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I've come to suspect that these sturdy, winter hardy vegs are how people got nutrition back in the day. Calories can come from canned veg or root cellar potatoes. Protein from game or smoked meats. But the nutrition in these veg are hard to beet.
I just finished making 8 pints of salsa, 27 pints of tomato sauce, 12 half-pints of strawberry-kiwi jelly, and 11 half-pints of pineapple preserves. In my freezers, I have turnip, mustard, Swiss chard, diced peppers, rutabaga, green beans, and assorted squash. In my garden, I have peppers still growing, strawberries, parsnips, carrots, beets, turnips, red cabbage, Komatsuna, Tatsoi, Yellow Heart Winter Choy, Napa Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and Pak Choi. Fusarium wilt took out my Dutch cabbage. In my herb garden, I have basil, comfrey, parsley, chicory, comfrey, rosemary, peppermint, spearmint, and oregano growing. Last is my orchard, a Meyers Lemon, Lapins Cherry, North Star, Stella Cherry, Yellow/Gold Plum, AU Rosa plum, two peach trees, a Honeycrisp apple tree, Fuji apple tree, and a Prairie Fire crabapple for a pollinator. I have a lot going on in my garden, and can’t wait to plant my winter garden. I have it all planned out, seeds on hand, or on order. Winter-spring will be my largest garden to date. Now it is harvest time for Swiss Chard, Komatsuna, Tatsoi, Yellow Heart Winter Choi, and Pak Choi. I grow about 90 percent of the fruit and vegetables I need, and plenty of extra for family, friends, and neighbors.
WOW, what a garden. I think I'd like to come live with you. Do you want to get married by chance. LOL. 😂😂 I'm already married. We just moved last year. So I have 4 raised beds & and am planning more beds next year. Everything did well this year except my zucchini and yellow squash. Squash borers got them. Darn, my luck. Do you have any words of wisdom to get rid of squash borers next year? If you do, thank you in advance. Happy gardening. 😅😅
@@biscuit7910 You can spray them with water and Dawn dish soap. It is the degreaser that kills them. Also, they do not like the smell of wood ash. A dusting with it will chase them away.
You inspired us this fall/winter. We are growing collards outside here in Boston. There is something special about keeping some plants from the fall garden going.
I am so glad you are doing this. I moved to the EU in 2019 and this year I am begining to revitilize the family farm. I saw first hand what Brexit did to food security and it was an abysmal self inflicted shot wound. When all the farm labour gets disappeared from the states, you all are gonna need these skills. Good luck guys e tanti baci d'Italia. 😘 Growing my carrots .....
I tried beets for the first time this year, I roasted them in the oven, and they were surprisingly very good. I’m going to grow these in my garden. Note: eating beets will turn your 💩 purple. 🙊
I grow the ice sickle radish and cook them with bacon and eggs for tacos. But I also cook the greens and root like turnips. It's really really good. Beets, radishes and turnips are in the ground along with cabbage
Rutabega is fabulous in corned beef and cabbage. I always add them and parsnips to the pot. The perfume from the rutabaga is so important to my recipe.
I garden in zone 6-7 I harvest my beets in October I store them in damp sand in an unheated shop. They last me into April to May most years. I juice with them everyday. Very sweet all Winter!
From Eastern side of Central NC. Here are some more you can grow in the winter. Parsnips ... they will take longer than carrots to mature. Try Hakurei turnips. They are not like the typical turnips. They are great raw. Konan kohlrabi is great too. I grow FAVA beans as well. Peppermint Chard grows great in the winter here too. Senposi is a mild collard if you don't like the bitter.
I’m glad you mentioned that all radishes are not ready in 30 days because mine weren’t ready on Tuesday and I planted them Oct, 1, they are doing well though.
Parsnips! I developed a love of parsnips oven roasted with carrots and a bit of olive oil and seasoning. I didn't know they can survive such low temperatures, so I thought my zone 4a growing season wasn't long enough to grow them. Thanks to you, now I know I can. And I didn't know beets could do so well in colder weather too. Thank you so much :)
Can't wait to try next year. I feel like I lost out on some of these now for this winter, but still have a ton of greens and many of the brassica flavors. We ate so man collards like winter along with beans that my Iron was actually at the top end of normal.
I let some flower in the spring and plant them after the weather starts to cool off. They had 2 kinds, one was a spicy mix and the other was mild, but both had a good mix of greens that grow just like regular seeds. Just because it says micro greens, they will still grow into normal plants.
I did the same with those micro-greens to see what I’d get. I had Choi and Kales. Have more growing volunteer mow, with many from bolted plants. I like to cut and come again and they provide more than enough for me, easy and nutritious ! 😊
@ that’s great! I went to a church Christmas bizarre/craft fair/ yard sale and they had 2024 packets of seeds for 10 cents each! I bought $20 worth, but even better, I went back the second day and all the seeds they had left were free. So I picked up some more. It was such a good deal. And last fall I lucked out and was at Walmart when they put almost all the garden supplies on their parking lot for $1. Peat moss, garden soil, sand, pavers, mulch, even some small bags of miracle grow indoor potting mix. I made 4 trips in my tiny car but only spent about $145, on probably $1,500 worth of soil. I got 140 bags including 10 huge bags of peat and 57 bags of miracle grow. I was so lucky. I topped up all the raised beds, and put in 2 new ones and I only have about 10 bags left.
Those plastic hoop structures won't withstand snow load. I use hardy fence wire formed into a U shape and raise it up, held in place by stakes. Then I cover the whole thing with row covers, and right now with blankets and 6 mil plastic at night due to long hard freezes. It works great.
Hi Anthony, You're the reason why I got into gardening 2 years ago and Dale, of course 🙂 I've been fertilizing my citrus trees and garden the way you show on your videos it's almost "robotic"now like you said 🙂🌻always enjoy watching Dale
I grew up eating rutabaga and potatoes boiled together and then mashed (butter, milk, etc) I think rutabaga now have a much more mild flavor than they did 50 years ago. But my favorite was taking the rutabaga and potato mash the next day cold, smash it out, flour both sides, and then fry them. Delicious!
Turnips are ok. They grow fairly easily but once you have rutabagas you'll forget turnips and grow them instead. And like turnips you can eat the tops as greens. And they taste better than turnip greens as well 😊
@tankscape they basically just taste like rutabagas. Kinda how broccoli leaves just taste like broccoli or sweet potato leaves taste like sweet potatoes. . But I would describe rutabagas to taste like a mix between irish potatoes and sweet potatoes. Anyway I just cook them like any other greens such as collards or mustard
@@robertantolik2146 awesome info. We use to eat rutabagas from the store on occasion and loved them except hard as hell to cut. Freaking missed the boat this year, but have room to add in with all our brassicas next year.
We had white turnips with their greens, picked golf ball sized, washed but not pealed, quartered, cooked in chicken broth, a bit of bacon and grease, pepper, and they were delicious! You can dice up other veggies and make it a soup, mix in small new potatoes, chicken meats, now you are cooking!
Sounds like you're headed in the whole food plant based direction. Bravo! So many benefits all around. It's the journey I'm as well. In the process of adding 2-3 more raised beds in my backyard to become even more self-sufficient and save in the long run. Great video.
Grains and dry beans are around 300-400 kcal/100g in their storage state, can be grown at home, they can store for years. Nuts and oilseeds are usually 450-700 kcal/ 100g and also store well compactly. If you need fruit and live in a place thats too cold for citrus and persimmons, some apples can last a few months to a year in a basement or root cellar and some pears a few months, make sure to get storage varieties.
I’m planting all of your recommendations this week plus lots of greens,Asian greens and garlic.I’ve never tried growing parsnips and rutabagas but planning to try them,too.
I planted collards last year and wasn't crazy about them. Then in the middle of Winter after a couple of freezes I picked some and it was like a different vegetable. Mild, sweet and very tasty. So let it freeze
Great and helpful video! I'm in ATL and still getting tons of tomatoes, peppers, carrots, lettuce, spinach, snow peas, parsely, chives. I'm hoping the cabbage does something, but not ever sure when to plant that here. It's only now getting cooler.
Good information- I live up in Truckee, California so my ground is already frozen. However, I have been harvesting arugula until recently, and I know come spring it and some very cold-hardy lettuce varieties will pop up along with snow bells and crocus. Great advice getting some of the dried stables such as beans, lentils and rice. I also think having a water filtration system like Sawyers or similar ( I have one because I like to camp in the back country) is a great idea for unforeseen situations. They are not that expensive and access to clean drinking water is essential. So is being kind, compassionate and caring. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us.
Beets are my jam. I'd eaten canned beets before and they were okay (I don't mind that telltale earthy flavor.) but the first time I roasted a whole beet... OH MY GOODNESS it was SO delicious! Just throw them unpeeled in the air fryer or oven until done (about 30 minutes - one hour depending on size) and the skin just comes right off. And sweet? Soooooo good! I will always love beets! Also, I'm in zone 7b and my lacinato kale made it through neg 10° F one winter.
Awesome info. God bless you for sharing your knowledge. You can also pressure can meats. May not have electricity. Just make sure to follow instructions carefully. I've got some meats left from 2 years ago. Still looks good & tastes good. I feel sure some of the nutrition has been lost but that's ok too in a pinch for hard times. ❤❤❤ you channel. I do look forward to every video.
I appreciate the nutritional info! Love beet greens here in Western/Piedmont NC. Growing Swiss Chard, lots of herbs, garlic, leeks, and still have peppers, too.
Great Video but where I live we are currently in Spring or really Summer as the temps are around 30C daily, but I love learning from you so for winter I will be prepared. I grow & can a lot of my produce & yes it helps the budget. Have a Great Day Cheers Denise- Australia😃😃
Thank you very much. I did not realize how cold hardy some vegies are until listening to your channel. Here in Saskatchewan we cannot grow all year but can extend our short season. We grow Rutabaga instead of turnip as I like them much more. We often mash them like a potato after they are steamed until soft. Sometimes I even mix them with mashed potatoes. Very tasty. 😁
We are moving into a house that we will finally be able to do some gardening at in a week, I was worried that we wouldn’t be able to start until the spring but now I’m excited to start planting as soon as we move in! (We will be doing a lot of planning and building of raised beds during the winter too!)
I live in Chicago zone 6 and I grow the lacinato kale, It is like 3 feet high and very prolific. My dwarf blue didn’t make it this year for some reason. I am going to cover the bed with plastic when the colder weather comes and I hope to have a couple survive so I can collect seeds. I usually chop them all down and start over. I still have a lot of arugula, rapini and other greens to harvest. I either freeze or jar some. SHTF 🙏 Be careful of those gators. 😊
This is really valuable. We had great success last winter and summer as I expanded the garden here near Raleigh. But limited to mostly collards with a smaller number of kale and broccoli plants. This winter I added Brussel sprouts & cauliflower and more plants overall. You've identified some great options. Did not know about cold tolerant lettuce. Feel like I missed out on the parsnips, carrots, beets and kohlrabi. These will add a lot more diversity next year. One thing we did with the summer garden this year that has been helpful was make large batches of what I call veggie chili. Shredded squash and tomato sauce as a base with chickpeas and whatever chopped veggies were producing at the time like eggplant, green beans, peppers, okra, etc. I literally had two of our freezers packed with these meals in cheap 1 qt walmart food containers. I've pressure canned in the past, but lost motivation, so this is a great way to have summer food ready to eat. Also great on a bed of fresh winter greens. We may be a step ahead as proposed actions in the near future could inflate the cost of produce. I feel your channel will get even more popular next year. As a vegan, I loved your comment about rice and beans. Blows my mind more people do not center a diet around grains and beans. Just did a bulk buy on chickpeas, pintos, black beans and lentils. $1-2/lb for dried legumes or lintels is crazy cheap. Cooked $3 worth of chickpeas in the instapot yesterday that made two big containers of hummus and another container of chick peas to add as a side to meals. This $3 of chickpeas provide nutrition for my wife and I every dinner for 2 weeks. Hummus and my own-made flaxseed crackers are half my lunch everyday just about. That will last 2-3 weeks. All that for the cost of one serving of french fries at McDs.
Great video! Can you recommend a way I can build the hoop structure over my metal beds? Half my garden is wood beds and half metal. I built the structures over my wood beds but haven’t figured out how to do it over my metal beds. Thanks ❤
Try getting some of the 4ft 3/8" rebar pieces in the concrete aisle in Lowe's or Home Depot. Pound them 30 inches into the ground. 1/2 inch electrical conduit will slip right over them like a glove.
I want to try rootabegas, parsnips and turnips. We eat a lot of potatoes so would like to find a wintertime replacement bc our winters get down to high 20s for a few hours a night for a few hours a night. One thing Id love is more advice on is how to garden in a survival situation like how to make fertilizer and organic pesticides with things you can grow. Like how can we garden without the garden store. Propagating seeds. Etc Thanks!
Excellent video. In the comments I see many good suggestions for preparing these vegetables . I hope you will share how you prepare them and what you like and dislike about them. 🐾Hello to Dale🐾
I have had turnips survive a brief cold snap, with snow cover, down to -20F. Collards also survived that with cover, but flowered very early in the following spring--well before the last frost. Not on the list, but something that will yield all year long, year after year, including during the winter months is bunching onions, provided you get a true perennial variety (Allium fistulosum). Look for a variety name that implies an Asian origin if you're not sure of your variety. Use a few inches of mulch, and cut back to the ground rather than pulling the plants to have green onions (32 cal/100g) pretty much indefinitely.
Excellent info - and agree with you about if SHTF … With your tips and encouragement, I harvested about 120lbs of tomatoes this summer (in a TINY space) - so I think I can make this work, too! Thanks for all your info and resource links. It’s helped me get an irrigation system set up which has served me well 2 summers now, and I’m in the process of adding a rain barrel!
I planted red Russian kale and lancinato kale this fall. The red kale is taking off as the weather gets colder and colder. Zone 7a, the coldest nighttime we had at this point in mid November is mid 30sF
@TheMillennialGardener Thank you for highlighting Collard Greens. So many Garden Content Contributors tend to highlight Kale all the time and not Collard Greens. I enjoyed this video. I’m going to start growing parsnip now. 🙂
Appreciated the cold hardy list of nutrient rich vegetables and the serving tips. A similar slant towards the storing possibilities of winter vegetables in root cellars or generally below ground smaller storage chambers to carry those foods through for summer diets could supplement freezer space, especially for bulkier, staple foods which require considerable space. Nutrient density v storage space v energy costs could favour small cellar type storage and justify surplus planting. Your pragmatic approach would be valuable. Would this suit other followers of the channel?
Just planted 100 organic garlic, in WI, from my last harvest. Other than " Winterborer" kale, I've never had a crop that could survive WI winters. My freezer is full of tomatoes. My basement is full of potatoes.
This was so great!! 🤩 Thank you!!! But as a true novice here, can you make a video on watering in colder zones? 🥴 (I’m in 7a, and it’s my first winter growing 🤞)
You're welcome! Watering is an individual situation. I don't like making videos on when to water, because it's based on weather. Evaporation happens slowly this time of year, so you need to check your soil. Stick your finger 2 inches into the soil. If it's dry, water. If it isn't, don't water.
All the makings for great soups and stews. These are my favorites. I am working on more raised beds and hope to have a survival garden. Right now my lettuce is fantastic and such a treat. Hey, can you show how you store your fresh grown veggies? The lettuce we eat right away, but I want to learn to can other things. Do you freeze a lot of your vegetables? Just curious and I think it would be a great video.
Anthony please post follow up videos about your experience with the seeds you mentioned. I’m west of you in the Asheville area and wanting to expand my growing season all year. Not sure how or when to start. Maybe too late for this winter 🤷🏻♀️
Have you or could you do a video on harvesting and storing your produce? How much waste do you end up with? We are in the beginning stages of doing a food garden and are running into what do we do once they produce.
Thanks for the informative video. I live in zone 6b. Are there any seeds that I can plant now to add to my winter garden? I do have the hoops installed with the frost cloth and 24, 5 gallon buckets of veggies already growing. TIA.
The only one I have grown on your list in the winter is the New Red Leaf lettuce. Very impressive variety, even when it warms up some! Plan to add some other crops on your list. Thank you for all your work!
I LOVE New Red Fire! I discovered it last year and it was my favorite red lettuce ever. And bulletproof in my winter. We hit 17F and it didn’t get even a bit of bronzing with a little ag fabric above it.
The dinosaur kale would be a great sacrificial plant. Put it near a chicken coop and the chickens will be well fed as the worms will flock away from the garden and to the coop. Kale is also as high in iron as spinach which is good for chicken health.
I'm having a renewed sense that gardening may have more utility than "just" my hobby 😬 I really hope that I can nail root crops eventually. I feel good about potatoes. But not beets, radish, parsnip, etc. This time around squirrels are eating beet leaves and swiss chard! Daikon radish has hope though.
I ordered Winter Giant Spinach seeds but have to wait to plant until consistently below 65 degrees then sow them. I have several 2nd year Dino Kale Collards and a Swiss chard
Thanks for your videos. My question is if I can take my tomato plants indoors and overwinter if they are determinate. I also am putting up a lean to cheap greenhouse against the south side of the house and assume any peppers or tomatoes I put in it would be good to approximately 25 deg F without heat. My plants are in containers so if it got colder than 25 I'd bring them inside. Last two years it went to zero deg F and I'm in zone 7a Mississippi. Looking for a wireless temp transmitter to put in the greenhouse so I know its temperature.
Some varieties of winter squash can last over a year at room temperatures and a good source of calories about 20-100kcal/100g (thats higer in calories than potatoes on the higher end) the dried seeds are a good source of fat, protein and minerals as well with around 400-600kcal/100g
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4:41 Survival Crop #4
5:45 Survival Crop #5
7:10 Survival Crop #6
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12:08 Survival Crop #9
13:19 Survival Crop #10
15:16 How To Store Food In Any Climate
18:15 Adventures With Dale
At 15:04 you said "33% protein PER GRAM." I think you meant PER CALORIE, like the rest of the times you talked about protein. Right?
I've come to suspect that these sturdy, winter hardy vegs are how people got nutrition back in the day. Calories can come from canned veg or root cellar potatoes. Protein from game or smoked meats. But the nutrition in these veg are hard to beet.
I just finished making 8 pints of salsa, 27 pints of tomato sauce, 12 half-pints of strawberry-kiwi jelly, and 11 half-pints of pineapple preserves. In my freezers, I have turnip, mustard, Swiss chard, diced peppers, rutabaga, green beans, and assorted squash.
In my garden, I have peppers still growing, strawberries, parsnips, carrots, beets, turnips, red cabbage, Komatsuna, Tatsoi, Yellow Heart Winter Choy, Napa Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and Pak Choi. Fusarium wilt took out my Dutch cabbage.
In my herb garden, I have basil, comfrey, parsley, chicory, comfrey, rosemary, peppermint, spearmint, and oregano growing. Last is my orchard, a Meyers Lemon, Lapins Cherry, North Star, Stella Cherry, Yellow/Gold Plum, AU Rosa plum, two peach trees, a Honeycrisp apple tree, Fuji apple tree, and a Prairie Fire crabapple for a pollinator.
I have a lot going on in my garden, and can’t wait to plant my winter garden. I have it all planned out, seeds on hand, or on order. Winter-spring will be my largest garden to date. Now it is harvest time for Swiss Chard, Komatsuna, Tatsoi, Yellow Heart Winter Choi, and Pak Choi. I grow about 90 percent of the fruit and vegetables I need, and plenty of extra for family, friends, and neighbors.
WOW, what a garden. I think I'd like to come live with you. Do you want to get married by chance. LOL. 😂😂 I'm already married.
We just moved last year. So I have 4 raised beds & and am planning more beds next year. Everything did well this year except my zucchini and yellow squash.
Squash borers got them. Darn, my luck. Do you have any words of wisdom to get rid of squash borers next year? If you do, thank you in advance. Happy gardening. 😅😅
@@biscuit7910 You can spray them with water and Dawn dish soap. It is the degreaser that kills them. Also, they do not like the smell of wood ash. A dusting with it will chase them away.
@jaytoney3007 Thank you so very much for the info. I certainly will use it. God bless. 😊
Impressive to say the least 🎉❤
wow! THAT'S awesome!
Rutabaga boiled then mashed with butter served with peas and gravy from a nice roast is real comfort food!
You inspired us this fall/winter. We are growing collards outside here in Boston. There is something special about keeping some plants from the fall garden going.
Outstanding! I think you'll be impressed with how long they'll survive. They may even make it through winter.
I am so glad you are doing this. I moved to the EU in 2019 and this year I am begining to revitilize the family farm. I saw first hand what Brexit did to food security and it was an abysmal self inflicted shot wound. When all the farm labour gets disappeared from the states, you all are gonna need these skills. Good luck guys e tanti baci d'Italia. 😘 Growing my carrots .....
I tried beets for the first time this year, I roasted them in the oven, and they were surprisingly very good. I’m going to grow these in my garden.
Note: eating beets will turn your 💩 purple. 🙊
I'm glad to see you covering this topic! ❤
Thank you! I think it is important.
I grow the ice sickle radish and cook them with bacon and eggs for tacos. But I also cook the greens and root like turnips. It's really really good. Beets, radishes and turnips are in the ground along with cabbage
Rutabega is fabulous in corned beef and cabbage. I always add them and parsnips to the pot. The perfume from the rutabaga is so important to my recipe.
I garden in zone 6-7 I harvest my beets in October I store them in damp sand in an unheated shop. They last me into April to May most years. I juice with them everyday. Very sweet all Winter!
Spoken like a true Italian! "Sauteed in olive oil, garlic and red pepper" 😂 don't forget to saute an anchovy too and serve with pecorino romano 😋
From Eastern side of Central NC. Here are some more you can grow in the winter. Parsnips ... they will take longer than carrots to mature. Try Hakurei turnips. They are not like the typical turnips. They are great raw. Konan kohlrabi is great too. I grow FAVA beans as well. Peppermint Chard grows great in the winter here too. Senposi is a mild collard if you don't like the bitter.
Italians said as long as you have fava beans, you'll never be hungry
I’m glad you mentioned that all radishes are not ready in 30 days because mine weren’t ready on Tuesday and I planted them Oct, 1, they are doing well though.
Parsnips! I developed a love of parsnips oven roasted with carrots and a bit of olive oil and seasoning. I didn't know they can survive such low temperatures, so I thought my zone 4a growing season wasn't long enough to grow them. Thanks to you, now I know I can. And I didn't know beets could do so well in colder weather too. Thank you so much :)
Can't wait to try next year. I feel like I lost out on some of these now for this winter, but still have a ton of greens and many of the brassica flavors. We ate so man collards like winter along with beans that my Iron was actually at the top end of normal.
Try seasoning with pumpkin pie spice.
I bought a micro greens mix from dollar general for $1 and it’s a mix of kales, cabbage, and mustards and it’s a great spring and fall crop.
I let some flower in the spring and plant them after the weather starts to cool off. They had 2 kinds, one was a spicy mix and the other was mild, but both had a good mix of greens that grow just like regular seeds. Just because it says micro greens, they will still grow into normal plants.
I did the same with those micro-greens to see what I’d get. I had Choi and Kales. Have more growing volunteer mow, with many from bolted plants. I like to cut and come again and they provide more than enough for me, easy and nutritious ! 😊
@ that’s great! I went to a church Christmas bizarre/craft fair/ yard sale and they had 2024 packets of seeds for 10 cents each! I bought $20 worth, but even better, I went back the second day and all the seeds they had left were free. So I picked up some more. It was such a good deal. And last fall I lucked out and was at Walmart when they put almost all the garden supplies on their parking lot for $1. Peat moss, garden soil, sand, pavers, mulch, even some small bags of miracle grow indoor potting mix. I made 4 trips in my tiny car but only spent about $145, on probably $1,500 worth of soil. I got 140 bags including 10 huge bags of peat and 57 bags of miracle grow. I was so lucky. I topped up all the raised beds, and put in 2 new ones and I only have about 10 bags left.
Thank you! Youre a terrific teacher.
Those plastic hoop structures won't withstand snow load. I use hardy fence wire formed into a U shape and raise it up, held in place by stakes. Then I cover the whole thing with row covers, and right now with blankets and 6 mil plastic at night due to long hard freezes. It works great.
Hi Anthony, You're the reason why I got into gardening 2 years ago and Dale, of course 🙂 I've been fertilizing my citrus trees and garden the way you show on your videos it's almost "robotic"now like you said 🙂🌻always enjoy watching Dale
I grew up eating rutabaga and potatoes boiled together and then mashed (butter, milk, etc) I think rutabaga now have a much more mild flavor than they did 50 years ago. But my favorite was taking the rutabaga and potato mash the next day cold, smash it out, flour both sides, and then fry them. Delicious!
Turnips are ok. They grow fairly easily but once you have rutabagas you'll forget turnips and grow them instead. And like turnips you can eat the tops as greens. And they taste better than turnip greens as well 😊
can you describe the flavor of rutabaga greens? Interested in growing them but not really sure how to cook the greens.
@tankscape they basically just taste like rutabagas. Kinda how broccoli leaves just taste like broccoli or sweet potato leaves taste like sweet potatoes. . But I would describe rutabagas to taste like a mix between irish potatoes and sweet potatoes. Anyway I just cook them like any other greens such as collards or mustard
@@robertantolik2146 i see, i see. thank you for responding!
@@robertantolik2146 awesome info. We use to eat rutabagas from the store on occasion and loved them except hard as hell to cut. Freaking missed the boat this year, but have room to add in with all our brassicas next year.
Planted my first fall/winter garden and my carrots & beets are doing great!
Always on the Thanksgiving table is mashed rutabaga..... made just the same as mashed potatoes ❤
We had white turnips with their greens, picked golf ball sized, washed but not pealed, quartered, cooked in chicken broth, a bit of bacon and grease, pepper, and they were delicious! You can dice up other veggies and make it a soup, mix in small new potatoes, chicken meats, now you are cooking!
Sounds like you're headed in the whole food plant based direction. Bravo! So many benefits all around. It's the journey I'm as well. In the process of adding 2-3 more raised beds in my backyard to become even more self-sufficient and save in the long run. Great video.
Wow, great info! Thank you!
I love this topic SO much! Thank you. What a helpful, inspiring video.
You’re welcome! I’m happy I could share some inspiration!
Thank so much you always make my dull day to a bright one
We eat Collard greens thru out the Winter. Extremely cold tolerant Zone 6-7 here.
And they’re SO GOOD!
Grains and dry beans are around 300-400 kcal/100g in their storage state, can be grown at home, they can store for years. Nuts and oilseeds are usually 450-700 kcal/ 100g and also store well compactly. If you need fruit and live in a place thats too cold for citrus and persimmons, some apples can last a few months to a year in a basement or root cellar and some pears a few months, make sure to get storage varieties.
Love this COLD WEATHER LIST of VEGGIES! Thank you!
You’re welcome! Glad you found it useful.
Thank you , i put the garden to rest a little bit. Growing garlic, spinach, beets, Kale. I think its going to be fun in the winter time.
I’m planting all of your recommendations this week plus lots of greens,Asian greens and garlic.I’ve never tried growing parsnips and rutabagas but planning to try them,too.
You are the GOAT of veggies. This video is so helpful and hopeful. Thank you for doing what you do and growing what you grow.
Thank you! I appreciate it very much. I’m glad it could be motivating.
Wow! Great video, and the comment section is just as good! Learning so much from both!
Absolutely a helpful video. Not just in religion but also “experts “ are sayings food WILL cost 25-30% more in 2025
I planted collards last year and wasn't crazy about them. Then in the middle of Winter after a couple of freezes I picked some and it was like a different vegetable. Mild, sweet and very tasty. So let it freeze
What a great video. Thanks for the encouragement.
Thank you for your nutrition facts. I'll be trying some new varieties now!!
You're welcome!
I recently discovered garleeks and they are soooo delicious!! We get them from misfit markets and probably won't see them in a store for years 😂
Great and helpful video! I'm in ATL and still getting tons of tomatoes, peppers, carrots, lettuce, spinach, snow peas, parsely, chives. I'm hoping the cabbage does something, but not ever sure when to plant that here. It's only now getting cooler.
Thanks for another great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you! Great advice and information! Happy Gardening!
You are an incredibly sufficient in your delivery of very much appreciated information to the gardeners. Thank you!
Good information- I live up in Truckee, California so my ground is already frozen. However, I have been harvesting arugula until recently, and I know come spring it and some very cold-hardy lettuce varieties will pop up along with snow bells and crocus.
Great advice getting some of the dried stables such as beans, lentils and rice. I also think having a water filtration system like Sawyers or similar ( I have one because I like to camp in the back country) is a great idea for unforeseen situations. They are not that expensive and access to clean drinking water is essential. So is being kind, compassionate and caring. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us.
Water filtration is something I really should do…
I had the opposite experience with my kales in 6a Nebraska! Blue Curled Scotch kale and red curled Rock! Ornimental and tender to eat!
Beets are my jam. I'd eaten canned beets before and they were okay (I don't mind that telltale earthy flavor.) but the first time I roasted a whole beet... OH MY GOODNESS it was SO delicious! Just throw them unpeeled in the air fryer or oven until done (about 30 minutes - one hour depending on size) and the skin just comes right off. And sweet? Soooooo good! I will always love beets!
Also, I'm in zone 7b and my lacinato kale made it through neg 10° F one winter.
Awesome info. God bless you for sharing your knowledge. You can also pressure can meats. May not have electricity. Just make sure to follow instructions carefully. I've got some meats left from 2 years ago. Still looks good & tastes good. I feel sure some of the nutrition has been lost but that's ok too in a pinch for hard times. ❤❤❤ you channel. I do look forward to every video.
My favorite are collards here in N FL. Try Caldo Gallego
Thanks. These are great ideas!
I have several of these planted and will soon add more. I also love growing Swiss chard and spinach over the winter.
Rutabagas are great,I love cabbage and that's what rutagpbagas taste like to me,I love rutabagas
If someone told me that I would have tried them before! Adding to my menu soon, thank you!
I’ll be trying them for the first time. I’m excited to try something new.
Yes... Just like a cabbage that has been compressed into a small hard ball. That's nutrient density!
I appreciate the nutritional info! Love beet greens here in Western/Piedmont NC. Growing Swiss Chard, lots of herbs, garlic, leeks, and still have peppers, too.
I like Red Russian Kale the best and it actually survives freezing due to a cellular system that has a anti freeze type property! Wow
I’m in south Texas but we can get some odd freezes. I’m planting beets, leeks, radishes, cauliflower, parsnip and potatoes.
Zone 8a here, Swiss Chard and Bok Choy do well all winter.
Great Video but where I live we are currently in Spring or really Summer as the temps are around 30C daily, but I love learning from you so for winter I will be prepared. I grow & can a lot of my produce & yes it helps the budget. Have a Great Day Cheers Denise- Australia😃😃
Oven roasted rutabagas and parsnips are to die for.
Thank you very much. I did not realize how cold hardy some vegies are until listening to your channel. Here in Saskatchewan we cannot grow all year but can extend our short season.
We grow Rutabaga instead of turnip as I like them much more. We often mash them like a potato after they are steamed until soft. Sometimes I even mix them with mashed potatoes. Very tasty. 😁
a tuch of nuttmag, some god fat and hole milk ore cream, then were talking:)
We are moving into a house that we will finally be able to do some gardening at in a week, I was worried that we wouldn’t be able to start until the spring but now I’m excited to start planting as soon as we move in! (We will be doing a lot of planning and building of raised beds during the winter too!)
I live in Chicago zone 6 and I grow the lacinato kale, It is like 3 feet high and very prolific. My dwarf blue didn’t make it this year for some reason. I am going to cover the bed with plastic when the colder weather comes and I hope to have a couple survive so I can collect seeds. I usually chop them all down and start over. I still have a lot of arugula, rapini and other greens to harvest. I either freeze or jar some.
SHTF 🙏
Be careful of those gators. 😊
Thank you it was very informative
This is really valuable. We had great success last winter and summer as I expanded the garden here near Raleigh. But limited to mostly collards with a smaller number of kale and broccoli plants. This winter I added Brussel sprouts & cauliflower and more plants overall. You've identified some great options. Did not know about cold tolerant lettuce. Feel like I missed out on the parsnips, carrots, beets and kohlrabi. These will add a lot more diversity next year.
One thing we did with the summer garden this year that has been helpful was make large batches of what I call veggie chili. Shredded squash and tomato sauce as a base with chickpeas and whatever chopped veggies were producing at the time like eggplant, green beans, peppers, okra, etc. I literally had two of our freezers packed with these meals in cheap 1 qt walmart food containers. I've pressure canned in the past, but lost motivation, so this is a great way to have summer food ready to eat. Also great on a bed of fresh winter greens.
We may be a step ahead as proposed actions in the near future could inflate the cost of produce. I feel your channel will get even more popular next year.
As a vegan, I loved your comment about rice and beans. Blows my mind more people do not center a diet around grains and beans. Just did a bulk buy on chickpeas, pintos, black beans and lentils. $1-2/lb for dried legumes or lintels is crazy cheap. Cooked $3 worth of chickpeas in the instapot yesterday that made two big containers of hummus and another container of chick peas to add as a side to meals. This $3 of chickpeas provide nutrition for my wife and I every dinner for 2 weeks. Hummus and my own-made flaxseed crackers are half my lunch everyday just about. That will last 2-3 weeks. All that for the cost of one serving of french fries at McDs.
Great video! Can you recommend a way I can build the hoop structure over my metal beds? Half my garden is wood beds and half metal. I built the structures over my wood beds but haven’t figured out how to do it over my metal beds. Thanks ❤
Try getting some of the 4ft 3/8" rebar pieces in the concrete aisle in Lowe's or Home Depot. Pound them 30 inches into the ground. 1/2 inch electrical conduit will slip right over them like a glove.
Great information given 💚
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Thanks for the recommendations.
You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful.
Turnip greens are very good...just like kale
I love all your videos, so much!!! You are so good at explaining things!!! Thank you for doing what you do!!!
Well said. (emphasis on self-reliance)
I want to try rootabegas, parsnips and turnips. We eat a lot of potatoes so would like to find a wintertime replacement bc our winters get down to high 20s for a few hours a night for a few hours a night. One thing Id love is more advice on is how to garden in a survival situation like how to make fertilizer and organic pesticides with things you can grow. Like how can we garden without the garden store. Propagating seeds. Etc
Thanks!
Roasted turnips and radishes are similar to potatoes. Also,my mother used to make a mashed turnip very similar to mashed potatoes.
Love beets. Can I still direct saw the veggies you’re recommending?
Most likely, yes. I plant beets throughout winter in waves.
Great video. Thanks neighbor
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video. In the comments I see many good suggestions for preparing these vegetables . I hope you will share how you prepare them and what you like and dislike about them. 🐾Hello to Dale🐾
I have had turnips survive a brief cold snap, with snow cover, down to -20F. Collards also survived that with cover, but flowered very early in the following spring--well before the last frost. Not on the list, but something that will yield all year long, year after year, including during the winter months is bunching onions, provided you get a true perennial variety (Allium fistulosum). Look for a variety name that implies an Asian origin if you're not sure of your variety. Use a few inches of mulch, and cut back to the ground rather than pulling the plants to have green onions (32 cal/100g) pretty much indefinitely.
Excellent info - and agree with you about if SHTF … With your tips and encouragement, I harvested about 120lbs of tomatoes this summer (in a TINY space) - so I think I can make this work, too! Thanks for all your info and resource links. It’s helped me get an irrigation system set up which has served me well 2 summers now, and I’m in the process of adding a rain barrel!
I planted red Russian kale and lancinato kale this fall. The red kale is taking off as the weather gets colder and colder. Zone 7a, the coldest nighttime we had at this point in mid November is mid 30sF
@TheMillennialGardener Thank you for highlighting Collard Greens. So many Garden Content Contributors tend to highlight Kale all the time and not Collard Greens. I enjoyed this video. I’m going to start growing parsnip now. 🙂
Rutabaga tops are great too when you cook them like turnip greens.
Appreciated the cold hardy list of nutrient rich vegetables and the serving tips. A similar slant towards the storing possibilities of winter vegetables in root cellars or generally below ground smaller storage chambers to carry those foods through for summer diets could supplement freezer space, especially for bulkier, staple foods which require considerable space. Nutrient density v storage space v energy costs could favour small cellar type storage and justify surplus planting. Your pragmatic approach would be valuable. Would this suit other followers of the channel?
This is very inspiring!❤
I’m happy to hear it 😃
Just planted 100 organic garlic, in WI, from my last harvest. Other than " Winterborer" kale, I've never had a crop that could survive WI winters. My freezer is full of tomatoes. My basement is full of potatoes.
I grew parsnips one time and they went to seed. I had parsnips popping up the next year like crazy
This was so great!! 🤩 Thank you!!!
But as a true novice here, can you make a video on watering in colder zones? 🥴 (I’m in 7a, and it’s my first winter growing 🤞)
You're welcome! Watering is an individual situation. I don't like making videos on when to water, because it's based on weather. Evaporation happens slowly this time of year, so you need to check your soil. Stick your finger 2 inches into the soil. If it's dry, water. If it isn't, don't water.
@ THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH!!!!!!! 🙏
All the makings for great soups and stews. These are my favorites. I am working on more raised beds and hope to have a survival garden. Right now my lettuce is fantastic and such a treat. Hey, can you show how you store your fresh grown veggies? The lettuce we eat right away, but I want to learn to can other things. Do you freeze a lot of your vegetables? Just curious and I think it would be a great video.
Anthony please post follow up videos about your experience with the seeds you mentioned. I’m west of you in the Asheville area and wanting to expand my growing season all year. Not sure how or when to start. Maybe too late for this winter 🤷🏻♀️
I fear SHTF is in our future, unfortunately. Thank you for the information. God bless the USA
It doesn’t hurt to be prepared. There is no downside, only upside.
Have you or could you do a video on harvesting and storing your produce? How much waste do you end up with? We are in the beginning stages of doing a food garden and are running into what do we do once they produce.
Thanks for the informative video. I live in zone 6b. Are there any seeds that I can plant now to add to my winter garden? I do have the hoops installed with the frost cloth and 24, 5 gallon buckets of veggies already growing. TIA.
Is there any tips for starting the seeds in cold weather? My days in 6b are in the 50-60 range right now and it is dark by 5:30.
Nice job
Thanks again
I like when you post sales for gardeners! I would like more green metal raised beds. Looking for some deals on these, tgat i can afford thanks again.
Blend 3 beets 2 red and I white super sweet.
The only one I have grown on your list in the winter is the New Red Leaf lettuce. Very impressive variety, even when it warms up some! Plan to add some other crops on your list. Thank you for all your work!
I LOVE New Red Fire! I discovered it last year and it was my favorite red lettuce ever. And bulletproof in my winter. We hit 17F and it didn’t get even a bit of bronzing with a little ag fabric above it.
@@TheMillennialGardener I am right across the river from you, so I know exactly what you are saying!
Love my hoop houses!
I believe I will finally try parsnips…challenge, accepted.😁
Love rhubarb and strawberry pie. You can make into jelly also. It is AWESOME. Love your videos. 😊
I haven’t tried rhubarb. Never even tasted it. I would like to try it.
The dinosaur kale would be a great sacrificial plant. Put it near a chicken coop and the chickens will be well fed as the worms will flock away from the garden and to the coop. Kale is also as high in iron as spinach which is good for chicken health.
I'm having a renewed sense that gardening may have more utility than "just" my hobby 😬 I really hope that I can nail root crops eventually. I feel good about potatoes. But not beets, radish, parsnip, etc. This time around squirrels are eating beet leaves and swiss chard! Daikon radish has hope though.
I ordered Winter Giant Spinach seeds but have to wait to plant until consistently below 65 degrees then sow them.
I have several 2nd year Dino
Kale Collards and a Swiss chard
Thanks for your videos. My question is if I can take my tomato plants indoors and overwinter if they are determinate. I also am putting up a lean to cheap greenhouse against the south side of the house and assume any peppers or tomatoes I put in it would be good to approximately 25 deg F without heat. My plants are in containers so if it got colder than 25 I'd bring them inside. Last two years it went to zero deg F and I'm in zone 7a Mississippi. Looking for a wireless temp transmitter to put in the greenhouse so I know its temperature.
Some varieties of winter squash can last over a year at room temperatures and a good source of calories about 20-100kcal/100g (thats higer in calories than potatoes on the higher end) the dried seeds are a good source of fat, protein and minerals as well with around 400-600kcal/100g