Planting Our Garden- Encountering So Many Unexpected Problems!

Join us as we plant our garden on our new property and navigate unexpected challenges along the way. This year has been a big learning experience, with high pH soil and a late frost causing setbacks. Despite these obstacles, we're staying positive and optimistic about what we can grow and learn from this season.
In this video, we share our journey, discuss the issues with boron, high PH, and frost on the plants. Our garden's progress is behind last year, and some plants are permanently damaged or dead, but we're hopeful and looking forward to better results in the future.
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Thanks for watching! Let us know in the comments if you've faced similar gardening challenges and share your tips for overcoming them. Don’t forget to like and subscribe for more gardening updates and hopeful stories! Happy gardening!

[@raincoast9010]

Top marks for perseverance!

[@MontanaMidValleyFarm]

Thanks it’s been a bit of a mental battle deciding if it’s worth it.

[@SerialSpinner-ss]

That mid June frost was such a bummer. My peppers were so shocked that I don't really think I'll get any harvest this year. Here in Kalispell we got hail that shredded up the tomato, cucumber etc leaves and then we got a couple of days of hot sun. Yikes! Those poor plants! Now it is mid July and after lots of rain and now hot hot weather in the 90's the tomatoes and cucumbers are recovering and starting to look pretty good. This was not the year to try okra. It's pathetic. Peppers are trying but are still pathetic. I guess you take what you can get. Cole plants look good. We'll see how they manage the heat. I hope things recover for you and you keep the faith! Next year will be better...

[@MontanaMidValleyFarm]

Sorry you are in a similar boat. Hail on top of it all! Oh man! It’s frustrating that this season seems over before it really started. Hot now so let hope we all get some produce!!!

[@raincoast9010]

Hot out there today. Nice job on the garden, i hope it turns out better than your tomato patch.

[@MontanaMidValleyFarm]

I hope so too. Things still seem very behind but we will see!

[@raincoast9010]

Frost June 19th? That's crazy!

[@MontanaMidValleyFarm]

It wasn’t even predicted to be anywhere near that cold, which was the most frustrating part.

[@raincoast9010]

When my mom had 'weed pressure' in her big garden she put her little slaves to work fixing the problem. :)

[@MontanaMidValleyFarm]

Haha! Love it!

[@marthawhitehouse9838]

You have a lot of weed pressure because you keep tilling. Tillage activates weed seeds. Look into no till methods and using natural mulch.

[@jeffmeyers3837]

@marthawhitehouse9838 They don't "keep" tilling, they did an initial till to establish the garden. You are right that tilling brings up new seeds from the never ending seed bank in the soil, but many no-till folks perform an initial till to get started, especially on weedy overgrown areas. I've dealt with pernicious, invasive field weeds that have been established for years. Cardboard sheet mulching with 12" of wood chips isn't going to do it. Ask me how I know, lol

[@jeffmeyers3837]

I know your boron is high, but it's possible you also have persistent herbicide poisoning. In particular aminopyralids or things like Graze On. Was that field ever used for pasture, or to grow any type of hay? If so, they may have sprayed, it can remain in the soil for up to 10 years, has a very long half-life. The symptoms are curling like what you showed, and doesn't happen initially but after they are established. May or may not be part of your issue, but might be worth looking into. Corn is not affected (since it's a monocot/grass), so you could test by growing corn.

[@MontanaMidValleyFarm]

Thanks for the thought. We considered that as we’ve had some issues with that in the past. We’ve kept in touch with the last owners that lived on the property for the last 14 years and they were very anti spray. They actually sold us the property largely because they wanted to sell it to organic farmers. They said this a few times so it seems this was important to them. At this point we are looking into fixing the high PH as well as the boron. Thanks for the comment.

[@jeffmeyers3837]

@@MontanaMidValleyFarm Ok good to know you've already explored that avenue. What a blessing to have a property that hasn't been sprayed, those are getting harder to come by these days. Good luck with the PH and Boron issue, I subscribed so I'll follow along to see how it goes. Cheers.

[@MontanaMidValleyFarm]

@jeffmeyers3837 thanks for subscribing! Glad to have you along!

[@raincoast9010]

maybe make three ten minute segments next time?

[@MontanaMidValleyFarm]

I debated that, I know it got lengthy. I mostly posted this video to reflect on it in the future and show how plans can change so much with different circumstances when gardening.

[@Gen_X_Jenn]

So disheartening. Sorry, friends. Hopefully some of it will be salvageable.

[@MontanaMidValleyFarm]

Thank you! We will see soon!