A Tour of my Raised Bed Vegetable Garden in June | Week-by-Week Insights and Tips!

Welcome to my first garden tour of the season! On this beautiful day in mid June, I’m excited to walk you through my garden and share weekly updates on what’s growing, the challenges I’m facing, and valuable tips to help you become a better gardener.

In this video, I’ll show you:

00:00 Introduction
00:32 My 16 large raised beds made from 6×6 untreated cedar timber.
00:48 First minor signs of tomato disease.
01:25 Thriving cherry tomato plants.
01:47 Two vibrant pea beds that were planted later than usual.
02:13 Dedicated pollinator and cut flower beds.
02:54 Livestock panel trellises used for winter squash.
03:19 Sunflowers and dahlias adding beautiful colors to the garden.
04:24 Experiments like leaving a carrot to flower.
04:48 My first black Krim tomato nearing harvest time.
05:35 Marigolds, strawberries, lemon basil, and a little bird bath.
06:33 Recently harvested hardneck garlic ready for curing in the greenhouse.

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hi everybody it’s June 12th my first garden video tour of the season but I wanted to get started with that and give you some detail at least week to week on what’s growing in the garden and just challenges or information that comes up that I think is relevant to help you be a better Gardener and for my garden I’m just going to find those opportunities and share those with you but walk you through week to week and give you an update on what you’re looking at and what’s happening here so I have uh if you if you’re new to the channel or to this Garden uh There are 16 large rised beds 6×6 untreated Cedar Timbers that have been in use for 13 years and they’re starting to show their age but that’s okay they still work so really it’s been a good season so far the humidity has been low the temperatures have been relatively cool and that’s been very conducive to uh an area of the country here in Atlanta Georgia where it’s very hot and humid and tomato plants typically suffer with lots of diseases and challenges but this year it’s been a good year so far but I do cut out you know minor disease as I see it and that’s certainly been the case this year like every year like this right here I’ll cut that out no concerns there but uh just keeping up with it is a nice way to actually keep the uh plants thinned out a little bit so there’s better light and air circulation but these are this is a bed of cherry tomatoes here and some sun gold and Sun sugar I like to grow varieties that um purportedly compete with you know other varieties like this is Sun sugar which is um reported to be a little bit larger and even as good as the taste for sun gold which is also in this bed and then this is one of two peab beds and I’m really happy with what I see here because there’s lots of PODS all the way down the line and I really started these very late for peas usually I do that about a month before our last frost which for us is April 10th or so and so these would have been sewn in March mid- March and I don’t think I seed them until late April but no complaints because they’ve done very well and then I have dedicated beds all around the perimeter of the garden for attracting pollinators and for cut flowers too so uh it’s been a really nice addition that we added a couple years ago and it just has changed the Vitality of this Garden it’s just full of life all the time with lots of insects and birds and it’s just beautiful and wonderful to be out here anytime of the day to see it all these are dalas back here that we uh left the tubers in the ground over winter and they’re you know they’ve come up normally we would have cut those back and wait for bigger blooms in August and we’re just experimenting all the time with triing different things and then this is the livestock panel trellis you know I use livestock panels for just about everything you can use them for and then some but this time uh as many people have done creating that for a winter squash trellis and two places down the main walkway so I have a few varieties of winter squash here that I everything in this Garden is started from seed in the greenhouse back in the distance there my Yoder belt greenhouse and um I have a dedicated bed here of uh sunflowers this year and some Dalia it’s actually mixed in to the sides but sunflower seed Steve had some really cool varieties and we took advantage of some of those and I can’t wait to see those come into bloom we’ll walk past these tomatoes because kind of when you’ve seen one plant you’ve seen them all but they are looking good I will say that let’s walk down here and look at um bush beans and I will make note of the borage you know you’ll see a lot of that in my garden and other flowering plants that come up like Nims that we just leave in the ground that they’re not in the way we want to leave those because obviously the the pollinators like those and it adds some color to the Garden which is nice so that’s always going to be the case here and then more peas this is a good example of um a nice bed of peas again I sew those the same date but uh pods are coming on here so that’s good and then speaking of experimentation here’s uh I left this carrot from a bed of carrots that used to be here those had all been harvested but this one was doing really well and I wanted it to flower because it is attracting a lot of hoverflies and really cool insects to these flowers and it’s kind of cool I like the structure of it and so that’s good uh one other thing I wanted to show you because I just noticed this a few minutes ago I shoot for harvesting my first large slicing tomatoes by the 4th of July and honestly I shoot for the end of June but there’s a black creme that is the breaker it is at the breaker stage which is when it’s coming into color so I pick those always at this point I don’t wait for it to get you know fully red everywhere and in fact it always this variety black crem has dark shoulders so this will always be a little bit greener than the rest but as you can see it’s got nice color on it and so this will be picked today and fully ripened by tomorrow for sandwiches or salads and I’m looking forward to that also as I pin through here I I place lots of flowers in the beds you know and again everything is started from C but there are some Mir Golds that I just put in last week that are way overdue I put strawberries on the corners and let those spill over and just have fun and always mixing things up uh I have a water you this little bird bath in here I F it every day and it gets used up every day but the birds love that and I just really enjoy knowing that they’ve got a source of water here and then some uh lemon basil here more over there and then I start to look for those places where I can add things which is why it’s kind of random but that’s okay and there I’ll probably do more flowers or maybe another row of beans probably that and let’s walk this way and just uh do one last look at this side of the garden this uh just harvested my garlic and I’ll get those into the greenhouse for some additional curing time but uh I use hard I like hard neck garlic so all of that is hard neck garlic and in the South usually it’s recommended that you use softnet garlic but I’ve really not had an issue with it the downside is it doesn’t keep as long in storage but that’s an encouragement to just eat your garlic sooner okay I think that’ll do it for today and I will keep you posted on developments each week with a video like this with some teachable moments as they come up so thanks for watching and if you’re not subscribed please do that so you’ll get notified when I post a new video thanks for watching