Vegetable Garden Tour Early-May 2022: Zone 6a, Ohio
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Welcome to the first vegetable garden tour of 2022 💚🌱 !
I am growing in Zone 6a, Ohio and focus on growing things I love to eat (vegetables, fruits & herbs), with a few flowers thrown in here & there- primarily for the pollinators.
I grow a vegetable garden at my home and share in the work of the larger vegetable garden at my parent's home- In this video I share what's growing now & plans for the 2022 gardening season at both locations.
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00:00 Intro
01:40 Strawberry Bed update- A word on Moles 🤬
03:10 The Plan for a Vole Proof Bed
03:35 Raised Bed Plantings
05:10 A Muddy Mess
05:39 Pea Planting Experiment
07:09 Overwintered Onion Variety Trial
08:17 Some Unhappy Garlic
08:37 Back Row Plantings
11:30 Outside the Fence
11:57 New Apples & Cedar Apple Rust
12:40 Potato Bed
13:00 Garlic Planting Experiment
13:43 Hugel Beds
14:49 Elderberries
15:10 New Strawberry Beds
15:31 New Medicinal Herb Bed
16:01 Container Plantings
17:59 Location #2, Mom & Pop's Place
18:19 More Garlic
18:57 Prepping for Planting
19:47 Fruit Trees in Bloom
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WOW Jenna! I feel like I should have paid admission for this tour. Thank you for such a thorough accounting of your spring gardening, it’s inspiring. Maybe I could pay you in coffee.
I do love coffee 😊!
Lol
@@GrowfullywithJennaHello 👋 Jenna do I pronounce your name is it like the name gina?
I was wondering if you have grown any mint? & how often do you water it? I just moved back home 🏡 you can't grow in FL. 😂
So yeah I was wondering I grew some tomatoes 🍅 last year.
Thank you
And I just found your channel.
Living in Ohio with similar circumstances and conditions, so your videos are a great help. Getting back to vegetables due to prices, moving flowers and doing renovations myself. I look forward to gardening with you.
I'm so glad to hear you're getting back to growing veggies, Mindi- best of luck!!
You need to adopt a beagle because they'll get those moles and they'll cuddle on the sofa too. 🍀💌
Dogs are great friends to us. My dogs deter squirrels and deer!
Lessons learned the hard way from years past…… no frost tender plants shall leave the high tunnel for the outside garden until end of this month……. Mother Nature is a beautiful twisted sister with a wicked sense of humor
Yes, yes she is!
I grew up in Ohio, NW Ohio just outside of Toledo. This pic reminds me of the area - essentially flat, great for farming etc. Route 20 and 20A were roads I traveled on regularly. We lived in Perrysburg (zone 6A) I now live in zone 7. Looking to buy some unused land in a sparse area. Scrub or trash forests are a definite must have.
Yep- I'm about 2 hours South of Toledo... but it's flat, flat, flat here with farm land all around!
I get ugly garden anxiety every spring. I always worry about what the neighbors can see. Good to know I’m not the only one😀
An ugly garden is better than no garden at all 😀! I'm lucky in that no neighbors can see my garden back here!
Jenna, there is a young lad in Oklahoma that uses the Hawk trap for moles. The title for his channel is "Grow Jack". He is quite a prolific gardener at 12 years old. He has grown 88 lb watermelons and almost 3 to 400 lb pumpkins. You may want to watch a few of his videos and learn some of his tips and tricks for successful gardening. He also did one video covering mole traps.
I'll check it out... but I've yet to catch a thing with that darn trap! Thanks
THX! cold and rain in northwest il. too.
Let’s hope for some warmth and sunshine soon!
100 percent no questions use the victor traps they come with setters. Set for Moles in travel ways from where they live don’t set traps where you see them feeding they go all over. Get them where the main runs are coming out from where they are staying
Thank you! Do you mean the actual Victor mole traps (like this: www.amazon.com/Victor-M9015-Deadset-Mole-Black/dp/B07KMWZQYS/ref=asc_df_B07KMWZQYS?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80539344142756&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584138871531212&psc=1) or just the plain old Victor mouse traps (as other folks have told me they use them for moles)?
Holy mackerel, your garden is huge.
And yet somehow I never have enough room for all my plants 😂
That was a jam packed tour, have to watch again. So many ideas to try next year, specially onions...
Ooh I hope you try the onions!
Wow looks awesome! The best is yet to come 🌞
Thank you! I hope so!
Love agriculture lands wish to visit there across the 🌏 & To explain overheated Earth not happy with greedy minds We. Have to help others back to basic.thanks your lovely gardens
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So glad you're doing garden tours again!
More to come!
Exciting to see your winter sowing plants!
Me too! I can't wait to see how they turn out!
Thank you 😊
You're welcome!
love the science experiences
Oh good! I'm glad to hear that!
I love that honesty in how year to year its different based on the weather.
It will be amazing to see how quickly everything grows once it finally does warm up though!
Ah, that was lovely. I look forward to seeing your garden fill out and become productive.
Thank you! I am very much looking forward to it too!
Idk what I'd do without my girl Jenna. Hope you know how grateful we all are. I think it was this video you mentioned your medicinal garden? I, for one, would love a video on it! I'd like to start one.
Thank you so much ☺! And I did indeed- and I do hope to do a video on the medicinal herb garden, but it probably won't be till a little later in the season, when I get most of the plants in.
You have put so much love and work into your garden. You have so much knowledge in that head! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much, Melissa! I certainly try!
Loved the tour, very engaging and fun.
Thank you!
I’m currently dealing w this here in zone 6b (Indiana). Thanks for the encouragement from this video you shared last yr. 😊❤
Moles, voles, strange weather, I can't agree more. I went back and lined the bottom and sides of our lower raised beds to stop that problem. I had a 16 foot wide roll of driveway underlayment left over so I used that. It is heavier than the garden material, but it still drains water very well. My daughter and 7 year old granddaughter plant potatoes in a raised bed and a large potato bag we got from Gardener's Supply last year. That worked great!. I picked up Yukon Gold U.S. #1 seed potatoes. I thought I would try them. They are a 65 day potato. You have beautiful gardens, wish we had your climate lol! Though our winters are a lot warmer than 50 years ago! Your mom's and pop's place is awesome! Enjoyed, take care!
Good call lining those beds- and I'm glad to hear they got potatoes planted! What a great job for your granddaughter- did she enjoy it?
@@GrowfullywithJenna She will be planting her potatoes Memorial Weekend. I had her planting Zinnias when she was 3 and every spring she has them all picked out in the catalogs for me to order them for her. She plants peas and beans too' Take care!
Thank you for the video. I enjoyed.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi same weather in Toronto, cold and rain, Good luck on your garden this summer,
Ugh... hope you get some sunshine soon!!
FANTASTIC!! I am definitely subscribed. Keep the videos coming!!
Thank you!
How do you not have 1 million subs yet?! Your garden channel is the best ever
Thank you, Allison! 😊
"Blessings of Bounty and May Your Gardens and your Life always Bring You Joy, INSPIRATION and Abundance!" - Hope( & Mark)!💖💖
💚 Thank you!
Definately agree with you about the insect netting. It really is a game changer!
It really is!
I just found your channel! I am also in Ohio like south east area!! I’m loving learning from you! & so glad you explain that you’re in Ohio so I could find you!
I'm glad you're here! It's always fun to hear from fellow Ohioans-- I'm in the midwestern part of the state!
Cheer up Ohio. It will be Summer temps next week. 🌞It has been a crazy cold and rainy Spring in Ohio for sure. Thanks for the updates Jenna. ☔️
Yes! Simply beautiful this week! Thank goodness
Jenna thank you for this video. Feeling so behind this season but being same zone as you well spring is on delay of game. Next week looks better. Great video
Thank you! I'm more than ready for the nicer weather headed our way- enjoy!!
Jenna, I LOVE all the experiments. I also want to do them but am not organized at all. I just weeded my beets that I forgot I planted because I forgot to label them!!!! Thank you for bringing us along with you in your gardening magic.
Oh good! I'm so glad to hear that. And I've done that too many times (mainly with my flowers and herbs and such)- which is why I label everything!!
Thanks so much for this video. My yard is a soggy mess and I was feeling very behind on planting. Love the comparisons from last year.
You are welcome! Here’s hoping it dries out soon!
Too true about this Spring being upside down on its head! I'm in zone 7a and we had May weather in March and March weather in April into the first week in May. Enjoyed your garden tour - thanks for sharing! Cheers...
Let's hope it all get straightened out going into the summer!
Great tour! Yes, the weather has been wonky to say the least here in Ohio.
Thanks!
Awesome garden that you have. I am with you about the muddy.
Thank you!
Your garden beds look as wet as mine in 5b just west of Chicago. Not only has it been extremely wet and cold, but April was our 2nd cloudiest April on record, going back to 1904. I've had good success growing my sweet potatoes in an elevated vegetable trug. Same with strawberries. Next week spring should finally arrive for both of us.
Now I’m curious- I wouldn’t be surprised if we also have one of the cloudier Aprils on record here in Ohio- how did you find that information?
@@GrowfullywithJenna our local weatherman on WGN tv (Tom Skilling) goes into great detail during his weather segments.
Love the garden jaunts to your parents place, and also enjoy your "experiments" 😁 It seems like the moles/voles/chipmunks are extra pressure this year already. I sure appreciate seeing such detail in a garden in a similar area as my own, thank you!
I'm so glad you enjoy them! It does seem like the critters are extra hard at work this year- I'm not sure why!
I always enjoy your tours. Your enthusiasm is wonderful.
I also had terrible vole troubles 2 years ago. Last year......no. It's always different from year to year...but I think that's what makes gardening so interesting.
I also like your "experiments" and look forward to seeing the results of those. I am trying sowing of sugar snap peas EVERY MONTH this year. I have a shadier area of the garden that I discovered last year that allowed me a lot of cool weather crops all summer, and so will try peas there.
Our weather is incredibly cold this year as well---western Illinois, zone 5. Not so much rain, but always 15-20 degrees below normal. And the winds!!!---don't get me started!
Anyways, sorry about the length of this. You did a great job (as usual!) on this video and it has me excited for warmer weather!
Thank you so much, Susan! I'd love to hear how your pea sowing experiment goes- very interesting!
I've heard from so many folks that have had crazy winds all spring- it does make me wonder what is causing it. Luckily, we're a bit sheltered here (not so at my parent's), but even here I've noticed the wind is worse/stronger than usual. I hope it warms up and calms down for you soon!
You have a beautiful garden! And describing what you are doing really helps me (zone 7B). I had problems with rabbits too so I grew my potatoes and sweet potatoes in huge grow tubs (actually cattle feed containers that rats ate holes in) and did not have any problem with them at all. I also have my garlic and onions in grow tubs and containers and no bunnies. Having 2 cats helps.
Thanks! Big containers are definitely one of the easiest options to stop critters! The rabbits can't reach my container stuff and leave it alone. Using the big feed containers was a smart idea!
Garden is looking about like mine....great video...and if you go into the garden at daylight...a frog gig once you get use to it works good for moles...just watch the ground..see them move..and impale the mole with the gig...works really good at first light when there moving more
Ohh- a frog gig would work well. I've always used a pitch fork, but a gig would work better. Thanks for the suggestion!
We had a perfect spring so far in Germany. Very warm, early last frost night and a bit dry(but still enough rain to provide water). Last year we had the situation u guys have this year.
I’m so glad you’re enjoying a beautiful spring this year!
Nice tour Jenna, the garden looks great 👍. Your off to a good start in this tuff spring ,things are 2 weeks or so behind here in Mass. Keep up the good work .
Thank you!
More tours please!!!!
More to come!
Your Awesome!!!! Love your Gardening Excitement 👩🏻🌾❤️ I finally Transplanted out My Peas, Marigolds and Onions ❤️❤️❤️ Can’t Wait to Plant More.
Thank you!! Happy planting!
The weather here below Detroit has been up and down this May. Zone 6.
I hope it levels out for you soon!
I have to spray BT on my cabbage and kale all the time!
Yep- that's my go-to when I can't net them, or after they get too big for the netting.
Love this!! My entire garden is raised beds with 1/4" hardware cloth on the bottom and then individually fenced as well. It's a lot of effort but the fencing also keeps out the bunnies and gopher and we have rapidly expanded the garden since we started so full fencing isn't an option right now with the dug in wire mesh!
Additionally, I LOVE experiments on different types of growing experiments! It's my favorite thing to watch other gardeners do!
You planned your garden out well! I'm sure that effort is worth it in the long run.
And thanks for letting me know that you enjoy the experiments! I'll keep doing them!
@@GrowfullywithJenna Thankfully year one I started our small. My single raised bed was taken over by voles. So year two when we expanded to 6 beds I dug out the first and put hardware cloth underneath. Now we're on year 3 with 13+ beds and they're all vole proof!
Cannot wait to see how your experiments turn out!
Hi Jenna, I’m loving your channel, Thank you for sharing all your experiments too! Good luck with controlling the moles and voles. I have problems with them too as well as bunnies. They are such vandals .
Thank you so much, Mona and best of luck with those critters!
our last frost date is April 2 here where I live- but our weather is a lot like yours just no frost
Hope it warms up for you soon!
Hi Jenna. I appreciate the transparency. I have learned that the hard way this year that yarrow spreads and takes over. I am in the process of thinking of splitting it up into various beds.
Hello! I should have known better about the yarrow 😆! I think I might move just move mine to the 'flower' beds around the house. I'm happy to have it take over there!
@@GrowfullywithJenna I also noticed monarda bee balm takes over as well but they are in my flower beds. Yarrow is great for beneficial insects so we will get great use from them😀.
Southern Ohio here❤ i get really excited as well. New sub!
It's always great to hear from fellow Ohio gardeners!
So this actually makes me feel better. This is my first year starting from seed, though I watched my grandpa do it when I was a kid. This is also my first year with actual beds, 2nd year gardening all together. I’m in 6a in NE Ohio, and with all this rain, we just haven’t been able to get stuff setup. I got my seeds started late, but they’re coming along. I just felt so behind. And my back yard is so so wet, and the grass is so tall, that my pug gets swallowed up by it. BUT….you’re in the same boat. So I think we’re doing ok!
I'm glad it made you feel better! And hopefully you've warmed up & are drying out this week!
My friends mom has always planted her garlic on the day of the harvest moon (last year was September 20th) and pull it on the 4th of July! She always has the best garlic!
Do you happen to know approx. where she is growing- that seems very early, at least for my area. But I'm glad to hear she has awesome garlic!
Wow. You got so much done despite the horrible weather. It all looks great! My garlic took a hit too, but the fertilizer I've been using is helping so much. I look forward to seeing the results of your experiments. I love that your kids decorated the garden gate! It would be fun to keep measurements of their growth on it. They can see how much they grow as they watch your garden grow : D
Oh that is a great idea, thank you Donna!
As always, extremely helpful Jenna. I'm shocked your garden is even this far considering it was snowing last week in Ohio.
Thanks! First snow, and now it's practically underwater... I've lost track of how much rain we've gotten just since I've shot this video. But next week looks good!
Great to see another Ohio vegetable gardener, although I think I might be 6B. Great video and helps me to see what others grow here!
I always enjoy hearing from fellow Ohio gardeners- thanks for stopping by!
Our weather in Idaho has been pretty wet and cold too. For vole control spraying with castor oil mixture does work if you make it a regular scheduled part of the season. You have to spray after every rain or snow and you have to hit all of the mulched areas pretty heavy especially right before your first extended snowy period. Basically you are trying to run them out of an area by starting in the middle of the garden and expanding the area you spray in ever widening circle. My understanding is that the castor oil changes the taste and smell of their food sources so they move on. I was pretty successful this year, they came up to the edge of my fencing but didn't make it in the garden. I was out spraying the snow in the garden a few time this winter like a maniac because I know how much damage they can do under there. I keep a dedicated sprayer always at the ready, 2 Tbs Castor oil (NOT the odorless tasteless kind at the pharmacy), 1 Tbs dish soap, to one gallon water. Not sure if it will work for moles though. Good luck!!
Thank you! I tried this for moles (didn't work), but it actually makes more sense that this would work for voles. I think I'll give it a try again!
I am totally in awe of you for having such a large but organized mini-farm. But, since I have a Midwestern wife, I am not surprised. We probably have as much growing space as you, but ours looks like a tornado hit it by comparison. We don't have moles, but we have chipmunks, and we have tried about 10 different things to keep them from digging, all to no avail. We even put pages of newspaper down where we just planted 100 SF of cucumbers, and they dug holes in the paper and still dug up the seeds. Predator urine, hot pepper, plastic owl, and even sharp edges of broken clay pots planted in the ground did nothing to stop their digging.
Thank you!
Chipmunks are tough!! They seem to dig up things just for fun in my garden... and then they'll sit just out of reach and taunt me 😆. I wish I had some great advice to offer... but sadly, I do not.
I bought a chipmunk cage trap and has have had success catching moles with it. Unintentional but I’m glad I’m catching something. I baited it with peanut butter.
Interesting! Which type of trap was it?
I bought it off of Amazon it’s called Kensizer humane rat trap. And other rodents. I was trying to trap and relocate a destructive chipmunk and I caught four moles instead. I used peanut butter. I read that moles are very active in April. Let’s hope I catch more in May.
@@barbbirdyard Thank you!
Love your garden! Wish we had some of those water here in CO.
Thank you! I wish I could share some with you!
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You're so charming!!! Thanks for sharing. I think I'll start some grapes.
Thank you 😊. Best of luck with those grapes!
I'm excited to see the results of your experiments! Also I'm glad to see your garden looking similar to mine. Comparing to last year looks very sad indeed.
Oh good! I'm glad to hear that. I think a few warm, sunny days and everything will catch up pretty quickly... I'm just not sure when those warm sunny days will come!
Thanks for showing. I'm Columbus and today we're getting rain and 15 minutes of sun.,Most of my 3 types of Potatoes ( including Purple Viking, Purple Majestic and Purple fingers) . are about all up .
I got 60 percent of my tomato seedlings out.( I used your Third type of seedlings potting mixture and it's great my 8 week old tomato are super dark green ,I did start your Midnight snack and some 18 inches above the soil, and 14 week old peppers are up to
12 " and beautiful. So I'm happy with your advice on the seedlings mixture and your advice about B.t. to stop fungus knats work great.
I'm watching you and know you might pass up my tomato patch but today I'm ahead but know it's not done till September frost time.
Seeing lots of mud but that's what we have.
Thanks for showing Lady
I'm so glad your potatoes are up and that your tomatoes are doing so well! That's awesome! I think you're going to have a tomato patch that is the envy of the neighborhood this year!
Beautiful gardens, Jenna! I’m in zone 6a too but in Pennsylvania. I’ve been doing container gardening off and on for about 5 years now with veggies, my flowers are in the ground. This year I’m going to do veggies in the ground for the 1st time and I’m so nervous bc there are a ton of rabbits and deer in my area. I’m familiar with voles too! So I feel your pain. I hope we prevail!
Thank you so much! And best of luck with the in-ground veggies!
You have a lot going on Jenna! We have had a lot of cold nights here also but not nearly as wet as you are. My big take away from this video was your over-wintered onions. I actually have a few in my garden that came up from a few small onions I missed when I was harvesting last year. I decided to let them go as an experiment but it appears - as in your garden also -that they are way ahead of the onions I planted in the spring. I will probably plant some in the fall this year around when I plant my garlic. Thanks and I hope you dry out soon.
I'm really excited to see how they turn out at harvest time- I'll keep you posted!
I hope it dries out soon too- I'm glad to hear your garden is not as wet as mine!
I just found your channel and love it. What a beautiful garden you have. I wish I had all that land to plant more veggies, but I'm happy with my 2 raised garden beds and 16 x 20 garden area in ground. My area is 6b but I'll still follow you, since you are pretty close to my area. 🤗
Thank you so much and I'm glad you love the channel! I'm also SO glad to hear you are utilizing the space you have available- some garden is definitely better than no garden. Take care and best wishes for an awesome growing season!
Zone 6A, here just south of Toledo Ohio. Suscribed Thanks!
Great to hear from a fellow Ohioan! Thanks for the support!
Dealing with voles too. Voles will just go in from the top. Look on UA-cam for pvc vole bait trap that’s what I’m making.
Good point, Rachel, they will! I do have some of the PVC vole traps, but I struggle with which kind of bait to use. Someone suggested a warfarin based product because it has little secondary poisoning risk (so, if a creature... like my dogs... would get a hold of a poisoned vole, it won't make them sick). It doesn't seem to work as well as some of the more toxic options- but I can't risk using those!
Lol I feel your pain with the garden no where near where it was last year. I live just south of Columbus so I'm going through it with ya. Good channel keep up the good work
Thanks! Let's hope it dries out & warms up soon!
Hi Jenna, wow your garden is looking really well for all of the rain we have had. I am also growing (or attempting to) here in zone 6A Ohio. We are in the South-Central area of Ohio, just east of Columbus and as you know there seems to be a never-ending amount of rain this year so far. I really need to take a look at your channel a bit more closely so that I know what to plant and when rather than taking advice from those around me who say to do nothing until all danger of frost has passed and the rains have stopped. The only thing growing in my garden right now is my beautiful strawberries which last year gave me a never-ending bounty of very large plump berries, and I am hoping for a good crop again this year even though I am moving my strawberry bed to a different location so that I can nurture and partake of the new baby plants for my garden next year. The other things growing of course are my chives, sage, and mint, and that's it so far. So I'm now wondering Jenna, is it too late to get started? Did I wait too long?
I am really looking forward to expanding my garden area this year so that I can grow some more tomato, and pepper varieties, also attempt to grow green beans for the first time, and I really want to grow flowers also. Oh, and I could really use some advice for rhubarb, please. My rhubarb keeps putting up flower heads, I take them out and in a few days, there will be another flower head. What can I do, if anything?
I really love watching your videos and know I am getting some really good advice because not only do you garden in the same zone that I do, but also in the same state as I do. Blessings to you always Jenna. May your gardening year be fruitful and abundant, and may you have good health.
Hi Suzy! It's not too late for many crops. Of course, all of the warm season crops can be planted, and you can still do the quick-maturing cool season crops like radishes and lettuce and such. Regarding rhubarb, it tends to bolt when under stress. Often we see this as a reaction to heat stress, which wouldn't be the case right now, but it can be caused by a lack of fertility too. They are heavy feeders and benefit from a good source of nutrition each spring (and fall too).
Take care!
Here in S. E. Ohio it was a beautiful day. I'm kind of gun shy now about putting straw down. Year before last we put straw around tomatoes and watermelons & everywhere we had the straw Canadian thistles came up!!! Although we didn't put much put last year a still have a crop of them. Maybe we can culavate them out little by little. Hay will be going down next time since we square bale out own. Talking bout a curse on the ground!!!! Lol have a wonderful day
Hooray! I'm glad to hear you had a beautiful day- hope you got to enjoy it!
And I misspoke- that's actually hay mulch NOT straw- I don't typically use straw much in the garden, and opt for hay instead. I've had similar issues with weed seeds being in straw. Sorry to hear you've got thistles now.
Thanks for the tour. I think my mouth tasted sour when you bit into that rhubarb plant. I am just a residential small area urban gardener and I am mostly in fabric pots raised above ground for protection against slugs, rabbits, moles and ground feeding birds. I went to numbers on the plant naming plaques as I have about 70 fabric pots and I want to rotate crops every year. So, to get more organized, I number everything on those naming plaques and I enter the numbered names onto a spreadsheet. It allows me to keep track from year to year the results of the mini potted crop and then in the spring, it helps me figure out what to rotate out of each fabric pot.
Wow! What an organized system you have- impressive!
Wow, what a tour! I LOVE all the trialing you’re doing and cannot wait to hear the results. Please share what you’re doing with the rhubarb, other than the obvious pie. I have a healthy patch but need some ideas.
Thanks, Emily! Rhubarb crisp, bread, vinaigrette and shrub... to name a few. I want to try rhubarb kombucha, but haven't had a chance yet.
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Living in Ohio too I’m very happily watching your videos to keep self on track with my own garden. One day we will dry out, right? 🤣
We can only hope so!
I'm so tempted to plant EVERYTHING out now lol. In 6a Ohio as well. Besides our crazy storms/rain yesterday and the crap coming on Friday, it should be game on I would think? :) Also, I'm amazed that you can handle your garden plus the parents. To be honest though, if I could fill my day job with gardening I would be much happier!
I mean... looking at the forecast, I can't imagine we'll have another frost at this point. The main struggle now is just waiting for that soil to dry out enough to actually plant!
I can only handle all this because gardening IS my day job-- and I'm much, MUCH happier now than I was doing the work I used to do 😄.
@@GrowfullywithJenna Before this drenching of rain (the first of 2 rounds) I compromised and planted 1 tomato plant, 1 pepper plant, and a sunflower LOL. Also planted a bunch of radishes and other cold hearty crops that are alright to be out. Oh and some Jade bush beans that I started way too early that were producing beans indoors haha. It's a learning process for sure.
I love the gopher hawk! They take the same tunnel usually so put the gopher hawk in a healthy tunnel put your 2 fingers in the top of the tunnel pull the dirt outward like your opening the hole more just enough for the hawk to fit. You want the opening part lined up with his path so he don't bump into the hawk sometimes it don't kill them all the way but disabled them. So make sure the opening lines with his path hole. I'm telling ya they will take the tunnel again. I didn't get the probe with mine so I just used my hand to widen the hole. Now when it's in rite make sure there's no lite getting in.
I’m so glad to hear this- I won’t give up on it just yet. Thanks for all the detailed tips!!
Hi Jenna, I am very jealous of your garden. I would love to have a garden that size. Looks like your garden has been flooded out as much as mine. Finally we have had a break in the rain. So I'm getting my winter plants out. The weather is starting to turn cool here in Sydney only 11 degrees C last night. Looking forward to how some of your experiment go. Cheers
I'm glad to hear you've had a break in the rain. It rained heavily 3 more times since I shot this video 😣... but it's supposed to stop after today for a week or so... I hope so- I don't know if my plants can take any more! Happy planting!
Interesting to see how Ohio zone 6 compares to my cooler Ontario zone 6. As cold as your spring may have felt, ours was even cooler, our warmest temperature so far this spring was 67F. Even when the jet stream was above us we'd often get cool eastern breezes coming off Lake Ontario causing us to be 15-25F cooler than inland areas. We really are Zone 6 though, despite the colder than average winter, we only dropped to -1F, thanks to the lake moderating winter temperatures in the opposite direction. Our average last frost is also quite early due to Lake Ontario + Urban Heat Island effects - usually around late April, this year it was April 28. I'm considering planting my tomatoes with the warm weather we're supposed to get next week. We might get nights in the 40s the week after, so I'll hold off on peppers and eggplants, but tomatoes should be ok I think.
Some of your plants definitely look ahead of ours, such as the radish, lettuce, brassicas and spinach (I didn't cover mine though). Probably 3-4 weeks ahead. Peas and carrots aren't as much ahead, and beets barely ahead, I have some that sprouted last week. My garlic looks maybe ahead of yours actually?? (I planted mine Oct 23).
I did the direct vs transplant thing too, and it does seem to have given me a 2-3 week head start for peas, spinach, swiss chard, and a much bigger head start still for heading brassicas. For lettuce and brassica greens, I have some volunteers that are only about a week behind transplants.
Very interesting to hear about the differences in your climate and garden! Thanks for sharing this!
I’m so glad you decided to make this video because I was feeling pretty bad about the state of my garden. I’m glad it’s not just me that’s “behind”! Love hearing about all of your experiments, I find that kind of thing exciting as well. I have a question- with so many greens, how do you rinse them when you bring them in? It takes me forever to rinse all mine with my little salad spinner.
I wish I had a great method to offer on the greens. Probably the best (and funniest looking) suggestion on this came from my dad. He washes all the greens then puts them in clean pillow case, takes them outside and spins the pillow case in circles 😂. You can do much larger batches and it seems to be more effective than the little salad spinners.
We put a strainer inside a bowl and fill with water. Put in lettuce. Swish it around. Let it sit awhile. Change water and and swish lettuce around again. Works for us. We can't get chard to start indoors much at all. Not sure why.
Thank you so much for saying where your zone and state are! I feel like I need to know that. I love your videos and find them all so informative and inspiring. Thanks!! (I'm in 8B, East Texas:)
Thank you, Patricia! And you're most welcome! I try to remember always to mention it, as I find it's a useful little tidbit of info to have when gardening!
I recommend a couple barn cats
We tried! They did not get along with the dogs 😞
I'm in Elgin IL. My final frost date is May 1st. Yours is May 10? You're way ahead of me. LOL. Green thumbs!! I better start paying attention.
I like to try to get a jump start on the season 😄!
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The gopherhawk has worked the best of things I've tried for my vole problem (I dont think we have gophers right now), but it does feel almost like pure luck when catching them. Most success has been in my raised beds. But the traps and my cat are basically on the same level so far so that doesn't speak highly of the traps (my cat is mostly indoor and only is out when we occasionally let him during the day)
I'm glad to hear it worked for you. I've still had no luck but I will keep trying! Moving it to my raised beds to see if that will yield better results- thanks!
Hi Jenna, I’m just on the edge of Columbus, Oh and love seeing everything you are growing. Every year I’ve had great success with sweet potatoes. For the first time last years crop was attacked by mice and voles. So disappointing. Also, last season I amended my beds with Zoo Poo. Am now concerned that the animals may have been fed with herbicide sprayed fields. I have raised beds and the soil seems so depleted that the spring transplants are not growing.
My garlic is doing great so far. With all of the rain this week we are going to start building an ark. Lol
Oh no!! I wouldn't have thought about them feeding the zoo animals that!! Is there anyone at the zoo you can contact to ask? Would they even know? I hope this is not the case!
But I'm glad your garlic is doing great.
I will do some investigating. If I learn anything will let you know.
You can line the base of your potato bed with chicken wire.
Thanks! I'm opting for hardware cloth since the opening are smaller, and the voles shouldn't be able to get through.
Really looking forward to the garlic comparison if you were able to video! Loving your videos. I wonder how near you are! I’m 30 minutes east of downtown Cleveland. Howdy neighbor!
Sadly- I wasn't able to get that video shot. BUT- I did find it made absolutely no difference. Except for the spring sown batch- which were weeks later and slightly smaller.
I'm about 3 hours southwest of you!
I'm quite impressed by your garden, especially the amount of covers, treillises, fences... It must be an insane amount of work.
It's so weird to see your cover crop so low compared to mine. I'm about to roll down my cover crop, it's in full flower, the rye is about 1.5-1.8 m tall. I'm in zone 7A. If you want to increase the growth of you cover crop, you should plant more than just rye. Monoculture cover crop will always be much much less effective. I usually add one legume, like vetch, then phacelia (which is in full bloom right now, attracting a lot of bees), and I try to add one brassica, but to be honest they never seem to grow well in the middle of that dense rye, so I'm in search of a 4th plant for my winter cover crop. Your elder trees seem a bit skinny and tall, mine just bush out thickly and grow super fast. They're supposed to love alkaline clay soil which I have, so they adapt insanely fast. I have one that was a cutting from 2 years ago that's now already taller than me.
I also tried growing stuff from seed/pit this year. All the 3 peach pits I planted in pots germinated so that's cool, and sowing redcurrant also worked. I just put the whole fruit, flesh and all, in the pot, and it germinated fine after one winter outside. No success with cherry pits yet or apricots though. Also, any reason why your rhubarb is so skinny ? We have the same soil type, but my rhubarb produces stems that are about twice thicker.
Thanks.
I generally do mixes, except in the case of the rye, because the timing/termination ends up being different than my other crops. The rhubarb is skinny because it's only 1 year old and still getting established (I really shouldn't be picking any yet). My older plants have thicker stalks.
For moles, just get a mean ass Jack Russell.
i put wire mesh at the bottom of all of my beds!
In hindsight, it would have been the smart thing to do! 😄
I am in central Ohio. I noticed a lot more heaving of plants this year than usual. Weather is so frustrating.
Frustrating indeed! Let’s hope we catch a break soon!
I'm going to try and get all my summer stuff in this weekend. Suppose to be 90 Sunday! Not sure at that temp I can stay out of the beer and not smoke a butt or something :)
Whewww. thankfully only 80 here on Sunday. Beer and bbq sounds fitting for such weather!
So beautiful! Where can I find those handy pea trellis you are using that zig zag like that. So nice!
They are very handy! I got mine here; www.gurneys.com/product/pea_fence
Ugh you got a Liberty apple! I ordered one but they couldn’t fulfill it then since the nursery didn’t get enough (Raintree). Had to order a different variety to pollinate the Honeycrisp I ordered then. I wanted liberty for its disease resistance too!
Sorry to hear that! I got mine from Gurney's, but it looks like they are out of stock too.