Edible Gardening

Designing Beautiful Outdoor Living Spaces with Edible Gardens! 🏡🌼 Renter-Friendly DIY Landscaping



Our backyard is getting closer to becoming the beautiful outdoor living space and edible home garden I’ve envisioned! After months of research, planting, watering, and some budget-friendly solutions, our backyard has officially become an extension of our day-to-day living. I’m showing you the surprising changes we’ve had since we first started planting 2 months ago, and we’ll discuss more future plans for improvement as we start working some renter-friendly DIY landscaping tricks alongside our edible gardens. The goal is to really elevate the visual interest of this yard, while also making it functional, and edible!. So we’re going to build some affordable structures, and visit the CUTEST local nursery to find some more plants that bring us closer to creating a thriving edible home garden!

Which part of the garden should I work on next? I’m thinking the cement wall and the walkways! Let me know in the comments below!

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0:00 Let’s Go Outside!
1:26 Backyard Updates
7:07 Greenhouse
8:29 New Blooms
14:26 Creating the South Bed
17:25 Off to the nursery!
19:39 Home Depot
21:04 Planting the haul!
29:36 The Arch

[Music] hey everyone welcome back I am really excited for today’s video because I am taking you outside of my historic rental home and into the backyard as I develop a beautiful outdoor living space and an Edible Garden last time you joined me out here we gave this patio I’m sitting in now an Extreme Makeover and honestly it’s been such a joy to hang out in ever since it’s been the perfect place for morning coffee or just unwinding at night with all the pretty lights above it has just been so so nice so if you have not started on your patio yet this is your sign to get on it because seriously nothing compares to having some quality outdoor time beyond that I let you know during my patio makeover that I was trying my hand at floral veggie and fruit gardening I’ve never gardened before as this is my first time having a backyard but I’ve been seriously learning a ton along the way so I thought I would bring you guys along with me as I develop my outdoor living space into a beautiful home Garden but before we dive into my long list of things we need to get done to get this Garden summer ready I want to show you some updates we’ve had since the last time we were out here so I think the first thing to mention right next to the strawberries here is my basil plant so I actually took some clippings and put them inside and rooted them and then I planted them back in the pot so hopefully they grow up and then here we planted some Bean Bush This is basically a bean plant it doesn’t have to grow up a pool it can just grow as a bush and so we’ve got two of them coming up right now we’ve got a ton more nestum coming in and I think there’s some blossoms on this jasmine plant that might be coming in soon and then the plum tree here doesn’t have a lot of flowers so I don’t know if it’ll fruit this year however this is the healthiest that’s ever looked I’ve been fertilizing it and watering it and it’s got so much Greenery on it now and just below that we have the little Wildflower Garden here this has just continued to regenerate it does kind of seem like it’s flopping over but constantly new flowers are coming out here and we finally got some poppies we’ve got more nsts here and then the biggest development is this giant Potato [Music] Patch so they’re starting to flower here and I think once they get pollinated they will grow a bunch of potatoes so there’s another flower right over there but these have just been shooting up non-stop ever since I planted them so these are just small golden potatoes that I just put in the ground after they grew Roots after sitting in my cupboard for too long so if you have anything like that just plop it in the ground I didn’t even do anything with the soil here I just put it in the ground and they completely shot up and I think I want to really use these for like potato salad or just like little potatoes to grill on the barbecue these are two clippings from two different tomato plants in the yard I think this one is like a cherry and then this one’s a beef steak or it could be vice versa I don’t remember we’ll just see what happens I forgot to label them I have more inside that I need to plant today and then I’ve got some yellow bell peppers here that are just starting to come in and right behind that is our beef steak tomato plant so far this is doing really well it’s a lot bigger than when I first planted it and hopefully we’ll get some big tomatoes so I have this huge cage here that should support it this is a sweet bell pepper plant and look how big this is and it’s got two new little ones on the other side we’ve got a really big one here as well so these are there’s three different plants here so two of them are producing giant ones the orange tree here has been doing really well we took all the oranges off and ate most of them gave some of them away and then some of them just ended up getting molded we just don’t know if we’re going to get more fruit on this at the moment I hope we do though I don’t know if oranges also bloom in like the spring and summer and over here we’ve had tons of development so this is like a cottage wildflower mix which I I think it just looks like poppies at the moment we planted a merry gold here and a merry gold here and then this is sweet alysum these are supposed to keep pests away or deter them as well as the nestum so we wanted to protect all of our produce in here and unfortunately someone ate most of our bok choy we had tons of it here and now we only have two left I think it was a bird or something like that but we have tons of mesculin lettuce so I can’t wait to try this out we’re just going to let it grow a lot bigger obviously and then the flowers the Wild Flower mixes are still coming in here and and we’re getting some sweet Spanish yellow Utah jumbo onions coming up right here so I want to plant some red ones as well the dino kill came up very briefly and then I think something ate it so it’s completely gone the golden beets are a little bit struggling but hopefully they can just keep going and grow a little bit bigger we’ll see what happens with the golden beads the one thing that is coming up over here in the herb area is Dill but that’s it no rosemary no sage no catnip nothing not really sure why we also trans planted some nerum here here and here so that it’ll eventually kind of fall down this wall and basically be a deterrent for all the pests in here but so far the lettuce is really just doing the best as well as these Wildflower mixes and then one thing I am so excited to show you is like a really great update to the backyard tour I did so if you remember I said that I had a ton of pumpkins and squashes left over from Halloween and Thanksgiving and I wanted to put them out in here in the yard instead of throwing them away just to like let them biodegrade next to thisy mountain right here in hopes that with enough time and sun and water from the fountain that they would Sprout and they did so this is one of the decaying pumpkins in here but right here you’ll see that there’s just a little squash plant one here and then one here and then there’s one here one here so maybe there’s like three or four right there and then there’s a bundle of different plants just all right here they’ve been covered by the weeds so I think taking the weeds out maybe was helpful or hopefully they don’t burn but there are so many in here I can’t even begin to count you can see all the seeds that were left here so I swear there’s probably about 30 different plants here but wow I’m really excited to see what happens in this yard with these things right here but when it comes to the weeds here we’re not really too worried about this at the moment when we get a chance we do deweed and throw stuff away but our main focus is trying to just keep this entire Garden alive at the moment we did however deweed a ton of this area right here as you can see and I actually put some fertilizer on this little wild rose that just randomly popped up and it’s been producing so many leaves so we’ll have to see what kind of Rose this ends up being I’m really excited I also found a huge nerum Vine randomly back here and so I’ve just been trailing it up this tree and it just looks really pretty and then over here we actually found this like wild plant and I don’t know if this is another squash or if it’s a cucumber it could be also a zucchini I looked up the different like Leaf shapes and it could have been any of those so just going to leave that in the ground and see if something comes of it and then you might notice a new addition to the backyard here so I want to show you what I worked on last night so this is my very first Greenhouse this one was probably 40 bucks or so it was on Amazon I’ll link it below if you’re interested I wanted something affordable and super portable as well as just easy to set up and this was the easiest thing I’ve ever set up basically it’s got four different tiers and then it comes with this plastic cover and some clips to hold the plastic on the sides of the poles and then a little zipper door and I really wanted this because I’ve been trying to start so much stuff from seed however I know sometimes the best conditions for seed starting especially in containers is a lot of light and heat and sometimes humidity especially with my peppers and [Music] tomatoes my Peppers specifically have had such a hard time coming up in addition to other seedlings like my chives and cucumbers which I know also love heat as well so hopefully by putting them in here I’m going to save a lot of money from not buying seedlings at Home Depot or the nursery and be able to really grow my own food from [Music] scratch so I’m really excited to see all this condensation in here and I’m just really hoping that these Peppers sprout a lot more as well as the beef steak tomato I know that they kind of like a more hot moist environment and I think it’s kind of cute because there’s nothing else here anyway so it’s a great addition to the garden and we’ll see how it works I don’t know if I might move it but for now I like it right there and then this passion fruit is probably dead every day I se new snails on it I take them off I even put like some snail bait around here and it’s still just not working so might have to get some new passion fruits and see if we can make something happen but this just doesn’t seem like it’s going to come back also my ranulas are finally coming up which I’m really excited about and there should be some daisies in there as well these are a Old English mix that I’ve really just shot up since we last saw them in the backyard makeover these are some blue flowers that are having a hard time coming up and then my rose here is finally putting out a new Bud which I’m very excited about there is another one here too and this one smells absolutely amazing I condensed my tower a little bit here and right now on the top I think these are some Swiss chard yeah so we’ll have to see those come up there’s some more lettuce coming this is like a red salad mix um not too much on the beets here they’re coming up for sure but they’re they’re kind of slow these radishes are really coming up more lettuce and I think there’s just more lettuce here and more lettuce here so this has been kind of like a leafy Tower moving over to the other side of the garden we could call this like the west garden over here we have some new advancements including a step that I built right here so again I found tiles on the property and I think I only ended up purchasing these three on the top to add just an extra thing so it’s flat but now I can walk here and step down and before this was just kind of like a mound kind of like that that was just falling down so I had to put a bunch of bricks here and then I might end up doing something more so that’s a definitely another project that I need to finish Landscaping wise but we don’t want to put too much money into Landscaping as you might know I am a renter so I’m not going to invest a lot of money into Landscaping in the property however we want to make it a really nice place to live all the stuff that we’re spending money on like vegetables and fruits and gardening are things that we can actually reap the benefits from and if there’s something that will just improve the space overall will definitely do that but I’m not going to do a ton of like structural changes here there is a general sense of tidying up that we need to do in here like taking away these soil bags and just getting rid of all of the Dead Leaves but I want to show you this bed that we made so in here we ended up putting a tomao plant and then I just found out you have to have multiple tomao plants in order to pollinate each other they don’t self-pollinate so we’re going to go get one of those in a moment so over here we have three sunflowers and then we’ve got a little nerum on the side and then we’ve got some sungold cherry tomatoes which I will need to stake and support and then we have a big french marold plant here which is great companion plant for these types of plants another thing that you might notice is that we removed almost all of those corns I still have some of them to remove here and we added a little like circular thing around the low quat tree which we’ve been trying to harvest some fruits from but it’s so tall it’s really hard to get up there and then we also planted some wild flowers right here in front of this bed and some on the inside as well as like some milk weed and butterfly bush so hopefully those will come up and then we’ve got our lavender here it was actually on that side but I moved it over here because I feel like it just looked a little bit better so one super exciting advancement over here is this carrot we just planted a carrot in the ground last year and just let it you know Sprout with greens and now it’s getting all of these really pretty blooms on here and so once we just let these dry out every single one of these is going to be a seed and this was from like a multicolored carrot like a purple or a yellow one so we hopefully will have tons of seeds for some really big multicolored carrots additionally we raised this bed with one 2×4 on every side so it’s just a little bit taller and we’re just going to slowly back fill it as everything starts to grow in here but it’s been totally fertilized and we planted this tomato last year and it gave us so many husky red cherry tomatoes and it’s just completely come back it’s something called an indeterminate tomato so it’s always going to regenerate as long as it can and this is just tons of new growth on it already and then we planted down here another sweet alysum and more French molds as these are really great companion plants for tomatoes and peppers and they also try to deter pests and then our Sage that we planted last year that was totally dying has completely just been coming up so huge I mean this is a gigantic piece of sage here and then over here we’ve got our jalapeno plant that was kind of dying we did Harvest two or three jalapenos from it and so I really cleaned it up and now it’s got tons of new growth on here as well as our Pablo ancho hot pepper this one is supposed to get really big so this is probably not the most ideal size but I’m just kind of like letting it go and I took one of them off and just put it down there so that it can decompose and hopefully add more nutrients to the plant over here this is a bell pepper right here and we’re just kind of like letting it struggle bust its way along until it drops this pepper here I do see some new growth coming in right here and it’s just really got eaten by the snails so that was one reason why we really wanted to hire this up and then we put a bunch of like snail bait around here also this is our hot burrito pepper and I actually need to harvest this one because it needs to give more energy to grow this plant but I could definitely eat this and I think we harvested four of these already these are really great and it’s growing a new one right here and I think a new one right there so this has been a slow growing process but I really hope to have this pepper bed really just more vibrant as the summer goes on this is also such a makeshift trellis that I created with like free pieces of wood that I found on the property and some $6 netting from Amazon but it has been really helpful with helping trellis this little tomato plant but I would eventually like to get like a full-on like trellis that’s real but you know it is what it is at the moment so coming down from the west garden we’re going to the South Garden and this is just beyond the step I created and right next to the plum tree and we’re still working on this it’s a huge work in progress hopefully we can kind of cultivate this area a lot more but we added in a new bed recently and I want to show you how I worked on it last night so this is an additional bed that we put in the South Garden area around February and I finally am getting around to finishing it I did put in some fertilizer worm casting steer manure which is gross but it’s great compost some of this healthy bacteria I also grabbed like two bundles of wood just from Vons and put that on the bottom just to take up some of the volume as those will decompose over time and then I tried to save a lot of money by putting in just some of this Miracle Grow INR soil just as additional dirt I think with the addition of the fertilizer and the worm castings and the bacteria and all that it’ll really make the soil really healthy and the Miracle Grow soil is just adding [Music] volume and then this compost has been decomposing over the last maybe like 6 to 8 months so it’s not fully dirt yet maybe takes about 18 months to do that but I am going to put in some of what I have like decomposed sticks leaves and food in here underneath another layer of steer manure and then this really high quality in ground soil you can just tell the difference between this and the Miracle Grow this stuff is just so much more high quality and so much more healthy and I think it’s just going to really help the soil in [Music] here lastly I added some chicken manure as an amendment to where I have already planted on the left side of the bed as it’s a good compost however it didn’t feel as high quality as the steer manure and then I planted some seedlings I had picked up at the nursery about like 4 days ago so I’ve got some hot and sweet banana peppers which are absolutely my favorite I love like peppercinis and then I’ve got these really pretty sunflowers that are supposed to grow pretty big I’m also planting some sweet alysum and some French marold to help add just some pretty florals as well as to help with the [Music] pests so this bed is also kind of a work in progress over here I did find one of those other plants over by the greenhouse and I transplanted it here and it doesn’t seem to be doing well at all there is still some green left but I don’t know what’s going to happen there and then right here we’ve got a iyon type eggplant I think it’s called and then here we have the typical Black Beauty eggplant and I just want to develop this more this is a lot of real estate so I have some onions I want to put in here so this is something I’m going to be working on as well I absolutely love this garden and can’t get enough of it the most surprising thing that this yard has really produced has been the pumpkin seed Sprouts as well as the Potato Patch so I’m very excited for those but before I want to get into trimming and fertilizing and planting some new plants I do need to head over to the nursery first to pick up a couple more tomao plants so they can pollinate each other so I can actually get some fruit and just see what else they have I also just want to show you what it looks like cuz it’s pretty cool and then once we’re done there I’m going to head over to Home Depot to pick up some more soil and maybe see if they have a couple other plants and then we’ll get back to this yard and plant a whole bunch of new stuff [Music] this is honestly the cutest Nursery you can dig up your own little seedlings here for like a doar or $3 depending on the plant and then they have tons of really great varieties it’s really hard to find something like a tomao or even okra or different varieties of tomatoes that I’ve never heard [Music] of see this looks exactly like the plant next to my Greenhouse I originally grabbed one of these dig up your own tomatillos so just in case the ones in the container are a different variety than this one I’m going to grab one of those and then two of the additional [Music] ones but I just wanted to show you all the other fun stuff like where else would you find Hatch Green Chili Peppers and Cherry rhubarb [Music] and then look at this stag hor in front I have never seen something so gigantic in my life it’s so [Music] pretty so pretty [Music] so cute prob My Sunshine [Music] so I ended up getting one dig it up tomao and two of these in a pot cuz I don’t know if they’re a different kind and then some cilantro and tomato [Music] fertilizer I’m so excited they have shashido peppers I have been looking for shashido Peppers forever I am definitely going to buy up some of [Music] these so as gross as this is this totally helps and it’s only $2 for each bag so it really adds a lot of compost to the soil and then I’m just getting three bags of this inground stuff because it’s a lot higher quality than this even though you can get like five of these for $10 they have a lot of glass and plastic in them so I don’t use it a lot unless I’m filling up a giant bed [Music] and then I kind of went crazy and got four shidos just in case this is Camile I’ve always wanted a chamomile butterfly bush um I’m not sure what this is but it’s perennial so it should bloom all year and then of course sunflower two more shidos well Home Depot was a success I can’t wait to plant everything it is kind of toasty outside but we’re just going to sweat it out I guess cuz I can’t wait to have a harvest of all these really good goodies and I know that like year two is just going to be so much better after all the garden is just fully cultivated so it’s definitely worth the sweat so I’ve unloaded the car and I have this box from the nursery and I just want to place all my plants around the yard to just kind of see what it looks like before I actually put it into the ground to make sure it’s something that I want there and it’s going to look good as well as just think about how big it’s going to grow I’m just going to have hope that these plants are going to get huge so let’s go check it out but first I have to put on this mosquito spray because this is the only stuff that prevents me from getting bitten and it doesn’t smell and get sticky all throughout the day so I know that like chamomile gets really big and I’m thinking maybe I could just put it over here I know it likes the Sun but I could also probably put it in here I just would need to clean out this area with all the weeds but might be kind of nice right here to have some like flowers right there next to this vegetable garden I’m also thinking of putting maybe just lavender here and I can just imagine a bunch of lavender right up against this fence [Music] it’s funny to think that when I was a kid my parents had me garden as like a Sunday chore with them and I hated it so much and yet now as an adult I absolutely love it it’s one of my favorite things and I just feel so grateful that we have a yard that is big enough to Garden in like this [Music] I feel like maybe putting a shashido pepper right next to this tomato might be good and then I could put another shashido pepper here and then I could plant this French marry gold and then I could plant the rest of the tomatillos along this line here and they could all just kind of talk to each other some of these are well flowers so I’m not really sure what to do about them I don’t want to totally ruin them so I might have to repot [Music] those it’s so exciting to imagine all of the Homegrown fruits and veggies and herbs that we’ll have for pickling or making drinks or just barbecuing plus hopefully the wide array of native wild flowers we’ll have to put around the house during the summer and fall months which will totally make all of this upfront work in the heat worth it [Music] gardening for the most part is pretty affordable like these Tomos are about $3 each but when you’re doing a whole garden with soil and fertilizer and you need tools like a hose or even just some of this like hay mulch so that you can keep the moisture and the heat in it can all add up and I’ve had people say why would you spend all this money on a house that isn’t yours but I’ve always believed that it’s better to enjoy the space you’re in and to leave a place in better shape than you found it so honestly I have no problem investing my time and money into having some quality living at this rental I think I’m going to put one shashito pepper in here as well just to see what happens and see which bed does better cuz they’re all kind of like friendly so I think it’ll work out I forgot to press record but I just planted that little shashido [Music] there it is honestly so hot you can tell I’m like sweating through my hat but I was going to show you these These are bamboo sticks that I got from a grocery outlet for like $3 and I’ve been just like cutting them up to make them as steaks for either the tomatillos or the sunflowers or the tomatoes so this is a really cheap option for steaks instead of buying a bunch of tomato [Music] cages so I think I can put some cilantro right here because I know that it doesn’t like sun all day and then I’m going to put this sweet 100s right here and maybe plant it on the edge and then maybe add this shashido pepper here as there’s banana peppers here I think they all be happy [Music] together I also got some garlic from Trader Joe’s like maybe 3 months ago and I heard that they really need like cold weather and being underground and the cold for you know I don’t know 3 or 4 months to kind of give them that time to grow the greens that they need in order to like grow grow new garlics I’m not really sure but I soaked this one in some water and put it in the fridge for just about 3 months or so and uh basically it’s growing some green tops so I thought I would take this Trader Joe’s garlic and put it in the bed and see if it actually grows some bulbs so I want to plant the garlic and the onions like in the blank spaces of this bed because they barely take up any space I think when they’re maturing anyways they’re going to be like maybe that big or so with just a lot of greens so I think they’ll do well in this bed and there’s tons of like compost and fertilizer in here already so just crossing my fingers that it’ll work out so this is something called onion sets I got the red ones because we’re already growing white ones from seed so they’re pretty much ready to go hopefully I’ve heard mixed reviews but I’m just going to plant them basically along the line down here as the garlic is all right here [Music] okay so there’s onions all the way down here to this merry gold and then I put three onions or four onions right there and then I’ve got garlic all the way right here so basically if all goes well this will be kind of the beginnings of a salsa bed I’ve got garlic onion tomato Peppers cilantro hopefully it all works out I’m also thinking putting this sunflower here because whatever is growing here might need some like afternoon protection especially as the sun will be like right over here so I feel like that would kind of give it some like good [Music] shadiness and then how cute to like add some color with the butterfly plant there and like the little purple plant over there [Music] [Music] and then lastly as this is going to be like my pumpkin squash area I think I’m going to put the zucchinis here and see if they enjoy that so I might have to cultivate the ground here just a little [Music] bit okay I need to take a break from the Sun but I wanted to share with you these little cuting so I took these from the beef steak tomato as well as I think my husky cherry tomato and I’ve been soaking them in water for I think a couple weeks and some of them have Roots so I’m going to put them in just like these little pots right here and just put some soil in there and then see if they grow into additional plants which would be great and then I can either gift them or plant them around the rest of the yard just to have more Tomatoes I guess so I made this little Sie out of the broken piece of wood that was on the bench and on my patio I just stapled some chicken wire to it and I sifted the Miracle Grow if I’m doing any kind of like seedling or just putting seeds in a pot because I often find little pieces of plastic or tin foil or glass so little seedlings are a little bit more delicate and I think it’s better to sift through them and then I think I’m just going to put these in the greenhouse just to give them some extra like heat and moisture just to see if it helps them kind of acclimate to the new pot that they’re in and get some more roots and then hopefully be a good plant [Music] [Music] [Music] so the reason that I decided to have this beef steak and this beef steak and these two Peppers here is because they need so much sun same with the potatoes so I wanted to put them in a part of the yard that just gets Sun absolutely all day from morning to evening and I think they’re going to be a lot more successful that way and you can easily grow tomatoes and peppers and containers and have really great [Music] crops so in terms of structure in the backyard I thought I could always get something that’s temporary so I was looking around on Amazon and I actually found this $30 Arch and it seems pretty sturdy and it was so easy to put together it just took forever to put it together but I was thinking of using it to grow some trellising plants on just to have like a bigger design impact on the backyard okay so this is option number one like framing out the orange tree I think I would put two passion fruits on either side if I could come across some and I kind of like this but option two I could do it over the fountain however this gets more sun all day so this is going to get shaded probably in the next hour and it’s only like 2:00 so maybe this is better it’s kind of cool it’s like a little entry way and then I’ll have to just kind of like finish a path here and then maybe we can like manufacture some stairs here or something like that so let me know what you think in the comments I’m kind of liking it here okay so this is option two ignore the mess back here I have to tidy it up but it would kind of frame out this like patio area but again like the sun is going to go right there in like an hour or two and then this will just be totally shaded so I don’t know if that’s okay honestly okay so this is option three I would have to Center the fountain right in the middle of it but that might be kind of cool and it would kind of give you like a a center view to this so this could be kind of nice I absolutely love decorating my house but part of living for me is also enjoying the home and its entirety and thankfully we have this beautiful yard so it’s definitely going to be part of my living at this home and I’m just so excited and grateful for it so I didn’t get around to doing the South bed walkway or finding passion fruits on face of marketplace that were affordable considering I need two because I think I’ve decided that I want to keep the arch framing the orange tree because the pathway is already there there and it might work if I can build some stairs so if you want to continue to see how this backyard evolves then definitely subscribe and like the video because there are so many more projects to come that will transform this yard into a home Garden so thank you so much for spending your time with me in the yard and I’m really excited to show you what’s next other than that we’re getting back into some home decor content next week so I will see you then bye [Music]

17 Comments

  1. Yay, another great video 🙋‍♀️🌸, cheeky thumps up, I just started watching but I know it will be good.👩‍🌾happy gardening. It’s cold today in Germany.

  2. Option 1 for the trellis looks the best to me. Also, I love watching your gardening videos—they’re meditative and feel almost spontaneous as we follow your thoughts about which plants may be happy with which other plants and so on.

  3. Amazing and a huge amount of work! Gardening looks so glamorous in the media, it’s hard! Can’t wait to see if your greenhouse fulfills its purpose, always wanted one but here in the NE, we seem to be having some epic wind events and don’t want to see it flying past me. CA weather is so great for planting, our season is too short. great garden centers, good prices, I started planting but we just haven’t had the sun needed. I’ve lost count of all your beds! I totally agree with your philosophy about the rental garden, it’s the earth and it’s there for you to use, and it’s wonderful that you’re using it. Good luck, keep us posted!!

  4. I have enjoyed watching your back yard come together. Can’t wait to see things grow. Be careful with that garlic. It spreads and can get out of control quickly. It will find its way under the planter bed! Best to grow it in a contain pot.

  5. Gardening is such a great thing for mental health. You have really dove in head first & I enjoy your channel! Thanks for all the explanations as well!

  6. I vote option 3, make the fountain a focal point.
    Considering you've never had your own yard before, you're doing a pretty good job. You seem very knowledgeable on all your plants and their needs.
    I like how you have sections, north garden, south, east, etc., very nice!
    Your landlord must be so pleased that you're loving the yard and investing time in giving it much attention. It's looking very nice.
    Suggestion – you need a potting area/bench. Could be a project to film, thrift an old sink and something to use as a counter and shelves. Hang one of the windows, you kept from the house, above the counter, would look cool.

  7. I enjoyed watching the garden tour, all the plant additions and your future plans for the outside space. You have a beautiful yard with so much potential. I can really see your garden vision coming to life.

  8. I think your videos are great! You show so much enthusiasm, makes it interesting and entertaining. So happy to see you discovered gardening! I love it too. It is so good for the mind and soul! Can’t wait to see how your gardens do. I moved from IL to TX a couple years ago and planting has been a challenge so far. Had to relearn everything about what to plant in this new environment. Good luck, keep doing what you’re doing!

  9. YES, LK!!! As a renter myself in Milwaukee, WI, the universe will give back to you 10 fold what you have given out! Cultivate that garden and beautify your space you occupy right now! ❤ Whether the landlord appreciates it or the next tenants do or not does not matter. You are giving to yourself the therapy and joy your mind and body craves. You grow girl!!

  10. I love when you're in the garden yard! I think more home decor youtubers need to have a wholistic view of their homes and spend time on their patios or in their yards, garages, etc. Thanks for this!

  11. Yay!! I was hoping you would bring us back into the garden! Your yard/garden is so unique, and I love all the new additions! Perfect video!

  12. You might have bunny rabbits w the bok choy being eaten. I'm not sure if birds eat bok choy. Bunnies live in a lot of places, hidden from our (killing) sight .

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