My Spring Garden Has Never Looked Better!
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2023
- All the winter rains have paid off and my garden has never looked better. The tomatoes are filling in wonderfully and everything is looking vibrant and healthy with little signs of disease. I will also include some updates on the chop and drop bed and grafted tomatoes!
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Chop up your garlic and freeze in mini muffin pans. When frozen, throw the pucks into a freezer bag. It is a great way to preserve garlic.
How does it stick together to form a puck? Do u add water and freeze it?
@@robertcarrillo747 you can use water or oil to hold it together. 😊
I will likely be preserving a lot of the smaller heads this way!
@@robertcarrillo747 I use oil and garlic salt I made with fresh dried garlic
I like to freeze my garlic scapes in butter 🤤
I’m so jelly of your garden. I’m pregnant right now (growing my own little guy lol) so I can’t do nearly as much as I wanted to this season. Hopefully, I can do more next season!
To next season, hopefully you can keep some simple herbs going for that welcome flavor boost in the kitchen!
Thanks for the tour! Love all the flowers you incorporate, such a great space you’ve created, like a living painting
Thank you! Your garden looks so good this year as well! I always forget that we can start our season earlier than most but our summer is so behind everyone else. I saw you posted your peppers and already had sizeable fruit forming! Meanwhile we haven't had a single day over low-mid 70s this whole year
@@jacquesinthegarden thank you! Yeah, we tend to go basically from winter to summer. And this season has been unusually hot and dry...landscaping and the pond are looking a bit tired but the warm weather plants have really taken off! I grew up in Santa Barbara, CA so I know all about June gloom =)
Look at you go Jacque!! Almost 200k subscribers 😲 So happy for you!!! Your garden is looking so good.
Thank you so much!!
Jacques your garden is stunning! One of the most beautiful I have seen on UA-cam. Really enjoyed your tour and the low key way you present it.
Love the garden tour. We are deep in June-uary up here in the Bay Area as well. Nice thing is, still eating a lot of good leafy greens! 🥬
Haha June-uary is great
Garden tours are endless entertainment
Beautiful garden and thank you for the chop and drop update. It’s nice to see that it works that quickly. Now I want some burlap bags 😄
Just loaded up on another 5 from my local coffee roaster!
Wow, you have put a lot of veggies and flowers into your space! I envy you. Great Job Jacques.
Thank you for giving us all new ideas to reduce plastic in the garden!
Yes I'd love to see how Jacques weaves that jute net. It doesn't look store bought.
I believe it is hand made but for sure not by me as I don't have the patience! I got it at consciousgardeners.com/
The Universe that is Jacques' garden... WOW. What variety and so many gorgeous plants, trellises, etc!
🍇🍉🍊🍓🍆🥕🌽🥔🧅🧄🥦🥬🥒🫑🌶🐛🦋🐝🐞🪱🌸💮🥀🌺🌻🌼🌱
It's a wild and sometimes uncontrolled space but I love it!
I’m on my very first season of growing and I have become obsessed with my tomatoes! They smell incredible and they’ve been my most prolific plant so far. ❤
Have you tried growing burpee super sauce tomatoes? Those have been prolific
@@kg89808 No I haven’t, I’ll have to try those next.
The smell of tomato leaves is such a joy and a perfect reminder of a summer
Love seeing all the colorful flowers!
I notice you have sweet alyssum around your squash. I'm definitely gonna try that next year! Seems like a great way to attract pollinators.
The alyssum is for sure a great all around pollinator attractor but it can spread around quite easily!
So jealous of what you’re able to overwinter! With my zone 5 winters and semi heated garage I haven’t been able to manage it yet.
I don't know how committed I would be to try and overwinter in cold climates
Really nice video. The flowers you have added really soften the whole thing nicely
your garden is so inspiring, i love what you do. thank you
thanks for the tour....seeing that other gardeners have ups and downs helps me when i have problems in my garden. spring has been cooler than usual and we have had more rain the last month than we usually get all year!!
May here had ZERO full sun days so its been quite interesting to see everything growing so slowly.
Amazing garden thank you for the cool tips on the garlic growth my first year and hope it turns out ok.have a bless day .
The dogs vibing in in the back of the intro😂
What an amazing yard you have! Thanks for the tour!
Amazing video! I’m just now starting on renovating our backyard to start having fruit trees and garden beds. Oh man it’s a ton of work
I just watched you and Kevin make salsa. I found the very best tasting salsa is made when all the ingredients are roasted in the oven.
I just wanna say I’ve never heard of anyone ever growing peanuts, so cool!
Garlic rust is really bad here in southern BC. My garlic usually looks like that by harvest time every time I grow it - though the bulbs are often a bit better than most of those there despite the leaves covered in rust. I haven't grown garlic in several years because of the rust and other diseases. I stuck to other alliums that I find tend to be less rusty, like leeks onions, chives, garlic chives. Though I've had trouble with rust on my chives towards the end of the season the past couple of years. Possibly I should dig that clump out and grow chives somewhere else.
Your garden is always beautiful and amazing! My front garden is going wild with sunflowers, coneflowers, balloon flowers and lilies. Raised gardens full of tomatoes, peppers, zucchini’s and sugar snap peas. Really impressed with botanical interest seeds so far. TFS
I have always grown some Botanical Interest seeds but this year I really added a lot more and have likewise been VERY impressed by their germination and also selection! Lots of new keepers to always have in the garden.
@@jacquesinthegarden
Still no cukes from the marketplace seeds. No idea what I did wrong lol
Garden look great. Love the full tour!🌿🌸
I live in wisconsin zone 5b so we definitely don’t share the same growing conditions but I love your garden and how you implement in ground, raised beds and pots! Your garden looks beautiful!
I love the challenge and optionality they each open up and thank you!
Pretty pumped to get a garden hermit tour! Always fun to see what you're up to.
One thought - I would love for you to start a longer form weekly/biweekly podcast just talking home gardening!
A long form podcast has for sure been something on my mind and It will likely happen in the future!
@@jacquesinthegarden I’d love a podcast!!!
@@jacquesinthegarden Yes!! Pumped for this!
Thanks Jacques, your videos are the best 🥰
Think everyone is dealing with something across the US this year. Gotta roll with the punches and try stuff. Your gardens are so enjoyable. I love flowers mixed in with my veggies too.
I've done the same with potatoes and even carrots with this El Nino prediction. Fingers crossed!
Your garden is a dream! So inspiring! 😍🙌🍅
Thanks!
Beautiful garden.❤
Your garden is so amazing and well thought out. You inspire me to grow more flowers as well. You are awesome. - Liz 🌻👍🦩🌸🌴🌴👍
Thank you so much!
Love you Jacque appreciate you!
A bird deciding to randomly sit on your grafted tomato is just like what?! Lol. Of all the plants. That’s hilarious. The universe is such a funny place.
I couldn't believe it!
Thank you,for sharing...amazing garden
Nice garden, great job ❤❤❤
Centercut squash is my favorite too. Everything looks amazing.
It's so good!
Great tour! Thanks for sharing, Jacques. I hope you are having a lovely week so far. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! You too!
I’m going to try the potato’s in straw it’s amazing ❤
Beautiful garden. Thanks for the tour.
Your garden is looking fabulous. That potato looks delicious. Enjoyed this little tour. Thank you for sharing.
Wonderful! And you have given me so many good ideas! Thank you Jacques!
👌Oh yeah looking killer Jacques,thanks for including the chop & drop update as well✊
Same here! My spring garden has never looked better. So much better than last year
Glad you are using jute instead of the plastic. Jute for me has worked perfectly for one season, plenty strong and fully compostable.
I’m excited to see the three sisters method in action.
Up here in NorCal we've skipped spring and gone right to our summer weather pattern. (foggy mornings in the low 60's sunny for a few hours then fog rolls in for the night) Plus so much rain in March made putting too many summer veg in a little risky. until April. Everything is still pretty small. Tomatoes are only about 12-16" high. Summer squash are still just about 6-8" high. The only things that are doing well are potatoes,strawberries, garlic and green beans. Planting carrots using your method next week.Glad for the rain though. It will be great later when we are still harvesting in September, October and November. Moderate climates with no winter can be tricky but your garden looks great!
Yeah this year changed the order of things a bit and likewise I am overall 100% happy to have the extra rain!
Ooo, would love to learn more about growing fruits!
LOVE your garden and videos !!!
Thank you so much!
Your flowers also I just love
I basically did the same thing with my sweet potatoes. I planted in a 17 gallon tub and made walls for them to climb up. Also eat the leaves!
Jacques, I'm growing in La Mesa, zone 10 a, and have had really good luck growing Turmeric in ground and in containers as well as some success last year with Ginger. Also peanuts-- I buy in-shell raw peanuts for the crows and jays, they always leave a few that will sprout into plants here and there in my food forest garden. Your garden looks great in spite of the May Gray. Now that June Gloom is here, the powdery mildew has hit-- mainly my calendulas right now.
Yeah the calendula always seems to be hit first! I'm closer to the coast and I just don't get the same heat here as you do out in la Mesa
It’s time to fill up the in used birdies beds and make a planting video for us 🙏
Great video! Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
I have a spacemaster cucumber this year in a container! Keeping my fingers crossed!
this channel is goated!
Your garden looks amazing right now!
This is my first year container gardening (zone 7b) and everything is coming along very well, pretty soon my first strawberries will be ready to harvest!
There are some small black beetles with an orange stripe eating my sweet alyssum flowers, do you know what they might be?
Thank you for the great education and inspiration! 😊
That is one I have not seen before but on googling ("small black beetle with orange stripes") it looks like there are a few options with pictures that can help narrow it down.
Love your content! 🌸🌻🌼
But is it just me or is the sound a bit low? I have a crappy tablet so might have something to do with it. But at highest volume - it's really hard to hear what is said.
Hmm, I will have to check but I think the levels seem normal to me, would be curious to hear from anyone else?
Don’t give up on the garlic. Look into ways to preserve it like in oils, or vinegar. I made scape pickles and they are great! Or eat them green.
Oh for sure I am going to use the garlic in whatever why I can, either frozen, roasted, or dehydrated! I also love me some green garlic
@@jacquesinthegarden all my garlic kinda flopped over about a week ago. I thought maybe a dog plowed through them, but I realized, like onions, maybe they fall over when they are ready. So I pulled one and it looks ready.
@@jacquesinthegarden I'd appreciate it if you would make a video of different methods or just cooking with green garlic. I've tried growing twice in the fall and they come up and then rot. When you mentioned green garlic in a past video I bought more to plant. Want to see what happens planting in spring instead of fall.
Jacques !! You're awesome! You got paradise right there ! I love it !
Only if I could accomplish one thirt of what you got . My weaknesses on potatoes is I can't wait and take them way to early 😂😂.
Beautiful garden 😊
It is REALLY hard to resist the urge to harvest potatoes!
@@jacquesinthegarden right !? 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤣🤣
flower game on point
I saw an article that said May had literally zero full sun days :(
Cut the runners on the bare root strawberries in the greenstalk and you’ll get better fruit production and the leaves will fill in better. The runners take a lot of energy from the plant
I speak from experience with my bare root strawberry greenstalk tower I planted out this year 😂
Oh for sure that is true, in this case though I want them to propagate and fill out the tower nicely first!
@@jacquesinthegarden oh gotcha! I was fortunate that all 30 of my bare root plants actually survived and are thriving. Not bad for an Amazon purchase 🤣
I loved so many things about this tour. Thank you! I thought I was doing things wrong with all the powdery mildew and this was so reassuring that it’s mostly caused by being in coastal socal! Question: did you do anything special to get your poppies to germinate? Did you start them in October? I haven’t had success yet after trying amazing gray and Lauren’s grape and a bread poppy mix. Thank you!
Sometimes it is totally out of your control! For poppies I transplant them from Epic 6-cells into the garden. I did start them around Fall/October time last year and the way I do it is by scattering them on the surface and then covering lightly with vermiculite. They NEED sunlight to germinate properly and vermiculite allows light to pass through and germinate. Transplant them as soon as you see any roots near the bottom as they don't like root disturbance!
Have you thought about doing a "Pomato" graft? It's the ultimate test of grafting! Tomato plant on the top, potato plant for the roots. Best of both worlds
I actually have some plans to try that, maybe this year!
I always love these garden tours! Where did you get that info on weather prediction for the summer ?? That’s great to know 😮
I can't recall where I saw the summary, maybe it was NWS but they had the prediction showing a cooler, by 1-2 degree, June than usual. I just tried looking for the article I read but couldn't find it :/
@@jacquesinthegarden gotcha thanks ! It does seem cooler already so I’ll follow your lead 👏🏽
Just when I thought, 'When is there going to be another Jacques garden tour?' 😊
You're garden is looking gorgeous! Here in central Canada, I haven't even finished putting it all in, though we have had a warmer than average May and June (the average last frost date for our area is June 2).
I'm confused about something, though. I've heard a few gardener mention that we're going into an El Nino year, and that it means colder temperatures. The El Nino oscillation pushes warm water further north, which means warmer temperatures. For us in Canada, that can mean milder winters. The Gulf Coast areas can get more precipitation, while the Pacific northwest can get drier conditions. It is the La Nina oscillation basically has the opposite effect and can lead to cooling, as well as higher drought conditions in some areas. For us in Canada, it means more brutal winters. So if we're going into an El Nino year, we should be expecting a warmer, wetter year, not a cooler one. Which is likely why we had such a warm spring where I am.
It is all dependent on the region and where the pressure systems are concentrated. If I recall over 90% of the states were projected to be hotter on average up through June while the southern coastal California region was projected to be slightly cooler. Once we get into the true summer period, which on the coastal side is actually in August, it will be hotter on average. There is also the Pacific Decadal Oscillation which works together with the El Nino to modulate the effects.
Put out some of my baby tomato seedlings and it promptly hailed on them😢. I typically leave more foliage on them to protect the fruit during summer monsoons. Also, NONE of my eggplant seeds germinated. Whereas last fall, they were thriving, but died when we went on vacation.
Dang that is disheartening! Luckily the tomatoes should be able to recover but the eggplant situation is unfortunate, I had to buy a few this year as well because my germination was spotty.
My Second year grape leaves are all over the place. I need to do something about it. I will get to it as soon as I feel better
Grapes can be quite wild once they start taking off!
Since you mentioned cutting back your borage, I’d like to learn more about that. This is my first year growing borage, so I’m a baby beginner with it. When you cut it back, does it regrow and bush out? How far back can you cut it? And how late in the season can you cut if you still want more blooms for the season?
It can regrow from lower offshoots but in this case I was talking about completely cutting it out. I don't have much experience with controlled pruning on it!
Love your garden and how informative you are!
Could you please share where you found the jute trellis? Love the idea of it!
Yeah of course: consciousgardeners.com/ also thank you!
Came back to this most recent vid to say CONGRATZ on 200K. Actually, 201K. You're going to have to up your game on the timing of celebration videos tho. 🤣
Oof I know! I am already behind 😬
I challenge your rust theory on garlic. I got rust as well on them this year, although mine formed up slightly better than yours in the backyard. However I don't think that it means I can't plant in the same spot for 2 years. I will test it out, I think they will be fine. I am in north county, rain plus clay and a month of gray makes garlic sad 😔
It could be that this was a anomaly and the rust won't survive the dry warm summer and fall, I certainly hope you are right!
Can you grow garlic in a grow bag with new soil to avoid the rust contamination in your existing garden beds?
Yes! My plan is to grow all the garlic in raised beds that I am adding this year, so the soil will be clean and free of disease.
I want to know more about your agave in the background!
Love your videos. Can you do a video on the Barbados Cherry?
I can try to include some content on it, this is the second year I have had it so I am still figuring it out but the fruit it produced last year was great!
@@jacquesinthegarden thanks. My neighbours had an in ground tree when I was growing up in Trinidad. The fruit has a large amount of vitamin C.
When you say “cold” or “cool” in you garden, can you give a reference # of the temperature for those of us who live in different zones? Thanks. Great video
Great point! Right now we have not crossed 70 degrees F for any substantial amount of time during the daytime. Usually by now we would be having a few mid 70s and lower 80s days but this year has been unseasonably cool. The night time temps are in the mid 50s, low 60s.
Your onions look pretty good to me.
I thought I was the only one using a dog crate to dry alliums 😂
Whatever is closest is what I use haha
Jacques, I noticed you have sunflowers growing next to both of your grafted tomatoes. I heard on Garden Answer Highlights -this past Sunday’s episode that sunflowers emit something that will slow the growth of plants around it. Just thinking you might want to look into that (you love science) and perhaps move your sunflowers elsewhere.
As a gardener who has had this phenomenon happen I do think it's true. Two years ago I had the bright idea to try growing tall sunflowers with green beans underneath along with summer squashes thinking I could train the green beans up the sunflowers since corn doesn't really do that well where I am. The green beans were stunted and only took off after the sunflowers started dying back. I tried again the next year but put the sunflowers in their own section and grew corn just for the structure for the beans and squash but still had a similar result with the squashes near the sunflowers doing mediocre and the green beans as well. This year I put in no sunflowers and the green beans are doing great. The squashes are still small but healthy so I hope for better this year. I love sunflowers but my garden is only 12'x 14' so no sunflowers until production crops improve.
There is some allelopathic effect from sunflowers but I usually see it referring to germination more than growth inhibition once established. I think it might have some effect but a lot of it has to do with its deep rooted nature and so compensating with more water/fertility should help balance some of the effect.
A request: Will you please devote an entire how-to video to growing the hybrid Clancy potatoes? I have so many questions! One question: If a Clancy potato produces the fruit that contains seeds, will those seeds grow true to type? Will they revert back to one of the parents? Or will they be sterile? So many questions! I was a member of the Homegrown Goodness gardening board for many years & I remember how much energy & creativity was poured into trying to produce "True Garlic Seed" & "True Potato Seed". Both plants have the capability of producing their own seeds, but humans found it easier to propagate them vegetatively. Because of that, diseases have crept in & we must be careful to grow them from certified disease free stock. However, if they can be grown successfully from seed, the disease cycle can be broken... Sooo many questions...
It is a fascinating plant for sure, there is a short video from the breeder himself talking about the Clancy potato, maybe a deep dive would be worth doing! ua-cam.com/video/hK8kYTYQSJw/v-deo.html
@@jacquesinthegarden Thanks!
Is that a test version of epic tomato cages (the round one)? I am stoked for those...hope that's still in the works!
The tall round one is a Texas Tomato Cage, but we are for sure trialing some others as well.
Look into the use of trichoderma in the garden for fungal decease
I need to do a deeper dive on it.
Do you have a link for that cover you have over your pepper plants? Thank you, love the garden tours!
It is Agribon ag-19 fabric, I am pretty sure I bought a 100' roll from Johnny's seeds
@@jacquesinthegarden awesome. Thank you I’ll check them out!
plus a remnant of the super typhoons that will come down the west coast here soon
I will gladly take some random summer rains!
Looking good. Do you have plans to plant more fruit trees and/or buy a bigger property for more space for that?
More fruit trees will slot in as the final layouts are set and also likely more container trees as well.
You have a beautiful garden 😍,this year, I have a earwig infestation in my garden, They eating all my plants including the squash flowers before they even open 😢 any tips to get rid of it organically?
Those can be quite the challenge. Soy sauce traps work alright, also rolled up/ruffled newspaper traps and sections of hose left around work ok. In the end they sort of rise and fall overtime and really love rotting organic matter like unfinished compost. Fresh mulch tends to distract them so applying new mulch around the garden might help distract them from your plants.
@@jacquesinthegarden thank you ,☺️I’m going to try it!!!,🙌🏼
Glad you got a little bit of garlic! When it comes to Rust, does it make a difference whether the garlic is grown in ground or in a raised bed?
Raised beds would likely be better since it has better drainage which should help prevent the rust.
whats the best kale recipe you have... or how do you eat it??
Most of our kale ends up in soup or sautés. Otherwise we really like using the Lacinato style kale to make salads with toasted almonds and a citrusy vinaigrette.
Jacques, my dragon tongue beans got rust and lost a ton of leaves, should I pull them all? If so, can I plant something else in those two beds?
You may as well pull them, you can for sure replant something else but make it something different that is unrelated to beans like squash, peppers, tomatoes, or anything else. When you get disease its a good time to actually practice crop rotation.
@jacquesinthegarden Soo sad about the garlic, but the rest looks great! I was just wondering because this year is the 1st. year I can't grow in ground, I will only have raised pots due to injury, so I was wondering if you have ever tried sugar baby watermelons or cantaloupe in pots? I'm in Portland, Maine 5b.
I have had good luck with sugar baby watermelon in containers! It did totally fine in 10 gallons but 15 would have been easier. Cantaloupe likewise should do great if you find a container specific variety.
@@jacquesinthegarden Thank you soo much for the quick response! I started the seeds a bit back because I had them, The cantaloupe might be an issue, I just checked, they are jumbo cantaloupes😵💫Thanks again, I enjoy your video's & knowledge
Hey Jacques, nice video.
I have a question totally unrelated to this video.
Would topping Jimmy Nardello peppers benefit them at all or should I just let them go?
I personally prefer not to top peppers, especially long peppers like the Nardellos as topping them would encourage a lot of low growth which = peppers growing on the ground.
If you let your carrots seeds grow and do not cut them down. Let the flowers dry and then you have carrot seeds for life.
Jacque, what is your opinion of the red "mulch" tarp that is being touted as creating better and faster tomatoes? I have 17 tomato plants going this year in my little back yard. Yikes.
I have heard about this....it seems like in theory it might have some sort of effects but honestly most of it is probably from the mulch and covering the soil in the first place.
Can you remove the top few inches of soil where the garlic was to remove the rust?
MAYBE but Id rather rotate and not risk it.
Do you have a rain water capture system to save on the water bill for all your plants?
Its been "on the list" but I haven't got to it yet sadly. Next year we are making that our guarantee goal.
Do you do anything to stave off powdery mildew or to deal with it once it takes over? Or do you just live with it? Or do you pull your plants once it takes over?
When it first shows up I prune AGGRESSIVELY, removing any signs of the disease and removing it from the garden. I also begin a succession of all my plants so I can swap them in once they original plants get hit too hard.