Your life's path has really changed. From getting your PhD to becoming a full time RU-vidr and gardener. Not mentioning all the work you do at Epic. Warehouseman, shipping clerk, garden tender, content creator. How has your family responded to that? Perhaps you could make a video and share details on the swift alteration of your course.
It has been quite a crazy change in many different ways! It was a culture shock for my parents and family to understand what the heck I am doing but now its proven itself out and everyone is happy and proud. I may do a years in review video sometime during the winter, that could be a fun experience.
OMG Jaques. I LOVE broccolini! it worked out SO well to give me about 3-4 months of steady broccolini enough for stir fry's every week, sometimes multiple stir frys a week
I started my first round of cool season veg in August and just planted them yesterday. I started my second round of seeds yesterday. We are having unusual cool overcast weather here but I will take it over heat and Santa Ana winds.
I was waiting and waiting for you to say peas. My mom always starts them in early October so maybe it’s a tad early. I actually like the taste of beets and I’m determined to grow enough this year to pickle!
So, I'm still a novice gardener (always learning! your videos have helped a lot! thank you!) and tried planting some patio choice yellow cherry tomatoes in May. They got stunted and I didn't have the right soil mix, they kinda died in the cell, so I shrugged and moved on. I tried again in July so I could start them outside, this time with a much more appropriate mix with vermiculite, some compost for nutrition, and a humidity dome so they wouldn't dry out in the heat of the day. They FLOURISHED, and then I panicked because good god what am I going to do with tomato seedlings in JULY?? So I potted them up, planted them out, and now I have six determinate tomato plants growing in my greenstalk, flowering and enjoying this quite elongated summer we're having. Fingers crossed that they produce!
If they are that far a long then you should be good and will be gifted with a nice bonus harvest! Love the insight and observations you made to get around the issues you had!
I envy your seasons my friend. Here in Montreal (Canada) I have what feels like a tiny window of growing time. I soooo wish I could plant brassicas now 😢 You're garden is beautiful. I love the thriving life evidenced all around you.
@@jacquesinthegarden it's all for a good cause 😄 Actually if you want to see a permaculture guy from my neck of the woods who has a MIND BLOWING food forest check out Canadian Permaculture Legacy. This guy is an engineer and deeply researches what he does (for our climate). Amazing place. He has a pond/pool for him AND the wildlife. Pretty snaz 😄
This video gives me hope. I was starting to think garden was only feasible if you like tomatoes..and I eat a tomatoe here and there but I wouldn't grow them, I just don't eat that many. Beets, on the other hand are my favorites, including that earthy taste - yum! Also love broccoli.
Hi Jacques, did you ever do an update on the peppers that you seeded a few months ago? I know you were trying some new to you varieties. How did it go? Can we get a favorites video on the peppers?
Dear Jacques I like the style of your garden so much. Looks like you are in nature (not in a museum..Exhibit A, Exhibit B) 😄 It reminds me of the garden of my grandma, who passed away this February. She loved mixing flowers and vegetables and fruits together. It is not common in my land (Slovakia), so she was "very exotic" in the small town, where she lived hihihi I like our channel very much, you brighten up may day. I wish you a great harvest.....and waiting for your payback to monsieur Kevin 😉😊💚 Btw. we call Snapdragons "little mouth", because, when they bloom and you push the flower gently from the sides it opens like a mouth :)
Thank you for the kind words! The looser mixed style like this is absolutely my favorite, visiting Bulgaria as a child must have given me a lot of inspiration that stuck around!
I had great luck with the smaller Tiara cabbage last year after failing on cabbage timing the previous year. My garden isn't as big as yours and it's really perfect for the small garden. I've got 6 sprouts in the ground right now.
Jacques thank you for your videos brotha teaching me a bunch🙏🏽 bro u gotta try growing weed it’s real pretty I’ll send u seeds if u want. And even tho u guest on epic garden, we all know u the pro. Keep it pushin G 🦍
I totally enjoy all your videos and have learned so much! I was wondering if you have made a video on how to preserve seeds from current crops for next year s garden?
I am so lucky to have both NH and TX gardens. I am going to try garlic here in NH again before i go back to Tx. We'll see next may/june if i have success
First time starting a fall garden. You and Kevin gave me the hope to try. Got radish, beets, cabbage, spinach, peas, and some lettuce mix going. Already harvested and made a salad from my lettuce mix.🎉🎉
I started a bunch of seeds at the beginning of the month but the on thing that came up was one sunflower. Hopefully the second round I start tomorrow will fair better.
I enjoy these seed starting videos so much. Wish i saw more! Understandably, that would be a lot of seeds lol 😅my seeds dont always gerninate or live though lol
I had to laugh at your cauliflower comments. I grew seedlings of "Graffiti" cauliflower from a garden centre this year. Lovely heads, magenta pink on top and white on the bottom. When I steamed them, they turned a dark blueberry blue on top with grey blue underneath. I just couldn't eat them, they looked so weird.🤣
Dear Jacques, this is my first time starting a fall garden. With everything dying off like tomatoes - do I pull the whole plant (roots and all) out of the ground? Amend after? What do I do to prep my raised beds? Thank you...
I’m not an expert, but in Central Texas we don’t see much production in our tomatoes in the summer. But, if you can keep them alive, even if they’re a little sad looking, as long as you watered and fertilized, that’s when my tomato plants start flowering and actually giving me fruit… USUALLY! This year has been weird, weather wise, so it’s entirely possible that we’ll wake up to an arctic freeze one morning; from 104° to freezing. JK, sorta’! Just sayin’…but that’s only if you are in a warmer climate with enough time for them to mature. Last year, in late November, when, expecting our first freeze that night, I pulled 21 small green tomatoes off of one plant that I still had, and just let them ripen in the house; more than I’d gotten all spring/summer. Good luck, if you haven’t pulled them already.
Hi there! It can be a little varied depending on what your goals are. If you live somewhere where it will get cold soon like if it gets under 50 degrees within a month then your tomatoes are done for. In general I like to snip the plants at soil level so that I leave the roots in the ground to decompose. This returns some of the nutrients back to the soil. After growing plants like tomatoes which are considered "heavy feeders" aka they use a lot of nutrients, it is best to add some slow release fertilizer or at least compost to re-amend the bed. With raised beds they usually start to settle leaving room at the top which gives you a good opportunity to add more soil or compost!
Thanks so much @@jacquesinthegarden for taking the time to make a detailed reply. :) I live north of you in SD county. I will do what you advise, thanks so much again.
I grew Avalanche for the first time this year and second this rec. Avalanche doesn't have the earthy/"dirt" flavor that many people find off-putting with beets. In general, red > yellow > white when it comes to earthy flavors in beets.
I struggle with growing flowers from seeds. I would get them to germinate and then nothing. im in zone 10b but in florida. Any advice??? Would you consider doing a seed to flower video for snapdragon?
Hi Jacque…appreciate you and all you share! I’m in Orange cty 10b, sow flower seeds indoors and want to switch outdoors. What did you do with all the rain we got last winter/spring? Did you move trays inside, undercover? Can the seedlings stay outside from fall to transplanting in spring? Is there anytime/anything I should be aware? Newbie here and have watched all your seed videos. Thanks again for helping me
I usually go straight outdoors all the time! The rain was stressful but ultimately where I am it didn't end up being a problem. For outdoors seed starting the most important thing is to protect yourself from the wind. Winter wind can be very drying and chilly so placing your seedlings somewhere that doesn't get constant wind is best!
Thanks Jacques! When you say get your fall seeds/plants in early exactly what month are you referring too? August? September? It’s mid September and I’m starting seeds and have some I started end of August/ beginning of September.
I try to get seeds started in August and September. I begin transplanting in September and try to get as much as passible in the ground before mid October! Anything planted later is "fine" but won't likely produce until spring time.
This is my first fall season and I just cannot figure out how to get seeds going for transplant. I have tried different lights, soil blocks, trays, and they sprout but then stop growing (or don’t sprout at all). Any video you have that covers it all? I’ve watched so many seed starting videos and I’m doing what they say to do and still no luck
For the past 2 years I've had trouble growing beets! They are either stunted or leggy and don't produce a bulb. Any ideas on how to get them to produce better? I appreciate any advice!
There is a chance you have the issue of no boron in your soil. Beets will simply not grow without that micro nutrient, if that is the case adding something like rock dust or azomite would help full in the nutrient gaps.
Hello, so if I plant too late and there's not enough sun, plants will die and won't regrow in spring? Would I have to redo by overwinter new seeds in trays then transplant in spring?
They won't die! They will just grow super super slow and basically enter stasis. So there is nothing bad about it just that you won't et a harvest until late winter or early spring!
@@arthursoto4285 nah doesn’t really work here. Too much rain and too cold in the clay soil makes even garlic rot or get severely stunted. But I live in north west Europe so my growing season is like 5 months
Currently we don't have a straight up broccolini style variety but Di Cicco is very close, it produces one head and then after that it will crank out TONS of side shoots which are just like broccolini www.botanicalinterests.com/products/di-cicco-broccoli-seeds
Do you happen to know if all calendulas are edible or only certain varieties? Also are only the flowers edible or the leaves as well? Just curious. I have lots of mystery calendulas growing in my garden that self seed every year, but I’m scared to eat them since I don’t remember what variety they are! Very easy to grow at least in my yard. Once they start they come back all the time and tend to spread around.
I believe all varieties of Calendula are edible; however, some are most often used to make salves and other skincare items. Usually those are the sticker varieties as they have a higher content of the medicinal properties.
Just like someone else said, they should all be edible but some will be more "potent" than others making them more ideal for producing things like salves.
*sob*not you too?! I was holding out hope that only Kevin didn't like them, haha bc I love nasturtiums; yumm so peppery - i even had some pickled nasturtium seeds this morning with my gluten free bagel and halloumi
I don't think they're great but I do eat them regularly fresh from the garden. I've even had cookies that A gal made for a wedding made from the nasturtiums in my garden. They were good and the peppery flavor was minimal.
Warm weather garden states always confuse me😂. Is there ever a down time? I would burnout. I just happily cleared out some tomatoes. I would like a long fall as it’s when the peppers, Brussels, broccoli and fall flowers are doing great. There was a frost up north last week so not much time left. You spoke of sifting potting soil and all I can think of is a bag I opened and was all bark😂. That I have😂😂
Here in the SoCal, very little down time unless we are in a drought. For example, this August we had over three inches of rain, which is unusual, because our usual rainfall total for August is about 0.15 inches. Consequently, weeds everywhere, which is unusual for this time of year.
It is sort of exhausting to never have a break because it also means the diseases and pests never get a break! It is a weird garden season that never ends and its all in the balance of random winter and spring heatwaves and drought! Also bark loaded soils are the worst!
@@jacquesinthegarden the drought I know all too well this year, it’s been extreme. We now are getting ‘some’ rain, but we will take all we can get before winter freeze as the trees are suffering. Z5, WI.
I find that is always worth it to push the season with a few plants, not enough to be an investment but enough to be able to sneak away with a good bonus harvest!
Hey! I just got some of those granex (?) onion and some french shallot seeds on an adhd nursery whim. Never grown onions before (because I thought they took about a thousand years) but I'm going for it. I've watched about every available onion growing video on YT, but still not sure if I should start them indoors or just put them in a bed... It's still damn hot outside.
@@jacquesinthegarden Texas coast, zone 9-10ish? Microclimates for days around here, haha. South facing side of the house has had the same tender tropicals thriving for like 7 years. The back yard though... even the natives commit suicide. I'd be ecstatic if I could just get like, 4 tomatoes. This summer has been brutal.
It's weird that you said "beet transplants really well" while Botanical Interest website does not recommend to sow inside because they say beet do not like root disturbance.
It is one of those things that historically people have avoided but after seeing many farmers preach transplanting them I tried and have had great success doing so!
