Welcome to the first vegetable garden tour of 2021!
I am growing in Zone 6a, Ohio and focus on growing things I love to eat (vegetables, fruits & herbs), with a few flowers thrown in here & there- primarily for the pollinators.
I grow a vegetable garden at my home and share in the work of the larger vegetable garden at my parent’s home- In this video I share what’s growing now & plans for the 2021 gardening season at both locations.
00:00 Intro
00:32 Strawberry Bed
01:00 Raised Beds
03:12 Why Row Covers?
05:24 In-ground Beds
10:29 Expanding- Outside the Fence
11:08 No-Dig Potato Bed Experiment Update
12:37 Plans for Garden Location #2
13:17 My Gardens at Mom & Pop’s
15:23 What’s in the Greenhouse?
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Thank you 😊 This was the first time I have seen all your garden space at one time. I love it! Please do a garden tour every week. You’re inspiring me to grow more. I planted kohlrabi for the first time because of you 👍🏻
Thanks for the garden tour. Your garden is fanstastic, lots of many types of vegetables.
ilove gardening.thanks for sharing jenna.
I live in Ohio too, this cold weather threw me off. Appears I am way behind.
Where did you get the garden netting? I grow in zone 10, so mostly need it for bunnies and buggies. Like that it can be seen through. Thanks.
Your channel just got suggested, so I watch, omg your garden looks awesomely A..M..A..Z..I..N..G🥰🥰 new subbed
A good trick to warm up your soil is actually cover crops or let it grow weeds. It's a thing that's not very well known, but plant roots are warm coz they shelter billions of bacteria and other soil life, which warm up your soil. I've noticed last year that if I plant in beds that are full of wood chips, the plants get a late start. But if a lot weeds have grown in this bed, with the woods chips, and that I weed out the bed and plant in this, I get a much stronger start for my crops. Farmers around France who do "living soil gardening" IE with a thick layer of mulch all year round and no tilling, usually use commercial black plastic tarps, coz it warms up the soil quickly. But that's not an option in most private gardens.
Just like you though, my cabbages have a huge number of pests, but mainly cabbage shield bug (eurydema ornata) and pigeons who eat the leaves. Netting is too fragile and expensive for me, so I only grow cabbages in the fall and winter, when those pests are gone. I find though that a good trick against pest, if you have room in your garden, is to plant what they eat as cover crop. For example, slugs love brassica leaves. So you just sow canola as cover crops and they'll eat that. I tried it and it works. If your rabbits like chard, maybe let a few grow to seed, and you'll have a huge number of seeds to make a bed full of them for the bunnies. I usually find that the more plants you have, and the more biodiversity you have, the less pest problems you get. Of course it's very hard to do in some areas… I would love a pond in our urban community garden for example, but it's impossible.
🇨🇦🇨🇦HI Jenna!
I'm amazed at how big your spring crops are compared to mine. I'm in zone 6a new hampshire and I planted a lot of lettuce and spinach and carrots in mid March and they are well behind yours. Did you start in the fall or something? What is your secret?
🇨🇦🧑🌾Keep us posted on how that insect fabric works out?
Great Channel and great content!
Lady you have a long row to work.
Great job and thanks for teaching and showing
Thanks
Just discovered you today. Can't wait to learn more as I am in central Ohio.
Did you use pelleted seeds for carrots? They look amazing!!!
Would love a link to the first green house in this video. It looks like exactly what I'm looking for!
Thank you for all your helpful videos. Do you start your brassicas from seed in the greenhouse? Or just direct sow?
Great info. thanks; ok, XII . LV = 12-55…signifies? Ahhh…
You have a wonderful garden 🥰🥰🥰 how do you killed the slug ?
I’m in Ohio and just found your channel. We just bought a house that has enough room for me to start a small garden and I’m so scared lol
Now mid January so many shades of green.
Thanks
That looks amazing! I am a beginner gardener and live in Ohio as well. When did you start growing for this year? Did you start indoors and transplant?
Your weather looks like our. We are in Miamisburg Ohio south of Dayton. Are you close?
Would you interested in making some raising animals for meat videos? We are working on re-design fences for raising animals in the future this year. We had 2 cattle last year but didn't end well… so we are hunting for other meat options then decide fence off for long terms!
You're an inspiration, Jenna. Watching your beautiful video was the highlight of my day.
Awesomeness!
Great video! This has me so excited for spring. Can you tell me where you get the metal that you use for your hoops? I would like to try using those the spring to keep the critters and bunnies out. Thanks for the great videos! I’ve been watching several of yours lately.
Your veggies are okay outside all year?!
Awesome! I'm still starting my gardening journey in Cleveland area. Looking forward to learning more from your channel!
can you do an update on that gooseberry for this year? garden looks great.
So happy I found you! We are neighboring states(Indiana), and this year struggling with the bi polar weather.
Your garden is beautiful
I love your videos.. I'm also in zone 6 in WV.
I was wondering, where did you get your wire hoops? I also have rabbits and need to get the netting cover to keep them and the cabbage moths out. Also, how wide are your long garden rows? I'll keep watching.
I just found your channel. I enjoyed this garden tour. I am wanting a greenhouse like you have, do you know what kind it is?
hello from delphos ohio. Thank you for your videos.
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Hello Jenna, Richard Hart again. I now seek out your videos because your explanations are accurate and simple to follow. However, I would like to know if you have compost piles and is your garden completely organic. I am sure if I further pursue this you probably have a video on it. I also just ordered the fabric covers. I am jealous of the size of your garden, I only wish I had that much room. Thanks again.
Do you sell your vegetables, or do you can and freeze your food?
I know it's simple but show me how to make the raised beds you use. They look simple, logical, and economical.
Great episode! I’m a new subscriber and was wondering what is the brand name for the netting you used to covered your veggies? Thanks!
I also live in ohio but my plants are not that big like yours. What did you start your seeds?
Hey Jenna, how do you get oregano to grow large. Every time we plant it the size never changes . Do you have any tricks for oregano?
Thanks again !
I want to make my own raised beds do i put just top soil or native soil ma'am?
Gooseberries bring back a memory from the 1950's. My mother made a pie of them, and after dessert, my younger sister said (always polite!) "I liked the pie. But I didn't like the cherries you put in it,"
Thank you for sharing your garden with me. I just love how it’s all coming together and growing so nicely! I love to garden and I also make garden videos. I in my 3rd year gardening. I have so much to still learn. I’d love it if we could learn more from each other! Happy gardening 👨🌾 🌷🌼🌻🌺🌸🌹🐝
We've always had wild strawberries in our Asparagus Patch, so domestic should also do well.
Thank you for the video
I noticed you don’t have any weeds in your planting area. What is your best tip to keep garden weed free? I mulch with straw but still manage to get weeds everywhere