2023 Vegetable Garden Tour #2 – Zone 4B | Successes And Failures. With our latest vegetable garden tour, you can see several of the successes….and also see many of our failures! There is a LOT going on in the garden but it’s not all good!
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Whats good Rich. Hope all is well. 🤝
My guess on the garlic is because of the water tanks, possibly froze the cloves, generally won't grow then. German Porcelain, also called German Extra Hardy is the one I've had the best luck with over the years. Every year is full of success and failures, learning from the failures is all that matters.
That's a great set up there mate
Choose look very happy
Asparagus looks great also
You got a great looking property there mate
Great video 👍
Hi friend, watching here,very nice i really like
Great stuff Rich & Holly, trial and error is what it's all about.
Great successes! Harvest those dandelions! There are multiple health benefits from them. They are fully edible! 🙂
What have your garden successes (and failures) been, so far during 2023?!
Yes me too I also put my big moon pumpkins in the greenhouse and lost all of them. Restarted and now everything still in house! Your plants look nice
I am so behind on my farm stuff I have not planted anything yet other than food plots for deer LOL
Fortunately we do have a much longer growing season here in Kentucky.
Great video, Rich and Holly. That's too bad about the garlic. We just planted our shallots, 100 of them, a week ago. I'll have plenty more to give you in the Fall. I've been wanting to jump the gun too but held back. We have been at our place in Tofte this week and I'm excited to see what's going on in the garden once we get back. I'm hoping I don't have to make a trip to Mankato to replenish anything 🤞
All in all it looks like a good start. We lost quite a few pepper and tomato starts because of a freeze. But still managed to keep more than enough.
Great video. I made a similar mistake with my tomatoes, except I went on vacation and left them out. Most of them bounced back and are slowly going into the ground.
As for the garlic, I’m on my 5th year of planting the original “seeds”. Best decision I made. Now I freeze dry the garlic I’m keeping (not the seed garlic for the fall) and it makes the BEST garlic powder. My failure, I have no idea what varieties I have. No joke. But I don’t care. It’s good. It grows.
I planted elephant garlic last fall. After peeling and dehydrating a 100+ cloves to make powder I'm excited to see how these do so it saves me time and my fingers!
You can tell that you and Holly work hard around your homestead. Everything looks great, and will recover in time. I haven't started anything. Not one seed. I will be getting starts for what I need and starting a few seeds next week. Thanks for showing how it really goes down when starting a garden, especially in colder climate areas. Take care
Hello Sir! A pleasant good day nice to see your garden the seeding of eggplant, tomatoes, it look very healthy and you have a great farm thank you for showing us awesome video
Love your honesty about your successes and failures, but you can't control the weather! Can't blame you for being excited for spring planting—we all are.
I killed off some celery because it got too dry. It takes forever to grow. I was pretty upset.
It froze here last night and will do so until about June 6-10. Ugh.
Your garden is off to a great start!
Nice Job !
End of May is ou target date if I get fence up 🤞🏻
Enjoyed this! If someone has mastered how to not have weed in the asparagus patch, I want to hear about it. I gave up and am completely redoing my patch
So exciting to get the garden started. I look forward to seeing the progress in your garden this season. I think we all have success and failures. I had high temps and before I could get everything planted my green house cooked many of my little starts. I had plenty left, but I completely lost some of the varieties I was planning on. I also put my peas out and it was 90 degrees for a week then we had a super windy and wet storm. They looked terrible so I just pulled them out and moved on. Have a great week!
Good morning, Rich & Holly! I applaud you sharing your crop failures as well as your successes. I abhor channels who make it all seem perfect, for that fallacy never depicts reality and leaves newer gardeners with a sense of discouragement.
My major failure for the past 2 years have been squash bugs & squash vine borers. I have yet to conquer them, so have taken this year off of planting any squash plants at all. I'm hoping they migrate elsewhere if I don't feed them this year. Time will tell.
Failure #2 = my heart actually dropped a few days ago when I finally accepted that I have lost ALL of my asparagus plants. They just did not come back this year (year 2) and I haven't yet figured out what I've done wrong. Last spring was my very first asparagus planting and they thrived beautifully. This year… nothing. I've taken them out and replaced with san marzanos & basil while I take some time to refigure their needs. I'll try asparagus again next year after experiencing this learning curve.
Like you, I got too excited about our anomalous warm weather and put my tomato & pepper plants out a bit too soon. In the back of my head, I warned myself NOT TO PLANT THEM OUT UNTIL NEAR MOTHER'S DAY (zone 5b), but I ignored my learned instinct. I lost some of them and some survived. I just transplanted out the survivors and direct seeded those I lost yesterday. Weather looks warm enough now for them to do well.
On dandelions & clover… I saw your grimace when you spoke of dandelions establishing near your garden. Yeah, they're certainly invasive, but OMG the medicinal benefits of dandelions is matched only by garlic! You've been blessed with a fabulous gift. You just need to create a barrier between them and your veggie garden. Please do take a few moments to search the medicinal benefits of dandelions & clover. They are the furthest thing from the ugly undesirable weeds they've intentionally been portrayed as. And… my hens LOVE when I pick dandelion flowers and leaves & clover for them. They devour them and I believe these "weeds" have contributed to my flock's perfectly strong health thus far.
As always… keep the good stuff coming! I enjoy your channel so very much! May you both, your garden, and your flock be well blessed this year!
Failure, but not any of my doing….my in ground garden is aquaponics at the moment. Stuff is literally drowning. Or probably more correct would be anaerobic because of all the rain.
At least the girls are going to be happy with those dandelions. We're heading into drought here in Australia so it's going to get tough. Was getting used to regular rain too..
There will always be failures in the garden, your farm produces such abundance of vegetables! Last year it was impressive, and you're on your way to a promising season! Even with the failures! Have you considered collecting the roots and flowers from the dandelion! They're loaded with nutrients, maybe you can add them to your customers baskets.
Everything we planted is doing well but our figs and pears got hit by our last freeze and only a few blueberries. But the blackberries look great this year! Good that you are way ahead this year!
As with everything in life, there’s always good and bad 😉 I have had some success with the milkweed, using the jar-mination method I found on YouTube 👍🏻
Not one of my garlics came up. I planted into containers. Big Mistake I think. Next year I ground for me. Excellent dandelion year.
G'day Rich and Holly.
Love the hardening off area and you are so right about the tubs and mat working well.
All your hard work clearly pays off and that place is going to be bursting with food like last year.
All the best.
Daz.
It might be because im new but i see mostly successes and learning.
I killed 40 onion plants, lettuce, scallions just this year lol, but i hope it sets us up for long term success in the future from what i learned.
You're garden will rock this year guys !!
Let's gooooo!!
Cheers J&C 🌱👍🤜🤛
I lost 25 of my one foot tomato plants to the cold and had to start over as that was half of the crop I started. I actually started everything to soon as I got overly excited about spring! My garlic all came up along with and extra couple of hundred plants I will be moving about the garden as it grows because I accidentally let one go to flower and seed last year and just broke it open to see what it looked like and just tossed the seeds down the row not thinking they would actually grow once winter was over. Most of my sunflowers died for the same reason as the tomato's…started to early and had to transplant them to soon and then the cold hit. My cabbage, celery, most of my herbs and my raspberries are doing good in the garden and I have yet to transplant my pepper plants even though they have blossoms on them as I don't want to risk them getting to cold as they hate it as much as the tomato's and sunflowers. I have planted a bunch of seeds in the last week and will plant the rest after mothers day. I checked my soil temp and it's around 60 so most should germinate. My apple tree has approximately 500 blossoms but I have yet to see any bees but I usually don't get out to the garden until after they retire for the day. 😀