June Vegetable Garden Tour. Zone 5b, Newfoundland.

[00:00:01][music] >> Hi everybody. Welcome back to Growing in the Cove. My name is Stacy and I garden here in zone 5b Newfoundland.

[00:00:13]Despite the brutal spring that we've been having, I'm really happy to report that it seems like things are warming up and I hope summer is truly on its way.

[00:00:25]I've gotten so much done lately. I've been super busy trying to get as much completed every day as I can, usually while my little girl Molly sleeps. So I'm generally on a time limit.

[00:00:38]But I've got a lot done.

[00:00:40]Things are still not where I want them to be, but I figure I should show you the progress of how everything is doing.

[00:00:47]So I'm going to take you for a little stroll around the vegetable garden tonight. And if you're interested to see how everything is growing here in my zone 5b garden, please keep watching.

[00:01:01]It is the nicest evening here in the garden. There are birds singing and chirping everywhere. So this is my vegetable garden.

[00:01:11]Um I figure I will bring you along to show you my front garden, probably in my next video because it is crazy to see how much everything has grown in just a few short weeks.

[00:01:23]So when you enter my vegetable garden, I've got these two beds that are flanking my arches.

[00:01:31]And I actually only just planted these up a few days ago and I hope that they all do that all the plants do well.

[00:01:39]Um honestly, some of them suffered some colder nights than I would like, so I don't know how they're all going to do.

[00:01:46]Also, I do have a bird's nest with little baby birds uh in a birdhouse, my owl house actually, is now inhabited by baby starlings. So you may hear them freaking out when I get closer to them.

[00:01:59]So, in this bed I've actually I'm doing an experiment with some outdoor peppers this year. So, I have planted various different peppers. This one looks like this definitely is not happy. So, I don't know if that one's going to survive. We did go down to 5° the other night and you can see that even my Tithonia is not happy, but they're going to pull through.

[00:02:21]I'm just at the point where it's mid-June. I need to get things in the ground. I'm sick of waiting.

[00:02:27]So, I've got marigolds in here. These are tall ones called Burning Embers and this year I'm putting cannas in these beds. And in the back I have pole beans which I need to put up my netting and this will hopefully grow up over. I've also got some petunias flanking all of the sides and this is my favorite petunia Red Velour. Now, these have had a really hard go. I nearly killed them with a fertilizer, but they have rebounded and I think they're going to be okay.

[00:02:58]And this one is basically a mirror image of the same thing with petunias, peppers, marigolds, and the cannas. So, hopefully all this will fill in and look beautiful. Once my pole beans start growing, I just love a covered arch.

[00:03:16]Um here is my little pollinator garden that I have for really just to attract insects to my vegetable garden, hopefully some beneficials.

[00:03:29]Um I haven't weeded this in a couple of weeks and it probably needs a bit of attention, but everything seems to be doing really well.

[00:03:36]It's crazy because I just divided these irises big time and I sold a bunch of them >> [snorts] >> and it seems like they've already doubled even though that's not possible.

[00:03:47]They are looking very happy.

[00:03:50]So, hopefully I'll start to see some bloom stalks coming up soon.

[00:03:55]Um I've got some like I love the way some of these plants start to look like this um bee balm. This is the monarda fistulosa.

[00:04:04]It's like a lavender bee balm. I love that the leaves sort of have like a purple tint to them.

[00:04:11]I'm very excited that peonies that I transplanted last year from someone else's garden are starting to bloom. I thought if you transplanted a peony that it would not bloom at least for a year, and these are covered in buds.

[00:04:28]Now, I have heard from people that you should debud a peony that you've just planted and let it focus on roots and not on flowers, but I just can't do that. It's I just it's not possible for me to do that. Um so, I've got things like perennial geraniums. I've got some foxgloves. This is another beautiful blooming peony that I transplanted from my upper garden. This came from my mom's garden, and the interesting thing about this one, I've no idea the variety name, but it seeds around and creates little baby plants all the time.

[00:05:07]Um I've seen so many seedlings and basically it has multiplied itself in that way. I've got a lot of hollyhocks in this garden. Hollyhocks for me will last a few years. I tend to try to the stalks after they're done blooming to make them more perennial.

[00:05:24]Um I don't know if that makes a difference. I read it somewhere once and I've been doing it, but last year I didn't and a whole pile of seed dropped, and now I have lots of hollyhocks.

[00:05:35]Over here in the middle by my bird bath, I have this delphinium, the only delphinium I have not killed.

[00:05:42]Um I've got some alliums coming up in here. The worst thing about alliums is that the foliage actually starts to die before they even flower. But once that foliage turns yellow, you can cut that back. That's to no use to the plant anymore. So you if that bothers you like it does me, you can absolutely get rid of that yellowing foliage cuz it is a bit of an eyesore.

[00:06:04]I've got some Shasta daisies and just a lot of repeats of the same plants.

[00:06:10]I've got some columbine here that just seeded itself here. I think this is a light pink one.

[00:06:17]I've got um some shadier plants here at the back of this bed. I've got some astilbes and this is a dwarf goat's beard, which is beautiful.

[00:06:30]Um my Jacob's ladders, which I grew from seed last year, are going to bloom soon, some blue flowers.

[00:06:37]So looking forward to that.

[00:06:39]Here around the base of the tree, I planted this geranium macrorrhizum last year as a way to control weeds that came up around the base of the tree. So this is only in its second year and look how amazing and lush that looks. It's going to bloom soon, but I just think the foliage looks incredible all year round and then in the fall it turns bright red.

[00:07:04]It is a bulletproof plant and it will grow in shade, full sun, dry conditions.

[00:07:11]Like it's not the most exciting plant, but it it does its work.

[00:07:16]I've got some chives in here um and yeah, that's basically all that's going on. I love this little garden and there's kind of no rules with this garden. I just kind of whatever whatever grows here, but I just I love a round garden. It's more of an oval, but and above it I have a very large mature elderberry tree, which will soon be covered in white flowers and that's when this garden absolutely looks its best.

[00:07:45]So, let's come over here to the vegetable patch.

[00:07:48]Here, [snorts] I've got my strawberry bed.

[00:07:50]Um it's a 4x4 bed. I started all these from bare root years ago, and last year I actually ripped out some of the old mother plants, and sort of let this bed refresh with runners and little babies.

[00:08:04]Um I also built it up with some compost to give it some better soil. It's crazy to me that we're mid-June, and these plants are still so little. You can tell how cold it's been here because my strawberry plants this time of year are usually much further along. So, hopefully we get a good harvest. I'm seeing flowers, so that's a good a very good uh sign.

[00:08:30]Here is my garlic bed, and the garlic is growing by the day. It doesn't seem to be phased by the cold weather, and honestly, I feel like it's growing like 6 in every week. It's definitely over a foot tall now, and hopefully that means it's going to be a really good harvest on the garlic this year. And this year, I'm doing an experiment where I am growing climbing butternut squash up this trellis, which I actually have to put trellis netting in. So, I've never done vertical squash, so we'll see how that goes.

[00:09:06]One thing that's a bit of a downer, and I think I'm actually going to relocate them cuz they're not happy, are these Italian pansies, which I was so happy about when I first started growing them.

[00:09:18]But they are just turning yellow.

[00:09:21]They're languishing. They're not happy.

[00:09:24]So, I don't know if they're just not as hardy as other varieties of pansies and violas, but I'm going to show you some other ones which are just thriving right now in the vegetable garden. So, I I know.

[00:09:37]Here's the other ones.

[00:09:40]And they are just even when they come out, they're not opening properly.

[00:09:45]I don't know. They're looking really sick. So, I'm thinking about putting them in pots and putting them in a shadier location and seeing how they do and I'm going to put something maybe in the front of this bed that just loves full sun.

[00:09:59]Um in here there's really nothing to see. I've planted bush beans right here.

[00:10:04]And right here I have planted carrot seeds. They are not up yet.

[00:10:09]But it's so important when you do plant carrot seeds to keep the soil moist.

[00:10:14]Last year I actually put boards down to keep the outer layer of the soil damp until they germinated. I'm not doing that this year. I'm just trying to be really diligent about keeping the soil moist at all times. So, I've got two carrot beds this year. I'm doing an experiment with a local company that is um Holdfast NL and they're doing I'm doing a trial with their seaweed biostimulant.

[00:10:42]So, this bed bed of carrots will receive the treatment and that bed over there will not and we'll compare to see how they do.

[00:10:51]I've just got some cosmos in the back and I also planted some pole beans which are not up yet.

[00:10:56]Over here, this is my bed of leeks. Once again, these Italian pansies are just not looking very happy.

[00:11:06]They brown really quickly. These are looking a little healthier, at least the the the actual leaves are not as yellow, but I don't know. I'm not really that impressed with them. Um I've got some lettuces around the sides and my leeks seem to be doing pretty good.

[00:11:24]Over here, now these pansies by contrast are incredible.

[00:11:28]These are the Matrix Sunrise pansies from Vesey's.

[00:11:33]and number one, they're huge. Look at them.

[00:11:36]And they're healthy and beautiful.

[00:11:39]So, really health happy about those.

[00:11:42]Um and I'm probably going to buy those seeds again next year. Uh they have different colors that they come in, but I'm really impressed with this Matrix series.

[00:11:50]I also have some onions. These are the Globo onions, which are supposedly giant onions and already I can see they are getting quite big. When I compare them to these ones, which are a Spanish onion, they are very much smaller by a long shot.

[00:12:07]So, happy with how that's doing. I also have nasturtium seeds planted in here, which are not up yet. And in the middle of all these beds, I have a little trellis with sweet peas, which are finally starting to grow.

[00:12:19]I've got a David Austin rose here with some cosmos in the pot to grow up through and some pansies.

[00:12:28]Over here, I've got some celery and lettuce. Look how bright that lettuce looks. What a beautiful spring color.

[00:12:37]Um this year I'm determined to have really good celery. And from what I understand, you just need to water, water, water.

[00:12:44]So, this bed is also looking quite happy.

[00:12:48]Over here, I've got peas planted.

[00:12:51]These are the Magnolia Blossom Sugar Snap Peas from Renee's Garden.

[00:12:56]And I collected my own seed last year, and that's what these are. They're looking so good.

[00:13:02]Again, the carrots are not up, but hopefully they'll be up soon.

[00:13:07]These are my fall planted parsnip seeds, which was a complete experiment. And they all pretty much came up really well. So, I'm happy with that, and I've also got a row of radishes in between.

[00:13:19]Hopefully, they will actually grow into radishes before it heats up and they bolt.

[00:13:24]Here, I've got some marigolds. You can see these have been exposed to cold, but I think they're going to pull through.

[00:13:31]And look at these incredible violas.

[00:13:34]These are the tiger eye red violas from Vesey's, and they're looking incredible.

[00:13:40]They have been blooming their socks off since I planted them here.

[00:13:45]I love that they're this moody, very unexpected bronzy, maroony, mustard color.

[00:13:52]They are stunning. I love them.

[00:13:55]So, yeah.

[00:13:56]I don't know. The Italian pansies are not working out for me. And maybe I just have them planted in too much sun. Who knows?

[00:14:03]I've got bush beans planted in the majority of this bed along with my scallions, my green onions.

[00:14:12]And I've also got my broad beans, which this is totally new for me, never grown them before.

[00:14:18]Hoping they will flower soon, but we will see.

[00:14:23]Um I've got some plants here that I've been selling.

[00:14:27]I've been doing driveway plant sales and selling on Marketplace, and today I have been run off my feet with it. So, I think I'm probably going to sell out soon.

[00:14:39]These tulips are getting to the end of their life, but they are so beautiful, and I love my tulip pots every year.

[00:14:48]The names of these are Finola and Apricot Cona, I believe. So, these ones were earlier, these pink singles, and these doubles were later, and they are beautiful. They almost look like a peony.

[00:15:03]Absolutely beautiful. This is really unusual for me to go with such a sort of Barbie pink combination, but I absolutely love them. They're so pretty.

[00:15:16]My rosemary is also doing so great. And ninebarks are so underappreciated. I need to get this planted. I bought this last year on clearance at Canadian Tire.

[00:15:27]I think I paid $6. This is the Amber Jubilee Ninebark or Physocarpus. Beautiful. Look at that color.

[00:15:36]Anyway, um outside the greenhouse here, I've got this table of annuals. This is what I've got basically what I've got left to plant. Um I've got these beautiful tassel flowers, which I'm going to be putting in my front garden as little shots of orange cuz I want to add more orange to it this year.

[00:15:56]So, very excited about those. They are a very interesting wiry little plant.

[00:16:03]First time growing, so that's going to be interesting to see how it all works out. I'm also going to be putting in a lot of Verbena bonariensis, which is doing really well for me because I also want those sort of wispy shots of purple through the garden as well.

[00:16:22]Um yeah, that's pretty much all to tell you. This is heavily influenced by Sharon at My Sask Garden. You should definitely follow her channel. She shared about these Elegance uh regal geraniums, and they look so pretty. She said they need a little more shade. So, once my tulips are done, these are going to be going in the pots over there.

[00:16:47]So, I have various geraniums. Got this beautiful dahlia here.

[00:16:53]I think it's called Karma Carolyn.

[00:16:56]Very, very, very nice.

[00:16:58]But yeah, I'm basically getting to the end of this table. Even though it's still overwhelming to look at, it's nothing compared to what it was. I've also got all my zinnias here, which I'm hoping to plant out tomorrow, and I will take you down below to show you uh what's going on in my other grow area. So, yeah, lots of bits and bobs over here.

[00:17:19]My raspberry bed that I started from canes earlier this spring seems to be leafing out well.

[00:17:30]Oh, I didn't show my asparagus bed. I always skip this for some reason.

[00:17:35]And I don't know why I have such trouble planting asparagus, but some of these crowns are 4 years old and I actually lost some crowns this year, I think, because they're not coming up.

[00:17:47]I've got blank spaces, so I don't know if they're just being slow, if it was a tough winter, but I don't know. I also like to put a lot of self-seeders in here. Like uh there's a lot of poppies, breadseed poppies, uh because when the asparagus gets big and kind of ferns out, I like to have flowers popping up through. But yeah, asparagus, I don't know. I'm not good at growing asparagus. I also added some in from seed, but I don't know if I'm ever going to get a harvest at this point.

[00:18:18]So, bringing you into the greenhouse.

[00:18:22]I finally got this kind of settled away.

[00:18:25]And here I've got a little window box of basil.

[00:18:30]And I've got some tomatoes here.

[00:18:33]I've got various varieties. I actually had a really tough time with some of my tomato plants this year. I almost killed them with a fertilizer.

[00:18:42]Um and I think it was on me for putting too much in the can, but I'm still seeing the effects and some of the plants I've lost, I don't know if they're going to pull through, but I have faith. Most of them seem to have made a recovery, because even though the outer leaves look like this, the fresh leaves are green and happy.

[00:19:01]And some of them are very happy, but others are looking really sad.

[00:19:07]But these are varieties that I don't have any other plants for. These are my Karen Olivier tomatoes and I'm just going to try to baby them and see what happens.

[00:19:16]So, so nice to see this planted up again.

[00:19:20]I've also got hanging baskets for my front porch, which I'm probably going to put out this weekend. They have um lobelia and begonias, very simple. All this grown from corm or seed by me.

[00:19:35]And I also planted up my peppers, and I left them in 2-in pots for way too long, but despite that, some of them are trying to make peppers already, so I think they're going to do well.

[00:19:51]Here on the shelf, I've got some ageratum, which I'm going to be putting in my front garden. I've got some corn, which I'm not putting out yet, and some extra tomatoes that I'm selling to uh friends and family.

[00:20:06]>> [snorts] >> And now to take you down to my other grow area, I just want to show you a rhododendron first that I transplanted last year. It was really unhappy where I had it, but I kind of put it under the canopy of this big fir tree, and it looks so much healthier and happier, and it's starting to bloom. So, I think my issue is I keep putting rhodos in full sun, and then wondering why they do bad.

[00:20:38]So, this is another area of my property. This little stream here tends to run dry at some point in the summer. I thought it was going to happen already last week, but it seems like it's picked up again.

[00:20:57]And now, back here is very much a work in progress, not very pretty, but this is just a place where I like to grow not necessarily or ornamentally, but I just like to grow a lot of plants in one place.

[00:21:13]So, here is my cut flower garden, which I've almost got planted out. Or really, I have a third of it done. So, I have snapdragons here at the front. This is my worst year on snapdragons. They have very much suffered and struggled.

[00:21:29]Um and here I've got pincushion flower or scabiosa.

[00:21:33]Uh it's my first year growing a big block of it like this. And these are some overwintered dianthus from last year, which were a beautiful burgundy and white. So, happy to see those come back.

[00:21:47]This row is going to be all zinnias. So, that's where all my zinnias are going to go.

[00:21:53]And I'm going to do a block of corn here and maybe or maybe some sunflowers and corn. I haven't quite decided.

[00:22:01]Now, this bed has been a lot of work, but it is finally done.

[00:22:06]Um I finished planting it out today.

[00:22:09]This is my winter squash, summer squash, and pumpkin patch here at the front. So, these two rows are all zucchinis and pumpkins and winter squash.

[00:22:22]I've interplanted all of them with crackerjack marigolds just to entice the pollinators to come and pollinate my squash plants.

[00:22:35]>> [snorts] >> So, I'm not quite sure exactly where I left off. I just had someone else stop by to pick up some plants, and I just love talking to fellow gardeners, and I always get so sidetracked and have to bring people around. [laughter] So, anyway, I'm back to show you um this area. Um so, like I said, I've got the squash and the pumpkins all planted.

[00:22:58]>> [snorts] >> And here I have planted up two rows of my dahlias. I really cut back on the amount that I was growing this year and yeah, I just don't like to have too many, but then you're going to laugh when you see what's planted next to it because I I say one thing and I do another. But, this is my main bed here of all of my named varieties. I love these dark leaf ones, although I'm a little concerned these were supposed to be my I bought three rhubarb and custard dahlias from Vessy's and I'm pretty sure they don't rhubarb and custard doesn't have a dark leaf.

[00:23:42]So, yeah, it's kind of a mystery to see what these are going to be, but it's okay.

[00:23:48]That happens and I've got some orange ones, the Silvias.

[00:23:54]I've got a Jowey Nicky, which is not looking too happy, so hopefully that perks up.

[00:24:01]And I've got three Ivanetti, which is like a purple, a deep purple ball.

[00:24:06]And I've got a totally tangerine.

[00:24:09]I've got some more beautiful dark leaf dahlias. I'm obsessed with these dark leaves. This is my beautiful Molly Raven, which I was so excited to find. A local flower farmer here was selling them in her tuber sale.

[00:24:25]So excited. I'm obsessed with Sarah Raven, so I'm so happy to get my hands on that one. This is new to me this year. This is called Dannique, which is a dark leaf and sort of like a hmm like a ready coppery sort of color, I think if I recall correctly.

[00:24:44]And I've got two Salmon Runners, which are probably in the past were my favorite dahlia.

[00:24:51]Here is my sweet pea cage, my incarcerated sweet peas, which I am happy to report are doing incredible.

[00:25:01]Um I've also planted sort of as a green mulch in little bunches in front of all the sweet peas um a row of all my winter sown pansies and violas, just a sort of a way to have like a living mulch to keep the moisture in.

[00:25:18]So, the sweet peas kind of languished for a while, but they seem to be getting a lot uh bushier, and I'm happy with how they're all doing.

[00:25:30]Now, what I also did today was I planted a whole row of lettuce, just because I had extra lettuce plants and didn't know what to do with them. So, I did a whole row of lettuce because that is space that can be used. And I also planted a row of These are all of my seed-grown dahlias. So, just as I finished saying, "Oh, I'm cutting down on the amount of dahlias I'm growing." I then add another probably 30 to the mix.

[00:26:00]But, these are seed dahlias that were grown from collarette dahlia seeds. So, in theory at least some of these should be collarette dahlias. So, it'll be really fun to see what I get. And from what I read on Floret's website, she plants her seed-grown dahlias super close together. Like some of them as close as like 4 in apart apart. And then, you let them bloom, and you just pull out the ones you don't like, keep the ones you do like. So, yeah. That's what's happening here, all very experimental.

[00:26:37]And then, over here are my ranunculus, which I thought I was going to kill.

[00:26:44]Um you can see they have a lot of yellowing leaves, but all of the fresh growth is coming up really nice, and I can see that some are trying to bloom.

[00:26:55]This is what they look like before they bloom. So, I can see these are all budded up. I know there's lots of flower farmers and people in my area who have blooming ranunculus right now. In the past, I've grown them all in the greenhouse, so these are definitely a little bit more behind being uh here outside.

[00:27:15]So, they're doing okay. I've got some direct-sowed things here coming up. This is cilantro. This is dill.

[00:27:25]And I've got some nigella coming up.

[00:27:29]Here, I'm going to be planting some tomatoes to do a few outdoor tomatoes, even though I have a greenhouse full. I like to just sort of see what our climate can do with growing without protection.

[00:27:43]And here, I'm going to be planting up some beans, probably tomorrow, some dry beans.

[00:27:50]This is my secondary sweet pea wall that I started this year, and I'm happy to report that all of the sweet peas that the rabbits seem to have eaten down to nothing seem to be actually coming back pretty well. It's kind of hard to see through this netting or chicken wire, but they are coming back.

[00:28:15]And they don't seem to be uh too worse for wear.

[00:28:20]So, I've done the same thing here where I've planted little bunches of uh pansies and violas as a green mulch.

[00:28:28]That's just to show you how many germinated in my two winter sowing containers. It's crazy.

[00:28:35]I was so successful, and that was all with my own collected seed. And then I've direct-sowed um a few rows here.

[00:28:43]Um some of them I only got the seeds last week, so they only just went in.

[00:28:48]And these ones I direct sowed probably 3 weeks ago.

[00:28:54]And they're all coming up nicely. So, hopefully I will have a nice wall of sweet peas.

[00:29:01]>> [snorts] >> You know, it's pretty early days right now, but I have solved my rabbit issue by putting up the chicken wire.

[00:29:09]And then here is my little cabbage bed.

[00:29:12]Now, cabbage is something I always sort of joke about and say, "Why do I keep trying to grow cabbage?" cuz I've never successfully grown them.

[00:29:22]And yet every year I try again.

[00:29:24]So, this year I am doing the same as always.

[00:29:29]I'm covering them right at the start and I'm hoping I can keep the cala- cabbage moth off of them because they are out and about and they're on the prowl.

[00:29:39]So, I've got different cabbages of different maturity dates. I think these are my later ones. These are the Broncos.

[00:29:46]And I also have the Expect cabbages.

[00:29:51]No, Bronco is mid-season. Expect is a late-season cabbage. These are my early Jersey Wakefields. They're my early cabbages. And I also have a purple cabbage. Look at how slug-eaten that is.

[00:30:05]Oh my goodness.

[00:30:07]But the other one seems to be doing a lot better. I'm not sure why I find purple cabbages are so much more fickle to grow than the green cabbages.

[00:30:17]So, anyway, that's the cabbage bed and it's interplanted with kale as well.

[00:30:25]In this little tunnel, I've actually got some beets growing. So, these are some golden beets. Again, I find that I get a lot of um insect damage if I don't cover them from leaf miners. So, they are chilling out underneath this tunnel and hopefully they do well.

[00:30:45]So, this area is looking, you know, a little bit bare at the moment, but give it a month, it'll look much better. And then another month, the end of August is when this place really comes to life and just looks amazing. And I love taking pictures in my cut flower patch every year with my daughter Molly. So, that's our little tradition we do. We always take pictures on our anniversary, which is August 27th.

[00:31:18]And yeah, it's a nice little tradition that we have. You can see I've also got some plants here that didn't get planted today, but hopefully tomorrow. So, if you are still with me, thank you so much for watching. I know that's a lot. I always think these are going to be really quick little videos, and then I start talking and I can't stop.

[00:31:40]So, it's beautiful golden hour light right now here in the backyard.

[00:31:46]And I will show you definitely show you my front garden soon and all of the progress I've made on that. I hope everything is growing well for you. And Newfoundlanders, I think we can really get to it now after a very long stalled spring.

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