Bird Buddy is a smart bird feeder that lets you know when feathered friends visit, snaps their photos, and saves them in a beautiful collection. 🌿🐦 Learn more here: bit.ly/3BfW0XP
",,,if you're lucky, you might get 50 seasons to garden in your life." I've been very lucky. I started tending the family garden at a very young age, and am now in my 7th decade of gardening. Sill, though, I learn something new every year.
I’ve been very lucky too, I’m almost 70 and can remember growing up in my grandma’s garden, my mom’s, then very often in my own. I missed a decade when I became a single parent with a corporate job but made it back to the gardens later!
I started at three picking beans,corn,tomatoes and a few melons. Now I’m 37 years in My grandad started at 3 also and he got 87 years in the garden. I’m hoping for at least 60 🤞🏻
Our #1 most expensive produce in our home is definitely berries. They’re very expensive in the store and gone in 5 minutes (3 kids and 2 hungry grown ups) and worst of all, they’re often going bad already when bought in our local grocery store. We’ve amped up our production on all our berries - blueberry, strawberry, blackberry, black raspberry, and red raspberry. Also have invasive wineberries on our property, which we harvest and freeze every year, around 3 gallons annually.
@@tinad6812 Smart! They taste better when they are fresher too. I live in berry country (Whatcom County in NW Washington), so I have a hard time eating anything but fresh berries.
us too! we started growing strawberries in the greenstalk after seeing an episode where Jaques did that and it was SO successful that I added a 2nd greenstalk this year and used my runners to gill all the spots. So we now have 60 strawberry plants in like 5ft of space! also blackberries are so prolific we only needed 2. I got over 100oz from ONE plant last year! I also added 2 more raspberry to get more raspberries for a total of 4 plants cuz homegrown raspberries are dleicious!
Garden goal here is definitely more fruit. We've saved a ton of money by growing leafy greens and fresh herbs, which are very costly in the store, but our other big produce cost is fruit. I'm putting in blackberries, a strawberry tower, and a fig tree in the spring.
i live not too far from you, guys in SoCal and actually started a year-round fruit garden about 3 years ago. This year was the first year it started giving a good amount of fruit and it was amazing! Today i just harvested some key limes and lemons. We usually harvest berries in spring, peaches/melons in summer, apples/fig/pear/pomegranates in fall. and lemon/lime/orange in winter. By far, fruit and herbs are our most expensive to spend money on but now thanks to our garden its probably the least!
We spend the most money on Lettuce, Berrys & fruits. We started a 500sqft garden last summer and "mini" foor forest. We planted Trees: 1x Apple - Golden Delicious 1x Apple - Fugi 1x Apple - Gala 1x Peach - Flamin' Fury (Jumbo Peach) 1x Pear - Harrow Crisp 1x Combination Plum Tree: Prunus domestica "Italian" (Purple plum) Prunus americana x prunus salicina "toka" Prunus domestica 3x Cherry bushes, 6x blueberry bushes, 5x Raspberry bushes 4x8ft bed of Strawberrys, and more. And of course regular garden vegetables 😋 like garlic, Cucumbers ect ect. Expanding the garden by 1200 sqft this coming summer.
I never grew broccoli or cauliflower in the past. This year I decided to try growing them from seed. I’ve had amazing success with both cauliflower and broccoli this year. I’ll definitely be growing it every year from now on. My wife and I both agreed it just tastes far better than store bought.
Lucky. They don’t work for me so many diseases that can be an issue that I often only have a 10% harvest rate. Last year I had 3 cauliflowers sized a marble 😂😭
@@dirkjanrulez23 sorry to hear that friend. If it makes you feel better, I can’t grow bulb style onions if my life depended on it. I’ve tried growing them from seeds multiple times and failed every time.
2025 goals more cut flowers for me. I gown & peserved away but also enjoy flower bouquets I grew. It starts with 200 tulips I planted in the fall. Here's to hoping 2025 brings food & flowers. I have winter sowed many perennials from seed, and they were beyond productive in 2nd season. Definitely do more perennials & from seedlings to forever blooming worth the wait.
I adore that each year the epic garden/homestead gets more beautiful, just like the videos themselves seem to always grow in quality. Thank you for the inspiration!
I really need my garlic, onions, squah, cucumbers and tomatoes to do well this upcoming year. This past year was a spinach, sweet potato, pepper, ginger, tumeric and egg plant year.
also i wanted to suggest u guys try doing a video on making some infused olive oils with your herbs. i tried that for the first time this year and its super easy and tasty! so it might make a neat video since you guys are branching out with new cooking stuff
One of my favorites is dill pickled green beans. I haven't usually planted them because the grocery store near me usually has them fresh in season. I pasteurize the jars and the beans stay very crispy.
I cant recommend putting in a water feature enough. Pond or waterfall or both it adds so much and will attract a ton of wildlife. The ability to grow aquatic and marginal plants is also so fun. I built ecosystem ponds for 11 years and they always brought new magic to whatever space they occupied.
Broccoli soup is actually pretty good. Also you can make a beautiful green puree for sauces that will freeze. Just remember to refresh the broc in ice after steaming/boiling to lock in the green
Fruit trees for me. Last week I planted 2 apple (Gala and Fuji), 2 plum (Santa Rosa and Methley), 2 peach (Sam Houston and Elberta), and 3 black mulberries I air layered from a wild one on the roadside. Texas Zone 8. Happy gardening y'all!
I'd really like to nail down growing enough of the staples for our family. Tracking down more native perrenial foods to put in my food forest. As well as planting ALL the flowers. My seed haul from your company was packaged well! I was impressed that the box flap was taped off center on itself, so when you cut it open you dont risk damaging the products inside. Wonderful idea!
Only 50 years??!! How silly!! I'm on my 63rd year of gardening and still not tired of it and wanting more! Most important thing I've learned over the years is to plant for your climate. Find the right seed company. Fedco is our go-to company, based in Maine they have varieties that do well in our cool climate up in the mountains in northeast PA. We are even trying a cool-weather tolerant okra this year - lol. OK, back to drooling over the seed catalogs and waiting for spring! Happy gardening everyone!
I like the way you guys did this video. Nice bird feeder. I feed the birds, but the squirrels always jump on the feeder so I took it down and now I try to grow what they eat in the summer and feed them seeds in the winter. My favorite crops are broccoli and cabbage. I’m hoping for a successful harvest next year. Plus, I use a ton of onions and garlic. Kevin, is your hair curlier these days or do you just usually have a hat on? 😊
Oh my gosh “50 seasons” that’s heartbreaking! I’m in my 30s and just getting started. I am so excited to see my gardening dreams come to fruition but I’m also sad that it took me so long. 😭
Same here, 33 with only one summer of growing a few plants under my belt. But if we work hard we'll hit at least 50 seasons! My grandmother gardened until als took her last year at 88. I now have one of her old standing garden beds. Happy gardening!
Don't feel bad! I started gardening in my mid thirties. I turned 40 this year, and I can't believe how much I've learned is just a few years! Just treat everything as an experiment until you get a feel for things, and enjoy the journey. :)
My garden goals next year are mastering the weather and slugs. I never anticipated such wet and cold summers that decimated my crops last year. Spring crops did amazing during summer. In thr meanwhile my summer crops barely did a thing. And in the spring i had a massive war against slugs again. Even my onions were being eaten by slugs and that while they are claimed to repel slugs..... On the other hand. I had such massive success with growing roses? I wanna propagate one little bush especially, considering i found iut it grows rose hips as well. Beautiful salmon coloured roses to be replaved by yummy berries? Hell yeah! Hope my new fruit trees also start producing next year :) I've got patio sized ones
I had a slugpocalypse 2 years ago. Something I read said put them in a jar with a screw-on lid with a little bit of water and they'd drown. Turns out some of the still living ones had babies. It was one of the grossest things I have ever seen 😮
@kimberlylamantia7794 oh wow! I have a slugpocalypse every spring since 2021.. This year i found 2 amazing weapons though; beer traps work amazingly. But warm humid weather makes them stink like nothing I've ever smelled before And oats. Just plain oats. For some reason they love eating oats, but the dried oats expand and suck out moisture, causing them to either die or hide away to preverse more moisture
@kimberlylamantia7794 tips for the oats: sprinkle them near plants that are typically attacked. I made circles of oats that i refilled daily :) Anf yeah i can imagine xD I specifically bought beer for the traps because i never have it at home otherwise
@abyssal_phoenix Haha I get it. Just found a few jars of oats that have been around so that will be a great experiment. Will buy a bag of fresh oats to see if there's a difference. I can't wait for the winter to end now lol
This video is exactly what I’m talking about, thanks for all the information and knowledge guys. Picked up your epic homestead book as well and so far it’s a great read, looking forward to improving my garden!!
Preserving my harvest has been my big upgrade of 2024. I purchased a chamber vacuum sealer and a giant dehydrator. Now all I need is extra freezer space because it is going to be jam packed come spring time. Our staples include berries but I have had zero success growing bush berries in San Diego, I have however excelled at growing mulberries and figs that taste like berries. We also eat and grow tons of potatoes, garlic, onions, broccoli, and tomatoes.
Oddly enough, I had such a great time making and enjoying the hot sauce I grew this past summer, I am placing a huge focus on production of those key ingredients. That and growing PNW watermelon again, plus cucumbers along the usual strawberries, peas, lettuce, and herbs.
Two great flowers for attracting pollinators and birds are coneflower and milkweed. The milkweed will be covered in bees when most other plants are not, and it becomes a big attracter for Monarch caterpillars. The coneflower is loved by bees, but also by finches in the offseason as they come to eat the seeds.
I"m a chef, so my focus was always growing new things that I couldn't easily get locally, but I decided I am focusing on the staples next year. I've never even attempted bulb onions, even though I buy them almost every time I grocery shop. I trimmed my tomato and pepper list to varieties I use the most. I've always done lettuces, but never succession sowed enough to keep up with my consumption. I love broccoli and cauliflower (always have a frozen bag of broc on hand), but haven't been able to concur the cabbage worm problem. I'm going to much harder this year!
This video could not have come at a better time or been more in tune with my gardening needs/plans for next year! Thank you! I will also be looking at the companion planting video and come up with a plan to produce a lot of our own, well, produce. We can never be certain what we are getting at a store, but we know what comes out of our own gardens. Also, I'll be looking at how to grow potatoes, something I have never done before.
Love that bird feeder but kept getting distracted by Kevin’s hair! Have we seen his hair before?? Seems like he’s always wearing a cap 🤣 Anyway, fun video 👍
winter time is a busy season for sure hahaha, gotta start adding compost and get ready the garden beds and seedlings for spring!! every year it's always exciting to grow different things and try different methods owo
Any excess can be dried and powdered. It uses much less storage space and can be used in a variety of ways. Powdered broccoli is fabulous in a cream of broccoli soup. All veggie powders can be added to soups and other recipes. Powdered spinach makes wonderful noodles, use the powdered spinach like flour. Powdered tomatoes can be thickened to make tomato paste or sauce. Powdered potatoes are simply instant potatoes like you buy from the store but without the add chemicals. Most fruits can be juiced, the juice can be dried to make it take less storage space and last longer on the shelf. The most important kitchen tools I own are a freeze drier, dehydrator, and Vitamix. All these powders can be stored in jars or vacuum sealed in mylar. Wouldn't it be great to have a full year supply of food for one in a single tote? 10 totes to feed 10 people a year or one person for 10 years!
Not sure what I spend the most money on that I can grow. Maybe tomato sauces or lettuce or grapes. I’m going to plant a couple grape vines this year and try to do a better job at spacing out my lettuce plantings
Perfect video to watch. Timing was epic lol (pun intended). Working on conditioning my indoor soil so I can get some sprouting taters planted in the next few days 😊
I'm growing mostly produce that is hard or impossible to find here in Germany: tasty heirloom tomatoes, jalapenos, poblanos, cilantro, white onions, sweet corn. I'm also growing perennials that we love and that seem to become more and more expensive: asparagus, horseradish, rhubarb and berries of all sorts.
Love this channel! The staples I’ve grown the past 2 years have been kale, tomatoes, green onions, radishes, turnips, carrots (so tiny this year 😂) chives and green beans. Really eager to expand my crop variety this coming spring, I have plenty of space! Hoping to diversify my gardening portfolio with beets, broccoli.. I need more ideas! 7B
As a neighbouring country with the philippines, and as a malaysian, our staple is rice . (Not surprised) But it’s quite hard to plant rice because u need to make the soil like really wet and soggy
Kevin, for my birthday and Christmas i got 2 apple trees, a peach tree, 2 blueberry bushes and a fig tree. I plan on growing these all in containers and live in Illinois. Could you guys make another total guide to container fruit trees?
Broccoli is a staple here. I’ve tried growing it in the spring and I just got leaves. I tried again in the fall and got just leaves once again - and then we’ve been stuck in temperatures below 30 for the past month or so. Everything else I grow except for fruit. I’m trying my luck with cantaloupe and watermelon next year.
Show idea: Almond flour baking. I have a almond tree and in an apocalypse almond flour (and almond milk) maybe easier than land for wheat. (For your urban audience)
One of my kids' favorite snacks from trader Joe's is their dried broccoli florets 👀👀 just a thought. Though I don't think they are dehydrated, I think they might be freeze-dried. Don't quote me
It’s definitely tomato’s for me and spices I suppose. Sadly my local extension agent confirmed I was hit not once but twice with herbicide drift this year so it definitely took a hit to the wallet all the way around!
I would love to know if u garden using any of your ethnic background . I been watching for years and i remember u mentioning that you are part Philippino and was wondering if you add that background to ur gardening. My mom is St.Lucian and my Dad Puerto Rican . I use a machete in some ways to preserve the Jibaro culture. Hope u see this. Happy Gardening
Bird Buddy is a smart bird feeder that lets you know when feathered friends visit, snaps their photos, and saves them in a beautiful collection. 🌿🐦 Learn more here: bit.ly/3BfW0XP
How many squirrel pictures?
",,,if you're lucky, you might get 50 seasons to garden in your life." I've been very lucky. I started tending the family garden at a very young age, and am now in my 7th decade of gardening. Sill, though, I learn something new every year.
Happy for you :)
I started at 45 and I better by gosh get 50 more years.
@@fuzzypumpkin7743 LOL 👨🌾
I’ve been very lucky too, I’m almost 70 and can remember growing up in my grandma’s garden, my mom’s, then very often in my own. I missed a decade when I became a single parent with a corporate job but made it back to the gardens later!
I started at three picking beans,corn,tomatoes and a few melons. Now I’m 37 years in My grandad started at 3 also and he got 87 years in the garden. I’m hoping for at least 60 🤞🏻
Our #1 most expensive produce in our home is definitely berries. They’re very expensive in the store and gone in 5 minutes (3 kids and 2 hungry grown ups) and worst of all, they’re often going bad already when bought in our local grocery store. We’ve amped up our production on all our berries - blueberry, strawberry, blackberry, black raspberry, and red raspberry. Also have invasive wineberries on our property, which we harvest and freeze every year, around 3 gallons annually.
You can honestly never have enough berries
I love how many raspberries I get. I can’t believe how much they charge at the store. I get a huge bowl every day during the growing season.
@@tinad6812 Smart! They taste better when they are fresher too. I live in berry country (Whatcom County in NW Washington), so I have a hard time eating anything but fresh berries.
us too! we started growing strawberries in the greenstalk after seeing an episode where Jaques did that and it was SO successful that I added a 2nd greenstalk this year and used my runners to gill all the spots. So we now have 60 strawberry plants in like 5ft of space! also blackberries are so prolific we only needed 2. I got over 100oz from ONE plant last year! I also added 2 more raspberry to get more raspberries for a total of 4 plants cuz homegrown raspberries are dleicious!
Garden goal here is definitely more fruit. We've saved a ton of money by growing leafy greens and fresh herbs, which are very costly in the store, but our other big produce cost is fruit. I'm putting in blackberries, a strawberry tower, and a fig tree in the spring.
Fruit is always a good plan!
i live not too far from you, guys in SoCal and actually started a year-round fruit garden about 3 years ago. This year was the first year it started giving a good amount of fruit and it was amazing! Today i just harvested some key limes and lemons. We usually harvest berries in spring, peaches/melons in summer, apples/fig/pear/pomegranates in fall. and lemon/lime/orange in winter. By far, fruit and herbs are our most expensive to spend money on but now thanks to our garden its probably the least!
We spend the most money on Lettuce, Berrys & fruits.
We started a 500sqft garden last summer and "mini" foor forest. We planted Trees:
1x Apple - Golden Delicious
1x Apple - Fugi
1x Apple - Gala
1x Peach - Flamin' Fury (Jumbo Peach)
1x Pear - Harrow Crisp
1x Combination Plum Tree:
Prunus domestica "Italian" (Purple plum)
Prunus americana x prunus salicina "toka"
Prunus domestica
3x Cherry bushes, 6x blueberry bushes, 5x Raspberry bushes 4x8ft bed of Strawberrys, and more. And of course regular garden vegetables 😋 like garlic, Cucumbers ect ect.
Expanding the garden by 1200 sqft this coming summer.
I never grew broccoli or cauliflower in the past. This year I decided to try growing them from seed. I’ve had amazing success with both cauliflower and broccoli this year. I’ll definitely be growing it every year from now on. My wife and I both agreed it just tastes far better than store bought.
They're a blast to grow
Lucky. They don’t work for me so many diseases that can be an issue that I often only have a 10% harvest rate. Last year I had 3 cauliflowers sized a marble 😂😭
@@dirkjanrulez23 sorry to hear that friend. If it makes you feel better, I can’t grow bulb style onions if my life depended on it. I’ve tried growing them from seeds multiple times and failed every time.
@@dirkjanrulez23 What diseases have they been getting?
You don’t need a green thumb to start gardening - just a little curiosity and a willingness to learn. ❤🌱
2025 goals more cut flowers for me. I gown & peserved away but also enjoy flower bouquets I grew. It starts with 200 tulips I planted in the fall. Here's to hoping 2025 brings food & flowers.
I have winter sowed many perennials from seed, and they were beyond productive in 2nd season. Definitely do more perennials & from seedlings to forever blooming worth the wait.
I adore that each year the epic garden/homestead gets more beautiful, just like the videos themselves seem to always grow in quality. Thank you for the inspiration!
I really need my garlic, onions, squah, cucumbers and tomatoes to do well this upcoming year. This past year was a spinach, sweet potato, pepper, ginger, tumeric and egg plant year.
Jacques in Kevin's artichoke patch saying "I don't have to do any planning" was funny to me 😆
As a new gardener epic gardening is my go to when it comes to learning more about my plants 🌱
me too!💚💚💚
Same here!
also i wanted to suggest u guys try doing a video on making some infused olive oils with your herbs. i tried that for the first time this year and its super easy and tasty! so it might make a neat video since you guys are branching out with new cooking stuff
One of my favorites is dill pickled green beans. I haven't usually planted them because the grocery store near me usually has them fresh in season. I pasteurize the jars and the beans stay very crispy.
I cant recommend putting in a water feature enough. Pond or waterfall or both it adds so much and will attract a ton of wildlife. The ability to grow aquatic and marginal plants is also so fun. I built ecosystem ponds for 11 years and they always brought new magic to whatever space they occupied.
I dont have garden goals, I don't even have a garden 😅😅 Having one is my goal 😂
Perfect goal
Broccoli soup is actually pretty good. Also you can make a beautiful green puree for sauces that will freeze. Just remember to refresh the broc in ice after steaming/boiling to lock in the green
Fruit trees for me. Last week I planted 2 apple (Gala and Fuji), 2 plum (Santa Rosa and Methley), 2 peach (Sam Houston and Elberta), and 3 black mulberries I air layered from a wild one on the roadside. Texas Zone 8. Happy gardening y'all!
I'd really like to nail down growing enough of the staples for our family. Tracking down more native perrenial foods to put in my food forest. As well as planting ALL the flowers. My seed haul from your company was packaged well! I was impressed that the box flap was taped off center on itself, so when you cut it open you dont risk damaging the products inside. Wonderful idea!
Only 50 years??!! How silly!! I'm on my 63rd year of gardening and still not tired of it and wanting more! Most important thing I've learned over the years is to plant for your climate. Find the right seed company. Fedco is our go-to company, based in Maine they have varieties that do well in our cool climate up in the mountains in northeast PA. We are even trying a cool-weather tolerant okra this year - lol. OK, back to drooling over the seed catalogs and waiting for spring! Happy gardening everyone!
Yum okra, fried green tomatoes
I like the way you guys did this video. Nice bird feeder. I feed the birds, but the squirrels always jump on the feeder so I took it down and now I try to grow what they eat in the summer and feed them seeds in the winter.
My favorite crops are broccoli and cabbage. I’m hoping for a successful harvest next year. Plus, I use a ton of onions and garlic.
Kevin, is your hair curlier these days or do you just usually have a hat on? 😊
Oh my gosh “50 seasons” that’s heartbreaking! I’m in my 30s and just getting started. I am so excited to see my gardening dreams come to fruition but I’m also sad that it took me so long. 😭
Same here, 33 with only one summer of growing a few plants under my belt. But if we work hard we'll hit at least 50 seasons! My grandmother gardened until als took her last year at 88. I now have one of her old standing garden beds. Happy gardening!
Don't feel bad! I started gardening in my mid thirties. I turned 40 this year, and I can't believe how much I've learned is just a few years! Just treat everything as an experiment until you get a feel for things, and enjoy the journey. :)
Greetings to your beautiful channel from Greece! You're really helping me out a lot!
Happy to hear that!
Great video. You have won my "Best YT Garden Video for December 2024" award. No prize but all the glory!
My garden goals next year are mastering the weather and slugs.
I never anticipated such wet and cold summers that decimated my crops last year. Spring crops did amazing during summer.
In thr meanwhile my summer crops barely did a thing.
And in the spring i had a massive war against slugs again.
Even my onions were being eaten by slugs and that while they are claimed to repel slugs.....
On the other hand. I had such massive success with growing roses? I wanna propagate one little bush especially, considering i found iut it grows rose hips as well. Beautiful salmon coloured roses to be replaved by yummy berries? Hell yeah!
Hope my new fruit trees also start producing next year :) I've got patio sized ones
I had a slugpocalypse 2 years ago. Something I read said put them in a jar with a screw-on lid with a little bit of water and they'd drown. Turns out some of the still living ones had babies. It was one of the grossest things I have ever seen 😮
@kimberlylamantia7794 oh wow!
I have a slugpocalypse every spring since 2021..
This year i found 2 amazing weapons though; beer traps work amazingly. But warm humid weather makes them stink like nothing I've ever smelled before
And oats. Just plain oats. For some reason they love eating oats, but the dried oats expand and suck out moisture, causing them to either die or hide away to preverse more moisture
@abyssal_phoenix I will definitely try the oats! Beer doesn't last long around here lol
@kimberlylamantia7794 tips for the oats: sprinkle them near plants that are typically attacked. I made circles of oats that i refilled daily :)
Anf yeah i can imagine xD
I specifically bought beer for the traps because i never have it at home otherwise
@abyssal_phoenix Haha I get it. Just found a few jars of oats that have been around so that will be a great experiment. Will buy a bag of fresh oats to see if there's a difference. I can't wait for the winter to end now lol
You guys should look into a freeze dryer to add to your food preservation adventure :)
Greens and fruit.
Adding compost and mulch to containers and bare soil in raised beds.
In bed worm 🪱 composting
💚🌱
"if you're lucky, you might get 50 seasons to garden in your life" thanks for giving me existential dread
Right off the bat, too. 😅
You guys seem so relaxed after retiring. Glad you're still making videos🤙
This video is exactly what I’m talking about, thanks for all the information and knowledge guys. Picked up your epic homestead book as well and so far it’s a great read, looking forward to improving my garden!!
Preserving my harvest has been my big upgrade of 2024. I purchased a chamber vacuum sealer and a giant dehydrator. Now all I need is extra freezer space because it is going to be jam packed come spring time. Our staples include berries but I have had zero success growing bush berries in San Diego, I have however excelled at growing mulberries and figs that taste like berries. We also eat and grow tons of potatoes, garlic, onions, broccoli, and tomatoes.
Oddly enough, I had such a great time making and enjoying the hot sauce I grew this past summer, I am placing a huge focus on production of those key ingredients. That and growing PNW watermelon again, plus cucumbers along the usual strawberries, peas, lettuce, and herbs.
I love my Hummingbird Buddy! Worth every penny! It's so much fun watching the little fellows have these gigantic fights! They are soooo territorial!
I’m with you Jacques on the lettuce. My must grow, so easy here in winter SoCal. I love in my sandwich ,salad and to feed my Cockatiel😊
Two great flowers for attracting pollinators and birds are coneflower and milkweed. The milkweed will be covered in bees when most other plants are not, and it becomes a big attracter for Monarch caterpillars. The coneflower is loved by bees, but also by finches in the offseason as they come to eat the seeds.
I"m a chef, so my focus was always growing new things that I couldn't easily get locally, but I decided I am focusing on the staples next year.
I've never even attempted bulb onions, even though I buy them almost every time I grocery shop.
I trimmed my tomato and pepper list to varieties I use the most.
I've always done lettuces, but never succession sowed enough to keep up with my consumption.
I love broccoli and cauliflower (always have a frozen bag of broc on hand), but haven't been able to concur the cabbage worm problem. I'm going to much harder this year!
This video could not have come at a better time or been more in tune with my gardening needs/plans for next year! Thank you! I will also be looking at the companion planting video and come up with a plan to produce a lot of our own, well, produce. We can never be certain what we are getting at a store, but we know what comes out of our own gardens. Also, I'll be looking at how to grow potatoes, something I have never done before.
Love that bird feeder but kept getting distracted by Kevin’s hair! Have we seen his hair before?? Seems like he’s always wearing a cap 🤣 Anyway, fun video 👍
winter time is a busy season for sure hahaha, gotta start adding compost and get ready the garden beds and seedlings for spring!! every year it's always exciting to grow different things and try different methods owo
2:42
Potatoes for sure. 🥔
Also onions 🧅
Carrots too. 🥕
Love these choices
@@epicgardening They're good 'stick to your ribs' types for all day energy. 💞
My goal rt now is to grow carrots this winter. I (fingers crossed) think i finally saw some sprouted in grd yesterday. Thx 4 showing me how. ;)
Any excess can be dried and powdered. It uses much less storage space and can be used in a variety of ways.
Powdered broccoli is fabulous in a cream of broccoli soup. All veggie powders can be added to soups and other recipes.
Powdered spinach makes wonderful noodles, use the powdered spinach like flour.
Powdered tomatoes can be thickened to make tomato paste or sauce.
Powdered potatoes are simply instant potatoes like you buy from the store but without the add chemicals.
Most fruits can be juiced, the juice can be dried to make it take less storage space and last longer on the shelf.
The most important kitchen tools I own are a freeze drier, dehydrator, and Vitamix.
All these powders can be stored in jars or vacuum sealed in mylar.
Wouldn't it be great to have a full year supply of food for one in a single tote? 10 totes to feed 10 people a year or one person for 10 years!
1:51 love the honesty here
😊❤ best wishes from Germany 🇩🇪 🎄👨🍳🪵
Looking forward to the preservation skills! That's something I've been struggling with.
Not sure what I spend the most money on that I can grow. Maybe tomato sauces or lettuce or grapes. I’m going to plant a couple grape vines this year and try to do a better job at spacing out my lettuce plantings
For saving money muscadine grapes are one I want to try. Can't do European table grapes because I'm in a warm, humid part of the US.
For us it is definitely berries and lettuce/salad type greens
Perfect video to watch. Timing was epic lol (pun intended). Working on conditioning my indoor soil so I can get some sprouting taters planted in the next few days 😊
I'm growing mostly produce that is hard or impossible to find here in Germany: tasty heirloom tomatoes, jalapenos, poblanos, cilantro, white onions, sweet corn. I'm also growing perennials that we love and that seem to become more and more expensive: asparagus, horseradish, rhubarb and berries of all sorts.
All hail native plants 🙌🏽
Hi. I am 7 and have a gardening channel. I love to plant things. Thanks fornyour videos. 🎉
That bird watcher sounds so cool, what a good idea ❤
The world needs about 4 billion men who think like Kevin and Jacques.
I sowed some native flowers and was fun to see all the wild bees
Hi guys true epic gardening fans ❤ in 1 Min
I've tilled a large area of hard compact clay with a pick to make it loose enough for sunflowers to root in next year
Love this channel! The staples I’ve grown the past 2 years have been kale, tomatoes, green onions, radishes, turnips, carrots (so tiny this year 😂) chives and green beans. Really eager to expand my crop variety this coming spring, I have plenty of space! Hoping to diversify my gardening portfolio with beets, broccoli.. I need more ideas! 7B
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Awesome! Broccoli powder for soup! Tomato comfit is amazing! I still want to see you grow QUINOA!
Garlic and tomato would be staples for me. They're used to a wide array of cuisines and good tomatoes at the store are limited and expensive.
As a neighbouring country with the philippines, and as a malaysian, our staple is rice . (Not surprised)
But it’s quite hard to plant rice because u need to make the soil like really wet and soggy
Kevin, for my birthday and Christmas i got 2 apple trees, a peach tree, 2 blueberry bushes and a fig tree. I plan on growing these all in containers and live in Illinois. Could you guys make another total guide to container fruit trees?
Perennials r underrated. Mitigating damage from weather, disease n predation by having a variety of perennials, is the way of food security
Broccoli is a staple here. I’ve tried growing it in the spring and I just got leaves. I tried again in the fall and got just leaves once again - and then we’ve been stuck in temperatures below 30 for the past month or so. Everything else I grow except for fruit. I’m trying my luck with cantaloupe and watermelon next year.
Harvest Freeze Dryer to handle surplus. Also, chickens eat most garden veggies
Show idea: Almond flour baking. I have a almond tree and in an apocalypse almond flour (and almond milk) maybe easier than land for wheat. (For your urban audience)
In our urban setting where I live, most of our postcards would be pictures of rats eating that birdseed if we put up those bird buddy poles.
I do a keto diet. So hemp and chia seeds are used alot.
Try pickled cauliflower!! Its probably the best pickled vegetable ive tried. I wonder if you could pickle broccoli in that case.
We need a nature watch video of creatures visiting your gardens. Like a relax video. Nature cams?
Great video!
We eat a ton of green beans and peppers. We’ll be growing a lot of those next year
One of my kids' favorite snacks from trader Joe's is their dried broccoli florets 👀👀 just a thought. Though I don't think they are dehydrated, I think they might be freeze-dried. Don't quote me
Well if u add Kevin and jacques together that's like 100 years 😊
Well, it's a good thing I just got a 1/4 pound of native wildflower seeds lol I'm excited to see all the birbs :D
My staples would be lettuce, potatoes, beans and carrots... The soup is awesome...
It’s definitely tomato’s for me and spices I suppose. Sadly my local extension agent confirmed I was hit not once but twice with herbicide drift this year so it definitely took a hit to the wallet all the way around!
My stables are probably winter squash, collared greens, broccoli and hot peppers.
The squirrels grabbed my bird buddy and ran off with it… it was great fun while it lasted
The hair is on point in this one
What variety of pepper did you use for your paprika seasoning
I'm so sad I don't get to garden this year. But hoping soon.
I heard you say that whole fruit freezes well. What does that look like? Freezer bags? Tupper ware?
Hi is the epic seed starting trays standard grow light and the small grow light csa, ul, or etl certified? And where can I buy them in ontario canada?
My staples are definitely tomatoes, blueberries, and cucumbers! I am allergic to wheat and corn so those definitely aren’t staples for me 😅
#1 for me: Vegemite and cheese Sammiches!
My staple is blackberries, but I have failed to care well for any berry bush in my garden 😭 I don't even know if I'm willing to try again.
Can you make a detailed video about casperita pumpkin please
Omg, Eric got a perm.
I would love to know if u garden using any of your ethnic background . I been watching for years and i remember u mentioning that you are part Philippino and was wondering if you add that background to ur gardening. My mom is St.Lucian and my Dad Puerto Rican . I use a machete in some ways to preserve the Jibaro culture. Hope u see this. Happy Gardening
Tomatoes & spinach‼️
0:40 I can't believe you have a guest star!! I see a crow on the roof!!
Can you do a video start to finish on quinoa?????? Please and thank you
Sweet potato all day! And berries
Onions, peppers, garlic, tomatoes. That's what I'm focusing on for 2025.
Staples are: strawberries, blueberries, lettuces, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes and sweet potatoes.
These are mine as well! ❤
Was that Eric trying to break free of the compost pile??😂
when r u guys going to have a bee hive!