Will we even get a harvest? Fall Garden Planning

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  • @carolschedler3832
    @carolschedler3832 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ahhh! The celery! I had a year of super celery a couple years ago. They were super strong flavor so not perfect for fresh eating, but I dehydrated all stalks and leaves and made celery powder. SO freaking delicious! I had enough for over two years! Will do again! ❤️

  • @wickedrocketelvispel
    @wickedrocketelvispel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I feel you! Everyone I know is having garden troubles this year and it’s so disheartening!

  • @wishiwuzahomestead6338
    @wishiwuzahomestead6338 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The weather this year is insane! Here in Texas we're in a terrible drought and we had a really early start to the 100 degree weather. It is like an oven out there. I haven't gotten any tomatoes, they're dropping their blooms and very few peppers because it's even too hot for them. I am getting some squash, thankfully, and it looks like I should get cucumbers. I'm just trying to keep my indeterminate tomato plants alive hoping they'll produce tomatoes in the fall. I'm also hoping I'll be able to get some greens and cool weather things in for a fall harvest.

    • @wereadalot
      @wereadalot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In Texas as well. I took cuttings to root from my indeterminate tomatoes because the originals have really suffered in the heat.

    • @wishiwuzahomestead6338
      @wishiwuzahomestead6338 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wereadalot I thought about doing the same thing! I've never done cuttings from tomatoes but I heard it's pretty easy.

  • @kathygriffin5299
    @kathygriffin5299 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We live in Castle Rock WA just north of Longview. It was 42 degrees this morning and 85 this afternoon. My garden is almost a total wash. With the never ending cold rain our garden was a mud bog until the middle of June. Thanks for the cool weather vegie tip. The rains usually come in the middle of September so everything starts to rot and harvests must be done by then. The slugs are very large this year.

    • @meemkaplan4315
      @meemkaplan4315 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah. I'm over on the coast and lost my first planting of green beans. Pitiful. Yeah, celery and my cabbage and broccoli are good but between the slugs and the rain, it's pretty sad. I'm patrolling 2 nights out of 3 out slugging in the night just to keep something growing. Thankfully they are cannibals and that makes it a bit easier for control. Lettuce? Great year for that! I sure hope next year is better....

  • @nancyseery2213
    @nancyseery2213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You are too cold and we are too hot, what a year. for the first year I didn't end up with enough green beans to con. The started slow, gave about enough for four or five meals for the two of us and then just quit. I have started a second drop and it does seem to be starting out great. Thankfully here in TN I can get more that one crop, but this is the first time I have planted more than one crop of green beans and that means I'm skipping my watermelons this year. Oh well, we get what the garden and God gives us. Hope you have a late fall to go with your late summer. God bless y'all and keep growing

  • @holliwaller2774
    @holliwaller2774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    What a crazy crazy year for food. With food plants burning down, down here in South Texas it's been over a 110 for 8 weeks straight with no rain and so all the crops have burned up no matter how much we water them and it sounds like up there where you are it's been so cold that things just aren't growing well. I'm really trying to take this time to learn some new things and adjust my methods because we always have to be ready for the unexpected. Really appreciate all the lessons and videos you do because I learned things I never knew.

    • @southtexasprepper6605
      @southtexasprepper6605 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm in south Texas and we are having problems with our plants as well. Even some of the trees in our little orchard are struggling with the heat.

    • @Ray-wh7bj
      @Ray-wh7bj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      east tx here and I agree, stunted in growth, barely any bees to pollinate, this year so far has been the worst year for warm crops, its been so dang hot, 100s and no rain. I water mornings and evening and its barely hanging on. A very hard summer so far for gardeners, and farmers.

    • @dandeliondreamspodcast9469
      @dandeliondreamspodcast9469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Do you have deep deep mulch like straw? We had temps at 118 last year and didn’t lose anything in the garden using super deep mulch to protect the roots from the heat. But 8 weeks is intense!! Not sure if it would work or not, but it couldn’t hurt, good luck!

    • @southtexasprepper6605
      @southtexasprepper6605 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dandeliondreamspodcast9469 good idea, I'm mulching but I know I can add more, I will try that. 2 of my avocado trees died and the 3rd one is struggling, but I will try adding mulch.

    • @wishiwuzahomestead6338
      @wishiwuzahomestead6338 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm in North Central Texas. It hasn't been quite that hot, more like 100-105, but we're in the same situation with the drought. It's been a struggle to keep our garden alive and the field irrigated with creek water. And now the creek is starting to dry up. I definitely plan on building some sort of greenhouse so I can grow more in the cooler months and a shade structure with maybe 30-40% shade cloth that I can put over certain areas of the garden. It's definitely been a learning experience.

  • @thefordfarm4494
    @thefordfarm4494 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey Melissa I live in Southern Oregon and I feel u. I feel like all my hot crops are struggling. We lost almost a month of grow time in May to June because we were still in the 30ties. Pray fully 🙏 the Lord will extend our first freeze. Thank u for sharing

  • @slolive1
    @slolive1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am praying for a supernatural abundance of harvest for you that can only be explained as "BUT GOD"! We live in southeast Tennessee, and are having the opposite issue. We have had above average temps and not much rain. And this is our first year gardening on this property and the soil is atrocious. Might as well be gardening in chirt rock! So, I am right there with you on the struggling crops, especially my squash and zucchini, but I will just praise God for whatever harvest that He gives us this year, and we will continue investing in amending the soil. God bless!

  • @jennifercarlson8172
    @jennifercarlson8172 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I actually seeded more then normal this year and didn't even put my tomatoes into the ground until 2 weeks ago and am finally going to get into playing my seeded cucumbers Saturday (as out weather here, snohomish County, shows a little bit cooler weather for 2 days) I am also focusing on cold weather crops this year as well, my strawberries produced just barely and my raspberries did....but then again the weather is so bi polar lately I don't know what to expect next month

  • @DragonflyenAmber
    @DragonflyenAmber 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm in Toronto, Canada and I container garden on a balcony. My tomatoes are struggling badly, our spring was cooler and wetter than usual so my indeterminate varieties are only about 8 inches tall and have yet to put out blooms. (I had started all my tomatoes indoors.) Even now in late July some of our night temps have been low enough to bring some plants indoors. I think this year is going to be a low production year for everyone from what I'm seeing.

  • @GeorgiasGarden
    @GeorgiasGarden 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Texas here. We didn’t get much either and it almost over. 110 degrees starting cucumbers, beans and tomatoes over. Wicking tubs are my new best friend.

  • @jasoncar7215
    @jasoncar7215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I too got a very small harvest. 1 squash, 1 zucchini and no cucumbers! Tons of peppers and hardly any tomatoes. Planted a 2nd crop a few weeks ago but the temperatures here (108 heat index for 4 days straight) literally killed my crops that were in the raised beds and planters. Except for the peppers, I was very disappointed. Zone 7B, North Alabama

  • @beverlyboyce1041
    @beverlyboyce1041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Here in Texas, our crops have fried with about 30 days over 100

  • @elderberryfarmlife4258
    @elderberryfarmlife4258 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My celery is doing good too! We’re in Gig Harbor Washington zone 8b. My spring brassicas took so long to grow then they bolted. So I guess i have to do a “do over” on the brassicas for fall. Even my Asian pear tree didn’t produce! The blossoms came out and it was still to cold for the bees to be out. So no pollination. This seems to be a common thread.

  • @heatherjohnson1569
    @heatherjohnson1569 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My friend and I were just talking about our gardens yesterday. We are having the same issues with our cucumber and squash plants this year. We live in Eastern Washington. Thanks for posting this. Now I don't feel like it's me and what I am doing.

  • @alexwidmer7421
    @alexwidmer7421 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    So far in Maryland, it’s a normal year. I have a bounty with a good balance of sun and rain and have already started canning green beans. Zucchini is doing well too. But i will also do a fall garden to can up a storm as long as I can.

  • @daytha
    @daytha 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool! Please let us know how burying the cabbage in the cold goes.

  • @love2can
    @love2can 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you for this video. I am in Battle Ground WA zone 8b and I, too, have seen so much delay. Most of mine I started (bought 4 pepper plants because mine died) and transplanted. So far lettuce and turnip greens are great. My asparagus was late but produced well. I definitely am worried about my garden’s ability to produce what we need. I feel better now that I know it’s not just me, it’s Mother Nature.

    • @christineshomemakingjourney
      @christineshomemakingjourney 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Lyssa Orelli, There is no mother nature but FATHER GOD! He BLESSES US with the bounty of our crops. The LORD gives the increase not man or "mother nature". This country (as well as others) has done much evil in the eyes of the LORD, this is why it is important for us to have a TRUE Relationship with HIM and HE will bring increase for our families as HE WILLS to do it.

    • @dancnluc1
      @dancnluc1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      WOW - Battle Ground WA. I lived there 33 plus years ago. Loved it there. We had a beautiful garden there.

  • @loveishope4406
    @loveishope4406 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have 12 tomato plants-zone 7A. There was no spring or early summer (Tulsa, Oklahoma). I planted in early May after the last frost and I still have no tomatoes. The plants are flowering but its so hot, the flowers just fall off. The bio mass is good, the fertilizer is good, its just too hot :(

  • @theGrateful11
    @theGrateful11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Melissa I also live in the PNW near Olympia and I have great success with my zucchinis this year. I planted them in my greenhouse and because it's warmer at night they are happy. I have been harvesting for a couple of weeks If you have room for them, maybe transplanting your smaller plants in the high tunnel for an experiment. Happy gardening!

    • @caninetherapyinc9031
      @caninetherapyinc9031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have only one squash plant that is really large and vibrant. It sits on our deck, right in front of the kitchen window. I think the heat of the deck reflecting during day plus less cool down at night. (Also because I fuss over it constantly? I give it coffee or tea or compost tea every day?). It has 4 zucchini on it! Fingers crossed that we stay warm enough through September to get some winter squash. Next year we are gonna turn the old swing set into some sort of cold frame/mini high tunnel.

    • @tawnnope7196
      @tawnnope7196 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I live closer to Mount Rainier and so far the garden looks pretty good so far....
      It was a later start do to rain and cold so we'll see come Sept how everything really did.

    • @lindamarsteller4582
      @lindamarsteller4582 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What is a high tunnel?

    • @theGrateful11
      @theGrateful11 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lindamarsteller4582 It's like a plastic covered greenhouse but both ends are opened, creating a tunnel high enough for equipment to run under.

    • @lindamarsteller4582
      @lindamarsteller4582 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@theGrateful11 oh ok thank you! And it is like a green house? Works same way?

  • @hollyf1380
    @hollyf1380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you so much for this video, I live just south of you in Lewis county and am a little new to gardening and I was struggling to find information on fall gardening for my area, your website is incredibly useful and I so appreciate the detailed information.

  • @primrozie
    @primrozie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I think most of us are having an unusual season. I'm just getting my cabbage too. Zone 5 PA. I planted my Fall/Winter garden yesterday. I have row covers for the winter squash, butternut and acorn. Just now getting blossom on zucchini. Green tomatoes. Our lettuce and kale still producing and beautiful!

    • @grammym1643
      @grammym1643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here in Colorado

  • @missourigirl4101
    @missourigirl4101 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sounds and looks great Melissa. We here in the Midwest use our strawberry runners to start new plants and pull the mother plant out at about 2-3 years if the peter out. This way we don’t have to buy new plants.I find that pine needles mulched around strawberries and hosta keeps slugs away

  • @Terri_Stauffer
    @Terri_Stauffer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Zone 5b in NY squash and cucumbers are struggling, been cool here and after rainy start dry last few weeks. Put some squash in polytunnel with other warm weather veggies and they look healthy. Groundhog came and enjoyed some of my cabbage and broccoli along with my cauliflower, that was just starting to form head, would have been my first success ever 😮‍💨. Just planted some seeds to try for fall crop.

  • @PacificWanderer
    @PacificWanderer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We’re in the Kitsap area and pretty new to growing our own food, It seems like a strange planting season with the extra heat lately.

  • @msms4659
    @msms4659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ya strange weather in Minnesota too. Cloudy, cooler and very wet.

  • @roaminacres6285
    @roaminacres6285 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It seems to be a really wacky year for all gardeners. Here in southern Missouri we haven't had rain in over 6 weeks and it has been soooo hot!

    • @a.b.37-f9v
      @a.b.37-f9v 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same in arkansas :(

  • @aurorasanquilly8216
    @aurorasanquilly8216 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    In Portland Oregon and we've had much the same here. My spring planting of direct sown snap peas falled completely because if all the rain and cold into June, and the indeterminate tomatoes that I planted as starts are barely even a foot tall now but trying to flower :(
    The pole beans are doing great though! And I'm growing lots of greens and the potatoes seem happy.

  • @Michael-zg1oh
    @Michael-zg1oh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    MKN, looks great! I'm in the South and it has not been a cool summer, but rather, hot and dry. The tomatoes have never looked better, though, strangely. Who knows, we just have to keep adapting.

  • @amandar7719
    @amandar7719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Might be the perfect time to sow cilantro from now on…. every 4 days!
    Feel for you! I’m nurturing outdoor paste tomatoes here in the UK during this heatwave and no rain. My summer and winter squash is are struggling due to no rain and flash drought burn AND below 9c once a week that stunts whatever new growth emerges!
    Fantastic berry harvests, though. Black and red currants, cherry, raspberries, gooseberries.
    Mother nature sure got me running around and chasing my tail this year! 😩

  • @rzrbrn22
    @rzrbrn22 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gah, I feel this so much. Coastal range Oregon - entire garden seems to be a month behind!

  • @jamiegreenlee2367
    @jamiegreenlee2367 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We’re in Nebraska and my plants are behind too. I saw one cucumber finally producing and I have 16 plants 😪 but I have gotten a decent amount of beans.

  • @Learningthetruth7
    @Learningthetruth7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was so hot in the Pacific Northwest last year I had success with watermelons!!

  • @jamescraigrn
    @jamescraigrn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I didn't even bother planting my summer crops with exception to the ones I started indoors. I will probably start some cooler weather plants with hopes of getting some production this year.

  • @baibastrazdins6636
    @baibastrazdins6636 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Here in Australia we did the same thing last summer. Sooooo much rain😒. However this year they promise a wet start but lots of heat after. Time to get water tanks in!! Hopefully it may extend the 17 weeks of growing time I’m supposed to have

  • @AreYouKittenMeRtNow
    @AreYouKittenMeRtNow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow, I thought it was just me this year!!! Between the weather, having to go away for 2 weeks mid June, squirriels wrecking everything (that has been a Hard lesson) …. It’s been rough this Year!! Added: I’m in NY state.

    • @MK-ti2oo
      @MK-ti2oo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Squirrels are the bane of my existence. I swear you have to totally encase the garden, top, bottom and sides to keep them from eating everything

    • @doubles1545
      @doubles1545 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Squirrels are a definite garden pest. It’s legal to trap them in my state, so I did. I have one smart squirrel, though, who can get all the bait and get back out of the trap. There’s always that one… 😆

  • @pamelawagner9440
    @pamelawagner9440 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Right there with you down in Olympia. Hard year! But appreciate your perspective on focusing on other crops. It’s also shown me how important some sort of high tunnel is. My tomatoes and peppers in it are three times the size as those outdoors. Thanks for a great video and inspiration to just roll with it!

  • @JustMe-qr9jj
    @JustMe-qr9jj 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    In in NC and have never had an issue with squash and zuch. This year was terrible, the seeds germinated but all of my plants were stunted. I had to pull them all sadly.

  • @joanxox4191
    @joanxox4191 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    We're the same Alberta Canada 🇨🇦 we've had a cool wet summer so far. My garden is pathetic. Very poor germination. We're getting some heat now we are zone 3. Going to plant some more and hopefully we have a warm fall.

  • @kentopolishomestead8812
    @kentopolishomestead8812 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The cold wet weather was not kind to my beans but man my peas loved it!

  • @kentopolishomestead8812
    @kentopolishomestead8812 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interested in your in ground preserving cabbage! I bought some January King cabbage that grows through the winter (hopefully)

  • @dusttodusthomestead
    @dusttodusthomestead 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow....yeah our various squash plants are struggling as well. Maybe even behind yours. Up until this last week ago it has been unseasonably cold for sure. Hope summer hangs on long enough to harvest something for ya. 👍👍

  • @codedesigns9284
    @codedesigns9284 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We are encountering the same type of weather in Ontario. We got everything in ground after last frost. It’s one of those summers!

  • @sierraechopnw4228
    @sierraechopnw4228 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It has been colder than normal. I also noticed the Puyallup Valley farmers that planted their pumpkins recently and their plants are also struggling..not the size they usually are by this time of year. Although these past few days have been a glimpse of what summer should be, am hoping we have an extended summer and growing season.
    I got my Greenstalk because of you for my strawberries. First year new plants but they are doing fantastic, finally 😍

  • @kaitlynw1904
    @kaitlynw1904 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s crazy to see you in a sweater in July! I’m in north Texas and we have had triple digit temperatures for weeks 🤯

  • @marilynwalsh7957
    @marilynwalsh7957 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm just now getting summer vegetables in the ground. Willamette Valley Oregon. Praying for a good late harvest.

  • @MarciesWhimsySoaps
    @MarciesWhimsySoaps 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! Bummer. We are having the opposite problem here in Middle TN. Too hot and too dry...and I got ahold of bad garden soil, too. Ive tried amending with no luck. Everything is small, yellow, and drops leaves when I water. Its just disgusting.

  • @sunflowersue5112
    @sunflowersue5112 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My garden is pitiful too but because of the heat. Only things doing well are tomatoes and turnips. Everything squash related - gone.

  • @lxraycatmaui2884
    @lxraycatmaui2884 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh the slugs.....I have a bumper crop of those. Delicious NW gastropods. Little jerks have decimated my peas this year.

  • @christinegiorgianna8128
    @christinegiorgianna8128 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Here in NC it has been hot and extremely humid that which is affecting my tomatoes and zuchinni

  • @kdavis4910
    @kdavis4910 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So, tomatoes and pepper plants good. Tomatoes flowering. Cukes flowering. Watermelon climbing. Beans are a fast crop so planted last. Bush up and waiting on pole. Summer and winter squash budding. Pumpkins budding. Corn about thigh high. Brussels Sprouts growing. Celery and potatoes growing. Long day onions still growing. Starting fall brassicas and greens. Cabbage not heading yet but should soon. Edit: overall I'm not really happy. I forgot to add Asparagus new this year and I have spears from at least 17 of twenty crowns and the second round of carrots is coming up and I just laid a third round of seed. I have some head lettuce in doing alright. Cantaloupe aren't doing as well as watermelon but coming along. Zucs are smaller but budding.

  • @kingspal99
    @kingspal99 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    more mulch is has heat and old windows
    in a V over top of plants that needs heat ends open
    (I don't like the towers, hills with power in a circle around stops them )

  • @primrozie
    @primrozie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just wanted to add that our night time temps are consistently between 50s and 60s. One night it was 70 and still a bit humid so used ceiling fan. I've known this to be nearly the same for a few years. After menopause I've had much suffering in heat and humidity. I ran the air conditioner constantly. Ihave not had to do that at night for about 3 years.

    • @meemkaplan4315
      @meemkaplan4315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is the first year I have ever had my heater on in the morning in July... Normally it's off from April through September. Crazy. A/C is a rare commodity where I live... We've only had one day that I wished for it, this year. I'm thinking a big greenhouse next year!!! WA gardening this year is pretty sad.

    • @primrozie
      @primrozie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@meemkaplan4315 I had a heart attack April 30th which slowed much of what I would have done in May. Bless the Lord for the cool season planting that was already in ground. I planted corn in seed cells while recovering in an attempt to grow 3 sisters. I had baby corn plants looking so cute in my mini greenhouse! An early 65 day variety sweet corn. Kentucky pole bean (short season maturity)and Waltham butternut squash all growing together. The squash might have to be covered in the end weeks but I did position them for it and use those large staple things to control where they go.
      I've been preparing for just about anything, lol.

  • @ninapleva
    @ninapleva 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you!

  • @missouriplantmom1769
    @missouriplantmom1769 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    In the
    Midwest,hot and dry, no rain in over 5 weeks

  • @JanalynVoigt
    @JanalynVoigt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm sure you know this, but if the summer heats up, you can stretch purchased shade cloth or even old sheets over your seed beds to keep the seedlings from drying up or burning off.

  • @TheModernCanary
    @TheModernCanary 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh Melissa, I'm in the same boat here in Vancouver, WA with all my warm season things. 💔 I feel a little better knowing it's not what I'm doing causing the failure but I'm so sorry you're experiencing this too!

  • @shall9858
    @shall9858 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this video....my zucchini looks the same. First year growing it and I thought I did something wrong.

  • @shelliecummins5972
    @shelliecummins5972 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am getting cabbage here in IN.. zone 6a/6b.. my khrobi is growing. Tho we are crunchy

  • @anniewildmush1284
    @anniewildmush1284 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    same thing in montreal canada... zucchini cucumber.. are sooo slow... i didnt eat one yet! got tons of greens beans loll

  • @emmaleebuzzard1023
    @emmaleebuzzard1023 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m so sorry Melissa! Gardening can just be unpredictable sometimes with the weather. I’m in Indiana so sometimes we have Julys that are just drought like and we don’t have have enough water or we have summers where there is too much rain and I can’t keep the weeds in check. Phew!

  • @michellebarnhill5130
    @michellebarnhill5130 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I started my garden late, it was a direct result of the weather! North Carolina.

  • @kdavis4910
    @kdavis4910 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Last year was very cool and wet in Maine so this year I planted most things in peat pots because I could feed them and let them sit and grow and being root bound wouldn't be a problem. It's really hot so we'll see 👀

  • @seekwisdom5102
    @seekwisdom5102 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You could grow peas and collards also. My collards are amazing. Just harvested a lot and will freeze it, as some are bolting. I had new plants in the cold frame and are ready to be planted.

  • @MK-ti2oo
    @MK-ti2oo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I share your pain as I watch this at 530am and it's 43° because last night was a warm night for us this year. I've fought frost at night up to the weekend before last here in NorCal on the high Sierra. Scorch during the day, freeze at night. What a wacky year. I'm guessing the lack of vegetation around us has something to do with it for us (we live in a few miles that didn't burn in the dixie fire last year in plumas county).

  • @jeffsheldon4096
    @jeffsheldon4096 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We are in central Ohio. And our garden is horrible. It’s been bad for the past three years. Glad we know some Amish folks that sold us beans for a dollar a pound. Our tomato’s are miserable.

  • @cindynielson4231
    @cindynielson4231 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expreince. It has been crazy season everywhere. 👍

  • @cheerio9119
    @cheerio9119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It can be so discouraging at times can't it? All we can do sometimes is hope God will provide an unusually long & nice fall...Focus on the fall, that's what I'm doing too. Hang in there..God's way, Godspeed, lots of faith & optimism ❤❤

    • @rg-mi5hh
      @rg-mi5hh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Our garden gets put in little by little. Fall is when we get most if our tomatoes and green peppers.

  • @saltyshieldmaiden
    @saltyshieldmaiden 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m zone 9 and I’m not getting much of anything . I direct sowed twice with some of my squash and they didn’t make it then finally beginning June started sprouting but 5 out of 10 plants are stunted. My tomatoes are doing great tho.

  • @alexwidmer7421
    @alexwidmer7421 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Could you do a video on how to set up an outside cooking, prepping station? I see a brick set up behind you on your patio and I’d be very interested in setting something up like that to cook outside or prep outside. Thank you

  • @radicallyforjesus
    @radicallyforjesus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow those are some baby zucs. Bless your heart, it must really be cool out there. I am in NE Ohio. Our season started off super wet and pretty cool. Then the last month it has been hot and very dry. Very little rain here lately, but other parts of Ohio have been drenched. Go figure.
    Tomatoes here look strong, but I have had a few with issues. Most look ok and I think I will get a decent harvest. My squash and cukes look a little small to me for what should be normal, but it does look like they will produce some but I don't think it will be a lot. I just started some seeds for fall yesterday. I have never done a fall garden before, and I might be a bit late in doing so. We shall see and hope they can develop in time. My lettuce is bolted and almost ready to snag seeds from. I should have seeded more in succession, but I haven't. Next year I want to do better about that.

  • @noelwest8234
    @noelwest8234 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Never had a garden before, except for raspberries, but finished my raised beds last week end. I started potatoes in buckets about 2 wks ago.
    I am in South Everett. I know everything is late here, but does any one have some suggestions for things to go in now???
    Thanks in advance for any help.
    I think I will be buying a copy of The Family Garden Planner.

  • @MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead
    @MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Spring and Summer has been the same here, but now we are in the 90s with nights in the 60s. We are delayed by about 2 weeks and we have a short season anyways. So I am really worried about all of my squash. We also had setbacks with our typical compost and soil additives like Roots and Refuge experienced.

  • @pnwfarmdog4090
    @pnwfarmdog4090 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am outside of Tacoma, and I think that my direct sew squash is slightly larger then yours but not by much. I planted them about a month ago. My peas aren’t doing very well, but as you said, beans are looking great. I plant pole beans and they are taller than usual and they are starting to bloom. My beets, carrots, and parsnips are doing quite well and I am going to try for a double crop of carrots and beets. My cabbage... well it started to grow but I don’t think it survived.

  • @briannehill7583
    @briannehill7583 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Washington has been weird this year. Even on my side of the state. I actually didn't try to grow this year because I didn't get a fence around my garden area in time. And last year I didn't get a harvest. But my dog sure did.

  • @megmcginnis239
    @megmcginnis239 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just an idea. A few years back we lived on South Whidbey we're it's wetter and was cool. I saved my squash by using lg plastic jugs with the bottoms cut out. Mini greenhouses on the cheep and it worked. You can also cut the top vent larger. It might help?

    • @megmcginnis239
      @megmcginnis239 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now in central Whidbey I haven't had to use the jugs...yes I saved them... string handles together.

  • @elderberryfarmlife4258
    @elderberryfarmlife4258 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please show us what you do to make the celery salt!

  • @ToshaRaeNailed
    @ToshaRaeNailed 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I haven’t heard exactly where your homestead is other than the Pacific NW. prior to knowing that, it looked like you were somewhere near TN.

  • @carlottafontes9575
    @carlottafontes9575 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm having the same problem.

  • @caninetherapyinc9031
    @caninetherapyinc9031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live in Renton. I was actually going to ask you what I was doing wrong, lol. I have spent 1000s trying to container garden in our tiny yard -you know - because the apocalypse is here. So far we have harvested one tiny cherry tomato so far. I have a black thumb. I could have just bought more canned food. It has been such a waste!

    • @a.b.37-f9v
      @a.b.37-f9v 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The temps where i am are just too high..record highs even in night. Spent a lot on first container garden :(

    • @nygardenguru
      @nygardenguru 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As Mother Hubbard said if at first you don’t succeed try try again

  • @katieblackmarketmarvel
    @katieblackmarketmarvel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My garden has been a horror this year. Seedlings died, rotted, or wind whipped. I'm in AZ. Just got the second round in. Hopefully fall will go better.

  • @beverlysantillano
    @beverlysantillano 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I live in hot Alabama. Temp in 100”s for weeks. But some green capillary killed all my cabbage. I was so sad 1st yr growing that and many other new things. How do you keep the cabbages pest free?

    • @GardenKatt
      @GardenKatt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seed and cover immediately to keep all bugs off. Cabbage doesnt need a pollinator so can stay covered basically until you take off bug cloth cut and cook.

    • @nygardenguru
      @nygardenguru 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good soil compost lots of consistent moisture

  • @cheerio9119
    @cheerio9119 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    QUESTION will replanting the 3rd year strawberry runners into a new bed provide a good crop the next year or will it be less than optimal because they came from 3rd year plants? That's the situation I'm in this year and I'm unsure whether to plant the runners or plan on new crowns next spring. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help

  • @MFV77
    @MFV77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If I start seeds indoors for fall planting, when should I transplant them? Instructions always give like a 6 to 8 week timeframe but don’t say if it’s (1) just for Seeds or (2j when to transplant into the garden

  • @rebeccashomespun604
    @rebeccashomespun604 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm in GA. It's so hot here my plants are dying from the heat. Idk what else to do.

  • @glasgato5770
    @glasgato5770 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Crazy to think that last year you were suffering through an epic heat wave!

  • @jerriscollins-ruth9019
    @jerriscollins-ruth9019 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good luck.

  • @TheBrudi2007
    @TheBrudi2007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very interesting. Here in the southern cascades of Washington we finally got some heat. Cucumbers and squash plants were definitely delayed but luckily they are almost caught up.
    Your video is helping me think about succession planning for garlic, especially if it’s been a mild year. Experimenting with carrots, transplanted squash and direct sown squash. 🤞
    Also… yes please share a strawberry video! I thinned mine out earlier this year and have had horrible production.

  • @thedoubleboiler6971
    @thedoubleboiler6971 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't even care. Still planting, even from seed. If I need to, I'll cover them with a hoop house when the weather cools. If I really need to, I'll just grow them in my garage on shelves with lights, when there is snow.

  • @ravenbrown74
    @ravenbrown74 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your garden looks like mine really bad. I’m in New Mexico.

  • @ourcozygarden
    @ourcozygarden 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is a weirdly cold spring and early summer this year. Tomatoes are struggling in our garden 😌

  • @joelink7665
    @joelink7665 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, cold in July! You guys ned to move south!

  • @Learningthetruth7
    @Learningthetruth7 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The deer are eating my garden so much that I go out in the AM to destroyed plants. Mama and her fawn even come over during the day to snack now!

  • @emmyscreativecorner1575
    @emmyscreativecorner1575 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in California and none of my tomato starts made it and my zucchini have yet to bloom.

  • @victorialg1270
    @victorialg1270 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Most of my direct sow seeds have struggled this year. Even peas, carrots, and beets. I expect this might be the case going forward.

  • @hickoryhillinthebigwoods-r759
    @hickoryhillinthebigwoods-r759 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have found I have better results with seedlings when I put them on my front porch. The indirect heat seems to be good. Otherwise, when I bring my starts out, they die. Your cabbage is beautiful! I am working on getting my second plantings in.

  • @carolhopfner3709
    @carolhopfner3709 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This comment is off topic. I have been trying all morning to preorder your new book and keep getting booted off the web sight. After making several attempts I finally got to the order page and it said I requested 6 books! I changed it to one and continued to fill out the rest and put in my credit card number. After I completed that it brought me back to the order page! I was afraid to do it again thinking that I would end up with an additional book! I’ve been checking my email but have not received a confirmation yet. Can you tell me if my order has been received? Thank you

    • @MelissaKNorris
      @MelissaKNorris  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please email help@homesteadliving.com , I don't have access to order records. Thank you for the order. We had so many people it was crashing the site 😊

  • @ashleehouse5204
    @ashleehouse5204 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would be nice if we could share weather. I'd gladly let you have some of out heat for some of your cool. Haha.

  • @cherylb7018
    @cherylb7018 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We will be eating zucchini leaves and stems.

  • @julieleduc631
    @julieleduc631 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where are you located?