Love that you're including growing zones and start times. This is so helpful! So much of what you guys can grow outdoors, I can't in my cold zone 4. Glad I didn't try planting ginger outside as it was something I was considering!
Fun fact, Nasturtium leaves are a natural antibiotic! Just eat the leaves right off the plant. The flowers are edible too and a great addition to salads
You can tell that Meg is really getting more comfortable in front of the UA-cam audience. I remember when she was first featured on Epic. You guys found a gold mine with her. Keep her on! She fits right in with the two of you and you can tell how knowledgable she is about gardening. I love watching her tips and garden to table content on IG and TikTok and now I love watching her be more educational here. She is just a delight!
It’s awesome having input from someone else who is an east coast zone 7 gardener. I’m up in Delaware, and I feel like our east coast climates are fickle compared to Cali.
@@meggrowsplants What part of NC are you in? I'm central, in the Triangle and we were just bumped up to 8a. I'm wondering how ginger and turmeric would do outside here.
Thanks for everything. I was thinking while at work last tonight, how impressive your accomplishments are. You took the #1 excuse of “I don’t have enough space to garden” and completely invalidated it through your own action and made gardening into a thriving/successful career of education. Awesome!
Jacque!! Because of your carrot tips, I was able to get my carrots to germinate for the first time ever! 😭 The cardboard trick worked perfectly. Thank you!!
I started ginger at the beginning of last May 1, 2023 in Minnesota (Zone 4) and I ended up with +4 Lbs by the end of September when frost started to threaten in early October. I did not expect it to grow in the first place since I have a north exposure with maybe 3 hours of morning light at best, but it started to bloom at the 5-month mark until deer at the flowers and the shoots. The test was in a large 15" and hanging 11" Pot. This year I will be testing out Grow bags 3#(Pound) and 5# since they do not need depth to grow. Freezing turned the ginger to jelly so the variety I had does not seem to tolerate freezing. The companion Planting you posted was also helpful.
Black beans and rice give me such energy without making me sleepy. I survived an entire year on a mix of dried bulk legumes I bought, a big bag of Himalayan brand white rice, and whatever I could grow in the yard(long story short I turned thirty and my mom decided it was time for me to move in with her again... Empty Nest Syndrome paired with NPD is real, and an abusive parent will do crazy crazy crazy things to get their way)
@@chickentender4037 Thanks, Tender and Kev. I am finally free, just over a year now. Thanks for looking out. 🫂🥂🌱🌼 May your gardens have fifteen percent more harvests this year!
Kevin, I cannot thank you enough for all sharing all the gardening tips with us. Thank you for building my confidence as a gardener. I feel like watching your videos is like attending a “gardening university.” I have learned so much from your tutorials. We appreciate your passion for gardening.
We planted Sarpo Mira's from Wood Prairie Family Farms and had great results. Ordered 1 lb of seed potatoes, which isn't much. We received 12 very small potatoes. Net results, 45+lbs, from 1 lb planted. We've managed to keep about 40 egg sized potatoes we harvested to plant this Spring. Can't wait to get started. Garlic is almost set it and forget it. 162 cloves fit nicely planted in a 4x8' raised bed, planted on a 5" grid. Nice video TYFS All
I remember planting the potatoes on Good Friday every year when I was a youngster. It was thought to grow best because of the moon being in a certain position. Remember that Lent and Easter are always on a different period on the lunar calendar cycle. We also made our sauerkraut on a certain time of the moon because it was more desirable for fermentation. My Auntie said it kept the kraut a nice color. If you look at the Farmers Almanac when to plant it is based the Lunar Calendar also.
Forever grateful to have stumbled across your channel back in 2021 during my pregnancy. Since then you all have been my little family’s go to for all things homesteading. Grazie por todo! 🖤🌎
I've had great success with carrots by covering the seed bed with row cover - easy to keep moist until time to remove the cover. Great video, guys. Thank you!
I must say, your introductory picture, shows your beautiful smile. And of course, we need more joy in the world. Thanks for sharing your smile and your knowledge😊
The planting chart is a great idea! Love you guys so much! So proud of your success and I’ve been a fan for years. Much love and continued success to you all! Hugs from Tejas! 💜🪴💐💜🪴💐💜🪴💐💜
I love your channel so much, thank you for showing Meg more, I am in same zone. She is wonderful! (P.S. Dear Meg in my country (Slovakia) we call Marigold "the Stinky flowers" :)
Great timing. I’m making a garden this year, planted 4 apple trees last year and started some seeds last weekend. Can’t plant outside until Mother’s Day but I need the time for a lot of work to do to get ready.
Great information. Have been having great success in my small backyard garden here in Las Vegas Following a lot of your advice. Big admirer. You have encouraged me a lot. I have never gardened till 2 years ago when I stumbled on one of your video. Thanks for all you do.
I love the 3 of you. Always great information and reminding me I need to get busy. Love Meg and all things herbs (we are fellow butterfly lovers and raisers).
Thank you lovelies soooo much! My daughter tells me I'm not a beginner gardener and for the most part, she is right....however watching this video excites me, because I know there is always something new to learn! Thanks Jacque! I'll sow my carrot seeds now....& I am also a chaos gardener and I especially love when plants self-seed :) I then dig them up and move and gift them. Take care! Love from Texas!
I like your posts. I don't think I have ever been disappointed. Now I find that I am enchanted by Meg. You guys are informative but she is that and so sweet. Now you really are Epic.
Something you might want to do is keep a garden journal. You will make mistakes, and you will have some successes. Write them down so you can learn from them. I'm 67 and had my first garden at 10, and still learn every year. I'll think "I'll try x" and sometimes "x" was a great idea, and sometimes it wasn't. You don't know until you try!
Because of videos such as yours my thumb gets a little greener every year.🙂 Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge. May God Bless you and keep always.
The love of basil and tomato plants together It's just when he lean over to go pick a tomato and there's basil growing underneath it Oh my goodness It just makes me so happy
Love that cutting board at the end. I'm in the Florida panhandle in Pensacola and know of at least 2 that grow a lot of ginger and then a lot of ginger varieties and treat absolutely as a perennial.
Fantastic!!!! I was starting some stuff in my aerogatdens but I need to plant more more more stuff! I obsessively collect seeds from my marigolds, nasturtiums, morning glories..ok everything I can get seeds from! This is so exciting for me in March. Thank you all! You madey day 🎉
We usually don’t plant until st patties day but I had a bunch of 2-3 inch eyes so I pulled them off and planted them half deep in pots and they’re all doing great inside. I put some outside and they got zapped with frost. I planted one in an old 2 liter and it was only a couple inches tall but the roots were at the bottom. So fun to experiment!
Potatoes are also easy to grow in the kind of nursery pots that a lot of good sized orchard and landscaping trees come in. I think the ones I'm thinking of are 20 gallons. They make harvesting easy too, since you can dump them out and sift through them for potatoes.
I just got home from buying my seed potatoes. I bought 4 varieties, one being a purple one. I got that one out of curiosity and fun. I will be planting them mid march for my area, along with onions, peas, carrots, beets, lettuce and spinach.
The best information for a balcony grower thank you very much ....and might i add love this style of learning keep going through the whole season with the insider tip tricks and hacks. Thank you again from Canada
Excellent video. I have always purchased my plants but in the last five years I have been starting my plants indoors. The learning curve to start things is huge. Every bit of share wisdom is priceless.
Hi Kevin, I really like this video. Nice to let different people have their say. I will definitely try the plants mentioned, which are suitable for my planting zone. Thank you for the information. Kind regards, Magda van den Burg. Utrecht, Netherlands Zone 8a
I really like the addition of the planting charts! So handy! I enjoy your videos and have been a long-time subscriber, but I was always sort of lost and a bit discouraged when it came to understanding the zones. Thank you for thinking of the noobs 🙂
Hey, I love this video, it got all of y’all together to put out a great video about many different plants and I think it’s the best one yet. Keep up the good work.
Fantastic video with great information. I like hearing explanation and more information from each 'presenter'. Also, I have always loved the gorgeous seed packets' artwork.
I would like to add a thought an kind of funny experience about sunflowers . I planted one sunflower, my son started at school , right next to my property line . While my son an I took care of this flower all spring anxiously awaiting to see it bloom an when it finally did ,only my neighbors got to see it , we only seen the back side lol The name sunflower is a hint it faces the RISING sun when it blooms . we should of put on the other side of the yard so we could see it when it bloomed 😂 Just keep that in mind when your picking a spot in your yard or garden .
Montanan here. Wishing March meant spring. The ground is still frozen solid down to about 5 feet. Overnight temps are still in single digits. I don't dare even start my indoor starts until April or they get too big before they can be put out, usually late May or early June. But I'm still enjoying watching gardening videos & dreaming of spring. Heck, dreaming of getting above freezing
Thank you for posting these videos! I've just bought my first home this month and started some seeds last week. Can't wait to start growing my garden now that I have the space to ☺
@@epicgardeningthank you so much!! my local nursery carries almost only botanical interests seeds so now I really feel like I can follow along with your videos!
@@dani_sabrina Right now I have started garlic, ginger, cabbage, and turmeric from cuttings or from roots I bought at the grocery store. The turmeric takes forever to sprout, but it's growing nicely. The ginger is the greatest success; it's huge. I have Matt's Wild Cherry tomato seed and seeds for a small carrot but I'm working on building a trellis for the tomatoes to grow on. I haven't planted them yet.
Beans are my pick, not just because beans are delicious, but in particular the bush beans are doing the best for me right now. I have a lot of old seeds that I've not used for several years due to health, so decided in January that I'd start chucking seeds in my self-watering pots outside. It's summer here in Australia, and in my particular climate we've had a weird mix of heat, rain and cooler weather. I didn't have much hopes for most of the seeds - it was mostly to see if anything was still good enough to germinate. However life got in the way again and I didn't get back out to see what had germinated for far longer than I'd planned. The Royal Burgundy beans were the only thing from the first batch to not only grow but survive the first several weeks of neglect 😂 They're now flowering, so I've chucked a whole heap more of the bush bean seeds from my old collection into the empty pots next to it, and I'm hopeful of getting some beans before the colder autumn/winter temperatures set in!
I’m in 8b too and I am champing on the bit to start chucking seeds in the ground! I’ve made the mistake of planting way too soon before and I’m just not going to do it and I’m going to control myself for at least two more weeks lol
I'm in zone 8a, like the woman in the video. I put ginger and turmeric straight in the ground years ago. After about 2 years the ginger didn't come back due to having it in a full shade location, but the turmeric is in a mostly shady area that gets some dappled sun in the morning and that comes back every year. I just planted ginger again in a part of the yard that gets sun. I'm not sure where she is but I'm in North GA and we have wild ginger that grows here, so that's why I decided to just put turmeric and ginger straight in the ground. I've actually never dug it up because the turmeric is so stunning for landscaping, but yeah... or does great here. Dies back in the fall and comes back on its own when it gets warm out. Same goes for my pepper plant (tree). I've never taken it out of the ground. It's been there for years. It's almost 5' tall. It's also in a mostly shaded area, so I have no doubt it would be much taller if it actually got sun, but it keeps coming back every year on its own. I'm considering moving it to a dint part of the yard but I'm a bit nervous I might damage it if I move out know that it's the size of a small tree.
❤ latana little Pom Pom flowers and if you trim and keep yr after yr they can get tall and bushy my fav flower. Also been getting into poppies as well ☺️
Love watching your content, a such a difference to what I'm sowing in the UK, I've found the last 2 years the sowing times are a few weeks off due to the inconsistent weather but that's the fun of gardening 🙏🌱
This video is excellent! you are all so knowledgeable and the suggestions are great, especially for those of us who are fairly new to gardening. Thank You!❤
As I shared with the competition pumpkin growers years ago.if you have a root-sensitive plant, cut a cheap nursery pot in two to the bottom and leave the bottom intact. Duct tape the pot back together and line with soy based ink newspaper (no colored, no shiny paper) then fill and water up and plant. To plant, cut or unwrap the tape, open pot, and carefully lift plant out and put in hole with newspaper on. In a week you will have a problem finding the paper. I have dug peat pots out a year later and they look almost unused, jiffy peat mesh or liner plug mesh, intact. Newspaper disappears quickly and doesn’t impede root growth. I made a starter pot block set, and make my own starter small pots from newspaper as well. Recycling, inexpensive, giving back to the earth.
Wow I hadn’t seen Meg! I follow her on Tik Tok she is amazing and I have learned a lot from her! You are all amazing 🤩 and are one of my favorite gardening creators ❤🎉 I have done many things different in my garden because of you 😊
Thank you for this! I have been procrastinating on planning my garden and this has given me a boost! I'm excited to look through my Bontantical interests seed catalog and I'm looking forward to picking out things to grow this year. 🥰
Love your channel, i bought your seeds and garlic and waiting on my birdies beds to get here. Cant wait for spring. Thanks for all the inspiration and information!
Fun fact, Nasturtium leaves are a natural antibiotic! Just eat the leaves right off the plant. The flowers are edible too and a great addition to salads “I’m partially color blind, it’s hard for me to tell, but that feels like a purple emotionally to me” 🥺 Liked and subbed! ❤🌱
We've added planting charts for all of our picks in these videos so you can translate our suggestions to your unique growing zone! - Kevin
Love that you're including growing zones and start times. This is so helpful! So much of what you guys can grow outdoors, I can't in my cold zone 4. Glad I didn't try planting ginger outside as it was something I was considering!
Took me a second to realize what you were saying lol but haricot means bean, and vert means green. I liked your pronunciation haha
This was a wonderful video. In regard to the charts, is the month when they can be started outdoors? Some are well before last frost date.
link to the planting charts? i know they were in the video, but do you have them on the blog?
Including the charts is awesome, and super helpful for those who may struggle with knowing when to plant certain crops!
Fun fact, Nasturtium leaves are a natural antibiotic! Just eat the leaves right off the plant. The flowers are edible too and a great addition to salads
Thanks for the tip🙂
Though I am not surprised; “God’s pharmacy” (aka nature) has many remedies.
You can tell that Meg is really getting more comfortable in front of the UA-cam audience. I remember when she was first featured on Epic. You guys found a gold mine with her. Keep her on! She fits right in with the two of you and you can tell how knowledgable she is about gardening. I love watching her tips and garden to table content on IG and TikTok and now I love watching her be more educational here. She is just a delight!
Aw thank you so much for the encouragement! What a sweet comment ❤
She's awesome!!!
Go Meg!🎉
It’s awesome having input from someone else who is an east coast zone 7 gardener. I’m up in Delaware, and I feel like our east coast climates are fickle compared to Cali.
@@meggrowsplants What part of NC are you in? I'm central, in the Triangle and we were just bumped up to 8a. I'm wondering how ginger and turmeric would do outside here.
“I’m partially color blind, it’s hard for me to tell, but that feels like a purple emotionally to me” 🥺
Liked and subbed! ❤🌱
I know, that was so charming!
He's fucking cute 😅🥰
Thanks for everything. I was thinking while at work last tonight, how impressive your accomplishments are. You took the #1 excuse of “I don’t have enough space to garden” and completely invalidated it through your own action and made gardening into a thriving/successful career of education. Awesome!
He is the best!!!
@Meg that trellis ! I need one!
lol “feels like a purple, emotionally” I love your videos guys
If you don't know what the color is, it doesn't make sense. Just get some of those glasses made for color blindness, then you would know!
@@carrier7399where can I purchased them? I understand that one needs alot of money and a prescription.
Love to hear Kevin say "a fairy-ish vibe" You've come a long way from just edible gardening.
LOL true.
This year with the major anxiety politics is generating this video are some of the only solace I can get, thank God for gardening!!!!
The comment of the year.
Your seed catalog is beautiful and filled with so much information on how to grow a garden! I've never seen a catalog like this before - amazing.
I love the planting charts. Very helpful for us who still have a while to go until we have good weather
Jacque!! Because of your carrot tips, I was able to get my carrots to germinate for the first time ever! 😭 The cardboard trick worked perfectly. Thank you!!
I started ginger at the beginning of last May 1, 2023 in Minnesota (Zone 4) and I ended up with +4 Lbs by the end of September when frost started to threaten in early October. I did not expect it to grow in the first place since I have a north exposure with maybe 3 hours of morning light at best, but it started to bloom at the 5-month mark until deer at the flowers and the shoots. The test was in a large 15" and hanging 11" Pot. This year I will be testing out Grow bags 3#(Pound) and 5# since they do not need depth to grow. Freezing turned the ginger to jelly so the variety I had does not seem to tolerate freezing. The companion Planting you posted was also helpful.
I'm starting ginger in my studio apartment in Minneapolis.
I really like that you are giving us species that grow well in containers. Thanks
Black beans and rice give me such energy without making me sleepy. I survived an entire year on a mix of dried bulk legumes I bought, a big bag of Himalayan brand white rice, and whatever I could grow in the yard(long story short I turned thirty and my mom decided it was time for me to move in with her again... Empty Nest Syndrome paired with NPD is real, and an abusive parent will do crazy crazy crazy things to get their way)
I feel for you. Take good care of yourself.
Honestly a really good combo, black beans & risce. Hope you're OK - Kevin
@@chickentender4037 Thanks, Tender and Kev. I am finally free, just over a year now. Thanks for looking out. 🫂🥂🌱🌼 May your gardens have fifteen percent more harvests this year!
Npd?
@@MeTreesndirt Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Love how you are talking about the vibe of your garden and your comment about how this flower emotionally feels like a purple to me.
Kevin, I cannot thank you enough for all sharing all the gardening tips with us.
Thank you for building my confidence as a gardener. I feel like watching your videos is like attending a “gardening university.”
I have learned so much from your tutorials.
We appreciate your passion for gardening.
We planted Sarpo Mira's from Wood Prairie Family Farms and had great results. Ordered 1 lb of seed potatoes,
which isn't much. We received 12 very small potatoes. Net results, 45+lbs, from 1 lb planted. We've managed to
keep about 40 egg sized potatoes we harvested to plant this Spring. Can't wait to get started.
Garlic is almost set it and forget it. 162 cloves fit nicely planted in a 4x8' raised bed, planted on a 5" grid.
Nice video TYFS All
That's an amazing variety - huge fan of Sarpo Mira myself - Kevin
I remember planting the potatoes on Good Friday every year when I was a youngster. It was thought to grow best because of the moon being in a certain position. Remember that Lent and Easter are always on a different period on the lunar calendar cycle. We also made our sauerkraut on a certain time of the moon because it was more desirable for fermentation. My Auntie said it kept the kraut a nice color. If you look at the Farmers Almanac when to plant it is based the Lunar Calendar also.
Cool!
Forever grateful to have stumbled across your channel back in 2021 during my pregnancy. Since then you all have been my little family’s go to for all things homesteading.
Grazie por todo! 🖤🌎
I love the purple basil I got and hot and spicy oregano. I just grow them under a grow light in the kitchen for easy access.
I've had great success with carrots by covering the seed bed with row cover - easy to keep moist until time to remove the cover. Great video, guys. Thank you!
Works so well!
Row cover is great for this, water passes through and you can see what's going on!
I must say, your introductory picture, shows your beautiful smile. And of course, we need more joy in the world. Thanks for sharing your smile and your knowledge😊
The planting chart is a great idea! Love you guys so much! So proud of your success and I’ve been a fan for years. Much love and continued success to you all! Hugs from Tejas!
💜🪴💐💜🪴💐💜🪴💐💜
You bet!!
i like this set up with the different zones. So many gardeners are in CA, FL and OR. Love the different zone.
I'm in Zone 4
Loved the format, production quality, and just enough details on planting and growing to help me feel encouraged, but not overwhelmed. Best video yet!
I love your channel so much, thank you for showing Meg more, I am in same zone. She is wonderful! (P.S. Dear Meg in my country (Slovakia) we call Marigold "the Stinky flowers" :)
Great timing. I’m making a garden this year, planted 4 apple trees last year and started some seeds last weekend. Can’t plant outside until Mother’s Day but I need the time for a lot of work to do to get ready.
Great information. Have been having great success in my small backyard garden here in Las Vegas Following a lot of your advice. Big admirer. You have encouraged me a lot. I have never gardened till 2 years ago when I stumbled on one of your video. Thanks for all you do.
Love to hear this - Kevin
I love the 3 of you. Always great information and reminding me I need to get busy. Love Meg and all things herbs (we are fellow butterfly lovers and raisers).
Thank you lovelies soooo much! My daughter tells me I'm not a beginner gardener and for the most part, she is right....however watching this video excites me, because I know there is always something new to learn! Thanks Jacque! I'll sow my carrot seeds now....& I am also a chaos gardener and I especially love when plants self-seed :) I then dig them up and move and gift them. Take care! Love from Texas!
I like your posts. I don't think I have ever been disappointed. Now I find that I am enchanted by Meg. You guys are informative but she is that and so sweet. Now you really are Epic.
I love how easy it is to grow potatoes! I rely heavily on marigolds and nasturtiums
just planted 10 lbs of potatoes into 6 rows. our fourth year growing them. very fun and tastes sooooo good
I just planted 5 potatoes in a large pot. I'm hoping they grow
Yeaaa! Its Meg again, love seeing her on here. Happy growing 💚
I’ve just bought a greenhouse and going to grow my own vegetables/fruit. I can’t wait. First time. Wish me luck😂
CONGRATS!!!
@@epicgardening Thank you☺️
You’re gonna do great, mandy🤍🤍
@@Proverbs_8_feeds_my_soul Thank you🤍
Something you might want to do is keep a garden journal. You will make mistakes, and you will have some successes. Write them down so you can learn from them. I'm 67 and had my first garden at 10, and still learn every year. I'll think "I'll try x" and sometimes "x" was a great idea, and sometimes it wasn't. You don't know until you try!
This is one of the most helpful Spring Garden planning video I have seen in years! THANK YOU!!
Because of videos such as yours my thumb gets a little greener every year.🙂
Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.
May God Bless you and keep always.
The love of basil and tomato plants together It's just when he lean over to go pick a tomato and there's basil growing underneath it Oh my goodness It just makes me so happy
Top notch info right here!!! I’m loving how you’ve transformed your lifestyle and your business. It’s truly inspirational! Cheers to you all!
This is getting me excited for gardening season. Always very informative videos with helpful tips and tricks. Thanks!
This was so helpful and is getting me excited. I’m planning out my second garden ever and was feeling nervous but this is giving me confidence.
Love seeing more of Meg she’s great
Agree!!
Love that cutting board at the end. I'm in the Florida panhandle in Pensacola and know of at least 2 that grow a lot of ginger and then a lot of ginger varieties and treat absolutely as a perennial.
Thanks!
Love linaria! I grew the fairy bouquet up here in Alaska last year. They just kept growing and growing all summer!
Fantastic!!!! I was starting some stuff in my aerogatdens but I need to plant more more more stuff! I obsessively collect seeds from my marigolds, nasturtiums, morning glories..ok everything I can get seeds from! This is so exciting for me in March. Thank you all! You madey day 🎉
We usually don’t plant until st patties day but I had a bunch of 2-3 inch eyes so I pulled them off and planted them half deep in pots and they’re all doing great inside. I put some outside and they got zapped with frost. I planted one in an old 2 liter and it was only a couple inches tall but the roots were at the bottom. So fun to experiment!
Love the experiment!
Potatoes are also easy to grow in the kind of nursery pots that a lot of good sized orchard and landscaping trees come in. I think the ones I'm thinking of are 20 gallons. They make harvesting easy too, since you can dump them out and sift through them for potatoes.
I just got home from buying my seed potatoes. I bought 4 varieties, one being a purple one. I got that one out of curiosity and fun. I will be planting them mid march for my area, along with onions, peas, carrots, beets, lettuce and spinach.
Enjoy! Such a fun process
The best information for a balcony grower thank you very much ....and might i add love this style of learning keep going through the whole season with the insider tip tricks and hacks. Thank you again from Canada
I just planted the little fingers and Tonda carrots last week, fingers crossed!❤😂
Excellent video. I have always purchased my plants but in the last five years I have been starting my plants indoors. The learning curve to start things is huge. Every bit of share wisdom is priceless.
Hi Kevin, I really like this video. Nice to let different people have their say. I will definitely try the plants mentioned, which are suitable for my planting zone. Thank you for the information. Kind regards, Magda van den Burg. Utrecht, Netherlands Zone 8a
I really like the addition of the planting charts! So handy! I enjoy your videos and have been a long-time subscriber, but I was always sort of lost and a bit discouraged when it came to understanding the zones. Thank you for thinking of the noobs 🙂
More improvements to come!
Thanks for the cardboard tip on the carrots!
This is the best channel… I am soon to build the garden I’ve always wanted and you just helped me so much! I’m a new sub and HUGE fan!😊
Glad to see you back! Big fan for years now👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
We enjoy watching and learning from you and Jacques.
You are both awesome!
Thank you!
I like the smell of French Marigolds, or at any rate, the ones that have acclimated to my garden after saving seeds for a number of years.
I'm really loving your new format of your channel. Its great to have the verity of other gardening experts. 😊
Hey, I love this video, it got all of y’all together to put out a great video about many different plants and I think it’s the best one yet. Keep up the good work.
Fantastic video with great information. I like hearing explanation and more information from each 'presenter'. Also, I have always loved the gorgeous seed packets' artwork.
Glad it was helpful!
I would like to add a thought an kind of funny experience about sunflowers . I planted one sunflower, my son started at school , right next to my property line . While my son an I took care of this flower all spring anxiously awaiting to see it bloom an when it finally did ,only my neighbors got to see it , we only seen the back side lol The name sunflower is a hint it faces the RISING sun when it blooms . we should of put on the other side of the yard so we could see it when it bloomed 😂 Just keep that in mind when your picking a spot in your yard or garden .
Montanan here. Wishing March meant spring. The ground is still frozen solid down to about 5 feet. Overnight temps are still in single digits. I don't dare even start my indoor starts until April or they get too big before they can be put out, usually late May or early June. But I'm still enjoying watching gardening videos & dreaming of spring. Heck, dreaming of getting above freezing
I live in Minnesota, first northern Minnesota (zone 3) and then in the Twin Cities - Minneapolis & St Paul (zone 4) so I feel ya!
Thank you for posting these videos! I've just bought my first home this month and started some seeds last week. Can't wait to start growing my garden now that I have the space to ☺
Congrats on your home!
I am a die-hard gardener and I now live in a studio apartment. I'm not letting that stop me: container gardening all over the place.
@@epicgardeningthank you so much!! my local nursery carries almost only botanical interests seeds so now I really feel like I can follow along with your videos!
@@susanmercurio1060I love that!! what have you personally had the most success in growing?
@@dani_sabrina Right now I have started garlic, ginger, cabbage, and turmeric from cuttings or from roots I bought at the grocery store.
The turmeric takes forever to sprout, but it's growing nicely. The ginger is the greatest success; it's huge.
I have Matt's Wild Cherry tomato seed and seeds for a small carrot but I'm working on building a trellis for the tomatoes to grow on. I haven't planted them yet.
This episode was packed with great info. Thank you.
As a fellow 8a grower, thanks for including our superstar Meg in your videos!
Excellent and timely spring garden presentation.
Beans are my pick, not just because beans are delicious, but in particular the bush beans are doing the best for me right now.
I have a lot of old seeds that I've not used for several years due to health, so decided in January that I'd start chucking seeds in my self-watering pots outside. It's summer here in Australia, and in my particular climate we've had a weird mix of heat, rain and cooler weather. I didn't have much hopes for most of the seeds - it was mostly to see if anything was still good enough to germinate. However life got in the way again and I didn't get back out to see what had germinated for far longer than I'd planned.
The Royal Burgundy beans were the only thing from the first batch to not only grow but survive the first several weeks of neglect 😂
They're now flowering, so I've chucked a whole heap more of the bush bean seeds from my old collection into the empty pots next to it, and I'm hopeful of getting some beans before the colder autumn/winter temperatures set in!
They're REALLY hard to beat. Love beans. - Kevin
I’d love an episode on bulb flowers sometime! Iris germanica (bearded iris) are my favorite flower, but I can’t seem to keep specific pests off them 🥲
Meg, I grow ginger as a perennial in 8b coastal NC with no problem.
I’m in 8b too and I am champing on the bit to start chucking seeds in the ground! I’ve made the mistake of planting way too soon before and I’m just not going to do it and I’m going to control myself for at least two more weeks lol
Crazy amount of wind here, however
Thank you for hearing our pain. Including zone information 😁
Galangal would be another good one to grow with your ginger and turmeric
I'm in zone 8a, like the woman in the video. I put ginger and turmeric straight in the ground years ago. After about 2 years the ginger didn't come back due to having it in a full shade location, but the turmeric is in a mostly shady area that gets some dappled sun in the morning and that comes back every year. I just planted ginger again in a part of the yard that gets sun. I'm not sure where she is but I'm in North GA and we have wild ginger that grows here, so that's why I decided to just put turmeric and ginger straight in the ground. I've actually never dug it up because the turmeric is so stunning for landscaping, but yeah... or does great here. Dies back in the fall and comes back on its own when it gets warm out.
Same goes for my pepper plant (tree). I've never taken it out of the ground. It's been there for years. It's almost 5' tall. It's also in a mostly shaded area, so I have no doubt it would be much taller if it actually got sun, but it keeps coming back every year on its own. I'm considering moving it to a dint part of the yard but I'm a bit nervous I might damage it if I move out know that it's the size of a small tree.
❤ latana little Pom Pom flowers and if you trim and keep yr after yr they can get tall and bushy my fav flower. Also been getting into poppies as well ☺️
Great suggestions!
Love the added zones. Sent The video to my sister in law (a beginner in her new zone) so helpful
Love watching your content, a such a difference to what I'm sowing in the UK, I've found the last 2 years the sowing times are a few weeks off due to the inconsistent weather but that's the fun of gardening 🙏🌱
Yeah it's SO hard to give good recs even to a single zone let alone the world!
Being in SW Florida. I do plant potatoes in the cooler months here and notice where I’ve planted. An abundance of earthworms in the soil. Yay!!🥔🪱
This video is excellent! you are all so knowledgeable and the suggestions are great, especially for those of us who are fairly new to gardening. Thank You!❤
This was so easy to understand. You taught me so much!
Loved to see you shared time with Becky from acrehomestead! I follow you both from almost 2021, love your explanations! 😊
Adding the starting times for the different zones... priceless!
Thanks for all these great tips!! I purchased grow bags first time and excited to try new things!! 🎉🎉🎉
Love it!
Your precious nature and surroundings will be a blessing for this new baby🌿🕊️
I’m in Vermont lol we just had a massive snowstorm and will have more cmon over and dig the frozen ground for me ok.
You may consider using the term, “scent” instead of smell. It is a unique fragrance with a purpose in the garden.
As I shared with the competition pumpkin growers years ago.if you have a root-sensitive plant, cut a cheap nursery pot in two to the bottom and leave the bottom intact. Duct tape the pot back together and line with soy based ink newspaper (no colored, no shiny paper) then fill and water up and plant. To plant, cut or unwrap the tape, open pot, and carefully lift plant out and put in hole with newspaper on. In a week you will have a problem finding the paper. I have dug peat pots out a year later and they look almost unused, jiffy peat mesh or liner plug mesh, intact. Newspaper disappears quickly and doesn’t impede root growth. I made a starter pot block set, and make my own starter small pots from newspaper as well. Recycling, inexpensive, giving back to the earth.
Thanks! I have raised beds built. Now I just need to level them and fill them !with soil.I can't wait to get started growing
You can do it!
I enjoy your guest growers and their input.
Wow I hadn’t seen Meg! I follow her on Tik Tok she is amazing and I have learned a lot from her! You are all amazing 🤩 and are one of my favorite gardening creators ❤🎉 I have done many things different in my garden because of you 😊
Yes! Someone referring to beans as a protein!!! Usually people mean meat! It’s like they’ve never heard of nuts seeds and beans
boy those charts you are showing!! i am in zone THREE, those start at five!!
Thank you!! I just started a potato bed and got carrot seeds as a gift, so excited carrots are on y’all’s recommended list 🙏
Thank you for all this useful information!! Tips really help! I'm planting new cross this year and this will help my success! ❤
Thank you for this! I have been procrastinating on planning my garden and this has given me a boost! I'm excited to look through my Bontantical interests seed catalog and I'm looking forward to picking out things to grow this year. 🥰
Best of luck!
Love your channel, i bought your seeds and garlic and waiting on my birdies beds to get here. Cant wait for spring. Thanks for all the inspiration and information!
Best of luck this season!
I grow these every year!!! Excellent choice. I harvest my seeds, stores here can’t find
Fun fact, Nasturtium leaves are a natural antibiotic! Just eat the leaves right off the plant. The flowers are edible too and a great addition to salads
“I’m partially color blind, it’s hard for me to tell, but that feels like a purple emotionally to me” 🥺
Liked and subbed! ❤🌱
0:43 potatoes! I got 3 sprouting like that light color one.
6 inches down. So odd to think that pickings🎉 to eat are indicated by dying leaves.
Meg is so adorable❤ laughed out loud at the stinky marigold face😂