2023 Garden & High Tunnel Tour Week 9: Sad Onions & Happy Gourds
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2023
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Looks good! I replanted my front garden. It is finished and after I weed eat, I can move to preparing the main garden for fall crops. The squash bugs are absolutely horrible and DE does NOT kill them. Neither did neem. I find that having them on trellises makes it very hard to flick the bugs into soapy water. So, live and learn.
I cant see them as easily in plants that ramble because I can't get to most of the plant easily, but also the bugs haven't been the worst here but they could be coming!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead I hope not. I think the DE kills the softer ones, but the harder ones really need to be hand picked an thrown into soapy water.
A wonderful harvest, Heather! My cucumbers are starting to go crazy and I am trying to remember to be thankful instead of overwhelmed. ❤️
Yes there is a fine line to that balance!! ♥
@@SageandStoneHomesteadim with ya, Cucumbers n Zucchini is coming out my ears n if you cant pick daily , they are too big almost n start yellowing 😮, We planted alot n we found a nest of ducks hidden in the 🍅 tomatoes yesterday 😂, God is Good 💯❗
Awe that's so cool, Nana! ♥
I love seeing your overflowing harvest basket!! Your hard work is paying off wonderfully! God bless!
Thank you so much!! My basket has grown over the years and This one overflowing makes me so amazed ♥
I love how small those sunflowers are! And the variety! 😍
There's a BUNCH on here too!!
I love your arch way its looks so peaceful, I would grab me a chair and my Bible and just sit in there all day!!! Its Beautiful!!!😊 God Bless
I sat in there yesterday!!
Heather, you do a wonderful job on your garden tours. Your attention to detail is great when you educate us on exactly WHEN it’s time to harvest, or how a particular pest or disease presents. The video quality is superb, and beautiful to watch, especially as the sun is setting! Well done!! ❤
Thank you so much!!! This comment means a lot to me!! ❤️
(I'm apologizing now for a long post...)
About the rogue asparagus fronds: We put some stakes in the corners and about halfway down the bed of our asparagus this year (as fronds were spilling into the pathways) and strung plain cotton twine between the stakes/poles to help corral the fronds. Because we don't have a thickly-planted row, we wanted to encourage the berries we see to drop inside the bed to make new crowns. But it also made it easier to navigate between garden beds without potentially damaging our very fluffy asparagus. 😉
About the onions: We started our onions from sets, as well in spring (last year). At the end of autumn, we expected to get a harvest, but our onions did not bulb at all - they looked more like shallots! Just before our arctic blast in early spring (this year), we dug up our onions and replanted only the strongest-looking ones, but when we replanted, we didn't fully cover the area that should have bulbed. (A few of the tops sent up flowers, which we clipped.) We have since harvested fully-bulbed (sometimes divided bulb) onions from those we replanted once the leaves fell over at the neck. I think we might have planted the sets too deeply, even though we followed the planting instructions. The next onions we plant, we are going to do an experiment planting one side of the row exactly according to the directions, and the other side of the row will be half that depth so we can see if we get bulbs the first year. Sometimes the plants just have a mind of their own and don't do what we expect them to, though. 🤭
I was excited to see how well all your crops have been doing! Thanks so much for doing these garden tours - I'm learning of so many more varieties I want to try. I have never grown pink-eyed purple hulls, but have grown purple-hulled cowpeas - and I do remember the pods turning deep purple as they ripened. It started with a deep purple line at the seam that blushed across the remainder of the pod and was a beautiful sight, in my opinion. I am interested to see what yours do! Those limas remind me of what my Great Aunt used to call Christmas Limas. Stunning deep purple to lavender (and some maroon, sometimes) with pale green or cream - and absolutely delicious! She'd just cook them up with fresh butter, a pinch of salt, and a few dashes of cracked black pepper.
Those Lima beans sound YUMMY! I want to grow many more next year. I'm already making my garden plan for next season!! Thanks so much for the tips on corralling my crazy Asparagus! I'll have to see if Levi can help me fenangle something that will hold up to the wind pressure too. I've planted onions before that did what you describe too! But I had started them from seed and only got bitty onions. I harvested them and kept them in the house and planted them again the following spring and we got much bigger bulbs that time and very few flowers!! It was fun.
The smile on your face days it All ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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I found you last night, you’re now one of my favorite gardener to watch, I’ve been binge watching your videos.
I love how much you explain things such as vine borers, etc.
Thank you!
I'm so glad! Welcome to the channel! Weekly garden tours will be starting this month!
Beautiful garden! Love the variety you are growing!
Thanks so much! ♥♥
Beautiful sunset! 💖
Thank you! KY is really good for those!
Beautiful tour! Thank you.
Thank you!! Thanks for being here Cathy!! ♥♥
I have never seen a sweet potato flower that's beautiful!
Isn't it?!
Thanks for a lovely trip through your gardens. Your sunset background as you were wrapping up was stunning. I always learn something new 😊
Thanks so much! I'm glad you're here ❤️
I love the MN midget melon. They are very prolific and super sweet. They do great here in MN.
I've only ever grown them one other time and I'm SO excited to have them in the garden again!! ♥
I love how you just grab and eat 😂I need to work on that. I'm scared to chew a bug 😂
I probably have chewed a bug and not known! LOL
I have never heard candy cane sweet pepper. I am so going to look those up! 😍
I think we got ours from Seeds N Such!
I love how you described the armpit melon because I know ppl who have done that lol. Just slapped on deodorant without showering🤣
In the case of the armpit melon, it has to be a fruity deodorant 😅❤️
Those gourds are looking amazing! We grew them once when I was a kid but we didn’t end up making birdhouses from then. But we kids enjoyed marveling at all the shapes of the gourds.
They are so fun to watch grow!!
Peaches and cream corn is our favorite! It’s a bicolored corn. Amazing flavor
I'm so excited for it!!
Absolutely the best!!!
your life is very happiness. 😊
Indeed ♥
Sell asparagus seeds in your site!
I could!!! I may!! I just packed up some cabbage seed that I need to list.
Audio sounded perfect this video
That's because I scrapped the new microphone for now and went back to my media mod that's held together with a rubber band. Who knew ? LOL
@@SageandStoneHomestead 😂😂
I love Patty pan squash! I saw two baby pattypan squash has that should be opening them shortly but unfortunately I haven't seen a lot of borer beetles. Even though I'm not too concerned about the Trimble she knows with them I have been out there several times a day picking out their eggs from the limbs in the vines. I'm now having to look at the flower and underneath the leaves now cuz there's this one Beetle that was laying her eggs all kinds of places LOL
Those little stinkers!!!
This is my second time watching your videos. I really like how you just sound so excited to talk about your plants. You also give little tips the whole way through that I really enjoy. You feel unscripted and natural. You have a new follower from the Northeast NH Zone 3-4. I look forward to watching some of your older videos.
Hello and welcome to the channel! Thank you for your kind words! Nothing is scripted here!
Nice tour.. ❤
Thank you so much!! ♥♥
Awesome tour of your wonderful garden. You got a great harvest. Excellent. Thank you for sharing. Love and Blessings to you all. ❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘
Thank you so much!! It's definitely harvest season!
Wonderful garden walkthrough ❤. Absolutely beautiful
Thank you!
I have borage too. I did the flowers for tea and oh I love cucumber and tomato salad! 💖
Oh! How was the tea?!
@@SageandStoneHomestead haven't tried it yet... I dehydrated a lot of stuff last year... Still haven't gotten to it. I did have some mullien ya that I harvested when I was sanding so much wood and forgot my mask! Helped tremendously! It's great for the lungs!
Thanks for the sunflower seed tips! I know my sunflower seeds are ready when I find a flock of finches in the patch and discover empty sunflower heads... 😂
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Awesome garden tour this week Heather, thank you for sharing! I hope your squash also makes it to storage maturity, fingers crossed! I don't have personal experience but sometimes people add a grapeleaf to the jar to help. I have also seen some recipes call for a pickling lime brine process, which can also supposedly help keep them crisp. I love love pickles, but not mushy ones so I understand the desire to have them crispy/crunchy!
I had forgotten that! Next time I'm adding a grape leaf to the jars! Thank you!
Looks amazing. Someday I'm going to have a living pantry like you. #Goals
You can do it!
Great video as usual. Watching from Jamaica 🇯🇲 😊.
Hello there!! Thanks for being here!
Thank you. That is so interesting about how to know when to pick k the watermelons 🍉. Everis so beautiful
Thank you!!
I live in the NM high desert and I garden. I also have bird houses and a bird bath and a feeder. The parents take the juveniles into the garden, it helps with the bugs, but if I start plants out too late it is hard on them. I haven’t been able to grow beets at all and radishes only made it to head out in the late summer, bird salad!
Oh no I'm so sorry!!
Try fermenting your cucumbers that get away from you. Put either grape, blackberry or horseradish leaves in the jar. I’ve only done it once but OMG! The best pickles I’ve ever made!!
Oh blackberry leaves work too?! I have tons of those! Thank you!!!
Didn't know grape leaves can be used. What other ways can it be used?
@@blessingsfromthegarden I don’t know what it’s called but there’s a dish that reminds me of cabbage rolls but instead you use grape leaves
@@blackrock5749 ok. Thanks
I love your garden tours 🙃 I am starting to have issues with gophers, and they have stolen 3 of my bell peppers and some flowers. REALLY hoping they leave my tomatoes alone!
Trying to set traps and they just keep burying them.
Ugh!! I'm so sorry!! My friend Cal over at Simple Life Farm/Homestead is having gopher issues too, and they are ALSO burying the traps!!
I have 1 asparagus bed, 10x4..it's a jungle! It & my strawberry bed is this only thing I'm growing this year, plus some herbs..it's my Sabbath year..
Love your gardens!
Thank you so much!! Perennials are just awesome
You have an awesome garden!!!
Thank you!!
Goodness gracious things have grown SO much since last week!! I don't think my onions are doing much at all. Part of the problem is the dirt company brought me the wrong dirt so I had 4 tons of dirt to use that had all kinds of crap in it! We even found a huge metal hook in it! They were supposed to bring the sifted but nope.😡 Obviously we couldn't just leave a big pile of dirt so half my garden doesn't have the best. We only ended up getting one ton of sifted with the price difference they refunded us. I got our first two broccoli for dinner today!!
Ugh I'm so sorry about the soil mishap!! That's a huge pain. But it's great you got to harvest some dinner anyway! ❤️❤️
For your pickles soak the cucumbers in pickling lime for 24 hrs.. then rise well, n process how ever you want them, sweet, dill, ect.. I do my hot pepper rings the dame way.. good luck
Thank you!!
The birds have been keeping your bug pressure down.
I think you're right!!!
Your gardens are beautiful!!! I do hope you win your battle with the pests, hopefully staying on top of their presence will save your vines!! I would like to know your favorite scalloped squash dish and is it only eaten fresh or do you have a plan to preserve any of that variety. Thanks so much for sharing, I learn something new with each tour you post!!! Stay safe!!!
We have been freeze drying grated/shredded scallop squash to preserve them! I'll be putting them in soups, rice, and breads this winter when the plants are gone. For fresh eating my favorite way we have prepared them is breaded and air-fried dipped in ranch!! YUM!
@@SageandStoneHomestead I’m going to have to try them! Maybe next year I’ll add them to my garden.
FYI
When we make dill pickles, we add some grape leaves & a bay leaf or 2. The tannins from those keep them crisp. Also cutting off the blossom end of the cucumber. But we eat them all too fast. My favorite is fermented dill pickles.
Ah Forgot about the bay leaf trick!! Thank you!
Have you ever made pickled hot banana peppers.
Mine are big so George picked them... Now I need to pickle them.
Wondered who h spices you use if you have.
yes I pickled peppers last year and the video linked at the end of this one shows the process. We used a mrs wages pickle pack.
@@SageandStoneHomestead black tea works too, from what I heard.
Awesome!! I think I did something similar in my fermented cucamelons now that I think about it!
Hi there Heather, from BC. OMGoodness when you showed you were growing the sweet 100 cherry tomatoes I was sooo dang excited. That is what I planted in my community garden plot!!! They aren't a big as yours, however I have some little tiny green fruit on them. Yay to me for my first time gardening!! I do have a question again.... I did plant 8 of my favorite herbs, ( Parsley, sage rosemary, thyme, Oregano, basil, & marjoram & dill), but the zucchini plant had grown over & completely covered my sage, and thyme. So I did my best at transplanting them up by my pepper plants. Was that a good thing to do?? You asked for questions, and that's mine. Always love watching your channel!! Have a grand day!
Yes they should be fine, just keep them well watered! I know the thyme I've grown is pretty hardy and tolerant of abuse, the Sage I'm not so sure about but they should be okay!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead I guess my next question for me & possibly other viewers is.. should we try and transplant herbs?? I was at the garden this evening, & the sage looks good so far.
Love your videos ❤
Thanks so much! I'm so glad you're here!!
May I ask for a demo on how to grow blueberries . I have clay soil and I have had no luck.
I'm in the same boat unfortunately but the blackberries are doing great!
Yes my favorite are red raspberry’s. But the hubby loves blueberries
Hello Heather. Are you going to freeze dry any watermelon ?❤❤❤
Yes for sure!!
To be able to grow watermelons 😍. Did the armpit melons taste good even if they smelled as described?😁
Yes!! I should have clarified that they don't taste like an armpit! LOL They are sweet and very canteloupe-like but they oddly have a tomato-type of savory aftertaste!!
U can harvest the corn when the hair turn brown
Yes! We also wait for the kernels to swell enough that the ear starts to lean outward more.
Is patty pan preservable? And can you show how you prepare it to eat?
Yeah we have actually freeze dried quite a bit of pattypan and it's so good simply pan fried!
Great video! The garden looks amazing! I’m having cucumber bugs and they are kinda spreading to other plants. I’ve been removing them by hand but everyday there seems to be more.😢
Those guys can be a real pain! Have you tried DE?
@@SageandStoneHomestead no I have never seen it in any of the stores around me. I may look into it. Thanks for replying!!
All my squash continue to get the powder mildew and I read that you need to remove those leaves as soon as you see it on the leaves and dont touch the good leaves with your hands if you touched the mildew leaves or let the mildew leaves touch the goods one and go straight to the burn pile or trash and not to use it as compost….That being said I do that and it just continues to make more mildew and I am down to almost nothing. This is my first year I am having many struggles on my different plants including the serious bird invasion in the begging they took all my seeds it took to plant three times to get a plant going then they stopped all at once now they back ruining all my tomatoes by pecking holes in them so I am having to throw away tons of tomatoes, or the sun splitting them…a pitiful season!!! This definitely tells me I won’t plant next season living here I’ll just wait til I move to my farm and try again. Also thanks for the info on the sugar baby melons because I have a few thats been sitting on the vines because I had no indication on when to pick it because im looking for brown on the stem and thats not happening so im glad you discussed that topic. Thanks for all this info you share. God Bless
See if putting up a bird feeder helps! It totally might! Also there are hybrid melons and squash that are resistant to powdery mildew, and those are a lifesaver some seasons!
@@SageandStoneHomestead I will definitely try a different variety next season. I was new to doing squash of this type and watching your channel and you planting the similar things I did has taught me a lot!!! I am so grateful for your channel. God Bless
Everything looks so lovely! I wanted to grow bird house gourds this year, time just got away from me. Now that you've said that about the kajari i ran to check mine out, its got the stripes but dull and fuzzy like the armpit melon lol. Either way I'm excited to try it!❤🍈
If they are seeds I sent you, you very well could have an armpit!!! I tried to carefully select the fruit I pulled your seed from to avoid that but it kinda seems like Kajari loves crossing!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead yup its what you sent me. I can send you a picture of " Melony" so you can give me your opinion but kajari or armpit I'm still a proud melon mama lol
@kathyjobryant1190 yes I'd love to see a photo! That Kajari those seeds came from volunteered in the greenhouse and So I thought it would be pure! Bees travel though!
I planted sunflowers too for the first time and I have different types and colors but I dont know when or how I’ll know when I can harvest the seeds? I seen you shortly discuss about them in a video in the past but if it’s possible and not any trouble if you can do some content on the fullness of the sunflowers process and how and when to harvest? Thanks, God Bless
That's an excellent suggestion!! For now, wait until the back of the sunflower head is starting to turn yellow. Sometimes I tie an old pillowcase around the head once the flower has started to drop petals in order to keep the seeds from being eaten by birds.
@@SageandStoneHomestead Thanks 😊
Armpit melon 😂
It's a very fitting name, I wish you could smell it! hah!
@@SageandStoneHomesteadis it near or same as a honey Dew melon ??.. My fave 🍈 melon 😋❗
I absolutely love your channel, and its helped me so much with my ventures in gardening. I do have a question that maybe you could help with? I just started gardening (somewhat successfully) this year, also in zone 7b, but I’ve kind of been winging it. I planted some garlic in a bed around March (I now know that was not the right time, whoops!) and while it’s still growing well, everything around it in the same bed has died or not grown at all. I don’t think the garlic is ready to harvest and eat or use, but I’m wondering if I need to just scrap what I have, plant the garlic somewhere else, and try again with the bed? Have you ever experienced this or have any thoughts?
Also, keeping seeds… what’s the secret? I have a few things I let go to seed (spinach, basil, etc) but I have no idea what to do now. 😂
If the garlic is doing fine I'd just leave it!! You can poke your finger in the soil and see how things are developing, it's usually around 4-6 months before garlic is ready. The seeds you just harvested, put them in paper or a plastic bag and store in a cool, dry place! Most of my seeds are in a cabinet in my room.
Have you tried injecting the base with BT?
That's something I have not tried!! I may get the gumption to do it today though, the plants are hanging on!!
The birdhouse gourds you eat,,, do you eat them in a salad or treat them like a zucchini
We have only eaten them raw so far!! Snacking on them like cucumbers! They would be great in a salad.
@@SageandStoneHomestead those would be fun to put on a veggie platter for a get together!