The HARDEST garden job of all (+ full garden tours!)

[@kathywheeler7871]

I LOVE your presence in the great outdoors! The lipstick, the eyelashes, the earrings... You are proof that there is romance and beauty abound outside in the dirt - in the garden. You go girl!

[@JulieKeeperofMyHome]

What a joy this was to watch! I have been so busy canning peaches all morning. Your video, a cup of tea, and a biscuit with homemade jam was my sweet reward after a lot of work. Thank you!

[@VanBelleNZ]

Those orange tulips!😱 Exquisite blooms. God’s continued blessing on your family and breathtaking land. Just over here binge watching. No shame. Gleaning from you girl. Thank you for what and how you share.

[@faithevrlasting]

Dear Shay, I wanted to thank you for the garden tour and thank Justin Rhodes GAFT film to go back and follow your KZbin channel. You were amazing I love the peace and love that you display toward your plants toward your cooking and toward nature in general. It gives me such peace to watch you, i’ve been struggling with my urban homestead because my husband and I are not of one mind in terms of homesteading but I’ve learned to make peace with that, do everything that I can hear in the city and not to worry about the fact that I may not meet my goal of having an actual homestead within my lifetime. I’m 65, My husband is 70 the last few stops on the GAFT tour have brought me to that piece and I know that continuing to watch your productions will help me to continue it thank you so much for your loving display in your videos.

[@MultiAbiram]

We are so happy that you are posting new videos again . Thank you these videos fill all out family members ( who have no garden ) with joy.

[@gadgetgal6213]

Sweetie, as you thin collect them, rinse them and throw them in your food anyway you see fit.

[@melissab8500]

You have a great vibe

[@theJustinRhodesShow]

Great to see it in the beginning stages.

[@ChubbfamilyVlogs]

Another great KZbin channel hello Justin!!!!!

[@ChristinaS5672]

Great job Stuart, on video and song selection. Shaye keep planting, weeding and watch your efforts grow. Look forward to the next video.

[@edenelston7668]

Love it. My father in law is the only other gardener in my family so I enjoy hearing other people talk about their adventures in green-thumbery

[@MrSurfferchik]

Charles Dowding, no dig gardener, has a great way to do beets look him up 😎😁👐. Great garden!

[@angeladyson7367]

Yeah I follow his method and wish I'd discovered it years ago also for all you want to know about cut flower or flowering plants such as tulips I highly recommend Sarah Raven's advice. She's an expert. Great with Geraniums and Pelargoniums too (tender Geraniums). One last channel I recommend for good advice and inspiration on gardening etc is "The Elliott Homestead". You may have heard of them. They so inspiring. 😊😊😊👍

[@r.m.4653]

So fun to see her adopt his method this year in 2021.

[@debean5670]

Ms. Shay. You are a lovely woman with a natural beauty that radiates even more because you're doing what you love. My favorite video of you was the one in which you delivered your first litter of piglets. You looked so fresh and natural.

[@LaurelCanyonMojo]

Grow onions among your broccoli, I also had a long time broccoli problem until I grew alternating rows of onion with it. Another tip is snip with a sharp small scissor to thin fine seedlings instead of pulling, it keeps fine roots from being hurt on your precious keepers. I can see al your hard work.. keep it up lady

[@theelliotthomestead]

Thanks for the tips!

[@zaviahopethomas-woundedsou9848]

Have you tried making seed tape using toilet paper, or sheets using tissue paper? It makes doing small seeds much easier and you can do it on a table where it is not so hard on the back and knees.

[@isaacfrerichs3305]

I just found this video! Thank you. So well done. A little tip: you don’t need to thin radishes, beets, leeks, turnips or onions. Check out Charles dowding multi sowing method. It works so well! But yes, carrots do need thinning. :(

[@katnilsson]

If you cover up your kale, cauliflower, broccoli and plants in the same family your success rate will increase massivly 😀. I struggled for years until I bought these covers that stop the small green worms and other small thingys from eating your crop. So last year I had broccoli for months 😀, first the big broccoli head and then a lot of small yummy broccoli shoots. And for the first time ever we succeeded with kale 😋. It’s my tip to you if you need one, try this. Good Luck!

[@Anamericanhomestead]

Looks great. We are still under frost warnings and had a freeze last week so we are much farther behind you.

[@nuduo9255]

Hey, we missed you.

[@rachelc.7152]

Absolutely gorgeous Shaye! All of your hard work is paying off in stunning beauty and garden tranquility.

[@bellesparks4374]

I like the two handed motion "come on in":)! And I have had a hard time with Brussels sprouts, but then one year in great soil they grew like wild and it was worth all the years of trying-don't give up:)! Beautiful garden:)!

[@tipgiles5432]

Every time I watch one of your tours, I am inspired to go out and dig, weed, plant, and generally putz around in my garden. Joy Giles

[@theelliotthomestead]

Mission accomplished! :)

[@sarahaugustine4185]

I so agree. When I thinned my radishes a couple of weeks ago, I couldn't bring myself to thin them as prescribed on the seed package. No doubt I will harvest many skinny radishes this year. Nice video, thank you.

[@nancysutton7891]

Lovely... new here, from Rhodes' visit. We're on the other side of the mountains :) Well, those grape muscari will be... everywhere before long! Lady's mantle should stick around. And it's hugelculture mounds (buried wood)..will look forward to seeing them as years roll on. I'm going to start celeriac again and utilize the stems!! great idea to keep them perennial.. usually grown for bulbs, but then they're done. You'll love the perennial lovage plant, too.. great celery plus flavor...for chicken ;) You are definitely ahead of us maritime folks over here. Gee, just loving this visit to an enthusiastic gardener's garden ;) Thanks

[@maypysnak7561]

You have no idea how happy I am that you FINALLY did a garden tour!! Especially of your potager! I've been waiting for one :)

[@deborahelliott4591]

I noticed you don't post much anymore. I love your tips and tricks, keep them coming. Have you considered back to eden gardens? what do you think about the method?

[@deborahelliott8460]

Could NOT agree more, the hardest is thinning/weeding for me. I am pleased to meet you Elliott Homestead. Seems like we could be friends a good long while. Keep up the good work!

[@tommathews3964]

Hugelkultur: I turned a problem ditch into a productive bed over several years. Thanks for the tour! Lovely.....such style! I love your "little touches" all around the property. I feel your pain about thinning! Not only do I feel the pain of losing the plants, but it's almost impossible to get the thinning done properly. On tiny seeds, like lettuces and carrots, I've gone to "pelleted" seeds from Johnny's. I'm able to space properly, handle seeds much more efficiently and have had overall good luck with them. I'm pretty sure I could use my seeder if need be, but don't plant that many. Germination seems to take a bit longer, I guess due to the clay "pellet" that the seed is encased in. I'm in north central Alabama near Mt. Cheaha in the Coosa Valley, so you know how our soil is.......I've given up on carrots in the ground and gone to containers. Glad to see videos again! I'm about 2/3 of the way through the new book, love it!!

[@NightfallHomestead]

We also have a problem Ditch. I swatted throwing nearly dead or starts that didn't look the greatest there. They not only survived.. they thrived. We now call it "the graveyard" some of our best veggies and prettiest flowers have come from our graveyard 😁

[@carolsharp482]

Absolutely fun!! I love the easy flow of the gardens. You are so far ahead of us here in NW Montana. The snow is finally gone and the temp is starting to stay above freezing most nights. I got a little ahead of myself this year and have starts that are crowding out the window space and should be planted but…. I always enjoy your videos, keep it up.

[@tjwilson1591]

Shea, I love your garden! So glad Jess (Roots and Refuge) recommended your channel! I'm very familiar with the Wenatchee area, I used to live in Spokane. I live in Ketchikan, Alaska, and I'd very much like to leave for greener pastures (literally).

[@angeladyson7367]

Occasionally, I go back and watch some of your old videos whilst working in the garden and I realise how much I've forgotten. When I saw the way you planted those strawberries (not sure if it's in this video or the one I previously watched (welcome to the over 45's memory) in an almost No-Dig. 😊 fashion on the sunny bank I wondered if that is when you first discovered how No-Dig could work so well.

[@rhondawelker6742]

Hugelkultur beds. Deep South Homestead has also planted some Hugulkultur beds along with a lot of other area gardens. 😉 Thanks for the tour. Love seeing how everything is coming together.

[@judewillis1084]

This video came up as a recommendation for me and I'm glad I chose to view it. I was captivated in the first 5 seconds. You instantly connect with the viewer in a very engaging style, the videography is cinematic and great choice of music. I'm subscribing and looking forward to going through your video library and learning more about your adventure. Nicely done; thank you for posting.

[@theelliotthomestead]

Thanks for stopping by! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@jenm8967]

Your garden is beautiful. Thank you for showing us it!

[@dergartenimker]

Hallo Schöne Garten Tour.Freu mich schon auf das nächste Video. Schöne Grüße aus Deutschland

[@tipgiles5432]

Ich lese ein bisschen Deutsch, und es freut mich dass ich alles verstehe. Joy Giles

[@neverdonehomestead3596]

I loved this garden tour. Your garden refects your style...I love it. I just might have to pretty up my garden now. Give it some character. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@chantalgardner3157]

Always such a treat to see your tours. Watching the growth and the process are amazing. Thank you both!

[@Chickmamapalletfarm]

I hate thinning too! I mean really hate it. I can’t get over the feeling like I am deciding the fate of this little life. So I started starting almost all my seed in the greenhouse, even beets. This way I don’t have to chose... if it germinates, it goes in the garden!

[@LifeGoesNorth]

Thank you for the garden tour. Looks like it’s going to be beautiful! Happy to see you posting more frequently. 🌱

[@margerycummings8158]

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[@mitchh9111]

Glad spring has sprung & the garden is beginning to pop up. You mentioned celeriac .....it looks like lovage..

[@theelliotthomestead]

You are correct. I had celery on the mind but what I said was celeriac is in fact lovage.

[@angeladyson7367]

Celeriac is actually a root vegetable. Never heard of it as a perennial unless you only harvest the leaves bit usually it is the root ball that is harvested and either mashed, cut up and fried or baked liked fries or wedges. It's also tasty in soups and stews and you can roast it with things like beets, fennel bulbs, sweet potatoes, parsnips etc for a winter dish. 😊 Yummy😊

[@theforbesfamilyfarm]

It's so fun to see your beautiful gardens. We're getting ready to quit our jobs and start our own farm next month and I love watching your videos for inspiration!

[@karentuthill8308]

I have one word to sum up this video...BEAUTIFUL! 🌱🥀🌳🌺🌱 Thank you so much for the tour! 💖

[@ArmindaHeart]

Just subscribed. To help your soil continue to be light and fluffy, add thick compost to each bed, then mulch when seedlings get bigger. Soil will crack and compact over time if it isn’t covered with compost and/or mulch. I’m new to your channel, so I’m not sure how you’re doing it. Looks like you’re mulching in some areas and you’re adding amendments. Lovely videos!

[@talktosomeone]

Wow your yard is gorgeous!!! You have amazing taste!!

[@cristyrhodes4898]

I'm so happy to see you making videos again!

[@muddyacres9334]

You are an inspiration! Thank you for the tour. Can't wait to see the progress.

[@TheArtisanbard]

Love love love your garden style. Thank you for the tour. Tried your spinach toast the other day with our winter spinach and it is the BOMB!! So yummy!!

[@jordanghiglia]

So cool to see the garden growing! Great work Shay!

[@BackyardEden]

Its definitely hard to thin seedlings. I find myself starting a lot of seeds in flats and then transplanting them. I have had success starting beets, radishes and many other crops in flats. I am even experimenting with starting carrots in flats and transplanting them as well. Great looking garden!

[@shannonkernall-singh9611]

Your gardens and cottage look simply magical!

[@mollyrobinson7738]

Hi, a lot of organic farms have pyroweeders to burn the garden rows right before a seed germinates. This kills most of the weeds allowing the carrots (or other vegetables) to take their place. It makes weeding so much easier.

[@mollyrobinson7738]

Also, broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables require a supplement of bore throughout the summers to properly grow. Hope this helps. ( I am finishing my college degree in farming )

[@Andrew-yw1ll]

This is the first video of yours I have seen. I enjoyed the garden tour and landscape!

[@altlife2908]

Im in love with you and your garden... Your energy is so calm and kind, i see myself in you. We are the British Portuguese version of your family. Although we have goats and boy do we use their poop all over our garden, they seem to produce more than we can either keep up with or have space for. I missed out this winter with timing on germinating my tomatoes. Then my husband comes home from the garden shop with 20 big juicy tall tomato's, now mine that i germinated are at a large transplanting stage and i just have no where to put them.. `AAAhhh... Anyway.. i love your natural ways and its called Hugel bed by the way. We tried it up here on our mountain, but it didn't work as well as it would do on flat ground the nutrients and water just run right out leaving them dry and producing nada. I know thats not how they are supposed to be. Here on paradise mountain terraces work well, step down garden lengths. Our potatoes love it up here and our corn, i suffer mostly in Winter and getting the cold veggies out early enough. Do you start onions from seed? and do you have any tips and when to germinate them. We never have the time to get to the shops when they sell the onion sets, but am able to collect the onion seed for the previous year. Goat cheese making at the moment and loving it, learning about the cultures and starters/... so much fun... blessings to you sister... keep on going beautiful inside and out, one love

[@cshuster6962]

I totally agree that’s how I feel about thinning 😔 but yes has to be done. Thank you for this video 😊

[@BlueGardenCottage]

So jealous that you can direct sow seeds! Here in the UK, there is no point because of the slugs. The downside of living in beautiful green, mountainous Wales. So we have to sow in plugs and plant out when established. It seems direct sowing, even though painfull in thinning, may be easier or at least not needing so much space for plugs:D. That garden looks so amazing! Having seen more recent vlogs, the gardens have come on soooo much. Truly lovely.

[@james1976-nov]

Here's a good tip for you, Sow 7 beet seeds in a cell, plant them all when they have roots and grow in bunches. Harvest the beets as they grow and leave the rest to mature in bunches of 3. Works a treat and you get alot more in a smaller growing space.

[@KG-hg1eo]

Coming along just beautifully! Love when there’s a longer video!

[@kaylamj2006]

Your garden is my dream. It is so pretty. Good job guys.

[@michaeldemetriou3043]

Thanks for sharing your Garden tour 😀

[@joleighporter6072]

I just a little jealous that you have green grass and a garden started, I’m still waiting for the foot of snow to go away.

[@jamesnelson4452]

Love ya Shaye, you and Justin Rhodes have taught me so much.

[@terraranch1459]

Wow! Your place is fabulous and I can't wait to see it in bloom! Hugs❤️

[@daisyaday384]

Absolutely beautiful gardens. Thank you for sharing.

[@athisasapriina2982]

I love ur videos.. and uv got beautiful place.. keep up the beautiful work.. just hope u can upload more videos frequently..

[@terriefriday2462]

Thanks for sharing, enjoyed your garden tour. You inspire me in my garden.

[@saltylandscaper7193]

Almost the end of april and we still have snow here in northern illinois. Getting more tonight 😕

[@ChubbfamilyVlogs]

Your video quality is amazing love the way you share your homestead with us.

[@deborahcrutchfield5022]

Everything looks Beautiful.

[@wilmagregory8967]

Oh how I wish it was warmer so I could plant more than peas and turnips. Yours looks great and will only get better. Thanks for the video, from a new sub. Blessings

[@DansonforJoy]

Wow, you have so much going on in your gardens! :) Thank you for the tour!

[@NS-pf2zc]

So pretty! I don't look forward to thinning my seedlings. I had to direct sow everything so I'm not there yet, but I know it's going to suck. I have to admit, I talk to them every day. Just a little note of encouragement to grow big and strong, and when I do thin, I'll let them lay in the bed to get cycled back to feed their siblings. It sounds cheesy and fruity maybe, but I really hate feeling they were wasted.

[@andrewsharp4950]

Natasha S. In the case of spinach you can eat the thinnings. Bity baby spinach is delicious. Beet tops too. Toss them into a salad.

[@NS-pf2zc]

Andrew Sharp - Oh! What a good idea!

[@andrewsharp4950]

Natasha S. I feel it's only right. Better to use them than waste their little lives. Unless you toss them into the compost pile I suppose.

[@countrymousesfarmhouse497]

You have fantastic style. So beautiful already and it'll be awesome soon. Thanks for the tour.💚

[@paradisoperduto4900]

We used to have that problem... Until we decided to make our own planting ribbons. We never had carrots so perfectly planted. By the millimeter...

[@official180degrees]

Beautiful gardens! I need to learn to have your same sense of patience with weeds.

[@HomesteadingGirl]

Gorgeous garden, Shaye. You guys have done an amazing job.

[@caseymcclellan4221]

Beautiful garden. You have done well.

[@SpookyK7697]

I prefer to thin after they ate at least a quarter size. You get baby beets and your airating your soil and beets to grow even bigger.. then repeat process..

[@hannahkvamme]

So beautiful!

[@kaelieturner86]

Everything about this video is just stunning and beautiful!

[@attermire2109]

I sow in modular cell trays, 3 seeds per cell, then plant out at regular spacings, very little thinning needed

[@cabinlife6643]

You do not have to thin if you have fluffy, loose soil like you have with back to eden gardening. When the soil is light and fluffy the vegetables have enough space and can push each other aside to have more room growing which they can not if your soil is compact and hard which you have when you don't mulch.

[@gailblain5282]

Your gardens are amazing! We can grow the heck out of broccoli here in NW Kansas but I have problems with cauliflower. Blessings!

[@mayfieldmanor5344]

I created a great little homemade seeder so that I don't have to thin seedlings. It really works.

[@alexise.2270]

New subscriber. Your video was really beautiful and I'm so excited to get out in my garden..... when freezes stop.

[@jrpacer6355]

Wow the weather I'm from upstate New York and we have snow right now...like it's snowing this minute.😢

[@charlesbale8376]

Wonderful garden tour.

[@yellowdeer7163]

You've done a fantastic job in your garden! Yep, thinning those carrots is hard. And good luck on the broccoli.

[@leslieoscar]

Seed thinly in trays and then transplant the seedlings into your garden. No waste

[@mtzlfldt]

Your videos are so inspiring! So happy you are posting new videos!

[@margaretrosin7853]

Deep mulch! Who wants to weed when you don’t have to? Lovely garden 😊

[@jennifertaylor6026]

Ah, alas... pulling up the "extras" as I call it is very hard for me too. However, I learned my lesson the first year lol. Only needed 10-20 pepper plants (and it is a lot, I get it but I just love peppers) turned out to be well over a 100. And in that lesson I learned that you can transplant all the extras and for the most part they will live. True experiences are price less because you end up learning something that works or that you can do instead of not doing it because your sources tell you that you can not. Example, garden year round ... most people think that there is one season to plant lol They sure are missing out! ;)

[@offgridsweden]

Awesome garden tour. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden

[@moregardening5014]

Love the music, beautiful garden!

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

So true! It's hard to thin and prune (for me at least) but the payoff shows up every time.

[@twistedgoats8305]

Your gardens are beautiful!

[@LindseySpiegelquackquack]

Hügelkultur! Beautiful!

[@emelinee2066]

Thank you for sharing with us!

[@1989peytonsawyer]

How far apart do you grow your spinach and broccoli? Love your setup

[@cynthiafoster3564]

Love your gardens!!!!

[@chrisklayo9562]

I luv my lupine I finally had a great bunch of them this year

[@flowergrowersmith449]

I hear you re the beets (and carrots etc). However I can offer you a solution that I use. Plant your seed into soil blocks and plant them at the spacing you want when they just have their baby cotyledon leaves. They won't skip a beat and I'd say the time taken is equal for both techniques. I know the standard practice taught is not to transplant root crops but the soil block method works.

[@flowergrowersmith449]

You plant them singly - one to a block.

[@theelliotthomestead]

Thanks for the tip. I’ll have to give that a shot.

[@rxlo1062]

So beautiful 👍