We tried an experiment starting sweet corn, watermelon, squash, beans and cukes during this last week of 90+ temps. Soaked the seeds overnight, saturated the soil, planted and then mulched with all of our spent broccoli and cauliflower leaves. For added pest prevention, we laid down a shade cloth over each bed to deter curious squirrels chipmunks and birds. We've had germination through the soil within 3-4 days on everything, and they are looking strong even with the heat. Gotta get creative this time of year!
Life gets in the way...THAT is the statement of the day! Right now, this year, we are planting less than last year, exactly because of life. That, and temperatures are oppressive already, much earlier than usual here in Georgia. Every year cannot be a bumper year, sadly.
A garden buffet of tips you are not born knowing. Sometimes it is the little things we do in the beginning that makes a large difference come harvest time. A few things I do. When I 1st started gardening I also started a worm bin, 5 years later I can easily generate 500 lbs of vermicompost a year, more if I really wanted to. I use a lot of vermicompost in the garden. When I transplant seedlings I mix a generous helping of vermicompost in the planting hole, when I direct sow, add vermicompost into the soil. After I plant or sow, I use a vermicompost/compost extract and water everything in with that. Prior to heavy rains I will top dress the established plants with vermicompost to give the plants a boost of nutrients and biology. You mentioned the importance of healthy soils, diversity in the soil biology is really key, vermicompost supplies part of that. After I direct sow both in the spring and summer, I cover the seeds with finished leaf mold, then a light mulch of dried grass, the leaf mold holds a ton of moisture as does the vermicompost, with normal watering everything does fine. I have to look into that bacillus you tried on your tomatoes. For my nemesis, powdery mildew, the only thing that worked for me last year was lactic acid bacteria (LAB), getting a head start with that this year. Using more chop and drop of comfey, borage and weeds this year as a mulch. Still learning about carbon nitrogen ratios and nutrient cycles, seems to be doing OK. Added plantings of yarrow and bee balm to draw in more beneficial predatory insects, can't have too many of the good guys. More of a comment than you were looking for for sure, but you did ask, lol. As always, a terrific video! Stay Well!!!!
I have worked on mending and adding compost to our soil for our vertical gardens here in zone 7b with some success. The greatest problems this year are a few you have addressed well here, increasing microbial content and keeping worm/beetle damage at bay. Oh, and definitely appreciate that we're not the only ones sowing crop seeds late in the season.
As the climate seems to be changing faster than I can keep up I’m planting later ie: beans bush, cucumbers, eggplant etc. It has helped with bean beetles and cover with insect netting until they bloom. Also found much less damage with purple bush beans instead of the regular green beans. Used shade cloth for the first time this year in all my years of gardening! Thanks so much for posting these tips because it is getting challenging. 💚
It's funny that you are now leaning into the liquid fertilizers. I have always used the liquids, usually as a foliar spray because it seems to make a faster improvement, but I just started adding in some granular fertilizers. I have always struggled to grow melons; the growth always seems very slow and I get tiny melons. I decided to try some bone meal and Espoma Plant Tone as a side-dressing every few weeks and that has made a big improvement. Now I'm testing it on all of my plants (even though I'm pretty happy with their growth and production).... always trying to tweak and improve things.
I started doing this a few years ago and you are right. It is a lot less work all at once both at planting time and harvest time. I only can jalapenos and everything else I just eat fresh so staggered planting works out great.
😊 Watching while eating dinner on the back porch over looking gardens. When potatoes come out I plan to put in zucchini seeds because they’ll grow quickly, will be higher up in the raised bed and I need to restock my freezer for winter bread baking.
This was just the video I needed here just South of Lexington KY! Lots of helpful steps on where you are and where we are going in the growing season. Love your videos for nearby zone insight Jenna!
I'm in south Lexington. Jenna is a gem. It's wonderful that her knowledge applies directly to our gardens. Happy we got some rain. Hope y'all did too. Happy growing!
Love your vids! As a beginner you are my 1st "go to" for anything. I was concerned I didn't get things planted soon enough and then the heat wave eased my worries. Your garden is amazing and I'm sure it is basically 24/7 work.
Worry is a prayer for something you don't want ... don't worry - be happy. People say that to me about my garden being a lot of 'work' . . . I consider it play not work. I'm always experimenting to keep it interesting and educational. That's why I watch these kinds of videos ... gives me insights and ideas of what I can do in my garden? My biggest aim is to give a gift to my future self so it doesn't turn into 'work'.
So this year I also planted cucumbers and melons out late to avoid the cucumber beetles. As soon as they emerged I hit them with the surround kaolin clay. This seems to have helped with sun scald and pest pressure as so far there have been no signs of it. I also frequently water and mulched the beds with about 1-2 inches of what I could get my hands on that I knew would be safe - pine shavings. The soil has retained moisture really well, the plants are doing really well so far even in this heat wave. I'm looking forward to seeing what the results are later this year.
Rain! Glorious rain! Finally! My gardens were suffering with the heat and drought. I had to cover my basil for a week. Now I think everything has a chance and maybe I can fertilize. Extreme heat in NH is uncommon but we broke records last week, even reaching 100F. VT had rain. Northern NH had rain, but I'm in the central part of NH and, no rain for two weeks. After the rain over the weekend, I mulched with red cedar shavings. Seems alright.
Hi Jenna I am in Canada about 1hr from Detroit so we have similar growing challenges. I just got some surround kaolin clay so am excited to try it. I have a large garden as well. Last week I put a thermometer on one of my raised beds it was 118F beside it was another one with about 50% shade cloth it was 93F 25 degrees difference . that was a lot of difference. Your channel is great👣👣👣
Been going through my own struggles. without my garden and dog (dog is getting old), I would be lost, really miss my cat. My garden is sowed with love, I let her go her way and try to just add more beauty. 2/3rds of what I grow i give away or feed to my worms, I am fine with that. No matter what, my garden has brought nature back into my life. I have to start celebrating the garden outside again with my violin . A couple years ago I used to play a lot outside, actually grew an audience once or twice. Hope to survive the next year, really need to, many living things depend on that.Here is a poem I wrote a year or so ago. Who would care, at the stare, of a hummingbird! My only peace, is what they mean to me . When I am gone, no one will care, but the hummingbird, when they take, the flowers away. I care not bout the bounty of the garden, of what it brings to me, I care more for the bounty of the garden, that gives to all things that are free. It is my soul, as a combat veteran, I bring to thee, the aroma of the herbs on a warm evenings night, it should have been me. The garden has given me a light, not to fear the lonesome night. Love your videos. Please stay well!!!!
NE OH here. The heat has finally broken! For a little bit, anyway. I mulched heavily before that heat, and preemptively watered deeply over a couple days. I think I lost a small tomato plant, but everything else did just fine. I also had some bigger tomatoes to replace it with. Still thankful to have gotten some rain and a mostly overcast day!
Most abundant resource I have is wood chips and saw dust (not really dust ... it was used for insulation in the walls of old buildings here that are dilapidated now). I'm on the west side of the Rockies with birch, cedar and lots of fir trees. The neighbor allows me to have all the saw dust from the waste pile from their old saw mill -- hasn't been in use for decades so the pile is rich in wood remnants ... pretty near soil. I have a wood shredder so I can make lots of chips but that too is in some of the walls in the old buildings.
6:30 it was so wet here, that for the first time, I didn't water after transplanting. I got almost 4" of rain in the past 5 days on silt-clay loam soil, and the soil is completely saturated with water. Humidity has also been very high, with a lot of clouds, so evapotranspiration hasn't been that high despite warm temperatures (mid-upper 80s).
We have went from a year of severe drought to monsoon. It’s Soo wet, humid and Hot in WI and the mosquitoes could drain you in a minute. 😂there is no way I could go sleeveless right now. Stuck inside like winter time. Haven’t braced to go outside today, but it’s cooler. Need to get pots to start fall starts. Seriously, I’m wearing a head net and dressed like an Eskimo. Can’t see a thing and almost clipped irrigation twice. Glasses, sweat, headset=No Fun. We had 6.5” of rain Friday and Saturday, more coming on Tuesday and Friday. Our semi retired meteorologist said he’s never seen weather like this. When I seen the large oak doing the hula last night-I hid. No damage because it didn’t touch down, but things are leaning and bruised. Some area flooding but not as bad as surrounding states. Shade fabric is my friend and bug netting. So Easy to clean produce now! Never grow brassicas without it. The moths came and went 😂. Started 4/15 with brassicas and had state fair Bok Choy (Olds Seed and it was old seed;-) and a 7+lb Botanical Interests slo bolt Napa Cabbage!😅. I don’t think Olds is in business anymore, but always good seeds. The bug netting worked great! Not enough time to succession sow Bok Choy-heat kicked in and instant bolting started. Clearing out rest of broccoli soon and garlic for fall crop. The cauliflower’Fujiyama’ from Johnnys is heat tolerant and Is doing Great! I’m growing in my two clay beds as brassicas like that. One thing though is I wish I started brussels a bit later because they may be ready before frost-sigh. We needed big nets for those as they are tall 😅. Things I want to improve on is note taking, marking and succession sowing salad crops. I think I should just put the salad seeds in my pocket and drop like Johnny Appleseed whenever I’m out there 😅. I like my preservation crops to be ready all at once. Trying more determinates and hybrids and glad I did because this weather is too mucky and there will be fungus started. I ripped up those red poppies as they were too thick and should have thinned A Lot more out this spring. Everything needs air and sun right now. Will switch to granular fertilize because of rain and once that fish emulsion is used up-I’m done with it! Matter of fact I may just give it away. It calls in the nocturnal animals and a coon killed a rooster. Now our other roosters seem depressed. Too many of those night animals is what officials say. I agree as no one coon hunts anymore. Any tips on fertilizer or anything else for cauliflower is appreciated! Want to try that canned veg pickle recipe with all sorts of veg. if I can get everything to ripen at once. Oh man just seen pickled cauliflower with curry-Yummy! Made kraut with curry and it was delish! Great vid as always Jenna! Now I think I will get brave and make my way to the shed 🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟Bzzzzzzbzzz.
6.5" of rain... wow!! Send some my way please. I'm adding Fujiyama to my list of varieties for next year! And we've had a huge influx of raccoons in recent weeks as well. Just caught one digging up my entire garden the other night. It's the first time I've ever had that issue. Sorry to hear about the rooster- it's always depressing when something happens to the animals. Take care of yourself!
@@GrowfullywithJenna will do as we’ve all had enough rain for a bit. Thank you, the other 3 roosters seem different now, like they are missing their buddy. It’s surprising to see their behavior.
Thanks for your tip earlier this year on Blue Lake Superior Beans! I got them from Jung Seed and I Iove them! They are delicious raw in the garden and steamed with butter! I’m telling everyone about them and sharing seeds (Jung is very generous!) This is my go-to bean now! I grew mine in my GreenStalk Vertical Garden. They are perfect for that! I’m in Independence, Missouri Zone 6b
I live Ohio same zone. I had to get shade cloth because they were all getting burned and they were hardened off. I’m gonna try the clay spray. I have some i bought last year but I never got around to using it. I found spraying fish emulsion and water on the leaves once a Erin the early morning is giving a boost
Yes you get the heat and we don't -- it's been a strange spring here in the Columbia valley BC . . . cold for the most part with some teasing warm days and plenty of rain, but after planting out we got frost or near frost so seedlings suffered. Thank you for your tips!!!
Excellent video -- extremely helpful and a pleasure to watch. Thank you! Here in Colorado (USA hail capital), hail cloth provides a bit of dual function by also providing ~15% sun attenuation. Also....thank you for the Surround WP information (on a previous video). It seems to be helping immensely with a grasshopper invasion that has decimated several crops - especially basil and some other herbs, along with weakening pepper seedlings. I endorse your emphasis on tightly sealing agribon covers. Grasshoppers have found their way inside several of my agribon installations and are enjoying tented protection from the birds while engorging on the crops. Dry summer conditions here on the arid plains really draws grasshoppers (and other critters) to my garden oasis. Always a challenge -- and I envy your lovely growing environment there in Ohio.
Hi Jenna , you're amazing. Love all your videos thank you, I'm amazed how your beauitfal garden is open and you still have veggies! If I for even 1 night, left my hot house or screened in rased beds open, it would be striped in a flash.. racoons, opossums ,squirrels, birds, foxes and who knows what else.( deer in front yard but thats another story) . I learned my lessen that fake owls, hawks exc... dont work. oh and my peach ,apple, figs. blueberries ,rasberry, are also a free for all. I am still trying , in zone 7a on the coast of NJ. :)
I found insect netting cut off air flow to my excuse for a hoop house. It's a chicken run that I'm using to protect from squirrels and deer and rabbits. So, I'm using shade cloth and it is great. I'm fighting off Japanese beetles right now. Traps are full after only one day. I will deal with them each day!!! The strawberries are okay. I'm thankful for that. I eat the leaves too!
Last fall I chose to put my garden completely fallow for this year’s growing season. I planted it in a cover crop of Winter Rye, Austrian Winter Peas, and Hairy Vetch. All varieties wintered well and resumed vigorous growth in the spring. The vetch is a clear winner in the growth contest by using the rye and peas as structure for its climb to the sun. The garden is completely covered in blue flowers except for the two rows of potatoes which I carved out for them. The vetch is attempting to use the potato plants for structure. I am happy to observe the vetch’s progress since this the first time I that I have grown hairy vetch as a cover. Next spring I will have a clear understanding of how effective it was as a soil treatment.
I also did Hairy Vetch last fall and cut it down right before planting my tomatoes, then chopped it up and used it as a mulch. So far this is my best tomato crop in years!
OMG Jenna, great to hear from you via video. Here in Vermont we have gone from 3 days in the 90's+ to 3 days of mud producing precipitation. We have many things in common , including the love for German Shepherds. I just keep moving forward trying new things...most recently Korean Kiwis which produce the most amazing berries I've ever tasted. Kind Regards..Craig
Sadly my growing season is too short for delays and succession planting, and this year we have had only one really hot day. If I don't plant on-time I get no crop before the frost. Loved the advice, though. I'm especially interested in that competitive bacteria. It might be worth trying.
Great question! I hadn't actually considered this, but after a bit of digging came across some good news. According to one study incorporating rice hulls into the soil can "decrease toxic inorganic arsenic levels in rice grain by 25 to 50 percent" (www.ricefarming.com/departments/feature/incorporating-rice-husks-into-soil-may-cut-arsenic-uptake-by-plants/). This is due to the high silica content in rice hulls. Another interesting article discussing this phenomenon here: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2113071118
I had 2 San Marzano tomato plants in a barrel and every tomato was getting blossom end rot. I had similar issues with them last year. I decided I’m not going to waste prime real estate on non-performers. Chopped up the inhabitants of one barrel - which broke my heart because they had such lush foliage - before discovering dry soil underneath the straw. Long story short, I gave the second barrel another chance by mixing in more organic material, (fingers crossed!). I’ve got tomatoes and peppers waiting on the sidelines for my garlic and onion beds to be cleared and they’re looking pretty disheveled. I’m growing a new squash this year called kuri and another called luffa. I may need to break out the surround clay.
Thank you Jenna. I am in the Denver area, so have lots of challenges with soil and temperatures. This year we are getting a heat wave that has continued on so I agree that the netting and shade cloth can help. We also get hail so I have to use hail cloth here too. Lost some early transplants so I am doing some replacement planting now. Your flowers are beautiful, can you also talk about when you started them and if you did transplants or direct sow? Thanks.
Great to see you, and hear your voice Jenna! I noticed you have nicotiana planted in your vegetable garden, do you worry about mosaic virus with your tomatoes? Thanks for a great video!
Oh my gosh this heat is terrible. We have been getting the same heat as you Jenna here in N.Y. I want to do things in my garden and the humidity is so bad you cant hardly breath. We did get some rain though but humidity is still high. Its supposed to be better on Monday but 90 again starting on Tuesday.
My garden is dying a slow death in eastern NC. It has been extremely hot (6 days in a row of 90 plus temperatures) with a week projected temperatures to be over 95. Its only June. July is our hottest month. Its been a hard growing season
I'm using bacillus amyloliquefaciens in the water when I start plants along with a Mycorrhizal Soil Inoculant. What led you to use it on the foliage? Is that older mullein there for the pollinators are you using it for allergies and asthma?
Every year brings new gardening challenges. After 3 dry years , this season we have had consistent rain and high humidity with disease pressure. My vegetable garden is doing well, as are the weeds! I noticed the beautiful fennel you harvested. For the last 2 years the Florence fennel I grew did not bulb. It produced prodigious amounts of vegetation and flowers but didn't bulb. I wonder if that is due to nutrient inbalance?
I switched to insect netting last year and I am not a fan of spraying. Game changer, YES! Any tips for chipmunks chewing holes through the netting. So far red Pepper flakes haven’t worked. Any known plants that deter them. The neighborhood cats are doing double time on chipmunks but still 🤦♀️. Is there a heavy duty netting?
I have put shade cloth over my potatoes. I have them in 5 gallon buckets on my patio so between the sun and reflection from the cement and my white house they were just getting burned up. The shade cloth has really helped. I have thought about putting some to partially cover my tomatoes and peppers on these really scorching hot days we have had. I am in Ohio in 6b and like you this June has been rough. My tomato and pepper leaves are curling and wilting. When it cools off a little after dark they look better so I know it is the sun. I have never used it on anything but the potatoes. What do you think? Should I try it or just let them tough it out? Thanks for your very timely videos Jenna.
I live in Ohio zone 6b. My brassicas got hammered this year. I noticed you use hoop tunnels with netting, where do you buy them at? My nets and shade cloth aren’t doing the job. Thanks! Love your channel, I get a lot of tips having a similar growing environment and weather.
I have remembered to start my Fall seeds, thank you 🎉🎉🎉 Would it make any difference to put my newly planted trays outside instead of inside as in Spring? Indiana 6A zone. Put out in dappled shade and critter proof? Your flowers are gorgeous 😊
Such a hard year - we are in IN - first year in many that I didn't lose the zukes as fast as the first fruit tried to come on. But we are having to use weed barrier as we can't get the Johnson grass to not take over . . . whatever can you do? You are growing in the ground - how do you get away from Johnson Grass, Canadian Thistle, the nightshades that grow in this area??? It is not as easy to cover the plants in weed barrier with the bug barriers and shade cloth - we are looking at making a frame. Help! We really need to figure out some of this. Thanks for your great advice - I want to know when to start brassicas for fall - this year is so strange!!!
At the 15:50 mark, sounds like the chickens were laughing at you. - Just saying. (You said you hated watering.) I also use this Monterey Complete Disease Control for my tomatoes. Hoss Tools, and maybe Lowes has it I think. It’s a biofungicide/bactericide, has that bacillus amyloliquefaciens D747, and is OMRI (Organic) listed. I ground soak then later foliar water the plants with just my watering can. All was good until my plants became under water by rain twice last year. There's this "Cease" biofungicide. Couldn't find it in a smaller quantity. The other one is right sized for me. Hoss and Lazy Dog Farm also have some decease prevention programs and stuff. I'm also playing around with different varieties and doing some more determinates. I’ll start using it this week. Still playing catch-up in the garden.
I love them too! It's the 'Food not Lawns Remix' poppy mix from Adaptive Seeds. www.adaptiveseeds.com/product/flowers/poppy-food-not-lawns-remix-organic/
Please post that strain of Bt you are using for disease protection. I haven’t heard of that strain for tomato early blight. And where to buy it. Thank you!
I know this isn't your mulch video, but do you deal with pill bug population explosions with heavy mulching? I've been mulching much like you show for a couple years, and this year the pill bugs killed or damaged a large fraction of seedlings and transplants. I had install little fences around all large-seeded plants as they emerged, and around the stems of tomato plants.
This is a great question! This spring, I actually held off on any mulching because it was so wet and because the slugs were so bad (common advice is to avoid mulch because slugs like to hide underneath it). What I saw was that pill bugs were chewing on my plants (which I've NEVER had happen before). When I finally went ahead and mulched (grass clippings and leaf mulch), the pill bug damage on plants stopped. I'm assuming because they were focused on the surplus dead organic matter I had just added to the garden rather than my plants. I can't speak for anyone else, but that was my experience this spring!
@@GrowfullywithJenna Thanks so much for the reply! I've heard complaints about pill bugs from all over the country this year. Weird. At least I don't have slugs to deal with! 🙂
Wow! Your onions look amazing! I had a raccoon completely destroy my bed this year so knocked over the tops. Have you had any luck with fall planting of onions? I live near Cincinnati, OH so I think we're in similar climates.
I got a super late start this year and would love to try corn for the first time. I'm in the same zone (6A). Am I crazy to start some Bolt XR now? Thinking my chance of success would be really low.
Hi! I’m in Eaton OH! Any tips for ants on Loofa? I use DE but I don’t like it all the time due to pollinators. But these ants here destroy every bit of new growth on the Loofa! And shade cloth is a game changer!! 🎉 I sail it over my garden so I can work under it also! Yes my gardens are much smaller than yours!
i have tomatoes in a grow bag, my concerns are, i started from seed on 4/12 but no flowers yet. i transplanted them outside a month ago with sage and marigold. no pests yet but its crazy hot in zone 6. i dont have nor can i afford any. what can i do?
What's your watering like. Dig a bit deeper into your grow bag before you normally water and see if the soil is moist enough. Grow bags can dry out pretty quick, you can use container saucers to help it hold more water. From what I understand you are growing on a budget. The container saucers are expensive, but you can use other things like kiddie pool or some sort of trays. At the same time you don't want to water excessively and flood the roots. Not sure what you are trying to say that you can't afford. By now most of my tomato plants are already fruiting. Tomato need good fertilizer or a nutrient rich soil preferable amended with compost. In the case of container growing you have to add some fertilizer. If you can't spend much money, at least try to get a bag of 10-10-10, it isn't the most ideal for tomato growing maybe but $11 for a 20lbs bag goes a long way. But apply sparingly according to the instruction as it is a potent synthetic fertilizer and can damage your plant and soil with over application. Depends on your container size probably only need a tablespoon or two, then wait at least a week to see how the plant respond. It's better if you can get a fertilizer formulated specifically for tomato but they are more expensive. I hesitate to recommend chicken manure compost because sometimes they are contaminated with herbicides, but it is a good affordable "natural" alternative to 10-10-10.
@@erikahuxleythis year I added a large plastic bag inside of one of my Tomato Grow Bags. Hesitant to use saucers this year because of Bothersome Mosquitos hanging around those plants last year.
@@erikahuxley hi sorry for the delay. I water twice a day. however i did some research and found out that it probably has nutrient deficiency. so i am going to get some potassium. also i meant i couldnt afford the shade cloth.
I'm glad to hear that you don't need it. But all growing conditions are different. In a 'normal' year, I don't. But I've found that during increased stress, it helps.
If you totally saturate your transplants (read bottom AND top water) a few hours before they come out of the trays and fill the hole with water before you put them in the ground, none, except for the most sensitive plants will suffer transplant shock. No droop, no nothing.
I was fortunate enough to be gifted with some rice hulls. But I know quite a few folks who get them here: amleo.idevaffiliate.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=184&url=36 A bale that size lasts quite a while for small to medium garden.
Have you ever done a planting of potatoes now?? I’m in Zanesville area, last frost estimated October 11th. My first potato crop failed, it’s been so darn hot and dry they died off.
I have not-- potatoes generally shut down tuber production at temps over 85F, so in an average summer they won't produce much through July & August. However- if you wait till mid July to plant, you can time for a fall harvest, where the potatoes won't be starting to put on tubers till about mid September onward.
The most annoying part is that the garden store vegetable seedlings are all sad and pathetic and they don’t replace them with new ones. I’m not great at seedlings and prefer to buy them if my tries fail
@@GrowfullywithJenna This is the first year I'm going to be planting a late summer/fall harvest crop so I kept waiting for the "tips" and everything you were saying was the same thing as the previous video on "what you can plant in July".
We tried an experiment starting sweet corn, watermelon, squash, beans and cukes during this last week of 90+ temps. Soaked the seeds overnight, saturated the soil, planted and then mulched with all of our spent broccoli and cauliflower leaves. For added pest prevention, we laid down a shade cloth over each bed to deter curious squirrels chipmunks and birds. We've had germination through the soil within 3-4 days on everything, and they are looking strong even with the heat. Gotta get creative this time of year!
That's so encouraging to hear! I'll try the same thing!
Life gets in the way...THAT is the statement of the day! Right now, this year, we are planting less than last year, exactly because of life. That, and temperatures are oppressive already, much earlier than usual here in Georgia. Every year cannot be a bumper year, sadly.
No, not every year can be a bumper year. But I hope you are taking the time to take care of yourself! 💚
Indeed, we must all keep on eye on our own well being, which is why we garden! Keep the lovely videos coming...we need the wisdom and tips :)
Shade cloth is a must this summer. I am glad to have them.
Agree!
A garden buffet of tips you are not born knowing. Sometimes it is the little things we do in the beginning that makes a large difference come harvest time.
A few things I do.
When I 1st started gardening I also started a worm bin, 5 years later I can easily generate 500 lbs of vermicompost a year, more if I really wanted to. I use a lot of vermicompost in the garden. When I transplant seedlings I mix a generous helping of vermicompost in the planting hole, when I direct sow, add vermicompost into the soil. After I plant or sow, I use a vermicompost/compost extract and water everything in with that. Prior to heavy rains I will top dress the established plants with vermicompost to give the plants a boost of nutrients and biology.
You mentioned the importance of healthy soils, diversity in the soil biology is really key, vermicompost supplies part of that.
After I direct sow both in the spring and summer, I cover the seeds with finished leaf mold, then a light mulch of dried grass, the leaf mold holds a ton of moisture as does the vermicompost, with normal watering everything does fine.
I have to look into that bacillus you tried on your tomatoes.
For my nemesis, powdery mildew, the only thing that worked for me last year was lactic acid bacteria (LAB), getting a head start with that this year.
Using more chop and drop of comfey, borage and weeds this year as a mulch. Still learning about carbon nitrogen ratios and nutrient cycles, seems to be doing OK.
Added plantings of yarrow and bee balm to draw in more beneficial predatory insects, can't have too many of the good guys.
More of a comment than you were looking for for sure, but you did ask, lol.
As always, a terrific video! Stay Well!!!!
Zone 3 here. My garden is just getting going! ❤
And I think gardening in zone 4 is hard! Hats off to you!
Just want to say you rock the wide brim hats and love your style in general. Thank you for the valueable info as always! 🙏🏽
Thanks! 😄
A wonderful, timely video for us central Kentucky folk. Thanks for your clear and concise information. Your delivery is wonderful.
Thank you!
I have worked on mending and adding compost to our soil for our vertical gardens here in zone 7b with some success. The greatest problems this year are a few you have addressed well here, increasing microbial content and keeping worm/beetle damage at bay. Oh, and definitely appreciate that we're not the only ones sowing crop seeds late in the season.
We put up a 20x30 shade cloth trellis over our broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower and tomatoes. It got hot early this year. It has helped.
As the climate seems to be changing faster than I can keep up I’m planting later ie: beans bush, cucumbers, eggplant etc. It has helped with bean beetles and cover with insect netting until they bloom. Also found much less damage with purple bush beans instead of the regular green beans. Used shade cloth for the first time this year in all my years of gardening! Thanks so much for posting these tips because it is getting challenging. 💚
North central OH here. Your video boosted my confidence in my late start garden . Thank you.
Glad to hear it!
Love all your advice. I’ve been gardening for over 30 years and am still learning some new all the time.
It's funny that you are now leaning into the liquid fertilizers. I have always used the liquids, usually as a foliar spray because it seems to make a faster improvement, but I just started adding in some granular fertilizers. I have always struggled to grow melons; the growth always seems very slow and I get tiny melons. I decided to try some bone meal and Espoma Plant Tone as a side-dressing every few weeks and that has made a big improvement. Now I'm testing it on all of my plants (even though I'm pretty happy with their growth and production).... always trying to tweak and improve things.
I started doing this a few years ago and you are right. It is a lot less work all at once both at planting time and harvest time. I only can jalapenos and everything else I just eat fresh so staggered planting works out great.
😊 Watching while eating dinner on the back porch over looking gardens. When potatoes come out I plan to put in zucchini seeds because they’ll grow quickly, will be higher up in the raised bed and I need to restock my freezer for winter bread baking.
That sounds lovely!
This was just the video I needed here just South of Lexington KY! Lots of helpful steps on where you are and where we are going in the growing season. Love your videos for nearby zone insight Jenna!
I'm in south Lexington. Jenna is a gem. It's wonderful that her knowledge applies directly to our gardens. Happy we got some rain. Hope y'all did too. Happy growing!
Love your vids! As a beginner you are my 1st "go to" for anything. I was concerned I didn't get things planted soon enough and then the heat wave eased my worries. Your garden is amazing and I'm sure it is basically 24/7 work.
Worry is a prayer for something you don't want ... don't worry - be happy.
People say that to me about my garden being a lot of 'work' . . . I consider it play not work. I'm always experimenting to keep it interesting and educational. That's why I watch these kinds of videos ... gives me insights and ideas of what I can do in my garden? My biggest aim is to give a gift to my future self so it doesn't turn into 'work'.
So this year I also planted cucumbers and melons out late to avoid the cucumber beetles. As soon as they emerged I hit them with the surround kaolin clay. This seems to have helped with sun scald and pest pressure as so far there have been no signs of it. I also frequently water and mulched the beds with about 1-2 inches of what I could get my hands on that I knew would be safe - pine shavings. The soil has retained moisture really well, the plants are doing really well so far even in this heat wave. I'm looking forward to seeing what the results are later this year.
Funny at 15:59
Chicken owners would understand that 😂
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Yep I looked around to see what's going on in my hen house lol
Rain! Glorious rain! Finally! My gardens were suffering with the heat and drought. I had to cover my basil for a week. Now I think everything has a chance and maybe I can fertilize. Extreme heat in NH is uncommon but we broke records last week, even reaching 100F. VT had rain. Northern NH had rain, but I'm in the central part of NH and, no rain for two weeks. After the rain over the weekend, I mulched with red cedar shavings. Seems alright.
Thank you for all your information.. being a somewhat new gardener in Ohio I am thrilled with all your advice
Hi Jenna I am in Canada about 1hr from Detroit so we have similar growing challenges. I just got some surround kaolin clay so am excited to try it. I have a large garden as well. Last week I put a thermometer on one of my raised beds it was 118F beside it was another one with about 50% shade cloth it was 93F 25 degrees difference . that was a lot of difference. Your channel is great👣👣👣
Been going through my own struggles. without my garden and dog (dog is getting old), I would be lost, really miss my cat.
My garden is sowed with love, I let her go her way and try to just add more beauty.
2/3rds of what I grow i give away or feed to my worms, I am fine with that.
No matter what, my garden has brought nature back into my life.
I have to start celebrating the garden outside again with my violin .
A couple years ago I used to play a lot outside, actually grew an audience once or twice.
Hope to survive the next year, really need to, many living things depend on that.Here is a poem I wrote a year or so ago.
Who would care, at the stare, of a hummingbird!
My only peace, is what they mean to me .
When I am gone, no one will care, but the hummingbird,
when they take, the flowers away.
I care not bout the bounty of the garden, of what it brings to me, I care more for the bounty of the garden, that gives to all things that are free.
It is my soul, as a combat veteran, I bring to thee, the aroma of the herbs on a warm evenings night, it should have been me.
The garden has given me a light, not to fear the lonesome night.
Love your videos. Please stay well!!!!
Here in Cleveland the summer goes so far past Labor Day now that there isn't as much pressure to hit that mid-May date.
Same-- I'm old enough to remember when it used to get cold around Labor Day... definitely not the case anymore!
I switched to burpless cucumbers last year and have had much less damage from beetles.
NE OH here. The heat has finally broken! For a little bit, anyway.
I mulched heavily before that heat, and preemptively watered deeply over a couple days. I think I lost a small tomato plant, but everything else did just fine. I also had some bigger tomatoes to replace it with.
Still thankful to have gotten some rain and a mostly overcast day!
Most abundant resource I have is wood chips and saw dust (not really dust ... it was used for insulation in the walls of old buildings here that are dilapidated now). I'm on the west side of the Rockies with birch, cedar and lots of fir trees. The neighbor allows me to have all the saw dust from the waste pile from their old saw mill -- hasn't been in use for decades so the pile is rich in wood remnants ... pretty near soil. I have a wood shredder so I can make lots of chips but that too is in some of the walls in the old buildings.
6:30 it was so wet here, that for the first time, I didn't water after transplanting. I got almost 4" of rain in the past 5 days on silt-clay loam soil, and the soil is completely saturated with water. Humidity has also been very high, with a lot of clouds, so evapotranspiration hasn't been that high despite warm temperatures (mid-upper 80s).
We have went from a year of severe drought to monsoon. It’s Soo wet, humid and Hot in WI and the mosquitoes could drain you in a minute. 😂there is no way I could go sleeveless right now. Stuck inside like winter time. Haven’t braced to go outside today, but it’s cooler. Need to get pots to start fall starts. Seriously, I’m wearing a head net and dressed like an Eskimo. Can’t see a thing and almost clipped irrigation twice. Glasses, sweat, headset=No Fun.
We had 6.5” of rain Friday and Saturday, more coming on Tuesday and Friday. Our semi retired meteorologist said he’s never seen weather like this. When I seen the large oak doing the hula last night-I hid. No damage because it didn’t touch down, but things are leaning and bruised. Some area flooding but not as bad as surrounding states.
Shade fabric is my friend and bug netting. So Easy to clean produce now! Never grow brassicas without it. The moths came and went 😂. Started 4/15 with brassicas and had state fair Bok Choy (Olds Seed and it was old seed;-) and a 7+lb Botanical Interests slo bolt Napa Cabbage!😅. I don’t think Olds is in business anymore, but always good seeds. The bug netting worked great! Not enough time to succession sow Bok Choy-heat kicked in and instant bolting started. Clearing out rest of broccoli soon and garlic for fall crop. The cauliflower’Fujiyama’ from Johnnys is heat tolerant and Is doing Great! I’m growing in my two clay beds as brassicas like that. One thing though is I wish I started brussels a bit later because they may be ready before frost-sigh. We needed big nets for those as they are tall 😅.
Things I want to improve on is note taking, marking and succession sowing salad crops. I think I should just put the salad seeds in my pocket and drop like Johnny Appleseed whenever I’m out there 😅. I like my preservation crops to be ready all at once. Trying more determinates and hybrids and glad I did because this weather is too mucky and there will be fungus started. I ripped up those red poppies as they were too thick and should have thinned A Lot more out this spring. Everything needs air and sun right now. Will switch to granular fertilize because of rain and once that fish emulsion is used up-I’m done with it! Matter of fact I may just give it away. It calls in the nocturnal animals and a coon killed a rooster. Now our other roosters seem depressed. Too many of those night animals is what officials say. I agree as no one coon hunts anymore.
Any tips on fertilizer or anything else for cauliflower is appreciated! Want to try that canned veg pickle recipe with all sorts of veg. if I can get everything to ripen at once. Oh man just seen pickled cauliflower with curry-Yummy! Made kraut with curry and it was delish!
Great vid as always Jenna! Now I think I will get brave and make my way to the shed 🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟Bzzzzzzbzzz.
6.5" of rain... wow!! Send some my way please.
I'm adding Fujiyama to my list of varieties for next year!
And we've had a huge influx of raccoons in recent weeks as well. Just caught one digging up my entire garden the other night. It's the first time I've ever had that issue. Sorry to hear about the rooster- it's always depressing when something happens to the animals.
Take care of yourself!
@@GrowfullywithJenna will do as we’ve all had enough rain for a bit. Thank you, the other 3 roosters seem different now, like they are missing their buddy. It’s surprising to see their behavior.
Thanks for your tip earlier this year on Blue Lake Superior Beans! I got them from Jung Seed and I Iove them! They are delicious raw in the garden and steamed with butter! I’m telling everyone about them and sharing seeds (Jung is very generous!) This is my go-to bean now! I grew mine in my GreenStalk Vertical Garden. They are perfect for that! I’m in Independence, Missouri Zone 6b
I'm so glad you like them!
I live Ohio same zone. I had to get shade cloth because they were all getting burned and they were hardened off. I’m gonna try the clay spray. I have some i bought last year but I never got around to using it. I found spraying fish emulsion and water on the leaves once a Erin the early morning is giving a boost
Yes you get the heat and we don't -- it's been a strange spring here in the Columbia valley BC . . . cold for the most part with some teasing warm days and plenty of rain, but after planting out we got frost or near frost so seedlings suffered.
Thank you for your tips!!!
Yeah, same here in Michigan. We can't seem to get heat. Our ten-day forecast shows highs in the 70s and 60s.
You go girl!
Thanks! Well worth the full watch; wide range of info.
Excellent video -- extremely helpful and a pleasure to watch. Thank you!
Here in Colorado (USA hail capital), hail cloth provides a bit of dual function by also providing ~15% sun attenuation. Also....thank you for the Surround WP information (on a previous video). It seems to be helping immensely with a grasshopper invasion that has decimated several crops - especially basil and some other herbs, along with weakening pepper seedlings. I endorse your emphasis on tightly sealing agribon covers. Grasshoppers have found their way inside several of my agribon installations and are enjoying tented protection from the birds while engorging on the crops. Dry summer conditions here on the arid plains really draws grasshoppers (and other critters) to my garden oasis. Always a challenge -- and I envy your lovely growing environment there in Ohio.
I’m in CO as well, and the grasshoppers are wicked!! 😭 They went straight for my peppers the moment I got them in ground. 💔
95-99 degrees here in SE Pennsylvania. Water every day, and even the peppers looked stressed. Tomatoes taking it like champs.
I love your expert educational videos Jenna! You are the best!
Thank you!
Thank you for a great garden tips.
Hi Jenna , you're amazing. Love all your videos thank you, I'm amazed how your beauitfal garden is open and you still have veggies! If I for even 1 night, left my hot house or screened in rased beds open, it would be striped in a flash.. racoons, opossums ,squirrels, birds, foxes and who knows what else.( deer in front yard but thats another story) . I learned my lessen that fake owls, hawks exc... dont work. oh and my peach ,apple, figs. blueberries ,rasberry, are also a free for all. I am still trying , in zone 7a on the coast of NJ. :)
Fantastic video, Jenna! Great tips all around. Yes, it has gotten hot much earlier than normal this year.
I love following along with your gardening journey through your videos. Get so many good ideas from you.
I found insect netting cut off air flow to my excuse for a hoop house. It's a chicken run that I'm using to protect from squirrels and deer and rabbits. So, I'm using shade cloth and it is great. I'm fighting off Japanese beetles right now. Traps are full after only one day. I will deal with them each day!!! The strawberries are okay. I'm thankful for that. I eat the leaves too!
Last fall I chose to put my garden completely fallow for this year’s growing season. I planted it in a cover crop of Winter Rye, Austrian Winter Peas, and Hairy Vetch. All varieties wintered well and resumed vigorous growth in the spring. The vetch is a clear winner in the growth contest by using the rye and peas as structure for its climb to the sun. The garden is completely covered in blue flowers except for the two rows of potatoes which I carved out for them. The vetch is attempting to use the potato plants for structure. I am happy to observe the vetch’s progress since this the first time I that I have grown hairy vetch as a cover. Next spring I will have a clear understanding of how effective it was as a soil treatment.
I also did Hairy Vetch last fall and cut it down right before planting my tomatoes, then chopped it up and used it as a mulch. So far this is my best tomato crop in years!
OMG Jenna, great to hear from you via video. Here in Vermont we have gone from 3 days in the 90's+ to 3 days of mud producing precipitation. We have many things in common , including the love for German Shepherds. I just keep moving forward trying new things...most recently Korean Kiwis which produce the most amazing berries
I've ever tasted. Kind Regards..Craig
Ooh- where did you get your Korean kiwis?
@@GrowfullywithJenna Stark brothers nursery have two varieties, on is the best tasting fruit and the other is a pollinator,
Sadly my growing season is too short for delays and succession planting, and this year we have had only one really hot day. If I don't plant on-time I get no crop before the frost. Loved the advice, though. I'm especially interested in that competitive bacteria. It might be worth trying.
I learn so much from each of your videos so far thanks!! Your garden kicks some serious gluteous maximus. It slaps Cheek and Leaves a MARK!! 🔥 cheers
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Thanks, Jenna! Information I need right now. 6A Indiana got about .5” rain overnight. Need a lot more, but I’ll take it!
Same- we got 1/2"-- I was SO thankful. Like you, we could use more, but I'll also take it!
Beautiful people beautiful garden
Rice is often high in arsenic. Wouldn't the hulls have the same issue? All of your videos are amazing! I learn so much. Thank you!
Great question! I hadn't actually considered this, but after a bit of digging came across some good news. According to one study incorporating rice hulls into the soil can "decrease toxic inorganic arsenic levels in rice grain by 25 to 50 percent" (www.ricefarming.com/departments/feature/incorporating-rice-husks-into-soil-may-cut-arsenic-uptake-by-plants/). This is due to the high silica content in rice hulls. Another interesting article discussing this phenomenon here: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2113071118
I had 2 San Marzano tomato plants in a barrel and every tomato was getting blossom end rot. I had similar issues with them last year. I decided I’m not going to waste prime real estate on non-performers. Chopped up the inhabitants of one barrel - which broke my heart because they had such lush foliage - before discovering dry soil underneath the straw. Long story short, I gave the second barrel another chance by mixing in more organic material, (fingers crossed!).
I’ve got tomatoes and peppers waiting on the sidelines for my garlic and onion beds to be cleared and they’re looking pretty disheveled. I’m growing a new squash this year called kuri and another called luffa. I may need to break out the surround clay.
Crush up some Tums and put in bottom of hole add little soil( so roots don't touch), plant tomatoes as always. Works every time.
Thank you Jenna. I am in the Denver area, so have lots of challenges with soil and temperatures. This year we are getting a heat wave that has continued on so I agree that the netting and shade cloth can help. We also get hail so I have to use hail cloth here too. Lost some early transplants so I am doing some replacement planting now. Your flowers are beautiful, can you also talk about when you started them and if you did transplants or direct sow? Thanks.
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Great to see you, and hear your voice Jenna! I noticed you have nicotiana planted in your vegetable garden, do you worry about mosaic virus with your tomatoes? Thanks for a great video!
Oh my gosh this heat is terrible. We have been getting the same heat as you Jenna here in N.Y. I want to do things in my garden and the humidity is so bad you cant hardly breath. We did get some rain though but humidity is still high. Its supposed to be better on Monday but 90 again starting on Tuesday.
It feels like August in June! Take care of yourself, and try to stay cool!
My garden is dying a slow death in eastern NC. It has been extremely hot (6 days in a row of 90 plus temperatures) with a week projected temperatures to be over 95. Its only June. July is our hottest month. Its been a hard growing season
My problem is intense heat and no rain usually until mid September. 98f all week here already! Had a great spring though
I love your videos. Where did you get the shade cloth tunnel from?
I'm using bacillus amyloliquefaciens in the water when I start plants along with a Mycorrhizal Soil Inoculant. What led you to use it on the foliage?
Is that older mullein there for the pollinators are you using it for allergies and asthma?
Every year brings new gardening challenges. After 3 dry years , this season we have had consistent rain and high humidity with disease pressure. My vegetable garden is doing well, as are the weeds! I noticed the beautiful fennel you harvested. For the last 2 years the Florence fennel I grew did not bulb. It produced prodigious amounts of vegetation and flowers but didn't bulb. I wonder if that is due to nutrient inbalance?
I switched to insect netting last year and I am not a fan of spraying. Game changer, YES! Any tips for chipmunks chewing holes through the netting. So far red Pepper flakes haven’t worked. Any known plants that deter them. The neighborhood cats are doing double time on chipmunks but still 🤦♀️. Is there a heavy duty netting?
I have put shade cloth over my potatoes. I have them in 5 gallon buckets on my patio so between the sun and reflection from the cement and my white house they were just getting burned up. The shade cloth has really helped. I have thought about putting some to partially cover my tomatoes and peppers on these really scorching hot days we have had. I am in Ohio in 6b and like you this June has been rough. My tomato and pepper leaves are curling and wilting. When it cools off a little after dark they look better so I know it is the sun. I have never used it on anything but the potatoes. What do you think? Should I try it or just let them tough it out? Thanks for your very timely videos Jenna.
I live in Ohio zone 6b. My brassicas got hammered this year. I noticed you use hoop tunnels with netting, where do you buy them at? My nets and shade cloth aren’t doing the job. Thanks! Love your channel, I get a lot of tips having a similar growing environment and weather.
Bought my nets off Amazon. Hoops PEX water pipe with rebar as holders. This way I can make tall or short hoops. Hope this helps.
What about neem oil on the brassica? Excellent video thanks
I have remembered to start my Fall seeds, thank you 🎉🎉🎉 Would it make any difference to put my newly planted trays outside instead of inside as in Spring? Indiana 6A zone. Put out in dappled shade and critter proof? Your flowers are gorgeous 😊
I'm loving the surround so far but does it keep polinators away also? My eggplant look great but they have no fruit yet.
I've not had any issues with the surround affecting pollinators. Typically, even if you get a little spray on the blooms they can still be pollinated.
Such a hard year - we are in IN - first year in many that I didn't lose the zukes as fast as the first fruit tried to come on. But we are having to use weed barrier as we can't get the Johnson grass to not take over . . . whatever can you do? You are growing in the ground - how do you get away from Johnson Grass, Canadian Thistle, the nightshades that grow in this area??? It is not as easy to cover the plants in weed barrier with the bug barriers and shade cloth - we are looking at making a frame. Help! We really need to figure out some of this. Thanks for your great advice - I want to know when to start brassicas for fall - this year is so strange!!!
Any recommendations for June bugs on my grapes?
At the 15:50 mark, sounds like the chickens were laughing at you. - Just saying. (You said you hated watering.)
I also use this Monterey Complete Disease Control for my tomatoes. Hoss Tools, and maybe Lowes has it I think. It’s a biofungicide/bactericide, has that bacillus amyloliquefaciens D747, and is OMRI (Organic) listed. I ground soak then later foliar water the plants with just my watering can. All was good until my plants became under water by rain twice last year.
There's this "Cease" biofungicide. Couldn't find it in a smaller quantity. The other one is right sized for me. Hoss and Lazy Dog Farm also have some decease prevention programs and stuff. I'm also playing around with different varieties and doing some more determinates.
I’ll start using it this week. Still playing catch-up in the garden.
I looked it up. That was chicken talk for "Yeah. Good luck with that!" - A goal of every gardener.
Hahaha- I'm sure they were. I suspect they laugh at me a lot 😆
What poppies are planted at 13:25? They are gorgeous!
I love them too! It's the 'Food not Lawns Remix' poppy mix from Adaptive Seeds. www.adaptiveseeds.com/product/flowers/poppy-food-not-lawns-remix-organic/
Please post that strain of Bt you are using for disease protection. I haven’t heard of that strain for tomato early blight. And where to buy it. Thank you!
When do you plant for fall Rutabaga, and when to plant Collard greens?
Where do you get your shade cloth and row cover?
Which Fox Farm fertilizer do you recommend?
Hello … new to vegetable gardening… where can I find these arched shade netting? … and why does plant food or fertilizer burn plants?
I know this isn't your mulch video, but do you deal with pill bug population explosions with heavy mulching? I've been mulching much like you show for a couple years, and this year the pill bugs killed or damaged a large fraction of seedlings and transplants. I had install little fences around all large-seeded plants as they emerged, and around the stems of tomato plants.
This is a great question! This spring, I actually held off on any mulching because it was so wet and because the slugs were so bad (common advice is to avoid mulch because slugs like to hide underneath it). What I saw was that pill bugs were chewing on my plants (which I've NEVER had happen before). When I finally went ahead and mulched (grass clippings and leaf mulch), the pill bug damage on plants stopped. I'm assuming because they were focused on the surplus dead organic matter I had just added to the garden rather than my plants. I can't speak for anyone else, but that was my experience this spring!
@@GrowfullywithJenna Thanks so much for the reply! I've heard complaints about pill bugs from all over the country this year. Weird. At least I don't have slugs to deal with! 🙂
Quick question, what brand are the bibs? They look lightweight and ripstop like my old BDU's, thanks!
Wow! Your onions look amazing! I had a raccoon completely destroy my bed this year so knocked over the tops. Have you had any luck with fall planting of onions? I live near Cincinnati, OH so I think we're in similar climates.
Try short day onions for late planting.
Where did you find them Bib Overalls by the way? They look lite weight
I got a super late start this year and would love to try corn for the first time. I'm in the same zone (6A). Am I crazy to start some Bolt XR now? Thinking my chance of success would be really low.
When is your first fall frost date (approximately)?
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@@BoroPAGardener Not crazy at all! You could definitely start some Bolt now.
Great video! Completely unrelated but where are your overalls from, if you don't mind sharing? 😂
They are from Duluth Trading Co. These are quite old, but believe they are similar to the heirloom gardening bib they sell now.
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Hi! I’m in Eaton OH! Any tips for ants on Loofa? I use DE but I don’t like it all the time due to pollinators. But these ants here destroy every bit of new growth on the Loofa!
And shade cloth is a game changer!! 🎉 I sail it over my garden so I can work under it also! Yes my gardens are much smaller than yours!
When you say fresh grass clippings. Like cut the grass and then mulch right away? Or do grass clippings need to dry some first?
I cut the grass and then immediately mulch with it.
@@GrowfullywithJenna Thank you for your response!
What brand are your overalls?
Duluth Trading Co. These are very old, but similar to the heirloom gardening bib they sell now.
i have tomatoes in a grow bag, my concerns are, i started from seed on 4/12 but no flowers yet. i transplanted them outside a month ago with sage and marigold. no pests yet but its crazy hot in zone 6. i dont have nor can i afford any. what can i do?
What's your watering like. Dig a bit deeper into your grow bag before you normally water and see if the soil is moist enough. Grow bags can dry out pretty quick, you can use container saucers to help it hold more water. From what I understand you are growing on a budget. The container saucers are expensive, but you can use other things like kiddie pool or some sort of trays. At the same time you don't want to water excessively and flood the roots.
Not sure what you are trying to say that you can't afford. By now most of my tomato plants are already fruiting. Tomato need good fertilizer or a nutrient rich soil preferable amended with compost. In the case of container growing you have to add some fertilizer. If you can't spend much money, at least try to get a bag of 10-10-10, it isn't the most ideal for tomato growing maybe but $11 for a 20lbs bag goes a long way. But apply sparingly according to the instruction as it is a potent synthetic fertilizer and can damage your plant and soil with over application. Depends on your container size probably only need a tablespoon or two, then wait at least a week to see how the plant respond. It's better if you can get a fertilizer formulated specifically for tomato but they are more expensive. I hesitate to recommend chicken manure compost because sometimes they are contaminated with herbicides, but it is a good affordable "natural" alternative to 10-10-10.
@@erikahuxleythis year I added a large plastic bag inside of one of my Tomato Grow Bags. Hesitant to use saucers this year because of Bothersome Mosquitos hanging around those plants last year.
@@erikahuxley hi sorry for the delay. I water twice a day. however i did some research and found out that it probably has nutrient deficiency. so i am going to get some potassium. also i meant i couldnt afford the shade cloth.
Do you grow dahlias Jen?
I do not
@@GrowfullywithJenna you should!
I dont believe the extra fertilizer. Fertilizer in the hole is more than enough in northeast PA. Maybe side dress in July.
I'm glad to hear that you don't need it. But all growing conditions are different. In a 'normal' year, I don't. But I've found that during increased stress, it helps.
If you totally saturate your transplants (read bottom AND top water) a few hours before they come out of the trays and fill the hole with water before you put them in the ground, none, except for the most sensitive plants will suffer transplant shock. No droop, no nothing.
Where is a good place to get rice hulls? I've only used them in brewing beer.
I was fortunate enough to be gifted with some rice hulls. But I know quite a few folks who get them here: amleo.idevaffiliate.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=184&url=36 A bale that size lasts quite a while for small to medium garden.
@GrowfullywithJenna thank you! I ordered Surround from your recommended vendor.
Have you ever done a planting of potatoes now?? I’m in Zanesville area, last frost estimated October 11th. My first potato crop failed, it’s been so darn hot and dry they died off.
I have not-- potatoes generally shut down tuber production at temps over 85F, so in an average summer they won't produce much through July & August. However- if you wait till mid July to plant, you can time for a fall harvest, where the potatoes won't be starting to put on tubers till about mid September onward.
The most annoying part is that the garden store vegetable seedlings are all sad and pathetic and they don’t replace them with new ones. I’m not great at seedlings and prefer to buy them if my tries fail
That is very true!
I may shade my habaneros. Such drama queens
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They ARE drama queens!
This is too much of a repeat.
A repeat of what? I’m happy to receive constructive criticism, but more detail would be helpful.
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This is the first year I'm going to be planting a late summer/fall harvest crop so I kept waiting for the "tips" and everything you were saying was the same thing as the previous video on "what you can plant in July".
After your reply I thought of looking to see if your description gave a timestamp of when the tips started. Thank you. Am watching now.
What is that broccoli variety you are harvesting? I never get big heads, just floret looking ones!
It is 'Purple Magic'
Emerald's are great for good size heads also.