The sweet potato bush and flowers are stunning, the bees must love it, congratulations! Have you ever thought about planting wisteria? It takes many years before it blooms, but once it does, it is a stunning sight and could equally well run along the fence! By the time the kids grow up, you can shoot incredible wisteria flower photos and videos under it! 🌿🌺💮🌸📸🤗
This is a great idea! Wisteria is so beautiful. I would actually love to put a pergola in the backyard and have wisteria climb up and around a pergola!
Guava grows easily and without much fuss at all in central FL. I have a white guava (fruit is large, crunchy, firm seeds and mildly sweet - my Mom’s favorite) and also a Mexican Cream Guava (smaller, yellow skin, pink flesh, softer, smaller seeds and sweeter - my favorite). I just really like how low maintenance they are.
Feels like Florida here in central Kansas (6b), but without the rain. Currently 84F with 96% humidity. Supposed to be 100F later today. My raised bed is nearly empty. Lettuce and beans in the raised bed. Korean melons and pepper PLANTS (no peppers as flowers are dropping) in the smaller raised bed. LOTS of Genovese basil (my favorite) and LOTS of purple Genovese-like basil in terra cotta pots. Flowering cilantro and flowering swamp milkweed are attracting pollinators. Kansas winds (25-40mph sustained, 35-50mph gusts) wreaking havoc with my giant red sunflowers. Three have broen off about 6 inches above the soil. Only 2 left.☹Thanks for this video Jenn!!
Wow Kansas winds sound rough! I saw someone plant trees on purpose to use as a windscreen.. maybe that would help! Always good to hear how your garden is doing 😊
Glad to hear from another space coast gardener! I know there’s a lot of us out there but I haven’t found many yet! I am so excited for the fall crops.. I can’t wait until the heat cools down!
I am so curious about roselle! I've seen many videos, i think from David the Good with roselle and his wife making teas. I am sure I will try it someday soon!
Hey Jen, found your channel by accident this afternoon and subscribed. I am just down the road from you in Malabar. Your garden looks great. We are having a rough year here. Potato's, Sweet onions tomatoes and Jalapeno's did ok for us. although it seemed like it took forever for the tomatoes to start ripening. Our chickens are getting most of them though. Our corn was decimated by squirrels. My red onions didn't do any good. Got only a couple of cucumbers so far. Our squash and zucchini got bugs and burned up. Our bush beans and snow peas never grew. My beds are made out of used hurricane panels, and I just built a fully enclosed area with hardware cloth to try a late season of sweet corn. We are going to try pumpkin's again this year in August. Good luck with the garden. Neal
Wow hurricane panels for raised beds.. That is so creative! I have never succeeded with zucchini.. it’s so hard here but I’m going to try again in the fall. Bush beans are hard for me too. Even the “bean rust” resistant varieties get bean rust and barely produce. I also feel like I need a TON of bush bean plants to get enough beans.. I’m thinking about one of those green stalk vertical planters or some kind of homemade vertical planter to do them My red onions were awful too.. didn’t even bulb.. I will try again with some onion starts in the fall. If you figure them out, let me know how you did it!
Oh Jenn, i love to see all your hard work paying off! Ive loved watching all your videos this year, its like ive grown your garden with you! That thunder tho! 😂 I will always remember your first comment to me about the 4pm Florida rains
Always awesome to see your videos and success. I'm not having any luck this year but gotta roll with the punches. Got 4 tomatoes before the blight took over. Got 6 small potatoes. But the Banana Pepper plant is hanging in there. Tomatillo plant has 6 potential fruits if they hold up over the next 2 months.
@@SpaceCoastHarvest I'm in San Antonio zone 9a. So I have a lot of growing season left to try and turn things around. We don't get as much rain (we get no rain) so getting the watering right is tough as plants can dry out in the course of a day.
I planted slips from a Hannah sweet potato three years ago and the vines have just gone crazy all over the yard. On the shady side of the yard the vines have totally dominated. Last year some kind of gnarly beetle decimated the vines and I didn't get much in the way of a harvest. The year before I had shopping bags full of sweet potatoes and the neighbors really loved me giving them bags and bags of free potatoes. This year the beetles aren't around and I am expecting bags and bags of sweet potatoes. Ayway, watch out if you plant sweet potatoes outside of a confined space. In regards to your root knot nematode problem which I also have that for some reason or other the rkn's didn't attack the sweet potatoes while wrecking so much of the rest of my yard plantings.
Good luck with your sweet potato harvesting! Glad to hear one bad year of a pest didn't ruin the following year's success. I have one spot on the side of my house where I didn't even bother with sweet potato slips, I just planted a sprouted sweet potato. It is still growing and looks like it will keep going for a couple more months. The vines are long, but the stem isn't nearly as thick as I saw on my other sweet potato harvest from slips. We will see in a couple months how that harvest goes. That's interesting that your RKNs didn't want your sweet potatoes. I wonder why they preferred your other plantings
With lots of rain, do the wicking cells actually prevent good drainage? I wondered that when you were talking about possibly excess moisture. It’s so fun to see your enthusiasm and eagerness to learn. I’m figuring in about three years. I’m going to be watching you on your homestead with all kinds of gardens and chickens and cows and goats lol.
The wicking cells are not water tight so the water is supposed to still drain and I can feel some drainage around the beds sometimes. I don’t think it’s quite enough drainage during the heavy rains for some plants though.. like soybeans 😂 Maybe next year I would move the soybeans to my raised bed on the other side of the yard that has drip irrigation As for a homestead, haha that’s the dream! I figured I better learn how to garden before I commit to more land 😂
When the marigolds are finished blooming they leave a seed pod. Pick (harvest as you would say) the pods , store them in a baggie and you will have all the seed you will need in the future. You can plant the whole pod, or break them apart (open) for individual seeds.
It’s still too hot for cucamelons . My cucumbers failed in summer. I’m in the Tampa Bay area. I think your cucamelons will do better when we are less humid and hot.
I think you're right. My cucamelons didn't produce this summer. They seemed like they'd go through phases of looking great and having little female flowers and then they would look like the sun burned them up. I am curious to taste them though, lol, so I'll be trying again
The mixture I use for a foliar feed is this: 4 tbs Captain Jack’s deadbug 2 tbs Citrus Nutritional Spray 1 tbs Genysis 2 Tbsp Maxicrop Liquid Seaweed Mix per gallon of water and spray the leaves thoroughly. They say to do it every 2 weeks. The mixture is the "Witch's Brew" from Rockledge Gardens' Citrus Care Guide (rockledgegardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Citrus-Infosheet-2023.pdf). I use the mixture on my 2 sugar belle mandarin trees, my 1 dwarf carrie mango tree, and my 1 eureka lemon tree. They also have a care guide specifically for mangoes (rockledgegardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Mango-Infosheet.pdf) I know mangoes are not citrus, but it's mostly just nutrients and 1 organic pesticide so I do it on the mango anyway. I am not good about doing it on time... I would say, realistically I do one foliar feeding every 3 months
Here are the different products: Captain Jack’s Deadbugs: amzn.to/3PUQ89X Genysis: amzn.to/3RV3nd7 Nutritional Spray: amzn.to/3rOpojg Maxicrop Liquid seaweed: amzn.to/3XmTLsJ Rockledge gardens usually has all of them, but you could also find some of them at Lowe's/HD
The sweet potato bush and flowers are stunning, the bees must love it, congratulations! Have you ever thought about planting wisteria? It takes many years before it blooms, but once it does, it is a stunning sight and could equally well run along the fence! By the time the kids grow up, you can shoot incredible wisteria flower photos and videos under it! 🌿🌺💮🌸📸🤗
This is a great idea! Wisteria is so beautiful. I would actually love to put a pergola in the backyard and have wisteria climb up and around a pergola!
Guava grows easily and without much fuss at all in central FL. I have a white guava (fruit is large, crunchy, firm seeds and mildly sweet - my Mom’s favorite) and also a Mexican Cream Guava (smaller, yellow skin, pink flesh, softer, smaller seeds and sweeter - my favorite). I just really like how low maintenance they are.
Feels like Florida here in central Kansas (6b), but without the rain. Currently 84F with 96% humidity. Supposed to be 100F later today. My raised bed is nearly empty. Lettuce and beans in the raised bed. Korean melons and pepper PLANTS (no peppers as flowers are dropping) in the smaller raised bed. LOTS of Genovese basil (my favorite) and LOTS of purple Genovese-like basil in terra cotta pots. Flowering cilantro and flowering swamp milkweed are attracting pollinators. Kansas winds (25-40mph sustained, 35-50mph gusts) wreaking havoc with my giant red sunflowers. Three have broen off about 6 inches above the soil. Only 2 left.☹Thanks for this video Jenn!!
Wow Kansas winds sound rough! I saw someone plant trees on purpose to use as a windscreen.. maybe that would help! Always good to hear how your garden is doing 😊
So cool to find a fellow space coast gardener on RUclips! Your garden tour is inspiring. I have lots of new ideas. Thank you!
Glad to hear from another space coast gardener! I know there’s a lot of us out there but I haven’t found many yet! I am so excited for the fall crops.. I can’t wait until the heat cools down!
Roselle! They’re about to bloom. i plan to Make tea with it. Thanks for sharing your garden! Im in 10b Florida
I am so curious about roselle! I've seen many videos, i think from David the Good with roselle and his wife making teas. I am sure I will try it someday soon!
Hey Jen, found your channel by accident this afternoon and subscribed. I am just down the road from you in Malabar. Your garden looks great. We are having a rough year here. Potato's, Sweet onions tomatoes and Jalapeno's did ok for us. although it seemed like it took forever for the tomatoes to start ripening. Our chickens are getting most of them though. Our corn was decimated by squirrels. My red onions didn't do any good. Got only a couple of cucumbers so far. Our squash and zucchini got bugs and burned up. Our bush beans and snow peas never grew. My beds are made out of used hurricane panels, and I just built a fully enclosed area with hardware cloth to try a late season of sweet corn. We are going to try pumpkin's again this year in August. Good luck with the garden. Neal
Wow hurricane panels for raised beds.. That is so creative!
I have never succeeded with zucchini.. it’s so hard here but I’m going to try again in the fall.
Bush beans are hard for me too. Even the “bean rust” resistant varieties get bean rust and barely produce. I also feel like I need a TON of bush bean plants to get enough beans.. I’m thinking about one of those green stalk vertical planters or some kind of homemade vertical planter to do them
My red onions were awful too.. didn’t even bulb.. I will try again with some onion starts in the fall. If you figure them out, let me know how you did it!
Oh Jenn, i love to see all your hard work paying off! Ive loved watching all your videos this year, its like ive grown your garden with you! That thunder tho! 😂 I will always remember your first comment to me about the 4pm Florida rains
Always awesome to see your videos and success. I'm not having any luck this year but gotta roll with the punches.
Got 4 tomatoes before the blight took over. Got 6 small potatoes. But the Banana Pepper plant is hanging in there. Tomatillo plant has 6 potential fruits if they hold up over the next 2 months.
Keep trying! I have failures pretty often too but it’s ok.. the failures make us better. Are you in Florida too??
@@SpaceCoastHarvest I'm in San Antonio zone 9a. So I have a lot of growing season left to try and turn things around. We don't get as much rain (we get no rain) so getting the watering right is tough as plants can dry out in the course of a day.
New sub. I'm West Central Florida.
Hello there! Thanks for the sub :-) what are you growing this summer??
You are definitely a Puerto Rican girl.im just now getting into growing. Seems like tons of fun..I'm just trying to grow engridianc for sala
I love the idea of a salsa garden! I'm going to try tomatillos this year for a salsa verde
I planted slips from a Hannah sweet potato three years ago and the vines have just gone crazy all over the yard. On the shady side of the yard the vines have totally dominated. Last year some kind of gnarly beetle decimated the vines and I didn't get much in the way of a harvest. The year before I had shopping bags full of sweet potatoes and the neighbors really loved me giving them bags and bags of free potatoes. This year the beetles aren't around and I am expecting bags and bags of sweet potatoes. Ayway, watch out if you plant sweet potatoes outside of a confined space. In regards to your root knot nematode problem which I also have that for some reason or other the rkn's didn't attack the sweet potatoes while wrecking so much of the rest of my yard plantings.
Good luck with your sweet potato harvesting! Glad to hear one bad year of a pest didn't ruin the following year's success. I have one spot on the side of my house where I didn't even bother with sweet potato slips, I just planted a sprouted sweet potato. It is still growing and looks like it will keep going for a couple more months. The vines are long, but the stem isn't nearly as thick as I saw on my other sweet potato harvest from slips. We will see in a couple months how that harvest goes. That's interesting that your RKNs didn't want your sweet potatoes. I wonder why they preferred your other plantings
With lots of rain, do the wicking cells actually prevent good drainage? I wondered that when you were talking about possibly excess moisture. It’s so fun to see your enthusiasm and eagerness to learn. I’m figuring in about three years. I’m going to be watching you on your homestead with all kinds of gardens and chickens and cows and goats lol.
The wicking cells are not water tight so the water is supposed to still drain and I can feel some drainage around the beds sometimes. I don’t think it’s quite enough drainage during the heavy rains for some plants though.. like soybeans 😂
Maybe next year I would move the soybeans to my raised bed on the other side of the yard that has drip irrigation
As for a homestead, haha that’s the dream! I figured I better learn how to garden before I commit to more land 😂
When the marigolds are finished blooming they leave a seed pod. Pick (harvest as you would say) the pods , store them in a baggie and you will have all the seed you will need in the future.
You can plant the whole pod, or break them apart (open) for individual seeds.
If your plant leaves are yellowing check for aphids and spider mites.
Thank you! I think it may have been mites
It’s still too hot for cucamelons . My cucumbers failed in summer. I’m in the Tampa Bay area. I think your cucamelons will do better when we are less humid and hot.
I think you're right. My cucamelons didn't produce this summer. They seemed like they'd go through phases of looking great and having little female flowers and then they would look like the sun burned them up. I am curious to taste them though, lol, so I'll be trying again
Yellow leaves can also be from chlorosis, which means the plant is not taking up iron from the soil.
good point! Sometimes it is hard to pinpoint exactly why leaves are yellowing
What is the foliar feed for the mangoes?
The mixture I use for a foliar feed is this:
4 tbs Captain Jack’s deadbug
2 tbs Citrus Nutritional Spray
1 tbs Genysis
2 Tbsp Maxicrop Liquid Seaweed
Mix per gallon of water and spray the leaves
thoroughly. They say to do it every 2 weeks.
The mixture is the "Witch's Brew" from Rockledge Gardens' Citrus Care Guide (rockledgegardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Citrus-Infosheet-2023.pdf). I use the mixture on my 2 sugar belle mandarin trees, my 1 dwarf carrie mango tree, and my 1 eureka lemon tree. They also have a care guide specifically for mangoes (rockledgegardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Mango-Infosheet.pdf)
I know mangoes are not citrus, but it's mostly just nutrients and 1 organic pesticide so I do it on the mango anyway.
I am not good about doing it on time... I would say, realistically I do one foliar feeding every 3 months
Here are the different products:
Captain Jack’s Deadbugs: amzn.to/3PUQ89X
Genysis: amzn.to/3RV3nd7
Nutritional Spray: amzn.to/3rOpojg
Maxicrop Liquid seaweed: amzn.to/3XmTLsJ
Rockledge gardens usually has all of them, but you could also find some of them at Lowe's/HD