July GARDEN Tour: Beauty, Bugs, and the Honest Truth About Growing Your Own

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:45 Third Time is the charm for the potatoes
01:27 Fall Planting Area
01:44 Cucumbers & Watermelon
02:45 Green Beans & Cowpeas
03:05 Sweet Corn & Dent Corn
03:19 Muscadine Grapes
03:45 One of My Favorite Fertilizers
05:26 First tunnel: herbs, parsnips, tomatoes, lettuce
08:15 Second tunnel: grapes, roma tomatoes, peppers, & squash bugs
12:17 Feeling discouraged but trying to keep a positive outlook
13:08 Flowers, sweet potatoes
15:24 A new plan to beat the squash bugs naturally
16:07 2nd Potato Patch & green bean revival
17:51 2nd Succession of Tomatoes and Peppers
18:54 Elderberries
19:11 Blackberries and results of tipping a month ago
21:38 The orchard gets attacked by bugs too
22:50 Kids garden tours & Cantaloupe harvest