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Thank you so much 😊 Once I realized I could plant before our last frost date it opened up a whole new world! 9b must be very nice but I’m sure it comes with its share of difficulties too.
I just tried to subscribe , but , RUclips says I have too many subscriptions !!!! Keep making gardening videos and I'll keep watching !!!! Thank you very much !!!
Thank you, I will :) Lol, I didn't realize RUclips put a limit on that! Thankfully they are good at showing you videos from creators you've watched even when not subscribed. Hopefully they keep showing up for you :)
@@FiveCanadianAcres : yes , I'm pretty sure 😃 that they keep sending them to me !!!! I volunteer in a community garden in zone 9b !!!! We grow food to support our community free food pantry program !!!! It's a lot of fun and I'm learning a lot !!!! I'm particularly interested in videos about soil amending !!!!
This was a great video. You have an amazing variety of veg. This summer I want to plant more than just tomatoes and peppers, this has given me inspiration to try more varieties.
Thank you :) That is so great to hear! It can be overwhelming with so many things you can grow, something I still struggle with, lol. The usual advice of grow what you eat is valid but I also like to try and grow things that are more expensive to buy or varieties I can't buy in the grocery store. This seasons garden isn't too far away :)
It must grow well for you with that heat! I didn't get any last year, it may just be too cool for them up here. I am going to try again this year in a warm spot of my garden. Hopefully I can get some and try out some of those recipes :)
Omg! I just found your channel and I’m amazed, your garden is looking so good.. I can’t wait to start my garden…😊😊 I subscribe by the way….Thank you for sharing your garden! 😊
Thank you so much 😊 You are welcome and thank you for subscribing too! This is such a fun time of year, I just started my first seeds. Hope you get to start some soon too 🌱😄
Thank you :) Yes those are definitely things I need to implement more. I have only read a bit about them and it's very interesting. I love the permaculture principles :)
Watching from Ireland. Do you get the cabbage butterfly? If I don't keep on top of the eggs/caterpillar, they will decimate my cabbage/broccoli/broccoli etc
Yes we get the cabbage moths here too. It wasn't too bad my first couple of seasons. I also found by getting my spring crop in early they had change to grow before the moths came out. I also had success growing my onions around my cabbages, it helped mask their smell. This year I am definitely going to have to cover them, as I think I have been helping the population of moths grow around my garden the last few years.
@@FiveCanadianAcresI definitely can’t go without bug netting on brassicas. Ugh! It’s impossible to get those cabbage worms out of Brussels sprouts and broccoli. 😂just when you think you’ve soaked them enough and are about to cook them you spot 5 more😮.
Thank you :) Yes it's a combination of healthy native soil and well composted animal manure! I also make a nettle compost tea that I use a couple of times a year as needed.
I just found you, we are about 200km NW of you. I have a small urban garden and greenhouse with some success and some disappointments. I am enjoying your videos, it is great to see your beautiful gardens as well as your challenges. Appreciate your in site and shared experiences Thank you. Where did you get your Kalinka Malinka tomatoes seeds? I am hoping for a high yield, small space tomatoes for zone 3.
Glad you found me too, it's nice connecting with local gardeners :) Greenhouse are so nice, I have heard they can be tricky to grow in. My little glass greenhouse isn't heated so I can't grow much in it. It gets really hot during the day and cools right off at night. We are hoping to build a high tunnel to grow some peppers and tomatoes in next year. I got the Kalinka Malinkas from Bright Bush Farm but sadly she is no longer selling seeds this year. Revival Seeds out of NS carries a tomato called Kalinka that I feel is very similar, if not the same. I have ordered from them before, great seeds and company. I did save some seeds from mine last year. I have to do a germination test to see if they are viable. If they are I can send you some to try if you would like :)
Lol, nice to see I’m not the only one that uses wire racks in GH. Interesting your Z3 and frost date is 5/14. I’m Z5a and ours is 5/12. We are extremely warm this year, warmer than I ever recall and all winter long. Because of this I’m not doing any winter sow and more a spring sow. I also seen on your calendar to transplant tomatoes right after frost date. You must use cloches or some kind of cover-right? 😂I tried Tithonia last year and never seen only something that looked like a weed and took a chance and let it grow. It was the Tithonia and it was about 6’ had two flowers and the frost took it😂 Looks like you had a lot of thinning to do especially those rutabagas. I found out they love it here as they get huge. Seeds I collected and dropped a few grew right away in the paths. Our potatoes were killed back to the ground by unwarned freeze last day of May😏 it was a devastating freeze and took out many plants including fruit. It was just to hot of a spring.
I recently learned I have one of the longest frost free growing season for my zone. The Zone 3 part comes into play during those cold parts of winter when we can get -40. I don't usually cover my tomatoes after they've been planted. I have lost a few due to late frosts but for the most part they all grow and produce. I do find the more cold tolerant tomatoes do produce sooner so I will be planting more of those! We have had nice weather too, I am getting ideas of making a cold frame and planting some spinach :) It was a year of thinning last year, lol. This year I am planning on being more intentional with my seed planting, at least a little bit, lol. Hopefully this year will be a little less extreme and you can get a good potato harvest!!
@@FiveCanadianAcres I looked back on the daily temp records online and we always had -40 in winter and I was right. Sure we always had a Jan thaw, but not this hot or for this long. The El Niño pattern they say is weakening and should bring back some precipitation. I have two large gardens and last July I couldn’t keep up and learned to install irrigation. Glad I did as it’s the best money I spent on the garden. The veg were much better and bigger. Thinning - I’m getting better at it as the carrots proved it last year-great harvest and still have some hiding under mulch and a bit of snow that’s left. I could never grow radishes and beets and found last year I need them shaded…well, I’m sure the irrigation helped also. We all like sunny warmer weather, but I’m not accustomed to what this weather can bring to the garden-fruit plants don’t do well.
@@dustyflats3832 That's so great you got some irrigation. Watering the garden can be quite a chore, it takes me hours at the height of summer. I may look at using a portable soaker hose this year for some of my rows. It will be interesting to see if we get much more moisture this year. Most of our snow is gone which is not typical for here. I am actually hoping for a rainy spring, even if it makes it harder to garden. I am also curious to see how the perennials do, I feel the ones that make it through this winter surely must be hardy :)
You said you are in zone 3. When is your last frost typically in the spring and when is your typical first frost in the fall? Thank you, great review of the whole season. An excellent idea :)
Thank you :) My average last frost is May 14th and average first frost is September 16th, so I have about 124 frost free growing days. We do have long days during the summer which helps the garden grow a lot! They are changing the maps here in Canada, I think I may be a Zone 4 now. But we just had temperatures of -40C so I think I am safer with Zone 3 or lower perennials.
@@FiveCanadianAcres hi again, I’m in Ottawa and yes I think that we are changing to zone 6! We also had some pretty cold weather but not down to -40! That is just too cold. Have you tried growing tomatillos, there are some wonderful varieties and a woman in Sudbury has seeds that grow there so she could get you seeds to try. If you want I can find her address.
@drhoy15 Zone 6, that is nice :) It was definitely too cold, lol. I have not grown tomatillos, just the little ground cherries. I actually have a couple yellow ones on my seed order list. I would be interested in trying some of hers too. You can reach me by email at kayla@fivecanadianacres. ca if you want to send the address privately.
It is so nice when things plant themselves :) I didn't know that, I will keep that in mind. I don't have any rabbits here, my dogs keep them away. Although the occasional deer will wonder through.
@@FiveCanadianAcresnot sure about how much dill as the peas and lettuce next to dill were attacked by bunnies that fit through 2x4 wire. More poultry wire needed 🙄. We have to fence Everything.
In the spring I find by planting early I can get a head start before the white moths start flying and laying eggs. With just a small amount of cabbage I will hand pick off the eggs I see. The fall garden gets hit hard though, I did spray with BTK (an organic pesticide) but it didn't work super well and I don't like spraying things anyways so this year I will have to cover the fall crop with netting.
I have not grown those yet! We do love kiwi's :) I am thinking of starting a little food forest area, they may work out well in there. Have you grown them before? I'd be curious to know how they actually taste!
Yes it can be for sure. My cold winters seem to always kill mine so just hoping they survive for now. Now the catnip (mint family too) is very hardy and overwinters for me. So far it hasn't really spread but I harvest it continuously so that probably helps :)
Unfortunately, the people who don't know where their food comes from, don't know that wheat is grass, oats and rice are sedges. Thing about growing things like garlic out to seed is that seeds can be stored for years. Any plants we can bring all the way to seed, we can collect/try new varieties. I'm thinking potatoes might be another candidate for seed experiment. There's a lot more varieties of those and I don't want to lose the varieties that do well for me.
Very true! Potatoes would be a great experiment. I left some of my carrots in the ground last fall, hopefully they make the winter and I can harvest some seeds from them! Even if we can't save all the seeds for everything. it is a great skill to learn :)
I think they were shishitos. I have never eaten them other than what I have grown myself and it was only my second time growing them. I started them from seeds I bought in 2022 (only grew half the pack that year so I had leftover seeds). I may have to buy some new seeds this year to compare!!
@@FiveCanadianAcres I'd advice it. the shishitos I've had and just scrolling through seed sites, they all say peppers should be ribbed and 2-3 inches long. But you never know, maybe you got a mutated larger variation of shishitos worth continuing to grow and share. heck you could end up naming it as a whole new pepper lol. cheers
Darling, your garden is a hot mess. Too much going on and way too on top of each other and weeds are king. Maybe plan it out a bit more. You will get there xxx
Lol, it does resemble a wild and crazy jungle :) we are working to tame the front bed and start a no-till system. The rest I like to plant things freestyle, it may not always look pretty to everyone but it warms my heart and provides tons of nourishing food ☺️
@@FiveCanadianAcres If you space your plants out a bit more they will give a lot more food. Your garden area is in a beautiful spot and your property is stunning, dont ever give up on gardening, it has taught me so much, including patience :) good luck on your adventure!
New subscriber. Looking forward to your channel and journey. God bless you all and many prayers ☦️ 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister
Hello, thank you for subscribing :)
GARDENING is good for MOTHER Earth! Greetings from the LAND of Smile!
I'm very happy to have found your channel, I'm 1 hour east of Cold lake
Welcome, happy you found me too!! Beautiful place to be, I was in Meadow Lake, SK for a few months years ago, such lovely country 😊
Wow. 9b So Cal here. You just knocked my socks off. What a wonderful variety. Looking forward to following you in 2024.
Thank you so much 😊 Once I realized I could plant before our last frost date it opened up a whole new world! 9b must be very nice but I’m sure it comes with its share of difficulties too.
I just tried to subscribe , but , RUclips says I have too many subscriptions !!!! Keep making gardening videos and I'll keep watching !!!! Thank you very much !!!
Thank you, I will :) Lol, I didn't realize RUclips put a limit on that! Thankfully they are good at showing you videos from creators you've watched even when not subscribed. Hopefully they keep showing up for you :)
@@FiveCanadianAcres : yes , I'm pretty sure 😃 that they keep sending them to me !!!! I volunteer in a community garden in zone 9b !!!! We grow food to support our community free food pantry program !!!! It's a lot of fun and I'm learning a lot !!!! I'm particularly interested in videos about soil amending !!!!
You have a big planting space.😊nice
Yes I am very lucky to have this space. We have 5 acres but much of it is hilly and trees. But the garden area is well suited with lots of sunshine :)
Great job 🏞️👍
Awesome video, looking forward to helping you in your garden next seson.🥰
Thank you :) Me too, hopefully we can get some okra to grow this year 🤞🏻
I enjoyed your video. Did a great job with it. Hugs and kisses from grandma, Sandy, and Debbie.
Thank you :)
This was a great video. You have an amazing variety of veg. This summer I want to plant more than just tomatoes and peppers, this has given me inspiration to try more varieties.
Thank you :) That is so great to hear! It can be overwhelming with so many things you can grow, something I still struggle with, lol. The usual advice of grow what you eat is valid but I also like to try and grow things that are more expensive to buy or varieties I can't buy in the grocery store. This seasons garden isn't too far away :)
Thank you for sharing,
It's great to grow and harvest your own
It really is one of the best feelings in the world 😊
Can’t wait for this calendar. Need to step up my gardening game!
It’s going to be a great year of gardening :)
We got a bit of snow this morning, it's hard to believe Ina. Few short months the garden will be full. Beautiful vifeo
Thank you :) Winter is making another appearance here too! It will be short lived and soon we will be seeing the green growing everywhere!!
The plants all grow very well....wish you success and good health as well
Thank you and same to you!!
@@FiveCanadianAcres you're welcome
Wonderful video. I am desperate to start all of my seeds but I know that I need to wait.
Thank you :) Waiting can be the hardest part sometimes!
In Suriname we call it Kousenband and we love to eat in all kind of dishes. On youtube you have alot of recipes.
It must grow well for you with that heat! I didn't get any last year, it may just be too cool for them up here. I am going to try again this year in a warm spot of my garden. Hopefully I can get some and try out some of those recipes :)
@@FiveCanadianAcres i dont live there, but in the netherlands. I have a greenhouse here and every year a good harvest.
Hi from the Hat!
Hello :) You guy's have some nice greenhouses down there!!
Omg! I just found your channel and I’m amazed, your garden is looking so good.. I can’t wait to start my garden…😊😊 I subscribe by the way….Thank you for sharing your garden! 😊
Thank you so much 😊 You are welcome and thank you for subscribing too! This is such a fun time of year, I just started my first seeds. Hope you get to start some soon too 🌱😄
Beautiful garden❤
Thank you :)
Your gardens are awesome! Very inspiring. To help find solutions for managing heavy rains/standing water you might look into permaculture and swales.
Thank you :) Yes those are definitely things I need to implement more. I have only read a bit about them and it's very interesting. I love the permaculture principles :)
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Watching from Ireland. Do you get the cabbage butterfly? If I don't keep on top of the eggs/caterpillar, they will decimate my cabbage/broccoli/broccoli etc
Yes we get the cabbage moths here too. It wasn't too bad my first couple of seasons. I also found by getting my spring crop in early they had change to grow before the moths came out. I also had success growing my onions around my cabbages, it helped mask their smell. This year I am definitely going to have to cover them, as I think I have been helping the population of moths grow around my garden the last few years.
@@FiveCanadianAcresI definitely can’t go without bug netting on brassicas. Ugh! It’s impossible to get those cabbage worms out of Brussels sprouts and broccoli. 😂just when you think you’ve soaked them enough and are about to cook them you spot 5 more😮.
We have them here In Ontario Canada as well!! Nasty little bugs!!
Great video. You have very fertile soil. Lots of compost I'm guessing!
Thank you :) Yes it's a combination of healthy native soil and well composted animal manure! I also make a nettle compost tea that I use a couple of times a year as needed.
I just found you, we are about 200km NW of you. I have a small urban garden and greenhouse with some success and some disappointments. I am enjoying your videos, it is great to see your beautiful gardens as well as your challenges. Appreciate your in site and shared experiences Thank you.
Where did you get your Kalinka Malinka tomatoes seeds? I am hoping for a high yield, small space tomatoes for zone 3.
Glad you found me too, it's nice connecting with local gardeners :) Greenhouse are so nice, I have heard they can be tricky to grow in. My little glass greenhouse isn't heated so I can't grow much in it. It gets really hot during the day and cools right off at night. We are hoping to build a high tunnel to grow some peppers and tomatoes in next year. I got the Kalinka Malinkas from Bright Bush Farm but sadly she is no longer selling seeds this year. Revival Seeds out of NS carries a tomato called Kalinka that I feel is very similar, if not the same. I have ordered from them before, great seeds and company. I did save some seeds from mine last year. I have to do a germination test to see if they are viable. If they are I can send you some to try if you would like :)
I read labels for a reason & buy organic. Do I trust all the labels 🏷 nope. I will continue growing & adding to my Urban homestead 🌱🫛🧄🥕🍆🌶
Yes, love this!!
Lol, nice to see I’m not the only one that uses wire racks in GH.
Interesting your Z3 and frost date is 5/14. I’m Z5a and ours is 5/12. We are extremely warm this year, warmer than I ever recall and all winter long. Because of this I’m not doing any winter sow and more a spring sow.
I also seen on your calendar to transplant tomatoes right after frost date. You must use cloches or some kind of cover-right?
😂I tried Tithonia last year and never seen only something that looked like a weed and took a chance and let it grow. It was the Tithonia and it was about 6’ had two flowers and the frost took it😂
Looks like you had a lot of thinning to do especially those rutabagas. I found out they love it here as they get huge. Seeds I collected and dropped a few grew right away in the paths.
Our potatoes were killed back to the ground by unwarned freeze last day of May😏 it was a devastating freeze and took out many plants including fruit. It was just to hot of a spring.
I recently learned I have one of the longest frost free growing season for my zone. The Zone 3 part comes into play during those cold parts of winter when we can get -40. I don't usually cover my tomatoes after they've been planted. I have lost a few due to late frosts but for the most part they all grow and produce. I do find the more cold tolerant tomatoes do produce sooner so I will be planting more of those! We have had nice weather too, I am getting ideas of making a cold frame and planting some spinach :)
It was a year of thinning last year, lol. This year I am planning on being more intentional with my seed planting, at least a little bit, lol. Hopefully this year will be a little less extreme and you can get a good potato harvest!!
@@FiveCanadianAcres I looked back on the daily temp records online and we always had -40 in winter and I was right. Sure we always had a Jan thaw, but not this hot or for this long.
The El Niño pattern they say is weakening and should bring back some precipitation. I have two large gardens and last July I couldn’t keep up and learned to install irrigation. Glad I did as it’s the best money I spent on the garden. The veg were much better and bigger.
Thinning - I’m getting better at it as the carrots proved it last year-great harvest and still have some hiding under mulch and a bit of snow that’s left. I could never grow radishes and beets and found last year I need them shaded…well, I’m sure the irrigation helped also.
We all like sunny warmer weather, but I’m not accustomed to what this weather can bring to the garden-fruit plants don’t do well.
@@dustyflats3832 That's so great you got some irrigation. Watering the garden can be quite a chore, it takes me hours at the height of summer. I may look at using a portable soaker hose this year for some of my rows. It will be interesting to see if we get much more moisture this year. Most of our snow is gone which is not typical for here. I am actually hoping for a rainy spring, even if it makes it harder to garden. I am also curious to see how the perennials do, I feel the ones that make it through this winter surely must be hardy :)
Question is about onions! Love them very much! Can those green shoots be separated to grow another onion?
These onions won't grow bulbs, they are just a green onion. If I transplanted and trimmed them they would grow more green tops :)
After the cold winter, everything turns green when spring comes, it's wonderful. Growing plants is very relaxing, I think, how about you?
It really is, it connects you to the rhythms of nature :)
You said you are in zone 3. When is your last frost typically in the spring and when is your typical first frost in the fall? Thank you, great review of the whole season. An excellent idea :)
Thank you :) My average last frost is May 14th and average first frost is September 16th, so I have about 124 frost free growing days. We do have long days during the summer which helps the garden grow a lot! They are changing the maps here in Canada, I think I may be a Zone 4 now. But we just had temperatures of -40C so I think I am safer with Zone 3 or lower perennials.
@@FiveCanadianAcres hi again, I’m in Ottawa and yes I think that we are changing to zone 6! We also had some pretty cold weather but not down to -40! That is just too cold. Have you tried growing tomatillos, there are some wonderful varieties and a woman in Sudbury has seeds that grow there so she could get you seeds to try. If you want I can find her address.
@drhoy15 Zone 6, that is nice :) It was definitely too cold, lol. I have not grown tomatillos, just the little ground cherries. I actually have a couple yellow ones on my seed order list. I would be interested in trying some of hers too. You can reach me by email at kayla@fivecanadianacres. ca if you want to send the address privately.
Don't know if you have issues with rabbits but they don't like dill and it will deter them.I love having volunteer dill
It is so nice when things plant themselves :) I didn't know that, I will keep that in mind. I don't have any rabbits here, my dogs keep them away. Although the occasional deer will wonder through.
@@FiveCanadianAcresnot sure about how much dill as the peas and lettuce next to dill were attacked by bunnies that fit through 2x4 wire. More poultry wire needed 🙄. We have to fence Everything.
I noticed that your cabbage leaves are beautiful how do you keep the chompers off mine get so holey from cabbage worms and slugs
In the spring I find by planting early I can get a head start before the white moths start flying and laying eggs. With just a small amount of cabbage I will hand pick off the eggs I see. The fall garden gets hit hard though, I did spray with BTK (an organic pesticide) but it didn't work super well and I don't like spraying things anyways so this year I will have to cover the fall crop with netting.
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Hello hello. New sub here. I am enjoying your video. I am only about 1/3 into the video. Did you say zone 3?
What grapes are you growing ?
I heard the grape name,👍🏾
Inspired me to find grapes that grow here in zone4a.
I love the Valiant grapes, you should have great success with them in a Zone 4a!!
Hello :) I am on the edge of Zone 3/4 but with the cold snaps we get every winter I mainly plant perennials hardy for Zone 3.
Do you grow hardy kiwis? 🥝
I have not grown those yet! We do love kiwi's :) I am thinking of starting a little food forest area, they may work out well in there. Have you grown them before? I'd be curious to know how they actually taste!
Mint can be very invasive ,,,,llc
Yes it can be for sure. My cold winters seem to always kill mine so just hoping they survive for now. Now the catnip (mint family too) is very hardy and overwinters for me. So far it hasn't really spread but I harvest it continuously so that probably helps :)
Unfortunately, the people who don't know where their food comes from, don't know that wheat is grass, oats and rice are sedges.
Thing about growing things like garlic out to seed is that seeds can be stored for years. Any plants we can bring all the way to seed, we can collect/try new varieties.
I'm thinking potatoes might be another candidate for seed experiment. There's a lot more varieties of those and I don't want to lose the varieties that do well for me.
Very true! Potatoes would be a great experiment. I left some of my carrots in the ground last fall, hopefully they make the winter and I can harvest some seeds from them! Even if we can't save all the seeds for everything. it is a great skill to learn :)
did those peppers turn out to really be shishitos? ruclips.net/video/6ZAdNnpE-Oo/видео.html those are huge for shishitos
I think they were shishitos. I have never eaten them other than what I have grown myself and it was only my second time growing them. I started them from seeds I bought in 2022 (only grew half the pack that year so I had leftover seeds). I may have to buy some new seeds this year to compare!!
@@FiveCanadianAcres I'd advice it. the shishitos I've had and just scrolling through seed sites, they all say peppers should be ribbed and 2-3 inches long. But you never know, maybe you got a mutated larger variation of shishitos worth continuing to grow and share. heck you could end up naming it as a whole new pepper lol. cheers
Darling, your garden is a hot mess. Too much going on and way too on top of each other and weeds are king. Maybe plan it out a bit more. You will get there xxx
Lol, it does resemble a wild and crazy jungle :) we are working to tame the front bed and start a no-till system. The rest I like to plant things freestyle, it may not always look pretty to everyone but it warms my heart and provides tons of nourishing food ☺️
@@FiveCanadianAcres If you space your plants out a bit more they will give a lot more food. Your garden area is in a beautiful spot and your property is stunning, dont ever give up on gardening, it has taught me so much, including patience :) good luck on your adventure!