As the gardens have gone to bed for the winter it is important to reflect on what went well, and bad, and what changes are needed for a more plentiful garden in 2024. In this video, you will learn several tips and tricks to take into your garden plans. Side bonus, we have huge news to share!
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Great video guys
I used nylon mesh trellis for my bean and peas. Works great, but disposable. I think it’s impossible to remove the vines and reuse.
If you grow the pumpkins for sale try some white ones too! Alot of people like them but unless you grow them yourself they are hard to find! Just a suggestion!
I put my sweet peas in as early as the ground can be worked in the Spring here in n. Idaho. And use some chicken wire or a size larger th put acrosx those cattle panels! You can put a row on both sides of the fence. They dont like the high heat!
Hi Stivers!!!!! 6B GARDEN TIP FROM SOUTH JERSEY! This year I tried a “trap plant” and planted “love lies bleeding” amaranth scattered on one side of the garden, and all the bugs were attracted to them and stayed there and ate the majority of that plant down while leaving my other veggies like tomatoes and beans etc alone! I highly recommend it!
Really enjoyed this video. Definitely helpful.
Fishing lines fence, deer can't see the barrier.
Our green beans didn’t grow at all, this year. We’ve decided not to grow them anymore. We don’t eat enough of them. I’m going to try growing sugar snap peas instead. We eat a lot of peas.
Since you guys grow such beautiful flowers, have you added Bouquet of cut fresh flowers to your store? Put a bucket of cool water in the store and put maybe 4 bunches of mixed flower bouquets. Or maybe have customers look over your flower garden and point out the flowers they want. Just a thought
All I see is y'all begging people to buy your crap and posts on fb of all your vacations. When are you on the farm doing anything? Geez.
Growing your greens says you only get a 10% increase on pruning tomatoes. We quit pruning too.
We live in Texas and the summer heat kills our garden. I interplanted my okra and Swiss Chard. It turned out great. When it got to 115⁰ and I gave up on watering and told my garden to just die the okra shaded the chard and while everything else died when I went to plant my fall garden most of the chard was alive!
We had an excellent potato and onion harvest this year so, we expanded what we did and prepped more room for next year. We also had tomatoes for the first time, unfortunately, we had to pick them green because they were very late so I need to get them in sooner. We also started converting to raised beds which made a world of difference. We are building raised beds through the winter and are already looking forward to the new garden season.
Hi Zach and Jen, I tried the same experiment with my tomatoes this last year. I just let them go wild! Harvested my first tomatoes from these wild plants. Never pruning again.
I have harvested my first fresh herbs to dry indoors for preserving. First Okra, first peppers. I currently have dino kale, Brussel sprouts and bunching broccoli going in green stalks. Planting out my garlic, Egyptian Walking Onions, and cabbage over the Thanksgiving weekend. Also Shampoo Ginger, and a new olive tree to replace the one that the fire ants killed. My Chocolate Mint is exploding! Planted it in a brass pot so it can't escape. 😁😁😁
Zach, I only grow broccoli in the fall here in SE VA, w the cabbage, collards. Dont overlook the leaves as well. They are sweet and wonderful greens in eggs, omelets. I blanch and freeze. Just as nutritious as the fruit, treat them like collards. Also, in summer youve GOT TO COVER THEM and rotate year to year. The trap crop idea works too.
Zack I’m in WV zone 6 a/b. My peas, green beans, and zinnias did horrible too. Do the deer eat up pumpkin? If they don’t then I have lots a space got them. I want to grow banana pumpkins
I am totally redoing my garden. Expanding it , moving everything. I figured out. I can take 2 raised metal bed kits 4x8x1 and combine. It makes a 4x20x1 bed. Pretty cool. You get an extra 4ft of garden bed ….by combining the 2 kits. Soil I have changed up. Pro mix , cow manure, fertilizer and perlite. Hoping this next season crops will be awesome. Also installing trellises. Already 10yds of pro mix from a nursery. Will need one to two more deliveries. But I am on track to have my beds ready come spring. Have fun yall
Hey @StiversHomestead ! I wanted to share an okra tip that GREATLY increased our yield, AND made harvest almost painless. When you cut the fruit off, cut the leaf below it off also. It keeps the okra stalks clean and you won't get your arms all eaten up. I leave the top 15ish leaves for photosynthesis purposes, and put okra for 10-11ft tall, with a TON. We had one 50ft row and grew enough for the year for our family of 4. We planted our okra on the last West end, because it gets SO tall we wanted to allow the things planted to the east of the okra time through the day to get it's sunlight, because the okra gets so tall it's going to get its sun regardless 😂 by planting in on the west side of the garden, it didn't shade anything too long. If you haven't tried the trimming the leaves under the pond, try it! It was definitely a game changer for us!
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