The only time I worry about what direction to plant things if to make sure taller plants don't shade out shorter plants like taller plants on the north side of the garden and shorter plants on the south side ideally. The exception to that would be things like lettuce and things that don't like the heat I will purposely plant in the shade.
I love a good raised bed garden. I've gardened all different ways and raised beds are my favorite. I have a mix of all styles EXCEPT traditional farm rows but I work the family farm where we have traditional farm rows in 4 gardens that are over an acre each. I will sit in my raised bed garden all day and enjoy the order and beauty of it! I love Mrs. Hoss' fish pond in the middle. I need to talk my husband into helping me build one of those in my garden!! LOL
I'm just getting time to watch this (22nd) Tater Tot 😂 Greg and Mama Hoss- I was reading the history of the Bloody Butcher Corn. From the family history write-up, "Edgar ( Meadows) realized that the only way they would ever rise above their predicament was with the help of the land." Considering that this was during the great depression and the closeness of then and now, and the economy, made a lot of sense! This year, I want to focus on the kitchen garden. I have a lot of room to grow but, there are a lot of "blockades" that stand in the way of that. With that being said, I want to focus on the kitchen garden. Growing foods that I run to the store and buy all of the time, or would like to buy. I can't eat onions, so that is a no brainer, and garlic is so inexpensive, I am going to stick with buying the organic stuff locally. My question is, should I focus more on quantity to put some up, or just keeping a good rotation of food growing that I can go out and harvest as needed? Weather permitting, of course! Your thoughts?
I have to use an electric fence due to the excess deer population. I put in 2 entrances that are wheelbarrow wide for ease of work, my wagon also fits nicely too. I trim my potted herbs well in the fall and bring the herbs into the sunny basement window and put them out come spring. Been gardening my whole life the north south east west thing doesn't seem to be an issue. Length of daylight, temps, soil fertility, water, etc are far more important..happy gardening!
Great show.... Theirs a misconception in growing watermelons in more northern states... People in the far south has no idea about what I'm fixing to say about growing watermelons in more northern states... Here in East Tennessee the misconception is to grow small watermelons, those will not get ripe here,even on black plastic... You want to grow 20 to 40lb watermelons in zones 7 and lower... I've grew watermelons for a couple decades with many different varieties.. I have seen small watermelons get ripe here but it's only in record breaking heat years, in a normal year they will not get ripe... So if you are zones 7 through 5 pick out 20 to 40 pound varieties....
Cold? Hahahaha I know it’s been cold for you guys but I’m in Minnesota. I really enjoy your show and have been buying seeds and such off your website. I’m chompin at the bit to start seeds. I can’t imagine being able to garden year round but I bet it’s nice
Great show, as always! I look forward to following along on the progress of the 20x20 "Office Garden"! That should be interesting. Thanks for sharing all of this good info with us!
Great show as always. When the weather gets nicer, consider a few live segments from the garden. Even if you have to trim down the weekly show to 15 minutes. Thanks for picking my joke, I have 3 young grand daughters and love sharing corny jokes with them
Great show... I give ya an example of growing east to west or north and south makes a big difference... I live in a wide open area here in East Tennessee.. I grow many different kinds of indeterminate tomatoes and I get more than 12 hours sun per day in the middle of summer... I grow all my tomatoes on either one stalk pruning or two stalk pruning, so their not thick, they don't produce much shade... If I plant east to west I've noticed over the years I have a lot more sun burn on my tomatoes, if I plant north to south they get sunburned a lot less because they do get some shade from the top of the plant to the south which equals less sun burn... When you plant east to west theirs no shade from plants to the south... I grow 6 well pruned tomato plants on 16 ft cattle panels...
Are your tomato seeds going to come in time to start seedlings for 8A? I've been putting off ordering because of your new upcoming tomato seeds. I have a small garden but hope to fit as many varieties as I can. So, far Red Snapper, Roadster, and Chef's choice are on my list. By the way, any tips for growing large chile peppers? I've never had any luck with growing large bell peppers or green chile peppers, which may due to the desert heat. Unfortunately, my garden is so small that I don't have room to rotate crops. What you recommend adding to the soil if I'm going to keep using it every summer for tomatoes and peppers. I plant my garden on the north side of our house because I don't have any other suitable area of my house and as a result it doesn't get as much sun as I like. If I planted the garden on the west side of the garden, it would get hammered by the summer desert sun and wouldn't survive. Thanks for making this video!
Planting north east south or west in Oklahoma is an issue with corn. Wind will lay them over if you don’t have a wind break. Now second to that if you have quite a few rows growing you may only lay over your first couple outside rows. But a small row like say 4 rows 15 20 feet long will lay over especially if your on flat ground. So that’s the only reason behind planting north east south or west. Corn in Oklahoma plant north to south..
I believe I have my tomato seed selection set but I'm all ears on that new Hoss beefsteak. I have a couple of names picked out if you're ready for them. Who's the breeder?
I have onions arriving today and need to be sure I get them off to a good start. The bed is ready and amended but I am worried about planting in this cold spell. I am in zone 7 in the upstate of SC and I read that new onion starts don't do well if temperatures get below 28 degrees so should I use my floating row cover as protection or would I need to break out the plastic (6 mil) as a better barrier against the cold? These are in raised beds in case that matters. Love the shows guys!
We are forecasted to get down to 28 tonight also. We are not doing anything to ours, but they have been in the ground a while. I'm not really sure, but better safe than sorry.
Hi Greg, I live in zone 7b in Alabama, and I am starting my first garden in about twelve years and my biggest so far, 45 x 60. I have set up to put the corn, cucumbers, pole beans, and okra at the north end of the garden with the thought that the taller crops will not shade out the shorter crops. my question is,,,when I plant next year, rotating the crops, invariably something is going to shade out something. any ideas? Thanks for all the info y'all put out there, Keep up the good work.
herbs, both perennial and annual, are best offloaded to grow not in main plot. that way you dont have something in main plot that gets in way. also i plant zucchini somewhere else, wherever i can find at least 4x4 foot spot, as zucchinis get rather big. since i have limited main veggie plot space, i avoid sowing direct, starting almost all in trays. apart from long haul crops like tomatoes, which crop repeatedly, i started avoiding long growing time crops that only provide right at the end, like: garlic, onion, potatoes. all quick growing brassicas, lettuce, celery, beetroot, lettuce, carrots, turnips, eggplant, peas and some chillis, are my main game. raised beds are inflexible for planting and dedicate some of the limited space to walkways, besides being bad for dry climates. unless you really need raised beds for specific reasons, function over aesthetics, besides no need to spend money on them.
@@gardeningwithhoss : yep, like i said, for reasons. i put mine in for no good reasons, and learnt about all the ways it can hinder productivity, especially in my dry climate. eventually removed the half rotted boxes and luckily didnt need to get rid of soil. having gone to rows, which i learnt about from this channel, i havent looked back.
Mr or Mrs Hoss Last year I had a wonderful tomato’s. I fermented some of tomato seeds ( I believe that is what it’s called) for 7 days. Rinsed out impurities through a metal screen. Then Dried on paper towel. Placed in a envelope and put in refrigerator for the winter. When do I take them out of refrigerator and start in egg cartons to ready them to plant in my pots? I live Cincinnati. I know I need to keep them inside until after Mother’s Day. I remember the conversation you shared that there are differences in tomato’s and not all can be replanted. I will try anyway. Also I heard sweet potatoes can be started with sweet potato scraps. Can you go over the steps on your next video? I heard there is a two step process. Will one rooted sweet potato produce one or multiple? Tonight I had a soft potato with 2 eyes which I cut a piece off with two eyes. I was told to let it dry over night and place in a small amount of water to root. Will this one piece produce one tater of multiple taters? Thanks
Is there any reason you don't grow Asparagus? I can find alot of videos of people planting strawberries with asparagus, but there is no videos of what that looks like 3-5 years later. Can you think of why?? (hard to manage or what??)
We have 2 beds. One we have had for over 10 years. 2 of our old Asparagus videos linked below. th-cam.com/video/5QPyPLrhAow/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/pOsjaV7wr0k/w-d-xo.html
I planted onions outside in a plastic tray with a lid the 3rd week of December and we had several weeks of higher than normal temps. They immediately came up and now we are getting nights of temps in the teens and they are still looking ok, will they make it.
Not needed. You will need to remove the scapes when they appear in early spring, because this takes energy away from bulb growth. The soil temperature is what determines when the bulbs start to grow. Usually when the soil temperature starts around 60° F, and ends when the soil reaches 90° F.
If you want to trellis then make a hammock for each fruit that will work.. I've done that several times along the fence row.. but if you miss a fruit it will fall and may break the vine.
As long as you have a strong trellis and give them support. I haven't done watermelons but I have done cantaloupe and things like that. I use cattle panels for trellises and they will work but not if your using chicken wire fencing or horticulture netting.
What’s the point of your wife holding up the seed packets showing the backside (with the info detailed) if someone editing obliterates the info and inserts a large picture of the actual plant? Move the picture of the plant over to the SIDE so viewers can see BOTH the plant info and the picture. If this can’t be done then why bother to put up the seed package at all? This would be helpful to beginning folks like me to see growing info AND the product.
@@tommathews3964 I understand that…..but do you suggest I write down the names of each of the seed packets they show so that I can then go to the website and research each one to find out if it would be something I could possibly fit into my tiny container garden…I’d miss parts of the video (and I do enjoy watching the videos) and then I’d have to go to the website, locate the seed packet to find the info. Whereas….if they held up the back of the packet (showing the info) and inserted the picture (that someone is ALREADY using to obliterate the info) off to the side….I could ‘screen shot’ while the video is playing and have all the information right there. I asked in the original post why they started showing videos where she was holding up the back of the package with the info that I personally found helpful….and then they started inserting pics of the plant covering that info in future videos. Why not give us the best of showing everything?
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The only time I worry about what direction to plant things if to make sure taller plants don't shade out shorter plants like taller plants on the north side of the garden and shorter plants on the south side ideally. The exception to that would be things like lettuce and things that don't like the heat I will purposely plant in the shade.
Thanks from Ontario Canada
It was 0deg this morning here in moundsville WV.
Good show on lay out of the garden
I love a good raised bed garden. I've gardened all different ways and raised beds are my favorite. I have a mix of all styles EXCEPT traditional farm rows but I work the family farm where we have traditional farm rows in 4 gardens that are over an acre each. I will sit in my raised bed garden all day and enjoy the order and beauty of it! I love Mrs. Hoss' fish pond in the middle. I need to talk my husband into helping me build one of those in my garden!! LOL
That is awesome! fish pond is a must
Thank y'all, blessings, julie
I am growing on 7 acres and 10 lots graphing it is fun especially to include 401 species
wow
I'm just getting time to watch this (22nd) Tater Tot 😂 Greg and Mama Hoss- I was reading the history of the Bloody Butcher Corn. From the family history write-up, "Edgar ( Meadows) realized that the only way they would ever rise above their predicament was with the help of the land." Considering that this was during the great depression and the closeness of then and now, and the economy, made a lot of sense!
This year, I want to focus on the kitchen garden. I have a lot of room to grow but, there are a lot of "blockades" that stand in the way of that. With that being said, I want to focus on the kitchen garden. Growing foods that I run to the store and buy all of the time, or would like to buy. I can't eat onions, so that is a no brainer, and garlic is so inexpensive, I am going to stick with buying the organic stuff locally. My question is, should I focus more on quantity to put some up, or just keeping a good rotation of food growing that I can go out and harvest as needed? Weather permitting, of course! Your thoughts?
You can do both.
I have to use an electric fence due to the excess deer population. I put in 2 entrances that are wheelbarrow wide for ease of work, my wagon also fits nicely too. I trim my potted herbs well in the fall and bring the herbs into the sunny basement window and put them out come spring. Been gardening my whole life the north south east west thing doesn't seem to be an issue. Length of daylight, temps, soil fertility, water, etc are far more important..happy gardening!
Great show.... Theirs a misconception in growing watermelons in more northern states... People in the far south has no idea about what I'm fixing to say about growing watermelons in more northern states... Here in East Tennessee the misconception is to grow small watermelons, those will not get ripe here,even on black plastic... You want to grow 20 to 40lb watermelons in zones 7 and lower... I've grew watermelons for a couple decades with many different varieties.. I have seen small watermelons get ripe here but it's only in record breaking heat years, in a normal year they will not get ripe... So if you are zones 7 through 5 pick out 20 to 40 pound varieties....
Thanks for sharing.
we had a nasty 2 weeks of cold last winter and I think the bugs were worse last summer.
I found the Colorado video. It was from August 14 last year. Thanks for looking. About to order seeds. Hagd!
Wonderful!
We had a week last February of deep freezing weather here near Dallas. The bugs were worse than ever including fire ants.
Cold? Hahahaha I know it’s been cold for you guys but I’m in Minnesota. I really enjoy your show and have been buying seeds and such off your website. I’m chompin at the bit to start seeds. I can’t imagine being able to garden year round but I bet it’s nice
Awesome! Thank you!
Great show, as always! I look forward to following along on the progress of the 20x20 "Office Garden"! That should be interesting. Thanks for sharing all of this good info with us!
Sounds great!
Just placed my order for German Butterball Potatoes. Really excited to try them out this year
Great show as always.
When the weather gets nicer, consider a few live segments from the garden.
Even if you have to trim down the weekly show to 15 minutes.
Thanks for picking my joke, I have 3 young grand daughters and love sharing corny jokes with them
Noted! Thanks for watching. Keep jokes coming.
Always good ideas!
Thank you! Cheers!
Lots of good information! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Oh I remember about Mrs. Hosses cheap pots. I figured I know whose in charge. That is Mrs. Hoss in charge of her kitchen and growing.
Great show... I give ya an example of growing east to west or north and south makes a big difference... I live in a wide open area here in East Tennessee.. I grow many different kinds of indeterminate tomatoes and I get more than 12 hours sun per day in the middle of summer... I grow all my tomatoes on either one stalk pruning or two stalk pruning, so their not thick, they don't produce much shade... If I plant east to west I've noticed over the years I have a lot more sun burn on my tomatoes, if I plant north to south they get sunburned a lot less because they do get some shade from the top of the plant to the south which equals less sun burn... When you plant east to west theirs no shade from plants to the south... I grow 6 well pruned tomato plants on 16 ft cattle panels...
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Are your tomato seeds going to come in time to start seedlings for 8A? I've been putting off ordering because of your new upcoming tomato seeds. I have a small garden but hope to fit as many varieties as I can. So, far Red Snapper, Roadster, and Chef's choice are on my list. By the way, any tips for growing large chile peppers? I've never had any luck with growing large bell peppers or green chile peppers, which may due to the desert heat. Unfortunately, my garden is so small that I don't have room to rotate crops. What you recommend adding to the soil if I'm going to keep using it every summer for tomatoes and peppers. I plant my garden on the north side of our house because I don't have any other suitable area of my house and as a result it doesn't get as much sun as I like. If I planted the garden on the west side of the garden, it would get hammered by the summer desert sun and wouldn't survive. Thanks for making this video!
Yes and yes, be sure to watch next week's show. It will be all about Tomatoes
@@gardeningwithhoss Looking forward to it. Thanks for the reply!
Planting north east south or west in Oklahoma is an issue with corn. Wind will lay them over if you don’t have a wind break. Now second to that if you have quite a few rows growing you may only lay over your first couple outside rows. But a small row like say 4 rows 15 20 feet long will lay over especially if your on flat ground. So that’s the only reason behind planting north east south or west. Corn in Oklahoma plant north to south..
I believe I have my tomato seed selection set but I'm all ears on that new Hoss beefsteak. I have a couple of names picked out if you're ready for them. Who's the breeder?
Stay tuned for next weeks show. All will be revealed.
another great video. I trust what you say about the potatoes that are ordered. I hope Maggie is doing ok
She is great. Good news on the potatoes today, but it could change tomorrow. Kind of like our weather.
please make ur seed pack resealable
Got a corny 🌽 joke for you’ns. Why did the Tomato blush? It saw the salad dressing!
I have onions arriving today and need to be sure I get them off to a good start. The bed is ready and amended but I am worried about planting in this cold spell. I am in zone 7 in the upstate of SC and I read that new onion starts don't do well if temperatures get below 28 degrees so should I use my floating row cover as protection or would I need to break out the plastic (6 mil) as a better barrier against the cold? These are in raised beds in case that matters. Love the shows guys!
We are forecasted to get down to 28 tonight also. We are not doing anything to ours, but they have been in the ground a while. I'm not really sure, but better safe than sorry.
In your 20x20 garden how would you do your drip tape layout? Would you even use irrigation? Love y'all!
Our drip irrigation kit would work great for this plan.
Hi Greg, I live in zone 7b in Alabama, and I am starting my first garden in about twelve years and my biggest so far, 45 x 60. I have set up to put the corn, cucumbers, pole beans, and okra at the north end of the garden with the thought that the taller crops will not shade out the shorter crops. my question is,,,when I plant next year, rotating the crops, invariably something is going to shade out something. any ideas? Thanks for all the info y'all put out there, Keep up the good work.
Just do the best you can. It is harder to rotate in small areas.
Gonna need time for my taters to heel over, Zone 9 B suppose to plant first week of Feb.
Get that soil ready. I think you'll get them in time.
herbs, both perennial and annual, are best offloaded to grow not in main plot. that way you dont have something in main plot that gets in way. also i plant zucchini somewhere else, wherever i can find at least 4x4 foot spot, as zucchinis get rather big.
since i have limited main veggie plot space, i avoid sowing direct, starting almost all in trays.
apart from long haul crops like tomatoes, which crop repeatedly, i started avoiding long growing time crops that only provide right at the end, like: garlic, onion, potatoes.
all quick growing brassicas, lettuce, celery, beetroot, lettuce, carrots, turnips, eggplant, peas and some chillis, are my main game.
raised beds are inflexible for planting and dedicate some of the limited space to walkways, besides being bad for dry climates. unless you really need raised beds for specific reasons, function over aesthetics, besides no need to spend money on them.
We put ours in after my hip replacement surgery so that I could easily garden. They are great for those with health limiting issues.
@@gardeningwithhoss : yep, like i said, for reasons. i put mine in for no good reasons, and learnt about all the ways it can hinder productivity, especially in my dry climate. eventually removed the half rotted boxes and luckily didnt need to get rid of soil. having gone to rows, which i learnt about from this channel, i havent looked back.
Mr or Mrs Hoss
Last year I had a wonderful tomato’s. I fermented some of tomato seeds ( I believe that is what it’s called) for 7 days. Rinsed out impurities through a metal screen. Then Dried on paper towel. Placed in a envelope and put in refrigerator for the winter.
When do I take them out of refrigerator and start in egg cartons to ready them to plant in my pots? I live Cincinnati. I know I need to keep them inside until after Mother’s Day.
I remember the conversation you shared that there are differences in tomato’s and not all can be replanted. I will try anyway.
Also I heard sweet potatoes can be started with sweet potato scraps. Can you go over the steps on your next video? I heard there is a two step process. Will one rooted sweet potato produce one or multiple?
Tonight I had a soft potato with 2 eyes which I cut a piece off with two eyes. I was told to let it dry over night and place in a small amount of water to root. Will this one piece produce one tater of multiple taters?
Thanks
Tomato seeds don't need cold to germinate.
@@nancygould6789 Oh okay thanks.
Is there any reason you don't grow Asparagus? I can find alot of videos of people planting strawberries with asparagus, but there is no videos of what that looks like 3-5 years later. Can you think of why?? (hard to manage or what??)
We have 2 beds. One we have had for over 10 years. 2 of our old Asparagus videos linked below.
th-cam.com/video/5QPyPLrhAow/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/pOsjaV7wr0k/w-d-xo.html
I planted onions outside in a plastic tray with a lid the 3rd week of December and we had several weeks of higher than normal temps. They immediately came up and now we are getting nights of temps in the teens and they are still looking ok, will they make it.
yes, they should
Greg the new yellow water melon seeds how many are in the pack and price
hosstools.com/product/treasure-chest-seedless-watermelon/
hosstools.com/product/yellow-buttercup-seedless-watermelon/
Can I cut the green tops off my elephant garlic and fertilize to get larger bulbs?
Not needed. You will need to remove the scapes when they appear in early spring, because this takes energy away from bulb growth. The soil temperature is what determines when the bulbs start to grow. Usually when the soil temperature starts around 60° F, and ends when the soil reaches 90° F.
@@gardeningwithhoss THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I appreciate your time in replying to my question.
What are root pouches?
hosstools.com/product-category/garden-supplies/root-pouch-grow-bags/
Are there any smaller watermelon varieties that can be trellised?
Would not recommend trellising. Even the smallest will reach 14-16 pounds and be too heavy for most trellises.
If you want to trellis then make a hammock for each fruit that will work.. I've done that several times along the fence row.. but if you miss a fruit it will fall and may break the vine.
As long as you have a strong trellis and give them support. I haven't done watermelons but I have done cantaloupe and things like that. I use cattle panels for trellises and they will work but not if your using chicken wire fencing or horticulture netting.
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What happened to the other guy that use to be on with ya all
He left the company in April of 2001
Hope you are ok, you have some bruising.
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What’s the point of your wife holding up the seed packets showing the backside (with the info detailed) if someone editing obliterates the info and inserts a large picture of the actual plant? Move the picture of the plant over to the SIDE so viewers can see BOTH the plant info and the picture. If this can’t be done then why bother to put up the seed package at all? This would be helpful to beginning folks like me to see growing info AND the product.
Agree, will try next time
You can always check the variety on the website and find all the info you need.
@@tommathews3964 I understand that…..but do you suggest I write down the names of each of the seed packets they show so that I can then go to the website and research each one to find out if it would be something I could possibly fit into my tiny container garden…I’d miss parts of the video (and I do enjoy watching the videos) and then I’d have to go to the website, locate the seed packet to find the info. Whereas….if they held up the back of the packet (showing the info) and inserted the picture (that someone is ALREADY using to obliterate the info) off to the side….I could ‘screen shot’ while the video is playing and have all the information right there. I asked in the original post why they started showing videos where she was holding up the back of the package with the info that I personally found helpful….and then they started inserting pics of the plant covering that info in future videos. Why not give us the best of showing everything?
You need to talk louder
Agree, trying really hard to work on that.