God has blessed both of you with such a beautiful garden in your high tunnel. Thanks for taking the time to show us always enjoy watching channel. God bless you both.
My mom has several Vego bed's in her garden. She turned 81 this yr., but they've helped her to keep gardening. She uses a rolling walker seat & has used a wheelchair & a electric scooter & with all those she's been able to tend to her veggies & strawberries. She recently got some self waterers for indoor, the little one's are just so cute, but they've helped her continue gardening.
I let some butter crunch lettuce and some mustard greens go to seed......then pulled the plants....I have lettuce and mustard volunteers everywhere....
I have cedar beds here in minnesota that have been going now for at least 12 years. I think they will go another 12 years at least. They still look great. So odd that yours don't last there... due to the heat maybe?
Here in south Alabama celery did great for me last year and the brussel sprouts did produce the only thing was the individual sprout wanted to fan out instead of making a compact sprout and felt like it grew for a year lol. Your high tunnels are looking good. Have a great day!
❤❤❤I love the mineral tubs! I started planting in them the first video that I saw you planting in over at Deep South! I got some at a local feed store for $3.00 each! Then I got some from a plant swap friend who has a cate ranch! She has given us around 20 tubs! I have fruit & citrus trees in them as well as asparagus. Veggies & herbs! You and Wanda inspire me!
I let my romaine go to seed in august, gathered them and planted some more. One came up and nearing a harvestable size now. Parent fed us a salad with one leaf each most of the summer
Blessings. Thank you for sharing. This year my container vegetable garden has the little brown moths. They live in the soil, no matter wet or dry, and they fly around all day.. These moths love the hotter, extreme higher temperatures (80 -100+ )
Good day Mr Danny and Ms Wanda. Those were some scraggly looking brussel sprout plants but if anybody can make em grow y'all can. Had issues last year with our lettuce took a long time to germinate. Y'all have a blessed day.
Lettuce seeds don't like temps over 90. If you have fungus gnats use Mosquito Bits: 4 tsps in a gallon of water, soak for 30 minutes then water the bed with it. Can be repeated weekly and should be because it kills the adults first and then the next treatment kills the larvae and eggs. I would make a teabag with cheesecloth and drop it into the water that way you don't have to sift out the granules. Either throw away the bag or you can toss the soaked bits into your compost. Worked great, my garden was infested and the Bits completely eliminated them.
If the flies are coming in the potting soil - and for sure they are in the peat moss - you deal with them by opening the bag and hydrating it with BOILING water, which will kill off both the eggs and the hatched pests. This works for fungus gnats and fruit flies.
Danny, I'm a lettuce snob. LOL It's because the soil and air temp is too warm. You will get some lettuce to come up when it cools off. I did the same last year in fall with some old lettuce seeds. They did FINALLY come up. After I forgot about them. I had to pull some of it because it was growing everywhere. I just wanted it to fill some empty spots. It was completely cool when it finally came up.
Good Morning!.....It's still too hot for lettuce. They may germinate in 70-80F, but they bolt and die if the temps remain the same....I went ahead and tried as well, because last year they worked starting the seed in September. This year is different. I'm going to wait until the temps go no higher than 70F and try again. In my experience, they LOVE 50F and will survive freezing in most cases.
I planted a few carrot seeds in the shade in my raised bed, and they are coming up. When the hot weather plants are done, I have a few cold weather plants to replace them started in large cells.
I'm gonna guess that the little "flies" are actually fungus gnats. I'm pretty sure they are coming from your seed starting trays. They are way too wet and that is the reason you have fungus growing in them. At least that's my take.
Are use those mineral tubs and landscaping pots the big ones I was gifted and I don’t have any grass in my backyard so they work out great and I also have an elevated up on some brick to keep them up so I don’t have to been down so much🌱🌱
Had the same issue with lettuce I planted(all types from diffierent places), looking forward for a fall crop before the frost. Not happening at this point.😒
I would love to be able to grow celery and onions. I have not been successful. These are two vegetables that I eat a lot of and I need to learn how to grow them.
Mr. Danny all my cauliflower came up also but only a couple of cabbages came up and the rest did like y’all’s. Planted 3 times the same thing. I have planted lettuce 4 times and finally got a few seedlings to come up from 2 variety. I did like y’all planted a variety from different companies and sowed thick this time and like I said only got a little to come up on 2 varieties. I don’t know if they will make it. I had some come up and die. So I blamed it on the heat. Maybe. I never had a time like this year. Planted last year no problem but it is hot here in south east NC on the coast. Never seen it like this and never had a problem before. And it was hot last year. I planted green stalk lettuce seeds that was 5 years old last year and did not expect them to come up and they did wonderful! But this year had some seeds left over and nothing and other seeds wasn’t old so it was the same problem. Personally I think the problem lays at the sun cause this year last spring and summer I have notice a difference in all seedlings. I had a problem with things I never had problems before and I would consider myself a old gardener. Been doing it all of my life and i having issues at places I never had before.
wow I am so happy that I am not the only one having this same problem, I was really getting worried, who could I get seeds from? Even some of my own saved seeds have failed...I was positive it was the heat and lack of rain.
I would love to be able to grow celery and onions. I have not been successful. These are two vegetables that I eat a lot of and I need to learn how to grow them. I also had great success with sweet banana peppers. They just are so prolific.
I would definitely like to have a Kactoily to test my soil with. I have several raised beds where over time have added leaves, grass, previous years potting soil and when able used store bought compost.
For what it’s worth, the subtropical plants are available now (😉) while the temperate plants are going to be on back order until at LEAST November and most likely January. Some of the most desirable plants are larger and more expensive, but I’m still looking for the best balance between size and affordability.
My lettuce came up but then stalled and has grown barely 2 inches in the last month. I guess I will have to wait for a cool spell to get enough to eat.
Mr Danny I have had trouble with lettuce all kinds, different companies, different ages of seeds all spring/summer/fall. Never before had lettuce trouble but this year I havent gotten lettuce to grow to save my life. Ive tried outside, inside no go no matter what Ive done.
My experience is lettuce is only 2 years, and they don't like damp. Just the top layer moist, until they are root established then bottom water. Plus the new seed starting and potting soil is full on bugs, so I first wet it with boiling water. Solves the gnat/fly issue.
Hello Danny and Wanda! Don’t know if this may be your problem but I had a round with an insect called a “dark winged fungus gnat” this year. Pretty sure it came in potting soil. It attacks roots and at soil level for the most part. It ended up killing every single plant I started this year, well over 600. It will also spread to all seedlings in the pot/ area. Plants look good for the most part, until you see damage near the soil level. They eventually just die. When opening cover, they suddenly fly up. Otherwise you may not know they are there. Hope it helps.
JudithB I planted Romaine, chard and kale a couple of weeks ago, and they are growing well. Last years Collards have leafed out again. My cantalope and pumpkin plants planted in July are covered in blooms but no fruit spurs. My squash planted in May is just beginning to produce and had lots of male blooms. Kind of disheartening.
Cos or Romaine type lettuce likes more heat tolerant. Fungal gnata most likely. There eggs r in potting mix tgat has peat moss or coco coir in it. I love cutting celery . So easy. Very long lived. U can let some go to seed for reseeding. It's actually a herb.
When I try to plant a second round d of lettuce in mid summer it never does well once temps get high. I planted around 90 degrees and nothing grew. Same seeds as spring that did fine.
Danny, I keep my lettuce seeds in the freezer because they do not keep their viability. I keep onion, lettuce, corn, carrots and spinach seeds in the freezer.
I have seen a thin layer of perlite used on top of seed trays and raised beds to prevent fungus gnats and fruit flies from being able to lay their eggs in them. Both pests have larvae that eat plant roots and are an unholy horror for seedlings.
Suspect same abt garden mix as source of whatever those critters are ... Many don't want to spray essential oil blends onto soil or plants for various reasons. Now that you've spotted the enemy up on the fabric liners of beds ... I'd try a very fine ultrasonic sprayer up there. Even from outside the cover, it wd penetrate. A few drops per qt all that's needed. Most any shd work. Eucalyptus probably the best bet. -- 💌🍒
I had planted lettuce about a month ago romaine. I used old seed. They all came up but within a day or so they were gone they're seem to be some kind of bug or something in the soil I couldn't see the bugs but they were there one minute and the next minute they weren't they never made it over just big enough for me to see the green coming out of the ground. I don't know exactly what it was could have been a grasshopper that got in there but it ate every single lettuce seed I planted the second time same thing happened they sprouted they came up they were up for less than a day and the next day they were gone. Just another idea to think about.
I planted celery but it didn't grow. I think it's because of my climate. I need you to share your experiences with me because my channel is also growing crops. Thanks
Longevity of lettuce seeds isn't long .....I've not had good luck with pelleted seeds myself. I sow lettuce seeds on top and just brush my hand across the surface ....there are various seeds that actually need light to sprout which why you don't bury the seeds, strawberry's I know is one....
That's why they call it gardening and not growing, maybe it's the soil or it's too cold for the seed to germinate. I've got the heat mat and lights and still not 100% as well.
None of my store bought lettuce seed sprouted either. I am in the North PNW been trying since mid August. I even tried sprouting them under growlights indoors. The only lettuce seed that sprouted and now growing good is my red sail lettuce seed that I saved myself from the lettuce I grew last year. Sprouted no problem. I find this very odd and perplexing🤔
Danny and Wanda have freezers, a dehydrator, and a freeze dryer for preserving food. They also have eager volunteers (family, friends, neighbors, etc.) who are more than willing to help eat.
God has blessed both of you with such a beautiful garden in your high tunnel. Thanks for taking the time to show us always enjoy watching channel. God bless you both.
My mom has several Vego bed's in her garden. She turned 81 this yr., but they've helped her to keep gardening. She uses a rolling walker seat & has used a wheelchair & a electric scooter & with all those she's been able to tend to her veggies & strawberries. She recently got some self waterers for indoor, the little one's are just so cute, but they've helped her continue gardening.
I let some butter crunch lettuce and some mustard greens go to seed......then pulled the plants....I have lettuce and mustard volunteers everywhere....
Fresh peppers are shiny, thick, and heavy. So wonderful!
I grew celery last year. They did awesome. I'm going to grow it every year from now on
Awesome gardening in the high tunnels. Blessings.
Good morning Mrs Wanda and Mr Danny ❤
I really love purple and have many purple veggies.
There is always a chance ! That is life itself with ourselves and others ! There is a lesson to be taught! Amen!
God bless you both!❤
I always enjoy tours of both your indoor and outdoor garden spaces! Thank you!
I have cedar beds here in minnesota that have been going now for at least 12 years. I think they will go another 12 years at least. They still look great. So odd that yours don't last there... due to the heat maybe?
Thank you Danny and Wanda. Both demonstration, instruction snd visualization. Thank you.
Mine too, not cold enough yet, Faulkville Ga
Good morning Danny and Wanda. ❤
Here in south Alabama celery did great for me last year and the brussel sprouts did produce the only thing was the individual sprout wanted to fan out instead of making a compact sprout and felt like it grew for a year lol. Your high tunnels are looking good. Have a great day!
Beautiful pepper!!!!
Thats an amazing food system. ❤
❤❤❤I love the mineral tubs! I started planting in them the first video that I saw you planting in over at Deep South! I got some at a local feed store for $3.00 each! Then I got some from a plant swap friend who has a cate ranch! She has given us around 20 tubs! I have fruit & citrus trees in them as well as asparagus. Veggies & herbs! You and Wanda inspire me!
Put the yellow sticky fly catchers in there and it will get them little critters. :) I learned it from youguys.
They say, an oak tree is a nut tree that held it's ground😊. So I have high hopes for the brussel sprouts and lettuce 🥬
Whiteflies are a greenhouse nemesis......dampness promotes them even more.....I use yellow sticky traps/cards....
I let my romaine go to seed in august, gathered them and planted some more. One came up and nearing a harvestable size now. Parent fed us a salad with one leaf each most of the summer
Blessings. Thank you for sharing. This year my container vegetable garden has the little brown moths. They live in the soil, no matter wet or dry, and they fly around all day.. These moths love the hotter, extreme higher temperatures (80 -100+ )
Good day Mr Danny and Ms Wanda. Those were some scraggly looking brussel sprout plants but if anybody can make em grow y'all can. Had issues last year with our lettuce took a long time to germinate. Y'all have a blessed day.
Lettuce seeds don't like temps over 90. If you have fungus gnats use Mosquito Bits: 4 tsps in a gallon of water, soak for 30 minutes then water the bed with it. Can be repeated weekly and should be because it kills the adults first and then the next treatment kills the larvae and eggs. I would make a teabag with cheesecloth and drop it into the water that way you don't have to sift out the granules. Either throw away the bag or you can toss the soaked bits into your compost. Worked great, my garden was infested and the Bits completely eliminated them.
Goodmorning 😊
Lettuce seeds only have a 2-3 year shelf life. 3rd year you aren't gonna get much.
Put the little yellow sticky traps in there for the flies.
If the flies are coming in the potting soil - and for sure they are in the peat moss - you deal with them by opening the bag and hydrating it with BOILING water, which will kill off both the eggs and the hatched pests. This works for fungus gnats and fruit flies.
Peppers look amazing 😮
Danny, I'm a lettuce snob. LOL It's because the soil and air temp is too warm. You will get some lettuce to come up when it cools off. I did the same last year in fall with some old lettuce seeds. They did FINALLY come up. After I forgot about them. I had to pull some of it because it was growing everywhere. I just wanted it to fill some empty spots. It was completely cool when it finally came up.
I need to grow celery and brussells sprouts 😊
Can't go wrong.
Good Morning!.....It's still too hot for lettuce. They may germinate in 70-80F, but they bolt and die if the temps remain the same....I went ahead and tried as well, because last year they worked starting the seed in September. This year is different. I'm going to wait until the temps go no higher than 70F and try again. In my experience, they LOVE 50F and will survive freezing in most cases.
I did not plant many lettuce or any carrot seeds, knowing it just might be too hot. It will not be too hot soon.
I planted a few carrot seeds in the shade in my raised bed, and they are coming up. When the hot weather plants are done, I have a few cold weather plants to replace them started in large cells.
Been told lettuce won't germinate over 80 degrees. Hope you get a pleasant when it cools down.
I picked two brussel sprout plants from H‑E‑B and I’m nursing them through this heat in central Texas. 90°+ during the day and 70’s ant night.
I'm gonna guess that the little "flies" are actually fungus gnats. I'm pretty sure they are coming from your seed starting trays. They are way too wet and that is the reason you have fungus growing in them. At least that's my take.
Are use those mineral tubs and landscaping pots the big ones I was gifted and I don’t have any grass in my backyard so they work out great and I also have an elevated up on some brick to keep them up so I don’t have to been down so much🌱🌱
The green on the seed tray is algae, and it means that the soil is too wet.
Had the same issue with lettuce I planted(all types from diffierent places), looking forward for a fall crop before the frost. Not happening at this point.😒
I repotted my house plants last year and I had little flies or gnats in my house all winter.
I hate them … I bought an indoor bug zapper and it has killed most of them
I would love to be able to grow celery and onions. I have not been successful. These are two vegetables that I eat a lot of and I need to learn how to grow them.
Mr. Danny all my cauliflower came up also but only a couple of cabbages came up and the rest did like y’all’s. Planted 3 times the same thing. I have planted lettuce 4 times and finally got a few seedlings to come up from 2 variety. I did like y’all planted a variety from different companies and sowed thick this time and like I said only got a little to come up on 2 varieties. I don’t know if they will make it. I had some come up and die. So I blamed it on the heat. Maybe. I never had a time like this year. Planted last year no problem but it is hot here in south east NC on the coast. Never seen it like this and never had a problem before. And it was hot last year. I planted green stalk lettuce seeds that was 5 years old last year and did not expect them to come up and they did wonderful! But this year had some seeds left over and nothing and other seeds wasn’t old so it was the same problem. Personally I think the problem lays at the sun cause this year last spring and summer I have notice a difference in all seedlings. I had a problem with things I never had problems before and I would consider myself a old gardener. Been doing it all of my life and i having issues at places I never had before.
I feel like the sun has been irradiating everything.
The chickens got in my yard and ate my little cabbage plants to the ground
wow I am so happy that I am not the only one having this same problem, I was really getting worried, who could I get seeds from? Even some of my own saved seeds have failed...I was positive it was the heat and lack of rain.
I would love to be able to grow celery and onions. I have not been successful. These are two vegetables that I eat a lot of and I need to learn how to grow them. I also had great success with sweet banana peppers. They just are so prolific.
I would definitely like to have a Kactoily to test my soil with. I have several raised beds where over time have added leaves, grass, previous years potting soil and when able used store bought compost.
For what it’s worth, the subtropical plants are available now (😉) while the temperate plants are going to be on back order until at LEAST November and most likely January. Some of the most desirable plants are larger and more expensive, but I’m still looking for the best balance between size and affordability.
My lettuce came up but then stalled and has grown barely 2 inches in the last month. I guess I will have to wait for a cool spell to get enough to eat.
Mr Danny I have had trouble with lettuce all kinds, different companies, different ages of seeds all spring/summer/fall. Never before had lettuce trouble but this year I havent gotten lettuce to grow to save my life. Ive tried outside, inside no go no matter what Ive done.
My experience is lettuce is only 2 years, and they don't like damp. Just the top layer moist, until they are root established then bottom water. Plus the new seed starting and potting soil is full on bugs, so I first wet it with boiling water. Solves the gnat/fly issue.
Hello Danny and Wanda! Don’t know if this may be your problem but I had a round with an insect called a “dark winged fungus gnat” this year. Pretty sure it came in potting soil. It attacks roots and at soil level for the most part. It ended up killing every single plant I started this year, well over 600. It will also spread to all seedlings in the pot/ area. Plants look good for the most part, until you see damage near the soil level. They eventually just die. When opening cover, they suddenly fly up. Otherwise you may not know they are there. Hope it helps.
Someone else said it already, but FUNGUS GNATS are my guess for those little flies bugging you.
Lettuce, leek, and onion is fragril when it came to be old!
Morning
JudithB I planted Romaine, chard and kale a couple of weeks ago, and they are growing well. Last years Collards have leafed out again. My cantalope and pumpkin plants planted in July are covered in blooms but no fruit spurs. My squash planted in May is just beginning to produce and had lots of male blooms. Kind of disheartening.
I threw 2018 lettuce seeds in a pot to see what would happen and was surprised they germinated.
Cos or Romaine type lettuce likes more heat tolerant. Fungal gnata most likely. There eggs r in potting mix tgat has peat moss or coco coir in it.
I love cutting celery . So easy. Very long lived. U can let some go to seed for reseeding. It's actually a herb.
When I try to plant a second round d of lettuce in mid summer it never does well once temps get high. I planted around 90 degrees and nothing grew. Same seeds as spring that did fine.
SHOULD GET ONE THEM ELECTRIC RECHARABLE FLY SWATERS TO USE WHEN OPEN UP USE WAND LIKE FLY SWATTER AND ELECTRIFYS THEM
Danny, I keep my lettuce seeds in the freezer because they do not keep their viability. I keep onion, lettuce, corn, carrots and spinach seeds in the freezer.
I did not know that , thank you
I have seen a thin layer of perlite used on top of seed trays and raised beds to prevent fungus gnats and fruit flies from being able to lay their eggs in them. Both pests have larvae that eat plant roots and are an unholy horror for seedlings.
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Suspect same abt garden mix as source of whatever those critters are ... Many don't want to spray essential oil blends onto soil or plants for various reasons. Now that you've spotted the enemy up on the fabric liners of beds ... I'd try a very fine ultrasonic sprayer up there. Even from outside the cover, it wd penetrate. A few drops per qt all that's needed. Most any shd work. Eucalyptus probably the best bet. -- 💌🍒
Are pepper plants like tomatos, in that, if you planted that broken branch, would it take root?
I know tomatoes will continue to ripen after they have been picked, do peppers?
I've had better luck growing turnips out of season, so maybe it's the new season for turnips. And I just grew it as a cover crop on top of that.
I had two types of lettuce, none of it came up. My fall potatoes, tomatoes & cabbage look great. Try & try again.
My lettuce or spinach hasn’t come up and my spinach seeds were new seeds from hoss
If I could see the little flies, I’d probably be able to identify them well enough to deal with them.
What kind of celery do you have. Nancy from Nebraska
I had planted lettuce about a month ago romaine. I used old seed. They all came up but within a day or so they were gone they're seem to be some kind of bug or something in the soil I couldn't see the bugs but they were there one minute and the next minute they weren't they never made it over just big enough for me to see the green coming out of the ground. I don't know exactly what it was could have been a grasshopper that got in there but it ate every single lettuce seed I planted the second time same thing happened they sprouted they came up they were up for less than a day and the next day they were gone. Just another idea to think about.
Some of my pole bean seeds grew bush beans. Are the seed companies careless?
I’ve found lettuce seeds do not last if not stored exactly right for the type they are
I planted celery but it didn't grow. I think it's because of my climate. I need you to share your experiences with me because my channel is also growing crops. Thanks
Longevity of lettuce seeds isn't long .....I've not had good luck with pelleted seeds myself. I sow lettuce seeds on top and just brush my hand across the surface ....there are various seeds that actually need light to sprout which why you don't bury the seeds, strawberry's I know is one....
Did you give up on the Greenstalk? I just repotted mine because the soil level had sunk.
That's why they call it gardening and not growing, maybe it's the soil or it's too cold for the seed to germinate.
I've got the heat mat and lights and still not 100% as well.
None of my store bought lettuce seed sprouted either. I am in the North PNW been trying since mid August. I even tried sprouting them under growlights indoors. The only lettuce seed that sprouted and now growing good is my red sail lettuce seed that I saved myself from the lettuce I grew last year. Sprouted no problem. I find this very odd and perplexing🤔
Why don't you put the electroculture antennas in. I did just wire & it brought back a nearly dead strawberry plant & all but 1 tomato plant.
How do you preserve/save alllll those peppers??
Danny and Wanda have freezers, a dehydrator, and a freeze dryer for preserving food. They also have eager volunteers (family, friends, neighbors, etc.) who are more than willing to help eat.
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I am guessing it was the heat.
I bought some seeds from Walmart and none came up.
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