The ugly truth about gardening is that it can be a challenge every year. You never get a break. You have the reality of pest pressures, lack of rainfall, germination failures, and so many unknowns that can happen. Experience and a positive attitude is what will carry you through to the other side.
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I plant my squash plants all around the outside perimeter of my garden. The little fine hairs on the squash plants are like needles to their legs and hurts them. It effectively keeps them out of the garden. I leave an openig on each side and have a garden gate there.
I'm in the Ozarks too. Way hot and dry. More so than usual
No ac at my place and a fridge is a luxury Shure is nice to have cold drinks in summer heat
The cool night air? Never heard of it. TX
Last year I was hit by deer, cabbage moths, japanese beetles. This year, nothing. Not one beetle or cabbage moth. Not sure why, but God is good and I will take it. I water using rain water catchment.
I got excited to see the first praying mantis around this year, little tiny one and then another a couple inches long.
It’s our first full summer here in Missouri since we popped smoke and fled California, and we planted our garden a bit later than we’d planned to, but thankfully even with the late start, all the heat, and like zero rain here in the Ozark’s our garden is doing alright. We’ve got regular potatoes and sweet potatoes growing well, picking lots of yellow squash and zucchini, spaghetti squash is surviving thus far, our tomatoes are slowly coming along, our peppers are looking promising, onions are just so so and our melons are trying to hang on. We wanted to get more planted, but circumstances just didn’t let that happen. We’re hopeful for a decent haul throughout the rest of the season. We have been fighting tomato worms 🐛, and squash bugs, some ants, and we had some Japanese beetles in other parts of our yard earlier in the season, but they’ve seemed to disappear with our dry hot summer maybe.🤷♀️
Praying for some rain, because like you stated, it is absolutely a blessing!
I live in Georgia and thankfully we have been blessed with rain. Our garden is doing good. We have a lot planted. I have planted up to my fourth succession on some things.
I didn't plant anything this year in my garden because it was the year of schmita
Deer ate my corn beans sweet potatoes watermelon grape and even leaves of winter squash
I have issues with deer in the garden, though I have about a dozen rabbits nearby.
SQUIRRELS, SQUIRRELS, SQUIRRELS… Blasted F☆☆☆ing SQUIRRELs
Pest Pressure! Yep. My primary pest is Japanese beetles, but they seem to only be going after my blue lake pole green beans. I keep treating and manually disposing of them. My 10 raised beds are flourishing and we've been getting squash, okra and green beans for about a month. Tomatoes are incredible! Indeterminate vines are over 8' tall. They still aren't ripe, but getting ready. I just planted bush lima and king of the garden vining lima beans. They burst out of the soil and growing like crazy.
Good afternoon… Zach, what do you use to keep algae from growing in your water storage containers… thanks.
This is our second year diligently working at a garden and we've had so many issues! Rabbits, mole crickets, squash bugs, vine borers, hornworms, caterpillars, horrible germination, mislabeled store bought seeds, Japanese beetles, flooding, drought, damping off… It's been a hard year. We're not ever giving up, but we are going to lower our standards and start using BT. Hopefully our fall crop makes it.
I was born and raised in LV. I lived there for more than 55 years. The city is so different now….and not in a good way. 2 years ago, we "evacuated" to northern Nevada to a very rural area. Its much better, safer, quieter. Most of my friends and family still live in LV. Its probably only a matter of time before they move as well. Lake Mead is unrecognizable to me having grown up there. No water yet, they're still building houses and commercial buildings. You know, because of corporate greed and the bottom line.. Parts of Southern Nevada, California and Arizona depend on the power provided by Hoover Dam. Southern Nevada is trying their hardest to get the water from Northern Nevada. There is a fight going on. Its going to get interesting indeed.
I love okra.
often ants on okra are actually going after the aphid secretions/ "honeydew"
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I love pickled okra! It’s so delicious!
Freaking squash bugs always an issue. I did a video on soapy water last summer and that’s my go to. Beyond that the grasshoppers are thicker than normal but not a huge problem yet. Fingers crossed that things keep going well.
I'm facing a huge pest. Its called Biden.
I could have bought a month or two worth of groceries for the price of my water bill, but my corn and tomatoes look great. Missouri. No rain for 7 weeks and none in sight. I picked a bad year to enlarge my garden, but I have learned a lot. I praise Abba every time I hear the AC kick on. So grateful, and fully aware that it could all be gone tomorrow. Let Your Kingdom Come! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Okay I just left a comment on another video complaining about lack of rain here in NE Texas. If you say this is the dry season for this general area I'll trust you. 😂 Seriously…but I need rain.
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We're in Queensland Australia and have had 3 flooding events since January. Thankfully our home wasn't effected but we've had the wettest dry season I can remember as well.
We've had bumper harvests of passionfruit, oranges, grapefruit and mulberries and great crops of cucumbers, radish and lettuce. Our kale, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, peas and assorted salads are all doing really well. Beans haven't been great but I'm so thankful for the amazing produce we're getting. We do have a huge problem with fruit fly in our stone fruit so plan on getting in really early before our Springtime and trying to prevent that. They wipe out our entire harvest save a few fruit.
We have a 25,000 litre water tank, shade houses, a mix of no till, raised and medicinal herb garden beds and a native bee hive.
I'm thankful to Yah for His provision. I love working in the garden and enjoying what He has given us.
Zach, Do you hand water each plant or drip? On some of my plants like watermelon and cantaloupe, I place a gallon milk jug by root and drip from it. Works great if you only have a few plants.
We had a fabulous vegetable year in 2022.
Fortunately, one evening, I checked in on the garden and scared away the deer already eating our corn. We picked every single corn cob that night.