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“Landrace Gardening” by Joseph Lofthouse! Should be in every gardener’s library. The Bible of saving seeds. Which btw, is exactly what he’s talking about in this video. Every garden is different, and it’s different from year to year. Fall vs Spring. I live in zone 8b, and have the heat and humidity, but I live in the forks of to major drainages which causes late frosts in spring. Last year it was aphids and corn ear worms. No problem with either this year. This year a small problem with tomato hornworms. The hornworms were on my indeterminate plants (heirloom), but not the determinate ones (hybrid).
I needed to hear this, thank you 🙂 David The Good recently had a kinda funny video about just letting it die, lol. Just curious, why not use cucumber from the store for a lacto ferment? I made a batch from store bought pickles and dill and turned out really nice. Fresh would probably turn out better though. Speaking of pickling, you were one of the people that got me to make my first batch of saurkraut, thank you so much 🙂 On my second batch now, and it’s so good! God bless!
Oh gosh the sheep in the garden hahaha. It’s like I post on those “gardeners” channels. There’s many ways to skin a cat.
Some of these guys are just gardening to garden. Others like us are gardening to survive and have a good food source that we know where the food came from.
Tomatoes – regarding pruning: I have learned to prune the indeterminant varieties and not prune the determinate varieties. For instance, an Amish paste tomato is a indeterminate variety. When you prune it, it will just keep growing and growing and growing. A Roma tomato on the other hand is a determinate variety. If you prune the suckers off of it, you are just reducing your yield. I do prune some of the lower leaves though so they don’t touch the soil. This is what I learned growing in northern Utah zone 4 to 5. Our average last frost date is June 14 and our average first frost date is around the third week of September
Oh my goodness, I am ruthless with my trimming, especially on my tomatoes! And I don’t clean my snippers either. They are gross, but work just fine. I agree, we learn my doing. Some things work, others, not so much. I have planted my cukes in an area away from my garden for 2 years now. They are just not happy. The first year, they were in the garden and very happy. Next year, Lord willing, they are being planted back in the garden again. It’s trial and error and it’s fun learning along the way. Thanks so much. God bless.
What is your opinion on shade cloth for tomatoe plants in the heat of the summer, like now thru August? ALL of my tomatoe plants have leaves that are all curled up! That same millennial gardener that said don’t prune your tomatoes also said shade cloth will help tomatoe leaves not curl up, get diseased, etc. So what say you about shade cloth? Do you use it for your tomatoes? Does it help prevent leaf curling??
My grandfather has always done his garden the same way for as long as I can remember, when I did my small garden it worked for me as well, when we expanded (its a less than ideal area) it failed we tried doing the whole garden tarped, wood chipped nothing worked and we rarely got what we needed. This year we have embraced chaos gardening, ignore planting recommendation spacing did rows hilled them up and planted clover as a cover, wow it’s working so well for us, I’m convinced to much of our garden was losing water the clover keeps the water in and doesn’t fight the crops, it naturally prunes our plants and is just so beautiful. We also companion Plat pest repellent flowers, we have the most beautiful garden to date, and boy my wife thinks I’m crazy for putting in 20+ tomatoes of several varieties I’m excited to can.
Fantastic advice Zac. Especially learning from failure. Just looked up homesteading expo. Have to wonder if they consider or even know that people like us observe torah sabbath on Saturday. otherwise I would do a booth at that event.
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“Landrace Gardening” by Joseph Lofthouse! Should be in every gardener’s library. The Bible of saving seeds. Which btw, is exactly what he’s talking about in this video. Every garden is different, and it’s different from year to year. Fall vs Spring. I live in zone 8b, and have the heat and humidity, but I live in the forks of to major drainages which causes late frosts in spring. Last year it was aphids and corn ear worms. No problem with either this year. This year a small problem with tomato hornworms. The hornworms were on my indeterminate plants (heirloom), but not the determinate ones (hybrid).
I needed to hear this, thank you 🙂 David The Good recently had a kinda funny video about just letting it die, lol. Just curious, why not use cucumber from the store for a lacto ferment? I made a batch from store bought pickles and dill and turned out really nice. Fresh would probably turn out better though. Speaking of pickling, you were one of the people that got me to make my first batch of saurkraut, thank you so much 🙂 On my second batch now, and it’s so good! God bless!
Oh gosh the sheep in the garden hahaha. It’s like I post on those “gardeners” channels. There’s many ways to skin a cat.
Some of these guys are just gardening to garden. Others like us are gardening to survive and have a good food source that we know where the food came from.
Lol. Solid advice!
Tomatoes – regarding pruning: I have learned to prune the indeterminant varieties and not prune the determinate varieties. For instance, an Amish paste tomato is a indeterminate variety. When you prune it, it will just keep growing and growing and growing. A Roma tomato on the other hand is a determinate variety. If you prune the suckers off of it, you are just reducing your yield. I do prune some of the lower leaves though so they don’t touch the soil. This is what I learned growing in northern Utah zone 4 to 5. Our average last frost date is June 14 and our average first frost date is around the third week of September
Looking forward to getting some of those seeds this fall.
I am a Rambo gardener. Only the very strong survive.
Oh my goodness, I am ruthless with my trimming, especially on my tomatoes! And I don’t clean my snippers either. They are gross, but work just fine. I agree, we learn my doing. Some things work, others, not so much. I have planted my cukes in an area away from my garden for 2 years now. They are just not happy. The first year, they were in the garden and very happy. Next year, Lord willing, they are being planted back in the garden again. It’s trial and error and it’s fun learning along the way. Thanks so much. God bless.
Zack, the man that invented TV Sid it wouldn’t be good.
I have reviewed many different sources and then just go with my instincts. Also what is your salsa recipe, I need a good by one?
How do you spell the name of that cucumber?
What is your opinion on shade cloth for tomatoe plants in the heat of the summer, like now thru August? ALL of my tomatoe plants have leaves that are all curled up! That same millennial gardener that said don’t prune your tomatoes also said shade cloth will help tomatoe leaves not curl up, get diseased, etc. So what say you about shade cloth? Do you use it for your tomatoes? Does it help prevent leaf curling??
My grandfather has always done his garden the same way for as long as I can remember, when I did my small garden it worked for me as well, when we expanded (its a less than ideal area) it failed we tried doing the whole garden tarped, wood chipped nothing worked and we rarely got what we needed. This year we have embraced chaos gardening, ignore planting recommendation spacing did rows hilled them up and planted clover as a cover, wow it’s working so well for us, I’m convinced to much of our garden was losing water the clover keeps the water in and doesn’t fight the crops, it naturally prunes our plants and is just so beautiful. We also companion Plat pest repellent flowers, we have the most beautiful garden to date, and boy my wife thinks I’m crazy for putting in 20+ tomatoes of several varieties I’m excited to can.
Gardens looking good!
Fantastic advice Zac. Especially learning from failure. Just looked up homesteading expo. Have to wonder if they consider or even know that people like us observe torah sabbath on Saturday. otherwise I would do a booth at that event.