The Summer Garden Has NEVER Looked This Good!

Cut of that flower from the banana tree, so that other formed one's will grow big. You can use that flower for cooking.

Could you do sansevieria for your shower?

Those roses will be hard to move. They like to have deep tap roots. You can do it, but not by hand.

In your zone I have no idea what would be good to replace that grass. In Canada we have a bunch of grasses that are very tall. I was next to one that is taller than you just yesterday.

Definitely need ideas on what to do with passion fruit and also why they ripen in the winter?? I trimmed mine back to almost nothing and it's starting to take off but the 1st and 2nd year it would get fruit all summer and be green into winter where it would slowly start to turn purple and wrinkle. This year it might not have fruit at all because of how much I trimmed it.

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It looks like your banana flower is ready too harvest. You can mae ton of yummy recipes with that

Id plant bamboo for the shower space !!

I think that you should replace the horsetail for some luffa gourds.. Just in case you forgot to bring your bath sponge, you can easily pick it off the plant!

great garden, eric!

Beautiful gardens! Loved the tour. My favorite part was when you were talking about your neighbor 😊

Pedilanthus bracteatus for your outdoor shower. Drought tolerant succulent.

Always amazing to see how much you've been able to grow / plant on your property!

If you want something that looks similar what about bamboo? I don't know if will grow well in SoCal as I haven't tried but love it so thought I'd suggest it.

Where did you get the ground cover for the pond? Really curious if it's local to SD - I'll have to force myself to drive the hour down to get stuff for my pond - LOL.

OMG the bananas are crazy - WOW!!!

How do you all keep the birds / squirrels from taking all your fruit on the trees?

gardened since a youngin'

You need to cut off the flower on your bananas so it will put more energy into the Barry. Lerner this when working on banana farms in Hawaii

Great show Kevin! Absolutely beautiful!

Honestly I just started recording my gardening journey and taking pictures. I hope to post a journey soon, just figuring out how. Your videos are incredibly inspiring and high production. I'm only a few seasons in but I decided to start rescuing roses and different trees from local big box nurseries and it's been really nice Addi lots more color and height. Also adding some shade cloth for my kids. These 105° f days are really harsh and my poor plants get get water later in the evening and by 2pm next day the leaves are all drooped 😅 clay soil is so much fun to grow in

Not really a suggestion but horsetail reed is good for bone health and can be used as a tea

i love when people are willing to share where they "failed" so others can learn.

I would use lemon grass around the shower. But I love the smell, so...

Also, I love your channels. Even when presented with "un-success," you stay positive. And your property is amazing, full of health for the body and mind.

I'm new to your channel after meeting you for the first time during Your and Laura's (Garden Answer) visit to the Aquascapes ponds. I am in to vegetable gardening and find your channel very enlightening though your zone is quite different from my muggy, wet zone 8B in eastern NC. I like your concise and educational videos and will probably back up and watch you from the beginning. Oh yes, just found out about Epic Homestead too from the Epic Gardening channel! I appreciate how you have input from a NC gardener too!

Can you do another chicken video?

Nice garden. You inspire me to turn my front yard into a garden.
I have a couple of questions. I heard jujube can spread. How do you control yours? Do you put anything under your mulch to control your weeds?

I did that trench method this year, and got absolutely nothing! Not one tomato from 3 plants, and one died! I reset the last two by removing old foliage and letting one sucker grow, and one was still struggling, so I pulled it out. The last one is looking good but no fruit. I planted new tomato plants this week, the normal way, they’ll probably catch the last old one. I did notice the plants were putting out roots on the exposed stem too, which didn’t happen in previous years.

I've been following you guys and learning from you for 2 years, but didn't start gardening til only 4 months ago. I started planting indoor plants last year to add aesthetic to our home, but the giddiness I get from looking at my veggie garden, my guava tree in its own Epic tree surround, and the cosmos, the alyssum, the lupine and the marigolds, aaaand cooking the shishito peppers I grew myself, all these surpass the happiness I get from watching my pothos and monstera grow. I encountered my first tomato grubs yesterday 😢 and wanted to quit gardening so badly but I woke up this morning and looked at my mammoth sunflowers as big as my head and I don't think I can quit yet! 😊 Thank you so much, Kevin and @jacquesinthegarden for keeping me inspired ❤

How’s the mosquito situation for the epic pond? Also would u ever consider getting epic turtles in addition to the koi? Omg why barefoot🫣😂🤣

Hey Kevin, love the roses and suggest to plant them in more of a shady area, if you haven't already and a bit further apart. Roses stunt each other's growth unless you graft them. But then it becomes a pain when cutting them back. Differentiation in case of a necessary cut back can ultimately remove the grafted variety.

The shower: LOVE THE SHOWER
Root barriers for the beautiful horsetail all around. OR... monstera, strelitzia or an edible like Lemongrass, Taro for roots or leafy taro for the stalks and leaves. You have enough moisture and it looks as if you're using the plants to soak up the shower water. That means you can introduce more tropical plants.

If you'd like something more fragrant you can have a jasmine climbing up or for texture and food: longevity / malabar spinach. Grapes would make a good addition as well but get very woody. To grow something below the vines, edible Lily or Iris is stunning. And as a cover crop creeping thyme, rosemary, Irish/Scottish moss. If you walk on the first options, you get a scent with every step you take... they also look fantastic in the cracks of the pathway.

I'll be looking out for your choice(s).

For the outdoor shower, why not plant sugarcane around it? It grows fast and tall, and it loves getting watered. I bet it'd be really happy in that space, and then you could eat it in fall.

Two other options that seem good to me are clumping bamboo (not running bamboo unless you want a weed problem, ha ha), or something in the Zingiberales order: bananas, cannas, arrowroot, any of the many species of ginger, cardamom, birds of paradise if you want a pure ornamental, etc.

I remember Rob Greenfield had some banana plants around the outside of his outdoor shower, and they seemed happy there. So I'm thinking anything with shallow roots that wants a lot of water in a hot, arid climate, which means most plants in the same order, would enjoy being planted around an outdoor shower. As a bonus, a lot of them get quite tall and have wide leaves, so they'd work well as a privacy shield.

Cannas are a tasty root crop, by the way, so if you want to have an ornamental that doubles as an edible later on in the season, you could go for those!

Oh no.... horsetail is SO invasive. Honestly, I have heard that the only way you'll be rid of it is to move to a new house. Your horsetail variety looks a little different from the truly invasive stuff we have here in the PNW, so I really hope you'll fare better. Good luck!!

QUESTION: When you prune your 4 in 1 pear tree can I follow along in zone 6b MA? I just planted 1 in April/ May 9f this year.

Can you ask your neighbor for a cutting of her avocado tree?

You should espalier fruit trees against the shower…. More food!! Passion fruit would provide complete coverage too.

Oh! What’s the black flower at the end of the tomato row??🙏

Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden. It brings me joy to watch the progress and get some inspiration for my own small container garden. I have been interested in gardening since 2008, but waited until 2022 to do anythjn. I am a renter and my garden goes with me. Because of videos like yours I find a great amount of joy and aspire to have a little homestead (with chickens!?) one day. Take care!

Karl Forster grass! Upright, beautiful, not invasive.

Plant butterfly ginger behind the shower!

When you harvest the banans, keep them hanging not on the plant. Like you did with the peppers.

OMG Epic🍑🤣

Just curious..how many beds do u have.?

Kevin,
Looks amazing!!! ❤

Canna lillies for your shower

Ohio so droughty then temps dropped to 40's at night now back in the upper 90's in daytime weather's been so weird. Bugs aplenty.

Asian pear tree care specific video?

They say you can eat that banana flower also. I’ve never tried it. My advice, don’t over plant them as soon enough, you will be sick of them. Chuckle!!

We moved 7 years ago to a blank slate and each and every year is different. We have 6 raised beds, in ground planting and lawn and I have to say that I love it more and more each year. Each year I focus more on what our little family enjoys to eat and the flowers I love to grow. There are challenges and wins each year. My nemesis is fruit trees. This year out of 10 trees, 2 died, 2 are on their way out, 2 didn’t produce anything, 2 died last year one had plums that a bear ate and one is still growing apples. Aaaahhh! I feel like pulling them all out accept the apple fill in the holes. Oh well, the berries and veggies keep on growing and producing!

Bamboo is actually a great choice for covering the shower exterior, as long as you understand how bamboo spreads.

There’s 2 basic types of bamboo, running and clumping. The name refers to how the rhizome root structure forms and spreads. The structure your bamboo has is running which is why it spread under your pavement.

If you want to keep the current bamboo you have. You could look into an inexpensive bamboo rhizome barrier. For such a small area it shouldn’t cost a lot to surround the root structure you want to keep alive. For the areas you don’t want it to grow let the new growth stay for a week or two before you pluck it. It takes a lot of energy to make shoots and if it keeps wasting energy it will eventually die and give up after about 3 years.

If you want a new bamboo that is easier to maintain in general then find a clumping species of bamboo. They will look very similar to what you currently have except larger and with some leaves, you could also start harvesting small bamboo stakes for home grown trellis’

I live in the same sorta climate as you, but in Australia. Can recommend the smaller cultivars of Lilly Pilly for your shower area. I've used Syzygium paniculatum "Backyard Bliss" specifically, and they've been awesome 😊

I wonder if ivy would do well as your shower screen climber

For your booty shower covering, how about snake plants? If you start with taller ones, it'll grow even taller and also multiply sideways to become a full covering.