My first SEED HAUL for the 2023 garden season…
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I have tried the jade bean. I loved them. So did the deer once I figured out the pest control I did get one big harvest. They were very prolific. I can't say how the plant did longer term because I harvested the night before a freeze.
Awesome seed haul I love flowers too I am going to try and make a garden for the good o 🐝🐝 and butterflies
Great seed haul! Waiting for mine to get here. You are talking about expanding you seed starts, I am talking about controlling mine, lol. I am single and work full time, and every spare minute seemed to go to rotating, watering, transplanting, and carrying them in and out of the house as things started to warm up.
The African basil is amazing. It was my highest producer last year and it gets pretty tall
I grew the sugar rush peach pepper this summer. They took forever to ripen for me (maybe due to the extreme heat last year) but they were SUPER prolific. I must have had about 100 peppers on the plant
I'm trying Sugar Rush Peach for the first time as well. 🧡 I'm super excited about it and Purple Petite Peppers.
Do you just put the seeds in ground first or do you start them in seed pods?
I agree with how you get pulled in when ordering seeds online! 😂 I know good and well I have nowhere to plant the amount of things I have. I need to start praying before I look at these websites. 🤦🏾♀️
Loved your seed haul. 🌱🤍
I’m so excited to start seeds. I’m trying several basils this year as well. I love all your picks! I haven’t tried mr stripy but I’ve heard great things about it. I got more nasturtiums this year and I also got the climbing one. I put my leaves and flowers in witch hazel and it’s so nice as an astringent on my face. I got that idea from team benson desert garden ❤ I’m also trying milk weed and according to my husband, he said it will be everywhere and doesn’t even want me to plant it 😂 oh boy. But, I found out that there are free milk weed seeds being offered in order to help the butterflies 🦋 so I will plant my seeds❤ thank you Barbara
I bought the sugar rush peach. I want to make spicy peach preserves. I hope they work out for both of us.
I used my poblano peppers to make a Mexican flavored stuffed peppers. They were on the small size, and delicious.
Howdy Barbara!👋 Nice haul!👍I grow the Crackerjack (African) marigold for tea. It has several medicinal uses. My Mom-in-law has arthritis and it's good for inflammation. 🙂💕
This was a fun video to watch! I had never heard of the purple hull pink eye cowpea. I love growing all different kinds of beans so I’m going to grow them this summer. Do you have any favorite recipes for them?
Your flower garden is going to be beautiful!
My favorite Hot Pepper is Santa Fe Grande. I may have mentioned it to you before but it is just a little hotter than a jalapeno.. they have a good flavor with a citrus flavor. I bought mine from MIgardner.
The most absolutely beautiful basil I have ever planted was Cardinal Basil from Baker Creek. It bloomed with huge deep burgundy colored flowers and had a wonderful smell to it. Butterflies loved it. The taste was ok but I always prefer Thai basil better than any other for taste but I cook a lot of Asian dishes. But to use the Cardinal Basil as just a beautiful plant for adding color and smell to your garden is a game changer.
I planted the orange spice last year and it was a very hot pepper for us. But I wonder if it was just the drought and heat we had that caused it to be so hot. I did not have any other peppers around this pepper. So it would make a good hot sauce pepper. It also did not grow very well but again I will try it again.
I know I am making too many comments. Lol but you need to add Chocolate Mint, oh my goodness it's the best of mint smells and I love it in tea. But I know you know most all mint is evasive so plant to itself. I love all of the procut sunflowers for making flower arrangements. The Mammoth Sunflower is great for making roasted sunflower seeds. I love the burgundy sunflowers, also. I buy a lot of seeds from Hoss Tool and have the best germination from their seeds. They have a yellow straight neck squash that absolutely makes squash all summer long very disease resistant. It's called Slick Pic squash. The Gentry squash is a close second. I too am in 7a Northeast Arkansas. I love your seed haul. If I think of other things I cannot go without I will post again. Lol Have a blessed day. God is Good..
Sriracha sauce in the United States is made mainly from red and green jalapeno peppers, from Fresno peppers, serrano peppers, and Thai chili peppers. Hope that helps.
What about using your Sugar Rush Peach pepper for a pepper jelly? That's if you like the flavor of the pepper, of course!
Milkweed. This is one of those "it depends." Milkweeds in their native ranges said not to be invasive, although some such as common milkweed and swamp milkweed do spread and need to be cut back and probably dug out from time to time, just the portions that have gone beyond where you want them to be.
That "Gay Butterflies" you have there is so pretty! —and looks like a "butterfly bush" I paid hard cash for at the garden center and which came on like a house afire its first year in the garden and in the second year just started growing exponentially and taking over more space than I felt I could afford to let it have so I dug it out mid-season and disposed of it. Sad, but necessary.
Milkweed, I read, needs as much of a year as it can possibly get to grow and get ready for winter which an immature or inadequately prepared milkweed may well not survive. That makes me wonder if you could start it later than it needs to be started to make itself ready for winter, and let the winter kill it off? Would it bloom for you in that shorter time?
Hope something here is helpful, too.
That Salmon Janina Chinese aster is to die for! You have me thinking that I might need to make another order, just for some flowers. We want to see this one in bloom in your garden. nod, nod
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We like the Asian long beans. The are a pole variety and really produce. I'm going to order the sugar rush pepper. That would make a great hot sauce. Blessings, Rochelle
Hey Barbara. I am in zone 7b in Maryland and I have only grown the Jade bush been. They are wonderful. My family loved the taste of the. And they are very prolific. You are gonna love Jade!
Marshmallow plants are so cool. I winter sowed mine with some success. Love your channel!
I don't do hot peppers at all. But I made a fermented hot sauce by fermenting Jalapeños in green and red stages and my husband said it was similar but better then Sriracha. I didn't taste either so I can't describe differences. I plan to ferment sugar rush peach for him next year and make the same style hot sauce.
Nasturtium on focaccia is delicious 🥰