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We in Amarillo texas panhandle got all your rain. 😞 sorry. I can't grow broccoli the bugs eat it up, somehow threw nets
This year our peach and pear trees didn't produce in my zone, 7B. The winter was really odd here. Things started blooming way too early, a month or two early. Then we had a couple of hard freezes. That did the peach and pear trees in. We didn't think that our blueberries would have any fruit this year. They are just now starting to produce. That is about 3 to 4 weeks later than usual.
Water is always our biggest challenge. A 4 year dought left the gardens inoperative, then a good rain year happened but the soil was so depleted after such prolonged dry, we are at square one with building soil. We are back into our dry season and we've been told we have entered another elnino weather pattern, so hello drought. Whoever said growing your own food is easy, has never had a garden.
In the Pacific Northwest this spring we had the wettest spring in 100 years. It's been really nice.
damn im good at pumkins lol butttt getting fairly good rain here in mass zack my peas beleive it or not are doing very well but carrotts i put them in 3 different places and really want them to grow well lol i love carrots great video god bless 👍🙏🙏
We successfully grew tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, and basil at our apartment patio garden the last 2 years. Now we have a house we are growing the following (in Nebraska):
-Tomatoes (Roma, Rutgers, Cherry)
-Potatoes
-Zucchini
-Bell Pepper
-Cucumber
-Garden Bean
-Watermelon
-Cantaloupe
-Strawberries
-Carrots
-Broccoli (maybe; bc we love it, need to make an inviting place so it will be cool enough)
-Greens
-Pumpkin
Next year I’d like to grow corn (since we DO live in a corn loving climate lol) and green beans, cabbage, etc.
We’re also growing herbs (basil, cilantro, rosemary, lemon balm, spearmint, sage) and flowers including sunflower, lavender, echinacea, and calendula.
Our neighbor has a HUGE garden as well. We’ve talked about trading 🙂
All living things are sensitive (good and bad) to electromagnetic waves. The sun is an emitter (also why it’s best not to have electronics near your head at night — may cause sleep disturbances and other issues).
Positive charge and negative grounding for different effects. It’s science — some of which is well researched and some which is wisdom passed down and hasn’t been studied much yet. Native Americans understood people would get sick if we didn’t touch the earth with our skin or leather vs now we have rubber soled shoes blocking our connection to nature that we were created from/on.
Everything in the universe vibrates — everything is energy (E = MC squared). We don’t fully understand how all works yet… that’s the fun of being alive and experimenting :3
Sounds like you could be looking at a drought partner. We had drought in Alberta for 2 years. Last year was good. We had a dry hot spell in the early spring and alot of wildfires. Although those wildfires were to say the least questionable. Our Premier used the word arson lol. But our gardens are doing well. Had lightning storms with rain today. Had a day of rain a couple days back. Inch and a half of water. So right now we are looking good. Now there's flooding in parts of Alberta lol.
Some rain, but significantly less.than optimal here in NWPA.
Remember when our parents and grandparents used Nylon pantyhose to tie up plants? They new that the static electricity helped the plants. Many people who use Electroculture and say it doesn't work are doing it incorrectly. Been using It since 1984 and will continue to use it. Anything that gives you a benefit over the next guy will be the difference between surviving or not.
And clan those scissors after each plant so you're not spreading it from plant to plant.
Season's not over yet.😂 Up in the White Mountains of NH… we're just getting going.😳 In 3 months…it will be… Nope. Not fall. Winter.😮
Some aphids on my potatoes, I think I caught it early….. the Colorado beetles seem to be in control I netted early so hopefully with the netting off I'm good….. The deer munched the peppers…..our fence isn't high enough….& 2nd year in a row garlic is ready early….all my elephant garlic split 😢…digging the rest up this weekend, looks good😊
So metal stakes are better than wood…..interesting…not much rain, western Massachusetts
Been gardening a few years now. Lol… stupid question, how do I find out what grapes well in my area? Not far from you, up around stockton lake.
Here bugs are almost non existent and the bugs we do have are eaten by the lizards and horny toads. Trees grow very well all the stone fruits and apples and pears. I think if we had more rain we could grow nearly anything. 11" of moisture is tough and the wind is hideous. This year we seem to be getting more than normal as we are up to 3.7 inches to date. Lol most of our rain is the white stuff. We are at 7000 feet so we'll chase hoses in our raised beds and gardens run on drip. Native plants are definately the way to go and cold weather plants do well but with early starts in a greenhouse. We are producing enough food to support us all year now but for old people this is work like you can't imagine. At this time we are up to 38 raised beds that are growing 2 to 3 crops a year but it's intensive. We have 70 goats and they provide us with goat magic which is basically the only nutrients we use with the exception of wood and bone ash. It has been a steady transformation to bring our poor soils into production. I never saw an earth worm here now they are abundant. I think giving soils what they want in the way of organic matter is key. We use sawdust or planer chips in the goat barn and it makes decent bedding and after getting treated by the goats it makes a fabulous top dressing. We are interested in electroculture but wind control would be even better lol
I love that you see and add humor to your videos as well as great useful information! Thanks
The Arkansas Black apple tree is supposed to do well here.. We have a few young ones growing in our orchard… And purple sprouting broccoli is an option … Plant late summer for a spring harvest..
Grasshoppers! Evil bastards. Current attempt at mitigation is a chicken "moat" around the garden. So far it does seem to be helping some…plus free chicken feed.
We are zone 7b and I find that I have much better success with broccoli if I plant it as a fall crop