Early SPRING 2024 MEADOW HOME GARDEN Tour - Ep. 247

It's still cold outside with freezing temperatures at night, but the garden is forging ahead-albeit slowly. Though it's not the most aesthetically pleasing time to share the garden with you all, we figured we'd do an early spring tour. First up is the gardens around the Meadow House.
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[@barbarasimoes9463]

Ooh, I would avoid filling that front area with gravel if I were you. It's hard enough to weed when it's just dirt, but you add gravel and it's a whole other level of difficult. Every weed seed lands there, too! I would really reconsider that thought!

[@raymondkyruana118]

I agree, This is an important time to film in the garden and look at what's growing! Thank you!

[@LMLewis]

Isn't it a great feeling to see your garden vision begin to take shape?

[@tjcihlar1]

Beautiful. I feel the spring challenge of trying to remember what I planted. I also see all the plants that I think died over winter, just to be surprised when they spring to life.

[@ja-uh9gz]

Me too. Sometimes I plant something where I think it's a blank space, only to have the old plant emerge...along with the new plant.

[@trayvixk4642]

Traditionally Dandelion is seen as a weed but I hope you harvest some of it because it's so sustainable. Every part of it is edible. There are Korean vegetarian/vegan recipes for the leaves and roots and you can make it as tea.

[@thomasmarley3646]

THOSE DAMN DEER!!

[@nicholasryan5401]

Greetings from Ireland, Beautiful house and gardens, They are the bees knees.

[@michaellundberg2532]

Finally a new season at Flock. I live in Denmark, and sometimes we travel to USA, to visit a friend and his wife. We have visited Finger lakes once abort 5 years ago. Is it posible to visit the garden if we come to New York state / Finger Lakes? Keep up the good work. Both my wife and I follow all your gardening at the farm, and we can't get enough of it.

[@PlantNative]

Hello. Episode 229 mentioned the possibility of tours for patreon members I believe.

[@lisaputnam5538]

I’m 2 hours east of you, near Utica. I live in a higher elevation, so my bloom time tends to be two weeks behind areas around me. I understand the frustration and impatience waiting to see the show come alive! Every year I’m working to transform all the landscaping around the house. I’m a novice, and tend to bite off more than I can chew, so it’s all quite a challenge. Thank you for all that you’re teaching me!

[@pcrice-lr2dn]

Hello from East Tennessee zone7 less than a hour from Biltmore,that’s how I found you . When I quit working I did season pass to Biltmore,and would drive over 2-4 times a week.The House is Good,but the garden is ever changing,sorry you missed my favorite part,the Wild Azaleas ,BREATH TAKING. Hope you enjoyed my part of the country. Can’t wait to follow you on your garden journey 🌿🍃

[@sharonknorr1106]

Ah, the deer. Our 1/2 acre front yard is totally fenced in with chain link with barbed wire on top (to stop the mountain lions and bears, although the bears aren't real impressed). We have so many mule deer and they are totally ok with being close to people. We also have a lot of wild turkey that figured out they could fly over the fence - took them a few years, but now they come in a lot. They haven't done too much damage yet, and they are so fun to watch, so I try to cut them some slack.

[@christinecarmichael3253]

The meadow House looks beautiful. You and Sonder were so great at saving space in the small house. my husband and I live in a small house in Ohio near a little lake house is all used to be vacation homes for Cleveland. I love your ideas. I’m going to incorporate some. The is awesome. Anyways keep up the good work you guys I love your channels.

[@MaryLou84]

As your perennials will grow and fill in that planter near the house, they will use up all the dirt and you won't have any issues with it coming out of the planter. Plus, it takes a whole lot of dirt near the house to do any damage to your house. I live in Canada, winters are harsh here and almost all the houses have a garden near the walls. Unless you plant trees that get really big near your house, you should be fine having something close to the foundation, especially a planter.

[@kathymacomber5115]

I love your partnership..you make a great team..respectfull to each other and kind.

[@ruralangwin]

Interstitial. Perfunctory. Pernicious. Love it.

[@juliaczaplewski6132]

I worked at an arboretum where we had fringe trees next to our ash which were infected with emerald ash borer. The fringe trees did seem to be affected, but not nearly as much and they were pretty healthy overall!

[@hstephenphillips260]

Hello from Cooperstown, NY. A lot of the very old homes here have Allegamy Vine along thier garden walls and gates. Mr. Cooper, mother of James Fenimore Cooper, gathered it in the woods here and planted it in her garden becuase she used it as a remedy for something. She must be responsible for the other impoertant families cultivating it on their propertioes as well. It grows on the rocks under the trees behind my parents home. I was wondering if you knew of it?

[@charlesbale8376]

Absolutely love a garden walk, something I could do daily to see all the activity.

[@gedelgo3242]

Missing the fabric in the raised bed is 100% not something to worry about. Most foundations are backfilled with top soil anyway.

[@delarboles197]

Now this garden reminds me of my goddess! The grass really is greener on the other side of this story. As a cis white male I am channeling my anger into peace with ceremonies to protect the godess. I performed a ceremony for peace today. I follow the shadow of the oak branches up to the trunk. I offer my hand to one if it's branches reaching out for peace. When we make contact energy flows through me connecting roots to branches. Forming the tree of life. Especially if 2 participate! One wheel works 2 is better. This ceremony ripples peace to all life forms. A life of peace is all we ever wanted. ✌️

[@pwalsh691]

Hope your deer fencing works out for you. Otherwise, as your trees get larger you will have to deal with the bucks rubbing in the Fall. They did serious damage to my Amelanchier (rubbed the bark off most of the trunks) and even went after my Nootkas (Alaskan cedar) that were fairly mature. On the Nootkas they went after the weepy branches instead of the trunk.

[@SequoiaElisabeth]

Nice update, thanks for sharing.

[@NickBoileau]

If you plant the bank with monarda didyma you have to plant the fence with coral honeysuckle! Create a hummingbird buffet.

[@Drawwithautomotive]

Keep up the good work!

[@allisongorham7389]

‘Miss Bateman’ is in group 2 for clematis pruning…remove dead and damaged stems before growth in spring, cut back stems to strong buds

[@ac42405]

Looking great. I would def be planting native evergreen trees in front of the fencelines for year 'round privacy, wind and cold protection, road noise, etc and just to have a beautiful background for future plantings. Essentially creating a Shelter Belt.

[@bettenotap4791]

The rabbits pruned my Fothergilla shrub hard 2 winters ago, so I caged it this past winter. I don’t have deer pressure at all. 🇨🇦

[@sunitashastry5270]

Great to hear of all your ideas for the future.

[@drrahilakurdi5943]

Good ❤❤❤❤

[@loriedmundson782]

Thanks for the plant suggestions. Got lots of ideas for my yard. ❤

[@meghancmahoney]

Hi Summer, would you mind sharing the names of the bulbs in the raised planter of the meadow house? They are beautiful!

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

Clematis looking dead. Yep, it'll look dead every spring! You could cut it back to the ground every year. You could let the previous years vines send out side vines at each node. The Bird is a Wren.

[@FireflyOnTheMoon]

I think a gravel garden would look really odd in the bucolic setting. --- On your deer fence, I would choose your vines very carefully as woody ones can and generally do get very heavy and impede the function of the fence. ---- The wisteria would need something to climb over, like an arbour. It puts on a huge amount of growth each each when mature. You might want to train it to be a standard tree - that looks like it would suit your spot best, if you want to keep it. For your raised bed - I would go for a John Innes III - higher loam. ---- I still think the clem is waaay too big for the raised bed. It written up as getting to seven feet. They are not happy in containers. You have to cut back group II clems each year.

[@heatherdoes7849]

Can I ask where you got your metal spinner from? Lovely garden tour!

[@SMElder-iy6fl]

Instead of gravel which is such a superb seed bed (for weeds also) what about just not mowing the grass? Just mow paths through it.

[@_JanetLouise]

so very inspirational!

[@darinasa4428]

I've always lived in the city so I've never encountered deer. What are the reasons to put up a fence against "deer trespassing"?

[@MonoiLuv]

❤

[@ulla.umlaut]

What is the estimated "natural" deer density in your area? I know it's WAY higher than it _should_ be outside your fence, but zero per acre is also not normal -although I can see wanting some recovery time before re-introduction. I remember you've had doe get in and fawn, how many acres would you need to have fenced for 1.5 - 2 deer be a acceptable standard population?

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Typically a healthy population of deer is around 10-15 / 1 square mile. I think 1 sq mile is around 640 acres. So 20 fenced acres theoretically wouldn't be able to support 1 without getting decimated. Remember each deer needs about 7 lbs of fresh tree buds a day to sustain itself. And I think our deer population numbers here are between 40 - 50 deer/square mile now, so it's way over the carrying capacity for deer. Hence why there is no forest restoration in areas that are open range.

[@ulla.umlaut]

@@FlockFingerLakes Wow! They need a much bigger range than I intuited. Thank you for looking up and providing those numbers. Thinking about how fast a herd of goats can strip an area of all foliage in the summer, it makes sense that even a single deer can do a lot of damage to tender growth over the course of a winter, even over what seems like a large area!

[@mikeymopar1171]

How is a gravel Garden beneficial to your soil wouldn't you be better off with wood chips

[@chekchow]

Grass that you don't want called weed 😅 regardless

[@rickyt3961]

Thanks for the update! looks great!