Yes to all of these! I would add carrots to this list because they take up such little space, last forever and you can usually get more than one planting per season.
Planning one tomato , three or four pole beans,(I tried pole beans in a hanging pot last summer but it didn't work well) and several herbs. There are plenty of people in my area that share cucumbers and zucchini so I won't be deprived of those. I'm in Iowa, so ill buy sweet corn from farmers. My garden is the size of a grave, but I'm thankful to have this at my rental apartment. I only grow what I want for fresh eating because I don't have the equipment for canning or the space to store it. But my tiny garden feeds my soul more than anything. 💙
Have you done it on a hot grill. I love the char. Cut lengthwise. Shallow slash on one side / / / /and slash in the other direction on the other side\ \ \ \. Coat with a little butter before grilling them. Salt after grilling if you like. I love zucchini bread. I'll look up zucchini pickles.
For sure ! I’m the only one who eats okra ( raised in California , great grandma was from oaklahoma, so when she would find it , we would have it ! ) I cannot eat them fast enough !
some fruit trees are very high yielding. Apples and oranges/mandarins can give you hundreds of pounds per year and a lot of energy/calories, from a dwarf tree that takes up very little space and almost zero maintaince. Nut trees are a great low maintence calorie crop as well, nuts are even better in some ways, they are easy to store and don't take much up a lot of space in your pantry for the energy and nutrients they provide. There's many tropical fruit trees that have crazy high yields if your location allows you to grow them.
I live in northern Pa, so my crops are a little different. We love summer squash and zucchini , so that would be 1 and 2. Tomatoes are on top of the list. Potatoes for sure at #4 and last but not least, I think would be carrots. I love them all. I can't wait to get my garden started this year. It's going to be bigger and better than last year. I canned about 700 jars of everything. Going for 1000 this year. We share a lot and that makes my heart happy. I tell people, take what you want, eat what you take and please return the jars!
Not a political forum but Pa. Dept of agra stole fresh raw dairy from Amos and he's in court again. Raw food is the healthiest way to eat them. He had no recalls or the like.
Growing your own spices can produce quite a yield per seed planted. Some examples are coriander, celery, fennel and mustard. Not only can you get thousands of seeds from a single plant, you also get the fresh leaves and stalks to use until the plant begins flowering. These almost always reseed as well, and their flowers are great forage for beneficial insects. That's quite a bounty from a tiny seed!
Your suggestions are spot on. I would add butternut squash and a jalapeño pepper bush preferably grow in three gallon pot to bring it indoors just before the first frost. I very much in joy your videos. Thank you for your time and efforts. ❤
I haven't read all the comments, so if this is a replay, sorry. But garlic, since you have a freeze dryer, remove the garlic greens and scapes, freeze dry them, and powder them up. I remove all the green leaves (there are a lot of them) but leave the stalk on the garlic head for curing purposes. The earthy garlic flavor of the greens is fantastic. This adds a lot more spices for your cabinet and a wonderful addition to dip recipes, garlic bread and rubs. I had a volunteer green bean (supermarconi Romano flat pole bean) that produced over 200 large bean pods. Love the "free" food. Your lists are pretty right on, my list would include onions, asparagus, and horseradish. Plus cilantro, because once it bolts, it turns into coriander seeds. I pull the seeds off and broadcast them back into the garden, and come spring, I'll have a carpet of cilantro in my raised beds to harvest and freeze dry, more free food.
This is my first garden. I rent so I have to do a lot of container gardening. This has been very helpful with getting the biggest yeilds from a small garden. I also learned to pressure can from watching your channel. Love all of your content. Thank you 😊❤
I would not include cucumbers. I don't do pickles so I plant them for fresh eating only. But you are correct in that a single seed has a high yield. Three of my favorites are okra, squash, and zucchini. I almost forgot sugar snap peas in the spring and field peas in summer and fall. Sometimes in Tennessee we can do a fall planting of a green pea like Snowbird. It's ready in about 58 days. September is a good month to do this. There's so much good food out there for only pennies in seeds.❤
@@TracieL1234 The moment they start to ripen, pick em, They will ripen and still taste great in the house. Have you looked up the condition you describe and possible causes? Like. Why do my tomato (variety name) shrivel up and die?
Rachel. I did not know garlic clove bulbs can be taken apart and the cloves frozen. Thanks for the info. Zone 6B and clove shoots came up from the mulch. Praying for all to have a blesses and bountiful harvest.
Tomatoes, jalapeños, butternut squash, green beans and strawberries. My strawberries were still producing in January. (Not as sweet as summer berries, but I still enjoyed them.)
I am planting pole beans for the first time. I usually do bush beans but wanted to save space. It is the same for tomatoes and all be indeterminate. I need pickles so cukes is another vertical crop. Garlic will go in in the fall but I will use store garlic for a pest deterant. Onions are doing well in the she shed and a out ready for a haircut. Greens are a must as well as kale. I have really missed salads. Good to see you Rachael.
I'm in the last piece of land on the south, zone 10B, so... my picks for summer would have to be sweet potatoes, okra, beans, luffah and seminole pumpkins. In my part of the US tomatoes, leafy greens and most of the vegetables you grow on summer are winter crops for us, they don't survive our heat.
My top 5 in South Arkansas are similar to yours, but I have to add Okra because boy howdy just a few plans will over run you with so much food! We love pickles too, so we pickle the okra and my kids go crazy!
Egyptian walking onions. Always there as I am still trying to get big onion but usually golf ball sized using every hint and tip I hear and see online. I will conquer them.😂Got corn going again with a sample sized one last year. Maybe try the popcorn. Some dried it's another years seed plus a snack. Canning sweet corn is a hassle so freeze it. Peas are hardly worth the effort and needing so many for just two. I'll do a dry bean instead for refried beans.
After thinking about what I preserve each year, absolutely agree with your list as top choices, and would add onions, tomatillos, herbs are best bang for the buck, and plant an apple tree (I canned 4 gallons of applesauce, plus dehydrated loads of apple slices for snacking. They store really well vacuum sealed ❤️
Tomatoes always #1, green beans, cucumbers , last year was my first year to make and can pickles, it was so much fun. Peppers are next.Bell peppers are so expensive like you said previously that I chop them and freeze them for all year. Last is celery. I grew celery for the first time last year and dehydrated the green tops and canned the stalks with carrots and onions for soup starters. Love the rewards and can’t wait to get in that dirt.
It's not too late to plant garlic in Michigan. Spring planted cloves just need a few weeks in the fridge so they will be able to bulb out this season. Plant them as soon as the ground is workable and you'll get a harvest slightly later and possibly a little smaller if you plant them without cold time.
Tomatoes, green beans, sweet potatoes, garlic, cucumbers for pickles and jalapeños. I wish I could plant pole beans in our area. They just don’t produce here. They burn up so we plant bush. Then just because I love them okra, all my berries. However my berries are in a different area than my regular garden. Broccoli and cabbage. Cabbage stores really well. Zucchini because you can spiral it and freeze and use in place of pasta.
Favorite is a cucumber that can be pickled/fermented and allowed to grow larger to slice. Our cherry tomato planted in a bucket in partial shade gave us enough and did not miss slicing varieties for sandwiches. We planted Roma for sauces. We love the domed steamer canner. Thanks for the intro to that product.
one of my top grows: Asparagus and berries/fruit trees. They take a long time to get established, but it's long term money saving. While those get established, hammer on the annual top grows that Rachel said. It's working for you in the background so you can concentrate on the annuals and getting good at managing a large harvest for preservation. that way when the fruit and asparagus starts to come in, you have the experience and are ahead of the game on things you'd like to put on the shelf or freezer. 😊
I’m with you on your choices. I like to add zucchini, yellow summer squash, winter squashes, sweet corn. They can be frozen, canned, dehydrated. I grow all my lettuce in the house in an inexpensive hydroponic system I bought a few years ago. I have different types of fresh lettuce and spinach available all year long.
Great suggestions for new gardeners for high yield ideas! I have to grow cukes and tomatoes in greenhouse so, it can be hit or miss but heck yes on the garlic!! We have had high yield with broccoli and cabbages too in our small raised bed gardens. Not the same growing conditions but its great for me to see all these ideas!
I would add summer and winter squashes to the list. If course, everyone knows how prolific zucchini are, but I grew one Burgess buttercup squash last summer that took over my whole 18 x 20 garden, producing well over a dozen large squash. We're still working on our pile of stored squash! And they're delicious!
Rachel, another money saver is to pickle the fresh nasturtium seed pods in a simple brine. They make a great stand-in for capers which are so expensive for the tiny jars they're sold in. Great video and I agree with all of those choices. My must-grows are garlic, tomatoes, pole beans, berries, Korean cucumbers, herbs, zucchini, calendula and winter squashes. I'd add carrots but they are really difficult for me to grow, haha.
I would definitely agree with the tomatoes and peppers. However, we grow and preserve a TON of okra!!!! Although I do make a lot of pickled okra, and we also slice the okra, roll in cornmeal, then freeze, of course. I mostly freeze dry our okra, and it's our favorite way to preserve it!! You can eat it crunchy, as okra chips. We add a little salt, or put Cajun seasoning on it. We also add it to soups, stews, and gumbo. You can also make delicious fried okra cakes. SO great to have okra on our pantry shelves!! PS You can also put okra in your healthy shakes, too. Another favorite thing that I love to grow and freeze dry is leeks!! Yum! It's the perfect addition to soups, stews, casseroles, quiches, omelets, stir fry, and anything else you would use a mild onion in.
Just started seeds for sweet peppers, jalapeños, carrots, beets, peas, scallions, and cilantro. Cannot wait for spring, summer, and harvest (oops I mean fall!). Looking forward to lots of pressure canning and steam canning this year.
Kale will last in the garden uncovered until we get 2+ nights of 25*F or below nights. Didn't pull ours until mid January! Then I canned it in water with a pinch of salt. Those plants alone saved us a ton of money! Our top 5 are all the greens, green beans, tomatoes, potatoes (2-3 plantings/year) and herbs. This list would be different if the squash bugs and cucumber beetles didn't take those plants out year after year. 😞
I can only think of 3 that I grow maybe 4: Okra, summer squash, certain herbs and Asparagus. Plant it in abundance and it'll keep growing year after year with tons to harvest. Actually a 5th would be Crowder peas. Those things just keep growing even after mowing down they grow right back. I'm in Zone 9a.
Unfortunately many of those don't grow great in zone 3A. It really does matter which zone you are in. I do zucchini, broccoli/cauliflower, potatoes, carrots, peas, and herbs 😊
Thanks for giving us your top picks. Tomatoes are always on our list and the silver slicer cucumber. I have a small garden but manage to always have more than enough for us. I just canned some potatoes but not thrilled with taste. Do you have a special way you get some of the funky taste out of them? Maybe rinsing? Thanks
Our first year canning potatoes I thought the same thing. I am not sure what process you used, but we found rinsing them helped tremendously. Ironically I just made a cheesy potato soup with some of our canned potatoes and carrots for dinner tonight! Delicious!
One seed gives one onion, but doesn't almost every meal start with an onion? 😂 Organic onions are up to almost $1 each at Meijer now, too. They were my year's-supply goal last summer. 368 onions should get us through!
What am I doing wrong? I hear a lot of people stating green beans, they get so many. I plant blue lake bush and get one crop then they are done. It is planted in 100% sun as I have nowhere else to put them. help!!
Try a pole bean variety on a trellis. I like Kentucky Wonder or Blue Lake pole beans. Fertilize weekly with a low number vegetable fertilizer. Beans need slightly more Phosphorous and Potassium than nitrogen so look for a fertilizer where the N-P-K ratios have slightly higher P and K numbers. Some fertilizers are all N (Nitrogen) and those are good for heavy nitrogen-feeding crops such as corn or onions but not so great for beans. I use Garden Tone which has N-P-K values of 3-4-4.
I’m doing asparagus for the first time this year. Once started will produce forever ❤
Yes to all of these! I would add carrots to this list because they take up such little space, last forever and you can usually get more than one planting per season.
Love seeing your Bible in the background!
Tomatoes, potatoes, green beans, sweet potatoes and squash
Yes I thought for sure she would say squash. 😊
Planning one tomato , three or four pole beans,(I tried pole beans in a hanging pot last summer but it didn't work well) and several herbs. There are plenty of people in my area that share cucumbers and zucchini so I won't be deprived of those. I'm in Iowa, so ill buy sweet corn from farmers. My garden is the size of a grave, but I'm thankful to have this at my rental apartment. I only grow what I want for fresh eating because I don't have the equipment for canning or the space to store it. But my tiny garden feeds my soul more than anything. 💙
Zucchini for fresh eating, for zucchini bread, zucchini relish and pickles and all sort of zucchini desserts that freeze well.
Thank you! I forgot to add zucchini to my list. Love zucchini pickles❤️
Have you done it on a hot grill. I love the char. Cut lengthwise. Shallow slash on one side / / / /and slash in the other direction on the other side\ \ \ \. Coat with a little butter before grilling them. Salt after grilling if you like. I love zucchini bread. I'll look up zucchini pickles.
And fried zuchini ❤
Okra is my ultimate high-yield crop. One seed will produce lbs and lbs of fresh okra and tons of new seeds for next season.
For sure ! I’m the only one who eats okra ( raised in California , great grandma was from oaklahoma, so when she would find it , we would have it ! ) I cannot eat them fast enough !
I'm glad you added Garlic. I mentioned this crop in your last video!
Hi! My name is also Rachel 😁 So glad to find your channel for inspiration & knowledge. But also love how soothing your voice is 🥰 Happy to be here!
some fruit trees are very high yielding. Apples and oranges/mandarins can give you hundreds of pounds per year and a lot of energy/calories, from a dwarf tree that takes up very little space and almost zero maintaince. Nut trees are a great low maintence calorie crop as well, nuts are even better in some ways, they are easy to store and don't take much up a lot of space in your pantry for the energy and nutrients they provide. There's many tropical fruit trees that have crazy high yields if your location allows you to grow them.
I live in northern Pa, so my crops are a little different. We love summer squash and zucchini , so that would be 1 and 2. Tomatoes are on top of the list. Potatoes for sure at #4 and last but not least, I think would be carrots. I love them all. I can't wait to get my garden started this year. It's going to be bigger and better than last year. I canned about 700 jars of everything. Going for 1000 this year. We share a lot and that makes my heart happy. I tell people, take what you want, eat what you take and please return the jars!
Not a political forum but Pa. Dept of agra stole fresh raw dairy from Amos and he's in court again. Raw food is the healthiest way to eat them. He had no recalls or the like.
Growing your own spices can produce quite a yield per seed planted. Some examples are coriander, celery, fennel and mustard. Not only can you get thousands of seeds from a single plant, you also get the fresh leaves and stalks to use until the plant begins flowering. These almost always reseed as well, and their flowers are great forage for beneficial insects. That's quite a bounty from a tiny seed!
Your suggestions are spot on. I would add butternut squash and a jalapeño
pepper bush preferably grow in three gallon pot to bring it indoors just before the first frost.
I very much in joy your videos. Thank you for your time and efforts. ❤
I haven't read all the comments, so if this is a replay, sorry. But garlic, since you have a freeze dryer, remove the garlic greens and scapes, freeze dry them, and powder them up. I remove all the green leaves (there are a lot of them) but leave the stalk on the garlic head for curing purposes. The earthy garlic flavor of the greens is fantastic. This adds a lot more spices for your cabinet and a wonderful addition to dip recipes, garlic bread and rubs.
I had a volunteer green bean (supermarconi Romano flat pole bean) that produced over 200 large bean pods. Love the "free" food.
Your lists are pretty right on, my list would include onions, asparagus, and horseradish. Plus cilantro, because once it bolts, it turns into coriander seeds. I pull the seeds off and broadcast them back into the garden, and come spring, I'll have a carpet of cilantro in my raised beds to harvest and freeze dry, more free food.
This is my first garden. I rent so I have to do a lot of container gardening. This has been very helpful with getting the biggest yeilds from a small garden. I also learned to pressure can from watching your channel. Love all of your content. Thank you 😊❤
1) potatoes: either sweet or normal, 2)tomatoes, 3)greens, 4) cucuzzi squash, 5) fruit trees
I love these morning chats❤❤❤
I would not include cucumbers. I don't do pickles so I plant them for fresh eating only. But you are correct in that a single seed has a high yield. Three of my favorites are okra, squash, and zucchini. I almost forgot sugar snap peas in the spring and field peas in summer and fall. Sometimes in Tennessee we can do a fall planting of a green pea like Snowbird. It's ready in about 58 days. September is a good month to do this. There's so much good food out there for only pennies in seeds.❤
Tomatoes, Peppers, Carrots, Green Beans and Garlic. Top 5 :) (BONUS LOL ONIONS!!!)
I can’t get tomatoes to not shrivel up and die to save my life
@@TracieL1234 The moment they start to ripen, pick em, They will ripen and still taste great in the house. Have you looked up the condition you describe and possible causes? Like. Why do my tomato (variety name) shrivel up and die?
Sweet potatoes, for me in central illinois, are a high yielding, easy, and long storing crop.
Rachel. I did not know garlic clove bulbs can be taken apart and the cloves frozen. Thanks for the info. Zone 6B and clove shoots came up from the mulch. Praying for all to have a blesses and bountiful harvest.
Tomatoes, jalapeños, butternut squash, green beans and strawberries. My strawberries were still producing in January. (Not as sweet as summer berries, but I still enjoyed them.)
Zuchinni, i love grated and frozrn to bake with and eating fresh!
All of these and then zucchini and strawberries. One strawberry plant might not give much, but they make runners to make more plants 🎉❤
I am planting pole beans for the first time. I usually do bush beans but wanted to save space. It is the same for tomatoes and all be indeterminate. I need pickles so cukes is another vertical crop. Garlic will go in in the fall but I will use store garlic for a pest deterant. Onions are doing well in the she shed and a out ready for a haircut. Greens are a must as well as kale. I have really missed salads. Good to see you Rachael.
Peppers and squash would be in my top five for high yield.
So happy your back in the garden..
Tomatoes, cucumber, pole beans, okra and greens (kale and turnips)
I’m in south Arkansas and I most definitely plant my soft neck in the fall.
Ever thought about purple spinach? Simple Living Alaska, Arielle grew some really tall beautiful purple spinach that was impressive on yield.
cucumbers, zucchini, summer squash, green beans, tomatoes, they are a must plant.
I'm in the last piece of land on the south, zone 10B, so... my picks for summer would have to be sweet potatoes, okra, beans, luffah and seminole pumpkins.
In my part of the US tomatoes, leafy greens and most of the vegetables you grow on summer are winter crops for us, they don't survive our heat.
Tomatoes, squash family, onions, potatoes and garlic. So many to choose from to narrow it down for me.
My top 5 in South Arkansas are similar to yours, but I have to add Okra because boy howdy just a few plans will over run you with so much food! We love pickles too, so we pickle the okra and my kids go crazy!
I am loving this series! Great ideas!
Squash was a high yield last year for me
Great choices!!! Thanks for sharing!!! I would add peppers and squash.
I’m loving this series. Really has me thinking
Egyptian walking onions. Always there as I am still trying to get big onion but usually golf ball sized using every hint and tip I hear and see online. I will conquer them.😂Got corn going again with a sample sized one last year. Maybe try the popcorn. Some dried it's another years seed plus a snack. Canning sweet corn is a hassle so freeze it. Peas are hardly worth the effort and needing so many for just two. I'll do a dry bean instead for refried beans.
Lol. Peas don’t even make it into the house. They are for snacking while gardening.
Those are just so fun to grow. I would grow them even if I didn’t use them. Aliens taking over the garden 😂
Walking onion aliens, not peas 😊
After thinking about what I preserve each year, absolutely agree with your list as top choices, and would add onions, tomatillos, herbs are best bang for the buck, and plant an apple tree (I canned 4 gallons of applesauce, plus dehydrated loads of apple slices for snacking. They store really well vacuum sealed ❤️
Tomatoes always #1, green beans, cucumbers , last year was my first year to make and can pickles, it was so much fun. Peppers are next.Bell peppers are so expensive like you said previously that I chop them and freeze them for all year. Last is celery. I grew celery for the first time last year and dehydrated the green tops and canned the stalks with carrots and onions for soup starters. Love the rewards and can’t wait to get in that dirt.
It's not too late to plant garlic in Michigan. Spring planted cloves just need a few weeks in the fridge so they will be able to bulb out this season. Plant them as soon as the ground is workable and you'll get a harvest slightly later and possibly a little smaller if you plant them without cold time.
Tomatoes, green beans, sweet potatoes, garlic, cucumbers for pickles and jalapeños. I wish I could plant pole beans in our area. They just don’t produce here. They burn up so we plant bush. Then just because I love them okra, all my berries. However my berries are in a different area than my regular garden. Broccoli and cabbage. Cabbage stores really well. Zucchini because you can spiral it and freeze and use in place of pasta.
Tomatoes , summer squash , green beans and peppers for
Sure !
Peppers, squashes, tomatoes, okra, greens. Pumpkin too! Sometimes wish I was a little further north. Would gladly give up my okra for some rhubarb.
Favorite is a cucumber that can be pickled/fermented and allowed to grow larger to slice.
Our cherry tomato planted in a bucket in partial shade gave us enough and did not miss slicing varieties for sandwiches. We planted Roma for sauces. We love the domed steamer canner. Thanks for the intro to that product.
one of my top grows: Asparagus and berries/fruit trees. They take a long time to get established, but it's long term money saving. While those get established, hammer on the annual top grows that Rachel said. It's working for you in the background so you can concentrate on the annuals and getting good at managing a large harvest for preservation. that way when the fruit and asparagus starts to come in, you have the experience and are ahead of the game on things you'd like to put on the shelf or freezer. 😊
It’s a southern ‘thang’ - okra. I also like shelling peas, but that’s kinda falls in the green bean category. Then zucchini and yellow squash.
This is a wonderful services, thank you for sharing your perspectives/experiences on these topics. Planning my first garden for this year.
I’m with you on your choices. I like to add zucchini, yellow summer squash, winter squashes, sweet corn. They can be frozen, canned, dehydrated. I grow all my lettuce in the house in an inexpensive hydroponic system I bought a few years ago. I have different types of fresh lettuce and spinach available all year long.
Great suggestions for new gardeners for high yield ideas! I have to grow cukes and tomatoes in greenhouse so, it can be hit or miss but heck yes on the garlic!! We have had high yield with broccoli and cabbages too in our small raised bed gardens. Not the same growing conditions but its great for me to see all these ideas!
I would add summer and winter squashes to the list. If course, everyone knows how prolific zucchini are, but I grew one Burgess buttercup squash last summer that took over my whole 18 x 20 garden, producing well over a dozen large squash. We're still working on our pile of stored squash! And they're delicious!
Rachel, another money saver is to pickle the fresh nasturtium seed pods in a simple brine. They make a great stand-in for capers which are so expensive for the tiny jars they're sold in. Great video and I agree with all of those choices. My must-grows are garlic, tomatoes, pole beans, berries, Korean cucumbers, herbs, zucchini, calendula and winter squashes. I'd add carrots but they are really difficult for me to grow, haha.
Tomatoes rule my garden. Hot peppers, green and dry beans, beets when I can get them to grow, garlic, summer and winter squash.
I grew a year's worth of garlic and cucumbers for pickles for my family last year. I plan on adding green beans to that list this year.
I would definitely agree with the tomatoes and peppers. However, we grow and preserve a TON of okra!!!! Although I do make a lot of pickled okra, and we also slice the okra, roll in cornmeal, then freeze, of course. I mostly freeze dry our okra, and it's our favorite way to preserve it!! You can eat it crunchy, as okra chips. We add a little salt, or put Cajun seasoning on it. We also add it to soups, stews, and gumbo. You can also make delicious fried okra cakes. SO great to have okra on our pantry shelves!! PS You can also put okra in your healthy shakes, too. Another favorite thing that I love to grow and freeze dry is leeks!! Yum! It's the perfect addition to soups, stews, casseroles, quiches, omelets, stir fry, and anything else you would use a mild onion in.
Whow i love this video format and am looking forward to the next one :) Greetings from Slovenia
Tomatoes, potatoes, beans, squash, greens, eggplant, garlic, peppers, okra, are my top producers.
Rachel, TY! Could you tell us the varieties of cucumbers and green beans you have had the most success with? Great video to spur us on!
Butternut squash or pumpkin are high yielding for me and great for long storage too.
Tell me more about how to get the best yield from my pepper plants. I grow them every year but haven’t gotten hardly any bells over the years.
I am in Irmo SC and we plant garlic in the fall.
I'm really loving this series and taking notes. Thanks a bunch
top 5 would be tomatos cucumbers, okra, peppers and garlic! great series Rachel!
Summer squash, wax beans, zucchini
Just started seeds for sweet peppers, jalapeños, carrots, beets, peas, scallions, and cilantro. Cannot wait for spring, summer, and harvest (oops I mean fall!). Looking forward to lots of pressure canning and steam canning this year.
I would add carrots and onions(which I dice and freeze) ❤
Kale will last in the garden uncovered until we get 2+ nights of 25*F or below nights. Didn't pull ours until mid January! Then I canned it in water with a pinch of salt. Those plants alone saved us a ton of money!
Our top 5 are all the greens, green beans, tomatoes, potatoes (2-3 plantings/year) and herbs. This list would be different if the squash bugs and cucumber beetles didn't take those plants out year after year. 😞
Love this helpful list. I am also a huge fan of pickles!! And relish... I could pickle just about any vegetable and enjoy it. haha. :)
I can only think of 3 that I grow maybe 4: Okra, summer squash, certain herbs and Asparagus. Plant it in abundance and it'll keep growing year after year with tons to harvest. Actually a 5th would be Crowder peas. Those things just keep growing even after mowing down they grow right back.
I'm in Zone 9a.
Can’t wait to plant the garden although it bring a lot of work.
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Peppers!
What kind of plant food was that you sprinkled in your cups?
I would add chili peppers, potatoes, herbs like basil or rosemary and zucchini.
Sweet potatoes!
Looking forward to your next video🙋🏻♀️
Unfortunately many of those don't grow great in zone 3A. It really does matter which zone you are in. I do zucchini, broccoli/cauliflower, potatoes, carrots, peas, and herbs 😊
Hi. I would love to grow green beans but I've tried 2 seasons and we get Mexican bean beetles on them. They ruin the plants. Any advice?
Thanks for giving us your top picks. Tomatoes are always on our list and the silver slicer cucumber. I have a small garden but manage to always have more than enough for us. I just canned some potatoes but not thrilled with taste. Do you have a special way you get some of the funky taste out of them? Maybe rinsing? Thanks
I haven’t been impressed with my canned potatoes either. I wish I knew why others seem to love them?
Our first year canning potatoes I thought the same thing. I am not sure what process you used, but we found rinsing them helped tremendously. Ironically I just made a cheesy potato soup with some of our canned potatoes and carrots for dinner tonight! Delicious!
I wonde if they have deer in MI?
Do you peel your garlic cloves before freezing? Or as you pull them out to use?
Leave them on, and remove when we use them.
That is a brilliant way to reduce my tendency to procrastinate! Thank you!
I'd add green onions.
Woohoo, let’s go! 💚👍🏻
Shocked you didn’t mention zuchinni😁
One seed gives one onion, but doesn't almost every meal start with an onion? 😂 Organic onions are up to almost $1 each at Meijer now, too. They were my year's-supply goal last summer. 368 onions should get us through!
Zucchini is a productive one
What am I doing wrong? I hear a lot of people stating green beans, they get so many. I plant blue lake bush and get one crop then they are done. It is planted in 100% sun as I have nowhere else to put them. help!!
Try a pole bean variety on a trellis. I like Kentucky Wonder or Blue Lake pole beans. Fertilize weekly with a low number vegetable fertilizer. Beans need slightly more Phosphorous and Potassium than nitrogen so look for a fertilizer where the N-P-K ratios have slightly higher P and K numbers. Some fertilizers are all N (Nitrogen) and those are good for heavy nitrogen-feeding crops such as corn or onions but not so great for beans. I use Garden Tone which has N-P-K values of 3-4-4.
Zucchini!!
What cucumber variety is your favorite for pickling?
You should grow squashes if you have 4 or more kids
What are your favorite tomato varieties? Also, what color is that new green pain on your walls?
What size is your garden? Love your videos :)
About 40x40 feet.
I’m allergic to zuchini unfortunately
Jalapeños for sure!!!
Squash also has a great yield!
I thought for sure zucchini would make this list
Peppers
Squash, Spinach and all you have talked about except kale
You make it sound easy but nothing I have re seeds like you say - it’s not happening so I wouldn’t frame it as no big deal
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Everyone in my area seems to have zucchini coming out of their ears every Summer.
Yep it's good one and definitely something we grow every year but more as a filler rather than a pure staple