Leave your parsnips in the ground overwinter and dig them in the Spring before they start to have green tops. They will be sweeter and soooo good. I garden in Minnesota in zone 3 so don’t think it will be too cold where you are. Marigolds, nasturtium and herbs deter insects. Also be careful with the bark you are using. It might harbor insects. Don’t plant all your radishes at one time. Instead succession planting would be better so you don’t have so many radishes at one time. The same goes for lettuce arugula and kale. Good luck and it was nice to be in your garden today!

My mother always planted marigolds around her vegetable gardens. They looked pretty and kept the insects away. (Or so she always said)

The bees will love all of your vegetable flowers! 🦋💚🐝

This year I planted a border of nasturtium around my veg/herb garden. This year was the 1st time I didn’t have pests (other than one sweet bunny who lived under the tomatoes). The nasturtium are beautiful and edible - their bright orange blooms are so lovely in salad.

That garden looks great! Planting garlic and onions with them is supposed to help. My husband knew an old gardener who put pantyhose over the cabbage heads. It prevented bugs from getting in while still allowing the cabbage to grow. Good luck!!!

I love the set up of the individual beds and the wood chips to keep the weeds down. But I really like Arne’s journals. I want to try that. Great idea to keep notes on what works/doesn’t work. Useful in so many ways, not just gardening. It’s a work of art in itself. Looking forward to seeing the garden next year!

You have lots of good suggestions about your garden, but a couple of things I didn't see (but I didn't read *all* the comments). Don't give up next year if results don't reach your expectations. I started a veggie garden after I retired about 10 years ago, and am finally getting half way decent at it. Veggie gardening takes skill, and you have to practice. In my case, a lot, lol! Also, plant lots so that you have enough to share with the bunnies and bugs. I also have good results splitting up what I plant. I'll plant beans in three different spots in the garden, and if the bugs find one patch, maybe they won't find the others. I know what you mean about not harvesting what you grow - I had to put my garden within eyesight of my kitchen, because if I didn't see it, I didn't go into to. It also helps if you included stopping in the garden when in another routine. In my case it's when I feed the chickens, for you it could be when you walk Freya. When I handed my husband his dinner plate last night, I told him the veggies on his plate had been still growing 30 minutes earlier. It makes me so happy to be able to give him such healthy, delicious food. love to you

Always a pleasant time visiting with you both😊

Arne love the sweater you have on. The clasps are awesome. I just love your garden. It reflects your love of nature and connection to your land. You put your heart in everything you do and it shows! Hugs to you both! 😊

Could it be a parsnip?

We also grow Brussel Sprouts that tend to attract the same sort of insects as other cabbages. We make a spray of mild dish soap (Dawn or similar) and make sure to spray top and underside of foilage. This has worked very well in conjunction with planting marigolds as a garden perimeter :)

Love that you have so much energy to do so many things! ❤

Lovely garden! A lot of herbs will keep away specific pests, like basil (flies), thyme (earworms), dill (aphids), lemongrass (mosquitos). Marigolds are a great start. Plus the petals are edible. For other insects and fungal diseases you can spray on Neem Oil, which comes from Neem Trees.

Something I find really helps with weeds on your paths - Put layers of cardboard below your bark to suppress the weeds on your paths. Also net your cabbages to stop the butterflies from laying eggs on them. Another thing is to succession sow your crops so they aren’t all ready at the same time. Xx love your kitchen garden

The bees think you were successful! You gave them so many wonderful flowers to dine one. 🙂

I was reading through the comments. Lots of great suggestions! I got a small book on companion planting called, CARROTS LOVE TOMATOES. It was clear and simple. Companion planting is fun, too. I would always look forward to planning my raised beds during the cold, dark months...putting "companions" together and making sure to keep distance between bad pairings. Another great resource is Permaculture. My favorite is Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, by Toby Hemenway . These are in English but there must be resources for you locally. As a homesteader for 16 years, I learned that there aren't any failures, just many lessons to be learned! After the first,, and ten the second peach tree, died, I learned peach trees couldn't thrive in my habitat...so I moved on to a cherry tree.. And it does take years!! But they are years of joy. My biggest tip would be to take your mug of coffee or tea outside everyday, morning and evening, and slowly stroll through ALL the habitat you've created and quietly see what is happening. It will also help you remember what you have growing. On the Sunday when this episode arrived, I made a road trip to pass along the rest of my gardening stuff to my son. It was a bittersweet moment. I will be in Senior Housing soon where I won't be able to garden anymore. But how happy-fying to pass it on to the next generation!!

You can donate food to a local food bank. You can set up an understanding with neighbors to help themselves when you are away. You can freeze or can veggies. For over ripe veggies or seeded veggies, you can donate to pig farm or goat farm, etc…. Or you can plant less veggies and only veggies that you enjoy. You can use plants to dye yarn or fabric. Build a root cellar, root veggies last long in cool, dry storage. You can hang dry herbs. Collect the seeds for next year. Check out companion gardening, like basil helps tomato’s. I wish I could have a garden, I live in a condominium with a parking lot 😜.

Those wooden bed frames are nifty! I love how they stack on top of each other. Looks like they are quite secure too. White cabbage butterfly is what eats brassicas like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, box choy. A net is the most effective way to keep them away. Other tip is to cut out butterfly wing shapes from white plastic (like from ice cream or food containers) and stick them on a stick of wire. Make them look quite realistic. The white butterflies think other white butterflies have “claimed” that spot so they will go elsewhere as they are territorial. I don’t know personally how successful this tip is but others have had success with it in Australia. I have a community garden plot and we use bark mulch to keep the weeds away. We also put cardboard down first, then the bark, as the cardboard kills any weeds. The cardboard eventually breaks down so it’s a good organic weed management solution. Other suggestion with crops is to succession plant… instead of planting a whole bed of broccoli at once, plant two then in two weeks another two etc and then you will have your crop ripen over a longer period instead of all at once. Trick is to time the succession plantings so you get a decent crop over each plants growing season. A glut of crops is a rite of passage for all gardeners! Trade them with neighbours for eggs or jams or other things you don’t grow or cook. Or given them away. Also it can be good to rest and rotate your beds so you don’t have the same crop each season in the same bed. During winter it can be good to rest a bed but plant a crop to cut nitrogen back into the soil… like a broad bean crop that you cut back at about 30cm and dig back into the soil. Let it rest over winter and then plant up in summer.

Hello! After the radishes lose the flowers, the seed pods, which look a little like peas, are very delicious when eaten raw. They have a radishy flavor and are great in salads. So many more pods than actual radishes! Please try them! 🥰

My Great Grandmother used to spray the kitchen garden with a tea made with nettle. A bunch of nettles in boiling water and let it cool overnight. Apparently it scares away bugs and snails. :)

Carlos I do the same thing..pick the peas and snap the ends and eat them right out the garden.

I putter around gardening too. The whit carrots we call parsnips in PE, Canada. I love them in soups or boiled then fried in butter

You 2 I don’t know how you both find time to do everything.😍

I love work in progress … we can learn with you.

Loved your tour and update guys. We have raised beds and nets to go over them. I also spray around the garden with diluted washing up liquid on any flowers which look like the greenfly are having a feast. 🌻

My gardening skills are very limited. Arne, your journal has inspired me to do better next year.

You’re not alone. I also forget to eat the produce from my garden. Glad I’m not the only one! 😂

Add Dill and potted mint around your brassicas. That really helps with their scent to confuse the bugs.

Best appetizers in summer are those you go outside and just pick and eat while enjoying the garden. I call it grazing. It reminds you to use what you have and to enjoy what you have. Each garden year is different.

Your space is gorgeous - lots ob books on companion planting but its always nice to talk to someone who has had success 🥰. Love these gardening episodes!

My dad always sliced his parsnips (white carrots) and sauteed them in butter with a pinch of salt. Yummy!!

I plant sunflowers. The bugs eat the sunflowers and leave my other plants alone. Don't know if that will work where you are... Denise from Texas

My sister looked at her garden daily. Like you, I'd forget to eat it too! I think the solution is constant checking on the progress! But things sure do grow for you!!!

Cabbage moths will lay their caterpillar eggs on the leaves. The caterpillars eat quickly. But I heard the moths are territorial. So this year I cut out little white moth shapes from hard white plastic and put them all over the cabbages and broccoli and on top of the soil. It worked!

Especially love your garden updates!!! Thanks!!

You are inspiring me to make more of an effort with vegetable growing next year. We have had a bumper crop of autumn fruit and I'm filling the cupboards with jams and chutney but I'm waiting for a dry-ish day to get out into my garden and tidy the beds ready for winter.

I assume the bug in the cabbage is cabbage moth? Its a pretty little white moth that lays its eggs on the cabbage leaves. When the little green caterpillars hatch, they can eat through almost all of the leaves in a surprisingly short time. The only success I've had against cabbage moth is covering the cabbage with tulle or garden mesh netting. Works like a charm! The birds do try to help. They think the caterpillars are delicious!

Wonderful video! The cabbage worms were horrible for me this year. I also need to figure it out. I think the insect netting is probably the way to keep them from destroying the plants. Love those frames! Can't wait to see how the garden evolves.

You two make me smile!

I love all your videos, keep the amazing work, you are an incredible inspiration, thank you for all your hard work, send you lots of Mexican love from Germany ❤🇲🇽💖🇩🇪💝

Maybe you could enlist the help of a neighbor when you travel next summer. They can look after the garden and they keep whatever they are able to harvest at the time. That may help eliminate waste.

Afternoon Arne and Carlos.

i had a bokashi bucket, once i used up the expensive starter, i used "Ridx", the dry no name version, much cheaper and did same thing

Just pick the broccoli whilst small, don't wait for large florets, and eat them and their flowers raw in salads. Delicious! Jerusalem artichokes have leaves like sunflowers (and also flowers like mini sunflowers) I think they might be parsnips. I'd love to see a video of Carlos making his jerusalem artichoke soup - that'd be interesting because I find them a little bit hard to make edible for most people's tastes.

In garden in Chicago. In the US we call them parsnips and we use them in soup. I enjoyed watching Carlos pick, dust, and eat straight from the garden. Best way ever! One for the basket, one for the gardener! Yummy 😋

Love your dedication Arne..

Love watching you two. I always leave with a smile. Peace, Love & Light!

Recommend a couple of cold frames to extend you season for lettuces, spinach, beets, radishes, etc. Always good for off-season harvest and little trouble with bugs.

Brassicas such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower are best grown under row covers to keep out the dreaded white moth. I’m glad you let things that you didn’t get around to eating go to flower so beneficial insects, birds, bees etc. can enjoy them. Parsnips and garlic are best planted in the fall and harvested the next spring or early summer. Half the fun of a garden is planning next years. Blessings.

I’ve heard that some vineyards plant rose rushes at the end of the row, which attract the insects and leave the grapevines alone. Also, basil, lavender, petunias, and chrysanthemums repel certain insects. All worth a try!! 😀 Your garden looks healthy and productive. 😀

Parsnips, they look like and have a similar flavor to carrots, delicious. My sister cooks then mashes them like potatoes. Also good in soups.

Parsnips, Arne! The cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower are all fall producing plants. If you plant them later, the bugs will be gone.

Love the fastenings on Arne’s sweater! You guys are inspiring me to do more with my garden 🪴 🇨🇦

I learned this 2 years ago by accident. Plant dill with tomatoes. It keeps away a certain pest. I can't remember which now... But 2 years ago there was a tomato bug in my area... But I never had an issue . When I looked it up it said that planting Dill was a deterrent for the big... Of which I had plenty volunteer plants growing with my tomatoes.

Mint keeps bugs away, also diatomaceous earth, sprinkled around plants, it is essentially from rocks and seashells in powder form, also used in swimming pools. DTE. Sluggo for slugs and snails.

I used wood chips between my raised beds for the first time this summer. I lay cardboard down on the soil and then put the wood chips on top. I still had weeds come up. I guess I needed a thicker layer of wood chips.

Parsnips are planted to close together. The problem for planting for just 2 its so hard. Our rule of thumb is one plant for each squash because they produce so much. We stagger our planting of broccoli and cauliflower. Plant like 3 of them then 2 werks later plant a couple more. We use egg shells in our strawberries to denture snails and slugs. Onion around some plant denture bugs but check what onions grow happily with. Oh and some stuff hates mulch basil, tomatoes. We put landscaping cloth down between raised beds then add the mulch. Good luck yall

this is the dream life, love

Your garden is lovely. I use marigolds, geraniums, mint, and thyme to keep away chipmunks and gophers and bugs. Did ok this year but some new bug ate my basil. That was the bed without marigolds. Enjoy!

I think the small white plant is a parsnip. I love them. When they get large, I cut them into chunks and do the same with large carrotts and some quartered onions or shallots. Put small amount butter or olive oil oil, salt and papper on them and roast them in a hot oven 400 F. WONDERFUL deep flavor...

I love seeing the garden & the pretty flowers 🙂☘️

As for the overgrown radishes - just wait until small husks develop from the flowers, they can be eaten. They are delicious, taste like radishes and there can be lots of them.

Looking good chaps! We have an allotment so we grow a lot of veg. We bought a chest freezer so that we can freeze things as they come good and enjoy them later. We'd never get to eat everything otherwise! The English word for when things like radish and lettuce suddenly grow and go to seed is "bolting". It happens in hot weather - especially if things get dry. re: the insects - horticultural fleece (or old net curtains!) is a good option but I find that then the birds don't come in and eat the slugs. An old man at our allotments told me that you have to accept that you will get the second bite out of everything!

😁👍🐿🦔🍄Thank you.

Happy Sunday!

Very informative. Thank you

Arne! It’s exactly what you did putting down bark between beds it’s exactly as my family does it makes nice tidy garden! Xx 😘

I had some success with companion plantings when I had a garden. Bugs tend to not like mint. I planted marigolds with tomatoes and it was working; however, the deer don’t care! I never knew deer would eat tomatoes😕I planted mint around my apples trees and that was a wonderful match! Sometimes you can intermix the herbs with your veggies. Good companion planting of eatables will help fight bugs and disease so you have a more natural defense. Cheryl

Your sweet peas sounded so wonderfully crunchy and good!! I enjoy gardening almost as much as knitting and really enjoy seeing you both in your gardens.

Good morning!

Amazing garden plans! You are so dedicated to natural and organic.

I think canning, pickling or freezing your surplus vegetables would help get the most out of your bounty. I have heard marigolds do keep bugs away. Lovely garden! I like the frames and bark around. Great job!❤

You are planting a huge amount of each vegetable; this is great for sharing with family, friends, and neighbors. Also, you could can some for eating over the winter. I think you could plant less, and still get a massive harvest. I planted five cucumber plants, and had them coming out of my ears by the end of Summer! LOL! Made many jars of pickles. Here in the states, we call the wood chips mulch which comes in bags or we can get it by the truckload, and it does work. Mulch around the veg to keep out weeds, pine needles work also. Have a great week. xoxo's Sandie🤗

Sometimes little nests for earwigs help to keep lies away and my sister plants here and there just some garlic between. That keeps also a lot of little ones away👍🏻

Even though lots of your vegetables have gone to flower,the flowers are pretty! I like the raised bed idea and the bark between. Sounds like a good plan! Thanks for sharing!

Marigolds have always worked for us in our vegetable beds for keeping insects away.

The flowers from the vegetables are very pretty in the garden as well. Just think of it as feeding the bees and butterflies this year.

Lovely raised beds garden.

Thank you for showing us your work in progress. Your garden is so varied and SO big! You can always give away what you grow; fresh vegetables are always a treat. I'm sure you'll get plenty of advice. You have my admiration from my end.💖

Keep up the good work. I learn so much from both of you. Artichokes are my favorite vegetable. ☺️

Put cardboard on the ground before you put down the wood chips. We do that at our local community gardens, this also helps with keeping weeds and and grass in check.

I used companion planting when I had my allotment. There’s lots of guides out there on the internet . Also we used bark around our beds on the allotment and it does work!

Your garden looks great because plants are growing and they look healthy! It’s nice to forage through one’s own garden. Please continue to share updates.

Thanks I really did enjoy it..I appreciate you both

I just love you both and your enthusiasm for so many things! Yes, plant your garden with as much diversity as you can, mix it up. There are lots of 'companion planting' charts online to tell you what things like each other, but planting as many different vegetables, herbs, and flowers near each other will help a lot with the pests.

Oh, I think you're getting there already and making good progress! What a beautiful place to keep a garden ❤ Arne and Carlos, we absolutely love both the radish flowers and seed pods - we find them just delicious. Also broccoli flowers. Thank you so very much for sharing your gardening - for me this year I struggled mostly with four legged pests raiding my garden (chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits and even deer!)

Try staggering your plantings of seeds & then it all isn't ready at one time. Bark really helps with weeds & makes it easier to remove the ones that grow. Way to go gentlemen!

The wood chips will help so much. But also put down cardboard first. You will have to add more in your walkways each year. I use diatomaceous earth to keep bugs at bay. Marigolds, and smelly flower also keep critters and bugs away naturally.

The radish flowers are so pretty. 😊

Jerusalem artichoke is a type of sunflower. And once you have it in your garden, you’ve got a friend for life…I’ve heard they are prolific and keep coming back. Yum!

As for insect control, my husband has a really long tweezer that he uses to pick off the caterpillars and throw them over the fence so that they may forage elsewhere lol

We have tried everything with our cabbages, and finally found that putting netting over them works best. You have to put it on early in the season. I purchased ours on Amazon and we have used it for three years now. I also use a homemade bug spray that insects despise. You put 1/2 head of garlic with 1 cup of water in a blender and blend until smooth. Put the mixture in a glass container and let it sit covered in a dark space for one day. Strain off the solids and dilute with enough water to get 8 cups of solution. Store in the fridge. I fill a plastic spray bottle with the strained solution and use it quite a bit in June and July. It works fantastic with cucumber beetles, aphids, and much more. Little insects attacked our turnips this year, and my spray saved them.

Love this episode as I’m thinking of doing a vegetable bed in my garden next year. I plant marigolds in my greenhouse to help with the white flies on the tomatoes.The vegetable that looks like carrot is parsnip. I’ve also heard that if you plant garlic next to carrots it helps to protect against carrot fly x

We plant marigolds around basil & tomatoes to keep pests away. . . seems to work! My main garden pest is DEER, do the moose come into your garden to eat?

Hi, the long white roots are parsnips. They need more growing time and will stay in the ground until the ground is hard frozen. You can collect radish seed as well as all brassicas after flowering and when long thin seed pods form and dry. Cabbage needs row covers as companion planting in my experience doesn't help. Look for insect eggs on all plants under leaves and squash or hose off. I garden organically and am always picking off, hosing or squashing the insects. This seems to be the only method that works. 😉

A hand to you for trying an organic garden. You can eat radish seed pods. Don't pull the plants. The pods are great as a cooked vegetable. Use them in a stir fry. They are very mild tasting. The vegetable that you are trying to identify is parsnips. You pulled it too young. They need to stay in the ground. They are very cold resistant. I leave them in the ground covered with straw over the winter in Pennsylvania. Other veggies that would be good for your area would be beets, carrots, swiss chard, and kale. Mostly bug resistant and can handle colder weather. Any cabbage family will get worms or bugs. There are little white moths that fly around. They lay eggs on the cabbages which hatch out to be worms that will totally eat the cabbages. You must cover the plants with a netting to prevent that. A natural thing that will discourage insects is Neem oil. It will kill the bugs but not hurt the plants or the environment . You can buy it in a spray bottle or a concentrate that you mix with water and put in a spray bottle. I can buy it in the US, I would guess it is available in other countries. You might ask around and see if there are any garden shops in your area. Usually the people there can advise you on the best crops to grow for your climate. Plan your garden this winter and you'll be ready for spring.

I do raised beds like these so I don't have to dig. I build them up with Hay and Compost. So much that we grow doesn't make it to the kitchen because we eat as we harvest. 🤣 I grew sweet corn and we stood in the garden and ate it raw.

Thak you for sharing! Place a bench and enjoy a new knitting spot.

Loved seeing your garden. I definitely do not have any luck growing any type of plants! I'll sit and knit and enjoy watching yours grow. ❤️🤗😘

When I was younger I really enjoyed composting. Now I am in a retirement community and can no longer have a garden or compost frames. Your kitchen garden is looking very nice. I am sure you will be enjoying the fruits of your labor next summer. I really enjoy your tours of your lovely home and gardens.