Hi Erin, just want to mention a sweet pea tip my mother, who is not a gardener, tought me. I'm also a Wisconsin gardener. Direct sow sweet peas seeds outdoors on Good Friday. I've had great success the last 3 years & will the doing the same on March 29th.
While I love this tip how does this work when the date of Good Friday changes by up to about three weeks from year to year? Good Friday is March 29 this year but next year it’s April 18. That’s a pretty big difference.
Every year I grow scarlet emperor climbing bean by using cotton string I tie from my upper deck to the lower deck. It faces south and I just have a narrow 10” of dirt between the cement and the grass that I plant the seeds in. They grow all the way up and over the upper deck railing and up the hummingbird feeder arm, must be 20 feet. You get flowers, a show to watch as the bumble bees and hummingbirds go along and then you get beans. In fall I cut the cotton string off and bundle the whole mess up and throw it in the compost pile, also save the seeds from the pods that get too big.
I wish you would do a follow up video on these same seeds (plants) in late July or August - whenever the plants are in their prime so we can see what they look like & how they are faring during the season. It's great to hear you describe them, but it's not even close to seeing your actual real-world results. Thanks.
My must have is Lemon Thyme. Not only does it smell WONDERFUL when you brush against it, it’s delicious in so many summer dishes… grilled chicken, fish, fresh salads, etc. I can not live without it.
Mahogany Splendor Red Hibiscus. This is an awesome annual that has beautiful, deep red leaves. The maroon flowers are tiny and rare. I grow them for their foliage as substitutes for Japanese Maples (which do not do well in Central Valley CA) in full sun or light shade. By August, these gorgeous plants are 3-4' wide and tall and laugh at our hot, dry, windy summers They continue to look great until sometime in November, when I just pull them up. I grow them from seed or cuttings taken in Sep/Oct. Cuttings root easily in water or dirt and can be grown in 4" pots in an unheated greenhouse until all threat of frost is over in spring.
I’m actually growing that this year but cut it out of the video. 😀 I did not have luck with it last year but to my knowledge it’s not difficult to grow ao who knows what happened.
This is helpful, I'm also in California (Sacramento area) & was thinking about trying mahogany splendor. Being able to propagate by fall cuttings rather than starting from seed each year is a definite plus.
YESSSSSS. I am so glad you're growing the purple tomato! And thanks for saying gymnastics to pick tomatoes. Now all I can think about is Erin back hand springing into a layout over a tomato plant.
Nigella is one of my favourites as well. I only had a handful come up from one packet of seeds the first year. Year 2 they were everywhere and I wasn’t mad about it.
Zucchini recommendation here. I love it so much I will not grow anything else! It’s a vining type and is delicious plus it will mature into a delicious winter squash! I get the seeds from baker creek heirloom seeds. Zucchino Rampicante It’s an Italian squash
I so agree about lettuce and I have been trying methods to extend the season: I still have some Little Gem, mâche and Merveille de Quatre Saisons under two layers of frost cloth. The LG started to stretch during the shortest days of the year but is now putting out nice short crispy leaves the way it is supposed to. I invested in a cold frame that I put on top of one of my raised beds. I recently put in transplants of LG and Arctic King. I am in Zone 7a (formerly 6b) NY Hudson Valley and we have had temps down in the low teens. In fact, we were having a warm spell so I hardened off the transplants and put them in the coldframe right before the temps plunged and we had a Nor'easter with 9 inches of snow. I actually think the snow did a good job of insulating the cold frame. Anyway, going to see how far into our hot humid summers I can grow lettuce. Always fun to experiment and there is just something completely miraculous about seeds. PS: Spanish Flag is a great annual vine. I first saw it in a park in NYC and was smitten. I think you will like its drama.
I love the Little Gem lettuce - it does so well for me on the west coast (Vancouver, Canada) and equally well in the cooler months and when it starts getting too hot for most other varieties
Always fun to hear gardener's favorite plants and seeds, so thank ya. Of course I'm still LOL about sweet peas being your "gateway" plant and the "I like seeds." nod to A Christmas Story, hahaha!
So something I figured out with all the verbenas from seed especially Bampton. I direct seed them in winter(just like the poppies)I don’t just throw them to the wind though. The bampton I mark a large spot semi circle and use the entire pack in that spot. Cover with seed starting mix. Walk away. By spring I can start moving some of the larger seedlings to other spots. Verbena bore I will just throw to the wind and really keep and eye out when weeding in the spring. The Bampton method though has worked amazing the past two season in both zone 8 and now zone 6.
I love the "Cupcakes" Cosmos with their ballerina skirts! I'm growing Larkspur "Fancy Blue Purple" with Bells of Ireland for a new combination this year. I'm also taking a seventy- foot row of my veggie garden to grow cut flowers and also trying Floret's Dahlia seed "Shooting Stars" for a challenge. I had good luck growing Purple Bell Vine under lights last February here in central WI by keeping them on a heat mat the ENTIRE time they were in pots, including in early May when I finally moved them out to my greenhouse. Watered them only when the soil looked dry. Planted them as 3-4" foot vines on string trellises in early June.(We had a very cold Spring). I was able to winter one of them over, and it is trailing along and blooming under lights this winter, with very light watering.
This year for my bedding plants because i had so much success, im going to a front border of only bells of ireland amongst my boxwoods and deciduous azaleas. I was so amazed by how simple bells of Ireland were to grow from seed.
Fair warning on Love in a Puff, I live in zone 6b (Colorado) where we get snow up to Mother’s Day , just for reference. I grew this vine 3 years ago, LOVE how fast it filled in and made beautiful vines. It self seeds like crazy! I have not had to reseed at all, in fact I have to pull the little sprouts to control it. I am okay because of where I planted it but I have found little sprouts far across the yard near the fence line so this stuff spreads. Fortunately I love the chartreuse color and the beautiful flowers it makes but Fair Warning if your climate is like mine :)
Roma bush beans are sooo good. They’re flat and stringless and tender even when they get a little bigger than ideal. I blanched and froze a few bags of these and they preserve well. We got probably 3 big harvests from the same plants! Love them when making loubie bzeit and stir fry dishes 🤤 And I’ve decided I prefer the white stemmed varieties of Swiss chard, but I’ll still grow the rainbow chard for its dynamic colors and candy-stripe stems 🤩
Zucchini recommendation: Costata Romanesco - it’s beautiful, unique and prolific. I usually get seeds from Botanical Interests but I see Johnny’s sells them too.
Erin, I don’t know if you’ve grown the hybrid annual vine Ipomoea multifida - it’s sometimes called Cardinal Climber. It’s related to the pink and white cypress vine you’re growing this year - indeed that vine is one of the parent plants - but the foliage isn’t as delicate and I find the growth much more robust in my Canadian garden. It germinates crazy fast and it might be a problem invasive wise in more southern gardens, but I’ve never had it reseed in my 6b garden. Also thanks for getting me hooked on Nicotiana. Obsessed. Hate the sticky foliage, but they just bloom forever and smell amazing. Happy seed sowing!
I, too, snatched up a pack of Floret's Precious Metal zinnias. Been waiting 2 years for those. I could never have a garden without nasturtium, nicotiana, sweetpeas and zinnias!!😊
My top favorite for a saladette! But, ALSO for roasting. Adding herbs and garlic, yummm. I’ve turned them into pizza sauce and rely on them in the freezer for adding to pasta dishes. Or, letting them go until they’re a bit like sun dried tomatoes. Lasts well popped into jars with olive oil and kept in the fridge. If we don’t snack on all of them first. 😂 Freezing them on a trays and then throwing in fresh basil before vacuum sealing them flat…packs fit so well in the freezer.
I may have to pick up a few of these! Especially that purple bell vine. I tried Spanish flag last year- direct sow in Iowa was way too late. It bloomed very tiny and long after the hummers were gone. Check out “chocolate morning glory.” Massive, gorgeous flowers, with variegated leaves. I also tried “split second” which bloomed much earlier and unique. But the chocolate MG will be a staple from here on out. From Pinetree seeds. I tried some kind of Italian Romanesco zucchini last year.
I'm having a hard time getting enthused about seed starting this year. Where I live in the high desert of New Mexico we get a massive grasshopper plague once every 10 years. The explosion we had ten years ago was the most devastating thing I had been through with the garden. They ate every - single - thing. I even found a few in the house eating my house plants. We are expecting them this year. I will start the usual vegetables in case they don't show up but I'm not putting a lot of energy into it.
Oh man, that‘s awful. Are there any plants they absolutely despise??? Maybe you can plant a massive wall of thistles around your garden 😅🙈 sorry, I really hope they’ll leave you and your garden in peace forever 🙏💜
@@LittleKikuyu I've been thinking about this. My friend experienced two outbreaks 10 years apart. I don't think that means it happens every ten years. She wasn't here 30 years ago we don't know if it happened 30 years ago. I decided to be optimistic and look forward to planting.
It’s Erigeron Karvinskianus and Verbena Vervain Polaris for me. Love them both, especially Verbena. It blooms all summer, it’s beautiful, does not need fertilizer or water. And mixes well with any front border plants or grasses.
I ordered some Erigeron this year. I saw it in several videos in a row- it looks so cute and bouncy! Hoping the seed source is reliable 😬 (outside pride?)
I really love growing Coco marigolds (the tall African type) from seed. They are just about the only hybrid seeds I buy. I absolutely love the yellow, as they have a lovely green center and pair well with just about anything in a bouquet. They do need staking and regular deadheading for appearances, but will keep flowering just fine without either. You get about 50 seeds for $7 (at Harris Seeds), which is a bit pricey for me, but they are always covered in flowers from summer to first frost, so in my mind they're worth it.
We love our Armenian Cucumbers trailing over the cattle panel arches between the raised beds. The make the best refrigerator pickles. Seeds are from Renee's.
Nasturtium are the cutest flowers, and their seedlings are so precious 🥹 they were one of the first plants that drew me into gardening. I almost like the variegated foliage more than the blooms…can’t be without them!
They’re definitely a gateway seed. 😂 I started with Alaska Mix then moved to Orchid Cream. This year I have 5 different varieties I’m starting. 😮 Send help.
Yes! I love the plants so, so, so much! Cannot stand the taste of smell of their blooms or leaves though! Many enjoy them, I just enjoy looking at them! I have a mix I have grown for several consecutive years called Night and Day, the blooms are almost black and pure white!
Wisconsin may be too cold to grow Spanish Flag (mina/ipoema lobata) effectively. It was tempermental in Indiana - wouldn't grow until the day Temps were above 80 degrees F, and night Temps above 68-70 degrees F . We started it in April for planting out in May. It doesn't like to be pot-bound, and doesn't like root disturbance. But it is gorgeous when covered with blooms, and hummingbirds love it.
This is super helpful. I’m in Santa Cruz 9b. Last frost date here is Feb 15. I direct sow as much as I can and it seems to work well. Biggest challenge is slug and snail control on baby seedlings (Sluggo plus to the rescue). Totally agree on tomatoes and lettuce as most flavor over store bought and so much cheaper. I tried dwarf hybrid tomatoes on your recommendation and wow…the taste plus space saving makes it so worth it that now I’m a huge fan. Thanks!
My go to annual that I start from seed every year is Basil ‘Cardinal’. The dark fluffy seed head looks beautiful in arrangements and also smells wonderful. It looks great in the border garden too. I also start annual Salvia ‘Big Blue’. Easy to start from seed and gets beautiful big purple spiked flowers
Hi and thank you, Erin You’re trying two vines that I have over the last number of years and thought I’d share some results from my southern Ohio garden. Be in for the long haul with cypress vine. It will happily pop up for years to come. Not anywhere near invasive, just pleasantly surprised me and gets better with time. I can let it lightly meander and then tie it all up early-mid summer. Love vine-is beautiful when it gets just the right season to bloom. It will be a race against the first frost even though I started it early. My hope was that the hummingbirds would be around to enjoy it. Can climb 10 feet or so and most flowers are up on top. Pretty foliage. I’ve been growing vanity, too. Curious how much you pinch the verbenas early in the season. I need to jump on the Bampton! Forgot about that one. I got silly and started my sweet peas too early this year and have been quite hard on them making them take freezes. Lol, they may end up scrapped, but it’s good to know I can start more!! Thanks for sharing your go to’s! As always, looking forward to an abundant season of beauty and harvests! Oh, I also couldn’t resist Prescious Metals. Went ahead and got Alpenglow also... even though they seem very similar. Hoping to get a golden hour from with in the mix.
Wisconsin gardener here. Peas a a lot of work for what you get, but I love them, sooo. I grow Green Arrow.peas every year. Huge pods and great flavor. Give them a try.
So right you are! Sweet Peas are my jam. My granny got me started on my love and addiction. I grew Floret’s last year and was impressed with them. Happy planting. The small nursery I work at starts and sells them. They disappear quickly 😊
I am going to try the purple bell vine. Never grown it before. I saw it in hanging baskets in Finland in September…beautiful! I’m a Canadian garden in zone 6
I grew the silene last year and it was beautiful while it bloomed. It stopped blooming mid season though and then kind of dried up and I had to rip it out. Laura from GA did the same last year. Definitely grow it! Just don't put it somewhere hard to get to and be prepared to swap something in its place. ❤
Hi Erin. Loved this video, very helpful. I'm starting seeds this weekend. Can you recommend a vine that grows well in shade? I have an neighbors ugly chain link fence I'd like to try to cover this summer. She doesn't mind. She's homebound and would love something pretty to see from her back porch too.😂 thank you
I’m trying a variety of Zucchini called “Sure Thing” from Burpee. I saw a video last year that said there were some varieties that didn’t need bee pollinators and so you can grow them under row covers to defeat the squash vine borer and squash bugs. We planted a yellow squash seed where we harvested our garlic that was like this and did get a small crop. This year we will start them earlier and try this “Sure Thing”. I’m also trying a new cherry tomato called “Two Tasty” which is red with purple shoulders. I’ve made note of your annual vines. Last year I grew black eyed Susan vine and it was only just okay. I might have had it in too small of a pot. I wish I had room to start more flowers but vegetables take up most of my seed starting space. I do winter sowing for the flowers that will work that way.
What a fun video...I'm in NC so I started so many seeds last month...onions, shallots, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, peppers and so many flowers. My go to must have every year is a Cherokee Purple tomato. Most years we might harvest a dozen tomatoes from the plants but it is so worth it! Last summer was the best yet as I continued to harvest that variety up until frost. I don't know what I did differently, but it was a great summer for those tomatoes. I keep trying so many varieties, but those Cherokee Purple are the sweetest.
Thank you so much for sharing your favorites! It is so helpful for someone like me who has only been gardening a few years. You are my favorite YT gardener Erin! I’m going to go purchase seeds with the help of this list!
I was going to order Asarina and then went with cup and saucer. I didn’t realize that they bloomed so late. Maybe I need to rethink this. Or maybe combine it with another vine. I love planting the shorter zinnias like. Profusion and zahara. I planted raspberry ripple last year and kept some seeds. Thought I’d see what I get this year. I plant them down by the road and just ignore them. They do great.
Thanks Erin! This video was so much fun I watched it twice and took notes! Gaura (Whirling Butterflies) is a must for me each year along with Ammi (Queen Ann's Lace) and Cleome reminds me of growing up in Georgia. I'm trying sweet peas for the first time and a few new vines this summer.
For a Zucchini I recommend Rampicante from Baker Creek. It is a climbing vine and very prolific. It is not susceptible to the vine borer. And I love it because the long neck is completely seedless. You CAN let the fruit go to fall. The skin will turn tough and store. But I've always eaten it like zucchini. I am also trying for the first year Rise and shine zucchini which is an upright growing variety.
I mainly do veggie garden but I love Nastursiums too, (their leaves are so unique looking, like lily pads) I got three kinds to plant this year. ^_^ Orchid cream, Pheonix and Rumba. So pretty I couldnt resist. Also got a REALLY pretty kind of pansy called Tiger Eye Red(reminds me of stained glass). Got lots of hanging pots around so going to start them from seed and throw em in there
While I won’t sow for quite a while… happy today I found Italian Sunflower seeds… I’ve never been a huge sunflower fan, but these are so cute and creamy white…and they’re really easy to get going
I love growing vines too…i am originally from South America so I love my tropical vines. I have been over wintering my pink and white coral vines for three years now…due to the fact that it takes a while to get going so I always dig them up in the fall that way I have a headway the next growing season…
I agree with your choice of the queens lime zinnias. I also love borage in the veggie garden for the pollinators and the unique blue edible flowers that aer so pretty in summer salads.
Hi Erin! I too love to try new vines each year and grow them between my garage door and front porch. I grew purple hyacinth beans last year and it was fabulous - saved some beans from it. I’ve grown the Mina lobata - Renee’s gardens calls it Exotic Love Vine - and I loved it too. Love this video, so many good recommendations from you & your garden.
I am not a fresh tomato lover. I love sauces,etc., made from tomatoes. It's a texture thing. However, I grew Yellow pear tomatoes a few years ago and they reminded me more of a fruit. I grow them every year now. They are my grazing snack while working in the garden.
I start a lot from seed, and to avoid having to buy large quantities of annuals from the nursery, my go to varieties include Zinnia (Profusion series) and Angelonia. I also love to grow annuals of specific varieties not found at the nursery like celosia, feverfew, hyacinth bean, and always snapdragons (Potomac, Madame Butterfly & Chantilly). This is just scratching the surface, I go overboard every year and end up giving so many seedlings away to my gardening friends.
I’ve kinda gone nasturtium crazy the last few years. Just started two trays of them today. This year I have 22 varieties plus the seeds I saved and I’m excited to see what those look like. I’m going to do hanging baskets too.
My favorite small tomatoes last year were Pink Bumblebee - super productive and no issues with any kind of disease or pests. And best of all, so tasty I would literally eat them straight off the plant while in the garden.
Love in a Puff was my favourite plant last year. First year growing it, started it too early and had to hack the seedlings back several times and build them hacky trellises out of kebab skewers and pipe cleaners. Outside, it scrambled up and over its 6' trellis in no time and then tried to take on the house. So friggin' pretty though! Absolutely growing again this year, and will try as a trailer too. Definitely place it somewhere you can watch and appreciate the little lanterns bobbing in the breeze!
You will probably never be rid of cypress vine once grown for a summer. I planted it ONCE in a barrel planter on my driveway. It comes back in the barrel, it comes back in driveway cracks. It invades the light fixture, it tried to climb up the phone line on the side of the house, it showed up in a flower bed 20 feet away in the direction the wind and weather come FROM. I have put more soil in this barrel every year, I have stirred up what is there as I add to it and yet this vine shows up. I have the red version.
For tomatoes, we must have Thornburn's Terra-Cotta, the best fresh eating tomato we've ever tasted even when compared to purple and other orange tomatoes. For cherry tomatoes, my husband prefer Sungold Select II. He asked me a month ago if we have the seeds for those. They were the only seeds about which he was concerned about having. He loves tomatoes - too funny! I'm brand new to flower growing which is how I came across your channel. I am listening closely and trying new varieties now. Trying snapdragons, salvia, dahlias and poppies this year. We are zone 7 E TN. My poor husband will get his tomatoes after all, I asked him, and he did, for 3 new large garden beds to grow flowers. Thanks for sharing. I feel I'm learning a lot here.
Thank you for all the suggestions!! I don't have many favorites yet since I'm only a few years in, but one I'm definitely repeating this year is Sweet Passion melon from Baker's Creek. It's a personal size orange melon and it's so good!!
I throw night flowering stock in under our bedroom window every year for the wonderful evening scent in the summer heat, although it does compete a bit with the nicotiana so I have to keep that in mind. As a side note, I grow Cup & saucer vine for my parents every year afer finding out that they have a lot of bats and the vine is pollinated by them - we then collect seed in October each year!
Hey Lady,…. Spanish Flag is amazing,… don’t let the colors scare you,… I think it will be your new can’t go with out…. I absolutely love love this vine..
I agree. I grew it for the first time last year and won't be without it. I also tried corkscrew vine and cup and saucer vine and neither survived our summer heat here in Texas.
I hope you love it as much as I do. I wish I could attach a picture. It was gorgeous. I also grew hyacinth vine and cardinal vine and they were beautiful but my favorite was the Spanish Flag vine.@@TheImpatientGardener
Must have flowers to start from seed are pansies, alternanthera, geraniums, snaps, all the queen lime and benary zinnias, nasturtium. Still searching for the perfect flowering vine! (Love in a puff was sooo messy.) Must-have tomatoes are sungolds and Abe Lincoln.
Erin, have you ever grown Silver Moon Hyacinth Bean Vine? I grew it last year in Virginia 7b. It didn't get quite as ginormous as Ruby Moon, but two of them filled up a 5 foot obelisk nicely. The white flowers and light green pods are really pretty! This video gave me lots of great ideas! Thanks!
My blue shift sweet peas are pink/purple/blue, never had them have orange on them but that sounds cool! I love the blue shift because they change colors as the bloom ages and often have multiple colors on the same flower. So pretty!!
Very interesting video, Erin! I wrote down quite a few flowers and garden plants I want to try! Thanks for sharing! I always grow Red Head coleus. It gets 3’ tall x 2’wide. When the sun shines thru the leaves it’s a show stopper!!!
I tried growing nicotiana on your recommendation. I’m new to seed starting, so I was excited with success. I bought more seed to start, and then discovered that the plants in my zone 9b garden did not freeze, and they have also reseeded.
In 6A NH, I grow Grey Zucchini, which is also known as cousa. its a very good, slightly smaller variety that I've grown vertically, its popular in middle eastern dishes... definitely worth a try.
Try: convulvulus "royal ensign" - a bush morning glory with true blue flowers. Salvia horminum "Blue Monday" is also great. Calendula "Indian Prince" and Verbascum chaixii "Wedding Candles" are both fantastic.
The Verbena need a cold season before they germinate.stratification and the vine maby you need to start they like in Norway in first half of January.. our last frost is may 17..
Bronze Torch and sun gold tomatoes. I grew up on a farm in the Deep South, eating tomatoes right off the plant so I am really picky about tomatoes. Been living in the beautiful coastal Pacific Northwest for decades love it here, except I don’t have a greenhouse and growing tomatoes, and nightshades in general, outside has been an exercise in disappointment. Jim Putnam kept talking about bronze torch so last year I thought, what the heck, I will try it. It wasn’t a big producer for me, but what I got was, along with my sun golds, the best tasting tomatoes I have managed to grow here. Of course, park seed for some reason didn’t have the small packet this year but I was able to get it from Johnnys.
Purple Hyacinth Bean vine-yes!! Love it! This year I’m Gonna try intertwining that with my climbing rose, Zephirine Drouhin. Tried Spanish Flag two years ago in a demonstration garden (Zone 6b) and the blooming was weak and didn’t happen until really late in season. If you grow it, I’ll be interested to hear your opinion, I don’t think our growing season is long enough here in Kansas City.
Zucchini that’s resistant to squash vine borers here in the North is Zucchino Rampicante and that’ll climb nice and high. Added benefit is if you leave it to mature on the vine, they’ll mature into a winter squash, similar to butternut. Almost just as sweet:
Isn’t it wonderful that there are so many choices, I really enjoy sifting through seed catalogues. I believe my gateway plant was cosmos, Rubenza is a must, I also love Xanthos. Zinnia, asters, marigolds, scabiosa. Which sounds like a Harry Potter spell word. Trying Tashkent marigolds this year - Annapolis Seeds. I love the tall white nicotiana’s, ghost pipes. I have no idea what insect pollinates them. May be hummingbirds? They need space, I have it. Discovered branching sunflowers and have never gone back. Purchased Irish poet tassel flower seeds and Angelica seeds because you took time to talk about them in your videos last year. Beautiful flowers! Happy seed sowing!
Last summer was my first time with Emerald Towers basil. I love it! It doesn’t get a strong flavor at the end of the season. It was going strong in October so I dug it up and put it in an 8” pot in my bright kitchen. Here we are mid February and it’s going strong! It’s fun to pinch off leaves right at mealtime. Zone 7, Utah.
Hey if you're looking for delish zucchini, I grew Costata Romanesco from Botanical Interests last year. It was superb! It tasted way better than traditional zucchini and it has unique shape. Enjoy!
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Hi Erin, just want to mention a sweet pea tip my mother, who is not a gardener, tought me. I'm also a Wisconsin gardener. Direct sow sweet peas seeds outdoors on Good Friday. I've had great success the last 3 years & will the doing the same on March 29th.
In my family in central Illinois, potatoes are always planted on Good Friday.
@@bloom-chirpI plant potatoes on St. Patrick’s day in SE Pa.
I plant my sprouted sugar snap and snow peas on St Patrick’s Day…in New England
Any other tips on growing? I have had no success here in Ohio. The few seeds that sprouted grew but had no flowers. Maybe I'll try again this year.
While I love this tip how does this work when the date of Good Friday changes by up to about three weeks from year to year? Good Friday is March 29 this year but next year it’s April 18. That’s a pretty big difference.
Every year I grow scarlet emperor climbing bean by using cotton string I tie from my upper deck to the lower deck. It faces south and I just have a narrow 10” of dirt between the cement and the grass that I plant the seeds in. They grow all the way up and over the upper deck railing and up the hummingbird feeder arm, must be 20 feet. You get flowers, a show to watch as the bumble bees and hummingbirds go along and then you get beans. In fall I cut the cotton string off and bundle the whole mess up and throw it in the compost pile, also save the seeds from the pods that get too big.
Adding it to the list!
I wish you would do a follow up video on these same seeds (plants) in late July or August - whenever the plants are in their prime so we can see what they look like & how they are faring during the season. It's great to hear you describe them, but it's not even close to seeing your actual real-world results. Thanks.
My must have is Lemon Thyme. Not only does it smell WONDERFUL when you brush against it, it’s delicious in so many summer dishes… grilled chicken, fish, fresh salads, etc. I can not live without it.
I grow lemon and lime thyme and lemon and lime basil. I use the basil for making teas and like you, the thyme for fish and chicken.
From seed?
@@heikedeubner9073 I’d like to know that as well. I can’t get it to grow from seed to save my life.
Thanks for including your start dates! Im in zone 5b so I can rely on your dates for my seed starting timing too.
Mahogany Splendor Red Hibiscus. This is an awesome annual that has beautiful, deep red leaves. The maroon flowers are tiny and rare. I grow them for their foliage as substitutes for Japanese Maples (which do not do well in Central Valley CA) in full sun or light shade. By August, these gorgeous plants are 3-4' wide and tall and laugh at our hot, dry, windy summers They continue to look great until sometime in November, when I just pull them up. I grow them from seed or cuttings taken in Sep/Oct. Cuttings root easily in water or dirt and can be grown in 4" pots in an unheated greenhouse until all threat of frost is over in spring.
I’m actually growing that this year but cut it out of the video. 😀 I did not have luck with it last year but to my knowledge it’s not difficult to grow ao who knows what happened.
This is helpful, I'm also in California (Sacramento area) & was thinking about trying mahogany splendor. Being able to propagate by fall cuttings rather than starting from seed each year is a definite plus.
I LOVE Mahogany Splendor Hibiscus also!
@@TheImpatientGardeneryes its super easy!
Dragon tongue bush bean is a must have for me!
Ooh, I must look that one up.
Thanks!
@@TheImpatientGardener definitely 😁 they are tenderer and sweeter than other varieties
Cypress vine is very easy to grow and the hummingbirds adore the red or pink flowers.
Sugar snap peas are an all time favorite for me. They rarely make it to the house since I usually eat them directly from the vine.
Not me sitting here saying “Pelleted” over & over. My husband “WHO are you talking to?”
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Total brain freeze there.
YESSSSSS. I am so glad you're growing the purple tomato!
And thanks for saying gymnastics to pick tomatoes. Now all I can think about is Erin back hand springing into a layout over a tomato plant.
Nigella is one of my favourites as well. I only had a handful come up from one packet of seeds the first year. Year 2 they were everywhere and I wasn’t mad about it.
Zucchini recommendation here. I love it so much I will not grow anything else! It’s a vining type and is delicious plus it will mature into a delicious winter squash! I get the seeds from baker creek heirloom seeds.
Zucchino Rampicante
It’s an Italian squash
I so agree about lettuce and I have been trying methods to extend the season: I still have some Little Gem, mâche and Merveille de Quatre Saisons under two layers of frost cloth. The LG started to stretch during the shortest days of the year but is now putting out nice short crispy leaves the way it is supposed to. I invested in a cold frame that I put on top of one of my raised beds. I recently put in transplants of LG and Arctic King. I am in Zone 7a (formerly 6b) NY Hudson Valley and we have had temps down in the low teens. In fact, we were having a warm spell so I hardened off the transplants and put them in the coldframe right before the temps plunged and we had a Nor'easter with 9 inches of snow. I actually think the snow did a good job of insulating the cold frame. Anyway, going to see how far into our hot humid summers I can grow lettuce. Always fun to experiment and there is just something completely miraculous about seeds. PS: Spanish Flag is a great annual vine. I first saw it in a park in NYC and was smitten. I think you will like its drama.
I love the Little Gem lettuce - it does so well for me on the west coast (Vancouver, Canada) and equally well in the cooler months and when it starts getting too hot for most other varieties
Always fun to hear gardener's favorite plants and seeds, so thank ya. Of course I'm still LOL about sweet peas being your "gateway" plant and the "I like seeds." nod to A Christmas Story, hahaha!
So something I figured out with all the verbenas from seed especially Bampton. I direct seed them in winter(just like the poppies)I don’t just throw them to the wind though. The bampton I mark a large spot semi circle and use the entire pack in that spot. Cover with seed starting mix. Walk away. By spring I can start moving some of the larger seedlings to other spots. Verbena bore I will just throw to the wind and really keep and eye out when weeding in the spring. The Bampton method though has worked amazing the past two season in both zone 8 and now zone 6.
I love the "Cupcakes" Cosmos with their ballerina skirts! I'm growing Larkspur "Fancy Blue Purple" with Bells of Ireland for a new combination this year. I'm also taking a seventy- foot row of my veggie garden to grow cut flowers and also trying Floret's Dahlia seed "Shooting Stars" for a challenge. I had good luck growing Purple Bell Vine under lights last February here in central WI by keeping them on a heat mat the ENTIRE time they were in pots, including in early May when I finally moved them out to my greenhouse. Watered them only when the soil looked dry. Planted them as 3-4" foot vines on string trellises in early June.(We had a very cold Spring). I was able to winter one of them over, and it is trailing along and blooming under lights this winter, with very light watering.
This year for my bedding plants because i had so much success, im going to a front border of only bells of ireland amongst my boxwoods and deciduous azaleas. I was so amazed by how simple bells of Ireland were to grow from seed.
Fair warning on Love in a Puff, I live in zone 6b (Colorado) where we get snow up to Mother’s Day , just for reference. I grew this vine 3 years ago, LOVE how fast it filled in and made beautiful vines. It self seeds like crazy! I have not had to reseed at all, in fact I have to pull the little sprouts to control it. I am okay because of where I planted it but I have found little sprouts far across the yard near the fence line so this stuff spreads. Fortunately I love the chartreuse color and the beautiful flowers it makes but Fair Warning if your climate is like mine :)
Roma bush beans are sooo good. They’re flat and stringless and tender even when they get a little bigger than ideal. I blanched and froze a few bags of these and they preserve well. We got probably 3 big harvests from the same plants! Love them when making loubie bzeit and stir fry dishes 🤤
And I’ve decided I prefer the white stemmed varieties of Swiss chard, but I’ll still grow the rainbow chard for its dynamic colors and candy-stripe stems 🤩
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Yellow Fin summer squash! One plant, and one plant only 😆 And for flower, I'd say Oklahoma Salmon Zinnia. So much variation within the variety!
Zucchini recommendation: Costata Romanesco - it’s beautiful, unique and prolific. I usually get seeds from Botanical Interests but I see Johnny’s sells them too.
Erin, I don’t know if you’ve grown the hybrid annual vine Ipomoea multifida - it’s sometimes called Cardinal Climber. It’s related to the pink and white cypress vine you’re growing this year - indeed that vine is one of the parent plants - but the foliage isn’t as delicate and I find the growth much more robust in my Canadian garden. It germinates crazy fast and it might be a problem invasive wise in more southern gardens, but I’ve never had it reseed in my 6b garden. Also thanks for getting me hooked on Nicotiana. Obsessed. Hate the sticky foliage, but they just bloom forever and smell amazing. Happy seed sowing!
I, too, snatched up a pack of Floret's Precious Metal zinnias. Been waiting 2 years for those. I could never have a garden without nasturtium, nicotiana, sweetpeas and zinnias!!😊
I love the Juliet tomatoe. Delicious!
My top favorite for a saladette! But, ALSO for roasting. Adding herbs and garlic, yummm. I’ve turned them into pizza sauce and rely on them in the freezer for adding to pasta dishes. Or, letting them go until they’re a bit like sun dried tomatoes. Lasts well popped into jars with olive oil and kept in the fridge. If we don’t snack on all of them first. 😂
Freezing them on a trays and then throwing in fresh basil before vacuum sealing them flat…packs fit so well in the freezer.
I may have to pick up a few of these! Especially that purple bell vine. I tried Spanish flag last year- direct sow in Iowa was way too late. It bloomed very tiny and long after the hummers were gone.
Check out “chocolate morning glory.” Massive, gorgeous flowers, with variegated leaves. I also tried “split second” which bloomed much earlier and unique. But the chocolate MG will be a staple from here on out. From Pinetree seeds.
I tried some kind of Italian Romanesco zucchini last year.
Verbena Bampton is easy to start by winter sowing. My experience with silene is it fizzles when it gets hot.
You're going to love Love in a Puff! So easy to grow from seed, self-seeds for future years. So charming and romantic in arrangements too!
I'm having a hard time getting enthused about seed starting this year. Where I live in the high desert of New Mexico we get a massive grasshopper plague once every 10 years. The explosion we had ten years ago was the most devastating thing I had been through with the garden. They ate every - single - thing. I even found a few in the house eating my house plants. We are expecting them this year. I will start the usual vegetables in case they don't show up but I'm not putting a lot of energy into it.
That sucks. Fingers crossed for you this year. 😢
That’s so devastating! I totally understand your lack of motivation.
Oh man, that‘s awful. Are there any plants they absolutely despise??? Maybe you can plant a massive wall of thistles around your garden 😅🙈 sorry, I really hope they’ll leave you and your garden in peace forever 🙏💜
@@LittleKikuyu I've been thinking about this. My friend experienced two outbreaks 10 years apart. I don't think that means it happens every ten years. She wasn't here 30 years ago we don't know if it happened 30 years ago. I decided to be optimistic and look forward to planting.
It’s Erigeron Karvinskianus and Verbena Vervain Polaris for me. Love them both, especially Verbena. It blooms all summer, it’s beautiful, does not need fertilizer or water. And mixes well with any front border plants or grasses.
Erigeron is on my list this year too.
I have not been able to get the erigeron to germinate!
I ordered some Erigeron this year. I saw it in several videos in a row- it looks so cute and bouncy! Hoping the seed source is reliable 😬 (outside pride?)
I direct sowed lemon and tangerine Signet marigolds for the first time and was surprised how much I loved them. They smelled wonderful!
I really love growing Coco marigolds (the tall African type) from seed. They are just about the only hybrid seeds I buy. I absolutely love the yellow, as they have a lovely green center and pair well with just about anything in a bouquet. They do need staking and regular deadheading for appearances, but will keep flowering just fine without either. You get about 50 seeds for $7 (at Harris Seeds), which is a bit pricey for me, but they are always covered in flowers from summer to first frost, so in my mind they're worth it.
We love our Armenian Cucumbers trailing over the cattle panel arches between the raised beds. The make the best refrigerator pickles. Seeds are from Renee's.
Nasturtium are the cutest flowers, and their seedlings are so precious 🥹 they were one of the first plants that drew me into gardening. I almost like the variegated foliage more than the blooms…can’t be without them!
They’re definitely a gateway seed. 😂 I started with Alaska Mix then moved to Orchid Cream. This year I have 5 different varieties I’m starting. 😮 Send help.
Yes! I love the plants so, so, so much! Cannot stand the taste of smell of their blooms or leaves though! Many enjoy them, I just enjoy looking at them! I have a mix I have grown for several consecutive years called Night and Day, the blooms are almost black and pure white!
@@RealBradMiller sounds lovely! I always go for salmon or dark, velvety reds. Are the leaves variegated in that mix?
I fully agree that they win the award for cutest seedling.
Oh gosh, I didn’t even know there were that many varieties 😅 whyyyyy did you have to tell me?! 😂😂😂 send help! 🙈😂
Wisconsin may be too cold to grow Spanish Flag (mina/ipoema lobata) effectively. It was tempermental in Indiana - wouldn't grow until the day Temps were above 80 degrees F, and night Temps above 68-70 degrees F . We started it in April for planting out in May. It doesn't like to be pot-bound, and doesn't like root disturbance. But it is gorgeous when covered with blooms, and hummingbirds love it.
It will be good experiment. It’s currently cranking away in the cozy basement under lights.
This is super helpful. I’m in Santa Cruz 9b. Last frost date here is Feb 15. I direct sow as much as I can and it seems to work well. Biggest challenge is slug and snail control on baby seedlings (Sluggo plus to the rescue). Totally agree on tomatoes and lettuce as most flavor over store bought and so much cheaper. I tried dwarf hybrid tomatoes on your recommendation and wow…the taste plus space saving makes it so worth it that now I’m a huge fan. Thanks!
Have you tried a good old beer trap for the slugs?
My go to annual that I start from seed every year is Basil ‘Cardinal’. The dark fluffy seed head looks beautiful in arrangements and also smells wonderful. It looks great in the border garden too. I also start annual Salvia ‘Big Blue’. Easy to start from seed and gets beautiful big purple spiked flowers
That’s great to know. I’m trying Cardinal Basil for the first time this year. 🤞
I am growing that this year (also cut from the video for time). Glad to hear you recommend it.
Hi and thank you, Erin
You’re trying two vines that I have over the last number of years and thought I’d share some results from my southern Ohio garden.
Be in for the long haul with cypress vine. It will happily pop up for years to come. Not anywhere near invasive, just pleasantly surprised me and gets better with time. I can let it lightly meander and then tie it all up early-mid summer.
Love vine-is beautiful when it gets just the right season to bloom. It will be a race against the first frost even though I started it early. My hope was that the hummingbirds would be around to enjoy it. Can climb 10 feet or so and most flowers are up on top. Pretty foliage.
I’ve been growing vanity, too. Curious how much you pinch the verbenas early in the season. I need to jump on the Bampton! Forgot about that one.
I got silly and started my sweet peas too early this year and have been quite hard on them making them take freezes. Lol, they may end up scrapped, but it’s good to know I can start more!!
Thanks for sharing your go to’s! As always, looking forward to an abundant season of beauty and harvests!
Oh, I also couldn’t resist Prescious Metals. Went ahead and got Alpenglow also... even though they seem very similar. Hoping to get a golden hour from with in the mix.
Wisconsin gardener here. Peas a a lot of work for what you get, but I love them, sooo. I grow Green Arrow.peas every year. Huge pods and great flavor. Give them a try.
Thanks Erin for listing the dates and not just the weeks from last frost. I must have sugar snaps, I eat them right off the vine.
So right you are! Sweet Peas are my jam. My granny got me started on my love and addiction. I grew Floret’s last year and was impressed with them. Happy planting. The small nursery I work at starts and sells them. They disappear quickly 😊
I am going to try the purple bell vine. Never grown it before. I saw it in hanging baskets in Finland in September…beautiful! I’m a Canadian garden in zone 6
I grew the silene last year and it was beautiful while it bloomed. It stopped blooming mid season though and then kind of dried up and I had to rip it out. Laura from GA did the same last year. Definitely grow it! Just don't put it somewhere hard to get to and be prepared to swap something in its place. ❤
Hi Erin. Loved this video, very helpful. I'm starting seeds this weekend. Can you recommend a vine that grows well in shade? I have an neighbors ugly chain link fence I'd like to try to cover this summer. She doesn't mind. She's homebound and would love something pretty to see from her back porch too.😂 thank you
Sweet peas. This is my first time planting them. I got High Scent type. I just love them. Zone 10b. They are blooming now.
I’m trying a variety of Zucchini called “Sure Thing” from Burpee. I saw a video last year that said there were some varieties that didn’t need bee pollinators and so you can grow them under row covers to defeat the squash vine borer and squash bugs. We planted a yellow squash seed where we harvested our garlic that was like this and did get a small crop. This year we will start them earlier and try this “Sure Thing”. I’m also trying a new cherry tomato called “Two Tasty” which is red with purple shoulders. I’ve made note of your annual vines. Last year I grew black eyed Susan vine and it was only just okay. I might have had it in too small of a pot. I wish I had room to start more flowers but vegetables take up most of my seed starting space. I do winter sowing for the flowers that will work that way.
As another viewer said, I loved this video and took notes too! Thanks.
What a fun video...I'm in NC so I started so many seeds last month...onions, shallots, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, peppers and so many flowers. My go to must have every year is a Cherokee Purple tomato. Most years we might harvest a dozen tomatoes from the plants but it is so worth it! Last summer was the best yet as I continued to harvest that variety up until frost. I don't know what I did differently, but it was a great summer for those tomatoes. I keep trying so many varieties, but those Cherokee Purple are the sweetest.
I always need to grow New Look Dusty Miller from seed. Love it!!
My go-to sweet pepper is Lesya from Baker Creek. Thick walled and shaped like a heart ❤️ Very tasty !!
Nasturtium look like pumpkin plants to me, and I love the color variety
Thank you so much for sharing your favorites! It is so helpful for someone like me who has only been gardening a few years. You are my favorite YT gardener Erin! I’m going to go purchase seeds with the help of this list!
I was going to order Asarina and then went with cup and saucer. I didn’t realize that they bloomed so late. Maybe I need to rethink this. Or maybe combine it with another vine. I love planting the shorter zinnias like. Profusion and zahara. I planted raspberry ripple last year and kept some seeds. Thought I’d see what I get this year. I plant them down by the road and just ignore them. They do great.
I've had great success with Botanical Interests Black Beauty and Emerald Delight zucchini. For yellow squash, Botanical Interests Cube of Butter.
Love the dwarf tomatoes- my favorite is Fred’s tie dye
Thanks Erin! This video was so much fun I watched it twice and took notes! Gaura (Whirling Butterflies) is a must for me each year along with Ammi (Queen Ann's Lace) and Cleome reminds me of growing up in Georgia. I'm trying sweet peas for the first time and a few new vines this summer.
For a Zucchini I recommend Rampicante from Baker Creek. It is a climbing vine and very prolific. It is not susceptible to the vine borer. And I love it because the long neck is completely seedless. You CAN let the fruit go to fall. The skin will turn tough and store. But I've always eaten it like zucchini. I am also trying for the first year Rise and shine zucchini which is an upright growing variety.
I mainly do veggie garden but I love Nastursiums too, (their leaves are so unique looking, like lily pads) I got three kinds to plant this year. ^_^ Orchid cream, Pheonix and Rumba. So pretty I couldnt resist. Also got a REALLY pretty kind of pansy called Tiger Eye Red(reminds me of stained glass). Got lots of hanging pots around so going to start them from seed and throw em in there
While I won’t sow for quite a while… happy today I found Italian Sunflower seeds… I’ve never been a huge sunflower fan, but these are so cute and creamy white…and they’re really easy to get going
I love growing vines too…i am originally from South America so I love my tropical vines. I have been over wintering my pink and white coral vines for three years now…due to the fact that it takes a while to get going so I always dig them up in the fall that way I have a headway the next growing season…
I agree with your choice of the queens lime zinnias. I also love borage in the veggie garden for the pollinators and the unique blue edible flowers that aer so pretty in summer salads.
Hi Erin! I too love to try new vines each year and grow them between my garage door and front porch. I grew purple hyacinth beans last year and it was fabulous - saved some beans from it. I’ve grown the Mina lobata - Renee’s gardens calls it Exotic Love Vine - and I loved it too. Love this video, so many good recommendations from you & your garden.
Limon Talinum has become a must-grow for me. I grow it in pots, mostly for the incredible charteruse foliage, though the flowers are also stunning!
I grew that last year as well and absolutely adore that plant. It elevates any bouquet you make!
I am not a fresh tomato lover. I love sauces,etc., made from tomatoes. It's a texture thing. However, I grew Yellow pear tomatoes a few years ago and they reminded me more of a fruit. I grow them every year now. They are my grazing snack while working in the garden.
Hummingbirds love Cypress vine.
Oooo, I got Floret’s Precious Metals Zinnias as well, can’t wait to see them grow!
The warm light looks great! Here we go into another year starting seeds. You've sold me on snapdragons.
I start a lot from seed, and to avoid having to buy large quantities of annuals from the nursery, my go to varieties include Zinnia (Profusion series) and Angelonia. I also love to grow annuals of specific varieties not found at the nursery like celosia, feverfew, hyacinth bean, and always snapdragons (Potomac, Madame Butterfly & Chantilly). This is just scratching the surface, I go overboard every year and end up giving so many seedlings away to my gardening friends.
Hi Erin! I just found the bonfire dwarf peach tree at Home Depot this morning! Maybe your HD had one too.
I’ve kinda gone nasturtium crazy the last few years. Just started two trays of them today. This year I have 22 varieties plus the seeds I saved and I’m excited to see what those look like. I’m going to do hanging baskets too.
I hadn’t thought of hanging baskets. Thank you for sharing that suggestion. 😊
My favorite small tomatoes last year were Pink Bumblebee - super productive and no issues with any kind of disease or pests. And best of all, so tasty I would literally eat them straight off the plant while in the garden.
Love in a Puff was my favourite plant last year. First year growing it, started it too early and had to hack the seedlings back several times and build them hacky trellises out of kebab skewers and pipe cleaners. Outside, it scrambled up and over its 6' trellis in no time and then tried to take on the house. So friggin' pretty though! Absolutely growing again this year, and will try as a trailer too. Definitely place it somewhere you can watch and appreciate the little lanterns bobbing in the breeze!
I think it reseeds a bunch, but maybe that’s what you want it to do!
You will probably never be rid of cypress vine once grown for a summer. I planted it ONCE in a barrel planter on my driveway. It comes back in the barrel, it comes back in driveway cracks. It invades the light fixture, it tried to climb up the phone line on the side of the house, it showed up in a flower bed 20 feet away in the direction the wind and weather come FROM.
I have put more soil in this barrel every year, I have stirred up what is there as I add to it and yet this vine shows up. I have the red version.
For tomatoes, we must have Thornburn's Terra-Cotta, the best fresh eating tomato we've ever tasted even when compared to purple and other orange tomatoes. For cherry tomatoes, my husband prefer Sungold Select II. He asked me a month ago if we have the seeds for those. They were the only seeds about which he was concerned about having. He loves tomatoes - too funny! I'm brand new to flower growing which is how I came across your channel. I am listening closely and trying new varieties now. Trying snapdragons, salvia, dahlias and poppies this year. We are zone 7 E TN. My poor husband will get his tomatoes after all, I asked him, and he did, for 3 new large garden beds to grow flowers. Thanks for sharing. I feel I'm learning a lot here.
Thank you for all the suggestions!! I don't have many favorites yet since I'm only a few years in, but one I'm definitely repeating this year is Sweet Passion melon from Baker's Creek. It's a personal size orange melon and it's so good!!
My first seed starting has been sweet peas. Still had some blooming last year in October.
Dwarf Tomatoes... Trying BrandyFred (as well as Purple Reign) this year, but I've been loving Boronia, Adelaide Festival, Marlinga
I throw night flowering stock in under our bedroom window every year for the wonderful evening scent in the summer heat, although it does compete a bit with the nicotiana so I have to keep that in mind. As a side note, I grow Cup & saucer vine for my parents every year afer finding out that they have a lot of bats and the vine is pollinated by them - we then collect seed in October each year!
Hey Lady,…. Spanish Flag is amazing,… don’t let the colors scare you,… I think it will be your new can’t go with out…. I absolutely love love this vine..
I agree. I grew it for the first time last year and won't be without it. I also tried corkscrew vine and cup and saucer vine and neither survived our summer heat here in Texas.
I feel like this could be one of those plants that I wonder what the heck took me so long to try it.
I hope you love it as much as I do. I wish I could attach a picture. It was gorgeous. I also grew hyacinth vine and cardinal vine and they were beautiful but my favorite was the Spanish Flag vine.@@TheImpatientGardener
Must have flowers to start from seed are pansies, alternanthera, geraniums, snaps, all the queen lime and benary zinnias, nasturtium. Still searching for the perfect flowering vine! (Love in a puff was sooo messy.) Must-have tomatoes are sungolds and Abe Lincoln.
Erin, have you ever grown Silver Moon Hyacinth Bean Vine? I grew it last year in Virginia 7b. It didn't get quite as ginormous as Ruby Moon, but two of them filled up a 5 foot obelisk nicely. The white flowers and light green pods are really pretty! This video gave me lots of great ideas! Thanks!
If your dog loves to eat plants, make sure you check which ones to keep away from you doggy! So excited to try a couple of these!
My blue shift sweet peas are pink/purple/blue, never had them have orange on them but that sounds cool! I love the blue shift because they change colors as the bloom ages and often have multiple colors on the same flower. So pretty!!
Very interesting video, Erin! I wrote down quite a few flowers and garden plants I want to try! Thanks for sharing! I always grow Red Head coleus. It gets 3’ tall x 2’wide. When the sun shines thru the leaves it’s a show stopper!!!
Another great video Erin. Love your channel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
I tried growing nicotiana on your recommendation. I’m new to seed starting, so I was excited with success. I bought more seed to start, and then discovered that the plants in my zone 9b garden did not freeze, and they have also reseeded.
In 6A NH, I grow Grey Zucchini, which is also known as cousa. its a very good, slightly smaller variety that I've grown vertically, its popular in middle eastern dishes... definitely worth a try.
Try: convulvulus "royal ensign" - a bush morning glory with true blue flowers. Salvia horminum "Blue Monday" is also great. Calendula "Indian Prince" and Verbascum chaixii "Wedding Candles" are both fantastic.
You are giving ME SPRING FEVER.
The Verbena need a cold season before they germinate.stratification and the vine maby you need to start they like in Norway in first half of January.. our last frost is may 17..
It can help but it’s not necessary. I’ve done it both with and without, with mixed results both ways.
Bronze Torch and sun gold tomatoes. I grew up on a farm in the Deep South, eating tomatoes right off the plant so I am really picky about tomatoes. Been living in the beautiful coastal Pacific Northwest for decades love it here, except I don’t have a greenhouse and growing tomatoes, and nightshades in general, outside has been an exercise in disappointment. Jim Putnam kept talking about bronze torch so last year I thought, what the heck, I will try it. It wasn’t a big producer for me, but what I got was, along with my sun golds, the best tasting tomatoes I have managed to grow here. Of course, park seed for some reason didn’t have the small packet this year but I was able to get it from Johnnys.
Purple Hyacinth Bean vine-yes!! Love it! This year I’m Gonna try intertwining that with my climbing rose, Zephirine Drouhin.
Tried Spanish Flag two years ago in a demonstration garden (Zone 6b) and the blooming was weak and didn’t happen until really late in season. If you grow it, I’ll be interested to hear your opinion, I don’t think our growing season is long enough here in Kansas City.
Zucchini that’s resistant to squash vine borers here in the North is Zucchino Rampicante and that’ll climb nice and high. Added benefit is if you leave it to mature on the vine, they’ll mature into a winter squash, similar to butternut. Almost just as sweet:
Isn’t it wonderful that there are so many choices, I really enjoy sifting through seed catalogues. I believe my gateway plant was cosmos, Rubenza is a must, I also love Xanthos. Zinnia, asters, marigolds, scabiosa. Which sounds like a Harry Potter spell word. Trying Tashkent marigolds this year - Annapolis Seeds. I love the tall white nicotiana’s, ghost pipes. I have no idea what insect pollinates them. May be hummingbirds? They need space, I have it. Discovered branching sunflowers and have never gone back. Purchased Irish poet tassel flower seeds and Angelica seeds because you took time to talk about them in your videos last year. Beautiful flowers! Happy seed sowing!
Last summer was my first time with Emerald Towers basil. I love it! It doesn’t get a strong flavor at the end of the season. It was going strong in October so I dug it up and put it in an 8” pot in my bright kitchen. Here we are mid February and it’s going strong! It’s fun to pinch off leaves right at mealtime. Zone 7, Utah.
GREAT VIDEO! I will start with sweet peas. Thanks so much
Loved this - thanks for sharing favorites, dates started!
I saved 2 passionflower vines and am growing them in my plant room to put back outside.But I saved some of their seeds to try to grow some new ones.
Hey if you're looking for delish zucchini, I grew Costata Romanesco from Botanical Interests last year. It was superb! It tasted way better than traditional zucchini and it has unique shape. Enjoy!