Hi Kevin and Jacques! Just so that Jacques is aware, his biggest fan in the whole world is my 4 year old daughter who calls him “Jacques-y” and whenever I watch any video with Jacques, she recognizes his voice from across the room and comes running to watch with me. She’s an avid gardener and has her own raised bed, full of out-of-season sunflower, 5 cosmos, 2 “yummy-kale” and a potato she planted 2 months too late. I credit Jacques for her interest in gardening 😂 thanks for the new video, guys!
I really appreciate the timing of this video.I missed planting in April and May. June got off to a slow start due to health issues. I've been busy preping my containers and starting some seeds in doors. I went to your website after watching this video and ordered your recomended seeds. My containers will all be ready when the seeds arrive. Thanks so much forall of your support!!
I’m sorry for your loss Kevin. I know it can be really hard losing an animal. They don’t just become *like* family, they *become* family. Her memory will live on in the garden. Rest in peace Gucci, you were truly an epic hen 💛
In the spirit of supporting my favorite garden bros, I bought a mixed pack of Botanical Interests sunflowers and planted them at the base of a hugelkultur bed. They got hit with a late frost, which slowed them down, but they bounced back and are coming on strong. Can't wait to see them bloom! I've also got some good cilantro going from you guys that is hopefully destined for the freeze dryer. But, MORE IMPORTANTLY, now is the time to be planting a winter garden in any kind of temperate climate! Cabbage, leeks, parsnips, turnips, rutabegas, carrots, and so on. NOW is the time to be thinking about the veggies you want to be eating in the winter months....if your climate allows.
So true about planning for winter garden now. I’m always late because who can think to start cool season plants when it’s 100+ degrees everyday? But it’s time to get seeds planted to have transplants ready for zone 8b.
That patio choice yellow is a BEAST! I have 3 of them potted up in my Potager, and I’ve picked hundreds of tomatoes this season. Will definitely grow every year from now on 🙌
These videos help get my 4 year old daughter asleep. I love it because I get to binge watch. Your videos are amazing. We are in winter in New Zealand so the season difference helps me plan and look forward to our spring.
Absolutely loved your garden backdrop as you walked around talking about the various seeds! Your flower garden, your sunflowers and all the hardscaping is so beautiful. Appreciated learning about the different seed varieties. Please keep doing more of that. I purchase my Botanical Interest seeds primarily from the Armstrong Garden Center and am usually clueless about the pros and cons or other virtues of the various seeds. So really appreciate the detailed perspective you and Jacques share. Awesome!
I have been wondering how to grow more beans in my limited space. Thanks so much for confirming I can tuck bush beans in amongst all my other veggies where there is space.
I just realized your seeds are ones I’ve been buying for 3 seasons now (my whole gardening life! 😂) and had no idea. Great stuff, I always love those seeds.
I don't normally subscribe to channels but i LOVE you guys! So positive and all about gardening yay! Well done! I love seeing your beautiful property and all your helpful advice! My hubby just built me a greenhouse here in B.C. Canada, out of old salvaged, vintage windows free or cheap, using old scraps of wood, off cuts, leftover trim peices and siding from our house build! Such a satisfyingly eco friendly way to build something useful!! Its not even complete yet and I've snuck in 13 tomato seedlings i found in my garden beds, that volunteered from last year! Growing food is the most rewarding thing I've done in my life💖 you inspire me to find new spots for seeds in my raised beds!!! Keep on growing! 🌱
Awesome. Thanks for the encouragement. I got a late start this year due to adding irrigation…so totally worth it but now I’m hustling to get all the things planted. Great tips!
Dude I just dropped 5 of your Lemon Queen today. I’ve been carrying that packet around since May 1. Every couple weeks I pat a few into the soil. The birds eat everything on my sunflowers I can’t even taste a seed. They’re so beautiful let them have it. I garden at Clark Botanic in Long Island Ny. We have a great community garden
I grew the patio choice yellow this year and yeah, 45 days for sure. It was the first one to set fruit, the first to ripen. They were great little tomatoes.
2:27 It’s my first year gardening after watching your videos! I got 3 plants of the yellow patio choice from botanical interest. they grew so much bigger than I expected, can’t wait to harvest my first tomatoes!!
my back yard garden has so many giant self sown sunflowers they give it such a fun feeling like Alice in Wonderland i did transplant a few but the ones that i let grow where there started are massive. This year was so much fun watching these fantastic plants grow wild, one morning i looked up and caught my breath there was my first sunflower. not the tallest or the biggest wasnt expecting to see it and was surprised at my delight. I think all gardeners get this feeling of wonder in their gardens. i am totally addicted, the only reason i am not out there all day is I am 76 and i have to take breaks rest and go back out, to walk among my sunflowers and now the heat.
Southern Indiana here, doing my 3rd planting of sunflowers today, all done 1 month apart to ensure continuous food for the birds. I plant the seed from those 40 pound bags of black oil sunflower. P.S. I love your channel.
I'm on my 4th sowing. I only have like 3 or 4 that the earwigs/pill bugs haven't mowed down 😭. They've been eating good this season eating all my direct sowed stuff!
I need some bug/pest advice. How can I get rid of beetles? I have enormous beetles that my neighbors said are June bugs! They are so big they are scary! They have taken over my entire yard and gardens! They have their little accomplices, Japanese beetles with them. I go around with gloves and squash and drown the Japanese beetles in soapy water! Those "June Bugs" scare the poo out of me! They are ginormous and fly around like they are blindly drunk! They bump into me and the noise they make sounds like a huge bee! They are destroying my crops! Please help me figure what to do to rid my garden of these horrible pests!
@@ariennewilsondiatomaceous earth spread on the soil and plants will kill the bugs. Google it for more information, it's safe and non toxic, it's also cheap and easily available. Home Depot mailed mine to my door in 2 days. I was skeptical until I tried it,and had good results. I use food grade.. P.S. it has microscopic sharpe edges and that is what kills the bugs when they contact and consume it.😊
This summer I planted winter squash, vertically, pole beans, vertically and sugar daddy watermelon, vertically in one birdie bed. In my other birdie bed, 6 tomato plants. They are all going nuts. Love you guys😊
It still delights me that my fave seed company is part of the Epic Gardening fam. Got two types of beans in a greenstalk, in most of my raised beds. Might grab some sunflowers since I've not grown them in ages.
It’s been in the triple digits mostly here in central Texas and I’ve been starting all sorts of beans in full sun with lots of success! Since I can’t start much else right now I guess I’ll be a bean farmer for the foreseeable future 🫛
My Lemon Queen sunflowers are growing like crazy and the pollinators are going crazy for them! This is my first year growing them and they will always be in future gardens. Definitely a new favorite. From Botanical Interests. Of course.
I live in The Valley of the Sun. Rattlesnakes, Scorpions and Saguaro Cactus is all that grow in July here. Seriously though, it was 112 yesterday and my plants are in the shade and thirsty. Except for the Desert Rose. She's loving it right now and so pretty with purple and white flowers.
All the flowers I have gotten from Botanical Interest have all been excellent and the germination rate has been very high. Did not expect this since I live in Virginia. Thank you for all of your teaching.
Patio choice are definitely larger cherry tomatoes and the plant got a little larger than I expected but I’ve already pulled 20+ off of two plants and still tons on the plants
This year I grew two tomato plants from when they had 3 small branches. It’s been probably between a month or two (I could be way off) but I have 8 tomatoes so far! They didn’t think I could do it
Great idea for a video right now! I wanted to plant but had missed the timing due to illness. Thanks so much for the info, especially the plant types that do well in this overwhelming heat.
Aaaa I bought some of your flowers seeds in Whole Foods today to fill in, African marigold looks like a great one. I passed over your beans. I’m going tomorrow to get whatever couple packets are left. Thanks for teaching about them ❤
I have several patio choice yellow in the garden this year and they are my favorite tomato I've ever had. Got some from Botanical Interests and got 100% germination on them. Ended up with twice the plants I intended to grow! LOL I have been getting 30 or more tomatoes per day for the past month. They are SO GOOD!
I am so envious as I love tomatoes! I love in NW Louisiana, and we have long, hot summers. I don't have a green thumb, so I am trying to learn what to buy so I can have tomatoes.
My purple bean plant has began getting beans, i just have the one plant in a container so i don't get too many of them but im just glad i got some beans. I had two squash but something broke the stems completely off so i had to replant them, i like the honey nut squash. Honey nut squash is similar to butter nut but they're smaller so its one serving. Also my tomatoes finally flowered after forever.
Great info! I'm just starting to reap some rewards from my Garden in New England. I am very concerned because it's July and I've hardly seen any bees. I've self pollinate my Zuc's daily. Shaking my tomato flowers as well. I hope this changes soon.
Thank you for inspirational video as always. I know you don't enjoy them that much but I just plug radishes in every hole I see after harvesting until I figure what I want planted there, in July they take less than a month from seed to harvest . Mid-late summer, depending on your zone, is also a great time to put bare root strawberries in the ground to enjoy next spring.
I planted my sunflower seeds last week. I went with autumn beauty because i really want those beautiful flowers to come in around october-november. I bought a HUGE 24 inch container and im hoping thats enough space. Im gonna double up on my next paycheck and get even more going. I live in arizona so i have the fortune of being able to grow them year round supposedly.
I just planted a bunch of radishes and they're doing great. Lettuce isn't loving the heat. It's about perfect time for sweet corn too. I'm in zone 6b I believe
I always look forward to watching one of your videos on a Saturday morning before going out to my tiny-container-balcony-garden. You guys are awesome! Excited about the yellow tomato plant you mentioned. I currently have an indeterminate hybrid cherry tomato plant that i have managed to keep alive. I've only been able to harvest like 3 tomatoes every few weeks, but I'm hopeful because it's starting to put out more and more flowers and I have been vibrating the hell out of those flowers. 😂
Your garden looks fabulous and I'll have to search older videos to figure out the flowers behind you when you started the sunflower segment. Time to get off my couch and go plant a few more seeds in my Denver garden - thanks for all the tips!
Well, I have my first garden this year (reclaiming a neglected-by-previous-tenants one), and was literally thinking your opening lines hahaha. Thank you, this is so helpful.
Oh wow I planted dill seeds yesterday thinking well, here goes nothing. Super glad to see this video today. I might just try the seed trick with watermelon. THANKS💚
I really wish Botanical Interests shipped to Canada. I'd love to get my hands on your seed cells and trays... and seeds! Please consider shipping to us up north! 😊
It was 113 today. My sunflowers and basil do fine but today wasn't some kind of crazy super hot fluke of a day. It's pretty much this until September unless we get a monsoon. I guess the plus is most years I'm still getting tomatoes in late November to early December... as long as I pot them in early October when it cools down.
In my appartment I don't have much sun but I have green onions that are doing decently, and edamame that clearly miss enough sunlight. I'm thinking of replacing the edamame with something else more manageable in low light and fast growth. I guess I'll go for round two of basil and coriander.
Come and cut again lettuce is a good option as well. I grew a romaine variety a couple of winters ago with just the light from my window. I couldn’t afford a grow light back then. Tom Thumb peas worked pretty well also. They’re a shelling pea but if you harvest very young you can enjoy them as a snap pea.
Almost all of these are plants I started last week or will sow this week. I got a late start to my actual garden, but since I mostly grow nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, tomatillos) I have lots of seedlings to transplant as well. :) I already planted sunflowers once though, and the seedlings were eaten by pests. So I’ll need to find away to protect them better. Last year some of my tomatoes and peppers were struggling, so I put bush bean seeds next to them in mid July and they took off! And I even got a bean crop too.
Geranium Kiss and Orange Hat are 2 of my favorite determinate tomatoes. They stay rather small (max 2’) and taste really nice. Sweet and slightly acidic
Love the color options on the 6-cells. I'll have to grab some white now which will be great for starting seeds in full CA summer sun. BTW if there's one indeterminate tomato I would start right now and highly recommend for the Botanical Interests library it would be Stupice. 🍅 It's a Czech variety that is always both the first and the last to produce of all my tomatoes 👍
How does it taste? I love fresh tomatoes but have not had any luck. I live in NW Louisiana, so it's really hot all summer into and sometimes through September. We normally have a fairly short fall and winter. Every few years we might get some sleet or snow for at most a few days. What would be a great tasting tomato to grow?
wow i must be well ahead if those chili plants are start july. mine already feet tall and producing loads chilis and its only 30th june . this year i started them in controlled grow box 12-14 different types all doing pretty well. just order some more veg seeds also. lots going very well like the carrots they almost ready, 2nd lot carrots a different type but smaller they all growing good and very soon i got some round type i planting along with last type ive started. parsnips seen close to being ready so i prob start another lot those so be ready for winter. got mixed micro greens on way a more spicy mix so give them ago. 8 tomato plants loads tomatoes but not quite ready yet. last year way behind and potting up chili plants a lot harvest went to waste but this year around a month maybe two early so happy days, and plans to same them to, planing dried/powered,freeze and i might make sauce but will have to see. happy days so far
There's no way I can start tomatoes from seed in July and expect a harvest here in zone 4a 😅 Happy Canada Day to all my fellow short season growers ❤🤍🍁🤍❤️
Saying there's "no way" is incorrect. I know because I have a whole playlist of DIY greenhouses and ways to heat them for cheap or free. So you could, with some effort, yes, build a space that is +3 or so zones and extend your season for a few of your favorite crops.
Totally inspired! Thanks for providing some variety examples. My whole family loves kuri squash and ive never grown it before - plus a less flowering dill sounds awesome 👍. Great vid!
It was so nice seeing both of my favorite gardeners in one video! I wanted to know what were the names of the two tomatoes that you can plant late? I thought they would have been below but they were not there! I want to try those 2 out this year. Where do you keep the sowing trays, and why, until they are ready for transplant?
Hi Kevin and Jacques! Just so that Jacques is aware, his biggest fan in the whole world is my 4 year old daughter who calls him “Jacques-y” and whenever I watch any video with Jacques, she recognizes his voice from across the room and comes running to watch with me. She’s an avid gardener and has her own raised bed, full of out-of-season sunflower, 5 cosmos, 2 “yummy-kale” and a potato she planted 2 months too late. I credit Jacques for her interest in gardening 😂 thanks for the new video, guys!
That is adorable ❤
So cute!! You go Garden Girl!!
So cute! ❤
She’s learning valuable lessons already! Her enthusiasm is key!!!! 🥰🥰🥰 🪴
That's awesome. Its a great, sustainable skill to learn for a lifetime. And she's learning at her tender age. She sounds mature for her age.
It’s hot as hell here in Houston Texas. It’s 95 already today and raising. I was cleaning up my garden this morning.
Just had my first sunflower bloom yesterday
Red sunflowers are definitely an underrated gem. Just gorgeous varieties!
I really appreciate the timing of this video.I missed planting in April and May. June got off to a slow start due to health issues. I've been busy preping my containers and starting some seeds in doors. I went to your website after watching this video and ordered your recomended seeds. My containers will all be ready when the seeds arrive. Thanks so much forall of your support!!
Appreciate you Catherine...hoping your health issues have cleared up! - Kevin
I’m sorry for your loss Kevin. I know it can be really hard losing an animal. They don’t just become *like* family, they *become* family. Her memory will live on in the garden. Rest in peace Gucci, you were truly an epic hen 💛
This is just the best and my favourite channel on yt. No gossip, no drama, zero ugly bad things. Just plants and great advice ❤️
Appreciate you
string beans, determinate tomato (like romas & bush cherry), squash (pumpkin & red kuri), herbs, sunflowers
In the spirit of supporting my favorite garden bros, I bought a mixed pack of Botanical Interests sunflowers and planted them at the base of a hugelkultur bed. They got hit with a late frost, which slowed them down, but they bounced back and are coming on strong. Can't wait to see them bloom! I've also got some good cilantro going from you guys that is hopefully destined for the freeze dryer. But, MORE IMPORTANTLY, now is the time to be planting a winter garden in any kind of temperate climate! Cabbage, leeks, parsnips, turnips, rutabegas, carrots, and so on. NOW is the time to be thinking about the veggies you want to be eating in the winter months....if your climate allows.
So true about planning for winter garden now. I’m always late because who can think to start cool season plants when it’s 100+ degrees everyday? But it’s time to get seeds planted to have transplants ready for zone 8b.
Glad to hear they came back ok!
That patio choice yellow is a BEAST! I have 3 of them potted up in my Potager, and I’ve picked hundreds of tomatoes this season. Will definitely grow every year from now on 🙌
It's such a monster!
How does it taste? I like a strong tomato flavor. 🙂
I just ordered that!
These videos help get my 4 year old daughter asleep. I love it because I get to binge watch. Your videos are amazing. We are in winter in New Zealand so the season difference helps me plan and look forward to our spring.
Glad to hear this!
I left my tall sunflowers from last year standing, and I sowed pole beans around the base so now I'm starting to see skinny towers of green.
Absolutely loved your garden backdrop as you walked around talking about the various seeds! Your flower garden, your sunflowers and all the hardscaping is so beautiful. Appreciated learning about the different seed varieties. Please keep doing more of that. I purchase my Botanical Interest seeds primarily from the Armstrong Garden Center and am usually clueless about the pros and cons or other virtues of the various seeds. So really appreciate the detailed perspective you and Jacques share. Awesome!
Appreciate you supporting Botanical! We love Armstrong
I have been wondering how to grow more beans in my limited space. Thanks so much for confirming I can tuck bush beans in amongst all my other veggies where there is space.
The sunflowers 🌻 look amazing
I just realized your seeds are ones I’ve been buying for 3 seasons now (my whole gardening life! 😂) and had no idea. Great stuff, I always love those seeds.
I don't normally subscribe to channels but i LOVE you guys! So positive and all about gardening yay! Well done! I love seeing your beautiful property and all your helpful advice!
My hubby just built me a greenhouse here in B.C. Canada, out of old salvaged, vintage windows free or cheap, using old scraps of wood, off cuts, leftover trim peices and siding from our house build! Such a satisfyingly eco friendly way to build something useful!! Its not even complete yet and I've snuck in 13 tomato seedlings i found in my garden beds, that volunteered from last year! Growing food is the most rewarding thing I've done in my life💖 you inspire me to find new spots for seeds in my raised beds!!!
Keep on growing! 🌱
Awesome. Thanks for the encouragement. I got a late start this year due to adding irrigation…so totally worth it but now I’m hustling to get all the things planted. Great tips!
Dude I just dropped 5 of your Lemon Queen today. I’ve been carrying that packet around since May 1. Every couple weeks I pat a few into the soil. The birds eat everything on my sunflowers I can’t even taste a seed. They’re so beautiful let them have it. I garden at Clark Botanic in Long Island Ny. We have a great community garden
I grew the patio choice yellow this year and yeah, 45 days for sure. It was the first one to set fruit, the first to ripen. They were great little tomatoes.
2:27 It’s my first year gardening after watching your videos! I got 3 plants of the yellow patio choice from botanical interest. they grew so much bigger than I expected, can’t wait to harvest my first tomatoes!!
Glad to hear this!!
My son has been following you guys for the past 3-4 years too
July is perfect for sunflowers. Had them 4-5 feet and blooming by mid august.
The seed starting videos are my favorite. I wish this was longer. 🙂
my back yard garden has so many giant self sown sunflowers they give it such a fun feeling like Alice in Wonderland i did transplant a few but the ones that i let grow where there started are massive. This year was so much fun watching these fantastic plants grow wild, one morning i looked up and caught my breath there was my first sunflower. not the tallest or the biggest wasnt expecting to see it and was surprised at my delight. I think all gardeners get this feeling of wonder in their gardens. i am totally addicted, the only reason i am not out there all day is I am 76 and i have to take breaks rest and go back out, to walk among my sunflowers and now the heat.
You can never have enough basil and I'm so glad I grew so many varieties to make tea and OMG Thai basil tea is my go to over ice 😋
Agreed! Love basil. It is great as both a hot or cold tea.
Kudos for the color choice of the epic 6 cells tray Kevin, the French flag 🇨🇵
Blessings on your next garlic crop!
;) thanks!
Southern Indiana here, doing my 3rd planting of sunflowers today, all done 1 month apart to ensure continuous food for the birds. I plant the seed from those 40 pound bags of black oil sunflower. P.S. I love your channel.
Sounds amazing, black oil are a fantastic one
I'm on my 4th sowing. I only have like 3 or 4 that the earwigs/pill bugs haven't mowed down 😭. They've been eating good this season eating all my direct sowed stuff!
@@ZZ_TropDiatomaceous earth applied with a flour sifter will kill the pests, sorry to hear they've been munching away on your crop☹️
I need some bug/pest advice. How can I get rid of beetles? I have enormous beetles that my neighbors said are June bugs!
They are so big they are scary! They have taken over my entire yard and gardens!
They have their little accomplices, Japanese beetles with them. I go around with gloves and squash and drown the Japanese beetles in soapy water!
Those "June Bugs" scare the poo out of me! They are ginormous and fly around like they are blindly drunk! They bump into me and the noise they make sounds like a huge bee!
They are destroying my crops! Please help me figure what to do to rid my garden of these horrible pests!
@@ariennewilsondiatomaceous earth spread on the soil and plants will kill the bugs. Google it for more information, it's safe and non toxic, it's also cheap and easily available. Home Depot mailed mine to my door in 2 days. I was skeptical until I tried it,and had good results. I use food grade.. P.S. it has microscopic sharpe edges and that is what kills the bugs when they contact and consume it.😊
This summer I planted winter squash, vertically, pole beans, vertically and sugar daddy watermelon, vertically in one birdie bed. In my other birdie bed, 6 tomato plants. They are all going nuts. Love you guys😊
These monthly videos are so helpful. Thank you.
It still delights me that my fave seed company is part of the Epic Gardening fam. Got two types of beans in a greenstalk, in most of my raised beds. Might grab some sunflowers since I've not grown them in ages.
We're honored to carry on Botanical Interests' legacy - Kevin
It’s been in the triple digits mostly here in central Texas and I’ve been starting all sorts of beans in full sun with lots of success! Since I can’t start much else right now I guess I’ll be a bean farmer for the foreseeable future 🫛
Same here 😅 it’s been HOT-hot for sure! Good luck with your beans!
@@AussieBit451 Same to you, thank you!!
Same!!
I'm planting more sunflowers today I have a bunch of new varieties to try.
My Lemon Queen sunflowers are growing like crazy and the pollinators are going crazy for them! This is my first year growing them and they will always be in future gardens. Definitely a new favorite. From Botanical Interests. Of course.
I'm excited to be growing the kuri squash this year. Can't wait to see how it works out.
I live in The Valley of the Sun. Rattlesnakes, Scorpions and Saguaro Cactus is all that grow in July here. Seriously though, it was 112 yesterday and my plants are in the shade and thirsty. Except for the Desert Rose. She's loving it right now and so pretty with purple and white flowers.
Oh helpful!!! I just bought a house and moving in June 23rd…was sad I could have veggies…but now I can
I’ve started so many sunflowers around the garden, only one germinated. It’s good to know I can still try and plant more.😊❤❤
All the flowers I have gotten from Botanical Interest have all been excellent and the germination rate has been very high. Did not expect this since I live in Virginia. Thank you for all of your teaching.
Glad to hear!
Patio choice are definitely larger cherry tomatoes and the plant got a little larger than I expected but I’ve already pulled 20+ off of two plants and still tons on the plants
I have the patio choice tomatoes growing right now!! They are delicious!! Enjoy!
This year I grew two tomato plants from when they had 3 small branches. It’s been probably between a month or two (I could be way off) but I have 8 tomatoes so far! They didn’t think I could do it
I want to see a follow up video for this. Especially for the pumpkins!
I'm planting beans tomorrow! This is great! I'm planting Blue Lake beans.
I have grown most of all you mention- good choices guys! I started gardening before you guys were born !
Great idea for a video right now! I wanted to plant but had missed the timing due to illness. Thanks so much for the info, especially the plant types that do well in this overwhelming heat.
Aaaa I bought some of your flowers seeds in Whole Foods today to fill in, African marigold looks like a great one. I passed over your beans. I’m going tomorrow to get whatever couple packets are left. Thanks for teaching about them ❤
the quality of these videos is fire
Appreciate hearing that!
I love you guys. You helped me in FL which has the worst heat, bugs and rain in weird times..
I have several patio choice yellow in the garden this year and they are my favorite tomato I've ever had. Got some from Botanical Interests and got 100% germination on them. Ended up with twice the plants I intended to grow! LOL I have been getting 30 or more tomatoes per day for the past month. They are SO GOOD!
Love to hear this!
I am so envious as I love tomatoes! I love in NW Louisiana, and we have long, hot summers. I don't have a green thumb, so I am trying to learn what to buy so I can have tomatoes.
My purple bean plant has began getting beans, i just have the one plant in a container so i don't get too many of them but im just glad i got some beans. I had two squash but something broke the stems completely off so i had to replant them, i like the honey nut squash. Honey nut squash is similar to butter nut but they're smaller so its one serving. Also my tomatoes finally flowered after forever.
My peppers(cayenne, jalapeño, bell and poblano are growing nicely. So is my cantaloupe. After only a couple of weeks. And I live in Louisiana
Great info! I'm just starting to reap some rewards from my Garden in New England. I am very concerned because it's July and I've hardly seen any bees. I've self pollinate my Zuc's daily. Shaking my tomato flowers as well. I hope this changes soon.
Thank you for inspirational video as always. I know you don't enjoy them that much but I just plug radishes in every hole I see after harvesting until I figure what I want planted there, in July they take less than a month from seed to harvest . Mid-late summer, depending on your zone, is also a great time to put bare root strawberries in the ground to enjoy next spring.
Nothign wrong with that strategy! - Kevin
Hey! In awe of all the beautiful blooms in your garden.
Bought my tomato and bean seeds today! So excited to see if they grow 😊
You have just encouraged me to plant some more tomatoes maybe even try some peas for July. Thank you 😊
Ahhhhhhhh!! I LOVE your Red , White, and Blue 6 Cell Trays!!! WANT.
They're available!
I planted my sunflower seeds last week. I went with autumn beauty because i really want those beautiful flowers to come in around october-november. I bought a HUGE 24 inch container and im hoping thats enough space. Im gonna double up on my next paycheck and get even more going. I live in arizona so i have the fortune of being able to grow them year round supposedly.
I just planted some more cilantro and culantro seeds today.
Im about to plant some sunflower and red sunflower today, glad saw your video your sunflower is so gorgeous!
I just planted a bunch of radishes and they're doing great. Lettuce isn't loving the heat. It's about perfect time for sweet corn too. I'm in zone 6b I believe
Patio choice yellow is awesome and prolific!
Great video. I find topics like this to be among the most useful when it comes to gardening. I just ordered some bean and tomato seeds as a result.
4:19 that pumpkin seed trick is life changing! Thanks Kevin. 💚
Thanks for this video. Just what I needed to get motivated and get back in the garden.
Yes we just started picking our Contender beans - has been amazing already
I always look forward to watching one of your videos on a Saturday morning before going out to my tiny-container-balcony-garden. You guys are awesome! Excited about the yellow tomato plant you mentioned. I currently have an indeterminate hybrid cherry tomato plant that i have managed to keep alive. I've only been able to harvest like 3 tomatoes every few weeks, but I'm hopeful because it's starting to put out more and more flowers and I have been vibrating the hell out of those flowers. 😂
I love your channel, you inspire me to keep gardening!!
Your garden looks fabulous and I'll have to search older videos to figure out the flowers behind you when you started the sunflower segment. Time to get off my couch and go plant a few more seeds in my Denver garden - thanks for all the tips!
Well, I have my first garden this year (reclaiming a neglected-by-previous-tenants one), and was literally thinking your opening lines hahaha. Thank you, this is so helpful.
Sweet! I'm going to plant more in my garden tomorrow!
Ive been buying your seeds without knowing they were yours?! Its amazing
Yes!
I was just wondering if it was too late! Perfect timing!
Oh wow I planted dill seeds yesterday thinking well, here goes nothing. Super glad to see this video today. I might just try the seed trick with watermelon. THANKS💚
So I purchased the tomatoes, beans and pumpkin seeds I’m in zone 9 Antelope Valley and I still okay for July 113 yesterday
Omg! I just planted some pumpkins seeds hoping to get something this year 😂 I am so happy it’s on your suggestions ❤
Patio Choice are compact and prolific. Yummy too!
I really wish Botanical Interests shipped to Canada. I'd love to get my hands on your seed cells and trays... and seeds! Please consider shipping to us up north! 😊
Hoping to - shipping seeds across borders incurs a lot of headaches we're working on.
Do you want some help? Lol I’m going to Canada in a few weeks. I will bring you some 🤣
Good to see you guy working together!
It was 113 today. My sunflowers and basil do fine but today wasn't some kind of crazy super hot fluke of a day. It's pretty much this until September unless we get a monsoon. I guess the plus is most years I'm still getting tomatoes in late November to early December... as long as I pot them in early October when it cools down.
In my appartment I don't have much sun but I have green onions that are doing decently, and edamame that clearly miss enough sunlight. I'm thinking of replacing the edamame with something else more manageable in low light and fast growth. I guess I'll go for round two of basil and coriander.
You can always use grow lights if they can't go outside.
Come and cut again lettuce is a good option as well. I grew a romaine variety a couple of winters ago with just the light from my window. I couldn’t afford a grow light back then. Tom Thumb peas worked pretty well also. They’re a shelling pea but if you harvest very young you can enjoy them as a snap pea.
Almost all of these are plants I started last week or will sow this week. I got a late start to my actual garden, but since I mostly grow nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, tomatillos) I have lots of seedlings to transplant as well. :) I already planted sunflowers once though, and the seedlings were eaten by pests. So I’ll need to find away to protect them better.
Last year some of my tomatoes and peppers were struggling, so I put bush bean seeds next to them in mid July and they took off! And I even got a bean crop too.
Geranium Kiss and Orange Hat are 2 of my favorite determinate tomatoes. They stay rather small (max 2’) and taste really nice. Sweet and slightly acidic
patio choice yellow sounds cool
That's it. I'm getting some bush tomatoes tomorrow!
Love the color options on the 6-cells. I'll have to grab some white now which will be great for starting seeds in full CA summer sun. BTW if there's one indeterminate tomato I would start right now and highly recommend for the Botanical Interests library it would be Stupice. 🍅 It's a Czech variety that is always both the first and the last to produce of all my tomatoes 👍
It's a great one!!
How does it taste? I love fresh tomatoes but have not had any luck. I live in NW Louisiana, so it's really hot all summer into and sometimes through September. We normally have a fairly short fall and winter. Every few years we might get some sleet or snow for at most a few days. What would be a great tasting tomato to grow?
Funny just noticed yesterday I'd forgotten to plant my sunflowers, now i know what I'm doing today Thank You ❤
greetings from the netherlands.... bushbeans did great last year so i doubled the amount of plants so we can fill the freezer with it.
Okay. I just ordered all these seeds. I will plant and see what happens. I'm in Portland Oregon. Zone 8B. Thanks Dudes.
Thank you. I always love to plant new things and KEEP ON GROWING!?
I love Emerald Towers, I've been planting it for the last 3 years and it's production is amazing.
It's a machine!
wow i must be well ahead if those chili plants are start july. mine already feet tall and producing loads chilis and its only 30th june . this year i started them in controlled grow box 12-14 different types all doing pretty well. just order some more veg seeds also. lots going very well like the carrots they almost ready, 2nd lot carrots a different type but smaller they all growing good and very soon i got some round type i planting along with last type ive started. parsnips seen close to being ready so i prob start another lot those so be ready for winter. got mixed micro greens on way a more spicy mix so give them ago. 8 tomato plants loads tomatoes but not quite ready yet. last year way behind and potting up chili plants a lot harvest went to waste but this year around a month maybe two early so happy days, and plans to same them to, planing dried/powered,freeze and i might make sauce but will have to see. happy days so far
I hate to hear about losing one of the chickens. That's heartbreaking. 😢😢
Then boycott KFC.
There's no way I can start tomatoes from seed in July and expect a harvest here in zone 4a 😅
Happy Canada Day to all my fellow short season growers
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Grab starts!
Saying there's "no way" is incorrect. I know because I have a whole playlist of DIY greenhouses and ways to heat them for cheap or free. So you could, with some effort, yes, build a space that is +3 or so zones and extend your season for a few of your favorite crops.
@honestinquiry5531 no way with my short season and no heated greenhouse*
Yeah, their growing season in San Diego is significantly different than in other zones. But the intent is solid.
@carolynwarfield1057 let's be honest, no one needs to live in a climate where 70% of the year you can expect a frost. I just need to move 😂
Totally inspired! Thanks for providing some variety examples. My whole family loves kuri squash and ive never grown it before - plus a less flowering dill sounds awesome 👍. Great vid!
Nice, I just planted beans last night. I need the yellow ones now!!
Y'all are mind readers. I was just wondering yesterday if I can plant more stuff 😂🎉
Loved it!!! Thanks so much! Very informative and easy to absorb. Cheers!
Great stuff, I've been planting beans all over 👌
Yes,thank you! I was worried and sad i couldnt grow anything.😊
It was so nice seeing both of my favorite gardeners in one video!
I wanted to know what were the names of the two tomatoes that you can plant late? I thought they would have been below but they were not there!
I want to try those 2 out this year.
Where do you keep the sowing trays, and why, until they are ready for transplant?