A gardener is never quite DONE working (Late May Gardening)

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@donnaflagg333 Ай бұрын

lol 😆 you are sooo cute! 🥰 I used to be able to garden like you do with non stop work! Now I’m an old lady I have to pace myself but ohhhh I just would love to be able to move around the garden like you do - cherish these, your golden days in the sun. ☀️ 🌈💚☘️💚🌈☀️

@ccassity4227 Ай бұрын

I too have struggled growing radishes. Last year, I started adding azomite to my soil after watching another KZbinr, and I finally got radishes. Not 100% certain that’s what did it, but that was the only change from previous years. I have assumed it was and that the trace minerals was what my soil lacked. Also, they prefer cool weather, but I had success under planting with larger vegetables and they were happy in the shade.

@Kristen-603 Ай бұрын

Today is my first day my plants are going out for hardening off. Nice and overcast so hopefully I don't get home to issues. Your gardening channel has been such an inspiration to me this year.

@noraaftonbrown Ай бұрын

I’d love to see photos of the broccoli growing in your Green Stalk. I bought one earlier this month. For now, it just has herbs, but I’m looking for ideas for next year.

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

In one of my past videos where I showed the GS I had the broccoli head forming, I got 2 nice big heads from the 2 plants I had there and small baby ones from the extra shoots, I definitely think I need like 5 plants to make it worth it growing them... but now at least I know they do great there for next year.

@noraaftonbrown Ай бұрын

@@SoilandMargaritas thank you. I’ll go have a look.

@GoingGreenMom 27 күн бұрын

Radishes definitely prefer colder weather. They bolt easy. If you let them flower you should try the pods though. They are like a spicy sweet pea pod type taste.

@terridee9637 Ай бұрын

My broccoli in a raised bed did something called “ buttoning”. Beautiful leaves but no heads. I believe it is because of too hot weather too soon.

@rebeccazody1278 Ай бұрын

I am 50+ miles south of you. My radishes are exactly like that, no matter what I do. I have tried growing them multiple times a growing season for five years. The seed pods are so delicious to eat raw and sautéed.

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

I have tried so many things too :(

@lovelight9164 Ай бұрын

I have grown radishes for years but last spring and again this year my radishes have been a huge fail. I believe it's been to much rain, mine also had killer roots but no radish to speak of. Sow a few more radish seeds and see if they do any better this time around. I did grow some beautiful globe white radishes no problems with them this year and they only take 25 days.

@frogjardin Ай бұрын

I'm so glad to hear someone say that about radishes!! I plant and I plant and never have success. The few I've gotten have come at the end of the season and they are bitter and useless.

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

:( So disappointing!

@HoustonGardeningNovice Ай бұрын

Your garden looks great! ♥

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Extranjera76 Ай бұрын

I plant radishes on the green stalks. I live on zone 12b. Is hot here. The radish was great.

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

That's awesome!

@capecodcottagegarden Ай бұрын

Roxana your strawberries are the bomb!!! Mine are just starting to form. It seems like your growing season is much longer. We had a very cold wet spring. I don't even have my cucumbers or beans in the ground yet.

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

For cool loving plants (like strawberries) the spring was definitely nicer than most years, add lots of rain to that and the outcome is this. You are so close!

@emkn1479 Ай бұрын

Same with the radishes. I had some decent ones last fall and today I heard that radishes do better as days start to shorten in the fall. Before vegetable gardening I never realized how much day length affects plants. I’m going to try again this fall 🫠 and do some research. Problem is that one random hot day that ruins all my efforts 😅

@lovelight9164 Ай бұрын

Try the white globe radishes. They are the only ones I am having success with this year.

@emkn1479 Ай бұрын

@@lovelight9164 thanks, I will. do you sow all season or just in spring and fall?

@MariaFuentes-jh3le Ай бұрын

Very nice garden. I can only imagine the flavors are amazing for your fruits & vegetables!

@LifeHomeandGardenwithAnaRica Ай бұрын

The Strawberry tower look great and I'm still hoping for my radishes.

@normarobles4899 Ай бұрын

Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe radish are cool weather plant as soon as it heats up they bolt or go to seed perhaps that’s what happened maybe plant somewhere we’re they don’t get a lot of direct sun maybe in the ground?

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

You are correct, I started these early in March... I mean, how much sooner should I try them? :(

@debichats8634 Ай бұрын

I can’t grow radishes to save my life! I’ve given up! My main problem is that my garden is on my deck and I have a “visitor”…..first time in all the time we’ve been here, a groundhog has discovered my plants…..and the little thing isn’t shy! I shooed it off several times today and have been researching how to keep it away…..so tomorrow I’ll be making cayenne spray and will also make sprays with essential oils they don’t like! The stinker was even eating feverfew! Doesn’t like basil or oregano, cilantro or lemon balm but went wild over my okra, squash and coke plants! You know that means WAR11. I don’t want to hurt anything and won’t but I’ll spray the organic homemade sprays and pray it works! Little stinker!!!

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

You can rehome them, Tractor supply sells a trap for them, and once you get it in there you can release him miles from your place.

@shaannette1 Ай бұрын

Hello I planted broccoli last year and it did nothing the bugs ate it and this year I planted broccoli again and cabbage and covered with toole and moth couldn’t get to it and one off my broccoli went straight to flower. I still have four broccoli plants and one of them actually has ahead now I only have one, but I am so excited for the one and it looks like the other 3 may head up I am in central Indiana also just have small garden my bush beans also came up and I have carrots that are also growing .

@dustyflats3832 Ай бұрын

Busy times! This is what I’ve learned- Broccoli-brassicas like heavy soil. I had soil delivered once and wasn’t happy as it was a clay based topsoil until I learned how well the brassicas grew in it. They are heavy feeders and clay holds nutrients and water. I started way early this year 4/15 under low tunnels and switched covers or added as needed. I had First time GREAT success with Bak Choi that looked State Fair quality and Napa Cabbage. I am moments away from harvesting broccoli heads and the Brussels I’m sure will be 3+’ high again. By fall I top Brussels so they concentrate on filling out if needed and I trim up bottom leaves as they grow. The one thing I noticed this year and can’t explain is the appearance of cabbage moths in April and all of a sudden they were gone. Maybe they didn’t like the netting😅 and I will not grow brassicas without netting anymore as it’s impossible to get those worms out of the veg. Radishes-last year the heat and drought forced early shade cloth use and I had radishes planted in the shadow of fabric and we installed drip irrigation. I also used a couple varieties-I like many I struggled to grow radishes-the so called simplest veg to grow. I had AMAZING radishes last year! Beets-same as radishes. They were growing in the shade of broccoli and bulbed up very nice last year. I don’t believe they like full sun as I’m trying them again next to peas and it’s a slow go. Plus some bird activity isn’t helping. So I will try in light shade again. Lettuce-mine was slow and then we had only a few brief moments of high temps and they started turning bitter. They still look great but suspect this weekend’s heat they may bolt. The temperatures are fooling even long time gardeners like me so don’t feel bad. It’s difficult. I couldn’t figure out why I had 3 plum trees in gorgeous bloom all compatible produce only 2 plums on 1 tree!😣. I spoke with Gardener Scott and now I remember what happened-we had freezing temps that week and I quit covering them that week as I was knocking buds off and said sink or swim-they sank. The apples and Haskaps fared better. Quick snaps of cold and heat trigger plants to think they have been through a season and bolt and freezing temps during fruit bloom spells disaster. We have been in severe drought all last year and this last week we had over 5” of rain and all last summer 3.5” 😮!! I believe it’s the return of La Niña weather pattern which brings back northern rain-Z5a, WI. I’m hoping the rain doesn’t dry up like last year as that’s what happened. However the amount we’ve had and cool temps don’t play well with some plants like peppers as they have a bit of lime green color. The heat will be Cranked up after Thursday though and many plants will bolt Or finally kick into gear. Luckily the native soil is sandy. So it’s all about temps and how you manage the soil. The other is what varieties of vegetables you are trying to grow as not all do well everywhere. So try different locations and varieties and take notes. It was a fluke that the radishes turned out for me and then I realized it was too hot in our micro climate. I don’t have need for grow towers, but I see Renee’s Garden carries many baby vegetable seeds that I think is about all the towers can handle. Our soil was badly destroyed by previous owners and I’ve worked on it for years, but the addition of leaves and arborist bark in the last at least 3 years has proved worthy as we now have worms. Hope that info helps some who are stumped and discouraged to figure out why some vegetables don’t produce in your garden.

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

It's all like a maze when it comes to gardening.... you remember your ways from last year, you try new routes and sometimes you have to go back and start again. See, beets have never been a problem for me and when it comes to brassicas I completely agree that some protection is needed otherways the bugs will eat them for you.

@angelamartin9325 Ай бұрын

I’m behind on so much… But I finally got a new roof 🎉

@user-fv1lf7bv1j Ай бұрын

Radishes don't grow well here. I grew them (easily) when I lived in CT. Since moving to IN, no luck (also struggle with beets).

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

Beets seem to be fine for me, I am done with radishes!

@rachealhernandez3593 Ай бұрын

Same with radishes. I started over seeding and snipping the greens. I've liked that better than actual radishes.

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

Yeah, I think I might do that with the seeds when I am doing my salad greens in the fall.

@doramaldonado4460 Ай бұрын

Radishes are my sworn enemy!!!

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

I know what you mean, I really think I am done trying!

@dawndawn6946 Ай бұрын

So full and beautiful! The strawberries look wonderful.❤ I still haven't covered my strawberry patch, so I still haven't gotten any strawberries. I will do that first thing tomorrow. I repaired irrigation all day today. I had a great broccoli harvest, too! The cauliflower never comes; only in the fall. I don't know why I keep doing a spring planting! I just tore out the broccoli, cauliflower, and lettuce yesterday. I was upset with myself because I didn't have seedlings ready to go in. I guess I will just direct sow tomorrow.😊

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

"I will do that tomorrow" You said that on my last video from 2 weeks ago lol (Just kidding!)

@dawndawn6946 Ай бұрын

@SoilandMargaritas 🤣🤣🤣You know, I think maybe I actually did say that about the strawberries! I put the supports up, but couldn't find the brain power to hunt down the netting!🤦🏾‍♀️

@SoilandMargaritas Ай бұрын

@@dawndawn6946 LOL

@lisagoggin8021 Ай бұрын

Ditto…for me and radish

@jenniepitts7993 Ай бұрын

Radish root/ball needs to have dirt uncovered at top to enlarge like you do onions

@michellefrance1165 Ай бұрын

That is exactly how my radishes were this year too ugh!!

@lovelight9164 Ай бұрын

I honestly think it's the radish seeds this year that are bad, I know a lot of my plants like the allium after they flowered this year the seed pods were non-existent so there will be no reseeding for next year. Something in the rain or air I believe is causing sterile seeds.