Garden writer Susan Mulvihill shares important tips to keep in mind for your vegetable garden in midsummer. These include monitoring for problems, watering regularly, harvesting your crops regularly, keeping up with the weeds, and providing your plants with supports as needed. She also has an easy DIY project for you and highlights a fantastic shrub in her landscape. From Susan’s in the Garden, SusansintheGarden.com.
Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. While most of this region is in hardiness zone 6, her garden is in a microclimate, making it zone 5b.
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My garden is doing terrific this year, u have taught me well. Happy gardening.
Great tips!
I have one of those hydrangeas and it's so pretty. You've probably mentioned this in a previous video, but what do you use for fertilizer? My soil is so sandy that I put straw on everything.
Your garden and flowers look amazing. I just found two baby watermelons. One on the ground and one on the trills. What is the best way to support the one on the trills? Thanks for all your gardening advice. My garden is growing well because of your videos.
Great points! We have extreme drought Z5a, WI. I finally installed irrigation in one garden and the heat coming next week I’m getting the parts to do the other.
How far are your emitters on your irrigation lines?
That was one of the issues that was keeping me from installing it earlier and wish I had because I’ve been watering sometimes twice a day. What I observed with our soil and Rainbird system is the sandy soil gets wet about 8” around each emitter. Our local supply only had 18” apart emitters on 1/2” tubing, but they have 1/4” with 6 or 12” emitter spacing. I chose the 1/2” and ran 2 lines down 3’ wide bed for tomatoes and peppers and 1/4” with 6” spacing on loops around hills of melons and squash. The loops work Very well and had to add shutoff valves to prevent over watering.
The second garden I think I will use 1/4” with 6” apart emitters on a manifold like you have. It gives a better overall soaking. I may put hoops around orchard plants also as the 1 & 2 GPH emitters doesn’t give the greatest overall coverage in sand.
I totally agree when you were soaking the area around your plants in heat/drought. The roots go everywhere and need even moisture.
Oh how I LOVE the DIY irrigation system we installed from Rainbird. The special emitters control pressure and clogs. I have used soaker hoses and only find they are good for around trees. Too much puddling, not even. I wish I knew the parts were in plumbing section as I always checked garden center and never seen it. A neighbor told me it’s in plumbing 🤦♀️. I didn’t want to order it because I wanted to see it and figure out exactly what I needed. It was the whole how much pressure, how many feet of line can be run, ect. I didn’t want a kit with parts I didn’t need or didn’t fit my garden. So happy💃💃👏🏼👏🏼 I found it locally and dove in. It is saving me so much Time, Water, and the Biggest thing is No More Hose Struggle for hours on end. I actually have time to garden now. 😁👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Gotta go now and get those parts to do other garden before heat sets in. My wish list is to create a cable system for shade fabric. This weather changes so fast and I just took the fabric down and heat is returning.
Thanks Susan, always a joy!