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Hi MG. I was wondering about using oyster shells for chickens in ground for plants. It is only showing ingredients of about 30% calcium. I use an old Ninja blender to get it finer. 50 lbs. at Tractor Supply is $16. I already put a little on top on some fig starts that are rooted with leaves. Hope I didn't hurt them but I rooted my own cuttings on these.
@ I have used oyster shell before, It has other available nutrients besides calcium and seems to work fine. Note they change the PH but are slow to work. grinding finer would probably speed up the process.
Started growing Bok Choy last year here in SW Florida, and even with our heavy pest pressure they do very well. They always look beautiful and taste amazing in stir fry and soups! Love it so much I've devoted an entire raised container to bok choy.
Defintely only one type of kale in my supermarket, wish there were more, but I remember when it was just a garnish on buffet trays. Same with parsley. Wouldn’t have dreamed of eating them then, but now I love both!
Pretty much every supermarket at least sells baby kale in addition to fuller leaves. It's probably sold by the bagged salad mixes. Check over there. You'll probably find a few options.
@ there’s one. Mixed with spinach. Which means it’ll spoil right away. Wish we had lacinato style kale in the store. Sometimes even the curly kale bunches look wilted and rough. I’ve been trying to grow lacinato but the bugs always get more of it than I do. I need to keep it all in one bed and cover it this year…it’s just hard because they can get pretty tall!
@@TheMillennialGardener I use the violet ones from baker Creek. They are delicious though! I can eat them raw, so maybe less bitterness makes them more enticing.
I'm realizing the value of covering my leafy greens here in the PNW. Even though we haven't had too many freezes, the constant cool moist conditions cause rust and rot.
Your leafy greens are just amazing despite the fact you had fairly cold nights. I’ve always wish my dogs could talk and Mr. Dale is doing it. He demands his walk. lol. Thanks for sharing the video.
They do well as long as you're diligent with preventing frost formation. Next week's once in a decade cold and snow is going to be their real test, though. Dale is a communicator. We make him communicate for his food and walks. We ask him, "What do you want?" and he responds with the buttons. He's gotten good at it.
This year, all of my bok choy have survived several nights in a row in the single digits in zone 6b. Some of the outer leaves died back, but the core remained strong and it bounced back within a few days. I planted 4 different varieties and all of them look better than my collards. Stunned.
SE TN here! Great video! Recently 10 degrees. Garden is rock hard! My Collard is toast! Peas are gone! Sure wish this video included B Roll to the planting of your winter crops, ie. When to plant etc. Thanks!
Thanks for listing the specific varieties. I’m always on the lookout for winter lettuces. One I love is Landis Winter lettuce, it can even grow in the snow!
My kale has been under snow for the last 10 days. Hopefully the snow sticks around for the arctic blast Sunday-Tuesday. But I expect it will rebound if the snow sticks around. Then we are back to normal. Last year (so far) was colder, but we have had a few really bad three days and way more snow than we've had in maybe 20 years? It's true. I grew up in St. Louis and live here now, and even though we are relatively southern in the midwest, kale, collards, and mustard greens were really not popular until maybe 15-20 years ago, You had to go to Memphis at least. Except for maybe a few Italian soups, but pretty rare. I am a greens super fan, so I am really happy about it.
We have had slightly below freezing nights last week+ Zone 8B here in NW Arizona at 3,000' elevation. Bok Choy, Swiss Chard, Peas, Beets, Turnips and Spinach as well as about 1/2 of the 16 Broccoli plants most mid to large sized. Not covered and all but three doing OK. Those three alive but wilted. I covered all when seedlings but have not covered at all in the past month. We will be at about 20 tonight and 48 tomorrow as the high (not usual here). P.S. I agree with you on the Bok Choy - it is a star!
You are always such an inspiration! I'm happy to report the sun came out this afternoon, and I was able to plant my snow peas and two varieties of golden beets (to see which is better). I put all these seeds to soak at lunchtime yesterday and the peas were already peeking out of their seed shell! I thought they were going to be ruined, but I got them in. Yay! My radishes sprouted this morning BUT the birds were picking them out of the seed bed! Put some bird blocker over your seeds, all!
We’re up in Brooklyn, New York and all the time I was a kid and up until I got way too old the garden, my family kept a kitchen garden and we always had kale, mustard greens and collard greens. My mother would mix them when cooking the “greens”. I have never thought about growing bok choy.
I love kale chips! We make kale chips during the season like every other week! We just spray the leaves with EVOO and sprinkle with Cajun seasoning mmmm so yummy!❤
For the BEST southern style stewed greens, a mix of collards, mustards & turnip greens (kale if you want too), pressure cooked with 1 shredded carrot, 1 shredded onion, 1 shredded potato, 1 shredded stalk of celery (use old fashioned box cheese grater), and cook & crumble until crispy, a bunch of bacon and keep the fat and add the fat to the pot, add a dried chile pepper or some smoked paprika, some black pepper, and a few cloves of garlic. Pressure cook this with a few cups of water in a big instant pot for like a 45 minute high pressure cycle and when it’s done it will be so good. My MeMa used to make her greens with chopped up turnip roots mixed in too sometimes. Just make sure you use some kind of pork . It matters. We also add a tablespoon of better than bouillon ham flavor sometimes to cheat. This recipe never fails, I’m happy to share it with you because you’ve shared some advice i will be using all year this year!
Vegetables after slight frost will accumulate more flavor and sugar! In northern China about zone 7a, during 1970s-1980s when my mom was young, they bought [Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis] from suburb areas and store them in basement in early November, and she said is much more delicious than the present which is grown in greenhouse.
Definitely agree with the Asian greens. Next winter going to do way more of them. The only thing that's survived all this cold weather this year in NC is the green tatsoi. My kales are holding on, but barely 🤣
Heren in north central Alabama (zone 7a), it has been a typical winter thus far, and warmer than last year. Last year we had daytime highs of 20F for multiple days in a row, and it got a lot colder at night. I just harvested the last of my 2024 garden, carrots and parsnips. I have Danvers carrots that would make Buggs Bunny drool, and they are going to be sweet after below freezing temperatures, and being covered with snow and ice. I have three Swiss Chard plants left in my garden, so officially, it is finished. They will be going to the chickens for treats soon. It is too cold to plant leafy greens in my area, even with row covers. It won’t be long before planting time though, around February 20th. I have seeds started for Calabrese Broccoli, Self-Blanching Cauliflower, All Seasons Cabbage, Red Burgundy Onions, and Yellow Potato Onions. On my heat mat germinating are Jolene tomatoes, Hungarian Yellow Wax peppers, Sweet Banana peppers, Big Red bell peppers, Lunchbox Orange peppers, Lipstick peppers, Corona di Toro peppers, and two types of basil. I’ll finish round two of seed starting with oregano, marjoram, dill, and cilantro. Round three will be leafy greens and flowers, Tokyo Bekana Mustard, Ford Hook Swiss Chard, Pak Choi, Romaine Lettuce, mixed leaf lettuces, marigolds, Amaranth, Alyssum, cosmos, zinnias, butterfly weed, butterfly flower, and bachelor button. On or near February 20th, I’ll start transplanting seed starts into the ground, and do a lot of direct seed sowing, root crops and peas. I am going to have a very big garden with 16 raised beds, three GreenStalks, a 10ft x 20 ft herb garden, chickens, a small orchard with 11 fruit trees, nine grow bags, and a few odd pots. Every bit of planting space will have something growing in it.
You got the cold but not snow ... we have had 3 feet of snow and the humidity is high here in the wetlands of the Columbia valley. Spring is coming ... it always does :)
What is currently being forecast is a once in a generation snow event, here. The all-time record in Wilmington is 15 inches. They're talking more than half that. If this happens, this will be something a person that was born and lived a full lifespan here would only experience 2-3 times in a lifetime. I hope the forecast is wrong!
I would plant them now. Transplants started today won’t be ready to go out til early March, and by then, they run into issues with heat as they try to mature in May in many climates. It is better to be early with these since they tolerate a hard freeze.
I thought all your greens looked great! I’ve never done a winter garden, just never thought I could here in NC piedmont. I might have to consider growing a winter garden next year. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience in gardening.
Growing a winter garden in NC, at least the eastern half, is much easier than growing a summer garden. Things grow with ease. No pests, minimal irrigation, and 4 out of 5 winters aren't an issue with cold. This winter is going to be a 1 out of 25 winter, though. Severely nasty stuff is coming next week unlike anything we've seen since 2018, but with possibly even more snow and ice. Covers are the most important investment for winter gardening, here. If you build these little PVC hoop houses like I do, it really is easy.
Your Bok Choy looks amazing! I love growing it, too. I've been growing a mini version that is so perfect in soup. Hope it warms up soon where you are!!
Re: mustard greens. To offset the bitterness, we mix the mustard greens with collard greens and turnip greens. Season the mixture with bacon, salt, pepper, a little crushed red pepper, onion and garlic. Now you have the perfect side to go with your beans cooked with a smoked ham hock, some home fried potatoes and a nice cornbread. Now you’re living good!
What a great and timely video. Sorry to sound like a broken record, but you inspired us to do a winter garden this year. Just six collard greens. I have posted some updates since November. We are in Boston and currently we have no frost/freeze protection on them. It was meant to be a very low maintenance winter garden and an experiment. The collards are amazing in the cold. It is not just the low temps over the last month-down to 9 degrees, wind chills below zero for a lot of the last few weeks. In addition weeks of frozen ground, literally being buried and covered in snow and solid ice, and very limited daylight here this far north. Although they do get sun in the afternoon, and I have fed warm water with synthetized water soluble fertilizer. There is some minor cold damage on a few of the leaves, but I have found that has come from sustained cold/frozen ground/ice as compared to just one night's low temp. As a point of comparison some nearby kale has been killed by the cold while some other kale is still alive, but has more frost damage than our collards. They have passed this experiment with flying colors and next week with lows here approaching zero degrees I am going to get them proper cold protection at night. The experiment is over. These collards deserve to make it to spring.
I wanted to give Bok Choy a try since I'm familiar with it. I will probably add another Asian green next winter given the success I've had this winter.
My best spinach harvests have been after they survive the winter looking dead after some days in the teens and single digits then in February and March they grow so fast and abundantly. They bolt by April when it's time to plant tomatoes.
Bok choy is so good, and full of vitamins and minerals, easy to grow. So cold here in Western NC, though today the sun is brilliant and the sky Carolina blue.
Brace yourself. The worst cold in almost a decade is coming next week. Low to mid teens here and we're talking 0 degree temps out west with potential for serious snow, at least here on the coast.
@ 💯 the set of three that I picked up randomly in late August Red leaf Lettuce and some Swiss chad late spring. Once if figured out the best location (shaded side of the house) I can’t eat them fast enough. My regular cabbage broccoli and kale are just growing slowly. Bok Choy (4) on the other hand they are exploding in these colder than normal temperatures
My Bok Choy, spinach, pak choy, carrots, potatoes, onion starts, radishes, and Red Sails lettuces are doing well in the CT greenhouse! For hahas, I started the colder tolerant tomatoes and they sprouted! (Subartic Plenty and Moskvich).
We are going to need a greenhouse with the cold coming! Brace yourself for next week. CT is under a winter storm threat, and the cold behind it will be epic.
Here in southeast Texas we’re expecting a winter storm with snow! Unusual for us & this will be the first really hard freeze this year. I plan to just cover everything. Maybe overboard but I worry about the shock things are going to take going from most days this winter being in the 60s or higher to below freezing all of a sudden. If they’d had a gradual cool down & had a chance to harden off I would be less concerned.
These coastal slammers are very rare. In fact I can remember at least once that several inches fell on the Carolinas shoreline in the 1980s, (when computer models were not as sophisticated). It took forecasters by surprise and they were explaining after-the-fact how it happened..
I had a ton of leafy greens growing in a 3ft by 3ft raised, I had kale, peas, chard and a good nice looking patch of spring mix lettuce but in one night mice ate absolutely everything 😞 I guess I have to build a garden cage out of hardware cloth since I'm growing in basically open desert unless there is some other way of battling the mice besides killing them
Oh I feel your pain! I live just outside the desert in a "mediterranean chaparral" climate, and I had to build a "cage" out of hardware cloth for every bed. The kangaroo rats, cottontail rabbits, and birds ALL want a peice! Lol. 😂
@@TheMillennialGardener I will defiantly try that. I've been making zuppa toscana copycat recipe with my kale. BTW I'm right up the road from you in Fayetteville.
I love leafy greens! You can also enjoy multiple harvest throughout the season, yum! Still trying to grow lettuce and spinach, and the struggle is real lol😅😂. Newbies were you at? ❤🌱
Yep! Red leaf lettuces, collards, kale, mustard greens and spinach are all cut-and-come-again. The only thing featured in this video I will be harvesting as full heads are the bok choy. I can't wait to make some chicken soup with this miserable cold coming.
I think the north and south have done an exchange in the past decade. You can now find collards in northeast grocery stores, but I can now find broccoli rabe in my southeast grocery store. When I was a kid (ya know, before modern civilization) I never had it.
I do not have a need to run drip irrigation in winter. The evaporation rate is too low. Watering in winter is rarely needed here, because the rainfall rate is usually enough. I only have to water seedlings to get them established.
I have 5 degrees coming with nothing above freezing for 3 days in zone 7 nj probably going to lose everything.. Tomorrow I'm protecting my figs with leaves
Cover, cover, cover. Put a double cover on if need be, and place some incandescent Christmas lights under the cover like I do for my trees: ua-cam.com/video/KRLBg7fjpeg/v-deo.htmlsi=pl01imgSoXGF6wWs I think you'll be surprised with pulls through with a couple agricultural fabrics on top.
I love how these people say global warming😂😅😂😅😂... We have been freezing our Ass's off up here in NJ! Brother your kicking butt down there!! Keep up the great work! I've been planning out my garden, plus recently my seeds just came in from Rare Seeds. I'm looking forward to planting my bokchoy this March!!
Do you harvest all greens from the bottom up like kale? Are the lettuces you suggested cut & come again or does the plant die after you cut then ckose to the ground? Is bok choy the same? Or do you only eat the leaves? Also chard harvesting practice? Thanks in advance. Our temps in KY for the last week have been during the days, highs in the mid to upper 20's plus good winds blowing. Wind chill, don't recall. That is to cold for me to walk the dog. That's why I have him trained to potty pads. Dandy Dale doesn't seem to mind the cold. Be care with that babies feet. Any salt can hurt his pads & they csn freeze. Give him a hug. ❤❤❤2u&2all
Almost never, except when I transplant or start new seed to get the tiny roots established. Once they grab hold, I don't need to water anymore, because our rainfall rate is adequate.
Have you already completed? Your fur lights are test on those three miracle grow products? If not, when do you think it will be complete?So I can keep my eye on it
What was the process like for coming up with your logo and brand? Was it expensive or difficult? Did you have to use a lawyer? Is it trademarked? I am starting my own youtube channel and would love to learn from your experience! Mad love as always ❤❤❤
You would start these as transplants indoors, so they won't be ready to go outside until March. By then, it is plenty warm in SC to plant any of these things.
It looks like you are still using your drip irrigation? How does that work over the winter? I would like to use it but I don't know how to change it when rotate crops and/or for over-wintering. Would I have to buy and install new lines when I rearrange my garden?
I'm partial to turnips and turnip greens. Weather has been mixed: one night 15-16 degrees; several nights in lower 20s; 8 inches of snow (but day temps in 40s and 50s). I didn't cover them; old leaves wilted down but new leaves standing up. I just picked and thinly sliced a turnip for supper tonight; so crisp and sweet eaten raw. Wondering if I could pickle them, like Koreans do with daikon radish.
I planted turnips about 2 months ago, but they are *crawling* along. This winter has been so outrageously cold that everything is growing at half-speed. We have to power through the next 2-3 weeks and conditions should start breaking. The worst cold in a decade is coming for us next week...
hello, i have a question, do you water your banana plants or are they fine with just the rain. if you do water them, how much rain a year does it need.
Here I am, living in a country only have hot and hotter seasons, watching tips on wich crops tolerate the cold more hahaha ❤ regardless love you content bro 💪
I would trade. I'm desperately trying to head south in a few years for something warmer. Heat is annoying, but cold is deadly. This cold is, literally, painful. It hurts to even go outside.
There's no reason to give up. This has been the worst winter I've ever seen here, worse than the last 5 combined, and everything is still doing great. A little frost protection is all we need.
I lived in Philadelphia proper for 5 years, and that is the only time I have ever encountered them. I really love them, especially with a ham shank in there. I didn’t get to grow them til I moved to NC, since I had zero land up there in the city.
Every seed exchange online will have a variety to choose from. You'll want to read the descriptions and find varieties notable for cold. I linked to an assortment in the video description.
Thanks-I needed this information. Did you plant these greens (with exception of spinach) as seedlings then transplant in ground/raised bed in the fall?
Garden Shade cloth with Christmas lights makes everything grow on another level. Why frost fry your celery/ parsley/ oregano etc. just hoop it and watch everything explode
I do not recommend using shade cloth for frost protection. It is mesh, so frost can penetrate, and it does not hold onto any warmth. Agricultural fabric is much better. It provides better frost protection, holds in significant warmth, but it still breathes.
Can you direct sow these, or should they be started indoors? I've had bad luck hardening off seedlings and the extreme temperature difference between outside and in at this time of year seems like it might be especially tricky.
I strongly advise starting things like kale, collards, mustard greens and heading lettuces indoors as transplants. The only things I would direct sow are things I want growing in tight rows, such as the hardy red leaf lettuces and spinach. The other crops form heads or tall plants and should get about 1 square ft of space, so they benefit from being transplanted. Things are also so cold right now that they would struggle to germinate outdoors if you live in the east. If you wish to direct sow, wait a week for this monster Arctic outbreak to pass.
It is going to get worse next week. This winter actually KILLED all my parsley plants. That has never happened in 6 years. The last 5 winters, they didn't even take damage. It just refuses to warm up during the day to help them recover.
@@TheMillennialGardener Sorry to hear about your parsley. May they RIP. I can sense the humidity rising outside so hopefully it's doing that your way as well. Oh, FYI, my parsley was burpee seed I had thrown in a raised bed with some cilantro seed months ago. The cilantro came up but I guess it was all wrong for the parsley cause it didn't come up till December lol. You sure were right about the cold tolerance. Thanks to you I'm now anticipating gardening in the winter. Something I've never thought to do. Stay warm, from one fig junky to another.
Next week is going to be especially terrible. We are looking at a solid 48 hour period below freezing and 2-3 nights deep into the teens. I just ordered a 20 ft tarp for my date palm. It's going to be rough.
Here in the Seattle area, it's not the cold that's the problem. It's the lack of light. I can plant all those (and I've tried) but they just won't grow because there's isn't enough light this time of year. ☹️
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7:46 Leafy Green #4
10:21 Leafy Green #5
13:15 Leafy Green #6
16:50 Adventures With Dale
These cold snaps are great time to deep till the garden to reduce pests
Totally agree and I have most of these currently growing in my winter garden. Winter time means greens to me! 😊
This is probably a dumb question but are any of these perennials or are you replanting them every year? If replanting, when?
Hi MG. I was wondering about using oyster shells for chickens in ground for plants. It is only showing ingredients of about 30% calcium. I use an old Ninja blender to get it finer. 50 lbs. at Tractor Supply is $16. I already put a little on top on some fig starts that are rooted with leaves. Hope I didn't hurt them but I rooted my own cuttings on these.
@ I have used oyster shell before, It has other available nutrients besides calcium and seems to work fine. Note they change the PH but are slow to work. grinding finer would probably speed up the process.
"Adventures with Dale" forces me to watch your videos right to the end every time 😅
I grew bok choy and tatsoi. The tatsoi is a beautiful dark green and is gorgeous. I highly recommend it.
Bok choy grows inside easily hydroponicly also.
Started growing Bok Choy last year here in SW Florida, and even with our heavy pest pressure they do very well. They always look beautiful and taste amazing in stir fry and soups! Love it so much I've devoted an entire raised container to bok choy.
Oh, thank you so much for mentioning BokChoy. I grew some last year, along with Baby BokChoy. It is so good added to salads. I need to get some seeds.
Do you grow regular bok choy or Chinese bok Choy that's small? I love them!
I don't care for bok choy, but I love to garden! They are so pretty that I'm thinking of growing them and trying to give them away?
They're a winner. I am sold. I like their texture. Whereas most greens are firm to the point of being hard, they're almost buttery.
When I as growing up in the 90s..... way to make some of us feel old😂😂😂
He is a DOLL. So smart, too!
@trishferrer8209 oh he is, for sure
Defintely only one type of kale in my supermarket, wish there were more, but I remember when it was just a garnish on buffet trays. Same with parsley. Wouldn’t have dreamed of eating them then, but now I love both!
Pretty much every supermarket at least sells baby kale in addition to fuller leaves. It's probably sold by the bagged salad mixes. Check over there. You'll probably find a few options.
@ there’s one. Mixed with spinach. Which means it’ll spoil right away. Wish we had lacinato style kale in the store. Sometimes even the curly kale bunches look wilted and rough. I’ve been trying to grow lacinato but the bugs always get more of it than I do. I need to keep it all in one bed and cover it this year…it’s just hard because they can get pretty tall!
The millennial gardener: "Bugs don't bother my mustard greens." Bugs in my garden: "hold by beer". 😂
Maybe some varieties are more resistant than others. Mine is Southern Giant (linked in description).
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@@TheMillennialGardener I use the violet ones from baker Creek. They are delicious though! I can eat them raw, so maybe less bitterness makes them more enticing.
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Great videos, and great sense of humor! I like folks that don't take themselves too seriously. Thank you for posting these. rouge d'hiver 🙂
I totally nailed that pronunciation. I worked on it all day!
I had 27 collard plants planted in September and those that have not been eaten through the holidays are still beautiful.
Also in SE NC near I-95
I'm realizing the value of covering my leafy greens here in the PNW. Even though we haven't had too many freezes, the constant cool moist conditions cause rust and rot.
Covers are a godsend. They make *all* the difference. They are the difference between crawling along/fighting the world and simple success.
Oklahoma here and I 💯 agree with regards to bake choy. I've grown it in the teens under cover and it has done great!
It's hardier than given credit, I believe! Covers work miracles.
Soil biology adds a few degrees to your soil. They keep your plant's roots warm.
Your leafy greens are just amazing despite the fact you had fairly cold nights. I’ve always wish my dogs could talk and Mr. Dale is doing it. He demands his walk. lol. Thanks for sharing the video.
They do well as long as you're diligent with preventing frost formation. Next week's once in a decade cold and snow is going to be their real test, though. Dale is a communicator. We make him communicate for his food and walks. We ask him, "What do you want?" and he responds with the buttons. He's gotten good at it.
This year, all of my bok choy have survived several nights in a row in the single digits in zone 6b. Some of the outer leaves died back, but the core remained strong and it bounced back within a few days. I planted 4 different varieties and all of them look better than my collards. Stunned.
Thank you for a most helpful and knowledgeable video. Everything computes.
SE TN here! Great video! Recently 10 degrees. Garden is rock hard! My Collard is toast! Peas are gone! Sure wish this video included B Roll to the planting of your winter crops, ie. When to plant etc. Thanks!
Wow the plants look great
South Louisiana,,first time bok choy and red giant mustard,, both outstanding,, use mustard as lettuce substitute,, definitely growing again ✅✅✅✅
Thanks for listing the specific varieties. I’m always on the lookout for winter lettuces. One I love is Landis Winter lettuce, it can even grow in the snow!
My kale has been under snow for the last 10 days. Hopefully the snow sticks around for the arctic blast Sunday-Tuesday. But I expect it will rebound if the snow sticks around. Then we are back to normal. Last year (so far) was colder, but we have had a few really bad three days and way more snow than we've had in maybe 20 years? It's true. I grew up in St. Louis and live here now, and even though we are relatively southern in the midwest, kale, collards, and mustard greens were really not popular until maybe 15-20 years ago, You had to go to Memphis at least. Except for maybe a few Italian soups, but pretty rare. I am a greens super fan, so I am really happy about it.
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I plant spinach in early October
Virginia zone 7b
Then over winter and pick in the spring. Less prone to bolting
We have had slightly below freezing nights last week+ Zone 8B here in NW Arizona at 3,000' elevation. Bok Choy, Swiss Chard, Peas, Beets, Turnips and Spinach as well as about 1/2 of the 16 Broccoli plants most mid to large sized. Not covered and all but three doing OK. Those three alive but wilted. I covered all when seedlings but have not covered at all in the past month. We will be at about 20 tonight and 48 tomorrow as the high (not usual here). P.S. I agree with you on the Bok Choy - it is a star!
The bok choy looked gorgeous!! I think I need to grow some of that!!
Thank you ! Dale is amazing
He's a very smart boy.
You are always such an inspiration! I'm happy to report the sun came out this afternoon, and I was able to plant my snow peas and two varieties of golden beets (to see which is better). I put all these seeds to soak at lunchtime yesterday and the peas were already peeking out of their seed shell! I thought they were going to be ruined, but I got them in. Yay! My radishes sprouted this morning BUT the birds were picking them out of the seed bed! Put some bird blocker over your seeds, all!
Excellent! If you are in a cool zone, be very prepared for the cold coming next week. The coldest air in years is coming east of the Rockies.
Your bok choy are beautiful 🤩
I can’t wait to harvest some!
Mustard greens are also a great way to combat the leaf mold commonly affecting your squashes and such.
We’re up in Brooklyn, New York and all the time I was a kid and up until I got way too old the garden, my family kept a kitchen garden and we always had kale, mustard greens and collard greens. My mother would mix them when cooking the “greens”. I have never thought about growing bok choy.
There are so many awesome options out there. I truly feel sorry for folks that think they don't like greens 😆
I love kale chips! We make kale chips during the season like every other week! We just spray the leaves with EVOO and sprinkle with Cajun seasoning mmmm so yummy!❤
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Thank you for all your valuable information! I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge!
Rainbow Swiss Chard… another one killing it . A mix of a lettuce / celery a partial shade that loves it
I really came close to adding chard to the list. I almost included that over spinach. I actually like chard better!
For the BEST southern style stewed greens, a mix of collards, mustards & turnip greens (kale if you want too), pressure cooked with 1 shredded carrot, 1 shredded onion, 1 shredded potato, 1 shredded stalk of celery (use old fashioned box cheese grater), and cook & crumble until crispy, a bunch of bacon and keep the fat and add the fat to the pot, add a dried chile pepper or some smoked paprika, some black pepper, and a few cloves of garlic. Pressure cook this with a few cups of water in a big instant pot for like a 45 minute high pressure cycle and when it’s done it will be so good. My MeMa used to make her greens with chopped up turnip roots mixed in too sometimes. Just make sure you use some kind of pork . It matters. We also add a tablespoon of better than bouillon ham flavor sometimes to cheat. This recipe never fails, I’m happy to share it with you because you’ve shared some advice i will be using all year this year!
I love mustard greens and I have grown so many this year. I love them cooked with smoked turkey or bacon
YES! That is the most excellent flavor combination. They are also fantastic in pasta e fagioli or a basic chicken soup.
You forgot about turnip greens which southerners usually eat with mustard greens to take out that bitterness, I love them both
Vegetables after slight frost will accumulate more flavor and sugar! In northern China about zone 7a, during 1970s-1980s when my mom was young, they bought [Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis] from suburb areas and store them in basement in early November, and she said is much more delicious than the present which is grown in greenhouse.
Definitely agree with the Asian greens. Next winter going to do way more of them. The only thing that's survived all this cold weather this year in NC is the green tatsoi. My kales are holding on, but barely 🤣
Heren in north central Alabama (zone 7a), it has been a typical winter thus far, and warmer than last year. Last year we had daytime highs of 20F for multiple days in a row, and it got a lot colder at night. I just harvested the last of my 2024 garden, carrots and parsnips. I have Danvers carrots that would make Buggs Bunny drool, and they are going to be sweet after below freezing temperatures, and being covered with snow and ice.
I have three Swiss Chard plants left in my garden, so officially, it is finished. They will be going to the chickens for treats soon. It is too cold to plant leafy greens in my area, even with row covers. It won’t be long before planting time though, around February 20th. I have seeds started for Calabrese Broccoli, Self-Blanching Cauliflower, All Seasons Cabbage, Red Burgundy Onions, and Yellow Potato Onions.
On my heat mat germinating are Jolene tomatoes, Hungarian Yellow Wax peppers, Sweet Banana peppers, Big Red bell peppers, Lunchbox Orange peppers, Lipstick peppers, Corona di Toro peppers, and two types of basil. I’ll finish round two of seed starting with oregano, marjoram, dill, and cilantro.
Round three will be leafy greens and flowers, Tokyo Bekana Mustard, Ford Hook Swiss Chard, Pak Choi, Romaine Lettuce, mixed leaf lettuces, marigolds, Amaranth, Alyssum, cosmos, zinnias, butterfly weed, butterfly flower, and bachelor button. On or near February 20th, I’ll start transplanting seed starts into the ground, and do a lot of direct seed sowing, root crops and peas. I am going to have a very big garden with 16 raised beds, three GreenStalks, a 10ft x 20 ft herb garden, chickens, a small orchard with 11 fruit trees, nine grow bags, and a few odd pots. Every bit of planting space will have something growing in it.
You got the cold but not snow ... we have had 3 feet of snow and the humidity is high here in the wetlands of the Columbia valley.
Spring is coming ... it always does :)
What is currently being forecast is a once in a generation snow event, here. The all-time record in Wilmington is 15 inches. They're talking more than half that. If this happens, this will be something a person that was born and lived a full lifespan here would only experience 2-3 times in a lifetime. I hope the forecast is wrong!
So good to know for the early spring.
I would plant them now. Transplants started today won’t be ready to go out til early March, and by then, they run into issues with heat as they try to mature in May in many climates. It is better to be early with these since they tolerate a hard freeze.
I thought all your greens looked great! I’ve never done a winter garden, just never thought I could here in NC piedmont. I might have to consider growing a winter garden next year. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience in gardening.
Growing a winter garden in NC, at least the eastern half, is much easier than growing a summer garden. Things grow with ease. No pests, minimal irrigation, and 4 out of 5 winters aren't an issue with cold. This winter is going to be a 1 out of 25 winter, though. Severely nasty stuff is coming next week unlike anything we've seen since 2018, but with possibly even more snow and ice. Covers are the most important investment for winter gardening, here. If you build these little PVC hoop houses like I do, it really is easy.
Your Bok Choy looks amazing! I love growing it, too. I've been growing a mini version that is so perfect in soup. Hope it warms up soon where you are!!
Please talk about the type of irrigation and watering system you use during the winter months
Re: mustard greens. To offset the bitterness, we mix the mustard greens with collard greens and turnip greens. Season the mixture with bacon, salt, pepper, a little crushed red pepper, onion and garlic. Now you have the perfect side to go with your beans cooked with a smoked ham hock, some home fried potatoes and a nice cornbread. Now you’re living good!
Yup,, you said that right 😂😂
What a great and timely video.
Sorry to sound like a broken record, but you inspired us to do a winter garden this year. Just six collard greens. I have posted some updates since November. We are in Boston and currently we have no frost/freeze protection on them. It was meant to be a very low maintenance winter garden and an experiment.
The collards are amazing in the cold. It is not just the low temps over the last month-down to 9 degrees, wind chills below zero for a lot of the last few weeks. In addition weeks of frozen ground, literally being buried and covered in snow and solid ice, and very limited daylight here this far north. Although they do get sun in the afternoon, and I have fed warm water with synthetized water soluble fertilizer.
There is some minor cold damage on a few of the leaves, but I have found that has come from sustained cold/frozen ground/ice as compared to just one night's low temp. As a point of comparison some nearby kale has been killed by the cold while some other kale is still alive, but has more frost damage than our collards.
They have passed this experiment with flying colors and next week with lows here approaching zero degrees I am going to get them proper cold protection at night. The experiment is over. These collards deserve to make it to spring.
Collards are better after a frost. YUMMO
Hello,thanks for sharing. 😊
You're welcome!
I particularly love growing TATSOI, MIZUNA and KOMATSUNA Asian greens. I think you would love them too.
I wanted to give Bok Choy a try since I'm familiar with it. I will probably add another Asian green next winter given the success I've had this winter.
My best spinach harvests have been after they survive the winter looking dead after some days in the teens and single digits then in February and March they grow so fast and abundantly. They bolt by April when it's time to plant tomatoes.
Bok choy can also be grown easily inside using hydroponics. I grew a nice bunch of it with led lights on a timer, plasic storage box & rockwool
Bok choy is so good, and full of vitamins and minerals, easy to grow. So cold here in Western NC, though today the sun is brilliant and the sky Carolina blue.
Brace yourself. The worst cold in almost a decade is coming next week. Low to mid teens here and we're talking 0 degree temps out west with potential for serious snow, at least here on the coast.
My Mustard Lettuce is kicking too. Add it to anything. Made a few rolls for my lunch dice up some and add to a sandwich add to a breakfast etc
Mustard greens are highly underrated and need to become more popular!
@ 💯 the set of three that I picked up randomly in late August Red leaf Lettuce and some Swiss chad late spring. Once if figured out the best location (shaded side of the house) I can’t eat them fast enough. My regular cabbage broccoli and kale are just growing slowly. Bok Choy (4) on the other hand they are exploding in these colder than normal temperatures
Thanks
You’re welcome!
komatsuna has been one of my favorites the last few years. its a very mild mustard, definitely gotta watch out for those cabbage loopers/worms though
My Bok Choy, spinach, pak choy, carrots, potatoes, onion starts, radishes, and Red Sails lettuces are doing well in the CT greenhouse! For hahas, I started the colder tolerant tomatoes and they sprouted! (Subartic Plenty and Moskvich).
We are going to need a greenhouse with the cold coming! Brace yourself for next week. CT is under a winter storm threat, and the cold behind it will be epic.
@ 9 degrees, 2, 4, and 9 next week!
Here in southeast Texas we’re expecting a winter storm with snow! Unusual for us & this will be the first really hard freeze this year. I plan to just cover everything. Maybe overboard but I worry about the shock things are going to take going from most days this winter being in the 60s or higher to below freezing all of a sudden. If they’d had a gradual cool down & had a chance to harden off I would be less concerned.
These coastal slammers are very rare. In fact I can remember at least once that several inches fell on the Carolinas shoreline in the 1980s, (when computer models were not as sophisticated). It took forecasters by surprise and they were explaining after-the-fact how it happened..
Love the fact you can grow lettuce! Do you start them outside?
Only hardy red leaf lettuces I want growing in tight, high density rows. Anything that I want to grow into a head I start indoors and transplant.
Are you direct sowing, seed starting outdoors, or seed starting indoors?
I'm a collard green man kinda like green cabbage with a lot of good properties
I feel like it is a cross between cabbage and kale. Heartier like cabbage, but sweeter like kale.
Thanks so much, and your Bok Choy looks amazing.
I appreciate it!
over here its the warmest winter we have had, fall and early winter was worse than now which has just seemed like a 2 month early spring
I had a ton of leafy greens growing in a 3ft by 3ft raised, I had kale, peas, chard and a good nice looking patch of spring mix lettuce but in one night mice ate absolutely everything 😞 I guess I have to build a garden cage out of hardware cloth since I'm growing in basically open desert unless there is some other way of battling the mice besides killing them
Oh I feel your pain! I live just outside the desert in a "mediterranean chaparral" climate, and I had to build a "cage" out of hardware cloth for every bed. The kangaroo rats, cottontail rabbits, and birds ALL want a peice! Lol. 😂
Do you also use any traps as well or does the cage pretty much just do the trick?@@gothic_oma
I'm not into Mustard greens although I grow them as a cover crop to combat root knot nematodes.
If you cook them in soup, they become very mild. They are insanely good as a green in pasta e fagioli!
@@TheMillennialGardener I will defiantly try that. I've been making zuppa toscana copycat recipe with my kale. BTW I'm right up the road from you in Fayetteville.
I love leafy greens! You can also enjoy multiple harvest throughout the season, yum! Still trying to grow lettuce and spinach, and the struggle is real lol😅😂. Newbies were you at? ❤🌱
Yep! Red leaf lettuces, collards, kale, mustard greens and spinach are all cut-and-come-again. The only thing featured in this video I will be harvesting as full heads are the bok choy. I can't wait to make some chicken soup with this miserable cold coming.
Hope you're ready for snow.
Snow is easy. Snow insulates. The problem is cold and if we get ice. That is the real issue.
I was thinking of you more than your plants. Snow is a great insulator
Central NC here. NO NO NO NO SNOW PLEASE 😂😊❤
I think the north and south have done an exchange in the past decade. You can now find collards in northeast grocery stores, but I can now find broccoli rabe in my southeast grocery store. When I was a kid (ya know, before modern civilization) I never had it.
lets get it 🌱
Very good info. Are u still using your drip irrigation thru the winter? Dale
I do not have a need to run drip irrigation in winter. The evaporation rate is too low. Watering in winter is rarely needed here, because the rainfall rate is usually enough. I only have to water seedlings to get them established.
C’est bon parlait.
I have 5 degrees coming with nothing above freezing for 3 days in zone 7 nj probably going to lose everything..
Tomorrow I'm protecting my figs with leaves
Cover, cover, cover. Put a double cover on if need be, and place some incandescent Christmas lights under the cover like I do for my trees: ua-cam.com/video/KRLBg7fjpeg/v-deo.htmlsi=pl01imgSoXGF6wWs
I think you'll be surprised with pulls through with a couple agricultural fabrics on top.
I love how these people say global warming😂😅😂😅😂...
We have been freezing our Ass's off up here in NJ!
Brother your kicking butt down there!!
Keep up the great work!
I've been planning out my garden, plus recently my seeds just came in from Rare Seeds.
I'm looking forward to planting my bokchoy this March!!
It is global warning. Warm air is breaking up the arctic polar vortex, which pushes that cold air down, causing these arctic blasts
Do you harvest all greens from the bottom up like kale?
Are the lettuces you suggested cut & come again or does the plant die after you cut then ckose to the ground?
Is bok choy the same? Or do you only eat the leaves? Also chard harvesting practice?
Thanks in advance.
Our temps in KY for the last week have been during the days, highs in the mid to upper 20's plus good winds blowing. Wind chill, don't recall. That is to cold for me to walk the dog. That's why I have him trained to potty pads. Dandy Dale doesn't seem to mind the cold. Be care with that babies feet. Any salt can hurt his pads & they csn freeze. Give him a hug. ❤❤❤2u&2all
How often do you water in the winter?
Almost never, except when I transplant or start new seed to get the tiny roots established. Once they grab hold, I don't need to water anymore, because our rainfall rate is adequate.
@ thank you! I’ll be starting my seeds this weekend.
Have you already completed? Your fur lights are test on those three miracle grow products? If not, when do you think it will be complete?So I can keep my eye on it
The only thing that bothers my bok choi is the birds. They love to pull the edges! They also love my lettuce.
I would recommend bird netting or agricultural fabric. The ag fabric works wonders.
I don't have frost and freeze.I have sub zero temperatures in arctic blast. Lol
We will have close to that next week. Everything will be fine under covers, though.
How does the bok choy taste never tried it before looks delicious
The stems are crunchy and juicy, not hard like kale or collard greens.
It is a much softer and milder green. I have only had it in Asian soups. It is very good. It is almost buttery.
@TheMillennialGardener thank you
I am curious as well. What does it taste like raw?
What was the process like for coming up with your logo and brand? Was it expensive or difficult? Did you have to use a lawyer? Is it trademarked? I am starting my own youtube channel and would love to learn from your experience! Mad love as always ❤❤❤
Is that Bob Ross looking over the Bok Choy❤️❤️
You're still in the 20s at night. Lucky you. We're about to plunge to 7 degrees.
Not next week. If I can stay above 15 degrees next week, I will be thrilled.
I'm in 8a South Carolina- Can I start these tomorrow if I cover them?
You would start these as transplants indoors, so they won't be ready to go outside until March. By then, it is plenty warm in SC to plant any of these things.
It looks like you are still using your drip irrigation? How does that work over the winter? I would like to use it but I don't know how to change it when rotate crops and/or for over-wintering. Would I have to buy and install new lines when I rearrange my garden?
I'm partial to turnips and turnip greens. Weather has been mixed: one night 15-16 degrees; several nights in lower 20s; 8 inches of snow (but day temps in 40s and 50s). I didn't cover them; old leaves wilted down but new leaves standing up. I just picked and thinly sliced a turnip for supper tonight; so crisp and sweet eaten raw. Wondering if I could pickle them, like Koreans do with daikon radish.
I planted turnips about 2 months ago, but they are *crawling* along. This winter has been so outrageously cold that everything is growing at half-speed. We have to power through the next 2-3 weeks and conditions should start breaking. The worst cold in a decade is coming for us next week...
I’m curious what your fertilizing routine is in the winter.
I recently posted a video on that here: ua-cam.com/video/H22iNgGvVwU/v-deo.htmlsi=CP5aptudpdIufWB4
Happy little plants 😀
Love your sweatshirt 🇺🇲
Thanks! It was a present.
hello, i have a question, do you water your banana plants or are they fine with just the rain. if you do water them, how much rain a year does it need.
Here I am, living in a country only have hot and hotter seasons, watching tips on wich crops tolerate the cold more hahaha ❤ regardless love you content bro 💪
I would trade. I'm desperately trying to head south in a few years for something warmer. Heat is annoying, but cold is deadly. This cold is, literally, painful. It hurts to even go outside.
Do these cold hearty plants need to be planted in fall when it's still warm and they have time to mature before the cold hits?
Haha, I almost gave up this winter, waiting for next weeks frost in Raleigh, then will start again
There's no reason to give up. This has been the worst winter I've ever seen here, worse than the last 5 combined, and everything is still doing great. A little frost protection is all we need.
@TheMillennialGardener thanks much, getting back and better this season with all the great knowledge i have learned from here
Amongst black and brown people “greens” aka mustard, collards and turnip greens are very well known in the northeast.
I lived in Philadelphia proper for 5 years, and that is the only time I have ever encountered them. I really love them, especially with a ham shank in there. I didn’t get to grow them til I moved to NC, since I had zero land up there in the city.
What are cold hardy spi ach varieties..i had no idea...
Every seed exchange online will have a variety to choose from. You'll want to read the descriptions and find varieties notable for cold. I linked to an assortment in the video description.
Thanks-I needed this information. Did you plant these greens (with exception of spinach) as seedlings then transplant in ground/raised bed in the fall?
Everything was grown from transplant started indoors *except* the red leaf lettuces in the small bed with the half-cover over it featured in Green #5.
Garden Shade cloth with Christmas lights makes everything grow on another level. Why frost fry your celery/ parsley/ oregano etc. just hoop it and watch everything explode
I do not recommend using shade cloth for frost protection. It is mesh, so frost can penetrate, and it does not hold onto any warmth. Agricultural fabric is much better. It provides better frost protection, holds in significant warmth, but it still breathes.
in. ohio this year only my celery and parsley still looks good in polytunnel
Who here gave a thumbs-up for "rouge d'hiver" alone
i love the Bob Ross statue
Brings me back to my childhood.
Can you direct sow these, or should they be started indoors? I've had bad luck hardening off seedlings and the extreme temperature difference between outside and in at this time of year seems like it might be especially tricky.
I strongly advise starting things like kale, collards, mustard greens and heading lettuces indoors as transplants. The only things I would direct sow are things I want growing in tight rows, such as the hardy red leaf lettuces and spinach. The other crops form heads or tall plants and should get about 1 square ft of space, so they benefit from being transplanted. Things are also so cold right now that they would struggle to germinate outdoors if you live in the east. If you wish to direct sow, wait a week for this monster Arctic outbreak to pass.
So dang cold for so long. Chatham county here. I'm so done with being cold. Parsley still going strong with no protection.
It is going to get worse next week. This winter actually KILLED all my parsley plants. That has never happened in 6 years. The last 5 winters, they didn't even take damage. It just refuses to warm up during the day to help them recover.
@@TheMillennialGardener Sorry to hear about your parsley. May they RIP. I can sense the humidity rising outside so hopefully it's doing that your way as well. Oh, FYI, my parsley was burpee seed I had thrown in a raised bed with some cilantro seed months ago. The cilantro came up but I guess it was all wrong for the parsley cause it didn't come up till December lol. You sure were right about the cold tolerance. Thanks to you I'm now anticipating gardening in the winter. Something I've never thought to do. Stay warm, from one fig junky to another.
We’re looking at nights and minus numbers I would love to see even a daytime high of 20
Next week is going to be especially terrible. We are looking at a solid 48 hour period below freezing and 2-3 nights deep into the teens. I just ordered a 20 ft tarp for my date palm. It's going to be rough.
Here in the Seattle area, it's not the cold that's the problem. It's the lack of light. I can plant all those (and I've tried) but they just won't grow because there's isn't enough light this time of year. ☹️