THE BACKYARD GROCERY STORE -- OUR NO-TILL GARDENING SUCCESS STORY!
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- Although the cooler winter has delayed our harvests by several weeks, our broccoli and cauliflower is finally ready to gather. Join us as we show you which varieties performed the best and how we know when to harvest.
CHEERS CABBAGE - bit.ly/3oMiYul
GREEN MAGIC BROCCOLI - bit.ly/39uD1qE
EMERALD CROWN BROCCOLI - bit.ly/35HwAQ3
MINUTEMAN CAULIFLOWER - bit.ly/35I0FyR
TWISTER CAULIFLOWER - bit.ly/2XJlxRW
BRAVEHEART LETTUCE - bit.ly/38I7z9c
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Looks good Travis. I like what you’re doing, a no till garden to help those who are inclined that way AND the traditional gardens to help the rest. 👌
A little something for everyone!
Yes like how you compare the too
This is great man! Every year we get a bit closer to real self sufficiency...we can’t wait for our garden bounty this year!
When you guys make sauerkraut please make a video of the process. I have made a ton of slaw this year and would love to learn sauerkraut too.
Will do!
Just look up the salt to cabbage ratio, work it real good until it forms a brine and let it sit in cool damp place like basement covered with cloth. Check every day to scrape mold off top. Lots of good videos on it, worked my first try and still in my root cellar in a big crock after 5 months, just scoop it out as needed.
It was interesting watching you harvest and talk no till. I love straight lines and clean rows in my garden, I could not do no till mostly because of the messy look.
Yeah I'm more of a straight-row guy myself. I can't deal with the randomized plant spacing.
Beautiful veg!!!
I just ordered a bunch of seeds and was extremely impressed at how promptly they were delivered.... so excited to plant my first garden. I have been watching all of your videos in preparation . ❤️
Thanks for your order Kim!
Harvesting some great Cheers cabbage, Green Magic and Packman broccoli, Buttercrunch lettuce and Bolero carrots. Thankful for you and Greg's guidance. My production of quality food has more than doubled over the last 3 years since I found Hoss Tools....none better.
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I have been in south Georgia this time of year before and it was cold and snowy you are lucky you had such a good year.
We just try to make the best of what the weather gives us.
I used my frost bitten turnip greens and rutabaga greens to cover my soil too. Just to give the bare soil some cover through our NY winter. Then I’ll compost it once it warms up
Nice looking veggies picked.
You should save some of those big lower leaves for cabbage rolls🤗
First time planting a fall/winter garden. This is a new plot. Soil PH was 5 add 200 lbs pelleted lime late summer. Planted broccoli,cauliflower,Brussels sprouts,Romaine lettuce,spinach carrots, and onions late Oct/ early Nov. Slow growing. Have harvested some lettuce so far. I watch the row by row show on how fertilize broccoli,cauliflower,cabbage and Brussels sprouts but I was late starting that recommendation. Would like to see more shows like that one on some more crops with the poster cards. Hopefully when the weather improves it will get a jump start. I plan to take a soil sample in a few weeks. Thanks Travis tell Greg after Thursday Row by Row he is the CATS MEOW !!
Thanks ZW!
Gary, Schmelzer - I fertilize my brassicas with 20-20-20 + MicroBoost delivered via drip every 2 weeks.
That broccoli looks good to me.
I lost all of my broccoli, cabbage and lettuce in the single-layer hoop house in mid Dec. We had 40+ mph winds that blew it over combined with single-digit temperatures. In short, it froze hard. My double layer hinged house made it through and I pulled some carrots a few days ago for soup. Being outside Chicago, lucky to have anything growing outside at this time of year. :)
Just bought all my fertilizer! Some lettuce seeds too!! I’m about ready to grow me some vegetables!!
I really really really enjoyed that video!
I follow crops like cabbage with my push mover and mulch blades. Break down takes no time at all! Love the channel!
Nice catch!
Our Detroit Beets, Starfighter Lettuce and Tehama Lettuce has all started coming up in the raised bed. We have broccoli and Cheers Cabbage sprouting in the seed tray.
All great choices!
I'm in Northern Indiana, zone 5b. My gardening season is a bit away, but I do have some things growing indoors. I have a couple varieties of leaf lettuce, 5 varieties of kale, some onions, and lots of herbs. A couple experimental things I'm doing are a bush bean, snap peas and radishes. So far, they're all doing great!
Sounds great!
I grew your Godzilla Broccoli and I must say I am super thrilled with it. In the past I tried Destiny broccoli and for some reason it was persnickety for me, germination rate was poor and it bolted. Godzilla has leaves that are huge (mine are fanned out not upright) and the head of broccoli gorgeous. So thank you for that recommendation. I am super happy with it.
Glad you like it!
I harvest three cabbage heads they had black mold in between each leaves. I believe it was the moisture we had a lot of rain, and it's been cold no drying out of the soil.
Yet another fantastic video! Thank you and keep up the good work. Cant wait for the spring season!
Very helpful
I like 👍 ♥ 😋 your market
Thanks Momma J!
i am a broccoli stalk guy..I dont eat the tree top portion often. The lady eats that part.
I like the stalks too. Last year I grew green skinned kohlrabi (gigante variety) and some got up to 2kg in size. My favourite way to eat kohlrabi is to eat the white flesh raw. It's very similar in taste to broccoli stalk. So, if you like broccoli stalks I'm sure you would like raw kohlrabi. Not commonly found in supermarkets though.
Never tried these veggies before but I ordered seeds for the cabbage and broccoli along with others from you 2 days ago to try in the fall.
Thanks for your order Gerhard!
I love your updates, as I am growing Godzilla too. Btw, my family actually likes the broccoli flowers. Taste very buttery.
Hi just just happy to watch all the gardening that you do I had such a good pumpkin crop but bugs just got out of hand by me just me farming on my own cucumbers to
Same here. The squash bugs & powdery mildew stopped my melons dead in their tracks a lot earlier than I wanted. Never got any good size pumpkins because of that. Going to try a pmr variety this yr & see if that works👍
@@gailpetchenik3048 powdery mildew is super easy to control. Mix whole milk to water about 1:3 (milk:water) spray it all over your plants and it’ll kill the PM. Milk is alkaline and will raise the pH of the leaf surface and prevent the PM from taking over. You’ll have to respray if rain washes the milk off, but if inside a greenhouse, you generally can get away with only spraying 1-2 times per crop season.
@@covid-19ispsychologicalwar10 I tried that & even sprayed with a fungicide. It still killed everything. All I can hope for is that the pmr seeds I bought for this yr work🤪
I’ve been harvesting kidney beans, green beans, pink eye purple hull peas, lettuce, carrots, turnips, radishes. My cauliflower just started making heads and my broccoli hasn’t started yet and neither have my rutabagas. My cabbage is almost ready. I’m in zone 10a so I can grow all year. When do you think I should plant pumpkins? I should plant them a little sooner than you do I’d think??? The seeds mostly all came from you! Thank you! I love my garden!
As soon as the soils warm to 70-80 degrees, you should be fine to plant pumpkins.
Hoss Tools ok thank you. We’re close to that now actually. But we have a couple nights of upper forties and lower fifties this week so I’ll wait a bit longer. I just finished prepping my tater garden. Now I’m waiting for them to heal over and in they go! Thank you so much!
Trav do you apply Nitrogen to those cabbage normally....(not anything to do with no till) when its cold? How cold is too cold to apply Nitrogen to them?
Following
I apply it even if it's cold.
Do you still apply the fertilizer to the broccoli and cauliflower as they’re making heads
Not really.
@@gardeningwithhoss thanks
I cannot seem to grow cauliflower to save my life. Do you have a video on planting them or caring for them or anything? I'm new to your channel. I have not tried your brand yet though so maybe that is my problem. 😉
Not yet! It will try your patience. It seems that it will never make, then it will sneak up on you and boom be ready.
Question about soil health. This will be our 3rd year in our raised garden beds. While we have had success, some plants just aren't doing as well as we hoped. We're in N. Texas, zone 8a. We sent off soil samples for testing this winter. Texas A&M does soil tests for all our counties. The results came back high in phosphorus. The recommendation was to add nitrogen and avoid adding compost for several years. I'm confused about the compost part but did add some blood meal. Is it possible to plant nitrogen fixing cover crops under tomatoes, peppers and okra plants to help build the nitrogen in the soil? That way we don't miss out on growing some of the veggies we love? Also our pH was measured at 7.9. What would you suggest for bringing that down a little closer to 7 or a little acidic.
You'll actually want the pH to be between 6.0-6.5 for most all vegetables. Raising pH is pretty easy with lime, but lowering pH can be tough. Cover cropping will certainly help, but not sure you want to grow the cover crop among your vegetable plants. The cover crops will likely grow faster than the vegetables, and you'll have to find some way to mow them to keep them manageable. And they'll also likely go to seed before the vegetable crops are done, so you'll have to incorporate them into the soil while the vegetables are growing.
Do you have a good recipe for coleslaw?
Cabbage, carrots, mayo, vinegar, salt & pepper and a little lemon juice. We don't go by a specific recipe -- just keep adding a little until it tastes good to us.
Hello Hoss,
How come you cut the plant at dirt level?
Why not pull the plant?
Just easier to do it that way. And you leave all the good bacterial and fungal root associations in the soil.
How do I know when my cabbage has maxed out and is ready to harvest? Not sure if it’s still growing or it’s just. ‘Personal sized’ and complete! AND what is fertilizer schedule for cabbage to get it a little larger in the future please?
That can be a bit of a tricky game as well. If you let it go too long, it can start to split. I'd say grab it if you're hungry!
Do you look at long term seasonal weather forecasts in determining your plantings? Is reliable water something you have to consider?
We plant most everything on drip tape, so water is not a huge issue. The drip tape conserves water and puts it at the plant roots, right where they need it. We don't really pay that much attention to the long-term forecasts. You'll have good years and not so good years, but we just roll with the punches.
Also - why do you bag it to store? Does it keep better in a plastic bag with holes? I've always found produce lasts longer without a bag, just sitting on a shelf or in a drawer. Curious about storage of veggies like this!
When we were market farming, we tested several different ways of storing veggies so that they would keep until our delivery dates. The best way we found was the produce bags tied in a knot, with holes poked in the top.
I am putting in a new garden. Going between a raised bed/mounded garden versus the flat bed traditional type. What if any suggestions do you have?
Elevated beds work well if you have drainage issues. But if you garden area drains well and doesn't really hold water, no need to take that extra step.
@@gardeningwithhoss My garden slope is good. lots of red clay. Gonna tend with bermuda grass and some crab grass with rag weed. gonna tarp until mid-March except for tilling in some manure. Any other suggestions?
Have you ever fertilized with “chicken manure tea”? I have lots of chickens ready to donate to help their Mother Hen 😉
We've fertilized with chicken manure plenty of times. Never made tea with it.
After you harvest do you leave the stems/leaves behind and just till them in?
Yes, that is normally what we would do. However, since we're not tilling this plot, we'll just cut the stalks at soil level and let it all decompose naturally until we cover it all with compost before planting again.
I was wondering if I have enough time to plant some cauliflower and broccoli 🥦 before our hot spring in zone 9b?
My last frost is on March 1,
Also can you advice on tomatoes transplants?
When do you think will be the best to plant them outdoors?
Sure. Go for it!
What made you decide to do no till??? How long have you done till. Our ground gets really compact in ky am afraid it wouldn't be aerated enough and turn into clay. The front yard doesn't grow as much as the back same piece of land but the flower bed near the house but its not been tilled and its just turns into hard clay mess. Hard get plants to do well bc it's the north side and the soil way better in the garden. Just curious been taught to till for years ???
We've just been doing it in one plot for not quite a year. Just doing it as a comparison to the other plots to see what the fuss is all about.
@@gardeningwithhoss yes I will keep following lot ppl doing but I can understand if u don't have good quality soon do it raised beds. But curious to see how it goes. I know some don't plow much anymore around here and have hard time with weeds. For their bigger crops nit just garden. We had root rot in out hay field this year and killed our red clover so frustrating feel like the ground need be broke some let some of the air in so doesn't get so compacted so was curious and will keep following to see how it goes.
You mentioned leaving the cabbage debris in the garden. Can the broccoli and cauliflower debris be tilled back into the ground?
It could as long as it didn't look diseased.
Travis, you mentioned bags to put the cabbage &, etc., in the frig from Amazon. What are they called?
Just search for produce bags.
@@gardeningwithhoss I searched produce bags & there are so many of them listed. Do you have a fav?
These are the ones I use: www.amazon.com/Royal-HDPE-Produce-Rolls-Plastic/dp/B06W55X13F/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=plastic+produce+bags&qid=1610852615&sr=8-6
???? How do you feel with brassica loving pests?
We spray B.t. during the cool months and that takes care of them pretty easy.
The rabbits are currently harvesting the broccoli and cabbage. Didn’t even have heads on them yet. They did in the cauliflower and Brussels sprouts before they really even started to grow. 🤦🏻♀️
Well that stinks!
Where do you get your bulb crates?
Some of the commercial farmers around here have extras that we get from time to time.
@@gardeningwithhoss searching for the same here in SC!
Why is it we can not order seed catalog from yall
We no longer print a catalog. But you can find all our seed varieties here: hosstools.com/product-category/premium-garden-seeds/
My brocolli has gown much taller than yours. My napa cabbage grew tall and going to seed. We have been in 40's this zone 9 10. Why did they do this
Probably had more nitrogen than I did.
You can feed those waste cabbage leaves to pigs. 😃😃😃😃