What a nice clear presenter you are. I love your garden layout too. Thankyou for the tips. I'm in a similar zone to you...just looked it up in duckduckgo...while looking up what an "earwig" was! I have a bazillion of those ugly critters and thought they were just bugs that came around old wood piles!!! So your tips are valid for me here in Northern Hungary, zone 6a/6b in Europe. Thankyou again.
I live in Klamath Falls Oregon we have earwig problem also. What I do to keep them in control is put a little dish of used vegetable oil or maybe you could put a little soy sauce With the oilI can’t tell you how well this works but it does an amazing job
Hi, Tom. The earwigs aren't all that bad this year, thank heavens, but I've heard this type of trap works great. I'm ready to put it into action at a moment's notice!
Second time attempting to grow a garden. I planted pole beans, no success there, purple hull cow peas are up, no blooms yet. My squash plants have gotten big, 3 squash to date but not a single female zucchini bloom to date. Cucumbers are growing up a bean tower and I have harvested 6 burpless cucumbers so far. My tomato plants are struggling in the heat and I gave lost 3 to early blight. My biggest plant us a bean called asparagus bean, the pods grow to 36 inches long but need to be picked earlier. They have grown well above 8 feet tall and still putting on blooms. I enjoy being out there and watching everything grow. Thanks for sharing your garden with us.
Hi, Julie. It sounds like you've had some mixed results this year, which I know is frustrating, but everything is a learning experience! Hang in there.
I just love your videos your a pleasure to listen to. I tried your bean idea starting in my house and it worked fantastic. Thanks so much. I will do it every year now. I also used your idea for tule cover on my broccoli and cauliflower. Great. Thanks again Susan you’ve taught me a lot. Proves you can always learn more and more. 🙋😉
I so glad I came across with your channel just on time when me and my husband are going to start a garden. I think I'm going to be using a lot of your ideas. Thanks for sharing your videos . God bless and stay safe.
Hi, Larieta. Thank you. It might look like a ton of work but actually, the only "work" is harvesting for the most part. I can weed the entire garden in less than an hour because I have weedblock fabric underneath the bark in the pathways, so that means I only have to weed the tops of the beds. So that is nice. But it's a labor of love and we both love growing our own healthy food. Cheers!
You have such a beautiful vegetable garden Susan! When you popped that raspberry into your mouth ... mine actually watered. Now you've made me hungry for raspberries!
Wonderful garden. I am a bit jealous, but then, that is because I cannot grow very much in my climate, which is the high desert of southern California. It's just too hot here, which means I have a very limited growing season according to what I have read. Best wishes on your garden, and the new plants you are trying.
Thanks, Caley. I have some writing friends and colleagues who have a website called swgardening.com. You might see if they have some ideas for you. Take care.
This is the first video of yours I have ever watched. I really enjoyed it. Thank you! I will be going back to previous videos. I live somewhat south of you, and am excited to have found a gardening channel with similar weather/ challenges.
Hi, Ann-Marie and welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. If you go to the "playlists" menu, you'll see that I've organized all of my videos into categories such as 2019 videos, vegetable gardening, flower gardening, bird videos, etc. Happy gardening!
Thank you for the tour of your beautiful garden! It is food for the eye and the soul! I also learn a lot of new things about gardening and plants I never heard of before. And I learn new English words, for example earwig. Have a nice weekend!
Thank you for the tour of your garden you really worked hard to make it beautiful. I have for raised garden beds in our backyard. My garden never looks as good as yours but we try
Thank you for the tour, Susan. I'm in the Five Mile area and having a bad year with earwigs too. This is the first year I committed to growing more of the brassica family and made a small contained area with floating row cover but am now going to take a walk to JoAnn fabrics and get some bridal netting! Thank you for the many tips. My garden is way behind yours but I wasn't able to start any of my own seedlings this year so all the purchased starts have taken their sweet time catching up (except the San Marzano tomatoes which are already 4' tall, go figure). Have a great weekend!
Hi I’m in 9b zone ( terrible heat this year and only one day of rain in months) have squash bugs and thrips on patty pans, zucchini and crooked neck. I sprayed neem oil and insecticidal soap but I guess I have to repeat
YT put this video in my recommend list and I am very glad. I normally watch lots of British gardeners and a couple here in the USA. Nice to discover a new channel somewhat closer to me as I am on the coast. Your garden looks great and I already see tips I can use like the holders you are using as hoop holders. What exactly are they? The British gardeners have so many great products available to them that we either don't get or are very expensive here, so I love your solutions.
Hi, Gayla. I agree. I'm a huge fan of the British gardening show, "Gardener's World," and enjoy picking up new tips and techniques from them. Those hoop holders are 10" long pieces of PVC pipe that have been clamped onto the sides of our raised beds. The hoops are made of recycled 1/2" drip tubing. We are considering making some taller, sturdier hoops but haven't had a chance to do that yet.
Thank you! All of the beds have drip irrigation and they are watered on a timer so I don't have to water them individually. But I DO keep an eye on the soil moisture and change the amount of time they're getting watered, based on the weather.
Hi there. We don't really have plant diseases. I attribute that to starting all of my vegetable plants from seed rather than purchasing them. I space plants properly and use drip irrigation to water them so the only time the plant foliage gets wet is when it rains. However, I realize that in some regions of the country (I'm thinking of the South in particular), certain plant diseases are more prevalent, esp. tomato diseases and there's not much one can do about that. But for the most part, I use good cultural practices in our garden to keep the plants healthy and productive. All of our raised beds are filled with native soil (when we made the beds, we used about 3" of soil from the pathways, knowing we were going to cover the paths with weed-block fabric and a couple of inches of bark mulch). Then we added in organic compost, shredded leaves and grass clippings from our lawn (which isn't treated with herbicides such as weed & feed).Each year, we add more compost. Thank you for your kind words about the video and my efforts to share the love of gardening!
Love your garden tours. Always so much good information. Do you just buy your tulle at a fabric store? What I see at places like JoAnn's doesn't seem wide enough. I'm in the Seattle area and our weather has been weird too. It got really hot earlier in June and an lot of my lettuce bolted. But the red sails didn't and is still going strong. I will grow that again for sure. Now it's chilly and cloudy again and the tomatoes, peppers and all the hot weather loving plants have really slowed down.
Hi, Elizabeth. I found a great deal on tulle on Amazon so I bought a whole bolt of it so I can use it for years. I buy 108" width, which works well for our raised beds. I know that JoAnn's usually sells that width or you can find it online. If you think you'll be using a lot of it over the years, here's the deal I found: www.amazon.com/BBCrafts-inch-Premium-Tulle-Fabric/dp/B01N6WMFYO
Not sure if you know that the zucchini flowers are edible and can make delicious snacks or side dishes. You can look up recipes under he name of Fiore di zucca. Love your garden.
Learn a lot from watching your garden channel. I did put a floating cover on top of my kale and cabbage, I still notice aphid under some of kale and cabbage leaves. I would like to know how to solve this issue and why it has aphid under the cover still?
Hi, Jennifer. Did you put the floating row cover over the plants as soon as you planted them? And did you weigh down the edges so it didn't move off of the plants? Those are the first 2 things that come to mind.
I think you are right. I did not put the cover right away after I planted the vegetable on the ground. Thanks for the answer. I will do it next year for sure. 😊
@@jenniferchen4013 That is the secret to success because otherwise, the insects might be on the plants before you place the cover over them. Take care.
Hi, Pam. Thanks for your suggestion. I think the main problem in that area of our garden was that the plants were competing with tree roots for moisture and nutrients. Fortunately, we resolved that problem (ua-cam.com/video/z4XC-kywrfw/v-deo.html) although will be closely watching those beds.
Hi, Kristin. Yes, I am in Spokane, Wash., which is generally in zone 6. However, we are in a microclimate (outlying area, higher elevation), so it's zone 5b.
I am first time raising pumpkins and there lots of yellow flowers blooms, but they all male flowers. What is that can be? Please respond on this. Thank you very much.
Hello, Sivye. Early in the growing season, there are are a lot of male flowers. There can be other factors that affect the production of female flowers. Here is more information for you: www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/pumpkin/pumpkin-flowers-but-no-fruit.htm.
Hi, Debbie. Our raised beds are 10" deep. We really haven't had to purchase any soil mixes because we scraped the top 2" of soil off the pathways in between the beds, and then added in organic compost, shredded leaves, and grass clippings, etc. I realize that doesn't work for everyone. Some folks get soil mixes at landscape supply places but I always suggest adding in organic amendments such as what I listed above to help increase the soil fertility.
My very small container garden didn't do well this time. Everything I planted developed something. Radishes didn't bulb, strawberries didn't ripen to nice red, green beans didn't come up and if they did the bean seed only got to 2 inches, kale never came up, my potatoes only got tremendous top growth, no potatoes. I used Miracle Gro Organic potting soil for all the pots. I'm thinking aminopyralid. What do you think? I live in Florence, OR, not a lot of sunshine here.
Hi, Judy. Gosh, you must be so frustrated. It's hard to say for sure what the problem is but if you don't have a lot of sunlight, that can certainly affect how plants grow. If you suspect the potting soil, an easy way to test is is by planting a small container of some bean or pea seeds (since legumes are the most easily affected by problem soil) and see if you get decent germination and if the plants have normal-looking growth. If they don't, I would contact Miracle Gro at the phone number on the label. But mainly, I would see if I could find a sunnier spot for your plants to grow and make sure they receive enough water.
Do you have birds and squirrels? I do and they stole all my bean and other seeds. Next year I will be putting netting around after seeding. As for potatoes, what kind of fertilizer did you use? You want to use one for potatoes and other root crops. It might be you used one with a lot of nitrogen which gives you green growth but doesn't help much with spuds. Also, you want to wait a couple of weeks after they stop flowering before harvesting new potatoes. Right about now is the right time for me to harvest new potatoes but depending on when you planted, etc. I was really wanting some and harvested my first bag too early and only got a few. Waited 2 more weeks and much better results. Also, I am assuming you are talking about new potatoes and not main crop? Here at least it isn't time to harvest main crop yet. Hope this helps a little. I struggle with deer, rabbits, squirrels and birds as well as a lack of flat space so I get how frustrating and discouraging it is to not get any produce.
@@Gigi-fv9ky I only had 3 small potato grow bags and I filled them with Miracle Grow organic that had the fertilizer in it already. That did it. Too much nitrogen in their mix.
@@Gigi-fv9ky Yes, I was referring to taking a few new potatoes, then waiting until the end of the season to harvest the rest of the crop. I used bone meal in the soil before planting the seed potatoes this spring. Bone meal is high in phosphorus (and is organic); root crops need more phosphorus. We don't have squirrels (thankfully!) but we do have to keep birds away from newly-sprouted seeds and, at times, young seedlings. I mostly use bird netting and floating row cover to do this. You might consider visiting my website, SusansintheGarden.com for more info. Take care.
Hi Suzan, I really enjoy watching you. Please, let me know where did you get the muzyka bean seeds. Sorry if I didn’t spell it right. I think it’s good for my zone(Calgary-Alberta-Canada. Thank you very much!🇨🇦
Hi, Pava. The 'Musica' bean seeds came from Renee's Garden Seeds (she is currently sold out, though), but I know Territorial Seed Co. also sells them. I'm not sure about Canadian seed sources, though.
Hi, Ann-Marie. We have never had that happen. According to some quick research, a sweet pepper won't become hot (and vice versa) because the types of fruits you get on the "mother" plant are based only on the genes of the mother plant, and not the other one.
Broccoli and Cauliflower growing at the same time as Rock melons..., "blink blink"..., in Australia Broc/Cauli are a winter veg and Rock melon are a summer fruit..., there is NO WAY we could grow Broc/Cauli after winter. It isn't even spring here yet (not for another couple of weeks)and our Broc/Cauli are all bolting now. Temp is getting up there for our summer fruit and Veg.
Do the aphids only attack the cauliflower in your garden? We had aphids on our broccoli and cauliflower last year .. but I don't think they were on anything else. Can't you just spray some mild soap and water to keep them off? Or, I read maybe put some lemon peels around the plant?
Hi there. No, aphids can bother a lot of vegetable plants but they really like cabbage family crops (broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale, etc.). You can spray them off with a strong jet of water or use insecticidal soaps that are specifically formulated for aphids. I don't recommend making a soap and water mixture because it's hard to know exactly what's in the soap, plus manufacturers change their formulations so the soap can be risky to use. But for plants that don't need pollination (such as cabbage family crops), the easiest and best method to use is floating row cover because it acts as a physical barrier to keep the aphids away from the plants.
Our drip irrigation system is underneath the layer of red plastic. Or if you have a soaker hose underneath the plastic, that would work, too. But if you do overhead watering, the water will run through the "X's" that you cut in the plastic to plant the tomatoes.
Broccoli isn't hard to plant. I start mine indoors and transplant them into the garden as seedlings. I also cover the plants with floating row covers to keep cabbage worms and aphids off the plants.
I’m new to your video and I love it! Thank you so much. Can you please tell me what zone you’re in? I live in Massachusetts And was wondering if I can grow Most of the thing in your video.
Hi, Sam. It could be that celery is not a crop well-suited to growing in Alabama. Do you know any other folks in your region that grow celery? You might ask them for some advice. I did find this article, though: aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/vegetables/celery.html.
Hi Susan! I’ve been wondering when to harvest my garlic. I’m growing it for the first time. Planted last October. I dug one up last Monday but it seemed too small. Now I know to look for the bottom leaves to turn yellow. Once I pull them I need to decide what to plant after them. What do you recommend for a fall garden? Thanks for your help. I wish you were closer. I would love to have you speak to my master gardener group!
Hi, Vi. Where do you live and what hardiness zone are you in? You might consider planting lettuce and spinach after you've harvested the garlic. I would add some compost to the soil before you plant, though.
I bought a bolt of it through Amazon, it ended up being about 22 cents per foot which is awesome (108" width): www.amazon.com/BBCrafts-inch-Premium-Tulle-Fabric/dp/B01N6WMFYO.
Hi, John. Once you pull it up, move the garlic plants to a sheltered area that it out of the sun and dry. When the outer skins on the bulbs of garlic is papery dry, snip off the rest of the plant. This takes a few weeks before it's dry enough.
I've had problems with them in the past, too. The ironic thing is that both earwigs and pill bugs are considered beneficial insects because they help with decomposing plant material. But they have an evil side, too!
Hello there. I don't have spider mites so I am not familiar with control methods, but I did find some information on them for you: ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7405.html.
You are so methodical. Thank you so much for sharing your hard work
Thanks for sharing this information !!!!
What a nice clear presenter you are. I love your garden layout too. Thankyou for the tips. I'm in a similar zone to you...just looked it up in duckduckgo...while looking up what an "earwig" was! I have a bazillion of those ugly critters and thought they were just bugs that came around old wood piles!!! So your tips are valid for me here in Northern Hungary, zone 6a/6b in Europe. Thankyou again.
Thank you, Mary.
Very nice garden and very organize . Thanks
I live in Klamath Falls Oregon we have earwig problem also. What I do to keep them in control is put a little dish of used vegetable oil or maybe you could put a little soy sauce With the oilI can’t tell you how well this works but it does an amazing job
Hi, Tom. The earwigs aren't all that bad this year, thank heavens, but I've heard this type of trap works great. I'm ready to put it into action at a moment's notice!
Second time attempting to grow a garden. I planted pole beans, no success there, purple hull cow peas are up, no blooms yet. My squash plants have gotten big, 3 squash to date but not a single female zucchini bloom to date. Cucumbers are growing up a bean tower and I have harvested 6 burpless cucumbers so far. My tomato plants are struggling in the heat and I gave lost 3 to early blight. My biggest plant us a bean called asparagus bean, the pods grow to 36 inches long but need to be picked earlier. They have grown well above 8 feet tall and still putting on blooms. I enjoy being out there and watching everything grow.
Thanks for sharing your garden with us.
Hi, Julie. It sounds like you've had some mixed results this year, which I know is frustrating, but everything is a learning experience! Hang in there.
Susan your garden looks amazing, and plentiful lots of hard work pays off. Have a great day. Fresh food nothing better.
You are so right, Marla! Have a great day, too.
The tour of your lovely vegetable garden is incredibly relaxing and informative to watch. Thank you!
What a lovely garden tour!
Great Garden Tour!
Thank you!
What a beautiful garden Susan !!! Even with the trouble you are having ,,, it's lush !
Thank you! It's important for me to always remember that it is doing fine. Cheers.
So beautiful this video. I just started following your channel. Thank you.
Thank you, Jose.
Good idea for the corn sister, I never thought about that,nice garden too👍😀
Thank you.
Such a beautiful garden. You are truly Blessed.
Thank you. I never forget that. It's a lot of work but we are happy to do it.
I love your garden very much and thanks for your videos. I’m going to learn so very much from you!
I just love your videos your a pleasure to listen to. I tried your bean idea starting in my house and it worked fantastic. Thanks so much. I will do it every year now. I also used your idea for tule cover on my broccoli and cauliflower. Great. Thanks again Susan you’ve taught me a lot. Proves you can always learn more and more. 🙋😉
Thank you, Diana! I'm so glad you're enjoying my videos and finding some helpful tips. Have a great day!
I so glad I came across with your channel just on time when me and my husband are going to start a garden.
I think I'm going to be using a lot of your ideas.
Thanks for sharing your videos .
God bless and stay safe.
Hi there. Thank you for your nice comments and good wishes. Stay healthy and safe!
Beautiful garden.
Thank you.
Everything looks healthy and lush Susan. Looking forward to following your harvest updates. Please do share your potato harvests. Happy weekend 😊💚
Will do! Glad you enjoyed the update.
Wow , beautiful ,perfect garden. Looks like you have at least 2 gardner's working full time !
Hi, Larieta. Thank you. It might look like a ton of work but actually, the only "work" is harvesting for the most part. I can weed the entire garden in less than an hour because I have weedblock fabric underneath the bark in the pathways, so that means I only have to weed the tops of the beds. So that is nice. But it's a labor of love and we both love growing our own healthy food. Cheers!
Another really useful video. Thanks, so much!
You have such a beautiful vegetable garden Susan! When you popped that raspberry into your mouth ... mine actually watered. Now you've made me hungry for raspberries!
They are amazing this year! It's hard to keep up with them although that's a nice problem to have. Take care.
Wonderful garden. I am a bit jealous, but then, that is because I cannot grow very much in my climate, which is the high desert of southern California. It's just too hot here, which means I have a very limited growing season according to what I have read. Best wishes on your garden, and the new plants you are trying.
Thanks, Caley. I have some writing friends and colleagues who have a website called swgardening.com. You might see if they have some ideas for you. Take care.
Very Beautiful garden
Hi Susan , Nice garden
Thank you!
This is the first video of yours I have ever watched. I really enjoyed it. Thank you! I will be going back to previous videos. I live somewhat south of you, and am excited to have found a gardening channel with similar weather/ challenges.
Hi, Ann-Marie and welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. If you go to the "playlists" menu, you'll see that I've organized all of my videos into categories such as 2019 videos, vegetable gardening, flower gardening, bird videos, etc. Happy gardening!
Beautiful!
Everything looks amazing! Thank you for sharing 💚💚💚
Nice vidieo Karon. Thank you.
Wow! Your garden is amazing! How inspirational for a new gardener like me!
My thoughts exactly!
Thank you for the tour of your beautiful garden! It is food for the eye and the soul! I also learn a lot of new things about gardening and plants I never heard of before. And I learn new English words, for example earwig. Have a nice weekend!
Hi, Lena. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you
Hi Susan thank you for good lesson I really learn a lot from you Yhank again 👍
You have a beautiful garden!!
Thank you!
Great video, learned a lot!
Great skills
Thank you for the tour of your garden you really worked hard to make it beautiful. I have for raised garden beds in our backyard. My garden never looks as good as yours but we try
I'm sure your garden is awesome, Debra! I really enjoy working out in ours. Thanks so much for your nice comments.
Love your garden, and here in zone 10 A, we had a strange spring too.
Beautiful garden🌱
Thanks, Sylvia!
Thank you for the tour, Susan. I'm in the Five Mile area and having a bad year with earwigs too. This is the first year I committed to growing more of the brassica family and made a small contained area with floating row cover but am now going to take a walk to JoAnn fabrics and get some bridal netting! Thank you for the many tips. My garden is way behind yours but I wasn't able to start any of my own seedlings this year so all the purchased starts have taken their sweet time catching up (except the San Marzano tomatoes which are already 4' tall, go figure). Have a great weekend!
Thanks, Molly! I hope the tulle helps. Boy, what is up with the earwigs this year?
Hi I’m in 9b zone ( terrible heat this year and only one day of rain in months) have squash bugs and thrips on patty pans, zucchini and crooked neck. I sprayed neem oil and insecticidal soap but I guess I have to repeat
YT put this video in my recommend list and I am very glad. I normally watch lots of British gardeners and a couple here in the USA. Nice to discover a new channel somewhat closer to me as I am on the coast. Your garden looks great and I already see tips I can use like the holders you are using as hoop holders. What exactly are they? The British gardeners have so many great products available to them that we either don't get or are very expensive here, so I love your solutions.
Hi, Gayla. I agree. I'm a huge fan of the British gardening show, "Gardener's World," and enjoy picking up new tips and techniques from them. Those hoop holders are 10" long pieces of PVC pipe that have been clamped onto the sides of our raised beds. The hoops are made of recycled 1/2" drip tubing. We are considering making some taller, sturdier hoops but haven't had a chance to do that yet.
Celery is great as a braised side dish. Cut diagonally add a little oil in a pan and sauté leaving crisp tender. S and P and any other herb you like.
Yum.
wow, I really like this
It's an amazing garden you have Congratulation! How do you manage to water all the beds?
Thank you! All of the beds have drip irrigation and they are watered on a timer so I don't have to water them individually. But I DO keep an eye on the soil moisture and change the amount of time they're getting watered, based on the weather.
@@SusansInTheGarden Thank you very much!
I dont see much if any disease in your garden, What do you use for prevention? What kind of soil medium do you use? Nice video, TY for your hard work
Hi there. We don't really have plant diseases. I attribute that to starting all of my vegetable plants from seed rather than purchasing them. I space plants properly and use drip irrigation to water them so the only time the plant foliage gets wet is when it rains. However, I realize that in some regions of the country (I'm thinking of the South in particular), certain plant diseases are more prevalent, esp. tomato diseases and there's not much one can do about that. But for the most part, I use good cultural practices in our garden to keep the plants healthy and productive. All of our raised beds are filled with native soil (when we made the beds, we used about 3" of soil from the pathways, knowing we were going to cover the paths with weed-block fabric and a couple of inches of bark mulch). Then we added in organic compost, shredded leaves and grass clippings from our lawn (which isn't treated with herbicides such as weed & feed).Each year, we add more compost. Thank you for your kind words about the video and my efforts to share the love of gardening!
Love your garden tours. Always so much good information. Do you just buy your tulle at a fabric store? What I see at places like JoAnn's doesn't seem wide enough. I'm in the Seattle area and our weather has been weird too. It got really hot earlier in June and an lot of my lettuce bolted. But the red sails didn't and is still going strong. I will grow that again for sure. Now it's chilly and cloudy again and the tomatoes, peppers and all the hot weather loving plants have really slowed down.
Hi, Elizabeth. I found a great deal on tulle on Amazon so I bought a whole bolt of it so I can use it for years. I buy 108" width, which works well for our raised beds. I know that JoAnn's usually sells that width or you can find it online. If you think you'll be using a lot of it over the years, here's the deal I found: www.amazon.com/BBCrafts-inch-Premium-Tulle-Fabric/dp/B01N6WMFYO
@@SusansInTheGarden Thank you!
Not sure if you know that the zucchini flowers are edible and can make delicious snacks or side dishes. You can look up recipes under he name of Fiore di zucca. Love your garden.
Yes I do and I agree. They're wonderful. Thank you for the reminder!
Learn a lot from watching your garden channel. I did put a floating cover on top of my kale and cabbage, I still notice aphid under some of kale and cabbage leaves. I would like to know how to solve this issue and why it has aphid under the cover still?
Hi, Jennifer. Did you put the floating row cover over the plants as soon as you planted them? And did you weigh down the edges so it didn't move off of the plants? Those are the first 2 things that come to mind.
I think you are right. I did not put the cover right away after I planted the vegetable on the ground. Thanks for the answer. I will do it next year for sure. 😊
@@jenniferchen4013 That is the secret to success because otherwise, the insects might be on the plants before you place the cover over them. Take care.
Love your garden. I am hopping to do something similar in my back yard.
Thank you for sharing
Keep up the good work
God bless you
Susan, your garden is fabulous. I think the leaves may be yellowing due to iron deficiency. Have you tried iron tone?
Hi, Pam. Thanks for your suggestion. I think the main problem in that area of our garden was that the plants were competing with tree roots for moisture and nutrients. Fortunately, we resolved that problem (ua-cam.com/video/z4XC-kywrfw/v-deo.html) although will be closely watching those beds.
Earwigs killed so many of my seedlings... My yard long beans too!!! Tears
Ugh, they did that to my yardlong beans last year as well. So annoying!
lot of food. wow
Yes, we grow most of our food to eat year-round!
In one of your videos you said you were in zone 5 ? I’m in zone 5 in Iowa? Aren’t you in Spokane, Washington?
Hi, Kristin. Yes, I am in Spokane, Wash., which is generally in zone 6. However, we are in a microclimate (outlying area, higher elevation), so it's zone 5b.
I am first time raising pumpkins and there lots of yellow flowers blooms, but they all male flowers. What is that can be? Please respond on this. Thank you very much.
Hello, Sivye. Early in the growing season, there are are a lot of male flowers. There can be other factors that affect the production of female flowers. Here is more information for you: www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/pumpkin/pumpkin-flowers-but-no-fruit.htm.
Very beautiful garden! I harvest my zucchini today and now I am going to eat them for diner :p Whats your favorite raised bed?
Ooh, that's a tough question! Probably the broccoli bed right now because I know it's going to yield some lovely heads of broccoli!
What soil do you use to start a raised bed? And how deep are they?
Hi, Debbie. Our raised beds are 10" deep. We really haven't had to purchase any soil mixes because we scraped the top 2" of soil off the pathways in between the beds, and then added in organic compost, shredded leaves, and grass clippings, etc. I realize that doesn't work for everyone. Some folks get soil mixes at landscape supply places but I always suggest adding in organic amendments such as what I listed above to help increase the soil fertility.
oh my god, your garden is amazing!! How many hours do you have to work everyday in the garden to get it this great!!!So inspiring!!
Hi there. I have no idea because I don't measure the time! Maybe about an hour a day?
What do you use for your stakes around your corn?
I use either metal fence posts or some old sticks of electrical conduit to support the twine.
My very small container garden didn't do well this time. Everything I planted developed something. Radishes didn't bulb, strawberries didn't ripen to nice red, green beans didn't come up and if they did the bean seed only got to 2 inches, kale never came up, my potatoes only got tremendous top growth, no potatoes. I used Miracle Gro Organic potting soil for all the pots. I'm thinking aminopyralid. What do you think? I live in Florence, OR, not a lot of sunshine here.
Hi, Judy. Gosh, you must be so frustrated. It's hard to say for sure what the problem is but if you don't have a lot of sunlight, that can certainly affect how plants grow. If you suspect the potting soil, an easy way to test is is by planting a small container of some bean or pea seeds (since legumes are the most easily affected by problem soil) and see if you get decent germination and if the plants have normal-looking growth. If they don't, I would contact Miracle Gro at the phone number on the label. But mainly, I would see if I could find a sunnier spot for your plants to grow and make sure they receive enough water.
Do you have birds and squirrels? I do and they stole all my bean and other seeds. Next year I will be putting netting around after seeding. As for potatoes, what kind of fertilizer did you use? You want to use one for potatoes and other root crops. It might be you used one with a lot of nitrogen which gives you green growth but doesn't help much with spuds. Also, you want to wait a couple of weeks after they stop flowering before harvesting new potatoes. Right about now is the right time for me to harvest new potatoes but depending on when you planted, etc. I was really wanting some and harvested my first bag too early and only got a few. Waited 2 more weeks and much better results. Also, I am assuming you are talking about new potatoes and not main crop? Here at least it isn't time to harvest main crop yet. Hope this helps a little. I struggle with deer, rabbits, squirrels and birds as well as a lack of flat space so I get how frustrating and discouraging it is to not get any produce.
@@Gigi-fv9ky I only had 3 small potato grow bags and I filled them with Miracle Grow organic that had the fertilizer in it already. That did it. Too much nitrogen in their mix.
@@judyh1296 I am sorry for your disappointment. Do try again, though, as I bet next time will go better.
@@Gigi-fv9ky Yes, I was referring to taking a few new potatoes, then waiting until the end of the season to harvest the rest of the crop. I used bone meal in the soil before planting the seed potatoes this spring. Bone meal is high in phosphorus (and is organic); root crops need more phosphorus. We don't have squirrels (thankfully!) but we do have to keep birds away from newly-sprouted seeds and, at times, young seedlings. I mostly use bird netting and floating row cover to do this. You might consider visiting my website, SusansintheGarden.com for more info. Take care.
Just found your channel today an just love the info you give..NEW SUB HERE!!!
Could you cover the plants w netting
You can but the leaves and pods get caught in the netting, which really causes problems!
Hi Suzan, I really enjoy watching you. Please, let me know where did you get the muzyka bean seeds. Sorry if I didn’t spell it right. I think it’s good for my zone(Calgary-Alberta-Canada. Thank you very much!🇨🇦
Hi, Pava. The 'Musica' bean seeds came from Renee's Garden Seeds (she is currently sold out, though), but I know Territorial Seed Co. also sells them. I'm not sure about Canadian seed sources, though.
Susan, do you find that your peppers cross pollinate at that distance? I don't want my sweet peppers to be hot on accident. Can that happen?
Hi, Ann-Marie. We have never had that happen. According to some quick research, a sweet pepper won't become hot (and vice versa) because the types of fruits you get on the "mother" plant are based only on the genes of the mother plant, and not the other one.
@@SusansInTheGarden Thanks!
Broccoli and Cauliflower growing at the same time as Rock melons..., "blink blink"..., in Australia Broc/Cauli are a winter veg and Rock melon are a summer fruit..., there is NO WAY we could grow Broc/Cauli after winter. It isn't even spring here yet (not for another couple of weeks)and our Broc/Cauli are all bolting now. Temp is getting up there for our summer fruit and Veg.
Do the aphids only attack the cauliflower in your garden? We had aphids on our broccoli and cauliflower last year .. but I don't think they were on anything else. Can't you just spray some mild soap and water to keep them off? Or, I read maybe put some lemon peels around the plant?
Hi there. No, aphids can bother a lot of vegetable plants but they really like cabbage family crops (broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale, etc.). You can spray them off with a strong jet of water or use insecticidal soaps that are specifically formulated for aphids. I don't recommend making a soap and water mixture because it's hard to know exactly what's in the soap, plus manufacturers change their formulations so the soap can be risky to use. But for plants that don't need pollination (such as cabbage family crops), the easiest and best method to use is floating row cover because it acts as a physical barrier to keep the aphids away from the plants.
@@SusansInTheGarden .. OK, thank you.
I noticed u mulched tomatoes with red plastic. How do you manage watering? Do you water them through the hole by the base of tomato
Our drip irrigation system is underneath the layer of red plastic. Or if you have a soaker hose underneath the plastic, that would work, too. But if you do overhead watering, the water will run through the "X's" that you cut in the plastic to plant the tomatoes.
How hard to plan the broccoli
Broccoli isn't hard to plant. I start mine indoors and transplant them into the garden as seedlings. I also cover the plants with floating row covers to keep cabbage worms and aphids off the plants.
I’m new to your video and I love it! Thank you so much. Can you please tell me what zone you’re in? I live in Massachusetts And was wondering if I can grow Most of the thing in your video.
Hi there. My garden is in zone 5b.
we have tried to grow celery in lower coastal Alabama it grows wide not upward and the stems are spindly. Help!
Hi, Sam. It could be that celery is not a crop well-suited to growing in Alabama. Do you know any other folks in your region that grow celery? You might ask them for some advice. I did find this article, though: aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/vegetables/celery.html.
Hi Susan! I’ve been wondering when to harvest my garlic. I’m growing it for the first time. Planted last October. I dug one up last Monday but it seemed too small. Now I know to look for the bottom leaves to turn yellow. Once I pull them I need to decide what to plant after them. What do you recommend for a fall garden? Thanks for your help. I wish you were closer. I would love to have you speak to my master gardener group!
Hi, Vi. Where do you live and what hardiness zone are you in? You might consider planting lettuce and spinach after you've harvested the garlic. I would add some compost to the soil before you plant, though.
Thanks! I live in Nebraska zone five. I have plenty of compost to add to the bed before I start. Thanks for the suggestions
Do you have a link or where you bought that netting? please
I bought a bolt of it through Amazon, it ended up being about 22 cents per foot which is awesome (108" width): www.amazon.com/BBCrafts-inch-Premium-Tulle-Fabric/dp/B01N6WMFYO.
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Where are you located? I enjoy your videos but they are of no use to me if you're in southern USA. I'm in Zone 4A. Northern Wisconsin
Hi, Rosemarie. I'm located in Spokane, Washington, hardiness zone 5b. Nice to meet you!
Hi I'm new here, what grow Zone are you in? I'm in 4.
Hi there. I'm in zone 5b.
Hi Susan, Could you please give me a few tips on how to dry the garlic, and for how long before I can hang them for storage. Thank you
Hi, John. Once you pull it up, move the garlic plants to a sheltered area that it out of the sun and dry. When the outer skins on the bulbs of garlic is papery dry, snip off the rest of the plant. This takes a few weeks before it's dry enough.
Thank you so much, Susan
I have read that you trap earwigs with soy sauce + oil. Like beer for slugs.
I’ve seen earwigs but the pill bugs have been the worst.
I've had problems with them in the past, too. The ironic thing is that both earwigs and pill bugs are considered beneficial insects because they help with decomposing plant material. But they have an evil side, too!
Susan's In The Garden lol
and my teacher how to con trol red spider mites?, thank you.
Hello there. I don't have spider mites so I am not familiar with control methods, but I did find some information on them for you: ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7405.html.
Susan's In The Garden thank you so much.