You could put out a video of you just sitting on the porch and I would watch. We love you, Jodi!!!!!!

My dad had a lawn service when I was growing up and he always dug the whole and put water in the bottom of the whole so it would soften up the dirt then plant and water from top to settle the dirt around the top. He always said if he put water in the bottom it would be easier for the roots spread into the new area

I’m usually not a gardening gal but I’m so invested in your chaos garden! if I picked up the hobby that would be my method in any situation! 😂😂 🤞🏻 it works out!

Hey Snowwhite, I loved to see that Mister Crow is a new visitor of your gourmet’s club! They are so very intelligent, I just love them to pieces. Guess I was one in my past life 😂 And sweet how you are doing the yardwork around the hibiscus in house shoes 😂 that’s how excited you were to get her into the soil? In German we call those shoes „Puschen“ by the way, cut out the c and give it a long uuuu and that’s how you pronounce it. I love that word, it sounds exactly as cozy as the shoes are 😃 I am still recovering from a little surgery, and my poor 11year old pup had one too.. 4 teeth had to be removed 😖 poor boy.. but I’ll be in my garden this weekend and will tie myself to a chair so I don’t think that „a little raking won’t do any harm“.. 😅

Yes Jodi, I have the same problem when I feed the birds, I also feed the squirrels. I have two families of squirrels one grey and other black with three mouths for each, making a total of six. Then add in numerous Sparrows, Wrens, Cardinals, Robins, Mourning Doves and the occasional Blue Jay or Starling. I was seeing Hummingbirds but alas, it's been awhile so they must not like all the traffic in our backyard. We surely are enjoying watching them.

I could watch anything you do. I haven’t heard from you lately. I’m still at my daughter’s hose. Still declutterring. She lives in Virginia 💛💛💛💛💛💛

I am in Louisiana. I wait until late in the evening to go out and play with my plants and flowers. We just screened in the back porch of our house so that we can sit out without being eaten up by mosquitoes. I love your outdoor gardening videos.

Happy Thursday Jodi😊! I love whatever videos you produce. I am in Texas, right now we have been getting rain daily because of a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico. Have a great weekend 😌!

Hi IAM watching from England our weather isn't great .iv been watching for a good year now and love all Ur content

The yard is going to be so colorful

I came back to this video because I just watched a short video of someone solving the squirrel and the bird feeder problem. It was hilarious and I wish I could share it with you but what they did was they had the feeders on a Shepard’s hook that they put a slinky over the pole going . So when the squirrel would try to climb the pole the slinky would take him back down. I hope you can find that video so you can have a laugh too!❤

In the 90's here in Texas! This time of year is when we struggle to keep our yard & plants alive!

Greetings from NC (originally MI). We are in the 90s for the next 10 days. I get out early and gardening is over around 9-10 am. Except for the cucumbers (divas) - they have to have more water in the afternoon. Love your channel! ❤

Hej from Sweden! Been some hot days here! Today thunder and rain! Much needed rain!😊 I like the mix of inside and outside content!😊

Yeah. I am watching you from hotest italian island Sardinia. I love watching your videos

Im from Scotland. Love ALL your videos❤❤❤

It was me for the chaos garden. I just figured it would bring you so much joy with how enthusiastic you’ve become for all things plant/flower related. I hope it’s very successful!!!!!

I am from Florida and yes it is hot and I stay inside most of the summer, but do my gardening in the fall and winter. Love your Garden Editions!!

Love the gardening videos. I’m in East Texas. It’s getting hot here. We live on 25 acres and had our hay cut today. Will have it raked and baled in a couple of days. Then we will sell it to people with cattle.

Love all your videos. I’m from the East Midlands England , weather has been quite wet for June but my roses are loving it . One bush has 40 blooms x

Put cayenne pepper in the bird feeder to keep out the squirrels. They hate it and birds can't smell it. Works for me.

I’m from Indiana and I have to say, summer arrived early with a vengeance!!! I do love summer but usually by August, I’m longing for cool, crisp Autumn weather! The older I get, the more I hate the humidity! I also have a small area in my backyard where I’ve recently sewn zinnia seeds. I’m getting ready to do wildflowers for the butterflies! I keep my bird feeders filled and my bird bath cleaned, especially in this heat. The birds are constantly getting drinks and taking baths. Our neighbor behind us puts out corn on the cob for the squirrels. I added a baffle to my bird feeder so they can’t get into it unless they jump off my house! 😂 I do love all of the flowers you’ve planted but I think the Lisianthus is my favorite! Too bad they aren’t perennials! 🙂 My new hibiscus is a Summerific Valentine’s Crush. It’s supposed to get bright red flowers. Fingers crossed!

I absolutely love any video you do, Jodi! It always brings me joy. It’s fun to see you try a chaos garden. So many blooms will surprise you! I’ve been growing lots more new rose bushes this year! ❤

North Louisiana. We are hot and steamy. Mornings are bearable, and late afternoons in the shade are ok. That’s when we pick our blueberries from our 6 bushes. We have an abundance this year.

It's me! I'm the crow lady. Still no presents. Lol. I post on my other Channel (Invisible Goddess Creations) about all the stuff I do around the house (and yard) I inherited to return it to the glory of my childhood. Your yard videos help push me along to get the yard back together after 3 years of being overwhelmed by it. I can't wait to see your flowers in bloom. I'm hoping your hydrangeas end up being as showy as mine are this year. Thanks for helping me in the yard, Jodi! 😂

I love your perky personality. I've been following you for awhile. I don't comment often, but I do be sure to click the like button on your videos. I have a small KZfaq channel, so I know that likes and comments are important. So even though I liked this video, I am also commenting. I'm in Houston, TX. It is sooooo hot here. I hate the summer weather here. We do our outdoor planting in March down here n before it gets too hot. So in March, while you guys up north are still dealing with winter weather, we are planting our gardens.

Very excited to see how your chaotic garden grows! I love all sorts of flowers and so this type of gardening would be something I would have done when I did have a lot of gardens. I am in SE Minnesota and you never know what the weather is going to do. Have a great week!

I should do the chaos gardening where Pinga is buried. That would be nice and colorful.

Hi Jodi, your yard is beautiful and going to be even more beautiful when all takes full bloom. I wanted to tell you, the three little lambs ear you have, I used them last spring as a backdrop for my purple petunias. Didn't around to pulling them out last fall. OMG, Thank god I didn't, they were so beautiful all winter, the frost white an green looked beautiful surrounded by the snow. Today, they are about 1 1/2 ft tall and bushy, their beautiful, they look great as a border, I'll send ya an email to share

I’m from Rhode Island so we get cold winters and hot summers but get to experience all 4 seasons. Right now we have a heat wave coming through. I have two young ones (1 year old and 2 year old) so I don’t get out in the garden as much as I wish I could… but I love watching all your videos- especially the gardening ones!!! -Melissa

I was looking for perennials to fill a space in my back garden, I was advised to plant 2-3 together , luckily I only planted 2 as they have gone mad this year but has little flowers called hot lips x

Crows are so smart till u can feed them from your hands...I have a few I see around my area.. I want to hand feed...

From Montana and we just had freaking winter storm warning. Really need some sunshine here.

Feom Texas. High 90s. Lawn care early in the morning. Anything later in the day must involve water. Major projects were done in February and March.

Not weird that you have a pet cemetery. We have one too! They are buried out back by the Judy Tree as my husband calls it. It was a tree my mother gave me, she passed in 2020. Anyway 3 cats are buried around the tree. Cally who 20 yrs old and Kirby who had as Cally’s and died at 20 yrs old also. Sadly Calvin died at 2 yrs old from a snake bite is also buried there. 🐈🐈‍⬛😻🙀😽😿😸😺😾

Lol, well, we bury them. Typically in the back yard because we don't call before we dig in that situation. And as you can tell from my previous comment that I am thinking that I might mix up my flower seed and sprinkle on top of our last kitty. I did wildflower mix last year, but havent done anything this year.

Im in Missouri. We get the cold winters and the hot summers.😂

I love all your content because you're just so much fun and produce happy videos!! I enjoy the cleaning and decluttering most but I'm here for all of it lol. I'm in Ontario 🇨🇦 we have a short season too which is always tough. A fun plant that is actually edible and the pollinators just LOVE are nasturtiums especially the red ones. You might try them next year ❤

Hey, Jodi, Good Morning from Baldwinsville New York. It is 9:09 am and its 82 degrees in my living room right now. I am trying to hold out on turning my central air on but today I think it will be early. Usually when its this muggy and warm I get breathless from the asthma I have so intend to stay indoors. By this weekend it is suppose to go down to the 80s. If its not humid then I'm good to go. My son and I will be going to camp Friday night. Its usually a few degrees cooler there. We have an out building that has an air conditioner and our camper has air so we should be good until Sunday when we go back home. We have a Mennonite veggie stand around the corner from our campgrounds and they were selling a hanging basket for 7.00. For around here that's cheap. They are usually 30.00. I cleaned her out, took the dead blossoms off and watered her good. She perked right up. A mixture of red ,white, and purple. So happy I rescued her. They have another one for 9.00 and they look like the striped peppermint candy, except purple. She's in bad shape too. I'm thinking of getting her. I will be low key for the next few days. Have a wonderful rest of the week and weekend . 😎😊🕊🐝🌷🌺🌼🏵

I love all your videos they are the highlight of my week xxx❤

Hi Jodi from Missouri 😁 It’s gonna be mid to upper nineties 🥵 I hired someone to cut my grass I melt within 10 Seconds I’m such a delicate flower 🌸

N.B. Canada❤ Having a heat wave here this week. It will melt your popsicle 😅

😂I plant seeds/plants that most would consider dead.. pray and wait sometimes they come up sometimes don’t one never knows.. keep digging! 😂

Will be in your part of the world later today. Clarkston.

I think we all have had pet cemeteries on our properties!

Live in western NY-(Finger Lakes area) and your gardens are going to be spectacular.

As I am watching your video, I started wondering if your neighbors know about your KZfaq channel? If not, it would certainly be funny to see them reacting to you (videotaping yourself as you talk to the animals in your yard). 😂 I am not a gardener myself, but I still enjoy your outdoor videos because of your delightful personality. 🤩

I’m from Florida. It is fry an egg hot outside anytime after 8am. 😂. You learn to get out and do your work early or late. It’s kind of like our winter. I’m originally from New York State so I know winter. 😂😂

Good morning, Jodi👋! I'm a bit late but was busy making a gf 3 ingredient cake, preparing some "soup mix in a jars" for me to pair with my chicken or turkey broth for a quick meal when I'm tired. Next up is jarring up my mint/rose petal "T"isane that I just finished dehydrating. I was gifted some mint and some rose petals. I love edible flowers. They can be dehydrated and used in the winter for "flavored" "T"s. Great hot or cold. Easy to use. Just add to brewing kettle or cup if ground to a powder. Add boiling water and let sit for 4-5 minutes on a heated surface to retain the heat ( if you like it hot). Can put sweetener in the cup with the powder or pieces to sweeten it. BTW a big black trash bag of mint takes time to prepare to dry. First the stalks with leaves need to be soaked for 30 minutes in a clean bin/tub or sink that has 1/2 c SALT & warm water. If necessary, use a heavy upside down plate on top. This is to kill any tiny bugs or hiding slugs. (Repeat until all leaves/stalks are cleaned and roll between thick towels after draining & refrigerate until ready to fill more trays.) Then the water has to be drained off and the leaves & stalks patted dry. Next, the leaves have to be separated individually and placed on dehydrator trays. Any green stalks or stems get put in a pot and water is added to top of pot ..mine is 3 quarts. So I add 1/4c sugar with the water. Sometimes I add a 1/2 thumb of ginger, too. Then I bring to a boil. Turn down heat to about a 3 or 4 for about an hour or so. When the essence has infused the water the stalks turn kind of grey. It's great to drink this hot or cold. So I jar up and cool, then refrigerate for drinking later. Some, I freeze in cubes for winter or for adding to recipes for flavoring. Great added to smoothie with the frozen fruit. Yes, you do what you like in your yard!!! EDIT: Jodi. I love your plant enthusiasm. Yes. You have joined the ranks of obsessive gardeners. New beautiful plants. 😂 So many great choices! Loved seeing them all. Donna Jean looks amazing!!! Uh...pet cemetery. Nope. Took fur cuttings, labeled and taped in plastic in memory book. Their bodies if died at vets were cremated in a joint cremation at their office. The other bodies were placed in a trash bag and sent to the dump for burial there, where they will nourish new growth. This is because my kids would have probably obsessed over them and refused to let anything be grown there or it be mowed over. Someday I hope they plant a tree that grows food over my body as has been done for many many centuries. Barrel planter looks good as well as the other pot. Chaos garden is good. Please do keep us updated. The hydrangea will love that area by the driveway. Saw that you got your plant supports up in that front section! Yay!. You've really gotten a lot done. I have been a little busy but not at home. A friend has a service where she trains service dogs (& breeds them). Full size poodles. Not the toy ones. She's been bringing her dogs in alternating so they get used to "urban" vs deep country or big city environments. We walk a bit. My max so far is 2 "blocks" about a quarter of a NYC block, maybe. But for the past 8 years I've been limited in my walking due to Dr orders of needing walking companion that won't leave me in the dust. Her dogs have alerted a few times on me letting me know to take a break before proceeding. It's been interesting. I'm learning, the dogs are learning & I'm getting a little more exercise. I've also been attending a prayer tent in a parking lot. This is where we offer prayer without judgement. We do ask a few questions to determine how or what to pray for the person but it has been enlightening. Some wish for anointing with oil from the holy land, some do not. Again, no judgement. Some wish for prayers for family or relationship or housing or finances to be straightened out. We never know what is being asked for. It's a reminder that we're all people. Hope your week is good, Jodi! 👋

Love a chaos garden❤aka wild field.😊🌻🌸

Google says to apply a pepper-based repellent, such as Critter Ridder directly to your feeder. Squirrels hate the taste and smell, but birds don't notice it.

Hey jodi! I am working on my flower beds too! One is full shade wet clay soil, the other is full sun, well draining soil. I have just planted a rudbeckia in my sunny border too. 🤞🏻it likes it there. Ive bort lots of flowering flowers perennials for the sun but need to get some evergreens now. The shady border is the opposite lots of hosta, evergreens but aside from bleeding hearts theres not many flowering plants in there. Its a work in progress really. X

AZ, 110 degrees and I can't keep anything alive for trying! 🥵🥵🥵 But I keep the hummers feeders full and have a gazillion humming around. I also keep fresh water out for the birds, and they have shown their gratitude by making 3 nests in my yard, so there are babies everywhere.💕

Hi Jodie. Im from Dublin, Ireland. Love the garden😊

Hi Jodi! Your garden is looking beautiful but I'm not into gardening sure wish you could put up more indoor videos. You're so cheerful!

Absolutely loved it❤ I love gardening/ outdoor editions but I didn’t know that until you started the yard clean up last year! Been here since the beginning and I’ll watch anything you post! But these are my favourite ❤️ Thank you ☺️

Hi, Jodi! Well, made it thru the first day of heat! Staying indoors till this breaks. Been in the basement working on it. Just a not. Be sure to water your impatience everyday during this heat. They love water. Also be sure to fill your water bath for the birds. They need it too. Love the way your garden is turning out. Can’t wait to see it all in bloom. Hugs to all! Stay cool! Hi, Donna Jean!👋👋👋🥰💜👍

North Dakota and we are in a freeze warning tonight! Been a wet dreary week.

I'm outside Atlanta, Jodie. I just came in from gardening. It can be done if I get out early enough, but usually in no later than 11:30. I'm from Ohio originally, near Lake Erie. Learning how to garden here has taken time. Just about double your growing season, which means weeds can have a hay day in the heat! I enjoy all your videos, and your gardens, lovely! Keep hydrated!!! A weed is anything that grows where you don't want it to.

You should get a bird feeder that spins the squirrels. Mine has a door that closes when something too heavy gets on it and supposedly is squirrel proof. However, they just balance on the shepherd hook and snatch the seeds. I do NOT love the squirrels!!

I just love watching your videos!!!

Hello from Michigan!

Hello Jodi love all your videos. Live in Virginia

We had so many squirrels and we had squirrel feeders but they would still empty out the bird feeders within 30 minutes. It drove me crazy. Then we had an owl move into our backyard (she just had 5 babies and they are so cute!) now all the squirrels stay away lol.

I also can't wait to see what happens with the choas garden! I think I know which youtuber you are referring to. 😊

I just bought a house!! We close next week! Then in 2 months is my wedding! Stress is super high.

I have a recommendation for you. It’s called a bulb digger or auger. It’s just like the one used on digging for fence post but you put them on a drill. It’s really nice to loosen up hard ground giving the roots an easier time of spending out.

I'm in New york Brooklyn... we getting a heat wave today untill Friday an summer starts for us on Thursday...

Hi! I'm from Latvia! 🇱🇻

Jodi…..have you tried putting down a thick layer of newspaper or cardboard out in your back yard then cover it with soil. Then you can plant on top of it and the paper and cardboard keep the weeds away.

Coastal Georgia so it gets crazy hot here 🔥 I pretty much just do a vegetable garden. The veggies are wilting in the heat, but the weeds are thriving 😜

Judy from Georgia! We have to get our outside work, except for mowing, done by the end of May or it is too hot!

I love your videos!!! Hello from Georgia and it is hot hot here!

Hi Jodi. I love your gardening videos and yard work viceos. I am doing the same and it is very motivating to see your progress over the past 2 years in the yard!

Hello Hello Hello from Kentucky 🐎 Love all your content! Love Toni

Love the flowers 💐 that are coming up! 😊❤

Hey, Jodi! I've been thinking about your back yard - and I love the idea of Chaos Gardening, by the way - and I know what a pain it is to pull up weeds. I was wondering if it would work if you tilled up the area and then raked across to get the weeds out? In my mind, it is a great idea, but I don't know if it would work or if you'd want to even do it. Just a thought! I love your channel and I never miss an episode of your adventures! ~your friend, Kristi, from South Carolina~ P.S. it is way too hot to get outside for me! I just buy potted flowers and try to keep them watered!🦋🌸💮🏵🌹🥀🌺🌻🌼🌷

Looks Great, can' t wait 2 c the hodge-podge garden

Hi Donna Jean ! 👋

I love your videos. I could just sit and watch whatever you share with us. I'm excited to see the results of your whatever garden. Thanks for being you. ❤

Your just fun to watch whether gardening, organizing or cleaning. Here in NC it's 90's and humid and miserable. So I live vicariously through you lol.

I love to watch you gardening & decluttering, cleaning. But you're so cute with your birds 🐦 & very protective of them. I'm glad you're feeding the squirrels & chipmunks 🐿 also. You just need to get a pole that's slippery so the squirrels & chipmunks 🐿 can't climb up. Have a nice bird feeder on top. We have baby birds in our little bird house & I think some in our big barrels with a hole enough for them to get in. We've been having baby birds here for several years now, sometimes twice a year. We love them! We have squirrels too, but so far, they stay away from our bird feeder. There's lots of trees around us. We don't have any. One next door is a walnut tree & they sure like it over there! I'm only doing plants in my pots, but not all doing great! It's in the 70's to 90's for a couple days. But the humidity is good. It doesn't get real hot till the end of July to August then. Over a 100 & we just stay inside. We're in Eastern Washington, TriCities, the desert 🏜, but much more with all the wineries we have around. So, thanks for sharing. I love your videos. You make me happy! Take care!♥️☺️🫂🐾🦋🦉🍄🌷🧩🧵🪡🧶🌹🐿🐦✨️

We also have a pet cemetary!

I love the idea of the chaos garden❤😊

Hi, another Michigander here, love your garden. Cosmo's are one of my favorites! Where did you find the Lizzies?? I haven't found any for a few years now. Jealous!! Thanks for sharing. You need some lavender and bee balm in there somewhere!

Hello from Nebraska, I can’t wait to see the garden when it starts blooming, it’s going to be beautiful!

Love all videos house and yard look amazing north Carolina here been super humid n hot here

NC here..90 today… very hot and humid. I work for an AC company and we’ve been busy busy..I planted my first dahlias the other day. I think I planted 5 and so far only one has come up. I am excited to see what it looks like. I like. I like planting impatients. Here in NC mine come back year after year. This year i decided to plan perrenials in that area so Im pulling up the impatients that are starting to come up and plant those somewhere else. I love sitting outside and looking at my flowers, the birds and squirrels (we feed ours bread). Crows like bread too-We also have a pet cemetary. You're right, you have to do something with them. We've had so many pets pass-my husband had hunting dogs over the years and pets that we had-Nothing wrong with that at all.

I love the gardening videos as well as the cleaning and decluttering ones. Can’t wait to see updates on all you planted. I’m from Iowa. We’ve had very stormy weather.

Jodi your garden is going to be beautiful!! Thanks for sharing I love watching them grow!

Wow gorgeous! Your yard is going to explode in color! ❤

North of Seattle. Coming out of the rain and feeling behind! We get weather up into the 90's in summer. The weather is starting to turn...YAY!

Jodi!! I probably say this every week but your garden is GOALS!!! you have helped inspire me regarding my vegetable garden this year and my yard clean up. You and @This Mainer Mom and @kimi cope are getting me outside and my mental heath is improving because of it.

Jodi, No matter what your videos are I will definitely watch you!! I liked the idea of trying something new in your back yard! An experiment is good in my opinion. We will watch and wait for the surprise!!! LOL! Always remember “ You do You and that’s what it is to surprise you!!

I am watching from Biloxi, Mississippi!

Hi Jodi, from Kentucky and people say i sound like cawnbread. Lol. You are going to have a beautiful garden when they bloom. God bless.

Hi Jodi I'm from Iowa it gets hot here but it's Iowa weather u never know

From Maine originally, Washington State since 1996. It has been so cold here this spring! But beautiful flowers everywhere nonetheless!

Many people in Phoenix have stones rather than grass or big gardens in their yards. Unless you can afford a landscaper, no one is going to do yard work in 110 degrees. I spray my yard with a weed and grass preventative because I'm not doing any yard work either. But that means nothing will grow. Next fall, I'd like to start some plants in containers.

Hi Jodi your garden is going to be fantastic. I just finished a flower and fairy garden in my yard not very big but I'm proud of what I got done. Video is on my channel. Love to garden keeps me young I'm 71 and hubby and I just moved to Leithbrige Alberta in Canada. Always enjoy your videos.