Personally, your videos are far the best- most informative, detailed without extra crap, so, folks don't waste precious time in extra totally unnecessary details. Thank you!
I agree!!! I don’t need (nor have the time) for extra crap lol. I love the “get to it” great info!! So glad I found your channel!! You need to write a book!!! ❤️
I just started planting lantana, parsley, chives, oregano, radishes and carrots in a friends garden that was completely neglected this summer. She talks a good gardening game, but never has time with her work schedule. She’s away for 4 weeks so I’m hoping everything grows in beautifully to give a surprise wow factor when she pulls in the driveway. I filled every pot she had empty under a tree and placed them around the property for autumn coloring. In my own gardens I need to get beets, carrots, radishes in, while harvesting lots of basil that’s really taken off.
You are an amazing friend! She’s gonna love it! I too am one with high hopes and dreams for my garden, but working full time takes so much time away from what I would like to accomplish, so I’ve had to put some realistic limitations on my dreams for the moment. Never say die!
@@dottietruthseeker4546 Actually I received an email yesterday stating how beautiful the garden looks to her and makes her smile when she can get outside to enjoy it. I have to pet sit for her Saturday and plan to pop in a few spring bulbs while there without telling her as a spring surprise.
You're the first/only person, I've seen, mention "Mizuna". I started growing it a few years back, I don't even mess with lettuce anymore, Mizuna 2 or 3 varieties, by itself or with kale makes the best flavored longest lasting salad I've ever tasted. It's incredibly fast growing and easy to grow.
Hi from Logan Co.! Thank you for the information. I noticed at 7:34 you're kneeling among some Sylvestris Nicotiana / flowering tobacco. One of my favorites! I've told many of my family and friends about this plant/flower. Wow, it's scent in the evenings is UH-mazing!!! I've grown it in containers for the purpose of bringing it indoors on some evenings. When at their best it's scent fills a room and it's so very lovely. Never mind it's been easy to grow and looks pretty but that perfume it emits... beautiful. And.. the hummingbirds love it too! Thanks again ! Subscribed !
Tiller radish is absolutely amazing. Your garden soil will be transformed. Once you try this as a cover crop you will ask yourself “why have I not used this sooner?”
I’m going to try this for the first time this year. Need to do more research on it but basically I plant them and grow them and let them rot in the ground correct? Then till when I’m ready ?
Correct- and depending on your conditions you may not even need to till. I often just go straight in and plant in the spring after tiller radishes without working the soil at all!
@@GrowfullywithJenna Thank you! Same issue here with clay soil, I gasped when I saw the size a tiller radish gets, had no clue! How do you plant these, do you plant them 1 seeds at a time spaced a certain way, or do you just sprinkle a handful of some seeds over a patch of ground and cover with a bit of dirt? Do you cut back the tops or just let it all die back?
I planted kale, black beans, pok Choi, and carrots. A week ago I planted a patty pan squash. Thyme a week a ago. And turnips. I live in NY zone 6 a or b. I forget
After watching a lot of your videos, I think I might have found myself a new best friend :D I am learning a ton from you!! As long as you are putting the videos out I will continue to learn. So please keep them coming!!
Your videos are very good very concise and informative. I also live in Ohio, but I am at the southern end and this information I find extremely good for me. It is very educational and easy for me to learn from your videos. You also remind me of my niece and she also is very pretty and for some reason it makes it easier to understand. I guess that’s just an old man thing. Thank you very much. I have subscribed continue the good work.
Im just starting out im also in ohio 6b. My garden is pretty basic at the moment just tomatoes, peppers and herbs. I need to get a system so i can stay on schedule.
Ive been told its a waste of time to start many plants indoor and shamed pretty much. But as you say in this video, things to consider is if its hot and dry, like where i luve! Also the quail that nest on my property tend to eat small seedlings and leave bigger plants alone
My advice- ignore whoever's telling you that! Whether you start indoors or direct sow depends so much on individual growing conditions, resources and personal preference (you might want to check out this video on direct sowing versus transplanting for more info: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7VDTX-T4LQU.html). I've found that there are some crops that just work better here as transplants.
My go to fall crop is Black Seeded Simpson lettuce. It has been up a few days. I planted buckwheat a few weeks ago for the bees and it is blooming already.
Just a side note, I too live in Ohio and live a little west of Columbus. I went to the farmers almanac website like you suggested and it says that Cleveland's first frost date on average is 18 days AFTER Cincinnati and Columbus, on November 7th, which in no reality, is accurate.
My assumption is that Cleveland's frost dates are somewhat later due to the lake effect, which aside from causing issues like extra snow, can keep areas near water slightly warmer, longer, delaying the first frost of the fall.
You're most welcome- I hope you get those fall crops planted in time! I always have a hard time remembering to get them in and I'm behind on quite a few this year. You take care as well!
Thank you and great video as always. I'm in 7b/8a and we plan to have these for our fall garden - Amish snap peas, cabbage, lettuce, leeks, carrots, Brussel sprouts, and bok choi. And we hope to try Elliot Colemans' practice of row cover over crops with a second cover of plastic to get them as far as we can through our mild winters. Always learning! Fingers Crossed
Nice! I would think you should have great success with planting under low tunnels in your climate. I can extend most things into January here in 6a using heavyweight row covers. I'd love to hear how this goes for you, David!
Very informative video about sowing seeds in august , I will sow seeds of vegetables in mid september ,spinach ,turnip ,carrot , beans and radish thank you so much take care of you
I've got one variety of spinach for u. Olympia spinach. It's amazing I'm in 6a and I started them late spring and I have 3 beds with them and not a single one has bolted and they get really big.
I'm really thankful to discover you today, such amazing information. I'm right on the zone 5/6 cusp, technically zone 5b but about 10-15 miles south and east of here zone 6a begins. I'm not sure if I could grow zone 6 plants here but there are some I've wanted to for years. Our average first frost is October 15 and our average last frost is May 15 (we have a lot of seasonal lag in Pennsylvania, especially in the summer). On a side note, I like your outfit and that's a really nice hat!
I'm glad you discovered me as well- thank you for watching! You have basically the same frost dates as I do here in 6a. If you have any areas/microclimates where you're a bit more protected from wind you may well be able to get away with zone 6 plants. Thank you for the kind words- that hat has served me well, it's been through a lot! Take care!
@@GrowfullywithJenna Near the house would probably be the best bet, and areas in the yard where the snow drifts as it'd protect it from the extreme cold. Here it usually doesn't get any colder than -10 in winter, but it can and has gotten as cold as -30 before. But I imagine hardy end zone 6 would be as far as I could push it (as I know not all zone 6 plants are created equal). Zone 7 and beyond would have the be houseplants though probably (if I'm not mistaken, zone 7 is the beginning of "tropical" zone plants).
@@AltoonaYourPiano you are spot on. I've got a few Zone 7 plants that I've been able to overwinter in my unheated greenhouse, but most come in the house for winter.
Today I did re-watch and I did try "late" radishes and as I didn't plan I picked the seeds a week or two after you suggested, Harvest time yesterday and had temperatures as low as mid 20s the tops still green and growing. My wife said one was little soft but she always love radishes and happy to have. Seems radishes are cool weather plants an early and late season crop, as my hot season planting bolted and just had trouble germination . Fact I'm doing better learning from you and you need to teach what seeds I need a few weeks earlier as.my late finding my seeds I just missed a few rainy days that I think got my.off to a slow start. Thanks and I'll be having radish seeds on hand for first planting early spring with carrots
I'm glad to hear your wife got to enjoy some late radishes, John- that's great! They definitely prefer the cool weather and I think you'll be very happy with an early spring planting. Take care!
Would love to learn about your raised beds. How did you make them? What are they made out of? What did you fill them with (eg., soil, amendments, etc.)? and anything else you want to share about them. I have watched probably all your videos...more than once learning new things each time! Keep them up!
Awesome video. Could you possibly do a video over watering the garden? Such as technology, techniques, schedule, how you seperate things that need different amounts of water or how you put them together to help eachother? I think it would be interesting since you have such a large garden.
Thank you! And I definitely want to do a watering video, as I've had multiple requests. I had hoped to get to it in August, but am now shooting for September! This summer's gotten away from me a bit 😆. Thanks for the suggestion & take care!
Wow-glad to find you. I'm in 6a. I never knew that you could plant this late. Also I see you have a video on what to plant in September. Thank you! Jenna, I also am wondering with global warming whether I can push the envelope a little-I am thinking of planting pumpkins next month. What are your thoughts on that?
Great to hear from a fellow Zone 6'er! As far as pumpkins- they are frost tender, so as soon as that first fall frost hits, it will kill the plants. Mine typically occurs mid-October, so I can't plant pumpkins any later than about late June/early July here in Ohio.
Thank you for the great content and presentation in all of your videos. Love your knowledge and passion for gardening. I always get excited when I see a new thumbnail pop up for a new video from you! Wish you were in zone 8a so I could just copy, but what would be the fun in that?
Thank you so much- it's wonderful to hear feedback like this 😊. I'd have a bit of a learning curve if I were in 8a, having never grown in the South before. You'd be teaching me some things!
Wow I need to find a beautiful garden partner they seem quite elusive always hiding among the foliage of a well growing garden. I find it seems that trying to eat and store everything I can grow by myself is the biggest challenge.
They can be quite elusive, yes-- but they are out there! I know what you mean- preserving all the garden bounty is one of my biggest challenges too, there's just not enough time in the day!
Wish I had tilter radishes handy,In the city so I got black eye peas just because I could grab them at the Kroger store.Shure the peas might not be best but should help with nitigern, But I got to get the tilter radishes some time they have to help for the clay base soil, Thanks
Cover crop seed can be a bit tricky to find locally. Do you have any farm stores near you (something like a Tractor Supply) or perhaps ask a local mom & pop shop if they'd be willing to order some in for you?
Look for daikon radish, I was told at the local farm store that it is the same thing. It's cheap there. Their packaging said tiller radish, clerk who is a farmer said it's daikon.
Great informative video as always Jenna! I planted radishes, and a variety of lettuces..have cabbage and broccalli in. I live in zone 2b in central Canada. Always worry about an early hard frost! I'm crossing my fingers for a later one. Have a great tomato , pepper and cucumber crop that are still producing well!
Thank you! I'm curious- what is your timing for the cool season crops in Zone 2b? I think I'd have to relearn everything in order to garden that far North. I'm glad to hear your warm season crops are producing well. Take care!
@@GrowfullywithJenna Well Jenna i planted cool season crops in the first week of August. We have had a very hot June and July here in Saskatchewan, as well as a severe drought in my area. Half the days in July were in the mid 90's crazy hot for here. Hottest i can remember. This month of August has been cool..alot of days in the high 60's and low 60's , so very drastic temp changes. Getting rain now, but way too late for grain farmers...poor yield for many of them. Gotta invest in shade cloth for next year..even the tomatoes and cucumbers didn't like that extreme heat. I love your channel, and you are so knowledgable...You could teach at a college! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
@@borgboy1000 wow! Your weather in June & July sounds surprisingly similar to what mine was doing in July & August. It felt like every other area of Ohio was getting rain all summer but in my area it was extremely hot & dry. We also just started getting rain in the last week... now all the tomatoes are cracking! I hope your weather gets a little less crazy and the cool season crops do well for you. Thanks for the kind words and take care!
Thanks for another great video. Would you elaborate on your winter onions? Are you sowing the seeds, letting them start to grow and they will go dormant and resume in the spring? Thank you.
Still so much to do this season (2022, actually) just to prep some of these beds! One of them, we inadvertently contaminated with the addition of some commercial compost which must have contained Grazon or one of its obnoxious siblings, so this week I'll be digging out the top few inches of soil (and handing it off to a fellow who wants to level the ground, which grows his lawn, next to his house's driveway so good luck and long life to him!) and trying to revive two gaura's which didn't get into the ground early enough last year to be well-established before cold weather hit; they have *finally* begun to show signs of life. At least two trays of flowers, just for the pollinators (well...some "for pretty" but even the pretties have to earn their places in the garden) and another of herbs . Brassicas for fall and some into the early winter weather, just as you're doing but I wasn't so sure of the timing, so thanks so very much for that; fennel, too, timed with the brassicas. Bush and pole beans, and fingers crossed. Still need the salad and winter radishes and the summer squashes to go in---we're very, very far behind! Apropos of nothing in your video, we've been watching the white cabbage moth since April. That insect has no slow season between last and first frosts!
I just keep hearing from folks who are experiencing contamination of one kind or another. It's very disheartening. I'm glad that you'll be able to dig it up and get rid of it though, but I'm sure it's extra work that you neither need or want. I feel very behind this year as well... I'm not sure why that it is, other than it's just been a weird year so far! Good luck with all you have to do!
@@GrowfullywithJenna Thank you! *"... but I'm sure it's extra work that you neither need or want."* Exactly so! But it's necessary, so no point in grumbling or whining. I'm grateful to have a means of disposing of it even if disposing means digging it out myself. Just a bit more rain would make the digging easier in one sense, and heavier lifting in another, but that'll keep me out of other trouble, or so I tell myself. Sowing seeds in modules, or planting gauras, are easy-peasy tasks, and fairly quick, too, at least compared to removing the top two inches of a garden bed, eh? It *is* disheartening, I agree. How many of us will it take, and what will we have to do to get aminopyralids gone for good? Right now my own household is food secure, but plenty of people are not and plenty of those people can buy products such as potting soil or garden soil or "compost -manure" from the big box stores but nowhere else because of prices (and in some cases, transportation providing them access to other sources of safer products) which means they'll be buying that dangerous stuff. Other than building one's own soil, I don't know what's going to help, but that's not always an option, either, depending on who and where a person is. O.K., I'll stop rambling on and on, now. Thank you, again.
@@bhalliwell2191 You have a great attitude about it! And I don't know... I don't know how many it will take. It seems like we should have been at that point years ago. My heart goes out to those you mention- those who want to grow their own food, but don't have the option to build their soil (or even any soil to access).
@@GrowfullywithJenna *"You have a great attitude about it!"* Kind of you to say so! But really, it's something learned over decades of daily living plus of course some guidance from my parents: you can grouse and grumble and complain and whine, but nothing will change except that your friends, neighbors and co-workers will want to run when they see you coming, and the situation you're moaning about won't improve. If your friends, neighbors and co-workers had magic wands for fixing what ails your life, my guess is they'd use it just to get you quiet, you know? And they'd do it in secret so you wouldn't be a further pest. One of my neighbors has a sign in his workshop/garage which reads: *"Ten little words: If it is to be it is up to me."* More and more people *NEED* to garden, to grow at least some of their own food. I'm not sure how many realize it, yet. I can see ---imagine ---a number of ways and means to accomplish this goal. School garden projects, even year-round, won't answer all of the need, and community gardens, won't, either, at least not in super-short growing seasons or in more moderate climates such as yours and mine (I have between 155 and 185 growing days in any given year, depending on conditions and the source you read.) Growing a row for the hungry is good and it's laudable but it still isn't enough. It seems to me that States or areas with milder winters than you or I deal with have an advantage, but cool-weather veggies can be grown in Florida, or so I read, only during their winter weather period. Those who need to grow some of their own, home-grown food need to be on board with the idea of taking (what we used not so long ago to call) affirmative action, positive steps, and start doing for themselves as much as they can in an honest fashion (that means not pilfering your neighbor's garden), and those in a position to help but who have no desire to garden or who, like a friend of mine, live in high rises within urban areas, could adopt a gardener or a community or school and provide soil; amendments; containers; timber/lumber (for raised beds, of course); a load of clean wood chips for those growing over concrete or asphalt and/or the cost of delivering it; whole, new packets of seeds; air-tight containers and/or envelopes (made for the purpose) for seed-saving; maybe books on seed saving, container gardening, in-ground gardening (which reminds me, m'dear: when are you going to bring out a book of your own excellent good gardening sense?); starts for those unsure of themselves when it comes to growing from seed; mulch---CLEAN, please!; some hand tools which might be tall things like spades or potato forks or pitch- or broadforks as well as hori-hori knives, trowels, hand-cultivators or cobra-head cultivators or dibbers and so on; five-gallon buckets, or even larger ones meant for gardens and plant nurseries; grow bags; etc. I truly believe that we as a society need to go back to having backyard or community gardens, every home on every block. Apartment dwellers with balconies ought to be able to manage *something.* And gated communities with HOAs need to amend their constitutions or by-laws to allow people to have gardens including doing some edible landscaping which actually can be quite beautiful. Perhaps grant a gardening friend some needed gardening space in your own yard, if all they need is a few square feet here or there. Ten or twenty SF can be quite productive! Even sixteen square feet, as has been demonstrated in 4'x 4' raised beds, can produce a whacking great lot of food. Anyway, to return to my original topic: I'm estimating two-hundred to three-hundred pounds of soil to be removed and relocated and I count myself fortunate to be able to do that, one manageable load at a time. (Full disclosure: there are plenty of other things I'd prefer to be doing, like harvesting, interplanting, succession sowing, some judicious pruning, all that sort of thing, but for now this is the thing which *must* be done and according to my parents---may they rest in peace!---I have to be an adult about it.) Much garden love to you from the North Coast!
@@bhalliwell2191 I couldn't agree with this more-- and not only for the benefits of growing our own food should everyone have a garden. The boost in mental well-being from working in the dirt, being in nature, co-existing with other living things, learning natural rythmns and cycles-- who in today's harried world would NOT benefit from this! (and to answer your question about a book-- nowhere in the near future... but maybe someday).
You mentioned starting onions and calendulas and I wouldn’t think of them as fall crop, just curious why so late. It would be nice to have mid October as frost date instead of mid to late September. I didn’t start enough broccoli and the direct sow I see only one took so I started more indoors-too hot outside. They are hardy so maybe I will see them with a cover. It’s all such a rush in short season Z5a and I no more than get planted in spring and need to plant fall seeds and actually after all the trouble with seedlings earlier I wasn’t looking forward to more at that point. Not big on too many leafy vegetables. We did just plant more bush green beans after pulling onions earlier than normal. Last year carrot and beets did ok. I always hear about fall turnips and I always think they take 90 days. I must categorize them with rutabagas which we love and having a great crop showing up this year because I was diligent at spacing them as they get Big And the irrigation is helping a ton. Ooo, I could throw in some kohlrabi though, thanks for mentioning! Wow! You have a lot of plants! My shaded GH is full of onions curing now. The season goes so fast now and just when peppers and fall flowers are looking so nice-sigh. LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT RADISH!😮. I let a French breakfast go but it wasn’t that big.
Hi. I'm 70, live in New Hampshire (zone 5b ), and grow in just 5 raised beds. I direct seeded my brassicas, turnips, radishes, etc. about 10 days ago, spinach and cold hardy lettuce go in tomorrow. Last year I harvested until November 2nd. I can't really plant a cover crop and last year just left the 'freeze-killed' plants and bare soil. Thinking of adding a little straw this time and hoping that will be good enough. ??
Hi Linda! Glad to hear you've got some tasty fall crops planted already. You've got exactly the right idea. When I have crops in till late fall/early winter, I mulch with whatever I have on hand- often for me it's chopped leaf mulch, but straw would work well too.
I never knew about the seed calculator- genius! My only wish is that seed suppliers would allow you to filter search results based on dates of maturity. Thank you!
I love these ideas. Thank you! I want to try a small fall garden harvest and see how it goes for me.. I’ve had terrible luck this year and last year with cucumber and cucumber beetles 😭😭😭 I’ve tried All Seasons spray and cayenne pepper and the cucumber beetles still got my plants. It’s so disappointing because I tried so hard to prevent them. I got maybe 10 Cucumbers and my plants are now dying. Do you have any suggestions? I’m in zone 6b Pittsburgh. It’s at the point where I don’t even want to try to plant them ever again. I noticed they are on my zucchini too but not as bad. The zucchini seem to be doing fine so far
Cucumber beetles are my nemesis!! I've been trying out so many organic methods over the last 5 or so years- so far I'm having the best luck with a combo of tactics. Planting late (this year I planted a month later than normal) to avoid the biggest bulk of the beetle population, covering plants with insect netting until they start blooming, protecting plants with Surround once they outgrow the netting (see this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V_oU5U9rSlU.html), and planting varieties which are 1. less appealing to the beetles and 2. resistant to bacterial wilt (the disease which cuke beetles spread). It's tough because organic sprays & treatments don't tend to work all that well on cuke beetles.
Can you tell me more about the hoops? I have frost blankets of similar material to your tunnels just would need some sort of wire for hoops to make tunnels?
Sorry to hear this! I’ve got a basic growing guide: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tOYQYeILg00.html and also share some tips in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zsfokv6GNVM.html
I love your channel I am in North Idaho also zone 6 b but my dates for first frost are different than yours September 25 is mine I wished it was October otherwise very similar
Thanks, Cyndi. For most things, if you figure on planting 2 weeks ahead of me, you'd be pretty close. I'm curious what your fall season is like- after you get a frost does it get cold and stay cold right away, or do you typically warm back up and/or stay fairly moderate in temp?
Thank you! And yes, you saw artichoke. The yields are just OK- I grow it as a novelty more than anything else, and I often let it go to flower because the blooms are beautiful! I grow the varieties which are annual producers (such as Imperial Star), so I am ensured a harvest in the first season. In a mild winter they will often die back to the ground, but then sprout up again the next spring.
Thanks Jenna. I just planted my last bean crop, kolrabi,, endive, some more lettuce and arugula, last beet crop and my winter carrots that I will dome in Nov or Dec and pick in the winter. Might try some escarole this year too to harvest at Thanksgiving for my Italian Wedding soup. I have a cover crop question. I usually grow hairy vetch but it is so high in nitrogen I won't plant it where I'm planning on growing things like beans tomatoes nightshades because I get too much leaf growth on those plants and not enough fruit if there is too much nitrogen. What do u recommend for a cover crop lower in nitrogen for those type of crops and do you ever plant a cover crop around your plants that are still producing at the end of the season? BTW Johnny basil is still going strong 😀
Honestly, you're probably not going to get too much nitrogen from the vetch- that's the nice thing about using natural green manures like this. But if you really want to avoid it, you could go with something like oats, rye or winter peas or just do a mix with some vetch in it, but not all vetch. And yes- I have planted cover crops around the base of plants that are still growing. I had great results planting a mix of oats, peas and vetch around the base of my tomatoes and okra towards the end of last season.
@@GrowfullywithJenna Thanks Jenna. I just came to the conclusion that vetch was high in nitrogen because I was always able to grow pole limas with great success until I started using vetch in those beds. After using the vetch I got huge plants with blossoms but never any limas so I concluded the vetch was the problem. Maybe I'm crazy 🤣
Have been planting buckwheat in my containers as they become available for the bees. I think it is pretty too. See Bakers Creek has a red one. Have you ever tried it?
Such a great plant for the bees! And yes- I grew both Takane Ruby and Rose Red Soba last year and loved them! But I love the plain white as well (and it's much more cost effective to plant in large quantities).
@@GrowfullywithJenna Where do you purchase your buckwheat in bulk? So after it flowers you just cut it down in pieces in place as in the video and then let it rot over winter? Does it come back like weeds or is it once and done?
