This year a lot of my goals revolve around making significant progress to make my home more beautiful and enjoyable. One of those projects is my backyard patio, which is currently non-existent. This garden bed will not only give me more space to grow food, but will also help frame the patio with a beautiful plant space.
Now I just have to get the ants and weather on board…
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as per us there’s a little bit of a challenge so it looks like ants have taken up residence in this pile of [Music] dirt well it’s raining this is illegal labor on Mother’s [Music] Day hey everybody welcome back coming to you live not really recorded from my garage uh mostly because it is really bright outside so this way you can actually see me while I kind of explain what the game plan is today uh today doing a big project outside it’s going to be um garden related i kind of talked about it i’m adding an additional bed garden bed out there so I’ve had the plan to do this uh since last year and this will accomplish two things three things I guess technically um first it’s gonna give me some more pretty aesthetic garden in my backyard because right now my backyard has been predominantly um growing veggies see everybody’s outside working today backyard’s been predominantly growing veggies and food uh not necessarily so aesthetic front yard I’ve been trying to work on the aesthetic a little bit even that kind of has been a process so this bed is going to have a little bit of aesthetic it’s also going to give me a little more room to grow some root veggies uh so I’m super excited about that and then it’s the kind of start of the patio so making it pretty and enjoyable to just go sit outside so let me show you what my plan is um and I guess I won’t talk a whole lot because the neighbor is hammering something that’s fine let’s go work on stuff together okay so back here is where I want the patio um let me show you so you can see you come through the side gate and then I want to keep this kind of a grassy uh area with a garden around it and then over here pretty much from where you see the dirt uh over to where the tree is planted I want to make that patio um and then along the back of the fence area there will be more garden so that there’s kind of a separation between the spaces i’ll put a little bit of garden here too and then a little bit of garden on the side um and then start filling in patio the pavers over here I’m going to put along the back part of the fence and the purpose of those is to keep the dirt from falling through the fence cuz I want to elevate that garden bed just a little bit um so that’s what I’m going to be doing today is putting those stones back there and then starting to fill in the dirt okay as per usuge there’s a little bit of a challenge so it looks like ants have taken up residence in this pile of dirt let me see if I can show you so they are frantically trying to clear their eggs out their larvae or whatever it is you can see some there it’s all a part of nature so I will uh just scoop them out put them into a bucket cuz I want to get as much of that out of this garden bed as possible and we’ll go from there i don’t really want to poison or sprinkle dietmacous earth earth or anything because I don’t want to kill other beneficial bugs i just want not an ant colony in there [Music] so a significant [Music] life just where it was needed claiming black as night cloistered in injustice dead in the iron time nobody is losing faces merchant change but your face remain the same the sorrows will be here by [Music] dark when we’re finally sober they’ll be gone the trees will bloom and ice will [Music] melt we’ll always remember how [Music] well okay so I think I’m going to have to um just kind of pile dirt where I need to sorry ants everywhere um I need to move the dirt and kind of disrupt the antill uh just so that they know that that’s not we’re not we’re not doing it here um and then I’m going to have to just leave cuz they’re very aggravated they’re attacking everything so far I haven’t been munched on and they’re just black ants at least but um still I don’t really want to get munched on so yeah I’m going to disrupt the dirt a bit and then it’s the heat of the day so I might go get some lunch [Music] okay we’re back at it let’s do it again [Music] clean in the blackest night in justice and in the eyes of time nobody is losing when we When it’s overloo [Applause] [Music] oh ooh [Music] everything I can wait no [Music] longer so I go [Music] [Music] Okay it’s starting to look a little bit more like a garden bed now um so let’s go look at my compost pile and see how that’s doing cuz that will determine if I need to buy more like dirt and compost or if I can just use that but I think this is looking pretty good so you may be thinking this is a really wide garden bed that’s because I’m going to be putting um probably like bushes and taller things that are mostly just for decorative purposes in the back um there’s already a lilac over here and then that’s a choke cherry over there so I’ll just kind of continue that vibe so it’ll just be uh flowering bushes across the fence there um and then the front part will be where I’ll put like flowers as well as other veggies i have some cabbages that I need to transplant so I’ll probably put those in here uh cuz I don’t know where else I’ll put them otherwise and then that will extend over this way as well but I’ll have to move there’s a fig right there it’s It’s early it’s hard to tell but the kind of mulchy pile there um that’ll need to be elevated cuz it’s already kind of sunk in the ground a little lower than it should be anyway and then this is increasing the height so and then over here on this corner I’m going to do my blueberry bush let’s go check the compost pile and see what we’re working with let’s see [Music] worms so you can see it’s looking pretty good [Music] um some things just aren’t broken down in the way that I want that’s sweet potato I think um so I don’t know maybe it needs to go a little bit longer yeah I’m kind of thinking it might need to go a little bit longer well it’s raining um it’s been coming down for the whole day pretty much consistently i think it’s only stopped a couple of times so I will not be doing any more work but you can see the garden boop okay well now I’ve ruined it so out there um got that garden bed finished and planted out which was kind of a rush i didn’t finish showing the rest of doing so cuz I wanted to beat the rain like rainy days and stuff like that um just so that the plants would be super happy which I think they are from here they look perky but we’ll have to go take a look um on a different day when maybe the weather is a little bit better this is illegal labor on Mother’s Okay good morning everybody happy Mother’s Day if you’re a mom um I am just going to kind of give you a recap of what I have done because I finished it we had multiple days of just rain all day long so I wrapped it up real quick but let me just show you kind of how the garden is doing we’ll do just kind of a quick little uh little peek here so here is the garden as you can see the weeds really enjoyed the rain so that’s something I’m gonna have to continue to deal with but the radish box looks amazing i’ve already thinned out a ton of radish um so I’ll just keep doing that the carrots are coming up over there which is super exciting got a lot of stuff little You can see little seedlings now so they’re actually big enough that they’re doing things they’re starting to get secondary leaves or they already have strawberries are taking to their new box which is cool i also noticed I had this little random volunteer come up here and I think it might be a cucumber but I’m not 100% sure get out of here but yeah the lettuce took we’ve got uh along here is rudabagga those little tiny seedlings there got all of those over there the trees are looking great the rhubarb is going crazy well one of them is the other one I don’t know what the deal is and then to show you what I did for that garden bed that I added in so here is what I’ve got thus far and I went ahead and planted it out so you can see there’s a couple pavers to keep it easy to access i had talked about putting bushes back along the fence but I think actually what I’m going to do is just make this all food production because it’s raised up so much higher uh with some better soil so I’m going to do probably like tomatoes or maybe beans along the back so that they vine up um but right now I also put my larger cabbages so there’s a copen hanging cabbage there some seavoy cabbages to the side um got some cauliflower down here kale along the back uh kind of there you can see um and then some herbs as well as creeping thyme to be between the paths this was not thriving where it was so it looks rough and we’ll see how it does here this might be too much sun for it but it was already so close to not making it that I was like “Well let’s give it a go.” I also was able to get a ton of these bricks on uh sale they were a really good price and actually became a better price than getting the pavers which was kind of my original plan to make the patio with so I will be doing some awesome brick pattern work when I’m making the patio i’m really excited about that um yeah that changes my plans a little bit as far as what I was going to do here but I think it’s going to look even better so lots of things happening i know this was kind of a not very much of a show video it was more of a tell video it’s just tough when like you know weather forces you to operate quicker than you were planning and that sort of thing and there’s plenty more work there’s plenty more things i will have other stuff to show you so that’s okay i hope that you all have a fabulous week i hope you have a great Mother’s Day if you’re celebrating and I will catch you all next time if you like this video please subscribe there’s other stuff I do i’m kind of a cool person sometimes most of the time i don’t know but I’ll talk to you guys later bye i just want to go out on a walk with you baby you know I just like to talk with you you don’t have to tell me anything that’s new