This channel is all about organic gardening, especially for beginners. I want to help people have a successful garden, but I also want to share ideas from viewers and show that gardening can be fun and rewarding in several different ways. I especially want to share ideas and what I've learned and to encourage people to try new things. I also show how having farm animals and gardening go together and help each other.
Absolutely, it sucks. Thanks for sharing the comments like this that people see it might save someone from buying it. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it.
I've never used waterers like you're using, but they are popular. The frozen water bottles are something new, and it sounds like good advice. Thanks for sharing this. Especially with the July/August heat coming.
The only thing I like the smaller ones for is when you have small chicks that haven't gone outside yet. For everything else, I agree with you. The bigger ones are better. Thanks for watching.
@@jonbussey5353 it's hard to stay on top of everything and work full time. So I say it looks great 😃. We have just started using our lawn clipping for mulch this year to keep weeds down. You are right it really helps a lot.
If you received 2 notifications for this video, I apologize. Because I'm still not very good with technical stuff, I deleted this video and had to upload it again. I hope you enjoy the video. I've never made a garden tour video before, so let me know what you think. Thanks for watching.
I went back and watched the video again. I couldn't believe how bad it was. The camera was vertical, the quality was horrible, but it brought back some good memories from when I first started. If I remember right, I was trying to be a little funny, but I stand by my statement of false advertising, lol. Thanks for the comment it brought a smile to my face and thanks for watching.
Sweet corn can be tough to grow. Too much heat or not enough water at the right time can cause the ears to be small. I really hope you got some sweet corn this year. I've also had some bad years growing it, so I feel bad for you. I appreciate you watching, and I hope your garden is going great.
You're probably right. I guess I'm worried they're all going to die. These are the best onions I've ever grown, so I'm very thankful for what I get. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate it.
Not sure either on the rotted onion. Is it possible there was a pocket of water that stayed in that area longer? Or a bird tampered in the area looking for worms? We have had birds landing in everything
Thank you for sharing. Both of those are valid reasons. As long as it's not a disease that spreads to my other onions, I'm okay with losing one here and there. Thanks for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it.
I’m definitely not an onion expert..but congrats on the great harvest! Those look very nice…I have heard Travis at “Lazy Dog Farm” say that he doesn’t remove soil from around his onions, and he’s a great onion grower…
Thanks, Bill. I have to believe that soil type and variety of onions play a part in this. Others trim, clear the soil, and they get great results. I think the fun part is trying different things and finding what works for you. Thanks for sharing. Good to hear from you.
Hello guys, these are by far the best onions I've ever grown, but I still have a lot to learn. Please let me know what you think, and thanks for watching.
So you have had success by trimming them? So far, I'm not sure if I see a difference between the ones I cut and the ones I left alone. Comments like yours help me understand more about trimming onions. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate it.
Another viewer suggested this, too. I did clear the dirt away from some just to do a comparison. The onions I cleared the dirt away from look really good, so I think you're right.
It's good to hear that trimming was successful for you. I'm still not sure if it works, so comments like this help me and everyone else who read it. Great comment, thank you for sharing.
I love your videos, and you are so good at sharing very detailed step by step, but I wish you would show us how beautiful your plant garden looks like. Just like the picture for the video. I watch not just to learn, but also to see the beauty of how gardens look like. I am assuming your garden is pretty large, since you talk about rabit, chickens, and other animals, but it would be nice to see more of what your garden looks like.
Thanks for the feedback back, no one's ever asked for a video like that, so I will definitely see what I can do to show you an overview of the garden. Great comment, I want to know what you guys would like to see.
I keep telling my husband it is okay to take off the flowers and damaged leaves until it gets bigger. I will show him your video so he doesn't think it is just me saying it, lol 😊
That plant was one of the volunteers, and it seems to be doing pretty good so far. I guess we'll find out in a few months. Thanks for watching, and it's good to hear from you again.
I have a really hard time in most of my in ground beds. Even mounding my beds up works better then regular inground gardening. Clay is hard to work with uggg.
You got that right. It's a challenge, but it's also a lot of fun. So far, this is the best way I've found to grow zucchini and pumpkins. I hope your garden is doing great. Thanks for sharing.
I heard "add liquid nitrogen to your plants" and was ... what?? Oh, plants. Okay. Much different from where I thought you were going. LOL! Manure tea is a much easier thing to get ahold of than what you might keep in a well-insulated thermos in the lab. Yeah, I'm replanting a lot - some things are going in for the first time because conditions have not been good. It's a weird year. I'm planting a lot of "new", non-enhanced areas this year. It's been a mixed bag - the strawberries did better than I expected but my bush beans look pitiful. We'll see how well they set.
I think the liquid nitrogen you were thinking of probably isn't good for plants, lol. It has been a very strange year so far , I got a lot of things in late and couldn't plant peas at all because of the rain, now it's in the 90's and no rain. I guess we'll see what happens at harvest. Good to hear from you again.
I think when I dug the trench, I should have added more organic matter or added more dirt back in the trench. I'll work on it next year. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it.
That's beautiful soil! It doesn't look like clay at all - just enough to hold together. Nice and crumbly! I've been working on my topsoil for years and that's exactly what I'm trying for. It'll get there. The worms do the work. Small changes over time make for big changes. I use the pelletized wood bedding that I use for my brooders, composted chicken manure, and any organic thing I can find. Volunteer tomatoes are amazing! They tend to be a bit more adapted to your area. Land Raced Mystery tomatoes! I mix plants up. Companion planting, for the most part, is just confusing pests and diseases by breaking up the monocropping into smaller/individual areas so it's harder for pests and diseases to wipe out your crop. If the pests can't find your plants, they can't eat them! I can't think of a reason why squash of any sort and tomatoes can't be grown together. The squash would shade the soil and possibly the tomato plants, but the tomatoes try to vine up, instead of out. Put a couple of stakes, or some Florida twining for the tomatoes and you should be fine. Just step carefully through the vines .... Great video and very encouraging! Thank you!
It did look good. Now I just have to get the rest of the garden like that, lol. You're right about small changes. It takes a lot of patience, but it's worth it. I did some reading, and I couldn't find any reason why you can't plant the two close together, so I guess we'll see what happens. I think if I can keep a path open to get to my tomatoes, it should be okay, but that might be easier said than done. It sounds like you're doing everything you can to improve your soil, and I wish you the best of luck and I hope your garden does great this year. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day.
Hey Jon, that soil is looking mighty good! And I love volunteers…how they randomly pop up. We get pumpkins and sunflowers that way. Looking forward to your updates…
Bill, I was really happy with how it came out, I'm hoping for good results. I have no idea how to manage pumpkins and tomatoes this close together, but it should be fun trying it. I hope your garden is doing great. Thanks for the compliment coming from a full-time mulcher and part-time gardener, it means a lot. Good to hear from you again.
Great way to experiment. I got on Hoss Seed website and couple other RU-vidrs about onions. I, too, have no experience with onions but just learning. What has been said is early stage of growth is nitrogen but toward end of growth to stop nitrogen so plant directs energy to bulb and not green tips. Maybe that is with cutting tops down??
Todd, I believe the same thing about using nitrogen early, and I show how I fertilized mine in the video I made right before the one you watched. I still don't understand how cutting the tops makes the onion bigger when the green part gives the onion the energy to grow. I have read more since making this video, and I think pruning them when they're smaller encourages growth, not when they are bigger like mine. I guess it's something to try next year. I enjoyed reading your comment. I appreciate the fact that you watched my video even though I admit I don't know a lot about onions. Thanks for watching.
Hey everybody, I really was happy with how this came out. It seems like I've kind of tweaked it over the last two years, so I hope this does as good as it did last year. Let me know what you think. Thanks for watching.
Your soil looks worst then ours 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I find that my small squash plants kinda shed their flowers when they are small, even if I don’t get around to plucking them. These plants get huge fast so that phase doesn’t last long tho 🤣 great info, thank you
I'm constantly doing things to amend my soil. It's a battle. I also see some flowers falling off on their own, but I had several I had to take off. They do grow fast. Thanks for watching.
I'm jealous of your rabbit manure! That's amazing stuff. The best garden I had was the one where I had a nearly unlimited aount of rabbit manure to add to the garden. After that garden, wee had to move, so the rabbits had a new home with other people. I now use chicken manure, but I do try to compost it first. I haven't had luck getting my squash to set fruit. I can grow them, but it's the setting fruit that seems to get stuck. I guess I'll need to make sure the flowers are getting pollinated. I'll try this method. The worst that heppens is it doesn;t work for some of the plants. If I'm not getting squash now, for whatever reason, not getting more squash isn't a hardship. Best thoughts! Keep on growing!
Rabbit manure is really good, and the best part is earthworms love, so they come to your plants and leave worm castings. Zucchini are pollinated by bees, mostly maybe trying to add a few flowers around your plants might draw more in. Aged chicken manure is another great manure very high in nitrogen. It's great to hear from you again. I see you have another video out can't wait to see what the birds are up to. Thanks for sharing.
@@jonbussey5353 I found some videos from last year I'm posting. I hope to get this year's chicks' videos up soon. Thanks for the ideas on manure and reminding me that flowers are not just pretty. I try to interplant as much as possible, but remembering where I planted flower seeds can get funny. I keep thinking about starting with beekeeping, but that seems more a new skill set, so I'll wait. Maybe I'll set up something for native bees? That sounds more fun and can be garden art, too.
I will be looking forward to watching your videos. Some people call it a weed, but I have a lot of clover growing in my yard, and I think all the flowers help attract bees. When I retire, I think I would like to try bee keeping, I just don't have the time right now.
I have to plant my zucchini in raised beds or grow bags because my soil is so bad. If I plant them in the ground I would have to constantly add amendments. Too much time and money.
It sounds like you have found a way to grow zucchini that works for you, and that's great. As long as you're having fun, there's not a wrong way to garden. I'm starting to see how raised beds are very beneficial for growing some types of plants. Thanks for sharing and watching. I hope your garden is going well.
