Hi Leigh! 109 here is SoCal. My garden is shrouded in shade cloth. Yesterday I harvested many blushed Parks Whoppers to let them ripen indoors. Lots of harvested zucchini and zucchini bread for family but now the vine borers are settling in even after using beneficial nematodes. They are relentless. I’d say I harvested maybe 10- 12 nice zucchinis this year. My Diva cucumbers are coming along and the first dahlia to bud and bloom this year is Arabian Night. Waiting on 20 other varieties to bloom in my raised bed. I am watering in early morning and at dusk as well as drip system for deep watering twice a week. Our dry SoCal heat just sucks up the plant moisture. Bye for now. You and Farmer John are my garden heroes.
Hi my friend, sending hugs and thinking of you. 109....oh em gee. Our thermostat says our garden is often 103. 100 today and yesterday 101. We had our first whopper today and the counters are covered in peppers and zucchini. The heat is taking a toll on the dahlia though. My potted plants are toast. We are so tired after working out there I often have a nap in the evening from exhaustion. It feels like an oven.
So much I could happily comment on. I'll cut it short and say that's a garden to be very proud of!!! I find you & FJ very inspiring. I'm starting out with only grass, well, what is left of it due to the voles. Happy Gardening!
@@ourbackyardgarden yes, there are remedies. We ate working on them. We have trapped (killed) over 100. We are surrounded by grain field on 2 sides. There is also a lot of debri and 2 years of grass clippings along our back fence. They love it there. A guy is scheduled to remove the debris ASAP. He says it's an all-day job. Costing $2,500! We aren't happy. The previous owners should have kept that clean and cleared. Per my research, voles over populate every 3 to 5 years. This house is going on 3 years. The orwvious owners didn't have this problem. When we moved in, thete wete no signs of vole damage until spring. It's horrifying to a gardener. We trap (on average) 7 to 9 voles a day! They breed quicker than rabbits.
@@gail7998 omgbthats a nightmare! Ugh!!!! I hope you like this place better overall though. How frustrating. If you were my neighbor I'd hook you up, but I think you know that! ❤ I think my side neighbor is standing at his door waiting for tomatoes lol
Hi Leigh - lovely tour! I’m catching up on your posts this weekend. This year you look well rested and in a better spot to handle the tomato onslaught that is about to happen. And those blueberries - very sweet! I’m looking forward to your sauce making; next year I want to try that. I was out on a very long road trip with my husband and oldest grandson for the last four weeks, 6000+ miles. My garden survived, but it needs a lot of work next week. I’m harvesting tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, beans, onions, and rescuing what’s left of the garlic. Setting it back to rights is going to take some doing because my watering system only worked for 80% of my garden. I had no one to water it. 😢 As always, I wished we were neighbors and could help each other out.
I do also wish we were neighbors. I hope your trip was amazing I'll look for pics on insta 💗 we are beyond exhausted out working by 6am on my feet to 9pm. We sit for an hour then clean up after the boys. Bedtime is almost 1am. Lots going on here. Several injuries for me, a toxic exposure and close call. I keep getting back up though. No time for videos at all. 99% sure we are done but it was fun for a while. I'm off to the tree nursery as 2 more big projects are about to launch. I'm eliminating the lawn. Good riddance 👏 to that. No more mower eventually. Please try to stay in tough with me. Sending ❤ and hugs
@@ourbackyardgarden Whoa! Toxic exposure?!? Was it a plant, chemical, or insect?!? I pray you’re on the mend. Videos can be done later, and besides, a few of the people I watch have been complaining about the algorithms on this platform anyway. Your health and well being are more important than views, as is harvesting and putting up food for the year! I only started collecting butterfly eggs today, and it’s only because I happened to be outside when a black swallowtail was laying them on my dill. I quickly harvested a few sprigs and brought them indoors. I have to set up my greenhouse this weekend to handle my limited butterfly operation this fall. Quality over quantity this time around. I haven’t looked for monarch eggs yet, but I will tomorrow morning. The mosquitoes l, spiders, and wasps have been VERY active in my backyard this season. Sadly, I’ve only seen one monarch, and it wasn’t anywhere near my milkweed.
Wow your tomatoes look great. My Dr Wyches are not that big at all. I'm in Ocean County closer to the ocean. Actually the tomatoes looking the best and healthiest for me are the Dwarf Tomatoes. Brandy Fred, Uluru Ochre and Baronia. They have so many fruits on three foot tall plants. Its amazing. The Dwarf Tomato Project. Great if you don't have much space. But your garden is just beautiful and so healthy. Good for you guys. Here's to a great veggie year.
Thank you so much! It's funny, dr wychie this year is odd. I have mine separated this year. One area they are much smaller this year. Another area, they are Gigantic. I think I have 1 big guy ready for harvest, I'm soooo excited. Had a kellogs breakfast yesterday it was incredible 😋
Blossom end rot is more to do with watering. They can’t uptake the calcium and I know you use bonemeal. It’s funny how some plants here produce sooner than warmer zones and most are much later. Trying to gauge where we are at as this has been an awfully WET year so far with 31.69” of rain since March and avg annual is 37”. We will get a break tomorrow-I Hope! Then Sunday through Wednesday more rain. Don’t know what we will end up with if it doesn’t stop. At least with drought I could control the water and NO flipping mosquitoes! 😵💫 I do know we harvest tomatoes early August. It’s just a set timing here no matter when you plant. However we had Orange Hats in winter and the Mexican Midgets were also producing. I have already had a Megatron Jalepeno 👏🏼👏🏼. Nice size and vigorous grower. Your garden is really turning out well. We will wait a month and see what we end up with in this swamp. At least I have the sandy soil working for us. Oh, I think the shishitos can be a hit and miss on the heat scale. I see it’s been hot and dry there as the leaves are curled and lawn looks crispy and that weather will make peppers, onions and radishes hotter. What! Random tomatoes-it’s TomatoGate this year? Last year was PepperGate.
Are your Megatron super hot? I touched one, stoll on the bush, its huge. Then touched my face, and it burned, thought it was a fluke. Touched it again, had and tasted my finger, omg it was hot, just touching it. What am I in for? Yes our lawns ho dormant here. It comes back. We never water the grass or it would be $700 a month literally
Beautiful. Your hard word has paid off. I was wondering if you get dragonflies at your pond? I heard that they like flat rocks so yours looks ideal for them.
Hi Leigh! 109 here is SoCal. My garden is shrouded in shade cloth. Yesterday I harvested many blushed Parks Whoppers to let them ripen indoors. Lots of harvested zucchini and zucchini bread for family but now the vine borers are settling in even after using beneficial nematodes. They are relentless. I’d say I harvested maybe 10- 12 nice zucchinis this year. My Diva cucumbers are coming along and the first dahlia to bud and bloom this year is Arabian Night. Waiting on 20 other varieties to bloom in my raised bed. I am watering in early morning and at dusk as well as drip system for deep watering twice a week. Our dry SoCal heat just sucks up the plant moisture. Bye for now. You and Farmer John are my garden heroes.
Hi my friend, sending hugs and thinking of you. 109....oh em gee. Our thermostat says our garden is often 103. 100 today and yesterday 101. We had our first whopper today and the counters are covered in peppers and zucchini. The heat is taking a toll on the dahlia though. My potted plants are toast. We are so tired after working out there I often have a nap in the evening from exhaustion. It feels like an oven.
Wow your garden looks beautiful!
Thank you 😊 I'm so ready for tomatoes 🍅 😋
So much I could happily comment on. I'll cut it short and say that's a garden to be very proud of!!! I find you & FJ very inspiring. I'm starting out with only grass, well, what is left of it due to the voles. Happy Gardening!
Hi gail!!! Thank you for your continued support it keeps us motivated ❤ your garden will be your sanctuary soon. There must be a vole remedy!!
@@ourbackyardgarden yes, there are remedies. We ate working on them. We have trapped (killed) over 100. We are surrounded by grain field on 2 sides. There is also a lot of debri and 2 years of grass clippings along our back fence. They love it there. A guy is scheduled to remove the debris ASAP. He says it's an all-day job. Costing $2,500! We aren't happy. The previous owners should have kept that clean and cleared. Per my research, voles over populate every 3 to 5 years. This house is going on 3 years. The orwvious owners didn't have this problem. When we moved in, thete wete no signs of vole damage until spring. It's horrifying to a gardener. We trap (on average) 7 to 9 voles a day! They breed quicker than rabbits.
@@gail7998 omgbthats a nightmare! Ugh!!!! I hope you like this place better overall though. How frustrating. If you were my neighbor I'd hook you up, but I think you know that! ❤ I think my side neighbor is standing at his door waiting for tomatoes lol
@@ourbackyardgarden we are determined to win. I do love the area. The voles will not win! They're destroying our neighbors lawns too
Hi Leigh - lovely tour! I’m catching up on your posts this weekend. This year you look well rested and in a better spot to handle the tomato onslaught that is about to happen. And those blueberries - very sweet! I’m looking forward to your sauce making; next year I want to try that.
I was out on a very long road trip with my husband and oldest grandson for the last four weeks, 6000+ miles. My garden survived, but it needs a lot of work next week. I’m harvesting tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, beans, onions, and rescuing what’s left of the garlic. Setting it back to rights is going to take some doing because my watering system only worked for 80% of my garden. I had no one to water it. 😢 As always, I wished we were neighbors and could help each other out.
I do also wish we were neighbors. I hope your trip was amazing I'll look for pics on insta 💗 we are beyond exhausted out working by 6am on my feet to 9pm. We sit for an hour then clean up after the boys. Bedtime is almost 1am. Lots going on here. Several injuries for me, a toxic exposure and close call. I keep getting back up though. No time for videos at all. 99% sure we are done but it was fun for a while. I'm off to the tree nursery as 2 more big projects are about to launch. I'm eliminating the lawn. Good riddance 👏 to that. No more mower eventually. Please try to stay in tough with me. Sending ❤ and hugs
@@ourbackyardgarden Whoa! Toxic exposure?!? Was it a plant, chemical, or insect?!? I pray you’re on the mend. Videos can be done later, and besides, a few of the people I watch have been complaining about the algorithms on this platform anyway. Your health and well being are more important than views, as is harvesting and putting up food for the year!
I only started collecting butterfly eggs today, and it’s only because I happened to be outside when a black swallowtail was laying them on my dill. I quickly harvested a few sprigs and brought them indoors. I have to set up my greenhouse this weekend to handle my limited butterfly operation this fall. Quality over quantity this time around. I haven’t looked for monarch eggs yet, but I will tomorrow morning. The mosquitoes l, spiders, and wasps have been VERY active in my backyard this season. Sadly, I’ve only seen one monarch, and it wasn’t anywhere near my milkweed.
Wow your tomatoes look great. My Dr Wyches are not that big at all. I'm in Ocean County closer to the ocean. Actually the tomatoes looking the best and healthiest for me are the Dwarf Tomatoes. Brandy Fred, Uluru Ochre and Baronia. They have so many fruits on three foot tall plants. Its amazing. The Dwarf Tomato Project. Great if you don't have much space. But your garden is just beautiful and so healthy. Good for you guys. Here's to a great veggie year.
Thank you so much! It's funny, dr wychie this year is odd. I have mine separated this year. One area they are much smaller this year. Another area, they are Gigantic. I think I have 1 big guy ready for harvest, I'm soooo excited. Had a kellogs breakfast yesterday it was incredible 😋
Blossom end rot is more to do with watering. They can’t uptake the calcium and I know you use bonemeal.
It’s funny how some plants here produce sooner than warmer zones and most are much later. Trying to gauge where we are at as this has been an awfully WET year so far with 31.69” of rain since March and avg annual is 37”. We will get a break tomorrow-I Hope! Then Sunday through Wednesday more rain. Don’t know what we will end up with if it doesn’t stop. At least with drought I could control the water and NO flipping mosquitoes! 😵💫
I do know we harvest tomatoes early August. It’s just a set timing here no matter when you plant. However we had Orange Hats in winter and the Mexican Midgets were also producing.
I have already had a Megatron Jalepeno 👏🏼👏🏼. Nice size and vigorous grower.
Your garden is really turning out well. We will wait a month and see what we end up with in this swamp. At least I have the sandy soil working for us.
Oh, I think the shishitos can be a hit and miss on the heat scale. I see it’s been hot and dry there as the leaves are curled and lawn looks crispy and that weather will make peppers, onions and radishes hotter.
What! Random tomatoes-it’s TomatoGate this year? Last year was PepperGate.
Are your Megatron super hot? I touched one, stoll on the bush, its huge. Then touched my face, and it burned, thought it was a fluke. Touched it again, had and tasted my finger, omg it was hot, just touching it. What am I in for? Yes our lawns ho dormant here. It comes back. We never water the grass or it would be $700 a month literally
Beautiful. Your hard word has paid off. I was wondering if you get dragonflies at your pond? I heard that they like flat rocks so yours looks ideal for them.
Hi Shane thank you so much for enjoying our video. Yes, we have tons of wonderful dragonfly in all shapes, sizes and colors it's wonderful!