Rachel, you look so happy, relaxed and refreshed!! Not only do you look amazing, but your garden looks amazing as well!! It's so peaceful being out in the garden and with nature. Thanks for another great video. Have a blessed weekend!!
Rachel you mostly taught me how to can through videos and I LOVE AND APPRECIATE you guys and the content you make we sell 200ish jars of pickles at weekly farm markets now lol THANK YOU for all the sharing and learning!🤘🇺🇸✌️💙
I agree! Almost everyone I know around my age has cataracts or has had them removed, I have none. I have been wearing this type of sunglasses for over ten years, and I have blue eyes, which get them easier.
I grow my butternut and pumpkins up on our duck run. No problem with pests. The harvesting gets tricky as the grow on top of the duck run. Last year with 10 butternut we harvested over 80 butternut which gets us through an entire year.
Hey Rachel. The garden looks lovely. I am soo happy to see the garden getting much love this year. Just taking the year off for the Sabeth is good for the soul. Rains 🌧️ come and going crazy over here in New York City 🏙️. Not tomorrow, but Monday, Memorial Day there is definitely going to rain 🌧️ with sever thunderstorms. But I will be safe in my apartment. God Bless you Rachel. Have a blessed weekend and Happy Memorial Day to you and Todd. HUGS 🤗. Mari'a. 🤗🤗🌼🌺🌸❤️❤️❤️🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
In UT our summers are always 90 degree or higher days. I water my tomato plants every evening. Tomatoes start coming on about the end of July and my plants are still blooming and producing tomatoes up until a hard freeze which was the middle of October. I also don't prune my plants. I have a huge trellis system they grow up and I get tons of tomatoes
So lovely to hang out in the garden with you today! Everything is growing so well! Your Clematis flowers are just beautiful! Thank you for all the tips and wisdom and for just bringing us along! Blessings on your growing season Kiddo! 🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿💚💕
We moved fron southwest Detroit to southwest Georgia. We have a fairly long growing season. Our indeterminate tomatoes are already six feet high. We have a few tomatoes starting already. I picked a cucumber that was a little larger because it was hidden under a bunch of leaves. It was so much better than anything from a store. I've also already picked a zucchini. I picked a bunch of garlic that was ready. And ten onions. We have to start so early because it's going to get hot soon.i hope you get a very satisfying harvest this year.
Oh goodness! That beautiful time of the year .. I enjoy seeing you in the garden. It's been a while. Southeast Texas here, we about done harvesting our vegetables, getting so hot that it becomes a pain just to get out 😅 Congratulations, Rachel ! Enjoy to the fullest this golden years . God bless 🙏🏻
I’ve started growing my zucchini and yellow squash up a piece of rebar after seeing it done on Next Level Gardening. It is an extra job to tie the stem to the rebar (I use 1/4 inch elastic) a couple times a week but they take up less room in my raised bed and it keeps the fruits off the ground. I also cut back a lot of the leaves every time I tie them. No squash getting lost and overgrown. They are all clearly visible and it’s actually quite interesting to look at. Kind of like palm trees with squash sticking off of them.
Hi Rachel I live in Mississippi and we get 90s temps most of the summer. My tomatoes always thrive as long as you keep watering them. You better get ready!!! Crazy harvest may be coming for you guys!
It's funny you're starting your tomatoes and i am harvesting mine here in Phx zone B 9. All of my 🔥 peppers, white radishe, bell peppers etc all need to be harvest! It's over 100 F this week
Oh my goodness! I had to replay when the hose came apart. It looked like something that would happen to me. We have been in an extreme drought but have been getting a lot of rain this Spring so hopefully that will bring us out of that. There is finally water in the rivers and they are flowing again. I do have to learn to cover my ground better. I use some straw but leaves and grass clippings I think would be better. I'm going to try to be better this year.
The Millennial Gardener has had great success on the east coast of North Carolina doing tomatoes under shade cloth. I know I've been making a ton of changes and having to upgrade my garden to raised beds on top of heavy duty ag fabric (can't get rid of a nasty, uber invasive tuberous grass in my entire garden), and I'm going to be watching how I can continue to improve the setup...like adding posts for shade cloth for the hottest months if I need to. Just experimenting this year!
Just make sure to get the right percentage of shade cloth. I used 60% last year for broccoli and lettuce. I am buying 40% this year for my tomatoes and peppers.
I bought a truckload of mushroom soil. It came from middle to north Georgia deep in the woods. They scrape the top layer and scoop up the nice dark rich soil. It has been there for so many years, I found a piece of a windshield wiper arm from an old car. 4 years on, that soil is still beautiful.
In the 90s, wow that would make a great summer here in San Antonio Texas. We are already hitting three digits we’re at 102° today and the heat index feels like 106°.
Firstly, I LOVE retired Rachel. Also, I hear your concerns about having a hot summer but I can tell you that where I am in the ozarks, we STAY over 90 for at least 10 weeks in the summer without a break, usually tipping over 100 for a good 5 days here and there. My tomatoes, peppers, squash and melons have always done just fine. They need extra water when we hit the July drought at 105* but I’ve never seen the heat kill them off. The bugs and blight usually do that 🙄
I still haven't even planted anything yet n it's the 25th of May, the nights r still to cold here in Manitoba Canada Love this kind of video! Love your garden!!
Rachel congrats on your retirement ❤️ you videos are ones I look forward to!! Your clematis is so far along, do they over winter in 7b? Enjoy your fun in the garden… I’m out to mine today too ❤
Nice video! You have a beautiful sunny flat garden. I would love to see a bit of map of what all your beds are, and the sizes. That would be a lot to ask unless you already have one. Thanks for the lovely look into your garden.
everything looks great my son brought me bugs that eat other bugs but not plants from his factory he works in so hoping that helps us this year with bugs
You crack me up. You are in the garden but didn't want to get dirty making your compost slurry. 😂 great planting tip and I'm putting my slurry together now
Your garden looks great and I am happy that you now have all the time in the world to really enjoy it. Are you considering using shade cloth this summer to try to protect your tomatoes and other plants from the 90F heat? Maybe 40% or 50% shade? It does make a difference, I do recommend it for such heat, more so if the forecasters already predicted such a hot season.
Not sure you are interested, but I've had luck with the Safer's brand to rid aphids and insects. Sounds like your ground is wet and possibly air flow is a concern. It's available in store or Amazon here. It's so nice to see you back in your garden. 🌾
Your garden is looking nice. Also the lovely Clematis flourishing on the fence. You’ll have much more time to garden now in retirement. Enjoy all of it. Blessings to you and Todd. What zone are you in?
I need that seat in my life for next season! The seat that I have is perfect for raised beds but too tall for in ground. I give up and slide along on my bum 😂
It's so lovely to see your garden green and thriving again! 🌱 Hope the heat breaks a little to let everything get going! Any way to have a temporary shade cloth for the tomatoes until they get established?
Don't worry, your tomatoes will do great! I live in Arkansas, where our summer days are in the 100's and I have bushel and bushel and bushel of tomatoes every year. They will go into dormant see if the nighttime temperature does not drop below 70. But then they will start to produce again in the fall when the temperature gets cool in the evening. They can take it during the day as long as the nights get cool!
Deep south homestead lets the carrots grow, and then he picks out carrots as they grow using them to eat instead of throwing them away, and that gives more room for the other carrots to grow.
Congratulation on your retirement, and glad you got more time to bring us wonderful gardening videos and hopefully some great canning videos through the summer. Just really enjoy watching you and Todd, and all the exciting and great things you all do.
I have lifestyle envy.....I used to live like you are, where I had a massive vegetable garden and over a hundred fruit trees which was my Garden of Eden and I spent so many happy hours out there or in the kitchen preserving it all. Sadly, we needed to move into a much smaller property and I will eventually be growing maybe one percent of what I used to grow. Its a lot less work for sure but I miss it to be honest. At the moment we are living in a 26 foot caravan while the house is being refurbished/repaired and there is NO garden :( But I count myself lucky that I had almost eight years of living the dream and am looking forward to a lot more travelling/arting/crafting/relaxing in my future :) xxx
I am loving these garden videos! I gets me inspired to get out in my own garden. When I watch you it feels like I am out there chatting and enjoying the morning with a friend. Your peace radiates off you! Congratulations on a well deserved retirement. Enjoy! ❤
It's so wonderful to see you in the garden again. I missed you! Have you thought of using your grass clippings for mulch? I am sure you have plenty of leaves, and I use those for winter mulching, but I use lawn clippings for summer mulching and it works so well. No more than 3" at a time, so it doesn't get hot and start to compost. And the added benefit is that the grass bleaches so it reflects the sun a bit, helping to keep the roots cooler. I have a lot of lawn, like you, so still have enough to go on the compost as well :)
Relaxing in your garden. Rachel thanks for sharing. Sweet Alyssum attract benificial preditors too. First time for me. 2 rows in the garden. One row behind my Kennebecs. Another row of Sweet Alyssum 3" behind our row of peas. >>>>>>> Hubby will put in a row of pole string beans behind those Alyssum. They flowered under lights, hardened off and transplanted with no problems. About 4 days after transplanting the temp hit near 90. Zone 6b. Still good. Our soil looked as wet as yours.
Rachel. Awesome garden. ❤. We have Dragonflies, damselflies, butterflies, bees and 2 Azaleas, Comfrey and early flowers annuals. Nowhere near the gardens a few easter lilies, we did not plant, had 2 then 4 Red Asian beetles chewng and mating. Good attraction spot to get rid of them.
Great fertilizer for my peppers, I will have to buy some, Rachel to get big onions they need 12-0-0 fertilizer weekly until they bulb then water a lot and no more fertilizer.
I have gardened for 45 years and never once fertilized my onions or anything else in my garden for that matter and I always have huge onions and all the things. I only say that for the person reading ur comment thinking they have to go buy that fertilizer. Not everyone "needs" to do that. Your soil apparently does need it, or maybe it doesn't , but it depends on each soil type. When it comes to gardening it isn't one rule for all. Just to say to the frustrated gardener that is gardening to avoid chemicals, please do not give up because u r told u have to fertilize, just find other ways to improve ur soil and hang in there! I never ever buy or apply fertilizer! When in doubt I plant extra to make up for the potential smaller harvest and no chemicals 🤗
QUESTION - thanks for the update on the snail roll. Were you using a liquid fertilizer when you were bottom watering to compensate for the smaller amounts of soil? Your garden looks amazing!!! Thanks for sharing with us
Butternut is a squash the same as a pumpkin, so pests that will go for pumpkins will go for the butternut as well!! Question - why do you call those beds "raised"? They're only 6" deep and the soil doesn't come to the top of the wood. Just asking.. Your garden is already looking amazing!! Thanks for sharing. God bless and protect.
If I'm not mistaken, the garden seat you have is a kneeling/sitting apparatus. The way you were sitting on it, I believe, was the kneeling side. You flip it for sitting high.
Yes my tomatoes and beans go into hibernation pretty much when we hit the 90 mark but then come mid to late August when it starts to cool down a bit they start producing like crazy. I did pumpkins last year and the stinking squash bugs got a bunch of them.
The only thing I'm getting here, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is rain for about two weeks now, the grass needs cutting desperately, can't work in the ground at all right now, it's very discouraging.
Greenstalk has a website you can Google and get lots of information on what you can grow in their towers. (I have strawberries in mine.) Blessings on your growing season! 🌻🐛🌿💚
That was fun! I like the camera feature, you're right it does feel like we're walking around with you ❤🌱 I think I'm going to end up having to try for fall cabbage and broccoli 😔 I'm in Michigan, too, and that heat didn't make for happy cold crops, did it?
How often are you gonna record? It seems like it’s been forever since you’ve posted a video and you are one of my favorite people to watch. Do you have a new schedule once a week twice a week once a month? I need to know so I can look forward to it, thanks again. I love you.❤
we went out of town to the cabin for about 5 days, then to Utah for a family gathering. we're back home now, so we should get back to 2-3 per week now.
We had massive hail come through last week…. It ruined a lot. I tried fixing what I hopefully could, but super disappointing. I wanted to ask you onion master😂 if I cut the tops of my damaged onion tops way down, would it hurt them?
Pollinators are not necessary unless you want to harvest seeds or fruits of a plant. We eat the vegetative parts of brassicas (leaves, stems, etc), so no pollinators needed. The broccoli “tree” that we eat technically is the flower part but we harvest it before they open up. If you want to save your own seeds, then you would let the brassica mature well past the point of harvesting for eating and leave it open to the pollinators during the flowering stage.
Great video - let’s connect one of these days. We were formerly called The Farm Life Project and recently rebranded as Four Brothers Farm. We actually moderated your live stream a couple years ago! Glad to see you’re doing well.
I think I water too much. You water just once a week? Looks like you had a lovely day in the garden. 100 degrees and almost 60% humidity today in Texas. 😓
Hello from eastern Canada, zone 5b :) ...I havent been a gardener for very long but Ive seen so many people grow their tomatoes and peppers in greenhouses, I thought that was the best way so I just built a hoophouse for them on my new property. It gets super hot in there and I've been trying to open up the sides and ends to have airflow but...is it going to kill all my plants? You saying tomatoes don't flower in high heat has me thinking of taking them out of there. What do you think?
It will get too hot. I am in a zone 6b and I have a big shade cloth over my high tunnel and it still gets up to 120* or higher in there in the summer. I also have two fans, the sides rolled up and a vent and the door open. I tried growing tomatoes and peppers in there for two summers and didn’t get much of a harvest. It’s pretty crazy. I’ve pretty much given up on growing in there in the summer. It’s mainly for lengthening the season for me. I can’t even grow much in the winter because it costs too much to heat it. It is about 20x30’.
Rachel, you look so happy, relaxed and refreshed!! Not only do you look amazing, but your garden looks amazing as well!! It's so peaceful being out in the garden and with nature. Thanks for another great video. Have a blessed weekend!!
Such a beautiful time to record. The colors in rge background and the sounds of the morning, just beautiful... thanks for that
Congratulations, on your retirement! My word, that Clematis is stunning! It is a beautiful morning there.
Those climbing purple flowers are beautiful!! The garden looks great!
Clematis
Congratulations on your retirement and I’m sure we are all loving more content from you!👍💞
Rachel you mostly taught me how to can through videos and I LOVE AND APPRECIATE you guys and the content you make we sell 200ish jars of pickles at weekly farm markets now lol THANK YOU for all the sharing and learning!🤘🇺🇸✌️💙
Formidable vidéo 😊
A bientôt
You need to get some cocoons wrap around sunglasses to go over your glasses!! I LOVE mine!! Too much sun will make cataracts grow faster!
I agree! Almost everyone I know around my age has cataracts or has had them removed, I have none. I have been wearing this type of sunglasses for over ten years, and I have blue eyes, which get them easier.
I grow my butternut and pumpkins up on our duck run. No problem with pests. The harvesting gets tricky as the grow on top of the duck run. Last year with 10 butternut we harvested over 80 butternut which gets us through an entire year.
I would never get away with that- my ducks all LOVE squash plants. 😊
Hey Rachel. The garden looks lovely. I am soo happy to see the garden getting much love this year. Just taking the year off for the Sabeth is good for the soul. Rains 🌧️ come and going crazy over here in New York City 🏙️. Not tomorrow, but Monday, Memorial Day there is definitely going to rain 🌧️ with sever thunderstorms. But I will be safe in my apartment. God Bless you Rachel. Have a blessed weekend and Happy Memorial Day to you and Todd. HUGS 🤗. Mari'a. 🤗🤗🌼🌺🌸❤️❤️❤️🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Hugs to you Maria!
Great new chapter in your lives! Happy to see you in your Happy Place! Cool & Wet spring here, so living through you right now, lol.
I have our zucchini growing vertically. I tie the up on a 6 foot tomato pole.
do you need to support the zucchini at all if so how?? I am going to try this this year
In UT our summers are always 90 degree or higher days. I water my tomato plants every evening. Tomatoes start coming on about the end of July and my plants are still blooming and producing tomatoes up until a hard freeze which was the middle of October. I also don't prune my plants. I have a huge trellis system they grow up and I get tons of tomatoes
So lovely to hang out in the garden with you today! Everything is growing so well! Your Clematis flowers are just beautiful! Thank you for all the tips and wisdom and for just bringing us along! Blessings on your growing season Kiddo! 🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿💚💕
Beautiful garden
We moved fron southwest Detroit to southwest Georgia. We have a fairly long growing season. Our indeterminate tomatoes are already six feet high. We have a few tomatoes starting already. I picked a cucumber that was a little larger because it was hidden under a bunch of leaves. It was so much better than anything from a store. I've also already picked a zucchini. I picked a bunch of garlic that was ready. And ten onions. We have to start so early because it's going to get hot soon.i hope you get a very satisfying harvest this year.
Oh goodness! That beautiful time of the year .. I enjoy seeing you in the garden. It's been a while.
Southeast Texas here, we about done harvesting our vegetables, getting so hot that it becomes a pain just to get out 😅
Congratulations, Rachel ! Enjoy to the fullest this golden years .
God bless 🙏🏻
I’ve started growing my zucchini and yellow squash up a piece of rebar after seeing it done on Next Level Gardening. It is an extra job to tie the stem to the rebar (I use 1/4 inch elastic) a couple times a week but they take up less room in my raised bed and it keeps the fruits off the ground. I also cut back a lot of the leaves every time I tie them. No squash getting lost and overgrown. They are all clearly visible and it’s actually quite interesting to look at. Kind of like palm trees with squash sticking off of them.
That’s cool, I’ve also heard it helps with squash bugs.
You look so refreshed. Enjoy your well deserved retirement. ❤
Hi Rachel I live in Mississippi and we get 90s temps most of the summer. My tomatoes always thrive as long as you keep watering them. You better get ready!!! Crazy harvest may be coming for you guys!
I'm also from Mississippi! 👋
@@suziebea1177 HI!!
It's funny you're starting your tomatoes and i am harvesting mine here in Phx zone B 9. All of my 🔥 peppers, white radishe, bell peppers etc all need to be harvest! It's over 100 F this week
Yes, Where there's a will, there is a way.😊
Oh my goodness! I had to replay when the hose came apart. It looked like something that would happen to me. We have been in an extreme drought but have been getting a lot of rain this Spring so hopefully that will bring us out of that. There is finally water in the rivers and they are flowing again. I do have to learn to cover my ground better. I use some straw but leaves and grass clippings I think would be better. I'm going to try to be better this year.
Shade cloth would probably help as well.
The Millennial Gardener has had great success on the east coast of North Carolina doing tomatoes under shade cloth. I know I've been making a ton of changes and having to upgrade my garden to raised beds on top of heavy duty ag fabric (can't get rid of a nasty, uber invasive tuberous grass in my entire garden), and I'm going to be watching how I can continue to improve the setup...like adding posts for shade cloth for the hottest months if I need to. Just experimenting this year!
Just make sure to get the right percentage of shade cloth. I used 60% last year for broccoli and lettuce. I am buying 40% this year for my tomatoes and peppers.
Your Clematis is gorgeous!
I bought a truckload of mushroom soil. It came from middle to north Georgia deep in the woods. They scrape the top layer and scoop up the nice dark rich soil. It has been there for so many years, I found a piece of a windshield wiper arm from an old car. 4 years on, that soil is still beautiful.
In the 90s, wow that would make a great summer here in San Antonio Texas. We are already hitting three digits we’re at 102° today and the heat index feels like 106°.
Firstly, I LOVE retired Rachel.
Also, I hear your concerns about having a hot summer but I can tell you that where I am in the ozarks, we STAY over 90 for at least 10 weeks in the summer without a break, usually tipping over 100 for a good 5 days here and there. My tomatoes, peppers, squash and melons have always done just fine. They need extra water when we hit the July drought at 105* but I’ve never seen the heat kill them off. The bugs and blight usually do that 🙄
I still haven't even planted anything yet n it's the 25th of May, the nights r still to cold here in Manitoba Canada
Love this kind of video! Love your garden!!
Rachel congrats on your retirement ❤️ you videos are ones I look forward to!! Your clematis is so far along, do they over winter in 7b? Enjoy your fun in the garden… I’m out to mine today too ❤
We are 6b and has overwintered as long as I've owned it 5 or more years
I had a random beet come up this spring. I guess it over wintered in the ground and decided to grow this spring. Your clematis is absolutely gorgeous.
Nice video! You have a beautiful sunny flat garden. I would love to see a bit of map of what all your beds are, and the sizes. That would be a lot to ask unless you already have one. Thanks for the lovely look into your garden.
Girl u need a greenhouse❤️ that will solve most of ur problems. Keep the heatlovers in ur house but everything else outside once started
everything looks great my son brought me bugs that eat other bugs but not plants from his factory he works in so hoping that helps us this year with bugs
You crack me up. You are in the garden but didn't want to get dirty making your compost slurry. 😂 great planting tip and I'm putting my slurry together now
Harvesting compost is a different kind of dirty
Your garden looks great and I am happy that you now have all the time in the world to really enjoy it.
Are you considering using shade cloth this summer to try to protect your tomatoes and other plants from the 90F heat? Maybe 40% or 50% shade? It does make a difference, I do recommend it for such heat, more so if the forecasters already predicted such a hot season.
Not sure you are interested, but I've had luck with the Safer's brand to rid aphids and insects. Sounds like your ground is wet and possibly air flow is a concern.
It's available in store or Amazon here.
It's so nice to see you back in your garden. 🌾
Your garden is looking nice. Also the lovely Clematis flourishing on the fence. You’ll have much more time to garden now in retirement. Enjoy all of it. Blessings to you and Todd. What zone are you in?
We had two weeks of summer weather and now we have weeks of rain rain rain. It’s all it nothing it seems. We should be having spring weather
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I need that seat in my life for next season! The seat that I have is perfect for raised beds but too tall for in ground. I give up and slide along on my bum 😂
It's so lovely to see your garden green and thriving again! 🌱 Hope the heat breaks a little to let everything get going! Any way to have a temporary shade cloth for the tomatoes until they get established?
I always smile when u put a video out ! Cause it make me get going and try new things ! Thank u ! ❤
Garden looks amazing Rachel
Squash vine bores have been terrible for all my squash this year!
Love your videos. Hope you ignore people moaning about the camera work. It's perfect
Don't worry, your tomatoes will do great! I live in Arkansas, where our summer days are in the 100's and I have bushel and bushel and bushel of tomatoes every year. They will go into dormant see if the nighttime temperature does not drop below 70. But then they will start to produce again in the fall when the temperature gets cool in the evening. They can take it during the day as long as the nights get cool!
I love the new camera. No wooziness here.
Deep south homestead lets the carrots grow, and then he picks out carrots as they grow using them to eat instead of throwing them away, and that gives more room for the other carrots to grow.
Congratulation on your retirement, and glad you got more time to bring us wonderful gardening videos and hopefully some great canning videos through the summer. Just really enjoy watching you and Todd, and all the exciting and great things you all do.
I have the same garden chair , my daughter got me 4 years ago. Absolutely love it.
The flowers are beautifulThe flowers are beautiful. Your garden looks lovelybhaih
I was just coming here to tell you how much I like your new camera. Was it a retirement gift! 💕
I have lifestyle envy.....I used to live like you are, where I had a massive vegetable garden and over a hundred fruit trees which was my Garden of Eden and I spent so many happy hours out there or in the kitchen preserving it all. Sadly, we needed to move into a much smaller property and I will eventually be growing maybe one percent of what I used to grow. Its a lot less work for sure but I miss it to be honest. At the moment we are living in a 26 foot caravan while the house is being refurbished/repaired and there is NO garden :( But I count myself lucky that I had almost eight years of living the dream and am looking forward to a lot more travelling/arting/crafting/relaxing in my future :) xxx
You are a pretty good farmer and make sure you don't waste your talent😉
She is pretty cool and it would be so awesome to meet her in person😊
I am loving these garden videos! I gets me inspired to get out in my own garden. When I watch you it feels like I am out there chatting and enjoying the morning with a friend. Your peace radiates off you! Congratulations on a well deserved retirement. Enjoy! ❤
It's so wonderful to see you in the garden again. I missed you!
Have you thought of using your grass clippings for mulch? I am sure you have plenty of leaves, and I use those for winter mulching, but I use lawn clippings for summer mulching and it works so well. No more than 3" at a time, so it doesn't get hot and start to compost. And the added benefit is that the grass bleaches so it reflects the sun a bit, helping to keep the roots cooler. I have a lot of lawn, like you, so still have enough to go on the compost as well :)
Relaxing in your garden. Rachel thanks for sharing. Sweet Alyssum attract benificial preditors too. First time for me. 2 rows in the garden.
One row behind my Kennebecs.
Another row of Sweet Alyssum 3" behind our row of peas. >>>>>>>
Hubby will put in a row of pole string beans behind those Alyssum.
They flowered under lights, hardened off and transplanted with no problems. About 4 days after transplanting the temp hit near 90. Zone 6b. Still good. Our soil looked as wet as yours.
Your brassicas are doing splendid.
Love the new camera feature!
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Pumpkin and butter nut do well together!!! God Bless Us All!!!
Rach. I ordered if that bed that doesn't do good for you is because it gets the most sun and dries out fast
Rachel. Awesome garden. ❤. We have Dragonflies, damselflies, butterflies, bees and 2 Azaleas, Comfrey and early flowers annuals.
Nowhere near the gardens a few easter lilies, we did not plant, had 2 then 4 Red Asian beetles chewng and mating. Good attraction spot to get rid of them.
I've already got tomatoes and peppers. It seems like everything is coming in early.
I believe that weed is Prickly Lettuce, also known as Milk Thistle.
I don't think anything wants full sun in the garden anymore. I know the heat even in WI a few days ago was so harsh.
Great fertilizer for my peppers, I will have to buy some, Rachel to get big onions they need 12-0-0 fertilizer weekly until they bulb then water a lot and no more fertilizer.
I have gardened for 45 years and never once fertilized my onions or anything else in my garden for that matter and I always have huge onions and all the things. I only say that for the person reading ur comment thinking they have to go buy that fertilizer. Not everyone "needs" to do that. Your soil apparently does need it, or maybe it doesn't , but it depends on each soil type. When it comes to gardening it isn't one rule for all. Just to say to the frustrated gardener that is gardening to avoid chemicals, please do not give up because u r told u have to fertilize, just find other ways to improve ur soil and hang in there! I never ever buy or apply fertilizer! When in doubt I plant extra to make up for the potential smaller harvest and no chemicals 🤗
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QUESTION - thanks for the update on the snail roll. Were you using a liquid fertilizer when you were bottom watering to compensate for the smaller amounts of soil? Your garden looks amazing!!! Thanks for sharing with us
Yes
Butternut is a squash the same as a pumpkin, so pests that will go for pumpkins will go for the butternut as well!! Question - why do you call those beds "raised"? They're only 6" deep and the soil doesn't come to the top of the wood. Just asking.. Your garden is already looking amazing!! Thanks for sharing. God bless and protect.
If I'm not mistaken, the garden seat you have is a kneeling/sitting apparatus. The way you were sitting on it, I believe, was the kneeling side. You flip it for sitting high.
Yes I 100% think you are corrrect. Game changer if that is the case
Maybe she wants to stay close to the ground
She said something about this in a previous video. She showed it both ways.
And maybe she would appreciate the tip.
But then I have to bend my back over to far
Yes my tomatoes and beans go into hibernation pretty much when we hit the 90 mark but then come mid to late August when it starts to cool down a bit they start producing like crazy. I did pumpkins last year and the stinking squash bugs got a bunch of them.
I hate those things! Try 40-50% shade cloth for your tomatoes.
Pick your hot peppers on hot days. Yummyyyyy!
The weed you talk about in minute 16 is such a pain! Luke at MIGardener talks about it in a weed video he posted in the last couple of weeks!
The only thing I'm getting here, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is rain for about two weeks now, the grass needs cutting desperately, can't work in the ground at all right now, it's very discouraging.
I bought a greenstalk, wonder if I can grow kale in it? Your garden is looking really nice.
Greenstalk has a website you can Google and get lots of information on what you can grow in their towers. (I have strawberries in mine.) Blessings on your growing season! 🌻🐛🌿💚
That was fun! I like the camera feature, you're right it does feel like we're walking around with you ❤🌱 I think I'm going to end up having to try for fall cabbage and broccoli 😔 I'm in Michigan, too, and that heat didn't make for happy cold crops, did it?
Hi Rachel, could you tell me where you got the structure for the bug netting on the broccoli and cabbages? Thank you.
How often are you gonna record? It seems like it’s been forever since you’ve posted a video and you are one of my favorite people to watch. Do you have a new schedule once a week twice a week once a month? I need to know so I can look forward to it, thanks again. I love you.❤
we went out of town to the cabin for about 5 days, then to Utah for a family gathering. we're back home now, so we should get back to 2-3 per week now.
there's more here if you really miss us ♥ www.youtube.com/@toddrachel
You deserve a break!!! I just love your videos!💖
We had massive hail come through last week…. It ruined a lot. I tried fixing what I hopefully could, but super disappointing. I wanted to ask you onion master😂 if I cut the tops of my damaged onion tops way down, would it hurt them?
It could if they are too mature
Hi Rachel! Do brassicas require pollinators? If so, how does that occur with the tent over them? Your clematis is absolutely gorgeous!
Pollinators are not necessary unless you want to harvest seeds or fruits of a plant. We eat the vegetative parts of brassicas (leaves, stems, etc), so no pollinators needed. The broccoli “tree” that we eat technically is the flower part but we harvest it before they open up. If you want to save your own seeds, then you would let the brassica mature well past the point of harvesting for eating and leave it open to the pollinators during the flowering stage.
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I have used egg shell under my tomatoes plants I trun it in too powder it works so good ! I give tomatoes away ! Wanted to share with u !
Great video - let’s connect one of these days. We were formerly called The Farm Life Project and recently rebranded as Four Brothers Farm. We actually moderated your live stream a couple years ago! Glad to see you’re doing well.
Do you have a camera that detects your movement? Just watching you pull weeds and seeing the adjustments very good
Yeah, it has a follow me mode.
Hello, can you tell me what you use yo keep insects from eating up your crops? Planted a few things and something is already munching up my basil..😔
I think I water too much. You water just once a week?
Looks like you had a lovely day in the garden. 100 degrees and almost 60% humidity today in Texas. 😓
Once or twice. You definitely do not want to water too frequently or your plants will never develop strong root systems. Deep water less frequently
What are you sprinkling for fertilizer?
Biolive all purpose vegetable
What is that purple climbing vine?
Clematis
Jackmani variety I think. It does the best for me in the same part of Michigan
Hopey’all are ok there - I know the weather has been crazy, but we haven’t heard from you in almost 2 weeks……
We went to the cabin off the grid for a while, then to Utah for a family event.
Please tell us about the new camera feature that follows you? What is it called? Thanks!
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Your garden is beautiful! What kind of camera are you using?
DJI Pocket 3
Hello from eastern Canada, zone 5b :)
...I havent been a gardener for very long but Ive seen so many people grow their tomatoes and peppers in greenhouses, I thought that was the best way so I just built a hoophouse for them on my new property. It gets super hot in there and I've been trying to open up the sides and ends to have airflow but...is it going to kill all my plants?
You saying tomatoes don't flower in high heat has me thinking of taking them out of there.
What do you think?
It will get too hot. I am in a zone 6b and I have a big shade cloth over my high tunnel and it still gets up to 120* or higher in there in the summer. I also have two fans, the sides rolled up and a vent and the door open. I tried growing tomatoes and peppers in there for two summers and didn’t get much of a harvest. It’s pretty crazy. I’ve pretty much given up on growing in there in the summer. It’s mainly for lengthening the season for me. I can’t even grow much in the winter because it costs too much to heat it. It is about 20x30’.
You need a green house or a high tunnel. I can see you starting so many flowers!
What fertilizer are you using? I can’t find reference anywhere?
It's down to earth bio live
Found it. Thanks Rachael!
Canadian thistle?
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Would love to know the name of your new camera. We are considering upgrading. Happy retirement!!
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what kind of camera do you use?
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I know what you can do is, but it would be an investment on your part. Buy a greenhouse, you have the land for it. Nancy from Nebraska