My Evening in the Garden // NEW Cucumber Trellis & SHOCKING HARVEST!

Come walk this garden tour with me as I show you an update and our huge corn harvest of our early summer garden tour as well as do a little bit of garden work with you!!

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We are a better together family of 6 living in an 800sqft Shed to House Conversion and currently converting a 336sqft shed into a tiny house for our new studio! Oh yea, we are doing our best to build a sustainable homestead in central Texas raising pigs, chickens, and rabbits…. and hopefully more!!!!!

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[diananazaroff]

The figs ARE the flowers. If you let the figs get overripe and open them up, you'll see all of the flower parts. Like with broccoli, artichokes, etc., we eat the flower as the 'fruit'.

[carrierasmussen]

Hey, enjiying your chaos garden! FYI birds don’t like tomatoes, they’re really after moisture. Put a water source nearby for them and they’ll leave the tomatoes for you! Plus you get to see all the kinds of birds in the neighborhood. 👍🏼

[thenodiggardener]

The fig is the flower. They are pollinated either because they are self fertile, or by wasps that crawl inside them. That's about as far as my knowledge on them goes. I certainly have no idea how to get them to produce more fruit, although more fruit baring trees usually do so on new wood. I know my ex Mother-in-law has a great tree that produces huge figs, which is rather rare for our area.

[sounditout]

I love the way you live your life. I have sat here and watched multiple videos and you are such an inspiration to me. Off the topic question and out of season question as well... I would be interested in seeing or hearing about how you homeschool your kids. ❤❤

[amysvob]

The figs don’t need a pollinator. The fig itself is the flower. I was just looking to mail you some seeds. Do you share a PO Box or anything? Your garden is beautiful!

[renata-sb]

Your garden is so different from mine.
/ east- north- central a bit Europe/
However watching was a great joy - thank you. I love natural performance of the guide lady ❤

[pinkyfromhaughtfarms]

You are not an idiot! That's everyone's plants that don't use chemicals. I plant multiple rounds all season long, in several different places to try and stay ahead of them. But being diligent and looking under the leaves for eggs, (then use duct tape to pull them off) as well as killing adult bugs, (i put them in a bucket of soapy water) helps. You've got this I promise🫶

[JeanneDee-zzth]

You go through your garden like I go through my little city gardn. Joy and amazement! I grow food! TFS
I had so much fun with you this morning.

[kathrinekerns]

It is always a happy time to pick cucumbers and strawberries from your garden. Hope you have a abundant harvest.

[marciacrow]

You are so inspiring. I loved this video of your gardening. Thanks soft being you. (So real) love you and your family❤️

[missouribroad]

I use the bags on my elderberries. My bushes are 10+ feet tall. All of the higher up berries are sacrificed to the birds and the lower ones get bagged.

[joanneganon]

Hey Kelly, those bags are a wonderful thing to have for Berries 👍.
The Pation flower is exceptional 😍!
You could cut the Parsley back when it gets hot or anytime now.
You can use the cuttings while your baby in the garden rests to reup when it gets cooler😊.
Luckily Honeysuckle is hearty💪.
Salt for slugs definatly!
Either leave a trail of it where they are, or go out at night with your boys at night on a slug mission. The usually do their damage at night.
Take your salt box and
put a heavy pinch right on it. The salt shaker are for the baby sluggos😡!
Good luck🤗.
Tha garden does look great and your Corn, Hurray🎉.
JO JO IN VT 💞

[bintlooda]

@3:00 cut transplant some of the strawberry plants to a pot or a vertical something to have them far from the ground 😍👏🏻👍🏻

[Mmac-qtjn]

Wait hogs don't sweat 😆 but yeah it is getting hot as all get out here in the South y'all get hotter than we do garden looks great nice job. I did 1 tomato plant this year lol but it made me happy to get 3 tomatoes 🍅 so happy and have a couple more coming next year going to find another thing to grow along with tomatoes

[deltorres]

Remember all plants want to go to seats so you gotta keep picking even if you get the kids to pick because then the plant will think it’s done his job and start going to seed everything that you covers the beans anything for sure the tomatoes too just get them a pig if you don’t pick Somebody pick.💚🌱🌱🌱

[southerngrits]

There thi good book
Called when to say yesand when to say no . I am a yes person .

[thegraymarlin]

I am also the idiot who cannot grow zucchini! There’s a lot I cannot grow, but I do try it all lol still learning how to garden in south TX from growing up in CO. Very different garden seasons lol fall is actually my favorite and most prolific garden time. Looking forward to September! 😅

[sharonwebb]

I put my tomatoes in freezer bags and cut an x on them. When they are boiled the skins just fall off. Then I dehydrate the skins and make powdered tomato paste.

[elizabethbarnhill]

You might try hand pollination of the zucchini. It feels a little precious, but I noticed a significant difference in the numbers of the fruit that actually developed vs withering on the vine

[Mbusowabalondo]

I enjoyed your garden tour that 🥒 was big. That's the result of your growing your own food amazing❤❤