Jacques can we get a video about how you plant such dense flower patches? And what varieties you have growing? They always look amazing in your videos!

this channel should focus 100% on growing beans. Beans, beans, all day.

Watching on my lunch break at work, mid panic attack, to calm me down. You are super soothing ❤

The hermit garden is looking good this year!!

I tell you man, I have severe climate envy, over the pond its been a pretty awful spring and slow summer too. Your "chaos" style has been a good inspiration to me this year, and your garden is looking fantastic. cheers

Jacques I love the way you explain things. Though you're an expert, you make it easy to understand for newbies like me! Keep it up garden hermit; you inspire so many of us to get out there & give it a try!! 💜🌱🤗

When I lived in So Cal, Long Beach to be specific, we used to call the clouds and fog June gloom.

Loving your videos from Ojai especially the cooking ones ❣️

I know it'll be a project - but would love to see a vid on the root barrier. And if no specific vid - would love to hear updates in other garden reports.

I spent years with poorly staked tomatoes and finally 3 years ago I got tomato cages just like yours and I love them.

So, about that irrigation video 🧑‍🌾🧑‍🌾🧑‍🌾 😂😉

Thanks for the great video, Jacques! You’re quickly becoming my favorite gardening channel.

Good update. I also use the saw to cut the bamboo stakes.

I just LOLd at cutting bamboo with pruners. Yes!! Brilliant tip on sawing at the joint.

Was having trouble getting my chiltipin pepper plant at my microfarm up and running, I was dumfounded on why it was yellowing and not really growing a lot, I applied a 40 precent shade cloth and now have it on a feeding schedule of granular fertilizer and water soluble fertilizer every two weeks and my plant has absolutely exploded with growth, I have a passion vine, Carolina reaper plant, watermelon and the chiltipin pepper growing in the same bed so that's my chaos raised bed 😅

And the camera loves Cosmos camera 📸 such a handsome doggie!!

Your peppers look amazing! I put mine out later than you and now I’m regretting it. I’ve always despised the May Gray and June Gloom as we get a bit of that up here in Sonoma as well. Not nearly as bad as you guys though. These days though I’d much rather have that over wildfires. A whole different kind of gloom, one that doesn’t even allow you to enjoy being outside. Good ol’ mother nature. We’re forever at her mercy!

I’ve been gardening a long time, but I always learn something new from your videos. Thanks for the tip on how to cut bamboo stakes!

I would love to see the chickens more and a compost lesson for back yard garners.

Ooh the beautiful dark magenta sweet peas...I planted all the dark and unusual colors of sweet peas from Botanical interests this year. Can't wait to see those magenta ones flower. Oh and the way other plants around the garden can steal all the water is so true. I'm in a community garden and just outside the garden fence is a local park that has way too many blackberry plants and some kind of fennel. I water my garden and in 2 days it's bone dry where it butts up against the fence. And we aren't having any kind of heat wave either. It's like 62º the past 3 days.

I am so jealous of your paeppers. I tried to maximize space so I planted 2 shishito and 1 jalapeno in one 10 gallon planter last year so I didn't get a lot of yield, and this year it's the same. I am going to try to plant them in separate bags from now on. This is the first time having a real garden (last year I only had peppers) but I've been following you and Epic Gardening for a year now so I'm applying all that I've learned from you guys this year. So far so good. Thank you so much for all the tips and inspiration. I have tomatoes, peas, herbs, flowers and sunflowers (my fave) and even corn growing in our yard this year! ❤

Growing up with Ranger Rick I was hoping for a raccoon-in-a-hat edit 😂 And yeah, we’re fighting them too on the other end of the country 😩

Always love your videos Jacques. I planted cumin - two different sowings - for the first time this year and I can tell you that it takes FOREVER to germinate. Like 3 -4 weeks. I had given up on one of the sowings and transplanted an extra roselle seedling in the pot that had the cumin seeds. Well of course then the cumin came up too so I had to remove the roselle to its own pot. Cumin looks like little ferns, sort of like fennel.

I have a backyard covered in concrete and a hill on a slope. Would LOVE a video on building garden beds for concrete yards and inclined gardens!

I've found by just draping a row cover over my bean plants that the raccoons will leave them alone. I think they don't like their claws getting stuck in the material. Just a theory. All I can say is that it works for me.

Your first garden, in the first episode with you that I saw when you were introduced (trying to be specific) was my favorite. Ya'll are too perfect now--with your bromances and jokes and all that non-gardening joking about plants. I will show you! 😂😂😂Sike! You guys are still amazing all of these years. 🎉🎉🎉 Happy gardening.

Love chard! Listening while I process mullein!

Jacques!👋 My #1 favorite gardner!! Great video, and thanks for posting. Happy growing 💚 🌻

Those beans just won’t give you a break! 😂

This made my day, Jacques. I enjoy following you regularly, anyway, but here in Massachusetts, in the middle of a brutal - over 100 here today - heatwave (yes, you all in Southern California have a much milder/no extremes climate) and needing a physical (and mental) break from my bursts of heroic watering, I couldn't have asked for better than this video. My offbeat PhD brain finds your style (and humor) the best, with no need to internally translate what you're saying/doing and happily coasting on your stream of consciousness conversation with, nonetheless, directed purpose...; anyway, great to see the progress in your garden (and those peppers! I've taken up your previous tips and mine are looking the best they ever have but I'm still not sure how far they'll get here in zone 5... we'll see) and great ideas for what to put in the spots left free as other things are harvested... or raccooned (they're here too). Point is, your video was just the breath of fresh (cool) air and inspiration I needed today. Keep 'em coming! Thanks and all the best!

Those cages are really nice from the epicgardening store. Thanks for everything 🙌

When you talk about root barrier I have thought about that several times. One for the septic area, but also we have an oak that is gaining size and a nearby flowerbed is always dry as a bone. Then I think of permaculture gardening and laugh. I have a tuff time with cumin. I’m trying again this year but noticed it’s not very tall and flowering already. I think I will try direct sowing it. Not sure what climate it likes. Planting zinnias by themselves you will get a large plant, when sown thick they get tall and don’t branch.

Love your channel I watch every single episode. Lovely peppers. I'm growing 22 this year myself.

Beautiful work ❤

This was so very helpful. Thank you!

Good advice--thank you, Jacques. 😊

Thanks for the video but man I couldn't figure the best way to cut bamboo & make it last longer. Much appreciated

Your garden looks beautiful 😊

I've had raccoons dig up my beans too...what about putting in a seedling aromatic in between the beans like basil or dill? Beans are worth fighting for! 💚

You could char your bamboo stakes with fire or gas torch to help preserve the part that's in the ground to stop it rotting 👍🏻

Great teaching, Jacques!

Always love your videos! The raccoons are relentless in my So Cal neighborhood and dig up everything. I've had to surround each of my raised beds with welded wire fencing. It's 3 ft tall so I can reach over it and into my beds (they're 17 inches high), but the raccoons are too heavy to climb over.

Looking fwd 2 barrier vid. Neighbors lemon tree is rt against block wall n roots r on my side 2 so i cant plant anything w/o growing their tree roots.

Eeeek! I LOVE Cosmo! He looks a lot like the stray who found our farm a few months ago! Except Shadow is much bigger and slightly less sleek. He doesn't have that shorthair look.

I wonder if you could grow your own bamboo….that’s what I do for my own staking from my own garden

I'm organizing my seed packets here in Northern NM. All my plants are in full throes of growth and flower. Nothing much to do while they all ripen. Planted beets EVERYWHERE, because my hubs and I love the greens. Will wait to pull the roots till next month. Held 10 broccoli seedlings back, to plant in August when everyone else is finished and the cooler weather will keep the inchworms and flea beetles off, while going dormant.

FYI ... I have a neighbor that installed root barrier to prevent 20 y/o live oak trees from reaching house foundation. Last month (15 yrs after barrier install) I helped her plant new foundation shrubs and discovered huge oak roots had grown OVER the barrier! I suspect root barriers work best on younger or smallish trees that don't have strong enough roots to force way over/under/around barrier. When installed near mature trees where mature roots must be cut, the established roots vigorously throw new roots almost like "suckers". Good luck.

Thankyou👍

Have had to put bird nertting on all flowers and veggies to protect from critters

Hi Jaques! First and foremost, I love your content and overall vibe and have been a fan of the channel for a while now. I look almost everyday for a new drop haha. I was hoping you could tell me if you trim your pride of Madeira, and if so, when and how drastically?

I miss San Diego!

Cosmo is a cutie!

Yay I was just thinking this morning how I'd love a vid from Jacques!

Jaques, what is that giant sunflower I see in the background when you were tying up your peppers? It's massive!!!!❤

Your garden is so beautiful. It’s amazing how much more mature your veggies are than up in NorCal. You said you just harvested garlic and I think Kevin harvested onions already. Welp my garlic is at least another month out and so are my onions, maybe a month and a half from being ready. Also im just starting to get peppers and tomatoes forming on the plants. Super baby ones, and I see you have some larger sized ones already. Amazing 👏 🎉

I'm using bamboo in the garden too, but instead of plunging it into the ground, I'm cutting short peices of rebar and putting them in the ground with just enough sticking out to put the bamboo over without having to try to jam the bamboo into the ground.

"Mineralie" That was a very kind way to describe swiss chard. I've never been so kind. 😅

I have read that the roots of sunflowers may inhibit the growth of some other plants because they exude some kind of chemical into the soil. I'm wondering if that's what's going on with some vegetable seedlings I planted near the roots of some sunflowers that I left in the ground after cutting down the dead sunflowers.

Can you do a video on how you made your climbing vine structures please.

You’re going to love the silvery rose strawflowers! I have some blooming now and adore them. I got my seeds from Johnny’s.

We have “man-ufactured” June Gloom all the time in the northeast. Fight fungus all season!

Interested in how you set up your irrigation and drip systems. 👀

Jacques get yourself a good drill and an auger

Just lost all my tender greens to critters today. At least I have quarter sized beets to comfort me!

We'll be harvesting our Garlic in about 3 weeks, maybe 4. Have cut the scape's on 157 plants, 5 to go, last fertilization was 2 weeks ago, and now will gust be monitoring leaves yellowing at the bottom. Weather permitting will stop watering on about the 30th, and test pull a couple. When pulled it's onto bush beans. TYFS Jacques

Yay! It's Jacques 🎉 Just what I needed on a -1 degree morning in Australia. Beans: have you tried a metal mesh tunnel over them until they germinate & out a couple of leaves on?I have the same problem here, but with cockatoo & ibis instead of racoons - everyone loves beans!

Goodness 😂had quite a great gang of raccoons came at night, but they never mass with my garden 😂😂 they ate cat food tho😂😂. Your garden looks good 👍

Ugh. I need to go do some weeding.

How much food do you eat comes from your garden? I'd love to see a video on produce to kitchen, does it feed you all year? how often do you buy veg?

I just built a bunny proof bed for my beans. Fingers crossed! Lost them all to bunnies last year when I was on vacation 😢at least they had a good meal 😂

Tomato cages, definitely better than Soul Cages where you get nauseous from watching Sting spin around in circles.

I net my veggie plants because of raccoons and deer...if not they would ravage my garden beds!!

Beautiful dog!

Thank you, J! Love all your videos especially with Kevin. Don’t take offense, please but I always feel like you talk “Valley Girl” lol!

Totally excited for root barrier video! since your soil is so compacted, what is your opinion on broad-forking? 🤔

May Grey, AKA cloud seeding.

I believe your reason for plants not toppling over is water. Less water and deeper roots are paramount

Watch those bear patches, I've heard they can kill.

The tomato cages are expensive!!

Jacque- if you were my neighbor, I’d give ya a whole lotta beans! We built cucumber trellis a few weeks ago… and my blue lake found a string from 2 beds over, and it’s now over 15ft long! Also- have you tried pinching off beans? I did that to my Romano beans and now have 2 main stems!! GL on producing beans (it’s not too late to try- Esp. Yard long that prefers warmer weather)

Could you do a video section on tomatillo. Do you prop the branches up or let them sit on the ground?

Do you feel that your soil health started bad and has gotten better over your time gardening and amending? Hoping for good future soil health 🌱

im from Costa Rica (mountain area very fertile) and im trying to grow a flower and veggie patch but nothing grows when i Direct Sow....got any tips?

His kryptonite is Beanssss! lol

Raccoons don't have many predators. Allegedly, wolves are one so, if you go to the zoo, and they have any wolves.. see if they'll part with some wolf fur. It's shedding season. I wouldn't make an extra trip but if you go there anyway.. it can't hurt to ask and put some fluff around the garden

Have you tried using chili flakes to keep the raccoons from digging?

Just curious, IF you really wanted green beans how would you tackle planting them with protection from being dug up?

After seeing the kudzu like mass of nasturtiums that carpet our canyons here in SD, I'm pretty put off by them now.

You can plant your lettuces -- or some other shady plant by your tree 🤷‍♀️

Jacques it’s been brutally hot in Western PA this week. I had to deploy shade cloth. Do I need to ween the garden bed (very mixed) after a week of 40% shade cloth and 90 to 97 degree heat? It “should” or historically would be 70-80 with some peaks and valleys in June.

Wow my Sugar Rush Peach only has 4 peppers on it. Was yours over wintered?

I have not idea what to do with raccoons!

Hi Jacques. When should I start bell peppers indoors? I was thinking a couple months before spring, what would you suggest? I'm in Australia so our seasons are back-to-front.

How come you havent used any of the mesh over your beds to protect from the racoons? Like kevin did for his garlic beds.

What part of San Diego is this garden in? I’m just starting to build a small garden in my backyard in Oside

Is that your yard? It looks different.

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How do you ants out of the garden bed?

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