 if y'all have been following along you would know that I got into gardening about two years ago. I started at my townhouse with two small raised beds on my rooftop and then I moved into this house and I had to leave those behind and like any other thing in life that I show even the you know the smallest amount of interest I obviously had to take it to the next level. So I did quite the backyard transformation and I decided that I wanted not one but four different types of gardens. We have a vegetable garden, we have a raised bed garden, we have an herb garden and a cocktail garden. I'm taking y'all along on every step of the way to my backyard transformation to what garden beds I've used, where I'm getting my seats from, my favorite nurseries in Dallas, how I actually plan where to plant what and what to plant, and who I'm following online that I've learned from and more. I mean we get very specific. So I hope y'all enjoy me taking yet another hobby way too far. Okay with this in-depth how I started my garden video slash honestly a backyard transformation video. It's December 29th. Just come back from my spray tan. We're setting up the beds today. I have one normal garden bed that's from Amazon that I already have outside. As you guys have seen for Christmas I asked for vego garden beds. I found them on Instagram, not sponsored. I wish. I've got a lot of accounts on Instagram that use them. So we're setting them up today. We're also setting up this. I looked at some fun YouTube and it looks like we could do it. Really becoming a handy girl this year. I know this will come as a shock to y'all but I'm not really the most handy girl around. Okay I grew up with a father who taught me delegation. Taught me work smarter not harder. Hire out so you're able to you know do the thing you're good at and make more money. Okay my mom on the other hand she actually is Bob the builder herself. Her father was a contractor so this is like right up her alley. For whatever reason my dad wanted us to do this together and it ended up being a great bonny activity. Wasn't the hardest thing in the world. Definitely took more than 45 minutes a bed but I will say I mean it's not rocket science. Okay so we got it done all right and it looks great. I also need like I'm gonna trip back here like I need this to be looking nice you know. Yeah well you can fix that make it really look nice. You're gonna need to hold that. It's crazy how big the side yard is because it's not even I was thinking to make up a whole side yard. Just gonna take up half of it. Okay do that last one Yeah you got it. It's gonna fit inside. And then once I'm eventually completely out of home projects maybe I finish off the attic. Okay it's the next morning we only set up one bed and the wagon and by that I mean my dad really did. I helped okay. This might seem extra. I mean this entire video seems extra but the reason I did this is because it's a lot to lug the soil bags all the way from my car all the way back there and around and all that stuff. So anyways I just thought this would be helpful especially with like other plants. We'll go outside later but this is the first garden bed. I love them honestly they're really long but I forgot how long the side yard is so part of me is like do I do more? Day two and we are back with garden bed number two. We are showing my mother that you know there can be multiple bob builders in this family okay and that's us me and my dad my partner in crime okay and then we are bringing it to the backyard. It is a little unfortunate that my side yard is on the completely opposite side you know for myself the lazy person here. Thank god I'm so strong. Okay we're gonna have to go up over the top. The weight lifting. We're bringing it around. I'm very excited and everything is looking incredible besides that grass that is driving me insane. All right guys we're almost done with our first two beds. Okay I forgot I actually did ask for a six in one and a nine in one so they're not exactly the same. This one's a little bit smaller. The cool thing about these is that they have a bunch of different configurations. This one you can make in six different ways that one and nine. I'm only interested in this but it's still cool. You have to good girl. Okay Coco. Give me some money. Oh god. It's literally six thirty in the morning I just got out of the sauna. We're gonna go measure outside. Also by the way I actually do have the vacant garden mugs and these mugs are the best mugs ever. They're big. They're perfect. I love them. We're gonna go measure because my brother-in-law is going to do my new pavement in the garden. I'm trying to stop talking with that fucking influencer accent. It's starting to be literally insane. Sorry I shouldn't have fucking used grandma's watch this. So y'all already know I'm pretty sure that I want to do a new pavement situation here. These just feel a little tricky, a little unsafe honestly. So I need to measure this out for my brother-in-law. Oh my goodness. God that terrified me. Did you see your wig? I cannot take myself seriously. My plan is we're gonna get two by twos all the way down here. Look at my flashlight. Place these rocks with two by twos and then come out probably about 30 inches. It's about 400 inches down this way. I also just did the math and we have room for two more of the nine-in-one beds so that'll come to about right here which will be perfect. So the pavement that I wanted done in the garden is happening today. This garden is truly a family affair. Sophie's here because her dad and brother-in-law is the one who was doing this. Hello everyone are you gonna help me garden when I have a garden? Yeah. Really? Yes. We'll see about that. I'm gonna show you this clip when you're like 13 okay? Okay. So I have some inspo. I wanted 24 by 24 just like big stones. I also just found out that Vega Garden by the way is Dallas based. I had no idea. So hopefully I'll have my other garden beds built soon. Okay guys all of this stuff has arrived. They're making multiple trips to Home Depot. Thank god for my brother-in-law seriously. He also did my fire pit which they're gonna add more stones to it today just because I think we do need more but it's going to be little stones throughout this entire thing and then big stepping stones pretty close to the actual house. So it's gonna be just better overall. I'm excited. I'm a little bit nervous about stones everywhere. I don't know. The grass and everything it's all muddy and gross over here anyway so I feel like it's definitely the best option anyways. I don't know why I'm nervous about it but we'll see. I am gonna get two more nine-in-ones from Vega Garden right here so it's gonna come out pretty much to the AC unit. Guys it looks so good. So we have two more garden beds coming. That's why the tarp is still there and the garden. You'll see what I mean. I'm literally just sitting here staring at it because it looks so amazing. Okay are you guys ready? Wow so much better. So when the other garden beds get here we're probably gonna add more rock and it's gonna end up I forget the word but basically we'll add more rock as time goes on and then it's gonna be fine. These stepping stones are just 18 by 18 stepping stones from Home Depot and it is so much better. Like I want to get one of those little cute tables to like step back here but I am obsessed. Like it's even better than I thought. I didn't even know really what we were doing. I had a general idea. I didn't realize we were doing it all the way through and thank god. Like always listen to other people. It's February 5th and we have started working on my seating station. It looks a little ugly right now. We're gonna get a skirt that goes all around this so it's gonna be cuter and I need to do something about these wires maybe put the back there or something. But I will make an Amazon storefront of everything that we use. I got these grow lights. They didn't have the four foot option so I had to get two of the smaller ones. They're really easy to set up. Highly recommend. I have this little board back here that has like planting schedules so that's for cut flower and then that's just like normal. Oh no that's both cut flower. I don't know where the other one was but anyways I ordered more seating trays. They're arriving today and Micah and I are going this has to go. These just been sitting outside. We're going to do a whole thing. She's found online. I also got this grow food. I follow a couple like Dallas gardening influencers that I can link below and I can't remember whose storefront I used but I basically just bought everything she had. This timer will be nice for the actual lights and I might like flip that to the side and figure it out. I also got this heat mat but with everything that's happened in the past month I didn't end up using it. It's warm now so anyways have that and then I have some labels. So these markers are garden markers. Who knew? And then we're labeling everything so we're going to start seating. I don't even know how long it's going to take before I can actually like plant them but right now the rest of my garden beds are being built and those will be done today which is very exciting. Coco's just sitting on the love stack watching me. Hi girl. Hi. We got these pots today from at home and they're so perfect. Ignore the lights in the garage. Y'all know the drill at this point. I got this big one for I got a tree of life as a gift from a friend. It's a southern magnolia tree. I just love this pot and then I got this size too. I think they're so cute. For Christmas, Megan got me this really cute basket from William Sonoma and then I don't know where she found these but look at how cute because I love anything that's like oh yeah Maya there's a pruning thing in here. I love anything. It's like colorful and pattern now and these are the cutest thing ever. So I'm very excited. In the midst of this process Maya and I found this store, Nicholas and Hardy. This is my new favorite store in Dallas. Conveniently it's right next to one of my needlepoint shops that I got to. Okay it's on lovers Nicholas and Hardy. They are incredible. They have the best bands. I've been getting a lot of stuff in my actual yard and I know they have the best seed selection so if y'all are looking for seeds I highly recommend. I've also been getting compost and trying to get soil mainly compost at local nurseries. I know Walton's is great. I just I've been googling they've been here by one and grabbing from there so anyways that's where I've been going locally. Okay it's February 5th. Here is the garden update. It's pretty much done. These two I had to hire someone to build them but honestly they're not difficult to do. It's just hard if you're one person and I just have too much going on. So anyways we have potting mix because we're going to use as much of this as we can and then I have like a hundred bags of organic soil coming I think tomorrow. So this will just be like the middle ground and these are worm composters and I cannot make that. And then this I everything is Vega Garden. I'm obsessed with Vega Garden. This is a little like toolkit. How amazing. So this one just got built today. That one yesterday and then you guys have already seen those. These are all of my garden beds. I don't know where I put the top stuff for those too. So I've got to find it but yesterday we also had some people come over with firewood because basically to fill all this soil can get really expensive. You just fill it with other radders like halfway with wood then there's like a whole chart thing that I found in Vega Garden. So anyways I really do need more wood. So that's going to take care of in the next like probably 24 hours but we've got this big big things happening. I just need to find the black it's somewhere in my house. If not maybe I'll be able to order it but anyways these oh god I feel like this is oh whoa oh no they dented my thing my garden bed when they threw it yesterday. No so this is going I don't know if this is this looks Vega Garden. I think it has to be. I'll again I'll link everything but this is going to be my herb cocktail garden situation. So I really like this. I think the placement is perfect too and I love the color. It's really big but it's going to be great because then if I'm grilling I can grab stuff there and then also if I'm cooking it's just right outside the kitchen the way my garden is I don't want it to be all the way in the garden because it's just a longer walk. I know this is so lazy but I'm just trying to make it more practical. Vega I mean those are going to have to get David up. I like it very much. Good girl. Today is seeding day so I got some packages of seeds from Epic Gardening. If I didn't get things from Vega Garden that's where I got everything. I also don't know if I've even filmed this yet but this is the Dallas Garden School in North Texas garden planner. So there's calendars for like for when you should start seeding and transplanting and then graph paper for your garden plans and then also just a list of things most likely to succeed. It's actually really been super helpful. I've also bought some of her classes online and I've just gone through them but anyways really like it and obviously for me it's really helpful. So if you guys love my Dallas definitely recommend. But anyways I got the florist cutting flowers set and then I also got heat tolerant vegetables. We went through. Vega last night marked all of these. We went through which ones we're going to use and start seeding now. I can't wait for eggplant. I love the fruit eggplant. So today is the day. All right and then she started mixing it with her hands. She just used her gloves. Added the water little by little so she wanted it wet enough that it would stick together. Because she doesn't want it. She said don't get it too wet. I loved this part. Like this part is so therapeutic. I actually just started a new batch of seedlings if you will and it's amazing. So you want to get your soil wet. It's a little bit more compact. Put it in your trays. I got online like Amazon and then I just like poke a hole with my finger in every single little compartment and that's where I put the seed and then I put the soil over. It's a very simple very easy but it's very therapeutic. I just put on some home-worthy home tours on the background okay. And I had a great afternoon. I love doing this part. It's like one of my favorite things to do. I would do it every day. Perfect. They're melons. Oh yeah that would be big. No eggplant for sure. Eggplant's my favorite thing that I cook with. All right so these are from the florist cutting flower collection of seeds and this is essentially how I'm gonna lay it out. I don't know if my garden bed's gonna be big enough or whatever we'll figure it out. Just based on the different heights but it looks so pretty. Okay I just finished seeding my sixth tray. It's very easy but it's also very therapeutic. Oh I haven't covered these with soil yet. This one is going to be my herb garden. So I have an herb garden and then I also have a cocktail garden. I am not drinking a ton these days but I think even for mocktails they're fun. They're great for hosting and entertaining. My friends and I we've kind of acted like making drinks better than even drinking honestly. I need to figure out the best way to organize these. I cannot recommend this enough. My grandma gave it to me and she says she thinks she got it from Walmart but it's so nice because you can just move this around. Use this. Break up the soil out of the water. You want to add a lot of water so it can like stick together a little bit better. So here we have my heat tolerant vegetables. Then we have the cut flower garden here. We have my cocktail garden and then this is all of my herbs. So this is the seeding station and this is my first time doing this but honestly really liking it. And then we're going to try it. We were originally like putting these up kind of in the location that they're in. We don't really need to do that. I think I might just pin them all together for like vegetables together, cut flower gardens together like all that stuff just to keep it more organized and then I might make a calendar and put it on here. Okay so what I've decided is I've just put them in four separate bags since it's really for four separate areas of the garden and that way I can just like reference it very easily. I do still want to figure out I don't know I want to do something up here that's a little more organized but I don't know if I'm really going to I don't know if I'm going to translate them all at the same time or what so we'll see. Seeding station tour, potting bench, seeding trays and then I just have a lot of accessories. I'm really excited for the skirt to be done. I think it will be next week. I go ahead and throw these in the beds. I'm going to focus on the three over there that don't have wood. All right guys so filled up these two. This is my six by two that's my eight by two and it took about 10 bags to get about halfway. I definitely will have enough soil once it makes its way back here and I'll start just been breaking it up a little bit. I don't need to obviously do more but feeling good. Okay guys it is the day. I'm going to pot I guess all the soil. We'll time it. Let's see how long it takes. I have about 70 bags. Here is my little garden helper and her sweater. It's a little chilly outside. It took me about 50 minutes and 50 bags. This one is all soil so it would have taken less. I didn't put the composters in. They're just sitting there. I'm going to break it up a little bit better later on but it's looking good. I also have to add a little because it's going to end up compacting so I do have about 20 over there that are still left unused and then I have one more bed to fill for the time being. I do think I'm going to add more pots and stuff. I know this is so crazy but yeah. All right y'all it is now February 9th so it is quite a bit later. I actually just shot my new merch. Thank you and then my new mug if y'all don't know of a podcast called the house guest podcast. Sophie is back and if you guys can remember early in this vlog she said she was going to help me with the garden so today we are amending the beds with compost. Correct and then she's getting a trip to the American Girl All-Star but and I get $30. Well we will talk the money out. Yeah for sure. Yay. Yay. Wait I didn't even tell you to get $30. Yes you did. Now you made that up just now. We'll see. We'll see how hard you work. It's been raining like crazy honestly the past like month and a half. I would have transplanted the plants already yesterday or earlier this week but it was pouring the entire time so we are just now amending the beds with compost. I got them from a local nursery. I hear that's a lot better. She's getting bribed with PR. Sophie and I are learning how to amend the beds so basically we're just doing another layer of compost or like soil and getting the beds ready, breaking it all up and I think two days from now the plants are getting transplanted. Before we do that I'll give you guys a little update on the seedlings. They're looking amazing. I will say they just got watered a little bit too much so they're not looking amazing right now but don't worry it's going to be fine. Let's go to the garden. Let's go. I read that once they have like two or three leaves you should transplant them so we're definitely behind on schedule and there's definitely too much water going on. They normally look a lot better so anyways it's looking great. I'm hoping that the water is going to be fine but I'm really impressed. We have some of our bags of compost. I calculated how many I needed based on the Dallas Garden School which is where I get most of my information. Here we go. Here is the garden. We have some bulbs already going. We've got a lot of white or I think we have sweet onions and red onions. Also I just want to say I completely forgot to put the worm composters in. Okay I'm going to go clean the pool. Okay two bags for 18 beds. I got it. Let me see how big I got it. Make these bags open and we're gonna. Can I pull this off? Yeah. You definitely will. You? I'm doing it. I'm dirty. You want to break it off? So there's no chunks because the chunks will hurt the plants growth. This is a good strategy. Yeah it is a good strategy. This one is really full but we'll work with it. We'll work with it. It kind of is what it is. Oops. Did you just throw soil at the fence? Yeah I was trying to break up the parts. Oh that was creative. Very creative. Thanks for your help Soph. Welcome. Bye. Always so helpful. Alright so I did about two bags of the compost which okay I think it was one bag of two cubic units per nine square feet. So it was about two per bed. That one down there only got one just because it was already so full of soil. So anyways these feel pretty good. I think that they're ready for transplant which I'm so excited for. Update on my gardening journey. I'm absolutely loving it. I'm not even like fully out here yet. I'm a welcome to my garden sign that I got at a thrift store and then I ordered this antique looking hose holder from Amazon. I'll have it linked in my garden store front. It's Monday February 11th and we are finally transplanting today. I believe most of the plants they definitely could have been transplanted already but we just a lot's been going on. So I'm very excited that there's actually going to be things in my garden. Mike is almost here and then we're gonna get to work. Okay here are the seeds now. Okay, shoot I didn't realize we only have these for this part of the yard. You know because the other one will be cut flower. Do I have one more bag of compost? Should I put compost? Probably in the herb garden, right? Don't I need the thing that makes it tall? Here, I'll get them out. I built this thing on our demand plan. This one up early. It says cucumber on here. They get huge. If you're on TikTok, people just just call the chaotic method dirty but you see how look see how that's leaning over. You just call the dirt underneath underneath. Because a lot of them started growing towards the light so that was my other issue. How much should I water? Not a lot just you know with your sprinkler yeah. All right y'all we just transplanted all these so quickly. I still have two more beds that are going to be completely open so I'm thinking I'm going to do potatoes here and then I kind of want to try out the chaotic Zinnia trend that I've seen everywhere for just like cut flower garden stuff. So I'm going to see what cut flower garden seeds I still have in the garage. I might try that out there and then eventually I'll do potatoes. But now it is time to do my cut flower and my herb cocktail garden. Cut flower garden has been transplanted. It's looking good. My back hurts. I'm quite literally 80 years old but hopefully this works guys like again I'm a beginner. I'm doing everything that I've read pretty much so I have hope. All right the herb garden slash cocktail garden is good to go. The left side is more cocktail. The right side is mint. I mean herbs. Mint is in the middle. I am worried about that because I know mangoes everywhere. It looks like really beautiful. My gardens are good to go. Even I got so lucky guys without hardening. I'll never do that again. Make sure you harden your seedlings. I got very lucky. The vegetables are great. Things are growing. It's a couple weeks later and things are looking good. I actually did do a little chaos gardening. If you guys follow me on TikTok at Kinsey the Texan y'all can keep up to date. Let me know comment below what else I should plant in that empty garden bed. I really want to plant more things. I've already got more seedlings happening in the garage but like I need more okay. Garden bed everything's looking good. Flowers are looking good. Cocktail garden is looking good. I love this so much. Gardening has been such a great escape for me and it's been very therapeutic. Anyways if you all have not already be sure to subscribe to stay up to date with the garden. Love y'all and I will talk to you on my next video.