She Neglected Her Garden and THIS Happened
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2023
- Welcome to my channel! In this eye-opening video, we're diving into the world of summer gardening in Florida, where many gardeners take a break due to the tough conditions of high heat, humidity, pest pressure, and diseases. Prepare to be amazed by the results of my little gardening experiment! 🌱☀️
Join me as I showcase my flourishing summer garden, carefully cultivated by selecting plants known to thrive in these challenging conditions. Despite intentionally neglecting my garden to see how it would fare, the outcome exceeded my expectations! 🌿💪
Discover the secrets behind this thriving garden as I discuss the importance of plant selection, sharing valuable insights on choosing the right varieties that can withstand the intense Florida summer. From heat-tolerant vegetables to pest-resistant flowers, we've chosen plants that truly rise to the occasion. 🌸🌿
Witness the resilience of my garden as we explore how it overcame the hurdles of high temperatures, humidity, pest pressure, and disease. Despite minimal maintenance, these plants not only survived but thrived, showcasing their incredible adaptability and strength. 🌱✨
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What is producing like crazy in your summer garden?
My number one producer is long beans followed by Malabar spinach and occasional California peppers
@@marilynearl2562 my Egyptian spinach is growing like crazy. It’s a new variety for me.
Surprisingly right now I’m getting lots of white spine cucumbers and Italian striped zucchini. My spaghetti squash has sprawled every where and have at least half a dozen of those sizing up which is exciting since I’ve never grown them before. 👍🏻 My luffa has two big gourds hanging on for dear life from my dill plants at the top of my GreenStalk which is next to it’s trellis. Also a first to grow for me. They’re about 18” now and I’m excited to harvest those later on. My tomatoes are wrapping up, my cowpeas are making little pods and boy they are cover cropping my garden bed because they are thick in there. So lush and green though which is fun considering my pole beans that were there died from heat stress and subsequently spider mite damage. I will plant more of those in August since we don’t usually get frost until Dec 1st here in East Texas. I am determined to grow brassicas successfully this fall. Wish me luck. I got three heads of cauliflower and no broccoli whatsoever. I planted March 1st but I should’ve started them earlier so they could finish growing before June when the heat set in. That’s also true for my potatoes (planted 4/15) which also didn’t do diddly unlike the batch I planted earlier (3/1) which did quite well. 🤷🏻♀️Timing is everything and quite the art form here and I have not mastered it yet lol. I want to try those green beans you’re growing! Those look yummy! ☺️
@@Happy2Run4Me sounds like you have a lot of things growing beautifully. I start my broccoli in September and grow it all winter. I’m not sure if that is an option for you. We get about 2-3 frosts but they usually are only for a couple hours overnight. The plants might get a little beat up from it but they normally do fine through it. Maybe consider planting yours before your last frost date when you can guess that you are down to just 1 or 2 more left in the season. Good luck! The green beans are called Thai Soldier beans. I’m in love with them!
I have hot peppers coming out my ears....been canning!
I planted a bed of various cow peas and they started producing really well. Then all the leaves turned yellow and fell off, and the stems turned yellow too. It was so very sad. My Seminole pumpkins are growing like crazy. It even went over the 6 foot fence to my neighbor's yard. She pulled it off the ground and hung it back on the fence, and now she has a good sized pumpkin growing. The leaves on mine are bigger than my head, and just going crazy. I only have 5 or so fruits right now, but I am hoping for more. I did make a squash flower soup from 6 or 7 of the (male) flowers, and that was fun. It was really good, I had never had squash flower (or pumpkin flower) before - it was nice having something completely different from our usual stuff. Everything else is limping along. I still am not getting consistent rain...but everyone else a few miles away is getting tons.
That sounds like me last summer. Rained everywhere around me but not at my house.
I have harvest so many Thia soilder beans!My neighbor is loving me😂.I have to go out in the garden of eden everyday to harvest them! My first time growing them and I was so happy of the production.They are my go to green beans and they taste awesome!!.
They produce soooo much. Congrats
Anything that I had growing that produces flowers before fruiting I have already pulled out of my summer Florida garden. At this point, I'm only harvesting pineapples, hot peppers, tons of basil and other herbs. I'm growing sweet potatos, papaya trees, banana trees and blueberry bushes. I'm cleaning out my beds and maintaining the plants I already have and Im growing flowers so I have pollinators for my fall planting season. I'm not having any issues with any bugs or fungus this summer. I can't wait for cooler weather.
Me too. This heat is too much. I want cold weather!
Such a pleasure watching your videos. Thanks for getting out in this dreadful heat to help us. I love love love the Zinnias. Thanks for letting me know what I think are my failures is really due to the heat, bugs and fungus. I am still getting a great harvest of peppers and a few Luffa. Sweet potatoes growing like crazy. Question: Will you be having a video of when to start putting fall seeds/transplants in and remove or cut back the cover crops? I did see your seed planning video but dont know when to remove my cover crops.
Yes! Actually I have my August monthly video coming out on 8/1. It will have all that. August, I’ll start planting tomatoes, squash, and other warm season vegetables. Then in September and October I’m gonna plant all my cold season veggies like broccoli and kale. My monthly videos include all those details of when to start each plant and then things like special projects, such as when to order your garlic and when to plant it. I’m also planning a video showing me actually starting seeds and planting all these things really soon. Keep a watch out. 💚
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a Yay...I have you set up for notifications. Thanks again.
My black beans are a monster, lol. I have 3 grow bags of sweet potato that are growing like crazy. My cherry tomatoes are still giving fruit, but not as much it seems to have slowed down. I planted Amish paste tomatoes & they are still producing. I've been neglecting most of my garden. I just have to check the grow bags, they dry out faster. With all the rain I really haven't had to do much.
My native flower garden in the front is starting to bloom up nice. I just bought a few more to plant among my vegetables.
My parsley, basil & rosemary are still good. I have 2 pineapple plants giving me fruit this year. So far so good. I'm loving neglectful gardening. Thanks again
Isn’t it great? I miss fussing over my garden but I’m also glad I don’t have to do anything if I don’t want to since it’s so hot, I might burst into flames out there 🔥🤣
After watching I ran out and sprayed my roselle with the peroxide mixture too. I am so glad you talked about that. The ones i have in pots in full sun look great but the ones I planted under our palm tree look like yours. Maybe they aren’t getting enough of the rain? No idea, first year growing them and thought it was odd after the research I did on them not liking too much water or at least “standing water” we will see.
My first Sunflower finally showed up. Hubby said I didn’t follow the instructions and planted the seed backwards as it’s facing away from the house towards the fence. 😂😂 He likes giving me a hard time, old fool that he is.
Bless your heart for enduring the god awful heat we’re having and sharing your garden with all of us. ❤
I look forward to seeing your peanut harvest and how that goes.
Now that you say that, I’m now thinking it has something to do with the shade. The last 2 years I grew them in pots in full sun but the ones in my beds get shade half the day. I wonder if the shade is keeping them from drying well after the rains causing fungal issues. Hmmm something to consider for next year.
The bugs attacked all my "cow" peas this year. A quick spray of BT took care if most of them. Then my wasps and bees came in and they are doing great. The stink bugs like peas, beans, and peppers also. They move from one to the next. If you don't treat, they'll be worse next year. My strawberries are doing great. Get 6 or 8 berries every day or 2.
Wow, u are still getting strawberries? That’s so cool.
@HomegrownFloridaZ9a they are ever bearing. Berries all year. I just freeze them and make jelly at the end of season.
@@sonnyamoran7383 I do the same but I do strawberry banana jam. So good!
I found this video extremely helpful, Petrina, thank you. To watch you verbally work through the issues and seeing the damage or the bugs themselves is reassuring to this newbie who doesn’t have a clue when things go horribly wrong. I can research of course, but you sort of have to know the lingo to find answers. I still don’t know what those small grey/white round spots are on my basil, but your sharing what you know helps me to believe I will someday know.
Thank you so much. That is so encouraging to me. I’ve been gardening for years and I still don’t always know. I usually just leave it and see what happens. It’s better to do less than more. You got this!
Thank you. I’m so behind and I am thankful to see that a lot is taking care of itself here too. ❤ I am very familiar with Florida. It is where I spent a lot of time growing up and going to my grandparents house in Port Charlotte. The heat and humidity kept me in the pool 🏊♀️ lol.
Same here! I basically live in the pool during the summer
You are a blessing to all of us trying to grow this time of year!!
Haha. It’s so hot. I feel like it’s getting worse as I get older.
OMG! Petrina, those are mealy bugs and you need to get rid of them or they will spread through your garden! I have been battling them this summer! The ants farm them for their honey dew, just like with aphids. I mostly smoosh them, but also alternate spraying with water/alcohol and water/peroxide.
I love watching and learning from you! This was another great video and now I want to try sun hemp and peanuts! 😊🌱🌸
Thanks for confirming that. I suspected it was mealy bugs but I couldn’t actually find the bugs, just the sticky goo.
My cow peas are blooming. Luffa is growing but not flowering. Long beans are producing well. I do have cucumbers still producing, kale producing, Everglades tomatoes doing well, peppers doing well and eggplants ramping up. Okra is not producing yet but will soon.
I do have to watch out for worms on the kale, but I just pick them off and wash and use the leaves in my soup anyway. Seminole pumpkins got a late start. Sweet potato vines are growing out if their raised beds and I am just letting them go. I eat the leaves. I also have a malabar spinach I need to plant outside. Green onions are okay too. I am in the panhandle of Florida. Heat index yesterday 115 until 6 pm.
I forgot to say my tatsoi greens are doing well, beautiful and not bothered in the heat right now, just the leaves stand up more than lay flat due to the heat.
Sounds like your summer garden is doing really good!
My roselle are doing the same thing. But I’m going to continue neglecting them 😂
Good for you! The more I baby them the worse they look so I’m backing off. If they make it, cool.
Hi Petrina!!! Love your channel!!! Lots of weeds, that’s what I have LOL… I have some peppers and tomatoes that are struggling bc I planted them too late but I’m so excited about my fall garden!! I’ve been planning while watching yours and Jackie’s videos. I wanted to ask you, I really want to try growing garlic this year, where and when do you get your bulbs to start the “cold” treatment??
Great question. I order them in August from Garlic Gods and they usually ship in September. They go in the fridge from there till the first good cold front in November or December. You could preorder them now if you like too.
Thanks for the update. I don't know how you stand the heat. I palnted 5 zuchini plants and got one squash from the lot of them.
I don’t hang out there much. Mainly just to do videos then I race back into the AC 🤣
My long beans are producing a lot but bugs are loving them also.
Mine don’t seem to be bothered by the bugs so that’s cool.
What is your favored way to prepare them?
@@marilynearl2562 my favorite way is to pick them very young spray them with some olive oil and season salt and then roast them at 400 for 15 to 20 minutes. They come out like crispy asparagus. So good!
you are so brave to go out in shorts lol. I always have all sort of bugs/spiders, frogs snakes lol Ants lol..Mosquitoes. I go out in garden boots and pants lol. Very rarely sandals now lol and if I have sandals I am
Haha. I’m constantly screaming from bugs crawling on me. My neighbors must think I’m crazy.
Weeds are growing lol. Flowers, lemon tree, tangerine tree and a couple pepper plants. What variety of peach tree do you have and does you need 2 for pollination? Has it produced fruit. I really enjoy your videos, thank you.
Thanks so much! It is a tropical beauty peach tree. You only need one to get fruit. I did a harvest video last month where I picked about 60-70 peaches. This is her 3 year giving me fruit but this year was the most she has every produced.
Wonderful I will look for the video. Where did you find it?
I got it from a lady in NPR off of Facebook marketplace. She sells a bunch of fruit trees. I think GreenDreams also sells and ships them.
the peanut flowers will push underground and become the peanuts
Really? That’s so interesting
Having same issues with Roselle. Added nitrogen and it looks a little better but still has the same veining as yours. Grew it last year with no problems
Are yours in full sun this year? A few other people mentioned they have the same issue when they grow in shade. Mine get about half day shade.
They’re in full sun, in ground with drip irrigation. Last year they were getting afternoon sun and in a garden bed and I watered by hand. Maybe they don’t like too much water. I have the drip set to 20 mins every day.
Interesting. Maybe it is the water. I’ve had a tremendous amount of rain this summer. More than normal. Thanks!
Will you plant a fall tomato crop? I do with tomatoes, squash, and cucumbers. And just plant fall, cool weather stuff around.
Yes, that’s exactly what I do too. I love growing in fall. I’m doing my tomatoes in pots this year to help extend the growing season
I am really looking forward to your new videos for August.
This has to be a ton of work for you, but you are so appreciated!
@@TW-gb6mh Thank you so much. I really hope you enjoy them 👩🌾
how do you cook the green beans. I am not a fan, but I am willing to give them a try if I find a good recipe or way of cooking them. thanks.
Our favorite way is to pick them young, spray some olive oil. Toss in season salt and roast at 400 for 15-20 mins. They come out crispy. So good
Hi, my name is Diana, and I have mealybugs...😢 Lol.
The veining on the roselle makes me think its a nutrient deficiency, esp. bc theyre in the ground. Have you ever tested your soil? I have marl, with a pH of 8.3, so I find that some things struggle to uptake certain nutrients (like iron). Youre probably right, though, fungus is a very likely suspect in Florida. 😅 Let us know if you do something and if it works.
Haha. Yes mealybugs are the worse. I thought a nutrition issue too but it doesn’t seem to be improving with fertilizer. I do test my soil yearly and it’s almost always short on nitrogen but everything else is usually good. I’ve been spraying it in hopes it gets better but no luck yet. Hopefully it gets better on its own. Next year I’ll move back to pots. They did better in those last year.
What is the purpose of the lightbulbs on the fence? I am seeing that other gardener fence too. Is this for plants during evening hours?
They are just outdoor lights. It’s to help light up my backyard in the evenings so that when I walk my dogs, it’s not pitch black.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a Ah, okay thank you.😊
Hi Petrina
I bought some Tokyo bekana to try. Im in Ky and it’s 90 degrees like it is everywhere
Will the bekana germinate outside in the heat or should I start it indoors?
It’s probably best to start it indoors. It’s pretty heat tolerant but 90 degrees is probably a bit too hot still. Let me know what you think
I saw one of your short videos on Thai Soldier Beans and I'm wondering how close you plant them. I will be planting in a 5 gallon bucket. How many is too many in a planter that size in your opinion?
I planted mine about 2 inches apart, super close. You could probably plant 10-15 in a 5 gallon bucket. You will probably want to give it something to climb or spill over the bucket.
@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I only put about 6 nice to know for next time. Your trellis is beautiful that's a good idea.
Peppers seem to be the only vegetable I can grow successfully in the swamp summer aka central Florida
Haha swamp summer. That’s pretty accurate. Have you tried some tropical varieties? They tend to hold up better to our summers rather than traditional veggies.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a tbh, I'm fairly new to growing food. I'm originally from Brooklyn so I'm still mesmerized when ANYTHING grows in my yard. FYI, trees literally grow out of the cement there. Not too much gardening happening. I do know that I need to use seeds developed here in this jungle climate of 3 million percent humidity and unpredictable downpours of buckets of rain. I'm looking to grow green beans, peppers (because I'm actually successful with them - yay for that) and, when cooler, lots of greens and cruciferous. What do you have?
@@lauras773 i absolutely love ur sense of humor. I have a whole list of varieties I like to grow during the summer. I just did a video that goes over some of my favorite summer varieties. The video is called “Grow this, not that”. Check it out
Will you have to dig up the sun hemp, roots & all after summer is over so you can use that bed for something else?
I’ll just cut it down at the base but leave the roots to decompose in the bed. Then I’ll just plant right into it for fall.
I read that sunhemp is a nitrogen fixer-not sure if that's true, but if it is, you'd want to leave the roots in place. If you're cutting them before they flower you could just chop and drop and use them as mulch.
How long has it been since you started neglecting the summer garden? Has I it been a month or more?
I pretty much started neglecting once I pulled my spring plants and planted my summer seeds. That was around April, if I remember correctly.
My Roselle is having problems too. Branches breaking off and then two bushes died. Not sure what the issue is because the other two look fine. 🤷
So weird. Mine started flowering too which shouldn’t be happening but im happy im getting a harvest.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a when should they flower?
@@joannamills4510 in fall. Around September - November depending on the variety.
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There are lots of spiders because there are lots of insects for them to feed upon. You know, this experiment illustrates that, in truth, we Humans are not really responsible for much of the success of gardening: Nature is doing most of the work. We can assist her at the margins but, even there, we are limited in what we can do.
Exactly! And it’s nice to just let go and let nature do it’s thing.
Those are actually pineapple ground cherries not tomattilo
What do you use the Roselle for? And also, what is the mixture of peroxide?.🙏🦩🦩🦩
I use the roselle to make a cranberry tea or cranberry dressing for thanksgiving. It’s even better than real cranberries. I’m addicted. The mixture is 10tbsp to 1 gallon of water