FULL GARDEN TOUR- June | Zone 7

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hey everybody welcome to my channel and welcome to my garden on today’s video I’m going to give a full garden tour for the month of June so I’m so excited that you stopped by today to come hang with me in the garden if you’re new here my name is Barbara i live in Tennessee and I’m in zone 7b so as we go throughout the video you’ll be able to see what we’re growing um at this time of the year at the very end of June what’s doing well what’s not doing well some of the challenges we’ve been facing and then some successes that we’ve had so if you’re in my zone great if you’re not in my zone still follow along um cuz I’m sure that you can compare and contrast and I hope that your gardens are doing well also so if you’re new here let me kind of give you some background on what you’re going to see today so for a full garden tour we actually have three main garden spaces that we grow in so we’re starting here in the back of my house um and this is where my garden first started 5 years ago which is wild to me before that I had never put my hands in dirt and so literally on this channel you’re seeing my journey in real life as I learn how to grow food and how to grow it abundantly now I wish I would have started my YouTube channel when I first started gardening but I didn’t i was already like a couple of years in by the time I started my YouTube channel but on every video we’re learning we’re growing we’re sharing tips and strategies on how to grow food how to preserve how to make things from scratch and how to live off of your land and how to live a homesteading lifestyle so five years ago I started in my backyard i knew nothing about growing food and I say that because if you’re watching me and you’re a beginner gardener I want to tell you that there is hope that the more you do it the more you’re going to learn and the more you will gain confidence but I remember it was April 2020 when I knelt down my bed by my beds and put in the first crops so that’s what we’re going to show you today this first area and then we’ll move on to the other two spaces so first space like I said when we first started this my husband and my son built me four raised beds a year later we added a fifth raised bed so you’ll see that but we also have green stalks back here we have five green stalks excuse me yeah five green stalks we have four that are the regular size and then I don’t know if you can see that one peeking between the yellow and the lilac is a three tier green stalk and so this is um a way to do container gardening if you have very little space now we live on a lot of land and so space is not an issue for us but I still like growing in the green stock so if you’re not familiar with green stock um I have several videos on it um the link will be down below you can go check out the website they actually do have a sale going on right now you can use my code LF10 to get an extra $10 off so the sale right now all the planters are on sale so if you don’t have a green stalk and you’re in the market for one or you want to add to your collection go check out the sale and also check out the color that just returned which is the rusted garden red um so in my green stalks I only use those in the summertime and this space back here we only grow in the summertime and I mean primarily in the summertime in the fall we plant our garlic and in the spring we do our onions but when it comes to the summer garden our other two spaces are really the highlight of the summer garden but let me take you around here and show you what I have growing here in the back of the house um the reason why it’s back here what I’m growing when I planted it and all the stuff so here are all of my green stocks right here mostly of my green stocks are herbs and flowers i do have a couple of tomatoes that are dwarf tomatoes and I also have a couple of small peppers but mostly it is all herbs and flowers now at the top of each of these green stalks I had onions growing in the spring i’ve already harvested those they did not bubble up very very big but I took what I harvested and it made a whole tr freeze-dried tray of diced onions i freeze-dried those and I got me a whole pint-sized jar of onion powder that is so concentrated in flavor and tastes so good so nothing goes to waste so even though they didn’t they didn’t bulb up really big in the green stalks and that could have been because of fertilization over you know a lot of rain and that that kind of stuff I still was able to get onions they were like a on the small side not even medium but like small but they did bubble up they just weren’t that very um big but we had plenty of onions if you didn’t catch that we did a big onion harvest day and we harvested over 400 onions so we’re not short on onions over here in this neck of the woods but I won’t take you through every green stock i’ll just kind of um spin around so one of the things that I’m most proud of in the green stock are these patunias right here this is my first time i actually grew these patunias from seed um you can see as I kind of spin it around there’s the pretty pink and the white color so I’m very very proud um of those in the top like I said were onions but I just resoed um green beans in the tops of all of these green stalks so they have not um started growing yet but hopefully on the next video we will have green beans growing at the tops of all of these and this green stock here you can see my lavender is going crazy um I have some chamomile here i have lots of parsley i have no here here I have some oregano again more patunias i have some thyme here so this is pretty much full i just harvested some sage earlier today um that I needed um but all of these open spots are going to be green beans and this green stock pretty much the same thing i do have a couple of um peppers and then I harvested the first tomato off off of the green stalk earlier this week this is some lettuce that is hanging on for dear life but it’s too hot out here for um the lettuce you can see that it’s getting tall but we’ve harvested a ton of lettuce from the green stalk this right here is a three tier and this is nothing but mostly um flowers in this one so it’s really just for decor i do have a couple of herbs peeking out right there but mostly this is just flowers i got some purple basil and then this last green stock is again the same thing mostly flowers herbs and then I do have a couple tomatoes that you can see starting to grow right there okay so we’ll start with bed number one here and so on the far side is celery um and that won’t be in here long because with the heat it’ll start to get better so I’ve been selling that as well as I need to harvest the rest of it so I got two celery stalks there one left right here i have the merrygo right here that I grew from seed it’s doing really really well i have a zenia that’s being torped right now by Japanese beetles this row right here are all peppers um they’re looking really good they haven’t started growing anything yet um and then these two rows in the middle is where I sewed green beans they’re just now starting to come up so here’s a close-up shot of all the stuff and these peppers y’all were peppers that I started from seed everything pretty much I started from seed but these are the peppers that were hanging on for dear life in my tunnel and that um I didn’t sell i didn’t have anywhere to put them and y’all they hung they hung on barely until I put them out here they were looking pitiful when I first planted them but I fertilized them they’re greening up and they’re doing fine so that worked out really really well and then y’all look my first chamomile i’m so so so excited now you can see that there it looks like it’s dying on that end now I had this whole back row of chamomile i had four chamomiles here and they all did this and kept dying like the whole thing would be brown but this one you can see part of it is hanging on and I actually have flowers that I need to harvest so y’all this is my first time doing chamomile so let’s talk about this chamomile so it’s my first time ever successfully growing chamomile so I’m really excited i plan to um use it for teas and things like that instead of buying it from the store because that’s what I traditionally have done but this is what I don’t know so I harvested um some flowers earlier this week and I let them kind of dry on a plate but as soon as I mean they dry it’s like they shrivel up so like right now you can see the yellow center and the petals but as soon as they dried it’s like you could only really see the yellow center is that what it’s supposed to do like the petals almost seem like they just dissipated um for lack of a better term and again the flowers are so so small so let me know if that’s the way it’s supposed to look and then also let me know if you guys just let yours air dry meaning like on a plate you know or outside or do you freeze dry them or dehydrate them and again what do they look like once it’s done is it just like the little ball petal let me know if I’m doing this right cuz I’ve never done it before um let’s move on to the other bed okay I’m really proud of this bed too because this whole bed are leftover plants that I started again back in March and April these are the ones that were on on my greenhouse floor that remember I couldn’t sell I couldn’t get rid and I still had plants I was trying to find something to do with them i had stuck them in all the places that I could and I still had these left over again when I put them out here they looked horrible they were brown they were sickly looking but look at it now with some fertilization room to grow and sun y’all we have stuff growing out here and this bed looks really good so let me take out the tripod and I’ll show you up close what’s growing so we have some zucchini growing there looking good we have another zucchini growing there here are some peppers these are some chili peppers that I got from a plant swap earlier this year so I’ve never grown those kind um let me see this is a Anaheim peppered my first time growing that that’s a Anaheim then I have some Roma tomato plants again I got these on a clearance sale i need to um probably put a steak in these but I got these on a clearance sale they were looking real bad i think I probably paid a quarter for those but look at them now they will produce tomatoes i got some flowers back here on the backdrop there’s some salosia and some zenyas and then over on this side we have some squash you can see I got a tiny little squash growing right there another zucchini and then these are some peppers um as well that I got from a plant swap these weeds because of all the rain are just out of control so I’m trying to stay on top of it as much as possible but y’all I think this bed is looking good squash zucchini and tomatoes and peppers and flowers all in the same bed and right now everything is looking really good so then the next three beds are sweet potatoes you guys were with me when we started these sweet potatoes i’ve tripled my sweet potato production so I normally do one bed of sweet potatoes but now I have three so in this bed here in the first two rows are Bayou Bell this last row is cargo um this whole bed right here is Bor regard and y’all remember when we planted this bed I was complaining because none of the slips had leaves but y’all look the leaves the leaves have appeared so we have leaves on most of these and then this very last bed right here is the Evangelon that’s a new one for me as well so the only one I’ve ever grown before is the Bor Guard but here I have a couple of new cons and you see so far they’re looking okay that is the first space which is behind the house i think things are looking good good no complaints again you guys know if you’ve been following me we’ve had a ton we’ve had 40 days and 40 nights of rain non-stop this week it had the temperature has been really really high because of the heat wave that’s going on across the country um and so we went from soaking wet rain to um heat wave so we’re just pressing on because that’s one thing we can’t control is the weather but overall things back here are looking good the sweet potatoes will be here for a while until the first frost basically cuz they take about a 100 days to grow and they’ve only been in the ground about a week and a half the other stuff um again the squash and the zucchini um this is just again to supplement what I already have out there so what I use these beds for so again in the fall like in October November I use these beds for garlic so I’ll usually do three beds of garlic then I’ll have two beds of just like fall flowers and then in the spring those two beds of fall flowers I will do our onions and so then the onions and the garlic both come to harvest around the first week of June we pull those out like we did i showed you those videos before and then we succession plant our peppers tomatoes squash and zucchini and and we are doing our sweet potatoes back here so again this is like the succession part of the summer versus everything else that you’re going to see was planted like the end of April but most of this stuff was planted at the beginning of June so this is our first space again this space will always be close to my heart because this is where my garden started but then I got a little happy and I thought I need some more gardening space so let’s go see what other garden space I have okay so now we’re in the second space that we grow in which is our high tunnel i love the high tunnel i love all the spaces but the high tunnel I love it because we grow in here year round two 24/7 365 days a year we are growing food in here so this is the one place on the farm that there is always food growing so in our high tunnel it is a 30x 96 high tunnel we have six raised beds um that I’m going to take you through we have some containers um between the beds and things like that and then we also have u five rows of inground space and each of those rows are about 45 feet long so we’re doing a mixture of things in the ground in raised beds we have wood raised beds in here as well as metal raised beds we have containers so we’re and we have some grow bags so we’re growing in all the different types of mediums i just don’t have a green stalk down here but don’t worry it’s coming it is coming so let me take you through what’s growing down here and again for the summer this was the space that was planted first so everything um in here from a summer perspective was mostly planted around the first or second week of April because again because of the temperatures and the um season extension we can plant things in here a lot sooner than we can um outside um and then also um in the fall we’ll start planting our fall crops usually around um Septemberish um the first part of September so even though some of this stuff will still be going strong by then we will start taking some of it out to make room for the fall crop so that we have a long extension period for the fall crops but let me show you what I have in each bed um and how things are going um in June in the summer and the high tunnel so this first bed is mostly um herbs and there was some flowers tucked in as well but you can see the celery has gone bonkers again there’s probably at least six or seven um celery in there that I need to get out because again um celery really doesn’t like a lot of high heat um but you can see that it has grown very nicely um and I have not harvested nearly as much as what I have um and then here we have some lavender um that is just going wild as well we got some lettuce tucked in there that’s one of our last lettucees um and then behind that lavender we do have some thyme that you can’t see let me take you on the other side here’s our parsley tucked into the corner we have harvested a ton of parsley here’s some chives we’ve harvested a ton of chives there is some lemon thyme and some regular time regular time right there more celery that needs to come out um and then we have our eucalyptus tree and then we have a ntorium tucked in the back there just for like pest control so this bed has done extremely extremely well like y’all this celery is absolutely huge absolutely huge um this next bed is what we call our pollinator patch because it’s nothing but flowers but look how stunning that’s kolas that we grew from seed that’s some zenyas look at that they’re absolutely stunning now I have not come out here to harvest flowers yet which is a shame but you know something has to give sometimes this is a new solosia flower it’s called yellow queen it’s like looks kind of fuzzy but it’s so pretty and then this solosia is called green silit that’s a new one i don’t think I’m a fan of that one so that was a onetime try and then you can see the rest of these um and then we got some cinnamon basil here that has gone to flower and then we have some colingula back here as well and you can see my sunflower has been eaten up but that’s okay we’ll pull that out cuz we got plenty of stuff chalk full in this bed but this brings the bees in it’s for beauty and it allows me to harvest flowers all throughout the summer to put in my house this next bed here is where we had our potatoes we had rusted potatoes in Yukon Gold we have harvested those that is a snapdragon that we um actually did in the fall that has bloomed and keeps blooming so it is so so pretty we kept that in there we had more snap dragons we took the rest of those out and then now in the bed we have sewed green beans so we have four rows of green beans i still see some open spots where I didn’t get germination so I’ll go back in and reso more green beans but you can see the green beans are coming up nicely and then here is just another solosia plant and a merry gold okay so in this bed here are our non-spicy peppers you can see a ntorium is tucked in the corner i pruned this back yesterday which I don’t even know if you can prune the stersum but I did because it was all out in the aisle way just trailing tripping people up um but it is growing so good oh I see there’s a bee or a wasp um this flower excuse me this plant right here is the avarski pepper you can see how big that gets it’ll turn red it’s a red roasting pepper there is some basil cinnamon basil there’s a flower tucked in here here is my banana peppers they are quite prolific i only did one banana pepper plant and I’ve already harvested um tons and got a whole jar of pickled peppers back there is more basil purple basil regular basil plenty of basil in this bed and like I said there’s some um peppers there’s another pepper right there we have more celery on this side this is the same bed the celery did phenomenal phenomenal this year um and then we have some more basil and then this is a pepper plant it just hasn’t we got some flowers but we don’t have any peppers yet um so this bed and like you’ll see the theme in every bed is that we have herbs flowers and vegetables because we really focus on companion planting and then look at that pretty mirror gold tucked in back there as well so moving on to this bed this bed the open space that you see here is where the deal and the cilantro was um we just pulled that out this week because it had flowered and gone to seed um this lettuce is hanging on but it needs to come out and then so what I did to back fill where the deal was is I put some jalapeno peppers there’s four jalapeno peppers there um and then here I have an eggplant that’s it has some holes in it but it’s still looking okay it’s still hanging on so far um and then look at this pretty flower this is a dwarf sunflower which is really really pretty there and then this is a Roma tomato and I have about three Roma tomato plants in this bed i’ve already harvested one Roma tomato already but you can see I have more coming peppers there’s another Roma tomato as well now let me take you on the other side this right here is holy basil that I need to harvest this is my first time growing it um so this is a great medicinal plant and I heard that it’s really good for tea and stuff um my Roma tomato is going kind of wild i need to stake that um as well y’all can see that my zen some of my zenas are being tore up by these Japanese beetles which is rare i don’t usually have that but you can see I got more damage right there but that’s okay um okay okay so this bed here this is the third bed i have some rosemary that is doing well and then this lavender I just cut a ton of lavender um you can see there it is going this is the best my lavender has ever ever ever done um it’s two new varieties I got from Baker Creek um origami and I don’t remember the name of the other one but it’s done really really well but y’all I don’t know what to do with my lavender so I harvest it and I dry it and I’m assuming I dry the whole stem not just the flower part right somebody help me out because I don’t know if I’m doing it right okay and so then I have eggplant in this bed and I do have some eggplants forming which is a first i have three down there that just haven’t turned colors but then I also have one right there and I think I have another one in here somewhere uh let’s see yep another one another two right there so it’s coming along and this eggplant is surrounded by basil and thyme and again this is the first time my eggplant has ever done anything so we’re thankful here is a tall pepper plant this is a Anaheim now I’ve never pruned my pepper plants at all i know that some people do this one is growing really really tall and I want to say this is a Anaheim maybe which I’ve never grown Anaheim before so I got some peppers you can see there but it’s really really tall i need to see if I can find the tag to make sure it is an Anaheim anaheim peppers stay green right they don’t turn red I’m assuming um I hope this is Anaheim i cannot find a tag it is so bushy in here um and then I have some jalapeno peppers back there but yeah these hol these plants are growing so so tall so I need to look that up and see y’all does that look like a Anaheim pepper i think that’s what it is i think that’s what I planted there but I can’t be for But you know what this this whole bed is spicy peppers and Anaheim is not that spicy y’all i can’t remember i got to see if I can find a tag you know labeling is fundamental i’m watching these bees labeling is fundamental and I’m pretty sure I have a tag in there i just can’t see it so y’all tell me if you prune your peppers if so why i’ve never seen my pepper plants get that tall especially in a raised bed especially this soon huh and Anaheim the reason why I want to do Anaheim is because I wanted to make green chilies um and that has like a little bit of spice so in my mind would I have thought that was spicy and put in the spicy pepper bed i think so cuz it doesn’t look like the cayenne that I grow y’all help me out let me know um okay so you’ve seen the raised beds now let me show you what’s in my containers um around the beds and then I’ll take you to see what’s in ground growing um also in the tunnel so in our first set of containers this is lemon balm it’s growing very very nicely um lemon balm is great for digestion if you’re taking it um internally if you’re using it externally um you can make it into a salve and it’s good for any type of skin irritation we actually sell lemon balm salve that we make from the lemon balm in our garden um and then this is yarao this is my first time growing yarao and man that didn’t take long it is absolutely pretty and yarao can be used medically as well i’ve never used it before never had it um but I think it’s also good for digestion i need to look it up don’t quote me but I’m glad to have it in the garden and we’ll figure out what we’re supposed to do with it um and then across the way over here is our mint so we’ve harvested a ton um of mint and dried it this right here is um spearmint which is good and lush across here we have strawberry mint and peppermint more lemon balm here we have a small leaf gum eucalyptus for the first time that we’re trying it’s growing slowly but that’s usually how they start out this is a eucalyptus that we transplanted i don’t see any green yet we’ll give it to the end of the year if nothing happens I’ll get rid of it no big deal um but you can see this is the queen of eucalyptus she’s been here for 3 years grew this from seed i did not know eucalyptus was a tree when I was growing it she severely needs to be harvested and all of that um and then this is our comfrey plant right there and y’all my comfry experiment worked i’ll tell you about that a little bit later and then this metal raised bed here is sage and oregano you can see it is absolutely full of sage i use sage more for cooking but sage and I mean sage does have some medicinal properties as well um and then we have a little bit of lavender there but mostly it’s all oregano and sage in this bed in terms of my comfry experiment if you if you’ve been here you know that I took root cutings from my comfrey in the early spring and I yielded tons and tons of root cutings and people have been asking me to sell the root cutings i am selling the root cutings it is on our website livingfoodsfarm.com you get a pack of three i think it’s for $18 but the reason why I was hesitating on doing the root cutings because I wanted to make sure myself that you could grow plants from the root cutting so on a previous video about a month ago I did nine plants of root cutings i showed on the video it’s like a 1 in size so the the cutings are not very big but it’s a 1in size and we planted them all together you guys saw that well I wanted you to know that all nine rooted took place took and they are beautiful doing well i’ve sold all but I think I only have four left i’ll pop a picture up here so you can see all nine germinated they all looked good it took about 3 and 1/2 weeks for me to start seeing something i was thinking it was not working and I was about to just throw in the towel and then one day I looked I was like “Wait a minute I see something.” And then once I saw something it kind of like just took off so if you want comfrey root cutings you can go to my website and get some know it’s going to be 1 in size pieces and know that it’s going to take you at least three and a half to four weeks before you see anything probably so anyway let’s keep on with the tour and let me show you what’s growing excuse me what’s growing in ground in the tunnel okay so we have three rows here on this side and then we have two rows here so it’s divided up um two rows are bell peppers and then the last row is half cucumbers so let me just take you down the bell pepper row um let you see how things are looking um we have tons of bell peppers popping up these are all a hybrid variety you can see I’m just waiting for them to turn colors you can use them green but I like for them to be red yellow or orange but you can see tons and tons of peppers all of these are growing nice and again peppers are usually later to the game they are usually much slower but then once they take off they take off and they usually hit their peak for me usually August and September is when I have the bulk of them not June and July but they’re all looking good very very good no disease no pest damage all the way down on these two rows there’s some sunflowers they’re just there for looks and then let me show you the last row on the last row is a mixture of jalapeno peppers that are growing nicely some flowers that one is one that was old that I just popped in here it needs some fertilization as you can see and then this rest are the cucumbers we have harvested at least y’all at least 150 cucumbers at least and we’re still getting them we harvested I don’t know another 40 or so years we probably harvested 200 cucumbers but you can see they’re starting to look bad in terms of the leaves you can see that there which is typical for cucumbers especially in high heat like this down here you can see doesn’t look as good but that’s very typical when it comes to cucumbers they have been in here again for 2 months now and like I said we’ve harvested a ton but they will not make it all summer long we have had great production from the cucumbers but what I have noticed this season is that we have had more um that have been when I say deformed like it’s been curved um and that that shouldn’t be or we’ve had a few that have been like um thin at the top and then kind of bloated at the bottom but the rest and I would say that probably accounts for I would say maybe 25% of the cucumbers that we have um harvested the other 75% have been picture perfect and have been in abundance now the tags got screwed up on the cucumbers so I don’t know exactly what varieties are planted except two i know the the Katrina cucumber is in there which is a greenhouse specifically specific cucumber and then I think this is a shimmy or one that is close to which is a long English cucumber the other ones I’m not so sure um so I can’t complain because we’ve had a ton like more than what we could even eat we’re always in excess of cucumbers and I have a customer who’s been buying um literally cucumbers like by she’s buying like 50 60 at a time um every week and I still have counters full of cucumbers just because they’re producing that many now they’ll be on their way out I would say the next week or so maybe two weeks I may let them stay then I will pull those out but I’ve already restarted more cucumbers from a succession planning standpoint so that’s what I do with cucumbers i usually do two successions of cucumbers because I know that’s how they’re going to look and again the temperatures have been insane this week like insane so I’m not worried about it we got plenty of cucumbers i got enough to make pickle relish and pretty much between pickles I already made pickles and pickle relish i’m good for what I need for cucumbers the rest is I just using cucumber water and doing other odds and ends with the cucumbers so no big deal on that one now let me show you the last two rows in the high tunnel which are our tomatoes okay y’all we have harvested a ton of cherry tomatoes in the last week they kind of just started coming on by the droves um and then in terms of the slicing type tomatoes we just started harvesting those that were blushing um this past week and we probably have harvested I would say maybe 15 or so of the cherry tomatoes we probably have harvested I don’t know well over a hundred but you can see they’re a nice size this is a mix of different kinds of tomatoes so for cherry tomatoes we are mostly did here sakura and the large red cherry um and then for slicing tomatoes we did the reelski we did cayman we have some cherokee carbon that may be outside but you can see overall they’re doing aok okay they are just now starting to blush on some of them you can see that there but I love the Rebelski variety it is tried and true because because as you can see all the tomatoes are uniform picture perfect now we have had some hornworm damage that I’ve showed you in previous videos and we’ve treated for that but I have not seen any in the last I don’t know week or so so we’re still moving on and like you said I mean like you can see we have plenty plenty plenty tomatoes so both rows are tomatoes on both sides you can see we got plenty of cherry tomatoes we’re harvesting these every day by the buckets i just harvested yesterday and there’s still more to be harvested that’s the tour of the high tunnel overall things are going pretty well some of the things that are on me is definitely um most of my basil has gone to seed just because I’m not harvesting it fast enough and again I’m not using that much basil i have tons of basil a lot of it for you know just for um what am I trying to say for pest control or just the scent of it and just to fill in spaces but I have more basil than I could ever use or even sell at this point and it’s hard to sell basil because once you clip it it’s hard to keep it fresh um for the customer especially if I’m going to meet them like the next day or something like that and then because you can’t put in the fridge it turns black and all that so anyway um that’s definitely on me i need to come out here and harvest even when I can’t use the herbs which is bad sometimes you just have to harvest it so that you can keep it from going to seed or keep it from bolting so that’s definitely something that I need to do um this space has been fertilized pretty well pretty much on schedule um every week or so because the rain hasn’t really affected in here because we can get in here even though it’s raining so it does not suffer as much because of the weather um with um it being inside versus outside now the extreme heat obviously green houses get real hot so even when it may be 90° outside it’s nothing but a you know it could be 120 in here but that is why especially for like my peppers and my tomatoes I I specifically do hybrid greenhouse varieties that are able to withstand high heat and high humidity so they’re specifically for the greenhouse um and so I think that helps a ton if I was doing just all heirloom peppers and tomatoes in here I would have way more disease and I would have less production for sure so you have to kind of know what your goals are what you’re doing what you’re growing in to know what type of crop and then it’s a trial and error you find crops that work good for some people that don’t work good for you and then when you find a crop that works hey stay with it stay with it so that is this space um overall doing well i got some maintenance to do like I’m sure we all do so let me show you the third and final space of this garden tour [Music] okay our third and final space is our outside inground garden this space is 4,000 square ft we have eight rows that are 100 ft long and so like I told you it started with me gardening in the back of my house with four raised beds in five years like I told you I got a little happy i just kept adding space so we’ve had this space I think for three years now this is our third summer um growing in it and we only use this space in the summertime so we do not use it for the fall and the winter all of that stuff happens in the high tunnel so I’m always excited to use this space because we only use it once a year and even though this is way more work than any of the other spaces I love growing outside in the ground so let me show you around what we have so we’ll start here in this space here that’s empty this is where our corn was we harvested our corn um a week ago and we have already pulled up the stalks um if you didn’t see that was on a previous video we harvested about I think 60 ears of corn it’s already processed in the freezer and we’ve already started more corn um to do as a succession so we’ve pulled this up we will amend these holes some more with nitrogen and we will put more corn in probably in a couple of weeks once it gets a little bit bigger um but let me take you behind where the corn was and show you what else is in this row so behind where the corn was we have our okra we have 12 okra plants um I think last year we did eight to 10 and that was plenty somehow a few more snuck in um because okra is a diva we all know that when she’s ready to be picked she’s ready to be picked um so you can see we just started getting okra coming in like that literally just happened this week that’s our first little signs of okra so I got to come back and get that because you know next week she’ll I mean tomorrow she’ll be super sized um but the okra plants overall are doing okay then here we have these four raised beds one bed is nothing but flowers but in all these other three beds we had our onions um as well as onions behind the house so we’ve harvested those and then in this bed here I’ve planted again these are some jalapeno plants that I got on clearance because I needed more jalapenos so you can see they’re looking a little rough they just got in here a couple days ago but once we fertilize I hope that they will be a okay and then in the back of this I sewed some green bean seeds that hopefully will germinate over the next few days so that’s this bed here this bed is nothing but flowers and then I got some thyme back there growing real nice that I need to come and harvest that’s some lemon thyme these are patunias I grew from seed chingula so this is just like a little mini pollinator patch these two beds are empty we’re going to do a fall round of potatoes in these two beds right here so they’ll be empty until we do potatoes in the next probably 30 days or Okay so this next row is our spicy pepper row i keep the spicy and non-spicy peppers separate um and so this row y’all has really really really struggled um I do have you know things happening like that’s cayenne and things like that but the production on this row has been less than stellar but we’re hoping that we can make up for lost time there’s cayenne on this row there’s jalapenos um and another kind of pepper that I can’t recall right now and then there’s some basil and some herbs and things like that but let me kind of tell you what’s going on with this row so there’s definitely been an overall theme of we’ve had a lot of rain but I don’t think that’s the culprit of this row this row right here was literally overtaken with weeds we have cleared the weeds out now um and so you can actually see the plant but y’all you couldn’t even see the plant versus the weeds so I think the weeds definitely choked the plant out the nutrients and everything else of the plants are looking very scraggly now also they haven’t been fertilized in like 2 to 3 weeks why because of the rain we have not been able to be out here consistently it’s like little spurts we’re in and we’re out and so they have not been fertilized this whole garden and so it is definitely um affecting some of the quality and the production of the plants but hopefully it will be um fertilized in the next 24 um to 48 hours as we kind of mellow out with the temperatures um and stuff and so this row like I said has struggled a whole lot we have harvested a few peppers but like hardly anything like what it’s supposed to but we still have them in the ground they’re still green they’re not brown so there is still hope for this row this next row is our tomato row so we have a whole row of tomatoes and it’s mixed with paste tomatoes slicing tomatoes and cherry tomatoes overall um we’ve um harvested a ton of cherry tomatoes we have not harvested one slicing tomato as of yet from this row they’re taking a little bit longer to um blush than in the tunnel now in the tunnel we had some horn worms out here i had aphids that we had to deal with um I have not seen any aphids in the last few days so they’re doing okay and so the tomatoes look good i’ll walk you down this row so that you can see we’re just waiting on them to start blushing and producing more so you can see we have plenty tomatoes on the vine and so far they’re looking good these are mostly Amish paste these big thick ones that you see oh I see some damage in this one right here we’ll take that one off oh and then you can see this now we have had some sun skull now I’ve never had suncall on my tomatoes i’ve had it mostly on my peppers but we have seen sunscall again because of the extreme heat this week that just happened this week but overall you can see we got them all pruned again you can see some damage there oh yeah I just saw this this is new this is a hornworm for sure you can tell by it being eaten right there so I need to find the horn worm you can’t speak too soon i couldn’t find it but that’s definitely hornworm damage right there so I’ll have to keep looking um this right here this is a new tomato called Cosmic Burst supposed to turn like a red but they’re producing quite well we haven’t harvested any yet um but yeah I see some tomatoes that definitely have eaten and that’s usually not the case again I don’t know if that’s the cause of fertilization water i’m not sure but overall they’re not all bad i have a ton that can be harvested I see that are the cherry tomatoes for sure but again right here you can see the parts that are exposed to the sun we have some sun skull okay this next row right beside it is the non-spicy pepper row this row has struggled as well um look at my purple basil that’s just sun right there but it has struggled as well and I’m not 100% sure why like something has definitely been eating some of these but this was also overtaken by weeds as well like that’s a weed right there that’s the actual plant see what I mean there’s some peppers there i think that’s the AI crystal pepper this is supposed to be a bell pepper the bell peppers that are coming off are smaller than what they should be but I have harvested probably 10 peppers from this row um as well but this row has definitely struggled for sure you see we have a lot of open spaces because when we pulled the weeds there was either not a plant there or the plant was so destroyed that we couldn’t keep it so I have some open spaces in this row where there were plants but the weeds just kind of overtook so I bought some more bell peppers again there’s still like a plant store that’s close to me that is having their stuff on clearance i just been going over there getting stuff and I’ll fill in some of these spaces with some more bell peppers but we’ll see if we can get these recovered more basil now this next row is the squash and zucchini row same thing it’s been on the struggle bus although we have harvested quite a bit but it has been overrun with squash bug eggs and actual squash bugs i pulled up a couple plants already but the squash have produced well the zucchini has been very very slow this year and last year was the reverse look at this you can see we’ve treated this like two or three times and the squash bugs are definitely look like they’re winning so I’m going to try one more time but I don’t know if it’s too far gone and the one that I’m really most concerned about is this one that’s like a honey nut squash because I haven’t even harvested anything off of this one yet those I’ve harvested a ton so I’m less concerned and I already have um those restarted from a succession standpoint so we can put more in the ground but this whole row has been a challenge and you can see I’ve got some squash there that look good but the zucchinis I didn’t plant as many zucchinis but you can see look at the zucchini plant and it did not have when we looked it did not have any squash bug damage but yet it has not produced well at all i want to say I might have harvested 10 zucchini and I’ve probably harvested 60 squash so very very different so definitely not the best showing on those two rows but that’s part of it y’all sometimes you win some sometimes you lose a lot now when it comes to squash I have not found anything with squash bugs that’s going to make them not show up and not wreck havoc but you can succession plant in my area because we have such a long growing season so I will succession plan but I’m almost thinking that next year what I may try is to not even do squash at the beginning of the season and wait until later on because if you wait till like August September when the vine bore has left and the squash bugs you you won’t have to contend with as much pest pressure i always can’t wait to have the squash so I do it in the beginning but I wonder if I should do my green beans where I have the squash and do a succession y’all Lexi didn’t got her a cucumber that I didn’t threw over the thing and she got in her mouth anyway um I wonder where I have the row of squash it may be better for me to do green beans and get a whole bunch of green beans at one time and maybe do two successions of those and then the last succession in that row be squashed so I don’t have to deal with the pest and you get more of a yield i don’t know that’s the best thing I can come up with now I already have squash and zucchini plant so we will pull this up it probably won’t even be here another week and we’ll just pull it up and it’ll just be bare until we can put the other stuff in the ground disappointing but that’s kind of what happens um let me know how your squash and zucchini um is doing as well and again it doesn’t look good but from a squash I really can’t complain cuz we harvested a ton of squash more than we could eat um for sure and more than I need to preserve because I’ll already still have I think I have two bags of squash left in my freezer from last year and I did one and it was okay but really for those types of things like the squash in the freezer I really prefer to use it within six months i really don’t want it to last a whole year i just rather go the last six months and not have squash so I don’t need a ton of squash cuz we don’t eat it a lot during the year but in the summertime I prefer to just eat it fresh while we still have it you know coming in and we just eat it every week but anyway let me show you the last three rows okay this row right here is a mix um 75% of excuse me 50% of the row is purple hole peas you can see they are doing well so far we already have a few forming there so it goes all the way down and then on the other side of that we have our cucumbers and then we have some tomatoes um so we’ll walk down here this is my first time doing cucumbers outside in this space and you can see I have some open spots for purple hole peas because we had a hard time with germination so I’m going to reso and see if I can fill in these open spots i hate seeing open spots i want every hole to be filled so you can see I resoed some and there’s one growing right there there’s another one growing there but then this is where we get into the tomatoes i just pruned this row so it’s looking better but it hasn’t produced anything as of yet the cucumbers we’ve harvested a ton of cucumbers but you can see they look very much like the ones inside they’ve gotten way too much water um here’s some more right here that one looks okay but harvested a ton this is what I mean about you see some of them are curved i don’t know that’s like um pollination issue and then some of them I just didn’t get that one in time and then the rest are the tomatoes down here these tomatoes look better than the ones right in front of this space again some more sun skull there but these are Amish paste and they’re doing okay now let’s move on to the next to the last row we got a few watermelons planted on this row just because we had extra they’re not really supposed to technically be in this row but we had extras i didn’t want to throw them away so you can see some watermelons are already forming there but here’s the real watermelon row right here this whole row up here y’all this that’s actually not weeds these are actually all watermelon vines so half of the row is watermelons and half of it is cantaloupe so you can see that they are growing vining all the things getting bigger as you can see we have several growing and then this row that I’m in right here is the pollinator row i have flowers um because I have the space I can do that but this is a beautiful solosia another solosia another solosia this is an ornamental grass that’s gone wild i like it when it’s not as wild oh that’s watermelons way over here watermelons need a lot of space which is why I give them all of the space there’s 3 ft on each side watermelons tucked in everywhere so this row is all flowers as you can see so I need to come out here and harvest and make some bouquets the sunflowers are looking bad but the rest of the flowers look pretty good and then this row right beside it like I said are watermelons and cantaloupe so the cantaloupe starts right in here you can see we already have some cantaloupe forming there plenty of flowers so hopefully we will have a great cantaloupe and watermelon harvest these flowers are stunning this is a whole weed that needs to come out okay y’all that is it that is a full garden tour a couple of um I guess notes about this particular space again it’s outside it’s getting direct sun most of the day and we’ve had a ton of rain so some of that is causing some of the quality of the crops to look bad the rain the intense heat and then also they have not been fertilized as regular as those in there but overall we still have food um and so it’s not a complete loss or a complete wash the squash and the zucchini we kind of expect that but again we can plant more so again all is not lost and so I want to say that because if you’re experiencing some of the same things in your area and especially if you have a long growing season you can do a lot of things um over again your squash your zucchini your cucumbers your basil your sunflowers all that stuff you can do over again and give it another go and as the temperatures get cooler you’ll tend to have a lot less pest pressure uh but one thing that we can control is the weather we can control how we show up when we show up what we plan all that but we cannot control the weather so we do the best that we can with what we have and we hope and we pray for the best so overall again there are some disappointments and things that just don’t look good but overall I’m still pleased with how things are turning out we are still harvesting um a ton of food we’re not at peak yet but my counters right now are covered and again peak season for us is usually around July so this is still the beginning of the season for us we have our first frost date is not until October so we still got some miles to go before we call it a wrap for the summer but I hope that your gardens are doing 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