So a small horn worm = a bulk egg hatching. Keep your eyes peeled for the next two weeks. You and I did well on peppers this year. I am NOT a pepper grower! I've tried Okra again and I just cannot like it. 😝 We sowed in beets, chard ( Obv ) corn, squash varieties , lettuce and spinach. Fingers crossed we'll have a better fall garden. This summer was a doozie!
@@TheWickerShireProject good luck! I haven’t had too many horn worms this year. I had a ton of basil growing, and the numbers this year were much less than previous years when I had less basil. Companion planting works!
Your garden is looking good. Not sure if we are through the hot temperatures. Never know. My Dad once took the last week of September off work to build fence. It was over 100 degrees every day. My parents live near Waco.
@@growyourownfood7814 you just never know with Texas! I took the shade cloth down while I had the time and bandwidth to do it - but it’s definitely a gamble until the first frost, which could be November or February 😂.
@@littlesaltyhomesteader I think it was a good idea to take it down. Days are getting shorter, and plants want more sun. Just seems like we will get more hot weather, but we were also supposed to have a very active hurricane season. Maybe our luck will hold out.
I'd never grown basil before but in May I was given some Sweet Basil plants. When I got them they were pot bound and almost dead but started growing and looking great once planted. By the middle of June they were putting on flowers every few days. I got tired of cutting the flowers off so often and just let them flower and die. Watching your channel and others mine seemed to try to flower unusually often. Any ideas why, maybe I wasn't giving enough water, I'm bad about that.
@@AProAmature all of my basil is flowering except my cardinal basil. But I cut that one back in July or August after it did flower. It flowers pretty quickly in the heat, but in my experience, doesn’t affect the flavor of the leaves much. Some folks say it gets bitter, but I haven’t personally experienced that 🤷🏻♀️. I just let it go nuts because the bees like it.
With the plant being stressed, they tend to flower out sooner than non stressed plants. But basil flowers pretty fast, and some people even plant in stages to get fresh non flowering plants. But like Christi, we just let them flower and still take off the leaves. They will usually reseed the next year if you let them seed out. Bees love the flowers.
Love the tomato plants! Mine are like a jungle. It’s fun to see the other side of the coin….
So a small horn worm = a bulk egg hatching. Keep your eyes peeled for the next two weeks.
You and I did well on peppers this year. I am NOT a pepper grower!
I've tried Okra again and I just cannot like it. 😝
We sowed in beets, chard ( Obv ) corn, squash varieties , lettuce and spinach.
Fingers crossed we'll have a better fall garden. This summer was a doozie!
@@TheWickerShireProject good luck!
I haven’t had too many horn worms this year. I had a ton of basil growing, and the numbers this year were much less than previous years when I had less basil. Companion planting works!
That white velvet okra sounds amazing 🤩
@@NicoleSmithGardening I LOVE IT! Lol!
Your garden is looking good. Not sure if we are through the hot temperatures. Never know. My Dad once took the last week of September off work to build fence. It was over 100 degrees every day. My parents live near Waco.
@@growyourownfood7814 you just never know with Texas! I took the shade cloth down while I had the time and bandwidth to do it - but it’s definitely a gamble until the first frost, which could be November or February 😂.
@@littlesaltyhomesteader I think it was a good idea to take it down. Days are getting shorter, and plants want more sun. Just seems like we will get more hot weather, but we were also supposed to have a very active hurricane season. Maybe our luck will hold out.
Every eggplant I've grown was devoured by what I thought were squirrels. I put out a ring camera, and it turns out it was mice. Now we are at war.
@@treblemakingsisters3577 oh man!!! That’s an icky thought… I hope you get rid of them!
I'd never grown basil before but in May I was given some Sweet Basil plants. When I got them they were pot bound and almost dead but started growing and looking great once planted. By the middle of June they were putting on flowers every few days.
I got tired of cutting the flowers off so often and just let them flower and die.
Watching your channel and others mine seemed to try to flower unusually often. Any ideas why, maybe I wasn't giving enough water, I'm bad about that.
@@AProAmature all of my basil is flowering except my cardinal basil. But I cut that one back in July or August after it did flower. It flowers pretty quickly in the heat, but in my experience, doesn’t affect the flavor of the leaves much. Some folks say it gets bitter, but I haven’t personally experienced that 🤷🏻♀️. I just let it go nuts because the bees like it.
With the plant being stressed, they tend to flower out sooner than non stressed plants. But basil flowers pretty fast, and some people even plant in stages to get fresh non flowering plants. But like Christi, we just let them flower and still take off the leaves. They will usually reseed the next year if you let them seed out. Bees love the flowers.
We did notice a trend on how your sunflowers faced... Our are always east facing! I assume that would be east in your garden?
@@TheWickerShireProject yes