The Lazy Gardener’s July Checklist: Do These 10 Things NOW
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- With so much to do in the garden right now, how can we know what to prioritize? Don't worry, Ben has got us covered with his top ten tasks to keep on top of our summer veggie garden so we can keep those harvests coming and still have time to put our feet up. Cup of mint and nettle tea, anyone?
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I learned from this video that flowers don't have to be open to hand pollinate! Cool!
Terrible start to the growing season in South Wales this year. Fingers crossed though. Its videos like this that give me hope that all is not lost. Good luck everyone! 🏴
Same. Im likr “what harvest?” 🙂 ive had tons of peas at least
I agree I'm in the Welsh valleys and it has taken three sowing starts to get any germination and now I have actually got something in the ground on the allotment the plants are just not going anywhere. that's gardening for you!
Ours on the Mid-Atlantic of the USA was very poor also. All the best to you!
Here in Sylacauga Al, it has been dry and the temperature in the shade has been 39C-40C. It has been miserable! But the garden has to survivce and keep producing. I've had to switch to daily watering, twice daily for some plants. Fortunately, we've been blessed with rain yesterday and today-the first rain showers all month. I am regularly harvesting a lot of tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, lemon squash, peppers, and salad onions. I have watermelon and cantaloupe on the vine ripening, aand many of my herbs are flowering, spearmint, peppermint, catnip, cilantro, lemon thyme, basil, comfrey, and oregano. My henhouse is set up, and I am in the process of covering the chicken run with chicken wire. I can't let them free range. We have cats, and a puma that is hunting on our property. It got three of our cats this month! Until it moves on to other lands, it isn't safe to go outside at night without a loaded rifle. It has been seen in the driveway in mid-aftwernoon. In a few days, I will be planting a crop of fall potaoes, and in two weeks, I'll sow seeds for cabbage, carrots, and turnips. I can't wait for the cooler temperature of autum, and fall gardening. It is much easier to manage. Happy Gardening!
Wow tour doing a great job mate Im in nottingham uk and have the exact polar opposite of problems. Its been so sodding cold here that most of the stuff is just withering also endless rain since november 2023. We hust had a week of 28c which in uk is very welcome so got ahead and put my cucumbers out and all my stuff outside but now we are forcast the next few weeks of it being 8 to 10c in the evenings! So the tomatoes. Squash and chillies im geowing are now going to stip growing. We have no insects apparently this year I havent seen one bee except ones literally dead in their tracks stuck to the flower they were pollinating so I am now a human bee with a paintbrush trying to desperately get a harvest.
Also my boston terrier is being hunted by a cat LOL just thought id add that to reiterate the total polar opposite.
All the best and good luck
Cool, I'm in gulf shores and enjoyed our first rain yesterday too. Squash vine borers have taken everyone's cucurbits here. Jealous you have melons and squash!!!!!
@@HeatherWalters I've had my battles with squash borers, and lost my crookneck squash to them. They didn't bother my zucchini and lemon squash. They are still producing.
Sopping wet here in Niagara, Ontario, Canada. Its been hot, humid and frequently raining - feels like the rain forest. We had a strange full week of over 30c and it was hard on the garden. Now the plants are thriving and happy but it is still fairly early in the season here so no big harvests yet. Just baby tomatoes and peppers still sizing up. Lettuce is getting ready to bolt and picking very small green onions.
I had a pleasent surprise harvesting Garlic today, I'd had a poke around the stems trying to feel the bulb and not finding them, I forgot I'd added 2" of compost mulch after planting and the bulbs were hiding under the soil layer, they're huge!
Bet you had a heart-stopping moment there. I didn’t plant garlic this year, but did plant about 40 elephant garlic and lost every single one to something that ate them from the root up. Made me cry. So glad you didn’t have a tearful moment.
@@firehorsewoman414 'skill cult' channel dropped a video recently showing how he uses Garlic to bait gopher traps, maybe that's what took your ele garlic, he shows two types of traps with some good instruction
It’s been a miserable spring and summer in Cornwall , but it’s not been as bad as I feared I’ve harvested two winter mash potato squash , this year I grew them in pots so I could put them in the sunniest part of the garden to catch as much as I could , so that’s a win , likewise my pot grown carrots have germinated really well, but my beans have been slugged in the raised bed however they are growing up , very few leaves but they are flowering now , so we must all take take the wins and not worry about the losses. I love your upbeat videos Ben they help me keep positive.❤️
I’m so happy you posted this it really helps me out and love all your vids
This is the way to hand pollinate squash, it dosen't need to be more difficult.
Thank you for letting me know I can tap my corn, just like I do with tomatoes. Wonderful. By the way, my tomatoes are really doing great! So excited, first time to grow tomatoes from seed!!!
Love the camera work, very cinematic
Wish he'd say how he films actually and if he has any help.
Thank you very much! It's such a shame May was 90% rain for me so a lot of my plants are behind on growing! 😢Here's hoping for a decent harvest this year!
I had been looking for a fall season crop and bok choi is going to be the one! I had planted them out in spring just to deter the flea beetles, but now I can sow them for a fall harvest! Great tip. Thanks Ben!
Your garden looks fantastic. We've had a cool spring so I'm still waiting for things so get moving, but I remind myself that things will still be growing through September so there's time! Thanks.
Id like to add that you can also around this time get very cheap seeds and seedlings as most shops make room for other products I went nuts recently getting 30 standard seed bags for about £6.
slugs were bad here also. between them and some bad seeds my garden was very late getting going this year. good old squash never fails me and had a lot of tomato plants come up from compost I transplanted so all wasnt lost.
This is gold! Very cool man thankyou
Howdy, Ben and Rosie!👋Great tips!😃 Yummy garlic harvest!👍
Summer still cancelled up here in Scotland - I've actually had my heating on all week, but at least the tatties are growing well. Unfortunately my begonias have been completely ripped to shreds by the endless winds. I think I'll just have to grow them indoors from now on.
After a slow start my allotment just got going. A couple of weeks behind but looking forward to some fresh produce. Great video 👍
Being a man, it's my duty to pollinate the flowers in the garden too 😉
Don't let the neighbours see you!😂
Thanks for another great video Ben
Wow beautiful your garden fresh garlic and skinny very fresh
Thank you Ben for promoting the organic vegan fertilizer❤. Awesome video!
This video is so chock full of fantastic tips. Thank you! Alas, my November garlic was very small. I know my. soil is not what it needs to be, but we're still eating the tiny things!
I love mint tea .
Greetings to you😊Great information. Love watching your channel, always good information. Thank you🌻😊
i love this dude
I am just LOVING your work!👍
love this
Your videos are perfect!
Informative, realistic, fun and well timed for me ,although I'm watching from Bavaria where it's been really hot.
Still too many blasted slugs though!
Many thanks Ben!
Great idea !!
I plan to artificially pollinate all my veggies that way !!
My garlic was rubbish this year so I just left most of it in the ground - awaiting some elephant garlic to plant this autumn. Shallots good as usual and leeks - slow start to summer here in France so tomatoes not ready yet - except for a few cherries. Love idea of supermarket herb cuttings. I like to let mine go to seed (after drying some stuff) and saving some seeds and burying the rest - that way double the catch! Lemon Balm also makes a great T with mint! My fennel is also rubbish and went to seed before a proper bulb formed. I didn't grow beans this year (just fab crop of broadies over winter) as slugs and then the heat frisles them up! No corn either just too dry and too many ants! I left some celery in and have let it seed for next year as it is not a good crop here generally to hot and tends to be tough. Becoming more difficult here to source decent potting mix especially potting-on it puddled and was rough things just didn't 'come on' with it!
Hang the herbs in an airy dry room will also dry them out.
Strange reading some of these comments from here in Bucks, SE England - sure it was a terribly wet and chilly spring but in recent weeks it’s been the opposite problem if anything, lots of supplementary watering of runner beans etc required and I also just lost a blueberry container due to heat damage!
Great video my courgettes are just coming into flower and was wondering how to pollinate them,so bang on time posting this. Never grown them before,there the little round ones got my fingers xd I get some off the plants x
Thankyou for the first advice, I have had 4 highly productive courgette plants...unfortunately they look like deflated balloons and go yellow at the end, will definitely give this a try as 've lost so much fruit!
It’s looking lush, wonderful how plants suddenly go bananas 😂 I’ve just checked the yellow courgettes, they seem to be producing okay but I’ll try the pollination trick 👍 Some of the leaves were old wi5 mildew, so I cut them off, guess that’s okay?
I've got a double headed male courgette flower too.
😂 I actually grew some of the Napa cabbage, and to my horror the whole thing was a ‘manky beast’ to the core. Only was able to grow a decent one one year and never again. I gave up on those.
I wish there was anything to harvest unless you consider slugs a good harvest. Thats the only thing I get plentyful.
Thanks for another optimistic video. Can you tell us what sieve size do you use to sieve your compost - 3mm?
Things moving and growing well now 😅
I had to leave mine for a month, snd despite the rainy june, some have dried out completely.
Not much growth or many things to harvest in my garden right now, we must live in two different places called Britain. Weathers been so poor nothing is grown. What’s going on? Worst year ever
Same in Idaho, USA. Our last frost is typically in May, we had one mid June. The season has been much colder than usual and my garden appears stunted from it. I have nothing close to a harvest, either.
Same here. Eaten by slugs.
East coast Vancouver Island BC... chilly and wet. Looking forward to some sunshine!!
Same here north of England at least my cabbages are doing great not seen any cabbage whites this year😂corn,Tom's and most seedlings all seem to have stalled then grow then stall to so frustrating well behind.
@@user-yz5lz5ko5f yeh I’m out there every night picking them off
ive got a courgette called "sure thing", supposedly it will fruit without pollination and be seedless.
I got a double headed one on my courgettes! 😁
what a nice video again, I also have a vegetable garden with mini zucchini for the past 1 year; I saw someone on UA-cam who said that if you have 10 fruits you should prune 5 to promote growth and also remove leaves. what do you think about that, have a good weekend
Now we have ninjas the latest kitchen gadget
Garlic huh ?!
No vampires at your homestead then !!
I'm dealing with potato bugs. Do you have any advice on keeping them at bay? They decimated my strawberries and nibbled on my radishes :(
Sir , do you grow garlic from seeds or cloves?, because clove garlics rarely develop rust and it does look serious
Is it a sign of the times now that you need to pollinate your own outdoor plants? I myself breed as many butterflies and moths that I can. God help us....
I hand pollinated my courgettes, now i have so many that my family is tired of hearing you want some?!! Got a little bit out of control this year.
Maybe you could freeze or dehydrate some for the winter?
Good addition to compost. I can feed mine to chickens who obligingly turn them into eggs 😉
Dang it. Where’s the smell-o-vision when we need it.
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Check out the Serious Eats article on drying herbs in the microwave. The method works very well for hardier herbs; it leaves them more green than any other method I’ve tried! And time wise it’s much more efficient.
We're looking to get a dehydrator, which model do you have please?
He has the same as I have, a four tray Excalibur. They are quite expensive but I got mine cheaper on EBay. Excalibur is the very best of the lot.
thank you, need some advice part of my garden is clay soil, and struggle to grow veggies there, I have now just putting up raised beds in the areas of clay, do you have any advice on clay soil, I live in the north of Spain Asturais
We have added manure, leaf compost, regular compost and mulch and over time it really helps to improve the soil. Always keep it covered, too.
@@emkn1479 Thank you for your advice, I have put manure,leaves,greens,mulch,straw, sawdust none chemical and more, even dug in home food waste,
@@foxy7674. it takes time but it definitely helps
Hello 🎉🎉🎉🎉 friend
Top Slug Tip - release the chickens!
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I have too many male flowers and very few female flowers.
I have the opposite problem. All female and no males to pollinate with. Lots of rotting squash
Your videos are getting to be longer than necessary.