Welcome to my Ohio garden!
It’s the spring (late April/early May) vegetable garden tour and an update on several projects I’ve got in the works.
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00:00 Intro
00:41 Plantings & Projects
04:37 Update on overwintered potatoes
05:15 Update on carrot planting test
06:19 Hisea
08:17 More plantings & projects
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What is a safe way to combat moles and voles. They are driving me crazy!
Nice to see how other gardens are coming along. You were looking for suggestions on that new bed and I'm sure you got some great ideas, I'm going to float out there the idea of making that a native pollination wildflower garden. Thanks!
Ah, now. We grow food crops, vegetables and fruits, herbs, and flowers, but we build gardens as well as growing them. And they're never finished, either, eh?
So of course one needs construction equipment on site! 😉
And there you are, with your construction crew and equipment, verily at your beck and call! 😉
Actually, there've been a number of times I've wished we had to hand, rather than renting, sod-cutters (before we knew about solarizing and no-dig), and maybe a small backhoe for some very deep work, and a trencher—still thinking about renting one of these, despite my preference for not disturbing the soil—to take a water line (below the frost line) into the garden to connect with one of those water "garden guards" with a motion-activated sensor to deter certain pests….
Jenna, how do you irrigate?
WOW, you're spring time dinner table must be magnificent!! Do you have more info on how and why the blackberry plant pruning? Finally Volunteer Chamomile just proves God loves us.
Can you recommend a Russian Sage Variety?
How do you keep the birds off of your blueberries and strawberries 🍓?
Also, thanks for giving the dates . Very helpful for new gardener as myself ❤
Ugh the same thing happened to my peas and it was so disheartening! I did have one success though. My dad was in the hospital really sick in March and so my youngest and I experimented with some snow pea seeds seen outside and one did finally sprout, so maybe it’ll be the best snow peas ever!
I'm so excited to see how your carrot and potato experiments turn out. My garden is currently going through a bit of a change, with a good amount being moved to an entirely new location, and other bits being converted to raised beds. I do have some beets growing in containers, and I'm hoping to try some Bulls Blood beets. Think it's too late for a spring planting? Plans for next year are already in place for using various cover crops for garden improvement, so I'll be watching your cover crop videos again soon. Many thanks for those, by the way. Other than that, with work and other projects, I am WAY behind on a lot of things. Tomatoes and peppers are doing okay indoors right now, so everyone around me is looking forward to sampling any one of the seven varieties of maters going in this year. Amazing how many people are willing to sacrifice themselves to testing garden fresh tomatoes. Thanks for the tour, and thanks for the boot suggestion; I'll be getting a pair.
I've only been gardening in zone 6a for 3 years, so seeing how bountiful your garden is this early is incredibly helpful! I only have kale, cabbage, one puny cauliflower sprout, golden beets, and peas in the ground. You've shown me I can do so much more, so thank you!!
Happy spring! Happy gardeners! Your garden is off to a lovely start! I have most everything ready to go in.. Just waiting on beds to dry up a bit before direct sowing. I’ve got most everything started.. some strawberry roots to plant today (year 3 replacing them 🙄) and blueberry bushes to pot up today.. before more rain. Im considering planting up my green stalks today as well. A few flowers to seed, cukes, melons, squash and beans staring at me waiting on seeding.. I am considering starting them tomorrow in my unseated greenhouse to give them a head start. Oh, and my asparagus is up!
I almost wish the neighborhood fox lived at my yard with all the voles 🤬
I was looking for this update, thanks so much! I'm starting my first garden across the border in PA (Zone 6a). Do you think transplanting tomato plants before Mother's Day is foolish? I'm trying to avoid repotting again indoors… If you can't tell – I'm anxious to get everything outside
6a too.. and this weather! When do you put in your tomatoes?
I cannot find which video had the row covers for young zucchini or some type of squash. I had a lot of trouble last year with multiple insects that attacked my zucchini. Do you cover with a fabric or a netting? How tight are the holes if there are any?
I am in zone 5b in Wisconsin and as usual we have had wild spring temperature fluctuations, from low 80's in mid April to snow on May 1. I direct sowed sugar snap peas , snow peas , spinach and radishes 3 weeks ago. So far none have germinated. I hope to plant out my brassica starts later this week along with pre-sprouted spinach and onions and leeks. My fruit trees are just about ready to bloom, I hope the sub freezing temperatures we have had the last 3 weeks didn't damage the buds.
Hi Jenna, love the channel. Great info. I noticed you have some really cool plant identification sticks. Would you please do a video to share how you make them, what materials, pens you use. How long do they last, do they fade in the sun? Are they reusable. Are they rewritable? Use indoors? Would love to see a video about it. Thank you.
Okay…I need to know about this old milk jug trick. Did you poke holes in the bottom? I'm loving that idea. Also, how do you feel about peat pots? I bought some thinking they were a great idea, now with further research I'm thinking not so much!
You should experiment with replanting the peas to see if you can get a crop later in the season. Last season, deer came through and chomped my snow peas. I was kinda down about it and ended up just leaving them as they were. They seemed to keep growing vegetatively and then when the temps cooled off in fall they started producing again. Not sure how it affected yield, but was happy to get a harvest in.
You'll miss that construction equipment some day. My son is 27 and I still find construction remnants in my garden. Makes me smile.
Plant eggplant 🍆 in the new space!
Yes I got stuff growing like you do but I suck at carrots! Do not know why but oh well.
My apple trees and plum are finally budding out but I better get a fence around them soon-thx!
Jenna is Da best. Bar none
Just started the season (gulp). Wish me luck (still cold here(