Full Vegetable Garden Tour – July 2025 – Michigan Zone 6a

I can’t believe how much the garden has grown since June! It is finally taking off and everything is so green and beautiful. Now if only I could figure out a way to deter the deer!! They are terrible this season. Please leave any recommendations in the comments!

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Green beans:
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Carrots:
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Onions:
Cabernet Bulb Onion (red onion)
Yellow Sweet Spanish Utah Bulb Onion Seeds
Peppers:
Thai Hot Chile Pepper Seeds
Cayenne Blend Chile Pepper Seeds
Serrano Chile Pepper Seeds
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Jimmy Nardello Sweet Pepper Seeds
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Herbs:
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It is a beautiful morning here in Michigan today and I cannot wait to walk through the garden with you this morning and just show you how everything is looking. If you saw and enjoyed my June garden tour, you’re really going to like today’s because everything has really exploded over the last like 3 to four weeks. I feel like the garden is in a really nice sweet spot right now where everything is growing really fast. Things are starting to put on fruit here and there. I’ve got tomatoes coming in, peppers coming in, the tiniest little green beans coming in, and the pest pressure isn’t too bad yet. And we’re not into like the thick of like harvesting and preserving season yet. So, it’s just a really nice time to like walk through the garden and see how everything’s doing. If this is the first video you’re seeing of mine, welcome to the More Than Gardening YouTube channel. I garden here in Michigan, zone 6A. I have 15 raised beds behind me. I believe I’ve got 10 grow bags. We’ve got two peach trees, a beehive, and 10 raspberry bushes. I grow my entire garden from seed. This is my third year gardening. And about 70% of those seeds are ones that I start inside in the spring and then transplant out. And probably about 30% are ones I direct sew. So, there’s a lot of different varieties out here in the garden. There’s things that are doing really well, which I’m excited to share. And there’s things that are really struggling, which I will show you, too, because I’ve got my fair share of fails this season that I want to talk through with you guys because there’s a lot of learning in those failures, which is good, valuable information as much as it’s kind of a bummer. So, let’s get straight into this tour. Like I said, it’s really beautiful out. The mosquitoes are starting to bite. They have been the worst this season than they ever have been ever before. I don’t know if that’s just a Michigan thing. if you guys are dealing with that, too. But let’s go ahead and get through this tour and hopefully they don’t destroy us. This first bed is all of my yellow onions. These overall are doing okay compared to last season. Honestly, the onions have been a little hot and cold all season in the beginning when I planted them in April. They had a lot of wind damage and then towards like the end of June, beginning of July, we had really, really hot weather, which actually caused a few of them to bolt or go to seed, which I’ve never had before with onions. And last year I was harvesting these right around this time. I honestly think like to the day one year ago I was harvesting these and these are not ready at all. They are bulbing nicely finally like here and there, but they’re not they they’re not tipped over yet. Like their necks aren’t broken. They’re not drying out. And they honestly probably have another 2 to 3 weeks left until I’m harvesting them. So definitely delayed this year. I think at the end of the day, we’ll get like an okay crop of the yellow onions, but definitely not going to be as good as last year, which is a little bit of a bummer, but oh well. You can’t control the heat. You can’t control nature. So, I’m kind of just like over it and letting it go. This bed over here is my red onions, and these ones are actually starting to do really well. I did not think they were doing good. I thought I was going to have like really small ones, but then the other day I started like moving some of the easy straw out of the way and I realized how big they actually are. And for this variety, this is the red cabernet. These are actually really good size red onions. And you can see a lot of them, like this one right here, his neck is broken, so it’s done growing. So now I’m just waiting for all these greens to die. You can see right here, these ones already started to die off. Once the rest of these kind of turn like brownie and yellowy, I’ll start harvesting them and then I’ll cure them. And these will be really great. Honestly, this bed alone will probably last us through the fall, maybe till like Novemberish. I use a lot of red onions in canning. Like once the tomatoes are ready and I’m canning up pasta sauce and I’m canning up salsa, I’m going to use a lot of the onions in those recipes. But, you know, for the amount of onions I have, this entire bed, it’s like over 65. We’ll definitely get enough out of here to last through the fall and then combine with whatever we get from the yellow onions. We’re going to have a good harvest to last fingers crossed through January. Last year my storage onions lasted until end of December. This year my goal is to get them at least another month further, but we will see because again the yellow onions did so bad. Along this trellis are my cantaloupe, which is a fail of the season. These seedlings are so small. And last night, this one got eaten by a deer. Right here. Right here. Right here. This one got completely decapitated by a deer. This one was left untouched. And this one was left untouched. People ask me all the time how we deal with deer. And honestly, we don’t really deal with them normally where we live. Like we’re on a lake and we’re on a peninsula and we’re very far back into the neighborhood that we’re in that it takes a lot for a deer to find our house and get all the way back here. They have to pass a ton of houses, dogs, people, everything. So, they usually don’t come back here. They came back like once or twice last season, but this season figured it out. Yeah. This season, they really figured out like where we’re at because they probably been back here at least like five or six times. This is for sure happened last night, which is really a bummer. I put these like little white ball things in some of these beds. I got these on Amazon. They’re supposed to be like a natural repellent. They’re supposed to be like safe for humans and pets, but they’re supposed to like ward off deer cuz they smell really weird. They’re not working at all. I don’t know what else to do at this point. So, if anybody has like any tips of how to repel the deer, please leave it in the comments because if I lose more of this garden to deer damage, I’m going to be really sad. So yeah, cantaloupe not doing good. I’ve got a few seedlings on the other side, too, which I planted like a week or two ago. They weren’t eaten by the deer. I think they might be okay, but we will see. Over here is where I had a lot of growth in the June tour, but those were all spring crops that are now pretty much out of the garden, and I’m transitioning to fall. The grow bag soon will have kale, lettuce, and spinach in them. This birdy’s bed here, I’ve got oregano off to the side and carrots just starting to pop up from germinating like a week ago. This middle bed where I had all that Roma has two seedlings coming up and then I just sewed a lot more seeds about a week ago. So soon they’ll be coming up too. The snapd dragons are beautiful. They’re starting to slow down a bit in the heat. Snapdragons are more of a cool weather flower. So when it gets really hot, they definitely don’t do as well. That’s why the blooms are kind of like patchy in that bed. But then in this last bed, I’ve got some netoriums on the side. Spinach that’s still waiting to come up. A critter was in here because I don’t know why that would all be moved. So definitely chipmunk came through there. Then I’ve got some black Simpson lettuce coming up. Cilantro and dill. So, little bit of an empty spot in the garden right now, but that’s okay because we’re transitioning from those spring crops into the fall crops. Back to the main kind of raised bed portion of the garden. This bed is really starting to pick up the pace. These are all my pepper plants in here. I’ve got bell peppers, pablanos, Jimmy Dardellos, and Serranos. The Jimmy Dardella plant is a new one for me this year, and it’s already gotten some peppers starting to grow. I’ve got a big one there. I’ve got one here. And then I’ve got like a little curly cute one back here. Dylan, can you see that one? Cool. So, I’ve got those there. This plant, I don’t know if this is a pablano or a Jimmy Nardelloo. I really don’t know. But I know I’ve got like two or three Jimmy Nardellos. Two or three pablanos. And then I’ve got I actually I don’t know what these ones are to be completely honest. These are either Serranos or Thai chilis. I guess we’ll find out once they start putting on actual little peppers because right now they’re just the flower buds. Whatever they are, they’re doing good. They’re putting on a lot of flowers. This makes me think these are probably tied chilies just because of the number of buds. But we’ll see. I guess maybe in a week or so or in a couple weeks, my next video, these will be blooming or actually fruing and we will just see what they are. But they look good overall. These peppers are starting to finally take off. I’ve got cilantro on the border. And then this is another deer attack over the last couple of days. My poor pickling cucumbers. I actually This one could make me cry because I love pickles so much. And I don’t know. I don’t even know what to say here. You can see like all of the damage here just like those cantaloupe plants have. They just went to town on the leaves just biting everything they could. There’s my little deer repellent that clearly did absolutely nothing. I mean, these got this right here. This morning when we came out here was like freshly like this sound gross, but like kind of wet. Like I know they were gnawing on this like right before we came out here. I thought I kind of think they’ll the cucumbers will keep growing. I mean, we’ve got little flowers here and there and I think these are just the leaves that got bitten off and they’ll keep growing still. But the fact that all these leaves are gone, like it really inhibits the plant from growing up quickly and being strong. And if the deer come through again like tonight or even the next few days and like take even more, I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m really nervous about these pickling cucumbers. So, I need some deer repellent advice, please. On this side, I’ve got my regular market cucumbers. They got bitten off here, here, and here. But there were a few seedlings left untouched and these grow really fast that I’m actually if the deer don’t come back and totally destroy them. I think we might be okay here. The rest of this bed looks really really crazy. This might look good to you because they’re very tall plants. There’s a lot of green growth. But these tomatillos in this bed are really making me angry. This is one of my big regrets from the season. I did all my tomatillos in grow bags last year. So, I think they were like I didn’t realize what they were going to do in a raised bed and they are just taking over. They’re completely shading out. They were completely shading out all of these pepper plants in the front. They were shading out all the cucumbers here and then I’ve got pepper plants along the other side that they were shading out. But over the last week, I have come in here with pruners and I just started cutting away at the plants like all on this side to give these pepper plants some light because I’ve got a jalapeno plant here and then a couple bell peppers that just weren’t growing. They weren’t getting any sun. And then on the other side of the bed, I had the same issue where I had other pepper plants that just weren’t getting any light. So, I came here with pruners and just like cut it all back on all sides. And I think it’s helping now because these are starting to grow again. But next season, I’m going to give tomatillos their own dedicated raised bed and I’m not going to try to grow other plants on the border because they just get so big and crazy that they shade everything out next to it and it’s just it just doesn’t work well. You can see right here I’ve got pole beans or green beans all along this side of the trellis and they’re doing okay. They’re starting to grow. Like the tallest one is about here. But if you look at the next trellis next to it over here, these are the same variety plants and you can just see how tall these ones are. And they go like all the way up the trellles and they’re just growing at a much quicker faster rate because they get way more sun because they’re not completely shaded out by the toatillos. So again, next year toatillos are going somewhere else. One benefit though the tomatillos like the silver lining which I’m really loving about them is they attract pollinators like crazy every time we’re out here. Like honestly right now there’s probably three bumblebees I’m seeing just flying around going from flower to flower. And I know it’s bringing those bumblebees to other plants in the garden. So that’s like that’s really great and wonderful. But again like you can see like what I was saying even on this side this plant is not doing well because it’s getting no light. And then these ones over here just started getting light because I trimmed like right here. I trimmed that branch away. I trimmed some in here that were coming out over here. So these are starting to get sun now. This next bed has really exploded since June. If you remember in June, I think it was all just like tiny little seedlings, but now it is like a green forest. It is beautiful. This is one of my favorite beds along that front side kind of right in front of where Dylan’s filming. Those are all the bush beans. And they’re starting to put on really, really tiny green beans. You can barely see them, but they are coming up. I’ll try to clip in something if I can zoom in and we can get it to focus on these or not. But then as you go towards the middle of the bed, you can see the zenas are starting to bloom. Super super beautiful. Those deep pinks on the inside with the lighter pinker white on the outside are so gorgeous. And there’s so many more zenyas in here that are going to be blooming soon. And then I’ve got more bush beans in here. Right in front of me over here. I have peppers. I’ve got cayenne peppers here which are putting on peppers. A good size. I believe this one too. Yeah, this is another cayenne. I want to say some of these are Thai chilis or cayenne. I’m really bad at knowing what my plants are until they start actually putting on peppers. This is my habanero plant. If you have been following along, especially I I feel like I shared it here on YouTube, but I know I definitely shared on Instagram early in the season when I started the seedling. It was not growing. It kept like stalling and like half dying and it wasn’t doing anything. And then when we had that cold weather in May, it just like totally like gave up. And now it is beautiful. It’s not as tall, but it’s so bushy. And it’s starting to put on really tiny like flowers and buds here and there. So, I do think we’re actually going to get habaneros, which is amazing because I completely failed last summer with habaneros. Thought I was going to fail again this year, but this one’s coming back and I’m really happy about it. Over here along this side of the bed, going up the trellis finally, I have like two, three, maybe four acorn squash plants. And then I’ve got a couple pumpkin plants. I can’t remember exactly, but it’s really starting, if you guys can see, Dylan and I will kind of shift a little to give you a better angle. It’s really starting to kind of grow up and over this trellis. You can see just how big these vines are. This was one of the things I said in the beginning of the season I was like most excited for. So to have it like start to fill out has me really really happy and really excited. I’m trying to find I know that there’s one little p Oh, right here. This right here is the start of I think of what’s going to be a pumpkin. If I follow this vine down all the way, I think it’s coming from a pumpkin plant. I saying I think because who knows for sure because this is so insane right now. But I’m really really happy with this. It’s honestly over the last like week I I feel like every week it like gains I don’t know this much. So I mean by the August tour this whole thing will be filled out. And then if you look on the other side of this trellis here we’ve got very similar where over here on this side I’ve got like two or three butternut squash plants. This one right here is I think this is a pumpkin that’s going kind of crazy that I need to weave in here. If you’re trying to grow like pumpkins and squash up on these trelluses, you do have to train them a little bit. Like they’re not just going to automatically weave through here. I have to come in here every couple days and find ones that are kind of falling over and like shove them back in and like weave them myself around these because they don’t naturally just know to like weave in and out. It’s not like green beans or cucumbers where they’re just going to naturally go around the poles. You do need to do a little work in here, but it’s pretty simple. and the vines or the the plants are so thick that you don’t really need to worry about bending them and breaking them too bad. So, it’s pretty easy test. Just know that you are going to have to do a little bit of work like training them. Over here, I can’t really tell where it is or what it is, but there is a lofah somewhere in here. But then on the edge, I’ve got two Japanese cucumbers. And I don’t know if you can see this here, but there’s the tiniest little cucumber coming in. Do you see that, D? Mhm. Cool. This one’s coming in here. There’s a lot of beautiful flowers. It blows my mind that the deer didn’t come through and destroy this section. I don’t know why they would have started like I don’t know why they took the cucumber leaves from over there when to me if I was a deer and I was going after leaves. This looks like paradise. Like this looks like the most delicious buffet for them. So, I’m thankful that they have it. I’m kind of confident that they will find this eventually unless we do something to deter them. But yeah, as for now, this is looking really good and definitely like one of my favorite parts of the garden. This bed over here is another one that has exploded recently since June. I’ve got bush beans all along the outside. And then I’ve got zenas starting to bloom in the middle. The zenas are starting to get pest pressure, specifically like the Japanese beetles. If you see this leaf right here, this was like clearly destroyed by the Japanese beetles. I’m shocked that there aren’t any here right now, but I did go through I think yesterday or the day before and I’ve picked a ton off. I don’t like to spray anything in my garden. I just find that when you start spraying things, you start deterring good insects and you start deterring pollinators and it’s just I’ve never been one to want to spray. So, what I do, this is really gross, but this is really effective. Get a mason jar, fill it up with water and Dawn dish soap, and just walk through and just start. When you see the Japanese beetles on here, just like flip like flick them and hit them into here. You can see all the ones I got the other day. I know that’s so nasty, but then I leave the jar out here in the garden because I have heard that this scent of like the dead Japanese beetles will deter other ones come like from coming in. And I do think it works because I did this yesterday and look, there are no Japanese beetles yet today, but maybe it’s just not their time of day. These notoriums are starting to fill out over here on the border. They’re not flowering yet, but I think in the next few weeks or so, we might start getting more flowers, which is going to bring so much life and brightness to this bed. I cannot wait. This bed here is my San Marzano tomatoes, which have gone absolutely crazy. kind of the theme of this garden tour, I guess, just the progress from June to now being so good. We have so many San Marzano tomatoes coming in. I mean, on each vine, you can have anywhere from I don’t know how many is this? 2 4 6 8 10 12 15 tomatoes right here. As long as the deer don’t take them and steal them and no other critters get to them, that’s going to be a wonderful harvest. I’m really happy with the Samarzanos. I will say one thing I am dealing with and I thought this was one and I got bamboozled because it not I didn’t so I just wasted tomato. I’m trying to find an example of blossom n rot for you guys because I am dealing with that right now with my samaranos and I must have already pulled them all the other day. But if you’re getting that like brown rotting looking like what am I thinking of? But if you’re getting like brown rottiness at the end of your tomatoes on the blossom end, that’s blossom n rot. Very common with sam marzanos and beef steaks. And it’s very common for like the first round of tomatoes or the first like round of fruit that your plant to set to have blossom rot. It’s usually caused by the plant not getting enough calcium, which is typically caused by a lot of like inconsistent watering or if it’s been like really rainy and really wet and the plant can’t suck up the calcium from the soil as easy because of all that rain, they end up rotting at the end. You I have heard that you can give them more calcium. You can do like um what is it called? Like eggshells. You can um ground like blend them up, make like a powder and give the eggshells to the soil. You can fertilize with a little bit of calcium. I’ve tried a lot of different things in the past and nothing really for me, nothing has worked. I just know that the first round of tomatoes, there’s going to be a few with Blossom Enrot and I get enough tomatoes over the season that I’m okay with losing a few. Um, if you’ve got better remedies, definitely leave in the comments. I’m sure this is something that a lot of gardeners are dealing with and clearly clearly like I don’t have the best fix for that. So, if you have something that def that works a lot, definitely leave it down below because maybe I’ll try. I definitely know that people, you know, watching this video will want that. But other than that, the San Marzanos are looking good. And I’ve got some marolds on the border popping up that are start finally starting to kind of get going. They’re they’re a little slower this year. And then this whole row, again, these are just five more marzo plants. This whole bed is just 10 total. I found that spacing has worked really well. Last season I did 15. It was too much. It was crazy. This year I’ve only done 10, so I’ve cut back. But I feel like the production is actually better. I feel like I’m getting more tomatoes per plant, giving better spacing. So that’s something that I’m going to do, you know, in the future. I think I found this sweet spot. I think 10 Samarano plants in an 8×4 is really a good number of tomato plants. Before we keep going on the rest of the raised beds, we’ll take you guys by the peach trees just for like a minute. They’re not doing great. This one over here, I think the deer have Well, I know the deer have found it. The deer have found everything this season. It’s missing a lot of leaves. I’m not seeing a whole bunch of like new growth with the peach trees. I don’t know what else to say. They don’t look that good. And I don’t think it has anything to do with the tree. I think it’s just like the deer getting to them. So, that’s unfortunate. This one over here, kind of same story. Maybe a little bit better. and the fact that it’s got a little bit more green leaves, but again, it’s underwhelming. Um, another thing that’s underwhelming that’s not doing good is our beehive. I don’t know what we’re doing wrong. Genuinely, I feel like I feel like Dylan and I are following all of like the recommendations like we’re doing the things you’re supposed to be doing to keep your bees alive, but for the second year in a row, we’re just like completely failing. We went into our hive probably a week ago at this point and I mean usually right now there’d be a ton of bees on the outside flying in and out and I don’t even see I see like one maybe trying to poke its head in but the bees are just not good. When we did our inspection about a week ago there was no queen. There were no eggs. There was like two little larvae. So I don’t know how those got there or what they’re doing. There are no swarm cells in here. So I don’t think they swarmed. So, I don’t know if the queen just like died and then they carried her out or if she left on her own and just ditched. I I don’t know. We’re probably going to go back in there in about a week or two just to see if anything’s changed. But, we’re not good at beekeeping. Like, I’m just going to I’m just going to say it. It’s just not our strength. So, moving on from the bees. Back up to this tomato bed. I’ve got two rows of four. I’ve got a row of beef steak tomatoes and then Cherokee purples. So, like your classic slicers. Then I’ve got the maragolds and the basil in between. These tomatoes look really, really good. They’re nice and big. They’re nice and plump. I don’t know if Dylan you can zoom in on these two here. This one gh this is where I think a deer took like a little nibble. And here too, it’s really making me angry. And over here too, you can see how many tomatoes are coming on here, which is going to be so nice once they ripen. But down here again, I should probably pull these off because they’re literally eaten by deer. These ones where they’re missing some, I already pulled some because they were being eaten by deer. And then I think this one’s going to come in soon. I can see the flowers starting to kind of dry up so a tomato can be pushed out. Only other problem I’m having with my beef steaks and my Cherokee purples. I’m getting a lot of flowers that are starting to drop. If Dylan, I don’t know if you can zoom into over here, but like right here, you can see like where a flower bud was and it kind of sizzled off. Same thing with right here. That’s just because Oh, and right here there’s another one. Flowers dropping is just something the plant’s going to do when it gets really, really hot. And we’ve had such a hot July and hot summer recently that it’s just the way it is. I’m not surprised by it. I have been watering more this season than I ever have had to even though it’s been raining a lot. It’s like it’ll rain and then I can think that rain’s going to last us like through the week in terms of like water needs of the plant, but then it’s like 95° for 4 days, so I need to come out here and water again. So, I’m trying to give them more moisture, hoping that, you know, helps the flowers not fry off, but it’s kind of just a natural thing. So, if you see that happening on your plants, it’s probably not your fault. It’s probably just because it’s so hot this year. These next three beds are all of my Romaas. These are like a jungle. I came through two nights ago and I pruned them again. I pruned them probably a month ago and then had to do them again because they were getting so bushy. You can see that I just took all of the lower leaves or the lower branches I should say off of the bottom of these plants. Anything that wasn’t like fruit bearing that was touching the ground or getting close to touching the ground I went ahead and trimmed off. And then you can see, I mean, now I couldn’t even see how many tomatoes I had on these, but you can see in here all these clusters of Romas because the branches are actually gone. There’s way more airflow. And this is just going to be a healthier plant overall because it’s not like overly crowded by so many leaves for like no reason. And I finally found here’s an example. What I was trying to do in the stammers on I was here’s an example of that blossom nrot I was talking about. It’s really unfortunate, but it’s kind of just the way it is sometimes. What I do recommend you do is if you see tomatoes with this, go ahead and pull them because it doesn’t matter how big the tomato gets, they’re still going to be rotted at the bottom. So, you can’t eat them. They’re going to be gross. And you don’t want the plant to keep putting energy into making these tomatoes bigger and bigger when you’re not going to eat them anyways. You want the plant to divert energy to building the tomatoes that don’t have the rot. So, if you see them, definitely pull them and just compost them. Get rid of them because it’s just not worth having them on the plant. sucking up those nutrients. Also in this bed, I’ve got some more maragolds on the outside, a zenia right here, actually two zenyas. They’re probably getting ready to bloom pretty soon, and then a parsley plant. And then these next two beds are the same thing, the same story. I’ve got three Roma tomato beds that are pretty much all the same. They all have these big square metal cages. They’ve all got maragolds on the outside, and they’re all like a jungle or a forest of plants. this season because yeah, they’re going they’re going pretty crazy. This is just our little seating area with our little potted pink flowers for a little bit of color to the space. This is that yellow onion bed that we started on. So again, these are looking good. I think now that we’re from this angle, we can maybe zoom in and show you a couple of these. This is the best looking one. It’s tipped over, but because this neck is still intact, it’s not done growing. So I’ve got another nice one right here. And then kind of another one right here. These ones give me hope. I will say I think these are literally the best ones in the bed. I don’t think the ones in the center here are doing much better. So, while those ones look good, I don’t have like I don’t know the highest hopes, but it’s still good. This last bed over here is all sunflowers that have gone kind of crazy and really need to be deadheaded. These ones are getting eaten by like the birds here and there. You see that petal is like completely kind of, you know, chomped off. A ton of new buds will be coming in soon, which I’m happy about because these ones look kind of terrible. These yellow ones just started blooming. They definitely weren’t blooming on the last tour, and these are absolutely beautiful. I’ve got a ton of buds on here as well that will be opening up soon. So, I’m really looking forward to that. You can see that one over here. This one is really getting big with the way it’s opening up. Some pest pressure here on the leaves, but that’s okay. It’s just kind of the way it is. And then along like the base of this raised bed, I’ve got five zucchini plants. I’m definitely really late on zucchini this season. I was pretty late last year, too. And I actually found that being later with my zucchini, I got to avoid a lot of like the squash bugs and the vine bore. So, like your normal pest that you have on zucchini plants, I got to kind of dodge because I was so late in the season. So, maybe that’s like the way to go because I still ended up getting a lot of zucchini. This plant is like huge. I mean, it’s so big and bushy. This one next to it, I don’t know, medium size. Got kind of a shrimpy small one there. But then these last two are really big. And I expect to see zucchini out of these within the next few weeks or so. Last but not least are the 10 raspberry bushes that we planted I think in June. I’m not going to lie, I feel like these look either the same or worse than they did in the last tour because of common theme today. The deer the deer have found these. They have been nibbling on them. Honestly, they nibbled them down to like just the bare stem, I guess you’d say, for these bottom four. And there was absolutely no leaves on them a few weeks ago and they are growing back which makes me obviously really happy. However, it’s like every time they grow back, the deer come back and eat them again. So, I don’t know what we’re going to do. I know the deer are coming from like that yard over here cuz Dylan found some deer droppings kind of like in and around here. So, we know they’re coming from that angle. I don’t know if we need to just like set up a fence around this whole thing. I hate fences. I hate caging plants in. But it might get to that point because if we don’t, we might never get raspberries out of our 10 bushes that we just planted. So, I don’t know. We got to figure out something to do here. But I wasn’t expecting to get any raspberries this season because we planted these, you know, young plants in June. But I just hope that they actually survive this season and then survive the winter so we can get something next year and every other year. But yeah, kind of kind of a disappointment, but we’re just going to figure it out and figure out how to naturally deter the deer. But other than that, they look at least they’re pretty. They look good to look at. But that is it. I don’t think there’s anything else for the July tour. I love these videos. I really hope you guys like them. So, if you do, please let me know in the comment section. Please leave a like if you enjoyed it. If you’re not already, make sure to subscribe to my channel for more gardening content. I’ve got a lot of good fun stuff still planned for this summer. We haven’t even gotten into harvesting yet, which is always like the peak of gardening season. 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