Happy new year to you and yours. Sophie looks so mature now. I am growing garlic for the first time and I guess that is my start to the 2025 vegie garden!

Awesome video and great year. Thank you for sharing. Happy new year to you and your family 👍🏼AL

Happy New Year! I'm looking forward to all the things you have planned! You really accomplished so much in 2024, I've enjoyed your videos , especially the fall blitz!

The days are getting longer now - spring will be coming... Merry Christmas!

Went through similar process last year to build compost bins. Funny you mention the book I've just started his no dig book despite being a practitioner it's always good to go back to basics, am surprised how many nuggets are in there, every day is a school day :)

Thanks Jason for your great videos. I've been dumping my scraps and leaves for years...then buy soil...why? Your use of common palletes is a great idea!

20+ years ago we got the metal corner posts that Gardeners Supply used to sell, and we still are using the original cedar slats that we bought and cut to the dimensions we wanted the bins to be. Same as with our raised beds, cedar sure can last a long time; may be a bit decayed in places, but still doing the job. These are my close in bins which we manage simply by emptying the oldest one each fall / winter to top off any raised beds that need it. In our front and back acres, outside the perennial and kitchen garden areas, we have compost bins made of t-posts and fencing pieces, and we just throw excess leaves, branches, weeds, whatever, in there that we just need to get the excess volume out of our gardens and lawn, and they just compost and slowly settle in place without us every bothering with them any further. Good for the trees around them.

My greenhouse is also packed with all the plants overwintering there out of the PNW rain, it's wild to see the geraniums are all blooming in there in December! If our temps get down to low 20's then I can turn on the seed starting heat mats that they are grouped around and over. My citrus did really well this year for fruit set considering the size of my little trees, and we got about a dozen small but very delicious satsuma oranges, and the lemons are ripening one at a time it seems, which certainly makes it convenient timing when I need one!

30+ years ago my grandpa gave Mom some beautiful orange daylilies that she planted in her front flowerbed. As I got older, it became one of my garden chores to thin them out every year. I still go over to her house and do it for her. I never have the heart to throw them out because they remind me of Grandpa so I set a post on the local Facebook page and offer them for free. I always have takers. Now, I drive around town and see bright, orange daylilies all over the place. It always reminds me of Grandpa...and of the hours on battling all those rhizomes.

Reuse, repurpose, recycle. Well done.

Awsome channel! I’m a garden illiterate and this definitely helps me. Thank you for sharing 👍🏼AL

Watch living traditions homestead, they grow peppers and preserve them too for winter. Thanks for the tips🌻

Save the peppers!

I've done this for a few years now, and it does work!! I'll be doing it again soon! 😊❤

Thank you. Only video that was clear about how to divide these bulbs

Congrats for making all 30 days!

They need a warm area to cure with some humidity. Nice harvest.

I have one climber, a 'Teasing georgia' . I watched quite a few videos beforehand and the best instruction was from JayJay where he diagrammed on paper how to do it. I tried to find that video, but was unable. In a nutshell, pruning encourages growth so it should be done in early spring. The strong main canes that come from the base will shoot up and need to be tied horizontally or up to 45 degrees, then they will produce the shorter lateral canes along their sides that will produce flowers. If the main canes are allowed to go straight up, there will be fewer laterals with flowers, and it will just aim to flower at the top of the main cane. If you've directed a main cane to the right as far as you want it to go, you cut off the end and encourage one of its laterals to take over as main cane and go to the left (so it zigzags horizontally up a wall. With a pillar, you could select 2 or 3 main canes and spiral them at 30 or 45 degrees up around your pillar, and then every spring trim back the laterals so they have 2 remaining growth nodes from which to sprout and produce flowers. I guess I went rambling too long! LOL

Thank you!

I learned from Erin, The Impatient Gardener, that if the soil is too fertile, then you only get the long stringy things. You have a nice harvest!

Amazing harvest 😊❤

Sorry for the choppy video. I was babbling a lot and wanted to try to keep the video on track. 😬

Great harvest. We turn ours into powder and make turmeric capsules. Many health benefits

I think I should watch the whole thing before I comment. Sorry... I see you planted them in part shade, when they'd rather be in those expansive, sunny areas behind you. Don't worry about them surviving winter; they like it cold and thrive in parts of Alaska! They will hate mulch on top of them because they want to have the cold- even if it snows on top of the buds in spring they don't mind- and the mulch will hold in water, which they don't want, especially around their crown. I planted mine in clay soil on slopes with at least 6 hours full sun. I would see how many hours of shade you have there and take the mulch off, just using regular soil to cover the eyes half an inch.

Yes, the French were know as peony hybridizers in the 1800s and early 1900s. You have a particularly vintage French collection, with only Karl Rosenfield and Living Coral aren't French and only Living Coral (which I don't even see as a registered variety) was hybridized less (much less) than 100 years ago. BTW, there are plenty of American hybridizers, you just happened to have chosen mostly very old French varieties. 😃

I know I answered yhe poll earlier but watching this starring at a carnivorious cape sundew with a massive flower stalk I'm letting go to seed to grow as gifts for next year's holidays. (It slipped my mind since it's sitting on the kitchen window and not in the garden)

Just want you to know that I'm really enjoying your fall blitz! My age is creeping up and I don't always have the strength or motivation to get out in the garden, so I garden vicariously through gardening channels. So, thanks Jason!

For perpetual weeds. I dug out a massive invasive honeysuckle bush two summers ago and up till today have been pulling baby honeysuckle from the lawn.

Not 💯% sure if carrots work the same but many freeze and frost tolerate crops push a bunch of sugars into the leave to act as anti freeze; also why it's said that leafy crops (ie cabbage, spinach) taste sweetest after frost or freeze.

Good job on cleaning! A green house is in my future plans! I really need one!😊❤

Great video! I've been expanding my garden and was thinking about buying a bunch of concrete edgers, but it just so happens I have several bags of concrete left over from putting in my fence! Maybe I'll try making my own and save a few bucks. Thanks!

Low to no cost from your own garden and deer won't touch it. Win win. I'll have to find one of these. Think it would work in part sun?

1000s of bulbs? Sounds like me last year, but I haven’t planted any yet this year. Too bad you can’t grow tulips there they are my absolute favorites. I’m in Seattle and they thrive here. Maybe I’ll try some wild tulips like you this year thanks for your advice ❤

Remember that your peony crown (eyes) should only be covered with 1-2 inches of soil and this includes mulch.

Very interesting

Dont see to many jonathan red apples around anymore. Sadly red delicious (in my opinion it isnt) has taken over. Was there a selection process or just what the sellers had available?

All of our fruit trees are now inside our fence line due to the deer. We did have a young/small fig outside the fence that the deer enjoyed when there wasn't much else to choose from. We also use cardboard and mulch to suppress the weeds and grass. It does a pretty good job, but the centipede grass always finds a way to break thru.

Except for the horse manure, I cleaned up under my fig tree also. I'm zone 9b, South Mississippi.

The deer eat the tall sedums but seem to leave the ground cover types alone. They start so easily from cuttings. Sedums do seem to like dry, infertile soil. I had the variety called 'brilliant' that was passed down from cuttings from my great grandmother to my grandmother to my mother and then to me. But the deer killed mine off...sigh.

Hey Jason, the algorithm served me one of your videos last week, and since then I've enjoyed every video you've put out. You're living the dream, puttering around the garden, planting plants, and executing plans. I love it! keep it up!