Welcome Gardeners! I’m taking a beat to assess the garden after this season. I love to take a good look and think about what went well, and what needs work! 🍁 Enjoy!
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I also live in zone 9b. My sunflowers are still looking great but I would like to plant some cool flowers come October. When do you consider the sunflowers done and take them out? I am new to perennials. Would love if you could do an episode on when and how to cut back your various perennials such as salvias, coneflowers, Agastache etc. I have learned so much from watching you over the last several years. Thank you so much🥰
Great video. Loved the format.
You sound a little discouraged today, Janie! It’s ALL good and we are here for the good, the bad and the ugly! This is real life. Please don’t push yourself or burn yourself out. ❤
How I envy you! 😅 I love pomegranates, and they're so expensive at the grocery store.
Wow, I had no idea they could be frozen! I'll look into it…whether whole or prepped? I did learn some professional kitchen techniques for removing pomegranate arils that make the process much more fun. One involves cutting out the stem in a star shape and then cutting through the peel and partially cutting through the fuit in five equal parts. From there I remember breaking it apart easily enough, Another technique involves wracking the fruit halves, peel side up of course with a wooden spoon. (I'm sure there are videos on line)
Once tge arils are mostly free you can gently immerse them in a cold water bath to remove any clinging bits of pith. The pith and debris float to the top, easy to remove. Gently drain out the water and your pomegranate arils should be mostly intact and undamaged.
Hoping you see this Janey! And you will give us an update, maybe some visuals, of what transpired with that glorious bounty! I'm awed by everything you do! Thank you!
Dang gophers! Despite them, it's looking beautiful ❤.
With the scale of your property, if the premade gopher cages (especially for large plants) in that quantity feels like 💸, Deanna w/ Homestead and Chill has a great DIY gopher cage from hardware cloth.
I believe it's one of her first videos on YouTube here titled "How to plant a fruit tree and make a gopher cage" She's a great source for knowledge and is in California. Best of luck 🙏.
Your videos that I most enjoy are when you and Jason are working in the garden. 🪴
it was hard but ive learned it ok to prune fruit trees in the spring, summer and fall in our area. Summer has has gotta be a cooler week. but it really helps thin the fruit. and control growth, and keep the shape you want. fig trees can also take a hard prune every other year, I cut it back all the way to the trunk and reshape it. they love it! i still get a ton of figs. Hope this helps!
Your yard looks so nice! BTW, I purchased the heavy duty gardening scissors you were using to harvest the pomegranates…you recommend them on your amazon page… I LOVE them!! One of my favorite garden tools. Thank you! ❤M
Janie!! I guess you haven’t talked to Robbie about his new gadgets for keeping his gophers away. Maybe something you could try!
Your fig needs water. The leaves will flatten when it's getting enough water. Youtuber QCTropicals has good info on watering figs. He has a nursery in AZ.
Good idea to do a garden accessment. Gorgeous.pomegranates! I love that deep red. I am team pomegranate, and agree it will look lovely trimmed up as a tree form. Besides eating, they also make great decorations for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
We just cooled down the last few.days, and it is lovely.
Hi Janey. I love your videos. I just ripped out a bunch of bushes, topped with cardboard and compost. I did this because of you. This is prep for a cut flower garden next spring (6b). My 'side border' is totally 'construction debris'. There is even a large round chunk of concrete that looks like someone dumped it from a bucket.
Yeah for the chicken! My son’s parrot loves them!
I planted some Lowes clearance royal raspberry agastaches in fall last year, and I waited and waited over winter and spring and they both looked dead. So I pulled out the rootballs when I did spring seed sowing. When my seeds were popping up in summer I kept noticing these purple mint looking seedlings–I pulled up the early ones cuz I thought they were weeds, but the ones that I left turned into the raspberry agastache! Idk if it's true to the original plant, but the leaves and flowers look similar. TLDR: check that area after winter and there might be a small chance that the "dead" agastache either reseeded itself or sent out some runners that you didn't notice this year. I'm in IA, zone 5b.
Edit: autocorrected "rootballs" to football😂
Check w/Robbie — he found an effective gofer/mole thing
Did you consider soil testing?
I bought a compost pail for our kitchen for scraps, it holds about a gallon + of things like eggshells, coffee grounds, etc. So once a week I've been digging holes in my garden to bury it. I can't tell you how wonderful it's been for my plants!
Speaking of stencil… I would at least toy with the idea of stenciling flowers and herbs onto the pavers… maybe. Maybe not🤷🏼♀️
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Just a thought put a camera at night to see how the little criminals are getting around a t night.lol
🍁Hi Janey and Jason 🐕
Yum love pomegranates
Your gardens still look great.Have a great rest of the day 🍁 🙂👋
Practice makes perfect! You're doing a great job, tho, Jason and Janey. Your property is really beautiful!
Hi Janie, Robbie is very happy with his gopher/ mole/ vole spike deterrents! 🇨🇦👏🍁
What else will you do to keep the pomegranate healthy? Mine hasn't set fruit in years, so I think I'd better prune it. Will you fertilize? Is it on drip?
Poor Montey. He’s just the problem for everything 😢
But he’s such a good boy 😊
Cool that you have a pomegranate tree! They make great Christmas decorations if you know how you could preserve them. ❤️
Janey
I also walk my garden in my PJs and coffee! I’m glad that I’m not alone in over planting! It does give some instant gratification but I always regret it this time of year. Next year I’m just saying no… lol! You will be happy adding shrubs as they are great foundation pieces that add year round interest. I recently discovered Japanese Holly Sky Pencils… I have an area along a fence that I wanted to add some interest and privacy. My neighbors pool is on the other side of the fence so I wanted to be considerate and not plant trees. The Sky Pencils are perfect as they are narrow but mature to 10 ft tall. They are evergreen and can tolerate the sun and heat as well as shade.
I live in the northeastern USA and in the winter time, people buy pomegranates to put on their mantle pieces and in the fruit bowls for Christmas decorations. They get hard and you can keep them for years. I did that many years ago. You can hear the seeds when you shake them. It's like when you put cloves in oranges, lemons, etc, than put a pomegranate in them, as well. So, maybe keep some for the Christmas season to decorate!
Oh, those gophers!!! Aaaaarrgh!
I plant every plant, large or small, in a gopher basket now. (Western Planting Solutions sells them in bulk.).
For dark foliage in the bed you were talking about, how about PW (Ninebark) Physocarpus "Summer Wine" or "Tiny Wine?" Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy?"
Zone 8a Milton Fl, I've been doing an assessment the past few days.
Gotta try a texas sage shrub/tree in your garden ❤
That’s an improvement 😊
Omg those little rascals I hope they leave you alone soon. Thank god my cats got to the gophers before they took over my garden
Janey the fig tree looks awesome! I agree with another commenter you should talk to Robbie he has found a good solution to his pest problems. I also agree with Jason you cannot tell difference when you coat the pavers with the gravel. Your chickens are adorable. Just love your channel! Keep up the good work. 😊
Ask your neighbor about giving the sunflower to the goats !!!!
Do you or Jason miss your previous jobs in the health care industry?
Wow that was a lot of work! What's the name of the tool you were using as you thinned out the sun flower? Thank you…
Gophers! Ugh. We live east of Placerville (Apple Hill) between an orchard and vineyard and gophers were rampant. We tried, cages, poison, etc. Then spring 2023, we hired a trapper. He set the traps, caught and took the gophers with him. After 2 months we were truly gopher free! In 2024, we caught only 2! You might consider it. 👍
I absolutely LOVE your garden! 🪴 it looks beautiful even with the assessment! You and Jason have been able to plant so many things in your first year! Great job♥️♥️🪴💐
Hi Janey, i had a lot of pomegrantes and i bought a heavy duty juicer so i could make jelly. Too much trouble and time to take sèeds out then juice. Just cut them in half press down on juicer and wah lah lots of juice.
You can juice that too! Yummy. Can you plant alliums or a chive hedge to help with gopher pressure.
I do longer layering in my garden too. It is very important to water before and after each application though otherwise you can create aquaphobic pockets or areas. It’s to do with capillary action.
#teampomegranate I'm so glad you kept this tree, the fruit looks amazing! Is it safe for the chickens to eat the split ones?
I'm hopeful that my little tree will produce soon. I had one fruit that dropped after I transplanted the tree this spring but I'm think now that it's established I'll get some fruit next season!
Ooh, you answered my question right after I posted it!
I think the sunflowers were a little tall they blocked other plants site lines behind them. I would do a different lower plant and maybe put those somewhere else next year. I move my plants around all the time.
Hey Janie, I really feel I should share with you something about soil. If woodchips are mixed into the soil, they rob the surrounding area of nitrogen as they break down. So you will want to move the woodchips aside put the compost down then put woodchips over them. The reason being is you will create a nitrogen deficiency when the wood chips start to break down. It last 1-2 years depending on conditions. Remember nature works with smaller broken down particles closer to the soil and with larger detritus sitting on top. Your yard is amazing by the way, love all your plantings and design ❤️
Hi there. I’m so curious to know if your garden…your area is prone to mosquitoes. You don’t get a lot of rain and I don’t hear you talking about being bothered by them. Just wondering. Love ya.