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I'm always interested when I hear people talk about "butterbeans"; this is the first time I've heard wax beans called that! I was surprised the first time I heard the term used for mature lima beans, because it refers to baby lima beans where I grew up.
Hi Luke! I’m looking forward to following your nostalgic garden journey! Could you please recommend a sweet corn variety for zone 4. I have tried sweet corn 3 times with not much success. In my head, I’m remembering the corn from my grandpa’s farm. I wish I knew what it was – very sweet and delicious. I garden in a suburban setting in zone 4. Thanks for the work you do!
I love shishito peppers! They never stop producing until frost hits. Corn and bush beans are on the list too.
Thank you for all you do,learned so much from you 🌱❤️
I have raised beds. I want to grow watermelons, cantaloupe and pumpkins. No clue on how to grow in a raised bed environment. Any ideals?
Love hearing what others have planned! I was gifted some super hot pepper seeds for Christmas so I'm looking forward to trying those. I'm also trying Ace 55 tomato for the first time this year and hoping it performs as advertised.
Hey Luke! We love you! I love the nostalgia video for sure. Thanks for all you do.
For me it’s not that they are “heirloom “ but that they ARENT genetically modified that matters to me. I want the ones god made not jimbob in some lab.
I did five 30 ft rows of various bush beans last year and had so many beans I could t pick them all. Could t give them away fast enough. Luke’s not joking when he says they produce. L😂
Love your channel can’t wait to get my seeds I ordered, been a week so I’m hoping they come soon
I tried growing corn but it doesn't get warm enough here where I live on the Oregon Coast.
Oh, man! You make me want to grow sweet corn again😂. I appreciate all your videos!
Green and yellow beans are my favorite. I really like mixing the two together when i can them. My mom always canned hers this way. 😊
Pawpaws are super nostalgic.
I love your theme! When I was a kid, my parents gave me a corner of our suburban backyard next to the house, and I grew turnips. When my mom took the handful of turnips, I had grown and cooked them with greens for dinner one night, I was so proud! Ever since, I have loved gardening, even when all I had was a few pots.
trying to figure out where to put more beds. hard to think if it. Right now it is -15 C here in Ontario. My poor chickens are complaining!
As a child all we grew was one hundred pounds of potatoes, when I had a family, we had a large garden, that feed four boys. Now that I am retired, we grow vegetables for Farmer's Market on 1/2 an acre. It is amazing how much food you can grow on a small piece of ground.
I grew pumpkins out front one year. All the neighbors loved it.
Your enthusiasm is fantastic!!! Thank you for freezing your meister off for our benefit!
I’m in the planning stage as well. I just got a greenstalk since all I have right now is a 30 sq ft balcony, but I’m looking forward to the new experience.
I did a nostalgia garden last year and I'll say, after many years of the FUN tomato varieties, going back to basics (Bonnie best, ace 55, roma, Cherokee purple, black krim, sweet 100s) felt BLAND! I want my crazy sweet flavorful fun varieties back!
Green beans, bell peppers, and tomatoes are a must for our garden. It's how we started, and slowly added a couple more things every year. I have a lot of new varieties of beans and tomatoes as well as other veg and flowers from you that I ordered in the fall. Can't wait to see how they do! I'm scratching the garden itch with a geranium kiss tomato, dill, and cut and come lettuce in the hydroponic until I can go outdoors. Ooo, the white turnips I ordered are marvelous! Harvested 5 before the snow and great freeze. They were huge! And very tasty. Thank you Luke and team for broadening my horizon and inspiring me to grow big or go home!
we call the yellow beans butter beans and we make a polish soup that is sweet and sour with ham called butter bean soup
What a great theme you have this year! You e got me thinking that might be fun for myself. Since I started gardening 50 ago as a kid with my dad I have a lot of nostalgia to draw from! Interestingly enough a retired farmer from Michigan taught us how to garden!
What are your two favorite sweet corn to plant and how do you prepare and plant
A nostalgic walk—I So remember our strawberry patch! Always had one. I remember picking and Weeding. The wooden quart baskets and selling some at our driveway. Strawberry and plum jams—yum!
The only varieties of tomatoes I remember are Beefsteak and Big or Better Boy as I don’t think we had much else available in our area.
I grew 25 mostly heirlooms last year and wasn’t too impressed with flavor. It took till July 12th for me to realize I couldn’t keep up with drought and installed irrigation. The weather and getting use to irrigation could have had a bit to do with outcome, but I did notice a huge difference in production and quality after installation.
Don’t think I ever grew Big or Better Boy and will give it a try. I think I will try both along with Early Girl and compare. Looking forward to further perfecting carrots as the crop we just dug under mulch and 20” of snow are delicious. Will try a low tunnel for peppers.
Right now the temp just registered on the experimental above ground root cellar at 36.5 with several days of below zero and previously about 46*F, so a bit nervous. Wonder if I should put some incandescent Christmas lights inside—if I have some🤔.
For flowers I’m looking forward to seeing the first ever foxglove blooms as I finally was successful and have some great plants out there. We are also planting corn this year also in hopes that irrigation will pay off as corn has never done well here. The chicken manure should help😊.
I’m putting different amaranth colors everywhere. I want my own
You need some snow.
I always loved the big slicer tomatoes, but had gotten away from them because my family never ate them. For the last 10 years I've been doing paste tomatoes but this year I want to throw in a pineapple, and Abe Lincoln. I also have a few dwarf varieties that I want to try.
I am very interested in collecting and growing heirloom varieties. I read that they are a bit more work to grow but can be more nutritious.💪 I am sure that Native Americans made tortillas out of the original corn grain before it was modified. I wonder if the ornamental varieties you sell have that potential? 🫓🌽Make sure to bundle up out there and wear those thermals. I grew up hustling too. I had a newspaper route, back in the day when I was 11 years old. Woke up before school to fold and deliver those papers. Learned how to sew in middle school, bought a machine and would mend clothes and iron for people (friends/family/neighbors). My dad was a hustler. I didn't understand my dad until I was an adult and moved to S. Texas. Stay warm! ☕🧥
Grow everbearing strawberries and get strawberries for all season
I'm rural and grew dent corn last year in a 100'x8' bed to see if I could save on livestock feed… with no tractor and basically no till it's pretty tough. I love nostalgia and good memories. I grow a lot of things because my Grandma did. Gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries, greenbeans, tomatoes, peppers(she called them mangos😊), potatoes and oh my could she grow great big onions. My Grandpa planted a Paw Paw tree in the side yard for her,…yeah, I planted some of those too.
I love you geeking our over bush beans. I also enjoy serving a bowl of yellow wax and green beens.
I love growing Pusa Asita carrots. They are deep purple/black carrots with one of the highest amounts of plant anthocyanin (a powerful antioxidant). I grow them in grow bags and stagger the start dates. They need peeled as they have lots of root hairs, but the effort of peeling is worth it. They are best lightly coated in olive oil and oven roasted. They are a treat I look forward to every season.
Loved this video! You nailed it! Garden memories are the best. I want to grow big straight carrots this year like what is in the grocery store that have their green leaf tassels. Our carrots were eaten last year by ground hogs and rabbits so I hope to get them covered securely, etc. I am curious on how your green and yellow beans were preserved and then cooked? Thanks for this great video. Your enthusiasm feels good.
We are also scaling back this year. Bush/wax beans will occupy at least 2 of our 28 raised beds as well as peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and all things salsa and pasta sauce. Drawing my garden out today and prepping my grow room!!
I sure hope you do the pumpkin patch by the interstate again!! Sunflower 🌻 & 🎃
your “heartbeat” pumped up passion is contagious!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
7:07 “…about 16 beds per plant…” – lol 😂
Its cold in nc
Thank you!
Bush Beans is something I've been considering. I am not a new gardener but have never grown beans. I rarely eat them nowadays because I'm not that excited about getting them from a can, but if I grew them myself I would probably eat them alot more often! I grew up eating green bean casserole with the fried crunchy onions on top around Thanksgiving!
It's cold here in Georgia right now too. We had a second freeze which has lasted several days now and there are icicles hanging off the roof on my back porch. My hands were numb after only being outside for a few minutes.
I’m determined to really commit to more perennials this year and establish more permanent area in my garden space. Also my herbs are a top priority for me as well as enough tomatoes, potatoes, and onions for keeping and preserving.
Happy gardening 2024!! Let the planning begin!
We are going to grow corn for the first time since moving to Colorado. Back in NY, it was everywhere in the summer and I miss picking some and immediately throwing it in a pot or on the grill – nothing tastier! Still trying to decide on varieties, will probably just grow one early and one mid-late. Wish us luck.
I'm also planning on growing a pumpkin patch next year. I had a bunch of volunteer squash plants that turned out to be pumpkins from the compost pile. I transplanted them and got my best ever haul of pumpkins. I'll be growing them in my newly planted orchard as the trees are still small. I got my hands on some blue pumpkin seeds which I am looking forward to growing. The challenge in my WY garden is evnetting you care about has to be covered with hail neeting.
I'm going to build actual cold frames this year with passive heat sinks and insulation and all!
I love your enthusiasm
Definitely turn all the beds and even redo the lawn add material and also plant outside the beds and mix some stuff like the ends of grocery store isles over seed like crazy and let go turn into a jungle