I need to sacrifice part of my garden
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- The drought is setting in in the garden and it is time to decide what is going to make it and what isnt.
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Very hot and dry here in central Virginia. 95 F and higher each day. I go out early in the morning, water my garden and that's it for the day. I have a 3 inch mulch on the soil and this does help. My tomato plants seem to shut down during the heat, but bounce back after a heavy rain. I think most of us have one problem or another, but we keep on gardening because real food is a blessing. And, most of us are stubborn when it comes to growing our food. Thanks for all your tips and advice. Always something new with you.
With the hot 90 degree temps settling in now in SC, I go out and water all my garden plants with a morning shower. I have to use shade cloth @55% for my peppers and tomatoes. It does help with heat stress. But, there will be heat stress no matter what I do. Right now, the big issue is verticillium or fusarium wilt; haven't determined which yet. I foresee without my crystal ball new tomato starts coming soon.
I’m in the high desert Western Colorado 7000 feet. Started mulching with chopped leaves this year. Downfall is now I get birds rooting through my garden beds because there’s worms all the way up to the surface now. Without mulch, my soil surface dries out in a few hours.
yeah the squirrels do the same here. It is super annoying.
I had a Junki bird make a nest in my potato buckets a few years ago. So I had to be careful for awhile watering my potatoes. They liked the mulch, the seclusion, and the elevation as I had it up on an old card table frame to avoid the slugs. Lol
In Raleigh, NC. We don’t have grass, but this dry spell is causing the clover ground cover to dry out. That’s harming the bees. We stopped mowing a week ago. Veg beds are ok but everything was planted close and producing shade. Sowed more beans..probably won’t germinate. Sweet potatoes are happy. We water every two days after the heat dies down. So far, so good.
The bees will be fine they are still working the wild flowers. Clover is last ditch effort to get nectar
As an add-on to earlier, I have one section of two 8x4 raised beds that I shaded(just pulled shade cloth up over trellises and tied to 6’ posts at corners. Helping. We have a well that seems to never run dry but I’m still cautious. Cloth pots (20 gal) house large starts but in the shade.
It's been dry for about a week and a half and was able to get the gardens planted.
Now it's been in the mid 90's this week with storms Monday and Tuesday so the seeds are just popping up along with the weeds.
Just noticed cucumber beetles on a zucchini seedling this morning so have to hit them soon.
Have a great day!
it funny how fast they can find a seedling!
I grow in a desert. I plant about a month behind you in Winter, and up to a month later than you for my Winter crops.
If you must grow in pots, double them up to form an air gap for insulation. It will help protect from sun and early frosts
I also put them about 6" below grade. It shields the deepest roots from weather extremes. I dig a hole a bit wider than the pot. I have mine in rock area. . I dig the hole, put a few inch layer of rock to maintain drainage and air flow,, level pot in place, pull rock around the pot to secure it.
Yep. Some of my garden is resting this year. My suburban plot is similar to yours. It cost me well over $100 a month in water for irrigation alone. I look at Idaho in the news. They're the top of the watershed on the West Coast. I know there's politics involved, but if they stop their water, whose to say that my garden won't be effected later, right near harvest time when it's most important. This is not a good year to experiment. I need the heartiest of crops only.
When my seasonal rains come, then I need to be ready to plant. For S. Calif, I find Sept to June is the most affordable time to plant. We get rains, in the best years, Nov to April.
Your peppers do need more water. Bell peppers need more water than most people realize. Shade benefits them. You might experiment with shadecloth or by putting some where only they get only morning sun.
yeah that sounds like a lot more work than i want for a few containers. I have always had a love hate relationship with container gardening.
Jeff from East Tennessee. It’s hot here now. Over 90 everyday. My garden is on a slope. It’s on a hill! In the morning, it starts out with some shade. But when the sun gets up a little, it gets blasted. It is full sun and hot. It does dry out fast but not too bad because my soil is good. I do use a ton of water but that’s ok!! I want it on the dry side! Keeps down on disease and blight. The last 2 years we have got like 14 inches of rain in July!! My whole summer depends on it not raining all of July. So a dry start to summer is a good thing for me. If July is on the dry side this year, I will have a ton of veggies. Yes, I will pay more for water but I can control it. Put it right where I want it. So for me, it’s all about how dry we have it here in East Tennessee!! Thanks!!!
In the eighteen years I've had this property, I've never bothered to water the lawn. The front lawn gets downright straw-colored and crispy during a hot and really dry spell (which we call drought but which a great deal of the rest of the country would happily deal with for six to ten weeks if they got our one-metre or so of precipitation annually), and just as at your place, the back, where it's in sun for most of the day, also goes dry and kind of crunchy but where it gets shade from an immense maple tree and some smaller trees and shrubs, stays comparatively green and...kind of supple.
But grass as you say does always comes back, so no need to fret myself; usually in August we get rain again (because the hurricane season is sending weather our way, usually up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers valleys, and that gives us several good drenches and by then temperatures begin to become a bit more moderate.)
It'll depend on what it is, but sure: a crop can be sacrificed if it's not producing well or even just well enough and if I need that space for something else.
Much gardening love from Northeast Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
We are always in drought mode this time of year where I am in AZ.
We erected a 10 ft. high framework over one of our gardens using old wooden telephone poles cut to length and old highway guardrail as the frame work for a 20×36 piece of shadecloth that we had.
Talk about labor intensive! But it's in place (probably forever, lol). We need shadecloth for so much of our growing season, it just made sense to have a permanent structure.
The only thing that cost any money was the shadecloth, so at least it was cheap that way.
for your area that makes total sense. I would hate lifting those poles though. I bet they are sturdy to say the least.
Thankfully we have a small tractor that was a life saver in that regard.@sandybottomhomestead
I am watering every 2 days. Plus I added shade cloth to help keep peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers & green beans cooler.
it did helped me out because i live in florida and everyime summer comes it makes me feel like im the worst gardener. i havent been real gardening for too long and its been a roller-coaster. seeing that the same plants mine struggled is happening to you makes me feel like im not crazy. there's things im learning as well :)
Nope your not crazy once you learn what plants do well in your area it gets much easier
@@sandybottomhomestead thank you
(N.E. Georgia) I love pumpkins! You might be able to keep the seminole kicking by mounding up dirt over the vines. The vine will actually root out where the "knuckles" (as I call them), the spot where the flowers and upright stems meet the vine, touches soil. I'm growing 4 varieties of moshatas right now, one of them are seminoles. Once every week or two I do the 5-10 minute rule that you suggest (brilliant habit by the way) and throw a few clumps of soil, red dirt, or wood mulch over a knuckle. As a personal preference, I only put soil over the knuckles where there are male flowers. The male flowers are the longer stemmed flowers while the females are the shorter one that sit atop the fruit. After a while, the vine roots out under those knuckles. Supposedly the pumpkins grow bigger, more nutrients to the vine because there are more points of contact, and better water retention for the same reason. This actually happens naturally too if the vine touches bare soil. But it may not work if there's already a drought. I noticed that my vines won't root out if the knuckle is touching grass, I've observed that it has to be bare soil that makes contact with the knuckle. Happy gardening, MYTABG! (May you thumbs always be green)
Over here in France it has been cooler than normal. And lots of rain. But, things are growing 😁
We are in a totally different weather cycle it seems. Im glad your garden is doing well!
In MD and haven’t had a good rain for 2-3 weeks. I have watered from our rain barrel which is nearly empty 😢 the plants look amazing though and are not suffering from stress. I did sow corn about two weeks ago (the rest of the packet I had) and I have been watering that daily from the rain barrel just to get it established as it’s only a few inches tall. I would not surprised if we got a monster storm in July or August so I’m not praying for rain yet as those can be pretty destructive 😂
I primarily grow in large black pots, similar to yours. I do need to water them almost daily, but I've found that direct sun on the pot is the most detrimental part of growing in them. The soil becomes very warm, if not hot, even if the soil is moist. I group my pots together, so only a few on the outside take direct sun to the pot, which helps a lot.
If you could cover or skirt your pots and maybe mulch, you'd have a much better growing experience in them. For me, peppers grow much better in pots, but tomatoes grow best in-ground.
i usually mulch them but decided to focus on other areas this year. When the heat comes next week I will be adding mulch.
I am dealing with draught in DE. My garden mostly gets about 6 hrs of full Sun . I am focused on tomatoes, hot peppers and cucumbers. So far , so good. I have a weeping water hose system. Thanks for all your information, it helps me understand how it works.
Dried out here in SC too. Watering at night, letting some things go like you, mulching like crazy with leaves.
This year in Tx we have had waaaay more rain than normal so we are riding the wave till the taps turn off, which they will! I agree about having to sacrifice plants as I’ve done the same! As far as your pumpkin plant goes, I have had a similar experience 2 yrs ago during the WORST heat and drought. We went 3 months of triple digit temps and no rain but my little pumpkin plant just motored on. It looked wilted and sad in the hot sun but bounced back each night, producing 17 pumpkins that we enjoyed in fall and winter until I made the mistake of not bringing them in off the porch when we had a surprise dip of teens one night and yep, they were mush in the morning. Side note, I tossed them in the compost and was mystified why my raised beds were getting pumpkins when I thought I had planned beets…..duh the seeds sprouted from the cold compost so I had pumpkins growing in April😂
I have family in tx and they say it has been crazy with the rain.
I hadn't considered the limitations with a drip system when direct sowing. Sorry the rain has not been cooperating, hand watering can be so much work. Hang in there!
Thank you
I am in a desert. I use a drip system. Work on finding out how long to irrigate. Put your fingers in the soil. If it's damp down a few inches, you're good. Over watering rots roots. If you pull a bad plant and the roots stink, there's too much water.
When you do water, deep water so the soil gets moist down about six inches. Then check the garden every day to see if it's damp down a few inches. Once you know what's normal, irrigate 1 day before the soil is typically dry down to 2 inches. With the rains you get, it may be able to water occasionally as needed.
Great video brother! Here jn michigan we are getting decent rain. Gardens been loving it.
That's awesome
Here in Sylacauga AL, we haven't had a drop of rain all month, and there isn't any in the forecast. Normal rainfall for June is about five inches. I lost another crookneck squash plant the other day. This one was clearly from animal damage, I suspect from a puma. Over the last few weeks, we've lost two cats to a predator. A puma was seen at the end of the driveway by the mail lady, so daytime isn't safe either. I still have lemon squash, and zucchini plants producing, and have harvested more squash this year than prior years, and my surviving plants are still free of fungi, and fruiting. I've been shifting from growbags to raised beds. The smaller growbags, ten gallon, don't hold enough moisture in the summer. I have six that are being used to grow tomatoes, the rest are for flowers. Next year, the only tomato plants in growbags will be for my porch tomatoes (2 cherry tomatoes, Sun Gold, or Super Sweet). I am also shifting from indeterminant to determinant varieties, Grand Marshall, Ace-55, Jolene, and Skyway. They are easier to manage. From my experience, The Grand Marshall is a good producer, with a nice size tomato. I have Ace-55 which are starrting to set fruit. I am in the process of evaluating them. The bulk of my watering is done everyother day. The exception are the melons, squash, cucumbers, and growbags. They need daily watering.
i just edited a video about my ace 55 they are crazy huge
There's pumas in Alabama???
@@sandybottomhomestead Glad to hear it. I just harvested a three pound Thornburn's Terra-Cotta tomato this morning, crazy huge! I'll be eating that big boy tonight.
@@TJtheHAWK Yes! Puma, cougar, mountain lion are different names for the same cat. We have Puma, bobcat, black bear, cayote, gray fox, red fox, racoon, possom, about every venomous snake, and more. I live out in ther sticks, so predators are a problem, especially with raising chickens. All predators love chicken!
I am down the road from you and facing the same drought. My rain catchment system is dry and having to use county water as a last resort. I added shade cloth to help.
i hope it helps
@@sandybottomhomestead so far it has. They are calling for rain Monday.
So glad I found your channel as I live in Sampson County.... Even though I water every day i just can't keep up with the heat and drought.. Putting some shade cloths up has helped somewhat but my eggplants and tomatoes suffer the worst with curled leaves and blossom drop... Fruits kinda just sit there in suspended animation... Prayin for rain
You and me both. I have extended family in Sampson county.
We aren't in our drought season yet, it usually starts after July 4th. Our heat generally isn't here until after July 4th. We have had a couple warm days the past few days, that we aren't use to. But yeah our dry season is basically July and August. We have smoke season in laste August when supposedly all these Forrest fires just start. Funny we didn't use to have that back when we properly managed Forrests and let loggers log. I'm debating right now on pulling lettuce early and planting more green beans. I only planted a couple bush beans a few weeks ago and I feel like I need more. Plus I don't have any cucumbers anywhere. Maybe throw those in my grocery row garden and have them climb the fencing I have around my young fruit trees. Thinking out loud in the comments. Lol
I lived in CA in the 70’s/early 80’s…no fires. Definitely a management problem.
I'm starting to get a little worried here in MA with the lack of rain recently on top of this heat dome that we are finally breaking sometime tomorrow. We had a pretty ugly drought two years ago and this feels like it's beginning to become a repeat of that! Last year was the opposite, way too much rain and powdery mildew. It seems like there's no in between anymore!
its all extremes I guess.
I'm outside Augusta GA and it's bad, I'm seeing field after field of dead and dying crops because there is no rain. I'm down to just a few tomato plants.
I am sorry to hear that. I hope you get some rain soon.
Just got done with a really hot streak 90-100 degrees humidity values in the single digits and a lot of wind so I was having to run my drip every morning and sometimes twice a day and even then I almost lost some stuff, my potatoes look great tho no heat stress on them that I can see, and my bush beans in a planter on the south side of house are looking a little rough, all the leave white crispy around the edges a couple leaves have actually fallen off so I watered them with some homemade nitrogen tea this morning hoping that gives them a boost, the upside to the lack of rain is lack of hail storms 🤷
hail would be no good for sure. luckily we dont see alot of hail here.
Here in Milwaukee, WI, we have been blessed with lots of rain. Some even have had flooding. We water a lot, but we have a very tiny, densely planted yard with lots of pots. It is difficult to water every pot in between rains, but we are thankful to have our situation. Thank you for your analysis. Always learning.
In s.e GA..no rain
Great video. I follow along closely because I'm also in NC.
My squash have had it also. Do you think it makes sense to start another round of Squash from seed?
Yes, absolutely
Cool. Thank you!!!
I have tons of tomatoes,but all green,any reason why, hazlehurst GA zone 9
They need to ripen
What is hope? The things seen is not hope...hope, true hope is the Lord Jesus Christ for He is the living hope...
As for rain...the Lord God is the One who sends the rain or withholds the rain...our nation has forsaken the Lord God and now He is removing His hand of blessing and returning with His hand of indignation.
So I guess I should loose all hope and faith. I mean since we are apparently damned at this point