We recently returned from a short vacation and was surprised to see how fast everything was growing in the backyard garden. Our corn grew almost a foot and a half in just three days!
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49 Comments
Hi Travis, I'm excited to know more about your new leaf-footed and squash bug killing spray.
Maybe magnesium deficiency
Because of their thick walls, the SFGs make great pickling peppers. Pick em at different stages (colors) and you'll have a really pretty jar. Have a simple but really good recipe if interested. Thanks for the wonderful tour, beautiful👍. Oh yeah, pond video?😀
Your garden looks awesome!!! Might have to look into azera, this year it's the most leaf-footed bugs I've had in my garden. Finally sprayed some permethrin to get them under control, don't like using it especially cause we just started with honeybees this year.. but I wanted to eat some of my tomatoes too🙂!!!! They can suck the life out of a plant in no time even the sunflowers. ✌🏻
Do any of you guys use chicken manure on alot of vegetables in the garden? My yellow squash takes off with a hand full of manure
Travis, that is Potassium deficiency in the cucumbers. Fringes of the lower leaves and area around the main veins will yellow like that and eventually "burn/scorch". Generally the already affected leaves will not improve with treatment, but new growth will be normal with treatment. If untreated, the fruit will start to suffer and start to be larger on the lower end (almost tear drop shaped).
OUTSTANDING VIDEO BROTHER! Thank you so much. Glad you and your Family could get away for awhile. You are truly an inspiration. I call my garden The PeeWee League Garden because I have soooo much to learn. I watch a ton of videos but you are truly my favorite teacher. I'm a Jawja boy too so maybe I'm a lil biased. Hey, don't forget to tell us which plant got the fish. Keep doin' whatcha doin' brother. May God continue to shine on ya real big.
Lerone
Wow everything is looking really good 👍
How does the carinto’s production compare to other Gynoecious varieties you’ve tried?
A simple fix for the potassium deficiency is sprinkle some wood ash around the bases of the plants. Not too much as you don't want to have an alkaline spike, but it should do the trick.
Not too many tomatoes for me this year. Spider mites, aphids and white flies are here in central Florida early this year. Doing a number on my garden. Can you believe aphids on Tabasco pepper plants? I guess the leaves are not spicy. And something is boring holes in my peppers. Better luck next year for my garden. 😟😟😟😟😟
Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝
Looks like potassium deficiency on the cukes. Solution grade langbeinite for a quick fix. Everything looks great, your channel is always my go to. No bogus info or political garbage just a fine garden channel
Looks like Iron deficiency from here, you can hand spray liquid Iron on those leaves. Thanks for the video Travis, take care from S. N.H.
All the leaf footed bugs are in my garden😶
Everything looks really good! Great Job!
Is that the New Mexico Big Jim pepper? And those bells pepper look good for stuffin
yeah the cukes have a lack of potassium. just fertilize them with a low nitrogen, higher potassium fertiiizer.
All the leaf footed bugs moved to Florida. I've been plagued for 2 years. Trying to stay organic but I've had about enough
Color shift is not really much of a factor with the Atlantic Giants. Definitely shade them!
Your gardens look so lush and vibrant! My sunflowers are super puny this year. Did them in too big of a hurry. Yours are taller than mine, at least!
Thanks to you I’m trying the same trellis system for my indeterminate tomatoes also. It’s nice being north so I can watch what you try and be well behind you so I can make adjustments. Anyway when I did mine I wrapped each twine around the pipe several times all the same way with the idea as they grow past the top and can turn the entire pipe and lower all plants. Not saying it’ll work perfect but I think it’ll help with them outgrowing the trellis system.
I am growing my cucumbers hydroponicly and have been battling similar issues with the discoloration in the leaves. My research points to a potassium deficiency. I have been adding a liquid potassium to my system and it seems to be helping.
clip those tall matters to the conduit and run them horizontal along the condiut 🍅🍅🍅
Always heard 20 days after silks show is the prime range for sweet corn harvest.
you need to cover the giant pumpkins from the sun, they need shade
Thanks for that, I really enjoyed the tour! I would like to see how the figs are doing one of these videos! I used to grow a bed of pickling cucumbers every year, the variety was Jackson Classic, then one year all the leaves got a yellow edge all around the outside. The plants didn’t produce a good crop at all and were stunted. I was so disappointed I haven’t grown pickling cucumbers since. I figured it was a virus spread by some vector pest. It can’t be the same on your plants because they are still growing and producing!
Klaus
Bad news for Kennebec potatoes? A friend told me that Kennebecs were to be no more and her source was the Pinetree Garden catalog. I checked and it says they're going out of production.
Does this mean only from whoever produces theirs or ALL Kennebec seed potato producers?
Kennebec potatoes are a very, very common and standard reliable potato variety in this part of the country, MA. So if it's true I guess everyone's got to save some potatoes if they want 'em next year 🙁
I suggest seeing if a few of the tomato plants will go over nicely and keep growing back down. Of course, I want you to try it to see if I should try it next year.
you rock buddy. just fooling around here in southwest Florida. Nothing survives this heat but can't help myself from trying. Small victories
Well everything is looking great, with that product is Azera how often are you spraying just once in the beginning of the season, Or on some kind of rotation?
That's just beautiful T! Looks like a bountiful harvest! Really impressive! You are really making me want to retire so I can devote more time to mine. I leave my garden for 5 days at a time every Sunday! Gotta be tough to survive in Hell's Half Acre! 😉
Do you think maybe it got to hot to fast for those sunflowers?
What fertilizer did you put under your sweet taters, Got mine today looked ruff but put them in a jar of water.
I like my fresh sweet corn cooked in a cast iron skillet in the oven with a half cup of butter. The best part is the brown around the edges yummy! Slice some ripe maters and cukes, some fried chicken and it doesn't get any better than that.
Toronjina look great, check online Johnny's seed is expensive 15 seed for $7.70 and the 1000 seeds is like $247. Seems like inflation hit the seed companies better stock up on seeds before they go up or out of stock.
Hey Travis, what coincidence I’m growing glass gem corn too! Mine’s already starting to pollinate! I got my seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds in Missouri
How long is it after tasseling that you get corn? Mine is drying out in Phoenix but tall and still growing. But no sign of corn on it. thanks
LoL.. I get a kick at you talking about the size on them little tomatoes. That's nothing. My grandpa raised tomatoes that grew 2+lbs. It would take two pieces of bread to hold on slice, vs putting two+ pieces of tomato on one slice of bread.
You have them empty spots next to the maters why not try to tie more string to them and lower and lean to fill the space
That’s funny about the sunflowers my did the same here in Waycross 😎
Just put up 72 quarts of sweet corn. I’m bushed. Yesterday we did 36 quarts of green beans.
Hello LDF. You kinda popped up on my feed so I thought I'd put in my knowitall 2 cents. You did a good job with your bell peppers. I have to add a drank of epsom salts to mine or they just won't make. With it they are prolific.
As for the corn. I plant Golden Queen. They will be flat corn with the first good wind, but they stand back up. I like to harvest before they plump all the way out. I like my kernels smaller because they are sweeter. First silk up to harvest I spritz the silk every other day with Safer BT. No earworms.
And the tomaters. Over many years of experiments my workhorse is Better Boy. I start them along about the first of February and they go into the ground around the first of May or mebbe a week before, if no frost in sight. FIRST TIME EVER no hornworms this year. I started spraying early with Cap Jack Dead Bug. It doesn't burn the plants like the perithremin (however you sepell that) stuff and the old powders and such. All nat-u-ral as the French speak it. Picked my couple or three ripe ones 3 or 4 days ago and another today. With 48 plants this year by this time next week we're going to be in tomater cirisis mode here…up to our ears in 'em. We can them and this year I'm going to dehydrate more.
One caution…I used to plant and let nature take its course. With the coming unpleasantness I can't do that any more. I need all my veggies so the word is water. Water. Water. Hosepipe water doesn't make the plants grow but it will hold them until you get rain. And that includes the corn. Holler at you later!
Norm
Do you have a video of how to initially get all the grass and weeds out of a plot? I've been gardening for some years now, and ends up that grass, sedge, weeds always are so aggressive. Love your videos
My pro-cut Lemon sunflowers were supposed to be 6 ft tall. They bloomed at 2 ft. 🤣😂🤣 Oh well.
So fun to see how your gardens are doing! The corn looks yummy 😋. Thanks for the update & all your hard work to make these gardens.🌺
The split pumpkin is smiling!
Hey Travis. I followed your videos and just harvested my sweet corn on my 30×35 plot with drip tape. LOL now what? Do I pull up the stalks, cut them off at ground?? I do want to plant something there for the fall. Thanks!!
Something i found that helps my tomatoes a lot is cutting all the sun leaves off about 2 feet off the ground and below. Nothing but fruut frim there down. Anyehere leaves get bunched at all i cut the limbs off to get better airflow. I want maters not leaves. Added benefit us i get more greens for compost piles. I have had so garden green waste lately that im strugging to get enough brown materials.