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Vegetable Gardening
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I already ordered and received my spring garden seed. I was already seeing the sold out signs on many of the seed sites.. Great video. Keep up the good work.
Rain, rain, beautiful rain!!
Hello Jill . I only use heirloom seeds in my garden and already have them from hoss tools for my spring garden
How do you store your seeds?
We were blessed with 3/10ths of an inch, last night. That is 5/10th's since the hurricane. I'm grateful for it. I have my seeds. Now, praying for a greenhouse. 😊😊 Jill, you inspired me to stand against sadness this year! It stepped in 2 years ago when my mother was taken out at Christmas. It tried to tell me it would never be good anymore. It has been kicked to the curb! We are celebrating the LORD!
R u using liquid Bt or the Dipel powder form?
Have u heard of Bravo cabbage? It's supposed to be very heat tolerant. My hybrid tomatoes did great and the heirlooms did almost nothing.i have a dwarf tomato project variety in my greenhouse called Mallee Rose thats blooming. They r open pollinated so u can save seeds.
I am in Cameron and my Tomatoes did not do very well due to heat and bugs , lots of grass hoppers. But will try again this coming season. Its all new to hubby and I as we are new to Texas. Thanks for the growing info , I love your suggestions and info . God Bless Always. Ninette Bird- The Caribbean Wife- Tx.
We have begun adding compost to our beds for next year.
I’m a diehard “no Christmas decor until after Thanksgiving” person—but family in from out of town would affect that.
For next year, I am planting more purple hulls but I pick 90% of them as green beans. My one row this year was so prolific in the heat—while my bush beans (as you know) will not make when it’s so hot. I am getting enough bush beans to eat from the fall planting. I would have had enough to can up but for the bunnies. I have painted some wood stakes with bone sauce to stop them but not before they ate half down to stubs. Cute doesn’t matter when they are eating my dinner!!
My greenhouse isn’t a full blown high tunnel at 9.5’ tall but it’s planted and doing well. Snow peas, but choy, a zucchini 🤞, spinach, carrots, radishes, some greens—with basil, jalapeños, sweet peppers in pots in the middle. New experience for us. Thanks for sharing your journey so we can improve ourselves.
My favorite slicing tomatoes last season were Italian Heirloom, a big, meaty tomato with wonderful flavor, and Eva Purple Ball, another heirloom (from Germany). Eva consistently put out picture-worthy, medium-size tomatoes. The flavor is not quite in Italian Heirloom's class, but it's a very good, classic tomato flavor. Both tomatoes did surprisingly well in last summer's heat, too, until about mid July. Neither had any diseases. This fall, I'm growing Royal Burgundy bush beans and, so far, I'm impressed. They took off faster than the green and yellow varieties I planted, and the plants stand taller so that beans are less likely to drag on the ground. Can't wait to taste them in the next two weeks.
What is the EM stuff? I think I missed that.
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Yeah, IN Longview, We are having rain, all morning, but no wind so far! I looked at the doppler earlier and the storm was in a BIG SPIN COUNTER CLOCKWISE Really WEIRD!
I sure have been enjoying this rain. I'm enjoying having my doors open. I kept hearing this sound like someone was pounding a metal pipe in the ground. I don't bother myself with what goes on around here, so I sure didn't get up to check it out. Well, it kept on and on. Sure there were rests, but then it started getting on my nerves. I finally got up to check it out. It was coming from "my" patio. One of my metal wind chimes was hitting the brick on my house. That wind chime has been in that same spot for 12 years and that's never happened before. Of course I was embarrassed and took care of it in my way. I have had a pretty good laugh at that.
I love the throw on your chair. It made me smile. I love Cardinals. It helps that my favorite color is red. Have you planted your garlic yet? I can't remember. I'm gonna work harder to start things around here like you do. Maybe I'll have better luck in the spring. God bless you sweety, thanks for sharing your journey! Vickie
We only got one inch or less of rain. It looked like the mountain was on fire again. We went fishin yesterday,and could see it. We did good fishing yesterday. Bass. We added alot of potting soil to the garden. Love you all. Glad you got rain
Haven’t planned out my spring garden yet, but I have been stocking up on seeds all year. Right now I’m working on my first attempt at a winter garden! ❤ I think – if I did my math right – that I can grow enough beets and spinach for my family and my neighbors next door. I’m also trying my hand at garlic for the first time. It was hard to commit raised bed space for something that takes 240 days, but I’m hopeful it will work out. I’ve been trying to grow tomatoes here in the Dallas area for three years and this fall I’m finally getting my first harvests. ❤️
My favorite highbred tomatoes are Early Girls, they are medium sized slicers.
My ex-wife's grandfather always grew these and now I do in memory of him. For me they are the first to fruit. I will be installing a second green house tunnel do to weather instability and better critter control. And switching to your hubbies wicking tubs through out.
During last winter, when did you turn on the heat for your tomatoes? I know you protected them with a greenhouse within a greenhouse, but heat??? When to turn it on? Blessings!
Hi Jill! I bought a pack of Speckled Butter Beans from Baker Creek: Lima Beans "Kurzer's Calico Traveler." They did great…I can't imagine how well they will do when we aren't in a drought all summer. And of course I have a ton of dry beans/seeds to plant next year. Definitely recommend growing those around this area. 🙂 <3
I heard la nina finally broke. Hopefully that means more rain more often..
Arent aphids a by product of too much nitrogen? I have heard that more than once. But i have been using worm castings and i haven't seen any this fall season.
Love your content. Just FYI to look further into: mycorrhizae fungi and brassicas are not friendly and brassicas are one of the few plants that do not benefit (nor do they support the fungi)
I know we need a drought buster, but the timing…. LoL . Still, so thankful for the rain. BTW purple hull peas will be perfect for your in ground garden, and if you want a bumper crop, plant about 4 rows of contender beans in late March early April. I have always had more green beans than I needed planting in the ground. And I don't have to tell you about the nitrogen boost they will give your soil.
I'm hoping for a much better gardening year next spring. More rain, less heat.
Yeah, the aphids are a big problem where I'm at too. I sprayed the neem oil and soapy water but can't get rid of them. It's going to freeze here soon so that will do them in. I've been picking off the tender new broccoli shoots (covered in aphids) and feeding them to the chickens. I tried to find kale seeds and had no luck. I wonder what the grange did with all their seeds. Ugh! But at least I was able to get broccoli, onions, beets, and lettuce. Got it all started in my little greenhouse. Oregon is experiencing a grasshopper problem this year too. I hear they usually last 3 years. Also have spruce beetles killing a few old spruce trees. It's heartbreaking to see. They kill the trees from the top down. Your greenhouse looks so cozy! Were already due for a snow flurry the end of this week.
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Aphids took out all my purple hulls and army worms in my onions:(. Year of the insects!