Hello everyone, I'm Chad, this is my fourth full season of gardening, and third while being on RU-vid. I live in Spring, TX, Zone 9A, just north of Houston.
When I think of anything “Down-Home” I can’t help but get a smile across my face, feel a sense of a laid-back attitude and think of the time I spent in the garden with my grandmother growing up, which is why I wanted that as the beginning of the name for my channel. I want to produce videos that bring an air of calm to gardening & backyard living videos.
I am a novice gardener at this point, but I have a passion for growing, experimenting and being in my backyard with my plants and dog, Jojo. I hope you will find this channel worth your time and join me on this adventure I have found myself drawn to and constantly thinking about. I fully expect to fail at somethings and to succeed at others, and with your help and advice as viewers, we can all learn together. So, let the journey begin.
@fmfdocbotl4358 if you're talking about rats, I humanely get rid of them. I don't have other rodents around me, so I haven't had to deal with anything larger than a rat. But, I would trap larger animals if they were an issue. 💯
I just subscribed to your channel, am a new gardener in Houston and I’ve been trying to find gardening videos that is in my zone and came across yours, awesome stuff! I planted some garlic today after watching your video about them simple and to the point. TY!
Yeah man, it’s very frustrating. I might have some advice: watching the video, it looks like the raised bed with the squash is shaded. How many hours of sun does it get? Might need a sunnier spot? Also, is used to have a hard time with squash, especially winter squash like those white ones, until I added a ton of compost. This year did almost half compost after watching a couple videos. It helped 100%. That David “the good” guy have a video on pumpkins that should apply to your situation. Good luck!
There is a hybrid perennial basil: African blue basil. It doesn’t produce seed and so doesnt stop growing once it flowers. It is perennial in zone 9 and 10. Once you buy a plant you can easily propogate it. It grows so large it crowds out other plants! 😅 It brings in SO MANY bees, it’s amazing.
I've tried twice to grow habanada peppers - can't grow them to save my life!! I can't wait to see the kajari melons you're growing, I might have to try those next year on my cattle panel trellis.
@natakays drying it, pick the leaves you want and sit them out for 6-7 in the house, and they'll dry out. Or, you can put them in the oven on 225 for I believe 7-8 minutes... I'd do some research on the oven as I've only done that once, and it was many years ago. 🤔
Oooh! Those flowers are beautiful! After hearing how good basil is with tomatoes I planted some all around my tomatoes! It was getting to the hottest part of summer so it didn’t take long for them to flower 😂 They didn’t get nearly as big as one I started from seed.
I had a tomato plant growing in my front yard . Just out from my neighbors downspout discharging into my front yard . We think a bird pooped it out on the neighbors roof and was washed down and out when it rained and germinated. The neighbors and I got a tomato each . Nature always fiends a way !
I do what you describe with garlic , except I buy from my local grocer, here it's HEB. Baker Creek will ask 3x the amount for what you can find at the grocer. Garlic is garlic bro. Thanks for the links! Love your channel.
I was ready for the slugs this year because last year I put down some slug pellets and diatomaceous earth. I think the pellets worked better. So very few slugs this year.... Until now with all the rain. Also treated the soil with baking soda where the worst of the blight occurred. The blight was slower this year just becoming a problem in the actual fruit now these passed few weeks. Kept it down by discarding all infected leaves. Again dropped the ball on that one for about a week and it traveled into the stems of the tomatoes.😢 Japanese beetles were ridiculous! Every day was out 3-4 times a day to flick then into the soapy water. The birds started to eat them so left the soap out of the containers later on as the numbers dropped.i though the other thing that helped is the variety of plants, flowers and herbs have brought in a lot of parasitic wasps etc. Even dragonflies😊. This video is a good summary for newbies and a refresher for greenies like me. ❤️🙏😊🇨🇦
My god, I can not wait to actually start getting fall temps. I keep wanting to get out and work on getting the fall garden going but the only thing I've done other than seed starting indoors is refresh the soil. The heat is just kicking my butt and the recent rain brought the mosquitos. What flowers do you start in the fall?
@trae74 Amending is very important, so at least you've knocked that out💯🤘 I plant flowers in the spring, and they always last all year for me, so I don't plant anything new in the fall.
