Vegetable Gardening Successes for June in Texas Zone 9a With a Little Sarcasm.

My successes in the vegetable garden for summer of 2025. Sometimes you have to adjust your definition of success!

hi welcome to the garden today and today it’s going to be a little bit different than the last couple of videos we’re going to talk about the su the successes we have in the garden and why ours is growing good we’ve had nine out of the last 10 days we’ve gotten at least some rain it rained again today they weren’t really predicting it but when when you get 20% chance of rain you’ve been getting rain every day you tend to get a rain so it rained pretty hard uh but here is my peas they have been a true success uh so far they’re doing really well uh I we already got one picking off of the the uh the cow peas it’s silver uh s Mississippi silver skin cowpas like I say they’re loaded up they’re doing really good the other success story we’ve had with these is well there he went if I can find a market for stink bugs or for leaf leafooted bugs I can retire today uh because that’s another thing we’ve been very successful at uh you’ll also notice another success that I’ve had is a piculio and they make these little knobs in here and see one there there’s another stink bug so these little bite marks are I believe the piculio so and again here’s here’s some more here’s some more leafooted but uh here’s some more stink bugs so we can find a market for those yeah we can do really well but anyway the uh now I call them purple they’re not actually purple hole they are brown crowder peas they’re doing well the uh beans over here I need to pick them again we picked them twice uh they’re the uh green blaze hosenator beans and uh I think we can get another Yeah you know they’re they’re kind of loaded up you can get down here and see them uh again they’re starting to get marked up potted up by different things uh starting to get some diseases i think we will get another crop off of it my uh okra we planted it got a really good crop and yes I’m going to cut this stupid thing down finally and they’re looking good uh they should go ahead and really take off plant them too thick uh I’ll let them get up a little bit taller then I’ll start taking some out uh I want them about a foot apart and that’ll do well so since we’re talking about successes the other side these are the other peas I planted later again when I say peas we’re talking about field peas or cow peas uh in the south that’s what we call them i know they’re actually a bean but we call them peas and uh they’re looking really well only thing that kind of concerns me we’re already getting the pressure over there and they will go from there to over here but uh you know so far it’s okay i’ve kept the weeds down over here now these weeds here you’ll see some down there at the end some grassy weeds i went through there and I cut the weeds out and later that afternoon i think I did that in the morning later that afternoon we got a rain so but I did probably kill some of those really small ones got the two trelluses up here they didn’t blow over so that’s a success i haven’t put the the other uh string down i don’t have probably as many as I wish I had especially over here uh something cutworms or something have cut some of them down i’m hoping that they’ve got big enough that they’re going ahead and go ahead and make these are a uh Mandy red ripper pee they will grow vines up all over this thing they’ll completely cover this thing up uh we have had problems in the past with birds since they’re up high enough the birds seem to like the seeds and they will get in there and strip the pods out of everything but we’ll see if that happens this time or not uh I do still think about planting a row in here or maybe two rows of the more peas just to be growing some i got plenty of seed uh just had got around to doing that seemed like every time I get ready to do that it starts raining but anyway the other success we had growing is up over here and again this is with the corn we’ll start on this end we won’t look at that end down there cuz that wasn’t successful well I guess we will we got to walk down there but uh this was some if y’all noticed uh last year when I showed the when they had a purple uh color to the the stocks I planted from that corn cob all these uh but we do got them going well so far the possum has not come back uh which is good i tried to trap him he would he hasn’t gotten in the trap i put the trap out in the pasture so we get away from the chickens and the horse decided to he wanted the the corn that I had in it so he he set the trap so that didn’t do well uh this has been a success as far as the ch bonio I say different every time it’s produced some fruit and done some well uh and then we did get some early um watch out for the vines we did get some Oh well I left it out here too long what I’m going to do is cut that though cuz this may seem like a failure we’re going to use this for some for the tadpoles uh so they can eat on some stuff uh and again this corn is looking good i think we’re going to make successful and one Uh you do have to kind of watch out now a hitting this pretty hard right in here so I might spray some spin set on it uh that there i’m not sure that might be an assassin bug which is actually a good bug so I won’t kill him but uh the stuff that blew over has kind of straightened itself back up a little bit uh it’s doing all right the watermelon so far has been successful uh I have I can’t get over there uh but we got several got one here one there one there that one over there’s about ready in fact it shows you be ready but on your first watermelons you want to wait about a week after you think they’re ready because they just take forever and he’s got another one beside it here so I got one two three four five six six watermelons all out of all this so and probably some more out there but uh you know seven i’m sure there’s probably I probably got 10 out there if I look hard enough so that has been successful if we don’t step on the vines and uh and that’s nice it’s nice to grow watermelons uh they can be kind of difficult the hardest thing I have found on a watermelon is finding out when that watermelon is ready uh seem like time and again I will especially on the first one you’ll cut that watermelon out up and it’s not ready yet you should have waited so I’m trying to wait long enough this time uh and first when I first started gardening I had like 10 water out of 10 watermelons I might get one of them that was at the perfect ripeness and there’s no man or no he went over man my age uh he was a the uh county judge in Paduca Texas and it’s kind of rotten all the way through but uh he could tell by thumping them and patting on them and basically if you took what he said you’d have a perfect watermelon every time and he’ll tell you are you he’d pick them out for you he say are you going to eat it today or you going to wait for a couple of days and if he says you’re going to wait for a couple of days well you need this one because it’s not quite ready but it will be by the time that you cut it open and sure enough if you did what he said it was a perfect rotteness every time he was just he had a talent for that and uh but he would meet up there at the county courthouse on the courthouse square where people would sell some stuff and uh that’s what he would do i’ve never been able to do that i can tell h i think there’s tadpoles in here there was earlier i know there’s tadpoles up at the house i just seen them and that would give them something to eat another success that I’ve done this year if you want to be able to grow tomatoes that split if there’s a market for that those tomatoes are it man almost every one of them split if that’s what you want that’s a success i did have a successful tomato crop we got a lot of tomatoes off of them uh we gave some tomatoes away some people supposed to even come and pick them up they never to come by so it was a successful tomato harvest uh and like I say if you like split tomatoes I’m your man right this year so you just got to define your successes now if you want to have a successful peach tree that looks good that never produces fruit this has been successful this tree has been here four or five years has not produced one peach for me yet and if that was my objective I have been successful with that peach uh I almost cut it down this year i would probably give it one more year because I tend to I’ve always had the bad feeling that if you if you wait if you don’t wait long enough for a peach tree it might have made really good the next year because these last year was highly successful in setting fruit is highly successful in growing the fruit in fact it was breaking the tree because they had too many peaches on it and then we got a bunch of rain like we did this year also and they all rotted on me uh another success has been the uh grape vines they’ve grown everywhere and I do got some grapes somewhere i don’t know one of these vines i’ll go show you over there but that’s a beauty berry bush it’s called American Beauty Berry it was a small bush it’s got a bunch of flowers on it it’s probably going to make a lot of fruit u some people say you can make jelly out of fruit i have eaten the berries before uh basically they have no taste to them but if you put enough sugar in them you can make jelly out of anything so but I will be successful there over here as far as growing sprouts for these uh plums I’ve was very successful in growing the sprouts i had a lot of plums i just didn’t get a chance to re get up here and pick them when I needed to so they’ve kind of rotted on me but that’s they did produce the fruits i didn’t take all these fruits off uh that’s went bad but that’s not really the tree’s fault that was mine uh the ujitsu has made it look like it’s going to be very successful this year it’s put on a lot of it’s got a lot of uh citrus on it it’s a lemonade tree uh basically you can it’s name to fame is you can take it and uh make it easier to walk through here and you can when these things ripen you can eat just like you would with would an orange but they’re they’re they got a a mild lemon flavor to them they don’t make good if you’re going to try to make uh put lemon in teas or whatever it’s too mild a flavor but if you’re going to eat if you’re going to do them straight they also make good uh lemonade you have to add a little bit of sugar but not near as much as you would regular sugar and as you can see uh let’s see if we can get over here somewhere in here i’ve got some now if you see me go to dancing son you know to run cuz it’s a snake i’ve also grew a crop of rats this year in the garden so and I know a lot of people don’t like it sometime in the garden because I’ll see a snake i don’t mind snakes because snakes are slower than I am i can handle the snake uh you know if a snake I stepped on a snake one time yes I did my I did my little dance and I did some hollering but he’s he ran away and and I just watched out for him we we we can coexist them freaking little rats they’re faster than I am and as any guy will know if that rat gets up your legs you’re in a world of hurt ask any guy cuz there’s some vulnerable areas that we have that’s a fear of mine my mom had that fear she passed it on to me cuz she knew somebody her uncle or somebody rat ran up his leg supposedly uh but anyway I hate rats i do not believe in putting out poison for rats in the barn because you might have secondary poisoning until a rat ran across my foot and then I changed my beliefs so some of my beliefs are very hard belief some some beliefs can change i just seen Okay here’s the grapes over here and I say they’re not made yet but they’re going to now my idea so that’s a success my idea these tost I put these tost in here and I was going to run some wire and and I was going to do that four or five years ago and I haven’t done it yet i’m gonna have to do something u I’ve done a good job of growing a lot of sprouts for the for the blackberries this here is a pumpkin uh blackberry sprout that’s not supposed to be growing here i need to cut it down and move it or give to somebody there’s the pumpkin blackberry overwrap when they overwrap you don’t want to look at them too close uh actually I need to get this stuff in in control but and then here check out some of the the I mean the citrus has done well we did have really cold winter and it made it i did get in here and cut that thing down just poke weed these berries here are poisonous from what I understand uh my biggest fear is fact uh I’m not I know not to eat them but when you got horses and things of that nature they’re not always that smart we’ll walk through here and try not to fall down i am going to be making a video hopefully uh okay here’s why I came i knew I came in here for some reason huh you don’t need to show that this is the other chambi oh man well yeah that didn’t work out i was going to let this harden up you still use this part here we just won’t show Kelly that part so she won’t know and there’s the stupidest anyway that’s going to be a pretty picture I was going to make but it rotted on me got too much rain can you hold that one so we use the other one and normally you’d make them when they’re smaller than this or or less ripe and this I was trying to get it where it would be a it would be good for uh a winter squash type see how it works that way we probably still cut this up and let her put it in the oven see how see how they do but uh anyway it it was started over there came over here came around came up this trellis they do like to be on trelluses um and then over here by the way I use live trap so anybody wondering about whenever I talk about trapping a possum whatever i do use live traps uh because I mean I’m going to take care of the possum he ain’t going to suffer but you don’t want to use you know some of the the the other kind of traps because that that cook their legs because you don’t want to catch a cat i mean I’ve caught cats in these traps i’ve caught chickens in the trap so you know you you want to you want one that you can actually you have to check them every day uh sometimes twice a day when it’s hot and also the trap I had last night I set the trap out uh and came out early this morning and then I set the trap so I wouldn’t get chickens or something else in the trap so they won’t have to go through the heat of the day we’re just going to be out uh for a little while anyway this is where I was going to redo my u u raised beds and I planted the peas in it it’s so far been a success it’s kept the weeds down pretty good uh it’s climbing up there i am if I get around to doing it i’m going to try experiment i’m gonna put up some uh when I tear out the tomatoes I’m going to put up some uh panels and and trellus them up i may not do the panels may just do the the um string put up the string in there tie it up and see if I can get these things here that’s not a trailing uh pee and see if they trail up see if it helps do a better job i will say a lot of people like the u ground cherries they grow wild here and that’s a ground cherry there uh we don’t like the flavor of them there’s another one over there see that one over there so it made it and we’ll see them pop up every once in a while uh I just we tried them and they all kind of the first part of the taste wasn’t bad but they all had an aftertaste to it that we didn’t enjoy we didn’t try and and different people taste things differently uh one reason I took out the blackberries was this here there’s a disease that these things get you really can’t tell it now over here none of these here made blackberries even though they had blooms on them there’s a orange rust or something that gets on them and they just don’t and even the berries here you know that’s not the that should be black it shouldn’t have that red on it u they start out red but that different than it should be so you know they were getting diseased up so I was going to take them out that way but anyway that’s the success stories uh sometimes you got to look for successes where you can uh yeah sometimes I like I say if I can find that market for the stink bugs and and the other deals uh we do really well uh but that’s part of gardening uh you got to look for successes wherever you can and once it starts raining like we had nine out of 10 10 days we’ve had rain bug pressure disease pressure and all that kicks in so what you think is a good thing get too much of anything is not good and we just had too much rain but anything thank anyway thanks for watching i’ll see you next time