Join Susan Mulvihill for the August tour of her vegetable garden. 2026 has been a very challenging year and you’ll see the good, the bad and the ugly! #vegetablegarden #gardening #gardentour #gardeningtips
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I have huge oak trees around my house and garden and my garden hardly gets any sun in fall and winter. I’m in the deep south so we grow our cold weather crops throughout winter and spring and not getting any sun causes my garden to grow very slowly. I’ll put my broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and carrots out in September and the onions in October. We have been in drought for several years with this yr being the worse yet. Down here our tomatoes are done by June
It’s unusual for you folks up there to have such hot weather, isn’t it?
I thought I watered my celery generously (containers) and used fish emulsion a few times. Plants looked good but half stalks were hollow. Not enough water or sun? My pine tree is 3x larger. You redid that area of the garden. Did the ground covering material keep the roots from invading the beds? Can you expand in a different direction? Very interesting about the butternut squash getting too much water. 😊 When you grow potatoes in grow bags do you try to "rotate" the soil or is replacing half the soil and refertilizer good enough. Thank you.😊
The pine trees are of course beautiful, but growing healthy food these days is becoming more important, especially since I know you share your abundance.
Please save the pines. As a fellow Rocky Mountain gardener I understand. Suggestions. Limb the tree up. That would allow more light to the ground. Your zucchini was sun scorched. Zucchini, Swiss chard, celery would like the shade. If it’s dry make a different irrigation zone so it waters more often. The roots can be a pain but usually they are small and easy to dig out. I have cottonwood tree roots. Yuck. lol. Use that bed for flowers or seedlings for your beautiful flower beds. Have you thought of bee hives? Under the pines would “bee” a great place for boxes. This has been a crazy tough year. It takes so long to grow a tree I think you will regret cutting it down.
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Just a suggestion but you said the pollinators are few & far between. Maybe put some flowers among the veggie beds would attract more. I love your videos. This morning I had a lot of honey bees on my marigolds that come up every year on their own..