My 2024 Seed Selections - Susan's in the Garden (2024) #2 

Never worry about the length of your vids. Esp when going over packet choices. We love reviews of seeds!

This is great. Looking forward to the next two shows.

❤thanks Susan❤. I just finished my winter sowing. Looking forward to your next video. Watching from Southern BC where we just had our first snow and frigid temps.

Can confirm hummingbirds love the cardinal climber in Oklahoma! I had trouble with germination inside (didn't have a seed heating mat) but once it was in the 70s-80s out they did great with direct sowing. I even had more popping up starting around late July from seeds that set from the first flowers and fell down

Tithonia grows almost as tall as our ranch style house. Once it starts, it does not stop! Each stem puts on multiple flowers. The bees, butterflies and hummingbirds visit and stay awhile on these beautiful flowers.We were shocked when we first saw hummingbirds visiting these gorgeous orange flat non-conical flowers. But they came every day. The butterflies were as beautiful and plentiful as the blooms. The bees were found working and napping. So funny! Tithonia is a favorite at our home. E TN zone 7a

We’ve had very good success with Ailsa Craig onions, and they store better than they’re supposed to, from our experience. I start them indoors by seed mid to late January, and plant out late March. They get huge!!! We’re on the west side of the mountains. Have fun!

I’ll be starting my winter sowing next week as well (after these negative temps pass!) I think I will do echinacea, calendula, foxglove, and alyssum for flowers and start some broccoli, cabbage, and other greens for food crops. I have never done vegetables with the winter sowing method so I’m eager to see how it works for those frost tolerant ones!

What a great list of vegetables and flowers to grow in 2024, Susan! Thanks for sharing your helpful scheduling worksheets. I will use them this year. 😊

Thanks for showing your selections. It is so fun to get those new seeds and start planning. I hope everything does great for you, I know they will since they're in expert hands! Glad you showed both vegetables and flowers. Looking forward to your winter sowing tips, I tried it last year and some things did well but would like to learn more about types that seem to work the best.

I grew YaYa carrots this year and they were amazing. And good keepers too. We are still eating them and the ones we harvested later were sweeter and even more flavorful. I will continue to grow this variety. I purchased my seeds from Fruition Seeds. Im on Cape Cod and they are in upstate NY so somewhat close to me. I grew ground cherries from Fruition also..a variety called cossacks pineapple and no I have no stake in this company LOL. Thank you for sharing your knowledge:)

Hi new to your channel I love it

Looks like a great collection. I have grown the Orange Hat dwarf tomatoes as well and they are wonderful. Thank you for sharing! 🌷

Thank you Susan, you are so far ahead of me. I can't decide what I want to grow this year. I'm going to try some of you selections.

I get enough marigolds that come up from seed from the flowers from the year before. I don't clean up the plants in the fall & have been getting alot of plants that come up from seed. I did dry some of the spent flowers for seed for the 1st time. Lorraine

Ground cherrries grow very well here in the mountain region of Hawaii. It makes a great jam.

I love your videos! Thank you for teaching us.

Thanks for some new ideas!

The ground cherries can be perennial if you winter it in the greenhouse.

I love ground cherries! If you miss picking 1 of them, they do have a tendency to reseed themselves and take over a bed next season. But oh so tasty and fun to munch on straight from the garden😊

Nice to see you again! I had good results with Belstar also. The fall planting I got in a bit late in August, but managed to get them to produce with a bit of covering. I used bug netting and Not One cabbage worm👏🏼👏🏼. I tried Tithonia last year. I thought we had a couple of weeds growing and we weren’t sure and let them grow. They were about 6’ tall and finally I seen this orange spot and realized they were Tithonia. I direct sowed and have no idea why they took so long unless they are for a hot climate, but it frosted shortly after two bloomed. I am more aware of not just vegetables, but new flowers I want to try about how long of a season they need. Maybe if I started Tithonia early inside, but the flower was on the small side so probably won’t grow again. I loved Renee’s Garden Escalator Zucchini! We don’t eat a lot of it and 2 plants produced the perfect amount and they didn’t turn into baseball bats. You will like the YaYa carrots as I think they are Nantes. I changed to imperators and Nantes to get longer carrots after I realized I was planting the smaller varieties. I don’t like cleaning tiny carrots😵‍💫. I’ve decided I’m picky about squash and didn’t like Delicata or Sweet Meat. We will grow our 3 Favs: Waltham, Buttercup and Acorn. There is a Lakota I will try yet only because it’s a moschata that may stave off vine borer. SVB is a pain to deal with! 🤯 I just wish there was like an impervious coating to put at the base, but I’ve seen them enter down the vine further also. Tried everything except Kaolin Clay. Just have to keep burying vines and doing surgery I guess. One thing I realized when we opened our last jar of ‘22 tomatoes was the Wonderful aroma. I grabbed my garden journal and realized many of those tomatoes were Burpee hybrid slicers and their Super Sauce paste and Opalka from Seed Saver Exchange paste and will plant again! I mix the canning tomatoes. Last year I had 25 varieties of heirloom tomatoes. Didn’t care for any of them really and a lot of waste. I guess some are now called Artisan tomatoes and rightfully so as there seems to be too many on the market to All be Heirlooms. Growfully With Jenna just posted about last years outcomes as she does seed testing and we both have similar taste for tomatoes. I’m finding too many varieties geared toward less acid and more sweetness and they don’t keep long with low acid. Lol, so she told me of a seed company that is almost in my backyard that I never knew about and she thought I would like their Cream of the Crop selection. Although they are hybrid they do have some heirlooms. We both found hybrids do well, but I would like to have an heirloom to save seeds that has true tomato flavor and does well in my garden. Watermelon 🍉 I’ve had luck with the small fridge size and was looking at anything with mountain or some other cool region name in it as I’m not sure about getting larger to ripen in time. Sure would be nice to have a watermelon in July instead of September. I decided to start seeds counting back from end of May with added days for germination time and not the frost date. It doesn’t pay to start early as the plants will catch up when it’s time. They can’t tell the weather and no warning last year of late frost and it wiped out or killed many plants. This past week we were so tired of hearing about all the weather models and they couldn’t say until 24 hours before the storm hit. Who would have thought last year aboutfrost when we had 90s all month of May. Berries and grapes were so advanced and it killed a grape. Winery lost 95% of grapes and my potatoes needed to restart. I almost threw in the towel. So I will wait to plant out until June 1st. That’s no guarantee either as I remember in the 90s we had a frost every month and I lived on a bluff then. I will have to be prepared to cover the potatoes and all plants that grew too fast this spring as I don’t want a repeat. Oh So many seeds and such a short growing season-what are us northern gardeners to do?😅. Z5a, WI. Thank you Susan for sharing your line up! Always enjoy your videos. Oh, the weather has finally decided to be winter this week! Tuesday 8” of Wet snow, last night 3” of lighter snow and Friday expecting up to 11” of light fluffy snow!! WooHoo!! Just what we needed to alleviate the severe drought and protect the plants before the arctic blast starting Saturday night. Last year it rained in January and warm! The winter sow projects suffered. We had record breaking warm December I was repotting some houseplants Christmas Day in the Rain! This weather could give anything whiplash.

I grew, together with my plot neighbour, ground cherry. Not the variety you showed, but it grew pretty big, bushy and it grows fast. It didn't seem to be a fussy plant 😄 I hope you will succeed with it too! Ps: this time of the year is the best for this video. I am so done by now with winter.. So thank you! I am excited to see how the varieties will do🤗 Greetings, Judit

Hi Susan. Thank you for all your knowledge and passing it on to us. You are very much appreciated. I have a question regarding butternut and delicata squash. I live on an acreage near Edmonton, Alberta zone 4a. I started growing delicata and butternut squash 3 years ago. The vines are in full sun. I get flowers but only a very few fruit. Can you please suggest what I am doing wrong and how you are able to get such an abundant crop? I have access to lots of composted sheep manure but the crops were not grown in that but were grown in a garden mix from a local dirt company. Thank you, Peter

Thank you for your informative segment. I especially appreciate you explaining why you chose the seeds you are growing in 2024. I have some questions I hope you may be able to help me with. I garden in zone 5b but just found out we have been assigned now a 6a status. I have begun to grow perennials alongside annuals which I am greatly enjoying. However, I am having a difficult time finding seed for GEUM, JOE PYE WEED, and others suitable for my garden. I love edible greens too, edible flowers, and flowers to cut. D0 you know of any companies which are reputable and would have various choices? Also, do you have any varities you would recommend? I have tried Swallowtail Garden and like their seed, but the ones I want are not available. Perennials for me are the way to go. Again, thank you for your thorough videos. They are great!

Good information, thanks. Question, if you grow varieties from an east coast supplier do you need to adapt requirements or methods?

Where did you order the blue beech seeds from?