A video tour to show how to vegetable garden! Our garden is in Zone 8a of the American Southeast. This is Part One of our summer garden tour series, in Early Summer 2024.
Homegrown food is healthier and more delicious.
We hope our backyard garden gives you some ideas and inspiration!
Companion planting, high-performing vegetable varieties, interplanting, microclimates, no dig in-ground beds, and more!
We hope to inspire others
to grow food and live well.
[Music] [Music] hello and welcome to Backyard Blue Zone this is the first of our family gardening Series in the summertime in this video we talk about all the varieties and types of produce we’re growing in our family garden this year and we’ll even Harvest some produce together so we’ll take a walk together through our family vegetable garden and food Forest talk about the produce and some good interent planting ideas as well it’s going to rain today Ava oh no if you’re new here I’m a his IAL landscape architect and mother of two adorable toddlers who also love to [Music] Garden this year we received lots of rain and the garden is loving it oh look at that look at that that’s a full set right there excuse you the first tomatoes to bear fruit are this great Fantastico and also the reliable hybrid variety early girl that yeah don’t pick it uhoh there’s a lot of them very cool the costal Lucho fantino is actually my favorite open pollinated arloom variety of tomato that does really well in our hot Southern Climate you want a tomato they’re green another one I grow every year is the sun sugar F1 which is a hybrid cherry tomato with exceptional flavor there aren’t very many tomatoes that are ripe on the vine just yet but I’m growing over 20 varieties of heirloom tomatoes this year so be sure to check back I think mommy better pick it all along Our tomato trellises we have perennial beds of flowers like these dollas and lambir attracting lots of pollinator a cow you’re a [Music] cow I am a [Music] gat the other snack that our children really love to eat fresh out of the garden are tender sweet carrots these won’t be fully mature for another couple of weeks but since I have to thin them out anyway it works in our favor to go ahead and Munch on some [Music] the beds were standing next to here in our garden had been planted earlier this spring with Asian greens and cabbages and harves what is that then we interplanted The Heading cabbage with rows of lettuce of different varieties and now that it’s time to harvest the lettuce we’re also looking forward to harvesting the rows of hot peppers and sweet peppers behind me in a couple more weeks time so that gives you a good idea of how we do succession planting in our family garden Catherine that is um coriander coriander you can people use it as a spice it’s the seed of the cilantro plant did you eat it soft is it soft we grow a lot of herbs year round like a regular O mint thyme basil parsley and cilantro can’t eat it yes and in our food Forest we have all kinds of berries and fruit trees growing here this year we’re getting yields of pomegranate peaches pineapple guava several fig varieties and other things I’ll have to save for another video that’s what I love most about growing our own food is the change in season and new things to look forward to with every coming week these Clover are so wet you like the Clover on your feet yeah get it it get it this onion I planted from seed last spring and overwintered and I was going to save seed from it but it toppled over but it turned out nicely if you’re new to gardening the first thing I’d recommend you try to plant in the springtime and even in the early fall is [Music] lettuce lot lettuce lettuce it grows really fast has hardly any pest there’s so many varieties and they taste delicious good picking I put my onion in your basket too yeah never wild your hold is too dirty yeah yeah in the thing just so you know the yellow onion called videlia which is famous is actually a yellow granx Spanish onion our 3-year-old daughter’s favorite spot in the garden is right here where the green onions grow she picks them all year round and actually likes to eat them fresh mama in mid November I plant out garlic and in mid-February I plant out shallot and bulb onions this one is M some people wonder what I do for pest control and I don’t actually do anything except for plant the right thing at the right time give it what it needs make sure it’s watered enough and harvest it on time and to extend the growing season of certain cool weather crops I like to use microclimates like here where the kale is partially shaded by the Children’s Playhouse and I’m sure to also pick more heat tolerant varieties of cool season crops like these lettu uses here which I found also have excellent flavor the Golden Acre cabbage will be ready to harvest along with these super sweet candy onions here in the next couple of weeks I interplant the onions with carrots which we saw earlier this bed is 18 in wide and there’s two rows of onions planted 6 in apart I love [Music] cut it up now help try cut the RO off first it’s going to be a very strong onion cuz it’s homegrown so it might make us cry I’m going take the top off making you cry already if you’d like to see a lot more Garden at the table and healthy eating recipes please check out our blog where I show more of our daily lifestyle and what we eat breakfast lunch and dinner on a typical day to finish off our garden tour I thought I’d show you a companion planting scheme I’m trying out this year you see all those in the northern corner of our garden I’ve interplanted our tomatoes with Mammoth sunflowers and covered the ground in nestum and watermelons it does taste like pepper it’s pepper you’re not going to like it I’m hoping providing some shade on the ground will help our heirloom tomatoes last longer through the season and so far using this microclimate companion planting strategy the basil that I’ve grown behind the tomatoes here have thrived [Music] I hope you enjoyed touring the garden with us and got some good inspiration for your own Gardens we just want to show people how to grow food and how much fun it can be to do that as a family be sure to check back for more gardening videos as the season progresses we’ll have more peppers tomatoes corn melons lots of other things to show you
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