Do This One Simple Thing NOW for Success in Next Year's Garden!
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2023
- There is one simple thing to do at this time of year to maximize your success in next year's garden. Don't wait... do it now!
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i take pictures of everything growing, once a week during the whole season
Brian, when you start your compost pile plant beans in the pile. If they grow with no problems then you’re good to go. If they sprout, become disfigured, then die, you have a problem. Each time you add to the pile just plant a few beans.
One really successful thing was nasturtiums. I planted as an aphid trap after reading your book. It worked like magic. I didn’t have a single aphid this year.
My mistake was I saved seeds from tomatoes I loved from the previous year. I planted a whole bunch in my garden and when they started producing fruit I wasn’t sure what was going on,they didn’t look like anything from the previous year😮. After doing some research I discovered that they were a hybrid variety which will produce who knows what? Valuable lesson learned!
Ditto
Eat them and save seeds from the tastiest ones. Maybe you can make yourself a delicious variety specific to your garden.
@@yeevita no they all sort of sucked ended up with a yellow cherry that didn’t want to ripen all the way and a similar to what it should be a small Campari tomato that split the second it rained. I’ll be buying seeds for variety that I had but try something new?
If you plant two different varieties of tomatoes close to each other they can cross pollinate. This can lead to a natural hybrid. You won’t see it that year from from the seeds you have saved.
Last year I started doing video weekly garden tours.. just for my own notes. It’s crazy to look back on videos of the same date different year.
Yes on the helo for tomatoes
I keep a notebook with a diagram of what I plant where. I need to go back and add my notes! Thanks for the reminder
We already took a note to not to plant too many tomatoes and to start late unlike this year.
I grew WAY too many tomatoes this year. I can't say "no" to a tomato plant, and now.... the neighbors run from me and my tomatoes as if I was trying to dump zucchini on them!
The same I had to many tomatoes, I am doing less next year
Same here and I'm sticking with the varieties that I know work. I started my peppers too early as well.
Brian, I love your sweet relationship with your beautiful guard dog. It’s wonderful to see. ❤❤
Fish Peppers!! The coolest plant!
I am a die hard garden log book user. They are priceless. On of my grown children asked me to leave them to her in my will 🤣....which I did !
That is a lovely legacy... I am certain she will enjoy. Just the thought of it made my day!!
I plot my garden out and on the back sheet of my garden lay out, I make a note of how the plants did. Some were over the top in production and I won't have to plant again for two years. Can't wait till next year.
I keep a diary and its fun to look back and see when it rained, what i planted and harvested and what i battled! I also got some write in the rain notebooks that are set up for me to write what seeds i plant and when. I also do lots of pictures. Good to know about tule…i have rats eating my eggplants and peppers. Love how bella photo bombs!
My absolute favorite sweet pepper this year is Jimmy Nardello. Other favorites are Ajvarski, Txorixero, Lesya and Corbaci.
Carmen is the sweetest pepper I’ve found.
We really really really like pizza my heart peppers From Renee’s seeds and Adjvarski peppers from Bakercreek seeds. Pizza my heart are thick walled, juicy and crunchy,Adjvarski is also thick walled and great roasted.
The tip about straw was the BEST
I love your dog, delightful🥰
I have a note book that I write what, where and when. I track my successes and failures. I also write weather temps and rain. What and where I purchased plants and seeds. This is also where I plan my next growing season plan. Happy growing everyone!
We use a paper calendar with large blocks to write notes of when seeds were started. When seedlings were planted, taken out, what the harvest was, etc. Pests and other problems are noted. Feeding schedules etc. So we use the previous tears calendar with modifications if necessary to guide us through the next season.
Dehydrate sweet potatoes for your dog. My dogs love them. Great healthy treat.
Lunchbox peppers are small sweet and colorful. they're great for giving away or eating right off the bush.
I make stakes out of 12 gauge wire. By using different colors and bending them into different shapes I can remember what I planted where.
A hardback spiral notebook, broken into months or season, the last 12 years have been doing monthly, try to remember what happened at the end of the month, now do it each Sunday afternoon or morning, write in my months success and failures at the end of each month. Next notebook am already starting to make a heading page with first frost, last frost, hottest day etc., as it is divided into 4 sections.
I bought a beautiful garden planner book with all kinds of cool features. I wrote in it for maybe one month. Just don’t have time to sit down and do it, as lovely as it seemed in my dreams world. I now video everything for my own records.
Tip for the peppers. I put a muslin bag (the pull string kind you get gifts in) on each pepper as it starts growing. This way no bugs can get to it and it provides some shade for the pepper.
I recently bought a paper shredder, I shred all of our Amazon boxes and random papers. I then use it either for the chicken coop, mulch and other animal bedding. I only use what will go into the compost and break down. Maybe that is an option instead of shavings.
My favorite thing to do! As soon as the season ends i get to work on my next years garden plans!
Pine shavings or finer chips could be used as bedding for the calf, too, avoiding the risk with straw unless you can find a source that doesn't use herbicide.
Note to self: build a fully-netted structure to contain zucchini & cucumbers & pumpkins to keep the squirrels from eating/trashing every single one before they were ripe. Little buggers.
Oh, and triple the garlic volume!
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I have a notebook that I use each year to take notes and compare each year with notes on weather, seed starting and planting.
Just a bit of anecdotal observations in my garden...when planting my beit alpha cucumbers next to standard types, I would get seeds or large seeds in my beit alphas. Once I moved them to opposite ends of my garden the problem stopped occurring.
By the time I was finished wailing and crying the man had tears running down his face. We named the dog Brownie and we both cried for a good week. He was the best dog Ive ever seen. When I saw Bella I got choked up. My son is 28 now and doing much better. I really feel God sent that dog to help us for that really difficult time. He was the spitting image of Bella and got to a massive size. Dont ever loose her. Shes a treasure. Hugs to you and your family. I thought you would like to hear that.
Plant gypsy bells! Extremely prolific, not fussy, and grow in our southeast Texas heat!
I am a note taker - list maker extraordinaire...and also A #1 at losing said lists...LOL . Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌿
I use a composition book, one for gardening, one for canning. I keep them in with my cookbooks
If you want just a fun tomato to try, plant Hawaiian Pineapple. They are big, fun, pretty, and do have a pineapplish taste. They grow easily for me here in 9b. They are fun to introduce to people with their unexpected flavor. “A large, golden-orange beefsteak heirloom tomato with fruit that that grows up to 1-1/2 lbs. When fruit is ripe it has a luscious, very rich, sweet pineapple like flavor.” I want to try the Kellogg, but my favorite red is early/new girl. Taking notes is a great idea and one I tend to remember at the wrong time of year I should be doing, thanks for the reminder!
Yes I use a hardback notebook for all my projects throughout the year, including my garden.
I grew two Kelloggs Breakfast tomatoes. With no fruit! Celebrity and champion were the most prolific for me. Still producing over here in the San Pasqual Valley.
I raise rabbits, so I have used aspen wood chips in my garden for years. In the years I haven't been able to put down my cover crop, I use Urea for my nitrogen fix. I add it at the end of the season when I work the old chips in. It is a 46-0-0 Fertilizer.
bella is doing very well with listening to what you say and following directions. your doing fantastic with her. ❤😊
Silver Slicer Cucumbers. They're white and delicious! I had enough to share with neighbors over and over again. They loved them, too.
I have a garden journal in Excel that shows me where I planted various veggies, the date I planted the seeds, how many seeds I planted, the date I transplanted the seedlings into the garden, the number of transplants, the date I began harvesting, and the number of fruits/vegetables I harvested. I've been doing this since 2005. My Excel Journal is, for me, *critical* so I can figure out what worked, what failed and why.
I'm in NE TN, allegedly zone 7A, but I think my microclimate is Zone 6b. Many years it rains like crazy during March, April & sometimes even May. Difficult to get out there and work if the grounds like a swamp, since it sometimes is, but I keep trying! 😸
I've been very pleased with Ajvarski sweet peppers. The fruit looks semi-conical a bit like a poblano, but they have a very sweet flavor like an excellent standard bell pepper. Thick flesh, too. No trouble with disease or BER, very productive. Didn't need a ton of care or fertilizer, just normal good practices. Def would recommend.
They're heirloom/open-pollinated, so you only need to buy seeds once. Then just keep selecting seed from your best ones every year.
Thanks for that recommendation. I plan to get some for next Spring.
That was my fave as well. For pan frying I also like Gypsy... thinner skinned but a heavy producer.
I liked Lesya, thick-walled Ukrainian pepper that definitely needs summer shade. But now that I've seen the recommendation for Ajvarski above I'll have to try them.😊
Ajvarski & Lesya! First year for these and will definitely grow again 😋
Sounds like Peppergate aka Seedgate. Mostly people who were growing Jalapeños ended up with a different pepper because of the Pepper mix up from the suppliers. But other people also had non-peppers mixed up. So that's probably why you ended up with mostly cherry tomatoes.
I keep notes, but i do have a great memory about the plants.
I also do pictures as notes. I had an epiphany that I need to grow a range of tomato maturation dates. Early mid and late varieties. Also I'm newly in love with dwarf tomatoes. Jimmy nardello and hatch all day. Prolific and tastes great.
Tomato halos are great! Not cheap but mine are 10 years old.
I grew Cubanelle peppers this year for the first time, and was surprised at how many people liked them. Think I'll grow more next season.
Yes I record info all year long. Because of our zone 6, we have to wait until may to plant. I lost a few by planting in late April. Kentucky has a really late frost after a week of teasing warm weather. So a little self control makes a difference. Amazing how much we feed the chickens. This was our best year for tomatoes. German was extraordinary in flavor.
We had severe heat here in Charlotte, NC so I had to get a shade cloth for my tomatoes. Now they are thriving in Indian Summer except for the Kelloggs Breakfast. I only have one. Grrrrr. Now, I will be focusing on over wintering my 6 pepper plants 🤞🏼
I write a garden journal in an Excel spreadsheet for each year. I make dated entries every time that I do something, and I have drawn in what I planted where in the different beds. I also have a page with weather charts for the different months, copied from a weather site. All this gives me information that I can check to plan the next season. Unfortunately, 2023 had an extra-short growing season. I have frost nights until mid-June every year, and I got my first snow on October 6th. The summer was also both cold and wet, so you can say that this year wasn't a bumper-crop year. It's sad when people only remember decent summer weather in June.
I took notes, pictures, and made a diagram for next year.
I started Journaling as soon as I started. It was the best choice ever. Great advice
I also was buried in yellow squash and yellow zuccini. My green zuccini had tough skins even when small.. I am omitting them next year. The yellow zuccini were light and tender. I will plant the same amount of plants as I give away to my parents. They are 86 and still independent. ❤
Yes, when we pulled the rest of our stuff up after we had a hard freeze a week ago, we added another raised box and I have definitely made changes to where and what we will plant next time.
My gramma always planted a bush pickle cucumber so that's what I've planted. The best year for them, I started them with tomato cages and they climbed those plus my chicken wire trellis and the chicken wire fence around our small bed that kept the rabbits out. The tomato cages were an after thought since we planted fewer tomatoes and had extra, but became a staple.
Sounds like you had tomato gate.....we had peppergate here😂😂😂😂 not one pepper I planted that I bought from seed was the one on the package . It happened all over this year.
I had wonderful harvests with Fushimi Japanese peppers. A sweet pepper. Prolific.
Make some notes now? I keep notes daily throughout the whole season, HA HA! Documentation is so crucial in so many fields and aspects of life, it's a great skill to learn. Data is important!
I took your advice this year and trellised my cucumbers , game changer!
Please give Bella a hug. I think she is going to make a great protector to your other animals. I wonder if you could DIY tomato halos. Good video. Thanks. Just went over to your other channel and signed up.
I've found a "Garden Map" works best for me. Notes can be easily added and I can remember where things were planted.
I plant king Arthur sweet peppers. They always have a great flavor and do fantastic. Always have tons of peppers.
I planted Jimmy Nardella first time this year. Very prolific and love the taste. Also Shishito peppers were a win.
I highly recommend Jimmy Nardelli peppers. They’re red, long peppers. Extremely sweet. Just delicious.
I love your idea. I use my Facebook garden posts in a similar fashion. But mostly for harvest quality. I’m going to give your idea a try !
I used soaker hoses on timers for watering, worked great. All my veggies were prolific!
Jimmy Nardello is a great sweet pepper!
I live in LA County. Our weather was definitely unusual. We had early blight so all my large variety of tomatoes did not do well. Like you, my cherries did better. My Romas did not do well at all. At our local garden, I was told it was a bad year for most people.
Yes, love my tulle
My friend gave me a chocolate cherry pepper. Very attractive and delicious. I’m over wintering it and save a bunch of seeds to hopefully get more plants.
Something to put in your journal for next year...I have never heard you talk about growing bananas! Ice Cream Banana tree (Blue Java), sold at Vista Tropical fruit tree nursery in your area . It is supposed to taste like vanilla ice cream! It grows in your zone .
I've had my best success in North Carolina 7B growing Charleston Belle sweet green peppers for the past two years in containers . 3-4 ft plants. Lovely peppers. Little to no pest/disease issues. (Note: My success is a low bar.) For me they fruited late summer, early fall. Am going to try overwintering one this year.
I'm afraid of straw / hay as well. Years ago when I had horses I hated paying the middleman for hay. I live in the central valley and there a lot of farmers growing hay here. I literally drove around looking for nice hay fields and watched local classifieds for ads from farmers. I bring this up to say try sourcing your hay for Daisy locally so you can speak to the farmer to see what herbicide he used in his fields. I'm sure organic hay is gaining popularity but if you find it. It's gonna be costly.
Thanks for the suggestions! Planning on taking pics and notes asap in my garden. 😊
Chocolate peppers are growing well up here in L.A.
We also had a horrible tomato season. Our tomatoes didn’t start producing till September and October.
We live a few miles north of you in Wildomar, my wife said that he tomatoes were a disappointment this year too.
Giant Marconi sweet peppers grow well and are great tasting when cooked. They have a sweet flavor when cooked. Ironically they don’t taste very good raw but cooked they are a wonderful addition to supper dishes or even just oven roasted on their own.
I had more yellow squash from 1 hill of plants vs the 2 hills of plants i had of green Zucchini. It was awesome.
You should try Cherokee purple tomatoes 🍅 They’re my favorite! They’re so tasty for stews and salads! And sliced 🤤
No I have been lazy but after this I will be taking notes.
Hey Brian! One of the scariest expressions I have ever seen, but I still watched and found it quite interesting. I am a crazy, maybe insane, seed saver. If I store buy seeded veggies and I love the flavor, I save seeds to grow. I have hundreds, maybe thousands of saved seeds. My favorite peppers are red, yellow and orange sweet bell peppers. Not sure what varieties they are, but I will always try to grow ahead with them.
I have grown record numbers of tomatoes. I also have a GG (God's Gift) tomato plant that I think the bunnies and squirrels harvested, because they all disappeared before I could pick any. This one plant grew 8 feet long, 4 feet wide and still about 3 feet tall. There were dozens of tomatoes on this plant. It is still blooming close to the season end.
How did I plant about 15 tomato plants and get between 30 and 50 pounds of tomatoes? Not sure. I did put up 3 recycled plastic raised beds and did not have the energy to fill them with soil until mid June. The soil was from Ace, 4-2cu foot bags of top soil and 4-2cu foot bags of potting soil, 1 cu foot peat moss, about 2 cubic feet of home made compost, 4-4-4 organic fertilizer and about 3 or 4 cups of finely ground eggshells in each 4X8 bed. The location was full sun and in hot weather I watered daily. My favorite tomato is Roma due to flavor and sauce capability. I also grew grape, cherry, and golf ball sized red tomatoes which all tasted great. That's my story. So save all your eddshells dry them out, grind them up and add them to the garden. Especially the tomato beds. I use a garden diary to track what I'm doing and where it is. Plus my garden is smaller so there is not as much to keep track of or remember. Keep up the good work Brian, but I would rather wonder what you are smiling about than why you're frowning. HA HA. May the Lord keep blessing you and yours I wish I lived closer so I could visit or at least have lunch with you and Emily maybe at that Mexican place in San Diego.
Greens looking lovely^^^
I totally agree with you. I find that the older I get, the harder it is to remember everything from year to year. I will start a gardening journal today.
Great video. Excellent reminder. Thank you. Blessings ❤️🌺
Started editing what we will plant two months ago for next spring. Shocked that the SuperSauce didn’t produce well for you as our gave use three to four rounds of big and beautiful tomatoes; zone 8a. We plan on planting 1 Cherokee, 1 Kellogg’s (wife loves them!!) and 3 SuperSauce and we will continue growing cayenne peppers but need to find a new variety of jalapeño and bell peppers. May do cucumbers again but the Mrs may want to try something else. Thanks for the video and still waiting for the Bella Cam 😂
Hello!
Sonja and Tanja is nice cucomber seeds.
Helene in Sweden
You are my future self from last year😂
I planted early. March! I'm glad I did because the cool weather made slow growing until about June.
Japanese varieties seemed to do the best. Peppers, eggplant, and cucumber.
And, I also feel like one of my nursery bought plants was mislabeled. Early girl tomatoes. They didn't seem to have the disease resistance they usually do, and the fruit wasn't small and round.
Wood chips and sawdust shavings do pull ~some~ nitrogen from the SURFACE, but not deep down where all real vegs have their roots. But, if you want to counter that, then spritz ammonia onto the garden surface, and quickly lay down a ~goodly~ layer of chips/shavings to suck up any excess nitrogen. They will decompose faster, and any residual nitrogen from the ammonia, or the black gold soil, will go to feeding the vegs as they grow up.
I'm in Zone 9b/10a and I grew spacemaster 80 cukes. Said they would be only 3 feet high, but they grew to 5 feet for me, lots of good production. Trellised them aside and it worked great.
In Michigan, Tomatoes were the worst since I had been gardening. Also Cucumbers just as bad 😢. Weather was the main reason. Spaghetti squash was the best, a lot on three plants. Onions also, normally soft ball size. Can't wait for next year. You're DOG is the best!
I definitely keep a gardening notebook, amd it is very helpful!
Although I live in NY California Wonder peppers are my best pepper.
Bella sure loves her daddy!! What a sweet doggie!! I purchased seeds sold as catnip but ended up being onion seeds. I wondered why my kittyCat stuck her nose up at the catnip. Good news is I transplanted ALL the onions into larger pots and now they have been all planted into the ground. I will cover with plastic in an attempt to overwinter. I have never had a successful onion harvest, so fingers crossed.
So you were gonna try and grow “catnip”?
you got a co-hosts this year. lol It is the Belle show.
❤ Bella. Great addition to the show!
I make diagrams of the beds. I make notes on them after the garden is done.
I don’t make new diagrams every year. I make photo copies
Same here. Huge time saver!
My San Marzano peppers did amazing this year as did my grape tomatoes. Peppers didn’t do much all summer but are now
I live in northern Utah. Bsically a milkly desert area with lots of irrigation. I put in a 4'' X 8' X 30: deep raised box. It is self wicking and I used pond liner, drain pipe with slots and a sock and covered that with sand. Weed blpck on top of the sand followed by soil and mulch. I have a pipe that is verticle from the top attaching to the drain pie on one end with a cap on the other end. The drain pipe is coiled to fill asmuch of the bottom as possible. There is a 1" pipe (about 12" or so long, that isextends from the opposite end of the box where the verticle fill pipe is. That small pipe sets on top of the weed blcok cloth and extend ou the end about 1". When water starts draining out of that 1: pipe I know I have thereservoir full
This wicking box was so successful that I had 3 more built for next year. Everything got the right amount of water and I only had to fill it about every 2 to 3 weeks. I don't know why but all of my large tomatoes were splitting. It didn't matter if they were in the self wicking boxes or the ones I water from the top. It gets so hot here that I have to use shade cloth when it gets in the mid to upper 90's. I was watering my non-wicking boxes literally daily when we neared 100 degrees.
I highly recommend the self wicking boxes. Don't use rock for the bottom layer. Rock doesn't wick. Use sand.
I never thought to write down info about my garden. Will do that today. I planted a very small sweet potato ina flower pot for the greenery not expecting to get sweet potatoes. I got 8 nice size sweet potatoes. I will plant more n white potatoes. My bell peppers, collard greens hot papers n orka did great! Will increase my garden withthwaame next year. My squash n tomatoes didn't do to good.
I remember last year's video ❣️. I made notes ongoing this year. Thank you for the tip!
I like Chablis sweet peppers. First bell-type pepper I've ever grown that had thick walls. They ripen to a pretty cherry red.