Full July Garden Tour and Harvest | What's working and What's not | Beginner Gardner
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For your sweet potatoes, look up Deep South Homestead on you tube, Danny is an expert on sweet potatoes, you might find some good information on trouble shooting! Your garden looks wonderful, you are doing a terrific job!
Sometime, check out "sweet beet pie". Tratitionally winter overed beets were shred, cooked, riced, and whipped with the cream; or as a mid-winter fresh from the garden treat. It was also used to use up canned beets in anticipation of the current year's food prep season…I had it once with orange-pickled beets which was thickened up with cornstarch or maybe tapioca; I was a little kid so taste and texture were most important to me, not how but what. – it does taste best with small, fresh spring beets harvested for thier greens; and likely to thin the garden.
For your labels, wash and save your dairy containers. Create a template 3/8"-"-3/4"across, 3"-6" long, with a point on one end which is f,at across the other. Use a Sharpie type perma-mar,er to trace your template around the outside of your dairy container and expendable or garage scissors to cut your plant markers out. Optionally, use an expendable hole punch (or a nail setter punch over an expendable piece of wood) to out a hole in the end for suspending on a trellis. Use a Sharpie or Ultra-fine perma marker to write your plant name etc…9n the white side.
For a little more cost, contractors flags are pretty quick and easy to use as plant labels. Use the different colors to color code your garden. Use Sharpies to write in tne flags and keep the text to words you're willing to use through years 2 to abiut 5. They make a bright garden u til the foliage grows; and after dele ding upon the height of your folliage.
For your potatoes – look at what are called "potato stacks". For an experiment, begin with a square tomato cage and line it with a King bed sheet, burlap coffee bean bags (in hindsight, there are reasons to look for organic coffee bean bags), or the sides of card board boxes which just fit inside your square cages. Slough the 3dges of cloth based items down the sides. As the potato tops grow, add your cloth or box based sides in about 12" (or 18") tall increments, then add dirt or growing medium. The buried greenery roots up then grows more potatoes. To harvest, you topple your tower and go from there. – if this suits your fancy, you can drift to locking/ fastened wood frames; diy of course but you amy be able to buy them. Others use repirposed metal items but, they can be burned to kill eggs and larve like the dreaded potatoes battle or potatoes fly. Metal culverting of one type or another is a favorite. Metal can get hot in tne heat; cloth and cardboard can get dry and even wick (or suck'cause it sucks) moisture out of dirt or growing medium.,
Please come to Dronfield..England to see our allotments XX
Hey not sure where u r but in Australia in my area when they do tree trimming u can just ask the tradies doin it if they could drop it off and they normally do it saves them paying some place to dump them
I think loofahs drag along until you think they won’t do ANYTHING, then they jump into gear and make like crazy.. I threw out a couple seeds of Jack O’ Lantern pumpkins (way too) early this spring, and they, surprisingly, survived several frosts and a freeze.. They must absolutely LOVE where they are because they’ve spread to a 75’ diameter and I have about 30 pumpkins in various stages, and still blooming! I am not new to gardening, but this is My first year to grow pumpkins.
Awesome thank you! Just signed up for chipdrop!
I’m guessing your cabbage was stunted with the high temps you had. Doesn’t like a lot of heat. I’m planning on planting some for fall here as our temps in Virginia have slightly cooled we were having 95-100 and about 96% humidity it was awful but the last week it’s been high 80’s so much nicer. Your garden is gorgeous! Thanks for the tip for chip drop I just signed up.
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I love your variety of Tamatoes. Just a little trick we do on our homestead. Tamatoes cross pollinate so to save the seeds of a special variety I use a small organza bag over the flowers to ensure it stays pure.
Love ur enthusiasm, it's infectious, ur hubby should show his face once in a while, he is one supportive dude
Becky, I’m a new subscriber, from Australia. Just want to say, I love your channel, & even though I don’t know you, I’m so proud of you. You are so wise beyond your years! And you work so hard. I hope your husband knows how lucky he is to have you. Congratulations on your lovely garden. I hope you soon reap the rewards of your labour. I have to say, you are so cute, too! I love your accent & your chin dimple. You’re gorgeous! Lots of love & thanks for the awesome videos xxx
Hi, Becky! Your videos are so good! I can't wait to see how you will preserve all the garlic, which you harvested earlier! You inspired me to use the dehydrator, which was sitting lonely in the corner 🙂 Now I'm dehydrating some tomatoes and earlier I dehydrated blackcurrants, mint leaves and lemon and made a fantastic tea out of it! Can't wait to drink it in the cold winter days. Best wishes from Lithuania (country in the Europe) and waiting for the next video. Good luck with the harvest! <3
Maybe it's a difference between our countries, but in Sweden (Europe) our tomatoes grow big (wide) and tall. If they grow small and tall that means they are not getting enough energy from the soil 😊( I think you already know this and I'm not trying to lecture you that not the point of this comment 🥰🙈)
I mean it could be our climate differences as well, but if they were my tomatoes I would have given them a nice chickenpoop feed 😂
Interesting to see anyway🥰
Save seeds from the ones that survived the frost or freeze and you’ll know that you saved the hardy ones that are best for your area xx
this was great! 😍😍
have a look online at info on Singing Frogs Farm in N. California. May interest you and be useful.
So jealous of all your squashes!! So awesome!
Nice beautiful sharing 👍🌷👌
I loved when you put that one tiny tomato in your big basket! It was like a little promise of the baskets full to come! 🍅
Your garden is lovely ❤ you can plant clover patch to regenerate your depleted soil
I never see spiders when you are in your gardens? Any time I just touch soil, there's a ton that come out 😩😩
The little editing touches like the silent shot placing a single cherry tomato in the huge basket are so good!
I have a suggestion. Maybe you could build raised beds next year where your tomato 🍅 trellis is already … to give that wonderful area better soil. Much much love 💕. Your content is so fun. 😎
I would definitely recommend thinning out the crop on those apple and pear trees. Otherwise you are going to get a ton of apples and pears this year and then very few next year. Thinning allows the tree to spend less energy making seeds this year so it will have some energy for next year.