Its been such a odd year this year in my backyard garden. Let’s walk around and let me show you whats been going on now that it’s august!
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Good morning, guys, and welcome back. If you’re new here, hi, I’m Bri. I garden in Kansas Zone 7. And today, I’m going to give you a tour of my backyard garden here in the month of August. I will say if you’re new here, you might just want to go to a different garden tour because this season has not been it for me. It’s probably been one of the worst seasons I’ve had in years. You probably wouldn’t notice cuz the pumpkins are actually really thriving. And I’m really proud of the pumpkins this year because I finally found a vine board resistant variety. But I will link August of 2024’s up above because that was probably one of the best August I have ever had growing food. This season has just been really difficult. It’s been hard as far as weather and just everyday life. And you’ll see I have gaps in the garden. Things still aren’t thriving. They still aren’t booming compared to last year. I was actually going back and looking back at August this morning. So I was really curious on how terrible the lofah was doing and things like that. But I still wanted to show you guys around cuz I have done these tours every month through the gardening season. I want to say for 5 years now. And even though this garden isn’t up to par or thriving like I would want, I still want to show you guys the ups and downs of gardening. So without further ado, let’s just start where we’re at. This is the pumpkins. Like I mentioned this year, I finally found a vinebore resistant variety. So if you’ve had issues with vinebore this year, there are vinebore resistant varieties of squash. And the one thing I really noticed that’s different between these varieties is the vine is a lot thinner than a traditional squash. So the vine bore can’t bore into that vine and then kill your squash variety. So I have grown a honey nut variety that we will get to in a little bit. I’ve grown that for a few years now and it’s done really well for me. And then I stumbled on this Long Island cheese pumpkin and it’s been doing so good. I want to say I have four going on. Six. Uh, sorry, I got distracted. There is Boschbug eggs here. So, I need to go ahead and just kill these. But, this one’s the furthest along and it’s really starting to change color and fill out. It’s looking like it’s starting to get a little yellow at the base of the vine. So, I feel like this one’s going to be getting done pretty quickly, but this is one of the few areas in the garden that is actually thriving right now. So, let’s go ahead and jump to the front and I’ll show you guys everything else. Actually, first, let me go grab my torch lighter and get these eggs killed. All right, so I’ve still had some issues with squash bugs. That just kind of happens when you’re growing any type of squash variety, but I’ve been really able to get ahead of it this year. I haven’t really had much issues. There has been squash bugs and plenty of eggs to manage, but they’re not messing with the plants because I check on them every few days and I get anything I can. But as you can see, the garden doesn’t look terrible. But we are still roughly 3 or 4 weeks behind of where we were at last year. So things just still feel really slow. I still have sunflowers that aren’t fully blooming. My corn over here is still pretty small. and it’s just not as full as it’s been over the last few years. So, in the front here, I have different Zenya varieties. I will say the ballerina Zenya this year has been an all-time favorite. It was a new one for me. I’ve grown the Queeny Lime series in the past, but these ballerinas have blooms that are like huge. They’re almost peony like, and I absolutely love this variety, and I highly suggest it. But we just have various flowers up here. This was a volunteer sunflower that popped up. This was where my garlic was at the beginning of the year. And I have now planted it out with corn. And then in the other bed where I had my garlic, I planted out a few more peppers that I had ready, a few flowers and tomatoes. We will get into my tomato saga this year in just a little bit. But a lot of that stuff is just now starting to put on a little bit of fruit and then we just cooled down. We cooled down for the last week and I have a feeling this August will be really similar to last August where we just ended up getting cooler and things really didn’t grow that much when typically our August are really hot. We still haven’t had a single day over 100 this year which is really really odd for us. The one thing I absolutely love about these ballerina zenyas, as you can see, it almost looks like a paint splatter along the edge, and I just think it’s absolutely beautiful. And all of them have different tones as well. So, this one here is really light in color and has these beautiful edges. I think this one is probably one of my absolute favorites in the garden. And then we have ones over here that are a little bit more dainty, but more pink and fluffy. Here’s one of the ballerinas that’s just the most beautiful pastel pink you could ever imagine. With the corn, I planted this about four weeks ago, so it’s now just starting to pick up. Corn will really start to take off here soon. But I had all of the teddy bear sunflowers right here, which is the ones that look like the goldies here, but they’re shorter. They’re about 2 to three feet in height. And I really, really liked them. They were in early bloom. because they didn’t bloom continuously like I thought they would like how the goldies do. And I will say my goldies this year are just they’re not thriving compared to how they have in previous years. Uh they’ve been hit by birds. I have different blooms that are just hanging off for dear life. You can see this one here got hit by a bird. So that kind of sucks. But I’m just still happy I got blooms with the goldies this year. Like they’re still beautiful. Well, you can see that one right there is a bit dead. So, I actually think let’s make a little smiley face out of this guy. Oh my gosh. Okay, maybe my smiley face is just not going to work with this. It’s going to look like uh the green guy from Sesame Street that lives in a dumpster. That is definitely not the He looks like an angry smile. Okay. Yeah, that’s definitely looks a little scary. So, one of the things I’m a little bit disappointed in this year is the cantaloupe. If you do jump to the 2024 garden tour, I start with cantaloupe and you will just see what I’m talking about. These this trellis just hasn’t even filled out at all. And I have gotten three cantaloupes so far. They do taste amazing. I will say that. But I had like I had so many cantaloupes last year and this was probably one of the most beautiful areas of the garden and it is just not that. I do think I have I do have a few that look ready this morning. Got this guy and then I think I have one other one actually. I do looks like we have five cantaloupes now. But this plant also isn’t putting on blooms. It’s not putting on new fruit. I really don’t think I’m gonna get much more cantaloupe outside of what I think I have three or four set between all the cantaloupe plants I have. Still love this. It’s just not the best year. And I think it’s mostly due just how wet and cool of a season we have had. July was hot and humid though and that has affected the tomatoes that I will talk about in a little bit. But I love this cantaloupe. is a variety called the Hails Jumbo. These also aren’t as big as last year. Last year I had one that almost hit 9 lb, which was crazy. This is still plenty cantaloupe. Honestly, the one thing that’s really odd is where I had the honeydew last year. I also planted cantaloupe and I’m pretty sure I ended up pulling the cantaloupe sprouts and I left some volunteer honeydews. I really didn’t want to grow honeydew this year cuz it did not do well for me last year. So, we’ll see how that goes. But, we got two cantaloupes this morning, so I definitely can’t be disappointed. If you’ve never grown a melon before, or if you’ve had issues growing watermelon, things like that, cantaloupe I have found to be the most beginner friendly melon, and it’s honestly the only melon I’ve grown so far that I actually really enjoy. So, the cantaloupe naturally detaches from the vine, making it almost foolproof for harvest because it just detaches itself. That’s one reason why I had this little netting on it. You’ll see I have the netting on the pumpkins and things like that, but the pumpkin won’t naturally detach. That is simply just to kind of help any stress on the vine with those big plants, but I have to have these cradles on the cantaloupe because if they’re ready to go, they will just fall in the middle of the night. I have had a few crack on me way in the past or they’ve fallen and an animal like a raccoon or a possum has got to them. So really love the melon cradles for the cantaloupe. So if you do decide to grow cantaloupe almost know you might need to figure out a solution to hang your melons with. Bell peppers are just doing phenomenal this year. And I actually have some yellow ones this year. I planted out yellow, orange, and red. And it looks like my first yellow. And I have a few red as well that are also doing well. I’ll go show you. But look at uh these Thai chilies. So, I was gifted these seeds from someone uh my husband works with and they have saved the seeds. They’ve grown these Thai chilis in Kansas for years and they are just producing like crazy. I definitely need to harvest these for some hot sauces or make some um chili flakes. And so out of all things this year, the peppers are thriving, which honestly kind of stinks because a lot of these peppers I was growing to make different salsa with with the tomatoes over here, which are just so disappointing. But with the peppers, I am going to freeze dry a bunch of them and save them for hot sauce. So last year, I did this experiment where I ended up saving a ton of my extra peppers and I freeze-dried them. I made a pepper powder and then I was able to make hot sauce with that pepper powder. And I think I will have absolutely plenty of peppers to make hot sauce with. So, I’m currently letting a lot Oh, wow. This plant has a lot. So, I actually might be able to go ahead and make a batch of Sriracha. Maybe I will do that this week. You can see all of these jalapenos are starting to turn red. And jalapeno will turn red when it is fully fully mature. So, this is what you make Sriracha out of. And last year I made so many batches of Sriracha and absolutely loved it. So I’m letting a lot of these turn red at the moment. And gosh, I actually have way more than I was thinking. Definitely be making some Sriracha this week. But if we backtrack a little bit, here is the honey nut squash. This honey nut squash is a butternut squash hybrid that is obviously vinebore resistant. I do know the butternut is a little bit more uh vinebore resistant, but it’s just a personal size little squash. I can’t ever seem to find enough things to do with a big squash. So, I do like these individual kind of size squashes. I have used these for pumpkin pies and things like that. You can see how thin of a vine this is compared to a traditional squash. Let me show you guys what the Long Island cheese pumpkin looks like as well. It’s a little bit bigger, but it’s still a really thin vine. Kind of like a lofah. Aloofah has a very similar vine to this. So, I’ve never had issues growing lofah as well. But these are really starting to turn. I think I’ll be able to harvest a few of these here pretty soon. They don’t have too much more color to change. Before we jump over to the trelluses and stuff, let’s go ahead and chat tomatoes. So, at the beginning of the year, I had all of my tomatoes planted and unfortunately I had a neighbor spray and knocked out 99% of my tomatoes. So, I pretty much had to start from scratch. And the problem that’s currently going on is I really thought I’d at least probably get a second wave or in this case a first wave of tomatoes. I’ve probably only been able to harvest maximum 10 to 15 pounds of tomatoes this year when at this point last year I was probably already at about 150 maybe 200 lb of tomatoes. That is how amazing of a tomato year I had. I’m actually still working through the last little bit of my 2024 harvest. I was actually able to get a whole year’s worth of salsa and we did not go light on the salsa. I am talking we went through roughly one to maybe three jars a week on the salsa. I had crushed tomatoes. I actually still have crushed tomatoes and some tomato sauce left from last year. So hopefully that will help out. I was able to do one batch of salsa so far this year. One thing I’m thinking I’m going to need to do is just hit up some farmers markets, especially with how good of a pepper year I’m having, and just buy some tomatoes. But that is what happened. And all of my tomatoes got knocked out because a neighbor was spraying for poison ivy and there was drift that happened in my garden and it honestly knocked out all of my tomatoes. It was really disappointing. I’m officially over that because this summer has just been crazy and hectic in my personal life. And I honestly feel like if I would have had hundreds of pounds of tomatoes to deal with in July and beginning of August, I would have been way too overwhelmed because July was absolutely crazy over here. So, what’s currently happening right now is these plants are finally at the point where they are putting on some flowers, but we’ve been so hot that the first round of flowers that these plants put on, they just didn’t set any fruit. So, one thing you may not know is if it’s over 95°, a lot of the times your plants won’t end up fruing. That is an outlier type thing. I have had fruits form on these plants, but you’re looking at plants right now that have zero tomatoes on them. The only tomatoes I’ve been able to get are from two of my plants that didn’t get hit. And then you have things like this where I was waiting for this tomato just get a little bit more ripe cuz it was huge off of the one plant that has been doing well and something ate it last night. So, this has happened to me like four times this year, and it’s really, really annoying just because I already have limited tomatoes. Anyway, here, I’m going to throw these to the chickens over here, cuz they’ve been yelling at me for a treat. Anyway, there you go. I think one of those things that I am really disappointed in this year is the lofah. The lofah is not thriving, guys. I have what, five lofah on here right now when at this point last year I probably had over 20. So I’m really thinking at this point these are going to be the only lofah that actually dry on the vine for me and I don’t see any new ones producing in the last few weeks at all. It’s going to be one of those things I’ll keep an eye on. So last year I played around a lot with harvesting my lofah green at the end of the season cuz last year I had over 80 lofah on this trellis tunnel and this year I added eight more feet of tunnel thinking I was going to have this great amazing year and it’s just the the whole tunnel guys is just not filled out. This has been probably one of the most disappointing trellis tunnels. It’s just kind of the theme of the year to be honest. So, I did harvest a bunch of them green. And when they’re kind of like this, and they’re starting to get to the point where you can tell they’re a little bit squishy, they’re maybe a little bit hollow. It’s actually really easy to peel a loofah at this stage and to be able to get your sponge really easily. So, this one here is probably one that you’d be able to peel really easily. This one might not be. And one thing you can do is put your oven I don’t need to double check what I did last year, but you put your oven pretty low and you let them just kind of sit in your oven for about an hour and it really eases up that skin making it really easy to peel. This is by far the easiest way I have found to process green lofah cuz I want to say I processed around 40 or so last year when they were green. Lofah takes a very long time. I even planted this lofah a whole week early this year. I planted the whole garden a whole week earlier than I have in previous years, thinking, “Oh, I’m ahead of it.” Like, we had a warmer uh beginning of spring and then we just stayed really cool in the spring. So, it’s just the ongoing thing. But, I did want to show you guys how the lofah is looking because this is definitely definitely my worst lofah year. I can say that with confidence. It is not it’s not a good lofah year. But at the very end of the trellis, I have something new I’ve been growing. And I have two back there, and they look really cool. So, let me show you them. This is another gourd variety I decided to grow this year. This is a cacuzzi gourd. And these can get to 3 to 4 feet in length, and they’re more like a zucchini. They’re really, really fuzzy, and the leaves feel like velvet. I have found this to be really, really interesting and cool just to try this year because I’ve had really good luck with gourds. So, I was like, let me try another gourd and put it at the very end of the trellis and see if I can get the lofah and the cacuzzi to meet up. They haven’t they haven’t met up quite yet, but I’m excited to at least get a few of these. I obviously don’t need a lot of them because they are so big. I don’t know what I would do if I had a ton of these, but I think it’s really really just a cool thing to grow. From everything I’ve read, they’re very much like a zucchini, which I will say if you harvest a lofah when they are young, when they’re still green and they’re not massive, they are almost identical to a zucchini. And the one thing I have been so excited to show you guys is this hyestin bean. So, the hyasin bean is a new one for me this year. It is not edible. I will note that. But this trellis here has always been something I had a huge issue getting anything to thrive because this area gets a lot of shade during peak summer and I really just wanted to try the hyasin bean because it’s just beautiful. It puts on these gorgeous purple blooms and then they turn into these purple seed pods. And I’m about to get a whole another wave of these gorgeous purple blooms cuz at this point the blooms that are currently on here are starting to kind of die back and put on their little seed pods. But I’m really hoping I can save a good amount of seeds from this hyin bean and be able just to continuously plant them. I have absolutely fallen in love with just how whimsical this plant looks and I will definitely be growing this again. One thing you may have noticed in this back little corner is I don’t have anything planted in this inground space other than a volunteer sunflower and the hyestin beans. And then this is where I had the onions and this is where I had the strawberries. So strawberries weren’t doing well. I really feel like I need to just get all new plants at this point. These plants I originally got I want to say six or seven years ago and I have used the runners but I also think this area just got a little too shady and it was just one of those situations that wasn’t working. So I have these three beds open at the moment. I have all of my inground space at the moment open and again July was crazy busy in my personal life and with how this year is going I am just not going to do a fall garden. I have done fall gardens for the last probably five years or so and they have never really fully thrived for me. What ends up happening is we kind of just stay hot for far too long and then we dip really cool all of a sudden and our days are just short at that point. So it is really hard to get a really good wave in the fall. I have had good luck with things like bok choy, lettuce, radishes, beets, those quick crops, but anything like a broccoli or a cabbage or things like that, they just take a little bit too long and we stay too hot for them to thrive. So, to give myself some grace this summer since it has been such a hectic year all around, I’m just not going to even mess with a fall garden. So, I already have areas in the garden that are completely clear, which is very abnormal for me in the month of August. At this point, I’ve typically planted out my fall garden. And yeah, I’m I won’t lie, I’m a little sad to see gaps in the garden, but it’s kind of just helping my sanity at the moment. This year has just really proven to me that when you have a good thriving season to do as much as you possibly can with everything coming out of your garden because you just you just don’t know how the next season might be. And I it’s just one of those years where we aren’t thriving this year. And last year we had the best garden we’ve ever had in eight years. So it’s just funny to really see the difference. I had so many good ideas, so many plans. I expanded the garden this year and it’s just definitely not producing the way I would have wished. But I wanted to show you guys that gardening definitely has up and down seasons. And if you’re having a season that might not be going as you wish, don’t give up. There’s plenty more to come. Just take it with a with a grain of salt and hope for a better year next year. I’m sure this is probably one of the shortest garden tours I’ve probably ever made because there just again wasn’t a lot to talk about. We are still getting food out of this garden. We’re still getting some really cool things that we are harvesting, but it’s just not the abundance I would have wished for, but it is what it is and I just wanted to show you guys the garden today. So, thank you guys so much for being here. I will try to be a little bit more present in August. I I definitely did not get as many videos out in July as I would have wished. But as always, I really appreciate you guys watching and being here, and I will see you guys all in the next video. Bye.
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Thank you for sharing!!
Last year was my first garden, all thanks to me stumbling onto your videos! It was a great year and I decided to double my garden this year. Then the weather came. Here in Ohio we had a very cold wet spring, then we transitioned to a super humid summer. I planted over 30 tomatoes this year and they ALL HAVE BLIGHT! It is so disheartening. BUT you have given me the courage to say, “this year was awful, but there will be other years” hang in there girl and know you aren’t alone!
It has been such an odd year, I'm zone 7a (VA) and while my tomatoes have done well, cucumbers have been a bust. I'm hoping for better from our fall garden! 🤞
Same hun! This season has not been great for me either. Super delayed!
LoL 😂 Smilie face turned out a little scary! I'm going to have to remember to do that to my sunflowers 🌻 for Halloween decorations!😂❤😂
Love your positive attitude to a disappointing garden year. ❤❤❤
Out of curiosity, did you use loofa seeds from a store-bought package? or did you collect seeds from last year‘s harvest? A cool experiment for next summer, use seeds you harvested yourself one plant and store-bought seeds and see what does better
3rd year loofah grower.. & not a single flower 😭🤣🫠 idk what I’m doing wrong haha.
Also, your cantaloupes are amazing! I have one that looks like it should be ripe in a week or so. & 6 to 8 that hopefully pollinated this past weekend. This coming week in the PNW area we are having our first week of 60° nights! We’ve been barely hitting 55° at night all summer.
I was super excited about my brand new arch tunnel I put in this year and wished for pumpkins and squash and watermelons to be dangling down as a walked through….squash vine borer killed every single squash plant. Very disappointing. All of my broccoli and cauliflower bolted this spring. My tomatoes are covered in blight. Not a great gardening year for anyone I hear.
The Canadian wildfire smoke is making my garden so sad
I completely feel you. I'm in south central Nebraska and our weather this year has been alllll over the place. My cantaloupe is NOT doing okay. It still hasn't produced fruit. Just been a weird year! My jalapenos and okra have thrived, but everything else not so much. All we can do is keep our chins up and hope for a better year next year!
My first tomatoad bossom end rot. I put egg shellsin te soil too. But I have 2 tomatoes to eat & the green bean climbers have a blight. I see theres a bean to be picked now. Only a handful on te vines, but theyre blooming. For all the watering, etc. not good.
Bre, thank you for being you. Forget about the garden. I hope you are doing okay? Do what is important at the time, and give yourself grace. Love your videos. ❤
Where do you get your hot sause/ Strachan recipies from?
I planted watermelon out in time and fertilized it really good, it still only has two sets of true leaves and I don’t think there’s enough time left to get any fruit 😢 my onion harvest was great though so trying to look at the positives 😅
You could plant kailaan instead of broccoli since it is very fast growing.
I seen the green guy too 😂……but the more I look at it I see jack from the night before Christmas. I'm not impressed with my garden at all this year either. Hopefully I can do a better job in years to come
Bree Ellis showing off that older trellis tunnel and those new melon pumpkin nets
It's been an unsatisfactory garden year for me too here in zone 7b.
We love Sriracha! Do you mind sharing your recipe?
I love your attitude of taking everything in stride. Ever year is different. Years like this make abundance even more valuable. Wishing you peace!
Those hyacinth beans are very edible
This summer was so hard for gardening! My Roma tomatoes had so many issues that I actually just tore them all out today because I was doneeeee. Cherry tomatoes have been a rockstar crop this year though!
Bre, we need our bees🐝pollinating!💛💚♥️
My luffa is doing not so good either 😩 barely wants to grow. Watermelon is thriving im curious to know if it’ll end up fruiting.
Im in Northern New Jersey and we have had so many days over 100 and my cucumbers and zucchini are thriving but my cherry tomatoes are not. This is my second year so not growing too much yet but I will be expanding next year
Hello from North FL. I don't know if you talked about it bfore whats that hanfheld thing you used to zap bugs eggs? I got overwhelmed w squash bugs I pulled all vines out I'm afraid there are eggs in soil that will come alive next season.
I wish my garden looked half as good as yours, already planning for next year. Lol
The cool wet spring and summer has made a lot of gardens wonky!
I started growing luffas last year because you inspired me! They did great and I was super exited this year and so far I have 0 from 8 plants, no bug issues I have been feeding them and I cannot be more sad. The conclusion I have come to is that when we got 7 inches of rain in 3 days (it would not stop raining) they got drowned.
Your life is busy and your garden is not. Sounds almost like your garden is inline with your soul and they conspired to help you. Embrace the slow moments —busy ones are always coming!
I'm glad you're able to laugh about it! Gardening is a real roller-coaster like that.
I did wonder if you some of the issue you're having with underproduction is because you have placed crops in the same place? Obviously I only see snapshots so maybe you're doing other things to replenish the soil, but crop rotation was something I didnt really consider the first few years and then I had a season like you're having, and it was because the soil was depleted in specific ways to each plant. I'm sure the weather and the spray floating over didnt help either! But this is why its so good you document everything, you can experiment and see what works.
I grew luffa this year because you inspired me. I only have room for one plant (thanks for sharing how big they get) and it has been thriving on neglect. I’ve harvested one and have been using it but I’ve got another 15 on the plant. I’m so happy about it but so upset for you at the same time.
They eat hyacinth bean a lot in India. You have to cook it to make them edible.. I personally just grow them for the flowers. 💐
100% the same. Barley any tomatoes, corn looks sad, zucchini have powdery mildew, jalapeños have grubs in them. But my pumpkins have a bunch coming. I also have plenty of tomato products canned to get through the year so it is what it is. Next year will be better.
Have you considered the soil is contaminated with the spray? Maybe that is why your garden isn't doing as well. Roots and Refuge had some contaminated soil and they did some things to fix it. It was a couple years ago and they did several videos about it.
Honestly, as a newer gardener, this makes me feel a lot better. That even experienced gardeners like you still have rough years and I really appreciate you sharing it.
lol your scarecrow flower 😄
Your Peppers are amazing! 🫑🌶
Sharing interesting and fun videos is really great, I like and am amazed by this method. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Here in NC, we had a huge heatwave and a month solid of no rain. I lost basically every single squash plant to pests and then the heat. We had a very weird spring where all my plants wouldn't grow, at all, acted like they were starved, despite being fed and watered. My tomatoes from seed basically did not grow a single inch for 4 months, and are now in the last few weeks taking off. It has been an insane year in the garden. Very disheartening. I have never had this much trouble in my entire gardening experience. All your plants look great.
Hey Bre. One of the groups I’m in for loofah the guy who leads the group says right now, if you take toothpicks or a push pins and push them into/through the main vine, it’ll put the loofah into survival mode and make it push female flowers…. I couldn’t find an email for you, but I wanted to send you a picture of what he did.
I’m in Southwest Ohio and I’m finally getting female flowers and little loofah. I have not done this yet but if I don’t see what I want by the 15th I’m going to do this. !!
Love the garden, but you dont need the nets for the pumpklins. They will support themselfs 🙂
even farmers who have grown their entire lives have bad years. growing food is far less dependent on the grower than I think we sometimes believe. we can facilitate, but ultimately we have very little control over the outcome.
working in tandem with mother nature is so rewarding, and so worthwhile, but sometimes she feels more like an adversary than a partner. you are handling a very hard season with admirable grace, and to be honest, I think that attitude is one of the most valuable things that a grower can cultivate.
cheers to every little thing feeling like a major win next season!
as in life, some seasons are far more abundant than others. keep your head up and focus on the wins!
Your pumpkins look great – gonna have to try that variety!
I feel your tomato pain lol. I'm in the same boat with the ridiculous amount of rain we've had since March plus months of 100+F heat indexes and 75 dew points. It's miserable. I'm in the Southeast so it's already normally a struggle with our extremely high humidity and fungal issues, but this is by far the worst tomato season I've ever had in 20 years.
And now the bugs and critters are munching on the limited tomatoes that are actually ripening ugh. So to try to fight that I've been picking them right when they break/blush in color and that's helped a little.
Oh my God, my lufa and my squash are doing awful.They're all dried up leaves and the vines are just half dead.I'm pulling them this weekend😢
I LOVE your videos, they are just so relaxing and entertaining and I learn so much from you ❤️