Garden in JUNE (Successes, Failures & Everything In-Between) ZONE 5
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- There are a lot of great things happening in my garden in June, plants are thriving... But also, some of the pests.
I hope this video answers some of your recent questions and let's hope that July is even BETTER!
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Pay someone to cut the hanging branches from the tree!!!! Before new owners come. It is a long term investment. Prices will continue to rise so you will be saving money and helping someone feed their family by exchanging their energy for your money (energy). Then you will also gain satisfaction from the energy that sunshine gives to your wonderful plants.🥰 Your plants will be soo happy too!!
I agree 100%. I’m not sure about the laws in Indiana but where I live in Michigan you can legally trim any branches that are over on your side of the property and since the house does not have any occupants currently, seems like the perfect time to get this done.
I love your "fire side" chats Roxana. Happy gardening friend!
Thanks so much! 😘😘
Neem oil has done the trick for me. Can't live without it. This is the first spring I had to use it on my spirea shrub. I normally use it for the spider mites and Japanese Beetles. If you try it...not on a windy day or in the sun.
90% of Iowa is in a drought. I do water most days but most of my flowers are under huge sugar maples so I probably could skip more. Your garden is looking so soothing, someone delivered my pergola and said it’s so peaceful here. Greatest compliment to me!
I bet it IS amazing Connie!
I can't remember the last time I had rain here in my part of Iowa 😭😭
@@cathyscreationandvlog4224 it’s been awful. I’m in south central Iowa
You can keep the shady raised bed for leafy greens, mushrooms, and other veggies that don't like full sun! ❤
The gardens look so beautiful. I’m not sure I would be able to move from your chair. And your new planters, now rusted, are gorgeous. What a great find!
I love it here!
I get aphids in my garden in the spring, especially on the lupins, broard beans and roses, sometimes they can be covered, I have never taken the slightest amount of notice but the birds and lady birds do get a great feast. We have not had any rain now for 6 weeks. The soil is too hard, and birds find it difficult to find things to eat and to feed their young. This is a great source of food for them, together with black fly and any other insect which take up temporary residence in our plants. The plants don't seem to mind and it seems they've all got a great ecosystem going on there. Less is often more and we'd be in a sorry mess without those sticky Invertebrates. Organic control, for me, is bio diversity in your garden and the rest takes care of itself.
I completely agree!
In most places, you can legally cut the branches crossing into your property as long as it doesn't jeopardize the health of the tree.
You know us Native, Mexican, Aztecs, whatever the term is today, we mastered gardening! All natural, always! Our people still do it in Xochimilco!
I brought in over 1000 ladybugs. They took care of my aphid problem in two days.
Cut the limbs while you can. The house next door to us was vacant and was on the market. I handled the situation while it was still vacant. Definitely do what makes you comfortable. Your garden is beautiful ❤
I did not have hardly any aphids this year but when I did I would spray them off when they got too heavy on one plant but I waited for lady bugs to arrive. One year I bought some to let loose in the garden that I bought and it worked surprisingly well. Now they lady bugs show up on my garden before the aphids. This year I also invested in the beneficial insects from Heirloom Roses. That was for the spider mites I had a huge issue with last year.
I am definitely trying to figure out what I am going to do here, its very sad.
I can so relate to your aphid issues! Here in coastal Virginia Zone 8, we have had an unusually long cool, wet spring. It seems like I have dealt with every fungal disease known to man! But the truly heartbreaking issue I have had is identical to yours, aphids on the honeysuckle. I have a 5-year-old John Clayton yellow honeysuckle which blooms just in time for the arrival of the hummingbirds. Last year was spectacular! I had blooms all summer long and the hummers were very happy. This spring, I had one flush but then noticed the black shriveled flower buds. My dilemma has been the ladybugs. They and their larvae have been valiantly fighting the aphids. I can not in good conscience bring out the soap spray. I tried pruning back but in no time they have covered the new growth. I did some research and it seems the honeysuckle attracts a certain type of aphid. I have not seen this aphid on any other plant. They are grayish-black. They overwinter as eggs on the previous year's growth. Along with a good cutback, my battle will start this fall with horticultural oil alternating with soaps. As soon as the new growth starts in the spring, I will give it another round. Love your Corden steel containers!! I am a fan, too
You know, I have not seen any ladybugs around here, normally they are all over the place here as well but not this year, I don't know if the lack of water is an issue for them.
While it may be a bit too late, I’ve heard calendula is a good aphid attracting plant. Maybe next year plant those in pots or the landscape around the garden to entice those little boogers.
Thanks for the sweet visit ❤ everything is beautiful & healthy.
Praying for your rose bush. One year I had a plant with the aphids and they appeared to be in the soil as well. I mixed a solution of hydrogen peroxide & water, spritzed that plant&soil about everyday. The plant lived but it was a pain in the amount of care it took.
I always have a flush of aphids on my large bush rose (usually early in the spring). I use my hose and wash them off and that usually takes care of them. They don't seem to go on anything else. This year I had none even though we have been extremely dry here as well. We have a lack of bees/pollinators here in NJ (zone 7a).
Hummingbirds came and left during the smoke days... and pollinators are so few as well. But like you, my garden never looked better especially after the long awaited drenching rain just two days ago. It's amazing what one soaking rain will do to jump start plants and boost others into orbit!
I love your newly rusted containers.
Your nasturtiums always look amazing!
Choosing Joy ~ stephanie
Thank you!
Aphids are probably being drawn to your well watered plants with such a widespread drought. A nice irrigation system is on my wish list.
Yesterday we had a heat index of 116 at 7:00pm. It is brutal. Hotter than I think it has ever been in Austin. It’s in the 100’s everyday. At 10 :00 pm it’s still 100 degrees. It is barely getting down to 80 with a heat index of 90. We did put up some shade sails but I don’t know if my beautiful garden will survive this. We did have a storm blow though but it was so weird. Lighting mad thunder barely any rain hot humid like nothing I’ve ever experienced.
So far this year the weather has not been crazy like last year! I’m sorry friend, maybe the shade cloth will help!
Hi, Michele. 👋🏻 I’m in west Tx, zone 8a (Midland/Odessa), and we’ve had brutal temps as well. Today was 105 with the next ten days more of the same. Last year, we had a severe drought here in our area, and I had to put up shade cloth. It saved my tomatoes and peppers. This yr, even with the high temps, we’ve gotten a little more rain than we did last yr, and all my raised beds r on drip (they weren’t on drip last year) so we haven’t needed to put up any shade cloth so far. It doesn’t mean we won’t have to as we go into July, but the drip irrigation seems to have been the game changer for me this year in my garden. I ran the drip off my spigot on that side of the yard with a timer and zones, and I converted one of my automatic sprinklers to drip for a new flower bed I installed on the south side of my house where grass always struggled to grow anyways. Game changer so I highly recommend if u can do it! It wasn’t too expensive either. Hope this helps! 🌸💐
You feel really happy looking at your beautiful garden!❤
Thank you so much for this video. Can I make a suggestion for aphids? Plant a bunch of calendula wherever you have aphids because they LOVE calendula so that’s where they will go. I even plant it with veggies and they take all the aphids while everything else grows bug free. I hope this helps. Maybe you could try direct sowing this year and then start them indoor for next year. It’s always wonderful to see you and your amazing gardens!! 🌸🌸🌸
I have calendula plants that I planted from seed around my veggies in each bed, and this is true. They attract the aphids like crazy.
I've noticed aphids on certain indoor plants when I apply fertilizer. I've learned that aphids attack plants with too much nitrogen. It's easy to wash off indoor plants.
However, I once experienced this problem on some of my outdoor plants. Try adding neem oil to your soapy spray bottle. It certainly helped.
I haven't tried, but I learned that if you add neem powder to the soil bed in preparation for sowing, it helps with aphids.
Consider worm castings and compost tea as a means to control aphids. Natural and organic!
The peas and lettuce and kales and maybe some bush beans should do ok with more shade.
I thought about those for sure.
It’s been a long cool spring here in SC. I’ve finally been able to grow nasturtiums! They usually just dry up and struggle. Everything looks great in my garden! So thankful for the cooler temps. Yesterday we finally hit 90. I have irrigation in the garden, but you inspired me to hand water more!😆 So this year, because of the cooler weather, I have been hand watering because not everything needed to be watered as often. I think this has contributed to the garden doing so well! I’m paying more attention to individual plants. If the heat is really and truly here for the summer, I can turn my irrigation back on. Your garden looks wonderful! Mine is on the verge of being absolutely out of control!😆 There’s nothing dead or crispy out there though!🥳 Aphids come every year here. I just spray with water usually. This year, however, they got my new grape vine and were killing it. I used Captain Jack’s Dead Bug. It worked really well and is organic. However, I heard that if you crush the aphids, the smell of that is what attracts the ladybugs to your garden! Happy gardening, Roxana!💗
I love your energy! Thank you for being here.
Always!
You need to trim the rose bush before it is completely covered in aphids if nothing else has worked for you. I use my water hose first, if not gone completely then I use neem oil in the very early am or late evening after the sun goes down. If you just let aphids be they will travel from one plant to the next. On the neighbor’s tree branches that are on your side of the property you can cut them down if that’s your right. If you had neighbors living at the house you would discuss it with them, of course, but you can cut them down if that’s your right 😊
Every state has different laws regarding this so u need to check the laws of Indiana to make sure this is right before giving this advice. Here in Tx, if u cut a neighbor’s tree branches (regardless if they’re on ur side or not), u might just get shot. We r allowed by law to defend life and property with lethal force if we feel threatened. If I spent a ton of money on a tree and the neighbor whacked some branches off and the tree died, I’d be a very mad neighbor. Things would go south very very quickly. Always best to have a cordial conversation whenever possible bc I’d be more than willing to prune the tree myself for my neighbor so that I could make sure the tree survived and yet didn’t encroach on their yard. The other way would result in a lot of hard feelings, and if we have to live next to each other for the next 40 yrs, then the situation will probably only get more aggressive as time goes on. For example, my neighbor to my south nvr mows his yard, but there is a part of his front yard that joins my front yard between our two houses. I asked him if he minded me mowing it so I can keep it all tidy. He said no problem. I then asked him if I could plant a perennial pink muhly grass on the front corner to match the other corner of my front yard bc technically that corner is his even if it joins with my front yard on that side and I take care of it. He said ofc I could as long as I maintain it which I do. I would NEVER have mowed his yard or planted that grass w/o asking permission first, and likewise, I know he would ask me before he removed that grass I planted bc he knows I’m an avid gardener. He would give me the chance to move it before he just ripped it out. On my north side, that neighbor is 90 yrs old, but used to be an avid gardener when she was younger. I mow her yard front and back when I do mine bc her hubby passed away and it helps her out, but I asked her first. She has a grapevine in her backyard that hangs over our shared fence. I have three dogs, and grapes r poisonous to dogs. My dogs live inside (see profile pic), but they do go outside to potty and play. I asked her if she would mind if I trim any grapes that hang down on my side so they don’t drop on the ground for the dogs to get, and she said I could. She taught me how to cut them properly, and I only cut the fruit that hangs over. I don’t cut the actual vine bc I don’t want to kill her grape vine. Cordial discussions make good neighbors and most of the time an acceptable compromise can be found before ppl just go whacking at other ppl’s plants.
You can trim the branches above your property, but I am not sure if this will approve the sun exposure if the trees are tall and dense. And trimming too much might compromise the health of the tree or cause them to lean. It is always hard to manage the trees along the property line! However, maybe the owner or the future owner would like to remove the trees for some reason. You never know. Ask and maybe you can find a win-win solution. Good luck!
I just remembered that lacewings (like lady bugs) can also help with aphids. Sweet alyssum will help attract lacewings to the garden. (Your garden is looking amazing! Sorry you’ve had those nasty aphids to deal with.)
Most of my cosmos are straight as a pin. Except for the ones that flop on my peppers.
Thumbs up for drinking not coffee in your garden! haha 🤣❤
Wish our house was running N-S as I would have a lot more east planting area.
We are still without any measurable rain! Ugh! Over a month!! I put up shade fabric and lots of mulch. I still haven’t figured out pressure and how many feet of drip line for irrigation so not sure what to do. Just get some tape and parts I guess and hook up a couple rows to use quick connects to try out. I have two large gardens that I run long hoses to.
The nasturtiums look great up high. I did grow in container on patio last year and the leaves got Huge. I grew those dark red petunias also and they are so bushy, mine were Wave.
I had aphids for First time on seedlings and I never have them outside. I was lucky to find several ladybugs in the house and they did a Great job! However, I did find horticultural oil at Menards and that did the trick totally. I didn’t figure this out until the plants were outside and no chance I hurt the ladybugs. Premixed Neem oil was worthless and since read you need a specially Neem oil. Spraying water was temporary and soap spray didn’t do it.
I Wish it would RAIN!! 5-10 drops is not cutting it. Z5a, WI.
Lol, I have a ton of onions and celery. I had bad cabin fever this year😂. Onions need full sun and nitrogen to start and want to get up to 13 fronds before bulbing on solstice for long day onions. My biggest discovery was making a self watering container with kiddie pool and grow bags for celery-GIGANTIC WIN! And soooo easy to keep watered in this drought.
Reading about this El Niño weather pattern is quite scary. Do be prepared for the heat in years to come. There are changes that are happening too fast and alarming scientists.
I tackled the invasive spider wort in flower bed. I’ve always put it off and I wanted to redo that bed, but it has to be in the fall and I didn’t want to wait any longer as I wanted to look at pretty plants, not grass like blades again. This has been a Long awaited chore. It’s done and my lovely husband with all the grace of a bear planted the poor snapdragons because my hands hurt so much. They look like they are still standing and the poor things were crowded and said just split into clumps and we’ll see what happens. I’ve had to do clump planting before and they turn out fine.
Some days I think I would like a smaller yard to have everything close and without all the fencing I need now, but SIL still hasn’t put in her garden because the water bills in town are Nuts! Over $200! If you get a separate meter I think they still charge separate fee for just the meter. 😂I would end up hauling barrels in😂 from creek, providing they don’t dry up in this drought. It’s scary dry here and worried about trees. We haul pails out to small ones and just yesterday started to give larger ones water as no rain in sight for ANOTHER week and heat building.
Well off to flor potatoe beetles. Hope they like it☠️
Mosquitoe zapper works great and we have it on all the time, although it’s so dry here most bugs dried up.
I made fertilizer from nettles and a bit of compost. It stinks and have used it yet. I will dilute and test it soon. It’s SO dry the nettles and other dry mesic plants dried up. Even Yuccas.
So jealous about your onions, mine are not doing so well unfortunately, I haven't heard any complains from the hubby about the water bill...YET lol
@@SoilandMargaritas oh boy, the water bill. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t have to mow the law, likes fresh veg and loves you!😊. The drip line probably saves a lot also and I think you had some rain.
Las year I ordered onions from Dixondale and were great. This year I had cabin fever and way over planted onions and celery-🤣I have A Lot!
Argh! I watched the weather radar with great anticipation that a cloud was going over us last night. It said it was raining-It was Not And Did Not rain. It’s soooooo dry here the rain dries up before it hits the ground. It’s sad. The older pines in the area are turning brown. The dry prairie weeds and flowers are dying. Some farmers are wondering how to feed livestock. I’m wondering how long I can keep up watering. I have shade fabric up in north garden, but took down south and will need to put back up as it helps a lot to prevent rapid evaporation.
I need to get some drip line set up some how, even if I set up separate lines with quick connect to hose would help to soak the mulch enough as right now it’s just passing through it’s so dry. It’s concerning as no rain in sight and chances don’t cut it.
Gardener Scott said today he’s probably not going to have a good year as they have opposite problems-hail, too cold and continuous rain. Seeds rotted in the ground. The whole NW also are struggling with cold. I’ve got the heat if only I can keep up watering.
Some RUclips videos don’t seem to recognize how some may not have a garden this year and I depend on it for preserving. We are 4” behind on rain, but I think more at this point. Local forecasts don’t include areas that are extreme micro climates.
❤❤❤beautiful garden! ❤❤❤
Thank you!
I had aphids really bad on all my roses this year. I know it's controversial but I released some native ladybugs on them. It's true 95% of them are gone now BUT so are all the aphids. They ate them and moved on to a new food source. To me, it was worth it because I don't want to spray anything and also ladybugs are cheap.
Really enjoy your videos! 👩🌾🌸
Also, growing in Central Indiana and having a lot of aphids.
So far mostly on milkweed and a couple other flowers.
Feel the same way about plants looking so good this year!
Loved seeing your garden!
Thank you!
Your garden looks so beautiful
Thank you!
I've never grown nasturtium until now because of you & Epic Gardening. But I agree that they seem to like shade. I'm zone 7a and the ones I planted in full sun are not as big as the ones that get mostly shade. The aphids are attracted to nasturtium so that could also be why you got a lot of them this year.
My first time growing nasturtium also. I’m in zone 7. I put them in sun and have to hand water my garden. They are not doing as well as yours. I will try a different place next year. Thanks for the helpful tips on the comments!!!
@wmcovington1041 I also think nasturtium like less water. The ones I planted with cucumbers are in full sun and get watered almost every day but the ones I planted with huechera that only get 4 hrs of morning sun and only get watered every couple if days are huge! So maybe try watering them less?
I think you just have to figure out what they like for your sun, for me this year the ones with irrigation are thriving WAAAAYYY better than the ones that aren't getting a lot of water.
I had aphids on my honeysuckle this year too. I cut it right down.
Doing that soon!
I love your 12:51 rusty containers too! I hope you update us on the trellises that you and your hubs made. I hope they are working well. I want to make those so badly.
So far they are doing amazing! I love them so much!
Me encanta como se mira todo en tu jardin, los mastuerzos definitivamente no son de calor bueno no del calor de mi area 😊
Asi les conoces a las capuchinas? mastuerzos?
@@SoilandMargaritas Asi les dicen por el area donde creci, mastuerzos.
A huge mistake I made in this year's flower garden was NOT putting in an irrigation system. The bare earth area didn't look that large so I thought hand watering was acceptable. Then in spring we had a couple of weeks where it rained almost every other day, and the flowers loved it, and I had time for many other garden chores. Now I'm back to hand watering and neither the flowers nor I am happy. The time lost every day is great, and I'm angry with myself for wasting so much time hand watering. Next spring it's got to be: 'Irrigation System or Bust!'
Honestly, the irrigation has been a HUGE time saver around here.
Paisana, me encanta tu jardin!!! Para el problema con esa plaga en tu madreselva creo que soltar vaquillitas (ladybugs) te ayudaría 🐞🐞🐞
Gracias, si, tengo que ver que decido hacer el proximo año porque se comieron a todos mis capullitos :(
I find nasturtiums like part shade as well they can’t handle the full sun in Midwest zone 5 the uv can get high here so that could be it
I agree!
I usually will just hose off the aphids from the plant but if there is an unusual amoubt on a plant then i look at what might be stressing the pëant and fix.
I had some aphids on a rose early in spring and I did nothing. Lady bugs came shortly after.
I just watched a video explaining that aphids indicate too much nitrogen in a plant.
Am in zone 6b in Pennsylvania and the aphids are very bad here as well. I use a combination of water, soap and vinegar which seems to work. Be careful with the vinegar, to much can burn the plants. I use a small spray bottle so about a cap full of vinegar. Check online for ratios if using a larger bottle. Good luck. I accidentally put to much vinegar and had to hose down my rose bush, it’s doing really great now . Am also not seeing any ladybugs right now either. The temps in the morning and evening are still pretty chilly so that could be a factor why the ladybugs are not here.
I am doing the soapy water spray w/oil but I am going to do some vinegar as well, thank you!
Be careful cutting an oak tree! Usually pruning happens in winter when it's dormant otherwise it can succumb to oak wilt and spread to all the oaks in the area. Some varieties are more susceptible to it but if you do prune it, the solution is to trench completely around the tree. Definitely not worth it! Our neighbors made that mistake before we bought our house and warned us.
🐞🐞 Apparently you can buy ladybugs in sufficient amounts to organically attack and eat the infestation of aphids on your plants in an area of your garden. You must do your homework to find out how to prepare the plants before releasing them so they stay around to do the job properly. I'm thinking they will be particularly helpful for your honeysuckle. Maybe you won't have to cut it back too drastically? 👍
I will have to check on that.
You can order ladybugs to release in your garden to control aphids
I thought about it, but by the time I found them here I think the damage was already done.
You can grow part shade loving plants. I’m sure they will grow just fine . Lov watching your videos 🌺🌸🌼
Thank you!
I'm first. Beautiful sharing friend. More success to you
Thank you!
Recommend watching RUclips garden channel Dig, Plant, Water, Repeat “My Pest Control Day EXPLAINED! How I Deal Safely with Pest. Lots of great garden pest information. Good luck!
Good morning!!! Your garden is looking lovely (as always). I also garden in zone 5, central Indiana. The aphids are loving my daisies this year...I've been using Neem Oil spray...we'll see how it does. How is your snail vine doing? I would love to hear an update on how it is growing and developing.
You know, I did found a few on my daises but I hosed the heck out of them and they haven't come back.
Hello gorgeous!
I also had a first aphis on my young honeysuckle plant. Even I’m trying to use only organic stuff in my garden, I decided to go with something strong and not organic.
I used because it was just flower and far away from vegetables. It worked. Yesterday I saw it again in my back yard by the lake on some volunteers plants. I used again. And it was also far away from my veggies.
I didn’t want to out of control.
What did you use?
@@SoilandMargaritas
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What a lovely garden! At 20:09, you show a beautiful hydrangea; is that an Invincibelle?
I "think" that is an Annabelle, I got that as a gift and I wasn't sure which variety exactly.
It is my first year the nasturtiums are looking great as well. I heard they attract aphids but so far so good,however they have attacked most of my ranunculus and eggplant. My mom uses saved water from rinsing rice to wash the plants. I tried cinnamon powder this year. Too soon to tell. What a nuisance!
Good to know!
I heard they attract aphids but because of that keep the aphids away from other plants
Love your garden. I had to take out my honeysuckle due to repeated aphid infestation 😢
😢😢😢😢
That is the small tree with deep purple heart-shaped leaves?
That's a redbud Forest Pansy
In Florida, my plants and new fruit trees have died😢
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Your garden oasis looks beautiful. Your Nasturtiums are❤ beautiful.. are they perennial in your zone?
They are not! I have to plant them each year where I want them to.
@@SoilandMargaritas but they r gorgeous waiting for my first flowers.
how often and how long do you water with irrigation now?
As needed, I don’t have the system on automatic but I turn the zones on as I am out there or early in the morning if I feel like the plants need water.
5:35 what is the vine on your trellis?
That is a clematis Purpupea Plena Elegans
Hi, what kind of mulch do you use? I’m getting rid of my crappy mulch, it always has big chunks of wood that looks like I’m building something instead of mulching my plants.
I get mine from Lowes, the fine - brown one, I normally wait for their spring sale and load on them.
I think Colorado is getting all the rain you are accustomed to getting. Usually by now in Pueblo we are pushing 100 and we may reach 82 today, and yesterday we had a flash flood warning. I'm in a zone 5B as well, but I'm struggling to find good shrubs for the shady side of the house/ morning sun. Do you have any recommendations?
Annabelle hydrangeas is the first one I can think of, they don’t mind shady areas here.
Dwarf Japanese maples
We generally have heavy clay that is alkaline in Colorado so Japanese maples are not doing well here. Mine (I am in Arvada) was crispy yellow with brown tips even with iron treatment. Ended up taking it out. So soil test first if you want to try Japanese maples. On the other hand, silver maple does fine in our clay soil. But they have to be established first and small trees are not shade tolerant (due to our long winter and low spring soil temperature).
Need oil kills aphids 🎉
I am going to guess you are drinking a Margarita.
SO close!
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🥰Buy Ladybugs 🐞 it solved my aphid problem,👍🏻 Good Luck 🍀