What new varieties are you excited about growing this year? Let us know! SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees 0:00 Intro 1:10 Potatoes 1:24 Why We Grow Both Heirlooms and Hybrids? 2:05 Sweet Corn & Field Corn 4:11 Seedless & Seeded Watermelons 5:38 Squash & Zucchini 7:00 Pickling & Slicing Cucumbers 8:27 Sweet & Hot Peppers 10:44 Heirloom & Hybrid Tomatoes 13:00 Pumpkins & Winter Squash 16:22 Sunflowers 16:57 Okra 18:15 Why No Beans or Peas?
I've been going through my seeds, I'm pumped to plant some stuff, but I'm gonna need a miracle. My God is a miracle working God so I'm expecting a miracle. I had to move some of my onions because that particular raised bed wasn't draining good at all. With all the rain we've had I noticed moldy spots throughout the bed. I've ordered some perlite and I'm going to add a lot of it to that bed. Thing is I already have high nitrogen in that bed and I have to plant potatoes in it. I don't want to make huge plants and no potatoes. You can't go wrong planting Seminole pumpkins, they are delicious and last a long time in storage.
I grew Hickory Cane field corn for the first time last year and it did amazing!! It is an heirloom variety that everyone in this area used to grow. I grew it for cornmeal and have so much that I don't need to grow it this year. The seed came from Southern Exposure and I had 100% germination... In fact all of the seed I ordered from them had fantastic germination.
I grew Edox last year. I had 1 plant in my small backyard raised bed. It produced so much, I gave a lot a way since it’s just my husband and me. We had a ton!
Yeah I'm growing that same cherry tomato Exodus or whatever they call it I am going a lot of peppers this year for the 1st time since I have a greenhouse now Growing a heatless Habanero Sender jalapeno and a bunch of different sweet peppers
Travis great video. You should try growing pepita's pumpkins pumpkins grown for the seeds. They have no hull on the seeds they are ready to eat right out of the pumpkin and very healthy. You can get 6 to 7 per plant or more. Just don't cross pollination them. If you do they will grow shells and you want them hull less.
Thank you for the shout out!! Those seeds will do very well for anyone wanting to play around in the garden and wake up every morning like it’s Christmas Day watching these pumpkins grow up to as much as 75lbs a night!! Those seeds can go from $5-$10 each up to hundreds or thousands of dollars for 1 seed. The 1885 Werner is selling as high as $1000 right now, I encourage anyone who is wanting to have fun and add some excitement to the garden or get the kids involved to grow these giants. One year and you’ll be hooked!!
Try out big guy from burpee. If you like large jalapeños for poppers this is the best I’ve found. Medium heat but consistent 4-5” wide bodied peppers with great production for a large jalapeño. Been growing it for 4 years now. Thunderbolt for a extra large Marconi type hybrid. Really good production and great flavor. Gettin the itch up here in Minnesota. This will be my first year trying Hatch chilles , hopefully I can get decent production. Keep up the awesome content.
I have Honeypatch squash and Patchwork peppers from Row7 seeds to try this year, among others new things. I am most excited for Sunflower Steve's Van Gogh Fantasy sunflowers this summer.
Travis, I watched and then I ordered (4) different varieties of your seeds today. All within 10 hours. I just received a tracking number through “Shop” as they are on the way!! Phenomenal performance on your order! Thank you!
Getting a fig tree in the mail from you tomorrow next day shipping impressive. Keep up the good work I like your Channel. I appreciate that you don't fear monger like so many gardening channels do. I see 100,000 subscribers in your future probably this year.
Thanks! I'm not a prepper-type, so that's not what you'll find here. Plenty of other channels out there with that type of info if worrying is your thing.
Nice video Travis. I’m growing a few new varieties this year. Sun Sugar cherry tomatoes ( orange) and Firefly cherry tomatoes (bright yellow) in my flower garden (65ft x 8ft) where I always include some food plants like a few Jing Orange Okra (hibiscus flowers), Japanese Sesame (look just like foxgloves) and Roselle. I’m also growing some On Deck hybrid sweet corn from Burpee in a raised bed, and all my corn will be interplanted with some pinto beans (an experiment).
I grow Pineapple tomato every year. It’s delicious, I’ll stand outside in the garden and eat one of those big old tomatoes like an apple. I’m going to grow Hickory King field corn for the first time this year so I’m a little excited about that.
I just ordered some seeds from your website, been wanting to try the Ruiz Okree for a while now and am a sunflower junkie so I grabbed a pack of everything except giant pumpkins, I suck at growing them, lol.
Travis, I watched this video, great as always. Of course, I just had to order all three verities of the giant plants. I ordered on Tuesday, and they were delivered today. Fantastic job. I look forward to getting in the garden and playing with these. Will you be putting out suggestions on how to get the biggest bang for my buck on these? Showing off is what these are all about. Keep up the great work.
I picked up a tomato last yr in North Carolina called pink lady. The best tomato I have ever eaten. Just ordered the seeds for it. We’ll see if it will grow here in AR it’s a lot hotter then NC. But I’m going to give it a try👍
Like your choice of heirloom tomatoes. I’ve been growing Paul Robeson every year since 2019 and it’s always my favorite all around flavored eating or sauces. Im in a worse climate down south than you so know it’s a good one. The second one I love that’s orange yellow is Thorburn’s Terra Cotta. Produces prolifically and early. Im testing your Red Snapper this year! Also I’m sticking with Silver Queen because I always get two ears on each stalk and full ears in a small area. Thanks!
I am excited about trying red snapper for the first time. This will also be the first year I have drip irrigation which I think will be a game changer for me.
Hi, Travis. Yes, I’m trying some new things this year, too - White Beauty tomato, the Taiwanese variety of White Jade Bittermelon, Ají Cachucha Pepper, the Syrian Raqqa melon, the Japanese Shinshu runnner bean, and the Turkish Adapazari winter squash. Trying new stuff never gets old! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 1/31/2023
Thanks for that! I ordered my seeds last week. I decided to add pickling cucumbers this year, I studied all the varieties stokes carries, in the end I chose Supremo!
Another good video Travis. Just a thought, whenever you start your video you always say the date, which I think is great. Could you also include the time and the temperature? For some of us in the northern states, your temperature might be 30-40 degrees difference. And when I see it’s 75 degrees there, i know before long we’ll have that weather too. Go Dawgs!
I’ve been growing a straight neck squash variety called multipick from Johnny Seeds. Great variety very productive but doesn’t seem to stand up to the heat. Grand prize or gold prize sounds like they would be a good replacement.
Mmmm, Amana tomatoes 😋 I’m super excited about all the new flowers that I’m adding to my pollinator garden this year. I have 600 seedlings going under lights already. Food wise… the candy cane pepper tops my list! Although, I think I’m most excited to see how pretty it is in the garden with its variegated foliage and striped peppers. I’m also growing a blue Hubbard squash for the first time and hoping it helps with the squash bugs so I can keep my other squash varieties going a little longer. 🤞🤞
I grew the blue Hubbard for the same reason. But I didn’t have any success with it keeping the bugs off of my summer squash plants😡. But I did enjoy eating them. And they store for a long x👍
@@gailpetchenik3048 I use duct tape for the eggs. But I pull out the cordless hand held vac for the adult squash bugs, leaf footed bugs and Japanese beetles. Ahhh, the joys of gardening in the South!
Hi Travis, question who ever won the big Zac contest last year? Any plans of doing something like that again? My new varieties are more dwarf tomato project plants. They for small stature outperformed a bunch. Rosella purple, brandyfred, uluru orchid, and hot peppers from JPpepperseeds. Also, I wish the king Arthur performed well, but it did horribe last season, so testing king of the north bell peppers. Oh and of course can't wait to grow Sunflower Steve Van Gough mix and his new lemon drop flowers. I loved the seeds I got last season so beautiful and unique, couldn't resist another order for his unique Sunflowers 😀
Hello from Bergheim, Texas! I’m looking forward to growing Cherokee Purple tomatoes. To me they are the best tasting slicer I have ever had. I like to grill up venison burgers and put a thick slice of Cherokee Purple tomato on it. Thanks for another fun and informative video Travis! I think we all might be ready for a baby cameo soon :-)
I’m growing those too. First time for me and my first year (2nd season) gardening. I’m so excited about them. The transplants will go outside in about 2-3 weeks. I live in southwest Arizona.
I’m in the desert southwest. I have seedlings going in soon of Cherokee Purple tomatoes and big Jim chili peppers. I am also excited about centifleur tomatoes from MIGardener. Can’t wait until we see how yours turn out. Thank you for sharing.
One cucumber variety for cucumber 🥒 I would highly recommend is called DIVA it took a while but when they produced I'd get 20-30 cukes per plant I only had 2 plants and was swimming in cucumbers, they took off when it started getting warm here in northeast Minnesota last summer
Thanks for another great video! I am also growing the Pineapple tomato as well as Paul Robeson this year. My first time growing both. I am in N Ga so we’ll see how it goes for us 😁
Hi, Travis, thank you for the recommendation on Rose Tomatoes. I ordered a packet a couple of months ago because of their description. Glad to know you were pleased with them. Hope they work out here in NE Texas, as well.
Grew those King Arthur last year --- best green pepper production I ever had --- could have cut my row length down by half. I also plan to try the Toronjina this year. Started all of my peppers and tomatoes this past weekend, a little early to start but could not wait (just will have to pot them up and keep them in my sunroom if the weather won't break). What I am most excited to try is my new shelling pea. English peas are my favorite thing to eat fresh out of the garden. However, I have been using the same type --- Lincoln mostly --- the past few years here in AL that I use to use in PA. They don't seem that heat tolerant to deal with the quick swing from freezing to 80s that we get here, so I bought a new type (don't remember the name because it is just a bunch of random letters and numbers ) that is supposed to be more heat tolerant. Just hope they are as sweet as the others.
My beans and peas barely make it into the house before they are gobbled up. Probably need to reassess how many I plant this spring! LOL One day I may grow enough to freeze.
I've gotten all my seeds in as of today. Started the tomatoes and peppers already. I'm trying some of the heirloom type hybrids from Johnny's. They are expensive but if they do as they are advertised they will be worth it.
Just ordered some of those giant pumpkins & sunflowers can't wait to give them a try! Would be great if you could get this Ryan guy to give us some tips, especially on the giant pumpkins👍
Good idea. I'm gonna be a guest on his live stream on Tues. Feb 7th. But I probably need to have him as a guest on our channel so he can give some tips. He has lots of good videos of it on this channel though.
I love seminole pumpkins, I have one on my mantle from Nov 2021 that is still going strong with no signs of rotting or softness yet. I've used them primarily as dog treats and to round out their dry food occasionally but I want to try my hand at baking them into muffins and such for us.
Going off a tip from a gardener near me I'm also growing the edox and amana tomatoes this year.Amana performs for him here in zone 9 and he swears by the Edox. Grew a old Cherokee variety of pumpkin last year Candy Roaster Melon Squash (Maxima)"not to be confused with the Georgia Candy Roaster". Excited to grow it again.honestly best tasting pumpkin I've ever eaten.The hotter the weather the better they taste.Kinda tough to grow and not a late season variety! excited the Dwarf Long horn has been made available. been searching since the vid with Cajun B!
New pepper varieties for me this year are: Orange Spice Jalapeño, Red Biquinho Pepper, and Sugar Rush Peach Pepper. I’m also trying out a few dwarf tomatoes in my raised beds.
It's -8°F here in the sun today with 10" of snow right now I am harvesting snow flakes lol. I can't wait to do my garden this year still have about 4 months till I can plant anything. Going to do everything different this year and try stuff out.
We're trying a Ace 55 tomato, I've never grown a determinate tomato before, we added to beans, squash and pepper's as well but the one that I'm excited about is the toothache plant.
I grew one in a large pot last year. it did well, I did have to put a little shade cloth on it to protect the tomatoes. I am growing it again this year.
@@williammikell2210 That's great. I've never even heard of them until 2 months ago so I'm glad to hear from you. Thank you for the information on the tomato.
Roadster was only one of two varieties that got BER. I’m hesitant to grow it again and might grow Bella Rosa and Red Snapper instead. Will be trying Torongina this year based on your experience. Cheers!
@@LazyDogFarm I don’t either, but the fruit in other plants didn’t get it except for Roadster and one other. I quit growing Roma tomato varieties because of BER. By the way, are you going to grow Mochi from Johnny’s this year?
I'll be growing Carbon, Paul Robeson, and Dark Cherry tomatoes in Spring and then I'll be growing Dester and Pineapple tomatoes in the Fall. You sparked my interest with those determinate types. How do they stand up next to Celebrity?
Thanks for the inspiration! I'm going to be planting some South Anna Butternut Squash, a cross between the Seminole pumpkin and Waltham butternut squash. I purchased the seed from Sow True Seed. After seeing how well your Seminole pumpkins grew in a video, I figured that some of that in my favorite squash should be amazing, grown in NC. I'll also be trying the Seminole pumpkins.
I finally broke down and bought seeds online and am pretty excited to be growing something different than the usual varieties I find at the dollar general and tsc. I have red snapper and roadster tomatoes, touchdown bell peppers, big jim marconi peppers and some Cherokee tan pumpkins. Other than that my garden will be my same old boring varieties lol
Solid, well considered choices that you've made. I'm dropping from eleven tomato varieties down to seven, heirlooms and hybrids. Trying a couple of seeded yellow icebox watermelons, Honey Island and Janosik, to grow in 7-gal. containers with a drop string. Also trying Sharlyn, Haogen and Moscatello melons grown the same way. Your Mirasol Mosco pepper seeds are the identical cultivar as you grew last year under the name "Pueblo" chile.
Sounds like some great seed choices!! Can't wait to watch them grow. I'm going to try an orange currant tomatoe. Growing plants with smaller fruits like squash and melons. With my 120 day growing season I want more produce.
Good info Travis, we tried the Romanesco years ago great flavor. For a yellow tomatoe we've had great yields from Golden Rave. Eggplant, was Johnny's Nadia. For lettuce try Salanova from Johnny's. Peppers I could go all day, but Goliath Jalepenos are a must have.
That Eden sweet corn has to be the best I’ve ever tasted, BUT- I always grow it as my first crop cause it’s doesn’t put up well for the freezer. The kernels are really shallow when trying to cut off the cob and it seems to turn much more mush than others I grow to put up. Just a heads up
Great to hear! We haven't had any issues with freezing the cousins of Eden -- Yellowstone and Solstice. So I'm hoping we're able to get some in the freezer.
I tried the orange but I liked the Bicolor better cause my favorite tomato is Pineapple but it struggled here. The Bicolor taste the same but did better. The purple one has a salty smokey flavor
I am planting 4 melon varieties I have never grown before that I am super excited about. Minnesota Midget Cantelope, Yellow Canary Melon, Tigger Melon and Green flesh Honeydew. These smaller melons have me excited to grow em on a trellis. My wife has me growing Birdhouse Gourd and Luaffa sponge. She is excited for those.
This will be my first year having a garden. I’m planning on just getting my seeds from Ace hardware because the online companies and selections have too much to choose from for a newbie.
I wouldn't buy from Johnny seed if your a newbie, you have take out a loan on some of those seeds, did notice MI gardener is selling out of alot seeds so far not much to choose from.
Good idea. While the more expensive hybrids can provide some advantages, you might not want to budget for those until you get the hang of growing your own food a bit more.
Good stuff Travis, as always. I’m excited to try the Dwarf Cowhorn Okra. Regarding cucumbers, I’m surprised you’re not going back to the Max Pack pickling cukes you used to be really high on. Also, are you growing peas and beans this year? Love to see you sporting the ‘G’! Go Dawgs! #B2B
Bout to order some seeds from ya. I'd like to order a fig tree but ive never tried one so I don't know what kind I like. If you had to pick just one that you offer which one would it be.
Shaun... consider adding Shelby paste tomatoes to your varieties. It's a Sakata determinate from Hoss. We got about 20 lbs. yield per plant of a well flavored fat Roma type. Very disease resistant. It's one of the main components of our sauce blend along with Bella Rosa, a beefsteak and Italian Heirloom, an oxheart. Put up 60 qts. of sauce last fall, enough to last all year.
I love it. Tomato debates turn so easily into a blood sport. There's a passion there that you just won't find with beets or spinach, for example. I find that I can learn a lot about a person's character and wisdom by understanding their tomato preferences.
I thought for sure you would be trying “smooth criminal” yellow squash. Please tell me why grow yellow squash and also zucchini. Don’t they basically cook the same & taste the same? Thanks.
The Costata Romanesco has a different texture and a more nutty flavor than traditional yellow squash. It seems to hold up better to roasting and air frying.
QUESTION NO ONE, WANTS TO ASK, but better to plan ahead , WITH THE TALK OF WORLD WAR , what plants would you grow that you would be able to save seeds for year after year growing ?
What new varieties are you excited about growing this year? Let us know!
SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees
0:00 Intro
1:10 Potatoes
1:24 Why We Grow Both Heirlooms and Hybrids?
2:05 Sweet Corn & Field Corn
4:11 Seedless & Seeded Watermelons
5:38 Squash & Zucchini
7:00 Pickling & Slicing Cucumbers
8:27 Sweet & Hot Peppers
10:44 Heirloom & Hybrid Tomatoes
13:00 Pumpkins & Winter Squash
16:22 Sunflowers
16:57 Okra
18:15 Why No Beans or Peas?
Trav!! Don't forget about the ducks next door, they need some watermelon this summer too!!!!!
For sure!
I am convinced that the dawg bucket is a game. It's like where's Waldo. It just pops in the video.
Wasn't hard to find this time. lol
Syngenta can breed some squash!! “Grandprize” is a winner.
“Revolution” bell peppers green to red.
“Sun Sugar” cherry type orange tomatoes, skins don’t crack lots of flavor
I've been going through my seeds, I'm pumped to plant some stuff, but I'm gonna need a miracle. My God is a miracle working God so I'm expecting a miracle.
I had to move some of my onions because that particular raised bed wasn't draining good at all. With all the rain we've had I noticed moldy spots throughout the bed. I've ordered some perlite and I'm going to add a lot of it to that bed. Thing is I already have high nitrogen in that bed and I have to plant potatoes in it. I don't want to make huge plants and no potatoes. You can't go wrong planting Seminole pumpkins, they are delicious and last a long time in storage.
Sure has been a lot of rain!
Pumpkins are good treats for cows they love them
Chickens too!
Okrie 🤠
We love southern seed exposure
I grew Hickory Cane field corn for the first time last year and it did amazing!! It is an heirloom variety that everyone in this area used to grow. I grew it for cornmeal and have so much that I don't need to grow it this year. The seed came from Southern Exposure and I had 100% germination... In fact all of the seed I ordered from them had fantastic germination.
I grew Edox last year. I had 1 plant in my small backyard raised bed. It produced so much, I gave a lot a way since it’s just my husband and me. We had a ton!
Yeah I'm growing that same cherry tomato Exodus or whatever they call it I am going a lot of peppers this year for the 1st time since I have a greenhouse now Growing a heatless Habanero Sender jalapeno and a bunch of different sweet peppers
Travis great video. You should try growing pepita's pumpkins pumpkins grown for the seeds. They have no hull on the seeds they are ready to eat right out of the pumpkin and very healthy. You can get 6 to 7 per plant or more. Just don't cross pollination them. If you do they will grow shells and you want them hull less.
Thank you for the shout out!! Those seeds will do very well for anyone wanting to play around in the garden and wake up every morning like it’s Christmas Day watching these pumpkins grow up to as much as 75lbs a night!! Those seeds can go from $5-$10 each up to hundreds or thousands of dollars for 1 seed. The 1885 Werner is selling as high as $1000 right now, I encourage anyone who is wanting to have fun and add some excitement to the garden or get the kids involved to grow these giants. One year and you’ll be hooked!!
Please tell me you are going to keep the neighborhood ducks in mind when you are planting the melons!
Right? I wish I had neighborhood ducks!
They'll definitely get some!
Thank you Travis
Try out big guy from burpee. If you like large jalapeños for poppers this is the best I’ve found. Medium heat but consistent 4-5” wide bodied peppers with great production for a large jalapeño. Been growing it for 4 years now. Thunderbolt for a extra large Marconi type hybrid. Really good production and great flavor. Gettin the itch up here in Minnesota. This will be my first year trying Hatch chilles , hopefully I can get decent production. Keep up the awesome content.
I have Honeypatch squash and Patchwork peppers from Row7 seeds to try this year, among others new things. I am most excited for Sunflower Steve's Van Gogh Fantasy sunflowers this summer.
dang the sunflowers sold out fast
We should have more next week. The first round did sell out very fast.
Travis, I watched and then I ordered (4) different varieties of your seeds today. All within 10 hours. I just received a tracking number through “Shop” as they are on the way!! Phenomenal performance on your order! Thank you!
Thanks Doug! I've got some really good help.
Getting a fig tree in the mail from you tomorrow next day shipping impressive. Keep up the good work I like your Channel. I appreciate that you don't fear monger like so many gardening channels do. I see 100,000 subscribers in your future probably this year.
Thanks! I'm not a prepper-type, so that's not what you'll find here. Plenty of other channels out there with that type of info if worrying is your thing.
Dwarf tomatoes this year
I'm going to send you the pea seeds tomorrow
Great vid. Love u lazy dog fam. Thanks
Thanks Matt!
Trav the pineapple tomato is awesome! Grew it myself and they make huge sweet tomatoes…. Almost too sweet…. I loved them…. Wife said too sweet for her
Nice video Travis. I’m growing a few new varieties this year. Sun Sugar cherry tomatoes ( orange) and Firefly cherry tomatoes (bright yellow) in my flower garden (65ft x 8ft) where I always include some food plants like a few Jing Orange Okra (hibiscus flowers), Japanese Sesame (look just like foxgloves) and Roselle. I’m also growing some On Deck hybrid sweet corn from Burpee in a raised bed, and all my corn will be interplanted with some pinto beans (an experiment).
I grow Pineapple tomato every year. It’s delicious, I’ll stand outside in the garden and eat one of those big old tomatoes like an apple. I’m going to grow Hickory King field corn for the first time this year so I’m a little excited about that.
I just ordered some seeds from your website, been wanting to try the Ruiz Okree for a while now and am a sunflower junkie so I grabbed a pack of everything except giant pumpkins, I suck at growing them, lol.
Thanks!
Travis, I watched this video, great as always. Of course, I just had to order all three verities
of the giant plants. I ordered on Tuesday, and they were delivered today. Fantastic job. I look forward to getting in the garden and playing with these. Will you be putting out suggestions on how to get the biggest bang for my buck on these? Showing off is what these are all about. Keep up the great work.
Yeah we probably should have Ryan as a guest on the channel so he can talk about how to grow the big ones.
I picked up a tomato last yr in North Carolina called pink lady. The best tomato I have ever eaten. Just ordered the seeds for it. We’ll see if it will grow here in AR it’s a lot hotter then NC. But I’m going to give it a try👍
Like your choice of heirloom tomatoes. I’ve been growing Paul Robeson every year since 2019 and it’s always my favorite all around flavored eating or sauces. Im in a worse climate down south than you so know it’s a good one. The second one I love that’s orange yellow is Thorburn’s Terra Cotta. Produces prolifically and early. Im testing your Red Snapper this year! Also I’m sticking with Silver Queen because I always get two ears on each stalk and full ears in a small area. Thanks!
I am excited about trying red snapper for the first time. This will also be the first year I have drip irrigation which I think will be a game changer for me.
I did them last summer here in Texas they did fantastic
Hi, Travis. Yes, I’m trying some new things this year, too - White Beauty tomato, the Taiwanese variety of White Jade Bittermelon, Ají Cachucha Pepper, the Syrian Raqqa melon, the Japanese Shinshu runnner bean, and the Turkish Adapazari winter squash. Trying new stuff never gets old! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 1/31/2023
Thanks for that! I ordered my seeds last week. I decided to add pickling cucumbers this year, I studied all the varieties stokes carries, in the end I chose Supremo!
I'd love to have those giant sunflower seeds 💛 😍
Another good video Travis. Just a thought, whenever you start your video you always say the date, which I think is great. Could you also include the time and the temperature? For some of us in the northern states, your temperature might be 30-40 degrees difference. And when I see it’s 75 degrees there, i know before long we’ll have that weather too.
Go Dawgs!
My watch doesn't give me the temp, so I don't always have that at my fingertips. lol
@@LazyDogFarm 10/4
I’ve been growing a straight neck squash variety called multipick from Johnny Seeds. Great variety very productive but doesn’t seem to stand up to the heat. Grand prize or gold prize sounds like they would be a good replacement.
I grew one similar a few years ago called "Slick Pik." It was really productive, but it sure made some ugly squash.
Mmmm, Amana tomatoes 😋 I’m super excited about all the new flowers that I’m adding to my pollinator garden this year. I have 600 seedlings going under lights already. Food wise… the candy cane pepper tops my list! Although, I think I’m most excited to see how pretty it is in the garden with its variegated foliage and striped peppers. I’m also growing a blue Hubbard squash for the first time and hoping it helps with the squash bugs so I can keep my other squash varieties going a little longer. 🤞🤞
I grew the blue Hubbard for the same reason. But I didn’t have any success with it keeping the bugs off of my summer squash plants😡. But I did enjoy eating them. And they store for a long x👍
@@gailpetchenik3048 well, that’s disappointing to hear. Guess I’m just going to have to keep vacuuming my plants to get them all off my squash 😞
Vacuuming…that’s a good idea. I have just been using duct tape on my hand👍
@@gailpetchenik3048 I use duct tape for the eggs. But I pull out the cordless hand held vac for the adult squash bugs, leaf footed bugs and Japanese beetles. Ahhh, the joys of gardening in the South!
Hi Travis, question who ever won the big Zac contest last year? Any plans of doing something like that again? My new varieties are more dwarf tomato project plants. They for small stature outperformed a bunch. Rosella purple, brandyfred, uluru orchid, and hot peppers from JPpepperseeds. Also, I wish the king Arthur performed well, but it did horribe last season, so testing king of the north bell peppers.
Oh and of course can't wait to grow Sunflower Steve Van Gough mix and his new lemon drop flowers. I loved the seeds I got last season so beautiful and unique, couldn't resist another order for his unique Sunflowers 😀
I can't remember who won it, but the winning tomato was close to or slightly more than 2 lbs.
Hello from Bergheim, Texas! I’m looking forward to growing Cherokee Purple tomatoes. To me they are the best tasting slicer I have ever had. I like to grill up venison burgers and put a thick slice of Cherokee Purple tomato on it. Thanks for another fun and informative video Travis! I think we all might be ready for a baby cameo soon :-)
I’m growing those too. First time for me and my first year (2nd season) gardening. I’m so excited about them. The transplants will go outside in about 2-3 weeks. I live in southwest Arizona.
I’m in the desert southwest. I have seedlings going in soon of Cherokee Purple tomatoes and big Jim chili peppers. I am also excited about centifleur tomatoes from MIGardener. Can’t wait until we see how yours turn out. Thank you for sharing.
I got to get me some of that Okra
One cucumber variety for cucumber 🥒 I would highly recommend is called DIVA it took a while but when they produced I'd get 20-30 cukes per plant I only had 2 plants and was swimming in cucumbers, they took off when it started getting warm here in northeast Minnesota last summer
Is that a slicer or pickling cucumber?
I bought the pantheon zucchini seeds can't wait to taste them:)
They're great!
Thanks for another great video! I am also growing the Pineapple tomato as well as Paul Robeson this year. My first time growing both. I am in N Ga so we’ll see how it goes for us 😁
They're quite tasty!
Hey Trav, so excited you got the Okrie seeds on your site, can’t wait to try, loved the video, can’t wait til Spring to get planting.
Been looking forward to this video! Thanks!
You will like the pineapple tomato they get HUGE and have good tomato taste with a fruity aspect. Surprised me how good they are on a hamburger.
Sounds like a plan!
Hi, Travis, thank you for the recommendation on Rose Tomatoes. I ordered a packet a couple of months ago because of their description. Glad to know you were pleased with them. Hope they work out here in NE Texas, as well.
It's not the most productive variety we grow, but they are very tasty!
@@LazyDogFarm Thank you!
Grew those King Arthur last year --- best green pepper production I ever had --- could have cut my row length down by half. I also plan to try the Toronjina this year. Started all of my peppers and tomatoes this past weekend, a little early to start but could not wait (just will have to pot them up and keep them in my sunroom if the weather won't break). What I am most excited to try is my new shelling pea. English peas are my favorite thing to eat fresh out of the garden. However, I have been using the same type --- Lincoln mostly --- the past few years here in AL that I use to use in PA. They don't seem that heat tolerant to deal with the quick swing from freezing to 80s that we get here, so I bought a new type (don't remember the name because it is just a bunch of random letters and numbers ) that is supposed to be more heat tolerant. Just hope they are as sweet as the others.
PLS595 is an excellent shelling pea if the one you've got this year doesn't work out.
Great video! I think I may try that first cherry tomato! Thanks for the info.
My beans and peas barely make it into the house before they are gobbled up. Probably need to reassess how many I plant this spring! LOL One day I may grow enough to freeze.
I've gotten all my seeds in as of today. Started the tomatoes and peppers already. I'm trying some of the heirloom type hybrids from Johnny's. They are expensive but if they do as they are advertised they will be worth it.
I'm growing sweet habanero this year as something different, but I've been concentrating on building my orchard
Just ordered some of those giant pumpkins & sunflowers can't wait to give them a try! Would be great if you could get this Ryan guy to give us some tips, especially on the giant pumpkins👍
Good idea. I'm gonna be a guest on his live stream on Tues. Feb 7th. But I probably need to have him as a guest on our channel so he can give some tips. He has lots of good videos of it on this channel though.
I love seminole pumpkins, I have one on my mantle from Nov 2021 that is still going strong with no signs of rotting or softness yet. I've used them primarily as dog treats and to round out their dry food occasionally but I want to try my hand at baking them into muffins and such for us.
We love using them for muffins and pies. Haven't thought about feeding them to the dogs though.
Going off a tip from a gardener near me I'm also growing the edox and amana tomatoes this year.Amana performs for him here in zone 9 and he swears by the Edox. Grew a old Cherokee variety of pumpkin last year Candy Roaster Melon Squash (Maxima)"not to be confused with the Georgia Candy Roaster". Excited to grow it again.honestly best tasting pumpkin I've ever eaten.The hotter the weather the better they taste.Kinda tough to grow and not a late season variety! excited the Dwarf Long horn has been made available. been searching since the vid with Cajun B!
Good to know about Edox. It looks delicious!
Where did u get the seeds from?
New pepper varieties for me this year are: Orange Spice Jalapeño, Red Biquinho Pepper, and Sugar Rush Peach Pepper. I’m also trying out a few dwarf tomatoes in my raised beds.
It's -8°F here in the sun today with 10" of snow right now I am harvesting snow flakes lol. I can't wait to do my garden this year still have about 4 months till I can plant anything. Going to do everything different this year and try stuff out.
You should grow perennial edible plants like tree collards and jursuleum artichokes.
We're trying a Ace 55 tomato, I've never grown a determinate tomato before, we added to beans, squash and pepper's as well but the one that I'm excited about is the toothache plant.
I grew one in a large pot last year. it did well, I did have to put a little shade cloth on it to protect the tomatoes. I am growing it again this year.
@@williammikell2210 That's great. I've never even heard of them until 2 months ago so I'm glad to hear from you. Thank you for the information on the tomato.
I also got some blue giant seeds, and I’m ready to see just how big and blue they’ll get lol
Me too!
Roadster was only one of two varieties that got BER. I’m hesitant to grow it again and might grow Bella Rosa and Red Snapper instead. Will be trying Torongina this year based on your experience. Cheers!
I wasn't aware that BER was a variety specific condition, but I see your point.
@@LazyDogFarm I don’t either, but the fruit in other plants didn’t get it except for Roadster and one other. I quit growing Roma tomato varieties because of BER. By the way, are you going to grow Mochi from Johnny’s this year?
I'll be growing Carbon, Paul Robeson, and Dark Cherry tomatoes in Spring and then I'll be growing Dester and Pineapple tomatoes in the Fall. You sparked my interest with those determinate types. How do they stand up next to Celebrity?
Red snapper blows the doors off Celebrity in my trials.
Thanks for the inspiration! I'm going to be planting some South Anna Butternut Squash, a cross between the Seminole pumpkin and Waltham butternut squash. I purchased the seed from Sow True Seed. After seeing how well your Seminole pumpkins grew in a video, I figured that some of that in my favorite squash should be amazing, grown in NC. I'll also be trying the Seminole pumpkins.
South Anna is a great variety.
I finally broke down and bought seeds online and am pretty excited to be growing something different than the usual varieties I find at the dollar general and tsc. I have red snapper and roadster tomatoes, touchdown bell peppers, big jim marconi peppers and some Cherokee tan pumpkins. Other than that my garden will be my same old boring varieties lol
All good choices!
Solid, well considered choices that you've made. I'm dropping from eleven tomato varieties down to seven, heirlooms and hybrids. Trying a couple of seeded yellow icebox watermelons, Honey Island and Janosik, to grow in 7-gal. containers with a drop string. Also trying Sharlyn, Haogen and Moscatello melons grown the same way. Your Mirasol Mosco pepper seeds are the identical cultivar as you grew last year under the name "Pueblo" chile.
I was wondering about that. The Sandia website made it seem like it was something slightly different.
Sounds like some great seed choices!! Can't wait to watch them grow. I'm going to try an orange currant tomatoe. Growing plants with smaller fruits like squash and melons. With my 120 day growing season I want more produce.
Had amazing results with the pineapple variety last Summer here in northern Canada! Biggest I ever grown actually!
Good info Travis, we tried the Romanesco years ago great flavor. For a yellow tomatoe we've had great yields from Golden Rave. Eggplant, was Johnny's Nadia. For lettuce try Salanova from Johnny's. Peppers I could go all day, but Goliath Jalepenos are a must have.
R the Goliath bigger then the Craig’s grande?
Idk, only ever grown Gpliath.
That Eden sweet corn has to be the best I’ve ever tasted, BUT- I always grow it as my first crop cause it’s doesn’t put up well for the freezer. The kernels are really shallow when trying to cut off the cob and it seems to turn much more mush than others I grow to put up. Just a heads up
Great to hear! We haven't had any issues with freezing the cousins of Eden -- Yellowstone and Solstice. So I'm hoping we're able to get some in the freezer.
I grew the pineapple last year! It was my favorite tomato! Plant more than one as it doesn’t produce a lot per plant.
Good to know!
TRAVIS, u need to try the Chef's Choice series especially the bicolor. Pineapple is great too but doesn't like the heat and humidity
I've grown the Chef's Choice Orange in the past. I remember it being pretty good.
I tried the orange but I liked the Bicolor better cause my favorite tomato is Pineapple but it struggled here. The Bicolor taste the same but did better. The purple one has a salty smokey flavor
I’ve grown the Vintage Wine tomato from MI, and it’s a really tasty tomato. They were some of the biggest fruits of the varieties I grew.
Exciting to know!
I am planting 4 melon varieties I have never grown before that I am super excited about. Minnesota Midget Cantelope, Yellow Canary Melon, Tigger Melon and Green flesh Honeydew. These smaller melons have me excited to grow em on a trellis. My wife has me growing Birdhouse Gourd and Luaffa sponge. She is excited for those.
Love the Minnesota Midget, must grow for me
Looks great dude!
I’m growing a Green Emerald okra again this yr. Really liked it. But it does grow very tall. Can u top off an okra plant & make it bush?
You can. I had the same issue with that variety.
Can you recommend a chart for starting times for seed types? I’m
In your zone but struggle with the organization side of planting 😅
We'll probably have a video early next week breaking down our spring planting schedule.
I’m not sure if honeycomb is the same as sun gold but the honeycomb tomato is a favorite cherry tomato and gonna be a staple every year In my garden
Haven't heard of honeycomb. I've heard of Sun Sugar and Sun Gold which are pretty popular.
👍🏻 You ever tried Red Bounty? I grew it and Red Snapper last year. Red Bounty out produced by a little bit.
Haven't tried that one. Looks like it has a pretty good disease package similar to Red Snapper.
Travis, how’s your multiplying onions doing?
Decent.
This will be my first year having a garden. I’m planning on just getting my seeds from Ace hardware because the online companies and selections have too much to choose from for a newbie.
I wouldn't buy from Johnny seed if your a newbie, you have take out a loan on some of those seeds, did notice MI gardener is selling out of alot seeds so far not much to choose from.
Good idea. While the more expensive hybrids can provide some advantages, you might not want to budget for those until you get the hang of growing your own food a bit more.
Good stuff Travis, as always. I’m excited to try the Dwarf Cowhorn Okra. Regarding cucumbers, I’m surprised you’re not going back to the Max Pack pickling cukes you used to be really high on. Also, are you growing peas and beans this year? Love to see you sporting the ‘G’! Go Dawgs! #B2B
I started to go back to Max Pack, but then I saw that Excelsior variety and the fact that it was parthenocarpic. So had to give it a go.
Bout to order some seeds from ya. I'd like to order a fig tree but ive never tried one so I don't know what kind I like. If you had to pick just one that you offer which one would it be.
I'd highly recommend Conadria. Fast growing, easy, and delicious.
Getting those sunflowers!! Trav which fig tree would you suggest for hot Texas heat?
Any of them will do fine for you. I'd highly recommend Conadria though.
@@LazyDogFarm thank you sir I’ll be ordering today!
Should we be starting our seedlings now?
Not a bad idea to get started in the next week or two.
When do you think you will start seeds in the greenhouse
I'll probably start some today or tomorrow.
Been trying to figure out for years what my GrandFather grew in a field about 60 years ago And it look like the giant Butternut Squash
Are you going to plant sweet potatoes?
Yes. We'll usually plant them in late May.
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Why did you like it better than sun gold
Plants are a little more compact, better disease resistance, and the fruits don't crack near as bad when we get a lot of rain.
Planting a lot of paste tomatoes this year. I want to make my own spaghetti sauce. Never done it, and my wife likes spaghetti.
Shaun... consider adding Shelby paste tomatoes to your varieties. It's a Sakata determinate from Hoss. We got about 20 lbs. yield per plant of a well flavored fat Roma type. Very disease resistant. It's one of the main components of our sauce blend along with Bella Rosa, a beefsteak and Italian Heirloom, an oxheart. Put up 60 qts. of sauce last fall, enough to last all year.
Try( big moma's) from Burpee. We can two hundred jars every tomato season.
You can make pasta sauce from any type of tomato.
@@autohelix true, but if that’s the goal. Why not plant all paste tomatoes.
I love it. Tomato debates turn so easily into a blood sport. There's a passion there that you just won't find with beets or spinach, for example. I find that I can learn a lot about a person's character and wisdom by understanding their tomato preferences.
I thought for sure you would be trying “smooth criminal” yellow squash. Please tell me why grow yellow squash and also zucchini. Don’t they basically cook the same & taste the same? Thanks.
The Costata Romanesco has a different texture and a more nutty flavor than traditional yellow squash. It seems to hold up better to roasting and air frying.
@@LazyDogFarm TYVM!!! Kiss the baby princess for me ❤️
Don't taste the same to me, I love yellow squash and only eat zucchini roasted.
QUESTION NO ONE, WANTS TO ASK, but better to plan ahead , WITH THE TALK OF WORLD WAR , what plants would you grow that you would be able to save seeds for year after year growing ?
I agree stock up on heirloom seeds, what will happen if all seeds stores shutdown and close, grow your own and store seeds.
Hoss??
I don't know if those small watermelons are going to work for you. Those ducks aren't going to be happy.
Haha!
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