Planning My 2024 Garden | A Season of Joy!
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- In this video, I share insights into my winter garden planning process, encouraging you to consider your goals and explore new gardening techniques. I introduce the garden planner I've recently published, emphasizing the importance of creating a joyful, abundant, and beautiful garden space. We delve into specific items on my gardening checklist, such as ordering carrot seeds and onion starts, and I discuss the significance of seed inventory and planning seed starting schedules. Discover the diverse array of crops I plan to grow, from flowers and vegetables to experimenting with wheat cultivation. Throughout the video, I seek advice on growing robust dill plants and invite you to share your own garden plans, fostering a community of learning and inspiration. Subscribe to join me on this gardening adventure and let's plan our 2024 gardens together!
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Just bought my house!!! Plenty of room for a chicken coop and a garden. Cellar has plenty of room to start a real pantry. I'm SO excited!!!
Yay! I’m excited FOR you!
That’s awesome
Dill does best when seeded directly in the garden. It doesn't like to be transplanted. It also is highly sensitive to salt in the soil right before and after germination. This can cause it to be stunted as it grows or even kill small seedlings. Since most animal manures are high in salt (even if it's been well composted...composting doesn't remove salt) and you use a lot of cleanout bedding from your goats and chickens, I suspect that this could be the cause of smaller plants. You might want to try to grow it in a pot or grow bag that you fill with soil that you don't add anything to that would increase the salt in that soil. Also, keep it well watered.
While some things certainly prefer to be direct sown, there are things that can be sown inside earlier, in order to be able to start harvesting from it earlier. I have great success with starting dill inside & then transplanting out, in my veggie garden, as well as in my cutflower farm for bouquets.
I plant the mammoth dill also. I work the area very early ( before anything else) and scatter the seeds thick and rake in. They always come up no matter how cold the weather is here in MI. I also water carefully after they sprout, & tie thin cord around the whole patch with posts to help support the long stems. I start clipping heads as they get to the sz I like and they will sprout new heads all summer. Some seeds will winter over and will sprout with the first warm weather. I freeze the heads until I am ready to use them.
Thanks for the tip on freezing because I wondered how to get the dill at the same time as cucumbers. We don’t eat or need a lot of pickles, but I didn’t do any for a while and think I’ll do some this year.
😂and volunteers are great. Had rutabagas, cilantro, moss roses, petunias and parsley.
Years ago an older lady told me while standing in front of a seed display. Plant Dill and sweet peas together. They are good companions. They Protect and nourish each other. I’ve done it every year since with success.
Thank you for sharing this! My mammoth dill did nothing either last year so definitely going to give this a try!
That’s great advice !
When I saw this video had been released it was exactly 5 minutes until the moment I was born 50 years ago. I sat back, pressed play and in those first few sentences you spoke about so much that is in my heart right now. Winter can be long, and your garden seems a million miles away. Seasons do change, but it’s how you prepare & deal with those changes that matter. And only with age, comes wisdom. Even though you didn’t know it Rachel, you shared a special moment with me. Now, when I look back at turning 50, I will remember this time, this dead of Winter ❄️ but planning for Spring. This friend I have in you, and have had for the last 3 years since I found you, all the while you have no idea how much you have helped & influenced my way of life & attitude to food & growing. Thank You so much, you & Todd both. I look forward to seeing both our gardens flourish next year. Much love 💕 Wales 🏴 UK
Happy Birthday and welcome to the best and most wise years of your life😊💖
Well Happy Birthday 🎉
Well Happy Birthday 🎉
Happy birthday!🎂
Birthday blessings
I loved seeing your eyes light up talking about your garden planning this year. I know you will love the red noodle beans but I don't think they will be great for canning so I definitely would plant some Bush beans along with them. I planted Asparagus last year because of the fear I couldn't grow it and I was absolutely amazed how easily it grew. Be sure and soak your asparagus seeds overnight.. I can't wait to see your garden grow. God is Good Northeast Arkansas here zone 7a.
I grew red noodle beans this past year and we love them! Be aware though that the wasps and yellow jackets love them too. They like to drink nectar (?) or something that the plant exudes at the tops of the beans. The good thing is they seem to get a little slow and drunk off it so they aren't aggressive but they will rudely stare at you while you try to pick the beans :)
Our rabbit loves them too and we get great organic fertilizer!😊
I grew them also and noticed that there are always little ants on the top of the beans. Must be that nectar they're after.
I haven't noticed wasps on mine (they're usually busy elsewhere in the garden) but my noodle beans are always covered in ants at the top of the beans. When I'm picking them from our arch trellis sometimes ants rain onto my head.
Hi Rachel. What an amazing video you did today. I am looking forward to next year's garedning. It is going to be fun. Thank you Rachel for sharing. God Bless you and hope you had a wonderful Christmas 🎄🎁. Have a Blessed New Year 🎊. Love you. Hugs. Mari'a.👍👍🤗🤗❤️❤️🌶️🍅🤗🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️💙💙💗💗💖💖💜💜💜
Thank you so much. Words of my heart as well. I put your planner in my cart I’m thinking of getting one for my son and daughter. I purchased greenstalks for two of my three kids for Christmas. They’re beginners ❤ They will probably be in competition 😂
Yes, Dixondale is great! I have been getting my onion starts from them for a few years now. Reasonably priced, good varieties and I’ve had good luck growing their starts.
Yes! I’m ready! Dreaming of the 2024 garden and am ready to put those dreams on paper. So exciting!! 😃
Thank you so much for this resource! I have never been good at planning and I told hubby I wanted this book to help me plan better. I got it for Christmas! 😊 As I flipped through it I realized what a blessing this planner is going to be and what a great deal it is! May God bless your planting season this year!
I am so happy to see you talking about the garden again! I think your season of rest came at the best possible year for you with all that happened last year. Happy growing!
YES!! I’m doing the same thing. Getting what I need ready. I am in Texas. Seed starting starts in the next week for so many things. My tomatoes will go in beds March 30th. They will be done for the most part by mid July. It gets very hot. I can continue the cherry tomatoes with shade cloth, otherwise the blooms just drop. I can’t wait for my dirt therapy to start.
I’ve never not grown butternut! This year I grew buttercup for the first time, it’s now my favorite. My dill gets like 4’ tall. No secret. I don’t fertilize my herbs, either. 🤷♀️
I got two Giant Crimson started this year but only one made it! I got an almost 2 lb tomato from it but only about 4 tomatoes on the vine. The yellow beefsteak from MIgardener was so meaty, it made my sauce fantastic!
You’re going to need at least an acre of hard white wheat berries for a years worth of flour. You bake as much as I do too. Or so it seems.
I’ve learned from 40 years of gardening. We have 42 acres. Our garden is one acre. Except for the hay and wheat.
Happy holidays to you and Todd!
I typically turn videos on in the background - today I was actually doing so to work on my own garden planning. Once it started though I could help but put my notebook away and watch. I lost my grandmother when I was young and have discovered my love of gardening as a young adult. She loved plants, many of my photographs of her are in her greenhouse. Your energy reminded me so much of her. I wish she was still around to plan with me, but your video was such a comfort. 🥲💜
You’re planning already, and I’m so glad to have a season of rest when I don’t have to think about it, so I am ready come April….
Well you've definitely got me inspired to start planning my garden 😊 thank you for sharing some of the varieties you like to grow. I enjoy your videos and you have also inspired me to can more soups! And I found a big roaster like yours at a second hand store for $20! I'm on the other side of Michigan near Lake Michigan. Lots of sand here.
Thanks for sharing! Our holiday company leaves tomorrow morning and this Maine gardener will be pulling out seeds in the afternoon! I also love growing many varieties of tomatoes. There are tried and true varieties that are included each year but also love adding new. Here's to another wonderful year of gardening!
Last year we expanded my garden and I grew my biggest garden yet. However, it was a rough year with the intense Texas heat and drought as well as missing most of the summer harvest season due to taking care of my sick, elderly mom. She has passed away now and I know this next season will be a bittersweet one for me. Happy to be able to fully devote my time and energy into the garden and preserving its harvest again, but sad that I won’t have my mom to talk to about what I’m planting, growing and harvesting. As a gardener herself, she was thrilled that I had finally learned to love gardening and the past few years she kind of lived vicariously through me. So this year I will miss her, but dedicate my efforts to her memory. I hope that I have another amazing season.
Sorry to hear about your mom passing. It’s been 7 years for dad and 6 for mom and I so miss those talks we had. We could talk about everything. I lost a sister this year and I just dedicate my whole garden to them all.
So sorry for your loss.
I go through my seeds early December and record every variety I have.
Then I can go though the list when I'm planning what to plant.
Yes I got my 1st order from MI Gardener. And still trying to get from homestead heart love her seeds. She’s always sold out. For $1.50 seeds packets.
Good morning ☕ I've grown the red long beans. They're more suitable for frying rather than boiling, tend to get rubbery in water. Hope this helps. Good luck with this year's garden 😀
This year, we are building a new place from scratch. It's pretty daunting trying to build a good garden from nothing but rocks and red clay, but hopefully, we will get some kind of harvest to tide us over until we can afford soil and lumber to build raised beds. Being in the city is really messing with my garden plan because I need to get a survey to find the power lines and utilities. I think we're already down several berry bushes and a few fruit trees due to cable placements. Bummer.
I’m so glad you talked about having a joyful garden! That hit my heart dead-on. Gardening the last two years has felt like nothing but hard work. Yes I’m proud of the work - but it hasn’t been very joyful for me / - that will be my priority goal this year! Yes I want a productive garden and I want to start making my raised beds a high intensity yield bed - they’ve been given lots of room and not utilized well… but Joyful first!
I just came across your channel and I am so grateful that I did. xoxoxo
My first vegetable garden was a total flop. Only the corn grew, and the deer ate it 😢 This year my daughter turned 2. She LOVES fresh veggies. We built raised beds and planted the veggies she enjoys. It was such a success and she enjoyed helping so much! I need to look into our fruit options. I think I will add flowers too. She will enjoy that 😊
A seller at a famer's market told me to seed dill very thick. I did that two years ago, and last year I had a ton of volunteer dill. Hope that helps. 😊
so excite to see you back in the garden again. happy planning.
The trick to great dill is to move up here next door to me. Grows great up here.❤
Now that's a great gardening strategy!
I can’t wait to start planning my garden! Every year I learn so much. I’m looking forward to building on what I learned last year. Btw, I made dill compound butter last year that was amazing on rye bread.
I got the garden planner for Christmas! I love it!
My favourite time of year is when all the seed catalogues start arriving in the mail LOL. I planted garlic this year for the first time, really hoping it works. I planted strawberries last year too and they did ok for a first year.
Are you ready to have a super fantastic garden this year 😀 👏 😍 I'm excited for this year....missed all of your happy videos....now have you gardened by lamps at 4 am???....lol things we do when we run out of daylight 😂😂😂😂 I plant a very long row of dill. I put garden lime down in the spring....I water so it always stays moist and near tomatoes. I fertilize tomatoes the most so I'm sure the ground has some runoff...yes hard white wheat berries great idea!! Good airflow is important....tall, short for a few feet then you can go tall plants again ❤
I've really enjoyed this video and listening to the planning of your garden. I agree, it is wonderful to sit down and take a breath after all the activity of the holidays have past and start planning. ❤
I love listening to your videos. You seem so calm and relaxed today. I showed my husband a video about allowing squash to grow upward on a teepee -like trellis. He did it this past year, and it worked VERY well! I loved it so much because it not only allowed me to walk and gather without getting soaked and stepping on the plants, but harvesting was so easy. The plants took SO much less garden space. He also did this with the zucchini varieties. I learned it from Next Level Gardening. My hubby has always let some dill go to seed, and it falls where it may. Saves seeds also, spreads some in Fall. It's 5-6 feet every year. Waters every morning and evening(on timers). Butternut is fantastic. Acorn is ok. A blue Hubbard was not great. Northern Idaho panhandle. Thank you.
Hi Rachel, I also had trouble growing dill and was pleasantly surprised when I tossed in the leftovers of a seed packet in fall. Looking forward to the growing season and your gardening videos. Thanks a million for all the insights and all the best for 2024!
For dill= cool weather, part shade, and ignore it 😅
I am so ready for this coming garden season!! I just hope it's not re prosperous...this years sun just roasted my garden.
Shade fabric I think will be on many garden lists.
Next couple years are going to be rough. Grow food to preserve, become self sufficient. Most aren't gardening simply for joy, they're growing to feed their families as the world descends into madness.
Absolutely agree ! Grow as much as you can !
I've enjoyed your video today! Quite relaxing and uplifting.
Lisa sent me, I'm looking forward to Canuary ,
I love, I am so excited for this journey with you. Thank you for creating the Garden planner! It was a gift for Christmas 🎄
I have been growing butternut squash for the last 4 years here in VA. They grow really well vertically & I cut away the excess green leaves to ensure all the flowers are exposed for easy access for pollinators to get to the flowers. You only need to grow 52, which is one a week for your family for a whole year & they store very well. I have 12 raised beds & i make a vertical 6ft teepee between the two raised beds to use vertical space between two beds. Waltham is a good one! Happy New year to you both! Thanks for all you share with us!
I am so so excited for your garden!!! I can't grow a garden so I live through your garden!!! I look so forward to the coming year!!! Happy New Year!!! God Bless Us All!!!
My garden goals are growing in mental and physical health peaceful surrounding for abundance to share with others. Set up my seed station so I can be on time. Grow only what I’m going to eat. Journal more as well. 🙏❤️🙏
So happy for you to be back in the garden!
Hi Rachel! I love your channel! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you a Happy New Year! God Bless!!
I’m so excited to follow your garden journey this year. I very much missed all the garden videos last year, but also did appreciate Todd’s valiant efforts to fill that gap in interesting ways during your absences.
I am returning to my garden full blast, after a very iffy last season due to hip surgery in May.
Wishing you joy in your garden this year, Rachel.
I have planted asparagus for the first time 2023. I understand that the fruits of my labor will be the third year of survival. I also read that I needed bone meal in my plant bed bu I don't know what kind of bonemeal is needed. I would appreciate your thoughts on this. ♥
I'm so glad I found you, just subscribe too. I look forward to watching your videos to come. I will go back and check them all out, in from Michigan, zone 6a. I'm also ready to grow our garden for this year, I raise meat rabbits for our meat, Alpine dairy goats for milk and what ever I can make with the milk. I also make all our beauty products from our goats milk. We have colored eggs layers. We were doing meat chicken too, but the rabbits are so much easier to raise. I need to order some more seeds. I also want to beautiful garden and flower beds. I have two big flower beds and one small one. But our farm is a working process. As we bought it in 2020. Which was fully wooded. Thank you for sharing. Till next time God Bless.
I’m so excited to get my garden planner and I can’t wait for January 3rd for it to arrive from what you’ve explained it seems like it’s going to be very easy to use 😊 thank you Rachel and I hope your garden is abundantly blessed in 2024😉💜
It will be great to garden with you again this season! And you are so right regarding tomato diversity for sauces, salsas and fresh eating. So many flavor profiles people miss out on because they may be afraid to try something new. Thanks for the update.
Please, this year, make a video explaning how you manage your tomatoes. They are always so healthy, green and full of leaves !
I grow dill in my hydroponic stand. It gets massive but takes awhile.
Great plan. I'm sharing this video on my Gardening group on telegram 😊
Nooo... I hope black crimson isn't the same as black krim!?! I LOVE that one, the flesh is so smooth and silky! 😍🍅🍴
Hello Rachel, Just order your planner, I'm in PA. Have followed you since your beginning and still can't grow my garden 😂
I would love to know the trick to growing root vegetables, I have no luck!
Also hoping you share (early enough) your asparagus and artichoke journey, purchasing, ground prep etc.
I love everything about this video.
Thank you for continuing to educate us, I can't imagine how much work you put into this.
Ps...do you have a source for the wheat berries?
1st Spring coming up as a retiree! I am so looking forward to having the extra time. I can't wait! Looking forward to Canuary also to restock my shelves.
I used your planner today actually. I'm still very remedial. But started thinking about it, and started taking notes.
A joyful garden sounds wonderful. I live in zone 9b southwest Florida, so I garden year-round, but wintertime is the best time to garden here. One of the things that bring joy to me in my garden is my herbs. So this winter, I am adding a small raised herb garden out my back door for easy access for cooking meals. Another thing that brings me joy in my garden is to have an esthetically pleasing, eye-catching garden. Happy gardening in 2024.
I'm planting a few 20ft rows of raspberries, blackberries and then some rows or blueberries. As well as expending my orchard. Hopefully all utilizing gray water. I live in a hot dry spot in California, all our water comes from a spring on the property, limiting my growing ability in summer, trying to use the water efficiently.
Hi Rachel, I just order some seeds...yeah! What's the name of the place where you order your onion seeds?
Rachel, consider growing your cucumbers to climb on a cattle panel. Its great and doesn't take up your ground space
Ooh, that Orange Amana tomato is my favorite, especially mixed with a Paul Robeson on a ‘mater sandwich 😋 My mammoth dill only gets big and bushy when it self seeds. I’m in the south so I’m not if I’m just not getting in the ground early enough before the insane heat??? Good luck with yours this year!
You said you ordered onion plants from Dixondale and then said you needed to order onion seeds-must be another variety you need😅. I think what I will do is just get them from Dixondale again as they were good, but after I use up the rest of the seed I have. Just trying to find ways to lighten the load. I had to give the onions a lot of haircuts before planting out and the gnats liked them.
I tried artichokes in WI this year. They didn’t get as large as I expected-plant or veg-and I let one flower just to see what it looked like. I probably won’t bother again. I had the worst problems with not just gnats, but aphids this year. Never had aphids ever! It was awful as I had racks of seedlings and the only thing those bugs didn’t bother was geraniums, petunias and rosemary. I couldn’t wait to get it all outside. I actually heated the greenhouse. I tried every concoction imaginable to rid the plants of those bugs-nothing works. I found a couple lady bugs and they did the best job on aphids. Once I had them outside I tried horticultural oil and that did work-thankfully!! I vowed never again so I will start later and heat the greenhouse. I think it’s just too warm and way too messy inside. Plus starting later I can miss some bug pressure and frost.
Sigh, I will still need to start the onions, peppers, petunias and geraniums inside earlier and any new flower that may need starting early. By heating the GH though I can get them out of the house much sooner. It’s just so warm again outside this winter and the winter sowing in January wasn’t the best because we had too warm of temps and rain. Today we finally had a bit of snow.
I know more seed catalogs that I never ordered will arrive soon, but I think I could open a store with my stock of saved and sale seeds. There is plenty of time yet before I start seeds. The celery, onions, tomatoes and even the petunias can take off pretty quick and the bigger the plant the more watering and I’m not one to fiddle with up-potting as things just get too costly, takes up more room and I don’t want flowering transplants. I keep the GH small to keep it efficient also. I know I have a certain amount of room and that’s it.
I probably sound like I don’t like to garden, but it’s just I don’t like houseplants much-too much care. 😂😂There was an order of houseplants shipped here by mistake and the co said keep them😂😂. Well, I felt bad for the poor things and was actually outside-in WI on Christmas Day-repotting them 😮 52*F that’s crazy! Halloween was 36*, T-Day 41*. We’ve had 15-20 degrees above normal all month, still severe drought and rain for Christmas. Warmest December on record.
I don’t know, but it looks like my planning will need to change because of the weather. Afraid it will be a scorching 90* in May again with Memorial Day freeze and I will have to cover everything because it broke dormancy so early the plants were too advanced and the frost killed them. The winery lost 95% of grapes. I almost threw in the towel as local weather never warned about frost. It was devastating. Who would have thought about it anyways because it was so hot?
My 2 major projects are to design a quick way to hang shade fabric and what I have in mind is a bit costly and rebuild the lean to GH with new polycarbonate and a heat sink. I’m backing off on certain vegetables as we had more than enough to share and concentrating on peppers. We always have great bell peppers going and then the fall frost hits so I’m thinking of a low tunnel this year.
My other goal is to save seed from heirlooms we like. We’ve decided on two of our favorite squash and I have one other I want to try (Lakota) as I think it has a solid vine and won’t be bothered by the blasted squash vine borers. Too many varieties of tomatoes anymore and I think too many are being bred to be sweet that they are losing the great flavor. I actually ate a late season Sun Gold and thought it was a grape 😵💫same texture and taste. I know it’s a hybrid, but have you ever heard of so many varieties of ‘heirlooms’? Makes me wonder if they really are. I grew 50 varieties last year and really didn’t care for many. Going back to old standbys and save the seed before I can’t get them. There are still places to get low cost seeds, but I’ve seen some high costs already-Yikes!
One last thing I learned is to remember what might taste great and grow well for one gardener will not always be the same for you. My mission is to get my mainstays and then experiment on just a couple of new varieties annually.
Happy planning!
Both the Giant Crimson and Giant Belgium grow well in NW Ohio!
Have you tried the Sunray Tomato from MIGardener? That is one of our favorites for fresh eating, dehydrating and powdering. We grow Sunrays, Sunsugars that my daughter is saving seeds and stabilizing; and last year my other daughter tried Sunrise bumblebee cherries and really enjoyed them as well. This year we are trying popcorn and hopefully dialing in our squash growing.
I have an extremely limited space to grow. I try to garden fully around house in any available place. I like doing things with containers. I haven't gardener in 12 years since my pulmonary embolism. So this year will be my 1st time in while. ❤
Great tips for organizing, Thank you. Timeline 5:20 looks like my dinning room. Along one wall a tall table hubby put plywood on, full spectrum light suspended w/chain. I wanted more basil from seeds I saved and got it. Fresh organic parsley plants from grocery store too. He ties it and tacks them near back door. Fresh or dry I'm set for cooking for awhile.
I like the idea of planning and digging through my seeds while the tree is still up, it's another festive celebration after all!
I'm in MI too I tried hibiscus last year from hoss. Great germination but they never flowered and were knee high. I'm going to try starting them indoors even sooner than last year. Idk if they will grow here!
I've never been able to grow a giant dill plant either! I've tried direct seeding it multiples times a year. Cilantro was a huge success in the fall.
I thought I had failed to grow yard long beans when I didn't see any beans in September but then one day *poof there they were! So wait them out! Black Krim is also on my nope list. Although a bunch of the other blk varieties like blk seaman are my favorites. Aunt Ruby's green german tomato is my favorite unique one.
My goal this year is to grow strawberries! I'm looking to commercial growers for insight. I want to grow an organized row, good fat berries,
Thank you for the reminder to make my garden a joyful space! 🌼🌻🌼
I was just doing to same. First time gardening on this property so that's exciting. I wish you all the success in 2024 🥰
My mammoth dill got huge. I usually grow it for the swallowtail caterpillars to feast on...but I let it go too long and the seeds blew everywhere and I ended up with a million plants growing everywhere 😂😂😂, which meant I had even more swallowtail caterpillars 😂😂😂. I did manage to harvest a half cup of seeds for next year.
We're starting to plan/dream too! It's exciting!
I don't live too far from you guys and red noodle beans are regularly in my garden. We LOVE them! On an arched trellis they remind me of a beaded curtain. Delicious as a fresh or canned bean and as a dry bean, they taste like black eyed peas! Amana Orange tomato is also delicious! Last year I grew loofah for the first time and although our season isn't technically long enough, we got appx 20 sponges and even more of the small ones that were edible (and delicious!)
I miss the gardening/planting videos ❤ wish their was more without the talking scenes voice overs would work
My garden is my quiet happy place. It's where I spend a lot of time with my Lord, being thankful for the produce I am able to grow. There's just something special that happens when I get to dig my hands in the soil after the winter has passed. Do you happen to ship your planner outside of the USA?
We cleared some of our property this winter so when Spring comes I will be building my future garden this year. I’m so excited and stressed about where to put things 😅 Rachel, may I ask what type of camera do you use for filming?
I have to tell you 2022 was a year I barely got around with cancer surgery and months of chemotherapy,but I managed to garden (only raised beds) if I hadn’t seen your video on freezing tomatoes I don’t know what I would have done! It meant when I was stronger I could have fresh tomato sauce and enjoy it. Last year my husband battled heart issues so again I froze tomatoes and now I’m making sauce thank you so much for sharing.
I have looked and looked for the video you spoke of the leaf that is the main ingredient in Mrs. Dash and I give up. I don't use salt except for bread. I keep trying different blends. My grand-daughter loves blending our many peppers we grew this year. She likes some heat. God blessed us with plenty of peppers this year. I'm planning lots of tomatoes this year too.
Now I am all
Excited to get my seeds out!!!
Next week!!!!!
You have such a beautiful garden with your vegetables and flowers. My father always grew a garden, but never planted flowers in the garden. So last year, I planted Zinnas in my bean raised beds. They looked so pretty and did help with the bugs. We live on four acres in a subdivision. But our ground is very rocky and clay dirt. We have three raised beds that I plant our green beans and last year I was able to can 40 quarts. We plant a pole bean that yields very well, the name is FORTEX. They are a very long bean with a very small bean in the middle. They taste wonderful. This year, I want to also plant Blue Lakes and just mix them, together they taste really good. My husband bought me a little greenhouse. I am still learning what and how to work it, as it does have a fan to control the heat, just do not have any way of growing in the winter to keep it warm unless we run a heater to it. It is a work in progress and I love it.
Butternut squash babies, about 4” long and tender skinned, cut up and fried are creamy delicious if you get a lot.
I like watching u on utub ,I learned a lot from your chanel and others chanel's.especley canning .I'm 72years old this month and now cann soup and meat ,ground meats stew meat and chicken .I even tryed brots and hot rods ,but they all turned out mussy, do u know a way to make them less mussy? I live in Bay county mi. So I'm glad to find a few channels done in mi.thank you so much
I hope you have success with artichokes. I planted, grew big, so we decided the first year we would let flower since the flowers are so pretty...this plant attracted so many pest, but mainly leaf footed bugs and apparently a type of aphid that yellow jackets love. I couldn't wait to dig that baby up and throw away. Maybe plant away to a section by itself.🙂🤞
I want some coneflowers like that .. they are beautiful
So I live in Houston,Tx and I’m telling some plants seems to be perennials(tomatoes,Bell peppers…and more 🌱🌱
Dill loves lots of sun...mine always grows really tall!!
Best results I've had growing large dill plants is plant them in oversized containers to accommodate their extra-deep tap roots.
Hi! So, we love the red noodle beans but, at least in our opinion, they don't work as a green bean replacer for canning purposes. The texture seems to become odd and off-putting when you can them. Eating them fresh as sauteed beans is the way we enjoy them best. I've found that there are a multitude of ways to season them in the pan or just with using butter or oil and it's still very tasty. For food preservation purposes, we snap them into the size we want and put them in a food saver bag in the freezer. Don't wash them before you freeze them. Wash them when you get them out of the freezer, and they still sauté up really well that way. That trick was in an older video from Whispering Willow Farms with regular green beans and it held true for us for the noodle beans.
I tried to grow artichokes for 3 years in a row and failed all 3 years. My first year mistake was not stratifying the seeds. They need a certain number of weeks of cold before they will grow. I did get some to sprout that first year without stratifying but they died soon after sprouting. So the 2nd year I tried, I put them in the fridge to stratify and more sprouted with that method. But I only had 2 plants that survived to transplant size. Unfortunately one died when I transplanted them to my garden. So then I had one lonely artichoke plant and it grew big but never produced any flowers before the end of summer. I mulched it well and also covered it with a clear plastic bin when we had snow. It survived the first winter but in the spring some insects started attacking it, eating all the leaves bare. I didn't catch them in time and the plant withered and died. I hoped it would come back from the roots, since it's supposed to be a perennial, but it never did. I tried again a 3rd year but none of my transplants survived. I'm not sure I will try again. Artichokes might be too finicky for me or I might have all the wrong growing conditions. I hope you have better results than me!
If you are thinking of starting asparagus from seed and being patient for a few years, I had 98% germination rate with MI Gardeners asparagus seed.
Last year we did a heavy tomato harvest and made a ton of sauces. This year I want to do a lot more fresh eating. Winged beans, Chinese eggplants, cabbages and bok Choy. I would love to try growing artichokes too but I need to get better at cooking them first.
I have no room in my house to grow so it goes right in the ground but am looking forward to growing 4 th year in a row so excited
Tip to germinate 🌺 hibiscus seeds-no need to scarify. Damp paper towel inside zip lock bag and place on seed tray using heat mat. I covered with lid also. Sprouted in two days.
I use to have difficulty with dill. I grew several varieties and now it reseeds. This year I wanted more leaves and there are several bouquet type and they seemed to like a bit of shade. Try throwing some seed in different places.
I also always save all my seeds from the fruits. There’s an abundance in every fruit.
About the wheat, you might have to plant hard wheat in the fall instead of spring. Maybe research that for your area. Laura from Garden Answer planted wheat this year(can’t remember the variety) and she made some bread form the wheat berries. There was a lot of threshing and winnowing along the way.
Great video! Besides spring itself the best part of winter is planning for the spring garden!
I planted butternut squash for the first time last yr on cattle panels. It turned out awesome.
Just got my order in from Dixondale in as well. I'm in WI and I just find getting them at the stage they are from them is much easier.
I am doing one bed in a no transplant winter sowing style. Planting cabbage and lerruce under milk jugs in the next few weeks.
My dill that self seeds always gets the biggest. For me, it is one of the things that gets going even before everything else (even peas!). It gets going before I even prepare my beds for planting. Last year I carefully prepared the bed around it. I think it just had enough time to get big before it got too hot for it.