Here in Central Florida has been unbearably humid and hot. I put my garden bed to rest with cover crops like sweet potatoes, cowpeas, peanuts and marigolds. I am taking a break from the garden only watering when necessary in the late afternoon and enjoying the A/C inside. I love to see your garden thriving, especially in the Polycrub.
here in N.H. we are having crazy growth of everything...tons of rain and crippling hot weather has turned the whole area into a hothouse...my daughter-in-law's garden is like a jungle and her greenhouses are popping out of the roof...and sorry, but our butterflies are everywhere...always a pleasure seeing the Magster and happy that she bounced back so well...thank you so much for sharing your garden and bringing joy to your followers...
Last Spring and Summer here in Australia sounds like yours this year. We had prepared for a dry summer but that soon changed very quickly and I found that we were making decisions to create poly covers to protect our beds from the excessive rain and as we are on a farm and catch all of our water in rain tanks we made the decision to hand water everything that way we controlled the moisture levels. Autumn was very wet with torrential rain and now winter has arrived and we are a lot warmer than normal and we are finding that our flowering bulbs are already beginning to bloom. We’ve recently finished our 5m x 8m poly high tunnel so that we can get things inside and will be starting all of our spring seed next month which is our last month of winter. If Im being honest Im worried what our summer is going to be like…wet….dry….but regardless we learned some really valuable lessons last season and have found ways to adapt. Thankyou for the tips about striking the lavender. Ive tried unsuccessfully a few times last year and will give your method a try as I want to plant out a full hedge of lavender for our bees and found that the culinary lavender seems to be handling the weird weather better than the English lavenders here. Many Thanks for your tips. Cheers Theresa - Australia
Where r u located. We are on Sunshine Coast. The seasons have been so weird. Things have been growing out of season but I think we r in for a hot dry summer. Not looking forward to that. Heavy mulching for the veggies
@@helenklingberg1975 We are on the south coast where the bushfires hit in 2019/2020 Ive been a bit worried that we might get a hot summer as the bush behind our property has just exploded due to the weird weather we have had. We will be mulching very heavily this year but as we made the poly covers last year we have folded those up and should we have to get them out they are packed in the shed really to go. As our soil here was depleted of everything from the bushfire we are growing in raised beds. Im hoping for an ordinary summer but we haven’t seen that in a few years now. Poor Mother Nature just doesn’t know what’s going on. At this time of year I shouldn’t have beans growing but I do.
@Serendipity_Strawberry_Farm Well u never know what the weather will be like with all the cloud seeding they do. I wish they would leave nature alone. So much has changed over my life time and I don't like the way it is heading now. Chemicals and poisons that we have to deal with. Nature is struggling. I am trying to go organic as many ways as possible. Goodluck for the summer. I will definitely be using shade cloth to shelter my garden from the heat 🥵
@@helenklingberg1975 we’ve done the same thing. Our setup allows us to use wet weather covers and mesh covers and shade cloth whatever we need to do we can
Getting that polytunnel in will probably save the garden more than once in the coming years. It may be worth planting crops both undercover and outdoors to hedge our bets!
I’m in the outer Hebrides and in my second season of gardening and the first using a polycrub. I’d like to say thanks for your video on your build as we followed it closely. My crub is full to the brim and I’m already harvesting tomatoes, cucumber, courgette, lettuce, spinach and French beans. I’m excited that I’ve got three melons on the way too. The outdoor garden is looking sad but I enjoyed my first potatoes today and I had a great crop of raspberries and black currants. I’m always really interested to watch your videos - they are such an inspiration!
Even though we garden in such extremely different conditions (HOT and DRY for me), I always enjoy watching your videos and learn something. Thank you! ~Audrey
❤ just subbed from southern Saskatchewan. I have not seen many butterflies in my garden either. I have a huge drip system garden. Quarter acre a lot of work 😊. Found u by searching braiding garlic.
Everything in your garden looks wonderful! It has been raining in TN for a week and we have another week of scattered showers scheduled, but I don't mind the cooler weather after weeks of high heat and humidity.
My weather in Colorado at the beginning of the spring was cooler for longer than usual then has been very hot and dry until this last week where it has been very humid and rainy. It’s been a very weird weather year.
Haskap are native to Canada and I have grown them for years. There is an excellent table online that cross references the appropriate pollinator by variety. I have never known them to be self pollinators and they are sold as companions here. I grow Tundra, Borealis and Aurora and prefer the Aurora and Tundra for picking as they are larger berries. It is an annual race to beat the birds to the patch. I have hardly even seen a cabbage butterfly this year!! My Zone 3 garden has the same problems as yours with a cold, long spring, then drought, and now we are burning up at 35C and the forest is on fire again. Your polycrub and greenhouse plants are lovely.
They are so new here that this information isn't widely known. Thank you, and I'll have a look. My original plant had a few berries last year planted alone, so they're at least partially self-fertile.
I live in a condominium so only have areas around my building and pots on my raised deck.Most plants have been much slower this year but as we've gotten more sun they are starting to respond. I have lavender along a hot sunny area by a brick wall that I will be making cuttings from like yours to extend the plantings. Deer are a serious problem in Michigan and I've found they won't touch lavender. Thanks for the advice and sharing your beautiful gardens.
Tanya your place is looking lovely considering the summer that we haven't had ! So very pleased to see Maggie out and about again bless her. As for mine knackered sums it up nicely,love you pronunciation by the way ,we have had lots of water here in Bristol and some really nice hot days when everything needs The watering can but what we've not had is as spell of decent light cloudy and warm ish just doesn't cut it with tomatoes and I'm late having lost my first sowing so playing catch up and keeping my fingers crossed xx
I'm in Spokane Washington 🇺🇸 and we're having a weird gardening year as well... my pole beans covered my entire fence by now last year and this year I got them in the ground sooner but they're just now climbing the fence, my watermelon plants have not grown or looked sick since I put them in the ground 2 months ago 😢it's crazy how different this year is, as well as bugs that we never had a problem with in past years are showing up
Hi, here in Ireland, it's been the worst spring and summer. Luckily we decided early on this year to get a polycarbonate greenhouse in addition to our 3 year old polytunnel, so we've already harvested garlic, carrots, onions, celery, some cucumbers and a few beans and peas. On the way are tomatoes, a single melon (!), sweetcorn, sweet potatoes, chillies and more carrots. Last year was so wet the garlic outside would not store well and we got very little sweetcorn. Our red cabbages are finally forming heads, partly thanks to the cooler temperatures and yes, mostly due to near non-existence of butterlies too this year. It is relatively depressing and we've hardly sat outside on our furniture either.
Outdoor garlic and onions seem to be suffering from rust right across Britain. I've seen quite a few people start planting theirs undercover this year! You also have my condolences on the weather - Ireland certainly takes the brunt of it coming off the Atlantic. Hang in there 💚
Hello Tanya, you are a great source of inspiration to me ! You mentionned a none toxic paint that you apply on your greenhouse to help with the sunlight. I would like to learn more about this process. Thank you !
It's called shade paint and is available at many garden centres. You can also find it online in the UK amzn.to/4bXZwm7 (affiliate link). If you're in the USA or elsewhere, it may not be a common product, but what you can use instead is shade cloth amzn.to/3y5ErZ3 (affiliate link).
Here on the island of Lāna’i, Hawaii, our weather has been pleasant so far this year. It is starting to be hotter during the day (high 80 degrees Fahrenheit), and we always have humidity, but not much rain. My garden is doing well, but always struggles with fungal diseases due to the humidity and no frost to kill the spores during winter.
today is Aug 8. Just tried to watch this. Don't know if you are aware - but there were about 10 commercial breaks, most had double commercials all the way through, not counting your skillshare. Never had that many commercials in anything we've ever watched. Thank you
Lovely borage! So nice to see Isle of Man gardening. Had a trip planned there 8 yrs ago that was canceled. Bummer. Just had a black swallowtail for the 1st time in years. Plenty of bees though since i plant for them. Thank you
I so enjoyed your video. Here in Thanet the weather has been very changeable and cooler than usual. We get at least 6 months of rain from October to April, but this year it carried on. The quince tree and black raspberry bushes aren't producing as much fruit and we've had a lot of problems with slugs and snails. Bkackspot on the rose bushes arrived at the beginning of June. The carrots were a failure but lettuces, tomatoes, beet and potatoes are all doing well. We have sown some more lettuce seeds and also some radishes. Fingers crossed the slugs and snails don't get them!
Here in eastern Ontario Canada the weather has been very similar. Wet and cooler than usual with a few heat waves thrown in. Beans have done well, everything else coming along but seems a bit behind previous years.
Can you leave the wormery outside over winter? The summer here in the Seattle area of the USA has also been colder than normal. We started off super hot with an early heat wave where the temps got up to 97 and were in the 90s for a few weeks. But that heat fizzled out and the rest of the summer has been so much cooler and overcast than normal. Oh well, each year is different. Last summer was glorious and lasted well into October. Take care.
Mine stays out all year, but the worms slow down their activities. In places where it snows or freezes, it's best to move them into a shed or unheated garage. The Pacific Northwest used to have such mild summers and winters. The climate has changed so much from the 80s and 90s (when I lived there).
Can sympathize with you regarding the Courgettes - here in the west of Ireland and in the same bed where courgette/zucchini have prospered so well before are producing great flowers, little finger sized courgette and then go rotten and drop off.... On the other had I am dead jealous of your great crops of strawberries. I put mine in hanging baskets to keep them away from my dog who steals them(and any other fruit here get his gob near) but nothing... just loads of side shoots and no fruit..... Thank you for the video - will take your advice on getting more lavender, Old plants got overgrown and leggy so it is nice to know how to create new versions....
What you can also do with your leggy lavender is re-plant it deep - I've done it before with success. This winter, dig your plants up, maybe dig a bit of grit into the planting hole, and then replant the lavender up to the first sets of green leaves. The buried stems will form roots, just like cuttings, and the plant looks a million times better :) Also, our Josie pup is becoming a strawberry and raspberry thief, too! 😂
It’s very hot in Northern California right now so trying to keep my garden from frying lol but lots of tomatoes, just waiting to ripen! And Maggie is so cute ❤ so glad she’s ok
@@Lovelygreens Yes it will...I have a few barrels, with the biggest being 1000 gallons. (around 1500 gallons total) I probably have about 130 blueberry bushes, 30 apple trees, 3 peach trees, 2 varieties of strawberry bushes, 6 or so grape vines, a big garden, 6 rows of blackberry/raspberries and Loganberry plants. That's just at my vacation home in the mountains. A rain barrel will definitely help you. Plus, rainwater is WAY better for plants than tap water or well water. So the yield will be greater.
We've been short of butterflies and bees this year here in coastal Kent UK. Dan had to hand-pollenate a lot of things but some still turned out dissppointing.
Rentals don't allow covered growing areas, unfortunately. Some don't allow pots unless they're flowers. The UK, Ireland and Europe have allotments, but they're not available in most of North America. Some condominium towers ban anything larger than small geraniums. I deliberately looked for a place I could grow at least something, so everything is in pots, in very limited shaded areas. It's a whole different way to have anything to grow, but I have. Everything is leggy, slower, and needs to be started indoors obviously in a very limited way. North Americans need to change their perspectives on food, lawns and people who need some ground to use for their own use. Community gardens have people who do the gardening but get none of the food. City dwelling has serious drawbacks unless people push city hall for changes.
I noticed your tomatoe leaves in the self watering container in the greenhouse are curling. Mine are too, but they are in deep metal beds in my greenhouse. Is it due to too much or not enough water? It's been difficult this year in Sequim too. So appreciate your efforts and educational style. Joan
Hi Joan, the leaf curl on my plants is from heat, and it's completely harmless. Though it has been cooler on average, there are still hot days inside the greenhouse and polytunnel. Yours may be curling for the same reason, but if you notice the plants sickening and not producing fruit, it could be a pathogen or herbicide poisoning. Aminopyralid contamination is still very much an issue with compost made with horse and cow manure.
Hmm..I believe Honeyberry is the other name for haskaps and they usually require another plant for pollination 🤔 Hopefully it works out. I got two varieties this year that have a similar flowering time. ☺️
I've not heard of the term Haskap before, but thanks for drawing my attention to it. The information we have here is that honeyberries are at least partially self-fertile. I even got a few berries off my original plant last year. I just reread the label for this new one, though, and it says "plant two different varieties to ensure good pollination."
Oh! That’s handy to know too. One of my plants flowered earlier than the other and still had fruit, but I thought just missed when it happened. Mine were very sour, but I’m sure I missed their most opportune time. We called them Haskaps in Canada, but I read today that is a Japanese term too? Very neat
@@heycrisper I've emailed the nursery the plant came from and am hoping they get back to me with a variety name and potential pollination buddies. Fingers crossed! And yes, I read that, too. It seems that there are Russian and Japanese strains of honeyberry but it's only the Japanese ones that are called Haskap.
Hi Tanya. The summer here in Poole, Dorset has been a mix of, windy, rainy, hot, humid and unbearable, all at the same time. lol. The huge slugs have had, and indeed are still having a field day in the fruit and veg beds. There were some cabbage whites in late spring, but then they disappeared. Until about two weeks ago, when it seemed like somebody had opened the floodgates here, and now they're absolutely everywhere. It's a daily task wiping off the eggs. I am having a bit of trouble though with my german chamomile. I want to harvest it for drying, but teeny tiny caterpillars keep showing up on the flowers whilst airdrying them. These weren't visible to the naked eye when harvesting them, but only showed up when drying. I think my patch has been visited by shark moths? Have you come across this, and can i still harvest the flowers? I don't want to risk it all going to seed if i stop for too long. Appreciative of your advice, please. xx Mojo xx
You may be right about the type of caterpillar. If they're present, you have two choices, really: leave the flowers to help encourage biodiversity or pick them and contend with caterpillars. I think many may be squeamish about using the flowers, knowing caterpillars might be inside, so it might be best to leave them. With vegetables, you can soak them in a vinegar bath to get worms, slugs, and caterpillars out, but that could affect the flavour of the chamomile. Next year, you could net your chamomile patch with veggie mesh ( gardening-naturally.link/SP7Bz ) to keep the moths from laying eggs on the flowers.
What is the type of liner you used in the side yard? My garden is surrounded by big trees and their roots have invaded my beds. I'm thinking of placing a liner like what you did when I redo my beds.
There's no liner there now - the black plastic sheet was there temporarily to kill off most of the weeds. We lifted it and then piled loads of wood chip on top. The only 'weeds' to make it through are a couple of mature buddleia we left in and some bracken (ferns)
When you have taken rosemary and lavender cuttings and put the plastic bag over, do you sit them in a tray and keep it watered while waiting for them to root?
