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Heya--I'd say one of three ways. 1. If you want to store them for many weeks and (maybe months) it's recommended to wait until the plant dies back. 2. Each variety has an appropriate number of days to harvest so you can use that and start digging at or around that timeframe. 3) some plants produce flowers and that's a sign that potatoes have started to grow..so within the next couple of weeks, you can dig up small potatoes (think the baby potato size in the stores).

Hiding in plain sight, for sure!

🙌🏽 thanks and good luck with your harvest! 💛

YW! I'll be growing bok choy too. I've not tried to overwinter parsnips. I have sown seeds in the spring and they did pretty well.😊

Me too!😊💛🌽

Heya! It was 10 weeks from seed to harvest.

🏃🏾‍♀️ 🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏾‍♀️to Google to look them up.

I use netting for most of my tomatoes to keep the squirrels away. I definitely have 🐿️ 🦅 🦝 that are around the area..Somehow I think I've just lucked out with the corn..

Heya!! Thanks for checking out my space and for commenting!💚

Heya-- I'd say they were dry to the touch and a bit crispy but not so dry that they would crumble when you touch them.

Thanks so much!💚

Thanks!💚

He was definitely chunky. I've used uv light in the past and it's worked but I'm a bit nervous out in the garden at night 🥹 (raccoon-gate) so I have been hunting for them during the day. Wishing you luck with the chipmunks! Or maybe it's luck with the tomatoes 🍅💚

It was!😊😊

Thanks and happy gardening to you!💚 P.S. 🌽🌽it was 😊😊

Thanks so much for watching and commenting and I'm convinced our green thumbs grow each year with us💚😊. Happy gardening and hope to see you in the comments! ~Batavia

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Thank you!!💚

Thank you and so glad this view is helpful!💚 - Batavia

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I give them to my frogs! I tear the horn off first because I don't know what that thing will do when my frogs chomp on it. You know some petstores will sell them for 10 dollars for 4 small ones. I say if ya just grew a tomato plant, you'd have all ya need.

@@ninastone9054good call on the horn. I’m always careful when pulling them off the plant because idk what that thing will do to me if it sticks me lol

I saw the short... it didn't stand a chance.😊

Thanks!! I'm trying to soak this up because in a few months, it will look different. 🥹😊

Ha! 😂😂 you're so very welcome!

Worst enemy indeed. I'm a bit scary (raccoon-gate) so I can't even go out at night with my light to check anymore🥹. I wish you success! 😊💚

Thanks Mike! ~Batavia

Heya! This sounds vaguely familiar. It hadn't happened to me though 🤞🏽.

It's my pleasure. Thanks for watching!💚

Fingers absolutely crossed!😊💚

Thanks Joy!

Heya Sis! I'm doing pretty good. How about you? I need to dig into my collard greens bed, Ive had quite a bit of pest pressure in there so I've been putting it off. The greens seem unbothered but it's gonna take a bit more elbow grease to clean them up (I've been spoiled with pretty clean greens coming out of my garden 😊). Your hiatus wraps up around September, when the weather breaks, right? 💚 ~B

@@BBettaGarden Yeah, I'm starting to think about what I'll be growing. I'm not rushing though. But happy growing and harvesting to you. Everything looks great.😊

💚 I hear you on, not rushing it.

It's my pleasure!

Thanks so much!💚

Heya! It's my pleasure!💚

Heya Chicago neighbor! So glad that you found your way to my channel. It's really great to be able to check out other gardeners growing near us. Happy gardening! 💚 ~B

@@BBettaGarden Hi neighbor, as I continue to prepare my backyard for my raised beds in hopes of planting some fall crops, can you please advise where in Chicago can I purchase some good seeds? I did a google search for local seed companies in Chicago and nothing really came up. I'd love to support a local nursery vs going to a big box store. Any advice you can give is greatly appreciated. Thanks neighbor.

Heya Chicago neighbor! Now is a good time to get some things ready for Fall. 💚 the rain just ran me inside but I'm going to be direct sowing some kale and green peas in the next couple of days and some collards and maybe cauliflower and broccoli in the next week. I'm waiting a bit for things like mustards and turnips. Here's to a great fall garden! 💚 ~B

Heya! Same here..it's been hard each year to get in gear for Fall each year after a long season. Maybe I'm hoping that the more I talk about it the more likely I am to get it planted 😊. Lettuce does so well for me and I eat it all year so I'm eager to grow it for the cheap 😊. Sending you the extra energy to get over the garden fatigue hump and plant for Fall💚. ~Batavia

Heya Friend! Thanks for the tip for beans and peas! 🙌🏽 That beauty is a Starry Starry Night hibiscus and I got it from Lowe's back in 2019 (I took a pic of the tag 😊). I feel like the Holy Grail that sits in the center gets so much attention and while it's gorgeous the Starry Starry Night is just so unique with the foliage and the multi-colored blossoms. I'm excited about the kale GreenStalk :-). It's my hope to harvest the leaves very young which will make for some tasty salads :-). I also enjoy kale that's a little more mature in smoothies or cooked. Thanks for the reminder to check my cabbage seeds as I most have a variety or two that is set to mature earlier. I can picture a Komatsuna seed package and I definitely have some giant red mustards. I have been thinking about fall flowers (I just never found the inspiration to plant many annual flowers this Spring or Summer.) Have you sowed snapdragons for Fall before? I would love to have some for Fall but I was thinking it was too late to start them. Good luck with the fava beans and all that will be going into your garden in the coming weeks 💚. Take care! 💚😊 Batavia

@@BBettaGarden About pre-soaking peas and beans, a slight revision: probably not less than four hours and no longer than six to eight for the beans, no longer than six for the peas, if that. If they're starting to *lose* their wrinkles, they're getting hydrated. It's important not to over-soak. The purpose is to help the seeds and to shorten the germination time. This, if we didn't talk about it before, is called "priming" and can be done with quite a lot of types of vegetable (and melon) seeds, and after priming you can dry those same seeds and store them for a while. Joe Lamp'l, of "Growing A Greener World," is supposed to have a RUclips video about this and if I recall correctly, he talks specifically about *spinach* seeds but the principle's the same and any differences are, doncherknow, the details. Unless you want only young kale leaves for use in salads, you're aware you can massage mature kale leaves to soften them (I'd still recommend taking out the tough center rib, though!) If you're going to do that, it's probably most pleasant to do this before adding any dressing to the salad. Probably even before tearing the leaves into smaller bits. It's in my mind that if you sow Napa/Chinese cabbage *right now,* you can just squeak that one in before first frost, and if it doesn't head up you can still use the leaves. Some of the earlier-maturing cabbages I can name are Early Jersey Wakefield (60-75 days, I assume from transplant); Golden Acre (60-65 days); Copenhagen Market (65 days); Napa cabbage/s of which there are many varieties (60 days); Tête Noire (about 65 days); Red Acre (65 days.) And remember to add a week to two weeks to the maturation times given or harvest dates because we've passed the equinox, are sowing after the equinox, and with the diminishing hours of daylight as well as the somewhat more oblique angle of the sun's rays, growth will be slowed by that much. About the snapdragons.... I didn't do the sowing, the snapdragons themselves did that earlier in the season by however long they needed to drop their seeds and for the seeds to germinate and then the plants to get to flowering. One day late in the season after all the other flowers had sort of begged off for the year, I went out to the garden and was surprised by a splash of brilliant red: the self-sown snapdragons! If you're able to give them warm enough soil I imagine they'll be fine. Er...until the frosts get them. Do you already have snapdragon seeds? Which ones do you like? Do you need some snapdragon seeds? I used to have a P.O. Box for you; I still have the Box #; do you still have and use that address? I adore tall snapdragons and I like clear, cheerful colors; some breeder or vendor offers seeds for snapdragons which look like too-old uncooked liver, and I can't get excited about those. I don't know whether I have any "dwarf" snapdragons. Love the shirt-dress; it reflects your joyfulness. From Northeast Ohio, 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊

@@BBettaGarden Oh! And I did mean to say Thank You for the info on the Starry Starry Night hibiscus! I'm going to have a look for it around here; maybe one of the nurseries.... Thanks so very much!😊💚

@@BBettaGarden If you like violas, meaning pansies, they're absolute champions when it comes to cooler temperatures. Since I was usually buying starts of them in the spring, they'd just hang on, struggling through summer heat (I have not so fond memories of watering twice daily to keep them going through the summer) but once we were past the worst of it.... Well, actually once we were past the worst of it those flowers still wanted to be watered daily until the second half of October. But they did fine under a blanket of snow and showed their cheerful faces every time the snow melted or was blown away by the winter breezes. You *definitely* have time to sow seeds for these and a number of vendors offer them. Er...if you like violas. Much gardening love from Northeast Ohio! 😊💚💚💚😊

Heya! I hope you're recovering well from your foot surgery 💚. Glad to hear your summer plantings get a second chance to produce 😊. Are you harvesting from your Fall plantings all through winter? Curious how mild your winters are. Take care! ~Batavia

@@BBettaGarden Thanks, I am healing well and have started physical therapy. Been working fully remotely, but should be able to go back to my hybrid schedule sometime around early or mid September. I am able to harvest fall plantings even through the spring. Admittedly, I don't do particularly well with broccoli and cauliflower, but have had some success with cabbage and certainly lots of success with lettuce, arugula, Swiss chard, kale and collards. So my greens are more successful. I do also get some strawberries through late Fall. But when it cools down, things to grow slowly. Add in the low level of sunlight in my growing space, even things like carrots and beets don't really perk up until the warmth of spring which can start temperature-wise here as early as late February, early March. This year I'm going to see if I can get some late season peas and beans started. One nice thing though is that I can overwinter tomato and pepper plants so that when the temperatures warm up in the spring, I already have a head start with mature plants ready to start flowering and fruiting.

@@jwilli7434 glad to hear on the recovery. September is right around the corner! There is something about heading crops that gives me a challenge..cabbage do pretty well but the others, I feel like I'm rolling the dice every year. I've toyed around with overwintering peppers but each Fall the garden fatigue sets in and getting garlic planted and putting the garden to bed is about all I can get done. Now that said..I've had dreams of having a structure that would allow me to harvest the light the winter, even here in Chicago (seen it done by another gardener 😊). Anywho, happy growing! 💚

So funny! If I didn't know any better, I would have thought I wrote this comment. This is exactly how I talk about things like this. Go for it! I'm rooting for you! 💚 ~B

Heya Latasha! Great tip 🙌🏽💚Are you able to harvest through winter?