Strawberry Rescue, 25¢ Tomatoes & Green Bean Reset–3 Garden Projects in One!
This Video is from the Youtube channel: “Homegrown Passion”.
In this 3-segment garden update, we’re tackling strawberry fungus gnats, planting 25-cent paste tomatoes, and resetting our green bean hydroponic BATO buckets. It’s been a wild week in the greenhouse — pests, planting, and prep for the next harvest!
🍓 Segment 1: Strawberry Trouble
I share how heat stress and fungus gnats affected our hydroponic strawberries — and how I used insecticidal soap and dry perlite top-dressing to fight back.
🍅 Segment 2: Paste Tomatoes for Just 25¢
A surprise greenhouse find: paste tomatoes for a quarter! I walk you through how I'm transplanting and trellising these bargain beauties.
🫘 Segment 3: Green Bean Reset
I'm scrubbing and resetting our hydroponic BATO buckets for a fresh green bean cycle, with new perlite, nutrient lines, and planting eggplants at the row ends too!
Whether you're a hydroponic grower, backyard gardener, or just love watching Me in action — this episode has it all: pests, planting, and plenty of FUN.
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📍 Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
00:20 – Strawberry Gnats & Heat Stress
03:22 – 25¢ Paste Tomato Transplants
07:01 – Green Bean Bato Bucket Reset
13:09 – Outro
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🍅 What a week! Strawberries battling fungus gnats, 25¢ tomatoes we couldn’t resist, and a full green bean reset in the greenhouse.
Let us know in the comments which project was your favorite — and if you’ve ever fought off pests like fungus gnats before!
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– Katy 🌱 #HomegrownPassion
Great video. Thanks for sharing. 😊
Very nice!
Good video Katy. Interesting information on the “dry zone” and the strawberries. Had never heard anyone mention something like that before. Also, how does that quantity of perlite affect the compost pile? Does it ever go away or dissolve?
Your a tight unit Katy good job!😅
I’m sorry .
I wish you health and continuity. Thank you for all the information.
Thanks for the video, I too have had trouble with high temperatures, this time in January, strawberries and tomatoes fail to set fruit. I guess it is pollen blast, where pollen dries out and dies before it gets to the flower. Can you run your fans on cool and would it make a difference. I run two fans to try and remove the hot air at the top of the plastic, but they don’t do much. Thanks for your video. In normal times I could fly over and visit but these times are far from normal. Regards to the family.
I love your video’s. I could watch you every day. I have learned so much from you
What a bummer about those gnats! Hope you got them. Question: when you dump the old perlite in your compost pile does it eventually break down? Thanks
Perlite doesn’t break down, but it does add aeration for your new compost.
I love you buddy! I am so tired of fungus gnats! I ended up using Nematodes and it did help
Thanks for the update!
Some of the half dead plants u get from the half price stand normally turn out the strongest plants CANT wait to see how they turn out 🇳🇿🙏🏼
I enjoyed the video thank you
Great video from start to finish Katy! Love me some underdogs plants. They always seem to be the ones that survive everything thrown at them. I can’t wait to visit someday in one of your open houses/day camps!
We use h2o2 to battle those stupid gnats