After 30 Years Of Gardening, These Are My Favorite Vegetables To Grow
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
- I've grown dozens of different varieties of vegetables. Dozens of tomatoes alone. In this video, I'll show you all of the different varieties of vegetables that are my favorites to grow. Sorry that I neglected to name the #2 tomato. It is Boronia. As I mention in the video, I try new things every year, so this list could change. I will list them in alphabetical order beginning with beans (bush), and ending with Watermelons. If you have some favorite vegetables to grow, be sure to share them in the comments. I meant to include beets and turnips also, but forgot to. My favorite beet is Detroit Dark Red. My favorite Turnip is Tokinashi Turnip.
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0:00 Introduction
0:32 Beans (bush)
1:04 Beans (pole)
1:51 Carrots
2:40 Cucumbers
3:16 Eggplant
4:03 Garlic
4:24 Herbs
5:26 Lettuce
5:55 Melons
6:29 Peas
7:23 Peppers (sweet)
7:47 Peppers (hot)
8:24 Potatoes
8:48 Squash
9:26 Sweet Potatoes
9:52 Tomatoes
11:08 Watermelon
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Sorry that I neglected to name the #2 tomato. It is Boronia.
I love, love, love Boronia!
It’s always such a treat when you post a new video. Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge and experience with us. Definitely keeping this one for future reference.
Thanks a bunch for the kind words! Glad you enjoy the videos!
I was referred by your niece. I love her discoveries.
Thanks for dropping by! Tell her thanks for me :)
Very enjoyable video of all these vegetables, the salad that you made looks really good. I like everything that you have shown 👍🤗
Thank you so much! We think the salad is delicious.
One year I confused snap peas with shelling peas when it came to eating the whole pods. OMG I had the worst indigestion for two days after eating so many SHELLING PEAS whole! So fibrous my stomach was working overtime to break them all down lol Guys and gals, PLEASE don't make the same mistake I did :P
Great advice, lol :)
Kiku Chrysanthemum! That's been on my wishlist for 3 years! So cool to see it on your list. 🌱💚
That one was probably my most productive melon.
@@MidwestGardener I'm so excited to hear that! I have a shortish frost-free season and limited space to maximize. I hope it produces well for me too!
Hi from Portugal! Love your content Jim!
Awesome. Thank you! Great to hear from someone from Portugal!
Love your channel. I stopped growing pole beans. I only plant bush now. Japanese beetles flooded my pole bean crop, while never touching the bush beans.
Thanks! That's a pretty good reason to switch to bush beans. That good information for those folks who might have the same problem.
You are so correct, but I also find the bush bean tastes better.
So glad to find this video. Sorely missing gardening season. Love your videos! Thanks! I love pickling cucumbers, bush green beans, heirloom slicing tomatoes, especially Amish Paste, Classic Beefsteak and some big pink slicers
You are so welcome! I'm ready for the next season to begin.
Living in Canberra. I grew the same tomatoes this year - Rosella Purple, Boronia, and Sungold. So delicious!
Yes, they are delicious. Hope you are still getting some. Can't wait to get some planted here. It will be a few months though.
The Jimmy Nardello, I use such a pepper to dry, finely grind, then have my best paprika.
I can imagine they would make a great paprika.
Thanks for sharing this! Callima beans are one of my favorites as well. The China Jade look fantastic, might need to be added to my 2024 garden!
You're welcome! I was pleasantly surprised by the Calima Bush Beans. Yep, if you haven't tried China Jade, you have to give them a try. I highly recommend those. Everything in this video is worth a try though.
Thanks for sharing some of your favorites! After watching this video, I am going to have to try some of them. Definitely going to give the China Jade a try. I don't have too many that are absolute staples in my garden each year. Here are the plants I do include every single year: Paul Robeson, Black Cherry, and Pineapple tomatoes; Dragon Tongue bush beans; Honeynut squash; Red Wing and Cortland onions; and Green Tasty and Summer Dance Cucumbers.
I also did Long Pie pumpkin and Kakai pumpkins this year. The Long Pie grew excellently on a trellis and the flesh has a nice rich orange color. I haven't made a pie with them yet, but will be soon! The Kakai are pretty much only grown for the hull-less seeds they produce, from what I inderstand. I roasted the seeds with olive oil, garlic powder, and salt, and they are delicious. Will definitely be growing both these next year. They are very much like ordinary pumpkin seeds, but without the chewiness from hulls!
You're welcome! Thanks for sharing some of your favorites with us. You have some nice ones on that list. That Kakai pumpkin sounds interesting.
Hey Jim, thanks for the great list! Haven't tried the brazilian starfish pepper, looks super interesting and prolific! Might have to give it a go this year. Thanks for spreading your wisdom! -Peter
You're welcome, Peter! The brazilian starfish pepper needs lots of support or it will sprawl and take up a lot of room. Hope you and your family are having a great holiday season!
I've had some success with growing small watermelons up a trellis to save space. the Kaho did very well for me this way despite a very dry year.
Thanks for the tip on Kaho. I've never tried that one. I'll have to keep it in mind if I ever want to give that a try.
My amigo! Thank you once again for all your great videos!. I live here in Texas and planted your 2 choices of lettuce... best lettuce I ever planted! Marvel of 4 seasons and May Queen!. And to keep your advice, I planted sungold tomatoes and of course Cherokee purple. God bless you!
You're welcome! I'm glad I could help. Thanks for watching! Without you and others, I would just be talking to myself :)
I do grow pole beans too but for bush beans i like tenderette.
Thanks for the tip on Tenderette. I hadn't heard of that one.
I haven't grown a lot of food plants successfully, but I can name the ones that I have liked. Most of my carrots this year didn't finish growing, but Black Nebula was my favorite, even though it was only a little less than half its full size. (I grew Little Finger carrots to full size, but they had a slightly soapy flavor to them, I thought. They weren't terrible, but I'm sure there's a better little carrot out there.)
I'm not big on peppers that you eat, but my favorite by far has been Peppapeach (AKA Peachadew). They come from the same guy who made Sugar Rush Peach, possibly from the same original cross, apparently. They have a sweet taste with little to no heat. I'd like to find something else I like to cross them with. I'm gonna set some hydroponic peppers up soon, I'll have to get some Jimmy Nardello seeds to try. I also want to try growing Habanadas again, without letting aphids destroy them this time.
The other thing I'm happy with is my Golden Goji Berry bush. That guy has withstood some abuse, and he's doing just fine. The berries are sweet enough to eat straight off of the bush, and I bet they'd be really sweet if you dehydrated them.
Thanks for sharing some of the things that have worked for you. I thought Black Nebula would make a good juicing carrot. Habanadas produced pretty well when we've grown them. Peppapeach and the Golden Goji Berry sound interesting. Good luck if you give Jimmy Nardello a try. Hope they do well for you.
I have a batch of dwarf tomato seeds lined up for 2024. I learn a lot from your videos and comments, and really appreciate how you value taste as well as productivity.
I agree on preferring snap peas over other kinds -- they are tasty and more versatile, though I'm still trying several varieties. And pole beans over bush beans -- easier to pick and more productive per square foot, they grow nicely in the back (to the north of) other lower vegetables. "Northeaster" has been wildly productive for me -- massive tender beans, larger than Kentucky Wonder but stringless and can be planted in April and produce all the way to the first hard frost without replanting.
Some of my best tomatoes and peppers are my own surprises and hybrids that I save from seed, but otherwise our lists overlap a lot. I like Jimmy Nardello a lot and am looking forward to trying you your Jimmy Nardello / Corbaci hybrid for 2024. I like Brazilian Starfish, and also Sugar Drop Orange and Sugar Rush varieties (Red, Peach, and Stripey).
My overall favorite peppers are Tabaneros (a Tabasco / Habanero interspecies hybrid) which is now branched into several nice F6 varieties, including one just this year that was heatless. What they have in common is a pleasant but unique fresh sweet taste, nearly solid and juicy, with few small seeds you don't need to clean out to cook with; very good rot and disease resistance, and pretty good cold tolerance for a pepper. If I can get some of these lineages a bit more consistent I hope to make them available for sale == an interspecies hybrid comes with massive genetic diversity that keeps surprising me.
I hope you enjoy growing the dwarf tomatoes as much as I do. I prefer the ones that top out around 4 feet tall, and have good taste, and decent productivity.
Thanks for the tip on Northeaster. Sounds like a good one. I might have to check into that one.
Glad you're going to try the Jimmy Nardello/Corbaci cross. I really didn't have enough room to do that project justice. Right now, I have about 20 manual crosses that I'm working with. I also have one F1 tomato cross that I'm growing indoors so I can have some F2 seeds to grow next summer.
F6 is pretty far along for your (a Tabasco / Habanero interspecies hybrid). Nice that you have several phenotypes work with. Good luck with them!
I agree, F6 is pretty far along, but there were many new phenotypes just between F5 and F6. I hope the heatless one (which ripens to red and looks like a pudgy Cayenne growing sideways) is reproducible in F7 -- that's a very unique and tasty pepper that would be good for eating straight or cookng without having to cut it open.
Great video. I wish more UA-camrs would do this. Great to hear people's favourites and give us suggestions for what to try growing.
Glad it was helpful! I hope that enough folks will share their favorites that the comment section will become a good resource for great varieties to grow.
I believe that the purple sweet potato at trader Joe's is murisaki
I think Murisaki has white flesh.
I also switched to bush bean from poles as another post said. The Japanese Beetles love pole beans, but do not bother bush beans. I like the flavor and texture better of bush beans and grow any that state they are stringless.
Carrots I will only grow Nantes or imperators for flavor and decent easy cleaning size. I have tried other colored carrots, but like the deep orange varieties best.
Potatoes-Red Pontiacs and Kennebec.
Cherry tomatoes-Sun Gold, Sweet 100. The later ripening sun golds can have a grape like texture and taste that I didn’t care for, but others were ok with.
Slicers-Bodacious and any firm non mealy true tomato taste like a beefsteak or Brandywine.
Paste-Amish, but I haven’t really found a paste with great flavor.
Squash-Buttercup, Waltham, Acorn, Violina Rugosa which is smooth and much like Waltham, but huge peanut shape and was not bothered by vine borer. The vine borer is the worst and wish there was a simple way to coat the vines, but they can enter anywhere on a vine.
Zucchini-loved the climbing Escalator as it didn’t over produce and they didn’t get overly huge.
Brussels-Dagan and Nautica.
Broccoli-Belstar.
I know there are others and I need to keep better track and labeling.
Edit: Z5a Midwest
Thanks for sharing a bunch of your favorites with us! I was hoping that the comment section of this video would develop into a good resource for vegetable growing ideas. Looks like it probably will over time. Happy growing!
@@MidwestGardener Yes, it is nice to learn what works and find the best varieties that work for your area. Thank you for sharing.
As also a fellow Kansas garden, who is now in 6b - thank you for this list! It's nice to know varieties other have success with!
You are so welcome! I think we might be in zone 7a now. To tell you the truth, I don't think I will do anything any different than I did before.
I'm sort of bean frustrated, pole and bush. Tried tons. Ordered Calima from Bakers earlier this year. It's my 2024 variety. I'm glad you liked them and am hopeful. I didn't catch you're #2 name. I assume Boronia based on past videos. For tomatoes, I'm backcrossing two F3 dwarfs to my seedless lines to increase fruit size, taste, shape and canopy. Think I'll ultra-focus on the two--one red and one dark--instead of ton of cultivars. Kind of thought you'd talk about that other Nardello-like pepper. Think it starts with a "C". Enjoyed your video as usual. Best Jim. Shit, just saw your pinned comment. Lol
Yep, I screwed up on not including the name of Boronia. I'm going to play the age card on that one, lol. I like the idea of backcrossing the two F3 dwarfs to your seedless lines. That should be interesting. I have one F1 tomato cross that I'm going to try to grow indoors, just to get some F2s to plant in the spring. I really need more room....and more get up and go. I almost included Corbaci with the sweet peppers. I was trying to find ways to make the video a little bit shorter, so that didn't make the cut. Also, I was going to include my favorite beet (Detroit Dark Red), and my favorite turnip (Tokinashi ).
Good Morning Jim - Wow what a list! Thanks so much for sharing your favorite varieties and successes. Took me 45 minutes to get thru the video looking up each variety I might grow next year. Some I had on my list already probably from a prior video of yours and some are already out of stock so need to check back on those. Can't help but think of all the money you have saved from going to the grocery store, it is so much fresher and you know what went into the production. Have a blessed weekend and take care..
Thanks Sue! I should keep better records of what I have grown. It would be interesting to know how many pounds of produce I've produced over the years. You are so right about it being so much fresher when you grow it yourself. Homegrown stuff is hard to beat. Have a great weekend!
Thanks for the post; you always have the best info. This spring, I will be trying dwarf varieties; I have a smaller space, and it is interesting how much they can still produce. Perhaps you could make a similar video on your current favorite dwarf varieties only...
Thanks for the idea. I'll give that some thought. I hope you enjoy growing the dwarfs. I like the ones that grow to about 4 feet or less.
Merry Christmas! I really enjoyed this video. 👍
I love to grow melons. My fav to grow is a Kiss melon. I saved the seeds from a store purchased melon about 3 years ago. This plant is super reliable. Grows with great ease. Puts out lots of fruit on short vines. And tastes so good!😋
Merry Christmas to you also! Glad you enjoyed the video. And thanks for the tip on Kiss melons. That is one that I have not tried.
We're also in Southeast KS, near the border and the swallowtails eat up our parsley every year! We let them of course, but good to know we can maybe grow something they like more that we might use less often lol.
Always great to hear from fellow Kansans! Yes, they love parsley as well. When possible, I like to let a few carrots flower. They can usually support a half dozen or so caterpillars per carrot. I also just transfer some to my rows of carrots. They only eat for a week or two, then they are gone. Hope we get more rain next year than we did this year. Good luck!
@MidwestGardener absolutely, more rain. I know floods follow drought, lets hope we can skip the flood and just get rain. I'll bring back my container garden, then!
@@NotAnAirPlant I know what you mean. I'd like to skip the flood par too.
Wow. That's a lot of good groceries that you have grown over the years. It's so great to be able to go outside and pick what you want to fix for a meal. My favorite veggies are the ones that grow and produce. Since Florida has an abundance of insects and diseases that usually get to the plants before they produce. (I don't like to spray chemicals, I'd rather just plant another seed)
My favorite season is the fall garden, because of less insects.
My favorite tomato is a Hungarian heart and black krim. Dragon tongue bush green beans are tasty. There is so many, too many to mention all of them.
There's so many types of veggies, my seed containers are overflowing, Sometimes I don't know what I want to grow. Only so much room in the garden. Thanks for sharing all your favorite veggies to grow. Take care and have a wonderful weekend.🥔🧄🥒🌶️🥕🍠🥒🥦🍅🍆🫑
Thanks Shirley! Yep, those bugs sure can ruin a good garden. Those two tomatoes are good ones for sure. I know what you mean about overflowing seed containers. I'm just about to the point that I'm going to have to buy another one. Have a great weekend!
Have you tried Purple Viking potatoes? They have a white interior and purple exterior with fuscia dots. Very nice flavor.
I haven't tried them yet, but thank for the tip. I will have to give them a look. Nice flavor sounds good to me.
Awesome video. I don’t have the space needed to grow veggies but I grew peppers, tomatoes, cilantro. Once I grew some lettuce, I think. A big thanks to you as you’re the inspiration for me to try growing veggies by myself. Love your work, mate. Happy weekend :))
Thanks! Peppers, Tomatoes, and Cilantro sounds like a pretty good start to me. It's hard to beat homegrown tomatoes or fresh Cilantro. Have a great weekend!
Some great choices and great brainstorming video. Thanks for the share!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Haven't tried most of these so I will look out for them and try. Can you suggest where to get the #1 purple tomato seeds?
Yep, they are all worth trying in my opinion. I got my Rosella Purple tomatoes seeds from Victory Seeds.
What was your #2 tomato? I don’t think you named it. It looked like it may be Boronia?
Yes, it was Boronia. Sorry about that.
Thanks a bunch for letting me know that! I put it in a pinned comment. Sure wish I would have noticed before I posted it.
Wish I were in your zone and micro environment! But I want to try at least some varieties mentioned. Where did you get the seeds from? I usually buy garden starts from the nurseries except the ones not available like luffa, bittermelon, wintermelon, etc.
About the dwarf tomatoes mentioned, are they F1 or open pollinated? Do they have the tendency to crack like the heirloom tomatoes such as Cherokee Purple and do you give them any support? Are the fruits small compared with the traditional varieties?