Highlights: 0:20 Recipes I'll be making today 0:39 Harvesting Lettuce (Pink Hungarian Winter Lettuce) 0:58 Why I'm harvesting whole lettuce heads 1:25 Tomato experiment 1:55 Harvesting kale (Siber Frill) 2:42 Slugs in the hoop house! 3:12 Removing 1 layer of cover from cool weather crops soon 3:34 Harvesting mache (aka corn salad) 3:47 Letting some crops go to seed 4:54 Final March harvest! 5:07 Cushaw squash harvested last fall 5:41 Cob Salad and cushaw pie Oscar Cameos: 0:342:10 Cob Salad Recipe: www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/classic-cobb-salad-recipe-2112313 Cushaw Pie Recipe: www.thespruce.com/cushaw-pie-recipe-3056939 3 Ways You Can Support OYR Without Spending an extra Penny! 1) Stay engaged! Subscribe, like, share, comment, and select the notifications BELL next to the SUBSCRIBE button to be notified when new videos are released; 2) Let the ads run. This is a big ask, but the extra ad revenue will help offset the cost of cameras, mics, computers, software, etc. 3) If you shop on AMAZON in the US, you can support OYR simply by clicking this link (bookmark it too) before shopping: www.amazon.com/?tag=oneya-20
Wow, Patrick, your winter garden is quite amazing. Beautiful harvest! Looking forward to seeing it all transition from winter to spring to summer! Cheers!
Thank you, Patrick. ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL crops. I had a hoop house this year. Coverage was 4ml clear plastic and a spun row cover. The green onions were the only plants that survived. Kale and Swiss Chard froze. Oh well, I can plant some of my cold crops 'starts' in there this week. I so enjoy listening to you.
The garden is looking great, Patrick! I've enjoyed seeing your progress over the winter but I'm excited to see your garden explode with life this spring.
Wow, looks great! Since I moved to an apartment, I'm starting all over with building a seed-starting rack then I'm going to have a plot in a community garden I'm helping plan. Until then, being able to watch great gardening videos like yours, is giving me my fix!
Looking good Patrick! I've been watching you for ever, but I can't remember the width of your back yard. It looks 25 feet wide? Salad looked wonderful! Have a wonderful weekend😆
Love the update. Looking forward to the time I have just as nice a harvest. Each year I continue to try more and do more. I am curious to see how you do with the tomatoes. Last year I planted out Siberian tomatoes, which are determinate, on April 27th, without cover. I did have to keep a close eye on the weather and have covers handy, but they did well. I'm in 6B. Have a great today! Catherine
glad to hear that your siberian tomatoes did well, I have that variety in the seedling stage at the moment and plan to get the plants out in the middle of April.
Your salad and pie are making my mouth water they look so good. You mentioned slugs in your video. How do you deal with them? Do you find some years are worse than others? Do you have a video on growing your cushaw squash from seed to harvest? I’d love to see it.
Thanks Linda! We've only used manual control for slugs in recent years. Slug predators like ground beetles and centipedes keep them under control for us. In the past I used Sluggo and beer traps. I don't have a how-to video on cushaw yet. I plant it a few weeks before the last frost in a cold frame and harvest it in early fall.
I just started harvesting the kale I started from seed about 2 months ago. SO much more tender and tasty than store-bought! :) PS - I always thought non-pumpkin squash pies were tastier than pumpkin pies.
I can only dream about getting these kinds of harvests from my garden anytime soon, but your harvest videos bring so much joy. Do you ever have to water your beds in the hoophouse ? They are not getting any rain or snow, so I wonder how that works out for you.
Hi Namrata! I hope you're harvesting from your garden soon. We don't water at all from mid-December through mid-February because the plants are dormant. Now we're watering about once per week.
I'm so excited to have discovered this channel! My wife and I are closing on a house in early May, and I can't wait to see what I can make all that new land do!! As we don't have any soil yet beyond what I keep in pots, I've been making attempts to make things grow inside, with limited success. Do you have any advice on how to make my beets happy?
Thanks as always for the video inspiration. I think the addition of the recipes is a good finishing touch. Still no covers for me (next year? Perhaps) but I've got lettuce, arugula and spinach popping up in warm spots around the yard and the nectarine trees are trying hard to blossom (waaait!) My biggest 'we'll see' experiment this year is trying to get oyster mushrooms to grow in a little rock wall stuffed with coffee grounds and wood chips. Wish me luck! Oh and I've been adding charcoal into my compost piles over the winter (sifted out of the ashes of the wood stove) but I never did see your final thoughts on bio-char?
Thanks Douglas! Please let me know how your oyster mushroom experiment goes. In our case biochar didn't appear to make any difference. I think this is because the soil was already rich in organic matter and nutrients and held water well. Biochar is very effective at improving soil that is low in organic matter and doesn't hold nutrients and water well.
Wow! I love that pink Russian lettuce! Im wondering....i let my mache, broccoli raab, and cilantro go to seed last summer and i kept that bed fallow and watered it o occasion so when we didnt have rain. Some of the cilantro came up in the fall and i grew it al winter under a storm window tepee. The others did not and still have nit come up. Im disappointed...😕
Looks great Patrick. I started using leaf mulch this past fall. my worms must be lazy as there is plenty left. Should I be worried about the leaf mulch getting matted down ? I also plan on adding shredded tree limbs/leaves soon so should I remove the fall leaves before I do that ?
Thanks! It's still too early for the leaves to be gone. Ours are usually gone in June. I brush them aside to plant closely spaced crops like carrots and beets, but otherwise leave them in place. You also don't want to have very thick matted leaves above root crops. I just then them out a bit. You can add the other mulch with the leaves.I hope this helps!
Hi Sheryl! This video shows how I made the hoop house: ruclips.net/video/4_yga1KPA5M/видео.html Also, search RUclips for "cattle panel" greenhouses. They're easier to build.
Looks great Patrick! I always get so inspired watching your videos. I just recently (4 months ago) went vegetarian. What meat substitutes did you use, if you don’t mind? Cobb salad was always a favourite. Happy gardening!
Thanks David! I often switch up the meat substitutes, but this time I used: Smart Bacon: lightlife.com/products/smart-bacon Tofurkey Chicken: tofurky.com/what-we-make/slow-roasted-chickn/lightly-seasoned/
Wonderful home grown and home made meal. Looks delicious. Have you ever made eggplant bacon? Just finished reading Seed to Seed so I'm ready to get growing. Mother Nature however has different plans for me with some cold weather and a bit of snow. Maybe starting tomatoes, eggplant and tomatillos inside will occupy my green thumb for a bit. Enjoy your fresh veg.
Thanks Valerie! I haven't tried eggplant bacon yet, but I really want to make some with our eggplant harvest this year. I hope you get some spring weather soon.
Yes, the growing seasons are very similar. We plant based on our average last frost date using this planting calendar: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Atd6d9NeJBIoTCkEet4y_wiO6K2U7fttQDoKji3QEsA/edit?usp=sharing You can use the calendar too. Just follow the instructions on top and enter your last frost date. I hope this helps!
Yum, that pie! My sugar snap peas aren't much bigger than yours. Mine are planted with no cover on March 8th down here in zone 7. We have had a much colder winter and a good 2-3 weeks behind where we were last year.
Chari Price Im in zone 7 too. NWArkansas. The rain has been unreal this week. More next week. I have had several things planted in 6 beds starting since late Feb and covered with plastic. Its all growing but slowly bc of the cold rain.
I'm in Tulsa and we got all that rain too! My poor tomatoes I planted on 2\15 need to be planted so bad, they are huge!! Next year I won't start my seeds so early lol!
Very cool. I live i Siloam Springs. My daughter and her hubby were in Tulsa untill last fall when the bought a house in Pryor. In fact shes a nurse and the psyc hospital there. Ive been to Tulsa a million times in my life. Small world isnt it?
I grow a lettuce known in Japan as "Red Fire", which looks a bit like your Pink Hungarian Winter Lettuce. Unlike green-leaved lettuce, it doesn't attract slugs. They just won't touch it, even though they definitely go for my other lettuces and kale growing interplanted with them. I wonder what it is that makes this lettuce immune to the attention of slugs. Does Pink Hungarian Winter Lettuce have the same advantage?
Hi Jennifer! I hope to make more. Here's one on saving tomato seeds: ruclips.net/video/GWsYyPLIqJc/видео.html This one is on cucumber seeds: ruclips.net/video/NTEQn4HlTtw/видео.html
Thanks Michele! I'm glad you like purple sweet potato pie too. Here's a picture of one I made recently: facebook.com/oneyardrevolution/photos/a.739567286082340.1073741859.543322169040187/1585228648182862/?type=3&theater
Awesome! A pic of mine is on Shutterstock. It's so much fun to eat purple food. :) www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/purple-sweet-potato-taro-pie-made-331723775?src=a5wwIzTcmQWK_2Gx7l4nAg-1-12
Hi Zaney May! It's good to hear from you! I've seen quite a few new gardens pop up over the years, but I don't think I've had anything to do with it. Our backyard garden is well hidden by fences and we've only recently grown a lot of veggies out front.
Another thing to keep in mind, is that "pumpkin" pie is actually not made from pumpkins. I doubt it is the same squash that you used, but "pumpkin" pie is actually made from several different types of squash grown commercially.
Hi Michele! You can continue to cut leaves through their lifespan. Even the heads that I cut off at ground level will grow new leaves because I left the roots in the ground.
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Highlights:
0:20 Recipes I'll be making today
0:39 Harvesting Lettuce (Pink Hungarian Winter Lettuce)
0:58 Why I'm harvesting whole lettuce heads
1:25 Tomato experiment
1:55 Harvesting kale (Siber Frill)
2:42 Slugs in the hoop house!
3:12 Removing 1 layer of cover from cool weather crops soon
3:34 Harvesting mache (aka corn salad)
3:47 Letting some crops go to seed
4:54 Final March harvest!
5:07 Cushaw squash harvested last fall
5:41 Cob Salad and cushaw pie
Oscar Cameos:
0:34 2:10
Cob Salad Recipe:
www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/classic-cobb-salad-recipe-2112313
Cushaw Pie Recipe: www.thespruce.com/cushaw-pie-recipe-3056939
3 Ways You Can Support OYR Without Spending an extra Penny!
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2) Let the ads run. This is a big ask, but the extra ad revenue will help offset the cost of cameras, mics, computers, software, etc.
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Wow, Patrick, your winter garden is quite amazing. Beautiful harvest! Looking forward to seeing it all transition from winter to spring to summer! Cheers!
Thanks Nick!
Yum that's a delicious looking salad it's amazing how well your garden is doing so early in the year. Thanks for the video.
Thanks Annie!
Your growing style has inspired me SO much! Love the BIG salad you made and the vegetarian meat options.
Thanks Denise!
Thank you, Patrick. ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL crops. I had a hoop house this year. Coverage was 4ml clear plastic and a spun row cover. The green onions were the only plants that survived. Kale and Swiss Chard froze. Oh well, I can plant some of my cold crops 'starts' in there this week. I so enjoy listening to you.
Thanks Lark! It's great to hear from you again. Does your hoop house get plenty of sun in winter?
Looks great!! I'm so impressed on how much you can grow up north in the cold weather!
Thanks Melissa!
Of course I enjoyed this video because of my friend Oscar. What a yummy salad you have there. Thank you once again. Give Oscar my hug!
Thanks Ramona!
Very nice job Patrick, that salad looked really tasty with that lettuce.
Thanks!
The garden is looking great, Patrick! I've enjoyed seeing your progress over the winter but I'm excited to see your garden explode with life this spring.
Thanks Joshua! I'm looking forward to it too. Best wishes with your garden.
My first time tasting kale was yesterday. I picked a leaf from the one I have growing in the sunroom. I was impressed by the taste. I like it.
I'm glad you like it Jotham! Sometimes people don't like it when they try it for the first time.
Patrick you have wonderful vegetables! The salad is super for dinner! Good night. 🐱
Thanks Lamprine!
Wow, looks great! Since I moved to an apartment, I'm starting all over with building a seed-starting rack then I'm going to have a plot in a community garden I'm helping plan. Until then, being able to watch great gardening videos like yours, is giving me my fix!
Thanks! Best wishes with your community garden plot!
Hello Sir awesome video. Lovely harvest. Happy gardening
Thanks!
Really enjoyed this update. Great job, everything looks delicious.
Thanks Peter!
I wish I had home grown avocado in my garden for salads!! Mmmmmmmmm!!
Looks awesome Patrick. I am please that I just had my first sea kale sprout. I have had several growing friends have luck overwintering it in Zone 4.
Thanks! That's good to hear. I should try the sprouts this year. I always wait too long and end up eating only the leaves.
Just beautiful. As always.
Thanks!
OMG That squash is massive! the meal looks delicious....
Thanks!
Your meal looks just wonderful!Just love all the different crops you grow, thumbs up!
Thanks!
Nice harvest. Plan to work on my berry bushes tomorrow.
Thanks Andrew! Enjoy your garden tomorrow!
That's the idea.
Have a Happy Easter
Thanks! You too.
Looking good Patrick! I've been watching you for ever, but I can't remember the width of your back yard. It looks 25 feet wide? Salad looked wonderful! Have a wonderful weekend😆
Thanks! Good eye! That's exactly right.
Love the update. Looking forward to the time I have just as nice a harvest. Each year I continue to try more and do more. I am curious to see how you do with the tomatoes. Last year I planted out Siberian tomatoes, which are determinate, on April 27th, without cover. I did have to keep a close eye on the weather and have covers handy, but they did well. I'm in 6B. Have a great today! Catherine
glad to hear that your siberian tomatoes did well, I have that variety in the seedling stage at the moment and plan to get the plants out in the middle of April.
They were very productive, and everyone who tried them liked them very much. I will always have them in my garden from now on. Good luck with yours.
Thanks Catherine! I'm glad your Siberian tomatoes did well. I'll keep you posted on how my early season determinate tomatoes do.
Your salad and pie are making my mouth water they look so good. You mentioned slugs in your video. How do you deal with them? Do you find some years are worse than others? Do you have a video on growing your cushaw squash from seed to harvest? I’d love to see it.
Thanks Linda! We've only used manual control for slugs in recent years. Slug predators like ground beetles and centipedes keep them under control for us. In the past I used Sluggo and beer traps. I don't have a how-to video on cushaw yet. I plant it a few weeks before the last frost in a cold frame and harvest it in early fall.
Oh yum! Great job!
Thanks Julie!
I like your shirt. Another great video. Thanks
Thanks Tameka!
I just started harvesting the kale I started from seed about 2 months ago. SO much more tender and tasty than store-bought! :)
PS - I always thought non-pumpkin squash pies were tastier than pumpkin pies.
You're right Emily! This is the best time of year for greens. I might like the cushaw pie better too. It's so good!
I think my mom would make either butternut or acorn squash pie - for sure the butternut, which I have also made.
2:36 In your hoop house, stealin' your kale.
Oscar? I thought you meant the slug. lol
I can only dream about getting these kinds of harvests from my garden anytime soon, but your harvest videos bring so much joy. Do you ever have to water your beds in the hoophouse ? They are not getting any rain or snow, so I wonder how that works out for you.
Hi Namrata! I hope you're harvesting from your garden soon. We don't water at all from mid-December through mid-February because the plants are dormant. Now we're watering about once per week.
I'm so excited to have discovered this channel! My wife and I are closing on a house in early May, and I can't wait to see what I can make all that new land do!! As we don't have any soil yet beyond what I keep in pots, I've been making attempts to make things grow inside, with limited success. Do you have any advice on how to make my beets happy?
Congratulations on your new home and future garden! How deep are the pots? Beets will do better in containers if they're at least 12" deep.
Thanks as always for the video inspiration. I think the addition of the recipes is a good finishing touch. Still no covers for me (next year? Perhaps) but I've got lettuce, arugula and spinach popping up in warm spots around the yard and the nectarine trees are trying hard to blossom (waaait!) My biggest 'we'll see' experiment this year is trying to get oyster mushrooms to grow in a little rock wall stuffed with coffee grounds and wood chips. Wish me luck! Oh and I've been adding charcoal into my compost piles over the winter (sifted out of the ashes of the wood stove) but I never did see your final thoughts on bio-char?
Thanks Douglas! Please let me know how your oyster mushroom experiment goes. In our case biochar didn't appear to make any difference. I think this is because the soil was already rich in organic matter and nutrients and held water well. Biochar is very effective at improving soil that is low in organic matter and doesn't hold nutrients and water well.
Wow! I love that pink Russian lettuce! Im wondering....i let my mache, broccoli raab, and cilantro go to seed last summer and i kept that bed fallow and watered it o occasion so when we didnt have rain. Some of the cilantro came up in the fall and i grew it al winter under a storm window tepee. The others did not and still have nit come up. Im disappointed...😕
Thanks Jill! Hmmmm.... I'm surprised the mache didn't grow. It grows like a weed here.
Great harvest.
Thanks Daniel!
Looks great Patrick. I started using leaf mulch this past fall. my worms must be lazy as there is plenty left. Should I be worried about the leaf mulch getting matted down ? I also plan on adding shredded tree limbs/leaves soon so should I remove the fall leaves before I do that ?
Thanks! It's still too early for the leaves to be gone. Ours are usually gone in June. I brush them aside to plant closely spaced crops like carrots and beets, but otherwise leave them in place. You also don't want to have very thick matted leaves above root crops. I just then them out a bit. You can add the other mulch with the leaves.I hope this helps!
Quick question. How did you make your greenhouse?
Hi Sheryl! This video shows how I made the hoop house: ruclips.net/video/4_yga1KPA5M/видео.html Also, search RUclips for "cattle panel" greenhouses. They're easier to build.
This vid came just in time. I'm looking out at a fresh 3 inches of snow. Aaaarrrggghhh!
I hope it melts soon, Mark!
Looks great Patrick! I always get so inspired watching your videos. I just recently (4 months ago) went vegetarian. What meat substitutes did you use, if you don’t mind? Cobb salad was always a favourite. Happy gardening!
Thanks David! I often switch up the meat substitutes, but this time I used:
Smart Bacon: lightlife.com/products/smart-bacon
Tofurkey Chicken: tofurky.com/what-we-make/slow-roasted-chickn/lightly-seasoned/
Wonderful home grown and home made meal. Looks delicious. Have you ever made eggplant bacon? Just finished reading Seed to Seed so I'm ready to get growing. Mother Nature however has different plans for me with some cold weather and a bit of snow. Maybe starting tomatoes, eggplant and tomatillos inside will occupy my green thumb for a bit. Enjoy your fresh veg.
Thanks Valerie! I haven't tried eggplant bacon yet, but I really want to make some with our eggplant harvest this year. I hope you get some spring weather soon.
Thanks for the great videos! I am also zone 5, upstate NY, but would like to know where you are located?
Hi Heidi! I learned to garden in upstate NY zone5, but am currently in the Chicago area.
Do yo feel the growing season is similar? Wondering if I could start growing in March also, or if it would be a little later for me.
Yes, the growing seasons are very similar. We plant based on our average last frost date using this planting calendar: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Atd6d9NeJBIoTCkEet4y_wiO6K2U7fttQDoKji3QEsA/edit?usp=sharing You can use the calendar too. Just follow the instructions on top and enter your last frost date. I hope this helps!
Thank you!
Yum, that pie! My sugar snap peas aren't much bigger than yours. Mine are planted with no cover on March 8th down here in zone 7. We have had a much colder winter and a good 2-3 weeks behind where we were last year.
Chari Price Im in zone 7 too. NWArkansas. The rain has been unreal this week. More next week. I have had several things planted in 6 beds starting since late Feb and covered with plastic. Its all growing but slowly bc of the cold rain.
I'm in Tulsa and we got all that rain too! My poor tomatoes I planted on 2\15 need to be planted so bad, they are huge!! Next year I won't start my seeds so early lol!
Very cool. I live i Siloam Springs. My daughter and her hubby were in Tulsa untill last fall when the bought a house in Pryor. In fact shes a nurse and the psyc hospital there. Ive been to Tulsa a million times in my life. Small world isnt it?
Hi Chari! Yeah, the pie is so good! I'm glad to hear your sugar snap peas are off to a good start. Ours start off slow but really take off in April.
We have been through Siloam Springs a few times! It is a small world!
I grow a lettuce known in Japan as "Red Fire", which looks a bit like your Pink Hungarian Winter Lettuce. Unlike green-leaved lettuce, it doesn't attract slugs. They just won't touch it, even though they definitely go for my other lettuces and kale growing interplanted with them. I wonder what it is that makes this lettuce immune to the attention of slugs. Does Pink Hungarian Winter Lettuce have the same advantage?
I'll have to look for that variety here! Unfortunately, slugs seem to enjoy Hungarian Pink.
Can you do a video on how to save seeds from your crops to plant for next year?
Hi Jennifer! I hope to make more. Here's one on saving tomato seeds: ruclips.net/video/GWsYyPLIqJc/видео.html This one is on cucumber seeds: ruclips.net/video/NTEQn4HlTtw/видео.html
Not sure what I like more the veggies or Oscar, Well OK I like 'em both the same.
I'm glad you like both!
Good video! nice job
Thanks Cory!
Everything looks delicious. That Cushaw was huge. Have you tried making purple sweet potato pie? It's delicious and very pretty. :)
Thanks Michele! I'm glad you like purple sweet potato pie too. Here's a picture of one I made recently: facebook.com/oneyardrevolution/photos/a.739567286082340.1073741859.543322169040187/1585228648182862/?type=3&theater
Awesome! A pic of mine is on Shutterstock. It's so much fun to eat purple food. :) www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/purple-sweet-potato-taro-pie-made-331723775?src=a5wwIzTcmQWK_2Gx7l4nAg-1-12
YUM
Thanks!
just wondering how many of your neighbors garden now that didn't, before you started a few years ago?
Hi Zaney May! It's good to hear from you! I've seen quite a few new gardens pop up over the years, but I don't think I've had anything to do with it. Our backyard garden is well hidden by fences and we've only recently grown a lot of veggies out front.
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Nice sweater😁
Thanks Thom!
Great video only one complaint, I didn't see Oscar in this one.
Thanks Raymond! You must have missed Oscar. He made 2 appearances. I include the time codes for his cameos in the description and first comment.
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i immediately knew you were a vegetarian when you got rid of that delicious slug...
lol
Bountiful Gardens is back selling seeds I believe. Their website is not a 100% done though.
Sir how much will saffron plant can tolerate high temperatures?
Hi Jeevan. Unfortunately, I don't have any experience growing saffron. They're grown in zones 6 through 9 in the US. Zone 9 gets pretty hot.
Thanks sir I will try to get more information.
Did you have to take an axe to that squash?
lol Fortunately, the skin on cushaws isn't too tough. It's pretty easy to cut with a knife.
I am a former vegetarian, but have to say if you make a vegetarian "cobb" salad then it is not a "cobb" salad in any way shape or form.
Another thing to keep in mind, is that "pumpkin" pie is actually not made from pumpkins. I doubt it is the same squash that you used, but "pumpkin" pie is actually made from several different types of squash grown commercially.
how many time can you cut and grow the lettuce until it reaches maturity?
Until you can't anymore. :)
Hi Michele! You can continue to cut leaves through their lifespan. Even the heads that I cut off at ground level will grow new leaves because I left the roots in the ground.
Thank You