As far as celery goes: Cutting Celery! It has more leafy growth and a shorter and thinner stalk. Great for soups (think bone broth ;) ALSO: freeze your celery to use in bone broth all winter! Make up packets of celery and vacuum seal before freezing 👌 Grocery-store celery is like water compared to home grown! ❤
Purple tomatillos (easy to grow, heavy producer, make delicious salsa) Fall Gold raspberries Brandywine tomatoes Chives -Not that these are survival crops, but these are my favorite crops, period.
Because the Tahitian Melon isn't available right now & because I can't find Hubbard squash seeds either around here I went online and found two seed companies in Canada and stocked up!!! The Heritage Harvest Seed Co and The Incredible Seed Company - Both have lots of unusual squashes ... (I'm just getting into gardening and just learned that one reason that my tomatoes did not perform all that well is that I had planted Sunflowers in all of my raised - big watering trough - beds.) This was from your webcast last weekend. Thanks for all the information and inspiration!
0:53 Potatoes: Yukon Gold, German Butterball. 1:40 Sweet Potatoes 2:12 Beans: Good Mother Stallard, his favorite. 2:33 Beans: Rattlesnake Pole, if can only choose 1. 2:54 Beans: Runner beans like Black Coat for colder weather. 3:08 Beans: Purple Hull Pinkeye Cowpea (yes it's a bean) 3:39 Beans: Calima, green beans, his favorite bush green bean. Can very well. 3:58 Corn: Glass Gem for corn meal, grits, etc. Stores indefinitely. Tall, best for 3 sisters. 4:45 Corn: Painted Mountain, 4ft tall, better for short growing seasons 4:58 Corn: Fisher's Earliest, sweet corn (not for 3 sisters). 5:10 Winter Squash: Tahitian Melon Squash, 10-20 lbs each, 5-10 per plant, stores 1 year. 5:35 Summer Squash: White Scallop (his fav), Patisson Golden Marbre scallop 5:51 Zucchini: Ford Hook 5:59 Peas: Lillian's caseload, shelling, easy to dry and sprout. 6:20 Peas: Sugarbon, snap pea 6:30 Peas: Progress #9 6:41 Carrots: Dulcinea, Koral 7:11 Carrots: His 2 favorites are New Kuroda (good for hard ground) 7:40 Carrots: Kyoto Red (for deep fluffy soil, very sweet and delicious, Fall only) 8:06 Beets: Bulls Blood good, but Cylindra is the best he's had. 8:43 Turnips: Purple Top White Globe (Fall garden) 8:48 Radish: Japanese Minowase Daikon, great for kimchi (Fall garden) 9:05 Garlic and Onions 9:21 Onions: Yellow of Parma, Wethersfield Red (his favorites, great for storage) 9:40 Onions: New York Early is also good 9:47 Onions: Australian Brown for Intermediate day onions 10:10 Tomato: Cherokee Purple, his #1 favorite 10:18 Tomato: Purple Bumblebee, cherry 10:30 Tomato: Roma and Amish Paste for paste tomatoes, he'll try San Marzano this year. 11:23 Peppers: Poblano (some spice, good for roasting) 11:48 Peppers: Ajvarski (sweet, for classic paprika) 12:03 Peppers: Tobasco peppers, 1 plant per year for homemade tobasco sauce. 12:20 Cabbage: Glory of Enkhuizen (best in Spring, pretty fast) 12:32 Cabbage: Brunswick (best in Fall), takes longer, best for sauerkraut. 12:44 Celery: Utah Tall, he plants 5-6, picks all summer long. 12:55 Mustard: Japanese Giant Red, New Wave 12:04 Swiss Chard: Vulcan, beautiful plant, gets 4-feet tall 13:22 Collards: Georgia Southern (Creole), getting powdery mildew too soon. 13:29 Collards: Vates, he's switching to these this year, lasted much longer. 13:43: Broccoli: Yod Fah (Chinese Broccoli), heat tolerant, long picking window. 13:58 Greens: Chijimisai, won't bolt like spinach, similar flavor 14:20 Greens: Komatsuna, most cold hardy of his greens. 14:37 Melons: Kolb's Gem, massive melon, ok flavor. 14:48 Melons: Ali Baba Watermelon, by far his favorite 15:03 Melons: Madhu Ras (small personal size melon) 15:16 Melons: Kajari, similar to cantaloupe, sweet 15:25 Cucumbers: Chicago Pickling, 1-2 plants will produce dozens 15:57 Cucumbers: Marketmore 76, good slicer 16:10 Cucumbers: China Jade, fresh eating, really likes it, spiny skin, but great flesh. 16:27 Cucumbers: Richmond Green Apple, fresh eating, surprised him, small and delicious. 16:38 Herbs: Sage 16:57 Herbs: Summer Savory, like combo of Oregano and Rosemary 17:13 Herbs: Cilantro, save seeds as Coriander. 17:20 Herbs: Basil
@@gardenlikeaviking You and the family give me a reason to get up and get out in the yard.This Spring is going to be less fun since my garden dog, Buddy, had to go to VAHALLA this fall, but life and growth goes on.I’m still tobacco free ( RSV almost turned my Norseman 🤬into compost this winter, but I’m back on my feet, back in my shop, and finished your Viking horn drinking tumbler! Will P.O. Box it too you for Saturday nexts Q and A brother with some of my late wife’s “ SUEBERRIES” rootings in damp paper towels. GREAT 2024 FOOD SECURITY VIDEO MY FRIEND!
Food security is more important this coming year than most of us have ever experienced before so thanks Nate, I need to watch again but take notes this time! 💜
Italian background here. Been making 30-40 bushels of tomatoes every year purchased from a local farm. Best sauce tomato is San Marzano. However I have an electric strainer to remove all skin and seeds which causes bitter taste. You can also purchase a manual strainer not expensive, for small batches. My mom would process small batches as she picked from the garden with a manual strainer.
Pick and can when ready enough is ready. We bought a steam canner. Uses only few quarts of water, Heats faster. All water bath recipes can be steam canned. Tested at universities. We will be picking tomatoes before ripe and finish ripening on the kitchen counter. Taste test. They taste as good as fully ripened off the vine. Also gives green tomatoes to ripen faster and more blooms.
I heard about your channel from Harvesting Faith Homestead. We like to grow Jerusalem artichokes, they come back by themselves every year and spread like crazy (don't plant them where you don't want them forever!!) so no matter how much you harvest there will always be more.
@@catbomber24 People say so, but the ones we ate were dried and cooked and we didn't notice anything. I think we also ate them roasted and it was fine.
Greetings from Canada, just here to feed the algorithm, and express my appreciation that you are thinking of us northern gardeners with your suggestions. Excited for another year with soil under my nails!
You left out a very high calorie plant. The SUNCHOKE. It is in the top 3 of highest calorie producing roots. It is abundant and grows in very poor soil as well. People survive on this in times of war and famine. There are several varieties.
I grow sunchokes/Jerusalem artichokes. They make a good greyman crop, too. High in inulin, so they cause gas. The foliage make great chop and drop material, too. I plant them like three sisters. They aren't really high in calories, but they make my list because they are so easy and you can just store them in the ground.
I’ve grown San Marzano tomatoes for years then a friend went to Italy and sent back Scatalone tomato seeds. They’re nearly identical but bigger, better flavor and better disease resistance.
My grandsons are my carbon neutral pea shellers, problem is they eat the peas! The shells can be made into a nutritious soup and canned, takes some work, but the product stands arms and legs above the peas for its fiber and nutritional value. A stick blender and a strainer is all you need, the by product goes into compost.....Waste nothing, live well and free. Get the young ones into growing food , by helping and learning from us old folks. They would not be here if our old folks never passed on the info. Thanks Nate, from North Scotland
Nice video Nate. I grow 90% of what you covered. This season I'm adding medicinal plants to my garden to make tinctures, decoctions, and salves if I can get my hands on some local bees wax.
Nice list Nate. We've only got a small growing area so tend to concentrate on things that are expensive to buy like herbs and leafy greens. We do grow a few potatoes and sweet potatoes too as well as the usual tomatoes and peppers in the summer. As for a video on that pea and bean sheller - Yes, please!.
thats great my friend so what other varieties do you consider "high value" enough to grow??... because I'm making a "tiny garden varieties" video next week and wonder what kind of tomatoes you plant?
Funny how you posted this video on your favorites before I asked for your list. I am curious as to which of these favorites you have kept seeds from so's not to have to purchase again. ThanQ again for all you do for us, Nate!
Loved this video ❤ and people’s interest in their own food security. I hope to see a future “Planning your Medicine Garden” to complement the food garden, maybe when Mr. Viking has his land. 😊
I would love a video on how to seed start under survival situations. Like if we don't have electricity or access to get fresh potting mix no heat mats no LED lights or timers I wanna learn the OLD school way of starting seeds and a garden 🤔🙏👌 I loveeeeeee love your videos they are so informative and inspiring❤❤
Food security garden Potatoes Yukon Gold German Butterball Sweet Potato variety?? Beans Good Mother Stallard Rattlesnake pole bean Scarlet or Black Coat - runner bean Purple Hull Pinkeye (hot weather) Calima green bean Corn Glass gem (good for three sisters, long grow season) Painted Mountain (short grow season) Fisher's Earliest (sweet corn - not for three sisters) Winter Squash Tahitian melon Summer Squash White Scallop Pattison Golden Marble Scallop Zucchini, Fordhook Peas Lillian's Caseload (get pea sheller) Sugar Bon (snap pea) Progress #9 Carrots Dulcinea Koral New Kuroda (fave #1, good for non-fluffy soil, will power thru) Kyoto Red (fave #2, super sweet plant in July) Beets Cylendra Bull's Blood Turnip Purple Top White Globe Daikon Japanese Minowase Daikon Garlic Lots of varieties Onions Yellow of Parma Wethersfield Red New York Early (if you can't find Yellow of Parma) Australian Brown Tomato Cherokee Purple Purple Bumblebee (cherry) Roma (paste) Amish paste (paste) San Marzano (paste) Pepper Poblano Ajvarski Tabasco Cabbage Glory of Enkhuizen (spring, nice dense heads) Brunswick (for fall planting) Celery Utah Tall Mustard Japanese Giant Red New wave Swiss Chard Vulcan (huge) Collards Georgia Southern (Creole) Vates (?) Chinese Broccoli Yod Fah Greens Chijimisai (like spinach, won't bolt) Komatsuna (Old Tokyo), for fall, extremely cold hardy Melons Kolb's Gem (Watermelon) Ali Baba (Watermelon) Madhu Ras, Rajasthan Honey Kajari Cucumber Chicago Pickling Marketmore 76 (slicer) China Jade Richmond Green Apple Herbs Sage Summer Savory Cilantro Basil Rosemary Oregano
Excellent content! You helped me reorientate my vegetable list. Because of you i have multiple trials of sweet potatoes growing. Contractor bags in the tunnel house, pots outside and pots under cover. Lots of potatoes growing and I have prioritized pumpkins... sadly I cannot source tahitian melon squash seeds here in NZ
Wonderful ideas! However, a tip for viewers: If you will hold the seed packets still for us to write down the names and pronounce them precisely and maybe spell out some of the complex names, that would be a great help! Thank you!
up above in the comment section, @jeffmeyers3837 created a list of timestamps you can click to go to a section of the video to rewatch. TH-cam controls like adjusting the speed of the video, using the keyboard back and forward keys to move the video a few seconds (on touchscreens quick double tap to the back or forward buttons to the left and right of the play/pause) may help!
I tried the scarlet runner bean last year here in the Willamette Valley, and they thrived! I will definitely do another batch this year from all of the beans I saved!
As the world gets crazier and crazier, it’s impossible to overstate how valuable the wisdom from this channel will be. Thank you for what you have already done and for the work you continue to do in educating people how to be more self sufficient.
Due to illness last year, I didn't get my plants out till late July. I live in west central Indiana. The Brandywine wouldn't turn red, however, the Cherokee Purple didn't care about daylight hours. They also stored well. I put them in 5 gal buckets under the trailer. When they started to turn, I put them on the window sills. I had tomatoes up to 2 weeks b4 Christmas.
Just found your channel. I have been watching you all day now. I have learned so much from you and I have been gardening over 30 years. I love the way you teach. My mind is blown with so much useful information. What caught my eye was how healthy and beautiful your garden looks. Thank you so much. I am looking forward to more videos and learning new techniques.
Dear Viking, I know that color translates differently based on camera, lighting, and calibration of the display but your yukon golds appear green, and I am under the impression that you should not eat green potatoes because they contain solanine, which can make you siiiiiick. Dear Viking, I do not want you to be sick, you help us out here in the garden, for which we are so grateful. Take care everyone!
I'm in Iowa, zone 5 and the san marzano tomatoes are my hands down favorite for canning for their taste. In my experience they really need the foliar feed of the eggshell spray more frequently than other tomatoes despite growing in really excellent soil. Some years their yield isn't quite as high as expected so I usually grow one or two extra plants to cover my bases. Others have said that they are prone to diseases but personally I've not had any issues with that. Please update us and let us know how they do for you!
Will be on this train and ready to show off my garden. I found you too late when osteo Atthritice is kicking my but I now have abundant knowledge to spread the word. Gardening is my therapy.❤
I saw that FairlyLocalFamily dries her surplus zucchini and grinds into zucchini flour! One of my favorite new-to-me herbs is CHERVIL. It's not heat tolerant, so great in your shady beds and early/late season. And it's amazing, a little sweet like licorice but still herbaceous. Plus these beautiful, delicate leaves. I believe it's in the parsley family. Must try!
I absolutely love the San Marzano, great for sauces! This year I’m trying Lithuanian purple garlic and I can’t wait to try it. I slice cucumber thin then sprinkle ranch powder on and freeze dry, they are like chips.
Have potatoes growing wild in the orchard mulch - heaps of them - more than I can eat 🤣👍 tried sweet potato but definitely prefer normal potatoes - like Dutch cream or king Edward 🤤🤤🤤 for pulses, I prefer lentils and it’s a nice ground cover in orchard spaces- but only way to harvest then, that I found, is shredding them in water and then drying again. Mushrooms are also a good protein idea for autumn around conifer forests 👍
I live in South Carolina and had great success with the San Marzano. There was fabulous fabulous yield but they were a little on the small side. A very healthy plant
@gardenlikeaviking you already know I'll be doing the trash bag potatoes round 2! Learned so much last year just observing the system. I need to move it to a sunnier spot but other than that I have loads of compost ready to go.
fantastic my friend also keep in mind something to help shade the bags if you live in a spot with intense sun... greens work really well for this such as collard greens planted alongside the bags that'll keep them nice and cool root zone
This was a great video! Loved your specific variety suggestions! The only root vegetable I would add to the list for a survival garden is the jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke). They are easy to grow, highly nutritious, delicious, and perennial. I also really love growing tree collards and moringa!
I think he said in a video that he doesn't like them that much. Otherwise he would definitely mention them, as they are super productive. They do need pretty much the entire season to grow though.
Awesome recommendations! I always want more seeds. Haha. Good recommendation on summer savory. It’s one of my favorite herbs for seasoning. Full watch. Be well.
I grew 18 varieties of tomatoes last year. San Marzano where the only ones that got blossom end rot and attacked by some kind of leaf eating bug that I never did figure out.
Talking about how squash stores a long time, I bought a butternut squash that looked like a giant "Peacock without the Pea" for a laugh the day we registered my sons birth, my son is now 18 months old and the squash is still fresh as the day I bought it just sitting in the fruit bowl!
I’m out here in Canada and I have a hard time growing turnips would you do videos specifically ? I had nothing growing this spring except my garlic and radish and onions
I am going to take your advice and try some ajvarski pepper for paprika. I have just started the Leutschauer for smoked paprika. This year we are growing a ton of peppers trying to decide what we cannot live without and what make the best sauces, salsas, fresh eating and smoked paprika. See my other comment here about last years tomatoes....I'm really trying to stock up and become more efficient/proficient with our space and taste.
The most important part of our food security is growing feed for our dairy/meat goats and our laying flock of ducks. (If we had more space, we'd add some beef critters in.)
@@gardenlikeaviking That's what I'm working on figuring out! We won't ever be able to grow all the feed we need; we have almost two acres of pasture for the goats, and a grassy pen for the ducks, and I still have to buy hay and feed for both. (If we couldn't buy those, I'd have to cut the numbers of animals down to two or three goats and half a dozen ducks.) But I grow dent corn, turnips, stock beets (mangels, sugar beets), carrots, kale, pea and bean vines, sweet potatoes and winter squash (mostly moschatas), sunflowers, and more for the animals. Trying to get yields up. Each goat needs 4-7 lbs (dry weight) of feed per day; the ducks each need almost a half-pound of feed per duck per day. The goats are actually the easiest to feed, as they'll eat tree branches and brush and during the growing season get most of their food from the pasture. So I mostly need winter feed for them, which means things that are winter hardy or keep well. Ducks (and chickens) need higher protein and also need their feed in smaller particles, so they are more work, but giving them some surplus dairy products helps with the protein. (Some people will tell you that dairy isn't good for poultry, but ours seem to do fine.) I think it would be easier to feed chickens with home-grown feed, but my daughter can't eat chicken eggs, so ducks are what we have. I'm considering adding a few rabbits for meat, too -- they don't need a lot of food, and it's pretty easy to grow enough for them. I just haven't had good luck with rabbits here.
@@kathleensanderson3082 fantastic analysis my friend thank you!... yes chickens would be much easier to feed that way because they'll eat about anything!... I suggest the Tahitian Melon Squash as it produces more food than any other plant and they keep all winter long no problem plus they are packed with nutrition
@@gardenlikeaviking I'll be planting the Tahitian squash this year for the first time -- looking forward to seeing how well they do here (south-central KY).
@@kathleensanderson3082 have you looked into growing duckweed? High protein and nutrients. In right conditions doubles in a week. Can dehydrate as well. I am going to experiment to lower feed cost as well.
While I like eating green beans, canning green beans require a pressure caner because they are low acidity. Safer and easier to store dry beans. Buy one of those packages of multiple bean soups at the grocery store and plant those. Keep the survivors and replant next year. A great way to landrace.
Great list! I am in WV. I grow Ten Fingers of Naples (a cousin to San Marzano) and the flavor is amazing. I got mine from Fruition Seeds. This year, I am also trying Cherokee Purple Heart (which I found at Victory seed) and Yoders German Pink Heart (from Delectation of Tomatoes). I just found your channel and I’m soaking up all the great information! Can’t wait to smoke some peppers! Thanks!!
Have you tried the Thornburn's Terra-Cotta? We love the Cherokee Purple and grow it every year. However, last year we finally tried the pricey Terra-Cotta. We actually had 152 plant of multiple varieties. I wanted to pare down which ones we could not live without. The tomatoes we must have are Cherokee Purple, Thornburn's Tarra-Cotta, Orange Strawberry, Orange Oxheart, Jersey Devil , Giant Paste and Sungold Cherry.
personally I did not like the Terra-Cotta.... I grew it several years ago and it just didn't have the flavor I am interested in.... the Cherokee of course is my all time favorite but also the Berkely Tie Dye is fantastic and fruity... but if you haven't tried the purple bumble bee I highly suggest!!
I grew San Marzanos last year. My garden didn’t do as well as it usually has in the past but the tomatoes were particularly horrible except for the San Marzanos. I had never grown San Marzanos before. . They were so abundant that I had to offer some to strangers. I live in central Connecticut
I grew San Marzano and Ten Fingers of Naples last year and Ten Fingers of Naples outproduced San Marzano by a long shot and will be the only paste tomato I grow this year. I love Albino beets and Detroit Dark Red but picked up a pack of Cylindra for this year. Definitely Kennebec potatoes but also grow a purple and red variety. As for beans, we grow a variety of cut-short bean that has been in our family for five generations. Grew a heirloom variety called Ground Squirrel last year and what a producer! Bush bean favorite is Cherokee Yellow Wax as they just keep producing. Red noodle beans are an absolute favorite too! Got them out a bit late last year but still had them at least three times a week and managed to freeze a few. Trionfo Violetto is my favorite purple pole bean as the pods are tender and stringless even when they get a bit too big. Onions is Ailsa Craig for fresh eating and Patterson for storage.
this is wonderful my friend thank you for sharing!!... I'm thinking about trying the Trionfo pole bean due to your suggestion.... also... if you ever felt moved to send a small handful of those 5 generation beans to my PO Box I would certainly grow them out and preserve the genetics!!!
san marzanos are PROLIFIC. and almost too intense to eat fresh, but as a paste tomato or sauce tomato... holy cowwwww so good. So gooooood. I sitll ate mine fresh but I love tomato flavor. Some folks might find their intensity offputting.
Ok my friends let us all know what varieties are your favorite and what you are planning to grow this year!!!!
As far as celery goes: Cutting Celery! It has more leafy growth and a shorter and thinner stalk. Great for soups (think bone broth ;) ALSO: freeze your celery to use in bone broth all winter! Make up packets of celery and vacuum seal before freezing 👌 Grocery-store celery is like water compared to home grown! ❤
Tomato: San marzano, sun gold, cherokee, black krim, Ox heart, Jabucar (serbian big tomato), purple bumblebee and many more..
Purple tomatillos (easy to grow, heavy producer, make delicious salsa)
Fall Gold raspberries
Brandywine tomatoes
Chives
-Not that these are survival crops, but these are my favorite crops, period.
Because the Tahitian Melon isn't available right now & because I can't find Hubbard squash seeds either around here I went online and found two seed companies in Canada and stocked up!!! The Heritage Harvest Seed Co and The Incredible Seed Company - Both have lots of unusual squashes ... (I'm just getting into gardening and just learned that one reason that my tomatoes did not perform all that well is that I had planted Sunflowers in all of my raised - big watering trough - beds.) This was from your webcast last weekend. Thanks for all the information and inspiration!
Thanks for listing your favorites in this video! Ordering this week and I will be adding some of these!! 🎉
0:53 Potatoes: Yukon Gold, German Butterball.
1:40 Sweet Potatoes
2:12 Beans: Good Mother Stallard, his favorite.
2:33 Beans: Rattlesnake Pole, if can only choose 1.
2:54 Beans: Runner beans like Black Coat for colder weather.
3:08 Beans: Purple Hull Pinkeye Cowpea (yes it's a bean)
3:39 Beans: Calima, green beans, his favorite bush green bean. Can very well.
3:58 Corn: Glass Gem for corn meal, grits, etc. Stores indefinitely. Tall, best for 3 sisters.
4:45 Corn: Painted Mountain, 4ft tall, better for short growing seasons
4:58 Corn: Fisher's Earliest, sweet corn (not for 3 sisters).
5:10 Winter Squash: Tahitian Melon Squash, 10-20 lbs each, 5-10 per plant, stores 1 year.
5:35 Summer Squash: White Scallop (his fav), Patisson Golden Marbre scallop
5:51 Zucchini: Ford Hook
5:59 Peas: Lillian's caseload, shelling, easy to dry and sprout.
6:20 Peas: Sugarbon, snap pea
6:30 Peas: Progress #9
6:41 Carrots: Dulcinea, Koral
7:11 Carrots: His 2 favorites are New Kuroda (good for hard ground)
7:40 Carrots: Kyoto Red (for deep fluffy soil, very sweet and delicious, Fall only)
8:06 Beets: Bulls Blood good, but Cylindra is the best he's had.
8:43 Turnips: Purple Top White Globe (Fall garden)
8:48 Radish: Japanese Minowase Daikon, great for kimchi (Fall garden)
9:05 Garlic and Onions
9:21 Onions: Yellow of Parma, Wethersfield Red (his favorites, great for storage)
9:40 Onions: New York Early is also good
9:47 Onions: Australian Brown for Intermediate day onions
10:10 Tomato: Cherokee Purple, his #1 favorite
10:18 Tomato: Purple Bumblebee, cherry
10:30 Tomato: Roma and Amish Paste for paste tomatoes, he'll try San Marzano this year.
11:23 Peppers: Poblano (some spice, good for roasting)
11:48 Peppers: Ajvarski (sweet, for classic paprika)
12:03 Peppers: Tobasco peppers, 1 plant per year for homemade tobasco sauce.
12:20 Cabbage: Glory of Enkhuizen (best in Spring, pretty fast)
12:32 Cabbage: Brunswick (best in Fall), takes longer, best for sauerkraut.
12:44 Celery: Utah Tall, he plants 5-6, picks all summer long.
12:55 Mustard: Japanese Giant Red, New Wave
12:04 Swiss Chard: Vulcan, beautiful plant, gets 4-feet tall
13:22 Collards: Georgia Southern (Creole), getting powdery mildew too soon.
13:29 Collards: Vates, he's switching to these this year, lasted much longer.
13:43: Broccoli: Yod Fah (Chinese Broccoli), heat tolerant, long picking window.
13:58 Greens: Chijimisai, won't bolt like spinach, similar flavor
14:20 Greens: Komatsuna, most cold hardy of his greens.
14:37 Melons: Kolb's Gem, massive melon, ok flavor.
14:48 Melons: Ali Baba Watermelon, by far his favorite
15:03 Melons: Madhu Ras (small personal size melon)
15:16 Melons: Kajari, similar to cantaloupe, sweet
15:25 Cucumbers: Chicago Pickling, 1-2 plants will produce dozens
15:57 Cucumbers: Marketmore 76, good slicer
16:10 Cucumbers: China Jade, fresh eating, really likes it, spiny skin, but great flesh.
16:27 Cucumbers: Richmond Green Apple, fresh eating, surprised him, small and delicious.
16:38 Herbs: Sage
16:57 Herbs: Summer Savory, like combo of Oregano and Rosemary
17:13 Herbs: Cilantro, save seeds as Coriander.
17:20 Herbs: Basil
Jeff. You get an A+ for that. 👍
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The “ 2024 FOOD SECURITY” video will go down as a Viking Channel Classic😎
I always appreciate your enthusiasm my friend thank you!!
@@gardenlikeaviking You and the family give me a reason to get up and get out in the yard.This Spring is going to be less fun since my garden dog, Buddy, had to go to VAHALLA this fall, but life and growth goes on.I’m still tobacco free ( RSV almost turned my Norseman 🤬into compost this winter, but I’m back on my feet, back in my shop, and finished your Viking horn drinking tumbler! Will P.O. Box it too you for Saturday nexts Q and A brother with some of my late wife’s “ SUEBERRIES” rootings in damp paper towels. GREAT 2024 FOOD SECURITY VIDEO MY FRIEND!
And you can eat the sweet potato leaves just like spinach.
Wow! Never heard this.
Please show your pea hulling device! I’m looking for one
Food security is more important this coming year than most of us have ever experienced before so thanks Nate, I need to watch again but take notes this time! 💜
Italian background here. Been making 30-40 bushels of tomatoes every year purchased from a local farm. Best sauce tomato is San Marzano. However I have an electric strainer to remove all skin and seeds which causes bitter taste. You can also purchase a manual strainer not expensive, for small batches. My mom would process small batches as she picked from the garden with a manual strainer.
Pick and can when ready enough is ready. We bought a steam canner. Uses only few quarts of water, Heats faster. All water bath recipes can be steam canned. Tested at universities. We will be picking tomatoes before ripe and finish ripening on the kitchen counter. Taste test. They taste as good as fully ripened off the vine. Also gives green tomatoes to ripen faster and more blooms.
Italian here, too, in KS. Not had any luck w San Marzano here yet....
Fun fact; Tomatoes are indigenous to the Americas.
@maxniederer181 oh my goodness really? I'm near kc on the ks side. Had great luck last year with starts. I hope you have better luck this year:D
Fun fact; Tomatoes are from the Americas.
I heard about your channel from Harvesting Faith Homestead. We like to grow Jerusalem artichokes, they come back by themselves every year and spread like crazy (don't plant them where you don't want them forever!!) so no matter how much you harvest there will always be more.
Don't those give you really bad gas?
@@catbomber24 People say so, but the ones we ate were dried and cooked and we didn't notice anything. I think we also ate them roasted and it was fine.
Greetings from Canada, just here to feed the algorithm, and express my appreciation that you are thinking of us northern gardeners with your suggestions. Excited for another year with soil under my nails!
For Canada, I have a great success with Canada crook neck squash. Over 30 from 7 plants.
Just started sunchokes last year. I want more perennials.
Agreed 🇨🇦 ! I’m going yo try interplanting onions in my flower beds as there’s never enough room for all the veg I love.
You left out a very high calorie plant. The SUNCHOKE. It is in the top 3 of highest calorie producing roots. It is abundant and grows in very poor soil as well. People survive on this in times of war and famine. There are several varieties.
aka, Jerusalem Artichoke
Variety suggestions?
I grow sunchokes/Jerusalem artichokes. They make a good greyman crop, too. High in inulin, so they cause gas. The foliage make great chop and drop material, too. I plant them like three sisters. They aren't really high in calories, but they make my list because they are so easy and you can just store them in the ground.
I’ve grown San Marzano tomatoes for years then a friend went to Italy and sent back Scatalone tomato seeds. They’re nearly identical but bigger, better flavor and better disease resistance.
My grandsons are my carbon neutral pea shellers, problem is they eat the peas! The shells can be made into a nutritious soup and canned, takes some work, but the product stands arms and legs above the peas for its fiber and nutritional value. A stick blender and a strainer is all you need, the by product goes into compost.....Waste nothing, live well and free.
Get the young ones into growing food , by helping and learning from us old folks. They would not be here if our old folks never passed on the info. Thanks Nate, from North Scotland
Nice video Nate. I grow 90% of what you covered. This season I'm adding medicinal plants to my garden to make tinctures, decoctions, and salves if I can get my hands on some local bees wax.
Been waiting for this Nate! Wishing for a bountiful crop to all of the tribe this season!
Nice list Nate. We've only got a small growing area so tend to concentrate on things that are expensive to buy like herbs and leafy greens.
We do grow a few potatoes and sweet potatoes too as well as the usual tomatoes and peppers in the summer.
As for a video on that pea and bean sheller - Yes, please!.
thats great my friend so what other varieties do you consider "high value" enough to grow??... because I'm making a "tiny garden varieties" video next week and wonder what kind of tomatoes you plant?
Funny how you posted this video on your favorites before I asked for your list. I am curious as to which of these favorites you have kept seeds from so's not to have to purchase again. ThanQ again for all you do for us, Nate!
Loved this video ❤ and people’s interest in their own food security. I hope to see a future “Planning your Medicine Garden” to complement the food garden, maybe when Mr. Viking has his land. 😊
absolutely my friend thats a great idea and yes we will have a specific "medicine" garden at the land!!
Sans Marzano starts off slower but takes off and does well.
Cherokee is my favorite too!! I’ve been growing the sane Cherokee seeds for 23 years (seed saving)!!
I would love a video on how to seed start under survival situations. Like if we don't have electricity or access to get fresh potting mix no heat mats no LED lights or timers I wanna learn the OLD school way of starting seeds and a garden 🤔🙏👌 I loveeeeeee love your videos they are so informative and inspiring❤❤
Mmmm! I love the Cherokee Purples too. I’ve missed them so much.
Food security garden
Potatoes
Yukon Gold
German Butterball
Sweet Potato
variety??
Beans
Good Mother Stallard
Rattlesnake pole bean
Scarlet or Black Coat - runner bean
Purple Hull Pinkeye (hot weather)
Calima green bean
Corn
Glass gem (good for three sisters, long grow season)
Painted Mountain (short grow season)
Fisher's Earliest (sweet corn - not for three sisters)
Winter Squash
Tahitian melon
Summer Squash
White Scallop
Pattison Golden Marble Scallop
Zucchini, Fordhook
Peas
Lillian's Caseload (get pea sheller)
Sugar Bon (snap pea)
Progress #9
Carrots
Dulcinea
Koral
New Kuroda (fave #1, good for non-fluffy soil, will power thru)
Kyoto Red (fave #2, super sweet plant in July)
Beets
Cylendra
Bull's Blood
Turnip
Purple Top White Globe
Daikon
Japanese Minowase Daikon
Garlic
Lots of varieties
Onions
Yellow of Parma
Wethersfield Red
New York Early (if you can't find Yellow of Parma)
Australian Brown
Tomato
Cherokee Purple
Purple Bumblebee (cherry)
Roma (paste)
Amish paste (paste)
San Marzano (paste)
Pepper
Poblano
Ajvarski
Tabasco
Cabbage
Glory of Enkhuizen (spring, nice dense heads)
Brunswick (for fall planting)
Celery
Utah Tall
Mustard
Japanese Giant Red
New wave
Swiss Chard
Vulcan (huge)
Collards
Georgia Southern (Creole)
Vates (?)
Chinese Broccoli
Yod Fah
Greens
Chijimisai (like spinach, won't bolt)
Komatsuna (Old Tokyo), for fall, extremely cold hardy
Melons
Kolb's Gem (Watermelon)
Ali Baba (Watermelon)
Madhu Ras, Rajasthan Honey
Kajari
Cucumber
Chicago Pickling
Marketmore 76 (slicer)
China Jade
Richmond Green Apple
Herbs
Sage
Summer Savory
Cilantro
Basil
Rosemary
Oregano
Excellent content! You helped me reorientate my vegetable list. Because of you i have multiple trials of sweet potatoes growing. Contractor bags in the tunnel house, pots outside and pots under cover. Lots of potatoes growing and I have prioritized pumpkins... sadly I cannot source tahitian melon squash seeds here in NZ
Spaghetti squash lasts long for me and Cushaw gets huge but not quite as long lasting.
San Marzanos, susceptible more than other varieties to blossom end rot from dry hot days. They are great! Nice video!
Wonderful ideas! However, a tip for viewers: If you will hold the seed packets still for us to write down the names and pronounce them precisely and maybe spell out some of the complex names, that would be a great help! Thank you!
up above in the comment section, @jeffmeyers3837 created a list of timestamps you can click to go to a section of the video to rewatch. TH-cam controls like adjusting the speed of the video, using the keyboard back and forward keys to move the video a few seconds (on touchscreens quick double tap to the back or forward buttons to the left and right of the play/pause) may help!
I tried the scarlet runner bean last year here in the Willamette Valley, and they thrived! I will definitely do another batch this year from all of the beans I saved!
As the world gets crazier and crazier, it’s impossible to overstate how valuable the wisdom from this channel will be. Thank you for what you have already done and for the work you continue to do in educating people how to be more self sufficient.
Due to illness last year, I didn't get my plants out till late July. I live in west central Indiana. The Brandywine wouldn't turn red, however, the Cherokee Purple didn't care about daylight hours. They also stored well. I put them in 5 gal buckets under the trailer. When they started to turn, I put them on the window sills. I had tomatoes up to 2 weeks b4 Christmas.
Try growing Jimmy Nardello peppers. Smokey sweet heat. You will love them.
Just found your channel. I have been watching you all day now. I have learned so much from you and I have been gardening over 30 years. I love the way you teach. My mind is blown with so much useful information. What caught my eye was how healthy and beautiful your garden looks. Thank you so much. I am looking forward to more videos and learning new techniques.
thank you for the positive energy and feedback my friend welcome to the channel!!
I never heard of a pea or bean sheller, and since I do it all by hand, YES I'd like to see a video about that!
Striped Roman tomatoes are really delicious for canning and fresh eating. Very meaty.
Just starting my gardening journey but have already learned so much from this channel. Extremely thankful and can’t wait to try some of these.
Amish paste is the best tomato I've ever tasted. ❤️
Good to hear! I just planted a bunch of seeds. Hope they mature fast enough for my zone 8 in the PNW.
Nothing compares to Amish paste!!!!!!!
I absolutely love Anasazi beans (both green and dried bean).
Zuchino rampicante is my favorite squash. Very plentiful and versatile. Takes up a lot of space though and can over winter some if you let them ripen
I am from Soyth Africa i have just started to watch your content an i am addicted i love all them i watched 7 in a row wishi started earlier❤❤❤❤❤
Dear Viking, I know that color translates differently based on camera, lighting, and calibration of the display but your yukon golds appear green, and I am under the impression that you should not eat green potatoes because they contain solanine, which can make you siiiiiick. Dear Viking, I do not want you to be sick, you help us out here in the garden, for which we are so grateful. Take care everyone!
I'm in Iowa, zone 5 and the san marzano tomatoes are my hands down favorite for canning for their taste. In my experience they really need the foliar feed of the eggshell spray more frequently than other tomatoes despite growing in really excellent soil. Some years their yield isn't quite as high as expected so I usually grow one or two extra plants to cover my bases. Others have said that they are prone to diseases but personally I've not had any issues with that. Please update us and let us know how they do for you!
Nice surprise today. Thanks for the knowledge. Would love to see your bean sheller. Much peace and blessings my Viking friend.
Cherokee Purple is also my favorite.
I will not comment on the squash, I will not comment...
Aw heck 😂😂😂😂😂
Will be on this train and ready to show off my garden. I found you too late when osteo Atthritice is kicking my but I now have abundant knowledge to spread the word. Gardening is my therapy.❤
😊 loving all the plants growing behind you, just found your channel and already know it's going to be good
I saw that FairlyLocalFamily dries her surplus zucchini and grinds into zucchini flour! One of my favorite new-to-me herbs is CHERVIL. It's not heat tolerant, so great in your shady beds and early/late season. And it's amazing, a little sweet like licorice but still herbaceous. Plus these beautiful, delicate leaves. I believe it's in the parsley family. Must try!
I absolutely love the San Marzano, great for sauces! This year I’m trying Lithuanian purple garlic and I can’t wait to try it. I slice cucumber thin then sprinkle ranch powder on and freeze dry, they are like chips.
Favourite silverbeet is the Dutch snijbiet 🤤
Black Beauty Summer Squash. Rainbow Mix Chard.
Roma. Chadwick Cherry did great planted in a 5 gal. bucket.
Cucumber Bush Pickle.
Have potatoes growing wild in the orchard mulch - heaps of them - more than I can eat 🤣👍 tried sweet potato but definitely prefer normal potatoes - like Dutch cream or king Edward 🤤🤤🤤 for pulses, I prefer lentils and it’s a nice ground cover in orchard spaces- but only way to harvest then, that I found, is shredding them
in water and then drying again. Mushrooms are also a good protein idea for autumn around conifer forests 👍
I live in South Carolina and had great success with the San Marzano. There was fabulous fabulous yield but they were a little on the small side. A very healthy plant
Potatoes: Maris piper, purple rain. Beans: pretty Johnny, black coat. Sweetcorn: mountain Morado. Squash: red Kuri.
red Kuri is delicious!!!... but doesn't store nearly as long as the butternut varieties IME
Great info! Yay! 👍🏼🙏🏻✨♥️
Definitely want to see the sheller!
Take a break man... you make me hungry!!! Video should come with Hangry Warning Intro for Public
safety!!!
@gardenlikeaviking you already know I'll be doing the trash bag potatoes round 2! Learned so much last year just observing the system. I need to move it to a sunnier spot but other than that I have loads of compost ready to go.
fantastic my friend also keep in mind something to help shade the bags if you live in a spot with intense sun... greens work really well for this such as collard greens planted alongside the bags that'll keep them nice and cool root zone
We use the same seed company. They have such good varieties. 😊
This was a great video! Loved your specific variety suggestions! The only root vegetable I would add to the list for a survival garden is the jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke). They are easy to grow, highly nutritious, delicious, and perennial. I also really love growing tree collards and moringa!
I think he said in a video that he doesn't like them that much. Otherwise he would definitely mention them, as they are super productive. They do need pretty much the entire season to grow though.
Great video will need to watch it again at home with a notepad.
Awesome recommendations! I always want more seeds. Haha. Good recommendation on summer savory. It’s one of my favorite herbs for seasoning. Full watch. Be well.
Rattlesnake pole bean is my go to!!
Love this list !!
Short day onion GA girl here.
Instant fan and subscriber! 😊
welcome to the channel my friend!!
I grew 18 varieties of tomatoes last year. San Marzano where the only ones that got blossom end rot and attacked by some kind of leaf eating bug that I never did figure out.
And of the 8 varieties I grew, San Marzano was my best one!
@@stephb4168 You just never know! I was hoping for a good crop of them to store.
San Marzano is prone to blossom end rot so take sure you have good uptake for calcium in your soil.
thank you my friend and yes this is definitely the consensus from at least two dozen other growers so I'll be aware of this!
Talking about how squash stores a long time, I bought a butternut squash that looked like a giant "Peacock without the Pea" for a laugh the day we registered my sons birth, my son is now 18 months old and the squash is still fresh as the day I bought it just sitting in the fruit bowl!
I’m out here in Canada and I have a hard time growing turnips would you do videos specifically ? I had nothing growing this spring except my garlic and radish and onions
San marzanos are incredible, heavy feeders, get out daily to trim back leaves. Heavy producers, though.
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thats right my friend the time has come!!
I had the horrible blister beetles last july august and septemer. Horrible fighting them. Was a real war.
I am going to take your advice and try some ajvarski pepper for paprika. I have just started the Leutschauer for smoked paprika. This year we are growing a ton of peppers trying to decide what we cannot live without and what make the best sauces, salsas, fresh eating and smoked paprika. See my other comment here about last years tomatoes....I'm really trying to stock up and become more efficient/proficient with our space and taste.
The most important part of our food security is growing feed for our dairy/meat goats and our laying flock of ducks. (If we had more space, we'd add some beef critters in.)
absolutely!!... what primary things do you grow as feed and how much area per animal is needed to grow it?
@@gardenlikeaviking That's what I'm working on figuring out! We won't ever be able to grow all the feed we need; we have almost two acres of pasture for the goats, and a grassy pen for the ducks, and I still have to buy hay and feed for both. (If we couldn't buy those, I'd have to cut the numbers of animals down to two or three goats and half a dozen ducks.) But I grow dent corn, turnips, stock beets (mangels, sugar beets), carrots, kale, pea and bean vines, sweet potatoes and winter squash (mostly moschatas), sunflowers, and more for the animals. Trying to get yields up. Each goat needs 4-7 lbs (dry weight) of feed per day; the ducks each need almost a half-pound of feed per duck per day. The goats are actually the easiest to feed, as they'll eat tree branches and brush and during the growing season get most of their food from the pasture. So I mostly need winter feed for them, which means things that are winter hardy or keep well. Ducks (and chickens) need higher protein and also need their feed in smaller particles, so they are more work, but giving them some surplus dairy products helps with the protein. (Some people will tell you that dairy isn't good for poultry, but ours seem to do fine.) I think it would be easier to feed chickens with home-grown feed, but my daughter can't eat chicken eggs, so ducks are what we have. I'm considering adding a few rabbits for meat, too -- they don't need a lot of food, and it's pretty easy to grow enough for them. I just haven't had good luck with rabbits here.
@@kathleensanderson3082 fantastic analysis my friend thank you!... yes chickens would be much easier to feed that way because they'll eat about anything!... I suggest the Tahitian Melon Squash as it produces more food than any other plant and they keep all winter long no problem plus they are packed with nutrition
@@gardenlikeaviking I'll be planting the Tahitian squash this year for the first time -- looking forward to seeing how well they do here (south-central KY).
@@kathleensanderson3082 have you looked into growing duckweed? High protein and nutrients. In right conditions doubles in a week. Can dehydrate as well. I am going to experiment to lower feed cost as well.
Please show the pea and bean sheller.
Hi my friend!❤ love from SC😊
Invaluable information as usual 🤘🏻
Your content is always inspiring an amazing Thank You ❤❤❤❤❤
Nate’s collards video was great, easily some of the best collards I’ve made.
Love your videos. I always learn so much. Thanks for the information.
First video of the year, let's get it!
its about to go down!!!!!
While I like eating green beans, canning green beans require a pressure caner because they are low acidity. Safer and easier to store dry beans.
Buy one of those packages of multiple bean soups at the grocery store and plant those. Keep the survivors and replant next year. A great way to landrace.
Great list! I am in WV. I grow Ten Fingers of Naples (a cousin to San Marzano) and the flavor is amazing. I got mine from Fruition Seeds. This year, I am also trying Cherokee Purple Heart (which I found at Victory seed) and Yoders German Pink Heart (from Delectation of Tomatoes). I just found your channel and I’m soaking up all the great information! Can’t wait to smoke some peppers! Thanks!!
fruition has great seeds!!... I've never heard of the Cherokee Purple Heart is that a variation of the regular classic Cherokee purple???!!!
Have you tried the Thornburn's Terra-Cotta? We love the Cherokee Purple and grow it every year. However, last year we finally tried the pricey Terra-Cotta. We actually had 152 plant of multiple varieties. I wanted to pare down which ones we could not live without. The tomatoes we must have are Cherokee Purple, Thornburn's Tarra-Cotta, Orange Strawberry, Orange Oxheart, Jersey Devil , Giant Paste and Sungold Cherry.
personally I did not like the Terra-Cotta.... I grew it several years ago and it just didn't have the flavor I am interested in.... the Cherokee of course is my all time favorite but also the Berkely Tie Dye is fantastic and fruity... but if you haven't tried the purple bumble bee I highly suggest!!
Thank for all the tips, it is appreciated 👍👍👍
I love Cherokee black turtle beans. They make fabulous refried beans. Yum.
Best tomato for the south is Arkansas Traveler. Really tasty.
I was so excited that I picked the exact cabbage seeds you showed!
You’re the man! Thanks!!🙏🏻
Yes, please, show us the bean huller.
We always grow lots of tayters. Adding way more shell/dry beans this year and corn. and bullets. lots and lots of bullets.
I grew San Marzanos last year. My garden didn’t do as well as it usually has in the past but the tomatoes were particularly horrible except for the San Marzanos. I had never grown San Marzanos before. . They were so abundant that I had to offer some to strangers. I live in central Connecticut
I hope to be around more frequently during the warmer times but appreciate all that you do brother 🙏🏻
thank you for the contribution my friend I appreciate you!!
I grew San Marzano and Ten Fingers of Naples last year and Ten Fingers of Naples outproduced San Marzano by a long shot and will be the only paste tomato I grow this year. I love Albino beets and Detroit Dark Red but picked up a pack of Cylindra for this year. Definitely Kennebec potatoes but also grow a purple and red variety. As for beans, we grow a variety of cut-short bean that has been in our family for five generations. Grew a heirloom variety called Ground Squirrel last year and what a producer! Bush bean favorite is Cherokee Yellow Wax as they just keep producing. Red noodle beans are an absolute favorite too! Got them out a bit late last year but still had them at least three times a week and managed to freeze a few. Trionfo Violetto is my favorite purple pole bean as the pods are tender and stringless even when they get a bit too big. Onions is Ailsa Craig for fresh eating and Patterson for storage.
this is wonderful my friend thank you for sharing!!... I'm thinking about trying the Trionfo pole bean due to your suggestion.... also... if you ever felt moved to send a small handful of those 5 generation beans to my PO Box I would certainly grow them out and preserve the genetics!!!
Please let me know what pea and bean shelled you have
here I am using it.... th-cam.com/users/shorts8y6abpZ1HFM. .... Taylor manufacturing pea and bean sheller
Can't wait to taste Tahitian Melon squash. I am growing first time this year...
Didn’t even think there was a pea sheller …. Your videos are fantastic
its magnificent!!!... makes it so much easier!
Best ood security crops, video ever!!
san marzanos are PROLIFIC. and almost too intense to eat fresh, but as a paste tomato or sauce tomato... holy cowwwww so good. So gooooood. I sitll ate mine fresh but I love tomato flavor. Some folks might find their intensity offputting.
that intensity actually sounds great to me!! thank you!
Great video.
yes, let’s definitely see your sheller please 🙏🏼
Thank you!! ❤
Thank you 🙏
I've grown Amish Paste for years. Always a great crop. Have had no luck with San Marzano.