Vegetable Garden Tour Early-May 2022: Zone 6a, Ohio
Vegetable Garden Tour Early-May 2022: Zone 6a, Ohio
Welcome to the first vegetable garden tour of 2022 💚🌱 !
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 2022 gardening season at both locations.
Related Videos:
May 2021 Garden Tour- https://youtu.be/xpyGN1jUH3E
Getting Red of Moles in the Garden- https://youtu.be/m78timzmnoA
How to Plant & Care For Strawberries- https://youtu.be/GQgcvKavyOs
Creating New Garden Beds in Clay Soil- https://youtu.be/y_xlgNzqir4
Spring Bed Prep- https://youtu.be/WHWSA1QiRm8
Growing Overwintered Onions- https://youtu.be/L6e3HL0XHLo
Pre-Sprouting Pea Seeds- https://youtu.be/7iYbO2Zdnls
Winter Sowing- https://youtu.be/Rc73y7IH6A8
No Dig Potato Bed- https://youtu.be/NG_IzoYFHYw
Why Plant Garlic in the Fall?- https://youtu.be/v1UsBMiEGYQ
Growing Strawberries in Containers- https://youtu.be/ldhojpF6b2E
Hügelkultur- https://youtu.be/u8SWtuhL3so
Using Chickens to Create New Garden Bed- https://youtu.be/TQ2aX2QTbwc
Growing Raspberries in Containers- https://youtu.be/1P4T1SC8cFA
Growing Potatoes in Containers- https://youtu.be/pE5v8TyRXMA
Growing Rhubarb in Containers- https://youtu.be/7qs1BUAcBYI
Cattle Panel Trellis for Tomatoes- https://youtu.be/syAnE7uwgSE
What I plant When, Playlist- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4zzslvkscX1qEVADEL6_OL5ynFVtcMPR
00:00 Intro
01:40 Strawberry Bed update- A word on Moles 🤬
03:10 The Plan for a Vole Proof Bed
03:35 Raised Bed Plantings
05:10 A Muddy Mess
05:39 Pea Planting Experiment
07:09 Overwintered Onion Variety Trial
08:17 Some Unhappy Garlic
08:37 Back Row Plantings
11:30 Outside the Fence
11:57 New Apples & Cedar Apple Rust
12:40 Potato Bed
13:00 Garlic Planting Experiment
13:43 Hugel Beds
14:49 Elderberries
15:10 New Strawberry Beds
15:31 New Medicinal Herb Bed
16:01 Container Plantings
17:59 Location #2, Mom & Pop’s Place
18:19 More Garlic
18:57 Prepping for Planting
19:47 Fruit Trees in Bloom
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Thank you for the tip that Voles love sweet potatoes. I learned last year that they also LOVE peanuts… they ate all the peanut plant leaves and we only got 1 peanut😆 what is hardware cloth? Are you affiliated with the place you get your insect cloth from because I want to order!
Cheer up Ohio. It will be Summer temps next week. 🌞It has been a crazy cold and rainy Spring in Ohio for sure. Thanks for the updates Jenna. ☔️
Can you tell us why you grow yarrow and what you use it for ?
More tours please!!!!
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FANTASTIC!! I am definitely subscribed. Keep the videos coming!!
Zone 6a had snow on the 9th and 10th of May in 2020 and in 2021 !! … 2022 is a dream year ! …. soil Temps are now 66 degrees ! … so I have no idea why your garden look great last year but looks like crap this year ????? When this year has been the absolute best for growing early this year !! …. lol !! 😆
I’m in Elgin IL. My final frost date is May 1st. Yours is May 10? You’re way ahead of me. LOL. Green thumbs!! I better start paying attention.
100 percent no questions use the victor traps they come with setters. Set for Moles in travel ways from where they live don’t set traps where you see them feeding they go all over. Get them where the main runs are coming out from where they are staying
Hi Jenna! I’m curious as to where you get your last frost date? I’m only in my second year of gardening and also in midwestern Ohio and I have found a huge rage of dates, from late April through late May lol it’s really difficult to know which are correct.
We had a perfect spring so far in Germany. Very warm, early last frost night and a bit dry(but still enough rain to provide water). Last year we had the situation u guys have this year.
I’m going to try and get all my summer stuff in this weekend. Suppose to be 90 Sunday! Not sure at that temp I can stay out of the beer and not smoke a butt or something 🙂
Interesting to see how Ohio zone 6 compares to my cooler Ontario zone 6. As cold as your spring may have felt, ours was even cooler, our warmest temperature so far this spring was 67F. Even when the jet stream was above us we’d often get cool eastern breezes coming off Lake Ontario causing us to be 15-25F cooler than inland areas. We really are Zone 6 though, despite the colder than average winter, we only dropped to -1F, thanks to the lake moderating winter temperatures in the opposite direction. Our average last frost is also quite early due to Lake Ontario + Urban Heat Island effects – usually around late April, this year it was April 28. I’m considering planting my tomatoes with the warm weather we’re supposed to get next week. We might get nights in the 40s the week after, so I’ll hold off on peppers and eggplants, but tomatoes should be ok I think.
Some of your plants definitely look ahead of ours, such as the radish, lettuce, brassicas and spinach (I didn’t cover mine though). Probably 3-4 weeks ahead. Peas and carrots aren’t as much ahead, and beets barely ahead, I have some that sprouted last week. My garlic looks maybe ahead of yours actually?? (I planted mine Oct 23).
I did the direct vs transplant thing too, and it does seem to have given me a 2-3 week head start for peas, spinach, swiss chard, and a much bigger head start still for heading brassicas. For lettuce and brassica greens, I have some volunteers that are only about a week behind transplants.
I’m quite impressed by your garden, especially the amount of covers, treillises, fences… It must be an insane amount of work.
It’s so weird to see your cover crop so low compared to mine. I’m about to roll down my cover crop, it’s in full flower, the rye is about 1.5-1.8 m tall. I’m in zone 7A. If you want to increase the growth of you cover crop, you should plant more than just rye. Monoculture cover crop will always be much much less effective. I usually add one legume, like vetch, then phacelia (which is in full bloom right now, attracting a lot of bees), and I try to add one brassica, but to be honest they never seem to grow well in the middle of that dense rye, so I’m in search of a 4th plant for my winter cover crop. Your elder trees seem a bit skinny and tall, mine just bush out thickly and grow super fast. They’re supposed to love alkaline clay soil which I have, so they adapt insanely fast. I have one that was a cutting from 2 years ago that’s now already taller than me.
I also tried growing stuff from seed/pit this year. All the 3 peach pits I planted in pots germinated so that’s cool, and sowing redcurrant also worked. I just put the whole fruit, flesh and all, in the pot, and it germinated fine after one winter outside. No success with cherry pits yet or apricots though. Also, any reason why your rhubarb is so skinny ? We have the same soil type, but my rhubarb produces stems that are about twice thicker.
Human memory is super short. The last two years are not good comparison years. What about 2019?
I am totally in awe of you for having such a large but organized mini-farm. But, since I have a Midwestern wife, I am not surprised. We probably have as much growing space as you, but ours looks like a tornado hit it by comparison. We don’t have moles, but we have chipmunks, and we have tried about 10 different things to keep them from digging, all to no avail. We even put pages of newspaper down where we just planted 100 SF of cucumbers, and they dug holes in the paper and still dug up the seeds. Predator urine, hot pepper, plastic owl, and even sharp edges of broken clay pots planted in the ground did nothing to stop their digging.
The weather here below Detroit has been up and down this May. Zone 6.
Hi Jenna, I am very jealous of your garden. I would love to have a garden that size. Looks like your garden has been flooded out as much as mine. Finally we have had a break in the rain. So I’m getting my winter plants out. The weather is starting to turn cool here in Sydney only 11 degrees C last night. Looking forward to how some of your experiment go. Cheers
Hi Jenna, wow your garden is looking really well for all of the rain we have had. I am also growing (or attempting to) here in zone 6A Ohio. We are in the South-Central area of Ohio, just east of Columbus and as you know there seems to be a never-ending amount of rain this year so far. I really need to take a look at your channel a bit more closely so that I know what to plant and when rather than taking advice from those around me who say to do nothing until all danger of frost has passed and the rains have stopped. The only thing growing in my garden right now is my beautiful strawberries which last year gave me a never-ending bounty of very large plump berries, and I am hoping for a good crop again this year even though I am moving my strawberry bed to a different location so that I can nurture and partake of the new baby plants for my garden next year. The other things growing of course are my chives, sage, and mint, and that’s it so far. So I’m now wondering Jenna, is it too late to get started? Did I wait too long?
I am really looking forward to expanding my garden area this year so that I can grow some more tomato, and pepper varieties, also attempt to grow green beans for the first time, and I really want to grow flowers also. Oh, and I could really use some advice for rhubarb, please. My rhubarb keeps putting up flower heads, I take them out and in a few days, there will be another flower head. What can I do, if anything?
I really love watching your videos and know I am getting some really good advice because not only do you garden in the same zone that I do, but also in the same state as I do. Blessings to you always Jenna. May your gardening year be fruitful and abundant, and may you have good health.
Love the tour and I feel your rain pain! If not for the raised beds, our spring garden would be under water. Weird question: What plant tags do you use in your garden? I’ve tried everything over the years, and every tag I’ve ever used laughs at "permanent" markers. I’ve even tried burning plant names into wooden tags, to no avail.
So this actually makes me feel better. This is my first year starting from seed, though I watched my grandpa do it when I was a kid. This is also my first year with actual beds, 2nd year gardening all together. I’m in 6a in NE Ohio, and with all this rain, we just haven’t been able to get stuff setup. I got my seeds started late, but they’re coming along. I just felt so behind. And my back yard is so so wet, and the grass is so tall, that my pug gets swallowed up by it. BUT….you’re in the same boat. So I think we’re doing ok!
Thanks so much for this video. My yard is a soggy mess and I was feeling very behind on planting. Love the comparisons from last year.
Definately agree with you about the insect netting. It really is a game changer!
The gopherhawk has worked the best of things I’ve tried for my vole problem (I dont think we have gophers right now), but it does feel almost like pure luck when catching them. Most success has been in my raised beds. But the traps and my cat are basically on the same level so far so that doesn’t speak highly of the traps (my cat is mostly indoor and only is out when we occasionally let him during the day)
Do bunnies eat your strawberry plants or the fruits? I’m about to plant a bunch of alpine strawberries and have bunnies in my yard (not too many courtesy of foxes, coyotes and my dogs though).
Love the show, I’m in Cuyahoga and love learning new stuff everyday, Thanks Jenna
So I am in your zone and I am in IL, and we have had a week plus of 80’s-90’s. I am wondering about my peas. They look burnt and have only a few blossoms. They are Little Marvel, do I pull them? Are they toast? The spinach got pulled today it was bolting.
Hi Jenna, I’m loving your channel, Thank you for sharing all your experiments too! Good luck with controlling the moles and voles. I have problems with them too as well as bunnies. They are such vandals .
"Blessings of Bounty and May Your Gardens and your Life always Bring You Joy, INSPIRATION and Abundance!" – Hope( & Mark)!💖💖
Very dangerous to be on ladder with hooks out against wall, they can turn and flip ladder sending you to ground. Turn hooks in when against wall and use ladder foot pads or spikes accordingly. Great video thx
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I love the gopher hawk! They take the same tunnel usually so put the gopher hawk in a healthy tunnel put your 2 fingers in the top of the tunnel pull the dirt outward like your opening the hole more just enough for the hawk to fit. You want the opening part lined up with his path so he don’t bump into the hawk sometimes it don’t kill them all the way but disabled them. So make sure the opening lines with his path hole. I’m telling ya they will take the tunnel again. I didn’t get the probe with mine so I just used my hand to widen the hole. Now when it’s in rite make sure there’s no lite getting in.
Thanks for the tour. I think my mouth tasted sour when you bit into that rhubarb plant. I am just a residential small area urban gardener and I am mostly in fabric pots raised above ground for protection against slugs, rabbits, moles and ground feeding birds. I went to numbers on the plant naming plaques as I have about 70 fabric pots and I want to rotate crops every year. So, to get more organized, I number everything on those naming plaques and I enter the numbered names onto a spreadsheet. It allows me to keep track from year to year the results of the mini potted crop and then in the spring, it helps me figure out what to rotate out of each fabric pot.
Loved the tour, very engaging and fun.
Your Awesome!!!! Love your Gardening Excitement 👩🏻🌾❤️ I finally Transplanted out My Peas, Marigolds and Onions ❤️❤️❤️ Can’t Wait to Plant More.
Too true about this Spring being upside down on its head! I’m in zone 7a and we had May weather in March and March weather in April into the first week in May. Enjoyed your garden tour – thanks for sharing! Cheers…
I’m jealous of all your space! And those radishes! My first year with a garden. Did a lot of research. My radishes are looking nice but they’re not very bulb-y yet but more narrow carrot looking bits. I feel like they just didn’t root well?! The leaves look great though….
WOW Jenna! I feel like I should have paid admission for this tour. Thank you for such a thorough accounting of your spring gardening, it’s inspiring. Maybe I could pay you in coffee.
I get ugly garden anxiety every spring. I always worry about what the neighbors can see. Good to know I’m not the only one😀
I heard that Juicy Fruit gum (the yellow pack) kills the moles. I saw a video from a youtuber (I for got the name of the channel) and he said that it worked. Don’t quote me on it.
This looks great! I moved to Nashville Indiana and we are also in zone 6a. My mother gave me a bluberry bush in a very large pot and I want to leave it in. She is worried it will die. It gave us berries last year in the pot and this year already has blooms. I see you had a potted blueberry bush. Do you have any trouble with it?
How do you not have 1 million subs yet?! Your garden channel is the best ever
Could you do a tutorial on growing cabbage ? If you grow cabbage that is.
What would you suggest for the earwigs eating my vegetable plants?
I bought a chipmunk cage trap and has have had success catching moles with it. Unintentional but I’m glad I’m catching something. I baited it with peanut butter.
vídeo muito bom …
Ugh you got a Liberty apple! I ordered one but they couldn’t fulfill it then since the nursery didn’t get enough (Raintree). Had to order a different variety to pollinate the Honeycrisp I ordered then. I wanted liberty for its disease resistance too!
Holy mackerel, your garden is huge.
Wow, what a tour! I LOVE all the trialing you’re doing and cannot wait to hear the results. Please share what you’re doing with the rhubarb, other than the obvious pie. I have a healthy patch but need some ideas.