Your videos of late have been so informative. Really noticed a step up in these last few months. Thanks for all of your time put into these despite it being peak farming season. Cheers!
Nobody skips ahead in your videos! It's a pleasant joke you like to share, but it may be scaring your cat! Kitty is concerned that your conversations with us RU-vidrs seem too one-sided to be healthy. I wouldn't try to explain videography to a cat, but it is feline friendly to take the time to acknowledge its attention, even in the middle of recording. Thanks for the great videos!
I think an important note for curly kale is that it actually tastes better after a heavy frost. Here in Germany it will generally not be harvested until after a good freeze because it improves the flavor so much.
@@mtolboom i believe the plant needs to be actively photosynthesizing for it to produce more sugar, so I dont reckon putting harvested kale in the freezer will do anything.
I grew broccolinni once some years ago & never went back to growing "regular" head broccoli. Much more forgiving & tastier by my standards as I like the easily cooked stems.
Morning from Japan, you missed mentioning Daikon❗️ I saw the red round radish/Daikon, but not the huge long white👆I will be sowing mine in late August and through September. Don’t forget get parsley too. Happy growing 🌱🌱🌱🌱🎶 Cheers Dale🥒
Zone 3b. 6 months of winter. Winter garden is really just fall gardening here. Gets -35c quite often. There's no way im growing in that outside, so ive resorted to growing indoors under lights and also just taking winter off and doing another job instead
I've been more excited for the fall/winter grow season this year. Wildlife and weather have been a test of patience for me this summer than any other year I've grown in the past 25 years.
If you like the taste of them, you can't go wrong with asian greens like pak choi or bok choi. We grow some others as well and they are very pretty good in my zone 7b garden. I sprinkle cilantro and mustards together and then it's just a land race.
I over winter parsnips in my garden with no tunnel or mulch & havevest in the spring after ground thaws. The greens die off over the winter & grow new in the spring. They are direct sown at the sametime as the parsnips that I harvest in the fall. Last season for the first time I overwintered Leeks no tunnel or mulch. They were started from seed in early June & transplanted to the garden in late July. In the fall deer ate 50% of the green tops. They came back in the spring I harvested them in May. The spring harvested leeks weren't as big as my January stared & fall harvested. They tasted great & it was nice having garden fresh in May. I'm in WI zone 5a.
That is odd. Red Russian kale is really an underrated green. So delicious, get it when it is young! Lightly steam or saute it with olive oil and shallots. Not too shabby.
I'm in Texas zone 9 a/b, this year the weather has been trying... to say the least. I'm looking forward towards the fall. Getting my winter beds & seeds ready. Only thing that still is producing great are the tomatoes. My husband started more beans, carrots, beets and mostly root veggies. Happy gardening guys.
I'm in Texas zone 9a, and this fall/winter will be my first garden. I'm so excited! So far I have turnip, radish, spaghetti & Patty pan squashes, pumpkin (but I messed up & it's too late to harvest it for Halloween). I'd like to add either green or lima bean. I plan on starting planting next week. I can't wait!
@@amycortez3289 I don’t think that its to late to try growing pumpkins, Texas growing season is pretty long. You can try mimi pumpkins, but if you wanted ones for Halloween you need to start them in between June and July but I don’t see harm in still trying. Good luck and happy gardening
@@amycortez3289 it’s awesome, good luck with your other veggies. This week or weekend hopefully we can plant some tomato transplants, tomatillos, cauliflowers, broccoli and cabbage transplants.
Chervil makes it through the winter here in kentucky in an unheated greenhouse. Seems to grow actually. Parsley survives as well. Also mibuna, komatsuna, red viened sorrel, wild rocket or sylvetta arugula, Wasabi arugula
Chijimisai (cross between tatsoi and komatsuna or something like that) does great for me in the colder season here in central PA. Quick growing and delicious. Btw, a groundhog ate ALL of my fall broccoli seedlings today when I was hardening them off 🤬😫
Fantastic content! I will watch again at half-speed and take notes. So much great information. Book choi would probably be a candidate for planting now? Thanks Jesse. New sub.
Thanks,I'm learning. Yesterday I planted my first test of buckwheat sounds like let it grow then turning over and upgrade my soil .Finally took a step. Cover crops is new to me. Thanks for upgrading this old Gardener
We are in England. Much milder than when I started growing, only goes down to-5-7c for a few nights most years. Little snow. It’s the short days and low light levels that cause most problems. About to plant fennel and celery in tunnels for early winter which we follow with salad brassicas in November. Endive is great wallone my favourite variety. Not to bitter and grows so much faster than lettuce in winter. I’m also a big fan of minituna grows so well all winter, good weight in the leaf and tastes great. Started sowing this week. Also direct drill turnips outside, first week in August, green top or Milan purple top are both pretty hardy.
Just started my winter seeds today - 7b Georgia. I have had great luck with tuscan kale and chard and am expanding to bok choi, mizuna and curly kale. After seeing the great looking spinach, I may have to go out and get some seeds. Your videos are the best. I really enjoy them.
Hi there, new sub here. Thank you for sharing all this great info. I have yet to try keeping any garden plants over the winter but hope to this year and glad to have watched this video. Thanks again! Angela
My goodness, you crack me up! Thanks for your knowledge. Can hardly wait to start my fall and/ or my winter garden after my daughter gets married on August13th. You are an inspiration!!!
I’m in 6b Kansas. I grow kale, mostly red Russian which is my favorite and Swiss chard. I want to get better at growing carrots, beets and garlic. Something keeps digging up my garlic bulbs. I also grow micro greens.
We have purchased 4 gothic tunnels from farmers friend. With exchange and duty the set costs $4000 a piece. We just lost 2 to wind not even one season and have witnessed other farms lose them as well this year. Save your money don’t buy them, wait and invest in a greenhouse
@@notillgrowers thanks Jesse. Yes, I did catch tour comment in this video about the gothic catching wind. To be honest , the cost for us with exchange shipping just doesn’t justify the quality for us. We were so excited about having 4 this year and felt that finally we were at the next level. Such a blow to us and we are learning many others in Canada. Maybe our weather is worse
I am zone 6b (Boise, Idaho) and have several varieties of Kale, chard, lettuces (rouge d’hiver, Merveille des quatre saisons, Salanova), spinach and radicchio in our low hoop houses (Bel Fiore and Leonardo). Just 16 days left until Persephone so praying for more growth on my spinach. Most of our plants are starts from Aug -Sept and looking pretty good.
Hi! I grow them in raised beds that I turn into low poly tunnels during the winter. When it’s over 40 I open the ends to vent and if it’s going to be below 20 we would put a floating throw cover over the crops (but under the plastic poly cover).
I live in england where space is at a premium, im currently farming on about 1 square metre so advice from you guys has been much appreciated with what little ive got. Ive just about got room for salad greens, a row of radishes and thats it. Cant say im not jealous of people with bigger gardens/plots
We are in Kodiak,Ak and have difficulty growing anything past the beginning of November due to the ground freezing, the 4 hour days and the sun not rising over the horizon for 3 months. So we start everything that is a 60 day or less in August and harvest right before the ground freezes. Then in February we get our starts going for planting in March and hope that winter is behind us.
The timing of this video is perfect, two yrs ago I planted Sept 3 and was two late, last yr Aug 20th and was two late. This year I'm starting seed trays TODAY!
Love this video, mostly for the hidden nugget, "if you're not harvesting, planting, or marketing, you're not making money!" OK> great goal, but I still feel like I spend WAY too much time cultivating and pulling weeds (galinsoga is killing me here in 6b near Asheville, NC). I fear my weekly garden walks as I uncover more and more things that have gotten out of control! Just switched to living pathways which will dramatically reduce time spent cultivating paths so that feels good, but I still feel overwhelmed and unable to convert this 10,000 sf growing space into a business (in my case, this will be a personal chef business) In an upcoming video, I would love to hear some strategies to simplify cultivation, how much land is reasonable for one person, using perennials etc. Thanks again for the great content which is helping me adjust my mindset for success!
Shlum, Found your channel today. I am new to gardening and love your videos, you give so much information. Really loved your videos on cover crops. We are in south Texas and in zone 9A. Our soil is sand mostly. All the videos I have watched until yours said plant cover crops and never said what to do after excerp one I saw about 3 years ago said to till in the bio mass. I can finally build rich living soil because of your videos. Thanks so much for providing so much information and a bit of comedy. Shlum
Jesse, I live in the same zone as you. I just finished digging my potatoes and harvesting my corn. Am planning on following with cold hardy spinach as a cover crop/food source. Your thoughts on the soil health impact of this plan?
You definitely can do that BUT spinach will not germinate well in the heat. If you want a food source, consider a brassica mix (turnips, collards, kale, mustards, daikon, etc) and broadcast that and harvest as you please. A trick I learned from my mentor!
I plant parsnips around July 10th and I’ m just north of the River in southern OH. I left a few in the ground over winter and they bloomed beautifully in June.
These videos are amazing! And helpful, lotsa fun too, thank you! Oh and it’s wet wet here I just hope my potatoes can dry before it freezes too much lol but I’m learning and had a row of onions not take so I might try Brussel sprouts!
Thanks for all the knowledge in the video you have no idea how much some of the smaller growers appreciate the knowledge that you put out in the universe thank you very much for everything you do for us much appreciate it
Never met a Jesse that I didn't like. I showed you to my husband, also named Jesse, and you've been helping us fix our soil. (Originally typed soul, that would be unique if you can fix that too). Bought your book on soil and now you live on my table and in my phone. Enjoy your videos, humor and always learn a lot!
I can't believe how cold your winter can be. I'm inland Victoria, Australia on 36° south and the coldest we had this winter was -3 Celcius. No snow just frost. It reminds me how context is everything when it comes to growing. P.s. thanks for more amazing content. 👍
@@restorationhomestead9203 I am located in Kootenay mountains in BC Canada in 2021 highest summer temp 44 degrees celcius on June 30th, and then - 28 degree celcius in mid December.
I'm in London, 51 degrees north, and it rarely goes below freezing here in winter - when it does, down to minus 3 C or so is usually the lowest. Thanks to the warming effect of the Gulf Stream. Every few years it may get down to minus 6 but very unusual. This equates to a USDA zone 9a, but with low light levels in winter and much cooler summers than zone 9a it's not the same. Summers are generally mild just like winters, but in recent years (especially this year) have been very hot and very dry. Our biggest growing challenge is winter darkness, and spring and summer drought.
Interesting about the frilly kales. In my area Red Russian has all the name recognition. Most of my customers can recognize it at a glance and strongly prefer it.
Ku wan sett. Yeah, I'm from Rhode Island. Thank you so much, wish me luck... This will be my first winter crop here in tn. I'm in the foothills and it can be super windy! Spring storm demolished our store bought green house before I could even use it!😒
WE only cut tops for storage or if they look super rough, but otherwise we keep them. And I don't know that I have a preference between the cordless and small core. I usually grow bolero and a couple others slightly longer season for storage.
Probably another one coming out but YT brought me here anyway. My radishes, lettuce, broccoli and cilantro are started. The radishes are from my own seed and growing so fast. Cilantro is my own seed too but no signs yet. I would be happy if my red kale dies in the winter so I have no guilt in removing it 🤣 I already removed like half of it... it just grew bigger. It grew so well as one of my first plants but I just don't like the taste haha. And more is growing than I know what to do with. I think trying not to waste is part of the fun too. Worst case it has improved the soil and will be returned to it.
It is pronounced "qwan-sit". Also, if you do not already by this time in your life consistently wear a watch, you will be unlikely to do so. You are welcome to test my theory. It has proven itself many times. pun intended
I had broccoli in the winter, covered in snow, it was unharmed. Won't cabbage also do well in cold weather? Clearly you can use composting to generate heat all winter for your greenhouse tunnels if you can direct the warm humid air into them with a fan. Humidity might be a problem, condensing to ice on the plastic lining.
Québec zone 5 we eat winter vegetables until Christmas (January February-20C)urban greenhouses we dont have enough sun directly on the greenhouse A lot of 70 different of lettuce, mache regrow, spinach (perpetual and strawberry grow by it self), carrot,beetroot, radish,kolabry, different kale, leaf of celeri Amsterdam, green oignon this year I try garlic in the greenhouse Nice video it is important to talk about winter garden
Here in N.J. first frost for me is around Oct 24 to Oct 31 Halloween 👾👽👺👾 so I have about another 2 weeks or so to put in my root crops. I always look forward to new vids from you. Thanks so much for your knowledge.
I have tried to look up these growing zones before, but i were not able to find anything about what zone i am in, in Denmark. Where do you look these zones up?
Really like your channel. Chicago IL zone 5 or 6 I believe. I'm new Gardener. Lol. I do containers Gardening, no yard. Bummer. I don't know what to grow for winter and in containers?? Help me out if u will. Having fun watching your channel. Thanks Brother.
Somewhat related to this video. I purchased a jang seeder and have just started planting cover crops this year to improve my horrendous soil. My question is, how can I plant something like carrots, and other small seeds into a row that had a cover crop. Is there an implement? How long should I tarp the crop and should I cover with compost? Tilling isnt an option because I through away my tiller so I'd never be tempted again lol
Some people use sport shoes with spikes, others use boards with short nails sticking through. Just make sure you're planting at the correct depth for the variety.
Great question! I talk about this in my cover cropping videos, but essentially it's all about planning and cover crop choice. There is a playlist on our channel about cover cropping and those videos may be helpful!
This may be a dumb questions but that has never stopped me before. LOL... If you had a greenhouse, heated and cooled, LED lights for low light months, etc. Is it possible to grow most plants/veg year round by simulating the ideal environment for that/those particular plants? In other words, is there any impact to a plant's seasonality beyond the environmental changes? I'm intentionally excluding the cost factor for clarity's sake, just trying to understand the plant.
My Calculus 1 professor was the dean of the mathematics department. I feel like I'm back in his class when I watch your videos. I'm just not nearly smart enough to understand half of what you're talking about and I've never even heard of the other. At least I like gardening.
Quick question, I'm in zone 6b also, SE Pa. Should I start lettuce plugs for the high tunnel, or direct seed. When would yo direct seed lettuce in your high tunnel for harvest through the winter months. Thank you
would any experienced no-till grower review my plans for me? it's just three pages. I'm in British Columbia in zone 8b, and i intend to grow blueberries, red huckleberries, fruit and nut trees, kiwis, hops, potatoes, tomatoes, and hot peppers. thanks all
Seconded on "winter keeping stuff alive" -- at 51.5ºN with a mild temperate climate, things just... stop growing sometime in November, and don't really start again until February.
