I planted my carrot seeds underneath all my cucumber foliage this year and I am pretty sure I have close to 100% germination rate. It’s amazing. Gonna keep that relationship going.
Great suggestions especially love the recommended varieties! I will throw some tips as well :) for carrots, a variety that does well in heavy clay is called Danvers. A tip I just saw on James Prigioni's channel was to sow them then "mulch" them with a flat board on top for a week - sounds like the best way to keep it cool and moist while they pop for sure! Thanks Shannie, you & Baker Creek are killin' it!
Calendula repelling pests is probably the reason cabbage moths haven't bothered a kale plant which is surrounded by Calendula, Basil, Chives, Thyme, Sage. Combined must be enough to camouflage/ disguise scent of the kale plant.
Shanni is so knowledgeable and presents the content with such confidence. Very pleasurable to watch and learn from this lady. Thank you Baker Creek for the excellent information. Thanks from Mansfield!
😎Komatsuna - an Asian green 😊Carrots - Oxheart - strong roots go deep ☺Bunching onions 😃Calendula flowers - pest repelling qualities, medicinal, and has edible flowers 😄Kohlrabi 😍Cabbage from starts - mulch them and keep watered 😊Beets - harvest after a frost 😄Broccoli - plant transplants, taste does improve after a light frost 😃Parsley - cool weather plants rareseeds.com
I LOVE these videos! I share them too as a lot of my friends ask how I grow what I do (freely I’ve received so I freely share the info!!!). I bought many seeds because you guys did a special video on that variety (orangelo watermelon for example). Keep it up! You’re doing a fab job!
Kalibos cabbage is beautiful! Between the deer, rabbits and squirrels, I don't see myself being successful until I find a way to keep them away, but your videos make me wish I could grow whatever I like.
These videos are so great, I hope you continue doing them for years so when you upload I know what to do. I can do perennials but annuals take more knowledge and experience. i'm just learning on my own over the internet.
Shannie, i am si grateful to you and Baker Creek, my all time favorite seed source! I purchased a lot of seeds this spring hoping to plant a large garden but constrain our house and deer pressure delayed my planting. I am so encouraged by your July snd August planting tops that I am going to go for it and try to plant some late season crops. Looking forward to Calendula, brassicas, carrots beets and parsley this fall. Hoping you will have more videos throughout the year. I had mixed success this year with my starts. Some are doing great while others totally died, so I would like information about how to tell when is the best tone to set them out. We did have a heat wave in our area but seedlings planted a few feet apart had very different results. There are a lot of videos on you tube but I trust you more than some I have seen from random sources. Thanks again!
It's difficult to plan for fall plantings in Wisconsin. Our weather is so wild anymore. We can have all fours seasons in one week in the spring and fall. Or, we can freeze really early and that's that.
Would love to see more videos like this about fall planting, maybe including the more northern zones. Hard to subtract time when it's already August, at least until someone perfects that time machine. ;)
Just germinate your carrot seeds in a paper towel in a baggie. About six days for the varieties I’ve tried - Danvers and shin kudoba or something like that. Takes a few extra days if you don’t pour simmering water over them first. Paper towel should just be moist. Spread them out so the roots don’t tangle if they get leggy. Best to check them everyday and sow them all when a quarter or half are sprouting. Sow as usual, with no regard for the root. It still take about theee days for them to pop up. I like to use shade cloth or a board for this period unless it’s mild weather.
You can’t break the root, of course, but orientation doesn’t matter. I use tweezers with a pointy tip to pick them up. Since they have sprouted they are delicate and must be covered quickly. Definitely have the soil damp before any sowing (but that goes for any seed).
Good They put your name up Shannie so you can get credit for your fine work! That's a beautiful bouquet of flowers and I like the stripped overalls. They are something different! Lighting is slippin" they need to show your beautiful highlights! This is coming thru VERY dark lighting panel! I LOVE THE ENERGY and STRONG VOICE!!! You've stated your audience✔️ You've given us some goals✔️ Good Rareseeds listed the plants like John Lord does✔️ Lighting got A LOT better at 1:35. Great you swayed your body to distinguish "the heat of the summer" and the "cool of the fall"! We can visualize this! At 2:32 they should've given you some Maui Jim polarized sunglasses:-) Great you kept the carrot situation simple✔️I'm growing (8) different round carrots. I LOVE the gift of carrots bc they don't require a trellis. They can sit in the ground forever. I can feed the tops to my Rex rabbits. I eat the tops occasionally so that I can learn to distinguish between them. I don't like to think of my onions as having a "pungent" flavor. I like to think of them as "Vidalia sweet":-) I love the "take charge personality":-) "Find yourself a 'lil shady pc of the garden..." I love Calendula too. I like the Flashback and I didn't think I'd like that over Alpha. I like how they drop their seeds and sprout the following year. They are a Great Investment for us poor folk. Oh! Now I'm in the polytunnel at 5:45! This is a place where you ONLY take your MOST TRUSTED AND MOST VALUED! I get to "see your inner workings". "The Swiss Plot" RU-vidr prepared a tasty looking Kohlrabi dish. "Buttery" nice wording! The slugs will eat A LOT of those direct seeded brassicas. I transplanted your Long Island Improved Brussels and they are doing marvelously. I am trialing at least (6) different Brussels and so far Long Island Improved is winning! I take a chance on transplanting when I have True Leaves BUT i put cardboard a wrapping of cardboard inside the hole bc I plant them w/ my long handled Sneeboer bulb planter so I don't have to do a lot of bending. I am using an Ocean Spray bottle w/ a small hole i drilled in it for a slow drip. That purple cabbage is pretty. I am trialing Mammoth dill against Bouquet. So far Mammoth is winning but it could be my Bouquet seeds are older. I am certainly not comparing apples to apples. This was another excellent presentation! Thank You:-)
Should I water? This video wasn't very clear on that point... ;) By the way, I am in love with my King Tut Purple peas! Grew great large shelling peas. I am hoping we have enough good weather for my Winged Beans to set! Fingers crossed. Thank you for the great seeds, and all the free gift seeds which came with! The Chocolate Peppers had a 100% germination rate, simply amazing.
Aid your carrots' ability to germinate at any time of year by covering the sown soil with a single layer of damp burlap. It will allow light & water in and prevent the soil from drying out or the early roots from being disturbed when watering. Check every few days & lift the burlap when your seedlings are a centimeter high. Enjoy!
Thank you, very helpful. One question though - you said you're in zone 6, but I believe I saw a banana plant growing behind you in the opening scenes. Wouldn't they die in a zone 6 winter?
Live in Belton Missouri going to have to take a road trip to come check Baker Creek out just love their seeds outstanding quality thank you want to be Master Gardener Russ c
@@RareSeedsBC Oh yay! I have some of those seeds from a couple years ago, haven't grown it yet. I will this year. Super excited. Thanks for the quick answer 🤗
How do you avoid cabbage moths on cabbage and broccoli? I tried growing both this spring and the cabbage moths laid eggs and the caterpillars stripped the plants. Do you need to keep these entirely covered throughout the growing season? That's the only way they seem to grow well here. All the netting and materials to cover make them too expensive. What do you recommend to have a successful crop?
Not sure about Komatsura, but the others should work in containers, even carrots as long as your container is deep enough for them or you are growing a short variety.
I love Baker Creek and get so excited watching these videos and learning what I can still plant. So I make a list and go to the website to order and sadly, everything you list for July or August is out of stock! :( What a let down.
Awesome video with great planting ideas! I live in zone 9 (Southeast Louisiana) and would love to plant broccoli. It doesn't usually get cooler here till around mid November. Would you suggest me wait till September time frame to try and plant?
I suggest you don't wait, use the tips in the video to beat the heat for a month. And/or experiment with staggered plantings and see what does best. CA zone 9b here.
Komatsuna, tat soi and bok choy are same family, plant at same time? Moth worms get my spring planting if the heat doesn't take it first (zone 8a). Trying for fall again, with fine netting. Have some napa cabbage hanging on/heading, but many holes in outer leaves - so hate to use pesticides/sprays, even organic ones/neem, on greens.
Am I understanding this right... you start your Kohlrabi, Cabbage & broccoli seeds indoors in August then transplant when big enough? Everything else is direct sow outdoors? And BTW...Love these monthly videos...very very helpful!!
Yep although in CA zone 9b I have some microclimates in my yard where brassicas like Broccoli Raab, Pak Choy, Mustard etc are popping from the ground even with no mulch, I just water them once a day. It might be worth it to toss a few in the ground and have some started indoors as backup just to see which does better
We have a couple of videos on Garlic and Turmeric as well. Garlic: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FMbwQ_ENyDU.html Turmeric: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oGxJrr-GtwQ.html
