As a terminal cancer survivor...i grow for health. I grow cancer fighting herbs and vegetables...it has kept me alive and cancer free for 9 years now. Food is medicine! Thank you for helping me to learn!
I am a necessity gardener!🎊 It’s so exciting to walk into the kitchen and see them grow from seeds and know I’m feeding my loved ones healthy & fortified food. God is so amazing!!! I’m growing most of the veggies/pulse indoors (romaine and red oak leaf lettuce, spinach, tomato, sugar daddy snap peas, cilantro, basil). I’m growing carrots, beets, mustard and dinosaur kale greens outdoors.
I grow plants for fun, and for others enjoyment. Its really fascinating to raise something and have the satisfaction of knowing that I grew this full-blown plant! Im also a pretty picky eater so I'll give away the plants I don't like to eat and it makes me happy to give. Haha its silly but it's what I like to do!
@@mwolfod Wow 😳 that went south so fast, you call democrats scum yet AOC is in Texas and she provided 3.2 million dollars to provide food to the Texans who got hit hard meanwhile ted Cruz was on vacation abandoning his own state, Please tell me what is it that makes you hate democrats so much 🤷♂️ .. democrats are the most compassionate most understanding people on the face of this planet yet you republicans hate them with a fuckn passion 🤷♂️ why?
@@jarredkushnerd13 Where was Ted when his state needed him 🤷♂️ why did another congress representative from another state have to help take care of people who hate her guts, and yes I used AOC to prove a point because you maga cultist stoped making sense a long fuckn time ago when you people stoped listening to experts and scientists and started only listening to conspiracy theories and BS that only fits the right wing agenda By the way I’m a Republican, a real fuckn traditional constitutional Republicans who thinks for himself and doesn’t hate democrats just because Fox News and Alex Jones tells me too, your easily influenced by propaganda you week minded individuals with a tribal mindset, your maga cult destroyed my GOP and made into the laughing stock that it now is, the entire world sees the GOP in the same light as the kkk and flat earthers because of you idiots
😂😂😂😂 what did you want him to do rehang power lines? The government isn't here to save you. People that cant take care of themselves need Darwin to intervene
So true...the first 6-8 minutes are nearly always a bit of rambling on to justify what and why he is doing what he is doing or saying before actually telling us. It would be far better if he did it the other way around. Just tell us what to do. If we need to know or understand why, we'll watch the rest of the video. Personally, I don't usually need to understand why once I trust the source. I trust his knowledge so I prefer to just get the action steps and listen further if I want to know why.
i've watched 3 of his videos and i'm feeling agitated! it almost seems he's intentionally avoiding the topic as long as he can, i'm sure that is just because i'm aggravated by the rambling. he has great information when he finally gets to it.
Thank you for this tutorial. That chart it great for anyone trying to optimize their grow space indoors. I would add that peas are also low energy and high productivity (Similar to beans). Likewise, dwarf pepper plants are easier to grow than tomatoes and require slightly less light and fertilizer! Peace from Ireland
I'm a very beginner gardener and found this video very helpful, especially since I'm attempting to grow food indoors. I think the quadrant chart was perfect and definitely helped me focus on what I want to do. Thanks for this and all of your videos
I have been growing my lettuce in rectangle pots for years. I have three pots I keep on rotation. Every week I plant 1/2 a pot. I harvest baby greens. After two or three cut and come again sessions, I pull out the plants and start a new planting rotation. The pots and seeds have paid for themselves enough to save money to buy better lights. I just have never gotten good greens from the outdoor garden. I might try beans after watching this video. I grow my herbs and dry every year, so unless i run low, I do not need to grow indoors. Thank you. I like your videos. They inspire me to keep learning.
I grew my herbs in pots this year. We have love the taste of fresh herbs so much, I’m growing them all winter. Living in CO, I take the pots outdoors in the sun when above freezing. I bring them in the house at night. I am growing basil, cilantro,rosemary and thyme in pots. I have Parsley, chives, onions in the garden. LyNette R., Golden, CO (zone 5B)
I know it's 3 years later, but this was very helpful. Times are different now from even a few years back. I consider myself a hobby gardner because I like gardening (I understand being and working with the plants being relaxing), but I working towards growing for family and expanding outwards. Thanks for your videos! Been watching for years before I was able to garden.
right now I have over a 1000 different plants all start with seeds I have gotten over the last year. my hopes is to have over 10000 buy the end of the year with the dream that I have had for the last 15 years so that I can sell them over the summer so that I can afford what I need next year to double it so that I can afford to buy what we need to live 100% on our own one day. this is a lot of hard work and I wouldn't give this up for anything. I really appreciate all ur videos that u post I have been watching ur videos for years now and I wouldn't be doing this huge dream of mine this year if wasn't for u and your videos thanks soooo much for doing them Katy
What a great time I have just watching these videos. I have gardened for years but I always learn something new. I'm going vertical this year with cucumbers. Something new. I am always amazed at God's creation whenever I walk through a garden filled with beautiful vegetables and flowers. I really love MIGardener!
We love your videos. We don't do the other social medias so this is all we see. We have been gardening for years and love it.We organically grow broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, red and yellow and Egyptian onions, red, yellow and white potatoes, sometimes celery or spinach, sugar pea pods and regular peas, garlic, rutabagas, Swiss chard a plenty,( chickens love it) radishes, nasturtiums, all kinds of herbs, zucchini, yellow, scalloped, and winter squash, all kinds of tomatoes and peppers, and corn. Hope to get a small patch of wheat planted in the next couple of days. What produce doesn't go to the family, the chickens share the extras and garden waste with the compost. It's a win, win. Extras we can't eat traded for eggs. We also have 31 fruit trees. It keeps us busy, but boy do we eat good!We just ordered some seeds from you for the first time and are anxious to receive them. Thanks for the enthusiasm.
Thanks again, Luke! Useful info. Gardening for necessity=farmer. Hobby=gardener. I think a farmer goes to "work", even if he enjoys it. And a gardener, even if the yield is used to store up and feed his family, still just does it for pleasure. Just my perspective. Neither is greater or less than the other. I am STOKED about planting the Seminole pumpkin seeds I got yesterday from my local Seed Lending Library. Apparently they are off the high end of your chart for productivity and off the low end on energy, thriving in poor soil and grass/weeds, with up to 80 ft. of vines, doing well in sun or shade. Since I have some acreage, the plan is to plant a few about, in different areas, and see what conditions do best. I'm a gardener, though I have been called a farmer, since we keep animals.
I maintain a spot at a community garden, and for years have had good success on my balcony. I'll be moving to a place without a balcony so I'm trying to learn how to grow indoors. Initial plan is greens, herbs, and beans... Hoping to add melons, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. Small space, hopefully high yield.
Hi Luke- - I was just checking over my cucumber plants and discovered that the yellow spots on my leaves are due to aphids and mites. I will be picking up some Neem oil to treat them and hope it works. I appreciate your explanation plants that require more energy and those that don't. I can identify with everything you said. Thank you for your very informative video.
What is going on here??? I love this visual breakdown and explanation of how you decide what to grow and why. Also, as a new gardener, this helps me check my newbie experience against your seasoned gardener experience. Right now it feels like everything I do feels like high energy low productivity. it’s interesting for me to see which crops to focus on learning how to grow with the intention of keeping the productivity high with less effort required on my part. This was really valuable content for me as a newbie. Thank you!
All these negative people on here saying you talk too much....pfft! I happen to like how you explain things so thoroughly. As a novice gardener, I find your videos very helpful. I probably watch 3-4 of them a day. Keep up the awesome work!
I want to eat what you eat to give me that kind of energy! You certainly cover a lot of ground in very little time! Thanks for your dedication to this skill. Your knowledge is exceptional!
hi Luke. One of the main reasons we moved in North Carolina is because of how many sunny days we have here. we have more sunny days here than Florida! it's winter now but spring is coming!
I've grown beans in a badly placed window, I did this mostly because I forgot them, it worked, they were root bound and stunted but each plant had 4-6 bean pods
I am amazed that you have made categories in planting. I always tried to have plants grow but dies. Its because of these factors you showed us. Very helpful. Maybe I will be better if I will do necessity gardening. Then focus first with that quadrant of less energy but more productivity.
My son planted some dried pinto beans from the store in a pot from a poinsettia that died and they have been growing for a month. It's so cute everyday he checks his 3 bean plants and eats the small green beans off of them. They have been growing surprisingly great with nice fast growing beans. Winter is long in New England and having a small food garden inside sounds like a great idea to me throughout winter.
@@farmerchick3040 Hello, I have a couple questions? Was your son able to grow green beans (not pinto beans) using a dried pinto bean? In other words, he didn't grow pinto beans? He used a pinto bean as a seed?
@@irmasanchez5274 they were pinto beans but we ate them as inmature green beans some varieties cam be harvested at different times for different beans.
Hi Luke, I'd say I'm a bit of both types of gardener. I like to grows things just for their uniqueness and oddity and also functionality. I have so many naturally growing medicinal plants on my property and I always respect their right to coexist in my garden. I'm just waiting for some grow lights to arrive so I can start this years season, I"m severely restricted for space so I have devised small designs for growing inside, mostly just seedlings , but I did grow lettuce all winter last year. My favorite and most effective is a foil lined 5 gallon pail with a single grow light, I find these work incredibly well. Cheers! PS know what you mean about the lack of sun ;-)
The chart is such a good place to start. I'm going from being an exclusively outdoor gardener (with a throw it in the dirt and see what happens mentality) to a more intensive, purposeful mindset for indoor growing due to the increasingly unstable weather conditions outdoors. Thank you for this tip!
I am starting to think of this as a viable option because I am having problems with bugs, birds, possums etc. in the backyard, diminished light from fences, trees and the house and stuff used to grow well and now it flounders, even in containers with fresh potting soil. I like your comments that although it’s more money, it would be fun to come home to and check on every day. Thanks for the grid on low versus high energy vegetables.
It would be fantastic if you could list out a few more foods in the grid. I struggle with what to grow that would save me money at the grocery store, esp. since my family doesn't like beans.
I like you chart. If you could do a whole list of plants and I bet you could sell it to. I plan to grow Cilantro, Kale, Lettuce and Tomatoes. That's all I room for now.
Lorraine Jones I plan for now to grow herbs (don't know the names at the moment and to lazy to look at the names) and BLUEBERRIES! And obviously lavender if I want to make lavender oil
When you say that beans, are you talking about green beans or black beans, pinto beans ect? Also do you have a break down of all materials used in your garden space? Thanks for all that you share!
I grow lettuce also, but I use hydroponics. I have done hydro for over 50 years. I am in it for the entertainment value. I enjoy growing my favorite color.
I am a disabled veteran and I have found over the last few years that gardening is a necessity for me. Gardening calms my mind. And for anyone that knows anything about the VA System, knows that they just love to hand out and pump veterans full of drugs. Well I am tired of taking drug after drug, so my lovely wife and I are going to hit the gardening hard and heavy in the hopes of growing organically and change our health for the better on our terms. So guess that I am a little of both, we are growing out of necessity but we love growing as a hobby as well. We live in El Paso, TX. and if you have any information on growing in the desert that would be very helpful, as we are collecting all the info as we can. Thank you for the great fun and very informative videos. God Bless you and your family for all the work you do for your veiwers.
The fun is the important part. I grew pepper plants indoors under and energy-wasting HID light. It was definitely not economically viable, but sooo much fun.! :) I recently started with LED growlights, so that may make it more viable.
I'm only heading into my second year of gardening, but I really enjoy peppers. I like the fruit, but their physical structure and variant growth patterns are intreaguing and my curiosity is ultimately my driving force in the garden. They're like teeny little fruit trees, and its fun to prune and shape them, while getting fast(er) results. Feels very actionable, gives me a great sense of agency. Plus I just feel compelled to care for them as my responsibility.
Hi Dude, great video. Last summer I ate fresh caught pickeral and garden grown beans every day. Not only did it taste great, but I saved a ton of money and lost a ton of weight. This summer I'm growing tomatoes and plan on making a year's supply of tomatoe sauce. I agree about the herbs and beans being best bang for your buck. I love the tomatoes, but lettuce, herbs and beans I agree are best for ease, cost and diet.
Hey! I know this is an old video but I’ve been a long time watcher and listener and I have a question for you. Trying to find RUclips videos on cape gooseberries (also known as ground cherry or golden berry) is NOT easy to find and it’s not a popular fruit/veggie. But I’ve done some research on it and I’m so excited to try growing it this year in 2022. Have you ever tried growing it before or know much about it? Thank you for taking the time to read my comment if you made it this far!
Out side raised beds last year had carrots beans ,cut and come again cabbage all did well now its to hot here in lightning ridge high 40c so just adding soil to beds getting new pots March till late Octber is our growing time will try some new stuff but will grow the good old guys from last year.
I have a nice Magnum LED light($700 11 spectrum), which will supplement my indoors. I'm excited for this season. Ithaca/Starhawk Lettuce Kennebec/Purple Viking Potatoes
mannnn I learned quite a bit more than what I thought I already knew, an organic necessity grow is exactly what I was looking for although I didn't know that was a thing, at times I think well RUclips never fails me... but it is the YT community that does the hard work, didn't catch your name man but thanks a lot for sharing al that info
I like to grow anything random, all the herbs, peppers, lemons, peas, chives and odd things like pomegranates and apples. I grow primarily inside as I live in an apartment. So the winter time is more about keeping my progress alive from the previous summer. Most of my peppers made it through but Im struggling with aphids
Hi Luke. I just ordered seeds from you! Not sure where I fall on the scale you presented. I grow the foods we eat and grow some herbs. I would like to know where peas fall on that scale you presented. I grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, green beans, peas, celery, melons, some squash, and some herbs. I am going to try some new things this year. Thanks for your channel. It's a good one. I like to see Northern climate planting. We live in central Minnesota.
my favorite thing to grow is tomatoes and herbs. I grow peppers and cukes. I try to grow something new every year and I haven't decided what it is this year.
Love the video and the passion. I'm a hobby gardener for fun but hoping to expand when I get more land some day. Herbs are fun have great shelf life plus as a for fun gardener I can do a little and because of what they cost at the grocery store probably break even. I like the visual but i think it'd be clearer if you stayed in one quadrant and plotted the values on the graph. It's a bit confusing as with the other method you are using negative values for energy or yield which does not quite make sense. Great stuff though!
I actually think raddish and carrot and even beets are worth it from a nutrient diversity, density and satiation standpoint. It's not always about optimal efficiency. You have to factor in your nutrition needs and meals you can actually make into it. You can increase efficiency in other ways. For example you can use vining peas and beans as the walls so as to not lose any light and in the center grow your roots and leafy greens. That said you have one of the most honest and thorough explanations on this reality on RUclips. Too many ppl are disengenuous about this topic and seemed to be more about clicks and being told they're awesome than they are with reality. You're channel is a very pragmatic and honest and informative channel and that is somewhat rare in the realm of social media education. Kudos 🍻
I appreciate the fast response. I ordered your organic trifecta fertilizer. We're looking forward to trying it. I regret not buying a shirt. Thanks again.
Earth cherries!! I made a little garden in the basement with led lights and the earth cherries are absolutely THRIVING in their pots! More so than when they were in my backyard! :)
My husband is fighting cancer so we have a garden in which we use no sprays, chemicals, etc. I want it to be as wholesome as possible. Winter 2017 I have planted leeks, cabbage, broccoli, and Brussel sprouts and various greens so he can have fresh food to eat that we know are as safe as possible. I appreciate your comments about energy etc. great idea to use in planning.
Sally Smith Great idea. Ps also grow wheatgrass, they are way too easy to grow in these days( i myself is growing a bunch of it) and it juice is extremely good for body and is said to help in cancer and blood purifying
Hey Luke, what is your ambient air temperature at the surface of the soil level on your grow table? We are having success in our basement with warm climate veg, but finding it difficult with leafy greens without them bolting. The reason we are asking is because the intensity of your lights are about the same as ours (as it appears on video), but it’s hard to know what kind of heat your lights are producing. We see your lights are placed higher up, which would indicate they are throwing a lot of heat. A baseline average temperature could really help us and other indoor growers out. Thanks for the great videos and have a great day!
Hi, I am now totally addicted to you all!!! I am a physically handicapped and in charge of growing for a family of 8. I have a huge garden outside, and we will be eating well this summer, but I would love to hear you thoughts about feeding them the same in the winter too. I will be doing my first set of canning/freezing in close to 10 years. So I know some will be put away, but that being said... I am trying to find out what kind of lighting and temperature needed to raise a good garden inside. I have acquired a good many of the 55 gallon drums that are food grade. I welcome your thoughts!
I'm definitely more of a hobby gardener at the moment. I don't have a lot of outdoor space, so I've been messing around with succulents and starting seeds for things like sunflowers and easy plants indoors. I hope one day I can get good enough to grow some food in a small studio apartment, though~
Did you do a video of building your grow box ? I’d love to see how you worked out the drainage system or do you have rocks in the bottom of it , and how do you water inside of a wooden box ?
My main concern when choosing a plant is the nutritional value it supplies me. Lettuces mixed with chard, beet tops and kale can make a bitter salad more palatable, but I'd never make it my number one choice. Beans, on the other hand, are highly nutitional = WIN ☺
I fall into the necessity group. Put it this way, I have bought my LAST box of Meijer salad greens. I'm tired of their brown slime. So my veggie staples are salad greens, and spinach for purposes of this conversation. Can you recommend a species of flat leaf spinach that would work good for a.) growing indoors, and b.) harvesting as baby spinach? I need to produce at a minimum, one small box of salad greens and one large box of spinach per week. So any idea how much square footage I need for a bed for that?
Thx for advice its December I’m itching to garden give it a try since I got so many seeds I save myself wish I cld get every1 on board in my house they laugh at me until I got productivity I guess I drive them nuts talking about gardening all year round but they don’t understand my hobby/passion and I produce results
I'm heading over to pick up some .99 cent organic seeds from your website now. You have a great selection. It's my pleasure to show some support after watching so many of your great gardening videos. Thanks much Luke!
Hi Mi .... Thanks for the video. Inspiring. About the beans .... there's a wonderful variey that I got from Victory Seeds ... Alicante. Small (mine were quite short 8"), very productive, tasty and most of all, for me, the endured cold better than anthing else. You don't want to heat your basement extra for the beans. It's cold where I live; I grew them in black pots outdoors. In fall, they kept making beans and that particular earth was a HUGE failure for the tomatoes.I'd like to start indoor winter growing. I was actually wondering about beans when I found your video. Couple of quuestions:You decided to abandon hydroponics for indoor-winter growing ??? (P.S. Trying to avoid it myself. Don't like have to use nutrient in a bottle plus expensive here.)Also, what soil depth can I get away with for the beans .... can't remember their roots?And carrots didn't perform well?. I have the same priorities. I hadn't thought of carrots till you mentioned them.Thanks for everything.
I grow for necessity and I grow a lot of traditional Indigenous plants for food and medicine as well as ingredients for Soul Food and traditional African American herbalism. Most of my plants would be found in the low energy, high output part of the graph, but for a treat, I have a few in the part of the graph that's high energy, high output.
I subscribed to you after i saw how you were able to grow a coffee plant in the crazy weather you have in your state. You have great advice, thank you.
Oh btw i am currently growing a successful strawberry plant thanks to advice you've given in your strawberry plant video. Space is a huge issue for us, but somehow the strawberry plant is doing great in just a 10 inch pot lol initially i thought to transplant but it has 3 tubers! Thank you MIgardener!
Well i mostly grow to donate majority of the food to food pantries. i keep some stuff that can be stored easily liek sweet potatoes and freeze peppers and tomatoes. Some canning. but a large bulk of my harvests go to donations.
Thanks for the video, it was awesome. I am a new gardener that started last year and had a really good start, but I raise rabbits so I have the most awesome manure, so I couldn't help but have an incredible harvest. I have been thinking about extending my gardening in the winter to feed my family. Being from Woodstock, Ontario, Canada the gardening outside is going to be shorter into the winter but this video has made me excited about what I can try indoors for fresh salad stuff. I look forward to seeing the rest of this series. Eddie
Just found your site through facebook sponsored post- so glad you are there! We grow for our own use, also have a farm stand at our place for extra produce- have a small orchard and berries as well. Loved the chart- good info to remember when you are short on garden helpers. Have a short 90 day season, so grow herbs indoors. Grow cukes, tomatoes, potatoes, greens, beans, beets, radishes, carrots, squash- going to try turnips for storage this year. Want to get more storage veggies into the cool pantry...
I have been learning soo much and just wanted to say thank you and that I can't wait to start applying :D bought some items to work on rebuilding the raised bed that was in our yard when we moved in last fall. (btw based on a comment, I found some of the wood at Lowe's in the "damaged" for 90% off! Going back until I find enough for the rest) Going to build a trellis across the back and get the vines climbing and my smaller plants in front. Can't wait!
@ MIgardener, Representing it in a chart is very good, easly understandable, but possible to give an update video on this? may be add more plants in the chart.
OK so I watch the video and I am a beginner grower I have been growing cannabis now for a few months as it’s legal where I am but I’ve started to get into vegetables and a couple that you didn’t mention is peppers I’m going to start cucumbers jalapeños bell peppers and lettuce how do you recommend to germinate the seeds and other than a fluorescent BulbWhat kind a light would you recommend and what our rotation would you also recommend I understand this post is a couple years old but hoping you’ll still get this
Hi, nice video...I am same as you concerning to negative vibrations surrounding me and making me motivated or down...One thing that make me feel alive is growing some green and even when the weather or people around are bad I still wanna do that. I am trying something indoors and your video caught my attention for that...thank you!
As a terminal cancer survivor...i grow for health. I grow cancer fighting herbs and vegetables...it has kept me alive and cancer free for 9 years now. Food is medicine! Thank you for helping me to learn!
Way to kick cancer to the curb, so happy for you! Very inspiring, keep the thumbs green :)
That's great...and what may those herbs and vegs be?....your respone will be much appreciated. Cheers
I'm interested in hearing what your garden contains as well.
I am a necessity gardener!🎊 It’s so exciting to walk into the kitchen and see them grow from seeds and know I’m feeding my loved ones healthy & fortified food. God is so amazing!!! I’m growing most of the veggies/pulse indoors (romaine and red oak leaf lettuce, spinach, tomato, sugar daddy snap peas, cilantro, basil). I’m growing carrots, beets, mustard and dinosaur kale greens outdoors.
I'd love to see a longer list of what vegetables go where on that graph!!!
I grow plants for fun, and for others enjoyment. Its really fascinating to raise something and have the satisfaction of knowing that I grew this full-blown plant! Im also a pretty picky eater so I'll give away the plants I don't like to eat and it makes me happy to give. Haha its silly but it's what I like to do!
Growing your own food indoors sounds like a good idea right about now
Especially during this pandemic
PLANdemic.
Nothing less than an ugly crime against the American people committed by scum Democrats
@@mwolfod
Wow 😳 that went south so fast, you call democrats scum yet AOC is in Texas and she provided 3.2 million dollars to provide food to the Texans who got hit hard meanwhile ted Cruz was on vacation abandoning his own state,
Please tell me what is it that makes you hate democrats so much 🤷♂️ .. democrats are the most compassionate most understanding people on the face of this planet yet you republicans hate them with a fuckn passion 🤷♂️ why?
Did you really try and use AOC to prove a point?
@@jarredkushnerd13
Where was Ted when his state needed him 🤷♂️ why did another congress representative from another state have to help take care of people who hate her guts, and yes I used AOC to prove a point because you maga cultist stoped making sense a long fuckn time ago when you people stoped listening to experts and scientists and started only listening to conspiracy theories and BS that only fits the right wing agenda
By the way I’m a Republican, a real fuckn traditional constitutional Republicans who thinks for himself and doesn’t hate democrats just because Fox News and Alex Jones tells me too, your easily influenced by propaganda you week minded individuals with a tribal mindset, your maga cult destroyed my GOP and made into the laughing stock that it now is, the entire world sees the GOP in the same light as the kkk and flat earthers because of you idiots
😂😂😂😂 what did you want him to do rehang power lines? The government isn't here to save you. People that cant take care of themselves need Darwin to intervene
I think getting to the topic a bit quicker would make these videos a little easier to view. Thanks for all the info in your videos :)
So true...the first 6-8 minutes are nearly always a bit of rambling on to justify what and why he is doing what he is doing or saying before actually telling us. It would be far better if he did it the other way around. Just tell us what to do. If we need to know or understand why, we'll watch the rest of the video. Personally, I don't usually need to understand why once I trust the source. I trust his knowledge so I prefer to just get the action steps and listen further if I want to know why.
I agree. I love his videos. (very helpful) But I wish they were shorter, more concise and straight to the point.
I agree i quit watching because he was taking too long to get to the 3 plants mentioned in the title.
i've watched 3 of his videos and i'm feeling agitated! it almost seems he's intentionally avoiding the topic as long as he can, i'm sure that is just because i'm aggravated by the rambling. he has great information when he finally gets to it.
Me From Maine he's happy and excited.
Thank you for this tutorial. That chart it great for anyone trying to optimize their grow space indoors. I would add that peas are also low energy and high productivity (Similar to beans).
Likewise, dwarf pepper plants are easier to grow than tomatoes and require slightly less light and fertilizer! Peace from Ireland
I'm a very beginner gardener and found this video very helpful, especially since I'm attempting to grow food indoors. I think the quadrant chart was perfect and definitely helped me focus on what I want to do. Thanks for this and all of your videos
I'm a necessity gardener. I'm growing Romaine, garlic, broccoli, and red pepper. Thus video was helpful... And i like and subscribed! 😉
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The part you’re looking for is at 7:04
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I'm allergic to the sun and have ms so the heat hurts me badly. I also adore gardening. Bad mix LOL I often garden at night with lanterns.
I do this in summer but have learned not to use a headlight the June bugs and moths fly right into my face.
I am an attic/indoor gardener, mixing entertainment and necessity while doing so. I've built ceiling window frames and adapted my attic to grow 💚
I have been growing my lettuce in rectangle pots for years. I have three pots I keep on rotation. Every week I plant 1/2 a pot. I harvest baby greens. After two or three cut and come again sessions, I pull out the plants and start a new planting rotation. The pots and seeds have paid for themselves enough to save money to buy better lights. I just have never gotten good greens from the outdoor garden.
I might try beans after watching this video.
I grow my herbs and dry every year, so unless i run low, I do not need to grow indoors.
Thank you. I like your videos. They inspire me to keep learning.
I grew my herbs in pots this year. We have love the taste of fresh herbs so much, I’m growing them all winter. Living in CO, I take the pots outdoors in the sun when above freezing. I bring them in the house at night. I am growing basil, cilantro,rosemary and thyme in pots. I have Parsley, chives, onions in the garden. LyNette R., Golden, CO (zone 5B)
I know it's 3 years later, but this was very helpful. Times are different now from even a few years back. I consider myself a hobby gardner because I like gardening (I understand being and working with the plants being relaxing), but I working towards growing for family and expanding outwards. Thanks for your videos! Been watching for years before I was able to garden.
right now I have over a 1000 different plants all start with seeds I have gotten over the last year. my hopes is to have over 10000 buy the end of the year with the dream that I have had for the last 15 years so that I can sell them over the summer so that I can afford what I need next year to double it so that I can afford to buy what we need to live 100% on our own one day. this is a lot of hard work and I wouldn't give this up for anything. I really appreciate all ur videos that u post I have been watching ur videos for years now and I wouldn't be doing this huge dream of mine this year if wasn't for u and your videos thanks soooo much for doing them
Katy
What a great time I have just watching these videos. I have gardened for years but I always learn something new. I'm going vertical this year with cucumbers. Something new. I am always amazed at God's creation whenever I walk through a garden filled with beautiful vegetables and flowers. I really love MIGardener!
Knowing how to grow food and medicine is always worth knowing. I'm growing strawberry and pepper plants from seeds exclusively indoors using CFLs.
What kind of CFLs do you use/recommend? Could you please provide a link to Amazon? Thank you in advance for your help!
6500K daylight and 2700K soft white equal mix now available at Lowe's.
@@jeffreyalanjustice I AM NEW AT THIS. WHAT IS CLFS
@@catherineharrison3701 Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs
We love your videos. We don't do the other social medias so this is all we see. We have been gardening for years and love it.We organically grow broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, red and yellow and Egyptian onions, red, yellow and white potatoes, sometimes celery or spinach, sugar pea pods and regular peas, garlic, rutabagas, Swiss chard a plenty,( chickens love it) radishes, nasturtiums, all kinds of herbs, zucchini, yellow, scalloped, and winter squash, all kinds of tomatoes and peppers, and corn. Hope to get a small patch of wheat planted in the next couple of days. What produce doesn't go to the family, the chickens share the extras and garden waste with the compost. It's a win, win. Extras we can't eat traded for eggs. We also have 31 fruit trees. It keeps us busy, but boy do we eat good!We just ordered some seeds from you for the first time and are anxious to receive them. Thanks for the enthusiasm.
Thanks again, Luke! Useful info. Gardening for necessity=farmer. Hobby=gardener. I think a farmer goes to "work", even if he enjoys it. And a gardener, even if the yield is used to store up and feed his family, still just does it for pleasure. Just my perspective. Neither is greater or less than the other. I am STOKED about planting the Seminole pumpkin seeds I got yesterday from my local Seed Lending Library. Apparently they are off the high end of your chart for productivity and off the low end on energy, thriving in poor soil and grass/weeds, with up to 80 ft. of vines, doing well in sun or shade. Since I have some acreage, the plan is to plant a few about, in different areas, and see what conditions do best. I'm a gardener, though I have been called a farmer, since we keep animals.
I grow for therapeutic reasons and now rely on the productivity.
I maintain a spot at a community garden, and for years have had good success on my balcony. I'll be moving to a place without a balcony so I'm trying to learn how to grow indoors. Initial plan is greens, herbs, and beans... Hoping to add melons, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. Small space, hopefully high yield.
Hi Luke- - I was just checking over my cucumber plants and discovered that the yellow spots on my leaves are due to aphids and mites. I will be picking up some Neem oil to treat them and hope it works. I appreciate your explanation plants that require more energy and those that don't. I can identify with everything you said. Thank you for your very informative video.
I pick off aphids, mites and other small critters with a sticky lint roller. Then i spray neem oil on the remaing ones.
i'm a hobby gardener but i planto plant for necessity as well as i think being able to grow some of the foods that i eat would be really awesome.
He sounds like a rad teacher. He should be one if he's not. Very passionate and intuitive.
What is going on here??? I love this visual breakdown and explanation of how you decide what to grow and why.
Also, as a new gardener, this helps me check my newbie experience against your seasoned gardener experience.
Right now it feels like everything I do feels like high energy low productivity.
it’s interesting for me to see which crops to focus on learning how to grow with the intention of keeping the productivity high with less effort required on my part.
This was really valuable content for me as a newbie. Thank you!
All these negative people on here saying you talk too much....pfft! I happen to like how you explain things so thoroughly. As a novice gardener, I find your videos very helpful. I probably watch 3-4 of them a day. Keep up the awesome work!
I want to eat what you eat to give me that kind of energy! You certainly cover a lot of ground in very little time! Thanks for your dedication to this skill. Your knowledge is exceptional!
hi Luke. One of the main reasons we moved in North Carolina is because of how many sunny days we have here. we have more sunny days here than Florida! it's winter now but spring is coming!
I understand now what to grow for high productivity/low energy. Makes sense. Valuable information. Thank you.
I've grown beans in a badly placed window, I did this mostly because I forgot them, it worked, they were root bound and stunted but each plant had 4-6 bean pods
I am amazed that you have made categories in planting. I always tried to have plants grow but dies. Its because of these factors you showed us. Very helpful. Maybe I will be better if I will do necessity gardening. Then focus first with that quadrant of less energy but more productivity.
Beans lol I have literally have 10 potted in my living room that gets 4hrs of sun tops. beans beans the magical fruit...lol
My son planted some dried pinto beans from the store in a pot from a poinsettia that died and they have been growing for a month. It's so cute everyday he checks his 3 bean plants and eats the small green beans off of them. They have been growing surprisingly great with nice fast growing beans. Winter is long in New England and having a small food garden inside sounds like a great idea to me throughout winter.
@@farmerchick3040 Hello, I have a couple questions? Was your son able to grow green beans (not pinto beans) using a dried pinto bean? In other words, he didn't grow pinto beans?
He used a pinto bean as a seed?
@@irmasanchez5274 they were pinto beans but we ate them as inmature green beans some varieties cam be harvested at different times for different beans.
@@farmerchick3040 Thank you! I'm going to look into this.
Hi Luke, I'd say I'm a bit of both types of gardener. I like to grows things just for their uniqueness and oddity and also functionality. I have so many naturally growing medicinal plants on my property and I always respect their right to coexist in my garden. I'm just waiting for some grow lights to arrive so I can start this years season, I"m severely restricted for space so I have devised small designs for growing inside, mostly just seedlings , but I did grow lettuce all winter last year. My favorite and most effective is a foil lined 5 gallon pail with a single grow light, I find these work incredibly well. Cheers!
PS know what you mean about the lack of sun ;-)
The chart is such a good place to start. I'm going from being an exclusively outdoor gardener (with a throw it in the dirt and see what happens mentality) to a more intensive, purposeful mindset for indoor growing due to the increasingly unstable weather conditions outdoors. Thank you for this tip!
I am starting to think of this as a viable option because I am having problems with bugs, birds, possums etc. in the backyard, diminished light from fences, trees and the house and stuff used to grow well and now it flounders, even in containers with fresh potting soil. I like your comments that although it’s more money, it would be fun to come home to and check on every day.
Thanks for the grid on low versus high energy vegetables.
It would be fantastic if you could list out a few more foods in the grid. I struggle with what to grow that would save me money at the grocery store, esp. since my family doesn't like beans.
Lorraine Jones I second this
Well that is why I said ask me in the comments and I would be glad to help you! :)
I like you chart. If you could do a whole list of plants and I bet you could sell it to. I plan to grow Cilantro, Kale, Lettuce and Tomatoes. That's all I room for now.
yes, would be good if you elaborated on them, please! :-)
Lorraine Jones I plan for now to grow herbs (don't know the names at the moment and to lazy to look at the names) and BLUEBERRIES! And obviously lavender if I want to make lavender oil
When you say that beans, are you talking about green beans or black beans, pinto beans ect? Also do you have a break down of all materials used in your garden space? Thanks for all that you share!
I knew you did indoor gardening videos. Thank you. I needed a refresher. I forgot beans were one that produced well indoors.
His energy is back!! I'm a hobby gardener. Just trying to learn and make something of my apartment patio.
I grow lettuce also, but I use hydroponics. I have done hydro for over 50 years. I am in it for the entertainment value. I enjoy growing my favorite color.
I am a disabled veteran and I have found over the last few years that gardening is a necessity for me. Gardening calms my mind. And for anyone that knows anything about the VA System, knows that they just love to hand out and pump veterans full of drugs. Well I am tired of taking drug after drug, so my lovely wife and I are going to hit the gardening hard and heavy in the hopes of growing organically and change our health for the better on our terms. So guess that I am a little of both, we are growing out of necessity but we love growing as a hobby as well. We live in El Paso, TX. and if you have any information on growing in the desert that would be very helpful, as we are collecting all the info as we can. Thank you for the great fun and very informative videos. God Bless you and your family for all the work you do for your veiwers.
The fun is the important part. I grew pepper plants indoors under and energy-wasting HID light. It was definitely not economically viable, but sooo much fun.! :) I recently started with LED growlights, so that may make it more viable.
just starting a homestead this year so its our first year planting, still winter for another month. so thanks your video was helpful
I find gardening very therapeutic. I grow to feed my family. The joy of it is a welcome bonus!
I'm only heading into my second year of gardening, but I really enjoy peppers. I like the fruit, but their physical structure and variant growth patterns are intreaguing and my curiosity is ultimately my driving force in the garden. They're like teeny little fruit trees, and its fun to prune and shape them, while getting fast(er) results. Feels very actionable, gives me a great sense of agency. Plus I just feel compelled to care for them as my responsibility.
I am confused as to what to start with seeds indoor and out in February. I lived in Brooklyn
Hi Dude, great video. Last summer I ate fresh caught pickeral and garden grown beans every day. Not only did it taste great, but I saved a ton of money and lost a ton of weight. This summer I'm growing tomatoes and plan on making a year's supply of tomatoe sauce. I agree about the herbs and beans being best bang for your buck. I love the tomatoes, but lettuce, herbs and beans I agree are best for ease, cost and diet.
Can you do a video or link one of how you built your table for growing inside?
he stated in the video it used be his hydroponics bed he fills it with potting mix now instead of water
A hard plastic kiddie pool on top of any table works, too. :)
Never garden before but I am very interested in indoor gardening, for a couple reasons, want to really get it started. It’s mostly cold where I live
Hey! I know this is an old video but I’ve been a long time watcher and listener and I have a question for you. Trying to find RUclips videos on cape gooseberries (also known as ground cherry or golden berry) is NOT easy to find and it’s not a popular fruit/veggie. But I’ve done some research on it and I’m so excited to try growing it this year in 2022. Have you ever tried growing it before or know much about it?
Thank you for taking the time to read my comment if you made it this far!
Out side raised beds last year had carrots beans ,cut and come again cabbage all did well now its to hot here in lightning ridge high 40c so just adding soil to beds getting new pots March till late Octber is our growing time will try some new stuff but will grow the good old guys from last year.
I have a nice Magnum LED light($700 11 spectrum), which will supplement my indoors. I'm excited for this season.
Ithaca/Starhawk Lettuce
Kennebec/Purple Viking Potatoes
mannnn I learned quite a bit more than what I thought I already knew, an organic necessity grow is exactly what I was looking for although I didn't know that was a thing, at times I think well RUclips never fails me... but it is the YT community that does the hard work, didn't catch your name man but thanks a lot for sharing al that info
I like to grow anything random, all the herbs, peppers, lemons, peas, chives and odd things like pomegranates and apples. I grow primarily inside as I live in an apartment. So the winter time is more about keeping my progress alive from the previous summer. Most of my peppers made it through but Im struggling with aphids
I've been enjoying growing pineapple tomatillos indoors this winter. Yum.
Your channel is like RUclips University for all things growing green. Love it.
Hi Luke. I just ordered seeds from you! Not sure where I fall on the scale you presented. I grow the foods we eat and grow some herbs. I would like to know where peas fall on that scale you presented. I grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, green beans, peas, celery, melons, some squash, and some herbs. I am going to try some new things this year. Thanks for your channel. It's a good one. I like to see Northern climate planting. We live in central Minnesota.
my favorite thing to grow is tomatoes and herbs. I grow peppers and cukes. I try to grow something new every year and I haven't decided what it is this year.
Love the video and the passion. I'm a hobby gardener for fun but hoping to expand when I get more land some day. Herbs are fun have great shelf life plus as a for fun gardener I can do a little and because of what they cost at the grocery store probably break even. I like the visual but i think it'd be clearer if you stayed in one quadrant and plotted the values on the graph. It's a bit confusing as with the other method you are using negative values for energy or yield which does not quite make sense. Great stuff though!
I actually think raddish and carrot and even beets are worth it from a nutrient diversity, density and satiation standpoint. It's not always about optimal efficiency. You have to factor in your nutrition needs and meals you can actually make into it. You can increase efficiency in other ways. For example you can use vining peas and beans as the walls so as to not lose any light and in the center grow your roots and leafy greens. That said you have one of the most honest and thorough explanations on this reality on RUclips. Too many ppl are disengenuous about this topic and seemed to be more about clicks and being told they're awesome than they are with reality. You're channel is a very pragmatic and honest and informative channel and that is somewhat rare in the realm of social media education. Kudos 🍻
I appreciate the fast response. I ordered your organic trifecta fertilizer. We're looking forward to trying it. I regret not buying a shirt. Thanks again.
Earth cherries!! I made a little garden in the basement with led lights and the earth cherries are absolutely THRIVING in their pots! More so than when they were in my backyard! :)
This was great to start. I'll be doing this in my basement/office as well this winter.
My husband is fighting cancer so we have a garden in which we use no sprays, chemicals, etc. I want it to be as wholesome as possible. Winter 2017 I have planted leeks, cabbage, broccoli, and Brussel sprouts and various greens so he can have fresh food to eat that we know are as safe as possible. I appreciate your comments about energy etc. great idea to use in planning.
Sally Smith Great idea. Ps also grow wheatgrass, they are way too easy to grow in these days( i myself is growing a bunch of it) and it juice is extremely good for body and is said to help in cancer and blood purifying
I watched just yesterday a video on growing wheat grass. Thank you, I will try it
Hey Luke, what is your ambient air temperature at the surface of the soil level on your grow table? We are having success in our basement with warm climate veg, but finding it difficult with leafy greens without them bolting. The reason we are asking is because the intensity of your lights are about the same as ours (as it appears on video), but it’s hard to know what kind of heat your lights are producing. We see your lights are placed higher up, which would indicate they are throwing a lot of heat. A baseline average temperature could really help us and other indoor growers out. Thanks for the great videos and have a great day!
Hi, I am now totally addicted to you all!!! I am a physically handicapped and in charge of growing for a family of 8. I have a huge garden outside, and we will be eating well this summer, but I would love to hear you thoughts about feeding them the same in the winter too. I will be doing my first set of canning/freezing in close to 10 years. So I know some will be put away, but that being said... I am trying to find out what kind of lighting and temperature needed to raise a good garden inside. I have acquired a good many of the 55 gallon drums that are food grade. I welcome your thoughts!
I live in Virginia I grow weed pretty good at it too. Going to start growing strawberries inside as well for my daughter.
I love growing Okra and tomatoes. Also squash herbs and cucumbers.
I'm definitely more of a hobby gardener at the moment. I don't have a lot of outdoor space, so I've been messing around with succulents and starting seeds for things like sunflowers and easy plants indoors. I hope one day I can get good enough to grow some food in a small studio apartment, though~
Did you do a video of building your grow box ? I’d love to see how you worked out the drainage system or do you have rocks in the bottom of it , and how do you water inside of a wooden box ?
My main concern when choosing a plant is the nutritional value it supplies me. Lettuces mixed with chard, beet tops and kale can make a bitter salad more palatable, but I'd never make it my number one choice. Beans, on the other hand, are highly nutitional = WIN ☺
I fall into the necessity group. Put it this way, I have bought my LAST box of Meijer salad greens. I'm tired of their brown slime. So my veggie staples are salad greens, and spinach for purposes of this conversation. Can you recommend a species of flat leaf spinach that would work good for a.) growing indoors, and b.) harvesting as baby spinach? I need to produce at a minimum, one small box of salad greens and one large box of spinach per week. So any idea how much square footage I need for a bed for that?
Thx for advice its December I’m itching to garden give it a try since I got so many seeds I save myself wish I cld get every1 on board in my house they laugh at me until I got productivity I guess I drive them nuts talking about gardening all year round but they don’t understand my hobby/passion and I produce results
Thank you for the chart. It sure is good and valuable.
I'm heading over to pick up some .99 cent organic seeds from your website now. You have a great selection. It's my pleasure to show some support after watching so many of your great gardening videos. Thanks much Luke!
What type of lights are you using and how long are you keeping them on?
Hi Mi .... Thanks for the video. Inspiring. About the beans .... there's a wonderful variey that I got from Victory Seeds ... Alicante. Small (mine were quite short 8"), very productive, tasty and most of all, for me, the endured cold better than anthing else. You don't want to heat your basement extra for the beans. It's cold where I live; I grew them in black pots outdoors. In fall, they kept making beans and that particular earth was a HUGE failure for the tomatoes.I'd like to start indoor winter growing. I was actually wondering about beans when I found your video. Couple of quuestions:You decided to abandon hydroponics for indoor-winter growing ??? (P.S. Trying to avoid it myself. Don't like have to use nutrient in a bottle plus expensive here.)Also, what soil depth can I get away with for the beans .... can't remember their roots?And carrots didn't perform well?. I have the same priorities. I hadn't thought of carrots till you mentioned them.Thanks for everything.
I grow for necessity and I grow a lot of traditional Indigenous plants for food and medicine as well as ingredients for Soul Food and traditional African American herbalism. Most of my plants would be found in the low energy, high output part of the graph, but for a treat, I have a few in the part of the graph that's high energy, high output.
love the chart! grids are amazing! thanks for the video!
Right now I garden for fun but do enjoy reaping the benefits! ☺️
You are so inspirational and I learned something new. Extremely helpful. Currently growing plenty of herbs.
I subscribed to you after i saw how you were able to grow a coffee plant in the crazy weather you have in your state. You have great advice, thank you.
Oh btw i am currently growing a successful strawberry plant thanks to advice you've given in your strawberry plant video. Space is a huge issue for us, but somehow the strawberry plant is doing great in just a 10 inch pot lol initially i thought to transplant but it has 3 tubers! Thank you MIgardener!
Well i mostly grow to donate majority of the food to food pantries. i keep some stuff that can be stored easily liek sweet potatoes and freeze peppers and tomatoes. Some canning. but a large bulk of my harvests go to donations.
MIgardener getting so jazzed about plants that he can't talk is one of my favourite things.
okay, yeah, this WAS really helpful. I'm doing research to do my first winter indoor garden, and appreciate your graph.
Hi. I started broccoli and wondering if I should tie it up like tomato or bean..... or just let them hang however ????
Thanks
Does air purifier systems helps plants grow healthier on indoor spaces? Would you recommend to get one?
Thanks for the video, it was awesome. I am a new gardener that started last year and had a really good start, but I raise rabbits so I have the most awesome manure, so I couldn't help but have an incredible harvest. I have been thinking about extending my gardening in the winter to feed my family. Being from Woodstock, Ontario, Canada the gardening outside is going to be shorter into the winter but this video has made me excited about what I can try indoors for fresh salad stuff. I look forward to seeing the rest of this series. Eddie
Just found your site through facebook sponsored post- so glad you are there! We grow for our own use, also have a farm stand at our place for extra produce- have a small orchard and berries as well. Loved the chart- good info to remember when you are short on garden helpers. Have a short 90 day season, so grow herbs indoors. Grow cukes, tomatoes, potatoes, greens, beans, beets, radishes, carrots, squash- going to try turnips for storage this year. Want to get more storage veggies into the cool pantry...
can you do an entire video with all the fruits and veggies you can garden in that wonderful chart?!!! that was extremely helpful :) Thanks
Great video Luke! You are very informative on this one! Thanks for your help! I will definitely be using your Tips!
What kind of grow light is needed for plant productivity? How many watts/spectrum is necessary?
If it's a necessity, then the cost of light ( energy) shouldn't be an issue. Great video, thanks
I have been learning soo much and just wanted to say thank you and that I can't wait to start applying :D bought some items to work on rebuilding the raised bed that was in our yard when we moved in last fall. (btw based on a comment, I found some of the wood at Lowe's in the "damaged" for 90% off! Going back until I find enough for the rest) Going to build a trellis across the back and get the vines climbing and my smaller plants in front. Can't wait!
Love this. In the current world situation and food shortage, people need to learn to grow indoors cause your food will be stolen out of your gardens
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MIgardener, Representing it in a chart is very good, easly understandable, but possible to give an update video on this? may be add more plants in the chart.
OK so I watch the video and I am a beginner grower I have been growing cannabis now for a few months as it’s legal where I am but I’ve started to get into vegetables and a couple that you didn’t mention is peppers I’m going to start cucumbers jalapeños bell peppers and lettuce how do you recommend to germinate the seeds and other than a fluorescent BulbWhat kind a light would you recommend and what our rotation would you also recommend I understand this post is a couple years old but hoping you’ll still get this
Can you do or have you done a longer (more exhaustive) list using your chart for beginner indoor growers?
Hi, nice video...I am same as you concerning to negative vibrations surrounding me and making me motivated or down...One thing that make me feel alive is growing some green and even when the weather or people around are bad I still wanna do that. I am trying something indoors and your video caught my attention for that...thank you!