I was teasing my boyfriend that some of what I'm growing this year is because I like a colorful garden! (As well as a colorful plate! 😉) When I stopped to think about it, I realized the only thing blue in my raised beds this year was cornflowers. 😱😱🤯🤯😵😵😵 "Are they edible flowers?" I replied, "Not really." "Then they don't count." Uugghhhh!! So, blue corn is on my list for next year! 😁😁😁 Also, HUGE CONGRATS on reaching 200k subscribers!! 🎉🎉🎉🎂🎂🎂👍👍👍 VERY well deserved! Keep up the GREAT videos. P.S. I'm thinking about taking some of my stimulus check to pay to get my Master Gardener Certificate. Thanks for being such a wonderful inspiration! 🌱👍😊
Your point about considering the PH is well taken. You made that clear in one of your previous vids. I'm on a very tight budget, so I bought 15ft (enough to do 180 tests) of name brand test tape for urine/saliva PH (same range as soil) for a bit less than $8 on eBay. I took samples from all over my property at various depths and YIKES - they all tested 5.5! So now I'm really paying attention to that and lime is my new best friend ;-)
I had some ideas for shirts. "Ear we grow again!" with a picture of a corn cob. "The eyes have it," with some potato eyes. The next one is over three lines. "Garden away. Garden any way. Garden anyways." You could also do the last one with "Grow away!" with a picture of someone walking to a garden, "Grow anyway." with a picture of someone who has just lost a crop, and "Grow any ways," with a two or more pictures juxtaposing which different types of gardens (eg: rooftop, container, and trellis). Secondly, it's six dollars for one dragon heart (dragon heart or dragon fruit?) here, and two dollars for dragon ___ seeds. Guess which one I bought?
We use a number of decision points you use to decide what to plant plus; what will dry (you mentioned but emphasized as we go through a large amount of spices), how they taste when dehydrated/frozen, veggies that are only available for a limited time, what we use a lot of so even if it is cheap to buy it all adds up. Thanks for the video
Such good tips on what to grow! Now I want to grow them in my garden! They are so full of vitamins and very expensive to buy in the store. We love them in a goji berry chocolate nut bar that I make.
I was just last week going through the decision process of what to grow this year. Thanks so much for shareing your knowledge, it's infinitely beneficial to us gardeners! Always learning, always growing! Looking forward to your next live stream! 👍🌱❤️
Thanks for the tips Scott. I wanted to left you know that I purchased the Spider Farmer SF 2000 led grow light with your Gardener Scott link. The light is a fantastic addition to my grow room. Love your videos!
Decisions...Decisions.......I Have the same problems. Heirloom tomatoes are expensive at the store. So are colored bell peppers.Also varieties of hot peppers. And I have flower gardens too. Thats a lot of planning, but I just have to think of harvesting those yummy tomatoes and peppers. And seeing all the beautiful blooming flowers.
Good video. Selecting plants to grow should involve some thinking and research. I try to do what the video suggests, but every year I pick one or two things to try because they look interesting. This year its ground cherries and canary yellow melons.
Amen about the herbs, Scott! It's crazy how much they cost at the store whether it's fresh or dried. I'm at the point now where I've got perennial culinary herbs growing all over my yard & what won't grow outside is in my garden window, so I never have to buy those things.
Good information. Please tell your subscribers that goji berry plants can be very invasive and should be planted far away from the rest of their gardens or in a very large and tight container. (This advice is from my personal experience.) My favorite way to eat their berries is by making juice out of them and mixing it about half and half with orange juice. Mmmmm...
We were pleasantly surprised by how many plants came up from seeds we planted all through the fall season. We thought there were a lot more garden failures than we actually had. We still got a lot of new seed packets, and a few varieties to make sure we get a variety that establishes well, including vesca strawberries!
Red and yellow bell peppers here are routinely $2 each. I grow extra of that. My beloved purple hull peas that are not sold here? I grow a lot of those. Great points!
Thank you very much for the very informative video like always. GARDNER SCOTT, CAN YOU PLEASE RECOMMEND AN AFORDABLE SOURCE FOR FRUIT TREES (ZONE 5 IN WISCONSIN)? Thank you.
Great informaction thanks...I am just roasting the last of my butternut squash and I’ll freeze what I don’t use for soup. I love growing crops that store well into the season. I have been growing leeks (pricey in my grocery) but for the last couple years they keep getting tiny worms and I’ve had to toss them out... so discouraging. I guess I’ll try a few in a container this year because I still have seeds.
Could you do a video on Day Neutrals and explain what those are? Pros and Cons? Thanks. And now you did it, I was in a store last weekend and past on the GoJi berries, and after watching this video I am now going back to get those plants so that I can plant them.
Hey Gardener Scott. I’m also Colorado Zone 5b. I’m a new gardener and I learn a lot from your videos. Thank you. I have a question. Should I be worried about the groundwater being contaminated? Everyone around me sprays Roundup and since I live downhill from multiple neighbors, I’m worried those chemicals will get into any foods that I do grow. Do you think I should be worried about that?
Depending on where you live you should be able to get a ground water report from your water utility. Roundup is not a big contaminate and if it does find its way into your garden it will kill plants before you can harvest them. Pesticides and excess nitrogen fertilizer are worse.
Gardener Scott, I'm also in 5b in wisconsin and I get so much from your videos. I haven't heard of Kellogs Breakfast tomatoes. Do you know who carries them?
@GardenerScott Do you have any experience with husk cherries? I'm having trouble getting them to germinate. I'm keeping them at 70° to 75°F and in moist seed starting mix. Only 2 out of 30 seeds have germinated and it's been three weeks. Do you have any advice?
@@capeeddy I germinated mine in a zip lock bag with a paper towel. Left it over the heater vent because I don't have a heat mat. Planted them in pots. Patiently waiting for tiny plants... The are so worth it though, yummy and grow well once outside in the garden. But only half the seeds in the bag germinated...
Ugh I have a goji in my back yard. It’s 4 years old. It’s gotten 4-6 berries the last two years. It always has a bunch of blooms. What do you think could be wrong?
I decided to only grow flowers...i dont want to give away the rare space in my garden to vegetables which i care for and then just have one or two as harvest ..i enjoy much more looking at bees and other insects for weeks or months.
I really enjoy your videos, but I have a question, I have an area that I am covering in black plastic to kill off Johnson Grass. I am wanting to place two large containers about 15 to 20 feet a part and plant cantaloupe in one and cucumbers in the other and spread wheat straw on top of the black plastic so the heat wont cook the plants. My question is will they cross pollenate? or have an effect on the taste of each other?
They may cross pollinate but that should only effect the seeds not the fruit of this current year. You could use a blossom bag and quarantine a certain blossom or two. Then you would know which fruits would be true to type for saving seeds for nxt year😊
I always end up with my garden full, then look through my seed collection and think "I should have grown this, and I should have grown that, I'll have to grow them next year" and next year I do the exact same...
I grew veggies before that I really didn't like to eat. How stupid that was! Not every garden needs to grow kale, turnips etc. Now I just grow what we really enjoy, especially great-tasting heirloom tomatoes, beets, potatoes and cucumbers.
Being a novice gardener I try to keep it simple, and make sure to always learn from the experience.
You can never learn to much, and the beginning of wisdom is knowing what you dont know.
I thought I found all useful gardening channels, and then I found this. Sooo many good tips here. A must subscribe. 👍
Thanks!
I plan to work and plant mygarden, this give me idea what to do and what to plant.
I was teasing my boyfriend that some of what I'm growing this year is because I like a colorful garden! (As well as a colorful plate! 😉) When I stopped to think about it, I realized the only thing blue in my raised beds this year was cornflowers. 😱😱🤯🤯😵😵😵 "Are they edible flowers?" I replied, "Not really." "Then they don't count." Uugghhhh!! So, blue corn is on my list for next year! 😁😁😁 Also, HUGE CONGRATS on reaching 200k subscribers!! 🎉🎉🎉🎂🎂🎂👍👍👍 VERY well deserved! Keep up the GREAT videos.
P.S. I'm thinking about taking some of my stimulus check to pay to get my Master Gardener Certificate. Thanks for being such a wonderful inspiration! 🌱👍😊
Your point about considering the PH is well taken. You made that clear in one of your previous vids. I'm on a very tight budget, so I bought 15ft (enough to do 180 tests) of name brand test tape for urine/saliva PH (same range as soil) for a bit less than $8 on eBay. I took samples from all over my property at various depths and YIKES - they all tested 5.5! So now I'm really paying attention to that and lime is my new best friend ;-)
I got two goji berries from sam's club this year in February. Planted them in pots and will move to the yard next month! They are easy to grow.
I had some ideas for shirts. "Ear we grow again!" with a picture of a corn cob. "The eyes have it," with some potato eyes. The next one is over three lines. "Garden away. Garden any way. Garden anyways." You could also do the last one with "Grow away!" with a picture of someone walking to a garden, "Grow anyway." with a picture of someone who has just lost a crop, and "Grow any ways," with a two or more pictures juxtaposing which different types of gardens (eg: rooftop, container, and trellis). Secondly, it's six dollars for one dragon heart (dragon heart or dragon fruit?) here, and two dollars for dragon ___ seeds. Guess which one I bought?
Thanks for the clever ideas. Have fun growing your dragon fruit.
Thank You For Your Service! Much Love and Blessings
The organic aspect (and what organic costs in stores) is what got me interested in gardening. Then I fell in love with all of it. Great video Scott!
I also love to grow uniqe crops and flowers. It's so much fun and it keeps me creative in my planning and layout of my garden :)
I seed what you did there. Very helpful! Thanks again
We use a number of decision points you use to decide what to plant plus; what will dry (you mentioned but emphasized as we go through a large amount of spices), how they taste when dehydrated/frozen, veggies that are only available for a limited time, what we use a lot of so even if it is cheap to buy it all adds up. Thanks for the video
Every year, I try to grow something that I have never grown before that should be able to grow in my zone.
Great info and advice!
Great video and thank you for sharing 🙂
Such good tips on what to grow! Now I want to grow them in my garden! They are so full of vitamins and very expensive to buy in the store. We love them in a goji berry chocolate nut bar that I make.
Every time I watch a video I find myself buying more seeds 😀. Have a great day!
Great content. Always learn something from your posts! Thank you!
I was just last week going through the decision process of what to grow this year. Thanks so much for shareing your knowledge, it's infinitely beneficial to us gardeners! Always learning, always growing! Looking forward to your next live stream! 👍🌱❤️
Goji berry! Love to try it.
Thanks for the tips Scott. I wanted to left you know that I purchased the Spider Farmer SF 2000 led grow light with your Gardener Scott link. The light is a fantastic addition to my grow room. Love your videos!
Thanks, Glenn!
Decisions...Decisions.......I Have the same problems. Heirloom tomatoes are expensive at the store. So are colored bell peppers.Also varieties of hot peppers. And I have flower gardens too. Thats a lot of planning, but I just have to think of harvesting those yummy tomatoes and peppers. And seeing all the beautiful blooming flowers.
Good video. Selecting plants to grow should involve some thinking and research. I try to do what the video suggests, but every year I pick one or two things to try because they look interesting. This year its ground cherries and canary yellow melons.
I grow what I eat and I grow what I did well with last year. So for me it's heirloom tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and watermelon.
Amen about the herbs, Scott! It's crazy how much they cost at the store whether it's fresh or dried. I'm at the point now where I've got perennial culinary herbs growing all over my yard & what won't grow outside is in my garden window, so I never have to buy those things.
Good information. Please tell your subscribers that goji berry plants can be very invasive and should be planted far away from the rest of their gardens or in a very large and tight container. (This advice is from my personal experience.) My favorite way to eat their berries is by making juice out of them and mixing it about half and half with orange juice. Mmmmm...
We were pleasantly surprised by how many plants came up from seeds we planted all through the fall season. We thought there were a lot more garden failures than we actually had. We still got a lot of new seed packets, and a few varieties to make sure we get a variety that establishes well, including vesca strawberries!
Especially if you have a long season fight the urge to overplant or leave some space so you can add throughout the season or do progression planting.
Red and yellow bell peppers here are routinely $2 each. I grow extra of that. My beloved purple hull peas that are not sold here? I grow a lot of those. Great points!
$2 each? Where do you live, Antarctica? LOL
@@AJR-zg2py Smaller town with not much competition! They're not even organic at that price. :)
I'm in mid Missouri & they can run about that price here, too. DEFINITELY a reason to grow them! 😊
You're like the Bob Ross of plants.
He should get a T-shirt that has that on it
Right! :)
Add “Pee Pod”, the happy lady-bug/bird/squirrel. He is Bob Ross of Gardening, glad I found this channel 😊
nice topic, thank you🌺🌺
I can't wait to grow some Scotch Bonnet Peppers this season which I cannot find in any grocery store.
Thank you very much for the very informative video like always.
GARDNER SCOTT, CAN YOU PLEASE RECOMMEND AN AFORDABLE SOURCE FOR FRUIT TREES (ZONE 5 IN WISCONSIN)? Thank you.
I get my fruit trees from Fedco and Stark Bros.
Great informaction thanks...I am just roasting the last of my butternut squash and I’ll freeze what I don’t use for soup. I love growing crops that store well into the season. I have been growing leeks (pricey in my grocery) but for the last couple years they keep getting tiny worms and I’ve had to toss them out... so discouraging. I guess I’ll try a few in a container this year because I still have seeds.
Could you do a video on Day Neutrals and explain what those are? Pros and Cons? Thanks. And now you did it, I was in a store last weekend and past on the GoJi berries, and after watching this video I am now going back to get those plants so that I can plant them.
Thanks for the suggestion. Day neutrals and the effect of latitude is on my list of future videos.
Hey Gardener Scott. I’m also Colorado Zone 5b. I’m a new gardener and I learn a lot from your videos. Thank you.
I have a question. Should I be worried about the groundwater being contaminated? Everyone around me sprays Roundup and since I live downhill from multiple neighbors, I’m worried those chemicals will get into any foods that I do grow. Do you think I should be worried about that?
Depending on where you live you should be able to get a ground water report from your water utility. Roundup is not a big contaminate and if it does find its way into your garden it will kill plants before you can harvest them. Pesticides and excess nitrogen fertilizer are worse.
Great commonsense advice!
I am growing All Blue potatoes for the first time.
Gardener Scott, I'm also in 5b in wisconsin and I get so much from your videos. I haven't heard of Kellogs Breakfast tomatoes. Do you know who carries them?
I see them in all the major seed catalogs.
@GardenerScott Do you have any experience with husk cherries? I'm having trouble getting them to germinate. I'm keeping them at 70° to 75°F and in moist seed starting mix. Only 2 out of 30 seeds have germinated and it's been three weeks. Do you have any advice?
Why are they so hard to grow? Having the same struggle here right now. Good luck.
@@beefandchicken The two that did germinate for me are looking healthy. I have no idea why the vast majority aren't germinating though.
@@capeeddy I germinated mine in a zip lock bag with a paper towel. Left it over the heater vent because I don't have a heat mat. Planted them in pots. Patiently waiting for tiny plants... The are so worth it though, yummy and grow well once outside in the garden. But only half the seeds in the bag germinated...
@@beefandchicken Ok, thanks for the info. I'll try the paper towel for germinating them.
My experience is similar to yours. I've tried for a few years and have yet to get a good harvest.
«Grow what you eat» is my #1 rule. I have grown so much kale, because its easy and looks good. But it all goes to waste, every year.
I give my kale to my chickens!
@@gailthornbury291 ive been considering getting chickens, but Im worried they would eat my other plants.
Any other ideas like goji berry? I'm looking for those now
Just think about things you can only find online because they aren't in local stores. Elderberry is another one I grow.
Ugh I have a goji in my back yard. It’s 4 years old. It’s gotten 4-6 berries the last two years. It always has a bunch of blooms. What do you think could be wrong?
How do you like your Black Krim tomatoes? I started some seeds a week ago!
It's simple... Black Krim is my favorite tomato. Taste, ease to grow, fast season, good size.
I decided to only grow flowers...i dont want to give away the rare space in my garden to vegetables which i care for and then just have one or two as harvest ..i enjoy much more looking at bees and other insects for weeks or months.
I really enjoy your videos, but I have a question, I have an area that I am covering in black plastic to kill off Johnson Grass. I am wanting to place two large containers about 15 to 20 feet a part and plant cantaloupe in one and cucumbers in the other and spread wheat straw on top of the black plastic so the heat wont cook the plants. My question is will they cross pollenate? or have an effect on the taste of each other?
They may cross pollinate but that should only effect the seeds not the fruit of this current year. You could use a blossom bag and quarantine a certain blossom or two. Then you would know which fruits would be true to type for saving seeds for nxt year😊
Cucumbers will not cross pollinate melons and will not influence the taste of each other.
I always end up with my garden full, then look through my seed collection and think "I should have grown this, and I should have grown that, I'll have to grow them next year" and next year I do the exact same...
"my cold Colorado zone 5 climate"
*cries in Canadian*
XD
I went looking for leek seed packages in the stores in my town. Only found one place that had them.
I have thousands of them from saved seed, then there are leek volunteers and leek cloves that overwintered.
hmm why would somebody thumbs down this video? ohhh ok yea a pesticide employee. :)
So, if I went by what my grand kids eat, sugar, cheese, chocolate, chocolate milk, beef, chicken, salmon. Crabs while they are in season.
Let me know if you find any chicken nugget starts! 😂 love your comment, SO TRUE!❤
I grew veggies before that I really didn't like to eat. How stupid that was! Not every garden needs to grow kale, turnips etc. Now I just grow what we really enjoy, especially great-tasting heirloom tomatoes, beets, potatoes and cucumbers.
😄👍🏼 first LOL