Food growers struggle worldwide 2024. Is there hope this growing disaster year?

The year 2024 has been a difficult one this year for food growers worldwide.
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I hope people enjoy the video.

[@homegardens7682]

Hello everyone. I hope you enjoy this video and find it useful. Please feel free to leave a comment how your crops are doing and where you are situated in the world. Here is the video I mentioned in this video. 2024! Disaster gardening year for gardeners and food growers! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jILSm4WPoJJ8qqc. Many other videos linked in description box.

[@kylenmaple4668]

Pacific Northwest had an EPIC growing season. Mellow, consistent Spring. Normal Summer. We even got a weird late-summer rain which doesn’t usually happen, kicked off Fall nicely. Guess we got lucky this year

[@homegardens7682]

Great stuff.

[@stephaniegee227]

I'm in Tennessee (USA). This has been the most challenging gardening year we've had in - well, I can't remember how long. We had too much rain. Then we had too many insects. Then we didn't have enough rain and went into a drought coupled with intense heat and humidity. Yes, it gets hot here in the summer, but we had to put up shade cloth for the first time ever. Of course, we couldn't cover the entire garden that way, but the shade cloth did help. Anyway - it wasn't a total loss. We had some successes, but we had vegetables that withered away which normally thrive here.

[@homegardens7682]

Very odd weather all round it seems

[@Tandenloos]

Tennessee en hollands same then this year

[@Pixieworksstudio]

I've had a great year this year with sun, rain, sun. I grew more tomatoes than I ever have. I just hardly cut them back, leaving bottom leaves on, and not taking the tops out or taking flowers off etc. My crop was absolutely insane. It was an experiment for me this year, and I'm certainly going to do it again next year. I had so many that the hens had them too. All my tomato plants will come out next week so I can clear the tunnel for winter crops.

[@homegardens7682]

Great stuff.

[@MV-ws4tm]

That burp at the end made me spit my drink out 😂

[@homegardens7682]

Lol! Gotta be done!

[@jasonhughes726]

Dan i have been working outside over 30 years and this Summer tops one we had in early 2000's ! "WHAT A CRAP SUMMER" !!!.

[@homegardens7682]

Indeed yes!

[@Tandenloos]

That was my first year on a allotment garden to compleetly soakt weeding gr Holland

[@angiemurphy2423]

We were very interested to learn more about the Cocktail Crush tomatoes because that's what we are growing this year too. We have one plant bought as a seedling and are growing it in a pot in the garden, We feed it weekly with Tomorite, and it's produced a great crop of tasty tomatoes. Have grown a variety of baby plum tomato called Lucinda a couple of times which has also done very well for us. We are in south Hertfordshire and experienced the same bad weather as the rest of the country, bringing out the slugs everywhere you look. Been a good year for blueberries, although ou Brigitta died, our Blue Crop did brilliantly and Pink Lemonade produced its first big grop since we bought it 3 years ago. Love watching your vlogs. Happy gardening and may your crops be plentiful.

[@homegardens7682]

Same to you.

[@GypsyoftheSun]

Exceptional video! Very informative and full of a variety of options to grow. My Patty Pan aka Scallop squash did very well this year. I moved approximately 12 miles from my old place and in the process of moving 40 or so ravenous deer devoured most of my plants. Didn't have time to install a deer fence. I'll over winter my pepper plants and have a head start for a very large garden next season. Thank you for taking the time to make another great video for us. Many Blessings 😊

[@homegardens7682]

Cool. Same to you.

[@andrewramsey7405]

Thurrock, Essex is where I live, wet & cool up till mid-July, then it got warm since then, mid to late September now & the storms mark the end of the warmth. The wet cool start to the summer was terrible for slugs & snails, slaughtered by potatoes, tomatoes (big daddy) & chillies grown in greenhouses & are still a month late. Aubergines are doing pretty well & I'll harvest them in October, still a bit small at the moment.

[@homegardens7682]

Thanks for viewing.

[@Allotment-of-the-Dead]

It's been a hard year, lots failed, my tomatoes outside were awful. As you've grown some more unusual things have you tried growing Jicama? They taste fantastic.

[@joepeduzzi8834]

I've always been a heirloom grower but this year I grew 2 F1 cultivars called Mountain magic and Defiant. I've been getting baskets of tomatoes daily since late June from ten plants. I started them from seeds indoors early April in soil blocks and planted them out mid May. The flavor rivals any heirloom. They're extremely disease and crack resistant. Give them a shot.

[@homegardens7682]

Thanks. Cheers.

[@anguillaanguila7255]

really interesting - blight on way in uk given the rain

[@homegardens7682]

Certainly possible.

[@brenR75]

Chard is very good taste to me anyway. Green or Red taste fine , mild taste. Thanks for sharing your hard work and fruitfulness and Harvesting spurt before Winter Thanks !

[@homegardens7682]

My pleasure entirely.

[@andrewramsey7405]

Clay soil, if you have clay soil like I have, I used bark overtime, and it improved it massively. I've been using it for over 10 years now.

[@homegardens7682]

Thanks for the suggestion.

[@JenenaMaughan]

I live in Perth in Western Australia & we have had not much of a winter (June - August). The carryover from last summer saw temps of 30°c right through into early April ( second month of Autumn). The beginning of September ( first month of spring) has seen temps of consistent high 20's°.

[@homegardens7682]

Interesting weather.

[@glassbackdiy3949]

Good show, cheers Dan

[@homegardens7682]

Cheers. Much appreciated.

[@sajadahmed1269]

Hi Dan very good gardening video do you grow beef tomatoes.i think the weather in south is always a bit better than here in Scotland . when do you harvest your grapes.

[@homegardens7682]

My next video will be dedicated to grapes so loads on there!

[@jeffreyrossi5084]

Very different summer in North Dakota USA this year. Very good even scattering of rain which keep the parries green and the slues full which keep the deer feed with less reason to come into the garden. Has been comfortably cool the entire summer with days in the 70-80s Fahrenheit nights high 40-50s. Unfortunately, not really warm enough for a good garden but all the big-time farmers did great with the grain, corn, canola, sunflower and been type crops. Usually by now we have a frost but the night temps remaining the same for the next 10 days. Maybe summer is still on the way for me.

[@homegardens7682]

Cool. Hows the temperature there now Jeffrey?

[@jeffreyrossi5084]

@@homegardens7682 For the next 15 days were looking at 60-70 degrees Fahrenheit days and 30-50s nights. I'm kind of on edge to harvest the buttercup squashes and the last of the tomatoes. We are experiencing something now which is common here but not in the UK, 40+ per mile and hour winds that dry the plants out, they last for days at a time.

[@KovietUnionDefector]

Unusually bad year for courgette / zucchini...so/so for pumkins not as prolific for some of my plants. Brilliant year inside my new Russian snow proof design greenhouse with cucumbers all types ( nice lot of gerkins for fish and chip night. Tomatoes were good too for my first year. Tried ceylon spinach in the greenhouse and that has been great...going to try and bring them in to the house for winter as a house plant. Bad year in my area for plums with a late spring...not the best year for my apples either but last year was a bad year for them. Got some great Glen Ample raspberries. Seems like the seasons are 1 month behind the normal calendar this year. A very dry year here too.

[@homegardens7682]

Indeed. I didn't get one this year

[@grahambolton3428]

Imho the seedless are way more tasy than the wild thorned variety dan mate👌👌👌

[@homegardens7682]

Cool. Cheers.

[@bluemoon6625]

Great video, very informative and professionally done. Well, until that weird burp near the end - was that meant to be an animal impression? 🙃😁 You've really gone from strength to strength with the quality of your vids, they are better than some gardening programmes on mainstream TV. Our toms are finished now, I picked the last few a couple of days ago and the plants are in the compost bin. It has been the worst spring and summer I've ever known, although we have had several warm sunny days recently so that has been very pleasant. There is talk that food prices will be higher this winter due to the poor growing conditions, it must be very stressful for farmers. Fingers crossed next year will be better. PS: I think you can freeze grapes. Also consider making grape juice - less hassle than brewing wine but still very drinkable.

[@homegardens7682]

I have considered juicing. My next video will be a grape video.

[@Mindsi]

Use wool mulch🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@homegardens7682]

Cheers.

[@sajadahmed1269]

Hi Dan could you please let me know if vitis red globe and vitis barbera are good variety of grapes to grow in Glasgow.

[@homegardens7682]

They could be worth a try but they look like warmer climate grapes to me. Maybe in a greenhouse or polytunnel would be worth a try.

[@sajadahmed1269]

Thanks for the good information ​@@homegardens7682

[@Goldenson1]

My Squash also didnt grow 😢 Coulsdon Surrey

[@homegardens7682]

Oh yes Coulsdon. I remember seeing that on the M25 on the way to South West London.

[@AquaBuddhaDeluge]

hmm? I thought we are pretty much at record production this year. That's why the prices of corn, soybeans and wheat are all falling right?

[@homegardens7682]

You never know as they say.

[@grahambolton3428]

Rhubarb should no be picked this time of year due to oxylic acid content, just something i was reading a few days ago, not sure if it is correct though mate🤷

[@homegardens7682]

I have heard that yes.

[@mariolambrechts3306]

Belgium was terrible, i gave up chemtrails and rain every day, even my chickens hardly lay few egs

[@homegardens7682]

Sorry to hear that.

[@sonicworm8249]

Can only speak for myself here in the UK but I think the weather this season has been closer to normal than the last 3 or 4 years on which records have been broken with regards to high temps I believe the seeds are to blame but not in a conspiricy way

[@homegardens7682]

I understand. Maybe quality has declined.

[@sonicworm8249]

@@homegardens7682 i was thinking more that it maybe a result of the pandemic, after all between 2020 and 2022 there was very little seed harvesting if any, so where did all our seed come from? old stock maybe

[@thecookreporting]

Burp lol

[@homegardens7682]

Indeed!

[@666bruv]

This is just friggen click bait crap

[@Allotment-of-the-Dead]

It's been a hard year, lots failed, my tomatoes outside were awful. As you've grown some more unusual things have you tried growing Jicama? They taste fantastic.

[@homegardens7682]

Funny you say this....I have some seeds for next year!

[@Allotment-of-the-Dead]

@homegardens7682 excellent, I've grown them the last couple of years, they do pretty well. Taste great as long as you remember to peel them. The outer skin is toxic.

[@homegardens7682]

@@Allotment-of-the-Dead Cool. I will plant some early Spring. All fun stuff!