Sunny entry garden tour + raised veg garden

[@sarahschmid5625]

"Oh, and this little bastard"... zooms in on a slug. Best comment on the internet!!! Love this channel! Not only great info, but also good for a belly laugh

[@Peoniesandpinks]

“If I die, you’ll know that a squirrel killed me” 😂😂😂

[@Dahliaismypassion]

Erin, thank you for the tour and thank you for showing all of your garden in its natural progression. We love you for that because we can relate. Your garden is fantastic by the way. It’s harder for me to relate to a gardener that has a crew working full time in their garden and where money is not an object. It’s is not attainable for an average backyard gardener like me.

[@robertarohwer3861]

As an 11 year old boy (!) you have succeeded everywhere! Beautiful garden... thanks for sharing it!

[@barbaramccann7944]

I had to pause the video to go use my plant ID app on something I saw flowering in amongst lilacs a month ago. Sure enough, it’s Boneset. I’ve been here 43 years and never noticed it prior to this summer. I might move it where it can flourish.

[@emkn1479]

I saw it in some wild areas we visited recently and I loved it! Definitely trying to add that in here as well.

[@myrnaedmisten599]

The canna in water was so crazy! Love the pond, and the gate, and…and…. 😂😂❤

[@KristiB73]

Squirrels can be ruthless. I think they throw acorns with bad intentions.

[@angelaholinka3248]

LOL!!! I agree

[@Peachy08]

Everytime I go out to my garden I have a squirrel that throws things at me. One day after a rain he actually shook a limb over me as I walked under it and soaked me good😂

[@bettenotap4791]

We went out for a pier walk and ice cream cones and hit a squirrel with our car. As much as they annoy me in my garden, we both felt really bad for the little guy. 😢

[@freedomofreligion3248]

Your comment makes me laugh out loud. Thank you.

[@cherylbevis6535]

I dream about your veggie garden gate! Oh the squirrels! I planted snap peas on a trellis on a 6ft privacy fence and the squirrels tiptoe across the top of the fence and pick them off. "Thanks for pre-packaging the fruit!" You continue to inspire me...and make me giggle too.

[@fromseedtobloommedia9340]

I love this woman; the squirrels and Hairy balls cracked me up! 😂

[@nicolechew1029]

Loving the in-depth tours! It's helpful to hear your thoughts about the whys and hows. Those cosmos are gorgeous! I hope the squirrels' attempts at killing you in your own garden are unsuccessful 😂 They really are a pain. I lost all my peaches this year on my new little tree because of them.

[@margaretpervier8357]

Your garden is uniquely beautiful 😊.

[@heatherw.2751]

I too think the family jewels are funny! I guess I can be considered an 11 yr old boy 😂 Loved all the in depth tours! A treat for the eyes and so informative! Thanks Erin!!

[@gardeninggrandma5247]

Squirrels are definitely a nemesis in the garden. Depending upon how much time you want to spend, I think I would take some hardware cloth (the metal type) and form a box to go over the groupings of fruit on your tree and wire the "boxes" shut until they are ripe!! Then, set up a camera in the garden to see what they do. Unless they are Houdini, it might be a really funny video to watch them try to crack it open! Your garden is just amazing!! Such an inspiration.

[@atlantagardener1]

Yes I was thinking about chicken wire like you use to make a frog for arranged flowers and sculpt it around them. But I love the camera idea! Watching the squirrels fail at my bird feeder always brings joy 😂

[@debrabolduc9928]

As a last resort, I trained the local trash bandits aka racoons to beware of cayenne pepper. They're leaving my tomatoes alone now. The deer got my tulips and daylilies, the local cats roll in the nepeta, and I'm sure the squirrels dug up some of the bulbs too. Don't get me started on the Japanese beetles... snips, soapy water and determination everyday, along with bt and nematodes as needed spring and fall. Zone 4 in Quebec, Canada, so last frost date mid June, first one whenever in September, just before 3 more weeks of good weather. It's an uphill battle this year with monsoon rains, so slug heaven here. Last year was way too dry. We garden to relax, right? 😉

[@shelleymolinaro5866]

Love the detailed tour Erin. Thanks

[@bernadette1510]

Thank you for taking the time to share you garden with us. I absolutely loved created series for us to focus on. I loved each and every one of them. I am sure it took quite a bit of time to insert every single name op the plant, not to mentioned editing it. I am grateful for that!!! Your garden is an inspiration!

[@lisas3692]

I’ve learned to grab a notepad before watching one of your tours as you always have a tip or plant that’s just right for a situation I’m dealing with! Thanks for the fun and helpful videos.

[@echomountain3370]

Loving the garden tours! Never gets old. Such an amazing garden.

[@greenthumbelina7331]

Erin, squirrels, yikes, I wish I knew how to deter those little critters. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to keep them out of my garden beds. They plant oak trees, corn, sunflower seeds, etc. (and seeds from the bird feeder) in most of my planters. They eat anything they can dig up or snatch from my garden beds. Squirrels are one of the most entertaining albeit irritating animals to ever raid a garden. I attached a Slinky below a squirrel baffle on the pole that holds my largest bird feeder. I greased the pole (sprayed it with Pam) so when a squirrel can finally climb the slick pole to grab hold of the Slinky, it has a fast ride to the ground ... extremely entertaining. 🐿🤣😂 Is that beautiful burgundy and green canna in your stock tank water garden the one called Cleopatra? It's beautiful! I hope you saved some seeds from it just to see if the seed will grow true to the original plant. I love doing experiments like that. I always enjoy your garden tours. Thanks for sharing.

[@kathymomcilovich2939]

I love the bright, bold of the flowers in your bowl against all the green. It really emphasizes the whole area!

[@carolfisch9750]

I love your sense of humor as much as I love your gardening. Thank you for both. Wish I was your neighbor, but then again probably get more exposure to you virtually.

[@ElizabethAnnRowland]

I really appreciate you sharing your garden when it’s not perfect. It gives me hope for my garden!

[@Cherryparfait41]

Family Jewels was a new to me name. 🤣 What a wonderful gardening season you’ve had. Thanks for giving me so many new plants to investigate!

[@jillkeim3587]

Great video. The driveway garden is my favorite of all of your gardens. Love the color, choice of grasses, great plant selections.

[@carlas872]

You make me laugh, the squirrels! I love your driveway garden! It looks beautiful!

[@juliehorney995]

Thank you for a reality tour of a veggie garden in September! It's beautiful and tells the story of another wonderful growing season. Yay God!

[@jenmason40]

First off, love the garden!! So beautiful ❤️. I'm a sucker for blue in the garden as well. I find it puts some pop in your garden & such a beautiful contrast. I put as much blue as possible. Monarch butterflies was such a beautiful scene. Cheers from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

[@jmuth890]

The driveway garden is my favorite. Just beautiful. Love the vegetable garden. Wish it was mine. The squirrels are another story. The way things are going we might need them for food. Lol. Thanks for the great video.

[@kelliwebb2870]

The squirrels thank you for the pears and apples! Mine ate my sweet corn! 😃

[@joydavis4087]

I love that garden gate. Love the tour. TY. ❤❤❤

[@AngelaSissySnyder]

Thanks for putting the names of plants on the screen! When I see something I love or a particular part of your garden that I would like to emulate I pause the video and take a screen shot so I have lots of pics of you and your garden on my phone. The names on the screen help to remember what I want to plant. Thanks for sharing these awesome tour videos! If you haven’t already, I’m fixing to go look, you should make a playlist of these tours. 😊 Thanks again, Erin!

[@AngelaSissySnyder]

You did make a playlist! This is why I adore you ❤

[@anniecampbell8554]

So agree - gardening is what it is in this year and the conditions you were dealing with! Gotta appreciate all of it, year in, year out bc that’s what it is!!

[@kathleenkrupa6339]

Love the tours ! In the opening shot you look like you are standing at entrance of gardener’s heaven 😇!

[@tinah8065]

Great tour! Thank you for always adding the names to the screen, super helpful. I get so many fun plant ideas from you. And, omg to the squirrels and acorns! I just said the same thing to hubby the other day. I think I might need to take a hard hat out with me!

[@SteveL2012]

Love the vegetable garden in its end of season state. It has it’s own charm, so thank you for sharing this and the prior tours. ❤

[@lorrainecourtney4589]

Love that tassel flower 😊

[@alice_rabbit8345]

Those cosmos in the vegetable garden are gorgeous! My experiment this year was onions and almost all of them rotted!

[@rebeccacichocki2499]

Best tour yet. You had me cracking up!

[@kathylemke7854]

Thank you so much for the WONDERFUL tours! I love watching your videos. It feels like I'm walking through a garden with a friend 😊

[@clarechomyn9686]

Your vegetable garden is drop-dead gorgeous compared to what mine looks like this time of year. I've got what looks like a dead plant garden. We've gone from very heavy down por rain for weeks to weeks of dry burning sun. I've given up. I'm planning for that gorgeous bountiful garden next year, lol. L love your gardens and your videos. I especially love your laid-back attitude about it all. Thanks for the relaxing videos.

[@user-ok3je3vk7i]

Way to keep our collective flame alive! It’s going to be garden bedtime soon here in zone 3b, but I’m already jonesing for spring! Great video! Cheers! ❤

[@nancylefevre4113]

I garden in PA just N of Philadelphia---zone 6/7 (they can't make up their minds from year to year). I can't grow a tomato to save my life! The squirrels are vicious and will chew through anything to take one bite and discard the rest. They will balance a chewed tomato on top of a veg garden post to taunt me and once chewed through the screen on the porch to get to one that was ripening on the window sill!. I've even tried fox and coyote urine pellets to no avail. Hope you enjoy those large, luscious fruits!

[@betsybugsmith5324]

The butterflies love fennel. I had over 20 chrysalis hanging and more caterpillars. My yard is full of black swallowtail butterflies now!

[@ariemaica988]

21:57 such a beauty landscape of vegetable garden ❤

[@jammosu6498]

I planted my cherry tomato plant outside my back door also. I saw the green fruit on it one day, and the next, they were gone. Couldn’t figure out what was happening until one day I was outside. I looked over at my golden retriever and he was eating them. Needless to say, he got more of them than I did!🤣🤣🤣

[@singing-sands]

What a fabulous garden you've created this year! Thank you for this delightful tour.

[@altheab.8907]

These garden tours have been really nice, Erin. I very much enjoyed them. Squirrels are the the worst. I put wood skewers in my potted plants and hanging baskets….point end out to keep them from burying peanuts (which a neighbor feeds to them…she puts cat food out for the skunks too). Also, I use the black bird netting around some pots and vegetables. They hate it. You might try using some of that over your apples…..bunching it up so it’s a little thick….they’ll ear through the holes if you stretch it out. If you’ve ever used it you know how nasty it is. Everything gets tangled in it. I roll it up and clip to the edge of the pots with clothespins or those little green clips. They don’t like the smell of mint. Vicks Vaporub is good to keep them away, but you have to keep applying it. Good luck. I’ve also seen that some people use baking soda and flour in equal amounts. That’s supposed to work on rodents. Someone referred to them as rats with a pretty tail. Quite true. Very troublesome critters.

[@llamabid]

Hey, love it that everything’s not perfect. I can relate!

[@betsymaltby6788]

Our neighbors have a beautiful Shagbark Hickory along our property line and the squirrels are dropping them like missiles; am considering getting some protective headgear. Great tour, love this series, always taking notes...you know the plants!

[@GardenKath]

These tours were great! 1) I love the addition of the dahlias to the driveway garden. They add so much. 2) every time you show that Eupatorium I think, “wow, I’ve really got to get some of that,” and then I promptly forget about it. 😅

[@leslieshields280]

I have really learned a lot from these tours. I love that you discuss remedies, ideas for change , etc. Just an idea : I think that your mystery squash looks like a golden acorn

[@chiaroluce]

Wonderful tour. Thank you! Love that you add labels for plants so we can look them up. The fenced garden is an inspiration. Those gates! We have pear, apple, cherry, peach, and mulberry trees that fruit well, but we don’t get a single fruit because squirrels steal all!

[@janine4360]

My first tour of your garden and loved it! Especially many of the color/plant combinations: apricot + blue + white + purple leaves + light green leaves. Brilliant! I will be binge-watching your channel for a while 😊

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Welcome! 😀 come on in and enjoy.

[@adz5bneweng589]

I absolutely love your garden tour series! Thank you for talking about the individual plants and your experience with them.

[@brendabraun5522]

My squirrels like to dig in my mulch, pots, raised beds etc. Also the chipmunks like to dig and plant sunflower seeds just so they can eat them before you can enjoy the flowers. So I have given up on planting sunflowers. 🐿️

[@spiryt1212]

I highly recommend trying sun gold tomatoes. It was a family favorite! I had never heard of them until a family friend gifted me some of his extras. It was prolific, no issues with disease and the absolute sweetest snack size tomatoes my family has ever had!

[@kaditriearth]

Yes, sun golds are my absolute favorite tomato 🍅 of all time! Also. I suggest growing Cardon instead of artichokes. I’m in Illinois, and I gave up on artichokes a long time ago. Cardon is in the artichoke family. Even has the beautiful purple flower that the 🐝 can’t get enough of. It takes the whole summer but it’s worth it

[@ElderandOakFarm]

Yes! I have tried many varieties & that's the only cherry Ill grow anymore! I kept wanting to try new ones or different colors, & they all just rot on the vine... & then I'm like dang it! I could have planted a sungold there! 😂

[@bethlynch1909]

I am really enjoying these in depth garden tours.

[@itsmewende]

My milkweed is on it's 3rd season. It bloomed way early, mid-late spring, I seen a monarch dancing all over looking for flowers, I did find 2 eggs. Something happened to one, the other ate 1 huge leaf part of another, then disappeared. That's when I read they find a safer place for their chrysalis stage, bummer. I just ordered your "polished brass", hoping they'll find that a nice safe place, that I'll get to watch. Thanks for all the tours, especially with the complete names, really appreciate the time you've taken.

[@upnorth21]

Love the in depth garden tours. The entrance driveway garden has a lot of interest. I like the bank of Iris idea, that will be beautiful. So I've heard a couple more people talk about acorns this year...hard winter to come? :) That Thai tower looked wonderful, I will have to try. I just discovered Boxwood Basil this year and it is so cute :)

[@kfaulknerstudio]

Squirrels. Hey, thanks for pre-packaging it for me sounds about right 😂

[@Talula72]

I'm growing several varieties of dwarf tomatoes after seeing yours last year. I am completely hooked on the size of the plants. One variety is called Sneaky Sauce and the tomatoes are beautiful, dense and very tasty.

[@shelldub7258]

Love this video! Love the way you talk about the plants! Also, I think we are all an eleven year old boy, deep down! 😂🌱

[@julipolito7761]

Amazon sells gossamer/mesh bags, in different sizes. I cover my fruit with them, here in Tucson, so I don’t lose the fruit to chipmunks and ground squirrels. Maybe it can help you with the pears? Good luck! Juli 🌵🌵🌵🌵

[@denisedelgado3350]

Very nice! We’re having our best year for peppers too! 🫑 And just an fyi, squirrels are my nemesis!

[@user-id3ky8si4m]

I love that orange cosmos.

[@jimoviegirl]

Love your gardens so much. I learn fom you every video. I also have the Sedum Carl, because it is my sons name. Being in France you don't see Carl very often. Love it too. Xx

[@allisonsnz]

Love your attitude and gardening style - thank you! I encourage you to give artichokes another try - I think you'll be glad you did - I ordered Johnny's Seeds Colorado Star and Imperial Star last year - started them indoors when I started my tomato plants and they were show stoppers! Part pre-historic and part exotic looking to this Milwaukee girl transplanted to Rockford Illinois - they were a great garden experiment for 5b.

[@georgiastewart5035]

Fabulous tour videos - really enjoyed them and totally with you on the 11 year-old boy humour! 😂

[@sammysworld5485]

Hi Erin. Another amazing tour. I also grow several clematis in containers here in zone 7. They come back more bigger & beautiful every year. They are super easy to grow.

[@M2TC]

I grew Midnight Snack tomato if you want a beautiful, glossy, dark-topped cherry tomato. High ornamental value I planted through my perennial beds

[@ji.ol.1490]

Maybe make a shallow cage for the espalier out of hardware cloth that you can attach to the fence once you've got fruit ripening?

[@Absoluteattitudetv]

Am your loyal subscriber am back again showing love 💕😘watched full 📸 keep sharing FROM NIGERIA 🇳🇬 Just to show you love and help you grow more,

[@peggydove8756]

Your garden is beautiful! I took loads of screen shots! Thanks for sharing! 😊

[@maryfarrand1799]

Squash vine borer! They hit cup my cukes this year because I forgot to put a little tin foil collar on each of the plants! It has worked well in the past!

[@leightonshehan7423]

one minute ago? yessss

[@flatcreek4665]

I just love your garden tour videos! It is helping me get thru these dreary winter months. Thank you!

[@dennisfeldman7799]

Like my Hilda Nesbitt azalea giant pink bloom yesterday! What a great surprise.

[@sandraengstrand2784]

How is Dorothy doing? How are you doing? 🐾🐾💕

[@terrikim4992]

I have successfully used squirrel spray similar to your deer spray. They were ravaging the plants on my deck. Some years I have no trouble.

[@josweatt898]

Everything looks so good and love the intro behind the beautiful half moon gate. To my surprise you showed your Boneset! I lost all 3 of my Fairy tails bride cascading hydrangeas in a pot over winter. Found a healthy sprout of something in one pot so I planted it and turned out to be a boneset which is blooming now and full of tiny pollinators. I think it must have hopped in from one of PW locations as it is not found here in MS 7b.

[@marleneegan-hm7lr]

What a beautiful garden, so many interesting plants

[@atlantagardener1]

Love these in depth garden tours!

[@terrivance8750]

Erin, I have multiple, very large oaks in my yard, but the dropping acorns are nothing compared w/ the much denser nuts of the large hickory trees situated over my patio--ouch! 😬😉

[@sueprovostwilliams3824]

I just love walking through your garden with you. Such great inspiration. Thanks for sharing.

[@anounimouse]

Erin, another KZbinr from the Carolinas recommended CALIMA Green Beans. We grow in raised beds, too. Prior we relied on Blue Lake but when Jess said these are outstanding - we couldn't agree MORE!! The pods stay very slim, never develop enlarged seeds and the pods grew to a minimum of 8" - 10" long. OUTSTANDING! We do pick every 3 days. My only fear is that many others will now order these and I'll have difficulty finding the seed in the late Winter... EDIT: I have a seed packet of Scabiosa Stellata '.Paper Moon' sitting here on the desk - next year's flowers. Thx for the recommendation.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Oooh thank you! I will look for them!

[@mollycottontail]

Thank you for sharing your garden. I appreciate that you show all of it, not just the perfect parts and give so much detail about plants. You have some plants that I have lost over the years and need to replace.

[@SharkSandwich451]

Wow!!!! Monarch Central!!!

[@lavinapoppleton1396]

Always a delight to watch your videos! My brother calls squirrels “tree rats”, such destructive creatures…they gnaw through siding and go into attics etc. I am thankful (crossing my fingers) I do not now, nor ever hope to have to deal with them.

[@emkn1479]

We love green beans too! Have you ever tried ‘Roma’? They are flat, stringless, and are still good even when they’re a little bigger than ideal. They’re the best.

[@stephaniesharkey3538]

Great tour! LOL We had wicked squirrels in NJ too- awful tree rats!!!!!

[@zoreslavazinczenko1060]

Loving your garden tour series. I know between working outside the home and the size of your property (I live in a cluster home community, but have had a treMENdous pollinator year!!! They call me Martha Stewart in this next of the woods), it would be hard to do a weekly walk-about (en-hem, no pressure). Also, seriously having Wine & Weeds withdrawl...😒

[@sueprovostwilliams3824]

I have that same canna. Cleopatra, I think. It’s great. Mine is huge!

[@tmy1065]

I got tired of changing out the potting soil in my containers so this year I fed the soil instead, aka No Dig/Charles Dowding style, and that seemed to work well to grow big healthy plants. I liked not having to get rid of the used soil. I love the look of your vegetable garden! The raised beds and gate are very attractive. I really enjoy your channel.

[@malgorzatazuber]

Have you tried lovage? My favourite herb ever! Super easy to grow and perfect for soups, stews and everything in between.

[@Annathranholm]

I absolutely adore you.

[@InfoSecChic]

I love that you're an 11 year old boy! I often tap into my inner 12 year old boy :D I love your videos and authenticity. Your property is gorgeous. Regarding the caryopteris > at the time of day you showed this plant it seemed to be in shade. Caryopteris is one of my favorite shrubs and blooms like mad in full sun in late August/early September in Virginia zone 7A. Perhaps consider moving it if it isn't in full sun.

[@angelwolfe6728]

Loved seeing more of the nook and crannies of your gardens!! Those little shiny tomatoes, I gotta go back and get the name!

[@user-ue2yh1rc3f]

Regarding the squirrels, I saw another gardener make a "pouch" out of wire screen material to put over the produce such as a melon to prevent critters from eating or stealing the produce. It was made large enough to give the produce enough room to finish growing. Maybe you could make a "sleeve" for each branch to protect the fruit from critters making sure to close the end close to the trunk. I had squirrels steal all my butternut squash and plan to try this next year!

[@debs-more-plants]

You have an amazing array of plants! Beautiful! I’ve got to rewatch this and try some. 8b near Seattle. Great video!

[@nutty135rw]

I have the cleopatra canna it's not directly in the water, but I love it.

[@cngo3571]

I love water hyacinths