I love supporting your company for seeds. The knowledge that you freely give out to help new gardners learn is fantastic. Your easy style of teaching is invaluable.
I'm sure some of these are spelled wrong, but here is his list.... Cukes- Tender Green, National pickling, Muncher, Poinset 76, Ashley Squash- Black beauty, Italian Striped, Long Pie pumpkin, Bianca de Truste, Butterneck squash Beans- Antigua, Provider, Blue Lake bush, Strike, Contender Tomatoes- Champagne bubbles, New Yorker, Rosa de Berne, Opalka, Pineapple Tomato Peppers- Emerald Giant Bell, California Wonder, Fresno Chili, Tam Jalapeno, Big Jim Lettuce- Tango, Pavlo,, Hanson improved crisphead, Ruby Red, Bibb Butterhead
Also, don't know if he says it here ( just started watching) but he's noted in the past that he likes the mild ( acidity-wise) flavor of yellow and orange tomatoes. For anyone like me who didn't know, and had never read yet by that time in a seed catalog, yellow and (most ?) orange tomatoes are very mild, basically bland tasting to many of us. Not Luke apparently, but a lot of us ! So, be forewarned !
I think the same thing happened to the "butterneck". It shows a butternut squash. When you go to his sight, there is a butter neck, and it seems to be what he is actually describing.
The long pie pumpkin was also not the right pic. I’m assuming he’s speaking right and editing wrong. Going with the long orangey and fat zucchini thing. (Don’t say it Michael)
Last year you turned me on to the Super Nova grape tomato. I took a big bowl of them out to our neighborhood picnic last summer and everyone loved them! People took paper bowls of them home to eat after having some at the picnic. Super Nova are a grape tomato that tastes like a beefsteak when you pop one in your mouth. They are definitely on my garden plan again this year.
Thank you so much for sharing these! I also live in northern Michigan! Please do more of these videos on other fruits and vegetables! Onions, carrots, strawberries, etc. I am a new gardener and I appreciate you sharing your years of experience to save me time and headaches.
I’m going to add one of my favorites in each category you mentioned. For cucumbers I’d like silver slicers a prolific white skinned variety. As for the green bean category I’m going with purple podded pole beans, an 8’ foot row fed me from the end of June through October. I ate most of them fresh, but froze several bags and gifted plenty as well, very prolific! Now for squash, white scallop squash does really well for me. It’s tasty and creamy. Tomatoes are the queen of the garden and my all time favorite is the pink brandywine! It’s a big beefsteak variety that for me has unbelievable flavor, though huge in size they aren’t the most prolific, but I love them! On to peppers, I personally not a fan of sweet peppers, but I do like hot peppers, not those insanely hot ones though. My pick is a somewhat hard heirloom to find called hot Portugal pepper. It makes excellent fermented hot sauce, if you can find them you really should try them. As for lettuce I have to go with nostalgia. The first vegetable seed I ever planted when I was 12 was black seeded Simpson and that was 52 years ago! It’s a beautiful light green leaf lettuce with a buttery soft texture. I plant it for both as a head lettuce and for cut and come again leaves. This was a great video Luke!
My Marketmore 76 cucumbers were EXTREMELY PROLIFIC this year. I planted 2 seeds so we could have a few pickles, and once they got started, they just did not slow down. I ended up giving tons away, canning over 140 quarts of pickles and relish, and eating a TON of them in salads and fresh. And they produced all through the summer and into the late fall!
I LOVE the Silver Slicer cucumber, it is prolific and I found it from Jess Sowards from her first garden tour years ago. It never fails, isn't bitter and I planted my first seeds on July 4th (when the seeds arrived) and got a great harvest that lasted until frost. It will always have a spot in my garden. Even when you miss one and the seeds are hard, scoop out the seeds and enjoy because it still isn't bitter. National pickling has never done well for me, they are always misshapen, tiny at the stem, and large at the bloom end, even with consent watering.
Our absolute favorite bean is Dragon Tongue. Never stringy. It doesn't get "beany". So buttery in flavor, incredibly productive and easy to find when picking because of the color. ❤❤❤
Yes these are my favourite fresh pick too! SO buttery, don't even need butter. However, I find they get more watery after freezing compared to Provider or Contender, which is maybe why they didn't make the cut 😁 They do pickle well though!!
Thanks Luke! I was stressing about selections for this years garden. I was ordering on the app as you were speaking-I’m only getting into yr 2- you have made me a better gardener. May your diamonds be as big as potatoes.
Just ordered seeds and some trifecta for this year (group order with some friends…but half of the seeds were just mine lol). I almost just bought purple varieties of veggies, but just stayed with the climbing purple beans, purple peas, and purple broccoli. We shall see how it does in my MN garden!
Well I guess the beat for last. That is the only seed that I have gotten from you that was listed. Lol I didn’t even grow it last year. I will be doing so this year though. All seeds I have bought so far have had amazing germination and growth. Sadly my water and soil was not the best. That IS changing this year! Thank you again! Grow Bigger is the motto for this year! ❤
Absolutely agree with you about the champagne bubbles tomato, I agree with everything you said about it. I've grown them for three years now, and have been totally happy with them.
Thank you for this list. I agree about Long Pie, but I do find that the flesh shrinks dramatically when baked. I bake squash for holiday pumpkin pies; my go to variety has been Red Kuri. I loved the flavor of Long Pie in pie, but not much flesh per squash. I wish you would consider trialing the pole bean Blue Coco. It is purple, a French heirloom, and is delicious at all three stages, pod, shelly and I am told, dried as well. Fedco has it this year, as does True Love Seeds. The vines have a purple tinge and are quite attractive in the garden.
Thanks, Luke! I'll order a few of these to try! Also, wouldn't mind hearing about the "also ran" varieties that would be your "next on the list" picks. 🙂
Placed an order for seeds a few days ago...can't wait for this gardening season. I ordered a lot of you favorites. Thank you for all your content...love your channel.
Thanks for sharing, I definitely want to try some of your top 5. I love buying seeds from your store. The price is amazing and the customer service is also amazing. I once received a couple of bad garlic heads, can happen from anywhere, but the store helped to make it right with what I felt was a smile. I also had another experience when I realized I missed ordering 2 more seed packets and would have had to pay for shipping and the person at the store had someone pull my order, which was about to be taken to be shipped and opened and added the seed packets for me. I was grateful and very impressed with the customer service.
Living in east Tennessee we have extremely short springs and hot humid summers. The Long Pie Pumpkin has good production through the heat and pests. This is the only pumpkin that we grew last year. The meat is delicious! It eats well fresh, frozen, and canned.
If you’re getting into gardening and starting to really plan your seed purchases, I can’t suggest MIgardener enough. He doesn’t talk himself up but he should, it is honorable that he has made a commitment to keep his seeds at 2$. Spend time looking around to find your favorite seeds, but I promise you, eventually MIgardener will be your primary seed provider each year.
Some I already had on my wishlist or had bought from MIG before, but you introduced several varieties I wasn't familiar with. I still consider myself a new gardener, so it was helpful! Rounded out the cart so I could get my order going. :)
One of my FAVORITE sweet pepper varieties that I bought seed from last year on your website is Adjvarski ❤ surprised it didn’t make your top five pepper list
Adjvaski is my #1 pepper. It is pretty, tasty, and prolific. I also grew 1 plant in a pot that lasted until the November frosts; others were in the garden.
Already bought seeds from you this year but definitely putting them on my list for next year. Can't wait to grow the seeds I bought. Have great luck with them every year.
I grew Pineapple for the first time last year. It blew my mind. I want at least 2 plants in my garden this year. I did find that for some reason as the season went on, the subsequent tomatoes were not as sweet as they came off the vine. I fully intend on babying those plants this year for optimal sweetness all season. lol I bought Big Jim pepper seeds from you to grow this year. I’m excited to try them… another pepper you need to try is Gatherers Gold. I don’t think you have those seeds, but you should get them and try it. It’s an yellow sweet pepper, very large. So far it’s the sweetest pepper I’ve ever tried.
Great video! I love knowing other gardeners’ all time favorites. I’ve grown a few you mentioned but got a few new ideas as well. I do want to let you know that I think a couple of your pictures looked like the wrong varieties. I *think* one was a pumpkin and the other was the pineapple tomato. It looked like a small ground cherry was shown instead.
So our next-door neighbor back in NY was very proud of his beefsteak tomatoes that he grew conventionally - tilling, chemical fertilizers, pesticides. I had low till raised beds, organically tended with mixed veggie, flower and herbs. He thought I was a crazy hippie. However, one day he came over and picked one of my Opalka tomatoes and sat out at his picnic table eating it on his BLT sandwich. I think it kind of killed him to say it, but he told me it was the best-tasting tomato ever and loved that it didn't pour juice all over his sandwich. Very much miss that family being next door, we have since moved and my neighbor has passed away. But I still remember that day and how delighted he was by my tomatoes. BTW, my husband and I are not fans of fresh tomatoes and everything I grow, except for one sweet cherry tomato plant for salad, are paste-type tomatoes.
I love your seeds, have bought for the last few years and they are great quality and price. And free shipping to Canada with a minimum order of only $20 is unbeatable!!! ❤❤
Champagne Bubbles is a favorite tomato in our house too! The past couple of years we have really failed with cucumbers - our cucumber beetles have been relentless and have destroyed our plants.
Try succession planting them, a few weeks or a month apart in waves. That way, as some plants are being destroyed, you have more coming into maturity.😊
I almost didn’t watch this one but I’m glad I did. You gave such great information on why you like each of the varieties. But now I’ve gotta go seed shopping 😅
I love this video and all the information. I think there's much more to the squash category and I feel the summer squashes and winter squashes should be 2 categories because there are many more delicious options in each.
Just when I think I am all set for seeds for the next growing season, you give a top 5 rundown and reminded me of things I wanted to try as well as new future favorites. 😂 There goes another 10 seed order! By the way, been growing Champagne Bubbles since your earlier plug back around ~2021. They are a must grow. Sooo good.
I have not had any luck growing cucumbers here in the low AZ desert zone 9b the last two seasons. I just started buying seeds from MIgardener so I will look for those cucumbers! I used to be able to grow cucumbers years ago here.
Those are interesting varieties, I don't know that salad variety, I will try it! Thanks for this video, your content is always very helpful for my vegetable garden 😊
Where are the gynoecious and parthenocarpic varieties? Is your selection limited to open pollinated varieties (maybe better described as heirloom) only?
Thanks for sharing! btw the Rose de Berne tomato is from switzerland and is named after the city of Berne and translated from french it's pink from Berne. voila!
Your web site is one of the easiest ones to navigate. I just ordered some of your favorites to try this year even though I live in PA zone 6 which is very different from your locale.
Muir lettuce is our absolute favorite!! Johnny's is the only place that I've ever seen it sold. I'll be trying some of your favorites in my garden this year. Thanks for giving your top 5.
We all ❤you, and of course we are all spring dreaming and about to inundate you with orders. lol Have you grown Amana Orange tomatoes? They are phenomenal! I also wrote down all of your cucumber suggestions, I haven't had luck with them till last year, but then the squirrels found them. It's always something. Can't wait to get growing again!😃
I had not realized how much Michigan and Tennessee have in common as far as weather is concerned. We have much of the same experiences with vegetables/fruits; Long Pie Pumpkin, Black Beauty Zucchini, Blue Lake Beans (bush or pole), Pineapple Tomato, Tam Jalapeno Pepper(super, super productive), and ruby red lettuce(grows for many more months than any other).
For lettuce, Bibb Butterhead is the best for us. We are individual leaf pickers for lettuce and even when it begins to look like a tree it still produces great tasting greens above. Planted tightly spaced, there is more room in the soil to "pop in" replacements before cutting the older plant stems at soil level. Red Romaine will always be grown in my garden. As you mentioned, cold/heat tolerant and prolific. I tried but abandoned the Little Gem as it grew too low, curled towards the ground and didn't provide anything over the Bibb BH. Buttercrunch is also solid.
A couple of things you might be interested in trying are Carolina Sieva (a baby lima pole bean), and Kajari melons (super sweet green flesh, the size of a small cantaloupe). Both are open pollinated heirloom varieties.
Can you recommend your favorite self-pollinating Cuke varieties? I have been have dwindling pollination issues last few years. Thanks for your awesome videos. Looking forward to placing my seed order.
My favorite lettuce to grow is Swiss chard / romain lettuce. I also like to grow Japanese cucumber and honey deligh , lemon boy, chocolate cherry, yellow pear tomatoes
Thanks for the recommendations. I wished I had gotten them a few days ago before I placed my order to MIGardener :-) Thanks for providing such wonderful content. I’m happy to purchase from you!!!
I love supporting your company for seeds. The knowledge that you freely give out to help new gardners learn is fantastic. Your easy style of teaching is invaluable.
Yes! As soon as I think of something I need to learn, I look for a video from Luke first.
Freely? He makes most of his money from UA-cam and it paid for his business that he can now advertise by making these videos.
I'm sure some of these are spelled wrong, but here is his list....
Cukes- Tender Green, National pickling, Muncher, Poinset 76, Ashley
Squash- Black beauty, Italian Striped, Long Pie pumpkin, Bianca de Truste, Butterneck squash
Beans- Antigua, Provider, Blue Lake bush, Strike, Contender
Tomatoes- Champagne bubbles, New Yorker, Rosa de Berne, Opalka, Pineapple Tomato
Peppers- Emerald Giant Bell, California Wonder, Fresno Chili, Tam Jalapeno, Big Jim
Lettuce- Tango, Pavlo,, Hanson improved crisphead, Ruby Red, Bibb Butterhead
Thank you 😊
Thanks!
Thank you!!
Also, don't know if he says it here ( just started watching) but he's noted in the past that he likes the mild ( acidity-wise) flavor of yellow and orange tomatoes. For anyone like me who didn't know, and had never read yet by that time in a seed catalog, yellow and (most ?) orange tomatoes are very mild, basically bland tasting to many of us. Not Luke apparently, but a lot of us ! So, be forewarned !
Thanks for this!
I thought I had my order finalized, until I saw this video! 😂. Thanks for the recommendations.
Same 😂
Same also! Lol
I already received my MIGardener seed order last week. Now I need to order more! 😂
Same looking for those tomatoes
The picture that popped up for the pineapple tomato was a ground cherry :P
They're GIANTS !🤣
I think the same thing happened to the "butterneck". It shows a butternut squash. When you go to his sight, there is a butter neck, and it seems to be what he is actually describing.
The long pie pumpkin was also not the right pic. I’m assuming he’s speaking right and editing wrong. Going with the long orangey and fat zucchini thing. (Don’t say it Michael)
Wishing everyone garden success this year. Remember it’s a journey! ❤🌱
Last year you turned me on to the Super Nova grape tomato. I took a big bowl of them out to our neighborhood picnic last summer and everyone loved them! People took paper bowls of them home to eat after having some at the picnic. Super Nova are a grape tomato that tastes like a beefsteak when you pop one in your mouth. They are definitely on my garden plan again this year.
Thank you so much for sharing these! I also live in northern Michigan! Please do more of these videos on other fruits and vegetables! Onions, carrots, strawberries, etc. I am a new gardener and I appreciate you sharing your years of experience to save me time and headaches.
I’m going to add one of my favorites in each category you mentioned. For cucumbers I’d like silver slicers a prolific white skinned variety. As for the green bean category I’m going with purple podded pole beans, an 8’ foot row fed me from the end of June through October. I ate most of them fresh, but froze several bags and gifted plenty as well, very prolific! Now for squash, white scallop squash does really well for me. It’s tasty and creamy. Tomatoes are the queen of the garden and my all time favorite is the pink brandywine! It’s a big beefsteak variety that for me has unbelievable flavor, though huge in size they aren’t the most prolific, but I love them! On to peppers, I personally not a fan of sweet peppers, but I do like hot peppers, not those insanely hot ones though. My pick is a somewhat hard heirloom to find called hot Portugal pepper. It makes excellent fermented hot sauce, if you can find them you really should try them. As for lettuce I have to go with nostalgia. The first vegetable seed I ever planted when I was 12 was black seeded Simpson and that was 52 years ago! It’s a beautiful light green leaf lettuce with a buttery soft texture. I plant it for both as a head lettuce and for cut and come again leaves. This was a great video Luke!
My Marketmore 76 cucumbers were EXTREMELY PROLIFIC this year. I planted 2 seeds so we could have a few pickles, and once they got started, they just did not slow down. I ended up giving tons away, canning over 140 quarts of pickles and relish, and eating a TON of them in salads and fresh. And they produced all through the summer and into the late fall!
I grew Italian stripe, ordered from you. It just kept going and going and going and it’s tender and sweet and so yummy. Growing it again this year.
I LOVE the Silver Slicer cucumber, it is prolific and I found it from Jess Sowards from her first garden tour years ago. It never fails, isn't bitter and I planted my first seeds on July 4th (when the seeds arrived) and got a great harvest that lasted until frost. It will always have a spot in my garden. Even when you miss one and the seeds are hard, scoop out the seeds and enjoy because it still isn't bitter. National pickling has never done well for me, they are always misshapen, tiny at the stem, and large at the bloom end, even with consent watering.
Our absolute favorite bean is Dragon Tongue.
Never stringy. It doesn't get "beany". So buttery in flavor, incredibly productive and easy to find when picking because of the color. ❤❤❤
Same! Surprised it didn't make list
Also same.😊
Yes these are my favourite fresh pick too! SO buttery, don't even need butter. However, I find they get more watery after freezing compared to Provider or Contender, which is maybe why they didn't make the cut 😁 They do pickle well though!!
I got Black Seaman tomato seeds from you years ago and that soared to our number one spot and still remains the reigning champion. 🙂
I would like to thank you for making all these videos thru the years. I have learned so much.
Love that pillow.
I grew the butterneck squash this year! It is wonderful!!!!!
Lemon cucumbers for the win! They’re my summer favorite.
I find these videos on varieties of vegetables to be so fascinating. I love them! More please!
A tomato I love that I never see mentioned anywhere is Sioux. It looks like just a plain red tomato but the flavor is exquisite.
This was so helpful! Getting insight from a dedicated seed guy is priceless. Can’t wait to go shopping on your site!
Thank you. I love hearing other people’s favorite varieties. I really appreciate how you explained why you selected these varieties as your favorites.
Thanks Luke I appreciate you sharing your favs, some are ones I haven’t tried so adding them to this years garden.
Thanks Luke! I was stressing about selections for this years garden. I was ordering on the app as you were speaking-I’m only getting into yr 2- you have made me a better gardener. May your diamonds be as big as potatoes.
Just ordered seeds and some trifecta for this year (group order with some friends…but half of the seeds were just mine lol). I almost just bought purple varieties of veggies, but just stayed with the climbing purple beans, purple peas, and purple broccoli. We shall see how it does in my MN garden!
Thanks Luke!!
This was fun and informative. Thanks!
Ok, who besides me was shopping as the video was playing?
Already shopped! :(
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@@amyfrerichs By that I meant that I spent money the day before the video showed to make recommendations. I feel I’m too late! Oh well.
Great stuff!
Love the striped zucchini, so good!!!
Great Video! Thank you again ill be adding a lot more to my cart. :) I love all the different types of categories!
Well I guess the beat for last. That is the only seed that I have gotten from you that was listed. Lol I didn’t even grow it last year. I will be doing so this year though. All seeds I have bought so far have had amazing germination and growth. Sadly my water and soil was not the best. That IS changing this year! Thank you again! Grow Bigger is the motto for this year! ❤
Im growing new Yorker tomato for first time this year. Looking forward to them. Ty for video
Love the video. ❤❤❤❤❤
Absolutely agree with you about the champagne bubbles tomato, I agree with everything you said about it. I've grown them for three years now, and have been totally happy with them.
I’m love your passion and enthusiasm for gardening, Luke.
This is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
Thank you for this list. I agree about Long Pie, but I do find that the flesh shrinks dramatically when baked. I bake squash for holiday pumpkin pies; my go to variety has been Red Kuri. I loved the flavor of Long Pie in pie, but not much flesh per squash.
I wish you would consider trialing the pole bean Blue Coco. It is purple, a French heirloom, and is delicious at all three stages, pod, shelly and I am told, dried as well. Fedco has it this year, as does True Love Seeds. The vines have a purple tinge and are quite attractive in the garden.
Might have to try some new varieties this year. Thanks
Love your Channel.
Thanks, Luke! I'll order a few of these to try! Also, wouldn't mind hearing about the "also ran" varieties that would be your "next on the list" picks. 🙂
Nice show. I love your ending phrase " see you in the garden ".Exciting
Placed an order for seeds a few days ago...can't wait for this gardening season. I ordered a lot of you favorites. Thank you for all your content...love your channel.
I love videos like this! Thank you!
Thank you
Thanks for sharing, I definitely want to try some of your top 5. I love buying seeds from your store. The price is amazing and the customer service is also amazing. I once received a couple of bad garlic heads, can happen from anywhere, but the store helped to make it right with what I felt was a smile. I also had another experience when I realized I missed ordering 2 more seed packets and would have had to pay for shipping and the person at the store had someone pull my order, which was about to be taken to be shipped and opened and added the seed packets for me. I was grateful and very impressed with the customer service.
I am so glad to hear you had a positive experience with our store! We just treat gardeners the way we would like to be treated.
Living in east Tennessee we have extremely short springs and hot humid summers. The Long Pie Pumpkin has good production through the heat and pests. This is the only pumpkin that we grew last year. The meat is delicious! It eats well fresh, frozen, and canned.
Me too ...i love cucumbers❤
Loved this video! Just ordered my seeds for the year from your site! Happy to support you!
If you’re getting into gardening and starting to really plan your seed purchases, I can’t suggest MIgardener enough. He doesn’t talk himself up but he should, it is honorable that he has made a commitment to keep his seeds at 2$. Spend time looking around to find your favorite seeds, but I promise you, eventually MIgardener will be your primary seed provider each year.
Some I already had on my wishlist or had bought from MIG before, but you introduced several varieties I wasn't familiar with. I still consider myself a new gardener, so it was helpful! Rounded out the cart so I could get my order going. :)
Great list. Did you know that when you talk about Pineapple Tomatoes a picture of Pineapple Ground Cherries is shown?
Great video! This will help me choose my seeds. My normal favorites to grow are Cherokee purple tomatoes here in Florida.
One of my FAVORITE sweet pepper varieties that I bought seed from last year on your website is Adjvarski ❤ surprised it didn’t make your top five pepper list
Adjvaski is my #1 pepper. It is pretty, tasty, and prolific. I also grew 1 plant in a pot that lasted until the November frosts; others were in the garden.
Already bought seeds from you this year but definitely putting them on my list for next year. Can't wait to grow the seeds I bought. Have great luck with them every year.
Soooo helpful. Need more videos like this to help me, a bnew gardener know what types I might want to start with.
I grew Pineapple for the first time last year. It blew my mind. I want at least 2 plants in my garden this year. I did find that for some reason as the season went on, the subsequent tomatoes were not as sweet as they came off the vine. I fully intend on babying those plants this year for optimal sweetness all season. lol
I bought Big Jim pepper seeds from you to grow this year. I’m excited to try them… another pepper you need to try is Gatherers Gold. I don’t think you have those seeds, but you should get them and try it. It’s an yellow sweet pepper, very large. So far it’s the sweetest pepper I’ve ever tried.
Great video! I love knowing other gardeners’ all time favorites. I’ve grown a few you mentioned but got a few new ideas as well. I do want to let you know that I think a couple of your pictures looked like the wrong varieties. I *think* one was a pumpkin and the other was the pineapple tomato. It looked like a small ground cherry was shown instead.
So our next-door neighbor back in NY was very proud of his beefsteak tomatoes that he grew conventionally - tilling, chemical fertilizers, pesticides. I had low till raised beds, organically tended with mixed veggie, flower and herbs. He thought I was a crazy hippie. However, one day he came over and picked one of my Opalka tomatoes and sat out at his picnic table eating it on his BLT sandwich. I think it kind of killed him to say it, but he told me it was the best-tasting tomato ever and loved that it didn't pour juice all over his sandwich. Very much miss that family being next door, we have since moved and my neighbor has passed away. But I still remember that day and how delighted he was by my tomatoes. BTW, my husband and I are not fans of fresh tomatoes and everything I grow, except for one sweet cherry tomato plant for salad, are paste-type tomatoes.
I love your seeds, have bought for the last few years and they are great quality and price. And free shipping to Canada with a minimum order of only $20 is unbeatable!!! ❤❤
Champagne Bubbles is a favorite tomato in our house too! The past couple of years we have really failed with cucumbers - our cucumber beetles have been relentless and have destroyed our plants.
Try succession planting them, a few weeks or a month apart in waves. That way, as some plants are being destroyed, you have more coming into maturity.😊
I almost didn’t watch this one but I’m glad I did. You gave such great information on why you like each of the varieties. But now I’ve gotta go seed shopping 😅
I love this video and all the information. I think there's much more to the squash category and I feel the summer squashes and winter squashes should be 2 categories because there are many more delicious options in each.
My favorite beef steak tomato is also the Pineapple! Amazing 💛
My favorite mini is the Mexican Midgets.
Just when I think I am all set for seeds for the next growing season, you give a top 5 rundown and reminded me of things I wanted to try as well as new future favorites. 😂 There goes another 10 seed order! By the way, been growing Champagne Bubbles since your earlier plug back around ~2021. They are a must grow. Sooo good.
I have not had any luck growing cucumbers here in the low AZ desert zone 9b the last two seasons. I just started buying seeds from MIgardener so I will look for those cucumbers! I used to be able to grow cucumbers years ago here.
My favorite cherry tomato is black cherry. I could barely let them get ripe before picking because they were just so so delicious and sweet!!!!
Great video! Now I’m rethinking what varieties I’ll grow this year.
I shared this to my local framers market FB page. And to a friend in Michigan.
Those are interesting varieties, I don't know that salad variety, I will try it! Thanks for this video, your content is always very helpful for my vegetable garden 😊
Where are the gynoecious and parthenocarpic varieties? Is your selection limited to open pollinated varieties (maybe better described as heirloom) only?
Christmas lima and scarlet runer beans are my favourite tasting that I grew so far.
I grew som crazy collards and kale from MI gardner seeds as well last year.
Thanks for sharing! btw the Rose de Berne tomato is from switzerland and is named after the city of Berne and translated from french it's pink from Berne. voila!
Your web site is one of the easiest ones to navigate. I just ordered some of your favorites to try this year even though I live in PA zone 6 which is very different from your locale.
The best Tomato in my opinion is the Smaragdapfel😊
Greetings from Germany
Enjoy your day😊
Muir lettuce is our absolute favorite!! Johnny's is the only place that I've ever seen it sold. I'll be trying some of your favorites in my garden this year. Thanks for giving your top 5.
Growing vertical pole beans, Kentucky and purple podded are EXTREMELY prolific. Always productive even in warm weather.
Wife & I love butternut Squash... have a lot of seeds :-) wanting to share...
I love the Dr. Wyche tomato and the Ajvarski pepper.
I love the Ajvarski also. They are thick walled and turn red quickly. They make wonderful roasted peppers!
These videos are very helpful. I just wish i would have seen it 2 months ago when i ordered all of my seeds.
We all ❤you, and of course we are all spring dreaming and about to inundate you with orders. lol Have you grown Amana Orange tomatoes? They are phenomenal! I also wrote down all of your cucumber suggestions, I haven't had luck with them till last year, but then the squirrels found them. It's always something. Can't wait to get growing again!😃
Muncher is my go-to cuke. Easy to grow, lots of production.
I like Kalugeritsa peppers for adding a good amount of heat to some dishes that call for it.
Do you by any chance have a recipe for sweet gherkins? I haven't been able to find a recipe that has the same taste as the commercial sweet gherkins.
Pineapple and Champagne Bubbles are in my top 5 as well.
I love black cherry tomatoes they have a deep sweetnest and hold their form well in a saute pan... those that make it into the house.
I had not realized how much Michigan and Tennessee have in common as far as weather is concerned. We have much of the same experiences with vegetables/fruits; Long Pie Pumpkin, Black Beauty Zucchini, Blue Lake Beans (bush or pole), Pineapple Tomato, Tam Jalapeno Pepper(super, super productive), and ruby red lettuce(grows for many more months than any other).
For lettuce, Bibb Butterhead is the best for us. We are individual leaf pickers for lettuce and even when it begins to look like a tree it still produces great tasting greens above. Planted tightly spaced, there is more room in the soil to "pop in" replacements before cutting the older plant stems at soil level. Red Romaine will always be grown in my garden. As you mentioned, cold/heat tolerant and prolific.
I tried but abandoned the Little Gem as it grew too low, curled towards the ground and didn't provide anything over the Bibb BH. Buttercrunch is also solid.
My icon photo is from my aquaponic dome where I grew bushels of lettuce year round. Oh how times are changed.
Giant Marconi pepper, Sugary grape tomato
A couple of things you might be interested in trying are Carolina Sieva (a baby lima pole bean), and Kajari melons (super sweet green flesh, the size of a small cantaloupe). Both are open pollinated heirloom varieties.
Well... I did need some seed potatoes and "a few other seeds" now you mention your seed store... haha. Can't wait to get them in the ground!
Can you recommend your favorite self-pollinating Cuke varieties? I have been have dwindling pollination issues last few years. Thanks for your awesome videos. Looking forward to placing my seed order.
I love the Italian Stripe squash.
I wish I had seen this video before I placed my order!
I would love it of you could list your varieties in the description so they were easy to find after watching the video. Thanks.
my big jim peppers didn't do anything laser year, 1 small pepper, just generally floudered and didn't do anything. will try again this season!
My favorite lettuce to grow is Swiss chard / romain lettuce.
I also like to grow Japanese cucumber and honey deligh , lemon boy, chocolate cherry, yellow pear tomatoes
Thanks for the recommendations. I wished I had gotten them a few days ago before I placed my order to MIGardener :-) Thanks for providing such wonderful content. I’m happy to purchase from you!!!
Nice list..
How about a top heirlooms for us seed savers