Hi Patrina, welcome back. That was interesting to summarize the entire years accomplishments. I’m trying the Pro mix this year for everything in the green stalks as soon as we return from our RV trip which was cut short (6 weeks) due to my Achilles surgery. I also think I will skip the high summer season this year as the heat is just not enjoyable so I’ll be watching to learn any recommendations you may have for keeping the soil healthy and not burned. Take good care.
It’s a bummer you had to cut your trip short, but I’m glad you’re recovering. I have a lot of plans for the summer to keep my garden soil healthy while not spending a lot of time in the heat. Stay tuned
👏👏👏Hey your the best! Garden of Eden here,just harvest a bunch of collard n mustard greens to give away!Also first time growing beets and bok choy turned out great😁.Will try potatoes next!🙏
I have been more focused on growing smaller amounts of more varieties myself. I am single and I get tired of eating the same vegetables over and over. I am also experimenting with different planting combinations such as root crops with lettuce and other combinations to increase variety.
I love your approach to gardening and that you are experimenting with different combinations! I grow so much of one thing that I’m so sick of eating it after a few weeks lol
I’m in north central Alabama, zone 7a. The climate is much different, and so is the soil-red clay. I struggle with gardening because I stubbornly grow year-round. I just harvested broccoli yesterday, and will have more to harvest in a couple days, and again in two weeks. I learned the hard way that broccoli is a lot more cold tolerant than cauliflower. The cauliflower didn’t do so well for me. All heads were damaged to some degree. It I totally my fault. I should have covered them sooner to protect them from freezing temperatures. While I didn’t get harvestable heads, the chickens did. They didn’t mind in the least bit that there were soft and mushy spots. Half of my chard made it through the freezes. I’ll be planting more of it in February. I have a couple heads of red cabbage that I can harvest, and also ready for harvesting are beets, carrots, and parsnips. That will pretty much finish my garden for the season. However, I start sowing seed starts on January 3rd. Alyssum, marigolds, zinnias, bachelor button, and cosmos do well for me. This year, I am going to add purple coneflower, mammoth sunflower (for the chickens), butterfly flower, and Butterfly weed to the mix. I have spearmint, peppermint, comfrey, parsley, rosemary, oregano, and chives growing. I’ll be adding a lot of basil, dill, and cilantro to my herb garden. I’m going to try a few new things this year. I am replacing potatoes with sweet potatoes, moving cantaloupe and watermelon to a new location-my trellis tunnel, and I am going to be growing as lot more peas, shelling peas and snow peas. I hate shelling peas, but I love eating them. I had a problem with cabbage this fall, so I am switching to a new variety, All Season Cabbage. I give up on Dutch Cabbage. I’m also going to be trying some new varieties of zucchini, round, Italian Stripped, and Yellow. And last on my list of new plants are Armenian Cucumbers. It is probably too much cucumber for me, but not my chickens. Last year was the final year for growing indeterminate tomatoes. Grand Marshall did fantastic, and produced a tomato that I like. It is great for making tomato sauce and salsa. But… it has been discontinued, and replaced with a new variety, Jolene, so I am growing that too. Other than that, my garden is staying the same. I am hoping to get apples, plums, and cherries this year. It will be a few more years before I get peaches.
Wow! You are so diverse in learning so many gardening food preservation techniques! We’re do you find the time. I do appreciate all your videos techniques and your honesty as to your successes and fails. Also how you do a self check in what needs changing, Thank you! Happy New Year!
These were some great goals that you set for yourself in 2024. I have 6 ideas for using up your canned jellies. Make jelly fruit roll ups in your dehydrator. Make salad dressing with oil, vinegar and some jelly for a fruity salad dressing mix, make infused vinegar with your jellies for a fruity vinaigrette, make peanut butter cookies and jelly, jelly donuts and jelly maple syrup for pancakes. Thank you for sharing I can't wait to hear what your goals are for 2025. One of my goals for 2025 is to grow a tea garden to make my own tea blend. I grew 4 roselle trees for the first time in 2024 mine got destroyed from hurricane Helene and Milton but I was able to save all of my calyxes by dehydrating by the hundreds. For 2 weeks my dehydrator was running every day. I already have three starter plants going in pots to be ready to plant in my garden in March. I absolutly love this tea and so did everyone that I shared it with. This process got me hooked on making my own teas for 2025. 😊
I want to start blueberries this year. They grow well in n Florida. Where did you buy your bushes? How do you keep birds from eating your berries and peaches?
I got mine from Home Depot lol. I don’t typically have issues with birds but there are so many other things that they can eat in the garden they tend to leave the berries alone. I also have dogs that chase them so that helps too.
Loved the video, lots of good info here. I'm curious about the potato storage. An extra refrigerator isn't an option for me. How long did the other storage methods work? Same for sweet potatoes, how do you store them and for how long? I would love to see a video on your teas. I'm a big tea drinker & would love to start making my own. Also the other drinks you make.
The other methods lasted about 3 months before they started sprouting. For sweet potatoes, I cure them in my garage for 2 weeks and then in paper bags in the pantry. They last 12 months for me this way. A tea garden sounds awesome!
I have Amazon lilies. They are a bulb that blooms for me 4 times a year. My parent plant is 30 years old but every about 4 years i seperate bulbs because of crowding and gift the babies. My parent plant bloomed 6 times this year. No fuss plant thats beautiful and green year round. I don't feed or water them and they love our humidity. If you're looking for something like that that's so easy.
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Hi Patrina, welcome back. That was interesting to summarize the entire years accomplishments. I’m trying the Pro mix this year for everything in the green stalks as soon as we return from our RV trip which was cut short (6 weeks) due to my Achilles surgery. I also think I will skip the high summer season this year as the heat is just not enjoyable so I’ll be watching to learn any recommendations you may have for keeping the soil healthy and not burned. Take good care.
It’s a bummer you had to cut your trip short, but I’m glad you’re recovering. I have a lot of plans for the summer to keep my garden soil healthy while not spending a lot of time in the heat. Stay tuned
👏👏👏Hey your the best! Garden of Eden here,just harvest a bunch of collard n mustard greens to give away!Also first time growing beets and bok choy turned out great😁.Will try potatoes next!🙏
That's awesome, those are all such great choices! Good luck with the potatoes.
Can't wait till I can get to your level
I have been more focused on growing smaller amounts of more varieties myself. I am single and I get tired of eating the same vegetables over and over. I am also experimenting with different planting combinations such as root crops with lettuce and other combinations to increase variety.
I love your approach to gardening and that you are experimenting with different combinations! I grow so much of one thing that I’m so sick of eating it after a few weeks lol
Calendula salve!
We have around 32 pineapple plants, a banana tree planted in the ground. We have sweet potatoes that were waiting to harvest.
Sounds like a great garden, I love pineapple and banana!
I’m in north central Alabama, zone 7a. The climate is much different, and so is the soil-red clay. I struggle with gardening because I stubbornly grow year-round. I just harvested broccoli yesterday, and will have more to harvest in a couple days, and again in two weeks. I learned the hard way that broccoli is a lot more cold tolerant than cauliflower.
The cauliflower didn’t do so well for me. All heads were damaged to some degree. It I totally my fault. I should have covered them sooner to protect them from freezing temperatures. While I didn’t get harvestable heads, the chickens did. They didn’t mind in the least bit that there were soft and mushy spots.
Half of my chard made it through the freezes. I’ll be planting more of it in February. I have a couple heads of red cabbage that I can harvest, and also ready for harvesting are beets, carrots, and parsnips. That will pretty much finish my garden for the season. However, I start sowing seed starts on January 3rd.
Alyssum, marigolds, zinnias, bachelor button, and cosmos do well for me. This year, I am going to add purple coneflower, mammoth sunflower (for the chickens), butterfly flower, and Butterfly weed to the mix. I have spearmint, peppermint, comfrey, parsley, rosemary, oregano, and chives growing. I’ll be adding a lot of basil, dill, and cilantro to my herb garden.
I’m going to try a few new things this year. I am replacing potatoes with sweet potatoes, moving cantaloupe and watermelon to a new location-my trellis tunnel, and I am going to be growing as lot more peas, shelling peas and snow peas. I hate shelling peas, but I love eating them. I had a problem with cabbage this fall, so I am switching to a new variety, All Season Cabbage. I give up on Dutch Cabbage. I’m also going to be trying some new varieties of zucchini, round, Italian Stripped, and Yellow. And last on my list of new plants are Armenian Cucumbers. It is probably too much cucumber for me, but not my chickens.
Last year was the final year for growing indeterminate tomatoes. Grand Marshall did fantastic, and produced a tomato that I like. It is great for making tomato sauce and salsa. But… it has been discontinued, and replaced with a new variety, Jolene, so I am growing that too. Other than that, my garden is staying the same. I am hoping to get apples, plums, and cherries this year. It will be a few more years before I get peaches.
Thanks for sharing your gardening adventures, it's great to hear about your success and challenges, I love your plan for the new season.
Wow! You are so diverse in learning so many gardening food preservation techniques! We’re do you find the time. I do appreciate all your videos techniques and your honesty as to your successes and fails. Also how you do a self check in what needs changing, Thank you! Happy New Year!
I try to fit it in as I can! It’s my goal to try something new every year. I’m glad you enjoy the videos. 💚
I think your great! I like your content very much. Keep making them! Thank you.
I appreciate that! I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos.
Great video and very educational.Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Loved this video!!
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
These were some great goals that you set for yourself in 2024. I have 6 ideas for using up your canned jellies. Make jelly fruit roll ups in your dehydrator. Make salad dressing with oil, vinegar and some jelly for a fruity salad dressing mix, make infused vinegar with your jellies for a fruity vinaigrette, make peanut butter cookies and jelly, jelly donuts and jelly maple syrup for pancakes. Thank you for sharing I can't wait to hear what your goals are for 2025. One of my goals for 2025 is to grow a tea garden to make my own tea blend. I grew 4 roselle trees for the first time in 2024 mine got destroyed from hurricane Helene and Milton but I was able to save all of my calyxes by dehydrating by the hundreds. For 2 weeks my dehydrator was running every day. I already have three starter plants going in pots to be ready to plant in my garden in March. I absolutly love this tea and so did everyone that I shared it with. This process got me hooked on making my own teas for 2025. 😊
I love those ideas for using up jelly! I need to try those. The tea garden is a fantastic goal for 2025! Congrats on your roselle harvest.
Pro Mix has done a lot better for me also this year!
It's definitely a winner, isn't it?
When do you plant your black beans so that they are not trying to dry during the rainy season?
I usually start them in April. They do fine drying in the rainy season as long as I harvest often so they don’t mold.
Great video, thank you for sharing your journey with us.
What variety of avocado 🥑 were you successful with? And what variety of peach 🍑 do you have?
For the avocado, I have a Day variety and for the peach I have a Tropical Beauty. Both have done wonderful for me.
That is wonderful. Happy New Year.
At timestamp 6:33, what kind of peppers were you growing? How spicy are they?
Those were purple cayenne peppers and they are pretty hot. Hottest ones I can handle.
I want to start blueberries this year. They grow well in n Florida. Where did you buy your bushes? How do you keep birds from eating your berries and peaches?
I got mine from Home Depot lol. I don’t typically have issues with birds but there are so many other things that they can eat in the garden they tend to leave the berries alone. I also have dogs that chase them so that helps too.
Loved the video, lots of good info here. I'm curious about the potato storage. An extra refrigerator isn't an option for me. How long did the other storage methods work? Same for sweet potatoes, how do you store them and for how long?
I would love to see a video on your teas. I'm a big tea drinker & would love to start making my own. Also the other drinks you make.
The other methods lasted about 3 months before they started sprouting. For sweet potatoes, I cure them in my garage for 2 weeks and then in paper bags in the pantry. They last 12 months for me this way. A tea garden sounds awesome!
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a Thank you.
I don't have a freeze dryer, but it sure looks appealing. How much does using it increase your electric bill?
I did the calculation once and it’s about $3 a day.
Do you use premix in your beds also or only in pots?
Mainly just my pots, I get bulk soil or composted mulch from my county to fill my beds
I have Amazon lilies. They are a bulb that blooms for me 4 times a year. My parent plant is 30 years old but every about 4 years i seperate bulbs because of crowding and gift the babies. My parent plant bloomed 6 times this year. No fuss plant thats beautiful and green year round. I don't feed or water them and they love our humidity. If you're looking for something like that that's so easy.
That's awesome that they bloom 6 times a year. I’m always looking for low-maintenance plants to add to the garden!