I have no idea what else you should plant. I’m just AMAZED at the climate there that allows you to grow such a beautiful garden in the fall/winter! Only those who have greenhouses can grow anything here this time of year. Thanks for another informative and inspiring video.
It was 80F here yesterday, high of 64F today and down to 44F tonight. I've got tomatoes on the vine still trying to get them ripened up before frost. I still like the fall garden better than Spring. It's so nice to work outside this time of year without the sweat dripping into my eyes and skeeters on my neck. Texas 8b
I'm growing kohlrabi and swiss chard for the first time. Such beautiful and interesting looking plants...even if I don't know what to do with them they are at least pretty to look at!
Travis on that part of the garden plot near the lettuce, I think you would benefit from a double row of Italian giant parsley will grow pretty much all winter lon into mid spring!! It goes so well in salads and for cooking mixed with greens, etc. etc.
I know someones gonna poo-poo this but I’d like some radish growing tips. I can not in all my years grow radishes!! Everyone says they're easy but they fight me at every turn! If you could grow a few that'd be awesome! Only if ya want to of course just a thought cause ya asked. Lol Be well and God Bless ~Lisa
Lisa first start in a small bed you do not need a lot of room to grow a lot of radishes. Use Ph tester and test your soil it needs to be between 6 and 7 better closer to 6. (You can take samples from your plot say 6 separate samples 1 small cup each. Take your samples from about 4 inches deep. Take those samples to extension agent for testing.) SandyLoam soil is probably better you want a loose soil that doesn't compact fast. When your Ph is correct plant your seeds and water them twice a day. Once they sprout water once a day for about a week and then stop watering radishes will burst with too much water. Then water only if the leaves droop. Do not give radishes much fertilizer, they will grow very large and pithy you will not like them, compost is best. They do not do well if start them in the heat of summer better spring or fall. Radishes here in Florida I get them sprouted, I weed them for about 2 weeks and then I ignore them. 25 days I pull them or they bolt and produce flower tops.
regular moisture is key. fertile soil or some fertilizer helps. it's one of those things. for ages i was direct seeding and getting spindly things. then i used cell tray and they did well. then i direct seeded and they did fine too. they love cooler weather.
I agree. Timing radish planting is hard. I have a difficult time with the quick 21 day types. They always take over a month for me but if it goes as long as 6 weeks to bulb up then they will be hot, pithy, and/or go to seed. However, I do have good luck with the slower winter types that take two months according to the package. I sow those in the “fall” ie August 1-31 here in Ohio. I had some at an edible size by October 1, but I harvested the rest of them last week because the tops of the roots had already started suffering freeze damage. 20f will do that.
The potato's are worth digging even if you just get a skillet full. Those small potato's can be parboiled whole then fry in melted butter in a cast iron skillet until golden and crispy on the outside creamy and tender on the inside. Season them up with what ever seasonings you like. I just salt and pepper them. This is a early summer garden favorite here in this Missouri Household. Or use them in cream peas and potato's since you have those beautiful English peas!
World's slowest lawnmower 😂😂😂 I love kale, mustard greens and collard greens. I do a mix of them, cook them with some finely chopped onion, garlic powder and Jowl bacon, a few red pepper flakes, a little salt..low and slow.. when almost done..can them up. My 74 year old Uncle calls them slammin' 😂😂😂. Sauteed greens in a little bacon grease (not floatin) and black cracked pepper is some kinda good too.
Bunching onions can take a long time depending on the time of year you plant. I have already planted them in the fall and forgot I planted them until I started seeing the popup a month later.
Hey, Travis! You know I’m gonna watch your videos no matter what…but I would have clicked on it faster if I had known it was a full garden tour! Really enjoy seeing the progress on everything.
I've had a similar experience with broccoli and cauliflower. That lettuce makes me want to drive all the way from Texas to Georgia for a salad. Man that looks good.
Wow! Everything looks so good. I planted mine before you did and yours is already bigger than mine. It must the the good fertilizer that I’ve seen you use. It does make a big difference apparently.
Hey y'all, That slow lawn mower is slow on purpose someone musta told them chickens that once that get to butcher size they go to freezer camp. So they are eating slower intentionally.
Don't forget to try some rhubarb. The Portuguese kale is a fast grower. So, for the potato/cover plot, maybe mow down the cover crop between the potato hills and give the potatoes a chance to grow a bit more. Your plots are thriving, good groceries on the way.
You can plant hardneck. You have to refrigerate(not freeze) to about 40 degrees and leave them for 8 to 12 weeks. Then allow them to warm and plant them.
I suggest trying some Hamburg Rooted Parsley. It is a common food in North Eastern Europe. The root is similar in shape and size to a carrot and the flavor is parsley. You may have noticed that parley leaves tend to loose flavor in heat, parsley root retains it's flavor. I've eaten it mostly in stews, but I think they would be good in other dishes as well. I haven't tried it because I have not grown it successfully "YET"!
@@LazyDogFarm I've been getting mine from Baker Creek, but Johnny's has them as well as Victory Seeds. The botanical name for the plant you want is "Petroselinum hortense". I MIGHT be mistaken though. I was looking through the photos of the various sellers and the photos of the roots do not show a nice "carrotesque" root. Baker Creek, Johnny's, and Victory Seeds all show that "carrot" shape you want. I first encountered this type of parsley when I was a house maid for a Hassidic Jewish family in New York City. I did their food shopping among other chores. This was available at the small produce stands locally. I've been trying to find seeds and grow it ever since. More than 40 years now.
The potatoes still have very green tops. I would leave them a few weeks longer, but harvest if you get more frost. If the taters get frost, especially those high just beneath the soil, they won't store, get shriveled and watery, and rot fast after you harvest.
I've not really had too much success with growing Radicchio to maturity. Baker Creek had a beautiful variety that I'm hoping I can keep enough seeds to try again if I'm still not successful this season. But maybe you could try it out. It's called Castelfranco Radicchio, and has nice, light green leaves with pretty red splotches on it. See what you think. And if you can figure out why it's could be so fickle in VA. 🤷🏼♀️
@@LazyDogFarm Radicchio is AWESOME in Risotto! It's not something we ever grew up making to eat. But I've made it the last couple times my husband and I have went on vacation. And it's SO YUMMY! It take drinking wine to cook in it. And you can try making risotto recipes with white or red wines. I made some with Radicchio and sausage in a nice Moscato white wine. And I think I've made some with Stella Blueberry red wine, a shaved or stir fry beef, and something like green onions, scallions or Shallots. ALL VERY tasty! Made with Arborio rice, which you can typically find at a world market type store. Maybe you and your family can try making some if you never have. I don't think you'll be disappointed😁. These are some of my favorite recipe videos. I believe you'll have fun watching them! ua-cam.com/video/1RdjA6hmGYg/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/J-aHYMisW4g/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/f1slhK8JG84/v-deo.html
I would like to see you try and grow a couple varieties of radishes by the lettuce! They'd be real good in salads and stuff! They're supposed to taste better when it's colder anyway
Travis, are you able to clear some of your cover crop away from your potatoes to give em a little more light? You can definitely get a few meals out of the taters you got and unless you run the tiller through it, you'll have potato sprouts coming up for a while. i know whenever I miss a few picking em, I always find them coming up next season.
Hakurei turnips would look nice there! As much as you enjoy mustard, kale, rutabaga, and collard greens you should add some turnips. Also some French breakfast radishes.
@@LazyDogFarm The Hakurei (or Tokyo I guess are the same) don’t have the same off flavors to me of the traditional turnip roots. Good texture and “mild” (really couldn’t discern a flavor).
Your weather there is similar to our fall temps. So, how about you plant some Brassica rapa aka Mustard Spinach. I grow it every year and it is delicious! It can be eaten as a salad green when small or let grow larger for cooking greens.
Another vote here for celeriac and kohlrabi And while you're looking for more things to plant and showing off all those groceries, we up here in the north are cold and dark. Ha! Good work. Take care PS: okay I take a little of that back. I threw a few lettuce seeds in a pot in like September and while they aren't enormous, they have been frosted on numerous times and just seem to grow more and better after. Love those crazy kids
How about some celery? I started some seed. It's taken forevvvvver to get even close to maybe ground planting time. But if it works... Oh man! I've got the standard Utah variety and a pink one. Don't remember the name.
Plant more beets. Plant thick and when they are about 10-12 inches thin them, wash them and boil the whole plant in water with salt. Unbelievably good. Otherwise chard is a great green to plant.
I am growing komatsuna-Japanese mustard greens in North Georgia- might be fun to try in your empty space. They grow really fast and are tasty sauteed like spinach.Lots of interesting recipes online.
I'm gonna have to check out those lettuce varieties, especially the Sparks romaine lettuce. I'm partial to romaine, and I always grow Forellenschluss (which I have no idea how to pronounce), but will continue to grow it.
If you want to try something really different for the cool season, have you ever heard of celeriac (celery root)? It's more or less unknown in the US but they plant a ton of it in Europe and you can find it in all the grocery stores over there. I was raised in Louisiana and currently live in Natchez MS (8b), but my grandmother's people live in the Czech Republic and we visit them every year. They eat tons of celery root over there and it's really good in soups and stews. I'm going to try it next year in my fall garden now that I located some seed.
I'd agree with James. I came to appreciate the eating qualities of celeriac when I lived in Denmark. Homely as a stump fence but very tasty none the less. Ever grown kohlrabi?
I grow celeriac every year and had a bumper crop this year. Here in the mid-Atlantic I have to start it in early Feb. We grow quite a few vegetables most people have never heard of. Besides the celeriac I usually grow either salsify or scorzonera, parsnips some years, I've tried skirret and have thought about root chervil. I've still got some Hamburg rooted parsley in the ground also, oh, and the Florence (bulb) fennel. I like experminting with odd plants. In the greens line I've grown New Zealand spinach, mizuna, corn salad (mache) and a few others I can't remember right now.
Enjoyed the tour! I noticed that you don’t plant turnips! We always like a some turnips. Easy to grow! Your back seems to be doing good! Take care that you don’t overdo it!
Try some endive on that last row with your lettuce. Im trying it for the first time this year with mixed results. Had a hard time with transplants like you with damping off.
I can’t think of any vegetables to plant I think you got everything possible for your location and time of year. Hey are there any flowers that will germinate this time of year?
Do you guys like sugar snap Peas? It's a cool season veggie and I'll bet your kids would like Them? I tried planting a fall crop, planted it too late, grew nice but than our weather turned too cold, had several frosts. Nancy from nebraska
We do like them. We usually grow what we call "English Peas," which is the shelling pea version of the sugar snaps. Those kind of peas are tough to grow down here because of the timing, but it's great when we get it right once every few years.
How about something a little different like Korean radishes such as Bora or a Mu. I'm trying them myself this year and they seem to being doing pretty good.
Ever tried celeriac? I had it for the fist time this summer in some soup. Celery tasting bulbish looking thing. I am trying to over winter some this year. Those are gourmet taters. Ive seen em that size at high prices. I am interested to see what that portuguese kale taste like.
Hope you and yours are well. Wanted to ask you can you take Georgia jet sweet potatoes grown from slips that you purchase and grow your own slips next year from the sweet potatoes that you grow yourself.
I still have okra - I got 14 today also got radishes & carrots growing & did an experiment with organic fingerlings from store back in july in a big blue walmart tote & several grow bags - I got a wonderful surprise With all those I got 39 lil red fingerlings & 44 white fingerlings- I got sweet potatoes about ready to make slips & was wanting to plant Yukon & some red bigger potatoes- Hoss is sold out - im waiting on my 150 onions im gonna b planting - Where else would u recommend i could get good SEED POTATOES will b my 1st time & now excited since i got fingerlings ? God bless you & your family . Josette Tharp Montgomery County , Texas🙏🏻
Remember to let us know which of those collards did the best! I have Flash planted but also have some champion seeds I was going to plant for a spring crop.
I planted some onion seed I got from Home Depot and they are coming up and seem to be doing well but they are long day onions and I recently learned I should have gotten short day onions for my area in Louisiana. Will I get smaller bulbs or is it a lost cause? Should I start over? TIA
Leave those just to see what happens. My guess would be that you're just going to grow lots of green and very little bulb because you'll never reach the 14-16 hour day length to trigger bulbing on those long day onions. But yes, you should definitely get some short-day onions if you want big bulbs.
We dress like Eskimos in the South when the temps get below 50. We had our first frost the other night and it slowed the growth of my greens. How frost tolerant are brassicas?
pak choi and bok choi need minimum cooking and taste fine raw as well. baby potatoes cooked with jackets on, yum...after cooking and straining throw in some butter and dill into pot and shake with lid on.
Mainly because I have room to do so. When we used to sell our produce, I planted lots of things on double rows to maximize production on the space I have.
@@LazyDogFarm My green magic is doing well. Have at least one crown approaching softball size. I planted some more three weeks later just to stagger them out some and they are hardly growing. Seems consistently cooler than usual for my part of SE GA and wonder if that's the difference. I got the first planting in while it was still warm. My first time growing broccoli.
I have no idea what else you should plant. I’m just AMAZED at the climate there that allows you to grow such a beautiful garden in the fall/winter! Only those who have greenhouses can grow anything here this time of year. Thanks for another informative and inspiring video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
It was 80F here yesterday, high of 64F today and down to 44F tonight. I've got tomatoes on the vine still trying to get them ripened up before frost. I still like the fall garden better than Spring. It's so nice to work outside this time of year without the sweat dripping into my eyes and skeeters on my neck. Texas 8b
Agreed! Fall gardening is the best!
I'm growing kohlrabi and swiss chard for the first time. Such beautiful and interesting looking plants...even if I don't know what to do with them they are at least pretty to look at!
They are beautiful, and quite tasty!
Travis on that part of the garden plot near the lettuce, I think you would benefit from a double row of Italian giant parsley will grow pretty much all winter lon into mid spring!! It goes so well in salads and for cooking mixed with greens, etc. etc.
I like that parsley idea!
I know someones gonna poo-poo this but I’d like some radish growing tips. I can not in all my years grow radishes!! Everyone says they're easy but they fight me at every turn! If you could grow a few that'd be awesome! Only if ya want to of course just a thought cause ya asked. Lol Be well and God Bless ~Lisa
Lisa first start in a small bed you do not need a lot of room to grow a lot of radishes. Use Ph tester and test your soil it needs to be between 6 and 7 better closer to 6. (You can take samples from your plot say 6 separate samples 1 small cup each. Take your samples from about 4 inches deep. Take those samples to extension agent for testing.) SandyLoam soil is probably better you want a loose soil that doesn't compact fast. When your Ph is correct plant your seeds and water them twice a day. Once they sprout water once a day for about a week and then stop watering radishes will burst with too much water. Then water only if the leaves droop. Do not give radishes much fertilizer, they will grow very large and pithy you will not like them, compost is best. They do not do well if start them in the heat of summer better spring or fall. Radishes here in Florida I get them sprouted, I weed them for about 2 weeks and then I ignore them. 25 days I pull them or they bolt and produce flower tops.
regular moisture is key. fertile soil or some fertilizer helps. it's one of those things. for ages i was direct seeding and getting spindly things. then i used cell tray and they did well. then i direct seeded and they did fine too. they love cooler weather.
I agree. Timing radish planting is hard. I have a difficult time with the quick 21 day types. They always take over a month for me but if it goes as long as 6 weeks to bulb up then they will be hot, pithy, and/or go to seed. However, I do have good luck with the slower winter types that take two months according to the package. I sow those in the “fall” ie August 1-31 here in Ohio. I had some at an edible size by October 1, but I harvested the rest of them last week because the tops of the roots had already started suffering freeze damage. 20f will do that.
All the plots are looking awesome and you have a lot of groceries to choose from! Keep up the great work.
Thanks Tim!
Swiss Chard! Maybe one row of Bright Lights Chard and another row of my very favorite Purple Lady Bok Choy.
Thanks for the suggestions Carter!
Wow that lettuce is mouth watering !!! Thanks Travis!! Plant Diakon Radishes!!
Thanks Sandra!
The potato's are worth digging even if you just get a skillet full. Those small potato's can be parboiled whole then fry in melted butter in a cast iron skillet until golden and crispy on the outside creamy and tender on the inside. Season them up with what ever seasonings you like. I just salt and pepper them. This is a early summer garden favorite here in this Missouri Household. Or use them in cream peas and potato's since you have those beautiful English peas!
They'll definitely get eaten if they're not big enough to use for seed potatoes!
World's slowest lawnmower 😂😂😂 I love kale, mustard greens and collard greens. I do a mix of them, cook them with some finely chopped onion, garlic powder and Jowl bacon, a few red pepper flakes, a little salt..low and slow.. when almost done..can them up. My 74 year old Uncle calls them slammin' 😂😂😂. Sauteed greens in a little bacon grease (not floatin) and black cracked pepper is some kinda good too.
Yes!
Bunching onions can take a long time depending on the time of year you plant. I have already planted them in the fall and forgot I planted them until I started seeing the popup a month later.
Funny thing ... I actually noticed some popping today. Guess I just had to be patient.
Hey, Travis! You know I’m gonna watch your videos no matter what…but I would have clicked on it faster if I had known it was a full garden tour! Really enjoy seeing the progress on everything.
Thanks Kendyll! Glad you enjoyed it!
I've had a similar experience with broccoli and cauliflower. That lettuce makes me want to drive all the way from Texas to Georgia for a salad. Man that looks good.
Just hasn't been a broccoli fall for us yet, but hopefully we'll do better on the second planting.
Wow! Everything looks so good. I planted mine before you did and yours is already bigger than mine. It must the the good fertilizer that I’ve seen you use. It does make a big difference apparently.
Thanks Cathy. They've been fed well!
Hey y'all, That slow lawn mower is slow on purpose someone musta told them chickens that once that get to butcher size they go to freezer camp. So they are eating slower intentionally.
Haha! Smart chickens!
Don't forget to try some rhubarb.
The Portuguese kale is a fast grower.
So, for the potato/cover plot, maybe mow down the cover crop between the potato hills and give the potatoes a chance to grow a bit more.
Your plots are thriving, good groceries on the way.
Thanks for the reminder on the rhubarb!
I did not think that rhubarb would grow in zone 8
Travis , your gardens look really nice. Can’t wait to see the harvest.
Thanks Imma!
Thought us Southerners had to plant soft neck garlic?
You can plant hardneck. You have to refrigerate(not freeze) to about 40 degrees and leave them for 8 to 12 weeks. Then allow them to warm and plant them.
Gardens are lookin good! crazy weather these days!
You got that right!
I suggest trying some Hamburg Rooted Parsley. It is a common food in North Eastern Europe. The root is similar in shape and size to a carrot and the flavor is parsley. You may have noticed that parley leaves tend to loose flavor in heat, parsley root retains it's flavor. I've eaten it mostly in stews, but I think they would be good in other dishes as well. I haven't tried it because I have not grown it successfully "YET"!
Interesting. Any idea where to find seeds?
@@LazyDogFarm I've been getting mine from Baker Creek, but Johnny's has them as well as Victory Seeds. The botanical name for the plant you want is "Petroselinum hortense". I MIGHT be mistaken though. I was looking through the photos of the various sellers and the photos of the roots do not show a nice "carrotesque" root. Baker Creek, Johnny's, and Victory Seeds all show that "carrot" shape you want.
I first encountered this type of parsley when I was a house maid for a Hassidic Jewish family in New York City. I did their food shopping among other chores. This was available at the small produce stands locally. I've been trying to find seeds and grow it ever since. More than 40 years now.
Looking good Travis, the lettuce was just looked beautiful. You might try growing celery.
I've got some in the greenhouse if it will ever get transplant-ready.
The potatoes still have very green tops. I would leave them a few weeks longer, but harvest if you get more frost. If the taters get frost, especially those high just beneath the soil, they won't store, get shriveled and watery, and rot fast after you harvest.
I think I'm going to get them soon as we're flirting with our first frost date here.
I've not really had too much success with growing Radicchio to maturity. Baker Creek had a beautiful variety that I'm hoping I can keep enough seeds to try again if I'm still not successful this season. But maybe you could try it out. It's called Castelfranco Radicchio, and has nice, light green leaves with pretty red splotches on it. See what you think. And if you can figure out why it's could be so fickle in VA. 🤷🏼♀️
Thanks for the suggestion. Never have grown Radicchio.
@@LazyDogFarm Radicchio is AWESOME in Risotto! It's not something we ever grew up making to eat. But I've made it the last couple times my husband and I have went on vacation. And it's SO YUMMY! It take drinking wine to cook in it. And you can try making risotto recipes with white or red wines. I made some with Radicchio and sausage in a nice Moscato white wine. And I think I've made some with Stella Blueberry red wine, a shaved or stir fry beef, and something like green onions, scallions or Shallots. ALL VERY tasty! Made with Arborio rice, which you can typically find at a world market type store. Maybe you and your family can try making some if you never have. I don't think you'll be disappointed😁. These are some of my favorite recipe videos. I believe you'll have fun watching them! ua-cam.com/video/1RdjA6hmGYg/v-deo.html
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I suggest mowing the cover crop in between your rows of potatoes but leave the potato plants. Good luck!
I'm leaning towards trying that.
@@LazyDogFarm I'm looking forward to seeing how you handle it! :)
Your garden looks great!
Thanks Dewain!
Thumbs up on the lettuce alone!!
Isn't it pretty?!
I would like to see you try and grow a couple varieties of radishes by the lettuce! They'd be real good in salads and stuff! They're supposed to taste better when it's colder anyway
Good idea Katie!
Travis, are you able to clear some of your cover crop away from your potatoes to give em a little more light? You can definitely get a few meals out of the taters you got and unless you run the tiller through it, you'll have potato sprouts coming up for a while. i know whenever I miss a few picking em, I always find them coming up next season.
I think that's what I'm going to have to do.
Try fava beans. Had some 19-20 season. Harvested some really liked them, froze some. I’m in east TX a Tiny bit north of you but still 8a-8b type area.
I do need to try some of those.
Hakurei turnips would look nice there! As much as you enjoy mustard, kale, rutabaga, and collard greens you should add some turnips. Also some French breakfast radishes.
Thanks for the suggestions. While I'm not a huge fan of turnip roots, I do like turnip greens.
@@LazyDogFarm The Hakurei (or Tokyo I guess are the same) don’t have the same off flavors to me of the traditional turnip roots. Good texture and “mild” (really couldn’t discern a flavor).
World slowest lawn mower? Hilarious!😂
Such a lovely garden.
Thanks D!
Your weather there is similar to our fall temps. So, how about you plant some Brassica rapa aka Mustard Spinach. I grow it every year and it is delicious! It can be eaten as a salad green when small or let grow larger for cooking greens.
Haven't heard of that one, but I'll check it out.
What type of broccoli have u had the most success with. Which one is ur fav?
Green Magic has always been the most solid performer for us.
Another vote here for celeriac and kohlrabi
And while you're looking for more things to plant and showing off all those groceries, we up here in the north are cold and dark. Ha! Good work. Take care
PS: okay I take a little of that back. I threw a few lettuce seeds in a pot in like September and while they aren't enormous, they have been frosted on numerous times and just seem to grow more and better after. Love those crazy kids
Glad you've at least got some lettuce working as things get really cold up there!
How about some celery? I started some seed. It's taken forevvvvver to get even close to maybe ground planting time. But if it works... Oh man! I've got the standard Utah variety and a pink one. Don't remember the name.
I have some still growing in the greenhouse, but I don't believe they're ever going to get big enough to transplant.
Oh yeah, I remember now that you started some. Mine is about 3" tall.
Plant more beets. Plant thick and when they are about 10-12 inches thin them, wash them and boil the whole plant in water with salt. Unbelievably good. Otherwise chard is a great green to plant.
Thanks for the tips Roy!
I am growing komatsuna-Japanese mustard greens in North Georgia- might be fun to try in your empty space. They grow really fast and are tasty sauteed like spinach.Lots of interesting recipes online.
Interesting. Have never grown those, but it sounds neat.
Turnips, Swiss chard, tatsoi, celery or parsley
Thanks for the suggestions Rozella!
I'm gonna have to check out those lettuce varieties, especially the Sparks romaine lettuce. I'm partial to romaine, and I always grow Forellenschluss (which I have no idea how to pronounce), but will continue to grow it.
Just as an FYI, it's spelled "Sparx" if you're searching for seeds online. We got ours from Johnnys.
I believe the marigolds will improve the color of the chicken's egg yolks.
We've got plenty to give them!
The 2 little potatoes you were holding looked to be just right for use as seed potatoes.
They also look to be just right for the oven. lol Maybe they'll make it until February.
If you want to try something really different for the cool season, have you ever heard of celeriac (celery root)? It's more or less unknown in the US but they plant a ton of it in Europe and you can find it in all the grocery stores over there. I was raised in Louisiana and currently live in Natchez MS (8b), but my grandmother's people live in the Czech Republic and we visit them every year. They eat tons of celery root over there and it's really good in soups and stews. I'm going to try it next year in my fall garden now that I located some seed.
I've seen it on a few of the online seed seller sites, but never tried it. I want to try it now though!
I'd agree with James. I came to appreciate the eating qualities of celeriac when I lived in Denmark. Homely as a stump fence but very tasty none the less. Ever grown kohlrabi?
I grow celeriac every year and had a bumper crop this year. Here in the mid-Atlantic I have to start it in early Feb. We grow quite a few vegetables most people have never heard of. Besides the celeriac I usually grow either salsify or scorzonera, parsnips some years, I've tried skirret and have thought about root chervil. I've still got some Hamburg rooted parsley in the ground also, oh, and the Florence (bulb) fennel. I like experminting with odd plants. In the greens line I've grown New Zealand spinach, mizuna, corn salad (mache) and a few others I can't remember right now.
Enjoyed the tour! I noticed that you don’t plant turnips! We always like a some turnips. Easy to grow! Your back seems to be doing good! Take care that you don’t overdo it!
We're not big fans of the turnip roots, but we do like the greens.
Thanks for the tour Travis 😀
Hope the bunching onions do come up, the fall potatoes might get bigger or can use for cooking potato salad 😀
Those would be perfect for tater salad!
Try some endive on that last row with your lettuce. Im trying it for the first time this year with mixed results. Had a hard time with transplants like you with damping off.
Thanks for the suggestion Ken!
I can’t think of any vegetables to plant I think you got everything possible for your location and time of year. Hey are there any flowers that will germinate this time of year?
Not sure on the flowers. I'm sure we could get some to germinate in our greenhouse though if we close the sides.
How about growing some Swiss chard. I just started some and the seeds look just like beet seeds. I wonder if they are multi-germ.
Swiss Chard has multigerm seeds as well.
Do you guys like sugar snap Peas? It's a cool season veggie and I'll bet your kids would like Them? I tried planting a fall crop, planted it too late, grew nice but than our weather turned too cold, had several frosts. Nancy from nebraska
We do like them. We usually grow what we call "English Peas," which is the shelling pea version of the sugar snaps. Those kind of peas are tough to grow down here because of the timing, but it's great when we get it right once every few years.
Travis, I pretty much just dug mine to be seed potatoes for next year.
Might be time to just salvage what we can.
How about something a little different like Korean radishes such as Bora or a Mu. I'm trying them myself this year and they seem to being doing pretty good.
Haven't heard of those, but I'll do some digging.
Ever tried celeriac? I had it for the fist time this summer in some soup. Celery tasting bulbish looking thing. I am trying to over winter some this year. Those are gourmet taters. Ive seen em that size at high prices. I am interested to see what that portuguese kale taste like.
Have not tried it, but had a couple other viewers mention it and now I'm interested.
Thanks for the tour! How about Arugula? I'm trying to get it to thrive, but it's slow going. Celeriac sounds very interesting too.
With all that spinach ya'll gonna have arms like Popeye.💪My garlic looks about the same as yours, just starting to poke up from the ground. ✌
Gonna have a boatload of spinach for sure!
Hope you and yours are well. Wanted to ask you can you take Georgia jet sweet potatoes grown from slips that you purchase and grow your own slips next year from the sweet potatoes that you grow yourself.
Yes you can!
I still have okra - I got 14 today also got radishes & carrots growing & did an experiment with organic fingerlings from store back in july in a big blue walmart tote & several grow bags -
I got a wonderful surprise
With all those I got 39 lil red fingerlings & 44 white fingerlings-
I got sweet potatoes about ready to make slips & was wanting to plant Yukon & some red bigger potatoes- Hoss is sold out - im waiting on my 150 onions im gonna b planting -
Where else would u recommend i could get good SEED POTATOES will b my 1st time & now excited since i got fingerlings ?
God bless you & your family .
Josette Tharp
Montgomery County , Texas🙏🏻
Congrats on the fall potato success! I hear that Wood Prairie Farms in Maine will ship early if you request them.
Maybe grow some parsnips beside the lettuce?
I do have some extra parsnip seeds ...
Those lil taters are the best for oven roasting with a lil coarse salt
They certainly are!
Try growing some varieties of radishes
Good idea!
Travis fava beans??what d you think...its awesome legume and its great for soil!
I do need to try some of those!
@@LazyDogFarm 👍👍
I've read that interspersing heavily scented herbs can help with pest pressure? The scent distracts or confuses them?
That makes sense. I'd like to learn more about which herbs are best at this.
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Remember to let us know which of those collards did the best! I have Flash planted but also have some champion seeds I was going to plant for a spring crop.
Will do!
Hey man have you ever grown the blue potatoes?? I just ordered some of the seed potatoes from territorial seed company.
Seems like we may have one year. They did pretty well from what I can remember.
Did you plant any kohlrabi and is it too late? Can it handle a light frost in 8B?
I haven't planted any. And yes, it can take a frost.
I planted some onion seed I got from Home Depot and they are coming up and seem to be doing well but they are long day onions and I recently learned I should have gotten short day onions for my area in Louisiana. Will I get smaller bulbs or is it a lost cause? Should I start over? TIA
Leave those just to see what happens. My guess would be that you're just going to grow lots of green and very little bulb because you'll never reach the 14-16 hour day length to trigger bulbing on those long day onions. But yes, you should definitely get some short-day onions if you want big bulbs.
@@LazyDogFarm Thank you, Travis. I’ll get some short day onions. Making mistakes is learning ;) and now I know!
How did the fermented okra turn out?
Not very good. I had some mold get in it. I need to try again next year on a smaller scale with jars and the masontops fermenting stuff.
We dress like Eskimos in the South when the temps get below 50. We had our first frost the other night and it slowed the growth of my greens. How frost tolerant are brassicas?
Most of them are pretty frost-tolerant. Just don't want to let any frost get on broccoli or cauliflower heads as it can turn them to mush.
@@LazyDogFarm , that's good to know, thanks!
What do you do when it frosts or freezes?
Nothing really. We might have to harvest some broccoli or cauliflower if it's close to being ready, but everything else is usually fine.
Do u know why my sugar peas aren’t blooming? They r growing good, & r about 3’ high. But no blooms????
They should bloom eventually. They always try my patience as well.
Taters that size are great to throw in whole with a roast.
pak choi and bok choi need minimum cooking and taste fine raw as well. baby potatoes cooked with jackets on, yum...after cooking and straining throw in some butter and dill into pot and shake with lid on.
Yum indeed!
Why do you plant single rows?
Mainly because I have room to do so. When we used to sell our produce, I planted lots of things on double rows to maximize production on the space I have.
How about some celery?
Have some transplants in the greenhouse if they'll ever get ready.
How about celery in that plot?
I have some in the greenhouse, but it is so slow to grow! It's taking forever for the transplants to be ready to go in the ground.
How about Roselle?
That would work in the warmer months.
Purple top Turnips
Thanks for the suggestion Granny!
That lawn mower is not measured in horsepower, but rather chickenpower.
hahaha!
Is all your broccoli Green Magic?
All of this first planting was Green Magic. I have some Imperial in the greenhouse now.
@@LazyDogFarm My green magic is doing well. Have at least one crown approaching softball size. I planted some more three weeks later just to stagger them out some and they are hardly growing. Seems consistently cooler than usual for my part of SE GA and wonder if that's the difference. I got the first planting in while it was still warm. My first time growing broccoli.
turnips
Not a bad idea!
Turnips
I do like turnip greens!