting in my garden in July, and some plants for each category.

The elephant garlic needs to be harvested! We'll harvest the elephant garlic and check on my hardneck German white garlic.

You don't need a lot of space to grow a lot of food! Today I'm sharing my container garden on my deck, where I'm growing lots of plants in pots in a small space. I can't believe how much these plants have grown since I planted them just a few weeks ago! We planted this pepper tower together here: https://youtu.be/OVZLpbdNQ8A You can see how this container garden looked right after planting - watch here: https://youtu.be/4neu8J7tznI

Come walk with me in the garden! My garden isn't perfect, but it provides me with food and sanctuary. I think it's beautiful, and I'd love to share it with you! I'll share my gardening tips along the way. You can see my spring garden tour here to see how this garden has grown: https://youtu.be/X3Si4weEnXs

Harvest the vegetable garden with me! We're getting a heat wave starting today, and I need to harvest these cool weather vegetables before it gets too hot for them. Today we'll be harvesting lettuce, kale, garlic scapes, and more! We harvested the first batch of garlic scapes together here: https://youtu.be/HNRfZU6vb3s

It's time to succession plant some vegetables, and replace some that have been eaten by pests with new seeds. Slugs have been worse than usual in my garden this year, and I've lost a lot of young seedlings. We're going to keep trying though, and hopefully get an abundant and delicious harvest!

Garlic scapes are a delicious bonus harvest for the garlic gardener. Harvesting your garlic scapes at the right time can lead to a bigger garlic bulb harvest - plus they taste fresh and delicious! Today we'll be starting this year's garlic scape harvest, and then making my favorite garlic scape pesto recipe. You can find my previous garlic scape video (with bonus recipes!) here: https://youtu.be/FeQ4W8Opx5o Garlic scape pesto recipe: https://vanillaandbean.com/garlic-scape-pesto/

Come harvest herbs with me! Today we'll be harvesting medicinal herbs to dry. I'll share how I like to use each one, and I'll show you some other medicinal plants growing in my garden too. To see how I use my elderflowers and calendula to make a "beefed up" elderberry syrup (my favorite cold and flu remedy) watch here: https://youtu.be/o_cpKcj2ZjY You can watch my herbal medicine day for this past winter here: https://youtu.be/5-QA_o9Ytus We make my favorite fever remedy here: https://youtu.be/DP0X1ggMTFE

Growing delicious tomatoes at home isn't hard! I follow some simple steps to care for my tomato plants as they grow, and they reward me with a delicious harvest! You can purchase the tomato tie tape that I use here: https://amzn.to/4c0SoWr To see how I planted these tomatoes to get them off to a healthy, start, watch here: https://youtu.be/S4p9bt15G7Y

One of the most important keys to a successful (and lower-maintenance) garden is mulching. Today we’ll talk about different options for mulch in the vegetable garden, and so many reasons why mulching is so important!

My container garden is fully planted with lots of peppers, tomatoes, herbs, and more! Today will be a “baseline” container garden tour so I can show you what I have planted, and you can watch it grow and change as the season goes on. We planted the pepper tower together here: https://youtu.be/OVZLpbdNQ8A

It’s time to plant out the winter squash! I’m starting my squashes and melons three different ways this season, and I’m hoping to compare results as the season goes on. We’ll experiment together and see which method gives us the best results.

Today I’m planting my tomatoes out in the garden! We’ll talk all about how to get tomato plants off to the best start. You can see the tomato varieties I’m growing this year here: https://youtu.be/GTTe4eHWCU4 We’ll talk about tomato care and maintenance as the season goes on, but for now you can watch my tomato care video from a couple years ago here: https://youtu.be/77UB33pXfHY

I'm sharing my Azure Standard haul for the month of May, 2024. I purchase a lot of my healthy and organic food through Azure Standard, and share my grocery trip with you so you can get ideas about what to order. If you're new to Azure Standard, you can sign up here (my channel will receive a small referral bonus if you sign up through this link - thank you for supporting my channel at no additional cost to you!): https://www.azurestandard.com/?a_aid=b5ef14ce4f

My last frost date hasn't passed yet, but I'm going to take a risk and plant some summer seeds anyway! Today we'll start the direct-sown summer garden by planting some beans, zucchini, and flowers. If you want to see how my wall o waters work, I posted a video here where I used them to protect my tomatoes last year: https://youtu.be/ptwEAeoOPw0

It is possible to grow a lot of food even if you have a small garden! Like many gardeners, I've often wished for a bigger garden. Since that isn't possible right now, I've learned how to maximize the space I do have to grow the most food possible in as small a space as possible. Join me in the garden today and we'll talk small space gardening!

Even though we haven't had our last frost for the season yet, my garden is growing! Let's take a walk through my zone 6 spring vegetable garden, and we'll talk about what vegetables are planted and which will be planted soon. We planted the broccoli together here: https://youtu.be/JzXRElG-Fe0 You can see my winter sowing results here: https://youtu.be/nawERzu-HjE Music by Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/

Today I'm planting a permaculture guild around my apple tree. We'll talk about the types of plants to include in a fruit tree guild, and I'll share what plants I've chosen to use for mine. You can see all of the winter-sown seedlings here: https://youtu.be/nawERzu-HjE Music by Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/

Back in winter, I tried starting some seeds with a method called winter sowing. It was a bit of an experiment, so let's check in on how these seedlings are doing so far! We'll see if winter sowing was a success or failure! You can watch the original winter sowing video here: https://youtu.be/OHpkE6sJiPE We transplanted out some of the winter sown broccoli here: https://youtu.be/JzXRElG-Fe0 Music by Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/

Broccoli can be a challenging plant to grow in the vegetable garden, so today I'm sharing my top tips for growing abundant broccoli. Come hang out in the garden with me as we plant this year's broccoli seedlings! Watch what went wrong with my seedlings here: https://youtu.be/icEEQM54cpE We planted the winter-sown seeds here: https://youtu.be/OHpkE6sJiPE Music by Epidemic Sound: epidemicsound.com/

Sometimes things just don't go right in the garden. A couple rough things have happened to my seedlings in the past few days! My (earlier) seedling update video (before the incident): https://youtu.be/aQIq-sy6QJw Music by Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/

My seedlings are growing fast, and it's time to take care of them! Join me for a mini "tour" of my seedlings, and hang out with me while we start hardening off the cool weather seedlings and separate some tomato seedlings. We started some of these seeds together here: https://youtu.be/ZbjJbpYh5Fs You can watch my flower variety video here: https://youtu.be/iIlYGDprixI Starting sweet potato slips: https://youtu.be/pYcnvYE4uf8

Many medicinal herbs are so easy to grow at home! Today I'm sharing the perennial herbs that I have growing in my garden, the wild herbs that I harvest from my yard, and all the medicinal herbs I'm growing from seed this year. We'll talk about some of the easiest herbs to grow and use, an some of my favorite uses for them. Come join me on a walk through my garden as we talk herbalism! Music by Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/