for the first time of 40 years of gardening, my tomatoes and my green beans struggled and I only got 3 tomatoes - we had a very wet and cold spring early summer and I wonder if that added to it. My pumpkins were wonderful!
@@SoilandMargaritas It's me, I tend to plant them with things that are obviously divas as far as water and fertilizer are concerned. I will plant them with my Russian sage, with so many colors I'm bound to find one that will go great with the purple color of the flower and gray green of the leaves. Since we both garden in Indiana (northwest zone 6) there shouldn't be much difference. I love love love watching you garden! Not an expert, but I/you/we/all, know what we like! You go girl.
A big thank you to all the gardeners who shared their experiences. Things I learned is that sometimes an extra effort is required to be successful. And not to be discouraged by failures but rather try again. Thank you Roxana for the encouragement to be a better gardener!
My big challenge has been the gophers. They have moved in en masse. Trapping hasn’t been effective enough so I will be planting many things with cages or in protected raised beds. I have gardened here for 25 years with no problems and suddenly they appeared. So digging and replanting this next Spring and Summer.
Hi, Roxana! Some familiar faces here, but so many new to me. Thanks for sharing! Watering and keeping track of what works and what doesn’t is always my biggest problems with failures in the garden. Enjoy your weekend!
The whole summer and fall was a struggle because of our excessive heat and drought. So many plants died or just didn't thrive. I am having to start over on so many plants. Stop trying to have a zone 6 or 7 garden...no more trying to grow Hydrangeas or Dahlias in Texas heat.
I agree with Michelle from gardens and chickens. Seems like every year the water (drought) gets a little more serious. My plants suffered last year also because of drought. This year I want to collect rain off my shed into rain barrels. Since I am on a well, the constant worry of a dry well is possible. Let’s all hope for a better 2023
Hi Roxana, I love your channel, content, and garden. I have learned a lot from you. Your limelight hydrengea hedge was my inspiration to plant it as well. Three years later, none of my plants - hydrengea, arbovitae, boxwoods, etc. want to grow. They look great, are not dead, just nothing wants to grow in my heavy, heavy clay soil. Maybe I dug small holes, maybe I'm not fertilizing enough. That's my biggest struggle. (Central Ohio, zone 6a)
Have you checked if you have a drainage issue where you planted them? Moya of Garden Addictz has heavy clay soil and she was dealing with some issues last year.
Thanks for doing this! And thanks for introducing us to some new channels. I already follow Matthew at the Southerner's Northern Garden but it was great to find some new channels to follow too. My biggest fail was not getting a drip system started. I just got too busy but I have to get this done. I think I need to start small and just get some drip installed each year and then build on that. We get no rain in the summer here in the Pacific Northwest so watering by hand can take a few hours every day and it exhausts me.
I’ve tried sweet peas two years in a row and I cannot seem to be successful. I love them and this year I suppose I will try again. Having rabbits living under my deck always has an impact on my success with any plant.
Thanks Roxana! This was great to hear all these struggles. It’s important to know everyone has struggles and mistakes in their gardens, even seasoned gardeners 👍
Thanks to all the gardeners that shared in this video. It’s good to know that others struggle too. Tomatoes were my struggle last year. I did everything I thought was right and they still failed. But, after talking to other gardeners in my zone 6b I think the heat of last summer made it difficult. Thanks Roxanna for doing this video💚💚
Thanks for sharing Katrice! Yup, tomatoes were a huge disappointment here as well, I am changing their spot in my garden beds and maybe that will change things up.
Thanks for sharing this. I really enjoyed hearing everyone else’s struggles. Boy have I had my fair share of failures and its nice to know your not alone.
This makes me feel much better about my losses this winter. I have never had a winter this cold in 7b. My hardy succulents died. My rosemary died. I’ve been growing rosemary for decades and it’s always been hardy no matter what. I put down double frost blankets on my succulents and they still didn’t make it. Devastated.
Great video. I'm in 5b and we also had super high days in May. It really shocked many of my plants. We had some unusually cool days later on and the swings in temps was hard on my garden. My melons were my real fail this year. I don't really know why, as the year prior was amazing and I did all the same things
I know my soil in my raised beds was really rich year 1 - 3, nor on year 4 I definitely have to add more of that because the level is also going down. Moving things around is also a good idea, this year I will move my tomatoes from my "fence" line into the middle beds. Fingers crossed!
I am so glad you shared this! 22 was my first year with my own garden and had the same experience with my tomatoes. This is encouraging for me to try again this year
I've been gardening for years and I had a pretty mediocre year of tomatoes in raised beds in 2022. What was interesting is that I took 3 leftover tomato starts and planted them in the ground rather than in a raised bed. And those tomatoes did great! This year I am not planting any in the raised beds, only directly in the ground. I think the soil in the raised beds beds has been depleted from growing tomatoes for four years. So try putting your tomatoes someplace different than where they grew last year and don't forget that tomatoes need a lot of consistent watering. Good luck in 2023 😊
@Clarendon Lady thank you 😊 I think the watering may have been part of it. We had some bouts of hot windy weather and some of mine were in grow bags. The ones in my raised bed did great but also was first year anything was grown in them too. I did get tomatoes on all plants but some plants were blah looking and like my beefsteak did have a good amount the tomatoes were small to medium in size.
Great video Roxanna and friends! Jo-Ann lives in the same province as I do. I truly enjoy her videos. It’s really nice to share and learn with other gardeners.
Loved this video Roxana and great to meet some of your YT gardener friends. I did lose some lovely plants in the heatwave, my English garden was just not used to that, and I don’t have drip irrigation - never needed it before as normally we get a lot of rain. So despite me trying to keep on top of the hose watering, it was tough. Plus I lost one of my favourite topiaries, but that was completely my fault as I decided to move it somewhere else and I ended up killing it!! I’ve also lost my newly planted yukka because I didn’t cover it up and we had snow which stayed for a week. However, having said all that, I’ve also learned a lot from what I did wrong so … it’s not all bad. Hope you have a fabulous weekend - still too cold here to do much in the garden just yet but lots of life appearing with my bulbs which is exciting ❤🎉
Fabulous video with all these amazing gardeners! Thank you for putting this video together, Roxanna. Wonderful info! We all have failures. Nature and weather can be fickle. My tomatoes didn't do well either with all the horrific heat here in North Texas. Along with some favorite plants. But looking forward to this Spring and Summer and praying for success in the garden and a better harvest for all of us
Thank you Roxana, and many thanks to all of your gardening experts. Note: I recognized your tomato plants as mine also failed. I did have success with Juliet pear tomatoes. Always asking myself "what's up with that?" Looking forward to your spring vids!
Hi Roxana, nice video. I enjoyed hearing your failures and struggles for 2022. I am 2 hours straight West of you in Illinois. Yes, that May super heat of 95 degrees came early. My 2022 struggle was an extreme infestation of white flies in early September. They show up every September but 2022 they showed up in the millions and sucked the life out of my container petunias until they died. Not even insecticidal soap helped. TY for a great vid👍👍. Have a good weekend.
Thank you for this video introducing these other gardeners. My biggest fail were the 30 crowns of asparagus that I planted last spring. Not one came up! Trying again this year but in raised beds. I think my heavy clay and wet spring drowned/rotted them.
I had the worst Garden Failures last year than any of my many years of growing! I can't even list them. I'm taking a step back this year. Not giving up. But my Father is 89 and I've had to shift my priorities. I have to do what I can, where I can. I have many perennial flowers and that will be enough. The Produce Garden may not be at all this year. Maybe...we'll see. I really appreciate this video! Through it all, I never gave up last year.
I’m sorry to hear that! Maybe by the time you get to the warm weather you can just buy a couple of veggies to get you thru this season, like you said… priorities first and know that the garden will be there for when you are ready.
Hi Roxana! Another great video. My struggles last year were tomatoes and squash…..but I’m all hyped up to try them again this year😂! Thank you for bringing guests to your channel, I’d been waiting for new gardeners to follow and decided to subscribe to all of them! Peace-
I have grown seeds inside for at least 5 years, but this year I had an Aphid and fungus gnat infestation that made me throw a bunch of the plants into the compost bin. I totally felt like a failure and felt guilt about all the wasted seeds, plants, soil, and time spent on it. This year I am doing more fungus gnat prevention and trying ways to not even let it get to be the problem it was last year. The biggest reason for the outbreak was having someone water my plants in March when we were gone for a week. They had never gardened and then overwatered everything, killing things and setting the fungus gnats up for exponential multiplication. Lesson learned: do not overwater and do not let others overwater for you
:( :( I have the horrible gnats but only towards the last couple of weeks before I am ready to take everything out, nothing a sticky trap won't fix... sorry to hear about yours!
Great sharing of stories. I just rewatched your winter sowing (tote) videos and am going to try it that way this year. Here we gooooo! We had to cut a peach tree down too, as it was overtaken by pests and disease. They need constant spraying and we just aren’t going to do that 🤷♀️ trying to establish pawpaw and persimmon this year instead.
I've watched a lot of videos on tomatoes and how to prune them to mostly one main stem. I've done that for two years in a row and my tomato harvests have been just so so. This year I am not going to do that. I grow mostly heirlooms and wonder if I am cutting off too much and not allowing them to produce to capacity. I've only lightly pruned tomatoes in the past (at a different property) and the only issue I had was trying to keep them from growing all over the place. The one stem pruning method hasn't worked for me.
You know, while I do my best to keep them at one stem, they definitely get away from me and become a 3-5 stem, they do great here that way and I will probably be a little more relaxed this year but I will give them a bit more room to grow as well.
I’m also giving up the one stem method this year. I’m going back to just good watering, fertilizing and little to no leaf pruning. And I’m only growing determinate tomatoes this year💚💚
Hola Roxana, espero que todo bien contigo. One of my fails and was heartbreaking as well, was I lost a lot of plants that I started from seeds. I was devastated!!! It happened at the beginning of my season when it was “safe” to plant outside. After spending months taking care of these plants to have them die was awful. My last frost day is typically end of April but here in Michigan the weather is unpredictable so I always wait until after Memorial Day. Which is what I did last year, we experienced colder temps in early June and I lost about half my seedlings. No te miento que en verdad llore. I felt like a failure and I didn’t garden at that whole week. After I got in my feels I snapped out of it and I got to work repairing what I could. A few of them bounced back and i went and bought more plants lol.
Hi Roxanna I planted 4 emerald green arborvitae early spring 2022 behind my Panicle hydrangeas and they were gorgeous for about 4 months and then I had to remove all 4 of them. I think that the area stays too wet and maybe I planted them too deep because the hydrangea are fine. My yard is heavy clay soil. Since they are hardy to zone 3 I'm thinking maybe keeping them in large containers as a last resort. I would love to replace them so any help would be great!
I was going to mention keeping them in containers, I don't normally deal with clay but honestly, I would visit one of your local garden nurseries and talk to someone local about some of your choices for evergreens for clay soil, I can mention a few here but I don't have your type of soil so I would just be throwing guesses for you.
Cool topic, thanks for compiling this video! I am an experienced gardener and daylily collector. Early last spring I revamped one of my beds and moved three daylilies that hadn’t been blooming like I expected them to, into the newly renovated bed to see if they’d do better there. Two of the daylilies I moved (Malaysian Monarch and Jungle Beauty) bloomed very nicely, better than I had hoped for. The third, Heavenly Angel Ice, didn’t bloom at all and even the foliage was fairly wimpy. This is a very $$$ daylily and a Stout Award Winner, so it really should be blooming. Stout Award or not, this plant may make another move- into my compost pile!- if it doesn’t bloom at all again this year! Thanks for letting me vent, LOL!
The only tomatoes that produced for me in 2022 was the sweet 100s cherry tomatoes. Every large tomatoes had a large black spots on the part that was facing down.
My home garden was attacked by critters…I think a groundhog. My bean crop went from ready to pick to stripped to the stem overnight. Greens on the lower levels of my Greenstalk were also eaten clean. Very frustrating. I need to get some better fencing protection.
Thank you Roxana for including me in your video!
Thank you so much for being part of it!
Thank you for putting this together! Love hearing about others struggles 😂 makes me feel less… sucky 🤣
LOL We are all sucky to a level lol
This was fun, Roxana! Thanks for including me. Last year was not a tomato year for me either. Tomatoes and peppers both struggled.
This year friend, this year we will be so sick of tomatoes!!! You'll see! Thank you for participating!
Nice to meet you! Your garden is lovely.
for the first time of 40 years of gardening, my tomatoes and my green beans struggled and I only got 3 tomatoes - we had a very wet and cold spring early summer and I wonder if that added to it. My pumpkins were wonderful!
I have yet to grow pumpkins here, you'll see, we will get tons of tomatoes this year!
Hello everyone! My biggest struggle is coreopsis, either from seed or plant starts it doesn't matter! UHGG!
Really? I feel like for myself Coreopsis is one that gets wild here. The less I do for it the better it does.
@@SoilandMargaritas It's me, I tend to plant them with things that are obviously divas as far as water and fertilizer are concerned. I will plant them with my Russian sage, with so many colors I'm bound to find one that will go great with the purple color of the flower and gray green of the leaves. Since we both garden in Indiana (northwest zone 6) there shouldn't be much difference. I love love love watching you garden! Not an expert, but I/you/we/all, know what we like! You go girl.
I have trouble with coreopsis because I tend to overwater. See one plant that needs water and end up watering everything!
A big thank you to all the gardeners who shared their experiences. Things I learned is that sometimes an extra effort is required to be successful. And not to be discouraged by failures but rather try again. Thank you Roxana for the encouragement to be a better gardener!
Oh I completely agree! Sometimes the extra effort makes all the difference!
We have a whole year to look forward to and I cannot wait 🌺
Same here friend! I am ready!!! 😘
My big challenge has been the gophers. They have moved in en masse. Trapping hasn’t been effective enough so I will be planting many things with cages or in protected raised beds. I have gardened here for 25 years with no problems and suddenly they appeared. So digging and replanting this next Spring and Summer.
Good luck! I am sure by now they know where the good eats are :(
I really like this video of different gardeners perspective 👍🌱💕
I agree!!! It makes me feel better knowing I am not alone in my struggles!
Hi, Roxana! Some familiar faces here, but so many new to me. Thanks for sharing! Watering and keeping track of what works and what doesn’t is always my biggest problems with failures in the garden. Enjoy your weekend!
You are so welcome!
The whole summer and fall was a struggle because of our excessive heat and drought. So many plants died or just didn't thrive. I am having to start over on so many plants. Stop trying to have a zone 6 or 7 garden...no more trying to grow Hydrangeas or Dahlias in Texas heat.
I am so sorry Diane!
I agree with Michelle from gardens and chickens. Seems like every year the water (drought) gets a little more serious. My plants suffered last year also because of drought. This year I want to collect rain off my shed into rain barrels. Since I am on a well, the constant worry of a dry well is possible. Let’s all hope for a better 2023
Sending good vibes your way friend!
I'll be going to Gardens and Chickens to learn from another southern gardener. Thanks. (Arkansas)
Such a fun video. I love seeing how other gardeners are dealing with issues. The YT gardening community is so fun! Great job everyone.
This community is amazing!
Thanks for the invite Roxana!! Glad to see I’m not the only one that struggles!😂😂😂
Thank you so much for participating E!
Thank you for putting this together for us. I pretty much think I'll be just starting over this year with every thing!! Ha!
Oh No :( Sometimes we have to do that for a few things!
Hi Roxana, I love your channel, content, and garden. I have learned a lot from you. Your limelight hydrengea hedge was my inspiration to plant it as well. Three years later, none of my plants - hydrengea, arbovitae, boxwoods, etc. want to grow. They look great, are not dead, just nothing wants to grow in my heavy, heavy clay soil. Maybe I dug small holes, maybe I'm not fertilizing enough. That's my biggest struggle. (Central Ohio, zone 6a)
Have you checked if you have a drainage issue where you planted them? Moya of Garden Addictz has heavy clay soil and she was dealing with some issues last year.
Thanks for doing this! And thanks for introducing us to some new channels. I already follow Matthew at the Southerner's Northern Garden but it was great to find some new channels to follow too. My biggest fail was not getting a drip system started. I just got too busy but I have to get this done. I think I need to start small and just get some drip installed each year and then build on that. We get no rain in the summer here in the Pacific Northwest so watering by hand can take a few hours every day and it exhausts me.
Same here, I am going to slowly get some areas ready for drip irrigation, while I love watering I do not mind if I can cut my time in half.
I’ve tried sweet peas two years in a row and I cannot seem to be successful. I love them and this year I suppose I will try again. Having rabbits living under my deck always has an impact on my success with any plant.
Fingers crossed for you! Sweet peas just took a while for me to bloom, so much work for a few blooms... they were lovely but super late.
Thanks Roxana! This was great to hear all these struggles. It’s important to know everyone has struggles and mistakes in their gardens, even seasoned gardeners 👍
Exactly! Thank you!
Great video, really enjoyed this!! Getting me super excited for the next season.
Same here!
Thanks to all the gardeners that shared in this video. It’s good to know that others struggle too. Tomatoes were my struggle last year. I did everything I thought was right and they still failed. But, after talking to other gardeners in my zone 6b I think the heat of last summer made it difficult. Thanks Roxanna for doing this video💚💚
Thanks for sharing Katrice! Yup, tomatoes were a huge disappointment here as well, I am changing their spot in my garden beds and maybe that will change things up.
Thanks for sharing this. I really enjoyed hearing everyone else’s struggles. Boy have I had my fair share of failures and its nice to know your not alone.
You are so welcome friend! We all have our kinds of failures in the garden.
Excellent idea with the garden collab!! Veer much enjoyed!! 🌱
This makes me feel much better about my losses this winter. I have never had a winter this cold in 7b. My hardy succulents died. My rosemary died. I’ve been growing rosemary for decades and it’s always been hardy no matter what. I put down double frost blankets on my succulents and they still didn’t make it. Devastated.
Great video. I'm in 5b and we also had super high days in May. It really shocked many of my plants. We had some unusually cool days later on and the swings in temps was hard on my garden. My melons were my real fail this year. I don't really know why, as the year prior was amazing and I did all the same things
I know my soil in my raised beds was really rich year 1 - 3, nor on year 4 I definitely have to add more of that because the level is also going down. Moving things around is also a good idea, this year I will move my tomatoes from my "fence" line into the middle beds. Fingers crossed!
I am so glad you shared this! 22 was my first year with my own garden and had the same experience with my tomatoes. This is encouraging for me to try again this year
Don't give up! Sometimes even when we do everything right, mother nature has her own plans and ruins ours :)
I've been gardening for years and I had a pretty mediocre year of tomatoes in raised beds in 2022. What was interesting is that I took 3 leftover tomato starts and planted them in the ground rather than in a raised bed. And those tomatoes did great! This year I am not planting any in the raised beds, only directly in the ground. I think the soil in the raised beds beds has been depleted from growing tomatoes for four years. So try putting your tomatoes someplace different than where they grew last year and don't forget that tomatoes need a lot of consistent watering. Good luck in 2023 😊
@Soil and Margaritas I'm spending the winter reading and watching videos to see what i can learn and excited for next garden season.
@Clarendon Lady thank you 😊 I think the watering may have been part of it. We had some bouts of hot windy weather and some of mine were in grow bags. The ones in my raised bed did great but also was first year anything was grown in them too. I did get tomatoes on all plants but some plants were blah looking and like my beefsteak did have a good amount the tomatoes were small to medium in size.
Great video Roxanna and friends! Jo-Ann lives in the same province as I do. I truly enjoy her videos. It’s really nice to share and learn with other gardeners.
Thanks for sharing that! I am so glad you enjoyed the video! Jo-Ann is Amazing!
Thanks Yannie. Appreciate the comment and so happy you get see so many gardeners sharing their opportunities to learn.
@@SoilandMargaritas thanks Roxana for having me join these amazing gardeners.
Crazy weather last summer.
For sure!
Loved this video Roxana and great to meet some of your YT gardener friends. I did lose some lovely plants in the heatwave, my English garden was just not used to that, and I don’t have drip irrigation - never needed it before as normally we get a lot of rain. So despite me trying to keep on top of the hose watering, it was tough. Plus I lost one of my favourite topiaries, but that was completely my fault as I decided to move it somewhere else and I ended up killing it!! I’ve also lost my newly planted yukka because I didn’t cover it up and we had snow which stayed for a week. However, having said all that, I’ve also learned a lot from what I did wrong so … it’s not all bad. Hope you have a fabulous weekend - still too cold here to do much in the garden just yet but lots of life appearing with my bulbs which is exciting ❤🎉
Have a great weekend friend! Pretty soon we will be complaining of the hot weather 🔥🙈🔥
@@SoilandMargaritas 🤣🤣 yes we will 🤣🤣
Fabulous video with all these amazing gardeners! Thank you for putting this video together, Roxanna. Wonderful info! We all have failures. Nature and weather can be fickle. My tomatoes didn't do well either with all the horrific heat here in North Texas. Along with some favorite plants. But looking forward to this Spring and Summer and praying for success in the garden and a better harvest for all of us
It’s going to be an amazing year for the gardens!
Thank you Roxana, and many thanks to all of your gardening experts. Note: I recognized your tomato plants as mine also failed. I did have success with Juliet pear tomatoes. Always asking myself "what's up with that?" Looking forward to your spring vids!
I know!!! My cherries did not even blink with the crazy weather! This year, this IS our year! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
Hi Roxana, nice video. I enjoyed hearing your failures and struggles for 2022. I am 2 hours straight West of you in Illinois. Yes, that May super heat of 95 degrees came early. My 2022 struggle was an extreme infestation of white flies in early September. They show up every September but 2022 they showed up in the millions and sucked the life out of my container petunias until they died. Not even insecticidal soap helped. TY for a great vid👍👍. Have a good weekend.
Oh no :( That sucks! I am growing petunias this year from seed so I am hoping they do well, so far I haven't had any pests that love them.
Thank you for this video introducing these other gardeners. My biggest fail were the 30 crowns of asparagus that I planted last spring. Not one came up! Trying again this year but in raised beds. I think my heavy clay and wet spring drowned/rotted them.
Oh no! Maybe drainage was the issue! I am planning to plant a bunch this Spring in one of my raised beds.
I had the worst Garden Failures last year than any of my many years of growing! I can't even list them. I'm taking a step back this year. Not giving up. But my Father is 89 and I've had to shift my priorities. I have to do what I can, where I can. I have many perennial flowers and that will be enough. The Produce Garden may not be at all this year. Maybe...we'll see. I really appreciate this video! Through it all, I never gave up last year.
I’m sorry to hear that! Maybe by the time you get to the warm weather you can just buy a couple of veggies to get you thru this season, like you said… priorities first and know that the garden will be there for when you are ready.
My main struggle for the last few years was RABBITS! They have become an Epidemic!
Hi Roxana! Another great video. My struggles last year were tomatoes and squash…..but I’m all hyped up to try them again this year😂! Thank you for bringing guests to your channel, I’d been waiting for new gardeners to follow and decided to subscribe to all of them! Peace-
Woo hoo! So glad you enjoyed this video!
I have grown seeds inside for at least 5 years, but this year I had an Aphid and fungus gnat infestation that made me throw a bunch of the plants into the compost bin. I totally felt like a failure and felt guilt about all the wasted seeds, plants, soil, and time spent on it.
This year I am doing more fungus gnat prevention and trying ways to not even let it get to be the problem it was last year.
The biggest reason for the outbreak was having someone water my plants in March when we were gone for a week. They had never gardened and then overwatered everything, killing things and setting the fungus gnats up for exponential multiplication.
Lesson learned: do not overwater and do not let others overwater for you
:( :( I have the horrible gnats but only towards the last couple of weeks before I am ready to take everything out, nothing a sticky trap won't fix... sorry to hear about yours!
Great sharing of stories. I just rewatched your winter sowing (tote) videos and am going to try it that way this year. Here we gooooo!
We had to cut a peach tree down too, as it was overtaken by pests and disease. They need constant spraying and we just aren’t going to do that 🤷♀️ trying to establish pawpaw and persimmon this year instead.
Woohoo! Let’s do this!!
I don’t have any fruit trees but Matthew is the guy to ask about that! So sad when you have to take something down.
I've watched a lot of videos on tomatoes and how to prune them to mostly one main stem. I've done that for two years in a row and my tomato harvests have been just so so. This year I am not going to do that. I grow mostly heirlooms and wonder if I am cutting off too much and not allowing them to produce to capacity. I've only lightly pruned tomatoes in the past (at a different property) and the only issue I had was trying to keep them from growing all over the place. The one stem pruning method hasn't worked for me.
You know, while I do my best to keep them at one stem, they definitely get away from me and become a 3-5 stem, they do great here that way and I will probably be a little more relaxed this year but I will give them a bit more room to grow as well.
I’m also giving up the one stem method this year. I’m going back to just good watering, fertilizing and little to no leaf pruning. And I’m only growing determinate tomatoes this year💚💚
Girl!!! Same with the snapdragons and tomatoes last year!!
:( SO sorry friend! This year will be so much better!
Hola Roxana, espero que todo bien contigo. One of my fails and was heartbreaking as well, was I lost a lot of plants that I started from seeds. I was devastated!!! It happened at the beginning of my season when it was “safe” to plant outside. After spending months taking care of these plants to have them die was awful. My last frost day is typically end of April but here in Michigan the weather is unpredictable so I always wait until after Memorial Day. Which is what I did last year, we experienced colder temps in early June and I lost about half my seedlings. No te miento que en verdad llore. I felt like a failure and I didn’t garden at that whole week. After I got in my feels I snapped out of it and I got to work repairing what I could. A few of them bounced back and i went and bought more plants lol.
No inventes! Yo también hubiera andado chille y chille! It does feel like a failure sometimes, you just gotta go thru that and try again!
Hi Roxanna
I planted 4 emerald green arborvitae early spring 2022 behind my Panicle hydrangeas and they were gorgeous for about 4 months and then I had to remove all 4 of them. I think that the area stays too wet and maybe I planted them too deep because the hydrangea are fine. My yard is heavy clay soil. Since they are hardy to zone 3 I'm thinking maybe keeping them in large containers as a last resort. I would love to replace them so any help would be great!
I was going to mention keeping them in containers, I don't normally deal with clay but honestly, I would visit one of your local garden nurseries and talk to someone local about some of your choices for evergreens for clay soil, I can mention a few here but I don't have your type of soil so I would just be throwing guesses for you.
Cool topic, thanks for compiling this video! I am an experienced gardener and daylily collector. Early last spring I revamped one of my beds and moved three daylilies that hadn’t been blooming like I expected them to, into the newly renovated bed to see if they’d do better there. Two of the daylilies I moved (Malaysian Monarch and Jungle Beauty) bloomed very nicely, better than I had hoped for. The third, Heavenly Angel Ice, didn’t bloom at all and even the foliage was fairly wimpy. This is a very $$$ daylily and a Stout Award Winner, so it really should be blooming. Stout Award or not, this plant may make another move- into my compost pile!- if it doesn’t bloom at all again this year! Thanks for letting me vent, LOL!
🙈 I feel you! I don’t have any day lilies but I bet they look gorgeous! Heavenly Angel Ice better bloom for you this year!
My challenge was SLUGS!! La Niña spring resulted in record cold and rainfall. It was a haven for those suckers😅
🥲🥲🥲 this year hopefully the story will be different!
The only tomatoes that produced for me in 2022 was the sweet 100s cherry tomatoes. Every large tomatoes had a large black spots on the part that was facing down.
🥹 I know the feeling!
My home garden was attacked by critters…I think a groundhog. My bean crop went from ready to pick to stripped to the stem overnight. Greens on the lower levels of my Greenstalk were also eaten clean. Very frustrating. I need to get some better fencing protection.
Oh no 🥲 I’m sorry to hear that!
Thank was nice!
LOVED THIS THX
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