Late summer harvest & Preserving the harvest
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- Today I share the late summer harvest in my Ohio garden- what I'm harvesting & when, as well as how I'm preserving the harvest.
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00:00 Intro
00:20 Beans
01:48 Cucumbers
03:09 Tomatillos & Husk Cherries
04:43 Birch Living- Sponsor
06:55 Tomatoes
08:56 Peppers
09:55 Eggplant
10:34 Zucchini
12:25 Celeriac
13:15 Sweet Corn
14:59 Melons
18:10 Elderberries
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LOL on the shirt!
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All i seen is "grab your balls" 😅😂❤ love it!
Make wine from the zucchini. Trust me. If you hit it with a little lemon or lime you'll get a drink that literally reminds you of a margarita. I've one had the chance to do it once but it was stupid easy and made a ton of drink. The alcohol level was only around 7% for my batch but you'll likely have better results if you actually pay attention to the process.
Now I MUST try that!!
Sorry for the slow reply. Thank you for the like ma'am and another apology for the typo. I meant that "I've only had the chance to do it once..." I rarely get the proper amount of sleep and usually when I get the opportunity to watch your videos it's either terribly late at night or very early in the mornings and in general I kind of live in a fog due to exhaustion. I truly do not know how you do it. You're superhuman. @@GrowfullywithJenna
@@jamesguest4873 I am very sorry to hear this. Lack of sleep is so very detrimental... I can barely function without a full 8 hours. I hope at some point you are able to get the rest you need!
I cannot believe summer is ending
I know!! It went SO fast.
There's nothing like those last summer harvests! The growing season seems to be lasting longer and longer and I love it!
Absolutely!!
What a useful video! Thank you Jenna! I'm surprised you don't have a million subscribers yet. Hopefully soon!
I'm so glad you found it useful!! Thank you!
SO helpful for those of us who didnt grow up eating OR growing veggies! I love that you cut a zuchinni and showed what an overripe one looks like inside. I always wondered because I have never tasted a Zuchinni before 😅
Your videos are a testament to your strong work ethic, my friend. The passion and dedication you bring to your craft are truly inspiring. And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
And to top off all your great advice, tips and education you have Lantana growing behind the Elderberry syrup at 18:52. Currently my favourite flower.
my gma cut of the ends n store the corn 🌽 with or without the husk in the freezer n it does taste as good
My method of determining if a watermelon is ripe is by the spot where it sits on the ground. If it is white, the melon is not ripe. If the spot is cream or yellow, it is ripe.
YES to this food prep/preserving content!!
I'll try to work more of this in!
Great vlog Jenna!
Thank you!!
I planted too many cucumbers this year and we pickling them as well as dehydrating . The dehydrated ones are nice and crunchy and make a health snack.
I may have to try dehydrating again!
I miss elderberries so much. We had tons of them growing around the barn on the farm I grew up on. We picked they by the bushel. We make pie and jam from them. I have thought about trying to grow them in town where I live now but I don't have much room. I guess I will just enjoy looking at yours. Thanks for another great video.
I haven’t done it with my own corn because I haven’t successfully grown it, but I freeze corn in the husk all the time. It’s totally fine when I pull it and still tastes fresh.
Good to know- thank you!
A couple of years ago I thinly sliced and dehydrated my zucchini. When I would make soup, it was so easy to put a handful or so in the pot and add another veggie to the mix! Really easy.
That's a great idea!
This year my overabundant veggie is Golden Goose Neck Squash. I've been cutting them in half, roasting face down and then turning them around and making "boats" with different stuffings like meat loaf, crab cakes and chicken taco meat. Thankfully the meals have been winners.
Great tip! That sounds delicious!
Love how honest you are with your hits and misses on your recipes. 😅
Love this channel. It’s super informative.
Thanks so much! 😊
I planted long beans and i love them
Nice!! That's one thing I forgot to plant this year!
The shirt😂, the bed-dog approved😂
I planted a climbing zucchini late and it’s just picking up the pace right now. We will be getting heat again for a few days and hope the sweet peppers kick it up a notch as just when they and the fall flowers get going we get frost. Trying shelling beans for first time, not a bumper crop so far. Lol, popcorn always tricks us as the tassels appeared last week and there’s no ears! Until today! They finally showed up.
I haven’t pulled out the canner yet as I’ve been freezing sauces and everything else-its easier. The freezer is almost at capacity. Still have carrots, squash and rutabagas-Oh My!
I need to build a root cellar somewhere here, but can’t figure out where to put it as there are tree roots, ect in the way and would like it in the shade but think I will have to settle for sun and super insulate and maybe above ground. We have these 6” thick refrigerators building panels and I was thinking to build on top of ground and cover it with a ton of bark as I have a surplus. Do you think that would work?
I just planted elderberries and they are in full sun. Do they like partial shade? They seem to be doing ok, but I think of these as more an edge of a forest plant.
Enjoyed the chat and after this season I’m looking forward to fall. Already sowed first ever cover crop in a couple areas.
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Shhhh... the dogs aren't technically 'allowed' on the bed... but I couldn't resist a few snuggles 😆.
Have you ever considered a straw bale structure for that purpose? I've been looking into them a bit, and it seems they are quite insulated-- maybe the combo of straw bale & the building panels you have?
And you are right- elderberries are an understory/edge of forest plant BUT they produce more fruit in full sun. Mine are in full sun, and do very well. I think the key is keeping the soil moist enough- I don't water mine but I do mulch with a thick layer of leaf mulch each fall.
@@GrowfullywithJenna Thank you! Lol, we never allowed animals on the beds either, but that shot was commercial worthy.
Yes, straw bales could help. The thing about that is mice attractant. The panels are used to build refrigerated buildings and are about 6+” thick with painted white steel outsides. I just wonder if on top of ground here would be warm enough without heat from the earth. I thought of just burying it enough and using a panel as a lid. Not to crazy about digging and walking into a hole and would require more work. Trying to find ideas as this project needs to get done. I suppose I will just need to make a decision and monitor the temp. The panels are quite heavy and if it didn’t work moving them would be difficult.
Thanks for the input, just trying to find more input and maybe someone who tried something like this. It’s a crystal ball question with our weather. They predict a warmer no snow winter for us with snow and cold in south and east. About February some snow with a dry March-more drought 😵💫. That could mean cold and no insulating snow for us. El Niña pattern.
Good to know about elderberries and I did get irrigation done so I will leave them.
Omg! Any ideas how to keep the neighbors black walnut from spreading into our acreage?! It’s loaded this year-Ugh and Argh 😖 he doesn’t live here and could care less.
Oh no not fan dill long term pickles. Try pickle crisp and slice in half. My kosher dill are better than anything on a shelf.
Freezing tomato until you can process them has been game changing for my canning. It's really a awesome method to get fantastic sauce & juice. Most homesteading do it and it has been a great method.
Nice haul!
Thanks!
Elderberries! So glad to see someone discussing how to harvest and enjoy them! More elderberry info would be awesome. Also Re: corn, i have not yet grown corn ...but have frozen whole cobs and been amazed at how fresh they taste when reheated 😀😀😀
My plan is to do a entire video on elderberries!! I love them!
And thanks for letting me know about the corn.
Wonderful video! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
The shirt! ❤ also I grew a 30lb watermelon that was ruby red inside this year!
Ooh nice! I hope it was delicious!
my dad make a mean zucchini casserole 😊
Hey, Jenna! You have to try eggplant salad, a recipe cooked in Romania and other Slavic countries. This way you'll end up refrigerating eggplants because it's the tastiest thing ever. In fact, I don't like the taste of eggplants and I never consume them any other way than this. It's quite simple. You put the whole eggplant on a grill and let it bake until it's completely soft and the skin is cracked. Then you let it cool down and you let the bitter juices drain in a sieve. Then you remove the skin and mash up the eggplant with something made of wood, even a wood spoon works fine. Then you mix up this paste with mayonnaise (ideally home made) and fine chopped onion and salt. It's good to let it cool down in the fridge, and then you spread this on bread, and it's delicious with tomato slices on top. You can preserve the eggplant paste in the refrigerator. I hope you'll try it and enjoy it! It's my favorite recipe all time.
Also, thank you for your videos! Your garden looks amazing and I feel all the love that you put into creating it, like an expression of your soul!
This sounds AMAZING!! Thank you for sharing!
@@GrowfullywithJenna My pleasure!
Looks great and delicious! I spent this summer dealing with extreme heat and drought. Tomatoes loved the heat of course..
Sorry to hear you're dealing with crazy weather!
I really like to ferment green beans. Also ferment corn relish too. Your garden is beautiful! Don't get much rain here.
I've never tried to the fermented corn relish... I'll have to give that a shot!
Freezeing corn on the cob still in the husk is the only way i preserve corn , have done it that way for 15 years !!
Oh that is good to know! Thank you!
Thanks!
Thank you!
Sorry for so many comments but freezing whole washed tomatoes is so easy and skins slide right off as they defrost. Excellent for winter sauces! I’ll shut up now😆
Yes!! Great tip!
On tomato picking - in southern Maryland, it is too humid (anthracnose and other fungal diseases) and buggy (stink bugs especially) to let tomatoes ripen fully on the vine in late season. We need to pick early to get edible fruits. Just for your info!
Oh- the bug & disease issue is a good reason to pick early!
Took me a while but I finally got the joke on your shirt, lol!
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We had a great "Incredible" corn harvest this year, our first, so much so, we had to figure out several different ways to preserve it! We vac sealed whole corn on the cob and have tried it since...it was...well, 'incredible'! Love the Elderberry advice, thx Jenna!
I'm glad to hear it!
Hi Jenna! I love your videos!! It's so nice that you garden in the same zone as me! I am from Pittsburgh and I am definitely taking all of your advice. Right now we are canning tomatoes and hot peppers. I only have a couple of square foot gardens but hoping to enlarge every year. Your garden looks beautiful and peaceful! Thank you!
Hello and thank you!! I'm glad to hear you are canning peppers & tomatoes- so rewarding! And starting small and expanding each year is definitely the way to go. Best wishes for this & future garden seasons!
Interesting to see someone growing Beit Alpha over here. Thank you for sharing your preserving highs and lows for the rest of us to learn from, and for covering less common crops like celeriac and elderberries! This was a really satisfying video to watch.
One of my favorite types of cucumbers for fresh eating!! So much better than American slicers 😄
I'm currently picking some delicious yellow raspberries in NW Ohio zone 6B.
Sounds great!
I had to google and share that shirt. Lol. This is the kind of gardening programming i wish was on PBS's Backyard Farmer when i was a kid/teen. Maybe I'd have taken an interest in gardening sooner.
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We're about to pick 2 of 4 small pie pumpkins here in Ontario.
Oh nice!! My pumpkins are still a ways off- I planted late.
I really love your videos!!!
Thank you so much- I'm glad you like them!
@@GrowfullywithJenna You're welcome 😊!
Great afternoon I have been freezing corn in the husk for years and they do taste fresh when you take them out and cook them
Good to know! thanks!
Great video and harvest, thanks for sharing. You have lots and lots of vegetables to enjoy probably all year round. I live in UK and have allotment to grow vegetables. Currently I harvest tomatoes, potatoes, green beans ( French and runner beans)., cucumbers, cabbages, salad leaves, onions, apple and pear and grapes, courgette and aubergine, and I think that's it! I tried freezing whole cherry tomatoes this year , so I'll see if they are any good. Thanks for sharing and happy growing 😂
What a wonderful assortment of veg & fruit-- lovely!!
graceful tutorial +watermelon eating technique
Hahaha... it's the old 'watermelon juice dripping down your chin' technique 😆
Love the shirt 😂😂
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We take the sweet corn husk off and freeze them on the cob. They cook up fine in water or the microwave.
Tomatillos are definitely on the list next year! This video has so much more great info than just a harvest video!
Can't wait to see what kind of culinary wonders you guys whip up with the tomatillos!
those green tomatoes would not have made it past my skillet im frying green tomatoes n eating em all before i can let the batch cool thts a core memory with my gma.
I freeze corn in the husks, yum!❤😊
I'm glad to hear it worked for you- thanks for sharing!
Jenna, I forgot to tell you. Please wrap your corn in brown paper bags.
My way of preserving eggplant is fry them in batter and freeze them. I then can get them out any time and make eggplant parmesan.
I mean to try that every year and never get around to it! I do like eggplant parm!
Love the garden, though I gotta confess that I'm jealous of all the goodies you have. I've been harvesting San Marzano tomatoes and freezing them until I have enough to make a big batch of sauce. Jalapeños, red and ripe, are being picked and smoked so they can be sweet pickled. Still trying to decide what to do with my Scotch Bonnet peppers. My delicata squash are still forming; nothing ready to pick yet. By the way, where can I get some of those canning t-shirts? So cool for garden nuts.
Ooh- pickled peppers... forgot to mention those! That's this week's task (along with tomatoes, tomatoes and more tomatoes).
I got the shirt here: www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/50s-Vintage-Grab-Your-Balls-Its-Canning-Season-by-norules/41378089.IJ6L0.XYZ
Zucchini sliced the.. Dried and powdered can be used for up to 30% of flour in an order.. Thickens soups n stews and gravies too.
I keep thinking about trying this!
Try making baba ganoush with egg plant...very quick dip (much like hummus) and delicious!
I love baba ganoush!
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
if you have a smoker you can temp low, smoke sliced tomatoes until they are similar to sun dried/ dehydrated tomatoes and freeze them. Great for chili, spaghetti, and hot dish. Adds a nice smokey flavor. Use a tomato that is good for sauce or paste for the lower water content.
I'm going to have to try this! Thanks for the tip!
i have a fur baby that requires baby food consistancy food so im planting a ton of green beans for him
A lucky fur baby to have such a caring owner!
@@GrowfullywithJenna hes my buddy and im very picky about what i give him not only that he fets the best quality but all his nutrients
Thinly sliced zuccini, is very good in lasagna using it implacable of the heavy noodles
That's a great idea!
Loved this! I always appreciate seeing what people DO with their harvest!
I'm glad!
For tomatoes, I've done the ripening on the countertop and it does work well. The tomato has to have some color in it when you pick it. The main reason is that we have a squirrel and raccoon problem and they will take one bite out of a nice ripe tomato (or other produce such as melons and squash) and then it's ruined and wasted. Joe Lamp'l with Growing a Greener World said that there was a study done a couple of years ago, and it was found that those that ripened indoors had the same nutrition as a vine ripened type.
Have frozen the whole tomatoes too, the skins come right off when they thaw. Looks like you had a great harvest this year. For the zucchini, learned a tip a couple of years ago where you can shred the zucchini and freeze in the cups of a jumbo cupcake pan, each cup holds about one cup of the shredded. Once frozen you can take out of the pans and put in a freezer bag or box.
That is a good point! We've had groundhogs do the same thing with tomatoes!
A very nice harvest with tips and tricks, thanks! My great-grandmother made the best elderberry wine and watermelon rind pickles. We always made a thick tomato juice. Mixing the right tomatoes for the thickness...very, very little water content after canning. Almost none at the top of the jar. My dad learned how to mix tomatoes while growing up on his grandmother's farm in Italy. Luckily he passed it down to us! No written recipes lol. Just by eye lol. Then we could use it to drink or turn it into different sauces. My wife would also can pint size chili starter that she could add to the thick juice when she made chili. Enjoyed as always! Take care!
That's wonderful! Did your grandmother or father have a certain tomato variety they preferred for this?
Thank you for sharing how you handle your elderberries. I just planted 2 varieties this spring, so I really appreciate the knowledge before I start to harvest a year, or 2 from now. Can’t wait to make my own syrup!❤
Oh yay! I'm glad to hear you've planted some elderberries!
Can't believe that you still don't have and use a freeze dryer.
I'd love to have one! It's just a little out of my budget.
Hey Jenna, this year I tried mock pineapple and faux apple pie filling with my zucchini surpluses. I'm exceptionally impressed with both. I do recommend giving them a try. 😊
Oh how funny! I was just looking at mock pineapple recipes, but wasn’t sure if it would be worth it. I’ll try it now- thanks!
It would be helpful to get recipes for safe storage.
Your garden always turns out magnificent, even with all the challenging weather.
Typical harvest this time of year. Potatoes and onions are all in. Sweet potatoes I leave until the 1st frost. Pickling cucumbers, still coming on, bush and pole beans a daily harvest. Letting all the rattlesnake beans dry for shelled beans. Freezing a lot of tomatoes for later canning. I love roasting the cherry tomatoes on a hot grill with fresh picked herbs, olive oil and balsamic vinegar, we have that at least 3 days a week. Had a lot of blossom drop on the sweet peppers from the heat, just now beginning to harvest Corno De Toro and California wonder, almost forgot, the daily zucchini.
A lot of my harvest goes out on the Free Table by the side walk, everything disappears.
Any thoughts on what I should do with the cover crop of buckwheat I planted after harvesting my onions. Because of the jumping worms I do not want to till into the soil or leave as a top mulch. Put out a video how successful the trapping went for the JW's, do not want to draw more in before the soil cools. The buckwheat just started flowering, think I may just use in a hot compost and plant a winter cover crop of clover.
Have a great rest of the growing season! Stay Well!!!
I love that you put out a free table! What a great way to share the bounty.
For your buckwheat- I think adding the compost is a great way to go. I don't think I've seen in your videos or heard you mention that you have chickens... but my chickens LOVE buckwheat- foliage, seeds and all!
@@GrowfullywithJenna I was voted down for chickens and honeybees, oh well happy wife happy life. Will do some buckwheat tea and the rest in a hot compost.
Thanks for getting back, Stay Well!!!
Wow I bet you're as busy preserving as growing and harvesting. I cure, ferment and freeze but that is about as sophisticated as my preserving gets. Love making sauerkraut and pickles and fermented a lot of cauliflower this year and 1 jar of kohlrabi - maybe more if the fall crop does well. And when freezing I'm finding that taking the vegetable to completion like frying peppers or sautéing beans in oil and garlic before freezing gives better results than blanching of freezing raw.
Any tricks in stopping cherry tomatoes from splitting? You mentioned picking tomatoes before they are completely ripe helps but does that work for cherry tomatoes? They are the ones I have the most problem with. Thanks Jenna.
My best tip for the cherry tomatoes is growing varieties which are resistant to splitting. Some varieties are notoriously awful about splitting (Sun Gold I'm looking at you), while some hold quite well on the plants. I've had better results with varieties like Midnight Snack (the indigo tomatoes seem to hold better in general for some reason), Sparky, Tropical Sunset, Raspberry Drop, Chocolate Sprinkles, Artemis, Sugar Rush and Candyland Red.
Elderberries! My grandmother made the best elderberry pie. I just finished freezing quarts of tomatoes with onions, peppers, and a little celery. It's just the two of us now so I don't preserve as much as I used to. Your thoughts on the edge support of the Birch mattress? Can you sit on the edge of the bed and not feel like you're going to slide off?
Hoping to try making elderberry pie this year!
I had to go in and try out sitting on the very edge-- it does squish down a bit, but I didn't feel like I was going to fall off.
Hello. We live in Ohio as well.
If possible, could you (or anyone) share thoughts if sunflowers help the soil?
We plant around 200 sunflowers for our pollinators and birds. 🌻 mostly in our garden.
Just looking for some insight...if any😊
Great to hear from a fellow Ohioan!
Sunflowers have become quite popular in cover crop mixes due to the benefits they can provide to the soil. These benefits include: cycling nutrients, sequestering nitrogen, reducing erosion and helping to improve soil compaction with their roots.
Research is being done on sunflowers potential as a phytoremediating plant as well!
@@GrowfullywithJenna that's great to hear! Yes, southern Ohio: between Columbus and Cincinnati 😊
Allow me to give you guys a tip on the zucchini. DEHYDRATE THEM. They turn into ultra small slices and then you add them to your pasta sauce with other things like dehydrated sweet peppers and romas. Toss some oregano and I swear to god its the best pizza sauce on the planet.
Thanks for the tip!
I tried the frozen corn on the cob in the husk. It was good for about 4-6 months.😁
Oh good! Thanks for letting me know!
Please let people know that you need to grow more than one tomatillo plant for good pollination!
You recommend "bolt" sweet corn. This was my best season for corn, Not positive that Bolt or the Buckwheat was the reason for great success or perhaps both reasons.
My red acre cabbage doesn't have damage from insects, but underneath slugs
Still, our favorite is your Midnight Snack, and we tried Candyland Red, and in a salad, it's great.
I'm ready for your video ...pepper jelly if you have time
Thanks for helping
I'm so glad! I grew Bolt this year too and it was amazing!!
Perhaps try red shiso for the cucumbers, especially for pickling. It does well in z6
Ooh yum! I grew shiso years ago but didn't really know what to do with it. Thanks for this tip!
Just wondering, with all of the tasty melons you grow, do you make watermelon rind preserves? Tasty stuff. 😋
I don't!! Do you have a recipe you like?
This video would have been so helpful to my beginner gardener self! 👏 great video!
Question- for the shelling beans- when you eat fresh, do you only eat the pods inside or the whole beans? I've never found a stage I like to eat them fresh but I'd love to!
Thank you!
If I want to eat the shell beans fresh- I only eat the beans inside, not the pods. By the time bean formation starts, the pods are to tough to eat typically.
We grew ‘Roma’ green beans the past couple of years and love them. Even when they get bigger than ideal they are still sweet and tender when blanched, and they never have strings. Can you recommend a vacuum sealer for freezing? And have you ever used the big zucchinis for mock apple pie? It’s honestly really good!
I have this brand: amzn.to/45wb4ur but mine is like 40 years old 😄. Still works like a charm.
I've thought about trying the mock apple pie- I'll have to do it now!
Great video! I would have liked to know where and what tomato and pepper varieties you grew this year.
Jenna, thanks for sharing what you do with your mega harvest! I have a hard time in IN growing zucchini and squash due to the blossoms forming and falling before forming and I have tried self pollinating as well. I'm not sure what the problem is but I am willing to try to solve the problem and eventually grow a zuchini and squash harvest! Any suggestions? Thanks! I love all your TH-cam videos!
Love this! 🙏🏼 Any ideas about what to do with peppers and chili that does not mature? I.e. how to preserve.
I want to plant an elderberry tree soon! I’m picking herbs, green onions, cherry tomatoes, bush green beans, and a variety of peppers. My cucumbers and zucchini did horrible this year and I think the cucumber beetles got to both of them even tho I used organic spray and cayenne pepper 😢 I might try them again next year with the kaolin clay but idk… I planted a few things for fall harvest with shade cloths but it’s going back up into the 90s so I’m not getting my hopes up. I have a feeling most will bolt.
I hope your fall stuff does OK- I kept delaying planting because of the heat, but finally had to just bite the bullet and put them in.
Fantastic looking cukes. What variety did you plant? Mine were OK, but nothing special.
This year I'm still harvesting from: 'Super Max', 'Perseus', and 'Little Leaf'. The photo which shows the different types of cukes is from a couple years back, but pictured are some of my long standing favorites "Tasty Green' (Japanese slicer)', 'Gherking' and 'Anya' (picklers) and again, 'Perseus' (Beit Alpha)
Do you grow figs and if so, what do you do with them?
I grow a few figs in containers, but they are quite small, and the fruit I get I either eat fresh or dry.
None of my squash did well this year. I grew a variety of slicers and paste tomatoes. When you make sauces and salsas do you try to mix tomatoes or use a specific variety you like best?
I'm sorry to hear that!
I use a mix of tomatoes- but that's primarily because I'm trialing new varieties for seed companies each year. Left to my own devices, I'd choose paste tomatoes- some I've grown and liked: Pozzano, Striped Roman, San Marzano II, Marzinera
Do your elderberries ever get a bluish white coating on them? I dont grow them, but they grow wild all over the mountains here in my area of Oregon, and often times, they have a bluish/white coating that will wipe off. Kinda like what happens with purple plums.
Can't say they ever have!
Does kaolin clay work for you to keep flea beetles off your tomatillos and eggplant? Previously I thought flea beetle damage wouldn’t necessarily destroy the whole plant, but that’s exactly what happened this year to my eggplant 😒
It helps deter them, but doesn't stop them. I used it early in the season, and it definitely slowed them down. If I can get my eggplants past the seedling stage with minimal flea beetle damage, they usually make it and produce well.
Hi Jenna! Zone 6b here in Charleston West Virginia. I was looking in your recent videos to find anything I could about experiences you’ve had with blueberry bushes, so I just thought I would check in with you here and maybe you could direct me to a past video.
I put my blueberry sticks in small pots in June. They are now bushes in small pots. What should I do now? Do I bring indoors to overwinter and put them in the ground next spring or should I bed them now? Thanks ! Also I’d like to get some mycorrhiza. What are your thoughts?
Hi Jennifer, if you've not already, check out this video: th-cam.com/video/esAKCaoxIsk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=FD3m_xcCgtFYh_k1 I typically have good luck leaving potted blueberries outdoors all winter. Since they are small pots, you may want to add some insultation around the base of the pots (such as leave mulch or straw) and/or place in a sheltered spot outdoors. If you want to use mycorrhizae with your blueberries, look specifically for Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi.
I live just over the state line in Michigan. Where did you get your Elderberry bushes? I have searched far and wide. In the past I got them from the roadside, but the county mowed them down.
I got mine from Gurney's Seed & Nursery.
What variety of tomatillos do you grow? I grew tomatillos this year and they were so tiny, about the size of a quail egg!
I grow 'Tamayo' every year. This year I tried 'Dream Team Landrace' too, from Wild Mountain Seeds, which had slightly smaller fruit.
At my place, food is ready to harvest when the deer come and steal it! UGH! Except this year for some reason, the deer have taken to eating green tomatoes so I havent been able to pick them at all. Will have to figure out a solution for next year :(
Oh no!! I've had to fence in everything to stop the deer here.
My cucumbers get completely destroyed 😭 My second year of having a garden.
I'm so sorry to hear that! I really have to stay on top of the cucumber beetles or my plants get destroyed too.
A GREAT video. You explain what you do with all your stuff. I was mainly interested in the cucumbers. Those basically have a shelf life of 3 weeks with the frig. AND you had TONS of cucumbers. (At the 1:50 mark.) I recycle the ones they may have gotten soft pickled and run them through the food processor to live again as a relish. Fermented then refrigerated. I enjoy my relish even more than sliced pickles. No longer bother with those sliced pickle things.
They should ban Zucchini! (The 10:40 mark.) Too BIG and too MANY. Do the chickens or hogs even eat that after a while? To which I ask the gardeners, would you really miss it IF you didn’t grow it this year? Hey, grow a yellow summer squash. Anything else. So we are clear on this… 👎zucchini!
Your eggplants had those flea beetle holes like mine do. (10:00 mark.) I just got that Kaolin Clay which I intend to spray on the leaves. (IF it ever stops raining.) Try Shrimp Eggplant stir fry with noodles. You got to get the Chinese spices, but absolutely delicious! Eggplant parmesan is delicious! Those night shade vegetables get a bad rap.
I tell myself every year I'm only going to plant 1 zucchini or summer squash plant. Do I ever listen to myself? No. Do I regret it? Yes.
As long as I can get my eggplant past the seedling stage, they tend to put up with the flea beetle damage quite well. I kept mine coated with the kaolin clay for the first month, but after that, quit spraying them.
I will have to they that dish- I've got the Chinese spices on hand already! Thanks for the recommendation.
@@GrowfullywithJenna I find it so sad that people then go out of their way to find uses for the large zucchinis. 😓It just must end. Stop the madness!
That's why I was questioning the number of cucumbers you were growing. Pickles are the way to go. But I will grow some full sized cukes next year. Many of my pickled sized cucumbers never made it into a pickling jar. I ate them and used them in salads.
@@GrowfullywithJennaAll our tomatoes leaves died here due to the rains we had. Pulled a lot of them, but left some with green Toms to hopefully get a little riper yet on the bare stalks. But it's been a good year. Tried 14 varieties. It's been a very WET summer.
I still have eggplants. I'm interested to see if I can apply the Kaolin clay through a cheapie handheld sprayer bottle. That's perfect for me. Still have Okra, Beets, planted some turnips and Bok Choy to see if any of that comes up. Bok choy is like 30 days! So are radishes. But not a fan of those - TOO hot.
Already planning next year. But not done with this year yet.
Very strange I made a comment yesterday and ask a question but it’s not here. I live in the northern part of southwest Ohio between Dayton and Richmond Indiana. I have very heavy clay soil’s, and I was looking for the tiller radish at Johnny’s seeds and I don’t see it there. Where do you get yours?
TH-cam loves to be glitchy! I typically get my tiller radish from Hancock Seeds: hancockseed.com/collections/best-sellers/products/daikon-radish-seed?_pos=1&_sid=60c454ef6&_ss=r
What is that gorgeous tomato at 7:12 in the video? (not large, fade from deep purple to pink)
I’m sure Jenna will answer, but I remember from previous video I think it Midnight Snack and think a commenter posted same. It does look great! Will have to try it next year.
Though Midnight Snack is one of my all-time favorites, the one in this video is 'Perfection in Pink' wildmountainseeds.com/product/perfection-in-pink/
@@GrowfullywithJenna Thank you! I will look into both of them :) I love trying a new tomato!