Here are my picks for the best vegetable varieties to grow, from my 2022 Zone 6a, Ohio gardens.
This video is Part 2 of 2, of the best vegetable varieties to grow– my favorites from the 2022 garden.
Featured are my favorite varieties from the 2022 garden- I share the variety, source, as well as the reason each won a place in my heart!
I hope you enjoy and I’d love to hear from you- what are your suggested best vegetable varieties to grow?
See Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/-ur9la0qlmM
See my 2021 Favorites here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4zzslvkscX0Bi-8H5UrbvSwLVgK8h7CN
More garden favorites: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4zzslvkscX2udydXc0A3YafNR5v3UQbW
Article about August Ambrosia Watermelon: https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2018/01/new-heirloom-vegetables/
00:00 Intro
00:39 Watermelon
05:34 Pepper
07:25 Sweet Corn
10:01 Celeriac
11:28 Winter Squash
16:02 Garlic
16:39 Annual Flowers
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Merry Christmas from snowy NE Ohio
When you grow watermelon, do you start them indoors? Or just direct seed in may? I was thinking if direct seeding my sugar baby, but my first year growing it.
Merry Christmas! Stay warm! Thank you for all that you do! You sure helped me last year!!
Good sit and chat. Listening while messing with the blog layout. LOVE the signage. That is a cool brand y'all got Jenna! Communicates a lot just by the font and style. Merry Christmas 🎄
Thanks! I might try the Bolt sweet corn from Holmes and the Brilliant celeriac from Johnny's.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas Mrs. Jenna. Stay safe my friend!
Have been waiting for this! 👏
I grew honey nut squash last summer and it is now one of my grow every summer crops. I had all the positive traits you mentioned here in west central Ohio also.
Also a texture fanatic! I get it! It beats flavor every day. I’ll have to check out Sugar Punch, for sure.
You use strained squash liquid in baked goods?! 🤯 That’s next level Jenna!
Re: bachelors buttons, I don’t know about structure, but I LOVE the dark plum blooms. Can’t get enough.
Have you ever grow Golden Delicious winter squash? Not to be confused with Golden Hubbard, they are not the same. They don't taste the same though they they both look similar.Golden Delicious was developed in 1926 for the baby food market. The Golden Hubbard came out in the late 1800's. The Golden Delicious was a product of the Boston Marrow and the Green Hubbard. The Golden Delicious is smooth and creamy with a great flavor with out adding anything to it. The Golden Hubbard has terrible flavor…in our opinion bland. I have grown both Goldens and the Boston Marrow. The Boston is smooth and creamy with a little flavor, but not as good as the Golden Delicious. The Golden Delicious I have grown off and on (when I could find the extra seeds) for 30 years.I have grown the Golden Hubbard a couple of times and bought them at a large grocery chain. I grew the Boston Marrow two years ago. I was just wondering if you had tried the Golden Delicious. You have to be careful when you buy the seeds because I have found that many seed companies group the two Goldens together. True Leaf Market and St. Clare have the REAL Golden Delicious. I save the seeds every year and also buy the seeds too. I share the excess fruit with our neighbors and relatives. I have a few hundred plants every year, but only keep 3 or 4 of the squash for the freezer. You and your family have a very Merry Christmas!!! Thanks for all the work you do on your shows for us viewers!!! Take care!!!
I was wondering how Bolt corn compares to Silver Queen. Everyone I know just goes all gooey for SQ corn.
Watermelons were on the list of things to research for next year. My brother and I both tried Picklesimer watermelons, and the flavor was less than impressive. Might as well have been eating just rind. 😜
You described a perfect watermelon texture just as I would. Mushy or threads forget it😂. OMG! I just checked the Sugar Punch price and it’s 9.99 for 10 seeds! It’s a hybrid so seeds probably wouldn’t come true to save.
I swear the prices of things keep going up each time I check for them.
Giant squash—Violina Rugosa is similar. About 18-24” long, fine silky texture, sweet, moist, small seed pocket. Long peach colored peanuts. We didn’t need many to fill the freezer. Some claim better than butternut. Great for desserts. No borers at least. Try again next year to make sure it wasn’t a fluke. I grew baby butternut one year and thought there was something wrong that they didn’t get big. It really wasn’t stated on the pkg that they were suppose to be small😊 yes, they are nice single serves.
We have wild spotted horse mint that just hums with pollinators. They sell it and I battle it🤣
I saved some seeds from a zinnia plant in the mixed seeds I saved that looked exactly like the pink one you showed. I had pink and a red that looked like cabbage roses. Can’t wait to see if they come back from the seed.
According to prices this year I will be getting serious about finding the right open pollinated plants and saving seed.
Thank you for the reviews and Happy Holidays!
Did you find taste differences in the peppers when they changed color? Do you offer classes? I would love to visit your garden one day. I’m in Kentucky Zone 6. Your work is amazing!!! Happy holidays😊
Adding the wild petunia and cleome to my seed list! Thanks!
like that early corn and celeriac. I'm vegetarian, so i'm always looking for meat replacements. i would rather have buffalo cauliflower than an impossible burger
Thank you I really enjoye listening to you!!
Such a joy to watch when it’s -45 windchill. Celeriac: add to cart 🙂
Love the sign
Review this and water melon lemon drop and sugar punch also prism 🔔 bells are on my list.
Many them flowers look great but for 20 pass seasons I've replanting Momma's marigolds that she gave us over 20 seasons ago before her passing.
Some plants do return great memories don't they.
Thanks looking forward and bet these will be a good selection.
Thanks Jenna and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays! I think I'm going to try celeriac next year for the first time as a celery substitute after my celery is done producing mainly because of the storage reasons you mentioned. Johnny's seems to be a bit expensive but if you recommend I'll give Brilliant a try. When do you generally get your onions started inside for the spring? Won't be long and we'll be starting seeds inside.
Always interesting to hear about what does well in other gardening zones. I'm in 8b where you can get at least two crops of watermelons if you do good planning and have access to irrigation. I don't know if you have grow seedless watermelons but as a lifelong watermelon grower and lover of watermelon I would think you might like some of the sweetness and flesh texture of seedless varietes. Other than some special techniques of how to germinate the triploid varietes, they grow similiar to seeded types and they do need a pollinator. They are a little more sensitive to night time temperature when they are young, but once they take off they behave like a seeded watermelons. I think your zone though is ideal for winter squash. I can get winter squash up and out of the ground, produce nice plants, and then have disasterous results with the fruit. I am at the point where I might give up on winter squash. The beetles, vine borers, mildew, and mid to late summer heat destroy the plants and the fruit. Yes I do measures to try to take care of the pest but they work me to death. I might try some of your varieties this year. I am also going to take your advice on some of the flowers you like especially the petunias. I always underestimate the importance of attracting pollinators to the garden especially in the late summer. As always I really enjoy your videos. I know you have your hands full but I wouldn't mind seeing you do a few videos on some of your vegetable prep in the kitchen. Thanks for your videos.
Jenna, from S. E. Ohio, have a Merry Christmas
waiting for part 3 🙂
Jenna, what would be your dream gardening zone? I want a winter garden that is just as abundant as the summer. Zone 8b? I’m considering northern central FL not near hurricanes.I’m in ky near you and it’s just too cold. 5 months indoors every year is torture for a gardener!
It's such a treat listening to you. I'm watching this on the coldest Christmas eve in 30 years and you have me yearning to be in my garden. Yeah, I'm not going out there! lol BUT I can be ordering seeds, that is almost as good.
As a bonus you gave me an idea of how to use the butternut squash I grew this summer, I still have a dozen or so to deal with. Butter, cinnamon and…. something ,I'll have to try to find what you said.
Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and yours! 💚
I’m going to write down Leningrad garlic to try next year. I’m in search of a good storage hardneck. I have Music in for this year but it always starts drying out around this time each year. I grew Brilliant celeriac for a couple of years, and liked the flavor,, but without irrigation I couldn’t keep it watered enough to produce nice sized bulbs. May try again this year as I’m finally getting irrigation! Thanks for the recommendations, Jenna, and I hope you and your family have a Wonderful Christmas and New Year!
My family likes to use celeriac in chicken soup with other vegetables like onions, carrots, celery stalks, maybe root parsley.