I have one ordered for my wife for our forty third anniversary. She has never seen one so I think she will like it!
@CottageontheCorner12 күн бұрын
@@jeromereed1097 oh I love that! I just bought one for my son’s girlfriend because she’s really getting into gardening. It was pouring here today and it sounded great.
@Mori_oop19 күн бұрын
that is so cool!
@CottageontheCorner19 күн бұрын
@@Mori_oop it sounds so beautiful. It’s going to pour here later today and I can’t wait to hear it again.🥰
@anitacolotto9282Ай бұрын
Gotta follow rules of canning! Nobody wants botulism on their plate😬🥹😵💫
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
Yeah, exactly. I don’t judge anyone who does rebel Canning, but I’m not experienced enough to feel comfortable trying it.
@user-je2ny1mq1oАй бұрын
🙋♀️💖🌧🌿🌿🌿 awesome
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
@@user-je2ny1mq1o thank you so much🥰
@TheActualFrozenCactusАй бұрын
Was going up like and sub, until I saw SpyTok logo DISLIKE
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
What are you even talking about?
@TheActualFrozenCactusАй бұрын
@@CottageontheCorner TikTok bad. It’s Chinese government spyware.
@Beth180Ай бұрын
Just found your channel and just subscribed. I love all of your great ideas. Thank you so much for sharing your awesome video. Hope you have a good blessed night 💖🤗💖
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
Oh my goodness, thank you so much for your kind words! I do all my videos on TikTok, but I definitely want to try to post videos here more regularly like several times a week. Thank you so so much.🥰🥰
@TheSecondMouseАй бұрын
Early bird gets the worm!
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
So true!
@exercisethemindАй бұрын
The birds will make sure you have raspberry bushes all over your neighborhood.
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
Not anymore since I covered them. I went to Dollar tree and bought 10 more mesh laundry bags tonight and they couldn’t figure out why… And I didn’t tell them because I wanted them to think I was weird.😂
@allennewborn936Ай бұрын
That little bed is not ideal for your raspberries. By next season, you're going to be hating life. They spread and overtake everything. Just make sure you prune them on an absolute regular basis. Heck.. by the end of this season, that owl will no longer be visible and your branches will be on the ground around that raised bed with potential roots that have spread into the lawn itself sprouting new bushes. They're nice to eat from, but absolute hell to maintain. I know many people that have dug up all of their raspberry bushes because of how invasive they become. They cross lawns.. pop up in driveway cracks if planted within 15 feet.. just an absolute menace.
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
That would be true if these were regular raspberries, but this is a particular thornless container variety. But I definitely appreciate the advice because I have a random volunteer red wine raspberry growing in my front yard. I wouldn’t even call it a shrub. It’s just this crazy, wild thing.😂
@allennewborn936Ай бұрын
@@CottageontheCorner Ohhh nice.
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
@@allennewborn936 yeah I literally had no idea that they made container varieties much less thornless ones and I freaking bought them on Amazon along with the thornless container. Variety of blackberries… Live in my best life over here.😂
@nbmwoodАй бұрын
Trust me.... because I've lost all my berries... But now I know what to do for you 🤢
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
The struggle is real! They never take the berries the day before they’re perfectly ripe. They wait and watch.😂
@slowmoe1964Ай бұрын
Just "leave" that in the ground 😅
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
That’s literally a dad joke… Like my dad would’ve said that😂 I love it
@karihayes5448Ай бұрын
Ka-ta-va is the correct pronunciation in MS. I know it makes no sense but thats how we roll in apparently 😂
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
Well, it’s spelled CATALPA so maybe you’re talking about another plant
@mattcat83Ай бұрын
Don't just talk about it, show it.
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
Simmer down. I’ll do a video showing it but this was too late in the evening to get started so I decided to just trim all the suckers first. You’re pretty bossy. At least I told you how it can be done.
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
This is too funny lol
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Right?! I think gardeners speak our own weird language when we connect.🥰😂
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
I haven't came across many plant people with the same vibe lol. There is definitely a language, a look lol
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
@@TheSecondMouse oh my gosh, it is definitely a unique vibe. I am Gen X and I started a TikTok really as a gardening journal for myself and I am connecting with so many amazing people. If you garden then definitely follow me there and I’ll follow you back. People have so many great suggestions for each other, and we all just get it🥰😂
@semorebutts25842 ай бұрын
Considered a weed? Catalpa trees are a beautiful native tree. Dont kill it. Its supposed to be here.
@kinpandun24642 ай бұрын
You want the sunniest spot for your tomatos, especially if they're beefsteaks. If it's semi-shade, then stick to small/cherry size tomatos or medium size max (8 oz max).
@kinpandun24642 ай бұрын
Also, so happy for you! 🎉 New planting space is always a seratonin rush! My spouse and I just got done putting in place, filling and planting and single 4'x8', and we are still recovering. Considering I built the ding-dang thing myself I'm pretty pleased. We are a disabled household, so the sense of accomplishment is great, but so is the physical expense after the fact.😅
@kinpandun24642 ай бұрын
Coco Coir is pronounced "KO-ko KOY-yər/-yr" ("ə" is "uh"). This has been your friendly and hopefully helpful autistic infodump. Thanks for the info about being able to interplant these two! It great to know we can plant annuals around our perennials.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Well, that would make more sense if it was pronounced like that, but every video I’ve ever seen it sounds like they’re saying core… I need to step up my pronunciation game😂
@kinpandun24642 ай бұрын
That's me, starting next week I think.
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
We were lucky for so long, but the heat and humidity just hit us 3 days ago 😩
@kinpandun24642 ай бұрын
This is a wonderful hack! Found you from the MIGardener video about the Amish trick for telling soil PH.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
No way… Just from a comment I left on his video. That’s pretty cool. I love all this networking stuff. I’m really really getting into gardening this year. I’m more active on TikTok than here, but I’m getting there.🥰
@green7apocalyptica2 ай бұрын
Or you can add soil with different pH to them and they change between blue and pink
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Yes! That is another way to do it!🥰
@spongeman65592 ай бұрын
This will hurt your plants, copper is toxic to plants.
@wildheart50862 ай бұрын
Love Hydrangeas!
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Same! They are low maintenance for the most part and I like that.
@JohnElliott-rb3pi2 ай бұрын
It tastes like that with me...I hate it
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Oh man, that’s such a shame… It’s such a unique flavor. I wonder why some people developed that a version to it genetically. I wonder what the benefit of Not liking it could be🤔
@JohnElliott-rb3pi2 ай бұрын
@@CottageontheCorner you actually taught me that I'm tasting differently. I love tacos and different seasoning but can't stand cilantro because of taste.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
@@JohnElliott-rb3pi oh wow… I’m so glad that a video I made was useful in that sense. Yeah there are so many random things that we don’t know why we like them or dislike them. I myself learned this from another KZbinr years ago.
@JohnElliott-rb3pi2 ай бұрын
I love them... makes me feel like my plants are loving it.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Yes! There’s definitely that kind of feeling going on🥰
@kybelle4572 ай бұрын
Where do you live to have so many turkeys? I'm in ky and we have them, but rarely see them.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
On Long Island in New York. I’ve seen them wild but not in my yard. It was really cool.
@cwest3942 ай бұрын
Plants enough seeds to feed the homeless. Doesnt eat them.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Oh settle down and don’t be so negative. 1 pack of seeds may yield 20 small radishes at most. I’m gonna try them and give some to my elderly mom. You can make a garden to Alfred them homeless if you want. Or go volunteer at a food bank. That would be better use of the time you chose to be obnoxious in a comment
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
I seed bombed a nice patch of radish, turnips and beats all mixed together. I pull the greens to thin out and eat. Never ate micro greens before but it's working well.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
@@TheSecondMouse I love that! That’s like a type of chaos gardening which sometimes my brain wants to do other times it gives me anxiety😂
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
Ive always wanted to try vertical or hanging gardens.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
I actually don’t really know much about hanging gardening but that sounds interesting. Aqua onyx is also interesting. This thing literally was a game changer for me square footage wise. I didn’t realize how functional it was and how many huge things I could grow in it.
@pamelajones5322 ай бұрын
I grow massive amounts of herbs and peppers in mine.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
@@pamelajones532 that’s incredible! Now I have to look into that because that sounds so interesting
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
So many thrifty things to look for when shopping for plants. Nice!
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Thank you! I also really love to let some of my plants go to seed and collect the seeds and sometimes I’ll get a fall garden from the seeds from the spring garden
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
Functioning ecosystem.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Not sure I get your point. Are you saying leave the past because you know that’s just the way a functioning ecosystem works? If so, then, no. My goal is to provide the healthiest nontoxic food for my family and deal with pests in the least toxic way, so as not to harm the soil or that ecosystem. If anyone decides to grow their own food, just by nature of disturbing the already existing soil and microbes and everything that’s going on by digging holes, adding compost and adding plants that weren’t there… That’s disturbing the ecosystem butthat’s the way it is
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
Vermiculite is used for water retention in the soil. Why does it stop moss? That's likely not moss anyways. Why does cinnimon work?That looks more like an algae to me. Lychan commonly grows in wet situations. It's a symbiotic relationship between an algae and fungi.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
In some cases, there are definitely symbiotic relationships, but when you have plant starts that are young new plants or especially plant seedlings that have just sprouted and you get any of the above on the surface of the soil, whether it’s algae, moss, mold, etc., that negatively affects a very young early plant. Now I, take that moss or algae or whatever that is in the video and I do sprinkle it throughout my soil, but I don’t want it all around the base of that plant. Vermiculite can’t hold water and the purpose. It serves to hold water so that the soil isn’t holding it and growing Things we discussed. Cinnamon happens to just be a natural inhibitor of certain things growing. I’m not quite sure why to be honest, but just like vinegar with salt kills weeds, different plants have reactions to different substances. I wish I knew all the things, but my grandfather used to work for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and he taught me some of this stuff a very long time ago and so far it works in my area
@jadeforestco2 ай бұрын
We live on the edge of a wetland and cinnamon has NEVER worked for us. I'm glad it helps in your garden.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Yeah, that might be too much water for it to handle. I think it’s probably only good for mold or moss that occurs due to overwatering or a heavy rain. What do you do to prevent mold and moss then?
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
Big fan!
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
You are my people🥰
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
Build some toad habitant. I watch the birds eat bugs. Sure, sometimes they poop on the leaves and eat a worm or two.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Oh, I’ll have to look into that for sure because I’ve been hearing treat to around and I did find one of them in the garden. I never even thought of that, thank you so much!
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
I also stay away from insecticidal soaps. Destroys the biome.
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
Yep! A little blue Dawn dish soap very diluted works great!
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
Ahh beetles. Check out diatomaceous earth. It works on critters with a hard exo skeleton. Needs reapplied if wet. Mined kind of harshly from Earth. Good soil additives. Edible. Used by farmers to deworm cattle. Works for humans too. Good for hair nails skin. Food grade. Drink plenty of water if you eat it!
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
What species are you targeting with the soap?
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
It was a 3 striped beatle that was on my tomatillos. I did also have to check daily and I’m happy to say they’re gone. I’ll can use this for most insects though
@SoniaG0242 ай бұрын
Oh my hair falls out so much I can mulch that entire garden
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Then mulch it up, friend! Yeah, literally I’m gonna start emptying out my hairbrush into my garden. Last year I had a groundhog that decimated my garden. I don’t see him yet, but I’m not taking any chances.
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
Neat!
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
Thank you friend!
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
The answer to gardening problems isn't to minus life, it's to add life.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
That makes me think of a phrase in a book called the last lecture. The writer said that the brick walls that are put up in front of us aren’t meant to keep us out, they are put there to make us figure out how to get around them.
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
I love spiders in my gardens. Keeps pests down. Toads are our best friends. :)
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Oh my gosh, I never even thought about toads… We have a lot of tree frogs around here right now, and I found one in one of my garden beds. Why didn’t realize how helpful they would be.🤦♀️
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
Followed fellow gardner.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Awesome! So we are basically best friends now🥰🥰
@TheSecondMouse2 ай бұрын
My friend had a garden in the woods. He had fish string around the perimeter with cloth and twirly stuff. He had a whole mass of sheep wool at the entrance without a gate. We watched lots of deer walk right on by.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Yeah, you know sometimes it’s easy to deter some past and then other times no matter what you do some animals and summon insects will wreck your garden
@ladygenesis2 ай бұрын
You most likely already know, I think I see one already, but you can paint the chicken wire black so you can see through it easier - beautiful garden!
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
They actually do sell black ones as well, but I felt like maybe that would absorb too much heat in the sunlight. Either way those plants have outgrown the wire baskets already.😅
@ladygenesis2 ай бұрын
@@CottageontheCorner Oh my goodness! This is why I'm not a gardener, I didn't even think of the heat! What a green thumb!
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
@@ladygenesis well to be honest I don’t really know if it would make a difference if they were black. As far as heat, I mean. It’s just a random thoughts in my head. You should garden being a. “ Gardener” can be as big or as small as you wanna make it. And there’s something that’s really satisfying about it to me where I plant some thing and then I can actually harvest it and cook with it even if it’s on a small scale.
@dp-kz5cs2 ай бұрын
❤
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Right?… You are my people🥰
@KHH5952 ай бұрын
I have the soap gene and always wondered what it is supposed to taste like. Is there another flavor you can compare it to?
@CottageontheCornerАй бұрын
I honestly can’t think of anything that tastes similar. 🤔
@Linzy89562 ай бұрын
Fresh cilantro taste like soap to me, but dried isnt as bad, coriander doesn't taste like soap at all.. to me anyway. But the fresh stuff is awful. I once threw out an entire huge pot of soup because i put fresh cilantro in it, and it ruined the whole thing! Thats how i found out.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
No way. I didn’t even realize that the people that have the soap Jean might be OK with the ground spice. That’s even more fascinating to me.
@alucard69222 ай бұрын
The whole plant is coriander, but the leaves are called cilantro. Although 2 names are used interchangeably.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
I didn’t some countries. They don’t use the word cilantro at all or at least parts of those countries, which is interesting. Either way I’m growing a ton of it because it doesn’t taste like soap to me.🥰
@user-uh7nv2li8b2 ай бұрын
Love them
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
Right?! Even though it’s loud and chaotic, it’s so peaceful to me.🥰
@marryb78852 ай бұрын
You should crush the seeds with a rolling pin, then plant them in the soil. It takes a 2-4 days to sprout. Then waiting a week for them to come out.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
That’s interesting. I’ve never heard of doing it that way. I would think damaging the seeds would make them not sprout, but maybe I’ll try that. Also just for comparison. Very cool.
@cousinmajin2 ай бұрын
I was on an entomology trip in Central America and one of the guys on the trip had the cilantro soap gene. But there was a species of termite down there that supposedly tasted like cilantro. We searched for it and finally found it! I tried it, it tasted very much like cilantro. And the guy with the soap gene got to eat them and find out what cilantro is supposed to taste like
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
No way! I wonder why he was OK tasting the insect but not the actual plan. That adds another level of fascination for me.
@KHH5952 ай бұрын
Omg!! That is so cool! I have the soap gene and I’ve always wondered what it’s supposed to taste like.
@CottageontheCorner2 ай бұрын
@@KHH595 you’re gonna have to go look for those bugs.
@cousinmajin2 ай бұрын
@CottageontheCorner He's an entomologist, they're crazy 🤣 It's not that he didn't want to eat cilantro, it's just that when he ate cilantro it didn't taste like "cilantro" to him because of the "cilantro soap gene", so he wanted to experience the way it was supposed to taste