@@MyTexasYard Native to the Americas. It is a fantastic plant to feed hummingbirds with their long trumpet flowers which come in everything from white to a variety of colors. I am not going to venture a guess as to which varietal you got there as there are over 2000 named varieties in the n. tabacum species group and about 11 of so USDA commercial classifications of those depending on historical use way in the past. The n. rustica species group has less named varieties and is what the native people in North America originally grew. It is hard to believe those big plants came from half-millimeter tiny seeds and likely had to be pricked out with the tip of a toothpick if germinated together in a clump. I grow a list of n. tabacum along with red and pink yuccas (hesperaloe ssp - aka Hummingbird yucca) and flame acanthus (A. quadrificlus var. wrightii - aka Hummingbird bush). Seeing a trend with 'hummingbird'. All of those are Texas Master Gardener Earth Kind plant selections. So great for the heat, and very low water usage and feeds the hummingbirds, moths and other natives. Before I got rid of 90% of the lawn which fed nothing but the stores selling lawn care products, the automatic sprinkler system was using 4,800 gallons of water, now the city water is giving me a discount on my water bill for using so little water.
True , last summer was brutal (2022) and i found that I really needed to water mid-day and my plants flowers and veggies benefited from this Honestly i ground watered (not spraying the leaves too too much) when i realized this was necessary but it saved all of my plants One thing I need to add is that I was container gardening, but the same issues applied A quick spray of water over the top, not trying to soak them from ground or above was the right balance for me in Irving, TX (at that time)
I love this misting advice. We are north of Georgetown and this heat is about to get brutal. I’ve started misting my pepper plants especially and they seem to like the mid afternoon cool down that the misting provides. Great advice! Trying to get shade cloth up tomorrow morning in anticipation of the 100+ heatwave we are having. Thanks for all the advice!
Hello, New Subscriber here! So glad I found your channel. I'm about an hour away from you. Couple questions if you don't mind. Where/how did you get your wood chips? And Where did you get the seeds or transplant for the Tobacco plant???
Awesome. I bought a couple truck loads to start. I spent a couple hundred dollars on mulch. The last year or so I have just been buying pine bark from Lowes to maintain my cover. My neighbor gave me the tobacco seeds. He bought them from EBay.
With all the early hot weather this year, I've been out doing the same thing. All my plants are looking a lot better. I also deep mulch with straw, so I know they are getting plenty of water, but they still droop in the heat. That's when I'm standing out in the garden, sweating to make sure they don't die. Never thought I'd get a work out just holding a hose. :D
Agreed. If water drops on leaves burned them, every tree and forest and field would be devastated every time it rains during the day and the sun comes back out. Water when the plants want water, period. I'd definitely rather water in the afternoon than late in evening anyway, because here it stays humid and extra water plus cool temps can increase the chances of powdery mildew and other fungal problems. If you're worried about using more water, rig up a simple rain collection system so you're not totally relying on municipal water. It's amazing how fast rain coming off a roof will fill up a garbage can, barrel, IBC tote etc. Then you have a backup for those times between rains. Drip irrigation is nice and efficient but expensive to set up, and it doesn't help with cooling the above ground parts of the plants. So yeah, if it's that hot give them a shower even if you have drip.
I've had gardens wilt and die using drip irrigation. They do much better with sprinklers. I'm on the Gulf Coast of Texas, zone 9. I find that solutions for other parts of the country just don't work here.
Not always. Usually I prune them if they out grow their support trellis, or sometimes they get too thick and I can’t see the fruit, so I prune to make picking easier.
I have done this in the past. It really depends on the shape of your garden. My garden is not really wide, so a sprinkler often sprayed my grass or fence. A sprinkler would work fine for me if I found the right one. But, i would also need another hose if I wanted a nozzle to use.
The burn effect is not something that occurs immediately. People are warning against making it a routine. And yes, even as human you can experience this. If I go swim in the ocean and keep myself covered in water drops all day in the hot Florida sun I guarentee 100% I will be much more tan/burned as compared to walking around on the street with my shirt off on the same day. Will I instantly have my skin boil? No. Will your plants die if you water in the daytime once in awhile? No. Is making it a routine to water them at 3pm every day for the entire summer going to make your pants more likely to get burn marks? Yea it is.
I have not experienced any burning due to water. And I think our bodies natural reaction to being in hot summer sunshine, sweat, answer the question on if water is good for hot people and plants.
@@MyTexasYard Well, we all have to make decisions based on our own experiences, else we'd be automatons and never improve. Whether you water in the morning or the afternoon, I hope your harvests are bountiful.
I'm not sure where you are in Central Texas, but your fence looks very similar to mine...although my neighborhood has more trees. I'm very near a large Army base...
yeah if water droplets did that we would never have plants in the southern US, we always get mid afternoon storms in the summer every few days. I water when I have time. I try to water early in the morning so the plants can take advantage of the water before the heat of day and minimize the evaporation loss but I still will water in the middle of the day if I see a plant struggling because of the heat, and some times I need to be out working that space in the mornings so I don't have heat stroke so the plants get the sprinkler in the middle of the day.
You are under a few misconceptions, sir. You are wasting water if you are truly watering like you say you are. You have drainage issues and so in your case the over watering is simply draining quickly away from your property, and perhaps giving your neighbors a slurp or two. The water you are wasting can be better used as storage for infrequent rain events, when your plants will truly need it. I am not sure why you have such well draining soil, but I'd suspect your texture sits on the sandy side. I see you've mulched, but your grass in the center appears to be browning, and burnt. Clearly starved for water (most likely) or over fed with soils becoming toxic (unlikely) so I can use the principals of Occam's Razor and surmise drainage. You could try inputting your addy into the USDA's web soil survey to find out exactly the make up of your soil, and even the grade and quality. It is a very handy resource, and I highly recommend it. I would also recommend Peter Andrews, the Australian pioneer on natural sequencing of land. That, sir, I think would solve most of your problems. Follow your land's natural topology, and plant accordingly. As for the sun in the summer time, shade, not water, will keep your plants healthy, and active throughout the dog days.
@@MyTexasYard which means? grass doesn't naturally grow there? What did? Plant that, then? You are ignoring an entire world of science about your own back yard, and I'm just encouraging you to dive into it. You clearly care enough to spend the money on watering, and I'm simply telling you that there's a better way. A way that doesn't cost you in fertilizers, or ground minerals and metals, and that doesn't waste water. Are you collecting as much of your rain events as you can? Why not put in some zero edge cisterns, and create a zone that traps your rain events like a sponge, without wasting all that sweeet sweet wet to erosions. You'd save money on water, on fertilizers, have bigger crop yields!
I do not use fertilizers. And when it rains, my grass grows back. It’s a pretty good set up. In a perfect world I would do a lot of things differently.
@Bernard Family Adventures Nope, that has nothing to do with anything. Waste is waste, and growing foodstock in hostile conditions is just silly. The amount of wasted resources and the damage all those leeched minerals represent to the life processes is far more damaging than your since of pride in not accomplishing that which can not be accomplished. Dry grass sir, is not a sign of life flourishing, and means that particular life was not meant to flourish.
Looks like a tobacco plant to me
Winner! Yes, it’s a tobacco plant.
@@MyTexasYard Native to the Americas. It is a fantastic plant to feed hummingbirds with their long trumpet flowers which come in everything from white to a variety of colors. I am not going to venture a guess as to which varietal you got there as there are over 2000 named varieties in the n. tabacum species group and about 11 of so USDA commercial classifications of those depending on historical use way in the past. The n. rustica species group has less named varieties and is what the native people in North America originally grew. It is hard to believe those big plants came from half-millimeter tiny seeds and likely had to be pricked out with the tip of a toothpick if germinated together in a clump. I grow a list of n. tabacum along with red and pink yuccas (hesperaloe ssp - aka Hummingbird yucca) and flame acanthus (A. quadrificlus var. wrightii - aka Hummingbird bush). Seeing a trend with 'hummingbird'. All of those are Texas Master Gardener Earth Kind plant selections. So great for the heat, and very low water usage and feeds the hummingbirds, moths and other natives. Before I got rid of 90% of the lawn which fed nothing but the stores selling lawn care products, the automatic sprinkler system was using 4,800 gallons of water, now the city water is giving me a discount on my water bill for using so little water.
True , last summer was brutal (2022) and i found that I really needed to water mid-day and my plants flowers and veggies benefited from this
Honestly i ground watered (not spraying the leaves too too much) when i realized this was necessary
but it saved all of my plants
One thing I need to add is that I was container gardening, but the same issues applied
A quick spray of water over the top, not trying to soak them from ground or above was the right balance
for me in Irving, TX (at that time)
I love this misting advice. We are north of Georgetown and this heat is about to get brutal. I’ve started misting my pepper plants especially and they seem to like the mid afternoon cool down that the misting provides. Great advice! Trying to get shade cloth up tomorrow morning in anticipation of the 100+ heatwave we are having. Thanks for all the advice!
Good job
One of the best garden watering advice ever heard. Thanks, from Fellow Texan,
Thank you for this!
Yes please do share that ultimate protection against summer heat.. Im gardening in Arizona and am always looking for tips... Thanks!
That's about the way I water my garden, All by hand 👏 looking good I mainly water in the evenings.....
Comfrey?
Tobacco.
Hello, New Subscriber here! So glad I found your channel. I'm about an hour away from you. Couple questions if you don't mind. Where/how did you get your wood chips? And Where did you get the seeds or transplant for the Tobacco plant???
Awesome.
I bought a couple truck loads to start. I spent a couple hundred dollars on mulch. The last year or so I have just been buying pine bark from Lowes to maintain my cover.
My neighbor gave me the tobacco seeds. He bought them from EBay.
@@MyTexasYard Thank you
With all the early hot weather this year, I've been out doing the same thing. All my plants are looking a lot better. I also deep mulch with straw, so I know they are getting plenty of water, but they still droop in the heat. That's when I'm standing out in the garden, sweating to make sure they don't die. Never thought I'd get a work out just holding a hose. :D
Agreed. If water drops on leaves burned them, every tree and forest and field would be devastated every time it rains during the day and the sun comes back out. Water when the plants want water, period.
I'd definitely rather water in the afternoon than late in evening anyway, because here it stays humid and extra water plus cool temps can increase the chances of powdery mildew and other fungal problems.
If you're worried about using more water, rig up a simple rain collection system so you're not totally relying on municipal water. It's amazing how fast rain coming off a roof will fill up a garbage can, barrel, IBC tote etc. Then you have a backup for those times between rains.
Drip irrigation is nice and efficient but expensive to set up, and it doesn't help with cooling the above ground parts of the plants. So yeah, if it's that hot give them a shower even if you have drip.
I've had gardens wilt and die using drip irrigation. They do much better with sprinklers. I'm on the Gulf Coast of Texas, zone 9. I find that solutions for other parts of the country just don't work here.
Agree. It’s important to find what works for your local area.
Hey just wondering what part of central Texas are you? We are moving back to granbury/ glen rose area.
I’m 20 min north of Austin.
I used to go camping in Glen Rose every year.
Do you prune your tomatoes?
Not always. Usually I prune them if they out grow their support trellis, or sometimes they get too thick and I can’t see the fruit, so I prune to make picking easier.
Got hot 🔥 fast this year 👍 109 last week and 60 Sunday 🤔
What about using a sprinkler?
I have done this in the past. It really depends on the shape of your garden. My garden is not really wide, so a sprinkler often sprayed my grass or fence. A sprinkler would work fine for me if I found the right one.
But, i would also need another hose if I wanted a nozzle to use.
That is Poke Salit!
Nope, guess again. 😁
That doesn't look ANYTHING like poke salad. We got it to grow ONCE...50 years ago...in Central Texas. There was not a repeat performance.
The burn effect is not something that occurs immediately. People are warning against making it a routine. And yes, even as human you can experience this. If I go swim in the ocean and keep myself covered in water drops all day in the hot Florida sun I guarentee 100% I will be much more tan/burned as compared to walking around on the street with my shirt off on the same day. Will I instantly have my skin boil? No. Will your plants die if you water in the daytime once in awhile? No. Is making it a routine to water them at 3pm every day for the entire summer going to make your pants more likely to get burn marks? Yea it is.
I have not experienced any burning due to water.
And I think our bodies natural reaction to being in hot summer sunshine, sweat, answer the question on if water is good for hot people and plants.
@@MyTexasYard Well, we all have to make decisions based on our own experiences, else we'd be automatons and never improve. Whether you water in the morning or the afternoon, I hope your harvests are bountiful.
Thank you. You too.
I had to put up 40% ahade cloth to get any tomatoes this year because it got so hot, so quickly.
Is it New Zealand spinach?
Yes, it got hot instantly lol
Not spinach.
Mullien
I'm not sure where you are in Central Texas, but your fence looks very similar to mine...although my neighborhood has more trees. I'm very near a large Army base...
Lived there for 25 years lived on FT Hood,Killeen,Copperas Cove,Harker Heights and Florence Texas
@@boysrback5690 I've lived there off and on--mostly on--since I was 18 months old. Graduated from KHS--GO 'ROOS!!!
@@joannathesinger770 Go Eagles graduated from Ellison in 85 Lol
Yea I’m north of Austin.
yeah if water droplets did that we would never have plants in the southern US, we always get mid afternoon storms in the summer every few days. I water when I have time. I try to water early in the morning so the plants can take advantage of the water before the heat of day and minimize the evaporation loss but I still will water in the middle of the day if I see a plant struggling because of the heat, and some times I need to be out working that space in the mornings so I don't have heat stroke so the plants get the sprinkler in the middle of the day.
That's a Magnolia Macrophylla also know as Large-leaved cucumber tree or Umbrella tree.
I had to look that up just now. It does look similar, but that’s not it.
Tobacco
ᴘʀᴏᴍᴏsᴍ 😅
Poke Salit!!!!
You are under a few misconceptions, sir. You are wasting water if you are truly watering like you say you are. You have drainage issues and so in your case the over watering is simply draining quickly away from your property, and perhaps giving your neighbors a slurp or two. The water you are wasting can be better used as storage for infrequent rain events, when your plants will truly need it. I am not sure why you have such well draining soil, but I'd suspect your texture sits on the sandy side. I see you've mulched, but your grass in the center appears to be browning, and burnt. Clearly starved for water (most likely) or over fed with soils becoming toxic (unlikely) so I can use the principals of Occam's Razor and surmise drainage. You could try inputting your addy into the USDA's web soil survey to find out exactly the make up of your soil, and even the grade and quality. It is a very handy resource, and I highly recommend it. I would also recommend Peter Andrews, the Australian pioneer on natural sequencing of land. That, sir, I think would solve most of your problems. Follow your land's natural topology, and plant accordingly. As for the sun in the summer time, shade, not water, will keep your plants healthy, and active throughout the dog days.
I’m not really having any problems. My soil and garden are very healthy. My grass is dead because I don’t water it, and we are in a drought.
@@MyTexasYard which means? grass doesn't naturally grow there? What did? Plant that, then? You are ignoring an entire world of science about your own back yard, and I'm just encouraging you to dive into it. You clearly care enough to spend the money on watering, and I'm simply telling you that there's a better way. A way that doesn't cost you in fertilizers, or ground minerals and metals, and that doesn't waste water. Are you collecting as much of your rain events as you can? Why not put in some zero edge cisterns, and create a zone that traps your rain events like a sponge, without wasting all that sweeet sweet wet to erosions. You'd save money on water, on fertilizers, have bigger crop yields!
I do not use fertilizers. And when it rains, my grass grows back. It’s a pretty good set up.
In a perfect world I would do a lot of things differently.
@Bernard Family Adventures Nope, that has nothing to do with anything. Waste is waste, and growing foodstock in hostile conditions is just silly. The amount of wasted resources and the damage all those leeched minerals represent to the life processes is far more damaging than your since of pride in not accomplishing that which can not be accomplished. Dry grass sir, is not a sign of life flourishing, and means that particular life was not meant to flourish.