If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" it and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 When To Plant Seeds In July 1:03 Crops #'s 1-2: Cucumbers & Summer Squash 3:12 Crop #3: Small Melons 5:02 Crop #4: Small Winter Squash 6:22 Crop #5: Fall Tomatoes 9:57 Crop #6: Potatoes 11:00 Crop #7: Corn 12:01 Crop #8: String Beans 12:58 Crop #9: Warm Season Lettuce 14:49 Crop #10: Flowers 16:29 Crops Most Gardeners Should Avoid In July 19:26 Adventures With Dale
So for the brassicas and carrots that you believe we should avoid in July, when should we plan on direct sowing or planting them outdoors? I'm in the same zone as you in North East coastal SC.
I enjoy these types of "what to grow" videos every month. It helps keep me organized and I love seeing the different varieties of food out there I had no idea existed. I did NOT know there was warm season lettuce!! WHAT?! 🤯 *RUNS TO BAKER CREEK FOR A SEED HAUL* 😂
I must say your ability to disseminate so much info on gardening in a simple, user friendly way is delightful. I've been gardening for years in Virginia and was undisciplined and wayward in my ways. Now, I follow your advice and my garden is far more productive, beautiful and satisfying. I've been more of a flower gardener than a vegetable/fruit gardener so I know the importance of beneficial insects. Let me encourage those in hot climates to plant crepe myrtle trees, even one, they bloom midsummer and the bees and other "good" insects love them. I have several in my yard and they are full of bees. Again, thanks for doing what you do and helping all of us to succeed.
It is rare to see, but very appreciated when you start with where you are located. So many start with "Do this now!", with no hint of where they are. Thank you very much, subscribed.
You fall right into something my dad used to say, get your garden information from someone who lives in a worse area than you,if they can you can! When it comes to heat your the man for me.
Yessir! It is hot and I am cranky with this heat & unrelenting sun….wah wah wah 😢 I guess my Early Girl tomatoes are done then? Planted in Apr and they are failing now. The butternut squash, ugh, SO many leaf footed bugs! Thanks for explaining about green beans, they are a failed experiment. Delighted with the option of tearing down “Phase 1” summer veg and moving directly into Phase 2. My melons & sweet potatoes look great this season! You’ve provided inspiration in this video. You granted me “Do Over” game time! 🤣🤣 Hey - I got 4.5” of rain last night south of Raleigh. ❤ I’m going to click into your Amazon store so you get credit - my dog needs that cooling mat. 👍🏻
Mr Fancy Pants needs a kiddie pool to cool down. My dog loovvvees his. Great gardening info. Thank you. I ALWAYS watch till the end as the grand finale with Dale always makes me smile.
Thank you for the info on the sweetness of carrots. We grew tons of different types of carrots; however, they weren't really sweet. Grew Kyota Reds, Nantes, & Koral. They were beautiful, just not sweet. We are in central Fl. I'll adjust my planting time & see how they do. Thank you again! I'm learning so much 😊
I usually grow Mexican sunflowers {a beautiful big tall wide bushy bush of red-orange sunflowers} for the Monarch Butterflies who regularly make a pit stop by my New Jersey yard each year during their long journey to overwinter in Mexico. They go crazy for the Mexican Sunflowers.
Always watch your videos, love the fact that you tell people where you're from. thank you for your insight and honesty. So tired of watching videos with taglines" 10 things you can plant in July" and they never tell you what zone they are in! Pretty useless.
I just love love love all your videos! I am in Burlington, NC! Howdy neighbor. I comment on your videos occasionally. I am the 75 year old widow lady who loves to garden in grow bags and buckets. I am so glad I saw your video about the sun screen. I bought a 90% and put it about 9 feet high over my tomatoes and cukes. I can’t believe what a difference it made for my plants! I have been eating Sun Sugarand Sweet 100 cherries like crazy. But, my heirloom tomatoes are going strong now. I have 32 tomato plants that are all indeterminate, except for 3 San Marzanos. I am getting ready to start new determinate tomatoes right away. I have over 250 plants in containers that I grew from seed by using the Winter Sowing method with gallon jugs. No heat lamps needed. I got tons of transplants in my gallon jugs that stayed out all winter then germinated in the spring. .
I haven't grown much food in quite a few years because I worked at an organic farm and I saw the incredible challenge in north central FL. Well this year I decided to go for it after being so inspired by your channel. It was doing quite well and then after a few nites the deer nearly ate my entire garden. They started with eating all the loquat leaves they could reach, and lots of other vegetation and went on to my beans and cokes and tomato plants. They left the tomatoes but ate all the leaves they could reach. Geez ... I live rural so heavy wild animal population, but for some reason even my organic farm I used to work at said the deer were insatiable this year. I love your delivery of very practical, inspiring and helpful information. You are a pro at the garden and at your channel.
Commiseration from someone else in NCF, the deer have been demolishing so many of my fruit trees. I’ve learned to expect no fruit on the bottom 5’ of a tree, because they eat all the foliage and new growth up to there over here
That’s so sad, when nature takes away your hard work… Do you have time to start any new plants? Or maybe check your farm or local garden center for well off larger plants to bring home. I would definitely invest in some cheap garden fencing, plants like catnip and similar peppermint oil, some reflective items etc… I use old mirrors and have disco balls in my garden. They seem to help.
This is a great channel. Thanks for putting out so much great content. I disagree, though, with your comments about fall tomatoes in northern climates. I'm in Iowa and our indeterminates are just hitting their stride and are flourishing in late summer into fall. My plants are typically loaded with tomatoes when our first frost hits. In years of gardening, I have never once lost an indeterminant tomato plant to disease or age before frost kills it, and most varieties are pumping out tomatoes up until the end of the season. Determinants are a different story of course, because they do stop producing, but that's why I grow a lot of indeterminants. Another problem here is that by about mid-September, the growth starts to slow down tremendously due to shorter days, lower sun angle, and cooler weather, so if you start new plants now, this far north, there is virtually no way they would be mature enough in time to get fruit before the end of the season. I'm just nitpicking, so no worries!
I’m surprised you mentioned starting nasturtiums. I didn’t know they would germinate in this high heat. Same for string beans. I’m assuming you direct sow.?
I'm in Fayetteville NC and am starting my 2nd crop of sweet corn. My first crop was peaches and cream and was awesome. I'm planting kandy corn this go round and both varieties are new to me. Will let you all know how it goes but peaches n cream is the best tasting corn I ever ate.
Re: Tomatoes. On January 5 of this year, I found two ripe red tomatoes behind my raised bed, up against my house. I believe they were Better Boy (about 2.5"). And when I went to plant in the spring, a volunteer was already pushing its way out to take over most of my raised bed. Probably a Better Boy.
You are so thoughtful and have outstanding reminders and recommendations for gardens. Thank you for doing the prep work to help us prepare our gardens for the next phase
I have too grow Indetermine tomatos since we can't eat it fast enough. Once it turned Orange I harvested and placed on our kitchen counter to super ripped and make Green Chile( Mexcian dish 😋) it so good. Or I eat it with salt it's sweet when super ripped. Once we finished the ripped ones we harvest another batch. 2 years we bought store tomatos during the summer. My corns is 2 inches now my second batch. The first batch still no corn just ears and sliks. I did what you said to have kernels didn't work 🙁
I just planted my second crop of lemon cucumbers and pickling cucumbers. My favorite small melon is the Minnesota midget, it's a softball size very sweet cantaloupe. Thank you for another great video
when I suckered my tomatoes I rooted them in water, planted them and they are just now starting to bloom and set. I also pruned a couple heirloom tomatoes and did the same thing. They are also blooming and setting! I also live in 8b.
Cucumbers all were awful up until now so you have inpired me to plant some more. Idk if it is the bugs or the soil, but tomatoes are doing fine and cucumbers get to about 4 inches and then start looking real rough.
I love to put rock or moss rose annual. around the garden. Im not sure if it does well in your area. It is short and very colorful. 🎉🎉 Great video. Im trying the second tomato season this year.
I was shocked but pleased to hear you say cucumbers. I had a long pea season and just planted my cucumbers because of space on my trellis and thought it was too late but worth a shot. Success!
5b here. My first cucumbers are fruiting now. I started my seed about May 5th in toilet paper rolls (awesome, 1 seed each) and transplanted end of May, a bit early but the roots were through the sides and out the bottom. They look great. Since it worked so well, I started more seeds a week ago, same method. I too will plant these where my Snow peas are finishing up. Enjoy your garden.
Going to try glacier tomato this year as a fall tomato over here in wilmington nc. It's supposed to tolerate cold and ripen fruit in cooler temps. I grew it as a spring tomato a few years ago but never tried it in fall.
This is the first year I've planted Borage and am impressed....vigorous plants with lots of flowers that bring the bees in, and apparently the whole plant is edible. Nasturtium is a special one as well, and if you leave them alone throughout the fall and let their life cycle play out, you'll have a lot of free nasturtiums popping up next year.
Planted the last of my tomatoes about 2 weeks ago. Growing some peaches and cream sweet corn, waiting on it to germinate but I do believe I have enough time for everything in zone 9b.
Can anyone help me? This is my first garden. I'm in AZ zone 9b. All the videos I watch say for me to start new cucumber plants, but my cucumbers never gave me anything. Not one cuke. I planted three different varieties. They bloomed like crazy! Tons and tons of flowers. Female and male flowers. No pollination though. Same with my pumpkins and melons. Tons of vines lots of flowers, 0 fruit. (I tried the hand pollination too...the female flowers still didn't take.) My tomatoes are on the same side of my house as the other plants and I got plenty of tomatoes. Should I even bother succession planting or still keep my original vines? =-( Also wanted to say everything is trellised and shaded.
Depends where you live I suppose but there are TONS of native forbs that bloom in July and August to attract beneficial insects. In fact, the prairie natives are most prolific in the hottest months. Purple coneflower, native perennial sunflowers, asters, partridge pea (a bee magnet), and spotted beebalm (a predatory wasp magnet).
Jerry thank you for meeting with Peter and allowing him to take us on a peek into your lifestyle. Yes the world is crazy but knowing people like you are stll out there gives me hope New sub to your channel. Please put more videos out. You have so much knowledge and you are a great story teller. Document your knowledge here on the tube please. I also have some knowlege of my great and great great grandfathers here in Georgia. My great grandfather was a Methodist circuit rider and part of his autobiography includes the The Civil War Era. In reading his autobiography that chapter was the shortest You could tell it upset him greatly. He also wronte of the Creek and Cherokee tribes Theres an old saying, "God willing and the Creek dont rise" meant you would be where you agreed to be as long as the Creek Indians didn't rise up against the traveler and their travels were clear The autobiagraphy I spoke of was written when great grandfather was 97 You can find it on line for free MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM JASPER COTTER ❤ See you on your channel soon
@TheMillennialGardener - I'm growing no cucurbits this season other than beit alpha to see if I can fend off the striped beetle. So far so good, but I'm missing zucchini and melons. I didn't plant any for fear I'd bring in the beetles.... so far it's working. Would you know if there are similar (Burpless?) melons or zucchini..... preferably parthenocarpic.... that won't bring in the beetle?
Ok so I’m a knife guy with a knife channel… but I have a science background and I’ve always grown houseplants and had soil bottom planted fish tanks. I recently started several vegetable raised beds (admittedly started way late for my area, in May… but shadecloths!!!) With that said, this is easily one of my favorite channels! I’m in NW FL (9a) and these videos are great because I just wait a few weeks and then I’m right on time! Keep up the great work, my friend! Love and appreciate what you do👊🏻
Do you make hori hori knives? I would like a stand and plant hori hori . Have you seen the stand and plant!?! My hori hori gets dulled quickly, since I have rocky soils! I’m also looking for an old fashioned sycle, the hand cutting blade. Not the swinging long handle that is in cartoons for the dead.
I have designed my first fixed blade knife that’s in production now, but I don’t make Hori Hori knives. I love them though. Unfortunately I think that you’ll just have to strop it regularly with rocky soil. I’ve seen the stand and plant tools but not stand and plant hori horis. There are lots of harvesting scythes on Amazon and big box hardware stores. I prefer to use an Old Hickory Cabbage Knife. I think a Kukri knife would also work well as a scythe / harvester.
Same in Wichita. My dog has gotten a few cukes but I had a Facebook memory pop up from 9 years ago where I had cucumbers coming out of my ears! I’ve struggled since then. Pulled up all the squash 2 days ago.
8b here in Texas when do I know when my leeks will be ready? It’s my first year trying them, replanted my zucchini, squash, and cucumbers glad I am doing right.
I'm so glad I found your channel. I watch with a notebook so I can write down all of your tips and my garden has benefited from your Amazon store! I haven't heard you talk about crop rotation. I know it's important not to plant new plants in the same location as the previous one and I'm figuring that planting squash in a bed that had the beetles would be a killer for the new plants. My beds are still full and I only have a small amount of space where I harvested my cauliflower and shortly my squash will be gone. Any suggestions for crop rotation? Thanks soooo much Anthony. You have made me love my garden this year!
Crop rotation is one of my weaknesses, and it's something I am not great at. The problem is my garden is not large enough for me to rotate efficiently, because I'm always growing a ton of tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, peppers and eggplant. They share a lot of the same diseases. Generally, you don't want to plant things that are in the same family in the same spot. Nightshades include potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers and ground cherries. You wouldn't want to plant one where another nightshade grew the previous year. Cucurbits include squash, pumpkins, gourds, melons and cucumbers. You wouldn't want to plant one where another grew the previous year. And so forth. A good crop to plant after would be a crop that doesn't share diseases, like maybe root crops (beets, carrots, turnips, etc.), lettuces, other leafy greens, annual herbs, etc. It's really an art.
I had butternut volunteer itself among my small corn crop. I have no idea where they came from. They're doing great. I'm experimenting with growing some of my tomatoes in shade (zone 9a). My new 'Heatmaster' tomatoes are 2 feet tall right now and doing great.
new subscriber and gardener here. I'm doing some small hydroponics and some container gardening out on my patio. I currently have some herbs, flowers and tomato, potato and pepper plants going. Also looking into trying some vertical planting to save space. If you or any have suggestions on what to buy for that please send them my way. I'm in zone 7 and in currently living in suburbia. Because of that I don't have a lot of land to plant on. Just decided to give gardening a try over the pandemic and I am doing fairly well considering I really knew nothing. I just wanted to say I just happened to come across your vids and I find them very helpful and straight forward. I'm so anxious to get started on a new bunch of flowers and plants with your suggestions. Thanks!
I always watch your videos. Very informative. But I've noticed when you mention the south you never mention mississippi. It is very hot and humid and our gardens are a struggle as the summer goes on. Just wondering if the things you recommend planting are good for my area. Temps can climb up to 104 in August. My garden struggles but I tend to get peppers okra and melons. Would appreciate your input. Thanks
I'm your neighbor, I live in Virginia and the weather has been a scorcher. Not one fruit grew on my tomato and cucumber plants. Is it time to scrap them? It's already the second week in July.
I noticed a lot of videos being titled very similar to JP and epic relating to the same info. Especially the “10 things to plant in certain month” and “These must do tasks in the garden”. You guys have become all the same channel 😢
Need help. Im growing only bet aleph in containers. I have a few fruit so I dosed with bone meal. Boy did the blooms come on. Lots of male blooms and a few female. Do I pull the male blooms? HELP
Could you please please please help me with a solution to squash vine borer moths? For many years we have not been able to harvest due to these insects. We have tried neem oil , diatomaceous earth, covering in foil, hand squishing the eggs and larvae, and nothing seems to work. We may get one fruit off of the plant but that's about it. We have also even tried growing indoors with a grow light and 74° indoor temperature but to no avail. Any recommendations?
As it gets hotter the bugs are multiplying on my squash. I am using pyrethrin. 1/2 of my garden is in ground. Do or have you ever used diatomaceous earth to repel bugs?
If you are supposed to pick cucumbers As fast as they grow, then how do you get big ones? I seen where you're supposed to pick them before they get yellow or when they turn yellow. But then I keep hearing to get the most of your plants. You gotta pick them right away, which would be small ones
I had all my tomatoes and cucumbers die early. I'm in massachusetts. Everyone's in a panic up here I'm not gonna get nothin. I accidently did exactly what Julian edleman here did
We in central Indiana are now getting invaded by Japanese Beetles. What does everyone use to kill or move them along. They are on flowers trees and veggies.
I have found the best thing to do is plant flowers they enjoy 20 feet from your garden. This attracts them away from your valuable crops. Then, suck them up with a hand vacuum. You’ll want to do this daily while they’re around. They eventually go away in late summer.
Milky Spore is the effective and recommended treatment - HOWEVER, it kills the in-ground larvae and is thus season specific. I credit a few moles with controlling my population here in NC. Note that your plants can handle (what appears to us as) a substantial amt of insect damage. Sorry, no solution for adult bugs! Maybe some 🐓🐓🪿? My only damage is some funky leaves on about 20% of my strawberries. Good luck! Check with your State Extension for regional info. Avoid “traps” as they are loaded with pheromone attractants…nooo! 👍🏻
Is it better to start all of these indoors or outdoors? I have limited outdoor space and can't plant in ground so I'll be using all containers....any suggestions for this complete newbie to trying to garden
Is there any genetic disadvantage to replanting the smaller inferior potatoes? If the potato isn't a genetic copy of the mother plant then I would assume that the genetics would eventually favor smaller inferior potatoes.
Hopefully a community follower can answer this beings your unavailable to answer questions through comments but….Has anyone every heard of or seen a bug on cucumber plants called “North Carolina” or “Carolina”(google lens) its Brown/blackish in color and it’s slender shaped and if you pay attention to this bug in the evening you can see it “pees” or “spritz” something from its back end all over the cucumbers!!!! Please help and tell me if anyone has this bug and how to get rid of it?? Thanks in advance, God Bless
What if I started a watermelon that is still in infancy at this time. Its been crazy type weather here on the eastern shore on Md and it hasn't been as hot as it usually is. Even my tomatoes havent started to have break thru color
If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" it and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 When To Plant Seeds In July
1:03 Crops #'s 1-2: Cucumbers & Summer Squash
3:12 Crop #3: Small Melons
5:02 Crop #4: Small Winter Squash
6:22 Crop #5: Fall Tomatoes
9:57 Crop #6: Potatoes
11:00 Crop #7: Corn
12:01 Crop #8: String Beans
12:58 Crop #9: Warm Season Lettuce
14:49 Crop #10: Flowers
16:29 Crops Most Gardeners Should Avoid In July
19:26 Adventures With Dale
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Can you do an Update on the pawpaws? Did they fruit?
So for the brassicas and carrots that you believe we should avoid in July, when should we plan on direct sowing or planting them outdoors? I'm in the same zone as you in North East coastal SC.
I enjoy these types of "what to grow" videos every month. It helps keep me organized and I love seeing the different varieties of food out there I had no idea existed. I did NOT know there was warm season lettuce!! WHAT?! 🤯 *RUNS TO BAKER CREEK FOR A SEED HAUL* 😂
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Their seed catalog was out of this world this year!! It's huge!! ❤
Same here. Already went to nursery for seeds. 😊👍🏻
Hi I live in Cary North Carolina in Raleigh.am I good to start Bush beans from seed now.here the temp is 96 f.pls reply.thanks
Did you know there is a warm season spinach? Look up longevity spinach and it's health benefits.
I must say your ability to disseminate so much info on gardening in a simple, user friendly way is delightful. I've been gardening for years in Virginia and was undisciplined and wayward in my ways. Now, I follow your advice and my garden is far more productive, beautiful and satisfying. I've been more of a flower gardener than a vegetable/fruit gardener so I know the importance of beneficial insects. Let me encourage those in hot climates to plant crepe myrtle trees, even one, they bloom midsummer and the bees and other "good" insects love them. I have several in my yard and they are full of bees. Again, thanks for doing what you do and helping all of us to succeed.
Plant these in July...
1. Cucumbers
2. Summer Squash
3. Small Fruited Melons
4. Winter Storage Squashes
5. Tomatoes (determinants)
6. Potatos
7. Corn
8. String Beans
9. Warm Season Lettuce
10. Flowers
I’m surprised he doesn’t direct plant?
Thanks for this summary!
Is this for florida 9b as well?
@@marycalderon3837it carries over to a wider audience is all id imagine
It is rare to see, but very appreciated when you start with where you are located. So many start with "Do this now!", with no hint of where they are. Thank you very much, subscribed.
You fall right into something my dad used to say, get your garden information from someone who lives in a worse area than you,if they can you can! When it comes to heat your the man for me.
Haha, I'm in the same boat! I watch him to inspire myself that if he can do it in the humid Carolina heat I can do it in my dry desert heat
Yessir! It is hot and I am cranky with this heat & unrelenting sun….wah wah wah 😢 I guess my Early Girl tomatoes are done then? Planted in Apr and they are failing now. The butternut squash, ugh, SO many leaf footed bugs! Thanks for explaining about green beans, they are a failed experiment. Delighted with the option of tearing down “Phase 1” summer veg and moving directly into Phase 2. My melons & sweet potatoes look great this season! You’ve provided inspiration in this video. You granted me “Do Over” game time! 🤣🤣 Hey - I got 4.5” of rain last night south of Raleigh. ❤ I’m going to click into your Amazon store so you get credit - my dog needs that cooling mat. 👍🏻
You are a great presenter! I’m a RUclipsr as well and know how hard this is. Good job!
Mr Fancy Pants needs a kiddie pool to cool down. My dog loovvvees his. Great gardening info. Thank you. I ALWAYS watch till the end as the grand finale with Dale always makes me smile.
Thank you for the info on the sweetness of carrots.
We grew tons of different types of carrots; however, they weren't really sweet. Grew Kyota Reds, Nantes, & Koral. They were beautiful, just not sweet.
We are in central Fl.
I'll adjust my planting time & see how they do.
Thank you again!
I'm learning so much 😊
I found the New Kuroda to do well in ghe heat. Only carrots I'll sow in spring from now on. The rest are for fall crops for me
Oh nice we in the same zone so that makes this awesome to follow your lead!!😊 I love your channel friend your content is GREAT!!!
This is my favorite type of video… so inspiring to get out there and garden 😻
“What’s growing on” that’s when you had me 😂 I love it.
I usually grow Mexican sunflowers {a beautiful big tall wide bushy bush of red-orange sunflowers} for the Monarch Butterflies who regularly make a pit stop by my New Jersey yard each year during their long journey to overwinter in Mexico. They go crazy for the Mexican Sunflowers.
Always watch your videos, love the fact that you tell people where you're from.
thank you for your insight and honesty.
So tired of watching videos with taglines" 10 things you can plant in July" and they never tell you what zone they are in! Pretty useless.
I harvested my potatoes 🥔 and garlic 🧄 and then I planted okra 🌱,green beans 🫘, and some of the smaller potatoes 🥔.
Please do this monthly...
Or maybe start a Calendar😉
I just love love love all your videos! I am in Burlington, NC! Howdy neighbor. I comment on your videos occasionally. I am the 75 year old widow lady who loves to garden in grow bags and buckets. I am so glad I saw your video about the sun screen. I bought a 90% and put it about 9 feet high over my tomatoes and cukes. I can’t believe what a difference it made for my plants! I have been eating Sun Sugarand Sweet 100 cherries like crazy. But, my heirloom tomatoes are going strong now. I have 32 tomato plants that are all indeterminate, except for 3 San Marzanos. I am getting ready to start new determinate tomatoes right away. I have over 250 plants in containers that I grew from seed by using the Winter Sowing method with gallon jugs. No heat lamps needed. I got tons of transplants in my gallon jugs that stayed out all winter then germinated in the spring.
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Just discovered winter sowing this winter!
I will have tomatoes in August. Seattle, zone 8b.
I transplanted cucumbers into the garden yesterday. Only took 10 days from seed. I start them in a 90° F indoor grow room.
I haven't grown much food in quite a few years because I worked at an organic farm and I saw the incredible challenge in north central FL. Well this year I decided to go for it after being so inspired by your channel. It was doing quite well and then after a few nites the deer nearly ate my entire garden. They started with eating all the loquat leaves they could reach, and lots of other vegetation and went on to my beans and cokes and tomato plants. They left the tomatoes but ate all the leaves they could reach. Geez ... I live rural so heavy wild animal population, but for some reason even my organic farm I used to work at said the deer were insatiable this year. I love your delivery of very practical, inspiring and helpful information. You are a pro at the garden and at your channel.
T posts and some fencing should thwart the deer
Commiseration from someone else in NCF, the deer have been demolishing so many of my fruit trees. I’ve learned to expect no fruit on the bottom 5’ of a tree, because they eat all the foliage and new growth up to there over here
I too was thinking some high fencing is probably needed, and a gate.
I put up a fence around my garden to keep deer out. U may need to consider a fence.
That’s so sad, when nature takes away your hard work… Do you have time to start any new plants? Or maybe check your farm or local garden center for well off larger plants to bring home. I would definitely invest in some cheap garden fencing, plants like catnip and similar peppermint oil, some reflective items etc… I use old mirrors and have disco balls in my garden. They seem to help.
This is a great channel. Thanks for putting out so much great content. I disagree, though, with your comments about fall tomatoes in northern climates. I'm in Iowa and our indeterminates are just hitting their stride and are flourishing in late summer into fall. My plants are typically loaded with tomatoes when our first frost hits. In years of gardening, I have never once lost an indeterminant tomato plant to disease or age before frost kills it, and most varieties are pumping out tomatoes up until the end of the season. Determinants are a different story of course, because they do stop producing, but that's why I grow a lot of indeterminants. Another problem here is that by about mid-September, the growth starts to slow down tremendously due to shorter days, lower sun angle, and cooler weather, so if you start new plants now, this far north, there is virtually no way they would be mature enough in time to get fruit before the end of the season. I'm just nitpicking, so no worries!
I’m surprised you mentioned starting nasturtiums. I didn’t know they would germinate in this high heat. Same for string beans. I’m assuming you direct sow.?
What are your thoughts on fertilizing in the heat? Im in Sacramento area 9b. Supposed to be 115 in a few days, yikes🥵
Thank you for sharing your knowledge🙏🏻💛 I loved the last part of the video with your cute doggie🥰🐾 Happy summer gardening to you and to all!🌻✨☀️
I'm in Fayetteville NC and am starting my 2nd crop of sweet corn. My first crop was peaches and cream and was awesome. I'm planting kandy corn this go round and both varieties are new to me. Will let you all know how it goes but peaches n cream is the best tasting corn I ever ate.
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Hi Brian i live in Cary NC.can I start Bush beans and cucumber from seeds now.i don't know as it is very hot like 97
Thanks for the tips. That's one of the cleanest and most organized garage I've seen. ❤
Re: Tomatoes. On January 5 of this year, I found two ripe red tomatoes behind my raised bed, up against my house. I believe they were Better Boy (about 2.5"). And when I went to plant in the spring, a volunteer was already pushing its way out to take over most of my raised bed. Probably a Better Boy.
You are so thoughtful and have outstanding reminders and recommendations for gardens. Thank you for doing the prep work to help us prepare our gardens for the next phase
Great information. You're right about it being hot. I'm in zone 9a Texas. Dale has the right idea about going inside the house 🙂
I Live in So Cal (L.A. Cali) I really Love all the great info you give!! You are very thorough and straight to the point!!
I have too grow Indetermine tomatos since we can't eat it fast enough. Once it turned Orange I harvested and placed on our kitchen counter to super ripped and make Green Chile( Mexcian dish 😋) it so good. Or I eat it with salt it's sweet when super ripped. Once we finished the ripped ones we harvest another batch. 2 years we bought store tomatos during the summer. My corns is 2 inches now my second batch. The first batch still no corn just ears and sliks. I did what you said to have kernels didn't work 🙁
Thanks for your outstanding content! Literally every single video we learn something new!
I’m in zone 8, NC. I was thinking of taking cuttings from my better boy tomatoes and rooting them. Do you think there’s time for them to grow?.
I just planted my second crop of lemon cucumbers and pickling cucumbers. My favorite small melon is the Minnesota midget, it's a softball size very sweet cantaloupe. Thank you for another great video
when I suckered my tomatoes I rooted them in water, planted them and they are just now starting to bloom and set. I also pruned a couple heirloom tomatoes and did the same thing. They are also blooming and setting! I also live in 8b.
Cucumbers all were awful up until now so you have inpired me to plant some more.
Idk if it is the bugs or the soil, but tomatoes are doing fine and cucumbers get to about 4 inches and then start looking real rough.
You think Lima beans would do good? I love lima beans but have never grown them myself
I love to put rock or moss rose annual. around the garden. Im not sure if it does well in your area. It is short and very colorful. 🎉🎉 Great video. Im trying the second tomato season this year.
I was shocked but pleased to hear you say cucumbers. I had a long pea season and just planted my cucumbers because of space on my trellis and thought it was too late but worth a shot. Success!
5b here. My first cucumbers are fruiting now. I started my seed about May 5th in toilet paper rolls (awesome, 1 seed each) and transplanted end of May, a bit early but the roots were through the sides and out the bottom. They look great. Since it worked so well, I started more seeds a week ago, same method. I too will plant these where my Snow peas are finishing up. Enjoy your garden.
@@mysparky2011 nice. Fresh Cucumbers are the best! Continued success!
Going to try glacier tomato this year as a fall tomato over here in wilmington nc. It's supposed to tolerate cold and ripen fruit in cooler temps. I grew it as a spring tomato a few years ago but never tried it in fall.
Nice! Love that experimental zeal ya got!
This is the first year I've planted Borage and am impressed....vigorous plants with lots of flowers that bring the bees in, and apparently the whole plant is edible. Nasturtium is a special one as well, and if you leave them alone throughout the fall and let their life cycle play out, you'll have a lot of free nasturtiums popping up next year.
Planted the last of my tomatoes about 2 weeks ago.
Growing some peaches and cream sweet corn, waiting on it to germinate but I do believe I have enough time for everything in zone 9b.
Can anyone help me? This is my first garden. I'm in AZ zone 9b. All the videos I watch say for me to start new cucumber plants, but my cucumbers never gave me anything. Not one cuke. I planted three different varieties. They bloomed like crazy! Tons and tons of flowers. Female and male flowers. No pollination though. Same with my pumpkins and melons. Tons of vines lots of flowers, 0 fruit. (I tried the hand pollination too...the female flowers still didn't take.) My tomatoes are on the same side of my house as the other plants and I got plenty of tomatoes. Should I even bother succession planting or still keep my original vines? =-( Also wanted to say everything is trellised and shaded.
If the plant was super healthy, but no fruit came, you might have too much nitrogen in the soil, possibly from fertilizer
Depends where you live I suppose but there are TONS of native forbs that bloom in July and August to attract beneficial insects. In fact, the prairie natives are most prolific in the hottest months. Purple coneflower, native perennial sunflowers, asters, partridge pea (a bee magnet), and spotted beebalm (a predatory wasp magnet).
Just the inspiration I needed to keep going with my garden here in south TX! Thank you. Give Dale a tummy rub for me!
Thanks for this video. I already had Roma tomatoes started. I just went and started zucchini, cantaloupe and butternut squash.
i grow summer bib letus aka slow bolt, when it gets over 90 it does ok for me zone 5B.
How to get rid of hornworm on my tomato plant?
I took them off now how can I keep others from getting on plant
Jerry thank you for meeting with Peter and allowing him to take us on a peek into your lifestyle. Yes the world is crazy but knowing people like you are stll out there gives me hope New sub to your channel. Please put more videos out. You have so much knowledge and you are a great story teller. Document your knowledge here on the tube please. I also have some knowlege of my great and great great grandfathers here in Georgia. My great grandfather was a Methodist circuit rider and part of his autobiography includes the The Civil War Era. In reading his autobiography that chapter was the shortest You could tell it upset him greatly. He also wronte of the Creek and Cherokee tribes Theres an old saying, "God willing and the Creek dont rise" meant you would be where you agreed to be as long as the Creek Indians didn't rise up against the traveler and their travels were clear The autobiagraphy I spoke of was written when great grandfather was 97 You can find it on line for free MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM JASPER COTTER ❤ See you on your channel soon
Such great information!!! Thank you.
I am always in a gardening mood with the great info always gets me wanting to plant😀👍you’re the best thanks for helping us out!!,
@TheMillennialGardener - I'm growing no cucurbits this season other than beit alpha to see if I can fend off the striped beetle. So far so good, but I'm missing zucchini and melons. I didn't plant any for fear I'd bring in the beetles.... so far it's working. Would you know if there are similar (Burpless?) melons or zucchini..... preferably parthenocarpic.... that won't bring in the beetle?
Ok so I’m a knife guy with a knife channel… but I have a science background and I’ve always grown houseplants and had soil bottom planted fish tanks.
I recently started several vegetable raised beds (admittedly started way late for my area, in May… but shadecloths!!!)
With that said, this is easily one of my favorite channels!
I’m in NW FL (9a) and these videos are great because I just wait a few weeks and then I’m right on time!
Keep up the great work, my friend!
Love and appreciate what you do👊🏻
Do you make hori hori knives?
I would like a stand and plant hori hori .
Have you seen the stand and plant!?!
My hori hori gets dulled quickly, since I have rocky soils!
I’m also looking for an old fashioned sycle, the hand cutting blade. Not the swinging long handle that is in cartoons for the dead.
I have designed my first fixed blade knife that’s in production now, but I don’t make Hori Hori knives.
I love them though.
Unfortunately I think that you’ll just have to strop it regularly with rocky soil.
I’ve seen the stand and plant tools but not stand and plant hori horis.
There are lots of harvesting scythes on Amazon and big box hardware stores.
I prefer to use an Old Hickory Cabbage Knife.
I think a Kukri knife would also work well as a scythe / harvester.
In Oklahoma here, I haven’t had any production on my cucumbers yet. Had to tear down my zucchini cause of borers.
Same in Wichita. My dog has gotten a few cukes but I had a Facebook memory pop up from 9 years ago where I had cucumbers coming out of my ears! I’ve struggled since then. Pulled up all the squash 2 days ago.
Thank you! I was just thinking today about starting my lettuces and things like kale, spinach, & Swiss chard
Informative and inspirational, thanks!
Cool suggestions. I definitely give the small melons a try.
8b here in Texas when do I know when my leeks will be ready? It’s my first year trying them, replanted my zucchini, squash, and cucumbers glad I am doing right.
Thanks Anthony. Thumbs up. So, how did you wind up in North Carolina from New Jersey? Hugs to Dale.
I'm so glad I found your channel. I watch with a notebook so I can write down all of your tips and my garden has benefited from your Amazon store! I haven't heard you talk about crop rotation. I know it's important not to plant new plants in the same location as the previous one and I'm figuring that planting squash in a bed that had the beetles would be a killer for the new plants. My beds are still full and I only have a small amount of space where I harvested my cauliflower and shortly my squash will be gone. Any suggestions for crop rotation? Thanks soooo much Anthony. You have made me love my garden this year!
Crop rotation is one of my weaknesses, and it's something I am not great at. The problem is my garden is not large enough for me to rotate efficiently, because I'm always growing a ton of tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, peppers and eggplant. They share a lot of the same diseases. Generally, you don't want to plant things that are in the same family in the same spot. Nightshades include potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers and ground cherries. You wouldn't want to plant one where another nightshade grew the previous year. Cucurbits include squash, pumpkins, gourds, melons and cucumbers. You wouldn't want to plant one where another grew the previous year. And so forth. A good crop to plant after would be a crop that doesn't share diseases, like maybe root crops (beets, carrots, turnips, etc.), lettuces, other leafy greens, annual herbs, etc. It's really an art.
Have you tried West Indian Pumpkins? They've worked very, very well for us in SC.
I had butternut volunteer itself among my small corn crop. I have no idea where they came from. They're doing great. I'm experimenting with growing some of my tomatoes in shade (zone 9a). My new 'Heatmaster' tomatoes are 2 feet tall right now and doing great.
What month do you sow seed to plant in ground. I live in NE Alabama.I never knew you could grow many of the veggies you spoke of.
new subscriber and gardener here. I'm doing some small hydroponics and some container gardening out on my patio. I currently have some herbs, flowers and tomato, potato and pepper plants going. Also looking into trying some vertical planting to save space. If you or any have suggestions on what to buy for that please send them my way. I'm in zone 7 and in currently living in suburbia. Because of that I don't have a lot of land to plant on. Just decided to give gardening a try over the pandemic and I am doing fairly well considering I really knew nothing. I just wanted to say I just happened to come across your vids and I find them very helpful and straight forward. I'm so anxious to get started on a new bunch of flowers and plants with your suggestions. Thanks!
What variety of zucchini are people using to get tons of zucchini?? We haven't even gotten flowers and they are about 3 months old .. 😢
I always watch your videos. Very informative. But I've noticed when you mention the south you never mention mississippi. It is very hot and humid and our gardens are a struggle as the summer goes on. Just wondering if the things you recommend planting are good for my area. Temps can climb up to 104 in August. My garden struggles but I tend to get peppers okra and melons. Would appreciate your input. Thanks
I'm your neighbor, I live in Virginia and the weather has been a scorcher. Not one fruit grew on my tomato and cucumber plants. Is it time to scrap them? It's already the second week in July.
Are sugar baby watermelons considered "small melons"? I have a few seedlings right now, not sure if it's too late for them. I'm in Texas 9a
I'm in Phoenix, AZ and there is very few plants that survive the heat. It's 6:30 in the evening and currently 111 degrees. Ugh.
I noticed a lot of videos being titled very similar to JP and epic relating to the same info. Especially the “10 things to plant in certain month” and “These must do tasks in the garden”. You guys have become all the same channel 😢
Need help. Im growing only bet aleph in containers. I have a few fruit so I dosed with bone meal. Boy did the blooms come on. Lots of male blooms and a few female. Do I pull the male blooms? HELP
Could you please please please help me with a solution to squash vine borer moths? For many years we have not been able to harvest due to these insects. We have tried neem oil , diatomaceous earth, covering in foil, hand squishing the eggs and larvae, and nothing seems to work. We may get one fruit off of the plant but that's about it. We have also even tried growing indoors with a grow light and 74° indoor temperature but to no avail. Any recommendations?
As it gets hotter the bugs are multiplying on my squash. I am using pyrethrin. 1/2 of my garden is in ground. Do or have you ever used diatomaceous earth to repel bugs?
All of my cucumbers are only producing male flowers. We are stuck at 99 to 100 degrees. I am guessing the heat is the reason
If you are supposed to pick cucumbers As fast as they grow, then how do you get big ones? I seen where you're supposed to pick them before they get yellow or when they turn yellow. But then I keep hearing to get the most of your plants. You gotta pick them right away, which would be small ones
I had all my tomatoes and cucumbers die early. I'm in massachusetts. Everyone's in a panic up here I'm not gonna get nothin. I accidently did exactly what Julian edleman here did
In Idaho we had a 78 day growing season. Latest frost I experienced was July 3rd.
I’m on my second growing of cucumbers and third squash.
4-6 plantings. That’s incredible. I’ll have to try it.
I technically live in zone 8b over here in Washington State. I should try some of the same plants you have.
We in central Indiana are now getting invaded by Japanese Beetles. What does everyone use to kill or move them along. They are on flowers trees and veggies.
I have found the best thing to do is plant flowers they enjoy 20 feet from your garden. This attracts them away from your valuable crops. Then, suck them up with a hand vacuum. You’ll want to do this daily while they’re around. They eventually go away in late summer.
Milky Spore is the effective and recommended treatment - HOWEVER, it kills the in-ground larvae and is thus season specific. I credit a few moles with controlling my population here in NC. Note that your plants can handle (what appears to us as) a substantial amt of insect damage. Sorry, no solution for adult bugs! Maybe some 🐓🐓🪿? My only damage is some funky leaves on about 20% of my strawberries. Good luck! Check with your State Extension for regional info. Avoid “traps” as they are loaded with pheromone attractants…nooo! 👍🏻
How about mustard greens? Here in Kentucky we plant mustard greens late in the season for a nice fall crop.
you should use argopathy to kill pest. naturally. its argo homeopathy works amazingly well.
It is obvious, that you have never gardened in Seattle, zone 8b. The zone system is bogus.
I like the shade structure you have above you. How high are the 4x4s that you have the shade cloth attached to? Thank you for your videos.
Video showing the process of starting cucumber and other July crop in containers
Oct9ber november first frost over here in canada
Is it better to start all of these indoors or outdoors? I have limited outdoor space and can't plant in ground so I'll be using all containers....any suggestions for this complete newbie to trying to garden
Hello. What’s the name of the white glue that you spray on your plants to protect them from the bugs? Thank you
Should I put Marglobe seed straight in ground or start indoor then harden off for fall tomatoes? Charlotte, NC
Is there any genetic disadvantage to replanting the smaller inferior potatoes? If the potato isn't a genetic copy of the mother plant then I would assume that the genetics would eventually favor smaller inferior potatoes.
Is there an issue with cross pollination between the cucumbers, squashes, melons, and winter squash?
As always I appreciate your videos! And since I’m only about an hour north of you, I’m extremely grateful to have you to follow!
Thanks Anthony!
Me, too! I'm in Hampstead. So helpful knowing he's nearby.
@@ScratchMatters Exactly!
Hopefully a community follower can answer this beings your unavailable to answer questions through comments but….Has anyone every heard of or seen a bug on cucumber plants called “North Carolina” or “Carolina”(google lens) its Brown/blackish in color and it’s slender shaped and if you pay attention to this bug in the evening you can see it “pees” or “spritz” something from its back end all over the cucumbers!!!! Please help and tell me if anyone has this bug and how to get rid of it?? Thanks in advance, God Bless
Thank you for remembering us!!🐝🐝🐝🐞🐞
Of course! 😊
Homeless people should be treated like every other person and get a job and contribute to society.
My garden I share with a friend has been decimated by groundhogs.
What if I started a watermelon that is still in infancy at this time. Its been crazy type weather here on the eastern shore on Md and it hasn't been as hot as it usually is. Even my tomatoes havent started to have break thru color
Okay, how come none of these seed packs are in your Amazon store so I can support you??
Dale, such a good boy!