July Vegetable Garden Tour | First Season Growing in a New Garden

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Hello everyone and welcome to my garden. If you’re 
new here, my name is Marti and I’m gardening New York. Today we’re going to take a look how 
the garden is doing in July. I’m gardening in a new zone this year. So this is a first year 
garden and the garden is a bit behind than used to be for me in the past few years. That was in 
a warmer zone before, but it’s still coming along and doing good. So we’re going to just take a 
tour of everything. And I’m also going to do a   little harvest. We’re going to start right here 
with this trellis. I have a few things climbing in here and it is finally full. The plants have 
encountered themselves over there on the top. And I have mostly beans here. Those are long beans 
that will be ready to be harvested really soon. Those are the long noodle beans. I think the 
variety of these ones is called Python. And the flower is really beautiful. It looks like a little 
orchid almost over there. Each of this produces a set of two. Looking really nice here. And this is 
going to be ready to harvest in just a few days. They grow quite fast. Just a couple days ago when 
I was here, they’re very little. And now they are getting to a good size. They were just right like 
this when I came when I was here last. So, make sure to come back and check tomorrow. The cucumber 
decided to grow over here, too, to climb together, join the party with the beans. I originally had 
the cucumber on this trellis here. Oh my gosh, I have to harvest this. Look how big this one 
is. Few things are ready to harvest already,   but the cucumber was here. I tried to put this 
little trellis and then decided to just climb and tag along on the other trellis. This other 
side I have tomatoes. This is a cherry tomatoes. Kind of like a black cherry variety. It’s from 
a friend of mine. Doesn’t really have a name. I   got at his homestead. And some beans on the side, 
too. Those are over here. Scarlet runner beans. I loved growing them last year. And most people 
grow for the flowers, but I actually like to eat the beans. I thought they were very tasty. So, 
I’m growing some there too in a in a few other places in the garden. It’s looking really nice. 
I like this arch so much. I actually bought a second one and I’m going to install it right in 
the back here because this is squash which is a honey nut squash that’s trailing or trailing 
sorry all the way down here and sending some more runners over there going to bed over here has 
this big part here that was falling in the ground. So I’m going to I just put in here so it doesn’t 
root anywhere on top of the bed. And I’m going to put the trellus right here and connect on this 
side because there’s a space here and hope that they will it will grow and climb over too since 
it’s growing so beautifully. So let’s continue this here with this race bed before I move to 
another one so we can harvest this cucumbers.   So we have this squash in here. Like I said, here 
I have some leaks that I planted late and I’m not sure if what’s going to happen to them, but I’m 
going to wait until the fall to see how much they   can grow. I have a little piece of ginger that I 
stuck in here and I’m not sure how it’s going to do. Mostly the beautiful honey squash. This is 
only one plant, a honey nut squash. Sorry if I spoke a little fast on there. I love it. I love 
the way it’s taking over the bed and how the leaves are not so huge like other ones. I’ll show 
you some other ones that I have in the garden. And we have a couple of squashes already. There’s 
one here. They are going to stay this size. So, it’s a miniature butternut squash. If you’re not 
familiar, is a cross between a buttercup and a butternut. And then they have the honey nut, which 
is sweeter than a butternut squash and smaller. So, it’s a individual or two people portion, 
which is great. So, this other branch that came here in the floor also has another one there, a 
little younger. It continues to go back there. And there’s another one I saw just the other day. 
Yeah, just right here. So, hopefully it produce a lot for us. The other branch is coming down here. 
So, we’ll see how many we get by the end of the   season. This area here, I had an animal come and 
dig in the raised bed and mix the soil. I had wood chips filling all the way up to half of these beds 
and then compost and soil on the top. Some raised bed soil and it was all dug around and the wood 
chips got mixed with the soil. Things were not doing very great here. So I pulled some things 
out but I tried to sew a cover crop. So I have   some buckwheat here just to see how they’re going 
to do if they’re going to grow. I stuck a little ded tuber here back in June and it’s kind of too 
small. I’m not sure what’s going to happen here.   with this area. I might do some fall things here 
since it’s been kind of sitting here for a month or so after the I assume raccoon came here and 
dug it all up and made a little bit of a mess. So, just going to be replanted for the fall. It’s not 
a big deal. It’s going to be great. Gives us some more space. This beautiful kale over here is the 
only kale that I have in the garden. And I love eating kale in the fall and winter. So, I probably 
going to put some more kale in here. Maybe some   root veggies. We’ll see. We have to harvest this 
cucumber. Oh, there’s lantern flies in there. You see these guys? They have coming to my cucumbers 
now, too. Those are the invasive lantern flies. They’re on the other side. But when you try to 
get to them, they jump. Let’s see if I can get   them to jump. Oh, those are brave. The ones in New 
York City, my previous garden, when they saw me, they would jump already because they knew I tried 
to squish them. Anyway, but let’s harvest those   cucumbers here. This is a pickling cucumber called 
Supreo cucumber and is very, very prolific. I’m not sure if the seeds are available from Johnny 
Seeds anymore. I got it on sale a couple years   ago and this is my first year growing it very 
successfully and has produced lots of pickles for us. I already made a couple jars of pickles. 
I mean cucumbers, sorry. I produced cucumbers and I made pickles and we’re going to harvest those 
three as well. I think there’s another one ready somewhere. So, let’s do that. Then, I’m going 
to come here and harvest these beans. Those are dragon tongue beans. The plants are not looking so 
great, but it’s loaded with beans. And I have been harvesting, which is wonderful. So, we’re going to 
take some of this. And once this stops producing, I’m probably going to Oops. This one’s going 
to be take out the plants because they look not so healthy even though they are loaded. That 
way I can make some space for some fall crops too because now is a time of transition. There’s 
some beans in here too that I’m going to harvest today and probably pull up the plants as well. So, 
we’re going to have all this space open, which is exciting. Here I have a couple more dalas that I’m 
not sure what they’re going to do, but that’s all right. Oh, another honey nut. squash. Hopefully 
that flower got pollinated and we’re going to get one more. And here there are some carrots that 
are planted in the spring and they took forever to grow, but they’re finally growing now. So, 
we’ll see what happens with those there with the   carrots and the leaks. So, since this is my first 
year here, I started this garden a little late. I had to build the whole garden from scratch. So, 
we were only able to get things planted here, I believe, by mid or end of May. So, a lot of 
these cool season crops could have been planted earlier and they struggled a bit. I guess they 
didn’t establish very well. So, we’ll see. But,   I’m not giving up on them and we’ll see what’s 
going to happen to them in the fall. Right now, let’s get this beans and cucumbers harvested. 
I think with this one, I’m just going to use my hands. Let’s see how many beans we can get from 
one plant. This This over here is one plant and it’s doing much better than these other two 
over here. They got a bit crowded. So, I’ve   been harvesting from this already. You guys saw in 
the previous videos, but this might be a biggest harvest yet. I was a little busy the next few days 
and I didn’t have a chance to come to the garden so much. So, that’s what happens sometimes if you 
don’t have a time to check check frequently. You got a bit of a bigger harvest. But, it’s good. 
It’s satisfying. How so? Oh, this is really good. I saw that the plant was loaded with flowers. And I guess the more you harvest, the more 
it produces. But it is starting to look bad. And I have to make the decision of either 
letting it be and maybe produce a little more or just get some space to do to plant 
some fall crops and get a fall harvest. So, it’s a little hard for me sometimes this 
transition time, but uh it’s okay. I also want to learn what would be best to do here 
in this season. So, I’m willing to experiment as well. So, I guess I got everything from this 
one plant. Very nice handful of beans. Beautiful. This our first thing here. Don’t want to 
put this basket on top of the bookw wheat,   but maybe I’ll put it over here. I have this 
little one here for tomatoes and blueberries cuz I don’t want them to throw around everywhere. 
I have some cherry tomatoes that I know I have to   pick. My sungolds have been ripening, which is 
great. The little sunold cherry tomatoes. That smaller plant only had four and she’s kind of 
crowded. This guy here, I have been harvesting a bit more from these two. I’ve got two little big. 
So, this guy’s probably going to have to cook for a little longer. They start getting a bit tougher 
when they get this big. I prefer to harvest them smaller. I showed that in the past video, too. But 
it’s totally fine. We’ll still enjoy them. Now, I’m going to get just a few of the purple beans, 
which I have been harvesting a lot. And this plant has a lot of flowers still. So, maybe I’ll take 
those ones out first. Oops. I’m miss one here. Just two of the purple this time. Now, let’s get 
those cucumbers over there cuz they’re growing way too fast. I see three over here. One is hidden by 
this leaf. We’re going to get all three of them. And for this one, I’m going to use the pruners 
cuz some this sometimes the spikes can be a bit   prickly. And if I try to twist it, just hurt my 
hands a little bit. Look at that. The form is very nice. Before they getting too big on the top and a 
little bit skinny on the bottom. Now, it’s looking pretty good. See if I can get this other one. 
I’ve been trying to harvest them a bit smaller for pickles to make sure they fit the jars and 
the skins are not too tough. Maybe I will slice this and make some pickle chips. That’s good. In 
a couple days, I’ll get some more. There’s lots of little ones like this here and here and here. So, 
in a few more days, we’ll get some more cucumbers, too. And some beans. I’m very excited for these 
beans. Can’t wait to harvest the first ones.   Those are my favorite beans to eat. Very tasty. 
And I think that’s mostly it for this bed. So, there’s a K over there, the honey nut. The 
only thing I didn’t talk about, I guess,   was the back here, is this pumpkin. It’s a kind of 
squash. thing’s a blue kind of squash in a pumpkin form that I grew here. Not a cucumber that I put 
in here hoping it would trail us down, but decided to just trail try to climb up here before I caught 
it. So, oh my gosh, look how many lunter flies. I don’t like cucumbers. The camera is not 
focusing. I have to come here with a little   bucket of soap and water after this tour and try 
to knock them down. It’s time of day. We start having lots of pest problems too is common. And 
so far I haven’t been using anything. We try to do everything organically here. So my method of pest 
control right now is just to try to pick the bugs or try to knock them in soapy water just to try 
to reduce the population if I can. But I haven’t   sprayed with anything, not even Nemo or BT or 
anything like that. Okay, moving on from that bed. We’re going to take a look at this one over here. 
Now, I love the way the tomatoes are growing here. They’re doing great. They’re doing very They’ve 
been healthy this year, which I’m thankful. I have some that are blushing already and I could 
harvest. I left some to ripen on the vine the other day. They tasted so good. Maybe I’ll wait 
another day, one more day. Those sunolds over there are definitely ready. Some of them ripen on 
the vine and that’s going to be very tasty. But I’m going to start here in the front. So, we have 
the tomatoes and the scarlet scarlet runner beans. There’s a bee right there pollinating our tomato 
flowers. These have only been setting flowers as beans. I haven’t seen any pods yet, but hopefully 
soon enough. And then here we have our peppers and eggplant and tomatoes bed. So, a lot of warm 
season. There’s a big squash plant over there, too. And I have some lemon basil that I’m letting 
go to seed so the bees stay happy here. And this one I’m going to harvest the tops. This is just 
some regular Geneovies basil. I can see that’s trying to go to flower. So, let’s take the tops 
off to stop that and make the plant get a bit bushier. And we can just add this to a few things 
that we make. We are in a heat wave right now, so it’s getting hot really fast. So, I tried 
to make this garden tour a bit quicker. So,   here we have a little fairy tale eggplant. One, 
this variety did so good in my garden last year. It was so prolific. It loved its life in New York 
City, but here, not so happy. I don’t know if it’s because it stayed cold for too long or planted 
too early, but she only produced one leg plant so far. And back here, we have peppers. These ones 
have been here for a while, but they’re taking a little time to turn. I probably have to water 
this after this garden tour really fast, too,   before it gets too hot. We have been having like 
three days in the in the ‘ 90s, so these plants are a little struggling. It’s getting dry pretty 
fast. Lots of jalapenos. I want to make salsa this week, so I might harvest a couple. These have 
been here for a while. I’m just going to keep pick these ones. I don’t like harvesting only 
one hand. I’m afraid of pulling the plant out, but it’s okay. I got three. If I need more, I 
come get more. That’s plenty already ready for us. And the squash that I have been harvesting a 
lot has slowed down for a bit. I see some female flowers, so maybe in a couple more days we’ll have 
some more. But we harvested I think eight squashes from this plant already, which is wonderful. This 
basil is a Opal basil. I’m going to also pick the tops so it keeps producing. It doesn’t go to 
flower. So that’s mostly how I harvest basil just the tops and then use it as I need. I’m 
going to use for cooking. I’m going to come around here to show the tomatoes. We’re going to 
come back to this green stock later, but it’s just   easier for me to harvest from the back. So here I 
have a pineapple tomato that’s not ready yet but looking pretty good and big one of the fruits. 
This is a black actually I have a tag for this one. This is a Japanese black trifle. That’s 
the pineapple tomato over there. The big guy. And here I believe is a sheri purple. I’m going 
to harvest. I’m not sure. This one I I did start from seed but it’s doing something weird here on 
the side. So I want to see what’s going on. So, I’m going to harvest. I don’t know if I should 
wait one more day. It’s hard to take it off the   vine, but it’s blushing the inside, too. This 
one is also doing that. I’m not really sure if this is doesn’t really look like blossom and rot, 
so I wonder what’s happening. If you guys know, please let me know in the comment section down 
below. I never had this happen with my tomatoes   before. I guess I’ll let it be. Here for the 
Sun Gold tomatoes. I have to be honest with you, I was not a super fan of these guys. Ironically, 
believe it or not, everybody loves these ones so much. But that was only until this year. I don’t 
think I ever grew them successfully before, but I just had one this morning before this garden 
tour and oh my goodness, it was so delicious and sweet. I don’t know if they’re really liking 
the soil, they’re really liking the climate,   whatever it is, but this is very sweet, very low 
acidity. I was really surprised when I got when I bite into one this morning. Pleasantly surprised. 
It was a very pleasant bite. And now I’m a fan. So I got hooked up on the singled tomatoes now, 
too. And right next to it, I have some summer, which are looking quite small. I thought they 
were going to be a bit bigger. It’s my first   time growing this variety. This is from Joan 
Seeds. I think it’s called summer 2. So we’ll see. These are Sergeant Peppers tomatoes. I love 
this purple shoulders and this heart shape. Very beautiful. I tried to grow last year, but I 
didn’t have a very good tomato year last year,   even though I had an excellent eggplant year, 
but this is looking a lot better than last year already. So, I’m excited to try it and see the 
how the flavor is on this one, too. And down here, there’s a beautiful purple heart tomato that’s 
pretty big, too. And tasted really good, too. I do like the darker tomatoes flavor underneath 
here in this bed, too. I had something growing   here. I don’t remember what it was, but Oh, 
the stock. I had some flowers growing here, but they died because they’re cool flower. 
And then now it opened up some space for   me to plant some other things, too. This is a 
weed. So, I might do some herbs. Not sure yet, but I have a little opening on the bed. I still 
have a dill that didn’t do very well, but it’s   going to flower. You can use this for pickling, 
too. This little head. So, I might do that and cut it down to see if it gets bushed up and will 
grow a bit better when the weather cools off. And this is lemon verbina. This is my favorite herb. 
It smells so wonderful. I buy as a little plug at the Union Square Market every year. I haven’t been 
successful with saving seed and growing from seed yet, but I love the smell of this so much. I like 
to grow a lot more of it if I could. If you never had it smelled this, I highly recommend. Go look 
somewhere that you can find this plant. Take a little rub so you release the oils and sniff. And 
it’s so wonderful. One of the best fragrances that there is out there if you like lemonade things. 
And on this side here, we have the blueberries that I’ve been harvesting, too. I already have 
like a little pint, a little container full of   them. And I’ve been waiting for them to get very 
ripe because otherwise they’re sour. Once they just let it go easily from the plants, it means 
that they’re ready. If they resist a little bit, they could stay a little longer. So, I’m going 
to harvest this to Oops. They’re resisting. But it’s okay. It’s okay to just harvest a little 
bit every day because it’s it’s easy to get a   handful at the time. I missed some down here. I 
can see. Maybe I’ll try to plant those to see if I can grow some from seed that I don’t know. I never 
tried, but that’ll be a fun experiment. Okay, we got some more oregano here underneath and this 
green stock. This one has a bit of a damage. I think it might be a worm or something. You put 
it back in there too to see if it will grow. But so just a little tiny hand. Not even a handful. 
Little bit of a small handful for breakfast here in this green stock. Finally, things are starting 
to get a bit better. It struggled a bit because it had to be moved and I took the spinner base out to 
be more stable and I couldn’t move it anymore or spin it. But it’s now fine and doing great. The 
fox glove here is blooming. Look how beautiful this is. This is a Domian peach fox clove. And I 
originally planted this in here because this green stock was outside and the groundhogs were eating 
the bottom of it. You can see the other ones in there are not as great cuz they keep still eating 
and attacking our green stocks. But we’re going to talk about that later after we finished with 
the gated area. But I kind of don’t mind having this here. It looks very pretty. I love it. 
It’s a perennial. So I might just let it be   so it blooms again next year. The notorium here 
is finally doing a little better. It struggled a bit. I started this from seed. Just poked the seed 
in there and didn’t do much for a while, but now   it’s finally growing, which I’m really happy. 
I love eating this and using for garnishes for the food. It has a bit of a peppery capery taste, 
which I like. Goes really well with seafood. And I have some chives here that I’ve been harvesting 
and doing good, too. Also, a weed. Look at that. The grass got into the pocket. Some peppers. 
And the strawberries. I said in a previous video that I was going to make a video rooting 
the strawberries. Never got a chance to do it.   But look what happens. They have rooted themselves 
just from a pocket to another one. The runner just came here and is now completely like rooted in 
there. I can’t pull it up anymore, which is great. I think there are other runners. This one too. Can 
you see? I’m going to try to pull how sturdy it is. I see another one. There’s another ones there 
like this. They’re having found a pocket yet. And what I wanted to do is to get a little pot with 
soil. Place this in here and then place maybe next to the pocket or hang it in here like Greentock 
showed in one of their recent videos. They do a little hook on the plant and hang it next. But 
I don’t know. I didn’t have a chance to do it   yet. So, this is something that I like to work on 
soon. The strawberries got some rust. So, I had to remove a lot of the leaves. And I just noticed 
that I forgot the water reservoir opening opened.   The peppers here are doing good. Haven’t started 
producing yet, but that’s fine. This ntorium is struggling a bit, but I’m going to let it be 
because maybe see this the new growth will be okay like this once the temperatures get starts to cool 
down a bit. Mostly I have just peppers and herbs in here and there’s some flowers in the back. But 
I’m not turning this. This is his permanent home. Is staying like this the whole time. Now, let’s 
move on to the back of the garden. We have this beautiful Dalia blooming here. She’s so pretty. 
This variety is called Peaches and Cream. And I always love growing flowers together with the 
vegetables. Not only for the pollinators, but   also to add beauty and make the place look nice. 
Otherwise, it’s all very green like this side over here. But next year, I want to remember to add a 
lot more flowers. Look how much nicer that looks on this side. just for having this little pop 
of color. It’s nice to make things pretty. So, you want to hang out here even more than you 
usually do. So, speaking of beauty, I decided to buy I bought this echynatia and aastake here in a 
garden center yesterday. I just thought the skulls were beautiful and I couldn’t resist and bought it 
just to add it to the garden. So, I planted these   two already. My das that were here all died. 
Something was eating them, eating the tubers, I guess. Actually, I saved one to show you guys. 
Here, the tubers are being nibbled and the plant just dies. And then this one, the whatever did it 
didn’t take it. Before they were taking the plant, too. I thought it was a raccoon, too. Because 
even though this garden is fenced, some animals can still climb this fence. Even if it’s wobbly, 
they they’re getting here and eating some things,   but not a lot of things, which is good. Since the 
dus died, I decided to replace with something. So, I wanted some more flowers and those were 
already in bloom at the garden center. So,   I got those. And I have two more. Put it in here 
for now, but I’m not sure if I’m going to put in the edge of this bed yet. Those are perennials, 
so they’re just going to get bigger and better,   which the ears. This is a Let me see. I seen the 
name. This is called meant to be queen nectarine. This color is just so gorgeous. The more I look, 
the more I like it. it because it’s like this beautiful orange with this mauve purple. I don’t 
know. It’s just so beautiful. Look at this with the morning light. Don’t know if the camera is 
capturing the way that I’m seeing. But it’s just so pretty. The bees are already there enjoying. 
I hope they do well there, but if they don’t,   I can always move somewhere else in the landscape. 
But I wanted to have them inside the garden to add some beauty here, too. I have a pumpkin and squash 
growing here. I forgot the name of the variety, so I’ll put it on the screen. is the same 
as that. Starting to climb on that trellis   by the cucumbers. And this one, we already have a 
pumpkin. Look at that. She’s starting to grow. She dropped the blossom. It’s looking nice and plump. 
So, it looks like got pollinated and just going   to keep growing. So, I’m super excited for this. 
There are lots of flowers with our bees helping us out with the pollination. They open very early 
in the morning now. And then once the day gets a little hotter, they’ve been closing, which 
I find it interesting. And then in this bed, we have lots of sweet potatoes, too. Those are 
purple sweet potatoes. Something has been eating   the leaves, but we’ll see if we’ll be able to 
harvest anything at the end of the season, too. I tried to grow onions in this bed. So, this is my 
final onion update. It didn’t work. I don’t know if it’s because I didn’t put enough fertilizer. I 
planted them too late. so many things. The garden   was not ready on time. I started them too early. 
I’m going to pull this one out. But these are my onions. How tiny they are. So, I’m just accepting 
that didn’t work this year. We try again next year and hopefully do better. But I’m going to try 
to pull most of them and let this squash and sweet potato have lots of space to grow here from 
now on. And here we have the corn, squash, bean, and sunflower green stock, which I think I should 
have fertilized more. You can see that below here, the corn is not doing as good as this in the top. 
Maybe it’s sunlight related, but I haven’t been rotating this much also because we’ve been 
busy. So, this side is all been getting sun,   but the top ones are doing so much better. So, I’m 
not sure what’s going on there. This is a dwarf variety is producing. There’s a little here kind 
of getting produced here. Can see some pollen. Oh, how cool is that? I wonder if you can see it in 
the camera. I never really grow corn successfully   before and I’ve read that you have to the pollen 
has to fall into each of these strands in order to have the full ear and be able to pollinate 
correctly. So maybe I’ll come put a little piece of paper and try to do it myself. So we have at 
least a couple corns from this green stock. This dwarf sunflower is doing great. I can’t wait until 
she blooms. This is a teddy bear sunflower. So, I have double fluffy beautiful blooms. I think 
there’s some beans here that I can harvest. Right here on this side in the back that I haven’t been 
turning much. Some things didn’t germinated. So,   this was all grown from seed. If you haven’t 
watched that video, I did all direct seeding on this a little bit late, too, cuz this 
planter came out a little later. But,   some of things didn’t pop up. So, I have some 
space that I have put some other seeds in there, which I don’t remember what they are right now, 
but we’ll see. That was just an afterthought   after I saw things were not germinating. 
So, some bees here enjoying the corn. But some of these bean plants are producing 
some beans, too. My gosh, everything looks just so nice with the morning light. Oh, the 
pollen. Got careful with the corn pollen. Look at this. There’s so many beans on this plant. I 
didn’t even notice. Very nice. I love the color,   the purple against the yellow. Doesn’t it look 
nice? Is it more beans? And there’s a little bit more there. Not so much. But this plant 
so far, it’s the one producing the most. So,   we’re going to harvest some, too. Oh my 
goodness. Getting so hot already. For beans, I like to pull to do it with my both hands to 
harvest. I’m sorry. to hold here and pull so I don’t pull this whole plant or this whole thing 
which I have done many times before when I’m in   a rush and holding something and trying to harvest 
at the same time. But I always find it better to harvest with both hands. Look how pretty. I just 
see some more up here. So I’m going to harvest these two. Maybe should rotate this plate. 
Oh my gosh, I see all the pollen fallen. Got to be careful. But I’m going to get some from up 
here. That plant, this plant’s looking nice, too. I wonder if I do this, it will help the pollen 
fall. I’ve been wasting pollen. I don’t know. Hopefully, I’m not making a mistake by doing 
this. And back here, we have a butternut squash   sprawling. I have a tomato growing here. Two 
plants, actually, so they can pollinate. You need at least two plants if you’re growing to 
materials to get some fruit. So, I put it in here   because this corn was falling over with the wind 
and I just put it here to kind of shelter a bit and seems to be working. They are always straight 
up again. But this corn also didn’t do very good. I’m learning how to grow them. It tled really 
early and then the ears that I see down here came a lot later. So, I’m not sure how much pollen is 
left with this. and it might get cross-pollinated   with mine from the greentock which is also a 
sweet corn. The one in the green stock, it’s a dwarf blue corn from Hudson Valley Seed Company. 
Greentock always recommends that you plant dwarf or container varieties in their planters. And this 
is just a sweet variety from Johnny Seeds. I think it’s called natural sweet and we’ll see what’s 
going to happen there. But just learning and it’s nice to have it in the garden. And I did a little 
bit of a cover crop here trying to just build the soil in this area. I didn’t have a lot of soil 
to put in here when I built this garden. So,   it’s mostly wood chips with some compost. But, 
we’re trying to build some organic matter here and enrich the soil this way for this season. 
So, next season it’ll be better to plant. And this area here just have some flowers. They’re all 
very small. We’ll talk more about them in August   once hopefully they’re blooming and looking nice. 
And here we have those gorgeous butteron squash. Look how beautiful they are already. How big. 
put my hand next to it for reference. Hold this one up. Oops. They’re very heavy, but that’s how 
big they are. And they’re starting to get hard. It’s amazing. I’m so excited and I can’t wait to 
harvest and taste it. I know it’s going to take a   while, but it’s exciting to have at least two this 
big already. I have two more in here, but these are came out later. So, they’re not as big yet. 
They’re much smaller. And I have some beautiful two male flowers open over here. And then another 
one right there. I think when I water it got a little dirty. This is a variety from Johnny Seeds 
too called block party. So you can see has a the neck it’s a bit thicker so it has more meat in 
it which is good more flesh. And here we have this giant Dalia that I thought was a Maralia but 
now we have actually here Cornell bronze. She’s not open yet but she’s going to be very pretty 
when she opens. And I’m going to walk all the   way back so you see how tall it is compared to the 
other flowers in the ground. It’s going to be very pretty. And behind there I have lots of tomatoes 
which I’m calling the tomato alley. And that’s where we’re going to go next. I have to get out of 
the this section of the garden to enter there. We tal the ground there. I never did any gardening 
with tilling before. So that was my first time and I wanted to see how the tomatoes are going 
to do. this area of the garden get sun first and then I have a lot more shade in my patio. That’s 
why we’re going to go there last. But I want to   harvest a few things here. So I want to do that 
earlier. I just have a little simple gate over here to enter. And from last time you guys saw 
this, I have added some grass clippings to this side after I weeded. And I’m so happy with it. I 
think I should have done that since the beginning. It looks nicer, you know, it’s protecting 
the soil. It’s conserving some water. So,   that’s something I’m always going to be trying 
to do moving forward using more mulch. We are very fortunate to have moved to this house 
where we have now grass that we can cut and use the clippings or a space for wood chips to 
get dropped off. I was gardening New York City before and these things that might seem simple and 
common for most can be hard for us in the cities. They can’t drop off wood chips and sidewalks 
and stuff like that. and there’s no grass that   we could get. So easy clippings would have to buy 
in mulch or buying in straw. So very happy that I can use what I have around to feed the garden and 
stay in the garden too. I planted some snapdragons in here because originally this garden was not 
fenced. This was an afterthought. I put my extra tomatoes in here along with some extra snapdragon 
seedlings because I learned that the groundhogs which have been a bit of a challenge for us this 
year did not eat the snapd dragons and I could grow them outside the fenced area. I’m trying to 
learn how to coexist with them and what we can   do to exist here peacefully together. You know, 
it’s been a challenge in the front yard and I’m a little sad because things didn’t work as I planned 
in the beginning of the year, but that’s okay.   I planted the snap dragons with the tomatoes cuz I 
was not planning to fence. So I was thinking maybe if I do the snapd dragons that the groundhogs 
don’t eat, it’ll be a bit of a distraction.   And maybe it worked because they didn’t touch the 
tomatoes here and then they started looking nice and pretty. And I decided to fence it up and then 
add these other leftover tomatoes here. Those are all leftovers and they’re doing really good. I’m 
very surprised actually by how healthy they are. And we have some here that are already producing. 
The plants are not huge. They’re not being fed very much. I just tealed this ground, added some 
compost, and now covered with some mulch, which was late. I did it this month. I think they’re 
doing pretty good. I barely water this section,   too, cuz takes me a long time to water all of 
that garden there. And then I run out of time. Sometimes I have to leave to get ready for the 
day. So, this gets a bit neglected, but it’s doing pretty good. I am happy with our experiment over 
here on our tomato alley. And since I planted this a little earlier than the ones in my bed, some of 
them are blushing and getting ready to I already   harvested some from this plant over here. This is 
a New Yorker. Supposed to be an earlier tomato. And I thought this was a New Yorker, too, but it’s 
definitely not. It’s a herum. It might be a an   anas noir or a torburn terracotta that I planted. 
We’ll see once it blushes a bit more. I’m going to let it stay in the plant so I know what it is. And 
then I’m going to label it cuz I didn’t label them   here since I didn’t think they would do well. But 
the summer in here are starting to ripen. They’re not as big. They’re doing that in my other raised 
bed, too. But I’m going to pick them at this size. Let them ripen inside and see how the inside of it 
looks like. I thought they would be much bigger, but that’s all right. Maybe there’s a good size 
canning tomatoes. And I planted a bunch in here   next to each other because I thought, oh, this 
could be my production side since I only have space for one of each in my raised bed and not 
of everything. I only have a few in the raised   bed and few other all the varieties here that I 
thought I wouldn’t be able to grow, but they all growing here. And hopefully we have a good harvest 
next month. It is a bit slow for us. Usually when I was in the city by this time, I was already 
harvesting tons of tomatoes by the end of July.   But it’s okay. We’re learning and I’m grateful 
and I hope that I still will be able to get a boneful harvest this year. This side here is all 
different tomatoes as well and we’re going to go over them in the next garden tour when hopefully 
they are all full of color and ripening and we can go over all the varieties. This section is a 
witty mess, but I’m going to show you guys anyway. I’m planning to extend this fence. You see I have 
some here already rolled and then my and I have another one there. We are in a rental property 
and our landlords allow us to garden. They’re very supportive of it. Our land lady, she also has a 
garden and her garden is beautiful. I just visited   the other day and things just do so well for her 
and she was kind enough to give us some extra fencing so I could extend the garden. I put a tarp 
over here right next to the garden where I was   going to have going to have just a white flower 
patch or one more flower patch. But the groundhogs have been eating every single seedling that have 
been sprouting here. I threw lots of seeds down when I took the tarp out and they’re just gone. 
The weed I mean the grass is just going back and growing crazy. So, I might just teal this with 
the tiller we got gifted just one time so I can try to get this grass a bit more in check and then 
fluffy the soil a little bit. And then we’re going to fence this whole area. Now, this is going to be 
also fenced in with that other fence as well. This is not as fine as you can see as this one. This 
one supposed to be really hard to get in. And this section of the garden has wire all in the bottom 
because of the groundhogs so they don’t dig under. But this won’t have that. So we’ll see what’s 
going to happen. But I think having a little bit   of a block I already discouraged them a little 
bit. Now we’re going to move on to the patio garden. And that’s going to be the last section of 
this video. I am not taking you guys to the front this time. It’s not looking very great. I’ve been 
mentioning this a couple times in a few videos   that is not doing what I wanted and I didn’t have 
time to go take care of a lot of things there. So, it’s weedy. We’ll talk about it in another video. 
I want to do a mid-season checkup. It’s probably film that in the next week or so. And we’re going 
to talk about everything that work in this year, how we’re going to move forward for the fall and 
then the plans for next year too. Because now in the height of summer is the best time to plan 
your garden when you’re seeing everything when   everything is growing. You’re experiencing the 
pest pressure, the weather and everything. So then you can think more clearly and plan better 
for next year because sometimes when the winter comes and we plan, we get all hopeful and forget 
how it is really in the tick season of the garden.   So this is the time and we’re going to do that 
very soon. Okay. Now let’s take a look at this area of the garden here. my patio, which has 
been a lot more shaded than I thought. It got a bit sunnier right by the solstice in June. And 
now that the sun is shifting again, it got shade for most of the day. So, I have to address that 
with my vertical planters, especially this pepper one here, as I have been seeing before in other 
videos, is not seeming to mind much. But everybody   else is just struggling a little bit. They’re 
not getting enough sun and having a bit of a hard time to grow. Oops. But I can see a cucumber 
here. Going to harvest this guy as well. This is a Kirking pickling cucumber that’s supposed to be 
harvested a lot smaller. I keep missing them all the time. And I have planted some other things, 
some of seedlings. There’s some small things trying to grow here. And hopefully they will do 
well. This side is looking much nicer. The side   that was facing the sun the other way. Lots of 
peppers on the top there. some flowers. The this pepper plant’s a little leggy, trying to reach, 
so it’s very big, but hopefully it produce some things for us. This needs to be reseted. I tried 
to do a reset for the warm season already with lots of basil seedlings. They have all sprouted. 
Look at them. Those kitties, those are those were all the right sewn. But now I’m thinking if I 
should have just done some cool season things because of our shade situation. I could maybe 
have started some lettuce, but I didn’t know. I thought we would still have a bit more sun a few 
weeks ago and now it’s just getting a lot shadier than I expected. We have this big maple tree here 
plus a couple trees there. The sun goes behind so it’s coming lower every time and then it’s shading 
this a lot more than I thought. So it’s okay. It’s a learning lesson. I’m still trying to address 
what’s going on here. I’ve been trying for the   past few videos. But here are the peppers that I 
said there’s the same that are in the raised beds. They’re looking good. Those are corbasi peppers. 
I think they’re Turkish peppers. And they turn   they change color. They get orange and yellow and 
red. It’s very pretty plant, but so far they’re still all green. This I think it’s a calico. I’m 
not really sure with this ornamental flowers. I’m not very familiar. But this looking so nice and 
so many hummingbirds come to it. I think that next year I want to do a mixture more of vegetables 
and flowers like that that perform well so the planter can look nice throughout the season. 
I really love this color too. It’s very nice. See if there’s a tag. Oh, there’s a tag. Let’s 
take a look what this is. It just says Calabria conga lavender. So very pretty. I think this 
color would look very nice in that green stock too. Next year maybe. Now let’s look at these 
other two green stocks before we move to the   raised beds. This is my pepper green stocks. 
That’s mostly peppers growing here along with a few groundhog resistant things in the bottom 
like this aeradum that’s doing great. And the bees and the butterflies love it. I’m going to 
grow more of that next year. I have some catint. This one is looking good in the bottom. So I want 
the bottom of the other ones have stuff like that   that the groundhogs don’t touch very much. The 
peppers are doing wonderful in this green stock. I love it very much. There’s some jalapenos 
in there. Got some basil. I like to interplant   them. You can see I harvested this not that long 
ago. The tops. Some more peppers in here. This one’s looking pretty big. Lots of variety in this. 
This is called Bridge to Paris. I got that at the Hudson Valley Seed Co. Seedling Sale 2. The Hudson 
Valley Seed Co. The same ones I buy seeds online. I have a retail location that is only an hour away 
from me. This is a puma pepper that I overwintered and I love the foliage on this. She’s not doing 
any fruit yet. There’s some buds for flowers, but it’s just starting to pick up now. She took a 
long time to grow because I have a cooler spring. And I love how the purple looks against the 
merry gold in there. The bee is enjoying it,   too. Some more peppers here. This is a Brazilian 
pepper that’s kind of like ladies finger in Portuguese. And this is another I think it’s a 
the fragrant pepper we call it in Brazil. It’s like a habanero. Very fragrant, but there’s no 
spice. So I think that’s where people got the habanada from that they bread here in the US. But 
in Portuguese we call pimenta disho. And that’s looking good. I have a sweet potato here that the 
groundhog eat the bottom of it. I showed that to   you guys in the previous video, I believe. Let 
me turn this. Some more peppers on this side, too. Here is the eaten. It could have been a deer 
now that I’m thinking about. Maybe it was a deer, too, that got up here. Something ate the leaves 
off this sweet potatoes. The beans here. Oh, we have more to harvest again. Producing really 
good. did get a bit of spidermitites because of the ones that were there and they were full of 
spidermitites. I think it was because of that   they’re close to each other, but this produced 
a lot. I think we’ve been eating a lot of this purple beans. So, we’ve been really enjoying 
it. And here we have a tomato that’s curling   in this barrel along with some other things in 
the bottom. This is a raspberry. It’s doing good, but it’s not going to produce fruit this year. 
And this other green stock here, I just harvested   a lot of lemon balm out of it. And everybody else 
is really liking the more space and light. So this fish yard is doing great. I have some rudekia here 
that I might move later. Some parsley. It’s now growing really nicely. I’m very excited to finally 
start harvesting. Got some sage in the bottom. Some basil I started from seed, too. They’re 
finally starting to get some size. Looking great. I’m going to leave this planter facing the sun 
this way so this basil can grow a little faster. I’ve got some chiso in here. So, it’s mostly herbs 
and hopefully gets filled up by the fall. If not, I will might try to do some lettucees in there, 
too. I already threw some lettuce seeds on the bottom of this raised bed just to see if I can 
harvest some baby lettuce this summer still, but we might try to grow some to full size in some 
of the green stocks. The tomatoes have gone all the way up there and are reaching for the light. 
And I think I like that they’re getting more sun   in the afternoon when it gets shaded by these 
two big trees here. This patio, they still got a little dappled light if they reach up. So that’s 
good. And it’s producing some goodized tomatoes. This it hasn’t none of them has ripened yet, but 
that’s looking pretty good. So hopefully we’ll be harvesting from them soon. I’ve been harvesting 
lots of cucumbers from this. And speaking of   which, there’s one more that I missed it. This 
is so prickly. I’m not sure if I’m growing these gerkins next year. I think this variety here 
for all prickling is good enough. All right. And it’s mostly it for this garden, too. It’s 
getting really hot and I have to go inside. So, next up, we’re going to have I’m going to try to 
put a video cooking a meal with the harvest from   the garden because you guys have been giving me a 
lot of positive response with the cooking videos. And then I want to film a video next week 
talking about what didn’t work in this garden, how we’re going to learn from the lessons this 
year and adapt. Every season is different. So, it’s always good to have an open heart and an 
open mind. Instead of getting frustrated for things that didn’t work, we learn from it and then 
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garden. If you want to see how the garden was   looking in June, I will pop a video right over 
here so you can watch that next. Thank you so much for watching today. I hope you’re having 
a wonderful day and I’ll see you next time.