Let These Veggies Go To Seed And Something AMAZING Happens!
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- In this video, I share 5 crops that I always let go to seed in my vegetable garden. When most crops bolt and go to seed, it makes them inedible, and there is little benefit to doing so unless you want to save seed. However, some crops provide tremendous benefits to your garden by bolting. Let these 5 veggies to go seed and something amazing happens!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 What Happens When Crops Bolt?
2:15 Veggie #1
4:00 Veggie #2
5:42 Veggie #3
7:03 Veggie #4
8:53 The Benefits Of Growing Dill
9:49 Veggie #5
12:45 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 What Happens When Crops Bolt?
2:15 Veggie #1
4:00 Veggie #2
5:42 Veggie #3
7:03 Veggie #4
8:53 The Benefits Of Growing Dill
9:49 Veggie #5
12:45 Adventures With Dale
Do you ever use diatomaceous earth for pest control?
Chives! Chives everywhere!
Also I had oregano re-seed in my side yard and now when I mow over there it smells like pasta sauce 😂
Yes someone planted oregano in the courtyard at my Mom's assisted living and it has spread all over the place! :0
Definitely in both counts here in northern Indiana! Oregano is much more invasive than Mint!
Volunteer plants are always tougher. They made it in spite of everything...
I think that's the reason why. When you get seed packets, you get all the seed. When you allow seed to fall on the ground, the sun bleaches it, the rain rots it and the cold freezes it. Only the strong survive. ALL of that dill survived all winter. 17 degrees, 19 degrees, it did nothing to it. When I grow dill from seed, usually 25F hurts it. Not those volunteers!
Saving seed from the volunteers is what you really want...
I'd love not to plant carrots. Will try carrots and Kale. Beet greens came up volunteer and 1 swiss chard. Stunted Turnip greens wintered over and Yummy salads. Zone 6b USA
How do you keep the seeds from falling everywhere in the garden?
Great info! Especially the kale
I have a kids pool set up for lettuce. I haven't had to replant lettuce seeds for 5 years. Just amend the soil and let it come up when it decides it's time. It's in semi shade and lasts for a long time in the summer.
Dill is also a host plant for the Black Swallowtail caterpillars. Mine were covered with them last summer. YAY! I planted even more of them this year. I take what I need from the plants and leave the rest for the caterpillars.
You can see them at 9:27.
I'm in zone 5A with very cold NE Wisconsin winters. Last year I had volunteer basil come up in the dirt from the previous season's basil. I was pleasantly surprised.
It's that time of year where the pepper and tomato seeds are starting to germinate in last year's bed (which is now all romaine). Every day, I remove a new clump 😂
I'm in 7a and one fall/winter I stored my basil container in my dark, unheated garage. I wasn't expecting anything to happen in spring since the winter was particularly harsh and I ended up with more basil then I could handle 😂
I'm in zone 5a also, I am very surprised to have lots of volunteer cilantro. I thought the birds got most of the seeds!
I love how you are so supportive of the pollinators 🐝🦋
I try to be. They do a lot of good work.
Large fruited Cherry Tomatoes always reseed. Right now I have seven starts. They have to be heirloom. I have not had to buy seeds in years.
I actually prefer eating radish seed pods to the roots. And I think the flowering stems of overwintered kale are the tastiest part!
I just discovered this last year. I love them. 🎉🎉
Same with brussel sprouts! I've had trouble getting to the actual Brussels sprouts, but the bolting stems are so delicious!
I had three arugula plants when I started my garden last year. I now have an arugula farm that lasted all through the winter in zone 6a. The bees love them AND they help as a cover crop to take the yard back from weeds.
Pok choy makes beautiful flower displays that bees love. Plus then tons of free seeds for next year.
I can never harvest a bok choy. They always bolt even in cool weather for me. All i get is flowers 😂
@@DebRoo11 Same here in zone 6b.
Haha, the 'bee' you're pointing out is actually a type of fly! Flys get so much disrespect, they are great pollinators too!
I try to use the word “pollinator,” because it casts a wider net. That was the only example at that moment in time since it was getting late in the day.
@@TheMillennialGardener haha no worries, just funny :) love all your vids!
I have some fly pollinators in my garden with silver green metalic sheen on them. They look like they are going to a disco! 🤣
Wow! Great quote: "Gardening is a partnership with nature!" This was a terrific video. It's a game changer. Your suggestions allow me to work with nature's timing rather than my own. For instance, I love cilantro, and cook with it, but I have not been successful with bolting and thought I failed. I will definitely plant some now and let them go to seed to pop up when the time is right. Radish pods are the edible treat I'm after, great in stir fries and for me, way better than radish. I didn't notice that pollinators love them, though, and I took all the pods. Now, I will keep an area for radish and let it reseed by not picking all the pods. Ill also follow your sage advice with carrot and dill. Thanks so much for this.
I have rutabaga and flax that have produced so many seeds for me. They originally came from some old bird seed that I tossed onto a bare patch of dirt last fall and they flourished. Same bird seed also gave me various grasses like canary, wheat, and oat, and I've been harvesting those seeds for future planting. There isn't enough wheat seeds to make my own bread. 😆
Living just one half hour south of you in shallotte North Carolina my wife and I watch your videos religiously. You have helped us start the gardening process in this area immensely. We are grateful that you do what you do and where you do it.
I let basil flower. The bees love it!
I always let me basil go to seed. Smells amazing
Kale grows endlessly here in SoCal (zone 10b). The kale and the artichokes seem to be the best bang for the buck. They just keep coming back with zero effort. Cilantro, mint, and chamomile are our walkway weeds.
I left 3 Champion radishes in my garden to go to seed and they got super huge right now! I had no idea they got so big. The roots stick out of the ground and look like softballs and the flower heads and seed pods are 6 feet tall and falling over. I have had to use 3 steaks and a lot of twine to secure them. The third one that bolted I cut off at 1.5 feet from the ground and the branches coming off that stalk are blooming ar around 4 feet tall, and have been twined together for stability.
I don't need that many seeds but the Finches are absolutely loving them, as well as the polinators.
The other plants that have gone to seed and nearly done now are the Michilini Cabbage and the Broccoli. When those bloom and went to seed, that was when the bees went super crazy, I must have counted 5 different types of pollinators, and was when I discovered we had finches because they absolutely delighted tearing open those seed pods when green and almost mature for the seeds within. Now they are doing a number on the radishes, and my pods look like pictured in your video.
I'm letting the finches and polinators just enjoy the heck out of these plants. I have so far been able to find and save enough seeds to last multiple seasons of cabbage and broccoli.
The broccoli leaves are so good in salads as well! I'd love to have them come back year after year. I don't know what variety they are as they came packaged as Broccoli Microgreens from Survival Garden Seeds, but the heads I got looked more like broccolini and tasted amazing - and I have never been a big fan of broccoli before.
I have curley leaf parsley beginning to bolt right now so I'll let that continue. I have dehydrated enough of it already to last me a year.
Some of my onions, red and bunching are mature and a few are flowering. I have enough of those seeds though for a couple years from last year, so I'll let the finches munch on those.
I grew a thick cover crop last spring of legumes as a live mulch for the tomato plants growing in that bed and a few of the chicory and flax managed to set seed before I got around to topping off the plants, so I have several of them blooming now and the hummingbirds are all over them.
Because of the legume cover crop chop and drop much last year, I haven't had to add any Jack's to that bed this year. Everything seems to be doing great without added stuff.
I live outside Phoenix so I am about done for the season in that bed and will chop drop, cover with cardboard for the summer and start again in fall. In another bed I have summer squash and san marzano tomatoes from saved seed and I just hope i can get one to give me fruit to save seed before it gets killer hot. I have your favorite shade screen just in case...
Mine are bolting too. I just recently planted Daikon radishes too to try the huge tubers in cooking. I ate one tiny one raw and it was spicy. It makes massive leaves and they reminded me of turnip greens raw.
Have you checked out You Tuber Angela at Growing in the Garden? She grows in your area - I think year round. She's perfected her system and posts a lot of free content.
I love letting chamomile and purple radishes go to seed. Purple radishes have purple flowers.
New gardener here in Houston & that was super helpful! Thx! DALE❤❤
Holy basil/tulsi reseeds well too.
You can eat the radish pods before the seeds become too firm. They taste like mild radish. We eat them raw in salads, roast them, and toss them in stir fry dishes. Yes, pollinators and other beneficials love the flowers.
Glad u mentioned kale. I was just admiring the big swath of yellow flowers that I left in. I need the seed, but the abundance of bumblebees/ other pollinators having such a wonderful time is above and beyond the gorgeous color of the blooms. The leaves are still delicious.
Things I let go to seeds and grow from volunteer:
runner beans
lettuce
swiss chard
cilantro & dill
mustard & radish
parsley
chives
holy basil & catnip
things I pull and (try) to not allow self seeding:
amaranth / pigweed
Woot! I want to let things go to seed because I simply want to be able to get those seeds to plant again.
Some volunteers, I don't like, specifically the ones that cross and become weedlike (like tomatoes and peppers, which is annoying). But, I love self-seeded herbs and some leafy greens. Self-seeded dill, cilantro, parsley, lettuces...I'll take 'em.
I live in zone 9, I plant broccoli in my fall garden every year and let every single one go to seed. In midwinter these beautiful yellow flowers pop up and the early bees get a feast! I harvest the seed pods once they turn brown and save them up for next fall
Same here. Another good one is red mustard greens.
Dang I just pulled my kale yesterday here in 9b-10 Florida Atlantic coast!!!
Arugula is the best for self seeding as it pops up in various spots!!! The honeybees and pollinators love it!!!!
I missed harvesting an icicle radish last season and was pleasantly surprised at the huge bolting plant that appeared this spring. The leaves were mild tasting and the flowers were almost sweet and oh so delicious! I much prefer the leaves and flowers to the root, and now, plan on allowing more of them to stay in the ground over the winter for the early spring harvest of greens.
Wassup y'all. Great video brother. I only wanted to add , if u are truly leaving plants to collect seed from say onion , beets carrots... It is best to leave a handful to flower in a given area. Maybe 4sq ft worth. You will guarantee a true to variety strong replication. The great Charles Dowding explains it beautifully an simply. Also, for those that have flowering kale. Those flowers are delicious. Harvest them while they are Short and bushy. Particularly with minimal yellow flowers. They're like baby broc. Kinda. A true gourmet treat for those who grow. Keep up the good work man.
I love to let parsley go to seed. It's a bienniel and when it's in flower it attracts so many butterflies, insects and native bees. I also think it is a beautiful flower!
One of the most thoughtful videos I have seen in a while. I always let a few of my favorite tomatoes to just rot in place. I put a handful of compost over it in the late fall and a cloche over it. I find these tomatoe plants to do the best in my garden.
I may try this because I go through such conniptions every winter starting the seeds indoors.
Lettuce, cilantro, carrots, radishes, dill, kale 🎉
Radish pods are good pickled or sautéed with salt and butter.
Last year I took a 10 year old bottle of dill seed from the cupboard and sprinkled them around in some containers. They grew great.
Wow. That's amazing.
I need to try that with dill. I want to do caraway, and cumin, from the spice rack also. And poppy seed.
I planted a ton of radishes, but never picked any roots last year. I let them all seed and just ate off the radish seeds and carrot greens for a whole summer.
I have Tall Utah Celery volunteers everywhere, even in the cracks of the cement. 🤪 Nasturtiums are everywhere as well. Love it.😍 10b Orange County, CA.
Growing Seminole Pumpkin from a one a coworker found in his backyard last year. He doesn't gagarden, so it was a volunteer. I also always have marigold volunteers that I either leave in place or transplant where I need them.
Cilantro is incredibly hardy. They've been a perennial in my new hampshire garden for over a decade. They're basically a weed now. They've survived temperatures in the negative mid teens.
Have you ever eaten those radish pods? They are delicious! Like a cross between a snap pea and a radish. I just harvested a salad box full of them, from maybe 5 or 6 radishes. Way more food than we would have gotten by just pulling the root, and they make a fantastic add to salads.
Dang, I can't get dill to reseed itself like that here in zone 9. Instead, I have cilantro sprouting out of my ears haha
Jealous, l love cilantro. I have a lot of dill reseeding as well in zone 8b.
Love your comment. ❤❤❤❤
Really? My dill is going to seed like mad. I'm trying to prevent it, because I love fresh dill. I know it's eventually going to seed on me, so I try to pinch off the tops to prolong my harvests as long as possible.
I feel your pain down here near coastal Mississippi. Dill does not like me lol.
Same here...dill won't reseed or even grow very well for me here in zone 9
I’m a sucker for volunteer dill because of the scent and the beauty! I love to see them in the walkways like that! How beautiful!
Newbie to gardening here
May I please ask what are "volunteer plants"?
@@proudboxermom3104 yes! Volunteer plants come from seeds that were dropped accidentally the previous and survived in a random area of the garden.
One time I found arugula 100 ft from my garden.
In zone 7B/8A frisée goes to flower in early March, then Bok Choy comes next later in March. I left some Frisée that still have their bright yellow flowers to bring in pollinators, so they’ll already be used to coming to the garden by the time my cucumber and squash plants flower.
I live in a zone 4. Cilantro is weedy and invasive here. I like to collect the seeds when they are still green. I like the flavor better.
Dill is weedy and invasive too.
Kale likes my climate. I have never had any go to seed, but they would freeze solid at night in winter, then thaw out the next day.
Im in 8b in southern NM. My dill comes up every year & spreads. No problems there!
I think the black swallowtails are Spicebush Swallowtail Butterflies. The Tiger Swallowtails are gorgeous as well.
Radish seed pods are edible. great in salads and stir fries and can be pickled.
Radishes are really easy to grow, and saute great
Those fresh green coriander seeds are great when added to Indian food. I have even kept them in the freezer.
Coriander is great. I love using it in rice and for BBQ rubs. You can make excellent smoked turkey breast by mixing salt, black pepper, brown sugar, coriander and paprika as a rub, then throw it in the smoker. It's actually possible to make turkey taste good!
@@TheMillennialGardener brine your turkey breast for consistently good turkey
I have 6ft+ kale trees atm. Even some I cut down to the soil are bolting xD
It tastes great, like broccoli and kale mixed. But there is a nasty bitter+chemical aftertaste that lingers. Unfortunate.
I'll have to give my kale leaves a taste test. Kale was not my favorite veggie but as a plant I found it really impressive. It changes event through the day to adapt to hot/cold as well as light/dark. Hugging the ground or closing tight. Going crisp or soft.
I find cilantro doesn't really germinate under like 55f. Mine last fall lasted all through winter and then promptly died right before spring hit. Definitely one I'm gonna need to breed good seed stock to enjoy.
I'm having to come to terms with the combination of cold temps and low light in my garden means nothing really wants to grow until may :(
The radishes I planted in march are only now starting to form bulbs and are barely past seedling stage.
This march-may process allowed slugs/etc to lay waste to my garden this year. I wasn't able to catch em in the act this year like last.
Radish pods make for a nice snack. I ate bowls of them last year with just 2 radish bushes. Still ended up with over 1000 seeds. It was a lot of work lol.
My only complaint with seed growing is they take up a lot of room and early bolted plants will take several months to mature. July/August. Last year I had like 3x3ft bed so those radishes took the entire space pretty much. I intend to expand each year though hehe
I seed-save so I let a couple of most of my plants go to seed.
HI Dale!!! ❤
Dale says hello 🐶
Yep my kale, comes back in spring and I'm in Canada
radish seed pods are fantastic. trim the pointy tip and saute or toss in a salad raw.
Those radish seed pods are also edible... very tasty in stir fry.
I planted dill in my pollinator garden because I read it's enjoyed by certain butterflies. I also have oregano and fennel that have been coming back for a couple of years. I'm in the Piedmont of NC.
Arugula. I love this video. I have always lived in Connecticut and live in.a rental and don't have a garden. I would have gone crazy growing and trying out your wonderful tips. Best wishes.
Pickled cilantro seeds are great for tossing a pinch into a coleslaw etc.
Swiss chard does the same thing as kale! I had one for three years, but i did pull it out to clean the root from the white mealy bugs.
Very hardy and forgiving veggie.
My chard was great this winter! It took all the cold. I think I finally found a variety that likes my winters.
You are one smart dude. I am Soooooo glad I found you!! I have found myself about most of these.. but I didn’t know about kale!! I will take your advice. Also just watched your tomatoe trellis vid…. You just saved me hundreds of dollars. Hubby and I are going to construct yours!! Thanks!!❤️❤️
You are spot on! I have my cilantro, parsley, dill, carrots, kale, tomatillos, many different herbs growing wild now. I find volunteers and mark them with a stick to not step on them. I am doing a food forrest island type permaculture style here as I gave room and raised beds are out of my budget. Some grow bags though!😊
Great video and encouragement! In my WI zone 5 garden, I let some radish, kale, broccoli, leek, onion, lamb's quarters, amaranth, romaine, and mints go to seed. Deliberately, these are for the pollinators and for humans. :-) Marigolds, borage, dill, and calendula self-re-seed. I save a small amount of everything (including legumes of course, and squash family if I've isolated them) for my own seed stock, but I plant a TON of the brassicas & greens as microgreens indoors all winter!
Great information! I don't feel so bad about my cilantro now. I may put a radish and cilantro in pots and let them do their thang!
cilantro/corriander is my number1 favourite herb..Everything I eat if corriander is added makes it taste better!😋
Great video! I never have to plant cilantro or dill after letting them go to seed one time a couple years ago. I find the plants very attractive/delicious and, like you said, beneficial insects love them in the spring! Other plants not mentioned that I allow to go to seed are broccoli, celery, and sunflowers. My garden has literally been buzzing all spring with all of the bees that are attracted to these early bloomers.
We’ve had a cold spring in zone 6 in Utah, snowed the last few days, and I planted cilantro seeds a few weeks ago and they’ve all sprouted and started growing well even though they’ve had snow on them 😂
The black swallowtail butterflies love the parsley as well actually eating it totally to the ground overnight at times dill is amazing in flower arrangements and was thrilled dill tolerated winter here in the Savannah area as well as coriander I learn more every year and thank you for sharing your knowledge love the inter planting of herbs with edibles throughout the vegetable garden
The coriander seed can be saved as a spice too
If you havet tried raddishes roasted you really should! They are soooo good that way.
This is what my daughter says. Do you do anything special to them? Just roast?
i had planted "tiller radish" to help break up my clay soil (its not something i want to eat even though i love radish) and of course it has the same flowers and seeds- or very similar!
radish of any kind will self seed brilliantly.
We’re zone 4b and we have cilantro scattered throughout the garden and they self seed every year.
I enjoy your channel!
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
Very informative each tip is helpful to me, thanks! I like the one about taking the leaves off kale when under attack {I had heavy whitefly & cabbage moths}, & then leaving in the kale stems for later. This year I will sprinkle dill seed in fall & leave until spring in hopes of establishing a perpetual dill patch. Gorgeous black swallowtail butterfly & their caterpillars are cute & beautiful.
I have basil and cilantro that popped up this spring. Been making a habbit of saving seed lately. Getting too expensive and when you get a packet you dont get many seeds.
LOL 0:40 is exactly what my cilantro looks like right now - just a whole flowering bush at this point. Bringing in those beneficial insects early! I'm in zone 6a/b and I'm still surprised at how well they've taken some of the nasty cold temps we've had the last few years, but they've weathered it like champs! :D Second year it's taken care of itself. My dill is finally popping up as well. And I didn't expect the marigolds to (for some reason) but I'm definitely going to have to pare them down because they kinda went bananas. 🤣
Cilantro is interesting. It's seemingly invincible in the cold, but the slightest warm front makes it cry for its mommy 😄😂 Honestly, that's fine, because it's great to be able to grow something all winter. There is enough growing on in the spring and summer that I can deal with the losses. It's great watching it thrive all winter.
For lettuce that has gotten a bit too bitter try "Wilted lettuce" (the recipe I use is in the Betty Crocker Cookbook. It's delicious and extends the useful harvest time!
I don’t like Kale but it grows so easy for me so I do the same thing. Basically cook it like collard greens to get the bitterness out.
I like the idea of moving the swallowtail caterpillar to another bolted plant, because they will eat the entire plant. I just grow more so we all can have some. I also grow more beets because goldfinch eat the leaves and I let them because they are so cute. 😊
Zone 6 and dill reseeds plentifully and swallowtails are with me summer through fall. Didn’t know about kale though…mine bolted and still good!
My sage is blooming (okay bolting) and it’s beautiful.
Sage is a perennial, so you can simply let it do its thing. It can be pruned back, re-fertilized and it'll grow back.
Looks beautiful ❤
Very 😎 cool I had no idea about the wonder of kale.Thank you for sharing
Wow! I dis not know that carrot can be a host plant of a pollinator species. Thanks!
Thank you. I now no longer feel guilty about not harvesting my cilantro before it bolted this spring!
I have had the same experience with dill. I have way better success with dill seeds I have saved from my own dill plants than seeds I have purchased. I usually grow my dill in containers, but I think I'm going to plant some in my pollinator garden after watching this video. :)
I eat the youngest radish seed pods... they're delicious. This year I'm trying a variety that is grown specifically for the edible seed pods (purple dragon tail). In our climate... the roots are.nice but they bolt so fast I get to enjoy radish all summer long by harvesting the tender seed pods.
I've grown the purple dragon tail! It took the heat of the summer pretty well, but the pods got *spicy*! I think I'll try them again this year and utilize them more in stir-fries instead of fresh.
@@troxycat That's awesome! I'm going to attempt a creamy bacon "dragonradish" as opposed to a horseradish dip this year. They're just now beginning to flower and I'm amazed by how pretty the lavender flowers are.
Awesome info
The buds/blossoms on kale are also delicious!! You can harvest them and use them like baby broccoli before the flowers open. I could grow kale just for this yummy goodness.
Kale and broccoli are actually the same plant. Not cousins, not in the same family, but the exact same plant. So are cabbage, brussels sprouts and cauliflower. They are a product of humans saving seeds over generations that have been saved to express certain traits. Kale and broccoli, believe it or not, are the exact same species. Pretty neat.
My kind of gardening!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I learned so much! Well, I do with all your videos, but this one is perfectly timed!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Ohio 6a. I let cilantro and dill go to seed. Cilantro is so hardy that I have some growing right now that germinated last fall. It’s starting to bolt. Dill doesn’t survive our winters but it is started to pop up all over my garden. I move the baby dill plants to a more appropriate spot and they do great.
Another plant I let self sow each year is chamomile. I make tea with the flowers but grow way more than I need. Each spring they germinate when the weather is right. If I need that bed, then I move the seedling elsewhere with no troubles. Usually I have way more volunteers than I want and don’t feel bad about weeding them out. They’re starting to form flowers now.
I am in Auburn Ohio. I do the same. Hello neighbor!
Thanks dude!
I’ve watched and enjoyed a number of your vids, and this one I enjoyed the most due to the familiarity of my own experiences in my garden. We are a kindred spirit of gardeners on your reasons to allow your selected plants
to go to seed. Awesome to see the many benefits of doing so. Great job!
Great tips!
Radish seeds pods are edible and can be eaten in lieu of radish roots in warm weather. Rat tail radish is grown for its larger pods.
I am in zone 6 and my kale survived the winter. I just left it go and it kept producing! In March is staryed taking off again and i got a huge harvest, thrn it went to seed and i pulled it. I didnt realize it wukd have kept going still! Oh well next year!
I love the bugs that are attracted to carrot flowers!
I let kale go to seed last year, and now I have happy yellow flowers drawing in pollinators this spring.
Great video..thanks!!
Another great video full of info! Thank You.
Good tips brotha. Ty. I did not know that about kale. I was just about to rip it out. It has grown really tall lots of flowers, but I’ll just trim it back now. 🙏🏼👍🏼
Bunch onions are amazing for bees
Se coast of nc,this is from s.west ala.i start my tomatoes seeds last week of December and first week of January .if you want them ripe by June first.
Thsnk you. I didn’t know that about Kale.
Kale is awesome!