If your soil is fertile with good drains, then the main benefit is just raising up the growing surface to save your back and knees. If you need to build your soil and/or create drainage, then a raised bed makes sense. Raised beds can also reduce weeds and give some control over pests.
Love the "garden with me style". It's so much more helpful to toss in bots of learning that way and it sticks in my brain because it's how I think too! Thanks for sharing!
I haven’t gotten above freezing the last few days here in Minnesota and we’ve had snow the last 4 days. Nothing above freezing until next Tuesday. I’m so jealous of your weather. If I wasn’t so old I would move.
I'd keep an eye out for squash vine borers in the future. That healthy but suddenly wilting squash plant is exactly what happens with vine borers. You can usually follow the stem/vine of the plant from the base upward and you will see the frass from the vine borer somewhere along the vine where it first entered. If you perform some careful surgery and cut the stem open and reach inside with tweezers there is a really good chance you can pull out the giant vine borer that is destroying your plant. I've managed to save a few squash plants before they are totally gutted that way
Have you checked for grubs and such at the foot of that trellis? Vine could wilt if the root system has been damaged to the point it can't gather enough water to keep up with what's lost through the leaves.
Thank you Jacques Just love your videos. I always learn something I can use in my garden. You have a gift for explaining and making it all sound so doable. I had the same idea as you did regarding my favorite Sungolds, last weekend. Was intending to pull it out, but I like you tasted a few and left them in place. Will check them out again in a week or so. Looking forward to your next vlog/video.
Here in my Texan garden I’ve found that when I have plants that are slowly wilting/dying for no apparent reason, it’s been root knot nematodes almost every time. They slowly clog the plants arteries hence the slow wilting process. I’ve really been working on my soil to try and balance everything out so these RK nematodes are controlled by other soil life.
Great video Jacques. 1 tip for your Lina beans or any dried beans; after harvesting , place them in the freezer for a few days to kill any insects that may have layed eggs inside the beans , then you can store and use all winter.
The Christmas Pole Lima beans are a perennial. I'm in the SF Bay Area, and even though we've gotten some really cold temperatures, mine vine is still producing. Last year my vines overwintered (and still produced) and then ramped up the following year and gave me more beans. No need to cut it down, unless you need the space for something else.
Oh wow I never knew about the eggplants. I have 5 plants n had over 70 fruits but the plants didn't start flowering until August n yes they are tied up because they are almost 5ft tall..now I know to trim them back THX
I left a sweet potato next to my compost bin last fall and forgot about it when that area got mulched for the winter. WOW! Those vines reached far this summer! Hahahaha
I think I won't grow standard green beans next year: they produce but compared to my heirloom Good Mother Stollard and Rio de Janeiro beans they were pretty boring!
I love all the plants we can keep growing thank you, being in Southern CA do you have a video on growing tomatoes year round and the types of tomatoes to grow to achieve this?
@@jacquesinthegarden This is very much something I am wondering. I've tried doing sweet potatoes in containers before, gotten great vine growth and then NO POTATOES. Is the olla the magical answer to getting them enough water to produce tubers?
Just watched your vid about overwintering peppers and eggplants. Can up--potted pepper plants remain outside in zone 9B? What's the lowest temp a potted pepper can withstand before it has to be moved inside? Love all your vids + shorts!
Hi, Can you address the grubs in the next video? I've had issues with the Japanese beetle larvae. I've used Milky Spores but wondered if there was something better.
Yeah I did a video on using beneficial nematodes to kill the grubs. Combined with milky spore the two should be HIGHLY effective against the Japanese beetle larvae in particular.
Hey Jacque, do you have a few non irrigated beds? Do you find the ollas to be sufficient for the beds by just always keeping them half full? Or do you need to water the bed quite often as well? I’ve got one small bed and I just purchased three ollas from the shop.
Jacques, how are you curing your sweet potatoes? I'm in zone 10a (La Mesa) and with no humidity and now cooling temperatures, I'm struggling with the recommendation of 4-5 days of heat & humidity before transferring to a cooler temp. Thanks!
Last year I worked them up in a bag with some towels and kept them on top of my fridge to get some extra heat! They lasted for almost a year after doing that!
What if you leave the sweet potatoes in the ground? I didn't think the slips would grow tubers and have had a couple plants growing for over a year now...
If you left them in ground they will naturally regrow on their own when the time is right. You can for sure grow tubers from slips! That is how most production is done for sweet potatoes, and this exact plant was from a previous years sweet potato slip!
@@drewsenthused6079 Whether the sweet potatoes overwinter depends on your zone. My experience is in Zone 6 & 7, where the tubers basically don't sprout if left in the ground. We had a few plants that regrew as "volunteers" the next season, but I never saw it with the sweet potato because it got too cold. My family always saved a few tubers and grew slips from them by forcing them indoors in hyacinth vases. They'd go out in the field in mid/late-May when we were sure there would be no more frost. If you're someplace warm enough that the ground doesn't freeze, some forgotten tubers might overwinter fine. If the ground freezes, though, it's best to bet on babying either saved slips or tubers indoors.
On the Oya Instagram they said to take the Oya out for winter. And while we don't get snow in 9b or 10 we can get freezing temps in January. Are you going to take those Oyas out so they don't freeze? Or are they ok cuz those are raised beds? I know you have some in the ground by the kale, too
Jacques, do you have an artichoke planted somewhere else in the garden? I usually get a bunch of small artichokes on my plants once I cut off the large artichoke on the main stem…. I’ll be interested to see if packing them in closely will accomplish your goal! I tend to over-plant everything😬
I was thinking he could just cut the main stalk before the first artichoke matured, and then use the small artichokes on the side shoots for the "baby" size he is seeking. Just thinking,
I have a few regular artichokes around and yes the central stalk should be the biggest and then the side shoots should be small. In this case I want to try to force them all to be smaller. Since I have 6 planted in this bed I will try decapitating some of them to see what happens!
Last year I had good success stuffing them into a plastic bag with a bunch of towels for extra insulation and stashed it behind/on top of my fridge! The sweet potatoes lasted basically a full year!
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Jacque could you please do a video about the benefits of raised garden beds versus growing directly in the ground? As always, love your videos!
If your soil is fertile with good drains, then the main benefit is just raising up the growing surface to save your back and knees. If you need to build your soil and/or create drainage, then a raised bed makes sense. Raised beds can also reduce weeds and give some control over pests.
@@lukehoekstra762 Ah I see! Thanks for this!
Watching this with my heated blanket. 2 inches of snow on the ground. Living vicariously for the next 5 months.
This summer, with the heat, my sweet potato vines did great. Figured out the leaves are a great substitute for spinach and lettuce. Very mild flavor.
I love that temperature is subjective. 60° is cold in San Diego but for us New Yorkers that's a warm spring day.
Overwintering is a solid method that I just don’t know enough about 😮👍
Are you able to keep them outdoors inground or pot them to bring inside?
@@myurbangarden7695 Pot and bring inside, but my indoor environment isn’t too friendly to plants 😢
How nice to see a green garden somewhere. Here it's cold and snowy.
Love the "garden with me style". It's so much more helpful to toss in bots of learning that way and it sticks in my brain because it's how I think too! Thanks for sharing!
I'd love to see how to care for grape plants through the year.😊
I haven’t gotten above freezing the last few days here in Minnesota and we’ve had snow the last 4 days. Nothing above freezing until next Tuesday. I’m so jealous of your weather. If I wasn’t so old I would move.
Grow a culinary variety of fava bean for ground cover. That way you have a dual purpose plant. Fava beans are delicious!
I'd keep an eye out for squash vine borers in the future. That healthy but suddenly wilting squash plant is exactly what happens with vine borers. You can usually follow the stem/vine of the plant from the base upward and you will see the frass from the vine borer somewhere along the vine where it first entered. If you perform some careful surgery and cut the stem open and reach inside with tweezers there is a really good chance you can pull out the giant vine borer that is destroying your plant. I've managed to save a few squash plants before they are totally gutted that way
I suspect it may have been the case, I have never interacted with them before so I didn't really bother to think about it
Have you checked for grubs and such at the foot of that trellis? Vine could wilt if the root system has been damaged to the point it can't gather enough water to keep up with what's lost through the leaves.
Thank you Jacques Just love your videos. I always learn something I can use in my garden. You have a gift for explaining and making it all sound so doable. I had the same idea as you did regarding my favorite Sungolds, last weekend. Was intending to pull it out, but I like you tasted a few and left them in place. Will check them out again in a week or so. Looking forward to your next vlog/video.
Here in my Texan garden I’ve found that when I have plants that are slowly wilting/dying for no apparent reason, it’s been root knot nematodes almost every time. They slowly clog the plants arteries hence the slow wilting process. I’ve really been working on my soil to try and balance everything out so these RK nematodes are controlled by other soil life.
Great video Jacques. 1 tip for your Lina beans or any dried beans; after harvesting , place them in the freezer for a few days to kill any insects that may have layed eggs inside the beans , then you can store and use all winter.
The Christmas Pole Lima beans are a perennial. I'm in the SF Bay Area, and even though we've gotten some really cold temperatures, mine vine is still producing. Last year my vines overwintered (and still produced) and then ramped up the following year and gave me more beans. No need to cut it down, unless you need the space for something else.
Love the style of your videos, gardening so we can watch an expert at work!
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Your garden looks lovely Jacques! It's so cool to see what can be accomplished in your zone.
Could you do a video about how to prevent grow bags from drying out or molding please? Thanks!!
Oh wow I never knew about the eggplants. I have 5 plants n had over 70 fruits but the plants didn't start flowering until August n yes they are tied up because they are almost 5ft tall..now I know to trim them back THX
I left a sweet potato next to my compost bin last fall and forgot about it when that area got mulched for the winter. WOW! Those vines reached far this summer! Hahahaha
Thanks for doing this update with very insightful comments and tips here and there! Really appreciate them and hope to see more of them!
Propogating the SP is a great idea, thank you!
I think I won't grow standard green beans next year: they produce but compared to my heirloom Good Mother Stollard and Rio de Janeiro beans they were pretty boring!
I love all the plants we can keep growing thank you, being in Southern CA do you have a video on growing tomatoes year round and the types of tomatoes to grow to achieve this?
I will be overwintering my HATCH PEPPERS🌶. My kids were born in Texas and will never forgive me if we dont have roasted hatch peppers on hand.
Could you please post a link to the covered shelving unit that you use as a mini greenhouse for seedlings?
60°??!! That's heaven
Great info Jacques. Happy Thanksgiving 🍁🍽
I planted Molokai sweet potatoes this year too! I was wondering how you tell when they are ready to harvest. I think I'll go check right now. :)
I only watch this cause of Jacques 😍
Great video!
Can you show us what you mean by curing the sweet potato ?
Jacques, I'm giving you the stink eye from New England
Those Lima beans are beautiful! Christmas Lima?
Did the Ollas work in your sweet potato bed, well? or did you also have to hand water?
It actually worked quite well with the sweet potatoes and they wrapped around olla to get water. I did hand water as well since they sprawl so much!
@@jacquesinthegarden This is very much something I am wondering. I've tried doing sweet potatoes in containers before, gotten great vine growth and then NO POTATOES. Is the olla the magical answer to getting them enough water to produce tubers?
Just watched your vid about overwintering peppers and eggplants. Can up--potted pepper plants remain outside in zone 9B? What's the lowest temp a potted pepper can withstand before it has to be moved inside? Love all your vids + shorts!
I feed the sweet potato leaves to my chickens
Hi, Can you address the grubs in the next video? I've had issues with the Japanese beetle larvae. I've used Milky Spores but wondered if there was something better.
He did a video on the beneficial nematodes a little bit ago. They’ve had a bad grub problem.
Yeah I did a video on using beneficial nematodes to kill the grubs. Combined with milky spore the two should be HIGHLY effective against the Japanese beetle larvae in particular.
Hey Jacque, do you have a few non irrigated beds? Do you find the ollas to be sufficient for the beds by just always keeping them half full? Or do you need to water the bed quite often as well? I’ve got one small bed and I just purchased three ollas from the shop.
I will go through and soak the top of the raised beds to make sure it's fully wetted down!
'Quite a handsome plant'.... boy, you know we say that about you😉😁
Does anyone know if he ever did a video on his baby artichokes? Curious if that approach worked!
Jacques, how are you curing your sweet potatoes? I'm in zone 10a (La Mesa) and with no humidity and now cooling temperatures, I'm struggling with the recommendation of 4-5 days of heat & humidity before transferring to a cooler temp. Thanks!
Last year I worked them up in a bag with some towels and kept them on top of my fridge to get some extra heat! They lasted for almost a year after doing that!
Will eggplant survive frost here in zone 9b?
They should be able to hold up in zone 9b! I think once you hit zone 8 it gets tricky.
What are your pros and cons of the fabric raised beds? Thanks!
Love the video ❤
What if you leave the sweet potatoes in the ground? I didn't think the slips would grow tubers and have had a couple plants growing for over a year now...
If you left them in ground they will naturally regrow on their own when the time is right. You can for sure grow tubers from slips! That is how most production is done for sweet potatoes, and this exact plant was from a previous years sweet potato slip!
@@jacquesinthegarden Wow thanks! I thought a frost killed em last year, was that them dying back because they were ready?
@@drewsenthused6079 Whether the sweet potatoes overwinter depends on your zone. My experience is in Zone 6 & 7, where the tubers basically don't sprout if left in the ground. We had a few plants that regrew as "volunteers" the next season, but I never saw it with the sweet potato because it got too cold. My family always saved a few tubers and grew slips from them by forcing them indoors in hyacinth vases. They'd go out in the field in mid/late-May when we were sure there would be no more frost.
If you're someplace warm enough that the ground doesn't freeze, some forgotten tubers might overwinter fine. If the ground freezes, though, it's best to bet on babying either saved slips or tubers indoors.
@@PhosphorAlchemist Great info! I'm in 9b so i'll see if there is anything under there this year!
On the Oya Instagram they said to take the Oya out for winter. And while we don't get snow in 9b or 10 we can get freezing temps in January. Are you going to take those Oyas out so they don't freeze? Or are they ok cuz those are raised beds? I know you have some in the ground by the kale, too
I won't bother because while we do get small freezes I don't think it will be enough to worry about it
Jacques, when you let a squash fruit to go to seed.... It thinks its job is all done and dies back.... same with cukes
Jacques, do you have an artichoke planted somewhere else in the garden? I usually get a bunch of small artichokes on my plants once I cut off the large artichoke on the main stem…. I’ll be interested to see if packing them in closely will accomplish your goal! I tend to over-plant everything😬
I was thinking he could just cut the main stalk before the first artichoke matured, and then use the small artichokes on the side shoots for the "baby" size he is seeking. Just thinking,
@@domesti-city yeah, I was wondering if that's what he plans to do. I think I'll try it both ways. Crowded and not, just to compare.
I have a few regular artichokes around and yes the central stalk should be the biggest and then the side shoots should be small. In this case I want to try to force them all to be smaller. Since I have 6 planted in this bed I will try decapitating some of them to see what happens!
@@jacquesinthegarden that sounds so aggressive 😂😂
That squash could be suffering from verticillium wilt or another wilt disease :(
How do you cure sweet potatoes?
Last year I had good success stuffing them into a plastic bag with a bunch of towels for extra insulation and stashed it behind/on top of my fridge! The sweet potatoes lasted basically a full year!
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its in the low 40F here in Los Angeles at nite does San Diego really stay 20 degrees warmer at night?
It’s been getting down to the 40s at night here in SD. I think he meant 60s during the day.
Yeah sorry it's 60s in the day and 40s at night!