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I put my sugar water in the fridge. I hang the feeder in the shade so it won’t grow algae or anything. I leave the water out there until they drink it all—5 to 7 days. Sometimes it’s faster when there are more hummers. The recipe makes enough for filling the feeder twice. SO I end up making a recipe every two weeks.
I love, love, love this video! Thanks for chatting with us! I need to assess my growing year like this. Every spring it’s like I am starting over because I don’t review my previous year.🤦🏾♀
Roxana, that’s how my nasturtiums are every year! LOL I guess it’s just too hot in SC! I feel better now.😘
Oh I love the coffee cups and elephant ears, They do so well in pretty much any conditions.
The weather this year has been crazy and I think we’re all going have to adapt, I’m definitely trying some hard full sun plants next year due to the severe heat my plants endured and suffered through 🥰 lovely video 💕
My cherry tomatoes did fantastic but my large tomatoes all ended up with bottom rot, that was very depressing.
https://youtu.be/pw1dFmjOyHk suggestion for winter sowing
I would love to grow ginger, do you have any tips for growing it? I also live in Indiana ( near Speedway)
This was another great video. I'm about ready to spend $200 on Johnny's seeds and soil blocking is something I'm debating. I don't want to invest the money and then hate it. That's my concern plus it looks awful time consuming. I think painting raised beds and harbor was a definite plus. It just looked amazing. I also love the idea on how to harden off your seedlings. Again going to be experimenting with seeds this next year and taking trays in and out everyday seems too time consuming. I'm going to make a mini flower farm next spring for fun so I'm going to have alot of hardening off to do. I'll have to watch more of your seed starting video's. I've been wanting to try loofah as well just to say I've tried it but I don't have a huge space in my garden and keep debating do I want to use the space? Love love the solar lights. I've been wanting some for my back path bc it gets so dark. My nasturtium actually love the heat. They took off like gang busters when it got hot and kept on till late fall. Thanks for sharing and giving your do's and don't.😊
Hi Roxanne, what works for me regarding hummingbirds food,
(Google recipe) I prepare the sugar water and whatever is left, I place it on the refrigerator..
I use as I see needed.. I also purchased more hummingbirds feeders.. yes, it's a little work but the reward is amazing for you and your garden! 😊 😃 😀 😄 😁
I really enjoyed this recap. I usually watch or listen to you when I'm doing something and not always comment. Those baskets were so beautiful to bad that they didn't last.
I do the humming birds mix and leave it in the fridge, or you can buy the natural premixed they sell them at Walmart. I used to have a bunch of feeders, but it was a lot of work, so now I plant flowers that attract them and only put one feeder, which they don't care about if there are flowers. I have the same problem with nasturtium flowers, but I still grow them every year as well.
Have a blessed day.
I agree that feeding the humming birds is rather labor intensive with the keeping of feeders clean and filled. One option is to identify the flowers which grow well in your Zone 5 area that humming birds prefer, and plant extra of those varieties. This summer was definitely too hot for Nasturtiums In my area of Arkansas (Zone 6) as we had a summer month of temps in the high 90s and low 100s this year. Don't think I'll try them again. I do think I'll do more one time planting in inexpensive containers which was so successful for you. Really enjoyed this recap video.
I tried soil blocking last year. I found it hard to water them properly. I’m on the fence because you can start a lot of plants at the same time using less space and lights. On the other hand, you will eventually have to up-pot and the bigger cell trays are just less work.
I stopped this video for a bit and hopped over to your winter sowing update and I really think I'll try this method in this container for winter sowing this time – so much easier than all those other containers and taping them etc. Thanks for this video – so nice of you to share your gardening season recap with us!
I love this video. It gives a lot of information. I also had a bad luck with tomatoes this year. I have smaller raised garden then you so I’m planting only cucumbers, tomatoes and string beans. String beans were terrible, almost no crop, tomatoes poor, except cocktail tomatoes which aren’t my favorite because I can’t handle hard skin on them, cucumbers were ok. I love nasturtium, their are easy and gives my containers great look. I planted sweet peas, I love them. Nice delicate flowers and great smell. I planted them indoors, but those I planted outdoors were stronger. They can handle a little frost. I’m in zone 6, my town is, but I think that I’m really in zone 5 , because I’m on the lake so the temperatures are always 2-3 degrees lower then in town.
I love cannas, I grow them from rhizomes indoor. It’s pain in the neck, but the summer with constant blooms of cannas is the reward. I grow them for my daughter as well and she was very happy this year. We dig all the rhizomes and we have plenty of boxes in her basement.
Yes, i have found that nasturtiums are fussy…..they like some shade..and not full sun. They’re so beautiful tho!
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I’m definitely trying your winter sowing technique this year. Milk jugs didn’t work for me either, and they’re honestly a pain to make. Plus I have a bunch of clear containers with cracks, so they can have another life!
PS Where did you get the hat you’re wearing in the sugar snap pea clips? I love it! I have a hard time finding hats that fit.
I also had flower bulbs that rotted. This year I’m planting them in nursery pots and then keeping those inside an old cooler in the garage. That way they won’t freeze…I hope…😬
About the hummingbirds, I can’t be without the feeders. Once the flowers get going, they prefer those, but at the beginning of the season the feeders are great. I keep the feeders in the shade if possible, and like other said, you can keel the mix in the fridge. I find they LOVED the salvias and nicotiana I planted.
Have you tried growing dahlias from seed? I’m going to do that next
year.
What is the point of growing loofah? Is the fruit tasty? Or was it grown for sponges?
My hummingbird feeder is tiny and I appreciate not wasting a bunch of the sugar water. I make mine and keep it in the fridge.
I’m on the fence about soil blocks. There are a a lot of cons in my experience. I think maybe it’s better for high production.
This video was great! I too live in Zone 5b, in CNY. Your experiences are a great reference to use. And your gardens are so beautiful. End-of-year assessment is just what we all need to do. Thanks for modeling it for us.
Thanks for the great recap! Love your videos, I always learn something new🙂
Thank u for sharing n love your garden. I myself love gardening n i also learn tips from u. I live in hot country like Singapore n not all plants is suitable for my country.
The problem in my area is that we do not have defined seasons anymore. Spring and fall were really short. The established plants did ok, but I had to cover the tomatoes to protect them from heat. It is an experiment every year and hard since I am at 7,000 feet above sea level.
Great garden year review! I am considering doing one myself. The modified winter sow method really is a game changer.
I’m an old gardener and for the first time I planted nasturtiums from seeds and I fell in love 🥰 .Yes , the heat made them look bad for a while but I enjoyed them never the less. Just a quick question: how many Honeysuckle to you have growing on your trellis? Good job with this recap
I love Dahlias too. My problem this year was they attracted insects in mass that I didn't want, grasshoppers, earwigs, ants, and a spider ate one of my bees that decided to sleep in one dahlia flower. Big bummer for me, but probably it was happening because it's a tropical flower and we are not a tropical zone.
I raise bulb containers off the ground for drainage to prevent rot.
Tus plantas son preciosas. Me encantan tus ideas, muchas veces me inspiran, aunque mi clima es más templado. Gracias por tus videos. Besitos desde Galicia, España
I think everyone had some weather issues this year – I had a late hard frost that set some of my younger shrubs and trees back quite a bit followed by a really dry spring and early summer. I am glad you persevered through the fountain episode – it would have been a shame to not have it running. Next year will be better!
There is nothing better than starting my Saturday morning with coffee and this 2022 Garden recap! Watching it has been a good reminder for the prep I need to start for 2023 🙂 Great video!
You give a great face to all of we struggling gardeners.
The Hoselink lights are great.
Where did you get the diamond trellis on the building?
i love those black raised beds, looks so sleek!
I love the idea of air pruning with soil blocking, but do they dry out a lot? Love to see the next video and thanks for all the great tips!
Awesome video!❤❤
Enjoyed this video with my morning coffee.
This was so informative. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
How did you fertilize your sugar snap peas? I planted them in early fall and they grew vigorously but didn't produce any peas before the frost came. I think I added too much granular fertilizer in the soil before planting.