Mistakes We All Make - Garden Quickie Episode 196

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

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[@Kelly.A.]

I learn so much from you even after 20+ years of gardening myself. Never too old to learn. Thank you!

[@TheRebirthOfWisdom]

I am 3 years in the gardening world. You have given me consistent and encouraging advice on my journey and I am very grateful for you!! I am a stroke survivor and my garden in my therapy and source of healing energy ❤️‍🩹 Keep Going Good Brother! ❤

[@user-xb7sj2uk4u]

Last Rosemary is still alive thanks to your tip on uping the sand content. ❤

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Nice! Happy to hear that!

[@jayhuewt2002]

First year gardener here. Great vid! You covered 3 mistakes I made but didn’t mention the most damaging one… underestimating the destruction of small animals!

[@rvbliss]

Got to be resilient in this garden game. Thank you for sharing 😊

[@naomi2646]

Thank you so much Jeff! I'm in my 3rd year, its very discouraging again this year. I've tried containers, no luck, my second year I went to in ground. It's so hot here. One week of spring then blazing summer. Looks like fall may be my best chance.

[@tracysullivan174]

Thank You! I So Always Look Forwad To Your Videos! Keep On Keeping On!!!! Stay Well And Thrive!!!!

[@melindaroth5796]

😂 Jeff you are so honest and so right. GOD Bless you Brother Jeff.😊❤

[@vetgirl71]

It’s my 2nd year gardening. I am growing a variety of tomatoes & green peppers plants, potatoes, carrots, garlic, onions & herbs (also strawberries & pollinator flowers). I transplanted one broccoli starter plant as an experiment. It was doing well the first two months, the head was coming and I keep the plant watered well, shading & also sprayed the plant with homemade pest detergent . All was well until we had a storm, when I checked the next morning the yucky aphids were all over the entire broccoli plant ! 😢 🤢🤮 I learned when I try again for the fall season to keep them covered with insect netting next time! So this was a good trial & error “experiment “ for me! Thanks for your great gardening tips! 👏🏾😄❤️

[@mcgritty8842]

I already passed the test 😉 ❤ Sometimes I feel the biggest mistake was starting to garden. It gets daunting and sometimes overwhelming and then aggravating. I sometimes feel like giving up, but I can’t just let the plants die

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@mcgritty8842 as the seasons pass, those feelings should get less and less

[@flatlander2743]

I hear ya! I failed to prep a straw bale garden correctly and the plants were struggling before we began our regularly scheduled drought! The people I'm gardening with insist on pouring water on plants that will never amount to much. (sigh) Staying optimistic... I'm hoping the "wasted" water will get the bales ready for an autumn sowing of leafy greens.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@flatlander2743 oh yeah, that would be a pain. Do you normally soak them first?

[@flatlander2743]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I should have soaked them thoroughly each day for 3 days. I didn't. Then I was supposed to water in a nitrogen- blood meal, urea or some other source. If I'd done everything correctly the bales would have heated up to at least 120 degrees F. I watered with diluted Miracle-Gro as well, but probably too late. Best I got was 100 F before I began sowing beans and transplanting peppers and such. Nothing is growing well. The beans, peppers, even the beets have yellow leaves which may be a nitrogen deficiency? I think the nitrogen is still tied up in breaking down the straw. I tore up some of the bales to use as mulch. They were damp and had a pleasant odor, kind of like beer or wine fermenting? I'm adding organic fertilizers come the middle of July and watering those in well. If the fall crops don't pan out I'll bust all the bales up and mulch the other garden beds with them before winter. In past bale gardens I've had pole and runner beans go wild! Had tomatoes- 'Italian Heirloom' -weighing in at 1 pound average and had one hit 1.5 pounds. I definitely didn't prep the bales correctly this spring.

[@657449]

There is always enough for me and a little more to share.

[@robertstitt9493]

I feed my chickens Alfalfa, and when it drys up, I use it as a mulch. Great for added calcium for my tomatoes.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@robertstitt9493 Alfalfa is a miracle plant! Love it!

[@jimmcdowell9017]

Know the feeling’ Jeff. Last year my bell peppers went bonkers. Not so this year. Shucks! Maybe next year.

[@michaelfoort2592]

Very good topic

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks Michael! 🙂

[@Kelson01]

wireworms are eating the roots of all my plants stunting growth and as for root vegetables… I’ve lost hundreds of radishes.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Ugghh....the worst. Aeration and cover crops are the only known organic controls.

[@ninemoonplanet]

Another gardening mistake is buying "soil" without actually looking at it before buying. We ended up with "garden soil" that was 80% rough sand, 20% dirt with rocks and some plants material. Two years later, I have to seive out rocks, try to add real compost and get something to grow. It's taken a year just to clean one raised bed. 😤 Weather has over watered everything, so drainage has become a problem. I grow everything I can in pots now, it's much less trouble.

[@hydrojet7x70]

I love this channel!!!

[@risebad]

That transition from the microscope earned a like and subscribe

[@paulfrizzell31]

👍great video

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks Paul! 🙂

[@Charm-313]

Yup! That's me😃👈🏾 Garlic and onions didn't turn out the way I thought. Heat beating my crop up. And still a rookie 😁👍🏾 EDIT: And crop fails or produce small fruit

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@Charm-313 but you are on your way to gardening greatness....it's just a matter of time!

[@Charm-313]

​@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thanks for the encouragement, Jeff😁👍🏾 I greatly appreciate it 😉👉🏾

[@TheLiamSoamesy]

So I've got 3 types of tomato's growing, lost packets 😢. Do I pick the side shoots from all? How do I know they are determinate or indeterminate?

[@Toni_Bednarz]

I started a cucumber plant from seed about a month late for my area (I didn’t know or I would have waited for next year). What should I do now? Is it possible to grow it in a pot inside as I believe it will be producing when winter is here

[@kevenweaver9266]

%99.5 success rate I'll take it 😂

[@maureensamson4528]

In 2nd year of gardening on a larger scale, seems I do more research than actual gardening most of the time lol. Everything starts out great, then the issues arise - anyone have to deal with an iron or manganese deficiency in raspberry and strawberry plants? Working on fixing the heavy clay soil they're in but trying to save them from dying off 😢.

[@IsabelleIsabelle01]

I miss your premieres

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@IsabelleIsabelle01 me too Isabelle x2! We gotta bring them back!

[@IsabelleIsabelle01]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms it's a must ! LOL

[@kristin143]

oh men, I remember posting one too but when I look for it. it's not there

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

🙂

[@nikki2Kayz]

I was told growing up, to water the plants at night because the sunlight can burn them through water droplets that can act as a magnifying glass. I know nothing and I'm the worst gardener in the history of forever. I finally got to be able to start a little porch garden and I got aphids on my dill, tiny, black fly things on my blue lake bean plant and cilantro and some died. I should make videos on "WHAT NOT TO DO- GARDENING 101" 😂 I'm pathetic and even more so because gardening is already something we all should know. I don't know what I'm doing wrong... everything I guess. I feel bad for the plants that didn't make it. My other problem is, is that I can't bring myself to kill pests. I just picked up some copperwire for the garden. It's so late in the season. I was going to start again, but I don't think I have the time. I'm in Pennsylvania

[@flatlander2743]

I'm in mid-Maryland, less than a mile south of the PA/MD line. I started direct seed sowing some crops in late July/early August two years ago. Mulching and regular watering gave me peas, tomatoes, kale and mustard greens I've always struggled to grow well from spring through summer. This season I'm sowing cabbage along with the other fall crops. This seems to be working.

[@nikki2Kayz]

@@flatlander2743 oh wow! That's good to know! Thank you so much! 🙏

[@chompers11]

Maybe not warm season plants but cold season for sure

[@nikki2Kayz]

@@chompers11 Thank you! I appreciate your input. Respect.🙏

[@flatlander2743]

@@chompers11 To my surprise early maturing tomatoes produced well from direct seeding in July. The plants grew like weeds during the worst of summer's heat and fruited madly when fall's cooler temps arrived.

[@racebiketuner]

In 66 years of farming I have never made a mistake! Ha ha ha! 😉

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@racebiketuner heh heh...! :-)

[@Cherryparfait41]

I lose plants often…that counts, right?

[@ninemoonplanet]

The best gardeners in the world kill plants, so you're in the club. Notes work, what bugs, weather, soil are you seeing that are causing problems? I forget to make those same notes myself, oops.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Indeed it does Cherry!

[@phloriaernas2149]

Thank you very much for sharing! o(*￣▽￣*)ブ

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@phloriaernas2149 cheers, thanks so much for watching!