Yes, I agree. I learn so much from Luke through your channel. Thank you so much! Just wondering if you have a teaching video about how to grow leeks from seeds please. I failed at multiple attempts using different methods.
I'm with you. I try to do the least possible and just let the garden grow. I can tell when it needs watering but other than that I've already fertilized when I planted. My soil has been loaded with organic material for 16 years.
Great Video, Luke! Thank you for helping all of us new Gardeners with this great information! This is my third year and Ive learned so much from your videos.
Great info Luke! And so timely. I was just wondering a lot of these things. This is our first year really going big with our garden and I needed to hear this. Been watching you for years. Thank you for all you do!
Helpful for me too! We made raised beds for the first time. Ours are about 3 feet tall though because I have chronic pain and that's the only way I could have a garden. I'm really crossing my fingers that things do well so this info was really helpful!
I would definitely buy a soil test kit and test your soil before you amend your beds. I had planted seedlings in a garden bed we just built and everything seemed like it wasn't growing well. I bought a soil test kit from Lowe's for around $15. The soil is lacking nitrogen which makes me think the garden soil we got was probably mostly wood chips and not a lot of other organic material. Wood chips rob soil of nitrogen as it breaks down. I amended with worm castings and water with fish emulsions about every 10 days. It seems to be helping since my plants look a lot happier and greener. Check your soil so you can amend it properly.
A lot of people fall prey to the bagged soil really being bagged mulch. Mulch in itself is lacking in Nitrogen like most regular dirt because it is water soluble. I made a couple raised beds from 3/4 clay to 1/4 fresh and aged sifted wood chips. Everything worked out good. My virgin clay like in most p!aces is really alkaline, high in phosphorous, low in potassium, and low in Nitrogen from leaching out. Soil tests are good to get an idea. Although they won't tell you if that batch of Coco Coir was high in salt, or if some herbicides came in that retail bag of processed green waste from whereabouts unknown.
I am both smiling and wincing at this comment because I fell for this in a hurry to get a new garden going this Spring. Thankfully, I inadvertently hosted a bumper crop of earthworms with the cardboard ad leaves that Hubs and I put down over Winter. Hopefully, it will soon work out.
My 2nd season. Took soo much of your advice . Especially with patience. Doing really well. All your seeds i ordered are incredible. I have to tag you on my food page tomorrow
I highly recommend shade cloths for really really hot days. My tomatoes all had really curled leaves and I was worried they had some kind of disease but it ended up that it was just WAY too hot for them. After shading, their leaves stopped curling and the flowers stopped falling off. Now the tomatoes are growing like crazy and I see tons of flowers for new tomatoes.
Yea here in Arizona shade cloth is a must, it helps alot, my raspberry bare root I got from Migardener just sprouted it's first leaves a day ago, surprisingly my other bare root raspberry variety that was mulched still hasn't shown any growth though
Congrats on 1M subs well deserved to be honest there would be less problems in the world if you had more subs than Mr beast. You actually give out useful info. Thanks for this video I've been worrying a lot about these issues, we live in the south and our garden is in direct sunlight 90% of the day and plants haven't looked the greatest and I thought they needed more water. So thanks this came at a great time.
I always love your tips and use them all. I too vertically grow my tomatoes in Michigan and hand pollinate with the battery toothbrush, with about 95% pollination, thanks. I have 9 FT, stakes in the ground, I top my tomatoes when they pass the gutter of my house, I have 10 different varieties, I canned 50 jars every year. Thank you for all the homework you do for all of us, all the best to you and your family Sir.
Thanks Luke because I was just getting ready to indestriminately fertilize everything in the garden just because I thought it was time. Now I know better
I recently had leaf damage to all my veggies and was researching trying to figure out what would eat all the leaves. I was praying over what to do and started wandering around my yard and garden and noticed that those that had some protection from trees or larger leaves had no damage then I remembered we had a hail storm the day before and they had been damaged from that. Thankfully I didn't treat for something I wasn't sure about that was causing damage. I attribute that to prayer, God gave me wisdom I didn't have. I was going to assume and treat. Now a couple days later things are looking better
Yes i often get worried i have pests when it has just been super windy so they have a little windburn. We have had really bad mealy bug infestation and so I get paranoid they coming if I see leaf die off
Since I have no shade area outside. I made a compost container out of my old kitchen garbage can. Now food veggies scraps and failed plants can end up in there. I attached a car deodorizing tree on handle. The top fits tight so there is no smell. A tip for apt. Dwellers with no space and want to feed and have soil to amend. Thanks Luke for all your great information 👍
I needed this. New gardener and just worry too much about everything I see. We can't forget that these organisms survived a really long time before we as humans started babying them!
WOW !!! Fantastic video. I am a new gardener. I will say I'm pretty much guilty of all of infractions. You don't have to tell me twice ... I'm changing my routine! Thank you so much for the information.
I just grew a bunch of veggies, brassicas and such in buckets and it was working until they got swarmed with pests. And I’m now coming to terms with the fact that they probably won’t make it but I learned a lot from it all.
I like to introduce additional nutrients slowly, so at quarter strength at first and gradually increase if I am not happy with the progress of the plant, I think helps it to stop it from locking out as I have burned plants in the past with nutes but never since I started the gradual process.
After transplanting indoor plants to the outside garden, when should you 1st start fertilizing the plants? Or how big should the plants be before fertilizing so I don't end up killing my plants? ~ Laurie
ME TOO!! And because it’s been in the high 90’s here, I just drenched my beds……. Oh geez! Hoping they will be okay:) Thanks Luke!! Your timing is SPOT ON!!
Great points Luke! Years ago, the first time i made a raised bed i included unaged MANURE in the fill. Boy did i get tomato leaves that year. Crazy wild vines, no fruit! Later i learned, manure has a lot of nitrogen. Nitrogen makes LEAVES. Tomatoes DO NOT benefit from extra nitrogen! They like a little phosphorus (bone meal), but NOT excessive nitrogen.
I built raised beds this year, and looking to save money, used a local horse manure for the majority of my filler. I tried to mix in bagged compost and/or potting soil (in layers). Some of my plants are green and lush, and some are yellow and rough looking (including browning around the edges of leaves. My assumption is that some of the manure may have been to fresh. My assumption is also that there isn't much I'm going to be able to do to counter this but let the plants work thru it. If there is something I can add to counter this effect I'd love to know. Plants affected include half of my cucumbers, pole beans, a couple tomato plants and jalapeno plants. Thanks for any thoughts. I had considered adding coffee grounds and eggshells around the tomato plants....but am unsure if that would help or add to the issue. Planted almost everything from seed this year, direct seeding to the beds, with the exception of the tomatoes which I started in compostable pots so I could put the plants in deeper. Haven't tested the soil yet, figured I'd do that next year when everything had time to settle. My compost pile was still a little to small to even try to fill the beds but I was thinking about getting another load of the manure and mixing that in with the compost pile for next years topping. Thanks again! Love your channel!
I live in North Central Texas. In April, we had highs in the mid to upper 90's, basically August in April. We also had lots of wind. The plants had just started fruiting and got really stressed. In May, we had great 80 temps and some good rain. June, were back in the mid to upper 90's and windy again. Really struggling this year.
This year I let some Spinach, Chard and Beets overwinter and noticed patchy leaf browning. At first I thought a new neighbor hired an overzealous lawn care company and over sprayed my plants. It was obvious some was applied by dying plants on their side. I then found some sick plants further away from the fence. I looked closer and discovered there was larva inside the leaves. Some healthy looking leaves have tiny white eggs on the bottom. I walked by a big Elm tree and saw thousands of leaves had leaf miners in them as well. I do have my share of Aphids along with outnumbered Lady bugs. This years mid may frosts and snow hopefully killed the Earwig horde dramatically. The pest frustration is always changing it seems to take up the slack.
We’ve had so much rain here that I am concerned it is killing some of my plants. I also have one tomato plant that isn’t looking good and one pepper plant that also doesn’t look good. The tomato plant is curled and not growing well. The only tomato plant I bought. All the rest I grew from seed.
Luke, this was so informative. I always learn so much from you. This is one that I really needed to hear. Gotta check my watering schedule. And I just noticed little bugs on my brassicas so I will keep an eye before reacting. Thank you.
it is much harder to farm and especially to container garden than programs like this would have you believe. Many of us are doing badly and thinking it is just us. There is really nothing that addresses the quality of the products we buy to grow that may affect things. Plants are not ID'd as to determinate or indeterminate, specific variety, and many places sell products that are not really appropriate for the zone. The stores just sell and make the money and we have the dead plants and no produce. Staff in stores know little to nothing about farming and are of no help. I have a lot of dead plants in the ground and in containers and I am losing hope--- ready to give up honestly. One zucchini plant= one zucchini, 1 $20 cherry tomato plant for 5 cherry tomatoes, this is a bad investment.
Thank you! I always appreciate your videos and they always seem to be very timely with my garden. Does anyone here have any idea what could be eating roundish holes in my banana pepper leaves? I still can't find anything on them but they're constantly getting eaten up. I've seen regular house flies and love bugs around them but that's all. I do have leafhoppers, spittle bugs, tomato hornworms and an occasional stink bug that I've found on other plants. The holes are different than what those do. I'm so over it at this point. Thanks!
HI MI, Can you do a video of the importance of rotating your crops. I have three raised beds measure 20ftx5 ft. Filled with excellent 5 year cow manure compost three years ago. Did great the first two years. This year, one of the beds planted with Brandywine tomatoes' are stunted even after adding fertilizer. Not sure what's happening. The other two beds with tomatoes and green beans are doing great. One of the Raised beds was used as a chicken hoop cope over the fall and winter. They are doing great!
Great video! Sending ❤ from Ontario 🇨🇦 👋 I have been doing just like you said, monitoring the damage, plants seem to be outgrowing it and there's no evidence of an actual 'pest' plus they're all in containers, so my biggest pests are mammals so what you said about the cayenne....thankyou for the validation as ironically I just made a comment on your previous video about using cayenne! 😉👌
Hi Luke , thanks for all you do and done appreciate it. Came home and saw multi holes on my tomatoes transplants and there were these tiny black beetle like on the leaves . I feel like this is way too soon but what can I do. I’m in Zone 5, thanks
8:47 This is 100% my wife! This time of year in Arizona, we have fruits on our plants and the intense sun is starting to stress the plants out. But as soon as the leaves curl, she wants to water the bed everyday. One year she'll remember haha 😄
QUESTION; we are growing lettuces, and they look good, but when we cut them they become limp, or the oposite of crispy. What are we doing wrong? Thank you so much!
A+++!!!🏆 One of your BEST videos to date, Luke!👏 Absolutely stellar info!!🏆 I also learned: NEVER HOLD A CONVERSATION WHILE HOLDING A TROWEL.💡 It could save your "parts", maybe even your life.😉😁💖
I have raised beds that I got from Amazon that are 2x6 feet, about 1.5 feee deep, made of heavy cloth like materiel. The tomato’s and peppers are doing great, but I do worry about the watering and fertilizer for these types of beds. We have been w/o rain for about 5-6 weeks. I have been watering daily, the peppers heavier than the Tomatoes. However, some of the tomatoes are having the upward leaf curl. I check the soil for dryness, I water bases on that. I have tomatoes in the ground also, which mr cherry tomatoes in the ground have shown sone leaf curl but that goes away as the sun goes down. The tomatoes I. The ground get watered no more than every 3-4 days even during the dry spells. The big question is, does the think raised cloth beds loose alot of water to evaporation? I also have the plants well mulched with straw to help maintain moisture as well. I use fish fertilizer every few weeks and a general liquid fertilizer every few weeks. Thank you for your videos, you and farmer Scott are my favorites. Everything you recommend is great, keep it up!!! Thank you again
It's pretty cool when I found out that flowering, fruiting, and bolting happens not only to spread themselves, but also as a survival mechanism due to stress and adverse conditions.
It’s triple digits here and in above ground beds and in full sun all day so I have to give them a drink every morning, my wicking tubs are way easier I just make sure twice a week that those have water, I had to back off on my squash and zucchini on fish emoluments in the wicking tub, as once I did here came my female flowers lol it’s all a learning experience and having fun learning . Thanks for this vid
@@kcmckillip8115 there are lots of videos out there on wicking tubs, I particularly like the series from Gardening with Leon. Another channel with easy to follow info is ua-cam.com/video/k429cPlH6mM/v-deo.html, Arms family homestead…enjoy!
Hey Luke, great info. Wondering if you know a natural way of keeping the slugs off my cabbage? I used the Seven spray last year and the outer layers were still full of ‘em! Thank you
Cover them with toulle. I think that's how you spell it. It's netting like they use for wedding decorations or clothes. You could also get thin strips of copper and put around cabbage
Moved to new house, planted green peppers in an already established raised bed. Bottom leaves looking yellow, but new green and flowers growing, am I doing anything wrong?
I just wanted to add that I am in MN on the line almost of zone 3 and 4. I usually go with zone 3. I know that doesn't matter for killing cut worms though. Thanks again for any advice you can give!
I have tomato plants in pots that I made the soil from peat .compost and and bagged garden soil if I dont soak them down every morning they wilt real bad they are very big and putting out fruit what do I need to do trim them or what ?
I have a serious infestation of tiny grasshoppers. I’m using neems oil and have ordered diatomaceous earth. Last year they ate absolutely everything to the stems including flowers.
I have recently been realizing that my saved seeds are doing better than bought seeds. This is sad because I am new to seed saving.I have not many saved seeds. I haven't purchased my seeds from you, so this is a wake up call to me. I will be shopping seeds from you this year.
Luke, Hope you can help me. I'm in VA zone 9, started seed tomatoes indoors, then planted them in my 8" deep planters late April - the slicer varieties are a healthy 4 ft yet not flowering much. Also, my cucumbers are 4 ft & loaded with flowers but they're dropping off without fruiting. Do you know why? ( my beds have dirt ammended with organic soil, compost, bio-tone granuals & worm castings.)
If u r adding fertilizer , you should check the numbers of NPK Nis for nitrogen . If that number is high it only promotes leaves no flowers or fruit . A higher P ( phosphorus ) number promotes flowers and k (potassium) Promotes fruit and vegetables
I recently purchased land. My soil is very sandy and heavy. I also planted an apple tree and it got covered in beetles in less than 5 min. How can i get rid of these beetles?
Does anyone have any advice for an effective treatment for flea beetles? I've tried a neem oil spray but it does not seem to be working. I don't want to use anything too strong that could hurt any beneficial bugs. Thanks for the helpful videos!
My problem? growth stagnation (tomatoes, peppers, melons, and beans) Must send off a soil sample. Going to apply Sassy Lass. Can't hurt, right? Leafy greens, potatoes, carrots, cukes, and onions are growing just fine.
When I was a kid (a long time ago) we always had a garden. I'll soon be 60 but just getting into gardening. We would put lime on out green beans to help with pest. Do you recommend this?
Hey Luke I have a backyard garden and I've been having issues with my tomatoes wilting ever since we got a really big rain 2 weeks ago and I just keep going one after the other plant tomato plant keeps just wilting and dying would you have to know why and what's causing it
I had a problem like that but it wasn't the rain. Everyday one or two of my freshly planted tomatoes would fall over dead. My problem was the little rolly pollies. I had placed walls of water on all my tomatoe plants. I realized I trapped all the little bugs in with the plant. Usually they are beneficial only eating dead matter on the surface on the ground. But when there was nothing dead left to eat inside the walls of water they went for the tomatoe plant. I could see at the base of the plant where they were eating away at it like a lumber jack chopping down a tree.
This is the kind of basic knowledge everyone needs to be armed with. More of this Luke.
I’ve definitely been overwatering and needed to be called out, thanks Luke! I’m going to start using your tips and figure out a watering schedule!
You could buy a cheap water monitor prong thing. About£4 in UK.
I about killed 2/4 of my broccoli plants from overwatering. I definitely felt embarrassed but I was so thankful to be informed before it was too late
Same here
For a relatively new gardener like myself, this has been one of the most informative videos, thank you!
Honestly I can’t thank you enough. Your videos have helped me so much these past couple years from gardening to composting. 👍👍👍
I've learned so much from you over the years, and continue to do so today. 👏🥰
So happy to hear that! What an honor.
I agree, and I spread the word often.
We appreciate you, Luke!
Yes, I agree. I learn so much from Luke through your channel. Thank you so much! Just wondering if you have a teaching video about how to grow leeks from seeds please. I failed at multiple attempts using different methods.
Thank you for all the information and hard work you and your staff does for us. 💜
By far my favorite garden channel. Every year is a little better than the last one. Thank you!
Love the sound of birds in the background. Awesome. Why I love the Midwest so much.
I'm with you. I try to do the least possible and just let the garden grow. I can tell when it needs watering but other than that I've already fertilized when I planted. My soil has been loaded with organic material for 16 years.
I watch a few UA-cam channels to increase my gardening skills and I have to say yours is pretty clearly the most informative and helpful.
Great Video, Luke! Thank you for helping all of us new Gardeners with this great information! This is my third year and Ive learned so much from your videos.
Hey there 👋
I overwatered my first attempt at growing potatoes this year
I’m here to learn 🙏☺️
Thank you!
Thanks Luke!
It's been raining so much here, I didn't need to water And the rain barrel is full.👍
Blessings! 💜
Great info Luke! And so timely. I was just wondering a lot of these things. This is our first year really going big with our garden and I needed to hear this. Been watching you for years. Thank you for all you do!
Helpful for me too! We made raised beds for the first time. Ours are about 3 feet tall though because I have chronic pain and that's the only way I could have a garden. I'm really crossing my fingers that things do well so this info was really helpful!
I would definitely buy a soil test kit and test your soil before you amend your beds. I had planted seedlings in a garden bed we just built and everything seemed like it wasn't growing well. I bought a soil test kit from Lowe's for around $15. The soil is lacking nitrogen which makes me think the garden soil we got was probably mostly wood chips and not a lot of other organic material. Wood chips rob soil of nitrogen as it breaks down. I amended with worm castings and water with fish emulsions about every 10 days. It seems to be helping since my plants look a lot happier and greener. Check your soil so you can amend it properly.
A lot of people fall prey to the bagged soil really being bagged mulch. Mulch in itself is lacking in Nitrogen like most regular dirt because it is water soluble. I made a couple raised beds from 3/4 clay to 1/4 fresh and aged sifted wood chips. Everything worked out good. My virgin clay like in most p!aces is really alkaline, high in phosphorous, low in potassium, and low in Nitrogen from leaching out. Soil tests are good to get an idea. Although they won't tell you if that batch of Coco Coir was high in salt, or if some herbicides came in that retail bag of processed green waste from whereabouts unknown.
I am both smiling and wincing at this comment because I fell for this in a hurry to get a new garden going this Spring. Thankfully, I inadvertently hosted a bumper crop of earthworms with the cardboard ad leaves that Hubs and I put down over Winter. Hopefully, it will soon work out.
You are a wealth of information. I don't know how many times I've seen "wilt" and assumed the plant needed water.
My 2nd season. Took soo much of your advice . Especially with patience. Doing really well. All your seeds i ordered are incredible. I have to tag you on my food page tomorrow
Thank you I enjoy watching your videos So much helpful information for us new gardeners
Good gracious, Sunday morning and Luke was “yelling “ (haha) at me! I have been doing all 3 of those “fixes”! Thank you so much.
I highly recommend shade cloths for really really hot days. My tomatoes all had really curled leaves and I was worried they had some kind of disease but it ended up that it was just WAY too hot for them. After shading, their leaves stopped curling and the flowers stopped falling off. Now the tomatoes are growing like crazy and I see tons of flowers for new tomatoes.
Is your tomatoes curling from the side or from the tip like a santa elf shoe?
Yea here in Arizona shade cloth is a must, it helps alot, my raspberry bare root I got from Migardener just sprouted it's first leaves a day ago, surprisingly my other bare root raspberry variety that was mulched still hasn't shown any growth though
Can I use old sheets for shade cloths?
Awesome!
@@Brandon78579 do you have them tied over curved pvc pieces like a greenhouse? Maybe thatd help
Congrats on 1M subs well deserved to be honest there would be less problems in the world if you had more subs than Mr beast. You actually give out useful info. Thanks for this video I've been worrying a lot about these issues, we live in the south and our garden is in direct sunlight 90% of the day and plants haven't looked the greatest and I thought they needed more water. So thanks this came at a great time.
I always love your tips and use them all. I too vertically grow my tomatoes in Michigan and hand pollinate with the battery toothbrush, with about 95% pollination, thanks. I have 9 FT, stakes in the ground, I top my tomatoes when they pass the gutter of my house, I have 10 different varieties, I canned 50 jars every year. Thank you for all the homework you do for all of us, all the best to you and your family Sir.
I thought I was ignoring my garden. I wasn't. Thanks for the reassurance!
Thanks Luke because I was just getting ready to indestriminately fertilize everything in the garden just because I thought it was time. Now I know better
Excellent program today, Luke. Thank you!
The drooping leaves was very helpful information for me. Thanks!
I recently had leaf damage to all my veggies and was researching trying to figure out what would eat all the leaves. I was praying over what to do and started wandering around my yard and garden and noticed that those that had some protection from trees or larger leaves had no damage then I remembered we had a hail storm the day before and they had been damaged from that. Thankfully I didn't treat for something I wasn't sure about that was causing damage. I attribute that to prayer, God gave me wisdom I didn't have. I was going to assume and treat. Now a couple days later things are looking better
Yes i often get worried i have pests when it has just been super windy so they have a little windburn. We have had really bad mealy bug infestation and so I get paranoid they coming if I see leaf die off
Since I have no shade area outside. I made a compost container out of my old kitchen garbage can. Now food veggies scraps and failed plants can end up in there. I attached a car deodorizing tree on handle. The top fits tight so there is no smell. A tip for apt. Dwellers with no space and want to feed and have soil to amend. Thanks Luke for all your great information 👍
I needed this. New gardener and just worry too much about everything I see. We can't forget that these organisms survived a really long time before we as humans started babying them!
WOW !!! Fantastic video. I am a new gardener. I will say I'm pretty much guilty of all of infractions. You don't have to tell me twice ... I'm changing my routine! Thank you so much for the information.
I just grew a bunch of veggies, brassicas and such in buckets and it was working until they got swarmed with pests. And I’m now coming to terms with the fact that they probably won’t make it but I learned a lot from it all.
I like to introduce additional nutrients slowly, so at quarter strength at first and gradually increase if I am not happy with the progress of the plant,
I think helps it to stop it from locking out as I have burned plants in the past with nutes but never since I started the gradual process.
Thank you so much! This video answered so many questions I’ve had as a first time gardener!
Thank you Luke , bless you , Alot of heavy rainfall is certainly affecting my garden soil nutrients lol
Liked the help with the water test. Thanks
One of your best videos. So helpful! Thank you!
So timely, one of my tomato plants leaves were curling….. windy spot! Thank you very much for this information!!
Thanks for the post. That's some Great Advice and information.
After transplanting indoor plants to the outside garden, when should you 1st start fertilizing the plants? Or how big should the plants be before fertilizing so I don't end up killing my plants? ~ Laurie
ME TOO!! And because it’s been in the high 90’s here, I just drenched my beds……. Oh geez! Hoping they will be okay:) Thanks Luke!! Your timing is SPOT ON!!
Great points Luke!
Years ago, the first time i made a raised bed i included unaged MANURE in the fill. Boy did i get tomato leaves that year. Crazy wild vines, no fruit!
Later i learned, manure has a lot of nitrogen. Nitrogen makes LEAVES. Tomatoes DO NOT benefit from extra nitrogen! They like a little phosphorus (bone meal), but NOT excessive nitrogen.
Ohhh... that must be why my flowers and herbs are doing great, but not my veggies and berries...
I built raised beds this year, and looking to save money, used a local horse manure for the majority of my filler. I tried to mix in bagged compost and/or potting soil (in layers). Some of my plants are green and lush, and some are yellow and rough looking (including browning around the edges of leaves. My assumption is that some of the manure may have been to fresh. My assumption is also that there isn't much I'm going to be able to do to counter this but let the plants work thru it. If there is something I can add to counter this effect I'd love to know. Plants affected include half of my cucumbers, pole beans, a couple tomato plants and jalapeno plants. Thanks for any thoughts. I had considered adding coffee grounds and eggshells around the tomato plants....but am unsure if that would help or add to the issue. Planted almost everything from seed this year, direct seeding to the beds, with the exception of the tomatoes which I started in compostable pots so I could put the plants in deeper. Haven't tested the soil yet, figured I'd do that next year when everything had time to settle. My compost pile was still a little to small to even try to fill the beds but I was thinking about getting another load of the manure and mixing that in with the compost pile for next years topping. Thanks again! Love your channel!
Made my first purchase from your store! I'm excited!
I live in North Central Texas. In April, we had highs in the mid to upper 90's, basically August in April. We also had lots of wind. The plants had just started fruiting and got really stressed. In May, we had great 80 temps and some good rain. June, were back in the mid to upper 90's and windy again. Really struggling this year.
Hello from Arizona zone 9B! great tips. we've lost many plants. thanks for the information, we definitely learned so much from you sir 😎
This year I let some Spinach, Chard and Beets overwinter and noticed patchy leaf browning. At first I thought a new neighbor hired an overzealous lawn care company and over sprayed my plants. It was obvious some was applied by dying plants on their side. I then found some sick plants further away from the fence. I looked closer and discovered there was larva inside the leaves. Some healthy looking leaves have tiny white eggs on the bottom. I walked by a big Elm tree and saw thousands of leaves had leaf miners in them as well. I do have my share of Aphids along with outnumbered Lady bugs. This years mid may frosts and snow hopefully killed the Earwig horde dramatically. The pest frustration is always changing it seems to take up the slack.
Great video man! I'm from Michigan and I build natural water features, koi ponds etc. Great tips on your channel! Def. subscribing
We’ve had so much rain here that I am concerned it is killing some of my plants. I also have one tomato plant that isn’t looking good and one pepper plant that also doesn’t look good. The tomato plant is curled and not growing well. The only tomato plant I bought. All the rest I grew from seed.
Luke, this was so informative. I always learn so much from you. This is one that I really needed to hear. Gotta check my watering schedule. And I just noticed little bugs on my brassicas so I will keep an eye before reacting. Thank you.
I’ve definitely been overwatering my pumpkin plants. Will definitely check every time before I water them
I received seed from Ya'll today and realized I have been following you since you were a teenager .
it is much harder to farm and especially to container garden than programs like this would have you believe. Many of us are doing badly and thinking it is just us. There is really nothing that addresses the quality of the products we buy to grow that may affect things. Plants are not ID'd as to determinate or indeterminate, specific variety, and many places sell products that are not really appropriate for the zone. The stores just sell and make the money and we have the dead plants and no produce. Staff in stores know little to nothing about farming and are of no help. I have a lot of dead plants in the ground and in containers and I am losing hope--- ready to give up honestly. One zucchini plant= one zucchini, 1 $20 cherry tomato plant for 5 cherry tomatoes, this is a bad investment.
Thank you! I always appreciate your videos and they always seem to be very timely with my garden.
Does anyone here have any idea what could be eating roundish holes in my banana pepper leaves? I still can't find anything on them but they're constantly getting eaten up. I've seen regular house flies and love bugs around them but that's all. I do have leafhoppers, spittle bugs, tomato hornworms and an occasional stink bug that I've found on other plants. The holes are different than what those do. I'm so over it at this point. Thanks!
LUKE !!! I LOVE THE INTRO !!!!! Great content ! Thank you !
HI MI, Can you do a video of the importance of rotating your crops. I have three raised beds measure 20ftx5 ft. Filled with excellent 5 year cow manure compost three years ago. Did great the first two years. This year, one of the beds planted with Brandywine tomatoes' are stunted even after adding fertilizer. Not sure what's happening. The other two beds with tomatoes and green beans are doing great. One of the Raised beds was used as a chicken hoop cope over the fall and winter. They are doing great!
Thank you Luke! Great video with so much information and tips.
Always so much value in your videos. 👍
Great video! Sending ❤ from Ontario 🇨🇦 👋
I have been doing just like you said, monitoring the damage, plants seem to be outgrowing it and there's no evidence of an actual 'pest' plus they're all in containers, so my biggest pests are mammals so what you said about the cayenne....thankyou for the validation as ironically I just made a comment on your previous video about using cayenne! 😉👌
Perfect timing on this video!
Great advice! thank you 😊
Another great video. Thanks for all you do.
Great video and such common mistakes that we all make in the garden. 👍🏻
Can you over water during germination? when direct sowing seeds?
And also can you over water when the seedlings sprout? Do i keep seedlings soil most or back off once they sprout? Thank you so much
Hi Luke , thanks for all you do and done appreciate it. Came home and saw multi holes on my tomatoes transplants and there were these tiny black beetle like on the leaves . I feel like this is way too soon but what can I do. I’m in Zone 5, thanks
Do a search on flea beetle. That's what we are fighting in our community garden this year...
Look into Need Oil and Diatomaceous Earth.
8:47 This is 100% my wife!
This time of year in Arizona, we have fruits on our plants and the intense sun is starting to stress the plants out. But as soon as the leaves curl, she wants to water the bed everyday. One year she'll remember haha 😄
QUESTION; we are growing lettuces, and they look good, but when we cut them they become limp, or the oposite of crispy. What are we doing wrong? Thank you so much!
A+++!!!🏆 One of your BEST videos to date, Luke!👏 Absolutely stellar info!!🏆 I also learned: NEVER HOLD A CONVERSATION WHILE HOLDING A TROWEL.💡 It could save your "parts", maybe even your life.😉😁💖
Thanks Luke.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have raised beds that I got from Amazon that are 2x6 feet, about 1.5 feee deep, made of heavy cloth like materiel. The tomato’s and peppers are doing great, but I do worry about the watering and fertilizer for these types of beds. We have been w/o rain for about 5-6 weeks. I have been watering daily, the peppers heavier than the Tomatoes. However, some of the tomatoes are having the upward leaf curl. I check the soil for dryness, I water bases on that. I have tomatoes in the ground also, which mr cherry tomatoes in the ground have shown sone leaf curl but that goes away as the sun goes down. The tomatoes I. The ground get watered no more than every 3-4 days even during the dry spells. The big question is, does the think raised cloth beds loose alot of water to evaporation? I also have the plants well mulched with straw to help maintain moisture as well. I use fish fertilizer every few weeks and a general liquid fertilizer every few weeks. Thank you for your videos, you and farmer Scott are my favorites. Everything you recommend is great, keep it up!!! Thank you again
I have only watered my raised beds TWICE since I started planting in April. Everything is THRIVING
I was doing the same thing too much fertilizer. Great video thank you
It's pretty cool when I found out that flowering, fruiting, and bolting happens not only to spread themselves, but also as a survival mechanism due to stress and adverse conditions.
I'm very happy to now know how to communicate with my plants, by reading their leaf movements.
It’s triple digits here and in above ground beds and in full sun all day so I have to give them a drink every morning, my wicking tubs are way easier I just make sure twice a week that those have water, I had to back off on my squash and zucchini on fish emoluments in the wicking tub, as once I did here came my female flowers lol it’s all a learning experience and having fun learning . Thanks for this vid
What is a wicking tub? We're in triple digits now too.
@@kcmckillip8115 there are lots of videos out there on wicking tubs, I particularly like the series from Gardening with Leon. Another channel with easy to follow info is ua-cam.com/video/k429cPlH6mM/v-deo.html, Arms family homestead…enjoy!
@@marsfran55 Thanks for the info!
Congratulations on reaching a million subscribers.
Hey Luke, great info. Wondering if you know a natural way of keeping the slugs off my cabbage? I used the Seven spray last year and the outer layers were still full of ‘em! Thank you
Cover them with toulle. I think that's how you spell it. It's netting like they use for wedding decorations or clothes. You could also get thin strips of copper and put around cabbage
If you have time could you do a garden tour of what has come up so far?
Moved to new house, planted green peppers in an already established raised bed. Bottom leaves looking yellow, but new green and flowers growing, am I doing anything wrong?
with all the rain in southeast Michigan we haven't watered at all. I have soaker hoses ready to roll once we need water.
I just wanted to add that I am in MN on the line almost of zone 3 and 4. I usually go with zone 3. I know that doesn't matter for killing cut worms though. Thanks again for any advice you can give!
I have tomato plants in pots that I made the soil from peat .compost and and bagged garden soil if I dont soak them down every morning they wilt real bad they are very big and putting out fruit what do I need to do trim them or what ?
Great reminders/tips! 💜
So clear and informative. Thank you 🙏
so if tomatoes start flowering they need a little more fertilizing?
I have a serious infestation of tiny grasshoppers. I’m using neems oil and have ordered diatomaceous earth. Last year they ate absolutely everything to the stems including flowers.
I have recently been realizing that my saved seeds are doing better than bought seeds. This is sad because I am new to seed saving.I have not many saved seeds. I haven't purchased my seeds from you, so this is a wake up call to me. I will be shopping seeds from you this year.
What about when Mother Nature over waters??? I tried to talk to her but she’s sassy!
Luke, Hope you can help me. I'm in VA zone 9, started seed tomatoes indoors, then planted them in my 8" deep planters late April - the slicer varieties are a healthy 4 ft yet not flowering much. Also, my cucumbers are 4 ft & loaded with flowers but they're dropping off without fruiting. Do you know why? ( my beds have dirt ammended with organic soil, compost, bio-tone granuals & worm castings.)
Add compost
If u r adding fertilizer , you should check the numbers of NPK Nis for nitrogen . If that number is high it only promotes leaves no flowers or fruit . A higher P ( phosphorus ) number promotes flowers and k (potassium)
Promotes fruit and vegetables
@@sfsmaria2805 Thanks Maria - I've done both - maybe too eager - too early?
Good advice. Thanks!
Love all your informational video.
I recently purchased land. My soil is very sandy and heavy. I also planted an apple tree and it got covered in beetles in less than 5 min. How can i get rid of these beetles?
I have green caterpillars eating my cabbage and Brussels. What organic method of control works best?
How is the garden centre going would love an update
I LOVE YOU VIDEOS! i know these "rules" but just refreshing what i know is always helpful. looking forward for more vids!
Great info here, thanks! 🌱
Does anyone have any advice for an effective treatment for flea beetles? I've tried a neem oil spray but it does not seem to be working. I don't want to use anything too strong that could hurt any beneficial bugs. Thanks for the helpful videos!
Great video Luke!
John McHatton
My problem? growth stagnation (tomatoes, peppers, melons, and beans) Must send off a soil sample. Going to apply Sassy Lass. Can't hurt, right? Leafy greens, potatoes, carrots, cukes, and onions are growing just fine.
When I was a kid (a long time ago) we always had a garden. I'll soon be 60 but just getting into gardening. We would put lime on out green beans to help with pest. Do you recommend this?
Hey Luke I have a backyard garden and I've been having issues with my tomatoes wilting ever since we got a really big rain 2 weeks ago and I just keep going one after the other plant tomato plant keeps just wilting and dying would you have to know why and what's causing it
Poor drainage?
I’m no entomologist, but it sounds to me like a wilt problem.
I had a problem like that but it wasn't the rain. Everyday one or two of my freshly planted tomatoes would fall over dead. My problem was the little rolly pollies. I had placed walls of water on all my tomatoe plants. I realized I trapped all the little bugs in with the plant. Usually they are beneficial only eating dead matter on the surface on the ground. But when there was nothing dead left to eat inside the walls of water they went for the tomatoe plant. I could see at the base of the plant where they were eating away at it like a lumber jack chopping down a tree.