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I ordered on the 16th, they shipped on the 19th and arrived on the 27th and I’m in WI. I don’t get it just like I didn’t get 2 packs of free pollinator seeds. Lol, I got Shishitos which I have and didn’t plant this year because it’s not our favorite. Mine came in an envelope. So you got free veg seeds and not the agastache or zinnias? Don’t get me started about Swallowtail. Ordered coral geraniums last year and they were scarlet. Told them and they resent for this year-and they are just starting to bloom and look scarlet 🙄. Guess I will have to get orange and I will try coral from another vender and see what happens.

Fun seeing the garden and the seed haul ! 🌺

Baker creek tried to sell a gmo tomato while demonizing gmo seeds. I don’t think they are ethical for other reasons you can look up easily. MI gardener, Seed Savers exchange, Fedco, High Mowing, Botanical Interests, Territorial Seeds, Renee’s Garden, Roughwood Seed Collection, Hudson Valley Seeds, Experimental Farm Network and so many others are more ethical choices.

Everyone should have a stockpile of seeds. This is a crazy time in the world and seeds equal food security. When watching someone's video with sounds of planes, birds, goats, roosters, lawnmowers, parrots, kids or whatever it just makes it feel more authentic, like visiting with a friend. I love watching all your videos.

I'm in Texas so we definitely need higher. Thanks for the video.

Enjoying your channel the past few months... thank you for sharing your passions!

Love all your stone designs!

Awesome green house! Beautiful!

To keep poles from poking thru add solo cups or small seedling pots over them under the shade cloth.

Wow you’re going to have a million tomatoes!!!!

You're gardens are beautiful! Just curious what zone you're in?

Bought mine at Costco last October and it sat in my garage all winter. Just installed it now. No warping and skylight is functioning as designed. Ran electric into foundation before assembly of the structure. Time to grow!!!

I have been searching for reasons my German Pink is having trouble. It's looking like it's getting a bit of blight. I wasn't sure because the yellowing leaves are not just isolated to the bottom. The blossoms also have been falling off. My plants are huge for southern MI but haven't set fruit. It's last of all the varieties to set fruit. My volunteer borage isn't harming my tomatoes yet but I will keep an eye on them. I think it's only Orange Icicle that it is competing with. I'm going to look now.

Thanks for the review of the shade cloths and clips. I actually got the garden clips for less at Dollar Tree. $3.75 for 3 packs of 20 at Dollar Tree vs $9.98 for 1 pac of 60 on Amazon.

Thanks for sharing! It is HOT!

I am growing German Pink and German Queen tomato plants..., the German Queen has potato leaves... the German Pink does not... I think your German Pinks are actually German Queens...

You were in my suggested… lovely channel. I love your hat!

Hi Leigh, Your tomatoes are looking so healthy! Are you suggesting keeping other plants away from your potato-varieties?

Love the garden content! Us CZcams gardeners have to stick together. Rock and roll!!

I'm having a great tomato season so far to. In section 5 Adirondacks upstate NY. Raised beds trellis like yours with air flow being my priority. Trying new varieties this year . Kellogg's are in my batch for a first time this year but by far the best new plant is called a silver fur tree tomatoes. Very odd leaves / plant. Highly productive, disease "resisting" . Thanks for sharing your plants .

Your property is so GORGEOUS and I appreciate everything you share!!!🌺🌻🌼💗

Kelloggs is my all time favorite tomato.

Yep, Don’t touch me. I once left a tomato do it’s thing because the squash grew around it and it there was no blight on it like the rest had. I expect blight to come August 1st. And yes, the borage can get monstrous and think some of all the volunteers will get booted to the backfield by the bee hives. Did I tell you my neighbors bees took off, then returned, then took off again only to return again. Hope they stay now. Love the giant marigolds and they get big. Your dressed like it’s cold there 😂-that’s me to keep the mosquitoes off. Tomatoes look like they are doing well. It will be a couple weeks for mine to get there yet. I’m at a dilemma right now with all this rain. We just got doused again tonight and total so far is over 1.5” on top of previous rain. They say 3-5” through to late Saturday. If it’s not lightening out I will throw tarps and plastic over onions and garlic. In the morning. We have flood warnings and not worried about that so much as I am about the mosquitoes. There must have been a brief break in the clouds to the south as I was so excited to see the Strawberry Moon come up just now. I snapped a pic in the rain and brought two mosquitoes in-Ugh! I have copper and sulphur ready for whatever mildew or fungus comes next. The forecast looks dry after this and hope lower humidity. Have to tie everything up tomorrow also. I don’t want to monkey with plants when they are wet, but I don’t have much choice. No fun with a head net on and dressed like an Eskimo. I’m glad I didn’t heavily mulch this year. Yep, I believe you are correct on just letting the tomatoes be.

Are you in Maryland?

Yes - it’s HOT! Good call with the shade cloth! I ordered some too. My tomatoes were planted on an North/South axis, so east blocks west and west blocks east. And luckily the sun only hits them around 10am. My peppers - in full sun - are doing okay. I planted them with a few dill plants, and the dill towers over the peppers. 😊. Everything else is scorching though, and I have to hit plants with a good watering every morning…my peas are toasted. 😭 Oh, and I had one more female black swallowtail hatch out this morning. I had nearly given up on that chrysalis! I was so excited because I thought she was my last hatchling, but a quick inspection of the cage turned up one more straggler. Hopefully the heat today will bring it out. Good luck today with the heat! Rest up during the day, and practice twilight gardening, a.k.a. mosquito food. 😂

Your plants are thanking you!🎉🎉 I’ve been using shade cloth for probably 5 yrs like Gail. We go with 40% and I think 30% would work but I think it might be not as tuff maybe? We use it on the patio doubled up over 2” PVC pipe that holds it taut. I tried actual shade fabric for patios and had to return it as it was white and tightly woven and was so blinding and Hot compared to the netted garden black shade fabric-it was unbelievable difference. And that’s why I say the black color is cooler than white-others have differing opinions. The difference could be partially that the white was closely woven, but still way too bright and could feel sun burning my skin. I love having a big expanse to work under-it makes gardening enjoyable again in these extreme hot spells we get now. Last year we were over 100 degrees and that’s Hot for Z5a, WI. Our main dilemma is supporting it. I have pondered over this for quite awhile and the only thing I can think to do is fairly costly. I would like to create like clothesline poles at the ends with cable running and use either the plastic clips, but better metal shower clips to be able to easily open and close them. As we get older it’s not an easy job to get that stuff situated on the patio or garden. If I could do one or two rows in that fashion I think I would be good to go. What happens in a storm is the whole thing flops up and down forcefully and can wreck weaker poles. We have some 4x4” poles and T-posts that we attach to, but the T-posts are a bit shorter and then the fabric hits the tomato tops. That isn’t all bad as our tomatoes don’t produce that long in the season except the cherry tomatoes. I think I may have to try a prototype and install what I’ve been thinking because it sure is more enjoyable to work under. Plus I could just wrap the shade cloth rolled back under some Tyvek then and not have to store it. With all the different cloths and netting it takes up considerable room. I read even bug netting supplies a sun factor of 3. What not to use is any frost cloth especially draped down as it will fry the plants as it doesn’t breathe. I believe what is happening in that spot of your garden is the reflection off the white fence. We have a hot spot in a NE corner over by greenhouse that is a cooker. Good job but would like to say in a bad storm those tomato cages will be ripped up so don’t tie it to anything your tomatoes are using as they will be destroyed.

Isn't it strange? Back when I was much younger, I had bumper crops and didn't use shade cloth. Now, for the past 5 years, I've been using it. We are nearly 5,000 ft in elevation; the sun is often intense. I cover everything with 40% and things grow 🎉 Leigh, you look very cute in your hats. Me, not so much 😅 I wear the ones from Costco - not so cute. But the hats are very functional and 100% cotton. I wouldn't go in public with them on 😅😅 I hope your shade cloth works for you!

I didn't know that snapdragons get rust as well. We have it on roses 🌹 because it has been raining more than usually.

Great information, Leigh! I'm sorry about the challenges you're experiencing. I hand water, too! I've always have for the same reasons you mentioned. We've always had the ability to use the timer, but I never did unless we went on vacation, which wasn't that many days. I enjoy hand watering and checking every thing out!

Remember last year it was the aphid invasion? This year it’s the rust invasion here too, but not on my Snapdragons. Instead, it’s on my milkweed, hydrangea, and creeping into my potatoes. I also have powdery mildew on a red clover plant that I’m propagating (it produces many four leaf clovers). So last night I broke out my Neem oil and did a very targeted application. It looks better today, but I might hit those plants again. My beneficial bugs have plenty of other choices. The situation with your Snapdragons, Phlox, Dahlias, and Hollyhocks is super sad. I hope you get ahead of those issues as we come into the busy production season. Have you seen any lantern fly babies? I have them, and I squash them. The birds are helping! Downside is that the birds are also finding any caterpillars before I do.

I’m with you Leigh. I prefer watering my garden myself. My biggest issue with dahlias this year is pincher bugs and getting them to bloom. I fertilized with Morbloom which will give them a blast of phosphorus and potassium. I’ve got some rust on my Parks Whopper. Interesting to note, last year I got one puny zucchini. Found out I had vine borers. In February half my winter garden was being eaten below the surface by grubs. So I sprayed with beneficial nematodes. Well low and behold. They kill vine borers too. I’ve already harvested 10 black beauty zucchini. I’m discovering that gardening is challenging but so rewarding. Keep on trucking.

Oh Wow 😟. I’m not familiar with rust and thought it a more cosmetic thing-but it kills the plant 😮. I read east coast has a problem with it on hollyhocks. Ugh, and climate change is not helping. Hopefully you can find varieties of flowers that can take the humidity. I believe there is a phlox that can resist powdery mildew and will need to seek those out. Baking soda spray helps but doesn’t eliminate mildew and can raise soil PH. Some say milk works. I’m shocked you had a blossom end rot. I would say it may have needed water but thought you had plenty of rain. I have irrigation but I would never hook it up to be on all the time. We use brass quick connects and a 3 valve adapter at main faucet with brass on/off valves on each. We have one hose to north garden and south and the 3 rd for immediate area use. I then turn on only one garden at a time and in the garden there are on/off valves for zones. I would never leave it on continuously or bother with a timer-that would be a headache working around rain. I’m not so busy or lazy I need auto timer and Bluetooth. What this system allows me to do is not drag a hose around knocking everything over, enduring heat exhaustion to water AND it’s done in a quick fashion. I still go and monitor the valves and water a couple places out of reach or when seedlings are young. It’s been a Huge time, money and produce saver for us. I would consider it. Like right now-it’s way too hot for me outside and all I do is pop out and turn a valve. It saved us in severe drought last year.

Wow!! So many varieties!! Beautiful!! I tried different methods (straight into the ground, bag/napkin/soak, scarification) and nothing worked!! I bought another packet and I’m going to try again!! 🤞

I'm so sorry.

Wow.. I never saw such a bad case of rust! So sad! I know that cedar trees are a carrier of rust and they are prolific around south jersey. Very informative. And it begins 😁

I have the hardest time growing flowers from seed for some reason. I have a large garden where I grow everything else from seed without a problem, but flowers never work for me. I have tried trays and direct sowing and they always or get munched on as soon I transplant or die later. Hopefully I can have success someday.

I love marigolds too. I know a lot of people who don't and not sure why. Hope you're feeling better. 🙏

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I think mine last year was hidden too long by competitors. It grew 6+’ and no flowers and thought it was a broadleaf weed and almost pulled it. Just before frost it popped a flower at the top 😂. We feed the hummers sugar water as there are few blooms when they arrive. I will say it’s work to keep the feeders clean and that there is a timing of when to start and stop. Many feed too late in the season and they stay too long. And on the other side in the south I think they keep them there too long by feeding and they have flowers blooming. What I have observed is the hummers visit less frequently as flowers bloom. Saving seed is so fun! I have to have containers at the ready though. What happens is I pluck them off and lay them in a dish thinking I will know or remember what they are. This winter sow I threw in some seed that looked like dust laying in one of those dishes, but I knew they were special if they were indeed seed. They were Spilanthes/eyeball plant/toothache plant. They all came up! It is an interesting looking bloom and I’m sure the deer and rabbits wouldn’t eat them unless they like a numb mouth 😅.

Thanks for sharing your experience, hope you have a blessed day and week ahead.

Beautiful flowers! I liked your video, thanks a lot dear!

These varieties are so beautiful! We have a dog named Sweet Pea (she’s beautiful, too).

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They’re on my list for next year!Thank you for all the hard work you put into all of your videos.

Hi Leigh, guess what I will try to grow (again) - sweet peas! I tried a few times in CA and wasn't successful. I'll try here next summer (if) we get the voles under control! Your sweet peas are gorgeous!!! You look so cute in your hats!!

Look in the dictionary for the word "charming" and you'll see a picture of your beautiful sweet pea patch!

Making my mouth water. Love Baker Creek, my go-to seed company. MY FAVORITE IS Dad's Sunset. Looks like Kelloggs, very close taste. Very long growing season with big harvest. THANKS FOR SHARING❤

Thanks for this, it puts the entire process into perspective; had I not seen this I might have done a impulse buy, gonna wait on this!

So nice. I live in the same area as you and appreciate all the info and tips. I started growing veggies again this year after health issues prevented it for a long time. Invested in raised corrugated beds. Next year (and whatever I can still do this year) I'd like to focus on more flowers. Best of luck with your garden BTW I did take your advice and drove up to that garden center in Columbus for my veggie plants and some annuals. What great advice that was. Thanks!