Summer Garden Tour and Harvest - Growing Peaches and Produce in Central Texas
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- Here in Austin Texas Zone 8B, summer is peach season. This year I'm also growing tomatoes, jalapeños, carrots, and an assortment of plants from my winter garden which have gone to seed.
I'm working with some really dense clay soil, because of this, I've decided to grow fruits and veggies in a large raised bed, and build a french drain for my peach trees. My raised bed is 60 square feet (20'x3') and about 2 feet high. If you're curious about how I built it, I made a video on the process in the fall of 2021.
This summer I'm growing parsley, cilantro, basil, cabbage, romaine lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, jalapeños. I'm also doing a little zone pushing by growing pineapples in containers.
I hope this garden tour is entertaining, educational, and inspiring. Good luck with all your gardening projects this summer, and thanks again for watching Austin Texas Gardening!
Also, a big thanks to @acappellahymns for providing the acapella rendition of "The Spacious Firmament On High" for our intro highlight reel!
Video Chapter Timestamps
0:00 Intro and Peach Trees
6:49 Highlights from Garden Seasons Past
7:53 Raised Bed
9:20 Growing Tomatoes
10:39 Cabbage Pests
11:24 Carrot Harvest
12:49 Growing Cucumbers
14:05 Jalapeno Harvest
15:55 Weighing our Harvest
16:43 Harvesting Radish Seed
17:43 Harvesting Lettuce Seed
18:49 Harvesting Coriander Seed
19:02 Harvesting Parsley Seed
19:55 Growing Sunflowers
22:00 Growing Crepe Myrtles
22:23 Growing Bluebonnets, Zinnias, Purslane, and More
24:50 Closing Thoughts
#AustinTexas #Gardening #Horticulture #Zone8B #suburbangardening
Yummy yummy 😋 😜😜
You should plant a plum tree. We live in Fredericksburg and our plum tree gives such sweet amazing fruit. It would probably do really well where you are too.
I planted a plum tree in 2020 for a housewarming gift at my friends place, it’s doing great, but hasn’t yielded fruit yet
Glad I found your channel. I also live in the Austin area and want to start an orchard/garden when I buy a house.
Howdy neighbor! That’s a great aspiration, when you get your place I’d recommend almost any peach tree (or trees). I’ve personally had success with Royal Zest, Tex Prince, Sam Houston, La Feliciana, and Rio Grande
Thanks for sharing, my husband and I were excited to see you post. You have inspired us to try gardening, not a fraction to your scale, but definitely trying. We're from the lower RGV, but have already shared tips with some of our children especially for one that will definitely need to try your French drain. Nice haul of fruits and veggies. My goodness can't decide which is my favorite your Sun Flower Forest or the Blue Bonnet Meadow. Looking forward to the next post
I’m glad, gardening is really great hobby, I really enjoyed starting my backyard Orchard and experimenting with all the different things you can grow. Today I posted a video on the storm because I haven’t uploaded in a while, but I’m planning on posting a video on how I grow peach trees in central Texas at some point next week, which should be followed by a summer seed harvest, and general discussion about the heat
Watched the whole video! An impressive little garden you've got. Subscribed so I can follow along. Just moved north of Austin and loved seeing the growing potential. It's gonna be hot next week. Good luck!
Howdy neighbor, thanks for subscribing! Good luck with your garden, I hope you don’t have the same type of dense clay soil that I do, but if you do, I’d recommend watching my French drain video
You really need to net your fruit trees!! The sugar in the fruit makes the wild birds drunk exactly like humans with alcohol!! They will have a wild time on your fruit trees!! LOL!!
Agreed, I’m going to net for sure next year, I had to harvest every tree too early
@@AustinTexasGardening Don't let your hard work go to the birds!! Or anything else for that matter!!
Good job on your harvest. God always provides!
Omgosh, so many peaches!!! 😍🌱🥰 So glad I happened upon your channel, fellow Zone 8b-er! My peaches and nectarines are way behind yours, but you’ve got me anticipating a wonderful harvest of my own soon! New garden friend here. 😊
Howdy neighbor, what part of zone 8b?
I believe the cabbage issue is bc the season is over and was stressed out so bugs just know when to come and feast lol. This happened to my garden as well 🫣
Agreed, but that’s OK. We already harvested our cabbage in April
Oh great. I have a Brussel sprout plant that is hanging on by a thread but I am reluctant to cut it down. I’m determined to harvest Brussel sprouts in our Texas hot weather 😂😂😂
@@humble_gardening Thankfully no drought this summer, but the heat is going to be wild
Question for you: I know in your beginner gardener video you mentioned being mindful where you place your garden in relation to where the sun rises in your backyard. However, I have seen other creators in our zone mention they try to keep their gardens in half shade because the sun down in Texas can get very intense in the summer. Right now I have a small assortment of herbs in separate containers (Sage, thyme, cilantro, rosemary and parsley). How do you recommend I care for them during the summer? Should I do full light for a limited time during the day and then bring them in the shade? Should I just leave them out there and let them adapt? I plan to put them in the ground at some point just not yet since this is literally my first group of herbs ever.
Good question, rosemary won’t have any problems in summer drought or winter cold conditions in full sun, I’ve grown several rosemary plants in full sun, and my mom grew one in partial sun growing up.
Parsley and cilantro can grow (most of) winter, but I’ve had mine die in a hard freeze (under 25 degrees); they’ll often go to seed before summer.
You can try partial sun and see what works for you, but without trees in my yard, my backyard is 100% full sun all day during the summer. I’ve seen some people use shade cloths to protect their plants during summer, or straw to shield their roots. I have not had a problem just letting the summer sun kill everything except my fruit trees, blackberry, onions, and rosemary; and then just collecting seeds
Is that peach tree going to get any thicker it seems so skinny lol. And those fruits seem so small too is it because its still young or something?
Yes, the trees were planted ~18 months before this video, and are rooted cuttings. I'd expect them to thicken up over the years to come
Perks of getting trees with the appropriate chill hours!
Are you gonna train the crepe myrtle to be trees or remain bushy?
I wanted them to become trees, fertilized with nitrogen, but they’re just slow starters
@AustinTexasGardening yeah! I bought a few back in 2018 after being told how fast they grow. Two years in, I emailed the guy and was like, what the heck, man, why they still like 2' tall? Well, they're like people and groe at different rates! The biggest one is probably 8' tall.
What happened to you mango tree from a few years ago?
Didnt make it through the winter storm in feb 2021, garage got too cold and we lost power for tool long
@@AustinTexasGardening that’s to bad, but good to know! I’ll keep that in mind for my seedlings!