Harvest Day Wasn't What I Was Expecting | A DEVASTATING Loss :(
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- I've never experienced this before in my 16 years of gardening and I am SO BUMMED. On a positive note, I was still able to harvest a lot of great produce today! Join me as I harvest what's ripe, deal with the loss, do some garden maintenance, and plant some fall crops.
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Ijust read in comments a complained about being to long PLEASE KNOW there are MANY of us who enjoy a full videos..for me 10 mins is not enough of your beautiful day to day life..🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Thanks for that!!! I appreciate you! 🫶🏼
I 💯 agree 👍 I prefer the longer videos. 10 min seam's like a waste of time 🤷🏼♀️
😂I just read the comments. I believe it was meant to be useful, but a channel is the creators design. If everyone did the same it wouldn’t be interesting. I do get bored reading comments that are repeats, but do get more out of sharing experiences. When harvesting and discussing what went well or not is very time consuming and helpful especially when the gardeners are in or near my area and appreciate that.
With all the rain we’ve had I was getting cabin fever in summer and spent Way more time watching RUclips gardeners.
The beauty of it all is everyone can fast forward a video or watch when you’re not in a hurry.
💯 AGREED!!
Completely agree. I love the long format videos. :)
The bolting onions are really not that scary at all. In my country we don't really care if they bolt, we just braid them shortly after they have bolted and have given them some time to dry out, and they store just fine. Don't worry about it so much, they will store just fine.
I prefer long gardening videos as well. I can just put one on and relax, not have to worry about what I want to watch next!
Perfect! 🫶🏼🫶🏼
I was there at the time you were making this video and it was cold! I had come from Arizona to visit a horse farm in Cloquet that I will be managing this fall and I'd only brought jeans, tee shirts, boots, and no jackets. I got up in the morning and walked out to see the horses, and the skies opened. I was wet and cold in minutes. Who expects hard rain and chilly temps in August?! I'm coming prepared with gear next time.
This was so enjoyable! It felt like I was in the garden with you having a real conversation.
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I've had that happen with onions a few times. It's true that they won't store long, but you can slice them up and dry them in the dehydrator. The dried onions are great in soups. Meanwhile, If you have another area, maybe in a flower garden, I suggest you plant some walking onions. Also leeks. They're the first onions to be ready in spring, when the other ones are already eaten up or no longer storable.
Reading the time complaint comment like 🙄🤦🏼♀️
Please dont take that to heart, if they watch that many people, they can better manage their own time watching all 50 of their videos.
I love watching, learning, and laughing with you. I've learned a lot from you, so just keep doing what you're doing 😊
Thank you so much for the encouragement! 🫶🏼
I have really been struggling with blight in my tomatoes this year, too. 😢 It’s my first time dealing with disease.
Wonderful video! I learned alot a d helped me troubleshoot my own MN garden. This year was one of a kind!
It’s been a tough year for sure!
I have had trouble getting my onions to cure the last couple of years. I chopped mine and threw them in freeze dryer. Works great 👍
With the onions
Chop and freeze the bulbs, and turn the leaves into onion-top pesto ❤ yum 🤤
I can’t believe how much I learned from this video! Keep up the good work!
Glad to hear it!
Freeze dry them. It works so so good. They lasted us forever like that. I have my freeze dryer running full force right now.
Absolutely agree with the refrigerator pickles. Just tasted my first pickle, needs another day or so. Mom used to put poultry netting close to each side of the peas and beans to keep the plants more upright. I stick with pole beans, myself...being in my 60s it's just so much easier on the knees! I planted radishes & lettuce as my final crop for the season.
Im sorry to hear about your onions. I am in central WI and I am also having some unusual bolting, this year. I have found that the rot starts in the center and they wont store well. Besides freeze drying, you could can onion soup, which makes an excellent broth. Of course so many other ways to can. Salsa, soups, ect... I also freeze diced and sliced onions, vacuum packing in portion sizes is a bit more "fresh", for cooking. Also very convenient, if you have the freezer space. But it does all take processing and time.
It’s been such an odd year, indeed! Thank you for the tips 🫶🏼
I went to the Florida weave method of trellising my tomatoes. Made my life much easier.
Your peppers turned out so much better than I would have thought for zones 3-4. It gives me hope! Do you start any plants indoors before putting them outdoors?
I felt like I was right there with you. Thanks for inviting us along.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it ☺️
just a future idea for keeping certain plants off the ground, look into vertical grow towers or trellis growing if anything you grow works on that.
as for Japanese beetles I've seen a dude here using this bag trap thing near his crop for them,incredibly effective and he feeds his chickens with em by dumping beetles in water bucket. ..maybe try to find those traps before starting if concerned.
You have such a beautiful garden, thank you!
So nice of you!!
I enjoyed this video, it's always encouraging and inspiring to see others and their gardens. Their processes, successes, failures.
Been looking forward to seeing you ❤❤❤ 🕊️
Yay! Thanks for being here!!
When my onion starts bolted last year, I added the buds to our salads! One onion got away from me and fully bloomed - the flowers were pretty and tasty in our salads too! I sliced up the stems, dehydrated them and ground the up for a mild onion powder. My version of when life gives you lemons, make lemonade!😅
Feel free to push some of that rain further SE to us here in NW Virginia. It’s been a solid drought since Memorial Day except for the remnants of a tropical storm a week ago. ⛈️
Wow!! I wish I could! It’s rained nearly every day since filming that video 🤪
Great video! Thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
It’s been a strange weather season this year. Thrown off all the expectation dates for harvest. I guess we’ll have to adjust, climate change and all!
For sure!!
Thank you for taking us along on your garden harvest. I always learn so much from you☺️
You are so welcome! Thanks for being here!!
3:47 am watching and my little dog is getting worried because of all your chickens talking. Have my own chooks and if they make weird noises, little dog thinks there is something scaring the chooks and she needs to go chase it away 😂❤
Omg how cute!!!! 😂❤️
Not really a failure...those onions were still nice! Hope you get more barefoot weather...only way to garden :) Take care!!
Beautiful harvest!!!!! The onions will be find to freeze, freeze dry, dehydrate and cure the ones that have a good outer skin. They will taste wonderful for cooking, so do not despair. You are a fantastic gardener. I love watching it all. My garden is a work in progress this year. We moved to the Peninsula of WI, from the other side of state by Twin Cities. Learning curve for me. Setting up all you gardens. But it is still fun.
I had the same problem last year for no reason so pull the ones that had bolted and eat them fresh
Nasturtium leaves are great to feed chickens. They work as a natural dewormer.
Hmmm! My chickens don’t seem to want to eat mine
I'm also from Minnesota! I planted san marzano tomatoes this year. They have done very well. I would like to try the plum regal. Where do you buy your plum regal tomato seeds from? I love your videos!
On the onions. Pull them chop them and freeze them.
My bolting onions never last. After 2 years of losing over half my crop to trying to store them I don’t even try anymore. I just freeze them.
Onion sets,the little round onions they sell in the spring, are actually a second year onion and will flowerlater in season. Not sure what you did in the spring when you planted
Yes sets tend to bolt, so I always start from seed
You said it. You never know. Our onions were small, they started to tip over too soon (bad weather?). But high five for fermented cucumbers! 🥒
I've heard that once the fruit 🍑 sets....the leaves below aren't needed and can be removed 🤔🤠
Good morning Katie, how's your back today ?
Nice harvest 👩🌾 . We grow our pole beans on our garden fence, this is the first year we had deer grazing on the bean leaves outside the fence 😢 ugh . I always plant 80 / 20 theory ( 20 % for critters ) but man , I think the deer took more than their 20% !!😂
Happy Gardening 👩🌾
Hi Kandy, thanks for asking! I actually tweaked it again yesterday so I’m back in bed 😭. This is getting frustrating! The deer certainly are out in full force this year!!! Must be due to our mild winter
Carrots definitely bolt and flower in their second year. Something (cold snap or heat) tricked them into thinking it is year two
Loved your video and not too long for me! Happy harvesting!
Glad you enjoyed it! 🫶🏼🫶🏼
Could you also add grass clippings as mulch on your new plants?
My onions bolted too, not all but way more than ever before. We had temp fluctuations and that led to water fluctuations too. But the good thing is i planted double so i have plenty! Sorry about yours 😕 when hard stuff happens, cause gardening is hard ikr, i always look at the unexpected positives, like my pea crop was stellar and tons of wild raspberries.
I pulled out almost all my tomatoes this week because of late blight. I had a lot of Amish Paste and they were looking the worst! I didn't realize I had planted another resistant variety, Plum Perfect. I've already bought more resistant variety seeds for next year. It's highly disappointing to lose most of your tomatoes after all the work you put into them!
Good morning from Forest Lake Minnesota! Great episode!!
Morning! Thanks Pat!!!
I also had terrible blight on tomatoes this year, a little south of you in MN. Almost all have cracks in them too. I will try a blight resistant variety next year. Not sure how to grow them better without spraying or growing in high tunnel.
Shoot!!! Definitely try a different variety. It’s been a tough year; hang in there 🫶🏼
Definitely a challenging growing season this year🤔🤠
I appreciate long videos because I put them on while I do chores, and my hands are messy and I don’t want to look for another video
Your garden is amazing. Your 16 years of garden experience shows. What do you do in winter to fill the gardening void?
I love sewing and crafting!
i continue to garden....i live in California, in my area in over thirty years it's snowed extremely lightly and mildly TWICE, so some crops don't stop, especially if you grow inside.... having a sun room acting as a greenhouse with a seperate ac unit helps.
❤ lovely garden
Amish Paste is a go-to tomato for us but this year not so much. We're zone 9a and don't get rain from May to late October so that blight isn't much of an issue. We found that the Tomahawk rodent traps (model 102SS) really helped in our garden to reduce the rodent population that had in previous years decimated our garden (we caught over 150 large and small rats/mice that were eating their way through our garden). They are humane traps so no toes getting snapped while gardening. My onions did that last year and they did not store well, not at all actually. I ended up doing chopped onions and froze them all, put them in ziplock bags and that actually works out great (Learned that from That 1870's Homestead). Sure makes for easy meal prep but I would have preferred to store them for more versatility. Love the garden tour, thank you!
This is all so incredibly helpful! Thank you!!!
Sorry to hear about the onions but on a good note, everything else looked really good 😁❤️
Thank you!!
💚👍love the video. Them Amish tomatoes, never grew for me. I also was looking forward to trying them.
I think I'm good😂
Sounds like they are a bad choice all around!
Following on the onion situation.. I had red and white onions bolt 😢 I'm curing them currently 🤷🏼♀️
Oh no!! So sorry to hear that this happened to you, too! 😓
We had tons of rain all summer Z5a WI. I’ve never had such an issue with late blight showing up 3 weeks early. Normally by first week of August it arrives-not this year. The plants were all stunted really bad also. I grew hybrids, heirlooms and determinates. The determinates you can’t prune up too high as they are shorter. I didn’t mulch heavily because of all the rain and couldn’t use liquid fertilizer as it would drain through too fast in sandy soil. Hope it wasn’t something with new varieties or something worse, but just the rain.
Just a bad year and the worst I’ve ever had with tomatoes in all the years I’ve gardened. We got enough to preserve, but not great.
Ugh, I have to get to the beans today. No need to plant a fall harvest there and yes, I have to wear sleeves picking beans. Was hoping to plant cauliflower but some bug decided to eat most of the leaves and not sure they will regrow.
Our hens squawk over laying boxes also😂 then the roostie boys get all excited thinking something bad is going on-so comical.
Yes, what is up with wildlife and rodent pressure this year, wasn’t this bad in drought. I also had quite poke beans because I’d J. Beetles and this year we have very few of them and I did plant some purple climber beans and no problem. Just a strange year all around.
Onions shouldn’t bolt if they were grown from seed. They are biennial and flower in second year unless you plant bulbs. What can cause storage rotting is high humidity and if the fronds were cut and let in bacteria while growing. I plant mine 6” apart in all directions in raised beds and in ground. I don’t plant so soon they get frosted unless I cover them-they get set back. We had a great crop and thanks for reminding me I need to trim and store as they are in the shaded greenhouse curing. Problem with this warm weather is where to put them. We have an experimental mostly above ground root cellar, but still too warm, so probably bring them inside for now.
I never had aster yellows, but think I’ve noticed it in calendulas and love bug netting but it didn’t stop aphids attacking Brussel sprouts and had to pull-they were at the end and 4’ tall. I started early under low tunnel on 4/15. We never have slugs either and I have two clay beds I plant brassicas in and think they are the culprits eating leaves of fall brassicas.
Japanese beetles are cyclical. They only emerge every so many years. Ask around in your area when they are expected.
Good to know! Thanks!
Gosh seeing that tomato blight makes me sad. Hope you can get that under control.
That crap spreads like wildfire. :(
It’s awful!! 😓😓
@@thehomesteadingrd Awful is such an understatement! If it is late blight, it also can spread to any other solanaceae plant, so cute little potatoes, peppers, and eggplants can be affected too! Super scary! :/
nlt in California... vs actual wild fires.... which we very much do have issues with.
Have you thought of vertical gardening? Keeps beans off the ground.
i have never grown or eaten rutabega or bok choy. how do you use those in cooking and what are the flavors/textures like?
idk,never tried but iirc rutabega is a tuber like potato or yam,and bok choy is i thiiiiink bok choy is supposed to be kinda like korean lettuce or something?
beyond that Google it
Your onions won’t store for long. Best to process them.
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What variety of tomato did you grow this year. Soo bountiful
In my area the squirrels and birds will get the tomatoes as soon as they are slightly any red on them. Terrible season this year for me. I tried the Amish too and they got disease on them.
Do u have a wildlife water source they can drink from so they aren’t thirsty? I hear this helps for them to leave tomatoes alone.
have you considered either using netting or bags?
or perhaps practicing excess or abundance gardening, look into strawberry trees...yes i said that right,not bush...it's not a true strawberry either, but they grow huge,produde tons of fruit through long portions of the year and act as a "lightening rod" sorta for animals like "what's all that stuff?"
or planting a few to several times what you'd want?
just ideas that might help,instead if the tiny scattered red bushed put out a huge red blob or make the field red with food that way the whole states wildlife couldn't eat it all.
btw fun fact,some berries are bred to remain ever white so nature ignores them...unfortunately it means we ourselves have to time and test constantly because we can't see difference either.
You so dissapointed them would it have been to hard to give them some greens
everything else aside...definitely couldn't get me to live somewhere that cold without a huge greenhouse or two for tropical and subtropical fruits,I'm fairly lucky to live in a tinyyyyy section of USA that with soooome extra care and time etc i can grow things mostly found around the equator but in California.... unfortunately it's a biiiiiiit too warm to grow certain berries,especially special blueberries, and most currents and gooseberries.
but mangos,starfruit,lychee,jackfruit,soursop,and the like are easy,with cheap easy greenhouse vs big expensive I'd near where you are,i can even grow snake fruit,mangosteen,rambutan etc
some vegetables are fine...but i prefer fruit
yeah California and Florida both have issues, everywhere does, but without major money and greenhouses you wont catch me elsewhere because only there in USA can you do that and yeah... not living outside this country,yeah all countries have issues, but here you get freedom even when restricted iykyk.
most places have to be concerned about either self defense or drugs\ medicines and I'm not interested in having more issues than i currently do.
What are you mulching with?
Organic straw and wood chips. I have a video that goes in depth on this 🫶🏼
Did you start onions from seed and are they short or long day?
Long day and yes I started from seed
@thehomesteadingrd Morning, Wondering if old seeds might cause this. I had some parsley do that to me this year. Seeds were several years old. I also had them stored in the fridge.
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u are putting the fungus/blight all over what u are cutting u need to cut and drop. don't hold in hand while cutting others
I like your videos BUT it's too long...I have 50 channels I watch and I give each 10 minutes to get to the point of the tag line. Peace&plenty
So sorry! I try to do a variety of different lengths to meet everyone’s needs. These types of videos are hard to knock out in 10 min 🫶🏼
@@thehomesteadingrd I understand. No need to apologize. Just doing what I do for content creators. In business I was successful because negative comments or complaints were welcome. It aloud me to keep in touch with my customers better. Telling me good job is great but dosnt help me grow.
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