CONGRATS Carol Avant & Tom Mathews! Couldn't have happened to 2 better or more deserving Row by Row Gardeners! MERRY CHRISTMAS & Holiday Blessings to everyone at HOSS TOOLS & the KEY Family! Thank you Greg & Travis for all the time, effort & continued excellent content! Please know what you do is very much appreciated!
OMG!!! I was so tired from packing yesterday that I fell asleep at after the first 5 minutes of the show! You guys are truly angels from above - I'm sitting here with tears of happiness rolling down my face! Thank y'all SO much!! BTW - I close on my new home this coming Tuesday and will be moved in around mid-January. There will be pictures posted on the Row By Row FB page for sure! Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to y'all and your family! Congratulations to Tom Matthews, too! He's another earth-angel and very deserving!
Congratulations Carol! I'm so happy for you! That's such a nice, generous gesture by the Hoss Family, and it couldn't have gone to a better soul! I know you've been wanting a new place and I'm glad you have found it! That extra wheel hoe is going to come in handy, and I'm so happy it's headed your way! I look forward to seeing the new place! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
I don’t think I’ve seen this on your site, but I would choose a broccolini instead of broccoli. The cut and cut again feature is real appealing, can be plant thickly for higher harvest, and it is very versatile in cooking.
Congratulations to the winners this week and Merry Christmas to all you guys at Hoss and thank you for the videos and the awesome products you provide!
One major wonder about gardening is your garden is yours...gardens come in all types (container, in ground, in pure compost, in water, in wood chips, etc.) Travis, do what brings you joy and delish food to your family's table!🙂 Merry Christmas to yall and yours!🙂
Awww guys, that's mighty nice of you! You certainly didn't have to do that, I'm always glad to send my biz, and others', your way. I love good tools, products, and service, and hate bad tools, products, and service, and I'm only too happy to spread the word! I certainly appreciate the generous gesture, and I'll be glad to retire my dibble stick! Thank you for all of the great info and entertaining content, and providing us with the Row by Row platform. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and continued success to the Hoss Family!
I like a corn “butter & sugar.” Many say it’s 63 days, some say 73. Do it right and get 4 pickings. Heirloom sweet variety. I also like beef steak tomato, blue lake stringless beans, purple hull peas. Other than those,, I try to use all heirloom varieties. Potential topic, if you became a prepper, and thought the world would go bankrupt, and Pelosi wants us all to stay home and get paid for it ( might wanna reword that). What heirloom varieties would you grow, knowing you could save seed, canning and freezing abilities, and nutritional needs met year round? I about choked on my popcorn when Travis said no okra. LoL
My list, (I am in zone 6b on the edge of zone 7) Peppers, Jupiter, Tomato, Amish, cukes, market more 76, onions candy, squash, butter cup, green beans jade, garlic, elephand, pole beans Kentucky blue, corn candy, lettuce butter crunch, carrots bolo, radishes, French breakfast, potatoes viking, cabbage murdoc, kale red russian, spinach American giant, dry beans pinto, peas green arrow.
Have 20 each of the 162’s and water catchment trays. Love them! Asked “Santa” for a few more! My ten picks would be: 1) Tomato - Purple Reign (Dwarf, Determinate) 2) Pepper - Jimmy Nardello 3) Cucumber - Marketmore 4) Squash - Algonquian winter squash 5) Corn - Golden Bantam 6) Greens - Purple Lady Bok Choy 7) Potato - Yukon Gold 8) Onion - Ailsa Craig 9) Lettuce - Yedikule (Romaine type) 10) Okra - YUCK! No thanks. Would substitute Broadbeans - Frog Island Nation Fava Assessing my top ten choices was an interesting exercise. Onions, Peppers and Tomatoes were the toughest to limit to just ONE - vacillated between 2 and 3 varieties in each of those categories. Enjoy some well-deserved time off. We will be here when you return. Happy Holidays! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 12/18/2020.
For 8B: Sweet Peppers: Ajarvski Winter squash: buttercup Pole beans: Rattlesnake Peas: Zippers Summer squash: Lemon Greens and roots: Rutabagas Just greens: choy Just roots: carrots Sweet potatoes Malabar spinach I agree with all the other pics :)
That Bule Gourd would make fine bird houses ! My pick of small garden picks, start with Julilet (AAS Winner) Tomato, Basil Genova, Imperial Broccoli, Tiger Collards, Avalon Sweet Corn, Zucchini Elite Squash and Muti-pik Yellow Squash.
I had a good laugh at this episode. Between visions of a man and his manly gourd bowl and the angry mob of no tillers, it was great! For the record, anytime you put a shovel in the ground it's harming soil life. No till doesn't mean perfection just as it was said, you try for as little disturbance as possible. I had to till initially to build my garden so I just call mine a Hybrid as it wasn't technically no till it's first year. Have not tilled since. For my seed recommendation.... Cowhorn Okra, Lemon Drop Tomatoes (these two you have yay!) and Yellow Crunch Watermelon and Katrina Cucumbers (you need these!). Thanks guys, I don't watch a lot of TV or RUclips but I do watch you guys. Merry Christmas!
Happy holidays, and thank you for your videos guys. They are truly appreciated. Wow so many varieties to choose. Tomatoes? Amish Paste. We do a tremendous amount of canning and they are extremely great for canning and good fresh too. Peppers are a tough one, because we eat them fresh, can, dehydrate, and dry them for spices. Chili peppers, Ancho peppers, Hungarian Paprika peppers, and more. Cucumbers? I'd go with a Boston pickle. They are a great producer here in East TN and work fine as a cucumber. Squash? I'm partial to an Italian variety, a Blanco Lungo Zucchini squash. It keeps firm for canning, freezes great, and is a less wet squash for frying and lasagnas. Corn. I'm still up in the air on my favorite variety. Greens? There are so many different types. I love Malibar Spinach. It's a climber and a fabulous producer. It grows for about 7 months here in TN. It does fabulous in the heat or cold for that matter. It is also self-propagating. Onions? I'll go off the trail a bit here; I prefer Shallots. Lettuce? Yep; Romaine. Okra? Last year we grew a compact; dwarf variety with a yellow flower. It is not one of our favorite vegetables. We only use it in Gumbo, as we don't fry very many vegetables. Beans? Tongue of Fire is our go-to bean for numerous reasons. They do not have a string, they can be eaten fresh, frozen, canned, and dried as a fabulous baked bean.
Guys, great you added more veggies which are popular with other seed companies. I grew Kellogg breakfast mater the summer of 2019. Very frustrating and gave me no fruit. I called the vendor and they did not have a clue for why. Several other gardeners in zone 6 were unsuccessful so I determined it was not me. They were transplants that we purchased from a farmers mkt. I typical grow my garden from seed. I will purchase the seeds from you as I do majority of time. Happy holidays!
1. Tomato - Paul Robeson or Black Krim Cosmonaut Volkov close 2nd 2. Pepper - altiplano Serrano and Jedi jalapeño (need both for salsa) 3. Cucumber - calypso or citadel 4. Squash - goldprize 5. Corn - no room for corn 6. Greens - hakurei turnips 7. Potato - no room for taters 8. Onion - trialing 10 varieties but Tx legend or 1015 my standbys 9. Lettuce - salanova: green butter and red sweet crisp my favorite mix 10. Okrie - jambalaya: fewer plants to get yield I want important consideration for small gardens
Hope yall have a Merry Christmas. Love yalls shows. I have learned a lot this year from yall. I planted Rattle snake green beans this year from yall. About 2 40 foot rows. Me and the wife canned 140 pints off these two rows. Thank for every thing yall do.
Green Zebras are the best producers of all the heirlooms I have tried in my area. I usually gauge the ripeness by feel rather than color. When you feel the give it's time to pick!
I loved watching y’all discuss vegetable varieties. Brought back pleasant memories about sitting at my father in laws table during winter with a cup of coffee and a stack of seed catalogues. Greg is going to enjoy the Jing okree, we’ve grown it for several years now it’s our favorite for flavor.
I grew twelve okra varieties this year, ping tung orange did well all season and was one of the last to finish producing in the fall. Silver Queenwas very productive and got very large, up to 8” long,without getting tough., in zone 6B. Did so well in 2018 that I grew double the amount in 2019. did even better.
Merry Christmas, Greg and Travis! I really enjoyed last year’s New Year’s Resolutions. Would you consider doing an update and what your resolutions for this year will be? I will miss seeing you all next week.
Merry Christmas to everyone and thank you Travis and Greg for all your videos and esp row by row Thursday night shows I always learn something new 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄
It's been a crazy year right on that, but you all have helped us make it through the tough times by giving us something to focus on other than the virus, I lost a sister on September 5 and a brother November 29 to coronavirus and getting to watch you helps. Thanks Greg and Travis hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a happy new year God bless you and your family hope to see you after New year
I bought a packet of savanna mustard greens from y'all and they are so far the fastest producing mustard greens I've ever grown. This is regardless of whether I grew them in a pot or in ground in zone 8b. Also that Cherokee lettuce is performing awesome for me also.
The No dig / No till club is a real tough one to join. The concept stems from the fact that nature does not till and that allows the soil biology to be diverse and perfectly balanced. Ideal condition would be only to layer compost on and top mulch with organic matter like Hay, Straw or Wood chips. You are correct about harvesting any potato. Very disruptive but... harvesting is not like roto-tilling. The other part of no dig / no till is to cut spent plants off at the ground and leave them in the ground since much of the soil biology is clinging to the roots. When the roots decay in the soil it leave channels for water and other organisms. Having said all that... I am of the belief that some soils and gardens need a little help getting started. The solution to that is the Broad Fork or even just a digging fork. Push it down, lever back to crack the soil open but do not turn it over repeat all along the row as you walk back off the forked soil every 6,8, 10" as needed. This is not a life long task but once at the beginning and once at the end of the first few seasons. After that you should have developed a deep rich biologically diverse nutrient rich soil. If money is not an issue, buying quality and tested soil for safe planting, then just a couple inches each and every year for a while then every other year will produce amazing veg. If money is tight as it is here in my garden, you call around and get whatever you can for free like wood chips, or spoiled hay and bedding. You can pile and turn it a little to compost it out first. But often times, fresh Arborist wood chips containing leaves and needles can be placed on the ground right off the truck. The key is NOT to till the wood chips into the soil and you will not deplete the nitrogen. Ruth Stout used old hay or straw whichever she had. Aged manures of any kind work too. With a good thick mulch it reduces the weed pressure to almost zero and retain water too. We were in a massive drought this past season and while the ground was pretty dry near the end of the season, everywhere I checked under the mulch it had more moisture than where the lawn was turning brown and the soil was cracking. I guess the most important thing about gardening is to learn all you can about different processes and use what you can that works for you. I want to build and try growing taters in towers this year. I've read where you can grow 100 pounds of taters in a tower only 2' square at the base. No tilling No digging at harvest time. We'll see because that would free up allot of space for me to plant other things in all the places I now plant taters. Hope this helps and I didn't get too long winded. Peace, Walter
Thanks for sharing. If you're doing the potato tower idea, make sure you use a long-season variety that has a longer maturity date. It won't work with something like red potatoes which are early-season. It also doesn't work that well down here in the south where it gets too hot too quickly. But if you have moderate temps in late spring/early summer, you can do it.
@@gardeningwithhoss Thanks, I'm going to test whatever varieties I have that winter over and see which ones will work. Indeterminate would be best, but since I never hill my potatoes I do not know which ones are. I know I'm going to have to water more often and fertilise while adding compost as the plants grow. We'll see It is fun to test things out but also keep doing what has worked in the past. Peace, Walter
Merry Christmas Guys🎄 I’m a newer viewer and ya’ll got me hooked on HOSS! 😁 Wishing you guys some holiday blessings, thank you for all your gardening wisdom and quality products. You’ve helped me so much during this crazy 2020 year 👍🏼 keep the great videos, and shows a coming. Happy Holidays from Christy in the Central Cali Valley 😉 P.S. ❤️ the hats !!
We did 13 varieties of pumpkins last year. I’ll give you my top preformed by category. 1. Jack O’ lantern - Early King or Howden (trying multiple varieties this year will probably change) 2. Compact - Celebration, Casperita & Blackcat. Celebration is versatile with it being edible and the seeds are great for eating too. 3. White - Snowball by far my favorite of all. 4. Specialty - Turks Turban for production and “Peanut” Pumpkin
#1 tomato- tachi-#2 pepper-hot Portugal-#3 cucumber-market moore-#4 squash-green tint-#5 corn-silver queen-#6 greens-kale-#7 potato-yukon gold-#8 onions-sweet Spanish-#9 luttuce-sweet salad mix-#10 okry -never grown it before but once again this yankee has to correct greg!! great job guy's nice show.
Thank you guys so much for everything you do to help us, the gardening community. Just placed another big order. Have a Blessed Christmas and Blessed New Year. My God be with us to get through and hopefully over this pandemic.
Not related to this show but. When growing English peas my grandfather always used a chemical called inoculation to get a better crop up. First have y'all heard of it and second how could get something like it or is there another that took it's place? Or a technique that helps get English peas started. Thanks
The inoculation process is primarily designed to increase the nitrogen-fixation by the peas. Lots of folks do it, but it isn't always completely necessary.
No till club just doesn’t want to see you invert the soil basically. A lot of the big names use a power harrow to mix the top inch or so, but there’s no inversion.
Hoss Tools that’s not inversion but harvesting. Same effect in some respects but not the same. Harvesting you are inverting to some extent; however, it’s inverting soil aggregates not inverting powdered soil. Soil layers mixed but not ‘destroying’ soil structure. That’s my understanding of the hypocrisy anyways.
Hoss Tools another caveat is market farming proponents of no dig that I’ve seen don’t grow what they consider commodity crops like taters and corn. Production decisions are based on the profitability of the beds. Turn and burn cash crops. Sweet potato and Irish potatoes I don’t think fit in a no dig model at all. It’s counter intuitive to me too, oxymoronic maybe.
I’m still trying to find my top #1’s I guess. I think I’m heading into my 4th year of gardening and I tore down the raised beds this year and will be doing a 15x40 in ground for our veggies and a duplicate on the other side of the yard for wildflowers. We have a handful of smaller beds too that I usually do a mix of flowers and greens/lettuces. I am going to grow okra, tomato, garlic is in the ground, peppers, bush beans, pickles. Might see if I can get an eggplant to survive the dang flea beetles. Got my drip tape, fertigator, and double wheel hoe from you all to try out also. Cant forget the potatoes on pre order also. Is it spring yet?? Merry Christmas to all.
If I grow a single tomato plant in an appropriate size container, can I use the Florida Weave method of trellising the plant instead of a tomato cage? Whats the best way to go?
If you're just growing one plant, I'd go with a cage. The weave is usually more appropriate for rows of tomatoes. However, you could put four stakes around in or around the outside of the container and wrap string around the stakes to make a cage with twine.
If we're talking English Peas, probably Mr. Big. If we're talking field peas, Zippers. For string beans, I like Momentum for a bush bean and Rattlesnake for a pole bean.
I have started the redburgdany okra that I have been planting this will be the 4 year ina row that I have plated the seeds from the previous year so I guess I have a 4 generation of okra that will plant this yeari
Hello from San Antonio, TX. I just found y’all and absolutely love your channel. What I want to know is you have so many wheel hoes and attachments what is the best tools to get if I am just starting out and I want to use the wheel hoe and different attachments to start and maintain my garden for years to come. I know you did a video on hand tools and one on the different types of wheel hoe attachments. I’m trying to watch all your videos and it’s a little overwhelming. What is your basic recommended wheel hoe and attachments for a start up to forever garden. Thanks so much.
I love your Row X Row show & heard y'all mention cover crops ? You said mustard greens are a good cover crop. Are the mustard greens y'all grow, good enough to eat ?
Depends on what variety you grow. We carry the Florida Broadleaf Mustard, which you can eat. But we also have a variety called Kodiak Brown Mustard that you wouldn't want to eat. The spicier the mustard, the better it is at eliminating parasitic nematodes through biofumigation. The Kodiak is too spicy to eat, but works great for nematode control.
We enjoy watching your videos. I really liked this one since we do not have much room to experiment. Have you ever thought of offering a package of seeds of your recommendations for a garden? if not a package then a section on your website that lists your recommendations.
I need a good watering can. They are not in stores during off garden season. Would you please offer suggestions or possibly start selling them year round
Hi I have 40 acers of land in Hudspeth Co. Tx. and I need to plant a pasture what kind of seeds do I need to buy that will grow in the desert I will be moving to there in the late spring or summer
How close can I get away with my rows of sweet corn? I have one large garden, and I'm trying to reduce the footprint of my 4 to 5 rows of corn. Could I push it down to 18 to 24 inches between rows? I know this would make access more difficult, but besides that would that create problems?
I've tried 24" row spacing on corn in the past, and I got very poor pollination. The foliage was so dense and too close, and so the pollen from the top of the plants couldn't really reach the silks. I would say 30" is as close as you want to go.
the ten veggies I would grow candy. onion, tiger collards, gentry squash, honey select corn, max pack cucmber, blue ribbon pole beans heirloom, kennebec potato, back seeded Simpson lettuce, crocodile spinach, big beef tomato.
This year was my first year gardening didn't produce much but kept everything alive this coming up year going to try too produce more So what do I need to do to produce more on a all most nothing spending budget
I am doubling the size of my garden. I used cypress wood to build my previous raised beds but I am unable to find cypress wood right now. I know cedar is good but it is way to expensive where I live. So my question is what is another good long lasting wood to use?
How do gourds do against vine borer? I imagine they wouldn't fair well. In my experience, nasturtiums don't do well in extreme heat. When the mid 90s come, they fade.
I was intently absorbing Greg's two lessons about the brush and the packer and I had a thought. Probably shouldn't put both of those items in same stocking for your wife. You're liable to get hit upside the head with the packer. Should I put the packer wrapped up under the tree to see how the brush in the stocking flies with her?
Glad to see you all taking time off... Hopefully all your staff get to spend lots of time with their families as well... There will be plenty of time to work, and probably lots of work to do in the new year. Been waiting on you guys to get those Mountain Vineyard tomatoes in stock... so looks like I need to make some decisions and place my order for most of my spring crops pretty soon. See you guys next year!
I was going to buy my gal a vacuum for Christmas, but I may have to give her that corn silk brush instead.
The corn silking brush is the way to her heart! Merry Christmas!
CONGRATS Carol Avant & Tom Mathews! Couldn't have happened to 2 better or more deserving Row by Row Gardeners!
MERRY CHRISTMAS & Holiday Blessings to everyone at HOSS TOOLS & the KEY Family!
Thank you Greg & Travis for all the time, effort & continued excellent content! Please know what you do is very much appreciated!
Merry Christmas, Tami!
Thanks so much, Tami! Merry Christmas to y'all, I've enjoyed following along with you this year!
CONGRATS MS CAROL!! That’s a dandy Christmas blessing!! And CONGRATS TO MR TOM!! Christmas blessings to you also!!❤️🎄❤️🎄
Thank you!
Thank you! That's mighty nice of the Hoss family!
Congrat Mrs Carol and mr Tom what a wonderful gift.
Thanks Charlie, it is a mighty nice gesture on their part!
Thank you, Charlie!
OMG!!! I was so tired from packing yesterday that I fell asleep at after the first 5 minutes of the show! You guys are truly angels from above - I'm sitting here with tears of happiness rolling down my face! Thank y'all SO much!! BTW - I close on my new home this coming Tuesday and will be moved in around mid-January. There will be pictures posted on the Row By Row FB page for sure! Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to y'all and your family!
Congratulations to Tom Matthews, too! He's another earth-angel and very deserving!
Merry Christmas Carol! We appreciate having customers like you!
@@gardeningwithhoss I love you guys!!!
Congratulations Carol! I'm so happy for you! That's such a nice, generous gesture by the Hoss Family, and it couldn't have gone to a better soul! I know you've been wanting a new place and I'm glad you have found it! That extra wheel hoe is going to come in handy, and I'm so happy it's headed your way! I look forward to seeing the new place! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
@@tommathews3964 Thank you, Tom! I'll send you a FB message.
I don’t think I’ve seen this on your site, but I would choose a broccolini instead of broccoli. The cut and cut again feature is real appealing, can be plant thickly for higher harvest, and it is very versatile in cooking.
Great idea. We should definitely look into adding some of those.
Congratulations to the winners this week and Merry Christmas to all you guys at Hoss and thank you for the videos and the awesome products you provide!
Merry Christmas to y'all as well!
Thank you! What an unexpected treat, and a wonderful gesture on their part!
One major wonder about gardening is your garden is yours...gardens come in all types (container, in ground, in pure compost, in water, in wood chips, etc.) Travis, do what brings you joy and delish food to your family's table!🙂 Merry Christmas to yall and yours!🙂
Merry Christmas, Valorie!!
When I get in trouble, I also say, I got a lot of character in me, lol, love the show, Thursdays nights is Hoss time
Awww guys, that's mighty nice of you! You certainly didn't have to do that, I'm always glad to send my biz, and others', your way. I love good tools, products, and service, and hate bad tools, products, and service, and I'm only too happy to spread the word! I certainly appreciate the generous gesture, and I'll be glad to retire my dibble stick! Thank you for all of the great info and entertaining content, and providing us with the Row by Row platform. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and continued success to the Hoss Family!
Our pleasure! Merry Christmas!
I feel another Hoss Tools order coming on!! Those gourds will do great in our Florida heat.
They sure would!
I like a corn “butter & sugar.” Many say it’s 63 days, some say 73. Do it right and get 4 pickings. Heirloom sweet variety. I also like beef steak tomato, blue lake stringless beans, purple hull peas. Other than those,, I try to use all heirloom varieties. Potential topic, if you became a prepper, and thought the world would go bankrupt, and Pelosi wants us all to stay home and get paid for it ( might wanna reword that). What heirloom varieties would you grow, knowing you could save seed, canning and freezing abilities, and nutritional needs met year round? I about choked on my popcorn when Travis said no okra. LoL
I've heard good things about Butter and Sugar, just haven't been able to locate the source.
Merry Christmas, and I’m glad those people got the gift they sure need it!
Merry Christmas Trev!
My list, (I am in zone 6b on the edge of zone 7) Peppers, Jupiter, Tomato, Amish, cukes, market more 76, onions candy, squash, butter cup, green beans jade, garlic, elephand, pole beans Kentucky blue, corn candy, lettuce butter crunch, carrots bolo, radishes, French breakfast, potatoes viking, cabbage murdoc, kale red russian, spinach American giant, dry beans pinto, peas green arrow.
Have 20 each of the 162’s and water catchment trays. Love them! Asked “Santa” for a few more!
My ten picks would be:
1) Tomato - Purple Reign (Dwarf, Determinate)
2) Pepper - Jimmy Nardello
3) Cucumber - Marketmore
4) Squash - Algonquian winter squash
5) Corn - Golden Bantam
6) Greens - Purple Lady Bok Choy
7) Potato - Yukon Gold
8) Onion - Ailsa Craig
9) Lettuce - Yedikule (Romaine type)
10) Okra - YUCK! No thanks. Would substitute Broadbeans - Frog Island Nation Fava
Assessing my top ten choices was an interesting exercise. Onions, Peppers and Tomatoes were the toughest to limit to just ONE - vacillated between 2 and 3 varieties in each of those categories.
Enjoy some well-deserved time off. We will be here when you return. Happy Holidays!
Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 12/18/2020.
Great choices Kate!
For 8B:
Sweet Peppers: Ajarvski
Winter squash: buttercup
Pole beans: Rattlesnake
Peas: Zippers
Summer squash: Lemon
Greens and roots: Rutabagas
Just greens: choy
Just roots: carrots
Sweet potatoes
Malabar spinach
I agree with all the other pics :)
Hard to beat those zippers!
That Bule Gourd would make fine bird houses ! My pick of small garden picks, start with Julilet (AAS Winner) Tomato, Basil Genova, Imperial Broccoli, Tiger Collards, Avalon Sweet Corn, Zucchini Elite Squash and Muti-pik Yellow Squash.
Thanks for sharing Jerry!
I had a good laugh at this episode. Between visions of a man and his manly gourd bowl and the angry mob of no tillers, it was great! For the record, anytime you put a shovel in the ground it's harming soil life. No till doesn't mean perfection just as it was said, you try for as little disturbance as possible. I had to till initially to build my garden so I just call mine a Hybrid as it wasn't technically no till it's first year. Have not tilled since. For my seed recommendation.... Cowhorn Okra, Lemon Drop Tomatoes (these two you have yay!) and Yellow Crunch Watermelon and Katrina Cucumbers (you need these!). Thanks guys, I don't watch a lot of TV or RUclips but I do watch you guys. Merry Christmas!
Excellent selections! Thanks for watching & Merry Christmas!
Catching up on what I've missed. Y'all have got me fired up again. Started working on getting ready for the spring garden today!
Get it!
Love your show! Merry Christmas!! Congratulations to Ms Carol and Mr Tom!!! Praying for a healthy and happy 2021 for all!
Merry Christmas, Mandy!
Thank you Mandy! Wonderful, unexpected surprise! Good folks doing good things.....Merry Christmas to you!
Thank you, Mandy!
Yall are the best. Merry Christmas to the Hoss family.
Merry Christmas Mike! Wishing you the best in 2021!
Happy holidays, and thank you for your videos guys. They are truly appreciated.
Wow so many varieties to choose. Tomatoes? Amish Paste. We do a tremendous amount of canning and they are extremely great for canning and good fresh too.
Peppers are a tough one, because we eat them fresh, can, dehydrate, and dry them for spices. Chili peppers, Ancho peppers, Hungarian Paprika peppers, and more.
Cucumbers? I'd go with a Boston pickle. They are a great producer here in East TN and work fine as a cucumber.
Squash? I'm partial to an Italian variety, a Blanco Lungo Zucchini squash. It keeps firm for canning, freezes great, and is a less wet squash for frying and lasagnas.
Corn. I'm still up in the air on my favorite variety.
Greens? There are so many different types. I love Malibar Spinach. It's a climber and a fabulous producer. It grows for about 7 months here in TN. It does fabulous in the heat or cold for that matter. It is also self-propagating.
Onions? I'll go off the trail a bit here; I prefer Shallots.
Lettuce? Yep; Romaine.
Okra? Last year we grew a compact; dwarf variety with a yellow flower. It is not one of our favorite vegetables. We only use it in Gumbo, as we don't fry very many vegetables.
Beans? Tongue of Fire is our go-to bean for numerous reasons. They do not have a string, they can be eaten fresh, frozen, canned, and dried as a fabulous baked bean.
Thanks for sharing!
Guys, great you added more veggies which are popular with other seed companies. I grew Kellogg breakfast mater the summer of 2019. Very frustrating and gave me no fruit. I called the vendor and they did not have a clue for why. Several other gardeners in zone 6 were unsuccessful so I determined it was not me. They were transplants that we purchased from a farmers mkt. I typical grow my garden from seed. I will purchase the seeds from you as I do majority of time. Happy holidays!
We appreciate your business!
Wow Carol Avant and Tim Matthews Well deserved. Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
Merry Christmas to you too!
Thank you Grumpy! Merry Christmas to you!
Tom I know you’re not Tim. Fat fingers. Glad you and Carol were selected. I know you’ll really enjoy that dibble wheel.
@@Grumpyneanderthal Thanks buddy!
Thank you, sweetheart!
1. Tomato - Paul Robeson or Black Krim Cosmonaut Volkov close 2nd
2. Pepper - altiplano Serrano and Jedi jalapeño (need both for salsa)
3. Cucumber - calypso or citadel
4. Squash - goldprize
5. Corn - no room for corn
6. Greens - hakurei turnips
7. Potato - no room for taters
8. Onion - trialing 10 varieties but Tx legend or 1015 my standbys
9. Lettuce - salanova: green butter and red sweet crisp my favorite mix
10. Okrie - jambalaya: fewer plants to get yield I want important consideration for small gardens
Great choices!
Corn and taters not Keto, so don't want them in my garden 😉 As need cilantro for salsa
Hope yall have a Merry Christmas. Love yalls shows. I have learned a lot this year from yall. I planted Rattle snake green beans this year from yall. About 2 40 foot rows. Me and the wife canned 140 pints off these two rows. Thank for every thing yall do.
Merry Christmas Richard!
The Kellogg breakfast tomatoes are my favorite hands down been growing it 4 years in a row
Good to know!
My husband thought he didn’t like tomatoes til he tried that one. That and sun gold for the cherry tomatoes.
@@daniellebradley2728 same with my wife lol
BTW, Travis. You were correct on my last name, Avant. When you drag French through Florida, Georgia and the Panhandle, it comes out "A vant"!
I just got lucky on that one. But glad to know the proper pronunciation.
Oh my goodness!! Love the hats! Just making my Christmas mood!!🤣🎄😂🎄🤣
Rule at our table is the one that eats the most corn, eats the most corn silks. Very good show. Merry Christmas and my God bless you guys and family.
Green Zebras are the best producers of all the heirlooms I have tried in my area. I usually gauge the ripeness by feel rather than color. When you feel the give it's time to pick!
Thanks for the tip!
Love the surprise at the end! Happy Christmas, Travis an Greg!!
Merry Christmas TM!
I loved watching y’all discuss vegetable varieties. Brought back pleasant memories about sitting at my father in laws table during winter with a cup of coffee and a stack of seed catalogues. Greg is going to enjoy the Jing okree, we’ve grown it for several years now it’s our favorite for flavor.
Greg is looking forward to trying it out!
I grew twelve okra varieties this year, ping tung orange did well all season and was one of the last to
finish producing in the fall. Silver Queenwas very productive and got very large, up to 8” long,without getting tough., in zone 6B. Did so well in 2018 that I grew double the amount in 2019. did even better.
We saw the same thing with Silver Queen. Pods stay nice and tender even when they get longer.
Merry Christmas, Greg and Travis! I really enjoyed last year’s New Year’s Resolutions. Would you consider doing an update and what your resolutions for this year will be? I will miss seeing you all next week.
We should definitely consider that if we have a show next week! Thanks for the suggestion!
Merry Christmas 🎄
I'm so glad I found your show and your seed company this year !
Glad you found us too! Don't keep us a secret!
Merry Christmas to everyone and thank you Travis and Greg for all your videos and esp row by row Thursday night shows I always learn something new 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄
Merry Christmas!
It's been a crazy year right on that, but you all have helped us make it through the tough times by giving us something to focus on other than the virus, I lost a sister on September 5 and a brother November 29 to coronavirus and getting to watch you helps. Thanks Greg and Travis hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a happy new year God bless you and your family hope to see you after New year
Merry Christmas Joe!
Congratulations Carol and Tom. Great gifts!
Great idea for a show. I enjoy hearing from y’all each week. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Janice!
Thank you Janice! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Thank you, Janice!
I bought a packet of savanna mustard greens from y'all and they are so far the fastest producing mustard greens I've ever grown. This is regardless of whether I grew them in a pot or in ground in zone 8b. Also that Cherokee lettuce is performing awesome for me also.
Both are great varieties! Glad you're enjoying them.
you guys are great. I've referred a couple of people to your site.
Thanks for not keeping us a secret!
The No dig / No till club is a real tough one to join.
The concept stems from the fact that nature does not till and that allows the soil biology to be diverse and perfectly balanced.
Ideal condition would be only to layer compost on and top mulch with organic matter like Hay, Straw or Wood chips.
You are correct about harvesting any potato. Very disruptive but... harvesting is not like roto-tilling.
The other part of no dig / no till is to cut spent plants off at the ground and leave them in the ground since much of the soil biology is clinging to the roots. When the roots decay in the soil it leave channels for water and other organisms.
Having said all that... I am of the belief that some soils and gardens need a little help getting started.
The solution to that is the Broad Fork or even just a digging fork.
Push it down, lever back to crack the soil open but do not turn it over repeat all along the row as you walk back off the forked soil every 6,8, 10" as needed.
This is not a life long task but once at the beginning and once at the end of the first few seasons. After that you should have developed a deep rich biologically diverse nutrient rich soil.
If money is not an issue, buying quality and tested soil for safe planting, then just a couple inches each and every year for a while then every other year will produce amazing veg.
If money is tight as it is here in my garden, you call around and get whatever you can for free like wood chips, or spoiled hay and bedding. You can pile and turn it a little to compost it out first. But often times, fresh Arborist wood chips containing leaves and needles can be placed on the ground right off the truck.
The key is NOT to till the wood chips into the soil and you will not deplete the nitrogen.
Ruth Stout used old hay or straw whichever she had. Aged manures of any kind work too.
With a good thick mulch it reduces the weed pressure to almost zero and retain water too.
We were in a massive drought this past season and while the ground was pretty dry near the end of the season, everywhere I checked under the mulch it had more moisture than where the lawn was turning brown and the soil was cracking.
I guess the most important thing about gardening is to learn all you can about different processes and use what you can that works for you.
I want to build and try growing taters in towers this year. I've read where you can grow 100 pounds of taters in a tower only 2' square at the base. No tilling No digging at harvest time. We'll see because that would free up allot of space for me to plant other things in all the places I now plant taters.
Hope this helps and I didn't get too long winded.
Peace,
Walter
Thanks for sharing. If you're doing the potato tower idea, make sure you use a long-season variety that has a longer maturity date. It won't work with something like red potatoes which are early-season. It also doesn't work that well down here in the south where it gets too hot too quickly. But if you have moderate temps in late spring/early summer, you can do it.
@@gardeningwithhoss Thanks, I'm going to test whatever varieties I have that winter over and see which ones will work.
Indeterminate would be best, but since I never hill my potatoes I do not know which ones are.
I know I'm going to have to water more often and fertilise while adding compost as the plants grow.
We'll see It is fun to test things out but also keep doing what has worked in the past.
Peace, Walter
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Merry Christmas Guys🎄 I’m a newer viewer and ya’ll got me hooked on HOSS! 😁
Wishing you guys some holiday blessings, thank you for all your gardening wisdom and
quality products. You’ve helped me so much during this crazy 2020 year 👍🏼 keep the great
videos, and shows a coming. Happy Holidays from Christy in the Central Cali Valley 😉
P.S. ❤️ the hats !!
Merry Christmas, Christy!
We did 13 varieties of pumpkins last year. I’ll give you my top preformed by category.
1. Jack O’ lantern - Early King or Howden (trying multiple varieties this year will probably change)
2. Compact - Celebration, Casperita & Blackcat. Celebration is versatile with it being edible and the seeds are great for eating too.
3. White - Snowball by far my favorite of all.
4. Specialty - Turks Turban for production and “Peanut” Pumpkin
Thanks for sharing Miles!
Merry Christmas y’all. Congratulations to the winners . And thanks for all the good information on growing.🌻
Merry Christmas, Kimberlie!
Congrats to the winner s and merry Christmas Greg and Travis . Enjoyed the video as always
Merry Christmas Tamie!
Next time when im switching from sweeps to the cultivator teeth i will think of carol, congratulations Mrs carol
Me too, Gary! I'm so happy for her!!
Thank you so much, Gary! By mid-January, I'll be growing in No. Florida zone 8b!
@@carolavant3778 I'm in 9a north east Florida
ya'll are such great teachers! God bless and Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas LaVern!
#1 tomato- tachi-#2 pepper-hot Portugal-#3 cucumber-market moore-#4 squash-green tint-#5 corn-silver queen-#6 greens-kale-#7 potato-yukon gold-#8 onions-sweet Spanish-#9 luttuce-sweet salad mix-#10 okry -never grown it before but once again this yankee has to correct greg!! great job guy's nice show.
All great choices!
Love the show , those were some nice picks .Merry Christmas to the whole Boss Tool family .
Merry Christmas Ronnie!
I got to order my Red Snapper tomato seeds yesterday. I’m ready for spring now! I ordered some of the Kellogg Breakfast tomatoes too.
Good deal! Best wishes for your spring planting!
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES AS WELL. Prayers for you all
Merry Christmas PJ!
Merry Christmas to all of you!
Merry Christmas to y'all as well!
Thank you guys so much for everything you do to help us, the gardening community. Just placed another big order. Have a Blessed Christmas and Blessed New Year. My God be with us to get through and hopefully over this pandemic.
Merry Christmas, Jenny!
Not related to this show but. When growing English peas my grandfather always used a chemical called inoculation to get a better crop up. First have y'all heard of it and second how could get something like it or is there another that took it's place? Or a technique that helps get English peas started. Thanks
The inoculation process is primarily designed to increase the nitrogen-fixation by the peas. Lots of folks do it, but it isn't always completely necessary.
No till club just doesn’t want to see you invert the soil basically. A lot of the big names use a power harrow to mix the top inch or so, but there’s no inversion.
Hard to dig carrots, leeks, Irish potatoes, or sweet potatoes without inverting the soil.
Hoss Tools that’s not inversion but harvesting. Same effect in some respects but not the same. Harvesting you are inverting to some extent; however, it’s inverting soil aggregates not inverting powdered soil. Soil layers mixed but not ‘destroying’ soil structure.
That’s my understanding of the hypocrisy anyways.
Hoss Tools another caveat is market farming proponents of no dig that I’ve seen don’t grow what they consider commodity crops like taters and corn. Production decisions are based on the profitability of the beds. Turn and burn cash crops.
Sweet potato and Irish potatoes I don’t think fit in a no dig model at all. It’s counter intuitive to me too, oxymoronic maybe.
I agree. To me it sounds like the rules are bent or created to fit their model.
I’m still trying to find my top #1’s I guess. I think I’m heading into my 4th year of gardening and I tore down the raised beds this year and will be doing a 15x40 in ground for our veggies and a duplicate on the other side of the yard for wildflowers. We have a handful of smaller beds too that I usually do a mix of flowers and greens/lettuces. I am going to grow okra, tomato, garlic is in the ground, peppers, bush beans, pickles. Might see if I can get an eggplant to survive the dang flea beetles. Got my drip tape, fertigator, and double wheel hoe from you all to try out also. Cant forget the potatoes on pre order also. Is it spring yet?? Merry Christmas to all.
Merry Christmas Matthew!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful year in the hoss garden .
Greg and Travis wishing you two and yours all the best for the new year mate
Wishing you the best too!
Keep safe Greg and Travis hope you have a great Christmas with your family and friends.
You do the same, Marinus! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas guys
Merry Christmas!
If I grow a single tomato plant in an appropriate size container, can I use the Florida Weave method of trellising the plant instead of a tomato cage? Whats the best way to go?
If you're just growing one plant, I'd go with a cage. The weave is usually more appropriate for rows of tomatoes. However, you could put four stakes around in or around the outside of the container and wrap string around the stakes to make a cage with twine.
QUESTION: What would be your pick for Peas and String Beans?
For me in 8B, Southern peas: Zippers, String beans: Rattlesnake.
If we're talking English Peas, probably Mr. Big. If we're talking field peas, Zippers. For string beans, I like Momentum for a bush bean and Rattlesnake for a pole bean.
I'm with you Greg I like the flat onion also. Ron
I have started the redburgdany okra that I have been planting this will be the 4 year ina row that I have plated the seeds from the previous year so I guess I have a 4 generation of okra that will plant this yeari
That's awesome!
Merry Christmas guys ..and thanks for sharing your knowledge. ..God bless. ....
Merry Christmas to you too!
Hello from San Antonio, TX. I just found y’all and absolutely love your channel. What I want to know is you have so many wheel hoes and attachments what is the best tools to get if I am just starting out and I want to use the wheel hoe and different attachments to start and maintain my garden for years to come. I know you did a video on hand tools and one on the different types of wheel hoe attachments. I’m trying to watch all your videos and it’s a little overwhelming. What is your basic recommended wheel hoe and attachments for a start up to forever garden. Thanks so much.
Our Double Wheel Deal is the perfect starter package. Here's the link: hosstools.com/product/double-wheel-deal/
Merry Christmas to you all !!! You are a blessing to me, thank you for your wonderful videos!
Merry Christmas Johnna!
Merry Christmas!! Great show. See you next year! Health, happiness and safety to all! ( loved the hats.)
Merry Christmas to you too!
I love your Row X Row show & heard y'all mention cover crops ? You said mustard greens are a good cover crop. Are the mustard greens y'all grow, good enough to eat ?
Depends on what variety you grow. We carry the Florida Broadleaf Mustard, which you can eat. But we also have a variety called Kodiak Brown Mustard that you wouldn't want to eat. The spicier the mustard, the better it is at eliminating parasitic nematodes through biofumigation. The Kodiak is too spicy to eat, but works great for nematode control.
We enjoy watching your videos. I really liked this one since we do not have much room to experiment. Have you ever thought of offering a package of seeds of your recommendations for a garden? if not a package then a section on your website that lists your recommendations.
We're working on a garden planner feature that will provide such recommendations.
I need a good watering can. They are not in stores during off garden season. Would you please offer suggestions or possibly start selling them year round
Good question. I don't know that I ever use a watering can, so my expertise on the matter might not be that great. Something to consider though.
Hi I have 40 acers of land in Hudspeth Co. Tx. and I need to plant a pasture what kind of seeds do I need to buy that will grow in the desert I will be moving to there in the late spring or summer
Not sure for Texas. Most folks around here plant Bahia grass for pasture.
Potatoes hands down. !
How close can I get away with my rows of sweet corn? I have one large garden, and I'm trying to reduce the footprint of my 4 to 5 rows of corn. Could I push it down to 18 to 24 inches between rows? I know this would make access more difficult, but besides that would that create problems?
I've tried 24" row spacing on corn in the past, and I got very poor pollination. The foliage was so dense and too close, and so the pollen from the top of the plants couldn't really reach the silks. I would say 30" is as close as you want to go.
Thanks for the great videos. Merry Christmas to the Hoss families and Hoss employees.
Merry Christmas, Todd!
the ten veggies I would grow candy. onion, tiger collards, gentry squash, honey select corn, max pack cucmber, blue ribbon pole beans heirloom, kennebec potato, back seeded Simpson lettuce, crocodile spinach, big beef tomato.
Thanks for sharing Danny!
What winter squash varieties would you recommend for a 4x8 raised bed? I have room on all sides to sprawl out and can trellis too. Zone 9b
Our Algonquian squash has more of a bush growing habit and would work great. Acorn squash would be a good one as well.
This year was my first year gardening didn't produce much but kept everything alive this coming up year going to try too produce more
So what do I need to do to produce more on a all most nothing spending budget
Fertility, weeds and water are the things that get most folks. Take care of those three things and you should be just fine.
Our 20-20-20 works well on just anything you’ll grow. And if water consumption is an issue, drip irrigation might not be a bad idea.
Merry Christmas fellows one crop potatoes I can always get the meat ,now I can get my tomato order in
Merry Christmas to you too!
Have you tried JETSTAR and or JETSETTER? Quality and Quantity are number one. I am gonna try BELLAROSA on your recommendation.
Have not.
Great episode this week; you guys gave me a few good laughs! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Dawn!
I am doubling the size of my garden. I used cypress wood to build my previous raised beds but I am unable to find cypress wood right now. I know cedar is good but it is way to expensive where I live. So my question is what is another good long lasting wood to use?
Good question. Cedar would be the best option. Not sure of any others besides the ones you mentioned.
Merry Christmas ya'll!!
Merry Christmas to you too!
How do gourds do against vine borer? I imagine they wouldn't fair well. In my experience, nasturtiums don't do well in extreme heat. When the mid 90s come, they fade.
We don't have issues with vine borers, so couldn't say. Maybe someone else on here can help.
Merry Christmas Y’all!!
Merry Christmas!
I was intently absorbing Greg's two lessons about the brush and the packer and I had a thought.
Probably shouldn't put both of those items in same stocking for your wife. You're liable to get hit upside the head with the packer.
Should I put the packer wrapped up under the tree to see how the brush in the stocking flies with her?
Excellent observation sir! That is likely a more solid strategy. 😂
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! May God bless.
Merry Christmas Herb!
Merry Christmas
Great show
Merry Christmas Clint!
Enjoyed the show as always! Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy new year!
Merry Christmas Patricia!
Do y’all know much about tycoon tomatoes?
I have never grown any but I know people that really like them.
Have not heard of that variety.
@@gardeningwithhoss They seem to be a fairly popular variety here in Texas. I am going to try growing some next year.
Let us know how they do for you.
Merry Christmas y’all from Gulf Coast Ms!!
Merry Christmas to y'all as well!
Love the show! Learning a lot! Keep doing what your doing!
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You guys are awesome!!!! Merry Christmas 🎁 🎄
Merry Christmas to you too!
Pumpkins!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Gail!
Merry chirsmas to yall and happy newyear
Merry Christmas Robin!
Considering my husband couldn’t care less about gardening, if he gave me a corn brush, I’d be stunned, surprised, and tickled pink! lol
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Great show. Keep up the good work.
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Loved this episode!!
Thanks for watching, Suzanne!
Merry Christmas! See you when get back!
Merry Christmas to y'all as well!
Glad to see you all taking time off... Hopefully all your staff get to spend lots of time with their families as well... There will be plenty of time to work, and probably lots of work to do in the new year. Been waiting on you guys to get those Mountain Vineyard tomatoes in stock... so looks like I need to make some decisions and place my order for most of my spring crops pretty soon.
See you guys next year!
We should have them in stock around the first of the year.