What a year it's been so far! Too cold, too hot, too wet, too dry! All in one spring. Here's a garden tour showing what's doing great - and what isn't! Get Grocery Row Gardening and help me test this system! amzn.to/3ygA8Y2 The Good Gardens seed store: www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens Thank you for watching.
Good morning David I live in Central Florida and other than a fence which HOA won’t allow me to put up how can I keep rabbits away from my delicious vegetables and plants are use the powder from Home Depot but the next day I saw the rabbit with forks and knives making a salad with the sprinkled rabbit palette that I put in the garden LOL what do you recommend brother?
The weather has been weird near San Jose too, especially in the spring - hot for a few days, then in the 50s, then 80s or 90s. Now, in late June, it has been around 100 degrees for almost a week. I have to watch the plants and water them when the leaves droop (which is at least once daily).
@@eastcoastnews9529 Dump ground cayenne peppers into their holes. That at least helps especially if there are any cats around. The rabbits come out to get away from the hot stuff and get caught by the cats.
I tolerated loss of many blackberries by the climbing rats, but when they dug up an entire row of potatoes, I immediately joined David's "Get out the Lead" club; food for the new fig trees added in the spring.
We have a neighborhood where there are many "outdoor cats". So we feed and water them. A few were born on our property, so they think of us as "theirs" and i spend time with them every day All the neighbors do around here, and we take them to the vet if they need it. I almost never see rodents, and birds almost never land anywhere near the plants. :-) Barn cats are the way! The Egyptians were right. Dogs ( jackals in their case) for animal protection etc, cats to protect the crops. You just have to not grow a few things that they might eat, but are toxic to them ( like day lilies ) and maybe some catnip near to rodent susceptible plants. I'm considering growing some tobacco to use as pesticide as well. Super easy to grow, if you're not caring about "taste".
Make tonnes of ice fill your soil with it then mulch then periodically stick ice cubes in your soil after your plants are planted. I don't live in a hot dry climate, just an idea lol but as far as I can tell a lot of the issues come from soil temperature.
I call them cantkillies. When my wife and I moved into our house there was these lilies around the gas tank and power pole and elsewhere. I spent 5 years trying to kill them and now that I’m gardening I’m glad I didn’t. Though I still don’t like them now I compost my enemies. Thanks for all the lessons you’ve shared.
My order from your daughter's store came in and I am loving the hand drawn seed packages ❤ please tell her I appreciate her getting my seeds to me so fast!
"...we can't do anything with them, but they bring us a huge amount of joy..." There's the key: As you survey the wins and losses, Being joyful in the beauty of creation. Perhaps the marigolds aren't useful save the joy they provide🏵️
Almost everything in my garden is just struggling to stay alive in temps over 100 day in and day out. We haven't harvested any squash or melons, although we have several honeynuts and a cantaloupe showing promise. Our only watermelon died on the vine. Two cranberry tomatoes managed to ripen but now all the tomatoes are dropping their flowers. This is my first year growing in this soil and it's apparently junk construction mix. I'm going to follow your lead and get creative about adding more fertility. Thanks for showing me how to look at gardening through a more realistic lens. ~ Lisa
I thought I was alone with the squash. It’s the first year I’ve actually grown any squash, and I thought I was just bad at it. None of my plants are producing female flowers.
Just had my ice cream banana trees delivered today. They'll go in my tiny back yard with the giant mango and plumeria trees (not a giant, just tall) I heard banana trees like shade. That's what they'll get back there 😄
I really appreciate your content. I've been gardening mb 8 years, moved to clay land and starting over with your ideas. I can't wait to get an extra stream of income going with starting trees on my own too. Your channel helps ease my mind about times ahead.
@@donnarichey144 I just learned about lime a few days ago. Supposed to fix acidic soil. The clay spill here is pretty acidic from the pine needles, I suppose.
@@danruinsfood4002 hold on... this is important. If you have heavy clay like I do, don't add just any lime. Most lime you buy adds a lot of magnesium too, and that will make your clay soil tighter. Find some high calcium lime. The recipe I'm using successfully in my heavy clay is to start by tilling in lime, gypsum, and as much organics as I can get. We have chickens so that manure goes in. I have used heavily composted wood chips and double cut mulch before. Mushroom compost is great if you have a good source. You have to be careful with wood chips because they use up nitrogen as they decompose. If they're nearly dirt I till them in. If they're still chips I mulch with them. Fertilize with some 10-10-10, and get a big bag of kelp meal for a mineral supplement. Till it in. Shovel up high rows after tilling and mulch after planting. After a month, start side dressing with lime, and then 2 weeks later fertilizer. Keep alternating like that. I use the 10-10-10 to get new ground growing, and use organic fertilizer to side dress. I'm trying to switch to all organics but it is expensive! My go-to compromise has been 10-10-10 with the kelp meal. I think it gets you a decent combination of macro and micro nutrients for the least money.
My best crop this year was a volunteer pumpkin, which produced 10 or 11 pie pumpkins. Butternut and spaghetti squashes grew and produced better where I left them alone than the ones I babied. Tomatoes all grew few and small unlike normal years where I get tons of big ones. I got no grapes, the birds ate them all. I got few berries. Don't know about potatoes yet I'll dig them up in a week or two. We had severe drought and water restrictions and 100 degree temps for weeks. We are in northern Utah.
I am very late planting out my garden, and having to water almost every day, and am losing a few plants to the heat/dry conditions, but most things are doing well. My strawberries and onions didn't do as good as last year. I just planted sweet corn and am anxiously waiting for it to come up and kicking myself for not presoaking the seeds like I normally do. I'm just starting to get tomatoes. Our 3 year old berry bushes did great. My lettuces & spinach all bolted. I'm exhausted trying to garden and run the farm and care for the animals and do all the house work too after being in the heat for hours each day.
It's been the craziest year here in hasse tx. Biting at the bits to start my brassicas.. but I know it'd be a complete waste of seed. It is flaming hot here. This too shall pass..like a kidney stone. But it'll pass. I will definitely be buying some of your daughters mator seeds!
@ 7:24- Tuck would do something funny! Hahahahaha…I’m sure James would love hearing you invoke Tucks name! He is a cute carrot eating dog. Great vid as usual!💜🌱💜🐶
In Atmore Al, our best crop so far has been strawberries blackberries tomatoes peppers and squash specially spaghetti and butternut. Lots of peppers, all kinds were really good.
Use the trees to protect the comfrey, especially now with fertilizer becoming hard to get and costly. Comfrey and stinging nettles are mine, I have not bought any fertilizer in 8 years You can mulch the ground with the leaves, to keep the soil cooler, to help those plants not doing well in the heat, and or use shade clothe.
I live in zone 8b in California. We get 100 degrees plus from mid June to October sometimes for weeks on end without a break, but we don’t have the humidity that spawns all that disease and we don’t usually have super heavy insect pressure. Things slow down in the dead of summer but usually pick back up when it cools off. My grocery rows have thrived, I’m super happy with the system. My plan is to have mostly grocery rows in the main garden and save another section of my garden for corn and my mass tomato plantings I do every year. Some things that are thriving in my garden other than my fruit trees are raspberries which was a shock to me as well as blackberries and blueberries. Blueberries was something I didn’t think would grow here, although I do have to heavily amend their planting holes with acidic soil or they don’t thrive. I only planted a couple pumpkins this year but they are thriving and as always tomatoes and peppers love it here as does corn. Side note on corn, I pump the fertilizer and water to it heavily so it thrives, if I didn’t it would die since we don’t get rain in summer, corn is the only thing I don’t use organic fertilizer on as well. Overall it’s been a successful season.
I love this video it proves to me by seeing your struggles that even you have plants that die or are a little sickly or fruit rotting sooner than harvest...when I look at your garden I seen my own,so.e things doing great others maybe not but I love it it proves that even with all the nutrients and knowledge some things dont always go as planned
I'm just like you walking through my garden in Arkansas... Some things are doing great other things absolutely crashed even after a second planting it's just so hot in the UV is too high. But I will take what I get. This year I grew bush beans for the first time and actually had a harvest I'm so proud I grew them in a big bunch and when they were done I pulled up the plants and harvested waited about a week and replanted again. At least I'll have beans lol And tomatoes I don't know about my bell peppers yet they're still trying.
Gotta try yams in a container. Been growing sweet potato and even cassava in 25 gallon containers to both not dig up a garden, but also put them on hardscape to expand growing area.
Thanks for the words of encouragement as the heat and drought wears on...the cucumbers and tomatoes did poorly for us while the peppers and okra are still producing. Have to plant some everglade tomatoes to redeem tomato growing season
@Tommie Jones I'm relying on the fall garden for anything worth while. It's just too hot and I'm still trying to break ground to plant stuff. Made the mistake of moving the garden to an area bettter protected from the chickens and easier to water, but didn't get anything dug in time. You live; you learn.
Our sheep and donkey love cogon grass, chinese privet, wisteria, scuppernong, kudzu, dog fennel, smilac, etc, etc. They are the answer to 90% of the invasive species they have encountered. They are also delicious. Love 💘 your content neighbor!
Well one of my successes is half of my corn is 8 feet tall the other is 4 and I Planted zucchini and it turned out to be a butternut I'll take that and thank you for the look around I just love looking at all your goodies
In the Caribbean it is so dry! We're having drought conditions. But, the apricot tree that I planted from seed is unbothered. It is green and happy. Hope it fruits because I don't think it's supposed to do well here. BTW, my 92 yr old dad now has the " I Like to Dig" song as his theme song. I played it for him while he was hoeing in the garden. He almost fell out with laughter! Thanks for that one.
Thanks for another entertaining AND useful video. FAILURE= Everglades tomatoes They keep dying and I'm in Florida. SUCCESS= Loquat, guava, ginger, potatoes, cuban oregano
Hey, jumping in late from North Florida.. literally when you said goodbye. My fails for spring summer 2022-most of my tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, Z, corn, most potatoes, onions, most green beans, some okra... I may have had some bad soil because it's random fails. 😕 Success for spring summer 2022- small about of potatoes, 4 tomato plants 2 of those are everglades, 2 squash, sweet potatoes, peppers, some okra survived, blueberries but the birds ate them, ginger, basil, rosemary (hey I even count the herbs because it makes me feel better lol) 1 or 2 squash and a few green beans. The strange part is it was an unseasonably nice spring and I haven't had a heavy pest problem. My sandy soil is dry and it's so hot now. Plus I have areas that beans, potatoes, tomatoes wouldn't grow in so that makes me think I got some of that stupid poison soil. Grrr! 😋 😄 Any who.. 🌱👍
Bought sweet potato slips from Bakers Creek. Ready to yank them and give up. The new growth looks great at first, then starts looking crepey, then turns black.Old leaves are yellow. Been through several cycles of that.
Chickens are tiny dinosaurs that think they're rototillers. A few of mine love to follow me out to dig in the garden. I lost an entire potato patch to one very determined hen and have decided to just move the patch. At least I have great eggs?
Thanks for the look around! I would like to have a bigger area to plant for my "back-up plants" when the pumpkins fail. As it is I'm growing stuff in every corner of my .014 acre yard and on the roof too.
David, my Seminole Pumpkins have done the same. Just stagnant even in good soil. I took a month off and just re-planted a few seeds a couple days ago in an afternoon shade location. The seeds just popped up, deep green, and it's reminiscent of last year. This is not the first time this has happened and it's almost like they try to tell me when the time is right.
My brother had a garden in Panama City, FL when he was stationed at Tyndall. He said that it got too hot for the cucumbers, squash, and tomatoes. The tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash I grow in SW Missouri seem to relish the mid 90’s (as long as I keep them watered).
My internet cut out half way through the love premier. Good video. Don't take your pumpkin loss to heart. Danny and Wanda over at Deep South Homestead said their pumpkins failed this year too.
Well...I am officially addicted to your channel!! It makes me want to try so many things! Great video's!! I'm Constantly looking forward to the next one.. thanks for letting us know that your daughter is selling on Etsy! Keep up the good work!
Tuck would do something fun. HA!! Comfrey decimated by chickens and guineas after a storm trashed portions of the garden fence. Not bouncing back well in this heat with no rain.
In cen cal we got no rain during winter and so its been a hot rough spring and summer is worse 106 105 and crazy hot winds lets just say my garden looks more gold then green...
Man, I'm in east TN, but I feel your pain with this heat. I've been watering my little 40x40 garden as much as I can get away with, but the heat is just murdering my poor plants. Luckily tonight we got some decent rain and a significant drop in temperature.
Don't stress about your corn David. I am doing similar Lofthouse experiments. My seed stock is from a commercial farm where its had endless selection for plants that received fertilizers and irrigation. I would say the vast majority had a fit when I told it no and show poor growth and shallow roots, chlorosis and expecting me to force feed it. But I have about five percent that put down deep roots and are very dark green and massive sizes and have already grown large ears. Those will be the seed stock for the next grow. Slowly I aim to cull all the plants with selections for poor performance without forced feeding. Now I just have to patiently wait for next corn season to see if the number of thriving dark green corn increases and weak plant numbers decrease.
Greeting from Augusta GA. We've been suffering with a similar hot dry spring and summer. Everything was doing well until the end of May when the heat hit. Romas, pole beans, cucumbers, turnips, collards all went into survival mode. To make matters worse I've been invaded by moles causing root damage and increasing drainage when I don't need it. Time to try the castor oil repellant. What is surprising is my Sungold and SS100 cherry tomatoes in large pots are doing awesome in the heat, best crop in years.
I feel your pain brotha… my three sisters crop got MURDERED by the TX sun. Gonna try again with sweet Corn, Crimson Okra, Long yard beans, and spaghetti squash. Do you have any tips on the three sister’s process?
Just wanted to say that you guys have inspired me to grow Everglades tomatoes ☺️ They are in our garden this year. First time for us.. we'll see how they like Delaware! One other quick thing - we have had watermelon years like you have had pumpkin years. It really does come down to the weather... some years pump out like gangbusters, and some years just make you want to cry. We keep trying. It will work out sometimes 🙂 That's enough.
My cucumbers and cantaloupes are struggling here in WV, but the zucchini and sugar pumpkins are doing okay... not really vining out yet, but healthy. I just harvested around 30 garlic bulbs... a couple rust spots, but overall they did pretty good for the first year post lawn with only compost amendment.
Outside Charleston SC, 3 zuccuni out of 6 plants snd about to pull the ones thar didnt die quite yet. Crookneck squash has done better but still struggling with 5/8 still going, 2 varieties of pickling cucumber started strong but are fading fast in the heat after a decent harvest thus far, slicing cucumber growth has been great if only they would get more fruit to actually bear from all that growth, early girl tomatoes were somehow getting a harvest despite pathetic growth and dieoff, other slicers are starting to produce lots of tomatoes for the chickens since theuve all got blossom end rot, various cherry tomatoes starting to produce (even where ive never planted them), late planting of collards actually tasted great despite picking in 90 degree heat, starting to harvest clemson okra, beans good as always, bananna that wont fruit here is fruiting for the 3rd year in a row, figs are ripening with a huge load as are muscadines. About a month to finish doubling up garden space for fall planting
My husband tells me that my plan to gorw eggs is working really well, even if the eggplants aren't. At least something is doing well, I guess. Congrats on yyour successes!
I've been worrying about my tomatoes not turning red yet. I see yours are still green as well? What are your varieties? Love it thank you for your content!!!
Tuck would have done something fun 😂 Tuck is an amazing garden dog. I would love to learn more about hard pruning of fruit trees. I probably just need to be brave. Thanks for sharing all of this incredible information 🥰
I live in lower Alabama as well. We’ve had success with sugar baby watermelon, Blackberries, peaches, English peas, Alabama red okra, sugar cane. Yellow wax bush beans were so so. The pole beans of various sorts didn’t do well and our potato harvest was subpar. I think we left them in the ground too long and the bugs got quite a few of them. Our tomato harvest was pretty good but the stink bugs were just brutal.
I'm in NE Alabama... lady year I got a few pathetic pumpkins and none of my Cherokee tans came up. This year the Cherokee pumpkins are Vining all over. It looks like the watermelons are going to be great also. I'm finding volunteer tomato and squash plants all over. Tomatoes are looking good so far. The strawberry s didn't provide much but the plants look great. Climbing beans are finally growing great and getting cucumbers coming on. Japanese beetles have been horrible... decimated one of my plum trees and started on blackberries before I got traps out. Time to process rabbits. Got 5 guinea eggs to hatch and my muscovy duck hatched 3 out of 11 eggs.
Corn and cabbage have been hard for me the last few years. Plant 30 corn and 1 comes up! New beds with super soil still very confused. Starting seeds was done way too early with the crazy spring we had so had to start over with direct sew but things are finally looking up! Love your goofiness!
I'm growing in northern New Jersey zone 6, and so far it's been a pretty good season. The best area is the deep mulch, no till bed with tomatoes and sweet peppers. I added homemade compost and shredded leaves last year and the worms are loving it. The best new vegetable I grew was definitely the Chinese cabbage. Only the kale and snow peas got eaten by various animals, so we put up better fences and netting. Best of luck David, and thanks for the tour despite the heat wave rolling through.
Success this year with cucumbers, failures tomatoes and squash. It has been unseasonably hot here in South Louisiana zone 8b- beating records from the 1800’s and heat index 106-112+ so far.
Pot marigolds are. They're a celendula, I think. "French" marigolds are good at chasing away nematodes and confusing other bugs, but not that great for eating.
Not too many in the comments got the Tuck reference but that had me laughing out loud. I hadn't gardened much during the early pandemic but this year I'm doing well with the collards, corn ,beans and tomatoes. Chicory is new and super prolific. Little patches of cilantro have finally succeeded. I let the old plant shade the new ones and when the seeds drop I hope I'll never have to sow cilantro again. The usual squashes and sunflowers are all loving the mix of sunny days and foggy nights. We are in drought here but the overnight temps are in the low 60's with a high dew point so things are staying fresh. I'm in zone 10a with a twist. We never know what we are going to get. Some surprise heat waves here and there made us put up a shade cloth which is working to save the arugula and other bolting plants. I'm learning from you to add urine, biochar, and do more chop and drop for fertility. That's all working and free. Started growing sweet potatoes, Yacon, and dragon fruit to play around with semi tropicals for moving to Vietnam. I watch James and Tuck but I'm learning a lot from your channel and I'll probably end up with a homestead more like yours than any other youtube gardener I watch.
My morenga starts got replanted and I thought it was dead but it pushed out a little blob of green popping up in its drumstick. It’s so hot I have sun all day long 🎶. Finally got tired of dragging out two 2 1/2 gallon water sprayers and I put a hose through my window with a quick connection and another hose to reach ALL THE WAY TO THE FTONT YARD!! I feel so civilized!!!!
Well...you did make me feel better about my two dead Seminole! My cassava sticks are growing, canna Lilly growing along with chaya and sweet pots....I also focused on fruit trees. They still live. Not much rain here in swfl😔
What a year it's been so far! Too cold, too hot, too wet, too dry! All in one spring. Here's a garden tour showing what's doing great - and what isn't!
Get Grocery Row Gardening and help me test this system! amzn.to/3ygA8Y2
The Good Gardens seed store: www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens
Thank you for watching.
Same here in SW Missouri. Went unusually cool and wet to hot and dry. Almost overnight.
How do the Everglade’s Tomatoes grow in zone 6b.
Good morning David I live in Central Florida and other than a fence which HOA won’t allow me to put up how can I keep rabbits away from my delicious vegetables and plants are use the powder from Home Depot but the next day I saw the rabbit with forks and knives making a salad with the sprinkled rabbit palette that I put in the garden LOL what do you recommend brother?
The weather has been weird near San Jose too, especially in the spring - hot for a few days, then in the 50s, then 80s or 90s. Now, in late June, it has been around 100 degrees for almost a week. I have to watch the plants and water them when the leaves droop (which is at least once daily).
@@eastcoastnews9529 Dump ground cayenne peppers into their holes. That at least helps especially if there are any cats around. The rabbits come out to get away from the hot stuff and get caught by the cats.
“Come on! Tuck would do something fun!”
IT’S JAMES PRIGIONI, COMIN’ TO YA LIVE FROM JERSEY!!!!
Yes, tuck and James have a great channel ❤
“Tuck would do something fun”
I love when my favorite UA-camrs reference my other favorite UA-camrs. ❤😂
Thanks for your videos David!
I tolerated loss of many blackberries by the climbing rats, but when they dug up an entire row of potatoes, I immediately joined David's "Get out the Lead" club; food for the new fig trees added in the spring.
We have a neighborhood where there are many "outdoor cats". So we feed and water them. A few were born on our property, so they think of us as "theirs" and i spend time with them every day All the neighbors do around here, and we take them to the vet if they need it.
I almost never see rodents, and birds almost never land anywhere near the plants. :-) Barn cats are the way! The Egyptians were right. Dogs ( jackals in their case) for animal protection etc, cats to protect the crops. You just have to not grow a few things that they might eat, but are toxic to them ( like day lilies ) and maybe some catnip near to rodent susceptible plants.
I'm considering growing some tobacco to use as pesticide as well. Super easy to grow, if you're not caring about "taste".
I love the dog playing with the swing in the background
Hey David, can you move to a hot dry climate next so all of us toasties can figure out how to successfully garden? 😅
Yeah its toasty here in Texas too!👌
Yeah West Texas next!
Yep Cyprus too! Lolz
Make tonnes of ice fill your soil with it then mulch then periodically stick ice cubes in your soil after your plants are planted. I don't live in a hot dry climate, just an idea lol but as far as I can tell a lot of the issues come from soil temperature.
@@joshsimms5697 nice I like it I remember being in the alps with the snow blowers on the slopes this might work also.
I call them cantkillies. When my wife and I moved into our house there was these lilies around the gas tank and power pole and elsewhere. I spent 5 years trying to kill them and now that I’m gardening I’m glad I didn’t. Though I still don’t like them now I compost my enemies. Thanks for all the lessons you’ve shared.
My order from your daughter's store came in and I am loving the hand drawn seed packages ❤ please tell her I appreciate her getting my seeds to me so fast!
As bad as it looks this year I am at least glad to see I'm not the only one struggling to grow my garden this year.
Laughed at "Tuck would do something fun"... as your doggie ran away with the stick.
I adore that your daughter has the seed store
Interesting experiments ! Your daughter is realy into it too, that’s lovely.
"...we can't do anything with them, but they bring us a huge amount of joy..." There's the key: As you survey the wins and losses,
Being joyful in the beauty of creation. Perhaps the marigolds aren't useful save the joy they provide🏵️
Almost everything in my garden is just struggling to stay alive in temps over 100 day in and day out. We haven't harvested any squash or melons, although we have several honeynuts and a cantaloupe showing promise. Our only watermelon died on the vine. Two cranberry tomatoes managed to ripen but now all the tomatoes are dropping their flowers. This is my first year growing in this soil and it's apparently junk construction mix. I'm going to follow your lead and get creative about adding more fertility. Thanks for showing me how to look at gardening through a more realistic lens. ~ Lisa
I thought I was alone with the squash. It’s the first year I’ve actually grown any squash, and I thought I was just bad at it. None of my plants are producing female flowers.
Lots of joy that’s what gardening gives you.
Just had my ice cream banana trees delivered today. They'll go in my tiny back yard with the giant mango and plumeria trees (not a giant, just tall) I heard banana trees like shade. That's what they'll get back there 😄
Small ones like shade but really they do best in full sun.
Enjoy and many blessings!
@@kylekoenig4730 the trunks on these are about 4ft high right now, but they are still young.
Have a friend who is a landscaper. He planted them for me. Watered then on real good. Then we had 2.66" rain last night
I really appreciate your content. I've been gardening mb 8 years, moved to clay land and starting over with your ideas. I can't wait to get an extra stream of income going with starting trees on my own too. Your channel helps ease my mind about times ahead.
Lime is supposed to help clay. We have clay too
@@donnarichey144 I just learned about lime a few days ago. Supposed to fix acidic soil. The clay spill here is pretty acidic from the pine needles, I suppose.
@@danruinsfood4002 hold on... this is important. If you have heavy clay like I do, don't add just any lime. Most lime you buy adds a lot of magnesium too, and that will make your clay soil tighter. Find some high calcium lime.
The recipe I'm using successfully in my heavy clay is to start by tilling in lime, gypsum, and as much organics as I can get. We have chickens so that manure goes in. I have used heavily composted wood chips and double cut mulch before. Mushroom compost is great if you have a good source. You have to be careful with wood chips because they use up nitrogen as they decompose. If they're nearly dirt I till them in. If they're still chips I mulch with them. Fertilize with some 10-10-10, and get a big bag of kelp meal for a mineral supplement. Till it in. Shovel up high rows after tilling and mulch after planting. After a month, start side dressing with lime, and then 2 weeks later fertilizer. Keep alternating like that. I use the 10-10-10 to get new ground growing, and use organic fertilizer to side dress. I'm trying to switch to all organics but it is expensive! My go-to compromise has been 10-10-10 with the kelp meal. I think it gets you a decent combination of macro and micro nutrients for the least money.
I have clay soil, he has videos about that?
My best crop this year was a volunteer pumpkin, which produced 10 or 11 pie pumpkins. Butternut and spaghetti squashes grew and produced better where I left them alone than the ones I babied. Tomatoes all grew few and small unlike normal years where I get tons of big ones. I got no grapes, the birds ate them all. I got few berries. Don't know about potatoes yet I'll dig them up in a week or two. We had severe drought and water restrictions and 100 degree temps for weeks. We are in northern Utah.
I am very late planting out my garden, and having to water almost every day, and am losing a few plants to the heat/dry conditions, but most things are doing well. My strawberries and onions didn't do as good as last year. I just planted sweet corn and am anxiously waiting for it to come up and kicking myself for not presoaking the seeds like I normally do. I'm just starting to get tomatoes. Our 3 year old berry bushes did great. My lettuces & spinach all bolted. I'm exhausted trying to garden and run the farm and care for the animals and do all the house work too after being in the heat for hours each day.
It's been the craziest year here in hasse tx. Biting at the bits to start my brassicas.. but I know it'd be a complete waste of seed. It is flaming hot here. This too shall pass..like a kidney stone. But it'll pass. I will definitely be buying some of your daughters mator seeds!
I feel your pain I am so allergic to e erything also. I pray for the day I won't have soo many allergies.
@ 7:24- Tuck would do something funny!
Hahahahaha…I’m sure James would love hearing you invoke Tucks name! He is a cute carrot eating dog. Great vid as usual!💜🌱💜🐶
I love that you don’t take yourself too serious!!🥰
In Atmore Al, our best crop so far has been strawberries blackberries tomatoes
peppers and squash specially spaghetti and butternut. Lots of peppers, all kinds were really good.
Use the trees to protect the comfrey, especially now with fertilizer becoming hard to get and costly. Comfrey and stinging nettles are mine, I have not bought any fertilizer in 8 years
You can mulch the ground with the leaves, to keep the soil cooler, to help those plants not doing well in the heat, and or use shade clothe.
I live in zone 8b in California. We get 100 degrees plus from mid June to October sometimes for weeks on end without a break, but we don’t have the humidity that spawns all that disease and we don’t usually have super heavy insect pressure. Things slow down in the dead of summer but usually pick back up when it cools off. My grocery rows have thrived, I’m super happy with the system. My plan is to have mostly grocery rows in the main garden and save another section of my garden for corn and my mass tomato plantings I do every year. Some things that are thriving in my garden other than my fruit trees are raspberries which was a shock to me as well as blackberries and blueberries. Blueberries was something I didn’t think would grow here, although I do have to heavily amend their planting holes with acidic soil or they don’t thrive. I only planted a couple pumpkins this year but they are thriving and as always tomatoes and peppers love it here as does corn. Side note on corn, I pump the fertilizer and water to it heavily so it thrives, if I didn’t it would die since we don’t get rain in summer, corn is the only thing I don’t use organic fertilizer on as well. Overall it’s been a successful season.
I love this video it proves to me by seeing your struggles that even you have plants that die or are a little sickly or fruit rotting sooner than harvest...when I look at your garden I seen my own,so.e things doing great others maybe not but I love it it proves that even with all the nutrients and knowledge some things dont always go as planned
It is encouraging...
Black eye peas grow very well this time of year. Great picked early ( snap peas?) Sauteed with butter and garlic. Grow it all year in the south. 😘
I used them for a cover crop last year and they did amazing.
I'm just like you walking through my garden in Arkansas... Some things are doing great other things absolutely crashed even after a second planting it's just so hot in the UV is too high. But I will take what I get.
This year I grew bush beans for the first time and actually had a harvest I'm so proud I grew them in a big bunch and when they were done I pulled up the plants and harvested waited about a week and replanted again. At least I'll have beans lol
And tomatoes I don't know about my bell peppers yet they're still trying.
I am in Mississippi and the heat is extreme here too. I’m from Alabama and my family still live there around mobile area. Love your content.
You are amazing. You have planted so much abundance. You inspire me to plant more for resilience. Everything is an experiment 😅
Gotta try yams in a container. Been growing sweet potato and even cassava in 25 gallon containers to both not dig up a garden, but also put them on hardscape to expand growing area.
Thanks for the words of encouragement as the heat and drought wears on...the cucumbers and tomatoes did poorly for us while the peppers and okra are still producing. Have to plant some everglade tomatoes to redeem tomato growing season
@Tommie Jones I'm relying on the fall garden for anything worth while. It's just too hot and I'm still trying to break ground to plant stuff. Made the mistake of moving the garden to an area bettter protected from the chickens and easier to water, but didn't get anything dug in time. You live; you learn.
I'm sorry about your pumpkins will be praying for better harvest next year
There's a book called "Gardening with Guineas". They are said not to scratch up the garden, make wonderful eggs and meat.
I would so plant that variegated marijuana plant. Stunning.
Our sheep and donkey love cogon grass, chinese privet, wisteria, scuppernong, kudzu, dog fennel, smilac, etc, etc. They are the answer to 90% of the invasive species they have encountered. They are also delicious. Love 💘 your content neighbor!
Well one of my successes is half of my corn is 8 feet tall the other is 4 and I Planted zucchini and it turned out to be a butternut I'll take that and thank you for the look around I just love looking at all your goodies
The z word isn't used around here
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@@catholicbeforeamerican4889 I'm sorry I will never use it again since I haven't been able to grow any ha ha ha
In the Caribbean it is so dry! We're having drought conditions. But, the apricot tree that I planted from seed is unbothered. It is green and happy. Hope it fruits because I don't think it's supposed to do well here. BTW, my 92 yr old dad now has the " I Like to Dig" song as his theme song. I played it for him while he was hoeing in the garden. He almost fell out with laughter! Thanks for that one.
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Thanks for another entertaining AND useful video. FAILURE= Everglades tomatoes They keep dying and I'm in Florida. SUCCESS= Loquat, guava, ginger, potatoes, cuban oregano
Hey, jumping in late from North Florida.. literally when you said goodbye. My fails for spring summer 2022-most of my tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, Z, corn, most potatoes, onions, most green beans, some okra... I may have had some bad soil because it's random fails. 😕 Success for spring summer 2022- small about of potatoes, 4 tomato plants 2 of those are everglades, 2 squash, sweet potatoes, peppers, some okra survived, blueberries but the birds ate them, ginger, basil, rosemary (hey I even count the herbs because it makes me feel better lol) 1 or 2 squash and a few green beans. The strange part is it was an unseasonably nice spring and I haven't had a heavy pest problem. My sandy soil is dry and it's so hot now. Plus I have areas that beans, potatoes, tomatoes wouldn't grow in so that makes me think I got some of that stupid poison soil. Grrr!
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Thank you.
Bad Year For Pumpkins sounds like one of your songs.
Bought sweet potato slips from Bakers Creek. Ready to yank them and give up. The new growth looks great at first, then starts looking crepey, then turns black.Old leaves are yellow. Been through several cycles of that.
new sub here. Thank you for keeping it real, as opposed to homesteading channels that (falsely) make everything look perfect.
For real
Thank you for all your enjoyable content David! Try to put comfrey in a very moist spot. They usually grow near creeks and ditches.
I feel your pain with the free range chickens. Lol
Chickens are tiny dinosaurs that think they're rototillers. A few of mine love to follow me out to dig in the garden. I lost an entire potato patch to one very determined hen and have decided to just move the patch. At least I have great eggs?
Excellent update so truthful and real God bless you thank you enjoyed watching as always
Thanks for the look around! I would like to have a bigger area to plant for my "back-up plants" when the pumpkins fail. As it is I'm growing stuff in every corner of my .014 acre yard and on the roof too.
Love the chicken impression
David, my Seminole Pumpkins have done the same. Just stagnant even in good soil. I took a month off and just re-planted a few seeds a couple days ago in an afternoon shade location. The seeds just popped up, deep green, and it's reminiscent of last year. This is not the first time this has happened and it's almost like they try to tell me when the time is right.
Anything thorns usually do well in the desert like roses n etc...
Love your content man! You crack me up :) hehe
Alabama climate sounds a lot like the Middle East. Helpful info!
My brother had a garden in Panama City, FL when he was stationed at Tyndall. He said that it got too hot for the cucumbers, squash, and tomatoes. The tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash I grow in SW Missouri seem to relish the mid 90’s (as long as I keep them watered).
Huge amounts of joy! Inspiring!
I loved your book and I’m adding more perennials next year! I’m in SW Missouri. It’s hot here too.
My internet cut out half way through the love premier. Good video. Don't take your pumpkin loss to heart. Danny and Wanda over at Deep South Homestead said their pumpkins failed this year too.
Well...I am officially addicted to your channel!!
It makes me want to try so many things!
Great video's!! I'm Constantly looking forward to the next one.. thanks for letting us know that your daughter is selling on Etsy!
Keep up the good work!
Truly an amazing transformation!
We have tomato’s sunflowers and aunt mollys ground cherries volunteers from last year
I hope someday to have a yard and be able to do this!
That plum next to the pomegranate might be a root sport from the nephilim plum lol
Tuck would do something fun. HA!! Comfrey decimated by chickens and guineas after a storm trashed portions of the garden fence. Not bouncing back well in this heat with no rain.
Good job David and family.
The apparent failures serve to keep us humble, and that is the preferred fruit.
In cen cal we got no rain during winter and so its been a hot rough spring and summer is worse 106 105 and crazy hot winds lets just say my garden looks more gold then green...
the dry humor is hilarious
Love the 'Tuck' nod.
Love your amaranth. I planted patches of that this year fir the first time. Thanks for the tour and words of encouragement.
Man, I'm in east TN, but I feel your pain with this heat. I've been watering my little 40x40 garden as much as I can get away with, but the heat is just murdering my poor plants. Luckily tonight we got some decent rain and a significant drop in temperature.
Don't stress about your corn David. I am doing similar Lofthouse experiments. My seed stock is from a commercial farm where its had endless selection for plants that received fertilizers and irrigation. I would say the vast majority had a fit when I told it no and show poor growth and shallow roots, chlorosis and expecting me to force feed it. But I have about five percent that put down deep roots and are very dark green and massive sizes and have already grown large ears. Those will be the seed stock for the next grow. Slowly I aim to cull all the plants with selections for poor performance without forced feeding. Now I just have to patiently wait for next corn season to see if the number of thriving dark green corn increases and weak plant numbers decrease.
Greeting from Augusta GA. We've been suffering with a similar hot dry spring and summer.
Everything was doing well until the end of May when the heat hit.
Romas, pole beans, cucumbers, turnips, collards all went into survival mode.
To make matters worse I've been invaded by moles causing root damage and increasing drainage when I don't need it. Time to try the castor oil repellant.
What is surprising is my Sungold and SS100 cherry tomatoes in large pots are doing awesome in the heat, best crop in years.
Thnks so much for the Echo Farms meetup! I enjoyed meeting you and the tour. Love your gardening humor.
huge amounts of joy!
Love this, growing things isn't always pretty and it's nice to see some transparency ♥️♥️
I feel your pain brotha… my three sisters crop got MURDERED by the TX sun. Gonna try again with sweet Corn, Crimson Okra, Long yard beans, and spaghetti squash. Do you have any tips on the three sister’s process?
Just wanted to say that you guys have inspired me to grow Everglades tomatoes ☺️ They are in our garden this year. First time for us.. we'll see how they like Delaware!
One other quick thing - we have had watermelon years like you have had pumpkin years. It really does come down to the weather... some years pump out like gangbusters, and some years just make you want to cry. We keep trying. It will work out sometimes 🙂 That's enough.
That cj needs to be restored into the ultimate survival vehicle for ur family. Get er runnin good and add a light trailer and ur set
My cucumbers and cantaloupes are struggling here in WV, but the zucchini and sugar pumpkins are doing okay... not really vining out yet, but healthy.
I just harvested around 30 garlic bulbs... a couple rust spots, but overall they did pretty good for the first year post lawn with only compost amendment.
Oh, David! "Tuck would do something fun!" Really??? 😂😂
Outside Charleston SC, 3 zuccuni out of 6 plants snd about to pull the ones thar didnt die quite yet. Crookneck squash has done better but still struggling with 5/8 still going, 2 varieties of pickling cucumber started strong but are fading fast in the heat after a decent harvest thus far, slicing cucumber growth has been great if only they would get more fruit to actually bear from all that growth, early girl tomatoes were somehow getting a harvest despite pathetic growth and dieoff, other slicers are starting to produce lots of tomatoes for the chickens since theuve all got blossom end rot, various cherry tomatoes starting to produce (even where ive never planted them), late planting of collards actually tasted great despite picking in 90 degree heat, starting to harvest clemson okra, beans good as always, bananna that wont fruit here is fruiting for the 3rd year in a row, figs are ripening with a huge load as are muscadines. About a month to finish doubling up garden space for fall planting
My husband tells me that my plan to gorw eggs is working really well, even if the eggplants aren't.
At least something is doing well, I guess. Congrats on yyour successes!
I’m in Augusta and my zucchini just wouldn’t grow this year. Very strange. Last year I made a lot of zucchini bread.
That's awesome. I'm putting my winged yams in pots!
My Central Florida property came complete with a sink hole filled with about 20 years of random trash and construction debris! 😅
That sounds like Florida!
That sounds like “ billy bob culture” instead of hugukultur. 😂
Hell of a year to stress test the plants those plants that survive will definitely be worth saving
For sure.
I've been worrying about my tomatoes not turning red yet. I see yours are still green as well? What are your varieties? Love it thank you for your content!!!
Following your advice, went to Green County Agroforestry - was already subscribed. Thanks for reminder and sharing the stage!
Tuck would have done something fun 😂 Tuck is an amazing garden dog. I would love to learn more about hard pruning of fruit trees. I probably just need to be brave. Thanks for sharing all of this incredible information 🥰
I live in lower Alabama as well. We’ve had success with sugar baby watermelon, Blackberries, peaches, English peas, Alabama red okra, sugar cane. Yellow wax bush beans were so so. The pole beans of various sorts didn’t do well and our potato harvest was subpar. I think we left them in the ground too long and the bugs got quite a few of them. Our tomato harvest was pretty good but the stink bugs were just brutal.
Should check out roots and refuge rant video. She is having problems in her high tunnel. Everything in the nightshade family is affected
I'm in NE Alabama... lady year I got a few pathetic pumpkins and none of my Cherokee tans came up. This year the Cherokee pumpkins are Vining all over. It looks like the watermelons are going to be great also.
I'm finding volunteer tomato and squash plants all over. Tomatoes are looking good so far.
The strawberry s didn't provide much but the plants look great.
Climbing beans are finally growing great and getting cucumbers coming on.
Japanese beetles have been horrible... decimated one of my plum trees and started on blackberries before I got traps out.
Time to process rabbits. Got 5 guinea eggs to hatch and my muscovy duck hatched 3 out of 11 eggs.
"Hey, you're gonna be on UA-cam. Here, take this stick and do something funny. Come on, Tuck would do something fun." 😂
Corn and cabbage have been hard for me the last few years. Plant 30 corn and 1 comes up! New beds with super soil still very confused. Starting seeds was done way too early with the crazy spring we had so had to start over with direct sew but things are finally looking up! Love your goofiness!
I'm growing in northern New Jersey zone 6, and so far it's been a pretty good season. The best area is the deep mulch, no till bed with tomatoes and sweet peppers. I added homemade compost and shredded leaves last year and the worms are loving it. The best new vegetable I grew was definitely the Chinese cabbage. Only the kale and snow peas got eaten by various animals, so we put up better fences and netting. Best of luck David, and thanks for the tour despite the heat wave rolling through.
My Seminole pumpkins Look sad too. Florida here…it keeps flowering but just droops.😢
Success this year with cucumbers, failures tomatoes and squash. It has been unseasonably hot here in South Louisiana zone 8b- beating records from the 1800’s and heat index 106-112+ so far.
Pam says- aren't marigolds used as an artificial saffron in rice dishes in like France? Just the yellow ones though.
Pot marigolds are. They're a celendula, I think. "French" marigolds are good at chasing away nematodes and confusing other bugs, but not that great for eating.
266 comments 😵😮. Your channel is about to blow out even more DTG 😍
Not too many in the comments got the Tuck reference but that had me laughing out loud. I hadn't gardened much during the early pandemic but this year I'm doing well with the collards, corn ,beans and tomatoes. Chicory is new and super prolific. Little patches of cilantro have finally succeeded. I let the old plant shade the new ones and when the seeds drop I hope I'll never have to sow cilantro again. The usual squashes and sunflowers are all loving the mix of sunny days and foggy nights.
We are in drought here but the overnight temps are in the low 60's with a high dew point so things are staying fresh. I'm in zone 10a with a twist. We never know what we are going to get. Some surprise heat waves here and there made us put up a shade cloth which is working to save the arugula and other bolting plants.
I'm learning from you to add urine, biochar, and do more chop and drop for fertility. That's all working and free. Started growing sweet potatoes, Yacon, and dragon fruit to play around with semi tropicals for moving to Vietnam. I watch James and Tuck but I'm learning a lot from your channel and I'll probably end up with a homestead more like yours than any other youtube gardener I watch.
That’s so similar to our gardens this year
My morenga starts got replanted and I thought it was dead but it pushed out a little blob of green popping up in its drumstick. It’s so hot I have sun all day long 🎶. Finally got tired of dragging out two 2 1/2 gallon water sprayers and I put a hose through my window with a quick connection and another hose to reach ALL THE WAY TO THE FTONT YARD!! I feel so civilized!!!!
Well...you did make me feel better about my two dead Seminole! My cassava sticks are growing, canna Lilly growing along with chaya and sweet pots....I also focused on fruit trees. They still live. Not much rain here in swfl😔