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I enjoy this channel so much! Thank you for always bringing the humor and realness. I'm grateful there's a resource for my home area- I've learned a lot from you, thanks!

Dude thank you, this was mad helpful 💜🙏💜🙏💜

I’m in southeast king county and have been fighting an enormous amount of mature Himalayan blackberry bushes over the last year. They are incredibly sharp and the previous owner let them become mature and spread all over the property. We use a hedge trimmer to cut down the thickets, a pitchfork to carry them away, and a pick axe to dig out the crowns. I put the branches into a wood chipper to make mulch and dispose of the excess and the crowns into yard waste. We don’t expect to be fully done for a while. It’s labor intensive work.

Falcore! Best name ever for a chicken ❤thank you for that!

Making my first ever batch of apple jelly tonight. Pretty excited :) I'm at the juice-draining step so early stages for sure. Thanks for the video and detailed steps, and thanks as always for your virtual company -- love hanging out in the kitchen or garden with Little Roots Ranch!

These are my favorite turnios roasted smashed or raw. Delicious❤

It’s my first year gardening in the PNW, from a lifelong Texan… I planted tomatoes in August thinking maybe they’d eke out a few before the end of the season 😂

It's fun to see your hair down.

I also had sunflowers lean and then grow up. I've learned to plant to big ones deeper.

I had corn failure too. Cucs did great. Tomatoes are still ripening, but some are splitting. I picked about half my pumpkins today, but 1 out of 5 varieties went weird. I think the seeds came from a cross pollinated pumpkin from last year. Strawberry plants are growing like crazy, but no fruit.

Awesome video. I'm so glad to learn about the jell point. Thank you so much.

Thank you for sharing some of your struggles in the garden! I’m in Stanwood too and had a tough time this summer. I figured it’s my inexperience 😅 I appreciate you sharing some of your experiences this season! Hoping to regroup this winter 😊

I’m so glad I found you! I am also in the PNW…western coastal OREGON. I’ve been looking for someone with a similar climate as we have. I look forward to binging on your past videos and seeing your turkeys! Thank you so much!

Hi Christie @littlerootsranch what kind of pears grow good here in PNW? (OR just south of Portland)

What brand pot are you using? I would love to find one that has a very thick bottom to avoid burning. I struggle with that when I cook apples. Great video!😊

Love the video. Love the long content. ❤

Love the longer video!

I had a terrible pepper year. Last year was awful for cucumbers, but this year I grew them in a greenstalk and had great success.

Thanks for keeping it real!

Thank you for the this video! Looks delicious!

Pear jelly is just as delicious and I have made that. It goes really well with baked bree.

Loved this! Thank you so much.

I wish I was as brave as you with the snakes! I’ve only been gardening for 4 years and started organic and completely from scratch (I’m near Bremerton WA). I make so many mistakes but I aspire to have gardens like yours one day! I love your tips and setup! Thank you! I have so many garden questions. I wonder how you got started with your gardening journey here in the PNW and growing year round and how self sustainable are you with producing your own family’s food!

Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing 😊❤

Hey I'm in Portland, and just started my spinach 2-3 weeks ago (direct sown). It's doing great so far. You'll probably have better luck than you think. ✨️

In urban Seattle zone 9A, I did well with little decorative pumpkins: Baby Boo white pumpkins specifically. Cucumbers were terrible, summer squash very good, some good winter squash finishing up now. Actually got a decent cabbage, which is a first for me. Chard is unstoppable, glad I enjoy eating it. Peas good, beans were average at best. Flowers good, raspberries good. Had really slow growth for seedlings in trays of all types, so maybe bad potting soil this year?

I have a volunteer pumpkin vine. It had 4-5 baby pumpkins, all but one died off for a couple different reasons. I’ll save seeds and try it again in the spring

I also had a rough year in the garden. Everything ripened really late. I’m just now getting red romas off the vine and Heirloom Purple Tomatoes too. Hardly got any flowerettes from the broccoli 🥦 The things that did well are 4 different lettuces, spinach, butterstick yellow squash, acorn squash, potatoes-red luna, Yukon, purple potatoes, 3 different sugar snap peas, radishes. So we actually had a good summer I’m just bummed about the broccoli 🥦😢

I am always so thankful to see your videos they make me feel so much better and hopeful about my garden! Thank you so much!

Girl you are not the only one with a bunch of green tomatoes 😂 would love if you would share some green tomatoe canning recipes.

We had a long, wet anemic spring in Seattle this year. Here in the U district. My beets and root vegetables did well. Not so good with cucumbers except the golf ball round lemon cucumbers which are still producing in October. Many varieties of tomatoes. A lot of ripe smaller tomatoes this year, but unfortunately, a lot of unripened green larger tomatoes by seasons end. Raspberries did well, blueberries not so good. Leeks, onions and garlic did well because they were planted last fall. Overall, this year was probably my worst season in 40 years growing in the same neighborhood. I believe because of climate change, I ’ve gone from zone 8B to zone 9A!? I wonder if I am going to need to change my gardening techniques in the future. To learn to adapt to the new micro climate in zone 9A. My fall plantings this year are “so so.” However, everything I’ve grown inside under grow lights are doing fantastic. Microgreens, Tiney Tim tomatoes, peppers, ginger and turmeric are all doing well. My ginger is so happy it even gave me a flower to enjoy. Fingers crossed for next springs seasons outdoor crops. 🤞🤞

Fellow PNW neighbor here: Totally dug the video. It was helpful, giving me a better idea of how the roots will pull out.. You taught me about the crown! thank you. I know how aggressive Himalayan is and that is News to me about a botanist brewing it up. Thank you

I use organic sluggo here in the PNW and it saved my garden! We had what seemed like thousands of slugs decimate everything in 2021/2022. If you start sprinkling the pellets early in the spring it should take care of the problem while the baby slugs start being born so it never becomes anything too crazy. Keep sprinkling them periodically to keep it under control. If you decide to go that route I hope this helps!

Thank you SO much for this!! I had so many struggles this year and its disheartening to watch the ones who can't afford to have these elaborate garden beds built and order every garden gadget, Compost etc and their pintrest gardens while mine struggled all summer. I appreciate you and learn a lot from your channel ❤

I love your channel 😂❤

Oh be careful of bald head bees there black/white have paper like nest up to 5 ft off ground- they have soldiers that attack-bad bad, we had them, think bats started eating them at night haven't had as many this year 😊 Green beans, peas,red cabbage, and just now tomatoes did ok, peppers, radishes, onions, kohlrabi, lettuce, cucumbers,asparagus,corn all squash etc,etc failed- I think was moles, plus fertilized with fish emulsion on newly grown from seed transplant and dogs dug everything up to eat fertilizer 😮 Next year ? Rethinking exactly to plant no extras I guess what trying to get at Thanks for sharing I was depressed almost said that's it

Just got to the end... so my pumpkins did bad this year. I direct sowed a huge area, but nearly all of my seeds were eaten upon germination. Then I did an emergency replant from starts that I started in 4" pots. Half of those were stunted/destroyed after transplant... so in the pots they looked great but they looked worse and worse after transplant. Then I did a 3rd attempt at starts, many of these did okay. Upon investigation, I believe I discovered garden symphylans in the pumpkin area. I think they destroyed my seedlings and transplants and the cooler June slowed plant growth so the damage was very obvious. Thats my current theory atleast.

I have 30+ years gardening experience but this was only my 7th year growing here in western wa. Great year for beets, cabbage, garlic, snowpeas. Horrible year for peppers, tomatoes, winter squash. I still can't grow proper brocolli here! Such teeeny heads. I've declared that next year I'm getting serious and will try multiple varieties and plant in various locations in the garden.

Glad to hear everyone had a similar experience to me. This is my first year and it seemed alright lol

Use beer traps for the slugs! Works SO WELL! I have tons of slugs.

You are so funny with that Alliun microphone. 😂

I let a volunteer sunflower grow next to my cucumber plant and the cucumber was so stunted. Do sunflowers have that effect on plants? I direct sowed the cucumber too.

I'm in Marysville and had a really good Onion and Pepper season but an awful Tomato one. I also tried to grow Sunflowers this year and out of the dozen or so seeds that I planted only one actually grew and bloomed. Oh well, you win some and you lose some.

Most of my garden was fails. My corn did good. I failed to trellis and groom tomatoes adequately and the slugs (PNW was bad this year, it wasn’t just you)!Onions were starts we grew ourselves and some did great while others did not. Pumpkins did okay, but last year was better. Peppers did not do great. Last year I put up shade cloth in July so they didn’t scald but this year I jumped the gun on shade cloth and they hated that. But cilantro loved it and further impinged on the peppers. That’s a no go. Broccoli went straight to seed. Shall we go on? It was a tough year. Lessons learned though, right? There’s always next year.

Thank you so much for making these videos! I really like learning about all the little details like "raining on the inside", who'd have known. also, knowing what temps are possible inside the greenhouse really helps. Keep up the great work!

This video was very helpful. I am trying to make jelly from chokecherry juice. The store- bought pectin was not jelling it at all! The extra cooking and testing has done the trick! Thank you! 😊

This is a great channel, thank you for all your work Christi! The amount of knowledge you have is inspiring! I'm curious to know what soil temps other PNW gardeners are seeing in their beds. I was surprised to see 70 degrees this evening. Is that uncommon for this time of year? I'm in the Portland area and have Ananas Noires and Sungolds still ripening on the vine. The Japanese Black Trifeles (or Russian or who knows) are still ripening, as well as the Indigo Cough Drops. The Brandywines are done, as they were planted a couple of weeks earlier. I've only had one Sungold split due to the 0.4" of rain this last week (surprisingly).

Gah. What temp? How long?

I moved from SoCal and I have a lemon tree. I need to prep for overwintering.