7 Most Productive Edible Crops to Sow in February
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In this video, I share a list I made myself for the 7 most important edible crops to sow in February when it comes to productivity and getting those early harvests before summer. If you're wondering what to sow in February then I really hope this gives you some solid ideas, and even though there isn't that much that can be sown, the crops that are suitable for this time of year offer much excitement at the start of the new growing season in our vegetable gardens.
Challenge of February 0:00
Crop 1 0:40
Crop 2 2:21
Crop 3 3:24
Crop 4 4:21
Crop 5 5:29
Crop 6 6:10
Crop 7 7:22
A Note on Tomatoes 7:50
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#vegetablegardening #sowing #gardeningtips - Навчання та стиль
1. 0:40 - Jerusalem artichoke
2. 2:21 - Calendula flowers(marigolds)
3. 3:24 - Peas
4. 4:21 - Broad Beans
5. 5:29 - Onions and shallots
6. 6:10 - potatoes
7. 7:22 - peppers
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The quality of your videos are awesome especially the guest gardeners. I have been watching your channel since the beginning and you really have come a long way. You are a wonderful role model for young people and some old ones too.
Awh thank you! So much easier to film the guest garden videos in a way! Lots of new things to show and nice to be on the other side of the camera haha ;)
Absolutely! I discovered this channel through the guest gardener James Prigioni in the United States. Watched on video of Huw's and man, what a great informative experience. I love listening to everything Huw shares!
Respect to all gardeners out there👍😄👍❤
I can only plant what I'd call tidy crops this year in containers as we will be selling and moving. So not potatoes as with the best will in the world they grow tall and messy lol but I have decided to grow a few salad leaves mixed in with flowers in planters in the front garden and cucumbers and peppers and some tumbling Tom's in baskets on the fence. I don't suppose I can honestly say cucumbers are tidy but I really like them. I already have some strawberries chives and mint in pots. I'm having to grass my growing area which is pretty gutting but it is what it is. I'm also ready to go with the wood from pallets to build my raised beds when we get moved probably ready for next year. I'm the same and wanting to get started I think I'll plant my peppers now I can always put them in the car when viewers come lol. I had all these raised bed plans and my hubby finally agrees we should move when I'd done building a 12' x 4' bed out of pallets and got all the wood chip, top soil, compost and logs and branches for a hugelkultur bed all of which I've had to give away except the raised bed sides which I've kept. Never mind I'm now looking at houses with a view to the garden as well as the house. I've a good mind to take a compass with me when viewing houses to try and find a South facing back garden lol
Bought two sunchokes last year after 4 years of searching for some. Had an awesome harvest, got 3 jars of pickles. Had enough left over to sauté with butter and garlic for a meal. First year! Was pleasantly surprised last week when I went to clean their bed and found enough to make another meal and munch on a few raw. Had never tasted raw before - absolutely phenomenal sweet and nutty taste! Showed me that I can have a second harvest in mid winter by just cutting back the plants and leaving them in the ground. Saved enough to plant about 40 more this year. My lavender farm is turning into a sun choke and lavender farm. Can’t wait!
We call sunchokes earth apples and we love them, it is a staple winter veg in our kitchens.. Try it as an olive oil dish.. peeled earth apples sauteed with diced carrots and (optional 2 spoons of rice) in olive oil. Add half a cup of water and simmer.. Serve with lots of dill.. ( Zeytinyağlı yer elması )
Peas and beans are my favorite yard snack.
Every time you mention onions I hope you discuss planting them from seed.
This is the most satisfying plant I have grown, and the only plant I never buy at the store again. I’d love to see you try them from seed once more.
Your videos are so calming.
Hi Huw, thank you for your tips. I have my peas, beans and peppers as well as some aubergines all under way all germinated either in the airing cupboard or on an extended windowsill, in the spare room, I put up especially for growing my seedlings. I've also used a grow light for my peppers and aubergines but once my peas and beans sprouted I moved them to a cooler room for a week and then outside on sunnier, warmer days bringing them in if a frost was forecast, they're now outside permanently waiting for planting out into my 4th raised bed that I've built myself. Fingers crossed we will all have a year of successful harvests 😁🌱🌱🌱☀️
I finally have my own place and a small garden, and my hands are itching to grow something! Thank you for this inspiring and useful video 😊
Ahh Brilliant! So great to have a space to grow. Good luck with it :)
Love your videos Huw. It's great that you share all your nifty garden tips!
Great vid! I've started my pepper and chili plants, celtuce, celery and celeriac, all indoors of course. Next week I'll start summer leeks and some cabbages in my miniature greenhouses, and sow root chervil and sweet cicely outdoors. I still have things to harvest, like winter leeks, savoy cabbage, parsnips, carrots, spinach, lamb's lettuce and winter purslane. Having things out there to still harvest that close the "hunger gap" helps me keep a rein on my impatience.
One more note on calendula, since once you have it and let it go to seed you will get loads of calendula plants, too many to let them all grow. When the plants (leaves) are still young you can eat them, just like you would do with dandelion leaves. I have at least two meals of calendula leaves a year :-D and I also add them dehydrated to my greens to use in stews in winter. Calendula has a very similar composition when ti comes to minerals and vitamins compared to dandelion.
I noticed this as well. They germinated in autumn and have sat through winter. I'll just let them grow again and save me the effort sowing.
I actually had this in the original edit but the video was 14 minutes long and had to being it down to 9! I have a ton of seedlings potted up from this exact method and will definitely share later in the year😊 Wow that is fascinating! Thank you so much for sharing!
Yes, they're all over my garden each year and I've only sown them out myself once, years ago. Leaving a few blossoms to go to seed and not dead-heading all of them is all it takes. They're also wonderful for keeping pests like cabbage moths off plants.
I just subscribed to your channel. I'm in Germany too. :)
@@beautyforashes2230 Cabbage moths - that is great news. The bed where also the calendula flowers is going to be my place for cabbage this year (I am still testing out where it wants to grow. I have some eternal kale here and maybe I should add some calendula to the pot. Thank you so much for the hint. I hope you will like my content - it will still take some time until I can start with garden works. It is all muddy and still much too cold over here (Upper Franconia, 400+ m high). So for now: manual works and cooking ... that's it for the winter 🙂
@@mamaskrammomsstuff You're welcome! In my experience it works quite well, since these moths find the cabbages by scent and the strong scent of the marigolds tends to confuse them. I won't lie and say it's a 100% effective measure, but it helps a lot! I've also made good experiences intercropping tomatoes and cabbages, since the strong scent of the tomato leaves seems to confuse the moths too. I still check the underside of leaves for egg deposits, but often don't get around to that because I grow a huge variety of plants, each needs attention and the day only has so many hours. 😊
Bacillus thuringiensis is a fantastically effective organic method for getting rid of those nasty caterpillars if some do end up on your plants, though! My biggest "plague" is flea beetles and I have big pails of diatomaceous earth on hand to combat those. I grow eternal kale too, and gosh, it gets so big over the years!
Yes, it's very muddy here too and being in the garden and sinking into the muck is no fun. But at least I can start some plants indoors now, or in the miniature greenhouse. I live in the southwestern Rheinland-Pfalz and it's starting to get milder here temperature-wise, but the rain keeps coming. But I have a feeling this summer will be hot and dry again, so I'm glad the groundwater and my well are being well filled right now. I'm looking forward to your channel!
Yes, i ve already sown some peas and broadbeans. Last season i started those in march (im in southern finland), and got a nice early crop, but thought that they could have been even earlier. So lets see how it gies this time! The seedlings are inside the house if course, since nothing survives outside at this time of year in finland with 70cm snow and so.. 😂
Love your enthusiasm but also love your video production techniques
Thank you!!
For me the best summer plant to just snack on is the black berry and lucky for me they grow everywhere where I live
Chickens love Sun Chokes! We're in zone 6 in the states and we're hitting a 3 week warm period, so I'm going to plant out a few flats of cold weather veggies. We can't grow most things year round here because of our very cold winters (-23 c). Have you tried some of the micro-dwarf tomato varieties like Orange Hat or Birdie Jaune? They're doing very well as houseplants in gallon pots. That's a great list! Thank you for sharing!
thank you HUW for all the information you offer us
I’m changing tactic this year and just direct sowing everything. Last year we had frosts until very late in the year and I had sad, leggy plants indoors that go through that sulk period when they transplant. I can never be bothered hardening them off and often just throw them in at the deep end! I’ve found most things catch up within no time anyway. Wish me luck with my patience!
Dont forget to pinch them out to slow that growth.
Peas!! Mine rarely make it to the house🙌😊
I'm in Kansas in the US looking out the window at snow and day dreaming of gardening. :)
Here in Hutchinson and feeling the same! This young man keeps me inspired and motivated through our winters!
All my broad bean seedlings were eaten by 1 little mouse. He ate all the soft new growth, so i've sown new ones today and covered the tray. Hope it will help.
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Ahh you’ve described the need to start seeding so perfectly!
We’re building a greenhouse and had to pause for winter snow and wind, and I don’t know when it will be completed... which makes it even harder to know if I should be seeding things indoors now or waiting to sow in the greenhouse. Your list is helpful though, and I might focus on things I can have in the house first, like potatoes.
Absolutely brilliant
Brilliant as always Huw.
Happy New Year to you Huw xxx
Thank you and to you too! :)
I've just harvested a a couple of buckets of artichokes. Did a fabulous recipe last night with bacon cream garlic and bay. Lovely!
I've seen a few 'what to plant in February vids' and one thing that no one says it's celeriac which I find surprising as its one of my favourite crops and is such a slow grower starting in Feb means they are ready to go out in May
Haha. I totally agree with you it's hard for gardeners to be patient. Thank you for useful information.
chouette, merci, ça donne envie de s'y remettre!
Excellent video. Now I’m inspired.
Glad to hear it! :)
Thank you, Huw for that wonderful informative video.
It was my pleasure Patrick, I hope you are having a great weekend
Hello from Norway 👋 where I'm still trudging through knee-high snow to go get my seeds 😂
Thank you for this video. You are so inspiring! Great ideas as usual! Where I live I grow purple hull peas and okra very easily in our hot climate. They are some of my favorites.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting Mary! :)
Lovely, thank you.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching :)
Me encantan tus videos, Huw! Saludos desde Australia from where I follow you. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge through these videos and your fantastic books! 🇪🇸 🇦🇺 🌱
My pleasure! Glad you find it useful :)
Tx and blessings
Lol deep down you know it’s too early…. 😅 that’s so true but who waits! I can’t wait for the growing season! I’ve started my chills and peppers and I’m excited about seeing what happens with them. Jalapeños and California wonder is the best ones for me. I plant lots tho as I start them for a number of folk.
I started 12 days ago with all these in cell trays:
Onions, broad beans, early peas & garlic, plus a few cells (5) each with cauliflower, turnip, calabrese & beetroot. If the latter four fail, then nothing's lost but if they come through, I'm a month ahead.
Tomato seeds (Sungold & Shirley) went into the propagator yesterday, along with my cayenne peppers
Potatoes are chitting & Swift first earlies will go into 35l buckets.
Now I just need the rain to stop...
Fab info thank you for sharing
I add dried Calendula flower, dried mint, rose petals, and lavender flowers to my chicken coop to freshen up the space, especially in the winter. The chickens love this blend, and it repels mice! The hate the mint & lavender scents. Thank you for your great video!
Did not know that. Will try adding mint and lavender to the chicken coup, thanks.
@@shanewaters592 , you are most welcome. I've seen a product on Amazon called Herbal Hootenany, the same kind of blend of herbs. The hens love it. I forgot to say I also add Marigold flowers to my mix. When the snow is gone, I put bundles of mint around the outside of my coop also, and I have it growing around it too, as well as Wormwood which repels moles, voles, dog,s and raccoons.
i just planted some jerusalems ! I have them in pots tho, i remember they took over my mothers garden
Hi Huw, great video, thanks for sharing 🙂
Groundcherries are my number one garden snack, I plant them for me
You are awesome! Very motivating. I am impatient too!
I harvest my calendula flowers and dry them, one or two heads are all that’s needed for seed saving. Oil infusions for balms are so easy to make. Steep it in vinegar and you have a fantastic hair rinse, or just use the petals in tea combinations. Highly medicinal/beneficial plant.
Thanks for the tips
Yes, you are so right. Sun is shining, snow is gone ... you must do sth. on gardening. 🙈😂 Yesterday i pricked my first seedlings from peppers and chilis (and some little tomatoes 🙈🙈🙈) an cauliflowers and cabbage turnips. Onion seeds are growing nicely... i just can't keep my hands off. 😉 now i made my choice for the Single Seed Challenge 2022 by Scott Head: a random wild tomatoe from a mix of seeds. The chamomile tea is already prepared ...
Peas are a great idea. It's always a taste of childhood - when we had to help on gardening we always had some peas to snack right there.
I will try some early potatoes. Last week i just had the last ones from last year. 😊
thanks Huw!
Thanks for all the tips Huh!
Thank you so much. Really useful information.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you x
You are welcome :)
Wow great sharing
Thanks for this Huw. Jerusalem Artichokes are now one of our favourite veg. So tasty and so productive.
They're great aren't they! :)
Thanks for the good advice ! I will be trying broad beans and shallots this year after watching this video I realized I might do peas in polytunnel hopefully they should be done by the time tomatoes will be going in.
Sounds great! Good luck with it! :)
Sun chokes grow wild in our area, and as such get a lot of mentions on the foraging FB group I joined. The top comments on them are about how delicious they are and how, for many people, they can make you incredibly gassy. Start small, y'all!
P.S. the flowers are pretty too
Thank you so much for your informative vedio its really help a lot also for mig this my 2nd year to do plant this comming summer.. injoy watching till the end👍👌
You are very welcome! Good luck with your garden :)
You are making amazing videos...I'm sharing them with all my new novice garden friends.....Great work
Thank you so much :)
I really have to hold back on starting seeds. There is snow on the ground in my area. But other than onions I would like to add Rosemary to the early start inside list. It can take 21 days to germinate, and the seedlings take a long time to get big. I usually start them 10-12 weeks early.
Nice video! The kale in your background looks so exotic:)
They're a different beats when they're grown undercover!
great video thank you
You are most welcome! :)
Thank Huw. Would like to grow shallots this year. Good info.
Good luck with it :)
Welcome 👍👍
Love your content! What growing zone are you in and what zones would you say your content would apply the best to?
A question for Huw, and a tip for everyone!
The question: I often hear "oh no, pepper and aubergine plants will DIE if they fall below 10 C". Last year my peppers handled as low as 1C just fine, whereas my aubergines sort of struggled... Any advice on what kind of minimum temperature to keep these more heat loving plants at?
The tip: For those who dont have heat mats or whathaveyou. Place a damp piece of kitchen towel in a ziplock bag, and put pepper seeds on there, then leave somewhere warm. I put mine on top of my internet router! After ~7-10 days the seed will chit, and can then be transferred to a seed tray or pot. Note also that now that the seed is germinated, it will continue to grow even if in a cool place - I keep mine in a conservatory, its maybe 10 C and they still come up just fine. The slightly cooler temperature also discourages seedlings from growing leggy, as closer to the ground = warmer :D
I'm trying to grow some cooler climate aubergines this year, Torpedo and Kabanchik varieties. Both can be bought at Croatian Seed Store
my favourite garden snack are peas & garlic chives!
Lovely! :)
-30c where I live. lol. I'll wait a couple months... but I do start seedlings late March, using T.P. rolls,
Huw, thank you for your videos. You are always inspiring. Do you know what variety of Jerusalem Artichoke you grow? Yours look much easier to clean than ours!
Hello Sir, I really get a lot from your garden teaching. Thank you for sharing.
QUESTION....Do you have a video showing how to transplant baby seedlings without damaging them?
I am finding it very difficult! 😕.
If I had only watched this yesterday:)
I am interested in growing flowers. I really enjoy your veg content. Would I do anything differently for flowers? Have you done any flower videos? I’m unsure of module size for annuals. Also, when you multisow you do not separate when transplanting flowers?
Will do the first set of Broadbeans tomorrow!
Awesome Sascha! Best of luck!
Plant potatoes March 17 - St. Paddy's Day.
Great way to remember!
Great info and inspiring. I was wondering if you've done vids on your gardening equipment?. And I especially like that greenhouse. I'm in the states so may not have access to the materials to make one, (or the money, LOL),but would like to try.
The one he is in is a polycrub.. have a search for it on here but he has done one on it where he had a guest talk about there's. Hope that is of some help.
Huw, unrelated have you ever planted dahlia seeds, I did first time this spring and have the most amazing display of dahlias. I just wondered if they are tuber forming or not, any knowledge? I’ll definitely be growing them each year from seed, easy, bees loving them
I’ll certainly stick to summer growing broad beans after losing my winter sowing ones with black spot and ? Mice. Can you grow Jerusalem artichoke in pots?
👏🏻 Sowing and growing… I smell spring! 🌱 (And I pretty much agree with all those crops - not growing sunchokes myself, but definitely everything else)
Calendula are one of the few things I direct sow (or let self-seed) though.
I recommend trying Jerusalem Artichokes/Topinambur and if you can't, just try a small crop. In a big bucket or bag. I found them awful, as did my while family. Tbey are not for everyone.
Are green manure field beans edible? I'm having trouble finding seeds to have a go this year.
Thanks also for your help and ideas.
Ive both started marigolds and bok choi in late november in the windowsill. I had blooms over christmas and fresh bok choi kept growing until I planted in ground in february.
Is it the bedt practice? No. But some plants are so forgiving!
Please could you tell me how to purchase the deep cell containers that I can reuse a lot thanks. Great channel Hew
Love starting peas early, peppers too. Never tried broad beans, need to look for seeds, they are not popular here, but I like growing things that are not common.
Oh I HIGHLY RECOMMEND broad beans, you must give them a go!
Just ordered seeds, couldn’t wait 😂
By the way broad beans are called fava beans here in US.
@@KitchenGardenTherapy They sure are! I mention this at 4:26 😉
I would like to ask can I put ivy in my compost that has grown vigorously one some old out buildings would appreciate the advice…thank you.
Hi @Huw, how do your techniques hold up to growing on a terrace in Southern Spain? I really want to follow your book "Veg in One Bed" , but I imagine the timings, watering and even crop selection are quite different in such a different climate and growing medium. My plan was to get a vegetable growing table that's 1m x 0,5m with a 100L volume of medium.
How do you suggest starting calendula in a small prop house, what type of module, etc? I'm in upstate new york zone 5b.
Just ordered some Sunchokes off of Etsy, we’ll give em a go here in Texas (zone 8B).
Perfect zone for them!
We grew some in the DFW area and they did amazingly well, we got so many tubers and gorgeous flowers, too!
Is it all about the polytunnel? My cayenne peppers were indoors on a sunny windowsill and didn't do very well
You have alot of great gardening information. I greatly appreciate it.I too have a yt channel with a brand new garden I planted here in the USA 🇺🇸 I CANT WAIT TO GET PLANTING. I love cherry tomatoes to snack on in my garden.. God Bless you Sincerly Melody
Huw where do you recommend getting pots for potatoes from? I want to try growing in pots after one of your videos last year but can't find decent ones
Calendula for homemade skin care too.
Not early for brassica. Actually I'm starting to plant my spring garden. It pays to live in Florida 😂
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I am off to start my peas as soon as I am done here. What about spinach? Can that be started this early?
Hello! American here. Field bean here refers to favas, where I grew up. What are those field beans? Shelly beans? Snaps? So many names. ;)
Peas for me!
Have any advice on sugar beets?
Great video! I have a question related to the potatoes growing containers. Which one do you use? The only ones that I can find at that size are those smelly used in constructions. Thank you
25-30ltr potato containers often sold as that at garden centres :)
I think the video link is missing from the end of the video- it looks like you pointed to a link but nothing’s onscreen. Just letting you know!
I love all of your videos, thank you so much for the inspiration.
Hi Nicole! If you were early to the video I hadn't yet put it in, but it is up now so thank you so much and here is the link for you ua-cam.com/video/bsu-a_NMK94/v-deo.html - I'm so glad you like them all!