I'm Sick Of My Garden... 

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it isnt about getting lost in the corn maze its about the friends we found along the way

I appreciate you guys showing your "failures" too. Sometimes when I watch certain channels it feels like what they've done isn't achievable, so it's nice to see that even the Berry Boys run into problems.

We had 2 months worth of rain here in 1 day a few weeks ago and my entire garden flooded, I kind of gave up at that point. My super healthy 8 foot Brandywine tomatoes all fell over, same with the indeterminates im growing. Ill be damned if they arent still throwing off tons of fruit to this day and I still have to go grab a collinder full every other day. Ground hogs ate all my remaining melons and my brussel sprouts barely survived aphids and caterpillar invasions. Lot to learn but still a ton to eat. Don't be so hard on yourself and learn from mistakes.

I was so expecting a “Burnout Boys” graphic at the beginning! But in seriousness, thank you for showing what didn’t work out and doing a “post-mortem”. I started my first garden this year, and while some things have been successful, I discovered this year just how intense the insect issues can be in Maryland, so if nothing else, it makes me feel better.

This is one of my favorite videos you've posted this season! Love the casual, conversational feel. There's definitely a lack of this style/feel in gardening videos on RU-vid right now.

Thanks for the encouragement to keep gardening despite the failures. My watermelons are just now finally taking off and so are my tomatoes. Hoping to harvest them before the squirrels do.

The RU-vid algorithm must be reading my mind now, I almost did the unthinkable and scorch earth both my gardens because of some major setbacks near the end of the season You guys just talked me down from a epic destruction (no pun intended) thanks guys

I love that you two did this ... I don't feel so bad at kicking the dry dirt and getting mad at some of my failures ... at the same time celebrating my successes and making notes of what I would do again... I love this video so much !! Good for you both for sharing with this community.. so helpful to hear you both discuss ... and consider your water/climate habits

I'm so excited, I finally managed to keep a baby pomegranate alive a full year , and am getting ready to get it planted in its permanent spot soon. I've had it in the largest pot I've got at the moment and have been moving it around my yard to find which side of the house its happiest on.

I absolutely love the entire garden season even when it's 100 outside I'm happy and content to be sweating my butt off. I like shifting over to the fall garden and watching the new seedlings start to take root. I'm gonna soak up every hour of sun that I can while I can 🥰

The biggest thing I learned this year is that it’s ok to start over. Even when you do everything right, you can still lose a plant, so go ahead and replace it.

I feel some garden burnout but Im currently expanding from 32 50ft rows to 48 so I can add some leafy greens. Im determined to have collards ready for new years sales this go round

Cheers 🥂, for keeping it real cause we are learning along with you🙏🏻

I started a small container garden during spring and I'm still at the stage of "I have no idea what I'm doing". The peppers never grew up, the kitchen herbs are struggling, but the papaya tree I tried to grow from seed is doing amazing.

Mine was a total failure this summer thanks to heat (around 110 daily), grubs and the neighbors hedge roots!

I am definitely feeling garden burn out too but then again I have also been experiencing a literal ‘burn out’ this growing season with the daily temperatures burning everything up starting at 90 degrees in mid May & staying between that & 100+ degrees with no end in sight. 🥵 We have barely gotten any rain either the entire season & watering with a hose constantly has been a time consuming & brutal process. I have also been experiencing record low harvests & stunted growth with many of my plants. I hope next year is much better than this one has been 🤞🪴💚

I put up a 6 foot fence last fall, dug out in ground beds, they all got adequate water and set fruit - and the deer still destroyed me. I’m happy for you guys, gunna have to go Prigioni and cover everything. Great to see a whole garden uninterrupted by animals 💜

Your orchard advice is very good. I had to cut out a pear tree this year due to fire blight. It's sad but for the time and effort to try and save it, I'm going to search for a more resistant variety to replace it.

Great video. I’ve got burnout right now, too. Understand the frustrations, no green beans for the first time ever after decades of gardening. You are right, it’s better to cut my losses and focus on something different. My tomatoes are just getting harvested, my zucchini are cranking, a lot to be grateful for and accept that not every crop will be a success. I’m trading zucchinis for beans and corn from other gardeners whose zucchini crop failed. Win-win. You two have the right idea, extend the gardening community and it’s no problem… love your video, thanks.

I finally made it!🎉🎉🎉 I bingewatched all epic homestead videos ❤️ it's just epic what you established! Now I'm curious about the main channel videos.

I grew up around fruit trees and I have to say that it was excellent advice to say that if a tree isn't working out take it out and get a new one instead of praying year after year for it to make a come back. I bought two avocado trees a year ago, the first I planted and raised the way I know how to make them thrive (and it is), the second I experimented on and is not doing so well. So now I'm giving it till the end of the year to see significant recovery while keeping an eye out for the right replacement avocado tree. I'd like to throw in another bit of advice. If you see a strong, thriving fruit tree at the nursery but it's 50 or even 100 dollars more than the next size down or the one you saw at the home depot, SPEND THE MONEY! Especially when it's slow growing or high value fruit trees such as oranges and grapefruits, avocados or mangos.

Thanks to watching your vids, I took my garden to a whole new level this year. The only gripe is that I get terrible squash bugs and it’s so hard to control them. Thx for the vids

Season assessment! I love it, as we are all right there with you. (BTW the eggplant in the opening shot looks amazing).

My tomatoes did well this year. I did keep them pruned and removed suckers. I had a few tomato hornworms but picked them off and manage to mitigate any further damage. My watermelon, Crimson Sweet tasted terrible but we had a lot of rain at a bad time for them. My asparagus are first year from crowns but established themselves very well in a raised bed. I may get to sample a few next year. They will be worth the wait! Thanks for all your great information guys!

This is so my mindset!! I was just thinking how tired I am of dealing with the upkeep!🥵 I went out today, and after two days of rain, my bell peppers are going crazy, and I’m finally getting some tomatoes on my determinate plants. I got some green beans picked today too!

Your garden looks amazing to me. I love show and tell. Just what I need when it gets to this time of year. My sunflowers are amazing right now. The summer squash below them are spotty. One died. One produced a bit but seemed to be dying. Was going to pull it out but noticed a fair amount of new growth from the center so going to let it go a bit longer. The other squash have just started going gangbusters so they will produce for the next 2 months of our best weather. Funny thing is that a volunteer zucchini has been such a consistent producer this whole season I'm kind of surprised. I think it will be a nice transition to Fall/Winter crops. Beets are just starting and I've planted peas, cabbage and brussels sprouts waiting for them to grow big enough to put them in the garden. All and all a very successful season with more to come.

Oh the stories I could tell this year. Lots of experiments. Peanuts was one. I love boiled raw peanuts from growing up in the south. They did put on the little yellow flowers so we will see. I have 2 artichoke plants and 5 on each with a couple ready to harvest. They love it here for some reason. Love all of your videos and very much appreciate them!

Oh man....this is our first year gardening, we failed A LOT pests were the worst for us!! We lost watermelon, lettuce, squash, zuchinni, cucumbers, pumpkins, some hybrid plants and some herbs. But we learned we can grow the hell outta some sage, oregano, basil (A LOT), different mint and stevia!! But we learned and won't make the same mistakes next year. We know we'll make more, so we have given ourselves the realistic goal of 3-4 seasons to prefect it. Wish us luck!!

The only thing I’ve ever wanted to grow well is strawberries. I’m in Central Cal and it’s always very, very hot in the summer. I’ve tried every year for decades and I think Ive just been the butt of big box garden centers’ jokes 🤡 Just cause they sell it, doesn’t mean it’s meant for your region. There is a reason all of the strawberry vendors at our farmers’ markets drive over from 🌊Ventura. I think this was my last try and maybe next year I’ll put in more shallots. I win at shallots.

Kevin and Jacque making big mistakes so we don't have to. Thank you for taking some for the team guys! We're all cheering for you! :D Garden looks wonderful as always.

Glad I'm not the only one with garden burnout. Didn't do too well this year. You guys always lift my spirits. Thanks for the inspiration time and time again!

I'm glad I'm not the only one with garden burnout! I'm sick of tomatoes! The ones I spent so much time and energy on, started from seed in March, ended up tasting terrible. And the surprise-variety volunteer tomatoes that popped up in my garden were amazing. I could have just done nothing! After that I threw my hands up, took out the tomatoes, and got started on my fall crops. Always gotta keep it moving in the garden. Good advice.

I learned how important good soil is this year. One bed had a lasagna garden system happen, and is producing 10ft tall cherry and cherokee tomatoes on only afternoon sun. Another bed is almost exclusively native sandy loam, the cherry tomatoes are maybe 4ft despite full sun and extra water.

I love your transparency with your experimentation and successes and failures

Thank you, thank you, thank you for showing the reality of gardening. It can be disheartening to watch my favorite gardeners have nothing but success.... eventhough I know that's not the whole truth.

This is my second year gardening and so many things did not go well So I’m just too tired in this 90+ degree weather. Think I might just cover the beds to kill weeds and maybe try again for spring. My first year garden was fabulous. Don’t quite know what happened this year

Had a neighbor in Texas who installed commercial metal parking shade (like you see at apartments) in his backyard aligned north to south. Then built raised beds underneath with a path down the middle. His plants got early and late sun, but shade mid day. He got a shaded path all day. He had a fantastic garden every year. Just a thought.

Garden New Zealand planted corn after last frost, late November, 10 days later a sheep ate the plants to close to ground, plus pulled a few out. Now at corn cob stage, most plants have 2 to 3 cobs which is incredible, just need warm weather to finish them.

I’m brand new to gardening and going in as hard as I can. I learned a whole lot! I know each season (I’m in CA as well, 9b so two seasons is amazing) is going to get better and better. Already started my seedlings for fall indoors (it’s going to be 105-111 here for ten damn days) via hydroponics now so I can harden them off before going into their beds. I can’t wait to be comfortable in my knowledge if that makes sense. Practice practice practice.

What a nice treat walking your garden with you both. Love to watch all your channels, but really enjoy when you are together. I have a small backyard garden which brings me a lot of joy and frustration. Hits and misses, but like most gardeners you have to learn from your mistakes. I live near Los Angeles; so I like you both, have a few more months of tomato growing. I plant mainly in fabric containers, so I recently planted two Sungolds and one Early Girl. If I have luck like last year that should take me into the new year. Thank you for sharing your hits and misses. I always learn something.

We have peppers that are slowly growing and tomatoes. We just ordered some birdie beds from your store. Cant wait to open them. We have a ton of work to do cleaning up our back yard and front yard. Our plan next year is to have front yard garden too. Can't wait to get more birdie beds. Oklahoma 7b We are building a tiny homstead on our suburban lot. We have chickens and a rooster just need lots of veggies.

I can’t thank you enough for all the wisdom you have imparted. This video validated why you are my favorite - we don’t have gardening failures, it’s more like gardening lessons. I look forward to using those lessons learned to make my second year garden even better. Happy gardening!!!!

😂 did you say Jacques and the beanstalk?

Thank you guys so much for doing this video! This is my first year growing and I was super excited in the spring and early summer but I’ve had some pest issues and honestly I’ve just become more busy and it’s getting harder to get out there. Plants aren’t looking great so I’ve been a little discouraged. It’s good to hear the issues and possible solutions. Such an encouragement to keep going!

Great video and very honest. I am glad I am not the only one feeling the burnout. These days I am stretching the days between waterings out as long as possible. Every year we start out gung ho starting seeds and when its nearly September you feel the burn out but also rewarded for all the work we put in.

I want to show this to every person who compliments my garden and then tells me “I wish I could have a garden, but I kill everything.” I always tell them that I’ve killed a LOT of plants, too, and will probably keep killing a few every year even though I’ve learned so much. We had a really rough season here, long periods of super high temps and loads of pest problems meant a lot of gardeners struggled. Some of my plants have only given me a few small fruit-varieties that usually do great for me were just meh. I fought a long losing battle against vine borers and squash bugs on my pumpkin. But there were successes too-I’m getting a nice 2nd round of cantaloupe right now, the cherry tomato went bananas as usual, and I tried sweet potatoes for the first time! It’s nice to know that losses are just part of the gig and they happen to everyone. I hope that encourages people to keep trying!!

Thank you so much for recommending to us the centercut squash. I bought seeds and am growing it in my garden this year. It is delicious beyond all expectations and I love the texture. @Jacques, if you like it with butter, you have to try it with butter, garlic, salt&pepper and a splash of lemon juice 🤤

I’m definitely in the middle of waiting for summer to die out and starting fall crops.

I was SOOO excited by my garden this year. I redid the entire backyard with my.own two hands. Made it an oasis. I planted flowers and fruits and vegetables and i took care of it like it was my child. And then the beetle infestation started and my flowers were decimated ..... and then the rabbit that tormented me last year(yea.. prob a different one but last year it was like keeping peter rabbit out) came back and ate my veg.... and some sort of worm ate my GIANT broccoli and after that i sort of gave up.... The only thing thats managed to survive is my sun flower tree.... 1 sunflower with 15 flowers coming out of it!! Its a tree

We had a fence installed, while I was gone to a family reunion. People were home, but non-gardeners. The fencers pulled up and threw or bent /broke my two raised gardens! Our lot is a lmore narrow than we knew! Not only do I have to start over, it’s hotter than Hades here! I’m sick of it before I even start rebuilding everything!

Loved the content and style of this video! Informative and inspirational; nice to know that even people as experienced as you are still learning.

Sun gold has been in my garden since last summer producing non stop on a cattle panel trellis, even through all the rain she is still rocking it!

In Texas we had basically a three month drought and heat wave. We basically became mummies and so many of our plants became crispy. RIP our beans, corn and all of our alliums. 😅😢 Also lesson learned… big ass trellis the loofahs. 😂

Thats why I grow new things I've never seen or head of. Like star apple or jaobocoba or even rambutan and even terengganu cherry not a real cherry by the way thick skin but edible and tastes like the inside but a little different. Thoughts.

This is my first year gardening and I think hornworms are send from hell. I finally had a parasitic wasp invasion and they fixed those terrible hornworms for me

I know this video is a few months old, but watching it now and planning changes to make to my own garden next year, it makes me feel a lot better about the 'failures' of my 2022 garden. Just means I have some new projects to take on next year. Thank you for sharing.

Love all the techniques you try, even with the "failures". I'd love to see you try waffle gardens for your corn, squash, and beans, like the Zuni in the Southwest. It would be great to follow a garden in that style as I have clay soil and I live in a hot area (Santa Clarita). Keep up the good work.

It would be interesting to go over a compilation of successes and mistakes year over year. We'd be able to see how your perspective and the things you look for have changed.

Just a thought for next year: How 'bout a *holla* to all the YT gardeners, like you all at the EPIC -channell (I love Chris tho she's not in this one), Garden Answers and the like - how much produce did you get in a season (or a week, that might be easier)? Pounds and kilograms for us from beyond the pond.. 😄 Loved the collab last time! Thanks for the video, so sad the chicks had to gobble by themselves background and you took no notice since guy-stuff -hee-hee-🤪

I'm in aww at your vegetable and fruit production this year especially the pomegranates. *MWAA* Chef Kisses to the Epic Garden Team.😘

Kevin and Jaques, I love your sharing win and failures. I am out adding notes to my garden journal so next season I can recall everything. This was year 2 trying luffa, plants doing awesome but only one fruit which hopefully will ripen. Will see if 3rd year a charm next year...not giving up! I also planted fall tomatoes early August to see if I can get a crop in before end of season, early maturing & determinate varieties. Frost typically end of October so testing see if I can get a late flush. If not green tomato salsa Verde will process.

Thanks we are all experiencing burnout and yes its common, all we do is keep going and keep gardening!

My sunflowers went wild this year. My biggest delight is a wild Lamiaceae, a mild perennial mint volunteer. It is blooming like crazy, got big and bushy, and is covered with native bees. I hope it sprouts all over. Next delight has been my bunching onions that not only multiplied, they came up all around from seed. Although I eat them fresh, never had enough to dehydrate for winter. I will next year! Purslane did well. Lambs quarters are showing. Amaranth is almost ready to harvest. In the high desert, I grow what grows, but my Sonoran wheat failed this year. Something ate my big onions in one gorge... a bear maybe? Who else could eat 50 big onions?

Loved this video guys, would love to see more of this format. Just being real and authentic. Gardening can be very challenging and we see so much success from social media, but not so much of the failures or learnings and challenges.

OMG! Me and my plants really suffered from the heat. It’s not normally this hot for days on end. In the end I had to admit that I am 65 and my body and meds dictate that I leave the heat alone.

I've been feeling the burnout bigtime and this is a great way to reframe my thinking about the issues. Thanks for a great video.

I'm in Phoenix Arizona and already feeling burned out. It's been miserable outside at 117 most days this July. I can't wait for the fall garden or hopefully for the monsoon rains to get here 🤞🌧

I just subscribed I love this video! My garden is kind of in the same shape but as I take a bed out and clean it I always start something new. Every year is a new start and new ideas. My thought is always be growing.

Great video, as always! So many lessons and encouragement.

I'm getting ready for fall planting! No quit!

In Texas, we had crazy hot hot temperature over 100 degrees, drought conditions. All my vegetables and flowers either burned or suffered and did not produce . With put shade cloth but it didn't help, then we had crazy amount of rain which drowned the remaining plants. I gave up.

beautiful zinnias!I love it when a sick plant comes back with a vegence!!

I feel like plants just need energy and then temps and other parameters follow. The more energy the better, the more sunlight the better. I love cali and I'm in zone 10a just days away from travelling back home from uni to take care of the garden. Lots of produce and everything is like in 12-hour of sunlight zone. Even herbs and peas and low-light or kale, it's all surviving well. The PM hits the shady areas of my peas. This comment is so random because I'm feelin' a seltzer myself. Also I can tell Jacques is feeling that seltzer. 😂

My biggest improvement this year were my ground cherries. I allowed much more space around each plant for harvesting, but it also seemed to help spread the plant out which made way more fruit than last year. Leafy greens were my biggest failure. I tried to get crafty and plant it behind a corn block for shade, but our corn had a slow start so the greens were in full sun.

my yellow crookneck squash started showing the powdery mildew and it was that time of year so planted another set to do me through fall, well they didn't die either. now I have 2 sets cranking out the squash.

Where I live in El Dorado Hills CA, summer is 95 degrees F to 110 degrees F. The weather has become increasingly arid and dry, we have been in a drought for over 7 years. I do wonder when you should just consider a ‘’drought “ the new normal. Now, I am looking at the crops that do well in Las Vegas. I really enjoy your channel and that you share what works and even more importantly, what didn’t work.

You both are doing a great job. Always excited when you put out new videos.

My garden is starting to get aphids and I’m so disappointed, I’m trying to keep my butternut and acorn squash going despite the recent infestation. My pole beans never flowered and I stopped spending time on my tomatoes the past month and so they are really overgrown. Im happy with what my garden did this season and am looking to expand and continue to improve the health of my dirt over the next year

My garden has done really well, if you look at the beans and peas. Both the beans and peas were bush varieties. I planted them closer together than the package recommended and they actually did quite well. I've been able to harvest a lot, especially over the last couple times I went to the garden. My marigolds have done really well, also. They were supposed to be a dwarf variety; but, they are pretty big. I have a lot of green tomatoes. It seems like they waited until the last couple of weeks to start forming fruit. My little Sugar Baby watermelon is still growing; but, I'm not sure if it will be matured before we get our frost. The kale and collards have done well. The peppers haven't done as well as I had hoped; but, I did harvest one small bell pepper. My cucumbers have grown well; but, next year, I want to try growing them on a trellis. I've been able to pick a total of 3 cucumbers. Since my garden bed is elevated, I thought that I could teach the cucumbers to hang over the edge of the bed and a couple of the vines are doing that; but, there is one vine that finds its way back up to the bed somehow. The tomatoes that are planted in the fabric pots on the east side of my bed are really growing well, so well that the plants have extended above the trellis and are working themselves up into the bed. Only one of the tomato plants in the bed has little green tomatoes on it and that one is the volunteer plant. Our first frost could come at the end of September or the first week of October like it did last year. So, I am keeping my fingers crossed. The city has said that we have to have everything out by October 31. We'll have our frost before then, I'm sure of it. The city has given us a new location that we will be able to plant in next year. Yay. It's over by the old train depot at one of the city parks that hardly gets used.

This is a great video. This time of the summer some veggies are looking really bad. Lol. But still producing! I have a couple of tomato plants that look awful but still have a lot of fruit coming in. Some had leaf issues too. Lol. This is gonna sound funny but one time I thought of you and wondered if you had weird garden issues too. Haaaaa. I thought no way. Lol. Thanks for the vid. Helped me a lot. 👍 🍅

I’m in Phoenix Arizona and I am really over the heat. It started getting to 90’s and then went back up to 105+. 🙄

I started gardening during the COVID. As a healthcare worker it was my peace if mind. The thing I hate most...weeding.

we had tomatoes like weed this year. It was such a good tomato year. :D they just sprouted between the salad and in flowerbeds wherever we used compost. it was to the point where we had to pull them out because it was too late in the year for them to be produce any fruit but they were taking nutrients away from the other plants. it hurt. tomatoes are my favourite. it was really dry though the beans didn't make it, the blueberry and kiwi bushes almost died on me and we had only one (1) very small pumpkin. it's a very pretty pumpkin though. :)

Y’all had me wondering for a sec if y’all had too many of those seltzers. I heard you talk about using the outdoor shower and then you said that’s something we were gonna see on the channel, Lol!! Or maybe I put too much rum in my coke this evening. 🤣😂

Wow to be honest when I was watching everyone with their harvest I was a bit salty 😁 but this just let's me know it's all part of the journey. I kept saying if these experts have issues then they're real! Thanks for this video.

I know this feeling. Gardening makes me sooooo happy, but my gosh with 90-100% humidity and 90+ degree summer days, it sometimes is so hard to get motivated to pull weeds and do upkeep when you immediately sweat as soon as you even walk a few steps 🥵 sometimes the humidity gets so bad After a rain in the summer that you see the vapor raising from the asphalt so thickly that it is hard to see! It’s insane !

It’s been raining crazy here in FL the past month or so. Some plants I’ve had to “dry out” because of all the rain. It’s an emotional roller coaster BUT I’m not giving up!

Hi Kevin. Looks like a lot of success to me! I saw your memorial bench. What a lovely idea. Is that for your dad?

Looking forward to see how you will tackle the soil in the corn maze. My backyard soil acts similarly.

August started in June for me. Normal start August usually beats me down and i am ready to till it under. My successes keep me rolling and failures are noted. I am in zone 6b so I am attempting a fall grow of some lettuces and radish. When you mentioned the dwarf corn i was hoping to see it as i have some in now planted late season since it is supposed to be a quick grow. I wish i had a seltzer drinking garden friend, so I hope you appreciate each other. If you are a couple then kudos on that too. My wife cares not for the garden.

I’m excited for fall I’m attending a series of home gardening 101 workshops being put on by UCR Master Gardening program starting the second weekend of September here in SoCal. I have already completely redrawn my garden and after the classes I am going to start ripping out my old garden and putting in my new one (after it cools down). I hope you will be having a good Thanksgiving sale because I will be buying around 12 new birdies beds. I saw the post for the current sale, but I don’t think I’ll be getting any of the original sizes, I want all tall beds.

Cape Cod MA had a weird season. Drought is unusual for us but we didn’t see rain for the hottest months and nothing really grew except for my mulberry trees. Plants that should be fully grown are just getting started. Weird season.

With over 90 degree temps here in Ontario, CA all my vegetables have been burned. First year planting, so… we’ll see how things continue. Thanks for the share.

My palora has been giving us fruit for the past 4 months. Pretty strange but it’s been an absolute treat. Harvested close to 20-25 fruit. Gave some away and people were blown away from how sweet they were. As many people do when they buy a store bought DF they lose all hope. Backyard fresh compared to store bought is beyond a huge difference. Night and day.

I would plant some Daikon radish in the corn maze for chop and drop. Then, interplant with a climbing legume; they'll use the corn stalks as a trellis. However, I'm in southern VT, and your climate is a different world than mine. Best!

I think you're killing it Kevin (omg those dragon babies). Also, you better treasure that damn peanut.

You guys sound like sportscasters!! And it's awesome. Thank you ❤️

love the way this video flowed with the editing! nice broll😎😮‍💨

Grew eggplants for the first time this summer, wasn't sure I planted them in the right spot or anything, but ended up getting something like 30+ eggplants off two plants. Had way too much eggplant even after meal upon meal of eggplant parm and baba ganough and giving it away to neighbors and coworkers. Probably my biggest success this year along with a few really nicely-sized dragon fruits