Wdym? Yeah, maybe your garden doesn't look like some picturesque garden found in some magazine that was planted by professions in a staged setting. But when you take into account life, the success and setbacks of nature, along with the fact that you're growing food for your family that will be better for you guys. I see your garden and hope you feel as proud as I would having that in my yard. Keep up the amazing work and thanks for the tour! 👏👏👏
Wow, that’s a huge garden. I’m surprised it looks as good as it does. A lot of your stuff I’ve never even heard of. What would a lunch box pepper be? Something mild like a banana pepper? Keep up the good work.
I grew the lunchbox peppers last year. Very mild. I won’t grow them again however not because there was anything wrong with them but because I am not done exploring.
They are those small sweet colorful peppers often sold in bags as snack peppers in the grocery store. My kids love them that’s why I’m growing them. Thank you!
Any time you are doing better than you ever have, you are successful. Its always the goal, just be better than you were before. I'm jealous though that your amaranth (pigweed) isnt spiny. (Dont bring in cow manure from some other place is the lesson there) My wife and I have battled the heck out of weeds and still do. The biggest thing is that it can rob the plants of what they need. But if you just plant more, that is 90% of it.. but then you have more weeds as you have to have more space. Gardening is tough, but you deserve to be proud of what you've done and it will get better.
Thank you! Believe me I learned my lesson with manure, we brought in horse manure and that’s when the weeds went WILD! It’s been a constant battle since then. Never again!
@@poplarcreekfarm19 2 things we learned that MAY or MAY NOT benefit you. The weed fabric does attract certain rodents, but some could be beneficial. In our raised bed, oddly we have voles (they ate every strawberry plant) but in our field we just have shrews and moles under the weed fabric. Those will eat the Japanese beetle larvae, AND they sort of "till" the soil for you. So pros and cons.. but if they are eating your plants, for sure its a vole and not good :)
@HomesteadDNA yea that ate like 60 tomato plants and probably 25-30 pepper plants 😭 it was awful. Definitely doesn’t feel worth it. It was nice for the weeds but I can fight those
@@poplarcreekfarm19 Spinosad is organic, and if you get the larvae it will end them pretty quick. BT might work too, as they still eat the leaves, but i know Spinosad does.
@HomesteadDNA does it possibly affect bees though? That’s always my concern. My bees are just outside my garden. It’s a pain to squish them but I can manage that if needsd
