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welcome to Garden Grounds just doing a quick sound check let me know if you can hear my voice and see my garden and we will get started all right the microphone is on um let me just pop out the chat today’s uh gardening grounds me is a really just a Q&A really do this every second and fourth Thursday of the month at 11:00 a.m this is public anybody who subscribes to my channel can ask a question ask whatever you’d like with respect to gardening the light subject today is going to be what can you plant in in uh June and July direct seeding actually and go ahead throw your question into the chat and make sure you put question next to it so that I can pick it out of the chat having trouble getting the chat actually up here hold on okay so we are good to go and it looks like the chat is a little problematic going to try and do it again and please if you can now see me and hear me let me know so that I can get rolling here and it does get busy so when you do put out a question please put question in front of it so I can pick it out all right we are good to go so direct seating i’m in Maryland zone 7 today’s going to be 90° um I have to water the garden now completely when the temperatures get into the 90s your soil the top 4 in really warms up so when you’re seeding your summer crops they germinate really quickly they grow really quickly so they’re going to grow faster than you might think because we’re into basically the summer what you can’t plant right now in June in Maryland type zones are the cool weather crops it’s just getting too warm soil-wise so a lot of those crops are going to bolt and flower and we’re going to have to plant those again you know for the fall so for the summer crops probably the easiest thing to say is what you can’t direct seed you can’t direct seed peppers here or eggplant they’re just going to take a long time to grow you could give it a try it’s going to stay warm here in Maryland until really the end of September for the warm crops maybe even into October so we have a good 100 days to grow so tomato plants you can definitely direct seed tomatoes right now determined variety tomatoes get to a set height they flower they fruit over a short span they can mature anywhere in 60 to 70 days so a lot of times we forget and think that we can only do tomato plants as transplants so you can do really any determinant variety transplant now and you can do it again in early July if you want cherry tomatoes indeterminate you can direct seed those and even some indeterminate varieties that mature within say under 90 days can be planted direct seeded they grow extremely fast so once they germinate they really accelerate in your growth so they’re you know maturing faster than what it says usually on the seed pack so you know give it a an experiment you know try putting in a tomato plant now direct seed watch how quickly it grows and catches up to your other plants so tomatoes are definitely something that we think that we can’t direct seed but you can and again I’m in Maryland zone 7 so similar areas let me grab some questions and then we’ll go down a list of what you can direct seed now and if you have a question just throw it out there with respect to can I put it in the ground and will it be uh will it germinate and mature in time before the frost and cold comes all right so we got questions what liquid fertilizer can I use for flowering tomato and pepper plants good question any of them so we get a little bit distracted and overwhelmed with information that at a specific time for a specific plant with specific flowers and specific fruit that we need a specific water soluble fertilizer the truth is that organic compost any compost well below a 111 NPNK low amounts plants have been growing in that for millions of years they do their thing they do well now I understand that if you have something that’s a little bit more geared to flowering and um fruing maybe you get more tomatoes i have not found that to be true so any fertilizer that has NP and K represented will work as your water soluble fertilizer fertilizers that might be a little bit higher in phosphorus and potassium and a little bit lower in nitrogen would be great but it’s really hard to find a water-soluble fertilizer for that there is a product called Alaska More Bloom i don’t necessarily recommend it but it’s a 010 water soluble fertilizer and to answer your question that’s what I would select it has no nitrogen so it’s not going to really supply leaf growth or nutrients for leaf uh leaf growth but nitrogen is used throughout the whole system of a plant it’s going to get potassium it’s going to get phosphorus and that is supposed to help with the flowering and fruiting i’ve just not found it to be significant so the chemical type fertilizers everything is a chemical but for instance the human-made fertilizers are usually like 24 816 way too high in nitrogen cut it in half that’s a fine water soluble i am affiliated with Agrothrive agrath Thrive has a basic water soluble highly recommend them for um organic fertilizers works really well and they have one for blooming which is a little bit higher in the the phosphorus and potassium you can find those the link for Agro Thrive in my um video descriptions on any of my videos but I just want to be clear that I don’t want to push you towards something I’m affiliated with or say you need a specialized product you just need to supply your plants slow and steady NPNK and they’re going to do their thing again I’ve just not noticed a significant difference in the number of flowers or the number of fruit or anything like that um and the reason I took actually so long to answer that one of my goals for my channel is helping new gardeners not be overwhelmed and helping you know uh gardeners that have been doing this for a while not overspend on their money or overuse our time in that we have to like regiment in specific fertilizers at certain times and stuff like that you really don’t you could just use compost your garden’s going to do okay all right so it does get busy if I miss your question please um just put it back out there again mc slugs are decimating my pepper leaves will they survive yes those there’s Yes yes they will survive and this is a great time to use a water-soluble fertilizer higher in nitrogen give them a big drink that will get them back on track to control slugs and snails I use the baits that you can buy corey brand I think or Corey slug and bait killer doesn’t matter what they are look for the ingredient should be iron phosphate or sulfur in a bait that really controls snails and slugs that will take care of the problem can I plant bras now in zone B good question you can plant in my opinion the leafy brassacas collards and kale um you could also do Swiss chart um they will manage through the summer pretty well collards may flower kale probably won’t but if you try and do things like uh broccoli cauliflower they’re just not going to form a nice head you’ll get leaves and you can eat the leaves but you’re not going to get a head forming it just gets too warm can you explain how to properly harvest lettuce seeds and what to do to prevent cross-pollination so actually I’ve not necessarily harvested lettuce seeds i don’t know if they need to be pollinated or if they’re self-pollinating like for instance tomatoes are self-pollinating so when your tomatoes flower it’s really hard to get across unless something happens perfectly at the right time the only way to do it since I’m not sure if they are self-pollinating or not is to have good amount of space between your plants and that could be you know if you don’t want any contamination it’s probably going to have to be like a good seriously like 20 yards because insects fly around you’re going to wait till the pods totally dry you’re going to harvest on a dry day and you’re going to pick the pods they should be thoroughly dry and brown the outside should be crispy you break them open the the seeds are there um you know and that’s the only real way to ensure you get a good seed if you pick them too soon they usually feed off of the pot or whatever you pick and they may be okay but you definitely want them to dry out so if you do throw in a super chat um I will answer that with priority so we have one i started asparagus from seed and thank you very much uh Philly Passport uh I started asparagus from seed if I had to plant in containers what size would you recommend uh good question let me just think a second theoretically asparagus can be grown in any container it’s really winter hearty in Maryland it’s going to survive so we get down to maybe into the teens for freezes this year we got down to like eight degrees but asparagus is a big plant and even though you could have it survive in a small plant you want to be able to feed and water it without having to be out there two or three times a day and that’s the biggest issue with container gardening how big is your plant come midsummer an asparagus gets like four feet tall you know you let the spears go you stop harvesting in May you let them go the plant will get a good four feet tall maybe taller and really fern out and it’s drawing in all the energy for that year in June July August and putting it into the roots you get bigger roots then you get the asparagus spheres to answer your question I would go with definitely at least a 20 gallon fabric pot with one plant that would be the smallest I would go but I would try and get to you know like a 40 gallon container i can’t convert that to liters in my head sorry but you know 20 gallons to 40 gallons you want something that’s a good size you’re thinking about how big is this plant going to be middle of July you know and it’s going to be big all right so again this is Garden Grounds i do this every second and fourth Thursday at 11:00 a.m and it’s just a live mentoring Q&A i also have perk memberships for 3.99 you can join my perk memberships and I do this format four times at least probably five times a month for one hour it’s a smaller group it’s a great group if you look at the people that have circles and stars next to their names they are perk members and this is the format that we do and it’s you know it’s nice it’s smaller we talk for about an hour and you can really use it as a time to ask questions from me and also the other gardeners about you know how to get your garden on track or what to do in your garden for that week so it’s a nice way to just kind of get some mentoring from peers and for myself all right question tomato fungus can just the leaf with fungus be trimmed or the whole stem baking soda spray can this be sprayed in full sun in a heated day other plant sprays so when you have a leaf fungus on your tomato plants or generally on any plant if you see it on a leaf and it’s usually a brown circle with a yellow ring around it that means you have an active fungus spores are spread through that whole space so you would really not just want to take part of the leaf you would want to take the whole leaf if you want to trim it back baking soda can be sprayed in full sun but you try not to do that because water droplets form the baking soda um can kind of concentrate it can damage your leaves so you really want to spray your sprays early morning later afternoon you want it to be a nice light coat on the leaf and you want it to dry um not really slowly but you just want to let it dry evenly so that it coats the leaf baking soda spray increases I always have to think increases the pH let me get it right yeah increases the pH and increases alkalinity and that makes it inhospitable for that fungus to multiply and reproduce and it manages it um I don’t know what your question is with other plants to spray if you want to clarify that hot full sun window boxes and 6A similar to you what foods can I direct sew now in those window boxes thanks so they’re going to get hot and you’re going to have to have enough soil in there to really manage the growth i think you could do bush beans for sure i’m trying to think of what other smaller plants my concern is that anything that’s going to grow above a foot full sun heat is going to dry out really quick and I would probably go with bush beans if anybody else has any other ideas of what that person of what Jay can plant that would be great all right so other things that you can plant so we kind of get our mindset you know that we transplant stuff or we direct direct seed in May and then we try and take care of sickly plants the plants get beat up from diseases insects beating sun they dry out you can replant you can definitely direct seed now cucumbers I’ll be doing that this week zucchini squash I will continue to do that into July and what you’re doing is and I have cucumber plants that are as tall as my shoulders now when they get beat up and die off I have new baby plants kind of breaking the surface and growing when you do that with zucchini like I have a mature zucchini plant now that’s flowering it may get the vine bore it may get a disease if that plant dies off I have other plants growing and again remember they grow much more quickly when the warmth is here smaller plants tend to be less affected by diseases and insects for whatever reason so as that one plant dies off of the cuces the squash zucchini the new plants come and that’s how a succession plant really through June and July and even sometimes in August they will continue to grow definitely do bush beans pole beans okra can all be direct seeded you can actually in a shadier part of your garden direct seed carrots right now um people associate them more with the cool weather but they can go into a shadier part of the garden i’m trying to go down the list in my head of what I’ve planted winter squash like acorn squash hubard um butternut spaghetti these are squash that when you pick them they can store for kind of weeks if not months on your um counter or something they can all be planted now cantaloupe watermelon pumpkins can all go in it’s just really a good time to plant just about anything that’s associated with a warm weather crop direct seed wise these are all going to accelerate and grow well peppers you might be able to get by with but they do tend to stay stay small you might get a small harvest i just found it’s not worth it um eggplant can take off but they take again they’re like peppers you might get some eggplant but not that many tomatillos related to the tomato direct seed those now it’s hard to find them in transplants they grow extremely fast they would be perfect to grow um Old Dominion a perk member just watched your compost video we had a bad infestation of Asian jumping worms and can’t let any worms get into our compost now any advice on your build for a raised compost bin so I’m not sure how Asian jumping worms work if they got to your compost they’re probably in your soil so they’re going to be present but I understand you don’t want them to have a great place to live and really multiply and I don’t know if they climb you know if they don’t climb up things you could probably just build a platform you know a good foot off the ground and compost that way you could use um compost bins like you’re saying here i have a couple of those and I built a stand that was about 3 feet tall to fit the compost tumbler and I use a tumbler um you could put bins on there that maybe it doesn’t you know tumble but if you’re going to go through that work I would probably look at a circular compost tumbler that’s kind of big you can close the top you can actually keep it on the ground because it’s a big cylinder and you put a lid over it and it makes compost a little bit more quickly because you can spin it rotate it and kind of help the heating process question i see red antlike tiny bugs on my holly hawks leaves some of them are eating the leaves what do you use so dietimmacous earth is really more for jointed insects like beetles it’s silica from microscopic sea organisms from millions of years ago that die they leave these sharp shells they get dug up and we toss them onto the plants so your bugs probably just don’t get affected by DE it’s a dust but it’s just silica um an oil and soap spray may work on them i don’t know you can check out my videos but just a a soapy oil spray could work that’s pretty generic organic um I sell peppermint oil at my seed shop peppermint oil has been great on my cucumbers and beans for managing spidermitites um and even actually the Mexican bean beetle the oil the peppermint oil really irritates them may kill them off they’re too small for me to see but it controls them um the other thing is that you could go to a non-organic treatment like um since you’re not eating it like seven spray and that’s pretty effective at wiping out most insects if you are spraying it um you want to spray early in the morning or late in the evening so you’re not killing off good insects but any spray any insect dust organic not organic combination of both will indiscriminately kill insects it can’t tell the difference question if you have a determinant tomato that’s growing can you take a cut from it and regrow it in a different spot you can any tomato plant that grows a sucker out of the joint you can you know cut maybe at 3 in or so put it in water it’ll root out determined variety tomatoes actually don’t necessarily die off they die back and then they regrow so but they can take a long time from producing than dying and regrowing it’s just easier to have transplants to put into the ground for them but you could do that if I cut the runners for my strawberry does it start flowering again not really um and again I saw your question but put question in front of your question so that I can pull it out strawberry plants are either Junebearing or everbearing meaning they flower and produce all at once like around June or they produce all at once like say June but also continue to produce not as much through July and August and such like that so there’s really two types weather conditions as they change sometimes you get another flowering in um September October and you can get fruit then i have mixed berries strawberries on my in my garden but cutting the runners doesn’t force more flowers and more berries maybe slightly but not significant in a way that you would think or that you want um advice on how to make garden look more presentable like the blogs and YouTube videos plants are healthy i mulch with grass clippings just wish garden looked nicer so I mean I have fixed my garden up in the past and try and make it look like home and garden TV but I found that that was kind of discouraging to people because it’s not real gardens are always in transition they always don’t look perfect the best way to make a garden look better if you’re looking for something is using um I think raised beds and mulch in between the paths and that keeps the path you know one color mulch nice and clean you got nice edges on your box you’ve got mulch in the boxes and the raised beds and then you’ve got your trelluses set up and it can be very nice you know sometimes people do stuff more geometrically and um keep symmetry with how they’re putting their their boxes down it all just depends on what you you know think looks good to be honest with you um but it’s usually mulch and it’s usually raised beds that frame out the growing area when you just have earth rows you know they shift and change and I think it looks good but it’s not as clean as maybe you know on a TV show and I want to welcome Robin L i think you just joined the perk membership i appreciate that all right let me find out where I am question maryland’s own seven and I have great sun for from late April till July in August the trees model the sun will my watermelon and other sun-loving veggies be okay depends on how much it cuts back but with time I found that plants can manage as long as they’re getting six hours of direct sun pretty well so if your plants are pretty well established the soil’s pretty good they’re still getting sun on them they’re going to be okay one of the things that I do come July is I put shade cloth down because my garden in certain areas gets like 10 hours of direct sun it beats up the cucumbers it heats up the soil it slows down production of the tomatoes and peppers so a 50% shade cloth reduces the sun by 50% cools the soil even though I’m using mulch in the soil and it helps these plants stay greener and continue to produce because when the soil gets really warm and it’s baking that top couple of inches is like you know 100 plus degrees when the sun is baking down and it’s a 90 degree day these plants go into hibernation mode and they shut down for survival so they will drop flowers they will drop fruit they will look beat up it’s hard to stay up on the watering they use the surface roots to really pull in nutrients from everywhere even though it’s watered pretty well and you’ve got deep roots keeping the plant alive they really thrive off of the top couple inches of the soil i’m getting lots of cucumber flowers but worms are getting to them what can I use to help that is a tough question so if they’re worms like they’re caterpillars and you see them you’re probably going to have to use an insect dust again they both kill good insects so doesn’t matter if you pick Spinad which is organic like Captain Jack’s or Seven Dust you could use neem oil spray when worms eat the neem oil it shuts down their system and kills them i sell that at my shop neem oil is probably the least impactful to the non- chewing beneficial insects like bees coming in going to the flower as long as you don’t contact them with the neem oil while it’s wet and coming out of the sprayer they’re going to be fine but if you’re putting down any insect dust or spray it could harm the beneficial flying insects but if you’re sure that they’re worms and they’re not snails or slugs you’re going to have to pick a insect dust or spray and cover the plants um I’m not familiar with something that just eats the flowers but you know if you’ve got it and you see it then I consider that an infestation and you have to use something a little bit stronger what type of mulch should be used in the vegetable garden you can use any mulch in your garden grass fresh grass couple inches let it dry turn brown put more on later leaves um you can use straw um you can use shredded hardwood that’s what I prefer you could use wood chips wood chips are something that are like you know big shredded hardwood is more like like your hair a little bit thicker and it’s it’s little pieces of wood but it’s it’s shredded down and it decays really quickly you don’t want to mix wood product into the top four inches of your soil because it has to decay and it will take nutrients from your plants however anything on the surface of the soil is fine you know if you want to plant seeds you would have to move the mulch to the side grass clippings are great to use leaves are great to use they decay quickly the worms like them microbes like them you can use that there’s a lot of different things you can use question i missed it what’s a jumping worm also any suggestions on liquid fertilizer for fruing plants so I don’t know if you were the fruing plant person that asked earlier um jumping worm is a variety of worm that doesn’t do anything beneficial for the soil it just eats everything is my understanding so they’re not leaving castings or anything good like that they’re just taking the nutrients um I was saying for fruing for tomatoes and peppers that you don’t really need a specialized water soluble fertilizer anyone’s going to work i’m affiliated with Agrothrive they have a Bloom fertilizer um they have really two types you would get the second type that’s higher in phosphorus and potassium find that in my video descriptions that is geared to help with flowering there’s also Alaska brand i’m not affiliated with them that’s a zero no nitrogen 1010 NPNK and that’s to help with blooming i have found that there’s not a significant difference i’ve tried using Alaska before the 01010 the more bloom product is uh the Alaska brand it’s called Morbloom didn’t find anything significant just consistent NPNK in your soil is what’s going to keep your plants thriving i don’t mulch my green stalk now i have done it before and it does help keep moisture in the pockets but I would use the shredded hardwood for that and I would you know I find any container and the green garden vertical towers or like any container when it gets to be a hot summer and your plants are big you just have to get in there and water it regularly so getting back to we’re at 11:31 i’ll go to about 11:45 for direct seeding in June and July you can keep the main crops going cucumbers zucchini squash like every three or four weeks really through the summer into July you can definitely do indeterminate tomatoes uh determinate variety tomatoes probably indeterminate tomatoes just depends on where you live give it a try okra can go in your pumpkins cantaloupe melons can go in your winter squashes can go in for herbs you can continue to drop basil seeds like my basil I have it in containers that it’s pretty big and then I put some transplants in i will be putting out some basil seeds in the shadier parts of my garden now that’s how you can get continuous basil for the whole summer um aside from that kind of deadheading it and managing the other plants put them in a cooler place you can put dill down now you can put in parsley now um you can even try and squeeze in leaks which take about a 100 days but they do manage the cold weather so you could put leaks in now and that’s an alternative to onions you can’t put onions in now we’ve missed that boat um you can’t put in garlic really we’ve missed that boat at this point Maryland zone 7 I have a good 90 to 100 days of really warm weather and probably longer i can pretty much direct seed anything what I want to kind of stick today’s live is that you don’t have to make these as transplants just find a space put them in the ground where you want keep them watered water every other day every two days you know it’s going to be hot let them get established but they’re going to germinate really quickly and they’re going to grow incredibly fast and that’s what usually surprises gardeners how quickly like if I put in a zucchini seed now germinates probably in three to five days that plant can be producing from germination in 35 days it’s really that fast all right let me go back find out where we are here and again I’ll be on for about another 15 minutes if you want to do a super chat donation I will answer that question with priority if you like this format I have perk memberships you can join that from my uh YouTube page $3.99 a month and I do this format about five times a month for an hour robin and dark blue circle i know that you just joined planted strawberries with crowns just above the soil back in midmay in a green stock type tower living in the hot desert so I water frequently when should I start seeing growth midmay let’s just say the 15th you should probably have seen growth by now so if you bought crowns and they were like in a bag or off the shelf sometimes they’re not the best if you bought crowns from like a nursery and they ship them to you and they’re moist and they look alive those are usually fine so I’m not sure which ones you planted crowns that aren’t well taken care of sometimes have dried out and have died and I’m going with that if you’ve put a bunch in there usually something survives so as long as you’re keeping it watered if you’re not seeing any growth really in about 7 to 10 days I don’t think that they were viable you know strawberries take off pretty quickly but I would give them another 7 to 10 days do you plant Brussels sprout seeds outdoors or start indoors so my Brussels sprouts when I um grew them I would start them indoors in like February and put them out in March but the the weather here is weird so the Brussels weren’t really forming and then when they get into the heat they get a kind of spicy don’t taste as great but I was doing transplants um theoretically you could put Brussels sprout seeds in now they’re going to grow and establish and then they’re going to really start forming as it cools down so it’s one of those crops that take a long time to form for instance it’s too early yet but cauliflower and broccoli and other brassacas I will plant direct seed in August because they’re going to grow when it’s warm they’re going to accelerate and then the cool weather comes and then they’re going to form nicely just depends on what you want to do and I apologize for YouTube finding the join button and joining perk memberships is really difficult if you’re on a phone or you know versus a laptop or a desktop but it’s definitely there it’s a join button and it’s you know it takes a little bit of looking around but it’s not you know something that I I wish it was easier like you know sometimes at the video that you’re watching right next to it is the the join button shows up thank you Philly for joining success all right all right let me find out where I left off dorothy lantern beetles are coming in will eight work on them i don’t usually use insecticides but I don’t want them to proliferate and draw more in so I I’m I’m not a 100% organic gardener i fully believe compost is the heart of organic gardening i have tons of compost when it comes to insects lantern beers are coming in will aid work don’t typically use insecticides i’m with you i use insecticides stronger stuff when I have an infestation so I’m actually spraying my musketines where you have little nymph lantern flies with seven which is you know eight is just kind of a different version yes it will work and it kills them and it’s effective two years ago I think they rolled into my garden maybe three i had thousands everywhere and they just wrecked trees and grapes and musketines and now I don’t mess with them i’m perfectly fine hit them with the insecttoide that’s strong knock them back and go on my organic ways in different places in my garden can I leave two pumpkin plants growing next to each other in a ground bed or should I thin one out no you can do two i mean one or two pumpkins one or two melons um two cantaloupe that’s fine if in the ground they get a bigger place to grow the roots do better that’s great if the pumpkins can kind of go in different directions perfectly fine the cool thing about pumpkins and a lot of your vining crops that sprawl across the ground is they will put roots down in different places along the vine and anchor and establish and you know that’s why it doesn’t matter that you have two next to each other but it’s really more dependent on you um hold on really on your preference with pest and disease the more you pack plants in there the greater chance that an infestation or diseases take hold doesn’t mean you made a mistake diseases are around insects are around they’re still going to come to supermaintained gardens it just depends on how often you can check on them to manage it um earwigs are taking over i find them in my compost they’re eating my bell peppers salvi and other other things also have slugs and snails but not as much as earwigs so slug and snails I use iron phosphate baits or sulfur baits they work really well people have told me the iron phosphate slug baits sulfur baits work on um the roly pololy bugs don’t know if they work with the earwigs earwigs can be devastating you can try something like neem oil because they’re eating if they eat it the acidactin and neem oil kills them off but they have to eat the plants for it to get inside them so you get more days of devastation that might be a case where you use an insect dust don’t know how well spinad works on them that’s organic but again it will kill any insect well kill a lot of different insects um or the seven dust will work if you dust around your compost pile they crawl through it it kills them off i’m personally okay i’ve done a lot of research with it in using it um I feel that breaks down and goes away and doesn’t harm my garden but I understand like some people just want to use organic chemicals so try spinad dust or or try neem oil all right where we at 11:40 trying to just find out where I am here all right and again if I missed your question please put it back out there uh aphits are attacking my Brussels sprouts i keep blasting them with water what else can I do aphids are softbodied insects so you can make a soapy water spray with some oil in it any oil works it doesn’t have to be neem oil because they’re not going to eat it you’re going to use the oil to actually smother the insect so you could use any oil in your kitchen really um always test spray if you make something new spray some of the leaves see if it affects the plants wait 48 hours but you can do a soapy water spray see if that works the soap contacts the aphid messes up like a waxy oily coat they have on them dehydrates them the oil and soap works really well the soap does what I just said the oil covers the pores and suffocates them philly I recently purchased two grape vines the vines I bought are capable of being potted what’s the best type of soil to use for grapes i’m good with making my own soil so the thing about grapes is they send down a vine or a root it goes like at least four feet into the earth and it mines all of the nutrients and stuff it needs so if it says you can grow it in a container I’m sure it’s true and you just want to make sure the temperatures manage well in your area and the grape vine survives but that being said let’s say the grape does great you’re going to have to keep it well fed with a water-soluble fertilizer because it’s only getting nutrients out of the container it’s not getting those deep roots so keep that in mind it’s got to be fed regularly the soil really doesn’t matter um they grow in just about anything like mine is planted in my clay soil sends down that big root i would just be going for something that holds moisture you know pH around six you don’t really have to measure it i mean it could be made with Pete Moss and your native soil it’s really going to grow anything it can be a little bit heavier like you don’t want it super loose or fluffy but a heavier I think container mix with more earth silt clay sand in it is probably better for um grape vines but they’re not really they don’t care that much it’s just in a container you’re going to have to keep them watered in fed well i had a small area of my potatoes droop after heavy rain it’s been 4 days and they’re still drooping but not wielded they could be drooping from excessive water and maybe they just kind of got messed up with the air pockets and it was too much water but there’s nothing you can do so you know that it’s not from underwatering underwatering will droop your potatoes and it really reduces the way the potatoes are formed but if you know they’ve had plenty of water and they’re drooping all you can really do is let them go now it’s June a lot of potatoes are ready in 70 80 days depending on when you planted them they may be finishing up because when a potato is done the green greenery turns yellow droops over and it starts dying off so it could be that but you know if it was like two weeks towards the end of June I would say that’s what’s going on but there’s nothing you can really really do about that i would check the soil too because they may be drooping and not look great but if the soil or the area is dry don’t think I can’t water it they had too much water just water again you know and you you hope for the best all right yes well the Rusted Garden Red is actually going to be out at the end of July and I will be announcing the dates for that i’m not end of July strike that end of June it’s only going to be out for a week but the Rustic Garden Red will be fully advertised by me it’ll I’ll be doing uh probably a video on it so they are coming back for just one week and this is a unique color to the rusted garden through a greentock garden i actually think it’s the best color out there it looks really good um but they take these colors off you know every other year or something like that they bring them back for a period of time so they’re sort of limited in that way i’m a secondy year gardener congrats do I don’t use a heating lamp how can I increase my ceiling stem size and strength before transplanting outdoors you don’t really need a heating lamp i mean at 70 degrees Fahrenheit in your house things are pretty good um people use a heat mat sometimes you definitely don’t need a heat lamp you know either a heat mat or just temperature the strength of the stem is usually more affected by the intensity of the light so more intense light helps and even a fan blowing the plants back and forth you use a solar fan that lights come on solar fan turns on wind blows and it helps strengthen strengthen up the the um stem i also use a very dilute way cut down wateroluble fertilizer that helps too you can grow carrots in a grow bag i would try and put them in a little bit more shadier area some seeds of the cool weather variety don’t like to germinate when that top two inches is like well at like 90 degrees Fahrenheit and warmer so they don’t germinate i think carrots fall a little bit into that area spinach definitely does but put them in a place where it’s a little bit cooler and a carrot should be fine a little bit shadier means the ground the soil will be a little bit cooler i get rid of spidermitites using peppermint oil spray it works really well i sell it wherever you buy it you just want to make sure you’re getting peppermint oil um not extract and it’s two teaspoons in a gallon of water with some soap shake it up spray the unders sides of the leaves i found that very effective against spidermitites i’m growing Kellogg’s breakfast tomato and it’s growing tall but I’ve not gotten any flowers they will start to flower you you can’t really speed it up i mean getting back to our question you might think well if I give it more potassium and more phosphorus it’s going to flower more it’s in your soil they get what they need it just might be a plant that takes longer for that if you’re pruning it I would stop pruning it some plants when you prune and try and do a single stem and stuff like that it impacts flower production it’s just that variety but I would just let the Kellogg do its thing and it should start flowering on its own all right we’re going to wrap up in two minutes last questions uh Octavian can I pretty much seed plant determinant tomatoes peppers and cucumbers yeah I was was talking about that so if you come on late you’ve missed the kind of the talk about what you can plant maryland zone 7 you’re in nine California so you definitely can do determinate tomatoes wait wait let me just think i always get confused the higher the zone number the warmer it is if that’s right determinate tomatoes for sure i’m in zone seven i can do determinant tomatoes now i’m in zone seven i can do cucumbers in June in July and in August i can’t really do peppers now they’ll grow and they’ll start i’m just not going to get a huge production because the cold rolls in but if you are in a warmer place and it stays warmer you know longer than it does here in Maryland you can definitely do peppers beem oil is used for a chemical inside of it or in it called as a directin and that gets sprayed on like your brassacas it kills green worms my stomach is growling it kills uh chewing worms so you spray the leaves of your plants the insects that eat the leaf ingest the neem oil that has the aid directed it shuts them down it’s a great organic spray for these chewing insects does baking soda spray help prevent and cure fungus on squash cucumbers and and peppers it does baking soda is an antifungal it changes the pH on the leaves makes the fungus not be able to reproduce it does depend on the variety of fungus some of them may be immune to it depending on what you get but it is pretty effective appreciated Philly for joining perk memberships and for supporting my seed shop i have direct sewed seeds this year and the temps outside were so unstable they didn’t germinate resoed resoed it works now it’s over 105 how can we grow it’s really hard i think we’ll take that as the last question it’s really hard so you have to kind of research more about the seeds that you’re germinating um you can’t really mulch because you need the seeds to break through the soil the sun beating down does heat them up you can water more often but really what you would use for high heat is a shade cloth and you can get a you know 50% shade cloth is great for what you’re talking about i use them you put it over the soil enough sun gets in there to allow the plant to grow and germinate and you have to use a shade cloth because I was just saying sometimes the high heat prevents seeds from germinating or the plants sprout it gets so hot it really heats up that top inch or two and the plant gets killed off but shade cloth is probably the best way to manage it all right so I do the garden grounds every second and fourth Thursday at 11:00 a.m the mentoring Q&A ask whatever you want related to gardening and I do um kind of a light subject if you like this format I have perk memberships $3.99 you have to find the join button which can be a challenge I apologize next to my videos or on my YouTube page and I do this format five times a month all right I was just looking for a last question all right you guys have a great week i’m going to go out and water my garden um it’s going to get up to 90 degrees need to take off this flannel and uh just water and weed see you guys next time
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I have squirrels and Chipmunks digging in my garden what can I do to stop that