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I ran out and planted horseradish this morning. I always have native sunflowers, they are beautiful and have edible summer greens. Right before fall I cut the leaves and dehydrate them. This year I expect tons of purslane and will try pickling it. I love Daikon radishes and also stir fry them. I grate them into salads. Easy to grow in my cool mountain garden. Ditto potatoes. I freeze dry potato slices. I just ordered a round Korean cast iron hibachi and a cast iron wok. It only needs a few charcoal briquettes. I will cook more outside this year. A small hibachi and wok! My winner was Coyote tomatoes, they produced here in the mountains, too cold for most varieties. They are indeterminate and got huge and full of tomatoes.
I do a lot of herbs, I just wash them the day before in the plant, next day cut it put it in a tray and let it dry naturally, because that way I preserve their natural oils. Every time gives me s great resort. Preserves their aroma too.
My wife and I got a fig twig from a friend of ours that was about 12 inched long and about a 1/4 inch thick. we planted it in our yard and we just let it go without trimming it at all. It grew to about 12 feet high and about 8 feet wide. We canned the figs and got 36 jars of fig jam. Last year we did trim it and it grew back to it's original size, and we are planning to trim it again this year in february.
👋 neighbor! I am just North of you in Spring Hill. Thank you so much for your content! I am from IL and always had successful gardens and feel like a complete failure here. You are giving me so much amazing information, I am sooo excited to try again this year. I appreciate you.
that is fascinating about the monarchs! Loved everything you covered! Thank you for all this content. Look forward to fruit tree info too! I planted apple trees two yrs ago but am a novice and will love to learn from watching and learning from your channel! I struggle with planting flower seeds hopefully this yr I can plant them. yey, canning complete meals…wow that’s awesome! Looking forward to all this info! I love all the things you mentioned for your goals! My goal is to cont to grow the soil while i recover so i am going to order the hemp you mentioned!
I think you will love the Sunn hemp. It’s really pretty when it grows and the plants that went into the bed after it did so amazing. It made me a believer of cover cropping
What an ambitious plan! I believe the use of shade cloth, insect netting, and plankets go a long way to extend growing seasons and protect plants. My number one goal is to grow enough determinate Roma/San Marzano tomatoes to can for at least six months supply. I’m also looking for the most productive varieties so I don’t have to grow a lot of plants. My garden is completely in grow bags and garden towers that are located on my driveway. It is the only place that receives sun.
IDK why everyone says celery doesn’t grow well in central FL just east of I75 the celery fields were recently sold to Sarasota County and there is a library , park and fire station. Growing up it produced a good deal on the celery in he US. They take huge amounts of water. They used to routinely flood he celery fields in Sarasota then let them dry out.
I got the same canner this year and it’s been wonderful. I canned up chili, chicken, bone broth, black eyed peas, beans, ranch style beans (my favorite canned kind), carrots, homegrown potatoes, beef stew, homemade salsa, apple pie filling and bunch more. I’m hoping this next year to grow enough tomatoes to canned several dozen pints of diced tomatoes because I use them almost daily! My next goal is to grow enough green beans to can 40 pints for next year (about a year’s supply for us). I also want to grow a year’s supply of onions and garlic as well as potatoes and sweet potatoes and dry beans. I’ll be making teepee trellises for the pole beans and dry beans. I also want to plant so many cow peas over the summer! I only got about a pound of cowpeas this year but I was late to the party on this amazing crop for southern gardens! Man I’ve been missing out! They’re so much fun to grow! I have not made my goal yet of growing enough broccoli or cauliflower for a year yet but I’m hoping I can get more to grow this spring. I got my very first harvest of decent (and delicious!) cauliflower right before Christmas and I had planted those in March from seed (I now know I waited too long and they got stunted in the heat even though I had them in shade some plants didn’t make it). I’ve never grown any fully developed broccoli, only the sprouting kind which I planted by mistake produced some off shoots but never a full head of broccoli. 🤷🏻♀️Probably too hot. I am growing all my brassicas now and lettuces and so much spinach and chard! So much to look forward to this next year. I have met my goal for cooked greens either canned or frozen. So happy about that. Love this video. So much information and inspiration for the new year. Thank you!
Wow! You have made some amazing progress. That’s awesome. My next canning batch will be canned corn relish with pickled peppers. I grew the MIGardener purple cauliflower this year and it has done really well.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I’m in awe of your skills! I am just super happy to grow stuff that’s actually edible sometimes lol. 😂 It’s always ugly vegetables but I appreciate that now after hearing your take on those “ugly” vegetables. Thank you for that!
My goals for this year are to increase my squash production. I have tried butternut and Seminole Pumpkin, but the bugs or fungus always get them. I also would like to make more teas from my herbs and fruit. Would love to see more videos from you on making teas.
So many great lessons learned, thanks for sharing so that we can all benefit. When you mentioned wanting to branch out into preserving more “ready made meals”, I immediately thought about Becky at Acre Homestead. You’ve got to check her out, she is great at sharing her knowledge and inspiration about all things preserving and cooking. I think you will enjoy watching her.
What an amazing year! Of course I’m always learning from you and I’m so happy you’ve fallen in love with native plants! Here’s to another year of gardening 👩🌾
I am enjoying watching your video. I have a question:: "What Kind of AVOCADO do you grow", I live in the same zone Ormond Beach near Barberville. I finally have 2 plants from seeds I grew myself, but not sure if it stays cold in winter.
Really enjoyed the segment on your fruit trees, I can't wait to purchase a bunch of fruit trees for my new house! Have you grown mango before? That's the one fruit I'm so excited about to grow, and even though they say you can't grow coconut in Zone 9B, I'm still going to try for it hehe
I tried several years ago but we had some crazy cold temperatures during the winter and it died. Happened twice in a row so I paused that dream for a bit
Cant wait for canning for meals and what you come up with. I grew a bunch of varieties of crops to see what works for me here in 10a vero beach. Im expanding the garden from 4000sqft to 6000sqft currently. Been thinking about selling some produce out of the back of my truck. Simple crops that grow well for us like sweet potato, banana, egg plant, romain lettuce and such.
Germinating peppers has always been tough for me. Two ways that are foolproof for me is in the aerogarden and then transfer them when they are about 3-4 inches tall or starting the seeds in a wet paper towel inside a baggie in the warmest spot in your house. Once they sprout, put them in soil. If you have heat mats, I’m told that works well inside too.
Really enjoyed the video. I was listening to an expert that grew seed potatoes and he said that Yukon Gold was the diva of potatoes and would only make 3 or 4 potatoes per plant. Red potatoes like Red Lesoda hasve produced much better for me. My sweet potatoes production was really bad this year, maybe due to drought and extreme heat this year in Texas.
#1 goal = tag along w Patrina on her journey. I have a very long way just to catch up though. Happy New Year ‘24. Hopefully it will be a turn around year where life is filled with peace, kindness and good will. 🥳
Thanks for such great info!!! In West Palm Beach, south Florida, you said we’re one month difference on your monthly garden plannings. So in January, do I refer to December or February?
This is a little confusing but in winter you are one month before me and in summer you are one month after me. The way to think about it is you get warmer faster than me in spring and it takes you longer to cool off than me in fall. So halfway through the year you swap. Broccoli for example. I can start mine in September but you want to wait till October. Tomatoes I can start in February but you want to start in January. Hope that helps.
This was great! I was also remembering things as you went along. My goals are also very ambitious but very attainable. Major 1 is doubling my in ground space. I have already planted out 3 30 ft rows with cold tolerant plants. Have a couple 30ft row covers to cover the littles when we have our temp dips. Also adding a 5×5 green house to help jumpstart spring harvest. Let's grow! ❤
Hi Patrina, Off topic but can you do or do you have a vid on how often you fertilize? After plants are growing I’ve been using fish emulsion (Nit) once a week and tomato tone or garden tone approx 1x/month ocassiinally add in some bonemeal (Phos) and/or kelp (maybe for Pot).
I actually do have a fertilizer video that I’ll link below. But your schedule is the same as mine. Weekly with fish fertilizer and once monthly with granular gardentone. During the summers I back off a lot because the types of veggies I grow (beans) but this time of year, I stick to that schedule. INCREASE YOUR YIELDS! How to Fertilize Your Vegetable Garden ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-myW7PHW_Lrs.html
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a thank you for saving the day - again. Patrina, you are Superwoman. I know that bc I’ve never seen you and her in the same place at the same time yet you are always accomplishing great feats 😉
With the heat being the way it is in Florida where are you storing your canned foods ? I really want to get a canner but I'm concerned about where to store after canning. I live in swfl zone 10a. We have a separate stand alone garage that would be perfect but it doesn't have AC and from what I'm reading the food would not last. Any tips would be appreciated.
Your research is correct. You shouldn’t store in a place that gets up to 90 degrees which a shed or garage would down here. I store mine inside near my laundry room. My husband built me some extra shelves there. I have a pantry tour video of that new space.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I make it myself with anything that is dry and can easily be burned (anything from paper, to dry weeds, to super dry produce; even dry chicken manure can work). The trick is to smother the burn pile with water once the flames die back, and the top just begins to look like ashes. After drenching, the bottom should be fully black charcoal, and there may only be 20-30% of the mass remaining. I have heard you can bury the coals to save water, but I'm not sure how deep? Any air infiltration will continue the burn, and turn hot char into ashes; that's why stopping the process at the char stage is so important. This is biochar. Biochar = charcoal, it's one in the same, but Agrichar is a copyright and saying "i put charcoal in my garden" sounds strange to the uninitiated, so that's why it's often refered to as biochar.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I will add that if you're in a pinch or cannot access a burn pit, you CAN buy charcoal but it is very expensive for natural, non pressed hardwood (DO NOT BUY PRESSED NUGGETS!!!). The key is that when you make it yourself from your own materials, some will have different spacing between cell structures, creating dynamic porosity at a microscopic scale. Fungi mycelia can take advantage of smaller pore spaces than plants roots, so this is what I think helped my situation during water stressed times.
This was such a pleasure to watch! I'm inspired to create goals for next year. 2023 was my first full year of gardening, and I had plenty of failures but some successes too. Next year, I want to learn preserving methods too, and I'd love to try making some herbal remedies. I live in the FL panhandle, so I'm learning what food and flowers I can grow well and what I should avoid for the sake of my tiny ecosystem and sanity 😁 I haven't really paid close attention to specific varieties, but that would be good to experiment with too. When it comes to goal-setting, I think I struggle most with wanting to do everything all at once instead of pacing myself. It's also important to make room for life to happen when you are making plans 😁
You are absolutely right! 1-2 small goals per season usually works out well for me. And by doing it per season, by the end you of the year you could have 8 goals completed or skip a season that you know is going to have a lot going on.
At first, I was thinking, wow that's a long video but by the end I was saying oh is that all, lol. Loved traveling back through the year with you. It reminded me of all I've grown this year. Successes & failures, mostly success though. I've learned a lot this year. This was the first time I've ever grown so many different things. This year I want MORE, lol. I now know how big some plants get & how much they spread so I'll be better at planning. I really want to learn canning. I would love to produce some food & be able to store it for later on in the year. I'm looking at my seeds & trying to figure out what to grow. I would love to know when you plant your seedlings for spring. I've never had luck with planting seeds indoors but then I've never had luck growing vegetables. If I've conquered one, I can do the other. Thanks again, I love watching your videos.
I was wondering if it might have been too long. I’m so glad you found it enjoyable. I’m actually starting seeds this week. In fact, next weeks video is all about spring garden planning with the dates I’m starting all the seeds. 💚
Hi Petrina! Hope you had a good Christmas 🎄. Love how you summarize all your hard work with us. Quick Q. What would you suggest it'll be good to use for the tomatoes Florida weave? I'd like to try it.TIA❤ Btw, that Petunia inside...was incredible! I've tried and they died💔. My goal this year is to learn about cover crops and chop and drop. Maybe flowers...love this video a lot!🥰👍💕💗
Thank you so much 💚 The Florida weave works okay but I’m going to try growing them up a straight wire trellis this season. Always in search of an easy tomato support method.
@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I have tried the single cord tomatoes trellis with the tomato hooks and clips but is not working great with the indeterminate. So I think I'll combine it with the Florida weave. Thanks for your response. Happy New Year 🎉
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a if there are other people in your neighborhood with avocado trees, there’s a decent chance cross-pollination will still take place
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I find that avocado trees grow quite slowly. You can also grow a second one in a pot for cross pollination purposes and still get a few avocados off the potted tree 🥑
@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I will have to watch it a second time to take notes. There are so many good nuggets. You have gotten a new subscriber. Thanks again
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a thank you! I have my best fall/winter garden yet this year. I have been following your advice about when to start seeds and plant.
Thanks for the great video. For beefsteak tomatoes for Florida try seeds from Jerra’s garden. 🪴 bought a tomato seed from her and produced a tomato that weighed more than a pound, the biggest tomato I have grown in Florida. For garlic you can also try growing Red Toch.
...my issue coming from the North ... is the Sandy Soil ; so far the Bags of Top Soil they sell , i have found to be at least half Sand in them ; my original yard is mostly sand, so there is S-L-I-G-H-T improvements.... ...but where is a REAL BAG of Black Dirt as was as " common as dirt " in Wisconsin?
Lol. I know what you mean. I buy bulk compost mix from whitwam Organics which I use to fill my beds. Another option is wood chips. Laying out a thick layer will enrich the soil but it takes a year or so.