USING SUNFLOWERS AS TRELLIS and GARDEN UPDATE

Gardening for your sustenance is rewarding but also is challenging. We have had 100 degree temps already and its not even summer. Hope you enjoy the update and the trellis tip =)
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[@dezertraider]

Thank you Stacy,Im in central Maine and Im weeks behind you,But rain has been low.You guys are great,Love your dog and hope to get a mix one day.They are super good dogs.Take care.73s

[@paulatwood9794]

OFF GRID with DOUG & STACY Oh Wow! Did I see a strumming stick in this video?

[@desertforest2221]

Sunflowers are so cool. I really love the idea of letting the cucumbers climb up something natural like that. Like vines growing up a tree or something.

[@mrs8792]

Now that’s cleaver! Stacey, you’ve inspired me to start fermenting foods too. Thank you so much💐

[@aretha511]

I got Clydes Garden Planner so I will be ready for next year for sure .Yours is doing Great. Cant wait till harvesting with yah on here. I have learned so much and having a great time with yahs. Thank you.

[@PokerHillFarm]

Even with the heat- your garden is looking great!

[@michaelbecker9071]

Stacy your garden inspired me to start mixing different plants together in some of my beds last year. Many successes there and it's beautiful too. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@rosemelas4670]

I recently subscribed to your channel. I appreciate all the info and the quick tours you give. Beautiful and inspirational! Thank you!

[@seannadeadwood7148]

OH MY GOSH!! I have had this plant I have kept alive for over 14 years. I had no idea what it was and it has increased in size each year. Sometimes I forget to water it and it looks bad but it comes back each and every year. I was told to pull it and get rid of it but I never listened. I was going to look it up two nights ago to see what it was, but forgot. This plant looks just like your comfrey. I am so excited to know I do not have to go out and search for this plant now. I was wanting to plant this for a very long time, only to have it growing right under my nose all these years. :) I am so excited!!

[@genal5808]

I am in Awe of your wonderful garden! My patio garden is coming along really well. Weather in WI has been crazy- 90s for a few days then it will be in the 60s. So looking forward to seeing you both in August! Thank you.

[@LivingTraditionsHomestead]

Your gardens are looking great! This heat has definitely been a challenge. Japanese beetles are our biggest problem at the moment. Good to see the update. - Kevin & Sarah

[@tracycrider7778]

Milky spore kills Japanese Beetle grubs❤ 2xs a year for 3 years. Supposedly last for 10-20 years

[@nettiewinkler1775]

Thanks for the tips on basil! Love your garden videos!

[@chevy6299]

Love seeing your garden as I always get ideas on what to try next. Thanks Stacy.

[@cindik8017]

I subscribe several weeks ago and have really enjoyed your videos. We’re in Southwest Missouri. Our grass is crunchy and we could really use a good soaking rain. I am watering the garden daily. We have harvested 10 or so banana peppers and 2 zucchini squash so far. Our tomatoes look good. Our daughter has a small back to eden garden in its second year. 3 tomato plants, marigolds, a few strawberry plants, and just put in a fe cantaloupe plants that we didn’t want to go to waste. They all seem to be thriving, except the strawberries, which something ate the leaves off, but new ones are coming on and the shoots look good. Our traditional garden has tomatoes, squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumbers and Brussel sprouts. First time trying those, and so far, so good. I have had to put some DE on them for cabbage worms or some sort of little bitty green caterpillar anyway. First time trying that as well, thanks to your video! I have to say, I am more excited this year than ever about growing our garden to share. I even purchased a small greenhouse and hope to get that up, along with several raised beds all fenced in pretty by fall. My husband and I went to Baker’s Creek for the first time this year too! I am learning so much from you all and Living Traditions. Love it! Looking forward to watching you all in the learning center and whatever great adventures you all have in the future! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!!!

[@thisismeumbass]

What a great idea. Use your sunflowers as a trellis, and shade to keep those growing up the sunflower cool for a longer growing season.

[@gailpurcell3209]

I love the sunflower trellis. Can't wait to use it. Thank you for the idea. 🌻

[@theresawheeler4566]

Thank you for the video!!! I always enjoy your videos and all the things you offer that helps in so many different ways!!!

[@freedomacreshomestead3723]

Love the huge sunflowers. We have sunflowers all over this year and they are growing like crazy.

[@countreegirl]

Your garden is beautiful!! Thanks for the update!

[@jasonyvonnelewallen7963]

We love watching you two, great information and thanks for sharing it really helps others😉

[@booksandbeans]

Count it all joy! Our weeds are growing as fast as the plants. Glad to see you are having a summer!

[@bearbee1138]

You both provide so much wonderful information! Thank you

[@rockydelnegro550]

You kids are awesome ! Love your vids . Thank you

[@marthavojtko6268]

Wow Stacy, even with the oppressive heat your garden looks fabulous!!!

[@BumbleBeeJunction]

Garden is looking good guys ! Thanks so much for sharing !

[@lorrijohns1786]

Fabulous Garden... great idea with the sunflowers! Thanks for sharing 🤗 ✌💞

[@bonnied3550]

Thank you Stacy for your garden update, especially about the Basil. I have limited space but I am maximizing it's potential and it has definitely been a job in getting the plants in and arranged so that they are by plants they like and also in an area that suits them. I'm so looking forward to reaping the harvest😋. Love the sunflower trellis I actually have a good stock that was a volunteer from last year too😃👍🏽

[@deborahtiffany775]

Thanks Stacy! Beautiful garden!

[@missourigirl4101]

Trials and tribs- heat and lack of rain here in SE Missouri. So frustrating to have the mid to upper 90's with lack of rain. This early in year. Crazy weather. I feel you Stacy! Your garden looks fantastic!

[@mainecritter3292]

We are at our place in PA, and it is Hot/Humid! Loving the garden.

[@alfwaibel4773]

Same here in western austria. Warm since april, no frost nights (normally we can get some until 20th of may), the garden is exploding. Sun Flowers are already blooming, first potatos harvested, garlic chives harvested, turnip cabbage, salad, first cucumbers (greenhouse) and green beans also. Tomatos, Chilis, white greek beans growing like crazy, giant onions are close to harvest, grapes are doing like crazy, every day harvesting strawberries, raspberry bushes are growing like crazy (autumn harvest sort). I don´t remember such a great growing year, and I do gardening since 30 years. Veeery strange, but enjoyable! - Greetings from western austria on 700m above sea level - with day temps around 78F, nights with 50-60F.

[@sheilaperl4155]

Your garden is amazing and I love the idea of using your Sunflowers as a trellis!! :)

[@dennisshields7246]

Central Fl. here and the feels like temp was 102. Humidity was actually low today about 50%. Still to hot to be outside during the afternoon. Good nap time. Love watching you two. Keep up the good work.

[@lisabaughman6949]

Loved that you showed your comfrey. You need to plant more!!!! ....and more. lol Your garden is doing awesome.

[@hollywelch1208]

Awesome garden! Kudos to you for keeping it up in the scorching heat. It has been bad here in SC with very high humidity, but we haven't hit the 100's at this point. Bugs are bad here too. My garden is tiny as I'm just getting one started in my backyard and digging up lawn to put it in. Can only manage preparing a little bit each year since it is just me. Enjoy the fresh bounty though! Another plant that likes heat is Okra. I like it coated in corn meal and lightly fried. I'm not southern, but my parents were so, I grew up eating it and love it! It's a great soup thickener too so I always freeze some for that. Pickled okra is popular and I bet it would be good fermented. I'm going to try that this year! Flowering stops production but at the end of the season I always let it go to flower because they are very pretty - looks like a hibiscus.

[@ruthwible2309]

Browsing some of your older videos. Great tour of your garden Stacy!

[@LydiaApril]

Love your gardens, everything looks so amazing!

[@_sunrise_gardens_]

i am racing, i am chasing, i am riding, saddles blazing, i am playing, i am skating, i am lifting, muscles aching, i am sowing, i am planting, i am clipping, i am snapping, i am pruning, i am digging, i am fencing, i am building, birds are singing, cats are napping, bees are buzzing, dogs are panting, rabbits racing, spiders spinning, garden blooming, peas are growing, beans are climbing, vines are winding, wind is blowing, sun is shining, clouds are stretching, rain is dancing, harvest time and i am prancing!

[@angiecarrera820]

Your garden is doing so awesome!

[@Tsiri09]

This is wonderful info! Thank you so much!

[@dianeky617]

Love the idea with the sunflowers. Your garden looks fantastic!

[@deneennewbill7528]

Thanks for your tips Stacy!😊

[@gerrymarmee3054]

I am doing the same thing! When the sunflower is finally spent, I leave the stalk up to make a natural trellis.

[@marysueper5352]

We'll have to try a sunflower trellis next year. Grandkids would love that.

[@04DynaGlyde]

Thanks for the sunflower tip.

[@bbsbacktobasics7695]

Looking great. Love your sunflowers, great idea Planting cucumber in there.thanks for sharing, guys😀

[@BlessedFarm]

thanks for the great look at yalls garden

[@beaverrick9789]

Wow, things are growing great there. Won't be long and you will be harvesting .

[@homesteadinthewoods4841]

We just picked some more yellow wax beans for dinner !! Loved your video !!

[@conniesell8633]

All BEAUTIFUL...POPCORN PATCH, LOVE IT! Love watching you guys! So much help and good info! Thanks for all you do! I know its all very time consuming, but you never stop :)

[@sueyates3555]

Thanks so much for sharing your garden looks absolutely wonderful and by the way I love your necklace.

[@faithfeathersandfurhomeste6934]

Love the garden. I wish I had a larger one! But I'll make due and just keep expanding 😉. We're preparing our 13 acres and hopefully will get to our land soon and start homesteading....for now ...we practice with our gardening, ducks and chickens❤️

[@suecronmiller5828]

Thank you for letting me roam your garden with you 👍

[@dianehammer7559]

Love the garden updates!!

[@nannamyrl2291]

Awesome garden Stacy...I planted Merrigolds with my tomatoes and cucumbers ..coming on pretty well

[@XmasCarol]

I love the idea of using the sunflowers as a trellis for cucumbers!

[@Downeastwaves]

Thanks for the update. Two sided tape stuck to a paint stick set on the ground sticky side up will catch a lot of flea beetles.

[@betty8173]

Your garden is beautiful, well done! Thanks for all the helpful hints. Florida is so hot, but I just added some bok choy, and some swiss chard, as my red malabar spinach is actually bolting; we shall see!

[@janebarbour405]

Your garden is beautiful ☺️

[@donnettarogers7746]

Beautiful garden guys! Thank you for sharing...I remember those hot temps and bugs when we lived in that area. Our gardens always did well though. :)

[@luckychicav7981]

Here in Texas we been having some 100+ degree weather for a while. Plant leaves do curl during the very hot afternoons. Your garden is doing beautifully Stacey, even with the stress of hot temps.

[@ZEUStheKingGermanShepherd]

Learning so much ........ distinguishing what everything looks like. Lol Ive never had a garden. Starting the next planting season

[@tammielewis2438]

It is a beautiful 77 degrees here in the PNW. You're garden looks Yummy!

[@GrampyCampy]

Love you guys it is in the 90's here with indexes 100+

[@dawncierelli1510]

Man Stacy, my garden is just starting to take off--we had colder weather here in MN---but, I'm glad for you.....my herbs are coming in well, my radishes, and flowers on my summer squash---but WAY behind where you are---good for you!

[@trunativerootsfarm4922]

HI Doug and Stacy love your garden. I've been picking squash,zucchini,tomatoes,Swiss chard,kale,spinich,chives.Love your idea with the sunflowers as a trellis I think I'll do that with our cucumbers.

[@stevehasbrouck2155]

love you guys. we do the same thing in Colorado.

[@alphasxsignal]

Glad tomatoes are doing well. Its burning up hot here on the west coast of Fla. Im tilling my raised beds and getting them ready for cooler weather. We had tons of rain weeks ago and didn't need that.

[@CreatingEssence]

Cucumbers and sunflowers! What a great idea! We trellis pole beans on mammoth sunflowers. I bet they could hold up to cucumbers, too.

[@tughillbillyhomestead]

Love your garden videos!

[@ebenwoodsfarm1693]

Looking good y’all. Going to be in the triple digits real feel here in Maryland next couple of days.

[@AlmostHomestead]

The Sunflower trellis is awesome! Those tomato plants! Wow.. What a great garden. Had our first hot day in weeks today here in Washington State. Going to check out your nitrogen video. Thank you.

[@Shelzbells]

My Tomato plants looks fabulous too this year!!! (knock on wood) everything is doing great so far, Im lovin it

[@ourselfreliantlife]

Nice job with the companion planting. The garden is looking great. Our biggest garden problem right now is we haven't started it yet.😆 Still trying to get settled in.

[@chelemichele1524]

Your garden looks great..as for mine a mole/rabbit distory my tiny gardern. 🌻have a beautiful dat🌻

[@melissamike6959]

Amazing garden Stacy!!!!

[@pattishelton3169]

Looks 👍 great. Our tomatoes 🍅 are going crazy too!

[@wendygodwin3373]

Love the video. We to are doing the back to Eden garden. We are in our 3rd year with it. We have had some difficulty with a lot of rain and then the heat this year. We have had to replant twice. Things are going better as far as growth. I'm trying your bug spray mixture. It seems to be doing the trick in keeping bugs away. Thanks for all your info.

[@everydaysunshine8650]

Hi stacy well up here in montreal quebec its been very hot and humid +40c very muggy ! Great garden the best to you both!

[@thehiddenhaven5486]

It's been a bit cooler here in Calgary Alberta, so my peppers aren't doing very well. But m potatoes and herbs are doing really good. The hot weather is coming though, so everything should start taking off! Thanks for the idea to use sunflowers as a trellis.

[@susanlee9532]

Oh Stacy, you make me hungry! Your garden looks super!

[@mudpyz]

wow - love your garden - i have an alpine vege garden and cant grow onions here they stay smaller than a spring onion tried and left them in for 2 years but had to pull them in the end - my carrots only grow as big as my little finger but am going to try them again the taste is amazing - i can grow huge beetroots so they are a winner - silverbeet argentata is a good one as well in my garden it has the scrummy wide wide white centre rib - so succulent - love iceberg lettuce but they rot in the heat in the height of summer so grow that lettuce mixture that you scatter and snip so much easier to grow - will be working out next springs lot very soon - once the snow is laying and i cant go anywhere - my garden wish would be an extra month of summer to grow more veges

[@LifeinFarmland]

Can't believe how far along things are. Looking great.

[@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

Life in Farmland if you were in this heat you would believe it lol 😎

[@nancythomas-wardm.b.a2993]

Best of luck for your Hannibal Event....i wish i wish i wish i could be there....xxxx Nancy up a great big mountain waiting for your vlogg from THE event....love your garden ...

[@matthewbias3602]

Your garden looks great

[@marjoriesmithson5924]

Thanks Stacy !!!😊😊😊

[@roxieamos]

Wonderful!

[@cheryllevalley3495]

Same temps here too in eastern TN.

[@bhharris]

Your garden looks fantastic! I'm having trouble with white moths on my cantaloupe, squash and okra (companion plants 😊) and will be spraying a neem oil, dish soap and water solution on them to try to combat it. I am also about to place shade cloth over my tomato garden because we get a few triple digit days in the summer here in Alabama. Oh! and my green beans are doing great but funny thing - I purchased bush beans but ended up with a combination of bush and pole beans. They were trying to use my corn as a trellis but I was able to remove them and train them to share the trellis designated for my cucumbers. Thanks for sharing!

[@NinaDSmith]

I really enjoy Stacy teaching about the different plants that are eatable I live in Missouri also and my Grandma knew all of this and she learned it from her mom and I don’t have either of them to teach me I am sixty two and I feel it’s too late but I would really like my kids and grandkids to know all of this Do you ever bring any of the plants to see in person or a class just on this at events I saw you at Bakers Creek it’s about 3 hrs away from me I bought a book on this but hard for me to understand I would rather see myself Thanks for the ones I have seen of yours but I would like to do hands on like a home economics class sort of

[@CrystalA777]

That's a good idea my Mammoth sunflowers are huge too.

[@walkbyfaithfamily9177]

Love seeing your garden!! I’m in Nebraska and my peppers and tomatoes are tiny compared to yours!! Your plants are huge!!

[@sapulpaorganics5402]

Awesome! another video!!!!

[@starlily3357]

I absolutely love your necklace.

[@FireandIceEntangled]

wow. Ton of #Nuggets in this one! Thank you ! Never thought of using the sunflowers as a trellis! #smashng that #nitrogenfertilizer video button! Thank you for the garden update! and Thank you so much for the video(s) and for all you do! Love and appreciate you both! Blessings!

[@briant3586]

Your garden is looks amazing this year. My container garden is doing better than last year, will make improvements for next year.

[@christinaperez254]

Comfrey will take off and spread beware! I wanted it to do just that, but some people don't. Also, loving the fast growth on the rest of the garden plants! Bravo!

[@tracycrider7778]

If it’s Bocking 14 it won’t spread like regular comfrey❤

[@roniniowa1661]

I haven’t tried companion planting yet. It’s something I am going to have to learn more about.

[@texaschopper3091]

I learn somethint new every year when gardening.

[@russellmcintosh6014]

Wow what a yummy garden

[@beltoftruth56]

Always helpful