I put my biochar into the compost bins, so by the time it gets into the garden beds it is already full of nutrients and microbes, I refer to it as charged biochar. This way, you don't get any nutrient drawdown when you add the biochar to the garden bed.
I live in Topeka. I bought a big load of compost this year and it has been a disaster. Where I used the new compost, everything is stunted and dying. 😢 luckily I have beds that I didn’t put it in and are doing great. This is my first year growing garlic, and my harvest was AMAZING! My onions are also huge. They will be coming out in a couple of weeks. So glad to see your garden is absolutely flourishing!💕🌻
I suggest you do the three sisters with your corn. I love beans with my corn cause it feeds nitrogen tot he corn and I get more beans! Plus pole beans grow up the corn. So much fun.
This was the first year we ever had luck with sweet corn, and I'm pretty sure it is because we really took it being a heavy feeder to heart this time. Of all the veg we grow, corn needs the most added nutrition in our garden. We fertilize with our own organic compost for most of what we grow, and maybe add fish emulsion once or twice for the "heavy feeders". Well, that has proven to be not enough nutrition for corn. So this year, we went all in with blood meal at the time of planting, with fish emulsion with kelp every week or two, and even side dressed with ammonium sulfate, a 21-0-0 fertilizer when the corn was a foot high. And our corn was dark green, massive, and produced 2 ears per stalk. Peaches and Cream is the variety, same one we tried twice before with no luck. Lots of water and lots of nitrogen seemed to be the keys for us. Good luck!
2nd year gardener here on a suberban lot. I make my own biochar and add it to my vompost bin so it can be charged with good bacteria before I add it to the garden beds. I also use pine/cedar bedding from my local tractor supply. I love what your doing Great job!
I have a few bird feeders that I put only sunflower seeds in. The birds have spread sunflowers all over the property. U just need a bird to poop it out in your yard and they'll be everywhere
Hi Bre, appreciate you sharing your gardening with us! Your garden is looking fabulous and you keep mentioning that many plants are producing early this year. Hope you’ll tell us what you think helped?
Even if its gonna rain go ahead and water in whatever you plant. Corn really like the ground better or at least thats been my experience over the years. Good luck. Hope your garden does amazing
I sowed corn this June too after garlic harvest, they're now about 12"+ tall, some of them are shorter, the weather now is really warmer than last year & harvests are early, I love it!
I have said the same exact thing about the Bermuda grass. Bane of my existence. I am in north Alabama and it is very invasive. I also started using the ez straw in my grow bags and it is amazing.
You could try planting a climbing bean in with the corn once their about 4 weeks old, then a small pumpkin or squash 2 weeks after that, 3 crops 1 bed, the 3 sisters, all help each other in one shape or form.
really appreciate your videos. I have a LOT of garden grade straw leftover from my strawberries because i thought i'd need way more than i did. I usually just leave my beds with exposed compost on top, but i'm going to try your straw method. i'm going to spread it over most of my beds today because the next week here in Ontario we're supposed to have a very unusually long and hot heat wave and i'm worried for some of my brassicas and celeriac
I would also add fish fertilizer for that corn. I grew sweet corn when I lived up in the DFW area and organic fish fertilizer was the perfect compliment. If you get it just spray it on the roots or water it in. Neptunes Harvest is great 👍🏽
That grass is bermuda grass, and some folks will go as far as saying you need to dig 3ft down and remove it all from that space in order to really get rid of it, or spray some nasty roundup crap on it, which I would never recommend. Really you'll just have to do as you did here and dig out what you can and chalk it up to having the bermuda be a persistent weed. Best thing for yuh would be to start your raised beds with some kinda block at the bottom to prevent the bermuda, but that'll also prevent things like worms getting in as well to help you out. Always a give and take with gardening. My persistent weed is crab grass. It's just something I rip up as much as I can, but try to not get mad at it when it shows up again, since even really young crab grass can chuck out 100k seeds and just keep it goin.
Love, love, love your channel. You give so much info and I love that. Love the chickens too. Your snap dragons are gorgeous I too am planting some since I saw yours. Have a good week and I hope you have good luck with your corn.
Must be satisfying to get the peppers in the ground after all this time. I'm almost there but I started mine in February and I think I'll wait until after the coming heat wave later this week to transplant.
try planting an amaranth plant next to your zucchini as a trap crop. it has worked in other states not sure if it works in your climate specific. its worth a try, i figured.
Bre you are an amazing person, Gardner, source of information! Corn is so cool! You will have stalks around Halloween 🎃! My favorite time. Gonna be great!
Corn loves nitrogen use the same fertiliser schedule as you garlic. You should help it stay up with a trellis also you can help with pollination to ensure all the silk get polllinated
Your grow bags look great. Are they new this year or how many years have you used them? Also the brand? I got some on Amazon and this is my second year using them but one has a tear and another a rabbit chewed a hole in lol dang rabbit. 🐇 I really love your videos.
Plant two zucchini plants. Otherwise, you likely won't have good pollination rates cause of I'll timed male and female flowers blooming. I made this mistake several years in a row..
Ive never had a issue but I also do a lot of hand pollinating when it comes to the zucchini since I use insect netting on it. Good to know though!! Thanks for sharing!
Can you tell us more about what you would do if you did get vine borers? And you mention something about “it’s past the worry of vine borers” I didn’t realize that was a thing! I’m in Kansas too and stopped attempting any squashes or pumpkins because of this. It’s so frustrating and I hate to use pesticides.
Ive found that after June I typically don't have much issues with vine borer. Ive read Kansas has one wave of vine borers. I believe I read that on the extension website. Harder to plant winter squash late, but summer squash ive had better luck waiting until mid summer. I will say last year I had a volunteer and I still had to do surgery on the plant but it rebounded .
I really enjoy your videos but I wonder if u are not a patient person with the chickens and such? I’m not saying this in a bad way u just seemed get annoyed pretty quickly when that chicken wouldn’t go to bed. It made me giggle. I can’t imagine being tired though and having to chase a chicken😂I’d probally get annoyed quickly too.
This one lady can't seem to get the concept, I cut out about 5 minutes of trying to get her in lol. It was a every single day thing this week so I was a bit annoyed lol. I left my sigh to simple show the realties of chickens. They can be so smart yet so stupid lol
@@itsbreellis oh yes yes I wondered if this might have been the case…. I really wasn’t trying g to be rude I was genuinely curious about how frustrated u got. I have never had chickens it seems like that one chicken is your problem child.😂 good luck with her sweety.
@@Eh-zf7hq I honestly wasn’t trying to be rude I swear. I see how it comes off that way but it was not my intention at all. Next time I’ll try to word things differently. I really do enjoy her content and think she seems like a very sweet lady. It’s just how it looked with the editing and I’d rather ask than just assume something. The internet can be so cruel and we only see a tiny portion of a persons life on here. So I would rather ask about something that may look a little off that’s all. I don’t have chickens never have so I have no idea the stress it would be to chase a chicky around. I never thought she was crazy or anything it just looked like she got a little overwhelmed by that little bird is all
I put my biochar into the compost bins, so by the time it gets into the garden beds it is already full of nutrients and microbes, I refer to it as charged biochar. This way, you don't get any nutrient drawdown when you add the biochar to the garden bed.
Love that!! Thanks for sharing!
You are an amazing source of encouragement. Thank you for sharing your garden with us.
Thanks for watching!!
Love that I found this channel! Excellent knowledge and inspiration!
I live in Topeka. I bought a big load of compost this year and it has been a disaster. Where I used the new compost, everything is stunted and dying. 😢 luckily I have beds that I didn’t put it in and are doing great. This is my first year growing garlic, and my harvest was AMAZING! My onions are also huge. They will be coming out in a couple of weeks. So glad to see your garden is absolutely flourishing!💕🌻
I suggest you do the three sisters with your corn. I love beans with my corn cause it feeds nitrogen tot he corn and I get more beans! Plus pole beans grow up the corn. So much fun.
If you don‘t like beans you could also hey peas!
This was the first year we ever had luck with sweet corn, and I'm pretty sure it is because we really took it being a heavy feeder to heart this time. Of all the veg we grow, corn needs the most added nutrition in our garden. We fertilize with our own organic compost for most of what we grow, and maybe add fish emulsion once or twice for the "heavy feeders". Well, that has proven to be not enough nutrition for corn. So this year, we went all in with blood meal at the time of planting, with fish emulsion with kelp every week or two, and even side dressed with ammonium sulfate, a 21-0-0 fertilizer when the corn was a foot high. And our corn was dark green, massive, and produced 2 ears per stalk. Peaches and Cream is the variety, same one we tried twice before with no luck. Lots of water and lots of nitrogen seemed to be the keys for us. Good luck!
2nd year gardener here on a suberban lot. I make my own biochar and add it to my vompost bin so it can be charged with good bacteria before I add it to the garden beds. I also use pine/cedar bedding from my local tractor supply. I love what your doing Great job!
This year I was like, ok, Im going to plant 100 sunflower seeds, there is no way the critters can eat them all. ..... I have zero sunflowers. :(
That is the worst! Always stinks when that happens.
Same here. I have 1 that survived.
I have a few bird feeders that I put only sunflower seeds in. The birds have spread sunflowers all over the property. U just need a bird to poop it out in your yard and they'll be everywhere
My only sunflowers this year are volunteers. Thankfully they are doing really well.
Same here. 40 sunflower seedlings, roly poly or sow bugs came, ate 36 seedlings down to the ground. Never had this problem before.
Ok clearly I asked that prematurely. Your garden looks so wonderful!
Hi Bre, appreciate you sharing your gardening with us! Your garden is looking fabulous and you keep mentioning that many plants are producing early this year. Hope you’ll tell us what you think helped?
Even if its gonna rain go ahead and water in whatever you plant. Corn really like the ground better or at least thats been my experience over the years. Good luck. Hope your garden does amazing
I sowed corn this June too after garlic harvest, they're now about 12"+ tall, some of them are shorter, the weather now is really warmer than last year & harvests are early, I love it!
I love that!
Companion plant for squash bugs plus grow zucchini up pole. Sure know about these but find lemon balm best here in SC
I have said the same exact thing about the Bermuda grass. Bane of my existence. I am in north Alabama and it is very invasive. I also started using the ez straw in my grow bags and it is amazing.
Its the worst lol and I love that! Hope you love it as much as I do!
Your garden is looking so lush Bre! Excellent work! The yarrow and echinacea at 25:21 look perfect together 💕
Thanks so much! 😊
You could try planting a climbing bean in with the corn once their about 4 weeks old, then a small pumpkin or squash 2 weeks after that, 3 crops 1 bed, the 3 sisters, all help each other in one shape or form.
really appreciate your videos. I have a LOT of garden grade straw leftover from my strawberries because i thought i'd need way more than i did. I usually just leave my beds with exposed compost on top, but i'm going to try your straw method. i'm going to spread it over most of my beds today because the next week here in Ontario we're supposed to have a very unusually long and hot heat wave and i'm worried for some of my brassicas and celeriac
Hope everything makes it through okay!
I would also add fish fertilizer for that corn. I grew sweet corn when I lived up in the DFW area and organic fish fertilizer was the perfect compliment. If you get it just spray it on the roots or water it in. Neptunes Harvest is great 👍🏽
That was my plan but wasn't sure how it may go! Thanks for sharing your expirence!
That grass is bermuda grass, and some folks will go as far as saying you need to dig 3ft down and remove it all from that space in order to really get rid of it, or spray some nasty roundup crap on it, which I would never recommend. Really you'll just have to do as you did here and dig out what you can and chalk it up to having the bermuda be a persistent weed. Best thing for yuh would be to start your raised beds with some kinda block at the bottom to prevent the bermuda, but that'll also prevent things like worms getting in as well to help you out. Always a give and take with gardening.
My persistent weed is crab grass. It's just something I rip up as much as I can, but try to not get mad at it when it shows up again, since even really young crab grass can chuck out 100k seeds and just keep it goin.
Yes! Ive ruled its just something ill be dealing with lol
Love, love, love your channel. You give so much info and I love that. Love the chickens too. Your snap dragons are gorgeous I too am planting some since I saw yours. Have a good week and I hope you have good luck with your corn.
Thank you so much!
Bree I read today some planted a cucumber vine in the middle of her sweet potato and it stop the vine borer beetle just a thought for you
Must be satisfying to get the peppers in the ground after all this time. I'm almost there but I started mine in February and I think I'll wait until after the coming heat wave later this week to transplant.
Yes! Only a few so far but ill take it! You will have peppers here soon!
try planting an amaranth plant next to your zucchini as a trap crop. it has worked in other states not sure if it works in your climate specific. its worth a try, i figured.
Great video!
That's great good luck 😊
Thank you! 😄
I suggest pollinating your corn by hand. In suburban backyards like ours trusting the wind to do it can be iffy.
Thanks for the tip! That was my plan this year going into things to be safe!
Bre you are an amazing person, Gardner, source of information! Corn is so cool! You will have stalks around Halloween 🎃! My favorite time. Gonna be great!
Thank you !!
New subscriber! Just discovered your content. After freeze drying your okra, how did you prepare it for eating?
Try a super sweet augmented corn. I ordered some from Johnnys last year. Grew to about 4 feet and I had corn in about 45 days.
Thats good to know! Thanks for sharing! Ill check that out!
I do my corn really close together. Like 6 inches apart.
Thank you for sharing! So hard to find good info on raised bed gardening so times. Love knowning others experience!
Corn loves nitrogen use the same fertiliser schedule as you garlic. You should help it stay up with a trellis also you can help with pollination to ensure all the silk get polllinated
Thanks for the tip!!
Stoney acres garden just did a video about corn. He mentioned hilling corn i believe. Im definitely trying it.
Ill check that out! Thanks for sharing!
Bird drop seeds for weeds & other stuff
You're luck encouraged me to get the same fertilizer. Wish me luck lol
Hope you love it as much as I have!
Your grow bags look great. Are they new this year or how many years have you used them? Also the brand? I got some on Amazon and this is my second year using them but one has a tear and another a rabbit chewed a hole in lol dang rabbit. 🐇 I really love your videos.
Plant two zucchini plants. Otherwise, you likely won't have good pollination rates cause of I'll timed male and female flowers blooming. I made this mistake several years in a row..
Ive never had a issue but I also do a lot of hand pollinating when it comes to the zucchini since I use insect netting on it. Good to know though!! Thanks for sharing!
Won't the netting keep the pollinators out as well as the squash bugs?
Yup. But ill hand pollinate them so it will be fine.
How much feed do your chickens go through? Do you think it's less since they eat garden scraps?
My first year trying corn figured it's worth a try! What zone you in?
Can you tell us more about what you would do if you did get vine borers? And you mention something about “it’s past the worry of vine borers” I didn’t realize that was a thing! I’m in Kansas too and stopped attempting any squashes or pumpkins because of this. It’s so frustrating and I hate to use pesticides.
Ive found that after June I typically don't have much issues with vine borer. Ive read Kansas has one wave of vine borers. I believe I read that on the extension website. Harder to plant winter squash late, but summer squash ive had better luck waiting until mid summer. I will say last year I had a volunteer and I still had to do surgery on the plant but it rebounded .
I'm attracted to the onion behind you Bree, mine is almost 2 weeks after transplanting here in 🇿🇦
Amazing 💖💖
Thanks 🤗
I could use some tips for those beautiful Snapdragons pleas3!!😊
This is my first year! I think I'm having some beginners luck!
Do you have to can your picked okra? I have okra growing and would love to try some.
Yes I Can It. It can be done by water bathing
Hi! New Sub! Any tips on how to grow strawberries? Everything in my garden is doing well except them. Your garden is A DREAM!
Thank you!! Caging mine has been game changer for me!
@@itsbreellis Do you mean caging as in birds can’t get them?
where did u get ur garlic seed from?
mad river garlic growers is who I've always ordered from
Did you fertilize your whole garden like you did your Garlic?
I hate that kind of grass. It is all over my yard. I’ve declared war this year. 😂
Its the worst!
Did corn for the first time this year and they all were coming in so good with cobs already on them and then the mice destroyed them :(((
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I really enjoy your videos but I wonder if u are not a patient person with the chickens and such? I’m not saying this in a bad way u just seemed get annoyed pretty quickly when that chicken wouldn’t go to bed. It made me giggle. I can’t imagine being tired though and having to chase a chicken😂I’d probally get annoyed quickly too.
That's kinda rude
This one lady can't seem to get the concept, I cut out about 5 minutes of trying to get her in lol. It was a every single day thing this week so I was a bit annoyed lol. I left my sigh to simple show the realties of chickens. They can be so smart yet so stupid lol
@@itsbreellis oh yes yes I wondered if this might have been the case…. I really wasn’t trying g to be rude I was genuinely curious about how frustrated u got. I have never had chickens it seems like that one chicken is your problem child.😂 good luck with her sweety.
@@Eh-zf7hq I honestly wasn’t trying to be rude I swear. I see how it comes off that way but it was not my intention at all. Next time I’ll try to word things differently. I really do enjoy her content and think she seems like a very sweet lady. It’s just how it looked with the editing and I’d rather ask than just assume something. The internet can be so cruel and we only see a tiny portion of a persons life on here. So I would rather ask about something that may look a little off that’s all. I don’t have chickens never have so I have no idea the stress it would be to chase a chicky around. I never thought she was crazy or anything it just looked like she got a little overwhelmed by that little bird is all