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DIGITAL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Introduction
00:19 May crop #1: Watermelon
02:40 May crop #2: Beans
04:42 May crop #3: Eggplant
05:57 May crop #4: Zinnias
07:23 May crop #5: Strawberries
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16 Comments
Hey gardeners – please subscribe and click the👍 button – it really helps us out. Many thanks! Which of these crops are you planting? -CaliKim & and CameraGuy
Hi kim now I'm starting my plum from seed and what's your favorite fertilizer for vegetables
Mr Raccoon lives in my yard and watches me. He saw me watering carrots in a planter and dumped it out, dug up some onion transplants to see what I was hiding, same with potatoes and I saw where he looked under the straw mulch I added in my garden. I made the mistake of helping him during the drought last summer. I have a bad feeling about the Sugar Baby Melons I planted.
Hi Kim. Early to plant, early to pick. I am picking Seascape strawberries, and popping them in my mouth right from the plant, germs and all. I am also piulling up Malaga radishes as needed for salad. There is no rest for the weary in my garden. I have mustard that needs harvesting, blanching, and freezing. It is already harvest time. Soon, I will have peppers too. They are already fruiting, and it is April. Late May, or early June I can believe, but April? I must have done something terribly wrong to get peppers so soon. Some of my tomato plants are already flowering too, Sun Gold cherry, Thornburn's Terra-Cotta, and Martino's Roma. There are signs of fungus on my cucumbers, so I am treating them and my squash with Immunox. I already have it mixed up to prevent cedar gall rust from spreading to my apple trees, so why not use the good stuff.
May in so. Cal. But here in PA. I can't get my sugar babies out to first week of June. They are just popping up in my seed tray now. Happy gardening
Thanks for the info about strawberries needing shade when it’s over 85 F! I didn’t know that, and have probably had terrible strawberry harvests for six years now because of it! 🤦🏻♀️ Ordering shade cloth now! Do you just leave it on continuously once summer gets hot? I’m in Northern Utah, Zone 7a. Thanks!
Fantastic idea's Kim. Just bought your bean's.
Thank you so much.
Hi Kim. I love your channel. Thanks so much for doing a lot of container planting. That is what i do because of my terrible soil. Cant wait to build my trellis. Also your dog is so cute. He looks sooo shy and unconcerned. Love it…Your garden is beautiful.
Hi Kim! (Or anyone else who knows the answer). Can I use the worm tea along with a regular npk liquid fertilizer? I’m a second year gardener (containers) and fertilizer still confuses me. 😂
The pill bugs are enjoying my sprouted bean seeds. 😭😤Spent most of today gathering pill bugs. Darn them.
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I think Max is very suspicious of the camera man. 😸
9:18 I guess the French decided to take care of slug problems in the garden by just eating them. Escargot 🐌 🍽️
Your gardens are always so beautiful. Please tell me if you journal what you plant and where you plant it? When you fertilize? Anything like that? I just can not imagine keeping up with that whole garden. Amazing! I know that you have been doing it for a long time, but I am looking for tips, because I am usually the person watching last months video and hoping to remember next year what to do this time of the year.
Hi and thanks so much for the video! What do you do if ants get in your raised bed? Mine has a lot of them in it since I put the compost amendment.
CaliKim, won't placing the black covering over the soil kill all organisms on the soil?