I’m done with the same old same old and ready to shake things up in the garden. Join me on a May vegetable garden tour for innovative ideas and new techniques. Let’s bring some excitement back to our gardens!
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DIGITAL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Introduction
00:33 Tomato String trellis – more tomatoes in less space
02:40 Watermelon – trellis and shade greens
04:21 Pollinators along fence, salvia
05:09 Summer Salad Station – heat tolerant greens
06:19 Passion Fruit
06:50 Mini elevated raised bed, flipped, tulle, ladder trellis
08:11 Fountain planter – dahlias, peppers & pollinators
11:30 Mini summer salad station
11:50 Chill zone raised bed – thrillers, spillers, fillers
16:09 Pollinator garden – all-summer blooms
18:32 Deck expansion project – CameraGuy
18:42 Up the stairs – edible landscape
19:07 New addition to the garden
20:16 Potting bench – dahlia tubers
Music: Drew Hooper: Garden Fresh Groove
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What same old same old are you changing up in your garden? Thanks for gardening with us! -CaliKim & CameraGuy
30% off CaliKim Seed Collections, CK Smart Pots and garden kits with code “JUNEGARDEN”, https://calikimgardenandhome.com. Ends 6.4.24.
IN THIS VIDEO:
➡CaliKim Seed Collections: https://bit.ly/CaliKimSeedCollection. (Shown in this video: Tomato, Sunflower, Cucumber, Squash, Zinnia, Bring On Pollinators)
➡June “Sizzling’ Summer Salad Station” Grow Your Groceries with CaliKim Connect+ Subscription Box: $20 off 1st box w/code “CONNECTJUNE”: https://bit.ly/CaliKimGrowYourGroceriesConnectPlusSubscriptionBox.
Includes heat tolerant leafy green seeds, seed starting containers, soil, self-watering stake, and FREE canister of Monterey Lawn and Garden Sluggo Plus ($20 value). Available for limited time only.
Everything looks lovely! 🥰
I enjoy your videos. Such a great garden! I love the wildflower areas! Years ago we planted wildflowers along the curb where we had pulled out shrubs. We had a beautiful succession of flowers Spring thru Fall. My favorite flower seems to be missing from you garden, though. Beautiful blue borage reseeds itself; plant it once and you never have to plant it again. It grows all season, and it's a magnet for bees. The Spring garden with blue borage, CA poppies and calendula growing together is something I look forward to each year.
Very nice garden and great ideas on trellising
Looking good! 👍 I think you will do better with the single stem tomatoes than I did. I wasn’t ruthless enough in pruning them and it got away from me. Keep an eye on them! They will have energy to burn 🔥 can’t wait to see them all the way to the top!
I just got inside from sprying Spinosad. I had to remove four develop[ing tomatoes for bug damage—cut worms. Overall, the tomato plants are doing very well. They are loaded with fruit and still flowering. Some of the plants are huge! I have one Sugar Baby watervelon with a vine at least ten feet long, and it has a watermelon developing on it. The Hearts of Gold cantaloupe are covered with flowers. I saw ppaches of squash bug eggs and one squash bug. They've been soaked with Spinosad. I sprayed the cucumbers too to protect them from the Florida pickleworm moth. I just harvested cucumbers and squash, and have more to harvest tomorrow. The pole beans are climbing and will be flowering soon. My pepper plants are loaded with peppers. The mustard is starting to bolt, so I have to harvest it out. Tomorrow, I have to spray Immunox on my trees, cucumbrs, and squash. Cedar Gall Rust is bad in my area, and it is time for powdery mildew to infest the plants. The first Japanese Beetles of the season have arrived. They got doused with spinosad too. The ground cherries have begun droping fruit. I'm disapointed with them. I get a lot more satisfaction from my porch tomatoes, which I've begun to pick. My Prairie Fire crabapple tree arrived today. I gave it a good soak, and will try to get it in the ground tomorrow. If all goes well, I'll work on planting the peach trees too. My legs are sill in bad shape, the right leg ugly bad, but they have improved. A few of the zinnias and cosmos have started to flower, and seeds are sprouting for Butterfly flower. I have a few carrots that are ready to pick. My potatoe harvest was decent, and I have more chitting for planting thr first week of July. I have enough going on that after I harvest out the mustard, I am going to let that area of rthe raised bed rest, but not for long. In July and August, I'll be doinf seed starts for cauliflower, brocolli, Brunswick Cabbage, and Nappa Cabage. I havent made my plans for the fall garden, but I will be growing carrots, turnips, and Yellow Heart Winter Choy too. I just got Net 2.0, a revisit to the Net Zero universe back from editing. My editor loved it. Here is what Ann Attwood had to say, "This was so good. It was fast-paced and there was so much packed in to a fairly small word count. Good world building. I could picture the events as they unfolded. Not for the faint-hearted!!" The story will make its debut this fall in an anthology, Tales From The Galactic Rim. I need one more story to complete the collection.
I love your garden Kim.
It's been so hot here in Florida I had to put shade cloth on my veggies. I have not seen 1 bee since last yr.
Music is such a distraction.
Your wildflowers are just gorgeous! 🌻🦋
I’ve flower gardened for years but it’s only my second season vegetable gardening so I don’t have a same-old-same old yet. I’m trying to find varieties I like and taste new things.
I grew American Legion poppies this spring for the first time and loved them! Currently collecting seeds for the poppies , borage, cosmos and zinnias, pole beans and peas.
I look forward to your next tour!
Thanks for sharing
It’s a cute little garden
I'm interested in that tomato pulley system! I pulled out most my nasturtiums they were magnets for tiny black bugs (aphids?) I do like dahlias but don't have much luck as they are susceptible to powdery mildew & insects here. Looking fwd to my 1st season growin Scarlet Runner Beans! Fig trees grow fast.
Love your gardening changes.
You have inspired me to try and continue planting throughout the growing season here in Central Ohio.
With only perhaps a 5-6 months of warm(ish) growing season, learning what works here for a short harvest is a challenge, but definitely up to it.
And wish I could grow citrus outside year round, like I saw on the lemon tree in your garden.
@Calikim29 – do you know if planting zinnias with tomato plants in the same container will be beneficial or detrimental to the tomato plant? I have limited space and many critters who loves my yard. 😊
Hey Cali Kim, got your microgreens package of seeds last January and we're STILL eating salads with them! Fantastic! many thanks ❤ (and hey camera guy sup bro 🙂 🔥)
I love all the ch goes you’ve made this growing season. The whole garden is looking lush and beautiful!
Your garden looks so lush and beautiful! I'm going to try to grow winter squash up and over a trellis this year. What dimensions are your panels on the A-frame trellis?
Love the changes!!!!!
I love seeing how pretty a back yard can be with flowers interspersed the way you've done them! This is my first year intentionally planting flowers. I started Zinnias and Marigolds and so far just the Marigolds are in bloom. I can't wait for the Zinnias! The prior owners planted daffodils and Irises (which have finished blooming) and I have my green onion white pom pom flower heads and purple Comfrey blooms and of course dandelions and lots of pretty large maroon Perilla (Shiso) Leaves good for a salad garden and very prolific – almost like mint and VERY good for us. I love them marinated in soy sauce and placed over
As far as the pulley system goes for trellising the tomatoes, this is just a thought, but I bet you could do a DIY version just using a cup hook attached to the top horizontal board of your wood trellis and about 3 extra feet of string with at least one or two loops tied into three extra feet of the string that you could keep coiled up at the top or hang the loops from the hook. Then when you wanted to harvest your tomatoes or lower the string for another reason, just remove the loops from the hook to slowly lower the top of the vine up to an extra three feet (or whatever extra length you made it). For that matter, you could probably do it without hooks and instead just wrap the coil of extra string/line/cord to the top of the trellis using the right kind of knots.
Beautiful garden; cute dress!!!!
Everything looks fantastic guys💚💖 Great encouragement to try some things in different areas!! I should do this too😁🌸
I'm having a hard time growing my 2 tomato plants and now also the 2 wax pepper plants. 1 Roma tomato plant is in top soil (not sifted) with a little acid or acidic soil my Aunt gave me because I live on the side of the mountain in California. It's producing tomatoes but the plant hasn't grown. The other tomato plant is in a styrafoam cooler its showing its producing roma tomatoes, but the plant isn't growing. And is in some acid/ acidic soil with sifted top soil. And the 2 wax pepper plants are in a raised garden box bed I tried making with what I could try to make it with as I don't have the money to do anything special. I have had them for awhile and they aren't growing. I have 2 other Roma & Cherry Tomato plants planted in by seed and in just regular top soil, They are in a dryer drum and are growing. I can't afford to just go out and buy the big stuff to help it. I try to do with what I have to be able to grow these items. Anyone can help? I stopped over watering them, and watering them as CaliKim has mentioned. I just have no idea what else I can do. Thanks if you can help. wish I could share the pics.
The music wasn’t distracting at all. People are so negative 😂😊