Today’s video was a tough one to film. We’re at that time of the year where gardening problems start piling up, and I want to quit gardening after this happened. Between the heat of the summer, the harvests coming to an end and back to back tropical storms, severe garden burnout is at maximum. What should I do?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 My Garden Got Wrecked. Twice!
3:47 Garden Burnout And What To Do
4:45 My Battle With Seasonal Depression
7:13 The Importance Of Gratitude
12:15 Adventures With Dale
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30 Comments
Thanks for sharing. I think many of us want to quit when Mother Nature does her unpredictable thing. I moved from the bread basket of the world to Central Texas. There is a reason this area is not known for Agriculture! My tip when for when everything is failing due to heat is….sweet potatoes in containers. They are growing like weeds with minimal effort (it's too hot to enjoy the outside) and I am eating the leaves while I wait for the tubers. Next year I will also grow them to provide shade in my tiny yard that gets too much heat reflected from windows. Sweet potatoes are an easy win when everything else is a loss.
I NEEDED THIS!!!!!!!!!
I am a new gardener!! So i dont need to explain ALL MY DILEMMAS 😂😂😂😂
Thank you for this video! Encouraging, as usual! Appreciate you
9:14 See that's a gratitude attitude! Glad to see you made it through the storm neighbor (I'm up in VA).
If you refer back to one of your first videos that I started watching over a year ago, don't get disheartened when something fails just try try again. I live in northwest Florida and know all about the hurricanes and the damage they can wreak upon your surrounding areas. Like you I get sad during winter gloomy, doomy, just keep your chin up don't dwell on what you can't control. Concentrate on what you can control. I thumbs down because I don't want you to quit-and I'm sure I am not alone in my thoughts!!!!
How vainly men themselves amaze
To win the palm, the oak, or bays,
And their uncessant labours see
Crown’d from some single herb or tree,
Whose short and narrow verged shade
Does prudently their toils upbraid;
While all flow’rs and all trees do close
To weave the garlands of repose.
Fair Quiet, have I found thee here,
And Innocence, thy sister dear!
Mistaken long, I sought you then
In busy companies of men;
Your sacred plants, if here below,
Only among the plants will grow.
Society is all but rude,
To this delicious solitude.
No white nor red was ever seen
So am’rous as this lovely green.
Fond lovers, cruel as their flame,
Cut in these trees their mistress’ name;
Little, alas, they know or heed
How far these beauties hers exceed!
Fair trees! wheres’e’er your barks I wound,
No name shall but your own be found.
When we have run our passion’s heat,
Love hither makes his best retreat.
The gods, that mortal beauty chase,
Still in a tree did end their race:
Apollo hunted Daphne so,
Only that she might laurel grow;
And Pan did after Syrinx speed,
Not as a nymph, but for a reed.
What wond’rous life in this I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons as I pass,
Ensnar’d with flow’rs, I fall on grass.
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness;
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find,
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that’s made
To a green thought in a green shade.
Here at the fountain’s sliding foot,
Or at some fruit tree’s mossy root,
Casting the body’s vest aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide;
There like a bird it sits and sings,
Then whets, and combs its silver wings;
And, till prepar’d for longer flight,
Waves in its plumes the various light.
Such was that happy garden-state,
While man there walk’d without a mate;
After a place so pure and sweet,
What other help could yet be meet!
But ’twas beyond a mortal’s share
To wander solitary there:
Two paradises ’twere in one
To live in paradise alone.
How well the skillful gard’ner drew
Of flow’rs and herbs this dial new,
Where from above the milder sun
Does through a fragrant zodiac run;
And as it works, th’ industrious bee
Computes its time as well as we.
How could such sweet and wholesome hours
Be reckon’d but with herbs and flow’rs!.
You and Dale are survivors , noticed Dale was surveying the damage as you were talking. Keep the faith, the sun will come out tomorrow.
Feeling your pain when hail wiped out my garden in Colorado this year. The way I looked at was that mother nature wanted to rejuvenate and feed the soil, and next year's bounty will be the best!
Quitting isn't the answer. You cannot control what happens in life, but you absolutely control how you respond. Clean up, reset, and push forward.
Having just buried my dear mother, I also know what sad is. Whatever changes you decide to do, I wish you the best of luck.
You need a greenhouse. I just got one. Have fun.
I know the feeling well
Sorry brother. We had a miserable summer on the Texas gulf coast. Brutal hot and zero rain. Lucked out on the hurricanes though. It comes and goes. Next year will be better for us both!
I needed this this today, thank you! I live in Dallas and the past three winters of crippling ice storms, and past three summers of crazy heat (now four months without rain), I was seriously considering giving up. Gardening turned my SAD around too, thanks for being an inspiration!
As gardeners ,we all feel like quitting sometimes but never do. Because when we take that first mouth watering bite out of a home grown tomatoe it just makes all the hurdles worth it !! I'm in New York and my tomatoes got hit three times with frost. One frost was past my last frost date of May 15th. I thought for sure my tomatoes were doomed. Then the summer rains came and didn't stop! My tomatoes grew out of control to my surprise but to much rain is not good neither. They started splitting and turning to mush very quickly. Fall garden for me is out of the guestion because the storms your getting keep coming up the coast. But will I stop gardening? HELL NO !!! 2 Years in a row the cabbage moth got my broccoli. Last winter I started it very early in the winter under grow lights. I planted it out very early in the spring. And it took off and was the most rewarding thing that I finally got the timing right and the taste was nothing like I ever tasted before it was so delicious!!! Just love your videos!! KEEP GROWING!!!!
Man that's hard. I'm so glad your resilient.
Great video.
If you love to garden it’s hard to throw in the towel. It’s such a bummer when weather hits hard but you’ve rallied and determined to salvage what you can. I feel your pain! This spring was horrible. Starting in April through June it was rain, wind and hail storm after storm and cooler than normal temperatures. We raced outside so many times to cover plants with garden cloth getting pelted with hail. Many things were torn up and had to be replaced. Some survived but everything was very slow in thriving. Then came July with baking heat and bugs. But I was determined to keep fighting to salvage what we could after all of that hard work. Brassicas didn’t do great but did get a couple small heads each of cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli and that’s the way it went with everything. I think God was telling me “you have what you need”. Have two beds planted now with cold weather crops and one with lettuces and Swiss chard and so for they’re doing good (except for the cabbage moths). It’s just a race against the clock now. I’ve never worked so hard to keep a garden going and it’s a new area for us so never had to deal with this horrible weather and bugs. Learned a lot and what to do for next year. Definitely going to build protective frames!
You will recover until they set us on fire! Keep it up.
Maybe it’s time to switch back (completely) to pots
Thanks for opening up. Sorry about the two storms. It has been a tough growing season in New England.
This might sound silly, but we really enjoy a winter cover crop such as Winter Rye. Low maintenance and it’s nice to see deep green throughout the winter months. It feels a bit like gardening while getting a break from garden work.
(Totally off topic but things like a telescope or hot tub can lead to quality time outdoors in the winter-of course it will be dark. And a trip closer to the equator for 12 hours of daylight and seeing unique plants and gardens always hits the spot in the dead of winter.)
Thank you for sharing your story with us! I didn’t make a move like you did, but last year was my first fall garden and I want to tell you it is the best therapy in the world to me! Yes, I grow during the summer but last year like I said, it was the first year that I have ever grown a fall garden. I realize that you can grow all year round, and it made my life smoother because the garden is my solstice!
I dont know what to tell you but "thems are the break"…thank god for whole foods right…
My dear SIR the earth is the LORDS and the fullness there of. Give thanks for life
I suffer from SAD also. Living in Iowa doesn't help, but for last 6 years we travel to Southern Texas for 2 months…trying to catch more sun. When we get back i start on my seed growing. My garden is definitely therapy for me.
We haven’t had rain in 10 weeks in MS….. sad for you
This is why it's important to diversify your crops. Any time I've grown at least 4 plants, a bad season for one crop has made a good season for others. I've learned to accept that at least one thing I plant each year will be a flop, but you get to enjoy the other stuff even more when the same conditions make for a perfect growing season for them.
Wow 70 mph wind? That's tough, why don't you move away, I would not be comfortable living there.
You are amazing!!!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ Thank you so much for your honesty and integrity. You have helped me so much and it’s important that you know you’ve helped me and others! This message couldn’t have come at a more perfect time! THANK YOU!!❤
The problem is, you need more windbreaks in your garden. Planting your garden, in what appears to be in the center of your yard, gives them no cover from the more extreme elements. Weather happens, so think protection accordingly for your climate.