Mid Ohio from 14 black Krim I've picked around 15 and seeing a Terracotta almost ready.3 salad tomatoes produce since june.3 cucumber plants picked 11 made 2 quarts of refrigerator pickles and couple w/ vinger water fresh. You always have beautiful flowers Enjoy your day
I only have 1-2 Black Krim plants and the fruit is few but large, for 1 plant I have maybe 6 tomatoes. I have to grow them inside because of the weather. This is what we have to do. I do it because I love Black Krim toms.
@@kath-phlox my wife's favorite and she eats the bowl full or most on sandwiches. I'm testing using giant sunflower as cover crop. Start with a raised in ground bed preferably some compost and garden soil. I've clay base soil so it is important to raise for drainage is so important..Raise the sunflower where you want to raise tomato seedlings the following season. I like 4 sunflower space as you wish to space them tomato seedlings the following season.The second season don't disturb the sunflower root ball it's the best place to raise a tomato seedling . Adding.5 cup of both powder lime and bone meal or fertilizer as you desire. This method is really working for me also less water and more productive definitely less work of any way I've never seen a better method.
Starting from seed is a beautiful thing. It's been a heck of a season for pests here in Ontario. Same thing happened with my beans. Your planters are gorgeous. I would leave one cabbage as bait as an experiment. Great tour.
I think it is partly because the petunias were grown from seed I collected off last year’s plants. They look similar, but seem to have different growth habits.
Sweet garden tour, Prairie Plantgirl and handsome Buster!😃 It's amazing how you bring such beauty to y'all's outdoors spaces!👍 Your planter combinations are lovely! And that cut flower garden...goodness! Wow!😃 I'm so glad everything is taking off in the veggie and fruit areas!💃 I'll be there for your super sweet potato harvest!😃💕 Yay, on the beautiful blooming yucca!👍
Love this garden tour! You have just a beautiful place made with your plants! My celery did so well in June with the cool weather, but is declining now in the heat weave. I will be growing celeriac roots again next year. It does so much better for me. My cucumbers, melons, tomatoes, and ground cherries do fantastic in my greenhouse. I am zone 2 garden, and I would not be able to grow this outside to the fullest.
Your yard is looking so nice despite the heat we have been getting. Every year is a surprise...thats keeps it from getting boring. It seems we prepare our selves for 1 bug and another sneaks in when we aren't looking. I make your same face when i encounter slugs...so gross ! Too bad about the chinese cabbage though. Those heads were beautiful. My Kohlrabi is haviing a tough time also. It should be bulbiing up by now . Maybe it has bolted. Now I am scared to look under my cabbage netting 😮 Keep going..you're doing a great job
Thank you for the tour. I really am impressed with your planters, especially the orange petunias! How often do you fertilize your flower planters? What fertilizer do you use?
I try to fertilize once a week. I don’t always remember. Right now I have a miracle grow fertilizer, I just use anything I can get that is good for flowering (higher phosphorus)
Where did you order the seeds for your Katarina cabbage? I like how small and early they are. I am harvesting yellow bell peppers. I plucked seeds out of a pepper that I bought in the grocery store and put them in seeding soil without even drying them first. They look and taste great. On your advice, I added the dolomitic limestone to my tomato beds. This year, all my undetermined tomato fruit is noticeably larger and the plants are bigger. Thicker stems, much bigger leaves and much taller than ever before.
Yuccas are one tuff plant. I moved one and if you don’t get all the root it keeps coming back. I started planting them along our path to field as it’s dry as dust and figured they would survive. One is blooming and was surprised as it was small and couldn’t believe some animal munched on some. The Butterfly Milkweed comes to mind when I think of the tap roots both have. They say they don’t like to be moved, but I guess they love it here as there is no problem in this sand. They seed everywhere. I read there are some locations say the same about yucca. Ok I have a question. I have a Romeo and Juliet also. Do they come in tree form and bush? Or do they need to be trained? Had them for a couple years and nothing yet. It takes forever for some plants in my yard. I think it was a decade for a sand cherry(?) to produce. If I had nets on trees with the last few storms they would have snapped. Ugh, the wildlife! We have lush vegetation all around and the worse animal pressure than drought last year. Now we have a bobcat we seen last night and we have chickens. I’m thinking they are getting pushed up from low land flooding. I hope this dry spell and cooler air going forward this week takes care of the mosquitoes also. It’s been some good and some bad and this weather is testing gardeners skills around the globe. You have beautiful garden going for cold country. Lol, I’ve been trying new flowers and I’m finding they just don’t grow fast enough here because of cool nights in late spring and they end up with a flower and hit with frost-Poof! The blackeyed susan is just now figuring out it should climb and most are only 5” and one popped a flower. I have them in several locations so that’s not the problem. We are fairly hot here in the sand and they grow rampant in hotter zones-some I just can’t figure out. And slugs-I have a few in the cabbages with my clay beds. Just be thankful they aren’t huge like in the UK, at least mine aren’t. This rain is causing many plants to be behind so don’t feel bad.
The Romeo and Juliet cherries are actually a shrub. I purchased Romeo trained to tree form and have kept Juliet to one main stem as well. It is a lot of work to keep a cherry bush as a tree because they sucker. I also have a Cupid trained in tree form and it doesn’t seem to sucker as bad, but it is also slower to produce fruit.
@@PrairiePlantgirlthank you! Everything is slow here except honeyberries and totally won over by the taste, better than blueberries and easier. I have tuff time with beets and kohlrabi also. And when you mentioned size of cabbages-it’s something I’m really starting to adjust also. I’m liking the cone shaped cabbage size and just about to taste test it. I just fixed cabbage with milk, butter, salt and pepper-mom use to fix this and it actually smelled like cauliflower. I will just continue to wait for those cherries then 😅.
You have to save the seed from that red petunia. I'm getting Nemaslug next year to reduce the slug load in my garden, it's so bad in wet weather like we've had.
I wanted to save seed from a similar petunia last year and it never produced any. Apparently some of the specialty petunias are sterile. Hopefully this one produces seed. It would be interesting to see what I’d get for plants from it. I should look into nemaslug. I wonder if it is available here.
Mid Ohio from 14 black Krim I've picked around 15 and seeing a Terracotta almost ready.3 salad tomatoes produce since june.3 cucumber plants picked 11 made 2 quarts of refrigerator pickles and couple w/ vinger water fresh.
You always have beautiful flowers
Enjoy your day
You are in full production 👍
I only have 1-2 Black Krim plants and the fruit is few but large, for 1 plant I have maybe 6 tomatoes. I have to grow them inside because of the weather. This is what we have to do. I do it because I love Black Krim toms.
@@kath-phlox my wife's favorite and she eats the bowl full or most on sandwiches.
I'm testing using giant sunflower as cover crop.
Start with a raised in ground bed preferably some compost and garden soil. I've clay base soil so it is important to raise for drainage is so important..Raise the sunflower where you want to raise tomato seedlings the following season.
I like 4 sunflower space as you wish to space them tomato seedlings the following season.The second season don't disturb the sunflower root ball it's the best place to raise a tomato seedling . Adding.5 cup of both powder lime and bone meal or fertilizer as you desire.
This method is really working for me also less water and more productive definitely less work of any way I've never seen a better method.
Starting from seed is a beautiful thing. It's been a heck of a season for pests here in Ontario. Same thing happened with my beans. Your planters are gorgeous. I would leave one cabbage as bait as an experiment. Great tour.
Thanks!
@@PrairiePlantgirl welcome.
interesting how the garage containers each did their own thing!
I think it is partly because the petunias were grown from seed I collected off last year’s plants. They look similar, but seem to have different growth habits.
Wow I loved those planters.I am always inspired by your videos and follow your lead.You are a great resource.thanks for helping me
You are welcome. I’m glad you enjoy seeing what’s happening in my yard.
Sweet garden tour, Prairie Plantgirl and handsome Buster!😃
It's amazing how you bring such beauty to y'all's outdoors spaces!👍
Your planter combinations are lovely! And that cut flower garden...goodness! Wow!😃
I'm so glad everything is taking off in the veggie and fruit areas!💃
I'll be there for your super sweet potato harvest!😃💕
Yay, on the beautiful blooming yucca!👍
Thank you. The warmth and sunshine really gets things growing!
Love this garden tour! You have just a beautiful place made with your plants! My celery did so well in June with the cool weather, but is declining now in the heat weave. I will be growing celeriac roots again next year. It does so much better for me.
My cucumbers, melons, tomatoes, and ground cherries do fantastic in my greenhouse. I am zone 2 garden, and I would not be able to grow this outside to the fullest.
I find celery likes a substantial amount of water
Great update. Those containers are beautiful! Slugs are nasty, slimy, creatures aren’t they!
It is so difficult to wash that slime off of anything a slug touches!
@@PrairiePlantgirl absolutely! 😣
Your yard is looking so nice despite the heat we have been getting.
Every year is a surprise...thats keeps it from getting boring. It seems we prepare our selves for 1 bug and another sneaks in when we aren't looking.
I make your same face when i encounter slugs...so gross ! Too bad about the chinese cabbage though. Those heads were beautiful.
My Kohlrabi is haviing a tough time also. It should be bulbiing up by now . Maybe it has bolted. Now I am scared to look under my cabbage netting 😮
Keep going..you're doing a great job
Yes gardening is a fun challenge with so many things not in our control.
Thank you for the tour. I really am impressed with your planters, especially the orange petunias! How often do you fertilize your flower planters? What fertilizer do you use?
I try to fertilize once a week. I don’t always remember. Right now I have a miracle grow fertilizer, I just use anything I can get that is good for flowering (higher phosphorus)
@@PrairiePlantgirl THANK YOU!
Where did you order the seeds for your Katarina cabbage? I like how small and early they are. I am harvesting yellow bell peppers. I plucked seeds out of a pepper that I bought in the grocery store and put them in seeding soil without even drying them first. They look and taste great. On your advice, I added the dolomitic limestone to my tomato beds. This year, all my undetermined tomato fruit is noticeably larger and the plants are bigger. Thicker stems, much bigger leaves and much taller than ever before.
The Katarina cabbage is from Veseys Seeds. It is a very nice and fast maturing cabbage. I’m glad the tomatoes are doing so well for you.
Yuccas are one tuff plant. I moved one and if you don’t get all the root it keeps coming back. I started planting them along our path to field as it’s dry as dust and figured they would survive. One is blooming and was surprised as it was small and couldn’t believe some animal munched on some. The Butterfly Milkweed comes to mind when I think of the tap roots both have. They say they don’t like to be moved, but I guess they love it here as there is no problem in this sand. They seed everywhere. I read there are some locations say the same about yucca.
Ok I have a question. I have a Romeo and Juliet also. Do they come in tree form and bush? Or do they need to be trained? Had them for a couple years and nothing yet. It takes forever for some plants in my yard. I think it was a decade for a sand cherry(?) to produce. If I had nets on trees with the last few storms they would have snapped.
Ugh, the wildlife! We have lush vegetation all around and the worse animal pressure than drought last year. Now we have a bobcat we seen last night and we have chickens. I’m thinking they are getting pushed up from low land flooding. I hope this dry spell and cooler air going forward this week takes care of the mosquitoes also.
It’s been some good and some bad and this weather is testing gardeners skills around the globe.
You have beautiful garden going for cold country.
Lol, I’ve been trying new flowers and I’m finding they just don’t grow fast enough here because of cool nights in late spring and they end up with a flower and hit with frost-Poof! The blackeyed susan is just now figuring out it should climb and most are only 5” and one popped a flower. I have them in several locations so that’s not the problem. We are fairly hot here in the sand and they grow rampant in hotter zones-some I just can’t figure out. And slugs-I have a few in the cabbages with my clay beds. Just be thankful they aren’t huge like in the UK, at least mine aren’t.
This rain is causing many plants to be behind so don’t feel bad.
The Romeo and Juliet cherries are actually a shrub. I purchased Romeo trained to tree form and have kept Juliet to one main stem as well. It is a lot of work to keep a cherry bush as a tree because they sucker. I also have a Cupid trained in tree form and it doesn’t seem to sucker as bad, but it is also slower to produce fruit.
@@PrairiePlantgirlthank you! Everything is slow here except honeyberries and totally won over by the taste, better than blueberries and easier. I have tuff time with beets and kohlrabi also. And when you mentioned size of cabbages-it’s something I’m really starting to adjust also. I’m liking the cone shaped cabbage size and just about to taste test it. I just fixed cabbage with milk, butter, salt and pepper-mom use to fix this and it actually smelled like cauliflower.
I will just continue to wait for those cherries then 😅.
You have to save the seed from that red petunia.
I'm getting Nemaslug next year to reduce the slug load in my garden, it's so bad in wet weather like we've had.
I wanted to save seed from a similar petunia last year and it never produced any. Apparently some of the specialty petunias are sterile. Hopefully this one produces seed. It would be interesting to see what I’d get for plants from it.
I should look into nemaslug. I wonder if it is available here.
i would leave the cabbage. remove a few leaves.. otherwise they might go for your other ones
Smart thinking!
they like the chinese cabbage because its more tender :-)
I would agree with that.