It's fun for sure! I also love all the tidbits about the plants, and what challenges they had, or successes. I'm definitely geared up to start my seeds now!
Yes, it makes me so happy and motivated to start some myself. And Jacques tapping of the hand is so distracting lol I was listening to Kevin however.. lol
I think what I love about this is two guys being so genuine and relaxed together. You two are such a fun dynamic. I can't wait to see where you go next. So inspiring!
Reminder that micro-greens can always be grown inside for those who have real winter! We enjoyed lots of micro green peas all winter long. Great in soups and salads. Also broccoli & radish greens are some of my other faves, along with mung bean sprouts
Yes! You can also find Aerogarden setups on deep discount at the end of the season, you can grow quite a lot of smaller fresh herbs and greens easily with it. Helps stave off winter blues!
I love the idea of “cooking with Jacque”. No pressure (haha) but what about individual videos about specific veggies etc: from seed to table. How/when to plant; care; when to harvest; ways to cook. The sky is the limit! There can even be a combo video with salads 🥗 and all the ingredients (even decorative/edible flowers). Thanks! Love the channel ❤️
I remember when you (Kevin) was doing the seed starting for the first time in your new house. It was dark outside at that time & it was just you. Seed starting with Jacques is a whole lot of fun. The conversation, sharing of knowledge, acknowledging what did not work, witnessing friends banter is such a wholesome, heart-fattening, neuron building thing to watch. ❤️❤️❤️
Nice seed suggestions. I'm zone 6b. Charles is mild mannered and the Boss. We are in our mid 70's yrs. young and we were ready to turn in the trowel. Then we discovered. Charles Dowding. An awesome teacher for us. Children's books he's published....the whole family, parents and grand parents can learn much from.
I’m Italian, good job on the pronunciation. A broccoli recipe: Cut up 5-10 cloves garlic Cut up a lb. broccoli florets 2-3 cups chicken broth Sauté garlic in EVOO till lightly golden. Add broccoli and stir. Add broth and cover till broccoli just done. You can add this over a bowl of pasta. Grate Romano and red pepper over pasta and enjoy. So delicious!
I live in coastal MA, which is zone 6A, but we seem to be resisting getting any frosts until sometime in very late October, and even the beginning of November. The last couple of years we didn't have a hard freeze until mid November! I like taking chances because they can be high reward with rooting crops like carrots and definitely brassicas! Going to finish transplanting broccoli and bok choy this week!
I remember having similar vegetable standoffs with my mom as a kid. The '90s were so different because I could threaten to die at the table over some peas and carrots and my mom's attitude was like "Then perish." 😅
This Seeding Frenzy Bro Date is giving me lyyyyyyyfe! Great info and top-notch banter. ❤ I usually hate my garden by this point in the summer, but now I’ve been inspired to start some fall crops. Thanks lads!
I bought a Birdie from you all earlier this year to start my first veggie garden. It has worked great this summer. I think a cool video would be to show what you can grow with the real estate of just one birdie. You could show what the different layouts for plants and different combos of plants that would work well together in a birdie. Thanks!
Jacques busy planting away and is litterally just throwing in all those seeds! I need lots of variety. Kevin is busy chatting and reading those packages😂
I have ordered two different native flower mixes to plant. One for a northern meadow and one for a dry seaside meadow. Lot of the seeds need a proper winter to grow and I live in Northern Sweden zone 5a. So this is my planting for late August/September.
I have to plant in large bins, (the 200 lb feed buckets). I live in SW Oklahoma and the weather this summer has been awful. I list my tomatoes but peppers are doing good. I’ll try and plant a few of these this weekend! Thanks guys!!
Love the fact you can do seasonal planting, you hit the nail on the head that us further north are jealous! I have to usually plant my beets and leeks at the beginning of the season and then harvest them before the real cold comes in (they're good to leave in the ground for a while but get them before they freeze!).
Glad to hear Jaques saying he's given up on napa due to earwigs, I've had a similar experience with broccoli. And even though I love it, I will never grow it again. I'm not alone!
I remember watching a video of you two, commenting on leeks and how the white part is the most prized. it blew my mind, for me the green part is the best, although we use the whole thing for cooking, leeks are specially tasty in a french style quiche with diced ham, mushrooms and cheese.
Got my clancy potatoes starting to come in from spring, and they are DELICIOUS! Small but so awesome, and growing potatoes from seed is next level gratifying. You got this!!
Nice to aee a couple smaller seed companies included as well. I understand the focus on botanical interest varieties, but smaller seed companies like Truelove Seeds have some real treasures on offer.
I’m OVER summer 🥱 #scorchingMe 🥵 Ready for a cool breeze 🍃 My favorite seeds …I frame the envelopes ( art , it matters ) So pretty!!! Chartreuse #Zinnia yes please ☝️. 🌍
Brilliant unspoken visual tip by Jacque: tap the back of your hand that’s holding the seed packet to gently nudge the seeds out for planting. Fantastic! That’s a great short right there with the “Flintstone twinkle toes” sound 😉
I love your gardening videos and they are an inspiration. ❤ I live in South African so our seasons are at different months of the year (eg. September = Spring). Sun rise= East and temperature 🌡 in C°. We don't have consistent gardening youtubers in my country that I can relate to so i started my own channel hoping that people will comment with advice and guidance on my gardening journey. I hope one day I can have a garden like yours 😊
Pigeon Peas are a small tree. So, make sure they have room to grow and they will shade smaller plants. They are great Nitrogen fixers and we use them for soil improvement and chop and drop in Florida. Mine are about 6 months old and are around 6' tall.
Hi guys. I’ve missed quite a few of your videos over the last few months and I had no idea that you’d started a seed company. That’s awesome news! It’s great to see how you’ve developed your business over the years whilst promoting great solid gardening ideas. Well done!
I love charred Brussel Sprouts. Oil on a stainless steel cookie sheet B.S. halved, salt, toss it. Hot oven or broil on lower shelf. My cookie sheet has no coating/non-stick surface. It's so old I can't get the baked on browning off in the corners. I'll call it patina. The best. I have to check out the fire cooker you did the pizza in.
I just recently took out my corn stalks and sowed some ornamental corns. I sowed more watermelons, pumpkin, korean radish, green beans, shishito peppers, and carrots. Oh yea and I started some pansies and violas for fall. Can't wait to harvest in the fall
I tried their One kilo slow bolt cabbage in my zone 9 garden last year and it was the first good cabbage I ever got. Dead simple to grow. Looking forward to growing it again this year
Ready to plant here in Zone 5 southern NH! We've learned to love steamed brussel sprouts with a gruyere and white wine cheese sauce. It will change your life...
Great tips for starting seeds. I would have forgotten to bottom water the trays also. We are all multi-tasking right now. Keven and Jacques. You make a great team. Fun while learning. Thanks.
Great video; fall gardens are the absolute best! I’m excited to see the follow up for the Clancy potato. Potatoes from seed seem to be super rare. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone do it. Super cool!! Good luck with them taters 🍀
Good to see there's still some diversity of seeds being sown even thought EG owns BI now! I really love seeing all the different seed companies you buy from and the wide variety of types of each fruit veggie or herb. I've really admired both of your seed collections over the years!
Yep,,, I’m zone 5 but I can enjoy harvest since late July till middle September 😀and plant garlic in October and grow some greens 🥬 little longer then regular summer crops .😃
If I remember correctly, you have a freeze dryer. Red beets are amazing cooked (in my instant pot), peeled, cubed and freeze dried. The golden beets are the best fresh cooked, but not so good freeze dried.
Zone 8b here. I have some Touchstone Gold beet and King Richard leek seeds!! Thanks to this vid, I'm gonna start them both this weekend. Also, you got the pronunciation right the first time for that broccoli - say it like "dee Cheek oh". 😊
I appreciate that you used your companies seeds for this video. I look forward to seeing how well they grow and which varieties I can add next year (like the golden beets). Thanks for the video.
I’m a new “gardener” and just planted some cabbage that’s now about 2 inches tall and a bunch of bell peppers and lettuce… not realizing just how soon the first frost will be here 😆 so probably gonna be a fail, but I started getting into house plants and have kept my two pothos alive and got back into healthy eating and want to grow veggies to eat and show my kids how amazing it is. So now I’m trying to figure out what I can plant in zone 7 right now so I can hopefully have something successful lol. My soul is crap though. It’s solid red clay and I’ll probably have to do raised beds for sure. Just so much to learn and so much prepping to do before I can even get to really planting. I mean I’m popping stuff in the ground after germinating but it’s more of a “if it grows it grows if not ok” just to experiment. I grew some potatoes from old red potatoes I had thrown out and started growing on top of the soil and some russet eyes that sprouted and I buried (way too shallow) but pulling those little potatoes up finally was SO GRATIFYING!! I’m hooked lol.
GUYS ENDIVES WITH HAM AND MELTED CHEESE IS AMAZING. You separate each leave and place them on a baking tray like little boats and your shred a piece of sliced ham or turkey, pour some grated cheese on it and place it under a medium broil until the cheese gets bubbly and omggggg try it
De Cicco is my all-time favourite! Grows so well here in South Australia 🙂. I'd love to hear how it goes up there. You should definitely do a follow up at season's end 👍.
I just released a double feature on fall growing crops too. 8 seeds to sow in August and How to choose fall crops plus what NOT to sow in August in case you don’t live in San Diego 😋👍 Happy Fall Seeding!
I need to get my fall garden in gear. Only planted a few things so far because summer is still full swing and room is at a premium. Another great video!
My aunt actually thought she could "beat me at my own game" when I would pull the stalemate. She did the "youll sit here until its gone." technique and I was like you lol ill die here then! So she added on "If you dont eat it, youll sit here all night and then it will be your breakfast/lunch/dinner until its gone." I would starve myself for 3 days before she would cave, spank me and try again with another meal. Wash rinse repeat for a year until she gave up and everybody in my family left me alone after that.
Pigeon peas and rice are so good! 🤤 Y'all conversations are soon funny! 😂 My mother did the same thing with brussel sprouts when I was growing up. They were disgusting! 😝 But roasted? Delicious! 😋
I got some lettuce seeds from botanical interests during the sale a couple months ago. I’m ready for summer to be over so that I can start my fall crops. I had some success this being my first summer planting but I had more success and items to eat in fall/winter.
For endive, I think treating it like brussel sprouts where you roast it, and it takes away the bitterness. I roast it with oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Super simple and yummy. Also wishing the best for the napa cabbage. Kimchi is the best and totally worth the effort.
I'm growing filderkraut too! I'm in zone 8b, and my summer seems to be a fair amount shorter than yours, so I started mine within a couple weeks after the solstice, and my young cabbages are just barely starting to curl into the beginnings of heads.
Since you live in San Diego, you can visit/join your local cheese making/appreciation club, Queso Diego. They meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at Alesmith brewery. Hope to see you there.
Lucky! I'm in 5b and this summer (thanks in huge part to the Canadian wildfires) has been smoggy, foggy, wet, and cool. I'm not thinking about anything besides caring for what is still surviving. Good luck with my blueberries. Tomatoes and green beans coming on slowly. Eggplants and peppers even slower. Only 2 Cucumbers so far. This summer was a big washout, so I'm looking optimistically toward next year and just writing off the rest of 2023.
I don't usually plan for a fall garden. Our community garden got a late start this year; so, the city opted to waive the fees. I have harvested a few bell peppers and some beans and peas. My son has also got quite a few cayenne peppers. What I would consider for a fall garden, I will just put in during the Spring. We will get our first frost at the end of September or the first week of October.
Here in Holland we eet alot of endive in the winter. You make mashed pataoes put in raw chopped Endive and add some bacon peaces in and a bit of vinger poor gravy over and enjoy 😋
Potato Daddy, I planted potato, 80 days harvest - 😢1 extremely small potato from 3 plants 🤷🏽♀️. No words. 8A, burning up in GA (I deeply watered every second day - 10lbs grow bag)
Why do we love watching Kevin and Jacques start seed trays together. It's the banter. They are so genuine. Sharing what they know. Love it!
I love it too. I feel like I’m there with them. 😊
It's fun for sure! I also love all the tidbits about the plants, and what challenges they had, or successes. I'm definitely geared up to start my seeds now!
Yes, it makes me so happy and motivated to start some myself. And Jacques tapping of the hand is so distracting lol I was listening to Kevin however.. lol
Are they brothers?
For Jacques' hand tapping seed sprinkling technique! I mean, come on!
I think what I love about this is two guys being so genuine and relaxed together. You two are such a fun dynamic. I can't wait to see where you go next. So inspiring!
Reminder that micro-greens can always be grown inside for those who have real winter! We enjoyed lots of micro green peas all winter long. Great in soups and salads. Also broccoli & radish greens are some of my other faves, along with mung bean sprouts
Yes! You can also find Aerogarden setups on deep discount at the end of the season, you can grow quite a lot of smaller fresh herbs and greens easily with it. Helps stave off winter blues!
Fenugreek!
I love the idea of “cooking with Jacque”. No pressure (haha) but what about individual videos about specific veggies etc: from seed to table. How/when to plant; care; when to harvest; ways to cook. The sky is the limit! There can even be a combo video with salads 🥗 and all the ingredients (even decorative/edible flowers). Thanks! Love the channel ❤️
I remember when you (Kevin) was doing the seed starting for the first time in your new house. It was dark outside at that time & it was just you.
Seed starting with Jacques is a whole lot of fun. The conversation, sharing of knowledge, acknowledging what did not work, witnessing friends banter is such a wholesome, heart-fattening, neuron building thing to watch. ❤️❤️❤️
"Neuron building" I love that.
The banter between you two is so uplifting and fun! Oh, and the information you teach is also good. ;)
Nice seed suggestions. I'm zone 6b. Charles is mild mannered and the Boss.
We are in our mid 70's yrs. young and we were ready to turn in the trowel. Then we discovered.
Charles Dowding. An awesome teacher for us. Children's books he's published....the whole family, parents and grand parents can learn much from.
I’m Italian, good job on the pronunciation.
A broccoli recipe:
Cut up 5-10 cloves garlic
Cut up a lb. broccoli florets
2-3 cups chicken broth
Sauté garlic in EVOO till lightly golden. Add broccoli and stir.
Add broth and cover till broccoli just done.
You can add this over a bowl of pasta. Grate Romano and red pepper over pasta and enjoy. So delicious!
Sounds delicious, thanks for sharing!
@@epicgardening you’ll want 3 bowls lol!
the hand motion Jacques does when planting seeds is EPIC
It’s my favorite too! The back hand tickle cracks me up every time! 😂
I will have to try this method out.
I live in coastal MA, which is zone 6A, but we seem to be resisting getting any frosts until sometime in very late October, and even the beginning of November. The last couple of years we didn't have a hard freeze until mid November! I like taking chances because they can be high reward with rooting crops like carrots and definitely brassicas! Going to finish transplanting broccoli and bok choy this week!
I remember having similar vegetable standoffs with my mom as a kid. The '90s were so different because I could threaten to die at the table over some peas and carrots and my mom's attitude was like "Then perish." 😅
😄 that was my Dad!
😂😂😂
😂❤
your mom was right.
Two grown men opening seeds like pokemon cards. Gotta grow them all
Love listening to you both! You are the Thelma and Louise, the Holmes and Watson of gardening!
The cutest thing about your videos is Jacques randomly going "Ooooh!" when he approves of something 😂
Or “interesting” when he doesn’t 😂
@@fuzzynuggetsbees YESSS 😂😂😂
This Seeding Frenzy Bro Date is giving me lyyyyyyyfe! Great info and top-notch banter. ❤ I usually hate my garden by this point in the summer, but now I’ve been inspired to start some fall crops. Thanks lads!
For celery you don’t use, freeze it. Use it to make chicken, beef or turkey stock. You can use any of the leftover parts; base, leaves and stocks 😃
Gentlemen, I just sat down after very long work day. Your happy banter made me smile!
I buy Botanical Interest seeds all the time & had no idea this was your seed company! They’re amazing 👊🏻
i like the seed packet for botanical interests
I love growing Utah celery! And like you said Jacques it’s wonderful going out and breaking off stalks as you need them!
I bought a Birdie from you all earlier this year to start my first veggie garden. It has worked great this summer. I think a cool video would be to show what you can grow with the real estate of just one birdie. You could show what the different layouts for plants and different combos of plants that would work well together in a birdie. Thanks!
Jacques busy planting away and is litterally just throwing in all those seeds! I need lots of variety.
Kevin is busy chatting and reading those packages😂
I can't believe we are already starting a new garden!!
I have ordered two different native flower mixes to plant. One for a northern meadow and one for a dry seaside meadow.
Lot of the seeds need a proper winter to grow and I live in Northern Sweden zone 5a. So this is my planting for late August/September.
I have to plant in large bins, (the 200 lb feed buckets). I live in SW Oklahoma and the weather this summer has been awful. I list my tomatoes but peppers are doing good. I’ll try and plant a few of these this weekend! Thanks guys!!
You two are so funny together! I come for the garden info and stay for the banter!
Love the fact you can do seasonal planting, you hit the nail on the head that us further north are jealous! I have to usually plant my beets and leeks at the beginning of the season and then harvest them before the real cold comes in (they're good to leave in the ground for a while but get them before they freeze!).
Glad to hear Jaques saying he's given up on napa due to earwigs, I've had a similar experience with broccoli. And even though I love it, I will never grow it again. I'm not alone!
I remember watching a video of you two, commenting on leeks and how the white part is the most prized. it blew my mind, for me the green part is the best, although we use the whole thing for cooking, leeks are specially tasty in a french style quiche with diced ham, mushrooms and cheese.
Got my clancy potatoes starting to come in from spring, and they are DELICIOUS! Small but so awesome, and growing potatoes from seed is next level gratifying. You got this!!
Nice to aee a couple smaller seed companies included as well. I understand the focus on botanical interest varieties, but smaller seed companies like Truelove Seeds have some real treasures on offer.
Who hit the fast forward button on summer?!
Seriously
@Disabled.MegatronGreat point . I didn’t think about that
Where has the time gone?! There’s so many things I haven’t done yet! 😅
I wish someone would push the fast forward button for here in Arizona 😂
I’m OVER summer 🥱
#scorchingMe 🥵
Ready for a cool breeze 🍃
My favorite seeds …I frame the envelopes ( art , it matters ) So pretty!!!
Chartreuse #Zinnia
yes please ☝️.
🌍
I am so jealous of your climate. It's over 105 every day where I am and it feels like there is no end to summer in sight 😭
These types of videos are some of my favorites.
Brilliant unspoken visual tip by Jacque: tap the back of your hand that’s holding the seed packet to gently nudge the seeds out for planting. Fantastic! That’s a great short right there with the “Flintstone twinkle toes” sound 😉
I really like the videos that include a capture of the seed packets! It helps shopping!❤
I love your gardening videos and they are an inspiration. ❤
I live in South African so our seasons are at different months of the year (eg. September = Spring). Sun rise= East and temperature 🌡 in C°. We don't have consistent gardening youtubers in my country that I can relate to so i started my own channel hoping that people will comment with advice and guidance on my gardening journey. I hope one day I can have a garden like yours 😊
I love heavily sowing alliums, it saves tons of time in the beginning and they separate easily!
you inspire me, early this year i started gardening because of youu!! thank you so much for all the information on all the gardening topics!!
Pigeon Peas are a small tree. So, make sure they have room to grow and they will shade smaller plants. They are great Nitrogen fixers and we use them for soil improvement and chop and drop in Florida. Mine are about 6 months old and are around 6' tall.
Awe, man, I love the gardening tips at the bottom of the screen. Seed starting videos make me happy!
Check out Jacques’ seed distribution technique when he taps the back of his hand with the other hands finger tips. Very nice!
Hi guys. I’ve missed quite a few of your videos over the last few months and I had no idea that you’d started a seed company. That’s awesome news! It’s great to see how you’ve developed your business over the years whilst promoting great solid gardening ideas. Well done!
Yep. They own Botanical Interests now
I love charred Brussel Sprouts. Oil on a stainless steel cookie sheet B.S. halved, salt, toss it. Hot oven or broil on lower shelf. My cookie sheet has no coating/non-stick surface. It's so old I can't get the baked on browning off in the corners. I'll call it patina. The best. I have to check out the fire cooker you did the pizza in.
I just recently took out my corn stalks and sowed some ornamental corns. I sowed more watermelons, pumpkin, korean radish, green beans, shishito peppers, and carrots. Oh yea and I started some pansies and violas for fall. Can't wait to harvest in the fall
I tried their One kilo slow bolt cabbage in my zone 9 garden last year and it was the first good cabbage I ever got. Dead simple to grow. Looking forward to growing it again this year
You two are so funny together! Love the banter😄
Ready to plant here in Zone 5 southern NH!
We've learned to love steamed brussel sprouts with a gruyere and white wine cheese sauce. It will change your life...
you guys - your excitement over fall seed selection - are tre cute :)
Great tips for starting seeds. I would have forgotten to bottom water the trays also.
We are all multi-tasking right now. Keven and Jacques. You make a great team. Fun while learning. Thanks.
You are two of my favorite gardeners. I love this!
You guys make my day. Everyday!!
Really appreciate that you post this information now, I'm in Zone 9 with 90% humidity 🥵. I need to follow your lead.
Great video; fall gardens are the absolute best! I’m excited to see the follow up for the Clancy potato. Potatoes from seed seem to be super rare. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone do it. Super cool!! Good luck with them taters 🍀
Beautiful video🌹🌹❤❤
This is one of the most wholesome videos I've seen in a long time lol
Good to see there's still some diversity of seeds being sown even thought EG owns BI now! I really love seeing all the different seed companies you buy from and the wide variety of types of each fruit veggie or herb. I've really admired both of your seed collections over the years!
I agree with Jacques about Napa Cabbage- EVERY bug even with netting!
Thanks - reminded me to sow some kale in containers that I can take in when the snow comes.
Yep,,, I’m zone 5 but I can enjoy harvest since late July till middle September 😀and plant garlic in October and grow some greens 🥬 little longer then regular summer crops .😃
Actually wild… just started about 7 of these an hour ago! Excited for my first fall garden!!
If I remember correctly, you have a freeze dryer. Red beets are amazing cooked (in my instant pot), peeled, cubed and freeze dried. The golden beets are the best fresh cooked, but not so good freeze dried.
I was waiting for this video Let's go Boyz, the trays are out and seeds ready, 1st season here 😅
LET'S GO!
Smashing the like for sure
Zone 8b here. I have some Touchstone Gold beet and King Richard leek seeds!! Thanks to this vid, I'm gonna start them both this weekend. Also, you got the pronunciation right the first time for that broccoli - say it like "dee Cheek oh". 😊
I appreciate that you used your companies seeds for this video. I look forward to seeing how well they grow and which varieties I can add next year (like the golden beets). Thanks for the video.
Started Spinach personally cause its been my favorite little accident last year! Happy sowing everyone
I’m a new “gardener” and just planted some cabbage that’s now about 2 inches tall and a bunch of bell peppers and lettuce… not realizing just how soon the first frost will be here 😆 so probably gonna be a fail, but I started getting into house plants and have kept my two pothos alive and got back into healthy eating and want to grow veggies to eat and show my kids how amazing it is. So now I’m trying to figure out what I can plant in zone 7 right now so I can hopefully have something successful lol.
My soul is crap though. It’s solid red clay and I’ll probably have to do raised beds for sure. Just so much to learn and so much prepping to do before I can even get to really planting. I mean I’m popping stuff in the ground after germinating but it’s more of a “if it grows it grows if not ok” just to experiment.
I grew some potatoes from old red potatoes I had thrown out and started growing on top of the soil and some russet eyes that sprouted and I buried (way too shallow) but pulling those little potatoes up finally was SO GRATIFYING!! I’m hooked lol.
GUYS ENDIVES WITH HAM AND MELTED CHEESE IS AMAZING. You separate each leave and place them on a baking tray like little boats and your shred a piece of sliced ham or turkey, pour some grated cheese on it and place it under a medium broil until the cheese gets bubbly and omggggg try it
Love this, thanks for the format and commentary, relaxed style!
A GREAT THING FOR ME TO DO ON A SUNDAY !!! AWSIME VIDEO GUYS !!!
I have found that cooking Brussels's sprouts in the air fryer is a great way.
To counter the bitterness of endive you can wash it in warm water. That will make an endive taste like a normal salad.
De Cicco is my all-time favourite! Grows so well here in South Australia 🙂. I'd love to hear how it goes up there. You should definitely do a follow up at season's end 👍.
My 90s mom would boil the Brussel sprouts then she would pan fry them in butter. Sometimes she would cut them in half. They were dabomb
I just released a double feature on fall growing crops too. 8 seeds to sow in August and How to choose fall crops plus what NOT to sow in August in case you don’t live in San Diego 😋👍
Happy Fall Seeding!
There is something deeply satisfying about this video
Golden beets, so good. I put in soups!
I need to get my fall garden in gear. Only planted a few things so far because summer is still full swing and room is at a premium. Another great video!
I LOVE growing cow peas/southern peas. So so good.
My aunt actually thought she could "beat me at my own game" when I would pull the stalemate. She did the "youll sit here until its gone." technique and I was like you lol ill die here then! So she added on "If you dont eat it, youll sit here all night and then it will be your breakfast/lunch/dinner until its gone." I would starve myself for 3 days before she would cave, spank me and try again with another meal. Wash rinse repeat for a year until she gave up and everybody in my family left me alone after that.
You guys make a fantastic team! It’s like Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis back and the day.
Endive recipe: shredded crab dip spooned onto the base of the leaf topped with a chunk of grapefruit.
Awwww, little Kevin “I’ll die here.” 😂 My Botanical seeds are in the mail! 🎉
I love this format! Like we're out with you just kicking back and talkin plants, great stuff! 👍
Glad to hear!
Man red Russian kale up north is great! Picking greens in January no cover pretty outstanding. Survived a winter vortex 😮
Pigeon peas and rice are so good! 🤤
Y'all conversations are soon funny! 😂
My mother did the same thing with brussel sprouts when I was growing up. They were disgusting! 😝 But roasted? Delicious! 😋
I got some lettuce seeds from botanical interests during the sale a couple months ago. I’m ready for summer to be over so that I can start my fall crops. I had some success this being my first summer planting but I had more success and items to eat in fall/winter.
I just started my cabbage seeds broccoli seeds turnips and some radishes with the lettuce on August 7th
For endive, I think treating it like brussel sprouts where you roast it, and it takes away the bitterness. I roast it with oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Super simple and yummy. Also wishing the best for the napa cabbage. Kimchi is the best and totally worth the effort.
I'm growing filderkraut too! I'm in zone 8b, and my summer seems to be a fair amount shorter than yours, so I started mine within a couple weeks after the solstice, and my young cabbages are just barely starting to curl into the beginnings of heads.
Honestly I live in South Africa so at the moment I can't wait for this cold weather to end so I can start my summer crops and have some beach time!
We grow gandules in the dry season, here in the tropics, so I think you'll be fine growing regular varieties.
I'm excited to start some fall plants up here in the PNW. A few weeks ago I planted a some bush beans for a second crop before the cold comes in.
Since you live in San Diego, you can visit/join your local cheese making/appreciation club, Queso Diego. They meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at Alesmith brewery. Hope to see you there.
Lucky! I'm in 5b and this summer (thanks in huge part to the Canadian wildfires) has been smoggy, foggy, wet, and cool. I'm not thinking about anything besides caring for what is still surviving. Good luck with my blueberries. Tomatoes and green beans coming on slowly. Eggplants and peppers even slower. Only 2 Cucumbers so far. This summer was a big washout, so I'm looking optimistically toward next year and just writing off the rest of 2023.
I don't usually plan for a fall garden. Our community garden got a late start this year; so, the city opted to waive the fees. I have harvested a few bell peppers and some beans and peas. My son has also got quite a few cayenne peppers. What I would consider for a fall garden, I will just put in during the Spring. We will get our first frost at the end of September or the first week of October.
I received my botanical interests seeds in the mail. So excited.
Here in Holland we eet alot of endive in the winter. You make mashed pataoes put in raw chopped Endive and add some bacon peaces in and a bit of vinger poor gravy over and enjoy 😋
I planted some lettuce and radishes in the greenstalk this morning.
Potato Daddy, I planted potato, 80 days harvest - 😢1 extremely small potato from 3 plants 🤷🏽♀️. No words. 8A, burning up in GA (I deeply watered every second day - 10lbs grow bag)