2024 Garden Tour Week 5: MORE Tomato Troubles & Our Front Yard Orchard! | (More Perennial Plants)
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Hello! My name is Heather and we grow a lot of our own food here in southwestern KY, zone 7! Our greenhouse conversion is well underway and the tomatoes and peppers are getting bigger by the day!! I cannot wait to show you! I'll post all the 2024 garden tours in one place so you'll be able to catch up or look back on the season here: • 2024 Spring-Summer Gar...
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Thanks for the garden tour. You might be having a few bumps here and there, but your garden looks great. I have 1 Magnolia that grows as a multi-stemmed shrub. The whole bush is full of flowers. They are so beautiful. Have a great weekend!!
That sounds gorgeous!!
Hi Heather you dont need two magnolias to get flowers .In order to self-sow, magnolias need to be planted in the ground. It is not usually recommended to plant two magnolia trees in close proximity because they can cross-pollinate and hybridize which reduces the genetic diversity of your magnolia plants.
Next get a Crabapples to pollinate your apple trees. Because they're not botanically different, crabapple trees can pollinate apple trees and vice versa. Interestingly, the pollen from a crabapple tree doesn't impact the quality of fruit for the apple tree. While the seeds inside the fruit will have mixed genes, the apple tree will continue to produce uniform fruit.
I love the idea of a crabapple tree, there was one in my yard growing up ♥
Great garden tour! I had to deal with herbicide contamination in my garden last year. It did not look like that. My plants got so curled and gnarled that they were no longer putting on leaves. It looked like clumps of green nodes at the top of the plant. I agree yours doesn’t look like what mine did.
Mine LOOK like they are getting better. I just went out there to tie some up and they have grown even since I shot this video on Tuesday. I think they'll be alright ♥ So sorry you had herbicide contamination in your garden, did you have to dig out the soil or were you able to remedy it?
We grow all our tomatoes outside in raised garden beds or large barrels. We also only grow our saved seed heirloom varieties. For the past two years we have had complete failure with tomatoes grown on the side of our yard right next to the neighbors. The neighbors on both sides spray there lawns as well as spray for insects and fertilize almost every month. It's crazy. We associated our loss to chemical spray drift which cause our tomatoes as well as the bush beans to just up and die. We have since moved all our tomatoes to the center of the backyard. Last year and this year we have a few varieties that look amazing until you look at the top of the tomato plant. The leaves are curled, the plants are popping out more suckers than ever before as well as sprouting from the base of the plant. These plants are also always the tomatoes that get the earliest of tomatoes to set. We are now thinking it's from all the overhead chem trails that are sprayed everyday over us as well as the cosmic rays that are causing this. My neighbor two house down also gardens and is having the same effect on her tomatoes. She also grew hybrid tomatoes this year and they all died within 3 days of the neighbor having her yard sprayed. I'm hoping for a great tomato harvest this year in the center of the backyard, the plants are already a good 4 foot tall and loaded with little tomatoes. Keeping fingers crossed and best of luck for you tomatoes.
Thank you! They ARE looking better even since taking this video. I'm a little suspect about the transplanting directly on top of the fertilizer was a shock to them. The bag of Trifecta+ says 1/4c in the planting hole per plant at the point of transplanting so that's what I did, but I should have incorporated it into the soil in the hole better.
Enjoyed the garden tour
I think mosquitoes hate lavender not 100 percent sure but maybe try googling plants the hate you can grow them
Heather that was a wonderful garden tour. Thank you so much for that. That's awesome with the gooseberries. I have four of them planted in my yard and I am so looking forward to them producing fruit. This is going to be my second year and usually the first year they do not bear fruit at least mine didn't. They are planted near my boysenberries which I have a feeling their season is over with but I was able to harvest a ton this year being the true first year of fruit production. Right now the strawberries are producing like crazy and shortly in another month the Gooseberry should be bearing fruit. There are two varieties and I'm so glad I got the same variety that you did the red gooseberry one. My brother-in-law has grown these for many many years and he said the red one is the best.
Glad to hear it!!!
Hey Heather, No you do not need two magnolia trees for them to flower. We had a giant old magnolia tree growing up in Mississippi and it had the largest flowers. We did not have another one anywhere nearby. Happy Memorial Day weekend All gave some, some gave all!
Hugs to you guys!! Happy memorial day weekend ♥
If you take the flowers off the elderberry bush, does that prevent the berries from setting on?
What it's done is convince the plant to put on more flowers! I've picked over 80 heads off that big boy plant already and there's lots on still. A lot of rain this week so I'm holding off again until it dries up so there's a lot being pollenated for berries out there!
Greeting from the Netherlands, love your videos, positive vibes.
Thanks so much! I'm glad you are here!
I put my amendments under my plants, but I mix it into my compost (since I'm planting in raised beds) under where the plant will sit ready for when the roots reach there. This is because the amendments are not for the plants as they go in, but the worms and microbes to work on so they have the environment ready for when the roots get there after establishing. Also, make sure that if what you're using has chelated ingredients, such as iron in them, that the chelate is organic. If it isn't it will actually chelate the calcium out of the soil. It's why you have to double fertilise with a separate calcium amendment later for nightshades if this is the case. Organic chelates usually, but not always have the calcium added in as a single feed. They cost more initially, but are much better, and may also contain other needed micro nutrients, such as manganese too. These are also more bioavailable to the plants, rather like the difference between taking synthetic supplements and getting vitamins from our food. I'm not so clued up on trees, but I see lots of Magnolia trees around me that all flower at different times. I don't think any plant needs another to flower, only to set fruit. I do know you can eat the flowers though 😁
The fertilizer I used is called Trifecta + from MI gardener, it's my first time purchasing it. The plants SEEM to have rebounded, but it was a few weeks of looking less than ideal!
@@SageandStoneHomestead I think warm weather plants are generally just more sulky than others when transplanting. Oh, and I don't know if anyone else said, but you mentioned about days to maturity for your cabbages... either from sown seed in ground, or from being transplanted. With tomatoes and peppers it's to mature green fruits since they ripen from the inside out. I just took a look at the ingredients on the Trifecta+. It does have chelated iron, and doesn't say what chelate it used, but has calcium added, so one would assume it's an organic chelate. If in doubt though, you have plenty of eggshells, so you could save, dry, grind and add a tbs with each nightshade, and cucurbit to also help prevent BER. This is what I do. The worms also use it as grit in their gizzard like Hens use stones. It seems preferred over other offered substances in our wormeries so I see it as a win-win in the garden too.
Loved this garden tour, Heather! Really appreciate seeing the evolution of the plants in your garden areas (greenhouse, raised beds, perennial, etc). Thanks for always sharing issues you see and potential problems along with solutions and why you are taking one solution path versus another. (like allowing lacewings to hopefully help vs spreading DE that would kill both the detrimental and beneficial bugs). Hoping the plants do spring back from their issues. Really loved seeing more of the front area with the fruit trees and bushes! Hoping the perennial space turns out well, and won't be impacted too much by the nearby bigag fields and spraying. Hoping Nef and Stormy did breed well, and we'll get to see their babies this fall! 💚💚
Good thing is Buster is a great alarm for when anyone slows down near our house so we get a warning when anyone pulls into the field and can turn sprinklers on! Very rarely does the wind blow from the east and risk blowover but it has happened. Thankfully it's been minor and the plants recover. New growth comes in normally!
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Good morning another great tour of your gardens and progress…I am much like your pepper plants, perky in the morning and pokey in the afternoon! Have a wonderful Memorial weekend to you and yours!
You have a wonderful weekend too! Thank you ♥
Thank you Heather Everything looks beautiful.
Thank you for watching!!
That's great about the permaculture part growing bigger, I just added Pixwell gooseberry to mine this year. Any plans on sunchokes/jeruselem artichokes? they grow very fast and great animal feed.
I do need more ideas because I'd love to grow more garden than lawn!! The time I spend tending to lawn grass in the summer is insane and the time could be spent tending gardens instead. I will look into sunchokes!
Your peppers drooping like that in the evening could be from the humidity in the greenhouse. And that leaf curl, looks an awful lot like Thrips damage. It's a little stinging fly looking creature that comes out during midday that looks like a mix combination between a fly and a yellow jacket.
Oh! I'll have to keep my eye out for those critters! We have a lot of sweat bees and corn flies. They look like that combo too. I'll have to look up thrips !
Awesome garden tour!! The rainy weather has created a few issues and an abundance of mosquitoes is one of those issues. You probably have neighbors in the Amish community that could advise you on establishing a Purple Martin colony in some of your gourds. The birds could be helpful in reducing the mosquitoes. If you don't want the Purple Martins, because they will eat some beneficial insects, I can suggest using Skin So Soft oil from Avon to protect you from the mosquitoes. The original fragrance is the only fragrance that will keep mosquitoes at bay. The newer varieties of the product will not work. I have even heard sprinkling the liquid in a circle around an area where you plan to be outside in the evenings will keep the mosquitoes away. I haven't used the product since our camping days but it worked really well for me. Prayers that the severe weather in our forecast doesn't develop!! Stay safe!🙏❤
The only thing that makes me hesitant to put up purple Martin houses are our bees! I hear they can pick off a lot of them. The weather tomorrow looks less intense than originally thought but very very windy overnight Sunday with some storms!! Stay safe!
I think people are too ready to use Diatomaceous earth. I have lots of Ladybirds so would not use it. Fair play to you being aware of the beneficial insects. Love from Ireland ❤
I love it for ants and put it in the soil a lot for those, but yes I'm less inclined to put it on the plants themselves because of beneficials ♥
Asparagus, same. I usually stop harvesting in June, but this year will continue a bit more. I do leave the thin tiny ones, but some are huge and hoping to extend my harvest.
It's nerve-wracking to pick more but the past two seasons I've been able to see how full they get and I'm pretty confident it will work out alright! Especailly with all the little asparagus volunteer seedlings we have this year ♥
There were 3 magnolias of different ages on this property when we bought it in Dec 2022. None of them have bloomed for us yet. One is about 20ft tall, one is about 10 ft and one is about 6 ft. I have no idea what is up or what to do.
Another commenter suggested mine was too young, but a 20 foot tree I'd expect to be old enough! Hmmm... I wonder what's up!
You should try Terek Kohlrabi from Johnny’s. I grew them in 8B in SC two years in a row and they do very well for me.
I will this fall!
The rain demolished 80% of what we planted. I re-ordered more seeds so this weekend we are doing more starts in the house and sowing everything else we can in the ground. I am hoping eventually our garden will look like yours! How many luffa seeds do you plant a year? I’m having a hard time judging how many I should do.
Two plants will do it. They are so productive it's insane!! I'm so sorry the rain impacted your garden. I hope it lets up for all of us soon!
I keep getting pop ups on my phone for aps to diagnose problems with plants and then recommendations on how to treat what ever is ailing your plants. I don’t remember the names of any of the aps , but it probably wouldn’t be too hard to find them in the App Store. If you get and use one, I’d be interested in knowing what your results were. Happy Gardening!
Someone else mentioned an app, that's pretty cool!
My trees are all coming on strong this year. Probably benefitted by the fact the goats haven’t been getting into them (yet 😅)
Knock on wood!!!
my walking onions act like garlic and all leaves die back after they make the bubils on top. I choose then to plant /harvest tops and cut down the big woody stalk. they wait a bit then spring back to life if I dont eat them lol.
Oh interesting! So far they have all their greens but I'll watch out for that!
Last year my tomatoes curled really bad. Everyone i talked to told me to throw them away. I end up waiting it out (because im not a quiter hahahaha) and they turned around and turned out to be my best producers and got huge.
What a great success story! Mine have grown a lot and are already seeming to get better since I recorded this!
Hey Beautiful have you tried freeze drying orange halves in peel, or grapefruit?
I tried orange slices and it did not work! I'm not sure what went wrong but they were not fully dry.
wrinkled and puckered leaves can be a sign of calcium deficiency. You might try adding gypsum which will add calcium without changing the pH or if you think your pH is too low you could add lime
Hey Mary! With this being brand new soil and the amendments we added I am less inclined to thing it's nutritionally related. The white flies we see on the plants are vector for disease, and it's only the plants the flies are on that are affected. More than half of them are fine. I will keep that in mind though!
Congratulations Heather ! Your gardens look awesome
Thank you so much!
your borage and eggplant; could be the fertilizer burned them OR if the potting soil in the pot was a bit dry, it might not be getting wet enough just watering the bed. Might try really soaking them right around the base.
Thank you!!
Our mosquitos have been AWFUL in zone 5/Iowa. It's atrocious!!
This has been such a bad year for them!!
Awesome garden tour. I love the garden tour. I find it interesting to see what you grow.
Winter has arrived here in Penrith. Cold mornings and cold evenings. No frost yet. Very close. The lowest temp we had was 6°C = 42°F. Nice and warm during the day.
Thank you for sharing. Love and Blessings. ❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏
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How cold does it get there ?
@@SageandStoneHomestead It can get down to very frosty morning. Last year it ended up being -5°C = 23°F
Brr!!
💜👍💜 awesome as always Heather! Aunt Beth
You're the best!
You might try some sea minerals on your tomatoes; trace mineral deficiencies can cause a lot of issues.
The trifecta + I put in the planting holes has a lot of that kind of thing, here is the list of what it provides (plus this is brand new soil too): migardener.com/products/trifecta?variant=40175317614791
I put down a tarp on a bed early spring one year. It killed whatever was living under the ground. Then I pulled it off, put compost in rows with mulch in the walkways. Instant garden. It was so prolific with potatoes, peas, broccoli, kale, lettuce, Swiss chard, and other things. Only about 10 x 10 feet.
I love that! That's what we should have done with the area where we wanted to put corn. Next year!
@@SageandStoneHomestead The compost was 4 to 6 inches deep, more in some areas.
Hello, I am not an expert of any means. To me it looks like leaf curl disease. You might do some research and see. I know I have it on my peach tree here in Oregon. 😊
Is there anything that can be done for it on the trees?
There are fungicide sprays that can be applied in the spring right before the leaf buds open. There are organic options too. It helps protect the leaves from the disease. I believe once it has it for the season the leaf can’t be fixed.
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i need a bed for my backyard but the size im not sure of you might also try seminole pumpkin as its squash bug resistant
I'd suggest getting the biggest one that makes sense, you can fill up space with flowers and herbs when you get your vegetable plants in. I keep expanding every year because I feel like I need more space! More is better IMO it's just filling up the bigger bed that's initially shocking. If you have logs and branches and other organic matter to throw in the bottom of the bed to take up space that helps!
@@SageandStoneHomestead thanks for that suggestion i am slowly turning my backyard into a medicinal plant garden
i lost over 200 tomato plants last year, over 60 the year before, all got that curly leaf problem. They didn't have white fly. This year I only had one experimental tomato plant. It grew to its first flowers and curly leaves then appeared. Its produced at least a dozen trusses of flowers but they all drop. I've grown tomato plants for 40 years and never had such a problem before. I'm not near any farmers that could be spraying. I love growing tomatoes and it's so upsetting to lose them. I dont think I will try to grow them next year.
So sorry. I wonder if something else is going on. My guess for my garden might be wrong. Mine are doing a lot better as the season progresses.
@@SageandStoneHomestead I’ve seen a couple of other homesteads are having the same problem…… I’m in a town and I’m in England so I find it very strange.
Shop bought tomatoes just aren’t the same. I wonder if the price of tomatoes will increase if there’s not as many around?
I’m just watching your latest video. Only found you a couple of days ago. Your happiness and smile are contagious!
Welcome to the channel! Thank you so much. I agree store bought tomatoes are not the same. Our local Amish farm store has tomatoes for 2.99 a pound. They are usually 1.99 a pound in season :(
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Great tour, love everything… ❤
Thanks so much!
Crab Apple trees are a good cross polinator for all Apple Trees
Ah, yes! And they are beautiful too.
Yes😊
I love your channel 👩🌾
Thank you so much!!
Hi Heather & fam!
Are those weed mats around your cherry bushes?
Yes I just put them there. The bushes were getting buried by Japanese knotweed.
Also, I only had one magnolia tree. No others within a mile. It took a few years to finally get blooms but my biggest guess would be it needs some kind of nutrients or, from what I am reading, I could be a ph thing as well?
OH that's something to consider too! Thank you!
Is your dog a maremma? I read that you can only tell the difference between a mature great Pyrenees and a maremma is the ears.
He is a purebred great pyrenes!! He had gray ears as a baby
@@SageandStoneHomestead Okay. I read that maremmas have triangular ears, and great Pyrenees have more looped ears. I have a foundling that was dumped in the wilderness, and I'm pretty sure he's a maremma but I just don't know for sure.
@@TheFeralFarmgirl awe I'm glad the dog found its way to you!
@@SageandStoneHomestead Yeah, he was a God-send after one of my pregnant does was attacked by stray dogs.
@@TheFeralFarmgirl ohh my goodness was she alright?
Hey, Heather! I'm seeing the same curling thing on some of my plants. I tend to think it has something to do with the intensity of the sun. I put shade cloth over one as an experiment, and it seems to be doing better...
The shade cloth has been on the greenhouse for a few weeks now. What really tipped me off to the potential for disease is the presence of white flies on some of the plants plus half the plants are doing just fine. The weird plants do seem to be recovering!
@@SageandStoneHomestead So weird. I didn't cover one of my plants that has the same issue. No white flies, and my plant app says it's healthy. 🤦🏻♀️
Interesting there's an app that can assess the health! What app is that?
@@SageandStoneHomestead It is an AWESOME app, although not cheap. It's called "Picture This"! It has helped me learn to identify I can't tell you how many native plants in my backyard! It also identifies insects, which is super helpful!
@@SageandStoneHomestead Yes! It's called "Picture This" and has all kinds of neat features!
Stay safe!!!! Sorry to jack your post!
We are okay, power out. We went to the shelter for the PDS that went overhead into Hopkinsville
@@SageandStoneHomestead we went to ours as well. Trees and lines down everywhere. Some on houses. A friends farm was hit 😔 Hope everyone around you with no alerts is safe!
@@kimfowler6132 hugs. We had no alert but I was watching radar and gave that line a big NOPE. it seems like the national weather service has been dropping the ball a lot lately and to say Ira unsettling is an undersstatement.
@@SageandStoneHomestead the weather center went down. Radios were out. WPSD and Code Red app!!
I’m pretty sure I have only one magnolia tree and it flowers all the time. I know there isn’t another one on our 5 acres, not sure how far away one could be and pollinate it, that could be a possibility, but I have only one tree. I enjoy your garden tour. Love how you are real and show your not so success stories. I have lots of those. Thank you
I think we all have hiccups! It's part of gardening. Someone said the magnolia needs to be around age 10 to flower, so hopefully in no more than 5 years we will have blooms ♥
@@SageandStoneHomestead probably true about the age. My tree is 20 plus years old. Good to know.
Your garden looks awesome!❤
Thank you!
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Good morning! Here in Georgia we are surrounded by Magnolia trees! I do know that you don’t need two. And I do know that they usually don’t start blooming until they are around ten years old ( that’s from seed). I hope that helps. ✌️🤍
That does help! I have no idea how old this tree was when I got it, but I think it was 2020 when I put it in. I'm so excited to have blooms eventually♥
Oh, I just got magnolias started from seeds. Good to know I shouldn't look for flowers for another 10 years!
@@jessicakarynecoosey7778 the majority of them around here are “ Southern Magnolias “. Those are the ones that I know for sure take approximately ten years to bloom. If yours are a different variety you might want to research!
@tammykaltreider definitely a southern magnolia. I didn't know there was another variety before researching how to save the seeds and grow them. I'm in Tennessee.