Let's Go To The Garden!

[Music] all righty y'all we are going to be doing a garden tour for you guys today mama is currently I'm I'm not sure what she's doing but I'm she'll explain so what are you doing I'm they call it tipping blackberries which is just take off the tip of the new shoots the shoots that are not producing berries this year but we'll produce next year and that helps them to instead of like growing like crazy and then they'll go down to the ground and just get out of control then all of their energy will go back into producing berries next year so this is the first time I've done it but I've seen it a lot and a lot of people talking about it so we'll try it and see how it works but otherwise blackberries do look good this year um um quite a few in there it's just kind of this this space blackberries are doing good but the space has kind of gotten away from us a little bit so we'll probably uh upgrade it a little bit next year and kind of straighten it up but you ready to go to the Garden yes this is our potatoes um if you guys remember back in February when we got like high 7s at the end of February and we said are we crazy and we came out and planted potatoes uh kind of crazy but I given the right conditions I think they would have done well and actually um a lot of the potatoes were just the little eyes and so those just didn't last because then you know later on in April got cold again and we got snow so those just kind of rotted but actually the ones that are more like half a potato or a whole potato even um did very well and like the bigger plants here at the ends those are the original potatoes that we planted in February was there much benefit to it no because you already had to come back in and replant and everything is doing good now thank you but it's a little bit you know a little bit behind than what normally would be but no big deal everything is looking really good potato bugs as you know I I that's a challenge for me keeping up with potato bugs they really haven't been much of an issue but now we have blister beetles which are kind of nasty little things so they'll kind of harm the plant too so we're keeping an eye on them we don't like to spray if we don't have to but you know versus you let it go and let the bugs do their thing then you could end up with no crop so our goal is to have a crop so if it's not going to harm the crop at all and it's early enough that we can go ahead and spray those bugs then we will especially with potatoes cuz they're all underground potatoes being underground so we you know we do want them to do well we had put in our Root Cellar a few years ago so we want to be able to utilize that with our potatoes and then this is our lettuce um lettuce was beautiful doing well we planted that end of February as well and we thought it you know was good it was planted a little bit thick to where it was having a little bit of a harder time coming up out supposed to but what took our lettuce out was when we got that storm in may we got hail and it just shredded it and it couldn't recover very well from that so we actually were not able to pick any lettuce this year we got a full row but we let it go to seed and this lettuce um if you all have been around for a while you know I talk about this lettuce our absolute favorite lettuce Marvel of Four Seasons uh grows up and it when it's ready it looks like a beautiful Roma lettuce and it it's very mild very tasty uh definitely our favorite so this will be a ton of seed which we're happy you know we're fine with that we certainly missed that fresh lettuce but there's always next year so you just do the best you can each year work with what you got and this is not a complete loss because we'll have all that seed and next row is radishes at this end radishes they were a little tough um I think we had planted those early too which we had gone in and replanted so we did get a little bit but the weather ended up just being a little bit iffy on them to where they didn't do that great but again they're going to seed so we'll be able to save all that seed at the other end is turnips which we normally plant for our turnup greens turnips were just like the lettuce so they got completely shredded with that hail and they recovered a little bit but not real great um but the turnips actually went to seed which we are thrilled about because turnips are what in order to get not everything goes to seed every year so in order to get a turnup to go to seed you're supposed to plant it one year let it mature dig it up store it over winter and then come out in the spring and replant it and then it will go to seed the second year well that's hard to do it's hard to just keep it happy you know throughout winter especially here we have to dig it up in warmer climates you can keep it in the ground but we couldn't here but they were stressed out enough this year that they went to seed so we're very happy about that and we have never been able to get our turnips to go to seed um so yeah we're excited and that's going to be a lot of seed for us to harvest as well uh onions these are half of this row here is the original that I planted they got beat up in the hail but they recovered pretty well um now the risk is going to be I've got to keep a close eye on them because we are staying pretty moist we're getting a lot of uh rain good amount of rain every week so I don't want them rotting so I'll keep a close eye on them they're not quite mature enough yet but they might have to be pulled a little early if we stay in this wet pattern and the other half are ones that I went in and planted later and um they're doing very well too onions what you want to do when they get to a certain size which I did with this half I didn't do it with the other half yet but I need to is you go in and I call it spoon you spoon the Dirt away from the bulb and that will help that bulb to grow and get bigger so you don't you almost I mean it's not quite exposing the roots but you really get the dirt away from it as you can see with that onion at the end there's no dirt covering it because then that gives that bulb the opportunity to get bigger um Tomatoes doing good they're a little roughed up this morning because we had some strong wind last night but doing very well we keep an eye on them too for potato bugs cuz they will get on the tomatoes and mess them up but also this year I've seen a lot of people talking about the um tomato worms so we'll keep a close eye on for that uh cabbages are in there something has really been liking my cabbages that heads themselves aren't bad but the leaves the outer leaves are just in rough shape but I think they'll be able to be harvested pretty soon so and then at the other end is some more onions um these are lofas here we this is the first time we're doing lofas we just thought it' be something neat you know usually every year we come up with something that's not really necessary but we just want to try it so we're going to try these and these need to get on a trellis they do need a trellis so we're going to have to be doing that uh lots of tomatoes in there um different all different kind you know slicing tomatoes and then a lot of canning you know saucing Tomatoes too um there's some peppers in here that were given to us um more Peppers at the other end there's some summer squash in there everything's looking very happy right now because like I say we've been in a really good uh pattern of just having some rain every week which is so nice because we've gone like four years where it's just you know we get to to to July and sometimes even in June and it turns off dry and everything is stressed and you just wonder if we're going to get anything from the garden so everything's very happy right now I think it's been nice too cuz we usually have to carry five gallon buckets of water this place our rain barrel has been staying full but we haven't been having to use it you know we use it to water the animals but we haven't been able or haven't had to use it down here so that's just been really nice a whole row of cucumbers we got slicing cucumbers and a little bit of canning cucumbers there too I like to do our own pickles um so some of those uh this section's this smallest section this is watermelons and cantaloupe I don't know if we're going to get anything from them or not this year but they had a hard time getting started because we just weren't getting that heat early on when I planted them so I actually went in and replanted and they're just now getting getting going so we'll see you know it might be pretty late end of August or so before we even have anything off of them but you know it's just something that we like to have in the ground and hopefully get something from it and these are our sweet potatoes these sweet potatoes on this side here were completely shredded by the hail and I thought they're just not even going to recover you know they were just so pitiful looking and they've all recovered beautifully so I'm very happy about that um and then the big plant in the middle is actually a summer squash see I had these sweet potatoes and then I had the summer squash and there wasn't anything at the other side but someone gave us a bunch of sweet potato plants so that's why the summer squash is in the middle of the sweet potatoes but those sweet potatoes at the other end are also doing very well and these are so pretty when they get all spread out and they'll just cover this whole area and then they'll have like purple flowers purple blooms later on just very pretty plant to have and then here's our green beans we have four full rows of green beans looking great we've gotten several pickings off of them I've sold a little bit we've eaten on them I've still got 50 quarts of green beans from last year so I'm not really uh concerned about canning too much I'll probably do a little bit but they're doing well they got really beat up with the hail as well but they've recovered they're a little smaller than normal but not bad but you know I think they're happy and then finally we have our sweet corn six rows of sweet corn of course it got beat up with the hail it's recovered beautifully it got a little roughed up last night like I say we had big strong winds but it will um you know stand back up a little bit but it's very happy find a weed in there that goes all that credit goes to Joselyn I don't know that I have pulled a single weed in this Garden um earlier on when we had our potatoes going and we didn't it was pretty early yet the weather just wasn't conducive to getting out here and weeding so our potatoes got they were a mess so I did come out and get them all in line but since then uh Jocelyn comes out of a morning and just keeps the thing in check Adama hasn't even ran the tiller in here since everything's been coming up good so she's done excellent job and it's just one of those things that you know she she doesn't mind especially early in the morning early of the morning it's just so nice to come down here and work a little bit before it gets too hot so she's done a great job of that and yeah like I say everything is happy and what didn't do well because of the hail we're still getting some use out of it with seeds so we're pretty thrilled about that um smaller garden over on the other side um which we normally will have something in it this year we planted garlic and we've tried garlic a few times over the past several years and we've just never had real good success with it um we've put it in pots we've gotten garlic just from the store to try and it just never took off real good so we finally this year said you know what we're going to get some good garlic online get the you know get to the garlic the right garlic place and get good garlic and and see if we can't make it go so that's what we did we got from Keen garlic no sponsorship or anything but just saying that that's where we got our garlic from very good they know what they're doing um very good garlic so what we did normally with garlic you plant in the fall and then it comes up and you harvest um late June early July so we actually harvested ours um couple weeks ago and did beautiful so we're very excited about that and what you want to do with garlic is you tend to you keep some but then you plant you'll plant again so this fall will'll go back and we'll probably actually put most of what we harvested this year back into the ground because our goal is is with a small garden to have that all garlic so we use a lot of garlic and if it's going to go and do well then that makes us happy and we're excited about it so we'll probably have that all garlic eventually and ours is hard net garlic I think here we kind of it's better to do hardneck garlic so with that when you harvest it I know you know you see the pretty braids and all but you can't really do that with hard neck so we just have to cut it off and it's not as pretty but I do have that in the basement um drying out and just sitting and it's just it's done very well so we're very happy about that uh fruit trees are not bad um we have our little cherry tree of course it's pretty young yet it did have some cherries on there we have a bigger cherry tree over at granny and Papas that gave us a lot of good cherries this year um apple trees apples got roughed up with the hail so they kind of got dented and stunted and like I don't know if you can see from over here but they're that tree that's closest to the Garden there is sweet 6 no not sweet 16 State Fair so it's generally going to be ready about the time of the State Fair which is about the first second week of August um they're pretty small so we might get some for saucing or pressing but they're not going to have really good eating this year unfortunately but you know that's just how it goes we're happy I think the trees are happy with all this moisture and all so they're growing well um peach trees I got a bunch of peaches last year this year they didn't do anything I think peach trees are kind of hard in Iowa anyways but I think they're kind of an every other year thing too so I hope hope hopeful that next year they'll have a good another good crop so yeah that's how it's going with the garden and we'll probably give more updates as we Harvest stuff and show you as it's uh coming along and and what we're doing at all so that's the garden [Music]

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Published: Wed Jul 17 2024