Hi, hi! I'm Holly Capelle and welcome to the Kellogg Garden Youtube Channel!
Run out of space in your backyard for growing food? I've got the solution for you. But first,
be sure to hit that subscribe button and notification bell so you don't miss any cool
upcoming videos from Kellogg Garden. Last year, during the pandemic, it was a mad dash to grow,
absolutely every seed I had. I was sowing seeds and giving plants to friends, and I was planting
food in every inch of our property. That included our front yard. All these years we've lived here,
I've never considered growing food in the front yard. I kept it strictly in the garden area,
but bursting the boundaries of the garden has really opened my eyes to possibilities,
growing things that I didn't think I actually was very good at growing.
For example, I couldn't grow a pumpkin in my garden if my life depended on it,
but in my front yard, they grow like crazy! I already have some that are cantaloupe size.
So, it's been really eye-opening, to say the least. Our backyard garden gets quite a
bit of filtered sun throughout the day, the front yard though gets a blast of full sun
most of the day. So, my eggplants, zucchini, pumpkins. They're really taking off up here.
So, let me show you around and show you what we have growing in our front yard.
When we first bought this house, our entire front yard was all grass. Mainly, dead grass.
So we tore it all out and created this hardscape flagstone patio, with a planter in the middle
and planting areas surrounding it. This has really been an enjoyable space for us, like I said,
never even considered growing food until last year and now sitting out here in those chairs
in the evening, watching the bees do their thing, discovering new pumpkins here and there. This is
just the place to be. I can't imagine going back to dead, pointless grass. Grow food instead.
The zucchini is loving the front yard garden. Up here these plants have plenty of space to just
grow and do their thing, whereas the garden is a little bit tighter, more compact,
so they're really thriving up here. Pumpkins for days! We have a few different varieties in here;
we have the red warty pumpkins, the lumina white pumpkins, blue dolls,
we have a teal pumpkin, all the fun stuff. No time for orange pumpkins here.
Here, I've got some eggplants really thriving. Oh,
I see one! Pretty exciting. Also, next to it is my first watermelon! Cute baby crimson watermelon.
Again, up here they have plenty of room to go crazy, and that's what we're letting them do.
Speaking of going crazy, yeah, the pumpkins are taking over our courtyard and I love it, to be
totally honest. Over here in the center rounder, I have my Halloween decorations growing. Which is
where I'm going to put them anyway, so I figured I'd just grow them there. I've got ornamental corn,
sunflowers, we have mini pumpkins mixed in here, there's even some watermelon mixed in so this
should be interesting. It's obviously a lot packed into a tiny space, so we'll see how it does.
The pumpkins, like I mentioned, are really popping off this year. I'm so excited normally something
I can't grow and now I've got them everywhere. I see you in there! As you can see, we're at
mid-July and I've got some pretty good-sized pumpkins all ready.
There's another one in there, I see you! I mean, honestly.
For days, there's another one back there too. Beautiful.
This is one of those warty red pumpkins, I believe. So stunning.
Here's another really exciting variety of pumpkins that we're growing in the front yard,
it's called blue doll and it's supposed to get really huge. So, we'll see if it does.
Some beautiful rhubarb growing upfront here too, getting mixed in with all this stuff,
and also getting mixed in beautiful lavender. Lots happening up here.
This cool watermelon is called moon and stars. The leaves have these beautiful spots,
like the galaxy, and then the rind of the watermelon itself also has the yellow spots,
making it really easily identifiable and super cool watermelon. I hope I get lots!
Another fun plant we have growing up here, we grew from seed, is this pumpkin on a stick.
It's an ornamental eggplant and it gets several of these tiny, little pumpkin-looking
eggplants all over the plant that will eventually, turn orange and red in the fall,
making quite a statement all on its own. So, I've planted it there for my fall decor.
That's me trying to think ahead. So, let's hope it cooperates. Right below it, got some cabbage.
And, this plant here, is called silver dust. It is not an edible plant, but it sure is pretty.
It's hard to find the actual landscape plants, now at this point because the pumpkins have really
taken over. Just since we're in the front yard, I thought I'd show you one of my casualties from the
heat dome that the pacific northwest experienced this summer. We've never had temperatures like 114
here before, so it was very interesting to see how some of the plants handled it. Surprisingly, a lot
of our edible plants made it through just fine, except for the peas. They were goners immediately,
but it was interesting to see what happened with some of the landscape
plants our hostas all burnt quite a bit, and then this spotted laurel
looks like it almost caught on fire. I mean it's just burnt up, I've never seen anything like
it before. So, I definitely need to clean this plant up and give it a new go at life, but what
a crazy situation that heat was. I hope I never experience it again. Thanks so much for joining
me today on this little tour of our front yard garden. I hope I've inspired you to think outside
the box when it comes to where you're planting your edibles. Until next time you can find me
over @bigfamilyliving on Instagram, where we share our everyday happenings. Happy Gardening!