Video: A Day in the Garden

Happy Friday!

Today I am chatting all about the garden-with a little video tour as well. I filmed this back in May but if I am being honest the past month seems to have gotten away from me. Between birthdays, anniversaries it seems that the month flew by in a lovely wave. That and I have been busy prepping for my first in-person class that happened this Monday (it was so much fun! I can’t wait to do more!). Now that things have settled a bit, I am excited to be sharing with you all that I am up to here in the land of the dilettante.

I have decided to use one of my old channels to share my gardening adventures. You may remember last year I shared photos of all my cut flowers and this year I thought it would be fun to share some of my gardening chores and what I am up to in the garden. I’ll also share photos of my cut flowers because I just love them so much.

In today’s video I am having a bit of chat after spending the whole day alone in the garden. Can I just say it was bliss? The weather was beautiful, the neighborhood was quiet and I was digging around in the dirt-a perfect day.

I start off the video chatting and then give a tour of all the garden beds I have set up including a new one I made for my zinnias. Zinnias are one of my most favorite flowers. The are beautiful in bouquet, last a long while, bloom all season and come in a ton of colors-what’s not to love? So I have created a whole garden just for my zinnias. I used some rocks that had been part of our old front stairs and became part of a garden border around the house. Where these were the hostas had pretty much grown over so you couldn’t really see the rock anyway. I am so happy with how this new garden finished off this part of the yard.

We had a delivery this year of a topsoil compost blend. We had a delivery of it last year and used it to fill all my grow bags that went in my new vegetable garden and everything did so well! When the growing season was done we emptied the grow bags into the garden and then the delivery this year went to fill the vegetable garden and a few pots and new beds. My plan is to get my compost piles working so that I will be able to add my own soil amendments next year and not have to purchase any. I have always composted but I don’t turn it or really keep it separated so it takes longer. I am hoping to get my bins all set up soon so that with any luck next spring I will have loads of my own compost.

I am planting my vegetables in the ground this year except for my potatoes which are growing in grow bags. I find it really easy to grow potatoes this way. It doesn’t take up space in the garden and they are so easy to harvest when it’s time.  I mention in the video the cloches for the tomato plants. I don’t think they were necessary and I lost a few plants anyway. I think it was more because of the cloches rather than the cold. Fortunately I had some extras to replace the ones that didn’t make it so I won’t be shy on tomato plants this year.

I hope you enjoy the little garden tour. I plan to upload gardening videos every Friday so if you love gardening I hope you enjoy them.

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

The cut flower scatter garden is from Renee’s Garden and can be found here.

The sunflower scatter garden is also from Renee’s Garden and can be found here.