After a long, cold, wet winter, it’s finally time to plant the vegetable garden! In the organic vegetable garden, today I’m planting seeds. I’m direct sowing carrots, beans, zucchini squash and yellow squash. I’ll give you some garden tips on direct sowing plus some companion planting ideas (science based) for all of the crops I’m sowing today.
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42 Comments
Thank you for the heads-up reminder. Pine shavings sound great!
We had snow this morning in Bonney Lake, WA. We never get snow this late. Smh
Protip: The pronunciation of Dunja is "DOON-yuh". It can mean "quince" or in your case "quince-like [variety]".
Here where I live in Arkansas the last frost date is April 9 th. The weather is warm this week but still have to wait. I fought vine bores last year and lost. I’ll. Definitely try the tool covering. Want to do carrot this year so loved the shade cloth tips. Video is very helpful. Thank you so much. Blessings ❤️🌺
I love this channel!! Love how your garden is coming together too! I don’t know if you read my ether comment, but on your Next Level Homesteading, would you mind doing a video on how to cook Fennel?!
I have used pine shavings for years. The best and cheapest form of mulch. Thank you for the new video.
Planting legumes into the compost is like a canary in the coal mine on bacteria in compost Jess from roots and refuge has done this.
Thank you for the small space tips!! love from zone 9b Sonoma CA
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When you say blood meal, bone meal….. do you mean both or either or? Thanks.
Love the fact you don't use hand tools. I love to get my hands dirty, like a big kid playing in the dirt. Plus love the little stick placement markers, i though i was crazy for doing that for the longest time LOL 🙂
Hi Brian, I see you using crab and lobster and kelp meal from about a 5 gallon bucket. Just curious, how much fertilizer do you purchase annually and is there a shelf life for full potency?
Every step in the plantings is full of helpful ideas! Thank you! Happy you're enjoying some dry days!
Without saying where you live, where do you live now? I thought you mentioned in a previous video and now I can't find it. We are in Huntington Beach, looking for property in Ramona but not sure if I could deal with the summer heat.
Salut de belles cultures merci je m’abonne 🙏🙏🙏
Hi Brian, still too early here for outside planting but enjoy watching you.
Have a good day 🌟👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Would alyssum be good to plant by Zucchini? My alyssum seems to attract a lot of bees, as well. And it's already flowering.
Hey Bryan you videos always buffer now for some reason. I have to fast forward past that area. So I'm missing things. It's only doing it on your videos.
Just potted some dahlias today from your other video. Will use tomato trellis and squash stakes this year. Keep doing what you do. Love it
If alliums grow similar to other plants maybe just snipping the tip will remove apical dominance and stop the current leaf growth as the plant looks for other locations to send out shoots. I also wonder if this would encourage more smaller leaves to develop, and is the size of the leaf an indicator of the thickness of the blub wall/layer, and the number of leaves the actual number of layers
Watching you 🌱 plant and sit on the ground is therapeutic vicarious gardening for me waiting for spinal fusion to heal. Thank you for helping me be patient! 🌻🙏
6:50 branches are 7 feet tall, how tall is Brian?
Mulch: Can I use sawdust, or is it too fine. I am a woodworker and I generate a tremendous amount of sawdust, and I separate the pure wood sawdust from plywood, MDF, and stuff that isn't pure wood. I have about 30 gallons of it now, WAY more than my worm farm can use. Thanks for this timely awesome video!
You mentioned using pine shavings for mulch does the pine affect soil ph
I’m in the U.K. .. we had a lot of rain too.. although this country is known for it 🙄 but more than normal… it gave me a good chance to get all of my bare root purchased strawberry and rhubarb plants to settle in their new pots with least problems 😊
Brian, with the pine shavings, do you have issues with it effecting the soil like you can with pine sawdust? I mulched with sawdust one year and it killed everything it was around.
Thx for the video! Where the heck are you that your last frost is already over?
Hi Brian. Thanks for your videos. My question is did you use the same fertilizer on the squash as you tomatoes?
Interesting… I was always told by old farmers to plant 3 bean seeds.
Growing zucchini vertically is a game changer and I will never go back!! 👩🏻🌾💚 !!
I also got small Parisien carrot seeds, last Autumn! Mine are called 'Market Baron.' Can't wait to see how they turn out! Thanks for the great idea to plant them amongst my onions! I hadn't thought of that and last year mine got absolutely blitzed by something! The turnips (Falco) did too. Not sure what did it, though. Hope the onion scent keeps them at bay! Is it too late to grow more onion starts? Mine didn't over-winter very well and I still have tons of starts left over, in my potting shed.
We have very hard well water here (10 hardness!). Do I need to add any calcium when the water is so hard? Can too much be a problem? Thanks!
Have you ever used moisture or PH testers? I use both, however this is my first year planting seeds with a moisture sensor. Do I want near total saturation with seeds at first, then let it get dryer? What if any seeds do you soak overnight? Old guy, new to raised gardens with bagged "dirt".
From what I have seen, you can or should plant onions around tomatoes, peppers, carrots, and other things. No real need to plant any on their own in a small hobby garden. The rain hasn't left Tennessee yet, but spreading out some.
Thanks for the pine shavings idea!
Could you maybe answer a question for me about trap crops? How is it that the insect population on the trap plant doesn't just expand to the point where it spills over to the desired crop next door? I've never seen, say, fungus gnats who were so entranced by overripe peaches that they'd ignore an overwatered houseplant nearby.
last year i was driving on a small road covered with pine needles and i started thinking it could be an excellent mulch for my garden. i came back and collected enough for my garden. it worked perfectly.
Have your book sitting on the side of me as I listen been reading it while I am planting my spring/ summer garden kinda the same thing in Louisiana.
We make onion top pesto with the onion tops. We also cut up and dehydrate the onion tops. We then use them in the winter in soups or you can grind them up into onion powder. Two crops from one plant. We find it does make the onions bigger.
This is hands-down, the best education I’ve gotten learning to start and plant my garden. It doesn’t hurt that it’s apples to apples, considering I live in Palmdale/Lancaster area which is a very similar climate and growing season
we still got 2ft of snow on the ground
Hey Brian, where did you get the watering can with the removable rose?
Learned a lot. I’ll be ordering that Companion Plant book soon. Thanks!!