Planting an herb bed with a twist!
Planting an herb bed with a twist!
You can have a beautiful AND productive garden, and I’m showing you a few ways to make your vegetable garden beautiful this year.
Thank you to Jung Seed for partnering with me on the first in a series of videos. Check out family-owned Jung Seed at https://www.jungseed.com for a wide range of seed,, garden supplies, perennials, trees and shrubs.
A few of the beautiful vegetables I’m growing this year:
○ Crimson King basil: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J02360/877
○ Everleaf Emerald Towers basil: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J02367/877
○ Bright Lights Swiss chard: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J03742/578
○ Black Magic kale: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J04944/532
○ Super Jericho lettuce: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J04953/532
○ Edox lettuce: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J02523/532
○ Red Salad Bowl lettuce: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J04952/532
○ Heirloom Cutting Mix lettuce: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J02556/532
Great seed-starting supplies:
○ Seed Starting Mix: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J51007/1048
○ Seed starting kit!: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J53888/1022
○ Extra trays: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J53208/1046
Science-based companion planting book recommendation: https://amzn.to/3tmQLMg
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My name is Erin and I love sharing inspiration and information with real-life gardeners. I live and garden in southeastern Wisconsin, zone 5.
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Your soil looks fantastic!
I have two raised beds and grow herbs, peppers and tomatoes in southeastern NC.
enjoyed the video thank you ( u k )
I love how you keep it real. You show what worked and try to share what didn’t work. Keep up the good work!
I will be doing this next year. All my raised beds are planted and full in south Louisiana zone 9a.
If you can get a copy of The Art of the Kitchen Garden by Jan and Michael Gertley, you will love seeing all the designs they have created. Not unlike what you are doing. I actually find your approach far more realistic, but theirs are fun to dream about.
Nice job, Erin👩🌾👍
I’m into orderly, too.
I love watching your videos.
Same weather in Michigan! I’ve been dreaming about a cut flower garden for several years and I finally got over 900 seeds planted this week. I feel SO behind! On another note, I have my own line of bath and body products and am going to send you some goodies for your hands!
IM interested in your fence. Do you get deer? It doesn’t seem high enough for deer, so I am wondering what you are keeping out.
Totally love your ideas. Thank you for sharing this. Wonderful and beautiful!
The ups and downs of the temps is challenging….here is in Oklahoma, we had a cool and rainy spring… and it was amazing. We are now having higher temps and high humidity… Plants do seems very happy, but me, the gardener haven’t adjusted and have been only gardening in the very early hours before it gets too hot. So much to do, but I have to be happy with 2 or so hours a day.
Stunning raised bed
Hi, can’t wait to see the results.
Lovely! 🤩👍❤️👏👏👏👏👏👏
Love this!
That is funny because I am in 8b and our rosemary is an absolute beast!
Erin,
I feel your pain. I never used gloves before but this year I’m nursing one infection after another on my fingers. Rose thorns are imbedded in my finger and I just can’t seem to get them out. It’s gloves for me until I forget the misery of these.
I love how your lettuce/kale box looks! So pretty with all the different colors and the round shape.
I love the idea of creating a design! It looks like an English garden, which is my favorite aesthetic. 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌸😃
Heat wave hear in CO too! Love the pattern style planting and hopefully will remember this next year to put a little more pizazz in my garden!
Wacky weather! We have had 6 inches of rain in the past week at our house in Baltimore. Parsley:
I always plant some for me and some for the swallowtails, who are also eating my carrots this year.
Love this idea! Can’t wait to see it filled in. Where did you get the cucumber trellis?
Where did you get your tumeric? I tried some from the store but didn’t work.
That’s fun to make designs in the beds. It’s like yard art! Love your ideas.
Love the shapes you have used. May even use it on a big pot w/Herbs.
I want a red currant bush! I called the Virginia department of agriculture and was told red currants are okay but no one will ship to my state. Very nice creating patterns in the beds.
I always start planting with a plan in mind but as usual my garden is now a hot mess
Love this! I am struggling to keep my seedlings.. bigger than they should be in their little starter containers Lol. I am here in Michigan and it’s been so hot! The heat and my injuries have me double struggling. One area to plant can take me up to a week to accomplish do to my current physical disability and it’s so frustrating. I am working on so many areas.
What are the dimensions of your beds, Erin? I LOVE your design! 🌿
Love the design-so pretty and different than boring rows. I can’t keep basil alive for some reason. Do you let it dry out or keep it moist? Great video ☺️
Yes, enjoyed! It sounds like you also work outside your home…not sure how you can do all that!.. Love the designs and yes I would have some OCD making the patterns, but would thoroughly enjoy…can’t wait to updates on herb bed!
I just love all your garden tools….I think they are absolutely beautiful. Your vampire dibber and the tool at 4:31. Also love how your tree fence is coming along!
Really pretty raised beds.
It is crazy here at 3,500′ elevation Zone 8B in the upper Mohave in AZ. Yes, it does get hot but usually it is 95-102 degrees F. Today it is 106 and in the next 4 days it will be 107-111 or 112 during the days and 78 degrees + at night. Yikes! My poor container grown home veggie garden. This is my first season doing desert gardening. Last year I was in FL and before that TN and coastal CA.
Wonderful sharing dear, I will grow more in my garden too!
Tumeric too?? Wow love the design and variety!
Erin, you’re absolutely right about this being a crazy weather pattern year. Everyone I’ve talked to says the same thing about their weather being totally bonkers. Oh well, I guess weather extremes come with the gardening and farming territory! I’ve always, for the most part, planted things in rows, but since I’m not done planting yet… who knows what might happen. I may change it up a bit! I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend! ~Margie
I love your hand shovel. Where did you find it at?
Same thing happened in the Denver metro area. Cold and wet then furnace heat! Not fun!
love the idea! cannot wait to see them all grown. i guess i always worry they will be too close together… maybe i shouldn’t worry so much! emerald tower is my favorite too!
Talk about crazy weather, here in central Michigan we’ve had a super dry spring and yesterday got 3 1/2" of rain in less than a couple hours! Insta-spring!!! 😀
I’m experimenting with a lot more herbs this year. Can’t wait to start trying different food & drink recipes with them.
Love this idea!
Looks great!!
Please extend Grace to Erin while she works out the audio issues. We still love the videos and content!!!
I need more basil and now need to find emerald leaf🌱
Crazy weather all over for sure. Here in Utah very hot, extremely dry, high winds, drought and forest fires. We definitely did not live up to "Ski Utah" this Winter.😭
Last week we had a 30 Celsius day followed by a day where we had snow and subzero temps. It’s wild
I hear you on damaged hands from gardening Erin! Last night I came in from a power gardening session and noticed my hands are a war zone: cuticles shredded and bleeding; hangnails for days; skin dry and rough and sun fried; dirt crammed so far under my nails I still can’t figure out how to get it out without seriously hurting myself; multiple scratches and cuts; and the tips of several fingers are raw and shredded. So of course I’ll wear gloves for today’s late spring beautiful Seattle Saturday power gardening session right? 🤣😜🤷🏻♂️
So creative! I love the diamond design! I am trying a "rainbow" shape in the garden with my lettuce, lol. Can’t wait to see all the basil fill in! It will smell amazing!!!
your Espalier design behind you looks fantastic. Yes it has been a trying year for gardening. Have you done an update on this project? I also designed my garden differently this year. Just because of crop rotations. Having fun with it is the key