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I'm in Georgetown, I just did a big garden clean up today in preparation for the rainy whether. I pulled out a bunch of waning spring flowers, and herbs. I believe the short break in the heat will allow for new plants to be comfortably sown. I directly sowed some corn, cucumber, squash, bush beans and sunflowers. I transplanted zinnia seedlings as well.* Knock on wood* I think this fall is going to be great for the garden. I'm working on collecting more home-saved seed this year. Do you save seeds from your garden?
That is awesome! Great work getting set ahead of the rain. I DO save seeds from my garden and it's one of my biggest passions. I do a lot of beans, and warm season greens like molokhia and callaloo.
My first and second year I felt that way, but now this fall will be my fifth year and I’ve learned to pull out. I’ve had a great harvest from all the cucumbers I have planted, but it’s time to pull out the old and put some new seeds in make plans for next spring, which I think I’m going to do differently, I need to get more specific items. I want specifically in the bed. I think my big bed is so productive that has a lot of warm is like a mortgage Borg. It has everything it has wildflowers in there for the pollinators which I have plenty of bumblebee. I’m in Houston Texas. I have some tomatoes that came in. I have cucumbers, watermelon and melons and a few of course zinnias but as I’ve been pulling out, I’m planning on putting something else, but I know it won’t be long before I can do another succession or starting another of carrots I’ve already did since spring or fall last year. I’ve done three or four succession of carrots and carrots because the heat will start soon again beans are coming back. I did have some pest disease on the beans but they’re coming back and I’ve started some new beans started some newand all types I didn’t even focus on tomatoes in the spring right away, but I am now
Appreciate you! If i dont top my tomatoes both indeterminate and determined will they grow another round in the fall? They are under shade cloth, 40% and flowering again, but i haven't seen any new fruit. Also, i have my 1st eggplant growing, beautiful plant hasn't made any fruit, last rain knocked all the flowers off. Im in bastrop/ cedar creek area. My cucumbers are still rocking. Thank you.
Thank you!! Your tomatoes will likely keep growing and produce in the fall if you nurture them. Due to environmental stress, August isn't a great time for tomatoes to ripen on the vine. The advantage to topping them is keeping their size down, assuring air flow to minimize disease, and pushing the timing of fruit set into more favorable weather conditions. Now is the right time to cut them back or plant new seedlings if you choose to do so 👍✨
I am a few counties north and west of you and have found my best cucumber to be the Armenian and other tropical types like Malabar Spinach (vine) are less bothered by the bugs. Squash bugs and aphids make an appearance in the heat not to mention the grasshoppers!
Super duper hot here. We had a 119° day with lots of 110+ days. I have been pulling things out with sheer glee!!!!!!. I don't have a watering system so handwatering twice a day at 4 hrs daily is wearing me down. Anything that looks at me cross eyed is getting yanked and I'm not sorry.
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Oh man... Can I buy some from you? I saved one small bag from a friend that passed away years ago and grew it every year till it failed last year and bugs are the last seeds :(
💝🥰Love, this corn smut is so deliciooooosooo🤤 mouth-watering I know how to prepare it. Joseph really likes it. He likes for me to make him berdolagas as well.
I have thus far had an amazing year. No pests anywhere. The last 4 years I've had so many squash bugs it's been infuriating. This year I have not found even one and I'm praying that continues. What I did was plant marigold and radish throughout the same box. I was trying to plant a cover crop as well to help disguise the soil, but they never grew. Either way, the other two things seem to be working so far.
I have a seedling orange tree I'm growing from my orange I had at work. It's currently about 3 inches tall in a 4 inch nursery pot with coco coir and a little bit of worm casting. Since its still very small could I use house plant fertilizer on it?
Ive always grown them for their beautiful foliage. My grandather grew them, but i was too busy playing and never learned how he did them. Now,I have just learned how to plant them for food! I'm still going to grow some for house plants, but its great to know how to produce food from them. Thank you millennial Gardener!!
When you hesitated on saying ‘beautiful’ I fixed it and said ‘evil’ 😂 this was my first year growing squash and learning about this horrible moth. Mine ended up becoming trap crops. At least my watermelon are doing well.
Oh no! I have kept my squash covered all season and it has worked well. I uncover them from 6:30 am until at least 8:30 am and have not observed any SVB activity.
@@newgardenroad That does seem like the best option..but I’ll do it next year lol. I need bug netting for my blueberries anyway. Between the tornadoes and hail tearing up all my spring work, I just don’t have it in me to carefully rearrange my trellis or salvage anything else for the summer 🤷🏽♀️🙃 ooo lord. That’s gardening for ya 😂
I grew this variety last year, and we loved it. I have another one going this year. Good content, I picked up a few tips. I have the same moisture meter as you also.
Hi Scott I am in need of your help I started my plants from seed this year and its going good, big and green but very slow production if any -Yet? fertilizing once a week and now watering more (Central Texas) but uhh. honestly most of my plants are the same way. Not giving up
Hi, can you tell me what fertilizer you're using? Look for an NPK value on the label, Neptune's Harvest is a 2-4-1, and the middle number (phosphorous) corresponds to flowering and fruiting. If the first number (nitrogen) is higher, then that could explain healthy top growth and a lack of fruiting. It could also be based on timing. If you started seeds late then it just may take longer. Either way, hang in there as I wouldn't be surprised if you get a late summer or early fall flush of fruit.
Have you been to the annual sunshine community garden sale? I get shishito and a few other pepper seedlings in addition to the ones I start from seed at home. They always have a great selection of heirloom pepper and tomato seedlings.
Yes.. I had a really great banana pepper for five years but this last winter I forgot to bring it in and it froze so I have to start a new one, but I’ve had bell peppers two or three years and they’re very productive. I’m always getting a bell pepper and I cook with them as well all the time. I am producing peppers now, which I will for sure over winter and I do a few of them in those smart pots that are like a 5 gallon . I put a small tomato cage in there to support it or a garden steak 🌱🌱 🌶️🫑
@@newgardenroad I was curious because I wa looking into it and was nervous about if the wires put chemicals into the soil/plants that touch them. You don’t think so?
I ve just harvested lovely charlottes , from march planting. Uk, wales. They are perfect, of course. Really beautiful. How do i store them, even though they have not grown any bits? Do i store them in a normal way first [ bags]as if they were going to be eaten, or what else should i do to ‘’ chip ‘’ them ahead….? I am hoping you can help😊
For me pine straw is the only way to go ! It really helps so much. Its so simple to keep up & reapply too. So much that when i do it to day i found the awful tomato horn worm 🐛..he go a new home WAY from my garden lol
I'm trying something that seems to be working so far. I have planted 66 winter squash & 4 summer squash that I started from seed, planted May 15-30 in zone 7 & I have lots of fruit on them, plants & leaves are massive & healthy. I pile & keep straw on their bases to cover them daily, I trellis 90% of them, I plant smelly flowers near them, and check them several times a day for bugs. 1 plant died i think from the cucumber beetle & 2 others showed the "sawdust" telltail sign which I immediately coated heavily with Diatomaceous earth powder n then covered with straw. The plants are now recovered & flourishing. I also water with Miracle Gro to get them established, for recovery and then organic fertilizer occassionally. I bought BT n needles but so far haven't had to use them. And, I cut off many leaves to make hole "openings" for the bees to pollinate and boy did they come!! I am growing these squashes: Hubbard, Spagetti, Sweet Meat, Long Island Cheese Pumpkin, Jaradale Pumpkin, Buttercup, Butternut, Cushaw, Georgia Candy Roaster, Zucchini & Yellow Squash.
Such a sad morning, the top stem of my squash plant with all the new growth has broken off because the support fell down. Will it still grow and make a new top or is it done like topping tomatoes? I am crying right now 😢 thanks for any help
Oh no! I would give it a chance to produce side shoots. If it’s a bush type I’m not sure what to expect, but it depends on how much broke off. If it’s a vining type I would think that it would push out more vines. A drench of liquid fertilizer and/or seaweed will help. Best wishes!✨
How often will vary based on environmental conditions but when it’s hot I water every day making several passes about 5 seconds each until it soaks in and starts to run out the bottom 👍🏼✨
I hear you about the aphids and I've been trying to take it easy on soaping them. I have a new menace this year: spider mites on the the tomatoes and beans. Do you use the same philosophy? Thanks in advance. BTW - love, love, love your channel. I've been doing great growing again this year in CenTex thanks to your advice.
Hey! Thank you so much 🙏🏼✨ Spider mites are a true menace. They proliferate in hot & dry conditions when plants are stressed. My philosophy with them is similar, but there is often a tipping point when I decide to pull plants that are affected by them. Support overall wellness, apply seaweed to foliage weekly, mulch, water deeply, and I do believe that shade cloth is essential throughout Texas summers. That said, if by beans you’re referring to snap or green beans, they really don’t last through June in my experience. Tomatoes if well established and relatively healthy can be pruned hard by two-thirds as we approach the end of the month. That could eliminate a lot of spider mites and set you up for a fall harvest. Also, we can plant both of those crops again in the next couple of weeks for fall production. Not gonna be easy though! I hope this helps!
@@newgardenroad It helped a lot! My plan for this year was to just plant new cherry tomatoes July 1 (just did) instead of 2/3 cutting back Spring's tomatoes. So I cut many leaves off of the spring tomatoes and just letting them ripen the fruit they have on them. It seams I'm right on track with what you suggested. The beans are Southern Peas and Lima Beans so I'm gutting it out with the mites. They look to be subsiding and not spreading to more plants. It is tough to let them munch away on my leaves but I really like your plan of being more hands off and let nature do its thing. Spraying soap/Neem is difficult because there are so many leaf surfaces. Shade cloth has been a problem solver! I'm having huge crops and plants are living longer and thriving. Plus, I like being in a cooler garden too! I have it above and the southwest corner.
Three weeks ago a cucumber vine started growing in my garden from nowhere (I have no idea where it came from). It was in my avocado tree planter box. I tried to relocate it to its own space and when i did that the whole vine shriveled up and is nearly dead with in an hour of moving it. Do you know why this could have happened?
Their root systems are very sensitive to disturbances and they don’t always transplant well. Planting seeds in the garden yields the best results, but in the case of volunteer plants we just have to give it our best shot 👍🏼✨
@@newgardenroad Ahh that makes sense. I wasn't especially delicate with the roots as they were deeper than i anticipated. 😔 I should have left it where it was. One other question while I have your attention. I live in a tropical environment (Bali Indonesia) and have been trying to grow strawberries, but i only seem to get the leaves and no strawberries. Do you have any ideas what i could be doing wrong? (I am only a beginner gardener)
