I watched hundreds of thousands of youtube videos as a new gardener, but I found yours to be the most practical and easy to understand and just most inspirational. You won my subscription!

One of the main reason I love "companion planting" is that it's a natural mulch and weed suppression. If you don't plant something in the blank spaces, nature will with something you don't want. So we plant onions, garlic, basil, marigolds, borage, comfrey, etc. Lots of food for the pollinators

I'm new here in Toledo Ohio but I love growing and I find your videos very educative. Am just planting now in my garden.

Omg, I love how informative your videos are. I'm zone 6 Erie PA.

I'm on my 13th month of growing, enjoying every minute of it, thanks to you and many others who takes time to teach and share your knowledge with us. Currently I'm growing brushed beans, snow peas, tomatoes, peppers, okras , chives, zucchini, squashes, eggplants, greens and herbs 🙂

I’m in SW Ohio.. doing a large container garden for the first time. Lots of potatoes doing great, and onions and garlic and peas. It may be a bit late but I’m trying beets again- first planting really didn’t do much. I’m learning so much and having a blast- and can only hope we’ll have some harvests to enjoy. Transplanted kale and basil and some flowers today. Thanks for sharing your wisdom- always encouraging to see successful gardens!

I just sub'd, I'm located in Lorain County about 5 miles south of the lake. My conditions will be nearly identical to yours. Finally found a channel that has "my local conditions"

best garden channel on youtube:)

Great videos. So much information. The only thing I wish they had, were more cutaways. Or cover video that refers to your topic. I know there's a lot in them already but you can't have too much.

You could run any TV show as a host...;-) Greetings from green Poland!

It is always fun to get those veggies in the ground 😊🙌

I live in Indiana!!!5b and have been gardening for over 25 years. I’m loving your channel and did my first starting plants from seed this year. I’m hooked!!! Flowers, veggies, lots of herbs!!! Raised e garden bed and a million pots and galvanized very large pots and grow bags. It brings me so much joy!!!

With little rain in May, and little in the extended forecast, we are watering nightly in Loveland. What a challenging Spring this has become! Hoping we can all see some precip soon!

My kids & I planted a berry patch last year with strawberries, a few blueberry bushes, and Joan J red raspberries (thornless). Soooo many fruits this year just not ripened yet. I put green beans in my patch so I’m excited to see what the companion planting does for the berries (nitrogen) I also planted green beans by my potatoes in another patch. I set down brown paper (grocery store bags), then cedar mulch on top for my berries & it’s working well. Much less weeding & the cedar keeps the nibbling rodents away (chipmunks etc) I’m so glad I did this. Last year that was crazy weeding! We already have potatoes companion planted with alyssum, green beans & onions. They’re doing amazing! NE Ohio so we’re a little colder than you.

Can't wait to watch your garden come along this year!

Jenna - I saw you on the Gurney's commercial. Way to go!

I'm a new gardener near Dayton Ohio and just have to say I love your scientific approach and detailed explanations, an easy subscribe from me! Also, I am big fan of Xero shoes too :)

So happy to have found your channel! I love your content and how you present it with lots of pictures added in!

Love this video!!!

Love your scientific approach. Thanks for all you do

Well done thank you for sharing

Thanks for the Helpful ideas. You inspire me to do more in my garden space.

Omg! I was waiting on your video for May planting! Thank you for a longer video! I try to go off of what you are planting to confirm all is well in my garden lol Please please please keep them coming and thank you 😊

Looks great, we got the same storm here last night… planted my tomatoes on 5-19, they were ready to explode, what a difference in just a week……. needed to be in the ground 🍅

I’m in Boise Idaho so similar zone. I appreciate your great information.

This is great 👍 sharing

I love these longer videos!! I live in Australia but so many great tips I can apply to my area!! We can get snow :)

Thanks so much for all the great lectures and demonstrations. Your channel has inspired me to do my own growing at home in the yard. I'm on my third year! Thank you Jenna and company.

I live in Ohio. You shared lots of information that I find useful. I have subscribed. I'm listening. I garden as a hobby. I plant what I eat.

Thank you for this video. From Pittsburgh PA and this video is really helpful for me.. started my cold weather crops in the spring like you suggested and everything is doing great! ❤️ so happy!

Here in Eastern Tennessee we are planting sweet potatoes, okra,eggplant, and bush beans this week. We enjoy your channel and find you very to the point and engaging. We just hilled the potato’s with straw today. And of course weeding. Thanks again, we enjoy your presentations. Brandy and Alexander

Been following your channel for a while. Just wanted to drop a comment and let you know how much i appreciate your videos. I’ll always come back to old videos over the winter as well to prep, especially helpful cause you’re in the same zone as me. Thank you!! 😊

I started some seedling and planted those, it’s good to know that I can direct sow more okra plants, and I’ll keep planting green beans all summer now too! :) Thank you!

I love your cages. This is my first year to grow tomatillos and corn.

Trying to plant ALL the things, like you I CANNOT keep up. Happy Growing!!!

Thanks for the tip about direct sowing okra! Going to try it here in Hilliard.

Wonderful. I like this format better than the shorts.

First video I've ever seen of yours and thoroughly enjoyed it. I almost didn't watch because I'm in Georgia but when I saw it suggested I had to watch! I'm glad I did. So much great information and a easy to watch video. Thanks so much!

Jenna thank you for another great video. Here in southern Oregon it was a late cool spring most transplants and direct seeded crops were slow at best in may. Now early June the temps are up the soil is warming and growth is exploding. Climate is a fascinating aspect off gardening. We have had some regular intervals of rain and the humidity is higher than past years. Last year for example tomatoes and orchard crops struggled in drought type weather this year they are doing fantastic. Wishing you and all growers a great season there is likely a non weather storm coming do your best and grow , grow , grow

I’m definitely thinking of planting some peanuts and okra now! Another fantastic video.

Very helpful 👍

This is my first year growing potatoes and am learning a little about it. For anyone interested in tater raisin, they love sandy soil, and after the plants spring up and mature cut them to the ground. Do not dig up the spuds for a minimum of 18 days to set the skins or the skins will slide off. I got my information from a man who was a potato farmer in Idaho.

I had most of my warm weather plants out on May 14th. The forcast looked good at the time. It did drop into the middle 40's overnight two times, likely why the basil isnt as big as Id like, but everything seems to be doing well. Peanuts sounds interesting, I might try them next year.

Wow great video! You rock! Regarding beans I find germinating them in a towel really speeds them up.

I'm in Ohio by Lake Erie I'm in a condo do my garden is small. Veggie garden 4 Cherrie tomato 3 red peppers. Flower bed is LARGE 125 ft x 2 ft just joined your channel.

Great garden Jenna can't believe you can grow peanuts in Ohio .love your videos.

Great video, thanks!

Just started planting tomatoes and peppers yesterday. I am using your cattle panel trellis method for my indeterminants,. Last year I used 6' bamboo, it was kina a pain. Have a good growing season, hope you and I can keep the voles in check.

Thanks again Jenna, so far my rye cover crop wind break experiment is working for tomato, pepper, and melon transplants.

I am exhausted listing to your video, you have so much energy

That watering can looks a lot like my Kool-Aid Pitcher I use. Mine is a white one though. Living in Butler, Pa; a lot of what you do is perfect for me. Thanks for you channel. Love it.

Great video Jenna. This weekend I am planting tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers squash, herbs flowers etc. pretty much everything I haven’t planted already is going in lol. Being in North West Illinois I typically wait until Memorial Day weekend to plant such vegetables. Have a great weekend Eric

Hello from Beautiful Coastal Georgia Zone 8B!

I enjoy germinating my seeds indoors with grow lights and heat mats. It really gives my plants a great jumpstart! My last estimated frost date was March 10th, but we still had two more quick freezes that only lasted a couple nights. Best Wishes!

I agree with the cuke beetles. I usually plant my squash and cucumber both late. Seems to work a little better on pest. I ordered some chrysanthemums the other day, going to try them, at least next year.

Thanks!

Its good to see a garden channel specific to Ohio. I've followed advice from other channels, with little success, but they're in different areas of the world/USA. I'm very interested in what you have to share since you live with Ohio weather patterns and soils. I know there can be challenges regardless of experience, but maybe you've been through a problem I'm just seeing. I'm subscribed, so I'll be seeing you again. Happy gardening.

I just discovered your videos this year. We are in the same zone! You are my go to now! I am in SW PA, a county to the right of Pittsburgh. We live in an urban area with a small yard that I have turned into an edible landscape. Cannot forget the pollinator flowers! I sowed beans of all kinds this past week. I decided to grow indeterminate tomatoes in 20 gallon smart pots and determinate in 10 this year. I stocked up on smart pots over the Winter to be ready for tomato and pepper season. I have a huge variety of peppers this year. All my pepper and tomatows are started from seed with the exception of a few garden center buys. I did splurge on strawberries which are now transplanted in a strawberry tower and hoping they all survive. A few are looking worn for wear but the majority have perked up. I cannot wait for my Basil to take off and have fresh pesto again! Thank you for all your videos. They are very helpful for me. This is my 2nd year gardening. I feel like I have bitten off more than I can chew but I am up for a challenge! The sauce at the end of the season with harvested tomatoes is so worth all this effort! I got in trouble last year for filling the freezer with tomatoes when I couldn't keep up with the crops coming in. Shhh don't tell them I'm secretly making the mini deep freezer into the tomato freezer. Have you ever watched Scrubs? The pancake drawer? I have a tomato drawer in the ice bin sometimes when I was overrun with tomatoes and in my defence I made 13 gallons of sauce so I was forgiven. 😆 Do you have any funny gardening stories? I'd love to hear some!

Nice job

I have had my basil in pots out for 2 weeks now, not much growth yet. Trying to rejuvenate my rosemary for a 3rd season, it might make it. Good video, you have so much planted.

I'm in the same zone in KS and just got most of my direct seeded plants in before a week of really heavy rain. I have to put out my tomatoes and tomitilios, eggplants and peppers still. That's the plan this weekend. Also have my third corn crop to put in the ground. These are dent/ flour corns not sweet. It has been strange weather this spring. We just had a cold snap too. Watching this made me feel better because I always feel behind here! Lol my potatoes look great and my sugar snap peas are blooming finally. I think I planted them in mid March. I had the exact same thing happen to my sweet potatoes last year! Never before in 16 years! Thanks for the encouragement!

Just planted Tabasco peppers here is Ohio but I plan to overwinter them as well. Finally seems like warm weather is here to stay finally.

I'm in me Ohio near Akron Canton area never would have considered sweet potatoes! Thought that was a southern thing gonna look into it

I'm planting Peaches and Cream SC, 18 Tomato starts, Bell & Jalapeno peppers, Ambrosia Muskmelon, Eggplant, Black Beauty Zucchini & straight neck summer squash. Kaho Watermelon, Jade Bush Bean Heavy Hitter Okra & Motherland Okra. The rain here in the midwest was terrible this year. Normally, I like to have my garden all planted by May 1st. It wasn't started until the 3rd week. Finally, Sweet corn today

Everything looks great! I'm still trying to find a good spot to plant cucumbers because the trellises are fully loaded. But maybe it'll work out for the best and we can avoid the beetles by planting them a bit later. Also, great choice of music! I use the Mini Vandals stuff A LOT.

Thankyou youfor thisis wonderful informationon and helps us who feel behind. Interesting note if firsttime planting bean plants look dead but if left will actually revive and set a fall crop

Thanks for reminding that I should also plug seeds in, like okra...

I’m in the same zone as you. I use a mole vole solar device that vibrates on a special frequency they don’t like. I’ve had mine for over a year now (kept it out during winter) and it still works and I haven’t had a problem since! Lowes and Home-depot have them.

I really like the amount of info you give. And it’s nice to see what you’re planting as well since I’m also in the same zone. I’m in SW Ohio and wow - we’ve had TOO much rain this month!!

3 questions- 1. Is it too late to plant carrots? Which variety have you had the best luck with? 2. Will onion sets grow in heavy clay? Our soil has a bit of amending but it's pretty heavy so we've planted and covered with old hay(Ruth Stout-ish) TIA. Glad I found your channel!

Thanks for the video. When it comes to the science of the backyard, family supporting garden, Whoa Nellie, it gets complicated. So, thanks to you for trying to make a complicated science accessible to us regular moms and dads.

So happy to have found your channel! Also growing in Zone 6--usually 6a but some winters 6b at least for part of the season . What's going into the garden in May? Well, the chives are perennial as is the rhubarb and just harvested some for a neighbor without space in his garden for rhubarb of his own. Planting sorrel this year, another perennial green. Swiss chard, even thought it isn't known to love heat which we're getting now at the unofficial start of summer (my garden's less than a mile from the Lake, so last frost and first frost, both, are later than one might expect at this latitude and altitude.) Tomatoes: cherry, salad/small slicer, and beefsteak, all red or red-orange or orange. Peppers: Yellow Monster; Doux d'Espagna; King of the North; Hungarian Hot Wax; Italian Pepperoncini; Greek Pepperoncini; Okra started indoors after a soak for the seeds and my goodness, I'll have to find people to whom to give some of the extra plants, but growing madly strong and vigorous. Cucumbers, of course. Summer and winter squashes. Asian greens even though they prefer cooler weather but some like komatsuna can take some heat, and notably a Chinese cabbage variety said to make a good substitute for lettuce when the weather turns *hot.* Beans: common bush, common pole, white runner (Greek Gigantes), and Red Ripper cowpeas Lettuces: Jericho, Yedikule for coming heat, and Merveille d'Quatres Saisons just to try it; Little Gem, Tom Thumb, Parris Island Cos, Buttercrunch, Simpson Elite, Slo-Bolt. All will go into the shady part of the garden to protect them from the afternoon sun. Kohlrabi: Vienna White, Vienna Purple, White Delicacy, Blauer Speck, and Super Schmelz. Carrots: something of an experiment to see how well they do. Onions: bunching (Heshiko; Red Welsh; Lisbon White) and bulbing (Ailsa Craig; Wethersfield Red; Stuttgarter; Walla Walla.) Herbs: white mustard to help bulk up the compost bin/heap; lavender; dill; cilantro/coriander; chervil; borage; parsley both flat and curly; Genovese basil. Flowers: Calendula; Cosmos (about six different ones); Coreopsis; Zinnias; Nasturtiums (again, about six or seven types); Marigolds, including some of the signets because they are *so* pretty and charming; gaura for its charm and for the pollinators; Petunias; Pansies. I believe that's everything for May.

I did recognize the "Oh Yeah" Kool-Aid watering can, but preferred the first one you used - Budweiser

North Olmsted, Ohio here, funny when you talked about the rain, got slammed as well. Where in Ohio are you located?

I just subscribed your chanel 🙂 I only grow tomato plant beacuse I have no space for any more vagetables but next year I will have big garden and then I will grow more🙂

We have a Vole Control System: 3 cats!

When I plant tomatoes I dig my trench then I use a garden fork and put four holes 6 inches deep under my plants this has saved me when we get big rains in June and July and my garden gets flooded but it saves my tomatoe plants I grow 500 and 12 different varieties just a extra chore but I save my plants and it gives extra root growth deeper.

Thank you for a great video. I still need to plant my watermelons cantaloupes and pumpkins along with cherry tomatoes cucumbers and okra. I have more seeds germinating and ready to plant in my session planting. I am running out of space in my container garden right now. I have already planted corn green beans wax beans beefsteak tomatoes with basil zucchini and summer squash.

You so smart and laid back informative I wish you could have been my mom. I would be so much smarter

im plantn. in northwest.il.2day...Good Tips.and Film.. This years. plants are just peppers .tomato .lettuces, strawberries .potatoes...take care! THX!!

I thought we had a pact to NOT grow tomato seeds too early! Heh. I didn't plant any this year. Too rainy and I'm moving. Still have the orchard to work on anyway. Plum tree has something chewing on it, but gonna neem that. Saw the latest Gurney's with you in it. I always have to do a double-take when that comes on. :)

Seeing tomato hornworms on two of my favorite tomato plants prompted me to go ahead and spray all of them with MONTEREY BT and NEEM OIL mixed with a CASTILE SOAP.

I love you videos they are really helping me in my garden this year! I am planting tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, garlic, onions, peppers, spinach... your mulch that you have down is it on all your garden? Is it hay or grass clippings or both? oh and potatoes in hay!

Thank you for the beautiful garden information. Have you tried Trichogramma wasps for hornworm and corn borer control?? They were available from Gurneys at one time..

Hungry bunnies have started to eat one of my pepper plants, I misted them with water and then sprinkled cayenne pepper on them,,, I wish I had a camera on them when they tried them again lol!

Very informative, thank you for sharing! Born and raised in Dayton in Iowa now. Your garden is beautiful, soil looks great. What part of Ohio are you in? I'm working probably less than an eighth of an acre, what isn't covered by home, garage and driveway. Stacking food where ever I can. Again, beautiful garden, I would love to be set up similar to that.😁🌱🌱🌱

Tomato Horn Worms: put bird houses on your T-Post. I put 3 bird houses per 90 feet of bed row. can put up to 8 bird houses on the outer edges of my garden. I also put a bird baths near my tomato plant rows. 2 to 3 bird baths long the row. Try to keep the bird houses 40 ft apart. Also you will need to prep the bed the fall before and set up your cattle panel in the fall. This is due to birds will not probably use a bird house that is put out in April or May. I also have a large skid size DIY bird bath with a solar fountain and I feed my bird Black oil sunflower seed every other day. Don't waste buying a mix seed that the birds will not eat; and will encourage voles. (Tractor Supply for the bird seed) I use up to a gallon of sunflower seeds every 2 days. (The birds will clean the ground of everything they drop on the second day.) I get up to 50 birds at a time due to the large bird bath. I have 2 rows of 90 foot cattle panels for tomatoes and I have a couple of arch 16 ft cattle panel for my peas, cucumbers, and other vining plants. The birds love to perch on the cattle panels. Chickadees like to fly in groups. I probably have around 12 types of birds that feed. They also eat the pest within my garden and I will see the birds walking within my rows eating pesty bugs. If you make your own DIY bird bath build it with a hinge to allow easy cleaning. Due to the amount of birds I get I need to clean it every other day. Solar fountains cost up to $15 dollars each. The only pest I have problems with are white moth, and flea beetles, and sometimes squash bugs.

I prefer the idea of intercropping over companion planting. Yes there are veggies that will do better together, and some that won’t do well together, but for me it’s more just about size and nutrients. Plant something that likes shade where a taller plant will shade it more

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I'm late to the show so I'm sure someone already said it... Kool-Aid pitcher!! 😂😂

Hi Jenna, another great video. This weekend I'm removing the roses in my front garden. They are over 25 years old and are getting diseased and not producing like they used to. Got new ones on order and will plant out in July, which is our mid winter. Did you make the cages or buy them? Cheers, have a great weekend.

Got my tomatoes, cucumbers, cucamelon, beans and watermelons in the ground here in Southern Ontario Zone 6. Still have summer+winter squash, okra, peppers, sweet potatoes, eggplant, tomatillo and melons to do, as well as some novelty stuff (malabar spinach, passion flower, cinnamon vine, yacon). Ground cherries had issues growing indoors but last year's crop is germinating all over the place outside, so I may end up moving them (since they're not germinating in a very good spot). I've got a couple tomato volunteers as well that are on their second true leaves. We have voles too, I think I'm gonna try growing the sweet potatoes in grow bags.

Love the vintage kool-aid pitcher/waterer, lol. How do you deal with squash vine borers?

Here in the 937, it seems we are finally in the clear. TONS of rain this past month. No local farmers have planted anything yet. Because I couldn't resist, I transplanted my corn super early, and it's already knee high,.

I just discovered your channel a couple weeks ago. I really enjoy it. You certainly know your stuff. I wish i lived in your zone so I could follow along. I'm in zone 3. Are planting times like linear between the different zones? I'd like to have a nice garden but there's so much I'm finding I don't know.

Jenna....you do know that the "marigold thing"..... was started by the marigold seed sellers...because like you I have done this for 30 plus years and I still get all those pests....🥴PS I still did it this year...guess I don't want to jinx myself....😃

Thanks for I've been watching for when you to get tomatoes and those really grew fast and looked fresh compared to last years planting and believe I'm going to do transplant timing more like you, But maybe I've perhaps in the lead because mine are growing a few inches a day.One.plant you recommend that " Midnight snack " as you say seems to be one of my fastest starting plants of 26 types and I do plan to stew some as your video shows the how to do. QUESTION? As the stems of the Midnight snack are such a dark green and almost black as some other types is that great health or natural as I didn't see any that dark but now used your mixture number 3 for seed starting Thanks again

Yep…I covered my cucumbers, squash and pole beans last week. It dropped to 42. Their all coming up fine, but I’ll see if I get fruits. I hope so

You could also wrap tulle around the cages too.

I'm in Maryland. It got down to like 36 just a few weeks ago. I've been starting my stuff way later than I have in years past, we have a pretty long growing season here, but a freak early frost could damage some of the plants I'm starting right now. I have some tomatoes and peppers I sowed a week ago, and a few others about a month ago. Most of my garden is perennial stuff now anyway, but I hope I have enough time for my butternuts and eggplants