I love how you are now showing how you're using your planner. I got the2024 printed edition and I can't wait to start using it! Just a suggestion for the future: I think it would be really cool if the planner started when the growing season does on the FL timetable. Maybe run from September to August rather than a calendar year, kind of like an academic calendar. Just a thought to consider. Thanks for your transparent gardening adventures. I am learning so much from you!
Thanks so much for another great garden video and some great information and your little garden is coming right along for winter garden tour. Thanks for sharing my sweet friend. I need to get some raised beds like these from my garden. Looks like an easy way to grow and keep everything compact and at my age I don’t want to be digging and being bent over in my garden. This is great ways to have a raised bed that I can maintain.
I had squirrels plant pecans in the pots in my nursery years ago. Pecans were more valuable than the trees I happened to be growing so I culled the trees I had in the pots and kept the pecans. My business model were hedging plants that sold by the dozen. I didn’t want to waste time on trees that sat a long time before being sold however I loved having a few pecans in the nursery that I could plant myself on the north border of the yard.
I had a ton of squirrels in my garden. I tried taking hair from my hair brush and putting it around the bed. I think the smell of humans kept them away and the hair decomposes. I also keep a water source (a bird bath) which seems to help. I see very little squirrel damage these days.
I can't seem to get onions to sprout or grow to anything other than a little seedling. I am going to go buy cocktail/pearl onions to grow. I don't know if they get larger or not, but at least I will finally have green onion tops to eat. 😅If they grow anyway 🤣Everything else is doing great, I'm harvesting greens, kale, chard, and other brassicas, green beans, some corn, a few tomatoes and peppers here and there as they ripen. I have a couple of sugar pie pumpkins that are about ready too. I hope no more really cold weather for a bit 🤞
Thanks for the garden update, looking good! My strawberries, all died too. I think I overwatered them. Your kale and broccoli and other plants that are squiggly and had fallen over but are now growing up right are perfectly fine to leave the way they are. That happens to some of my plants every year and I just leave them alone and they grow and produce like normal. Good luck!
Oh btw, we visited Sweet Bay Nursery and two lovely girls were walking around with us and were so helpful. At some point I mentioned a plant you suggested and they got so excited and hollered to several of their coworkers that I was a Wild Floridian fan! So it seems you are famous down there. Such a beautiful nursery. We spent a couple of hours but could’ve stayed longer except it was raining. I’ll def be back there.
My cherry tomatoes are going nuts! I have a new crop of lettuce starting, and bunch onions oh and the garlic for June! North Florida zone 9a or am I zone 9b? I wanted squash but they failed me! The plant is there all ugly leaves and all! :p so is the zucchini! Oh well!
For me, my 'successes' are that I am learning the sun/shade patterns for my yard and experimenting with what to plant when. So even a failure for me is a success. I am also having to relearn some old knowledge, like how Coreopsis seeds need cold stratification to germinate. So that was a true failure because I knew that at one point but forgot and lost a whole flat of seeds as a result. Though I spread the soil from the flat into a bed, so maybe some will sprout after the winter. Also experimenting with some English Cottage Garden 'hardy' annuals to see what will grow through the winter months. While I much prefer natives, my yard is still new to me and if I can fill areas in my beds during the dormant season with color it will a bonus with the wife. I also sowed some ferry-morse green onions about a month ago. It took about 2 - 2 1/2 weeks before the first sprout came up and even now they are very small at only about 1.5 inches and that is slow release fertilizer in the soil and doses of fish emulsion every 10 days or so. In the meantime, I keep harvesting from green onions I got from the grocery store. I always plant the bulbs after cutting off the green. So far it seems to be a more efficient way to grow them than by seed.
Loved this video cause I'm growing in this season for the first time ever! I'm in Florida, 10A also, so you are really inspiring me, especially to seed some lacinato kale and Waltham broccoli!! I did seed tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants indoors on September 14, started transplanting outside, mostly into cloth pots in mid-October so they are very strong and about two feet tall by now. Wanted to mention some of my very successful ones. I'm trying Early Girl tomatoes and Yellow Pear for the first time this year, both are growing great, Roma plants are hardy also, but Celebrity is super frail and wimpy compared. Early Girls are dwarf, but will produce medium sized tomatoes, already a few apricot-sized tomatoes on them! So excited to see what they bring! Another thing that worked really well for me was "Red Sails" lettuce, planted in August, it thrived in the heat and the cold, I just finished harvesting now, before they bolted. Also planted Seminole Pumpkings, one is doing very well so far. So excited about the thought of pumpkins!! Love your channel!!
Love the video, thank you ❤ …during the video tho, there was about a dozen commercials with just this short video! That sucks 😢 and it was hard for me to keep watching.
My first year gardening and I’ve been very happy with the results up til now. I planted broccoli seeds back around end of August and they look terrific but haven’t produced a single harvestable head. Oh well, pretty plants. Strawberries produced a nice yield, bright red, juicy and delicious but the next round looks pretty sad. The plants (leaves) still look fine though. My okra produced all summer then I cut them back to about 2ft tall and they are producing like crazy again. Peppers & cukes did very well quantity-wise but most of the peppers were on the small side. I’m going to keep trying.
Soon your beds will be bursting with food! We have pea pods already, and lots of blossoms. Tomatoes are about 2 ft tall, beets and turnips are really big and bushy. Eating lettuce, chard, onions and kale now. Radishes are done. Squirrels are wreaking havoc here, too. Lots of gaps in the rows, and "divots".
If you know you are going to have squirrel problems why don't you make chicken wire lids for your beds? All you need is a pvc frame and a dome made of chicken wire attached to the frame with zip ties. Easy and weather resistant. You can later cover them with row cover if the temperature drops.
There is a remedy for excess squirrel population. A Fish and wildlife person once told us to depopulate the squirrels when there's a large population of them. We did and they quit eating our apples. I have a question about your desert rose plant, what do you do when it rains a lot or in cold weather? So you move it or protect it in any way? I noticed that it was out in the yard. I have several plants and I'm new to growing them. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks for showing us your good and not so good new veggies. Honestly helps others (especially new gardeners) determining what to do or what not to do. Happy gardening 😊😊😊
Looks like we are in the same boat with getting a late start. I’m in central Florida too and just put out half my garden a couple days ago. 😂 Looking forward to seeing your progress!
I planted my seeds for brassicas and tomatoes in trays in Sept and transplanted out to beds when they were bigger,then covered beds with insect netting to keep moths and birds out. Fingers crossed they look pretty good. Many of my tomatoes are full grown now and giving me fruit. Beets got eaten by iguanas we think. I also killed my first round of strawberries. The superstars of the fall are my pac Choi. I just got your 2024 planner- can’t wait to start using it!
I had trouble with my green onions too😮, and bulbing onions... Not one bulbing onion, and just a very few green onions. Gary from the Rusted Garden mentioned recently bad chive seed might have been going around last year. Perhaps with the onions? I used packets from last year. And the squirrels don't help, of course😅
I am also having squirrel troubles. They have destroyed the carrot bed. I resow and they come in that evening and tear it up. I too have a full time squirrel chaser. A Goldendoodle so I see a ton of Shilow traits haha. I have got to order a planner.
I can't remember where I saw it but they said to pinch the first flowers off the peppers and strawberries. This allows for more energy to go to establishing the roots and growth of young plants.😊
