I don’t mind it either. When you keep up with it, it’s not hard to do when checking on the garden. Often just a scuff of the foot is enough for the small ones. Just don’t let them go to seed.
Yeah I don’t mind it too much either, but my front yard is riddled with Bermuda and it’s rocky... I was out every day for two months starting in February... my hand hurts... took a couple weeks off... there’s more Bermuda ... next year it won’t be so much ... but, there can be a tipping point.
The squash vine borers lay very tiny brown adhesive eggs on the stems. Use a compact mirror to check around and underneath them at least every other day.
It's the end of April 2022 now, and I've been pulling off borer eggs for over a month. They left my yellow squash alone for the first 3 weeks, and oddly enough, they're laying eggs on the flower buds more than the stems. I use tape to pull eggs off those and my zucchinis twice a day. I don't know if the drought has bumped up the population, but it's really bad this year. I'm determined to get a decent harvest for once without having to slice open my stems. So far, so good, and I've already harvested a few squash.
I have such a hard time thinning!! I try to start in pots and then place them at appropriate distances because then I won't have to thin them lol I even have a hard time "killing" weeds. I usually harvest and dry out the ones that are medicinal and use later 😬
I'm the same!!! I have "weed" groupings they get relocated too people ask hey what flowers that 😂 one group here one there it looks legitimate hahaha and medicinal weeds always have a place ❤
I get slugs really bad here and they live in and under my containers. It's awful trying to battle them. Other than that nothing else seems to bother the plants but the slugs really do a number on them.
Thanks for the excellent gardening tips. I grew squash last year for the first time. I was surprised to see small beetles having a field day on them so I applied many applications of Diatomaceous Earth. The bugs didn’t do any further damage ! The harvest was amazing.
I learned so much from your video. I have a hard time thinning out my plants because I get attached. 😆 But the way you explained it helped me understand why you have to do it. Thank you, love your channel!
Than you for saying, "don't let people shame your for not being organic" and educating folks on the fact that plants need elements to grow and that the plant can't tell the difference between one made slowly by microbes or made in a lab.... nitrogen is nitrogen!
Actually, nitrogen isn't nitrogen, when it comes to plant availability and health. Some forms are better than others. The best form is what the microbes deliver on demand. The microbes build soil while doing their job, dumping any nitrogen fertilizer, "organic" or "chemical" or whatever, is feeding sugar to kids. Gives them energy, yes, but not a healthy diet. Look up lectures by Dr. Christine Jones here on YT for the full picture.
"Tomatoes are pansies!" Of course, that made me laugh - but my gracious, that's a mouthful. Sometimes, they are the pansy-est. Great video. I always learn something. Thank you!
I'm on the Texas coast and there's tons of seaweed I can get for free. If I leave oak leaves on the ground, they keep the grass from growing. So I rake it up from under my trees and transfer it as a topper for my plants. Plus the leaves keep the weeds at bay, I found 4" works best.
For those weeds with deep roots, use a butter knife to help get the root up. If you don't manage to get the root you can stab down where the weed was to help destroy the root you missed. This also allows you to get weeds growing up close to your plants. I got the idea from someone using a chisel instead of a butter knife.
Good idea. I bought a HoriHori knife, amazing investment. Get some sharpeners to go with and you have an invaluable tool that lasts a long time. Dig, weed, cut and even chop n drop a lot in my food forest.
Just a couple suggestions for others and just a note regarding the watering aspect and I'm sure many do know, so I'm not really telling them, but for others, and since I did not hear it mentioned, while it is totally acceptable to water your plants towards the end of the day you do want to try to limit the amount of water that sits on the plants overnight . This isn't necessarily bad as you know do and rain and everything else gets all over the plants but if you consistently water at night or towards the end of the day and water is consistently staying on your plants long term without some sort of wind or sun or heat of some sort to evaporate the water off, you can create an environment in which viruses diseases etc can more easily spread amongst your plants, especially if you have multiple plants planted together closely, or very dense areas. The warm moist environment of wet plants at night is the perfect harbinger of some of these things. Now obviously just like with dew and with rain, there are going to be times in which your plants are moist so this is not a catch-all rule. you can combat this by selectively pruning your plants to open them up for airflow, which is already a good idea. You can also water at the base of the plant and not water from the top of the plant as some people do. Drip irrigation is even better as you are able to perfectly Target where it goes. If you can, watering in the morning has the most benefit as it has the day to dry off, the sun will be out and I don't know if it's true but UV can be damaging to bacterias and viruses and such, so that may help though that's just kind of a side thought that popped in my head. But watering in the morning gives time for those things to evaporate off and it will thoroughly soak into the ground. I have also found that on exceedingly hot days if my plants seem to be not doing well because they are so hot then at the hottest part of the day I will go out and I will miss the plants which will evaporate fairly rapidly. This evaporation will cause a drop in temperature around the plant and with things like peppers and tomatoes which like to stop producing in the super hottest parts of the year, it can extend that production a little bit. Now this is not intended to water the plant but what it can do is lower the temperature enough and provide enough moisture to those leaves to where they don't need to droop and put all their moisture into the roots as well as keep them cool in the hottest parts of the day. Also, for places that live in drought or in areas that you really need to water a lot, we all know about mulch but providing a very thick layer of mulch much thicker than you would normally at 8 to 12 in of mulch, you can actually help the ground to wick water up through capillary action. Not only will this mulch hold water which will then drain into the ground, but it will provide insulation to the roots as well as water that is on the mulch will evaporate off also lowering the temperature that the soil sees. There have been some studies of people who put this very thick Mulch on in areas that are consistently drought, and they have not needed to water their plants at all. Eventually the multiple breakdown, and the thick layers will facilitate that much quicker, even better if you can inoculate it with something like the king stropharia mushroom , which also is edible so provide an extra source of food for your family, as well the fun guy will help to hold moisture within the wood chips as well. So all of this contributes to more consistent and even water available to the plant so they can uptake as much as they want, it absorbs it and periods of long heavy rains where it would normally run off, is held in The Mulch and allowed to slowly absorb into the ground, and as I mentioned through capillary action will pull water up from deep. And a lot of situations when you go out and you dig a foot down, even in fairly drought areas you will find moisture so if you can protect that top layer you can help that water to remain evenly in there and as your soil improves from the wood chips breaking down the soil retention of water will be even better. Continually adding these chips every couple of years when they break down, and being sure to dig down to plant in the soil. Using things such as hardware cloth cages at the very base to keep the mulch back from the plant. Some things such as Tomatoes once they get big it's not as big of a deal but I digress. If watering is needed with this thick mulch, digging down or watering right at the base of the plant where you have some level of soil available is the best thing to do so you get the water into the soil. Watering on the wood chips themselves every so often is good in order to feed the microlife within it. Four plants that don't want mulch directly around them such as trees and such, you can plant things like Clover which will cover the ground and act as a mulch as well as feed the soil where the plant is. Anyway if anybody read this and found it useful thanks for doing so, happy gardening.
So enjoyed your comment Thank You My 1st year to get out in my yard Had 2 hip Fractures, replaced------- 3rd Fracture was Skull - Drill Holes------ Why I am so excited to have read your tips and get out to start my love of gardening all over again Again, Thank You
Thank you! I 100% agree!! Fertilizer is fertilizer sometimes i feel like there is an organic fertilizing cult 😂 i use both in my garden and appreciate that you use both as well. No shame!
Being in the country, we have always used rainwater. We have had extra dry summers even in NNY, so we stock up with water just in case. We also have a Worx watering sprayer, you just stick the end of the hose in a pail of water or our drum. Works great for washing the van too. Saves wasting well water.
Thank you Scott Head, aka Black Gombo! Your videos on the whole, much like this one, you actually show us what we are up against. You don't just sit on your deck or under your shade tree, or walkabout your garden & videoing & commenting on what, why, when, or how to do something. No sir, you are out in the garden actually doing the tasks thus "showing & telling" as you are doing.THANK YOU for the many "HANDS ON" experiences 😊 Subbing today🙂
I've been using powdered organic fertilizers: Bat guano for nitrogen, peruvian seabird guano for phosphorus and kelp meal and langbeinite for potatsium. Who knows if it actually works, at the very least it isn't killing my plants
Thanks. practical advise and yes, consistency is key in everything in life. Gardening requires time and for many a half hour a day inspecting & watering just isn't a huge sacrifice. If it is you probably don't like gardening to begin with. Consistency, in child raising, house cleaning, home maintenance, child raising, learning any new thing. Enjoy it and expect some challenges.
Wow! Your tomatoes really took off, didn’t they?! 🍅 I’m planning to do drip for the first time when we get our beds built, and I can’t wait. It used to take me over an hour to water back in Charleston each night. Our garden will be significantly bigger here in Texas, Lord willing, so drip it is. 👩🏻🌾
I planted some purple pole beans(I think they were Blauhilde) along with rattlesnake beans last year too close together and the combined weight of the plants bent my 8 foot tall cattle panel trellis. They were growing taller but fell back onto themselves to create a huge plantmass on the top. I had to use metal rods to brace the cattle panel as I was worried the wind would knock it over. I underestimated the weight of pole bean plants.
I'm still all containers but definitely have set my sights on your block gardening. That I can do by myself. I always try to water early but if it's late then I have to make sure I don't get the plants like tomatoes wet....thanks for these great videos. I've learned so much , my lemon trees thank you for their new homemade potting soil 👏👏👏💖
Just moved into a home on a well and the water run through a water softner and a chlorinator. First thing I did was T-off the main pipe coming into the basement to all the spigots so I have all spigots with well water. Working well.
I love that you are not insistent on one particular type of fertilizer. Charles Dowding is a huge inspriration to many gardeners, but he lives in a mild, moist climate that is ideal for creating compost. Also, if you watch enough of his videos, he regularly purchases compost ... he does not create it all on his property. Which is fine! That's how he does it. I think we all should be composting, and you do, and I do, and lots of gardeners do. But most of us can not create enough compost for all of our beds ... and sometimes those chemical fertilizers are great for a cycle or two just to give plants a boost until they really start rooting out.
You can buy filters that attach to your spigot. Its an extra expense I don't bother with but its an option for those that don't mind the spending the extra $.
last year i planted two cherry tomato plants, one where rain gathers in a low spot in partial shade, and one in full sun right next to my compost pile.. the first plant was about 2x3 feet at the end of the season, and had given me a dozen tomatoes.. the one planted by the compost pile was about 10x10, gave me about 200 tomatoes, and started calling me by name and demanding i feed it my neighbors, which i obliged
I am terrible about inspecting, then procrastinating doing anything about those pests! I have spider mites in the tomatoes, powdery mildew on the peas, and I guess grasshoppers on the fava beans. Alright, I'm heading out to conquer at least one right now!
You mentioned fish emulsion I started using fish emulsion three years ago, and what a huge difference it made. I use the Alaska fish emulsion on all vegetables and flowers. One quart goes a long way. I use it on all vegetables and flowers. And you don't have to worry about burning the plants to death from too much nitrogen. I brought a hibiscus in this winter to see if I could try to save it from the killer winters here. Twice I've attempted to nurse hibiscus plants indoors to replant in the spring. Both times they died. This past winter, while indoors, I fertilized it once a month with the fish emulsion. Even though it lost about 30% of it's leaves, it stayed vibrant and healthy. I'm convinced the fish emulsion was the variable that saved it from the same fate as the other two. It's been replanted outdoors now for a little over a month, and thriving, and is nearly filled in with new leaf growth along with the leaves it kept during winter. With inflation hitting even the garden industry, it's nice to save the $50.00 that a hibiscus the size of ours would cost to replace if I hadn't brought it in.
Scott i saw on another video someone saying squash bugs hate cedar, so they put a layer of cedar chips all around their squash and zuchinni and werent bothered with bugs all year.
I had to close up my garden back in November it just got too cold around here in Oklahoma of course I still have onions in my garden we'll just have to see how they do with the Arctic blast coming am I going to drink the water tonight
I just found this video today and may I say that it is the most informative video I have seen! I only tried growing a container tomato plant once and because we have so many squirrels who were getting inside of the wire I just gave up but I'm going to try again and this time I will apply the wire so there are no openings. One squirrel had the nerve to leave a half eaten baby tomato on my deck railing as a reminder that he would be back😂
My first garden I overwatered because of drooping 0lants and someone telling me they needed watering. Ear plugs work very well for listening to others,
Thanks for your comment about not performing organic gardening. This is my first year with a garden in many years. Organic just wasn't going to happen. No way that I could afford to do that. But good old triple 13 can get me going. And with a good two year timeliness, I can progress towards organic.
Thank you Scott for the good tips, especially on differentiating at what season what fertilizer to give the plants and at a later date the other, checking the Home Depot here for the fish emulsion. Thanks buddy, liked and wishing ya an IRIE Sunday! :)
Great tips Scott, I always plan to water and feed my tubs but I'm never very consistent as I'm always working on other aspects of the garden. This year I hope to be better. Thanks for sharing.
Great video Scott. I must be lucky in that I started out using sips (Sub Irrigated Planters). You really need to try a five gallon sip as a test Scott. 1. Watering is consistent. There is at least a gallon of water in a reservoir in each planter that the plants have access to. 2. While I water in the morning, since its going into reservoir in the bottom it isnt evaporating as easily. 3. It also makes weeding easier, after mulching the top, weeding is easy. As I water I pluck out the few weeds I see.
Are you referring to as SIP planters like grow boxes? I have three I believe and they work great. I just put water in spout and releases when needed. Great containers!
Culling the herd is what I'm going to have to do on my 6X6 of beans and peas or they will either choke each other out and/or Jack and the beanstalk will not just be a book. We shall see...great informative video Thanks!
This probably isn't the video for it, but as far as fertilizer goes, soil test! Some soils don't hold certain nutrients well, and different nutrients are more or less available depending on the soil ph. If you are using synthetic fertilizers, use small amounts more often, and don't apply before a rain storm as it's water soluble and can easily wash away and into our water systems. That said, your weather looks fantastic!
And yes, I lost my 2 gorgeous egg plants to spider mites last year. Eventually white flys took over my cucumbers and squashes and that was the first time I pulled any insecticides out: spinosad. Worked decently enough to extend harvest but I decided to throw the away in the trash soon after. The joys of South Texas gardening.
Great video, very helpful.... I tend to over water my plants, I am learning but still have a little way to go.... this video will be a great help thank you
I do have a ton of paper and red wasps working my garden, along with a formidable army of lady bug and a few baby mantis, so hopefully I dont have to pull out any big guns. The lady bugs are eating really good on the aphids and keeping them beautifully in check! Man, this coming week is gonna be hot and dry.
even after a drizzling morning. check watering. it may not have soaked in . but the finger test is easy. hey people, you bought soap! dirt probably won't hurt you.
Or it may have soaked one area of the yard but not another. I had that happen recently. The side of my yard was soaked and almost all of my containers had water. But, my banana pepper was bone dry.
I’m just 3 1/2 hours north of you in East Texas and your growth is SO far more advanced than mine! I just got my tomatoes in the ground yesterday because the weather keeps dropping so low at night!
Thanks for bringing up chlorine! I have to hand water and I’m alway worried about it. I got a $40 water purifier for my kitchen sink and also bought some vitamin c powder just in case (haven’t used yet). My plants seem to be super happy so far, but I think I’d rather my water filter included vit c beads. Ah well.
I have a fertilizer question!! :) I reference your Newb's Guide to tomato gardening video when potting my tomato seedlings -- love that video! I start them out with the Dr. Earth fertilizer that you use. When does that typically "wear off," and when should I introduce an every-two-weeks liquid fertilizer? Thanks!
I love that you don’t use any weed killer or poisons that can harm wildlife, I have just found you and I am loving your ethos. Love from Scotland.
I actually like weeding. I carry an old spoon in my pocket and if I see a weed it gets dug up then and there. 'Aha! Not today, buddy.'
I don’t mind it either. When you keep up with it, it’s not hard to do when checking on the garden. Often just a scuff of the foot is enough for the small ones. Just don’t let them go to seed.
Yeah I don’t mind it too much either, but my front yard is riddled with Bermuda and it’s rocky... I was out every day for two months starting in February... my hand hurts... took a couple weeks off... there’s more Bermuda ... next year it won’t be so much ... but, there can be a tipping point.
Well do you wanna come over to my house please lol🌺
Ive just begun on raw property...so im gonna use the no dig method with cardboard...cause its rocky weedy and extremely overwhelming🤪🥰🌸🌺🌻🌷🌾🍃💝
That's cute🥰
That's the best video you've made to date for new gardeners, thanks Scott :)
The squash vine borers lay very tiny brown adhesive eggs on the stems. Use a compact mirror to check around and underneath them at least every other day.
It's the end of April 2022 now, and I've been pulling off borer eggs for over a month. They left my yellow squash alone for the first 3 weeks, and oddly enough, they're laying eggs on the flower buds more than the stems. I use tape to pull eggs off those and my zucchinis twice a day. I don't know if the drought has bumped up the population, but it's really bad this year. I'm determined to get a decent harvest for once without having to slice open my stems. So far, so good, and I've already harvested a few squash.
I have such a hard time thinning!! I try to start in pots and then place them at appropriate distances because then I won't have to thin them lol I even have a hard time "killing" weeds. I usually harvest and dry out the ones that are medicinal and use later 😬
I'm the same!!! I have "weed" groupings they get relocated too people ask hey what flowers that 😂 one group here one there it looks legitimate hahaha and medicinal weeds always have a place ❤
Nice lesson. This year I have containers all around my house. Hopefully I can grow some stuff this year without all the critters ruining it.
I get slugs really bad here and they live in and under my containers. It's awful trying to battle them. Other than that nothing else seems to bother the plants but the slugs really do a number on them.
Thanks for the excellent gardening tips. I grew squash last year for the first time. I was surprised to see small beetles having a field day on them so I applied many applications of Diatomaceous Earth. The bugs didn’t do any further damage ! The harvest was amazing.
I learned so much from your video. I have a hard time thinning out my plants because I get attached. 😆 But the way you explained it helped me understand why you have to do it. Thank you, love your channel!
Than you for saying, "don't let people shame your for not being organic" and educating folks on the fact that plants need elements to grow and that the plant can't tell the difference between one made slowly by microbes or made in a lab.... nitrogen is nitrogen!
Actually, nitrogen isn't nitrogen, when it comes to plant availability and health. Some forms are better than others. The best form is what the microbes deliver on demand. The microbes build soil while doing their job, dumping any nitrogen fertilizer, "organic" or "chemical" or whatever, is feeding sugar to kids. Gives them energy, yes, but not a healthy diet. Look up lectures by Dr. Christine Jones here on YT for the full picture.
Okay.
Great reminder not to skip out on fertilizer. Sometimes I let too much time go between feedings.
"Tomatoes are pansies!" Of course, that made me laugh - but my gracious, that's a mouthful. Sometimes, they are the pansy-est. Great video. I always learn something. Thank you!
I'm getting ready to plant some cucumbers, thanks for the advice.
Concrete blocked raised beds looks great.
You're wonderful. Love your videos and tips. 🌱🥰
Happy Easter to you. 💛✝️🙏
I'm on the Texas coast and there's tons of seaweed I can get for free. If I leave oak leaves on the ground, they keep the grass from growing. So I rake it up from under my trees and transfer it as a topper for my plants. Plus the leaves keep the weeds at bay, I found 4" works best.
Your series of videos are theeee best!!
For those weeds with deep roots, use a butter knife to help get the root up. If you don't manage to get the root you can stab down where the weed was to help destroy the root you missed. This also allows you to get weeds growing up close to your plants. I got the idea from someone using a chisel instead of a butter knife.
Good idea. I bought a HoriHori knife, amazing investment. Get some sharpeners to go with and you have an invaluable tool that lasts a long time. Dig, weed, cut and even chop n drop a lot in my food forest.
I agree. I prefer to weed after a good rain when its cooler and most weeds come out completely.
Just a couple suggestions for others and just a note regarding the watering aspect and I'm sure many do know, so I'm not really telling them, but for others, and since I did not hear it mentioned, while it is totally acceptable to water your plants towards the end of the day you do want to try to limit the amount of water that sits on the plants overnight . This isn't necessarily bad as you know do and rain and everything else gets all over the plants but if you consistently water at night or towards the end of the day and water is consistently staying on your plants long term without some sort of wind or sun or heat of some sort to evaporate the water off, you can create an environment in which viruses diseases etc can more easily spread amongst your plants, especially if you have multiple plants planted together closely, or very dense areas.
The warm moist environment of wet plants at night is the perfect harbinger of some of these things.
Now obviously just like with dew and with rain, there are going to be times in which your plants are moist so this is not a catch-all rule.
you can combat this by selectively pruning your plants to open them up for airflow, which is already a good idea. You can also water at the base of the plant and not water from the top of the plant as some people do. Drip irrigation is even better as you are able to perfectly Target where it goes. If you can, watering in the morning has the most benefit as it has the day to dry off, the sun will be out and I don't know if it's true but UV can be damaging to bacterias and viruses and such, so that may help though that's just kind of a side thought that popped in my head. But watering in the morning gives time for those things to evaporate off and it will thoroughly soak into the ground.
I have also found that on exceedingly hot days if my plants seem to be not doing well because they are so hot then at the hottest part of the day I will go out and I will miss the plants which will evaporate fairly rapidly. This evaporation will cause a drop in temperature around the plant and with things like peppers and tomatoes which like to stop producing in the super hottest parts of the year, it can extend that production a little bit.
Now this is not intended to water the plant but what it can do is lower the temperature enough and provide enough moisture to those leaves to where they don't need to droop and put all their moisture into the roots as well as keep them cool in the hottest parts of the day.
Also, for places that live in drought or in areas that you really need to water a lot, we all know about mulch but providing a very thick layer of mulch much thicker than you would normally at 8 to 12 in of mulch, you can actually help the ground to wick water up through capillary action. Not only will this mulch hold water which will then drain into the ground, but it will provide insulation to the roots as well as water that is on the mulch will evaporate off also lowering the temperature that the soil sees. There have been some studies of people who put this very thick Mulch on in areas that are consistently drought, and they have not needed to water their plants at all. Eventually the multiple breakdown, and the thick layers will facilitate that much quicker, even better if you can inoculate it with something like the king stropharia mushroom , which also is edible so provide an extra source of food for your family, as well the fun guy will help to hold moisture within the wood chips as well. So all of this contributes to more consistent and even water available to the plant so they can uptake as much as they want, it absorbs it and periods of long heavy rains where it would normally run off, is held in The Mulch and allowed to slowly absorb into the ground, and as I mentioned through capillary action will pull water up from deep.
And a lot of situations when you go out and you dig a foot down, even in fairly drought areas you will find moisture so if you can protect that top layer you can help that water to remain evenly in there and as your soil improves from the wood chips breaking down the soil retention of water will be even better. Continually adding these chips every couple of years when they break down, and being sure to dig down to plant in the soil. Using things such as hardware cloth cages at the very base to keep the mulch back from the plant. Some things such as Tomatoes once they get big it's not as big of a deal but I digress. If watering is needed with this thick mulch, digging down or watering right at the base of the plant where you have some level of soil available is the best thing to do so you get the water into the soil. Watering on the wood chips themselves every so often is good in order to feed the microlife within it. Four plants that don't want mulch directly around them such as trees and such, you can plant things like Clover which will cover the ground and act as a mulch as well as feed the soil where the plant is. Anyway if anybody read this and found it useful thanks for doing so, happy gardening.
Excellent. Thanks!
So enjoyed your comment
Thank You
My 1st year to get out in my yard
Had 2 hip Fractures, replaced-------
3rd Fracture was Skull - Drill Holes------
Why I am so excited to have read your tips and get out to start my love of gardening all over again
Again, Thank You
Professor pls get your own channel. Very long winded.
@@teresaholland4790 Kind of reminds me of something I'd type out after smoking a fat one.
Thank you! I 100% agree!! Fertilizer is fertilizer sometimes i feel like there is an organic fertilizing cult 😂 i use both in my garden and appreciate that you use both as well. No shame!
Being in the country, we have always used rainwater. We have had extra dry summers even in NNY, so we stock up with water just in case. We also have a Worx watering sprayer, you just stick the end of the hose in a pail of water or our drum. Works great for washing the van too. Saves wasting well water.
Thank you Scott Head, aka Black Gombo!
Your videos on the whole, much like this one, you actually show us what we are up against. You don't just sit on your deck or under your shade tree, or walkabout your garden & videoing & commenting on what, why, when, or how to do something. No sir, you are out in the garden actually doing the tasks thus "showing & telling" as you are doing.THANK YOU for the many "HANDS ON" experiences 😊
Subbing today🙂
Chickweed and purslane are amazing food sources, full of nutrition‼️
Another great video Scott really enjoyed. Thanks for the container vs bed gardening. Can’t wait for next video.
I've been using powdered organic fertilizers: Bat guano for nitrogen, peruvian seabird guano for phosphorus and kelp meal and langbeinite for potatsium. Who knows if it actually works, at the very least it isn't killing my plants
Weeding and working in the garden are my best therapy and healthy tranquilizer. All awesome info. Thx
Blessings
This is my favorite new channel. Wish it was zone 8b so I could import ideas.
The additions, and reorganization you’ve done the garden looks great
Thanks. practical advise and yes, consistency is key in everything in life. Gardening requires time and for many a half hour a day inspecting & watering just isn't a huge sacrifice. If it is you probably don't like gardening to begin with. Consistency, in child raising, house cleaning, home maintenance, child raising, learning any new thing. Enjoy it and expect some challenges.
Thank you, black gumbo (Scott).
Wow! Your tomatoes really took off, didn’t they?! 🍅
I’m planning to do drip for the first time when we get our beds built, and I can’t wait. It used to take me over an hour to water back in Charleston each night. Our garden will be significantly bigger here in Texas, Lord willing, so drip it is. 👩🏻🌾
I’m a patio gardener without a water spout on my balcony. It definitely takes me an hour just to water my small space.
Oh, and I’m 9b.
I planted some purple pole beans(I think they were Blauhilde) along with rattlesnake beans last year too close together and the combined weight of the plants bent my 8 foot tall cattle panel trellis. They were growing taller but fell back onto themselves to create a huge plantmass on the top. I had to use metal rods to brace the cattle panel as I was worried the wind would knock it over. I underestimated the weight of pole bean plants.
I'm still all containers but definitely have set my sights on your block gardening. That I can do by myself. I always try to water early but if it's late then I have to make sure I don't get the plants like tomatoes wet....thanks for these great videos. I've learned so much , my lemon trees thank you for their new homemade potting soil 👏👏👏💖
I love going after bugs in the morning, they're cold and slow.
Are you a bird? Or a lizard perhaps? 🙂
@@kikikut22 no lol. Just a protective gardener!
@@kikikut22 lollol🍃oh my...thats funny🦠🦗🕷🐜🦅🦎
I preferre no bugs! So bummed when I see they've been partying on my planted friends all night.
You say Bugs, I think Bunny.... 🤦🏼♀️😅
Just moved into a home on a well and the water run through a water softner and a chlorinator.
First thing I did was T-off the main pipe coming into the basement to all the spigots so I have all spigots with well water. Working well.
I love that you are not insistent on one particular type of fertilizer. Charles Dowding is a huge inspriration to many gardeners, but he lives in a mild, moist climate that is ideal for creating compost. Also, if you watch enough of his videos, he regularly purchases compost ... he does not create it all on his property. Which is fine! That's how he does it. I think we all should be composting, and you do, and I do, and lots of gardeners do. But most of us can not create enough compost for all of our beds ... and sometimes those chemical fertilizers are great for a cycle or two just to give plants a boost until they really start rooting out.
You can buy filters that attach to your spigot. Its an extra expense I don't bother with but its an option for those that don't mind the spending the extra $.
Great video Scott! You’re garden is looking great! Thank you so much for all your great content.
Being new to gardening, I appreciate all the tips. Thanks for posting them.
last year i planted two cherry tomato plants, one where rain gathers in a low spot in partial shade, and one in full sun right next to my compost pile.. the first plant was about 2x3 feet at the end of the season, and had given me a dozen tomatoes.. the one planted by the compost pile was about 10x10, gave me about 200 tomatoes, and started calling me by name and demanding i feed it my neighbors, which i obliged
I recently heard vitamin c powder will break the chloramine bonds (that dont evaporate off) its something like a tsp or tbsp to a 50 gallon barrel
I recently heard the same. I tried it in the bath water and my normally strong chlorine smell water did not have any chlorine smell at all. 👍🏼
I am terrible about inspecting, then procrastinating doing anything about those pests! I have spider mites in the tomatoes, powdery mildew on the peas, and I guess grasshoppers on the fava beans. Alright, I'm heading out to conquer at least one right now!
You can start by pruning and disposing of what is affected first, do not compost it!
Also, check out Spinosad, its a GREAT organic broad spectrum anti bad bug spray!
You have such a wealth of knowledge! It’s helping me feel more confident about starting a garden.
So nice of you
Thanks so much.I am learning a lot! 🙂
You mentioned fish emulsion I started using fish emulsion three years ago, and what a huge difference it made. I use the Alaska fish emulsion on all vegetables and flowers. One quart goes a long way.
I use it on all vegetables and flowers. And you don't have to worry about burning the plants to death from too much nitrogen.
I brought a hibiscus in this winter to see if I could try to save it from the killer winters here.
Twice I've attempted to nurse hibiscus plants indoors to replant in the spring. Both times they died.
This past winter, while indoors, I fertilized it once a month with the fish emulsion. Even though it lost about 30% of it's leaves, it stayed vibrant and healthy. I'm convinced the fish emulsion was the variable that saved it from the same fate as the other two.
It's been replanted outdoors now for a little over a month, and thriving, and is nearly filled in with new leaf growth along with the leaves it kept during winter.
With inflation hitting even the garden industry, it's nice to save the $50.00 that a hibiscus the size of ours would cost to replace if I hadn't brought it in.
Helpful video, Scott. Your garden looks good,
Great job as usual Scott. Love your show. You identified a bug that I saw just today. Time for Spinosad. Thank you
Can’t thank you enough, Scott! 🙏🏼 What an amazing video!!!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Scott i saw on another video someone saying squash bugs hate cedar, so they put a layer of cedar chips all around their squash and zuchinni and werent bothered with bugs all year.
Thank you! You are very knowledgeable and down to earth! Pun intended 😊
I had to close up my garden back in November it just got too cold around here in Oklahoma of course I still have onions in my garden we'll just have to see how they do with the Arctic blast coming am I going to drink the water tonight
I just found this video today and may I say that it is the most informative video I have seen! I only tried growing a container tomato plant once and because we have so many squirrels who were getting inside of the wire I just gave up but I'm going to try again and this time I will apply the wire so there are no openings. One squirrel had the nerve to leave a half eaten baby tomato on my deck railing as a reminder that he would be back😂
Very helpful. Thanks for a well-done instruction video.
Dope hat.
Great info, thanks for the encouragement and tips, and I also watch to get a glimpse of your Corgi! (I have 2!)
My first garden I overwatered because of drooping 0lants and someone telling me they needed watering. Ear plugs work very well for listening to others,
Great video! Thanks for commenting on potted plants.
Thanks for sharing such great information😍
Thanks for the tips, i.e., the consistent tips. Very pertinent and helpful. God bless you and your garden
Hi I'm new to your channel and I found this video to be one of the most informative I have seen. Many thanks, Mary
Thanks for your comment about not performing organic gardening. This is my first year with a garden in many years. Organic just wasn't going to happen. No way that I could afford to do that. But good old triple 13 can get me going. And with a good two year timeliness, I can progress towards organic.
Thank you for the important info! God bless!
Thank you Scott for the good tips, especially on differentiating at what season what fertilizer to give the plants and at a later date the other, checking the Home Depot here for the fish emulsion. Thanks buddy, liked and wishing ya an IRIE Sunday! :)
Great tips Scott, I always plan to water and feed my tubs but I'm never very consistent as I'm always working on other aspects of the garden. This year I hope to be better. Thanks for sharing.
Great video Scott. I must be lucky in that I started out using sips (Sub Irrigated Planters). You really need to try a five gallon sip as a test Scott. 1. Watering is consistent. There is at least a gallon of water in a reservoir in each planter that the plants have access to. 2. While I water in the morning, since its going into reservoir in the bottom it isnt evaporating as easily. 3. It also makes weeding easier, after mulching the top, weeding is easy. As I water I pluck out the few weeds I see.
Are you referring to as SIP planters like grow boxes? I have three I believe and they work great. I just put water in spout and releases when needed. Great containers!
Thank you so much for all this information!!!!
Culling the herd is what I'm going to have to do on my 6X6 of beans and peas or they will either choke each other out and/or Jack and the beanstalk will not just be a book. We shall see...great informative video Thanks!
Thanks
Love this tutorial! So complete and informative! Ty for your time and sharing your knowledge!
thanks brother , and what an awesome hat!!!!!!!!!
This probably isn't the video for it, but as far as fertilizer goes, soil test! Some soils don't hold certain nutrients well, and different nutrients are more or less available depending on the soil ph. If you are using synthetic fertilizers, use small amounts more often, and don't apply before a rain storm as it's water soluble and can easily wash away and into our water systems.
That said, your weather looks fantastic!
Have you ever tried eating the nutsedge? In spain they use the nuts to make horchata and flour for baking. They have an almond-coconut flavour.
There are two varieties here. Yellow and purple. One tastes good, one is bitter. We have the bitter one.
Aw, that's a shame. Thanks for replying, I'm always curious when American gardeners talk about nutsedge.@@ScottHead
Thank you 🌹👍
Love your channel! May I suggest a straw hat for the hot season, though? I’m a believer!
Thanks for the video your garden looks great
Goodevening! Sir, I share your video, to my Daughter, she don't idea regard to planting anything kind of vegetable!
And yes, I lost my 2 gorgeous egg plants to spider mites last year. Eventually white flys took over my cucumbers and squashes and that was the first time I pulled any insecticides out: spinosad. Worked decently enough to extend harvest but I decided to throw the away in the trash soon after. The joys of South Texas gardening.
Great video, very helpful.... I tend to over water my plants, I am learning but still have a little way to go.... this video will be a great help thank you
Good basic advice, need to thin out my plants better.
I do have a ton of paper and red wasps working my garden, along with a formidable army of lady bug and a few baby mantis, so hopefully I dont have to pull out any big guns. The lady bugs are eating really good on the aphids and keeping them beautifully in check! Man, this coming week is gonna be hot and dry.
You can use a Turkey Baster to inject BT. in to the vine of the Squash.
Very helpful.
Excellent lecture, professor!
Very helpful , Scott ...thanks for the great info ..
I have to pull up ruellia and ginger in my side garden every other day. I can't seem to get all the tubers out so they just keep coming back.
even after a drizzling morning. check watering. it may not have soaked in . but the finger test is easy. hey people, you bought soap! dirt probably won't hurt you.
Or it may have soaked one area of the yard but not another. I had that happen recently. The side of my yard was soaked and almost all of my containers had water. But, my banana pepper was bone dry.
Great information...Enjoyed the video.
Give us an update on your watering system, please. How is that inexpensive Amazon drip system working?
Works just fine, holding up real well.
I’m just 3 1/2 hours north of you in East Texas and your growth is SO far more advanced than mine! I just got my tomatoes in the ground yesterday because the weather keeps dropping so low at night!
Thanks! You're awesome 💕
Thanks for bringing up chlorine! I have to hand water and I’m alway worried about it. I got a $40 water purifier for my kitchen sink and also bought some vitamin c powder just in case (haven’t used yet). My plants seem to be super happy so far, but I think I’d rather my water filter included vit c beads. Ah well.
Mainly to form the HABIT to do these good tips. Many times we know but say "I'll do it later " and forget later.
Especially when it's 95°F at 90% humidity.
I have a fertilizer question!! :) I reference your Newb's Guide to tomato gardening video when potting my tomato seedlings -- love that video! I start them out with the Dr. Earth fertilizer that you use. When does that typically "wear off," and when should I introduce an every-two-weeks liquid fertilizer? Thanks!
The slow release lasts a good long while but you can start with liquid fertilizer after about a month.
Always enjoy the videos. Rookie here. Containers.
Thanks for the great information
Scott purslane is a super food put it in your smoothie or salad.
Got too much of it.
Great tips!! Thanks
Nice garden.
Great Gardening! homemade organic fertilizer may change the result. I Have proved it. You can grow more vegetables and fruits.
Have you ever used diatomaceous earth to use on caterpillar or slugs
No, it’s too broad and kills everything, even good insects.
Beer traps???
Great reminders! Thanks.
@Scotthead love your tomato’s trellis! What do you do once the tomatoes get to the top?
Drop some more string, move them over one station. Here's the idea: th-cam.com/video/9FjP2JBVobY/w-d-xo.html