Garden Fails for 2024 | PNW Zone 8b

[@meprivate1033]

Thanks for keeping it real!

[@hollyf1380]

Girl you are not the only one with a bunch of green tomatoes 😂 would love if you would share some green tomatoe canning recipes.

[@littlerootsranch]

My next video I will show what I canned with green tomatoes and next year I will do videos for each (out of green tomatoes for this year).

[@caracoates4834]

I had a terrible pepper year. Last year was awful for cucumbers, but this year I grew them in a greenstalk and had great success.

[@raynichol8959]

We had a long, wet anemic spring in Seattle this year. Here in the U district. My beets and root vegetables did well. Not so good with cucumbers except the golf ball round lemon cucumbers which are still producing in October. Many varieties of tomatoes. A lot of ripe smaller tomatoes this year, but unfortunately, a lot of unripened green larger tomatoes by seasons end. Raspberries did well, blueberries not so good. Leeks, onions and garlic did well because they were planted last fall. Overall, this year was probably my worst season in 40 years growing in the same neighborhood. I believe because of climate change, I ’ve gone from zone 8B to zone 9A!? I wonder if I am going to need to change my gardening techniques in the future. To learn to adapt to the new micro climate in zone 9A. My fall plantings this year are “so so.” However, everything I’ve grown inside under grow lights are doing fantastic. Microgreens, Tiney Tim tomatoes, peppers, ginger and turmeric are all doing well. My ginger is so happy it even gave me a flower to enjoy. Fingers crossed for next springs seasons outdoor crops. 🤞🤞

[@littlerootsranch]

This year really did stand out as an off year. Every year I try to make a garden fails video but this one was a longer list. I heard something about the overall UV being lower this year but I haven’t actually looked into that yet.

[@brietprentice2830]

I use organic sluggo here in the PNW and it saved my garden! We had what seemed like thousands of slugs decimate everything in 2021/2022. If you start sprinkling the pellets early in the spring it should take care of the problem while the baby slugs start being born so it never becomes anything too crazy. Keep sprinkling them periodically to keep it under control. If you decide to go that route I hope this helps!

[@littlerootsranch]

Thank you- I do need to get around to looking into that and stop suffering lol.

[@LisaFettis]

Thank you for sharing some of your struggles in the garden! I’m in Stanwood too and had a tough time this summer. I figured it’s my inexperience 😅 I appreciate you sharing some of your experiences this season! Hoping to regroup this winter 😊

[@littlerootsranch]

Fellow Stanwoodian, yay. You know, with Mother Nature or the pest cycles- it is always something.

[@barbharrison1179]

Thank you SO much for this!! I had so many struggles this year and its disheartening to watch the ones who can't afford to have these elaborate garden beds built and order every garden gadget, Compost etc and their pintrest gardens while mine struggled all summer. I appreciate you and learn a lot from your channel ❤

[@littlerootsranch]

Thank you and thank you for watching and supporting me. I wish everyone was more open about garden struggles because it is perfectly normal and unavoidable. Everyone loves a pretty picture but it never tells the whole story.

[@quackersplatfarm]

Just got to the end... so my pumpkins did bad this year. I direct sowed a huge area, but nearly all of my seeds were eaten upon germination. Then I did an emergency replant from starts that I started in 4" pots. Half of those were stunted/destroyed after transplant... so in the pots they looked great but they looked worse and worse after transplant. Then I did a 3rd attempt at starts, many of these did okay. Upon investigation, I believe I discovered garden symphylans in the pumpkin area. I think they destroyed my seedlings and transplants and the cooler June slowed plant growth so the damage was very obvious. Thats my current theory atleast.

[@littlerootsranch]

It is always hard when soooo many things can go wrong. I’m glad a little of the 3rd round seemed to go okay- this is my worst pumpkin year ever :(

[@WoochiRanch]

Use beer traps for the slugs! Works SO WELL! I have tons of slugs.

[@barbharrison1179]

@WoochiRanch i I used beer traps too once I learned what was eating my plants. The beer traps do work great.

[@littlerootsranch]

I have heard that so many times- I need to give it a try.

[@quackersplatfarm]

I have 30+ years gardening experience but this was only my 7th year growing here in western wa. Great year for beets, cabbage, garlic, snowpeas. Horrible year for peppers, tomatoes, winter squash. I still can't grow proper brocolli here! Such teeeny heads. I've declared that next year I'm getting serious and will try multiple varieties and plant in various locations in the garden.

[@littlerootsranch]

I like those plant broccoli a little closer and go for quantity because it is so hard to get the huge heads like in other places.

[@NorthToSouthChannel]

I love your channel 😂❤

[@littlerootsranch]

Yay, thank you and thank you for watching.

[@eleanormartinrealtor]

I have a volunteer pumpkin vine. It had 4-5 baby pumpkins, all but one died off for a couple different reasons. I’ll save seeds and try it again in the spring

[@littlerootsranch]

I love volunteer pumpkins.

[@brothermayihavesomeloops7048]

Hey I'm in Portland, and just started my spinach 2-3 weeks ago (direct sown). It's doing great so far. You'll probably have better luck than you think. ✨️

[@littlerootsranch]

Spinach is such a trooper!!

[@SPshaun]

Most of my garden was fails. My corn did good. I failed to trellis and groom tomatoes adequately and the slugs (PNW was bad this year, it wasn’t just you)!Onions were starts we grew ourselves and some did great while others did not. Pumpkins did okay, but last year was better. Peppers did not do great. Last year I put up shade cloth in July so they didn’t scald but this year I jumped the gun on shade cloth and they hated that. But cilantro loved it and further impinged on the peppers. That’s a no go. Broccoli went straight to seed. Shall we go on? It was a tough year. Lessons learned though, right? There’s always next year.

[@littlerootsranch]

There is always next year. I always spend all winter just chomping at the bit to garden and then the spring summer is so busy and crazy. 😂

[@angdent]

I'm in Marysville and had a really good Onion and Pepper season but an awful Tomato one. I also tried to grow Sunflowers this year and out of the dozen or so seeds that I planted only one actually grew and bloomed. Oh well, you win some and you lose some.

[@littlerootsranch]

So many birds and animals love the taste of sunflower seeds. :(

[@eleanormartinrealtor]

I also had a rough year in the garden. Everything ripened really late. I’m just now getting red romas off the vine and Heirloom Purple Tomatoes too. Hardly got any flowerettes from the broccoli 🥦 The things that did well are 4 different lettuces, spinach, butterstick yellow squash, acorn squash, potatoes-red luna, Yukon, purple potatoes, 3 different sugar snap peas, radishes. So we actually had a good summer I’m just bummed about the broccoli 🥦😢

[@littlerootsranch]

Broccoli is such a tricky one I swear.

[@berryster]

In urban Seattle zone 9A, I did well with little decorative pumpkins: Baby Boo white pumpkins specifically. Cucumbers were terrible, summer squash very good, some good winter squash finishing up now. Actually got a decent cabbage, which is a first for me. Chard is unstoppable, glad I enjoy eating it. Peas good, beans were average at best. Flowers good, raspberries good. Had really slow growth for seedlings in trays of all types, so maybe bad potting soil this year?

[@littlerootsranch]

Yes- tray seedlings seemed off though my tomatoes did amazing.

[@rachelflynn3977]

I am always so thankful to see your videos they make me feel so much better and hopeful about my garden! Thank you so much!

[@littlerootsranch]

Yesssss, best comment. Thank you!!! ❤️

[@rachelflynn3977]

@@littlerootsranch I'm a fourth year gardener this past year in the PNW; I really felt like I hit my stride and was going to have the garden of my dreams this year. It turned out to be my lowest yield yet. I'm really thankful to see videos like yours, it makes me feel like I just have to keep trying. Thanks for all you do!

[@keodakilla]

Glad to hear everyone had a similar experience to me. This is my first year and it seemed alright lol

[@littlerootsranch]

Yay for your 1st year- here is to many more years.

[@karenschwartz5209]

You are so funny with that Alliun microphone. 😂

[@littlerootsranch]

I thought there would be more comments about it. 😂😂😂. I was cracking myself up with it.

[@MichaelTheophilus906]

It was a bad year for Seattle area.

[@littlerootsranch]

:(

[@heidiroycroft9465]

I let a volunteer sunflower grow next to my cucumber plant and the cucumber was so stunted. Do sunflowers have that effect on plants? I direct sowed the cucumber too.

[@smallacreliving]

I've heard that sunflowers can do that, yeah. Mine grew amongst some tomatoes and parsley this year, and didn't seem affected, but sounds like it can stunt some things.

[@littlerootsranch]

I’m not sure, but my cabbage were next to them and I had my biggest cabbages so far.