Flowers Bring So Much Joy _ Volunteer Gardener

Spring Hill, Tennessee. We have a surprise for you today. We have a raised vegetable garden. No chemical products, all natural from the seeds. We will show you some perennial plants, some vegetables and I think you will like it a lot. Salvia victoria blue, Jessica Erning. This is wonderful, one of my favorite annuals. Its blue color is graceful. Tell me something about your aiuola. Well, I do a lot of mix of flowers and vegetables because the association is important, especially if you don't use pesticides. So, I mix a lot of flowers with my vegetables. A lot of melissa, basil, things that emit a pleasant smell that bad insects don't like and that attracts the good ones. So, you said it's all natural, no pesticides. What do you use to take care of your soil in spring? Compost. Compost. So, I put about a layer of 5 cm compost and it seems to me that my aiuola like it a lot. I don't have to add any kind of fertilizer afterwards. It's just compost. Well, I'm very happy. This is for sure. I love the pink lantana in front of the blue one and then the zennia back there. And you have a lot of basil. Do you use all this basil? Actually, I do it at the end of the season. And I use it for the whole season and then at the end I make a big harvest before the frost arrives and I make the pesto. Then I freeze it and keep it for the whole winter. Do you make the pesto in the ice cube trays or how do you do it? No, I do it in small jars and then I freeze the jars in large enough portions for our family. We really like chicken pesto pasta, it's a strong dish. So, when the time came to plant, in spring, I was almost short of plants. This area is beautiful. Tell me how it has evolved. What did you plant here above my head? There is so much to see. Tell me. Yes, so, 6 years ago, actually just before Colorado, my husband and I built this small orchard of 30x50 cm. At the beginning it was mainly made of vegetables and some aromatic herbs. And in a couple of years, we understood what my family ate and then I started growing only that. So, I had a lot of space for the flowers. They bring so much joy. So mainly flowers. There are a lot of attempts and mistakes. I have had many failures, but also many victories. So I think it was an experience of growth for me in which I worked only with what worked and I continued to cultivate it and then added some things and sometimes they worked and sometimes not. But I didn't give up. Well, it's definitely beautiful. Thanks. What's wrong with my head? This is a glycine. I planted it 6 years ago. They were really small plants and I trained them to grow tall. I didn't know that this variety was the type that takes several years to bloom. So, this was the first year it bloomed and I almost cried because I was so excited to finally have some purple. It's wonderful. And then you have some beautiful climbing roses here with a little more yarrow. Yes, yes. The climbing roses, unfortunately, are not blooming here, but this spring they were magnificent. I had hundreds and hundreds of light and white pink and pink roses that crossed the pergolato. Beautiful. I love your Das. Tell me how all this evolved. I mean, we are surrounded by Delia, so they must like you a lot. Do you like the flowers? Of course. I make a lot of bouquets of flowers for myself, for friends and then I sell some too. So, I have more than 100 dolls in this garden, just me. So yes, they are easy to grow. They don't require a lot of water. Usually the rain we have is enough. That's why I love them so much. Do you dig them in autumn? You know, I don't do it. I leave them in the ground, and usually I have a loss of 20-30%. But I like to buy new varieties, so every year I buy some new ones just to see how they come. I want to talk about how you contain your dolls. Can you explain to me how it happened? Yes. So the dolls really need to be protected and with more than 100 it can be expensive in terms of time to protect them. So I was looking for online solutions and I saw that someone had used a bovine panel and the bovine panel is very rigid. So they transformed it into this U shape and they did it using a 2x4 to fold it and give it that shape. So, I bought a lot of panels for the beast and then me and my husband, we had to use a lot of brute force. But we got them as we wanted, we folded them and they actually work so well for my dolls here. I won't have to pick any of these here. So, they grow directly and through it. Yes, I am so satisfied. I love this solution. I see that you have incorporated your genius also for your Xenas. Yes, Xenias. Sometimes they may also need to be picked, especially when they become tall. And here in this aiuola, we receive a lot of sun and then they will reach heights of a couple of feet above the recession. So, I think this panel for the beast will work very well to keep them M stabilized. So, this is the first year. We'll see. But so far so good, I think. And then we have a really cute Yarao here. Yes, I love the Yarao. It is a perennial plant and therefore grows again. So, when you plant it, it grows again and spreads and creates beautiful flowers for a composition. They are beautiful flowers of filling. So, it dries well. It dries well. And I think it's medicinal. It is. I can't believe it. I see a callus in the middle of everything else. How did it end? It was. It was part of some of the ones I planted several years ago. And I mean, even if it's perennial, you never know what will grow back. So, sometimes, I have little surprises here and there in the garden. That's nice. I like that kind of purple blood, I think. I don't know what it's called. It's beautiful. And then, right here in front of me, there's this hibiscus rose from Sharon. This was one of the things I planted the first year. Now at six years old. I had no idea how big it would get. But I love it. It's a real attraction and I keep it in both corners of the garden. And the bees love it. Really. I noticed this beautiful rose. Tell me why you like it and how much you like it. This rose I chose, was just one of the many I chose during a day at the supermarket. And while it blooms, it fades from this orange to a light pink. And it quickly became, actually, my favorite flower in the garden. I'm not an orange person. I don't love it. But I think that sometimes when you plant things, even things out of your comfort zone, it's a good idea because it can become your favorite. I want to talk a little bit, about your raised beehives. Yes. Is there a reason why you chose this height? And how high is it approximately? It's about 24 inches high. And to be honest, when I was looking at the planimetry of the garden, I happened to see many. I have this height and then I have the lowest one, more or less 6 inches. And these are definitely easier to use in the garden because you don't have to bend much. The only negative aspect is that it requires a lot of soil to fill it. But once done, I modify it more or less like the others, about twice a year. So. Yes. I like it for what it is. I notice more glycine. Tell me about these. Well, I learned the lesson with the other variety that I planted in the garden. And so, I wanted these doors in this greenhouse to be, uh, framed by this glycine. And so, I found one that blooms the first year. So, this glycine here is two years old. But it made me bloom from the beginning. And, um, yes, I love it. You have a beautiful structure in your garden. Can we talk about it? Yes. Let's go see it. So, tell me where we are. What is this dwelling? Well, this is a kind of greenhouse. But technically it is not. But, uh, I use this space. My husband and my children use it as a place to spend time. We have dinner out here. We party out here. And we always have breakfast here. And so, how did it happen? Tell me about the building material you used for this. There was a lady on Facebook who had two-dollar windows, Luna. And I picked them up as I went along and drew how big I wanted them. And then, once we had all the windows, we started building them. And I want to talk a little bit, about your tile floor here. Ok. Tell me about this. We started with the pear tree and all the floor. But as you know, the pear tree moves a lot. I looked on Pinterest and I saw that people had made these cement blocks with the pear tree. So, we went to get some cement blocks. We moved the pear tree and then we made this tile floor. And then, to keep the tile in position, we used a glue for beech. So, you spray it and it dries up pretty well. And I would say it lasts about 18 months or so. Then things start to ... I wanted to ask if there have been problems with lifting and things like that during the winter. No, no. I don't think it's meant to be permanent. So, about every 18 months or so, I come back and give another coat of paint on top with a small sprayer. And it's super fast. It takes 30 minutes to do the whole greenhouse. And we have a beautiful exhibition of garden flowers here. Isn't it true? Yes. I picked them all up this morning. Thank you for making us admire them. They are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Well. Tell me about your lampposts away from everything else. I planted these lampposts away from my roses and my dahlia because lampposts can be a trap culture. They are really attractive for a lot of bad parasites that love flowers. So, if you plant the lampposts away from your garden, they will attract those parasites and are therefore considered a trap culture. I don't use pesticides and I like to try planting plants that keep bad insects away. I love this blue. Veronica. Yes. And so you like blues, pinks, you like all colors. I do. I like them. My garden has almost all the colors you can have. Jessica, I would like to thank you very much for sharing your gardens and your love for gardening with our viewers. Thank you. You're welcome. If you like gardening, subscribe to this channel. We show gardeners, plants and the joy that cultivation can bring.