EXTRA TIP - It is best to use a cardboard box rather than plastic bucket to cover tomatoes and other crops. The corrugated design of the walls of the cardboard box will better protect your plants. I always start a few tomatoes outside in my garden simply by covering them with cardboard boxes over night. All you need is a box that is tall enough and weights to hold the 4 flaps of the box securely to the ground. You guys have been such an inspiration for me!
I don’t know if you will see this message but I’m giving it a go anyway. It’s so exciting to see the things you’ve started in your greenhouse! It’s giving me the bug to plant as well. I’m in Wisconsin so I have to wait a bit longer. I wanted to mention to you a great Chanel for you to follow and keep up with the weather. Ryan Hall y’all is awesome! I’ve followed him for over a year and he’s never steered me wrong. Please check him out if you’re not already familiar with him. He can give you the heads up you might need to protect your plants.
Up here in zone 5, I'm still six weeks away from our last frost date - and temps drop into the 20's every night! So, I enjoy planting vicariously by watching you guys! And now I want one of those drill augers for my raised beds!
To save your tomatoes, if you get a freeze, sit a gallon jug of water in your tub next to the plant. Then add your covering on top. I've actually done this in ground and covered with plastic around a tomato cage with two jugs of water. It worked at 18 degrees!
When I had a house full of breakfast cereal eaters I used 3 plastic gallon jugs of water touching each other around each tomato plant. On hot days I walk by and move two of them a few inches away so some of the heat can dissipate. I left them in place until mid June most years. Fastest growing tomato plants ever. Tomatoes are tropical, love heat up to a point. I believe it's the overnight heat they like, since I'm in the colder quadrant of TX, where day vs night temps can fluctuate over 50°- 60°.
It was luke warm. Not sure of the exact temp. It was a fluke cold night as days had been warmer. Longer cold spell would probably be too much for the plants. Another comment said use more water jugs per plant.
In Eastern Ontario Canada we are still knee high in snow, so we are at watching you plant and enjoying your joy at playing in the soil (notice I didn’t say dirt). Our last frost date is May 24th, hope the snow is gone by then, we have had about 350 cm or 11 ft of snowfall this winter - which is apparently not a record.
We are in West Texas(Abilene) and have already planted spinach, onions and potatoes in our garden. I purchased some tomatoes yesterday to put in bigger pots until they are safe for the garden next month. Keeping them outside but can bring indoors if a freeze comes. Kevin, about using plastic buckets in greenhouse to protect your tomatoes- years ago we had planted tomatoes in our garden and a freeze was coming. We covered some with plastic tubs and some with cardboard boxes. The plants with cardboard survived, but the plastic didn’t. We thought the plastic conducted cold? We don’t know the science of all that. Just wanted to mention it to you.
I have a winter ‘deck garden’ I start in January here in Northern California. We have the containers up against the house. I have lots of lettuce varieties close to the house. Out against the rail we have kale in pots. They are thriving even after two different freak snows. Snow melts within a day or two here. Only problem is with the bird loving our lettuce, so we have bird net covering it all. A fun time of year, looking forward to the big garden.
Love watching! 🌱 Spring is in the air and growing season has officially kicked in here in Florida. Wishing you the best of luck this yr. If you dont take risks, there is not much reward. I always try and if I fail, I take it as a learning experience and do better next time. Love the homestead you've built. Thanks for sharing all you know 🌱🍍🌻
My husband and I just started our seeds this past Monday and they are in our little indoor greenhouse. It's been less than a week and we've got germination. It's so exciting to watch. This is our first year ever. So exciting!!!
HIGHLY encourage you to watch Ryan Hall’s weather prediction on RUclips before planting those tomatoes outdoors. You are about to get SLAMMED with major snowfall shortly, and Ryan has been SUPER accurate consistently.
So cool! I love seeing all the plants going in. I ordered a Green Stalk yesterday and a bunch of bare root strawberries. I'm really excited to try the Green Stalk. I've never had one. I'm also getting my buckets prepped and building more large cedar planters. I wish I could have a high tunnel, but I'm renting right now, so I'm making the best of what I have. I'm hoping next year to be planting on my own farm🙂
We have a different garden area this year with rocky soil. So we're working on some skinny raised beds in the rows to overcome that obstacle. Expanding a flower bed to include a tea and herb garden. Really excited about that. I have milk jugs started outside for that. 😍 We got tickets for Ozarks Homesteading Expo this year. Hope to finally meet y'all!
Zone 8b here in Texas. Everything is outside this year. Average last frost is Mar 15, but forecast is great for the next few weeks. We are in the low 80's this week. Sometimes, we get a cold front move through before Easter, but I'm watching. Carried over my Ancho pepper in a large pot in the greenhouse, and it's taking off. In the ground and growing - carrots, beets, onions, potatoes, broccoli, sweet peas, kale. Just planted pole beans. Lettuce is getting mature. Cilantro is bolting. End of the month, will plant cucumber, summer and winter squash. Tomato and pepper starts are hardening off. Finished new tomato bed yesterday, and still have the new pepper bed to prep. Volunteer tomatoes are up at the cattle panel arches and will need to be thinned. These are what we call Texas Wild (think it's sometimes sold as Matt's Wild). They are a currant style tomato, and sweet as candy. They even produce when temps are in the 90's. Next fall, I hope to have my cattle panel hoophouse done to carry over some tomatoes into the winter. Trying some dwarf and micro tomatoes for that.
Fantastic job this day Sarah and Kevin. Planting is under way, come on tomatoes, can't beat the taste of the first tomato of the year. Stay safe and keep the fun rolling. Fred.
Ryan Hall has said cold weather is coming for most of the country. The rest of March will be colder than normal. Wish I was close enough to buy your plants. Been watching you for a long time.
I'm growing some sweet potato starts that were growing on a couple of my sweet potatoes I had bought to eat. They are in my kitchen window next to my ivy plant . I have a storage tub ready for when it's safe for them to be planted outside. Have not started any others yet. I've been making compost all winter. Can't have a green house where I live. Love all your videos. Thank you for all your tips !
I'm in NW Oregon, and have broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, Brussels sprouts and cabbage all growing in my greenhouse. I have all other tender starts in my grow room similar to you. I too feel blessed to have my greenhouse, it's fun to go inside on cold blustery days and feel like I've stepped into late spring - early summer weather. 🌞
I am in central Florida and I have everything started in raised bed. I could not wait for March 1. Peppers, tomatoes (all kinds), potatoes, carrots, melon and green beans. Praying for good harvest.
Thank you very much for the feedback on your tomato project. The big and small tomatoes. They did extremely well. Best of luck with the rest of their journey. Your seedlings look beautiful. You guys are awesome.
My grandpa was full time 3 rd generation German Farmer and always had big garden with blackberries, strawberry's, grapes, everything else... He always said not to plant outside till after Easter, his farm was mid Missouri... wish l had it now sweet spring water and great soil...
When the video started and I saw you in short sleeves, I thought "it's starting!" Looking forward to all of your FUN accomplishments this year! I can't wait to see the BIG and little tomatoes.
I enjoy your videos, Thank You. I live in Zone 7A, lower NY. I have 4. 4' x 10' raised beds and 2. 2" x 8' beds for perennial herbs and strawberries. I starting Feb 1. I have hoop houses over the 4 larger beds. Currently have radishes, Lettuce, and onions (one type per bed). I plant 2-4 rows per week. Half of each plot is up and doing well. I'll be eating radishes in a week or two, and lettuce after that. I have 150 onion plants, 10 varieties in my grow room, and ready to go out. After I'm finished with the onions, I will do the the root Vegies in plot 4. When it's time to transplant tomatoes (20 plants and 4 melons) will go in with the radishes and onions. Plus various flowers and herbs.
If you got one of those small hobby size greenhouses' or a sunroom, you could put it on the back deck with the door facing the sliding door. That way during the winter you could heat it and grow tomatoes and preppers during the cold months. Just an idea. Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to get in the garden. Right now it still has snow on it. God bless and protect.
Time for starting snipping wild blackberry stalks, and plant in grow house, and start up your vineyard berries. Notice if your neighbors have raspberry and blackberry plants and get some free berries (or go and buy at grocery store/farmers market ... and grow the berry seeds into baby berry plants ! Same for getting some dormant grape vines, rootone, and plant and start up the grape vineyard. One can also start working up kiwi, currants, gooseberry, elderberry, blueberry, and honey berry plants.
I'm in Mesa AZ, I planted a brandywine tomato last fall. It has lived all winter, even though I forgot to cover it a couple times. I had tomatoes every month and now It is blooming like crazy again! and my kale and potatoes are sprouting.
I planted potatos January 27th and squash, Feb 14th! I'm in deep south Texas. Green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and onions going in very soon. It's been a very warm winter here. I've even got comfrey to put in. Oh yea, I'm trying watermelon for the first time! You guys have been such an inspiration to me over the years. Love you guys. Blessings.
I live in Wisconsin and it’s still winter with a very small hint of spring in the air. The birds are coming back. We’re in the planning stage right now.
23:34 Albuquerque, NM HELLO , from Albuquerque’s South Valley! I also purchased Kellog raised bed mix and I figured out that is was loaded with nitrogen when my strawberry plants looked amazingly healthy that year I never harvested one strawberry. I moved the plants to another area and like you I used a different soil. My strawberries are now thriving. Thank you for the work you do it helps me so much. It is a little breezy here today but my husband is getting our shade cloth up for my little 10x20’ high tunnel. Thank you for the reminder❤️🙏😊
I totally understand about wanting to plant! I started cauliflower (Sicily) in the high tunnel along with 3 varieties of cabbage, bok choy, mizuna, 5 buckets of various salad greens, 3 buckets of carrots, cilantro, 5 types of radishes and more. Growing Daikon radishes for the first time, so can't wait to see how they do in the high tunnel. I even got itchy and planted snow peas in the main garden. Have about 1200 seedlings inside under the lights, but can't wait until they can hang out in the high tunnel. Appreciate your videos and always learn so much. Today's take: We will be putting the shade cloth on the high tunnel this weekend. ;)
Hello guys, southeast lower Michigan waiting on the snow and ice to go bye bye. Thank you for the videos, makes the waiting better. Boutiful harvest, God Bless.
Ok, you’ve convinced me to plant 1 tomato in my greenhouse. I’m in 7b and already have my cold weather plants planted. With the cold snap coming next week I was apprehensive about trying warm weather plants. But I feel lucky!😁 Thanks for the inspiration!
We had a super warm winter, only a handful of nights that dipped into the upper 30s since Christmas, and definitely nothing that cold in the last month or so. I kept wanting to put something in the ground, but i let the nay sayers in the local garden group talk me out of it. The cold isn't our big problem down here in Houston, it's the extreme heat that makes our tomatoes go sterile most of the summer. I wish I would have taken that risk and gotten a good start on everything.
I'm in central Virginia, zone 7 and I totally understand how Kevin feels about them tomatoes!! I have 2 Mamie Brown tomato plants and 2 San Marzano tomato plants coming up in my greenhouse. I started the seeds back in February because I just couldn't wait! I love watching yall's videos...I learn something every time I watch yall. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and helping us to become better gardners!
I hear peepers!!! 😍 We live up north in the Ottawa Valley 🇨🇦 and have almost everything started under lights. Our peppers are going crazy! Next week we will be planting our tomatoes and some perennials. I, like you … did an experiment and planted 12 year old miracle sweet tomatoes seeds in February and to my surprise, they both came up!!! They are a foot high now. 😂😂😂 Happy Gardening!
Some grass clippings for mulch while they need nitrogen, it will also help keep the soil warmer, cardboard box is good for warmth and keeping cold off. I look forward to seeing how the tomatoes grow🌼🌻
zone 7b here. i've already started onions, celery, broccoli and luffa plants. i am getting the itch to plant, but need to wait until the end of March to start the other seeds. Hopefully with all this snow, we've been getting in the west, we will have a good growing season. I am looking forward for a better year of growing, eating and preserving this year!!
If using plastic to cover, I buy a big bag of “ batting” in fabric section of store. Cut to fit , wrapping around plant, then put plastic tub/ bucket over plant
How exciting!! I can't wait to watch it grow ❤️ I'm glad you told us that you were growing more in the in ground garden because I was surprised that you were growing so few broccoli and cauliflower. Will you be doing row covers for it like you did that one year? You had such a FANTASTIC harvest that year! Why haven't you been using the ground up rabbit pellets? Good luck to you this growing season and I really, really want Kevin's tomatoes to thrive God bless
Make your own chicken mulch compost for your potting soil just saying he won’t have to purchase it be better and you know what you’re dealing with more consistent. Enjoy gardening.
Love learning from you folks. In the Finger Lakes we've had a super mild winter, though the weather man is saying March will run colder than average. Take care.
How awesome that you got to experience first hand how lettuce just comes back from a freeze! Shame it's too bitter now, because it looks pretty, and still hasn't bolted. Admittedly ours is bitter too, but most have started the tower up to bolt maneuver. In my South Carolina garden the broccoli is mostly done, and the remaining heads want to blow in the heat, but naturally we have a freeze coming in a week. Brussels Sprouts were over and done really by February. White flies and aphids love winter, when most of their predators go to sleep. White flies showed up in droves late fall, as my new pest for winter, so they have been annoying this year while I'm trying to wait for the brown lacewings, that also showed up later, to get established and sort them out. Had to cover everything with elevated layers of frost clothes, during a snap that went down to 11F, and worried I was incubating whiteflies. Except the semi-perennial kales, that were uncovered, still had the whiteflies after the cold snap. So badly even that they had to be cut down. Only one has come back yet. Hope the rest come back. Asian ladybugs/ladybeetles by the way, are what people order from US companies for aphids. No one sells our native ladybugs. Same deal with the praying mantises. The established imports are much easier to gather up, I'd imagine. We have both kinds of ladybugs naturally in our garden, but only the Asian origin ones try to hide in the house when it's cold. (They need nectar or fresh moisture if they are in human dwellings too long, because they get dehydrated. Not much, and very shallow. Like a small bottle cap.) The natives are more active over our winter, but not enough to handle a whitefly infestation. Our native Carolina Mantis love the back porch, and every spring we are stepping very very carefully, trying to get to the garden without walking on tiny babies. Got my cabbage in very late, choy, chinese cabbage too, and they may not make it through the heat before going right to bolt. Best time to get all that in the ground here, from indoor starts back in August/September, is late Nov or Dec. Not so hot they immediately bolt, but enough time to get established to handle the more frequent freezes in January. Started the long grow time peppers a few days ago! Although they will be in and out of the house, in increasing pot sizes, until May. When it finally is safe outside to plant peppers. Tomatoes will not get started until about two weeks from now. The pruned down peppers in the garage, overwintering by the water heater tank, are still iffy as to if they will survive. Some overwinter great from the first October or November freeze, right up until March or so when it's 80+F day after day. Then a freeze gets them while the sap is flowing. Always worth it to try though, because they get off to a super fast start, if they make it! Plus those new fruit seeds will be even better adapted to our area, and maybe will stay more dormant through March in a garage...
Hello guys. I love watching you guys. Your thought out, reached, and test approach is helpful and enjoyable. Your early experience with weeds led to weed cloth and now that you’ve gotten better control I’m wondering how a single bed in the no till method with a layer of cardboard and 6-8 inches of compost and 18 inch walkway on either size with 6-8 inches of wood chips. From what I’m seeing in my own garden and from many of the market gardeners in you tube, it smothers the weeds, helps with the rainy and dry season both but provides what the soil needs, builds the soil and allows the soil web to thrive which helps plants thrive. It would be an awesome experiment to see a side by side comparison over a couple of years.
I also had a bad experience with Kellogs Organic Raised Bed Potting Mix. I used it in my vertical planters and several fabric grow bags for the fall 2021 and spring 2022 growing seasons. Nothing would grow well even though I used amendments. I wasted a lot of time and money. When I dumped it out a month ago to replace it with my homemade potting mix, it was hard as a rock. I had to beat it with a mallet to break it up, so that I could dispose of it. I believe my potting mix will make a HUGE difference for my plants to grow and be healthy. I refilled a vertical planter and 41 grow bags. Lots of hard work but it was a labor of love for my veggies. I live in TX, zone 8b, and we are right at our last frost date. It's been in the 80s already with night temps around the low 60s, so I'm hoping we don't get a surprise late freeze. I started my seedlings indoor on Jan 22nd, and they are now 6 weeks old since germination. I am going to wait one more week to transplant them outside. Seeded red cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, bell peppers, lettuce and 6 varieties of dwarf tomatoes. My tomato plants have grown so much that they are too tall to put on my grow light rack. Been hardening them off outside. First time growing dwarf tomatoes, so I'm excited to see how well they do after being transplanted and how they taste. God bless.
I'm so excited for you!!! I love the smell of tomato plants!!! We are still buried in snow up here and have a storm rolling in for 3 days. But I so enjoy watching you guys play in the dirt!!!
I am in northern Wyoming... so still snow and cold... but watching you makes me want to start seedlings in the house. Then in May they can go into the greenhouse...
Hi Kevin & Sarah I have had a wonderful tomato season this year. I have many ziplock bags full of tomatoes in the freezer ready to make sauce etc with over the cooler season. Usually the tomato season ends in late January in my area, but this year I am still growing tomatoes. They are coming to an end though maybe another couple of weeks. In a normal weather season our first frost is around April 25, Anzac Day here in Australia. But with the craziness of the weather pattern who knows this year. Currently building a greenhouse to the garden, which I am very excited about. Still waiting for my chickens though that is a plan moving forward. Kevin I wish you a bumper tomato 🍅 season so you get to enjoy those delicious treats.
Hi guys I live in New Brunswick Canada and I still have 2-4 feet of snow. My electric chicken netting is half under the snow so the dogs can walk out over the fence and not even see it. Enjoy your climate. starting my seeds under lights now but it will be June before I can put anything outside. We hope to get our green house up this year. Keep up the good work you are doing. .
Here in Minnesota I have always planted my tomatoes in a trench by laying it down. It keeps the roots in the warmer area and gives the plant more area to absorb moisture.
I'm in SW Oklahoma, was able to start my raised beds last week. Everything is doing great, Bush Beans, Peas, Sweet Peppers, Squash and tomatoes of course.
Good morning! Enjoy Nature Today!
Love your channels!
Hi!
I will!
Every day!
EXTRA TIP - It is best to use a cardboard box rather than plastic bucket to cover tomatoes and other crops. The corrugated design of the walls of the cardboard box will better protect your plants. I always start a few tomatoes outside in my garden simply by covering them with cardboard boxes over night. All you need is a box that is tall enough and weights to hold the 4 flaps of the box securely to the ground. You guys have been such an inspiration for me!
Thank you for sharing your great tip. Much appreciated!
👍👍
👍👍👍
I was always told not to use plastic covers because they get cold and don't really offer any protection. Thanks for sharing this with other gardeners.
I love this tip!!
You two are still my fave homesteaders ❤️❤️❤️
mine too!
@@Dianatorres6990
When they don't post. I think something happened 🤔
Mine too!
Love that T-Shirt!! "He Is Risen!!!"
Let the 2023 season be blessed with fruitful and plentiful bounty. May God look over all of us this year of trying times. Good luck 🤞
I don’t know if you will see this message but I’m giving it a go anyway. It’s so exciting to see the things you’ve started in your greenhouse! It’s giving me the bug to plant as well. I’m in Wisconsin so I have to wait a bit longer.
I wanted to mention to you a great Chanel for you to follow and keep up with the weather. Ryan Hall y’all is awesome! I’ve followed him for over a year and he’s never steered me wrong. Please check him out if you’re not already familiar with him. He can give you the heads up you might need to protect your plants.
Up here in zone 5, I'm still six weeks away from our last frost date - and temps drop into the 20's every night! So, I enjoy planting vicariously by watching you guys! And now I want one of those drill augers for my raised beds!
To save your tomatoes, if you get a freeze, sit a gallon jug of water in your tub next to the plant. Then add your covering on top. I've actually done this in ground and covered with plastic around a tomato cage with two jugs of water. It worked at 18 degrees!
When I had a house full of breakfast cereal eaters I used 3 plastic gallon jugs of water touching each other around each tomato plant. On hot days I walk by and move two of them a few inches away so some of the heat can dissipate. I left them in place until mid June most years. Fastest growing tomato plants ever. Tomatoes are tropical, love heat up to a point. I believe it's the overnight heat they like, since I'm in the colder quadrant of TX, where day vs night temps can fluctuate over 50°- 60°.
What temp was the water in the jug?
It was luke warm. Not sure of the exact temp. It was a fluke cold night as days had been warmer. Longer cold spell would probably be too much for the plants. Another comment said use more water jugs per plant.
God Bless You! I hope Kevin gets his tomatoes to eat soon. ❤
In Eastern Ontario Canada we are still knee high in snow, so we are at watching you plant and enjoying your joy at playing in the soil (notice I didn’t say dirt). Our last frost date is May 24th, hope the snow is gone by then, we have had about 350 cm or 11 ft of snowfall this winter - which is apparently not a record.
We are in West Texas(Abilene) and have already planted spinach, onions and potatoes in our garden. I purchased some tomatoes yesterday to put in bigger pots until they are safe for the garden next month. Keeping them outside but can bring indoors if a freeze comes. Kevin, about using plastic buckets in greenhouse to protect your tomatoes- years ago we had planted tomatoes in our garden and a freeze was coming. We covered some with plastic tubs and some with cardboard boxes. The plants with cardboard survived, but the plastic didn’t. We thought the plastic conducted cold? We don’t know the science of all that. Just wanted to mention it to you.
Its not so much that the plastic conducted the cold but just the cardboard is a much better insulator than a single layer plastic
Abilene Texas I was born and raised there lots of cousins around there
Hey there Becky, live two hours north of you in Vernon.😊
Fellow Abilenian here…Good morning Becky
I have a winter ‘deck garden’ I start in January here in Northern California. We have the containers up against the house. I have lots of lettuce varieties close to the house. Out against the rail we have kale in pots. They are thriving even after two different freak snows. Snow melts within a day or two here. Only problem is with the bird loving our lettuce, so we have bird net covering it all. A fun time of year, looking forward to the big garden.
I’m thankful that you share your skills & knowledge. There’s some tidbit I learn from every video.
That good quality compost is like a unicorn. Unless you make it yourself .
Love watching! 🌱 Spring is in the air and growing season has officially kicked in here in Florida. Wishing you the best of luck this yr. If you dont take risks, there is not much reward. I always try and if I fail, I take it as a learning experience and do better next time. Love the homestead you've built. Thanks for sharing all you know 🌱🍍🌻
My husband and I just started our seeds this past Monday and they are in our little indoor greenhouse. It's been less than a week and we've got germination. It's so exciting to watch. This is our first year ever. So exciting!!!
HIGHLY encourage you to watch Ryan Hall’s weather prediction on RUclips before planting those tomatoes outdoors. You are about to get SLAMMED with major snowfall shortly, and Ryan has been SUPER accurate consistently.
💚Spring is in the air..even if unofficially! Great to see you getting things planted 😊💚
How wonderful to be able to get outside in the yard. Still in the 30's to 40's here.
Love seeing hands with dirt on them with you all. The plants you planted look really healthy. Hope Kevin gets to eat early tomatoes 🍅.
So cool! I love seeing all the plants going in. I ordered a Green Stalk yesterday and a bunch of bare root strawberries. I'm really excited to try the Green Stalk. I've never had one. I'm also getting my buckets prepped and building more large cedar planters. I wish I could have a high tunnel, but I'm renting right now, so I'm making the best of what I have. I'm hoping next year to be planting on my own farm🙂
We have a different garden area this year with rocky soil. So we're working on some skinny raised beds in the rows to overcome that obstacle. Expanding a flower bed to include a tea and herb garden. Really excited about that. I have milk jugs started outside for that. 😍 We got tickets for Ozarks Homesteading Expo this year. Hope to finally meet y'all!
Tilling my garden and installing drip tape here in the North Florida Panhandle. Praying for a good growing season with no April frosts.
Zone 8b here in Texas. Everything is outside this year. Average last frost is Mar 15, but forecast is great for the next few weeks. We are in the low 80's this week. Sometimes, we get a cold front move through before Easter, but I'm watching. Carried over my Ancho pepper in a large pot in the greenhouse, and it's taking off. In the ground and growing - carrots, beets, onions, potatoes, broccoli, sweet peas, kale. Just planted pole beans. Lettuce is getting mature. Cilantro is bolting. End of the month, will plant cucumber, summer and winter squash. Tomato and pepper starts are hardening off. Finished new tomato bed yesterday, and still have the new pepper bed to prep. Volunteer tomatoes are up at the cattle panel arches and will need to be thinned. These are what we call Texas Wild (think it's sometimes sold as Matt's Wild). They are a currant style tomato, and sweet as candy. They even produce when temps are in the 90's. Next fall, I hope to have my cattle panel hoophouse done to carry over some tomatoes into the winter. Trying some dwarf and micro tomatoes for that.
Very excited to see how your largest and smallest tomatoes do!!! There really is nothing better than a freshly picked, warm, salty tomato 🍅 ...lol!
God bless! May your tomato season begin early and last long!
Good morning! It’s 6:33am here in Michigan. Our Spring is coming, but not for a few more weeks….
..or Months. 😆
@@mariag5594 True! Lol..
Fantastic job this day Sarah and Kevin. Planting is under way, come on tomatoes, can't beat the taste of the first tomato of the year. Stay safe and keep the fun rolling. Fred.
Thank you for being so inspirational! Love watching :)
The Lord blessed you with ladybugs. 🙂 I am glad.
Great video! A cold snap is coming, so praying your tomatoes stay safe from the cold weather.
It is so nice seeing you's having fun in the greenhouse! Wonderful, hoping great success.
Ryan Hall has said cold weather is coming for most of the country. The rest of March will be colder than normal. Wish I was close enough to buy your plants. Been watching you for a long time.
I'm growing some sweet potato starts that were growing on a couple of my sweet potatoes I had bought to eat. They are in my kitchen window next to my ivy plant . I have a storage tub ready for when it's safe for them to be planted outside. Have not started any others yet. I've been making compost all winter. Can't have a green house where I live. Love all your videos. Thank you for all your tips !
I'm in NW Oregon, and have broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, Brussels sprouts and cabbage all growing in my greenhouse. I have all other tender starts in my grow room similar to you. I too feel blessed to have my greenhouse, it's fun to go inside on cold blustery days and feel like I've stepped into late spring - early summer weather. 🌞
I am in central Florida and I have everything started in raised bed. I could not wait for March 1. Peppers, tomatoes (all kinds), potatoes, carrots, melon and green beans. Praying for good harvest.
Thank you so much for showing me this! It makes me so excited and it makes my heart happy!
Thank you very much for the feedback on your tomato project. The big and small tomatoes. They did extremely well. Best of luck with the rest of their journey.
Your seedlings look beautiful. You guys are awesome.
I can smell those tomato plants from here! Thank you!
My grandpa was full time 3 rd generation German Farmer and always had big garden with blackberries, strawberry's, grapes, everything else... He always said not to plant outside till after Easter, his farm was mid Missouri... wish l had it now sweet spring water and great soil...
Excited to see how the tomatoes will do, nothing tastes better than a fresh tomato 🍅. God's blessings to you and your family
I bought an auger like that and it works really well. As I get older, it's nice to be able to use power tools to help in the garden.
When the video started and I saw you in short sleeves, I thought "it's starting!" Looking forward to all of your FUN accomplishments this year! I can't wait to see the BIG and little tomatoes.
I enjoy your videos, Thank You.
I live in Zone 7A, lower NY. I have 4. 4' x 10' raised beds and 2. 2" x 8' beds for perennial herbs and strawberries. I starting Feb 1. I have hoop houses over the 4 larger beds. Currently have radishes, Lettuce, and onions (one type per bed). I plant 2-4 rows per week. Half of each plot is up and doing well. I'll be eating radishes in a week or two, and lettuce after that. I have 150 onion plants, 10 varieties in my grow room, and ready to go out. After I'm finished with the onions, I will do the the root Vegies in plot 4. When it's time to transplant tomatoes (20 plants and 4 melons) will go in with the radishes and onions. Plus various flowers and herbs.
I love seeing you guys in tshirts. Warm weather in Missouri means warm weather is coming to Michigan.
We are still 4 weeks from seed starting in MN!
Wow! Wish I had room enough to have a greenhouse! Great job you two!!!
Enjoyed watching You plant in the Greenhouse...God Bless...
If you got one of those small hobby size greenhouses' or a sunroom, you could put it on the back deck with the door facing the sliding door. That way during the winter you could heat it and grow tomatoes and preppers during the cold months. Just an idea. Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to get in the garden. Right now it still has snow on it. God bless and protect.
Here in Southern California getting ready to plant summer plants. God bless
Love watching. You two are such a blessing.
YEAH!!!!! Great video for a spring start!😃😃😃💜💜💜
Just planted potatoes, onions, tomatoes, and peppers. Started okra, bell peppers, and squash in trays
So excited to try a few hopeful packages of seeds and onions
Lettuce mix, spinach, and radishes say some prayers :)
How nice to have warm weather. It us 22 and my garden is still deep in snow. That’s life in Colorado😢
Great vlog; thanks for sharing your knowledge! I love the looks of your house decking in the background! Blessings to you all🤗💜🇨🇦
Time for starting snipping wild blackberry stalks, and plant in grow house, and start up your vineyard berries. Notice if your neighbors have raspberry and blackberry plants and get some free berries (or go and buy at grocery store/farmers market ... and grow the berry seeds into baby berry plants ! Same for getting some dormant grape vines, rootone, and plant and start up the grape vineyard. One can also start working up kiwi, currants, gooseberry, elderberry, blueberry, and honey berry plants.
I'm in Mesa AZ, I planted a brandywine tomato last fall. It has lived all winter, even though I forgot to cover it a couple times. I had tomatoes every month and now It is blooming like crazy again! and my kale and potatoes are sprouting.
I planted potatos January 27th and squash, Feb 14th! I'm in deep south Texas. Green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and onions going in very soon. It's been a very warm winter here. I've even got comfrey to put in. Oh yea, I'm trying watermelon for the first time! You guys have been such an inspiration to me over the years. Love you guys. Blessings.
Can I ask, where did you get your comfrey?
@@MissBetsyLu Earthcare Seeds, true comfrey, through Amazon. Have a blessed day!
@@pamclark6686 thanks so much 🙂
@@pamclark6686 thanks so much. I went right to website and ordered them. They even have stinging nettle seeds !
Northern Wyoming. Starting my brassicas and tomatoes while watching this video. Peppers and celery are already up.
When plants bolt and flower it is a great time to allow them to go to seed and collect them instead of buying seeds each year.
I live in Wisconsin and it’s still winter with a very small hint of spring in the air. The birds are coming back. We’re in the planning stage right now.
I love growing in those tubs. I’ve tried just about everything but nothing beats those tubs.
You guys are so productive and give such good information.
23:34 Albuquerque, NM
HELLO , from Albuquerque’s South Valley!
I also purchased Kellog raised bed mix and I figured out that is was loaded with nitrogen when my strawberry plants looked amazingly healthy that year I never harvested one strawberry. I moved the plants to another area and like you I used a different soil. My strawberries are now thriving. Thank you for the work you do it helps me so much. It is a little breezy here today but my husband is getting our shade cloth up for my little 10x20’ high tunnel. Thank you for the reminder❤️🙏😊
I totally understand about wanting to plant! I started cauliflower (Sicily) in the high tunnel along with 3 varieties of cabbage, bok choy, mizuna, 5 buckets of various salad greens, 3 buckets of carrots, cilantro, 5 types of radishes and more. Growing Daikon radishes for the first time, so can't wait to see how they do in the high tunnel. I even got itchy and planted snow peas in the main garden. Have about 1200 seedlings inside under the lights, but can't wait until they can hang out in the high tunnel. Appreciate your videos and always learn so much. Today's take: We will be putting the shade cloth on the high tunnel this weekend. ;)
Hello guys, southeast lower Michigan waiting on the snow and ice to go bye bye. Thank you for the videos, makes the waiting better. Boutiful harvest, God Bless.
Ok, you’ve convinced me to plant 1 tomato in my greenhouse. I’m in 7b and already have my cold weather plants planted. With the cold snap coming next week I was apprehensive about trying warm weather plants. But I feel lucky!😁 Thanks for the inspiration!
Here in Minnesota, it is snowing as I write this. I haven't even started seeds yet, so jealous!! 😁 Happy planting!!
We had a super warm winter, only a handful of nights that dipped into the upper 30s since Christmas, and definitely nothing that cold in the last month or so. I kept wanting to put something in the ground, but i let the nay sayers in the local garden group talk me out of it. The cold isn't our big problem down here in Houston, it's the extreme heat that makes our tomatoes go sterile most of the summer. I wish I would have taken that risk and gotten a good start on everything.
I'm in central Virginia, zone 7 and I totally understand how Kevin feels about them tomatoes!! I have 2 Mamie Brown tomato plants and 2 San Marzano tomato plants coming up in my greenhouse. I started the seeds back in February because I just couldn't wait! I love watching yall's videos...I learn something every time I watch yall. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and helping us to become better gardners!
I hear peepers!!! 😍 We live up north in the Ottawa Valley 🇨🇦 and have almost everything started under lights. Our peppers are going crazy! Next week we will be planting our tomatoes and some perennials. I, like you … did an experiment and planted 12 year old miracle sweet tomatoes seeds in February and to my surprise, they both came up!!! They are a foot high now. 😂😂😂 Happy Gardening!
I’m behind because the last big snow we had here in southern Missouri caused my greenhouse to collapse. 😢
You are making us hungry for spring.
Some grass clippings for mulch while they need nitrogen, it will also help keep the soil warmer, cardboard box is good for warmth and keeping cold off.
I look forward to seeing how the tomatoes grow🌼🌻
NE Oklahoma 6b. Love your channel, I have followed for years! Fellow tomato lover over here! God Bless.
zone 7b here. i've already started onions, celery, broccoli and luffa plants. i am getting the itch to plant, but need to wait until the end of March to start the other seeds. Hopefully with all this snow, we've been getting in the west, we will have a good growing season. I am looking forward for a better year of growing, eating and preserving this year!!
If using plastic to cover, I buy a big bag of “ batting” in fabric section of store. Cut to fit , wrapping around plant, then put plastic tub/ bucket over plant
I'm in North Central PA and am just starting some seeds on a heat mat and a grow light. My tomatoes and basil are already up! 🍅
How exciting!! I can't wait to watch it grow ❤️ I'm glad you told us that you were growing more in the in ground garden because I was surprised that you were growing so few broccoli and cauliflower. Will you be doing row covers for it like you did that one year? You had such a FANTASTIC harvest that year! Why haven't you been using the ground up rabbit pellets?
Good luck to you this growing season and I really, really want Kevin's tomatoes to thrive
God bless
Make your own chicken mulch compost for your potting soil just saying he won’t have to purchase it be better and you know what you’re dealing with more consistent. Enjoy gardening.
Love learning from you folks. In the Finger Lakes we've had a super mild winter, though the weather man is saying March will run colder than average. Take care.
Basil and Lindah calling from the tip of Africa , a seaside village of Kommetjie Cape Town South Africa. Blessings to you both
Thank you!
Waiting for my sweet potato to start budding!!🤔
Looking forward to getting my garden started!
How awesome that you got to experience first hand how lettuce just comes back from a freeze! Shame it's too bitter now, because it looks pretty, and still hasn't bolted. Admittedly ours is bitter too, but most have started the tower up to bolt maneuver. In my South Carolina garden the broccoli is mostly done, and the remaining heads want to blow in the heat, but naturally we have a freeze coming in a week. Brussels Sprouts were over and done really by February.
White flies and aphids love winter, when most of their predators go to sleep. White flies showed up in droves late fall, as my new pest for winter, so they have been annoying this year while I'm trying to wait for the brown lacewings, that also showed up later, to get established and sort them out. Had to cover everything with elevated layers of frost clothes, during a snap that went down to 11F, and worried I was incubating whiteflies. Except the semi-perennial kales, that were uncovered, still had the whiteflies after the cold snap. So badly even that they had to be cut down. Only one has come back yet. Hope the rest come back.
Asian ladybugs/ladybeetles by the way, are what people order from US companies for aphids. No one sells our native ladybugs. Same deal with the praying mantises. The established imports are much easier to gather up, I'd imagine. We have both kinds of ladybugs naturally in our garden, but only the Asian origin ones try to hide in the house when it's cold. (They need nectar or fresh moisture if they are in human dwellings too long, because they get dehydrated. Not much, and very shallow. Like a small bottle cap.) The natives are more active over our winter, but not enough to handle a whitefly infestation. Our native Carolina Mantis love the back porch, and every spring we are stepping very very carefully, trying to get to the garden without walking on tiny babies.
Got my cabbage in very late, choy, chinese cabbage too, and they may not make it through the heat before going right to bolt. Best time to get all that in the ground here, from indoor starts back in August/September, is late Nov or Dec. Not so hot they immediately bolt, but enough time to get established to handle the more frequent freezes in January. Started the long grow time peppers a few days ago! Although they will be in and out of the house, in increasing pot sizes, until May. When it finally is safe outside to plant peppers. Tomatoes will not get started until about two weeks from now.
The pruned down peppers in the garage, overwintering by the water heater tank, are still iffy as to if they will survive. Some overwinter great from the first October or November freeze, right up until March or so when it's 80+F day after day. Then a freeze gets them while the sap is flowing. Always worth it to try though, because they get off to a super fast start, if they make it! Plus those new fruit seeds will be even better adapted to our area, and maybe will stay more dormant through March in a garage...
Ryan Hall, Y'all is a RUclips channel I just found. He does In depth weather and says winter isn't even close to being over yet.
Hello guys. I love watching you guys. Your thought out, reached, and test approach is helpful and enjoyable.
Your early experience with weeds led to weed cloth and now that you’ve gotten better control I’m wondering how a single bed in the no till method with a layer of cardboard and 6-8 inches of compost and 18 inch walkway on either size with 6-8 inches of wood chips. From what I’m seeing in my own garden and from many of the market gardeners in you tube, it smothers the weeds, helps with the rainy and dry season both but provides what the soil needs, builds the soil and allows the soil web to thrive which helps plants thrive.
It would be an awesome experiment to see a side by side comparison over a couple of years.
I also had a bad experience with Kellogs Organic Raised Bed Potting Mix. I used it in my vertical planters and several fabric grow bags for the fall 2021 and spring 2022 growing seasons. Nothing would grow well even though I used amendments. I wasted a lot of time and money. When I dumped it out a month ago to replace it with my homemade potting mix, it was hard as a rock. I had to beat it with a mallet to break it up, so that I could dispose of it. I believe my potting mix will make a HUGE difference for my plants to grow and be healthy. I refilled a vertical planter and 41 grow bags. Lots of hard work but it was a labor of love for my veggies.
I live in TX, zone 8b, and we are right at our last frost date. It's been in the 80s already with night temps around the low 60s, so I'm hoping we don't get a surprise late freeze. I started my seedlings indoor on Jan 22nd, and they are now 6 weeks old since germination. I am going to wait one more week to transplant them outside. Seeded red cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, bell peppers, lettuce and 6 varieties of dwarf tomatoes. My tomato plants have grown so much that they are too tall to put on my grow light rack. Been hardening them off outside. First time growing dwarf tomatoes, so I'm excited to see how well they do after being transplanted and how they taste. God bless.
I caught this one quick, pleasant surprise while I drink My morning tea. 💚
I'm so excited for you!!! I love the smell of tomato plants!!! We are still buried in snow up here and have a storm rolling in for 3 days. But I so enjoy watching you guys play in the dirt!!!
I am in northern Wyoming... so still snow and cold... but watching you makes me want to start seedlings in the house. Then in May they can go into the greenhouse...
Haha... Kevin, you're my kind of guy!
Can't wait for that first fresh tomato!
Hi Kevin & Sarah I have had a wonderful tomato season this year. I have many ziplock bags full of tomatoes in the freezer ready to make sauce etc with over the cooler season. Usually the tomato season ends in late January in my area, but this year I am still growing tomatoes. They are coming to an end though maybe another couple of weeks. In a normal weather season our first frost is around April 25, Anzac Day here in Australia. But with the craziness of the weather pattern who knows this year. Currently building a greenhouse to the garden, which I am very excited about. Still waiting for my chickens though that is a plan moving forward. Kevin I wish you a bumper tomato 🍅 season so you get to enjoy those delicious treats.
Hi guys I live in New Brunswick Canada and I still have 2-4 feet of snow. My electric chicken netting is half under the snow so the dogs can walk out over the fence and not even see it. Enjoy your climate. starting my seeds under lights now but it will be June before I can put anything outside. We hope to get our green house up this year. Keep up the good work you are doing.
.
Here in Minnesota I have always planted my tomatoes in a trench by laying it down. It keeps the roots in the warmer area and gives the plant more area to absorb moisture.
GOOD LUCK ALL ON PLANTING THIS YEAR. MAY I WISH US THE BEST. 🤞🏽🥕🫛🥦🧄🧅🌽🌶🫑🥒🍎🍒🍓🍑🫐🥝🥭🫐🍌🍋🍊🍉🍈🫚🍄🍆🥔🫒🍅
Always enjoy your videos!
Yall make it look so easy. 🥰 love your videos. Watching from Berry Alabama. God bless.
I'm in SW Oklahoma, was able to start my raised beds last week. Everything is doing great, Bush Beans, Peas, Sweet Peppers, Squash and tomatoes of course.
Yeah for you. Pray you get a great harvest!🎉
since you have the greenhouse, I would plant lots of veggies to sell the plants at the farmers market.🤞