I love that you guys are like crap talking fraternity brothers all the time! I truly love your dynamic! I need a garden partner in crime. Lol Great video, as usual.
As a hive mind bees can spend up to 3 weeks searching and discussing locations for a new hive. As a true democracy they communicate until a decision is unanimously decided amongst the entire hive. That's really cool a sunflower can act as temporary home for them I wouldn't have thought it!
To my knowledge and experience, when i'ts like that as a swarm it does have about 3 days before it needs to find a new home, they have for about 3days worth of food in them so they need to get settled quickly to get back to foraging.
@@thiccityd9773 th-cam.com/video/NDnQ4pAjBUg/w-d-xo.html primarily at 5min. Check their sources and find your own also even if i'm wrong im not here to convince you, just to share the knowledge I've learned.
They sure do! We have 3 out here in Southern California. Bought a pack of peas when I was in Trinidad back in 2019. They're still going and winter over nicely in Southern California.
You guys are great together! I love the back and forth between you guys. Jacques has an infectious laugh. Kevin cracks me up. I learn so much from the both of you. Thank you!! 😊 Yes, I'm starting a second sowing!
These seed starting videos are definitely some of my favorite! They're timely and great inspiration as a fellow zone 10 gardener. Seeing this gives me a good kick in the pants to get out and start some seeds at the right time. Plus the back and forth jabs are so wholesome.
Bobka is a very patient kitty haha. I hadn't commented on how you hold her cos she didn't seem to mind too much, especially because you put her down when she squirms (which is far more important than any hold technique - respecting the cat as an individual living being is something that a lot of people struggle with, but putting her down when she squirms shows you do respect her individuality), but yes there are better ways. give their bellies and feets all the support you can. the best way is to hold them like you're burping a baby. All my cats are ok with hanging over my shoulder like that. three of them I can carry with one arm, the fourth is a bit more skittish and needs more support.
🌱 I'm in zone 7b and got my second greenstalk tower a few weeks ago (from Epic Gardening! Thanks Kris for your help with Customer Service!) and so I decided why not, let's just toss in more green beans even though we're at the end of June. I was overall late with planting this year but I thought it couldn't hurt to try. We'll see how it goes, I've been a fan of this channel for a long time but am only now in a place where I can start my own garden!
I absolutely love your trays and 6 and 4 seed cell trays! I thought they were so expensive and that maybe the whole 'reusable' thing was a bit of a marketing gimmick or something but then I decided I want to support you guys anyway so i bought a bunch and I've gotta say... I was so wrong! The quality of these is amazing and they really are trays and cells that will last years and years! They are *nothing* like the ones you buy off amazon and at home depot or wherever. Those ones really suck in comparison and are a waste of money. Anyway, love your products, thank you for making them!
Awesome to see you guys growing pigeon peas. Those are a staple in every Puerto Rican garden. They grow into a small tree about 5-6 feet high. If you prune it it'll become bushier and produce more.
This year I’ve been succession sowing determinate tomato plants so I’ll have multiple large harvests over the summer and into the fall to make sauce. I also just planted my second round of watermelons because my first round is putting on fruit now. Flowers and basil get direct sowed all throughout the summer. I feel like I’m finally figuring out how to optimize how much I can get out of the space I have. Having a long growing season here in NorCal definitely helps!
I’ve had great success with inter planting tomatoes and basil, basil does okay enough in low light environments that it can thrive under tomato plants.
I can’t be the only one when Kevin said he was a daddy I was like yasss. Lol I love their banter, I’m glad you guys reminded me I would succession plant zucchini because idk why but mine are huge and still no fruit 😢
if you add a little sandpaper to the side of your table you always have an added tool to your table. The waterproof sandpaper is more expensive but it will last you longer.
Hanging pantry stable tomatoes!? Potatoes from seeds!? Love it. Zone 4b seed started for fall basically. Kale, cabbage, romanesco. Peas, carrots, spinach, beans going in the ground July. I also need to start more sunflowers thanks for the reminder.
Love your ongoing bro-mance. Looks like you are having fun. I’m dreaming of a bean and melon paradise. Just planted two weeks ago. So far, I’ve germinated Sunshine & Sunset runner beans, red noodle & mosaic yard long beans, Greek gigantic beans, autumn zebra beans, greasy grits beans, India hybrid & India white hybrid bitter melon, and kajari melons. Some curious creature ate my cucumber and torpedo melon sprouts! 😩 Whyyyyy?! Could you do a video on when to harvest dried beans? Do I let them dry on the vine? Or pick them and dry them in the house? Thanks for these encouraging videos.
Storage tomatoes sound right up my alley! I love that I always learn about something new here 😀. And I’m definitely planning a second sowing of more sweet potatoes, luffa, moringa and eucalyptus
It's so cool you're planting pigeon peas. You won't be sorry. We use it in Trinidad and Tobago to make quite a few dishes, especially a rice dish called pelau. Good luck!
Always love a good garden video thank you so much for sharing and I love how you show me how to get our gardens looking beautiful on the budget always love these type of card and the kitty super cute too hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy and
Growing in Zone 6b, but man it's been a weird year for gardening up here in the Pacific Northwest. I'll consider myself lucky if we're harvesting our first tomatoes by August; normally I've got heaps of Sungold tomatoes in June but it took until the solstice for the sun to finally show up! And word up on the yard-long beans from Kitazawa! I have some Akasanjaku in the ground that I'm trying to grow in between my usual varieties of bush beans, hoping for giant towers sticking out from the crowded sea of hobbit beans below. Tried to get some scarlet runners started but the slugs and earwigs just went to town on them in our wet spring. I vow to start anything and everything indoors in February next year, so I'm hoping that I can swoop up some of those colorful trays along with some domes and 1020 bases before then. Keep up the good work, lads, the gardens look amazing!
Looking at newly started plants and being asked where in the garden they'll go... We don't talk about that🤣 Story of my life right now. But I need more plants.. because . Just because.
I felt that when he said don't ask where the plants are going 😂 I just want them and that's all I know! Do I have space or the set up right now? Who knows 😂💜
I’m living life on the edge in Kansas. I’m gonna succession plant! Sort of. For the first time in my gardening life there are tons of insects (I’ve never heard of) that have been devouring my garden. Some massive, demonic beetle thingie from the abyss was absolutely murdering one of my sunflowers! It was so crispy and huge I was timid about removing it. Plus our region is hotter and it seems to stay hot much longer than when I was a teen… Some of my plants died off or bolted much sooner because it hit 100 in MAY, instead of July. Oops. My old house never had so much as an aphid so this was a shock to see colorful little armies having the munchies on my best efforts. The soil I had before was brown gold! Anything I sowed flourished without amendments.I didn’t realize how rare that is haha! So I started some compost and this fall it will be ready soon. The first loss is so hard, Kevin. Stay cool out there and thanks for the regular morale boost. Hi Jacques, fellow hermit! My favorite episodes are when you are with Kevin and cracking jokes. I love you too!
That cat puts up with so much from you two. lol One day you'll learn to pick him/her up properly... It's midwinter down here in New Zealand so everything is growing slowly. My back patch doesn't get much sun at the best of times. Always good to get ideas on what grows elsewhere!
Great video I would enjoy seeing seeds going into pots!! Maybe move trays that are in front so we can see actual seeds going into soil!? Happy Growing!!
Thanks for the tip about Sweet alysumm, I was at a plant nursery and bought a punnet of them. Scattered the seedlings (starts) around in my veggie beds. Blessings from Australia ❤️
I'm sowing a bunch of stuff atm. Herbs, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, and some flowers. I live in a apartment in LA. I garden on my balcony and it has proven to be a challenge to get right. It also doesn't help that my previous tomato seedlings got severe sun scald during june... I hope they recover but if not I got ones I'm starting up. What sucks is that the sun doesn't hit every part of balcony during the summer due to it being directly above me. I have to wait until September for the sun to lower and have it hit most of my balcony. That's my prime growing time plus it isn't as hot.
You should also offer the bottom watering trays in the other colors that you have. For mix and match or the little ocd in people. Would be pretty cool. 😀
Really excited to hear Asian Garden 2 Table referenced on your channel. Love her! Seeds i purchased from her like 4-5 years ago still germinate for me to this day
a couple years ago I grew the Yard long green and red and the royal purple beans. I had such a great harvest that I wanted to share some, so I took half gallon jars and rolled the long beans around my hand and then stuffed them in the jars and then added a few purple staggering the colors. I then pickled them. People told me it was "THE BEST" gift ever. BTW I love watching you two garden, you guys teach us stuff at the same time of giving us a good laugh. Please keep up the great work.
I'm in Georgia so my summer crop is in and am now preparing my winter crop. I so love your family of channels! It's been my crash course in gardening and has taught me an incredible amount! I ADORE watching you and Jacque have fun together!
You guys remind me of my son and his friends just hanging out talking crap and making me laugh....I'm in central Mexico and we're in the cool rainy season, so I'm going to start some more salad greens and brocolli...also going to throw some wildflower seeds out there and see what they do...
I'm actually on my first sowing due to two freak frosts - one in April and halfway through May!! I lost nearly all of my seeds and only my garlic and potatoes survived. I live on the coast near the redwoods in Northern Cali and am just now getting sprouts... but I'm getting sprouts!!! I'm very excited and hopefully we will get enough sun this season to make all my new veggies grow! :)
I live in 7a in Oklahoma. I am planting a second planting of potatoes, green beans, zucchini, and cucumbers right now. The middle to the end of Augest I will plant my fall crops of carrots, peas, broccolli, cabbage and all the salad stuff. My first frost date is November 10th so I have plenty of time
I love listening to you two together. I have had bad luck with my beans this year. The peas are just finishing up. Weird weather up in Central Coastal California this year. Tomatoes not turning red yet and it’s July!
I live in Texas zone 9a, we have a 250 day from last to first frost. We grow continuously and donate most of it our homeless shelter kitchen. This year we've been experiencing a hades heat wave. We've had to use a lot shade cloth for our plants. Happy gardening with your gardening buddy Jacques
I live in Michigan and I just started a second summer sowing! I've already got squash, beans, cucumbers, etc. growing, but realized I'll probably need to replace some plants in the coming month or so. Better to be prepared!
You 2 are a blast to watch together, seriously! Yes, I’m starting another round of seeds now of plants that are basically the same as you 2 were suggesting. Everything popped so much faster this time, I’m about to up pot or transplant outside already. My biggest reason for failures & having to have a bigger mid season seed starting session is because I went crazy in the beginning & planted too many seeds and way too many vegetable plants, and everything got neglected. Hopefully I learned a lesson that will stay with me forever. BTW- I’m so stoked for the trays coming out and the high dome lids for the 4 cell pots( best pot ever)!
I'm so excited for the 4 cell domes and trays! I would love the dibbler, but still waiting for that plug poker thing that Kevin showed earlier this year! 😍
Oh my gosh I can listen to you guys banter in the garden all day... I live on Maui and have powdery mildew on everything. So we usually just get one flush of fruit and pull the plants. I am learning so much from you both! Thanks guys!!
I am starting more sunflowers. I’m in NorCal and put a few seeds in the ground year round. They’re just shorter in winter. I’m also starting another round of cucumber and more basil to grow under the canopy of my tomato plants.
Im in Portland Oregon. Rain has chilled and washed out the Spring. So, Round #1 will be the Summer round. Im appreciating this video to encourage seed starting. 🙋♀️
I’m in pdx, too, and the slugs have had a fabulous spring in my garden. Only the peas survived, so heading straight to squash, cukes. Thank goodness for CSA!
Can you do a follow up on the progression of your sunflower seedlings to show how you move them to bigger pots up until when you permanently plant them in ground or in containers?
Asheville, NC area: I've sown a late set of limas, cowpeas, spinach and plan to sow some chard. Cloned cuttings of my tomatoes were recently potted up for a late flush there.
There a few different species of strawflowers sometimes called paper daisies. Some are short lived perrenials or biaanuals and depending on your climate you can be having blooms all through winter. I have a couple of locally native species where I am in Australia and they are absolute pollinator powerhouses. They are known to be important plants for native butterflies and other pollinators here.
I wish I lived nearer to you guys. I Thank You for your channels. We screwed up and didn't plant then we got tickets to Burning Man and everything will die while we are away so I have no Ace tomatoes and other veggies this year.
I'm definitely doing a second sowing, not because of any failures so far, but because I don't want any unproductive space. I planted carrots back in May, and will be sowing more soon (and still more later on), I have the last of the long-season onions I started a couple months ago to go into the ground, and then I have a number of different shorter-season onion seeds which will be sown here and there throughout my garden. Also "regular" and Japanese cucumbers, I started them indoors some time ago, but I think I'm going to try sowing a couple of seeds directly, to see how they do with that method.
Oh guys, I'm in zone 4 and everything is planted out trying to grow till frost hits. But you inspired me to look up what seeds I have and find place where to plant them.
@@kristydoman3434 I tried potatoes, carrots, beetroot and rutabaga (swede). All of them last year managed to grow even when sown in July. This year was extreemely wet and cool where we live. So many of my plants that would already be cropping on regular year still try to grow. Fingers crossed something still manages to grow and provide us with food.
I love strawflowers. We had a big ol' self seeded collection at our old house. Planting more was the first thing I did at the new house and I can't wait to see how they spread and create new colors as they pollinate in the coming years.
Here in Alabama, or at least in my garden, powdery mildew starts shortly after I transplant my cukes and zucchinis. I immediately use my grand grandmother's remedy. I grab a container with Ash from the fireplace and sprinkle it all over the leaves of the plants. Usually one or two applications is plenty. This year, so far, I had to use it only once.
I’m growing luffa too. I snipped the edge of the round side with nail clippers and had 13 of 14 seeds germinate. I started them in February and am just now getting them moved outside due to the over abundance of rain and low temps in Oregon this spring. I’m hopeful that they will work out, I harvested the seeds from my brother’s plants so I do know it’s possible for them to grow here. I’m excited to watch them grow! I’m also giving the Clancy potatoes a try, keep us updated on them Jaques!!
You guys never fail to crack me up!! 😂 I can see you work well together & are good friends. You are very fortunate to have one another. ✨🌻Great vibes!🌻✨
Definitely starting a second sowing for summer. I was away in Hawaii (like you) for about a month for work, and have some extra space that needs filling, and a few plants that didn't quite make it.
Those bottom tray 10x20s look legit and if they're the same quality as the 6-cells I'm sure they will last a lifetime. Speaking of which I love the color options, those pink cells look awesome! Now that we are in the hottest days of CA summer I am curious to know just how much cooler the soil temperature in the pinks are. BTW suggestion to make your store more user friendly, is consistency with how you select size, color and amount. Personally I prefer how you did the 4-cells, it's less clutter in the entire store just having the one 4-cells button, instead of one for each color like there is with the 6-cells (Which BTW the photos for the new colors are still the original black). The only confusing thing is you select the color of the 4-cells under a tab labelled "size". So if you're going with the default amount you might never see that option. A single button & page for each type of product, where you can further select all options regarding color, depth, and amount, makes the most sense to me.
No second sowing until August. Too hot here in Dallas, Tx (101 degrees). Tomatoes are about to fizzle out. Taking suckers to plant up and keep inside - then wait for cooler temps. to plant outside. BTW. - love the chemistry. Ya'll make me feel like I'm included in your garden friends circle.
@@cathysteele924 you can plant immediately if you want. I have mine in water. I’ll pot up as soon as I see some roots form. Lots of videos on TH-cam about it
if you want some super easy to take care of flowers that buttlerflies, hummingbirds, and smaller pollinators absolutely love, I recommend some verbenas. i planted some like a year or two ago and they not only come back every year but they spread like no other plant ive ever seen. tall clusters of small purple flowers
I’m interested in following up with your verbena recommendation. I am in zone 8 A. Would you mind sharing where are you got your seeds that have done so well? Thank you!
I’m also going to start a second sowing because my cucumbers and okra got fried in the heat wave and I went on vacation and didn’t use a shade cloth. The same thing happen to me with Shasta daisies and purple coneflower. I got them as starts at a nursery and maybe it was mislabeled or I was confused. Now I am planting more purple coneflower and sunflowers as well.
I love this so much! LOL I have stuff growing and I have no idea where I'm going to plant it. LOL I live on an acre, but it's not all 'garden' ready lol You guys are great!
As I was looking at your table of contents list, I was wondering about the Skyscrapper Sunflower ... "Is it a tough, shorter sunflower that scraps with the tall plants?" But when you said it and it was listed on the video, the extra 'p' was gone. I just thought I'd give you a heads up (or down, when it's going to seed ;D) about the type-o in both table of contents (list and videos below that) in the description. I hope you got a bit of a chuckle out of how I interpreted the possible name - I'm not familiar with various kinds of sunflower seeds, so it could have been with 2 p's. :D Thanks for your videos (actually, this is my first time on your homesteading site, I usually watch the epic gardening videos). Even though you can do a lot more in your climate than I can in mine, I still learn from your videos. I'm in central BC where the winters get as low as -40 C/F for a week (or colder) each winter, and this year the snow came & stayed on 3 Nov & the last bit of snow melted in mid April. However, I do love the sunlight hours, currently from about 5 am to 9 pm, a far cry from the winter days in Dec (as short as 8:20 am to 3:45 pm) so I much prefer the summers here!
I just started a second round last week. This year I got off to a late start (due next month with our first child and I did not have the energy for a garden after teaching all day 😴) so I bought some starter plants to tide me over. I started pole and bush beans, marigolds, thyme, basil, tomatoes, squash (winter and summer), peppers (hot and sweet), mint, he butterfly peas, lettuce and spinach for some of my shady areas. We're hoping this kid loves to be out in the garden and will feel free enough to just go out and grab a snack whenever he likes 😂
Just finished my second summer sew today. I'm in New Orleans so similar climate to you guys. I got a bit overzealous tho and started some new peppers lol. We'll see how that works out.
I'm in Newfoundland and our last frost was only a couple weeks ago, but we're now sitting at around 25 degrees celsius in the day. There's just no predicting what the weather will do here. So I literally planted my first beans today, meanwhile the peas I cold sowed in April haven't set a single flower yet. Just got all my summer squash transplants hardened off and set in the ground a couple days ago, tomatoes same. It's the very beginning of our warm season here.
As someone from the south US, it would be awesome to see you do a video on plants that are heat-tolerate. Summers are crazy out here lol
I love that you guys are like crap talking fraternity brothers all the time! I truly love your dynamic! I need a garden partner in crime. Lol Great video, as usual.
As a hive mind bees can spend up to 3 weeks searching and discussing locations for a new hive. As a true democracy they communicate until a decision is unanimously decided amongst the entire hive. That's really cool a sunflower can act as temporary home for them I wouldn't have thought it!
Damn wish we were more like bees lol
To my knowledge and experience, when i'ts like that as a swarm it does have about 3 days before it needs to find a new home, they have for about 3days worth of food in them so they need to get settled quickly to get back to foraging.
That's amazing. I want to be a bee.
This is so untrue lmao
@@thiccityd9773 th-cam.com/video/NDnQ4pAjBUg/w-d-xo.html primarily at 5min. Check their sources and find your own also even if i'm wrong im not here to convince you, just to share the knowledge I've learned.
One of the best uses for dark opal basil is herbed butter! It turns the butter pink and looks and tastes amazing
Thank you. Will so try this with Opal basil I'm growing this year. Also trying a red Krishna holy basil
That sounds great, I might need to try this now
Make pesto with it; surprise friends with classic taste in a new color ;)
Oh I’m gonna do this!
That sounds amazing! Gonna HAVE to try that! Thank you for sharing!
Kevin during the Q&A: "I don't know why people think we're together"
Also Kevin: "Jaques /loves/ to tease. Let me just tell you that"
Pigeon peas turn into a large tree. I have six plants this year in my garden in Trinidad and Tobago.
They sure do! We have 3 out here in Southern California. Bought a pack of peas when I was in Trinidad back in 2019. They're still going and winter over nicely in Southern California.
A "Growing Beans , from seed to can, from can to kitchen" would be a really fitting video from the homesteading channel !
You guys are great together! I love the back and forth between you guys. Jacques has an infectious laugh. Kevin cracks me up. I learn so much from the both of you. Thank you!! 😊
Yes, I'm starting a second sowing!
These seed starting videos are definitely some of my favorite! They're timely and great inspiration as a fellow zone 10 gardener. Seeing this gives me a good kick in the pants to get out and start some seeds at the right time. Plus the back and forth jabs are so wholesome.
Y’all play off each other really well. I like all the laughs. It makes the learning painless.
Bobka is a very patient kitty haha. I hadn't commented on how you hold her cos she didn't seem to mind too much, especially because you put her down when she squirms (which is far more important than any hold technique - respecting the cat as an individual living being is something that a lot of people struggle with, but putting her down when she squirms shows you do respect her individuality), but yes there are better ways. give their bellies and feets all the support you can. the best way is to hold them like you're burping a baby. All my cats are ok with hanging over my shoulder like that. three of them I can carry with one arm, the fourth is a bit more skittish and needs more support.
🌱 I'm in zone 7b and got my second greenstalk tower a few weeks ago (from Epic Gardening! Thanks Kris for your help with Customer Service!) and so I decided why not, let's just toss in more green beans even though we're at the end of June. I was overall late with planting this year but I thought it couldn't hurt to try. We'll see how it goes, I've been a fan of this channel for a long time but am only now in a place where I can start my own garden!
Kris is so helpful!!!
I absolutely love your trays and 6 and 4 seed cell trays! I thought they were so expensive and that maybe the whole 'reusable' thing was a bit of a marketing gimmick or something but then I decided I want to support you guys anyway so i bought a bunch and I've gotta say... I was so wrong! The quality of these is amazing and they really are trays and cells that will last years and years! They are *nothing* like the ones you buy off amazon and at home depot or wherever. Those ones really suck in comparison and are a waste of money. Anyway, love your products, thank you for making them!
Awesome to see you guys growing pigeon peas. Those are a staple in every Puerto Rican garden. They grow into a small tree about 5-6 feet high. If you prune it it'll become bushier and produce more.
You two are hysterical. I needed a good laugh. I am going to plant again. Grasshoppers took out most of my spring crop
I couldn't stop laughing at the seed bae/salt bae comment....it was stuck in my head of him posing like the salt guy but Jacques hat style...
This year I’ve been succession sowing determinate tomato plants so I’ll have multiple large harvests over the summer and into the fall to make sauce.
I also just planted my second round of watermelons because my first round is putting on fruit now. Flowers and basil get direct sowed all throughout the summer.
I feel like I’m finally figuring out how to optimize how much I can get out of the space I have. Having a long growing season here in NorCal definitely helps!
It's a good feeling isn't it!
I’ve had great success with inter planting tomatoes and basil, basil does okay enough in low light environments that it can thrive under tomato plants.
TURQUIOSE--turquoise seed trays would be cool, too!!! 😁
17:41 The "Just like Sprouts Market bins" dance 🤣
I can’t be the only one when Kevin said he was a daddy I was like yasss. Lol I love their banter, I’m glad you guys reminded me I would succession plant zucchini because idk why but mine are huge and still no fruit 😢
As soon a you two come on I'm smiling. Thanks for the laughs guys😃
I think the extra tools that go with the epic seed trays will be really helpful for folks who are older/or may need the extra help :3
if you add a little sandpaper to the side of your table you always have an added tool to your table. The waterproof sandpaper is more expensive but it will last you longer.
Hanging pantry stable tomatoes!? Potatoes from seeds!? Love it.
Zone 4b seed started for fall basically. Kale, cabbage, romanesco. Peas, carrots, spinach, beans going in the ground July. I also need to start more sunflowers thanks for the reminder.
Similar zone (5) and not quite the green thumb yet. Might steal some of your ideas for a fall harvest.
Love your ongoing bro-mance. Looks like you are having fun. I’m dreaming of a bean and melon paradise. Just planted two weeks ago. So far, I’ve germinated Sunshine & Sunset runner beans, red noodle & mosaic yard long beans, Greek gigantic beans, autumn zebra beans, greasy grits beans, India hybrid & India white hybrid bitter melon, and kajari melons. Some curious creature ate my cucumber and torpedo melon sprouts! 😩 Whyyyyy?! Could you do a video on when to harvest dried beans? Do I let them dry on the vine? Or pick them and dry them in the house? Thanks for these encouraging videos.
The laughing intro is such an instant classic.
Storage tomatoes sound right up my alley! I love that I always learn about something new here 😀. And I’m definitely planning a second sowing of more sweet potatoes, luffa, moringa and eucalyptus
What do you use eucalyptus for?
Nice choices!
i dont think ive ever laughed so much watching a gardening video
It's so cool you're planting pigeon peas. You won't be sorry. We use it in Trinidad and Tobago to make quite a few dishes, especially a rice dish called pelau. Good luck!
Thank you!
11:59 Now THAT is strong! HOLY COW! THANK YOU
I seriously wish Botanical Interests would consider shipping to Canada. Beautiful products!
Always love a good garden video thank you so much for sharing and I love how you show me how to get our gardens looking beautiful on the budget always love these type of card and the kitty super cute too hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy and
Growing in Zone 6b, but man it's been a weird year for gardening up here in the Pacific Northwest. I'll consider myself lucky if we're harvesting our first tomatoes by August; normally I've got heaps of Sungold tomatoes in June but it took until the solstice for the sun to finally show up!
And word up on the yard-long beans from Kitazawa! I have some Akasanjaku in the ground that I'm trying to grow in between my usual varieties of bush beans, hoping for giant towers sticking out from the crowded sea of hobbit beans below. Tried to get some scarlet runners started but the slugs and earwigs just went to town on them in our wet spring.
I vow to start anything and everything indoors in February next year, so I'm hoping that I can swoop up some of those colorful trays along with some domes and 1020 bases before then. Keep up the good work, lads, the gardens look amazing!
Looking at newly started plants and being asked where in the garden they'll go...
We don't talk about that🤣
Story of my life right now. But I need more plants.. because . Just because.
I felt that when he said don't ask where the plants are going 😂 I just want them and that's all I know! Do I have space or the set up right now? Who knows 😂💜
I’m living life on the edge in Kansas. I’m gonna succession plant! Sort of. For the first time in my gardening life there are tons of insects (I’ve never heard of) that have been devouring my garden. Some massive, demonic beetle thingie from the abyss was absolutely murdering one of my sunflowers! It was so crispy and huge I was timid about removing it.
Plus our region is hotter and it seems to stay hot much longer than when I was a teen… Some of my plants died off or bolted much sooner because it hit 100 in MAY, instead of July. Oops.
My old house never had so much as an aphid so this was a shock to see colorful little armies having the munchies on my best efforts.
The soil I had before was brown gold! Anything I sowed flourished without amendments.I didn’t realize how rare that is haha!
So I started some compost and this fall it will be ready soon. The first loss is so hard, Kevin. Stay cool out there and thanks for the regular morale boost.
Hi Jacques, fellow hermit! My favorite episodes are when you are with Kevin and cracking jokes. I love you too!
When you get the trays, can you consider a 5 pack in addition to 10? 10 is super expensive and I don't need that many.
We don’t talk about…. Where these plants are going!! I feel seen.
Those leaves on that giant sunflower behind Kevin 🔥 🔥🔥 big af!!
That cat puts up with so much from you two. lol One day you'll learn to pick him/her up properly...
It's midwinter down here in New Zealand so everything is growing slowly. My back patch doesn't get much sun at the best of times. Always good to get ideas on what grows elsewhere!
These are the best videos. It is like hanging out with two friends doing my favourite thing in the world, sewing seeds and vegetable gardening
Great video I would enjoy seeing seeds going into pots!! Maybe move trays that are in front so we can see actual seeds going into soil!? Happy Growing!!
That laughing entrance gets me every time hehe 😝
Thanks for the tip about Sweet alysumm, I was at a plant nursery and bought a punnet of them. Scattered the seedlings (starts) around in my veggie beds. Blessings from Australia ❤️
The little 4 cell "greenhouses" would be great for small propagations of houseplants instead of a big prop box!! I need to get a few!!
I'm sowing a bunch of stuff atm. Herbs, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, and some flowers. I live in a apartment in LA. I garden on my balcony and it has proven to be a challenge to get right. It also doesn't help that my previous tomato seedlings got severe sun scald during june... I hope they recover but if not I got ones I'm starting up. What sucks is that the sun doesn't hit every part of balcony during the summer due to it being directly above me. I have to wait until September for the sun to lower and have it hit most of my balcony. That's my prime growing time plus it isn't as hot.
You should also offer the bottom watering trays in the other colors that you have. For mix and match or the little ocd in people. Would be pretty cool. 😀
Really excited to hear Asian Garden 2 Table referenced on your channel. Love her! Seeds i purchased from her like 4-5 years ago still germinate for me to this day
“Catch me with these peas” needs to be a t-shirt 😂 Great content as always.
a couple years ago I grew the Yard long green and red and the royal purple beans. I had such a great harvest that I wanted to share some, so I took half gallon jars and rolled the long beans around my hand and then stuffed them in the jars and then added a few purple staggering the colors. I then pickled them. People told me it was "THE BEST" gift ever. BTW I love watching you two garden, you guys teach us stuff at the same time of giving us a good laugh. Please keep up the great work.
I'm in Georgia so my summer crop is in and am now preparing my winter crop.
I so love your family of channels! It's been my crash course in gardening and has taught me an incredible amount!
I ADORE watching you and Jacque have fun together!
I'm with ya here in SC. It's sooo hot and my area is in severe drought zone.
You guys remind me of my son and his friends just hanging out talking crap and making me laugh....I'm in central Mexico and we're in the cool rainy season, so I'm going to start some more salad greens and brocolli...also going to throw some wildflower seeds out there and see what they do...
You two crack me up..i love it..I learn so much from your back and forth banter
I'm actually on my first sowing due to two freak frosts - one in April and halfway through May!! I lost nearly all of my seeds and only my garlic and potatoes survived. I live on the coast near the redwoods in Northern Cali and am just now getting sprouts... but I'm getting sprouts!!! I'm very excited and hopefully we will get enough sun this season to make all my new veggies grow! :)
I live in 7a in Oklahoma. I am planting a second planting of potatoes, green beans, zucchini, and cucumbers right now. The middle to the end of Augest I will plant my fall crops of carrots, peas, broccolli, cabbage and all the salad stuff. My first frost date is November 10th so I have plenty of time
I love listening to you two together. I have had bad luck with my beans this year. The peas are just finishing up. Weird weather up in Central Coastal California this year. Tomatoes not turning red yet and it’s July!
I live in Texas zone 9a, we have a 250 day from last to first frost. We grow continuously and donate most of it our homeless shelter kitchen. This year we've been experiencing a hades heat wave. We've had to use a lot shade cloth for our plants. Happy gardening with your gardening buddy Jacques
Love the new additions to the store. I’m hoping to see that 6-cell-sized dibbler you teased once to make up-potting easier and faster!
Totally agree!
I live in Michigan and I just started a second summer sowing! I've already got squash, beans, cucumbers, etc. growing, but realized I'll probably need to replace some plants in the coming month or so. Better to be prepared!
I love Asian Garden to Table! She's my local garden guru!
I did not know until just now that I needed a dibbler in my life.
You 2 are a blast to watch together, seriously! Yes, I’m starting another round of seeds now of plants that are basically the same as you 2 were suggesting. Everything popped so much faster this time, I’m about to up pot or transplant outside already. My biggest reason for failures & having to have a bigger mid season seed starting session is because I went crazy in the beginning & planted too many seeds and way too many vegetable plants, and everything got neglected. Hopefully I learned a lesson that will stay with me forever.
BTW- I’m so stoked for the trays coming out and the high dome lids for the 4 cell pots( best pot ever)!
I'm so excited for the 4 cell domes and trays! I would love the dibbler, but still waiting for that plug poker thing that Kevin showed earlier this year! 😍
I love that you use Johnny’s Seeds. They are just up the road from me in Boston and their quality is so amazing.
Thanks for the laughs again fellas! You two are great :D
Oh my gosh I can listen to you guys banter in the garden all day... I live on Maui and have powdery mildew on everything. So we usually just get one flush of fruit and pull the plants. I am learning so much from you both! Thanks guys!!
I am starting more sunflowers. I’m in NorCal and put a few seeds in the ground year round. They’re just shorter in winter. I’m also starting another round of cucumber and more basil to grow under the canopy of my tomato plants.
Jaques the 'seed bae' 🌱
Im in Portland Oregon. Rain has chilled and washed out the Spring. So, Round #1 will be the Summer round. Im appreciating this video to encourage seed starting. 🙋♀️
I’m in pdx, too, and the slugs have had a fabulous spring in my garden. Only the peas survived, so heading straight to squash, cukes. Thank goodness for CSA!
I’m excited to see all of those flowers blooming in and amongst all of your food!!! 🤩
I'm second sowing a ton of stuff while watching this in Oklahoma.
Can you do a follow up on the progression of your sunflower seedlings to show how you move them to bigger pots up until when you permanently plant them in ground or in containers?
Asheville, NC area: I've sown a late set of limas, cowpeas, spinach and plan to sow some chard. Cloned cuttings of my tomatoes were recently potted up for a late flush there.
There a few different species of strawflowers sometimes called paper daisies. Some are short lived perrenials or biaanuals and depending on your climate you can be having blooms all through winter. I have a couple of locally native species where I am in Australia and they are absolute pollinator powerhouses. They are known to be important plants for native butterflies and other pollinators here.
I wish I lived nearer to you guys. I Thank You for your channels. We screwed up and didn't plant then we got tickets to Burning Man and everything will die while we are away so I have no Ace tomatoes and other veggies this year.
Yes, the seed trays are soooo flimsy. I'm always almost dropping my seeds! Excited for your seed tray!!!
Mmmmm… Pigeon peas(aka Gandules in Puerto Rico)!!🤗
I'm definitely doing a second sowing, not because of any failures so far, but because I don't want any unproductive space. I planted carrots back in May, and will be sowing more soon (and still more later on), I have the last of the long-season onions I started a couple months ago to go into the ground, and then I have a number of different shorter-season onion seeds which will be sown here and there throughout my garden. Also "regular" and Japanese cucumbers, I started them indoors some time ago, but I think I'm going to try sowing a couple of seeds directly, to see how they do with that method.
Oh guys, I'm in zone 4 and everything is planted out trying to grow till frost hits. But you inspired me to look up what seeds I have and find place where to plant them.
Calendula grows so fast, you should have time.
@@kristydoman3434 I tried potatoes, carrots, beetroot and rutabaga (swede). All of them last year managed to grow even when sown in July. This year was extreemely wet and cool where we live. So many of my plants that would already be cropping on regular year still try to grow. Fingers crossed something still manages to grow and provide us with food.
I love strawflowers. We had a big ol' self seeded collection at our old house. Planting more was the first thing I did at the new house and I can't wait to see how they spread and create new colors as they pollinate in the coming years.
LOLZ on the bottom tray stress test. geez, you might as well put a dumbbell on there =). Gosh, they're having so much fun.
I'm in 8b, right now I'm planning for fall and I need to do some amending of my bed as soon as what's in there is done.
Here in Alabama, or at least in my garden, powdery mildew starts shortly after I transplant my cukes and zucchinis. I immediately use my grand grandmother's remedy. I grab a container with Ash from the fireplace and sprinkle it all over the leaves of the plants. Usually one or two applications is plenty. This year, so far, I had to use it only once.
I’m growing luffa too. I snipped the edge of the round side with nail clippers and had 13 of 14 seeds germinate. I started them in February and am just now getting them moved outside due to the over abundance of rain and low temps in Oregon this spring. I’m hopeful that they will work out, I harvested the seeds from my brother’s plants so I do know it’s possible for them to grow here. I’m excited to watch them grow! I’m also giving the Clancy potatoes a try, keep us updated on them Jaques!!
You guys never fail to crack me up!! 😂
I can see you work well together & are good friends. You are very fortunate to have one another. ✨🌻Great vibes!🌻✨
Definitely starting a second sowing for summer. I was away in Hawaii (like you) for about a month for work, and have some extra space that needs filling, and a few plants that didn't quite make it.
Those bottom tray 10x20s look legit and if they're the same quality as the 6-cells I'm sure they will last a lifetime. Speaking of which I love the color options, those pink cells look awesome! Now that we are in the hottest days of CA summer I am curious to know just how much cooler the soil temperature in the pinks are.
BTW suggestion to make your store more user friendly, is consistency with how you select size, color and amount. Personally I prefer how you did the 4-cells, it's less clutter in the entire store just having the one 4-cells button, instead of one for each color like there is with the 6-cells (Which BTW the photos for the new colors are still the original black). The only confusing thing is you select the color of the 4-cells under a tab labelled "size". So if you're going with the default amount you might never see that option.
A single button & page for each type of product, where you can further select all options regarding color, depth, and amount, makes the most sense to me.
Shasta Daisy leaves are edible. I usually add them with other greens. Just give them afternoon shade.
No second sowing until August. Too hot here in Dallas, Tx (101 degrees). Tomatoes are about to fizzle out. Taking suckers to plant up and keep inside - then wait for cooler temps. to plant outside. BTW. - love the chemistry. Ya'll make me feel like I'm included in your garden friends circle.
You can cut suckers off a tomato plant and root them to a new plant?! How? Do you put in water first?
@@cathysteele924 you can plant immediately if you want. I have mine in water. I’ll pot up as soon as I see some roots form. Lots of videos on TH-cam about it
if you want some super easy to take care of flowers that buttlerflies, hummingbirds, and smaller pollinators absolutely love, I recommend some verbenas. i planted some like a year or two ago and they not only come back every year but they spread like no other plant ive ever seen. tall clusters of small purple flowers
I’m interested in following up with your verbena recommendation. I am in zone 8 A. Would you mind sharing where are you got your seeds that have done so well? Thank you!
Definitely verbena or lantana (which is in the verbena family). I have lantanas in my yard and the butterflies are always ALL OVER that bush.
I’m also going to start a second sowing because my cucumbers and okra got fried in the heat wave and I went on vacation and didn’t use a shade cloth. The same thing happen to me with Shasta daisies and purple coneflower. I got them as starts at a nursery and maybe it was mislabeled or I was confused. Now I am planting more purple coneflower and sunflowers as well.
Can’t wait for those bottom trays! They look like sturdy bois and love that they are flat!
I love this so much! LOL I have stuff growing and I have no idea where I'm going to plant it. LOL I live on an acre, but it's not all 'garden' ready lol You guys are great!
I started a second sowing of beets, dragon tongue beans, bunch of peppers and moon and stars watermelon.
As I was looking at your table of contents list, I was wondering about the Skyscrapper Sunflower ... "Is it a tough, shorter sunflower that scraps with the tall plants?" But when you said it and it was listed on the video, the extra 'p' was gone. I just thought I'd give you a heads up (or down, when it's going to seed ;D) about the type-o in both table of contents (list and videos below that) in the description. I hope you got a bit of a chuckle out of how I interpreted the possible name - I'm not familiar with various kinds of sunflower seeds, so it could have been with 2 p's. :D
Thanks for your videos (actually, this is my first time on your homesteading site, I usually watch the epic gardening videos). Even though you can do a lot more in your climate than I can in mine, I still learn from your videos. I'm in central BC where the winters get as low as -40 C/F for a week (or colder) each winter, and this year the snow came & stayed on 3 Nov & the last bit of snow melted in mid April. However, I do love the sunlight hours, currently from about 5 am to 9 pm, a far cry from the winter days in Dec (as short as 8:20 am to 3:45 pm) so I much prefer the summers here!
Try your hand at Japanese Wing Beans! They are fascinating to see and taste great.
I love ❤️ purple coneflower and Shasta Daisy. The best flower bed I ever had, had those two and black eyed Susan.
I just started a second round last week. This year I got off to a late start (due next month with our first child and I did not have the energy for a garden after teaching all day 😴) so I bought some starter plants to tide me over. I started pole and bush beans, marigolds, thyme, basil, tomatoes, squash (winter and summer), peppers (hot and sweet), mint, he butterfly peas, lettuce and spinach for some of my shady areas.
We're hoping this kid loves to be out in the garden and will feel free enough to just go out and grab a snack whenever he likes 😂
Congrats on the upcoming baby!
Just finished my second summer sew today. I'm in New Orleans so similar climate to you guys. I got a bit overzealous tho and started some new peppers lol. We'll see how that works out.
I'm in Newfoundland and our last frost was only a couple weeks ago, but we're now sitting at around 25 degrees celsius in the day. There's just no predicting what the weather will do here. So I literally planted my first beans today, meanwhile the peas I cold sowed in April haven't set a single flower yet. Just got all my summer squash transplants hardened off and set in the ground a couple days ago, tomatoes same. It's the very beginning of our warm season here.
Oh wow...congrats on the season start!
I miss these seed starting videos.