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Garden Clean-up & Update: Everyone Can Grow a Garden (2022) #39



Garden Clean-up & Update: Everyone Can Grow a Garden (2022) #39

Garden writer Susan Mulvihill reports on how the tomatoes, carrots and late crop of corn performed, and explains how she and her husband clean up the vegetable garden. This includes using the materials for making compost. Learn more about curing winter squash and pumpkins prior to storage, how to overwinter canna lilies, and get a sneak peek at her winter garden! From Susan’s in the Garden, SusansintheGarden.com.

Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. While most of this region is in hardiness zone 6, her garden is in a microclimate, making it zone 5b.

Susan’s newest book, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook, will be released in Feb. 2023. If you pre-order it, forward your order confirmation to Susan@SusansintheGarden.com and she will forward her bonus content called “12 Vegetable Crops You Should Add to Your Garden!” Here is a pre-order link for the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3uIMA0A. And here is additional information on the book, on Susan’s website: https://www.susansinthegarden.com/books/vegetable-garden-problem-solver-handbook/.

You can order a signed copy of Susan’s book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, directly from her by sending an email to Susan@SusansintheGarden.com. Or you can order it on Amazon: (https://amzn.to/3Jh6aXS). Publication date: April 2021.

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23 Comments

  3. Sue Gilmore

    Loved your video! I combat those cabbage butterflies too. In my greenhouse (summer-fall), we suspend shade cloth over the doorways. That way, we can keep the doors open for ventilation and keep those bugs out.

  4. Diane Puskas

    Hi, I know what you mean about the chipper/shredder jamming. I bought an affordable model off of Amazon. By the second season, it jammed all the time, but I did learn NOT to try to shred vines, even if they were dried up. They always caused a jam for me. BTW, I live in Zone 7B in NJ, and my neighbor leaves her Canna Lillies in the ground all winter. They come back for her in the spring. Thanks for another great video.

  7. Judit

    I thought, well the moose visiting earlier this year near your property, wouldn't not mind how the carrots look 😄I guess you not meant to feed them, but I had to chuckle 🤭 Thank goodness most of the vegetables turned out fine, despite the ridiculous weather. I can't wait to see what you will have next year! 🤗🙋Greetings, Judit

  8. Green Thumbelina

    Susan, I don't plant carrots any longer because I think I've only grown them successfully a handful of times over many years of gardening. Now, I usually stick with the tried-and-true veggies that I know will perform well in my garden. Naturally, I have to try some new vegetable varieties each year otherwise gardening wouldn't be as much fun. One of the new things I'll try to grow next year, insert drumroll here, is a rainbow mix of carrots! 🤣😂🤣WHAT? I hope you and Bill have a wonderful week! ~Margie🤗💐🐝🦋

  9. Folk Lover -

    Missed you last week, Susan! Suggestion for the hoop house lettuces vs the birds and bugs: either screen doors and/or use the ag fabric over the bed. I have found the ag fabric that you recommended to be quite effective, so thanks! If screen doors aren't doable, then maybe just child gates in the doorways would deter the birds, or perhaps chicken wire or some other barrier. Sad about your carrots. This year has been my most successful year growing carrots, ever! I wish I could pinpoint what I did differently and why they are doing so well! On a side note, I've lived in Wenatchee for 50 years and only recently learned that we are no longer a zone 5b, we are zone 7a…. as a result of climate change, I guess. Totally changes my perspective on garden possibilities; however, old habits are hard to let go of and be more of a risk taker or adventurous!

  11. Molly Smith

    Great update, Susan…thank you! I appreciate the honesty about the carrots because it helps us all learn. My garden rested this summer but this weekend I'll be planting next year's garlic. It will be wonderful to have my hands back in the soil again. It has been a shock that my carefully stored '21Music garlic saved for seed is still nicely plump and starting to put out rootlets very eager to get in the ground.

  12. Pat Cook

    Hi Susan. Can you tell me about the metal cage/screening that I see behind you in the video? It would work perfect to keep the goldfinches from eating our beet leaves.

  14. Helene

    Hello!
    I love your videos and always look at them 😍
    I have look for the tomatoes you growing this year, but We not have them in Sweden.
    Do you sell seeds? I realy want to have this big tomatoes.

    Best Regards Helene in Sweden

  15. David Deininger

    Do you think part of the carrots is being in a raised bed versus in ground? Maybe they prefer a ground bed better. I've seen where other YouTube videos showed potatoes that were in raised beds & some were in the ground. That's why I wondered. Lorraine

  19. Wendy Burston

    Most of the carrots I have are so tiny, think I'm going to try a lot of different varieties next year and see what works best. I placed then next to my beans. Maybe that was a mistake. Last year the ones I planted in the bed didn't grow but the seeds that fell out of the package on the ground grew very big. This I planted in the ground and, hm, maybe two inches at best. I'm 5a Ontario Canada. Hoping to cover the remaining lettuce and Swiss chard with something what plastic do you recommend for a impromptu greenhouse cover?

  20. Heather Morin

    Very inspirational, and I relate to your comment about displaying the pumpkins… "A crazy gardener lives here!" Love it.

  21. Angela Burrell-Lewis

    Thanks for your helpful information once again. I had the most harvest from my garden this year. Glory to God his blessings in the name of Jesus Christ 🙏

  22. GEO sustainable

    I am making my first attempt at a Winter Garden. I haven't done any gardening in decades. I have high hopes to grow enough for the neighborhood. Oh yeah, I love your videos too.

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