Almost 20 years ago, my Dad gave me a few raspberry shoots when I bought my new house. Since then they have flourished along the fence line beside my garden plot. When I pick a few on the spot and wolf them down, I say thanks to Dad. RIP.
I can soooo relate. I garden because my grandma taught me the old ways......then i forgot......now im trying to remember. But shes always in my heart and garden.
I feel this so much. I lost both of my parents before I was 40 (which I am now), I gave my father two blueberry plants many years ago because he loved blueberry pie so much…. and now I have those plants I gave him, and I think of him fondly when my small children and I snack on them. Gardening can have such a strong connection to our families and parents and grandparents. It’s wonderful. 🥰 “The memories they invoke….” As Gardener Scott said.
A couple of the plants I am really looking forward to be growing this year is a tomato and garlic from my neighbors garden. My neighbor , Martin past away a year ago last fall. All of last summer, people were working on the house fixing it up to sell, but no one paid any attention to the wonderful garden he had. One day when I was not home, someone came through and weed wacked down all of his garlic not knowing what it was. I asked permission and harvested the garlic, what I could find anyhow. Later in the summer I noticed some large volunteer tomatoes, I just picked them, they were delicious and I saved some seeds. Well the garlic is not up yet, but I had 100% germination of the tomato seeds. I will name both the tomato and garlic simply Martin. One thing I did not mention about Martin was that he had been developing garlic and tomato varieties for over 40 years. I hope I can keep his legacy alive, not only in my heart, but in his one true passion, gardening.
Watching my 6 year old and my 19 month old run around to all the different strawberry patches here at home makes me happy on a level I can’t even put into words. The pure joy they exude when they find that perfect little red ripe berry and smash it into their mouths and giggle…. all the stained shirts… I adore every moment of it… and I hope with all my heart they will think of it fondly many years from now if they have families of their own. They can tell their children about grandma’s strawberries and how they would scurry from patch to patch to find them like Easter, but in the Summer heat. I specifically drop baby plants in random locations all over our 5 acres for just this reason. Sometimes in locations that they may not even thrive in. Just to see them hunt for the ripe berries. 🍓🥰 Gardening and fun go hand in hand for our family. 😉 Who will spot the ripe peaches first? Who can find the tastiest blueberries? Which one of them can guess the weight of the pumpkins? It fills my cup!
I’m 59 & my grandma grew Calla Lily’s & Purple Irises. My mom & aunt harvested plants from her flower garden into their gardens in the 1980’s. When each of us girls bought our first homes we were given grandma’s Calla Lilly’s & Iris plants. Everytime we move, we take some of those plants with us. My grandma moved to heaven in 2008, but she is never far away from me because I see her in those flowers. We are expecting our first granddaughter any day now, & I look forward to giving her Calla Lilly’s & Purple Irises. It’s a beautiful tradition that is a way to honor those we love forever & miss terribly.
I grow multiple tomato varieties for taste and production. I grow potatoes for fun, just because I can. I grow snap peas as garden candy and for the grandkids. I grow corn because someday I will be successful. And I think a corn patch is pretty.
1) For sheer flavor, I grow Lillian’s Caseload Pea. 2) Easy crop is garlic (32 pounds spread out over 9 varieties - some for us, some for donations to our community kitchen, and some in holiday gift baskets). 3) Productive crops are tomatoes and squash. 4) New things - especially in cucumbers and peppers. 5) For crops that evoke memories, it is melon or watermelon. Love growing things! Just added two bare root trees into the orchard area - Wolf River. It will be a while before they produce. Thanks for such a good video. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 3/26/2023.
I grow poppies because my dad grew them. I grow cosmos because the bees love them! I grow green beans and peas so the grandkids have something to munch on in the garden. And geraniums because my grandma grew them. They bloom all winter long as a reminder to me that spring will come back again.
We just moved to our new place in 2021, and I am a disabled veteran, so getting things totally set up is a slow process, so we always do summer squash, zucchini, bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Those would be our basic 5, and cucumbers. We got in our rhubarb a strawberry patch, and our things to raise our chickens and hogs on pasture on our 1880 homestead our first year. It also has a bank barn with a new foundation. The home was built in 1880. We just put in a 8x16 raised berry patch with 2 blackberries, 4 boysenberries, 2 raspberries, and 2 blueberries, planted 4 peach trees, and we are making raised beds made out of 55 gallon drums split length ways, and put up on frames, waist heigh. I filled our berry bed and raised beds with the compost from our pigs and checkens from one and two years before.
Your approach to gardening reminds me of Bob Ross..so encouraging. Thanks for posting great videos! I'm in zone 3 so patiently waiting for things to thaw. My favorites are golden beets, carrots and raspberries!
"Especially the peas..." Yes, indeed! While I'm out in the garden, at the right time, there is nothing more rewarding than savoring a few fresh pea pods!! Thanks for the video, and Happy Gardening! Just started some more Bellatrix tomatoes, which I found *delicious* last year. Sadly I had only the one lonely plant.
@@garynorcal4269 When the garden is at its most abundant, it's hard not to revel in the deliciousness!! I graze every time I go out to water or harvest. Best wishes to you!
I plant a single petunia in my onion patch every year because my mother used to sing me that song. I don't have petunias anywhere else in the garden! Thanks for the memories, Scott ❤️❤️
I always had mixed results gardening and that's probably because I haven't had your list. I love cultivating plants but in the past I usually didn't get the harvest or when I did harvest I wouldn't like the taste. This year I've tried to put in more research into what might grow and be productive and align with what I tend to eat often. I've been hastily planting things like strawberries between storms because I enjoy them. I'm planting cherry trees because my grandfather grows them and my grandmother loved canned cherries or cherry pie. I'm also planting perennial kale for hopefully an easy win with productivity. I love garlic as well and planted those Chesnock Red that you have, they look great and have been easy to grow so far. I'm also planting other berries and fruit which I've never tried and can't find in stores so hopefully I like them. Thanks for the guidance, gardening seems like a great hobby and I'm going to try to get more than beetle infested radishes this year.
You continue to inspire me to truly “Enjoy Gardening”!! Thank you for always highlighting this in your videos, and for encouraging each of us to express who we are in our own gardens. 🌱 Gardening as an act of joy is a beautiful philosophy.
I have been gardening for 30 years and I enjoy planting the things my father did. I am trying new methods but planting potatoes, onions, cabbage, various beans, various peppers and tomatoes. I always feel his presence when I'm in the garden. When my children would help, I would tell them he was smiling down on us.
potatoes and roma's - we eat a lot, love them, they do well and store well basil - I love the smell when I walk by and brush them. and so do the bumblebees. super sweet 100 and sun gold tomatoes - grew both for the 1st time last year and I will probably alternate these for the rest of my gardening career. Tasteful and bountiful. straight 8 cucumbers - tasty and bountiful and fairly easy. We love refrigerator pickles from them. My wife will always have peonies because her grandmother and mother had them. I started planting fruit trees and will continue with a new one yearly. I love grabbing an apple, peach or pear right off the tree. I was fortunate to have mulberry trees near my house. My kids would always eat some, as well as, the neighbor kids and their parents.
I used to get in trouble as a kid for eating peas right out of the garden. We'd be playing & grab some peas & maybe a rhubarb stock as a snack. lol. I still snack on peas when I'm outside. Raspberries don't always make it into the house too.
I always grow parsnips ever since I first tried them. I love them. I am going to plant my biggest crop this year. Last year I grew baby butternut squash. I got 2 dozen from two plants. The other winter squashes didn't produce due to a cool wet summer and they never do very well anyway so this year it's going to be only butterbabies - lots more of them. They grow well and are easy to prepare cook. I can't wait to make more butternut squash soup. Mokum carrots - always. The baby ones are perfect for garden snacking. Sweet bell peppers - always. Sugar pod peas so I can eat them while watering - always.
I have 8 blueberry bushes because we used pick wild blueberries and strawberries to make pies and jam for winter, we were 14 children and if we didn't help pick wild berries we had a lot less food to eat. I remember the smell in those huge meadows, great memories thanks Scott.
My 'always grow' list starts with easy perennials and ends with the wow list for taste. If they hit both easy and fantastic flavor, they'll probably be a permanent fixture in my garden. Caroline raspberries tick both boxes for me. My 20 fruit trees have been fairly problem free, and we're hoping to get some good harvests this year (3rd-5th year for the various trees). Some of the trees are just easy and reliable, but not wow on flavor (jujubes), others are wow on flavor and pretty easy, but (due to late frosts) fairly infrequent harvests like our earlier stone fruits. Getting fresh apricots/apriums, pluots, and pluerries is such a treat, though. Our apples are likely going to be pretty reliable, but I don't think they'd wow me in the same way as some of the other fruit. Some of my fondest memories as a kid were climbing a fruit tree to have a snack on an apple or pear. Nostalgia might be another key factor in always growing a plant.
I know what you mean about growing in Colorado! It is fun to try new varieties each year but I do have my favorites I grow every year not only because we like them, but they give good performance and success. Sungolds have been a favorite for quite a while, also Supersweet 100's cherry tomatoes. Grew Green Arrow shelling peas last spring and they did very well and had fun shelling them with our granddaughter. Even though a lot of telling people they must grow a garden now more than ever, we still need to find the fun and enjoyment of just growing, harvesting and eating great produce.
Thank you for this beautifully heartfelt video, Scott! Now in my 50’s, some of my fondest childhood memories are of hours spent in our garden with my mother and grandmother. My maternal great grandparents were farmers, and that respect for and love of mother nature has been passed down through our family from generation to generation. The thought of my grandmother’s salads made with fresh romaine lettuce, carrots & garlic from her garden take me take to a joyous time! My mother grew the best raspberries and strawberries that she made in to magical desserts and jams. I continue to strive to live up to my New Jersey gardener heritage with enthusiasm spurred on by your wonderfully instructive and inspiring videos. Thank you! 👍🏻🌱
Milwaukee (zone 5b): Growing cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes turnips, lettuce because they were so dependable last year. Growing onions, celery, garlic, asparagus new this year because am intrigued and love the taste. Growing very tall sunflowers, marigolds and other flowers to encourage the pollinators. Trying peas, Swiss chard, strawberries again this year, even though they weren't that great last season. Planting basil, green peppers because I love the taste and am so challenged to be successful with them. We have a tiny yard packed with so many trees and plants. We have lovely lilacs that bloom in May. Two of them are from loved ones no longer here. I think of them lovingly when the lilac scent drifts across the patio.
I love my perennials that I have gotten starts of over the years from friends and family. In so many cases I look around and remember the people who are no longer with us, but a part of them is still growing in my garden and in my memory. I have been bringing them with us whenever we’ve moved… just like your strawberries Scott!❤😊
Thanks Scott. It has been 4 years since I retired and that is about when I started watching your videos. I now have several more planters than when I worked; I have one near my kitchen slider full of herbs, oregano, marjoram,mint,thyme,rosemary,dill( but dill only in spring and fall, too hot here in summer for dill. etc so that they are easily accessible. You could say this gardening hobby has been "growing" on me and I have been "branching out" into many other veg types, ie cukes, squash etc along with tomatoes. I have overwintered basil and 4 year old pepper plants waiting until warmer weather to go back out. Been a long cold wet winter here in 9b Sacramento with more rain to come. Is currently down in the mid 30'sF for overnight lows still. Thanks again Scott.
I loved this…had never thought about the whys so heavily but yes, you’re exactly right! I especially resonated with the “evoking memories”…picking raspberries at my grandma’s farmstead and then eating them with fresh cream and raw honey🥰 thanks for making me cry happy tears today🥲
I miss the Raspberries that my Dad grew along the property. So I have planted Raspberries of my own here on that property for the same reason. This time away from the Deer so they can last. Lol
My Grandpa's favorite flowers were Marigolds. Now, I have them growing in many spots in my garden. They make me happy. On another note, I grow okra because it grows and thrives in Florida 9b.
This is my very first year trying this, so I'm kind of a mess. 🤣 But I guess I'll be growing pole beans and strawberries for my wife because her mom grew them when she was growing up. She asked if I would grow them, so I will. I am growing peppers for me, because I like eating them. I'm planting asparagus because we both enjoy eating them, even tho it will be a few years before we get to taste them. And some tomatoes, because if you're gonna grow peppers you might as well make salsa. 😁
I'm growing raspberries and blackberries in containers just to see if I can. I'm growing 2 loquats because they look delicious. Marigolds because my Dad said they would help with pest, they don't in my garden. I grow because my Dad always grew a huge garden until he couldn't. I'm growing because now I know what kale, swiss chard, parsley, oregano, peppermint, basil and several others plants taste like. I think those are my 5 reasons to grow.
I always have 4 o' clocks right outside my front door. It was a plant I remember well as a young child. My great grandparents had them. My great grandpa and I would sit out on the front porch in the evenings. Counting Mississippi kites and watching the hummingbird moths and occasional hummingbird come to the 4 o' clocks. I also realized the east side of my house is becoming an homage to my dad. He is still alive! I just happen to be growing 2 types of plants I fell in love with at his house, elephant ears and hostas.
I finally bought my first detached home at the end of last fall. It's not on a huge piece of property, but it does have some old neglected fruit trees I'm trying to bring back. I also finally have a bit of space to garden and every single thing I'm planning on growing this first year is something I have memories of in my aunt's garden and I want my 2 very young son's to have similar memories (they also happen to be things Im confident I can probably sucessfully grow as a 1st year gardener). Memories like being so sick of eating green beans every day, you almost forget how much you looked forward to the first ones out of the garden that year hahaha. Same with decorative plants, everything I'm planning on growing we grew in my front yard growing up. For example, we had a weeping Japanese cherry tree right in the middle of the yard that was older than me, looking back everyone was right and it was objectively beautiful (like people would stop their cars and get out to take pictures when it was in bloom beautiful) but I'm very tall and hated having to get under it to mow the lawn as a teenager... but guess what? I already have a spot picked out in the middle of my front yard to plant one this year hahaha
I love to grow carrots. It’s the one crop I grow year after year. They are the most satisfying harvest. Nothing better that pulling out that perfect carrot. Then giving it to my dogs. They love them as a treat. I appreciate your knowledge Scott. Thanks
The ones I have for the noms are: -smulbär (mix between strawberry's and wild strawberry), they have an amazing flavour. -sweet peas -mint, as many types I can lay my hands on. -gooseberry the prickly kind! For storage: -garlic -winter tomato's -potatislök (a old kind is yellow onion that get several cloves from one like shallots) -beans, all kind is beans 💚 For the memory of them: -violets -lilacs -real sour cherry 🍒
We grow plants that are wonderful to eat fresh as they ripen, but also the same plants that that can be stored for winter food. We can, freeze and dehydrate all we can. This year we're adding a small greenhouse to get a headstart on some plants. Enjoy your positive approach.
I'm growing my now past grandfather's strawberries and can relate to some of your memories with your daughter. You would think that the taste of the fruit or vegetables will be the pinnacle but the memories can be just as good if not better 🍓
Asparagus, cherries, apples, pears, strawberry, raspberry, honeyberry, loganberry, gooseberry, blueberry, blackberry, Josaberrry, Rhubarb, Grapes, red and black currant, plums, Jerusalem artichokes these are just some of the perennial plants that are continuously growing in my garden Fantastic video Scott
My favorite cucumber is one I first started growing last year from Burpee called the Merlin. Incredible yields and firm, meaty fruits. If you like crisp, crunchy cucumbers I highly recommend the Merlin.
Unfortunately I am the first gardener in my family so I don’t plant anything that a family member did. I guess I am starting my own plant legacy for my kids to remember. I always grow hot and bell peppers. I try new varieties every year.
Squash peppers! Fun and spicy pumpkin shaped peppers. My favorite from my very first garden 3 years ago Something new: Charentais Melon and pumpkins for fall
My summer garden always has tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, basil, and beans. Started some asparagus, raspberries and loganberries last year. I really loved snacking on the raspberries while working on the garden.
An unseasonable 23F temperature wiped out my tomato plants, peppers, basil, and sweet marjoram. I am starting from scratch, growing new seed starts. My cool weather crops survived with light damage to the outer leaves of New Zealand Spinach. I am growing a wide variety of Asian greens, Swiss Chard, turnips, beetroot, onions, mustard, lettuce, and more. I am growing 7 varieties of squash, zucchini, white scallop, yellow scallop, Lemon, Acorn, Butterbaby Butternut, sweet dumpling, and Buttercup, 12 varieties of peppers, 7 tomatoes, three cucumbers, and 4 cherry tomatoes, Black Cherry, Sunrise Bumble Bee , Sun Gold, and Super Sweet 100. I m also growing a special treat for me, Seascape Strawberries. Why so many varieties? I like experimenting, am still determining what I like, and what grows best for me. The downside is, I like everything I grow. Asian greens, turnips, and mustard grow super well for me. Beetroot, and carrots, not so much, but I keep trying. The problem is the crazy weather in Alabama. Some years the weather stays cool until mid June, other years, it is scorching hot by mid May. I have feeling this year is going to be bad for heat. We've had numerous days in the high 70s and into the 80s in January, February, and March, with some nights suddenly dropping to the low 20s. If it gets hot too soon, above 85F, that will end my rooting vegetable harvest, potatoes too, but my peppers will like it, above 95F will end my tomatoes.
Always green and yellow beans, tomatoes including sungold!! yummm also lettuces for salads, and yes also strawberries and raspberries but the yellow kind, delish! Onions and garlic of course, this year trying red onions from seed
I’m new to vegetable gardening, and I mainly decided to do it so that I can have full control over the vegetables I eat. I just can’t be sure anymore the vegetables that the majority of us buy at the supermarket has been grown with quality in mind. Yet as my seedlings start to sprout, and watching your videos - I’m starting to feel a unique sense of peace, almost like a feeling of tranquility as I prepare for this first season of mine. It has been a wonderful journey so far, and I thank you Gardner Scott for being a genuine teacher!
I love this! Thank you for your very personal insights that bring generations together. I had a CB lovely neighbor whose children used to come snd eat from my yard. She was teaching them how to know edible and non edible plants. It’s a fond memory for me. When they moved, she gave me some of her onions and other plants. Yo this day, I think of them when I see those growing in my yard. :)
You continue to inspire me Gardener Scott. I really liked hearing your story at 10:42 because where I live, we have a lemon tree that was planted by my great grandmother before I was born and it’s still in very good condition! Now, with the addition of my boysenberries, I hope when I have my kids, they will also enjoy the feeling that gardening gives us and that they too, will do what you said your kids did when they were little because I’m sure anything our young ones do, brings a smile to every family’s faces and I hope to continue growing my boysenberries going forward as it’s a very rare fruit from California but I may also want to add strawberries because I have made them into a delicious homemade topping for many years on my homemade funnel cakes and other desserts and lots more! And I 100% agree with what you said in this video about continuing growing any special fruits in the garden to keep the memories alive and growing and that’s something I intend to do with my boysenberries!
I grow strawberry runners from the same plants my youngest got for me over 16 years ago 1st thing we planted. Prolific I can still see her excitement when she’d pick them and she planted lilies in her own little patch. These make me smile and think of her when they bloom
I grow scarlet runner beans as a flower because it is a gorgeous vine that never disappoints. I have to say sugar snap peas are the same. Sure, a fresh pea pod is delightful, but those happy variegated leaves make being in the garden a joy. Gardening is about every sense.
Peas are one I have fun growing! Cosmos for the foliage and flowers in later summer. Strawberries and raspberries too. Thanks for your encouragement today!
I grow rhubarb, it isn’t eaten by deer and I can pick it over a long season. I have Glaskins perpetual rhubarb. I make chicken and beef recipes, oatmeal and desserts with it. I started my asparagus patch last year. I also have blackberries, a few strawberries and I have grown sungolds, fantastic and Brandywine tomatoes. I like Swiss chard . It tastes like spinach and grows over a long period. We have a fig tree, a persimmon tree, pawpaw trees and apple trees. I grow Limka pole beans which have that old fashioned bean taste. I grow other things too.
I love Egyptian walking onions because they pop up early every year before anything else. right now, those onions and a couple other things are the only thing out there (I'm in Colorado too...nice tumbleweeds, haha). They also make great border plants for erosion control and look really cool by year 3 (also sturdy in the wind by then). I'd love to see what you are planting out first in colorado. Will have to look for other videos.
I've only had a veggie garden for a couple of years. Two favorites are green beans and slicing cucumbers. I usually have a lot so I share with my neighbors that don't have time to garden. This year I'm stepping out and am going to use some of my excess to do something I've never tried before. I'm going to make pickled green beans! Next year I will plant pickling cucumbers and try to make those too! Gardening is amazing!
I thinking the same way. I will grow different things to see if is good or not. Try the Taina Dorada pumpkin is very testy on meals. I put it in my beans mashed and in my soup.
Love this! I have fond memories of planting tomatoes with my mother when I was young. I don’t know the varieties she grew but we’d alway chuckle about giant Jersey tomatoes. ❤
I just found you Scott! Beautiful comments about gardening! I love growing geraniums because my grandmother loved them. I love sunflowers because I grew them with my daughter when she was little. For my own indulgence, I love mint, lavender, rosemary, & roses. I love having tomatoes & cucumbers handy in the summertime.
Tasty plants Strawberries check Cherry tomatoes check Spinach check Beetroot check And one for us is blackberries or brambles we call them I don’t grow any memory plants, we’re kinda new to gardening so we don’t have those memories yet Is there a better moment than picking food from the garden and eating it right there? 😊
I am going to try tomatoes and peppers this year just like last year with some herbs..hopefully will be success ful. I don't know what new things to try honestly..maybe eggplant?
My brother and I were each trusted with some of late Granny and Paw Paws elephant garlic from coastal north carolina and by golly you can never have enough garlic. My husband got several Montauk daisy cuttings from his new england childhood home that we put into our native sandy ground last year, and they are enjoying life down south. Your list is great and made me smile. Good luck this summer!
SunGold cherry tomatoes started as a new tomato variety in my garden too, and I've been growing it for about 6 years now. This years new cherry tomato variety is super sweet 100s. I'm also growing Chef's Choice orange tomato for the first time because it is supposed to be disease resistant.
I'm not growing sungold this year for the first time in many years. I live in a dry climate and they Crack so much. I'm trying centiflor as a replacement. I have found sakura tastes good (not quite as amazing as sungold but very good) and they are productive and Crack resistant. So Sakura has a "permanent" place now.
Scott I'm down in the Security/Widefield area and trying Crazy Cherry for the first time as well. In addition to Black Tula, Black Beauty, and Snowball varieties of tomatoes. We'll compare notes on our harvest near seasons end!!
I have some black raspberries that I hope to keep going for a future move. They are from a good family friend that I will remember well. Thank you Gardener Scott for the topic.
The green beans and cherry and grape tomatoes fall into the overlap of easy to grow and love to eat. The fetticus (corn salad, mache) is easy to grow but still getting integrated into our eating plans. Same goes for the sorrel and suntubers (Jerusalem artichokes, etc.) Everything else, alas, is a work in progress for reliable growth and/or enjoyment.
I loved this video, Gardener Scott! I grow gladiolas because my parents did. I grow herbs because they're easy, and we drink a lot of tea in my family. I grow peppers and garlic for production. I grow potatoes and corn for fun.
My Grandpa Desmond loved his veggies. Especially green beans. (I do pole beans but he did bush). And dahlias the size of dinner plates! (I grow dahlias too!) And tiger lilies... I also have a few in my garden, looking over me- just like my Grandpa. Rhubarb from my folks- delicious. Tradition tastes and looks good!
Im never without lettuce or bok choy. always one or the other (sometimes both) growing. even in the off season, my tent has space with one or the other.
Last year I grew lemon drop, and Sun Gold from your suggestion (along with 4 others), and I LOVED them!!! I think I ate more in the driveway (garden) than what survived to go in the house! I absolutely will be growing them again this year!
I have a neverending battle with ants and tomato hornworms. I don't use insecticides because the honeybees have found my garden. I just try to pick and squish the worms. Yucky job.The really big hornworms go in the freezer then out to the birds. Haven't acquired a black light yet, it's on the list.
I really have to get a strawberry patch going. I put some in my Greenstalk but they didn’t come back after our Minnesota winter. So I have to try an unground patch. That would be amazing to have them Year after year. Happy Growing!
Thank you. I’ll go back to gardening again. I stopped because I saw a worm Crawling on my patio and I hate worms and snakes! I’ll try growing lettuce and spinach because I love them. my tomatoes just keep on growing every year Even when I tried to kill all my because of the worms for the last three years!
Pilar, you can do it! I have a thing about spiders and I have gotten to the point where I can just exist with them. Our fears trick us, but think about that happiness instead. 😊
Wait, you’re missing something, where’s your hat?! Your health is far too important not to wear one! Don’t worry so much, your viewers can handle the lighting. I’m growing 21 types of tomatoes, most of which are for experimentation/fun (and I’m the only one who eats them in our house😂🤦♀️). I like growing Oregon sugar snap peas because our dog passed in 2020 and he LOVED pulling the peas off the vines from my 2019 garden. He’d start off ever so gently then look at us for approval then go for the yank. Cutest thing ever! He only got to enjoy them one season but they’ll always remind me of those moments. I’m growing several types of kale as they’re simple and productive and taste great sautéed with garlic and onions with fried eggs for breakfast. I’ve grown Black Krim tomatoes the last 3 years and only harvest 1-3 tomatoes a year but man they taste good! I’m determined to try everything to get them to be productive(probably a lost cause but I figure I’ll learn things along the way). Great video, inspires me to look at things with specific intent, thank you!
I take my hat off to film and then put it on again. Sunscreen is there. I do plan to start wearing it more in videos. Thanks for your concern. I love the idea of growing for your beloved dog's memory.
What type of strawberries do you grow? I live in middle GA do you think they would grow well here?... Really just getting started in gardening, I've only dabbled the last few years because of health reasons but my daughter and FSIL live here with me now and can help me. I'm starting off with a 4x8 raised bed and several containers as well as potatoes in tire rings.... Wish us luck please everyone 🤗🙏 Kendra
I grow a few different types, but the one I've had for years is Quinault. Here's some info on Georgia strawberries: extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.html?number=C883&title=home-garden-strawberries
I live one state east and in the same zone as you and have found most of the same veggie and fruit as you have do so well. I would like to know your var of strawberry that you save.... I would recomend 1 cherry tomato to you, I find to be the best for me, sparky, It is red with flecks of yellow on the skin, It is a 9 on the brix scale for sweetness and holds well on the vine and in the house.
Good morning. Thanks so much for all your efforts. Such a help with all my gardening. I plant summer squash every year. Zucchini and yellow. We love having it in the garden, BUT I always eventually get the squash vine borer. I have tried planting later in the summer, and it does help, but wondered if planting garlic in an around the squash might be a deterrent. Your thoughts?
Garlic won't have much of an impact. Planting later is a good idea and can be effective. Covering plants earlier with row cover is another good strategy.
Almost 20 years ago, my Dad gave me a few raspberry shoots when I bought my new house. Since then they have flourished along the fence line beside my garden plot. When I pick a few on the spot and wolf them down, I say thanks to Dad. RIP.
I can soooo relate. I garden because my grandma taught me the old ways......then i forgot......now im trying to remember. But shes always in my heart and garden.
I feel this so much. I lost both of my parents before I was 40 (which I am now), I gave my father two blueberry plants many years ago because he loved blueberry pie so much…. and now I have those plants I gave him, and I think of him fondly when my small children and I snack on them. Gardening can have such a strong connection to our families and parents and grandparents. It’s wonderful. 🥰 “The memories they invoke….” As Gardener Scott said.
A couple of the plants I am really looking forward to be growing this year is a tomato and garlic from my neighbors garden.
My neighbor , Martin past away a year ago last fall. All of last summer, people were working on the house fixing it up to sell, but no one paid any attention to the wonderful garden he had. One day when I was not home, someone came through and weed wacked down all of his garlic not knowing what it was. I asked permission and harvested the garlic, what I could find anyhow. Later in the summer I noticed some large volunteer tomatoes, I just picked them, they were delicious and I saved some seeds.
Well the garlic is not up yet, but I had 100% germination of the tomato seeds.
I will name both the tomato and garlic simply Martin. One thing I did not mention about Martin was that he had been developing garlic and tomato varieties for over 40 years. I hope I can keep his legacy alive, not only in my heart, but in his one true passion, gardening.
Watching my 6 year old and my 19 month old run around to all the different strawberry patches here at home makes me happy on a level I can’t even put into words. The pure joy they exude when they find that perfect little red ripe berry and smash it into their mouths and giggle…. all the stained shirts… I adore every moment of it… and I hope with all my heart they will think of it fondly many years from now if they have families of their own. They can tell their children about grandma’s strawberries and how they would scurry from patch to patch to find them like Easter, but in the Summer heat. I specifically drop baby plants in random locations all over our 5 acres for just this reason. Sometimes in locations that they may not even thrive in. Just to see them hunt for the ripe berries. 🍓🥰 Gardening and fun go hand in hand for our family. 😉 Who will spot the ripe peaches first? Who can find the tastiest blueberries? Which one of them can guess the weight of the pumpkins? It fills my cup!
I’m 59 & my grandma grew Calla Lily’s & Purple Irises. My mom & aunt harvested plants from her flower garden into their gardens in the 1980’s. When each of us girls bought our first homes we were given grandma’s Calla Lilly’s & Iris plants. Everytime we move, we take some of those plants with us. My grandma moved to heaven in 2008, but she is never far away from me because I see her in those flowers. We are expecting our first granddaughter any day now, & I look forward to giving her Calla Lilly’s & Purple Irises. It’s a beautiful tradition that is a way to honor those we love forever & miss terribly.
I grow multiple tomato varieties for taste and production.
I grow potatoes for fun, just because I can.
I grow snap peas as garden candy and for the grandkids.
I grow corn because someday I will be successful. And I think a corn patch is pretty.
1) For sheer flavor, I grow Lillian’s Caseload Pea. 2) Easy crop is garlic (32 pounds spread out over 9 varieties - some for us, some for donations to our community kitchen, and some in holiday gift baskets). 3) Productive crops are tomatoes and squash. 4) New things - especially in cucumbers and peppers. 5) For crops that evoke memories, it is melon or watermelon. Love growing things! Just added two bare root trees into the orchard area - Wolf River. It will be a while before they produce. Thanks for such a good video. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 3/26/2023.
I grow poppies because my dad grew them. I grow cosmos because the bees love them! I grow green beans and peas so the grandkids have something to munch on in the garden. And geraniums because my grandma grew them. They bloom all winter long as a reminder to me that spring will come back again.
We just moved to our new place in 2021, and I am a disabled veteran, so getting things totally set up is a slow process, so we always do summer squash, zucchini, bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Those would be our basic 5, and cucumbers. We got in our rhubarb a strawberry patch, and our things to raise our chickens and hogs on pasture on our 1880 homestead our first year. It also has a bank barn with a new foundation. The home was built in 1880. We just put in a 8x16 raised berry patch with 2 blackberries, 4 boysenberries, 2 raspberries, and 2 blueberries, planted 4 peach trees, and we are making raised beds made out of 55 gallon drums split length ways, and put up on frames, waist heigh. I filled our berry bed and raised beds with the compost from our pigs and checkens from one and two years before.
Your approach to gardening reminds me of Bob Ross..so encouraging. Thanks for posting great videos! I'm in zone 3 so patiently waiting for things to thaw. My favorites are golden beets, carrots and raspberries!
Potatoes, beans, peas, carrots, and lettuce, would be my five always in the garden. 🙂 I always have raspberries, but they’re perennial. Lol!
"Especially the peas..." Yes, indeed! While I'm out in the garden, at the right time, there is nothing more rewarding than savoring a few fresh pea pods!! Thanks for the video, and Happy Gardening!
Just started some more Bellatrix tomatoes, which I found *delicious* last year. Sadly I had only the one lonely plant.
I love garden candy.. those things I eat in the garden.
@@garynorcal4269 When the garden is at its most abundant, it's hard not to revel in the deliciousness!!
I graze every time I go out to water or harvest. Best wishes to you!
I plant a single petunia in my onion patch every year because my mother used to sing me that song. I don't have petunias anywhere else in the garden! Thanks for the memories, Scott ❤️❤️
I always had mixed results gardening and that's probably because I haven't had your list. I love cultivating plants but in the past I usually didn't get the harvest or when I did harvest I wouldn't like the taste. This year I've tried to put in more research into what might grow and be productive and align with what I tend to eat often. I've been hastily planting things like strawberries between storms because I enjoy them. I'm planting cherry trees because my grandfather grows them and my grandmother loved canned cherries or cherry pie. I'm also planting perennial kale for hopefully an easy win with productivity. I love garlic as well and planted those Chesnock Red that you have, they look great and have been easy to grow so far. I'm also planting other berries and fruit which I've never tried and can't find in stores so hopefully I like them. Thanks for the guidance, gardening seems like a great hobby and I'm going to try to get more than beetle infested radishes this year.
You continue to inspire me to truly “Enjoy Gardening”!! Thank you for always highlighting this in your videos, and for encouraging each of us to express who we are in our own gardens. 🌱 Gardening as an act of joy is a beautiful philosophy.
I have been gardening for 30 years and I enjoy planting the things my father did. I am trying new methods but planting potatoes, onions, cabbage, various beans, various peppers and tomatoes. I always feel his presence when I'm in the garden. When my children would help, I would tell them he was smiling down on us.
potatoes and roma's - we eat a lot, love them, they do well and store well
basil - I love the smell when I walk by and brush them. and so do the bumblebees.
super sweet 100 and sun gold tomatoes - grew both for the 1st time last year and I will probably alternate these for the rest of my gardening career. Tasteful and bountiful.
straight 8 cucumbers - tasty and bountiful and fairly easy. We love refrigerator pickles from them.
My wife will always have peonies because her grandmother and mother had them.
I started planting fruit trees and will continue with a new one yearly. I love grabbing an apple, peach or pear right off the tree.
I was fortunate to have mulberry trees near my house. My kids would always eat some, as well as, the neighbor kids and their parents.
I used to get in trouble as a kid for eating peas right out of the garden. We'd be playing & grab some peas & maybe a rhubarb stock as a snack. lol. I still snack on peas when I'm outside. Raspberries don't always make it into the house too.
I always grow parsnips ever since I first tried them. I love them. I am going to plant my biggest crop this year.
Last year I grew baby butternut squash. I got 2 dozen from two plants. The other winter squashes didn't produce due to a cool wet summer and they never do very well anyway so this year it's going to be only butterbabies - lots more of them. They grow well and are easy to prepare cook. I can't wait to make more butternut squash soup.
Mokum carrots - always. The baby ones are perfect for garden snacking.
Sweet bell peppers - always.
Sugar pod peas so I can eat them while watering - always.
I have 8 blueberry bushes because we used pick wild blueberries and strawberries to make pies and jam for winter, we were 14 children and if we didn't help pick wild berries we had a lot less food to eat.
I remember the smell in those huge meadows, great memories thanks Scott.
Never thought of why I planted some things. Then remembers the memories. Beautiful way to look back😊😊😊😊😊
My 'always grow' list starts with easy perennials and ends with the wow list for taste. If they hit both easy and fantastic flavor, they'll probably be a permanent fixture in my garden. Caroline raspberries tick both boxes for me. My 20 fruit trees have been fairly problem free, and we're hoping to get some good harvests this year (3rd-5th year for the various trees). Some of the trees are just easy and reliable, but not wow on flavor (jujubes), others are wow on flavor and pretty easy, but (due to late frosts) fairly infrequent harvests like our earlier stone fruits. Getting fresh apricots/apriums, pluots, and pluerries is such a treat, though. Our apples are likely going to be pretty reliable, but I don't think they'd wow me in the same way as some of the other fruit.
Some of my fondest memories as a kid were climbing a fruit tree to have a snack on an apple or pear. Nostalgia might be another key factor in always growing a plant.
thank you for reminding me and grounding me back to were i NEED to be, aka growing what you said .. taste and good memories....
I know what you mean about growing in Colorado! It is fun to try new varieties each year but I do have my favorites I grow every year not only because we like them, but they give good performance and success. Sungolds have been a favorite for quite a while, also Supersweet 100's cherry tomatoes. Grew Green Arrow shelling peas last spring and they did very well and had fun shelling them with our granddaughter. Even though a lot of telling people they must grow a garden now more than ever, we still need to find the fun and enjoyment of just growing, harvesting and eating great produce.
Thank you for this beautifully heartfelt video, Scott! Now in my 50’s, some of my fondest childhood memories are of hours spent in our garden with my mother and grandmother. My maternal great grandparents were farmers, and that respect for and love of mother nature has been passed down through our family from generation to generation. The thought of my grandmother’s salads made with fresh romaine lettuce, carrots & garlic from her garden take me take to a joyous time! My mother grew the best raspberries and strawberries that she made in to magical desserts and jams. I continue to strive to live up to my New Jersey gardener heritage with enthusiasm spurred on by your wonderfully instructive and inspiring videos. Thank you! 👍🏻🌱
Top 5: Strawberry, mint, cucumber, tomato, chives but I also love radish, spinach, potatoes, raspberries, blueberry, violets and roses.
I myself have many a raspberry plants and strawberries. Memories. Oh how great they are.
Milwaukee (zone 5b): Growing cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes turnips, lettuce because they were so dependable last year. Growing onions, celery, garlic, asparagus new this year because am intrigued and love the taste. Growing very tall sunflowers, marigolds and other flowers to encourage the pollinators. Trying peas, Swiss chard, strawberries again this year, even though they weren't that great last season. Planting basil, green peppers because I love the taste and am so challenged to be successful with them. We have a tiny yard packed with so many trees and plants. We have lovely lilacs that bloom in May. Two of them are from loved ones no longer here. I think of them lovingly when the lilac scent drifts across the patio.
Tomatoes and Cucumbers and maybe some jalapeños. This will be my very garden and I am very excited!
I love my perennials that I have gotten starts of over the years from friends and family. In so many cases I look around and remember the people who are no longer with us, but a part of them is still growing in my garden and in my memory. I have been bringing them with us whenever we’ve moved… just like your strawberries Scott!❤😊
Thanks Scott. It has been 4 years since I retired and that is about when I started watching your videos. I now have several more planters than when I worked; I have one near my kitchen slider full of herbs, oregano, marjoram,mint,thyme,rosemary,dill( but dill only in spring and fall, too hot here in summer for dill. etc so that they are easily accessible. You could say this gardening hobby has been "growing" on me and I have been "branching out" into many other veg types, ie cukes, squash etc along with tomatoes. I have overwintered basil and 4 year old pepper plants waiting until warmer weather to go back out. Been a long cold wet winter here in 9b Sacramento with more rain to come. Is currently down in the mid 30'sF for overnight lows still. Thanks again Scott.
I loved this…had never thought about the whys so heavily but yes, you’re exactly right! I especially resonated with the “evoking memories”…picking raspberries at my grandma’s farmstead and then eating them with fresh cream and raw honey🥰 thanks for making me cry happy tears today🥲
I miss the Raspberries that my Dad grew along the property. So I have planted Raspberries of my own here on that property for the same reason. This time away from the Deer so they can last. Lol
My Grandpa's favorite flowers were Marigolds. Now, I have them growing in many spots in my garden. They make me happy. On another note, I grow okra because it grows and thrives in Florida 9b.
Memories.. I have 4 kiddos 6 and under. I wanted to start a garden so they know how to grow food. Never thought about the memories.
This is my very first year trying this, so I'm kind of a mess. 🤣
But I guess I'll be growing pole beans and strawberries for my wife because her mom grew them when she was growing up. She asked if I would grow them, so I will.
I am growing peppers for me, because I like eating them. I'm planting asparagus because we both enjoy eating them, even tho it will be a few years before we get to taste them. And some tomatoes, because if you're gonna grow peppers you might as well make salsa. 😁
Good luck and don't get discouraged if not everything works well the first year. You win some; you learn some!
I'm growing raspberries and blackberries in containers just to see if I can. I'm growing 2 loquats because they look delicious. Marigolds because my Dad said they would help with pest, they don't in my garden. I grow because my Dad always grew a huge garden until he couldn't. I'm growing because now I know what kale, swiss chard, parsley, oregano, peppermint, basil and several others plants taste like. I think those are my 5 reasons to grow.
I always have 4 o' clocks right outside my front door. It was a plant I remember well as a young child. My great grandparents had them. My great grandpa and I would sit out on the front porch in the evenings. Counting Mississippi kites and watching the hummingbird moths and occasional hummingbird come to the 4 o' clocks.
I also realized the east side of my house is becoming an homage to my dad. He is still alive! I just happen to be growing 2 types of plants I fell in love with at his house, elephant ears and hostas.
My granddaughters love to eat sugersnap peas out of the garden. I always grow them. And of course they love to eat all of the strawberries.
I finally bought my first detached home at the end of last fall. It's not on a huge piece of property, but it does have some old neglected fruit trees I'm trying to bring back. I also finally have a bit of space to garden and every single thing I'm planning on growing this first year is something I have memories of in my aunt's garden and I want my 2 very young son's to have similar memories (they also happen to be things Im confident I can probably sucessfully grow as a 1st year gardener). Memories like being so sick of eating green beans every day, you almost forget how much you looked forward to the first ones out of the garden that year hahaha. Same with decorative plants, everything I'm planning on growing we grew in my front yard growing up. For example, we had a weeping Japanese cherry tree right in the middle of the yard that was older than me, looking back everyone was right and it was objectively beautiful (like people would stop their cars and get out to take pictures when it was in bloom beautiful) but I'm very tall and hated having to get under it to mow the lawn as a teenager... but guess what? I already have a spot picked out in the middle of my front yard to plant one this year hahaha
I love to grow carrots. It’s the one crop I grow year after year. They are the most satisfying harvest. Nothing better that pulling out that perfect carrot. Then giving it to my dogs. They love them as a treat. I appreciate your knowledge Scott. Thanks
The ones I have for the noms are:
-smulbär (mix between strawberry's and wild strawberry), they have an amazing flavour. -sweet peas
-mint, as many types I can lay my hands on.
-gooseberry the prickly kind!
For storage:
-garlic
-winter tomato's
-potatislök (a old kind is yellow onion that get several cloves from one like shallots)
-beans, all kind is beans 💚
For the memory of them:
-violets
-lilacs
-real sour cherry 🍒
We grow plants that are wonderful to eat fresh as they ripen, but also the same plants that that can be stored for winter food. We can, freeze and dehydrate all we can. This year we're adding a small greenhouse to get a headstart on some plants. Enjoy your positive approach.
I'm growing my now past grandfather's strawberries and can relate to some of your memories with your daughter. You would think that the taste of the fruit or vegetables will be the pinnacle but the memories can be just as good if not better 🍓
Asparagus, cherries, apples, pears, strawberry, raspberry, honeyberry, loganberry, gooseberry, blueberry, blackberry, Josaberrry, Rhubarb, Grapes, red and black currant, plums, Jerusalem artichokes these are just some of the perennial plants that are continuously growing in my garden Fantastic video Scott
My favorite cucumber is one I first started growing last year from Burpee called the Merlin. Incredible yields and firm, meaty fruits. If you like crisp, crunchy cucumbers I highly recommend the Merlin.
Unfortunately I am the first gardener in my family so I don’t plant anything that a family member did. I guess I am starting my own plant legacy for my kids to remember. I always grow hot and bell peppers. I try new varieties every year.
Squash peppers! Fun and spicy pumpkin shaped peppers. My favorite from my very first garden 3 years ago
Something new: Charentais Melon and pumpkins for fall
Just yesterday I finished planting my new raspberry patch!!
My summer garden always has tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, basil, and beans.
Started some asparagus, raspberries and loganberries last year. I really loved snacking on the raspberries while working on the garden.
An unseasonable 23F temperature wiped out my tomato plants, peppers, basil, and sweet marjoram. I am starting from scratch, growing new seed starts. My cool weather crops survived with light damage to the outer leaves of New Zealand Spinach. I am growing a wide variety of Asian greens, Swiss Chard, turnips, beetroot, onions, mustard, lettuce, and more. I am growing 7 varieties of squash, zucchini, white scallop, yellow scallop, Lemon, Acorn, Butterbaby Butternut, sweet dumpling, and Buttercup, 12 varieties of peppers, 7 tomatoes, three cucumbers, and 4 cherry tomatoes, Black Cherry, Sunrise Bumble Bee , Sun Gold, and Super Sweet 100. I m also growing a special treat for me, Seascape Strawberries. Why so many varieties? I like experimenting, am still determining what I like, and what grows best for me. The downside is, I like everything I grow. Asian greens, turnips, and mustard grow super well for me. Beetroot, and carrots, not so much, but I keep trying. The problem is the crazy weather in Alabama. Some years the weather stays cool until mid June, other years, it is scorching hot by mid May. I have feeling this year is going to be bad for heat. We've had numerous days in the high 70s and into the 80s in January, February, and March, with some nights suddenly dropping to the low 20s. If it gets hot too soon, above 85F, that will end my rooting vegetable harvest, potatoes too, but my peppers will like it, above 95F will end my tomatoes.
Always green and yellow beans, tomatoes including sungold!! yummm also lettuces for salads, and yes also strawberries and raspberries but the yellow kind, delish! Onions and garlic of course, this year trying red onions from seed
I’m new to vegetable gardening, and I mainly decided to do it so that I can have full control over the vegetables I eat. I just can’t be sure anymore the vegetables that the majority of us buy at the supermarket has been grown with quality in mind. Yet as my seedlings start to sprout, and watching your videos - I’m starting to feel a unique sense of peace, almost like a feeling of tranquility as I prepare for this first season of mine. It has been a wonderful journey so far, and I thank you Gardner Scott for being a genuine teacher!
I love this! Thank you for your very personal insights that bring generations together. I had a CB lovely neighbor whose children used to come snd eat from my yard. She was teaching them how to know edible and non edible plants. It’s a fond memory for me. When they moved, she gave me some of her onions and other plants. Yo this day, I think of them when I see those growing in my yard. :)
Sorry for spell check typos. Lol
The ending to this was so wholesome 🥲
You continue to inspire me Gardener Scott. I really liked hearing your story at 10:42 because where I live, we have a lemon tree that was planted by my great grandmother before I was born and it’s still in very good condition! Now, with the addition of my boysenberries, I hope when I have my kids, they will also enjoy the feeling that gardening gives us and that they too, will do what you said your kids did when they were little because I’m sure anything our young ones do, brings a smile to every family’s faces and I hope to continue growing my boysenberries going forward as it’s a very rare fruit from California but I may also want to add strawberries because I have made them into a delicious homemade topping for many years on my homemade funnel cakes and other desserts and lots more! And I 100% agree with what you said in this video about continuing growing any special fruits in the garden to keep the memories alive and growing and that’s something I intend to do with my boysenberries!
My go to cherry tomatoes are called Gardeners Delight. They are extra large in size and my vines have grown around 10ft tall outgrowing my trellises.
I grow strawberry runners from the same plants my youngest got for me over 16 years ago 1st thing we planted. Prolific I can still see her excitement when she’d pick them and she planted lilies in her own little patch. These make me smile and think of her when they bloom
I grow scarlet runner beans as a flower because it is a gorgeous vine that never disappoints. I have to say sugar snap peas are the same. Sure, a fresh pea pod is delightful, but those happy variegated leaves make being in the garden a joy. Gardening is about every sense.
Peas are one I have fun growing! Cosmos for the foliage and flowers in later summer. Strawberries and raspberries too. Thanks for your encouragement today!
Love your viewpoint! I only grow what I like to eat!!
I grow rhubarb, it isn’t eaten by deer and I can pick it over a long season. I have Glaskins perpetual rhubarb. I make chicken and beef recipes, oatmeal and desserts with it. I started my asparagus patch last year. I also have blackberries, a few strawberries and I have grown sungolds, fantastic and Brandywine tomatoes. I like Swiss chard . It tastes like spinach and grows over a long period. We have a fig tree, a persimmon tree, pawpaw trees and apple trees. I grow Limka pole beans which have that old fashioned bean taste. I grow other things too.
I love Egyptian walking onions because they pop up early every year before anything else. right now, those onions and a couple other things are the only thing out there (I'm in Colorado too...nice tumbleweeds, haha). They also make great border plants for erosion control and look really cool by year 3 (also sturdy in the wind by then).
I'd love to see what you are planting out first in colorado. Will have to look for other videos.
I've only had a veggie garden for a couple of years. Two favorites are green beans and slicing cucumbers. I usually have a lot so I share with my neighbors that don't have time to garden. This year I'm stepping out and am going to use some of my excess to do something I've never tried before. I'm going to make pickled green beans! Next year I will plant pickling cucumbers and try to make those too! Gardening is amazing!
I thinking the same way. I will grow different things to see if is good or not.
Try the Taina Dorada pumpkin is very testy on meals. I put it in my beans mashed and in my soup.
Love this! I have fond memories of planting tomatoes with my mother when I was young. I don’t know the varieties she grew but we’d alway chuckle about giant Jersey tomatoes. ❤
I just found you Scott! Beautiful comments about gardening! I love growing geraniums because my grandmother loved them. I love sunflowers because I grew them with my daughter when she was little. For my own indulgence, I love mint, lavender, rosemary, & roses. I love having tomatoes & cucumbers handy in the summertime.
Strawberries were my 1st food plants and still have a dominant place in the garden.
Tasty plants
Strawberries check
Cherry tomatoes check
Spinach check
Beetroot check
And one for us is blackberries or brambles we call them
I don’t grow any memory plants, we’re kinda new to gardening so we don’t have those memories yet
Is there a better moment than picking food from the garden and eating it right there? 😊
I am going to try tomatoes and peppers this year just like last year with some herbs..hopefully will be success ful. I don't know what new things to try honestly..maybe eggplant?
My brother and I were each trusted with some of late Granny and Paw Paws elephant garlic from coastal north carolina and by golly you can never have enough garlic. My husband got several Montauk daisy cuttings from his new england childhood home that we put into our native sandy ground last year, and they are enjoying life down south. Your list is great and made me smile. Good luck this summer!
SunGold cherry tomatoes started as a new tomato variety in my garden too, and I've been growing it for about 6 years now. This years new cherry tomato variety is super sweet 100s. I'm also growing Chef's Choice orange tomato for the first time because it is supposed to be disease resistant.
I'm not growing sungold this year for the first time in many years. I live in a dry climate and they Crack so much. I'm trying centiflor as a replacement. I have found sakura tastes good (not quite as amazing as sungold but very good) and they are productive and Crack resistant. So Sakura has a "permanent" place now.
Me too with the delicata! I grew the bush version from Cornell. Very hardy and prolific!
PS, I really like your point about growing things for the littles and memories!
Scott I'm down in the Security/Widefield area and trying Crazy Cherry for the first time as well. In addition to Black Tula, Black Beauty, and Snowball varieties of tomatoes. We'll compare notes on our harvest near seasons end!!
I have some black raspberries that I hope to keep going for a future move. They are from a good family friend that I will remember well. Thank you Gardener Scott for the topic.
The green beans and cherry and grape tomatoes fall into the overlap of easy to grow and love to eat. The fetticus (corn salad, mache) is easy to grow but still getting integrated into our eating plans. Same goes for the sorrel and suntubers (Jerusalem artichokes, etc.) Everything else, alas, is a work in progress for reliable growth and/or enjoyment.
I loved this video, Gardener Scott! I grow gladiolas because my parents did. I grow herbs because they're easy, and we drink a lot of tea in my family. I grow peppers and garlic for production. I grow potatoes and corn for fun.
My Grandpa Desmond loved his veggies. Especially green beans. (I do pole beans but he did bush). And dahlias the size of dinner plates! (I grow dahlias too!) And tiger lilies... I also have a few in my garden, looking over me- just like my Grandpa. Rhubarb from my folks- delicious. Tradition tastes and looks good!
Oh, Gardener Scott... the memories with your daughter... who's cutting onions in here?!?
Im never without lettuce or bok choy.
always one or the other (sometimes both) growing.
even in the off season, my tent has space with one or the other.
Last year I grew lemon drop, and Sun Gold from your suggestion (along with 4 others), and I LOVED them!!! I think I ate more in the driveway (garden) than what survived to go in the house! I absolutely will be growing them again this year!
Hmmm. Listening
Yes. Peas. Green beans. Bush or pole.
Thank You
I love the legacy aspect you shared about your garden. Thank you
Fantastic video! Always try new verities of plants you like as well. I always try a new one each year. Who knows, may become your favorite!
Great video! Take care!
I have a neverending battle with ants and tomato hornworms. I don't use insecticides because the honeybees have found my garden. I just try to pick and squish the worms. Yucky job.The really big hornworms go in the freezer then out to the birds. Haven't acquired a black light yet, it's on the list.
I've really enjoyed this video, especially the last reason for growing - memories.
Awesome points. Thanks a lot
I really have to get a strawberry patch going. I put some in my Greenstalk but they didn’t come back after our Minnesota winter. So I have to try an unground patch. That would be amazing to have them Year after year. Happy Growing!
My strawberries didn't come back in my GreenStalk either, but they great in the beds.
Thank you. I’ll go back to gardening again. I stopped because I saw a worm Crawling on my patio and I hate worms and snakes! I’ll try growing lettuce and spinach because I love them. my tomatoes just keep on growing every year Even when I tried to kill all my because of the worms for the last three years!
Worms are a sign of nutrient dense soil, you are blessed.
Pilar, you can do it! I have a thing about spiders and I have gotten to the point where I can just exist with them. Our fears trick us, but think about that happiness instead. 😊
You're the best.
Wait, you’re missing something, where’s your hat?! Your health is far too important not to wear one! Don’t worry so much, your viewers can handle the lighting.
I’m growing 21 types of tomatoes, most of which are for experimentation/fun (and I’m the only one who eats them in our house😂🤦♀️). I like growing Oregon sugar snap peas because our dog passed in 2020 and he LOVED pulling the peas off the vines from my 2019 garden. He’d start off ever so gently then look at us for approval then go for the yank. Cutest thing ever! He only got to enjoy them one season but they’ll always remind me of those moments. I’m growing several types of kale as they’re simple and productive and taste great sautéed with garlic and onions with fried eggs for breakfast. I’ve grown Black Krim tomatoes the last 3 years and only harvest 1-3 tomatoes a year but man they taste good! I’m determined to try everything to get them to be productive(probably a lost cause but I figure I’ll learn things along the way). Great video, inspires me to look at things with specific intent, thank you!
I take my hat off to film and then put it on again. Sunscreen is there. I do plan to start wearing it more in videos. Thanks for your concern. I love the idea of growing for your beloved dog's memory.
Wicked awesome !
I got a awhile adjustment if spinach to see what will actually grow out here
I'm starting a new strawberry patch and would love to know the variety you have in your garden. Thanks, Gardener Scott.
The variety I've grown for years is Quinault.
@@GardenerScott thanks for the reply!
What type of strawberries do you grow? I live in middle GA do you think they would grow well here?... Really just getting started in gardening, I've only dabbled the last few years because of health reasons but my daughter and FSIL live here with me now and can help me. I'm starting off with a 4x8 raised bed and several containers as well as potatoes in tire rings.... Wish us luck please everyone 🤗🙏 Kendra
I grow a few different types, but the one I've had for years is Quinault. Here's some info on Georgia strawberries: extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.html?number=C883&title=home-garden-strawberries
I live one state east and in the same zone as you and have found most of the same veggie and fruit as you have do so well. I would like to know your var of strawberry that you save.... I would recomend 1 cherry tomato to you, I find to be the best for me, sparky, It is red with flecks of yellow on the skin, It is a 9 on the brix scale for sweetness and holds well on the vine and in the house.
My strawberries are Quinault. I'll check out Sparky. Thanks.
Good morning. Thanks so much for all your efforts. Such a help with all my gardening. I plant summer squash every year. Zucchini and yellow. We love having it in the garden, BUT I always eventually get the squash vine borer. I have tried planting later in the summer, and it does help, but wondered if planting garlic in an around the squash might be a deterrent. Your thoughts?
Garlic won't have much of an impact. Planting later is a good idea and can be effective. Covering plants earlier with row cover is another good strategy.
You should make a vid of your favorite varieties
Thanks for the suggestion. I've been thinking about doing that later in the season.