Vegetable Garden Tour Early-May 2021: Zone 6a, Ohio
Vegetable Garden Tour Early-May 2021: Zone 6a, Ohio
Welcome to the first vegetable garden tour of 2021!
I am growing in Zone 6a, Ohio and focus on growing things I love to eat (vegetables, fruits & herbs), with a few flowers thrown in here & there- primarily for the pollinators.
I grow a vegetable garden at my home and share in the work of the larger vegetable garden at my parent’s home- In this video I share what’s growing now & plans for the 2021 gardening season at both locations.
00:00 Intro
00:32 Strawberry Bed
01:00 Raised Beds
03:12 Why Row Covers?
05:24 In-ground Beds
10:29 Expanding- Outside the Fence
11:08 No-Dig Potato Bed Experiment Update
12:37 Plans for Garden Location #2
13:17 My Gardens at Mom & Pop’s
15:23 What’s in the Greenhouse?
#zone6gardening #vegetablegardening #ohiogardening
๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆHI Jenna!
Thanks for showing us around. Your gardens look great as do your plants in the green houses. The story about your struggles with the rabbits was enjoyable to listen to even though I know it was frustrating. I had a surprise last season when I discovered something had ate several of my cucumber plants. I checked our security videos and found we had a ground hog visiting the garden at night and I guess he had a taste for tender cucumber plants. It’s always a challenge to deal with pests and critters. I hope you have a great Mother’s Day weekend and take care.
Thanks for the garden tour. Your garden is fanstastic, lots of many types of vegetables.
Your garden is just absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Would love a link to the first green house in this video. It looks like exactly what I’m looking for!
Good video , it is the season of growing apple gourd in our country ( Pakistan )
Excellent presentations
Just discovered your channel. Wow, you have an amazing garden! I look forward to learning from you and trying some new plants this season! Thanks for being an inspiration! I hope one day to have what you have.
just subscribed awesome
Lady you have a long row to work.
Great job and thanks for teaching and showing
So happy I found you! We are neighboring states(Indiana), and this year struggling with the bi polar weather.
Your garden is beautiful
See you too
Hug you my frd
Great garden!
Where did you purchase the clear coverings?
You look like Peyton sawyer
from the show One Tree Hill.
This video just popped up in my suggestions, and I must say, I am digging your vibe and crushing on your garden ๐ Subscribed and hit that notification bell! Canโt wait to follow along through this gardening season!! ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐พ
A good trick to warm up your soil is actually cover crops or let it grow weeds. It’s a thing that’s not very well known, but plant roots are warm coz they shelter billions of bacteria and other soil life, which warm up your soil. I’ve noticed last year that if I plant in beds that are full of wood chips, the plants get a late start. But if a lot weeds have grown in this bed, with the woods chips, and that I weed out the bed and plant in this, I get a much stronger start for my crops. Farmers around France who do "living soil gardening" IE with a thick layer of mulch all year round and no tilling, usually use commercial black plastic tarps, coz it warms up the soil quickly. But that’s not an option in most private gardens.
Just like you though, my cabbages have a huge number of pests, but mainly cabbage shield bug (eurydema ornata) and pigeons who eat the leaves. Netting is too fragile and expensive for me, so I only grow cabbages in the fall and winter, when those pests are gone. I find though that a good trick against pest, if you have room in your garden, is to plant what they eat as cover crop. For example, slugs love brassica leaves. So you just sow canola as cover crops and they’ll eat that. I tried it and it works. If your rabbits like chard, maybe let a few grow to seed, and you’ll have a huge number of seeds to make a bed full of them for the bunnies. I usually find that the more plants you have, and the more biodiversity you have, the less pest problems you get. Of course it’s very hard to do in some areas… I would love a pond in our urban community garden for example, but it’s impossible.
Thanks
Wow Jenna, I have enjoyed joining you looking around your growing spaces and I am impressed, take care my friend and enjoy gardening.
โป๏ธHappy gardening, Terry King.
So jealous of all that space! I’m in the suburbs of SW Washington State, but you wouldn’t know it from all the wildlife. I think our bunny problem is worse due to the fact that the coyotes rarely come around. I think you are on the right track if you put chicken wire around the bottom of your fence and maybe even extend it out onto the ground for about another foot to keep them from digging under. Low voltage electric fencing has worked for me in the past, even kept the big racoon from digging up my freshly planted melons for a second time.
Beautiful channel
Freezing temps in Michigan Saturday Early morning. Dragged all my containers to garage, covered the rest. I look forward to my containers finally getting a good warm weather consistently โบ๏ธ
Hot gardener,
Your garden looks amazing Jenna, great work ๐๐ฝ
Your channel just got suggested, so I watch, omg your garden looks awesomely A..M..A..Z..I..N..G๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ new subbed
Huge lk 279 superb uploaded great video
Your beds are beautiful!!
Incredible garden! Seriously amazing. Oh and I hate those cabbage worms too lol. That is a great idea with the chicken area. Maybe you could have the rabbits help fertilize as well lol.
Not sure if it helps or not but I put chicken wire around the bottom of my fencing. I haven’t had any rabbits to date. The rabbits are cute though lol.
Your garden looks beautiful. I am in Michgan just outside detroit and have been working on my gardening the last two years since the pandemic and just found your channel that has provided me with some great tips and pointers for this year!! ๐ i was looking for a channel of someone in the same zone as me so super excited.
Great Channel and great content!
Where did you get the garden netting? I grow in zone 10, so mostly need it for bunnies and buggies. Like that it can be seen through. Thanks.
๐จ๐ฆBIG HELLO HERE JENNA!
Massive gardens I really enjoyed your video , I don’t have to contend with rabbits or deer (or maybe I shouldn’t have said that) my problem is ….pesky birds , white butterfly and time , what I really liked about your gardens were very few weeds and I’m guessing mulching and straw and hard work play a big part in that… anyway keep up with your videos there gr8…PS we also don’t have to contend with snow , I’m in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
I feel your pain! They also got into mine and I had to relocate babies as well. Tried to block off holes until my husband can replace it but in the meantime they got in again and mowed ALL of my broccoli to the ground!!! Whatโs weird is they left the baby celery alone that was right next to it and left my brassica bed outside the garden alone. ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
I had them covered with netting as well because something was eating them but when they continued to get eaten I realized it was slugs and so uncovered them. So stupid of me! It just happened yesterday so Iโm still kinda crying inside lol
What do you use for your hoops? (Never mind, saw your link!) I have the same type of netting but I ruined it by cutting it to fit my beds and I just secure it with whatever I have (rocks and such) which means itโs often resting on top of my plants.
I was thinking about using cover crops before warm season crops but I wondered if the decomposing material might limit nitrogen during the warm months. Has that not been an issue for you?
I live in Ohio too, this cold weather threw me off. Appears I am way behind.
You should try the day neutral strawberries. It is nice to go out in July, August. and September and pick a cup of strawberries and cut up and add sugar and Cool Whip. You probably need 25 or 50 plants (I am using Seascape) to get a handful every other day.
I’m amazed at how big your spring crops are compared to mine. I’m in zone 6a new hampshire and I planted a lot of lettuce and spinach and carrots in mid March and they are well behind yours. Did you start in the fall or something? What is your secret?
Did you use pelleted seeds for carrots? They look amazing!!!
Thatโs a lot! How do you keep up with it all?
Funny, I do the same at my moms house. Just found you and love it. You can find me @dancingfarmergirl in the good old insta. Come say hello.
It seems every video teaching gets better. Iโm learning so much being in Zone 6. Pretty soon youโll reach 10,000 subs. I can say I remember back when. ๐ Happy Gardening ๐งโ๐พ Jenna. Great ๐ job. Watch those rogue bunnies ๐ฐ hahaha ๐
Hi I live in ohio also how did you grow your asparagus what is the soil like and how did you fertilize them
Thank you ๐ This was the first time I have seen all your garden space at one time. I love it! Please do a garden tour every week. Youโre inspiring me to grow more. I planted kohlrabi for the first time because of you ๐๐ป
ilove gardening.thanks for sharing jenna.
Just discovered you today. Can’t wait to learn more as I am in central Ohio.
๐จ๐ฆ๐งโ๐พKeep us posted on how that insect fabric works out?
Oh man I feel your pain on the killer bunnies (lettuce killing bunnies, that is). At our old home, I had a very small garden that I had a makeshift fence around. The same thing happened to me. The momma bunny felt safe and had babies inside. Now, Momma bunny was respectful of our crops. She was content to stay just outside of the garden area, and eat clovers. Her CHILDREN on the other hand were quite rude and disrespectful! They would eat my chard while staring right at me! I’d try to shoo them away…๐ฐ๐ฅฌ. I tried spritzing them with water in a spray bottle…๐ฐ๐ฅฌ… ๐ค…just rude, I tell ya! ๐
Please tell me how you get your spinach to grow so well! Mine sprouts but never gets very big, even when I plant a variety that is supposed to get big.