In this video I share my 2023 Garden Plan! This is part one, which goes over my main cut flower garden, my cottage garden, and my pumpkin bed that is also succession planted with sunflowers!
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21 Comments
Can you use some of the hydrangea leaves and raspberries leaves for filler? I also recommend orach mountain spinach leaves as filler. And I’m hoping crimson clover stems are good for cutting. They’re so cute. I like your videos. I’m planting bronze fennel and I have mint I am considering for filler.
So exciting!!! Thank you for all your knowledge and inspiration. Itching to get started, but I feel I will never have the space to grow all the flowers I want. Restraint is so hard.
Amazing what you can do w/ a downtown lot. I bet it is wonderful when the flowers are blooming. I’ll be excited to watch you plant and growthe flowers.
That diagram is amazing 😊
Hey, just a question. Are you not concerned about crop rotating? I see that many spaces you are utilising just the same as last year. Is that something you would be doing next year?
Great video Christina – you're growing a great array of flowers! Looking forward to seeing how you go this year 🎉
When you do get to the planting stage this spring, could you show how you support your plants? I assume you use the mesh? Thanks.
Love your plan! Can't wait to see that, and your hoop!
My plan looks like that in my head, but on paper it is all scribbles, lol.
Having a lot of space, I just figure I will find a place for 'extras'
I love your photoshop plan! That is useful to know how much you will need.
So exciting…..can't wait to see the part 2 video..I wonder if your corn will pollinate properly if you only have 1 row, usually corn needs a few rows in a square shape to pollinate properly in the wind. You will probably have to hand pollinate to get full ears of corn. Have you ever researched how corn should be planted to get good pollination? I hate to have you waste planting space if it won't produce what your expecting, unless you just want stalks for decorating in the fall.
Snapdragons.?
I saw the thumbnail and thought: “ah! This is the plot featured on Garden Answer!” It is a gorgeous space, very well utilized 😍🤩
Christina you might want to really watch for squash bugs if you’re planting squash/pumpkins in the same place as the year before. Wish I had room for a hoop house. Good luck!!
I love seeing your garden plans. Two thoughts as I watched.
One. Which varieties of flowers do you have to rotate locations to keep healthy soil and healthy flowers?
Two. Where you have the question mark by the sunflowers on the west side of your greenhouse, are you going to have the same problem with sunflowers shading out your dahlias? Have you ever tried cress as bouquet fillers in place of the basil you tried last year?? I absolutely love it! Just a consideration. It would grow nicely in that spot and should not shade out your dahlias.
Again, these are just thoughts that I'm offering. Take them or leave them. No offense will be taken.
Love the daffodil/sunny/pumpkin combo! Last year, I popped my stock in around my tulips. Any other ideas for multi planting small spaces?
Absolutely love your organization, wish I could do this on the computer how ever lack of skills force me to use grid paper. This is my first year growing cut flowers so seeing your layout really helps thank you. Can’t wait for your second installment, especially the hoop house plans! When do you plant out your lisianthus?
What do you use for irrigation?
I was looking at your previous videos on the farm and wanted to ask how far apart do you plant your zinnias?
Enjoy how organized the info you share in your videos. I've learned a lot from them. Love watching the transformation of your space. It's like a magical secret garden. Saw you on Garden Answer too 😀. Thanks for all the info!
Wow, you're so organized. I'm just overwhelmed at this point. I'm growing everything you've named in this video and more, and I'm having a hard time planning where to put it all. I've bought so many seeds you'd think I lived on an acre. Not even close!🤣 I just want to walk out on my back porch and see a jungle. I wish there was an app that helped you design your yard for space. I'm only doing it for fun this year to make a huge cottage garden with cut flowers. My husband says I'm nuts bc I'm taking out pretty much all of the lawn. 🤣 Excited to see all of your progress.🥰
Hope you don't have problems with mice because I heard they love corn and sunflowers.