October 2023 Vegetable Garden Tour: Zone 6
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Welcome to October in my Ohio garden! This October garden tour & update shares what is still growing in the garden, some variety highlights as well as challenges and upcoming projects in the garden.
I am growing in Zone 6a (first frost date of approx. mid-Oct.), mid-western Ohio, and focus on growing things I love to eat (vegetables, fruits & herbs), with flowers thrown in primarily for the pollinators & beneficial insects.
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Great videos. Thank you for sharing.
Every spring, I spray organic neem oil mixed in with dish soap in a garden hose sprayer. Please remember that neem oil is extremely potent and you only want to use a couple of spoons full.
I know it's kind of a dead season for the garden right now, but I hope all is well! Look forward to new content when things start to thaw out a little!
Midnight snackers are my fave!! I get raw tongue bumps from eating so many. 😂😂
They are the best!
Sow two or three radish seeds in cucumber hills to protect against cucumber beetles. Do not pull the radishes, but let them grow as long as they will, even blossoming and going to seed.
This quote from Carrots Love Tomatoes.
Also did you know that 4 o Clocks are irresistible to Japanese beetles? They will eat them like chocolate and it kills them so don't attract the beetles to your crops. They will decimate the plant so plan for successive plantings.
Tried some radishes underplanted with cucumbers this year- less cucumber beetle damage BUT I also kept the plants coated with Surround.
I did not know that about 4 o'clocks- definitely testing that out this coming year- thanks!
For your efforts to block the herbicides, I recommend clumping giant bamboo. If you can manage to get them to sprout and be consistently moist they grow really tall really fast and they clump, so they won’t spread too far. They’re also pretty cold tolerant
Thanks for the recommendation!
My wife and I have been binge watching your videos. I'm in Indiana. It nice to watch someone really close to your own growing conditions. Thank you for all of your shared knowledge.
Thanks for watching!
just moved north to ohio. good to find a channel in this zone for gardening vs farming. thanks!
Welcome to Ohio!
In October in southern Ohio things are still producing but slowing down. I have my tomatoes that are nearly finished. My peppers are still going strong. My fall batch of beets & cucumbers are finishing up. The night temps have been dipping into the high 30’s so I know the end is near for my season. I’m still gonna try growing lettuces and spinach in my hoop house well into the winter. At least until it becomes way too cold for them. It’s been a good productive year though. I’ll be excited to start my seeds again for next season!
I'm so glad it's been a productive year for you!
thanks for this candid look at your garden. It filled my heart with joy to see that your garden was less than picture perfect and you still had projects that need completion. I love that you said that you weren't as diligent as you should have been. I feel so defeated when I see programing where everything is absolutely perfect. I often wonder what I am doing wrong. I felt good about myself to know that even the professionals can't always keep up
If anyone claims their garden is perfect all the time, they're lying to you 😆.
And a 'perfect' garden doesn't always equate to a healthy garden. I like some chaos- it's more natural that way!
For the raised bed try stakes off rebar cut about a foot longer than the higth of the bed. As far as the pest problems check pyramid air, many options
Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Happy to share! Thanks for visiting!
Nice! I live in the Cleveland area, the only fall crop I have growing now is my winter clover ground cover. Lol!
A good crop to have in right now!
I like watching how you live a simple life and care for your vegetable garden. Keep it up! 🥰😍
Thank you so much 😊
Spellbound. Jenna...much love.shamim zahuri from bangladesh🇧🇩✌🌹🦅👬
Thank you!
Jenna, I had a bad vole problem last year. I basically lost all my sweet potatoes, save one, and most of my peanuts. Both were in 18" deep 4'x8' metal raised beds. I bought some repellers that vibrate and buzz, and put some marigolds in with my sweet potatoes this year. And I mulched with the garlic leaves once I'd picked my garlic. I think it was the vibration/buzzing devices that worked,. I am going to plant walking onions on the inside of my fence as an added deterrent, now that they seem to have moved on. I already have daffodils around the exterior of the fence, which obviously didn't make a difference. Not sure how any of this would affect chipmunks, but may give you some ideas. I enjoy your channel.
Ugh... I had voles destroy my sweet potatoes in years past too. I may have to try your tricks- thanks for sharing!
Trees changing color look like a calendar shot. So beautiful.
I thought it was lovely too! Thanks!
That chipmunk bucket definitely works here. Sad as it is, I’m not feeding the birds this winter. It just feeds all the pests we’re then dealing with during the growing season. Also, what we really need is an old school winter!
Spot on-- A good cold winter with lots of snow would be awesome!
So inspired by you. Wondering what you’re up to in the winter garden!
I live in Midcoast Maine and I've never had the insect problems like I've had this season. I never saw a cucumber beetle or a tomato fruit worm or cut worm until this season. These are new gardens this year, we built a house about four miles from our old house.
I'm sorry to hear that! And crazy that they are showing up in your new garden-- usually I get a season or two before the bugs find me! I hope next season is better for you.
At the 7:10 mark, good luck on your rotted wood frames on your raised beds. It’s hard to spend the same money to re-do it and then watch it all rot out again. I used treated landscape posts when they were $2 each. The ground ones rotten out. But I still had a frame at the top which to attach something to replace the rotted ones below.
Steel corrugated metal looks promising. Also concrete blocks. They even have skinnier ones. Might even be fun to paint them different colors. Maybe plants designs? Scary tigers? Have the kids go at it with chalk.
It all comes down to $$. Slowly replace them as the need arises? Experiment, cost compare, with different designs? You have a good idea of how good the wood ones last. Sound like a show, Jenna - Hint hint!
Oh- I love the idea of letting the kids decorate them!
Always taking notes and looking up stuff (keeled leaf hopper) from your videos. Sorry to hear about herbicide drift. Fortunately not an issue here in the Vermont woods. One new problem is "asian jumping worms" Look like a night crawler on steroids. They out compete european worms and hurt soil. Saw my first 2 last week. Adults dont survive freezing, but egg cocoons do. God there is always some new problem. Your enthusiasm is an inspiration. Kind Regards. Craig
I've heard from several folks who are dealing with the jumping worms. I keep hoping they won't show up here... but know it's just a matter of time 😣
THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEOS, I AM 64 AND NEVER FARM OR GROWN FLOWERS. IT A TEST FOR ME AND MY LADY FRIEND... i ALSO BUILDING A SANCTUAR FOR THE POLLINATORS, HOW COOL. KENTUCKY
That IS cool!
Hi Jenna,
Oh Chipmunks are a pain in the butt they dug a hole found a gap. I had one adult six tiny ones in the house. They are destructive in the garden. I quit feeding the birds outside been 3 years just a few are hanging around
Your plants look so healthy, tomorrow I'm going to spray my tropical hibiscus soak root ball in peroxide 1:4. OMG did not know we could grow millet. I have two small birds. Expensive to buy.
They are definitely a pain!
And yes- millet is very easy to grow- I highly recommend it!
I keep my sunflowers after they have faded so the birds can enjoy the seeds. It's so enjoyable to work out in the garden on a nice crisp fall day and hear them chatter as they eat the seeds. Most of my warm weather vegetables are done in my 5b garden. We had unusually warm weather until late last week but that abruptly ended. Now it is on to harvest the apples and clean out the beds for winter. This was a tough year with drought most of the growing season.
I agree- I very much enjoy hearing & seeing the birds that visit!
I am sorry to hear you were dealing with drought this year.
Jenna, I'm in Dayton with a very small front yard garden (and a few tomato plants and leeks in the backyard). As a novice -- I'm just in my third growing season -- I always learn so much from your videos, and I especially appreciate that, even though you're an experienced grower, you don't pretend that every crop and flower grows perfectly all of the time. That gives me hope!
I'm so glad to hear this!
And I have failures every single year- it's frustrating, but also a learning experience every time something happens. I hope that I can show people that just because not everything goes right each year, the garden can still be very rewarding!
I had late blight here in Montreal and lost some really delicious varieties like Ananas Noire. Plus my Sweet 100's, which I save seed from every year. Very sad. I agree that a tart tomato is the best.
This year a green Tigrella was my top fave ❤❤ Amazing deep rich flavor. Not pasty, tart and flavourful.
Thank you m'dear.
Love your work 😉
Thanks for the tour! I left for a business trip and it was 85F, got back and had ice in my wheel barrow this morning. Always some challenges in our neck of the woods!
It's crazy, isn't it? We got some spotty frost here this morning and then back up to almost 80 by Friday 😄
my big one is gathering all the free leaves in the next month. we typically stay with maple, and after coffee, manure, gypsum and alfalfa go down, all the beds are covered in 8 inches. they are usually gone by mid june. thanks for the tour jenna. that was a besutifully shaped pumpkin!
Same with the leaves!
That big pumpkin is still hanging on... she may ripen yet 😄
Fyi. The large "mousetrap" style plastic chipmunk trap works well with peanut butter... but I've lost traps that had snagged chipmunks who then dragged themselves trap and all off into the woods, under the deck or wherever. Point is secure the trap with a cord to something.
Thanks for the tips!
DH turned my rotting cedar raised beds into Trex decking attached to 5×5 posts. The posts rot after many years but the Trex only is reusable. Old water troughs are nice raised beds where there is shade. Your garden is inspiring! Extreme drought conditions and $300 water bills to keep the foundation from cracking more. Add a windstorm that took down 10 power poles and 1" hail just two weeks ago...perfect end to this year!
Oh- that's smart- thanks for sharing the tip.
And I'm so sorry to hear about the crazy weather you've been dealing with-- stay safe!
You are still my favorite garden, and I'm improving mostly from your teaching and the love of gardening, Just yesterday, I picked cucumbers and radishes mostly from your teaching of late season gardening.
I understand best to mulch heavy and below the mulch usually OK and top above ground sometimes lives mostly 6a weather
We also keeping the Candyland Red tomato you recommend this spring and keeping your Midnight Snack and a salad you haven't spoken of Honeycomb Hybrid is our top 3 for 4 season.
Your Bolt sweat corn did great and I followed buckwheat with it.
You should test Red Acre cabbage worms don't bother it much. I'm organic and don't poison them bugs or my family.
I tried Black beans as a cover crop and I got loads of big birdhouse gourds after following the beans.
To little rain then to much rain in my garden feed the weeds.
My garden is weedy but the soil isn't bare until mulching leaves time.
My slicers tomatoes mostly died
Only 3 Black Krim did great, They are located where my little effort for Huliculþor (misspelled) that had large sunflowers then I'd planted tomato the following season in the sunflower's root ball as a cover crop, This has produced my best tomatoes for the second season. Next year I'll replace the tomatoes with some huge sunflowers again as cover crop for preparation for tomatoes to follow..
Thank you for sharing all that is going on in your garden- it's great to hear it!
I've not tried Honeycomb yet- I'll have to add that to the list. I'm curious how it compares to Sun Gold (if you've grown that one)?
Sun Gold and Sun Sugar,Sweet 1,000,000 I've had, and they are Sugar Bombs. Honeycomb Hybrid will fill half of your 4:04 head with favor. If you don't find seeds, let me know. If I have only 2 salads
1 Midnight Snack
2 Honeycomb Hybrid
3 Candyland Red
Is my keepers in order of love.
My cousin and her girls call them M & Ms
Thanks, you are my number one gardener
Thanks, good information and I like to make notes from the recommended plants that you have had success with. Herbicide drift is such a huge problem. We lived in another location here in the area, and our next door neighbor would walk around with a big pump bottle of a well known herbicide and spray away, even on windy days. He was one of those people who wanted to be sure that he had zero dandelions! One day I came out to find some of my tomatoes all damaged or dead from the herbicide, my vegetable garden was on the other side of the fence from his backyard where he loved to spray. Where we live now, we have a neighbor who also likes the same product and I did talk to her and asked that she not spray close to our yard. Heard that some growers spray this on things like grains (oats, etc) to dry them down so they can harvest more quickly so you can imagine that something people think of as a healthy product like oatmeal may be contaminated.
It breaks my heart when I hear stories like this!
Honestly, careless home owners are often more irresponsible with the herbicide than farmers. Wish folks really realized what they are spraying and the effects that it has.
Jenna ily ❤ about the chipmunks, we use these solar powered stakes that makes a sonic type noise and it keeps some away. We got cats and they have been getting any that still come into the yard and over the past few years we have noticed significantly less gophers/ chipmunks. This past summer we only got one. Worst part is picking up the body. But they bring it right to you😅. However they also love plants and my big boy will flatten some flower beds for a nap. And if they are playing they run through plants sometimes damaging them. Also they need an outdoor litter somewhere or they think the whole yard is their potty. They also catch moths and lizards which I’m not sure is good or bad.
Oh how I wish I could keep cats! My dogs just won't tolerate any cats on the premises 😣
I love your videos. You have an amazing garden! Your passion for gardening is easy to see.
Thank you so much!
Im also working away at establishing perennial spaces in various spots in my yard. Some plants I've added are asparagus & strawberries (in the same bed, I'm using strawberries as ground cover), elderberry, perennial natives such as echinacea/butterfly weed, blackberries, horseradish, day lily, chokecherry, currants, hazelnut, blueberry, aronia
What a wonderful assortment!
The chipmunks left some ground cherries for you? Where I live they absolutely gorge themselves on them.
The bucket with seeds works to the last one wet or dry, then the distant neighbors that like to feed them comes in handy for new colonies.
I'm hoping it works better for me as we move into the colder months- I suspect there's just too much other food for them right now!
We did sunflower buckets to help reduce our chipmunk population, and when we were in a smaller backyard, it worked really well.
That's good to hear! I'm hopeful it works here too!
Its my first yr watching your show . Luv it. We also had fun little surprises as well. We did some.of your fall things in July to get done but it was a fun experiment but things didn't work but it's all good my boy and I are the gardeners. Daughter is not. We pulled out some huge watermelons.
Thank you so much!
I'm glad to hear your watermelons did well and you had some fun little suprises!
I was out in my garden today I do container gardening in my backyard. I do have one raised bed that I got in my husband to make him he can’t make any morning and right this time he’s ill, but I have found one more canary melon hidden, so I won’t let it it’s not ready to fall, and I have a watermelon hanging in another canary melon hanging opposite sides of each other, I see cucumber still coming on Strong I have a loofah plant that is got a couple of loofahs, but they’re not ready to pick yet. They’re still green i can see the starting to turn .,my green beans or my pole beans are not really doing so good. Oh my peppers are great. I have all kinds habanero jalapeño banana, pepper, bell pepper peppers. I’m not having a trouble with them ,I’m going to overwinter them a ring them in. I have one banana pepper tree. That’s about 5 feet tall I bring it in every year winter and it is three years old now still going strong, other than that I did plant cabbage and brussels sprouts and collard greens recently. Oh and I also put in onions all over the place. I am trying to see if I can get this bed that I have get it mended where I can fix it to where I can start my garlic. It’s kind of slow but going. 🌱🌱 Houston,Tx
It's good to hear about all the things you have going on in your garden- thank you for sharing!
But I'm sorry to hear that your husband is ill- I hope he's on the mend soon.
I grew up in the north east and my grandmother had a big ol fig tree. Not sure of the variety and im not that into figs but it is possible in colder climates
Very cool!
On the chipmunk question, I used a Havahart trap this year. Got about 15 chipmunks over a few weeks. Mine was sized more for big squirrels, but it still worked. I used unpopped popcorn for bait. The bucket of water method worked for a while, but I think the local critters figured out to avoid it.
Wow! I'll have to try one of those!
Please make videos on indoor gardening and microdwarf tomatoes this winter.
Thanks for naming the Keeled Treehopper! I'm also in Ohio 6a and get them on under side of sunflower leaves every year. For the longest time I assumed it was aphids because of how the ants tended to them. But once I actually got aphids elsewhere, I knew they were different. Just had no clue what until your video. They don't seem to cause any problem and the ants wait months for them to grow.
Sounds like quite a few folks have spotted them on sunflowers! Now I wish I would have looked more closely at my sunflowers to see if any were on there. If there were, they weren't causing any harm.
josta berries & black currents are the easiest to grow here in Ohio, were in Darke County near you. They are super hardy!!!! I bought my starts on etsy, by far the cheapest
I've got some black currants in the main garden-- I'll have to add some jostaberries too! Thanks for the suggestion!
Good morning, Jenna. Thank you for the great tour. I am feeling your passion and energy for growing your own food, herbs and spices. Your 'up beat' personality, honesty and knowledge is why I am subscribed to your channel. I am 74 year old women growing in my new senior living community...lucky me to still have gardening in my life. You are inspiring. Could you give me the link to where I can locate those wire hoops and insect cloth. I can not find them locally. This season I use conduit but are a little harder to push in the ground and store. The insect cloth was and is my new best friend. Thank you and be healthy. Namaste
Thank you!
I got my wire hoops here: www.agriculturesolutions.com/wire-hoops-for-low-tunnels-and-frost-blankets-76-100-count and my insect netting here: www.gardenport.com/collections/insect-netting/products/garden-insect-netting-6-5ft-5ftw-copy
Plumbers tape. Metal strapping, cheap, run the screws back in through that wrapped around the corners. It'll hold for at least 5 years. Love your show pretty lady. Jealous AF of your garden, as you know. For the tunnel critters, you need chicken wire down underneath your beds. Fix it to the wood before you flip it over. That'll stop them for several years depending on how much rain you get. The finer the wire, the better the results. I used to chat with you under the name Matthew Jin, back when I was combatting moles AND stray cats ruining my raised bed garden. Still don't know how you have the energy to keep such a massive spread, you can't be more than a couple decades younger than me.
Thank you for that tip!!
It's always been my intent to add wire under the beds to stop moles... I'm curious if it stops chipmunks, or do they just burrow in from the top and the wire underneath doesn't bother them?
Sorry for the late reply and thank you kindly. Chipmunks, as far as I've seen, dig down from the top. I used to keep wire over the tops of my beds as well but that was to thwart stray cats from using the garden as a giant litter box.
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Tap in some rebar around the existing boards to help pin them in place and then wrap in the metal you mentioned. You definitely want to do what you can to stabilize those boards if they are going to stay in place. That's what I would do in your position.
Thank you for the tip!
Black Locust wood is supposed to be fantastic for raised beds because they take for ever to rott, even in direct contact with moist soil.
I love that you plan on creating an perennial bed on your Hügel beds. There are so many options. There are perennial brassicas like sea cale (Crambe maritima) or flowering sea cale (Crambe cordifolia). For shady parts hostas are great (and so delicious) and also the climber Hablitzia tamnoides - caucasian mountain spinach. This fall i planted red valerian, that is supposed to be tasty - had no chance to taste test that as of yet. And I want to plant sochan (cutleaf cone flower, Rudbeckia laciniata). I also use leaves of raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, currants, apple trees, pear trees, sweet cherry trees, plums, and so on mixed in with Hablitzia and Hosta in "spinach" dishes. Other ideas: Good King Henry, perennial Malvas,
Sedum spectabile, all the ornamental onions, day lilies, dahlias (okay they are might not be perennials in your zone), tulips, fennel. There is a perennial relative of buckweat: Fagopyrum cymosum - planted that last fall and I thought it died, but found it while weeding last week 😂 Have not taste tested that as of yet...
regarding the spray drift. If you can get your hands on LOADS of tree/shrub prunings, you could put up a "dead hedge" (ua-cam.com/video/VkHcGiYlsew/v-deo.htmlsi=kCeywbNzL5wwp_8k&t=210 ) as a first line of defense and then plant the hops and maybe other climbers on the inside to sprawl over it.
And then a living hedge. I think I'd choose something fast growing like willow, poplar, black locust, elderberry that also can be coppiced and then stacked in the "dead hedge". or uses as fire wood or for garden projects like weaving trellices etc.
In the first year I imagine a wall of sunflowers could look awesome, too. Or even plant a third line of defense with tall perennial herbacious plants like perennial sunflowers Joe pye weed, sochan, comfrey (so easy to propagate by devision or root cuttings...) maybe the spraying will one day be history and then you have an established edible hedge.
Love the idea of this dead hedge- thanks for sharing!
So many great perennial ideas- thank you!!
@@GrowfullywithJenna Maybe you'd like the channel of Cecil in Samsö, Denmark. She has planted the most gorgeous food forest with sooooooo many perenniel edibles. A lot of them should be hardy in your climate zone, too. ua-cam.com/video/KazI3BexgAg/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Inspiratoriet
I'm in southern Indiana & I have a lot of the keeled tree hoppers (tried to figure out the name but couldn't ever figure it out, so ty!) I usually notice them on my sunflowers. I've never seen them on peppers. I never noticed any damage so I had never tried to get rid of them so I don't know about anything that works to kill them.
I'm glad to hear they're not causing you problems! It's odd because the sites that I was trying to look up info on them said they rarely cause any issues, in fact the North Carolina State Extension says "Keeled treehoppers do not transmit plant diseases and are more of a curiosity than plant pests. No pesticide recommendation seems necessary."
I am definitely going to try those Ruby Moon Hyacinth Beans next year. They are gorgeous! I am in the process of clearing beds to make way for garlic. My absolute favorite crop to grow ❤ I will also try to over winter some onions. I wish I had more space to put all the different pollinators/flowers like you have in your garden. I did grow more self-sowing flowers, hoping they will make a comeback next year - bachelor buttons, lunaria, cleome and bread seed poppies. My comfrey has taken off and it doing well and I have Miss Willmott’s Ghost popping up everywhere.
I hope you love them as much as I do!
Dear Jenna: Love your content. If you're going to replace your raised beds - dig down 6" and line the darn things with gopher wire (aka 1/4" hardware cloth or wire mesh). Then you don't have to work so hard to kill off or drive off the critters - they won't be able to get to your plants. It worked for me when I was gardening in a Zone 5 garden in Denver, CO, and I'm pretty sure it will work for you, too. Although, you may have to cage the beds on top, too - which you can accomplish by staking hardware cloth over wire hoops or making hardware cloth "skirts" like Christmas tree skirts around your precious darlings. There was only two beds that I dug down a full foot - so I could grow deep-rooted carrots, parsnips, and large indeterminate tomatoes. It works a treat and it's not very expensive. Best of luck!
Thank you for the advice!
@@GrowfullywithJenna Hope it helps
Your garden is beautiful! Northern Michigan gardener here. They say zone 6, I’m not sure. I’d love to try a hardy fig. Thanks for all of your great advice!
Thank you!
Jenna, I have learned so much from you for my Ohio garden, maybe I can help with your critter problem. We too have lots of chipmunks, squirrels and moles. At the beginning of the year we set small animal traps and baited them with tootsie rolls, dipped in peanut butter sprinkled with sunflowers seeds. We caught 13 in 3 days. Interestingly, I think it scared the others who did not venture into my garden after. We did relocate them to a field about a mile away except for the baby bunny, he lives under the barn. Hope this helps.
Oh I am definitely trying this- thank you!
bucket with water and seeds has always worked for me. make sure the water is just deep enough to kill them but not so deep that they can jump out. I think i got like 35 last year in maybe 3 weeks. enough that the damage they were doing wasn't really noticeable. Dont worry i still have plenty of chipmunks around, they just dont go in the garden anymore
Oh wow! Very effective!
Hey Jenna I garden up in Euclid Oh., a zone 6 area. It is a community garden and we have a couple of hazel nut bushes that are producing about 3 years after planting in. The fall colors are a bright red. Also a plum variety that at this time I have no info. on, but it produced a heavy return of fruit. I will send info about that tree within 2weeks time. I have seen a hairless kiwi, that looks like a grape size and also a bush type that can be prune out. You translate some quality info. Keep Trucking you do a good service to hungry ears. Steve L.
Thank you for this reminder- I wanted to add some hazelnuts and forgot to get them ordered this past spring!! And I've got a hardy kiwi planted at my folks' place, but am thinking of planting some here too.
I'd love to hear more about the plum too.
You have a beautiful garden. 🙂 Great job.
I just bought a bag of just long red sweet peppers that are called rustica. I may try the same thing for next year with these. I love experimenting if I find something I love and I will eat it. The sun was very bad in west Arkansas this year. And it was way way too dry. Your garden looks wonderful.
The garden experiments are so fun! But I'm sorry to hear that your area in Arkansas was very dry this year too.
Hi, you can eat your hyacinth beans.. I use is curry’s
How do you prepare them? I've read they need to be cooked (sometimes in multiple changes of water) to get rid of the cyanogenic glycosides in them.
@@GrowfullywithJenna 😳 really? I just stir fry them … they are used a lot in East Indian and south Asian cooking.
Will be watching your results on testing chipmunk trapping. I’ve had decent results it’s the bucket/plank.
So far: Bucket trap-1, Chipmunkinator- 1, Jaws trap- 1
paw paw!
Jenna, I want you to know that I appreciate you and all that you do so much. You're doing such an important work for us that strive to be self-sufficient. Much love from Detroit.
This means a lot to me- thank you!
Hi Jenna! Love your videos and you're especially helpful to me because I live in SW Ohio where we have clay soil in my half-acre suburban neighborhood What starchy protein beans are the easiest to grow and harvest? I love them all.
Hi there! Tigers Eye beans are one of my absolute favorites!
Thank you!@@GrowfullywithJenna
Hey, where’ve you been? Hope everything is OK?? Been watching your old videos which are still good. Do a Thanksgiving Short. Show some of the cooked goodies you grew. YOU ARE MISSED! We'll grant you a TRAINING video exemption!
Thanks for checking in! I had to take a little break, but hope to be back soon with more regular postings!
@@GrowfullywithJenna She's ALIVE!!!
Jenna, thank you for this video! This was my first entire year for a hugelkultur bed. It was a big learning experience and have already made some adjustments for next year. My question for you is do you sow cover crops on yours? I had a mix from Territorial Seed left over from last year. I recently was blessed with a load of cow manure & dug out pond dirt to add to mine. It may still be too hot although the manure looks quite dry. Threw the cover crop mix on today.. Hope I haven’t set myself up for massive headaches next year…
I do indeed! My preference is to always sow a cover crop on my new hugel beds before I plan to plant out with my 'cash' crops.
Thank you! ❤@@GrowfullywithJenna
Brassicas are suffering from bugs
Worms 4 kinds plus aphids
Will use netting next year
Sorry to hear that! Netting definitely helps!
Your gardens always look so organized! We always till our in ground garden in the spring and fall. Is there any advantages for skipping the fall till? I usually add organic matter in the fall and I enjoy the look of the garden cleaned up. My biggest concern would be top soil loss d/t wind over the long winter. I’m zone 5b… any suggestions from any gardener would be appreciated.. I’m trying to avoid regrets:)
To the extent that you can minimize tillage the better- so I'd say unless you have a really strong need to till in the fall, better to skip it.
I need an okra video !!! I’m in zone 8b and they won’t grow for me
Hoping to have one out in time for next season!
Do you know what that red pepper you were holding is called Jen? Curious. I bought a package of delicious red and orange and yellow and purple peppers. They are sweet. I took the seeds of the red one and threw a bunch in a grow bag. I have a yard full of these huge long sweet peppers now and have no idea what they are called.
Not yet! It was a trial variety under a number, but I should find out soon what the actual variety is!
My pumpkin vines were so pretty, lots of male flowers, but never had any female flowers. What did I do wrong?
You may not have done anything wrong! Sometimes when squash/pumpkins are under stress they won't set female flowers. Stress can include heat/drought stress, insect/disease pressure and other environmental causes.
I planted my garlic in a half barrel type planter with straw for mulch and my cats wants to lie on top of it. He isn't using it for a litter box. He is using it for a bed. Will this hurt the garlic since it isn't up yet? I just planted it.
As long as the garlic's not up- he won't hurt it (may just insulate it a bit 😆).
My crops did suffer due to drought and heat. Right now cover crops are growing. Do you do anything for your herb garden? I have a very large one and would like to amend the soil but I’m not sure with what.
It was a rough year for so many this year- sorry to hear your crops suffered!
I don't really do much for my herb gardens- (most) herbs tend to thrive on neglect, so I basically just mulch them with chopped leaves in the fall and that's it!
@@GrowfullywithJenna okay that sounds nice and easy!
Let us know anything about chipmunks, I’ve got a few.
I will!
Where to you suggest purchasing the Jerusalem artichoke? I live in zone 6.
ebay
I got mine from Johnny's Seed, but it looks like they no longer carry them. Gurney's Seed & Jung Seed do carry tubers.
what about growing asparagus
One of my all time favorite perennial veggies! I've got several plantings already, but am not opposed to adding more 😀
Does that plant only produce one head of cauliflower and it’s done ?
do you "rennovate" your strawberries?
Usually after they're about 4 years old I'll mow them back.
@@GrowfullywithJenna thanks
where is Jenna ? i miss the videos
Is that a mouse cursor on your chin? Ha.
I think it's a speck of dust on the camera lens 😆
Jenna I am following you faithfully dont know how else to ask this question and maybe you have done this already is it too late to use your fave daikon radish if not how to plant for cover crop?
Generally, I aim for planting daikon/tiller radish by the 3rd week of Sept. here. It can also be planted in the early spring.
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Spray Drift, Austre Hybrid Willow Cuttings grow fast, creating an 8-10ft wall
Great suggestion-thank you!
The frost is holding off here. I'm waiting for a couple frosts for some things and for potato plants to die back.
We've had a more normal year wrt rainfall. And only July was stinking hot!
Glad to hear you had a more normal year this year! Hope you get a great potato harvest!
Shoo-we Jenna. I just do not know how you keep up with it all! Looks great for October!
Herbs first, yes!
Huh never heard of a keeled tree hoppers. And yeah, man, not sure I will even bother with cherry tomatoes in 24. So prolific!
Too bad on the corn. Nice volunteer sunflower bed there.
Oh geeze on the grapevine structure. Yuck! OOh, good idea using vines for a quick fix!
Enjoyed! Merry Christmas, Jenna!
Oh, well here, now December, some cover crop, some romaine, herbs, bed prep. Just the usual sundry things. Started leeks in fall and hilling them up. We will see. They were started from seed so not really optimal, but working so far. :)
Oh, shrimp shells. To the beds, and to the compost, Good for combating nematodes. ;)
Jules I must get caught up on what is happening in your neck of the woods... I am behind on everything! I hope you & yours had a lovely holiday season!
You have beautiful leaves on that pumpkin. I seen someone using pumpkin leaves as a veggie wrap for burritos or meat and veggies
We saw the leaf hoppers for the first time this year as well on our eggplants, I didn't notice the larva, just the adults. For a perennial disease free plant how about a persimmon? Maybe not looking for a tree but we grew a Nikita's Gift persimmon at our previous property and it was a beautiful, super low maintenance plant that we got a ton of fruit on year 3. Only downside is it is borderline planting zone wise for us so might want some protection. Thanks again for the tour!
That is very interesting! Did they do any damage to the eggplant?
And I LOVE the persimmon idea. I have a native persimmon out front, but would love to add a Nikita's Gift. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@GrowfullywithJenna I didn’t see much damage in the eggplant besides the normal flea beetle holes but maybe some of that was the leaf hoppers. The Nikita’s gift was great, very beautiful form naturally, 10-12ft tall plant, no pests or diseases, the fruit is astringent however. We are also trying an ichi ki kei jiro persimmon which supposedly can withstand zone 6 and is non astringent…but that one we are putting up against the south wall of a building for protection
Your garden is always so beautiful! How long do you average spending time in the garden daily for maintenance?
Thank you! During peak season I'd guess 4-6 hours/day between the gardens here and at my folks' place. This time of year it's typically just a few minutes a day unless I'm tackling big infrastructure projects.
@@GrowfullywithJenna Thanks
I had the same problem with beds that coming apart and bowling after about four years. My husband added corner supports. And then cross boards with heavy screws to address the bowing. They are two more years in and doing well still. It would be a good solution for you!
That's a great point! I do have some beds where we used corner supports and they are holding together well. Thanks for the tip!
It sounds like Climate Change is making your gardening life tough.
This whole season has been even more bonkers than normal!
Just found your channel last year and now you seem to have slowed to a stop 😢 too bad you have some really nice information and presentation style….. hope all is well
Looks like the USDA updated zones. I'm in Columbus and was 6a last year. Just checked and now I'm 6b. Not sure how much that will affect what I grow, but I guess I'll follow those guidelines now.
It really shouldn't affect your annuals- but you may be able to get away with growing slightly less cold hardy perennials!
Thanks so much for sharing your experiences in the garden. My squash was decimated by mildew. Next year I am trying more mildew resistant varieties. Any suggestions? Also, what grade of frost cloth are you using? We had drought last year in Zone 6b NY Lower Hudson Valley and this year epic rain -- heirloom tomatoes literally burst on the vine. I've built a new fenced-in garden this year to keep the deer out and so crops were planted really late. So far no frost in the 10-day forecast so I am hoping it will be relatively warm for the next few weeks. I have a big dahlia collection so every day there isn't a frost is one more day to enjoy them.
Which type of squash are you looking for- ie butternut, hubbard, kabocha etc?
I'm using 1.5 oz frost cloth.
I hope you get to enjoy those dahlias for a nice long time!
I battle chipmunks every year. They like to set up camp around my house foundation and under out patio and walks. I’ve tried every deterrent known to man, including music, lights, motion sensor noise, used cat litter, pepper spray, coyote urine etc. none worked. Capture and release is not allowed in our area. The chipmunk bucket of death works. It’s the worst, but it does work. You have to make sure the water is deep enough. A couple little dots of peanut butter right at the water level does help draw them in a lot more.
My neighbor swears by the large Tom cat snap traps.
Sorry to hear you're dealing with them too!
So far my chipmunk bucket of death is working better for mice than chipmunks.
hi Jenna, I am growing fall garden for the first time I'm also in zone 6a and we r going on vacation next week? I fear frost while I'm gone until Oct. 26th ? should I put up frost protection before I go on my cauliflower broccoli and chard? thank you sooo much!
I'd definitely keep an eye on the weather. I just looked at my 10 day forecast and the coldest it's supposed to get is 38F-- which all those crops can handle with no protection.
Cauliflower is the only one of the bunch that can be kind of finicky- I like to cover it when the nighttime temps start dropping below freezing- just to be on the safe side.
That pumpkin was smiling up at you. I swear it looked like a face. And I’m coveting your beets. I can never seem to get mine past the seedling phase in my stock tanks. Last year in frustration I just dumped a packet of old seeds in a part of our yard that was a work in progress and also sowed some buckwheat. When I was cleaning up the buckwheat I found about 15 decent size beets which were partially eaten by a ground critter. I wanted to cry.
I did!! I didn't even realize it till you mentioned this.
And I'm so sorry to hear about those beets- how frustrating!
Looks good. I had success with insecticidal soap mixed with Neem or All Season on my white flies so that may worth a try on your pepper pest. I have a lot of the same things growing in my garden and although the white moths are still around I haven't had a problem with caterpillars the last month or so.
Thanks for the tip- I'll have to look into Neem.
I was at Lehman's hardware today and saw a 'mole chasing windmill ' for $40. Says it uses vibration to clear 20k square feet of moles. May be worth try.
I've got one in my garden and one at my folks' place! It seemed to work quite well when I first got it- but definitely not fool proof. They tend to come right back if we get a few calm days in a row with no wind.
I didn't realize that AAS Winners had its own web site! What was I thinking? Of course they have a website. It's not the 20th century after all!
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I picked most of my remaining green tomatoes tonight. We might get a frost near Cleveland later this week. But honestly, these plants were really far gone, and I’m tired. It’s time to wrap things up for the year.
I feel this! I'm tired too-- honestly ready for most of the garden to be done.
We got 2 nights of spotty frost, but most of my stuff just got nipped and is still hanging on. I suppose my garden is telling me I'm not allowed to rest yet 😄
My cat Snowball keeps chipmunks, squirrels and shrews out of my garden.
I need a cat like Snowball!