June 2024 Backyard Garden Tour! Growing Abundance To Preserve For Later!

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hey guys welcome back if you’re new here hi I’m Bri I live in Kansas Zone 7A and tonight I’m going to give you a tour of my backyard garden here at the beginning of June I am jumping up this video a week mostly because the garlic is about to be pulled and I really want to show you guys the space before the garlic is pulled I am speaking we are days away from the garlic so I’m very excited to show you guys that but the garden is absolutely booming with life we had a great may we had a lot of really good rain we did a few bullets when it comes to hail but other than that we had really good weather we had a lot of just 70s and 80s very great temperatures for plants to thrive and the garden is really showing that I can’t wait to show you guys it today so let’s go ahead and just jump right in since we’ve been starting with the garlic all year let’s go ahead and start here so as you can see it is dying back quite a bit so I typically like to wait for about half the leaves to die back before I pull in previous videos I will say $ Four Leaves I’m shooting for four to five this year I wanted to play around a little bit I have pulled a few mostly um chesnok chesnok is the variety that I’m seeing clonking out the fastest so what I will do is cure this and I have a whole curing station in the garage believe me I will show you guys the whole process so if you’re not subscribed make sure you are subscribed cuz that is the next video coming I can’t wait to see this garlic harvest the bulbs I have harvested are so beautiful and this by far was the year I swear my garlic has just looked the best going into the dieback so let’s see is there one I want to pull I’ve been trying to wait for the soil to dry out a little bit as well we got so much good rain over the last few days that this soil is just kind of soaking but that looks so now my hands just completely Dr I’m going to have to go run inside but that is beautiful like I said I already do have a few of these curing in the garage so when I cure stuff I have a fan going pretty much at all times to help with air flow um but so far I am so excited so I planted four different varieties I have chesnok red which is these ones here these ones here and then this is another variety called Italian purple this one here is Georgian fire and then I have another one um called isum red I think I always pronounce that one wrong but that one’s a soft neck and that’s new for me this year and I have not pulled a single one of those yet that is so pretty okay I’m going to go wash my hands and then I guess I’ll just show you where I have this in the garage real fast because I need to go just throw this with the others so normally the lights off but in my garage I have this little curing station I’ll go over it more next week but right now I’m just clipping the other ones up here’s a few of the others that I pulled I think this was yesterday I just pulled these ones and again another really really beautiful head of garlic all right well here are the varieties so these are all hard neck I did not mention that and this is soft neck here like I said I’m really excited to attempt braiding so if you have any tips on braiding please let me know um but I’m really really excited about these I think they’ve done that really really well but the Georgian fire as you can still see even with the dieback stage it’s definitely still looking like the best biggest fullest plants um but if you look closer here this is what I’m talking about with leaves dying so we have 1 2 3 4 and our fifth one here is now dying so yeah this is really coming up on the last few days of all the garlic but I’m so excited to share that with you guys along the fence I do have some Mammoth sunflowers and they’re actually doing really well this area gets really sunny I just planted them in the ground because I was like hey why not but let’s move on to the front now because it is really starting to fill out so this trellis in the front this year is cantaloupe and I’m so excited because the cantaloupe is really starting to take off in hold on to the trellis so excited I really hope cantaloupe does well here this year because I just wanted a very viny big leafed plant in the front I wanted it to be very very pretty I have Goldie honey bear sunflowers here which I will say this one right here um got attacked by some caterpillars so it’s looking a little holy but it should rebound just fine my chamomile plant guys oh my gosh I been picking so much chamomile and I just have endless chamomile honestly I need to harvest this again by tomorrow um and get it into my Hang dryer I already probably have about 34 of a quart jar filled with dried chamomile and this isn’t my only plant I had uh two volunteers so I have so much chamomile that honestly I probably shouldn’t buy camomile tea for the rest of the year maybe that’s another good gift cuz one thing I’m doing is actually harvesting a bunch of herbs right now because that makes a great Christmas gift and I have so many back stocked where I know I only need to throw a little bit back but I like to get into the habit of preserving food right now because the abundance is really coming on so this time of year is great to really focus on herbs and like put some back so I’m trying to put some of that back for Christmas gifts and maybe I’ll do some chamomile tea too but all the herbs up here I have peppermint I have parsley oregano Rosemary I also have some hibiscus up here and over there for hibiscus tea we are big tea people here the peppermint is also for like drinks and things like that but other than that I have some lavender which I also like lavender tea uh speaking of tea but I’m really excited to have some lavender Rosemary I really like to do um an apple cider hair vinegar rinse uh with rosemary but I have a lot of different herbs up here I also have just a bunch of different flowers I really like the front space to be really really inviting and I think the cantaloupe is going to be the thing that really brings it over the top this year forgot to mention with the cantaloupe that um it is starting to balloom which is really exciting this is a variety called House jumbo I also think I didn’t mention that this is the third year that I am growing this house jumbo variety these are huge cantaloupes um they’ve typically been bigger than the size of my head um toward the end of the season they’ll be a little bit smaller but this has been a great producer in my garden all of the zenyas I have are a variety called Queen orange lime and you can see they all look very very different from the next they they are all so pretty and so unique and they go together so well but you can see how you get so much variety and they’re all from the same seed packet so here’s cantaloupe and on the back side of the chuses I have Cosmos on both sides and I also have the cosmos over here so forgot to mention these are called the bright light Cosmos and I think they are so pretty they’re just this very vibrant orange very Whimsical and I thought they would look really pretty with the green door and I’m I’m just AB absolutely loving them so for the most part our first wave of strawberries is done they are starting to put on their second wave of flowers they are also starting to put on Runners one thing I need to do is go throughout this bed and actually weed it maybe thin it out a little bit we got a good amount of strawberries the first round I also did just Harvest um some of the strawberry leaves as well I really like the strawberry leaves for tea it’s um a very dry tasting tea kind of like a wine very tanning um but I really enjoy it it’s a very good one if you have strawberries in your garden I have been picking blueberries every day though even though the strawberries are now currently done with their first wave so I do need to pick them I will say the bags also help deter the birds um with all the ones that aren’t bagged up I bagged up a few of like the really good clusters I figured Birds would still come but I have seen a few Birds over here and I haven’t seen any um taken so very happy about that the little bag little mesh bags here you can just um put them onto the stem and it will just help protect any Berry in there so here’s my Yaro and eona Patch as you can see my eona um I only have one flower at the moment the Yaro is kind of taking over this spot I used to have two eona plants and now I currently only have one over here I do have two planted in the front as well to help they are perennial here so that’s why that one is already blooming uh so well but I’m a little disappointed so after this whole area blooms probably I would say like August or September this is one of those longgo flowers it just really brings in a lot of good pollinators for me I don’t have to do anything with it it’s just a perennial for me again I haven’t done much with it but it is time to thin it out so come this fall I will probably thin it out a little bit we’ll see but I always just love how this little patch looks very wild and crazy it is in a 100 galon grow bag um so it is just this circle grow bag one thing I actually did differently this year that I have really liked is I put um a bunch of teap posts along like kind of the four corners of a circle even though there’s not four corners and I’ve been wrapping twine and that’s helped so much with our crazy wind and our rain to help these flowers not just droop down after a crazy rainstorm two nights ago we had some very crazy wind and rain and I actually lost one of my snapd dragons I just completely snapped that has worked really well for me and I’ve really liked it again I just love this little space I think it just looks so Whimsical and pretty all right now let’s jump to onions I am so excited to show you guys these right now okay so let’s look at the onions they are really starting to bulb up guys we are probably in our last four to 5 weeks with the onions in the ground at least last year we fell at about 4 weeks a little bit under 4 weeks from today the onion started to fall and die back so there’s going to be a lot of space in this Garden Clear out very soon I have all of these onions that will be pulled within again about 4ish weeks maybe a little longer and then all of this garlic is coming out within days but guys the onions are doing so well you can see they’re just all bulbing up so nice and I’m so excited to see this year’s Harvest compared to last year now there’s a few things that I’ve done a little differently this year with the onions one starting off with SE feeding them so I did majority of these in individual soil blocks to where when I went to go plant them out I wasn’t messing with the root systems at all I was trying to have as little root disturbance as possible and honestly that worked out phenomenal I loved it it made transplanting so easy when typically doing transplanting of onions and Planting onions was a very tedious thing that I really didn’t enjoy but doing them individually in soil blocks was so nice I also feel like they had better water and better nutrition my starts overall this year looked really well so I think the starts played a huge role in how we are currently looking today I did have a little bit of um damage from a pretty cold snap we had late um and then we’ve also had some significant wind that has caused some wind damage but other than that things are looking really well since I have had those two things that have caused a little bit of damage one thing I am doing this year that I have not done in previous years at all this is a very first for me is I have sprayed an organic fungicide on the onions just to make sure I’m not having any fungal disease that’s going to affect any of my storage that is huge for me the other thing that has been um different is the way I fertilize so I’ve been using a fish and seaweed fertilizer on pretty much everything I stopped fertilizing the garlic about 3 to 4 weeks ago when the Scapes appeared but I’ve been using this stuff about every 7 to 10 days I’m honestly due to go ahead and do it again but I’ve been doing these full year feeds with an organic fish and seaweed fertilizer and I swear it’s been such a game Cher I also amended everything but that’s the one thing this year that made the difference with my starts too like I’ve been using that with the onions from the very beginning and it’s worked really well in my opinion so I’ll be really curious to see how this Harvest goes very very soon honestly I can’t believe we are already like in some of the big Harvest times already June July August and going into SE setember are some of my favorite months but the next 3 months are some of my favorite garden tours you’re going to see just how crazy this space truly gets and how much it changes over the next few months some of these onions are so good looking like look at this thing I am honestly just so impressed so impressed I’m so excited about all of these onions and garlic I use in my cooking all the time so to have good harvest of these it’s just so good cuz the flavor truly is unmatched so on the one side of my shed here along with some of those herbs I actually have all of my jalapeno plants and they are starting to do really well it’s looking like I have maybe a few popping up I forgot to say this last Garden Tour I believe but one thing I did different with the peppers this year was I didn’t touch them I didn’t top them I didn’t pinch any of the blooms before planting them out that is two things a lot of gardeners and Farmers suggest to do um to help make a bushier plant so this year I decided not to do anything I decided to leave the plants completely alone because my first few years gardening I didn’t do any of those things and those were some of my best pepper years I’ve ever had and then since then I’ve been either doing one or the other or a combo of those two I just mentioned and I’m like no this year I’m not touching them and so far this year I’ve been really impressed on how a lot of the peppers are doing so I’m going to be really curious to see if that little change makes a bigger difference or not because I feel like that’s the one thing I’ve done truly different I know like soil and weather plays a huge role as well but if this is the year I didn’t touch my pepper plant I might not ever top them or pinch the blooms ever again cuz I also have already gotten like a banana pepper or two which has been really nice and also kind of early I don’t know if I’ve ever harvested a pepper uh that early to be honest so also over here you can see I did cut this down a little bit because it was like really coming out and I didn’t want this just to be completely taken over so honestly I don’t know what this is obviously it is some type of squash this is where my compost pile was and at the beginning of the season I completely took it down and I put these gr pods here cuz this is a very sunny location I thought it would do well the last few years I’ve had volunteer pumpkins in my compost so I’m almost thinking this is some type of pumpkin I don’t know if it’s a cross of something I think it this point it’s way too big to be the Honey Nut variety I grew last year but honestly I I don’t know we will see I’m starting to get some flowers on it so we’ll see what flowers get pollinated honestly I don’t have much high hopes for it because if it is a traditional pumpkin I’m typically dealing with Vine Bo and I’m also just not that excited about having a pumpkin on the ground because of all the squash bugs I have been dealing with over the last few years and this seems like it might be a pain so there’s a good chance I might pull it but it’s thriving and I really like it so I’m going to leave it for now other than that I have some roma tomatoes over here and there’s something so interesting about all of my tomatoes at the moment so let me show you all of my Roma varieties and then we’ll get into it so here’s a batch of Romas here’s some more Romas and then these two back ones here are also Romas which these are also Roma varieties but these are like true Roma plants with those three areas all three of those plants are the same and they were all started the same but they all three look significantly different what is different about all three of them is the soil so I did amend soil um this was brand new soil this year um that’s some uh that’s some old soil and then that’s some of my very oldest soil and I also amended these two areas a little different but one thing I will say the fruit production that is currently going on on my tomatoes is so crazy we will get into that in a little bit I wanted to kind of space out my tomatoes in different areas this year to kind of maybe help combat any type of blight maybe give them good airf flow different you know just different environments and so far that’s also been a very interesting thing um that I’ve noticed over the last little bit but anyway as you can see the trellis is starting to go so crazy I am loving having all of the green beans on here so the green beans are already up to here they are really going strong so I’ve never grown like P beans on a trellis like this before but one thing I wanted this year was to really have a good green bean year I’ve had really bad green bean years the last few years so I really wanted to devote a good amount of space so in previous years I’ve had lofa which this is loofah here I’ll show you guys a closer up in just a minute I have some little baby lofas going on already um but I’ve had lofa but I’ve also had a winter squash I’ve had cantaloupe I’ve had squash I’ve had cucumbers um and various other things on this trellis I’ve never just devoted this space to green beans so I’m really excited to have like the cantaloupe in another area the Honeydew in another area which I also haven’t shown you the Honeydew I’ll show you guys that in a second but this is loofah and the rest of this is green beans minus the very end I have a few cucumber plants and then I also have some more San Morano and then also the cherry tomato variety I’ve grown the last few years that pink bumblebee but yeah this trellis right here is actually where my honey de is so that one’s cantaloupe this one’s honeydew and then we have loofah and then all of my green beans which I did notice the green beans starting to flour as of this morning which is really exciting there’s some right there actually but then I also have my pink bumblebee variety which is starting to fruit I have my sand war on it which this is really interesting cuz these are side by side which this plant looks really good and is doing well um might have a little bit of curl action going on but this plant’s not looking too hot and the fruit on it looks really weird this is supposed to be a Sam warano and I did not buy a striping variety um you can see these were from the exact same sea packet and this fruit looks normal and pretty and this one looks very abnormal so trying to figure that out if you have any tips on what could be going on with this please let me know down below that’d be really helpful thank thank you but yeah here’s some of the Roma varieties setting fruit they’re all looking really really good the only other thing in this middle stretch that I have not mentioned is my carrots I have a good amount of carrots over here and they’re starting to do uh pretty well obviously not ready or anything but they’re getting pretty established I might need to weed this area a little bit more but the carrots are looking really good I also have them lined over here where the tomatoes and the Snap Dragons are as well just in a strip I was trying to fit as much as I possibly could and so far that’s uh working pretty well I also have a random volunteer sunflower over here but here’s some of the pepper plants that I’ve had downstairs you can see they weren’t looking so hot and then I transplanted them and they’ve been doing a lot better I should have transplanted these a lot sooner than I did and then I just have some extra sweet potato slips I might actually throw maybe a few more out but I have white sage down here I harvested all of the old growth on it this is not a perennial for us but I did overwinter it and it’s just doing really great I have some more oregano Rosemary mint over here and then this is culinary Sage so I have white sage and culinary Sage which I’ve had this culinary sage plant now I want to say it’s been four or 5 years it’s been a while it’s been since before we remodel the whole garden and it was flowering and now you can see it’s just putting on a bunch of seed I honestly need to cut it back here’s another really good looking onion which I haven’t touched any of the mulch or pulled anything back really for the most part it’s just been doing it itself okay let’s talk Tomatoes I have a few varieties I grow majority all paste varieties minus the two cherry tomatoes I have over there so I grow all paste because I personally like paste for for fresh eating if I am going to do any fresh eating I’m personally not a tomato girl I’m just not I will eat mine from my garden because they taste completely different but typically I’m just not a tomato girly I do love tomato products though and I do love to make tomato sauce this year I really want to do a lot more diced tomatoes um I went through those so fast diced tomatoes are great to make a quick uh pasta sauce or a quick um pizza sauce really quick it’s great for chilies and things like that so I’m thinking I’m going to do a lot of my tomatoes this year in diced tomato form I also plan to do a ton of salsa I ate through our salsa I had so much salsa and I think we ended up getting to about February with our salsa so I would really like to do a lot more salsa and diced tomatoes this year I still want to do some sauce but so far the tomatoes are looking so promising so far right now my supremos which is these ones over here they are cranking out the fruit I already have 20 plus on this one plant alone they are looking so beautiful last year the supro produced so well for me very uniform very um big Roma tomatoes it is a hybrid I will say it did end up knocking out with Bight a little early so I’m curious to see how this year will go because this is only my second year growing it and I have them in a completely different area I’ve been treating them a little bit differently I haven’t pruned these that much I have pruned them I do want to keep airf flow really well if I’m pruning anything off I’m just making sure it’s a sunleaf and not a sucker so I grow majority determinate plants I have them in tomato cages these are a bush tomato the other ones on my other uh the other ones on my trellis are an indeterminate so an indeterminate will grow to an indeterminate height and these determinant plants will go to a determined height which roughly is about 3 to 5 fet with all of the determinance that I’ve personally grown I am growing some other ones this year that are new for me called the Inca Jewels um and they’re supposed to be a little bit shorter I believe these supremos are definitely shorter last year I think they got to be about maybe 3 3 and 1 half but in the past some of these Romas I’ve grown have gotten to be about four or five so honestly I’m really curious to see how this year will continue to do so far so good but we haven’t got into like the hot and humid weather and that will typically be what starts to really take the tomato plants I actually don’t enjoy growing tomatoes they’re like my least favorite thing to grow but it’s just such a difference and you you can’t compare let me show you this one supro closeup I was showing my husband the other day cuz it’s just it’s honestly so crazy so you have this one cluster right here that already has like I think there’s six or seven fruit right there you have another really good looking cluster another cluster another cluster you have all of these small Tomatoes starting to form honestly these are are going absolutely crazy here’s another supro uh right here you can see just the beautiful clusters of fruit overall really happy about this again I’m just so impressed but I am also growing these tomatoes in a completely different location than I have for the last I think 2 or 3 years they are in a slightly sunnier location as well um so that could also be making a huge difference that was one thing I really wanted to change this year going into this Garden season because when I first started gardening um my tomatoes were kind of right along here in grow bags and that’s one of my sunniest locations and I would get so many tomatoes off of 6 to eight tomato plants that I had a crazy amount and then I started growing 20 plus tomato plants and I was having harvests that weren’t as great um I do say that is because I wasn’t amending soil or feeding plants that well and it was also because they weren’t in a sunny location um so there’s a lot of different factors this year that I’ve been playing around and kind of tweaking and so far um I’ve been just really happy overall with some of the adjustments I’ve been making every year with gardening is so different and you only have one shot to do those little adjustments to kind of see what might actually be different for you in your space in your garden so you always it’s always a toss up on what might work what might not and what might end up being a good outcome but so far this year I feel like those little things have been working in my favor I really should probably knock on wood right now so here’s all of my peppers I do have a random volunteer sunflower that I left but all of my Peppers all of these here are my peppera variety called the Hungarian magar starting to put on a bunch of really really pretty fruit as you might be able to see here they’re doing really well this one here on the end is my snacking pepper so I have this one and these two and you can see they’re a little bit shorter they’re a little bit buy they’re not as tall as some of the others so I’ll be really curious about these but these Peppers here are the snacking Peppers that you see at the grocery store in like a little bag that are uh red orange and yellow um that you can get just for like dipping and stuff so I’m so excited about these I got these seeds from Johnny’s I believe it’s a lunchbox variety mix so I’m this is new for me this year I’m very excited about these beside both of those um these are my pban Panos are also a newer one for me and they have not quite set fruit I don’t believe quite yet but you can see these ones are a little bit taller uh it’s very interesting to see how every variety is so different but I’m very excited have these pablanos I really want to do like a stuff fried pablano pepper and then right beside these I have some bell pepper plants and you can see my bell peppers are starting to be put on which is very exciting Ing and then beside all of the Bells I have banana peppers so you can see the banana peppers are the ones that are definitely the ones I can go ahead and harvest honestly I should probably go ahead and get some of these bigger ones but so so good I love homegrown banana peppers this year I actually need to pickle more banana peppers that is something I have to have on my list this year for canning and then I have some sorrano peppers and then also cayenne peppers which this Cayenne variety I need to double check what variety I ended up going with this year but so far I’m really loving how these peppers are looking the last few years I have not liked the Cayenne variety I have tried they’ve been a little bit thinner walled and a little bit harder to work with and I feel like these have some good structure to them so I’m really curious to see how I will really like this Cayenne I need to see the seed packet and uh figure out exactly what variety this is but the one thing that’s random is this so I had potatoes over here last year which I still have my one pepper plant just chilling here but there’s obviously two potato plants chilling in the middle of my pepper bed and I just decided to leave them so I might have a very random small Harvest of kbec potatoes we will see so I did Harvest out all of the broccoli I have left the plants though for things like this some offshoots I wanted to see if I could get any more like little fettes that I could go ahead and Harvest but overall great broccoli Harvest this year so this variety here is called the Bell star which has worked really really well for me so we have very crazy fluctuating temperatures where I live and that is stress on your plants so a few years ago I read that the Bell star was supposed to be more stress resistant so I was like all right let me give it a go it has been the only broccoli variety that is actually produced ahead for me in Spring I have got other ones to produce for me in Fall as we get cooler but it’s the one variety that’s produced for me in Spring and it’s given me these big beautiful heads of broccoli so it’s going to be one of those that I probably grow forever but the plants are still in the ground at the moment because I can give these plants to the chickens I can also harvest the leaves I actually don’t do too much with broccoli leaves I just give them typically to the chickens um but again they’re in here at the moment just so I can see if I can get any offshoots before completely pulling them but I’m thinking with this space even though I was not really sure what I was going to do with it once Harvest came because this is an area that really Shades out this time of year so I was thinking during like Midsummer I was just going to maybe leave it blank until I was planting out some fall stuff but now I’m thinking I might just go ahead and throw like some type of bush bean green bean maybe a keny bean black bean I don’t really know I just don’t want to leave the Space Blank and now that it’s time to get these plants out I really got to make this decision ASAP cuz I don’t think I want to leave it blank but all the cool weather crops are really starting to come out we are getting just a little too too warm for a lot of those things to really Thrive anymore okay so let’s talk Snap Dragons cuz honestly these are probably my new favorite addition to the Garden I’ve never grown them before but how beautiful are these flowers so this is a variety called poto MAAC Early Sunrise I believe I’m pronouncing poto MAAC wrong I looked up how to pronounce it one day and I was completely off um I believe it’s a town somewhere um so please correct me if I’m wrong I’m sure I’m wrong but that is the variety I got got the seeds from Johnny’s and they are so gorgeous I have these really pretty light pink and yellows very sherbety I have these dark orange and pinks and just all these different colors of very Sunrise very Sunset is and I just think they are so gorgeous I’m obsessed I think they add so much character to the Garden one thing I am loving this year that really stands out to me I was just telling my husband this is I have different pockets of color that all really coordinate this year and this was the year I really wanted to have very cohesive colors throughout with all different varieties it was very hard to kind of figure all of that out but once I started to pick up a few I was like okay I think those would go really well and I have flowers kind of throughout all of the spaces and all of these different colors are blooming throughout but they all kind of go and they’re all different colors and all different varieties and all different types of flowers and I am obsessed honestly flowers make such a difference I am again just honestly obsessed if you follow me on Instagram uh you will clearly see I’ve been posting a picture of The Snap Dragons I want to say like once a day at this point but they are so beautiful and they have to be shared with the world so I really want you guys to appreciate them as much as I do cuz I think they are so cool so I showed this on a short this week but if you go pinch the back of the flower the flower will open up like a dragon’s mouth does and that is how you kind of get that name or nickname Snap Dragon I don’t know the exact name of this but isn’t that so cool I must say I think this one here is probably my favorite it’s very very sunset sunrise as but I just love all of the colors so so much so I do still have a collared plant that does not look so hot this ended up being more of a trap crop for a lot of the cabbage worms that any the kale still looks good though and I’ll rip that off for the chickens last week I got all of the sweet potatoes planted with you guys and they are starting to look like they are taking a little bit so I’m really excited about all of those the aame chalas I’m excited to have the sweet potatoes because I think they’re going to do really well sweet potatoes do well in hot and humid climates and that’s exactly what we get during the summer and I have yet to have this thing have a true beautiful vine on it so I’m really excited to see how that goes this summer over here I have my dalas which these are the bees Choice from floret and they are all so different and unique and so pretty all on their own I love all the different variety I’ve had a few of these ones pop up now and it reminds me of just like a starburst I love all the beautiful coloring on it this one here very fluffy so they are doing so well and just look look at all those colors guys they look so pretty these are my bread seed poppies which they are starting to put their like buds on so I’m really excited to see what their blooms look like but this is the one issue I am currently having in the garden there is definitely some type of disease going on with these poppies and since I do have the um fungal stuff for the onions I went ahead and sprayed it over here as well um I did prune these back a little bit I think it was just a moisture thing and these leaves are very thin so the moment I believe this is like some type of blight the moment the blight hit them they just got a little crunchy but I think I’ll still be able to get like really pretty blooms out of them they’ve been doing a lot better since I kind of treated everything so I’m happy to see that but they are starting to finally put their blooms on so these are bread sea poppies these are the poppies that will give you poppy seeds and I really want to harvest my own poppy seeds make some like London poppy seed muffins or something like that I think that would just be so unique and cool last year I grew poppies not knowing that there was an orental and a culinary difference which which obviously there’s pretty much that in every variety of plant but yeah these are the bread sea poppies and they should be blooming pretty soon I will say I’m a little bit disappointed with my Elder berries I believe they’re probably already done flowering for the year and I only got maybe like one or two decent clusters I don’t think they pollinated well this one started to bloom a little bit earlier than my other Elderberry and they’re supposed to cross-pollinate and I don’t know overall I don’t think I’m probably going to get many berries out of my Elder berries but the plants are still really pretty along my fence I still have random sunflowers this one over here was actually a volunteer Sunny um I’m hoping it’s a Goldie I’m not quite sure we will see what it is but I did plant various other sunflowers along the fence just to see one thing you might be able to notice is how much shade we get along the second half of the fence you can see none of the sunflowers are doing much of anything if well at all this area over here gets a lot of shade so unfortunately I don’t know if my whole sunflower fence is really going to work out but that’s fine I do have another random squash plant popping up so leaving that I guess we’ll see what that is here’s all the ladies I need to see how many eggs we got but lastly over in this corner here I did plant some Iris I don’t know what type of Iris this is but um I was gifted this from from my husband’s coworker so I’m very excited to have some Iris over here I think this would just be a really great prinal space this is an area I actually need to work on I had my chickens over here for a while and you can see I need to grate it and cover it and whatnot I actually think I am going to plant my other Elderberry over here that is the actual plan so I might actually plant that over here but this is my other one this is one called Instant Karma I love it it has this really pretty variegated Leaf you can see like some of these ones over here are like really really white looking but I got barely any any fruit these are the only berries I have on this plant so yeah the Elder berries have been a little disappointing but it is only my first full year with them come on girls let’s go to bed Honeys come on come on girls this way come on good job let me take you along for collecting eggs before I leave you for the night let’s see how many we got what no we only got three today it’s been a while since we’ve only gotten three eggs what’s up with that girls I’ll still take three eggs any day all right guys well that is going to be it I hope you enjoyed seeing the Garden in June honestly this is one of my favorite times of the year and the next few months with garden tours are going to be so much fun so I hope you’re subscribed also don’t forget I’m doing my garlic video next so if you want to see that garlic Harvest definitely make sure you’re subscribed cuz that’s going to be a good video either way though guys I hope you enjoyed seeing the garden here in June I’ll see you guys all in the next one bye