I used to give my children cold, fresh, corn on the cob when they were teething (JUST the cob at 1st) as babies. They STILL love raw corn. It's so SWEET!😋
@Grass2Farm idk if it's a thing or not, tbh! I literally just discovered it in desperation one day. Before they could handle solids, I just cut the kernels off and gave them the cold cob of it and as they progressed, so did the amount of corn I'd leave on. It was GREAT, CHEAP, DISPOSABLE and always a tip i love sharing🥰🖤
Can you make a video about how you store your harvest and what you do with them? I love gardening I just don't know what to do with everything I grow once the winter hits
Not OP but: depending on what you're preserving, bottling (canning) is a great method for preserving leftover crops, and dehydrating can be very useful as well. Fermentation/pickling can be a bit more tricky but also gives the produce new flavor. Good luck with your yield!
I recognized the yellow flowers you eaten befor you ate them, when i was younget at private school in the country side, we had a nature lesson where we go out and explore and learn about nature, and we used to eat them a lot cause we warnt aloud to have sweets at school😅
Love got some potential of being a massive RUclipsr subscribers in the millions because you have 2 key things,you’re interesting and you have great tips. I hope your channel goes from a sprout to a thriving ecosystem.
Love love love the amaranth in the background. My grammy was the person who brought amaranth to Boise, Idaho and it holds a very special place in my heart ❤️
New subbie. I love fennel and just learned about using the seed pods in cooking. Apparently, the taste mellows as it cooks. I'm in Virginia, and for the 2nd summer in a row, our weather was in the hi 90s and 100s literally cooking the fruit, especially tomatoes, even the cherries, but while every variety boiled on the vine while still green. The squash plants stopped producing. I'm hoping my cool weather plants will do better. I don't know how far up north you are, or even if you like them, but parsnips is one of our favorites. Plant the seeds straight into the soil and let them stay in the ground all winter until spring. It needs that time to develope the sugars. I was told do the same for carrots. Lastly, a suggestion, because food costs are so high, if you have any excess produce, perhaps share it with any Sr. Citizens you know, unless you're pals like with bill gates, etc. I worked at an agency which covers that demographic. They are barely able to pay basic housing costs at the expense of their food budget. It's heart breaking, and I heard it over and over, across all demographics. Many eat only once a day and still run out of money and food before the end of the month. Sorry for the long babbling on, but your garden is gorgeous and I am .. pea green ... with envy. If you know any other gardeners, maybe pass on about their excess. Happy growing, God bless, Patricia
💯💯 corn straight off the plant is the best!! It's better when it's between midday and 3-4ish, the corn is warm and tastes like it already has butter on it 🤤🤤🤤
Corn is something I’d love to grow in the future when we have a bit more land. Thanks for sharing this. I was always under the assumption that corn was a difficult crop to grow, but maybe it’s easier than I thought. As with anything in the garden, I’m sure there’s challenges but maybe not as many as some make there out to be with this crop. Do you have any tips on how to successful grow corn? 🌽 There are so many mixed answers across the internet. Sometimes it can be quite confusing 🫤
@JuliaMoriah I have watched Asians grow corn+other veges in the gaps of cobblestone, so anything is possible. If you are having trouble growing, it might not be you.. it could be the health of the soil. I found corn is a fibrous root system, which means you don't need a deep soil bed for it to grow. Sunny spot, low in wind, easy drain soil (they don't like clay soil) and watering in the morning before heavy sun hits it, you should be fine. They grow better with companion plants. Plants absorb nutrients from the soil but also give back to the soil.. so you find corn, beans, and squash are the holy trinity of companion planting. You can have 1 of each grow nicely in a space 2-3ft². They don't mind their roots tangling together, and you get 3 different types of veges in a small place. I suggest just giving it a go 😊👍 I live in New Zealand, and our environment may be different from where you are. Would be a good thing to find a youtuber who is in your area. Spicy Moustache is based in England, and he shows how to grow in small spaces. Eric is based in the hotter climates of America. Self-sufficient Me is from Australia. If you search 'homestead gardens' most of them are in climates where it snows and show how to do seasonal growing... we have been blessed with Internet to find information our ancestors would've loved to have ❤️ I hope this wasn't too overwhelming 😅 and answered a bit of what you wanted 🥰
@@JuliaMoriahI grew corn for the first time this season and it was so easy!! I grew Solstice from Johnnys seed co and it was only a 68 day early super sweet corn!! I planted a seed every 6” offset and had almost 100% germination!! I planted in a 4’ x 16’ raised bed with drip tape irrigation. The only thing we had to do was some rope around the tall stalks to keep the wind from blowing them over but it was wonderful and the taste!! I fertilized them one time about half way thru but that was it!! They taste amazing and they are so sweet!!
Start doing more about the crows maybe make something for them to land on and put their items in for you. They can just land and give and go. Oh I forgot and eat.😊
Iv found you can eat the tops of the unfinished corn kernels like baby corn in a salad. I typically just munch it off while im eating my corn on the cob lol obviously it depends on how long the section is though. If its not much thats unfinished itll be too hard to chew
Heres my suggestion for you to grow bell peppers, sweet pepper, thyme, rosemerry, sweet basil, yellow corn, cherry tomatoes, spearmint, peppermint, lemon mint, chocolatemint, roma tomatoes mint has culinary uses it can be used in medicanl to food and beverages
This is going to sound stupid but get a 1/2” x 4’ or 6’ wood dowel and staple some popsicle sticks to it at your corn spacing. Insert that into a cordless drill and put it between your corn rows and spin it, hitting the corn stalks. This is a modified hand pollination that I made and it worked fairly well. Didn’t compare it to non hand pollinated though so it could’ve not had an effect at all. I think I’ll modify it next season with a bunch of zip ties instead of popsicle sticks so I don’t have to be as precise hitting the rows. And it won’t beat up the corn as much.
Im so glad to see someone elses tomatoes looking not so appealing 😅. Mine look the same and i was so worried it was something i did wrong. I asked my apartment manager about hers when she mentioned she grows them and hers are the same too!! We are in michigan but i wonder if it was just a weird crop this year that got spread around. Ive never personally experienced it this bad. Maybe with one plant but ALL of mine look this bad. Made me regret triming them at the beginning of the season because they ended up looking so many leaves anyways, i could have saved myself the time 😂😂😂
Yea we’ve been having good luck with the peppers this year as well. Cucumbers not so much, cabbage/lettuce not so much either. I’m in climate zone 8. I think they bumped it up to zone 9 this year
My garden has been struggling this year, especially the peppers. I don't know anybody who's gotten good peppers this year where I live. We've been in a drought the last two years, but this year it's as though we're getting 3 years' worth of rain in one! I appreciated all the free watering at first, but my plants didn't get any kind of consistent sunshine for like a month after I transplanted them, maybe longer? And now we're getting close to the end of the season, so I don't think things are going to catch up
Sometimes after a 10hr day you come home to find squirrels have eaten one row of kernels out of each ear of corn on your 100 stalks that were beautiful when you watered before work. 😊
ok, everybody's asking about the wood drying rack.. did you make it or where did you buy it. that looks like a really nice rack. yeah roma paste tomatos not so good this year here either.. ps - spill the goods on that rack 😁 please... thanks
I know a lot of people ask me as a garden guy. What at what point do I stop with the tomatoes and I tell them as long as the tomatoes are turning red like water the plants and take care of the plants as soon as the plants starts getting really bad then I let it kind of diet a slow death, but I keep it
Hey I tried to grow cucumbers but always get yellow and leave it in a small pot should I replant them in a bigger pot and leave it in the sun or shade and sun?
Whatever happened to that kneeling cushion that you seemed to love so much? I've only seen you use it in that one video. Was that just an "organic" plug 😂
I had one experimental corn plant with 1 ear of corn. I saw this and harvested because the top silks were brown. It was not ready at all and now I’m really bummed
None of my corn really developed kernels despite hand pollination. They appeared a good size. Oh well. I actually got a three cobs appearing to grow from the same section.
Hey man, I've been watching your videos for a good while but I'm confused on a lil thing and I'm not sure who else could help I've got a lot of tomato plants I'm really not sure how to water since some seem dried out while some seem very healthy and I've been suggested feeding them a tiny bit molasses to keep them healthy Any tips or suggestions?
That wood storage rack is perfect, and I need one!
Me too!!!🌸
On a bigger scale, one could build it with pallets... crazy harvest!
I also want to learn more about the woiden rack please.
Same
He seems to always have the best ideas 💡 Love that he uses the platform to help others learn and grow alongside the garden 😌
Fennel flowers as a tea is great for stomach/digestive issues and colics for adults and kids.
Especially when paired with star anis and caraway seeds.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m learning about medicinals and your information was helpful. 😊
Lol star anus
Those flowers should be pretty similar to wild fennel flowers, which can be used for stuffing meats and baking (porchetta and bread come to mind...)
We also use fennel seeds in Indian cooking
Wow how interesting! Thanks for the info
I'm 15. I love gardening
I would love to have a garden like yours one day
Keep at it! I'm 45 and I looooove to see/hear about teens getting into gardening!
@@lindaf114🤨
@@fortnitebalIsthere’s nothing weird about that… just a person happy to see other people that enjoy the same hobbies
Yea you could especially if you get a job and save up for it
I used to give my children cold, fresh, corn on the cob when they were teething (JUST the cob at 1st) as babies. They STILL love raw corn. It's so SWEET!😋
Had no idea that was a thing!
@Grass2Farm idk if it's a thing or not, tbh! I literally just discovered it in desperation one day. Before they could handle solids, I just cut the kernels off and gave them the cold cob of it and as they progressed, so did the amount of corn I'd leave on. It was GREAT, CHEAP, DISPOSABLE and always a tip i love sharing🥰🖤
@RipRoarinRedneck0311 haha that's awesome mate, thankyou
@@Grass2Farm Of course!🖤🥰
Can you make a video about how you store your harvest and what you do with them? I love gardening I just don't know what to do with everything I grow once the winter hits
Not OP but: depending on what you're preserving, bottling (canning) is a great method for preserving leftover crops, and dehydrating can be very useful as well. Fermentation/pickling can be a bit more tricky but also gives the produce new flavor. Good luck with your yield!
Force them on friends and family like I do! Lots of people close to me got unsolicited zucchini this year lol
Dam, that storage ravk is awesome. This channel is awesome. Learinig so much.
Much love from and irish grower in Queensland Australia.
I recognized the yellow flowers you eaten befor you ate them, when i was younget at private school in the country side, we had a nature lesson where we go out and explore and learn about nature, and we used to eat them a lot cause we warnt aloud to have sweets at school😅
Love got some potential of being a massive RUclipsr subscribers in the millions because you have 2 key things,you’re interesting and you have great tips. I hope your channel goes from a sprout to a thriving ecosystem.
Love love love the amaranth in the background. My grammy was the person who brought amaranth to Boise, Idaho and it holds a very special place in my heart ❤️
The pepper leaves are amazing at veggy dishes. It adds earthiness but not spice to a dish especially beans. So good!!!
New subbie. I love fennel and just learned about using the seed pods in cooking. Apparently, the taste mellows as it cooks. I'm in Virginia, and for the 2nd summer in a row, our weather was in the hi 90s and 100s literally cooking the fruit, especially tomatoes, even the cherries, but while every variety boiled on the vine while still green. The squash plants stopped producing. I'm hoping my cool weather plants will do better. I don't know how far up north you are, or even if you like them, but parsnips is one of our favorites. Plant the seeds straight into the soil and let them stay in the ground all winter until spring. It needs that time to develope the sugars. I was told do the same for carrots. Lastly, a suggestion, because food costs are so high, if you have any excess produce, perhaps share it with any Sr. Citizens you know, unless you're pals like with bill gates, etc. I worked at an agency which covers that demographic. They are barely able to pay basic housing costs at the expense of their food budget. It's heart breaking, and I heard it over and over, across all demographics. Many eat only once a day and still run out of money and food before the end of the month. Sorry for the long babbling on, but your garden is gorgeous and I am .. pea green ... with envy. If you know any other gardeners, maybe pass on about their excess. Happy growing, God bless, Patricia
I hope you save your corn silk for tea & tincture ❤great for UTI, Kidney stones & more! Beautiful garden and curing racks!
Wow what a fabulous garden.
I really dig this guy. He has a beautiful garden
Dig. 😂
That pun was perfect 😂
Okay im gonna start my garden, im 20, working remotely from home.. this is the perfect weekend thing to do for me
I’m starting a mini patio gardening!
I love watching yours and Jacques videos. My San Marzano tomatoes and shishito peppers have been very successful! Thx Botanical Interest!😊
Beautiful harvest
We had a storm last weekend that blew my corn flat. I was so upset but manage to stake it up and save it all. Thank god! I was ready to cry
Fennel does have really similar flavor to licorice. I love using it in my cooking
This is so interesting and good to know. I might have to add this to my garden!
That corn silk can be used or make into corn silk tea...delicious!
Great content! And so helpful! Thank you ❤
Amazing, congrats. I have tomatoes in the backyard but is lots of work to keep it clean.
Peppers grew nice this year got so many too boss !
There’s gotta be something in the air 🤣 I was happy with my peppers this year too🎉
💯💯 corn straight off the plant is the best!! It's better when it's between midday and 3-4ish, the corn is warm and tastes like it already has butter on it 🤤🤤🤤
Corn is something I’d love to grow in the future when we have a bit more land. Thanks for sharing this. I was always under the assumption that corn was a difficult crop to grow, but maybe it’s easier than I thought. As with anything in the garden, I’m sure there’s challenges but maybe not as many as some make there out to be with this crop. Do you have any tips on how to successful grow corn? 🌽 There are so many mixed answers across the internet. Sometimes it can be quite confusing 🫤
@JuliaMoriah I have watched Asians grow corn+other veges in the gaps of cobblestone, so anything is possible.
If you are having trouble growing, it might not be you.. it could be the health of the soil.
I found corn is a fibrous root system, which means you don't need a deep soil bed for it to grow. Sunny spot, low in wind, easy drain soil (they don't like clay soil) and watering in the morning before heavy sun hits it, you should be fine.
They grow better with companion plants. Plants absorb nutrients from the soil but also give back to the soil.. so you find corn, beans, and squash are the holy trinity of companion planting. You can have 1 of each grow nicely in a space 2-3ft². They don't mind their roots tangling together, and you get 3 different types of veges in a small place.
I suggest just giving it a go 😊👍 I live in New Zealand, and our environment may be different from where you are.
Would be a good thing to find a youtuber who is in your area. Spicy Moustache is based in England, and he shows how to grow in small spaces. Eric is based in the hotter climates of America. Self-sufficient Me is from Australia. If you search 'homestead gardens' most of them are in climates where it snows and show how to do seasonal growing... we have been blessed with Internet to find information our ancestors would've loved to have ❤️
I hope this wasn't too overwhelming 😅 and answered a bit of what you wanted 🥰
@@JuliaMoriahI grew corn for the first time this season and it was so easy!! I grew Solstice from Johnnys seed co and it was only a 68 day early super sweet corn!! I planted a seed every 6” offset and had almost 100% germination!! I planted in a 4’ x 16’ raised bed with drip tape irrigation. The only thing we had to do was some rope around the tall stalks to keep the wind from blowing them over but it was wonderful and the taste!! I fertilized them one time about half way thru but that was it!! They taste amazing and they are so sweet!!
Start doing more about the crows maybe make something for them to land on and put their items in for you. They can just land and give and go. Oh I forgot and eat.😊
The amaranth is beautiful
The wood drying rack got me cutting glass iykyk 😂
Fennel flowers are magic
Herb fennel doesn't get killed easily definitely good to grow
Iv found you can eat the tops of the unfinished corn kernels like baby corn in a salad. I typically just munch it off while im eating my corn on the cob lol obviously it depends on how long the section is though. If its not much thats unfinished itll be too hard to chew
You should show how you preserve !
This is such a great idea! 💡 I’d love to know too! Thanks for sharing 😊
Heres my suggestion for you to grow bell peppers, sweet pepper, thyme, rosemerry, sweet basil, yellow corn, cherry tomatoes, spearmint, peppermint, lemon mint, chocolatemint, roma tomatoes
mint has culinary uses it can be used in medicanl to food and beverages
he’s 100% right about uncooked corn having better taste
The best corn I ever had was right from the field just like you've said
Handy tips mate, thankyou!
My son has loved fennel flowers since he was a baby!!
Too cute! Love hearing about little ones growing up around the garden 😊
What lovely abundance
This is going to sound stupid but get a 1/2” x 4’ or 6’ wood dowel and staple some popsicle sticks to it at your corn spacing. Insert that into a cordless drill and put it between your corn rows and spin it, hitting the corn stalks. This is a modified hand pollination that I made and it worked fairly well. Didn’t compare it to non hand pollinated though so it could’ve not had an effect at all. I think I’ll modify it next season with a bunch of zip ties instead of popsicle sticks so I don’t have to be as precise hitting the rows. And it won’t beat up the corn as much.
Fennel flowers are also perfect dryed for broth/stock, the paring is perfect imo 🤌
Absolutely LOVE the storage system. Did u build it yourself?
Sweetcorn is 2 for £1.50 so i don't want to waste my time on growing corn. Pub is missing me❤❤❤❤❤
Your videos really inspire me ,but here in India we don't have much space for gardening. I have started a very small one on my terrace 😊
Im so glad to see someone elses tomatoes looking not so appealing 😅. Mine look the same and i was so worried it was something i did wrong. I asked my apartment manager about hers when she mentioned she grows them and hers are the same too!! We are in michigan but i wonder if it was just a weird crop this year that got spread around. Ive never personally experienced it this bad. Maybe with one plant but ALL of mine look this bad. Made me regret triming them at the beginning of the season because they ended up looking so many leaves anyways, i could have saved myself the time 😂😂😂
Yea we’ve been having good luck with the peppers this year as well. Cucumbers not so much, cabbage/lettuce not so much either. I’m in climate zone 8. I think they bumped it up to zone 9 this year
My garden has been struggling this year, especially the peppers. I don't know anybody who's gotten good peppers this year where I live. We've been in a drought the last two years, but this year it's as though we're getting 3 years' worth of rain in one! I appreciated all the free watering at first, but my plants didn't get any kind of consistent sunshine for like a month after I transplanted them, maybe longer? And now we're getting close to the end of the season, so I don't think things are going to catch up
Sometimes after a 10hr day you come home to find squirrels have eaten one row of kernels out of each ear of corn on your 100 stalks that were beautiful when you watered before work. 😊
This dude and people like him are definitely much healthier overall than the rest of us
ok, everybody's asking about the wood drying rack.. did you make it or where did you buy it. that looks like a really nice rack.
yeah roma paste tomatos not so good this year here either..
ps - spill the goods on that rack 😁
please...
thanks
I love the top parts that don’t finish. I bite the whole thing off and eat it lol
Wow lots of vegetables
I’d say your peppers are copious ❤❤😊
I am just now getting green tomatoes 😅
I had a small garden this year but we had a very hot dry summer and my squash cantaloupe did not do well at all. I've been pulling out dead Vines.
Is that a drying rack? Do you sell that?!
I love eating the top part of the corn
I know a lot of people ask me as a garden guy. What at what point do I stop with the tomatoes and I tell them as long as the tomatoes are turning red like water the plants and take care of the plants as soon as the plants starts getting really bad then I let it kind of diet a slow death, but I keep it
Amazing love your approach in your videos. What about dehydrating with a dehydrator? Do you recommend?
Ok now I must grow fennel flowers 🌼
Where did you get that wooden storage rack? It looks realy nice and handy! 🤩
Quick question why my watermelon never makes it been growing since covid my leaves always brown out 😅 help please
I started my corn late but its just fun.theyre about 2 feet tall
I’m new your page & really enjoy your content 😊
Just wondering, but have you tried Potassium polyacrylate soil additives? They seem to help really well with water retainment.
Nice Charleston grey!
Hey where did you get that drying shelf for your onions, potatoes, and peppers????
My corn is just not happy this summer. It was also my first time growing corn. Zone 7b....lol 😅
Wasps LOVE my Fennel flowers. Or should I say their Fennel flowers. 😂 A reminder that wasps DO pollinate. They love the Angelica too.
Also, those pallets are such a great idea for food storage!!!!!
Maaf saya nak tanya.Awak simpan stok makanan/sayur cuaca kering ke?Awak basuh dulu @ biar saja..untuk tahan lama.
Can you make a ,mmmm part 2 on the progress of the Frankenstein dragon fruit
whoah you can eat corn right off the stalk? 🤯 I didn't know that, I thought you have to boil / roast it first before it's edible.
Can I ask if you have a lot of mosquitos in your garden? And if yes how do you fight with them?
Hey I tried to grow cucumbers but always get yellow and leave it in a small pot should I replant them in a bigger pot and leave it in the sun or shade and sun?
Whoops, I was today years old when I learned shisitos are supposed to be that small. Gonna go pick some peppers now 😂😅
What about the middle of the summer makes it “late season?” Nearly all of the plants shown are able to keep producing well into the winter in SoCal
we are just starting off with going all of our own stuff. Could I get some tips when it comes to pepper plants growing them inside
that wood storage rack looks amazing, where did you get it?
Everyone asking about the wooden rack... 😅
😂😂😂
Whatever happened to that kneeling cushion that you seemed to love so much? I've only seen you use it in that one video. Was that just an "organic" plug 😂
this harvest moon graphic is so damn realistic
I see your rack has potatoes near onions. Move one of them away, as one off-gases something which causes the other to rot.
I had one experimental corn plant with 1 ear of corn. I saw this and harvested because the top silks were brown. It was not ready at all and now I’m really bummed
Hey, how are those crows? Did they show up this year? I remember last year you feeding them
I want to do exactly what you are doing
Beautiful garden, what you do in the winter season?
@loul856 there are plenty of crops that do great in winter, e.g. garlic, onion, spinach, kale, etc
Do you practice food preservation? If yes, what kinds do you do?
Interesting...can you show us how to store the harvest too?
Did you build that wood produce storage yourself @epicgardening? Or did you purchase it? I would love to know how you built it if you did 😊
Just curious when I was younger, my brother-in-law for a summer job would detassel corn what does that mean?
It means cutting off the male flowers which grow on top of the stalks to pollinate.
Chili peper leaves are good with chicken soup
Cool. Can I come see it and drink some cha-mom-a-lee? Bahaha!
I would love to have a dry storage rack similar to the one in your video. Any source for building or buying something like that?
What happened to the pumpkins you planted a couple months back?
Ohhh i like that storage shelf thing at the end what is that??
LOVE IT ALL MAYLANNE
Licorice candy is the worst 😂
I eat the end too
None of my corn really developed kernels despite hand pollination. They appeared a good size. Oh well. I actually got a three cobs appearing to grow from the same section.
Hey man, I've been watching your videos for a good while but I'm confused on a lil thing and I'm not sure who else could help
I've got a lot of tomato plants I'm really not sure how to water since some seem dried out while some seem very healthy and I've been suggested feeding them a tiny bit molasses to keep them healthy
Any tips or suggestions?