Here are 5 of the majoy ways I failed in the garden this year!
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Every year we are learning and growing as a gardener and as a person. There are we main ways I failed in the garden in 2023 and I wanted to share those areas with you and my plans for improving them next year!
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Cara
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20 Comments
Love your videos!
I would call your beautiful garden anything but a fail!! Let's be honest, you had other major life happenings to handle too 👍😂……onwards and upwards. Bless your heart xx 🇬🇧🐻🌻
Oh my goodness is my family ever so tired of hearing about my garden 😂 I just can’t be quiet 😂 I agree, it’s so nice to come on and see others who love it as much as we do! ❤
Thanks for sharing Cara you had a great garden this year I enjoyed learning about the garden and your technic ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️👏👍🇺🇸🗝️
A garden is always a learning process. I’m getting ready to find out next year, as I’ve inherited my grandmas gardens that need to be cleaned out.
Lovely video Cara 🥰 our garden failures are our biggest learning adventures 🥰🥰
I’ve learned a lot this year too!! Thanks for sharing your opportunities for next year. I have to figure something out for my raspberries, too — I got two plants this past year and didn’t get anything from them, just some leaf growth. Hoping for a better year with them next year!
Nice video
First of all-We give you a garden fail “pass” this season. You were kind of busy 👶🏻🥰
My main veggie garden “fail” is my brassicas (broccoli). I knew better than to not cover them but I didn’t cover and I lost my crop to cabbage worms 🤦🏼♀️ My “fail” in my cut flower garden is that I always overcrowd things. I want to grow “all the things” and it becomes a jungle! As for Dahlias-for me, I individually stake each one. That’s the only way I can keep them under control!
You did pretty well this year though. I have a few areas I can improve on as well. Wonderful thing about gardening is that you get to do something new every spring! 💖😊💖
I have been growing raspberries most of my life and what I have learned is if they have good soil and plenty of water, they will grow most anywhere sun or shade. But they do prefer rich soil, full sun, and lots of water. Not soggy, but damp. Which is why they grow so well in ditch banks and along creeks in the wild. 🤔💖😉
Maybe next year will be the year for raspberries! Ours were insane this year but it was the 2nd year for most we have and 3rd year for the rest.
Mistakes are opportunities to learn and grow…. thanks Cara 😎👍
I just discovered your Channel a few weeks ago and i love all your Videos. Sending you Lots of love from Germany 😊
Hi Cara, Its been a minute…First Congrats on the baby! Ill have to go back and check out some videos from earlier. You are charming and knowledgeable and you do an amazing job with your videos. I could definitely learn something from you. I also love how you keep it real and show that not everything goes to plan. I had many fails this year, squash, pickling cucumbers and I too did not support my Dahlias adequately to name a few.. Here's to next year!!!
I don’t like the word fail, I use learning opportunity. Yes your dahlias were gorgeous, would you be able to lay cattle panels flat and off the ground a foot building a support and let the flowers grow through them? Great idea about the extra drip irrigation 👍. 😂😂 yes always accept help especially “free help”. Gardening like life is always a growing process no pun intended. Have a superb week Cara and family stay safe 🙏, Ali 🌧️🇨🇦
Last year I did well with cantaloupe and sugar baby watermelons. This year I pruned them, and I only had 1 fruit on each vine, and they were very small. I think I'll leave them alone next year to do their thing and see if they grow like they originally did. Time will tell! 😊
Make sure you blow out your lines on the drip tape before they freeze. I made that mistake and ruined my sprinkler system. I froze garlic last season and I am still using it to this day. Don't be afraid to dice up garlic and freeze it. I can also relate to family getting sick of hearing how much canning I did for the day/week or how my plants are doing. So it is nice to have a community of people to share with and listen to. Congrats on your baby.
Cara…helpful hint: Fertilize heavily in the fall. Cover your garden beds with tarp and you will be amazed at how fertile your soil is in the spring. Always ready to plant and no till.
Gardening fails currently in play as its still our growing season. 1. Not having irrigation hooked up to all garden beds. 2. Assuming I could plant straight into my gardening extension and now allowing that soil is almost straight clay 😢
Thank you for sharing your tips with us today I started a deck garden basically this year for the first time and one of the main things that I started growing was peppers and culantro. Peppers have been a great challenge for me. One of the reasons they have been a challenge is because the original peppers I ordered were not the peppers that actually grew steak number one for me is buying seeds from Amazon. The second mistake I made with my peppers is overwatering And I believe the last mistake I made with my peppers was not giving them adequate spacing all in all through all the mistakes I’ve made growing the peppers I do believe that next year I will be able to be more successful because now I know what I was doing wrong