July Vegetable Garden Tour (2024) #26

Garden expert Susan Mulvihill takes you on a virtual tour of her vegetable garden and her GreenStalk vertical planters. This has been a challenging growing season so far, so you'll see a few plants that are struggling. But throughout the tour, you'll pick up all sorts of great growing tips to help you in your own garden! #gardening #vegetablegarden #gardentips

Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. where the hardiness zone ranges from 5b to 6a.

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[bettymaupin]

Thanks Susan for the update. I appreciate your telling it like it is reporting. Hope your weather stabilizes and your garden gives you the joy we all want.

[janisramsden]

Hi Susan, I think we are all struggling with our gardens this year in the PNW. We have just turned on our irrigation in July! The rest of our garden is beautiful. Enjoy the little wins. Happy gardening, Janis

[Naddrose]

Thank you for sharing an update on your beautiful garden .
I am in Southern Ontario Canada and my garden is slowly growing due to cooler weather. Seeing your garden gives me some hope and encouragement as I was beginning to give up on my garden.
For the first time in 7 years growing garlic I experienced garlic leaf miner. I was able to catch it easy and hoping for the best.
Happy Gardening to you all.

[joycearthur]

We have had a very hot & dry June here in N. KY but last night and today we have finally gotten rain. I’ve already frozen my main broccoli crop although my heads did not get as large as yours. I did grow Belstar on your recommendation. Thanks for the tip on the chard, mine is under cover as well with my kale & collards and wondered what was eating on them. Peas are long gone, been eating cabbage, beets, beans, zucchini & a few carrots as well as potatoes. I have Fortex starting to come on and patiently (not really) waiting on my Diva cucumbers and a big beefsteak tomato for my first BLT. Have had small tomatoes for salads. Love this time of year, the only time I think I could be a vegetarian. 😝. Sorry about your weather, we are certainly at the mercy of Mother Nature.

[VanDeWitt-uy]

Your garden looks great 👍 It’s so fun to see other people’s gardens ❤
Happy 4th of July.everyone 🎉

[clairequinn]

Hi Susan. I love all the green color of your garden. Love your explanations too. Thanks 😊

[roxannem.wallrn]

Silver green Bryum moss- i believe that is what moss is in your one raised bed….love your videos

[dustyflats]

The Belstar performed well in my Z5a, WI garden last year. I had some Sun King seeds to use up and they are ok also just not as big. Lol, hurry and put that netting back on😅

That’s exactly what all my tomatoes look in my south garden!! They are spindly and with fruit and blossoms. The north garden they are stalky, but bushier without the normal height. I’m also trying the Supremo and need to be mindful which are determinates so I don’t prune them. I wonder if I should take the fruit off the hybrid slicers or beef up fertilizer. I’ve just never had this dilemma before as tomatoes always do well here.

We’ve decided we like Buttercup, Waltham and acorn squash and will stick with those. Trying Silver Queen corn and it’s about 4’ and we planted 3 to a hole in two rows. The storm pushed them once and we straightened. And this is also stalky and deep green with coop manure and additional granular. We have too much rain and sandy soil to do liquid.

We’ve had way too much rain. Since March we’ve had 31.3” of rain not including winter rain and just had a shower, more tonight and Sunday. Our annual avg is 37”. It’s only 7/4.

I asked you before about tomatoes and you were experiencing the same. There is one difference and the better tomatoes are where we tilled and used chicken manure from coop last fall. The other I just forked to loosen soil and added fertilizer and I have hugelkulture under rows.

About insects and fungus—since using netting on brassicas the cabbage moths all left. I’ve seen only a couple of Japanese beetles, a handful of potato beetles, few slugs under some cabbages that are close together and we normally don’t have. I just read that rain is a good thing for staving off mildew, but the hollyhocks got the rust so will need rust resistant going forward. We had gypsy moths earlier and they say rain creates a bacteria-? That kills them off.

Yes, it’s been a trying year in many ways—that is a true statement indeed.

Thank you Susan for showing your progress (or not) so the rest of us can understand what’s happening in our own gardens with similar growing conditions/zones. Same with flowers. Some new to me I’m not sure about but suspect some need longer growing season like black eyed Susan’s vine—it’s still only 4” 🙄 and ice plant says too much rain.

Oh, the red carrot leaves I think they got spot hit with frost maybe? Only other thing I recently read about red in leaves I think was about phosphorus.

[chrisb]

Hi Susan. Loved your video. In spite of your weather you still have some healthy looking vegetables. The weather definitely has been a challenge this year. My potatoes are absolutely huge. They have fallen over because they can't hold themselves up, but still really healthy. I've put straw all over the middle to cover any potatoes that might make it to the surface. The lettuce has been fantastic and we've feasted on lots of salads. On the other hand the pole beans are way smaller than usual this time of year and although we've been enjoying the snow peas, they aren't as prolific as usual either..
You said that Bill had cleared out the radishes. How do you store them until you want to use them?

[celticfiddle]

My neighbor has a large vegetable garden but she also tucks 🍅 tomatoes here and there all over her property. She said she does this to fool the insects 🐛 that attack the tomatoes in the garden.🍅 It must work because her hidden tomatoes are huge and beautiful!😊

[drcbeartooths]

Hi Susan & Bill. thnx for the tour. western NC mnts here - with a very happy organic community garden plot. we've had super growing conditions & it's the lushest year for everyone. 🎉

[carlydillon]

Beautiful garden! I have been dealing with a pest issue called a symphlan. It stunts vegetable crops by eating their root hairs. I have identified 4 raised beds with the bad bugs. Yesterday I treated the beds with beneficial nematodes. I hope it works. Gardening can be so challenging

[barbkenas]

Thanks for sharing, I always learn something from you! Happy 4th! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[folklover-]

Susan, have you thought of putting hoops and plastic over your melon bed to see if that helps those crops grow successfully?

[trudyschaffer]

Well, there isn’t much we can do when Mother Nature steps in. We just returned from a week long honeymoon to find 14 zucchini, that will become a variety of dishes. We are on the front end of a 100 degree week, with 114 degrees as the kicker. So, as you can imagine, tomorrow is shade cloth day! That, and adjustment of the drip irrigation. My beans are slowly climbing up the cattle panels, so we shall see.. stay cool everyone!!🥵🥬🌽🥦🫐🍓🥰

[joycedagostino]

Hi Susan, also had problems with our green arrow peas, they're great peas but we got some very high temperatures early with little rain. I should have put a shade cloth over but kept listening to the weather forecasters who said weather would cool and we'd get rain and neither happened. Lesson learned for next year if I see the heat starting early on. Grew a couple of test Supremos for the first time last year, wish I had done more. The first round of fruit all got BER, I was about to discard the plants, threw away the damaged fruit and left the plants. Then around late September got a bounty of nice tomatoes from those two plants. This year they didn't make it through out heat and no rain weather but I will do them again and this time give them some shade protection early on.
Do you plant peas for the fall too and if so, when do you plant yours? Thanks Susan, your garden as usual looks great despite the challenges!

[francesmacdonald-davis]

Thank you for the lovely garden tour. My carrots are turning colors as well, so I would be quite interested to find out what is causing this to occur. A first for me, I had to plant my zucchini three times before I found success in two sprouts...somewhat odd considering it it one of the easiest plants to grow. My watermelon are also pathetic, but yet other veggies are thriving. Definitely an odd year. Just spent the day putting up shade cloth, so I am hoping the veg patch fairs well with weather this next week. Enjoying your videos!

[lorijones]

My garden has been a flop this season. Is it bad of me that I don’t feel so bad now since your garden has struggled somewhat? Lol! BTW I’m from Spokane too! I really enjoy your channel ❤

[caroleferreira]

I am sorry your garden is struggling. I am having the same problem. My biggest problem is small red bugs eating my leaves. They are fast and I have never seen them before. Please help! I love the GS. I got my first one last month. So far it’s doing pretty good.

[nancyrasmussen]

How do you prepare the kale?Nancy from Nebraska