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Wow this should be a realtors advertisement for gardeners to move to Maryland!!!
Holy Munchies! How do you eat that much! My garden is a third yours and I'm constantly bring stuff to my neighbors. Yeah I love growing too and giving is fun. Been eating Broccoli Rabe every day for a week. 😵💫
How big were the large garden bags on the fence with the tomato. I bought a few 100 gallon bags . I was looking for a comparison. Thank you for another great video 😊
You always have one of my favorite YouTube gardens. Last night was our last night of temps in the 30's. Today I'm getting my Tomatoes in, tomorrow the peppers. Otherwise I'm pretty happy with my Garden so far this year.
Can potatoes grow in the GreenStalk original deep pockets?
If you ever need someone to help take some of the blackberries off you hands when they ripen, im here!!…😂 blackberries are my family’s favorite fruit in the summer.
Hi Gary. Is it too late to plant some lettuce, kale and radishes if I add shade cloth? I am in southeast pennsylvania, zone 7 or so. Also, I had a big Spider mite , squash bug and cucumber beetle problem last year and I wonder if I should do a neem oil soil drench before planting this year? Thanks for any advice you can give me. I love watching you on You tube.
I love your garden rumblings videos. I am at zone 6b night temps are still is 4os and my veggies are so big for grow room. I can't wait to plant them out.
That's funny I'm only maybe 40 mins NE from you and my pak choi and kale are doing great – my new spring favorites – my arugula looks the same but gem lettuce is still fine, and my spinach, brassicas and kohlrabi are all flops for the spring this year, they either haven't developed enough to harvest or bolted so next year I'll have to try to plant even earlier or save for the fall.
Many words of wisdom to live by in the garden. Thank you Gary. The perfectionism is real. It's nice to be reminded that "you can't do it all" and "don't stress." The garden is supposed to be sanctuary!
Some of my butterfly bushes did the same I cut them back almost to the ground. They are coming up again. My rosemary died that I have had for 6 years. I reseed it which now reminds me I need gather the herb more often. Not just think it will come back.
Great tips, Gary! I prefer to grow basil in containers because my garden is in full sun all day. Having it in containers makes it easier to move them to shade during the heat of the day. But I may try growing a couple under my tomato plants, once they get bigger, just as an experiment. I have plenty of seeds and seedlings to experiment with.
When I have more harvest than I can eat, I take it to the local mission that gives food to people in need. They are grateful for fresh produce!
Another great video full of information! I’m off to try to absorb it! Thank you!
👍👍 LOL at Martha Stewart Asparagus ❤
Forgot to add: I’m testing the ‘add garlic around’ to help keep down/out pests too! QUESTION: I had planned on putting onions and garlic around perimeter of raised bed and plant bush beans inside. I seem to recall that these two families ( beans and onion/garlic) don’t mix well. Have you run into this problem? First time trying to look at good vs bad companion planting.
Can peppers go in with peas like you’ve added to lettuce bed?
Have you ever tried growing Garlic in spring after keeping in the refrigerator?
I did great with my fall growing and love to keep the harvest going. I live in exactly same zone as u
I got very excited when I saw the elephant garlic bloom emerging. Tried to save seed last year, but I don’t think it was ripe enough. This year 🤞🏻🌱🧄
I LOVE love alliums and have tucked them in the garden all over. Elephant garlic, garlic, bunching, red, white, and yellow onions, even the yard garlic gets eaten here. 🧅🧄😋
I think I figured out my germination problem—too much heat. I am starting to get pepper and tomato sprouts after I removed the starting trays from the heat mat. I'll get a couple temperature controllers, a second heat mat, and light stand for next year's seedlings. I covered my polytunnel greenhouse today with shade cloth, temps are getting into the 80s here in Sylacauga Alabama. Inside it I have lettuice, bunching onions, tomato plants, and Diakon-China Rose Radishes growing. I just finished harvesting my radishes, French Breakfast, Giant Radish of Sicily, German Giant, and Malaga radish. The Malaga radish is by far the best tasting radish, and it is purple—inside and out. The German Giant is indistinguishable from the Giant Radish of Sicily as for size, appearnce, and flavor, but a significant amount of them didn't bulb up. I won't be regrowing them. I just checked the Diakon-China Rose radishes, and they need about another week (6-7 weeks to harvest). The radish I pulled up had an inch and a half bulb. I see a lot of pickled radishes in my future. I have a 2×8 raised bed full of them. I've been harvesting lettuce daily, a lot of Swiss Chard, Tokyo Bekna Mustard, Japanese Giant Red Mustard, Chijimisai, Tatsoi, Komatsuna, New Zealand Spinach, Kale, and Golden Sweet snow peas. The mustard (cut and come again) is growing back, and will be ready for a second harvest in a few weeks. The Swiss Chard is ready for a second harvest. The Boc Choy bolted on me before it was harvestable, so I pulled it, and tossed it into the compost bin. I'll regrow it in the fall. My Detroit Red and Golden beets are doing better than any previous year I tried growing them. The potatoes, russet and red potatoes, are doing very good; I am expecting a bountiful harvest from them. My strawberries are providing a handful of strawberries each day for a morning snack, and my basil is growing like crazy. I have tons of squash growing, some I'll eat, or give away, most I'll freeze, or pressure can. I cook a lot of stir fry meals. It won't go to waste. With the exception of tomatoes and peppers, which are just getting started, thus far, my garden has been super productive—best year ever. My cucumbers are doing very well, and my pole beans, Oriental Yard Long and Rattlesnake, are sprouting. I think I have the right amount of Swiss Chard, mustard, and kale growing. I have to think about New Zealand Spinach and Chijimisal. I need to double the amount of Tatsoi I am growing. Komatsuna and Boc Choy will be grown exclusively in the fall from now on. I actually have open space in my raised beds with nothing to plant until later in the seasosn, so I covered it with chopped up leave left over from last fall. I have too many beans left over from last year, so I am not growing any bush beans this year. I have beans to last until July. I think I've reached the point where I don't need to expand further for food production, except for one more strawberry tower. I have 8 raised beds, a feed barrel (50 Gallon) cut in two, 10 ten gallon growbags, 4 thirty gallon grow bags, 10 twenty gallon grow bags, 7 assorted pots for herbs, and a small 10×12 polly tunnel greenhouse that survived a F1 tornado, half inch hail, and a week of thirty-five mph winds. It is a ttached to a wood base with three raised beds mounted to it. I stapled the flaps to the base, and secured it with furring strips around the entire perimiter. It isn't going anywhere. I grow vertically with an 8 foot long tunnel (cattel panel trellis), and assorted hog wire trellises for my peas. It is big for a back yard garden (really, the west side of the house). Needless to say, I don't buy a lot of produce.The garden provides 60-70 percent of the food I eat, leaving meat, dairy, rice, coffee, beer, flour, and rice to purchase.