Anyone else notice how much wildlife is going on in the background here?? There's constantly something flying around in the background, you have created an epic environment!!
I've never liked radishes and I still can't stand the taste of them raw, but eventually I came to realize they're the vegetable equivalent of parsley: they taste terrible on their own, but enhance the flavor of whatever they're in, raw or cooked. I grate them and put a little in guac, potatoes, or any savory dish, really. As long as you don't put in enough that you get that radish taste, I find they improve basically everything.
Some wins, some fails, but you two never fail to make us laugh. Your editor needs a raise..they take great material and raise it next level with the gaming sounds and overlays 😂😂
Roasted radishes (like with a pan of other roasted veggies with olive oil, garlic and other herbs) are delicious! Also, the French breakfast variety is wonderful raw.
I often think how fortunate that you guys happened to live nearby each other and met - just a great RU-vid channel duo. 🙂 I have to start thinning out my apples next year. My neighbour does it all the time, but I can never seem to get around to it. Your experience with the peaches will maybe push me past my resistance.
I’ve got a couple radish tips for you guys. The first is Hidden valley ranch. The kind where you mix up the dry packet with the milk and mayo. Dip those crisp little radishes in that and it’s *muah* 🤌🏽. Also, if you wash your radishes and store them in a container filled with water they are ice cold and crispy crunchy and they last a long time.
That's not a leek...that's a baseball bat! Well done. It's funny: I attributed my great garlic harvest to getting twice our normal rainfall but you just got rust. Sometimes the garden goddess giveth and sometimes she taketh away.
Try pickled radish!!!! It's crispy, not bitter, and holds all the flavor of brine. It's awesome as a side dish. Make it sweeter with sugar and a bit of vinegar and cut into matchsticks for a salad or make it more savory with spices, it pairs so well with soups, stews, and meat 😁
@@epichomesteadingpickled radish on a taco is really good. The taco truck by us does marinaded chicken, cilantro, some crumbly cheese and pickled radish and lime on hand made tortilla. The spice is very nice.
just finished the video didn't realize it was literally JUST uploaded😅 just moved into a house that has a yard (and a koi pond!!), so excited to finally have my own space (that's larger than a balcony) to grow things!!
Add lemon/lime juice and salt to radishes and top your tacos with them. Another option is adding sliced onions to the mix. Last, add some sliced serranos, jalapeños or dried Chile flakes or powder instead of salsa or in addition to it!!
2023 was my very first year gardening at all. I started with store-bought pepper and tomato plants in early April (Zone 10a), I used prepared bags of soil (since i had no clue how to fertilize). And in that time I remember buying cilantro seeds and just planting them going "well, I hope these pop up." Fast-forward to the end of the year and we now have 17 small raised garden beds (3x5) that I made with old shed paneling from tearing down my old shed, 10 chickens, and hoping for a great season. Got about 50 sub-par corn ears, some grean beans, sunflowers, a few handfuls of tomatoes, a handful of peppers and maybe 4 or 5 cucumbers. But I've learned some lessons and now I'm ready for the next season. All that to say, thank you guys. Your knowledge has helped me tremendously in this journey 👍.
Boil your radishes in beef broth until mushy. Then mash them into a mash-potato paste consistency. Add salt, pepper and sour cream. Tastes just like mashed potatoes.
Loved this recap! The ravioli was probably one of my favorite videos of the year - the editing was just so funny and I thought the giant ravioli was so humorous. It actually encouraged me to make my own ravioli from scratch, so thanks! Love the cooking videos, and always appreciate the garden updates. Keep being epic!
I would take your tiny bugs and worms any day of the year. Here in central Florida it is like living in Jurassic World. At least your corn grew - albeit infested. My corn was smaller than the 5 inch grasshoppers we had eating them. I tried to hose them off and the darn things grabbed the hose from me and chased me in the house. It was a kaleidoscope of terror at the patio door as I tried to get in the house alone. Count your many blessings, guys. 😉
In regard to radishes, try growing daikon radishes. They're very mild tasting, not peppery. They will break up hard-pan/clay soil. Some varieties will grow to baseball bat size. (!) My daughter-in-law, who is Taiwanese, makes radish croquettes with daikon radishes. I've mentioned it before, the guy who has the Skill Cult YT channel did a leek breeding experiment to grow giant leeks & he succeeded. His leeks were enormous. One of the varieties he used in his breeding program was Bulgarian Giant. He's kinda-sorta semi local to y'all. (NorCal? I think?)
Radishes.. I just clean them and trim, leaving them whole. put them in a bowl of cold water and keep them in the fridge. They get super crunchy and mild.. my son loved to snack on them Oh and I just gotta say I totally LOVE watching you two, together your so much fun🥰 and Jock is a cutey
I love raw radishes but my husband doesn’t like the heat so much. I found growing French breakfast and daikon radishes to be better for him since they’re more mild. We love them with just salt or used in salads or tacos. We also LOVE experimenting with pickling radishes and using them for tacos or our homemade poke bowls. If you don’t like the spice of radishes I would recommend staying away from black Spanish radishes as they’ve been the most spicy in my experience. I hope you both find a way to love radishes!!
For radishes I definitely reccomend making miso soup!! Its a Japanese soup and usually they use the daikon radish but I feel any radish would work and its just such a stable when it comes to drinking warm soups during the winter!!
@2:32 Radish greens chopped up and fried in homestyle potatoes with onions and some scrambled eggs with cheese ontop. Like a breakfast scramble with radish greens. super bomb! As for radishes I'm fortunate enough that I like them sliced with everything so I don't have to worry about making them into something special to enjoy them. Doing the same thing I mentioned first and cutting your radishes in half and adding them to the breakfast scramble would be bomb too!
My favorite thing to do with radishes is to quarter them and roast them in the oven with garlic, salt, pepper, and olive oil. Other seasonings like thyme, oregano, and rosemary are really good with them too. I even add the roasted radishes to soups and stews because roasting them really changes the flavor of them. I'm planning on making my own pickled or fermented radishes because I have tried to make my own yet.
My gardening win this year were my peppers. I had so many habaneros and jalapenos. The only downside was that we had a drought this summer in Texas so my fall peppers were so hot we couldn't eat them. Not even my super hot loving relatives could handle them.
Yes Jacques, I am also backing off on varieties. We found 3 OP squash we like so we can save seeds. Will try one more, a Lakota to see if we like it and if it can resist vine borer. I haven’t found too many varieties of tomatoes or squash that others recommend to our liking. Some were awful. I find we are eating less and to concentrate more on finding OP vegetables that do well in our garden. Vegetables are being marketed for sweetness and afraid we will lose the true flavor. A late season Sun Gold last fall tasted and had the texture of a grape-Yuck! Blindfolded I may not have known the difference.
That purple cabbage is quite beautiful✨💜 Cabbages are always targeted by insects🐛 The green clothing mark is in the middle and looks like Superman's mark😊🦸
A great recap💚💚. Nothing better than mixing gardening and laughter ❣️. Thanks for a great year of garden tips; many were very helpful in my garden way up here in Alberta, Canada.
Peanut butter and radish sandwiches are my favorite! Peanut butter takes the bite out of the radish and the radish adds a crunchy texture to the sandwich!
Some folks wanna give ya'll grief for "selling out" so to speak (i've done my share of pushing back against certain sponsored segments) but honestly this channel is the perfect example of monetizing a passion without selling your soul. Epic Gardening/Homesteading is still first and foremost an education channel as evidenced by the fact that you dont seek to hide any mistakes or missteps. Even when those mistakes included endorsing a product that later turned out to be crap. You show the results and we all get to learn together. I really really appreciate that about you guys and its what makes watching the success of your business such a rewarding part of the viewer experience.
My fails: Kajari melons - I caved and tried them. Had some moderate success with growing them but discovered, I just don't like them. Also - wanted to grow a 2+lb tomato. For this, I chose the Domingo variety. I managed to get the 2lber - but man, that mater was soooo - tasteless. Success: Onions. They weren't huge - but MAN, so good and they stored so well. Was very proud. Great vid - HNY Epic team and thank you.
Ditto! Everyone raves about the kajaris. But they were like.... fine, I guess. Nothing special. My favorite melon has been the Honey Blonde from Johnny's. That stuff is nature's candy!
I’m really enjoying your video. You two are so relatable, I do a success and fails each gardening season too. We all have them. I love you can laugh at yourselves, I find myself doing the same in hindsight. I enjoy seeing the fun and laughter between good friends ❤❤
Radishes are great if you cut them up and roast them with other root vegetables. Olive oil and herbs, and roast under a whole chicken or bone-in/skin on chicken breasts/thighs. They become really sweet.
So nice to see how much you guys enjoying what you do. Life is way too short, enjoy every minute, the successes & “failures”. In reality the failures are really about learning what not to do, so they aren’t failures. They are lessons learned, that’s always a good thing. Great to see you guys laughing & having fun through it all. 😊👍🏻🤣
Bake 'em. Radishes, when halved, coated in a thin schmear of olive oil and baked are a classic "low carb" potato substitute. Daikon radish is NOT just an excellent soil-breaking cover crop, it is also excellent chopped up in stews.
Love these success & fail videos! I laugh my head off but also learn things as well. It helps us realize everyone has fails and successes no matter who you are! Keep up the good work!
our season is just about to begin, and it looks a bit dire, lots and lots of snails ruining my crops but it seems me and the predatory snails finally won the fight, as i find less and less damage each day. beans, tomatos, squash and pumpkins and potatos are doing good, everything else pretty much got eaten - but hey, you cant win em all.
I just placed an order for something like 30 different varieties of tomatoes. Thats in addition to the 10 or 15 I already have. They are all open pollinated though so I will never have to buy tomato seeds ever again, maybe.
Daikon radish is GREAT in soups! A super easy Korean soup aka sogogi muguk is beef, daikon and salt to season. The longer you boil it, the better it tastes. It gives a very refreshing flavor. We also make kimchi from it aka kkakdugi. Give it a try next season
If you don't have daikon (which I hardly ever have) for your Banh Mi sandwich substitute sliced radish that you can quick pickle along with your shredded carrots.
I’ve seen people in Alaska grow insane sized brassicas because of their long light hours. It’s impressive what people with greenhouses can do as well in their short season.
Large Radishes with carrots, onions, mushrooms and celery and NO potatoes with a roast or beef stew take the place of potatoes and they are delish you won't know they from potatoes, if they are too large just cut in half & enjoy your meal. You can also pickle them and beets. Yum!!! I'm in Orange County Ca what are the names of the Onions you grew would love to grow them this year. Thanks and keep the fails and success's coming you are both so much fun!
Have you ever looked into fermented (not pickled) veggies? I hear it’s supposed to be great not just for preservation, but also for your health. Fermentation is supposed to make veggies even more nutritious. I got a kit for Christmas to ferment in Mason jars. I’ll let you know how it goes!
Boo to anyone bullying you about your weight. You are BOTH adorable. If you feel your health is negatively affected by weight gain then I applaud your desire to get healthier, but your cuteness is just as awesome as always.
You two crack me up! Jacques: one method to get that peach tree into your yard is planting it as the anchor of a FRUIT GUILD. I'd love to see a mainstream gardening channel share this innovative way to create a mini ecosystem for fruit bushes and trees. This method solved watering and soil fertility issues for our 3 fruit trees here in NE Indiana. It works in every growing zone. Godspeed gentlemen.
I have a friend who slices radishes in the bottom of her crockpot, then adds onion, stew meat, seasoning and let’s it cook for several hours before adding the rest of her ingredients. She says it ok, but her hubs LOVES it! He especially loves it once she puts the potatoes in. I have not tried it, but I will when I grow my big purple radishes. I am looking forward to the large purple radishes, because they are supposed to taste a lot better. I’ll keep you posted.
My success this past year was tomatoes. I had such an abundance! I live in zone 6 and all the years I have been gardening, this was the best one I've ever had for tomatoes.
On the topic of the day length, its kind of a necessity. The light intensity way up north cannot compare to California sun. The light intensity is just as important as the length, 8 hours under a grow light is way better than a full day by a shady window in your house.
Have a Buff Orpington the size of a small Dino! It’s been a lot of fun raising them! They started laying at 24 weeks! I was totally surprised after being told I wouldn’t get any eggs until April.
I am glad you share your failures as well as the successes. I actually learn more from my failures. Only after failing a few times, I either figure it out, or figure out that it is better if I buy it from the store. I totally agree with finding ways to preserve the harvest by picking, canning or freezing, but with a limited space, it is better to grow more variety and less quantity, and grow what you like to eat. You could grow luffa and eat it when it is young (Chinese okra) or make sponges with it if you let it mature. Crops that give you more than one product are good. It also requires timing. You don't need to have a hundred pounds of onions, but you don't want your lettuce, bok choy, and spinach to be ready in the same week unless you can give away or eat it all in that short space of time. I prefer crops that produce over a longer time and are cut an come again. I love your little orchard. I have lemons, limes, calamondin, kaffir lime, finger lime, and tangerines. My elevation and rainfall is not the best for sweet citrus like oranges, but it is fine for sour citrus
I make a sort of rhubarb pie filling out of radishes. ;) Lemon juice, brown sugar, salt, ginger, coconut oil.... ***I don't really cook with recipes but the same spices you would use in a fruit pie.
Our biggest success last year was kale. It just kept producing and is still producing. Only three kale plants and we’ve been eating it every day for months. Our biggest fail was eggplants. We produced a good number of them, only for them to all be eaten by rats before we could harvest. We had over thirty I think, but ate only two small ones 😂
Parmesan toasted radishes, like you're doing to any veggie, is the best way to eat them. Toss in olive oil, little bit of salt and pepper, garlic powder or minced garlic, and a healthy amount of Parmesan (because yum cheese) makes them taste like roasted potatoes for none of the carbs that potatoes give you.
So ive heard in France they eat raw radish sliced with butter and a sprinkle of salt. I tried it and i mostly just tasted butter. Then wished i had some bread. 😅 not the biggest radish fan here either. However my mom makes an apple cucumber and radish salad. Literally just cut up and add olive oil and apple cider vinegar salt n pepper and i can eat lots of that. It’s good for respiratory system if you’re sick. I sometimes do a sesame oil and rice vinegar on top and thats good too.
Like Jacques, one of my bigger successes was tomatoes, and their cousins the humble, but delicious potato! Oh did I mention how flush my peppers were? For whatever reason, they both seem to love my soil and climate here in the Boston area! My pollinator garden was another huge success! I'd call my squash/gourds a successful failure because I was battling powdery mildew for the last few months chasing it up the vines to try to stay ahead of it. I did manage to get crazy large plants that couldn't help but put out a harvest! My complete failures (still got a very meager harvest) were my beans and corn which did not appreciate the excessive rainfall all summer, and the pests were fun as well! My brassicas, particularly broccoli was not thrilled about the random early spring days where it shot up into the mid 80s - lower 90s like it can sometimes do here towards the coast. I'm currently troubleshooting why things didn't grow and where I might move things to this summer!
i wonder if there was something about the weather in 2023 because i got very large onions as well and i am also down in SoCal like you guys. It was strangely colder longer into the year than usual so maybe the onions liked it. We are growing more this year so we can compare and see how things do. We grew Texas Grano for our onions. This year we are trying a red onion too, i forget the name of it.
Years ago, or rather decades, my daughter Sarah Jayne (four years old at the time) took some of my seeds and planted her own tiny garden! And radishes were among the little veggies she grew 🤩
Loved this video....ok...I love them all!! Jacque...do you have a cookbook of some recipes of Bulgaria?? You mentioned using tarragon, I've grown it, dried it, stored it.....never used it. Need a Jacque recipe!!!
Using a larger Radish: (also prep a second veg at same time, same way. Sweet potato, broccoli, etc.) peel it then cut the top & bottoms off. Cube to bite sized pieces. Put on a cookie tray and pour on melted coconut oil, salt, pepper, and a mixed herb seasoning. Mix evenly. I like Herbs de Provence. Bake at 350 til tender. Se veg like Broccoli might cook faster and get crispy. My family likes the mixed textures.
I can't stand regular radishes, but daikon or tae baek are milder. Grow either tae baek or Minowase. Tae baek is better for pickling and Minowase is sweeter than a hot radish like icicle. Make Korean salad musaenchae. It is a little spicy and sweet. Daikon and Radish Pickle is Vietnamese (do chua) and used for Ban Mi Sandwiches. Stewed daikon ( daikon fukumeni), Nishime ( Japanese stew, traditionally eaten for New Year. It is also about the only time of year you can get some of the seasonal ingredients. They do sell the vegetables frozen. Daikon with spareribs, Miso pork and vegetable soup. Grated daikon is in the dipping sauce for tempura, Takuan = pickled daikon ( This tastes good but has a strong smell), In Korea kim chi and pickles are kept in a separate refrigerator.
