Vegetables That I'm Growing This Year - Tomatoes, Peppers And More ....
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
- In this video I will show you the vegetables that I plan to grow this year. There are Tomatoes, Peppers, Cucumbers, Beans, Garlic, Corn, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, and more. Along with the other vegetables, I have a tomato cross, and lots of pepper crosses that I will be growing. I'm growing lots of my favorites this year, but I always find room for some new things each year. Feel free to let us know what you will be growing this year. Thanks for watching!
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I love your garden. I especially like your crossing of peppers and the corn. I find it interesting.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy the crosses. I get a lot of enjoyment from them also.
Looks exciting! It's almost time! Just a few more months! At least we get to plan now!
Thanks! Yep, planting time will be here before we know it.
New Year and new grows. Lots of great stuff getting planned over there. Stay safe and motivated. Thanks for the share!
Happy new year! Hope you guys have a great one.
Jim, you have a pretty good idea of what your garden will look like in 2024. I on the other hand, still don't have a clue. However, once our temperatures warm up in the spring, I need to get my new raised beds, 4' x 8' x 2' tall filled with a good planting medium, and then I'll finally be able to make plans. I hope you guys had a great weekend. Hurry up Spring! ~Margie🤗🐝🦋💐
I'm with you Margie....hurry up Spring! I hope those raised beds work great for you. I've thought about them a few times. Hope you have a great weekend. We have blizzard like conditions the next couple of days.
We're supposed to get that same white stuff here, and I'm not looking forward to that at all. ⛄❄
@@greenthumbelina7331 Me either.
I'd still recommend adding Rose De Berne to the tomato collection.
Thanks for the tip.
Will be patiently awaiting your season's vids and bounty brother.
what's bounty brother?
Thanks Brent! I look forward to seeing what you grow also.
@@BravingTheOutDoors In this instance, it means the sum or benefits of efforts. It means other things as well as many words do of course.
Planning what to grow is fun. I always end up getting way more seeds than I actually end up planting
Yep, you an me both.
Would love to see a tomato taste test video. Looks like you’ve a great roadmap ahead for your garden. Thank you for let us ride along with you. Cheers, mate, and happy weekend.
I would love to do a taste test video. It's going to be quite a while though. Probably about 6 months or so. Thanks a bunch for watching! Have a great weekend!
That's a lot of good looking veggies to be growing. I bet you can't wait until spring. It's that time of year to start thinking about what to plant here in Florida too. We're having our winter right now. 40- degrees to 60+ degrees. I like warm weather so much better. Winter crops are slowly getting started. So many choices, have fun deciding which ones to grow. Take care and have a wonderful weekend. 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Thanks Shirley! I'm with you about liking the warmer days better. We will be down in the single digits at night in about 10 days or so. The predict we won't get above freezing for close to a week. Have a great weekend!
@@MidwestGardener 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶too cold for me stay warm
Do you have a cold frame going this winter with hardy salad greens? I have a few cold frames filled with hardy greens and they are still doing well despite a low of 0F so far. On the very coldest nights I covered some of them with scrap foam board to keep the internal temperatures from falling so far and that definitely helped. Right now I have: Landis winter, Outredgeous, Speckled Trout, tatsoi, mizuna, arugula, spinach 'Space', baby red Russian kale, cilantro, hon tsai tai, Tokyo bekana, wasabina and a few carrots and leeks buried in mulch. I would enjoy seeing a short video of your winter garden if you have one growing right now.
I'm also planting the Purple Reign, China Jade, Lillian Caseload, Marvel of Four Seasons, and Kennebec this year. I'm planning my garden with more tomatoes and peppers than last year and using more growbags. Wishing bountiful harvests for you this year!
Thank you very much! Sounds like our gardens are going to be very similar. I hope we both have bountiful harvests. Good luck!
Thanks for sharing. I can't wait to start gardening.
You're welcome! I'm with you on that. I can't wait either.
Good Morning Jim - thanks for your 2024 crop list. Still working on my list but need to get my seed potatoes ordered if I hope to have any this year. I plan to grow just 3 varieties of dwarf tomatoes, peppers, onions, carrots, beets, and some spinach/kale. Due to my space limitations most will be started indoors to get a jump on growth before going outdoors. Your garlic looks great and hope to try that next fall. Seed catalogs are stacked up and waiting..
Good morning Sue! It's always kind of exciting to sit down and day dream about how the new gardening season is going to grow.
Great video. I’m really excited about this gardening season. Seed catalogs are my favorite reading and garden videos keep me entertained. I appreciate your videos and your recommendations and I’m really glad that your health is better.
Thank you very much, Linda! I'm excited about this season too. I hope it's a good one for both of us.
I’m working on my list right now. I make sure I grow a lot of cherry tomatoes for my granddaughter. Nearly all of them go to her.
That's great that you have a granddaughter that loves tomatoes! My granddaughter used to eat them right off them plant when she was little.
We have tomatoes here but I miss the tomatoes I grew in Louisiana. Happy New Year Jim.
Happy New Year Bob! I'm sure that some things aren't as easy to come by over there.
That's true but the tropical fruits are so much better than we got in America. I guess it's the lod give and take situation.
Nice varieties of everything. I think I'm going to do some patio tomatoes this year. Hope your New Year is going well!!
Happy new year! Things are going well here so far. I'm ready for some homegrown tomatoes.
@@MidwestGardener Me too 😊
Thanks for the update! I started my first batch of pepper seeds Dec 31 but I'll save my pepper comments for your pepper video.
I'm planning to start my first batch of tomato seeds (the most cold-tolerant) for Jan 28. Boronia is on my list this for later this spring along with several other dwarf tomatoes that are new to me, plus "42 Days" which is an incredibly early semi-dwarf (but as I've learned not very cold-tolerant -- earliness and cold-tolerance are quite independent). Last year Mountain Magic was the biggest new tomato success. I also grew honeygold and honeycomb which were successful in the cherry category.
My top two pole beans at present are Northeaster (long, wide, and flat -- tender even when huge) and Fortex (long and round) and also tender. Last year my butternut squash did poorly because I planted it in poor soil (in 2022 it volunteered in an established bed and did much better). I'll be starting peas in 3 gallon pots sometime in the next month, when there is good weather in the forecast.
My area has been reclassified from zone 7a to 7b. I took out one large white oak because it was too close to the house and the solar panels we since installed; I'm hoping that I'll have a bit more sun in my Old Garden as a side effect.
Thanks for sharing some of the things you are growing, and the additional information on them. That is always very helpful. We went from 6b to 7a, but I doubt if I will do anything different than I always have. We got down to 17 below zero F. just a couple of year ago, so I think changing our zone status might have been a bit premature. Hope you like the solar panels. My son has had some for 6 or 7 years, and he loves them. He even installed a couple more last year. I have one tray of pepper seedling that are about 3 weeks old or so, and one tray that is just now sprouting. It's gonna get crowded in here.
Crowded with seedlings is what happened to me last year -- way to many pepper varieties and both peppers and tomatoes were started too early. So I had too many plants that were too big and stuck indoors for too long, even though I did a lot of other things right. This year I'm starting peppers 5 weeks later, and tomatoes 2 weeks later. Peas in pots outdoors, earlier once we start getting some warmish weather mixed into the forecast.
The coldest I've seen here was -15F back in about 1992. Haven't even seen below 0F in several years and have had almost no real snow for several years. This winter, just extra rain so far.
Great choices my friend 😊
Thank you 😁
I forgot to report back to on my harvest of the Huckleberry Gold potatoes. I live right on the edge of zones 6b/7a. Technically I am in 7a, in the high desert of SW Idaho. We had a terrible weather year and didn't have consistent access to water, which really hurt ALL of my crops. Out of 14 micro tubers, 5 grew. I only got roughly 4-5 lbs of potatoes. They were relatively small overall, with a few being fairly nice. None were what I would call bakers. The skins are thin like a Yukon Gold, the flesh much the same, moisture content high and they were very flavorful. I have dysphagia so texture is extremely important to me. They cooked up very creamy with a buttery flaver. I found them to be even easier to swallow than Yukons. These potatoes were developed with diabetics in mind and I will say that I never noticed any increases in my blood sugar like regular potatoes might cause. I will definitely try them again in hopes of a better crop. This time, I will use grow bags or buckets or something rather than direct, in-ground sowing. My husband cooked my baby potatoes that I planned to use for seed 😂 so I'll have to buy them again but I do think they are worth it.
Thank you very much for all of the great information on the Huckleberry Gold Potatoes. I'm sure others will appreciate it too. I hope you have a better weather year this year. So far, we are getting more moisture in the form of snow here than we did last year.
Our winter started out really dry but we're getting some moisture now. We're expecting a little snow every day for the next week.
Have you ever tried: Sainte Lucie & Italian Tree?
Also recommended.
Thanks for the tip. I haven't tried either of those.
I'm gonna try Black Krim tomatoes for the first time and fish peppers. Trying fish peppers because of the interesting history of them. I know you have experience with both.
I think black krim is my favorite tomato
Hope you like the Black Krim. Yep, the fish pepper is one of Horace Pippin's peppers. I bet he would have been an interesting guy to talk to about peppers.
Tomatoes peppers garlic beans potatoes vegetables okro melon wheat soya beans millet and groundnut
I love the variety of your list. Sounds like a fun season.
I have japonica corn seeds that I bought last year but didn't get a chance to grow. I hope they sprout this year as I've read that corn kernels lose viability very quickly.
Yep, that's right. They don't last long at all compared to many other vegetable seeds.
@@MidwestGardener I'll be sure to get them in this year. Thank you!
I plan to try China Jade on your recommendation this year. I primarily use cucumbers for canning pickles. Hoping for a better harvest than I’ve gotten with the varieties I’ve grown in the past. My garden has moved in to zone 7a in the updated zone map. Feels like I’m back in school and have advanced a grade! I swear my Dad’s garden back when I was a kid was zone 5 (also here in the St Louis area). Happy seed shopping to all!
Hope you like China Jade. Let us know how it works out for you. We canned quite a few pickles last year, and hope to do the same this year.
Thank you for your video. I plan to try peas for my first time. It helps to have variety recommendations!!
What size growing bag would I need, 16"?
You're welcome! I've had good luck with 10 gallon grow bags.
I came 15 years late into a tomato project that crossed wild ancestors to rrstore the lost genetics from centuries of inbreeding with them. The stigma on these tomato plants are exerted a long time before the flowers are releasing pollen. So the stigma isn't going to get self-pollinated while growing out of the anther cone. These tomatoes need to cross with other exerted stigma tomatoes so there is lot of shifting of genetics finally from plant to plant. This would help in future disease protection breeding work. From this genetic landrace mix I hope to see a lot of new varieties developed by other breeders in coming years.
Crossing tomatoes is fascinating. So is crossing peppers and other things to. There are so many ways to go with crosses. Getting some wild genes back into the gene pool sounds like a great idea.
How do you think container growing would be with hard water for the main watering source? I just moved and no longer will have a rain barrel.
I am not sure on that. I'm guessing it would work ok, but that is just a guess. Hope your new location works out for you.
You know, I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that "dark" tomatoes or "white" tomatoes.... doesn't mean much. I've had very good Krims and very average Krims. I think the impact of the environment, country, weather, is so significant the very name "Krim" means less than we think in terms of reliability.
Yep, growing conditions can make a big difference.