The Abundance is Starting to Roll In! Full July Garden Tour

Get Behind the Scenes Updates, Free Recipes, and More by Joining My News Letter Here – https://scratchpantry.com/newsletter

GreenStalk – Use Code ACRE for an EXTRA $10 on Orders of $75+ https://scrat.chat/greenstalk (Affiliate Link)

Affiliate Links and Discount Codes –
Happy frog potting mix – https://amzn.to/4lzrTNB

Soil Test and Amendment | Use Code ACRE for 15% OFF
Find them under “Products for Your Soil” – https://scrat.chat/redmond-agriculture

GreenStalk Code ACRE for $10 OFF any order of $75 or more – https://scrat.chat/greenstalk

Epic Garden Equipment (Dishwasher Safe Trays and Cells) | Use Code AH5 for 5% OFF
Becky from Acre Homestead's Shop

Online Seed Companies:
MI Gardener – https://scrat.chat/MI-gardener-seeds
Botanical Interests – https://scrat.chat/botanical-interests-seeds
Hoss Tools Seeds – https://scrat.chat/hoss-seed-collection
Seeds for Generations – https://scrat.chat/seeds-for-generations

Favorite Garden Supplies:
Vermont Compost (Gardner’s Supply)- https://scrat.chat/vermont-compost-fort-vee
Soil blockers – https://amzn.to/3uPiSdv
Organic Liquid Fertilizer – https://amzn.to/3q7zjj1
Fungus Gnat Traps – https://amzn.to/3Sk4dA8
Landscape Fabric – https://amzn.to/45XNGWT
Bulk Blood Meal – https://amzn.to/45322Eq
Weeding Tool – https://amzn.to/3NFepRf
Seed Organizer – https://amzn.to/35ivzkm
Garden Gloves – https://amzn.to/3HoOqY1
Seedling Trays Extra Strength Boot Strap Farmer – https://amzn.to/3M90xMk
Vermiculite – https://amzn.to/3MazP5R
Amazon Grow Lights – https://amzn.to/3Gag2j7
Hoss Grow Lights – https://shrsl.com/3cttb
Heat Matt – https://shrsl.com/3cttq

Azure Standard: Where I bought the herb and flower starts and where I buy my organic bulk food and supplies –
New Customers use Code ACRE15 for 15% off your first order of $100 or more — https://scrat.chat/azure-standard – Use Code ACRE10 for 10% off of your first order! Code applies to first time Azure customers. Minimum $50 or more product order with delivery to a drop location only. One time use per customer. Terms apply.

Roo Apron – https://scrat.chat/roo-apron

Harvest Right Freeze Dryer – https://scrat.chat/harvest-right-medium

ButcherBox — https://scrat.chat/butcherbox | Sign up through my link to get 2lbs of free 100% grass-fed, grass-finished ground beef in every order for the life of your membership!

Food Preservation Equipment:
Steam Juicers – https://amzn.to/3CrDOaG
Food Dehydrator – https://amzn.to/462o7UZ
Vacuum Sealer – https://amzn.to/3Nv4TjC

Canning Supplies:
Ball Canning Cookbook (My Favorite!!) – https://amzn.to/3w2SZlX
Electric Presto Pressure Canner – https://amzn.to/3JxsUlL
Sauce Master – https://amzn.to/3qqVk9c
30-quart stainless steel stock pot – https://amzn.to/3TNJvXU
18-inch wooden spoon – https://amzn.to/3QvL9e3
Oster 22 Quart Roaster Pan – https://amzn.to/3qkuteV
Stainless Steel Strainers – https://amzn.to/3eaM8As
Canning Equipment Essential Supplies Kit – https://amzn.to/3eafXkv

ForJars (Canning Lids) – https://scrat.chat/canning-lids | Use code ACREHOME10 for 10% off!

Redmond Real Salt | Use the code ACRE for 15% off
https://scrat.chat/sea-salt-fine

Bulk Food Storage Containers:
Food Grade 5 Gallon Buckets – https://amzn.to/3wgi25R
Gamma Lids – https://amzn.to/3bEij92
X-Large Food Containers with Gamma Lids – https://amzn.to/3tD3SvT
1 Gallon Glass Jars – https://amzn.to/3bxAwW3
1/2 Gallon Glass Jars – https://amzn.to/

30-Day Free Audible Membership with 2 Free Books – https://amzn.to/3mCLKyT
A Year Without The Grocery Store Book – https://amzn.to/3CE4Mdz

Organic and Biodynamic Wine Club – https://scrat.chat/plonk

Links are affiliate links, but I will only recommend items I LOVE and use daily with no extra cost to you, and it helps support the channel! Thank you for your support!
#acrehomestead #gardentour #gardendesign

Good morning, friend. It is mid July. It is early, early early. I wanted to get out here and do a full garden tour before the sun gets up too high and we get one, it’s too hot, and two, it’s too bright to show you everything in detail. We have been out of town for a week. We just got home. I have not been out into the garden yet. I’ve been up on the patio and had a sneak peek what these green stocks look like, but I wanted to wait to get out into the garden with you all to see what has changed. It is amazing what can change in a week. So, first since we’re up here, let me go ahead and show you the green stocks. This one in particular is blowing my mind. This one is a new experiment to me this year. This is impatience. I got a six-pack. I think it was $4.99 or $3.99 for a six-pack. This is a let me see seven tier. So, I had to get seven sixpacks. And look at how this thing has just filled out incredibly beautifully. I am blown away. Next year I probably will do this again, but I would like to do white and pink just to add a little bit more contrast. The one thing about impatience is they do drop petals, so I have to sweep them. But that’s a week worth of petals, so it’s not actually that bad. And I am just blown away. I wasn’t sure if it was going to fill out cuz it did take a little bit of time, but it’s looking incredible. Over here, we have our caliber koa ones. And my caliber koa are definitely looking like they could use some food. When we were gone for a week, I had a neighbor who came and took care of my green stocks and my hanging baskets. And I think I planted here the wrong kind of ntoriums. I thought I was planting a bushing variety because I have green beans in here and I wanted just a small bushing variety, but I think this is obviously the trailing variety. So, in my labeling, I got mixed up. But I can tell that my green stocks need a little bit of food. But this is a pepper green stock. And look at all these peppers on here. This one is looking beautiful. So this afternoon after we do a full tour, I’m going to get out here and feed all of these green stocks. This is patunias. And I can tell after a week of not deadheading, I need to get out here and dead head and feed them. Give them a little bit more life. So I don’t think I will do the green beans and ntoriums next year because the at least that variety because they’re kind of taking over a little bit. But what I’ve been loving is we ate dinner out here last night and the hummingbirds and butterflies have set in and we just watched hummingbird after hummingbird after butterfly after butterfly eat on these flowers and it’s just been super super fun. So this is another green stock. Again, I think I put the wrong variety of ntoriums in here. These were only supposed to get about 10 in max and these are getting huge. So, they’re kind of out competing my peppers, but I’m still getting some decent size peppers on here, and I still think it’s pretty. So, this is also showing me signs that this planter needs to be fed. So, I’ll do that this afternoon. Something I wanted to show you up here. Now, this hanging basket I started myself with you guys. I just repurposed a hanging basket I already had, and I put four patunias in it. The two colorful ones were ones that I purchased that were already grown out. And I like the one I started just as much as the ones I purchased already pre-started. I think next year I am going to go ahead and just start my own hanging baskets because it was more than half the cost for me to repurpose that hanging basket and buy four patunia pots and start my own. So that’s kind of a fun experiment that is working out in my favor. I just grabbed a basket because I’m hoping there are going to be some fun things to harvest in the garden. Again, I have not been out there in over a week and the dogs are coming out here with me this morning. I did want to say that we’re going to end with a chick update, but I want to get out here before it gets too bright and too hot. So, that’s why we’re going to end with the chick update. I cannot believe how much they’ve grown in a week. And something fun right here is that my favorite dalia that I transplanted right next to my rhubarb has survived and started blooming. I’m going to come and dead head these because those are kind of spent. But look at this one. How pretty is that? We’re going to have a lot more blooms on this Dalia. The flowers are one thing that I cannot wait to see how they have exploded. When we left, we only had, I think, two Zenia blooms. And I’m thinking we’re going to have a lot more at this point. Look at this. These are all Dalia we started from seed, not this year, but the year before. And at this point, we have hundreds of blooms. I also put in here for the first time cosmos, which looks like they are finally blooming. I probably should come out here and do some deadheading. So, while we’re out here, I am going to see what kind of chores need to be done. Oh, these cosmos has started to bloom. That one is got one bloom on it. And we are going to Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. I’m so excited. I waited to come out here with you all because I am just going to be blown away by how things have changed. So, let’s just start right here. Here we have a variety of drying bean or you can eat it as green bean. and they’re starting to trail up the vine. These are we’ve got some flowers here. This is a rattlesnake pole bean and it’s starting to fill out and look absolutely beautiful. And out of the corner of my eye in this bed, I just saw some tomatoes that I think we can har okay. I just saw zucchini that we can harvest. So, let’s just go in the same order that I went last time. So, we’re going to start here. This is a pumpkin. This is a mini pumpkin that I put in this corner that’s hopefully going to trail out here and produce some decorative pumpkins. This is Rebecca. And I cannot believe how many buds are on this. This kept getting eaten down, eaten down, eaten down by a bunny. I have about five or six bunnies that are in here every single day. There’s nothing I can do about it. I cannot put bunny fencing around this entire fence. And it looks like this Rebecca is winning that fight. We have onions down here that are looking really nice. We’re actually getting good size to them. They’re actually bulbing up. We started these onions together, I think, in January. I didn’t think they were going to make it, but it looks like they’re doing quite well. We have our first straw flower bloom. These are one of my favorite flowers. They’re so pretty. I really need to get out here and put some trellising system on these Roma tomato plants. And look at this. Come on. You need to go over there. We’ve got another straw flower bloom. And we’ve got our first Roma tomato babies here. I need to prune all this. Obviously, I did get out here and prune everything before we left. Another succession of lettuce. So, we’ll probably be eating on this this week. More straw flowers, more Rebecca, and no nesters. I think I’ve done about four or five successions of lettuce. And so, that is one that’s just about ready. We are now getting into summer heat around here. I think it’s supposed to be high 80s, low 90s this week. Now, we’re at this second bed, and this is what I saw out of the corner of my eye. So, this is our first zucchini. I will still eat this. This probably should have been harvested a week ago, but that’s okay. I will probably harvest that one in a day or two. And it looks like we have some here that did not get pollinated. So, I’m going to pull those. And I’m probably going to prune this zucchini plant tomorrow. But look at this over here. So over here, these right here are our first tomatoes. This variety is called citrine orange. So these are supposed to be orange. Look at that. Now in here we have a black bean bush bean variety that has gone bananas. Lots more tomatoes but no more tomatoes to harvest. This in front here we’ve got an enemies. These are a cold weather flower. So I’ve still got some pretty blooms but a lot of them are kind of spent. These ones actually look like they went to seed. I don’t think my I wonder are those seeds, right? Yeah, I think those are anemy seeds. I could be wrong. Can you save those and plant them? I don’t think my anemies went to seed last year. Interesting. But I’m seeing lots of tomato blossoms. And it looks like I need to get out here and do some trellising with my red tape. I got this tape gun that tapes up my tomatoes and I’ve been loving it. It also looks like my tomatoes are a little hungry and I think I need to do some pruning because these black beans are kind of growing up the tomatoes. So, there’s definitely a lot of maintenance that needs to be done out here after a week of not being out here. Here you can see what it looks like from the back end. Oh, we’ve got a big green tomato right here. Looks like it’s got a little crack in it. We got a lot more rain than we normally get. So, here is the third bed. This is my Roma tomato bed. That is a indeterminate variety. This is a new variety to me. Normally, I grow determinant varieties of Roma, but I got a new one and I can tell that I need to do some pruning. I need to trellis these up. Here you can see this tomato branch doesn’t look super healthy. So, I’ll get all that off. But that is super exciting. Now, one thing to note, this is a indeterminate variety, which means that we are going to get tomatoes throughout the growing season on these plants. Normally, when I grow Romas in the past, I’ve grown about 22 determinant varieties of Romas, which are the type of Romas that are in that first bed. And I usually get two big flushes within about a week apart of each other. So I don’t have to freeze the tomatoes because I can just keep them inside, hold off, and I can do two big canning processing days and not have to freeze the tomatoes. With these plants, these plants are not going to come in all at one time. They’re going to slowly roll in. And I do not like doing lots and lots and lots of little tiny food processing days. I want to do one or two huge canning days, especially tomatoes. So, I think this year I’m going to have to freeze all my tomatoes as they come in. And at the very end of garden season, I will do a big tomato processing day. So, something a little diff different because I’m growing a different variety of tomato. Look at this. And look what I just found. We’ve got another zucchini that probably could have been harvested about 5 days ago, but I was not here to harvest it. I’m going to put that right in here. Okay. So, now we’ve got in this bed in front. This is a new variety of green bean to me. And we’ve got some flowers, but I do not see any. Oh, nope. I don’t see any baby green beans. So, probably in about a week to two, we will have our first set of green beans over here. I can tell these pepper plants are hungry for some fertilizer. So, we have lots of baby peppers, but these plants are hungry. So, I will come out here and feed all of these plants this afternoon. And this is a new variety of drying bean to me. And I don’t see any flowers on these yet, but soon we will have flowers on these beans. In this bed, we have onions along the edge. These are onions I started from seed, and they are starting to bulb up as well, which is a good sign. So, now we’re going to head down here. This bed mirrors the last bed we were in that had anemies. So, anemies in front, which are still producing. These ones are beautiful. I could bring these inside this afternoon. We have some Chinese white pumpkins here, which are starting to flower. So, maybe we’ll get some baby pumpkins here. I’ve got more tomatoes along this back edge, which are looking pretty good. Bush bean, black beans in here, which are looking very good. And I can see there is a nasty weed. This is a grass that I do not want taking over this bed. So, I’m going to pull that right now cuz that’s the last thing I want taking over. These tomatoes have green tomatoes on them, but I’m going to go ahead and feed them as well cuz they’re looking like they’re a little hungry. I’m just going to set this here for now and I will deal with that later. So, that bed is looking beautiful. Very excited about it. This anatomy is looking perfect. I could go ahead and pick that today. Some more little pumpkins over here that I don’t see any flowers yet. And then over here, this bed, I don’t know about this bed. So, this here is a pumpkin. That’s a pumpkin. Back here, we have black beans, which are starting to take off, which is exciting. Right here, I think this is a flop. These are peanuts. And the ones that didn’t die, it looks like something’s been nibbling on them. They have not really grown. So, I am considering pulling these out and planting something new here because they are on the struggle bus. Now, these look great over here. These are some carrots. Does look like something’s been nibbling on the top of them, actually, which is a little frustrating. We do have lots and lots of bunnies that live over here and they may have snacked on some of my carrot tops. Over here we have pumpkins. And then this is a little dalia that was growing as a volunteer in the gravel that I dug up and I planted here. So we will see if we get blooms. It looks like we’re going to get blooms off of this dalia plant. So, this bed is I don’t know. It needs a little attention. The sun is starting to come up. So, we have Oh, I I guess I didn’t show you one thing in this bed here. Here is another succession of lettuce that is looking pretty good. So, that’s the top row. Now, we’re going to come down here to the second row. We’ve got some pumpkins. These are Jackie little orange pumpkins for decoration. I’ve got tons of snapd dragons. This is the Costa mix. I need to get out here and harvest a bunch for some bouques. I need to just kind of clean up this bed. We have lots of lettuce in here. This is the lettuce we’ve been eating on. This still looks beautiful. I’m going to harvest a ton of this today. Ton of this today. That’s Roma in between. And then some of it starting to bolt. So, I’ll probably pull it. So, the lettuce that’s not bolting, I’m going to harvest, put in the fridge. This is questionable. You can see it’s starting to want to bolt. So, I’ll taste it. Oh, that’s not yummy. Okay, so that’s not good. So, that I’ll pull because it’s already starting to get a little bitter. Let’s try this Roma. Super sweet. So, that’s what I’ll harvest for our lettuce for the week. This pot is looking beautiful. This is cosmos and some netoriums that don’t look very good. So, I might pull that cuz it’s already going to seed and just let the cosmos take over. It does look like I need to do some dead heading in here. But, that is exactly what I wanted. One big pot of cosmos. The eucalyptus looks really good. One chore I need to do this week is get out here and stake this up so that it’s not going to grow continuously over the growing season flat like that. I could start harvesting off that. It looks like I need to get out here and do some weed killer. I have not done that in probably 3 weeks and I try to get out here at least every two to kill the weeds that grow on these gravel paths. So, this bed does need some maintenance. The biggest thing is I need to come harvest a huge bouquet of snapdragons and then clean up the lettuce. Now, I grew the mix called I actually don’t remember the name of the mix, but it does look like it has this light pink snapdragon, a white snapdragon, a yellow snapdragon, and then what I like the best is this beautiful deep pink snapdragon. Oh, look at that. You see that? On the end of this snapdragon bed, we have more of these orange tomatoes. Awesome. So, from there, we’re going to come around here. We’ve got more tomatoes. These tomatoes were damaged quite heavily by a flea beetle. I had never had that in my garden before and it was really gross and I treated it and they’re looking a lot better, but they definitely are a little stunted. We’ve had a very very mild spring. So everything to me feels when it comes to tomatoes seems a little bit delayed. This is the same bed. And what I mean is normally I would expect my tomatoes to be a little bit bigger and more lush. These ones I understand why because they were damaged by pests. But even those ones I feel like are a little bit delayed what they normally are. And I think that’ll be okay cuz we’re starting to get into that true summer weather here now. Now this is an onion bed. I planted years ago, three year two years ago uh chundula flowers. I have never had to plant clenula flowers again because they selfseed themselves. So, I’m just letting the clenula grow in between my onion bed. I have carrots between my onions. And this bed is looking really, really nice. This bed is the bed that I already completely harvested everything out of once and I’m starting to plant the next thing. So, here I have green beans. This is the second succession of green beans. So, my goal is when that patch of green beans is done for the season. This one is going to take over. This was an entire bed of garlic. Just a second. I need to tell Tibro, Tibro, excuse me, Tibro, come here. Okay. No barking, please. Thank you, Dakota. Okay, so back to this bed. This was a garlic bed and I harvested all the garlic. When I show you the chicks, I’m going to show you what the garlic looks like. And this week we will Oh, there’s a hummingbird. Do you see it right there on that trellis? We get lots and lots of hummingbirds this time of year. And they spend most of their time up on the patio. They really really enjoy the flowers that I have in the green stocks. And then I have probably 40 uh what are they called? Dalia plants up in the my main like landscaping and they love those as well. But this was my garden bed and it got hit really hard with two different types of fungus this year. I think the majority of the garlic is going to be fine. We’re going to be able to eat it. But I harvested it about three weeks earlier than I normally do. And I still have this landscape fabric down. So, this week I am going to pull this up. These are volunteer potatoes in here. I don’t know if I’m going to leave them or dig them up, but I am going to do more planting. I’m probably going to do another succession of green beans. I might do one or two zucchinis. I’m going to do more lettuce. And I’m probably going to do more carrots. Last year, I planted carrots after Dakota. Sweetheart, can you get out of the garden bed, please? Thank you. Last year, I planted Oh my goodness. I see something. We’ll get to it when we get to it. Last year, I planted carrots after my garlic was harvested, and it did so well. I was able to harvest those carrots all winter long. Now, we didn’t have a crazy crazy cold winter. We had a couple like five or six days of snow, but we didn’t have ice storms, and the carrots were amazing to be able to harvest all winter long. So, I want to do that again. So, probably this week I’m going to plant carrots from the garlic bed. We have this potato bed and it’s looking fantastic. It looks like it already flowered, which means now it’s starting to produce tubers. I have onions in here. I read that onions are a good companion plant to potatoes, but maybe you needed to plant them way earlier than I did cuz I planted the onions the same day I planted the potatoes. And you can see there’s onions growing in here, but I can’t imagine they’re getting enough sun. So, that might be an experiment that is just a one and done type thing. But time will tell. Once these potatoes start dying back, we will harvest them. This variety of potato is russet. Now, here, this is exciting. This is a runner bean, and it’s starting to grow up this vine. It’s definitely getting a little shaded out from the potatoes, but hopefully they will be able to once they start growing up this trellis get a little bit more sun. My goal is to have this trellis completely covered. And these nesters are starting to grow up this vine. This is the trailing ntorium variety that can get 72 in tall. It’s trailing down here. And I think this is what I on accident planted in my green stock, which is not great for a green stock like this. I’m gonna have to come out here and train these. I want the ntoriums to be on the outside. And then I have more pole beans here that I want to grow up. So that’s looking pretty decent at this point. Now this bed is snapdragons mostly. This is the pawnac mix. This is one of my favorite snapdragon mixes because I love this purple. I absolutely love this orange color and this pink color. Just I absolutely love this deep maroon. I think is pretty. But I don’t think it matches the orange pinks and purples as much. But I still love it. But you can see I need to get out here and do a little bit of maintenance, which is totally to be expected. And I also need to do some major harvesting for some beautiful bouques. I also planted in here parsley. So, we’re actually getting to the point where I’ll be able to harvest some of this parsley. I started this from seed, so it took a while to start growing. I have some volunteer zenyas in here. This was a zenya bed last year, and I am letting the zenyas just kind of do their thing. And it looks like I have one zucchini here. This could probably go for another day or two, but I’m going to go ahead and harvest this right now. Now, one thing I did not do, which I probably should do next year, is actually support my snapd dragons. You can buy a netting to support snapdragons. And I’ve never done that before, but some of them are starting to fall over. And I think it could benefit from support. Like this plant. Oh no. Oh my goodness. We already have disease on some of these. Shoot. Okay. So, I’m going to have to get out here and pull some of these plants cuz that’s a disease. That was what was on my Darn it. Shoot. That’s what was on my garlic. You can see how beautiful these are. That is a fungal disease. It’s a kind of rust. And I was worried that I was going to get that again. So, I planted all my snapdragons a lot further apart this year, thinking that maybe that would deter it. But, I’m wondering if maybe if it’s like in my garden and settled in, if that’s going to be a thing that I’m going to struggle with snap dragons year after year. Shoot. I don’t know if it’s these varieties when I’ve just grown varieties that are not hybrids. I’ve never had this problem on them. These are a hybrid variety. Maybe they’re more susceptible. I don’t know. But I’m going to pull those plants today. There’s still going to be lots of time to harvest lots of flowers. But I’m just a little disappointed that I’m already this early on seeing disease. Here is another Cosmo pot, and I’m really liking it. I do think I’m going to pull these ntoriums cuz they’re not looking very good. But the cosmos look great. I’m going to do some dead heading and then they will just keep producing hopefully all year long. Down here we have a Chinese white pumpkin which hopefully will produce lots of little baby pumpkins for me. Back here we have more of the rattlesnake pinto bean varieties. This is a high crystal pepper. We have some Oklahoma pink zenyas which are super super cute. This is the first time I’ve grown the Oklahoma variety of zenyas and I’m loving them. We have sugar rush peach peppers. My peppers plants need nutrients. They’re not looking super super great. They’re producing. Look at this. These are all cayenne peppers. Lots and lots of peppers on these plants. But I’m really loving these Oklahoma pink zenyas. These are beautiful. We have Oh, our first baby pumpkin right there. This is another Chinese white pumpkin. I believe there’s two of them. Look at that. How cute. Oh, well that tag says honey nut, but that’s definitely not a honey nut. So, we’ll see. These are starting to vine up, which is great. I’m really excited about some things, but man, I’m really disappointed about finding that fungus on my snapdragons. Now, from this bed, we’re coming over here to a pumpkin bed. And this variety of snapdragon is called orange wonder, I believe. I got this seed from my gardener. And I’ve been growing this in my garden for years, and it’s never experience that rust before. And that’s why I’m thinking maybe the hybrids are more likely to get that rust versus this variety. Maybe I just grow this variety in my garden. I don’t know because I don’t see any signs of disease on this one. This is in a pot, too. But we’ll see. Maybe snapdragons I grow less quantity in pots in the future. But this bed is a fun bed. This is one of my favorite beds. We’ve got a pumpkin here. our first little pumpkin. Or not our first, but a pumpkin. And we’ve got a whole bed of pumpkins. My goal for this bed is for it to completely trail out of this bed. We’ve got more little pumpkins in there. We’ve got a little pumpkin right there. You can see we’re starting to get some vining, which is what I like. And then in here, I planted this is Bener’s giant zenia. And we’re starting to get some of our first ones. This is the white one. I don’t think this is fully opened up yet, I wouldn’t think. But I’m starting to get the beneries giant zenyas. Getting some blooms on them. This one is super super wiggly. So, you know a zenia’s ready to harvest when you wiggle them. And they don’t flop over like that. So, those are not ready to harvest. Oh, we got more pumpkins over here. And we’ve got a female flower right there. So, this pumpkin bed is doing really well. Oh my goodness. Okay, this bed is looking like we’re going to be able to harvest a ton of sugar snap peas and we’re going to eat a lot of these this week. This was a new variety of sugar snap peas for me and it got about this tall. We had three days of rain and wind. All of the sugar snap peas that are all now kind of trailed back this way flopped over onto these peppers. I propped them up and I was thinking that maybe they would not keep producing. But not only are they producing and we’re going to have a ton of sugar snap peas for dinner this week, but they’re still producing flowers. So that’s really good. So I’ll harvest those today. Look at all of them. Hopefully this is not too bitter. Mm- Super sweet. So sweet. So I’ll harvest all these today and we’ll eat these this week. On the end of this bed, I put some more pumpkins that are starting to trail out. This variety is another Chinese white pumpkin and it’s looking beautiful. And in the middle of the bed, we have yellow monster peppers. And we’re starting to get some peppers on here. This plant does not look very good. That looks I don’t know like it’s going to make it. We got lots of peppers on here, which is exciting. More lettuce. These are renunculus that were in the front here. These are done. These did have some beautiful blooms on them, but they are a cold weather flower. So, they are done for the season. Lots of peppers in here. Over here, we are starting to get lots of little baby pumpkins. I can see the vines are trailing out. Here is a pumpkin that got properly pollinated. Here is a pumpkin that got properly pollinated. So, that’s going to grow into a pumpkin. This one did not get pollinated. You can see how it shriveled up. That’s okay. That happens. Look at that. We have a pumpkin here. Two pumpkins there that look properly pollinated. We have a couple pumpkins in here. There’s two of them. One, two. We have volunteer colundula. These are some baby dalas that I missed. This was a dalia bed last year. There’s a dalia right there. Dalia right there. Here is another pumpkin vine. Looks like it actually rooted right there. There’s another chundula plant. The sun is definitely starting to come out on this edge of the bed. That’s why I kind of wanted to get out here super early. Here is more of the beneries giant. You can see when I wiggle this, the stem stays upright. These ones I could harvest. Here’s another dalia that I must have missed in this bed last year. There’s a couple more pumpkins that were properly pollinated. So, that’s exciting. So, over here we have more of the orange. These are orange wonder snapdragons. These look really good. I’m not seeing Oh, is that disease on there? right there. Nope. No disease on there. We have some These are snow pepper. Uh, not peppers. These are what are these called? They’re the flat sweet pea. Not sweet pea. Sweet peas are toxic. They’re a flower sugar pee. I can’t remember what these are called. But I had them planted all along the edge and the bunnies have eaten them down so many times I didn’t think I would get any of them. But it looks like we’re going to get a handful right there. This is another pepper bed. This is an Anaheim pepper bed. And I’m seeing lots of peppers here, but I’m also seeing blossoms drop, which is not good. We have some Zenyas. These are looking beautiful. This is another Oklahoma variety of Zenia, which is a smaller variety. These are Serrano peppers. Peppers I’ve always had a hard time with. My peppers and my green stocks are looking better than my peppers in my beds. I wonder if I could be overwatering these pepper plants. I increased the time on how much I was watering and I have not decreased it yet. And I think that’s what caused the disease in my garlic. And that might be what’s giving my peppers a little bit of hard time. Peppers don’t like tons and tons of water. So, I’m going to have to talk to Josh and ask him to reduce how much water I’m giving each of these beds. From that pepper bed down here, this is a branching sunflower. This is a new variety to me, and I’m really excited about this cuz I’m seeing tons and tons of blooms on here. These are orange wonder snapdragons and they are looking fantastic. I’m not seeing any disease in here. We have kale in here. Lots of snapdragons. More zenyas that are looking really, really nice. And then in here we have these are melons that are starting to grow that I started from seed and they’re looking pretty good actually. I think what I’m going to do is fertilize these when I fertilize everything. This bed, or I shouldn’t say bed, this pot I planted with Zenia seeds. And I reused some soil that was in a green stock that had teragon in it. And it looks like some of those teragon roots must have survived. So, I’m getting teragon growing in here. And then it looks like there might have been some ntorium seeds in there cuz I didn’t plant ntoriums in here and I’m starting to get a couple ntorium plants. So that’s going to be fun. I just wanted to see what would happen if I planted zenyas from seed in a pot. So that’s a new little experiment to me. But this is looking beautiful. Lots of beautiful snapdragons. And I’m not seeing any disease on these. I don’t think. No, I’m thinking next year I will not do an entire snapdragon bed like I’ve done the last two years and I’ve had two beds. I think they need just a few plants here and there and that should still give me plenty of snapdragons. I’m getting hundreds of stems of snapdragons. I don’t need that many. I just like them. And so maybe to reduce the amount of disease I have in my garden when it comes to these beautiful flowers, cuz this is actually my favorite color of snapdragon. Maybe I just plant this and a purple variety and I just have a few in some beds and call that good cuz that’s still plenty of stems for me to make beautiful bouques to bring inside. Now this is beautiful. Look at these flowers. But look how beautiful those orange flowers are. We’re already getting growth up to here. So, I’m hoping that this will just fill out this arch. These beans are supposed to get I have the same thing right here, 15 ft tall. So, they should hopefully fill out this arch. We already have beans up to there. So, that’s really exciting. Not only are these supposed to be delicious, but they also have a beautiful, beautiful flower. Now, one thing that is super encouraging is this bed. I was so worried about whether or not I was going to get a big bed of zenyas because these zenyas looked terrible a couple weeks ago, about two weeks ago. I thought I need to start over with these zenyas. But I have been feeding them. Obviously, not since we left, but they are starting to produce zenyas. And I am going to have a zenia bed here. Look at this orange color. This is beautiful. And when I go like that’s pretty close. Maybe that needs another day before I harvest it. I’m not normally an orange fan when it comes to like decorating or clothes, but when it comes to flowers, I don’t know why, but I love orange and I love pink. If there’s one thing that gardening has taught me is there’s always a mixture every single year of successes and failures. One thing I like to do is plant a lot. And so that I know some stuff will fail. I know some stuff will succeed. And the more you plant, the more likely that you will have successes and not just failures. So this bed I thought was going to be a flop, but it’s looking really, really good. So I’m really, really excited about this. And on the end of this bed, I planted two little pumpkin plants. Well, they were little, but now they’re getting big. And one thing about pumpkins is I do have to train them because I want this pumpkin plant to grow out this bed, just like that pumpkin plant is growing out that bed up there. So, this year I definitely planted pumpkins a lot more places than just in my two pumpkin beds. And then over here, this bed is potatoes. This bed, I think, has four varieties of potatoes in it. On this end, I believe there’s two varieties of fingerling potatoes. And then on this bed, or this end of the bed, I believe there’s two varieties of like a yellow potato. One being a Yukon Gold and one being another variety. Now, this might look like something bad is happening, but this is normal. When potatoes are ready to harvest, you know they’re ready to harvest because they have died back. So they flower. This was a flower. At one point it’s lost its petals. It’s starting to die back, which means shortly we will be harvesting these potatoes. Each potato variety takes a different amount of time to grow and die back. So even though these ones are not dying yet, that’s okay that that one is because that is a different variety of potato down there. So hopefully we will be having potatoes soon. I am having a huge dinner party. My sister’s going to be coming in town and I’m having all my siblings and all their kids over and my parents and I think there’s going to be like 20 of us here. We’re going to have a huge party out on the lawn and one of the dishes I would like to serve is potatoes and it would be pretty cool if I could harvest my very own potatoes. This is so exciting. I am so excited to show you this. From the potato bed, we have this bed here. On the end, I have a zucchini plant there, which is not producing any zucchinis. I see some flowers, but no zucchini. This is a pumpkin. I had two zucchini plants here, but one of them died, so I just put in another pumpkin here. I put in a random zenia here. Oh, there’s a bumblebee in that flower pollinating that flower. It just flew off, but that is a male flower. So, I don’t see any female flowers on this plant yet. So, hopefully soon we’ll be having zucchini. But the majority of this bed from here over are dalia plants. These are all the dalas that I started from seed from the seed that I had saved from the dalas that I grew last year. These are all going to look very, very different. They cross-pollinated with all the different varieties of Dalia that I have. And I cannot wait. I do see some aphids on here. I don’t know why, but aphids love dalas. So, I’m going to treat that with soapy water. I just spray soap and water on here, and then I wash it off with water, and that will take care of that. I see way more aphids on this one, so I need to go ahead and treat that. No big deal. But this is something that I’m really excited about because I saved these seeds and it’s the first time I’ve ever grown this many things from seed that I had saved other than the black beans. Tip bro, my neighbors are coming and going right now. And so Tibro is saying good morning to them. Thank you for being patient with the dogs. Um they really wanted to come out here with me this morning and I enjoy having them out here. So here’s another little bloom here. So when you grow dalas from seed, you never know what you’re going to get because they cross-pollinate. Typically when people grow dalas, they buy tubers because these plants will produce tubers in the ground. And when you buy a tuber, it is a copy of its mother plant. So you know exactly what it’s going to look like. So if I dig this up and I break the tubers apart and I grow those, they will look exactly like this flower here. But when you grow them from seed, because they cross-pollinate, you really don’t know what they’re going to look like. So, this is going to be so fun to watch all of these das bloom. And it’s been so fun because I grew so many das last year. I was able to dig up a bunch of the tubers and share a ton of them with my sister and my parents and they’ve texted me pictures of what they look like and it’s so fun. And I’ve been able to dig these up and put them in my landscape. So, I have so many Dalia. I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Dalia flower stems because I was able to do that. And it is so much more affordable, I’m going to get in the shade over here, to start dalas from seed than to buy tubers. And I enjoy the kind of mystery of watching them like produce the buds and seeing what they look like. Now, there are some dalia that I have in my landscape that are not my favorite color combination, but I have some that are absolutely beautiful. And so, it’s been fun to just watch them grow. And especially the ones that I started from seed that I saved. That is super super fun to me. Next spring, I will dig all of these up and put them in my landscape. I put these das here because I wanted to watch them grow and I wanted to be able to keep track of the ones that I started from seed and see what they produced. So, that’s really, really fun. Now, this I think is going to be another success. Right here, we’ve got another pole bean variety, which I don’t remember the name, so I’ll put the name right here. And it’s all the way up here, and it’s supposed to get 15 ft tall. So, hopefully we will have a beautiful arch of these beans. This one is all the way up to there. So, hopefully we will have a beautiful arch. Now, these produce a beautiful pink flower. Oh, you know what these are? I believe these are scarlet runner beans. Yes, these are what I grew last year. I believe they produce a beautiful pink flower, which is really, really fun. So, the last bed in this bed or in this garden and then we’ll go look at some other things on the property is this bed. And the most prolific thing in here is kale. So, I should harvest some of this today and give to the chickens. The chicks will actually eat the kale, too. My neighbor, who took care of our chicks while we were gone, has a garden, and she was feeding the chicks produce out of her garden, and she was sending me videos, which I thought was absolutely precious and cute. This bed is kind of a hodgepodge. There are so many volunteer potatoes. I had potatoes in this bed, not last year, but the year before. And for some reason, the majority of this bed is potatoes. And so, they just started growing and growing so fast that I’ve just let them grow. So, we have a lot of potatoes this year, which is good because I’m actually liking potatoes more than I’ve ever liked before. I did put in here a zucchini plant, which is getting a little bit out competed. And then there’s another zucchini plant here, which looks like that one actually got pollinated. This zucchini did not get pollinated. So, this, let me show you. This right here is a male flower because you can see it just has a skinny stem and a flower on it. This right here is going to be a female flower because it has a baby zucchini on it and a flower. And if this gets properly pollinated, this will turn into a zucchini. I also have more of these orange wonder snapdragons in here. And these ones look super healthy. I’m not seeing any signs of disease. Even though some of them are way overcrowded, I think it helps having multiple different types of crops as opposed to like up there where I have a mono crop almost. I mean, there are other things in that bed other than just snapdragons, but this is clearly a big hodge podge of things. I help I think that helps with disease. And then I have a ton of these. These are I think the Oklahoma variety of zenyas. And I think this is so cute with the kale, the potatoes, the zenyas, the snapdragons, and my squash in here. One thing I have not been able to grow in my garden very well the last two years are cucumbers. Here’s a cucumber. That’s a female cucumber right there. So maybe this will start growing. I think it needs fertilizer. Maybe the potting mix I put in these wasn’t very great. One of them over here already died. One of them Oh, no. That’s That’s still alive. But these plants don’t look super good. These nersums don’t look very good either. So, I think I’m going to pull these today and give this pot some fertilizer. So, that is overall the main garden. I am super excited about it. We got some beautiful harvest today. I think zucchini bread is going to be in our future. I need to come out here and harvest all of those sugar snap peas. That’s going to be quite a project. Or not quite a project. It was probably going to take me about 20 minutes. And I need to harvest more lettuce. I am this week, I think, gonna continue on. I’m I I’m calling it a pantry challenge because I don’t know what else to call it, but basically trying not to go to the grocery store or maybe should the challenge be like eat local? I don’t know. I don’t know what the challenge is. But basically, I want to try not to buy a bunch of produce at the grocery store and focus on what I already have coming out of my garden. Hopefully, in about a week or two, we will be not only getting tomatoes, zucchini regularly, but also green beans will be another thing that we’ll be able to start harvesting. And some of the peppers I think I’m going to be able to start harvesting. I want to show you what’s happening with some of our fruit that we have growing on the homestead. I want to give you an update on what Josh has been doing with the new chicken coupe. And of course, I want to show you what the chicks are looking like. Come on, Dakota. First off, these blueberry plants that the previous owner planted are some of the most amazing blueberry plants ever. So, today I’m going to come out and harvest a ton of these. Yesterday we were snacking on them after dinner, which is one of my family’s favorite things to do is to come out after dinner and snack on fresh fruit out of the garden. I am so grateful that these plants were planted by the previous owner because they are incredible. I mean, look at this. Now I need to come out here and weed whack around these plants cuz look at the grass. But look at these blueberries. Dakota, go back in with your brother. Go. I don’t know what I was thinking letting Tibro out with me. I was like, “Yeah, come follow me out here.” He will run off. Dakota won’t run off, but Tibro will. But look at these blueberries. So, those I’m going to get a ton of them today, which will be absolutely fantastic. I mean, look at them. Well, those I probably could have left on for another day or two. Those were a little bit sour, but still very, very good. Now, one thing that’s super cool, this is the first year we’ve actually been able to harvest raspberries off these plants. They’re so good. We started harvesting these before we left for Montana and we have been able to come out here for the last two days and harvest raspberries and they’re delicious. Normally the deer get them before we can. Yesterday there was a deer right by there and they don’t seem to be bothering these raspberry plants this year. So good. An update on the bees is kind of the same. This hive has doubled or tripled in size. This hive is growing very, very slow. And so Josh has not put the next box on top of this one yet because you need it to fill out so much before you put that on. You want to make sure they fill that out before you start filling the top. So he has not looked in this since we’ve been back. He opened both of these hives right before we left. So probably the next couple days, he’s going to get in here, open this one, and see if he needs to put the top on top. But basically, since we got these bees, this hive has been significantly stronger and more robust than this hive. And that just makes me a little worried that maybe this one won’t make it over winter. I think Josh was going to start supplementing their feed. They have been eating the honey that was left behind from the hives that didn’t make it last winter. So, they’ve definitely been supplemented with real honey. but he um is going to look more into actually supplementing their feed to see if he can get this hive a little bit more robust. The fruit trees are looking beautiful. Now, I did not treat these, so they might have some worm damage, but I am almost out of applesauce. I mean, look at these beautiful apples. They are so so pretty. But I think we will probably with all the fruit that is on all of these trees, we will, I’m sure, get a harvest enough to put up applesauce and sliced apples for crisps and pies. I was not able to put up any applesauce or any apple products. Last year, so this year, I think we’re definitely going to be able to do that. These plums are looking good. Some of them look like maybe they have a little damage on them, but overall I think we will get some plums. They’re looking really, really good. Actually, there’s so many plums on this tree. It’s actually weighing down the branches. I don’t really know that much about fruit trees. I know sometimes you’re supposed to prune off some of the fruit because there can be too much fruit. This apple tree looks really nice. Look at these. They’re just like perfect little perfect little apples. Some of them didn’t get pollinated. So, this is what an apple looks like that didn’t get properly pollinated. And those are two perfectly pollinated apples. So, just like with gardening fruit trees, some years you get some, some years you don’t. Dakota, come on. We’re going to go look at the chicks or the the chicken poop. He is my little shadow. It is so nice to have a little pup that doesn’t run off. Tibro would be gone. Him. He is my little shadow, which is what I’ve always wanted in a little pup. And I can give him a exciting update. I’m pretty sure he is 100% potty trained at this point. So, that is very good. A bunny’s running. Oh, he’s going to chase the bunny. On this side of our house, right behind the chicken coop, we have this little like landscaped area. and it needed a little more color. So, I put in here some dalas that I transplanted out of the garden beds last year and they’re starting to bloom, which is fun. This is a white one. Next spring, I will probably take those dalas that are in my garden bed and put a bunch more in here. But for now, those dalas are in the garden. And here is the chicken coupe update. So, not much has happened obviously in the last week because we have been out of town, but it is Monday and Josh is going to come out here and start working on it this week. It is I don’t know. I can’t say I was going to say a percentage of how much it’s framed in, but I don’t know because I don’t know much about building. But, we’ve got the nesting boxes and part of the roof on. Hi, girls. And the windows have come because there’s going to be I think four windows in it. Hey girls and I’m excited for them to have a new chicken coupe in the next couple months. But I wanted to show you this ridge here. These are blueberries that we had put in and we are starting to get some blue blueberries on them. I don’t know if these are totally ripe yet. That one looks ripe. Very good. Not as good as the ones that the previous owner planted, but very good. For Mother’s Day, Josh got me three new blueberry plants. One there, there, and there. And you can see the leaves are red, and I don’t think they’re going to survive. They are irrigated. I fertilized them. But oh, this one actually has two little berries on it. I actually am going to pull those cuz it doesn’t need to try to work on producing fruit. It just needs to work on surviving. I think I’m going to go ahead and give it some more fertilizer. And I hope that these survive like that died. I don’t know. We’ll see. But these blueberry plants that we put in two years ago are looking great. And this is so funny. This is a volunteer potato. I have no idea how a volunteer potato ended up next to the blueberry plants, but they did. And I can say I think this is going to be a good blueberry year. We might even get enough blueberries to freeze. Last year, we just got blueberries to eat, which I am happy to get blueberries just to eat. But I would love to be able to also freeze some for winter. I’m walking up to the chicks to show you the chicks. And look at what I found. This is a Paul Robbitson tomato. This one I’m going to harvest too cuz it’s cracked. But that is technically our first slicing tomato. I guess I should look from both sides of these tomato plants. Okay, there’s nothing else on these ones. But I almost missed these. Normally, we don’t start harvesting lots of big slicing tomatoes until August. So, we are our climate is a lot different than lots of your guys’ climates. I see many of you who are in different parts of the country who are already being inundated with tomatoes. We are slow to get to summer. It our springs are generally 60 to 70 and we just don’t get those 80° days. Tomatoes like about 80. They don’t like super hot. They don’t they’re too hot they’ll drop their their blossoms. But we we’re just so slow. So that’s why I don’t usually start canning tomatoes until September. And I know that some of you guys are canning tomatoes late July, August. That’s just not me because we are slow to get to those summer weather. Now, let’s go look at the baby chicks. But before we go look at the baby chicks, I want to show you these pepper plants. After looking at the pepper plants that are in my garden, I’m really happy I have this entire green stock with just peppers because they look so much healthier than my pepper plants in my garden. So maybe in the future I only grow peppers in green stocks. I don’t know. This is the first year I am doing an exclusively pepper plant greentock. And the pepper plants definitely look better in that green stock than the pepper plants in this green stock because I think they’re being outco competed by the ntoriums, which I like the ntoriums up here cuz it draws in the hummingbirds, but I also want peppers. Now, this pepper plant in here actually is doing really well. It has a ton of cayenne peppers on it. But in general, these pepper plants looked better going into the green stocks than these ones. But these ones are looking better at this point. Now, one reason I like trying new things when it comes to gardening is you never know what the best method or your new favorite thing is going to be. This might be my new favorite. I think I’m going to start my own hanging baskets next year because it’s more than half the cost. And I think they look just as good and I can choose the colors 100% if I start my own. So, now let’s go look at the baby chicks. So, this is what they’re looking like. They have grown so much in the last week. They’re almost fully feathered out and they definitely are outgrowing their Bruder. This waterer, let me tell you, it was worth every penny. It wasn’t very expensive, but it has been so nice not having to clean their water every it would at this stage I probably would have had to clean it five or six times a day. They have gone through two bags of chick food and let me see they can jump out. I no longer keep the heater on in here. It’s plenty warm. So that’s just basically like a little shelter at this point. I think they like to roost on it because it’s messy and I have to clean it regularly. They have chick food here and they have chick grit now cuz they are old enough, excuse me, to have chick grit. Chickens don’t have teeth. So the way that they chew their food is in their gizzard they store little pebbles and that’s what crushes the food as it goes down their throat. So pretty. So still only three of them have names. This one right here is Brownie her. Aspen is the big one right there, the white one. And then the one right behind the feeder, her name is Peanut. Josh wanted to call this one duckling. And I’m totally okay with that. I just have to ask him for sure if that’s the name he wants for her. This week, I’m going to put the lid on it cuz they will jump out. I am going to have to get a second Bruder or a Bruder that is twice this size. I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to do because they have definitely outgrown this Bruder. I might just go get a second one of these and a second waterer and a second feeder and call that good. And then I’ll put a cardboard box so they have a little shelter. All I know is that they need a little bit more space. So that is on today’s or this week, next couple days hopefully agenda. And I wanted to show you what the garlic is looking like. So, this right here is that same disease that is on my snapd dragons. And I think the garlic is going to be okay, though. Like, I think actually it didn’t damage the garlic. I won’t know till I cut into it, but I wanted to get this out of the garden because I didn’t want that to spread to my snapdragons, but it already did. So, I need to get those snapdragons out of the garden that have it ASAP. And this week, I’m going to start cleaning up this garlic. It’s dried up really well. And at some point, this next couple weeks, I’m going to process all of this garlic. Normally, what I do is I like to keep my garlic fresh and I use it fresh until winter. And then I notice that it starts to get soft, which means it is time to process it. But because this garlic has struggled with two different diseases, this one didn’t have it, but this garlic over here had a different disease. not this rust. It was some other fungal disease. Uh then I and I lost half of that garlic. I’m just going to process it. I will freeze dry it, freeze it, conf it, garlic oil it, do all the things. As long as it’s okay. I’m not actually sure if it’s good until I start breaking it apart and opening up the cloves. I’m hoping it is good and that most of the damage is just on the greenery, not on the actual bulbs. I’m not saving any garlic to plant. I’m going to start fresh next year. And I just talked to Josh about the watering system. And I think that was our problem is that I had my irrigation on for way too long every single day. So Josh just reduced the watering to what I did last year. And I think that that’s going to be okay because I think I think I just was watering too much and that’s what kind of caused some of these fungal problems. Now, the rust, I had that rust problem last year. So, I don’t know if that’s just in my soil or if it’s in the surrounding areas cuz we have woods, we have hay fields around us. I have no idea where that could come from. It might just be in this area and that’s what’s causing it. I didn’t have this problem the first two years I grew snapdragons. Wait, this is my third year. So, the first year I grew snap dragons, I didn’t have it. Last year I had it. And this year I have it. So, I’ll have to do some more research. So, thank you for being here as we did this early July garden tour. Things are just starting to pick up. I’m really excited about it. We’ve got baby pumpkins. We got our first tomatoes. We got our first zucchinis. It won’t be long before we’re in green beans and peppers. So, thank you for being here. Thank you for being you. Let me pop some videos you can go enjoy between now and my next upload. I do have this window open for fresh air for the chicks. And I have a fan on in here for some good air flow, but I just turned it off while we were talking. They are doing great. I’m so enjoying them. They are growing like weeds. And I’m excited that this garden season is really underway at this point. So, thank you for being here. Thank you for being you. And I can’t wait to see you next time. Vent.