Late July Gardening Update - It's A Jungle Out There!
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- We've been blessed with some bountiful harvests this year. In one day, we harvested 29 cucumbers. We are also getting lots of tomatoes, beans, carrots, peppers, and more. The bush beans are mostly finished, but the pole beans and the long beans are just getting started. We've already canned a bunch of pickles, and will probably start on some salsa soon. Let us know how your garden is doing. Thanks for watching!
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So that’s what a garden looks like that isn’t burnt to a crisp in July. Looks beautiful.
Thanks! It's done pretty well this year.
Never no doubt you always have a jungle out there. Everything is looking good! Stay safe!
Thanks CB! Still hanging in there.
I love these kind of jungles full of colures, veggies, produces. Have a lovely weekend. Take care!
The garden has really produced this year. We picked 26 cucumbers today....and a whole bunch of tomatoes. Have a great weekend!
Everything is growing great even in the Summer heat. Pickled beets are so good. Thanks for the share!
It's done really well considering we going to be around 100 F. for the next week or so. Have a great day!
Best narration on UA-cam yet!!
LOVE your videos!!
That's very kind of you, Randy! Glad you like them!
Wow, Jim, you certainly have a green thumb, and I wish that my garden was half as good as yours is. I'm always amazed and delighted with how lovely your garden looks and the amount of produce you are harvesting. I hope you and Mrs. Midwest Gardener are having a great weekend. ~Margie🤗🍅🫑🥒🌽🥕
Thanks Margie! I think we are getting more from the garden than we ever have. It's getting hard to keep up with just the harvests :) We picked 26 cucumbers this evening, after picking about 25 or 30 tomatoes this morning. I also harvested some potatoes. I guess it's a good problem to have. This is the time of year when bugs and disease show their ugly heads though. I hope you're having a great summer and weekend!
I am Indigenous Montagnard love you corn 🌽
Glad to hear that you like the corn. I'm still working on improving it. It might take me a few more years to get it where I want it.
What a great tour! Everything looks fantastic.
Thanks Craig! It's been a great year in the garden so far.
That’s a hell of a garden wow
Thank you!!
Beautiful jungle of food! That's a fat hornworm on that pepper plant next to the mutant. I leave some of them for the wasps and some go to the chickens.
Thanks! I didn't even see the hornworm. I'll have to go back and take a look. I'm sure chickens love them.
What a harvest Jim! Thanks for the pickle recipe!
Thanks Nancy! You're welcome!
Good Morning Jim - The jungle is turning into a food forest! Wow 29 cucumbers in one day - that's a lot of pickles. Will check out your refrigerator beet video as I am getting ready to make some next week. It's this time of year when you find out how many more canning jars you are going to need! Have a blessed weekend..
Good morning Sue. Along with the pickles we've made, we have also given away cucumbers to family and friends....and the food bank :) You're right. We've already had to go get some more jars.
Your garden is looking great as usual Jim. Well done. 👍👍
Thanks Bob! Hope things are going well for you and the Mrs.!
Love your updates.
Glad you enjoy them!
Looking abundant back there Jim! Love those japanese long cucumbers, the plant and fruit looks great!
Thanks! The China Jade are our favorite cucumber. We pick those about every day. She picked about a dozen or so today. They are very crisp even when long. Going to be taking some time off soon. I saw you had an update up, but I haven't been over to see it yet.
@@MidwestGardener hope you have a nice break Jim!
Wow, you have lots going on there! I’m intrigued that you are breeding your own varieties!
Yes, breeding has been a lot of fun for me.
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Good stuff
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Its a jungle, but a mighty fine looking jungle with lots of good things to eat. Wow, that Bundaberg Rum Ball is exploding with tomatoes! Beautiful. Take care and have a wonderful weekend. 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Thanks a bunch, Shirley! Things are going well. Have a great weekend!
The purple dragon carrot is 1 of my favorite varieties for fresh eating, the other being the MIgardener yellow carrot. I'm growing the Shin Kuroda variety this season to see for myself if they're sweet even in the summer heat. Here in Michigan zone 6A we're also seeing a lot of aphids compared to past years, but also more ladybugs than ever too.
Yep, Purple Dragon is a good one. We are seeing the aphids and ladybugs too. Triple digits here for the foreseeable future.
I'm still waiting for my best Midnight Eclipse plant (with a pendant black cayenne-shaped pod) to ripen. The leaves still look beautiful and very dark.
Many tomatoes ripening here (I froze 4 pounds so far), but it has been warm and very wet throughout July after a dry spring and a lot of the heirloom varieties are succumbing to grunge and whatever disease results in half of everything turning yellow. I would have had even more tomatoes, but a bold deer knocked about 15 green tomatoes off and ate many of the semi-ripe ones earlier this week -- I was too compacent about my perimeter defense but have since repaired it. Oddly this deer at almost no leaves but I saw the hoofprints so there is no question about whodunnit -- probably the same young buck that caused similar damage last year.
My Jimmy Nardello, Corbaci, and Lombok peppers have all ripened nearly simultaneously across different gardens. I also encountered a Tabanero pepper with no heat -- quite a surprise -- but it was solid, juicy, and sweet like other Tabaneros, so it may be more of a mutation than a cross. The flip side of that -- I have a Pippin's Golden Honey descendant that looks like a small Shishito but is hot. And I have an enormous Aconcagua that I'm waiting for ripening.
Yes, some of the Midnight Eclipse plants can be stunning when compared to many others. Sorry to hear about the deer damage. That is always frustrating. Sounds like you till have plenty to keep you busy. I have tons to do, but I'll be taking some time off for a while.
Wow everything is enormous in just a week's time, your flowers are beautiful ❤️ You have so many peppers, I'm curious what do you do with all them? I know you eat them but I mean you can't eat all them at once. 🐝🌻
We freeze some peppers and we give a lot away too. We are thinking about pickling some if we find time.
Looking great! It’s hard to compete with Mother Nature sometimes. Love the crosses and watching you make them. Was that a hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaican sorrel? Great for tea and jam. Mine are just now getting flower pods. Amazing job sir 🐉🔥
Thanks a bunch! I've heard of Jamaican sorrel, but I've never grown it.
I thought that’s what your red hibiscus was. Looks just like it , even leaves. Your videos are always interesting and fun to see what you have going on. My garden is exploding here in Colorado Springs. Hail 4 times but everything bounced back. Most got covered. Keep up great work sir 🐉🔥
Did you put any kind of liner in the basket with the petunias? What a cool idea.
I planted the petunia in the ground. Then I cut a hole in the bottom of the basket and slipped it over the plant. Then I pinned it down with landscape staples.
This looks good. Jim, are the carrot tops edible? All tjose tomatoes look great. ❤
Yes they are, but I've never eaten them. I have way to much other stuff to eat :)
Im interested in some basic winter gardening. I also live in the midwest. I was thinking carrots, potatoes, hardy atuff like that and clear plastic cover?
Carrots should work. Cilantro is pretty cold hardy. Also arugula did well for us. Tatsoi and bok choy work pretty well. Potatoes I'm guessing might not do well.
Love your garden❤
What is the best way to prevent insects eating my lettuce?
Thanks! I don't know if there is a best way. You could try diatomaceous earth around your lettuce plants.
@@MidwestGardener Thanks 😊 🙏
@@amenodorime271 You're welcome!
What kind of fertilizer do you use for your pots and how often?
10-10-10 sometimes when I plant, but seldom after that.