When to start planting a vegetable garden in ontario
Growing A Vegetable Garden In Ontario, Canada 2014
okay this is my garden for 2014 um
here's my cabbages I don't seem to be
doing pretty good there's some weeds in
there yet that I got to get to um I find
I don't have to weed quite as much
around the cabbage because they created
a lot of shade and kill off a lot of
stuff
one thing that I've been having a
problem with this year is my beans well
usually every year because the rabbits
and stuff will get at my beans and birds
and eat my beans up so I keep planning
them like every week for since well the
May long weekend I keep playing them
every week and I would say the bunch
that I got coming now like this one here
is probably only if you know not quite a
month old and it's getting fairly large
now but it will be like five times the
size of that soon these little guys just
came up and within the next few weeks or
so they'll be big - once they get going
and they get a chance
I find the animals tend to leave them
alone one trick I found was to not weed
quite as much around them and then the
animals don't tend to bug them as much
and then once I get growing really good
then you can start weeding big time
around them especially if you got one
was little rotor tillers dragonfly rotor
tiller things you can work around them
and it helps you a big time to get the
weeds out within the next three weeks or
so they should be as big as my potatoes
see my potato plants got lots of
potatoes coming in our neighbour here
he's trying to grow a little bit of
lettuce
he's he doesn't really get involved with
garden as much but I got to get him out
here
get them weeding and stuff around his
lettuce because his lettuce is looking
pretty thin you know and we can probably
put more lettuce in because it comes
back pretty quick actually you can keep
cutting it and cutting it in keep
planting it to all all season like we're
not even halfway through July yet and
the plants are already getting like this
see potatoes are just coming like I
couldn't believe how much I grew in like
three days after a few days rain they're
like crazy big I got all the mountains
made up for them like I keep piling all
the dirt up so we get lots of potatoes
there are some more little beans these
little beans just came up within the
week so within a few weeks or so they
should be pretty big all these little
guys see them I weeded it around these
ones a bit you know just to give them a
bit of a chance since I got a lot of
bean plants coming now help them catch
up a bit but look at the potatoes
potatoes are coming along really good
and I just planted some new potatoes
they're not even a week ago and look
they're already coming up through the
ground so within the next couple weeks
or so or a few weeks they should be at
least half the size of those ones there
some of them are already certain to
flower too because I find that night
it's been getting a little chilly out
and I think that's making the plants
starting to learn the flowering a bit
earlier and these here are all my beets
there's lots of beets here I do send
them out a bit as they're certain to
grow but I tend to thin them out more as
I like I like the beet tops
so once the beet tops get nice and bushy
I'll start thinning them out more then
that way I can use
ups and make a meal under the tops -
it's pretty much like spinach a little
bit milder from all the Sun and heat
we've been having pretty earlier this
year I thought the peppers would be
doing a lot better already but they're
coming they're coming
mmm as you can see the beets are doing
really good with the potatoes and the
cabbage my tomato is they're doing
really good too you can see all the
tomato plants there they're coming along
really good I've only been in the ground
for a few weeks I got some more young
bean plants here we're gonna have all
kinds of beans we should be able to
blanch and preserve a whole bunch of
beans this year you can see I got them
going up I like to keep a bit of
distance in between them right in here
there's a couple you can't really see
them just starting to come up and then
there's some more at the end there it's
funny how they all grow at different
times like that
that's nature for you there's some more
beets and you know stuff over here and
here's my tomatoes tomatoes are doing
really good these tomato plants weren't
even up to the second-last
ring there a few days ago and now
they're over to the top room I keep
cutting the suckers off if you see that
helps them grow a bit taller and when
they start growing tomatoes the tomatoes
can write them quicker because the Sun
will get at them see if you see there's
already Tomatoes it's not even halfway
through July yet some they're they're
all flowering there's a bigger tomato
over here just gotta remember where it
is
I'm gonna cut some of these suckers off
before I go in tonight - yeah I'm pretty
bushy again right there there's a big
tomato we can see it see almost there's
a tomato so yeah they're coming pretty
early I think it has a lot to do with
our weather there whether thought a lot
like pretty warm right away in and then
nights have been a little chilly not
cold enough for frost but probably
enough to confuse these plants so I'm
hoping the rest of the season goes
really good like I said I'm only not
even halfway into july yet i still have
new seeds coming up in different places
hopefully we don't get snow late August
or something like that or September that
would really throw things off but no I
think we'll be all right I think we'll
have quite a few potatoes this year I
know we're gonna have a lot of beets and
the beans we should have lots of beans
too but yeah I guess you never know what
the weather is gonna do so I'm gonna
keep her fingers cross those guys over
there those cows early spring well when
I first planted they decided to get out
of their pen there there's a whole bunch
of them away over there in the field -
but they love getting into the fresh
garden and they were digging and rolling
around in the garden so I lost a lot of
beans then - which really sucked but I
still had lots of time to plant more and
I got more coming so I should be alright
well here's hoping that's my garden for
2014
I'll show you again in another week or
so and show you the progress okay
bio dream over and out or I should say
bye oh man
