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We walk into the garden to plant raspberries and end up taking a garden tour or all our spring crops. There is green everywhere!
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because burned
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I'm out with the boys in the garden all
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the boys little buddies behind you here
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we're gonna plant five raspberry plants
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I was out here prepping this area to put
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in the raspberries digging up the soil
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adding a bunch of this partially
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composted manure and I found this cool
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little elderberry plant here which I
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will keep and that came from actually
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just burying some chunks of elderberry
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root that I dug up from the world these
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raspberries came from the Indiana
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Berrien plant company these are a
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variety called Nantahala and if you're
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from around here you'll recognize the
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name immediately this variety was
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developed by NC State and I bought it
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because supposed to taste good and do
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well around here
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it's okay dude all right that's that
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look at these silly cows hey lady
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any babies it's been pretty rainy the
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past two days which has been nice for
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the garden and pasture and everything
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the cow has been out in the rain we
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would pretty much try to keep her
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outside and have generally been happier
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overall when we kept the cow that we had
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out of the barn she will stay so much
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cleaner out here then she will in the
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barn
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and not only will she stay cleaner which
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makes milking cleaning easier keeps your
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milk cleaner the barn stays a lot
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cleaner too so everything stays cleaner
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if she just stays out and and the rain
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doesn't hurt her you know if it's storm
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and real bad we might let her in the
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barn but if I turn my gaze over this way
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there's an apple tree that's doing great
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but right in here there are two ducks
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sitting on duck eggs
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our raspberries are in the ground one
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two three four five and then between
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this post and that corner up there we'll
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put in 13 more plants and I think it's
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five different varieties the potatoes
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are doing awesome I've started just
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mulching them with grass that I cut by
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hand from around the edge of the garden
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this lettuce looks awesome but it needs
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thinning but it's just growing
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beautifully this is joyful garden she
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needs to do some work on it these peas
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along the fence are looking really puny
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so last night I cut the grass all along
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the fence to try to give him a little
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more sunlight and then I fertilized them
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this morning with some fish fertilizer
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to try to just get them to pop the
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asparagus is doing awesome and there's
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just a nice thick steak look at this
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giant here and then under the feet of
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the asparagus there are thousands of
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little asparagus plants here all along
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so if we let it this whole area here and
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here
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will turn into a big giant asparagus bed
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the rhubarb looks really great and
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there's comfrey coming up down here in
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the path the strawberry bed looks really
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really good and here are onions which
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this was my last project is weeding and
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mulching this is gonna be my next one
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weeding the onions probably mulching
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them in some way and here's Chinese
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chives which are pretty tasty the garlic
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looks good but needs weeding kale the
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same beets the same spinach looks pretty
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good that is they think radishes green
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onions the kids are constantly eating
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these you can see all these tops pulled
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off that's from children eating them and
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then if some radishes in here that one
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actually it's a nice little radish in
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there let's pull that up oh what a
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pretty little radish we'll bring that
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inside probably more and then cilantro
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beautifully green
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growing starting here we have herbs dill
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plants here and then lots of little dill
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coming up chives bunching onions here
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just coming up after much delay
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you know oregano thyme sage tarragon I'm
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pretty sure I'll show you how our
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cabbage is doing in this tunnel it's
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doing awesome and it is not being eaten
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by caterpillars at least I saw a little
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slug damage on one of them look at this
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a lot of weeds but the plants look
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awesome and then you're getting they're
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big and they're strong really pretty
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little plants there this portion of the
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garden behind me is almost completely
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planted there's a little open real
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estate here down at the end there and
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then in the ends of those beds but our
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early gardens almost totally in next
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comes this mess up here this part of the
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garden as far as the soil goes is pretty
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significantly worse than what's behind
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me down here we've put a ton actually
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multiple tons honestly literally of
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organic manure compost into this lower
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portion and just not as much into the
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upper portion so we're gonna row to till
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this upper portion so that's what's next
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in the garden and that's pretty much
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wraps up our garden tour let's go see
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some baby goats
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so far this is the most vigorous of all
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the apple trees and it's a Liberty all
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of these trees are putting on a good
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amount of new growth this is a straight
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start break star and we're gonna have to
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pick these off here but this thing has
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probably twenty or thirty little tiny
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though apples on yeah that's just a
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second year in the ground tree I got
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some hay for you do you want it there's
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a few stray chickens but we'll let the
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majority of these chickens
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how are you all doing we all do it
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hanging out here is beautiful outside
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what hang you that one here silly
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here's a little lucky the cutest Scout
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in the world are you patting that goat
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are you petting the goat that's so sweet
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back there
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do you love that goat Wilder sweet very
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far you're trying to come in here go
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play if I couldn't interest you in some
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hey maybe I could interested interest
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you in some fly spray ma'am I think
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that's why she's making that little bit
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of a bellowing film so bad this year
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well she doesn't like it so she's
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running from me what count does like
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being straight dolly never liked fly
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spray I did get thumb on her just now so
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hopefully that will help her be more
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comfortable
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well that's gonna about wrap it up for
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our impromptu garden tour and showing
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you around the homestead it's been
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another great day on the homestead thank
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you for joining us and we'll see you
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quite soon in another video
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We walk into the garden to plant raspberries and end up taking a garden tour or all our spring crops. There is green everywhere!
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because burned
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I'm out with the boys in the garden all
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the boys little buddies behind you here
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we're gonna plant five raspberry plants
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I was out here prepping this area to put
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in the raspberries digging up the soil
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adding a bunch of this partially
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composted manure and I found this cool
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little elderberry plant here which I
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will keep and that came from actually
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just burying some chunks of elderberry
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root that I dug up from the world these
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raspberries came from the Indiana
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Berrien plant company these are a
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variety called Nantahala and if you're
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from around here you'll recognize the
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name immediately this variety was
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developed by NC State and I bought it
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because supposed to taste good and do
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well around here
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it's okay dude all right that's that
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look at these silly cows hey lady
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any babies it's been pretty rainy the
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past two days which has been nice for
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the garden and pasture and everything
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the cow has been out in the rain we
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would pretty much try to keep her
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outside and have generally been happier
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overall when we kept the cow that we had
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out of the barn she will stay so much
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cleaner out here then she will in the
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barn
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and not only will she stay cleaner which
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makes milking cleaning easier keeps your
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milk cleaner the barn stays a lot
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cleaner too so everything stays cleaner
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if she just stays out and and the rain
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doesn't hurt her you know if it's storm
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and real bad we might let her in the
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barn but if I turn my gaze over this way
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there's an apple tree that's doing great
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but right in here there are two ducks
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sitting on duck eggs
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our raspberries are in the ground one
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two three four five and then between
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this post and that corner up there we'll
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put in 13 more plants and I think it's
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five different varieties the potatoes
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are doing awesome I've started just
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mulching them with grass that I cut by
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hand from around the edge of the garden
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this lettuce looks awesome but it needs
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thinning but it's just growing
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beautifully this is joyful garden she
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needs to do some work on it these peas
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along the fence are looking really puny
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so last night I cut the grass all along
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the fence to try to give him a little
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more sunlight and then I fertilized them
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this morning with some fish fertilizer
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to try to just get them to pop the
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asparagus is doing awesome and there's
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just a nice thick steak look at this
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giant here and then under the feet of
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the asparagus there are thousands of
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little asparagus plants here all along
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so if we let it this whole area here and
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here
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will turn into a big giant asparagus bed
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the rhubarb looks really great and
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there's comfrey coming up down here in
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the path the strawberry bed looks really
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really good and here are onions which
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this was my last project is weeding and
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mulching this is gonna be my next one
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weeding the onions probably mulching
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them in some way and here's Chinese
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chives which are pretty tasty the garlic
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looks good but needs weeding kale the
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same beets the same spinach looks pretty
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good that is they think radishes green
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onions the kids are constantly eating
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these you can see all these tops pulled
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off that's from children eating them and
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then if some radishes in here that one
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actually it's a nice little radish in
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there let's pull that up oh what a
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pretty little radish we'll bring that
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inside probably more and then cilantro
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beautifully green
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growing starting here we have herbs dill
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plants here and then lots of little dill
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coming up chives bunching onions here
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just coming up after much delay
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you know oregano thyme sage tarragon I'm
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pretty sure I'll show you how our
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cabbage is doing in this tunnel it's
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doing awesome and it is not being eaten
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slug damage on one of them look at this
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a lot of weeds but the plants look
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awesome and then you're getting they're
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big and they're strong really pretty
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little plants there this portion of the
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garden behind me is almost completely
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planted there's a little open real
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estate here down at the end there and
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then in the ends of those beds but our
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early gardens almost totally in next
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multiple tons honestly literally of
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organic manure compost into this lower
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portion and just not as much into the
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upper portion so we're gonna row to till
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this upper portion so that's what's next
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in the garden and that's pretty much
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wraps up our garden tour let's go see
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some baby goats
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so far this is the most vigorous of all
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the apple trees and it's a Liberty all
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of these trees are putting on a good
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amount of new growth this is a straight
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start break star and we're gonna have to
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pick these off here but this thing has
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probably twenty or thirty little tiny
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though apples on yeah that's just a
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second year in the ground tree I got
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some hay for you do you want it there's
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a few stray chickens but we'll let the
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majority of these chickens
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how are you all doing we all do it
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hanging out here is beautiful outside
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what hang you that one here silly
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here's a little lucky the cutest Scout
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are you petting the goat that's so sweet
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do you love that goat Wilder sweet very
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far you're trying to come in here go
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play if I couldn't interest you in some
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hey maybe I could interested interest
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you in some fly spray ma'am I think
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of a bellowing film so bad this year
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running from me what count does like
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being straight dolly never liked fly
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well that's gonna about wrap it up for
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our impromptu garden tour and showing
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you around the homestead it's been
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another great day on the homestead thank
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you for joining us and we'll see you
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quite soon in another video
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Planting Up Our Hayracks!
Videos • Garden Answer posted the article • 0 comments • 227 views • 2019-05-27 16:13
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hey guys how's it going I am so excited
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for today's project we are going to be
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planting up all 40 of these hay racks
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that run along the front of our fence
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line here we did this last year for the
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very first time and it was incredible we
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enjoyed it so much and I planted so many
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plants up here we had lemon coral sedum
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super bean a large lilac blue supertunia
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royal magenta and supertunia Bordeaux it
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was a beautiful blend of plants but I
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think because it was the first year of
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the project I was so excited that I
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overkilled on how many plants I put any
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cherrick like I put 11 plants in each
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one of these hay racks which is probably
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a little bit too much so I'm taking a
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different approach this year in fact let
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me show you what I have planned in terms
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of plants we've got them in the back of
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the truck so I'm going to use a mixture
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of three different plants we've got
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supertunia vista bubble gum which is a
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favorite of mine we have supertunia
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vista silver berry
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and then a sweet caroline light green
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sweet potato vine so instead of 11
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plants I'm gonna use just 5 in each one
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of these hay racks because I really
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wanted to show you guys how you can
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create something like this any type of
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project either in a container or in your
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landscape with huge impact for a lot
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less if you choose the right kind of
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plant and all of the supertunia Vista
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series they're amazingly vigorous
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they're just amazing plants and like no
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matter where I've planted them they
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always do really well and they grow huge
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full of bloom so I've got all three of
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these plants kind of lined out in the
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basket because I wanted to show you kind
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of what I'm thinking in terms of layout
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so I'm going to start with a Vista
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silver berry on this side and then a
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bubblegum my sweet potato vine will be
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in the middle here silver berry and then
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bubblegum again so you'll notice that we
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already have soil this is fresh soil I
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brought a bag of it up here this is what
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they're full of just because this is
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such a small reservoir I don't feel like
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I can recycle soil from last year
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because those plants utilize every last
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ounce in fact we will be adding
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fertilizer we fertilize on a weekly
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basis to keep the plants really happy
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annuals that you want to perform really
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big need quite a bit of food so I'm also
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I haven't done this yet today but I'm
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going to be adding in
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a slow-release plant food into the soil
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before I plant couple of other things I
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wanted to mention these are the same
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Coco fiber liners from last year there
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is a difference in quality you can find
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really thick ones or fairly thin ones
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spring for the thick ones because they
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will last you for several years so these
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liners camera with the hay racks which
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were all sent to us by garden artisans
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last year and then I also wanted to
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mention the irrigation so we did run
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drip and I think when you're doing a
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project especially of this size you want
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to make sure to have irrigation set up
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really for for anything if you can run
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drip to any of your containers it makes
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life so much easier but we did four to
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gallon per hour emitters per basket and
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in the spring we ran it for about 10 to
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15 minutes every day which is what we'll
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start with today and then as it gets
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warmer or if we have extra windy days
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we'll increase the amount of time so
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like last year when it was above
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probably I think above 90 we started
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running them twice a day so morning and
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evening for 15 minutes each time and our
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plants were extremely extremely happy so
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let me go ahead and plant this one up
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just so I can show you guys how this
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whole thing is gonna go every single one
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of these hay racks would be planted
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exactly the same way I just want to give
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you guys a feel for it
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so in this hay rack I'm just gonna add a
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few tablespoons it's a brand new
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container a few tablespoons of this
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continuous release plant food and I'm
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just gonna work that in to the top layer
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of soil and I do have gloves for the
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rest of this project I just forgot to
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grab them I'll start with my Center
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plant that way I can make sure to get
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everything spaced proper so that's right
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here and I'm going to position these
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right in the center of the basket like
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this because I'm hoping they'll trail
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back and on the front side so it's
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pretty on both sides okay we'll do the
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silver berry on this side just like that
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and these sweet potato vines so the
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difference last year I use lemon coral
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sedum which actually did really really
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good I was surprised with how much water
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it was getting it held up and it grew
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really nicely but they're not quite as
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vigorous as a potato vine so we didn't
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get that really strong foliage accent so
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be mindful these are water hungry plants
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they like to be moist
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quite a bit of the time so that's
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something else to consider when you're
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picking out plants if you have an
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irrigation setup to your pots it's no
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big deal but if you don't you might want
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to you know adjust accordingly also when
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you're picking out your plants it's good
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to consider the growth habit of all of
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the plants because like with the lemon
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curl like I said it did really well and
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it did but you couldn't see it very well
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because all the other plants were so
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vigorous they were kind of growing over
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the top of it and if you came over and
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kind of spread those part plants apart
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you could see the lemon Coral they're
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just shining and looking beautiful but
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it's that's something to think about all
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of these plants kind of have the same
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vigor so I think they'll work really
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well together and so you'll be able to
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actually see our foliage accent this
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year okay so I think we're gonna set up
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a camera and just get a time-lapse of me
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planting the rest of these it's gonna
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look a lot faster than it happens in
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real life here we go
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oh my gosh you guys it turned out so
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pretty I mean if you would have told me
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even two years ago that I would be
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planting up 40 hay racks at my own house
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I would not have believed you
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this is just gonna be such a beautiful
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show and I think it could be scaled to
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any size whether you're doing one pot or
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one hay rack or ten or 40 or 100 you
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could kind of take these same planting
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principles and get the same results I
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think that this looks way more
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appropriately planted than it did last
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year to be completely honest I think
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that the plants will be happier they
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won't be in such hard competition with
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each other so that they'll be able to
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flourish a little bit more and the last
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thing that we're gonna do today is we're
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gonna plant up these large estate
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planters right here with some other fun
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stuff so vertigo Pennisetum you guys
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this is an amazing grass they grow so
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big in fact let me see four to four to
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eight feet so anywhere from four to
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eight feet and I think that that depends
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on how much Sun it's getting and how
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much water it gets as well I think it'll
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get bigger with more of those two things
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year and they just they were a
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spectacular grass so I decided I wanted
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to do it in these planters up here and
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then to break it up because it is a
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darker colored grass and the blades do
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get quite large as the plant grows it's
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got a really strappy appearance but I
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wanted to break up the dark grass with
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the dark pot with some really pretty fun
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color underneath and I'm also going for
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the same thing I'm using way fewer
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plants in here six supertunia Vista
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bubble gum just spaced as evenly as I
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could
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around the outer part and then this one
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is exciting so I think this one's new
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this year it's called Diamond Mountain
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euphorbia you might recognize the name
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Diamond Frost which is very similar but
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Diamond Frost is more of an accent plant
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it kind of grows and just like it's more
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of a wispy appearance this one grows 2
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to 3 feet tall and like 18 inch spread
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gorgeous stair-step effect will have the
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huge grass they're really pretty just
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kind of block of white and then the pink
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fertilizer in so I am ready just to pop
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these all in and then we can get it
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overall look and
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we haven't shown yet is that there is
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of the opening and then we had room for
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one hay rack on this side and I thought
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little short section offense to kind of
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mirror what we had going on so it looked
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emitters dispersed fairly evenly
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containers and then on the hay racks
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atleast day or two that we're running
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over the course of a winter so anyway I
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helpful to you guys just to see what
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containers like this look like in the
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beginning while I think it looks
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updates throughout the season thank you
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guys so much for watching and we will
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hey guys how's it going I am so excited
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for today's project we are going to be
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planting up all 40 of these hay racks
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that run along the front of our fence
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line here we did this last year for the
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very first time and it was incredible we
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enjoyed it so much and I planted so many
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plants up here we had lemon coral sedum
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super bean a large lilac blue supertunia
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royal magenta and supertunia Bordeaux it
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was a beautiful blend of plants but I
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think because it was the first year of
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the project I was so excited that I
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overkilled on how many plants I put any
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cherrick like I put 11 plants in each
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one of these hay racks which is probably
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a little bit too much so I'm taking a
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different approach this year in fact let
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me show you what I have planned in terms
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of plants we've got them in the back of
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the truck so I'm going to use a mixture
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of three different plants we've got
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supertunia vista bubble gum which is a
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favorite of mine we have supertunia
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vista silver berry
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and then a sweet caroline light green
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sweet potato vine so instead of 11
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plants I'm gonna use just 5 in each one
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of these hay racks because I really
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wanted to show you guys how you can
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create something like this any type of
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project either in a container or in your
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landscape with huge impact for a lot
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less if you choose the right kind of
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plant and all of the supertunia Vista
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series they're amazingly vigorous
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they're just amazing plants and like no
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matter where I've planted them they
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always do really well and they grow huge
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full of bloom so I've got all three of
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these plants kind of lined out in the
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basket because I wanted to show you kind
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of what I'm thinking in terms of layout
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silver berry on this side and then a
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bubblegum my sweet potato vine will be
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in the middle here silver berry and then
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bubblegum again so you'll notice that we
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already have soil this is fresh soil I
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brought a bag of it up here this is what
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they're full of just because this is
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such a small reservoir I don't feel like
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I can recycle soil from last year
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because those plants utilize every last
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ounce in fact we will be adding
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fertilizer we fertilize on a weekly
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basis to keep the plants really happy
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annuals that you want to perform really
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big need quite a bit of food so I'm also
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going to be adding in
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a slow-release plant food into the soil
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before I plant couple of other things I
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wanted to mention these are the same
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Coco fiber liners from last year there
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is a difference in quality you can find
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really thick ones or fairly thin ones
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spring for the thick ones because they
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will last you for several years so these
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liners camera with the hay racks which
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were all sent to us by garden artisans
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last year and then I also wanted to
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mention the irrigation so we did run
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drip and I think when you're doing a
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project especially of this size you want
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to make sure to have irrigation set up
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really for for anything if you can run
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drip to any of your containers it makes
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life so much easier but we did four to
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gallon per hour emitters per basket and
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in the spring we ran it for about 10 to
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15 minutes every day which is what we'll
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start with today and then as it gets
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warmer or if we have extra windy days
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we'll increase the amount of time so
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like last year when it was above
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probably I think above 90 we started
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running them twice a day so morning and
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evening for 15 minutes each time and our
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plants were extremely extremely happy so
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let me go ahead and plant this one up
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just so I can show you guys how this
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whole thing is gonna go every single one
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of these hay racks would be planted
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exactly the same way I just want to give
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you guys a feel for it
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so in this hay rack I'm just gonna add a
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few tablespoons it's a brand new
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container a few tablespoons of this
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continuous release plant food and I'm
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just gonna work that in to the top layer
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of soil and I do have gloves for the
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rest of this project I just forgot to
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grab them I'll start with my Center
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plant that way I can make sure to get
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everything spaced proper so that's right
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here and I'm going to position these
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right in the center of the basket like
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this because I'm hoping they'll trail
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back and on the front side so it's
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pretty on both sides okay we'll do the
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silver berry on this side just like that
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difference last year I use lemon coral
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sedum which actually did really really
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good I was surprised with how much water
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it was getting it held up and it grew
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really nicely but they're not quite as
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vigorous as a potato vine so we didn't
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get that really strong foliage accent so
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be mindful these are water hungry plants
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they like to be moist
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quite a bit of the time so that's
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picking out plants if you have an
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irrigation setup to your pots it's no
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big deal but if you don't you might want
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you're picking out your plants it's good
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to consider the growth habit of all of
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the plants because like with the lemon
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curl like I said it did really well and
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it did but you couldn't see it very well
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because all the other plants were so
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vigorous they were kind of growing over
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the top of it and if you came over and
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kind of spread those part plants apart
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you could see the lemon Coral they're
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just shining and looking beautiful but
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it's that's something to think about all
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of these plants kind of have the same
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vigor so I think they'll work really
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well together and so you'll be able to
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actually see our foliage accent this
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year okay so I think we're gonna set up
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a camera and just get a time-lapse of me
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planting the rest of these it's gonna
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oh my gosh you guys it turned out so
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pretty I mean if you would have told me
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even two years ago that I would be
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planting up 40 hay racks at my own house
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this is just gonna be such a beautiful
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show and I think it could be scaled to
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any size whether you're doing one pot or
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one hay rack or ten or 40 or 100 you
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principles and get the same results I
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appropriately planted than it did last
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year to be completely honest I think
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that the plants will be happier they
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won't be in such hard competition with
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each other so that they'll be able to
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flourish a little bit more and the last
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thing that we're gonna do today is we're
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gonna plant up these large estate
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planters right here with some other fun
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stuff so vertigo Pennisetum you guys
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this is an amazing grass they grow so
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big in fact let me see four to four to
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eight feet so anywhere from four to
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eight feet and I think that that depends
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on how much Sun it's getting and how
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much water it gets as well I think it'll
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get bigger with more of those two things
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year and they just they were a
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spectacular grass so I decided I wanted
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to do it in these planters up here and
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then to break it up because it is a
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darker colored grass and the blades do
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get quite large as the plant grows it's
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got a really strappy appearance but I
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wanted to break up the dark grass with
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the dark pot with some really pretty fun
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color underneath and I'm also going for
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the same thing I'm using way fewer
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plants in here six supertunia Vista
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bubble gum just spaced as evenly as I
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could
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around the outer part and then this one
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is exciting so I think this one's new
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this year it's called Diamond Mountain
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euphorbia you might recognize the name
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Diamond Frost which is very similar but
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Diamond Frost is more of an accent plant
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it kind of grows and just like it's more
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of a wispy appearance this one grows 2
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to 3 feet tall and like 18 inch spread
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on them so I think it's gonna be a
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gorgeous stair-step effect will have the
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huge grass they're really pretty just
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kind of block of white and then the pink
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kind of Spiller supertunia down below so
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we've already filled these up with soil
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as well and then I put the slow release
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fertilizer in so I am ready just to pop
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these all in and then we can get it
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overall look and
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we haven't shown yet is that there is
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kind of a repeat on the other side here
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we have the same container on this side
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of the opening and then we had room for
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one hay rack on this side and I thought
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it was important even though it's a
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little short section offense to kind of
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mirror what we had going on so it looked
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like a cohesive idea so I think what I'm
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so there you have it they are all
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planted up for the season and I'm just
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so thrilled to see color I think it's
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gonna be just such a gorgeous show we
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did turn the water on just to test
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everything so you can see right here I
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have got an 8 to gallon per hour
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emitters dispersed fairly evenly
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throughout each one of these large
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containers and then on the hay racks
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here you can see kind of how they're
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running and see that water just coming
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out really nicely and we watch them
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pretty closely throughout the first
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atleast day or two that we're running
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the drips to make sure we don't have any
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leaks or any you know any problems any
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because we leave this out all winter we
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don't have to put the drip system away
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because there's no water left in it all
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the water comes out of these right here
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to make sure that nothing's happened
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over the course of a winter so anyway I
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hope that these type of videos are
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helpful to you guys just to see what
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containers like this look like in the
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beginning while I think it looks
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absolutely beautiful I cannot wait to
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show you what they look like even a
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month or two from now so stay tuned for
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those videos we'll be doing lots of
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updates throughout the season thank you
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guys so much for watching and we will
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Planting Peonies (Plants & Tubers) in My Garden!
Videos • Garden Answer posted the article • 0 comments • 226 views • 2019-05-27 16:12
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hey guys how's it going I'm getting
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ready to plant some gorgeous peonies in
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my garden this morning and I just wanted
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to give you a few care tips because
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these are one of the most easy to grow
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flowers you can put in your garden and
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once they're established they last for
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years like decades long so they're just
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a wonderful one to have there are so
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many gorgeous peonies out there these
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are just starting to open but these
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flowers get huge and just beautiful for
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cut flowers to bring inside or just to
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enjoy out in the garden so there are
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three main types of peonies there's
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herbaceous peonies which I'm going to be
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focusing on in this video because that's
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what I'm planting they're the types that
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die back to the ground every fall and
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then the next spring they emerge with
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these beautiful red tinge stems and then
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they turn into this just beautiful small
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shrub in the garden full of flowers
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there are tree peonies which we've done
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a video on previously we will link that
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down below if you want to learn it a
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little bit more but basically they're a
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type of peeny that create a more woody
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stem above ground that stays intact so
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they lose their leaves in the fall but
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when they leaf out in the spring they'll
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leaf out on those stems and then there
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are ito peonies which are a hybrid cross
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between an herbaceous and the tree peony
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and the benefit of Ito's is that they
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are prolific bloomers and there are a
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ton of colors available so you can find
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potted peonies like these right here at
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your garden center most of the time in
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the spring you'll find a pretty good
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selection of them you might also be able
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to buy them as bare root or tubers and I
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believe the best time of the year to
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plant those is in the fall and it is
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spring now I have some tubers I'm going
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to plant in the ground but I figure
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they're better off planted in the ground
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now I've been hanging on to them until
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fall so I'll show you how to plant those
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roots in just a second these are super
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easy all we have to do is find a spot
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that gets full Sun a minimum of six to
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eight hours of Sun for them to perform
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the best they also like moist but really
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well draining soil and you want to give
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them a space that has good air flow so
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like this area right here I have a fence
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right behind me there's going to be just
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a little mini hedge I've got three
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peonies back here they'll get plenty of
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air if they don't have enough air and
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you've got high humidity or it's a
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moister area they can suffer from
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powdery mildew or a fungus called
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botrytis those are the two most common
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on peonies so just keep that in mind so
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real quick let me just talk to you about
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this specific variety I'm planting this
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is called core
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old charm so like I said this one is
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just starting to open and they will get
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nice and big beautiful coral color
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they're a semi double and they are
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really Hardy Hardy down to negative 40
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degrees and they get to be like 28 30
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inches tall and about a 30 to 36 inch
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spread so I'm going to kind of plant
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them back from this little row of lilies
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right here to where they can kind of
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spill out into the driveway behind me I
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think that'll be really pretty to see
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those big bright bright pink blooms kind
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of emerging from underneath this white
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fence they do like a pretty fertile soil
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as well so today when I plant them I'm
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going to be adding in some bio tone
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starter fertilizer into each one of
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their holes and this is pretty good soil
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back here so I don't think I need to
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worry about anything else so let's get
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these three in the ground and then I'm
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going to talk about how to best support
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the plants with stakes
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okay so I got all three of these in the
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ground so I've got this one here there's
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this one that doesn't have any blooms on
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it currently and then that one right
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there I think that's gonna form a
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beautiful backdrop I've got like I said
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lily is that bloom yellow I've got a
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blue chiffon roses share and standard so
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these are my summer colors rubs
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including a butterfly bush over there a
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Miss violet so I've lots of summer color
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and I was lacking spring so this is
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gonna bring some beautiful spring color
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in from for years to come and before I
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move on to showing you guys how to plant
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the tubers of peonies I want to talk
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about staking so there are a couple
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different methods that are pretty common
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for staking peonies this one is probably
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one of the most common this is a peony
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ring it's much like a tomato cage but
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it's a little sturdier and it's wider
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and you can get these in multiple
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different sizes but I prefer a different
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type of stake I've got one right here
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this is called a grow through through
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grid ideally you would have these in
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place before the plant starts growing in
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the spring so as it grows it can grow up
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through the grid the reason I like these
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better than the hoops or the cages is
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that these hold up individual branches
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and more of an aesthetically pleasing
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Mound if they grow up through this type
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of staking system they'll still kind of
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tend to flop from the center if they've
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got huge blooms this one holds
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everything a little bit more just
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rounded so there's three stakes right
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here that you attach to the top of the
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grow through grid like this so I'm going
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to attempt to feed these blooms through
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just to kind of show you what it might
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look like I've got to do it anyway I've
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got to have the the grid going and these
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I just leave out I leave them out all
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winter long and they're just in place
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for when the peony starts growing the
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following spring oh I think I did it so
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see how that already holds that bloom up
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a little bit better and then I'm going
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to decide where I want my stakes and
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we'll put those in the ground they're
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really easy to use much like that and
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there are different sizes of these
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available as well so if you've got huge
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established peonies that are really big
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at the base you can get heavier-duty
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versions and you know I may have to do
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that eventually
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but these peonies don't get like so
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massive like some varieties do so I may
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be okay with this size
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so I'm going to go ahead and put my
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other two grids on and then we'll go
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plant the tubers
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so we're in the location where I want to
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plant the bare-root peonies which I have
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right here this is a variety called
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Laura desert and it's a beautiful fully
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double creamy white and creamy yellow
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peony and I thought it would be really
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beautiful right here this area looks
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Shady now because it is morning but it
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does get a really good long block of
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afternoon Sun so they should be very
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happy here
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and I am planting them kind of forward
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in this flowerbed because I do want to
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come in probably implant some climbing
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roses behind them so I wanted to leave a
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little bit of space so what you want to
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do to plant your bare root is make sure
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you find the highest bud on the crown so
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you can see the crown of the plant right
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here this is the highest bud right there
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we want to make sure that that sits
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about one to two inches below the soil
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surface
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if you plant it too deep it can delay
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bloom time and it could also make the
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plant not bloom at all so you just want
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to be very mindful of that I've already
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dug up my hole you can see the soil
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right here is really pretty nice just
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perfect I'm gonna set my root down in
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there and you can see where the soil
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surface is it'll sit just about two
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inches below with the surface I'm gonna
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toss a little bit of starter fertilizer
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in right around the root and then just
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fill back the hole well tamp that down
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cover it back up with a little bit of
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mulch and before I get too far I'm gonna
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put my grid steak over it so I can
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remember that I have something planted
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here for the first thing and then once
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it starts growing the grid will be in
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place and I won't have to worry about it
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that looks pretty darn good okay so I've
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just got two more to plan
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so I got all three of these planted and
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I think they're gonna be gorgeous here
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especially once I get some roses and
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clematis growing right behind them there
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are a couple more things I want to talk
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to you about but I think I want to go
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back to the first peonies to talk to you
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about those things because I can
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actually show you on the plant so the
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first thing is when the peonies come out
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in bud in spring they do secrete a
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really sweet SAP out of the buds that
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ants and flies and bees are attracted to
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it does not harm the plant at all they
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just come up there to feed on it some
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people think it opens it helps to open
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the blooms I think that that is a myth
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but it doesn't hurt your plant
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whatsoever when you get ready to cut
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your peonies to bring them inside if you
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see any ants on them you can just rinse
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them off super easy the second thing is
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you do want to deadhead your peonies
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when the blooms are done that way the
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plant doesn't send energy into creating
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seeds because they do create it's kind
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of a neat looking seed pod but you don't
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want your plant sending energy into
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seeds you want it's sending energy
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rather into it's a root system so it can
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establish even more and create more
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flowers for the next year so when you
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get ready to deadhead it's really easy
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there's really no rhyme or reason to how
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far you cut back the stem but like on
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this one right here I'd probably cut it
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back right into the bushier part of the
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shrub that way you don't have a bear or
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random stem sticking up out further than
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the rest of the leaves you just want to
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make it look aesthetically pleasing
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third they are heavy feeders so like I
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put today some starter fertilizer in the
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hole usually after they get done
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blooming I'll toss some plant tonne
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fertilizer around the base of the shrub
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that way they can utilize that and build
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up the root system even more and then
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you do want to cut to the peonies back
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down to the ground in the fall after the
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first frost kind of takes their foliage
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so anyway that's all there is to peonies
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once you get them in the ground and you
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get them going
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it just is a beautiful thing to have in
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your garden so I hope this video was
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helpful you guys and we will see you in
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the next one bye
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hey guys how's it going I'm getting
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ready to plant some gorgeous peonies in
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my garden this morning and I just wanted
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to give you a few care tips because
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these are one of the most easy to grow
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flowers you can put in your garden and
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once they're established they last for
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years like decades long so they're just
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a wonderful one to have there are so
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many gorgeous peonies out there these
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are just starting to open but these
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flowers get huge and just beautiful for
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cut flowers to bring inside or just to
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enjoy out in the garden so there are
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three main types of peonies there's
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herbaceous peonies which I'm going to be
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focusing on in this video because that's
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what I'm planting they're the types that
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die back to the ground every fall and
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then the next spring they emerge with
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these beautiful red tinge stems and then
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they turn into this just beautiful small
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shrub in the garden full of flowers
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there are tree peonies which we've done
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a video on previously we will link that
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down below if you want to learn it a
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little bit more but basically they're a
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type of peeny that create a more woody
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stem above ground that stays intact so
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they lose their leaves in the fall but
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when they leaf out in the spring they'll
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leaf out on those stems and then there
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are ito peonies which are a hybrid cross
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between an herbaceous and the tree peony
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and the benefit of Ito's is that they
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are prolific bloomers and there are a
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ton of colors available so you can find
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potted peonies like these right here at
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your garden center most of the time in
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the spring you'll find a pretty good
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selection of them you might also be able
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to buy them as bare root or tubers and I
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believe the best time of the year to
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plant those is in the fall and it is
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spring now I have some tubers I'm going
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to plant in the ground but I figure
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they're better off planted in the ground
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now I've been hanging on to them until
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fall so I'll show you how to plant those
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roots in just a second these are super
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easy all we have to do is find a spot
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that gets full Sun a minimum of six to
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eight hours of Sun for them to perform
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the best they also like moist but really
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well draining soil and you want to give
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them a space that has good air flow so
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like this area right here I have a fence
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right behind me there's going to be just
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a little mini hedge I've got three
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peonies back here they'll get plenty of
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air if they don't have enough air and
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you've got high humidity or it's a
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moister area they can suffer from
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powdery mildew or a fungus called
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botrytis those are the two most common
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on peonies so just keep that in mind so
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real quick let me just talk to you about
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this specific variety I'm planting this
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is called core
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old charm so like I said this one is
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just starting to open and they will get
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nice and big beautiful coral color
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they're a semi double and they are
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really Hardy Hardy down to negative 40
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degrees and they get to be like 28 30
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inches tall and about a 30 to 36 inch
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spread so I'm going to kind of plant
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them back from this little row of lilies
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right here to where they can kind of
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spill out into the driveway behind me I
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think that'll be really pretty to see
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those big bright bright pink blooms kind
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of emerging from underneath this white
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fence they do like a pretty fertile soil
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as well so today when I plant them I'm
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going to be adding in some bio tone
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starter fertilizer into each one of
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their holes and this is pretty good soil
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back here so I don't think I need to
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worry about anything else so let's get
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these three in the ground and then I'm
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going to talk about how to best support
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okay so I got all three of these in the
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ground so I've got this one here there's
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this one that doesn't have any blooms on
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it currently and then that one right
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there I think that's gonna form a
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beautiful backdrop I've got like I said
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lily is that bloom yellow I've got a
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blue chiffon roses share and standard so
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these are my summer colors rubs
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including a butterfly bush over there a
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Miss violet so I've lots of summer color
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and I was lacking spring so this is
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gonna bring some beautiful spring color
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in from for years to come and before I
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move on to showing you guys how to plant
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the tubers of peonies I want to talk
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about staking so there are a couple
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different methods that are pretty common
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for staking peonies this one is probably
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one of the most common this is a peony
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ring it's much like a tomato cage but
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it's a little sturdier and it's wider
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and you can get these in multiple
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different sizes but I prefer a different
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type of stake I've got one right here
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this is called a grow through through
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grid ideally you would have these in
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place before the plant starts growing in
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the spring so as it grows it can grow up
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through the grid the reason I like these
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better than the hoops or the cages is
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that these hold up individual branches
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and more of an aesthetically pleasing
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Mound if they grow up through this type
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of staking system they'll still kind of
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tend to flop from the center if they've
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got huge blooms this one holds
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everything a little bit more just
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rounded so there's three stakes right
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here that you attach to the top of the
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grow through grid like this so I'm going
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to attempt to feed these blooms through
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just to kind of show you what it might
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look like I've got to do it anyway I've
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got to have the the grid going and these
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I just leave out I leave them out all
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winter long and they're just in place
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for when the peony starts growing the
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following spring oh I think I did it so
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see how that already holds that bloom up
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a little bit better and then I'm going
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to decide where I want my stakes and
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we'll put those in the ground they're
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really easy to use much like that and
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there are different sizes of these
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available as well so if you've got huge
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established peonies that are really big
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at the base you can get heavier-duty
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versions and you know I may have to do
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that eventually
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but these peonies don't get like so
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massive like some varieties do so I may
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be okay with this size
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so I'm going to go ahead and put my
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other two grids on and then we'll go
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plant the tubers
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so we're in the location where I want to
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plant the bare-root peonies which I have
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right here this is a variety called
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Laura desert and it's a beautiful fully
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double creamy white and creamy yellow
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peony and I thought it would be really
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beautiful right here this area looks
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Shady now because it is morning but it
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does get a really good long block of
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afternoon Sun so they should be very
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happy here
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and I am planting them kind of forward
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in this flowerbed because I do want to
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come in probably implant some climbing
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roses behind them so I wanted to leave a
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little bit of space so what you want to
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do to plant your bare root is make sure
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you find the highest bud on the crown so
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you can see the crown of the plant right
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here this is the highest bud right there
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we want to make sure that that sits
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about one to two inches below the soil
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surface
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if you plant it too deep it can delay
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bloom time and it could also make the
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plant not bloom at all so you just want
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to be very mindful of that I've already
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dug up my hole you can see the soil
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right here is really pretty nice just
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perfect I'm gonna set my root down in
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there and you can see where the soil
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surface is it'll sit just about two
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inches below with the surface I'm gonna
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toss a little bit of starter fertilizer
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in right around the root and then just
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fill back the hole well tamp that down
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cover it back up with a little bit of
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mulch and before I get too far I'm gonna
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put my grid steak over it so I can
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remember that I have something planted
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here for the first thing and then once
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it starts growing the grid will be in
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place and I won't have to worry about it
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that looks pretty darn good okay so I've
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just got two more to plan
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so I got all three of these planted and
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I think they're gonna be gorgeous here
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especially once I get some roses and
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clematis growing right behind them there
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are a couple more things I want to talk
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to you about but I think I want to go
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back to the first peonies to talk to you
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about those things because I can
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actually show you on the plant so the
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first thing is when the peonies come out
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in bud in spring they do secrete a
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really sweet SAP out of the buds that
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ants and flies and bees are attracted to
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it does not harm the plant at all they
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just come up there to feed on it some
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people think it opens it helps to open
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the blooms I think that that is a myth
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but it doesn't hurt your plant
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whatsoever when you get ready to cut
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your peonies to bring them inside if you
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see any ants on them you can just rinse
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them off super easy the second thing is
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you do want to deadhead your peonies
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when the blooms are done that way the
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plant doesn't send energy into creating
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seeds because they do create it's kind
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of a neat looking seed pod but you don't
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want your plant sending energy into
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seeds you want it's sending energy
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rather into it's a root system so it can
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establish even more and create more
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flowers for the next year so when you
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get ready to deadhead it's really easy
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there's really no rhyme or reason to how
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far you cut back the stem but like on
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this one right here I'd probably cut it
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back right into the bushier part of the
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shrub that way you don't have a bear or
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random stem sticking up out further than
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the rest of the leaves you just want to
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make it look aesthetically pleasing
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third they are heavy feeders so like I
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put today some starter fertilizer in the
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hole usually after they get done
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blooming I'll toss some plant tonne
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fertilizer around the base of the shrub
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that way they can utilize that and build
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up the root system even more and then
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you do want to cut to the peonies back
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down to the ground in the fall after the
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first frost kind of takes their foliage
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so anyway that's all there is to peonies
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once you get them in the ground and you
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get them going
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it just is a beautiful thing to have in
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your garden so I hope this video was
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helpful you guys and we will see you in
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the next one bye
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Planting Fire Light Hydrangeas!
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Transcript:
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hey guys good morning I'm getting ready
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to plant some more hydrangeas in my
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garden today you might recognize this
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flowerbed I've planted pretty much
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annuals in this spot for the last couple
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of years and it's been really fun to
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experiment with some color and texture
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but I was ready for something a little
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bit more permanent so these are called
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fire light hydrangeas they're a type of
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paniculata which paniculata s-- as a
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whole are really easy maintenance
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hydrangeas they're really winter hardy
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like I think this is a zone three
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through eight so I mean it can take
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winter temperatures really low and
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paniculata SAR the most sun tolerant
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hydrangea and it gets very hot and dry
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here in Eastern Oregon and the Sun is
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very intense but paniculata us handle it
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very well you might be familiar with the
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limelight hydrangea super popular
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beautiful hydrangea I have some planted
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in another area of my garden but the
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thing about fire light is that they
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bloom a lot earlier in the season than
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the limelight so if you live in an area
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with more mild temperatures like cooler
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nights cooler summers this one will
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bloom a lot earlier for you so you can
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enjoy it throughout the season and then
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it starts coloring up like the blooms
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start changing so it comes out with
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creamy white blooms in the very
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beginning and then as soon as the
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nighttime temperatures start to drop
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even a little bit it triggers the color
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change in the blooms and they really
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quickly turn into a like vivid like
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reddish pink it's very beautiful show so
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I'm really excited to see what this
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hedge looks like now they do grow quite
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large so they grow six to eight feet
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tall and wide now that's if you just
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kind of let them do their thing
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you might be thinking I'm crazy cuz this
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is only about four feet wide or so we
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are planning on extending these
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flowerbeds quite far
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maybe next year so I know that this is
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going to be my background kind of the
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backdrop hedge and you can size control
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them a little bit that's the other thing
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about having a hydrangea that blooms on
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new wood you can go in in early spring
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when they just start to bud up and you
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can cut them back and it's actually good
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for the plant it keeps them really
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strong but fire light stems are really
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strong just on their own even stronger
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than the lime lights so now I want to
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get all of these in the ground I am
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going to be using a little bit of this
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bio tone starter fertilizer in each of
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the holes but no compost nothing else
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and
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then I do have to run some new
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irrigation this did have drip lines in
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it but they were kind of old and all the
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emitters were really caked with hard
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water so we'll run a new water line and
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then I'm going to be putting probably
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two two gallon per hour emitters on each
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one of these hydrangea root balls so I
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can make sure to keep them very well
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hydrated
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so we've got them all in the ground and
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I ran all the irrigation so like I said
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I did two to gallon per hour emitters to
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each root ball and I find that's what
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they need here in our hot dry climate in
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fact we run our drips every single day
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for about an hour when the temperatures
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go above a hundred and that's what keeps
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them looking really really nice and
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you'll have to adjust that depending on
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your weather your region and kind of you
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know what they typically like and you
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can ask somebody at your local garden
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center and kind of get their
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recommendation for that if you notice
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your hydrangea blooms turning brown
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later in the summer rather than turning
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the color they're supposed to that means
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your hydrangea is not getting enough
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water so that's just something to be
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mindful of and I think this is going to
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be a glorious hedge of hydrangeas but I
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also feel that the fire light hydrogen
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would be a gorgeous specimen plant so if
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you don't have you know this much space
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to fill or you just want to have one to
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enjoy it's you know a big enough shrub
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that it'll look gorgeous but I do have a
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chart that's super handy that shows a
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whole bunch of different paniculata
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hydrangeas and what time of the year
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they start to bloom so you can see here
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in the very early category there's quick
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fire little quick fire bow bow and fire
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light and it shows kind of their
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different growth habits which is super
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helpful and then you've got your early
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category which is pinky-winky and then
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midseason bloomers are your Zinfandel
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little lime and lime light so that's it
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you guys hope you enjoyed seeing this
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henge come in and I hope you are going
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to enjoy the progress shots that will
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give you throughout the season because I
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think that is when it's gonna get really
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amazing thanks guys so much for watching
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this video and we will see you in the
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next one bye
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Transcript:
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hey guys good morning I'm getting ready
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to plant some more hydrangeas in my
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00:00:03,299 --> 00:00:04,929
garden today you might recognize this
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00:00:05,129 --> 00:00:07,000
flowerbed I've planted pretty much
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00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:08,859
annuals in this spot for the last couple
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00:00:09,058 --> 00:00:10,540
of years and it's been really fun to
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00:00:10,740 --> 00:00:12,430
experiment with some color and texture
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but I was ready for something a little
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bit more permanent so these are called
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00:00:16,528 --> 00:00:18,609
fire light hydrangeas they're a type of
11
00:00:18,809 --> 00:00:21,220
paniculata which paniculata s-- as a
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00:00:21,420 --> 00:00:23,400
whole are really easy maintenance
13
00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,780
hydrangeas they're really winter hardy
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like I think this is a zone three
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00:00:27,449 --> 00:00:29,769
through eight so I mean it can take
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00:00:29,969 --> 00:00:31,659
winter temperatures really low and
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paniculata SAR the most sun tolerant
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hydrangea and it gets very hot and dry
19
00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,128
here in Eastern Oregon and the Sun is
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00:00:39,329 --> 00:00:41,919
very intense but paniculata us handle it
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00:00:42,119 --> 00:00:43,869
very well you might be familiar with the
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limelight hydrangea super popular
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beautiful hydrangea I have some planted
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in another area of my garden but the
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thing about fire light is that they
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bloom a lot earlier in the season than
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00:00:53,939 --> 00:00:55,869
the limelight so if you live in an area
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with more mild temperatures like cooler
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nights cooler summers this one will
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bloom a lot earlier for you so you can
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enjoy it throughout the season and then
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it starts coloring up like the blooms
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start changing so it comes out with
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creamy white blooms in the very
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beginning and then as soon as the
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nighttime temperatures start to drop
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even a little bit it triggers the color
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change in the blooms and they really
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00:01:17,009 --> 00:01:19,238
quickly turn into a like vivid like
40
00:01:19,438 --> 00:01:21,969
reddish pink it's very beautiful show so
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I'm really excited to see what this
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hedge looks like now they do grow quite
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large so they grow six to eight feet
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tall and wide now that's if you just
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kind of let them do their thing
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you might be thinking I'm crazy cuz this
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is only about four feet wide or so we
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00:01:36,209 --> 00:01:37,959
are planning on extending these
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flowerbeds quite far
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maybe next year so I know that this is
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going to be my background kind of the
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backdrop hedge and you can size control
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them a little bit that's the other thing
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about having a hydrangea that blooms on
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new wood you can go in in early spring
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when they just start to bud up and you
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can cut them back and it's actually good
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for the plant it keeps them really
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strong but fire light stems are really
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strong just on their own even stronger
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than the lime lights so now I want to
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00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:06,579
get all of these in the ground I am
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going to be using a little bit of this
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bio tone starter fertilizer in each of
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the holes but no compost nothing else
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and
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then I do have to run some new
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irrigation this did have drip lines in
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it but they were kind of old and all the
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emitters were really caked with hard
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water so we'll run a new water line and
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then I'm going to be putting probably
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two two gallon per hour emitters on each
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one of these hydrangea root balls so I
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can make sure to keep them very well
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hydrated
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[Music]
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so we've got them all in the ground and
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I ran all the irrigation so like I said
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I did two to gallon per hour emitters to
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each root ball and I find that's what
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they need here in our hot dry climate in
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fact we run our drips every single day
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for about an hour when the temperatures
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go above a hundred and that's what keeps
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them looking really really nice and
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you'll have to adjust that depending on
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your weather your region and kind of you
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know what they typically like and you
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center and kind of get their
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recommendation for that if you notice
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your hydrangea blooms turning brown
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later in the summer rather than turning
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the color they're supposed to that means
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your hydrangea is not getting enough
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water so that's just something to be
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mindful of and I think this is going to
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be a glorious hedge of hydrangeas but I
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also feel that the fire light hydrogen
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would be a gorgeous specimen plant so if
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you don't have you know this much space
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to fill or you just want to have one to
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enjoy it's you know a big enough shrub
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that it'll look gorgeous but I do have a
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chart that's super handy that shows a
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whole bunch of different paniculata
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hydrangeas and what time of the year
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they start to bloom so you can see here
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fire little quick fire bow bow and fire
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light and it shows kind of their
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different growth habits which is super
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helpful and then you've got your early
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category which is pinky-winky and then
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midseason bloomers are your Zinfandel
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little lime and lime light so that's it
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henge come in and I hope you are going
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to enjoy the progress shots that will
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think that is when it's gonna get really
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amazing thanks guys so much for watching
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Planting Supertunia Vista Snowdrift at My Parent’s House!
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hey guys how's it going we're out of my
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parents house this morning working on a
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really fun project that I've been
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looking forward to for months and you
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guys might think that I do big projects
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check this out they just had 12 huge
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containers built and installed along
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their driveway in fact this has been a
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huge project this spring it's a really
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really fun one because all of my
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childhood years there was a little
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skinny driveway in fact you can see the
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wheel mark here
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it was very skinny he went to about here
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and then all the rest of this space was
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all ditch so there was just a big canal
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full of water right here so they had it
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piped and covered this spring and then
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lined with redpoint maples I think there
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are 14 redpoint maples in total this is
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the same type of maple that we used
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alongside our driveway and it's gonna be
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gorgeous because a beautiful red fall
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color and then of course the planters
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they make a huge statement and they're
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kind of modeled after the box planters
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you see in French garden he's kind of
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like Versailles they're a little bit
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more rustic though which i think is
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perfect because it goes with their
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country style home the other really fun
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thing are the plants that I get to use
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in this project we're not going to vary
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the type of plants I use very much
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because we get to try something that's
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brand new it's not even out yet because
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we work with proven winners on occasion
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we get to try out new plants and this is
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a new one next year called supertunia
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vista snowdrift and if you guys have
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ever grown any supertunia in the Vista
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line you will know what I'm talking
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about like supertunia vista bubblegum
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vista fuchsia vista silver berry they
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grow huge they are really really
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vigorous they have huge amount of bloom
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count on them all throughout this season
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and I think they're one of the best
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suited to go either in the landscape or
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in containers in fact I'm going to be
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putting some of these in the ground at
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my house and we'll be able to kind of
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see how they do you know in a container
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versus the landscape these I was doing a
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little reading on them have said that
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they can grow up to two feet tall and
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four feet wide
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one one supertunia vista snowdrift
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that's like a shrub which is amazing so
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I'm going to be putting eight of these
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in each of these containers which is
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probably a little much I could probably
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get away with just doing one on each
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side but there is an event happening in
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about a month at my
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parents house and we want to make sure
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that they're really full and they look
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really good for that so we're gonna use
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that primarily around the outside and
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then in the middle we're using a purple
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fountain grass and I think it's just
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gonna be a very striking contrast I
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think the white is gonna look really
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good up against this black rail fence
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right here this is the same color of
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stain that we use on our vegetable
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garden so it looks very pretty I think
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all the way down the fence is new it
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just looks so sharp there's a lot more
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room for parking and just a lot more
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breathing space out here
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containers and I wanted to talk on that
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a little bit because we recently showed
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you how we hooked our drip system up to
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our irrigation system that it's like in
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the ground and I want to show you this
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is hooked into a hose bib so there's a
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half inch black poly tube in fact you
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can see it right here they need to bring
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in a little more gravel to cover but
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there's a tube that runs the entire
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distance the entire run and then they
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tapped in with little couplers right
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here and there's a quarter inch solid
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black tube that runs up the side and it
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comes into the container right here you
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move my plants and then we've got five
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drippers and Erin and I worked on this
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little network of drippers this morning
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what we're planning on doing is having
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one one gallon per hour emitter in
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between each set of petunias kind of
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like this so there'll be two petunias
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two two two and then this one will point
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right to the root ball of the grass and
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we do have little stakes that will help
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once I get everything planted kind of
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just tack everything into place so let's
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run to the very far end because that's
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where it attaches to the hose and I'll
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show you how that looks so we're at the
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opposite end this is the last container
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and then in the corner is where they're
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attached to water in fact if you look
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over the fence right here you can see
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the ditch it's still open on this end we
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used to swim in that when we were little
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kids but now all the water goes to a
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great big pipe right underneath this
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hole Elaine so this hose bib right here
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is where all the water comes from for
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both the Maples and the containers
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there's a splitter right here which you
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can either use that or you can hook your
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timer right into your hose you don't
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even have to use a timer if you don't
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want to you can come out every day and
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turn the hose on and turn it off but the
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timer makes
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super-nice to where you don't have to do
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that this will make everything automatic
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that cook onto your timer and then you
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those parts one of these runs to the the
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red point maples and one runs to the
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containers at the amount of time that
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you run your containers it's kind of
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subjective to the time of year it is
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what the weather is like if it's real
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windy or not right now they could
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probably run these every other day or
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every two days to keep them happy
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because it's still pretty cool but when
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it gets really hot they'll be running
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them everyday
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for thirty minutes just to kind of gauge
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how much water comes out and how
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saturated the soil is and then we'll go
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you guys I think that these are going to
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be absolutely gorgeous and you can
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already see them starting to take shape
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in purple fountain grass gets huge so
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it'll get these huge graceful plumes on
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the top and it will fill in beautifully
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and then with how this supertunia vistas
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snowdrift is supposed to grow I think
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we're gonna be in for like a super
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dramatic show maybe even all the way to
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the crown the kitty loves it and I think
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with the general design like if you look
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down the way and you see the line of
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trees in the line of containers I think
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going with just one one arrangement the
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same thing in every container will be a
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very striking effect and it won't you
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know jar your eyes too much and also
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just using two different plants instead
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of using you know a whole bunch of
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different colors in this one container
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and the other supertunia vistas that are
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available are all in the pink family
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which is great for me because I love
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pink I love to use those in fact I'm
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using a whole bunch of my garden this
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year but I was so excited to learn that
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there was a new one and that it was
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white because I do think I could have a
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garden completely full of green like
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shades of green foliage with white
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blooms and I would be happy with that so
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when I planted these I did add in some
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of this continuous release plant food
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like I do in all my containers I think I
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added about between 8 and 10 tablespoons
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and just mixed it into about the top
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couple inches of soil with plants like
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this that are huge huge performers they
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are really hungry plants they need a lot
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of food to perform the best so I always
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start with that and then I'm actually
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gonna give my parents a tub of this this
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is what I use in my containers on a
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weekly basis at home so they'll be
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feeding these plants every single week
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with a water soluble and that will keep
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them very happy and full of bloom so
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just so excited to show you this brand
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new plant again it's not out this year
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this is gonna be brand new next year I'm
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so I'm really excited to show you guys
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progress updates throughout this season
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to see what it looks like because maybe
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this is something you'll want to add
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into your garden next year so anyway
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thank you guys so much for watching
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today and we will see you in the next
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one bye
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hey guys how's it going we're out of my
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parents house this morning working on a
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really fun project that I've been
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looking forward to for months and you
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guys might think that I do big projects
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check this out they just had 12 huge
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containers built and installed along
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their driveway in fact this has been a
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huge project this spring it's a really
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really fun one because all of my
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childhood years there was a little
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skinny driveway in fact you can see the
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wheel mark here
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it was very skinny he went to about here
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and then all the rest of this space was
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all ditch so there was just a big canal
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full of water right here so they had it
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piped and covered this spring and then
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lined with redpoint maples I think there
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are 14 redpoint maples in total this is
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the same type of maple that we used
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alongside our driveway and it's gonna be
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gorgeous because a beautiful red fall
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color and then of course the planters
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they make a huge statement and they're
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kind of modeled after the box planters
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you see in French garden he's kind of
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like Versailles they're a little bit
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more rustic though which i think is
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perfect because it goes with their
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country style home the other really fun
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thing are the plants that I get to use
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in this project we're not going to vary
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the type of plants I use very much
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because we get to try something that's
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brand new it's not even out yet because
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we work with proven winners on occasion
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we get to try out new plants and this is
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a new one next year called supertunia
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vista snowdrift and if you guys have
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ever grown any supertunia in the Vista
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line you will know what I'm talking
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about like supertunia vista bubblegum
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vista fuchsia vista silver berry they
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grow huge they are really really
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vigorous they have huge amount of bloom
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count on them all throughout this season
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and I think they're one of the best
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suited to go either in the landscape or
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in containers in fact I'm going to be
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putting some of these in the ground at
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my house and we'll be able to kind of
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see how they do you know in a container
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versus the landscape these I was doing a
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little reading on them have said that
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they can grow up to two feet tall and
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four feet wide
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one one supertunia vista snowdrift
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that's like a shrub which is amazing so
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in each of these containers which is
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probably a little much I could probably
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get away with just doing one on each
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side but there is an event happening in
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about a month at my
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parents house and we want to make sure
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that they're really full and they look
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really good for that so we're gonna use
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that primarily around the outside and
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then in the middle we're using a purple
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fountain grass and I think it's just
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gonna be a very striking contrast I
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think the white is gonna look really
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good up against this black rail fence
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right here this is the same color of
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stain that we use on our vegetable
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garden so it looks very pretty I think
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all the way down the fence is new it
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just looks so sharp there's a lot more
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room for parking and just a lot more
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breathing space out here
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containers and I wanted to talk on that
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a little bit because we recently showed
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you how we hooked our drip system up to
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our irrigation system that it's like in
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the ground and I want to show you this
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is hooked into a hose bib so there's a
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half inch black poly tube in fact you
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can see it right here they need to bring
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in a little more gravel to cover but
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there's a tube that runs the entire
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distance the entire run and then they
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tapped in with little couplers right
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here and there's a quarter inch solid
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black tube that runs up the side and it
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comes into the container right here you
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move my plants and then we've got five
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drippers and Erin and I worked on this
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little network of drippers this morning
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what we're planning on doing is having
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one one gallon per hour emitter in
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between each set of petunias kind of
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like this so there'll be two petunias
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two two two and then this one will point
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right to the root ball of the grass and
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we do have little stakes that will help
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once I get everything planted kind of
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just tack everything into place so let's
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run to the very far end because that's
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where it attaches to the hose and I'll
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show you how that looks so we're at the
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opposite end this is the last container
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attached to water in fact if you look
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over the fence right here you can see
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the ditch it's still open on this end we
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used to swim in that when we were little
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kids but now all the water goes to a
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great big pipe right underneath this
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hole Elaine so this hose bib right here
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is where all the water comes from for
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both the Maples and the containers
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there's a splitter right here which you
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can either use that or you can hook your
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timer right into your hose you don't
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even have to use a timer if you don't
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want to you can come out every day and
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turn the hose on and turn it off but the
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timer makes
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super-nice to where you don't have to do
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that this will make everything automatic
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that cook onto your timer and then you
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those parts one of these runs to the the
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red point maples and one runs to the
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containers at the amount of time that
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you run your containers it's kind of
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subjective to the time of year it is
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what the weather is like if it's real
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windy or not right now they could
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probably run these every other day or
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every two days to keep them happy
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because it's still pretty cool but when
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it gets really hot they'll be running
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how much water comes out and how
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saturated the soil is and then we'll go
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you guys I think that these are going to
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be absolutely gorgeous and you can
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already see them starting to take shape
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in purple fountain grass gets huge so
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the top and it will fill in beautifully
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snowdrift is supposed to grow I think
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we're gonna be in for like a super
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dramatic show maybe even all the way to
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the crown the kitty loves it and I think
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with the general design like if you look
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down the way and you see the line of
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trees in the line of containers I think
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going with just one one arrangement the
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same thing in every container will be a
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very striking effect and it won't you
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know jar your eyes too much and also
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just using two different plants instead
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of using you know a whole bunch of
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different colors in this one container
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available are all in the pink family
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pink I love to use those in fact I'm
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using a whole bunch of my garden this
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year but I was so excited to learn that
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there was a new one and that it was
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white because I do think I could have a
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garden completely full of green like
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shades of green foliage with white
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blooms and I would be happy with that so
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of this continuous release plant food
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added about between 8 and 10 tablespoons
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couple inches of soil with plants like
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this that are huge huge performers they
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gonna give my parents a tub of this this
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feeding these plants every single week
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with a water soluble and that will keep
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them very happy and full of bloom so
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new plant again it's not out this year
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this is gonna be brand new next year I'm
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progress updates throughout this season
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to see what it looks like because maybe
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this is something you'll want to add
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into your garden next year so anyway
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thank you guys so much for watching
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today and we will see you in the next
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Planting Shade-Loving Plants in My Window Boxes!
Videos • Garden Answer posted the article • 0 comments • 227 views • 2019-05-27 15:44
Transcript:
hey guys how's it going today I'm
planting up my window boxes here on this
side of our house and I've got it kind
of laid out how I want it to look
nothing's planted yet they're all still
in their cans but I think it's gonna be
amazing so I just want to go through all
of the plants real quick and then we'll
actually get them in the window baskets
and see how it really looks all kind of
intermingled together so first off I
want to go through the plants that are
gonna be kind of sitting toward the back
of the window box I've got several who
Kuras here these are called wild berry
there is own four through nine perennial
actually I have a spot in my yard picked
out that I want to plant where I want to
plant these so I can use them in the
window boxes and then plant them out
this fall and I love to do that because
then I don't feel so bad
jamming my pots so full of stuff when I
get to use them again so these grow
about 10 14 inches tall and then they'll
spaced out probably in the landscape
about 18 or so inches and then they
throw up these really pretty bloom
spikes so like really pretty dark purple
stem with kind of these creamy pink
flowers and you can kind of see him
sticking up from all the hookers there
I've got four of these total in between
each heuchera
I'm going to plant a Carrick's called
Amazon mist
now Carrick's like this they can do full
Sun they can also do a little bit of
shade and this area actually gets a
pretty strong block of Morning Sun like
first thing it's pretty quick like maybe
two hours or so then the rest of the day
it's in shade but I find that Carrick's
like this does pretty well it won't grow
enormous it'll just kind of sit looking
like this all summer long which is
perfectly fine with me because I don't
really like to plant my window boxes
with super tall things because I like to
have the view but most especially this
grass has amazing mint green color which
looks beautiful I mean look at it in
between those who grows it's just
absolutely perfect gorgeous and then
lining around kind of the front area
here I've got several ivy I think
there's one two three four five ivy
called duck foot and it's got this
really neat kind of Stickley lobed leave
leaf instead of being really pointy like
some of your Ivy's might be this is also
a perennial so the Ivy's I don't
typically plant in the ground I just
save them over in our cold frame and
then I'll
in containers next year then we've got
some surefire rose begonias which we
just posted a video recently where we
planted a whole bunch of these
underneath our Chinese rain tree and I'm
really looking forward to having this
won't be the really the only flower
color in this arrangement all the rest
of it it's pretty much foliage I mean
the heuchera has flowers but they're
fairly small so this will be our big pop
of color and then this might be the one
I'm most excited about this is a coleus
called chocolate drop and it's instead
of being strictly upright it will
actually trail out of a container so
I've planted I'm gonna put let's see
I've planned to put four in here so they
can kind of just fill in and spill down
the front
I love the leaf on this one look how
interesting that is and I think that the
color on the interior interior of the
leaf will look really pretty with this
heuchera right here so that is the
lineup of plants so now I'm going to
take them all out I'm going to take part
of the soil while most of the soil out
from last year I still have that in this
box will get fresh stuff in some fruit
fertilizer and then we'll plant
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I think it turned out so pretty and it
is chock-full of plants like when I got
to the last round with these Chocolate
Drops sedum I thought oh should I
squeeze those in there should I just
hold off but I think it's such a
beautiful addition and I was so excited
about using the plant that I just went
ahead and found some room and I'm not
really concerned about putting things so
close together in a shade container not
like I would be with a full Sun
container when we plant supertunias in
purple fountain grass and vertigo
Pennisetum those kind of things need a
ton of room to grow but I don't expect
really like the heuchera and the
kerrick's won't put on a whole lot more
growth they'll stay pretty much the same
size the begonias may push a little
growth if they were in more Sun they
would probably get a little bit bigger
so I'm really not that concerned I think
all of this pillars will put on growth
downward which is great you know but
we'll see as the season goes I did put
fresh soil in with slow release
fertilizer and these will be fertilized
on a probably once a week to every ten
day schedule
I don't water these quite as often as I
do my son containers so I just kind of I
don't do them quite as consistently with
my full Sun containers we want fertilize
every week without fail
so this one's done now I've got the
second one to go
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the second box is planted and I love
love how they look all of the plants are
just so pretty together and you know
they're surefire Rose begonia the pop of
pink in here is really pretty but I
honestly think that I would enjoy this
arrangement just as much without the
bloom color because there's so many
different colors and textures in just
the leaves that I think it makes it
really interesting and I do think I
called this chocolate drop coleus a
sedum earlier I don't know what I was
thinking I might have been thinking
lemon coral sedum lemon and chocolate
and I don't know but it's definitely a
coleus but I think that that is such a
beautiful touch especially right
underneath the heuchera so I did water
them in from overhead today just to make
sure all their root balls were settled
into their new homes but we do have a
drip system setup Erin and I set it up
earlier on this spring so there are five
half gallon and our emitters spread
evenly throughout this box so unless I'm
fertilizing I shouldn't have to bring
any water up here which is awesome these
plants are also very low maintenance the
only thing I'll probably do every once
in a while is come in and groom off any
spent bloom heads so any of these spikes
of blooms that are spent I'll clip off
down here below like the leaf canopy and
then the Surefire Rose begonia I
shouldn't I don't need to deadhead it
will keep blooming even if you don't
deadhead it but aesthetically I like the
way it looks when they're all cleaned up
so now I want to kind of back up and
take a look at the rest of the patio
area there's not a whole lot going on
for summer yet except for the window
boxes but it kind of just like inspires
me makes me want to keep adding more
pretty things I have these containers by
the door with the boxwood cones that
wintered over in here and then my
pansies from earlier this spring they're
still looking really sweet so I'll
probably keep them in here for a little
while until I decide what I even want to
put in these pots I might play around
with a little bit more foliage texture
and color like maybe more Chocolate
Drops sedum and some Goldilocks creeping
Jenny something like that I'm just not
sure yet and then you can see our drip
system right here so we had to run it
from the other side of the house and
there's no water source over on this
other side so we had to run it along the
ground so I do still need to order a rug
to put right in front of the door so we
can kind of tuck in all this tubing and
you won't see that anymore
and it'll look a little bit more
polished up here but I think this is a
wonderful start for summer I hope you
guys enjoyed this video I really loved
putting these together we will see you
in the next one bye
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hey guys how's it going today I'm
planting up my window boxes here on this
side of our house and I've got it kind
of laid out how I want it to look
nothing's planted yet they're all still
in their cans but I think it's gonna be
amazing so I just want to go through all
of the plants real quick and then we'll
actually get them in the window baskets
and see how it really looks all kind of
intermingled together so first off I
want to go through the plants that are
gonna be kind of sitting toward the back
of the window box I've got several who
Kuras here these are called wild berry
there is own four through nine perennial
actually I have a spot in my yard picked
out that I want to plant where I want to
plant these so I can use them in the
window boxes and then plant them out
this fall and I love to do that because
then I don't feel so bad
jamming my pots so full of stuff when I
get to use them again so these grow
about 10 14 inches tall and then they'll
spaced out probably in the landscape
about 18 or so inches and then they
throw up these really pretty bloom
spikes so like really pretty dark purple
stem with kind of these creamy pink
flowers and you can kind of see him
sticking up from all the hookers there
I've got four of these total in between
each heuchera
I'm going to plant a Carrick's called
Amazon mist
now Carrick's like this they can do full
Sun they can also do a little bit of
shade and this area actually gets a
pretty strong block of Morning Sun like
first thing it's pretty quick like maybe
two hours or so then the rest of the day
it's in shade but I find that Carrick's
like this does pretty well it won't grow
enormous it'll just kind of sit looking
like this all summer long which is
perfectly fine with me because I don't
really like to plant my window boxes
with super tall things because I like to
have the view but most especially this
grass has amazing mint green color which
looks beautiful I mean look at it in
between those who grows it's just
absolutely perfect gorgeous and then
lining around kind of the front area
here I've got several ivy I think
there's one two three four five ivy
called duck foot and it's got this
really neat kind of Stickley lobed leave
leaf instead of being really pointy like
some of your Ivy's might be this is also
a perennial so the Ivy's I don't
typically plant in the ground I just
save them over in our cold frame and
then I'll
in containers next year then we've got
some surefire rose begonias which we
just posted a video recently where we
planted a whole bunch of these
underneath our Chinese rain tree and I'm
really looking forward to having this
won't be the really the only flower
color in this arrangement all the rest
of it it's pretty much foliage I mean
the heuchera has flowers but they're
fairly small so this will be our big pop
of color and then this might be the one
I'm most excited about this is a coleus
called chocolate drop and it's instead
of being strictly upright it will
actually trail out of a container so
I've planted I'm gonna put let's see
I've planned to put four in here so they
can kind of just fill in and spill down
the front
I love the leaf on this one look how
interesting that is and I think that the
color on the interior interior of the
leaf will look really pretty with this
heuchera right here so that is the
lineup of plants so now I'm going to
take them all out I'm going to take part
of the soil while most of the soil out
from last year I still have that in this
box will get fresh stuff in some fruit
fertilizer and then we'll plant
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I think it turned out so pretty and it
is chock-full of plants like when I got
to the last round with these Chocolate
Drops sedum I thought oh should I
squeeze those in there should I just
hold off but I think it's such a
beautiful addition and I was so excited
about using the plant that I just went
ahead and found some room and I'm not
really concerned about putting things so
close together in a shade container not
like I would be with a full Sun
container when we plant supertunias in
purple fountain grass and vertigo
Pennisetum those kind of things need a
ton of room to grow but I don't expect
really like the heuchera and the
kerrick's won't put on a whole lot more
growth they'll stay pretty much the same
size the begonias may push a little
growth if they were in more Sun they
would probably get a little bit bigger
so I'm really not that concerned I think
all of this pillars will put on growth
downward which is great you know but
we'll see as the season goes I did put
fresh soil in with slow release
fertilizer and these will be fertilized
on a probably once a week to every ten
day schedule
I don't water these quite as often as I
do my son containers so I just kind of I
don't do them quite as consistently with
my full Sun containers we want fertilize
every week without fail
so this one's done now I've got the
second one to go
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the second box is planted and I love
love how they look all of the plants are
just so pretty together and you know
they're surefire Rose begonia the pop of
pink in here is really pretty but I
honestly think that I would enjoy this
arrangement just as much without the
bloom color because there's so many
different colors and textures in just
the leaves that I think it makes it
really interesting and I do think I
called this chocolate drop coleus a
sedum earlier I don't know what I was
thinking I might have been thinking
lemon coral sedum lemon and chocolate
and I don't know but it's definitely a
coleus but I think that that is such a
beautiful touch especially right
underneath the heuchera so I did water
them in from overhead today just to make
sure all their root balls were settled
into their new homes but we do have a
drip system setup Erin and I set it up
earlier on this spring so there are five
half gallon and our emitters spread
evenly throughout this box so unless I'm
fertilizing I shouldn't have to bring
any water up here which is awesome these
plants are also very low maintenance the
only thing I'll probably do every once
in a while is come in and groom off any
spent bloom heads so any of these spikes
of blooms that are spent I'll clip off
down here below like the leaf canopy and
then the Surefire Rose begonia I
shouldn't I don't need to deadhead it
will keep blooming even if you don't
deadhead it but aesthetically I like the
way it looks when they're all cleaned up
so now I want to kind of back up and
take a look at the rest of the patio
area there's not a whole lot going on
for summer yet except for the window
boxes but it kind of just like inspires
me makes me want to keep adding more
pretty things I have these containers by
the door with the boxwood cones that
wintered over in here and then my
pansies from earlier this spring they're
still looking really sweet so I'll
probably keep them in here for a little
while until I decide what I even want to
put in these pots I might play around
with a little bit more foliage texture
and color like maybe more Chocolate
Drops sedum and some Goldilocks creeping
Jenny something like that I'm just not
sure yet and then you can see our drip
system right here so we had to run it
from the other side of the house and
there's no water source over on this
other side so we had to run it along the
ground so I do still need to order a rug
to put right in front of the door so we
can kind of tuck in all this tubing and
you won't see that anymore
and it'll look a little bit more
polished up here but I think this is a
wonderful start for summer I hope you
guys enjoyed this video I really loved
putting these together we will see you
in the next one bye
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Planting Pollinator-Attracting Plants Around Our Chicken Coop!
Videos • Garden Answer posted the article • 0 comments • 249 views • 2019-05-27 15:41
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hey guys how's it going we're in front
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of the chicken coop this morning getting
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ready to do some planting the coop is
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pretty much done on the outside anyway
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just got the shutters and stove
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yesterday and it's looking a little bit
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more put together now I do have two
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serbian spruces here on either side of
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the coop and that's going to be kind of
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my grounding formality for this area and
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I was kind of like thinking should I do
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more boxwood hedging but I think what I
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want to do is keep this area a little
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bit more free and full of color so I
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thought I'd be a really fun thing to
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show you guys some of the plants I'm
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putting in because I talked about
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recipes and containers all the time like
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what plants to put together that look
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really good together and that are
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compatible so I want to do that today
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showing you some really great things
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that attract butterflies in particular
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so we are gonna be planting salvia
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echinacea and dahlias I do want to talk
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to you about each one of the plants so
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let's get set up and then we can talk
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about them so the first one is called
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delightful lively lavender and you guys
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might remember I planted the mystic
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illusion Dahlia last year which has
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really dark foliage and really bright
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yellow flowers they performed so well
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I'm really excited to give this variety
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a try and I love the color of the
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flowers so this one grows about 2 to 3
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feet tall and about 20 inches wide and I
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did look on the tag they recommend
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spacing about like 12 to 16 inches so I
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did put him quite close together but
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honestly of the 3 I'm going to show you
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today I think you could just do one of
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each in a little space like maybe buy a
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mailbox or tucked into a sunny spot in
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your landscape and you would get kind of
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the same effect you would get all the
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color and the pollinator attracting
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quality so I think I've got 6 or so
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right back in here the cool thing too
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about these dahlias is that they don't
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form they were bred to not form tubers
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they may form a few but they won't form
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them like a normal Dahlia will which
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means you get earlier blooms in the
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season so they'll start blooming really
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early and then they'll bloom all the way
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through frost because all of their
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energy gets sent into bloom production
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you also don't have to deadhead them you
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can I tend to like to do that because it
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makes them look a little bit better it
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will help them rebloom a little bit more
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but it's not 100% necessary they still
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will keep blooming and their foliage is
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resistant to disease which I know that
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can be a problem like powdery mildew and
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things like that in some areas the next
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flower are these beautiful bright yellow
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echinacea they're called yellow mite
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they're actually new next year this
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particular variety I was able to get my
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hands on a few of them to try them out
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my garden to see how they grew and how
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they did I think it's gonna be beautiful
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up here with this layer of bright pink
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and then the sunshine yellow it's gonna
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be so happy these are a perennial I
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don't think I mentioned that these are
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an annual these are Hardy to zone 8 so
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they might be a perennial for some of
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you but these are winter hardy down to
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his own 4 there is on 4 through 8 so
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they do really well in our zone 5 garden
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echinacea is in general I don't have
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experience with this particular variety
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yet but I've grown lots of different
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echinacea Xand they're really reliable
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here also really great if you have bad
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soil
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they're so adaptable to all different
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kinds of soil types they can take a
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light amount of shade they perform the
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best in a full Sun area where we're at
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in front of the chicken coop gets shade
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in the morning but it gets strong
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afternoon Sun so I think that they're
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going to do really really well up here
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they should perform nicely they also
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attract pollinators bees and butterflies
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so both of these are great for that and
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the last flower in this kind of trio
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recipe of pollinator attracted plants is
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Indiglo girl salvia we just did a video
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on these not too long ago this is a new
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variety this year and I was so excited
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about it because they have such a
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striking bloom they have a really thick
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bloom stock like it's really like big
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flowers and then the calyx that holds
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the bloom onto the stem is a little bit
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darker color so when they are done
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blooming they still kind of look like
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they're in bloom so I don't feel like
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I'm in such a rush to get them
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deadheaded so these grow about 20 to 22
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inches tall and I don't think I
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mentioned these grow at 18 inches taller
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so so I should have kind of a nice
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stair-step effect with this trio right
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here and these attract bees hummingbirds
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and butterflies so these should be just
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kind of like a powerhouse for
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pollinators and I'm really excited about
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that and the last thing all three of
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these should be fairly compatible in
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terms of light and water like I said
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they all perform in full Sun which they
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will get the echinacea and salvia can
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handle some drought but they do perform
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best when they get consistent moisture
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not a lot of moisture but just
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consistent the dahlias however I will
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make sure to give consistent moisture to
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I also give them more fertilizer I'll be
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fertilizing these on a weekly basis when
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I come around to do all my containers
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the echinacea and salvia I'll be putting
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some starter fertilizer in the hole with
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them today and that'll probably be it
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for this year until I fertilize well I
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may fertilize later on in the summer or
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again next spring and for that I would
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use a fertilizer like plant tone or
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flower tone and you might notice a
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couple other things hanging out in this
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area I'm just trying some stuff out so I
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am gonna be planting a climbing rose
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called Zephyr and ruin I've got four of
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them that are gonna be trained up the
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run and kind of over the roof there are
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thornless pink rose that blooms all
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summer so we got a lot of color there
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I've got a purple fountain grass that I
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thought would be really pretty having a
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dark grassy texture right here and then
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a Miss violet butterfly bush which I'm
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probably not gonna plant today I'm just
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kind of I have it set there just to try
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it out so I just wanted to mention those
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three things cuz you will see those
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alright let's get these things in the
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ground
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this area turned out so cute I love it I
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think this is probably one of the most
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cheerful spots I have in my garden right
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now and it's funny how one project like
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just laying out some flowers getting
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them in the ground kind of snowballs
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into running all the drip irrigation
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getting the mulch down and planting up
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my window box so I decided instead of
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putting any color in here in terms of
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blooms just to do foliage so these are
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three clipped Sprinter box woods with
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Goldilocks creeping Jenny planted
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underneath and I think the foliage
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colors contrast each other really nicely
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and I think if I would have had color in
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here and a whole bunch of color down
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here it would have been a little bit too
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much Plus that brings a little bit more
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of a formal touch to the area and this
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spot down below can just be free and
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kind of more country feel a little bit
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more abundant with blooms
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hey guys how's it going we're in front
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of the chicken coop this morning getting
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ready to do some planting the coop is
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pretty much done on the outside anyway
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just got the shutters and stove
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yesterday and it's looking a little bit
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more put together now I do have two
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serbian spruces here on either side of
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the coop and that's going to be kind of
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my grounding formality for this area and
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I was kind of like thinking should I do
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more boxwood hedging but I think what I
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want to do is keep this area a little
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bit more free and full of color so I
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thought I'd be a really fun thing to
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show you guys some of the plants I'm
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putting in because I talked about
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recipes and containers all the time like
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what plants to put together that look
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really good together and that are
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compatible so I want to do that today
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showing you some really great things
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that attract butterflies in particular
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so we are gonna be planting salvia
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echinacea and dahlias I do want to talk
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to you about each one of the plants so
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let's get set up and then we can talk
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about them so the first one is called
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delightful lively lavender and you guys
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illusion Dahlia last year which has
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really dark foliage and really bright
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yellow flowers they performed so well
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a try and I love the color of the
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flowers so this one grows about 2 to 3
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feet tall and about 20 inches wide and I
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did look on the tag they recommend
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spacing about like 12 to 16 inches so I
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did put him quite close together but
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honestly of the 3 I'm going to show you
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each in a little space like maybe buy a
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mailbox or tucked into a sunny spot in
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your landscape and you would get kind of
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the same effect you would get all the
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color and the pollinator attracting
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quality so I think I've got 6 or so
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right back in here the cool thing too
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about these dahlias is that they don't
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form they were bred to not form tubers
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they may form a few but they won't form
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them like a normal Dahlia will which
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means you get earlier blooms in the
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season so they'll start blooming really
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early and then they'll bloom all the way
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through frost because all of their
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energy gets sent into bloom production
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you also don't have to deadhead them you
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can I tend to like to do that because it
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makes them look a little bit better it
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will help them rebloom a little bit more
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but it's not 100% necessary they still
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will keep blooming and their foliage is
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resistant to disease which I know that
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can be a problem like powdery mildew and
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things like that in some areas the next
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flower are these beautiful bright yellow
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echinacea they're called yellow mite
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they're actually new next year this
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particular variety I was able to get my
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hands on a few of them to try them out
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my garden to see how they grew and how
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they did I think it's gonna be beautiful
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up here with this layer of bright pink
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and then the sunshine yellow it's gonna
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be so happy these are a perennial I
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don't think I mentioned that these are
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an annual these are Hardy to zone 8 so
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they might be a perennial for some of
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you but these are winter hardy down to
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his own 4 there is on 4 through 8 so
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echinacea is in general I don't have
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experience with this particular variety
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yet but I've grown lots of different
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echinacea Xand they're really reliable
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kinds of soil types they can take a
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light amount of shade they perform the
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best in a full Sun area where we're at
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in front of the chicken coop gets shade
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in the morning but it gets strong
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afternoon Sun so I think that they're
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going to do really really well up here
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they should perform nicely they also
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attract pollinators bees and butterflies
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the last flower in this kind of trio
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recipe of pollinator attracted plants is
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Indiglo girl salvia we just did a video
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on these not too long ago this is a new
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variety this year and I was so excited
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about it because they have such a
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striking bloom they have a really thick
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bloom stock like it's really like big
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flowers and then the calyx that holds
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the bloom onto the stem is a little bit
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darker color so when they are done
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blooming they still kind of look like
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they're in bloom so I don't feel like
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deadheaded so these grow about 20 to 22
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inches tall and I don't think I
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mentioned these grow at 18 inches taller
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so so I should have kind of a nice
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stair-step effect with this trio right
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here and these attract bees hummingbirds
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and butterflies so these should be just
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kind of like a powerhouse for
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pollinators and I'm really excited about
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that and the last thing all three of
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these should be fairly compatible in
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terms of light and water like I said
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they all perform in full Sun which they
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will get the echinacea and salvia can
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handle some drought but they do perform
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best when they get consistent moisture
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not a lot of moisture but just
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consistent the dahlias however I will
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make sure to give consistent moisture to
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fertilizing these on a weekly basis when
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I come around to do all my containers
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the echinacea and salvia I'll be putting
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some starter fertilizer in the hole with
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them today and that'll probably be it
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for this year until I fertilize well I
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may fertilize later on in the summer or
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again next spring and for that I would
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use a fertilizer like plant tone or
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flower tone and you might notice a
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couple other things hanging out in this
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area I'm just trying some stuff out so I
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am gonna be planting a climbing rose
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called Zephyr and ruin I've got four of
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them that are gonna be trained up the
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run and kind of over the roof there are
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thornless pink rose that blooms all
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thought would be really pretty having a
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dark grassy texture right here and then
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a Miss violet butterfly bush which I'm
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kind of I have it set there just to try
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this area turned out so cute I love it I
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think this is probably one of the most
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cheerful spots I have in my garden right
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now and it's funny how one project like
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just laying out some flowers getting
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them in the ground kind of snowballs
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into running all the drip irrigation
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getting the mulch down and planting up
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my window box so I decided instead of
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three clipped Sprinter box woods with
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underneath and I think the foliage
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colors contrast each other really nicely
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here and a whole bunch of color down
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much Plus that brings a little bit more
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of a formal touch to the area and this
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spot down below can just be free and
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the purple fountain grass and then I'll
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salvia so that's something I'm gonna
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evergreen for some evergreen interest in
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here but my whole goal is just to kind
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of keep the area colorful and not too
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big I don't want anything to really
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salvia dahlias and echinacea hope you
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Making a Fun Trellis For Benjamin!
Videos • Garden Answer posted the article • 0 comments • 203 views • 2019-05-27 15:40
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hey guys how's it going today I'm
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starting a kids garden for Benjamin and
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I'm so excited I've never done a garden
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like this before I'm gonna be
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implementing a few ideas that have kind
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of done in a different form which I'll
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talk about in a second but we're in the
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flower bed right behind our gazebo so
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this is the area that used to have the
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little pond when we very first moved in
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and a Hawthorn tree which we've had both
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of those removed and I really didn't
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know what to do with this area like I
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just let it sit kind of empty for the
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last year or two and then I got to
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thinking that this would be a perfect
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spot for a kids garden because it's
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right where our dining set is out here
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right where we like to eat I can still
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see this area from the house so today
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poles it's not just gonna be beans
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though I'm also gonna plant some of this
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beautiful lemon appeal with umber Jie or
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a black-eyed Susan vine on it because I
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flowers and also the beans and I'm doing
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yard-long beans I think that'll be
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really fun because when you're doing
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very similar to this up closer to the
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house last fall or the fall before that
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was last fall where I took some branches
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out of the garden and created kind of
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the same thing so you can use branches
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out of your garden or you can use bamboo
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poles like I'm gonna use today the
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difference between that project and this
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one is that I'm leaving an opening so
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that it's an actual teepee that Benjamin
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can come in to so I'm gonna have the
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opening right here so that we can do a
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little walkway up to it very first thing
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I'm gonna do is kind of mark out my
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circle because I'm really bad at
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eyeballing stuff like this so I've got a
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stake in the ground with a piece of
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twine tied to a stick and I'm just gonna
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use this kind of as my compass and I'm
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making a circle in the ground trying not
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to fall over I want this to be a pretty
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big focal point back here so I did get
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eight-foot long bamboo poles let me grab
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a couple here I'm not sure exactly how
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far I'm gonna space them apart maybe
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like every foot and a half or two feet
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or so I think I'm gonna measure so I can
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get this right but check that out won't
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that be so neat so I do have
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my tape measure that I can easily carry
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in my purse so I can met with things
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like benches and stuff like that at
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garden centers and I want to determine
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how wide I want to leave my opening so I
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figured out my opening at about 36
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inches and then I think I'm gonna place
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these poles about every 21 inches or so
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roughly it really doesn't matter in the
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end because they're gonna be all covered
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with vines anyway so I'm just gonna
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start making some holes I've got my
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auger right here this is what I use to
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plant bulbs and I'm just gonna make
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holes kind of at an angle to hopefully
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anchor these into the ground really well
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all right let's see how far that it goes
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down now if you're blessed with really
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nice soil and you can push your sticks
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right down in then I'm jealous I think
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that'll work so I'm just gonna do that
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all the way around all right I've got
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all the holes done if you do not have a
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bulb auger I would highly recommend that
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you get one because I find them so
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extremely useful I use them all the time
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for planting and then projects like this
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so the next thing I'm going to do is set
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all of the mamoo bamboo poles at each
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one of the holes and then I'm going to
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gather them at the top and zip tie them
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together so I've got my little ladder
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and then some just white is it Tyus
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which we will be covering in
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it came together beautifully and
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actually feels really sturdy I could
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have got 10-foot bamboo poles and I
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think I would have liked it even more
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because it would have been even bigger
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and a little bit more dramatic but to
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Benjamin I think it's gonna look massive
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and that's all that really matters and
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so you can see the opening right here it
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ended up being a little bit wider than
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36 inches but I think the dimensions
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turned out kind of perfect really and
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it'll be perfect size for him in here
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especially once all the vines grow
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they'll make it a little bit more narrow
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in here so the next thing I have to do
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before I do my planting is create a
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little bit of a twine grid so I'm just
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gonna tie my twine and just kind of
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start weaving it around the bamboo poles
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remembering to leave this open at least
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on the bottom I'll probably put a couple
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of pieces of twine up top here so I can
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train some of the vines this way but
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that way all of the vining plants have
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something to hang on to okay okay okay
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you're done you're done buddy sorry
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I love how it turned out I think it
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looks so cute and the addition of the
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twine not only will help our vining
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plant scroll up to the top but they also
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I think add to a little bit of stability
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too and kind of keep everything together
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so I just started one string like in the
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front here and then took it around all
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the way to the other side so it's only
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tied off on either one of the opening
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poles here and then it's just wrapped
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around the other ones and then when I
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got to the very end I tied a little X
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right here just to kind of help create
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my little I kind of want like a domed
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oval opening so then I have my lemon
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appeal than Burgi s based on every other
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Pole here some planting five of them all
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together I'll add a little bit of
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slow-release plant food to the hole when
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I plant them and then in between I'll be
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planting my bean seeds
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so it's all done and I think it looks
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really cute I know the plants don't look
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spectacular
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right away I mean the beans are not even
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visible yet but you guys are gonna be
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amazed if you've never grown this
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particular type of some bersia I grew
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the tangerine slice if he'll last year
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and this one like I said is a lemon
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appeal they grow so fast like you guys
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are gonna see this when we do progress
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updates here in the next even few weeks
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and it'll already have covered quite a
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bit of the TP I mean I think five around
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this is probably overkill to be honest
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especially since I put beans in there as
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well but I really want this area to be
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full of color and just really fun
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looking I am going to find some sort of
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outdoor rug to put on the interior here
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like a little round one we get hardly
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any rain here so it won't get ruined
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very quickly anyway and then as far as
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the materials to construct something
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like this it's super easy to find any
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kind of stake you could use wood stakes
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you could use branches off of a tree if
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you wanted to these bamboo poles I got
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down at the garden center and they last
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forever so I feel like every time I have
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a project to use bamboo poles it's just
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a really good investment because I can
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use these like I could leave this teepee
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out probably even during the winter and
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we could put Christmas lights on it even
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so I just feel like this is a really
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good way to go and they're very very
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strong and sturdy so anyway that's it
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for this video and like I said we are
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gonna be doing a lot more kid focused
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gardening videos back in this area in
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fact we might be removing a bunch of
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these plants and redoing drip mulching
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making it look really nice but hopefully
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and really really fun and colorful like
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I'm even thinking about incorporating
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water in here somehow and actually
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Benjamin right now I think he'll enjoy
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this once it's like a little bit more of
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a of a hideaway place he's with Grandma
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right now so we could do the project and
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get this done but I think we'll
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incorporate some things that he will
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really really enjoy so anyway thank you
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guys so much for watching this video and
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we will see you in the next one
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hey guys how's it going today I'm
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starting a kids garden for Benjamin and
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I'm so excited I've never done a garden
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like this before I'm gonna be
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implementing a few ideas that have kind
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of done in a different form which I'll
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talk about in a second but we're in the
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flower bed right behind our gazebo so
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this is the area that used to have the
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little pond when we very first moved in
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and a Hawthorn tree which we've had both
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of those removed and I really didn't
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know what to do with this area like I
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just let it sit kind of empty for the
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last year or two and then I got to
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thinking that this would be a perfect
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spot for a kids garden because it's
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right where our dining set is out here
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right where we like to eat I can still
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see this area from the house so today
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I'm building a bean teepee out of bamboo
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poles it's not just gonna be beans
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though I'm also gonna plant some of this
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beautiful lemon appeal with umber Jie or
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a black-eyed Susan vine on it because I
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want it to both have the really neat
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flowers and also the beans and I'm doing
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yard-long beans I think that'll be
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really fun because when you're doing
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anything kid related doing either
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vegetables that get super big or really
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really tiny I think are really fun this
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is a very easy project we did something
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very similar to this up closer to the
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house last fall or the fall before that
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was last fall where I took some branches
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out of the garden and created kind of
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the same thing so you can use branches
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out of your garden or you can use bamboo
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poles like I'm gonna use today the
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difference between that project and this
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one is that I'm leaving an opening so
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that it's an actual teepee that Benjamin
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can come in to so I'm gonna have the
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opening right here so that we can do a
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little walkway up to it very first thing
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I'm gonna do is kind of mark out my
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circle because I'm really bad at
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eyeballing stuff like this so I've got a
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stake in the ground with a piece of
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twine tied to a stick and I'm just gonna
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use this kind of as my compass and I'm
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making a circle in the ground trying not
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to fall over I want this to be a pretty
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big focal point back here so I did get
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eight-foot long bamboo poles let me grab
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a couple here I'm not sure exactly how
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far I'm gonna space them apart maybe
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like every foot and a half or two feet
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or so I think I'm gonna measure so I can
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get this right but check that out won't
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that be so neat so I do have
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my tape measure that I can easily carry
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in my purse so I can met with things
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like benches and stuff like that at
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garden centers and I want to determine
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how wide I want to leave my opening so I
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figured out my opening at about 36
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inches and then I think I'm gonna place
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these poles about every 21 inches or so
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roughly it really doesn't matter in the
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end because they're gonna be all covered
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with vines anyway so I'm just gonna
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start making some holes I've got my
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auger right here this is what I use to
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plant bulbs and I'm just gonna make
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holes kind of at an angle to hopefully
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anchor these into the ground really well
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all right let's see how far that it goes
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down now if you're blessed with really
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nice soil and you can push your sticks
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right down in then I'm jealous I think
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that'll work so I'm just gonna do that
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all the way around all right I've got
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all the holes done if you do not have a
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bulb auger I would highly recommend that
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you get one because I find them so
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extremely useful I use them all the time
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for planting and then projects like this
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so the next thing I'm going to do is set
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all of the mamoo bamboo poles at each
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one of the holes and then I'm going to
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gather them at the top and zip tie them
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together so I've got my little ladder
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and then some just white is it Tyus
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which we will be covering in
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it came together beautifully and
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actually feels really sturdy I could
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have got 10-foot bamboo poles and I
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think I would have liked it even more
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because it would have been even bigger
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and a little bit more dramatic but to
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Benjamin I think it's gonna look massive
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and that's all that really matters and
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so you can see the opening right here it
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ended up being a little bit wider than
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36 inches but I think the dimensions
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turned out kind of perfect really and
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it'll be perfect size for him in here
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especially once all the vines grow
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they'll make it a little bit more narrow
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in here so the next thing I have to do
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before I do my planting is create a
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little bit of a twine grid so I'm just
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gonna tie my twine and just kind of
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start weaving it around the bamboo poles
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remembering to leave this open at least
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on the bottom I'll probably put a couple
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of pieces of twine up top here so I can
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train some of the vines this way but
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that way all of the vining plants have
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something to hang on to okay okay okay
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I love how it turned out I think it
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looks so cute and the addition of the
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twine not only will help our vining
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plant scroll up to the top but they also
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I think add to a little bit of stability
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too and kind of keep everything together
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so I just started one string like in the
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front here and then took it around all
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the way to the other side so it's only
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tied off on either one of the opening
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poles here and then it's just wrapped
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around the other ones and then when I
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got to the very end I tied a little X
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right here just to kind of help create
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my little I kind of want like a domed
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oval opening so then I have my lemon
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appeal than Burgi s based on every other
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Pole here some planting five of them all
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together I'll add a little bit of
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slow-release plant food to the hole when
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I plant them and then in between I'll be
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planting my bean seeds
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so it's all done and I think it looks
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really cute I know the plants don't look
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spectacular
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right away I mean the beans are not even
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visible yet but you guys are gonna be
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amazed if you've never grown this
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particular type of some bersia I grew
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the tangerine slice if he'll last year
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and this one like I said is a lemon
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appeal they grow so fast like you guys
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are gonna see this when we do progress
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updates here in the next even few weeks
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and it'll already have covered quite a
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bit of the TP I mean I think five around
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this is probably overkill to be honest
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especially since I put beans in there as
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well but I really want this area to be
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full of color and just really fun
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looking I am going to find some sort of
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outdoor rug to put on the interior here
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like a little round one we get hardly
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any rain here so it won't get ruined
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very quickly anyway and then as far as
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the materials to construct something
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like this it's super easy to find any
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kind of stake you could use wood stakes
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you could use branches off of a tree if
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you wanted to these bamboo poles I got
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down at the garden center and they last
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forever so I feel like every time I have
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a project to use bamboo poles it's just
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a really good investment because I can
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use these like I could leave this teepee
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out probably even during the winter and
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we could put Christmas lights on it even
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so I just feel like this is a really
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good way to go and they're very very
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strong and sturdy so anyway that's it
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for this video and like I said we are
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gonna be doing a lot more kid focused
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gardening videos back in this area in
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fact we might be removing a bunch of
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these plants and redoing drip mulching
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making it look really nice but hopefully
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water in here somehow and actually
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Benjamin right now I think he'll enjoy
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this once it's like a little bit more of
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a of a hideaway place he's with Grandma
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right now so we could do the project and
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get this done but I think we'll
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incorporate some things that he will
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really really enjoy so anyway thank you
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guys so much for watching this video and
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we will see you in the next one
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Planting Color in Our Versailles Garden!
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Epic Container Competition: Aaron vs. Laura!
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Self Watering Planters - https://amzn.to/2YIIUJZ
Container Recipes:
(Odd numbers were planted by Laura, even numbers planted by Aaron!)
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Toucan Scarlet Canna
Superbells Tangerine Punch
Supertunia Honey
Superbena Scarlet Star
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Supertunia Royal Magenta
Supertunia Trailing Rose Veined
Blushing Princess Lobularia
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Dahlightful Lively Lavender Dahlia
Supertunia Royal Velvet
Supertunia Trailing Rose Veined
Superbena Large Lilac Blue
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Toucan Scarlet Canna
Lemon Coral Sedum
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Playin’ The Blues Salvia
White Knight Lobularia
Supertunia Bermuda Beach
Supertunia Limoncello
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Pyromania Orange Blaze Red Hot Poker
Supertunia Honey
Superbells Tangering Punch
Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Red Sweet Potato Vine
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Lemon A Peel Black Eyed Susan Vine
Superbells Grape Punch
Supertunia Royal Magenta
Luscious Berry Blend Lantana
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Prince Tut
Supertunia Bordeaux
Sweet Caroline Light Green Sweet Potato Vine
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Toucan Yellow Canna
Superbells Lemon Slice
Sweet Caroline Light Green Sweet Potato Vine
Superbena Whiteout
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Supertunia Lovie Dovie
Angelface Cascade Blue Angelonia
Superbena Stormburst
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Skyrocket Pennisetum
Supertunia Limoncello
Superbells Tropical Sunset
Superbena Peachy Keene
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Pure White Butterfly Margeurite Daisy
Superbells Yellow
Sweet Caroline Bewitched Green with Envy
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Brother Stefan Clematis
Dipt in Wine Coleus
Goldilocks Creeping Jenny
Diamond Frost Euphorbia
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Coast to Coast Hosta
Dolce Wildberry Heuchera
Diamond Frost Euphorbia view all
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Container Recipes:
(Odd numbers were planted by Laura, even numbers planted by Aaron!)
1.
Toucan Scarlet Canna
Superbells Tangerine Punch
Supertunia Honey
Superbena Scarlet Star
2.
Supertunia Royal Magenta
Supertunia Trailing Rose Veined
Blushing Princess Lobularia
3.
Dahlightful Lively Lavender Dahlia
Supertunia Royal Velvet
Supertunia Trailing Rose Veined
Superbena Large Lilac Blue
4.
Toucan Scarlet Canna
Lemon Coral Sedum
5.
Playin’ The Blues Salvia
White Knight Lobularia
Supertunia Bermuda Beach
Supertunia Limoncello
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Pyromania Orange Blaze Red Hot Poker
Supertunia Honey
Superbells Tangering Punch
Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Red Sweet Potato Vine
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Lemon A Peel Black Eyed Susan Vine
Superbells Grape Punch
Supertunia Royal Magenta
Luscious Berry Blend Lantana
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Prince Tut
Supertunia Bordeaux
Sweet Caroline Light Green Sweet Potato Vine
9.
Toucan Yellow Canna
Superbells Lemon Slice
Sweet Caroline Light Green Sweet Potato Vine
Superbena Whiteout
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Supertunia Lovie Dovie
Angelface Cascade Blue Angelonia
Superbena Stormburst
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Skyrocket Pennisetum
Supertunia Limoncello
Superbells Tropical Sunset
Superbena Peachy Keene
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Pure White Butterfly Margeurite Daisy
Superbells Yellow
Sweet Caroline Bewitched Green with Envy
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Brother Stefan Clematis
Dipt in Wine Coleus
Goldilocks Creeping Jenny
Diamond Frost Euphorbia
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Coast to Coast Hosta
Dolce Wildberry Heuchera
Diamond Frost Euphorbia
Tulip Clean Up & Window Box Planting!
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Planting Our Barn Containers & New Urns on the West Side!
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hey guys in today's video I'm just gonna
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be planting a bunch of container
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starting with the ones right in front of
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our barn along with the hay rack up
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there and then several more in the
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garden including the urns along the west
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side of our house which I'm so excited
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about and I hope you guys are not
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getting sick of planting videos but that
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is what our life is right now from about
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mid-april to mid-june it's go time in
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terms of planting here annuals
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perennials shrubs trees I mean you name
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it it's just kind of like the time of
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year for us to get everything in the
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ground so I hope you're enjoying all of
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the videos so I do have the plants that
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I'm going to use in these containers
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sitting right here on the ground let me
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show you I'm really excited about this
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color blend so I decided to go with a
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purple fountain grass as the centerpiece
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if you've never grown this it's a super
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common grass to find it's super popular
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but it grows into a very spectacular
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looking a centerpiece with really pretty
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plumes on the top and it seems like
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every year no matter what I try I end up
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putting purple fountain grass in these
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containers maybe like even somewhere
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midway in the season after one of my
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other centerpieces has died or something
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so anyway I decided to just go with that
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from the gate and I think that'll be
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great because this will go all the way
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through the season in fact I can leave
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these through the winter for winter
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interest if I decide to then we're going
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to do a Sweet Caroline light greens
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sweet potato vine which I'm excited to
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have a foliage accent I haven't done
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that in these containers for the last
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few years because they are pretty water
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hungry but we do have drip set up to the
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pots which I need to work on a little
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bit today so that won't be a problem
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this next one is gorgeous and I haven't
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used a lot of it in this garden but this
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is a Lantana called lemon zest and I
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just think it's so pretty to have that
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bright pop of yellow back here there's a
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little bit of white like a little bit of
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lighter yellow and then that really
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bright yellow anyway these which should
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do really well because it's so hot and
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sunny in front of the barn typically we
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have a really nice overcast day today
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then we have supertunia blue skies which
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this is so beautiful I love this color
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this actually reminds me of my mom she
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does a lot of like this sky blue color
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or light lavender and then coral and
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light yellow and white
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anyway that's probably where my love for
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soft
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like colors comes from I'm guessing and
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then supertunia white so I think it's
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just gonna be a really pretty blend of
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cheerful looking colors and then for the
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hay rack up top same blend of plants but
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I'm going to forego the fountain grass
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think up there the containers are
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cleaned out I have bags of soil right
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here I think I brought enough up here
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system here so it actually comes from
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see that right there it's kind of dark
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Aaron drilled a hole which is no big
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deal in our barn because there's like
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natural holes in our barn the drip comes
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right out through there and then through
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a hole that we drilled in the bottom
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there's actually four other drain holes
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on either side like all sides of this
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container and look at all those elm
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seeds oh they're just coming off the
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trees like crazy right now
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so you can see the quarter inch drip
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tubing comes up through the bottom we'll
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fill it with soil and then it'll just
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kind of lay against the side you know
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it'll be kind of trapped against the
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side with soil and then we'll flip it
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over the top of the soil and put some
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emitters in I think I'm going to put
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four and it currently only has the one
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so I've got my clippers extra tubing
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these are half gallon per hour emitters
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I want four of them in each container
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this stakes right here will allow me to
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run the tubing through them and then I
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can place them a lot easier with the
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help of the stakes I'm going to use a
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quarter inch cross fitting coupler and a
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quarter inch T and then this tool right
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here helps push the tubing onto the
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emitters which is super handy I'll show
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you that in a minute
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so before I cut anything on this end I'm
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going to make all four of my lines with
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the half gallon emitters on the end it's
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just easier to do it like this so I'm
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going to cut four lengths of this
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quarter inch tubing and I can trim them
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to size when I'm all done so you want to
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give yourself a little extra like a
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little bit more than you think you're
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going to need so there we go got my four
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pieces and I've got my four emitters
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right here so this tool is really handy
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I learned about this from one of you
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guys on a video where I was kind of
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complaining about how hard it is to put
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any midders and couplers onto these
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pieces of tubing it like hurts your
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fingers really bad so I didn't know this
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tool existed so you stick your let me
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just grab one you stick your emitter in
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to one end of this tool and then you
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feed your tube through and then you just
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clamp them down just like that how did I
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not know that this tool existed okay I'm
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also going to do that with my couplers
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here too I know that I need to have two
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of them coming off of the T these are
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harder the couplers are harder than the
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emitters are that's perfect and you can
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twist these around like you can twist
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the coupler and the tubing to get them
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to go you know to get the tubes to go
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where you want them to go and you can
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configure the interior of your pot with
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drips and couplers however you want but
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what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut
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this right here this is the one that's
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feeding through the bottom of the pot
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you want to make sure it doesn't go down
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into soil and then I'm going to attach
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it to one end of the cross so see I've
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got these two sides right here and then
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I'm going to use a little piece I've got
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a hook that
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to the cross I'm just gonna use a little
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piece of tubing okay so this is the tube
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that comes up from underneath the pot
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we've got a cross coupler that has this
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one with an emitter that will take care
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of kind of these plants on this side and
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then this one which will take care of
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the front plants and then on the other
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side of the cross I just put a little
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piece of tube to a tee coupler so that I
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could attach another tube with an
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emitter that will take care of this side
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and then the last tube with an emitter
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to take care of the back and that is
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what I'm going to be doing on all the
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other containers along the front of the
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barn so now I'm going to add a little
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bit of slow-release plant food and this
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just helps give a slow continuous feed
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to your plants even though I do come in
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on a weekly basis and do water-soluble
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fertilizer because I want these plants
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to perform really really well and you
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need to feed them really well in order
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for that to happen so now I'm going to
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plant my centerpiece first which is the
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purple fountain grass and this is an
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interesting container because you would
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think that I would back my centerpiece
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up to the wall just because the
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containers kind of backed up to the wall
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but you see these from three sides you
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do see them from this side because our
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driveway runs this way you see them from
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the other side and from the front so I
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really do want the flower interest to be
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all the way around the centerpiece so
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we're just gonna kind of put this right
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in the center here I think that'll be
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really really nice okay and then I kind
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of forgot how I was gonna arrange all
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the rest of these I dunno I want my
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sweet potato vine to be in the front so
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we'll place that one you notice my
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emitter goes right to the potato vines
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root ball because this is the most water
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hungry of all the plants I'm putting in
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so you just want to be mindful of that
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there we go I think I'm just gonna place
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everything else I'm gonna kind of go in
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thirds here I think we'll see how this
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ends up there's the blue
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so white white and white
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okay so supertunias are all kind of
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split into thirds except for this little
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space here I'm going to plant those and
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then the Lantana's I'm gonna back plant
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because my supertunia is more of a
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dramatic Spiller and the Lantana is a
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little bit more tall so we'll get these
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all in and you'll see the root balls are
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not very bound this one needs water i
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haven't watered anything yet today and
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and you really don't need to tease the
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roots unless it's like severely root
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bound which this time of year you really
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don't find that that often unless you're
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waiting to get your annuals into a
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little bit later like this right here
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you can see a lot of soil still it looks
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pretty nice oh my goodness I just love
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this combination sometimes it's really
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hard for me to want to try out different
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plants because sometimes I find things
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that I love I'm like supertunia Bordeaux
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for example I love that plant and I
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could use every single year all over in
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all of my containers but then like I
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don't know we wouldn't have very many
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interesting videos for you guys if
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that's all I plant it and it is fun
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because sometimes when you try out new
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things you find something that is that
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becomes your new favorite and like these
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supertunia blue skies I haven't ever
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planted this particular supertunia I
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think it's fairly new anyway it's almost
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kind of an electric blue color when I
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look at it close I think I'm gonna
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really enjoy that see the Lantana's will
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put on a little more height I think yeah
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12 to 24 inches so I definitely didn't
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want them right in the front of the
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container we'll let the supertunia and
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the potato vine do the spilling thing
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Lantana's will grow up and be kind of my
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filler plant and then I've got my
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centerpiece in the purple fountain grass
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and I want to do four of these in all
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four corners of the square here like
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that and it does seem like an awful lot
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of plants if these were supertunia
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vistas out of that series I definitely
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wouldn't plant that many in here because
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they grow like they're so vigorous but
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we'll see we'll see how vigorous they I
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mean all supertunias are really great
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growers and they're vigorous plants but
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there's nothing quite like those
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supertunia vistas that's why we use
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those in the hay racks up front because
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you can get away with using far less of
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those than really anything else and it
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kind of scoop everything away from the
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purple fountain grass a little bit
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because that will need to its own space
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and I think that that looks gorgeous so
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even though I have a drip system run to
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these containers every time I plant
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something new I always water it in with
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a hose to begin with just to make sure
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everything's settled
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I check around the root balls to make
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sure I didn't miss any places because
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you want to make sure that there's no
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air coming up against any other roots
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and I just want to settle everything in
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from overhead and then the drip system
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can take off from there and the only
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maintenance I will have in this
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container is weekly fertilizing and then
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possibly trimming toward the middle part
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of summer summer because these will
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probably reach the ground and I don't
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really want them trailing all over the
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place so I'll probably keep them level
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with the bottom of the pot but all of
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these do not require deadheading they're
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really great that way so now let me
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tackle the rest of these containers
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along the bottom of the bar and then
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we'll go up and do the hay rack here
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they are all planted and they look so
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pretty I really like this blend of color
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and there's no pink are you guys
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surprised so now that I'm done with
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these containers I need to tackle the
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hay rack up there and I'm trying to
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remember how I did that last year I
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think I used an extension ladder because
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only one side of the window opens and I
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couldn't reach all the way to the end of
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the hay rack on one side so I do think I
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need to get a ladder out and I don't
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even know if they're soil in there or
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not from last year we'll have to run
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upstairs and see it's also starting to
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rain a little bit out here hopefully it
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doesn't pick up it's nice today though
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yep dang so I need to clean that soil
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out and then put fresh stuff in and then
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plant it's a pretty view down to the
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garden though look at that I love it
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I just got dirt and Coco fiber all over
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my face so I got the ladder set up and
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then what I did was I like heaved the
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whole Coco fiber liner and soil out of
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the hay rack and then just tossed it
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inside so that's one way to clean out
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your Coco fiber liners I think I
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probably just made a huge mess upstairs
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yeah huge mess a lot safer doing it that
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way than trying to come down the ladder
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with it though and now I've got to fill
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those both up with soil so I've got
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brand new fresh soil in here else well
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as the slow release fertilizer you can
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kind of see it I already mixed it in and
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then I've got three one gallon per hour
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emitters and each one of these hair acts
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and then I went up the stairs and put
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the plants out the window here so I'm
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going to start arranging I think I'm
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gonna do two blues and two whites in
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each one see how this hay rack is it's
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split into two I had to do it that way
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to actually like make the width of this
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window because I couldn't find one that
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was the exact width and then maybe -
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potato vine like one on each side so
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that it's really even in the middle and
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then all the Lantana lemon zest will be
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kind of toward the back all right
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here we go
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while that was an adventure I ended up
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only putting three supertunias per hair
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act so I did a blue a white and then a
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blue and then I did three Lantana to
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back it because I do get quite large I
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didn't space that one quite right there
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we go
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only difference on the other side is I
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just put the one potato vine which
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hopefully will kind of grow I pointed it
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this direction
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hopefully it'll grow and look like it's
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right in the middle all right so let's
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go downstairs and see what it looks like
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from down there although I don't think
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it'll look that great
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until it starts filling in a little bit
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and spilling over the edges and then I'm
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gonna run inside quick and clean off my
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face before I continue punching Crum I
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forgot to close the window while I was
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up there but you can see the flowers I
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don't know how well it seems kind of
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dark in the camera I can see them a
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little bit peeking over the edge but
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once they start spilling it'll look
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amazing and I love that they will match
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the pots right underneath so I'm up on
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the west side of the house getting ready
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to plant these four beautiful urns that
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we placed recently I think this is
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actually the last planting project I'm
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going to get to this afternoon because I
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got a really late start and they're
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taking me a lot longer than I thought
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they would
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with all the drip and all that I did
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fill all of these with soil all the way
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already just now and I got the drip all
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set up because it's pretty much exactly
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the same as what I just did I'll show
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you a close-up I only did three emitters
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in each urn so now all I need to do is
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put my slow release fertilizer in show
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you the plants and get them in the urns
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first off before we go to the urns since
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I'm standing right here look at these
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climbing Colette roses aren't they the
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most beautiful things I just love them
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and they're starting to climb up the
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trellis Arbor whatever
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here comes Russell and I did plant some
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supertunia snowdrift in each one of the
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boxwood swoops here because I thought it
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would be fun to try it out in the
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landscape as opposed to containers like
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we did out at my parents house so we'll
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see how they do each one of these is
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supposed to get like two feet tall by
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four feet wide so I only planted six and
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I think they'll fill in this space just
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perfect and here are the plants that I
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chose so we're gonna do another purple
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fountain grass I got some great big ones
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for this project because I kind of
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wanted insta
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impact and then we're gonna surround
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those grasses with some diamond frost
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euphorbia which has that beautiful
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ethereal kind of cloud like I don't know
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it's just so pretty the little white
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blooms and then super Belle's white
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right here and then some dichondra
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silver Falls for our weeping foliage
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accent so last year I planted super
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Belle's white diamond frosty for BIA and
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then a skyrocket Pennisetum I think no
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desert plains Pennisetum in the
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containers in front of the vegetable
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garden and they were so gorgeous they
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did so well and these containers are not
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that far away I mean the vegetable
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gardens right there so these are gonna
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get pretty much the same conditions that
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that container had last year and so I
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kind of wanted to replicate that this
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year because I had such great luck also
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having the supertunia snowdrift in the
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boxwood so having the white on that side
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of the pathway and then drawing the
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white over into the containers I think
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will be a really restful thing to do and
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then I can start filling in the rest of
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the area with some other color but I
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think I'm gonna do one fountain grass
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maybe three of all the rest of the
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plants will have to see these are a
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little bit smaller than the planters I
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just planted so this is the esplanade
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urn from unique stone on a pillar that I
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cannot remember the name of these do not
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come together you have to order them
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separately and but they're beautiful I
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absolutely absolutely love them and you
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can see the drip the quarter inch drip
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comes right through the bottom in fact
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we showed this to you in another video
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we run the drip up because there is a
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hole through the pillar and then a hole
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the drainage hole up through the urn and
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then it comes in right here
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I put a Crofts coupler and then I did
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three emitters in this container just
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kind of split it into thirds so all of
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these urns are ready for planting
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alright guys they're all planted and I
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love love them I think they look like
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such an elegant classic mix of colors
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and textures I just love like the
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all-white look with that grass in the
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middle and everything of course will
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grow crazy they'll get really big I
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ended up doing the one grass and then I
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did three diamond frost euphorbias kind
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of set back from the edge and then in
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front of the diamond frost I did the
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dichondra silver falls and then in
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between each grouping of that I did the
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super Belles white and I'm hopeful that
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these will look just like the containers
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that were in front of the vegetable
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garden
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I hope they fill in and are as full of
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flowers as those were but I think it was
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kind of the right thing to do in terms
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of color because it looks so great with
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this style of urn as well as the white
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supertunias that we have on the other
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side I just love it and the North Pole
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Arbor vytas are doing so well we were
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looking at pictures the other day of
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what they look like when we planted them
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and they were about they were barely
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over this second like this middle I
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guess middle fence rail right here so
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they have grown significantly I mean
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putting on that much growth and then
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they've at least doubled if not more in
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size I can't wait until they become a
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solid green wall because can you imagine
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these urns set apart from any
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distractions you know in the background
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but just having that solid green while
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it's 10 to 15 feet tall I think the
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contrast will be beautiful we also did
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end up my mom found seven more North
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Pole Arbor vitaes ordered them in for us
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so we could finish off the hedge it's
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gonna look a little funny for a while
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but these will catch up but because I
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didn't realize I hadn't really thought
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of the urns I was going to do a big
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evergreen right here and so the the
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arbor vitae hedge was gonna kind of
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disappear behind that big spruce but
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then I decided to go with the urns so I
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need to continue my green wall all the
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way down to the birch and then this is
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where I'll start in with my bigger
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plantings of evergreens so that this
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will be my disappearing wall kind of
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like right in here I hope that makes
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sense but
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this has been kind of an evolving
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process just like everything is in our
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garden so it's been really fun to kind
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of see it go from what it wasn't we
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moved in to what it is today and what it
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I can kind of see the potential for what
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it will be here and even like a couple
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years or five years or ten years it's
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going to be amazing and the last little
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bit is still yet to be mulched this is
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where we ended up we have our second
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mulch over there we are just needing
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extra time to get that done but we're
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almost there so anyway guys that is it
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for this video I got 2 big groupings of
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pots done which makes me happy they're
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all on drip so after today after I water
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them all in they are good to go for this
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season in terms of that I don't have
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like a daily maintenance tour with them
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which is awesome and that's what takes a
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little extra time getting them all set
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up like that but it's 100% worth it
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because I can enjoy them so much more
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when I'm not feeling like I'm a slave to
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them every day you know making sure that
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either myself or somebody else is here
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to give them water so anyway thank you
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guys so much for watching hope you
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enjoyed this video and we will see you
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in the next one bye
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hey guys in today's video I'm just gonna
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be planting a bunch of container
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starting with the ones right in front of
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our barn along with the hay rack up
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there and then several more in the
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garden including the urns along the west
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side of our house which I'm so excited
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about and I hope you guys are not
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getting sick of planting videos but that
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is what our life is right now from about
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mid-april to mid-june it's go time in
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terms of planting here annuals
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perennials shrubs trees I mean you name
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it it's just kind of like the time of
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year for us to get everything in the
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ground so I hope you're enjoying all of
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the videos so I do have the plants that
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I'm going to use in these containers
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sitting right here on the ground let me
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show you I'm really excited about this
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color blend so I decided to go with a
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purple fountain grass as the centerpiece
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if you've never grown this it's a super
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common grass to find it's super popular
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but it grows into a very spectacular
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looking a centerpiece with really pretty
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plumes on the top and it seems like
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every year no matter what I try I end up
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putting purple fountain grass in these
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containers maybe like even somewhere
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midway in the season after one of my
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other centerpieces has died or something
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so anyway I decided to just go with that
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from the gate and I think that'll be
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great because this will go all the way
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through the season in fact I can leave
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these through the winter for winter
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interest if I decide to then we're going
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to do a Sweet Caroline light greens
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sweet potato vine which I'm excited to
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have a foliage accent I haven't done
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that in these containers for the last
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few years because they are pretty water
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hungry but we do have drip set up to the
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pots which I need to work on a little
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bit today so that won't be a problem
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this next one is gorgeous and I haven't
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used a lot of it in this garden but this
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is a Lantana called lemon zest and I
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just think it's so pretty to have that
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bright pop of yellow back here there's a
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little bit of white like a little bit of
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lighter yellow and then that really
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bright yellow anyway these which should
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do really well because it's so hot and
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sunny in front of the barn typically we
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have a really nice overcast day today
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then we have supertunia blue skies which
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this is so beautiful I love this color
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this actually reminds me of my mom she
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does a lot of like this sky blue color
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or light lavender and then coral and
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light yellow and white
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anyway that's probably where my love for
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soft
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like colors comes from I'm guessing and
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then supertunia white so I think it's
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just gonna be a really pretty blend of
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cheerful looking colors and then for the
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hay rack up top same blend of plants but
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I'm going to forego the fountain grass
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because that would kind of look odd I
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think up there the containers are
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cleaned out I have bags of soil right
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here I think I brought enough up here
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and I do want to show you the drip
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system here so it actually comes from
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inside the barn I don't know if you can
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see that right there it's kind of dark
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Aaron drilled a hole which is no big
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deal in our barn because there's like
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natural holes in our barn the drip comes
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right out through there and then through
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a hole that we drilled in the bottom
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there's actually four other drain holes
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on either side like all sides of this
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container and look at all those elm
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seeds oh they're just coming off the
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trees like crazy right now
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so you can see the quarter inch drip
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tubing comes up through the bottom we'll
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fill it with soil and then it'll just
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kind of lay against the side you know
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it'll be kind of trapped against the
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side with soil and then we'll flip it
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over the top of the soil and put some
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emitters in I think I'm going to put
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four and it currently only has the one
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right now okay so let me get them filled
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so I've got my clippers extra tubing
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these are half gallon per hour emitters
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I want four of them in each container
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this stakes right here will allow me to
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run the tubing through them and then I
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can place them a lot easier with the
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help of the stakes I'm going to use a
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quarter inch cross fitting coupler and a
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quarter inch T and then this tool right
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here helps push the tubing onto the
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emitters which is super handy I'll show
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you that in a minute
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so before I cut anything on this end I'm
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going to make all four of my lines with
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the half gallon emitters on the end it's
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just easier to do it like this so I'm
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going to cut four lengths of this
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quarter inch tubing and I can trim them
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to size when I'm all done so you want to
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give yourself a little extra like a
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little bit more than you think you're
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going to need so there we go got my four
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pieces and I've got my four emitters
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right here so this tool is really handy
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I learned about this from one of you
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guys on a video where I was kind of
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complaining about how hard it is to put
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any midders and couplers onto these
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pieces of tubing it like hurts your
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fingers really bad so I didn't know this
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tool existed so you stick your let me
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just grab one you stick your emitter in
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to one end of this tool and then you
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feed your tube through and then you just
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clamp them down just like that how did I
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not know that this tool existed okay I'm
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also going to do that with my couplers
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here too I know that I need to have two
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of them coming off of the T these are
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harder the couplers are harder than the
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emitters are that's perfect and you can
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twist these around like you can twist
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the coupler and the tubing to get them
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to go you know to get the tubes to go
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where you want them to go and you can
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configure the interior of your pot with
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drips and couplers however you want but
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what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut
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this right here this is the one that's
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feeding through the bottom of the pot
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you want to make sure it doesn't go down
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into soil and then I'm going to attach
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it to one end of the cross so see I've
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got these two sides right here and then
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I'm going to use a little piece I've got
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a hook that
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to the cross I'm just gonna use a little
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piece of tubing okay so this is the tube
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that comes up from underneath the pot
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we've got a cross coupler that has this
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one with an emitter that will take care
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of kind of these plants on this side and
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then this one which will take care of
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the front plants and then on the other
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side of the cross I just put a little
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piece of tube to a tee coupler so that I
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could attach another tube with an
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emitter that will take care of this side
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and then the last tube with an emitter
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to take care of the back and that is
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what I'm going to be doing on all the
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other containers along the front of the
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barn so now I'm going to add a little
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bit of slow-release plant food and this
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just helps give a slow continuous feed
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to your plants even though I do come in
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on a weekly basis and do water-soluble
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fertilizer because I want these plants
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to perform really really well and you
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need to feed them really well in order
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for that to happen so now I'm going to
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plant my centerpiece first which is the
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purple fountain grass and this is an
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interesting container because you would
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think that I would back my centerpiece
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up to the wall just because the
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containers kind of backed up to the wall
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but you see these from three sides you
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do see them from this side because our
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driveway runs this way you see them from
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the other side and from the front so I
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really do want the flower interest to be
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all the way around the centerpiece so
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we're just gonna kind of put this right
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in the center here I think that'll be
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really really nice okay and then I kind
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of forgot how I was gonna arrange all
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the rest of these I dunno I want my
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sweet potato vine to be in the front so
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we'll place that one you notice my
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emitter goes right to the potato vines
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root ball because this is the most water
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hungry of all the plants I'm putting in
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so you just want to be mindful of that
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there we go I think I'm just gonna place
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everything else I'm gonna kind of go in
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thirds here I think we'll see how this
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ends up there's the blue
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so white white and white
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okay so supertunias are all kind of
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split into thirds except for this little
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space here I'm going to plant those and
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then the Lantana's I'm gonna back plant
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because my supertunia is more of a
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dramatic Spiller and the Lantana is a
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little bit more tall so we'll get these
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all in and you'll see the root balls are
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not very bound this one needs water i
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haven't watered anything yet today and
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and you really don't need to tease the
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roots unless it's like severely root
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bound which this time of year you really
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waiting to get your annuals into a
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little bit later like this right here
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you can see a lot of soil still it looks
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pretty nice oh my goodness I just love
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this combination sometimes it's really
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hard for me to want to try out different
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plants because sometimes I find things
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that I love I'm like supertunia Bordeaux
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for example I love that plant and I
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could use every single year all over in
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all of my containers but then like I
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don't know we wouldn't have very many
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interesting videos for you guys if
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that's all I plant it and it is fun
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because sometimes when you try out new
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things you find something that is that
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becomes your new favorite and like these
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supertunia blue skies I haven't ever
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planted this particular supertunia I
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think it's fairly new anyway it's almost
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kind of an electric blue color when I
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look at it close I think I'm gonna
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really enjoy that see the Lantana's will
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put on a little more height I think yeah
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12 to 24 inches so I definitely didn't
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want them right in the front of the
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container we'll let the supertunia and
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the potato vine do the spilling thing
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Lantana's will grow up and be kind of my
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filler plant and then I've got my
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centerpiece in the purple fountain grass
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and I want to do four of these in all
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four corners of the square here like
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that and it does seem like an awful lot
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of plants if these were supertunia
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vistas out of that series I definitely
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wouldn't plant that many in here because
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they grow like they're so vigorous but
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we'll see we'll see how vigorous they I
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mean all supertunias are really great
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growers and they're vigorous plants but
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there's nothing quite like those
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supertunia vistas that's why we use
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those in the hay racks up front because
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you can get away with using far less of
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those than really anything else and it
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kind of scoop everything away from the
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purple fountain grass a little bit
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because that will need to its own space
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and I think that that looks gorgeous so
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even though I have a drip system run to
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these containers every time I plant
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something new I always water it in with
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a hose to begin with just to make sure
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everything's settled
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I check around the root balls to make
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sure I didn't miss any places because
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you want to make sure that there's no
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air coming up against any other roots
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and I just want to settle everything in
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from overhead and then the drip system
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can take off from there and the only
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maintenance I will have in this
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container is weekly fertilizing and then
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possibly trimming toward the middle part
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of summer summer because these will
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probably reach the ground and I don't
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really want them trailing all over the
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place so I'll probably keep them level
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with the bottom of the pot but all of
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these do not require deadheading they're
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really great that way so now let me
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tackle the rest of these containers
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along the bottom of the bar and then
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we'll go up and do the hay rack here
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they are all planted and they look so
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pretty I really like this blend of color
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and there's no pink are you guys
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surprised so now that I'm done with
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these containers I need to tackle the
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hay rack up there and I'm trying to
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remember how I did that last year I
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think I used an extension ladder because
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only one side of the window opens and I
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couldn't reach all the way to the end of
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the hay rack on one side so I do think I
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need to get a ladder out and I don't
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even know if they're soil in there or
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not from last year we'll have to run
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upstairs and see it's also starting to
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rain a little bit out here hopefully it
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doesn't pick up it's nice today though
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yep dang so I need to clean that soil
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out and then put fresh stuff in and then
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plant it's a pretty view down to the
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garden though look at that I love it
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I just got dirt and Coco fiber all over
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my face so I got the ladder set up and
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then what I did was I like heaved the
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whole Coco fiber liner and soil out of
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the hay rack and then just tossed it
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inside so that's one way to clean out
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your Coco fiber liners I think I
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probably just made a huge mess upstairs
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yeah huge mess a lot safer doing it that
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way than trying to come down the ladder
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with it though and now I've got to fill
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those both up with soil so I've got
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brand new fresh soil in here else well
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as the slow release fertilizer you can
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kind of see it I already mixed it in and
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then I've got three one gallon per hour
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emitters and each one of these hair acts
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and then I went up the stairs and put
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the plants out the window here so I'm
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going to start arranging I think I'm
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gonna do two blues and two whites in
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each one see how this hay rack is it's
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split into two I had to do it that way
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to actually like make the width of this
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window because I couldn't find one that
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was the exact width and then maybe -
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potato vine like one on each side so
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that it's really even in the middle and
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then all the Lantana lemon zest will be
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kind of toward the back all right
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here we go
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while that was an adventure I ended up
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only putting three supertunias per hair
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act so I did a blue a white and then a
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blue and then I did three Lantana to
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back it because I do get quite large I
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didn't space that one quite right there
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we go
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only difference on the other side is I
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just put the one potato vine which
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hopefully will kind of grow I pointed it
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this direction
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hopefully it'll grow and look like it's
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right in the middle all right so let's
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go downstairs and see what it looks like
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from down there although I don't think
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it'll look that great
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until it starts filling in a little bit
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and spilling over the edges and then I'm
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gonna run inside quick and clean off my
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face before I continue punching Crum I
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forgot to close the window while I was
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up there but you can see the flowers I
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don't know how well it seems kind of
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dark in the camera I can see them a
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little bit peeking over the edge but
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once they start spilling it'll look
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amazing and I love that they will match
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the pots right underneath so I'm up on
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the west side of the house getting ready
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to plant these four beautiful urns that
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we placed recently I think this is
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actually the last planting project I'm
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going to get to this afternoon because I
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got a really late start and they're
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taking me a lot longer than I thought
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they would
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with all the drip and all that I did
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fill all of these with soil all the way
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already just now and I got the drip all
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set up because it's pretty much exactly
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the same as what I just did I'll show
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you a close-up I only did three emitters
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in each urn so now all I need to do is
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put my slow release fertilizer in show
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you the plants and get them in the urns
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first off before we go to the urns since
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I'm standing right here look at these
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climbing Colette roses aren't they the
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most beautiful things I just love them
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and they're starting to climb up the
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trellis Arbor whatever
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here comes Russell and I did plant some
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supertunia snowdrift in each one of the
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boxwood swoops here because I thought it
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would be fun to try it out in the
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landscape as opposed to containers like
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we did out at my parents house so we'll
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see how they do each one of these is
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supposed to get like two feet tall by
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four feet wide so I only planted six and
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I think they'll fill in this space just
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perfect and here are the plants that I
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chose so we're gonna do another purple
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fountain grass I got some great big ones
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for this project because I kind of
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wanted insta
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impact and then we're gonna surround
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those grasses with some diamond frost
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euphorbia which has that beautiful
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ethereal kind of cloud like I don't know
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it's just so pretty the little white
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blooms and then super Belle's white
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right here and then some dichondra
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silver Falls for our weeping foliage
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accent so last year I planted super
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Belle's white diamond frosty for BIA and
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then a skyrocket Pennisetum I think no
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desert plains Pennisetum in the
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containers in front of the vegetable
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garden and they were so gorgeous they
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did so well and these containers are not
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that far away I mean the vegetable
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gardens right there so these are gonna
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get pretty much the same conditions that
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that container had last year and so I
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kind of wanted to replicate that this
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year because I had such great luck also
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having the supertunia snowdrift in the
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boxwood so having the white on that side
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of the pathway and then drawing the
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white over into the containers I think
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will be a really restful thing to do and
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then I can start filling in the rest of
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the area with some other color but I
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think I'm gonna do one fountain grass
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maybe three of all the rest of the
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plants will have to see these are a
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little bit smaller than the planters I
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just planted so this is the esplanade
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urn from unique stone on a pillar that I
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cannot remember the name of these do not
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come together you have to order them
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separately and but they're beautiful I
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absolutely absolutely love them and you
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can see the drip the quarter inch drip
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comes right through the bottom in fact
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we showed this to you in another video
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we run the drip up because there is a
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hole through the pillar and then a hole
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the drainage hole up through the urn and
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then it comes in right here
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I put a Crofts coupler and then I did
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three emitters in this container just
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kind of split it into thirds so all of
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these urns are ready for planting
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alright guys they're all planted and I
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love love them I think they look like
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such an elegant classic mix of colors
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and textures I just love like the
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all-white look with that grass in the
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middle and everything of course will
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grow crazy they'll get really big I
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ended up doing the one grass and then I
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did three diamond frost euphorbias kind
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of set back from the edge and then in
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front of the diamond frost I did the
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dichondra silver falls and then in
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between each grouping of that I did the
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super Belles white and I'm hopeful that
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these will look just like the containers
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that were in front of the vegetable
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garden
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I hope they fill in and are as full of
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flowers as those were but I think it was
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kind of the right thing to do in terms
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of color because it looks so great with
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this style of urn as well as the white
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supertunias that we have on the other
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side I just love it and the North Pole
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Arbor vytas are doing so well we were
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looking at pictures the other day of
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what they look like when we planted them
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and they were about they were barely
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over this second like this middle I
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guess middle fence rail right here so
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they have grown significantly I mean
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putting on that much growth and then
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they've at least doubled if not more in
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size I can't wait until they become a
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solid green wall because can you imagine
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these urns set apart from any
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distractions you know in the background
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but just having that solid green while
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it's 10 to 15 feet tall I think the
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contrast will be beautiful we also did
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end up my mom found seven more North
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Pole Arbor vitaes ordered them in for us
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so we could finish off the hedge it's
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gonna look a little funny for a while
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but these will catch up but because I
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didn't realize I hadn't really thought
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of the urns I was going to do a big
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evergreen right here and so the the
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arbor vitae hedge was gonna kind of
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disappear behind that big spruce but
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then I decided to go with the urns so I
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need to continue my green wall all the
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way down to the birch and then this is
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where I'll start in with my bigger
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plantings of evergreens so that this
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will be my disappearing wall kind of
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like right in here I hope that makes
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sense but
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this has been kind of an evolving
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process just like everything is in our
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garden so it's been really fun to kind
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of see it go from what it wasn't we
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moved in to what it is today and what it
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I can kind of see the potential for what
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it will be here and even like a couple
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years or five years or ten years it's
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going to be amazing and the last little
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bit is still yet to be mulched this is
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where we ended up we have our second
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mulch over there we are just needing
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extra time to get that done but we're
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almost there so anyway guys that is it
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for this video I got 2 big groupings of
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pots done which makes me happy they're
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all on drip so after today after I water
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them all in they are good to go for this
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season in terms of that I don't have
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like a daily maintenance tour with them
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which is awesome and that's what takes a
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little extra time getting them all set
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up like that but it's 100% worth it
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because I can enjoy them so much more
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when I'm not feeling like I'm a slave to
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them every day you know making sure that
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either myself or somebody else is here
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to give them water so anyway thank you
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guys so much for watching hope you
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enjoyed this video and we will see you
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in the next one bye
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Planting up Our Brick Circle Patio Area!
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A Couple Great Evergreen Options for Small Spaces! Garden Answer
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Transcript:
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hey guys good morning so we're over here
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on the west side of our property right
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where we just put this new area in with
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the brick walkway I've planted a few
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things in this corner so far but I'm
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getting ready to plant this grouping of
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pinpoint blue Cypress I want this whole
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corner to be pretty heavy with winter
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interest I've planted a couple there's a
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red tip Norway spruce right here I've
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got a weeping Colorado blue spruce over
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there on the other side for some blue
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interest I think that these are gonna
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create a beautiful dramatic vertical
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element because these grow about 15 to
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20 feet tall and only get about 5 to 6
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feet wide so they'll create that drama
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without taking up an enormous amount of
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real estate down below we do have a
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weeping Alaskan cedar back here what you
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can see is not planted yet because I've
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been avoiding it check out how big of a
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hole we have to dig so I'm just kind of
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procrastinating on the planting of this
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one it's a gorgeous tree though it's
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gonna be back toward the corner just
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maybe like a foot or two more so that'll
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be our very back layer then I've got a
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spring snow crab apple and a Chanticleer
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pear autumn brilliants serviceberry
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right here and then our other evergreen
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interest so far is the north pole arbor
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vitae hedge and you can see that I was
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able to find a few more North Pole arms
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to finish up our hedge all the way to
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the birch tree here my mom was finally
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able to order some of these in at the
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garden center so we snapped him up right
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away
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so they will catch up but it's gonna
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look a little funny for a little bit but
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they'll catch up with the others and
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then we'll have a nice green wall all
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the way to the birch and then all of
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this will be heavily planted to where
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you won't see the ending of the hedge
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you'll see the top of it but this will
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be so heavily planted that it'll just
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kind of disappear behind whatever
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whatever ends up here um so this
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pinpoint blue is a zone 5 through 7 and
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they're actually native to Oregon and
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California and they've been known as the
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port orford cedar but I just love their
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feathery ferny looking texture and that
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kind of cool blue color that they
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provide one thing you do need to know
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about these is they do require excellent
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drainage you don't want to put them in
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any low-lying areas where water pools or
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in really like heavy clay soil it holds
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on to a lot of water I think this is
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going to be a perfect spot because as
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all the water will kind of like run away
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from the root balls of the plants and we
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have a brown irrigation tubing drip
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tubing underneath all of this mulch and
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like the birch tree I'll run even extra
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emitters to those root balls but with
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these I'll just allow the brown tubing
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to do the job and it should be fine we
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get really really hot here so I think
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the amount of irrigation these will get
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will be perfect but it's just something
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that we have to adjust from year to year
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all right all three of them are in I
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think they look so great I can't wait to
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see him grow and I think they'll really
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like this spot because one the drainage
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is really good and two they'll get
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enough Sun they like either full Sun or
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part Sun I would say a minimum of at
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least six hours to keep him really happy
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and I think the way that they're planted
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in this trio was kind of perfect I was
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really concerned only with two views so
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the one when you're walking down the
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brick pathway and then also the one when
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you're coming down our driveway which is
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right in front of me I wanted to be able
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to see all of them individually but I
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also wanted to stay away from everything
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else that's in this area so there wasn't
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too much competition in the end and I
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didn't want the front one to come out
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too far in maturity so at maturity it'll
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probably be about here which gives me a
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little bit of space for one more layer
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down of plants which I think will be a
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nice softer transition instead of just
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pathway and then something super tall I
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think well we're out here we're gonna go
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ahead and try to tackle planting this
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right here because we've got all of our
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stuff out and I did want to get the
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north pole our providers in the ground
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as well I wanted to talk about these
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just a little bit because there are
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another really great option like the
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Cypress for a narrow evergreen planting
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which are kind of hard to find it's hard
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to find really beautiful evergreens that
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stay small enough I mean we chose these
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specifically because they only grow
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about 3 to 5 feet wide at maturity and
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as they you can see if you look down the
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lane here we don't have an enormous
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amount of space for them to grow so I
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thought it would be perfect and they've
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done so so well so we planted these I
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think two summers ago when it was a
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hundred and four degrees outside which I
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do not recommend you doing but we only
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lost one which is amazing usually when
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you're planting that many of anything
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you'll have some loss just from either
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shock you know from transitioning you
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know from pot to ground you might have a
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gopher come through and disrupt the root
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system your drip system might not be
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working in a certain area so whatever
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the case may be I feel like that ratio
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was excellent and they grow about 10 to
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15 feet tall so it's gonna create this
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beautiful green wall back here and I
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just wanted to continue that on like I
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kind of explained earlier but they stay
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this nice green color and they're just a
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fast grower when we planted these they
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only came about right up to right above
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this rail right
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here the second rail down and you can
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see on this one how much it's growth
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it's put on so it's only about this tall
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it's put on this much growth and they've
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at least doubled if not more in width so
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I'm just really pleased with how these
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have done they actually lasted through
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our really bad winter here too right
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yeah they did they went through our
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really bad winter where we had 52 inches
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of snow and negative 17 degree
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temperatures and look at them they're
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still thriving and doing excellent so
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I'm excited to get these in the ground
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so that this area is kind of buttoned up
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for now
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oh there goes the camera yeah
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we got it all planted except I'm not
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sure how much of the planting of this
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cedar you just saw because we
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accidentally knocked Aaron's camera over
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right in the middle of planting it and
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it was a beast to dig the hole big
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enough for this plant I'm so glad it's
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in the ground we were taking turns
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digging the hole make sure there was
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enough room for it and we did tossin bio
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tone starter fertilizer in the hole as
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well as all of the holes for everything
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we planted today so we went ahead and
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planted five of the north pole arbor
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vitae is on this side of the birch and
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we took a tape measure to get our
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spacing right we measured how far apart
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we spaced the other ones it was about 40
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inches so that's how we spaced these we
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had a couple left over I over bought a
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little bit so we decided just to carry
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the hedge just a little bit further I'll
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go get one more and so we'll have a
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little trio right here and I just think
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that'll be a nice green wall that will
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kind of disappear that's what I want to
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have happen I would kind of want this
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wall of arms just to disappear in the
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background and really set apart
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everything that's in front of it so
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anyway I hope you guys found this video
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interesting or maybe you got some ideas
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from it for something that's really good
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for a small area in your garden for a
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screening plant the Cypress or the arbor
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vitae they're both really good for that
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really good as a dramatic kind of accent
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as well I mean you don't have to plant
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them in a row you can plant them in a
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little grouping like this for just a
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really huge impact planting in the years
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to come I think it's really pretty even
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now though I'm excited to get some more
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color in here and it's really fun just
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to plant this whole thing just mixed
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with some deciduous trees with different
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colors for fall and then a lot of
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evergreens as well so that it looks
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pretty all year round and I'm sure
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Aaron's gonna come out here with
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Christmas lights this year it'll be
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interesting to see what he does so
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anyway thank you guys so much for
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watching this video and we will see you
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in the next one bye
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hey guys good morning so we're over here
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on the west side of our property right
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where we just put this new area in with
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the brick walkway I've planted a few
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things in this corner so far but I'm
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getting ready to plant this grouping of
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pinpoint blue Cypress I want this whole
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corner to be pretty heavy with winter
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interest I've planted a couple there's a
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red tip Norway spruce right here I've
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got a weeping Colorado blue spruce over
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there on the other side for some blue
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interest I think that these are gonna
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create a beautiful dramatic vertical
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element because these grow about 15 to
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20 feet tall and only get about 5 to 6
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feet wide so they'll create that drama
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without taking up an enormous amount of
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real estate down below we do have a
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weeping Alaskan cedar back here what you
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can see is not planted yet because I've
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been avoiding it check out how big of a
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hole we have to dig so I'm just kind of
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procrastinating on the planting of this
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one it's a gorgeous tree though it's
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gonna be back toward the corner just
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maybe like a foot or two more so that'll
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be our very back layer then I've got a
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spring snow crab apple and a Chanticleer
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pear autumn brilliants serviceberry
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right here and then our other evergreen
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interest so far is the north pole arbor
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vitae hedge and you can see that I was
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able to find a few more North Pole arms
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to finish up our hedge all the way to
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the birch tree here my mom was finally
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able to order some of these in at the
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garden center so we snapped him up right
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away
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so they will catch up but it's gonna
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look a little funny for a little bit but
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they'll catch up with the others and
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then we'll have a nice green wall all
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the way to the birch and then all of
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this will be heavily planted to where
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you won't see the ending of the hedge
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you'll see the top of it but this will
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be so heavily planted that it'll just
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kind of disappear behind whatever
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whatever ends up here um so this
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pinpoint blue is a zone 5 through 7 and
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they're actually native to Oregon and
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California and they've been known as the
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port orford cedar but I just love their
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feathery ferny looking texture and that
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kind of cool blue color that they
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provide one thing you do need to know
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about these is they do require excellent
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drainage you don't want to put them in
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any low-lying areas where water pools or
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in really like heavy clay soil it holds
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on to a lot of water I think this is
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going to be a perfect spot because as
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you can see
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the landscape slopes down right here so
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all the water will kind of like run away
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from the root balls of the plants and we
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have a brown irrigation tubing drip
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tubing underneath all of this mulch and
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usually if I have a water hungry plant
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like the birch tree I'll run even extra
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emitters to those root balls but with
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these I'll just allow the brown tubing
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to do the job and it should be fine we
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get really really hot here so I think
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the amount of irrigation these will get
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will be perfect but it's just something
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that we have to adjust from year to year
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depending on if they're newly planted
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you know they need a little extra water
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and then every year past that it's less
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take a look and see how the area looks
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all right all three of them are in I
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think they look so great I can't wait to
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see him grow and I think they'll really
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like this spot because one the drainage
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is really good and two they'll get
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enough Sun they like either full Sun or
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part Sun I would say a minimum of at
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least six hours to keep him really happy
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and I think the way that they're planted
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in this trio was kind of perfect I was
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really concerned only with two views so
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the one when you're walking down the
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brick pathway and then also the one when
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you're coming down our driveway which is
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right in front of me I wanted to be able
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to see all of them individually but I
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also wanted to stay away from everything
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else that's in this area so there wasn't
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too much competition in the end and I
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didn't want the front one to come out
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too far in maturity so at maturity it'll
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probably be about here which gives me a
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little bit of space for one more layer
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down of plants which I think will be a
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nice softer transition instead of just
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pathway and then something super tall I
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think well we're out here we're gonna go
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ahead and try to tackle planting this
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right here because we've got all of our
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stuff out and I did want to get the
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north pole our providers in the ground
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as well I wanted to talk about these
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just a little bit because there are
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another really great option like the
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Cypress for a narrow evergreen planting
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which are kind of hard to find it's hard
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to find really beautiful evergreens that
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stay small enough I mean we chose these
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specifically because they only grow
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about 3 to 5 feet wide at maturity and
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as they you can see if you look down the
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lane here we don't have an enormous
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amount of space for them to grow so I
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thought it would be perfect and they've
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done so so well so we planted these I
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think two summers ago when it was a
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hundred and four degrees outside which I
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do not recommend you doing but we only
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lost one which is amazing usually when
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you're planting that many of anything
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you'll have some loss just from either
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shock you know from transitioning you
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know from pot to ground you might have a
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gopher come through and disrupt the root
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system your drip system might not be
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working in a certain area so whatever
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the case may be I feel like that ratio
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was excellent and they grow about 10 to
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15 feet tall so it's gonna create this
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beautiful green wall back here and I
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just wanted to continue that on like I
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kind of explained earlier but they stay
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this nice green color and they're just a
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fast grower when we planted these they
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only came about right up to right above
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this rail right
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here the second rail down and you can
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see on this one how much it's growth
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it's put on so it's only about this tall
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it's put on this much growth and they've
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at least doubled if not more in width so
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I'm just really pleased with how these
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have done they actually lasted through
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our really bad winter here too right
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yeah they did they went through our
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really bad winter where we had 52 inches
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of snow and negative 17 degree
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temperatures and look at them they're
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still thriving and doing excellent so
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I'm excited to get these in the ground
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so that this area is kind of buttoned up
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oh there goes the camera yeah
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we got it all planted except I'm not
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sure how much of the planting of this
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cedar you just saw because we
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accidentally knocked Aaron's camera over
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right in the middle of planting it and
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it was a beast to dig the hole big
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enough for this plant I'm so glad it's
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in the ground we were taking turns
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digging the hole make sure there was
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enough room for it and we did tossin bio
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tone starter fertilizer in the hole as
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well as all of the holes for everything
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we planted today so we went ahead and
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planted five of the north pole arbor
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vitae is on this side of the birch and
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we took a tape measure to get our
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spacing right we measured how far apart
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we spaced the other ones it was about 40
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inches so that's how we spaced these we
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had a couple left over I over bought a
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little bit so we decided just to carry
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the hedge just a little bit further I'll
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go get one more and so we'll have a
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little trio right here and I just think
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that'll be a nice green wall that will
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kind of disappear that's what I want to
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have happen I would kind of want this
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wall of arms just to disappear in the
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background and really set apart
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everything that's in front of it so
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anyway I hope you guys found this video
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interesting or maybe you got some ideas
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from it for something that's really good
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for a small area in your garden for a
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screening plant the Cypress or the arbor
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vitae they're both really good for that
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really good as a dramatic kind of accent
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them in a row you can plant them in a
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little grouping like this for just a
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really huge impact planting in the years
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to come I think it's really pretty even
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now though I'm excited to get some more
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color in here and it's really fun just
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to plant this whole thing just mixed
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with some deciduous trees with different
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colors for fall and then a lot of
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evergreens as well so that it looks
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pretty all year round and I'm sure
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Aaron's gonna come out here with
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Christmas lights this year it'll be
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interesting to see what he does so
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anyway thank you guys so much for
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watching this video and we will see you
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in the next one bye
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you
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Transcript:
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hey guys how's it going I'm just working
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on a few things outside this afternoon
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and we are dodging rain storms it just
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keeps storming on us to spring it's been
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the craziest weather that I can remember
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like the wettest spring ever which our
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plants are really really loving it but I
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now understand what it's like when it
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keeps on raining and you just can't get
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that much done out in the garden because
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it gets to be a muddy mess so this
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afternoon Aaron and I are gonna move a
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couple of benches that Henry studio sent
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out and I'm also gonna plant up these
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giant these are like the classic Oh
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giant palm pots and I think it's what
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they're called I have four of them and
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those are also from Henry Studios so I
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want to get those planted and then I've
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got to do some bug baiting so I'll show
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you what kind of stuff I'm using like in
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my vegetable garden I noticed
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something's eating my basil so I'm gonna
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use some of that bait and kind of take
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care of a few loose ends around here so
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check that out isn't that the prettiest
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pot and they are huge like so there's my
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hand you can see how thick they are and
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how big they are I'm not positive what
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I'm gonna put in each one of these I
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think I'm gonna go with something a
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little bit more shade-loving in these
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pots because we do have the giant elm
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tree that kind of provides filtered
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sunlight through this area and then I've
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got two more on the very far end down
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there that are full Sun and I've got
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perfect stuff for those but these are
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I think they weigh like 300 and some
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pounds apiece
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they were a total beast to get unloaded
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out of the truck and actually when these
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containers arrived it was at the same
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time that our brick pathway was being
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put in and the guys that were here they
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had some equipment that could handle
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like heavy large objects and bless their
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hearts they came over they saw
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struggling and kind of like sizing these
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pots up thinking how are we gonna lift
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these and get them onto the ground so
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they came over and saved us and helped
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us unload all of the pieces so I think
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that Erin and I are gonna move the
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benches quick first and they're really
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pretty they're gonna go in Versailles
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while Benjamin is napping we try to get
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things done includes the both of us when
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he is napping quickly so I'm here in the
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bar and here are the legs of the benches
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that's called this straight lion bench
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we thought they would look really pretty
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and kind of stately up in the Versailles
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garden you brought the truck out
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that's perfect I think that'll work the
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best do you know where the tops of the
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benches are here okay it's getting a
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little worried there for second
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aha and there's the tops covered in
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handle is covered in burlap of course I
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can handle these I can do stuff like
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this in my sleep
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those bench pieces are stout oh look at
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that pretty pot oh look at the colors
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okay so we're up in Versailles right now
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let me show you what we're thinking and
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this is actually based off of what the
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previous owners had done in here they
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had some benches and we kind of like the
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way it looked
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it's just taken us three years to get to
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it so as you're looking at the house
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they had placed benches about right here
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and then one on this side which was nice
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they kind of took up some space provided
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some seating and if I remember right
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they had urns up here as well but I just
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I can't quite remember I'll have to see
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if we have any footage but I thought
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they had a couple out here like off to
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the far sides I'm not sure you're
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getting started well do you think like
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right up in here I think maybe if we
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place the legs hopefully we get it
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pretty close we don't need to move
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anything
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are you Vanna White
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I love it these pavers back here now
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you've always loved those pavers yeah we
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need to do brick yeah well we'll get
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there I know how to do it now yeah I
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love this you guys look at the bench
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with the boxwoods behind it with all the
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hostas and the Columbine oh it's so
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I do need to bring some scissors out
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here but just in case you're wondering
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that I would show you this is the
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straight line bench in the color
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traviata gray from Henry bench number
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standing way back so you guys can see
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but there they are
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so we roughly stepped off how far the
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bench was from the corner of that
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container to the bench same on this side
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it looks like a little bit of an
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illusion because see if the pavers
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behind kind of go up I don't know what
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the deal is we're not going to have
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these pavers here hopefully for very
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much longer and the land kind of starts
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to slope down a little bit right here
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it's just kind of an odd situation but I
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think the benches look really good
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Russell what do you think buddy
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what do you think hey what a good boy
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also while we're up here I just want to
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show you how this gardens coming along
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so that's a supertunia limoncello and
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the dark knight alyssum I haven't had to
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water at one time because of all the
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rain and it's looking amazing okay one
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project checked off the list so let's go
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back and plant up the containers this
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set of containers is ready to roll I
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just need to go grab some plants I did
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run a drip line even though I probably
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won't hook it up this afternoon it
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depends on how much time I end up having
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but at least I have the capability of
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getting it all done before the soil went
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in so anyway let's go grab plants
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okay so I think I figured out the
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mixture of plants I want in these
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containers again these get filtered Sun
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so I can kind of do shade and Sun levers
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a little bit I'm probably not gonna do
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like supertunias because they do the
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best with full Sun all day but the
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things I chose I think will be really
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pretty together so these are not planted
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yet I just kind of stuck them in there
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I'm going to use a lemony lace
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elderberry as my centerpiece they're
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super Hardy plants so they'll probably
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winter over in these containers just
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perfectly then there are some anemones
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look at this look at how beautiful that
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is let me get the tag these are called
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fallin love sweetly can take fold apart
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son I think these are pretty tough as
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zone four through eight and they bloom
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late summer through fall so I think that
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this is going to be a winner for this
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for a container anyway lots of color
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like look at all of these buds they're
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all so beautiful in cut flower
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arrangements well bonus there and then
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we've got wicked which coleus which will
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be new next year I'm able to trial it
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this year see how it does in the garden
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and it will get quite large so that'll
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be another one that's kind of like a
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filler plant kind of like the anemone
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and then I've got Diamond frost
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euphorbia which does well in a lightly
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shaded area and then dichondra silver
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fault so kind of got like all the colors
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I've got red and blue and yellow and
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green which those are the four colors I
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always make sure to have in every flower
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bed pretty much so I'm gonna grab my
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flow release plant food really quick and
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then I'm just gonna get those planted up
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I came out here last night late like
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after Benjamin was asleep and did a
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bunch of work in the garage just
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organized and cleaned it needed it's all
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bad things get really bad in the spring
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oh my goodness it turned out so pretty
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and it's kind of a random assortment of
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plants really but I really wanted to try
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something new in terms of a centerpiece
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something just unusual and then the
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anemones add something so beautiful and
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the diamond frost
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there's the coleus right there which is
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coleus we'll fill in this section really
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really quickly and then the dichondra
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they just like bulk up and it'll be a
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really dramatic Spiller out of the sides
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but it looks the same from all the way
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around alright so now we just have the
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two on the far end so here's what I'm
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going with in these containers I'm gonna
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do the purple fountain grass in the
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center because I think that it'll do
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really well it'll perform really
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beautifully because these containers get
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all day Sun and then to surround it I'm
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actually using two brand new plants for
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next year that I'm also trying and I
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think they're so gorgeous this is a new
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supertunia look at that it's called
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supertunia Sharon and it's beautiful
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double with the pink and white striping
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I just think it's just such a delicate
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looking supertunia and then these are
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superb ena Sparkle amethyst I think it's
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what they're called these are huge
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blooms look at those I am really excited
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to see how these do and I think that
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these are just beautiful colors together
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too so I decided just to keep it to the
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two flowers because I just really want
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to keep them a little bit separate so I
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can see how they do together in these
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containers so now I'm just going to get
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implanted
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these are all done what do you guys
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think of this blend don't you think it's
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just beautiful so excited and I have to
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say while I'm over here that these stand
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by me clematis that we planted last
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spring are absolutely wonderful
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they are wonderful perennials this is
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one year of growth you guys that's it
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I was kind of thinking it was going to
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take him a couple years to fill in this
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area and they have just gone for it like
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this right here is all one plant like
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this bunch right here and then these are
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the orange smoothie day lilies which are
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looking really great so these will
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actually pick up and start blooming when
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the clematis are kind of done which is
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why I chose to do what I did because I
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wanted to have staggered bloom time and
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then back in here you can see the ginger
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wine nine bark is doing excellent it has
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a little bit to do a little growing to
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do to catch up and kind of fill in this
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area back here but you can see that it's
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about ready to bloom look at all of
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those buds it's just covered and the
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color is wonderful and then if we go
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around the fence here you can see the
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orange smoothie stop right here which
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that one's a little sad I might dig that
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one up and move it but I actually know
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I'm gonna dig this one up and move it
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back because this is the only pot that I
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couldn't place properly because I do
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need to move these two plants before I
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do it I did run drip tubing though
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through the pot so I could hook them up
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when I was all done with that but I've
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got the at last roses back here I've got
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a little broken branch right there
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look at look at the color and underneath
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them I've got a bunch of two Crean
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blooming look at how beautiful that is
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and you can see what it looks like right
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up next to one of the at last roses and
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these are doing wonderful to you guys
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these were a last spring plant as well
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so I've got one in here that I cut I
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need to clean some of that to cream out
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from around it kind of choking it then
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there's this one and for more I planted
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them in kind of a hedge back here and
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they are super full of buds and I have
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to say one of the only roses that in my
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garden that doesn't have any a fits on
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it so that's saying something right
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so I need to water in these containers
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and wash my hands and then there's just
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one other thing I want to get done I
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want to bait in my garden quick and then
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I need to scatter some cat repellent in
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my window boxes because rustle and all
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the other cats around this neighborhood
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like to get into window boxes and look
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inside of our house so anyway that's
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what I'm doing next so I'm in the
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vegetable garden now and this is some
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I started inside a little while ago and
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it's not looking super hot because it's
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been so wet for the last several days
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because of all the rain but look at this
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they're clearly being eaten by something
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and so I need to bait around and which I
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typically don't have any problem with
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basil so kind of weird I've got both of
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my baits right here this is what I'm
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using in the garden this is the bug and
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slug killer I've showed this to you
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before it is a iron phosphate spinosa it
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is the active in it and is for organic
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gardening which I like and I like the
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fact that it's a beta not a spray so I'm
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not killing any like honeybees that are
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flying around it'll just get whatever's
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crawling around around the base of these
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plants and it takes care of all the big
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offenders like earwigs are a huge one
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here we don't have a lot of snails but
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we do get slugs occasionally so anyway I
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like this too because let me show you
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you can see in there it's kind of a
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grain instead of a powder and typically
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all start with diatomaceous earth first
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because it's really it's kind of a mild
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insecticide but you have to continually
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reapply it once it gets wet and it's
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been so wet from all the rain that this
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grain actually lasts through that quite
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well so I feel like it's the best way to
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go right now and I really I haven't had
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to treat very many other things in fact
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the only thing I have put any bait
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around in the garden is the cabbage let
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me show you what that looks like cabbage
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is looking pretty good and with just two
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applications of bait throughout the
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spring I did notice and I think this is
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when I started putting the bait on let's
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see I thought I'd noticed yeah see that
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right there a little bit of slug damage
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that's when I started baiting the plants
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and they look amazing now isn't that the
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prettiest thing ever
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so pretty so this is super easy to use I
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just open up the cap and shake it around
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the base of the
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plants
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all right that should do it and this is
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the next one I'm using this is called go
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away rabbit dog and cat repellent it's
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one I've actually not tried so I'm
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looking forward to trying this the
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active ingredients are cinnamon and
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thyme oil so it probably smells pretty
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oh my sneeze it's not stinky it's not
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great but it's not stinky and you know I
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don't really want to put cat repellent
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around because I like Russell and I
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don't really need to repel him for much
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but he's trying to get in my window
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boxes a lot too when he wants in and I
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don't really want him to wreck my plants
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so I am gonna sprinkle a little bit so
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here goes this is the one he tries to
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get it in the most and then use
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scratches and claws at the screen it
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drives me nuts your pipe and smoke it
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here he is now hey Russell what you
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doing buddy yeah did you sense that I
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was talking about you did you sense it
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we need to get you a cat door that would
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probably eliminate all of my problems
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the only issue with that is that it
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would welcome all the other neighbor
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cats into our house and I don't really
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want to do either all right I got all of
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the window boxes treated I will let you
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guys know how this works
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it'd be great if it works really really
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well I'm assuming I'm gonna have to
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reapply it every once in a while hold on
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okay so it doesn't say how often I'm
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supposed to apply it but I'm guessing I
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just keep reapplying it pretty heavy for
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the first a little bit to at least
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create a stronger version and then it'll
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probably last longer in between times so
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anyway yeah that is it for today's video
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I think that's all I have time for I do
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have to go water some things in the
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greenhouse but then I want to go in and
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hang out with Benjamin so anyway hope
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you guys enjoyed this video we'll see
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you in the next one bye view all
Concrete Pieces:
Straight Lion Bench - https://bit.ly/2IeywVl
Giant Palm Pot Classico - https://bit.ly/2I7FPOo
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ColorBlaze® Wicked Witch™ Coleus - https://bit.ly/2K2nV0l
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Silver Falls™ Dichondra - https://bit.ly/2WeVQcG
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Continuous Release Plant Food - https://bit.ly/2qrxeM3
Graceful Grasses® Purple Fountain Grass - https://bit.ly/2KMQjRu
Supertunia® Sharon - https://bit.ly/2wj9BZx
Superbena Sparkling® Amethyst - https://bit.ly/2YJ6HJq
Bug Bait & Cat Repellent:
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Go Away! Rabbig, Cat & Dog Repellent - https://amzn.to/2K2n0NG
Transcript:
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hey guys how's it going I'm just working
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on a few things outside this afternoon
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and we are dodging rain storms it just
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keeps storming on us to spring it's been
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the craziest weather that I can remember
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like the wettest spring ever which our
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plants are really really loving it but I
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now understand what it's like when it
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keeps on raining and you just can't get
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that much done out in the garden because
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it gets to be a muddy mess so this
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afternoon Aaron and I are gonna move a
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couple of benches that Henry studio sent
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out and I'm also gonna plant up these
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giant these are like the classic Oh
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giant palm pots and I think it's what
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they're called I have four of them and
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those are also from Henry Studios so I
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want to get those planted and then I've
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got to do some bug baiting so I'll show
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you what kind of stuff I'm using like in
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my vegetable garden I noticed
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something's eating my basil so I'm gonna
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use some of that bait and kind of take
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care of a few loose ends around here so
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check that out isn't that the prettiest
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pot and they are huge like so there's my
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hand you can see how thick they are and
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how big they are I'm not positive what
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I'm gonna put in each one of these I
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think I'm gonna go with something a
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little bit more shade-loving in these
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pots because we do have the giant elm
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tree that kind of provides filtered
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sunlight through this area and then I've
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got two more on the very far end down
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there that are full Sun and I've got
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perfect stuff for those but these are
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heavy
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I think they weigh like 300 and some
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pounds apiece
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they were a total beast to get unloaded
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out of the truck and actually when these
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containers arrived it was at the same
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time that our brick pathway was being
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put in and the guys that were here they
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had some equipment that could handle
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like heavy large objects and bless their
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hearts they came over they saw
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struggling and kind of like sizing these
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pots up thinking how are we gonna lift
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these and get them onto the ground so
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they came over and saved us and helped
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us unload all of the pieces so I think
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that Erin and I are gonna move the
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benches quick first and they're really
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pretty they're gonna go in Versailles
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while Benjamin is napping we try to get
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things done includes the both of us when
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he is napping quickly so I'm here in the
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bar and here are the legs of the benches
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that's called this straight lion bench
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we thought they would look really pretty
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and kind of stately up in the Versailles
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garden you brought the truck out
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that's perfect I think that'll work the
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best do you know where the tops of the
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benches are here okay it's getting a
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little worried there for second
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aha and there's the tops covered in
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handle is covered in burlap of course I
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can handle these I can do stuff like
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this in my sleep
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those bench pieces are stout oh look at
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that pretty pot oh look at the colors
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okay so we're up in Versailles right now
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let me show you what we're thinking and
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this is actually based off of what the
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previous owners had done in here they
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had some benches and we kind of like the
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way it looked
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it's just taken us three years to get to
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it so as you're looking at the house
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they had placed benches about right here
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and then one on this side which was nice
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they kind of took up some space provided
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some seating and if I remember right
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they had urns up here as well but I just
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I can't quite remember I'll have to see
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if we have any footage but I thought
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they had a couple out here like off to
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the far sides I'm not sure you're
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getting started well do you think like
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right up in here I think maybe if we
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place the legs hopefully we get it
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pretty close we don't need to move
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anything
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are you Vanna White
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I love it these pavers back here now
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you've always loved those pavers yeah we
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need to do brick yeah well we'll get
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there I know how to do it now yeah I
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love this you guys look at the bench
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with the boxwoods behind it with all the
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hostas and the Columbine oh it's so
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pretty
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I do need to bring some scissors out
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here but just in case you're wondering
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that I would show you this is the
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straight line bench in the color
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traviata gray from Henry bench number
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two
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standing way back so you guys can see
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but there they are
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so we roughly stepped off how far the
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bench was from the corner of that
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container to the bench same on this side
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it looks like a little bit of an
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illusion because see if the pavers
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behind kind of go up I don't know what
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the deal is we're not going to have
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these pavers here hopefully for very
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much longer and the land kind of starts
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to slope down a little bit right here
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it's just kind of an odd situation but I
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think the benches look really good
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Russell what do you think buddy
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what do you think hey what a good boy
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also while we're up here I just want to
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show you how this gardens coming along
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so that's a supertunia limoncello and
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the dark knight alyssum I haven't had to
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water at one time because of all the
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rain and it's looking amazing okay one
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project checked off the list so let's go
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back and plant up the containers this
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set of containers is ready to roll I
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just need to go grab some plants I did
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run a drip line even though I probably
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won't hook it up this afternoon it
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depends on how much time I end up having
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but at least I have the capability of
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getting it all done before the soil went
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in so anyway let's go grab plants
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okay so I think I figured out the
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mixture of plants I want in these
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containers again these get filtered Sun
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so I can kind of do shade and Sun levers
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a little bit I'm probably not gonna do
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like supertunias because they do the
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best with full Sun all day but the
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things I chose I think will be really
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pretty together so these are not planted
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yet I just kind of stuck them in there
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I'm going to use a lemony lace
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elderberry as my centerpiece they're
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super Hardy plants so they'll probably
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winter over in these containers just
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perfectly then there are some anemones
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look at this look at how beautiful that
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is let me get the tag these are called
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fallin love sweetly can take fold apart
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son I think these are pretty tough as
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zone four through eight and they bloom
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late summer through fall so I think that
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this is going to be a winner for this
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for a container anyway lots of color
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like look at all of these buds they're
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all so beautiful in cut flower
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arrangements well bonus there and then
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we've got wicked which coleus which will
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be new next year I'm able to trial it
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this year see how it does in the garden
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and it will get quite large so that'll
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be another one that's kind of like a
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filler plant kind of like the anemone
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and then I've got Diamond frost
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euphorbia which does well in a lightly
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shaded area and then dichondra silver
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fault so kind of got like all the colors
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I've got red and blue and yellow and
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green which those are the four colors I
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always make sure to have in every flower
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bed pretty much so I'm gonna grab my
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flow release plant food really quick and
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then I'm just gonna get those planted up
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I came out here last night late like
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after Benjamin was asleep and did a
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bunch of work in the garage just
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organized and cleaned it needed it's all
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bad things get really bad in the spring
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oh my goodness it turned out so pretty
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and it's kind of a random assortment of
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plants really but I really wanted to try
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something new in terms of a centerpiece
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something just unusual and then the
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anemones add something so beautiful and
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the diamond frost
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there's the coleus right there which is
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coleus we'll fill in this section really
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really quickly and then the dichondra
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they just like bulk up and it'll be a
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really dramatic Spiller out of the sides
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but it looks the same from all the way
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around alright so now we just have the
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two on the far end so here's what I'm
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going with in these containers I'm gonna
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do the purple fountain grass in the
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center because I think that it'll do
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really well it'll perform really
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beautifully because these containers get
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all day Sun and then to surround it I'm
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actually using two brand new plants for
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next year that I'm also trying and I
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think they're so gorgeous this is a new
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supertunia look at that it's called
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supertunia Sharon and it's beautiful
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double with the pink and white striping
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I just think it's just such a delicate
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looking supertunia and then these are
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superb ena Sparkle amethyst I think it's
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what they're called these are huge
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blooms look at those I am really excited
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to see how these do and I think that
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these are just beautiful colors together
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too so I decided just to keep it to the
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two flowers because I just really want
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to keep them a little bit separate so I
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can see how they do together in these
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containers so now I'm just going to get
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implanted
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these are all done what do you guys
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think of this blend don't you think it's
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just beautiful so excited and I have to
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say while I'm over here that these stand
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by me clematis that we planted last
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spring are absolutely wonderful
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they are wonderful perennials this is
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one year of growth you guys that's it
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I was kind of thinking it was going to
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take him a couple years to fill in this
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area and they have just gone for it like
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this right here is all one plant like
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this bunch right here and then these are
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the orange smoothie day lilies which are
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looking really great so these will
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actually pick up and start blooming when
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the clematis are kind of done which is
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why I chose to do what I did because I
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wanted to have staggered bloom time and
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then back in here you can see the ginger
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wine nine bark is doing excellent it has
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a little bit to do a little growing to
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do to catch up and kind of fill in this
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area back here but you can see that it's
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about ready to bloom look at all of
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those buds it's just covered and the
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color is wonderful and then if we go
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around the fence here you can see the
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orange smoothie stop right here which
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that one's a little sad I might dig that
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one up and move it but I actually know
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I'm gonna dig this one up and move it
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back because this is the only pot that I
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couldn't place properly because I do
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need to move these two plants before I
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do it I did run drip tubing though
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through the pot so I could hook them up
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when I was all done with that but I've
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got the at last roses back here I've got
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a little broken branch right there
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look at look at the color and underneath
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them I've got a bunch of two Crean
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blooming look at how beautiful that is
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and you can see what it looks like right
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up next to one of the at last roses and
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these are doing wonderful to you guys
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these were a last spring plant as well
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so I've got one in here that I cut I
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need to clean some of that to cream out
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from around it kind of choking it then
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there's this one and for more I planted
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them in kind of a hedge back here and
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they are super full of buds and I have
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to say one of the only roses that in my
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garden that doesn't have any a fits on
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it so that's saying something right
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so I need to water in these containers
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and wash my hands and then there's just
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one other thing I want to get done I
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want to bait in my garden quick and then
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I need to scatter some cat repellent in
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my window boxes because rustle and all
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the other cats around this neighborhood
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like to get into window boxes and look
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inside of our house so anyway that's
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what I'm doing next so I'm in the
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vegetable garden now and this is some
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basil
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I started inside a little while ago and
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it's not looking super hot because it's
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been so wet for the last several days
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because of all the rain but look at this
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they're clearly being eaten by something
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and so I need to bait around and which I
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typically don't have any problem with
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basil so kind of weird I've got both of
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my baits right here this is what I'm
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using in the garden this is the bug and
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slug killer I've showed this to you
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before it is a iron phosphate spinosa it
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is the active in it and is for organic
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gardening which I like and I like the
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fact that it's a beta not a spray so I'm
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not killing any like honeybees that are
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flying around it'll just get whatever's
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crawling around around the base of these
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plants and it takes care of all the big
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offenders like earwigs are a huge one
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here we don't have a lot of snails but
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we do get slugs occasionally so anyway I
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like this too because let me show you
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you can see in there it's kind of a
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grain instead of a powder and typically
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all start with diatomaceous earth first
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because it's really it's kind of a mild
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insecticide but you have to continually
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reapply it once it gets wet and it's
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been so wet from all the rain that this
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grain actually lasts through that quite
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well so I feel like it's the best way to
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go right now and I really I haven't had
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to treat very many other things in fact
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the only thing I have put any bait
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around in the garden is the cabbage let
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me show you what that looks like cabbage
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is looking pretty good and with just two
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applications of bait throughout the
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spring I did notice and I think this is
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when I started putting the bait on let's
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see I thought I'd noticed yeah see that
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right there a little bit of slug damage
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that's when I started baiting the plants
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and they look amazing now isn't that the
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prettiest thing ever
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so pretty so this is super easy to use I
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just open up the cap and shake it around
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the base of the
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plants
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all right that should do it and this is
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the next one I'm using this is called go
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away rabbit dog and cat repellent it's
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one I've actually not tried so I'm
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looking forward to trying this the
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active ingredients are cinnamon and
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thyme oil so it probably smells pretty
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good yeah not bad
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oh my sneeze it's not stinky it's not
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great but it's not stinky and you know I
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don't really want to put cat repellent
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around because I like Russell and I
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don't really need to repel him for much
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but he's trying to get in my window
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boxes a lot too when he wants in and I
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don't really want him to wreck my plants
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so I am gonna sprinkle a little bit so
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here goes this is the one he tries to
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get it in the most and then use
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scratches and claws at the screen it
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drives me nuts your pipe and smoke it
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here he is now hey Russell what you
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doing buddy yeah did you sense that I
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was talking about you did you sense it
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we need to get you a cat door that would
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probably eliminate all of my problems
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the only issue with that is that it
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would welcome all the other neighbor
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cats into our house and I don't really
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want to do either all right I got all of
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the window boxes treated I will let you
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guys know how this works
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it'd be great if it works really really
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well I'm assuming I'm gonna have to
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reapply it every once in a while hold on
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okay so it doesn't say how often I'm
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supposed to apply it but I'm guessing I
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just keep reapplying it pretty heavy for
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the first a little bit to at least
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create a stronger version and then it'll
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probably last longer in between times so
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anyway yeah that is it for today's video
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I think that's all I have time for I do
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have to go water some things in the
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greenhouse but then I want to go in and
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hang out with Benjamin so anyway hope
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you guys enjoyed this video we'll see
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you in the next one bye
Your First Vegetable Garden?: All the Steps for Planting Asparagus Crowns - Worth the Effort!
Experience • gardenhere posted the article • 0 comments • 343 views • 2019-05-06 18:51
I show you how to plant a long row of asparagus crowns. I cover depth, fertilizing, planting, mulching and the importance of phosphorous for helping the roots establish. Asparagus is worth the effort as they will produce as perennials for 15-20 years.
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I show you how to plant a long row of asparagus crowns. I cover depth, fertilizing, planting, mulching and the importance of phosphorous for helping the roots establish. Asparagus is worth the effort as they will produce as perennials for 15-20 years.
I recommend the following Gardening & Homestead YT Channels:
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The Seed Company I Recommend is Everwilde Farms: https://www.everwilde.com/. Use the code RUSTEDGARDEN for a free seed pack. No 'THE' in this code. i have an affiliation with them.
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Building A Vegetable Garden: Using Garden Fabric, Cardboard, Mulching Paths & Building Raised Beds
Experience • gardenhere posted the article • 0 comments • 338 views • 2019-05-06 18:48
This is Part 1 of a 3 Part Series. Start with saving yourself time and energy by using garden fabric and mulch to create your walking paths. Cut the grass down as low as you can and cover identified spaces with fabric. Build 4x8 raised beds to frame out your growing areas and begin to design your garden beds around the space you carved out and set up for walking.
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Containers, Pots and Small Green Houses
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https://www.amazon.com/shop/garypilar...
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https://www.amazon.com/shop/garypilar...
Garden Tools: The Rusted Garden
https://www.amazon.com/shop/garypilar...
Gardening Books and Resources
https://www.amazon.com/shop/garypilar...
Products I Use and Recommend. I have an affiliation with them:
The Seed Company I Recommend is Everwilde Farms: https://www.everwilde.com/. Use the code RUSTEDGARDEN for a free seed pack. No 'THE' in this code. i have an affiliation with them.
Worm Castings: Use the Discount Code THERUSTEDGARDEN on VermisTerra Products and save 10% at https://vermisterra.com/
GreenStalk Vertical Gardening: Use the Discount Code THERUSTEDGARDEN on GreenStalk 'Vertical Tier Systems'. Use this link and enter my code for the discount http://store.greenstalkgarden.com/?af... or this short link http://lddy.no/4eal
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This is Part 1 of a 3 Part Series. Start with saving yourself time and energy by using garden fabric and mulch to create your walking paths. Cut the grass down as low as you can and cover identified spaces with fabric. Build 4x8 raised beds to frame out your growing areas and begin to design your garden beds around the space you carved out and set up for walking.
I recommend the following Gardening & Homestead YT Channels:
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all sorts of pests are In competition with you for your crop. The pest problems you're likely to encounter in your vegetable garden fall Into two categories: insects and the like, of which there are a remarkable variety; and animals, usually the four-legged kind but occasionally two-legged intruders as well.
Most gardeners have to contend with insect problems at some time during the growing season, but the problems are not always obvious. It can come as quite a surprise, just when it looks as though all your hard work is paying off and your plants are progressing healthily towards a fine harvest, to find that the pests are at work. You may notice one morning that a couple of healthy young plants have keeled over and died — a pretty sure indication that you've got cutworms working away beneath the soil level. Or you may see tiny holes in the leaves of your eggplant, signaling the activity of the flea beetle.
Your plants are subject to diseases, too, and you know you're in trouble when the leaves turn'yellow, or the plants seem stunted and weak, or mildew starts to show up on leaves and stems. Plant diseases spread rapidly and must be curbed as soon as they appear, but this isn't always easy. There are certain measures you can take to forestall disease problems — like planting varieties that have been bred to be disease- resistant, and rotating some crops when it's
possible to do so. Beyond that, once a disease attacks a plant, about all you can do is remove the infected plant — among horticulturalists this process is called "culling" — to stop the disease from spreading to neighboring healthy plants. On the whole, pest problems are easier to control than problems caused by plant diseases.
CONTROLLING INSECT PESTS
To many people anything In the garden that crawls or flies and is smaller than a chipmunk or a sparrow can be classified as an insect. In fact, a lot of the creatures that may bug your vegetable plants are not insects at all — mites, slugs, snails, nematodes, sowbugs, and symphylans among them. Another popular misconception is that insects and similar creatures are harmful or unnecessary and have no place in the garden. Again, it isn't true. While some insects are destructive, many are perfectly harmless. A lot of them are actually important to the healthy development of your garden crop, some because they perform a specific service by keeping down other pests that do harm your crop, and some because they pollinate the plants. When you set out to control harmful pests, it's important to realize that indiscriminate controls may destroy the good as well as the bad; the useful creatures as well as the harmful ones.
Controlling the insect pests that attack your vegetable garden can be a challenge; the method you choose for controlling them can also be controversial. Many gardeners rely on chemical insecticides to do away with the enemy that's competing for the crop. Some people, however, object to the use of chemicals because they believe that the chemicals may remain on the plant and harm the person who eats it or that they may harm the environment. These gardeners prefer to rely on organic, or nonchemical, means of control. There may also be times when it's better not to use a chemical control even if you have no personal objection to it — if you catch a caterpillar attack in the early stages, for example, it can be easier to pick off the offenders by hand than to mix up a whole batch of insecticide. This chapter discusses the most effective means of control — both chemical and organic — for the pest problems you're most likely to encounter.
CHEMICAL CONTROLS: INSECTICIDES
The surest way to control most of the insects and similar creatures that threaten your vegetable crop is by using a chemical insecticide. A word here about terminology: In horticultural language the terms "pesticide" and "insecticide" are not interchangeable. A pesticide is any form of chemical control used in the garden; an insecticide is a specific type of pesticide used to control a specific situation — to kill insects. A herbicide is a different kind of pesticide with a different application — it's used to help control garden weeds. These distinctions are important, because using the wrong one will cause havoc in your garden. For instance, if you use a herbicide instead of an insecticide you'll lose your entire crop for the season. It's also important to keep separate equipment for use with each kind of pesticide.
Insecticides are chemical products that are sprayed or dusted on the affected crops. The type you spray on is bought in concentrated form, then diluted for use with a hand sprayer or a spray attachment fitted to the end of your garden hose. Dust-on insecticides are powders that you pump on to the plants. Spraying is preferable because it gives more thorough coverage, and it's easier to treat the undersides as well as the tops of leaves and plants with a spray. You can also apply insecticides directly to the soil to kill insects under the soil surface — this technique is known as applying a "soil drench."
Used correctly and responsibly, insecticides are not harmful to humans or other animals. They are toxic, but the toxicity levels are low, and their residual or carryover effect is short — the longest any of the insecticides commonly used in the home garden will remain on the plant is about 14 days. Malathion, for instance, has the same toxicity level as Scotch whiskey and breaks down faster. As to any long-lasting hazards that may be involved —nobody knows if hazards exist or what they might be; we don't know what the long-lasting hazards of any product might be. The choice of an organic or a synthetic pesticide is a matter of personal opinion.
If you know all the options you'll be able to make your own choice .
Commonly used insecticides
The insecticides listed below for use in your home vegetable garden will provide effective control of garden insects with minimum hazard. Remember, though, that most insecticides are poisons and must be handled as such.
Diazinon. This is an organic phosphate, and it's an effective insecticide for general use. Diazinon is a contact poison. Its toxicity is low, and it's a good control for underground insects that attack the roots of cabbage family plants, onions, and radishes. You can get it as a wettable powder or in liquid form.
Malathion. This is also a phosphate insecticide; it kills sucking insects like aphids. Its effects are not as long-lasting as those of some other insecticides,but it's effective and safe in use. It's available as a dust, a wettable powder, or a liquid.
Sevin. This is also known as carbaryl and is another safe material for use in home gardens. It's an effective control for many leaf-eating caterpillars and leafhoppers, and is available as a wettable powder or a dust.Bacillus thuringiensis. This is an organic insecticide. It's a bacterium that is considered harmless to all but insects, and you can buy it under the brand names of Dipel, Thuricide, or Bactur. It controls cabbage worms and other caterpillars and is available in wettable powder or liquid forms. This is the choice of many gardeners who prefer not to use chemical insecticides.
Cause and cure: Be sure you've got them right
Because an insecticide can't distinguish between friend and foe, it's your responsibility to make sure you're eliminating the pest, not the friendly insect that's out there working for you. Let's say, for instance, that aphids are attacking your cabbage plants, and you use carbaryl (Sevin) to try to get rid of them because you know carbaryl is a relatively safe insecticide with a short residual effect. You've overlooked the fact that carbaryl has to enter the insect's stomach in order to kill it, and since the aphid's mouth is inside the cabbage plant, none of the insecticide is going to enter the insect through the mouth and reach its stomach. Ladybugs, however, love aphids and are most helpful in keeping down their numbers. So when the ladybug eats the aphid, the carbaryl on the aphid's body enters the ladybug's stomach and kills it. Despite the best intentions in the world, you've killed off the useful insect and left the pest unharmed. In fact you've done the pest a favor by killing off its enemy — a ladybug can put away hundreds of aphids in a day.
Carbaryl can also be toxic to bees, and bees are important to your garden because they pollinate most fruiting vegetable crops. To avoid killing the bees, spray in the late evening when the flowers are closed. This way you kill the destructive pests but protect the bees.If you use an insecticide you must always be aware also of how long its residual effect is going to last. A residue of insecticide left on the plant when it's harvested is poisonous. The residual effect of an insecticide that you use in your vegetable garden is likely to be fairly short, but the effect may vary from one type of crop to another. And because the effect is not long-lasting, you can't spray as a preventive measure; you have no way of knowing which pests . are going to attack your plants before they're actually on the scene. view all
all sorts of pests are In competition with you for your crop. The pest problems you're likely to encounter in your vegetable garden fall Into two categories: insects and the like, of which there are a remarkable variety; and animals, usually the four-legged kind but occasionally two-legged intruders as well.
Most gardeners have to contend with insect problems at some time during the growing season, but the problems are not always obvious. It can come as quite a surprise, just when it looks as though all your hard work is paying off and your plants are progressing healthily towards a fine harvest, to find that the pests are at work. You may notice one morning that a couple of healthy young plants have keeled over and died — a pretty sure indication that you've got cutworms working away beneath the soil level. Or you may see tiny holes in the leaves of your eggplant, signaling the activity of the flea beetle.
Your plants are subject to diseases, too, and you know you're in trouble when the leaves turn'yellow, or the plants seem stunted and weak, or mildew starts to show up on leaves and stems. Plant diseases spread rapidly and must be curbed as soon as they appear, but this isn't always easy. There are certain measures you can take to forestall disease problems — like planting varieties that have been bred to be disease- resistant, and rotating some crops when it's
possible to do so. Beyond that, once a disease attacks a plant, about all you can do is remove the infected plant — among horticulturalists this process is called "culling" — to stop the disease from spreading to neighboring healthy plants. On the whole, pest problems are easier to control than problems caused by plant diseases.
CONTROLLING INSECT PESTS
To many people anything In the garden that crawls or flies and is smaller than a chipmunk or a sparrow can be classified as an insect. In fact, a lot of the creatures that may bug your vegetable plants are not insects at all — mites, slugs, snails, nematodes, sowbugs, and symphylans among them. Another popular misconception is that insects and similar creatures are harmful or unnecessary and have no place in the garden. Again, it isn't true. While some insects are destructive, many are perfectly harmless. A lot of them are actually important to the healthy development of your garden crop, some because they perform a specific service by keeping down other pests that do harm your crop, and some because they pollinate the plants. When you set out to control harmful pests, it's important to realize that indiscriminate controls may destroy the good as well as the bad; the useful creatures as well as the harmful ones.
Controlling the insect pests that attack your vegetable garden can be a challenge; the method you choose for controlling them can also be controversial. Many gardeners rely on chemical insecticides to do away with the enemy that's competing for the crop. Some people, however, object to the use of chemicals because they believe that the chemicals may remain on the plant and harm the person who eats it or that they may harm the environment. These gardeners prefer to rely on organic, or nonchemical, means of control. There may also be times when it's better not to use a chemical control even if you have no personal objection to it — if you catch a caterpillar attack in the early stages, for example, it can be easier to pick off the offenders by hand than to mix up a whole batch of insecticide. This chapter discusses the most effective means of control — both chemical and organic — for the pest problems you're most likely to encounter.
CHEMICAL CONTROLS: INSECTICIDES
The surest way to control most of the insects and similar creatures that threaten your vegetable crop is by using a chemical insecticide. A word here about terminology: In horticultural language the terms "pesticide" and "insecticide" are not interchangeable. A pesticide is any form of chemical control used in the garden; an insecticide is a specific type of pesticide used to control a specific situation — to kill insects. A herbicide is a different kind of pesticide with a different application — it's used to help control garden weeds. These distinctions are important, because using the wrong one will cause havoc in your garden. For instance, if you use a herbicide instead of an insecticide you'll lose your entire crop for the season. It's also important to keep separate equipment for use with each kind of pesticide.
Insecticides are chemical products that are sprayed or dusted on the affected crops. The type you spray on is bought in concentrated form, then diluted for use with a hand sprayer or a spray attachment fitted to the end of your garden hose. Dust-on insecticides are powders that you pump on to the plants. Spraying is preferable because it gives more thorough coverage, and it's easier to treat the undersides as well as the tops of leaves and plants with a spray. You can also apply insecticides directly to the soil to kill insects under the soil surface — this technique is known as applying a "soil drench."
Used correctly and responsibly, insecticides are not harmful to humans or other animals. They are toxic, but the toxicity levels are low, and their residual or carryover effect is short — the longest any of the insecticides commonly used in the home garden will remain on the plant is about 14 days. Malathion, for instance, has the same toxicity level as Scotch whiskey and breaks down faster. As to any long-lasting hazards that may be involved —nobody knows if hazards exist or what they might be; we don't know what the long-lasting hazards of any product might be. The choice of an organic or a synthetic pesticide is a matter of personal opinion.
If you know all the options you'll be able to make your own choice .
Commonly used insecticides
The insecticides listed below for use in your home vegetable garden will provide effective control of garden insects with minimum hazard. Remember, though, that most insecticides are poisons and must be handled as such.
- Diazinon. This is an organic phosphate, and it's an effective insecticide for general use. Diazinon is a contact poison. Its toxicity is low, and it's a good control for underground insects that attack the roots of cabbage family plants, onions, and radishes. You can get it as a wettable powder or in liquid form.
- Malathion. This is also a phosphate insecticide; it kills sucking insects like aphids. Its effects are not as long-lasting as those of some other insecticides,but it's effective and safe in use. It's available as a dust, a wettable powder, or a liquid.
- Sevin. This is also known as carbaryl and is another safe material for use in home gardens. It's an effective control for many leaf-eating caterpillars and leafhoppers, and is available as a wettable powder or a dust.
- Bacillus thuringiensis. This is an organic insecticide. It's a bacterium that is considered harmless to all but insects, and you can buy it under the brand names of Dipel, Thuricide, or Bactur. It controls cabbage worms and other caterpillars and is available in wettable powder or liquid forms. This is the choice of many gardeners who prefer not to use chemical insecticides.
Cause and cure: Be sure you've got them right
Because an insecticide can't distinguish between friend and foe, it's your responsibility to make sure you're eliminating the pest, not the friendly insect that's out there working for you. Let's say, for instance, that aphids are attacking your cabbage plants, and you use carbaryl (Sevin) to try to get rid of them because you know carbaryl is a relatively safe insecticide with a short residual effect. You've overlooked the fact that carbaryl has to enter the insect's stomach in order to kill it, and since the aphid's mouth is inside the cabbage plant, none of the insecticide is going to enter the insect through the mouth and reach its stomach. Ladybugs, however, love aphids and are most helpful in keeping down their numbers. So when the ladybug eats the aphid, the carbaryl on the aphid's body enters the ladybug's stomach and kills it. Despite the best intentions in the world, you've killed off the useful insect and left the pest unharmed. In fact you've done the pest a favor by killing off its enemy — a ladybug can put away hundreds of aphids in a day.
Carbaryl can also be toxic to bees, and bees are important to your garden because they pollinate most fruiting vegetable crops. To avoid killing the bees, spray in the late evening when the flowers are closed. This way you kill the destructive pests but protect the bees.If you use an insecticide you must always be aware also of how long its residual effect is going to last. A residue of insecticide left on the plant when it's harvested is poisonous. The residual effect of an insecticide that you use in your vegetable garden is likely to be fairly short, but the effect may vary from one type of crop to another. And because the effect is not long-lasting, you can't spray as a preventive measure; you have no way of knowing which pests . are going to attack your plants before they're actually on the scene.
How to transforms your Swimming Pool Into GARDEN Paradise
Videos • Justin Rhodes posted the article • 0 comments • 340 views • 2017-10-16 18:55
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Food Forest Gardening, Functional Permaculture Design
Experience • James Prigioni posted the article • 0 comments • 376 views • 2017-09-28 18:34
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it's September 27 today I've been away for the past five days so the food forest has essentially been neglected you would think that it would suffer as a result but actually production has increased so now I want to go through show you just how everything is doing let's go looking from the outside in doesn't look like we skipped a beat really looks beautiful so far I haven't even gone in here yet the intro I did I did after this so this is kind of like my first look at everything but just peeking through I see a lot of ripe tomatoes a lot of ripe peppers and everything bunch of things to snack on look at these Tomatoes just self seeded and came right through the grapes they just found their way weed through and then I planted some Tomatoes also along this front welded wire fence you can see what I did here I took that welded wire fence just bent it grew stuff along the border this way the chickens can't get in and scratch around the bases it's worked beautifully got a lot of holy basil gonna be collecting a lot of holy basil seed I really love that holy basil and everything is just looking huge look at the size of this force now guys true forest a berry conservatory but everything in here is edible everything's in here for a purpose this is functional I planted everything my brother helped me with a lot of it but my hand was we planted every single thing unless it was self seeded so this was all by design and its really come together beautifully a lot of it was just planting more than we needed and letting nature sort a lot of things out but just even on the outside here we got a lot of production this year there were always Tomatoes just waiting to ripen up I know there's a lot of ripe tomatoes on the inside and this hazelnut trees full of catkins so many on it we should get real nice production next year she'd be loaded as I just come through one of the entrances here's one of the tomato just got so heavy it blew over sweet treats but still got some good ripe ones on there not quitting doesn't want to give up in this tomato here it almost looks like it's dying but that's a cucumber that was growing up the tomato but these ones were overripe I wasn't able to come to harvest them not being here and some of the stuff I just put in for the fall he's doing all right lettuces are getting a little bigger it looks like this kale over here is doing nice but I transplanted in there's gonna be some nice kale Lhasa not all the Dino kale so my favorite ones so we planted a number of them just right in the middle of the food forest where people would probably never play and stuff underneath the cherry tree a big cherry that's going dormant and then you've got the moon globe hair we've got the kale underneath there Bobcat tomato with a number of ripe tomatoes all look at these over here wow dude that color this is the rose of the Barents I'm gonna call her I also stick a pink for any wine but what do people call our healthy-looking Tomatoes with all these ripe tomatoes and peppers I see it looks like we're gonna have to harvest video soon and the almond tree the all-in-one almond still growing well hopefully we'll see some flowers on that next year Concord grape one of my favorites everything about it I love hanging out underneath it and it still has some grapes on it they're so old you're sweet right now just a few stragglers look it's also more over here too hmm good and it's just peaceful to be in here haven't been here for a little while so I really missed it I'm happy the first time I got to come in here I get to share it with you guys it's like it's like a breath of fresh air that plum tree really did get huge and it its immersive now even with some of the trees dropping their leaves heading towards fall it still feels immersive it's a lot of funds look at a ton of food which you'll see as I continue to walk through and for the harvest videos coming up may I get besides this tomato seems a monster Wow beautiful just sold Aki still putting out some zucchinis don't see many on there and I know I'm still getting a lot of green beans because these things never stop mm-hmm a little overripe okay some more Tomatoes more - minnows every year the watermelons still getting pretty big it's peach trees so tall so don't all even know 20 feet at least and look how open the center is I really have it wide open I like that and look at this pears the spare gets growing right in there really cool look at these Tomatoes beautiful oh man and again look where we're planting these Tomatoes look where I planted this is on right next to it apple tree just in the middle of the forest if you get sunlight plant it I'm getting good harvests out of these and spaces people would never grow stuff pulling beautiful harvest of tomatoes raspberries I love the raspberries you guys know that such treats and we got the sweet treats tomato we're doing the treats all day when did these eggplants back here the ding Tong so productive I got a couple of them here with the food forest and stuff you'll see him but the man they're productive huh beautiful and this section back here has been really productive and it's getting almost sloppy looking now but the mound of tomatoes and cucumbers we've pulled from back here I mean you guys can go back and watch the harvest videos there's a lot look at this come on now what's that like one two three four five six seven at 10 Tomatoes right there save that for the harvest video but jeez no no no fertilizer no pesticides no herbicides no fungicides nothing just natural that tells you could do it man these are loaded these tomatoes back here and the goji's are ripening you can have a lot of good wood you soon more flowers it's starting to go over here I put in some more fall stuff still a little slow to go but I'll start to take off got some kale I believe that's the scarlet kale a few more of them just thrown in wherever I can get some space and some light try to get as much production as possible in these little spaces weekend as we get we been eating this kale a lot and this is delicious it's my favorite kind but we want to keep getting more and more make sure we're eating kales late into the season as possible that's got some eggplants I should just give these plants to somebody maybe I will that'd be cool then they can harvest their own eggplant you can't get fresher than that and Wow look at that I miss those beautiful soul donkeys look like the ripe ready to go give me a huge tomato harvest coming up oh yeah look how beautiful that is monsters that one too these hot days and cool nights have really helped the ripening process look at that it's gonna be one of our bigger tomato harvest of the year probably in the fall we're getting it that's a lot of that's gotta be a tribute to the wood chips let's just look at the soil it's growing why is that so productive right now it's I mean let's say no work by me the worms the fungus never watered I haven't ordered this plant one time since I put it in the ground I transplanted it i watered again never watered it once since I've done no work for it all I had was actually have I pruned it and staked it and then harvested that's it ordering no fertilizing I don't got time for that and look at this how did this oil oh my gosh this is this is a build soil and I've shown you my mice and just five feet away over there it's all sand and this is what this was but five years of good soil practices that's what you could have and that's what your containers can be looking like with little to no work and all these tomatoes into here are self seeded going through and just grabbing little fruits from them is nice and they're growing underneath that apple tree getting that extra yield and the late season annuals are coming through real strong these peppers just prolific just striking the color isn't it the contrast that bright orange against a dark green no fertilizer just natural the wood shapes the mycorrhizal fungi the worms everything working together and I haven't watered this like the other one never would I wondered it when I put it in that's it it still wants to put out more and if you've got if you're in a really dry arid place the conditions aren't gonna be the same so you may have to order but you dig down deep you dig down in the soil and if it's wet you don't have water it's basically that simple and you've got the Rosita pink eggplant right here and we got the fireball red peppers and Claire your baby cheese I see a nice black king right there eggplant the classic really nice the zinnias came through on their own they're one of my favorites and the birds that birds love them the bees love them so I love him as well Ben and look at this old doc he's what a good late season producer for me at least and man this is one of my favorites it's a pretty disease resistant has passed resistant because it's the potato leaf tomato a bunch of them are ready right to eat so we'll be snacking on those using for sandwiches probably one of our last big tomato harvests this hazel most doing real well and now's the time when the California Poppy comes back as things cool off there's always a new flower coming through always drawing in more beneficials balance in the system create an ideal environment for all nature and maybe will just come to plant a little seed mom over here take some of these echinacea look at that Oh echinacea seed it will just sprinkle just for fun like Masanobu says played like a child you got to have fun and you got to enjoy this guy's you got to have faith that it's gonna work you got to just look out of nature and realize everything is growing very well on its own it's just a system that it's a part of make that system that's what I'm doing here you can have the same harvest same yield it's gonna look different but it's the same concept and you don't have to use wood chips I think the one of the best but you can use any natural mulch some areas my wood chip need to be thicker the weeds are coming through but again anyone can do this this is meant to inspire this is meant to encourage you this isn't meant to show off or anything because I didn't do anything I'm not working super hard laboring putting any crazy soil compound mixes together or anything to get these kind of yields I'm looking at it when how nature does it nothing works hard in nature everything eats everything's fed and that's how I want to be so that's the system I want to be a part of it doesn't stop there though I still have to show you the extended edge there's the main food forest in the back there this is the extended side where we getting huge harvests and just only the second year of this system and strawberries are so good every bearing once mmm really good and this is the same system haven't watered any of the stuff you've got the Tabor he's here and the boys and berries are all laying down they'll come through so we're gonna have a lot of berries this is focus mainly on berries in here blueberries black cap raspberries elderberries Taye berries boysenberries you know a lot of the berries and while we wait for all that stuff to come through we're gonna be growing annuals like the peppers very baby cheese in these big mouths so these are like the red ace New Age peppers and the pink tongue long eggplant so many I have to harvest that big one back there but so productive another huge holy basil and you can see how much I missed these Tomatoes he's only just rotted over ripen because I just wasn't here to harvest them a lot of them over here but here we've got the stamen Winesap apple some beautiful looking apples on it so we're gonna get a couple from that one it was just a tough year for apples even our apple tree from seed didn't do that great I see a lot of you guys in the comment section saying that you want to grow a food forest of your own and I want you to know all it is is just a few small investments over time so first you just got to get those wood chips bring them in and then plant a few trees today a few tomorrow a few next week let everything grow up slowly this took five years but you can see what it's come to now so thanks for watching thanks for tuning in if you enjoyed the video share with your friends it's a like button hit the subscribe button see the next one [Music]
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it's September 27 today I've been away for the past five days so the food forest has essentially been neglected you would think that it would suffer as a result but actually production has increased so now I want to go through show you just how everything is doing let's go looking from the outside in doesn't look like we skipped a beat really looks beautiful so far I haven't even gone in here yet the intro I did I did after this so this is kind of like my first look at everything but just peeking through I see a lot of ripe tomatoes a lot of ripe peppers and everything bunch of things to snack on look at these Tomatoes just self seeded and came right through the grapes they just found their way weed through and then I planted some Tomatoes also along this front welded wire fence you can see what I did here I took that welded wire fence just bent it grew stuff along the border this way the chickens can't get in and scratch around the bases it's worked beautifully got a lot of holy basil gonna be collecting a lot of holy basil seed I really love that holy basil and everything is just looking huge look at the size of this force now guys true forest a berry conservatory but everything in here is edible everything's in here for a purpose this is functional I planted everything my brother helped me with a lot of it but my hand was we planted every single thing unless it was self seeded so this was all by design and its really come together beautifully a lot of it was just planting more than we needed and letting nature sort a lot of things out but just even on the outside here we got a lot of production this year there were always Tomatoes just waiting to ripen up I know there's a lot of ripe tomatoes on the inside and this hazelnut trees full of catkins so many on it we should get real nice production next year she'd be loaded as I just come through one of the entrances here's one of the tomato just got so heavy it blew over sweet treats but still got some good ripe ones on there not quitting doesn't want to give up in this tomato here it almost looks like it's dying but that's a cucumber that was growing up the tomato but these ones were overripe I wasn't able to come to harvest them not being here and some of the stuff I just put in for the fall he's doing all right lettuces are getting a little bigger it looks like this kale over here is doing nice but I transplanted in there's gonna be some nice kale Lhasa not all the Dino kale so my favorite ones so we planted a number of them just right in the middle of the food forest where people would probably never play and stuff underneath the cherry tree a big cherry that's going dormant and then you've got the moon globe hair we've got the kale underneath there Bobcat tomato with a number of ripe tomatoes all look at these over here wow dude that color this is the rose of the Barents I'm gonna call her I also stick a pink for any wine but what do people call our healthy-looking Tomatoes with all these ripe tomatoes and peppers I see it looks like we're gonna have to harvest video soon and the almond tree the all-in-one almond still growing well hopefully we'll see some flowers on that next year Concord grape one of my favorites everything about it I love hanging out underneath it and it still has some grapes on it they're so old you're sweet right now just a few stragglers look it's also more over here too hmm good and it's just peaceful to be in here haven't been here for a little while so I really missed it I'm happy the first time I got to come in here I get to share it with you guys it's like it's like a breath of fresh air that plum tree really did get huge and it its immersive now even with some of the trees dropping their leaves heading towards fall it still feels immersive it's a lot of funds look at a ton of food which you'll see as I continue to walk through and for the harvest videos coming up may I get besides this tomato seems a monster Wow beautiful just sold Aki still putting out some zucchinis don't see many on there and I know I'm still getting a lot of green beans because these things never stop mm-hmm a little overripe okay some more Tomatoes more - minnows every year the watermelons still getting pretty big it's peach trees so tall so don't all even know 20 feet at least and look how open the center is I really have it wide open I like that and look at this pears the spare gets growing right in there really cool look at these Tomatoes beautiful oh man and again look where we're planting these Tomatoes look where I planted this is on right next to it apple tree just in the middle of the forest if you get sunlight plant it I'm getting good harvests out of these and spaces people would never grow stuff pulling beautiful harvest of tomatoes raspberries I love the raspberries you guys know that such treats and we got the sweet treats tomato we're doing the treats all day when did these eggplants back here the ding Tong so productive I got a couple of them here with the food forest and stuff you'll see him but the man they're productive huh beautiful and this section back here has been really productive and it's getting almost sloppy looking now but the mound of tomatoes and cucumbers we've pulled from back here I mean you guys can go back and watch the harvest videos there's a lot look at this come on now what's that like one two three four five six seven at 10 Tomatoes right there save that for the harvest video but jeez no no no fertilizer no pesticides no herbicides no fungicides nothing just natural that tells you could do it man these are loaded these tomatoes back here and the goji's are ripening you can have a lot of good wood you soon more flowers it's starting to go over here I put in some more fall stuff still a little slow to go but I'll start to take off got some kale I believe that's the scarlet kale a few more of them just thrown in wherever I can get some space and some light try to get as much production as possible in these little spaces weekend as we get we been eating this kale a lot and this is delicious it's my favorite kind but we want to keep getting more and more make sure we're eating kales late into the season as possible that's got some eggplants I should just give these plants to somebody maybe I will that'd be cool then they can harvest their own eggplant you can't get fresher than that and Wow look at that I miss those beautiful soul donkeys look like the ripe ready to go give me a huge tomato harvest coming up oh yeah look how beautiful that is monsters that one too these hot days and cool nights have really helped the ripening process look at that it's gonna be one of our bigger tomato harvest of the year probably in the fall we're getting it that's a lot of that's gotta be a tribute to the wood chips let's just look at the soil it's growing why is that so productive right now it's I mean let's say no work by me the worms the fungus never watered I haven't ordered this plant one time since I put it in the ground I transplanted it i watered again never watered it once since I've done no work for it all I had was actually have I pruned it and staked it and then harvested that's it ordering no fertilizing I don't got time for that and look at this how did this oil oh my gosh this is this is a build soil and I've shown you my mice and just five feet away over there it's all sand and this is what this was but five years of good soil practices that's what you could have and that's what your containers can be looking like with little to no work and all these tomatoes into here are self seeded going through and just grabbing little fruits from them is nice and they're growing underneath that apple tree getting that extra yield and the late season annuals are coming through real strong these peppers just prolific just striking the color isn't it the contrast that bright orange against a dark green no fertilizer just natural the wood shapes the mycorrhizal fungi the worms everything working together and I haven't watered this like the other one never would I wondered it when I put it in that's it it still wants to put out more and if you've got if you're in a really dry arid place the conditions aren't gonna be the same so you may have to order but you dig down deep you dig down in the soil and if it's wet you don't have water it's basically that simple and you've got the Rosita pink eggplant right here and we got the fireball red peppers and Claire your baby cheese I see a nice black king right there eggplant the classic really nice the zinnias came through on their own they're one of my favorites and the birds that birds love them the bees love them so I love him as well Ben and look at this old doc he's what a good late season producer for me at least and man this is one of my favorites it's a pretty disease resistant has passed resistant because it's the potato leaf tomato a bunch of them are ready right to eat so we'll be snacking on those using for sandwiches probably one of our last big tomato harvests this hazel most doing real well and now's the time when the California Poppy comes back as things cool off there's always a new flower coming through always drawing in more beneficials balance in the system create an ideal environment for all nature and maybe will just come to plant a little seed mom over here take some of these echinacea look at that Oh echinacea seed it will just sprinkle just for fun like Masanobu says played like a child you got to have fun and you got to enjoy this guy's you got to have faith that it's gonna work you got to just look out of nature and realize everything is growing very well on its own it's just a system that it's a part of make that system that's what I'm doing here you can have the same harvest same yield it's gonna look different but it's the same concept and you don't have to use wood chips I think the one of the best but you can use any natural mulch some areas my wood chip need to be thicker the weeds are coming through but again anyone can do this this is meant to inspire this is meant to encourage you this isn't meant to show off or anything because I didn't do anything I'm not working super hard laboring putting any crazy soil compound mixes together or anything to get these kind of yields I'm looking at it when how nature does it nothing works hard in nature everything eats everything's fed and that's how I want to be so that's the system I want to be a part of it doesn't stop there though I still have to show you the extended edge there's the main food forest in the back there this is the extended side where we getting huge harvests and just only the second year of this system and strawberries are so good every bearing once mmm really good and this is the same system haven't watered any of the stuff you've got the Tabor he's here and the boys and berries are all laying down they'll come through so we're gonna have a lot of berries this is focus mainly on berries in here blueberries black cap raspberries elderberries Taye berries boysenberries you know a lot of the berries and while we wait for all that stuff to come through we're gonna be growing annuals like the peppers very baby cheese in these big mouths so these are like the red ace New Age peppers and the pink tongue long eggplant so many I have to harvest that big one back there but so productive another huge holy basil and you can see how much I missed these Tomatoes he's only just rotted over ripen because I just wasn't here to harvest them a lot of them over here but here we've got the stamen Winesap apple some beautiful looking apples on it so we're gonna get a couple from that one it was just a tough year for apples even our apple tree from seed didn't do that great I see a lot of you guys in the comment section saying that you want to grow a food forest of your own and I want you to know all it is is just a few small investments over time so first you just got to get those wood chips bring them in and then plant a few trees today a few tomorrow a few next week let everything grow up slowly this took five years but you can see what it's come to now so thanks for watching thanks for tuning in if you enjoyed the video share with your friends it's a like button hit the subscribe button see the next one [Music]
Grow Vegetables in Your Lawn or Grassed Backyard - Plus Other Gardening Tips
Experience • Self Sufficient Me posted the article • 0 comments • 350 views • 2017-09-28 08:34
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you say do you see me I'm mark from self-sufficient me and this is my backyard here's the vegetable garden on the right hand side you can probably see a little bit of the orchard on the Left I'm standing right next to this beautiful asparagus fern I've left it grow at the end of summer so that it could get some energy into its root ball it'll die right back now over winter and then I'll give it a good chop down right to the base most within bit of fertilizer and in spring it will reshoot like Ayub uu and give us more asparagus spears through spring and summer but that's not what this video is about this video is about harvesting greens and veggies from our own lawn so it sounds extreme doesn't it and I'm not I'm a bit cheeky buyer by saying you know growing your vegetables in your lawn but in fact I really do do it now here as I'm just walking along I see vegetables and salad crops everywhere and I'm not talking about the grass I know you can eat grass and personally I'm not a big fan of it no matter how much better you put on it now I've got a nice little Asian green here this is a like a mizzu and how that happens is I'll harvest some vegetables from the garden and I'll leave one or two plants go to seed like the soccer here for example you can see all these seed pods I don't need all those seed either sometimes I could only need one pod and that'll do me then the rest of them inevitably gets strewn in the vegetable garden or I might pull the plants out throws our plant here and when I mow the grass I will run over those seeds and scare them everywhere all over the lawn now you'd think hard no mark you're going to have vegetables and stuff and weeds coming up or through your lawn of of course that doesn't happen because the grass out completes any weed or any or most weeds anyway sometimes the clove it might come in through winter but the grass will out-compete just about every anyway so it doesn't matter but what happens though at this time of year through our winter the salad crops and the brassicas like your cabbages and your broccoli your Chinese greens like your bok choy they out-compete the grass because the grass goes dormant it doesn't go fully dormant but it does go dormant enough that it grows really really slowly and the salad crops can out-compete the grass isn't that cool so most of the time I'm not even sowing seeds from one year to the next I'm walking around my lawn looking for little seedlings I can do two things I can harvest them and plant them back into the garden or I can harvest them and we can eat them baby greens they're great in salads they're great in stir-fries in cooking sandwiches whatever they're just walking around my vegetable garden I've got Tomatoes beans I've got some coriander and some dill that I've planted that was self seeded somewhere else in the garden I've even had turmeric now this turmeric he is dying off I've even had that growing in the lawn and was able to harvest it and that was part of this last crop ear this matter of turmeric that I've grown I can't think of many greens at all or plants that don't sell seed and I think that's one of the most important things I want to get across in this video not me being a smartass and saying oh look I can grow greens in the lawn what I want to get across is like your plants go to seed yeah sure harvest most of them but leave one broccoli go to seed leave one Chinese cabbage bok choy leave it go to seed and see how they come up even harvesting them and throwing them in the compost once that seed pot is fully formed and gone brown when you use your compass in the garden you might find that a few seedlings will come up there's another really great thing about leaving plants go to seed and that is adaptation and like I said to you at the beginning a lot of my salad crops and other types of greens they will come up through winter even herbs like dill and coriander very rarely see them cart through summer they tend to get into a groove where they come up just at the right time and that means they'll grow best as well so they know when to come up and over time those plants tend to do better than say a seedling that you get or a seed that you get that's been adapted or slightly adapted to different conditions here's another bok choy all the way up here there you go well that'll be good for dinner tonight I hope you enjoyed that video I don't like I said I don't want to be a smart aleck in' and say look you can grow vegetables in your lawn I'm just saying that let your plants go to seed and be a bit willy-nilly sometimes about it and you might be surprised what comes up at the exact right time of year that you can harvest to eat or plant back into the veggie garden thanks a lot for watching don't forget the website self submission me calm bye for now [Music] [Music] view all
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you say do you see me I'm mark from self-sufficient me and this is my backyard here's the vegetable garden on the right hand side you can probably see a little bit of the orchard on the Left I'm standing right next to this beautiful asparagus fern I've left it grow at the end of summer so that it could get some energy into its root ball it'll die right back now over winter and then I'll give it a good chop down right to the base most within bit of fertilizer and in spring it will reshoot like Ayub uu and give us more asparagus spears through spring and summer but that's not what this video is about this video is about harvesting greens and veggies from our own lawn so it sounds extreme doesn't it and I'm not I'm a bit cheeky buyer by saying you know growing your vegetables in your lawn but in fact I really do do it now here as I'm just walking along I see vegetables and salad crops everywhere and I'm not talking about the grass I know you can eat grass and personally I'm not a big fan of it no matter how much better you put on it now I've got a nice little Asian green here this is a like a mizzu and how that happens is I'll harvest some vegetables from the garden and I'll leave one or two plants go to seed like the soccer here for example you can see all these seed pods I don't need all those seed either sometimes I could only need one pod and that'll do me then the rest of them inevitably gets strewn in the vegetable garden or I might pull the plants out throws our plant here and when I mow the grass I will run over those seeds and scare them everywhere all over the lawn now you'd think hard no mark you're going to have vegetables and stuff and weeds coming up or through your lawn of of course that doesn't happen because the grass out completes any weed or any or most weeds anyway sometimes the clove it might come in through winter but the grass will out-compete just about every anyway so it doesn't matter but what happens though at this time of year through our winter the salad crops and the brassicas like your cabbages and your broccoli your Chinese greens like your bok choy they out-compete the grass because the grass goes dormant it doesn't go fully dormant but it does go dormant enough that it grows really really slowly and the salad crops can out-compete the grass isn't that cool so most of the time I'm not even sowing seeds from one year to the next I'm walking around my lawn looking for little seedlings I can do two things I can harvest them and plant them back into the garden or I can harvest them and we can eat them baby greens they're great in salads they're great in stir-fries in cooking sandwiches whatever they're just walking around my vegetable garden I've got Tomatoes beans I've got some coriander and some dill that I've planted that was self seeded somewhere else in the garden I've even had turmeric now this turmeric he is dying off I've even had that growing in the lawn and was able to harvest it and that was part of this last crop ear this matter of turmeric that I've grown I can't think of many greens at all or plants that don't sell seed and I think that's one of the most important things I want to get across in this video not me being a smartass and saying oh look I can grow greens in the lawn what I want to get across is like your plants go to seed yeah sure harvest most of them but leave one broccoli go to seed leave one Chinese cabbage bok choy leave it go to seed and see how they come up even harvesting them and throwing them in the compost once that seed pot is fully formed and gone brown when you use your compass in the garden you might find that a few seedlings will come up there's another really great thing about leaving plants go to seed and that is adaptation and like I said to you at the beginning a lot of my salad crops and other types of greens they will come up through winter even herbs like dill and coriander very rarely see them cart through summer they tend to get into a groove where they come up just at the right time and that means they'll grow best as well so they know when to come up and over time those plants tend to do better than say a seedling that you get or a seed that you get that's been adapted or slightly adapted to different conditions here's another bok choy all the way up here there you go well that'll be good for dinner tonight I hope you enjoyed that video I don't like I said I don't want to be a smart aleck in' and say look you can grow vegetables in your lawn I'm just saying that let your plants go to seed and be a bit willy-nilly sometimes about it and you might be surprised what comes up at the exact right time of year that you can harvest to eat or plant back into the veggie garden thanks a lot for watching don't forget the website self submission me calm bye for now [Music] [Music]
How to manage unwanted weeds and grasses in vegetable garden beds.
Experience • Self Sufficient Me posted the article • 0 comments • 397 views • 2017-09-28 08:34
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get a unlike from self-sufficiently and in this video I want to show you guys a special technique I use to rest our garden beds and at the same time cool off weeds and grasses and seeds so I'm going to move that tarp and I'm going to put it over here over this bed one of my oldest garden beds in this patch that's become overgrown with nut weed grasses weeds or nut grass I should say that grass money down then end all sorts of grasses and weeds have gone to seed and I'm going to do the same going to take that top and put it across here a lot of these weeds came up through the manure that I spread throughout this bed about 12 month or so ago got a whole lot of horse meal was infested with weeds before I cover this bed I'm going to look for any little plants that have come up that I can salvage now I'd take this one this mustard this is sort of loose leaf mustard but I've got plenty of that going around so that's not that's not a drama here's a weed that's going to seed I'll just pull that out and chuck it I've already done that with some of these cobblers pegs here that weed there I got to get that out of the garden otherwise those seeds will just fall into the garden bed and come up as soon as I remove the top and that grows all year round that damn thing there's more of that mustard in there but there's also and I've saw this before dill coming up because of the weather is cooling down it's dill season and I always that me our dill go to seed and the last few seasons has been growing in this front bed here and so I knew that we're going to have dill coming up and I want to cover this bed over and not have any deal this year or have to replant seed our Mazel grab some of the seedlings that have come up now and replant them around in the other garden beds that are prepared so that we've got dill coming on so that's what I'll do I'll carefully remove some of these seedlings take out a bit of soil with them and and replant them this climbing spinach I'll probably just leave it sit up there and those seeds will dry out you can see some of my finger here those berries are edible by the way but fairly tasteless but what they are good for is colouring things like you could color a cake icing sugar you could color eggs pickled eggs and all types of things purple without you know using chemicals or additives yeah so this as well a little coriander plant coming up again as the weather cools down we have this coriander starts coming up and I'll salvage that little seedling as well and plant it alongside the dill probably and I've got this eggplant that was self seeded in the corner here along with this tomato this is a bush tomato a lot of people use a four-seat for root stock and graft other tomato plants on top because it's a vigorous but the tomatoes themselves are beautiful yes they're tiny but it will readily seed and grow all year in this climate whereas the larger come up Tomatoes won't even the larger cherry tomatoes struggling in the heat eggplant is unusual for it to go into winter the seedling came up at the right time and this plant is going strong even though we're coming into winter which is good they all might get some eggplant through winter here so I won't I'll try a weed around it as much as I can and I'll cover the whole bed except for that little corner and see how that eggplant goes once that plants finished then I'll cover it fully over so yeah that's what I want to do first before I cover is remove any plants that I can salvage and then as you can see this is this nut grass is really thick and ugly and you can pull this out as much as you like but it'll just break off as I see that's nut ball at the end here and what happens is this sends out a whole heap of other root systems and rhyme zones and more nuts form and then the plant forms from that so you pull it out and there's nuts in the ground still and it will free shoot the best way to do it is to cover the bed smother it and kill it off over several months so that it keeps trying to shoot and that eventually it'll just die out and that's the way to go and all that greenery and weeds will turn into compost to be eaten by worms all right so let's have a look at this bed now it's done the job that tarp there's nothing living underneath here it's all died down few things still trying to sprout soil underneath looks pretty good yeah that's what I was after that effect this is where I had the sweet potato and I was trying to kill that off in this bed it's still still rerouting here but I can easily dig that up now and get rid of it I don't want to growing in here anymore and I'm going to refurbish this bed after I stick the tarp down the front bed I'll refurbish this with some fresh manure that I've got that I've had sitting down the back there we're not freshmen yeah good composted manure that I've had composting in a heap for good six months be on the back here will whack that on there and some compost as well and other stuff and really bring this bed up and then I'll Mull fitting and we can turn this into a really nice winter's bed perhaps and grow some winter veggies in here but now my aim is to get this tarp on the front bed up here and smother out all that once I get the plants that I want out of that bed [Music] [Music] [Music] there we go all done nice and neat laid down so that we might pick it up that will work well we've got to do a bit of edging around the bottom knee otherwise and it could be with that not quite long enough so I use that shade cloth I'd be in there you know what I prefer that material I'm going to get a big roll of it about all of them 80 metres roll or something maybe this'll add maybe 40 or something and I'm gonna just use shade cloth maybe doubled over but I like shade cloth set it in half simply because it allows the rain and moisture through to do and all that and I think that's better for the microbes and wounds on the knee however the reason I like this tarp is because if the weed killer when the Sun even through winter when the Sun heats up on that tarp it permeates through into that bed and that's where it kills off the weed temperature gets very high on top of the worms migrate down the bottom and when the worms and microbes migrate down to the bottom because it's too hot obviously the the weed seeds can't and they get fried on top there and that's what I did to the other bed and that's why it'll be a good growing bed just reason it'll throw weaves in its back bed that I've taken this tarp off and put it on the front one but it'll have less weeds than what it otherwise would have had if I tried to hand weed it and refurbish the bed this way you're giving the better rest at the same time you're killing off weeds and the types of grasses that are really difficult to kill off that keep coming up now the grass will keep coming up that nut grass but it'll eventually have to die because they'll get no Sun and nothing no Sun not even water in some parts so this is a really good method an organic method to refurbish give them a rest at the same time protect it from extra weeds growing in it and all those weeds that are were underneath it sort of be pulling them out so will now die off and turn into compost and seed for the microbes and worms now you might have been hearing some noise in the background with water dropping things like I've got some parrots that are sitting on my roof having a bath in the gutter and we use about them making a racket while I'm trying to talk to you guys that's just annoying hey there's a bit of a low point in the gutter then from water clicks and that's come for some of the birds have a bath well I hope you enjoyed that video just another laid-back one showing how I work my garden beds I consider food gardening a very important part of my life and I'm glad that I'm able to share some of the things I do in the garden with you guys if you like this video give it a thumbs up and of course subscribe for more thanks for getting website self-sufficient me calm bye for now [Music] you [Music]
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get a unlike from self-sufficiently and in this video I want to show you guys a special technique I use to rest our garden beds and at the same time cool off weeds and grasses and seeds so I'm going to move that tarp and I'm going to put it over here over this bed one of my oldest garden beds in this patch that's become overgrown with nut weed grasses weeds or nut grass I should say that grass money down then end all sorts of grasses and weeds have gone to seed and I'm going to do the same going to take that top and put it across here a lot of these weeds came up through the manure that I spread throughout this bed about 12 month or so ago got a whole lot of horse meal was infested with weeds before I cover this bed I'm going to look for any little plants that have come up that I can salvage now I'd take this one this mustard this is sort of loose leaf mustard but I've got plenty of that going around so that's not that's not a drama here's a weed that's going to seed I'll just pull that out and chuck it I've already done that with some of these cobblers pegs here that weed there I got to get that out of the garden otherwise those seeds will just fall into the garden bed and come up as soon as I remove the top and that grows all year round that damn thing there's more of that mustard in there but there's also and I've saw this before dill coming up because of the weather is cooling down it's dill season and I always that me our dill go to seed and the last few seasons has been growing in this front bed here and so I knew that we're going to have dill coming up and I want to cover this bed over and not have any deal this year or have to replant seed our Mazel grab some of the seedlings that have come up now and replant them around in the other garden beds that are prepared so that we've got dill coming on so that's what I'll do I'll carefully remove some of these seedlings take out a bit of soil with them and and replant them this climbing spinach I'll probably just leave it sit up there and those seeds will dry out you can see some of my finger here those berries are edible by the way but fairly tasteless but what they are good for is colouring things like you could color a cake icing sugar you could color eggs pickled eggs and all types of things purple without you know using chemicals or additives yeah so this as well a little coriander plant coming up again as the weather cools down we have this coriander starts coming up and I'll salvage that little seedling as well and plant it alongside the dill probably and I've got this eggplant that was self seeded in the corner here along with this tomato this is a bush tomato a lot of people use a four-seat for root stock and graft other tomato plants on top because it's a vigorous but the tomatoes themselves are beautiful yes they're tiny but it will readily seed and grow all year in this climate whereas the larger come up Tomatoes won't even the larger cherry tomatoes struggling in the heat eggplant is unusual for it to go into winter the seedling came up at the right time and this plant is going strong even though we're coming into winter which is good they all might get some eggplant through winter here so I won't I'll try a weed around it as much as I can and I'll cover the whole bed except for that little corner and see how that eggplant goes once that plants finished then I'll cover it fully over so yeah that's what I want to do first before I cover is remove any plants that I can salvage and then as you can see this is this nut grass is really thick and ugly and you can pull this out as much as you like but it'll just break off as I see that's nut ball at the end here and what happens is this sends out a whole heap of other root systems and rhyme zones and more nuts form and then the plant forms from that so you pull it out and there's nuts in the ground still and it will free shoot the best way to do it is to cover the bed smother it and kill it off over several months so that it keeps trying to shoot and that eventually it'll just die out and that's the way to go and all that greenery and weeds will turn into compost to be eaten by worms all right so let's have a look at this bed now it's done the job that tarp there's nothing living underneath here it's all died down few things still trying to sprout soil underneath looks pretty good yeah that's what I was after that effect this is where I had the sweet potato and I was trying to kill that off in this bed it's still still rerouting here but I can easily dig that up now and get rid of it I don't want to growing in here anymore and I'm going to refurbish this bed after I stick the tarp down the front bed I'll refurbish this with some fresh manure that I've got that I've had sitting down the back there we're not freshmen yeah good composted manure that I've had composting in a heap for good six months be on the back here will whack that on there and some compost as well and other stuff and really bring this bed up and then I'll Mull fitting and we can turn this into a really nice winter's bed perhaps and grow some winter veggies in here but now my aim is to get this tarp on the front bed up here and smother out all that once I get the plants that I want out of that bed [Music] [Music] [Music] there we go all done nice and neat laid down so that we might pick it up that will work well we've got to do a bit of edging around the bottom knee otherwise and it could be with that not quite long enough so I use that shade cloth I'd be in there you know what I prefer that material I'm going to get a big roll of it about all of them 80 metres roll or something maybe this'll add maybe 40 or something and I'm gonna just use shade cloth maybe doubled over but I like shade cloth set it in half simply because it allows the rain and moisture through to do and all that and I think that's better for the microbes and wounds on the knee however the reason I like this tarp is because if the weed killer when the Sun even through winter when the Sun heats up on that tarp it permeates through into that bed and that's where it kills off the weed temperature gets very high on top of the worms migrate down the bottom and when the worms and microbes migrate down to the bottom because it's too hot obviously the the weed seeds can't and they get fried on top there and that's what I did to the other bed and that's why it'll be a good growing bed just reason it'll throw weaves in its back bed that I've taken this tarp off and put it on the front one but it'll have less weeds than what it otherwise would have had if I tried to hand weed it and refurbish the bed this way you're giving the better rest at the same time you're killing off weeds and the types of grasses that are really difficult to kill off that keep coming up now the grass will keep coming up that nut grass but it'll eventually have to die because they'll get no Sun and nothing no Sun not even water in some parts so this is a really good method an organic method to refurbish give them a rest at the same time protect it from extra weeds growing in it and all those weeds that are were underneath it sort of be pulling them out so will now die off and turn into compost and seed for the microbes and worms now you might have been hearing some noise in the background with water dropping things like I've got some parrots that are sitting on my roof having a bath in the gutter and we use about them making a racket while I'm trying to talk to you guys that's just annoying hey there's a bit of a low point in the gutter then from water clicks and that's come for some of the birds have a bath well I hope you enjoyed that video just another laid-back one showing how I work my garden beds I consider food gardening a very important part of my life and I'm glad that I'm able to share some of the things I do in the garden with you guys if you like this video give it a thumbs up and of course subscribe for more thanks for getting website self-sufficient me calm bye for now [Music] you [Music]
Spring Homestead Garden Tour - Family Farm Life
Videos • ART and BRI posted the article • 0 comments • 221 views • 2019-05-29 18:20
We walk into the garden to plant raspberries and end up taking a garden tour or all our spring crops. There is green everywhere!
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because burned
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I'm out with the boys in the garden all
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the boys little buddies behind you here
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we're gonna plant five raspberry plants
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I was out here prepping this area to put
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in the raspberries digging up the soil
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adding a bunch of this partially
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composted manure and I found this cool
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little elderberry plant here which I
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will keep and that came from actually
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just burying some chunks of elderberry
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root that I dug up from the world these
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raspberries came from the Indiana
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Berrien plant company these are a
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variety called Nantahala and if you're
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from around here you'll recognize the
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name immediately this variety was
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developed by NC State and I bought it
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because supposed to taste good and do
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well around here
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it's okay dude all right that's that
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look at these silly cows hey lady
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any babies it's been pretty rainy the
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past two days which has been nice for
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the garden and pasture and everything
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the cow has been out in the rain we
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would pretty much try to keep her
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outside and have generally been happier
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overall when we kept the cow that we had
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out of the barn she will stay so much
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cleaner out here then she will in the
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barn
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and not only will she stay cleaner which
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makes milking cleaning easier keeps your
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milk cleaner the barn stays a lot
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cleaner too so everything stays cleaner
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if she just stays out and and the rain
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doesn't hurt her you know if it's storm
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and real bad we might let her in the
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barn but if I turn my gaze over this way
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there's an apple tree that's doing great
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but right in here there are two ducks
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sitting on duck eggs
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our raspberries are in the ground one
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two three four five and then between
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this post and that corner up there we'll
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put in 13 more plants and I think it's
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five different varieties the potatoes
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are doing awesome I've started just
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mulching them with grass that I cut by
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hand from around the edge of the garden
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this lettuce looks awesome but it needs
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thinning but it's just growing
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beautifully this is joyful garden she
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needs to do some work on it these peas
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along the fence are looking really puny
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so last night I cut the grass all along
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the fence to try to give him a little
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more sunlight and then I fertilized them
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this morning with some fish fertilizer
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to try to just get them to pop the
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asparagus is doing awesome and there's
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just a nice thick steak look at this
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giant here and then under the feet of
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the asparagus there are thousands of
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little asparagus plants here all along
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so if we let it this whole area here and
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here
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will turn into a big giant asparagus bed
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the rhubarb looks really great and
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there's comfrey coming up down here in
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the path the strawberry bed looks really
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really good and here are onions which
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this was my last project is weeding and
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mulching this is gonna be my next one
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weeding the onions probably mulching
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them in some way and here's Chinese
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chives which are pretty tasty the garlic
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looks good but needs weeding kale the
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same beets the same spinach looks pretty
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good that is they think radishes green
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onions the kids are constantly eating
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these you can see all these tops pulled
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off that's from children eating them and
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then if some radishes in here that one
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actually it's a nice little radish in
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there let's pull that up oh what a
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pretty little radish we'll bring that
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inside probably more and then cilantro
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beautifully green
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growing starting here we have herbs dill
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plants here and then lots of little dill
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coming up chives bunching onions here
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just coming up after much delay
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you know oregano thyme sage tarragon I'm
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pretty sure I'll show you how our
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cabbage is doing in this tunnel it's
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doing awesome and it is not being eaten
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by caterpillars at least I saw a little
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slug damage on one of them look at this
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a lot of weeds but the plants look
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awesome and then you're getting they're
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big and they're strong really pretty
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little plants there this portion of the
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garden behind me is almost completely
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planted there's a little open real
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estate here down at the end there and
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then in the ends of those beds but our
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early gardens almost totally in next
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comes this mess up here this part of the
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garden as far as the soil goes is pretty
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significantly worse than what's behind
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me down here we've put a ton actually
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multiple tons honestly literally of
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organic manure compost into this lower
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portion and just not as much into the
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upper portion so we're gonna row to till
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this upper portion so that's what's next
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in the garden and that's pretty much
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wraps up our garden tour let's go see
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some baby goats
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so far this is the most vigorous of all
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the apple trees and it's a Liberty all
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of these trees are putting on a good
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amount of new growth this is a straight
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start break star and we're gonna have to
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pick these off here but this thing has
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probably twenty or thirty little tiny
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though apples on yeah that's just a
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second year in the ground tree I got
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some hay for you do you want it there's
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a few stray chickens but we'll let the
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majority of these chickens
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how are you all doing we all do it
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hanging out here is beautiful outside
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what hang you that one here silly
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here's a little lucky the cutest Scout
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in the world are you patting that goat
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are you petting the goat that's so sweet
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back there
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do you love that goat Wilder sweet very
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far you're trying to come in here go
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play if I couldn't interest you in some
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hey maybe I could interested interest
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you in some fly spray ma'am I think
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that's why she's making that little bit
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of a bellowing film so bad this year
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well she doesn't like it so she's
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running from me what count does like
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being straight dolly never liked fly
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spray I did get thumb on her just now so
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comfortable
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well that's gonna about wrap it up for
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our impromptu garden tour and showing
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you around the homestead it's been
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another great day on the homestead thank
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you for joining us and we'll see you
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quite soon in another video
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We walk into the garden to plant raspberries and end up taking a garden tour or all our spring crops. There is green everywhere!
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the boys little buddies behind you here
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we're gonna plant five raspberry plants
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I was out here prepping this area to put
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in the raspberries digging up the soil
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adding a bunch of this partially
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composted manure and I found this cool
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little elderberry plant here which I
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will keep and that came from actually
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just burying some chunks of elderberry
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root that I dug up from the world these
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raspberries came from the Indiana
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Berrien plant company these are a
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variety called Nantahala and if you're
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from around here you'll recognize the
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name immediately this variety was
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developed by NC State and I bought it
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because supposed to taste good and do
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well around here
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it's okay dude all right that's that
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look at these silly cows hey lady
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any babies it's been pretty rainy the
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past two days which has been nice for
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the garden and pasture and everything
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the cow has been out in the rain we
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would pretty much try to keep her
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outside and have generally been happier
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overall when we kept the cow that we had
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out of the barn she will stay so much
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cleaner out here then she will in the
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barn
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and not only will she stay cleaner which
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makes milking cleaning easier keeps your
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milk cleaner the barn stays a lot
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cleaner too so everything stays cleaner
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if she just stays out and and the rain
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doesn't hurt her you know if it's storm
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and real bad we might let her in the
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barn but if I turn my gaze over this way
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there's an apple tree that's doing great
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but right in here there are two ducks
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sitting on duck eggs
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our raspberries are in the ground one
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two three four five and then between
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this post and that corner up there we'll
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put in 13 more plants and I think it's
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five different varieties the potatoes
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are doing awesome I've started just
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mulching them with grass that I cut by
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hand from around the edge of the garden
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this lettuce looks awesome but it needs
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thinning but it's just growing
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beautifully this is joyful garden she
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needs to do some work on it these peas
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along the fence are looking really puny
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so last night I cut the grass all along
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the fence to try to give him a little
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more sunlight and then I fertilized them
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this morning with some fish fertilizer
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to try to just get them to pop the
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asparagus is doing awesome and there's
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just a nice thick steak look at this
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giant here and then under the feet of
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the asparagus there are thousands of
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little asparagus plants here all along
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so if we let it this whole area here and
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here
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will turn into a big giant asparagus bed
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the rhubarb looks really great and
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there's comfrey coming up down here in
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the path the strawberry bed looks really
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really good and here are onions which
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this was my last project is weeding and
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mulching this is gonna be my next one
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weeding the onions probably mulching
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them in some way and here's Chinese
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chives which are pretty tasty the garlic
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looks good but needs weeding kale the
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same beets the same spinach looks pretty
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good that is they think radishes green
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onions the kids are constantly eating
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these you can see all these tops pulled
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off that's from children eating them and
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then if some radishes in here that one
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actually it's a nice little radish in
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there let's pull that up oh what a
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pretty little radish we'll bring that
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inside probably more and then cilantro
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beautifully green
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growing starting here we have herbs dill
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plants here and then lots of little dill
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coming up chives bunching onions here
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just coming up after much delay
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you know oregano thyme sage tarragon I'm
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pretty sure I'll show you how our
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cabbage is doing in this tunnel it's
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doing awesome and it is not being eaten
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by caterpillars at least I saw a little
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slug damage on one of them look at this
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a lot of weeds but the plants look
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awesome and then you're getting they're
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big and they're strong really pretty
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little plants there this portion of the
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garden behind me is almost completely
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planted there's a little open real
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estate here down at the end there and
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then in the ends of those beds but our
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early gardens almost totally in next
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comes this mess up here this part of the
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garden as far as the soil goes is pretty
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significantly worse than what's behind
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me down here we've put a ton actually
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multiple tons honestly literally of
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organic manure compost into this lower
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portion and just not as much into the
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upper portion so we're gonna row to till
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this upper portion so that's what's next
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in the garden and that's pretty much
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wraps up our garden tour let's go see
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some baby goats
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so far this is the most vigorous of all
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the apple trees and it's a Liberty all
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of these trees are putting on a good
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amount of new growth this is a straight
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start break star and we're gonna have to
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pick these off here but this thing has
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probably twenty or thirty little tiny
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though apples on yeah that's just a
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second year in the ground tree I got
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some hay for you do you want it there's
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a few stray chickens but we'll let the
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majority of these chickens
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how are you all doing we all do it
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hanging out here is beautiful outside
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what hang you that one here silly
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here's a little lucky the cutest Scout
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in the world are you patting that goat
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are you petting the goat that's so sweet
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back there
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do you love that goat Wilder sweet very
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far you're trying to come in here go
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play if I couldn't interest you in some
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hey maybe I could interested interest
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you in some fly spray ma'am I think
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that's why she's making that little bit
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of a bellowing film so bad this year
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well she doesn't like it so she's
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running from me what count does like
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being straight dolly never liked fly
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spray I did get thumb on her just now so
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comfortable
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well that's gonna about wrap it up for
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our impromptu garden tour and showing
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you around the homestead it's been
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another great day on the homestead thank
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you for joining us and we'll see you
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quite soon in another video
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Planting Up Our Hayracks!
Videos • Garden Answer posted the article • 0 comments • 227 views • 2019-05-27 16:13
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hey guys how's it going I am so excited
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for today's project we are going to be
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planting up all 40 of these hay racks
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that run along the front of our fence
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line here we did this last year for the
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very first time and it was incredible we
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enjoyed it so much and I planted so many
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plants up here we had lemon coral sedum
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super bean a large lilac blue supertunia
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royal magenta and supertunia Bordeaux it
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was a beautiful blend of plants but I
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think because it was the first year of
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the project I was so excited that I
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overkilled on how many plants I put any
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cherrick like I put 11 plants in each
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one of these hay racks which is probably
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a little bit too much so I'm taking a
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different approach this year in fact let
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me show you what I have planned in terms
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of plants we've got them in the back of
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the truck so I'm going to use a mixture
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of three different plants we've got
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supertunia vista bubble gum which is a
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favorite of mine we have supertunia
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vista silver berry
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and then a sweet caroline light green
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sweet potato vine so instead of 11
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plants I'm gonna use just 5 in each one
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of these hay racks because I really
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wanted to show you guys how you can
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create something like this any type of
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project either in a container or in your
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landscape with huge impact for a lot
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less if you choose the right kind of
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plant and all of the supertunia Vista
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series they're amazingly vigorous
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they're just amazing plants and like no
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matter where I've planted them they
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always do really well and they grow huge
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full of bloom so I've got all three of
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these plants kind of lined out in the
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basket because I wanted to show you kind
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of what I'm thinking in terms of layout
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so I'm going to start with a Vista
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silver berry on this side and then a
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bubblegum my sweet potato vine will be
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in the middle here silver berry and then
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bubblegum again so you'll notice that we
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already have soil this is fresh soil I
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brought a bag of it up here this is what
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they're full of just because this is
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such a small reservoir I don't feel like
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I can recycle soil from last year
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because those plants utilize every last
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ounce in fact we will be adding
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fertilizer we fertilize on a weekly
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basis to keep the plants really happy
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annuals that you want to perform really
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big need quite a bit of food so I'm also
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I haven't done this yet today but I'm
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going to be adding in
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a slow-release plant food into the soil
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before I plant couple of other things I
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wanted to mention these are the same
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Coco fiber liners from last year there
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is a difference in quality you can find
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really thick ones or fairly thin ones
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spring for the thick ones because they
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will last you for several years so these
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liners camera with the hay racks which
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were all sent to us by garden artisans
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last year and then I also wanted to
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mention the irrigation so we did run
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drip and I think when you're doing a
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project especially of this size you want
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to make sure to have irrigation set up
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really for for anything if you can run
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drip to any of your containers it makes
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life so much easier but we did four to
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gallon per hour emitters per basket and
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in the spring we ran it for about 10 to
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15 minutes every day which is what we'll
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start with today and then as it gets
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warmer or if we have extra windy days
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we'll increase the amount of time so
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like last year when it was above
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probably I think above 90 we started
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running them twice a day so morning and
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evening for 15 minutes each time and our
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plants were extremely extremely happy so
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let me go ahead and plant this one up
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just so I can show you guys how this
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whole thing is gonna go every single one
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of these hay racks would be planted
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exactly the same way I just want to give
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you guys a feel for it
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so in this hay rack I'm just gonna add a
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few tablespoons it's a brand new
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container a few tablespoons of this
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continuous release plant food and I'm
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just gonna work that in to the top layer
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of soil and I do have gloves for the
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rest of this project I just forgot to
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grab them I'll start with my Center
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plant that way I can make sure to get
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everything spaced proper so that's right
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here and I'm going to position these
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sedum which actually did really really
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vigorous as a potato vine so we didn't
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irrigation setup to your pots it's no
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vigorous they were kind of growing over
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the top of it and if you came over and
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of these plants kind of have the same
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vigor so I think they'll work really
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well together and so you'll be able to
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year okay so I think we're gonna set up
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a camera and just get a time-lapse of me
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planting the rest of these it's gonna
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oh my gosh you guys it turned out so
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pretty I mean if you would have told me
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even two years ago that I would be
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planting up 40 hay racks at my own house
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this is just gonna be such a beautiful
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show and I think it could be scaled to
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any size whether you're doing one pot or
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one hay rack or ten or 40 or 100 you
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principles and get the same results I
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appropriately planted than it did last
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year to be completely honest I think
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that the plants will be happier they
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won't be in such hard competition with
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each other so that they'll be able to
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flourish a little bit more and the last
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gonna plant up these large estate
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planters right here with some other fun
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stuff so vertigo Pennisetum you guys
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big in fact let me see four to four to
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eight feet so anywhere from four to
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eight feet and I think that that depends
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much water it gets as well I think it'll
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year and they just they were a
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spectacular grass so I decided I wanted
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darker colored grass and the blades do
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the dark pot with some really pretty fun
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color underneath and I'm also going for
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the same thing I'm using way fewer
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bubble gum just spaced as evenly as I
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around the outer part and then this one
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this year it's called Diamond Mountain
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euphorbia you might recognize the name
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Diamond Frost which is very similar but
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Diamond Frost is more of an accent plant
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it kind of grows and just like it's more
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of a wispy appearance this one grows 2
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to 3 feet tall and like 18 inch spread
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on them so I think it's gonna be a
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gorgeous stair-step effect will have the
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huge grass they're really pretty just
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kind of block of white and then the pink
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kind of Spiller supertunia down below so
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as well and then I put the slow release
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fertilizer in so I am ready just to pop
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these all in and then we can get it
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overall look and
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we haven't shown yet is that there is
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kind of a repeat on the other side here
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we have the same container on this side
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of the opening and then we had room for
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one hay rack on this side and I thought
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it was important even though it's a
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little short section offense to kind of
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mirror what we had going on so it looked
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gonna be just such a gorgeous show we
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everything so you can see right here I
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emitters dispersed fairly evenly
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containers and then on the hay racks
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running and see that water just coming
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out really nicely and we watch them
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atleast day or two that we're running
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the drips to make sure we don't have any
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leaks or any you know any problems any
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because we leave this out all winter we
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don't have to put the drip system away
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because there's no water left in it all
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the water comes out of these right here
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to make sure that nothing's happened
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over the course of a winter so anyway I
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hope that these type of videos are
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helpful to you guys just to see what
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containers like this look like in the
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beginning while I think it looks
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absolutely beautiful I cannot wait to
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show you what they look like even a
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month or two from now so stay tuned for
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those videos we'll be doing lots of
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updates throughout the season thank you
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guys so much for watching and we will
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hey guys how's it going I am so excited
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for today's project we are going to be
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planting up all 40 of these hay racks
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that run along the front of our fence
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line here we did this last year for the
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very first time and it was incredible we
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enjoyed it so much and I planted so many
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plants up here we had lemon coral sedum
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super bean a large lilac blue supertunia
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royal magenta and supertunia Bordeaux it
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was a beautiful blend of plants but I
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the project I was so excited that I
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overkilled on how many plants I put any
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cherrick like I put 11 plants in each
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one of these hay racks which is probably
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a little bit too much so I'm taking a
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different approach this year in fact let
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me show you what I have planned in terms
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of plants we've got them in the back of
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the truck so I'm going to use a mixture
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of three different plants we've got
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supertunia vista bubble gum which is a
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favorite of mine we have supertunia
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vista silver berry
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and then a sweet caroline light green
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sweet potato vine so instead of 11
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plants I'm gonna use just 5 in each one
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of these hay racks because I really
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wanted to show you guys how you can
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create something like this any type of
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project either in a container or in your
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landscape with huge impact for a lot
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less if you choose the right kind of
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plant and all of the supertunia Vista
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series they're amazingly vigorous
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they're just amazing plants and like no
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matter where I've planted them they
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always do really well and they grow huge
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full of bloom so I've got all three of
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these plants kind of lined out in the
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basket because I wanted to show you kind
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of what I'm thinking in terms of layout
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silver berry on this side and then a
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bubblegum my sweet potato vine will be
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in the middle here silver berry and then
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bubblegum again so you'll notice that we
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already have soil this is fresh soil I
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brought a bag of it up here this is what
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they're full of just because this is
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such a small reservoir I don't feel like
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I can recycle soil from last year
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because those plants utilize every last
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ounce in fact we will be adding
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fertilizer we fertilize on a weekly
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basis to keep the plants really happy
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annuals that you want to perform really
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big need quite a bit of food so I'm also
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going to be adding in
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a slow-release plant food into the soil
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before I plant couple of other things I
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Coco fiber liners from last year there
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is a difference in quality you can find
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really thick ones or fairly thin ones
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spring for the thick ones because they
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will last you for several years so these
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liners camera with the hay racks which
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were all sent to us by garden artisans
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last year and then I also wanted to
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mention the irrigation so we did run
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drip and I think when you're doing a
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project especially of this size you want
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to make sure to have irrigation set up
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really for for anything if you can run
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drip to any of your containers it makes
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life so much easier but we did four to
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gallon per hour emitters per basket and
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in the spring we ran it for about 10 to
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15 minutes every day which is what we'll
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start with today and then as it gets
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warmer or if we have extra windy days
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we'll increase the amount of time so
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like last year when it was above
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probably I think above 90 we started
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running them twice a day so morning and
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evening for 15 minutes each time and our
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plants were extremely extremely happy so
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let me go ahead and plant this one up
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just so I can show you guys how this
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whole thing is gonna go every single one
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of these hay racks would be planted
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exactly the same way I just want to give
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you guys a feel for it
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so in this hay rack I'm just gonna add a
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few tablespoons it's a brand new
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container a few tablespoons of this
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continuous release plant food and I'm
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just gonna work that in to the top layer
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of soil and I do have gloves for the
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rest of this project I just forgot to
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grab them I'll start with my Center
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plant that way I can make sure to get
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everything spaced proper so that's right
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here and I'm going to position these
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right in the center of the basket like
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this because I'm hoping they'll trail
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back and on the front side so it's
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pretty on both sides okay we'll do the
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silver berry on this side just like that
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and these sweet potato vines so the
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difference last year I use lemon coral
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sedum which actually did really really
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good I was surprised with how much water
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it was getting it held up and it grew
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really nicely but they're not quite as
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vigorous as a potato vine so we didn't
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get that really strong foliage accent so
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be mindful these are water hungry plants
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they like to be moist
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quite a bit of the time so that's
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something else to consider when you're
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picking out plants if you have an
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irrigation setup to your pots it's no
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big deal but if you don't you might want
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to you know adjust accordingly also when
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you're picking out your plants it's good
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to consider the growth habit of all of
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the plants because like with the lemon
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curl like I said it did really well and
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it did but you couldn't see it very well
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because all the other plants were so
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vigorous they were kind of growing over
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the top of it and if you came over and
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kind of spread those part plants apart
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you could see the lemon Coral they're
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just shining and looking beautiful but
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it's that's something to think about all
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of these plants kind of have the same
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vigor so I think they'll work really
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well together and so you'll be able to
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actually see our foliage accent this
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year okay so I think we're gonna set up
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a camera and just get a time-lapse of me
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planting the rest of these it's gonna
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look a lot faster than it happens in
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real life here we go
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oh my gosh you guys it turned out so
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pretty I mean if you would have told me
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even two years ago that I would be
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planting up 40 hay racks at my own house
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I would not have believed you
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this is just gonna be such a beautiful
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show and I think it could be scaled to
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any size whether you're doing one pot or
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one hay rack or ten or 40 or 100 you
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could kind of take these same planting
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principles and get the same results I
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think that this looks way more
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appropriately planted than it did last
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year to be completely honest I think
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that the plants will be happier they
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won't be in such hard competition with
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each other so that they'll be able to
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flourish a little bit more and the last
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thing that we're gonna do today is we're
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gonna plant up these large estate
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planters right here with some other fun
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stuff so vertigo Pennisetum you guys
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this is an amazing grass they grow so
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big in fact let me see four to four to
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eight feet so anywhere from four to
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eight feet and I think that that depends
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on how much Sun it's getting and how
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much water it gets as well I think it'll
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get bigger with more of those two things
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I planted these in several spots last
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year and they just they were a
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spectacular grass so I decided I wanted
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to do it in these planters up here and
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then to break it up because it is a
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darker colored grass and the blades do
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get quite large as the plant grows it's
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got a really strappy appearance but I
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wanted to break up the dark grass with
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the dark pot with some really pretty fun
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color underneath and I'm also going for
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the same thing I'm using way fewer
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plants in here six supertunia Vista
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bubble gum just spaced as evenly as I
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could
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around the outer part and then this one
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is exciting so I think this one's new
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this year it's called Diamond Mountain
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euphorbia you might recognize the name
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Diamond Frost which is very similar but
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Diamond Frost is more of an accent plant
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it kind of grows and just like it's more
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of a wispy appearance this one grows 2
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to 3 feet tall and like 18 inch spread
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on them so I think it's gonna be a
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gorgeous stair-step effect will have the
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huge grass they're really pretty just
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kind of block of white and then the pink
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kind of Spiller supertunia down below so
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we've already filled these up with soil
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as well and then I put the slow release
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fertilizer in so I am ready just to pop
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these all in and then we can get it
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overall look and
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we haven't shown yet is that there is
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kind of a repeat on the other side here
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we have the same container on this side
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of the opening and then we had room for
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one hay rack on this side and I thought
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it was important even though it's a
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little short section offense to kind of
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mirror what we had going on so it looked
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like a cohesive idea so I think what I'm
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gonna do is I'll just start right here
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so there you have it they are all
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planted up for the season and I'm just
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so thrilled to see color I think it's
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gonna be just such a gorgeous show we
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did turn the water on just to test
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everything so you can see right here I
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have got an 8 to gallon per hour
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emitters dispersed fairly evenly
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throughout each one of these large
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containers and then on the hay racks
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here you can see kind of how they're
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running and see that water just coming
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out really nicely and we watch them
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pretty closely throughout the first
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atleast day or two that we're running
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the drips to make sure we don't have any
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leaks or any you know any problems any
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plugged in ITER's from the previous year
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because we leave this out all winter we
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don't have to put the drip system away
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because there's no water left in it all
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the water comes out of these right here
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so we just kind of look at them closely
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to make sure that nothing's happened
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over the course of a winter so anyway I
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hope that these type of videos are
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helpful to you guys just to see what
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containers like this look like in the
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beginning while I think it looks
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absolutely beautiful I cannot wait to
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show you what they look like even a
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month or two from now so stay tuned for
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those videos we'll be doing lots of
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updates throughout the season thank you
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guys so much for watching and we will
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Planting Peonies (Plants & Tubers) in My Garden!
Videos • Garden Answer posted the article • 0 comments • 226 views • 2019-05-27 16:12
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hey guys how's it going I'm getting
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ready to plant some gorgeous peonies in
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my garden this morning and I just wanted
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to give you a few care tips because
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these are one of the most easy to grow
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flowers you can put in your garden and
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once they're established they last for
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years like decades long so they're just
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a wonderful one to have there are so
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many gorgeous peonies out there these
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are just starting to open but these
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flowers get huge and just beautiful for
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cut flowers to bring inside or just to
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enjoy out in the garden so there are
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three main types of peonies there's
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herbaceous peonies which I'm going to be
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focusing on in this video because that's
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what I'm planting they're the types that
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die back to the ground every fall and
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then the next spring they emerge with
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these beautiful red tinge stems and then
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they turn into this just beautiful small
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shrub in the garden full of flowers
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there are tree peonies which we've done
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a video on previously we will link that
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down below if you want to learn it a
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little bit more but basically they're a
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type of peeny that create a more woody
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stem above ground that stays intact so
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they lose their leaves in the fall but
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when they leaf out in the spring they'll
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leaf out on those stems and then there
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are ito peonies which are a hybrid cross
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between an herbaceous and the tree peony
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and the benefit of Ito's is that they
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are prolific bloomers and there are a
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ton of colors available so you can find
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potted peonies like these right here at
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your garden center most of the time in
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the spring you'll find a pretty good
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selection of them you might also be able
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to buy them as bare root or tubers and I
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believe the best time of the year to
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plant those is in the fall and it is
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spring now I have some tubers I'm going
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to plant in the ground but I figure
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they're better off planted in the ground
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now I've been hanging on to them until
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fall so I'll show you how to plant those
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roots in just a second these are super
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easy all we have to do is find a spot
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that gets full Sun a minimum of six to
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eight hours of Sun for them to perform
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the best they also like moist but really
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well draining soil and you want to give
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them a space that has good air flow so
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like this area right here I have a fence
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right behind me there's going to be just
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a little mini hedge I've got three
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peonies back here they'll get plenty of
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air if they don't have enough air and
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you've got high humidity or it's a
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moister area they can suffer from
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powdery mildew or a fungus called
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botrytis those are the two most common
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on peonies so just keep that in mind so
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real quick let me just talk to you about
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this specific variety I'm planting this
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is called core
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old charm so like I said this one is
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just starting to open and they will get
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nice and big beautiful coral color
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they're a semi double and they are
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really Hardy Hardy down to negative 40
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degrees and they get to be like 28 30
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inches tall and about a 30 to 36 inch
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spread so I'm going to kind of plant
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them back from this little row of lilies
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right here to where they can kind of
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spill out into the driveway behind me I
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think that'll be really pretty to see
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those big bright bright pink blooms kind
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of emerging from underneath this white
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fence they do like a pretty fertile soil
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as well so today when I plant them I'm
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going to be adding in some bio tone
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starter fertilizer into each one of
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their holes and this is pretty good soil
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back here so I don't think I need to
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worry about anything else so let's get
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these three in the ground and then I'm
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going to talk about how to best support
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the plants with stakes
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okay so I got all three of these in the
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ground so I've got this one here there's
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this one that doesn't have any blooms on
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it currently and then that one right
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there I think that's gonna form a
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beautiful backdrop I've got like I said
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lily is that bloom yellow I've got a
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blue chiffon roses share and standard so
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these are my summer colors rubs
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including a butterfly bush over there a
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Miss violet so I've lots of summer color
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and I was lacking spring so this is
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gonna bring some beautiful spring color
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in from for years to come and before I
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move on to showing you guys how to plant
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the tubers of peonies I want to talk
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about staking so there are a couple
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different methods that are pretty common
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for staking peonies this one is probably
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one of the most common this is a peony
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ring it's much like a tomato cage but
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it's a little sturdier and it's wider
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and you can get these in multiple
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different sizes but I prefer a different
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type of stake I've got one right here
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this is called a grow through through
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grid ideally you would have these in
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place before the plant starts growing in
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the spring so as it grows it can grow up
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through the grid the reason I like these
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better than the hoops or the cages is
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that these hold up individual branches
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and more of an aesthetically pleasing
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Mound if they grow up through this type
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of staking system they'll still kind of
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tend to flop from the center if they've
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got huge blooms this one holds
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everything a little bit more just
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rounded so there's three stakes right
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here that you attach to the top of the
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grow through grid like this so I'm going
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to attempt to feed these blooms through
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just to kind of show you what it might
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look like I've got to do it anyway I've
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got to have the the grid going and these
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I just leave out I leave them out all
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winter long and they're just in place
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for when the peony starts growing the
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following spring oh I think I did it so
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see how that already holds that bloom up
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a little bit better and then I'm going
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to decide where I want my stakes and
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we'll put those in the ground they're
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really easy to use much like that and
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there are different sizes of these
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available as well so if you've got huge
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established peonies that are really big
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at the base you can get heavier-duty
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versions and you know I may have to do
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that eventually
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but these peonies don't get like so
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massive like some varieties do so I may
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be okay with this size
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so I'm going to go ahead and put my
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other two grids on and then we'll go
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plant the tubers
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so we're in the location where I want to
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plant the bare-root peonies which I have
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right here this is a variety called
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Laura desert and it's a beautiful fully
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double creamy white and creamy yellow
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peony and I thought it would be really
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beautiful right here this area looks
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Shady now because it is morning but it
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does get a really good long block of
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afternoon Sun so they should be very
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happy here
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and I am planting them kind of forward
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in this flowerbed because I do want to
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come in probably implant some climbing
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roses behind them so I wanted to leave a
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little bit of space so what you want to
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do to plant your bare root is make sure
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you find the highest bud on the crown so
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you can see the crown of the plant right
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here this is the highest bud right there
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we want to make sure that that sits
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about one to two inches below the soil
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surface
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if you plant it too deep it can delay
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bloom time and it could also make the
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plant not bloom at all so you just want
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to be very mindful of that I've already
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dug up my hole you can see the soil
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right here is really pretty nice just
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perfect I'm gonna set my root down in
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there and you can see where the soil
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surface is it'll sit just about two
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inches below with the surface I'm gonna
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toss a little bit of starter fertilizer
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in right around the root and then just
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fill back the hole well tamp that down
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cover it back up with a little bit of
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mulch and before I get too far I'm gonna
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put my grid steak over it so I can
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remember that I have something planted
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here for the first thing and then once
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it starts growing the grid will be in
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place and I won't have to worry about it
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that looks pretty darn good okay so I've
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just got two more to plan
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so I got all three of these planted and
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I think they're gonna be gorgeous here
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especially once I get some roses and
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clematis growing right behind them there
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are a couple more things I want to talk
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to you about but I think I want to go
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back to the first peonies to talk to you
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about those things because I can
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actually show you on the plant so the
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first thing is when the peonies come out
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in bud in spring they do secrete a
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really sweet SAP out of the buds that
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ants and flies and bees are attracted to
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it does not harm the plant at all they
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just come up there to feed on it some
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people think it opens it helps to open
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the blooms I think that that is a myth
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but it doesn't hurt your plant
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whatsoever when you get ready to cut
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your peonies to bring them inside if you
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see any ants on them you can just rinse
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them off super easy the second thing is
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you do want to deadhead your peonies
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when the blooms are done that way the
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plant doesn't send energy into creating
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seeds because they do create it's kind
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of a neat looking seed pod but you don't
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want your plant sending energy into
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seeds you want it's sending energy
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rather into it's a root system so it can
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establish even more and create more
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flowers for the next year so when you
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get ready to deadhead it's really easy
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there's really no rhyme or reason to how
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far you cut back the stem but like on
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this one right here I'd probably cut it
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back right into the bushier part of the
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shrub that way you don't have a bear or
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random stem sticking up out further than
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the rest of the leaves you just want to
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make it look aesthetically pleasing
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third they are heavy feeders so like I
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put today some starter fertilizer in the
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hole usually after they get done
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blooming I'll toss some plant tonne
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fertilizer around the base of the shrub
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that way they can utilize that and build
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up the root system even more and then
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you do want to cut to the peonies back
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down to the ground in the fall after the
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first frost kind of takes their foli