Vegetable Garden Tour (August): Everyone Can Grow a Garden (2022) #32

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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[susanrieske]

Keepin it real! Thanks Susan. You're an inspiration, as always!

[marilynm]

Thank you for the tour. You and Bill earned some nice iced tea. Hope the rest of the summer cooperates.

[ClickinChicken]

I dropped the ball with gardening. Arnold I'll be back! thanks for video!

[Mrdesidownunder]

Good to see Broccoli growing in hot summer with the help of shed cloth. Great tip. Thanks

[donnamullins]

Your garden produced and is beautiful. Mine burned up but there is hope fall gardening. I had 2 inches of rain last night and it is glorious today. 85 degrees not 100 plus. Amendments and seed ready to go. Thanks for the video.

[jucjuc]

So sorry the tomatoes did not work well this year 😭 I Wish I could send you some 😊 Maybe they will pick up and luckily there is still lots of success despite the ridiculous weather 🤷. We are fighting sever draught this year after we had a similar cold-wet year last year, like you have now. Thank you for taking us around in the garden 😍Greetings, Judit 😊🙋

[joycedagostino]

It's been a rough year weatherwise for many of us. This spring was cool but incredibly windy. Not just a day or two but seemed we had wind every day for weeks. I should have used row cover to protect the young plants but kept thinking that the wind wouldn't have gone on as long as it did. Then we had the high heat and not much rain like many did and now is a bit cooler and have had some rain off and on. I'm sure it's challenging for the plants to figure this all out too! Had a little rabbit for a while and they can do a lot of damage. Guess going forward to expect the unexpected with the weather. Thanks for your review!

[susangarland]

I'm in zone 10 in southern California. It's been a rough tomato year here, also, and for the same reasons: a prolonged cooler than normal spring, followed by weeks of higher than normal heat and really high humidity (for us). Last year, the tomatoes did fantastic, but all the peppers pretty much failed; this year, it's the opposite. Working with nature sure keeps us on our toes.

[suzannemartin]

Thanks for the tour. 😊 we are nearby your area, so I appreciate your channel and advice!

[debiegordon]

hello from Zone 10a FL
🌞🔥⛱️🌴🐬👉what a beautiful edible garden yall have🌾🌷🌻🌹🌿I'm really enjoying ur videos! 💖

[Rosearion]

Hi Susan. I really appreciate your candid garden update tours. It's refreshing to see that not everything goes as planned, and, really, it's an opportunity to learn and grow. We're having similar issues on the west coast of Canada. I think I'm going to start looking at seed varieties with shorter mature dates and hardiness to cold and heat.

I came across a slicing tomato variety called 'Stupice' which is 50 day maturity, temp change tolerant and prolific. I may give that a try. Also a variety of pole bean called 'lazy housewife' which is prolific and temp tolerant as well.

The best part about fails in the garden is the fun of looking for different seeds.😄 God bless.

[GardeningWarrior]

I live in Spokane Valley and all my stuff I started early have either been stunted or died altogether. It has been a rough few years. Bless you!

[sandyl.]

The good, bad and ugly was a funny way to describe your garden. It helps to see when others have issues as well, make me realize it is not just something I am doing wrong. But I am sorry you are not going to have the tomato harvest that you expected. If we lived closer, we would bring you some of ours. It is one of the crops that are doing well for us this year. I tried some new to me varieties, German Johnson, Ace 55 and Rutgers I know those are not paste tomatoes, but I would still share them with you if I could. I give away many plants in the spring since I always worry that I won't have enough if something goes wrong starting them from seed, so I start way more than I can use. And this year I accidentally gave away all of my Sun Gold plants, I was so sad since it is my favorite cherry tomato. Oh well there is always next year! 🌱🌿🌿🍅🥒🥔

[maryglidden]

This year seems to be an odd gardening year for alot of us! I am glad there are always a few things that do well to off set a little all the failures! No zucchini this year for me as my package of seeds was mislabeled and are pumpkins! I need to find some of that agriculture cloth for my beds.

[karenw]

Good tour! Sorry to hear you're still going through that awful heat, we've dropped down to 80s daytime & 60s overnight, so that's been wonderful...although we're still incredibly low on rain, with about 5/8" in the past eight weeks. Like you, my corn is producing well. I also had EXTREMELY small onions (the half-dozen 'giants' were less than golfball size) and mine weren't shaded like yours, so not sure what went wrong there. Here in 4A most people plant out tomatoes mid- to late-June...I pushed it and planted out around May 20, then had to cover with overturned buckets when we had a late May frost. I did begin harvesting before others, but the harvest hasn't been particularly large. My succession planting of kohlrabi & radishes are doing very poorly, mostly due to insects because I don't have any netting. Carrots - the Danvers are doing well (first planting, second planting is still growing) but the Dragons are doing so-so. My fall salad garden had VERY sporadic germination and with the heat shortly after planting and the ongoing dry weather I suspect I'll be lucky to get 2-3 small salads.

[colorsinthegarden]

I'm in zone 7B and I had issues with onions and climbing beans. We didn't really have spring - we had snow at the end of March and by the end of April the temps were up to 90F. Then we had a really dry hot summer and most of the veggies were scorched. The onions were really small in spite of daily watering and they also dried up a lot faster. The climbing beans did amazing in June, but July was so hot and dry that they got spider mites. Spider mites decimated the beans and the tomatoes and I have no clue how to control that infestation... Weirdly enough, the cucumbers did great during the summer. Your garden looks a lot better than mine :))

[nkc]

Beautiful garden! What verity of artichoke are you growing? Do you have a video on growing artichokes?

[JeanneKinland]

I'm curious to know what he does with his peppers. I'm growing some new varieties of peppers this year and planning to ferment them to eventually make a sauce with hatch, Anaheim, jalapeno, tobassco, hot yellow banana peppers, sweet bells and mini-orange peppers.

[daviddeininger]

I loved mortgage lifter tomatoes. I bought plants at shopko a few years ago. Of course no more Shopko's & I haven't seen them other places. Where do you get either seed or plants from?

[sheri]

Does the sunflower have lots of heads for a volunteer?