Summer GARDENING FAILS | July GARDEN TOUR Zone 8b (North Florida)

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

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[@christopherelmer30]

I can't believe you guys don't have more subscribers and viewers. You guys have awesome videos.

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

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[@carolmiland9665]

Good morning..good to see you. Take care..much love to you all

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

Thanks for stopping in Carol

[@rhondabritt972]

Nice to have 2 planting seasons. I want a garden. Unfortunately at this time can't have one. Hope ya'll have a wonderful night. Love you guys.

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

It is nice, but very very busy

[@danielapettus7693]

I love the garden videos

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

Are you planting one?

[@danielapettus7693]

Yes I did a summer garden and I will plant in fall but right now everything is done iam in Texas and we have 105 with no rain

[@marilynfdavis891]

Great seeing your garden!! Awesome to have 2 plantings a year! 💜

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

Yes, we're lucky in that regards

[@Ice_queen312]

Over the years, I've learned to work with FL rather than against it. I only grow what I know will thrive in our crazy climate. Looking at what grows in the same climate throughout the world also helps.

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

It definitely makes a difference

[@dieterkaraluz1859]

I’m also in FL 8b, my harvest has been low compared to yours, but then I focused my winter and spring on getting my newly-started orchard going. But heck, after the utter failure of the last two years (from using herbicide-contaminated horse manure) I’m having fun eating produce from the garden! First crop was snap beans (an experiment), followed by cucumbers (what a thrill to eat fresh cucumbers every day for two weeks!), but they are wilting away presumably from the heat. Yesterday I harvest a basket full of Banana, Lipstick, and Big Bertha peppers (canned, pickled, and made an awesome pasta sauce)… My tomatoes are not doing good: because I started the seeds so late the few they produced didn’t ripen before the heat, and an industrious squirrel keeps taking the almost ripe tomatoes from the plant, rolls them out of the raised bed and heads to the big oak tree through the welded wire fence…. At that point the tomatoes get stuck in the fence and I end up with one or two half eaten tomatoes by the fence every day… so I’m becoming adept to making fried green tomatoes 😁 ! The single Everglades tomato on the other hand is taking over the end of the raised bed where I planted it a reaching over to the fence a few feet next to it, and providing a morning snack while I’m checking the plants… Melon plants didn’t make it at all, getting a few watermelons that so far had to feed to the chicken, okra, zucchini, and Seminole pumpkin plants are still small (late seed starting), mornings and comfrey are working on it… The only herb I’m growing is basil in a pot next to the back door to make me feel guilty if I don’t make pesto (and I have been feeling guilty for the last several weeks 😕 )… All said, nothing to write home about, but I’m getting over the trauma from the last two years! Regards!

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

It sounds like you're still getting quite the harvest. I resigned myself to no fresh tomatoes this summer. But I'm starting new for fall

[@jeanburgin160]

This has been an unusual growing season. It was late before we could plant this spring. Very hot and dry now. I enjoy your videos…. All the best.

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

It's been a rough year for alot of us

[@jamesblanton3744]

When I used to garden in 8b I had very good luck with yellow squash zucchini hot peppers of several verity’s southern peas such as purple hull and acre peas also onions and potatoes grow well

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

I want to try purple hull!

[@susan-almosta_farm8823]

I'm in NE TX, zone 8a, and our corn did great this year. Last year, not so much. But this year, I hilled it (didn't realize I was suppose to) and fed it with good compost when I planted it and then gave it fish emulsion twice. Ground watered instead of over head because I had read that once it starts to silk, if the silk gets wet it makes it sticky and it can't get pollinated as well. We haven't had rain in 2 mos. That's what all I did this year and the harvest was so much better. Honey and Cream sweet corn is what I planted. My tomatoes are producing well but look so sickly. Our temps have been over 100 everyday and of course the humidity is through the roof, so each plant is very curled up. AND I've had issues with blossom end rot this year for the first time ever. I even used calcium supplement when I planted them. Giving them Calmag now to try and help. I still have some blossoms, but I don't have high hopes they'll make it. Cucumbers, zucchini, butternut squash, canada crook neck, spaghetti squash, armenian cucumber and okra have done really well. I really had to fight the squash bugs, but I stayed on top of it, checking everyday and won that battle but lost a total of 5 plants to the squash vine bore. All the beans I'll store dried have tons of blooms but not one bean. So I'm still hoping they're coming. Green beans are just now producing. Since I've had no rain and I use a drip irrigation to water with, I've had no issues at all with blight! YAY!!! Pumpkins, watermelons and cantaloupes look fantastic, just not ripe yet, so fingers crossed. I got bell, banana, tabasco, producing like crazy, but not a jalapeno yet. Sorry this is so long. I love talking garden but no one around me cares to listen. They just like to eat. 😂 It's okay. I love to cook all from scratch. Feeding folks is my love language. lol God Bless!!!

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

I love this! So glad you're seeing some success. We gad some wins and we had losses. But i cant complain with overall harvest. Just gonna buy canning tomatoes from another local farmer this year.

[@ryeohmz]

So inspiring.. keep it up #keepitcoming

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

It's been a tough year

[@gbltheolechurch5acrehomestead]

Lol….your summer garden is very nice…all good…the fails are learning experiences….my good friend is in Windermere, Florida. Peggy Helbling Garden What You Got.

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

Its still a good garden. Just didnt get to harvest everything I wanted

[@justfurthehealthofit]

I'm in Western WA, zone 8b also. It was so cold and wet thru Jun, then we had heat waves. I have struggled with almost everything this year. My best crop this year so far has been potatoes!

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

Thats something. My potatoes didnt do well. Its been too dry, then too wet

[@andy38andrews96]

I am just across the river from you, and my tomatoes were a bust for the third year in a row, and I have gardened successfully here for many, many years ( I am 84 years old). We just had too much rain for we had several inches a week a number of times, causing the tomatoes to rot on the vine before ripening.

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

Yessir! It's been a crazy year. I guess with a high tunnel there'd be a more controlled environment

[@stephanieeschete2515]

Man my garden struggled this year. I couldn’t prevent blossom end rot to save my life this year, my tomatillo plants looked amazing with tons of blooms but i have yet to get any fruit. Ugh it’s frustrating. On to fall planning soon and hopeful for a better season

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

Yes! Stay with it! You got this

[@lindas5964]

This year it seems like many plants are doing much better due to the cold snap we had that I believe killed off a lot of the horrible mites that suck the life out of everything I plant. Snails are (fairly) easy to control but mites are nearly impossible. 😠

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

It can be a mess

[@andrewhobbs6962]

Just ordered the Fly Fixed, 5 of them!...let's hope they work! PS I love the Chumuckla shirts, I'll have to get one for my wife, although we're actually in New York Community, technically a Jay address.

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

That's right up the road!!

[@Maybe_Crazy05]

Try planting your tomato and corn late in August, you have a longer growing season but it should be a bit cooler and do better. You could also try drip tape on a set timer since you have to go out of town so it would be a set and forget type of thing. My garden didn’t do great but we’re in the process of moving to a different state so it’s definitely my fault. But even though things do bad it’s still a win because you tried 😉

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

I've made peace with it. Can't win it all. 😁

[@jamesblanton3744]

I also live in north Florida and I don’t garden anymore due to health issues but my brother does and he does well with tomatoes but I think that only a few varieties that grow well like you his okra grows like crazy

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

If nothing else, we can survive off okra and sweet potatoes

[@garymontgomery7928]

Corn needs a good amount of fertilizer especially nitrogen. I put up a high tunnel this year and my tomatoes and squash an zucchini did real good this year , I usually get to much rain in south Louisiana which plays havoc each year.

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

It's been a rough year. Where'd you get your high tunnel? I want to start looking

[@garymontgomery7928]

@@HiddenOaksHomestead I made it simple, I got the plastic from Amazon and so far it has with stood 60 mph winds. I watched Deep South Homestead and a few other ones to get ideas.

[@Homesteading_Things_I_Know]

What kind of cucumber did you plant?

[@HiddenOaksHomestead]

Pickling cucumbers