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Susan's In The Garden
Добавлен 27 авг 2014
Reliable gardening tips and information for growing vegetables and flowers, presented in a clear and concise way, for beginning to experienced gardeners. Learn how easy it is to garden organically.
Plant Your Fall Crops! (2024) #32
Vegetable garden expert Susan Mulvihill plants her fall crops while sharing all sorts of helpful tips for success. These include methods for protecting young seedlings from birds, animals and insects. She's growing carrots, beets, turnips, radishes, spinach, lettuce, sugar snap peas and pak choi. #gardening #garden #vegetablegarden #gardeningtips
Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. where the hardiness zone ranges from 5b to 6a.
You can order signed copies of Susan's newest book, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook, by sending her an email at Susan@SusansintheGarden.com. Her other book is The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, which is all about insects and how to deal with the damaging ...
Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. where the hardiness zone ranges from 5b to 6a.
You can order signed copies of Susan's newest book, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook, by sending her an email at Susan@SusansintheGarden.com. Her other book is The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, which is all about insects and how to deal with the damaging ...
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Vegetable Garden Rebound! Susan's in the Garden (2024) #31
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Garden expert Susan Mulvihill shares all of the crops that are finally back on track after months of challenging weather. You'll see how the tomatoes, beans, corn, onions, winter squash, melons and peppers are growing and learn a few tips along the way. #gardening #vegetablegarden #gardeningtips Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. where the hardiness zone ranges from 5b to 6a. You can order signed ...
My Top Tips for Garden Success! (2024) #30
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Learn from the best how to be a great gardener! Susan Mulvihill shares helpful tips that are guaranteed to improve your success in the vegetable garden. #gardening #gardeningideas #vegetablegarden #gardeningtips Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. where the hardiness zone ranges from 5b to 6a. You can order signed copies of Susan's newest book, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook, by sendi...
Your Vegetable Garden Questions Answered! (2024)
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Your Vegetable Garden Questions Answered! (2024)
July Vegetable Garden Tour (2024) #26
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July Vegetable Garden Tour (2024) #26
Summertime Vegetable Garden Tips to Protect Your Plants (2024) #25
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Summertime Vegetable Garden Tips to Protect Your Plants (2024) #25
Vegetable Garden Tour #2: The Big Reveal!
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Vegetable Garden Tour #2: The Big Reveal!
Garden Success with GreenStalk Planters (2024) #21
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Garden Success with GreenStalk Planters (2024) #21
How to Plant Containers (2024) #19
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How to Plant Containers (2024) #19
4 Excellent Vegetable Plant Supports!
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4 Excellent Vegetable Plant Supports!
Grow Broccoli Without The Bugs! (2024) #16
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Grow Broccoli Without The Bugs! (2024) #16
How to Grow Carrots, Beets & Parsnips (2024) #15
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How to Grow Carrots, Beets & Parsnips (2024) #15
Let's Start Growing Vegetables! (2024) #14
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Let's Start Growing Vegetables! (2024) #14
Gardening Sun Protection: Susan's in the Garden (2024) #13
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Gardening Sun Protection: Susan's in the Garden (2024) #13
Prune Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Blueberries (2024) #12
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Prune Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Blueberries (2024) #12
Organic Insect Control Pt. 3: Cucumber beetles, Japanese beetles, Squash bugs, Squash vine borers
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Organic Insect Control Pt. 3: Cucumber beetles, Japanese beetles, Squash bugs, Squash vine borers
Organic Insect Control Pt. 2: Flea Beetles, Hornworms, Slugs & Snails - (2024) #10
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Organic Insect Control Pt. 2: Flea Beetles, Hornworms, Slugs & Snails - (2024) #10
Organic Insect Control Pt. 1: Aphids, Cabbage Worms and Leafminers - (2024) #9
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Organic Insect Control Pt. 1: Aphids, Cabbage Worms and Leafminers - (2024) #9
Soil & Composting Basics with Susan's in the Garden (2024) #8 (updated)
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Soil & Composting Basics with Susan's in the Garden (2024) #8 (updated)
Soil & Composting Basics with Susan's in the Garden (2024) #8
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Soil & Composting Basics with Susan's in the Garden (2024) #8
Fertilizer Basics with Susan's in the Garden (2024) #7
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Fertilizer Basics with Susan's in the Garden (2024) #7
This is great. Thanks Susan.
Thank you for sharing!! 😊
I love pole beans and seeing that trellis is making mouth water, they look beautiful!
Thank you!
Thank you for supply list and how to!
My pleasure!
Thanks Susan..
Susan, I grew the exact same leeks (Bulgarian Giant), even put them in a 5" hole, but the only white/blanched part is what was underground. I see that yours are blanced pretty high up the stem even before you harvested them. How did you go about doing that?
Hi, Jeff. Over the years, I’ve experimented with different methods, mainly involving starting them in a trench OR using the British method of making a deep hole with a dibber tool and dropping a seedling in each hole but not filling it in (I let each hole slowly fill in by themselves). Then, once each leek had grown a bit, I started filling in the hole around them, which prevented light from hitting the stems. I hope this makes sense!
Imma totally gonna do that to my sprawling butternut! No way new late August 2024 squash will be ready by frost-looming mid-October in zone 5b! 🙏
Hoping for the best!
Thank you!
Do you blanch celery before freezing?
No. I think it would turn to mush.
This is such an education;I love it
I thought it was a good time to start fall garden crops beginning August, but the weather is nuts! We just had a wonderful cool week and now…Sat-Wed is suppose to be sizzling Hot! Talking heat index reaching 107*+😮. I whipped on shade cloth and need more mulch. That’s freaky hot for WI. Thankfully it will be short lived as I don’t do humidity at all. Thx for tips and good luck!
Oh my! Enough is enough, right? I hope things settle down for you soon.
No, they are one of the vegetables that are the highest in oxalates which can be very toxic when you consume very much of them. The average person makes about 12 mg of oxalate as a waste by-product and it has some unknown as yet protective mechanism in the body apparently to do with the teeth. But if you get too high levels of oxalates you get all kinds of symptoms and syndromes including immune disorders. General rule of thumb is that you should not have more than 100 to 200 mg of oxalates ingested per day.. just one Clementine or one tangerine has around 60 mg of oxalates. Imagine what a bowl full of Swiss chard has!! Swiss chard is high in oxalates, with 1458.1 milligrams of total oxalates per 100 grams of fresh weight.  Oxalates are found in plant foods,
I love the grow beds you have with the clear covers and it looks so efficient. Love the veggies too 👍🏼
Thank you!
Hi Susan I got blight on majority of my peppers. I noticed some flowers but not sure if they will eventually turn to bell peppers. Should I just pull the plants out? My last frost date is Oct 22 zone 7A.
I'm so sorry to hear that. If it's pretty bad, I would go ahead and pull them up. Be sure to dispose of them, rather than putting them in your compost pile.
Beautiful! I tried to grow pole beans, once. The Japanese beetles destroed them. Since then, I have only grown bush beans.
Oh, that is so frustrating. I really feel for you. We don't have them here (yet) but they are in parts of Washington.
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Hi Susan. I look Fowler to your videos you always have great tips. Can you tell me where you bought your Dibble? Thanks
Hi there. I'm glad you're enjoying my videos. I bought it from Lee Valley Tools (leevalley.com) many years ago. I'm not sure if they still sell them.
Susan, I could listen and learn from you all day. I wish I would have had some Teachers at school like you. Your way is so calm and relaxing and yet I take it in. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us 🤗🤗🤗. I’m in Devon, England.
Hello, Sally! It's so nice to meet you. Thank you for your very kind comments. I'm delighted that you're enjoying my videos.
Susan what was previously in these fall beds? What are you succession planting from?
Hi, Dolly. I grew fava beans in the bed in the photo and kale in the bed where the root crops are now planted. My rationale for the first bed was that, as a legume, fava beans fix nitrogen so that would be beneficial for the lettuce, spinach, and pak choi. The kale had bolted to seed so I had pulled them a couple of weeks prior to planting the root crops. It was an empty bed, just asking to be replanted!
Do you have trouble getting spinach to germinate? I sometimes do, last time I soaked them overnight and had better luck.
Hi, Joyce. As long as I'm careful to keep the soil lightly moist, they tend to germinate OK. I think soaking the seeds is a great idea. I also wanted to mention that if the soil temperature is too warm, that can impact germination as well. They geminate best in soil that's within the range of 40-70 degree F. My friend Joe Lamp'l soaks his spinach seeds in water for about 24 hours, then lets them dry on a paper towel for 1-2 days, then he puts the seeds into an airtight container for a few days before finally planting them. I haven't tried this but probably should experiment with it!
@@SusansInTheGarden I did do Joe Lamp’ls procedure last fall and had pretty good luck with them.
@@joycearthur5244hi 👋
New subscriber here! Zone 9b California
Welcome, Patricia! Thanks so much for subscribing.
Great choices of your seeds. I always make note and appreciate you sharing the actual names as well as the tips for nutrients to give them a boost. Still getting up and down weather here but finally a bit of cooling occasionally which has helped and random rain showers too so some things may be a lot later than normal. Question, on the bone meal, do you add it at other times too or just incorporated into the soil? Thanks for your video
Hi, Joyce. I just add the bonemeal while doing the soil prep.
I love Chard. I froze it every year. I cook them and add a vinaigrette. I sometimes add beets to the dish.
I grow it, not freeze, but I will try it this year.
Yum!
I love those baby turnips, but I’ve given up growing them. Every year they get root maggots😢.
Darn. Do you grow them in the same location every year? If so, the maggots can overwinter in the soil and continue the problem year after year. It's important to plant them in different areas of your garden, if you've got the room. Don't add manure to the soil because that attracts both the adult fly and the maggots. You can also try covering their bed with floating row cover as soon as you plant the seeds. Turnips don't need to be pollinated so you can grow them under the cover for the whole season. I hope these ideas help!
Hi Susan. I am wondering how many days you have left until first frost? I also live in a 5b/6a zone in BC. Our first frost date is around the end of September. Do I have enough time to sow seeds for a fall garden (we are not radish fans)? Thank you
Hi there. Well, the weather is so changeable, it's hard to know for sure when the first frost will hit. But it's usually around the end of September, just like for you. Many of the crops I mentioned in my "Plant a Fall Garden" video (ruclips.net/video/bhkoeX0oosU/видео.html) are quite cold-tolerant so you can probably plant some of them. I provide lots of suggestions plus the days to maturity information.
Thanks for your tips
My pleasure, Nanetta!
I ❤️ chard. It grows so well where we are.
So do I!
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It's delicious!
Hi..thanks great tip.. would just like to know do i close the plastic bag or seal it or just leave open with the cucumber in it
Hi there. I just loosely fold over the top of the bag, rather than sealing it tightly. This works so well!
Thank you...will try it@@SusansInTheGarden
My second succession of bush beans are acting like vines too! Very odd
Hi, Diane. When I checked ours yesterday, they had stopped vining and were holding themselves more upright, so maybe they'll start acting more normally!
would this work with Ivy Geraniums??
I have not had luck overwintering ivy geraniums with this particular method. However, you can take cuttings, which root very quickly, and grow them in pots through the winter months if you'd like. Put them in an idea that is relatively light but not right in the sun.
Of all the Greenstalk planters on RUclips, I love yours the best. After viewing your plant selections I am inclined to purchase one. Good to see you again! Thanks for sharing your experiences. I will also trim my tomato plants back now. Thanks again for the Merlin tip as we have enjoyed learning about birds and their sounds/calls❣️
Thanks so much on all counts!
Well done, Susan! Your garden is full of blessings for you! Also, you just inspired me to re-plant my Greenstalk for the fall as well.
Thank you! Have fun planting your fall garden.
Hi Susan Do you leave your insect netting all winter long? I have cabbage moths and I put out my transplant today , or should I remove the netting once it gets down to 60’s. I’m in zone 7A.
Hi, Lindy. I will remove the insect netting once we start getting some frosts this fall, so I would say when the highs get down to 45-50 degrees F. or thereabouts. It also would be a good idea to keep an eye out for cabbage moths just to see if they're still active when the temps start dropping. Ordinarily, I would plant the fall crops in our little hoop house, in which case I wouldn't need the insect covers. But Bill's growing peppers in it and they won't be fully harvested for at least a month. I didn't want to wait that long to start growing the fall stuff.
How funny! My bush beans are vining exactly like yours - which caused a bit of a dilemma because they are planted on an elevated growing table. I have a Blue Lake variety. Every variety of green bean that I've tried in the last few years has completely failed to even germinate (no idea why), so this is good anyway!
Wow, that is odd, although like you said, at least they germinated!
Looks wonderful. Thanks Susan.
Thank You for your gardening advice. Have You seen Bumblebees this year? I live in an apartment and I was talking to a fellow container gardener about the Bumblebees... hasn't seen any either. We're in Southern California. Thanks for sharing 😊🌟
Hi, Nancie. It took a while for us to start seeing bumblebees but now there are a ton of them. We had a late cold snap during the winter and the theory is that it killed off a lot of overwintering insects. If you can grow bee balm (Monarda) there, that is a bumblebee magnet! I'm so glad you enjoyed the short video.
Everything looks good Susan. My season has been a struggle too, we have been hot & dry , dry, dry. I tried the Fortex beans this year but think Seychelles do better for me, we also like Roma II & Provider bush beans. Although I have started getting rust on some of them this year, a first for me. I’m about tomatoed out, been giving them away like crazy since I’ve already preserved all we need. cucumbers and zucchini have been prolific too. My biggest fail this year has been peppers, not sure what happened to them.
Hi, Joyce. It's truly been a tough year, no matter where folks live. I sure hope next year will be better!
Susan. Do you ever do presentations? I am a member of the Little Spokane Garden Club and we would love for you to come and speak with us.
Hi, Linda. I have cut back on doing presentations. Sorry about that! But nice to meet you.
What a great tip about determinate tomatoes. Thanks gardening friend😃
My pleasure!
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I love onions ❤
So do I!
What would you recommend for killing grass type weeds in my garden that is organic if there is such a thing? The weeds really got away from me in my raised beds. Lorraine
Hi, Lorraine. I don't know of any reliable organic herbicide, to be honest. You could try covering the weedy areas with sheets of newspaper or something, to block the light from them. But I'm just a hand-puller of weeds. Any time I see some in our garden, I immediately yank them out! Try to get the roots so they can't spread. Good luck!
Maybe there is still hope for mine! I’m in zone 5a,b. Everything has just been sitting there and it just seems to have started really growing. Carrots are still a fail but I’m not giving up? Thanks .
I'm glad some things are showing signs of life! I would leave the carrots alone and see how they do closer to fall. You might also consider planting a fall garden. Here's my recent video on it (ruclips.net/video/bhkoeX0oosU/видео.html) just in case you missed it. And I'll be shooting a video of what I'm planting this coming week.
Thank you for sharing your garden with us. Have a nice day!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Hope you've been having a great day as well.
Susan I bought 2 pkgs of what I thought were acorn squash. Now I have acorn squash, with green colors, yellow , tan, and celery colors. Surprise the butternut squash that were mislabeled, are dark green , and pale green. I have lots of bees this summer being very busy. I guess one small tray was a butternut squash plant mislabeled, did the bees cross pollinate my plants. I never saw this before. How do you know when to pick these squash plants! Thanks
Hi, Mary. Hmm, it's hard to know for sure what's going on. First of all, most winter squash are pretty dark while they're still developing, so it could be that. When you said "packages," were you referring to packages of seeds or trays of young seedlings? The acorn squash, with all of those colors, might have been seeds from hybrids, which don't come true to their parent plant. But no matter what, the way to tell when winter squash and pumpkins are ripe is to do the thumbnail test. Here's a link to one of my videos where I demonstrate it: ruclips.net/video/QHsxJyaePcc/видео.html. Take care.
I learned to farm from my grandfather. He once told me that his great grandfather told him "never let an August rain fall on your onions". Always works out to be correct for me, they're always ready to be stored late July here in Ohio.
Susan, I just finished reading your article (Solve Your Garden Problems) in the August September issue of Mother Earth News. It answered many questions I had about the growing problems and gave me information about how to solve them. My small backyard garden struggled this year as well. I live in the Midwestern state of Nebraska in zone 5b. We started the year cold until the end of May then hot through June with 100 degree days and now wet with lots of rain and high wind. Somehow my tomatoes managed to make it through all that and are producing enough to keep me more than supplied in salads and sandwiches. I'm in a bit of a transition to smaller gardens in the backyard. Watching your video inspired me to search out new techniques of growing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and being real about the struggles of gardening. Nebraska Dave Urban Farmer
Hi, Dave. It's nice to meet you. I'm glad the article and video helped. I'm hopeful next year's garden will be more "normal!"
I always get blight on my tomato plants. Do you have any advice on fighting blight?
Hi there. I'm sure sorry to hear that because I know how frustrating that can be. Both early and late blight are fungal diseases. I have a few strategies you can use starting next year: 1. It's a good idea to rotate where you are growing your nightshade family crops (tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, potatoes) because each of these crops are susceptible to blight. I'd recommend a 3-year rotation (i.e., don't plant any of those above crops in the same place for 3 years): it takes a bit of planning but will the spores will be in the soil so you don't want to expose your plants to them every year. You might even want to skip a year or two of growing those crops to break the cycle. If you have a really small garden, you could alternate growing your nightshade crops in containers. 2. Look for blight-resistant tomato varieties. 3. Always stake your plants so the foliage doesn't touch the soil. That way, they won't be in contact with the spores in the soil. 4. In addition, always prune off the lowest branches so they won't touch the soil. 5. Cover the soil surface with a mulch for the same reason. We use grass clippings because we don't use herbicides such as Weed 'n Feed on our lawn. 6. It's a good idea not to use overhead watering to reduce disease spread. 7. Always clean up and dispose of your plant debris, rather than composting it. 8. Apply a biofungicide or copper fungicide as a preventive measure, BEFORE you see any evidence of blight. I hope these suggestions will help!
Thank you!
Do you use drip tape for irrigation? Do they have pressure regulating emitters or holes? I’m thinking of switching out the emitter lines for drip tape. Do you run zones and can you run them all open at the same time for even coverage? I have mostly long 3’ wide beds. The brand I’m using was only available in 17” spacing on 1/2” lines or 6-12” spacing on 1/4” lines. I’m running into problems with long 1/4” lines not covering on the ends very well, but I wanted closer spacing. Another brand I see has 1/2” lines that are closer spaced. I think I have too long of lines on 1/4”. I need a product that won’t clog in sandy soil and figure out how much each zone can handle. I have to get this corrected as I can’t keep dragging miles of hose around as it wipes out everything and takes too long. Need to make gardening easier. Thanks Susan and enjoy your videos.
Hi there. Yes, we use drip tape for most of our raised beds, although we also use 1/4" drip tubing on our 4 wider beds. Bill thinks that 1/4" drip tubing is a lot easier to work with and more versatile than the drip tape. So if we had to do it all over again, we would probably just use drip tubing. While it's tricky commenting on your set-up without seeing exactly what you have, I have a few suggestions. First of all, if you're running long lengths of drip tubing, that could explain why they aren't effectively watering all of the plants in your raised beds. Drip tubing is only efficient in 16' or shorter lengths. We set up a manifold for each of our raised beds, so our drip tubing lines are 8' long each. The nice thing about using a manifold with 1/4" drip tubing is that you can add additional emitter lines to a particular bed to meet water needs (for example, we add extra drip tubing for growing corn). We move the manifolds around the garden each year to match the crops in each bed. Also, we have a few Vari misters (from Dripworks) that we run off the manifold to do a bit of surface watering for growing lettuce and also in areas that seem dry. We do have a pressure-reducer in the sprinkler valve box where our drip system's water lines originate. You've probably seen the drip irrigation video that I shot earlier this year, but you might want to watch it again to see our specific set-up. Here's a link to it: ruclips.net/video/Jj9fGl-IMOU/видео.html. I also heartily recommend dripworks.com. That's where we've bought the majority of our supplies and their website is really helpful.