Happy birthday and congrats to your son! What a wonderful gift you guys are giving him! Thanks for sharing your garden plans with us. I enjoyed your video.
Last year was the first year in this home, that I busted my bum trying to get things established. I garden in rock. Dig down 3 inches and you hit almost solid rock. Knowing that, I decided the back to Eden method was the only way to go to amend and build my garden beds. Currently, my beds have cardboard, leaves, straw and the beautiful bedding I scooped from my coop, covering them for winter and spring weed control as well as decomposition into a better top soil. My veggies came in beautiful, because instead of trying to till and amend the big plot, I dug huge holes for each plant and just amended the hole i was plopping a plant in. I dealt with the usual pests. For bean beetles, I was able to harvest a bunch of beans before the plants became too compromised, I yanked them all mid summer tossed the plants to the chickens, dusted the ground with sulfur and DE and managed a 2nd crop towards the end of the summer. Tomato hornworms were dealt with harshly too. You can go out at night with a black light and pluck them off. Chickens love them too. My corn got southern corn rust, a problem I will always have so I got the fixings to make collodial silver. Actually, I'm not sure i will end up with collidial silver, but I am guarenteed to have a silver ion suspension which I plan on spraying my corn with as a fungicide. Fingers crossed. Suggestions. Add yarrow to your medicinal crop. It grows perfusely and is a great styptic as well as used in a tea blend for fevers. We all have epic fails when gardening. Sharing our failures and how we learned from them is very helpful. I find a lot of humor in mine. Usually my failure story goes....whatever was I thinking when I did.....(fill in the blank). Ground cherries and tomatillos for me last year grew husks with no mature fruit inside. Guess what? I may have a lot of volunteers this year as long as I dont pick them as weeds. As a final thought. I live in zone 6 and have been told I cannot put a Meyer lemon in the ground and expect it to live through the winter. Well, I had a pretty much neglected Meyer lemon in a pot all summer, dug a hole in late summer, plopped it in there and then surrounded it with chicken wire and buried it under leaves. Will it make it? I dont know, maybe not but I never take to well to, it can't be done. If it doesn't make it, I'm going to try it again with a healthier plant this spring. Going into winter, I have plans to heavily mulch the roots and put a string of Christmas light on it for warmth in the winter. If that doesn't work, I may admit it can't be done, but more likely I will think of something else to try and make it work. Stubbornness and refusal to give up has always been my strength and the bane of my family's existence.😊
I love the back to Eden and Ruth Stout method, it’s so simple yet works so well! We actually do have lot of yarrow in the garden, though I might have failed to mention it in this video. In one spot where we planted thyme from seed it didn’t come up well so I transplanted some wild yarrow to keep the bare soil covered, it does so well here and if you mow it short it makes the softest ground cover. :). Thank you for sharing your wisdom and I’ll keep my fingers crossed that your lemon tree survives!
They go by a lot of names. When I was Introduced to them they called them ground cherries and pineapple tomato. I call them yummy. So glad you're giving them a try! BTW, I've planted them once and have never had to plant them again because any missed "cherry" you miss will reseed themselves. Thanks for the shout out ❤❤❤❤
Absolutely, great to have you drop in! I’m glad to hear that they come back well on their own, I read mixed reports when researching but you really can never know until you try it yourself. Super excited to have them become a permanent feature here, thanks again for your insight!
Hello Denae (Spelling?). You might want to check with Ripley CSA Farm in Dover-Foxcroft, for help with the cabbage bugs. Also, we often cook squash either split or halved. Maybe try cooking and then splitting the gourds open after? Looks like y'all have a lot going. Have fun with the tiny house!
Thank you for the tips! I recently started blanching the pumpkins for a few minutes and that has helped. I love butternut squash halved and roasted, in fact I’m roasting some right now 😊. The spelling is Danae, you’ll see me posting occasionally in the Maine Backyard Gardening group on Facebook. So happy that you’ve found the channel! It warms my heart getting to connect with locals who love Maine for its natural beauty as well.
A late planting (end of July) of broccoli and cauliflower in Orrington, Maine last summer turned out to be very successful. Cabbage would need longer. I was unsure of what the weather would be, so I started in flats on my deck to make sure they received plenty of water and transplanted to the garden area in August. They loved the cooler growing temps.
Thank you for the tips! It seems more and more like fall planting is the way to go for lots of plants I used to sow in the spring. Our zone was recently changed from 4B to 5A so we’re looking closer at how we’ve traditionally done things.
Seeweed ompost is great for the garden. If I remember right, you live a lot closer to the coast than I do. It used to be you could gather all you could physically gather but someone told me a while ago they have put limits on it. I don't know for certain tho if this is accurate info. Great video.
Thank you, I’m actually in Central Maine now but grew up DownEast. I’ve got some family on the coast in Sullivan, I definitely plan on getting at least a garbage bag of seaweed the next time we visit in late spring. Glad you enjoyed the video!
A good book to read during our long New England winters is Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth. It may be a help on your seed saving adventure. Stay warm.
Ah, growing cabbage in Maine. I tried the netting last year. I really couldn't tell you if it worked because my garden stayed flooded and basically everything drowned. As far as growing cabbage etc, they really do like their nitrogen!
Cutworms got at the ones I covered with netting. I’ll keep trying 😭. Sorry to hear about all the flooding. My family downeast sent me pictures of the dike in Machias this month and I could hardly believe what I saw. I’m praying we get moderate weather this growing season instead of the drought/floods from the past years.
@@theacadiangarden cut worm cure: when transplanting you seedling, put a nail as close as you can to the plant stock. Has worked beautifully for me in the past. Thankfully here I don't have any. If you are concerned with losing the nail, tie a string around the base of the nail head and tie the string off on a twig or something pushed Into the ground so you can pick the nail up at the end of the season
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Happy birthday and congrats to your son! What a wonderful gift you guys are giving him! Thanks for sharing your garden plans with us. I enjoyed your video.
Thanks so much :)
Last year was the first year in this home, that I busted my bum trying to get things established. I garden in rock. Dig down 3 inches and you hit almost solid rock. Knowing that, I decided the back to Eden method was the only way to go to amend and build my garden beds. Currently, my beds have cardboard, leaves, straw and the beautiful bedding I scooped from my coop, covering them for winter and spring weed control as well as decomposition into a better top soil. My veggies came in beautiful, because instead of trying to till and amend the big plot, I dug huge holes for each plant and just amended the hole i was plopping a plant in. I dealt with the usual pests. For bean beetles, I was able to harvest a bunch of beans before the plants became too compromised, I yanked them all mid summer tossed the plants to the chickens, dusted the ground with sulfur and DE and managed a 2nd crop towards the end of the summer. Tomato hornworms were dealt with harshly too. You can go out at night with a black light and pluck them off. Chickens love them too.
My corn got southern corn rust, a problem I will always have so I got the fixings to make collodial silver. Actually, I'm not sure i will end up with collidial silver, but I am guarenteed to have a silver ion suspension which I plan on spraying my corn with as a fungicide. Fingers crossed.
Suggestions. Add yarrow to your medicinal crop. It grows perfusely and is a great styptic as well as used in a tea blend for fevers.
We all have epic fails when gardening. Sharing our failures and how we learned from them is very helpful. I find a lot of humor in mine. Usually my failure story goes....whatever was I thinking when I did.....(fill in the blank).
Ground cherries and tomatillos for me last year grew husks with no mature fruit inside. Guess what? I may have a lot of volunteers this year as long as I dont pick them as weeds.
As a final thought. I live in zone 6 and have been told I cannot put a Meyer lemon in the ground and expect it to live through the winter. Well, I had a pretty much neglected Meyer lemon in a pot all summer, dug a hole in late summer, plopped it in there and then surrounded it with chicken wire and buried it under leaves. Will it make it? I dont know, maybe not but I never take to well to, it can't be done. If it doesn't make it, I'm going to try it again with a healthier plant this spring. Going into winter, I have plans to heavily mulch the roots and put a string of Christmas light on it for warmth in the winter. If that doesn't work, I may admit it can't be done, but more likely I will think of something else to try and make it work. Stubbornness and refusal to give up has always been my strength and the bane of my family's existence.😊
I love the back to Eden and Ruth Stout method, it’s so simple yet works so well! We actually do have lot of yarrow in the garden, though I might have failed to mention it in this video. In one spot where we planted thyme from seed it didn’t come up well so I transplanted some wild yarrow to keep the bare soil covered, it does so well here and if you mow it short it makes the softest ground cover. :). Thank you for sharing your wisdom and I’ll keep my fingers crossed that your lemon tree survives!
They go by a lot of names. When I was Introduced to them they called them ground cherries and pineapple tomato. I call them yummy. So glad you're giving them a try! BTW, I've planted them once and have never had to plant them again because any missed "cherry" you miss will reseed themselves. Thanks for the shout out ❤❤❤❤
Absolutely, great to have you drop in! I’m glad to hear that they come back well on their own, I read mixed reports when researching but you really can never know until you try it yourself. Super excited to have them become a permanent feature here, thanks again for your insight!
Hello Denae (Spelling?). You might want to check with Ripley CSA Farm in Dover-Foxcroft, for help with the cabbage bugs. Also, we often cook squash either split or halved. Maybe try cooking and then splitting the gourds open after? Looks like y'all have a lot going. Have fun with the tiny house!
Thank you for the tips! I recently started blanching the pumpkins for a few minutes and that has helped. I love butternut squash halved and roasted, in fact I’m roasting some right now 😊. The spelling is Danae, you’ll see me posting occasionally in the Maine Backyard Gardening group on Facebook. So happy that you’ve found the channel! It warms my heart getting to connect with locals who love Maine for its natural beauty as well.
A late planting (end of July) of broccoli and cauliflower in Orrington, Maine last summer turned out to be very successful. Cabbage would need longer. I was unsure of what the weather would be, so I started in flats on my deck to make sure they received plenty of water and transplanted to the garden area in August. They loved the cooler growing temps.
Thank you for the tips! It seems more and more like fall planting is the way to go for lots of plants I used to sow in the spring. Our zone was recently changed from 4B to 5A so we’re looking closer at how we’ve traditionally done things.
It would be such a bpessing to seed swap with you. Wish we were closer. This was a great video! Love following your journey 😊
I’m setting up a PO box soon, I’d be happy to share some seeds once that’s squared away :)
Johnny's is a good seed company. Vessey seed is also a good one although not Maine based.
I have a lot less space than you, but i hope i can get a complete culinary garden. At least for herbs.
Seeweed ompost is great for the garden. If I remember right, you live a lot closer to the coast than I do. It used to be you could gather all you could physically gather but someone told me a while ago they have put limits on it. I don't know for certain tho if this is accurate info. Great video.
Thank you, I’m actually in Central Maine now but grew up DownEast. I’ve got some family on the coast in Sullivan, I definitely plan on getting at least a garbage bag of seaweed the next time we visit in late spring. Glad you enjoyed the video!
A good book to read during our long New England winters is Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth. It may be a help on your seed saving adventure. Stay warm.
Thank you for the suggestion! I’ve heard of that book but haven’t had the pleasure of reading it yet.
Ah, growing cabbage in Maine. I tried the netting last year. I really couldn't tell you if it worked because my garden stayed flooded and basically everything drowned. As far as growing cabbage etc, they really do like their nitrogen!
Cutworms got at the ones I covered with netting. I’ll keep trying 😭. Sorry to hear about all the flooding. My family downeast sent me pictures of the dike in Machias this month and I could hardly believe what I saw. I’m praying we get moderate weather this growing season instead of the drought/floods from the past years.
@@theacadiangarden cut worm cure: when transplanting you seedling, put a nail as close as you can to the plant stock. Has worked beautifully for me in the past. Thankfully here I don't have any. If you are concerned with losing the nail, tie a string around the base of the nail head and tie the string off on a twig or something pushed Into the ground so you can pick the nail up at the end of the season
@@hippiechickoffgridmaine8625 😲I've never heard that before, I'll try it and let you know how it goes. Thank you