When I was stationed in Germany, I had a friend/coworker that had a large kitchen garden. On a visit in mid summer, I got permission to graze in his garden... His kids were kind of dumbfounded that I went from crop to crop, eating the veggies raw in the garden. They had no problem telling me that I was weird. I challenged them to just try it. I got them to try raw carrots, peas, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, etc. And... to put a cherry on top, (literally!) I climbed the sweet cherry tree & had dessert. Soon, they followed me up the tree... My friend told me he had never seen his kids eat so many veggies so willingly... It was such a fun day.
Thank you so much for sharing growing up in New York some of my favorite childhood memories were just from going apple picking. We'd go to the local apple orchard grab some freshly made apple cider donuts because we were hungry from the drive. Then the fun part my best friend and I would climb the apple trees to get the best and sweetest ones at the top (there was a time or two we climbed a baking apple tree and bit into an apple that was not meant to be eaten that way)then we'd go to where they were growing all the veggies (because we were tired of climbing all of the trees by then and when we had paid and were leaving we were snacking on everything before we even got to the car. 😊
I love that you don’t act like you know everything! Sometimes gardening can feel overwhelming because you feel like you need to know everything, so thank you for reminding me why it is fun ❤
Longer videos are great, I’d prefer that over something rapid fire. The more info the better. You tend to give enough info without it being overwhelming so that’s awesome.
I've been busy today, but I've just been watching this on and off whenever I get the chance. And I've been able to catch a few seeds at a time, which is nice.
Definitely longer videos ❤ >>>>>I'm a sponge that feeds on information so I thoroughly enjoy longer videos as I get to learn a lot more about plants and gardening and even plants I've yet never heard of also being in zone 9b your videos directly translate 98% of the time to what I can plant when these videos come out so that certainly helps
I like that you not only go over what to plant or at least possibilities for this time of year but give reviews and ideas for how they are used. Also, you grow some unusual vegetables that spark my interest. Thanks!
@@jacquesinthegarden I have a question for you. I live in zone 5a and I'm a beginner at gardening. I live off the grid. I was wondering, how could I start my garden with very little to no space? Could I do indoor gardening? What are your ideas?
I like the longer videos. Sometimes, I use them to fall asleep. You have a really steady and calming voice. I'll come back later and watch it again later if I miss any of it. But I've learned a lot. We don't have a lot of seed choices where I am, so seeing new and interesting plants and flowers is fun. I just tried golden beets the other day, and I actually like them. Don't tell Kevin he was right. 😂
There will be an update in a future tour and vacation proofing the garden videos. I left for 8 days right after starting all the seeds and I am happy to report they all came up!
I switch from cilantro to a rare herb called papalo in the summer. It’s much stronger than cilantro and has some lemony notes to it. It works in salsas. 🤜 🤛
I live in San Diego on the coast. I have certain plants come back each year. Fennel (prolific), broccoli raab, calendula, cosmos, even most of tomatoes re-seed each year. Love living here! Endless supply of food. A while back, to save water, we collected our sink water in a dish pan. We have successfully grown peppers and tomatoes in our potted plants because of the wash/rinse water from our sink. Thanks for the video. Maybe we will try more flowers. Love the color!
I like the longer video because I think I get to learn a little bit more from you. Thank you very much. Plus, I took a lot of notes and I’ve placed my order for some of them flowers.
This was a great motivation to start more seeds! Sometimes I wait too long to plant the fall crops and they end up growing slowly as a result. Definitely getting my trays out and doing this over the weekend!
hi jacques 🤗 yes! ‐ the longest videos you can tolerate. I listen to your longer videos when I'm planning my garden or during long garden work days. your voice is calming, yet motivating ‐ just what I need when there's hours of work to do. mixed in with rapid fire uploads, it's the perfect mix. another super great garden. tfs
REALLY appreciated the in depth discussion of varieties. I've seen a lot of these "what to plant for fall" videos and this one was actually worth my time.
I loved your flower suggestions, I bought the seeds as you talked about them, so I am excited to grow them this Fall. I like to take a vacation from growing veggies in the Fall, so appreciate that you talk about both!
I like both long and short videos. I was actually about to start some seeds for this fall as well. I’m glad you’re mentioning some cool weather-blooming flowers. I wanted to add some but wasn’t sure which. I also have come to love the peach colored varieties as well!
I enjoy these seed starting videos. Even though I'm familiar with, or have already grown, most of what you showed today, there is always more I learn .
Hi Jacques! Loved the longer video. Please make more of them. I added several of your selections to my current order. Thank you for providing your reasoning behind your selection. I'm learning so much for my own garden!
I love the longer videos! I’m a busy mom of two toddlers, but I watch your videos almost like a podcast style. I’ll set up my iPad in the kitchen so I can see the screen if I need to, but otherwise I have one ear bud in and listen while I’m doing the mom life things. The shorter videos drive me crazy because I’ll end up on another channel with the ‘play next suggestion’ 🤣. I’ve learned so much from you! Big thank you to my fav garden hermit! -Justine, PA zone 7a 🌱
I really appreciate how in-depth you go onto each variety..about its growth habit, how well or poorly the crop grows where you live, how it’s used in cooking. After hearing you talk about this been heavily harvesting side shoots from several broccoli- game changer for me! Extremely helpful information. Now.. I want to hear more about growing quinoa!
Great selection there Jacques! Lobelia (Luh-Bee-lee-uh) is lovely. We sow it every year in Spring. I love the deep blue ground cover but it also looks great in pots or hanging baskets. A lot of people in the UK have been experiencing germination issues in spring sowing's and i am also having trouble with autumn/fall sowing here in London. The warm winter has been the compost has loads more issues, i have found. It is very humid here and have had tons of fungus gnats this year. I had just transplanted a whole tray of cabbages, kohlrabi and broccoli and having to re sow 3 weeks later as the majority just wilted. We have some chamomile, forget me knots and alyssum nearly ready to plant out. I am hoping to over winter them. We had a poor year of flowers this year, even the nasturtiums weren't that great as i am normally having to cut them back. This year we had poppies, lobelia, calendula, fuchsia, sweet peas, marigolds, nasturtiums and sunflowers. Our perennial flowers weren't that great either this year. Our early saving grace were the dwarf green curled kale we were saving for seed. I sowed some veranda red dwarf tomatoes to grow indoors over winter. We also took the tops off our main crop indeterminate tomatoes for cuttings to over winter. We grow outside with no cover atm. Come October, it gets too wet and windy. Hoping to get the cabbages ready to plant in their place and we can finally install the garden mesh on the new trellis. We are also sowing some sugar snap peas. We did sow some at the beginning of August and some have come up. Our issue is the roller coaster temps. At the end of each month, this year the temp rises and we get some good weather. Other than that it has been cloudy and dry and then we get a week or so of rain. It makes it harder to know whether of not to buy shade cloth of polytunnel plastic! Definitely grow perpetual spinach/ swiss chard. Zone 9a here and they survive ok and great alt to baby spinach, albeit a salty taste to it. Also pak choi is great and tend not to bolt this time of year. Our sprouts normally do well but again this year, also like the runner beans and pretty much everything else has performed below par this year. Things that have done well this year for us is soft fruits. Our bird poo offering of thorn-less raspberries are giving us another splendid spray of new fruits this year. Also the rhubarb for the final harvest end of Sept is looking great. We already have enough jam for next year. Looking forward to getting a blackberry cutting for the garden. Did you manage to get rid of the raspberries along the fence near the tree? Another glut this this is from Yellow Kentucky wonder wax beans! We have a full zip lock bag of them and have been giving them away! Definitely one for next year! We have some second round green tender bush beans coming up now. I need to cut back the first round to give them more light. Sept will be our last scatter of root crops like turnips, beets and carrots. I then start again in Jan under a cold frame lid. Anyway, looking forward to an update on those and tour soon? Will you be overwintering tomatoes again if you can? Take care!
Sounds like an interesting year of observation in the garden this year. The changes year to year are always interesting and occasionally frustrating. I really need to find a good place to get some berries in as I love eating them. I will likely keep a single cherry tomato in ground and otherwise will just go with some newly planted determinates in the greenhouse.
@@jacquesinthegarden Yes i am really getting into climate science and the environment and getting geeky with it! lol My late Step-Father-in-Law (SFiL) was really into and gardening and got his PHD in Geology and wrote some papers too i think. We were living in a 2 bed basement flat at the time with just a concrete patio so got into container gardenening more. Did do more gardening before that in my ground floor communial flat but it was nice to have our own place. we then moved into our house, which we totally renovated and flipped the mature garden landscape into a family/ veg growing space. My SFiL was also into recording data like weather and tidal flows as his was in the merchant navy at some point and also living on the Isle of Wight, they needed to know when they could go for walks on the beach, etc. I really like recording this data for reference as i like to know if i am just being impatient for things like when to expect tomatoes, frost dates, etc. I was talking to another YT'er in the UK and they mentioned that we are expecting a heatwave this week. I asked them if it was in just their area as not in London. I explained that we had just had a cold spell and it's just going back to average temps. Last year for reference was +10c the average temp. The weather this year has been the coldest since 2015, despite the global temps being overall warmer. Berries like raspberries and blackberries, i would take some cuttings from some where. We have some blackberries growing over our fence so i am going to take next years shoots to root. The bird poo thornless raspberries are just ripening so afterwards, i want to repot more central in the same plastic pot or stick in the fabric bag to air prune. We don't have drip so i use saucers. I don't have the space for things like mint or rooters like blackberries/raspberries to go wild. They do love a fair amount of water. In London, it can sometimes not rain for weeks on end. Hubby does the watering/ liquid feeds and the butts generally last us about 2 weeks and then we have to switch to the hose. If i had the space, i would look on Marketplace and pick up an old cheap white bath tub , drill holes in the bottom and plant berries and mint at the front to spill over. Trellis at the back and 'Bobs your Uncle'! (as we say here lol). If you have the money then buy some of those bath "feet" to air prune the the roots so it doesn't get into the garden soil. Great idea with the tomatoes! We always leave our cherries last. Last year, we had to take down our tomatoes in late Oct but sometimes we get away with Nov, mainly due to the rain/ humidity. We seem to have a microclimate here as we are also on the border of 3 Zone areas according to a new UK map. I have always been confused with these UK zone maps as it never matches what i have been recording, hence coming to YT to find out more. I have never grown under cover outside, except for carrots sown in Jan in a 1ft x 3 ft raised plastic bed. That was mainly for slugs and snails. We have a new toad in the garden now at least! I am thinking of a design, where i can get slugs and snails to go into a place and the toad can have a pit stop snack! Only so many i can put in the composter for biodiversity this year! Also planning to get measurements to restore an old iron bench. I am one of those people with a million ideas but have a standard London garden and a very limited budget! lol I like to reuse what comes into the home, have as much zero waste as i can (like bones, cooked stuff i make stock and have a crate wormery) I am also very chill with a good sense of humour that doesn't always come across as i am dyslexic. I like to ask questions to learn and share my experiences. Anyway, take care Jacques and have a lovely week!
Love the long videos so I can learn as much as you can dish out. Thank you for the seed choices I’m going to grab me a few fall packets and just experiment.
I grew pacific beauty calendulas this year and got a good amount of those pinkish blends in there and they're awesome. Ive grown peach shades pansys for 2 years now, they have such incredible colours. I grew strawberry blone French marigold's this year also, starts off deep dark but unique to marigolds red, then changes to a mind boggling shade, exactly like the pictures they advertise them with. I think you're right about the contrast with the greens compared to usual colours, I couldn't place why I find them so striking until you put it like that
Amazing video! I’m taking notes the whole time. Live in Lakeside(suburb of San Diego) I learned so much! Learned gardening from my grandmother who has been doing organic gardening since 1950 in lakeside. Still on same land with orchard and lots of gardening space. You and Kevin have inspired me so much since watching for a year. Thank you.
There seems to be some good history with growing out in lakeside. Super cool to hear that you are on the land still! Very much happy to hear that we are able to help you as well!
Jacques, My bunching onions come up better if they have been shaded while germinating. Full sun area they don’t come up well for me. Once they come up in the shaded area you can dig them out and move them to the sun and they will grow very quickly. I move my onions all the time to diff beds to help with pests. If you let a few go to seed next year and collect them, those seeds will grow even better.😊
The king Henry and Johnny jump up violas are very beautiful too. I put them in pots for spring here in WI zone 5b/6a and then I moved to in ground hoping they come back next spring. I just ordered another pack from botanical for more planting next spring
I grow celery every year. For the past 2 years, I've been dehydrating it and powdering it to use in spice blends. Ha, I have a red acre cabbage that's still in my garden since Spring.....it looks great. I love your videos and long or short, I'm there. P.S. I could watch you all day.
I like the longer videos. What I find most helpful is when you put the seed packet in a split screen. So the image is easy to see. It helps me visualize what you’re describing as in color and growth pattern of each plant. And of course good advertising on the seed packets. I go to the garden center and see that same image and bam buy that one. 😉
I was super lucky with my snapdragons, I just got the seed packet and popped a bunch in some cells, keeping them moist, and they sprouted with a 100% germination rate as far as I can tell. I even went and thinned them by cutting the seedlings down with scissors only leaving 3-4 per cell and they are just now looking like they are gonna bloom soon in their upgraded 3.5in pots
I always grow mini broccoli because it only throws off shoots and its easier for me to just harvest what I need for dinner. I also dont need to worry about the heat ruining the big head right before I go to pick it.
I definitely like long videos. I need to start my fall seed as well. Lettuce, spinach, and arugula are definitely on my list. For medicinal plants, stevia and calendula
I'll be doing containers for winter again. The dirt here eats organic matter.. 3 months and no sign of grass clippings that were tilled in.. it's right back to sandy clay. Cardboard takes 5 months to look like it was never there. What I've planted so far: Broccoli, Cauliflower, Johnny Jump ups, parsley (still waiting for germination) and I love parsley. Swiss Chard seeds and I put the clones/cuttings of some of my tomatoes in the ground. They've been in a bucket for longer than I want to think about but have lovely roots. Next up are sage and Brussels Sprouts. I have a cabbage plant that I never pulled in the spring and it survived the wicked hot summer, so far, and bonus.. it's making a head. I was going to try for a fall crop of potatoes but I'm seeing conflicting information on those for zone 8 Ga... and my taters are ready now. Should I put them back in the fridge? I want more flowers too. I am on board with your color choices. I've tried to get white carnations going a couple of times.. they didn't take. I'd really like to get some begonias.. there is a peachy pink one out there. My first frost date is the third week of November, allegedly. Last year we got a solid freeze in late October... 21 degrees. We're still in the mid 90s now. Low 80s and an hour or two of high 70s at dawn. I have to wait to start my peas. It's still too hot but it does change fast when it goes. I'd like a couple more weeks than we get of 50s-70s as the daily swing. *note to self* soak seeds for parsnips One of my pet peeves is seed packets without enough information. I've gotten seeds from ebay, a lot, which generally come in tiny baggies. I always transfer those seeds into my own enveloped with as much info as I can fit on them. I do pretty well with ebay seeds.. choosing those nearest to me. JMHO.. ebay still has the best working filters for shopping on the interwebs.
I use to have trouble growing green onions too, until I tried the red beard bunching onions from MI Gardener. No disrespect with Botanical (as I have many of their seeds too), but the red beard have excellent germination and they actually grow well here in Southern Cali. Now I have green onions all year round! ☺👩🏽🌾
Watching this on the second to last day of winter here, looking forward to spring but love to sit and watch with a glass of wine, and make plans for 6months time 😅
Try Fioretto cauliflower. It's a cross between broccoli & cauliflower. There are several naned cultivars available from many seed sellers. It's supposed to be more heat tolerant, too. It is also called stalk cauliflower because it produces multiple stalks with small florets. It might be a good fit for your grow zone.
I LIVE IN FLORIDA ZONE 9B AND I CAN GROW TOMATOES YEAR-ROUND HERE WHICH I LOVE, I DO PROTECT THEM IN THE SUMMER HEAT AND HUMIDITY BY PLANTING MORE IN A SHADY AREA AND THEY DO GREAT.
I’m in NorCal zone 10a and had calendulas bloom for Thanksgiving last year. This fall I’m planting a large packet of BI’s CA wildflower blend in my weed patch after I trim it for a winter and spring meadow.
This summer I finally got tired of poor germination and fried seedlings during the summer months and built an almost IDENTICAL (just slightly taller) cover out of wood and hardware cloth scraps. I put a rectangle of shade cloth on top on hot days. I also have a little rechargeable fan that can blow across it because when I put a digital thermometer in there, I couldn't believe how hot it was getting -- 90+ degrees with the shade cloth and 115+ without. No wonder my seeds were frying. And that's considering how relatively mild our SD summer has been so far this year.
Hi Jacques! Just want to say, all your plants in the background look great! Things are so crispy here is North Texas, even with shade cloth. My poor tomatoes are fried!
Hi Jacques! I've had Nine Star broccoli in my garden for about 10 years. I originally bought seeds from Pennard's in the UK. I just wanted to warn you that the plants can get absolutely massive over time. Mine grew to about 8x8 feet and about 3' tall before it was smashed by a falling pine branch. It would root wherever it touched the ground, and that's how it got so large. I'm on the Central Coast and where I planted my broccoli the soil is heavy clay. It produces incredible amounts of food during the hungry gap every year. The shoots are delicious, but there are so many that I end up pickling them in escabeche to eat later. To me, they taste more like cauliflower than broccoli. Also, you can take cuttings to share with friends! I've propagated many new plants to give away, and some also volunteered in my compost pile from discarded stems. PS- love the longer format videos!
Personally I love the longer videos. My only regret is that I didn't have the presence of mind to take notes, so I'll need to watch it again and list all the seeds this time. 😛
I loved the video! I have seen other channels take this kind of content and release it as Part I, Part II, Part III etc, and then, release one full version. But for me, it doesn't matter... I am happy either way. short, or long
You have totally birthed in me a new love of flowers in my garden. I love companion flowers for my vegetables now (any suggestions for aphids???) Would love a total video on flowers especially winter blooming, and all the companion flowers and herbs for vegetables and pests ❤
Calendula is a good trap crop for aphids. I plant it near brassicas. Fall sown flowers are often referred to as “cool flowers”. Some will bloom in winter started now depending on how mild your climate is (I’m 10b), and others like yarrow, rudbekia, echinacea will grow strong roots and bloom spring/summer. Just enter in TH-cam search. I highly recommend The Gardeners Workshop videos and podcast since they specialize in flower/flower farming. 😊
It's cool to have a mix of shorter videos and longer but I kind of think the longer ones are better because well you're not maybe in such a hurry and you can explain things more. And That's kind of funny I just discovered a whole batch of random seeds from my aunt and mom. Well I guess I won't be disappointed if they don't do anything but I'm still going to try never been very good at seeds so I won't be disappointed lol. Might be time to replenish my stash with some new seeds 😊
I planted early girl in NY last week. I went with a smaller pot to see if that won't keep them from going too nuts. When I put them in my raised bed they grow over 8 feet tall
That burgundy broccoli is called Purple Spouting Broccoli in the UK. U plant it in the fall & it emerges in the springtime. ❤ all the varieties you are sowing.
I always wonder if it is the same because this one seems to produce early and I actually had one growing in the summer and it grew and sprouted florets without overwintering!
We're starting tomatoes as well. They are a cold-hearty tomato variety called Arctic Tomatoes so hopefully they will produce alongside the cilantro and we can make some fresh salsa! LOL :)
Now I have fomo on the Burgundy broccoli. I bought the seeds when there was a sale on Botanical Interest. I'm new to growing broccoli. When I started my cabbage and broccoli seeds last month and saw that there was only 10 seeds, I decided to practice growing with my cheap broccoli seeds first. Now I'm asking myself if it's too late to plant a couple of seeds. They say it's going to be a warm fall so it might be worth the gamble starting this late. ETA: Now that I'veve reached the end of the video lol. I do like the long form version of these type of videos. I appreciate details and advice you give with them.
@jacquesinthegarden I actually did start two seeds right after commenting on your video and they both have already sprouted. If I'm successful and get a harvest, I'll post it on the Epic Gardening FB group.
When I was stationed in Germany, I had a friend/coworker that had a large kitchen garden. On a visit in mid summer, I got permission to graze in his garden... His kids were kind of dumbfounded that I went from crop to crop, eating the veggies raw in the garden. They had no problem telling me that I was weird. I challenged them to just try it. I got them to try raw carrots, peas, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, etc. And... to put a cherry on top, (literally!) I climbed the sweet cherry tree & had dessert. Soon, they followed me up the tree... My friend told me he had never seen his kids eat so many veggies so willingly... It was such a fun day.
Thank you so much for sharing growing up in New York some of my favorite childhood memories were just from going apple picking. We'd go to the local apple orchard grab some freshly made apple cider donuts because we were hungry from the drive. Then the fun part my best friend and I would climb the apple trees to get the best and sweetest ones at the top (there was a time or two we climbed a baking apple tree and bit into an apple that was not meant to be eaten that way)then we'd go to where they were growing all the veggies (because we were tired of climbing all of the trees by then and when we had paid and were leaving we were snacking on everything before we even got to the car. 😊
I love that you don’t act like you know everything! Sometimes gardening can feel overwhelming because you feel like you need to know everything, so thank you for reminding me why it is fun ❤
Longer videos are great, I’d prefer that over something rapid fire. The more info the better. You tend to give enough info without it being overwhelming so that’s awesome.
I've been busy today, but I've just been watching this on and off whenever I get the chance. And I've been able to catch a few seeds at a time, which is nice.
Definitely longer videos ❤ >>>>>I'm a sponge that feeds on information so I thoroughly enjoy longer videos as I get to learn a lot more about plants and gardening and even plants I've yet never heard of also being in zone 9b your videos directly translate 98% of the time to what I can plant when these videos come out so that certainly helps
I like that you not only go over what to plant or at least possibilities for this time of year but give reviews and ideas for how they are used. Also, you grow some unusual vegetables that spark my interest. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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@@jacquesinthegarden I have a question for you. I live in zone 5a and I'm a beginner at gardening. I live off the grid. I was wondering, how could I start my garden with very little to no space? Could I do indoor gardening? What are your ideas?
@@jacquesinthegardenI would love to chat with you more. You sound like a very humble person. I LOVE your channel ALOT as well as @epicgardening.
I like the longer videos. Sometimes, I use them to fall asleep. You have a really steady and calming voice. I'll come back later and watch it again later if I miss any of it. But I've learned a lot. We don't have a lot of seed choices where I am, so seeing new and interesting plants and flowers is fun. I just tried golden beets the other day, and I actually like them. Don't tell Kevin he was right. 😂
I’d love to see a follow up with you transplanting them into the garden when they’re ready!
There will be an update in a future tour and vacation proofing the garden videos. I left for 8 days right after starting all the seeds and I am happy to report they all came up!
Let’s be real, we want cilantro year round! Lol especially us people from LA or SD when we make tacos and top them with onions, cilantro, and salsa
I switch from cilantro to a rare herb called papalo in the summer. It’s much stronger than cilantro and has some lemony notes to it. It works in salsas. 🤜 🤛
The Bay Area has entered the chat! 🫠
It is a year round essential for sure!
I live in San Diego on the coast. I have certain plants come back each year. Fennel (prolific), broccoli raab, calendula, cosmos, even most of tomatoes re-seed each year. Love living here! Endless supply of food. A while back, to save water, we collected our sink water in a dish pan. We have successfully grown peppers and tomatoes in our potted plants because of the wash/rinse water from our sink. Thanks for the video. Maybe we will try more flowers. Love the color!
i was literally in the middle of watching the previous year’s september grow video. absolute perfect timing!
Glad to hear it!
I like the longer video because I think I get to learn a little bit more from you. Thank you very much. Plus, I took a lot of notes and I’ve placed my order for some of them flowers.
This was a great motivation to start more seeds! Sometimes I wait too long to plant the fall crops and they end up growing slowly as a result. Definitely getting my trays out and doing this over the weekend!
Awesome to hear! It is such a bummer to miss out on the fall season, it is truly the best!
hi jacques 🤗
yes! ‐ the longest videos you can tolerate. I listen to your longer videos when I'm planning my garden or during long garden work days. your voice is calming, yet motivating ‐ just what I need when there's hours of work to do. mixed in with rapid fire uploads, it's the perfect mix.
another super great garden. tfs
Enjoy this video. Wasn't too long, very helpful.❤
"This plant-growing tutorial is really helpful! I'll try applying the plant care tips you shared. Thanks!"
REALLY appreciated the in depth discussion of varieties. I've seen a lot of these "what to plant for fall" videos and this one was actually worth my time.
I like the long videos too. Great to listen to while gardening
I loved your flower suggestions, I bought the seeds as you talked about them, so I am excited to grow them this Fall. I like to take a vacation from growing veggies in the Fall, so appreciate that you talk about both!
I like both long and short videos. I was actually about to start some seeds for this fall as well. I’m glad you’re mentioning some cool weather-blooming flowers. I wanted to add some but wasn’t sure which. I also have come to love the peach colored varieties as well!
I enjoy these seed starting videos. Even though I'm familiar with, or have already grown, most of what you showed today, there is always more I learn .
Love it Keep it up man
Truly appreciate the super thanks and I will be sure to keep it up for as long as I live!
Yes sir@@jacquesinthegarden
I love the longer videos like this one, but the rapidfire ones sure are fun, as well.
Love the long versions great info throughout. You are a great teacher.
Thank you!!!❤❤
Enjoyed the video. The more information you share the more I learn so keep these excellent videos going!! thanks!
I love these seed starting videos and love the long and short versions.
Hi Jacques! Loved the longer video. Please make more of them. I added several of your selections to my current order. Thank you for providing your reasoning behind your selection. I'm learning so much for my own garden!
Thanks for all the great seed ideas. I actually watched this video as I was planting my own seed trays here in zone 10a SW Florida 😊
Yeah Santa Cruz my hometown We grow a lot of artichokes and strawberries around here🌱💚❤️
Jacques, thank you for touching on cold hardiness in spite of not living in a cold climate. As a zone 4 gardener, I greatly appreciate it. 😊
I love the longer videos! I’m a busy mom of two toddlers, but I watch your videos almost like a podcast style. I’ll set up my iPad in the kitchen so I can see the screen if I need to, but otherwise I have one ear bud in and listen while I’m doing the mom life things. The shorter videos drive me crazy because I’ll end up on another channel with the ‘play next suggestion’ 🤣. I’ve learned so much from you! Big thank you to my fav garden hermit! -Justine, PA zone 7a 🌱
Thank you, Jacques. I absolutely love these videos. I just got to the end and now I’m going to rewatch it so I can take notes.
Love to hear this!
I like the long ones, I put videos like this on in the background while I'm doing menial tasks in the house 👍🏼 got most of my fall seeds started in 8a
Thank you for explaining why you're choosing certain plants and why you like them, super helpful.
I really appreciate how in-depth you go onto each variety..about its growth habit, how well or poorly the crop grows where you live, how it’s used in cooking. After hearing you talk about this been heavily harvesting side shoots from several broccoli- game changer for me! Extremely helpful information. Now.. I want to hear more about growing quinoa!
Thank you, Jacques. 😊
Thank you for a lovely video. It's always a pleasure to see how your beautiful garden is progressing.
Your channel is amazing ! As a new Gardner your are loading me up with valuable knowledge! Thank you God bless
Great selection there Jacques!
Lobelia (Luh-Bee-lee-uh) is lovely. We sow it every year in Spring. I love the deep blue ground cover but it also looks great in pots or hanging baskets.
A lot of people in the UK have been experiencing germination issues in spring sowing's and i am also having trouble with autumn/fall sowing here in London. The warm winter has been the compost has loads more issues, i have found. It is very humid here and have had tons of fungus gnats this year.
I had just transplanted a whole tray of cabbages, kohlrabi and broccoli and having to re sow 3 weeks later as the majority just wilted.
We have some chamomile, forget me knots and alyssum nearly ready to plant out. I am hoping to over winter them.
We had a poor year of flowers this year, even the nasturtiums weren't that great as i am normally having to cut them back. This year we had poppies, lobelia, calendula, fuchsia, sweet peas, marigolds, nasturtiums and sunflowers. Our perennial flowers weren't that great either this year. Our early saving grace were the dwarf green curled kale we were saving for seed.
I sowed some veranda red dwarf tomatoes to grow indoors over winter. We also took the tops off our main crop indeterminate tomatoes for cuttings to over winter. We grow outside with no cover atm. Come October, it gets too wet and windy. Hoping to get the cabbages ready to plant in their place and we can finally install the garden mesh on the new trellis.
We are also sowing some sugar snap peas. We did sow some at the beginning of August and some have come up. Our issue is the roller coaster temps. At the end of each month, this year the temp rises and we get some good weather. Other than that it has been cloudy and dry and then we get a week or so of rain. It makes it harder to know whether of not to buy shade cloth of polytunnel plastic!
Definitely grow perpetual spinach/ swiss chard. Zone 9a here and they survive ok and great alt to baby spinach, albeit a salty taste to it. Also pak choi is great and tend not to bolt this time of year.
Our sprouts normally do well but again this year, also like the runner beans and pretty much everything else has performed below par this year.
Things that have done well this year for us is soft fruits. Our bird poo offering of thorn-less raspberries are giving us another splendid spray of new fruits this year. Also the rhubarb for the final harvest end of Sept is looking great. We already have enough jam for next year. Looking forward to getting a blackberry cutting for the garden. Did you manage to get rid of the raspberries along the fence near the tree?
Another glut this this is from Yellow Kentucky wonder wax beans! We have a full zip lock bag of them and have been giving them away! Definitely one for next year!
We have some second round green tender bush beans coming up now. I need to cut back the first round to give them more light.
Sept will be our last scatter of root crops like turnips, beets and carrots. I then start again in Jan under a cold frame lid.
Anyway, looking forward to an update on those and tour soon? Will you be overwintering tomatoes again if you can?
Take care!
Sounds like an interesting year of observation in the garden this year. The changes year to year are always interesting and occasionally frustrating. I really need to find a good place to get some berries in as I love eating them.
I will likely keep a single cherry tomato in ground and otherwise will just go with some newly planted determinates in the greenhouse.
@@jacquesinthegarden Yes i am really getting into climate science and the environment and getting geeky with it! lol My late Step-Father-in-Law (SFiL) was really into and gardening and got his PHD in Geology and wrote some papers too i think. We were living in a 2 bed basement flat at the time with just a concrete patio so got into container gardenening more. Did do more gardening before that in my ground floor communial flat but it was nice to have our own place. we then moved into our house, which we totally renovated and flipped the mature garden landscape into a family/ veg growing space.
My SFiL was also into recording data like weather and tidal flows as his was in the merchant navy at some point and also living on the Isle of Wight, they needed to know when they could go for walks on the beach, etc.
I really like recording this data for reference as i like to know if i am just being impatient for things like when to expect tomatoes, frost dates, etc. I was talking to another YT'er in the UK and they mentioned that we are expecting a heatwave this week. I asked them if it was in just their area as not in London. I explained that we had just had a cold spell and it's just going back to average temps. Last year for reference was +10c the average temp. The weather this year has been the coldest since 2015, despite the global temps being overall warmer.
Berries like raspberries and blackberries, i would take some cuttings from some where. We have some blackberries growing over our fence so i am going to take next years shoots to root.
The bird poo thornless raspberries are just ripening so afterwards, i want to repot more central in the same plastic pot or stick in the fabric bag to air prune. We don't have drip so i use saucers. I don't have the space for things like mint or rooters like blackberries/raspberries to go wild. They do love a fair amount of water.
In London, it can sometimes not rain for weeks on end. Hubby does the watering/ liquid feeds and the butts generally last us about 2 weeks and then we have to switch to the hose.
If i had the space, i would look on Marketplace and pick up an old cheap white bath tub , drill holes in the bottom and plant berries and mint at the front to spill over. Trellis at the back and 'Bobs your Uncle'! (as we say here lol). If you have the money then buy some of those bath "feet" to air prune the the roots so it doesn't get into the garden soil.
Great idea with the tomatoes! We always leave our cherries last. Last year, we had to take down our tomatoes in late Oct but sometimes we get away with Nov, mainly due to the rain/ humidity. We seem to have a microclimate here as we are also on the border of 3 Zone areas according to a new UK map. I have always been confused with these UK zone maps as it never matches what i have been recording, hence coming to YT to find out more.
I have never grown under cover outside, except for carrots sown in Jan in a 1ft x 3 ft raised plastic bed. That was mainly for slugs and snails.
We have a new toad in the garden now at least! I am thinking of a design, where i can get slugs and snails to go into a place and the toad can have a pit stop snack! Only so many i can put in the composter for biodiversity this year!
Also planning to get measurements to restore an old iron bench.
I am one of those people with a million ideas but have a standard London garden and a very limited budget! lol
I like to reuse what comes into the home, have as much zero waste as i can (like bones, cooked stuff i make stock and have a crate wormery)
I am also very chill with a good sense of humour that doesn't always come across as i am dyslexic. I like to ask questions to learn and share my experiences.
Anyway, take care Jacques and have a lovely week!
Love the long videos so I can learn as much as you can dish out. Thank you for the seed choices I’m going to grab me a few fall packets and just experiment.
Yep, I do enjoy your longer videos...thanks!
A chicory you will love. Plant it, a very hardy lettuce. Once you plant this you will grow in the spring and fall.
I liked the long format video. I am using that idea for my 1020 seed trays, but I may use mosquito netting to deter bugs as an add-on.
Love the butterfly 🦋 cameo lol ❤❤❤❤
I grew pacific beauty calendulas this year and got a good amount of those pinkish blends in there and they're awesome. Ive grown peach shades pansys for 2 years now, they have such incredible colours. I grew strawberry blone French marigold's this year also, starts off deep dark but unique to marigolds red, then changes to a mind boggling shade, exactly like the pictures they advertise them with. I think you're right about the contrast with the greens compared to usual colours, I couldn't place why I find them so striking until you put it like that
Amazing video! I’m taking notes the whole time. Live in Lakeside(suburb of San Diego) I learned so much! Learned gardening from my grandmother who has been doing organic gardening since 1950 in lakeside. Still on same land with orchard and lots of gardening space. You and Kevin have inspired me so much since watching for a year. Thank you.
There seems to be some good history with growing out in lakeside. Super cool to hear that you are on the land still! Very much happy to hear that we are able to help you as well!
Jacques, My bunching onions come up better if they have been shaded while germinating. Full sun area they don’t come up well for me. Once they come up in the shaded area you can dig them out and move them to the sun and they will grow very quickly. I move my onions all the time to diff beds to help with pests. If you let a few go to seed next year and collect them, those seeds will grow even better.😊
Good tip, I will actually try that on my best sowing
The king Henry and Johnny jump up violas are very beautiful too. I put them in pots for spring here in WI zone 5b/6a and then I moved to in ground hoping they come back next spring. I just ordered another pack from botanical for more planting next spring
I grow celery every year. For the past 2 years, I've been dehydrating it and powdering it to use in spice blends. Ha, I have a red acre cabbage that's still in my garden since Spring.....it looks great. I love your videos and long or short, I'm there. P.S. I could watch you all day.
Dried celery probably packs a lot of flavor in it! The red acre is truly a tank, I have never seen a cabbage just chill like that for so long!
Absolutely love this video. Great content, great demonstrations, and the length of the video is perfect for me.
I like the longer videos. What I find most helpful is when you put the seed packet in a split screen. So the image is easy to see. It helps me visualize what you’re describing as in color and growth pattern of each plant. And of course good advertising on the seed packets. I go to the garden center and see that same image and bam buy that one. 😉
I was super lucky with my snapdragons, I just got the seed packet and popped a bunch in some cells, keeping them moist, and they sprouted with a 100% germination rate as far as I can tell. I even went and thinned them by cutting the seedlings down with scissors only leaving 3-4 per cell and they are just now looking like they are gonna bloom soon in their upgraded 3.5in pots
I grow dill and fennel for the positive insects. I’ve always wanted to grow leeks, it’s a big part of French cooking, but I’ve always been afraid to.
I always grow mini broccoli because it only throws off shoots and its easier for me to just harvest what I need for dinner. I also dont need to worry about the heat ruining the big head right before I go to pick it.
I definitely like long videos. I need to start my fall seed as well. Lettuce, spinach, and arugula are definitely on my list. For medicinal plants, stevia and calendula
I love his explanations!!!!! 😊
We LOVE the long videos!! ❤ also all the individual information you give for each seed is phenomenal!
Happy to hear that, these are really fun for me!
I love the longer videos personally.
I'll be doing containers for winter again. The dirt here eats organic matter.. 3 months and no sign of grass clippings that were tilled in.. it's right back to sandy clay. Cardboard takes 5 months to look like it was never there.
What I've planted so far: Broccoli, Cauliflower, Johnny Jump ups, parsley (still waiting for germination) and I love parsley. Swiss Chard seeds and I put the clones/cuttings of some of my tomatoes in the ground. They've been in a bucket for longer than I want to think about but have lovely roots.
Next up are sage and Brussels Sprouts.
I have a cabbage plant that I never pulled in the spring and it survived the wicked hot summer, so far, and bonus.. it's making a head.
I was going to try for a fall crop of potatoes but I'm seeing conflicting information on those for zone 8 Ga... and my taters are ready now. Should I put them back in the fridge?
I want more flowers too. I am on board with your color choices.
I've tried to get white carnations going a couple of times.. they didn't take.
I'd really like to get some begonias.. there is a peachy pink one out there.
My first frost date is the third week of November, allegedly. Last year we got a solid freeze in late October... 21 degrees.
We're still in the mid 90s now. Low 80s and an hour or two of high 70s at dawn.
I have to wait to start my peas. It's still too hot but it does change fast when it goes.
I'd like a couple more weeks than we get of 50s-70s as the daily swing.
*note to self* soak seeds for parsnips
One of my pet peeves is seed packets without enough information. I've gotten seeds from ebay, a lot, which generally come in tiny baggies. I always transfer those seeds into my own enveloped with as much info as I can fit on them.
I do pretty well with ebay seeds.. choosing those nearest to me.
JMHO.. ebay still has the best working filters for shopping on the interwebs.
Just ordered seed trays, can’t wait to get mine 🎉😊
I use to have trouble growing green onions too, until I tried the red beard bunching onions from MI Gardener. No disrespect with Botanical (as I have many of their seeds too), but the red beard have excellent germination and they actually grow well here in Southern Cali. Now I have green onions all year round! ☺👩🏽🌾
I loved this long version. I worked while watching and it didn’t feel like work!
Love to hear that!
these seed starting vids are very helpful thanks goat
Glad you like them!
Watching this on the second to last day of winter here, looking forward to spring but love to sit and watch with a glass of wine, and make plans for 6months time 😅
Try Fennel Gratin - it is unbelievably delicious!!
Love both kinds of videos.❤❤ Good luck with your seedlings. Can't wait to watch them grow.
Love the longer videos! I've missed them.
I grew asters this spring and they were beautiful
Try Fioretto cauliflower. It's a cross between broccoli & cauliflower. There are several naned cultivars available from many seed sellers. It's supposed to be more heat tolerant, too. It is also called stalk cauliflower because it produces multiple stalks with small florets. It might be a good fit for your grow zone.
I LIVE IN FLORIDA ZONE 9B AND I CAN GROW TOMATOES YEAR-ROUND HERE WHICH I LOVE, I DO PROTECT THEM IN THE SUMMER HEAT AND HUMIDITY BY PLANTING MORE IN A SHADY AREA AND THEY DO GREAT.
I just put in broccoli, Brussels, bok choy and daikon. Always enjoy your videos and information
Nice! Hopefully the brussels work out for you!
I LIKE All if the videos. short and long. thank you
Glad you like them!
I’m in NorCal zone 10a and had calendulas bloom for Thanksgiving last year. This fall I’m planting a large packet of BI’s CA wildflower blend in my weed patch after I trim it for a winter and spring meadow.
That's an awesome idea, maybe I will try chopping my weeda back and seed into it as well
I like these longer videos
I like long videos! ! Lots of information! Thank you❤
I started some today! Cucumbers, acorn, butternut, and yellow squash, 25 day broccoli, and loads of flowers
What's the 25 day broccoli? I'm intrigued
@@colleendemaio sweet bunch hybrid mini broccoli from Jonny’s Seed
Excellent video! I like all the detail you included about each seed. This has really inspired me to grow in the fall season here in Houston Texas!
That's awesome to hear, fall is the most relaxed growing season for sure
The long versions are great! 💥
This summer I finally got tired of poor germination and fried seedlings during the summer months and built an almost IDENTICAL (just slightly taller) cover out of wood and hardware cloth scraps. I put a rectangle of shade cloth on top on hot days. I also have a little rechargeable fan that can blow across it because when I put a digital thermometer in there, I couldn't believe how hot it was getting -- 90+ degrees with the shade cloth and 115+ without. No wonder my seeds were frying. And that's considering how relatively mild our SD summer has been so far this year.
Hi Jacques! Just want to say, all your plants in the background look great! Things are so crispy here is North Texas, even with shade cloth. My poor tomatoes are fried!
Love the long videos
Hi Jacques! I've had Nine Star broccoli in my garden for about 10 years. I originally bought seeds from Pennard's in the UK. I just wanted to warn you that the plants can get absolutely massive over time. Mine grew to about 8x8 feet and about 3' tall before it was smashed by a falling pine branch. It would root wherever it touched the ground, and that's how it got so large. I'm on the Central Coast and where I planted my broccoli the soil is heavy clay. It produces incredible amounts of food during the hungry gap every year. The shoots are delicious, but there are so many that I end up pickling them in escabeche to eat later. To me, they taste more like cauliflower than broccoli. Also, you can take cuttings to share with friends! I've propagated many new plants to give away, and some also volunteered in my compost pile from discarded stems.
PS- love the longer format videos!
I'm exciting to get those beautiful flowers,thanks Jacq 😊
I can't wait to see them all blooming!
Love in a Mist are one of my favorites. I cut them and make bouquets with High Scent sweet peas.
They look so cool and textured
Personally I love the longer videos. My only regret is that I didn't have the presence of mind to take notes, so I'll need to watch it again and list all the seeds this time. 😛
Longer is great videos are great
I set allium and brassica yesterday. Tomorrow, herbs.
I loved the video!
I have seen other channels take this kind of content and release it as Part I, Part II, Part III etc, and then, release one full version. But for me, it doesn't matter... I am happy either way. short, or long
Glad to hear it!
You have totally birthed in me a new love of flowers in my garden. I love companion flowers for my vegetables now (any suggestions for aphids???) Would love a total video on flowers especially winter blooming, and all the companion flowers and herbs for vegetables and pests ❤
Calendula is a good trap crop for aphids. I plant it near brassicas. Fall sown flowers are often referred to as “cool flowers”. Some will bloom in winter started now depending on how mild your climate is (I’m 10b), and others like yarrow, rudbekia, echinacea will grow strong roots and bloom spring/summer. Just enter in TH-cam search. I highly recommend The Gardeners Workshop videos and podcast since they specialize in flower/flower farming. 😊
@@sarahmunoz14 I am in Australia we are classed as temperate/cool . I've planted calendula because I actually want to harvest it 🤣
I should totally do a video on the flowers I'm growing. Looking for fall blooming or cool season flowers is a good starting point!
It's cool to have a mix of shorter videos and longer but I kind of think the longer ones are better because well you're not maybe in such a hurry and you can explain things more. And That's kind of funny I just discovered a whole batch of random seeds from my aunt and mom. Well I guess I won't be disappointed if they don't do anything but I'm still going to try never been very good at seeds so I won't be disappointed lol. Might be time to replenish my stash with some new seeds 😊
I planted early girl in NY last week. I went with a smaller pot to see if that won't keep them from going too nuts. When I put them in my raised bed they grow over 8 feet tall
They can be quite vigorous plants, that is for sure!
You are literally the cutest thing ever💜
Love this like video and seed starting!!
I love your videos and enjoy them very much.
It's really sad that I live in zone 7 and not much applies to me.
That burgundy broccoli is called Purple Spouting Broccoli in the UK. U plant it in the fall & it emerges in the springtime. ❤ all the varieties you are sowing.
I always wonder if it is the same because this one seems to produce early and I actually had one growing in the summer and it grew and sprouted florets without overwintering!
My cilantro went crazy this summer in central Kentucky. Grew so much that there was no way I was going to use it all. It's still going strong
Wow that's amazing, I wonder if the humidity really helps it out
@@jacquesinthegarden maybe. They are Botanical Interest seeds too
We're starting tomatoes as well. They are a cold-hearty tomato variety called Arctic Tomatoes so hopefully they will produce alongside the cilantro and we can make some fresh salsa! LOL :)
I like long form!
Awesome video loved it 😊
I grow celery and green onions, I get from the store every year, here in So. Cal zone 9, and they do very well.
That's a good point,both can always regrow them from stumps
Love the video, great information.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Now I have fomo on the Burgundy broccoli. I bought the seeds when there was a sale on Botanical Interest. I'm new to growing broccoli. When I started my cabbage and broccoli seeds last month and saw that there was only 10 seeds, I decided to practice growing with my cheap broccoli seeds first. Now I'm asking myself if it's too late to plant a couple of seeds. They say it's going to be a warm fall so it might be worth the gamble starting this late.
ETA: Now that I'veve reached the end of the video lol. I do like the long form version of these type of videos. I appreciate details and advice you give with them.
I think you can probably pull it off, if you are worried just start 2 and see!
@jacquesinthegarden I actually did start two seeds right after commenting on your video and they both have already sprouted. If I'm successful and get a harvest, I'll post it on the Epic Gardening FB group.