You mentioned that that potatoes and sweet potato are two completely different things. While potato plants (except from the tubers) are toxic to humans; all of the sweet potato is edible. So it's a two for one crop. Tubers and leafy greens.
Great video. If I may share a bit more info. Flint corn was usually a northern corn because it had a short season. Dent corn was a southern corn and used for corn flour. I'm so glad you mentioned nixtamalization. It's the process that unlocks corn's nutrition, like Vitamin B3 for mental health, and makes it bio-available. The 3 Sisters' garden was actually the 4 Sisters' garden (cause we natives honor 4 in most things). A double row, or more, of sunflowers was usually planted on the north side of the garden to help block damaging storm winds from knocking down the corn on the more shadowed side of the garden. Leave a 3 foot path between the sunflowers and your garden so the sunflowers don't interfere with the corn and beans growth. Just know that this is a winter storage garden, not a fresh eating garden, since once planted and growing, you won't be able to get in there to pick anything until late fall. You can dehydrate your green beans. We call them leather britches because they look like little britches hanging up on the string they're threaded onto. And when soaked and cooked with bacon and onions, they are Yum-m-my. Dehydrated corn or hominy can be soaked overnight, drained and then fried in bacon grease, with or without onions, for a great dish. Root crops pack the carbs and calories that can keep you going. Plant lots in a series. Other root crops include parsnips, beets, radishes, turnips and rutabaga (aka swedes). Rosy radishes are always a hit. Blanch quartered pieces in abit of salt water, then add butter to site until red has faced and white turns a bit pink. This works for Brussel sprouts as well, just without the color change. You can dehydrate winter squash and pumpkin slices by hanging from poles in the sun, or near a fire if the humidity is high. Looking forward to your updates.
Just discovered you and I'm now marathon watching. Just soaked in the bath after working in the garden all day (8am to 9pm). Tired and aching, but so pleased with what I achieved today. 🤗🇬🇧
Suggestion for videos… not sure you have covered before as not watched all your video but I am getting a lot from them and am more inspired as to improving soil fertility . How do YOU maintain in ground bed edges and pathways ( it can use quite a lot of energy when just set up garden with grass/ weed encroachment), beginner crop for first time gardeners ( to build gardener knowledge and confidence), simple trellis building ( I just about lost all my tomatoes, melons and winter squash when my trellis I constructed out of bamboo and elephant grass almost fell down in the 50 km/h wind and wondering how to do it better next year), how to grow best tomatoes including if you prune or not, what’s your compost set up for production, dig vs no-dig. Also potato growing ( I tried Ruth stout no- dig on start up bed this year… absolute disaster and I see Charles Downing recons you need the soft soil for the tubers to tunnel). How do you do it and rationale?
I always grow Jerusalem Artichokes (neither from Jerusalem, nor an artichoke. Actually a sunflower!). Loads of complete protein, calories, and require almost no care to grow. It's also a native plant.
I second these! I've neglected them like nobody's business and they are growing like crazy! Mild flavor, crunchy while raw, cook up easily, and the tubers can stay in the ground until you want to dig them up, or for next years crop (they are a perennial!)
My best tip for survival: Don't forget you can raise animals even in a small space. I feed my rabbits 90% garden grown grasses and greens in a garden the size of 2 parking spaces plus the leaves of a mulberry tree. Just three breeding rabbits (one male and two females) can make enough babies in a year to equal the amount of meat you'd get from a whole cow! Mine add the majority of the fertility to my garden, too! Their poop doesn't need to be rested before going straight to the garden with no nitrogen burn. In Africa, the urine is sold as an organic pest deterant and it makes a profit for farmers far above what the meat brings in. I haven't got my collection system in yet, but I'll be testing the effectiveness of it myself this year
@@gardenlikeaviking rabbits can have litters of up to 12 young every 2 months . They don't take long to get to full size, just 3-4 months before they can go in the freezer. I started breeding more for insurance and access to organic fertilizer. I don't like how lean rabbit meat is so I'm not breeding at full capacity, just often enough to keep my main stock healthy(2-3 times a year instead of 6 times).
Thanks for the tip on the melon squash! I'm single so it's a huge bonus that I wouldn't have to eat the whole thing and it'd still be able to keep it outside of the refrigerator
Your channel is likely to grow. You are breaking down the nuance and complexity of gardening in a way that is, in my opinion, straightforward and accessible to a wide audience/viewership. Liked, subbed, and I'll be working my way back through your catalog. Cheers👍
I planted 200 banana trees 1.5 meters appart and a ground cover of sweet potatoes with cassava and 6 pawpaw trees in between. This is the best. I supliment my garden with 5 caged rabbits 4 doe's and one buck. I mate one doe every month and always have meat. I keep 4 hens and one rooster for eggs in a fenced area of 5x5 meters. All my fences have grapes and passion frute growing on them. On the edges of my garden i grow a single row of shugar cane. I also have 6 bee hives in my garden. I free range +- 70 giant African snails for "escargot" I do have a small raisd bed garden for green beans, strawberrys and tarro.. Then i have a micro hydro phonics systen for greens. I am off grid. (solar and rain water) My total urban property is 1,100 square metres with a 3 bed room cottage near the beach. I also have I guava and one peach tree. This is how i have been living for years and do not need to go to town exept for medical help, clothes and chocelate !! 🥀🌹
this sounds absolutely amazing my friend!!... can you please join our Discord Community (its free its like a chatroom) and share pictures of all this amazing bounty!!! here's the discord link discord.gg/nEPnuYZN
Instead of canning green beans, better to lacto-ferment them. They stay green, are super-nutritious, and delicious. Do it like sauerkraut (salt & water), and add some whey to get the right microbes (otherwise it is a bit of a gamble). Also can do this with carrots, snow peas, sweet peppers, lots of other veggies.
you are absolutely right my friend thank you for your input!... I Lacto Ferment everything!!...only issue is space in the refrigerator.... when I leave them out in the basement it seems to eventually go bad so I resort to canning a certain percentage of things
We had a very bad drought in Louisiana last year with extreme heat. But the winter before gave us an extreme freeze...down to zero with very high winds and below freezing for 6 or 7 days. So it wiped out all green wild plants that we usually have, then the summer drought killed all green grass and weeds. A bunny nesting nearby depended on my garden to eat so I let her have my bush green beans. She became very tame and would hop up to me if she saw me in the garden. I think it made her feel safer because of all the owls here. Lizards, frogs, birds, and harmless snakes swarmed my garden as well because it was like an oasis.
I kept pausing your video - to sign up for Baker Creek and Fruition Seeds, and placing orders with them. Thanks for your great videos. I've been working to improve my home garden in northern Michigan for several years, and really appreciate and enjoy your videos. Onward to more success in 2023!
Swiss chard makes my gout flair up! My spinach subs are, young leaves of red root pig weed and lambs quarters. Chopped purslane adds a nice lemon taste. Yes I eat weeds.
Same here! We allow them plenty of garden space, right along with standard vegetables. And if I could get past the "squeamishness", I'd eat what *bugs* me, too! LOL
Thank you. By the way, I am not sure about this variety of sweet potatoes, but back when I was young in my country, we ate sweet potatoes young leaves and young shoots too. Taking some young shoots off sweet potato vines is like pruning them, then we can eat those shoots instead of throwing them away. Yes, you will compost those clippings, but we normally have plenty to compost from.
wonderful tips, I took notes. I have found choko to be extremely plentiful if given a large trellis (I planted one under a small dead tree and got 150, no care). It is similar nutritionally to pumpkin/squash but smaller, more manageable.
Yes I agree chokos are fantastic,raw,steamed, pickled and I have just done an amazing ferment with them and lots of ginger,garlic and chilli for flavour.
Chokos were a major depression food here in Australia! Super easy to grow in this climate, and can be stewed with sugar for "poor man's pears" as a dessert, or with white sauce for a dinner accompaniment, or loads of other ways, as it is fairly flavourless so will add nutrition & calories to other flavours in a dish.
@@sharonkeef0522 I'm not sure, & it will vary geographically. The simplest way might be to look for one in a grocery store or farmers' market - it should be easy to propagate.
Just an FYI for anyone who is interested and to help his algorithm, you can pickle and or ferment the green beans and the collards. I have heard of people making collard krout, but I have not tried it yet. I want to make kimche out of collards and see how that turn out.
Whilst carrots might not keep fresh forever, they're easy to dehydrate and rehydrate as and when needed for soups and stews. Best blanched beforehand to keep the colour. Dehydrating also reduces a lot of food into a small space and will keep well if stored correctly. When we run out of fresh, we use the dehydrated equivalent. Some people even keep carrots in the ground and dig them up when they need them. We probably have too many slugs here for that.
Jerusalem artichokes is a must have for me and zucchini also. Herbs and flowers that can be made into tea, also need to go on the list. You got to drink and you need bees in the garden.
@@gardenlikeaviking I have the red kind and I realy like to eat them in salat raw or snack on , also like to cook them with potato and make mash or cream soup, baked in the oven with other rootveg. I leave the skin on unless they are real muddy and narly. I grow mine in big pots, they dont flower but get to 3 m high. 2020 - 2021 we had - 23 Celsius and they made it, all cramed in a pot . I am in the münsterland in germany.
@@gardenlikeaviking your very welcome, its nice to talk to other gardeners and try new plants. One thing, they will spred, since they are tubers, so watch where you plant them and dont throu them on the compost, the smalest bit can make a new plant. I rent und thats why I grow them in pots. Take care and keep warm with the weather thats comming. 🖐
I love your videos! I watch and rewatch them! I planted a Swiss Chard about 6 months ago in a spot that barely gets water. About once a week I throw some water at it and it just keeps growing! I live in Vegas and it made it through our 100+ degree days in this manner. This is the first time I've grown Swiss Chard, I will always make sure to grow it every year now.
wow thats good to know Chard can survive even the heat of Vegas!... thats why I love it so much better than spinach which bolts right away in the heat!
Raccoons are bad about raiding my sweet corn, melons, figs etc the DAY before harvest. Driveway alarms and sitting up all night with a "deterrent" works. I`m thinking a mint spray might work. Brainstorming.
I'm in zone 1A, I have never yet had a garden. Here it is May 3rd and well, this year the ground is still frozen so far. And I have no way of making my own compost as of yet. But I want to try.
save the root end of your onion when you cook. put the root end in a shallow dish of water and it will sprout 2, 3 , or 4 clones of itself. I plant the sprouts to mark the ends of the rows in my early garden. They grow just as onion sets do. Nature always provides.
hey you. ! I've been gardening for years. it started watching my mom , but was never really interested in eating anything that did have a health warning or a microwave instruction lol. listening to you though I think I learned something from her, because everything you talk about planting in this garden is almost 100% of everything I plant every year, except for when the kids want me to try something funky like an eggplant or a lemon cucumber I enjoy canning and preserving and I love your website
hello Tracy yes people back in the day knew exactly what foods to grow that mattered and didn't waste too much time and effort with the "rabbit food" lol... thanks for your input and let me know if you have any video idea suggestions
Hello from S.W. Indiana . I just found your channel yesterday lots of great stuff . You got a lot of awesome seeds . I'm going to do some more experimenting with our 3 sisters garden this year . We grow some really cool heirloom corn from Guatemala that you have to pick the ears from a ladder because they are so tall . I got a video on how tall it gets it's crazy . Thank you for sharing and have a great evening !
I love how you make everything simple and basic. Thank you for that. It's a rainy day here so I can't be in the garden so I'm binge-watching your channel!
Thank you so much... I have most of the seeds mentioned but I will be buying beans and corn. Excellent ideas regarding drying and storing. I also have chickens that provide meat, eggs and almond and macadonia nut trees. I can fish for fresh water trout and yabbies which also provide protein so I will survive.
Man I love your gardening style. I don't grow the full spectrum and I don't grow year round. I grow mostly tomatoes and what goes with tomatoes well ... tomatoes, onions, peppers, cucumbers, a few herbs, potatoes, and a mustard/turnip mix. I cannot survive off my garden but I could make a few changes and increase the % growing what I eat. Adding the 3 sister combo and a daily greens area are the biggest steps I could and should take. If I did I would want grain corn not sweet corn but all I see at stores is sweet corn and all are hybrid varieties. Also I grow onions and basil and mint - never knew they are such good pest control. What I know is this ... since I began planting marigolds all among my tomatoes 6 or 7 years ago, my pest problems have almost disappeared.
thats a great outlook my friend!!... check out this video for all the tips on growing the three sisters successfully th-cam.com/video/w_MtOCcFB_U/w-d-xo.html
Love this, thank you. Have you tried the Soup Pea from Seed Savers? It's now my fav pea. It's sweet when you catch it early, so good I just stand outside and eat them off the vine. But the ones you leave on, they get hard and turn brown. I cook them and wow are they good. But I will say, cooking them is not easy, they seem to cook a loooong time before getting soft. Maybe I should try to sprout ... I've never tried that.
no I have not tried that specific pea but I'll keep it in mind thank you!... yes dried peas take a very long time to cook they need to be soaked overnight first like beans
You give out such valuable information at a time when it is so needed. I just discovered your videos and am loving exploring the great content that you offer. Thanks
I don't care for things like swiss chard, kale or collard greens, but I found a happy medium for that "leaf" part with beet greens and turnip tops. Sauteed in butter, they're much better. You get a lovely root crop out of it too, a 2-for-1 score.
Don't forget turnips; space effective and you can eat the greens and roots. High in vitamins too. By the end of WW1 entire countries survived by eating turnips. For pea varieties, cow peas like purplehulls are good since they're not picky about soil quality and water requirements.
i propagate winged yams. they grow like crazy in the wild. you can dig up last years roots and grind it into flour. i keep the plant in the ground until i want to use it. one plant around 25 lbs of food.
Peppers are underrated. You don't need to grow super hot ones, but even mild ones provide a large amount of Vit C which is a nutrient we cannot make on our own and need from food sources.
Hi I am surprised you did not mention beets, I find them to be amazing crop, you pick the tops all season long and then you have the beets for storage.
yes thats one I would put on the top 15 but not the top 10 because its not something that is eaten in substantial quantities to make much of a caloric difference but yes its a good one and should be grown as well
@@gardenlikeaviking it's better than chards though. Both have oxalate but fermenting the root as in bortch and adding milk as they do in eastern Europe solves the problem, at least a little, and it's very rich in calories because it's a root.
I love watching your videos. It made me think what I would need to grow a order for 2 people to survive out of the garden. And also what would be your daily meals that you could eat each Day and how do your meals change throughout each month
As someone writing a fantasy book, thank you for the list of crops. Not sure how many are able to handle extremely rainy island climates, I know tomatoes can't, but it is enough to start in the right direction.
rainy island climate in the book??... sweet potatoes without any doubt are the one that'll save them... the leaves are edible just like spinach and the tubers are packed with nutrition and calories plus they thrive in the heat and rain... and they grow like crazy and are difficult to kill
glad you are here Michele.... winter squash need nothing special just a cool space with moderate airflow... sitting on a shelf in the basement is ideal... I suggest the Tahitian Melon Squash as they keep the longest and are very sweet and flavorful... potatoes need more specific care and I'll be sure to make videos about that when the time comes in late summer
I could use some advice on potatoes myself. As for pumpkins & winter squash-I normally heat my home to just 60° to save money, and I keep the squash in the living room as decor, along with apples and sweet potatoes. The butternuts will last into February, the pumpkins will last into March, and spaghetti squash & sweet potatoes last until April sitting right on the table. At least for me.
I was told by farmers that potatoes need a lot of caution. They outgas toxins when not well ventilated and need to be colder too. I’m looking forward to his videos on potatoes
Pickled and/or fermented foods can be made from most of the vegetables (and most fruits!) to be a tasty shelf-stable source of vitamin C, probiotics and so many vital nutrients! If you are able to home can your produce, you might consider pickling or fermenting some for variety and the added nutrition.
I got the seeds of the Tahitian Butter Nut. I watched your video again because I was not sure if I can cut a slice of it and can store it again. I gave my neighbor seeds too and want tell him about it.
the whole thing will store 9 months or more... I still have some from September and they're great... but once you cut into it you will want to use it within a couple weeks... but it will stay good on the shelf for 2-3 more weeks after cutting so try to use it up
The melon squash looks a lot like the Pennsylvania Dutch Crookneck squash. I am wondering if you know whether the molon squash is the only one that self heals or if similar squash may do the same?
the Tahitian Melon Squash is the only one in my experience that does this... but I have never tried that variety you speak of... all others I've tried will pretty soon rot once you cut them
For the last two years I’ve been trying to grow butternut squash. I seem to only be getting male flowers, which is resulting in no squash. Any thoughts?
yes winter squash needs similar conditions to sweet potatoes... hot and humid for a week or two... but the squash actually like to just sit in the direct sun for about a week but do not let them get a frost or they'll not store well...
a question about the potatoes, is it true that you have to buy 1x potatos ? Can I set a side some for replanting for the next year? so from the harvest i can use to eat , but also keep a few to replant them over and over ?
yes if you store them properly you can replant from the previous years potatoes... thats what I do... except sometimes I don't have enough left so I must buy new ones
Remember that you won't have any food to eat storing it in plastic bags and cardboard boxes. People are not the only beings that get hungry. Store your food in hard to chew through and preferably moisture proof containers. Trying to prepare is not cheap and is a very long slow process. It can be frustrating. I missed out on collecting berries AGAIN to make jelly because I am disabled and EVERYTHING has broken all at the same time here. I have to try to do it all because I can't pay anyone. At least the jalapenos are trying. Trying to grow in clay is pretty much impossible. Starting a compost pile has been meager. I don't have a bagger for the mower and there is not much food waste. I regrow all cuttings, the bones get frozen to make stock, and the "guard" dogs get the crumbs if there are any as treats every so often for alerting me to people behind my house. They bark then look to see if I pull back the curtain. I tell them on the day I have a kibble that they are GOOD guard dogs and I make little bark sounds. It works. I now have to knock on the window to indicate to the runt to be quiet at 3 am. He will alert to a leaf. Learn to throw NOTHING away. I just ran into a way to make diesel out of plastic so even THAT can be used. I can't afford a tractor so I got a very used 4x4 diesel pickup that runs but still needs work. It will have to do for horses. I am not on acreage but it doesn't matter. Beetles are killing my shade trees and I had to use the "horses" to pull the branches away from structures after cutting them halfway. It is dangerous and slow going but I don't have 2 grand to pay the pros. Back in the prairie days WE had to be the pros. This viking knows good stuff. May the Lord bless you believers.
I've grown so many tomato plants from large to cherry tomatoes, but my large fruit tomatoes aren't producing well. If they produce, fruits are deform or rot ends. The cherry tomatoes are doing ok.
very likely a lack of calcium in the plant which comes from inconsistent access to water and insufficient microbial activity in the soil... try making this for them th-cam.com/video/cNkH9fdTgz4/w-d-xo.html
If you substitute in a climbing pea instead of the bean in your three sisters, you have a mix that is safe to be fed to livestock too. Dried beans aren't good feed without boiling or sprouting first
That is a wonderful suggestion thank you… But even the peas would have to be fed to them raw is that correct?… Because they get rockhard as well once dried
@@gardenlikeaviking I've seen whole wheat and whole barley come out the other end of a cow's digestion undamaged and ready to sprout, but not whole peas. I actually give my cows a handful of whole wheat in their bail feed so that the chooks and wild birds will break up the manure and spread it out ready to dissolve in the next rain. Chooks seem to be able to process any whole grains without trouble.
Please remember that one single dried bean can kill a chicken from toxins that only effect them. Green stage of beans is ok, but chooks in your fall garden can so easily find a stray bean.
More importantly, red beans need to be brought to a full boil before you eat them, as they carry a type of botulism, the toxin of which can be killed by boiling. That's why all the Crock-Pot recipes say bring the beans to a boil and then put in the crock pot.
I watched another video where he was growing potatoes and left several 5 gallon buckets in the greenhouse over winter and forgot about them. When he went back and found them, the potatoes were perfect, beautiful and fully matured, still down in the dirt. They stored perfectly in the dirt they grew in. I never heard of that before and wondered what you thought about it. God bless. Jude, from Kentucky ✝️🥀🐴🇺🇲💚
yes that method works great where the winters are mild... for example England... the Pacific Northwest .... parts of the US where it rarely dips much below freezing that will work wonderfully... but where the winters get way below freezing for weeks and months on end then this method will not work because once the potato freezes solid then its dead and will turn to mush as soon as it thaws...
Found the channel recently and it's been a rich seam of information! Have an existing plot in Estonia to expand and upscale with biodynamic growing and permaculture - picked up great tips in the videos, thanks!
When you mentioned the beans, you said you just sprout them when you need them. Are you just eating the sprouts? Or actually cooking the beans to eat whole. I've noticed for a survival situation, beans take A LOT of resources to cook, and can really put a hurting on your digestive system if you eat them alot.
yes that is a valid point my friend and the best way for beans is to sprout them for only two days just until the tiny little tail appears and then cook them as normal... the sprouting activates enzymes within the bean that "pre digest" the heavy fibers and make them SO much easier for our system to digest... still yes lots of water is required but that is the only limiting factor because the cooking time is cut down dramatically
@@gardenlikeaviking I have to try this! I've been eating lots of broccoli sprouts and microgreens, but don't really touch the beans because they take SOOO long to cook, and just end up making my stomach hurt anyway. I haven't tried pre-sprouting before I cook though. Thanks for the tip!
Carrots will last all winter left in the ground if covered with leaves, straw, wood chips, then snow when it comes IF the carrots are planted around the 4th of July, which grows perfect-sized carrots!!
I live in zone 6 and have a terrible time with squash beetles destroying my squash vines. Do you have any suggestions on how to destroy them without using chemicals? Thank you!
yes those can be devastating!... I have great success by using multiple methods which I'll be making videos about in near future... one is to grow a large plot of mint separate from the garden then cut the plants down and scatter them like a mulch around the squash plants... they do not like mint at all... also boil large amounts of garlic and cayenne peppers for 2-3 hours... then strain the liquid and spray it on the plants it works great... many more ideas coming soon
I've had decent luck spraying and drenching the soil with Bt (Bacteria thuringensis) and using a hypodermic needle to inject some of the solution into affected stems as soon as I see the signs of infestation (holes with a pale sawdust-looking material coming out, suddenly wilting leaves when the plant is not dry or heat-stressed) every week or so. Bt is readily available, organic, and doesn't affect most beneficial insects, including bees. My area (north Texas USA) is notorious for the squash vine borers. Bt is also good against the caterpillars of the cabbage moth.
Like Viking? I have been to Norway, not what I would call a friendly to plants. Rocky and cold, great for skiing yes, growing plants, NO. Yukon gold taste great, but are not the top for amount you can grow. Kenebec, yes. Also I know potatoes are not one of the three sisters in that they never made it out of the mountains of South America. I have always wonder why.
You mentioned that that potatoes and sweet potato are two completely different things. While potato plants (except from the tubers) are toxic to humans; all of the sweet potato is edible. So it's a two for one crop. Tubers and leafy greens.
absolutely!!... thank you for your input as I forgot to mention that in the video
That's huge... I'm very much interested in a plant that is fully edible....
Yes but no... sweet potatoes is much too high in OXALATE!
Also, your need to grow plants with inedible parts, to feed your soil!
Corn is one.
Sweet potato leaves make good salad/sandwich leaves
Great video. If I may share a bit more info.
Flint corn was usually a northern corn because it had a short season. Dent corn was a southern corn and used for corn flour.
I'm so glad you mentioned nixtamalization. It's the process that unlocks corn's nutrition, like Vitamin B3 for mental health, and makes it bio-available.
The 3 Sisters' garden was actually the 4 Sisters' garden (cause we natives honor 4 in most things). A double row, or more, of sunflowers was usually planted on the north side of the garden to help block damaging storm winds from knocking down the corn on the more shadowed side of the garden. Leave a 3 foot path between the sunflowers and your garden so the sunflowers don't interfere with the corn and beans growth.
Just know that this is a winter storage garden, not a fresh eating garden, since once planted and growing, you won't be able to get in there to pick anything until late fall.
You can dehydrate your green beans. We call them leather britches because they look like little britches hanging up on the string they're threaded onto. And when soaked and cooked with bacon and onions, they are Yum-m-my.
Dehydrated corn or hominy can be soaked overnight, drained and then fried in bacon grease, with or without onions, for a great dish.
Root crops pack the carbs and calories that can keep you going. Plant lots in a series. Other root crops include parsnips, beets, radishes, turnips and rutabaga (aka swedes).
Rosy radishes are always a hit. Blanch quartered pieces in abit of salt water, then add butter to site until red has faced and white turns a bit pink. This works for Brussel sprouts as well, just without the color change.
You can dehydrate winter squash and pumpkin slices by hanging from poles in the sun, or near a fire if the humidity is high.
Looking forward to your updates.
Just discovered you and I'm now marathon watching. Just soaked in the bath after working in the garden all day (8am to 9pm). Tired and aching, but so pleased with what I achieved today. 🤗🇬🇧
I know how good that feels after along day with the earth!!!... let me know if you have any video idea suggestions!
Suggestion for videos… not sure you have covered before as not watched all your video but I am getting a lot from them and am more inspired as to improving soil fertility . How do YOU maintain in ground bed edges and pathways ( it can use quite a lot of energy when just set up garden with grass/ weed encroachment), beginner crop for first time gardeners ( to build gardener knowledge and confidence), simple trellis building ( I just about lost all my tomatoes, melons and winter squash when my trellis I constructed out of bamboo and elephant grass almost fell down in the 50 km/h wind and wondering how to do it better next year), how to grow best tomatoes including if you prune or not, what’s your compost set up for production, dig vs no-dig. Also potato growing ( I tried Ruth stout no- dig on start up bed this year… absolute disaster and I see Charles Downing recons you need the soft soil for the tubers to tunnel). How do you do it and rationale?
I always grow Jerusalem Artichokes (neither from Jerusalem, nor an artichoke. Actually a sunflower!). Loads of complete protein, calories, and require almost no care to grow. It's also a native plant.
I second these! I've neglected them like nobody's business and they are growing like crazy! Mild flavor, crunchy while raw, cook up easily, and the tubers can stay in the ground until you want to dig them up, or for next years crop (they are a perennial!)
My best tip for survival:
Don't forget you can raise animals even in a small space. I feed my rabbits 90% garden grown grasses and greens in a garden the size of 2 parking spaces plus the leaves of a mulberry tree. Just three breeding rabbits (one male and two females) can make enough babies in a year to equal the amount of meat you'd get from a whole cow!
Mine add the majority of the fertility to my garden, too! Their poop doesn't need to be rested before going straight to the garden with no nitrogen burn.
In Africa, the urine is sold as an organic pest deterant and it makes a profit for farmers far above what the meat brings in. I haven't got my collection system in yet, but I'll be testing the effectiveness of it myself this year
that is great information my friend thank you for sharing!!... in that space how often are you able to harvest a rabbit for meat?
@@gardenlikeaviking rabbits can have litters of up to 12 young every 2 months . They don't take long to get to full size, just 3-4 months before they can go in the freezer. I started breeding more for insurance and access to organic fertilizer. I don't like how lean rabbit meat is so I'm not breeding at full capacity, just often enough to keep my main stock healthy(2-3 times a year instead of 6 times).
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Thanks for the tip on the melon squash! I'm single so it's a huge bonus that I wouldn't have to eat the whole thing and it'd still be able to keep it outside of the refrigerator
Your channel is likely to grow. You are breaking down the nuance and complexity of gardening in a way that is, in my opinion, straightforward and accessible to a wide audience/viewership. Liked, subbed, and I'll be working my way back through your catalog. Cheers👍
thank you for the positive energy and feedback my friend!!
Absolutely. I'm soaking in great information.
I planted 200 banana trees 1.5 meters appart and a ground cover of sweet potatoes with cassava and 6 pawpaw trees in between. This is the best. I supliment my garden with 5 caged rabbits 4 doe's and one buck. I mate one doe every month and always have meat. I keep 4 hens and one rooster for eggs in a fenced area of 5x5 meters. All my fences have grapes and passion frute growing on them. On the edges of my garden i grow a single row of shugar cane. I also have 6 bee hives in my garden. I free range +- 70 giant African snails for "escargot" I do have a small raisd bed garden for green beans, strawberrys and tarro.. Then i have a micro hydro phonics systen for greens. I am off grid. (solar and rain water) My total urban property is 1,100 square metres with a 3 bed room cottage near the beach. I also have I guava and one peach tree. This is how i have been living for years and do not need to go to town exept for medical help, clothes and chocelate !! 🥀🌹
this sounds absolutely amazing my friend!!... can you please join our Discord Community (its free its like a chatroom) and share pictures of all this amazing bounty!!! here's the discord link discord.gg/nEPnuYZN
Instead of canning green beans, better to lacto-ferment them. They stay green, are super-nutritious, and delicious. Do it like sauerkraut (salt & water), and add some whey to get the right microbes (otherwise it is a bit of a gamble).
Also can do this with carrots, snow peas, sweet peppers, lots of other veggies.
you are absolutely right my friend thank you for your input!... I Lacto Ferment everything!!...only issue is space in the refrigerator.... when I leave them out in the basement it seems to eventually go bad so I resort to canning a certain percentage of things
I'm going to try the pepper idea, I've made powder out of tomato peels, delicious!
We had a very bad drought in Louisiana last year with extreme heat. But the winter before gave us an extreme freeze...down to zero with very high winds and below freezing for 6 or 7 days. So it wiped out all green wild plants that we usually have, then the summer drought killed all green grass and weeds. A bunny nesting nearby depended on my garden to eat so I let her have my bush green beans. She became very tame and would hop up to me if she saw me in the garden. I think it made her feel safer because of all the owls here. Lizards, frogs, birds, and harmless snakes swarmed my garden as well because it was like an oasis.
Thank you brother for sharing your knowledge. To the point but thorough. I watch alot of gardeners and you are my new go to guy.
I kept pausing your video - to sign up for Baker Creek and Fruition Seeds, and placing orders with them. Thanks for your great videos. I've been working to improve my home garden in northern Michigan for several years, and really appreciate and enjoy your videos. Onward to more success in 2023!
yes my friend next year will be even more fertile!!... be sure to watch the video I just made about how to prepare the beds for next year!
Swiss chard makes my gout flair up! My spinach subs are, young leaves of red root pig weed and lambs quarters. Chopped purslane adds a nice lemon taste. Yes I eat weeds.
Same here! We allow them plenty of garden space, right along with standard vegetables. And if I could get past the "squeamishness", I'd eat what *bugs* me, too! LOL
Thank you. By the way, I am not sure about this variety of sweet potatoes, but back when I was young in my country, we ate sweet potatoes young leaves and young shoots too. Taking some young shoots off sweet potato vines is like pruning them, then we can eat those shoots instead of throwing them away. Yes, you will compost those clippings, but we normally have plenty to compost from.
Greetings from Ghana. Seems like Vikings garden like Africans! Great tips. Thanks.
yes we do!!.. because the plants don't know the difference if its a Viking or an African they just love to grow!... thank you my friend
Hello from another Indiana 5b grower. I enjoyed your video. I definitely plan on trying some of those beans this year. Happy Gardening!
wonderful tips, I took notes. I have found choko to be extremely plentiful if given a large trellis (I planted one under a small dead tree and got 150, no care). It is similar nutritionally to pumpkin/squash but smaller, more manageable.
thank you for the input as thats the first time I've heard about this plant
Yes I agree chokos are fantastic,raw,steamed, pickled and I have just done an amazing ferment with them and lots of ginger,garlic and chilli for flavour.
Chokos were a major depression food here in Australia! Super easy to grow in this climate, and can be stewed with sugar for "poor man's pears" as a dessert, or with white sauce for a dinner accompaniment, or loads of other ways, as it is fairly flavourless so will add nutrition & calories to other flavours in a dish.
@@maradall where do u get seeds or starts for this
@@sharonkeef0522 I'm not sure, & it will vary geographically. The simplest way might be to look for one in a grocery store or farmers' market - it should be easy to propagate.
Just an FYI for anyone who is interested and to help his algorithm, you can pickle and or ferment the green beans and the collards. I have heard of people making collard krout, but I have not tried it yet. I want to make kimche out of collards and see how that turn out.
Whilst carrots might not keep fresh forever, they're easy to dehydrate and rehydrate as and when needed for soups and stews. Best blanched beforehand to keep the colour. Dehydrating also reduces a lot of food into a small space and will keep well if stored correctly. When we run out of fresh, we use the dehydrated equivalent. Some people even keep carrots in the ground and dig them up when they need them. We probably have too many slugs here for that.
You can also can carrots. You can pickle them. You can even freeze them. Love carrots!
Jerusalem artichokes is a must have for me and zucchini also. Herbs and flowers that can be made into tea, also need to go on the list. You got to drink and you need bees in the garden.
what is your preferred way to prepare the Jerusalem Artichoke for eating??
@@gardenlikeaviking I have the red kind and I realy like to eat them in salat raw or snack on , also like to cook them with potato and make mash or cream soup, baked in the oven with other rootveg. I leave the skin on unless they are real muddy and narly. I grow mine in big pots, they dont flower but get to 3 m high. 2020 - 2021 we had - 23 Celsius and they made it, all cramed in a pot . I am in the münsterland in germany.
@@mariedeyo7399 i have never seen the red kind but I'll look into that thank you!!
@@gardenlikeaviking your very welcome, its nice to talk to other gardeners and try new plants. One thing, they will spred, since they are tubers, so watch where you plant them and dont throu them on the compost, the smalest bit can make a new plant. I rent und thats why I grow them in pots.
Take care and keep warm with the weather thats comming. 🖐
I love your videos! I watch and rewatch them! I planted a Swiss Chard about 6 months ago in a spot that barely gets water. About once a week I throw some water at it and it just keeps growing! I live in Vegas and it made it through our 100+ degree days in this manner. This is the first time I've grown Swiss Chard, I will always make sure to grow it every year now.
wow thats good to know Chard can survive even the heat of Vegas!... thats why I love it so much better than spinach which bolts right away in the heat!
You can also grow Malabar spinach then too. It likes heat & makes a beautiful house plant even, since it is a red vine.
Brilliant my friend thank you can't wait till next year's growing to start.
been very new to gardening. planted a little field of beetroot. very easy going and great long harvest.
Hey Nate, maybe you can do a video or 2 specifically on corn in the future; the types, the growing the eating etc.
Raccoons are bad about raiding my sweet corn, melons, figs etc the DAY before harvest. Driveway alarms and sitting up all night with a "deterrent" works. I`m thinking a mint spray might work. Brainstorming.
I'm in zone 1A, I have never yet had a garden. Here it is May 3rd and well, this year the ground is still frozen so far. And I have no way of making my own compost as of yet. But I want to try.
wow I think you're the first person to this channel in zone 1
save the root end of your onion when you cook. put the root end in a shallow dish of water and it will sprout 2, 3 , or 4 clones of itself. I plant the sprouts to mark the ends of the rows in my early garden. They grow just as onion sets do. Nature always provides.
hey you. ! I've been gardening for years. it started watching my mom , but was never really interested in eating anything that did have a health warning or a microwave instruction lol. listening to you though I think I learned something from her, because everything you talk about planting in this garden is almost 100% of everything I plant every year, except for when the kids want me to try something funky like an eggplant or a lemon cucumber I enjoy canning and preserving and I love your website
hello Tracy yes people back in the day knew exactly what foods to grow that mattered and didn't waste too much time and effort with the "rabbit food" lol... thanks for your input and let me know if you have any video idea suggestions
Hello from S.W. Indiana . I just found your channel yesterday lots of great stuff . You got a lot of awesome seeds . I'm going to do some more experimenting with our 3 sisters garden this year . We grow some really cool heirloom corn from Guatemala that you have to pick the ears from a ladder because they are so tall . I got a video on how tall it gets it's crazy . Thank you for sharing and have a great evening !
wow man that corn is unlike anything I've ever seen!!... nice channel and good luck with the season my friend
@@gardenlikeaviking Thank you ! If you want to grow any of it just let me know I will send you some seed .
@@gardenlikeaviking Pray tell--what are your other channels?
Just found your channel this week. I love the Tahitian melon squash. Will have to pick some of those up from BC.
I love how you make everything simple and basic. Thank you for that. It's a rainy day here so I can't be in the garden so I'm binge-watching your channel!
Thank you so much... I have most of the seeds mentioned but I will be buying beans and corn. Excellent ideas regarding drying and storing. I also have chickens that provide meat, eggs and almond and macadonia nut trees. I can fish for fresh water trout and yabbies which also provide protein so I will survive.
I don't have enough time to watch all of your amazing videos, but I am taking notes. I am ordering your books when they come out!
Man I love your gardening style. I don't grow the full spectrum and I don't grow year round. I grow mostly tomatoes and what goes with tomatoes well ... tomatoes, onions, peppers, cucumbers, a few herbs, potatoes, and a mustard/turnip mix. I cannot survive off my garden but I could make a few changes and increase the % growing what I eat. Adding the 3 sister combo and a daily greens area are the biggest steps I could and should take. If I did I would want grain corn not sweet corn but all I see at stores is sweet corn and all are hybrid varieties. Also I grow onions and basil and mint - never knew they are such good pest control. What I know is this ... since I began planting marigolds all among my tomatoes 6 or 7 years ago, my pest problems have almost disappeared.
thats a great outlook my friend!!... check out this video for all the tips on growing the three sisters successfully th-cam.com/video/w_MtOCcFB_U/w-d-xo.html
@@gardenlikeaviking where can I get heirloom grain corn seed?
Love this, thank you. Have you tried the Soup Pea from Seed Savers? It's now my fav pea. It's sweet when you catch it early, so good I just stand outside and eat them off the vine. But the ones you leave on, they get hard and turn brown. I cook them and wow are they good. But I will say, cooking them is not easy, they seem to cook a loooong time before getting soft. Maybe I should try to sprout ... I've never tried that.
no I have not tried that specific pea but I'll keep it in mind thank you!... yes dried peas take a very long time to cook they need to be soaked overnight first like beans
You give out such valuable information at a time when it is so needed. I just discovered your videos and am loving exploring the great content that you offer. Thanks
thank you for helping the channel grow by commenting on all the videos you watch!!
I don't care for things like swiss chard, kale or collard greens, but I found a happy medium for that "leaf" part with beet greens and turnip tops. Sauteed in butter, they're much better. You get a lovely root crop out of it too, a 2-for-1 score.
Just found your channel today. This is exactly the information I’ve been looking for. Thankyou, subscribed 😊🎉
Most awesome info!
Thanks! Inspiring video! You are doing great work!🙌
Thanks for all the good videos. Love them.
We have to retrain our pallet...like with Burdock, we don't like the bitter flavor anymore but it's needed
I'll try these all as soon as I can. Well all but the corn. Corn doesn't grow well where I am.
Don't forget turnips; space effective and you can eat the greens and roots. High in vitamins too. By the end of WW1 entire countries survived by eating turnips. For pea varieties, cow peas like purplehulls are good since they're not picky about soil quality and water requirements.
yes!!.. I love the purple hulls for their incredible heat and drought tolerance!
i propagate winged yams. they grow like crazy in the wild. you can dig up last years roots and grind it into flour.
i keep the plant in the ground until i want to use it.
one plant around 25 lbs of food.
winged yam??!... I'm not familiar with that... does it need tropical climate?
Scientific name please?
@@gardenlikeaviking yes it does. We have yam species indeed.
Awesome videos! Subbed and sharing! Thanks for the info friend!
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing 💜
Peppers are underrated. You don't need to grow super hot ones, but even mild ones provide a large amount of Vit C which is a nutrient we cannot make on our own and need from food sources.
Hi I am surprised you did not mention beets, I find them to be amazing crop, you pick the tops all season long and then you have the beets for storage.
yes thats one I would put on the top 15 but not the top 10 because its not something that is eaten in substantial quantities to make much of a caloric difference but yes its a good one and should be grown as well
@@gardenlikeaviking it's better than chards though. Both have oxalate but fermenting the root as in bortch and adding milk as they do in eastern Europe solves the problem, at least a little, and it's very rich in calories because it's a root.
Thank you so much for this, you provide a valuable resource! SKÅL!
Do you like growing other root veggies. Turnip, rutabaga or stuff like fennel?
I love watching your videos. It made me think what I would need to grow a order for 2 people to survive out of the garden. And also what would be your daily meals that you could eat each Day and how do your meals change throughout each month
#1 pole beans
#2 potatoes
#3 winter squash
#4 sweet potatoes
#5 corn
#6 peas
#7 green beans
#8 cabbage
#9 greens
#10 onions/garlic
Honorable mentions: carrots, tomatoes, peppers
As someone writing a fantasy book, thank you for the list of crops. Not sure how many are able to handle extremely rainy island climates, I know tomatoes can't, but it is enough to start in the right direction.
rainy island climate in the book??... sweet potatoes without any doubt are the one that'll save them... the leaves are edible just like spinach and the tubers are packed with nutrition and calories plus they thrive in the heat and rain... and they grow like crazy and are difficult to kill
Does sprouting the peas and beans change the flavor? This is our first year doing peas so we might give that a try.
I love the idea of 3 sisters but the pumpkins or squash always take over. Can you describe your methods or timing? Cheers
Please can you mention how long take every plant to be ready to harvest it? I can plant but I have no idea when I have to harvest, thank you so much.
Great vid 👍👍👍
Tomatoes are good for extra income sources also
Great video!
Thank you so very much. This is my first year. How do I store Squash and potatoes? Store bought ones sprout and rot in my basement.
glad you are here Michele.... winter squash need nothing special just a cool space with moderate airflow... sitting on a shelf in the basement is ideal... I suggest the Tahitian Melon Squash as they keep the longest and are very sweet and flavorful... potatoes need more specific care and I'll be sure to make videos about that when the time comes in late summer
I could use some advice on potatoes myself.
As for pumpkins & winter squash-I normally heat my home to just 60° to save money, and I keep the squash in the living room as decor, along with apples and sweet potatoes. The butternuts will last into February, the pumpkins will last into March, and spaghetti squash & sweet potatoes last until April sitting right on the table. At least for me.
I was told by farmers that potatoes need a lot of caution. They outgas toxins when not well ventilated and need to be colder too. I’m looking forward to his videos on potatoes
Thumbs up!!! and a like and a sub. I totally agree with you.
Pickled and/or fermented foods can be made from most of the vegetables (and most fruits!) to be a tasty shelf-stable source of vitamin C, probiotics and so many vital nutrients! If you are able to home can your produce, you might consider pickling or fermenting some for variety and the added nutrition.
absolutely great advice!... i'll be sharing many of my recipes for preserving the harvest as well
Do you know a seed company in South California for adapted seeds for a Mediterranean climate?
I got the seeds of the Tahitian Butter Nut. I watched your video again because I was not sure if I can cut a slice of it and can store it again. I gave my neighbor seeds too and want tell him about it.
the whole thing will store 9 months or more... I still have some from September and they're great... but once you cut into it you will want to use it within a couple weeks... but it will stay good on the shelf for 2-3 more weeks after cutting so try to use it up
The melon squash looks a lot like the Pennsylvania Dutch Crookneck squash. I am wondering if you know whether the molon squash is the only one that self heals or if similar squash may do the same?
the Tahitian Melon Squash is the only one in my experience that does this... but I have never tried that variety you speak of... all others I've tried will pretty soon rot once you cut them
I freaking love this channel
Please make a couple cooking videos with the Tahitian melon squash 😊
Brilliant 😊 you are the MAN
Great video
"Dogman" here - salt lake city
For the last two years I’ve been trying to grow butternut squash. I seem to only be getting male flowers, which is resulting in no squash. Any thoughts?
How long does a packet of seeds last and where/how should they be stored? Thanks
thats a great topic and I'll be doing a video about that when the times right thank you
The leaves of sweet potatoes, squash and southern peas are edible.
How do you do to preserve the pasta and how long can it be stored and eatable?
If you would cover storing/drying that would be great
yes I will probably as the harvest times get closer so thank you for the idea!
@@gardenlikeaviking I just subscribed and really like your videos
Just one question. I was always told not to add wood ash to sweet corn
that is false... wood ash is beneficial for sweet corn
Does winter squash need a period curing after harvest? If so, what conditions? thanks
yes winter squash needs similar conditions to sweet potatoes... hot and humid for a week or two... but the squash actually like to just sit in the direct sun for about a week but do not let them get a frost or they'll not store well...
CAN I SOW grass corn, peas in this fall?
add some banana plants. they too are excellent source of food nutrients.
👍🏼 gracias
Remember that Brussels sprouts are cold resistant, you can harvest them till January.
They even taste better after the frost.
a question about the potatoes, is it true that you have to buy 1x potatos ? Can I set a side some for replanting for the next year? so from the harvest i can use to eat , but also keep a few to replant them over and over ?
yes if you store them properly you can replant from the previous years potatoes... thats what I do... except sometimes I don't have enough left so I must buy new ones
@@gardenlikeaviking Tnx , going to try . Great content here ✌️
You are the best
Remember that you won't have any food to eat storing it in plastic bags and cardboard boxes. People are not the only beings that get hungry. Store your food in hard to chew through and preferably moisture proof containers. Trying to prepare is not cheap and is a very long slow process. It can be frustrating. I missed out on collecting berries AGAIN to make jelly because I am disabled and EVERYTHING has broken all at the same time here. I have to try to do it all because I can't pay anyone. At least the jalapenos are trying. Trying to grow in clay is pretty much impossible. Starting a compost pile has been meager. I don't have a bagger for the mower and there is not much food waste. I regrow all cuttings, the bones get frozen to make stock, and the "guard" dogs get the crumbs if there are any as treats every so often for alerting me to people behind my house. They bark then look to see if I pull back the curtain. I tell them on the day I have a kibble that they are GOOD guard dogs and I make little bark sounds. It works. I now have to knock on the window to indicate to the runt to be quiet at 3 am. He will alert to a leaf. Learn to throw NOTHING away. I just ran into a way to make diesel out of plastic so even THAT can be used. I can't afford a tractor so I got a very used 4x4 diesel pickup that runs but still needs work. It will have to do for horses. I am not on acreage but it doesn't matter. Beetles are killing my shade trees and I had to use the "horses" to pull the branches away from structures after cutting them halfway. It is dangerous and slow going but I don't have 2 grand to pay the pros. Back in the prairie days WE had to be the pros. This viking knows good stuff. May the Lord bless you believers.
I've grown so many tomato plants from large to cherry tomatoes, but my large fruit tomatoes aren't producing well. If they produce, fruits are deform or rot ends. The cherry tomatoes are doing ok.
very likely a lack of calcium in the plant which comes from inconsistent access to water and insufficient microbial activity in the soil... try making this for them th-cam.com/video/cNkH9fdTgz4/w-d-xo.html
@@gardenlikeaviking Thank you.
I like carrots glad they made it
You can add carrots to your red sauce, gives it sweetness!
thanks! no microgreens?
If you substitute in a climbing pea instead of the bean in your three sisters, you have a mix that is safe to be fed to livestock too. Dried beans aren't good feed without boiling or sprouting first
That is a wonderful suggestion thank you… But even the peas would have to be fed to them raw is that correct?… Because they get rockhard as well once dried
@@gardenlikeaviking I've seen whole wheat and whole barley come out the other end of a cow's digestion undamaged and ready to sprout, but not whole peas. I actually give my cows a handful of whole wheat in their bail feed so that the chooks and wild birds will break up the manure and spread it out ready to dissolve in the next rain. Chooks seem to be able to process any whole grains without trouble.
Please remember that one single dried bean can kill a chicken from toxins that only effect them.
Green stage of beans is ok, but chooks in your fall garden can so easily find a stray bean.
More importantly, red beans need to be brought to a full boil before you eat them, as they carry a type of botulism, the toxin of which can be killed by boiling. That's why all the Crock-Pot recipes say bring the beans to a boil and then put in the crock pot.
Which? Mine eat pigeon pea...
@@xiscanicolas6009 Peas are ok but definitely not beans.
You can feed them beans, including soybeans but you have to cook them first.
Does this solution harm the plant if it comes in contact?
I watched another video where he was growing potatoes and left several 5 gallon buckets in the greenhouse over winter and forgot about them.
When he went back and found them, the potatoes were perfect, beautiful and fully matured, still down in the dirt. They stored perfectly in the dirt they grew in. I never heard of that before and wondered what you thought about it.
God bless. Jude, from Kentucky ✝️🥀🐴🇺🇲💚
yes that method works great where the winters are mild... for example England... the Pacific Northwest .... parts of the US where it rarely dips much below freezing that will work wonderfully... but where the winters get way below freezing for weeks and months on end then this method will not work because once the potato freezes solid then its dead and will turn to mush as soon as it thaws...
Thanks ❣️🌿🐦
Don't forget beets. They are full of fiber and some calories but they provide nitric oxide to the body which keeps the blood vessels supple.
yes absolutely!!!... I juice beets at least 3x per week in the summer along with celery and parsley for a super NOS blast!
Found the channel recently and it's been a rich seam of information! Have an existing plot in Estonia to expand and upscale with biodynamic growing and permaculture - picked up great tips in the videos, thanks!
When you mentioned the beans, you said you just sprout them when you need them. Are you just eating the sprouts? Or actually cooking the beans to eat whole. I've noticed for a survival situation, beans take A LOT of resources to cook, and can really put a hurting on your digestive system if you eat them alot.
yes that is a valid point my friend and the best way for beans is to sprout them for only two days just until the tiny little tail appears and then cook them as normal... the sprouting activates enzymes within the bean that "pre digest" the heavy fibers and make them SO much easier for our system to digest... still yes lots of water is required but that is the only limiting factor because the cooking time is cut down dramatically
@@gardenlikeaviking I have to try this! I've been eating lots of broccoli sprouts and microgreens, but don't really touch the beans because they take SOOO long to cook, and just end up making my stomach hurt anyway. I haven't tried pre-sprouting before I cook though. Thanks for the tip!
Carrots will last all winter left in the ground if covered with leaves, straw, wood chips, then snow when it comes IF the carrots are planted around the 4th of July, which grows perfect-sized carrots!!
I live in zone 6 and have a terrible time with squash beetles destroying my squash vines. Do you have any suggestions on how to destroy them without using chemicals? Thank you!
yes those can be devastating!... I have great success by using multiple methods which I'll be making videos about in near future... one is to grow a large plot of mint separate from the garden then cut the plants down and scatter them like a mulch around the squash plants... they do not like mint at all... also boil large amounts of garlic and cayenne peppers for 2-3 hours... then strain the liquid and spray it on the plants it works great... many more ideas coming soon
@@gardenlikeaviking thank you so much, I’ll definitely be trying those tips this year!
any luck with aluminium wrapped around the stalks? its hot in florida and i dont want to cook the zuchinni as it grows.
I've had decent luck spraying and drenching the soil with Bt (Bacteria thuringensis) and using a hypodermic needle to inject some of the solution into affected stems as soon as I see the signs of infestation (holes with a pale sawdust-looking material coming out, suddenly wilting leaves when the plant is not dry or heat-stressed) every week or so. Bt is readily available, organic, and doesn't affect most beneficial insects, including bees. My area (north Texas USA) is notorious for the squash vine borers. Bt is also good against the caterpillars of the cabbage moth.
@@WinkTartanBelle wow, thank you so much! I’ve never heard of Bt before but I’ll definitely be giving it a try, thanks again!
what kind of sweet potatoes do u grow?
I don't know the exact variety but I got them originally from a farmers market in my area and then grow them from the previous years stock....
Finches destroy my fruit--apples, peaches, pears, plums, you name it.
Like Viking? I have been to Norway, not what I would call a friendly to plants. Rocky and cold, great for skiing yes, growing plants, NO. Yukon gold taste great, but are not the top for amount you can grow. Kenebec, yes. Also I know potatoes are not one of the three sisters in that they never made it out of the mountains of South America. I have always wonder why.