everyone today is embarking on the beginning of a very busy season for me
and this is springtime and that means it's time to start our indoor seeds I'm
going to share with you an upcoming series of how you can create a cottage
garden just like Beatrice Potter and her famous Peter Rabbit Gardens Peter Rabbit
Gardens are something that I have been doing for now about ten years my Gardens
are just like the theme of Peter rabbits if you're familiar with Peter Rabbit a
childhood story but yet there's stories and the illustrations are beautiful even
to the adults I'm going to share with you how you can turn a cottage garden
just like all of these illustrated in these books what was growing in Peter
rabbits garden well today we're gonna work on that I really got into the
cottage gardening and got into all of the herbs and beautiful edible flowers
this year my garden is going to be even more expensive with the cottage
gardening of using flowers that can be edible and of course all this beautiful
herbs this is a series of videos which you're going to see from the very
beginning to the very end of harvest time I'm going to share with you what I
am planting the herbs and how I can do it pretty efficiently and very frugal as
well I'm going to pan my camera down and we're going to start planting I'm known
for planting with these dollar tree bowls these dollar tree bulls are not
perforated at the bottom because I don't overwater them you have to be very
careful when you're planting this way but this has given me far success rate
beyond anything I've ever tried before and this method now for about nine to
ten years so I do not poke any holes in these
containers you will plant your small herbs and flower seeds in here they will
stay in here until we transplant them out into the garden what it will turn
into is one nice big Bush of herbs and flowers we just turned the container
upside down and give it a tap and there we have a nice cluster of herbs no
transplanting no doing any of those needless procedures herbs can be very
challenging but yet in this simple way of doing it it's very easy and this
success rate it's extremely high a thing you have to understand is you need a
south-facing window you need a window that gets the morning and the afternoon
Sun in order to have beautiful seeds and flowers like I have so let's get started
or we are going to use in our Peter Rabbit garden it is
chamomile now I already have a lot of chamomile growing in my garden but I
always want more so chamomile is the number one thing that I always want to
plant chamomile can be a perennial in the north or it cannot sometimes it does
recede and other times it doesn't
now these seeds are extremely fine and so that means we will not cover them up
very much so we go ahead and we're gonna sprinkle the full packet in terrible
next thing we do is just take a little bit of dirt just a little bit and then
we're gonna Pat it down we want to have contact with the soil and the seed and
this is the method I use for all of my herbs and all of my edible flowers then
when we go ahead and water it very lightly and like I said these bowls all
come from the Dollar Tree and I've used them over and over a year after year so
after the initial purchase you can have it for years to come now the trick is to
get a shower cap at the Dollar Tree and you place the shower cap over your bowls
just like that and this is what keeps your heat and your humidity in some
people use saran wrap I like to have the elastic shower cap bowls covers and if
you use the ones that are your shower caps they're larger and they will work
perfectly for your project now we have one finished this is all we need to do
now we won't need to water this until you start seeing your seedlings and I
will share with you in the upcoming videos but this keeps the condensation
in and we really don't need to do hardly any watering at least until you have it
all full of the beautiful green seedlings my favorite flower all time is
the Johnny jump up now the Johnny jump up is also in PETA rabbits book and
helping to create a beautiful cottage garden as you see some of my seeds come
from Renee's gardens that is my favorite seed company and I
affiliate there so for every purchase I get a small bit of money that comes back
to me in a form of a gift card that I can use to get more seeds so the johnny
jump ups are exactly the same way
put it down with their hands
and then we're gonna water you can also take a water bottle and on the edge you
can poke holes on the top of it that works out great as well and learning not
to overwater is the perfect key and keeping your herbs and your flowers
growing nicely without having them in a drainage at the bottom of these pools so
instead of showing you a 40 minute video doing this so many times I'm going to
show you each thing that I plant and then we'll have a little discussion at
the end of this video so if you're writing it and taking notes so far we
have chamomile and we have the johnny jump ups i'm going to plant some arnica
so these are articles now the arnica is supposed to be really good for people
who have skin conditions and have a lot of pain and the next one is sweet
marjoram now we have mint now mint is something that's very difficult to grow
by seed in fact I would strongly suggest that you plant it by the plant but I was
given some of these seeds by a lovely lady who had some that she didn't use
and so she gave them to me so I'm gonna try to grow the mints by seed you have a
Peter garden without some lavender now lavender takes 30 days to germinate so a
lot of times people will plant lavender seeds and I think they don't work but it
takes a long time for lavender seeds the dollar tree also has lavender seeds
which garden is not complete without time now I already have my Dollar Tree
time growing and it's coming up very nicely and I showed you how you can root
time as well from sprigs in the grocery store but
I was good given these seeds and so we will use these as well just as an insect
repellant easy to start from seeing so I'm using this and it's not for internal
so you really want to make sure you label your seeds when you plant your
seeds so you know what you're working with
I'm gonna use this for my cleaners that I make because it's highly the number
one highest scented lemon and it's the gum plant I hope you like series too and
I hope you watch series 1 about taking transplanted herbs from the grocery
store and how you can route them there's going to be a lot of videos coming up in
a series it's going to be about ten of them and I hope you follow along with me
the whole point of my videos are to try to encourage you to get you started and
grow me something this year I know a lot of you really aren't into growing things
or have a garden then I hope that you find this very entertaining and I hope
you enjoy these simple videos where I just share with you my life and share
with you how you can have a cottage garden I think you're gonna enjoy
following me from the seeds to the plant to harvest time as I do this every
single year but this year the emphasis more on Peter Abbott and 1800's garden
if you like books like I do I'm gonna show it to you in the description box my
books on Peter Rabbit so the Peter Rabbit gardening it's so
cute and quaint and there's a lot of home remedies and all kinds of things
you can make with this book and then the Beatrix Potter country cook wreath book
another one that's really quaint and it's so beautiful
these books are beautiful to display on your coffee table or to sit and read it
on a cold winter day I hope that you enjoy them coming up in session three
I'm going to share with you how to plan for a cottage garden and I'm gonna share
with you a very special book that is my all-time favorite a Beatrix Potter and
Peter Rabbit and all of his friends I hope you enjoyed this video today
and I hope you enjoyed this series of videos on how you can grow something in
your home for pennies on the dollar and you can have so much fun what you think
Peter I think he approves take care everyone we'll see you guys tomorrow