My first year of gardening at our new house (zone 8b): Planted a bare root asian pear tree back at the end of February. Got 2 pears which are almost ripe, super hyped about this success! Skunked on my cucumbers, pumpkins, and peppers due to the very poor raised bed soil I chose, bad planting location, and bad timing. Tomatillos and zucchini are struggling as well. Finally getting lots of tomatoes. Lets just say this was a year of learning for me, I hope to greatly improve the harvest next year! I also have a serious squirrel problem so will be making some hot chili deterrent as chicken wire isnt enough when they get super hungry.
The important thing is learning the lessons to better use your space next year. You might consider growing cover crop in your beds over fall and winter to improve soil for next year
My garden has had a lot of ups and downs - mostly downs due to squirrels, raccoons, and grasshoppers. I have never struggled to this degree! The squirrels literally ate all of my sunflowers before they even went to seed. I live in San Pedro, coastal but in the canyon so the heat is crazy. Climate extremes have claimed my garden and the it seems the wildlife are really hungry. This is year 2 of little to no figs, apples did okay, some peppers, and tomatoes did not give as much as they use to. Thankful for what we were able to harvest, but sad to see the climate effects. I’m ready to clear the garden and try for a new season.
It is sad to hear about all of the changes we have to adapt too now. It is why I plant winter plants in summer and summer plants in spring because I never know what the season will bring.
Thank you Jacques! As a fellow passionate relatively new gardener (Switzerland Zone 8a) really enjoy your honesty about successes and fails. Wow, your greenhouse is amazing! Thank you and keep on growing!
We are starting spring in Mzansi. My container garden is starting to produce food already I like to start 2months after you started I get inspired by you USA gardeners. Gardner, so I'm eating beetroot from containers already. 2m garden is very small but I grow a lot and containers helps a lot. ❤👌
That is awesome to hear! I've heard to look for plants from your area like bulbing flowers since our climate ranges are similar in San Diego compared to most other areas where bulbs come from. Love to hear about the differences in growing regions and when people start
I have 2 Fuji apple trees that I planted in January 2021. I espaliered them against the wall in my Huntington Beach garden. Almost gave up on them but am so happy they started to bear fruit this year!
When I had my garden in Florida I had Mexican Sunflower which grew to be massive. Not only did the butterflies loved it, but there were so many bees you could hear the hum from them at least 8 feet away. When I set up my garden in my new home in South Carolina I will definitely have have Mexican Sunflowers!
Bit wet amd cold this year, but because I now know what I'm doing, the garden has been very productive anyway. Some perfection, some losses 🤷♂️ I'm happy overall. Your pepper game matches my squash game. I reckon I'll have way over 50 winter squash this year. Perhaps pushing 100 😁 Garden looks great, Jacques 👌 cheers.
When I visited Bulgaria it was really fun to see all the trellises on peoples homes designed for grapes to shade the homes during summer and then allow sun back in the winter time.
Try Lilac Bell and Gypsy Queens not Queen. Both are prolific sweet peppers once they get growing, and they love shade, with 3-4 hours of afternoon sunshine.
I'm currently drying my Calabrian, Aleppo, Purple Cayenne, and Guajillo peppers for grinding later. My Jalapeños & Serranos I freeze whole, and I'm now using the last of the 3 yr old Serranos from the freezer to make salsas. You may not need to plant any hots next spring! 💚
That's awesome, I am for sure not planting so many next year. I smoked and dried a bunch of Serrano and I love using them throughout the year in all.sorts of meala
The guajillo aka the Marisol Chile pepper is pretty good, slightly fruity with a manageable heat to it my plant fruits prolifically every year and I get so many I don't even know what to do with all of them I still have some drying out in my garage 😅, might try to make some mole with them
Really like your greenhouse! I've been gardening now for less than a year and you guys are my go too. Just want to say thanks for your gardening smarts. Best, from West Texas.
I love these garden walkthroughs. Thanks. I just got two new metal raised beds, preparing for next year! We've had a good year despite a slow start (Junuary) here in Vancouver BC Canada (Zone 7b). 34C today. (92F) and my tomatoes are doing great! My orange banana tomatoes are my most prolific (though the name just reminds me of being the third girl and being called "Robin Brenda Candace" all my childhood 😂). I'm amazed how keeping up deadheading has kept my flowers and everything looking fresh. 🌞 ❤️ 🌴 🌹
An amazing garden and video. Here, in Queensland Australia, we are 7 days into spring and experiencing December/January heatwaves and record temperatures. Let's say we are skipping spring this year and going straight to summer. This really hinders my so-called spring garden. The changes in temperatures are so far from normal that planning is incredibly difficult.
My second year in this garden has an intense heat wave right at the start of literal spring and it roasted all my brassicas. I also had to give in and go straight to summer planting.
One last thing...for the past 15 years we have been growing 100% of our vegetables in our plot. How ever, we are at the far opposite end of the state from you--we have had great harvest up until two years ago--for anyone that doubts global warming, we had all of ours in and growing in early to mid-April. By mid-May to mid-June, we lost everything. From mid-May on, we had a series of plus 100-degree days that I would estimate at 45 to 50 straight. Everything backed where it sat.
That is terrible to hear, the weather shifts that happened in Northern California have been absolutely brutal. Especially with all the drought and restricted water access in rivers.
I'm in the hills outside Medford. I felt it, too. I think our saving grace was that we put up shades on the sunrise side of the garden, so everything got an extra hour of shade in the morning before the sun went behind the trees at 7pm.
I plan on re-doing my garden to install my birdies beds. So this fall, I’m not planting anything but I have many perennials that will need attention. One success this year was my dragon fruit harvest. I waited three years to finally get some.
Insect pressure was high for me this year, as well as excess heat being too much for many plants here in my Mid-TN garden. Kicking myself for still not setting up a drip irrigation system for my raised beds, large pots! I had rough luck with all squash and zucchini. I usually have great luck with both so it’s odd for me. I’ve been gardening in my spot for nearly 30 years.
The irrigation really frees up a lot of time and stress for these hot days. 30 years of experience and data from the same space makes it extra weird to have a problem like squash failing.
This year my tomatoes did great! I tried Piennolo del Vesuvio, an Italian variety that supposedly can be stored in an aired, dark place for a couple months. We'll see how that goes! I also tried lufa for the 1st time, I got only 1. And a birdhouse gourd, it's awesome. I have 12 gourds so far. I'm planning to dry them, paint them and decorate the garden next year. Also, I made a lot of pizza sauce and sun dried tomatoes. It is/was a good gardening year overall but I feel a bit tired now. Still can't wait for spring to start all over though haha the life of us, gardeners!!
I tried a similar style but it has never done well for me and this year I actually also ordered seeds for the Piennolo del Vesuvio to try next year. I am super excited to see how they do and how the tomatoes hold up to storage.
Starting seeds in the greenhouse is tricky. Last spring I fried all my pepper seeds - they were planted in the Epic 6-packs which I think didn't help because they are small and heat up fast. Didn't realize what happened (1 seed inexplicably did sprout) for several weeks, so my peppers all got replanted, but were by then really behind and they are only now just recovering in the garden, but our season is almost done. Also lost a bunch of flowers. We live in Colorado in the foothills, so even when there is snow on the ground, with our sunlight and altitude, it can get over 100 and as you said, it only takes one day (greenhouse does have a lot of vents, but even that doesn't do enough sometimes.) Have switched to germinating in my laundry room with an LED shop light and then moving out to the green house as they get bigger. Worked well last year after the pepper fiasco, had very good germination on everything. My tomatoes are meh this year, but my zucchini and eggplant are rocking and I got broccoli and cauliflower for the first time - it's always an adventure, which is what I love about gardening, even after 40+ years of it.
Germination in the spring and winter were absolutely incredible in the greenhouse for me. The summer however... has been a challenge to make the best use of the space. I love the adventure of every year bringing in a new bounty even if there was a major bust along the way
Those leaf foots tore up my tomatoes this year!!! I waited too long to treat, but eventually pulled out my neem oil twice and pulled out any fruit they effected. New fruit is coming up good now.
I'm a little more inland then you so in the 90s. Plants doing better then expected. Now if my racoon friend would stop turning over my containers every night, I might grow something.
Fall planting, here on Cape Cod Mass. Peas, spinach, kale, microgreens, lettuces, beets, and more. Been harvesting tons of tomato. Rough year for peppers, some kind of bugs hit the grow room, and wiped my peppers. Cukes were much smaller for me, and my fellow gardeners, here. Definitely drier than last spring and summer.
It does sound like most places were drier from what I've been seeing. Shane about the pepper crop. We are sitting in the 90s this weekend through Monday, then Tuesday we will drop to low 80s and it's fall time
I saw an older post of yours of the Cherokee Carbon tomato and was thrilled to see plants at my local garden center. I grabbed the 2nd to last one. Then struck up a convo with a fellow gardening shopper, the Cherokee Purple were sold out and I told him about the heirloom marriage plant. He grabbed the last plant. I hope his was as productive as mine was!
Those Dragons look like Sugar Dragon and Sour Patch Kidz, really good Varieties to start with pretty much auto pilot when you get the flower it will pollinate it self, and the flavor are sooo good, it's my 2nd year growing 69 different Dragon Fruit Varieties 😅
It is exactly those two! I chose them for those exact reasons as well! Richard from grafting dragon fruit came and visited Kevin and he also recommended those two. The flavor is so fragrant and incredible as well
I totally understand the addiction to tomatoes now. This is my first summer of gardening with my boyfriend, and I've really been learning a lot from your videos.
I kept hoping for more sweet peppers. I'm now sowing sweet peppers to overwinter indoors. The plan to get them established before the outside weather is ready, so they'll produce immediately after final transplant.
In Ventura County zone 10, watched your video where you were getting rid of grubs. I thought to myself, I never had that issue but I learned that the flying green "June bugs" caused them. I have a garden doing well but there is one potato plant dying and I just pulled them. Loaded with grubs, must have found like 30 in a 15 gal bucket.
I grew German Lunchbox this year and it is now my favorite snack size tomato. I also grew a new variety (for me) called Rugby. It was a clear winner in my garden this summer. Great for salads, slicing and canning.
Where the 3 sisters bed? I came to see what you did to make it work out better than last year. Your corn likes it because with the rotting wood below it is getting a stead supply of moisture and the micro life is well fed by the decomposing wood.
I have very limited space in my garden. As an autistic woman, I love getting my hands dirty. Thank you for all of the hard work you do. You inspire so much. As well as the Epic Gardening channel. You are a special person made by God.
With the fruit trees. To get the branches to grow in the direction you want. Could you do the bonsai trick. And with a branch splitter and wire. Re direct the branch ???
Your probably could, It may just be harder with the more mature trees but with a lot of strong wire and patience It would probably actually work really well.
I've grown them a few times and they are delicious, I found that the welded wire fence trellis worked pretty well. A tunnel is ideal to allow the beans to hand down the middle.
I had a very successful garlic harvest and somewhat successful onion harvest. Tomatoes were meh…but discovered a new favorite - pineapple. Never growing Amish paste or San Marzano again. Was unimpressed by Sakura and Super sweet 100. My cantaloupe died when the trellis fell over. Cucumber beetles didn’t show up until about August but now they’re killing my late planted cukes and other cantaloupe. Still waiting on my first planting of Martian Jewels. You should try Asian long beans. They produce like crazy! Love your garden tours. I’m curious to hear your opinion on the super sweet 100.
Pineapple was good! I had that one before. I agree on Sakura and Super sweet 100, they are simply too sweet rather than being balanced. It is a shame because I have heard a lot of good things about it but It is honestly too boring, sungold is still the winner for a sweet tomato. I will try long beans again next year, I've grown them before but just haven't thought to plant them again!
Zone 8a here We got so sick of battling squirrels that we ripped our garden out. Planted red clover to give the soil some nitrogen. Will be trying carrots soon and hopefully some collards and spinach
Tomatoes are dwindling down except my cherries. Im going to pick all of the ripe today. Ive planted a 2nd crop of green beans that are doing great. Just planted some spinach, carrots and lettuce. My garden is always an experiment 😅😂
Trees looking great! I am always surprised at how fast stone fruit trees can grow. Did you get fruit from the multigrafted plum? Had some homegrown pluots this year and they were tremendous.
Greetings from Oregon! What do you think about making some hot pepper jam?? You could make a video about it! Great video and beautiful garden! You really have made some nice fruit tree additions!
I live in your area 10b. This year we we invaded with powdery mildew. Affected y watermelons, zinnias and tomatoes. I have now planted some kennebec potatoes. All other affected plants pulled out. Let´s see how the potatoes do. Any pointers/suggestions will be appreciated!
It can be really brutal. Pruning it off at the start helps slow it down from taking over but it will come back. Sometimes you just have to replant to dodge the peak powdery mildew period.
Try ACE sweet peppers, i get lots of them and I'm in central new york. I have enough for the whole year by freezing them. I have lots of red peppers from the plants now.
Everything in your garden looks awesome 👍, my watermelon has just started fruiting although it's growing and fruiting from the shade cloth I'm just happy it's fruiting 😅
@@jacquesinthegardenluckily temps here are slowly dropping average temps seems to be about 98 to 100 degrees it's the super large variety of watermelon so I'll have to create a sling for the fruit when it gets larger I guess 😅
As a new home gardener, can you talk about ideas for trellising grapes for nonhandy/crafty people with limited space. I have three small vines. Ohio. Thank you!
Jacques, be aware that the leaf-footed bugs will ruin your pomegranates. I bag mine with larger than needed organza bags. If the bags are too snug, the bugs can poke the fruit through them.
I like how you did the seedlings outdoors under 40% shade cloth I'm attempting to the same thing this year Can you give us an update down the road I'd like to see it I'm in Sacramento gets a 300 so initially when I started it it was actually under a double 40% shade cloth if I'm not mistaken
Today was day 5 of 110°F, so… garden is looking rough. Some of my Thai Birds Eye’s chilies have completely dried out on the plant. Who needs a dehydrator when you live in east LA?!
If you ever have a serious problem with spider mites, I’d have to recommend the company biotactics that sells predatory mites. It’s straight bug game of thrones, accept with a good ending! Cool to observe
Please Jacques, that pepper, did you call it Escomeo?? I’m down here, in Tucson, Zone 9, peppers grow like weeds, here. I wanna try planting that pepper. We like to grill peppers with our steak, so yummy. Your garden is gorgeous!
Love your green house and garden!! I had bout 40 pears and next morning no pears 😅. I’m thinking the tree rats ate all my pears. No luck with Granny Smith apples but sweet potatoes vines growing like crazy and golden cherry tomatoes.
Oh its hanging in, some have for sure went drought deciduous but many are looking wonderful like the yarrow and Manzanita. This spring it will look incredible!
Jacques how do you keep cucumbers from becoming bitter. Most of my harvest was terribly bitter. I read that the plant being stressed from heat or inconsistent watering caused the bitterness to occur. 😢
So I'm arguing with my brain for a while on this. I want to do a tomato string trellis like you have but my tomato's that are shaded from other plants are my best performers. So I'm concerned about sun scald or just too much sun if I do a string trellis. Maybe I won't prune them much ? I dunno... Thoughts...
I just started my compost so do not have enough. I have heard you say put compost on asparagus in the winter which I have. What compost would you recommend that I can buy? Love your videos!!
Compost is often hard to find in good quality bagged but in a pinch I like to use the Fox Farms Happy Frog Soil conditioner. It isn't quite compost but is similar, high quality, and affordable relative to bagged compost.
I am in Santa Clarita CA. It has been a very hot summer. Many days over 100. It has been an ok year for tomato’s and peppers. I planted wayyyy too many Armenian cucumbers and I was overrun with them! I have 2 large green bean towers and grew fantastic but NO BEANS until 1 week ago! It is so strange. I don’t know why. It is the same variety I grew last year and I had quite the bounty. The plants are beginning to die back and I have only had a couple of handfuls of beans. I think they just could not do it with all of the heat.
Hmm that's unfortunate to hear that the beans didn't make it. You might want to look into more heat tolerant varieties or maybe consider adding some shade
Looks fantastic! I'm guessing you're on at least year 3 with everything? Everything is creating shade, keeping the feeder roots cool which is key and it's showing in your garden 👍🏻
@@jacquesinthegarden Yeah that's a Godsend, water not evaporating right away. I can't wait to get shade from my fruit trees, being completely North facing here in New Zealand in the far north, she gets pretty intense here....
Yeah some years do well and others it really languished. Now with the recent hot spell I'm actually getting a lot of fruit setting! Next year I'll do a cold climate variety instead
Love the videos but what I will say is clean up around the fruit trees. They will grow better. I would love to see your garden more organized to see if production would be better. But it would be easier to harvest and less volunteers would be beneficial
I’m shocked that you can grow pears and apples! I live in Zone 9a (Las Vegas) and we don’t get enough chill hours to grow apples and pears. Fugi apples need at least 600 hrs. We get about 350.
So we actually get less chill hours than you! Where I am it is in the 100-200 range but the rumor I heard was that the chill hours are really more of a suggestion and you can still get a big crop just not absolutely MAXED out yield. As for the pears, they are special varieties that sub 200 hour chill, one is called Hood Pear
My first year of gardening at our new house (zone 8b): Planted a bare root asian pear tree back at the end of February. Got 2 pears which are almost ripe, super hyped about this success! Skunked on my cucumbers, pumpkins, and peppers due to the very poor raised bed soil I chose, bad planting location, and bad timing. Tomatillos and zucchini are struggling as well. Finally getting lots of tomatoes. Lets just say this was a year of learning for me, I hope to greatly improve the harvest next year! I also have a serious squirrel problem so will be making some hot chili deterrent as chicken wire isnt enough when they get super hungry.
The important thing is learning the lessons to better use your space next year. You might consider growing cover crop in your beds over fall and winter to improve soil for next year
My garden has had a lot of ups and downs - mostly downs due to squirrels, raccoons, and grasshoppers. I have never struggled to this degree! The squirrels literally ate all of my sunflowers before they even went to seed. I live in San Pedro, coastal but in the canyon so the heat is crazy. Climate extremes have claimed my garden and the it seems the wildlife are really hungry. This is year 2 of little to no figs, apples did okay, some peppers, and tomatoes did not give as much as they use to. Thankful for what we were able to harvest, but sad to see the climate effects. I’m ready to clear the garden and try for a new season.
It is sad to hear about all of the changes we have to adapt too now. It is why I plant winter plants in summer and summer plants in spring because I never know what the season will bring.
Thank you Jacques! As a fellow passionate relatively new gardener (Switzerland Zone 8a) really enjoy your honesty about successes and fails. Wow, your greenhouse is amazing! Thank you and keep on growing!
Thanks for stopping by and the kind words!
We are starting spring in Mzansi. My container garden is starting to produce food already I like to start 2months after you started I get inspired by you USA gardeners. Gardner, so I'm eating beetroot from containers already. 2m garden is very small but I grow a lot and containers helps a lot. ❤👌
That is awesome to hear! I've heard to look for plants from your area like bulbing flowers since our climate ranges are similar in San Diego compared to most other areas where bulbs come from. Love to hear about the differences in growing regions and when people start
I can't tell you how envious I am of your garden! Very impressive.
I have 2 Fuji apple trees that I planted in January 2021. I espaliered them against the wall in my Huntington Beach garden. Almost gave up on them but am so happy they started to bear fruit this year!
Amazing! I can't wait to see if I get good fruit out of mine!
When I had my garden in Florida I had Mexican Sunflower which grew to be massive. Not only did the butterflies loved it, but there were so many bees you could hear the hum from them at least 8 feet away. When I set up my garden in my new home in South Carolina I will definitely have have Mexican Sunflowers!
Such a wonderful plant and it is truly a pollinator magnet!
Bit wet amd cold this year, but because I now know what I'm doing, the garden has been very productive anyway.
Some perfection, some losses 🤷♂️
I'm happy overall.
Your pepper game matches my squash game. I reckon I'll have way over 50 winter squash this year. Perhaps pushing 100 😁
Garden looks great, Jacques 👌 cheers.
It is never ALWAYS perfect which is a part of the fun. Sounds like you are about to be deep in squash going into every meal season.
U guys always do that Sasquatch walk up in the intro 😂😂
I love this description and now I know why Sasquatch walked up like that 👀
I rewound it to see what you were talking about and I laughed very heartily.
@@jonestraloma It’s their intro walk up 😂😂
The bulgarian squatch in its natural habitat!
@@platesweightspeaks Sasquatch hold Canadian passports 😁
One more for you...with the heat up here in N. Cali, we use our grapes for grapes (duh), but we use it as a shade wall for our dogs and goats!
When I visited Bulgaria it was really fun to see all the trellises on peoples homes designed for grapes to shade the homes during summer and then allow sun back in the winter time.
Try Lilac Bell and Gypsy Queens not Queen. Both are prolific sweet peppers once they get growing, and they love shade, with 3-4 hours of afternoon sunshine.
I'm currently drying my Calabrian, Aleppo, Purple Cayenne, and Guajillo peppers for grinding later. My Jalapeños & Serranos I freeze whole, and I'm now using the last of the 3 yr old Serranos from the freezer to make salsas. You may not need to plant any hots next spring! 💚
The Aleppo pepper is soooo tasty and just the right amount of heat
That's awesome, I am for sure not planting so many next year. I smoked and dried a bunch of Serrano and I love using them throughout the year in all.sorts of meala
The guajillo aka the Marisol Chile pepper is pretty good, slightly fruity with a manageable heat to it my plant fruits prolifically every year and I get so many I don't even know what to do with all of them I still have some drying out in my garage 😅, might try to make some mole with them
Really like your greenhouse! I've been gardening now for less than a year and you guys are my go too. Just want to say thanks for your gardening smarts. Best, from West Texas.
Thanks for dropping by! I've really come to love having the greenhouse and learning how to get the most out of it.
I love these garden walkthroughs. Thanks. I just got two new metal raised beds, preparing for next year! We've had a good year despite a slow start (Junuary) here in Vancouver BC Canada (Zone 7b). 34C today. (92F) and my tomatoes are doing great! My orange banana tomatoes are my most prolific (though the name just reminds me of being the third girl and being called "Robin Brenda Candace" all my childhood 😂). I'm amazed how keeping up deadheading has kept my flowers and everything looking fresh. 🌞 ❤️ 🌴 🌹
Deadheading sometimes feels pointless but it really can make a huge difference in the plants!
An amazing garden and video. Here, in Queensland Australia, we are 7 days into spring and experiencing December/January heatwaves and record temperatures. Let's say we are skipping spring this year and going straight to summer. This really hinders my so-called spring garden. The changes in temperatures are so far from normal that planning is incredibly difficult.
My second year in this garden has an intense heat wave right at the start of literal spring and it roasted all my brassicas. I also had to give in and go straight to summer planting.
One last thing...for the past 15 years we have been growing 100% of our vegetables in our plot. How ever, we are at the far opposite end of the state from you--we have had great harvest up until two years ago--for anyone that doubts global warming, we had all of ours in and growing in early to mid-April. By mid-May to mid-June, we lost everything. From mid-May on, we had a series of plus 100-degree days that I would estimate at 45 to 50 straight. Everything backed where it sat.
That is terrible to hear, the weather shifts that happened in Northern California have been absolutely brutal. Especially with all the drought and restricted water access in rivers.
I'm in the hills outside Medford. I felt it, too. I think our saving grace was that we put up shades on the sunrise side of the garden, so everything got an extra hour of shade in the morning before the sun went behind the trees at 7pm.
I plan on re-doing my garden to install my birdies beds. So this fall, I’m not planting anything but I have many perennials that will need attention.
One success this year was my dragon fruit harvest. I waited three years to finally get some.
I have to figure out where to plant all my dragon fruit! The raised beds are really nice to manage, I for sure appreciate my lineup of beds.
Insect pressure was high for me this year, as well as excess heat being too much for many plants here in my Mid-TN garden. Kicking myself for still not setting up a drip irrigation system for my raised beds, large pots! I had rough luck with all squash and zucchini. I usually have great luck with both so it’s odd for me. I’ve been gardening in my spot for nearly 30 years.
The irrigation really frees up a lot of time and stress for these hot days. 30 years of experience and data from the same space makes it extra weird to have a problem like squash failing.
This year my tomatoes did great! I tried Piennolo del Vesuvio, an Italian variety that supposedly can be stored in an aired, dark place for a couple months. We'll see how that goes! I also tried lufa for the 1st time, I got only 1. And a birdhouse gourd, it's awesome. I have 12 gourds so far. I'm planning to dry them, paint them and decorate the garden next year. Also, I made a lot of pizza sauce and sun dried tomatoes. It is/was a good gardening year overall but I feel a bit tired now. Still can't wait for spring to start all over though haha the life of us, gardeners!!
I tried a similar style but it has never done well for me and this year I actually also ordered seeds for the Piennolo del Vesuvio to try next year. I am super excited to see how they do and how the tomatoes hold up to storage.
My tithonia are probably 8 feet tall where they get enough water. Absolutely incredible plants. I’ll always grow them.
Truly a beast of a plant!
Starting seeds in the greenhouse is tricky. Last spring I fried all my pepper seeds - they were planted in the Epic 6-packs which I think didn't help because they are small and heat up fast. Didn't realize what happened (1 seed inexplicably did sprout) for several weeks, so my peppers all got replanted, but were by then really behind and they are only now just recovering in the garden, but our season is almost done. Also lost a bunch of flowers. We live in Colorado in the foothills, so even when there is snow on the ground, with our sunlight and altitude, it can get over 100 and as you said, it only takes one day (greenhouse does have a lot of vents, but even that doesn't do enough sometimes.) Have switched to germinating in my laundry room with an LED shop light and then moving out to the green house as they get bigger. Worked well last year after the pepper fiasco, had very good germination on everything. My tomatoes are meh this year, but my zucchini and eggplant are rocking and I got broccoli and cauliflower for the first time - it's always an adventure, which is what I love about gardening, even after 40+ years of it.
Germination in the spring and winter were absolutely incredible in the greenhouse for me. The summer however... has been a challenge to make the best use of the space. I love the adventure of every year bringing in a new bounty even if there was a major bust along the way
Those leaf foots tore up my tomatoes this year!!! I waited too long to treat, but eventually pulled out my neem oil twice and pulled out any fruit they effected. New fruit is coming up good now.
Glad to hear it, I am tempted to to remove all the fruit on the plants to see if it will discourage them from hanging out.
I'm a little more inland then you so in the 90s. Plants doing better then expected. Now if my racoon friend would stop turning over my containers every night, I might grow something.
The biggest challenge is remembering to water more and cut back when the heat wave ends!
Fall planting, here on Cape Cod Mass. Peas, spinach, kale, microgreens, lettuces, beets, and more. Been harvesting tons of tomato. Rough year for peppers, some kind of bugs hit the grow room, and wiped my peppers. Cukes were much smaller for me, and my fellow gardeners, here. Definitely drier than last spring and summer.
It does sound like most places were drier from what I've been seeing. Shane about the pepper crop. We are sitting in the 90s this weekend through Monday, then Tuesday we will drop to low 80s and it's fall time
"This monstrosity.." 😂
Could easily use that description for anything I've grown 🤪
Haha, sometimes they really just become their own creatures.
I saw an older post of yours of the Cherokee Carbon tomato and was thrilled to see plants at my local garden center. I grabbed the 2nd to last one. Then struck up a convo with a fellow gardening shopper, the Cherokee Purple were sold out and I told him about the heirloom marriage plant. He grabbed the last plant. I hope his was as productive as mine was!
So happy to hear it did well for you! It is a super tasty tomato with less fussiness compared to the heirloom
Those Dragons look like Sugar Dragon and Sour Patch Kidz, really good Varieties to start with pretty much auto pilot when you get the flower it will pollinate it self, and the flavor are sooo good, it's my 2nd year growing 69 different Dragon Fruit Varieties 😅
It is exactly those two! I chose them for those exact reasons as well! Richard from grafting dragon fruit came and visited Kevin and he also recommended those two. The flavor is so fragrant and incredible as well
I totally understand the addiction to tomatoes now. This is my first summer of gardening with my boyfriend, and I've really been learning a lot from your videos.
Love to hear this! They are so so much better than anything else you can buy !
personally i like your voice and delivery ❤
Thanks!
I also grew Mexican sunflower next to my Cosmos and I have hummingbirds everyday. Both flowers are bright and show excellent color. Cheers
Absolutely both are wonderful in the garden!
I kept hoping for more sweet peppers. I'm now sowing sweet peppers to overwinter indoors. The plan to get them established before the outside weather is ready, so they'll produce immediately after final transplant.
I might end up starting more in early winter to get ready extra early for the season.
Here in Gainesville it gets to about 90-98f almost constantly
Such a different world to garden in, I always respect all of you gardening in much hotter place where 88 might be consider a good day!
In Ventura County zone 10, watched your video where you were getting rid of grubs. I thought to myself, I never had that issue but I learned that the flying green "June bugs" caused them. I have a garden doing well but there is one potato plant dying and I just pulled them. Loaded with grubs, must have found like 30 in a 15 gal bucket.
Thank you, Jacques. 😊
I grew German Lunchbox this year and it is now my favorite snack size tomato. I also grew a new variety (for me) called Rugby. It was a clear winner in my garden this summer. Great for salads, slicing and canning.
Oh man, I wish I could do a garden tomato tasting tour just to find the ones I want to add, both of those sound really useful.
Nice work Jaques Strap! 😊
Enjoyable, as always - Wow, will be interested regarding replanting green beans at this time of year. thank you for sharing
So far they are looking really good, starting to branch!
Where the 3 sisters bed? I came to see what you did to make it work out better than last year. Your corn likes it because with the rotting wood below it is getting a stead supply of moisture and the micro life is well fed by the decomposing wood.
Awesome tour 😊 saying hello from Townsville North Queensland Australia 😊
I love you're garden so much. I would love some ideas as a beginner gardener.
Hopefully some of what I show inspires some ideas, everyone has a unique palate and perspective in the garden and I love to see it!
I have very limited space in my garden. As an autistic woman, I love getting my hands dirty. Thank you for all of the hard work you do. You inspire so much. As well as the Epic Gardening channel. You are a special person made by God.
Love your summer seed starting set up!
Thank you!
With the fruit trees.
To get the branches to grow in the direction you want.
Could you do the bonsai trick.
And with a branch splitter and wire.
Re direct the branch ???
Your probably could, It may just be harder with the more mature trees but with a lot of strong wire and patience It would probably actually work really well.
enjoyed this garden tour and very much jealous of all the growth esp the pepper overload lol
It's definitely hot sauce time!
Lookin goooooooood Mr. J!!!!!
Thanks!
Ya the Mexican sunflower is a must for me as well! 🧡 my plant is like a bush/ small tree this year! Crazy!
My sunflower is so tall. Ks
They get truly massive, I always underestimate them!
Noti gang 💯
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I am convinced about the tomato trellis, the quash as well. Could you review others that would work on one? Especially the veggies we wouldn't expect?
For sure, will continue to point out any winners and losers!
Hey Jacque, could you work on a frame or trellis to effectively grow Asian long beans? They are the most delicious beans i have ever eaten.
I've grown them a few times and they are delicious, I found that the welded wire fence trellis worked pretty well. A tunnel is ideal to allow the beans to hand down the middle.
my tomato plants suffered terribly with spider mites this year. I had no idea I could spray down my plants and get rid of them!!! Thanks for the info💚
If that doesn’t work, predatory mites are a great option.
@@bertarnoldo5199 I will look into that, thanks!
It has always worked for me whenever they show up on my eggplants!
I had a very successful garlic harvest and somewhat successful onion harvest. Tomatoes were meh…but discovered a new favorite - pineapple. Never growing Amish paste or San Marzano again. Was unimpressed by Sakura and Super sweet 100. My cantaloupe died when the trellis fell over. Cucumber beetles didn’t show up until about August but now they’re killing my late planted cukes and other cantaloupe. Still waiting on my first planting of Martian Jewels. You should try Asian long beans. They produce like crazy! Love your garden tours. I’m curious to hear your opinion on the super sweet 100.
Pineapple was good! I had that one before. I agree on Sakura and Super sweet 100, they are simply too sweet rather than being balanced. It is a shame because I have heard a lot of good things about it but It is honestly too boring, sungold is still the winner for a sweet tomato. I will try long beans again next year, I've grown them before but just haven't thought to plant them again!
Zone 8a here
We got so sick of battling squirrels that we ripped our garden out. Planted red clover to give the soil some nitrogen. Will be trying carrots soon and hopefully some collards and spinach
Sometimes a full reset is the best move as painful as it can be!
My gardeners delight is still putting out tomatoes in september in central texas!!! They will be a go to every year for me!❤
They are a great tomato, I love the bigger size of them and how prolific they are.
Tomatoes are dwindling down except my cherries. Im going to pick all of the ripe today. Ive planted a 2nd crop of green beans that are doing great. Just planted some spinach, carrots and lettuce. My garden is always an experiment 😅😂
The experiments are always fun to run even if they are by accident!
Wow, amazing garden!
Thank you!
Would love to see a harvest video.
Trees looking great! I am always surprised at how fast stone fruit trees can grow. Did you get fruit from the multigrafted plum? Had some homegrown pluots this year and they were tremendous.
I had 2 plums and they were damn fine, can't wait for next year's harvest!
Greetings from Oregon! What do you think about making some hot pepper jam?? You could make a video about it! Great video and beautiful garden! You really have made some nice fruit tree additions!
I haven't made a pepper jam before but it sounds really delicious.
I live in your area 10b. This year we we invaded with powdery mildew. Affected y watermelons, zinnias and tomatoes. I have now planted some kennebec potatoes. All other affected plants pulled out. Let´s see how the potatoes do. Any pointers/suggestions will be appreciated!
It can be really brutal. Pruning it off at the start helps slow it down from taking over but it will come back. Sometimes you just have to replant to dodge the peak powdery mildew period.
Try ACE sweet peppers, i get lots of them and I'm in central new york. I have enough for the whole year by freezing them. I have lots of red peppers from the plants now.
Thanks for the recommendation, I will actually add that in my pepper shopping spree!
Everything in your garden looks awesome 👍, my watermelon has just started fruiting although it's growing and fruiting from the shade cloth I'm just happy it's fruiting 😅
Interesting haha! Hopefully you have enough good weather to carry that melon home!
@@jacquesinthegardenluckily temps here are slowly dropping average temps seems to be about 98 to 100 degrees it's the super large variety of watermelon so I'll have to create a sling for the fruit when it gets larger I guess 😅
As a new home gardener, can you talk about ideas for trellising grapes for nonhandy/crafty people with limited space. I have three small vines. Ohio. Thank you!
When I rebuild it I will record it!
@@jacquesinthegarden Thank you so much!!
Jacques, be aware that the leaf-footed bugs will ruin your pomegranates. I bag mine with larger than needed organza bags. If the bags are too snug, the bugs can poke the fruit through them.
Man I will be truly angry if they destroyed my poms and if they do I am going all out next year with daily hunts until I eradicate!
I like how you did the seedlings outdoors under 40% shade cloth I'm attempting to the same thing this year Can you give us an update down the road I'd like to see it I'm in Sacramento gets a 300 so initially when I started it it was actually under a double 40% shade cloth if I'm not mistaken
It is working really really well even in the 90s that we are having this weekend. All the plants look super happy and healthy
beautiful vegie garden😊
Thank you!
Could you describe how you make your trellis with 2x2s? I’m new to the DIY game, but that seems simple and useful. Thanks!
I've thought about doing a basic trellis video so I'll add that to my idea board
Today was day 5 of 110°F, so… garden is looking rough. Some of my Thai Birds Eye’s chilies have completely dried out on the plant. Who needs a dehydrator when you live in east LA?!
Damn that's really way too much heat! But I guess congrats on having peppers saved for the year
Garden looks amazing. All that’s missing is a water fixture? 😜 🤷♂️
Haha just around the corner...maybe 🤔
If you ever have a serious problem with spider mites, I’d have to recommend the company biotactics that sells predatory mites. It’s straight bug game of thrones, accept with a good ending! Cool to observe
I've heard great things about using predatory mites, if my greenhouse gets invaded I would for sure consider it.
Please Jacques, that pepper, did you call it Escomeo?? I’m down here, in Tucson, Zone 9, peppers grow like weeds, here. I wanna try planting that pepper. We like to grill peppers with our steak, so yummy. Your garden is gorgeous!
Escamillo! It is a Johnny's exclusive and they have a red version as well I believe called Carmen.
Yo Jacque if you leave the mango in the garage/greenhouse it’ll ripen better/faster
Ahhh that's good to know, will do it with the second one
Love your green house and garden!! I had bout 40 pears and next morning no pears 😅. I’m thinking the tree rats ate all my pears. No luck with Granny Smith apples but sweet potatoes vines growing like crazy and golden cherry tomatoes.
Wow that's wild to me lose so many! I would for sure consider bagging some fruit with organza bags or even the whole tree in a net
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That’s a great idea! Definitely next year 😝
Hi does anyone know what type of dog Cosmos is please? He is just GORGEOUS. Love from New Zealand
He is a total mut that we adopted from the humane society! His largest breed percentage was German Shepard but he was all sorts of things
My garden here in central Texas is in the dead or dying stage. We had 100's for a week, and it cooked.
Yeah honestly I am not sure what you can really do when those are your growing conditions. Need to put a lot more work in for it work out.
I also have a tomato pathology! 😂
Where did you find the seed for the Gigante beans? I have looked but been unsuccessful. Your garden is always fun to see.
Just look into the organic food section of your supermarket and buy the ones for cooking. Much cheaper than seed package and they grow wonderful.
Just like someone else said I simply bought some for soup and set aside a handful to plant!
Looking good! How’s that native garden you planted a while back doing?
Oh its hanging in, some have for sure went drought deciduous but many are looking wonderful like the yarrow and Manzanita. This spring it will look incredible!
Looking forward to that update!
Jacques how do you keep cucumbers from becoming bitter. Most of my harvest was terribly bitter. I read that the plant being stressed from heat or inconsistent watering caused the bitterness to occur. 😢
Those are the two reasons I hear most often as well, seems like irrigation is the best way to keep them consistently happy
So I'm arguing with my brain for a while on this.
I want to do a tomato string trellis like you have but my tomato's that are shaded from other plants are my best performers.
So I'm concerned about sun scald or just too much sun if I do a string trellis. Maybe I won't prune them much ? I dunno...
Thoughts...
They can get sunscalded if over pruned for sure. If you orient the rows to be east- west they will likely have less scalding
Can you explain why you held off on mulching like you mentioned at the beginning of the video?
Honestly I am not sure I have a good reason, at first It was because summer started off quite cool and I wanted to have extra heat capture.
I just started my compost so do not have enough. I have heard you say put compost on asparagus in the winter which I have. What compost would you recommend that I can buy? Love your videos!!
Compost is often hard to find in good quality bagged but in a pinch I like to use the Fox Farms Happy Frog Soil conditioner. It isn't quite compost but is similar, high quality, and affordable relative to bagged compost.
I am in Santa Clarita CA. It has been a very hot summer. Many days over 100. It has been an ok year for tomato’s and peppers. I planted wayyyy too many Armenian cucumbers and I was overrun with them! I have 2 large green bean towers and grew fantastic but NO BEANS until 1 week ago! It is so strange. I don’t know why. It is the same variety I grew last year and I had quite the bounty. The plants are beginning to die back and I have only had a couple of handfuls of beans. I think they just could not do it with all of the heat.
Hmm that's unfortunate to hear that the beans didn't make it. You might want to look into more heat tolerant varieties or maybe consider adding some shade
Jacque, how much of the garden do you "hand wash" vs "drip irrigation"?
Pretty much all of the garden except for my patio area which is all pots is on irrigation. Eventually I will rig up irrigation for them as well
Looks fantastic! I'm guessing you're on at least year 3 with everything? Everything is creating shade, keeping the feeder roots cool which is key and it's showing in your garden 👍🏻
Pretty much! There is often too much shade in my garden but also....I love how cooling the garden is and how water doesn't evaporate right away.
@@jacquesinthegarden Yeah that's a Godsend, water not evaporating right away. I can't wait to get shade from my fruit trees, being completely North facing here in New Zealand in the far north, she gets pretty intense here....
I’m about to pass out with this heat. Not sure how you can survive out there 🤣
It's pretty gross with the humidity we have had lately, let's just say it was a 3 cold shower kind of day
@@jacquesinthegarden oh I definitely feel you on that! 🤣
Perfect
I do worry about your okra, maybe place it in a spot that gets more afternoon sun.
Yeah some years do well and others it really languished. Now with the recent hot spell I'm actually getting a lot of fruit setting! Next year I'll do a cold climate variety instead
Excess peppers equals fermented hot sauce!
Totally!
leaf footed bugs also damage pomagranites
Terrible little things, I always "deal" with them whenever I see them
Nice
Love the videos but what I will say is clean up around the fruit trees. They will grow better. I would love to see your garden more organized to see if production would be better. But it would be easier to harvest and less volunteers would be beneficial
It would probably do better overall if I cleaned out some for sure. The area around the trees I agree should be cleaned up!
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You have a tomato "pathology"? I don't think you meant to say that!
Haha I can't recall what I said but that is for sure not what I meant to say
The stinkbugs LOVE my tomatillos
Interesting, I wouldn't guess much messes with tomatillos.
@@jacquesinthegarden they chew the bottoms out and leave the rest idk why. It's the big brown ones here in the PNW.
My poor “garden “ is crispy!😢
Too many weeks of triple digit temperatures.
I can't imagine dealing with constant triple digits
I’m shocked that you can grow pears and apples! I live in Zone 9a (Las Vegas) and we don’t get enough chill hours to grow apples and pears. Fugi apples need at least 600 hrs. We get about 350.
So we actually get less chill hours than you! Where I am it is in the 100-200 range but the rumor I heard was that the chill hours are really more of a suggestion and you can still get a big crop just not absolutely MAXED out yield. As for the pears, they are special varieties that sub 200 hour chill, one is called Hood Pear
Barely holding my own against a very hungry yearling deer. It hates mint oil
Oof, glad to not have a deer problem, best of luck 🤞
I’m in LA (SFV) and it’s 111 degree today - my pumpkins died🥹
OOF, that is terrible, we are up in the 90s now and it isn't great
Have you noticed the bugs getting bigger bro.
Hmm, I'm not sure if I can actually tell if they are bigger, the June beetles and stink bugs at least seem about the same
Missouri stink bugs are way bigger and you do NOT want to squish them....
Oof I can imagine that, It took me a while to get used to squishing these guys.