Top 5 Self Sufficient Crops
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Everyone Wants To Be More Self Sufficient. One of the best ways to do that is to grow your own food. But within our commonly cultivated food crops, there are specific plants that rise above the others in terms of self propagation.
In today's video, we'll look at the top 5 crops to grow this year to become self sufficient superstars. These crops avoid the laborious flower, pollination, seed process and get straight down to business replicating themselves. This makes them easier to grow and easier to grow lots of them! Enjoy.
Self Sufficient Crop Individual Videos:
How To Grow Garlic: • How To Grow Garlic - T...
How To Grow Ginger: • How To Grow Ginger - T...
Growing Green Onions: • How To Regrow Green On...
Growing Sweet Potatoes: • How To Grow Sweet Pota...
How To Grow Potatoes: • Sprouting Potatoes - G...
2022 is the Year of the Garden! We deserve it after the last little while, and growing our own food and self sufficiency is just the reward we need to get back on track!
For more information on all your gardening questions, check out my other videos!:
How To Grow Strawberries!: • How To Grow Strawberri...
Fertilizing Strawberries: • Fertilizing Strawberry...
How To Grow Garlic: • How To Grow Garlic - T...
6 Benefits Of Hydrogen Peroxide!: • 6 Benefits Of Hydrogen...
Pruning Pepper Plants Experiment!: • Don't Prune Your Peppers!
Direct Seeding vs Starter Plant: • Direct Seeding Vs Star...
100% Germination?: • Seed Germination - 5 R...
Seed Starting Soil: • How To Make Your Own S...
Seed Starting 101, The Basics!: • How To Start Vegetable...
Starting Tomato Seeds: • How To Grow Tomatoes P...
Starting Pepper Seeds: • Growing Peppers Part 1...
Starting Cucumber Seeds: • Video
Starting Zucchini Seeds: • Growing Zucchini Part ...
Starting Corn Seeds: • Growing Corn - Part 1 ...
Starting Pumpkin Seeds: • How To Grow Pumpkins -...
DIY Ultimate Potting Mix: • Make Your Own Potting ...
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Another great video! That lizard running by on your raised bed at the very end really wanted to be a part of it!
Ha ha Brett, he was going to be IN the video no matter what, LOL!
Great lizard cameo at the end! I wish sometimes I lived in a lizard zone. Love every single one of your videos. I am growing a TON on veggies this year thanks to you! My carrots in GroBuckets are going GANGBUSTERS!
Thanks Terri, ha ha he was on a mission that little guy! Nice to hear about the carrots....amazing how many can be grown in such small containers! :-)
@Terri Light. Do you really not have lizards where you live? I love my lizards. (I'm in Florida) Whenever I have a worm in my garden, I find a lizard hanging around and feed it to the lizard. Sweet revenge for it ruining my cukes, squash or on greens. 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛
I like the little lizards too! We have them here in the desert.
New sub here 👋. I just binge watched the garden quickies
Thanks so much! Appreciate the support! :-)
Awesome!
@@desertflower9557 :-)
I love the science you teach behind the plants
Thanks Allison, I think it helps us understand it better. :-)
Thanks for the teaching Sir and your little dashing lizard I seen near the end of the video.
Ha ha my new mascot John! A little wild, but I'll calm him down!
Just came across your Channel today appreciate it
Hey, that's awesome! Thanks for the kind words, hopefully some of the videos help out your garden this year!
I grew potatoes last year for the first time. I was shocked, amazed and excited at all the potatoes we ended up with. We are growing them again this year.
Awesome Denise! They are always so rewarding!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms yes they sure are. Than you for sharing this video
Know it is late but have some extra seed potatoes. Gonna try them in containers.
There's still tons of time.....you could still get oodles of baby potatoes! :-)
@The Ripe Tomato Farms Magnificent video!!! I AM a new organic gardener and subscriber. Thank you
So awesome C C, happy to have you aboard!
You have taught me so much. I appreciate it very much
Thanks for that Penny. Glad to have you along for the ride as we ALL learn! :-)
You are a blessing to all us gardener’s. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
My garlic harvest was good but I pulled too early.
Always learning and you are my teacher!
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Thanks so much tammy! Even too early though, I bet it was still tasty! :-)
I adore you and your videos! Gracias mi amigo. 💚🌱🌼☀🌿
Thanks so much! :-)
We have been growing our vegetables and fruit for years. I think they taste much better than in the grocery stores. And being we grow organic plants we know what’s used on them.
100% they do taste better! Its no contest. :-)
This year I’m turning my front flower bed into a veggie garden. Also this will be the first time I will try growing sweet potatoes. Thank you Jeff for all your info to help us grow our own food. Keep growing everyone. 🥰
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Best of luck Brandy! 8-12 weeks of warm warm soils is what they need! :-)
Really enjoyed this video. Enjoyable and informative.
Hey thanks, glad you liked it! :-)
this is my first year growing garlic and potatoes. my garlic did absolutely amazing and I learned so much! will definitely be planting more in the fall. my potatoes still have about a month and a half left and are literally the easiest thing I've ever grown. this year I did them in grow bags and they take absolutely no attention. I water when I remember (which the majority of my garden is on drip so it often gets forgotten) and they don't even look stressed. we've been above 90s since april so my tomatoes have struggled this season along with cucumbers and beans. but my potatoes and peppers are flourishing! we will see what type of harvest I get out of them at the end of next month and I may potentially still have enough time to start another round before frost hits here the 2nd week in november! I was going to try ginger this year, but with all the new things I'm already attempting in this new state, I figured I would wait for next year for that one!
Fun video Jeff! I like how you propagate potatoes. I don't know why I am not already regrowing green onions. Easier than seeding them all the time! Thanks for sharing!
Plants are amazing! I like the point you made that not only do you save on not having to buy starts every year, but also the potential saving of fossil fuels by not having to import the produce.
Best wishes
The lizard photo bombed you at the end 🤪
Ha ha he was on a MISSION!
Wow your tomato plant, red pepper ,potatoes and more they are very beautiful in the garden
Your garden is so green! I'm in the desert of El Paso, Texas. I'm continuing to learn about the challenges of growing here.
I hear you Jennifer...are you guys getting the heat wave down there too?
It's been over 100 for maybe 7 days straight now. Monsoon Season began yesterday, and hopefully, that means some rainfall sometime in the near future 🙂.
Love it thanks
Thanks Lee Ann! :-)
Stinging nettle spreads by root and seed. It's highly nutritious, but it requires gloves to harvest; and heat to deactivate the sting( which occurs in a dehydrator for storage anyway).
I started growing garlic using the indoor method from one of your videos. They are doing great.
Hey, good to know about the stinging nettles....I hear they have lots of healing and health properties as well!
Thank you! Not new to gardening but learning and trying new crops because of you! Yes the price of seeds and starts is outrageous. Planning on letting some of my crops go to seed (free seeds!)😃
The quality of these vids are really improving. Respect!
Oh my! I tried growing garlic last year and it died. So I am going to try it again this year. Thank you for your videos
Oh no Denise, what died?
Great timing by the lizard Jeff 😁😁🌱☀️
Ha ha did you see that guy FLY by! He was jazzed! LOL
Garlic and potatoes, easy to grow. You can harvest garlic fresh. Trying this year to space it so that in early spring I can plant other vegetables like lettuce or sugar snaps or pepers or carrots in between. Don't forget beans too. Set a few plants aside for seeds. I had only had one broadbean from old seeds that came up. Kept it for seeds next year.
I love all your videos but this in my opinion is your best video ever! It can only get better in the future.
Thank you
Please don't stop with the info thank you
Great video, I really learn a lot from you. One thing I picked up at the end, you mentioned imports and less stringent pesticide rules. I'm in Ireland and we are fed the the same line about American imports being less stringent 'they'll spray all sorts on their crops...' something whiffy how countries just blame anybody but themselves in food safety.
Alright, I'm going to give garlic a try this fall. Any other plants that can be started in the fall?
Hey Jennifer, that's great, give it a go! For fall, it usually depends on where you live, but planting late summer for a fall harvest is very lucrative. So much can be grown too....broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, spinach, lettuce, beets, carrots, etc...
Ok potatoes & green onions for me next. How long till I can harvest a perfect ready potato & a perfect ready green onions?
@@morningwoodfarms713 thanks
Green Onions when grown from cutting Allison take mere weeks. Like 3 weeks in full sun with summer conditions. Its literally the easiest thing to do. Potatoes can take a bit longer, over 2 months, but you can also harvest the baby fingerlings much earlier. :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Sorry Jeff, I sometimes have a habit of stepping on toes.😑😶🤡🤐 It was a question for you, not me. And, you showed how to regrow from the cuttings in your video. I failed to restate that.😑 Sincere apologies (😔🐑). 💐💘
Excellent video and clearly presented. It is very timely. I have learned alot from you! Thank you!
Thanks Linda, glad you liked it! :-)
Thank you for all this great info! I appreciate the "can do" and encouragement you provide to all of us. Happy growing!
Thanks for the video! It's a great list. I would add Jerusalem artichoke to the list cause its the easiest to grow out of all crops that I know of and the yields are amazing!
Totally agree! I think they deserve their own video as well! Good call!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thanks, and not to mention asparagus yields pretty well too, and is very nutritions! Oops, I did mention it. LOL! :)
I love your episodes, thank you for making them!
Thank you for this
Love your videos.... keep 'em coming!
Ok I absolutely love your channel. Thank you SO much keep it up!
Another great video. I knew you could do it!
You make great informative videos!!
Thanks Linda!
Re Lettuce
Hi Jeff, Great video! Can I harvest the lettuce a few leaves at a time for salad, and keep the rest of the plant alive and continue harvesting again and again (a few leaves at a time)? If I cut off the whole crown, then it's done and no further harvest is possible, right? Thank you so much, Jeff, THE BEST!
100% you can Yanni. Its called the "cut and come again" method. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/FwHlIdEim3A/w-d-xo.html
For many varieties of lettuces, particularly romaines, I plant them singly 8" in each direction. Once they have maybe 8 leaves, I start picking 2 or 3 of the lowest ones, nipping them off as close to the stem as possible. The first ones are often spoilt by soil or slugs, but they get better. As they grow I can take more and more leaves, always the oldest ones from the bottom, sometimes ⅔ of the plant. They last 6 to 8 weeks like this before they start rising up to go to seed making smaller, bitter leaves.
@@AJWGBFX EXCELLENT! Thank you so much for explaining so clearly! Greatly appreciated.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Just watched this EXCELLENT video. Thank you so much, Jeff, THE BEST! Love the "cut and come again" method - something new I learn today.
Very cool video question 🙋♀️ can you just cut off the onions continuously leaving the root in the ground?
Tried garlic and onions again. I'm giving up I think. I thought my garlic should be ready by this time zone 6a. It looks half done. Gonna amp up the water and fertilizer. Onions starts arrived a little late from Dixondale, and are wimpy so far. My tomato seeds were 100% germination and I had to give 20 away. I just crowded some more transplants into my beds and pots. Hope I can figure out which are indeterminate so I can trim them up. I had so many seedlings, the 6 varieties got all confused. LOL My pole and bush beans should be great, with succession planting. I am covering my zukes and summer squash with ag fabric as well as my cabbages. Cabbage starting to curl into heads, and the zukes are about to flower. I will hand pollinate I think.
Hi Danielle....feeding the Garlic could be good! Zone 6a...Garlic still has a ways to go, so you should be all right. You want to stop feeding at least a month before harvest time.
Green onions are also known as scallions?
Yup, they are indeed the exact same crop! 🙂
I tried ginger and failed completely. I'll try again!
Oh no, sorry to hear that! Think tropical. Lots of heat and lots of moisture with them...
That lizard was very cool.
Yeah Annette, he was zooming around all day! Lol
nice video
I’ve been trying to find winter onions for the last couple years, that’s what we always called them when I was growing up, but nobody knows what I’m talking about, they point me towards chives or Egyptian Walking Onions. 🙈 So winter onions must not be their actual name, but they’re a perennial bunching onion that can survive zone 2 and 3 winters, white flowers on top. I lost half the bunch I had in long grass at my old house, moved them to this house and put the remaining in the flower bed, not far away from the spruce trees... they were fine for the first couple years, and then just didn’t come back the following year, I’m thinking the soil became too acidic for them. 😔 I’ve bought a few different types of bunching onion seeds now, hoping to stumble onto them yet. 😂
How many harvest can you get off potatoes is it once a year also how do you know when to harvest them
Jesus! Those green onions are HUGE, the mother of all green onions 😮😮😂😂
@10:15 Speedy lizard darts across the screen lol.
I saw the lizard and hit my phone lol 😂
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Garlic and onion are really easy plants to grow, but other veggies not so ...
Definitely. And some that are hard for some, are easy for others...it all works out! :-)
Check out that video right there . . . 👉🤣
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Cheers!
Did you crop your bell peppers this year?
You forgot yams (not sweet potatoes but real yams).