Treasure your seasoned experiences and tips, ie, growing the veggies you really like at first, being patient to plant starts (I've learned 2wks after last frost date), growing vertically, especially if you don't have much space. Will experiment putting foil around the zucchini right now. Thanks!
My brother, you are as fun as you are wise! " planting Ginger is a great conversation starter" . Please never stop uploading your videos, I learn a lot from them
40 years ago bought a flower pot at a yard sale. Had dirt in it and the roots of a plant. Out of curiosity watered and fed it fish fertilizer. Six months later a bit of green. Have had a fiscus for the last 40 years. Roots evidently don't die immediately. Push and pull ok clay soil. 😊
I had a palm type potted plant for 30 years and one winter it died. I was sad. It never gave me any trouble before. I threw the pot out on the patio and even though it was very early spring and still quite cold, I was surprised to find it growing back. And it grew back better than before!!! I guess it just needed a rest, lol.
I save newspapers in the spring so that if a late frost comes I can save my baby plants by making hats to cover them. I fold a sheet of newspaper into the little triangular hats you made as kids. Set the hat over the small plant and put a handful of soil on the two points of the hat to hold it down. These can be used a few times if necessary and thrown away or put down in the garden as a weed stopper.
I'd love to grow my own ginger someday, especially if it's easy to grow and harvest! I freeze ginger whole, unpeeled. I can grate it on a microplane even when it's frozen solid, and the skin stays on the top side of the grater and is easily brushed away.
Starting small as a new gardener is important advice. I went all in the first year, including hoop house winter gardening and starting an indoor year round garden. I’ve learned now that I need to put the garden to bed for the winter ( except for a few micro tomatoes and peppers, green onions, lettuce, herbs and microgreens ) because I enjoy the rhythm of seasonal projects. I overwhelmed myself and grew all the things.
I can see how all of that could overwhelm a person. I know I probably grow too much each year, but I usually have projects that I'm really interested in that keep me going. Glad you've found your sweet spot for how much and when to grow.
@@MidwestGardener this is right up my alley. Things like this definitely make gardening fun. I'm going to have to do more research on grafting. Do you have videos on the subject?
@@The_Remnant86 Yes, I've done a few videos on grafting. Here is a video on how I top graft tomatoes: th-cam.com/video/NXEXOLZvu-w/w-d-xo.html There are also links to how I side graft and cleft graft tomatoes in description of the top graft video.
Great stuff! To mitigate the risk of squash vine borers on sprawling winter squash, you can scoop soil or even just mulch over sections of the vine. These will root and provide another path for the plant to get water and nutrients. It may not save the whole vine, but if your main trunk dies, some sections may survive with their own root system. This is actually a great way to help winter squash in general, since they sprawl so far that it can be a challenge for water to make it all the way to the ends of the vine. With each section individually rooted, the plant is a lot more drought resistant.
Jim, you always have some great gardening tips and advice. I'm pretty sure that I've watched most of your videos if not all. Sadly though, I have never tried to graft any plants in my garden, let alone graft a petunia onto a tomato plant... which sounds pretty amazing! I think the best gardening advice ever, is to start small, instead of trying to grow everything you like all at once. Blessings to you and Mrs. Midwest Gardener, and Happy Mother's Day to her. I hope the two of you are having a wonderful weekend! ~Margie🤗💐💚
Thanks Margie! I need to take my own advice and go a little smaller one of the years :) I still haven't planted everything yet. The cold weather slowed me down early, then once it was planting time, the hot weather slowed me down. I do a little every day, and sooner or later, I'll get it done. Hope you have a great weekend, and Happy Mother's Day!
I just discovered your channel and I just want to thank you so much for your knowledge and wisdom in gardening!!! Thank you thank you thank you!! I also live in Southeastern Kansas and have learned so much from your channel and I'm excited about trying it out. I personally am allergic to anything like ants, mosquitoes, chiggers so towards the end of summer I don't even want to be in my backyard, so if I do any gardening it has to be in the beginning of the summer or spring. My goal is to someday have a greenhouse. I'm hoping to start some a small garden this year. I used to grow so many indoor plants like orchids and Jasmine trees but I moved to a house that was pretty dark I can't seem to grow anything inside this house. Anyway I was so excited to come across your channel and I have to say yours is one of my new favorite channel. I love all your gardening tips! Again thank you so much!!
Glad you found my channel! Sorry to hear about your allergies. That would make gardening quite a challenge. I hope you are able to grow a few things again. Just seeing things grow adds quality to my life. Thanks for all of the kind words! I'm pleased that you found value in my content. Good luck with whatever you decide to grow!
My advice after 5 seasons of growing a lot of a few plants would be to plant more types but fewer of each plant type so that you have time to maintain weeding and feeding. Then decide which plants appeal to you the most and grow best in your garden environment.
Great tips!!!! The grafting that you've done over the years is so cool. I agree with starting small! There's so much to learn about each thing to grow. It can be so overwhelming.
Thanks Andrea! Yes, you are right....each type of vegetable has it's own set of things to learn. The more different things you grow, the more different things you have to learn. It can be overwhelming.
Good Afternoon Jim - Just got back from picking strawberries this morning and now the processing begins. Your tips are awesome - the drill bits look like new after using citric acid on them and had no idea potatoes would grow from just a peel. I just got some organic ginger and turmeric and will be planting those tomorrow. The tips on freezing ginger is so convenient when you just need a small amount. Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for all the great tips this week.
Good afternoon. Glad you enjoyed the tips. Good to hear you are growing ginger and turmeric. I had more luck with ginger than I did with turmeric. Have a great weekend!
I love the butterfly ideas. I grow extra fennel for them but I think I will go the educational route as well this year! I’m lazy with basil and flower seeds. I bag the whole dried tops 😅 I’m growing ginger this because of you. I’m excited to grow my own instead of hoping the farmers market has some available.
Watching those caterpillars change to butterflies is a lot of fun. Glad that you are going to give ginger a try! Nothing wrong with just saving the flower tops :) Fresh homemade ginger is so different than what you find in the store.
Awesome tips Jim! I really liked the collection of seeds using the canister & starting out small! I’ve slowly expanded in my 20+ years of gardening! I always try something new every year. I see it as a challenge & something that potentially could turn into something I plant for years to come. Have a good weekend! Eric
Thanks Eric! Exactly why I try new things each year....beside the fact that it is kind of fun. You never know when you are going to find that gem that you will plant every year. Have a great growing season!
Well I really enjoyed watching this, The mushroom grow kit was quite interesting,I wondered if they did work. You have a lot of useful tips ,Thanks! 🙂🌻🐝
I recieved a few boxes of different varities of mushroom spores from North Spore. The directions were the same, very easy. We were able to harvest the pink, white, and brown oyster mushrooms and Lion's Mane mushrooms several times, they just need to be respritzed daily.
Great tips! I love to garden but right around last frost date I get so much anxiety😅 So much to do and so little time! But reaping the harvest is bliss!
When potting up hanging baskets and containers I put disposable baby diapers in the bottom of the pot. This keeps the soil from washing out the drain holes also don't have to water as often.
My tip to new gardeners is grow flowers inside and amongst your vegetable garden to feed the insects. Wasps eat caterpillars and a garden full of wasps is a garden not full of caterpillars. Don't kill the wasps. People want to feed butterflies with flowers and kill wasps. So they have a garden full of caterpillars and now need to spray spray spray trying to save their vegetables from caterpillars when they could have kept the wasps and had only a few caterpillars.
I’m trying my hand at different mushrooms in different areas of my property. We enjoy the kits as well. I would love a full tutorial on grafting tomatoes! I bought fruit trees with multiple varieties of on them. Have you tried growing them? I have 3 asian pears on one tree and and 2 apple varieties on one tree. I’m trying them before investing in more.
My son is growing a couple of mushroom kits right now. Glad you enjoy those too. I haven't tried a fruit tree with different types of fruit on the same tree, but my sister has one. Hers has 5 different kinds of fruit on one tree. My dad grafted several types of apples onto one tree when he was young. Here is a video on how I top graft tomatoes: th-cam.com/video/NXEXOLZvu-w/w-d-xo.html There are also links to how I side graft and cleft graft tomatoes in description of the top graft video. Hope you have a great growing season, Nikki!
Want to grow tomatoes and eggplants on a tree? Graft both onto devils plant, devils fig etc. e.g. Solanum chrysotrichum and you can have them growing in a tall tree form. V cleft graft should suffice.
Thinking your squash boar problem might also be fixed with a fix I heard for other critters, Vaseline pasted around the stem, keeps dem bugs from crawling up the stem.
Great video! So many helpful tips. I especially like the tip about starting small and gradually adding to the size of your garden. I know that sometimes my gardening chores can become overwhelming. But when that particular plant starts producing fruit it makes everything worth the effort. Thanks for sharing these tips. Question... Did you work your magic and 'design' the Odapeno pepper during the winter break? And please remind me what it tastes like. I cannot find anything online about it. Thanks for sharing all your valuable information. Have a wonderful weekend.🫑🫑🫑🌶️🌶️🌶️
Thanks Shirley! Yes, a garden can be a little overwhelming sometimes. Especially when things aren't going well for some reason. I have to share credit for the Odapeno with the bees. They did the original cross, and I did the rest from there. I have a whole bunch of my own crosses that I'm working on now though. I will probably share a little about some of those over the next few weeks or months. At the end past the 17 minute mark was probably some of my ornamental popcorn that I'm working on. It still might be a year or two away from sharing that with folks. That kind of depends on how this year goes. Have a great weekend!
@@MidwestGardener That's great that you do that, you should try to get a patten for the Odapeno pepper. Like I said I can't wait to taste it and share it with other gardeners
The taste of it is slightly sweet with mild heat when ripe. I eat them red because I think they taste better when ripe. Of course, you could always eat them when purple too if you want.
Did you know all of the cowpea plant is edible. Black eyed peas, etc. The leaves taste good but most folks don't know this and just wait for and eat the seeds when they form. Same with other plants, beet leaves most folks just eat the roots, Swiss chard is just part of the beet family where people eat the leaves and not the root.
I’ve tried the potatoes like that mini mini times in containers and in the ground I can never grow potatoes for some reason I tried again this year. We’ll see what happens.
Want to save seed but worry too much about seperation distances and keeping the varieties pure? Think about growing a landrace instead. Throw out all rules about varieties, grow all varieties of a plant mixed up together and let them interbreed. Collect the seeds and replant the following season. In three years you should have a landrace forming that is adapted to your soil and climate and should outperform any store bought seed. Want to grow subsistence farming style landrace, don't baby the plants or fertilize or spray. The survivors pass on their genetics to the next seed so if you fertilize, spray chemicals, grow under plastic then you will be selecting for those genetics in the next seed that grows plants that will need those inputs to survive. That's how early forms of watermelon were developed in northern climes. The late fruiting plants died off before fruiting and didn't pass on their genes into the next seed. It's easy on the brain not having to worry about breeding, genetics and separation distances. What you select for is what you get. Prefer more orange cartenoid rich foods. Select only plants that have fruits rich in orange cartenoids and save only those seeds and when planted next season you get more and more plants with fruits rich in orange cartnoids growing. Select for size, shape, early or late ripening, subsistence growing or not. It's your landrace you are developing!
Sorry, but I don't have any to sell. I've seen them at a couple of our local stores, so you might check around your area. I saw some at an Atwoods store just a couple of days ago.
@@janeschultz9951 It depends on where you live. If it's still fairly cool, then let them go longer. If it's already getting hot, I would plant something else. We are going to be in the 90s soon here.
The spoon trick with ginger is a game changer.
Glad you like that one!
This man really speaks to teach. To leave valuable information for another person.
It would be fun, just to meet him.
Thank you very much for the kind words, Janae! I really appreciate it!
Really appreciate your calm, cool, clear recommendations. Your vocal demeanor is a great listen😊
Thank you for the very kind words. Very much appreciated!
Treasure your seasoned experiences and tips, ie, growing the veggies you really like at first, being patient to plant starts (I've learned 2wks after last frost date), growing vertically, especially if you don't have much space. Will experiment putting foil around the zucchini right now. Thanks!
Thanks Karen! I appreciate the feedback! It helps to know what folks think about what I put out there.
My brother, you are as fun as you are wise! " planting Ginger is a great conversation starter" . Please never stop uploading your videos, I learn a lot from them
Thanks for that, Pablo. I really appreciate that!
I love that you move the caterpillars ❤
Thanks! As long as they don't get too greedy, I don't mind sharing.
40 years ago bought a flower pot at a yard sale. Had dirt in it and the roots of a plant. Out of curiosity watered and fed it fish fertilizer. Six months later a bit of green. Have had a fiscus for the last 40 years. Roots evidently don't die immediately. Push and pull ok clay soil. 😊
That was a pretty good investment on that flower pot. Thanks for sharing that!
I had a palm type potted plant for 30 years and one winter it died. I was sad. It never gave me any trouble before. I threw the pot out on the patio and even though it was very early spring and still quite cold, I was surprised to find it growing back. And it grew back better than before!!! I guess it just needed a rest, lol.
I save newspapers in the spring so that if a late frost comes I can save my baby plants by making hats to cover them. I fold a sheet of newspaper into the little triangular hats you made as kids. Set the hat over the small plant and put a handful of soil on the two points of the hat to hold it down. These can be used a few times if necessary and thrown away or put down in the garden as a weed stopper.
Thanks a bunch for the tip!
Thank you for your knowledge on so many in a garden. Yes I am learning to not be in a hurry to start seeds …it can be overwhelming
You're welcome, Kathy! Great point about planting time being overwhelming sometimes. I run into that myself once in a while.
In Florida you kind of have to because it gets so hot so quickly.
YOU ARE TRUELY AMAZING. THANK YOU
Thank you very much! That is too kind.
Great tips thanks! I am really fascinated by the tomato grafting.
Thanks Amanda! I understand. There are real benefits to grafting, but I found the process to be very fascinating also.
I'd love to grow my own ginger someday, especially if it's easy to grow and harvest! I freeze ginger whole, unpeeled. I can grate it on a microplane even when it's frozen solid, and the skin stays on the top side of the grater and is easily brushed away.
We've had pretty good luck with growing ginger....so far. Thanks for sharing how you freeze and grate it!
Never run out since freezing n grating
Starting small as a new gardener is important advice. I went all in the first year, including hoop house winter gardening and starting an indoor year round garden. I’ve learned now that I need to put the garden to bed for the winter ( except for a few micro tomatoes and peppers, green onions, lettuce, herbs and microgreens ) because I enjoy the rhythm of seasonal projects. I overwhelmed myself and grew all the things.
I can see how all of that could overwhelm a person. I know I probably grow too much each year, but I usually have projects that I'm really interested in that keep me going. Glad you've found your sweet spot for how much and when to grow.
Great video! Looking forward to the next ❤
Thanks Kristen! Glad you enjoyed it!
Greetings from Central California 😇awesome content and I learned so much! Thank you!
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching! Always great to hear from Californians!
This video is so awesome! I love your takes, examples, and tips. But most of all, your humor throughout. Very well done!
Thank you very much for those kind words! I really do appreciate it!
Your voice is so calming! I love your videos so much, definitely will be a channel I revisit time and time again!
Thank you very much! I really appreciate that!
Wow! I didn't realize the possibilities of grafting!!
Yes, there are some interesting things you can do with grafting. The process itself can be fun.
@@MidwestGardener this is right up my alley. Things like this definitely make gardening fun. I'm going to have to do more research on grafting. Do you have videos on the subject?
@@The_Remnant86 Yes, I've done a few videos on grafting. Here is a video on how I top graft tomatoes: th-cam.com/video/NXEXOLZvu-w/w-d-xo.html
There are also links to how I side graft and cleft graft tomatoes in description of the top graft video.
In love this man! So smart and "down the earth"
Thank you Connie! That is very kind of you to say!
Great stuff! To mitigate the risk of squash vine borers on sprawling winter squash, you can scoop soil or even just mulch over sections of the vine. These will root and provide another path for the plant to get water and nutrients. It may not save the whole vine, but if your main trunk dies, some sections may survive with their own root system. This is actually a great way to help winter squash in general, since they sprawl so far that it can be a challenge for water to make it all the way to the ends of the vine. With each section individually rooted, the plant is a lot more drought resistant.
Thanks for the tips! Much appreciated!
I'll practice planting for fun. Looks very interesting.
Good luck with whatever you decide to grow!
Jim, you always have some great gardening tips and advice. I'm pretty sure that I've watched most of your videos if not all. Sadly though, I have never tried to graft any plants in my garden, let alone graft a petunia onto a tomato plant... which sounds pretty amazing! I think the best gardening advice ever, is to start small, instead of trying to grow everything you like all at once. Blessings to you and Mrs. Midwest Gardener, and Happy Mother's Day to her. I hope the two of you are having a wonderful weekend! ~Margie🤗💐💚
Thanks Margie! I need to take my own advice and go a little smaller one of the years :) I still haven't planted everything yet. The cold weather slowed me down early, then once it was planting time, the hot weather slowed me down. I do a little every day, and sooner or later, I'll get it done. Hope you have a great weekend, and Happy Mother's Day!
@@MidwestGardener Thank you, I had a wonderful day.🤗
I just discovered your channel and I just want to thank you so much for your knowledge and wisdom in gardening!!! Thank you thank you thank you!! I also live in Southeastern Kansas and have learned so much from your channel and I'm excited about trying it out. I personally am allergic to anything like ants, mosquitoes, chiggers so towards the end of summer I don't even want to be in my backyard, so if I do any gardening it has to be in the beginning of the summer or spring. My goal is to someday have a greenhouse. I'm hoping to start some a small garden this year. I used to grow so many indoor plants like orchids and Jasmine trees but I moved to a house that was pretty dark I can't seem to grow anything inside this house. Anyway I was so excited to come across your channel and I have to say yours is one of my new favorite channel. I love all your gardening tips! Again thank you so much!!
Glad you found my channel! Sorry to hear about your allergies. That would make gardening quite a challenge. I hope you are able to grow a few things again. Just seeing things grow adds quality to my life. Thanks for all of the kind words! I'm pleased that you found value in my content. Good luck with whatever you decide to grow!
My advice after 5 seasons of growing a lot of a few plants would be to plant more types but fewer of each plant type so that you have time to maintain weeding and feeding. Then decide which plants appeal to you the most and grow best in your garden environment.
Sounds like solid advice to me!
Love your tips. I’ve been gardening for years, but learned quite a few new tricks. Thank you!
Thank you very much, Jeanne! Glad you found a few things you could use.
Always great tips
Thanks Billy Joe!
You are great to watch
And gave me some great ideas
Thanks Rick! Glad I could help!
Great video content! It's nice to hear your wisdom
Thank you very much! I appreciate that!
I love this. Keeping gardening fun is the best tip. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed the video, Sonnya! I agree....keeping the fun in gardening is important.
Great tips!!!! The grafting that you've done over the years is so cool. I agree with starting small! There's so much to learn about each thing to grow. It can be so overwhelming.
Thanks Andrea! Yes, you are right....each type of vegetable has it's own set of things to learn. The more different things you grow, the more different things you have to learn. It can be overwhelming.
Good Afternoon Jim - Just got back from picking strawberries this morning and now the processing begins. Your tips are awesome - the drill bits look like new after using citric acid on them and had no idea potatoes would grow from just a peel. I just got some organic ginger and turmeric and will be planting those tomorrow. The tips on freezing ginger is so convenient when you just need a small amount. Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for all the great tips this week.
Good afternoon. Glad you enjoyed the tips. Good to hear you are growing ginger and turmeric. I had more luck with ginger than I did with turmeric. Have a great weekend!
My tip is that yellow patty pan is quite resistant to vine borers... not totally but better than a lot of others
Thanks Pat! That is a tip that I'm sure lots of folks will find useful.
This is awesome information 👏 👌 👍 🙌 😀
Glad you think so! Thanks for watching!
This was a great video❤ looking forward to more. 🖐🏾 New gardener
Thank you Carolyn! Hope you're enjoying your gardening journey!
Wonderful advise! I just ❤ your vids! Thank you!
Thank you! That is kind of you to say. Glad you enjoy the videos!
Very interesting and helpful video! I do hope you decide to share more tips …. I need all of those I can get. 😊
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video! I'll give it some thought.
They’re really good gardening tips. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Norma! You're welcome!
Wow, 👍 great tips again😊
Thank you again 💓
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing your videos and keep them coming please.
More to come!
Great video and alot to learn or remember. #24 has got to be the most important for us over here. Thanks for the share!
Thanks UT! Yep, #24 is a big one for sure....especially when you get to be my age.
Thankyou Sir. Appreciate your videos and love your very soothing voice.
You're welcome, Gretta! Thanks for watching!
What a great video!! Thanks for the wonderful information 🤗
Thanks Karen! Glad you enjoyed it!
the flowers of radish are good too
Thanks for the tip. I've never tried them.
I never knew radish seed pods were edible. Thanks for the info!
You're welcome! Glad I could help!
Love watching your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏🏼💞
Thanks Anna! Glad you enjoy the videos!
I love the butterfly ideas. I grow extra fennel for them but I think I will go the educational route as well this year!
I’m lazy with basil and flower seeds. I bag the whole dried tops 😅 I’m growing ginger this because of you. I’m excited to grow my own instead of hoping the farmers market has some available.
Watching those caterpillars change to butterflies is a lot of fun. Glad that you are going to give ginger a try! Nothing wrong with just saving the flower tops :) Fresh homemade ginger is so different than what you find in the store.
Great tips Jim. Happy Mothers Day to your wife.
Thanks Bob! Tawnya says thanks for the Mothers Day wishes! Wish your wife a Happy Mothers Day from us.
Thanks Jim & Tawnya. Will do.
Those are some fun and helpful tips!
Glad you think so. Thanks for watching!
Awesome tips Jim! I really liked the collection of seeds using the canister & starting out small! I’ve slowly expanded in my 20+ years of gardening!
I always try something new every year. I see it as a challenge & something that potentially could turn into something I plant for years to come. Have a good weekend! Eric
Thanks Eric! Exactly why I try new things each year....beside the fact that it is kind of fun. You never know when you are going to find that gem that you will plant every year. Have a great growing season!
Well I really enjoyed watching this, The mushroom grow kit was quite interesting,I wondered if they did work. You have a lot of useful tips ,Thanks! 🙂🌻🐝
Glad you enjoyed it! My son recently tried another mushroom kit. It didn't work as well as the first time, but it did work again.
I recieved a few boxes of different varities of mushroom spores from North Spore. The directions were the same, very easy. We were able to harvest the pink, white, and brown oyster mushrooms and Lion's Mane mushrooms several times, they just need to be respritzed daily.
Thank you for sharing!!!
The ginger has not been fully matured that's why they don't look like the ones in the store, speaking from experience.
You're welcome. Thanks for the information.
Very helpful. Huge thanks!
You're welcome, Nancy! Thanks for watching!
Outstanding, thank you for sharing.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Awesome tips, thanks for sharing.
Thanks Sonnie! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Wow didn't know so many of those things ! A peel?, citric brill.... starting small was my start but with a weather break doing well
Glad there was some useful information in there.
Wow, excellent tips here, thanks
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Some very interesting ideas.
Thanks Barbara!
Fun video. Great tips...TY
Thanks Tia!
Another awesome video with a lot of great tips. Hope you enjoying the weekend. Cheers!
Thanks Riaz! Hope you are having a great weekend. Cheers!
wow!!
I took your advice and planted a stick of gum and 90 days later went to dug it up and harvested just about a whole bag of gumballs
Nice.
Thanks sir,very informative.
You're welcome, Diane!
Great tips! I love to garden but right around last frost date I get so much anxiety😅 So much to do and so little time! But reaping the harvest is bliss!
Thanks! I understand. That can be a very stressful time of year. Especially if you have a lot of plants. It's worth it though.
When potting up hanging baskets and containers I put disposable baby diapers in the bottom of the pot. This keeps the soil from washing out the drain holes also don't have to water as often.
Thanks for sharing your tip with us, Deborah!
What variety of sunflower is that? Thank you so much for these great tips!!
You're welcome, Courtenay! That particular sunflower was a volunteer. I let a few grow each year.
wow thx ya mr., real good tips here enjoyd the video lots
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video. Keep gardening fun!
Thanks Katie! Keep gardening fun indeed!
Good tips.
Thanks Jim!
Thank you so much
You're welcome!
lovely video
Thank you very much!
These are great tips! I have similar interests, and can use most of what you shared. Thank you. New sub.
Awesome! Thank you for subscribing!
My tip to new gardeners is grow flowers inside and amongst your vegetable garden to feed the insects. Wasps eat caterpillars and a garden full of wasps is a garden not full of caterpillars. Don't kill the wasps. People want to feed butterflies with flowers and kill wasps. So they have a garden full of caterpillars and now need to spray spray spray trying to save their vegetables from caterpillars when they could have kept the wasps and had only a few caterpillars.
Very true. That tip is in my other video of 20 tips.
I’m trying my hand at different mushrooms in different areas of my property. We enjoy the kits as well.
I would love a full tutorial on grafting tomatoes! I bought fruit trees with multiple varieties of on them. Have you tried growing them? I have 3 asian pears on one tree and and 2 apple varieties on one tree. I’m trying them before investing in more.
My son is growing a couple of mushroom kits right now. Glad you enjoy those too. I haven't tried a fruit tree with different types of fruit on the same tree, but my sister has one. Hers has 5 different kinds of fruit on one tree. My dad grafted several types of apples onto one tree when he was young. Here is a video on how I top graft tomatoes: th-cam.com/video/NXEXOLZvu-w/w-d-xo.html
There are also links to how I side graft and cleft graft tomatoes in description of the top graft video. Hope you have a great growing season, Nikki!
@@MidwestGardener much appreciated Jim!
This was nice
Thank you!
Wow❤
Thanks!
Wow
Thanks Sasha!
Want to grow tomatoes and eggplants on a tree? Graft both onto devils plant, devils fig etc. e.g. Solanum chrysotrichum and you can have them growing in a tall tree form. V cleft graft should suffice.
Interesting thought.
Thinking your squash boar problem might also be fixed with a fix I heard for other critters, Vaseline pasted around the stem, keeps dem bugs from crawling up the stem.
Thanks for tip, Victor! I've never tried that one.
Nice
Thanks Brian! Hope you have a great weekend!
Great video! So many helpful tips. I especially like the tip about starting small and gradually adding to the size of your garden. I know that sometimes my gardening chores can become overwhelming. But when that particular plant starts producing fruit it makes everything worth the effort. Thanks for sharing these tips. Question... Did you work your magic and 'design' the Odapeno pepper during the winter break? And please remind me what it tastes like. I cannot find anything online about it. Thanks for sharing all your valuable information. Have a wonderful weekend.🫑🫑🫑🌶️🌶️🌶️
Thanks Shirley! Yes, a garden can be a little overwhelming sometimes. Especially when things aren't going well for some reason. I have to share credit for the Odapeno with the bees. They did the original cross, and I did the rest from there. I have a whole bunch of my own crosses that I'm working on now though. I will probably share a little about some of those over the next few weeks or months. At the end past the 17 minute mark was probably some of my ornamental popcorn that I'm working on. It still might be a year or two away from sharing that with folks. That kind of depends on how this year goes. Have a great weekend!
@@MidwestGardener That's great that you do that, you should try to get a patten for the Odapeno pepper. Like I said I can't wait to taste it and share it with other gardeners
The taste of it is slightly sweet with mild heat when ripe. I eat them red because I think they taste better when ripe. Of course, you could always eat them when purple too if you want.
Daikon radish is 10x more prolific than radish in producing seed pods. It produces an endless number of seed pods from late spring to late summer!
Thanks for the tip.
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yummy!
Thanks!
Did you know all of the cowpea plant is edible. Black eyed peas, etc. The leaves taste good but most folks don't know this and just wait for and eat the seeds when they form. Same with other plants, beet leaves most folks just eat the roots, Swiss chard is just part of the beet family where people eat the leaves and not the root.
I did not know that about cowpeas. Thanks for sharing. Sweet potato leaves are also edible.
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I’ve tried the potatoes like that mini mini times in containers and in the ground I can never grow potatoes for some reason I tried again this year. We’ll see what happens.
Good luck, Kathy! I hope you do well this time!
Want to save seed but worry too much about seperation distances and keeping the varieties pure? Think about growing a landrace instead. Throw out all rules about varieties, grow all varieties of a plant mixed up together and let them interbreed. Collect the seeds and replant the following season. In three years you should have a landrace forming that is adapted to your soil and climate and should outperform any store bought seed. Want to grow subsistence farming style landrace, don't baby the plants or fertilize or spray. The survivors pass on their genetics to the next seed so if you fertilize, spray chemicals, grow under plastic then you will be selecting for those genetics in the next seed that grows plants that will need those inputs to survive. That's how early forms of watermelon were developed in northern climes. The late fruiting plants died off before fruiting and didn't pass on their genes into the next seed. It's easy on the brain not having to worry about breeding, genetics and separation distances. What you select for is what you get. Prefer more orange cartenoid rich foods. Select only plants that have fruits rich in orange cartenoids and save only those seeds and when planted next season you get more and more plants with fruits rich in orange cartnoids growing. Select for size, shape, early or late ripening, subsistence growing or not. It's your landrace you are developing!
I can tell you given it a lot of thought. Thanks for sharing.
Would you be willing to send me some banana shoots to sell? I live in Illinois and would like to try growing them. Thanks
Sorry, but I don't have any to sell. I've seen them at a couple of our local stores, so you might check around your area. I saw some at an Atwoods store just a couple of days ago.
What is the name of that butterfly in the film? ( Not it's Christian name of course).
Swallowtail
The common name for that one is Black Swallowtail. The scientific name is Papilio polyxenes. It's Christian a name is Bob 😁
@@MidwestGardener oh yes, I knew his brother Timothy, comes from a good family.
@@stephenrowe1415 😂😂
Do snap peas yield only one crop per season?
It's actually multiple small harvests for us. They are usually finished some time in June.
@@MidwestGardener so ours are done blooming and producing. Should I leave them in the ground to bloom and produce again or plant another crop?
@@janeschultz9951 It depends on where you live. If it's still fairly cool, then let them go longer. If it's already getting hot, I would plant something else. We are going to be in the 90s soon here.
We’re on southern Minnesota and it’s terrible heat here too early. Where are you located?
@@janeschultz9951 We are in South Central Kansas.
Great ideas! Thanks so much!
You're welcome, Nancy! Thanks for watching!
Very informative, thank you!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!