Watering is the key. The garden looks great. I am focusing on pest and disease control and just taking care of the plants to thrive. The blueberry bushes are producing and cucumbers, zucchini, water melons and beans are getting to size. I ramble my way through both gardens.
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31 Comments
Wow. Peaches. Are big. Yummy š.
Hey Gary!!! Garden looks great! Are all day lillies edible? I have orange ones growing in my yard.
Love the BLUEBERRIES š
With all you have growing on, it is almost impossible to keep everyone happy.
We just got our first rain of over 1/4 inch last night since May 4th. I have had to water daily, some plants in grow bags and pots twice a day. Fortunately, the only damage has come from the squirrels digging close to baby plant roots.
The one good thing about it being so dry is I am able to keep the shredded leaves I am using to trap the jumping worms wetter than the surrounding soil. This is good because the jumping worms not only gravitate to the shredded leaves for food, but are also drawn to the higher moisture levels. At any given time I can go out and remove literally hundreds of jumping worms. My main focus is to remove as many as possible before they reach reproductive age sometime in Aug.
Enjoy your videos! Stay Well!!!
Thank you so much for sharing. I was not successful about my vegetable garden and then I focused on planting roses. Now is the time to start new vegetables garden again. We clean our hillside and there will be our new vegetable garden area.
Thanks for the tour, Gary. Lots of growth!
QUESTION: I sowed seeds in modules and instead of putting them indoors, I put them in my 4 by 7 ft green house (in up to 90 degree weather, no fan but with door and window wide open) and nothing germinated. I tried this twice and zero luck. For your fall crops, do you plan on seed starting in your green house or indoors?
As always, so Inspiring! Thank you for sharing, and encouraging the rest of us! Grateful to be reminded to enjoy the journey, and not focus on perfection. Enjoy your Delicious dinner with family and friends!
Very cool peppers in a Teer container
I harvest my potatoes red Pontiac..they came out great ā¦
And I worked so hard to put in seeds were the potatoes were at š±
Something is a bit off this year , we havenāt had any rain for 20 days now here in Denmark eitheršš» Guess itās something to do with the late spring up north .
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Last Saturday we had two hail storms in about an hour. The 2nd one was serious and lasted about 15, maybe 20 minutes of 3/4" sized hail stones. My garden got beat up but it's really recovered great. It was mostly damage to the leaves. One pepper plant had a stem from the Y break off.
Last year I planted a row of beans along a fence that has a lot of self seeding sunflowers. Not one bean came up! I planted new bean seeds on another fence that has no sunflowers and they all came up. I looked it up online and read that sunflowers impact beans… not sure if it impacts other plants.
Do you have any ideas why my garlic always splits with exposed cloves when I harvest them? I only get a few solid heads each year but most donāt have the outer layer of skin so the cloves are exposed.
That all looks fantastic , I just got into gardening, digging it.b
I look forward to all of your videos. You have helped me so much. I appreciate the honesty of what's working and what's not. Love your ramblingsā¤
Gary, In the shredded hardwood there is some dirt so when the rain splashes from it to the plant, Can the Tomatoes Still get the disease?
Gary, we have lots of Madrona trees where I live. Would the Madrona leaves be a good mulch for garlic?
Thanks for sharing that turnips can grow all season! And when I saw the size of yours, I realized I've been picking mine too early! LOL! Beautiful.
Do you hand water your garden or use drip irrigation? I didnāt see any drip around and thatās a lot of garden to hand water. I did notice some huge tanks out by the second garden. What is that? Iām trying the tap water in a barrel adding vitamin c powder soon.
Where can I get a vertical tower. You sell those.
I have a sunflower row just a few feet away from my tomatoes and I have never noticed any fruit reduction. Questionā¦ā¦you mention using Spinosad dust, Iāve used foliar sprays with Spinosad as the ingredient. What dust with Spinosad do you recommend?
Gary Question. When did you plant your broccoli and did you add shade cloth at planting time or wait until later? I have trouble with my broccoli bolting both in fall and in spring. Our weather stays hot for a long time in the fall and heats up early in the spring.
I'm thinking drip irrigation on a timer. Your garden is huge, you spent money, and you did a lot of work to get it set up and planted. Don't let all that go to waste. It seems like too much to water adequately by hand. There are plenty of other factors, like disease and pests, to challenge you, and possibly disappoint you. Don't let something as easy as watering be a problem! Even GreenStalks has an irrigation set up now for their planters. Happy Sunday!
Your garden looks beautiful. Ive been watching you for years.
That's not a turnip, it's a bowling ball! Wow!
Very nice! Harvested my some potatoes l planted in a cardboard box yesterday., was planted mid March.
Hi Gary, im also in maryland in Davidsonville to be exact. Can you share what you are spraying your peaches with. I started with captan just recently every three days and I finally have leaf spots under control after loosing all my fruit and all the leaves. Leaves have grown back but the last rain caused the red spots to come back and thats how i learned about captain. Do you spray for the tree for plum curculio? What are you using and how often? Im not worried this year since i removed all the peaches due to the leaf brown spot but for next year. I know you are learning but your trees look great.
Thank you, what great video. I really enjoyed it very much. Great garden too!
Hi Gary, that broccoli is beautiful. I also struggle with broccoli but this year I was able to grow a small amount. Could you share the variety of what you're growing? mine didn't get anywhere near the size of yours
Hi, Gary! When you place insect powder on your plant leaves what about the undersides?