Garden Tour for June Zone 7: Here is what is growing in my high tunnel in Zone 7.
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That was the same color caterpillar that was in my salad planter Barbaraš©
I love poblano peppers. They are mild with thinner skin that bell peppers. I grew 2 plants are they were prolific growers. They grew under 60% shade cloth eand did well. I gave a lot of them away because I couldn't use the amount that grew. It's only me, so I did not store any vegetables last year, but a friend is going to teach me how to do canning very soon.
Last year I used the Poblano pepper to make a Mexican casserole and stuff peppers. I love both dishes! š I am only doing 1 Poblano pepper plant this year. I am trying some different varieties of peppers like pumpkin spice, banana pepper and cubanelle along with regular bell peppers.
Pablanos are good, they do have heat. Grow easily will need support.
Maybe propagate some stuff to put on the drooping bed. š¤
HELLO, I HAVE THOSE TOO. THEY EAT YOUR ONIONS ALSO. WHAT ARE THEY?
Dill, seeds easily like cilantro but very beneficial to keep in the garden in every bed.
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For drooping bed:Transplant some things from this bed? 21:32
The dill head is fantastic in the jar for dill pickles
Hi Barbara glad your garden is spectacular and doing well. It is beautiful and the flowers in the tunnel are so beautiful. Take care see you next time.ā¤š
Hi Mrs. Barbara! With how hot itās been and weāve not had rain in 3 weeks (until today when the Lord opened up the windows of heavenā¤) so everything has been struggling. Iāve added straw mulch and shade cloth even to the peppers and tomatoes, and now they look healthy again with fruit popping everywhere. Try mulching the bed and shading some.š
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It will pop up 29:04
Your dill is fantastic! This was also my first year successfully growing dill. We had dill everywhere. I dried dill, I gifted dill, I used dill, I let dill go to seed – All the dill! š Congratulations!
Poblano peppers are great for stuffing.
š¤·š½āāļøConsider heavily mulching the pepper bed. This may reduce the sun stress and the drying of the soil.
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I'm a first-time viewer to your channel from Washington, DC (zone 7a). I love your tunnel. Since your tomatoes aren't exposed to the outside elements, I'm surprised that the green worm could invade/ eat your tomatoes. Everything looks amazing!
The bouquet dill is doing what it's supposed to do!! Nothing wrong with the plant. Use the flowers and the leaves when making dill pickles.
Pull a stalk from each plant and taste it!! I have a celery plant from December that I am still pulling stalks from it and it's not bitter!
I'm from San Diego, CA, zone 10b.
Take a picture of the bugs you're not sure of and Goggle it. That's what I do. With my Android phone, i can take a picture of flowers, bugs or whatever and when I hit "lens" it will tell me what's in the picture.
Peppers usually hate being moved around, maybe their just goin thru shock at the moment maybe? u have a fabulous hall! wow, i have a hard time growing peppers… wow that comfrey looks great!! my cucumbers was great last year, this year barely growing ugh… bugz are getting to them , iv been gardening as long as u, š
Thatās an army worm! I found one in my green onions yesterday. I believe your raised bed peppers just havenāt developed deep enough roots yet and this excessive heat is too much. A make shift shade cloth for a few days may settle them in just fine.
What do you fertilize your watermelons with?
I really appreciate this video. It was very educational. I feel like I can step up my gardening now. I'm so glad that I've found and followed your page.
The eucalyptus looks great! I had no idea you could grow it in zone 7.
Your peppers need morning and evening heavy watering when the temperature goes up. You see how happy they are when you water them keep them happy. Just don't over do it. Help them while it is so hot. I'm Alfreda from Detroit Michigan.
I'm in zone 7 in n.c. I'm 10 minutes from the foot of the blue Ridge mtn. your high tunnel looks good. I've noticed my peppers don't like this drought and direct sun.
You should pull the flowers off of the comfreyif itās a new plant. And donāt harvest leaves the first year . Too get the benefits from comfrey it needs to be inground it has very deep roots thatbis where it get the nutrients from. And when planted make sure that is itās forever home because the itās ceey hard to get rid of
Hi Barbara,
I'm having the same problem with my peppers. I watched a video by Gary Pilachek and he says yellowing peppers indicate a nitrogen deficiency. He recommended using fish emulsion every 7 days until they start looking better. I'm going to try it. Maybe it will help you. The rest of your garden is outstanding! Take care!
My peppers looked like yours when i fist put them in the ground. I think they were in shock. They are beautiful now and i have harvested many of them
Here in Lincoln County Tennessee we really need rain and i guess it missed us again. I hope you got some rain
Maybe nematodes or grubsš¤·š½āāļø
The tomatoes look fabulous. My tomatoes have stopped producing because of the heat. But, some pest has been eating them including the ones in my greenstalk. My fear is that Iām not going to get enough tomatoes to make sauce or salsa to put up. If not, Iāll plant more tomatoes next year and Iām going to start a few for the fall. Iām in Texas zone 8.
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Hey Barbarašš¾šI see you, hubby and your doggie. I canāt wait to see your high tunnel. I was talking about your high tunnel on one of my videos. I just love your high tunnel. Ok letās go with the touršš½
My sweet potatoes are growing slow also. I know they like it hotā¦.but girl our triple digits are no joke. Today it was 110 degrees in the shadeš„µI lost 8 new plants when our temp shot upš©
Beautiful comfrey plantšš¾
That could be a cankerworm.
army worm….
I just seen the moth fly into your tomatoe row..so there will b more..
Hey Barbara! I love your videos as you know. I don't have anything near as large a garden as you do and don't have anything on drip irrigation though it is a dream to have it. I planted bush beans less than a week ago and they are up and looking so beautiful! Praise God! We had a lot of issues with bad soil so my tomatoes are just beginning to wake back up and put on flowers. I have been fertilizing everything with Alaska Fish Emulsion and everything is loving it! Regarding Bouquet Dill: Harvest baby or full leaves before flower for best flavor. Harvest seedheads for pickling just before seeds turn brown.
Love your videosš you are one of a very few 7a gardeners on YouTube. I appreciate it!
I read catmint or catnip to grow with tomatoes to keep hornworms away
Cayenne pepper powder works well on the tomato worms. I use it in Zone 7a and I havenāt had a problem since I started using it.
I would start harvesting more of your celery. Remember produce in the store have some type of chemical pumped into it. Just harvest your outer stalks, the celery will continue to grow.
Um, can I suggest planting beans in the pepper bed and see what they do? Beans supposedly have issues the quickest with glyphosate contamination…. and you are having issues with beans. The people Ive seen that have gotten contaminated soil it seems to be beans, then nightshades, then other stuff that has issues in amount of days. Some things pull toxins and or don't care as much, like grasses, sunflowers, etc. So maybe if you had amended in the fall, then they got weedy over winter if I recall correctly, maybe the weeds pulled more contaminants out of the tomato bed and thats why they are doing better? Part of me is thinking sweet potatoes are in the category that doesnt care/pulls toxins because it is in the morning glory family (in case you didnt know, farmers hate morning glory aka bind weed)
On the comfrey, depends what you are doing with it. I chop and drop 3-4 times a year, and I do let it flower, most people don't. Especially if it isnt sterile. I tend to chop and drop when it starts flopping. If you are choppingvand dropping for fertilizer, cut them at least 6-8" from the ground because the little hairs on the stalks will root if they get covered up. If you are making liquid fertilizer that doesnt matter. I have no idea on using for salves and such.
What was the variety for the English cucumbers? I'm hearing I as sashimi like the raw fish sushi rolls? š£
It sounds to me like those peppers werenāt ready for that much heat. Since they are in the ground already maybe you could put a shade cloth over them and see if they recover. I wonder if the nursery you got them from didnāt harden them off enough.
That dill looks a great! The caterpillar phase of the beautiful Swallowtail Butterfly love dill so I try to grow extra for them.
I'm in Georgia and I a having the same issues. I think my probem is the heat. My bell peppers are not doing as good as yours.