Another gardener gave me this tip and it does work. Regular tulle fabric works as a drape over brasicas to keep out cabbage moths. You could also use a standard garden row cover but tulle lets more air through. Tulle also works to keep out critters that munch produce. Supposedly they don't like tangling their claws in it. I'm keeping my newly ripening tomatoes and also grapes wrapped with tulle to keep out the critters in my yard that love to take a bite of each!
Because of your videos I asked for sweet potato slips for my birthday. My hubby got me 36 of them. I have never grown anything but they are prospering! Thank you!
I started my golden cherry tomatoes, inside, in the winter, under cheapo led grow lights, from left over store bought produce. Okay... that had ever scenario for failure... but nooo.... they are producing like CRAZY ! I have them in a tight spot... so i have them tied up in loops like a theme park roller coaster. And despite that... they still love me... and give me more. I love them. Enjoy them and treat them right ( or what i put them thru) and they are very generous species. Thank you for all you share on your videos. I enjoy them immensely.
FANTASTIC garden space and WE love your channel 😃 Thank for the advise. My southern hospitality is sometimes mistaken. I have learned a valuable lesson. Garden on ! I have been convicted TYJ 🙏
I always let a few lettuce plants of different varieties go to seed (choose the best plants). The following spring scads of easily transplanted, volunteer lettuce grows all over my garden. (I once had a head of lettuce grow in a narrow seam of our concrete driveway. I also had a huge 14" diameter head of leaf lettuce by April. The lettuce happily germinates at just the right time for itself.) I leave some maturing lettuce plants growing around my Top Hat blueberry bushes, a short growing variety, to shade them because I live in the high desert foothills of the Rocky Mountains where there's about a month of 90-95 F weather. The blueberries are planted in a grow box that has a mixture of commercial potting soil with sphagnum moss added in to acidify it. (Our valley was once the bottom of an enormous, ancient lake named Lake Bountiful. From my house above the valley I can see the surrounding rim that was once the shoreline of the lake. You can find small mollusks and fish bones on the foothills. There are dinosaur bones elsewhere in the valley. Sand hills and salt crust about 50 miles from me are mined on a commercial scale. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Bonneville )The box is lined with heavy duty landscape cloth to keep the rocky, alkaline soil from working itself up into the good, acidified soil in the box. When there's a killing frost I pull out the lettuce.
So much info! I did not know you can eat all of the sweet potato plant! Your gardens are beautiful Rachel & Todd! ya'll have been alot of inspiration to this newbie gardener!
You didn't say how you train a zucchini to go vertical would really like to learn it. Amazing garden I saw your harvest last year of the sweet potatoes I hope you do well with this method. God bless.
My brassicas are perfect. I use BTK spray. It's actually what organic growers use, because it's a natural occurring soil bacteria. It only harms pests.
Love your garden. I can’t believe you are still getting carrots. That’s fantastic. I’m pretty new to the bigger garden. We expanded this year just a little, and hope to do more this fall. Love the channel. 👏🏻💕🇺🇸
I don’t understand. Are you the same person I just watched in “2018 goals...YES WE CAN”? That’s crazy! You seem like someone I would love to have visit my garden and vise versa. Love your videos and your awesome garden!
LOL I'm forever trying to get the crazy pole beans at the top of the arch to stop reaching for the stars! LOL I mean, I want them to be successful and all, but come down to where I can reap that success. LOL
Such a great garden! I have a small tumbler composter given to me by our son for Christmas one year. My area is small. Three raised beds and lots of pots. I threw in kitchen scraps which included butternut squash seeds and tomatoes last year into composter. I have volunteer tomatoes and saved a couple to grow. The squash seeds all germinated in the composter I planted some of them out and so far have nine butternut squash fruits. . Score! I read if you trim your sweet potato vines it takes away energy from the tubers and they won't reach maximum growth. I wanted to trim mine wasn't sure so I read a bit about it.. So I won't be doing it as again as said, not a huge planting area. I planted 25 slips.. I am sure as long as you're not doing a severe cutting it should be ok.
Your garden looks great Rachel and you know I'm no gardener but may I suggest you watch Art & Bri's channel in NC. They covered their broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage rows with a row cover (very durable) and have left it on the entire time. They have harvested pounds and pounds of broccoli...the cabbages have no bugs, no bites and they are getting very big. It might be worth it to invest in whatever this type of cover is. Just a thought. Have a Blessed day.
@@1870s Great...I think it will be well worth the money. Your produce return should pay for itself and Bri said this was so much better than what they had purchased before.
I just wanted to say, if you see Praying Mantises or black jumping spiders in your garden, don’t kill them, the jumpers kill aphids, moths and many other flying or walking bugs and Mantids kill grasshoppers, locusts and larger bugs that can hurt your garden, they are a gardeners best friend. Beetles on the other hand are very hard to kill. I have scorpions as pets and they can’t kill a beetle because of it’s hard shell. I would keep an eye out for slugs in your garden and crickets love carrots, potatoes and they will eat the leaves and roots of your plants. When crickets breed, the female is the one with the long thing pointing out from its backside, the male doesn’t have one. The female will sometimes dig a hole an inch deep, then deposit her eggs through that long tube. If there is a cricket nest near exposed roots, the mother as well as the babies could feast on the roots of that plant. Crickets, slugs, grubs , aphids, moths are all very bad for gardens. Crickets are great for cleaning up rotten vegetables and fruit but they just need to stick to the dead and rotten stuff rather than our healthy plants.
Looks amazing! The birds have found my first tomatoes. Even though I have a bird bath with fresh water. I am going to buy a water sprinkler like Gary suggested? I actually have 8 pumpkins growing. Some are bigger than basketballs.
Looks great! I spent hours last year on my broccoli and cauliflower plants with packing tape removing cabbage moth eggs, and their worms....it was restless, I even made white paper fake moths and laminated them and put them on fishing wire to deter as taken territory 😆, didn’t work. I wish you success with your efforts and a great crop at harvest! 😊
Shelley Fremer I have seen a lot of homesteaders beginning to use fabric netting to keep the butterflies(not moths) out of their brassicas, you might try it next year. Check out Art and Bri’s channel. They used it this year. Here’s a link: www.agfabric.com/collections/garden-netting
I planted burgundy bush beans from MIGardner and a green bush bean from Burpee, all of my burgundy came up and are looking healthy, but less than 50% of my green beans came up :( I even re-sowed a bunch and only had a couple come up. The only other Burpee seeds I bought were a pickling cucumber and they did fine so I must have just got a bad batch fo beans. Love all your carrots, I’m going to try for some fall carrots.
Have you tried Safer Soap Insect & Safer Soap Caterpillar? It helps save our plants and kills off most of our issues. They different, caterpillar you have to order online. (Kalamazoo)
Rachel !! Please tell me your secret to growing such pretty onions !!! Mine did not grow ! I tried two years in a row...and only ONE came up...it was a red onion and it was only about golf ball sized. I bought sets from a reputable company, so I am pretty sure it was ME!! I live in New Jersey. Please share your growing tips ? I would highly appreciate it. God Bless your farm and family.
I noticed your large tomatoe clusters only have a couple tomatoes on them. Do you intentionally cut off others to make the plant focus its attention on fewer tomatoes?
I was planning on using leaves from our wooded areas as a thick mulch on my beds over winter but was told that would bring ticks into my garden. I am in Missouri, summers are very hot and winters very cold with only 1-2 weeks of spring and fall. Last November I was picking tomatoes in the mid 80’s one day and the next it was -4. This is my first year living in Missouri as we moved from England last August. Do you find ticks a problem in your leaf mulch.
Well a couple things, they don't germinate well at all over 80 degrees and 2 need to be kept very moist until they germinate. Lastly, they can take up to 21 days or more to germinate.
I have tried to find were you gave up on Ruth Stout with the success you had and wondering why and can't find it ,I just watched this a few times to find the clip in corners but didn't see it again .
I got a Cherokee tomato this year don’t know what happened really thick stalk then my branches started to get gnarled and blossoms falling off also my one clump of tomatoes all look deformed😔
Sounds like herbicide damage. Did one of your neighbors spray their lawn with broadleaf weed killer? The mist travels a long way in the breeze...called herbicide drift. Can also happen using grass or manure that is tainted with herbicide. I made the .mistake of employing a lawn service one year and couldn't seem to understand why my tomato plants went all gnarly.
Thanks for your videos, I'm such a nooob! Built four beds 4x8 and got some plants to grow. Will keep trying...What does bolt mean? Maybe I should play some harmonica for them.
Bolt is when a plant begins to put it's energy into producing seed. It typically starts with flowers and then those flower heads produce seed or seed pods. Not every plant bolts but a great many due. It typically drastically changed the flavor of the crop you were growing too often bitter or spicier than desired. I would add alot of Gardener's leave some of their crops to bolt so they can harvest their own seed
@@1870s Oh I see...I got some radishes to grow pretty well, and they seemed to be coming out of the ground. so I thought that's what bolt meant. So I picked all but one. 'cause I thought if they bolted they might run away lol! I live about 200 miles above the border in Ontario, Canada. Pretty short season here. Gonna try another planting. Have you done any preserving or pickling of radishes?
