My hybrid seeds did much better than my heirlooms seeds last year. I'm getting more hybrid seeds this year. I don't care if you can't use the seeds of the hybrids. I want fruits and vegetables for my time, money and labor. I need produce. I invest a lot of time and money. Hybrid seeds for my gold medal last year and this coming spring.
Hey James, when dp we start these seeds indoors, all around the same time or are these to be planted at different times of the season? I'm scared to start cabbages again early , I had white moth/butterfly visitors last year that just destroyed em. No peppers produced at all past year and I had soon many the yeT before I was giving them away.
@@dellaangel, hey I’m not an expert by any means, but when I plant cabbage for spring I make sure to put insect netting over them since they don’t need pollination. I use stakes and some pex hose to make hoops and make sure the netting covers them all the way to the ground. Put stones or scraps of wood around the bottom to hold it in place. If you do that right when you put them in the soil it should be ok. I still check on them tho. 🤷🏻♀️ also I usually start seed that take longer to germinate first. Don’t give up on your peppers. Depending on where you are you could start them indoors and harden off once the fear of frost is over. Amend your soil well, plant and mulch around them. I used a wire tomato cage for support and it worked great. I’ve always struggled with peppers as well but last spring I had plenty. I was also giving them away. Hope this helps. Good luck with your spring garden 🪴Have a blessed day 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👩🏻🌾👩🏻🌾
@@jamesprigioni We're traveling the same road my friend. We both have many of the same varieties and order from the same seed houses. I vote we need to have a tomato named after tuck! I'm ringing up Johnny's this week and tell them we need a mini king tuck variety! Fierce, small and sweet 😉. Stay blessed and green my friend.
James and Tuck - I live in your area and started gardening many years ago with container cherry tomatoes and have only grown from there. I just moved downtown, set up my weather station and I'm planning my new garden with so many of your ideas and suggestions. Thank you so much for what you do, and remember Tuck is the boss! - Jon
That’s what I need…..varieties that are good for zone 7! Since I’m in the same growing zone as you, I watch to see what you grow…..SO many things I want to grow but I’m limited to a deck and a small patch of land that I plan to grow medicinal herbs on. You are such an impressive grower…..I’d give anything to grow more but my space is limited due to our land and our age. I’m going to grow a lot of things you suggest……I need (at 74 years) to grow as much as possible…..I have grow bags, 2 GreenStalks, and a little land to grow lots of medicinal herbs…..they’re very important to us at this point! God bless you and keep you safe and adding more to what we can grow!!! Thank you James & Tuck! I have a chihuahua who I adore…..always wanted a Yorkie but rescued a sweet chihuahua who has become the love of my life! She’s 14 years old and mostly blind…..but loves being in the garden (deck) with me! Thank you for all your ideas and input….you’re my gardening GURU!!! Love to Tuck!!❤❤ ❤❤❤❤
You should look into tiered gardening. You can build tiered beds (or ask someone to build) that can be put up against a fence or the side of a house. Also, using 16-ft cattle panels to make large trellises for beans or small melons. You can just bend them in half (not as hard as it sounds, I'm weak with fibromyalgia and CFS and can still do that by myself LOL) and plant literally over a dozen bean plants or up to 6 melons per full panel. If you have grandkids, I highly suggest growing purple podded pole beans. My 3 year old son calls them "magic beans" because their dark purple color suddenly changes to green when they're done cooking! He loves to watch them in the pot. For melons I highly recommend Minnesota Midgets: a lunchbox sized cantaloupe with a Texas-sized flavor! Sikkim cucumbers are great, too, not using a lot of space while giving you spectacularly delicious slicing cucumbers and a major conversation piece as friends and neighbors say "WHAT IS THAT!?" 😂 Happy gardening!!
@@BaughbeSauce I have the same, Fibromyalgia and CFS….not fun, huh? I do most of my gardening on. My deck is large, but not large enough and I have to protect everything from all the local critters….bunnies, groundhogs, DEER….and my neighbors chickens! LOL I do have a cattle panel I plan to get out and use. I’ll have to get some netting for most everything not on my deck, so I’m getting some in stock. I’m not worried about my herbs because most animals aren’t into them much. I’m just going to do what I can and pray I can do it! You know how rainy days are for us! Nice to meet you!
@@debichats8634 @debichats8634 nice to meet you, too! Yeah, it sucks. I'm only 33 years old, so I do my best to manage my Fibro and CFS with natural medicine. Once you get on the Rx stuff you don't get off. Bunnies and other ground nibblers HATE onions and sweet alyssum. I interplanted onions and Nasturtium in my raspberry and blackberry patches just 15 paces from my porch under which I have a known bunny warren. Not one leaf had bunny damage. I also planted it near my peppers and beans that got hit hard by bunnies and skunks the previous year and not one got nipped. I did lose a couple of melons, though. ONIONS, ALYSSUM, AND NASTURTIUM EVERYWHERE THIS YEAR! hahaha. Deer, from what I understand, hate rosemary so you might be able to camouflage your plants with some cleverly posted rosemary plants all around? I dunno about those. We have loads of deer here in Iowa, but I think they're too distracted by the cornfields to care about my measly garden.
Pepper head here who sadly has to grow in mostly shade. I have some recommendations for amazingly delicious peppers that have done well for me in poor conditions. Aji Charapita: A decent amount of heat in a small package. One of the most flavorful peppers you’ll ever eat. Biquinho: Similar flavor to the Aji Charapita without heat. Very sweet. Added to homemade salsa bring in a tropical twist that is very pleasant. Habanada: A heatless sweet habanero. I love habaneros, but sometimes you just want a sweet pepper. Habanadas taste like fruit flavored cotton candy. It’s shocking how sweet they are. Quick eggplant recommendations: Chinese String Eggplant and Japanese White Egg Eggplant have both been super productive for me, even with a lot of shade.
After 3 years of gardening in a few small raised beds, I’ve expanded my garden to include 6 4x8 beds and I am starting seeds indoors. It’s very overwhelming. Trying not to take on too many new things at once. Your videos are so helpful, especially since we live in the same state and growing zone. Thank you!
It's work but fun. Raised beds is best especially for me where it's all sand. I will say I just looked at his prices and will stay in my budget and get my aluminum/metal beds from that "other" site. But James is awesome, knowledgeable, enthusiastic and hella hott😊
@@HealthyHabitsGrow I put in metal raised beds. I wanted to buy the birdies, but I didn’t want ovals in my backyard. I wish they would expand on their shapes and sizes. I hope you have a wonderful gardening season!
Those are some really good suggestions James. I think I will buy every one. I'm happy to see Tuck supervising in the garden. We love our little guy Tuck. 🥕 💚 🥕
Dear boys, hello from Georgia. So nice to see you, James, and little Tuck - what a cutie. Thanks for this list; I'm going to try those tomatoes. Thanks again, stay well.
I remember I would watch your channel all the time two years ago and I saw it pop up again now, and you and the channel are still going strong! 😁 It's good to see you and Tuck still working hard in the Food Forest
Oh, and the seed catalogs ARE overwhelming, and knowing which seeds to choose is hard. I am in a short grow season, so this information will help me a ton. You are one of the earlier pioneers on TH-cam for teaching us about home growing. Now everyone is doing it. But, truly, your videos continue maturing in amazing ways. You stay true to your roots. Now, LET'S GO! 😊
…James, I stayed awake for three weeks. Finally I took a short 2 hour nap, and you go and post a video. 😫 🤷🏻♀️ 😆 I’m so happy to see a new video from you. Happy New Year to you and Tuck. 👨🌾 🐕 🪴 🥰💙💙
I became allergic to the tomato plant in 2017 but sweet 100 and sungold were also my two top cherry tomatoes! For summer squash my favorite is Desert (highly productive, pow. Mil. Resistant and great in very hot weather). Patterson oignons are amazing (gold yellow skin, long storage). Lettuce: magenta and ice queen are awesome (heat resistant and cold resistant). And finally artwork brocolini is my favorite (produces all summer, super sweet.). I'm zone 5b
I feel like Trombetta or Tromboncino is a highly overlooked full year squash for sustainable growers. If you havent grown it yet, its one you should definitely play with. Killer as a summer squash and awesome if kept on the vine to harden into a winter squash that enjoys a long shelf life.
Yes! I love the dual purpose of Trombochino. Got mine in late last year and did get some summer squash that were delicious. Giving them another try this season.
I've missed watching this guy and tuck in the garden, I'm so pumped for 2024 gardening season. Just been buying so many new variety of seeds since watching him and acre homestead. They were the reason I picked up this new hobbie. I cannot wait. 😊
Oh my goodness I just randomly stumbled upon you right now and I am so excited to see more!! I immediately hit like and subscribed!! And as if your enthusiasm wasn’t enough…. there is your precious pup Tuck!! ❤️❤️❤️
This is my second time watching this video. Love your quick, organized style of presenting information, straight and to the point. Not that I don't like a rambling video, however, there is a time and place for it. Thank you so much for this review. I may try the SuperSweet 100 cherry tomato this year. Tuck is so cute, hugs for Tuck! 💚💚
James, try Sakura cherry tomatoes from Johnny seeds. We still harvest tons of tomatoes in January in Southern California! Delicious and can be golf ball sizes.
Part of me really wants to try the sungold tomato but I try to keep my garden to paste tomatos for canning. I like to have at least one cherry tomato but my go-to is the black cherry. So smokey and delish. Love Suyo long and dragon tongue!
The sungold really is amazing. Mine rarely make it into the house as I just snack on them every time I walk past. I've never met a better tasting tomato.
Sungold and Sweet Million are my go to toms for years...and you're right when you say many of them never make it past the garden gate. The BEST snacks!
You needn't deprive yourself of fresh tomatoes while focusing on paste tomatoes. Try just one or two plants each of just a few varieties of cherry type tomatoes. Your salads will thank you. Plus they make good dried tomatoes. Visual interest is important in our food.
Should try and find the Maltese variety of eggplant. They had a Malta tourism video S01E01, where a local grower, growing in the mountain slopes of sedimentary soil - was growing cantaloupe-sized eggplants.
Me: Huge smile, nodding in approval-- EVERY other gardener- master or otherwise- is shouting about buying seeds. James: wait. I love this. He is brilliant. So grateful. I heart Tuck! 💙💙💙💙💙💓💓
Love your videos! I am doing container gardening this year and would love to see a "start to finish" video on how to get started and keep getting the amazing results that you get! You and Tuck are awesome!
I can tell you what I learned 2 years ago. Didn't plant last year. I'm zone 9B, central California seldom freezes, though it will tonight & tomorrow night. 😢 Our growing season is long and summer is Hades hot. We can go 30 days of consecutive 100 F plus days. Throw in some 110-113F. Ugh.. My area is an urban island so we don't cool off that well at night. Enrich your soil. Make sure to fertilize appropriately and on a regular basis. In containers your plants are really depending on you. If you're in a hot place like me go for bigger containers, at least 4 gallon even if the suggestion is 1-2 gallon. Keep the plants watered. In August it was at least once a day. Add some shade, including making sure the containers get some shade too. I checked temperatures of my soil on a 100F day. Before I added shade. 😊 Dry were 110-120, slightly moist were 100-110 and well watered in a bigger 6 gallon tub was 98-100F. My plants were cooking, some actually fried to a crisp. I added about 30-40% shade, invented by using tall stakes and cheap weed barrier I had on hand. Worked well enough. This year I'm using 6 gallon plastic crates. Lined with weed cloth and a vapor barrier to restrict evaporation from the sides. A neat formation with over head shade cloth attached on the north side to an 8' wood fence and stakes in the yard. Hopeful for a drip system. Adding coco coir for moisture retention. Maybe also Soil Moist granules for the thirsty plants. If you're in a mild climate I envy you.
James and Tuck, thanks for the awesome information. It made me all hyped up and itchy to start my seeds. I too live in zone 7 so therefore I keep a close eye on your channel. Take care and continue to involve the BOSS in your videos
I appreciate you showing Tuck eating all of those veggies over the years. When my puppy went crazy over my peas and green beans I knew that it was ok for her because I had seen Tuck eating from your garden. She gets a lot of pleasure sneaking them from me😊
I really appreciate this type of video! I am often overwhelmed with so many varieties. Thank you for showing the packets so we know where to order them from as well!
I haven't seen you grow my favorite cucumber: SIKKIM cucumbers. They are stunning to look at (my bf calls them Dragon Eggs) and the flavor is insane. If you love cucumber flavor sikkim is for you. It's a super easy grower, very hardy (great even for sandy soil, gardeners who forget plants need water, and poor quality soil), I've noticed it's strong against cucumber beetles, being able to take a good pest load and just ignore it. It's very prolific so long as you keep harvesting them. They make the best cucumber sandwiches and tzatziki sauce. ❤❤❤ please try them, James and Tuck!!
I always go into seed catalog season thinking I'm set with tomatoes and don't need to experiment anymore, And then I end up ordering several new ones to try because the pictures and descriptions get to me. I'm a tomato sucker. No pun intended.🤣
Super sweet 100 is always a must have. And I grew sun suar last year. It too was freat. I'll plant it anytime I find one at my local store. I don't order seeds very often
Jimmy nardello is my favorite sweet pepper! It's just so fruity and delicious. You have to stuff it with chorizon and goat cheese and bake it, popper style.
Hi James and Tuck! The Sweet 100 is a staple in my garden, too! Thanks for the list. I am going to be watching your older videos because I need to figure out how to freshen up my raised beds. Happy Sunday!
James your videos are getting me through this cold winter. I have been watching them lately dreaming of spring planting my garden and watching my fruit trees bloom. Thanks
Thank you for your videos! I'm in CA zone 9 and I have a big piece of land that I want to turn into a flourishing garden. I'll take a look at your videos on how to prepare the soil for it. Thx again!
This was great info, thanks James! 50% of my garden is tomatoes so I feel your pain in choosing just a few, lol. I'd love to see another video with choices 11-20 on other plants you love to grow. I've been struggling for years on finding leafy greens, carrots, and beans that grow with any consistency.
So glad I clicked on this… I was thinking I had to review your vids, Because I didn’t write them down as you talked about them! Thank you for this review!
Also got one of your sow with the flow hoodies and Tucks hoodie to so well chuffed 😊 ❤❤❤ can't wait to start my first garden grow this yr we love you guys ❤❤❤
Your videos are always so informative! I bought seeds last year on your recommendation and I was very happy with the results. Thank you for everything you do!
Thanks for sharing James… think I’ll try those tomatoes you suggested…. They look delicious! I’m growing a “salad bar” !indoors under my grow lights this winter… it includes different lettuces, radishes and a tray of oriental stir fry greens. I’m having great success. I also sprout my own Mung beans and a variety of other sprouts. There’s nothing like “local and fresh” in the dead of a Connecticut winter! Happy gardening to you and Tuck, always so much to do even in the winter!
❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck! Never seen a dog love veggies more than Tuck! I used to have a German Shepherd mix that loved to eat blackberries off the briar ! He would gingerly get his snout in there and get the berries without getting scratched. Will try some of your recommendations for sure!
James - absolutely LOVE your uplifting joy of gardening. Woke up to snow and 8 degrees here at 3500' in the NE corner of WA state. The ol seed catalogs have started to roll in. Our tiny garden (due to Mule & White Tail neighbors + a moose now and then) won't let us grow a lot of varieties. But I have never tried those beans. Maybe will give it a go this summer and work them into my space. Our growing season is short but the greenhouse helps with that a lot. Bless you for what you do and mostly for your joyful spirit while doing it. Give little guy a head pat for me. Patriot, our Border Collie loves the veggies but can't come into our small garden like your little guy does. She does come in the greenhouse with me though :)
I like almost all of those suggestions James. I think I may already have some of them. I saw another comment about doing a series on how to start your garden from scratch if all you have is the land, tools and containers. ❤❤❤❤’s for Tuck. Looking forward to seeing what you’re going to do next with your garden. Have a blessed day 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️👩🏻🌾
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Write in the comments some of your favorite varieties that I missed. 🐕😁❤
Love tuck❤❤❤❤❤❤. Thanks fir sharing
My hybrid seeds did much better than my heirlooms seeds last year. I'm getting more hybrid seeds this year. I don't care if you can't use the seeds of the hybrids. I want fruits and vegetables for my time, money and labor. I need produce. I invest a lot of time and money. Hybrid seeds for my gold medal last year and this coming spring.
Hey James, when dp we start these seeds indoors, all around the same time or are these to be planted at different times of the season? I'm scared to start cabbages again early , I had white moth/butterfly visitors last year that just destroyed em. No peppers produced at all past year and I had soon many the yeT before I was giving them away.
@@dellaangel, hey I’m not an expert by any means, but when I plant cabbage for spring I make sure to put insect netting over them since they don’t need pollination. I use stakes and some pex hose to make hoops and make sure the netting covers them all the way to the ground. Put stones or scraps of wood around the bottom to hold it in place. If you do that right when you put them in the soil it should be ok. I still check on them tho. 🤷🏻♀️ also I usually start seed that take longer to germinate first. Don’t give up on your peppers. Depending on where you are you could start them indoors and harden off once the fear of frost is over. Amend your soil well, plant and mulch around them. I used a wire tomato cage for support and it worked great. I’ve always struggled with peppers as well but last spring I had plenty. I was also giving them away. Hope this helps. Good luck with your spring garden 🪴Have a blessed day 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👩🏻🌾👩🏻🌾
We really want to try the Super Sweet 100 this year! ❤
If you cant get hyped up over your own little patch of dirt by watching James and Tuck you need to pack it in and watch birds 😂 ❤
Haha!! Let's Gooo!!!! 🐕😁❤️
@@jamesprigioni We're traveling the same road my friend. We both have many of the same varieties and order from the same seed houses. I vote we need to have a tomato named after tuck! I'm ringing up Johnny's this week and tell them we need a mini king tuck variety! Fierce, small and sweet 😉. Stay blessed and green my friend.
Jokes on you I do BOTH
Sometimes I'm like Lord let me get my coffee first!
@@PanicattheDiscourse not really lol. I too watch birds in my garden. Just more so when the cat catches them. 🙃
James and Tuck - I live in your area and started gardening many years ago with container cherry tomatoes and have only grown from there. I just moved downtown, set up my weather station and I'm planning my new garden with so many of your ideas and suggestions. Thank you so much for what you do, and remember Tuck is the boss! - Jon
Me and Tuck love to hear that Jon! We hope you have a lot of luck with them, these varieties have produced a lot of food for us over the years. 🐕😁❤️
Love that the chapters name the variety instead of clickbaiting "seed 1... Seed 2". Practical! Hearts for mr. Tucker.
Agreed. Makes it much easier to refer back to as well ❤❤❤❤❤
That’s what I need…..varieties that are good for zone 7! Since I’m in the same growing zone as you, I watch to see what you grow…..SO many things I want to grow but I’m limited to a deck and a small patch of land that I plan to grow medicinal herbs on. You are such an impressive grower…..I’d give anything to grow more but my space is limited due to our land and our age. I’m going to grow a lot of things you suggest……I need (at 74 years) to grow as much as possible…..I have grow bags, 2 GreenStalks, and a little land to grow lots of medicinal herbs…..they’re very important to us at this point! God bless you and keep you safe and adding more to what we can grow!!! Thank you James & Tuck! I have a chihuahua who I adore…..always wanted a Yorkie but rescued a sweet chihuahua who has become the love of my life! She’s 14 years old and mostly blind…..but loves being in the garden (deck) with me! Thank you for all your ideas and input….you’re my gardening GURU!!! Love to Tuck!!❤❤ ❤❤❤❤
Zones don't really matter for annuals, as long as your growing season is long enough.
You should look into tiered gardening. You can build tiered beds (or ask someone to build) that can be put up against a fence or the side of a house. Also, using 16-ft cattle panels to make large trellises for beans or small melons. You can just bend them in half (not as hard as it sounds, I'm weak with fibromyalgia and CFS and can still do that by myself LOL) and plant literally over a dozen bean plants or up to 6 melons per full panel.
If you have grandkids, I highly suggest growing purple podded pole beans. My 3 year old son calls them "magic beans" because their dark purple color suddenly changes to green when they're done cooking! He loves to watch them in the pot. For melons I highly recommend Minnesota Midgets: a lunchbox sized cantaloupe with a Texas-sized flavor! Sikkim cucumbers are great, too, not using a lot of space while giving you spectacularly delicious slicing cucumbers and a major conversation piece as friends and neighbors say "WHAT IS THAT!?" 😂
Happy gardening!!
@@BaughbeSauce I have the same, Fibromyalgia and CFS….not fun, huh? I do most of my gardening on. My deck is large, but not large enough and I have to protect everything from all the local critters….bunnies, groundhogs, DEER….and my neighbors chickens! LOL I do have a cattle panel I plan to get out and use. I’ll have to get some netting for most everything not on my deck, so I’m getting some in stock. I’m not worried about my herbs because most animals aren’t into them much. I’m just going to do what I can and pray I can do it! You know how rainy days are for us! Nice to meet you!
@@debichats8634
@debichats8634 nice to meet you, too! Yeah, it sucks. I'm only 33 years old, so I do my best to manage my Fibro and CFS with natural medicine. Once you get on the Rx stuff you don't get off.
Bunnies and other ground nibblers HATE onions and sweet alyssum. I interplanted onions and Nasturtium in my raspberry and blackberry patches just 15 paces from my porch under which I have a known bunny warren. Not one leaf had bunny damage. I also planted it near my peppers and beans that got hit hard by bunnies and skunks the previous year and not one got nipped. I did lose a couple of melons, though. ONIONS, ALYSSUM, AND NASTURTIUM EVERYWHERE THIS YEAR! hahaha. Deer, from what I understand, hate rosemary so you might be able to camouflage your plants with some cleverly posted rosemary plants all around? I dunno about those. We have loads of deer here in Iowa, but I think they're too distracted by the cornfields to care about my measly garden.
I love how Tuck loves to snack out in the garden. He definitely knows how to do it! Fresh picked is the best!
Pepper head here who sadly has to grow in mostly shade. I have some recommendations for amazingly delicious peppers that have done well for me in poor conditions.
Aji Charapita: A decent amount of heat in a small package. One of the most flavorful peppers you’ll ever eat.
Biquinho: Similar flavor to the Aji Charapita without heat. Very sweet. Added to homemade salsa bring in a tropical twist that is very pleasant.
Habanada: A heatless sweet habanero. I love habaneros, but sometimes you just want a sweet pepper. Habanadas taste like fruit flavored cotton candy. It’s shocking how sweet they are.
Quick eggplant recommendations: Chinese String Eggplant and Japanese White Egg Eggplant have both been super productive for me, even with a lot of shade.
After 3 years of gardening in a few small raised beds, I’ve expanded my garden to include 6 4x8 beds and I am starting seeds indoors. It’s very overwhelming. Trying not to take on too many new things at once. Your videos are so helpful, especially since we live in the same state and growing zone. Thank you!
It's work but fun. Raised beds is best especially for me where it's all sand. I will say I just looked at his prices and will stay in my budget and get my aluminum/metal beds from that "other" site. But James is awesome, knowledgeable, enthusiastic and hella hott😊
@@HealthyHabitsGrow I put in metal raised beds. I wanted to buy the birdies, but I didn’t want ovals in my backyard. I wish they would expand on their shapes and sizes. I hope you have a wonderful gardening season!
❤ Your dog is my favorite part of your videos! I love that he loves you and the garden the way he does! He is so sweet!
Would love to see your top picks for new gardeners who plant in pots only please. Love your content !! thanks
Totally agree. I only grow veggies in containers in my side yard.
Those are some really good suggestions James. I think I will buy every one. I'm happy to see Tuck supervising in the garden. We love our little guy Tuck. 🥕 💚 🥕
Dear boys, hello from Georgia. So nice to see you, James, and little Tuck - what a cutie. Thanks for this list; I'm going to try those tomatoes. Thanks again, stay well.
I remember I would watch your channel all the time two years ago and I saw it pop up again now, and you and the channel are still going strong! 😁 It's good to see you and Tuck still working hard in the Food Forest
Oh, and the seed catalogs ARE overwhelming, and knowing which seeds to choose is hard. I am in a short grow season, so this information will help me a ton.
You are one of the earlier pioneers on TH-cam for teaching us about home growing. Now everyone is doing it. But, truly, your videos continue maturing in amazing ways. You stay true to your roots.
Now, LET'S GO! 😊
Thanks for all the suggestions and I'm looking forward to seeing how you redo your garden. Great to see the Boss still supervising. He's a sweetheart.
James, it would be really cool if you did some videos on how you prepare, cook, and eat some of your harvest!
Yes, I've been waiting for my shout-out, lol ❤❤❤❤❤
I wish I could give Tuck a million dollars! Thank you for producing, showing and being honest with your opinions.
…James, I stayed awake for three weeks. Finally I took a short 2 hour nap, and you go and post a video. 😫 🤷🏻♀️ 😆 I’m so happy to see a new video from you. Happy New Year to you and Tuck. 👨🌾 🐕 🪴 🥰💙💙
We’re all Like a kid in a sweet shop when it comes to seeds - thanks James & Tuck 💚
Oh my, are some of the clips of Tuck as a puppy💕. He's so adorable! Have a great growing season James & Tuck the garden Boss! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
💜💜💜💜💜💋The Tuckster!!!! Thank you James!💞
Strong agree on all of the tomato varieties. I've got orange hat tomatoes growing inside and they are such a delight.
Ajavarski peppers are my favorite. Do awesome here in Massachusetts. Very sweet
Dragon tongue beans and Sungold cherry tomatoes are both so delicious. Thanks for listing some of your favorites - it really helps.
I became allergic to the tomato plant in 2017 but sweet 100 and sungold were also my two top cherry tomatoes! For summer squash my favorite is Desert (highly productive, pow. Mil. Resistant and great in very hot weather). Patterson oignons are amazing (gold yellow skin, long storage). Lettuce: magenta and ice queen are awesome (heat resistant and cold resistant). And finally artwork brocolini is my favorite (produces all summer, super sweet.). I'm zone 5b
I feel like Trombetta or Tromboncino is a highly overlooked full year squash for sustainable growers.
If you havent grown it yet, its one you should definitely play with. Killer as a summer squash and awesome if kept on the vine to harden into a winter squash that enjoys a long shelf life.
Yes! I love the dual purpose of Trombochino. Got mine in late last year and did get some summer squash that were delicious. Giving them another try this season.
I've missed watching this guy and tuck in the garden, I'm so pumped for 2024 gardening season. Just been buying so many new variety of seeds since watching him and acre homestead. They were the reason I picked up this new hobbie. I cannot wait. 😊
I love your enthusiasm and loads of info in your videos!!! Love you guys!!
Thanks Vicki, and we love you as well. 🐕😁❤️
Thanks for great information, James. These are for the little “king”…❤❤❤❤❤,
Oh my goodness I just randomly stumbled upon you right now and I am so excited to see more!! I immediately hit like and subscribed!! And as if your enthusiasm wasn’t enough…. there is your precious pup Tuck!! ❤️❤️❤️
This is my second time watching this video. Love your quick, organized style of presenting information, straight and to the point. Not that I don't like a rambling video, however, there is a time and place for it. Thank you so much for this review. I may try the SuperSweet 100 cherry tomato this year. Tuck is so cute, hugs for Tuck! 💚💚
Loved all of these suggestions! Thank you James and Tucker! 😍🙌🏻💚
For Tuck, and YOU of course (because you take care of him and the beautiful garden, generously sharing your knowledge), lots of hearts! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖😊😊
James, try Sakura cherry tomatoes from Johnny seeds. We still harvest tons of tomatoes in January in Southern California! Delicious and can be golf ball sizes.
Hugs and love to Tuck❤. Thank you, James!
Part of me really wants to try the sungold tomato but I try to keep my garden to paste tomatos for canning. I like to have at least one cherry tomato but my go-to is the black cherry. So smokey and delish. Love Suyo long and dragon tongue!
The sungold really is amazing. Mine rarely make it into the house as I just snack on them every time I walk past. I've never met a better tasting tomato.
I love the black cherry & sun gold & grow every year.
Sungold and Sweet Million are my go to toms for years...and you're right when you say many of them never make it past the garden gate. The BEST snacks!
You needn't deprive yourself of fresh tomatoes while focusing on paste tomatoes. Try just one or two plants each of just a few varieties of cherry type tomatoes. Your salads will thank you. Plus they make good dried tomatoes. Visual interest is important in our food.
I grow the black cherry as well, so yummy!
Should try and find the Maltese variety of eggplant. They had a Malta tourism video S01E01, where a local grower, growing in the mountain slopes of sedimentary soil - was growing cantaloupe-sized eggplants.
Me: Huge smile, nodding in approval-- EVERY other gardener- master or otherwise- is shouting about buying seeds. James: wait. I love this. He is brilliant. So grateful. I heart Tuck! 💙💙💙💙💙💓💓
I just love Tuck ❤❤❤❤❤❤ thanks for the list!!!
Tuck is such a CUTIE ❤
Looking good Tuck❤
You too , James!
Thanks for all your information and inspiration!!!
Definitely going with your recommendations since we are in same state / zone & have the same reliable adorable garden guardian ❤
Tuck is great in the garden he is our taste tester if tuck likes a green we know it’s great. Wow on the mountain magic
James thank you so much for keeping us focused on the 2024 growing season! I'm super excited for this year! GREAT suggestions!
Can't wait for Spring!!! ❤❤
Me too!!!
Love your videos! I am doing container gardening this year and would love to see a "start to finish" video on how to get started and keep getting the amazing results that you get! You and Tuck are awesome!
I can tell you what I learned 2 years ago. Didn't plant last year. I'm zone 9B, central California seldom freezes, though it will tonight & tomorrow night. 😢 Our growing season is long and summer is Hades hot. We can go 30 days of consecutive 100 F plus days. Throw in some 110-113F. Ugh.. My area is an urban island so we don't cool off that well at night. Enrich your soil. Make sure to fertilize appropriately and on a regular basis. In containers your plants are really depending on you. If you're in a hot place like me go for bigger containers, at least 4 gallon even if the suggestion is 1-2 gallon. Keep the plants watered. In August it was at least once a day. Add some shade, including making sure the containers get some shade too. I checked temperatures of my soil on a 100F day. Before I added shade. 😊 Dry were 110-120, slightly moist were 100-110 and well watered in a bigger 6 gallon tub was 98-100F. My plants were cooking, some actually fried to a crisp. I added about 30-40% shade, invented by using tall stakes and cheap weed barrier I had on hand. Worked well enough. This year I'm using 6 gallon plastic crates. Lined with weed cloth and a vapor barrier to restrict evaporation from the sides. A neat formation with over head shade cloth attached on the north side to an 8' wood fence and stakes in the yard. Hopeful for a drip system. Adding coco coir for moisture retention. Maybe also Soil Moist granules for the thirsty plants. If you're in a mild climate I envy you.
❤❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck and an informative video!
Thanks James and Tuck! I'm waiting patiently for the spring then it's ON!!!
James and Tuck, thanks for the awesome information. It made me all hyped up and itchy to start my seeds. I too live in zone 7 so therefore I keep a close eye on your channel. Take care and continue to involve the BOSS in your videos
Thanks for the advice James! and Tuck!
I appreciate you showing Tuck eating all of those veggies over the years. When my puppy went crazy over my peas and green beans I knew that it was ok for her because I had seen Tuck eating from your garden. She gets a lot of pleasure sneaking them from me😊
Love that you discovered the Fedco catalogue. Greetings from Maine!
I really appreciate this type of video! I am often overwhelmed with so many varieties. Thank you for showing the packets so we know where to order them from as well!
Holy moly! Your supersweets are friggin huge!!
Great job to the both of you! Tuck, your such a good little man. You always bring a smile to my face.
Thank you & Tuck for always inspiring!
I haven't seen you grow my favorite cucumber: SIKKIM cucumbers. They are stunning to look at (my bf calls them Dragon Eggs) and the flavor is insane. If you love cucumber flavor sikkim is for you. It's a super easy grower, very hardy (great even for sandy soil, gardeners who forget plants need water, and poor quality soil), I've noticed it's strong against cucumber beetles, being able to take a good pest load and just ignore it. It's very prolific so long as you keep harvesting them. They make the best cucumber sandwiches and tzatziki sauce. ❤❤❤ please try them, James and Tuck!!
Your garden 🪴 is amazing ~ I hope to grow a big garden with lots of produce 🍅🥕🥬🥦🫛🍑🍋🍐🍇🍓
Hey James…will you do a show telling us what to start planting inside and what can get sown right outside….?❤for wee Tuck
thank you for the suggestions, James!
You always have so many great tips. HUGE thanks to you and Tuck!! ❤I see the "Head of Security" is on watch in the garden.🥕🥕🥕❤❤❤
Looooove the little boss!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I always go into seed catalog season thinking I'm set with tomatoes and don't need to experiment anymore, And then I end up ordering several new ones to try because the pictures and descriptions get to me. I'm a tomato sucker. No pun intended.🤣
If you haven't tried Fred's Tie Dye tomato, please do. It's an amazing dwarf.
Ive been growing alot of these already from watching you over the years. Huge inspiration James! 🐐
James you are so right about the super 100 tomatoes. I grew them last year and they are amazing! Thanks for the seed tips!
Thanks for sharing great varieties.
Love Tuck. ❤
Have my own gardening companion to guard the garden😄
Always nice to see tuck,Goodluck on the new design 🙂 HAPPY GARDENING 2024👍👍
Thank you Tuck and James!! Great suggestions! 🌟
Tucker is too adorable 💕🥰 💕
Super sweet 100 is always a must have. And I grew sun suar last year. It too was freat. I'll plant it anytime I find one at my local store. I don't order seeds very often
Thank you James! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Jimmy nardello is my favorite sweet pepper! It's just so fruity and delicious. You have to stuff it with chorizon and goat cheese and bake it, popper style.
Great seeing you and tuck! I totally agree with you on the sungold tomatoes! Those are awesome!!!
I just made butternut squash pie!
Nom nom nom 🤤
Sun Gold, Rocks! Undisputed champ going away. Excellent shout out, James. Well done.
Hi James and Tuck! The Sweet 100 is a staple in my garden, too! Thanks for the list. I am going to be watching your older videos because I need to figure out how to freshen up my raised beds. Happy Sunday!
James your videos are getting me through this cold winter. I have been watching them lately dreaming of spring planting my garden and watching my fruit trees bloom. Thanks
Thank you for your videos! I'm in CA zone 9 and I have a big piece of land that I want to turn into a flourishing garden. I'll take a look at your videos on how to prepare the soil for it.
Thx again!
James, could you please do some videos about the redesign of your garden? I'm very interested in what you're going to do with it. Thank you!
Thanks James, really appreciate all you do, great content and well put together videos.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Tuck's the best! And you ain't bad yourself, James.
This was great info, thanks James! 50% of my garden is tomatoes so I feel your pain in choosing just a few, lol. I'd love to see another video with choices 11-20 on other plants you love to grow. I've been struggling for years on finding leafy greens, carrots, and beans that grow with any consistency.
Thank you James 🎉
Jimmy Nardello my all time favorite!!!!
Young King!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤ i love King Tuck!
So glad I clicked on this…
I was thinking I had to review your vids,
Because I didn’t write them down as you talked about them!
Thank you for this review!
Also got one of your sow with the flow hoodies and Tucks hoodie to so well chuffed 😊 ❤❤❤ can't wait to start my first garden grow this yr we love you guys ❤❤❤
Your videos are always so informative! I bought seeds last year on your recommendation and I was very happy with the results. Thank you for everything you do!
Hi James and Tuck,♥️beautiful variety’s , thank you . Excited for springs arrival.
Thanks for sharing James… think I’ll try those tomatoes you suggested…. They look delicious! I’m growing a “salad bar” !indoors under my grow lights this winter… it includes different lettuces, radishes and a tray of oriental stir fry greens. I’m having great success. I also sprout my own Mung beans and a variety of other sprouts. There’s nothing like “local and fresh” in the dead of a Connecticut winter! Happy gardening to you and Tuck, always so much to do even in the winter!
❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck! Never seen a dog love veggies more than Tuck! I used to have a German Shepherd mix that loved to eat blackberries off the briar ! He would gingerly get his snout in there and get the berries without getting scratched. Will try some of your recommendations for sure!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the Dragon Tongue Beans.
James - absolutely LOVE your uplifting joy of gardening. Woke up to snow and 8 degrees here at 3500' in the NE corner of WA state. The ol seed catalogs have started to roll in. Our tiny garden (due to Mule & White Tail neighbors + a moose now and then) won't let us grow a lot of varieties. But I have never tried those beans. Maybe will give it a go this summer and work them into my space. Our growing season is short but the greenhouse helps with that a lot. Bless you for what you do and mostly for your joyful spirit while doing it. Give little guy a head pat for me. Patriot, our Border Collie loves the veggies but can't come into our small garden like your little guy does. She does come in the greenhouse with me though :)
Another great video! Thank you,....and Tuck! ❤
Hey little boss man, spring is almost here. About time to guard that garden and approve some veggies pal, and hi James great video.❤️❤️❤️🤣❤️❤️🤣❤️😀
Thanks James. I was hoping you shared this with us. I'm NJ zone 6b. Excited to plan and plant. Hugs for Tuck ❤❤. God bless 🙏❤️
I like almost all of those suggestions James. I think I may already have some of them. I saw another comment about doing a series on how to start your garden from scratch if all you have is the land, tools and containers. ❤❤❤❤’s for Tuck. Looking forward to seeing what you’re going to do next with your garden. Have a blessed day 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️👩🏻🌾
Can you please do a video about your seed trays? Thanks!
Enjoyed this video. I hope to follow you from seed planting to harvesting. Love your channel.