😂 I have had quite a few plant care misadventures over the years. But, my absolutely wildest experience was in finding two adorable succulents in a floral shop inside a grocery store. I gave one to a friend and kept one for myself. For months, I was so excited that my little succulent was still alive. After a time, I started thinking of upgrading the succulent's container. During the container inspection, I was undone. It was a very real-looking plastic plant in a foam board "substrate," which is why my misting and watering efforts appeared to be working! I couldn't do anything but laugh at myself.
I'd go up to my neighbor all upset and say you'd never guess what happened! Some hooligan stole all my cherries right off my tree. My kids haven't stopped crying and I don't know if I'll ever feel safe again. I'm asking everybody if they saw anything. We're gonna file a police report. It's theft and trespassing. See if you have cherries next year lol
THIS is the perfect solution! LOVE IT!! Maybe even add that you, or the police, are going to check all the local door cameras - just to watch the person squirm a little!! 😆
Omg, You said the neighbor stole her cherries….. Well my neighbor reacher OVER my fence and stole ALL my ripe sauce tomatoes… THEN had the nerve to tell my husband, “he didn’t want them to get to ripe and fall to the ground.” It too every ounce of my being not to go over there with a baseball bat. Never pick a gardeners produce without permission…..
I got a camera cos one of my neighbors kept wandering onto my property. Granted, in her case it was because she wanted to prove I was dirty cos she hates that I garden and thinks it attracts pests and rodents, but I still told her if these cameras ever catch you on my property again I will call the cops on you. The same would apply to anyone picking my harvest. That is tresspassing.
There's a good chance he did not give them back probably ate them but that's messed up and I feel you someone were to plug my pumpkin or my watermelon yeah I would be mad too hehehe
That happened to someone I know. The neighbour stole my friend's cherries from across the fence and had the courage to offer them to her when she went to visit. She was like "these cherries are delicious! Where did you get them?" "Off your cherry tree!" - like wtf
As a child (3-4), I was told the old story of a baby being found in a cabbage patch. I came to the idea that much like seeds when you put people in the ground that a cabbage with a baby in it would grow and that cemeteries were people farms where moms and dads would go to pick out new babies. My family discovered this during my great grandmother's funeral when I asked how long the cabbage took to grow. 😂
Ohhhh my goodness y’all read my comment I thought I was hallucinating when you said my channel name 😂😂😂😂😂❤ and yes a psychological reset, mixed with revenge is why I needed to burn it all. The plants looked normal until I lifted the vine and omg it was horrific an entire ecosystem of pests. I ran in the house and said ‘I need you to build a fire” 😂😂😂😂 and the garden was pulled up and set ablaze. Thanks for reading my comment, it made my entire day. 19:25
omg this is a likely scenario for ma Gardening Activities .. 🤭 I always end up with some bug infestations and all kinds of strange things happening .. 👀 too funny though 🤣
@@theheardhomestead ohh noo did You had to make a fya again ? 🔥👀🤭 I had to get rid of all my indoors plant growing experiments cause of a massive gnat infestation, and now that problem is solved but plants got some leaves sickness. 😬 I did manage to grow a beautiful lush green plant outside in da pot. 😎 I saw my neighbour also grows the same plant in his garden so I proudly asked "have You seen mine" ? 👀 He informed me it's a invasive weed he been trying to get rid of for ages. 😶
@dMi_mi for the fungus gnats use the brand mosquito bits its pellets you can soak in water, then use that water on the soil. It kills larva of gnats. Then put a yellow sticky trap above the soil to trap the adults. That will stop their life cycle. As for the invasive plant 🤣🤞🏽 good luck!
When I was moving, someone stole my whole dragon fruit plant that I had been working on for 4 years! The hardest part was people were down playing it. It's just a plant, you can get another. The cops didn't take it seriously and you just can't replace something that took you 4 years to do. I even grafted it myself so it would fruit. Grew them from seeds.
That's horrific! 😦Years cannot be refunded or given back, I'm very sorry! Shame on those people, what fakers! So disrespectful to your time, alongside your hardwork! May your future dragon plants prosper and fruits taste ever sweeter ❤🩹🪴☺
13:12 - when I was about 16, my parents left me home alone, and I decided I'd cook for myself. I decided I'd make pasta, and found a recipe for the sauce. Problem: I didn't know what a "clove" of garlic was. The recipe called for 2 cloves, so I used two jars of minced garlic (280 cloves, all told). It was delicious.
lol, I needed this. I was just on the phone with my mom today, and the words, "yeah, I've killed so many 'easy to grow plants' it would blow your mind" were spoken 😂. Y'all along with David the Good, a few books and some lasagna mulching (compliments of getchipdrop) have turned me into something useful over the last year. 2020 to 2023 was just big trash panda mountain for me. Mulching on top of plastic weed barrier confused as to why things are drying out... planting corn in the shade in the dead heat of summer. Planting carrots and greens in June in Florida... yeah. Reading is fundamental... and RUclips channels add walkthroughs. Thanks guys!
When I was in the 3rd grade when I learned rice grew from a plant. I just assumed the same was true for pasta. In 7th grade science class the teacher went through the class one by one asking our favorite tree. I couldn’t wait for my turn bc I didn’t want anyone to answer Spaghetti Tree before me. Lucky for me no one did. To this day old friends ask “How’s ur Spaghetti Tree doing?”😢
Couple of yeqrs ago, my first year in my allotment I was delighted to find a a small established cherry (my favourite fruit) tree. Bought a special netting to keep the birds and feared fruit fly out. The fruits started to look so tasty and juicy. Since I was in a rush I promised myself a very special cherry harvest celebration the following day. Early next day I came in the garden and guess what... yes, somebody came and harvested all and every cherry and put the netting back. I was dumbfounded and stood probably a while there starring at the cherry tree. I could not believe my eyes. People can be so cruel and thoughtless. Just hope it was someone really poor and could not afford.to buy cherries.
Maybe it was the person who planted the tree in the first place 🤔 I believe this happened to me as I rented an apartment that had sugar pumpkins growing. All of the pumpkins disappeared in one night. I can only assume the previous tenant took their pumpkins. I was a little disappointed, but I just bought pumpkins instead
When I was a kid, my grandfather used a live tree as a Christmas tree. It came in a coal bucket ( probably about 10 gallons ) and after Christmas, you could plant it in the yard. We had a wall of about 10 of them 1 yr apart growing in our yard. As an adult, I'm surprised this isn't a thing. I guess it is a lot more expensive for them, those steel barrels couldn't have been cheap
We did this as country kids! The forest service gave out tiny saplings. We'd put four or five in a huge pot. As they grew, we'd keep the best looking and plant the rest in the field. At four or five years old, they'd come inside for a month. Usually the trees were still small and sparse, but knowing that it was still alive meant a lot. Afterward we'd give it a forever home somewhere in the back field.
My sister moved and asked me to take care of her plant until she had room. The sticker said it was a palm but all I did was water it so I never actually looked into it. Eventually it shot up and I looked it up so I could repot it correctly. Turned out it was a Rose of Sharon. I could have just put it in the yard or garden but I've been babying it for over a year thinking it was tropical or something 😂
My worst gardening fail: I am 12 years old, andi live in Paris and 3 years ago i got chili peppers seeds so i can hybridise them (red yellow and brown carolina reapers, KS lemon starrburst and choco ghost jami) and the yellow reaper didn’t sprouted. I put all 5 plants in a 8x19x7 inches. Then, mold grew on the soil, and i killed it with citric acid. It worked, but some of the acid went on the beast pepper and killed it. Then, the other one where about to bloom, i was so exited until aphids made the flowers died. The next year, the peppers started to bloom again, and i putted them indoors because it was winter. The flowers didn’t made any pollen and i only got a single pepper.
I planted a packet of wildflowers. Just at the point all the newly sprouted seeds were growing, my neighbor comes along and sweeps all the leaves and garden debris into a pile on top of my seedlings. It killed most of them, but I keep watering the area thinking more should keep sprouting. I had just pulled out a volunteer green amaranth that was fully developed not realizing that it had gotten tangled in my water hose spreading it's seeds in my wildflower patch. I continue watering thinking a whole bunch of wild flowers are growing. A few weeks later when the first flower should start growing, I notice it looks like an amaranth. I pull it up and notice the purple on the bottom of the stalk and realize none of my wildflowers grew. It was a bed full of amaranth that I will never be able to get rid of. I planted corn for the first time. Thinking I'm going to save some space, I just planted a single row of corn along the wall of the house. I didn't know the pollen needs to fall onto each one of the silks to make all the corn be fully developed. I got 6 partially developed corn that I just kept for seed. I did end up with half a sandwich bag of seed, but no corn to eat. I will plant them in a 4x4 grid style next year closer together and make sure they all get pollinated correctly. My friend did the same thing and only planted 1 row of corn. He also got partially developed corn. He did not keep his for seed. He gave it to the squirrel that lives under his shed.
My most recent gardening fail was earlier this spring. Where I live we have a massive problem with slugs and snails, its the south of england so its wet and warm in the spring which is ideal for them to breed like crazy. I learned that if you pluck slugs and snails up in the evening and chuck them into a bucket of 50/50 water and vinegar solution, they die right away and you don't need to use any slug bait or poisons. Well I did that, I got every slug and snail big or small I could find, looked under pots and behind benches, it was a slug genocide. Once I was done it was pretty dark out so I decided I would empty out the slug bucket in the morning. Well it stormed the following day so I put it off for the next, and then promptly forgot about the slug bucket. Once the weather cleared up a week or so later I happily went out to do some spring gardening and discovered the most putrid rotting bucket of pickled slug slime, the vinegar had disolved all the shells and it was just a black syrup that smelled of putrid rot. It was so bad I cried and my partner had to go deal with it because he has basically no sense of smell. Ive since changed over to an organic iron/ferrous based slug pellet haha
Oh, my! I feel for you, I'd have cried, too. But I can't help but laugh imaging your accidentally acquired reputation in the snail kingdom would be that of basically Vlad the Impaler or something. A soulless giant monster who dissolves all enemies right down to their --bones-- shells.
Cabbage moths decimate any brassicas that plant, but I did find putting borage and garlic near by nearly eliminated the pest. I got to see first hand this year how well companion planting can work. Not to figure out what to pair with strawberries or tomatoes so with slugs (I know egg shell is great) and ants aren't interested.
In Bavaria it's quite common to have a 'christmas tree' in your yard. It looks so gorgeous when they have lights on it and the snow falls on it. Glowing trees everywhere at night. I wish I could grow one here, but first, I'm in Texas, second, we hardly ever have snow.
And - In most of Texas, we only have ice storms & Junipers (aka Cedar Trees) for conifer trees! But yeah, it would only be good if there were more snow, ice is sparkly, but NOT the same...
I can relate to those 10 bunches of celery. I had a culinary fail when I was a teenager learning how to cook. The recipe called for one clove of garlic, and I didn't know what a clove was, so I put in a head of garlic! I thought it was delicious, but my family didn't care for it.
I got a say .. depends what type of garlic is used .. 👀 Growing up 1 clove of garlic ment 1 clove of garlic. 🤭 It was eeextra strong, even when just rubbed on da toast, d toast did become fiery spicy. 🔥 And then I moved to UK. Now "1 clove of garlic" means add at least 1 garlic head. 😶 I hear the same thing from other European expats livin over here ( Baltic, Polish, Hungarian e.c. ) .. that suddenly they need bags and bags of garlic heads to make their national dishes meanwhile families back home think we have lost our marbles. 🤣
I was waiting this year for my plums to be perfectly ripe before I pick them and I guess I waited too long because a wind storm knocked them out of the tree and I saw a pack of deer devouring them the next morning. This plum (that my great grandfather planted from seed) only produces every 2 years because of where it is planted (and maybe age at this point) and I was so sad for days after
I’ve had that happen with peaches and badly timed wind storms, too. Fruiting every two years is called ‘biannual bearing’, and has nothing to do with where it is growing. You may be able to get it producing every year if you thin the fruit drastically in the heavy years, so the plant doesn’t exhaust itself and take the next year off. Some varieties are more prone to this habit than others. There are also certain pruning methods that are sometimes used to discourage biannual bearing. That’s awesome that you have a family heirloom fruit tree. ☺️
@@lornabaker4039 thank you for the reply Lorna. I was thinking this could be the case as the trees (plum, cherry, pear) were left to go wild before I moved here and now that I pruned the dead lowers and give the occasional water they seem much healthier this year. I will try this as it seems like that is the fix for it.
The cherry story is one of the reasons I insisted I will never live in a neighborhood with an HOA, because, yes, there are places that ban any kind of foodscaping.
My bylaws dont specifically prohibit foodscaping, but I have gotten four yard maintenance notices this year. The most visible are everbearing strawberries as ground cover under a tree by the sidewalk. Its the management company being uppity; the local hoa president owns said tree and is like-minded. All six of our combined kids can be found hunting snacks in the shade all summer. (I garden there with permission)
I would report the cherry thief. He had no right to do that, his opinions be damned. I would suggest that the wronged neighbor builds a fence and plants briars or nettles as a privacy plant. Screw that guy.
I was so looking forward to all the sweet taters that I was gonna be digging … I dug the whole bed up and only got 2 sweet taters .. there were tunnels all under the vines … with a little research , I found out that voles ate my sweet taters… I’ve never had voles before
Very entertaining, thanks! Oh, the cherries, my gawd, I couldn't hold myself back. I planted, just this fall, 12 little pots of celery seeds, thinking they are tiny and won't grow well, because it's really dry here. Well it all grew and I have divided and divided, and now have about 20 bunches of celery growing. And it's all going to ripen at the same time. Sometimes you just don't know til you try.
Literally just added 2 raised beds (Birdies beds from Epic Gardening) to my front yard to grow vegs in today! I specifically bought a house in a neighborhood with no HOA on purpose for this reason.
I've seen another RUclipsr do something like that sealed barrel compost thing, but his is basically a trash can with a spigot at the bottom and he adds his weeds to the top, puts a piece of wood and some weights over it to press it all down into the bottom, and whenever he wants some fertilizer for his garden, he just pours some of that sludge into a cup and uses that.
I mean...neighbor's ON VIDEO doing it. I'd hate to call the cops on anyone, but what do you do with someone who thinks they have the right to go on your property and steal your stuff?
They got psycho neighbors. I get that if you have to continue living next to these people you might not want to declare war but what the hell ? There's no tolerating that kind of behavior. Those criminals !
You could go ahead and call the police. Have the coppers come out, neighbor w the camera walks put and says, "Hey, I've got video footage." The cops watch the footage. Then they have "the stealing talk" w with culprit. Just go thru the whole 9 yards! But then, after you "find out" who the thief is, you still can say you don't want to press charges. This makes you look like the good guy. And the thieving neighbor gets put thru their paces, and hopefully is embarassed - AS THEY SHOULD BE!!! That neighbor NEEDS TO KNOW they crossed the line & WILL BE CALLED OUT!!
I failed this season everything. But that's because I was caring for a family member on hospice who passed. Gardening just wasn't on my radar. I did plant everything in spring but failed wasn't around to care for anything. Love your friends with Steve. He had a difficult season this year along with Nicole at flower hill farm.
This year, it was the second year my nectarine tree had fruit, my neighbor asked for some nectarines and I said they weren’t ripe. Then that evening, she went to my front yard(that’s where my nectarine tree is) and picked a few of them without permission. Then she later told me they were inedible and threw them away.
i had a similar experience to tomato granny. planted 50-60 seeds. all of them sprouted, didnt have the heart to kill them. now i have a freezer full of tomato sauce. :D
I haven't grown mint, but I have experience with Lemon Balm. I knew when I started that it spread aggressively so it was planted in a large pot (not in the ground) I have learned the hard way that it spreads its seeds near & wide as well as its roots. Many years later I still find seedlings throughout my property but by harvesting the lemon balm for making tea on a regular basis I can keep it from taking over.
I was excited to grow jalapeños for the men in the house. My son immediately hiccuped after taking a bite & only 1 barely got tasted. A small dish of peppers 🌶️ sat on the counter for too long & then fridge, where they have died. Never again! (And my small orange peppers only grew about 3 small edible peppers). Long spring. Threw everything off. Not enough hot sunny days.
My partner planted a little corner of mint in his 4x4 garden plot, with some green onions and some other things. It's all mint now. One little 6" square of the onions returns year over year, but it's mostly all mint. Great to make syrup for my ice cream! Not great for anything else lol.
Epic Garden; yes cattle even a very pregnant cow can jump a 41/2 to 5 foot fence rather easily. But if all dietary needs are met they won't ever try. I grew up on a small cattle farm. I've seen it and it's funny to watch but not as funny to herd them back to the field they came from. 😊
We bought our house specifically due to a gorgeous apple tree in the back yard. Every year between the bugs and blue jays we never got a single apple ripe enough to eat. This year i stayed on top of the tree and it was loaded with apple days away from harvest. One night we had storms moving in so i went out to put chickens in. The front hit with 80 mph winds. I turned around and the tree was flat on the ground.
Sooooooo good ! You know, as a botanical gardener working in a french botanical garden, even us can be wrong sometimes because : there is always a frist time try ! So, fell once but get up twice !!
22:58 Ah yes. Ye olde Fetid Swamp Water. Honestly, it turns out to be the only positive use for bermuda grass clippings (that I've found so far). When I'm done soaking the yard waste (for a very, very long time... can't be too careful with bermuda grass) it goes into the compost. Using a mesh brew bag helps keep the clippings separate from the tea.
I have raised Caledulas every year for over 19 years. I found a new color variety for me last season and saved the seeds from them. Put them in a container away from the rest of my garden to see if they came up true. Had deer come in and eat them all overnight, even before any flowers came. *argh
My parent managed to replant a christmas tree! About 4 years ago they took the top half and buried it, it was standing at about 1.5m high then, about 2 now. I think it helps that Pines are native here in Scotland and all over the place, it liked the conditions
While I fortunately do not have gardening-related quarrel with my neighbors, I do unfortunately have quarrel with squirrels. They keep making off with my eggplants.
We have a family of bunnies in our yard every year. Strangely enough they never take much but we grow mostly tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. Maybe they're snacking on the marigolds? They can take those, they pop up in every available space.
I’d like to see a video in the winter of your last year successes and what you will do again--and ask viewers to chime in. Love the ‘fail’ video in the fall
I live in Cyprus and every winter we trim up a tree and decorate it with lights so it looks like a Christmas tree. I wish I could share photos on here, as it really looks lovely!
I’ve had delivery drivers steal fruit from the trees in the front yard. Literally eating my fruit as they deliver take-out / packages, then they get all offended when I tell them to ask before stealing stuff in the future. 😡
My uncle told my kids he had a jelly bean tree in the back yard. Every time we visited he would harvest some for them. They never saw him get them from his pocket. Fond memories.
I completely understand the person who said they didn’t do a garden this year. It was just too much for me this year too. I did get some onions and garlic in the ground a couple weeks ago though. Really excited to hopefully see some asparagus next year! It’s been a few years since throwing some seeds in the ground.
My first spring growing seedlings… i utilized one of those cheap greenhouses from harbor freight.. a good spring storm came up, which brought winds! Knocked my greenhouse over and all the seedlings lost their markers haha and some of them were super hot peppers lmfao it was a good year 😂
Oh Wow! FLAMES if someone stole my food I grew!! We lived in town briefly and had a person helping themselves to our cherries. If they had asked-different story. I can kick rabbits😂 Our 5 yo nephew sent cheerios in the mail and asked if we would grow them😅they were crushed of course😅 but my husband glued some cheerios on a stick and sent a pic to him😂. It was cute. 😂😂Yes, our roosters Loved the Tabasco peppers! Every time we let them in the garden they raced over to Taco Bell😂😂 Too funny, I planted only 2 escalator zuchini this year and both died and yet the peppers went into overtime and I’m the one chucking peppers at everyone we know😂.
i have a couple weeds ive been taking care of lmao whatever i originally planted in those pots didnt survive but the weeds did, so, eh, whatever, ill keep watering them
I had ants on my cucumbers. It wasn't about the aphids - they were stripping the cucumbers of skin. The whole crop was ruined the whole season. I'll be dusting the soil next year!
I grew corn for the first time this past summer. Didn't get much but it was a learning experience. Anyways, one of the corns was LOADED with those aphids and I was worried about them spreading. I tried soapy water, regular water to spray them off, nothing was working. Then I said screw it and put garlic powder all over them. They all ended up dying and no bugs went near the corn anymore lol
@@britanica7539 no no, that is a good thing that you did. A lot of pests again, don't like garlic so..... yeah that wasn't a bad idea. That's something to remember for the future with garden pest remedies.
I planted in the Greenstalk first time this year. I didn't do a very good job, apparently, of labeling the plants. What I thought were leeks were actually brussels sprouts. I pulled one of the plants in one Greenstalk before going to the second Greenstalk, which had bigger plants that were obviously Brussels sprouts. At least I have 2 out of 3 that were planted. The leeks just couldn't handle this summer's heat, but glad I will have Brussels sprouts for Christmas dinner
Here's mine- My daughter brought me a 4' fig tree in a plastic bag that she "found" in a hedge at college. I planted it! It became a monster fig tree with terrible dry, husks of figs...found out this is the toss of the ring when you try to grow a Wild Fig. Learned to graft and now I have a very productive fig tree with 5 different tasty, prolific figs on it. I just have to keep very close watch on the new growth and cut out the wild fig each spring. Grafting figs is pretty easy!
We've had a discarded Christmas tree propegate in an unburned wood pile. I think that only happens when you're not looking and sure it's dead. Good look replicating that on purpose.
My youngest is a garden fairy! She can grow anything. We had a neighbor who used to come over and rip her plants out. When I asked him why he said my ex had given him permission to weed the yard. No longer my neighbor and my ex is an ex for a reason.
MOST of my backyard is no longer grass... but CLOVER. I have a 25 gallon grow bag that rabbits ALWAYS dig in and have their babies. Not any other 25 gal. bag of the 12 or so, but always that one. I've had carrot, potato, and beets in their, and NO bunnies munching. They LOVE my clover.
My first year, I started watermelon seeds outside in 36 cell tray in woody/chunky compost. Nothing sprouted! Until... 2 weeks later one plant came up. I grew it to maturity. It was a amaranth weed.
I spent litterally all summer at war with the slugs, trying to establish some courgettes, cucumbers and squashes. I was so I sensed that I missed out on plahanting other stuff. In the end I got one decent cucumber (of probably 30 in the end) and it's fruit were bitter dues to either poor soil and / or constantly producing the chemical that deters pests (this can seep into the fruit at high levels making them bitter)
previous owner fail: the people who owned my dads house in the past decided itd be a great idea to plant a big ol grapevine in the bottom righthand corner of the garden (granted, the grapevine trellis they built Is pretty cool). now, not only do we have to battle the grape vines all along the perimeter of the backyard, and have to salvage the few trees left in the backyard from the vines, And all of the backyards connected to our backyard have their own grapevine woes to deal with... the park down the road now has a grapevine infesting its way down the fenceline!
If it is a wire fence, cows will basically smash it down crawl jumping over it. Yeah, some can jump pretty high, but most will just sort of jump it and smash it in the process. MIL used our fenced garden plot after we moved, we had used cedar posts and kept two wired as a sort of "gate". It kept the cows out. Well, when she used it, she didn't shut the "gate" and the cows ate every single thing she planted.
I tried growing a few varieties of melons this past summer but unfortunately they did not do very well due to pest issues. The only one that produced any fruit was my tiger melon plant. They were so cute and I was so excited to eat them! Cut one open, took a bite, and spat it out. Zero flavor at all. On the plus side they were ball size and ball shaped so my dog really enjoyed stealing them off the vines and running around the yard with them.
This year I decided to start small & planted about 6 Yukon Gold potatoes. I had followed all the steps & felt confident. While they grew, I had been researching too many other details on plants. One day, I noticed yellow dying stalks. A little annoyed, I told my husband that he killed off some of my potato plants from not watering. Soon after, I cut the yellow & some ugly looking stalks off & then remembered I was to leave the yellow stalks, then harvest. 😂 That huge pot still sits in my backyard. My kids weren’t interested & I’m afraid to look. I’ll report back!
09:45 reminds me of my dad that swapped my cannabis plant with a tomato plant and let me water and care for it and everyday he said, nice tomato tree... thought he was joking... 😅😅😅
This reminds me of the time at a county jail, someone mentioned that those were nice looking tomato plants. The looked at them and saw that they were cannabis plants. The cops have been walking right by them for a few months and never noticed.
We had a woman “from another country come up to our tree in the front yard with a bag! She wanted our lemons! She was not the first, we came back from a trip to find the tree (and all fallen fruit) completely gone! Seriously! After that we had to “stand guard! Ugh! She would just go from house to house with her bag like she was on a shopping spree spree! Ugh! Now I only plant in the back!
I planted some banana plants next to my neighbor’s horse pasture. The horses ate those banana babies right up, and then pushed through the hog wire fencing to come eat the banana plants about 10 yards from there.
This year I planted all my cucumber and zucchini/summer squashes exactly like I have for 15 years (except my first year when I planted an entire packet of cucumber seeds but that was a story I shared in your previous fails video). They came up as expected and in a couple weeks every single one was wilted and dead, covered in squash bugs/vine borers. I planted again in a different spot with the same results. I started the third round indoors at the same time I direct seeded round 2 just in case, and as soon as I put them out they succumbed to the same fate. I planted a total of 6 rounds, even tilling up a completely fresh area of my yard to try to get away from them. Not a single cucumber or zucchini, or any other type of squash or pumpkin this year except the one weird hybrid driveway pumpkin that volunteered in my front yard and gave me 3 questionable pumpkins. 🤨
Cows are incredibly athletic animals, we have ranched for generations I've seen a cow go over a 6 ft fence. If they can get their front legs over they will make it all the way. We were once moving cows from one pasture to another and one yearling jumped into a pond and swam UNDERWATER from one side to the other because he didn't want to leave the old pasture.
I always LOVE these videos, but this is by far my favorite so far! 😍🤣 Looking forward to your upcoming video on ants and aphids, because this is something that I also just learned this past year. Who knew how symbiotic their relationship was?! It's crazy, and not in a good way! At least not for us gardeners. Once again just proving that nature is quite often so much smarter than us! 😄
Kevin actually did one a few months ago. It had these cute animated ants. It was funny but educational. I’m surprised he didn’t remember. You can find it on his channel
We have an intentional pet rabbit colony which is adjacent to the chicken coop. Occasionally the one (Peter) sneak into the coop when im doing things with my hens and then i have to kick him out. He's always so cute and disgruntled. And yes, i have entire garden bed dedicated to rabbit greens, but their poop is gold so I'm happy with the sacrifice.
My grandpa convinced me that if I weed wicked the bullrushes in the front paddock (5 acres) that when they died, I'd be able to find old aboriginal boomerangs and spear tips. Lol. No boomerangs, no spear tips. Nice paddock though 😂
I warn my customers to think about the opening of Prince of Egypt when they’re making bricks. The first two ingredients are “MUD and SAND”. Don’t mix clay and sand!!
That's a good reminder-trick! All they have to do is sing a few lines whenever they are contemplating how to fix their sand or clay problem -- and then they'll hopefully remember what *not* to do!
I love these videos. I laughed so hard I cried 😂That was my apple tree near the end. Thanks for the advice. I actually ruined it. It was a dwarf and I planted the graphed part below the soil. I didn’t know. I was trying to keep it small in a container and it was stressed out. So I put a round Birdie bed around it and it grew really tall. I prune it. It gets flowers as it starts warming up in Chicago and then we get a freeze out of nowhere and huge winds. Twice now I had one apple. The squirrel got the first and this year there was a tiny one and it was bored through by something and rotted inside. I do want to pull it out because it’s taking up space in my small backyard. I have a hard time killing things though. I would actually like to have dwarf fruit trees and keep them dwarf. Hopefully next year. Thank guys. Funny video 😊
I almost mad a big mistake I planted raspberries in a pot, and I did not know they can do this, but after like three years in the being in that pot, they rooted out of the pot into the ground and start spreading throughout my yard luckily I found this and accidentally pulled it up. I saved myself a lot of work.
so I was growing a black beauty eggplant, when I saw a tiny leave poke out of the ground and thought they were "scraps" so I tried to pull them and realized it was a whole ahh potato then put it back, and thought potatoes are better then eggplants, so I removed my seedling and chucked a another potato in there and happy to say I'm a proud owner of 2 potatoes (I'm growing in a 9.5 gallon grow bag) ( I think it was my aunt's son since he really wanted me to plant a potato )
The seal barrel compost bomb brought back memories from when I was in high school doing a biology experiment and I chose a fertiliser comparison on bean plants. I wanted them all to be liquid fertiliser to make the dosage equal but I really wanted to do blood and bone. So I mixed blood and bone powder in water and stored it in a glass jar. The first dosage it smelled awful. The second dosage it was unbearable. I couldn't even do the third dosage. I had to bury it in the backyard but the dogs kept trying to dig it up and flies just sat on the surface constantly. DO. NOT. MIX. WITH. WATER. I'm so lucky the jar didn't explode. FYI that bean plants did not thrive 🙃
😂 I have had quite a few plant care misadventures over the years. But, my absolutely wildest experience was in finding two adorable succulents in a floral shop inside a grocery store. I gave one to a friend and kept one for myself. For months, I was so excited that my little succulent was still alive. After a time, I started thinking of upgrading the succulent's container. During the container inspection, I was undone. It was a very real-looking plastic plant in a foam board "substrate," which is why my misting and watering efforts appeared to be working! I couldn't do anything but laugh at myself.
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I'd go up to my neighbor all upset and say you'd never guess what happened! Some hooligan stole all my cherries right off my tree. My kids haven't stopped crying and I don't know if I'll ever feel safe again. I'm asking everybody if they saw anything. We're gonna file a police report. It's theft and trespassing. See if you have cherries next year lol
THIS is the perfect solution!
LOVE IT!!
Maybe even add that you,
or the police,
are going to check all the local door cameras - just to watch the person squirm a little!! 😆
Omg, You said the neighbor stole her cherries….. Well my neighbor reacher OVER my fence and stole ALL my ripe sauce tomatoes… THEN had the nerve to tell my husband, “he didn’t want them to get to ripe and fall to the ground.” It too every ounce of my being not to go over there with a baseball bat. Never pick a gardeners produce without permission…..
Did he give them back?!
My brother had a senile neighbour picking the cucumbers along the fence line and he didn't have the heart to stop her 😢
I got a camera cos one of my neighbors kept wandering onto my property. Granted, in her case it was because she wanted to prove I was dirty cos she hates that I garden and thinks it attracts pests and rodents, but I still told her if these cameras ever catch you on my property again I will call the cops on you. The same would apply to anyone picking my harvest. That is tresspassing.
There's a good chance he did not give them back probably ate them but that's messed up and I feel you someone were to plug my pumpkin or my watermelon yeah I would be mad too hehehe
That happened to someone I know. The neighbour stole my friend's cherries from across the fence and had the courage to offer them to her when she went to visit. She was like "these cherries are delicious! Where did you get them?" "Off your cherry tree!" - like wtf
As a child (3-4), I was told the old story of a baby being found in a cabbage patch. I came to the idea that much like seeds when you put people in the ground that a cabbage with a baby in it would grow and that cemeteries were people farms where moms and dads would go to pick out new babies. My family discovered this during my great grandmother's funeral when I asked how long the cabbage took to grow. 😂
If someone ever steals my first mango or cherry they better plan on sleeping with one eye open 🥷
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Mango thieves are so common down here in South Florida 😢
@@sonikku956 they should at least leave money in the mail
So... wizards can totally burgle your garden.
That’s the crows’ intention
Ohhhh my goodness y’all read my comment I thought I was hallucinating when you said my channel name 😂😂😂😂😂❤ and yes a psychological reset, mixed with revenge is why I needed to burn it all. The plants looked normal until I lifted the vine and omg it was horrific an entire ecosystem of pests. I ran in the house and said ‘I need you to build a fire” 😂😂😂😂 and the garden was pulled up and set ablaze. Thanks for reading my comment, it made my entire day. 19:25
omg this is a likely scenario for ma Gardening Activities .. 🤭 I always end up with some bug infestations and all kinds of strange things happening .. 👀 too funny though 🤣
@@dMi_mi😂 this year I got 4 separate infestations in my Summer garden, I was like oooooh ok I see what this is 😂 politely waited for Fall.
@@theheardhomestead ohh noo did You had to make a fya again ? 🔥👀🤭 I had to get rid of all my indoors plant growing experiments cause of a massive gnat infestation, and now that problem is solved but plants got some leaves sickness. 😬 I did manage to grow a beautiful lush green plant outside in da pot. 😎 I saw my neighbour also grows the same plant in his garden so I proudly asked "have You seen mine" ? 👀
He informed me it's a invasive weed he been trying to get rid of for ages. 😶
@dMi_mi for the fungus gnats use the brand mosquito bits its pellets you can soak in water, then use that water on the soil. It kills larva of gnats. Then put a yellow sticky trap above the soil to trap the adults. That will stop their life cycle. As for the invasive plant 🤣🤞🏽 good luck!
Haha
When I was moving, someone stole my whole dragon fruit plant that I had been working on for 4 years! The hardest part was people were down playing it. It's just a plant, you can get another. The cops didn't take it seriously and you just can't replace something that took you 4 years to do. I even grafted it myself so it would fruit. Grew them from seeds.
I am so sorry! We need to get common sense again! People need to be respecfull of others once again.
That's horrific! 😦Years cannot be refunded or given back, I'm very sorry!
Shame on those people, what fakers! So disrespectful to your time, alongside your hardwork!
May your future dragon plants prosper and fruits taste ever sweeter ❤🩹🪴☺
time to start putting air tags in the soil of our most prized plants i guess🤔🫠
@@DelilahJennlmao that’s not even a terrible idea
Please do more of these! 😁
13:12 - when I was about 16, my parents left me home alone, and I decided I'd cook for myself. I decided I'd make pasta, and found a recipe for the sauce. Problem: I didn't know what a "clove" of garlic was. The recipe called for 2 cloves, so I used two jars of minced garlic (280 cloves, all told). It was delicious.
Betcha didn't have any problems with misquotes, did ya? 😂
Blood pressure: goodbye.
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lol, I needed this. I was just on the phone with my mom today, and the words, "yeah, I've killed so many 'easy to grow plants' it would blow your mind" were spoken 😂. Y'all along with David the Good, a few books and some lasagna mulching (compliments of getchipdrop) have turned me into something useful over the last year. 2020 to 2023 was just big trash panda mountain for me. Mulching on top of plastic weed barrier confused as to why things are drying out... planting corn in the shade in the dead heat of summer. Planting carrots and greens in June in Florida... yeah. Reading is fundamental... and RUclips channels add walkthroughs. Thanks guys!
When I was in the 3rd grade when I learned rice grew from a plant. I just assumed the same was true for pasta. In 7th grade science class the teacher went through the class one by one asking our favorite tree. I couldn’t wait for my turn bc I didn’t want anyone to answer Spaghetti Tree before me. Lucky for me no one did. To this day old friends ask “How’s ur Spaghetti Tree doing?”😢
I’m picturing like a spaghetti willow. If only!
Couple of yeqrs ago, my first year in my allotment I was delighted to find a a small established cherry (my favourite fruit) tree. Bought a special netting to keep the birds and feared fruit fly out. The fruits started to look so tasty and juicy. Since I was in a rush I promised myself a very special cherry harvest celebration the following day. Early next day I came in the garden and guess what... yes, somebody came and harvested all and every cherry and put the netting back. I was dumbfounded and stood probably a while there starring at the cherry tree. I could not believe my eyes. People can be so cruel and thoughtless. Just hope it was someone really poor and could not afford.to buy cherries.
Nah. Poverty doesn't grant you to steal. I hope they get punished.
@@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407 I can understand some just to eat but that many is straight up stealing.
Maybe it was the person who planted the tree in the first place 🤔
I believe this happened to me as I rented an apartment that had sugar pumpkins growing. All of the pumpkins disappeared in one night. I can only assume the previous tenant took their pumpkins. I was a little disappointed, but I just bought pumpkins instead
When I was a kid, my grandfather used a live tree as a Christmas tree. It came in a coal bucket ( probably about 10 gallons ) and after Christmas, you could plant it in the yard. We had a wall of about 10 of them 1 yr apart growing in our yard. As an adult, I'm surprised this isn't a thing. I guess it is a lot more expensive for them, those steel barrels couldn't have been cheap
We did this as country kids! The forest service gave out tiny saplings. We'd put four or five in a huge pot. As they grew, we'd keep the best looking and plant the rest in the field. At four or five years old, they'd come inside for a month. Usually the trees were still small and sparse, but knowing that it was still alive meant a lot. Afterward we'd give it a forever home somewhere in the back field.
My sister moved and asked me to take care of her plant until she had room. The sticker said it was a palm but all I did was water it so I never actually looked into it. Eventually it shot up and I looked it up so I could repot it correctly. Turned out it was a Rose of Sharon. I could have just put it in the yard or garden but I've been babying it for over a year thinking it was tropical or something 😂
My worst gardening fail:
I am 12 years old, andi live in Paris and 3 years ago i got chili peppers seeds so i can hybridise them (red yellow and brown carolina reapers, KS lemon starrburst and choco ghost jami) and the yellow reaper didn’t sprouted. I put all 5 plants in a 8x19x7 inches. Then, mold grew on the soil, and i killed it with citric acid. It worked, but some of the acid went on the beast pepper and killed it. Then, the other one where about to bloom, i was so exited until aphids made the flowers died. The next year, the peppers started to bloom again, and i putted them indoors because it was winter. The flowers didn’t made any pollen and i only got a single pepper.
Best part: “ psychologically, and emotionally cleansed” made me laugh and I also agree. 😊❤
I planted a packet of wildflowers. Just at the point all the newly sprouted seeds were growing, my neighbor comes along and sweeps all the leaves and garden debris into a pile on top of my seedlings. It killed most of them, but I keep watering the area thinking more should keep sprouting. I had just pulled out a volunteer green amaranth that was fully developed not realizing that it had gotten tangled in my water hose spreading it's seeds in my wildflower patch. I continue watering thinking a whole bunch of wild flowers are growing. A few weeks later when the first flower should start growing, I notice it looks like an amaranth. I pull it up and notice the purple on the bottom of the stalk and realize none of my wildflowers grew. It was a bed full of amaranth that I will never be able to get rid of.
I planted corn for the first time. Thinking I'm going to save some space, I just planted a single row of corn along the wall of the house. I didn't know the pollen needs to fall onto each one of the silks to make all the corn be fully developed. I got 6 partially developed corn that I just kept for seed. I did end up with half a sandwich bag of seed, but no corn to eat. I will plant them in a 4x4 grid style next year closer together and make sure they all get pollinated correctly. My friend did the same thing and only planted 1 row of corn. He also got partially developed corn. He did not keep his for seed. He gave it to the squirrel that lives under his shed.
Cherrios are doughnut seeds
My most recent gardening fail was earlier this spring. Where I live we have a massive problem with slugs and snails, its the south of england so its wet and warm in the spring which is ideal for them to breed like crazy. I learned that if you pluck slugs and snails up in the evening and chuck them into a bucket of 50/50 water and vinegar solution, they die right away and you don't need to use any slug bait or poisons. Well I did that, I got every slug and snail big or small I could find, looked under pots and behind benches, it was a slug genocide. Once I was done it was pretty dark out so I decided I would empty out the slug bucket in the morning. Well it stormed the following day so I put it off for the next, and then promptly forgot about the slug bucket. Once the weather cleared up a week or so later I happily went out to do some spring gardening and discovered the most putrid rotting bucket of pickled slug slime, the vinegar had disolved all the shells and it was just a black syrup that smelled of putrid rot. It was so bad I cried and my partner had to go deal with it because he has basically no sense of smell. Ive since changed over to an organic iron/ferrous based slug pellet haha
Oh, my! I feel for you, I'd have cried, too. But I can't help but laugh imaging your accidentally acquired reputation in the snail kingdom would be that of basically Vlad the Impaler or something. A soulless giant monster who dissolves all enemies right down to their --bones-- shells.
Cabbage moths decimate any brassicas that plant, but I did find putting borage and garlic near by nearly eliminated the pest. I got to see first hand this year how well companion planting can work. Not to figure out what to pair with strawberries or tomatoes so with slugs (I know egg shell is great) and ants aren't interested.
In Bavaria it's quite common to have a 'christmas tree' in your yard. It looks so gorgeous when they have lights on it and the snow falls on it. Glowing trees everywhere at night. I wish I could grow one here, but first, I'm in Texas, second, we hardly ever have snow.
And -
In most of Texas, we only have ice storms & Junipers (aka Cedar Trees) for conifer trees!
But yeah, it would only be good if there were more snow, ice is sparkly, but NOT the same...
@@gardengatesopen yup
I can relate to those 10 bunches of celery. I had a culinary fail when I was a teenager learning how to cook. The recipe called for one clove of garlic, and I didn't know what a clove was, so I put in a head of garlic! I thought it was delicious, but my family didn't care for it.
What were you making?😂
I got a say .. depends what type of garlic is used .. 👀
Growing up 1 clove of garlic ment 1 clove of garlic. 🤭
It was eeextra strong, even when just rubbed on da toast, d toast did become fiery spicy. 🔥
And then I moved to UK.
Now "1 clove of garlic" means add at least 1 garlic head. 😶
I hear the same thing from other European expats livin over here ( Baltic, Polish, Hungarian e.c. ) .. that suddenly they need bags and bags of garlic heads to make their national dishes meanwhile families back home think we have lost our marbles. 🤣
I was waiting this year for my plums to be perfectly ripe before I pick them and I guess I waited too long because a wind storm knocked them out of the tree and I saw a pack of deer devouring them the next morning. This plum (that my great grandfather planted from seed) only produces every 2 years because of where it is planted (and maybe age at this point) and I was so sad for days after
I’ve had that happen with peaches and badly timed wind storms, too. Fruiting every two years is called ‘biannual bearing’, and has nothing to do with where it is growing. You may be able to get it producing every year if you thin the fruit drastically in the heavy years, so the plant doesn’t exhaust itself and take the next year off. Some varieties are more prone to this habit than others. There are also certain pruning methods that are sometimes used to discourage biannual bearing. That’s awesome that you have a family heirloom fruit tree. ☺️
@@lornabaker4039 thank you for the reply Lorna. I was thinking this could be the case as the trees (plum, cherry, pear) were left to go wild before I moved here and now that I pruned the dead lowers and give the occasional water they seem much healthier this year. I will try this as it seems like that is the fix for it.
The cherry story is one of the reasons I insisted I will never live in a neighborhood with an HOA, because, yes, there are places that ban any kind of foodscaping.
My bylaws dont specifically prohibit foodscaping, but I have gotten four yard maintenance notices this year.
The most visible are everbearing strawberries as ground cover under a tree by the sidewalk. Its the management company being uppity; the local hoa president owns said tree and is like-minded. All six of our combined kids can be found hunting snacks in the shade all summer. (I garden there with permission)
I would report the cherry thief. He had no right to do that, his opinions be damned.
I would suggest that the wronged neighbor builds a fence and plants briars or nettles as a privacy plant. Screw that guy.
I was so looking forward to all the sweet taters that I was gonna be digging … I dug the whole bed up and only got 2 sweet taters .. there were tunnels all under the vines … with a little research , I found out that voles ate my sweet taters… I’ve never had voles before
Very entertaining, thanks! Oh, the cherries, my gawd, I couldn't hold myself back. I planted, just this fall, 12 little pots of celery seeds, thinking they are tiny and won't grow well, because it's really dry here. Well it all grew and I have divided and divided, and now have about 20 bunches of celery growing. And it's all going to ripen at the same time. Sometimes you just don't know til you try.
You guys are so cute and an epic force for positivity in this often negative world. Never stop being you. Much love from South Australia.
Literally just added 2 raised beds (Birdies beds from Epic Gardening) to my front yard to grow vegs in today! I specifically bought a house in a neighborhood with no HOA on purpose for this reason.
I've seen another RUclipsr do something like that sealed barrel compost thing, but his is basically a trash can with a spigot at the bottom and he adds his weeds to the top, puts a piece of wood and some weights over it to press it all down into the bottom, and whenever he wants some fertilizer for his garden, he just pours some of that sludge into a cup and uses that.
Oh that stealing of cherries... that would make me go full Karen and call the cops for stealing and trespass.
I'd go full RAGE mode - Kevin
I mean...neighbor's ON VIDEO doing it. I'd hate to call the cops on anyone, but what do you do with someone who thinks they have the right to go on your property and steal your stuff?
Someone stole my some of my purple peppers. Rage mode engaged. We now have cameras. Hadn’t even tasted them yet.
They got psycho neighbors. I get that if you have to continue living next to these people you might not want to declare war but what the hell ? There's no tolerating that kind of behavior. Those criminals !
You could go ahead and call the police.
Have the coppers come out,
neighbor w the camera walks put and says, "Hey, I've got video footage."
The cops watch the footage.
Then they have "the stealing talk" w with culprit.
Just go thru the whole 9 yards!
But then, after you "find out" who the thief is, you still can say you don't want to press charges.
This makes you look like the good guy. And the thieving neighbor gets put thru their paces, and hopefully is embarassed - AS THEY SHOULD BE!!!
That neighbor
NEEDS TO KNOW
they crossed the line &
WILL BE CALLED OUT!!
I laughed so hard. And I have no right to do so, because I live in an apartment. Thank you to all the people who told their stories!
Love the laughter this video brought me…thank you
I failed this season everything. But that's because I was caring for a family member on hospice who passed. Gardening just wasn't on my radar. I did plant everything in spring but failed wasn't around to care for anything.
Love your friends with Steve. He had a difficult season this year along with Nicole at flower hill farm.
This year, it was the second year my nectarine tree had fruit, my neighbor asked for some nectarines and I said they weren’t ripe. Then that evening, she went to my front yard(that’s where my nectarine tree is) and picked a few of them without permission. Then she later told me they were inedible and threw them away.
She probably won't pick any more and probably will spread the word around that they are no good.
These stories are really funny!
I like this series better than the stupid internet hack stories.
But that's just me.
Really enjoyed the video guys!
i had a similar experience to tomato granny. planted 50-60 seeds. all of them sprouted, didnt have the heart to kill them. now i have a freezer full of tomato sauce. :D
I haven't grown mint, but I have experience with Lemon Balm. I knew when I started that it spread aggressively so it was planted in a large pot (not in the ground) I have learned the hard way that it spreads its seeds near & wide as well as its roots. Many years later I still find seedlings throughout my property but by harvesting the lemon balm for making tea on a regular basis I can keep it from taking over.
I was excited to grow jalapeños for the men in the house. My son immediately hiccuped after taking a bite & only 1 barely got tasted. A small dish of peppers 🌶️ sat on the counter for too long & then fridge, where they have died. Never again! (And my small orange peppers only grew about 3 small edible peppers). Long spring. Threw everything off. Not enough hot sunny days.
My partner planted a little corner of mint in his 4x4 garden plot, with some green onions and some other things.
It's all mint now. One little 6" square of the onions returns year over year, but it's mostly all mint. Great to make syrup for my ice cream! Not great for anything else lol.
Who among us hasn't "weeded" the good stuff by mistake. The potato example is pretty funny tho
Epic Garden; yes cattle even a very pregnant cow can jump a 41/2 to 5 foot fence rather easily. But if all dietary needs are met they won't ever try. I grew up on a small cattle farm. I've seen it and it's funny to watch but not as funny to herd them back to the field they came from. 😊
"and the COW Jumped Over the Moon" part of the many nursery rhymes are based upon exaggerated truths 😂😀💫🐮🐄
We bought our house specifically due to a gorgeous apple tree in the back yard. Every year between the bugs and blue jays we never got a single apple ripe enough to eat. This year i stayed on top of the tree and it was loaded with apple days away from harvest.
One night we had storms moving in so i went out to put chickens in. The front hit with 80 mph winds. I turned around and the tree was flat on the ground.
Sooooooo good ! You know, as a botanical gardener working in a french botanical garden, even us can be wrong sometimes because : there is always a frist time try ! So, fell once but get up twice !!
Omg I laughed so hard I wet my plants! 😂 The Irish potato grower was too funny!
I'm with you jacques every single melon or grape I remove is wasted potential! Lol
If you don't remove some, ALL the melons will be wasted potential.
22:58 Ah yes. Ye olde Fetid Swamp Water. Honestly, it turns out to be the only positive use for bermuda grass clippings (that I've found so far). When I'm done soaking the yard waste (for a very, very long time... can't be too careful with bermuda grass) it goes into the compost. Using a mesh brew bag helps keep the clippings separate from the tea.
I have raised Caledulas every year for over 19 years. I found a new color variety for me last season and saved the seeds from them. Put them in a container away from the rest of my garden to see if they came up true. Had deer come in and eat them all overnight, even before any flowers came. *argh
My parent managed to replant a christmas tree! About 4 years ago they took the top half and buried it, it was standing at about 1.5m high then, about 2 now.
I think it helps that Pines are native here in Scotland and all over the place, it liked the conditions
While I fortunately do not have gardening-related quarrel with my neighbors, I do unfortunately have quarrel with squirrels.
They keep making off with my eggplants.
We have a family of bunnies in our yard every year. Strangely enough they never take much but we grow mostly tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. Maybe they're snacking on the marigolds? They can take those, they pop up in every available space.
I’d like to see a video in the winter of your last year successes and what you will do again--and ask viewers
to chime in.
Love the ‘fail’ video in the fall
7:31 "no you cannot jump 4½ feet"
Kev just being so real with Jacques 😂
I live in Cyprus and every winter we trim up a tree and decorate it with lights so it looks like a Christmas tree. I wish I could share photos on here, as it really looks lovely!
I’ve had delivery drivers steal fruit from the trees in the front yard.
Literally eating my fruit as they deliver take-out / packages, then they get all offended when I tell them to ask before stealing stuff in the future. 😡
My uncle told my kids he had a jelly bean tree in the back yard. Every time we visited he would harvest some for them. They never saw him get them from his pocket. Fond memories.
I completely understand the person who said they didn’t do a garden this year. It was just too much for me this year too. I did get some onions and garlic in the ground a couple weeks ago though. Really excited to hopefully see some asparagus next year! It’s been a few years since throwing some seeds in the ground.
My first spring growing seedlings… i utilized one of those cheap greenhouses from harbor freight.. a good spring storm came up, which brought winds! Knocked my greenhouse over and all the seedlings lost their markers haha and some of them were super hot peppers lmfao it was a good year 😂
I would be so pissed off about that neighbor
Oh Wow! FLAMES if someone stole my food I grew!! We lived in town briefly and had a person helping themselves to our cherries. If they had asked-different story.
I can kick rabbits😂
Our 5 yo nephew sent cheerios in the mail and asked if we would grow them😅they were crushed of course😅 but my husband glued some cheerios on a stick and sent a pic to him😂. It was cute.
😂😂Yes, our roosters Loved the Tabasco peppers! Every time we let them in the garden they raced over to Taco Bell😂😂
Too funny, I planted only 2 escalator zuchini this year and both died and yet the peppers went into overtime and I’m the one chucking peppers at everyone we know😂.
i have a couple weeds ive been taking care of lmao whatever i originally planted in those pots didnt survive but the weeds did, so, eh, whatever, ill keep watering them
I had ants on my cucumbers. It wasn't about the aphids - they were stripping the cucumbers of skin. The whole crop was ruined the whole season. I'll be dusting the soil next year!
I grew corn for the first time this past summer. Didn't get much but it was a learning experience. Anyways, one of the corns was LOADED with those aphids and I was worried about them spreading. I tried soapy water, regular water to spray them off, nothing was working. Then I said screw it and put garlic powder all over them. They all ended up dying and no bugs went near the corn anymore lol
Yeah most pests don't like garlic. That's the first time I've heard of someone doing that though, especially on a corn plant....
@@weirdsweetcoolplants It was a move of desperation lol the corn turned out fine though so no harm to the plant!
@@britanica7539 no no, that is a good thing that you did. A lot of pests again, don't like garlic so..... yeah that wasn't a bad idea. That's something to remember for the future with garden pest remedies.
I planted in the Greenstalk first time this year. I didn't do a very good job, apparently, of labeling the plants. What I thought were leeks were actually brussels sprouts. I pulled one of the plants in one Greenstalk before going to the second Greenstalk, which had bigger plants that were obviously Brussels sprouts. At least I have 2 out of 3 that were planted. The leeks just couldn't handle this summer's heat, but glad I will have Brussels sprouts for Christmas dinner
Here's mine- My daughter brought me a 4' fig tree in a plastic bag that she "found" in a hedge at college. I planted it! It became a monster fig tree with terrible dry, husks of figs...found out this is the toss of the ring when you try to grow a Wild Fig. Learned to graft and now I have a very productive fig tree with 5 different tasty, prolific figs on it. I just have to keep very close watch on the new growth and cut out the wild fig each spring. Grafting figs is pretty easy!
We've had a discarded Christmas tree propegate in an unburned wood pile. I think that only happens when you're not looking and sure it's dead. Good look replicating that on purpose.
My youngest is a garden fairy! She can grow anything. We had a neighbor who used to come over and rip her plants out. When I asked him why he said my ex had given him permission to weed the yard. No longer my neighbor and my ex is an ex for a reason.
That neighbor was out of line no matter what the x told him. Luckily, it sounds like you got rid of a few 100 lbs of jerk.
MOST of my backyard is no longer grass... but CLOVER. I have a 25 gallon grow bag that rabbits ALWAYS dig in and have their babies. Not any other 25 gal. bag of the 12 or so, but always that one. I've had carrot, potato, and beets in their, and NO bunnies munching. They LOVE my clover.
Time to trap and farm them. Make some money or get some use out of them.
I planted a baby blue spruce this year in ground in my backyard so it's gonna be our family Christmas tree as long as i live ❤
My first year, I started watermelon seeds outside in 36 cell tray in woody/chunky compost. Nothing sprouted! Until... 2 weeks later one plant came up. I grew it to maturity. It was a amaranth weed.
I spent litterally all summer at war with the slugs, trying to establish some courgettes, cucumbers and squashes. I was so I sensed that I missed out on plahanting other stuff. In the end I got one decent cucumber (of probably 30 in the end) and it's fruit were bitter dues to either poor soil and / or constantly producing the chemical that deters pests (this can seep into the fruit at high levels making them bitter)
previous owner fail: the people who owned my dads house in the past decided itd be a great idea to plant a big ol grapevine in the bottom righthand corner of the garden (granted, the grapevine trellis they built Is pretty cool). now, not only do we have to battle the grape vines all along the perimeter of the backyard, and have to salvage the few trees left in the backyard from the vines, And all of the backyards connected to our backyard have their own grapevine woes to deal with... the park down the road now has a grapevine infesting its way down the fenceline!
You definitely do not live in Texas!
Seems like a video on "slash and burn" techniques at the San Diego homestead is in order
If it is a wire fence, cows will basically smash it down crawl jumping over it. Yeah, some can jump pretty high, but most will just sort of jump it and smash it in the process. MIL used our fenced garden plot after we moved, we had used cedar posts and kept two wired as a sort of "gate". It kept the cows out. Well, when she used it, she didn't shut the "gate" and the cows ate every single thing she planted.
Hilarious guys. Thanks for the laughs. 😂😊 love these type of videos.
I tried growing a few varieties of melons this past summer but unfortunately they did not do very well due to pest issues. The only one that produced any fruit was my tiger melon plant. They were so cute and I was so excited to eat them! Cut one open, took a bite, and spat it out. Zero flavor at all. On the plus side they were ball size and ball shaped so my dog really enjoyed stealing them off the vines and running around the yard with them.
5:50 what if you planted flowers that bloom during autumn and winter underneath in square colorful pots?
(context: talking abt front yard living xmas tree)
This year I decided to start small & planted about 6 Yukon Gold potatoes. I had followed all the steps & felt confident. While they grew, I had been researching too many other details on plants. One day, I noticed yellow dying stalks. A little annoyed, I told my husband that he killed off some of my potato plants from not watering. Soon after, I cut the yellow & some ugly looking stalks off & then remembered I was to leave the yellow stalks, then harvest. 😂 That huge pot still sits in my backyard. My kids weren’t interested & I’m afraid to look. I’ll report back!
thank you for this. I appreciate it more than you can possibly imagine. On to bigger and better gardens!
Sonya, make tomato juice. It makes everything better. Pasta sauce, soup, whatever. Just boil them and send them through a ricer or food mill.
Nice call out to Ants-Canada guys, I love that vlog . Hope the forest is doing well.
09:45 reminds me of my dad that swapped my cannabis plant with a tomato plant and let me water and care for it and everyday he said, nice tomato tree... thought he was joking... 😅😅😅
🤭🍅 that's extra funny. 💖
This reminds me of the time at a county jail, someone mentioned that those were nice looking tomato plants. The looked at them and saw that they were cannabis plants. The cops have been walking right by them for a few months and never noticed.
@@robertschmidt9296 ohh they probably were waiting for da Tomato 🍅 harvest. 👀
We had a woman “from another country come up to our tree in the front yard with a bag! She wanted our lemons! She was not the first, we came back from a trip to find the tree (and all fallen fruit) completely gone! Seriously! After that we had to “stand guard! Ugh! She would just go from house to house with her bag like she was on a shopping spree spree! Ugh! Now I only plant in the back!
I planted some banana plants next to my neighbor’s horse pasture. The horses ate those banana babies right up, and then pushed through the hog wire fencing to come eat the banana plants about 10 yards from there.
Wow! The neighbor removed the produce! Candy tree 🤣😂🤣😂🤣. Yes, mint is crazy!!!
This year I planted all my cucumber and zucchini/summer squashes exactly like I have for 15 years (except my first year when I planted an entire packet of cucumber seeds but that was a story I shared in your previous fails video). They came up as expected and in a couple weeks every single one was wilted and dead, covered in squash bugs/vine borers. I planted again in a different spot with the same results. I started the third round indoors at the same time I direct seeded round 2 just in case, and as soon as I put them out they succumbed to the same fate. I planted a total of 6 rounds, even tilling up a completely fresh area of my yard to try to get away from them. Not a single cucumber or zucchini, or any other type of squash or pumpkin this year except the one weird hybrid driveway pumpkin that volunteered in my front yard and gave me 3 questionable pumpkins. 🤨
Cows are incredibly athletic animals, we have ranched for generations I've seen a cow go over a 6 ft fence. If they can get their front legs over they will make it all the way. We were once moving cows from one pasture to another and one yearling jumped into a pond and swam UNDERWATER from one side to the other because he didn't want to leave the old pasture.
Jacques chuckling at most of these comments had me laughing too. I love hearing these comments. Thanks guys. 😁🌱
I always LOVE these videos, but this is by far my favorite so far! 😍🤣 Looking forward to your upcoming video on ants and aphids, because this is something that I also just learned this past year. Who knew how symbiotic their relationship was?! It's crazy, and not in a good way! At least not for us gardeners. Once again just proving that nature is quite often so much smarter than us! 😄
Kevin actually did one a few months ago. It had these cute animated ants. It was funny but educational. I’m surprised he didn’t remember. You can find it on his channel
We have an intentional pet rabbit colony which is adjacent to the chicken coop. Occasionally the one (Peter) sneak into the coop when im doing things with my hens and then i have to kick him out. He's always so cute and disgruntled. And yes, i have entire garden bed dedicated to rabbit greens, but their poop is gold so I'm happy with the sacrifice.
My grandpa convinced me that if I weed wicked the bullrushes in the front paddock (5 acres) that when they died, I'd be able to find old aboriginal boomerangs and spear tips. Lol. No boomerangs, no spear tips. Nice paddock though 😂
I took care of some queen Anne's lace, saved a bag load of seeds, and thankfully learned what they were before I planted them 10:39
I don't get it
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme Queen Anne's lace will take over any space given the chance. It's considered a noxious weed in over half the US states.
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme To the under educated and inexperienced, it looks kind of like carrots
I warn my customers to think about the opening of Prince of Egypt when they’re making bricks. The first two ingredients are “MUD and SAND”. Don’t mix clay and sand!!
That's a good reminder-trick! All they have to do is sing a few lines whenever they are contemplating how to fix their sand or clay problem -- and then they'll hopefully remember what *not* to do!
I love these videos. I laughed so hard I cried 😂That was my apple tree near the end. Thanks for the advice. I actually ruined it. It was a dwarf and I planted the graphed part below the soil. I didn’t know. I was trying to keep it small in a container and it was stressed out. So I put a round Birdie bed around it and it grew really tall. I prune it. It gets flowers as it starts warming up in Chicago and then we get a freeze out of nowhere and huge winds. Twice now I had one apple. The squirrel got the first and this year there was a tiny one and it was bored through by something and rotted inside. I do want to pull it out because it’s taking up space in my small backyard. I have a hard time killing things though. I would actually like to have dwarf fruit trees and keep them dwarf. Hopefully next year. Thank guys. Funny video 😊
I almost mad a big mistake I planted raspberries in a pot, and I did not know they can do this, but after like three years in the being in that pot, they rooted out of the pot into the ground and start spreading throughout my yard luckily I found this and accidentally pulled it up. I saved myself a lot of work.
My partner is always pulling aquilegia plants, even though I have shown him what they are multiple times. No more helping with weeding pleeease 😂
so I was growing a black beauty eggplant, when I saw a tiny leave poke out of the ground and thought they were "scraps" so I tried to pull them and realized it was a whole ahh potato then put it back, and thought potatoes are better then eggplants, so I removed my seedling and chucked a another potato in there and happy to say I'm a proud owner of 2 potatoes (I'm growing in a 9.5 gallon grow bag) ( I think it was my aunt's son since he really wanted me to plant a potato )
I love these videos. And for sure..everyone has failures but we just keep on gardening:))
The seal barrel compost bomb brought back memories from when I was in high school doing a biology experiment and I chose a fertiliser comparison on bean plants. I wanted them all to be liquid fertiliser to make the dosage equal but I really wanted to do blood and bone. So I mixed blood and bone powder in water and stored it in a glass jar. The first dosage it smelled awful. The second dosage it was unbearable. I couldn't even do the third dosage. I had to bury it in the backyard but the dogs kept trying to dig it up and flies just sat on the surface constantly. DO. NOT. MIX. WITH. WATER. I'm so lucky the jar didn't explode.
FYI that bean plants did not thrive 🙃