So many vegetables contain pesticides with their growing. It doesn't help that even the seed is impregnated with them so it's contaminated before it even starts to grow. People like us don't need to worry about this sort of thing, but bringing awareness to it is a great thing mate
Reposted to eliminate comments from an argumentative troll who is constantly bullying me. The dirty donen: 12 ) Tomatoes 11) Celery 10) Peppers (Sweet and Hot) 9) Pears 8) Peaches 7) Cherries 6) Grapes 5) Apples 4) Nectarines 3) Greens (Kale, Collards, Mustard) 2) Spinach 1) Strawberries Thank you for compiling this list. No, we don’t use chemicals in our garden, either! The less exposure to chemicals, the better. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA.
Another extremely helpful video! ...I owe you a huge thanks for your winter sowing instruction too. Despite having a long and brutal chronic illness flare, I'm still able to start my garden this year! :) Your practical tips are always a big help!!
Thank you for raising awareness again 🌻 Been so worried about the herbicides, mostly the pyralids, the past few years. This has overshadowed alot when it comes to growing, so at least I have forgotten about pesticides. Read somewhere that onions can be heavily sprayed with pesticides, especially the ones we import in the winter time.
Hello (again) Gardener Scott. I really liked your tips in this video. You know at one point, my family and I had a peach tree and I remember noticing a slight difference in taste than the ones we’d buy at the grocery store. We have a lemon tree that my great grandmother planted way before I was even born and it’s still in very good condition! But one of the rarest organic fruits I’ve ever grown are boysenberries which is a fruit grown in California and actually started at a place which is now an amusement park called Knott’s Berry Farm! It’s also not easy to find even at certain nurseries. I’m thinking of one day adding more fruit such as strawberries 🍓 which I use to make a homemade dessert topping on my homemade funnel cakes. And maybe I’d also like to grow tomatoes 🍅 to make into a sauce, and maybe even some cilantro and basil because I love to cook as well as bake. Thank you for these wonderful/awesome tips!
This is such a great video. I bought a #GreenStalk planter specifically because I am just so tired of unsuccessfully growing them on the ground. No wonder they douse them with pesticides. I am hoping to eventually fill all 42 pockets with strawberries, but starting with 6 - wish me success!!!!
Great idea for a video, thanks Scott! Sometimes I forget about all the pesticides that are used on our fresh foods. So happy to know that I already grow a lot on the dirty dozen list. Especially the spinach, tomato, apples and strawberries. I didn’t realize that spinach (my favorite) was so high on that list. I’ll be sowing some spinach seed here soon for a spring crop. Thanks again for doing what you do! You are a wealth of information and us gardeners appreciate it. ❤️🌱❤️🌱❤️🌱❤️🌱❤️
I am awaiting spring . I have ordered strawberry plants to put into my GreenStalk garden . I have lots of worm castings stored over winter just waiting on the frost and freezes to stop . Then time to get growing. Thank you for the lists of plants to grow and ones you probably shouldn't.
Celery made 2 of your recent lists. The list you don't grow and now the dirty dozen. 😀 I grow most of these myself including 2 dwarf Contender and 1 Flaming Fury peach trees. It's very rare to get a fully ripe strawberry from the store but from the backyard, it's easy.
What great suggestions, thank you! I planted strawberries last year and had enough to freeze. They lasted us 6 months. The kale is still growing, and what we don’t eat, the chickens love! I’m planting spinach seeds today.
Great Information about pesticide contaminated fruits and vegetables. I am growing at least three of them so I won't have to buy them from the store. I always learn a lot from your videos. Thank You.
If it’s not too late, I can recommend the bush cherries developed in Canada called the Romance Series which go down to zone 3. With optimal conditions they can score up to 20 on the brix scale, but are a little bit smaller than, say, bing cherries. They taste sweet enough for fresh eating and are the highest in antioxidants among sweet cherries. I have 3 Juliet’s and 1 Romeo (pollinator - not quite as large or sweet as Juliet). At about 7’ tall and 6’ wide, mature, they’re very hardy and productive.
Insightful video Gardener Scott. Thank you for including a link the the description to the Environmental Working Group Shopper's Guide. Gotta say that from the beginning I was expecting to see spuds on this list.
Great info as always, Scott! 👍 I think I've got most of these covered. I feel blessed that my property has lots of fruit...apple trees, pear trees, cherry trees, grapes(6 varieties, lol), strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, even kiwis & currants. As for the garden veggies, I absolutely cannot stand store-bought tomatoes or peppers. With those crops I'm not so much concerned about pesticides that can be washed off, but more-so with flavor & quality...and you'll never get as good as home grown. I've become kind of a tomato/pepper snob in my old age.
I live in an historic part of town so I'm not allowed to have trees, but I am allowed to have bushes so I grow raspberries, blackberries, grapes and blueberries and this year I'm adding strawberries. For tree fruits I try to get from farmers markets that don't use pesticides. I grow all my greens, tomatoes, peppers, haven't tried celery yet though. Kale is one of my favorites bc it holds up 10 months of the year in my 6b climate, the smaller stems are a great asparagus substitute and for a few weeks in spring the unopened flower buds can be used like broccoli. I let my best plant make seed and the abundant yellow flowers bring all the pollinators I need. Great video as always!
Gardeners should get familiar with Lambs Quarters it's a wild plant that's easy to grow and is in the same family as Spinach. For any gardeners that like growing Bell Peppers, I'd suggest looking to find some Mad Hatter Peppers, it's a mild pepper and is smaller than the Bell which produce more for gardeners growing the Mad Hatter Pepper.
You said in your last video to not bother growing celery, for the hassle you can get it cheap at the store since most people don't eat that much at once.
The two videos identify some of the different reasons for choosing plants to grow. If you don't want the challenge of growing a plant like celery, you can buy it. If pesticide residue is a bigger concern for you, make the effort to grow it.
I got 3 cherries last year and I’m adding a good pollinator this year 🥰 I also just ordered another older apple tree so I’m hoping for apples soon 😋 I have some young apricots but I think it might be a few years for them.
Good timely video. I always grow tomatoes, peppers and spinach from this list, so easy to grow. In my 9b Sacramento garden I can grow spinach and radish in one planter using succession growing method year round. I will try strawberries and will talk with the farmers stand down the street that sells the best strawberries and find out which variety she grows because her land is under review for "housing" soon!!! Nice to live in rural City but it is succumbing to housing growth every year. Thanks Gardner Scott.
At my age I've accumulated all the pesticides I need already. There's no point in worrying about pesticides anymore. I grow some of my food just for the taste and because I enjoy gardening.
Picked up some strawberry plants today and big boy tomatoes I'm off to a good start, though I've never grown strawberries before, so I hope I don't kill them lol.
Just a note from a wine-industry pro on growing wine grapes. While you can grow wine grapes outside of the wine regions like California, do your research and understand the type of wine you like or expect to make before planting wine grapes. Most wine grapes will have significant mildew issues in places with humidity higher than very dry areas (aka most of the US outside of the west) and need a long, but moderate growing season with lots of sunshine and do not do well with too much rain. Chose the variety carefully to match your region (Riesling in Finger Lakes, NY for example). I've seen UA-cam gardeners try to plant wine grapes in places like Minnesota and spend lots of money on something that will not yield wine grapes that will not produce a useable crop without significant alteration of the natural climate, or a large amount of pesticides, fungicides, significant protection from birds/animals etc. That said, there are wineries in almost all 50 states, so it's not impossible! A lot of them make sweet wine though, or import grapes from other regions (e.g. an Ohio winery can purchase grapes from CA, then ferment and bottle in Ohio and label it an Ohio wine) so don't assume.
We have orach as a spinach alternative. It grows so well here that my wife gets tired of it by summer, sometimes earlier. It self-seeds prolifically and sprouts in early-to-mid February here in 6b. It's completely undeterred by temperatures in the teens, frost, etc. It will go to seed in the summer, but that doesn't cause issues like most of our other greens (it keeps growing despite the intense sun / 90s temperatures). Although it does attract aphids like most greens do here, we can just wash them off pretty easily with a hose and usually the vigor of the plants isn't affected - they'll be 3-4' tall by summer.
Aphids hate hot pepper capsaicin. I use Habanero peppers mashed up in a cheesecloth watered over your greens will stop aphids in their tracks. Itll work until it rains and is safe for your plants.
@@bobbyjones5377 Luckily most of my aphid outbreaks haven't been bad if I catch them early. I'll check my trees and clusters of leaves on my Brassicas several times per week and I'll usually just blast the aphids off with water pressure if they start showing up.
Most of these are on my list. So far we have cherries (bush type), apples, Asian pears (just put in 2 this year), table grapes, kale / collards / spinach as early season crops and peppers through the summer. Brassicas are aphid magnets for me. I typically deal with aphid outbreaks with water pressure, just have to be pretty frequent and consistent. My fruit trees are planted in close proximity with yarrow which is wonderful for bringing in the wasps / lacewings. I plant yarrow everywhere, it's pretty indestructible (xeric and the rabbits don't kill it immediately once it's established). Moonshine yarrow is my go-to variety. I expect to have to net my bush cherries to deal with the western cherry fly. Can't do that with a 25-30' tall sweet cherry tree... I'm completely sold on 6-8' bushes. I'd really suggest trying Romeo / Juliet bush cherries. They're slightly less sweet than a bing, but still sweet enough (with the perfect tartness for my tastes). I'm not sure if it's just where we have ours planted in the yard, but they'll reliably set fruit and keep it through our fickle spring weather (frosts / hard freezes). I haven't had any luck with strawberries in northern NM. I have trouble finding good dappled shade... they get roasted in the sun or too beat up in the winter (desiccated in the wind). Once my apple trees get a little larger I'll try under those trees. I think I have a spot for a yellow nectarine tree, and we're putting in some apricots (I'm not sure where they'd be on a list, but with fuzz I'd want to grow them myself; most stone fruit seem to be common offenders). Unfortunately we'll probably only get apricots every 5-7 years, late spring frost damage through mid May is a hurdle for us.
we here in south australia where i live dont get enough chill hours for cherries worse luck i love them but only a 30 minute drive awayis prime cherry growing area so i go just before christmas an buy a case and preserve them lol
Love all the fruits and most the veggies you mentioned. We have 3 apple trees of different species. Problem we have here is wind. Sometimes when the trees bloom a strong wind storm comes along blowing blooms right off the trees. No fruit then! We have Concord grapes too, but the bees like the grapes apparently more than we do! LOL A hand full of blueberries bushes that if I’m quick enough to get to before the deer do I may get some? Want to plant a lot more blueberries bushes though! Tell you the one that drives me nut the most thought are voles or moles! Keeping them out of my garden hasn’t been successful at all and they eat a lot of my plants too! Even got in one of my watermelon from underneath thru the ground and ate his way right inside my watermelon. Didn’t know till I seen the watermelon was getting soft and mushy! I’ve tried traps , been told to use sharp glass in the ground to cut the pests, supposedly their blood doesn’t clot and they bleed out? Haven’t noticed any difference in population? I’m considering digging a deep trench around my garden and lay in hardware cloth. But it’s going to be expensive with a 350ft X 50Ft garden to go all the way around it! Not to mention time consuming too! I wish there was better ways to discourage these voles or moles from getting in my garden. Kept them out of my raised beds for 10 years, but those creatures finally found their way into my raised beds too! Did I mention I hate voles/moles? LOL Yellow jackets are a huge pain too, especially when it’s a dry summer they go after the juice in the grapes. As I mentioned there’s deer too, but least I enjoyed seeing them even if they eat some of my food. But another reason I need a better barrier around my garden! Would love to put a huge greenhouse around the whole garden actually and I have dreams of doing it too. Can’t afford to buy a green house, but I do have a lot of trees I could harvest for wood to help on costs. Just wish I had a saw mill to make specific sizes of lumber. But a poor boy must do what a poor boy has to do! So I may have to use full tree trunks for the structure? Haven’t let anything stop me yet! Digging a 350ft trench 2 ft deep in clay soil in the middle of summer for a water line down to my garden didn’t stop me shoveling it all by hand too! Only thing I do have is a abundance of time! LOL my labor don’t cost me money so far! Just keep plugging away day after day and see what progress you accomplish? But if you have any good idea on keeping voles/moles out of the garden please share. I’m sure if anyone got a good idea it’s you! Always enjoy and learn a lot from your videos. So thanks again
I wish peach trees were not so susceptible to pests and diseases. I had a peach tree here in NC, and it grew well. Unfortunately peach tree borers started eating the cambium layer, some moth or insect started laying eggs in the fruit, and the birds and squirrels thought the ripening fruit was a personal invitation to supper. Without pesticides, the tree started declining, so I cut it down.
Great info Scott! I am starting my garden this year and purchased a Greenstalk. I am in Black Forest, CO and was wondering if I could grow brassicas in it starting this Mid-March? I will be covering it with plastic for cold temps and the tower will be south facing. Also adding some cherry bushes this year, Nanking and Hansen. Hoping to have cherries for canning! Happy growing!
I Just recently covered my new garden with cardboard and straw, I'm having compost delivered, since the grass underneath hasn't had time to breakdown, should I just put my 12in raised beds on top of the straw, or pull back the straw and put the compost on the cardboard?
How do you prevent pest and fungal disease in your fruit trees? I have a peach tree but struggle with plum curculio. I tore down my apple trees because they were decimated with Japanese beetles. It was too much trouble. I seem to have better luck growing berries.
Such great information. I am attempting to grow celery indoors. Seedlings seem stunted but trying. I wonder how many vegetables are really organic in the stores as they say?😏
In my experience most things labeled organic are mostly free of pesticides. I've been doing a lot of fermenting and pesticides inhibit the process, I've had pretty good results with organic produce in my area. You could always try fermenting some to test it if you're curious though.
@@amandachamberlain3169 Thank you. I had to look up fermenting😊. Will continue to try to grow anything on the dirty dozen list but in a bind this is good to know
Thank you for this important information. Luckily we grow our own tomatoes, peppers, and spinach. But, what really worries me is the fruit. Our soil is so sandy and being in zone 4a, we just can't get fruit trees to survive after two years. we have brought in special soil, nutrients, etc. to no avail. Strawberries, even in a raised bed, never come back the second year. You weren't talking about organic vegetables and fruits right? Enjoyed! Take care!
This is a good video, but I have some comments about it. First is about cherries, that I love. I have about 7 cherry trees in my back yard. They are dwarf or multivariate grafts, and I wish I had not gotten the grafted trees as they don't do well or grow very big. Second is that while it is nice to buy and grow fruit trees, they fruit is only in season for a short time. A secondary consideration here is the birds and squirrels that eat most of my fruit, or ruin it. Eating a fresh cherry off the tree is an almost ecstatic experience ... they are so wonderful. But only for a couple of weeks usually. Today the cherry trees in my back yard are just starting to bud. I can't wait to see how many cherries I will get this year. I have been trying to air-layer and clones some of them to get even more, and hope that if I can get this to work the clone trees will not be size limited as the grafted trees are. Trying to grow one's own food is a problem that I have not figured out, but it is fun.
I have two apple, one pear and a cherry tree. They all do great except the cherry I can't keep the fruit flies out . Any tips or videos on controlling fruit flies?
Great information. Hope you have an abundant harvest. Do you know of any recent scientific based nutritional data comparing homegrown versus conventional produce sold in grocery stores? I’m sure homegrown scores better but would be another factor to encourage people to grow their own produce.
There are some studies but they aren't definitive because the same variety is rarely compared. The varieties in stores are often grown with a focus on transport and storage and less for taste and nutrition. The varieties we grow in our gardens can be selected for the factors we prefer.
@@GardenerScott yes those are good points. Commercial growers often have their own specially bred varieties not sold to home gardeners mostly for appearance and to be durable for shipping. I’m sure if there is a study the conclusion is that homegrown not only has better flavor but more nutrients.
I was a bit surprised that cucumbers weren't on the list, either. Maybe it's just because I live in an area where we get a LOT of squash bugs and cucumber beetles. :\
My problem is wasps, hornets, and stink bugs. I have had a peach tree for the past 21 years and have gotten ONE peach from the tree in that time frame. The stink bugs attack, then leave the bruised and half eaten peaches for the wasps and hornets to finish off. I tried sulphur, but it only takes a good dew to wash it off and we have pretty good dews each night in the summer. Any suggestions?
Paul Gautschi said " my plants are so healthy and full of water the bugs drown when they bite into it" 😁 Not everyone is a Paul Great video as usual Scott 👍
Great video! Thanks. While I prefer to grow as much of my own veg as I can, we have long winters; and eventually, I have to resort to the grocery store. So my question is, does a vinegar soak remove much or all of the pesticides? I can't always afford organic.
There is also a product out on the market that is called "Fit." It was designed specifically for washing fruits & veggies. It has grapefruit oil in it to help break things up. I've used it in the past and I LOVE it! Around here, they LOVE to "wax" cucumbers with mayo before they put them out for sell. Using Fit on them cleans them like nothing else I've found. :) Also, a little of it goes a very long way. Good luck.
@@MultiTerryWhite The two climates zones aren't actually hugely different. Gardner Scott is 5b, you're like 6a/b or if you're lucky, 7a (Windsor/Kingsville/Leamington).
We have been trying to keep a garden on our property for 3 years now (newbies) and we experience severe bug damage every year. Can't seem to get anything but tomatoes and green peppers to harvest. It's extremely frustrating. We have a few apple trees, not sure how to get them to yield apples that are without bug damage. So Pests are our problem and it seems like pesticides are the only solution. We've been trying to avoid using them.
Tomatoes are tasteless, especially the hydroponic mush balls. Add pesticides and I wonder why I even buy them. Had a Madison peach in zone 5a and it was the best EVER! Yes, late freezes are not good. Spinach is always recalled. I'm starting a home orchard. Considering high density Apple production where the dwarf Apple trees are 3-5' apart along a cable system like grapes. Has anyone heard of this or tried it? Also has anyone pruned a standard peach and/or cherry tree to keep it small? Does it do well?
The apple trees can be trellised and grown close using Espalier pruning. I've done it. Here's one of my videos discussing the method: ua-cam.com/video/WnBS9U1FIPY/v-deo.html
While i enjoyed the topic, I question the value of making jams pies and the like. When I go to a store to pick up said pies and jams on the list of nutrition facts it says on them "Not a significant source of vitamin C, A, Calcium,..." To my mind that means jams and pies are only a source of sugar and the processing into jams takes out most of the vitamins. Dehydrating might be alright. In researching this harangue nutritionally they seem like they retain their vitamins. Maybe I'm wrong but I think we're better off nutritionally to freeze strawberries and the like because there is likely more vitamins in doing so than there are in jams.
May I recommend a video, please? I am not concerned so much about the pesticides that are on store bought foods, but I am concerned about how many particles per million are plastic. I read somewhere recently that as many as 47 parts per million are plastic or plastic residue in the foods we eat. I don't remember where I read it, and you are more connected to the science part of gardening than I. I would be interested in knowing how much plastic is in store bought food v garden food.
Don't worry too much, most scientists who know anything about toxicology don't hold the claims of the EWG in high regard. They're very much unscientific and misleading.
So many vegetables contain pesticides with their growing. It doesn't help that even the seed is impregnated with them so it's contaminated before it even starts to grow. People like us don't need to worry about this sort of thing, but bringing awareness to it is a great thing mate
Reposted to eliminate comments from an argumentative troll who is constantly bullying me.
The dirty donen:
12 ) Tomatoes
11) Celery
10) Peppers (Sweet and Hot)
9) Pears
8) Peaches
7) Cherries
6) Grapes
5) Apples
4) Nectarines
3) Greens (Kale, Collards, Mustard)
2) Spinach
1) Strawberries
Thank you for compiling this list. No, we don’t use chemicals in our garden, either! The less exposure to chemicals, the better. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA.
We're in zone 10b and our kale grows effortlessly year round.
Another extremely helpful video! ...I owe you a huge thanks for your winter sowing instruction too. Despite having a long and brutal chronic illness flare, I'm still able to start my garden this year! :) Your practical tips are always a big help!!
Thank you for raising awareness again 🌻
Been so worried about the herbicides, mostly the pyralids, the past few years. This has overshadowed alot when it comes to growing, so at least I have forgotten about pesticides.
Read somewhere that onions can be heavily sprayed with pesticides, especially the ones we import in the winter time.
I happen to live next to an organic strawberry farm. Picking box after box and eating as many as I want feels nice
I have only four in your list, ie. tomatoes, spinach, peppers and strawberries. Thanks for the information Scott.
Hello (again) Gardener Scott. I really liked your tips in this video. You know at one point, my family and I had a peach tree and I remember noticing a slight difference in taste than the ones we’d buy at the grocery store. We have a lemon tree that my great grandmother planted way before I was even born and it’s still in very good condition! But one of the rarest organic fruits I’ve ever grown are boysenberries which is a fruit grown in California and actually started at a place which is now an amusement park called Knott’s Berry Farm! It’s also not easy to find even at certain nurseries. I’m thinking of one day adding more fruit such as strawberries 🍓 which I use to make a homemade dessert topping on my homemade funnel cakes. And maybe I’d also like to grow tomatoes 🍅 to make into a sauce, and maybe even some cilantro and basil because I love to cook as well as bake. Thank you for these wonderful/awesome tips!
This is such a great video. I bought a #GreenStalk planter specifically because I am just so tired of unsuccessfully growing them on the ground. No wonder they douse them with pesticides. I am hoping to eventually fill all 42 pockets with strawberries, but starting with 6 - wish me success!!!!
Great idea for a video, thanks Scott! Sometimes I forget about all the pesticides that are used on our fresh foods. So happy to know that I already grow a lot on the dirty dozen list. Especially the spinach, tomato, apples and strawberries. I didn’t realize that spinach (my favorite) was so high on that list. I’ll be sowing some spinach seed here soon for a spring crop. Thanks again for doing what you do! You are a wealth of information and us gardeners appreciate it.
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I am awaiting spring . I have ordered strawberry plants to put into my GreenStalk garden . I have lots of worm castings stored over winter just waiting on the frost and freezes to stop . Then time to get growing. Thank you for the lists of plants to grow and ones you probably shouldn't.
Celery made 2 of your recent lists. The list you don't grow and now the dirty dozen. 😀 I grow most of these myself including 2 dwarf Contender and 1 Flaming Fury peach trees. It's very rare to get a fully ripe strawberry from the store but from the backyard, it's easy.
What great suggestions, thank you! I planted strawberries last year and had enough to freeze. They lasted us 6 months. The kale is still growing, and what we don’t eat, the chickens love! I’m planting spinach seeds today.
Great Information about pesticide contaminated fruits and vegetables. I am growing at least three of them so I won't have to buy them from the store. I always learn a lot from your videos. Thank You.
If it’s not too late, I can recommend the bush cherries developed in Canada called the Romance Series which go down to zone 3. With optimal conditions they can score up to 20 on the brix scale, but are a little bit smaller than, say, bing cherries. They taste sweet enough for fresh eating and are the highest in antioxidants among sweet cherries. I have 3 Juliet’s and 1 Romeo (pollinator - not quite as large or sweet as Juliet). At about 7’ tall and 6’ wide, mature, they’re very hardy and productive.
Insightful video Gardener Scott. Thank you for including a link the the description to the Environmental Working Group Shopper's Guide. Gotta say that from the beginning I was expecting to see spuds on this list.
GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER SCOTT. THANK YOU.
Howdy Gardener Scott!🖐 Nice one...thanks!🙂 Beautiful tomato!🙂
Great info as always, Scott! 👍
I think I've got most of these covered. I feel blessed that my property has lots of fruit...apple trees, pear trees, cherry trees, grapes(6 varieties, lol), strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, even kiwis & currants. As for the garden veggies, I absolutely cannot stand store-bought tomatoes or peppers. With those crops I'm not so much concerned about pesticides that can be washed off, but more-so with flavor & quality...and you'll never get as good as home grown. I've become kind of a tomato/pepper snob in my old age.
Thank you for sharing this information-- it is a public service to have this information and awareness. Thanks, Gardener Scott!
I live in an historic part of town so I'm not allowed to have trees, but I am allowed to have bushes so I grow raspberries, blackberries, grapes and blueberries and this year I'm adding strawberries. For tree fruits I try to get from farmers markets that don't use pesticides. I grow all my greens, tomatoes, peppers, haven't tried celery yet though. Kale is one of my favorites bc it holds up 10 months of the year in my 6b climate, the smaller stems are a great asparagus substitute and for a few weeks in spring the unopened flower buds can be used like broccoli. I let my best plant make seed and the abundant yellow flowers bring all the pollinators I need. Great video as always!
I let my plants flower last year and loved those yellow flowers too.
Gardeners should get familiar with Lambs Quarters it's a wild plant that's easy to grow and is in the same family as Spinach. For any gardeners that like growing Bell Peppers, I'd suggest looking to find some Mad Hatter Peppers, it's a mild pepper and is smaller than the Bell which produce more for gardeners growing the Mad Hatter Pepper.
@Democrats Are just nazis Mad Hatter Peppers are only 500 to 1,000 scoville.
You said in your last video to not bother growing celery, for the hassle you can get it cheap at the store since most people don't eat that much at once.
I was thinking the same thing.🤣
The two videos identify some of the different reasons for choosing plants to grow. If you don't want the challenge of growing a plant like celery, you can buy it. If pesticide residue is a bigger concern for you, make the effort to grow it.
Ohh Nooo… not strawberries 🍓🥴. Interesting list Gardner Scott. Thank you 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Most of these are on my list to grow again or to buy to grow.
This is great information to know to make decisions on what to grow in the garden.
I got 3 cherries last year and I’m adding a good pollinator this year 🥰 I also just ordered another older apple tree so I’m hoping for apples soon 😋 I have some young apricots but I think it might be a few years for them.
If you're anywhere near Grand Junction, I can guide you to a fruit packing shed that is 100% organic.
Good timely video. I always grow tomatoes, peppers and spinach from this list, so easy to grow. In my 9b Sacramento garden I can grow spinach and radish in one planter using succession growing method year round. I will try strawberries and will talk with the farmers stand down the street that sells the best strawberries and find out which variety she grows because her land is under review for "housing" soon!!!
Nice to live in rural City but it is succumbing to housing growth every year. Thanks Gardner Scott.
I'd really love it if you could do a video on how to grow horseradish.
At my age I've accumulated all the pesticides I need already. There's no point in worrying about pesticides anymore. I grow some of my food just for the taste and because I enjoy gardening.
Picked up some strawberry plants today and big boy tomatoes I'm off to a good start, though I've never grown strawberries before, so I hope I don't kill them lol.
Just a note from a wine-industry pro on growing wine grapes. While you can grow wine grapes outside of the wine regions like California, do your research and understand the type of wine you like or expect to make before planting wine grapes. Most wine grapes will have significant mildew issues in places with humidity higher than very dry areas (aka most of the US outside of the west) and need a long, but moderate growing season with lots of sunshine and do not do well with too much rain. Chose the variety carefully to match your region (Riesling in Finger Lakes, NY for example). I've seen UA-cam gardeners try to plant wine grapes in places like Minnesota and spend lots of money on something that will not yield wine grapes that will not produce a useable crop without significant alteration of the natural climate, or a large amount of pesticides, fungicides, significant protection from birds/animals etc. That said, there are wineries in almost all 50 states, so it's not impossible! A lot of them make sweet wine though, or import grapes from other regions (e.g. an Ohio winery can purchase grapes from CA, then ferment and bottle in Ohio and label it an Ohio wine) so don't assume.
Well done! Very Informative
Another awesome videos that helps alot. Thank you For sharing this valuable information that you have.
Kale and collard are easy to clone. Break off a branch and strip most of the bottom leaves and stick the branches in thr ground and keep moist.
more great info, its always good to be reminded why to grow your own food.
Just came across your channel and I just subscribed because I love your honesty in your videos!
Thanks, Tamara. Welcome to the channel!
We have orach as a spinach alternative. It grows so well here that my wife gets tired of it by summer, sometimes earlier. It self-seeds prolifically and sprouts in early-to-mid February here in 6b. It's completely undeterred by temperatures in the teens, frost, etc. It will go to seed in the summer, but that doesn't cause issues like most of our other greens (it keeps growing despite the intense sun / 90s temperatures). Although it does attract aphids like most greens do here, we can just wash them off pretty easily with a hose and usually the vigor of the plants isn't affected - they'll be 3-4' tall by summer.
Aphids hate hot pepper capsaicin. I use Habanero peppers mashed up in a cheesecloth watered over your greens will stop aphids in their tracks. Itll work until it rains and is safe for your plants.
@@bobbyjones5377 Luckily most of my aphid outbreaks haven't been bad if I catch them early. I'll check my trees and clusters of leaves on my Brassicas several times per week and I'll usually just blast the aphids off with water pressure if they start showing up.
Thanks for sharing this information. Cheers, Scott! ✌️
Hi Scott, thanks for sharing a very informative video, take care 🙂
Excellent! Thank you!
Most of these are on my list. So far we have cherries (bush type), apples, Asian pears (just put in 2 this year), table grapes, kale / collards / spinach as early season crops and peppers through the summer. Brassicas are aphid magnets for me. I typically deal with aphid outbreaks with water pressure, just have to be pretty frequent and consistent. My fruit trees are planted in close proximity with yarrow which is wonderful for bringing in the wasps / lacewings. I plant yarrow everywhere, it's pretty indestructible (xeric and the rabbits don't kill it immediately once it's established). Moonshine yarrow is my go-to variety.
I expect to have to net my bush cherries to deal with the western cherry fly. Can't do that with a 25-30' tall sweet cherry tree... I'm completely sold on 6-8' bushes. I'd really suggest trying Romeo / Juliet bush cherries. They're slightly less sweet than a bing, but still sweet enough (with the perfect tartness for my tastes). I'm not sure if it's just where we have ours planted in the yard, but they'll reliably set fruit and keep it through our fickle spring weather (frosts / hard freezes).
I haven't had any luck with strawberries in northern NM. I have trouble finding good dappled shade... they get roasted in the sun or too beat up in the winter (desiccated in the wind). Once my apple trees get a little larger I'll try under those trees. I think I have a spot for a yellow nectarine tree, and we're putting in some apricots (I'm not sure where they'd be on a list, but with fuzz I'd want to grow them myself; most stone fruit seem to be common offenders). Unfortunately we'll probably only get apricots every 5-7 years, late spring frost damage through mid May is a hurdle for us.
Great information. Ty! Blessings!
Thanks, food for thought
we here in south australia where i live dont get enough chill hours for cherries worse luck i love them but only a 30 minute drive awayis prime cherry growing area so i go just before christmas an buy a case and preserve them lol
Love all the fruits and most the veggies you mentioned. We have 3 apple trees of different species. Problem we have here is wind. Sometimes when the trees bloom a strong wind storm comes along blowing blooms right off the trees. No fruit then! We have Concord grapes too, but the bees like the grapes apparently more than we do! LOL A hand full of blueberries bushes that if I’m quick enough to get to before the deer do I may get some? Want to plant a lot more blueberries bushes though! Tell you the one that drives me nut the most thought are voles or moles! Keeping them out of my garden hasn’t been successful at all and they eat a lot of my plants too! Even got in one of my watermelon from underneath thru the ground and ate his way right inside my watermelon. Didn’t know till I seen the watermelon was getting soft and mushy! I’ve tried traps , been told to use sharp glass in the ground to cut the pests, supposedly their blood doesn’t clot and they bleed out? Haven’t noticed any difference in population? I’m considering digging a deep trench around my garden and lay in hardware cloth. But it’s going to be expensive with a 350ft X 50Ft garden to go all the way around it! Not to mention time consuming too! I wish there was better ways to discourage these voles or moles from getting in my garden. Kept them out of my raised beds for 10 years, but those creatures finally found their way into my raised beds too! Did I mention I hate voles/moles? LOL
Yellow jackets are a huge pain too, especially when it’s a dry summer they go after the juice in the grapes. As I mentioned there’s deer too, but least I enjoyed seeing them even if they eat some of my food. But another reason I need a better barrier around my garden! Would love to put a huge greenhouse around the whole garden actually and I have dreams of doing it too. Can’t afford to buy a green house, but I do have a lot of trees I could harvest for wood to help on costs. Just wish I had a saw mill to make specific sizes of lumber. But a poor boy must do what a poor boy has to do! So I may have to use full tree trunks for the structure? Haven’t let anything stop me yet! Digging a 350ft trench 2 ft deep in clay soil in the middle of summer for a water line down to my garden didn’t stop me shoveling it all by hand too! Only thing I do have is a abundance of time! LOL my labor don’t cost me money so far! Just keep plugging away day after day and see what progress you accomplish? But if you have any good idea on keeping voles/moles out of the garden please share. I’m sure if anyone got a good idea it’s you! Always enjoy and learn a lot from your videos. So thanks again
Thank you!
I wish peach trees were not so susceptible to pests and diseases. I had a peach tree here in NC, and it grew well. Unfortunately peach tree borers started eating the cambium layer, some moth or insect started laying eggs in the fruit, and the birds and squirrels thought the ripening fruit was a personal invitation to supper. Without pesticides, the tree started declining, so I cut it down.
Great info Scott! I am starting my garden this year and purchased a Greenstalk. I am in Black Forest, CO and was wondering if I could grow brassicas in it starting this Mid-March? I will be covering it with plastic for cold temps and the tower will be south facing. Also adding some cherry bushes this year, Nanking and Hansen. Hoping to have cherries for canning! Happy growing!
You can grow brassicas in a GreenStalk. Covering it and moving it into the sun should get you an early start.
@@GardenerScott awesome news!thank you!
Anh có vườn rộng rãi tuyệt vời.
"He has a wonderful spacious garden."
@@ecologytoday yes
How do you get rid of roly-polies?
Please do a backup video and show what we can plant in between our vegetables to keep the bugs away!
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"The strawberries look delicious"
@@ecologytoday thank you
I Just recently covered my new garden with cardboard and straw, I'm having compost delivered, since the grass underneath hasn't had time to breakdown, should I just put my 12in raised beds on top of the straw, or pull back the straw and put the compost on the cardboard?
You can put it on top of the straw. That will provide more organic matter to the soil.
Thank you, Mr Scott, for your nice videos. How often should I water tomatoes?
Best regards.
Water as often as needed for the soil to stay consistently moist. It may vary depending on your soil and weather.
How do you prevent pest and fungal disease in your fruit trees? I have a peach tree but struggle with plum curculio. I tore down my apple trees because they were decimated with Japanese beetles. It was too much trouble. I seem to have better luck growing berries.
Such great information. I am attempting to grow celery indoors. Seedlings seem stunted but trying. I wonder how many vegetables are really organic in the stores as they say?😏
In my experience most things labeled organic are mostly free of pesticides. I've been doing a lot of fermenting and pesticides inhibit the process, I've had pretty good results with organic produce in my area. You could always try fermenting some to test it if you're curious though.
@@amandachamberlain3169 Thank you. I had to look up fermenting😊. Will continue to try to grow anything on the dirty dozen list but in a bind this is good to know
Thank you for this important information. Luckily we grow our own tomatoes, peppers, and spinach. But, what really worries me is the fruit. Our soil is so sandy and being in zone 4a, we just can't get fruit trees to survive after two years. we have brought in special soil, nutrients, etc. to no avail. Strawberries, even in a raised bed, never come back the second year. You weren't talking about organic vegetables and fruits right? Enjoyed! Take care!
Right. The Dirty Dozen is for non-organic producee.
This is a good video, but I have some comments about it.
First is about cherries, that I love. I have about 7 cherry trees in my back yard. They are dwarf or multivariate grafts, and I wish I had not gotten the grafted trees as they don't do well or grow very big.
Second is that while it is nice to buy and grow fruit trees, they fruit is only in season for a short time. A secondary consideration here is the birds and squirrels that eat most of my fruit, or ruin it. Eating a fresh cherry off the tree is an almost ecstatic experience ... they are so wonderful. But only for a couple of weeks usually. Today the cherry trees in my back yard are just starting to bud. I can't wait to see how many cherries I will get this year. I have been trying to air-layer and clones some of them to get even more, and hope that if I can get this to work the clone trees will not be size limited as the grafted trees are. Trying to grow one's own food is a problem that I have not figured out, but it is fun.
My Dad used to sit me in the tree and I could eat all the cherries I could reach. What a precious memory ❤
I have two apple, one pear and a cherry tree. They all do great except the cherry I can't keep the fruit flies out . Any tips or videos on controlling fruit flies?
Traps in and near the trees can help.
Great information. Hope you have an abundant harvest. Do you know of any recent scientific based nutritional data comparing homegrown versus conventional produce sold in grocery stores? I’m sure homegrown scores better but would be another factor to encourage people to grow their own produce.
Convenience, taste and cost are already enough to convince me.
There are some studies but they aren't definitive because the same variety is rarely compared. The varieties in stores are often grown with a focus on transport and storage and less for taste and nutrition. The varieties we grow in our gardens can be selected for the factors we prefer.
@@GardenerScott yes those are good points. Commercial growers often have their own specially bred varieties not sold to home gardeners mostly for appearance and to be durable for shipping. I’m sure if there is a study the conclusion is that homegrown not only has better flavor but more nutrients.
What is the best way to remove pesticide residues? Or do they get incorporated into the skin of the fruit?
Washing with water is usually adequate. There are products you can buy to wash produce.
Great info sir! I was a little surprised that lettuce wasn't number 1. I would have bet the garden that lettuce would be king of the pesticides. Lol
Ditto. I thought for sure it would have made the list. Maybe it's grouped in with kale or spinach?
I was a bit surprised that cucumbers weren't on the list, either. Maybe it's just because I live in an area where we get a LOT of squash bugs and cucumber beetles. :\
@Gardener Scott - will your strawberries overwinter in your Green Stalk planter?
They're doing okay so far. I'll know for sure in about a month.
I live in the northern front range of colorado. What part of colorado do you live in. Just attempting to get an idea of differing growth conditiona
I'm near Colorado Springs.
Where did you get that peacock that was in your garden?
I got it at a roadside market outside Taos, New Mexico.
My problem is wasps, hornets, and stink bugs. I have had a peach tree for the past 21 years and have gotten ONE peach from the tree in that time frame. The stink bugs attack, then leave the bruised and half eaten peaches for the wasps and hornets to finish off. I tried sulphur, but it only takes a good dew to wash it off and we have pretty good dews each night in the summer. Any suggestions?
Traps can be effective. Look into sticky traps and pheromone traps.
Paul Gautschi said " my plants are so healthy and full of water the bugs drown when they bite into it" 😁 Not everyone is a Paul
Great video as usual Scott 👍
I live very close to you....just up Ute Pass. Is there anything I should be aware of living up a bit higher than you?
Your season is shorter so take that into account when choosing plants.
Great video! Thanks. While I prefer to grow as much of my own veg as I can, we have long winters; and eventually, I have to resort to the grocery store. So my question is, does a vinegar soak remove much or all of the pesticides? I can't always afford organic.
A 20 minute soak in vinegar has been shown to wash off pesticides.
@@GardenerScott Thanks again.
There is also a product out on the market that is called "Fit." It was designed specifically for washing fruits & veggies. It has grapefruit oil in it to help break things up. I've used it in the past and I LOVE it! Around here, they LOVE to "wax" cucumbers with mayo before they put them out for sell. Using Fit on them cleans them like nothing else I've found. :) Also, a little of it goes a very long way. Good luck.
Is it possible to grow the plant that has bay leaves on it in southern Ontario?
I doubt it. It‘s an evergreen that‘s at home in the Mediterranean and tolerates some cold, but probably not like you have it in Canada.
It's called the laurel tree.
Not likely. That type of Laurel does not grow well here in Colorado.
@@GardenerScott Colorado? I was asking about southwestern Ontario Canada!
@@MultiTerryWhite The two climates zones aren't actually hugely different. Gardner Scott is 5b, you're like 6a/b or if you're lucky, 7a (Windsor/Kingsville/Leamington).
We have been trying to keep a garden on our property for 3 years now (newbies) and we experience severe bug damage every year. Can't seem to get anything but tomatoes and green peppers to harvest. It's extremely frustrating. We have a few apple trees, not sure how to get them to yield apples that are without bug damage. So Pests are our problem and it seems like pesticides are the only solution. We've been trying to avoid using them.
Try growing flowers, herbs, and grasses in your garden. They will attract beneficial predator insects that can help.
@@GardenerScott Thanks 🙂
I am most concerned about dirty jimmy touching my produce I know all produce has pesticides so I am growing my own produce
Are the dirty dozen for just non organic?
Yes, it is focused on non-organic produce.
Tomatoes are tasteless, especially the hydroponic mush balls. Add pesticides and I wonder why I even buy them.
Had a Madison peach in zone 5a and it was the best EVER! Yes, late freezes are not good.
Spinach is always recalled.
I'm starting a home orchard. Considering high density Apple production where the dwarf Apple trees are 3-5' apart along a cable system like grapes.
Has anyone heard of this or tried it?
Also has anyone pruned a standard peach and/or cherry tree to keep it small? Does it do well?
The apple trees can be trellised and grown close using Espalier pruning. I've done it. Here's one of my videos discussing the method: ua-cam.com/video/WnBS9U1FIPY/v-deo.html
While i enjoyed the topic, I question the value of making jams pies and the like.
When I go to a store to pick up said pies and jams on the list of nutrition facts it says on them "Not a significant source of vitamin C, A, Calcium,..."
To my mind that means jams and pies are only a source of sugar and the processing into jams takes out most of the vitamins.
Dehydrating might be alright. In researching this harangue nutritionally they seem like they retain their vitamins.
Maybe I'm wrong but I think we're better off nutritionally to freeze strawberries and the like because there is likely more vitamins in doing so than there are in jams.
May I recommend a video, please? I am not concerned so much about the pesticides that are on store bought foods, but I am concerned about how many particles per million are plastic. I read somewhere recently that as many as 47 parts per million are plastic or plastic residue in the foods we eat. I don't remember where I read it, and you are more connected to the science part of gardening than I. I would be interested in knowing how much plastic is in store bought food v garden food.
That's not a subject that I'm familiar with, but I'll start learning more. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Don't worry too much, most scientists who know anything about toxicology don't hold the claims of the EWG in high regard. They're very much unscientific and misleading.
Thank you for this video. It is helping to figure out what is the best way to start.
Thank you 😊