External force here being the climate/weather variations. Pests too, don’t forget the pests 😅

Probably too late to grow some potatoes now but I’ve got that listed for next year’s crop 🤘🏽 that damned Woodchuck 😅

Yeah! Gardening is tough man 😅 but I guess the reward and investment is worth it once you get the hang of it and I can’t wait to reap what I showed no pun intended.

Yeah, I need to research stuff, would there be a website that tells you what you can grow in your zone specifically? Or you just wing it?

Yeah that makes the most sense tbh, but what I’ve read and what I’ve experienced it doesn’t seem to work with the soap spray? They just keep coming back, the eggs I mean, or do I just keep doing it everyday? From what I see the moths don’t come out everyday just probably in good sunny weather if that makes sense.

…I don’t know why you got downvoted 😬

Could try growing leeks now that you’ve mentioned it, apparently potatoes are easy to grow? They some of our store bought potatoes are growing roots as we speak 😅 probably not the same thing but you get the idea

I’ve been watching how to overwinter tomato plants for the winter and yeah that’s what they said to do like what you did, basically to cut all of the leaves and leave some of the main stems and water them iirc, I can take the plants indoors right? I also have a small greenhouse too if I can put them in there during winter, or is inside the house better?

That’s what I was afraid of lol, it’s been on my mind if whether the weather has something to do with crops not growing. It does make sense that some years climates are different than others, what with climate change and all that.

How often and during what time of day would you used the soap based spray? I usually use it sometime before the sunsets. Yeah we grew some Nasturtiums to attract aphids away from the actually crops, seems to do the job, plus any ladybirds we find in our garden I usually pick them up and put them where the aphids are and watch them go wild lol.

We have some coffee grounds saved up since my sister works at a coffee shop and she takes them home, do they work? Apparently they do, but not as effectively from what I’ve read, maybe I need to do more research on that part. Other than that yeah, usually check the soil if it’s dry and needs watering and do the regular feeding.

Long beans? That’s not a bad shout tbh, we’ll try that next year for sure. Yeah the weather seems to be the main issue with mine and everyone else’s problems this year. You win some you lose some is right!

So basically we started growing at a bad year for it then hehe? All kidding aside, the only ones that seem to thriving (so far) are the ones in pots, tatsois, some strawberries and cherry tomatoes, basils, parsleys, sage and spring onion and sunflowers to name a few but I feel like they’re surface level crops I’m guessing (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong 😅)? So the endgame of this point is to try again next year and hope the seasons are better than this year’s? We’ve got some poly tunnels or covers for the coming colder seasons and to prevent pests, but that’ll be another story lol. Shotgun approach? I like the idea haha, just might grow different things and see what grows like you said 👍🏽 we grew some courgettes some grew to a good size but some just were too small for it to be used for anything. Other than that the strawberries and cherry tomatoes and others are doing fine.

I see! I had a hunch this year’s climate had something to do with it, it was weird indeed, not so much success with the crops from what I’ve seen with other posts elsewhere, mostly diseased crops which is unfortunate. We tried checking regularly and made sure to water regularly and feed also, but only time will tell if anything comes up, especially whilst trying with out cucumbers and melons/squashed. With pests, we have some Nasturtiums, a couple pots about. We don’t get many pests seeing as the Nastys seem to attract the pests which is what they’re for from what I’ve read. Other than that the only pest we encounter are eggs from cabbage moths? From the tatsoi plants we’re trying to grow, had some pakchoys grown earlier but the caterpillars got to them, forgot to check them until it was too late. Regarding if we grew from the ground or not, yes we grew it from small pots first, determined which ones grew and just “died” and moved the growing ones into a sizeable pot to grow.

Sorry if that seemed too wordy, I tried to be as specific as I could. I appreciate your comment, it was nicely put, basically told me what I needed to know 💯

We started growing some plants a bit late into late spring, early summer seasons, luckily some grew but not to perfect size, the cherry tomatoes we have are growing nicely but I hear the 2nd year is going to be better, also same with the strawberries. But the ones struggling are courgettes and melons and the cucumbers too. I could try planting some garlic and onions but I think I’m too late into the season now, maybe next year perhaps?

No we didn’t have the chance to set up any shade cloths, should we have done so? I know you can set them up during colder seasons but I dunno much if you could during hotter seasons also.

Yeah, I guess you could say we’re level 1 noobs here for now 😂 hoping next year’s climate is better if not, just keep trying on our end 👍🏽

The strawberries we’re growing seems to be fine, but the cucumbers and courgettes seem to be struggling, some courgettes grew fine but they were on the smaller size. The melons are starting to grow but it’s just a wait and see kind of situation if it actually grows or not.

I guess the takeaway here is to keep trying I guess and hope the next year’s seasons are better. Thank you.

Thank you! I had help from my mom lol

Here’s the recipe for the creamy mushroom with meatballs I followed in the video she made homemade meatballs, I just used IKEA meatballs for shortcut 😅 and put some tatsois (spinach) that we grew from our garden.

And here is the recipe for Vegetable Lumpia I followed

Oh yes indeed!

Kids that can nonchalantly play through a track of Rainbow Road without batting an eye, without drive assists also!

One can only wish 😞