First year gardener here. Started way too early and ended up with over 70 tomato plants with room for 15. Thankfully I found homes for all my extra tomato plants but learned a huge lesson on how much soil costs when your just giving plants away. Eek! Won't do that next year
We're used to old seeds from seed swaps so imagine our surprise at buying new seeds and having them all germinate... We ended up with over 80 plants and gave away a ton to friends, family, coworkers, and a nearby permaculture farm/food forest.
I found a waste management facility in a town near me that has free compost produced from yard waste. Worth checking out in your area it completely eliminates the input cost of the soil
Kevin without a jacket = weather must be warmer. I grew potatoes 3 years ago in my raised bed and STILL have potatoes come up in there. I can't get rid of them.
I will never get tired of Jacques and Kev entering the frame laughing with all the energy of Tool Time and gardening PBS shows, they’re such a dream team 😂
Knee high by the 4th of July. Such a different world. Here in the Midwest, commercial growers say “corn as high as an elephants eye by the 4th of July will be a good harvest!”. I’m hoping my raised bed will be somewhere in the middle this year!
I keep the green part of the leeks in my freezer, when I've collected enough veggie scraps I throw it all in a large stockpot with some bones and make homemade bone broth. It still makes a super yummy and fragrant broth!
Lay sweet potato slips in a 45-degree angle (almost) all the way to the top. Kinda how you can plant tomatoes. Really increases the amount of harvest. I'm getting this info from a country that LOVES sweet potatoes haha
About 8yrs ago mom had a sweet potato that started rooting on the house. She planted it in her 8' x 4' bed and forgot about it. Fast forward 6 or 7 months, the garden was forgotten due to my dad being diagnosed with cancer. So, mom and I were resetting the garden bed and thought it was all weeds and to our surprise we dug up towards of 75# of sweet potatoes. The largest was about a foot long, 5" in diameter and around 10lbs. We've never chitted our sweet potatoes since, but we don't let them get away from us like they did that year.
That opening laugh always gets me. Never stop including it 😂😂😂 I'm so jealous of everyone's seedlings. We recently moved to an apartment where I can have outdoor plants but I'm so confused why mine are growing so slowly 😂 I have to adjust my expectations since I'm so used to SoCal growth speeds because of the heat. It's still pretty rainy and around 14C in Bavaria. The word play naming is one of my favorite things 😂😂😂 I, too, wish I had bros to garden with 😂😂😂 So jealous
So excited for my seeds to arrive! I will need to document how they thrive once I start them. Thank you ❤ FOR THE SUGGESTIONS ON VEGGIES AND FLOWER EPISODES!
Can I just take a moment and say its so satisfying just seeing the irrigation lines easily flip over out of the bed so that its easy for you to plant. LOVE!! I’d love to see more irrigation videos!
Started tomatoes this year and expected 50% attritrion but almost all sprouted over 100 plants. I've given away maybe half and still have too many for what I can grow. But my neighbors should have a nice harvest in a few weeks.
I thought I had started too many seeds after potting-up time, but they’re just about all in the ground now (after I shared a few with my mom) and it’s looking great!
I’m in the process of finding homes for all the plants. I planted more than 60 tomatoes and peppers each and well over 300 onions I’m sure, they plant so easy😊. I still have to do direct sow of others. I wanted a huge amount of variety to find what does well. I do know I won’t grow San Marzanos, super sauce or alpaca for sauce as for me the flavor wasn’t there at all. I am hopeful about Amish paste-we’ll see. This spring weather has been too extreme and seems like the norm now. Too hot, too cold. Today we are over 91* Z5a WI-that’s too hot for it being May 23rd. Tomorrow a cold front and the next 2 nights are forecast to be low 40s. It’s impossible to grow some cool crops without bolting. I don’t think it’s possible to grow Chinese cabbage here at all and lettuce is close to same.
I've spent the past couple of weeks binging all 99 episodes. I'm sad to see I've come to the end of a journey. Now I have to wait for more content like the rest of the people lol. Great series, ton's of info. Just bought my first products from your site which was the 10-gallon bags. Question...any plans to do anything 'epic' for the 100th episode in the "Epic Urban Homestead A-Z?"
Good stuff dudes! My first cut flowers of the year are opening and I'm having patty pan squash for dinner with midnight cherry tomatoes. Its so nice to be back in summer veg
This is my first video Ive watching on the homesteading channel (came from the epic gardening channel) Im 1:40 in and already laughing. Amazing! Love you guys!
Kev, I have never grafted anything but I think you're supposed to hold the handle of the graft tool parallel to the ground so you get the same angle cut every time.... nvm I'm a dum dum and didn't look at the instructions 😂 I would take a stab at making a diy grafting tool though!
I started too many seeds as well and have no idea where to put my plants. So many cucurbits and strawberries growing in solo cups. I have extra peppers and tomatoes too.
So leek whites only is over rated. You can eat the light green too and the tough dark green can be used to make broth. Even the darker green if it’s tender is awesome. Leeks are prebiotic, healthy, sweet and a French staple
Currant tomatoes are so tiny and adorable. I grew one last year and loved them so I have 2 this year. But tomatoes are my weakness. I have so many varieties that I am running out of overflow space. I am just planting them everywhere and seeing what happens at this point 😂
Potatoe harvests are like a treasure hunt! So fun! Grafting is always so fun too! The piece of wood works well with scrap wood, great tips! Thank you for another fantastic video! ❤❤
1:02 this has me fucking dead 💀💀💀 I like how jacq wasn’t ready for the sheer amount of fertilizer kevin was about to pour, and then kevin just let’s it rip and all the dust goes everywhere and jacq’s reaction just kills me 💀
I'm in Northern CA. Redding area, and I have tried to grow leaks several times with no luck. They bolt before they get to any substantial size. I just learned this year, that leak scapes are just like garlic scapes, and are so so so delicious! it's worth planting leaks in my hot climate just for the scapes! I did an egg scramble with fried potatoes and leak scapes and it was to die for!
Have you ever tried spoon tomatoes, kevin? i bought some from the market, saved the seeds, and grew on in my first garden i started last year! they were SO GOOD fresh snacking straight from the sun warmed vine that i even decided to save the seeds again and have them forever!!! they never grew larger than a blueberry so they're not exactly for dinner, but PACKED with so much flavor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have 5 tomato plants left that I can not find room for. I only have a small container garden on a roof top balcony. I managed to fit 8 tomatos and a cucumber on there 😅
I've been watching you for years, this video is cracking me up. You guys are great together just bouncing your knowledge & ideas off each other. It makes me wish I had a garden buddy to have fun with, so cool!!
Surprisingly enough, when I only had a balcony garden I was experimenting and thew only part of a sweet potato into soil and although it took a very long time it did end up growing and producing more sweet potatoes! Wouldn’t really recommend, but it did work!
I have only one sweet potato in water and have gotten so many slips growing off it. Its still in the window growing. I also have asian white sweet potatoes growing. Im excited to dig them up. This year Im trying to grow pumpkin. I think its great to go out and pick home grown and cook for dinner. ❤
I’ve tried leaks 3 years in a row now in northern CA. They bolt before I can get them big enough for use, however, the leak scapes are worth it and soooooo delicious!!
I had the same experience- well I haven't grown in specific grow bags, but in containers, I didn't have luck, but I finally gave them some space in my raised beds, & had really great results!
I wish summer crops. 40 degrees here, late May frost. Feeling like my transplants will never make a garden this season. Glad i can watch you gentleman plant.
I started the gardening rabbit hole on your YT page since December and started thousands of seeds based on excitement…I forgot I needed space for them and I only qualified for a single 4x12 ft community garden plot 🫠 time to plant random plants all over L.A. on abandoned areas hehe
Good morning you guys been watching you two for some time and have never commented. However you brought up the Russian banana fingerling potato. And I agree 100%, they are straight trash. If potato tops were edible we'd be in the money but they're not. I tried them one year out here in Rio Rancho New Mexico and will never try them again. That's how well they did!!!! Thanks for the wonderful content with humor in it thank you, you two make my day.
I'd be very interested to see how your yield is in Ground potatoes vs straw/Ruth Stout potatoes and what was your preference between the 2 methods? Love the videos they've helped me in my gardening endeavors and inspiration! 💖
i'm so far behind.... i know it's still only june, but it feels like i've missed the window on gardening. not for lack of trying! i'm only just going to be able to build my BED this weekend..... i got a few starter plants to hopefully let me get on the train... and for the ones that still have an apparent growing window, i have seeds. (new house, fkkton of things had to be addressed. bustin my @ss to handle it all and i've wanted to start a garden since last year. been composting at least. tho i found it absorbed and disappeared into the soil......... the wild blackberries sure af are happy tho!)
Garden Nerds!!!!! Love it! There’s another garden nerd, NotillGrowers. Great information. Kevin and Jacque are suburban growers. NotillGrowers are zone6b market growers.
First year gardener here. Started way too early and ended up with over 70 tomato plants with room for 15. Thankfully I found homes for all my extra tomato plants but learned a huge lesson on how much soil costs when your just giving plants away. Eek! Won't do that next year
A few extra never hurt, as you can select the 15 best and keep a few reserves so 25-30 would be a great number.😊
We're used to old seeds from seed swaps so imagine our surprise at buying new seeds and having them all germinate... We ended up with over 80 plants and gave away a ton to friends, family, coworkers, and a nearby permaculture farm/food forest.
I found a waste management facility in a town near me that has free compost produced from yard waste. Worth checking out in your area it completely eliminates the input cost of the soil
@warriorbeta Make sure you have it tested before you use it
Kevin without a jacket = weather must be warmer. I grew potatoes 3 years ago in my raised bed and STILL have potatoes come up in there. I can't get rid of them.
I will never get tired of Jacques and Kev entering the frame laughing with all the energy of Tool Time and gardening PBS shows, they’re such a dream team 😂
Knee high by the 4th of July. Such a different world. Here in the Midwest, commercial growers say “corn as high as an elephants eye by the 4th of July will be a good harvest!”. I’m hoping my raised bed will be somewhere in the middle this year!
The beginning of your videos with both of you laughing is always soo uplifting and then you finish off the intro with your funny titles! Much ❤
A definite "that's what she said" moment. 😂😂😂
I keep the green part of the leeks in my freezer, when I've collected enough veggie scraps I throw it all in a large stockpot with some bones and make homemade bone broth. It still makes a super yummy and fragrant broth!
Lay sweet potato slips in a 45-degree angle (almost) all the way to the top. Kinda how you can plant tomatoes. Really increases the amount of harvest. I'm getting this info from a country that LOVES sweet potatoes haha
The Abbot and Costello of gardening shows. You guys are wonderful and educational.
I dehydrate my leek leaves and it’s awesome for soups or anything that needs some depth of flavor.
I love the semi-chaotic editing happening. You two crack me up.
About 8yrs ago mom had a sweet potato that started rooting on the house. She planted it in her 8' x 4' bed and forgot about it.
Fast forward 6 or 7 months, the garden was forgotten due to my dad being diagnosed with cancer.
So, mom and I were resetting the garden bed and thought it was all weeds and to our surprise we dug up towards of 75# of sweet potatoes. The largest was about a foot long, 5" in diameter and around 10lbs. We've never chitted our sweet potatoes since, but we don't let them get away from us like they did that year.
That opening laugh always gets me. Never stop including it 😂😂😂 I'm so jealous of everyone's seedlings. We recently moved to an apartment where I can have outdoor plants but I'm so confused why mine are growing so slowly 😂 I have to adjust my expectations since I'm so used to SoCal growth speeds because of the heat. It's still pretty rainy and around 14C in Bavaria.
The word play naming is one of my favorite things 😂😂😂 I, too, wish I had bros to garden with 😂😂😂 So jealous
Epic Homesteading is the best advocacy for gardening.
You guys have so much fun with your garden projects - a pleasure to watch!
I like the "4 sisters; the "three" plus sunflowers
I love these dorks. They really are so fun to watch, and I actually just bought a grafted lime tree so my ears perked at the mention of grafting.
They are total goofballs!!!
I could watch you guys all day. 😄
You guys have so much fun in the garden. Everyone should have a gardening buddy
So excited for my seeds to arrive! I will need to document how they thrive once I start them. Thank you ❤ FOR THE SUGGESTIONS ON VEGGIES AND FLOWER EPISODES!
Can I just take a moment and say its so satisfying just seeing the irrigation lines easily flip over out of the bed so that its easy for you to plant. LOVE!! I’d love to see more irrigation videos!
Let’s plant some stuff! Oh look, squirrel!🤣 y’all are awesome!
Amish paste are large and dense. Great for paste/sauce but also as a slicer.
Definitely a memorable favorite from my first garden and am definitely growing it again this year. Love the Amish Paste!
Started tomatoes this year and expected 50% attritrion but almost all sprouted over 100 plants. I've given away maybe half and still have too many for what I can grow. But my neighbors should have a nice harvest in a few weeks.
Please never stop doing the laugh intro.
You guys inspired me to start a garden, I got farm animals and a bunch of plants I’m invested 😂
Ahhh...you guys are such nerds. You are my people. ❤
I thought I had started too many seeds after potting-up time, but they’re just about all in the ground now (after I shared a few with my mom) and it’s looking great!
This title of this video is the story of my gardening life.
I’m in the process of finding homes for all the plants. I planted more than 60 tomatoes and peppers each and well over 300 onions I’m sure, they plant so easy😊. I still have to do direct sow of others. I wanted a huge amount of variety to find what does well. I do know I won’t grow San Marzanos, super sauce or alpaca for sauce as for me the flavor wasn’t there at all.
I am hopeful about Amish paste-we’ll see.
This spring weather has been too extreme and seems like the norm now. Too hot, too cold. Today we are over 91* Z5a WI-that’s too hot for it being May 23rd. Tomorrow a cold front and the next 2 nights are forecast to be low 40s. It’s impossible to grow some cool crops without bolting. I don’t think it’s possible to grow Chinese cabbage here at all and lettuce is close to same.
starting to many seeds is a myth......
I agree
You mean too many …
Agree! (Currently have about 100 overgrown corn seedlings stuck in trays at the moment.)
100%! (I dont have any space left anywhere help me)
I've spent the past couple of weeks binging all 99 episodes. I'm sad to see I've come to the end of a journey. Now I have to wait for more content like the rest of the people lol. Great series, ton's of info. Just bought my first products from your site which was the 10-gallon bags. Question...any plans to do anything 'epic' for the 100th episode in the "Epic Urban Homestead A-Z?"
Good stuff dudes! My first cut flowers of the year are opening and I'm having patty pan squash for dinner with midnight cherry tomatoes. Its so nice to be back in summer veg
This is my first video Ive watching on the homesteading channel (came from the epic gardening channel) Im 1:40 in and already laughing. Amazing! Love you guys!
I you both Love and hugs from Pennsylvania Sincerly Melody
I didn’t plant too many tomatoes this year…. I just have to find room for them all…. don’t worry about it! 🌱😅
I could watch you guys banter all day. POS potato, lol. /crosses off list of crops to try
I sure hope the potatoes I planted in my whiskey barrel turn out. The foliage looks great.
Let's goo Boyz always good to seee you guys, I just finished grafting 11 Chimera Dragon Fruit 😅
Kev, I have never grafted anything but I think you're supposed to hold the handle of the graft tool parallel to the ground so you get the same angle cut every time....
nvm I'm a dum dum and didn't look at the instructions 😂
I would take a stab at making a diy grafting tool though!
Photatosphere new word. Like it. You can get a potato from a sprouts. There was a potato chit challenge for years on TH-cam.
🤣 the beginning was hilarious! Sure, the rest will be too! 🤣 No such thing as starting too many seeds!
You two are so entertaining. Thanks for the smiles, and the new vocab-"potatosphere".
I started too many seeds as well and have no idea where to put my plants. So many cucurbits and strawberries growing in solo cups. I have extra peppers and tomatoes too.
So leek whites only is over rated. You can eat the light green too and the tough dark green can be used to make broth. Even the darker green if it’s tender is awesome. Leeks are prebiotic, healthy, sweet and a French staple
Kevin, that arch of roses is looking gorgeous!
There is no such thing as too many seeds.
Especially when it comes to tomatoes.
I LOVE TOMATOES!!!
Jaques! You need to try viking purple potatoes in grow bags. It was the best performer overall last year and so freaking tasty!
Canning season! Yes I am excited for that video. I can tomatoes every fall and it's so good to have them in the winter.
You will love the Amish paste! I grew one last year and we are hooked! It was great for salsa, too!
Currant tomatoes are so tiny and adorable. I grew one last year and loved them so I have 2 this year. But tomatoes are my weakness. I have so many varieties that I am running out of overflow space. I am just planting them everywhere and seeing what happens at this point 😂
Potatoe harvests are like a treasure hunt! So fun! Grafting is always so fun too! The piece of wood works well with scrap wood, great tips! Thank you for another fantastic video! ❤❤
1:02 this has me fucking dead 💀💀💀
I like how jacq wasn’t ready for the sheer amount of fertilizer kevin was about to pour, and then kevin just let’s it rip and all the dust goes everywhere and jacq’s reaction just kills me 💀
lmao the editing in this video is great. The triggered bit and magical potatoes. 🤣 Love it.
Oh wow the roses look fantastic!
I'm in Northern CA. Redding area, and I have tried to grow leaks several times with no luck. They bolt before they get to any substantial size. I just learned this year, that leak scapes are just like garlic scapes, and are so so so delicious! it's worth planting leaks in my hot climate just for the scapes! I did an egg scramble with fried potatoes and leak scapes and it was to die for!
You two are so goofy and I love it! 🤪I not only learn when I watch your videos but I am thoroughly entertained. Great job guys!
The dynamic grafting duo|!
Thank you for the cross pollination explanation 🙏
You can also plant corn of different maturity dates so the pollen is separated by time for smaller spaces.
Have you ever tried spoon tomatoes, kevin?
i bought some from the market, saved the seeds, and grew on in my first garden i started last year!
they were SO GOOD fresh snacking straight from the sun warmed vine that i even decided to save the seeds again and have them forever!!!
they never grew larger than a blueberry so they're not exactly for dinner, but PACKED with so much flavor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm super interested to see a fortomino grown out.
Whoever edits the Epic videos is always on absolute fire, I'm creased at least twice a vid, thanks for the laughs as well as the info! 😅
8:27 made my day😂
I have 5 tomato plants left that I can not find room for. I only have a small container garden on a roof top balcony. I managed to fit 8 tomatos and a cucumber on there 😅
I've been watching you for years, this video is cracking me up. You guys are great together just bouncing your knowledge & ideas off each other. It makes me wish I had a garden buddy to have fun with, so cool!!
Same here!
Surprisingly enough, when I only had a balcony garden I was experimenting and thew only part of a sweet potato into soil and although it took a very long time it did end up growing and producing more sweet potatoes! Wouldn’t really recommend, but it did work!
Thanks for giving a name to the seismic shift 😂 it's a tried and true planting method
If you haven’t grown Kellogg’s Breakfast tomatoes you are missing out. Highly recommended
I have only one sweet potato in water and have gotten so many slips growing off it. Its still in the window growing. I also have asian white sweet potatoes growing. Im excited to dig them up. This year Im trying to grow pumpkin. I think its great to go out and pick home grown and cook for dinner. ❤
It’s my first year gardening! I wish I started more seeds. Struggling with pests a little bit!
I always love laughing and learning with you boys.
I’ve tried leaks 3 years in a row now in northern CA. They bolt before I can get them big enough for use, however, the leak scapes are worth it and soooooo delicious!!
How has not every one of your neighbors have a massive garden by now?
The laughing at the start of each video gets me everytime!
Starting new seeds tomorrow. Yep way late but going for it anyway.
I had the same experience- well I haven't grown in specific grow bags, but in containers, I didn't have luck, but I finally gave them some space in my raised beds, & had really great results!
I wish summer crops. 40 degrees here, late May frost. Feeling like my transplants will never make a garden this season. Glad i can watch you gentleman plant.
Lookin good yall! Happy growing!
The intro laugh gets me laughing along everytime 😂😂😂
Do you post harvest videos? They are so satisfying!
I want to plant soo bad, it was nice and warm, but today it is snowing 😭
I started the gardening rabbit hole on your YT page since December and started thousands of seeds based on excitement…I forgot I needed space for them and I only qualified for a single 4x12 ft community garden plot 🫠 time to plant random plants all over L.A. on abandoned areas hehe
Good morning you guys been watching you two for some time and have never commented. However you brought up the Russian banana fingerling potato. And I agree 100%, they are straight trash. If potato tops were edible we'd be in the money but they're not. I tried them one year out here in Rio Rancho New Mexico and will never try them again. That's how well they did!!!! Thanks for the wonderful content with humor in it thank you, you two make my day.
The laughs are back. ❤
I love the laughing bit lol
such a dynamic duo 🌱
I'd be very interested to see how your yield is in Ground potatoes vs straw/Ruth Stout potatoes and what was your preference between the 2 methods?
Love the videos they've helped me in my gardening endeavors and inspiration! 💖
Manic gardening. Just like me Fr
Great video Eric!
Loved your video today! Learned a lot and love the energy you two put out about gardening! True professionals that make this seem easy!!! Thank you.
Too much is better than not enough.
I love you guys your so funny I feel so normal watching you two because my mind is always in the gutter
i'm so far behind.... i know it's still only june, but it feels like i've missed the window on gardening. not for lack of trying! i'm only just going to be able to build my BED this weekend..... i got a few starter plants to hopefully let me get on the train... and for the ones that still have an apparent growing window, i have seeds.
(new house, fkkton of things had to be addressed. bustin my @ss to handle it all and i've wanted to start a garden since last year. been composting at least. tho i found it absorbed and disappeared into the soil......... the wild blackberries sure af are happy tho!)
y'all funny.... I got the joke at the sweet potato bed!!!
Now we all know how to trigger Kevin. Just mention Russian Banana potatoes.😂😂
Hey me too!
Love you guys.
Garden Nerds!!!!! Love it! There’s another garden nerd, NotillGrowers. Great information.
Kevin and Jacque are suburban growers. NotillGrowers are zone6b market growers.
Embrace the Chaos!