Hey gardeners - please subscribe and click the👍 button - it really helps us out. Many thanks! Which of these crops are you planting? -CaliKim & and CameraGuy

I love seeing Mac with his funny expressions!

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Aren’t they funny ! Great to hear from you, hope all is well! CK

@mammothenterprises2921

Ай бұрын

Yes great he is still appearing.

@CaliKim29

29 күн бұрын

❤️ CK

Mr Raccoon lives in my yard and watches me. He saw me watering carrots in a planter and dumped it out, dug up some onion transplants to see what I was hiding, same with potatoes and I saw where he looked under the straw mulch I added in my garden. I made the mistake of helping him during the drought last summer. I have a bad feeling about the Sugar Baby Melons I planted.

@kristinanoall

Ай бұрын

Oh, that’s infuriating!

@EffSharp

Ай бұрын

Infuriating and cute at the same time. :) I garden on a patio but we still get creatures. The squirrels use my cushions for their nesting materials, dig up my plants and bury their nuts, and I even saw one snacking on my jade plant! A mouse took all of my lithops succulents.

@enticeme13

Ай бұрын

Make him his own little garden away from yours. It works with my toddler 🤷‍♀️ 😂

@MonkeyBoy-sd9vc

26 күн бұрын

Compound bow with a varmint tip...

@katkinslow

10 күн бұрын

OMG Your luck is as bad as mine! I call them Mr racoon man and boy they put me thru it like we're wild and you'll just have to deal with our shenanigans, wow and can they ever eat! Once I had gotten two boxes of chocolate croissants and I left them in the woods and took one other one I had. It's a good thing I took one because next day every last one of these individually wrapped treats were gone, they ate 96 croissants in one night! O yes and that night out again looking to steal the cats food!

THANKS FOR SHARING SO MUCH 😊 #NOT A DAY WITHOUT JESUS 🙏

Beautiful flowers. Zinnias have become one of my favorites in the garden. ❤

@CaliKim29

27 күн бұрын

Mine too! The colors are so amazing and relaxing to the soul....I miss them horribly when they're gone...but until then.....Thank you! CaliKim

Hi Kim. I love your channel. Thanks so much for doing a lot of container planting. That is what i do because of my terrible soil. Cant wait to build my trellis. Also your dog is so cute. He looks sooo shy and unconcerned. Love it...Your garden is beautiful.

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

You are so welcome! Mac is a cutie, very chill, getting up there in age, 13. Ooooo your trillis building sounds fun!!! Which trellis are you going to build? What fun, Felicia!! Keep me posted, and please like the video if you wouldn't mind! CaliKim

@feliciathomas281

Ай бұрын

Thanks for responding. I am going for A- frame. I have sugarbaby melons growing. Also big question..I was wondering if there is a difference between your smart pots and regular grow bags?

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Yes, HUGE difference in quality. SmartPots are built in such a way that your plants grows a healthy root system, as opposed to getting "rootball". That is their fabric is 100% virgin wool which allows water and light in to the container for healthy/stronger roots. The roots go down and create a Santa Claus looking root system instead of a rootball system, which we know is horrible for the plants and can kill their growth. I carry some on my website with my logo and some without, various sizes. SmartPots.com carries more, and gives CaliKimer's a 10% discount for using the code "calikim" at check out. They are washable and will last for years. We work together with SmartPots so it's no hard feelings whomever you buy from - They may be in your local garden center, too. (You'd have to look). They're made in America, so we're supporting that way, as well. Does this help? CK

The dog is so cute and looks like a sweet boy. He looking at the camera like "who is she talking to?" So cute!

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Yah, that's my Mac. Almost human! Thanks for watching! CK

I really enjoyed that video! Packed with info and so well edited!

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, Stacie. I hope that you are subscribed (I can't always tell) and following along? Where are you and what are you growing? I"ll pass on your compliment about the editing to my CameraGuy, aka, Jerry, aka my husband. LOL. Thank you! Kim

Thank's for sharing....❤👍🏻

@CaliKim29

12 күн бұрын

You got it! Thanks for watching!!! Did you pick up anything in particular in the video? CK

Watching from Arkansas… Thank you for all the great info! This is actually the 2nd video of yours that I’ve watched. I found your channel when I was looking for info about pruning squash plants - I have 3 in a raised bed and really need to do something! You’re a great teacher - I’ll definitely be back. I’ve grown tomatoes before but this year is the first year I’ve really tried to grow other vegetables. I need all the help I can get!

@CaliKim29

16 күн бұрын

Hello and welcome Arkansas! You are very welcome for the info and I am glad it is inspiring and motivating you in your garden! One thing that might be helpful to you is if you go to my main channel by clicking on my picture (to the left), you’ll see a small magnifying glass search window. It might be helpful if you type in whatever it is that you’re growing or going to be planting, etc., and watch all of those videos related to that. (You are only searching my videos to his way). So let me know how that goes for you. Thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment and I hope that you subscribe and thumbs up every video that you watch is mine! I’m so excited for you. You are in the right place! CaliKim

Fantastic idea's Kim. Just bought your bean's. Thank you so much.

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Wonderful, glad you enjoyed the ideas!!! and THANK YOU for your order. I see the order and we'll get it out to you immediately! CK

sounds great Kim I well definitely be planting all my favorite summer vegetables like squash qucumber's watermelon beans

AwESome video Kim I love how the background is a little bit blurred and you are in focus. Camera guy is doing a great job. Looking lovely and another awesome update. 👍🥰❤️Liz in California

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much!! Appreciate the the nice feedback, Liz!!! Will pass this onto CameraGuy. Kim

So much for another great garden video and some great garden tips. Thank you so much for all your encouragement.

@CaliKim29

29 күн бұрын

You are so welcome! I am so glad to hear this! Have you left a comment before, Grandma Sandy? I'd recognize a name like that! I love it!! Please be sure and click on the thumbs up (the like button) and subscribe if you have not! Would love to have you following along!! CaliKim

May in zone 9b Florida, it's already humid, 86 degrees and blazing hot direct sun. Pests and mildew are out in full force. The only thing we can grow now is Okra, sweet potatoes, black eyed peas, and hot peppers. I have some lacinato kale and collards still hanging on. Our prime growing season is September through April.

@CaliKim29

16 күн бұрын

Wow! This sounds like for you then, that you are in "defense" mode; the battle is on! Your prime growing season makes sense because your heat intensity goes down (similar to me in L.A.)? Great comment, too, btw, really painted a clear picture of what you are facing! Thank you for sharing, and do keep us all posted - we have a quite a few FLA gardeners here! CaliKim

New to your channel and I love it. This is the second video I’m watching.

@CaliKim29

16 күн бұрын

Welcome and have at it to my video library! LOL. Tell me where you are from and what you are growing! If you really want to get into - I livestream every Monday, at 12pm, been doing this 6-8 years now... you can interact with other gardeners from all over the world, and have direct access to SmartPot Containers and Monterey Lawn and Garden experts with your questions, etc. I hope you have subscribed! And please do click the thumbs up button on all of the videos you watch! This helps the channel grow! Best, CaliKim. I look forward to hearing from you, CaliKim

@aminahannache7973

16 күн бұрын

⁠@@CaliKim29 I already subscribed to your channel right after I watched the first video on mint. I live in Chicago and I grow bell peppers (different colors), tomatoes, cucumbers (once and that was two years ago), mint and other herbs. I also have a lot of indoor plants. I love gardening which I got from my father, may God grant him the highest level of paradise. He passed away two years ago. In which time zone is the live stream?

@CaliKim29

16 күн бұрын

Oh thank you! Moreso, I hope you’ll enjoy watching and learning from the videos !! Sounds like you are growing a great, full garden, too. How fun!! The time zone is Pacific time (sorry). And please do say hello on the LIve in the chat! For your Dad, Kim

It’s been a minute since I been on and even been in the garden we managed to keep our pepper plants alive and over wintered. I picked up marigolds and cherry tomatoes transplants and a couple seed packets from the garden center. Just been in a busy season of life. I haven’t been successful with beans , one of my kids teachers says he has had success in planting them in the fall like October or November. Hard time with tomatoes so I am trying the cherry’s for the size . And a very limited growing space. I saw rose bush and strawberries at the garden center have to see what kind of space I have . One of my most successful plants has been the okra. And peppers specifically hot peppers and bananas , working on the bells . Southern AZ so hot .

@CaliKim29

26 күн бұрын

I totally get the busyness season of life. Totally. And it's no problem...always great to have you back - you sound like you've got a handful over there in AZ -- Keep it going one step at a time - no pressure to be the perfect gardener; we're all always learning....Thanks for dropping a comment - CaliKim

Your gardens are always so beautiful. Please tell me if you journal what you plant and where you plant it? When you fertilize? Anything like that? I just can not imagine keeping up with that whole garden. Amazing! I know that you have been doing it for a long time, but I am looking for tips, because I am usually the person watching last months video and hoping to remember next year what to do this time of the year.

@CaliKim29

26 күн бұрын

I do not journal per se...but I am working on a garden planner - keep you posted. Somehow I manage...!! Thank you and so sorry my delay....CK

Hi Kim. Early to plant, early to pick. I am picking Seascape strawberries, and popping them in my mouth right from the plant, germs and all. I am also piulling up Malaga radishes as needed for salad. There is no rest for the weary in my garden. I have mustard that needs harvesting, blanching, and freezing. It is already harvest time. Soon, I will have peppers too. They are already fruiting, and it is April. Late May, or early June I can believe, but April? I must have done something terribly wrong to get peppers so soon. Some of my tomato plants are already flowering too, Sun Gold cherry, Thornburn's Terra-Cotta, and Martino's Roma. There are signs of fungus on my cucumbers, so I am treating them and my squash with Immunox. I already have it mixed up to prevent cedar gall rust from spreading to my apple trees, so why not use the good stuff.

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

You continue to amaze me, Jay! Amazing - keep it up! CK

I am new to your channel and looking forward to learning from your experience 👍🏽

@CaliKim29

18 күн бұрын

Welcome aboard! And I hope that my channel inspires and educates to more gardening! We look forward to hearing all about it! Here are things that will take you to the next level of gardening - Subscribe, then click on the bell next to the subscribe and turn all notifications. You'll see a little blip when you go to KZread letting you know I've posted a video, etc. Weekly LiveStreams - Mondays 12 PT. This is where you can interact with other gardeners and me from all over the world. Win random drawings of free garden stuff (US Residents). With that being said --- where are you and what are you growing right now?? Can't wait to hear from you - CaliKim

Nice 👌

"This woman is the best!" - my 6 year old. She's a fan, too.

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Comment of the Day!!! Say hello for me!!! Thank you!!!!! (Please tell me your both subscribers...) CaliKim

very useful information thanks for sharing

@CaliKim29

9 күн бұрын

Thank you and GLAD to hear it was helpful to you! CK

Thanks for sharing. 12👍. New subscriber to your channel ❤💚❤️

@CaliKim29

21 күн бұрын

Thanks for subbing and welcome Randy. Where are you and what are you growing right now? I hope that my videos continue to educate and inspire you! CaliKim

@Randyb4ut

20 күн бұрын

@CaliKim29 Thanks, I live in Tennessee and have to grow on my back porch and indoor hydroponic. I mostly grow peppers, tomatoes, and lettuce. Thanks for sharing your garden, and I will keep watching 💚❤️💚

Hi kim now I'm starting my plum from seed and what's your favorite fertilizer for vegetables

Got it! My bush beans planted last week have already come up! I will wait a week or so so squash/melons up here. I have the condensed brick of mulch from Costco for my small subdivision yard! Zinnias & Cosmos my def. fav. summer flowers. I even have a huge succulent artichoke ready to harvest!

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Sounds great! You are so awesome!!! Keep it up! (still waiting for a profile photo update.....) CaliKim

May in so. Cal. But here in PA. I can't get my sugar babies out to first week of June. They are just popping up in my seed tray now. Happy gardening

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Understood, Rick. Our timeliness may be a bit off but the techniques/methods should transfer - nonetheless, I hope you fond the video helpful - thanks for watching and commenting. CaliKim

Hi kim Your nasturtium is off the hook looking gorgeous. We are in the same garden zone so I always gauge my garden by what you are growing and what is working. Do you save the seeds and replant next year or just let them reseed by choice on their own? 🧡🧡🧡Liz

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Wonderful! I didn't know you do that! I save just some... you might say, I have a "plethora" of seeds lying around. LOL! CK

Never mind I see it

Hi and thanks so much for the video! What do you do if ants get in your raised bed? Mine has a lot of them in it since I put the compost amendment.

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

For Ants, I would use Monterey's Take Down (RTU-Ready To Use). They have great directions for application on the bottle. Let me know how it goes! Thank you for subbing all of these years! CK

Hi, saw your videos on Blackberry bushes. I have a question for you Miss Kim. I just got some last fall and planted them. One is flowering wonderfully and it's low to the ground. The other one is smaller but has 2 large shoots growing straight up about 5 feet tall and it's all leaves and no flowers. Is that normal? Do I keep them? Trim them? I feel like there hindering the main (lower part) from growing as much as the other one. Thoughts?

Thanks for the info about strawberries needing shade when it’s over 85 F! I didn’t know that, and have probably had terrible strawberry harvests for six years now because of it! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Ordering shade cloth now! Do you just leave it on continuously once summer gets hot? I’m in Northern Utah, Zone 7a. Thanks!

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

That's great Kristin that this was helpful to you! I just leave them on if it's going to be a heat wave then take them off once the heat wave subsides. I hope this helps! Please let me know how it goes, CaliKim

Hi Kim! (Or anyone else who knows the answer). Can I use the worm tea along with a regular npk liquid fertilizer? I’m a second year gardener (containers) and fertilizer still confuses me. 😂

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Yes, you can. Watch my recent Pepper video for instructions on how to do this. Also, my full fertilizer schedule for the entire growing season is in my book: Raised Bed Gardening on my website, calikimgardenandhome.com (This way you can take the book out to the garden with you? Some folks learn that way). Take your time, small steps, plants not making it is OKAY! Be sure to subscribe if you have not already - CaliKim

Is there another way to plant my strawberries since I do not have that item?

My strawberry runners which i continued in grow bag did not come this year only the mother plant came what wring happened I had in 2 more grow bagsq

@CaliKim29

26 күн бұрын

Here are a few variables in this scenario... The Age of Mother Plant....Environmental Conditions...Overcrowding....Variety of Strawberry.... Pruning.....Pests or Diseases. I suggest research how each of these effect strawberry runners and see which one matches/fits best in your scenario. Let me know how this pans out!! (so sorry for my delay) CK

How many strawberry plants per crate would you recommend?

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

I would say. 8 total in the top crate. Bottom two crates 6-8 per crate. Roughly 24 per crate. You’ll have to make your own assessment for your scenario. Hope This helps and please keep me posted. CK

CaliKim, won't placing the black covering over the soil kill all organisms on the soil?

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

GREAT question, very good! The soil microbes come out of dormancy in warmer soil..so as long as you do this in early spring before it gets too hot, the microbes should be fine. Hope this helps and let me know how it goes Bree , CaliKim

Please . what was the "trellis" called that was made for the sugar baby melons? I didn't catch it

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

The Ladder Mesh Trellis. In the video description is the link to the video where I discuss this! Thanks for watching liking and subscribing - if you have not already, Carolyn. Keep me posted - CaliKim

This is my first time gardening. This will be funny if I grow this sugar baby correctly on my first try.

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Very nice Al, just take it easy, one step at a time. Fight the urge to overwater (because we want to love our plants so much!). GO FOR IT!!! Keep me posted.. Thanks for watching and subscribing (if you have not already)! Kim

The poor dog looks at the camera like - I don’t want to be in this video and who put this red scarf on my neck😒🤣🤣🤣hilarious

@CaliKim29

27 күн бұрын

He makes the darndest faces! For a Border-collie...he's pretty chill (for which we're grateful). Good'ol Mac turns 13 this month!

9:18 I guess the French decided to take care of slug problems in the garden by just eating them. Escargot 🐌 🍽️

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

LOL!!! CK

What are your temperatures in May?

The pill bugs are enjoying my sprouted bean seeds. 😭😤Spent most of today gathering pill bugs. Darn them.

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Yes, the pill bug battle is real, UGH. You may want to try Sluggo Plus by Monterey Lawn & Garden. It's organic, and try on one or two plants and see how it goes. It needs to be applied regularly (makes sense). It helps me out in my garden. Look for link in the video description, 10% with code CALIKIM10 Hang in there! CK

@Playitagaindian

Ай бұрын

@@CaliKim29I filled a 16 oz. Sour cream container with pill bugs today-spoon by spoon. Oy! 🥴🤦‍♀️Tomorrow I will empty the pool with a thimble. Just kidding. May have to resort to the Sluggo product. Trying cut oranges and wet planks of wood first-in morning collect them all for a play day in another sour cream container. 😉😆

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

YOU ARE HILARIOUS !!!! I love it!

i love Mac’s sweet face!

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Awww, thanks, he DOES have a sweet face. For a border-collie he is very mellow/chill. He enjoy being by me but some of the faces he makes...don't show that, LOL! Thanks for watching an commenting. CaliKim

I think Max is very suspicious of the camera man. 😸

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

LOL. Naaah, Mac is very chill and makes interesting faces (he's 13). Thanks for watching , Kim

Not for any climate. First, the amount of warm days is not enough for melons etc. in my climate. Then, it’s just silly to plant strawberry in a pile of containers. After winter you’ll say good buy to them. So, you’ll have to replant the strawberry in August again and make winter protection for the majority of strawberry sorts. So, don’t write nonsense in your titles.

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

Yes, good points... perhaps I wasn't clear....you apply these techniques when the weather is right in your time of the season. Thanks for watching though. CK

Like 130. ❤❤❤ We are friends and watch each other's videos until the end. I like gardening because gardening is fun.

@CaliKim29

Ай бұрын

HA, I Love it!! Yes, indeed. Subbed! CK