Over in Discord (discord.gg/cuXxvKRwKN) we're all debating what to call members of the Epic Gardening community...what do you think? Seedlings? Rhizones? 😂⬇️⬇️
@@epicgardening I love the sound quality in your video! Can you share what kind of equipments you used for the audio and video taping? Thank you! Your journey is really inspiring, and I enjoy viewing your videos. Keep up the great work, Kevin!
I've been an amateur gardener for a while now. My garden has been looking a bit sparse recently so I bought some borage, calendula, basil, and tomato seeds to grow this warm season! Can't wait for them to ship cause I'm excited as hell to get planting 👀
When they say you can't do it I love just proving "them" wrong. They say you can't grow garlic in 9b (Florida) and I've done it. Always test it for yourself!!! 🌱👍
I agree. I have grown many plants that they say you can't grow in the sub-tropics. Brassicas and blueberries come to mind although I have never had success with brussels sprouts. The sprouts start out OK but they don't form tight little heads. We still ate the blown ones we got and they were OK though.
Peter, I was just watching a video about that and it came down to nitrogen imbalance. BUT, they also said freezing weather makes the sprouts taste better so I’m not even sure if it’s worth it to try?
You can eat the seed pods on any radishes, rats tail radish is just a more specialized variety, so if your radishes go to bolt and you think they'll taste less than ideal, let them bolt! Pods taste like a mix between radishes and green beans (to me)
We planted Borage as a pollinator attractor 4 years ago. We haven't planted it since, because it re-seeds everywhere! Lawn, garden beds, flip-flops, living room carpet....
The best thing about Borage, aside from it being an excellent bee food, is that the entire plant is edible. The leaves and flowers taste like a mild cucumber. The roots....well...they taste like edible roots, but that is good, too!
I'm watching this after cleaning up more than two feet of fresh snow from my stairs, driveway, and roof. And it's not even done for today yet. I'm equal parts grumpy and jealous, because I'm still at least two months and a few more feet of snow away from any gardening myself and your weather is (comparatively) so beautiful already.
Get your cold weather stuff started indoors now. Plant out a few weeks before the last frost date. Germinating Kale, cabbage, onion, spinach, lettuce, coriander, parsley, dill and various asian greens myself right now. I’ll set them out in the cold frame in march and in the ground a week or so after soil is workable. I’m 8B we get out last frost date around April 1-15.
You might not know this, but you could start some dwarf tomatoes to grow in a container indoors. There are some plants that produce well that are only about 12" tall. Then you could also plant some lettuce . . .
Such a perfect video to come out today! Spent the day planning for spring myself and sowing a few flowers out to get them pollinators excited. As an apartment dweller, am especially interested to see how your grow bags flourish.
Haha I'm up in Canada like hmm? Spring? It just started getting proper cold! I'm jealous of your weather :) it's been a warmer winter where I am but for some reason last week it started getting colder :( But even if it's still cold its always good to plan early for the next season! I'm glad this video popped up for me cause I took a break from gardening and have wanted to get back into it, so thanks :)
@@jounik8980 and the point of my comment was that he mentioned spring coming up and itll be winter for me for a long time still and that I'm jealous, but I was kidding. I was being funny. Which apparent went over your head, but that's ok. Have a nice night.
@@ges4934 I'm Canadian too, Ontario. I think we got spoiled by the abnormally warm winter so far here and this weekend our temps will plunge further with a snowstorm starting Friday and lasting the weekend. Good thing I love snow eh? By this point we all get winter weary with the cloudy skies and shorter daylight hours so these videos are a great reminder of what's coming. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
@@carolwells5361 omg me too! 😀 I love the snow too being cold makes me anxious, I'm always convinced I'm going to get hypothermia haha so I have a hard time enjoying it most of the time and you're so right, the lack of sun gets hard after a few months :( but like you said, that's why it's great we have these videos! Have a great night! 🙂
Re: rattail radish-- If people wanted try it without buying a special variety, any radish will give you pods if you let it flower and pollinators really like the flowers (they're lovely flowers I think). Then you can try them out and see if you like pods enough to get a special variety just for big pods. I found them to be a little much (like super spicy) and little bit of them went a long way so I don't think I will try that variety again. I think I'll just let the occasional radish bolt and then have a little bit for a garnish in the summertime. Red rambo radish makes a purple-colored pod that looks pretty cool!
Some recommendations from an old gardener: 1) Grow water-thirsty plants in the ground or large beds with heavier soil or some peat moss mixed in (Lemon Grass, celery, mint, lettuces...). In those small grow bags you will have a hard time keeping them wet enough to thrive and you will be wasting a LOT of our precious water (you are in a semi-desert zone and should try to conserve water as much as possible). 2) Plants that need to be dug up seasonally, such as potatoes, are much easier to grow in large containers than in the ground. When you have to dig them out of the ground you end up damaging many of them, which makes them spoil more easily and not store well. I grow mine in large tubs or half whiskey barrels. Then when it's time to harvest you just turn it over and the potatoes just spill out, making it really easy and much less labor intensive. And FYI, in So Cal you should start your potatoes in the fall, rather than spring, so they have longer to grow and mature before it gets hot. Same goes for onions and garlic. Wishing you the best!
Yes please on the vertical garden planters! It would be great to hear why you'd plant some things in the vertical planter vs other kinds of planters if you have different options available.
I always include Great Lakes lettuce in my garden. It is a reliable heading lettuce which remains crisp and crunchy. You can also harvest leaves as it grows.
Definitely inspired me to grow some flowers and veggies! I’m mostly in love with my indoor plants but seeing your garden made me think i should try. Can’t wait to see the updates especially on that big cabbage and your garlic selections.
Its February 2, and I am still harvesting tomatoes in my Southern San Joaquin Valley garden...it may seem expensive to live here, until you weigh the cost against the benefits :)
I'm in Virginia and technically started in November, lol. I'm 100% indoor, started with peppers, and had to do quite a bit of improvised building but I'm having a blast in this cold, cold winter. My peppers survived cats TWICE and I've failed a few seed starts but I'm succeeding to the point of too many plants getting big with nowhere safe to go, lol.
That giant cabbage sounds like such a fun project!! I'm super excited for the gardening season in Oregon this year - I'm going to try a variety of okra called Candle Fire, supposedly it can do well even in northern climates. Fingers crossed!
I'm seeing this one again and enjoying it again. Kevin has some very good hints and suggestions. Not in this video but I was not aware that beet seeds produce more than one plant. Kevin is very informative in all of his videos. Thank You very much!!
I love this channel and all your helpful videos. Here in Sweden it's -10c this morning and my outdoor season won't start until May. (But I've been impatiently pre-seeding already - leeks, strawberries, cabbage, celery and broccoli) I'm very very jealous of your lovely long seasons.
Just a suggestion if you are thinking about getting Bees. Go with flow hive because you don't kill the bee's when processing the honey. The bees could help pollinate the garden and flowers.
I am preposing the new movement, ‘Lazy gardening’!😀 We discovered lazy No Dig beds and lazy composting (in individual containers). Now... What and how can you do LAZY PLANTING of fruits and vegetables?
This sounds like a great idea 😂 seriously though, if you can find a way to get great results with minimal time and effort then you’re far more likely to keep on growing, and we think this could mean a lot more people could fit at least some growing into their busy lives 😊
I live in 6b, in Ohio's clay soil (close to the lake) and soggy heat in the summer. Praying with more planning (my placement was all wrong due to afternoon shade) and getting a little early start will give me an actual yield of tomatoes (what I truly wanted) and veggies this year. Had very little flowers in summer so splurged and got so many flowers, some native, some not. I also really love golden beets and want to plant some this year so I can actually can some!
Radish pods are quite yummy. Not as spicy as the root crop. Pick young and they are very tender. More fibrous/stringy as they get bigger. Similar to a green bean, held up to waterbath pickling. I had no luck getting a root on my French breakfast and white icicle varieties last year so left a few in to go to seed and the pods were just great. Something I will do every year going forward
Living in Chico, I appreciate you sporting the Sierra Nevada hat! Been catching up on your videos as my wife and I get ready to start gardening in our new home 🏠 !
Looking at you planting stuff with greenery all around, as I am looking out my windows at lands filled with snow and -15°C temperatures. Just 4 more months to go before I can do the same 😂🤦♀️
I just planted my flower seeds indoors for my spring and summer flower pots 4 days ago. I saw that most have already started to sprout . Still waiting for the carrots , lettuce , onions, and cauliflower that were planted outside to sprout .
I'd love to see a video all about pollinator-attractors.. my kiddo loves bumblebees and hummingbirds so I want to add a few plants to my edible garden specifically to attract those.
Oh come on Kevin! I had all my spring garden planned out and now you throw all these cool new varieties with the colors and hardiness for zone 10 at us! I guess I’ll have to make sure I get the mail over the next few weeks so my DH doesn’t have more ammo to tease me with because I have some new cultivars to order. “Don’t you have enough seeds?” is a popular refrain in my house. Keep on sharing! U are much appreciated. :)
I’m in zone 4b and just started my first round of seeds indoors. I look forward to watching your garden updates while I’m doing my indoor seed sowing and care!
Love to see the varieties you'll be growing (those images really helped visualise the diversity)! Truly an Epic beginning to this year's gardening season!
So exciting and beautiful. Love to try new plants every year! Last year all the way up in Montana on top of the Canada border i decided I had to try artichokes. I was astounded by there beauty and health. Even more so by the taste of an artichoke right off its bush. We had a very hard very early freeze on labor day. Only our cruciferous and artichokes survived and flourished. I grow garlic, hard and soft every year. I plant early with my cold weather plants and its the last that I harvest in late fall. I never winter it. My heads are usually 3 inches across with 5 to 7 cloves and taste great even tho they are small. I tried the fall planting a few times here but it just never worked so I just found a way around it. A beautiful video. Thank you.
Fantastic video, as usual! I'd like to see more vertical garden growing videos. I have a greenstalk and a few diy setups and am still experimenting on spacing and what grows best. Would love more ideas! Also, my rat's tail radish is growing like crazy - much better than it did during the warmer months!
I'm did Paris Market carrots last year and will be doing those again this year, those really grew good for me I had a lot. I did Danvers half long last year and those did well.This year I am gonna do some more carrots, multi colored carrots, black nebula, some from high mowing seed company and some other ones, I did radishes last year, they did better last year than year before, I'm doing some that you showed here and then some other varieties. I'm doing some of the varieties like freckles lettuce your doing. My lettuce grew well for me and I was even able to grow a second cutting of my lettuce, I have so many I can't remember all their names to grow, from high mowing. Growing more broccoli than last year, and I got a lot from transplants from the store last year, a purple broccoli , had a lot of broccoli but intend to be main crop this year and I have a few more seeds than last year of broccoli, so hope my broccoli will grow from seed, but I have done a viability seed testing and those have come up. I want to do more cauliflower last year could not find a lot of seeds for cauliflower nither this year that I could grow up here, last year was a lot of transplants looks like this year to. I only found one package of cauliflower seeds up here. Letting you know last year I grew cabbage seeds from up here, Alaska, they were not the giant ones we have up here, but were from a package we got at home depot, but I tell you what I had never grown cabbage before and these were the biggest cabbage I had, my transplants didn't even grow that big! I had a 20 pounder that I weighed, the thing was massive, I grew it in one of those blue sterilite tubs, the leaves were just huge, I babied that thing all summer! I had 4 from seed that one another that was 10 lbs., and 2 that were smaller. I will be growing zucchini again from seed, they grew like gang busters last year, and I had just a lot of zucchini. Trying again my hand at cucumbers and see if they will produce this year, I had some from seed about 3 but after I hardened and put them into ground along with transplants I had gotten and put in ground, raised bed, they did not make it. I would like to grow some beans as well.
I suggest growing the Borage in the raised garden bed next to the Dwarf Sunflowers. Those tiny pots on that stand won’t hold up a one metre high plant like Borage. You could put the Cosmos in those small pot stands instead.
Thank you for these videos. It's so helpful to have advice from other gardeners! I love seeing videos from this channel. Always makes me want to plant more! :)
I am SO jealous.. I live in north Iowa and this Sunday it is going to be a high of -5f. I WISH i was planning my spring garden now. Thanks for letting us live vicariously through you ^^
I planted the russian red garlic. The winter so far has been very mild, and they are already sprouting. Might try a round two because it will totally snow again this spring.
Pineapple sage, chiseled on top of a fresh tabbouleh, can be a good idea. I noticed that you have quiet some species with medicinal properties. Maybe, in a near future, you could talk about those benefits too.
Awesome video! I can’t wait to watch the progress of these new gardens! I’ll be moving in about 2 years and starting from scratch again like this. Thanks for showing that it can be done while creating quality videos at the same time!! Best of luck in all you grow! 👩🌾
I really would love to see you grow okra. The plants end up looking pretty with hibiscus flowers. I was able to get my hands on pink Okra and I am so excited.
Ok - so this video got me to hit the subscribe button. I am so excited about the challenge I have set up for myself. I haven't done a garden of this size before, but I got my plan. In that plan I am trying pumpkin and watermelon. Everyone tells me it will never work, I don't have enough room, and so on. Challenge accepted! I am going vertical and see how it goes. But that has thumbs twitching!
Wow weldone! Your garden looks really well kept. Thank you for sharing this video. Keep up the good work . That is really smart laying down cardboard first to prevent weeds . I’ve never thought of that before. Thank you for these great tips
Soooo helpful & insightful. Thanks!.... But... now I want to grow ALL THE THINGS! LOL. So many cool varieties to try. I would LOVE to see videos of what you do in Summer & Fall/Winter. Your videos have taught a lot about improving my gardening here in San Diego. Thank you so much!
I’m growing 6 different types of tomatoes, 5 of which I’ve never tried before. 5 different types of sweet peppers and of course 2 types of Jalapeños and some Fresno as well. EXCITED, thanks Kevin for all of your inspiration! Some things are going in grow bags, some in nursery cans or buckets, as well as in ground!!!
I grew rat tail radish for the first time last year and it has earned a place in my garden this year, one caution: aphids love it, and mice also like to nip the the stalks off, but I deal with it, the pods are tasty and spicy but not too hot.
@@KeruuKat And it's extremely easy to grow, a totally no fuss plant, all you have to do is water and then harvest it occasionally. Mine grow really well in containers - about 2 gallon sized. Our winters get down to about 20 degrees, zone 8b, but I've overwintered my stevia the last couple of years under a roll of heavy plastic. They survive without watering from November until April. They'll even grow without any direct sun.
I hope you're prepared for the massive amour of space that the luffa vines will take up. I'm afraid I or 2 of those plants would take my entire growing space.
@@greeneyedlady5580 i believe I'm in the same zone, and I used to grow Stevia! Wasnt a huge fan of the pure flavor, and I didn't bother to overwinter it, although it was killer to add to loose tea!
love the content!! something i’m trying this year is growing native flowering plants in/adjacent to my veggie garden to attract more native pollinators. possible video idea?
