Last week www.DigtheDirt.com was here for a quick tour and they put together this video. I’m hoping this summer to train Chicken Little to work the camera and do more of these. This is a short one that omits quite a few things but it’s a nice view into my madness nonetheless. Thanks DigtheDirt!
If this is too small to see you can double click on the movie and it will take you directly to youtube and a larger video.
The garden is amazing and the gardener is beautiful and wicked smart! Well done, my dear. I’d love to be your neighbor!
Your garden looks amazing!! It was really neat seeing you give the tour… matching a face and a voice with the writing
Your garden is an inspiration. I love all the ways you find to use small spaces!
Okay Annette, how cool was that! I love the video and your garden and a glimpse into the amazing food oasis you’ve created right under your neighbors’ noses.
What a treat to watch this video! Dig the Dirt did a nice job with the video and your gardens are beautiful. I have mentioned before how much I like the design of your garden areas and beds – but the videos just confirmed it. Well done!
What a great tour! Your garden is fantastic! And all of the gardening just started last year? Really impressive! We just moved in January, and we’re starting our gardens, but it’s a little overwhelming at this point, not having the experience to have a big picture view of how to approach it all.
I’m also a little envious, our season’s a little behind you
I love the idea of the little “oven” for the kids – I’m always looking for entertainment ideas for the little ones!
The video tour was great! I loved it! What type of blueberry bushes were those? I’ve been researching blueberries recently to start some this fall and would love to know what type those were.
You were an awesome tour guide!
That was so great Annette! It was so much fun seeing you! Gorgeous lady and garden! Well done!!
I would have loved to see the unedited version so we could see it all. It is so interesting to see what you do. I would like to hear more about how you plan your garden in “layers” so that once you eat one “layer” down you have others growing underneath. Something I am not real familar with.
Auburn thanks – I wish you were my neighbor!
Tom and KFG – I’d love to come see your farm/garden sometime. You have both been a huge inspiration to me.
Joy we took the lawn out April ’09 and I was completely overwhelmed planning too. http://www.growveg.com is the only thing that helped me keep it straight. I didn’t totally stick to my plan but at least I had a plan to start with. It’s second nature now but I know exactly how you feel. I keep picking up seed packets and putting them down, not knowing where to start.
Melissa, I have tophat compact (the tiny ones), alpine blueberries, pink lemonade, evergreen huckleberry and 3 highbush blueberries (rubel, chandler and legacy). I’m not sure what part of the country you are in – that will make a difference in what does well for you.
Thanks Tiffany and Diana!
Marisa, I think they are turning it into several videos since there was so much footage. I tried to film a full virtual tour which turned out to be 40 minutes long and I was holding the camera so probably not as interesting. I think I need to train my biggest little man to film this summer. I’d love to make one just of the compost, one of the chicken forage crops, one on succession planting strategies for small spaces, one on kid’s gardening activities, one on winter gardening…
I’ll try to do a blog post just showing my cole crop bed right now. It’s loaded with broccoli raab which we’ve been eating since mid May but it also houses sprouting broccoli (just about ready now), head broccoli (ready next month) and brussel sprouts (ready Septish). Just as one crop needs more space and sun we eat the other thing down and get it out of the way so we are in constant broccoli/sprouts from May to October in one small bed which I then grow cover crops on over winter to feed my chickens, they eat, scratch and poop and then it’s ready for me to plant again in early spring.
Wow! What a wonderful video. It is always so great to learn more from your gardening friends. I’m definitely going to have to get my hands on some used coffee beans for my blueberries! You’ve got an amazing amount of production going on in your typical urban lot. I am especially jealous that it appears your weed situation is pretty under control. We constantly battle weeds because we’re pretty much building our garden in old pasture land.
Hi Sandy – thanks! Because this was lawn we put weed paper down under the gravel but I have spent a fair amount of time doing early spring weeding of windborne things like arrugula, stray carrots seeds, chamomile and borage. I’m learning to eat my weeds and embrace any dandelions that come my way now. I did also spend a lot of time getting everything ready for the garden tours I’ve just recently had so you are seeing the fruits of that too. If I were to show you the state of my house right now it would make you feel better about my yard. It’s all fluid – the effort I expend in one part of my life is always stolen from another part.
great video. glad to see you’re protecting your apples with foot socks!! if anyone is interested in more information about the worms eating our apples here in seattle, we just put up a short video about the how and why of putting on foot socks: http://cityfruit.org/blog/?p=915
Nancy thanks for linking in to that! Kaarina (of dig the dirt) mentioned that there is a new fruit fly devastating crops in Seattle this year. I have yet to read about it. Have you?