Today I’ll be giving you a tour of our homestead vegetable garden in May 2023. We try to grow many of our own vegetables and we have a mix of in-ground and raised beds. We are located in Virginia, zone 7a.
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20 Comments
Hi Michelle. I dont have green stalk but i have a vertical planter that I got from amazon. I also couldnt grow anything in it. I tried strawberries and leafy greens, all stunted. This year decided Im going to plant all flowers in my vertical planter particularly nasturtiums. Very low maintenance and all edible. Similar to what Becky did at acrehomestead.
Love your garden. I harvested my garlic scapes this week💥 I haven’t seen any great produce growing in green stalks. For the price, I’m not convinced they are worth it.
strings to support tomatoes, very interesting, never tried that, thanks for this video, really enjoyed it
I noticed a lot of other people with green stalks have been planting flowers in them. I have a different brand vertical growing tower that’s similar and I grow cilantro and lettuce in it on my covered back porch. I tried strawberries in it one year and they were stunted
Hello 👋 from Long Island NY. I love your garden and the garden tour. New sub 👍
I was really considering a greenstalk for my strawberry plants, again, I've seen other influencers showing great success. I'm having my strawberries being eaten by various bugs. Maybe I'll rethink spending so much money. Thank you for your opinion. And those few white radish were really pretty!
Enjoyed your tour. I will be watching to see how everything turns out
love your garden design, it is really beautiful
I think you'd really have to keep the greenstalk fertilized regularly. I have been tempted several times, but haven't really seen the point of them when I have in ground/raised bed garden space.
I've tried to grow strawberries in my green stalk for three years. They grow okay but I have few berries and the plants freeze and die every winter. I've had better luck with parsley which seem to thrive. This year I'm trying chard and kale.
Beautiful garden, Michelle. I like all your trellising and structure in the garden. Thanks for sharing!!
You are my Inspiration. Thank you
My Greenstalk hack is in the spring I unstack and plant out the pockets. I let everything grow for a month then stack them up. I get the best growth this way.
I mainly grow flowers.
It’s worth the time for me because I’m using them to grow in a narrow paved space along the side of our house.
nice
Greenstalk. Might have the wrong type of soil.
I am on the struggle bus with my green stalks. I bought two. The first year I assembled one and nothing did well. So I figured there was a learning curve? This year I have both assembled. I transplanted kale into the original. Nothing grew. It just sat there stunted. The second on I planted with seed and it thriving! So I do t know: still confused. Maybe seeds just do better in them?
I love your simple cover for your brassicas. What a great idea to use the arched metal rods, with bug net over it. You have taught me several things I didn't know, including eating cabbage leaves. Your garden is amazing!
Don’t harvest rhubarb this year. Fertilize in the fall with aged cow manure.
“Brassacre” 😂 We’re in Virginia Zone 7a too! Your garden looks awesome! Really helpful to see how you cover your eggplants. Before you explained I thought, “why do her eggplants look so good?” Lol the flea beetles destroy mine every year
I find gardens so amazing. The fact that these beautiful, lush plants start out as tiny seeds just boggles the mind. Thanks for the tour. I watched the June one earlier, so I wanted to go back and compare with this one. I look forward to seeing the progression next month.