Welcome to the September vegetable garden tour of my Ohio garden! I’m sharing what’s growing in the garden, how I’m dealing with the drought and how garden cleanup and prep will be a little different this year– thanks for joining me!
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Worried about year to year drought here in north Illinois 5A.Learning that flowers like cosmos, marigolds and Mexican sunflowers seem to come right thru with little watering as well as bringing in the bees and hummingbirds. I love the raspberries you have grown and will try a crop of them. Thank you for showing the variety that can be grown in changing climate areas.
i havent seen the dog yet in the video
Have you ever grown purple sprouting broccoli in your zone? (same as mine). Some.grow them in spring for fall harvest and some plant late summer to harvest in early spring the same time as asparagus.
Columbus Ohio and we're worse off.
But I am still getting tomatoes and I do believe your teaching with mulch and I'm using some cover crops and your advice about drainage helps as many my beds I don't work the soil as I used to.
. Still 100 percent fond of Midnight Snack and almost everyone's favorite I have tested over 50 people and 10 others I'd gifted Midnight Snack seedlings to.
I allow a couple Volunteers near where Midnight Snack has grown several seasons they are still delicious but half sized and even the plants are half sized but they might be great as my cousin found the 9 ft Midnight Snack can be over sized for some gardens..
I planted buckwheat and the huge radishes as cover crop hopefully they get rain as the weather man claims coming soon.
I followed the sunflower with tomatoes for the 4th season and it was definitely my favorite method to raise the tomato .
I'm planning on laying some branches from a willow tree for a raised bed much as you show at the beginning of the video
I am getting almost no grass clippings from my neighborhood due to drought.
My pepper is so dry I'm testing that they might be Ok for dehydration but it a test.
Hopefully next year will have rain as needed
Tobacco box gouges are they a type that be carved.?
You don't have so much grass clippings either
I think if it's good for worms it's good for garden soil.
Test don't disturb a root ball of one or more of your big sunflower but simply plant an tomato seedlings in the root ball not tilting just following the sunflower it's my most productive method of raising tomatoes and this year definitely handle less water and I've repeat this 4 seasons so it passed my test and peppers seems to like it too but my first season with the peppers.Next year I'm raising a whole 3 x50 ft row of sunflower as cover crop
Found my first hook worm catpipilor it was full of the wasp lava and dead hopefully the wasp young hatch off
Thanks
Thanks Jenna for all the great information and tour! I'm still harvesting green beans, i always do Kentucky climbers non gmo and soon I'll dig up my sweet potatoes also non gmo organic that i started my own slips
I love your videos. Southern Delaware County here with a small but mighty garden. It does seem that every year in Ohio is different. Thank you for so much useful information. I could listed to you all day. 🙂
i thought it was necessary to thresh carrot seed from the chaff but i found they didnt want to separate and they didnt mind growing from this mixture this year.we do have a range oven that makes seed drying easy
i’m in Northeast Missouri so I am in the same miserable boat as you this year. My Future strategy: try to plant earlier if I can, i might try buckets or grow bags for the peppers, already bumped up the rain catchment, incorporate more shade, i must prune, mulch, and water my fruit trees/berries, if I want to have decent sized fruit. I love your ideas for a gardening battle plan. That cotton was gorgeous!
❤this year enjoyed a lot with you channel, you help me a lot with the english, you speak slowly and Cain, can copy you pronunciation ❤. I put in practice some of you tips y knowledge here in my small garden. This year begging with 6 plants of butterscotch that I planted but only give me one 😂😂 the next year can trie with other stuff. The strawberry are bigger but don’t have any fruit yet. I want put in the basement to protect of the weather when the snow came. I had some of tomatoes. One sweet potato in my kitchen give me plants and put in two pots, and some littles in water in the kitchen 😢😢 I hope the plans no die until think what do with them 😂😂 I have some lettuce and leek, cilantro, green onions, sweet pepers and bell pepper, arugulas and chards. All work really good here in pots. 🎉
Awesome
Agreed that we should plan and adapt our gardens for ongoing extreme weather. I too am experimenting with hugelcultur beds.
Do you pull your thistle and then solarize or do you solarize your beds with thistle in them? Thistle has completely taken over every bed around my yard and I’m fighting a losing battle.
Well your garden looks better than mine. I’m just outside of Wilmington Ohio and this drought and heat has just devastated my garden. Hopefully next year is better.
I’m in SW Ohio, north of Cincinnati. We’ve only been dry for about five weeks. I’ve been watering my food crops for about five minutes in the morning and another five minutes at night. It’s been enough to keep things going. The main change I made this year was the addition of shade cloth. I’ve been utilizing it more than ever before because the sun this year has been brutal. My pests have been about the same. Squash bugs and cucumber beetles are the bane of my existence. I have been overrun with rolly pollies this year though. They love the seedlings, so I’ve had to fight them off in a few places.
@GrowfullywithJenna So happy and grateful to see a new video of yours!
I garden in West Virginia. We are currently in a 25 year drought. The struggle is real. 😊
Thank you, Jenna! I loved all of the information you shared with us. I’m just starting a new garden and you inspired me to add some hugelkultur beds to the garden plan. I hope to start them now in the fall too and get it planted in the spring. I was gardening in NYC this year and we were affected by the drought too. I also want to plan for a more drought resistant garden in the future.
Hi Jenna, I'd be interested in your rainwater harvesting set up. In my former garden I collected Rainwater from my garage roof in an 1000l IBC tank and as my garden was VERY long I pumped some of that water aaaaaaaaaaall the way to the back of the garden in two 200l plastic barrels. Most years that was enough. I used an electric pump, but I could have used gravity, had I been smart enough to install the tank on some sort of plattform.
And you mentioning the sheep manure made me think of sheep wool – I heard that it is a fantastic mulch. I have not tried it myself, yet, as I couldn't get my hands on it. Hope, you get some rain, soon
Keep an eye on your pets. Hope they don't get eaten! Lol!
Hot here but a lot of rain. Too much!
I’m here in southern Ohio this drought has been crazy we got just a tiny bit of rain today but know where near enough for plants. For me I think I’m going to shut my garden down sooner then I normally would between the drought and the aphids I’m pretty wiped out with the garden this year.
Those may actually be Leaf Footed Bugs(foe) rather than Assassin bugs.
Enjoy your videos. You're my zone 6 guru. My veggie garden is tiny so I can afford to water. No drought damage, but the squirrels were busy digging and eating my beautiful tomatoes – even though I put water out for them.
We are not far south of you, in Highland County. I have never been so thankful for having a deep, healthy well. I do plan, however, to add more drip irrigation next year. I like to water, but not as intensively as this. Thanks for sharing all your insights, Jenna!
Do you have a reliable source for soaker hoses? I have not seen any in the stores in central Ohio.
I love your videos! I learn so much each time. I also love the positive attitude. I'm pleased with this year's garden although there are always failures and successes. The Spring was rough and I wondered if there would even BE a garden. But it pulled through and I'm hauling in the tomatoes and peppers. Cucumbers are fizzling. Onions were good although I need to increase the quantity. Potatoes were a learning curve and they also will get expanded. I'd love a recommendation for a DETERMINATE Paste Tomato! Hopefully, it will be very productive 🙂
Love your great videos. I’m right next door to you in Indiana. So yes it’s been a hot dry September here too
We got a bit of rain today here in Indy so maybe we’re through the hot dry end of summer. I’m primarily a flower gardener specifically in dahlias and lantana which of course I have to dig every fall to keep from freezing, but I do have a small veggie plot. I wanted to tell you about an experiment I’ve done with carrots this year. First off, rather than planting in rows I broadcasted the carrots seeds lightly much like I might plant grass seed over a bed appropriately 20 by 4 feet back at the end of July. I covered the bed with shade cloth and set up an auto sprinkler to water twice a day and got great germination. When the carrots got to be two to three inches tall I thinned them to about three inches apart. I presently have a great stand of carrots which I will start harvesting in a month or so as needed and into the winter to see how long I can still get carrots. Recently though I had a thought that I would like to run past you. I’ve seen your video comments on Daikon radishes or tiller radishes as you call them. I purchased some tiller radish seeds to experiment with but I’m wondering if carrots might not work the same way as a winter cover crop? I’ll confess it seems bizarre to consider a perfectly good carrot crop as a cover crop but carrot seed a believe are a lot cheaper than what I paid for those radish seeds. And a lot easier to plant! In any event I plan to leave a few of my carrots in the ground over the winter just to see what they do next spring and see if they help break up my garden plot soil. Any thoughts?
Such a beautiful sky behind the tree tobacco
Well Jenna this will be my 3rd attempt to comment 😂
I originally had mentioned about the over abundance of beans and what I would do with them and then you mentioned it in your video the exact same.
If you need a great stringless purple pole bean get Trionfo Violetto—Then you can be like the gardener with all those zucchinis😂😂
Been using shade cloth on fall crops and I leave it on half way so it covers the west side.
I cleaned the freezer and realized we don’t need to grow so much, but we all know we will plant extra anyways.
The weather—we had drought as there was no rain since 8/30th and extreme heat in upper 90s also Until last night and this morning we had a whopping 5.88”😮🎉. We needed it! Hope it’s made it your way.
I noticed the birds attacking the sunflowers more aggressively than last year and a future prediction that maybe our cold winters may return after being on vacation for 2 years. Been too warm.
I have shade fabric over the fall crops, don’t know how things will go as we have cooled down now, but the heat we’ve had was something else in WI, Z5a.
We use a sump pump with hose to drain rain water from tanks. It works great as it’s too far to be carrying buckets. I tweaked the irrigation system also and highly suggest a simple setup. We have a front and back garden with small orchard and water in shifts.
I agree about weather extremes and may be the future. The nino and Nina weather pattern flipped this summer so we will see. I will wait as long as I can to plant garlic and definitely mulch heavily like last year and pull it off in spring as it prevented too much growth and die back and had huge garlic for it.
Everything did well this year except squash antomatoes were watered down and early blight, but had just enough. The Silver Queen corn and sweet bell peppers were Huge this year. I just bit into what I thought was a Lunchbox sweet and it was the one you showed 🥵—Yikes! I was worried about peppers as I watched them turn lime green in everyday rain 😬. I’m still picking and will soon hit zucchini avoidance level😂😂😂
Our weird fun crops to try were eggplants, sorghum and amaranth. Now just need to figure out how to use them—the chickens always have ideas😂.
Drought, heat, and disease all hit my garden like a hammer this year. About 3/4 of my bush beans were practically wiped out by a disease that I'm pretty sure it was carried there by the woodlice because of their proliferation this year in all of the mulch I used. One plant in that section was hardly affected at all so I didn't pick any beans from it and am waiting for them to mature and saving them for next year's planting