Leave your parsnips in the ground overwinter and dig them in the Spring before they start to have green tops. They will be sweeter and soooo good. I garden in Minnesota in zone 3 so don’t think it will be too cold where you are. Marigolds, nasturtium and herbs deter insects. Also be careful with the bark you are using. It might harbor insects. Don’t plant all your radishes at one time. Instead succession planting would be better so you don’t have so many radishes at one time. The same goes for lettuce arugula and kale. Good luck and it was nice to be in your garden today!
You can donate food to a local food bank. You can set up an understanding with neighbors to help themselves when you are away. You can freeze or can veggies. For over ripe veggies or seeded veggies, you can donate to pig farm or goat farm, etc…. Or you can plant less veggies and only veggies that you enjoy. You can use plants to dye yarn or fabric. Build a root cellar, root veggies last long in cool, dry storage. You can hang dry herbs. Collect the seeds for next year. Check out companion gardening, like basil helps tomato’s. I wish I could have a garden, I live in a condominium with a parking lot 😜.
You have lots of good suggestions about your garden, but a couple of things I didn't see (but I didn't read *all* the comments). Don't give up next year if results don't reach your expectations. I started a veggie garden after I retired about 10 years ago, and am finally getting half way decent at it. Veggie gardening takes skill, and you have to practice. In my case, a lot, lol! Also, plant lots so that you have enough to share with the bunnies and bugs. I also have good results splitting up what I plant. I'll plant beans in three different spots in the garden, and if the bugs find one patch, maybe they won't find the others. I know what you mean about not harvesting what you grow - I had to put my garden within eyesight of my kitchen, because if I didn't see it, I didn't go into to. It also helps if you included stopping in the garden when in another routine. In my case it's when I feed the chickens, for you it could be when you walk Freya. When I handed my husband his dinner plate last night, I told him the veggies on his plate had been still growing 30 minutes earlier. It makes me so happy to be able to give him such healthy, delicious food. love to you
This year I planted a border of nasturtium around my veg/herb garden. This year was the 1st time I didn’t have pests (other than one sweet bunny who lived under the tomatoes). The nasturtium are beautiful and edible - their bright orange blooms are so lovely in salad.
Try staggering your plantings of seeds & then it all isn't ready at one time. Bark really helps with weeds & makes it easier to remove the ones that grow. Way to go gentlemen!
My marigolds all died until I dug up some semi wild ones from my back garden and grew them in the front garden. Now they're much more successful. The ones from the garden centre just write never happy, grow like weeds in my back garden.
Best appetizers in summer are those you go outside and just pick and eat while enjoying the garden. I call it grazing. It reminds you to use what you have and to enjoy what you have. Each garden year is different.
Those wooden bed frames are nifty! I love how they stack on top of each other. Looks like they are quite secure too. White cabbage butterfly is what eats brassicas like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, box choy. A net is the most effective way to keep them away. Other tip is to cut out butterfly wing shapes from white plastic (like from ice cream or food containers) and stick them on a stick of wire. Make them look quite realistic. The white butterflies think other white butterflies have “claimed” that spot so they will go elsewhere as they are territorial. I don’t know personally how successful this tip is but others have had success with it in Australia. I have a community garden plot and we use bark mulch to keep the weeds away. We also put cardboard down first, then the bark, as the cardboard kills any weeds. The cardboard eventually breaks down so it’s a good organic weed management solution. Other suggestion with crops is to succession plant… instead of planting a whole bed of broccoli at once, plant two then in two weeks another two etc and then you will have your crop ripen over a longer period instead of all at once. Trick is to time the succession plantings so you get a decent crop over each plants growing season. A glut of crops is a rite of passage for all gardeners! Trade them with neighbours for eggs or jams or other things you don’t grow or cook. Or given them away. Also it can be good to rest and rotate your beds so you don’t have the same crop each season in the same bed. During winter it can be good to rest a bed but plant a crop to cut nitrogen back into the soil… like a broad bean crop that you cut back at about 30cm and dig back into the soil. Let it rest over winter and then plant up in summer.
Something I find really helps with weeds on your paths - Put layers of cardboard below your bark to suppress the weeds on your paths. Also net your cabbages to stop the butterflies from laying eggs on them. Another thing is to succession sow your crops so they aren’t all ready at the same time. Xx love your kitchen garden
I was reading through the comments. Lots of great suggestions! I got a small book on companion planting called, CARROTS LOVE TOMATOES. It was clear and simple. Companion planting is fun, too. I would always look forward to planning my raised beds during the cold, dark months...putting "companions" together and making sure to keep distance between bad pairings. Another great resource is Permaculture. My favorite is Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, by Toby Hemenway . These are in English but there must be resources for you locally. As a homesteader for 16 years, I learned that there aren't any failures, just many lessons to be learned! After the first,, and ten the second peach tree, died, I learned peach trees couldn't thrive in my habitat...so I moved on to a cherry tree.. And it does take years!! But they are years of joy. My biggest tip would be to take your mug of coffee or tea outside everyday, morning and evening, and slowly stroll through ALL the habitat you've created and quietly see what is happening. It will also help you remember what you have growing. On the Sunday when this episode arrived, I made a road trip to pass along the rest of my gardening stuff to my son. It was a bittersweet moment. I will be in Senior Housing soon where I won't be able to garden anymore. But how happy-fying to pass it on to the next generation!!
Lovely garden! A lot of herbs will keep away specific pests, like basil (flies), thyme (earworms), dill (aphids), lemongrass (mosquitos). Marigolds are a great start. Plus the petals are edible. For other insects and fungal diseases you can spray on Neem Oil, which comes from Neem Trees.
That garden looks great! Planting garlic and onions with them is supposed to help. My husband knew an old gardener who put pantyhose over the cabbage heads. It prevented bugs from getting in while still allowing the cabbage to grow. Good luck!!!
Brassicas such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower are best grown under row covers to keep out the dreaded white moth. I’m glad you let things that you didn’t get around to eating go to flower so beneficial insects, birds, bees etc. can enjoy them. Parsnips and garlic are best planted in the fall and harvested the next spring or early summer. Half the fun of a garden is planning next years. Blessings.
I love the set up of the individual beds and the wood chips to keep the weeds down. But I really like Arne’s journals. I want to try that. Great idea to keep notes on what works/doesn’t work. Useful in so many ways, not just gardening. It’s a work of art in itself. Looking forward to seeing the garden next year!
We also grow Brussel Sprouts that tend to attract the same sort of insects as other cabbages. We make a spray of mild dish soap (Dawn or similar) and make sure to spray top and underside of foilage. This has worked very well in conjunction with planting marigolds as a garden perimeter :)
Guys..maybe consider getting cloches otr a greenhouse? You would need to keep it warm in winter..but you could grow more vegetables..courgettes..tomatoes..my Dad used to grow melons and peppers from seeds I took him from Spain..He grew potatoes, cabbage, brussels sprouts, carrots and marrows..(he won prizes for thosebin local competitions..as well as for his sweet peas)...rhubarb in the open..and strawberries under frames..we also had raspberry bushes protected from birds by net curtains.He had green fingers!! And beautful flower beds..LOVE your videos..😀🤩
Looking good chaps! We have an allotment so we grow a lot of veg. We bought a chest freezer so that we can freeze things as they come good and enjoy them later. We'd never get to eat everything otherwise! The English word for when things like radish and lettuce suddenly grow and go to seed is "bolting". It happens in hot weather - especially if things get dry. re: the insects - horticultural fleece (or old net curtains!) is a good option but I find that then the birds don't come in and eat the slugs. An old man at our allotments told me that you have to accept that you will get the second bite out of everything!
Dear Arne & Carlos, I'm a gardner from Bot. Garden Munich for foodplants, healing plance so on. Sent some Kombination for your climatic area. You need a higher soll Box, also use your green leafs to take them done with with bunny,Crowdfunding,chicken Shit. 20cm high. Good you start gardening , every year is different. Some plants work in one year, next year not- it's normal. We use for a part for permacultur. Your garden is amazing also your kitchen garden, you find out whats best in your Country.
You are planting a huge amount of each vegetable; this is great for sharing with family, friends, and neighbors. Also, you could can some for eating over the winter. I think you could plant less, and still get a massive harvest. I planted five cucumber plants, and had them coming out of my ears by the end of Summer! LOL! Made many jars of pickles. Here in the states, we call the wood chips mulch which comes in bags or we can get it by the truckload, and it does work. Mulch around the veg to keep out weeds, pine needles work also. Have a great week. xoxo's Sandie🤗
Cabbage moths will lay their caterpillar eggs on the leaves. The caterpillars eat quickly. But I heard the moths are territorial. So this year I cut out little white moth shapes from hard white plastic and put them all over the cabbages and broccoli and on top of the soil. It worked!
I suggested that in a comment - to cut out white butterflies. Glad it worked for you! I’ll give it a go this summer. I’m in Australia… it is a tip from our Gardening Australia ABC TV gardening show.
I think the small white plant is a parsnip. I love them. When they get large, I cut them into chunks and do the same with large carrotts and some quartered onions or shallots. Put small amount butter or olive oil oil, salt and papper on them and roast them in a hot oven 400 F. WONDERFUL deep flavor...
Hello, Companion planting is the method where certain plants benefit growing near others. there are lots of articles online if you google that. We use this method in our garden. Slugs are our biggest problem , so we followed advice from a gardener and put some beer into sunken containers. Alas it did work to a certain extent but we ended up with neighbouring slugs coming for "the Party" so we attracted extra slugs. You can't win them all :) xxx
To grow organically…anything in the cabbage family: includes kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts & cabbage should be covered with mesh netting when planted. those little whitish butterflies lay their eggs and when they hatch will have hundreds of little green worms on your plants. No flower will keep them away. you just have to prevent them from being able to lay their eggs on your plants. Since this plants don’t need to be pollinated it’s not a problem to cover them. i’m your climate i would also suggest growing, kale, spinach and beets. Also, lay down sheets of cardboard (from flattened boxes) under your wood chips to prevent weeds from sprouting underneath.
My sister looked at her garden daily. Like you, I'd forget to eat it too! I think the solution is constant checking on the progress! But things sure do grow for you!!!
As for the overgrown radishes - just wait until small husks develop from the flowers, they can be eaten. They are delicious, taste like radishes and there can be lots of them.
Congratulations on your garden. You should get lots of good food from it. You can put the radish flowers and seed pods in salads and eat them. You should put cardboard under your chips, it will deteriorate into the ground eventually (worms love it), and will aid in keeping the weeds and grass from coming up.
Arne love the sweater you have on. The clasps are awesome. I just love your garden. It reflects your love of nature and connection to your land. You put your heart in everything you do and it shows! Hugs to you both! 😊
A hand to you for trying an organic garden. You can eat radish seed pods. Don't pull the plants. The pods are great as a cooked vegetable. Use them in a stir fry. They are very mild tasting. The vegetable that you are trying to identify is parsnips. You pulled it too young. They need to stay in the ground. They are very cold resistant. I leave them in the ground covered with straw over the winter in Pennsylvania. Other veggies that would be good for your area would be beets, carrots, swiss chard, and kale. Mostly bug resistant and can handle colder weather. Any cabbage family will get worms or bugs. There are little white moths that fly around. They lay eggs on the cabbages which hatch out to be worms that will totally eat the cabbages. You must cover the plants with a netting to prevent that. A natural thing that will discourage insects is Neem oil. It will kill the bugs but not hurt the plants or the environment . You can buy it in a spray bottle or a concentrate that you mix with water and put in a spray bottle. I can buy it in the US, I would guess it is available in other countries. You might ask around and see if there are any garden shops in your area. Usually the people there can advise you on the best crops to grow for your climate. Plan your garden this winter and you'll be ready for spring.
There is a material you should be able to buy in garden centre or do it yourself shops and it’s called fleece it looks like a piece of net curtain but stops things being able to fly in.. like another viewer says be aware of insects in your bark. This was my part two. I think you will both be just fine. Takes time for us all to learn new projects we take on. I think we all benefit even the more experienced people at picking up good tips from other people who have tried doing the same things. Some oare for the better some are not. Lots depends on soil and different areas we grow them in. I have full faith you will do it in time. The Pesci insects just love having a munch at our products we are growing. Or trying to grow. X
Put cardboard on the ground before you put down the wood chips. We do that at our local community gardens, this also helps with keeping weeds and and grass in check.
My Great Grandmother used to spray the kitchen garden with a tea made with nettle. A bunch of nettles in boiling water and let it cool overnight. Apparently it scares away bugs and snails. :)
Parsnips are planted to close together. The problem for planting for just 2 its so hard. Our rule of thumb is one plant for each squash because they produce so much. We stagger our planting of broccoli and cauliflower. Plant like 3 of them then 2 werks later plant a couple more. We use egg shells in our strawberries to denture snails and slugs. Onion around some plant denture bugs but check what onions grow happily with. Oh and some stuff hates mulch basil, tomatoes. We put landscaping cloth down between raised beds then add the mulch. Good luck yall
Many flowers are edible, but check first. You can clear an area of weeds and grass by covering with enough newspaper or cardboard (if inks are safe and remove tape).bark mulch like what you put in will keep weeds crowded out. Soapy water spray can be used to repell insects if you see them. Some veges are better winter's over like carrots to sweeten. You have many people suggesting good things. Mostly your garden looks great as is so enjoy the beauty and nibble.
I think your parsnips need spacing out more to have room to bulk up. Both kinds of marigolds - calendula and tagetes - are good companion plants and limnanthes (poached egg plant) brings in some beneficial insects too. Radish pods can be pickled whilst still young and green. Sometimes you just need to have one sacrificial plant, probably cabbage, and keep the insects off the rest. Everything is growing so well. I admire your energy and ideas.
Hello! After the radishes lose the flowers, the seed pods, which look a little like peas, are very delicious when eaten raw. They have a radishy flavor and are great in salads. So many more pods than actual radishes! Please try them! 🥰
I had some success with companion plantings when I had a garden. Bugs tend to not like mint. I planted marigolds with tomatoes and it was working; however, the deer don’t care! I never knew deer would eat tomatoes😕I planted mint around my apples trees and that was a wonderful match! Sometimes you can intermix the herbs with your veggies. Good companion planting of eatables will help fight bugs and disease so you have a more natural defense. Cheryl
Also, you might want to cover your beds with cardboard(cellotape removed)...to protect your soil. Scratch the soil, add some compost and cover with cardboard.
The bark is very good to use between your vegetable beds, it will suppress the weeds. I think the best advice is to grow what you will eat, otherwise it will all go to seed as your broccoli has done. Use succession planting, for instance with radishes, sow the seeds every fortnight or so, the same for you salad leaves. Carrots and parsnips take longer to grow, as does broccoli and the cabbage family. A compost bin is a very good idea, you can put all your garden waste in - apart from seed heads, it will all break down. A compost bin can be placed anywhere in the garden and put all your garden waste in it. Marigolds are good interplanted among some veg, as is nasturtium. Companion planting is also worth checking out. You will need some help in the garden especially if you are travelling a lot. A vegetable/kitchen garden is almost a full time job, and cannot be left for weeks at a time! Good luck.
Maybe you could enlist the help of a neighbor when you travel next summer. They can look after the garden and they keep whatever they are able to harvest at the time. That may help eliminate waste.
Parsnips! Also good in a beef stew.. The Iroquois planted the three sisters together; corn, squash and beans-ancient gardening! There are many varieties of corn, I’m sure you can find one suited to Norwegian climate. Bugs; do you have ladybugs? My ma buys a pack of ladybugs and set them free in the garden…there’s bugs that will eat your bugs 🐞 in regards to eating your foods…try blanching and freezing. Chop and blanch then freeze…good for middle of 🥶
The Three Sisters are represented by corn, beans, and squash and they're an important facet of Indigenous culture and foodways. They're planted in a symbiotic triad where beans are planted at the base of the corn stalks. The stalks offer climbing bean vines support as they reach for sunlight from the earth. There. Good luck.
I learned this 2 years ago by accident. Plant dill with tomatoes. It keeps away a certain pest. I can't remember which now... But 2 years ago there was a tomato bug in my area... But I never had an issue . When I looked it up it said that planting Dill was a deterrent for the big... Of which I had plenty volunteer plants growing with my tomatoes.
A mixture of water with wash up liquid in a mixture, spray on the insects that stops them. Alternative jet them once they are on plants with fast hose. But marigolds are very good. The white carrot you mention sounds like a parsnip. There is also a turnip and celeriac. Have a look at them all. Yes def a parsnip.
I think you have dona a great job in your kitchen garden. Stingy nettles in your raised beds are also good to have , between salats and so on,. Insects like them a lot better then vegetables. So have some weed in your raised beds. If you are to tidy the insects will not have an other choise and go in your vegetables.. Stingy nettles are great for soups and stews to😀
Sometimes little nests for earwigs help to keep lies away and my sister plants here and there just some garlic between. That keeps also a lot of little ones away👍🏻
Thank you for sharing your garden with us, Arne and Carlos! i just started watching your channel and I LOVE it! I'm learning to knit (for um, the second time) and it's so nice to have your company as I sit and knit for a bit 😋 Also, Arne. I have that paper you show us at 3:24 - it came in a pack of origami paper with mixed designs! The pattern also comes in a red orange/green combo. 😀
You may think of your flowering broccoli and radish as a fail, but really now you will have more pollinators next year bc they will have left their eggs there:)) that’s great! Cabbage really has to be covered if you have already had insect problems. Enjoy!! Xx
Calendula is a good plant to attract aphids and keep the aphids away from other plants. I think the only sure way to keep cabbage worms away is to use the row covers.
Greetings, Companion plants with your pest-prone crops. For example, brassica companion plants like thyme, dill, oregano, lavender, onions, garlic, and marigolds are said to deter cabbage moths. Cheers, Rachel
Most of the flowers of your vegetables, you can eat in salads or put in soups and stews. Just taste them. I would love to grow some vegetables and let some flower because the flowers are so pretty and not boring like a formal vegetable garden.
I assume the bug in the cabbage is cabbage moth? Its a pretty little white moth that lays its eggs on the cabbage leaves. When the little green caterpillars hatch, they can eat through almost all of the leaves in a surprisingly short time. The only success I've had against cabbage moth is covering the cabbage with tulle or garden mesh netting. Works like a charm! The birds do try to help. They think the caterpillars are delicious!
Just pick the broccoli whilst small, don't wait for large florets, and eat them and their flowers raw in salads. Delicious! Jerusalem artichokes have leaves like sunflowers (and also flowers like mini sunflowers) I think they might be parsnips. I'd love to see a video of Carlos making his jerusalem artichoke soup - that'd be interesting because I find them a little bit hard to make edible for most people's tastes.
Sage, rosemary, basil, citronella grass, lemon grass, mint, catnip, petunia, lavender, chives, borage, mums, and marigold are good for planting with vegetables. Dill attracts predatory wasps that will kill insects. I’m not sure which of these will grow in your climate though. Mulch is great for controlling weeds and insects, but may affect the ph of your soil, in which case you may need to add lime to the soil to neutralize it. Good luck with your garden!
That white root vegetable was parsnip. I believe you used the Norwegian word for it, "pastinakk" They're similar to carrots in that you can leave them in the soil over winter and they will be sweeter next year. Jerusalem artichokes are tall with yellow flowers. The edible part is the brown tuber. I learned the hard way that they spread quite a bit. Planting them in a box garden would be a good idea. I heard that marigolds keep the bugs away but then I also heard that the bugs like marigolds and eat them and leave your vegetables alone. Either way, they never did much for my garden except look pretty. Carrots and radishes mature quite fast - about 2 to 3 weeks - so it's best to plant some every couple of weeks so you don't end up with too many ready to pick all at once. You can eat radishes that have bolted (or bloomed) but they tend to be bitter. You can also roast red radishes the same way you'd roast potatoes. They're pretty good that way.
The wood chips will help so much. But also put down cardboard first. You will have to add more in your walkways each year. I use diatomaceous earth to keep bugs at bay. Marigolds, and smelly flower also keep critters and bugs away naturally.
You need to get a really big freezer, and then you can save most of what you grow. Alternatively, invest in a dehydrator, so that you can dry some of your produce to use direct in casseroles, stews etc,
Sweet peas or English peas. Sweet peas are toxic to humans. Leave the radish go to seed. Let the pods dry on the vine, for next years crop. Thin out your parsnip bed. Bark is easy to keep tidy and great for knees. Radish butter, I delish and easy to keep for ages. Also Radish are a great companion plant for leeks (keeps flea beatles at bay). Marigolds are great companion plants, also some are edible and makes great tea. Xx
Thank you for showing us your kitchen garden, it is lovely! I would love to have a garden, chickens, and a few goats. But my husband and I travel quite a bit and I don’t feel comfortable leaving a garden and animals under someone else’s care (especially animals).
I used wood chips between my raised beds for the first time this summer. I lay cardboard down on the soil and then put the wood chips on top. I still had weeds come up. I guess I needed a thicker layer of wood chips.
I think your good smelling root vegetable is parsnip. I discovered how wonderful they are when we lived in England. Yum, yum! For my kitchen garden I mostly stick to herbs (oregano, mint, basil, parsley, dillm thyme) and tomatoes because tomatoes from the store are so terrible.
Mint keeps bugs away, also diatomaceous earth, sprinkled around plants, it is essentially from rocks and seashells in powder form, also used in swimming pools. DTE. Sluggo for slugs and snails.
Butternut squash makes a wonderful soup! I have a recipe that uses squash, a little jalapeño, some fish sauce, coconut milk, and other spices. It’s creamy & has an Asian flavor to it.
I had pumpkins and cantaloupe in a raised bed with green peppers, tomatoes, marigolds and zinnias: a vine borer (destructive insect) destroyed my melons & pumpkins. I had one other pumpkin growing at the back of a large flower bed: no bugs attacked it. So I would advise planting a lot of flowers around your cabbages etc (marigolds, nasturtium, echinacea) any strong scented flower will disguise your cabbage, cauliflower etc from insects.
I warmly recommend the book "Around the World in 80 Plants - an Edible Perennial Vegetable Adventure" by Stephen Barstow. You´ll be astonished how many flowers and other parts of plants are edible. "The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency" by John Seymour is also a must-have for organic gardeners in a small scale. - Good luck for all your gardening efforts!
I do raised beds like these so I don't have to dig. I build them up with Hay and Compost. So much that we grow doesn't make it to the kitchen because we eat as we harvest. 🤣 I grew sweet corn and we stood in the garden and ate it raw.
I only have a very small garden but I have books, and books, and books :) Thyme, Rosemary and sage are supposed to help protect cabbages from loopers, whiteflies and cabbage worms. Nasturtiums might help too? Look for information on "companion planting"
To keep the bugs away you can sprinkle with cinnamon but you would need a lot of it. Or you can plant vegetables that repel insects. If bugs are on my plants I spray them with washing up liquid I mix a few drops in a spray bottle and shake and spray a garden your size will need a pump spray.
Leave your parsnips in the ground overwinter and dig them in the Spring before they start to have green tops. They will be sweeter and soooo good. I garden in Minnesota in zone 3 so don’t think it will be too cold where you are. Marigolds, nasturtium and herbs deter insects. Also be careful with the bark you are using. It might harbor insects. Don’t plant all your radishes at one time. Instead succession planting would be better so you don’t have so many radishes at one time. The same goes for lettuce arugula and kale. Good luck and it was nice to be in your garden today!
That is such good advice! 😊
I love nasturtium flowers in salad too!
Hi Jeanne. I live in Minnesota too! Fun to see another Minnesota comment 😊
The bees will love all of your vegetable flowers! 🦋💚🐝
The bees think you were successful! You gave them so many wonderful flowers to dine one. 🙂
You can donate food to a local food bank. You can set up an understanding with neighbors to help themselves when you are away. You can freeze or can veggies. For over ripe veggies or seeded veggies, you can donate to pig farm or goat farm, etc…. Or you can plant less veggies and only veggies that you enjoy. You can use plants to dye yarn or fabric. Build a root cellar, root veggies last long in cool, dry storage. You can hang dry herbs. Collect the seeds for next year. Check out companion gardening, like basil helps tomato’s. I wish I could have a garden, I live in a condominium with a parking lot 😜.
You have lots of good suggestions about your garden, but a couple of things I didn't see (but I didn't read *all* the comments). Don't give up next year if results don't reach your expectations. I started a veggie garden after I retired about 10 years ago, and am finally getting half way decent at it. Veggie gardening takes skill, and you have to practice. In my case, a lot, lol! Also, plant lots so that you have enough to share with the bunnies and bugs. I also have good results splitting up what I plant. I'll plant beans in three different spots in the garden, and if the bugs find one patch, maybe they won't find the others. I know what you mean about not harvesting what you grow - I had to put my garden within eyesight of my kitchen, because if I didn't see it, I didn't go into to. It also helps if you included stopping in the garden when in another routine. In my case it's when I feed the chickens, for you it could be when you walk Freya. When I handed my husband his dinner plate last night, I told him the veggies on his plate had been still growing 30 minutes earlier. It makes me so happy to be able to give him such healthy, delicious food. love to you
This year I planted a border of nasturtium around my veg/herb garden. This year was the 1st time I didn’t have pests (other than one sweet bunny who lived under the tomatoes). The nasturtium are beautiful and edible - their bright orange blooms are so lovely in salad.
Could it be a parsnip?
Try staggering your plantings of seeds & then it all isn't ready at one time. Bark really helps with weeds & makes it easier to remove the ones that grow. Way to go gentlemen!
My mother always planted marigolds around her vegetable gardens. They looked pretty and kept the insects away. (Or so she always said)
My marigolds all died until I dug up some semi wild ones from my back garden and grew them in the front garden. Now they're much more successful. The ones from the garden centre just write never happy, grow like weeds in my back garden.
Marigold leaves can be eaten too! I like them in salads for a bit of colour.
And you can dye with marigold flowers. Bonus!
Add Dill and potted mint around your brassicas. That really helps with their scent to confuse the bugs.
Best appetizers in summer are those you go outside and just pick and eat while enjoying the garden. I call it grazing. It reminds you to use what you have and to enjoy what you have. Each garden year is different.
Those wooden bed frames are nifty! I love how they stack on top of each other. Looks like they are quite secure too. White cabbage butterfly is what eats brassicas like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, box choy. A net is the most effective way to keep them away. Other tip is to cut out butterfly wing shapes from white plastic (like from ice cream or food containers) and stick them on a stick of wire. Make them look quite realistic. The white butterflies think other white butterflies have “claimed” that spot so they will go elsewhere as they are territorial. I don’t know personally how successful this tip is but others have had success with it in Australia.
I have a community garden plot and we use bark mulch to keep the weeds away. We also put cardboard down first, then the bark, as the cardboard kills any weeds. The cardboard eventually breaks down so it’s a good organic weed management solution.
Other suggestion with crops is to succession plant… instead of planting a whole bed of broccoli at once, plant two then in two weeks another two etc and then you will have your crop ripen over a longer period instead of all at once. Trick is to time the succession plantings so you get a decent crop over each plants growing season. A glut of crops is a rite of passage for all gardeners! Trade them with neighbours for eggs or jams or other things you don’t grow or cook. Or given them away.
Also it can be good to rest and rotate your beds so you don’t have the same crop each season in the same bed. During winter it can be good to rest a bed but plant a crop to cut nitrogen back into the soil… like a broad bean crop that you cut back at about 30cm and dig back into the soil. Let it rest over winter and then plant up in summer.
Something I find really helps with weeds on your paths - Put layers of cardboard below your bark to suppress the weeds on your paths. Also net your cabbages to stop the butterflies from laying eggs on them. Another thing is to succession sow your crops so they aren’t all ready at the same time. Xx love your kitchen garden
I echo the cardboard idea. Multiple layers of wet newspaper also works well.
Yes cardboard and/or newspaper is excellent for weed suppression.
I was reading through the comments. Lots of great suggestions! I got a small book on companion planting called, CARROTS LOVE TOMATOES. It was clear and simple. Companion planting is fun, too. I would always look forward to planning my raised beds during the cold, dark months...putting "companions" together and making sure to keep distance between bad pairings.
Another great resource is Permaculture. My favorite is Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture,
by Toby Hemenway .
These are in English but there must be resources for you locally.
As a homesteader for 16 years, I learned that there aren't any failures, just many lessons to be learned! After the first,, and ten the second peach tree, died, I learned peach trees couldn't thrive in my habitat...so I moved on to a cherry tree.. And it does take years!! But they are years of joy.
My biggest tip would be to take your mug of coffee or tea outside everyday, morning and evening, and slowly stroll through ALL the habitat you've created and quietly see what is happening. It will also help you remember what you have growing.
On the Sunday when this episode arrived, I made a road trip to pass along the rest of my gardening stuff to my son. It was a bittersweet moment. I will be in Senior Housing soon where I won't be able to garden anymore. But how happy-fying to pass it on to the next generation!!
The flowers from the vegetables are very pretty in the garden as well. Just think of it as feeding the bees and butterflies this year.
Lovely garden! A lot of herbs will keep away specific pests, like basil (flies), thyme (earworms), dill (aphids), lemongrass (mosquitos). Marigolds are a great start. Plus the petals are edible. For other insects and fungal diseases you can spray on Neem Oil, which comes from Neem Trees.
That garden looks great! Planting garlic and onions with them is supposed to help. My husband knew an old gardener who put pantyhose over the cabbage heads. It prevented bugs from getting in while still allowing the cabbage to grow. Good luck!!!
Great idea with the pantyhose
When your radishes have finished flowering they will produce edible seed pods which are delicious.
Yes so delicious!!
You 2 I don’t know how you both find time to do everything.😍
Brassicas such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower are best grown under row covers to keep out the dreaded white moth. I’m glad you let things that you didn’t get around to eating go to flower so beneficial insects, birds, bees etc. can enjoy them. Parsnips and garlic are best planted in the fall and harvested the next spring or early summer. Half the fun of a garden is planning next years. Blessings.
You’re not alone. I also forget to eat the produce from my garden. Glad I’m not the only one! 😂
I love the set up of the individual beds and the wood chips to keep the weeds down. But I really like Arne’s journals. I want to try that. Great idea to keep notes on what works/doesn’t work. Useful in so many ways, not just gardening. It’s a work of art in itself. Looking forward to seeing the garden next year!
We also grow Brussel Sprouts that tend to attract the same sort of insects as other cabbages. We make a spray of mild dish soap (Dawn or similar) and make sure to spray top and underside of foilage. This has worked very well in conjunction with planting marigolds as a garden perimeter :)
NB Dish SOAP - not detergent!
Guys..maybe consider getting cloches otr a greenhouse? You would need to keep it warm in winter..but you could grow more vegetables..courgettes..tomatoes..my Dad used to grow melons and peppers from seeds I took him from Spain..He grew potatoes, cabbage, brussels sprouts, carrots and marrows..(he won prizes for thosebin local competitions..as well as for his sweet peas)...rhubarb in the open..and strawberries under frames..we also had raspberry bushes protected from birds by net curtains.He had green fingers!! And beautful flower beds..LOVE your videos..😀🤩
Looking good chaps! We have an allotment so we grow a lot of veg. We bought a chest freezer so that we can freeze things as they come good and enjoy them later. We'd never get to eat everything otherwise! The English word for when things like radish and lettuce suddenly grow and go to seed is "bolting". It happens in hot weather - especially if things get dry.
re: the insects - horticultural fleece (or old net curtains!) is a good option but I find that then the birds don't come in and eat the slugs. An old man at our allotments told me that you have to accept that you will get the second bite out of everything!
Dear Arne & Carlos,
I'm a gardner from Bot. Garden Munich for foodplants, healing plance so on.
Sent some Kombination for your climatic area.
You need a higher soll Box, also use your green leafs to take them done with with bunny,Crowdfunding,chicken Shit. 20cm high.
Good you start gardening , every year is different. Some plants work in one year, next year not- it's normal.
We use for a part for permacultur.
Your garden is amazing also your kitchen garden, you find out whats best in your Country.
You are planting a huge amount of each vegetable; this is great for sharing with family, friends, and neighbors. Also, you could can some for eating over the winter. I think you could plant less, and still get a massive harvest. I planted five cucumber plants, and had them coming out of my ears by the end of Summer! LOL! Made many jars of pickles. Here in the states, we call the wood chips mulch which comes in bags or we can get it by the truckload, and it does work. Mulch around the veg to keep out weeds, pine needles work also.
Have a great week.
xoxo's Sandie🤗
Cabbage moths will lay their caterpillar eggs on the leaves. The caterpillars eat quickly. But I heard the moths are territorial. So this year I cut out little white moth shapes from hard white plastic and put them all over the cabbages and broccoli and on top of the soil. It worked!
I suggested that in a comment - to cut out white butterflies. Glad it worked for you! I’ll give it a go this summer. I’m in Australia… it is a tip from our Gardening Australia ABC TV gardening show.
I think the small white plant is a parsnip. I love them. When they get large, I cut them into chunks and do the same with large carrotts and some quartered onions or shallots. Put small amount butter or olive oil oil, salt and papper on them and roast them in a hot oven 400 F. WONDERFUL deep flavor...
Carlos I do the same thing..pick the peas and snap the ends and eat them right out the garden.
Hello, Companion planting is the method where certain plants benefit growing near others. there are lots of articles online if you google that. We use this method in our garden. Slugs are our biggest problem , so we followed advice from a gardener and put some beer into sunken containers. Alas it did work to a certain extent but we ended up with neighbouring slugs coming for "the Party" so we attracted extra slugs. You can't win them all :) xxx
To grow organically…anything in the cabbage family: includes kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts & cabbage should be covered with mesh netting when planted. those little whitish butterflies lay their eggs and when they hatch will have hundreds of little green worms on your plants. No flower will keep them away. you just have to prevent them from being able to lay their eggs on your plants. Since this plants don’t need to be pollinated it’s not a problem to cover them. i’m your climate i would also suggest growing, kale, spinach and beets.
Also, lay down sheets of cardboard (from flattened boxes) under your wood chips to prevent weeds from sprouting underneath.
My dad always sliced his parsnips (white carrots) and sauteed them in butter with a pinch of salt. Yummy!!
My sister looked at her garden daily. Like you, I'd forget to eat it too! I think the solution is constant checking on the progress! But things sure do grow for you!!!
As for the overgrown radishes - just wait until small husks develop from the flowers, they can be eaten. They are delicious, taste like radishes and there can be lots of them.
Congratulations on your garden. You should get lots of good food from it. You can put the radish flowers and seed pods in salads and eat them. You should put cardboard under your chips, it will deteriorate into the ground eventually (worms love it), and will aid in keeping the weeds and grass from coming up.
Arne love the sweater you have on. The clasps are awesome. I just love your garden. It reflects your love of nature and connection to your land. You put your heart in everything you do and it shows! Hugs to you both! 😊
A hand to you for trying an organic garden.
You can eat radish seed pods. Don't pull the plants. The pods are great as a cooked vegetable. Use them in a stir fry. They are very mild tasting.
The vegetable that you are trying to identify is parsnips. You pulled it too young. They need to stay in the ground. They are very cold resistant. I leave them in the ground covered with straw over the winter in Pennsylvania.
Other veggies that would be good for your area would be beets, carrots, swiss chard, and kale. Mostly bug resistant and can handle colder weather.
Any cabbage family will get worms or bugs. There are little white moths that fly around. They lay eggs on the cabbages which hatch out to be worms that will totally eat the cabbages. You must cover the plants with a netting to prevent that.
A natural thing that will discourage insects is Neem oil. It will kill the bugs but not hurt the plants or the environment . You can buy it in a spray bottle or a concentrate that you mix with water and put in a spray bottle. I can buy it in the US, I would guess it is available in other countries.
You might ask around and see if there are any garden shops in your area. Usually the people there can advise you on the best crops to grow for your climate.
Plan your garden this winter and you'll be ready for spring.
There is a material you should be able to buy in garden centre or do it yourself shops and it’s called fleece it looks like a piece of net curtain but stops things being able to fly in.. like another viewer says be aware of insects in your bark. This was my part two. I think you will both be just fine. Takes time for us all to learn new projects we take on. I think we all benefit even the more experienced people at picking up good tips from other people who have tried doing the same things. Some oare for the better some are not. Lots depends on soil and different areas we grow them in. I have full faith you will do it in time. The Pesci insects just love having a munch at our products we are growing. Or trying to grow. X
Put cardboard on the ground before you put down the wood chips. We do that at our local community gardens, this also helps with keeping weeds and and grass in check.
My Great Grandmother used to spray the kitchen garden with a tea made with nettle. A bunch of nettles in boiling water and let it cool overnight. Apparently it scares away bugs and snails. :)
My gardening skills are very limited. Arne, your journal has inspired me to do better next year.
Bugs are very attracted to veggies in the brassica family.
Parsnips are planted to close together. The problem for planting for just 2 its so hard. Our rule of thumb is one plant for each squash because they produce so much. We stagger our planting of broccoli and cauliflower. Plant like 3 of them then 2 werks later plant a couple more. We use egg shells in our strawberries to denture snails and slugs. Onion around some plant denture bugs but check what onions grow happily with. Oh and some stuff hates mulch basil, tomatoes. We put landscaping cloth down between raised beds then add the mulch. Good luck yall
Many flowers are edible, but check first. You can clear an area of weeds and grass by covering with enough newspaper or cardboard (if inks are safe and remove tape).bark mulch like what you put in will keep weeds crowded out. Soapy water spray can be used to repell insects if you see them. Some veges are better winter's over like carrots to sweeten. You have many people suggesting good things. Mostly your garden looks great as is so enjoy the beauty and nibble.
Make tea with chrysanthemum flowers. All the flowers from edible plants are also edible in salads
Your white root vegetable is "parsnip" in English. Plant cloves of garlic now for a crop next July/August.
I think your parsnips need spacing out more to have room to bulk up. Both kinds of marigolds - calendula and tagetes - are good companion plants and limnanthes (poached egg plant) brings in some beneficial insects too. Radish pods can be pickled whilst still young and green. Sometimes you just need to have one sacrificial plant, probably cabbage, and keep the insects off the rest. Everything is growing so well. I admire your energy and ideas.
It’s tough to garden when you travel so much! Perhaps a neighbor might help in exchange for some of the bounty. And don’t forget those edible flowers!
Hello! After the radishes lose the flowers, the seed pods, which look a little like peas, are very delicious when eaten raw. They have a radishy flavor and are great in salads. So many more pods than actual radishes! Please try them! 🥰
Great tip! I’ll have to try that.
I had some success with companion plantings when I had a garden. Bugs tend to not like mint. I planted marigolds with tomatoes and it was working; however, the deer don’t care! I never knew deer would eat tomatoes😕I planted mint around my apples trees and that was a wonderful match!
Sometimes you can intermix the herbs with your veggies. Good companion planting of eatables will help fight bugs and disease so you have a more natural defense.
Cheryl
Also, you might want to cover your beds with cardboard(cellotape removed)...to protect your soil. Scratch the soil, add some compost and cover with cardboard.
The bark is very good to use between your vegetable beds, it will suppress the weeds. I think the best advice is to grow what you will eat, otherwise it will all go to seed as your broccoli has done. Use succession planting, for instance with radishes, sow the seeds every fortnight or so, the same for you salad leaves. Carrots and parsnips take longer to grow, as does broccoli and the cabbage family. A compost bin is a very good idea, you can put all your garden waste in - apart from seed heads, it will all break down. A compost bin can be placed anywhere in the garden and put all your garden waste in it.
Marigolds are good interplanted among some veg, as is nasturtium. Companion planting is also worth checking out.
You will need some help in the garden especially if you are travelling a lot. A vegetable/kitchen garden is almost a full time job, and cannot be left for weeks at a time! Good luck.
Thank you so much for your tip!
Always a pleasant time visiting with you both😊
Maybe you could enlist the help of a neighbor when you travel next summer. They can look after the garden and they keep whatever they are able to harvest at the time. That may help eliminate waste.
Yes, that would be helpful
The peas look like Snow peas to me ... Sweet peas are flowers that grow the same but are all different colours and smell wonderful.
Parsnips! Also good in a beef stew.. The Iroquois planted the three sisters together; corn, squash and beans-ancient gardening! There are many varieties of corn, I’m sure you can find one suited to Norwegian climate. Bugs; do you have ladybugs? My ma buys a pack of ladybugs and set them free in the garden…there’s bugs that will eat your bugs 🐞 in regards to eating your foods…try blanching and freezing. Chop and blanch then freeze…good for middle of 🥶
The Three Sisters are represented by corn, beans, and squash and they're an important facet of Indigenous culture and foodways. They're planted in a symbiotic triad where beans are planted at the base of the corn stalks. The stalks offer climbing bean vines support as they reach for sunlight from the earth. There. Good luck.
This is Rosanne Kay.
my mother in law planted marigolds with her tomatoes. They might work.
I learned this 2 years ago by accident.
Plant dill with tomatoes. It keeps away a certain pest. I can't remember which now... But 2 years ago there was a tomato bug in my area... But I never had an issue . When I looked it up it said that planting Dill was a deterrent for the big... Of which I had plenty volunteer plants growing with my tomatoes.
A mixture of water with wash up liquid in a mixture, spray on the insects that stops them. Alternative jet them once they are on plants with fast hose. But marigolds are very good. The white carrot you mention sounds like a parsnip. There is also a turnip and celeriac. Have a look at them all. Yes def a parsnip.
I think you have dona a great job in your kitchen garden. Stingy nettles in your raised beds are also good to have , between salats and so on,. Insects like them a lot better then vegetables. So have some weed in your raised beds. If you are to tidy the insects will not have an other choise and go in your vegetables.. Stingy nettles are great for soups and stews to😀
Sometimes little nests for earwigs help to keep lies away and my sister plants here and there just some garlic between. That keeps also a lot of little ones away👍🏻
The only way to prevent cabbage from insects is to use a net for plants from the beginning (when you plant).☘️☘️☘️
I plant sunflowers. The bugs eat the sunflowers and leave my other plants alone. Don't know if that will work where you are...
Denise from Texas
Thank you for sharing your garden with us, Arne and Carlos! i just started watching your channel and I LOVE it! I'm learning to knit (for um, the second time) and it's so nice to have your company as I sit and knit for a bit 😋 Also, Arne. I have that paper you show us at 3:24 - it came in a pack of origami paper with mixed designs! The pattern also comes in a red orange/green combo. 😀
Thank you for watching!
You both seem a little tired. I hope you are looking after yourselves. 💚
You may think of your flowering broccoli and radish as a fail, but really now you will have more pollinators next year bc they will have left their eggs there:)) that’s great! Cabbage really has to be covered if you have already had insect problems. Enjoy!! Xx
I can recommend Charles Dowding's No Dig method. Lots of informative videos on RUclips, also books, the blog on his website, etc.
Calendula is a good plant to attract aphids and keep the aphids away from other plants. I think the only sure way to keep cabbage worms away is to use the row covers.
Thank you!
Greetings,
Companion plants with your pest-prone crops. For example, brassica companion plants like thyme, dill, oregano, lavender, onions, garlic, and marigolds are said to deter cabbage moths.
Cheers,
Rachel
Most of the flowers of your vegetables, you can eat in salads or put in soups and stews.
Just taste them.
I would love to grow some vegetables and let some flower because the flowers are so pretty and not boring like a formal vegetable garden.
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I assume the bug in the cabbage is cabbage moth? Its a pretty little white moth that lays its eggs on the cabbage leaves. When the little green caterpillars hatch, they can eat through almost all of the leaves in a surprisingly short time. The only success I've had against cabbage moth is covering the cabbage with tulle or garden mesh netting. Works like a charm! The birds do try to help. They think the caterpillars are delicious!
Keep up the good work. I learn so much from both of you. Artichokes are my favorite vegetable. ☺️
Just pick the broccoli whilst small, don't wait for large florets, and eat them and their flowers raw in salads. Delicious! Jerusalem artichokes have leaves like sunflowers (and also flowers like mini sunflowers) I think they might be parsnips. I'd love to see a video of Carlos making his jerusalem artichoke soup - that'd be interesting because I find them a little bit hard to make edible for most people's tastes.
Sage, rosemary, basil, citronella grass, lemon grass, mint, catnip, petunia, lavender, chives, borage, mums, and marigold are good for planting with vegetables. Dill attracts predatory wasps that will kill insects. I’m not sure which of these will grow in your climate though. Mulch is great for controlling weeds and insects, but may affect the ph of your soil, in which case you may need to add lime to the soil to neutralize it. Good luck with your garden!
I putter around gardening too. The whit carrots we call parsnips in PE, Canada. I love them in soups or boiled then fried in butter
That white root vegetable was parsnip. I believe you used the Norwegian word for it, "pastinakk" They're similar to carrots in that you can leave them in the soil over winter and they will be sweeter next year. Jerusalem artichokes are tall with yellow flowers. The edible part is the brown tuber. I learned the hard way that they spread quite a bit. Planting them in a box garden would be a good idea. I heard that marigolds keep the bugs away but then I also heard that the bugs like marigolds and eat them and leave your vegetables alone. Either way, they never did much for my garden except look pretty. Carrots and radishes mature quite fast - about 2 to 3 weeks - so it's best to plant some every couple of weeks so you don't end up with too many ready to pick all at once. You can eat radishes that have bolted (or bloomed) but they tend to be bitter. You can also roast red radishes the same way you'd roast potatoes. They're pretty good that way.
My husband is diabetic and I roast red radishes like potatoes as a subsitute for the potatoes. He's a picky eater and loves the roasted red radishes.
@@DebiDewdrop61 Yes, they're also great for people who have arthritis and should avoid nightshade vegetables.
The wood chips will help so much. But also put down cardboard first. You will have to add more in your walkways each year. I use diatomaceous earth to keep bugs at bay. Marigolds, and smelly flower also keep critters and bugs away naturally.
You need to get a really big freezer, and then you can save most of what you grow. Alternatively, invest in a dehydrator, so that you can dry some of your produce to use direct in casseroles, stews etc,
Sweet peas or English peas. Sweet peas are toxic to humans. Leave the radish go to seed. Let the pods dry on the vine, for next years crop. Thin out your parsnip bed. Bark is easy to keep tidy and great for knees. Radish butter, I delish and easy to keep for ages. Also Radish are a great companion plant for leeks (keeps flea beatles at bay). Marigolds are great companion plants, also some are edible and makes great tea. Xx
Parsnips make gorgeous soup.
Thank you for showing us your kitchen garden, it is lovely! I would love to have a garden, chickens, and a few goats. But my husband and I travel quite a bit and I don’t feel comfortable leaving a garden and animals under someone else’s care (especially animals).
I used wood chips between my raised beds for the first time this summer. I lay cardboard down on the soil and then put the wood chips on top. I still had weeds come up. I guess I needed a thicker layer of wood chips.
I think your good smelling root vegetable is parsnip. I discovered how wonderful they are when we lived in England. Yum, yum! For my kitchen garden I mostly stick to herbs (oregano, mint, basil, parsley, dillm thyme) and tomatoes because tomatoes from the store are so terrible.
Marigolds have always worked for us in our vegetable beds for keeping insects away.
Mint keeps bugs away, also diatomaceous earth, sprinkled around plants, it is essentially from rocks and seashells in powder form, also used in swimming pools. DTE. Sluggo for slugs and snails.
Thank you!
Check out Charles Dowding and no dig gardening. Laying cardboard down before the compost eliminates the weeds.
Chrysanthemums, Marigolds, Petunias, and Geraniums all keep bugs away. Good luck!
Look at companion gardening to keep pests down naturally. Also freeze, bottle and pickle your produce for those ling cold wi ter days
Butternut squash makes a wonderful soup! I have a recipe that uses squash, a little jalapeño, some fish sauce, coconut milk, and other spices. It’s creamy & has an Asian flavor to it.
Thank you for the soup tip
Could you post the full recipe? Plz & Ty
I had pumpkins and cantaloupe in a raised bed with green peppers, tomatoes, marigolds and zinnias: a vine borer (destructive insect) destroyed my melons & pumpkins. I had one other pumpkin growing at the back of a large flower bed: no bugs attacked it. So I would advise planting a lot of flowers around your cabbages etc (marigolds, nasturtium, echinacea) any strong scented flower will disguise your cabbage, cauliflower etc from insects.
I warmly recommend the book "Around the World in 80 Plants - an Edible Perennial Vegetable Adventure" by Stephen Barstow. You´ll be astonished how many flowers and other parts of plants are edible. "The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency" by John Seymour is also a must-have for organic gardeners in a small scale. - Good luck for all your gardening efforts!
Parsnip
Great roasted
Raw and used in a coleslaw salad.
Basil with tomatoes 👍
I do raised beds like these so I don't have to dig. I build them up with Hay and Compost. So much that we grow doesn't make it to the kitchen because we eat as we harvest. 🤣 I grew sweet corn and we stood in the garden and ate it raw.
I only have a very small garden but I have books, and books, and books :) Thyme, Rosemary and sage are supposed to help protect cabbages from loopers, whiteflies and cabbage worms. Nasturtiums might help too? Look for information on "companion planting"
To keep the bugs away you can sprinkle with cinnamon but you would need a lot of it. Or you can plant vegetables that repel insects. If bugs are on my plants I spray them with washing up liquid I mix a few drops in a spray bottle and shake and spray a garden your size will need a pump spray.
Radish flowers and seed pods are delicious.
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You can eat the radish flowers and green seed heads they’re great in salads.
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