Reviewing the 2024 garden (and hint at 2025)

[@merudolph6758]

Thanks always for the inspiration! BTW, you are on some kind of great health journey because you look marvelous!

[@vickimiracle5077]

I have also noticed that you look slimmer and healthy. I hope we are right. One year I was having issues and lost weight.... people thought I was healthy. Lol I was not healthy. Best wishes for you for this year 2025 Love your videos

[@auroraborealis3764]

I love how gardeners reflect back on previous year to correct mistakes, to try something new, to improve in one way or another. I love that about gardeners. Thank you for this video Erin, you inspire me to try new things.

[@MichelleSuggs-ls1ki]

Don’t forget you grew a puppy! I think any year in the garden is a great year! Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait to see the bulb lawn pop up.

[@laurawood4476]

Oh Erin the slacking off as you called it in my over 70 years of gardening usually follows expanding our gardens beyond our time constaints or sometimes physical abilities . Give your self some grace and we enjoy the time we spend with you .

[@BellaSC]

Lessons not failures. Gardening is full of lessons. It’s why we’re never done. Love your channel. 😊

[@folklover-405]

Very nice to see your annual recap, Erin. Also, as shown in the video flashbacks, whatever you are doing with your health journey is clearly working well. Congrats on that. I bet you'll have more energy for the garden as the new season approaches. Care to share your secret sauce? So many of us are on the same path. Happy New Year!

[@Peoniesandpinks]

She continuously looks younger. ❤

[@wendycole703]

My daughter is on a health journey too. She struggles with it. I know you probably won't want to share personal stuff but it might help others.❤ your garden is spectacular 😍

[@cindysmith1830]

I was thinking the same thing, you look great!

[@paulacothren3591]

2024 was the year I bought my first Hoselink, an 82 ft grey Christmas gift from me to me. There was a short survey at the end of the purchase where Hoselink asked from where I heard about the holiday sale. Of course, I wrote that I heard about the Hoselink sale from The Impatient Gardener. So here's to 2025 and hoping Erin gets some love from Hoselink.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Thank you so much for letting them know you heard about it from me. That helps so much, and I'm so glad you got one!

[@mariankay6482]

I got my 1st one and probably only one this year, too! I saw them 1st in Garden Answer so I have Laura the credit. I enjoy both channels.

[@barbarawitt9989]

I got my first one as well!! Aren't they lovely?

[@pamelarichards6482]

I bought one for my daughter-in-law! I already bought one for myself last Christmas!

[@debschnarr5091]

You are not lazy, gardening is not supposed to be a chore, enjoy it !

[@neldahargo5933]

it's not a PROJECT but my favorite new addition is the casual walk around on Sundays. It's like going over to a friend's house and walking around and visiting. Sometimes I join you with a cup of coffee or maybe a glass of wine. You are welcome to walk around mine. I'll ignore your weeds if you'll ignore mine.

[@lovesoil8512]

My year was verY different as well. I have finally given up on being a rose gardener. My zone 7 west NC struggles with black spot and yellow leaf droppage. Sad but so many other beautiful flowers flourish here. My husband developed a life threatening condition and my gardens have given me the peace and relief I need to see this through. Thank you for your honest and informative approach to your gardens. Happy New Year and Enjoyable gardening.

[@lizmorris206]

Great video. I appreciate your reflection about the difference between former Erin and current Erin. I'm having a hard time changing parts of my garden that I feel nostalgic about. I'm looking forward to renewing some of my garden.

[@victoria-louisevalois1323]

Erin, I think you should be pleased with the work you have done in 2024. I think anyone with gardener's disease ( like most gardeners) over extend the gardens that they plant out of fear of having the garden look bitty, or stingy. Monty Don and Bunny Guiness do have staff...They work hard in their gardens but they do have staff. If you are a person who is bored easily it is hard to drum up enthusiasm for the same old same ol'.Also as a human being you are a human changing. The thrill of working well into darkness despite warring mosquitoes , feeling like a viking can fall prey to an inner critic and fade into "why bother?" It is apparent that you have lost weight. Hats off to you! Hope that was intentional and not anything scary. "Losing " anything is one of those processes that seems to beg for increased rest. After all is said and done my biggest admiration for your work is that for the most part you are balanced and you tell the truth. Speaking only for myself, I like having an example that can be achieved in this lifetime. I know in my heart of hearts that I won't be planting four acres of annuals or two hundred boxwood in the foreseeable future. Thanks for being exemplary while still being real. Your fans are pullin' for you.🙂🤸‍♀

[@Anirras-got-a-bergenia]

I love Erin's style of gardening. I also feel so validated when she has things that go wrong and she just shares it. I don't really see it this authentically on other channels. To me, this is real gardening.

[@CindyEdwards-o9x]

Love your videos!! I grew up in Georgia in a grove of long needle pine trees. In the early 1970's I taught myself lanscaping. We called it building flower beds. The word landscaping wasn't in our vocabulary back then. I did this with bushes, flowers, rocks & all of the long needle pine straw that fell in our yard. Long needle pine straw is beautiful in a landscape. It has a glossy coating on the needles & last longer than the short needle pine straw. A tip I taught myself to extend the color & beauty of pine straw in my flower beds is to flip the top portion of the pine straw over where it is placed on the ground & it looks fresh again. I read an article recently that stated jumping worms do not like pine staw as much as other forms of mulch. Happy New Year & happy gardening.

[@kimedge7493]

I tried a dahlia for the first time because of all your instructive videos! The tuber is hanging out in my cold closet for the winter. The dahlia's a pretty yellow one called 'Luna' that was on sale in July. I've also ordered a 'Rosy Teacups' dogwood. I'm in zone 5b but a gardener always has hope :)

[@wendywelsh2737]

Hi Erin what I love about gardening is you never stop learning. I am in 5b/6a like you near lake in IL. Construction was done on the east side of us so the fence was replaced and we planted 3 parkland pillar birch and a moon glow juniper. I love both my junipers other one is Wichita blue. Learned buying astilbe barefoot from Longfield was economical and they all thrived. Visited Walter’s Gardens which was fun! Removed a viburnum that was growing too big and did not bloom well not in best location and will replace with a small red Japanese maple and some new plants next year. I am turning what used to be a cut flower garden into a cut flower bed but with perennials and bulbs. Moving the cut flowers from seed to one of my raised veg beds this year. And I have my list of plants to move and buy. I may be adding another tree as well. Love this time of year when we can relax by the fire and dream.

[@julieescala2610]

Happy 2025, Erin. Thanks for being so transparent in your gardening wins and fails, your “imperfect” videos that are perfectly - genuine and relatable. Love watching your channel and the true story of gardening you bring that makes us all feel like …. Ehh, maybe I’ll try that again a different way. Much health, wealth and prosperity to you and your family in 2025!

[@cindysmith1830]

Thank you for sharing both your good and bad garden experiences.

[@ArleneCain-u1f]

I look forward to all your garden videos, you’re one of my favorites! I appreciate this honest recap of your past garden year. Having gardened for over 30 years myself, I know there’s always that thought of not having done every project perfectly. Thank you for reinforcing there’s always next year to improve and expand on the knowledge we’ve gleaned through shared experiences as well as our own. Getting excited for this coming garden season, and yours too!

[@SueDeaver]

sdeaver I enjoy your honesty about your garden journey, and also your beautiful garden . I too have slacked off on my soil building and will be making that my number one priority. But, at 70 yrs old, I will be finding myself some help with that chore! Looking forward to seeing you at the NW Flower and Garden Show this spring!

[@thequarrygardener5578]

Happy New Year from the Quarry Garden, Northumberland UK. Looking forward to how you structure and plant your new low maintenance garden if it goes ahead. I’m always after hints and tips on how to reduce the workload in a garden.

[@thomasphillips6612]

Your garden is beautiful I have so much respect for you as a gardener because I live in zone 9b South Texas it’s only certain things I can grow here much respect.

[@billiechrystler6034]

Erin, you are losing a lot of weight. I need to do that also. What have you been doing? It is clearly working well. You look great! Thanks for this video. It was great to have the recap. I had forgotten about some of the things you mentioned. It reminded me about something I was going to try that you talked about.

[@cdgreine]

Took the words right out of my mouth! You look good girl! What is your secret???

[@MyFocusVaries]

Happy New Year from Vancouver BC Canada. What a strange year this has been. I came back from visiting family up north and found new blooms on my Cafe au Lait dahlias. Zone 7b, we do have mild winters, but this is new. Blooms in January!

[@teresacoulter4568]

Wonderful watching your recap of the past year! I too thought about lessening the work load and ripped out all the perennials in one bed & replaced them with shrubs... After two years of this boring bed I moved all the shrubs out , have a clean slate & this spring I'm back to my English style garden bed! Enjoy what you have, if you can't maintain it, there's always condo living LOL... I've found that if I do a little at a time as often as I can, I can keep up & not get stressed! BTW, you are looking fabulous!!!!! Love watching you, ( I too am a 23 yr MGV!!!)

[@MourningDove-bn4dk]

I've done some research on ways to deal with jumping worms. -Tea seed meal is recommended for eradicating jumping worms, but it also takes care of all forms of earthworms. You apply it early in the spring to your beds, and by the summer you will have taken care of most of the jumpers. It is a low fertilizer in the level of basic compost, and it won't burn your plants. It is 100% organic. The one main drawback is that it is expensive. - The second solution that I have found was synthetic fertilizers, over organic. As synthetics feed the plants directly, rather than inject nutrients into the soil. Jumping worms need nitrogen to breed faster, and organic fertilizers and compost are more likely to inject nitrogen into the ground. Starving them out nitrogen makes them breed less. - Another solution is pulling back the mulch, and solarizing the ground, with temperatures over 104 degrees, over the course of three days. It is the cheapest and most natural way.

[@rosemarybushea3447]

Happy New Year! I think your garden looked great, Erin, but then I'm always more critical of my own garden and mostly see what needed to be done or what didn't work. Always room for improvement, right? Your videos inspired me to do more in my yard - planted a huge shrub bed - and those containers were fabulous! Anyway, thanks for the educational/motivational videos and for keeping it real.

[@KathyMallory-ig2ev]

I loved watching this in my sunny window this morning, January 3. the perfect way to start the day. I am in Waukesha and I am wondering where you get your compost from thank you so much.

[@karinhamann5019]

I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts and challenges on the 2024 garden season. So sorry to hear about the jumping worms. I am constantly worrying that I will get them. I recently discovered crape Myrtle bark scale on my 9 trees, so will have to address that issue. I garden in zone 7 in Maryland and we had a very dry summer. I don’t have any irrigation in any of my garden beds on my 1.5 acre and with the very hot and humid weather we had, it was physically exhausting schlepping the hose from bed to bed to keep up watering everything. I’m planning on putting in some drip irrigation this year.

[@stacylesniewski107]

Thank you for sharing your journey on mulching and composting through the years. It's invigorating to hear you taking a different (or retro) approach after reviewing what's worked well in the past and most recently. I am in a really sandy area so I'm still working on adding compost each year after really getting into it the last six years on this property and always learning.

[@carmenbailey1560]

Happy New Year Erin, Wishing you and yours the very best for 2025. I always enjoy all your videos, and hearing you say you now have to think about the kind of projects you choose. I’m now soon to be 72, I’ve always loved gardening but age is now modifying my work & choices. Today being Jan. 1st, I actually have a Christmas Rose/Hellebore in full bloom. It’s in the laneway in a somewhat protected spot, but I’ve never have seen one bloom in January. Thanks for sharing all, hopefully I’ll never see any jumping worms. 👍❤️😊

[@8helenjhouston8]

Erin I don’t think that ANYONE but you thinks that you are lazy! I would strongly recommend going ahead and putting down compost and a thick layer of woodchips where you are planning your new garden well before spring. The Jim Putnam method ;-)

[@Thingys-Jill]

Do the dry mustard/water several times, picking up the worms that come to the surface and putting them in soapy water to drown. Put them in a plastic trash bag in the trash. Then put clear plastic sheeting over the area hopefully in direct sun to cook them and their cocoons. If you remove the plants, inspect them carefully and maybe treat them with the mustard spray (wash with clear water after). Maybe even torch the area, turn over the soil, and torch again? I sure don't envy you. A lesser expensive way to have a large planter is to buy a plastic trash can, and cut the bottom off or drill large holes in it. Then get 2"x12" boards the length you need for the width of the can and screw them together until they're at the height you chose to cut the can. I know you can just build the "pot", but by using the trash can inside it, you can change it out and the wood lasts longer. Have a Happy New Year anyway! Thoroughly enjoyed the video.

[@SteveL2012]

Thank you for the insights from 2024. A good reminder for me to continue adding compost to my soil. I got some down in the Fall but still have about 80% to complete. New Year’s resolution! ❤

[@dannramirez9]

You made the exact same statement I made about realizing how am not watering the plants as much as they would like!! I realized it just as you did. Shrubs grew faster than expected. Grew lots of peppers and blackberries. The high amount of unexpected rain was the main contributor.

[@joanreichenbach4896]

❤❤❤ Thanks for being so honest in reviewing 2024. I loved hearing “whoopsie”, “no more lazy Erin” and managing the garden that you have before adding more was appreciated. Cheers to a happy and healthy 2025 - both in your personal life and in your garden! Zone 5b-6a West Michigan.

[@ajack6421]

Appreciate the time to reflect. In 2025, I'm focusing on leaf mold as mulch in two insectory beds and spreading home grown compost to needier (and gorgeous) perennials like Clematis Princess Di. I can finally do this because my yard is full of gardens now. Harder in a season when I'm planting a new bed plus maintaining.

[@JennJenn9]

Insectory bed sounds interesting- what do you plant there?

[@ajack6421]

@@JennJenn9 natives to zone 5 as larval host plants, 3' and under for visibility across the garden and season long bloom. Google pycnanthemum muticum and Monarda punctata, both huge pollinator draws, the great blue wasp (my favorite) loves both. Google Jessica Walliser's book Attracting Beneficial Bugs. She got me started. If you're a bird nerd like me, plant a Hypericum shrub for month long bloom in July- bumblebees flock to it for pollen to provision their nests and juncos and chickadees swoop in and out of it all winter after the seeds. ❤️

[@flatcreek4665]

Happy New Year Erin. Love your videos. Looking forward to seeing your garden in 2025.

[@rhus36]

Every time I watch one of your videos I’m inspired to try something new, this time it was to cut the bottom off of a pot and set it into the landscape. Happy new year!

[@renejohnson37]

Looking forward to what you’ll do in 2025. Loved your hanging baskets and hope to do something like that this year. And you are welcome to come here to do a new garden. 😄. Happy New Year!

[@debbyrennock8435]

Love watching your videos. You teach me alot, and enjoy your humorous comments. 😅 I'm looking forward to your bulbs coming up on the mound. It will be gorgeous, I'm sure.😊

[@SharonOtto-e7c]

We had 3 trees taken out because of wind damage and therefore I divided perennials and move plants because of light changes so it was a busy year after prior year with crushed vertebrae and broken humerus. This year I will be assessing how changes work out and see what else I can do. Had a great year with sun patiens which bloomed from Spring to November. Also had beautiful coleuses. Happy New Year!!

[@amy010276]

Hey, I've been watching your channel for years, and I noticed I hadn't been getting notifications and, upon checking, I was unsubscribed. I happily resubscribed, but it's odd that these things happen...

[@StargazingDragon]

I totally get it, sometimes I'm just trying to get something done and then I realize afterwards I could have done that differently. I call it my hobby/job security. I'll never be finished lol. I'm completely redoing my row spacing this year wish me luck ❤🎉

[@gracefulgrowing144]

I love your hair. My bulbs came up very early. We had a lot of rain, and then no rain. I had a lot of slugs and a lot of pill bugs. It was definitely a first for a lot of things happening last year that normally don't happen. I'm in indiana Zone 6 A. I love your videos

[@anaharp4505]

I live in 6a Indiana also...2024 certainly was a crazy weather year

[@TheBking01]

Happy new year Erin , I just love how real you are and you’re honest you are about gardening . I look forward to see what you do this year and I can’t wait for your spring bulb lawn. My containers started slow ,the summer was hot, eventually the rains came and flowers grew crazy. Then we stopped getting enough rain and I didn’t keep up with watering the plants,by fall time they died off early. I was even late getting my bulbs planted,so I’m hoping they do ok.I look forward to 2025 😀

[@rhondaschenk5727]

Thank you, Erin, for your total honesty and brutal analysis of 2024. We all can relate in our gardens too! I’m looking forward to 2025! Let’s keep growing!

[@bjbrown6488]

Happy New Year Erin. I am fairly new watching your Channel and I enjoy your videos and your honesty about successes and failures in the garden. I live in western Colorado, zone 7a and everything we grow is irrigated. We get 8 to 10 in of rain/snow per year. But originally, I'm from the Chicago area and enjoy seeing your property right there near Lake Michigan, which is very similar to the growing conditions we had back there. Thank you for sharing your design and gardening experiences. 😊

[@juliehorney995]

Oh Erin, love your containers and projects! How about a food forest? Would need to be fenced-in but it's just the best design for beautiful perennial edibles/medicinals/natives that require fewer outside inputs as the years go on. Here in our NE Indiana, modest HOA home, we connected 3 small fruit guilds into a food forest strip. Everything grew very well, gratefully. Hoping that the mini swales (uphill, on contour) will continue to help water soak more deeply into the soil. Might be extra work initially (hey, cardboard mulching did prevent sod removal) but it's gorgeous! Looking forward to the show starting in spring!

[@JHG123]

Erin, You look very healthy and fabulous! Love your channel!

[@carlas872]

Hi Erin! Thank you for the recap. I always learn from your successes and challenges. I still consider myself a new gardener and am learning something new each season. I think that’s what keeps me interested in this hobby. Wishing you and your family (fur babies included) a wonder filled new year❤

[@cynthiaroberts4855]

Much the same type of growing season for me here in Sturgeon Bay, started on with plenty of moisture spring and early summer then absolute drought during the hot months! Things grew so quickly and larger than normal early in the growing season then I couldn’t keep up with watering during the hot months. Also living in town we pay for water and sewer charges on every gallon used so there’s all that cost involved too!

[@kbell8889]

Love watching you and your sweet pups so much! Love your honesty, humor and the inspiration you provide. Looking forward to more fun videos this year! Happy New Year, Erin!

[@Kathy-z6t]

Erin, thank you for this as well as all your videos, and keeping it real and honest. Sometimes I, too, lack motivation, and will foist it off on Mother Nature to pick up the ball. In 2024 I began looking at planting more trees and shrubs, also aimed at reducing work/maintenance. At 70, I still work full-time because I love it, my gardens though are my haven when I get home. I garden in zone 5a in Iowa; greetings, neighbor!! 🙂❤️🌻

[@janzatovich6677]

Happy New year enjoy your channel and all I've learned from you.

[@kimbar11]

I love your videos and style of gardening!

[@williamlanoue4713]

You look great, erin. Happy gardening!

[@JeanSchanen]

I would love ideas for reducing the amount of work that large gardens need. There are some parts of my garden areas that I never managed to get to until fall for some basic clean up. I really do not want to tear out garden area to make the gardens smaller and less demanding, I want to get ideas of how to make portions of an older garden less work.

[@elijahthomas4080]

My 2024 year started out great until the mole, which I still have not gotten rid of, dig up majority of my garden and has since started eating the entire root systems of some of my favorite plants. Before then it was a year full of color and lots of rain.

[@sbryan8163]

I just happened upon your video in the midst of me reflecting on 2024 and planning for 2025. How timely.

[@rufusandtalluhla2841]

Happy New Year to you and your wonderful followers! 🎉🥳. We love your channel😻❤️😻. We have learned so much!

[@Peoniesandpinks]

Happy new year to you, hubby, Dorothy and Magnus

[@gretchenburton7184]

You look wonderful, Erin. Happy New Year. Wishing you and yours many blessings❤🎉❤

[@teresarock7380]

I have made it a goal for 2025 to take better care of what I already have planted in the woods. Like you, I am realizing how much better the plants could look with more water. I am also hoping to get my woodland garden mulched.

[@fleurjardin1012]

Happy New Year, Erin! Thank you for all the great videos this year.

[@elmariedstra5631]

I think the garden you designed is absolutely beautiful!! ❤❤❤I love your garden and of course the beautiful pups!! Happy new year!!

[@R.Bronston]

I need to add compost and mulch to my garden too. Thanks for the nudge to do this in the Spring of 2025. Where do you get your pine straw? And do you favor a particular compost?

[@carolynlingor]

Great to see a review of your garden. I am so sorry about your jumping worm invasion. I would be happy to send you some of the raccoons that come dig up newly planted areas in my garden on an almost nightly basis looking for worms and other crawlies. I bet they would make short work of your worms. They leave my plants uprooted on top of the soil, so at sunrise every morning I am forced to do a garden stroll/patrol clad in my pj's and robe and oftentimes a heavy coat (California 8b) to find anything to that needs replanting. Which brings me to one of the things I learned last year. The raccoons seem to leave alone tightly planted areas where there is little visible soil. So that is what I have been and continue to work on is intensive planting. Of course the gophers aren't so discriminating. I guess we all struggle with destructive critters. Deer and rabbits aren't an issue for me, thank God.

[@thomasphillips6612]

Self reflection good for the soul my friend!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@jillsimpson8716]

Thank you for your honest reflections. I can relate to being a new-ish gardener and not having much of a plan and adding things, honestly, willy nilly. I always learn so much from your videos and look forward to every one! Happy New Year l!

[@susanskinner8855]

Great video Erin - love your honesty. This past year, I also tried to refine my garden, moving plants a few inches here and there, dividing and replanting..looking forward to seeing your garden in 2025. Happy New Year!

[@anaharp4505]

2024 was the year to add more winter interest, to add more 3 season shrubs and easy care perennials. I decided I wanted a garden that works for me instead of me working for it..😂. At seventy I dug more holes, hauled more compost, and lugged more plants than in any previous year....🤣 And I loved it all...🥴

[@newt52864]

Happy New Year 🎉 Are we gonna see a Fringe Tree in Erin's future garden this year ?😜

[@TammyGowdy]

Thanks!

[@martinlugus7242]

Very interesting review. Appreciated the extra content in 2024.

[@Martha-u4f]

Great video. I think my take-away from last year is that living in Colorado I need to realize that we are just not going to get the spring and summer rains that we used to have. And that with it being so dry I also am going to have to mulch. I'm thinking that I am going to much with compost and see how that goes. Also I have a terrible vole problem in one flower bed and I have no idea what to do about that. So we'll see. Thank you for your videos. I always can either learn a lot from them or can empathize with you.

[@carolkelly638]

Trees and shrubs I’m with you on that one!

[@daisyjo5358]

Wow just fixed my notification. HI agian .Hope you on the up swing with your health in 2025.Prayers an well wished sent ❤

[@karenpapp8451]

Your garden is amazing! The dogwood tree! Love your containers. I have started paying a younger person to help with mulch! Makes life so much easier!

[@dindyuhl2727]

Oh boy are we twins? This year was a MEH year, with weather much like yours albeit on the east coast zone 7(but I don't believe it yet)in NJ. I had high hopes, bought many beautiful plants for my garden and 1 other garden Spring was lovely and filled with ambition .......until it wasn't. Heat and then drought caused death to both plants and my ambition. I ain't no spring chicken so what gardening had to be done was met with disdain some chores just never got done but the watering.....oh the damn sweet kinky hoses being dragged out day after drought stricken day.Visions of my dirt covered body being found coiled amongst the kinky hose with barely an audible whimper uttering from my muddy mouth and a hiss from the small holes that punctuate the green monster that took me down began to form in my heat stressed mind. Oh yeah good times...good times. Here's to ...ah....here's to.....being better. Yeah...

[@vtgardener5327]

Loved your comment. Thanks for the chuckle!

[@terrivance8750]

Happy New Year, Erin!!! 😊

[@smorris9138]

I didn't have a jumping worm problem until I found it in a bag of Vigoro soil. Before I could grab it, it jumped out of my hand into the grass. I've had a problem ever since.

[@SpeedBump7807]

Happy New Year, Erin! Your videos would be much less interesting if everything was perfect. Plus, I can relate to failures and sometimes just being "done with it" or needing a little break. Thanks for creating a comfortable space for all of us and thank you for the work you put into your videos.

[@bonniejackson7476]

Thanks as always for sharing!😊

[@gaysullivan1942]

Happy New Year! I always look forward to your videos and can’t wait to see what 2025 brings.

[@PatojaandI]

I wish a great 2025 to you, your dearest and your followers. I wish you are in great health Erin, take really good care. Enjoy life and enjoy your garden!!!

[@lgarden7086]

Yeah 👏👏 looking forward to 2025 garden design. I’m older now with lots of garden space, so perennial pruning is getting to be a chore plus I need to grow vegetables 👨‍🌾👨‍🌾. I did not purchase “mulch” in 2024 I just used some arborist wood chips from my own trees I had removed this year and straw. I have JWs here in S CT and I believe they thrive in composted mulch; I’ve had JWs on my property since I purchased my home about 15 years ago. One of the best parts of my garden last year were my beautiful hydrangeas!!! They were amazing! Thanks for sharing your garden with us. 💚🥂to a great gardening year.

[@juliafiore120]

Happy New Year, Erin. To you, Mr More Impatient and the pups! Cheers to 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣🥳

[@michaelmalone8742]

Erin, I appreciate how real you are about successes and messes, just like my friend Jenny at Gardening with Creekside. I garden in z 8a NC Sandhills. Any property here with mature longleaf pines has perpetual pinestraw "dump". I'd love to send you some, Erin!! Glad that you found a source. The farmers here who are in the pinestraw industry sell it locally for $4/bale delivered. Wonder what you paid 🤔Is it longleaf or loblolly? Longleaf is premium. Even though we have tried to keep natural areas beneath the largest trees, it is so incredibly thick in some places and also blows into turf areas and other garden beds where it needs to be relocated 😂 We hardly ever rake leaves, so I guess that moving straw is a similar chore. Love your channel though it makes me a little homesick for Wisconsin. Not the cold and snow though. 🥰

[@kandyharris2195]

Always enjoy your videos ,thanks for sharing your wisdom along with struggles. Speaking of struggles, did you figure out the sweet potato crop failure? I've never grown them but have started slips in my kitchen window to try them this year. Any advice would be appreciated. Happy New Year and Happy Gardening🧑🏼‍🌾

[@AjaDaly-bi7nl]

You're so inspiring. Thank you 🦋

[@laurawhitney-popp4949]

I think if you let the Clematis's grow into the ground, you will have a big mess later when the wooden planters eventually rot away. And UGGG you freak me out with your Jumping worm speak! I'm so glad to hear you mention the importance of soil care....something I know I need to focus on. Here in St Louis MO, our soil is full of clay and rock. It's rarely a joy to plant a new plant. A 5 minute project turns into a whole afternoon of trying to dig out the boulder! 2025 will be the year of amending my soil for sure and less focus on the 31 pots that I have around the patio and deck. I need to step back and reevaluate to make sure it's not a cluttered look.

[@laurieh9388]

Love your channel. Happy New year!! Thanks for sharing!

[@SnappyR]

Hi Erin - would the mustard pour bring up all the other regular good worms to the surface as well? P.S. - love the weekly garden tours and the Q&A's you did this year!

[@ashleyamelia08]

you are stunning. Love your gardening style!

[@julieblauvelt1649]

Where did you get your hanging planters? Love the look of a sturdy planter. Btw- you look fabulous!

[@shirleynall9048]

Well we all get lazy occasionally! Sometimes it last a while! Life happens! Good news it passes and new gardens are born. Hoping to change a few things in my garden. I need to move some plants that were planted in the wrong spot! Looking forward to 2025 gardening with you .

[@samparr5276]

What are the adorable blue/purple flowering plants at 20:04? They look like viola labradorica, but holding their flowers up higher?

[@Idaho_DD]

Happy new year from Idaho

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Happy New Year to you! Hope you're having a great start to 2025!

[@TheGardenMouse]

Happy New Year's! Looks like you've lost weight this past year! I did, too, and I'm hoping to keep it up! Wishing you a wonderful year to come!

[@Gardeningathelake]

She's beautiful inside and out! And I'm too struggling with a few pounds myself. Hopefully, I lose enough, and someone notices and gives me a nice compliment, too! 🎉

[@robynwalters6083]

Where does one get a Corten steel water bowl? I’d love that in my garden, but I’ve never seen that anywhere

[@smarties6342]

Why do folks feel it's okay to comment on peoples weight? It's impolite. Would you make a comment if it was a weight gain?? Doubtful. Respectful boundaries, respect privacy. If the person opens up the discussion, OK, but if you are, then not OK. Even saying something like "looking good these days" implies they didn't look well before...... Best of 2025 to you Erin, Mr. Not So Impatient and your critters!

[@teresawhite8934]

Forgive me for my stupidity. I was just complementing Erin and would like to know how she lost her weight for I need to loose weight myself.I apologize

[@PattyB.Gardening]

Question about the clematis in pots…..you repotted them because the soil level had sunk, then you found the roots were growing all over themselves……you’re saying you’re going to take the bottom out of the pot and let them root into the ground…..eventually won’t the soil level drop again and you’ll still have to dig the plant out of the container and out of the ground at the same time? Or will the roots in the container be enough to sustain the life of the plant and the roots in the ground will not matter?