Got a plant rack with grow lights, a butt load of seeds, starting trays, heat mats and making my own seed starting mix from coco coir and vermiculite. What grade of vermiculite do you use to start your seeds? I ordered the coarse from your shop. Google told me fine is best, so I ordered the fine grade. Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated. I'm in zone 8a near Charlotte in NC.
I LOVE THE SWEATER ...HELPS SO AS NOT TO BE DISTRACTED BY ALL THE MUSCLES FOR US LADIES...Men have the responsibility of MODESTY TOO AS WOMEN DO ....!!!
This video is the EXACTLY what I need to see. Thank you so much. Goodness… you laugh at your own joke. You’re a typical engineer. LOL…. Anyway, your knowledge is very much appreciated. My plan is to start summer loving plants indoor early this year. It’s too cold here to get them started unless they get a kick-start indoor first. I’m so excited about upcoming growing season. Mr. Dale is all dressed-up ready to go outside. I always look forward to watch him at the end of your video. He is definitely the highlight!!!
Pretty much anything you start indoors right now won't be ready to go outside until March 1. By then, almost everyone can transplant these cool season crops. If you live in a super cold zone, you can start your seeds in late January and they won't be ready to go out until close to April. By then, it's almost too warm in most places. Dale loves a good warm sweater this time of year. His hair is so short.
Tick tock, tick tock. Time is quickly approaching for seed starting time. On January 3rd, I will start by sowing seed starts for onions, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower. Following them will be time to sow seeds for tomatoes, peppers, basil, dill, cilantro, and Pak Choi. After them, is mustard, chard, Romaine Lettuce, and assorted flowers. Sometime between February 15-20, I’ll direct sow seeds for shelling peas, snow peas, carrots, parsnips, radishes, turnips, and assorted leaf lettuces. Closer to March 1st, I’ll start planting my cool weather crop seedlings. Timing is everything in my garden. When one crop comes out, another goes in immediately. The exception is summer. There is such a thing as too hot to garden in Alabama. Very little grows when temps are around 110F or hotter. Insects and disease are at full force. I do not mind backing off a bit in July and August.
Here in the low AZ desert, summer is a time for me to spend the time just trying to keep everything alive. Nothing new goes outside after the middle of spring.
I'm in zone 8b in TX and I *always* start my tomatoes and sweet/hot peppers in January. I usually harvest sweet peppers and tomatoes by May. A technique I learned from Gardenweb back in the day is using 24/7 grow lights for the 1st month for tomatoes and peppers. By February my tomatoes are big enough to transplant outside in containers. Peppers too, depending on when they germinate. I don't use anything fancy light-wise, just a few daylight LED bulbs (100W equivalent, 5000K, 1500 lumens) in a cardboard box. Used regular 100W incandescent lights before switching over to LED and this is how I've been starting my garden for over two decades. 👍🏾👍🏾
Some things do really well. Carrots, parsnips, Swiss chard, radishes, red leaf lettuce (like the New Red Fire or something similar) and arugula are good places to start. I've also fallen in love with mustard greens and collards. They're all so easy to grow. Dale, as usual, got way too many presents 😆
I have learned more about gardening from you than from any other single garden source: THANK YOU and please keep these quality videos coming! It's great to think about growing fresh veggies in the middle of winter (zone 4a here -central MN). I will have to get started on one of those hoop set-ups this spring :) p.s. Dale is absolutely adorable in his cozy holiday suit!
What's growing on, Gardeners!! Great to meet you recently in a place that shall not be named. We had a fabulous time and hope you did too. Thank you for all you do to help us overwhelmed gardeners. Take good care
We have had the warmest December that I can ever recall (moved to Arizona desert 1955). Zero rain for months we do remain in a 20+ year drought. My brassicas are doing ok but was a struggle to begin with as temps were in 80+ all through November and December. I am still hoping my carrots actually grow..planted them quite a while ago and they do seem to be breaking surface in the one bed I planted them. I had to use row covers on all brassicas (beds x 2 at 12x4 each) because birds and my chickens that decided to fly over and have a snack. Just finished off my lettuces am going to reseed them this weekend..these struggled not to bolt because of the warm temps. Thank you for all you have been teaching this old woman!
It's been the opposite here. This has been, by far, the coldest December since I moved here 7 years ago. That's the funny thing about the Earth - it's always roughly the exact same temperature. The air masses just move around. If it's unusually warm in Arizona, we are probably equally as unusually cold here in the east. If the whole US is above average, Europe/Russia/China is probably under severe cold. I'm glad the videos have helped you!
@@TheMillennialGardener The problem is that your both right AND at near identical latitudes. But if you view the data on "seasonal peaks and troughs" it'll show that the challenge of "Climate Change" isn't the EXTEMES, but how quick it can swing between hot and cold. I mean what would a 48 hour freeze actually do mid may?
its going to be an insane garden year. I am a 2nd year gardener, and I can't believe how much I have learned from this & James Prigioni's channel. I also am taking the leap and going to plant at least 4 fruit trees, 1 nut & some berries.
Thank you for your advice on winter gardening! Here in Boston my collard greens are thriving in six inches of snow, hard icy freezes, and night time lows around 10 degrees. They are outside with no cold protection and literally stand up straight supporting the snow. Its a low maintenance way to get your gardening fix even far up north.
Wow, that's fantastic. Collards are something special. Glad to hear someone is growing them up north! I'd still put a row cover overhead. It really is helpful.
@@TheMillennialGardener yes, we should put a cover on the plants. But after a year of growing a giant pumpkin and all that work, the collards are a winter experiment with very little work.
I always appreciate the effort and depth of information you put into your videos. Being a content creator, I know how much work and time it takes. Just wanted to say thank you, and happy holidays.
🎄Belated Merry Christmas, & Happy New Year ahead! Yours is the Christmas sweater of all Christmas sweaters! Dale also looks cozy in his own ensemble! Thanks for the inspiration to get back out in the garden during wintertime here in NJ.
Watched your December video yesterday and it made me realize I was out of bunching onion seeds so I ran out to get some and got them planted last night. Dallas, TX
I love the shirt & hat. Can't wait to see if Dandy Dale has a matching hat. Shirt? Thanks for the fantastic info, especially on the brassica plants, lettuce & spinach. We don't eat very onions. But I may just have to try the leeks. So funny, he does look like Ralphie. 😂😂😂 give him a hug. 😊
Thanks! Dale literally has a larger wardrobe than I do. He has a green Christmas Tree shirt complete with little ornament balls sewn into it. He wore it on Christmas Day, and we were matching 😅 Leeks are excellent. They're for cooking, not fresh eating, and they make a great "base" for almost anything - soups, stews, sauces, broths, etc.
For fun I followed another youtuber and took clear water bottles, cut in half, and threw flower seeds into them, then put the top back on like a little terrarium. I started these with zinnias and some other spring perennials. Already they have popped up, even in this cold weather zone 8. I just leave them on a windowsill outdoors, they are doing well. Once large enough I can transplant in pots.
I got some good footage of him opening up presents. He was *really* in the spirit this year. He's been eyeing up the presents in my office for a month waiting for Christmas morning and really had a ball.
I was waiting for this exact video to come from you! Lol All of your videos are really helpful so I was like "THANK YOU" when I saw this pop into my feed.
Questions- if your zone is really rainy should these be covered, do you start onions indoors then transplant in February or March long day PNW-west washington
Great info; thank you! You are an inspiration to me. I am starting my first garden west of you in the Piedmont area. Merry Christmas and happy 2025 to you and yours.
I am starting a garden for the first time in the weeks to come. I am super excited and watching your videos are so informative. I’ve been sharing them with my friends who are also new to gardening. Thank you
You're very welcome! I'm glad to hear you're starting a garden! I wish you the best of luck. Take it slow. The best advice I can give you is to not do too much right out of the gate. Keep it simple and build confidence, then expand a little each year.
I had some celery in pots last year and let the bees enjoy the flowers. I was just clearing pots to reuse and found multiple celery sprouts coming up! I'm in the same zone as you. I've never had luck starting them from seed myself.
Here in the middle of Indiana, my swiss chard has froze and the leaves died- but they're coming back!! I was totally surprised!! But here comes some SERIOUS cold.
Absolutely love this channel. we are moving to North Carolina from philadelphia are to retire. One of our big plans is to have an awesome garden. Your videos are epic and so helpful. We hope to do 8 to 10 8x4 beds and a bunch of containers.
When I don't know how to pronounce something I just ask Google and spell it. It comes back pronouncing it correctly. THEN AT 74 YEARS OLD I HAVE TO REMEMBER what I was told! 😊😊😊
Use shade cloth. I'd recommend you run shade cloth overhead your lettuce 365 days a year where you live: ua-cam.com/video/SbWcCxV7OOE/v-deo.htmlsi=k0A-SWEBh1gOlrWE
I’m in zone 8a. I just got camellia sinensis, green tea bush, and pomegranates. Both do well in our zone and are considered very healthy. Both are planted in the front yard near our entrance since they look nice too.
Hands down, the ugliest sweater winner! Got my onions started last weekend in Connecticut! I was successful with Zebrune shallots last year! Happy Planting!
Ain't you cute! ❤ 😂Hope y'all had a great Christmas. Mark at Weatherman Plus is saying January is going to be well below freezing down to Gulf. Stay warm!!
We did. I hope your Christmas was great, too. The next 5 days are very mild, but then the bottom falls out again. Lots of nights in the 20's coming up in the extended forecast. I can deal with 20's. As long as we stay out of the teens, I can handle it. We already had two nights in the teens in December. I can't take a whole lot more of them.
Greetings from Maine again! I love watching your channel and learn so much. Ive taken your advice many times. However, this time, I have an important FIG question! I left my 2 figs outside until we had a couple of light frosts, and they dropped their leaves. Brought them into a cool but still sunny room, intending to cut them back and create cuttings. I ended up ill for a time, and they began to leaf out, even creating a couple of baby figs. What do I do? Cut them back anyway and dark/cool store them, or bring them into my grow room and let 'em go? Help! Thanks. 😊
I was watching your hoop house videos. I’m in Maryland and would like to direct sow carrots soon. Is your hoop house open at the bottom for air flow? Should I cover the beds completely?
The goal of the hoop house is simply to prevent frost from forming on the crops. It doesn’t lock in any warmth once the sun goes down, and it freezes right through on cold nights. What I have found is that by simply keeping the frost from forming off the plants, they take much less damage. It is that frost forming on the foliage that really harms them. As long as you build hoops and install enough fabric that it fully prevents frost formation on the plants, you should be good. My fabric does drape all the way down to the ground on most of my hoop houses.
I know chard is part of the beet family, but I always started it indoors and transplant outside as I lumped it in with my leafy greens. I’m now wondering if it would grow faster if I direct sowed
Escarole makes a great salad and it sautés nice with some garlic and olive oil, you eat it with some Italian bread, delicious. It’s not just for soups.
My broccoli I planted in November for an experiment. I live in 7b btw. The Frost kind of beat them up. I cut off the limp whitish leaves and seem to be doing great now and blooming new leaves even with temps at 50s.
Very helpful video (and I love the sweater). I will be starting some seeds this week and might actually get a harvest this year thanks to your prompting. Question on planting the hot hot peppers. I love the habanada pepper but it always takes a really long time to fruit. Since it's the non-spicy version of the habanero (with a scoville over 100,000) should I start the non-spicy seeds now? I appreciate the table of contents with time stamps that you provide in the video description and comments but it would be more useful if you included at least the group name of the plants instead of just their numbers. That way we go go directly to the ones we want to try this year. Thanks for all you do!
I have 50 milk jugs preparing to plant in a few days. - onions, spinach, arugula, leeks, snap dragons (5 varieties), Marigolds, beets, endive, Comos, Blanket, plus about 20 more. This really reduces the number l use for my growing shelves.
Aww love your sweater! Please tell me, can I plant the onion seeds in my raised bed and cover with hoops and plastic? I’m really dreading starting seeds indoors… I’m in the Tennessee Valley.
Pretty much everyone can start brassica transplants indoors now. Seeds sown today won't be ready for transplant until around March 1, give or take a week or so. By March 1, almost everyone can transplant brassicas into their garden under cover. If you have transplants ready today, you can plant them outside in Zone 6/7 or warmer, but you'll need cover. Not all brassicas are equal. Kale and collards are WAY more cold hardy than cabbage and broccoli, for example. My cabbage got wrecked at 19 degrees even under cover, but my kale, collards and mustard greens couldn't have cared less with a light over cover them.
Sure you can. As I explained in this video, most of the items are transplants that you start indoors. Seeds you sow today won't be ready for transplant until March 1, and these will be easily plantable under cover by then.
Hi! I planted my onions 2weeks ago, ( btw I’ve never grown them before) , but I did not start any shallots yet. I live on the crystal coast is it too late to start the seeds? Also I used your incandescent light idea under cover for my greenstalks & garden tower & it’s working, so thank you for that idea.
Rouge d'hiver = Winter red is pronounced Rooch deever (with the last syllable ver stressed rather than dee) approximately. My first language is French so this approximation was for an Englishspeaking reader, and I won't bother you with correct IPA. I do think you can ask Google for French (or whatever) pronunciation of something.
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If you found this video helpful, please *LIKE* it and share it to help others grow bigger! Thanks for watching😀TIMESTAMPS here:
0:00 Gardening In January Tips
1:00 Winter Vegetable #'s 1-2
3:29 Winter Vegetable #'s 3-12
5:04 Winter Vegetable #'s 13-20
7:13 Winter Vegetable #'s 21-25
10:18 Winter Vegetable #'s 26-27
11:58 Winter Vegetable #'s 28-30
13:09 Winter Vegetable #'s 31-34
14:51 Winter Vegetable #35
16:17 Winter Vegetable #36
18:24 Adventures With Dale
Got a plant rack with grow lights, a butt load of seeds, starting trays, heat mats and making my own seed starting mix from coco coir and vermiculite. What grade of vermiculite do you use to start your seeds? I ordered the coarse from your shop. Google told me fine is best, so I ordered the fine grade. Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated. I'm in zone 8a near Charlotte in NC.
@@TheMillennialGardener please check out my FIG question above. I had no idea where to ask it, and it's important! Thank you 😊
As a european I really appreciate that you write the temperatures in Celsius degree too. Thank you!
Love the sweater 😂. Merry Christmas to you and yours 🎄💚👨🏿🌾
Thanks! Merry Christmas to you, too! 🎄
I LOVE THE SWEATER ...HELPS SO AS NOT TO BE DISTRACTED BY ALL THE MUSCLES FOR US LADIES...Men have the responsibility of MODESTY TOO AS WOMEN DO ....!!!
This video is the EXACTLY what I need to see. Thank you so much. Goodness… you laugh at your own joke. You’re a typical engineer. LOL…. Anyway, your knowledge is very much appreciated. My plan is to start summer loving plants indoor early this year. It’s too cold here to get them started unless they get a kick-start indoor first. I’m so excited about upcoming growing season. Mr. Dale is all dressed-up ready to go outside. I always look forward to watch him at the end of your video. He is definitely the highlight!!!
Pretty much anything you start indoors right now won't be ready to go outside until March 1. By then, almost everyone can transplant these cool season crops. If you live in a super cold zone, you can start your seeds in late January and they won't be ready to go out until close to April. By then, it's almost too warm in most places. Dale loves a good warm sweater this time of year. His hair is so short.
What zone are you in?
@ I’m in 6b.
I think you and Dale should get matching sweaters and hats. Make sure you get one for Mom too!!
Tick tock, tick tock. Time is quickly approaching for seed starting time. On January 3rd, I will start by sowing seed starts for onions, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower. Following them will be time to sow seeds for tomatoes, peppers, basil, dill, cilantro, and Pak Choi. After them, is mustard, chard, Romaine Lettuce, and assorted flowers.
Sometime between February 15-20, I’ll direct sow seeds for shelling peas, snow peas, carrots, parsnips, radishes, turnips, and assorted leaf lettuces. Closer to March 1st, I’ll start planting my cool weather crop seedlings. Timing is everything in my garden. When one crop comes out, another goes in immediately. The exception is summer. There is such a thing as too hot to garden in Alabama. Very little grows when temps are around 110F or hotter. Insects and disease are at full force. I do not mind backing off a bit in July and August.
Here in the low AZ desert, summer is a time for me to spend the time just trying to keep everything alive. Nothing new goes outside after the middle of spring.
Love the sweater . I love your garden tips and tricks as well .
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
I'm in zone 8b in TX and I *always* start my tomatoes and sweet/hot peppers in January. I usually harvest sweet peppers and tomatoes by May. A technique I learned from Gardenweb back in the day is using 24/7 grow lights for the 1st month for tomatoes and peppers. By February my tomatoes are big enough to transplant outside in containers. Peppers too, depending on when they germinate. I don't use anything fancy light-wise, just a few daylight LED bulbs (100W equivalent, 5000K, 1500 lumens) in a cardboard box. Used regular 100W incandescent lights before switching over to LED and this is how I've been starting my garden for over two decades. 👍🏾👍🏾
I always get my onions and celery started very early, and I'm thinking about trying winter sewing this year! I hope Dale got some wonderful presents!
Some things do really well. Carrots, parsnips, Swiss chard, radishes, red leaf lettuce (like the New Red Fire or something similar) and arugula are good places to start. I've also fallen in love with mustard greens and collards. They're all so easy to grow. Dale, as usual, got way too many presents 😆
Oh by the way I Love your outfit. Shows your awesome personality 😊❤
This is what happens when Brittany buys me clothes...
@@TheMillennialGardenerHaha 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂@@TheMillennialGardener
I have learned more about gardening from you than from any other single garden source: THANK YOU and please keep these quality videos coming! It's great to think about growing fresh veggies in the middle of winter (zone 4a here -central MN). I will have to get started on one of those hoop set-ups this spring :)
p.s. Dale is absolutely adorable in his cozy holiday suit!
Awww...Dale does look SO cute!! ❤❤❤
What's growing on, Gardeners!! Great to meet you recently in a place that shall not be named. We had a fabulous time and hope you did too. Thank you for all you do to help us overwhelmed gardeners. Take good care
Can you refresh my memory where? Was this the nice and warm spot last a little over a week ago?
@@TheMillennialGardener You got it! Sorry for being cryptic but didn't want to share too much publicly. Great food and diving is all I'll say :)
We have had the warmest December that I can ever recall (moved to Arizona desert 1955). Zero rain for months we do remain in a 20+ year drought. My brassicas are doing ok but was a struggle to begin with as temps were in 80+ all through November and December. I am still hoping my carrots actually grow..planted them quite a while ago and they do seem to be breaking surface in the one bed I planted them. I had to use row covers on all brassicas (beds x 2 at 12x4 each) because birds and my chickens that decided to fly over and have a snack. Just finished off my lettuces am going to reseed them this weekend..these struggled not to bolt because of the warm temps. Thank you for all you have been teaching this old woman!
It's been the opposite here. This has been, by far, the coldest December since I moved here 7 years ago. That's the funny thing about the Earth - it's always roughly the exact same temperature. The air masses just move around. If it's unusually warm in Arizona, we are probably equally as unusually cold here in the east. If the whole US is above average, Europe/Russia/China is probably under severe cold. I'm glad the videos have helped you!
@@TheMillennialGardener The problem is that your both right AND at near identical latitudes. But if you view the data on "seasonal peaks and troughs" it'll show that the challenge of "Climate Change" isn't the EXTEMES, but how quick it can swing between hot and cold. I mean what would a 48 hour freeze actually do mid may?
I really was expecting Father and Son Christmas sweaters!! Thanks for a wonderful year of tips, hints, tales and tails!!
I enjoyed your presentation. Very organized and interesting and helpful.
I love your channel. You always explain everything so well. Also, you and Dale always make me smile! Thank you so much for everything!
I appreciate it! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos. Dale sends his love 🐶
Amen brother 🙏. Keep talking, I am listening 🙏😊. Love all you teach ❤️
Am becoming so anxious/excited... it's like getting ready for tjis crazy annual race of hearing the "get-ready... get set... GO"!
I'm so thankful for your videos!! You explain things so well!! I love yours & Dales outfits 😆
That sweater is elite.
❤❤❤ LOVE DALE'S COAT AND HAT!!!❤❤❤
So does he! Well, the coat, anyway. He gets cold very easily.
Going for it...biggst garden of my life! Thank you!
Excellent!! Always a good decision!
Great information as always. Thank you for sharing this video.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
its going to be an insane garden year. I am a 2nd year gardener, and I can't believe how much I have learned from this & James Prigioni's channel. I also am taking the leap and going to plant at least 4 fruit trees, 1 nut & some berries.
Thank you for your advice on winter gardening! Here in Boston my collard greens are thriving in six inches of snow, hard icy freezes, and night time lows around 10 degrees. They are outside with no cold protection and literally stand up straight supporting the snow. Its a low maintenance way to get your gardening fix even far up north.
Wow, that's fantastic. Collards are something special. Glad to hear someone is growing them up north! I'd still put a row cover overhead. It really is helpful.
@@TheMillennialGardener yes, we should put a cover on the plants. But after a year of growing a giant pumpkin and all that work, the collards are a winter experiment with very little work.
Anthony I was taking you serious, and then you said Big B. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅. That was funny 😅 a play on words. Then your smile and the look on your face.😅 ❤
I had to think, do I redo this or leave it in...it was 43 degrees and raining, I was freezing and wanted to finish. It stayed in 😅
@TheMillennialGardener It's Great!!!
@@TheMillennialGardener The Big B comment was hilarious 🤣
Thank you as always, Professor!
I always appreciate the effort and depth of information you put into your videos. Being a content creator, I know how much work and time it takes. Just wanted to say thank you, and happy holidays.
I appreciate it very much! Thank you for watching.
Love your holiday spirit, gloves and all!
It was so cold. 43, raining, painfully damp and windy. I don’t do cold well, it hurt filming this 😂
@TheMillennialGardener well it's a good thing you don't live where the wind regularly hurts your face on the winter😉🤣😇
Dale looks so cute! I love the hat
He does 😆 He has very short hair and he loves his winter coats.
I'm gonna do it. I got grow bags for carrots and brussel sprout transplants and my T5 grow lights sitting unused. Good video!
Excellent!! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Love the sweater ❤️
Brittany certainly has interesting taste 😅
I laughed so much I missed what you were saying so I'm gonna watch again 😅😅😅❤
I appreciate it!
Yesss so excited to get the 2025 garden going …
Thanks for the vid, I am changing my whole garden 2025 so I hope to get alot of info from you. Keep going strong my man!
🎄Belated Merry Christmas, & Happy New Year ahead! Yours is the Christmas sweater of all Christmas sweaters! Dale also looks cozy in his own ensemble! Thanks for the inspiration to get back out in the garden during wintertime here in NJ.
Cute fur baby and another awesome video
Thank you
You're welcome! Dale says hello!
@@TheMillennialGardeneryou're welcome and thank you all greetings Dale 🩵🐾
Love the sweater!
Watched your December video yesterday and it made me realize I was out of bunching onion seeds so I ran out to get some and got them planted last night. Dallas, TX
Love the sweater. I will be starting lisianthus in January.
You are DEAD SERIOUS! LOL love the sweater
Thanks!
I love the outfit!!!! Just what I needed today 😂
Thanks. I am really taking one for the team with that sweater.
I love the shirt & hat. Can't wait to see if Dandy Dale has a matching hat. Shirt?
Thanks for the fantastic info, especially on the brassica plants, lettuce & spinach. We don't eat very onions. But I may just have to try the leeks.
So funny, he does look like Ralphie. 😂😂😂 give him a hug. 😊
Thanks! Dale literally has a larger wardrobe than I do. He has a green Christmas Tree shirt complete with little ornament balls sewn into it. He wore it on Christmas Day, and we were matching 😅 Leeks are excellent. They're for cooking, not fresh eating, and they make a great "base" for almost anything - soups, stews, sauces, broths, etc.
Awesome. I'm glad you guys had a good Christmas 🤶
For fun I followed another youtuber and took clear water bottles, cut in half, and threw flower seeds into them, then put the top back on like a little terrarium. I started these with zinnias and some other spring perennials. Already they have popped up, even in this cold weather zone 8. I just leave them on a windowsill outdoors, they are doing well. Once large enough I can transplant in pots.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Love the sweater
Thank you! Hope you had a great Christmas, and Happy New Year!
Oh Dale is adorable ❤❤❤❤😊
I got some good footage of him opening up presents. He was *really* in the spirit this year. He's been eyeing up the presents in my office for a month waiting for Christmas morning and really had a ball.
@@TheMillennialGardener AWE that's so sweet.
On the line of 8a and 8b so I should be good to go with all you said grow now. I’m loving it and thanks for all of the info❤.
😂Your sweater is GREAT!
It definitely is a sweater...🙂
Great video full of information. Living on NC east coast I can use all of the information thank you.
I was waiting for this exact video to come from you! Lol
All of your videos are really helpful so I was like "THANK YOU" when I saw this pop into my feed.
You and Dale😮😂😂😂
❤🐶❤🐶❤🐶❤🐶❤
Questions- if your zone is really rainy should these be covered, do you start onions indoors then transplant in February or March long day PNW-west washington
Great info; thank you! You are an inspiration to me. I am starting my first garden west of you in the Piedmont area. Merry Christmas and happy 2025 to you and yours.
That's outstanding! I'm glad to hear the videos are helping. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!
Thanks for explaining this!
Glad it was helpful!
He’s so cute. ❤
Dale is cute and he knows it! He NOSE it!
I am starting a garden for the first time in the weeks to come. I am super excited and watching your videos are so informative. I’ve been sharing them with my friends who are also new to gardening. Thank you
You're very welcome! I'm glad to hear you're starting a garden! I wish you the best of luck. Take it slow. The best advice I can give you is to not do too much right out of the gate. Keep it simple and build confidence, then expand a little each year.
@ Yes sir, thank you.
Best of luck to you! Don't get too disappointed if it doesn't work the first time, it's all trial and error! No matter how long you've been doing it!
@@jeweleagle613thank you!!
I had some celery in pots last year and let the bees enjoy the flowers. I was just clearing pots to reuse and found multiple celery sprouts coming up! I'm in the same zone as you. I've never had luck starting them from seed myself.
Happy New Year from your future homestead state of FL. Looking forward to your move in 2025!🌟🔔
Happy New Year! I won’t be moving for quite awhile, at least 5 years. It is roughly a 2030 plan for us, give or take.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year
Here in the middle of Indiana, my swiss chard has froze and the leaves died- but they're coming back!! I was totally surprised!! But here comes some SERIOUS cold.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Sweet sweater
Thank you!
Amazing info per usual
Glad you enjoyed it
Absolutely love this channel. we are moving to North Carolina from philadelphia are to retire. One of our big plans is to have an awesome garden. Your videos are epic and so helpful. We hope to do 8 to 10 8x4 beds and a bunch of containers.
When I don't know how to pronounce something I just ask Google and spell it. It comes back pronouncing it correctly. THEN AT 74 YEARS OLD I HAVE TO REMEMBER what I was told! 😊😊😊
It's a French variety of lettuce. Even with Google's help, it wasn't going to come out right. I'm from New Jersey, after all 😅
Yep, hahaha 😁. Me too.
I say I have to write everything down and then remember where I wrote it.
Looking good!!
🎉 happynewyear😊
Happy 2025!
L❤ve the sweater 😂
Thank you!
77 degrees today in central florida. all of my outside lettuce has bolted. fortunately, i have hydroponic lettuce going inside.
Use shade cloth. I'd recommend you run shade cloth overhead your lettuce 365 days a year where you live: ua-cam.com/video/SbWcCxV7OOE/v-deo.htmlsi=k0A-SWEBh1gOlrWE
@@TheMillennialGardener appreciate that. definitely adding to my notes and use in future.
I’m in zone 8a. I just got camellia sinensis, green tea bush, and pomegranates. Both do well in our zone and are considered very healthy. Both are planted in the front yard near our entrance since they look nice too.
Good job 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hands down, the ugliest sweater winner! Got my onions started last weekend in Connecticut! I was successful with Zebrune shallots last year! Happy Planting!
Ugly is the new pretty 😂 Nice! I am starting my onions and shallots this weekend.
Celery is voluntary growing in my garden and in winter I have celery to use. I am in zone 9 😊🙏
Ain't you cute! ❤ 😂Hope y'all had a great Christmas. Mark at Weatherman Plus is saying January is going to be well below freezing down to Gulf. Stay warm!!
We did. I hope your Christmas was great, too. The next 5 days are very mild, but then the bottom falls out again. Lots of nights in the 20's coming up in the extended forecast. I can deal with 20's. As long as we stay out of the teens, I can handle it. We already had two nights in the teens in December. I can't take a whole lot more of them.
Heads up, I was unsubscribed to your channel without doing it. I was surprised when I had missed your latest video.
Oh Dale, you're so stylish 😂
Greetings from Maine again! I love watching your channel and learn so much. Ive taken your advice many times. However, this time, I have an important FIG question! I left my 2 figs outside until we had a couple of light frosts, and they dropped their leaves. Brought them into a cool but still sunny room, intending to cut them back and create cuttings. I ended up ill for a time, and they began to leaf out, even creating a couple of baby figs. What do I do? Cut them back anyway and dark/cool store them, or bring them into my grow room and let 'em go? Help! Thanks. 😊
I was watching your hoop house videos. I’m in Maryland and would like to direct sow carrots soon. Is your hoop house open at the bottom for air flow?
Should I cover the beds completely?
The goal of the hoop house is simply to prevent frost from forming on the crops. It doesn’t lock in any warmth once the sun goes down, and it freezes right through on cold nights. What I have found is that by simply keeping the frost from forming off the plants, they take much less damage. It is that frost forming on the foliage that really harms them. As long as you build hoops and install enough fabric that it fully prevents frost formation on the plants, you should be good. My fabric does drape all the way down to the ground on most of my hoop houses.
Dale ❤❤❤❤
He’s so cute 😆
@TheMillennialGardener yes he is! Wish we could share our pet pictures with you too!
I know chard is part of the beet family, but I always started it indoors and transplant outside as I lumped it in with my leafy greens. I’m now wondering if it would grow faster if I direct sowed
Awesome clothes
Is there a video on starting seeds?
That sweater is worth clicking on to watch this video.
Getting closer just ordered a heat mat for seed starting, onions first end of January.
Excellent! I'm starting my onions this weekend. They are first for me.
Escarole makes a great salad and it sautés nice with some garlic and olive oil, you eat it with some Italian bread, delicious. It’s not just for soups.
My broccoli I planted in November for an experiment. I live in 7b btw. The Frost kind of beat them up. I cut off the limp whitish leaves and seem to be doing great now and blooming new leaves even with temps at 50s.
Very helpful video (and I love the sweater). I will be starting some seeds this week and might actually get a harvest this year thanks to your prompting. Question on planting the hot hot peppers. I love the habanada pepper but it always takes a really long time to fruit. Since it's the non-spicy version of the habanero (with a scoville over 100,000) should I start the non-spicy seeds now? I appreciate the table of contents with time stamps that you provide in the video description and comments but it would be more useful if you included at least the group name of the plants instead of just their numbers. That way we go go directly to the ones we want to try this year. Thanks for all you do!
I’ve been trying to grow spinach for the past 5 years I’m in 7B. I have no idea what I’m doing wrong. I’ve tried ALL varieties. Any tips?
I have 50 milk jugs preparing to plant in a few days. - onions, spinach, arugula, leeks, snap dragons (5 varieties), Marigolds, beets, endive, Comos, Blanket, plus about 20 more. This really reduces the number l use for my growing shelves.
Lol I have a very similar sweater👍🏼🎄 it is 50 in Illinois for xmass.
It only got to 57 here. This ridge we have been stuck in has been brutal 😂 I was about freezing filming this, 43 and rain.
To cute
Aww love your sweater! Please tell me, can I plant the onion seeds in my raised bed and cover with hoops and plastic? I’m really dreading starting seeds indoors… I’m in the Tennessee Valley.
Thanks for another great video! It's pronounced rouge dee-vay. :)
I’m trying to grow mango and citrus in north Georgia
Are you saying that we can start brassicas indoors right now or do we already need to have transplants ready to be planted in January? Ty
Pretty much everyone can start brassica transplants indoors now. Seeds sown today won't be ready for transplant until around March 1, give or take a week or so. By March 1, almost everyone can transplant brassicas into their garden under cover. If you have transplants ready today, you can plant them outside in Zone 6/7 or warmer, but you'll need cover. Not all brassicas are equal. Kale and collards are WAY more cold hardy than cabbage and broccoli, for example. My cabbage got wrecked at 19 degrees even under cover, but my kale, collards and mustard greens couldn't have cared less with a light over cover them.
I wish I could plant here in calgary canada in the winter 😢 it's way to cold even covered
Sure you can. As I explained in this video, most of the items are transplants that you start indoors. Seeds you sow today won't be ready for transplant until March 1, and these will be easily plantable under cover by then.
Hi! I planted my onions 2weeks ago, ( btw I’ve never grown them before) , but I did not start any shallots yet. I live on the crystal coast is it too late to start the seeds? Also I used your incandescent light idea under cover for my greenstalks & garden tower & it’s working, so thank you for that idea.
Rouge d'hiver = Winter red is pronounced Rooch deever (with the last syllable ver stressed rather than dee) approximately. My first language is French so this approximation was for an Englishspeaking reader, and I won't bother you with correct IPA.
I do think you can ask Google for French (or whatever) pronunciation of something.
I'm from New Jersey, so I'm used to pronouncing things incorrectly 😂
It's closer to Rouge deeVair if my high school French classes served me well.