I made 36 pints of salsa last year with cherry tomatoes. The secret is to cut in half and roast them before you make the salsa or sauce. Best salsa ever.
Thank you so much for this video. It's great to see and hear how passionate you are about gardening, and especially vegetable gardening. I got into gardening about 2 years ago and your videos have guided me along the way. I live in Belgium and now that it's finally starting to warm up here I love being outside in my balcony garden. It's so fulfilling to nurture a plant and see it thrive.
Tomato Horn Worm tip. Every morning I would inspect my tomatoes. I would look for a single bright green egg. They would lay them on the stems, and underside of the leaves. I would pick them off. And crush them. That way I kept most of them from hatching, and turning into worms. Had very few worms to pick off the tomatoes.
Phoebe loves her kingdom. She is definitely the queen of her domain. We live outside of Dallas and our temperatures are unusually cold so my plants are not growing much yet. Weird weather here. Tonight is supposed to be down to 39! I will be covering everything. The cold weather killed off all our front shrubs. We just had them all pulled out and replaced but I think all the new plants will make it.
It all looks really nice Scott. You have a great start to your spring garden in spite of the cold temps earlier this year which stunted everything. You have brought everything along quire well.
Glad to see Lucy doing well. I have a good supply of honey bees showing up on my blackberry blooms here in Danbury. The flowers in your cinder blocks look great, mine are struggling. I am filling my cinder block bed up with blackberries. I am already starting to plan adding a bed in the fall.once you start gardening, there is so much you want to grow !!!
I noticed just before the freeze we had tons of honey bees on our flowering broccoli and flowering thyme here just south of Tomball TX. We just saw our first honey bee Saturday since the freeze. It was resting on our potato plants and seemed to have no energy at all. Our tomatoes are blossoming and we have been hand pollinating our squash and zucchini. So far we have not seen a vine borer moth and keeping our fingers crossed. I just discovered your channel this weekend and love it. Especially since we grow in the same area of Texas.
Really enjoyed your plot tour. I grew tomato plants from the sideshoots last year and they grew fine but by the time they came to fruition the plants were suffering from blight...yours will probably do better as you seem to be having better weather than us in the UK. Take care 😊
I hope Lucy and Ethyl get along great ... where's Ricky? Seriously, as an Urban gardner with seriously limited space ... I am enjoying your channel. I am now into my 2nd year of year round gardening in a 9B region in Sacramento. My winter garden is now finished, my spring garden is doing well and I am now transitioning into summer plants. Thank you for sharing your garden and experience.
Oh I think my addition to our garden might be a tad much. In a raised 6X6 square I've got a large number of beans and peas. Since they are small I am going to work on the trellises next. Going to try two A frames or at least that's the build plan. Introduced my better half to your channel and you've earned another fan. Thanks!
Your garden looks amazing. We are hitting the hardening off stage here. Going through what we call dogwood winter around here. Cool weather plants are coming up good now. Love watching your progress and seeing all your beautiful plant's. Oh I did a single seed challenge this year, a gypsy pepper. Watching your channel has encouraged me to try many new things.
Good to see Lucy is coming back 🙂 Your tomatoes 🍅look so healthy and lush.... my tomato bushes get septoria leaf spot (except cherry tomatoes) and the bush goes down hill from there 😟maybe I am watering them too much ..... I will keep trying and learn as I go along the journey.
Another great video Scott. Nice to see your garden growing. I only have cold weather plants out now, and we will likely get a little snow in the next 48 hours. I like growing melons, but in 5b its borderline to grow them to maturity. Its iffy to transplant them. This year I am trying small biodegradable nursery bags to start them. Next year I want to try newspaper starter pots to start them because they are biodegradable and like nursery bags you can plant the whole pot. The nursery bags are cheap, but I can get old newspapers for free.
Your garden looks great We are also in zone 9a, but in Florida. We grow most of the same vegetables and fruits as you do. I too bought the red clover and planted it. About your squash plants, I watch the Old Alabama Gardener and I did what he did and had no problems with the squash vine borer. He takes strips of tin foil and wraps it around the stem as it gets taller. He removes some of the leaves in order to do this. You can see him do this on his TH-cam channel. Hope this helps. Florida Gardener, zone 9a
Concerning your blackberries: An old-timer once told me that blackberries don't deal well with prosperity (like some people, he said). Your compost may bee to rich for them. The garden looks good,, Scott.
They can definitely take some abuse. I like to consider how blackberries grow wild in Washington state. They can take a lot of water (9 mo out of the year) or none at all (3 mo out of the year). But what they do need is some nutrients from soil. His ‘too much carbon’ may be correct. A little liquid feed might just do them so good for a few months.
Might I suggest some rosemary essential oil for your caterpillars? It’s worked SO WELL for me in 9b California. Last year I was hit brutally by cabbage loopers, but this year I have yet to see one, it’s been amazing. I added rosemary essential oil to my Dr Bohners + water aphid spray and it’s been amazing, no leaf damage other than what sneaky aphids get away with before they get the Dr Bohners smack down. The only thing I worry about is if rosemary is making all pollinators avoid my garden. That would not be good.
Things are looking good there. We are still having a couple more cold , frost and even a freeze watch for tomorrow night. Hopefully then I can get my seedlings out and get growing too . It has been a very strange year weather wise. I can't believe we are heading toward the last part April and still threatened with froze and freeze . In the mean time I will just tour your garden with you and pick your brain for ideas and knowlege.
I’m in far west Texas and we just got another cold front! I’ve been covering and bringing what I can inside the greenhouse. Ugh. Watermelon did not like 35 degree temps. 🙄 everything is still alive so far, though. 🙏🙏 can’t wait until it’s as lush as yours.
I’m 9b in NorCal and Sunday we are getting lower temps too (41). I’m only bringing in the eggplant and pepper seedlings. Honestly if my squash, cukes and tomatoes can’t take 41, I’m not sure I want them in my garden since I was primarily using them for stabilizing seed for my area (seeds were midwest in origin). 😒
If those 2 blackberries do take off, you should get plenty of pups off them and it could potentially completely fill that bed, which is undoubtedly your intention and something you were aware of, I only say it to share that i have similar experience with black berries, bought 5, lost 2 and now that entire bed if covered in blackberry plants. Mine do love some fish fertilizer and are currently in full bloom here in zone 8a.
Blackberries grow amazingly well in zone 5. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to trellis mine. Last year I had to weave it back and forth and then it continued to the next trellis. Hoping to make it a permanent place in its new location but not sure how to trellis it.
My goodness, everything just looks amazing! My seedlings are doing well, about an inch now! Thanks for taking us for a tour Scott, it’s 29 right now, chance of flurries today & tomorrow. That’s our April, lol!
The garden is looking fantastic! I haven’t seen a squash vine borer yet!!! 🤞🏼 my squash is blooming all females right now, hopefully I’ll get a little harvest before the bugs show up. I was really hoping we would get a break from them this year after the freeze, but I see that didn’t work in your area! 🤦🏻♀️
I think this month is when your garden dramatically changes from empty-ish to full, and it's lovely to see that transformation. I think I am about one month behind you here in Northern California. So while I am thrilled will April, I hope to be ecstatic in May. Looks like you have a fantastic gardening season ahead of you. Now I am off to plant some bean seeds!
Looking great! So much growing along there. I used to live in Katy, TX and that was the home I first tried to grow a vegetable garden. The home we bought had established banana, citrus and avocado trees. We added figs and more citrus. And tried to grow some veggies. It was so hot, most things scorched in the heat of summer. I had no idea of zones and when to plant. Lol. When we sold the house, the new owners tore out all of the fruit tress and put them out for trash. My old neighbor sent me a picture. She was like, we would have taken them! The new owners wanted landscaping not a garden. 😢
Wherever you put your goji berries, they will take it over. I would suggest out in the lower 40. They are invasive. I’m still trying to get them out of my flower bed after a few years. I thought I got them all out last year, but some shoots popped up again this month. 🤨
This is probably the 1st or 2nd video on this channel I have watched. I am wondering how in the world can someone have tomato plants so big only in April. Its still in the 70s where I live and its hard getting out of bed in the am, and I have to put on a jacket for outside. So I cant imagine any plants growing before april lol.
Ohhh, how nice to see things growing!!! In Northern Nevada we still have night temps in the 20s and strong wind😩, 16 mph today with heavy gusts. Z5/6. You always give me hope that my time will come soon 🧤🍅🌱
Nice video Scott. Everything is looking so healthy. I have made pasta sauce from cherry tomatoes in the past, and it's great! Yes, you have the skins and seeds, but it tastes great. Try it out.
Looking great, so glad to hear Lucy the lemon is coming back, and your tomatoes look awesome! I'm going to check on your melon pit advice too, I've got some seeds to plant under my peach trees.
Scot there is a chance that the black berries will take over the bed that they are in, that looks like a very happy home for them. I have to bring in my plants tomorrow night due to freezing temps so not too much planted in soil yet. Great video as always.
Im on the east coast and its still in the 50-70s so I am still working on builidng garden beds and acquiring good dirt (or stuff to create the right mix) is my next step. I spent a lot on dirt last week and feel like after watching videos on YT I mixed my dirt wrong but do not want to waste it so its going to have to be used for my new compost piles.
If you sow a wildflower mix from seed source. Com instead of clover you’ll bring in more native bees. Also brings in more beneficial insects which can help with the Sphinx moths on the tomatos.
I have made black cherry tomato sauce before. Expect to use lots of them since they are very watery and extra time to cook them down. Still makes a great sauce in the end.
So glad to see so much of your garden coming back. I'm waiting another couple weeks to put out tomatoes and peppers. We have frost predicted for later this week here in Alabama zone 8.
I live within 20 miles of you and my avocado and orange tree died from the freeze and snow I cut them off to try to revive with no luck so far.they where about 4 years old.
Wow, your garden looks so good already! In Dallas here, and it's still just chilly enough at night that my warm weather crops are still growing slowly, while my cool weather crops are starting to bolt in the 70*-80* days.
Garden looks beautiful. Nice, healthy plants. I’m facing a final freeze tomorrow night in NE Oklahoma. Going to be covering a few things and hoping for the best.
One year we were covered up in cherry tomatoes! I had dreams about cherry tomatoes! Lol In one very vivid dream we became wealthy by frying green cherry tomatoes instead of slicing regular green tomatoes. As the saying goes...we can dream! Lol
I’m apply your grapes are doing so well. I’m trying grapes for the first time this year because I wanted to espalier something. (Only because I love saying “espalier”. LOL).
So on the Owari Satsuma and Citrus in general, there is something called the “June Drop”. Sometimes in June the plant takes inventory of itself and drops the fruit it can’t support so no need to prune fruit like Apples, pears, peaches etc... cool huh?
@@ScottHead that means the tree has everything it needs. The citrus industry tries to pump fertilizer into the trees to minimize the drop for $ reasons. But most university studies recommend not interfering with the natural process. As you know from Lucy, once they are a few years old you can’t eat all the fruit they produce anyway. I have a three year old Clementine that has hundreds of pea sized fruits on it right now, I expect 1 out of 10 to reach maturity.
Garden is looking awesome. So happy to see those tomatoes bounce back so nicely. I deal with Squash vine borer also and it just reminded me of the struggle when you said you are going to have one good harvest before plant start feeling the effect, last year every three weeks I would seed new one so I can grow some replacements but my season in 5b is much shorter then yours. Do you have a suggestion for the light that you used to look for Horn worms, like a favorite one? Oh and Phoebe is the Queen for sure :)
Any UV flashlight will work. I just searched UV flashlights on Amazon and bought one that looked good. smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01A5KLUG2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Lucy lives! So glad! I lost my potted Kumquat, gifted to me by a neighbor. Scott, I thought I saw an illuminated horror... (YT's correction) hornworm glowing in your video... ?? Maybe do a doublecheck??
Hello! I really llike your videos and your garden! I spotted a thyme plant in It and would appreciate if you could make a video or parti of a video on how tio take care of It. My plant tend to have long naked stems with leaves only at the top.... Please, can you help me? Mariella from Italy
@Scott Head Garden looks great. You're way ahead of me on beans but everything else is in about the same shape as my garden. One idea for tomato sauce that's really easy and delicious; Italia Squisita has a TH-cam channel. Look for pomodoro sauce recipes. Tomatoes, celery, red onion, carrots, salt, red pepper flakes, fresh basil, and olive oil. It's summer-fresh and delicious. You'll have to turn on the English subtitles but that's a small price to pay. And their channel is a rabbit hole. :)
@@ScottHead I’m trying! I have two new raised beds this year that I filled with raised bed mix, compost, pearlite, pear moss, and some Biotome Starter fertilizer. I hope I did it right! At least I know the fire ants sure are loving my gardens, so I must be doing something right? Hahaha 🤣😬How do you handle them? I’m terrified getting my first any bite!
As the seasons roll by, your soil will improve greatly as you continue to amend it. A layer of compost 1/2" thick or so once or twice each year (in between growing seasons) will work wonders. Just lay it on top and smooth it out, let the earthworms do the rest.
Your garden looks so amazing and the tomatoes are already so tall, what variety was ur dwarf tomato? this is my 1st year with the in ground bed and i m slowly learning and expanding. i just have 3 in ground beds each are 4x12 feet. I had only 8 tomato cages and was looking for some varieties that wont need staking.
The dwarf is "Dwarf Hannah's Prize." There are a couple of places that sell seeds for it online, just search for the variety on google and it should turn up.
Hi Scott, I was wondering why you don't cover your squashes so that the borers don't have a chance to damage your squashes. Just a thought. I always try to exclude pests rather than spraying them. It has worked for me, maybe it will work for you
I do that for fall brassicas. The problem with squash vine borers is that they overwinter in the soil. They are already down there and I even dug up some of the pupating moths earlier this year. They’d come out even under a cover. Also, I plant squash early knowing I’ll at least get one harvest, sometimes two, before the plants are dead. Then I can plug in something for summer like okra or eggplant.
It’s like the big comeback since the frost happy to see everything growing so well now thanks for sharing have a great day enjoy
I'm impressed at how fast your tomatoes have grown.
It makes me so glad that Lucy came back.
I made 36 pints of salsa last year with cherry tomatoes. The secret is to cut in half and roast them before you make the salsa or sauce. Best salsa ever.
Thank you so much for this video. It's great to see and hear how passionate you are about gardening, and especially vegetable gardening. I got into gardening about 2 years ago and your videos have guided me along the way. I live in Belgium and now that it's finally starting to warm up here I love being outside in my balcony garden. It's so fulfilling to nurture a plant and see it thrive.
Tomato Horn Worm tip. Every morning I would inspect my tomatoes. I would look for a single bright green egg. They would lay them on the stems, and underside of the leaves. I would pick them off. And crush them. That way I kept most of them from hatching, and turning into worms. Had very few worms to pick off the tomatoes.
That was great! It was seeing tomatoes 🍅 growing when I was a little kid that sparked my interest in gardening in the first place!
Klaus
Phoebe loves her kingdom. She is definitely the queen of her domain. We live outside of Dallas and our temperatures are unusually cold so my plants are not growing much yet. Weird weather here. Tonight is supposed to be down to 39! I will be covering everything. The cold weather killed off all our front shrubs. We just had them all pulled out and replaced but I think all the new plants will make it.
Dogs make great garden buddies!
Looking great Scott. Thanks for sharing the tips. 👊
I really enjoyed the tour. You have a lot going already. Awesome. 👍😀🌻🌱😍🌼🌷😎
It all looks really nice Scott. You have a great start to your spring garden in spite of the cold temps earlier this year which stunted everything. You have brought everything along quire well.
I always enjoy your tours. Our garden will not look that good until mid July. Take care!
Very nice gardening
Glad to see Lucy doing well. I have a good supply of honey bees showing up on my blackberry blooms here in Danbury. The flowers in your cinder blocks look great, mine are struggling. I am filling my cinder block bed up with blackberries. I am already starting to plan adding a bed in the fall.once you start gardening, there is so much you want to grow !!!
Glad Lucy is doing well... nice guitar you played there.
I noticed just before the freeze we had tons of honey bees on our flowering broccoli and flowering thyme here just south of Tomball TX. We just saw our first honey bee Saturday since the freeze. It was resting on our potato plants and seemed to have no energy at all. Our tomatoes are blossoming and we have been hand pollinating our squash and zucchini. So far we have not seen a vine borer moth and keeping our fingers crossed. I just discovered your channel this weekend and love it. Especially since we grow in the same area of Texas.
Really enjoyed your plot tour. I grew tomato plants from the sideshoots last year and they grew fine but by the time they came to fruition the plants were suffering from blight...yours will probably do better as you seem to be having better weather than us in the UK. Take care 😊
I'm still nearly 2 weeks away from my planting time. 🙄 The good news is I can follow behind you for tips.
I hope Lucy and Ethyl get along great ... where's Ricky?
Seriously, as an Urban gardner with seriously limited space ... I am enjoying your channel. I am now into my 2nd year of year round gardening in a 9B region in Sacramento. My winter garden is now finished, my spring garden is doing well and I am now transitioning into summer plants.
Thank you for sharing your garden and experience.
Oh I think my addition to our garden might be a tad much. In a raised 6X6 square I've got a large number of beans and peas. Since they are small I am going to work on the trellises next. Going to try two A frames or at least that's the build plan. Introduced my better half to your channel and you've earned another fan. Thanks!
Continuing to enjoy your content. 😊
Your garden looks amazing. We are hitting the hardening off stage here. Going through what we call dogwood winter around here. Cool weather plants are coming up good now. Love watching your progress and seeing all your beautiful plant's.
Oh I did a single seed challenge this year, a gypsy pepper. Watching your channel has encouraged me to try many new things.
Good to see Lucy is coming back 🙂 Your tomatoes 🍅look so healthy and lush.... my tomato bushes get septoria leaf spot (except cherry tomatoes) and the bush goes down hill from there 😟maybe I am watering them too much ..... I will keep trying and learn as I go along the journey.
You always have a beautiful garden
Garden looks great. I am in 9B and just did my April video. Definitely jealous of your tomato bed.
Another great video Scott. Nice to see your garden growing. I only have cold weather plants out now, and we will likely get a little snow in the next 48 hours. I like growing melons, but in 5b its borderline to grow them to maturity. Its iffy to transplant them. This year I am trying small biodegradable nursery bags to start them. Next year I want to try newspaper starter pots to start them because they are biodegradable and like nursery bags you can plant the whole pot. The nursery bags are cheap, but I can get old newspapers for free.
Your garden looks great
We are also in zone 9a, but in Florida. We grow most of the same vegetables and fruits as you do. I too bought the red clover and planted it. About your squash plants, I watch the Old Alabama Gardener and I did what he did and had no problems with the squash vine borer. He takes strips of tin foil and wraps it around the stem as it gets taller. He removes some of the leaves in order to do this. You can see him do this on his TH-cam channel. Hope this helps.
Florida Gardener, zone 9a
Good information about your garden thanks
Concerning your blackberries: An old-timer once told me that blackberries don't deal well with prosperity (like some people, he said). Your compost may bee to rich for them. The garden looks good,, Scott.
They can definitely take some abuse. I like to consider how blackberries grow wild in Washington state. They can take a lot of water (9 mo out of the year) or none at all (3 mo out of the year). But what they do need is some nutrients from soil. His ‘too much carbon’ may be correct. A little liquid feed might just do them so good for a few months.
Wow your garden is looking great!
Looking good, thanks for the tour.
It’s all looking great 😁
Wednesday morning 32 degrees in Tulsa, I have containers that can be moved, but corn is a big concern.
Thanks for the helpful tips
Might I suggest some rosemary essential oil for your caterpillars? It’s worked SO WELL for me in 9b California. Last year I was hit brutally by cabbage loopers, but this year I have yet to see one, it’s been amazing. I added rosemary essential oil to my Dr Bohners + water aphid spray and it’s been amazing, no leaf damage other than what sneaky aphids get away with before they get the Dr Bohners smack down.
The only thing I worry about is if rosemary is making all pollinators avoid my garden. That would not be good.
Garden is looking great. ❤️👏🏻
Things are looking good there. We are still having a couple more cold , frost and even a freeze watch for tomorrow night. Hopefully then I can get my seedlings out and get growing too . It has been a very strange year weather wise. I can't believe we are heading toward the last part April and still threatened with froze and freeze . In the mean time I will just tour your garden with you and pick your brain for ideas and knowlege.
The goji will take over. A little invasive.
I’m in far west Texas and we just got another cold front! I’ve been covering and bringing what I can inside the greenhouse. Ugh. Watermelon did not like 35 degree temps. 🙄 everything is still alive so far, though. 🙏🙏 can’t wait until it’s as lush as yours.
Dfw area here Wasn’t it in the 100s a week ago for y’all
I’m 9b in NorCal and Sunday we are getting lower temps too (41). I’m only bringing in the eggplant and pepper seedlings. Honestly if my squash, cukes and tomatoes can’t take 41, I’m not sure I want them in my garden since I was primarily using them for stabilizing seed for my area (seeds were midwest in origin). 😒
I am so glad to see that Lucy survived!
Your garden looks great!
Scott the bees just showed up on my riend mature squash
If those 2 blackberries do take off, you should get plenty of pups off them and it could potentially completely fill that bed, which is undoubtedly your intention and something you were aware of, I only say it to share that i have similar experience with black berries, bought 5, lost 2 and now that entire bed if covered in blackberry plants. Mine do love some fish fertilizer and are currently in full bloom here in zone 8a.
Blackberries grow amazingly well in zone 5. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to trellis mine. Last year I had to weave it back and forth and then it continued to the next trellis. Hoping to make it a permanent place in its new location but not sure how to trellis it.
Nice!! The weather here in SW Okla is the pits... Lost alot and had to redo. slow going.. We have a freeze warning for the next 2 nights
My goodness, everything just looks amazing! My seedlings are doing well, about an inch now! Thanks for taking us for a tour Scott, it’s 29 right now, chance of flurries today & tomorrow. That’s our April, lol!
The garden is looking fantastic! I haven’t seen a squash vine borer yet!!! 🤞🏼 my squash is blooming all females right now, hopefully I’ll get a little harvest before the bugs show up. I was really hoping we would get a break from them this year after the freeze, but I see that didn’t work in your area! 🤦🏻♀️
Your garden looks amazing!!
Nice garden tour.
Beautiful garden
Subscribed and been watching the videos, I made my own melon patch, and have some zuchinnis in containers
I think this month is when your garden dramatically changes from empty-ish to full, and it's lovely to see that transformation. I think I am about one month behind you here in Northern California. So while I am thrilled will April, I hope to be ecstatic in May. Looks like you have a fantastic gardening season ahead of you. Now I am off to plant some bean seeds!
Looking great! So much growing along there. I used to live in Katy, TX and that was the home I first tried to grow a vegetable garden. The home we bought had established banana, citrus and avocado trees. We added figs and more citrus. And tried to grow some veggies. It was so hot, most things scorched in the heat of summer. I had no idea of zones and when to plant. Lol. When we sold the house, the new owners tore out all of the fruit tress and put them out for trash. My old neighbor sent me a picture. She was like, we would have taken them! The new owners wanted landscaping not a garden. 😢
Wherever you put your goji berries, they will take it over. I would suggest out in the lower 40. They are invasive. I’m still trying to get them out of my flower bed after a few years. I thought I got them all out last year, but some shoots popped up again this month. 🤨
Wow your tomato recovered so beautifully!!
This is probably the 1st or 2nd video on this channel I have watched. I am wondering how in the world can someone have tomato plants so big only in April. Its still in the 70s where I live and its hard getting out of bed in the am, and I have to put on a jacket for outside. So I cant imagine any plants growing before april lol.
Ahh thanks for saving those poor tomato plants. I knew they'd do good.
Ohhh, how nice to see things growing!!! In Northern Nevada we still have night temps in the 20s and strong wind😩, 16 mph today with heavy gusts. Z5/6.
You always give me hope that my time will come soon 🧤🍅🌱
So happy to see Lucy back in the game!
Nice my veggies are just behind yours been here for a moment love the yard can’t wait for those first tomatoes 🍅
Nice video Scott. Everything is looking so healthy. I have made pasta sauce from cherry tomatoes in the past, and it's great! Yes, you have the skins and seeds, but it tastes great. Try it out.
Use a food mill to strain out the skins and seeds that you don’t need without losing the good pulp.
Looking great, so glad to hear Lucy the lemon is coming back, and your tomatoes look awesome! I'm going to check on your melon pit advice too, I've got some seeds to plant under my peach trees.
Everything is coming along nicely!!! Yay! Lucy made a comeback!! Win!!
Scot there is a chance that the black berries will take over the bed that they are in, that looks like a very happy home for them. I have to bring in my plants tomorrow night due to freezing temps so not too much planted in soil yet. Great video as always.
Wow your garden is looking nicer by the day!! We still have for more weeks for planting.
Have a blessed day!
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it's all looking good scott..we will see who the queen corgi is in the garden..lol great tour.
Looking good Scott. And here I am still in construction of my overbuilt raised beds. Im also in zone 9a here on the central coast of CA.
Im on the east coast and its still in the 50-70s so I am still working on builidng garden beds and acquiring good dirt (or stuff to create the right mix) is my next step. I spent a lot on dirt last week and feel like after watching videos on YT I mixed my dirt wrong but do not want to waste it so its going to have to be used for my new compost piles.
If you sow a wildflower mix from seed source. Com instead of clover you’ll bring in more native bees. Also brings in more beneficial insects which can help with the Sphinx moths on the tomatos.
I have made black cherry tomato sauce before. Expect to use lots of them since they are very watery and extra time to cook them down. Still makes a great sauce in the end.
Try roasting the cherry tomatoes first before making them into salsa.
So glad to see so much of your garden coming back. I'm waiting another couple weeks to put out tomatoes and peppers. We have frost predicted for later this week here in Alabama zone 8.
I live within 20 miles of you and my avocado and orange tree died from the freeze and snow I cut them off to try to revive with no luck so far.they where about 4 years old.
Wow, your garden looks so good already! In Dallas here, and it's still just chilly enough at night that my warm weather crops are still growing slowly, while my cool weather crops are starting to bolt in the 70*-80* days.
My garden is growing fast too. We live close to each other. Good weather today too.
Great weather for cutting the lawn.
@@ScottHead yeah, I need to cut mine soon. I use a push mower. I love how quite it is.
Everything looks amazing! We love growing the red clover as well! Can’t wait for the next update!
I am surprised that the perilla is bolting already. I thought it is a hot season plant.
Small backyard gardening. Yep. Learning techniques here I haven't seen before. Growing zone doesn't matter. Thank you!
Your garden is awesome. I wish I had a yard. I'm trying container garden for the first time this year. Live in an apartment.
Your garden is thriving! 🌻
Make tomato jam from the cherry tomatoes! Beats ketchup by a mile!
Garden looks beautiful. Nice, healthy plants. I’m facing a final freeze tomorrow night in NE Oklahoma. Going to be covering a few things and hoping for the best.
One year we were covered up in cherry tomatoes! I had dreams about cherry tomatoes! Lol In one very vivid dream we became wealthy by frying green cherry tomatoes instead of slicing regular green tomatoes. As the saying goes...we can dream! Lol
Everything looks so lush! I am growing a couple zones north of you. I just planted a couple melon seeds! I am so excited! Corgis are quite majestic!
I’m apply your grapes are doing so well. I’m trying grapes for the first time this year because I wanted to espalier something. (Only because I love saying “espalier”. LOL).
Just wow 😁🌱💚
When you get plums from your tree. Will you make plum jelly our blog?
I’ll try for sure!
Hey, I live in Texas City! Howdy
So on the Owari Satsuma and Citrus in general, there is something called the “June Drop”. Sometimes in June the plant takes inventory of itself and drops the fruit it can’t support so no need to prune fruit like Apples, pears, peaches etc... cool huh?
I have seen something like that happen, but only once and on our lemon tree. Usually, mine all keep all their fruit.
@@ScottHead that means the tree has everything it needs. The citrus industry tries to pump fertilizer into the trees to minimize the drop for $ reasons. But most university studies recommend not interfering with the natural process. As you know from Lucy, once they are a few years old you can’t eat all the fruit they produce anyway. I have a three year old Clementine that has hundreds of pea sized fruits on it right now, I expect 1 out of 10 to reach maturity.
Looks good 👩🏽🌾👍🏽💚
Garden is looking awesome. So happy to see those tomatoes bounce back so nicely. I deal with Squash vine borer also and it just reminded me of the struggle when you said you are going to have one good harvest before plant start feeling the effect, last year every three weeks I would seed new one so I can grow some replacements but my season in 5b is much shorter then yours. Do you have a suggestion for the light that you used to look for Horn worms, like a favorite one? Oh and Phoebe is the Queen for sure :)
Any UV flashlight will work. I just searched UV flashlights on Amazon and bought one that looked good.
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@@ScottHead thanks, I will look them up.
Lucy lives! So glad! I lost my potted Kumquat, gifted to me by a neighbor.
Scott, I thought I saw an illuminated horror... (YT's correction) hornworm glowing in your video... ?? Maybe do a doublecheck??
Hello! I really llike your videos and your garden! I spotted a thyme plant in It and would appreciate if you could make a video or parti of a video on how tio take care of It. My plant tend to have long naked stems with leaves only at the top.... Please, can you help me? Mariella from Italy
@Scott Head
Garden looks great. You're way ahead of me on beans but everything else is in about the same shape as my garden.
One idea for tomato sauce that's really easy and delicious; Italia Squisita has a TH-cam channel. Look for pomodoro sauce recipes. Tomatoes, celery, red onion, carrots, salt, red pepper flakes, fresh basil, and olive oil. It's summer-fresh and delicious. You'll have to turn on the English subtitles but that's a small price to pay. And their channel is a rabbit hole. :)
I had the exact same caterpillar on my sunflower seedlings 🤬
Zone 8b/9a in the Cleveland, TX area; not far from ya!
You must be in South Texas. I am north of DFW and we have freeze warning for tomorrow night
Wait... we do?!
Sorry to hear that.
Totally inspirational!!!
Bores get my squash too every year
Love the progression videos 🤩 How do you manage ants in the garden?
I usually leave them.
Hi Scott, Janine here ,a neighbor of sorts.my sis is in Manville. Where are u buying ur garde nets and tomatoes varieties 🤔⚘
Baker Creek for most of my seeds, Amazon for trellis nets and clips. I almost never buy supplies locally since no one has the things I need.
Wow! Your garden is growing huge! I am in awe! How do you get everything to grow so big?
Just grow in good, fertile soil. :-)
@@ScottHead I’m trying! I have two new raised beds this year that I filled with raised bed mix, compost, pearlite, pear moss, and some Biotome Starter fertilizer. I hope I did it right! At least I know the fire ants sure are loving my gardens, so I must be doing something right? Hahaha 🤣😬How do you handle them? I’m terrified getting my first any bite!
*peat moss
As the seasons roll by, your soil will improve greatly as you continue to amend it. A layer of compost 1/2" thick or so once or twice each year (in between growing seasons) will work wonders. Just lay it on top and smooth it out, let the earthworms do the rest.
Your garden looks so amazing and the tomatoes are already so tall, what variety was ur dwarf tomato? this is my 1st year with the in ground bed and i m slowly learning and expanding. i just have 3 in ground beds each are 4x12 feet. I had only 8 tomato cages and was looking for some varieties that wont need staking.
The dwarf is "Dwarf Hannah's Prize." There are a couple of places that sell seeds for it online, just search for the variety on google and it should turn up.
Hi Scott, I was wondering why you don't cover your squashes so that the borers don't have a chance to damage your squashes. Just a thought. I always try to exclude pests rather than spraying them. It has worked for me, maybe it will work for you
I do that for fall brassicas. The problem with squash vine borers is that they overwinter in the soil. They are already down there and I even dug up some of the pupating moths earlier this year. They’d come out even under a cover. Also, I plant squash early knowing I’ll at least get one harvest, sometimes two, before the plants are dead. Then I can plug in something for summer like okra or eggplant.
@@ScottHead I see. So they overwinter in soil