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Thanks Heidi! Great talk and ideas!!
Can I cut the tops off my green oinions and leave them in ground,I,m im kalama
… besides stocking up on shade cloths, I would also recommend floating row covers to protect from frosts … DIY cold frames are also very useful, you can use old windows that you can collect from many sources to make them from … if you don’t want to construct them with sides then you can use rectangular hay bales which also insulate … 🤔 I’ve been trying to think of a way to create a solar heat collector for green houses utilizing a water filled baffle system of transparent materials so the sun can still shine through it as well … 🤔 … there’s probably already something like that available or some way to improvise … 🤷🏼♀️
We got a late summer also in pei, Canada too! Our summer was longer also all the way until November too! I don’t know what next year is going be like! I think I will try to grow some things indoors, early! Just in case we get a late summer again. Next year I will probably try to grow more veggies that like it cool next year in fall too!
Good video , thanks for sharing , God bless !
I told myself that I wasn't going to try anything new this past season, and almost immediately did it anyway! Added a new shell bean that is wonderful and prolific here in N. MI, but definitely needs a trellis going forward; and a potato variety that several people around swore by (Kennebec). Was very pleased with it as well. I admit to trying a couple things that were absolute no-goes for my area (sweet potatoes and Georgia candy squash) just to see if I could get anything. For the most part, I stuck to the tried and true and worked on ways to improve my harvest under trying conditions. I will do the same next season, and try harder to not experiment so much. Knowing me, I think I better leave a little experimentation space though, since I enjoy it so much.
I love pickled green tomatoes that are like Claussens green tomatoes
I made the mistake of trying to garden in soil that has never been gardened on this year.Granted, I live in an area ripe with wild mustard and wild broccoli, chicory, common mallow (one of my favorites!!), wild wheatgrass, dandelions, and violets with thick blackberry bushes lining my back yard. But all that grew properly was zucchini and radishes, and a few very small beets. My strawberries didn't take to the soil till recently, and my eggplant didn't get past flowering. A couple corn stalks started growing really well until raccoons trampled them. We, too, had summer weather in January that was followed by more winter weather in Feb that killed off all my fruit tree blossoms, followed by an extremely hot actual summer. But even very few of my potted plants grew except the stevia and lettuce and raspberries (but in a planter, not much grows on a berry bush). I have decided to construct a greenhouse to try to grow stuff through winter, and next year I will build raised garden beds for the majority of my garden plants. I know part of the struggle with growing is it got SO hot and dry here in summer that sometimes seemed to completely negate any watering I did at night. The elderberries did NOT do well in the heat at all.
But I'm not terribly upset about it. We put rabbit scat over the garden to fertilize the ground the other day, and with the plants that started but died off only helped to enrich the soil. Next year, if I'm still at this house, will be easier to grow hardier foods. And each time I get a new bag of grain feed for my chickens, I sprinkle some over the ground and around my rose bushes. From that, there are sunflowers starting (though they'll probably die off with all this frost now) and wheat, millet, safflowers, and I think barley or rye. At the least, those will be food for my chickens and rabbits. The wild greens and chicory alone have been great free rabbit and chicken food, and my chickens LOVED pecking at the zucchini, so it wasn't a complete waste. It just ended up being a very unconventional garden. I just bought some thick clear tarp so hopefully that will keep the zucchini able to keep growing through winter and give the chickens a warm little place to hang out when it snows.
In MN, 2023 will be year 3 gardening. I'm going to add in cold frames (just a couple large clear-ish totes that I'll overturn) and cloches (1/2 & gallon jars that I don't have lids for) to get an earlier start. I've also learned to plant some things near the west end of my garden, because my fence shades the east end in the mornings. I'm going to put up arches for my peas, beans & nasturtiums – then plant plant cool-weather crops under them at the east end, so the understory plants are shaded from the hot afternoon sun, and plant heat-tolerant crops under them at the west end. I've also had some success with containers that I can put in full sun early in the season, then move as the heat of summer comes along to a place where they're in the shade of a building in the afternoon.
I grew up in Kirkland, WA and I remember gardening then was SO easy. It seemed no matter where we moved, we were able to have a full garden. I do think the weather (and air quality) has changed drastically since then. When I lived in Roslyn, WA, though we had about 5 months with 4 feet of snow, it was a small mountain town at pretty high elevation and the air was much clearer. Fruit trees grew on their own all around. I could never seem to pick enough cherries, plums, or pears. The bears and deer loved it, of course lol. I do think air quality has a lot to do with it, though. We know that has definitely been getting worse as the world "progresses".
I've been gardening and preserving food for many years and there are years when I have a bumper crop of something. The next year I don't plant as much or I don't plant any of that plant. This year I had a bumper crop of peppers, mostly hot ones. Next year I will plant only one plant so I have some fresh to eat. I currently have 3 half gallon jars full of dehydrated hot peppers. 😵💫 I normally use about a pint and half of hot peppers in a year so I'm good for a while. LOL My family will be getting dehydrated peppers of all kinds this year for Christmas.
Thank you, Heidi, for encouraging me as we are so cold in Missouri 20 this morning and feels like12 I was not looking forward to this cold in Missouri!! I think Wisconsin followed us. Love seeing all of your picture of the beautiful garden. I am hoping that we get a good garden this year; as we planted when we got here in May, so I know we can start some of the colder plants sooner. I think I am going to buy some type of covering as we had problems with cabbage worms and those white butterflies, or moths that going on the cabbages.
here in northren IL we didn't see bee's until later in the season eifher this year
I'm sure ithers may have said this but, solitary bees are much better pollinators than honey bees and are more active earlier in the season. Put up a nest box in the fall to weatherize it before spring.
A bit off topic but how much of your eggshells and magnesium do you consume daily?
My aim after this last year is to collect more rainwater for garden and get a greenhouse put up! Was a frustrating gardening year in Washington for me.
I might try covered arches on my vines this next year!
I'm gonna try loofa this next year. A ton more borage and lovage as they did amazing!
Fyi, i let all my borage in garden flower all season in the middle of the garden. Had tons on bees most of the season.
Zone 9a/8b: In 2020, I tilled a section of my yard for a garden. It was a miserable failure (I didn't do any research about the type of soil I had, I didn't weed it well and the torrential spring/summer rains ruined my small garden). In 2022, I tried container gardening for the first time. I grew from seed, I lovingly hardened the seedlings, used a recommended soil mix, etc. Then dealt with blossom end rot, hornworms, and orange nymphs (?) for a miserable harvest of tomato/pepper/onions/herbs. This fall, I am trying the "lasagne garden" approach in the same area of the 2020 garden failure. So my spring 2023 plan is to try both container gardening and in-ground. I'm not giving up but gardening isn't just a "buy seeds, plant, harvest" proposition. I have a lot to learn for this growing zone!
It will keep getting shorter and colder I believe. Based off our position in the Milankovich cycle, and the fact we're in a magnetic excursion. Ground to sky lightening, beaching of whales, birds migrating patterns change… We all know something weird is going on. We can feel it. A positive to this is people are more intuitive, and spiritual. We are electric beings!
i already started my spring starts 😉 im going to zone push hard
I live in Central Texas and after the blistering summer we had this year without much rain, I'm looking into ways to maximize water usage. I'm experimenting with ollas for watering (clay pots buried in the ground to seep out water to the roots). Also I did buy a shade cloth for next summer. This was actually my first year really gardening since I retired this year and can dedicate time to it so I'm learning as I go. Doing a lot of trial and error on what works in my area. Also focusing a lot on medicinal herbs.
Thanks for the reminder!!I'm planning to grow more Brussels sprouts,cabbages,winter Hardy vegetables that can stand the cold….and pick them as we need them!!
hey sista you are doing pumpkin spice hair apron combo im just in from sowing organic white clover seeds which i do every time the few kitchen scraps mainly tea leaves need to be thrown under a fruit tree my aim is all unused soil is covered in clover i also sowed my organic broad beans as they are my favourite and are the first to peek thro the soil in spring i have a weird micro climate i can open the front door to rain and snow but nothing at the backdoor
Thank you, Heidi!
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What is you favourite type of green beans and why?
Wisconsin season has been over for a month!! You are lucky to go to the end of Oct!
Our garden is pretty new, we are going to expand on it, also expand on our hydroponic.
When using leaves as a mulch do they need to be dry or are fresh fallen leaves good too? Thank you for all you do! I've learned so much from your videos.
We're in NW Montana and our growing season is pretty short; and this past season, it got started really late and went into October. Very odd. We're looking into putting in an underground greenhouse so that we can garden year round. I've seen a couple of these underground greenhouses in the Bozeman, MT area and my hubs and I are going to try and reach out to the guy who built his. He has been able to maintain a pretty constant night time temp of about 65° and a daytime temp of about 75-85° where during the winter, our temps drop well below zero at night and only the single digits or low teens in the day. I'll keep you posted if we get to the point of actually building an underground greenhouse.
I’m adding fresh compost now so it can settle over winter to fill my beds back up. Mulching with leaves and grass clippings. There is a free wood chip service in our area that you can sign up for and they will come dump a truckload for you. Also putting in drip irrigation in the beds that i do my squash in. This year the powdery mildew was really bad so I’m preparing to fight that. I’m changing up what I’m growing too, switching out some veg that we didn’t eat for more medicinal herbs. I found one area that can be cleaned out for a wildflower area and milkweeds to draw more pollinators in. Starting seed trading with some other locals for a few different varieties and things. I pulled up a pepper plant to try and overwinter for the first time. This year I grew my tomato’s on the fence that surrounds the garden, using it for the supports. I tied them to the fence in a 2d shape and it made harvesting so much easier. I also got a lot more tomato’s since the pollinators could get to them easier. I’m experimenting with companion planting even more next year. My basil did excellent under my tomato plants and really helped keep them from getting blight and bug issues. I got three quarts of dried, flaked basil out of two 2×4 beds, would have been more but i used a bunch in our canned tomato sauce and to cook with all summer.