Every year brings new garden experiences and gardening lessons learned. Gardener Scott discusses some of the gardening lessons from his garden in the last year. (Video #403)
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21 Comments
Deer make us good fence builders
The squirrels have eaten about 90% of my larger tomatoes. They steal them green and I don’t even get to ripen them inside. Tried bird netting and they went right through. Might have to chicken wire next year.
They say deer can clear 12’ at a run. We have 7’ 2×4” wire fence on T-posts and have no problem. If the deer sense a small enclosed space or they can’t clearly see where to land helps to keep them from trying to enter. We had only 2 problems—once when there was snow and our entrance gate was lower than fence and baby rabbits can fit through 2×4”. I did add some chicken wire to the bottom and we changed the gate. I also added some 2’ chicken wire to partial stretches of 2 sides of property line as the rabbits and cats had a regular path and that kept our security lights from continually turning on so it must work.
Everything I plant costs money and time and I don’t have a ton of either so it all has to be protected. Some get depressed when winter hits, but it doesn’t compare to the feelings I get when and animal destroys my plant— Even cats that spray. I have traps for gophers and if I ever get a mouse problem. The upside is my plants are protected and baby rabbits don’t eat much 😊
I was going to ask if you have a grasshopper problem (which I've had up in Boulder County), but then there it was! Crawling up your greenhouse pepper plant, a bit to the right of the foreground pepper starting around 10:37. So I guess you have them! At my old house in Niwot they bordered on a plague if not kept out with netting.
my peppers did better this year than ever before, some type of rodent went through my beautiful row of potatoes and ate just a little of each one. so discouraged!!
Next year I’m adding an edible weed garden: dandelions, wood sorrel, lamb quarters, etc
Also my best season ever for peppers and Also the most mulch and compose that I've ever done
A test bed of half as much mulch and compose and it does fair but the best results were the heavy mulch bed.24 bells and over 300 harvest here in my in ground bed in Columbus Ohio land of concrete hard pack clay soil that I've improved in 6 season.
Nice garden!
Did you plant the wildflower seeds in the fall or in the spring?
I learned that brassicas do better when started in the cold of early spring and late fall, not during the heat of summer. The best green to start in the heat of summer is amaranth, which is when it will outpace everything else. If you let amaranth seeds fall into the soil from last year, you're going to end up with thousands of them sprouting all over.
I’ve made the same mistake two years in a row, I planned holidays Oct 1, thus I have a partially harvested garden and I noticed I got hit with frost last night. I enjoyed this video in Hanoi. Next year I leave Nov1.
Make sure the enclosure has a cat door. Unless the rabbits are smart. Rabbits are a scourge.
This is my 1st year. Planted just a few things for practice. I have had great success with my jalapeños and herbs along with marigolds. My black beauty zucchini is 52 days in and no zucchini yet. Cucumbers are getting close I hope. I might have pumpkins by Christmas. Lol. Learning all the time.
Great Gardener Scott, your lessons are very helpful, thanks for sharing your experiences. Autumn is heading into winter, with snow flurries already ! 🍃🍂🍁❄
It’s been lovely to see your garden so full and colourful and great to hear all the great tips from your year of growing. Here’s hoping they set you up for another fantastic year next year. ❤
The mice might be eating the tomatoes for the moisture. Try leaving a bowl of water in the garden for them, outside the tomato cage. Bonus, they will be available to the cats and dog to munch.
Our neighbor and us have had a hard time with deer this year eating our peppers, first time for all of us. We plan to build a fence around our garden to keep them out. Great lessons. TFS ☹🦌👍
Helpful vid 🤙🏼
Scott, could you remind me please of the smaller tomatoes you have growing behind you on YOUR right side? They look like cherry tomatoes
My dog loves accompanying me in the garden as well! I need to find a good way to prevent armadillo damage. They dig up grubs in the night, but also the veg roots. .. and trample everything small … they are like small army tanks in the garden.
Thanks, for all lessons learned!!!!🤗
You are fantastic!
I got some new ideas seeing your cettlefence in the raised beds. Great! Enjoy your day🥰