2024 Garden & Harvest Tour Week 16: A Glorious Mess
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→Hello! My name is Heather and we grow a lot of our own food here in southwestern KY, zone 7! Our greenhouse conversion is well underway and the tomatoes and peppers are getting bigger by the day!! I cannot wait to show you! I'll post all the 2024 garden tours in one place so you'll be able to catch up or look back on the season here: • 2024 Spring-Summer Gar...
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I did switch up the harvest basket for the thumbnail so I could show all the different colors of the lovely harvest! Thanks so much for being here! ♥
I don't mind "wild and crazy". The deliciousness will cancel out all the other.😉 I'm with your girls on the tomatoes and cucumbers for breakfast. There will be plenty of time for other things during the months we can't have fresh tomatoes and cucumbers.😂 Thanks so much for bringing us along. Enjoy the break from the heat! Stay safe!!
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I can’t wait till Baker Creek offers Sage and Stone Armpit Melon!
I'm so happy that you are still getting fresh food from your many different gardens. I always love seeing a garden haul. I think that this is the first time I've seen you have eggplants. I think anytime anytime we see goats is good thing ❤️❣️💯
I grew a couple eggplants last year, but these are the biggest eggplants I've ever grown!
Squash bugs are tearing my cucumber plants up! Awesome harvest
Hugs, darn bugs love to ruin a good time!
Another great video, i felt love oevinwas waking along with you as you shown me all your success. Thenk you for sharing. Till next time God Bless.
I love seeing your garden and so appreciate that you show both the good and struggling areas. The bugs on your sunflowers are leaf footed bugs. I read an article once that said sunflowers often act as leaf footed bug farms! 😯They're related to stink bugs and a major problem where I live, in Alabama. I can't tell you how many tomatoes and peppers they've destroyed in my garden over the years.
Oh NO! I grow sunflowers all the time and I really hope it hasn't been a mistake!
@@SageandStoneHomestead I was trying to find that article and am not having any luck. But I do remember them saying you can disrupt the life cycle of the leaf footed bugs by spraying your sunflowers with neem oil regularly. So if you see too many more of them, that might be a good organic option.
Good morning farm fam! That pumpkin patch is gorgeous! Def trying them next year!!!
Yes!! Dutch fork pie pumpkin. They apparently need a good amount of space to ramble!
sticky outtie part "offical term" i about lost it!!! love your garden!!! wild beautiful and going to be soo fruitfull love your channel!!! the good the bad and the ugly!!! thank you for showing it all!!!
You bet!!! The tour was pre-coffee and so correct terminology is out the window lol!
Your garden looks lush now with the compost added. Everything is looking good.
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I have learned so much from you - while my garden will have challenges being in zone 2-3 - you inspire me so much!
Whoo! Zone 2-3 is tough!!
Oh dang! I didn't know that about lady bugs and I bought some this year. Now I know better and I can do better. Thank you for sharing that.
LOL I love the kitten names.
Yes a lot of people don’t know! It was through Arbico organics where I saw that. Hopefully yours live and breed and create a nice colony at your place!
Beautiful garden tour, Heather! So much variety still coming out, and they say color variety in your veggies is better for eating healthy! Fun kitties intermingled in and always love goatie goat intermission. So glad Tori came running for extra pets, gives me flashbacks to when she was younger. Eggplant parm is a favorite of mine, thin slices breaded and crispy with sauce and cheese! I bet those round beauties would do great for that or babaganoush. We'll need a final tally on the pumpkin patch when the time comes! 💚🐈🐈⬛💚
What we ended up making is a breaded eggplant "fries", dipped in extra chick-fil-a dipping sauces LOL they were very good! Excited to see more eggplants coming so we can do that again!
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Morning Ms Nollie! ♥
Sticky outy part 😂😂😂😂 yes totally the official term
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I enjoy watching your videos
Thanks so much, it means a lot to me!
Looking great to me. Thanks for sharing. Thank you specifically for the pepper experiment with all your updates along the way. I love experiments in the garden haha, mine is the 3 sisters of neglect lol. glass gem corn , scarlet runner beans, and butternut squash.
How is the 3 sisters of neglect garden going?!
@@SageandStoneHomestead well it still has time if mother nature co operates lol. corn just started to tassel, beans have had flowers profusely with only a few pods and squash just started flowers this week. my avg first frost is sept 20 but it varies a lot, record early frost Aug. 20th and I think we have got near Halloween some years . I planted late this year was cool wet late spring June seeding. Cool cloudy this week not helping, today high 18c(64f) vs couple weeks ago 33c(91f). most years the heat stays until September. gardening is a lot like gambling, with mother nature as the dealer or house.
I want to say the prickly cucumbers are pickle type cucumbers. I'd have to look it up to be sure.
When they are bigger they get a little soft even when fermented. They could be better when pickled smaller. Which would be a lot like gherkins.
Your garden is looking amazing! We’ve had so much hot weather with no rain and then now lots of rain. I don’t know what we’re gonna get.😊 sharing your garden with us all!
Your pasture needed the rain! ♥
i love mushroom compost
Your round eggplants look like Rosa Bianca eggplants 😊
You're really making me want to try and grow loofah! We use the artificial loofah scrubbies in the shower. I'd love to be able to grow something natural and save money on buying shower scrubbies to bathe with.
I use them as dish sponges too and sometimes to lather up hand soap really well if I have a bar that needs a lot of friction to get sudsy. After they have started to fall apart they can be composted! :)
That giant tomato at 15:10 has an ANT face on it. LOL
Oh no!! The ghosts of the ants I killed are back to get me!
Those are definitely a type of squash bug! I don't know about it either but all squash bugs give me the heeby jeebies! Can't stand them. Luckily we haven't had too much trouble with them this year. This year we get to enjoy the insane amount of Japanese beetles😢
I put out a Japanese beetle trap and I've been surprised there are not many in it! Or in the garden. No idea why! Maybe they are coming.
@@SageandStoneHomestead we have them everywhere!! You literally have to swat them out of your face like a gnat. They're attracted to our dogwood and crepe myrtle trees. Luckily that's kept them off of my piddley garden, lol. Our hope is that next year our brahma chickens will help with the bug problems.
Also, be careful when using mushroom compost. It contains salt and could damage your plants if you get heavy handed with it.
Great advice, thank you! So far so good.
@@SageandStoneHomestead You probably get enough rain to leach most of the salt out. I think it is more of a problem in greenhouses and drier climates.
Good morning Heather, I so enjoy your videos. I really appreciate your transparency of the good as well as how real the struggle is gardening. We are happy to announce that our one and only surviving plant has gotten right now 3 ( whoop whoop) lol my question is how long do you dry them? I see you have some by a garden bed that look dry so I was thinking it takes quite awhile for them to fully dry out. I realize our growing zones are very different (9B/10a for me) so just some sort of time frame would be nice. Wishes for awesome day
It takes a good 6 months for them to cure. The birdhouse gourds you see in the garden are there because they've been there all along and it seemed like a good place to store them! :) I want to get them polished/painted/sealed for Christmas gifts this year.
@@SageandStoneHomestead I like them in your garden as well.. I appreciate your help greatly and look forward to your future posts. Thanks again
I know I've heard you say you use your hay in your garden beds. We stopped using any hay or straw in our yard because the tomatoes kept getting curled leaves, stunted growth, blossoms falling off and generally looked bad. We had our soil tested and it came back with high levels of herbicides. We grow in a suburban backyard. It's been about 7 years now and the gardens are doing so much better as are the other veggies. We now only use our homemade compost. We also start new beds with huglekulture mounds. We do bring in tons of leaf bags in the fall as well as wood chips from the local tree company's. We also don't buy fertilizers and use our comfrey for mulch or make comfrey tea. Shredded paper, cardboard and grass clippings with rabbit poo is what we top dress the gardens with once the plants are established.
We use hay from no spray fields off of friend's farms. We use our animal's manure in the beds (they eat the hay) so it was important to me that the hay was not sprayed. You'll see my cherry tomatoes have curled leaves, there is actually no hay in one of those beds, we are dealing with tomato curly top virus brought in and spread by the immense amount of aphids and whiteflies we have seen, which is a bummer but I'll take it over herbicide damage!
Wow great harvest!! I wish I had time for gardening maybe next Summer. New friend and Sub here! Excited to do the Soup Collab with you next month!!!💜
Hello there and welcome to the channel! Souptember is going to be a blast!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead yes it is!!!💜
Assasin bugs. Ours in kansas that weve seen are grey, but the ones on your sunflower looked black. We were picking weeds and had to look them up on google. Pretty sure thats what those were. You should look up why theyre called that haha so crazy lol
Ugh they are so big and gross!! I definitely need to look them up!
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I’ve been seeing those beetles as well. Western comfier seed bug?
No idea!! Dang bugs are bad this year!
milkweed!
My bean leaves are diseased covered with little yellow fuzzy worms. I will cut at the base but trash the plant.
Good plan!
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That is not a Black Krim. I’ve somehow mislabeled a lot of peppers this year.
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I think the Black Krim is actually an Ace 55 or even a large cherry. Loving your tours. One KY Girl to another.😊
Thank You!! ♥♥
How many plants r n the pumpkin patch?
It's either 14 or 15!
Do you have a Facebook so I can talk about some rabbits
We respond most quickly through email or Instagram. There are impersonators on Facebook that are not us. We have a small presence there just to try to fight the impersonators.
Kelloggs is really horrible soil
It's our best option that we can afford. We amend it with the things we talked about in the video and actually do pretty well with it.
Always love seeing your garden and what you’re up to!
Means the world to me, thank you Tara!! ♥
Lovely tour, Heather. Despite the problems you’ve had in the greenhouse there’s still a lot of good in there! When are you supposed to cut asparagus fronds back? I planted it this year and have no idea.
I didn't get any melons put in this year, will have to get that done next year; I have some I really need to grow out, Like Northern AZ, Black Tail Mountain and Hale's Best. Love looking at your garden, I don't have grass in most places but the garden itself is getting crazy. It's just that time of year, it's been hot and now monsoon has started so it's humid even if it doesn't rain and that helps a lot.
Milkweed for sure!
I love the goat and kitty intermissions. Lots of pest pressure, but you are still getting good harvests. I might have missed it, but have you done anything with your blackberries yet?
No they are all in the freezer still since the shenanigans with the air conditioner!
Dear, use liquid fertilizer it will works way much better.
The granular has been awesome, the one we use has both fast and slow release nutrients
Man its been a rough year with pests. I grow my stuff within an enclosed porch or sunroom. I got a rosemary bush going strong and this year only did arugula and cucumbers. ive had to scrap 2 batches of arugula because of the picklemoth larva. They just decimate arugula/lettuces and cucumbers. Thankfully they have only bothered with the leaves on my cucumber plant and ive worked through and picked them off. I got some pest netting to help with the rest of the growing year and have protection for next years harvest. But man its so frustrating! I hope things clear up or go better for next year and for cooler growing season!
I'm considering netting not only for bugs but birds!
Sunflowers attract leaf footed bugs.
Dang I don't think I've seen this many before!
Can you eat the cow peas before they are brown ?!
Yep! Eat like a green bean :)
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Beautiful, bountiful garden Heather! Happy messes trump manicured gardens imo. And I love volunteer plants!! 💜👍💜 Aunt Beth
I wonder if another contributing factor in your pumpkin patch could be that the vines around the weed fabric don't have a chance to root where they touch the ground so there's less nutrient uptake and they can't keep up with the pressure from the bugs?
That is a very plausible theory!
I get so excited about gardening when I see how much is gotten from the plants!
Thoughts and Prayers.Thank you for sharing. Love and Blessings.
Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘
Thanks for being here, Doris!
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Our cherry tomatoes are struggling this year for sure! They’ve done poor compared to last years harvest. The entire garden has struggled between pest and disease, and poor germination on my beans, it’s been rough!
Same!! Must be the area? I don't know.
@@SageandStoneHomestead a lot of the produce stands I frequent and Amish nearby here have struggled as well. Just a bad year for gardening I believe!