As I’ve said before Im not an expert gardener and I’ve never grown potatoes but won’t the green tops of potatoes push the onions out of the way?
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In the best-case scenario, the potatoes will overgrow the onion, and the onion will remain small due to a lack of light and nutrients. It's more likely that she'll lose most of the onions. The spacing is far too small. But Becky loves experiments – if I try something, it's on a small plot, but she'll make an entire raised bed.
I googled it, and onions are a good companion plant for potatoes. It can work, but I am pretty sure not the way they cramped everything in.
In a homestead setting, where you basically produce the food for your table and crop failure can have an impact (not for Costco Becky though) I do not understand the 'experimenting' approach with stuff that takes one google search to find out. There are dozens of garden planning tools available that will give you the correct spacing for plants, and a list of suitable companion plants as well as gardening tipps.
I hate when she has the parents round for gardening and all she does is bark orders. A couple of times she asked whether she should fetch stuff (kneepad, baskets) from up by the house, but never actually made the gruelling trip. I also don't understand the throwing stuff over the fence.
In a homestead setting, where you basically produce the food for your table and crop failure can have an impact (not for Costco Becky though) I do not understand the 'experimenting' approach with stuff that takes one google search to find out. There are dozens of garden planning tools available that will give you the correct spacing for plants, and a list of suitable companion plants as well as gardening tipps.
I hate when she has the parents round for gardening and all she does is bark orders. A couple of times she asked whether she should fetch stuff (kneepad, baskets) from up by the house, but never actually made the gruelling trip. I also don't understand the throwing stuff over the fence.
I'm curious to see how she plans to apply compost to the beds where she's already planted onions. It remains to be seen.
haha, that's a good point!
I mean surely if you really want to grow a years worth of onions/potatoes for your family you’d sacrifice a whole bed worth of snap dragons? Garden planning that is not garden planning because you forgot to include where you were going to plant your potatoes and onions 
Becky throwing shade at her Mum saying her kitchen was cleaner after Becky cleaned it after they cooked the latest dinner party for 34 people !! I laughed. My mum would tell me to not be so cheeky!
Josh and I will be going LIVE on Thursday April 24th at 4pm PT to do a Blind BUTTER Taste Test! I will be buying a few different store brands and high end brands to see which butter has have the best flavor! I hope to see you there. Becky
OMG, I've always wanted to watch those two idiots stuff themselves with butter. I think I'd throw up just watching it and my gallbladder would collapse. So I'll refuse and look forward to your recap of this monumental event.
OMG, I've always wanted to watch those two idiots stuff themselves with butter. I think I'd throw up just watching it and my gallbladder would collapse. So I'll refuse and look forward to your recap of this monumental event.
Oh goody, I can't wait for the lard episode.
Oil tasting and butter boards are a thing (wasn't it very trendy in the early 00 to have different olive oils out for starters?), but I don't think it makes for very engaging content. Especially for viewers outside of the US who can't buy those brands. And I already know Kerrygold is nice.
And the last thing I need is a lecture from stories-on-repeat Becky.
Oil tasting and butter boards are a thing (wasn't it very trendy in the early 00 to have different olive oils out for starters?), but I don't think it makes for very engaging content. Especially for viewers outside of the US who can't buy those brands. And I already know Kerrygold is nice.
And the last thing I need is a lecture from stories-on-repeat Becky.
I’m going to come out and say I don’t like her lives. I find Josh wooden and boring.
Having said that, you're still very polite and nice. I could think of many other ways to describe him. When I read in her comments that everyone needs a Josh in his life, I screamed loud NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
She’s unboxing the black stone she got for Christmas!! Earth shattering.
So we can look forward to many vlogs about cooking with the Blackstone. Yeah. Josh is probably already trying to get a sponsorship. Probably just as unsuccessfully as with the chicken coop and the greenhouse.
She’s already searched Pinterest for loads of recipes for the black stone that she can steal and make out are her own on her channel!!
A few thoughts on the new video today:
Can someone please tell Becky boughten is not a word! I am not a gardener but it seemed like she really drowned the starts in her grow room. Surely they don't need that much at once?
She pronounces gourmet as gour-met instead of how most of us say it, gour-may. And she transplanted her eucalyptus and she's digging up these plants and when she brings the pots over I just laughed, the plants are so tall and the pots so small. Who knows if they will survive, she was a bit rough with them too. And she told us her experience with eucalyptus several times. As well as how she cooked the day before so she didn't have to that day.
Can someone please tell Becky boughten is not a word! I am not a gardener but it seemed like she really drowned the starts in her grow room. Surely they don't need that much at once?
She pronounces gourmet as gour-met instead of how most of us say it, gour-may. And she transplanted her eucalyptus and she's digging up these plants and when she brings the pots over I just laughed, the plants are so tall and the pots so small. Who knows if they will survive, she was a bit rough with them too. And she told us her experience with eucalyptus several times. As well as how she cooked the day before so she didn't have to that day.
It's typical of Becky to constantly repeat herself, like a record that's stuck. She should notice this by the time she gets the vlogs back from the editor. But I think she just likes to hear herself talk. I had to laugh out loud when she was wrestling with the eucalyptus plants. They were almost all too big for the pots. It would have been better if she had transplanted them all into the landscape.
It's about time to plant some near the beehives so the bees have something to eat. I would have planted all the remaining snapdragons there. It's much more sensible than several raised beds with flowers. But she wants to be greeted with a beautiful sight when she enters the garden... so, I don't find powdery mildew-infested flowers particularly appealing. But tastes differ.
She prefers to water her seedlings only once, but more lavishly. Her plants have to endure quite a lot. 33 pepper plants in one of the green monster towers. How does one come up with such strange ideas?
Now she's proud of herself for keeping the snapdragons so far apart. But we know Becky, not for long, and she starts frantically scattering seeds across the garden again, afraid that she might see a centimeter of soil. But achievement of the day - Josh now has his own hose to wash his car. If that isn't cause for a party.
It's about time to plant some near the beehives so the bees have something to eat. I would have planted all the remaining snapdragons there. It's much more sensible than several raised beds with flowers. But she wants to be greeted with a beautiful sight when she enters the garden... so, I don't find powdery mildew-infested flowers particularly appealing. But tastes differ.
She prefers to water her seedlings only once, but more lavishly. Her plants have to endure quite a lot. 33 pepper plants in one of the green monster towers. How does one come up with such strange ideas?
Now she's proud of herself for keeping the snapdragons so far apart. But we know Becky, not for long, and she starts frantically scattering seeds across the garden again, afraid that she might see a centimeter of soil. But achievement of the day - Josh now has his own hose to wash his car. If that isn't cause for a party.
I am confused about the greenstalks she plants in. Wouldn't they yield far more fruit in the garden where they can spread out more?
I think she couldn't care less about the bees.
When she says Josh is free to help her, free from what? Doesn’t he work for her?
I am not a gardener so do you @Lady Pinkadella think they will survive. I still laugh at the plants next to the pots. It should be a meme.
She seem flustered in the video. And when she wiped compost across her face, ewww.
I think she couldn't care less about the bees.
When she says Josh is free to help her, free from what? Doesn’t he work for her?
I am not a gardener so do you @Lady Pinkadella think they will survive. I still laugh at the plants next to the pots. It should be a meme.
She seem flustered in the video. And when she wiped compost across her face, ewww.
If she doesn't let the plants dry out, they'll survive. I just think she'll have a much smaller yield than the ones in the raised bed. There are also quite small pepper varieties, but I don't think she paid attention to that when choosing the plants. You can already see that with the strawberries: her harvest was very modest for the number of plants she had last year. So I would prefer fewer plants with more yield and less maintenance.
And as for the eucalyptus, I'm curious to see how that turns out. They're generally quite robust, but she ruthlessly ripped them out and stuffed them into pots. The ones in the landscape will survive if they're watered well over the next few weeks and don't get blown over by the wind. Pruning them back certainly wouldn't hurt either.
Josh is a very busy man—after all, he goes to the gym every day. I don't know what he does afterward, though.
If I had a partner I had to ask for every little thing he does and then praise him, I'd shoot him. Without batting an eyelid. And then off to the raised bed and a load of compost on top. Boom, problem solved.
And as for the eucalyptus, I'm curious to see how that turns out. They're generally quite robust, but she ruthlessly ripped them out and stuffed them into pots. The ones in the landscape will survive if they're watered well over the next few weeks and don't get blown over by the wind. Pruning them back certainly wouldn't hurt either.
Josh is a very busy man—after all, he goes to the gym every day. I don't know what he does afterward, though.
If I had a partner I had to ask for every little thing he does and then praise him, I'd shoot him. Without batting an eyelid. And then off to the raised bed and a load of compost on top. Boom, problem solved.
My son who is 23 and has an autism diagnosis is going through a difficult period of unemployment. He tries to keep himself busy for his mental health. He goes to the gym everyday. He said he was laughing with a mate the other day saying that he will in future describe himself as a professional gym member. Anyway it strikes me that that is good description for Josh. I get the impression he doesn’t like her ordering him about. She’s your boss mate! Bad luck.
In other news why did she transplant those eucalyptus if she’s growing a whole new lot? That took her hours. Hours she doesn’t have as a busy wife and Mum of a toddler
. And what the hell is she going to do with the three million pepper plants she’s planted and bought except for put them in the green stalk and not water them every day? Also peppers do not grow that well in that part of America especially when you don’t water them.
In other news why did she transplant those eucalyptus if she’s growing a whole new lot? That took her hours. Hours she doesn’t have as a busy wife and Mum of a toddler
. And what the hell is she going to do with the three million pepper plants she’s planted and bought except for put them in the green stalk and not water them every day? Also peppers do not grow that well in that part of America especially when you don’t water them.Sorry to hear about your son, but he seems like a great young man, and humor makes things easier. With a lot of what Becky does, I wonder WHY. I often think she doesn't know herself, but that's how she fills the vlogs. And her superfans celebrate her frugality, for saving every little plant. In their delusion, they just don't realize that off-camera, she's a plant mass murderer.