I love watching this and seeing all of your “works in progress” and not a totally perfect/complete space. It makes it all feel more normal and attainable. And knowing that even the professionals with beautiful garden spaces and tons of knowledge also suffer from the pest damage too 😭😭
It’s so nice watching a fellow Ohio gardener and knowing I’m not the only one groaning about the weather and new pests! I didn’t have the time to install insect netting yet and just noticed today that my broccoli and cauliflower are chewed up. I should have put the netting higher up on my list of garden chores I guess! I planted 500 tulips last fall just spread around the garden. When I cut the foliage back two weeks ago, I came across so many garden millipede. Kinda grossed me out with how many were under the foliage.😂 Last year I had volunteer mint take over two rows in my garden. Thankfully black plastic and some hand pulling of roots took care of that lesson. This year I’ve had thistle come from the woods and go crazy in two rows of the garden. I took care of a lot of it by laying down more cardboard and wood chips, along with vinegar. In one compost row I put some landscape fabric and planted melons so hopefully those plants will die back from no sunlight! I would say thistle is going to be my biggest pain this year. Well until the squash bugs come haha.
I'm always groaning about the weather & pests 😂 Netting has pretty much become priority #1 for me-- there's a LOT of things I don't get to every year, but I make a point on the netting... it's been a true game changer for me.
I just showed all the Cabbage White Butterflies in my garden your beautiful Brassicas so they're packing their bags and heading on over to your place.🌱😂🌱
Send them to me. They'll have to travel to Germany, which might take them a while longer, but that's okay. I need to replant my brassicas - first set got eaten by snails... :D
I very seldom make it to the end of a 45 min TH-cam video, you are one of the exceptions. Your garden as always, is marvelous. I always pick up something from your videos. Planting luffas and birdhouse gourds on an arched cattle panel trellis, then I train them with parachute cord on top of my 28' shade cloth over my tomato bed, plenty room for them to grow. Stay Well!!!!
Always enjoy the garden tours and seasonal updates! Thank you for taking the time to share with us. If your hügel trench doesn't evaporate over time, it could also become a lovely wildlife pond or place to grow some interesting aquatic plants, or perhaps even some native plants that enjoy moist sites? You have such a dynamic, beautiful property. Happy growing!
Jenna, here is an idea to consider for voles. Years ago I put up boxes for kestrels, screech owls and barred owls. One or two of those in your trees might bring in the predators that eat mostly voles. The only challenge is keeping the squirrels out. Good luck!
Your garden blows me away. You are a very good gardener. I still got plants in house waiting for nicer weather, sleet two days ago and a forecast low of 33 degrees tonight. No bugs in sight ! Central WY about 6000 ft elevation .
Lady you have improved my gardening experience many ways. Special notes also I challenge you try this My trick is using gaint sunflowers as cover crops then plant seedlings directly into the previous year root ball of the sunflowers the tomatoes are most productive than any method for myself and so easy almost any handicap or older folk can garden don't need tilting. This season I'm testing pepper this method BIG THANKS
I have a million slugs every year.this year I put down landscape fabric throughout my walkways and on my raised beds. I think it’s working. I do use the slug bait around my brussel sprouts which seems to work too
Thank you for this!!!! Im in 6b, kansas (kansas city, mo suburb) and im fighting caterpillars and slugs, unlike last year. Im also finding big brown caterpillars eating my zinnias that are in pots!!!! On my front porch. Definitely very strange. Agree with your assessment the weather is bizarre.
So true about overcomplicating our gardening work. For the time l left my garden alone for ten days, came back to a pleasant surprise. Thanks Jenny, I learned a lot from you. Continue the good work!
Beautiful tour. You have a lot on your plate every day. (maybe too much) One perennial plant that does great in the shady region next to your home is Lingularia desdemona. Deep green leaf foliage that faces the sun with maroon purple on the understory. Lovely yellow flowers from August until first hard frost. Minimal maintenance. Kind Regards. Craig
Zone 3 here in Alberta Canada. Yes, every year seems to be completely different. That is what makes it so much fun. Always learning and facing new challenges. Your garden is wonderful!
I have teeny tiny slugs, I haven’t seen any this large in my garden. But I have a LOT of small ones. I know of beer traps but haven’t seen progress. I read maybe crushed eggshells around the base of plants might help, but haven’t tried yet - worth a shot!
Spectacular garden Jenna! 😍 So what I do to organically combat slugs and some cabbage worms is to sprinkle chicken mineral scratch around the plants you want to protect. They won't go near it for it will cut them up! Works great
It's amazing how aligned we always seem to be. Slugs have been awful. Almost no cabbage whites. Just finally getting our tomatoes in this week, but yours look so much bigger! Hoping this mild stretch keeps our brassicas from all bolting. Bok choy is shot. Cheers, Jenna!
I'm in Ohio as well, in Akron, and noticing the same things. Tons of slugs, i've replanted zinnias and sunflowers like 3 times now because they keep getting killed. never had this much of a slug issue before. I had to start using beer traps AND sluggo, still seeing them everywhere! especially on my strawberries, which are also very early. . Strange new pests, like striped beetles on my tomatillos. I left some of the dahlia tubers in the ground over the winter on accident, and they are all coming back; along with my gladiolas. soo many pill bugs, but that might be the from the wood chips i added to our walkways. And strangely very few cabbage moths! usually the cabbage moths pretty much decimate my brassicas by May. Haven't found one yet!
Great garden Jenna. Your hard work shows. That's a great idea for voles. This year I'm over run with rabbits and of course deer. I did try crushed egg shells for slugs, it appears to help.
Another lovely edition video Jen!! Your tours are so inspiring for me to try new things instead of the same-ole same-ole. The crunch-a-bunch carrots are doing very well considering they were started indoors and transplanted (they say you can't, but I did 😁). I started them in the tall Solo-Cups under lights and they germinated very quick, like less than a week! And when ready to transplant, I carefully broke apart the bunch and used a pencil to poke holes deeper than the length of the root and put in one carrot per hole, then pressed the soil around it to reduce the air in the hole. It was an easy method and no thinning or wasted space in the garden. Admittedly they were a little slow to get going, no doubt from the transplant shock, but it's worked out very well now. I'll try direct sowing some of these under cardboard later for a fall harvest and compare the results. Only thing left right now is waiting for the Blue Lake Superior to sprout, I just put those in 5 days ago. I've also got 2 varieties of cucumbers, 3 varieties of tomatoes, 3 varieties of peppers, and already harvested lettuce (romaine and red leaf). Other stuff doing well is yellow squash, watermelon, and 3 varieties of onions, some from seed and some from sets. Oh, and trying zucchini in a container this year away from the garden and up on a table, hoping the borers won't get to it (I have the worst luck with those). And a few herbs in a pot. Thanks for the inspiration!!! 😁
I have the same vole problems. Thank you for sharing the trap tip. Though we’d all like to not kill the voles, they’re killing the food that I’m growing to feed my family.
Here in Columbus OH June 10 I've noticed I've improved. Sweet corn above my knee. Midnight Snack about waist high probably a few inches over. Black Krim tomato over 3 inch diameter Also a spice that I can't spell Thanks to your teaching skills. I'm expecting salad tomatoes Candy Land Red before June 20 my record a couple seasons pass. THANKS
Jenna your garden is still beautiful. Here in AR 7b I have been dealing with same struggles as you, weird up and down weather temperatures, early pest, odd ones not seen before and of course the voles! We live and learn from these experiences and hope to do better next year. Great video!
Lower Hudson Valley NY Zone 7a/6b here. First we had some pleasantly warm weather, then it got unusually cold and rainy (of course just after I put out tomatoes and peppers), and then it went up into the 80's. I had to be away and when I got back certain of the broccoli cultivars, bok choy and lettuces had all bolted. Cabbages, cauliflower and kale ok. Of course the tomatoes are happy with temps in the 80's. I had my brassicas netted but I think I am seeing fewer of the white cabbage butterflies. One of our tenacious weeds is garlic mustard so there are always ample areas for these pests and there have been hordes in the past. I enjoy hearing how things are going in your garden.
Love your garden tours! It’s been a crazy start of the season for us too from the crazy weather! I can’t believe how early everything started to take off so early!
I would love to have that garden if I didn't know how hard and how much labor ....and love...we're needed to produce such a lovely space.!! Keep em coming Jenna we love ya.
Agree 💯 I expanded my garden as well. I now have 15 beds that are 4’x8’ each. Plus, 2 Greenstalks that I plant in every spring and fall. It is a lot of work but I am a stay at home Mom of teenagers so I have the time to commit to it, AND I absolutely love it ❤
Love your videos. Always full of useful information. My first plants were medicinal (chameleon plant and English plantain grown in containers). Pro cultivators told me not to fertilize medicinal plants. In fact, they thrive in pooter soil. I grow multi-purpose plants too. They all have to be edible, plus medicinal or pollinator attractants.
Slugs have been fierce here too. Another first for pests was flea Beetles on my tomatoes, although I think they’ve mostly started leaving them alone. The large salvias PW Rockin’ series overwintered! 😱 First fungus for me, I found today, was white mold that quickly took out a strawflower plant. Oddly, it was on the end of a row. Have you ever mentioned making a baking soda as preventative spray? Overwintering bunching onions and scallions were a real treat durring our mild late winter into early spring. Hoping to set out some pumpkins and acorn squash soon. More troubles ahead 😂 Peppers and tomatoes are actually doing great…corn and beans had struggles germinating due to rain and wet. I harvested scapes last week. I too am interested to see when the garlic harvest will come in!
I've not tried baking soda as a preventative- so I can't personally speak to its effectiveness, but folks all over the internet sure do like to tout its benefits!
So glad to see your video. I'm in central PA and am having a terrible problem with slugs too!! I have gardened for 40 plus years and never saw such slug damage. thanks for your tips
We could really have a great conversation about almost everything in this video. Yes, get those voles and be consistent as they have multiple litters. I believe we got all of ours last year-never had them ever and they had to go. Having the Best spring weather in a Long time. Just had 4” of rain and we should be pulling out of drought. Found Gypsy Moth caterpillars on apple and crab apples-need to get rid of them because the several stages they go through will defoliate the trees. The cabbage moths were here and didn’t like the netting and left-Good! Must be getting enough moisture as I found a couple slugs under Bak Choi, otherwise we never have them. The rhubarb needs full sun. In-laws had theirs in full sun in the yard and heavy clay soil. And it was massive. I revived my folks rhubarb after trees took over in sandy loam and moved the now tiny plants to full sun, threw a handful of bonemeal in the hole and they came back huge. Your peas are way more advanced than mine Z5a, WI. I just harvested first ever grand looking Bak Choi. Started under low tunnels 4/15 -the 94 degrees last weekend started bolting them. Not enough time to succession sow here. With the heat upon us it makes us gardeners feel like we are behind, but it’s the earliest I’ve ever harvested something or transplanted. The warm winter seems like I moved to a warmer climate-so many surprises like carnations, snapdragons and artichoke returned this year!🎉all the fruit are doing better than ever and most are producing. I have Romeo and Juliet cherries and only Romeo showed off with blossoms. I hope to taste first ever Haskaps. Tomorrow will be a busy day as the rest of the tomatoes have to go in. I shoved them back in the GH Sunday ahead of severe storms and they want out 😅. I already had peppers in 2 weeks ago as future cast showed no cold nights but I have all the covers ready. So eager to see the mystery flowers bloom-either foxgloves or Canterbury bells as they look the same so far. I’m thinking first ever foxgloves as they seem taller. You mentioned mints/invasives or aggressives and I’m freaking out about how to contain peppermint and spearmint I started. The oregano is aggressive, bee balm, red poppies, and now Columbine and coneflower have jumped ship into the veg garden!😮. I bet they seen the marigolds, calendula and borage in there last year and got jealous 😂 Great vid, thx Jenna!
I'm SO glad to hear you're having a decent spring this year! I love hearing your garden updates- so interesting to hear from a gardener in a different growing region!
New subscriber. Looking forward to your channel and journey. Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister ☦️ 🙏🏻 💙 ❤️ Everyone is having problems with squash bugs, & cabbage moths. 😳 I'm sorry 😞 😢❤
Over here on the eastern side of Ohio we are woefully low on rain! But agree very few white cabbage butterflies this year. And yes on the slug damage! Noticing a jump in munching caterpillars also! Lost my entire crop of Chinese cabbage to slugs! Just could not get them under control. I mulched with shredded leaves and don’t think I will do that again as the bed next to it was left bare and not nearly the damage. What a crazy year…… again! Good luck! Absolutely love the video because it helps to know I’m not going crazy 💐☺️
(In NE Ohio) We *are* woefully low on rain! And this makes two "dry" or dry-ish winters in a row, if I'm remembering correctly. Hotter than usual summer forecast for us, too, and I'd expect for you, as well? 😟 Aieee! Your ENTIRE crop of Chinese cabbage!!!! I'd be...I'd just...I don't know what I'd be or what I'd "just." Feel destroyed and lose my mind completely, probably. You have my sympathy. Will you try for a fall harvest of your Chinese cabbages? My garden's late this year, so *perhaps* I'll avoid certain pest problems but then run into others. Wishing you good gardening success this season! 😊💚💚💚😊
So happy the rains arrived late last night and my rain barrels filled again! Amazing what good soaking rain will do for a garden. Chinese cabbage is in the compost and the chickens seem quite happy about that! Yes, going to give another try this Fall in the hoop house with no mulch to keep slugs visible. Not sure I will put Chinese cabbage in the garden in early Spring again. But then every year is different. Have a great garden year! I have to say at 70 years old to be learning and adapting has been pretty interesting and fun! 💐💚
@@madpotter5 So happy it's a bit cooler, and that we've had some rain, too! I've got to get a rain barrel. About what gets planted in the Spring, I used to say, and often enough still do, that around here (and where you are, too) we have seven months of winter weather; four months of summer weather; three weeks, give or take, of beautiful autumn; and one week of chilly, dreary rain we laughingly call Spring before a door opens and full blown summer blasts in. Regarding learning and adapting, I quote my very favorite gardener for his humility on the subject: Thomas Jefferson wrote; "Though I be an old man, I am yet a young gardener." Always more to learn! 😊💚💚💚😊
@@madpotter5 My pleasure. I hope it was new to you, as I know how tedious it can be to be told what you're already familiar with ? And if you're located where I believe you might well be, geographically, you're in a mighty pretty area! 😊💚😊
Great set up, Its the bees knees. I make a homemade slug bait for my slug traps, the recipe is one cup of water, one teaspoon of flour, one teaspoon of sugar, Two teaspoons of salt and one teaspoon of dry yeast. Slugs are attracted to the yeast and they get a lovely surprise when they hit the salt.
I love love your videos!! Especially as a zone 6 fellow gardener!! Please keep sharing your videos I love trying your favorites and watching your experiment. And love watching your harvests vids! Love you girl keep up the amazing work!
I've made slug traps with yeast instead of beer and they caught a good bit. But I've found the best way to control them is to just go out at night with a flashlight and pick them off. You'll see them *a lot* more at night than during the day. And you might see what other kinds of pests you have too, earwigs and cucumber beetles for example tend to be much more visible/active at night in my experience. Not too many insect pests here yet, since our temperatures are about 4 weeks behind yours, but it'll probably start soon.
I admire your garden. As for cool season crops I have gave up on spring, I'll just try those in the fall this year. Great observation on the cabbage moths. Beer slug traps only work if you use a lid so they go down into the beer and it only catches the young ones.
We are having a weird yr here in North Arkansas. The environment is different. More mulberries than ever, crazy amount of white oak saplings, week long cloudy days , and just a lot of other oddities!
Totally, Jenna. I’ve also had slugs (tons of the tiny ones) eating my onions, especially chives. I put coffee grinds down which at first didn’t seem to do anything, but about a week later the chives looked much better, and I haven’t seen many slugs there. Also have had flea beetles on eggplant already, which is way earlier than last year. I’m in Carlisle PA
I have been fallowing your channel for quite some time. Whatever you say helps me as I have a tiny backyard garden in Cincinnati. Your narrations are crisp and clear. This garden tour is timely and thanks for the tips.
Your soil must be low in copper. Use a copper sulfate and water spray around the soil and at around the base of the plants. That was the only thing that worked for me. I do it now at the transitions (fall and spring) and it seems to control slugs populations and fungi really well
I am up near lake Erie, put tomato seedlings, and peppers last 10 days, all doing real well, but really worried on lack of rain up here, Wednesday rain missed me completely
I'm gonna commentary as you go: first strawberry today May 25th in NYz6, maybe 2 cabbage moths spotted all spring (fingers crossed), less slugs, but more army worms too. Haven't transplanted my tomatoes, or harvested rhubarb. Wow, only got half the height on my rye, which was still better than last year. I have a few strawberry plants without fruit but it's in a greenstalk with other fruit producers so it's not necessarily nitrogen. Just planted my first 2 St Croix grapes, no shapes on garlic yet , haven't planted my eggplant, no peas yet, potatoes are already flowering and less voles (more snakes), 3years is not too long to save spinach seeds, still have to germinate corn, beans, melons, summer flowers, etc. Why aren't you filling the hugel with logs to absorb the water? Thanks for the tour 😊
Funny you should ask about the hugel-- shortly after I filmed this video I started have the kids do just that. Anytime they find sticks/logs I tell them to throw in the hugel trench... my son also loves going into the woods with his ATV and dragging up dead logs to throw in!
I love your garden space! Your channel is one of my favorites! I’m also having a slug problem with my lettuce this year here in Cincinnati. I don’t normally have an issue with them. I cut off a few curly scapes off my garlic today. I sautéed them with some mustard greens tonight! It’s been so warm so early, but I’m not complaining. I’m just happy to have lots of things growing!!!
Funny I used insect nettings over my romanesco and spinach, not to prevent insects but to prevent skunk and squirrels from digging. It works out amazing, less pests damage is just a bonus ontop of the non-digging. Can't do it for all my beds because many of them have trellis, but it's definitely my favorite way of growing shorter vegetables now.
Respect. Clearly a lot of work for one gardener even with some family help. I'm also in Ohio 6A. I've given up on strawberries as it seems every animal/insect species loves them more than me. I'm trying not to fight nature to hard and refuse to use insecticides/pesticides/herbicides. Thankfully the alliums are doing very well as are the rasberries and blackberries. Tomatoes and peppers are in. Trying 2 pear varieties, but my horrible clay soil is not helping, 3rd year with little flowering. The weather has been crazy warm and wet. I'm using pots up by the house for herbs, spinach and curly kale. Love your work and honesty about the journey of gardening. Cheers.
I'm in Ohio 6A, too. My cool weather crops didn't get any chance this year due to our early warm weather. I plan on fall harvest for those cool weather crops this year. I have lots of strawberries and picked mine a week ago (Mid-May). Very unusual. I planted early this year since we have exceptional warm weather for May. This morning, I harvested a couple of BEAN plants!! I'm having trouble with slugs too. Thanks for your advice and for the tour, always enjoy your videos!
Mulberry latex from green mulberries, mulberry branches, and/or leaves is used as a natural insecticide that works for most things. Blend with water and strain, put mash in the soil, or ferment briefly to make a compost tea.
I am gardening in the Caribbean and the bugs are on a roll!!!! To deal with the slugs I have go out in the garden at midnight with my torch and bag with salt to pop them into ( HOW THE HECK CAN YOU HOLD THE SLIME!!! WITH YOUR BARE HANDSSSS!!!! 😬😬😬) and I also have to use the bait during the wet season…. This year I had to deal with a new pest ( Red spider mites ….. I want to weep) Beautiful garden Mrs Jenna!❤
Thanks for mentioning the SWD. I'm in NE Ohio and am also struggling with SWD maggots on my raspberries. I am going to try Surround though it isn't recommended for raspberries bc it's a soft fruit. Let us know what eventually works for you. It will be greatly appreciated. So frustrating! Love your podcasts. Very helpful.
I've heard one of the best solutions is to net plants- but you really have to be diligent getting the nets on asap, and getting them well secured into the ground because SWD are so tiny and can get into any little gap. Spinosad and pyrethrin based insecticides are approved for organic production, but you have to be careful with these as they can kill pollinators too.
Omg the SLUGS this year, yes! Now that you mention the cabbage moths, I saw them in March & April…but I haven’t seen them much now. I’m in Muskingum county Ohio, technically 6b. Yarrow is my nemesis: wild white yarrow always creeps into my rows. Your brave to plant chamomile 😂 though I’m going to try it as a companion to my orange jing okra
Yarrow is definitely not one to be easily controlled... but I do love it! And my chamomile actually behaves itself- I get volunteers every year, but it seems to play well with my other plants.
I love your videos Jenna. They are so helpful with ideas and different ways to plant things here in Ohio. I see you have elderberry in an area with a little shade. I didn't know if that would work for me but I think I am going to try it now. Thanks Jenna.
I had slugs on my onion greens this year and they’re on my garlic as well in upstate Ny. Crazy season for sure so far. We also had a very mild winter and it was almost 90 today. I didn’t even bother with cool season crops this spring. Going to start them late summer to go into fall.
As reassuring as it is to know other gardeners, especially ones as experienced and knowledgeable as you, are experiencing the same problems as so many of us, it doesn't *comfort* me. The cabbage whites are (or were) out and about, laying eggs to hatch into cabbage worms; the slugs... Oh, what can I say about the slugs and all the defenses they seem unaffected by! Copper. Beer. Dry, bare ground. Dry, bare ground and sharp grit. Rough-crushed eggshells, various degrees of coarseness. Copper again. Haven't tried DE yet, but that's next. I'm amazed and a bit disheartened that slugs are eating your rhubarb. I have a great stand of the stuff, but mine is no doubt older (stalks are a lot heavier) and presumably contain more oxalic acid but I marvel that slugs seem to be able to eat those leaves of your rhubarb and not die right on the spot. *So far* mine seems to have been untouched by slug pests (and I suppose now that saying this will prove to be the jinx.) Like you, I adore rhubarb pie (no strawberries necessary to make me happy, tenkewveddymuch) and this clump of rhubarb is finally old enough and big enough to allow me to give some to a neighbor who fancies it, too, and have enough for a pie for me. (Okay: a small pie for me.) If it were just a bit bigger, I'd give some to my neighbor, have a small rhubarb pie for myself, and start putting up rhubarb preserves. Ooh, yes! Gooseberries. What's the deal with gooseberries in Ohio? I'd love to have one or two bushes, but some sources say no gooseberries in Ohio because of the pine blister rust danger, others say yes, you can acquire (purchase) and plant gooseberry plants in this state. A different neighbor would be incoherent with delight if I had gooseberries to share, green/white ones, but I've been reluctant to get into either legal or horticultural trouble. You mentioned Surround kaolin clay: might that deter slugs, do you think, or would that just make their assaults easier for them, and more successful, too? Correct me if I'm in error, here, but I thought or think I recall hearing that bent-over onion tops can and ought to be snipped just behind the bend or crimp, closer to the bulb than the bent place by maybe a hair. It'd be work, of course, but would the work, work? Much gardening love from NE Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
I live in Ohio too in 6a. I have ripe strawberries too. It has been a VERY interesting garden season. I had aphids in May on my cabbages. I had to strip a couple of their leaves. I am so bitter about this.
I'm also seeing a slow start for cabbage butterflies this year in western Colorado. They seemed to be around during the warm spells in April, but have been all but absent in May. My broccoli is not netted and has almost no damage. The cabbages, which I netted for the first time this year after a mucky wormy mess last year, may not even need the netting yet!
you are way ahead of us. It only stopped raining a couple days ago here in Joisy. I will sin k in the mud to my calves in parts of my garden. And it's 90F.
When did you plant all of this? Im in your zone in north east Indiana. Close to Celina Ohio. I just planted in the last 2 weeks. But I'm kinda new to it.
Hi there! You can see detail as to when I start from seed and/or transplant all my crops in this series of videos: th-cam.com/play/PL4zzslvkscX1qEVADEL6_OL5ynFVtcMPR.html&si=dzkqvZAW9CQPxQJI
I'm in Virginia (Zone 6b/7a-ish), and I had very similar issues with caterpillars. I planted out my very healthy tomato seedlings, only to have them *decimated* in less than a day, while my over-wintered onions (which had been mostly a success up to that point) had very similar damage. Thankfully, I had planted some of my tomatoes seedlings in my mom's garden elsewhere in the yard, so it wasn't a total loss, although I'm not as hopeful for my poor onions....
You have a beautiful garden Jenna. Thank you for the tour. 3/4 th's of what you grow I can't grow here in Florida. Monterey Lawn and Garden online has a fantastic slug bait. Everyone raves about it.
Long time view who just realized that I hadn’t hit the subscribe button. Thank goodness I came to comment on you filming in your bathrobe. I seriously thought I was the only one who did that, thank you for making me feel like I’m not an oddball, unless we are just both oddballs. 😂
I never had slugs in my garden until I mulched with wood chips (I'm in central Ohio). That year ever slug on the planet was in my garden and I could not grow anything from seed. That's when I started growing everything indoors under lights, probably about 10 years ago. That gave my plants had a fighting chance at survival. I stopped using wood mulch in my garden and now the slug population is much smaller (it took a couple of years to really decrease). I did try the whole beer trap thing and had poor results as well. I caught some, but there were plenty of times that there were 0 slugs in the traps. What can a gardener do? I also tried egg shells and most of the other suggestions to little or no effect. The weather pattern is definitely messed up. I saw my first squash bug a week ago! I don't know that I've tracked when they come out normally, but I think it's 3 weeks or maybe a month early. Hopefully this doesn't bode poorly for the summer months.
We haven't had a frost since April 26 here in Ontario Zone 5, we haven't even come particularly close to a frost since then (coldest was 37.5F on May 7). Current forecast is about 42F for Wednesday, which will be the coldest since May 12, and then it looks like we're back to summer weather.
Grow some elephant ears. Horseradish you’ll NEVER get rid of. Mint either. Dill too. They have rhizomes. I love grapes, can’t grow them. Honey Suckle is beautiful. Heard apricots like a 2nd pollinator. It’s on my list Looks like you bit the bullet and just got the same ‘ol wood for the raised garden. See you again in 7 years. I have peach leaf curl too. Paw paws, you’re such a tease. Your tours do so much for me since I can compare and contrast. Except you have so much more $$$$...tuff? Sluggo seems to work. Charles Dowing has it in England as well. Thanks for sharing your successes and struggles. Don't think you're boring. YOU ARE NOT!
@@GrowfullywithJenna State of denial will get you another 3 years. Been there. Then it gets REALLY BAD. With all the recycled plastics, you'd think they could make something cheap that could last 30 years.
i run a farm to table spice company and with cilantro lime being my best seller i am planting a ton of cilatro on my porch and tucked into any shady spot
I’ve been spraying my raspberries and blackberries with Spinosad for SWD for several years and it works well. You have to start carefully spraying but I do it at dusk after pollinators are done for the day and reapply it after it rains. some of the berries that are under the canopy still get infested but at least I get a harvest. Disgusting little pests! I’m in the Indy area and SWD has been around many years
Last year my beer traps failed completely. I was using stainless steel bowls. I resorted to Sluggo and my dog ended up getting very sick from consuming it. This year I used ceramic ramekins and literally hundreds of drunken slugs.
Wow-- I've been using primarily plastic or metal canning lids... I'll have to try the ceramic! I'm so sorry to hear your dog got sick- I hope he/she is ok now!
Each year I try growing something different for fun in addition to the usual suspects. Last year was Malabar spinach and I have never regretted an edible planting as much as this one! I didn’t enjoy the mucilaginous mouth feel so i let it grow as an ornamental. This year there are literally thousands of Malabar seeds sprouting EVERYWHERE since late April here in NJ. I have been pulling handfuls each morning from around my radishes.
I once tried beer traps for slugs. They drank most of my beer and staggered home at dawn
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My slugs are fussy - they spurned lager, but the small ones love bitter and are diving in and suiciding.
I love watching this and seeing all of your “works in progress” and not a totally perfect/complete space. It makes it all feel more normal and attainable. And knowing that even the professionals with beautiful garden spaces and tons of knowledge also suffer from the pest damage too 😭😭
Putting down gravel in my walk ways was the best thing I did for my garden. The slugs practically disappeared overnight!
Thanks for the garden tour. I’m in central Ohio so it’s nice seeing others gardens in the area. ❤
Great to hear from a fellow Ohioan!
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It’s so nice watching a fellow Ohio gardener and knowing I’m not the only one groaning about the weather and new pests!
I didn’t have the time to install insect netting yet and just noticed today that my broccoli and cauliflower are chewed up. I should have put the netting higher up on my list of garden chores I guess!
I planted 500 tulips last fall just spread around the garden. When I cut the foliage back two weeks ago, I came across so many garden millipede. Kinda grossed me out with how many were under the foliage.😂
Last year I had volunteer mint take over two rows in my garden. Thankfully black plastic and some hand pulling of roots took care of that lesson. This year I’ve had thistle come from the woods and go crazy in two rows of the garden. I took care of a lot of it by laying down more cardboard and wood chips, along with vinegar. In one compost row I put some landscape fabric and planted melons so hopefully those plants will die back from no sunlight! I would say thistle is going to be my biggest pain this year. Well until the squash bugs come haha.
I'm always groaning about the weather & pests 😂
Netting has pretty much become priority #1 for me-- there's a LOT of things I don't get to every year, but I make a point on the netting... it's been a true game changer for me.
Jenna, you are my absolute favorite garden channel. Straight and to the point with just enough details to be interesting. 🎉🎉🎉
So nice to hear- thank you!
I just showed all the Cabbage White Butterflies in my garden your beautiful Brassicas so they're packing their bags and heading on over to your place.🌱😂🌱
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Send them to me. They'll have to travel to Germany, which might take them a while longer, but that's okay. I need to replant my brassicas - first set got eaten by snails... :D
I very seldom make it to the end of a 45 min TH-cam video, you are one of the exceptions. Your garden as always, is marvelous. I always pick up something from your videos.
Planting luffas and birdhouse gourds on an arched cattle panel trellis, then I train them with parachute cord on top of my 28' shade cloth over my tomato bed, plenty room for them to grow.
Stay Well!!!!
This made my day- thank you 😊. I love that idea for growing your luffas & birdhouse gourds!
Always enjoy the garden tours and seasonal updates! Thank you for taking the time to share with us. If your hügel trench doesn't evaporate over time, it could also become a lovely wildlife pond or place to grow some interesting aquatic plants, or perhaps even some native plants that enjoy moist sites? You have such a dynamic, beautiful property. Happy growing!
Jenna, here is an idea to consider for voles. Years ago I put up boxes for kestrels, screech owls and barred owls. One or two of those in your trees might bring in the predators that eat mostly voles. The only challenge is keeping the squirrels out. Good luck!
Another strategy for voles...put the trap under a 5 gallon bucket. That way you don't trap birds
Thanks for the tip!
Your garden blows me away. You are a very good gardener. I still got plants in house waiting for nicer weather, sleet two days ago and a forecast low of 33 degrees tonight. No bugs in sight ! Central WY about 6000 ft elevation .
So nice of you! I hope nicer weather heads your way soon!
Sounds like the hugelkultur beds might be a great place for corn. Awesome tour! I'm going to look into the Flat Wonderful Peaches ❤ Thanks Jenna!
Lady you have improved my gardening experience many ways.
Special notes also I challenge you try this
My trick is using gaint sunflowers as cover crops then plant seedlings directly into the previous year root ball of the sunflowers the tomatoes are most productive than any method for myself and so easy almost any handicap or older folk can garden don't need tilting.
This season I'm testing pepper this method
BIG THANKS
I have a million slugs every year.this year I put down landscape fabric throughout my walkways and on my raised beds. I think it’s working. I do use the slug bait around my brussel sprouts which seems to work too
Thank you for this!!!! Im in 6b, kansas (kansas city, mo suburb) and im fighting caterpillars and slugs, unlike last year. Im also finding big brown caterpillars eating my zinnias that are in pots!!!! On my front porch. Definitely very strange. Agree with your assessment the weather is bizarre.
I really appreciate your channel, especially since I'm in Northern Ohio and you understand the climate struggle.😊
So true about overcomplicating our gardening work.
For the time l left my garden alone for ten days, came back to a pleasant surprise.
Thanks Jenny, I learned a lot from you.
Continue the good work!
Glad to hear you came back to a pleasant surprise!!
Beautiful tour. You have a lot on your plate every day. (maybe too much) One perennial plant that does great in the shady region next to your home is Lingularia desdemona. Deep green leaf foliage that faces the sun with maroon purple on the understory. Lovely yellow flowers from August until first hard frost. Minimal maintenance. Kind Regards. Craig
Thanks for the plant tip, Craig!
Zone 3 here in Alberta Canada. Yes, every year seems to be completely different. That is what makes it so much fun. Always learning and facing new challenges. Your garden is wonderful!
I have teeny tiny slugs, I haven’t seen any this large in my garden. But I have a LOT of small ones. I know of beer traps but haven’t seen progress. I read maybe crushed eggshells around the base of plants might help, but haven’t tried yet - worth a shot!
Spectacular garden Jenna! 😍 So what I do to organically combat slugs and some cabbage worms is to sprinkle chicken mineral scratch around the plants you want to protect. They won't go near it for it will cut them up! Works great
Thank you for this! So helpful!
@@Mommyslittlegarden you're very welcome 😁 chicken grit lasts through a bunch of rains too.
Thanks for the tip!
It's amazing how aligned we always seem to be. Slugs have been awful. Almost no cabbage whites. Just finally getting our tomatoes in this week, but yours look so much bigger! Hoping this mild stretch keeps our brassicas from all bolting. Bok choy is shot. Cheers, Jenna!
Agree her seedlings are gorgeous and so wide.
I'm in Ohio as well, in Akron, and noticing the same things. Tons of slugs, i've replanted zinnias and sunflowers like 3 times now because they keep getting killed. never had this much of a slug issue before. I had to start using beer traps AND sluggo, still seeing them everywhere! especially on my strawberries, which are also very early. . Strange new pests, like striped beetles on my tomatillos. I left some of the dahlia tubers in the ground over the winter on accident, and they are all coming back; along with my gladiolas. soo many pill bugs, but that might be the from the wood chips i added to our walkways. And strangely very few cabbage moths! usually the cabbage moths pretty much decimate my brassicas by May. Haven't found one yet!
Very interesting that you are seeing similar issues!
Great garden Jenna. Your hard work shows. That's a great idea for voles. This year I'm over run with rabbits and of course deer. I did try crushed egg shells for slugs, it appears to help.
Another lovely edition video Jen!! Your tours are so inspiring for me to try new things instead of the same-ole same-ole. The crunch-a-bunch carrots are doing very well considering they were started indoors and transplanted (they say you can't, but I did 😁). I started them in the tall Solo-Cups under lights and they germinated very quick, like less than a week! And when ready to transplant, I carefully broke apart the bunch and used a pencil to poke holes deeper than the length of the root and put in one carrot per hole, then pressed the soil around it to reduce the air in the hole. It was an easy method and no thinning or wasted space in the garden. Admittedly they were a little slow to get going, no doubt from the transplant shock, but it's worked out very well now. I'll try direct sowing some of these under cardboard later for a fall harvest and compare the results.
Only thing left right now is waiting for the Blue Lake Superior to sprout, I just put those in 5 days ago. I've also got 2 varieties of cucumbers, 3 varieties of tomatoes, 3 varieties of peppers, and already harvested lettuce (romaine and red leaf). Other stuff doing well is yellow squash, watermelon, and 3 varieties of onions, some from seed and some from sets. Oh, and trying zucchini in a container this year away from the garden and up on a table, hoping the borers won't get to it (I have the worst luck with those). And a few herbs in a pot. Thanks for the inspiration!!! 😁
Such wonderful things you've got going on there! I love that you are experimenting with the carrots- breaking the garden 'rules' is always fun 😄
I have the same vole problems. Thank you for sharing the trap tip. Though we’d all like to not kill the voles, they’re killing the food that I’m growing to feed my family.
Ugh- sorry to hear you're dealing with them too!
Here in Columbus OH June 10 I've noticed I've improved.
Sweet corn above my knee.
Midnight Snack about waist high probably a few inches over.
Black Krim tomato over 3 inch diameter
Also a spice that I can't spell
Thanks to your teaching skills.
I'm expecting salad tomatoes Candy Land Red before June 20 my record a couple seasons pass.
THANKS
Jenna your garden is still beautiful. Here in AR 7b I have been dealing with same struggles as you, weird up and down weather temperatures, early pest, odd ones not seen before and of course the voles! We live and learn from these experiences and hope to do better next year. Great video!
I got a lot of slugs too, usually my frogs take care of them I have a small pond near my garden I am thinking of putting one inside the garden
Lower Hudson Valley NY Zone 7a/6b here. First we had some pleasantly warm weather, then it got unusually cold and rainy (of course just after I put out tomatoes and peppers), and then it went up into the 80's. I had to be away and when I got back certain of the broccoli cultivars, bok choy and lettuces had all bolted. Cabbages, cauliflower and kale ok. Of course the tomatoes are happy with temps in the 80's. I had my brassicas netted but I think I am seeing fewer of the white cabbage butterflies. One of our tenacious weeds is garlic mustard so there are always ample areas for these pests and there have been hordes in the past. I enjoy hearing how things are going in your garden.
Love your garden tours! It’s been a crazy start of the season for us too from the crazy weather! I can’t believe how early everything started to take off so early!
Crazy is right!! Keeping us on our toes!
Nature is always on the move! Stay on your toes; it makes it easier to pivot.
Exactly!
I would love to have that garden if I didn't know how hard and how much labor ....and love...we're needed to produce such a lovely space.!! Keep em coming Jenna we love ya.
I greatly expanded my gardens this spring and already I'm realizing I may have over extended myself while still having a full time job.
Agree 💯 I expanded my garden as well. I now have 15 beds that are 4’x8’ each. Plus, 2 Greenstalks that I plant in every spring and fall. It is a lot of work but I am a stay at home Mom of teenagers so I have the time to commit to it, AND I absolutely love it ❤
It definitely keeps me busy!
Love your videos. Always full of useful information. My first plants were medicinal (chameleon plant and English plantain grown in containers). Pro cultivators told me not to fertilize medicinal plants. In fact, they thrive in pooter soil. I grow multi-purpose plants too. They all have to be edible, plus medicinal or pollinator attractants.
This is true-- true for almost all herbs too!
Slugs have been fierce here too. Another first for pests was flea Beetles on my tomatoes, although I think they’ve mostly started leaving them alone.
The large salvias PW Rockin’ series overwintered! 😱
First fungus for me, I found today, was white mold that quickly took out a strawflower plant. Oddly, it was on the end of a row.
Have you ever mentioned making a baking soda as preventative spray?
Overwintering bunching onions and scallions were a real treat durring our mild late winter into early spring.
Hoping to set out some pumpkins and acorn squash soon. More troubles ahead 😂
Peppers and tomatoes are actually doing great…corn and beans had struggles germinating due to rain and wet.
I harvested scapes last week. I too am interested to see when the garlic harvest will come in!
I've not tried baking soda as a preventative- so I can't personally speak to its effectiveness, but folks all over the internet sure do like to tout its benefits!
So glad to see your video. I'm in central PA and am having a terrible problem with slugs too!! I have gardened for 40 plus years and never saw such slug damage. thanks for your tips
They’ve eaten everything for me too! Gardening outside Pittsburgh.
We could really have a great conversation about almost everything in this video.
Yes, get those voles and be consistent as they have multiple litters. I believe we got all of ours last year-never had them ever and they had to go.
Having the Best spring weather in a Long time. Just had 4” of rain and we should be pulling out of drought.
Found Gypsy Moth caterpillars on apple and crab apples-need to get rid of them because the several stages they go through will defoliate the trees. The cabbage moths were here and didn’t like the netting and left-Good! Must be getting enough moisture as I found a couple slugs under Bak Choi, otherwise we never have them.
The rhubarb needs full sun. In-laws had theirs in full sun in the yard and heavy clay soil. And it was massive. I revived my folks rhubarb after trees took over in sandy loam and moved the now tiny plants to full sun, threw a handful of bonemeal in the hole and they came back huge.
Your peas are way more advanced than mine Z5a, WI. I just harvested first ever grand looking Bak Choi. Started under low tunnels 4/15 -the 94 degrees last weekend started bolting them. Not enough time to succession sow here.
With the heat upon us it makes us gardeners feel like we are behind, but it’s the earliest I’ve ever harvested something or transplanted. The warm winter seems like I moved to a warmer climate-so many surprises like carnations, snapdragons and artichoke returned this year!🎉all the fruit are doing better than ever and most are producing. I have Romeo and Juliet cherries and only Romeo showed off with blossoms.
I hope to taste first ever Haskaps.
Tomorrow will be a busy day as the rest of the tomatoes have to go in. I shoved them back in the GH Sunday ahead of severe storms and they want out 😅. I already had peppers in 2 weeks ago as future cast showed no cold nights but I have all the covers ready.
So eager to see the mystery flowers bloom-either foxgloves or Canterbury bells as they look the same so far. I’m thinking first ever foxgloves as they seem taller.
You mentioned mints/invasives or aggressives and I’m freaking out about how to contain peppermint and spearmint I started. The oregano is aggressive, bee balm, red poppies, and now Columbine and coneflower have jumped ship into the veg garden!😮. I bet they seen the marigolds, calendula and borage in there last year and got jealous 😂
Great vid, thx Jenna!
I'm SO glad to hear you're having a decent spring this year!
I love hearing your garden updates- so interesting to hear from a gardener in a different growing region!
New subscriber. Looking forward to your channel and journey. Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister ☦️ 🙏🏻 💙 ❤️ Everyone is having problems with squash bugs, & cabbage moths. 😳 I'm sorry 😞 😢❤
Over here on the eastern side of Ohio we are woefully low on rain! But agree very few white cabbage butterflies this year. And yes on the slug damage! Noticing a jump in munching caterpillars also! Lost my entire crop of Chinese cabbage to slugs! Just could not get them under control. I mulched with shredded leaves and don’t think I will do that again as the bed next to it was left bare and not nearly the damage. What a crazy year…… again! Good luck! Absolutely love the video because it helps to know I’m not going crazy 💐☺️
(In NE Ohio) We *are* woefully low on rain! And this makes two "dry" or dry-ish winters in a row, if I'm remembering correctly. Hotter than usual summer forecast for us, too, and I'd expect for you, as well? 😟
Aieee! Your ENTIRE crop of Chinese cabbage!!!! I'd be...I'd just...I don't know what I'd be or what I'd "just." Feel destroyed and lose my mind completely, probably.
You have my sympathy. Will you try for a fall harvest of your Chinese cabbages?
My garden's late this year, so *perhaps* I'll avoid certain pest problems but then run into others.
Wishing you good gardening success this season! 😊💚💚💚😊
So happy the rains arrived late last night and my rain barrels filled again! Amazing what good soaking rain will do for a garden. Chinese cabbage is in the compost and the chickens seem quite happy about that! Yes, going to give another try this Fall in the hoop house with no mulch to keep slugs visible. Not sure I will put Chinese cabbage in the garden in early Spring again. But then every year is different. Have a great garden year! I have to say at 70 years old to be learning and adapting has been pretty interesting and fun! 💐💚
@@madpotter5 So happy it's a bit cooler, and that we've had some rain, too! I've got to get a rain barrel.
About what gets planted in the Spring, I used to say, and often enough still do, that around here (and where you are, too) we have seven months of winter weather; four months of summer weather; three weeks, give or take, of beautiful autumn; and one week of chilly, dreary rain we laughingly call Spring before a door opens and full blown summer blasts in.
Regarding learning and adapting, I quote my very favorite gardener for his humility on the subject: Thomas Jefferson wrote; "Though I be an old man, I am yet a young gardener."
Always more to learn!
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I LOVE that quote!! Thank you for sharing💐
@@madpotter5 My pleasure. I hope it was new to you, as I know how tedious it can be to be told what you're already familiar with ?
And if you're located where I believe you might well be, geographically, you're in a mighty pretty area!
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Great set up, Its the bees knees. I make a homemade slug bait for my slug traps, the recipe is one cup of water, one teaspoon of flour, one teaspoon of sugar, Two teaspoons of salt and one teaspoon of dry yeast. Slugs are attracted to the yeast and they get a lovely surprise when they hit the salt.
I'll give that a try- thanks!
I love love your videos!! Especially as a zone 6 fellow gardener!! Please keep sharing your videos I love trying your favorites and watching your experiment. And love watching your harvests vids! Love you girl keep up the amazing work!
Thank you so much!!
I've made slug traps with yeast instead of beer and they caught a good bit. But I've found the best way to control them is to just go out at night with a flashlight and pick them off. You'll see them *a lot* more at night than during the day. And you might see what other kinds of pests you have too, earwigs and cucumber beetles for example tend to be much more visible/active at night in my experience.
Not too many insect pests here yet, since our temperatures are about 4 weeks behind yours, but it'll probably start soon.
Beautiful aerial shot of your garden Jenna!
Thanks!
The garden is very beautiful❤️
Thank you!
I admire your garden. As for cool season crops I have gave up on spring, I'll just try those in the fall this year.
Great observation on the cabbage moths.
Beer slug traps only work if you use a lid so they go down into the beer and it only catches the young ones.
Same with the cabbage moths here in Missouri. Knock on wood. But I've seen way more slugs.
I would love to just follow you around one day. If I could keep up.
So Cool! Glad I got a glimpse of your special creations, Jenna :)
We are having a weird yr here in North Arkansas. The environment is different. More mulberries than ever, crazy amount of white oak saplings, week long cloudy days , and just a lot of other oddities!
Definitely odd!
Garden like a viking makes a slug spray that works on all those soft body pests. That might be a better collaboration video.
Totally, Jenna. I’ve also had slugs (tons of the tiny ones) eating my onions, especially chives. I put coffee grinds down which at first didn’t seem to do anything, but about a week later the chives looked much better, and I haven’t seen many slugs there. Also have had flea beetles on eggplant already, which is way earlier than last year. I’m in Carlisle PA
I'm glad to hear that the coffee grounds seem to be helping! I may have to more seriously consider this!
I have been fallowing your channel for quite some time. Whatever you say helps me as I have a tiny backyard garden in Cincinnati. Your narrations are crisp and clear. This garden tour is timely and thanks for the tips.
I'm so glad to hear this- thank you!
Beautiful stuff. I'm in zone 7 DE, and just love your channel. One of my favorites. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!!
Your soil must be low in copper. Use a copper sulfate and water spray around the soil and at around the base of the plants. That was the only thing that worked for me. I do it now at the transitions (fall and spring) and it seems to control slugs populations and fungi really well
I am up near lake Erie, put tomato seedlings, and peppers last 10 days, all doing real well, but really worried on lack of rain up here, Wednesday rain missed me completely
Also near the lake and my peppers were all but wiped out by invisible bugs 😢
Well, here comes the rain.... and hail... hope you got some this time, I know my garden needed it too.
Lorain county, Ohio here
Oh goodness! I hope some rain comes your way very soon!
Lol, strawberry season was weird in Indiana too.
As I watched this video I was on my second batch of garlic scape pesto! Yes, a very interesting season 😮 Your garden is amazing 🎉
Yum! That sounds delicious!
I'm gonna commentary as you go: first strawberry today May 25th in NYz6, maybe 2 cabbage moths spotted all spring (fingers crossed), less slugs, but more army worms too. Haven't transplanted my tomatoes, or harvested rhubarb. Wow, only got half the height on my rye, which was still better than last year. I have a few strawberry plants without fruit but it's in a greenstalk with other fruit producers so it's not necessarily nitrogen. Just planted my first 2 St Croix grapes, no shapes on garlic yet , haven't planted my eggplant, no peas yet, potatoes are already flowering and less voles (more snakes), 3years is not too long to save spinach seeds, still have to germinate corn, beans, melons, summer flowers, etc. Why aren't you filling the hugel with logs to absorb the water?
Thanks for the tour 😊
Funny you should ask about the hugel-- shortly after I filmed this video I started have the kids do just that. Anytime they find sticks/logs I tell them to throw in the hugel trench... my son also loves going into the woods with his ATV and dragging up dead logs to throw in!
I love your garden space! Your channel is one of my favorites! I’m also having a slug problem with my lettuce this year here in Cincinnati. I don’t normally have an issue with them. I cut off a few curly scapes off my garlic today. I sautéed them with some mustard greens tonight! It’s been so warm so early, but I’m not complaining. I’m just happy to have lots of things growing!!!
Funny I used insect nettings over my romanesco and spinach, not to prevent insects but to prevent skunk and squirrels from digging. It works out amazing, less pests damage is just a bonus ontop of the non-digging. Can't do it for all my beds because many of them have trellis, but it's definitely my favorite way of growing shorter vegetables now.
I’m glad it worked out so well for you!
the volunteers in my compost always seem to do great
Same! I always say my compost pile pumpkins and winter squash are the best ones!
Respect. Clearly a lot of work for one gardener even with some family help. I'm also in Ohio 6A. I've given up on strawberries as it seems every animal/insect species loves them more than me. I'm trying not to fight nature to hard and refuse to use insecticides/pesticides/herbicides. Thankfully the alliums are doing very well as are the rasberries and blackberries. Tomatoes and peppers are in. Trying 2 pear varieties, but my horrible clay soil is not helping, 3rd year with little flowering. The weather has been crazy warm and wet. I'm using pots up by the house for herbs, spinach and curly kale. Love your work and honesty about the journey of gardening. Cheers.
Hi. We just moved to Eaton from the SW Burbs of Chicago last year. Found you looking for a 6a gardener on TH-cam. Hello from (nearby) SW Ohio!
Hello and welcome to Ohio! 💚
I'm in Ohio 6A, too. My cool weather crops didn't get any chance this year due to our early warm weather. I plan on fall harvest for those cool weather crops this year. I have lots of strawberries and picked mine a week ago (Mid-May). Very unusual. I planted early this year since we have exceptional warm weather for May. This morning, I harvested a couple of BEAN plants!! I'm having trouble with slugs too. Thanks for your advice and for the tour, always enjoy your videos!
Mulberry latex from green mulberries, mulberry branches, and/or leaves is used as a natural insecticide that works for most things. Blend with water and strain, put mash in the soil, or ferment briefly to make a compost tea.
Interesting! We’ve got plenty of mulberries around here, I’ll have to look into that.
I am gardening in the Caribbean and the bugs are on a roll!!!! To deal with the slugs I have go out in the garden at midnight with my torch and bag with salt to pop them into ( HOW THE HECK CAN YOU HOLD THE SLIME!!! WITH YOUR BARE HANDSSSS!!!! 😬😬😬) and I also have to use the bait during the wet season…. This year I had to deal with a new pest ( Red spider mites ….. I want to weep)
Beautiful garden Mrs Jenna!❤
Oh I'm sorry you're dealing with this!
Thanks for mentioning the SWD. I'm in NE Ohio and am also struggling with SWD maggots on my raspberries. I am going to try Surround though it isn't recommended for raspberries bc it's a soft fruit. Let us know what eventually works for you. It will be greatly appreciated. So frustrating! Love your podcasts. Very helpful.
I've heard one of the best solutions is to net plants- but you really have to be diligent getting the nets on asap, and getting them well secured into the ground because SWD are so tiny and can get into any little gap. Spinosad and pyrethrin based insecticides are approved for organic production, but you have to be careful with these as they can kill pollinators too.
Omg the SLUGS this year, yes!
Now that you mention the cabbage moths, I saw them in March & April…but I haven’t seen them much now. I’m in Muskingum county Ohio, technically 6b.
Yarrow is my nemesis: wild white yarrow always creeps into my rows. Your brave to plant chamomile 😂 though I’m going to try it as a companion to my orange jing okra
Yarrow is definitely not one to be easily controlled... but I do love it!
And my chamomile actually behaves itself- I get volunteers every year, but it seems to play well with my other plants.
I love your videos Jenna. They are so helpful with ideas and different ways to plant things here in Ohio. I see you have elderberry in an area with a little shade. I didn't know if that would work for me but I think I am going to try it now. Thanks Jenna.
I had slugs on my onion greens this year and they’re on my garlic as well in upstate Ny. Crazy season for sure so far. We also had a very mild winter and it was almost 90 today. I didn’t even bother with cool season crops this spring. Going to start them late summer to go into fall.
As reassuring as it is to know other gardeners, especially ones as experienced and knowledgeable as you, are experiencing the same problems as so many of us, it doesn't *comfort* me. The cabbage whites are (or were) out and about, laying eggs to hatch into cabbage worms; the slugs... Oh, what can I say about the slugs and all the defenses they seem unaffected by! Copper. Beer. Dry, bare ground. Dry, bare ground and sharp grit. Rough-crushed eggshells, various degrees of coarseness. Copper again. Haven't tried DE yet, but that's next.
I'm amazed and a bit disheartened that slugs are eating your rhubarb. I have a great stand of the stuff, but mine is no doubt older (stalks are a lot heavier) and presumably contain more oxalic acid but I marvel that slugs seem to be able to eat those leaves of your rhubarb and not die right on the spot. *So far* mine seems to have been untouched by slug pests (and I suppose now that saying this will prove to be the jinx.) Like you, I adore rhubarb pie (no strawberries necessary to make me happy, tenkewveddymuch) and this clump of rhubarb is finally old enough and big enough to allow me to give some to a neighbor who fancies it, too, and have enough for a pie for me. (Okay: a small pie for me.) If it were just a bit bigger, I'd give some to my neighbor, have a small rhubarb pie for myself, and start putting up rhubarb preserves.
Ooh, yes! Gooseberries. What's the deal with gooseberries in Ohio? I'd love to have one or two bushes, but some sources say no gooseberries in Ohio because of the pine blister rust danger, others say yes, you can acquire (purchase) and plant gooseberry plants in this state. A different neighbor would be incoherent with delight if I had gooseberries to share, green/white ones, but I've been reluctant to get into either legal or horticultural trouble.
You mentioned Surround kaolin clay: might that deter slugs, do you think, or would that just make their assaults easier for them, and more successful, too?
Correct me if I'm in error, here, but I thought or think I recall hearing that bent-over onion tops can and ought to be snipped just behind the bend or crimp, closer to the bulb than the bent place by maybe a hair. It'd be work, of course, but would the work, work?
Much gardening love from NE Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
I live in Ohio too in 6a. I have ripe strawberries too. It has been a VERY interesting garden season. I had aphids in May on my cabbages. I had to strip a couple of their leaves. I am so bitter about this.
I'm also seeing a slow start for cabbage butterflies this year in western Colorado. They seemed to be around during the warm spells in April, but have been all but absent in May. My broccoli is not netted and has almost no damage. The cabbages, which I netted for the first time this year after a mucky wormy mess last year, may not even need the netting yet!
The cabbage butterflies finally showed up here... with a vengeance! Seemingly overnight their larva have devoured some of my unprotected plants!
Love your garden … thank you for so much helpful information & inspiration !😊
Thank you!!
Seeing the same here in Kansas City. Feels like we moved a full Zone South.
It's crazy!
you are way ahead of us. It only stopped raining a couple days ago here in Joisy. I will sin k in the mud to my calves in parts of my garden. And it's 90F.
When did you plant all of this? Im in your zone in north east Indiana. Close to Celina Ohio. I just planted in the last 2 weeks. But I'm kinda new to it.
Hi there! You can see detail as to when I start from seed and/or transplant all my crops in this series of videos: th-cam.com/play/PL4zzslvkscX1qEVADEL6_OL5ynFVtcMPR.html&si=dzkqvZAW9CQPxQJI
lol, I hadn’t gotten to the best tip of all before commenting…can’t wait to try out the method for the tunneling critters. Thank you!!
I'm in Virginia (Zone 6b/7a-ish), and I had very similar issues with caterpillars. I planted out my very healthy tomato seedlings, only to have them *decimated* in less than a day, while my over-wintered onions (which had been mostly a success up to that point) had very similar damage. Thankfully, I had planted some of my tomatoes seedlings in my mom's garden elsewhere in the yard, so it wasn't a total loss, although I'm not as hopeful for my poor onions....
Oh yikes! Do you know what got to your tomatoes?
@@GrowfullywithJenna I can't be sure, but I think it must have been caterpillars, or some sort of insect, although I haven't found it.
You have a beautiful garden Jenna. Thank you for the tour. 3/4 th's of what you grow I can't grow here in Florida.
Monterey Lawn and Garden online has a fantastic slug bait. Everyone raves about it.
Thank you!!
Beautiful home 🏡 stead ❤looks amazing super fantastic video 📹 ❤️
Thank you so much 🤗
I’ve lost a lot of my seedlings from slugs 😩 I’ve never had a slug issue before
Use chicken mineral scratch. What chickens eat to digest their food. Slugs won't go near it because it will slice them up!
I'm so sorry to hear this!
Long time view who just realized that I hadn’t hit the subscribe button. Thank goodness I came to comment on you filming in your bathrobe. I seriously thought I was the only one who did that, thank you for making me feel like I’m not an oddball, unless we are just both oddballs. 😂
Haha I love it!! I'm always out here in bathrobes, pajamas, and usually muck boots 😂 We're definitely oddballs... but in the best way!
Jenna, can you do some harvest updates? I’m in central Ohio and am shocked at our “southern style” weather this year and all our early harvests.
I garden in central illinois, zone 5b/6a. I have never dealt with army worms on onions and cabbage before, but I am this year, too.
Sorry to hear you're dealing with them!
Your garden look tremendous! Thank you for vole trap tip! I'm taking home a big tube from work today. I have voles and shrews decimating my beds
I love sugar magnolia peas
I have so much slug damage this year! My seedlings, even marigold, were chewed up by slugs. Nothing like hand picking slugs to start the morning.😂
I'm sorry you're dealing with them too!
I never had slugs in my garden until I mulched with wood chips (I'm in central Ohio). That year ever slug on the planet was in my garden and I could not grow anything from seed. That's when I started growing everything indoors under lights, probably about 10 years ago. That gave my plants had a fighting chance at survival. I stopped using wood mulch in my garden and now the slug population is much smaller (it took a couple of years to really decrease). I did try the whole beer trap thing and had poor results as well. I caught some, but there were plenty of times that there were 0 slugs in the traps. What can a gardener do? I also tried egg shells and most of the other suggestions to little or no effect.
The weather pattern is definitely messed up. I saw my first squash bug a week ago! I don't know that I've tracked when they come out normally, but I think it's 3 weeks or maybe a month early. Hopefully this doesn't bode poorly for the summer months.
We haven't had a frost since April 26 here in Ontario Zone 5, we haven't even come particularly close to a frost since then (coldest was 37.5F on May 7). Current forecast is about 42F for Wednesday, which will be the coldest since May 12, and then it looks like we're back to summer weather.
That's wild!
Grow some elephant ears. Horseradish you’ll NEVER get rid of. Mint either. Dill too. They have rhizomes. I love grapes, can’t grow them. Honey Suckle is beautiful. Heard apricots like a 2nd pollinator. It’s on my list
Looks like you bit the bullet and just got the same ‘ol wood for the raised garden. See you again in 7 years. I have peach leaf curl too.
Paw paws, you’re such a tease.
Your tours do so much for me since I can compare and contrast. Except you have so much more $$$$...tuff? Sluggo seems to work. Charles Dowing has it in England as well. Thanks for sharing your successes and struggles. Don't think you're boring. YOU ARE NOT!
Nope- just never replaced the old wood on the raised beds... still trying to figure out what to do there.
@@GrowfullywithJenna State of denial will get you another 3 years. Been there. Then it gets REALLY BAD.
With all the recycled plastics, you'd think they could make something cheap that could last 30 years.
i run a farm to table spice company and with cilantro lime being my best seller i am planting a ton of cilatro on my porch and tucked into any shady spot
How fun!!
A 10.5 from 6A!!!
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I’ve been spraying my raspberries and blackberries with Spinosad for SWD for several years and it works well. You have to start carefully spraying but I do it at dusk after pollinators are done for the day and reapply it after it rains. some of the berries that are under the canopy still get infested but at least I get a harvest. Disgusting little pests! I’m in the Indy area and SWD has been around many years
That is good to know- thank you!
Last year my beer traps failed completely. I was using stainless steel bowls. I resorted to Sluggo and my dog ended up getting very sick from consuming it. This year I used ceramic ramekins and literally hundreds of drunken slugs.
Wow-- I've been using primarily plastic or metal canning lids... I'll have to try the ceramic! I'm so sorry to hear your dog got sick- I hope he/she is ok now!
@@GrowfullywithJenna She is doing great now thx! Good luck with the slugs. So much great advice and inspiration in your videos.
Each year I try growing something different for fun in addition to the usual suspects. Last year was Malabar spinach and I have never regretted an edible planting as much as this one! I didn’t enjoy the mucilaginous mouth feel so i let it grow as an ornamental. This year there are literally thousands of Malabar seeds sprouting EVERYWHERE since late April here in NJ. I have been pulling handfuls each morning from around my radishes.
Oh wow! I've never had mine reseed... maybe I planted it too late.
Beautiful garden!
Thank you!
Nice looking garden, I’m sure you’ll need to harvest sooner due to the warmer weather 🧑🌾
Lovely tour.
Thanks for visiting!