I love that you do these "keep planting" videos. I keep your seeds on my kitchen counter all year long so i can grab and plant them but it's usually these videos that actually inspire me to go out and do it 😀
Something I find helps is to water the prepared spaces before planting the seeds. If I'm doing rows, for example, I'll make the trenches, then use the jet setting on my hose nozzle to drive that water deeper in each trench. After the seeds are planted and covered, I give a lighter watering to settle the soil around the seeds. This way, the soil under the seeds is wet longer, and the roots will be encouraged to reach for it.
@@ourstardestiny4960salad greens and radishes for sure! Peas and beans possibly Garlic for sure I'm attempting greens, radishes, carrots, and broccoli. I mightttt be pushing it..but I wanna try!
Respect to you for saying "look see how much time it will take before your frost, why not just grow it who cares"! I did this about the first week of July and other people were saying might be to late but I did it and im glad I did its so fun.
I did the moist paper towel in a Rubbermaid with pole beans and corn. I left them for 24-36 hours. Once I saw them sprout I planted the ones that sprouted.
Make sure your seed soaking water is Warm water. Cold water direct from the tap makes the seeds think it's too early in the spring to sprout and they may wait and rot.
You’re in the same climate zone as me, which is why I followed years ago. I really would’ve loved to plant a fall garden this year, but the $200 worth of seeds I bought from you guys earlier this year we’re ruined during the tornados that hit us two weeks ago. Mother Nature and I have been fighting this year. My spring garden that I started using the milk jug container method you shared got demolished by rabbits overnight, then I replanted, then my new seedlings I planted in July were ruined by my chickens. Replanted, then the tornados ruined my corn and seeds. I planted this garden this year to save money because my kids eat sooo much, but my goodness lol.
Some years are just like that-one disaster after another. Pests, drought followed by downpours, late freezes and diseases. I haven't had tomatoes for 2 years because I moved them to a different bed. I went back to the original bed and am excited to have fruit! Take heart and take some time to plan and regroup for next year. Best of luck!
@@judycee9263 glad to know that I am not alone! I did get about 12lbs tomatoes so far and a very pitiful cucumber haul. Managed to still get 5 onions too. I’m calling my garden this year my ‘Spite’ garden because I got at least a little production in spite of the year. I have some okay pepper production, but currently fighting slugs -_-
My zucchini and yellow squash are a hot mess. Now that I have watched your recent videos and discovered all of the things I did wrong 🙃 I want to replant my squash plants tomorrow. Days to maturity are 50, and my first frost is 10/22. Thank you!
Thank you Luke, just ordered more beans to start. I only order seeds from you and will tell everyone that they are the best seeds. I just had a order come in and decided to check to see if you had my beans in stock because they were out when I placed other order. They were in so I stocked up. Sale is great. God's blessing to you and yours
Days to maturity before first frost is one important factor. One I learned the hard is what your light levels are going to be. For me, the days progressively get shorter leading to that first frost date. Along with temps coming down, many things will just stunt and stop growing, and then die with or before the frost. Especially because of my garden placement, my sunlight access is even more reduced. So it's a massive impact sadly. So for me I gotta just go straight to the cold hardy crops.
I can attest to the benefits of mulching. Texas 8b zone in July and August is no joke. Everything was growing poorly and slowly for weeks. No flowers, very little new growth. I added 3 inches of straw about a week ago. Now I can barely keep up with my cucumbers and zucchini. Tomatillos and tomatoes are picking up speed too. Mulching works!
I began soaking seeds after having ground squirrels find them while they sat in the ground waiting on germination. I do it with beans and sweetcorn. Having 3 60ft rows of sweetcorn seeds come up missing was the final straw. The little buggers went down the rows from underneath coming up to eat each seed. After several weeks of no corn sprouts I investigated.😂
Yeah, that soaking the seeds thing would have been useful to know five years back, but I learned that too this season and great germination/success! Peace
🌱 I braved up and planted a stand of sweet corn 90 day variety with our first frost predicted for October 26 that's 92 days maybe a little risky but worth it ! Also planting bush beans and paste tomatoes in front yard raised beds where I emptied 80 pounds of potatoes!! It's been a tough growing season here in Southeast TN but we keep plugging awa, corn is 2 in tall already🎉
I’ve planted beans in both containers, raised beds and in ground. The ones in containers and raised beds always do better than in ground! I’m north Ohio also and going to plant more beans tomorrow along with more summer squash.
In south Western Ohio...first time ever I started cucumber and zucchini indoors 2 weeks ago. Trying to get a second crop while also avoiding cucumber beetles and squash bugs. Here's praying it works 🙏🙏
@@chrisgoldbach4450central OH haven’t had any mosquitos in the garden or otherwise. When we moved in they were bad in the area. Been really good about dumping anything that collects water and planting flowers they don’t like. Haven’t spent much time out late at night though.
Thank you thank you. We moved to a new property last year and it already had a garden in it but it hadnt been used in year. So the biggest challenge for me has been not only getting the soil workable but also there are blackberry bushes near by that are just growing wild. So I been trying to get them to stop popping up in the garden its self.
For the first time in my life (and I'm 53) I live in a very new climate, environment, altitude, you name it. Things did not germinate well. I know what to watch for, but oh boy! this has been a year of trial and error. Will do what I can this year and fortify the ground over the winter :) Next year, fingers crossed, I will have better luck!
I can't wait to receive my MIGardener seeds - they were shipped out a couple days ago, so I'll get them soon. They are always reasonably priced at $2 but I also got them at 40% off for only $1.60 each! What a steal. :) I planted corn last Saturday and I had presoaked the corn. I had germination yesterday (Tuesday), which was about 3 days total. Feeling great about it. I hope everyone has fall garden success!
YOU ANSWERED MY QUESTION THAT I WAS WORRIED ABOUT. Yay. I have 2 or 3 beds that aren’t growing things real good. I was wondering if I could go in with a little shovel and loosen the soil a few inches. I’ve watched so many videos that say don’t disturb the soil so I never did it. Yay fall planting here I come. I’m excited again. Thank You!😊
Watching this right now as we are getting a down pour thunderstorm where I live here in Michigan lol. We've had so much rain here I have hardly needed to manually water my deck garden.
I have never been successful in growing cucumbers till I got your seeds! Omg the cucumbers I've got from 9 plants. Planted in may and plants still going strong and producing. Love your bush beans too. Tons of beans and picking daily now. Thank you for great prices and wonderful seeds.
Don't forget you can also pre germinate GRASS SEED by pre soaking. I 've done this numerous times. I presoak for 48 hours, Yes 48 hours. After the soak I leave the wet bulked up seed in the empty bucket until it starts to sprout. One tip, put the dry seed in a pillowcase first, makes it much easier to drain and handle Reduces germination time from 30 days to maybe 5. Imagine not having to sprinkle every night after work for a month? Also less time for the birds to eat all the seed.
@@cynthiafisher9907 Numerous ways, Very easy. 1, Mix it with a bucket of peatmoss, or some plain dirt. Or, 2 let it air dry naturally after the 48hour soak. Or, 3, as I do, place it on a window screen temporarily taken from your house and let it dry in the sun for an hour.
What also matters is the trajectory of the sun as the days get shorter again -- some of my areas that were part shade are now full shade all day long -- affects what I can plant at this time.
More on compacted soil: Healthy living soil will not be compacted. The pathways are dead soil, especially where the mulch is, due to high traffic areas. The garden beds should be teeming with life-springtails, worms, fungi webs, etc. That’s what healthy soil looks like. As Luke says, keep your soil covered. During the growing season, use plants (any kind of plants will). In the winter, use cover crops if you can. If you can’t, mulch it up. This is called the detritus layer, which is crucial because it provides nutrients for soil organisms and helps maintain soil health and fertility. For fall cleanup, I recommend leaving the dead roots of the plants in the soil instead of pulling them out. This helps maintain soil structure and provides additional organic matter as they decompose
Hi Luke, I love your videos and your energy and they often help me with my gardening. One note on counting days until first frost date: i find that average temperature also matters a lot. I’m on north-west pacific and i have plenty of time until the first frost day, but I found that teh days are too cool to see any growth beyond mid-late august. It;s a bummer. THX
Very good point. The cooler temps slow down the germination, growth and fruiting rate of the plants - learned this last year when I planted corn late hoping to catch a harvest before frost. It grew soooo slowly and it never fruited . Cold hardy plants may have better success rates
Mulching! A few years ago I started putting grass clippings as a mulch around my plants, and it makes a huge difference for my plants surviving late July and August. We have a large yard, so I have lots of grass clippings! 😂
Mulch is great, but only with dry environments cause when living in an humid environment, slugs will hide under the mulch through the day and come out at night to feed them with your plants.
I’m thinking about planting more turnips because I love them and more carrots because I didn’t have many come up. I always replant my radishes too. Thanks for the tips on presoaking. Maybe I’ll do some extra pumpkins and squash too.
Well, zone 5B here and hoping the Kentucky Pole Beans do well in August. We have a lot of them being used as cover. Temps in the 80/s and direct sun. They are thriving and ready to flower. Fingers crossed I guess. We have black beans and purple ones on the bushes, so hoping for the best on the vines! And we are learning.... Removed cucumbers yesterday that were doing nothing and replaced with spinach and kale. Perhaps it will be cooler and better for them with all the bean cover. Peace Berkshires, western MA
Last week I planted some beet seeds, underneath some tomato plants and in the back of my greenstalk (which was previously bolted lettuce) with some wood ash. So, they're in partial shade, slightly cooler soil. I've not done it this way before, so I'll see how they do before I plant more for a fall harvest. I've never had beet success with my soil, and I want to see how well the wood ash works. I planted a bunch of beans in what had previously been potatoes. And actually those areas I had put in some baby potatoes deep from my harvest over the past few weeks, which shouldn't sprout until spring. So, I'll be able to have something growing in there for the rest of the summer despite having something else planted, and the beans will replenish the nitrogen loss to get ready for the potatoes. Also didn't soak the beans or beets this time and they're germinating fine. Ive never done this before either. Planted some head lettuce in what had been failed broccoli. See how those do before I stagger plant more. Brassicas and greens in a new greenstalk, more summer squash in a failed tier of a different one.
Germination was awful this year, couldn't keep up with watering. Next season Im starting everything indoors and getting a wheeled farm irrigation sprayer system.
Zone 8: Still waiting for the plants I planted inside in the spring to grow bigger. My container beans, peppers, cukes, pumpkins are about 5-6". A few tomatoes started to bloom. I think I'm only getting 2 zucchini off my plant... nights are in the 40's days are 80's-90's. I restarted stuff many times. We don't get rain in the summer.
😊 I tried to explain to my husband that lettuce grows best in cooler weather, tomatoes in warm weather, bake bread when the oven won’t overheat the house - so that BLT sandwich is a mystery as to how to time everything out to be fresh from the garden. 😂 Potatoes came out, zucchini went in and starting seeds for autumn planting asap.
BLTs in late September/early-mid October! Or, well, whenever your last frost is. And if you plant your lettuce sometime this month. You can also have the green tomatoes you bring in right before frost, ripen on the counter or paper bag, and have the lettuce continue do its thing in the cooler weather until those tomatoes are ripe. Wammo! Perfect BLTs!
You answered a question that was really frustrating me. What happened is that I planted carrots and beets in a community garden bed I was given without loosening the soil. That was 77 days ago and the carrot tops are beets are tiny with no root growth on the carrots. I can see the soil is compacted/caked from Winter and then the heat. It's so compact I can't even pull out the little things to see how small they are, tops just rip off. Ugh. I guess I'll pull everything out, loosen it all up and try again. If I'm lucky I'll get some Fall carrots.
Soil is also much warmer so the days to germination can be much less than in the cooler soil of spring. adjust your date to harvest to sooner than the packet states.
I just sowed some seed yesterday here in my south-central Texas (9a) garden. I usually use pine shavings as mulch. Is it ok to mulch my beds before my seeds germinate and pop up? We had a beautifully wet week last week which is unheard of here, so I’d like to preserve the moisture in my soil for as long as possible.
I am having a problem with earwigs. I want to mulch, but when I did the leaf mulch, it seemed to make the problem worse. Do you have a suggestion on what is a good mulch when you have problems with earwigs?
Did 3 plantings of beans, 2 in raised beds with old window screens across beds to keeps wandering neighborhood cats from using as a litter box and pole beans in the ground. They were growing nicely until the day i was to remove screens as they reached the top. A ground hog beat me to it. Knocked off the screens and ate off all the leaves..on every bed. I know it was a ground hog because i watched him standing on his hind legs with his back to me viewing the garden as i watched from upstairs window. Glad i grew and canned enough beans last year to last 2 years. You never know whether your harvest will be abundant, sparse or non existant.
I had the same thing happen to my beans but rabbits got them. I figure they got fat on my beans, I’m waiting for rabbit season to open! Ah! Has en pfeffer!
I tried the later season sweet corn planting experiment that you spoke about, got great germination and fairly decent stalks. I don't know if it was the hot dry weather or the lack of daylight, but the corn is now tasseling and I don't have 1 ear that I can see... Anyone else try it?
I just took advantage of the sale and bought some seeds and planting trays. I am so done with those crappy trays left over from store-bought plants! EDIT: It would help to have the mature plant heights on the seed packets for planning purposes.
Pre-soak seeds, loosen the top 3-5" of soil so water can flow down to the roots (most important tip), mulch with leaf mulch or cut grass, water seeds double the usual amount til they germinate. You can plant anything you want, if it matures before your frost date.
I tried planting carrots last week, not sure if they'll sprout, but I checked a few times and I covered, like recommended, and the amount of rolly polies is INSANE. I'm hoping they didn't eat my seeds. Any tips to handle that? It's like an infestation
One thing I'd like to add, about beans, is that after the first year, germination goes waaay down. Even from last year's seed. 2 years and more is almost to total nothing. So, it's best to plant new bean seeds.
I'm hoping that my plants do better in the fall. Summer has not been great. It's been raining way too much and my plants are really struggling because of all the wet and heat. I've lost about half my seedlings soon after planting them in the ground. I'd be afraid to direct sow unless the rain stops recurring, as the lower the plants are to the ground it seems the faster the leaves disintegrate nad unless they have alot of leaves they can't grow more. I came out the other day to find half of my Inglehart tomato plants gone completely and only the twist ties remaining on the fencing in one of my garden beds. I lose more than half my Tomatillo plants and have to re-germinate more seedlings over and over to replace them. Luckily I can save lots of seeds from those from the grocery store fruit, but some other things are not so easy to re-plant and I have to buy the seeds again. So far this has cost me more money than it's saved me. No tomatoes, hardly any peppers, and now because of the lack of sun with all the rain my cucumbers and melons have stopped growing and setting fruit. I really need this harvest in order to get enough food to last the month. I am having to till over and over to keep the soil loose because there's way too much rainwater for any soil to absorb! Had to add fungicide too because I found some stems starting to dampen off, but then it washes away. I'd rather have a drought because at least I could add water. You can't take it away when it rains too much. Are we eventually going to end up having to grow everything indoors due to climate change? God, I hope not! If there is anything that can be done to compensate for these conditions please do a video on it.
Waiting for my cucumbers to sprout. I did everything but soak them and water 2x day, but wondering if I put a bit too much fresh wood ash down when I amended the area. I'm almost to 10 days, so I may replant.
Hey Luke, love your videos and your seeds! I’m still planting stuff in Redmond WA, but our first frost is usually Oct 15 so not much time left. Anyway, just wanted to let you know that many of the seeds I bought recently from you kinda gave me a bad impression with the broken English on the back of the packets. Seemed imported and not from a very professional source. Also i think the information on your Egyptian Spinach seeds might not be accurate. It’s native to my home country of Egypt, and it loves the heat (in the 80s F). It is called Molokhia in Egypt (pronounced mollo-khey-ya.)
GM ☕️. Right now we’re fighting the smoke & winds created from northern California Fires. My garden is growing slow. Never thought of soaking seeds. I’ve heard of snipping the end of bigger seeds or scaration (?). Have a great day 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
I love that you do these "keep planting" videos. I keep your seeds on my kitchen counter all year long so i can grab and plant them but it's usually these videos that actually inspire me to go out and do it 😀
I’d definitely forget otherwise! 😅
Same 😂
Hello thank you for the video I am growing vegetables in container my small apartment 😊
"You always want to be growing something" 🙌
Something I find helps is to water the prepared spaces before planting the seeds. If I'm doing rows, for example, I'll make the trenches, then use the jet setting on my hose nozzle to drive that water deeper in each trench. After the seeds are planted and covered, I give a lighter watering to settle the soil around the seeds. This way, the soil under the seeds is wet longer, and the roots will be encouraged to reach for it.
I'm glad you posted this comment. That's a brilliant idea! Thank you :)
This is why I always browse the comments. Luke + Amish + experienced viewers = garden magic! Thanks!
What would you suggest planting in Missouri right now? Do you can anything?
@@ourstardestiny4960salad greens and radishes for sure! Peas and beans possibly
Garlic for sure
I'm attempting greens, radishes, carrots, and broccoli. I mightttt be pushing it..but I wanna try!
Respect to you for saying "look see how much time it will take before your frost, why not just grow it who cares"! I did this about the first week of July and other people were saying might be to late but I did it and im glad I did its so fun.
I did the moist paper towel in a Rubbermaid with pole beans and corn. I left them for 24-36 hours. Once I saw them sprout I planted the ones that sprouted.
Saturday I put in zucchini, cucumbers and lettuce this morning. I was planning broccoli.
Make sure your seed soaking water is Warm water. Cold water direct from the tap makes the seeds think it's too early in the spring to sprout and they may wait and rot.
Or just skip,the seed soaking altogether, and save yourself some wasted time.
A seed costs a few pennies, so just put 2 or 3 seeds per hole.
@@rpdx3thats not good advice actually! Soaking seeds are way better than not!
@@rpdx3 Always thinning is annoying and if you are using 3 seeds every time you need 1, you are actually wasting dollars every planting, not pennies.
You’re in the same climate zone as me, which is why I followed years ago. I really would’ve loved to plant a fall garden this year, but the $200 worth of seeds I bought from you guys earlier this year we’re ruined during the tornados that hit us two weeks ago.
Mother Nature and I have been fighting this year. My spring garden that I started using the milk jug container method you shared got demolished by rabbits overnight, then I replanted, then my new seedlings I planted in July were ruined by my chickens. Replanted, then the tornados ruined my corn and seeds. I planted this garden this year to save money because my kids eat sooo much, but my goodness lol.
Some years are just like that-one disaster after another. Pests, drought followed by downpours, late freezes and diseases. I haven't had tomatoes for 2 years because I moved them to a different bed. I went back to the original bed and am excited to have fruit!
Take heart and take some time to plan and regroup for next year. Best of luck!
@@judycee9263 glad to know that I am not alone! I did get about 12lbs tomatoes so far and a very pitiful cucumber haul. Managed to still get 5 onions too. I’m calling my garden this year my ‘Spite’ garden because I got at least a little production in spite of the year. I have some okay pepper production, but currently fighting slugs -_-
My zucchini and yellow squash are a hot mess. Now that I have watched your recent videos and discovered all of the things I did wrong 🙃 I want to replant my squash plants tomorrow. Days to maturity are 50, and my first frost is 10/22. Thank you!
Just harvested my carrots and reseeded the pots with more carrots and the free Trifecta you sent. Can't wait to see the next harvest!
Thank you Luke, just ordered more beans to start. I only order seeds from you and will tell everyone that they are the best seeds. I just had a order come in and decided to check to see if you had my beans in stock because they were out when I placed other order. They were in so I stocked up. Sale is great. God's blessing to you and yours
Was just thinking what to grow in August , and your video show up, God blessings
Days to maturity before first frost is one important factor. One I learned the hard is what your light levels are going to be. For me, the days progressively get shorter leading to that first frost date. Along with temps coming down, many things will just stunt and stop growing, and then die with or before the frost.
Especially because of my garden placement, my sunlight access is even more reduced. So it's a massive impact sadly.
So for me I gotta just go straight to the cold hardy crops.
Omg, finally I found ur video, I was just wondering if u still post bc I haven't seen it for awhile.
I love ur gardening channel.
I can attest to the benefits of mulching. Texas 8b zone in July and August is no joke. Everything was growing poorly and slowly for weeks. No flowers, very little new growth. I added 3 inches of straw about a week ago. Now I can barely keep up with my cucumbers and zucchini. Tomatillos and tomatoes are picking up speed too. Mulching works!
I began soaking seeds after having ground squirrels find them while they sat in the ground waiting on germination. I do it with beans and sweetcorn. Having 3 60ft rows of sweetcorn seeds come up missing was the final straw. The little buggers went down the rows from underneath coming up to eat each seed. After several weeks of no corn sprouts I investigated.😂
Yeah, that soaking the seeds thing would have been useful to know five years back, but I learned that too this season and great germination/success! Peace
🌱 I braved up and planted a stand of sweet corn 90 day variety with our first frost predicted for October 26 that's 92 days maybe a little risky but worth it ! Also planting bush beans and paste tomatoes in front yard raised beds where I emptied 80 pounds of potatoes!! It's been a tough growing season here in Southeast TN but we keep plugging awa, corn is 2 in tall already🎉
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Luke, Thank-you for all you do..
My pleasure!
In Ohio. Just planted lettuces, beets, carrots, kale, mustard, spinich. I'm in a new yard so we will see. Doing mostly raised beds
I’ve planted beans in both containers, raised beds and in ground. The ones in containers and raised beds always do better than in ground! I’m north Ohio also and going to plant more beans tomorrow along with more summer squash.
Have you noticed mosquitoes being worse this year? The tiger ones keep chasing me out of the garden
In south Western Ohio...first time ever I started cucumber and zucchini indoors 2 weeks ago. Trying to get a second crop while also avoiding cucumber beetles and squash bugs. Here's praying it works 🙏🙏
Me, too. I just moved and there was a very old garden bed at the new house. I prepped it the best I could. Fingers crossed!!
@@chrisgoldbach4450central OH haven’t had any mosquitos in the garden or otherwise. When we moved in they were bad in the area. Been really good about dumping anything that collects water and planting flowers they don’t like. Haven’t spent much time out late at night though.
Thank you thank you. We moved to a new property last year and it already had a garden in it but it hadnt been used in year. So the biggest challenge for me has been not only getting the soil workable but also there are blackberry bushes near by that are just growing wild. So I been trying to get them to stop popping up in the garden its self.
For the first time in my life (and I'm 53) I live in a very new climate, environment, altitude, you name it. Things did not germinate well. I know what to watch for, but oh boy! this has been a year of trial and error. Will do what I can this year and fortify the ground over the winter :) Next year, fingers crossed, I will have better luck!
I can't wait to receive my MIGardener seeds - they were shipped out a couple days ago, so I'll get them soon. They are always reasonably priced at $2 but I also got them at 40% off for only $1.60 each! What a steal. :) I planted corn last Saturday and I had presoaked the corn. I had germination yesterday (Tuesday), which was about 3 days total. Feeling great about it. I hope everyone has fall garden success!
YOU ANSWERED MY QUESTION THAT I WAS WORRIED ABOUT. Yay. I have 2 or 3 beds that aren’t growing things real good. I was wondering if I could go in with a little shovel and loosen the soil a few inches. I’ve watched so many videos that say don’t disturb the soil so I never did it. Yay fall planting here I come. I’m excited again. Thank You!😊
Watching this right now as we are getting a down pour thunderstorm where I live here in Michigan lol. We've had so much rain here I have hardly needed to manually water my deck garden.
Plz send some to Ohio we're so dry here in the North West corner.
Same in Iowa! Every time I think it’s time to water, Mother Nature does it for me. Sure has saved on the water bill this year, 😉.
I have never been successful in growing cucumbers till I got your seeds! Omg the cucumbers I've got from 9 plants. Planted in may and plants still going strong and producing. Love your bush beans too. Tons of beans and picking daily now. Thank you for great prices and wonderful seeds.
Don't forget you can also pre germinate GRASS SEED by pre soaking. I 've done this numerous times. I presoak for 48 hours, Yes 48 hours. After the soak I leave the wet bulked up seed in the empty bucket until it starts to sprout. One tip, put the dry seed in a pillowcase first, makes it much easier to drain and handle
Reduces germination time from 30 days to maybe 5. Imagine not having to sprinkle every night after work for a month? Also less time for the birds to eat all the seed.
And how do you spread wet seed?
@@cynthiafisher9907 Numerous ways, Very easy. 1, Mix it with a bucket of peatmoss, or some plain dirt. Or, 2 let it air dry naturally after the 48hour soak. Or, 3, as I do, place it on a window screen temporarily taken from your house and let it dry in the sun for an hour.
@@Hemond1 Ah, ok. Thanks! I wasn’t sure you could let it dry out at any point. This is great information, thanks for sharing!
I prepped some beds yesterday and started a handful of seeds. Looking forward to cool-temperature crops!
What also matters is the trajectory of the sun as the days get shorter again -- some of my areas that were part shade are now full shade all day long -- affects what I can plant at this time.
Good point!
Thank you so much! I totally support your channel because you support us! Blessings!
This year has been brutal with drought-like weather.
Luke! Thank you for this video. It helped me a lot to see where I went wrong in my garden this year.
More on compacted soil: Healthy living soil will not be compacted. The pathways are dead soil, especially where the mulch is, due to high traffic areas. The garden beds should be teeming with life-springtails, worms, fungi webs, etc. That’s what healthy soil looks like. As Luke says, keep your soil covered. During the growing season, use plants (any kind of plants will). In the winter, use cover crops if you can. If you can’t, mulch it up. This is called the detritus layer, which is crucial because it provides nutrients for soil organisms and helps maintain soil health and fertility. For fall cleanup, I recommend leaving the dead roots of the plants in the soil instead of pulling them out. This helps maintain soil structure and provides additional organic matter as they decompose
I just planted pumpkins in 4 colors, zucchini, carrots, beets and radishes.
Thank you for my seeds, they came so fast.
Great to hear!
Right now I'm getting soooo much rain. I have a yard full of mushrooms.
my beans are crankin right now
I looooove your channel ❤ i lurn sooo mutch from you😊 greats from holand❤
Just made my second order on your app. One was 6 days ago and one today hope to get them soon so I can start my fall planting
Hi Luke, I love your videos and your energy and they often help me with my gardening. One note on counting days until first frost date: i find that average temperature also matters a lot. I’m on north-west pacific and i have plenty of time until the first frost day, but I found that teh days are too cool to see any growth beyond mid-late august. It;s a bummer. THX
Very good point. The cooler temps slow down the germination, growth and fruiting rate of the plants - learned this last year when I planted corn late hoping to catch a harvest before frost. It grew soooo slowly and it never fruited . Cold hardy plants may have better success rates
What coincidence! I am planning to plant more and calculating the timing of things too! Looking forward to growing more! Great video! Thank you!!
I’m in 9A. I have a calendar from the big ag school 10 minutes away. I printed and laminated it.
Thanks for another informative and inspiring video Luke !😊
This is a smart approach to it!! We might grow some in August
Great advice--thank you, Luke. 😊
Mulching! A few years ago I started putting grass clippings as a mulch around my plants, and it makes a huge difference for my plants surviving late July and August. We have a large yard, so I have lots of grass clippings! 😂
Thanks so much for the encouragement.
Had lots of rain yesterday, been sick for 2 days...bet my cukes are huge.
Mulch is great, but only with dry environments cause when living in an humid environment, slugs will hide under the mulch through the day and come out at night to feed them with your plants.
Hi Luke I’m also obsessed with constantly growing something ❤ I took advantage of the seed sale and got my fall seeds!
Me too!!!
That is awesome!
I’m thinking about planting more turnips because I love them and more carrots because I didn’t have many come up. I always replant my radishes too. Thanks for the tips on presoaking. Maybe I’ll do some extra pumpkins and squash too.
Well, zone 5B here and hoping the Kentucky Pole Beans do well in August. We have a lot of them being used as cover. Temps in the 80/s and direct sun. They are thriving and ready to flower. Fingers crossed I guess. We have black beans and purple ones on the bushes, so hoping for the best on the vines! And we are learning.... Removed cucumbers yesterday that were doing nothing and replaced with spinach and kale. Perhaps it will be cooler and better for them with all the bean cover. Peace Berkshires, western MA
Looks like you’re going to get a good apple harvest this year!
Let’s hope!!!
Last week I planted some beet seeds, underneath some tomato plants and in the back of my greenstalk (which was previously bolted lettuce) with some wood ash. So, they're in partial shade, slightly cooler soil. I've not done it this way before, so I'll see how they do before I plant more for a fall harvest. I've never had beet success with my soil, and I want to see how well the wood ash works. I planted a bunch of beans in what had previously been potatoes. And actually those areas I had put in some baby potatoes deep from my harvest over the past few weeks, which shouldn't sprout until spring. So, I'll be able to have something growing in there for the rest of the summer despite having something else planted, and the beans will replenish the nitrogen loss to get ready for the potatoes. Also didn't soak the beans or beets this time and they're germinating fine. Ive never done this before either. Planted some head lettuce in what had been failed broccoli. See how those do before I stagger plant more. Brassicas and greens in a new greenstalk, more summer squash in a failed tier of a different one.
Germination was awful this year, couldn't keep up with watering.
Next season Im starting everything indoors and getting a wheeled farm irrigation sprayer system.
Zone 8: Still waiting for the plants I planted inside in the spring to grow bigger. My container beans, peppers, cukes, pumpkins are about 5-6". A few tomatoes started to bloom. I think I'm only getting 2 zucchini off my plant... nights are in the 40's days are 80's-90's. I restarted stuff many times. We don't get rain in the summer.
I just grow Asian green mustard July 29, it’s my 2nd round. I live in Kennebunk, ME. This is my 1st time to grow 2nd round! Wait for the results??
Cover crops are great too.
Currently feels like 107, and I'm babying some yellow squash seedlings. Wish me luck!
You can do it!
Shade cloth!
😊 I tried to explain to my husband that lettuce grows best in cooler weather, tomatoes in warm weather, bake bread when the oven won’t overheat the house - so that BLT sandwich is a mystery as to how to time everything out to be fresh from the garden. 😂 Potatoes came out, zucchini went in and starting seeds for autumn planting asap.
BLTs in late September/early-mid October! Or, well, whenever your last frost is. And if you plant your lettuce sometime this month. You can also have the green tomatoes you bring in right before frost, ripen on the counter or paper bag, and have the lettuce continue do its thing in the cooler weather until those tomatoes are ripe. Wammo! Perfect BLTs!
You answered a question that was really frustrating me. What happened is that I planted carrots and beets in a community garden bed I was given without loosening the soil. That was 77 days ago and the carrot tops are beets are tiny with no root growth on the carrots. I can see the soil is compacted/caked from Winter and then the heat. It's so compact I can't even pull out the little things to see how small they are, tops just rip off. Ugh. I guess I'll pull everything out, loosen it all up and try again. If I'm lucky I'll get some Fall carrots.
Soil is also much warmer so the days to germination can be much less than in the cooler soil of spring. adjust your date to harvest to sooner than the packet states.
I like how you teach
I just sowed some seed yesterday here in my south-central Texas (9a) garden. I usually use pine shavings as mulch. Is it ok to mulch my beds before my seeds germinate and pop up? We had a beautifully wet week last week which is unheard of here, so I’d like to preserve the moisture in my soil for as long as possible.
I see you made little hills and looked like you placed the seeds in between if I saw right did you finally cover the seeds with dirt ?
Squash vine borer got all my plants, maybe I'll try another batch
How much do you mulch over the seeds? How much is too much for the seedlings to push through?
Thank you! I just planted pole beans last week. Now I know it won't be just an experiment. Lol
Love your videos ❤
I am having a problem with earwigs. I want to mulch, but when I did the leaf mulch, it seemed to make the problem worse. Do you have a suggestion on what is a good mulch when you have problems with earwigs?
I’m going to plant those yellow wax beans you were holding. I am having a hard time finding the beans on my blue lake bush bean plants.
Duuuude I have so much stuff coming in this week, I need to sew more grow bags to get ready.
And I need more mulch.
Did 3 plantings of beans, 2 in raised beds with old window screens across beds to keeps wandering neighborhood cats from using as a litter box and pole beans in the ground. They were growing nicely until the day i was to remove screens as they reached the top. A ground hog beat me to it. Knocked off the screens and ate off all the leaves..on every bed. I know it was a ground hog because i watched him standing on his hind legs with his back to me viewing the garden as i watched from upstairs window. Glad i grew and canned enough beans last year to last 2 years. You never know whether your harvest will be abundant, sparse or non existant.
I had the same thing happen to my beans but rabbits got them. I figure they got fat on my beans, I’m waiting for rabbit season to open! Ah! Has en pfeffer!
G great help thank you for your enthusiasm
Eggplant, basil and tomatoes are producing in a big way now so.... eggplant parmesan with fresh made Italian tomato sauce!!
Do you have any recommendations for working the garden without a tiller?
I tried the later season sweet corn planting experiment that you spoke about, got great germination and fairly decent stalks. I don't know if it was the hot dry weather or the lack of daylight, but the corn is now tasseling and I don't have 1 ear that I can see...
Anyone else try it?
Suggestions with Brussels sprouts? They are little- still soak? I’m 6b
I just took advantage of the sale and bought some seeds and planting trays. I am so done with those crappy trays left over from store-bought plants!
EDIT: It would help to have the mature plant heights on the seed packets for planning purposes.
Pre-soak seeds, loosen the top 3-5" of soil so water can flow down to the roots (most important tip), mulch with leaf mulch or cut grass, water seeds double the usual amount til they germinate. You can plant anything you want, if it matures before your frost date.
I've been waiting excitingly to plant beans! But i live in Antarctica and i'm still waiting for that last frost date! I think it will be soon though.
Slugs are getting my latest crop... and I think the lady mulch I got is routing the leaves in all this rain in ne alabama.
Can I plant in my asparagus beds? If so, is there anything I should not grow in that bed. Thank you.
I tried planting carrots last week, not sure if they'll sprout, but I checked a few times and I covered, like recommended, and the amount of rolly polies is INSANE. I'm hoping they didn't eat my seeds. Any tips to handle that? It's like an infestation
One thing I'd like to add, about beans, is that after the first year, germination goes waaay down. Even from last year's seed. 2 years and more is almost to total nothing. So, it's best to plant new bean seeds.
I'm hoping that my plants do better in the fall. Summer has not been great. It's been raining way too much and my plants are really struggling because of all the wet and heat. I've lost about half my seedlings soon after planting them in the ground.
I'd be afraid to direct sow unless the rain stops recurring, as the lower the plants are to the ground it seems the faster the leaves disintegrate nad unless they have alot of leaves they can't grow more. I came out the other day to find half of my Inglehart tomato plants gone completely and only the twist ties remaining on the fencing in one of my garden beds. I lose more than half my Tomatillo plants and have to re-germinate more seedlings over and over to replace them. Luckily I can save lots of seeds from those from the grocery store fruit, but some other things are not so easy to re-plant and I have to buy the seeds again. So far this has cost me more money than it's saved me. No tomatoes, hardly any peppers, and now because of the lack of sun with all the rain my cucumbers and melons have stopped growing and setting fruit. I really need this harvest in order to get enough food to last the month. I am having to till over and over to keep the soil loose because there's way too much rainwater for any soil to absorb! Had to add fungicide too because I found some stems starting to dampen off, but then it washes away.
I'd rather have a drought because at least I could add water. You can't take it away when it rains too much. Are we eventually going to end up having to grow everything indoors due to climate change? God, I hope not!
If there is anything that can be done to compensate for these conditions please do a video on it.
Honestly I'm ready to quit gardening this year. Between bugs and rain... im over it... but maybe I will try and replant things
Didn't pre soak or add the trifecta I ordered 😢 praying they germinate!
Watering only 2-4 days a week would not work here - central BC, Canada. I have to water newly planted seeds 2-3 times a day.
When is a good time to harvest sweet potatoes?
Great advice
Rabbits and pill bugs eat my starts. I transplant beans because they really like those
Waiting for my cucumbers to sprout. I did everything but soak them and water 2x day, but wondering if I put a bit too much fresh wood ash down when I amended the area. I'm almost to 10 days, so I may replant.
Don't use wood ash in the garden unless a soil test indicates you have very acidic soil (pH below 6.0). The drawbacks outweigh the benefits.
Hey Luke, love your videos and your seeds! I’m still planting stuff in Redmond WA, but our first frost is usually Oct 15 so not much time left.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know that many of the seeds I bought recently from you kinda gave me a bad impression with the broken English on the back of the packets. Seemed imported and not from a very professional source.
Also i think the information on your Egyptian Spinach seeds might not be accurate. It’s native to my home country of Egypt, and it loves the heat (in the 80s F). It is called Molokhia in Egypt (pronounced mollo-khey-ya.)
I Have to water everyday where I live sometimes 2-3 times a day for seed germination
Sometimes that’s what it takes.
Zone 7B...planted more bush beans 2 weeks ago. They came up fine, but 2 days ago they all got sunburned and are dying...sun is brutal :( Any ideas?
p.s. well watered and mulched.
You could put tulle or shade cloth on them
I need a moment to unhear Prostate when you said frost state🤣🤣🤣
Love your videos
my dad likes your videos. luke come watch me pick potatoes
GM ☕️. Right now we’re fighting the smoke & winds created from northern California Fires. My garden is growing slow.
Never thought of soaking seeds. I’ve heard of snipping the end of bigger seeds or scaration (?).
Have a great day 👵🏻👩🌾❣️