Vegetable Garden Tour #1 (May): Everyone Can Grow a Garden (2021 - #21)

Join garden writer Susan Mulvihill for the first tour of her raised bed vegetable garden for the 2021 growing season. In it, she shows how the garden is set up, points out which crops are growing so far, and shares several gardening tips along the way.

Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. While most of the area is in hardiness zone 6, her garden is in a microclimate, making it zone 5b.

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[greenthumbelina]

Susan, I would gladly send some garter snakes to you if I could, then you wouldn't need to purchase the rubber ones! Garter snakes seem to love my backyard, but I don't mind because they eat a lot of insects. However, they can really jump-start my heart into overdrive when I'm busy planting and one suddenly slithers past me.
Your garden beds are so well planned, and lots of love and hard work has gone into creating them. I can tell that both you and Bill are gardeners, and that's absolutely wonderful! ~Margie

[jeannet]

Your garden is so neat and tidy! I really like your hoop house too. My wheels are spinning! Thanks for the inspiration!

[loriy]

Nice tour of the garden, so nicely laid out. Thank you for the leek information .

[josenoriega]

Thanks for the video Susan . You are a great teacher. Very inspiring.

[tessmick]

Wow Susan! I just found your site. What a wonderful job you do! I too am envious of your gardens. I love your concept of garden tours periodically during the growing season! Thank you!

[debm]

Thank you, Susan! Always a pleasure to watch your presentations...so helpful.

[lynnchantler]

Lovely garden, Susan, and I appreciate all of the helpful, yet simple, tips and suggestions.

[anniedca]

I am super envious of your 27 raised beds! I have about a dozen and a raised bed enclosure for deer and groundhog proofing. Our back yard which gets the most sun is saved much to my chagrin 😂 for soccer playing for our grands and my DH. The areas where my raised beds are are surrounded by trees and cedars and it’s a constant battle for more sun! I’m in a zone 3 here and almost everything is planted already. I’ll cover the delicate plants if I have a frost warning but the season being so short and this spring being warm it seemed at risk worth taking. Thank you for the tour! I look forward to watching your other videos now.

[travellersshoppee]

Thanks for the tour of your garden and valuable information . ( I too wish to do something like this .)
Looking forward for more knowledgeable videos.
Best wishes,
Anil

[barbkenas]

Great tour, I am envious of your gardens!

[JeanneKinland]

Thanks for sharing your garden tour. I enjoyed it! Always learn something from your knowledge. My peas are about 4 ft. tall now and I noticed a little green worm today. I never had bugs on my peas in the past. I don't know what it was so I just tossed it off. I'm growing a lot of the same things you have. Looking forward to your videos. We live in the same garden zone.

[candicebrown]

I bought the book! Should be delivered tomorrow and I can't wait to read it 🙂

[miriambennett]

Where did you buy the trellis for the beans?

[lindajenkins]

Thanks for the great tour of your gardens and greenhouse, I really enjoy seeing your garden grow. We are having a dry spell here in WI and finding it difficult to get plants in the ground. I would love to have a water source out in the garden. It was a great pleasure listening to you on our local garden talk show last week with Larry Meiller. Lots of good information was shared on that show too. Happy Growing!

[brianoliver]

I live in Queensland Australia, i don’t need plastic snakes 🐍 I’m always looking around for the real ones lol 🙏😎

[shellbells]

Who knew quail could be so naughty! Haha

[debbieharper]

Hi Susan. . . .

I subscribed to your channel yesterday!
So much great information.
I wanted to ask you about a video you did a year ago. . . . Where did you purchase the hawk kite and did it work well ? Is it still up?
Thank you!!!

[ybly]

How do you make your hoops for row covers.

[billgray]

I enjoyed your tour. You make full use of drip irrigation and I have just installed it in my 8 4x8 beds. I have 2 questions :
It seems that your drip lines in the beds are bigger than 1/4 dripper lines. Do you use 1/2 inch or is the picture deceiving me?
How long do you water each bed. I have started at 15 minutes but I think I am a little light (1/2 GPH emitters in the line)
Thanks

[blueheronhill]

I am hardening off my tomatoes and peppers now. I thought that the process is for both the sun and cooler temps than in my house. Can the tomatoes and peppers do ok if I transplant them out in low 50s over night? I will be leaving them outside (undercover) for the last 4 nights of the hardening off process. Do they need more protection until the low temps rise?