That’s the goal! Little bit better than last year. Grow more, save more, cook more… I live by the rule “do it at minimum 20% better than before “. It’s a life long process.
Those datil peppers are really good! They are very productive. I've grown them since 2020 and they will be on my to grow list every year. They are spicy and make a great, pretty yellow hot sauce. Definitely grow 1 of these.
Hello, my wife and I are in our 30’s, living in South Carolina on 6 acres with a pond. We’re enjoying watching y’all’s story and gives us inspiration to make more at home. Thanks for the content and hoping for a great year of harvest for everyone.
Hi there! So glad to hear this & happy to have you here :) sounds like you guys are doing a lot of similar things as we are! thanks so much for watching!
Let your ducks into the vine vegies garden. They will eat the bugs, but they don’t scratch and tear up the plants. As long as there are bugs they don’t bother plants.
They definitely eat a bunch of my plants. I know most people say this but I highly don’t recommend to anyone else unless you know your own ducks well enough to now they won’t eat your plants.
Not Just Farmer's has a pepper variety he's mentioned at least 4 times in his vlogs thru the year. Dang, I'll list the variety for you when I come across it. Sounds like a fantastic variety!! One this AZ nurse could eat on the daily. Yum!
I get my seeds from a variety of companies, I love Botanical Interests, MIGardener, Territorial, Adaptive, and a few others. But nothing beats Johnny's! They have the biggest variety and so many amazing disease resistant varieties that they've developed. My uncle owns a large ranch and has a huge garden and pretty much only buys from Johnny's these days. I just wish their shipping costs were lower LOL! I also love saving seeds and swapping with people in my community for hyper local varieties. Soooo excited for the 2024 garden!
I hateeee paying for shipping lol I'm so cheap about that, but I'm quite excited to try the varieties I got from them! wishing the best of luck for your garden this year!
Love this! This was my first year growing Genovese basil and omg..the pesto it made was TOP TIER 🤌 I’ll never have another garden without it in it. Love the flower picks! I grew the double dutch cosmos a while back but the heads on them seemed to be way too heavy for the stems so they got really droopy. They’re super pretty though. Good luck this season!! 🥰
yesss the genovese is 10/10!!! I think I might try and twine around the cosmos a bit this year to hold them more upright, because they do tend to droop!
I love seeing seed hauls! I have quite a collection of seeds, mostly from MIgardener, but also from Botanical Interests, Baker Creek, High Mowing, Johnny’s, Seed Saver’s Exchange, Burpee, and Park. I recently placed an order at Seedville USA, and there are some seeds at Hoss Tool I will most likely order as well. Luke at MIgardener just added 30 new seed types, including a few of his favorite hybrid varieties of corn, so I might be placing another order there. I think that will be at least my fourth order at MIgardener for the upcoming gardening season! (Uh, yeah, I might have a problem!)
Mickalya if you love bread and butter pickles try 14 day pickles. They are a refrigerator pickle not canning but are fabulous. Made 2 1/2 gallons last year and going to increase that this year
I also ordered basically everything from MIgardener! It's funny we ordered completely different things! 😂 I can't wait to give their seeds a try this year!
I received all of my seeds this week and I am very excited to start planting. It seems that we have similar taste in flowers, as I had to chuckle when I realized that I had selected all the same types of flowers. This year, we plan on going all out with our flower garden.
I ordered most of mine during sales back in October, so it was super fun to crack them back open and get pumped up for gardening season all over again. If I’m able to save seeds in the future I’d loveee to swap some with ya! 😊 excited to see how your flower garden turns out!
Great seed haul!! I grew both varieties of the scallop squash last year and they were delicious. I’m in Louisiana,I just stuck the seed in the ground and had good germination rate. Good luck!!
Can't wait to see how colorful your gardens are with all the flowers you are going to plant. The pollinators will love them for sure. I only have a few raised beds so only plant what we will eat and it's mostly pick and eat for just the two of us. Always feel good when I plant something and am successful in getting something that I can enjoy.
Great seed hauls! I’m with you on the nasturtiums - I think I ordered 7-8 varieties to grow this year. Homemade pickles is a great cucumber choice - it’s really reliable and prolific for us every year!
Glad I’m not alone! I think that nasturtiums are just such cool plants. I want them everywhere! Excited to try out the homemade pickles as…homemade pickles lol
If you like cheap seeds, I recently was introduced to Pinetree Seeds. They're based farther north (New England), but they have tons of options for around $2/packet
I love this! I 100% recommend going to the store. I went to the store while I was working up that way and it is the cutest little store. I had to stop myself from getting too many. I already started some onions from them and out of all the onions that I planted, they are the only ones that germinated 100%. Plus the people working there are super nice. You'll love it. Watch out for all the little critters as you're clearing up the space. I moved out here last year and I find a new little critter every day when I try to clean up the land. but I can't wait to see how your garden grows.
Here in South Florida, we did terrible with the San Marzano, but have bumper crops with the Amish paste tomatoes. Find out what varieties other people in your area grow successfully, and make decisions from there. Can't wait to see how this year goes for you!
When planting corn remember to plant them in blocks rather than long rows. They are pollinated by the wind and if they are in a long row or two the chances of getting good pollination is pretty low. Better to have 4 or 5 short rows than one or 2 long rows.
I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!!!! Thank you for sharing!! This gave me some new ideas! I like that you talked about the use for each one as you went, that was helpful.
this is my first year gardening and I to got my seeds from migardener I started January 5th with the seedlings they look good but then some of them died well we see how it goes 🙂🌻
I didn’t order that many seeds now I ordered some a few months back but I’ve gotten better at seed saving. Please try this after this harvest you do save some seeds because they adapt to your climate better and then you’ll be able to have some better veggies 🌱
I ordered most of these back in October when the sales were happening :) I would love to save seeds, and I do save some, but with how busy our lives are right now it’s definitely not a priority. There are too many things on my to do list so I try not to stress about saving seeds if I can’t find time.
I’ve already planted some things yesterday. I’m in Houston Texas so we don’t get the freeze. I’m in we’re done with that little freeze that we had but I don’t do really great in summer. I do OK but spring and fall. I do great in the fall.
All of my tomatoes did wonderful last year & all I did differently was use MIgardners trifecta & I also added mushroom compost from Lowe’s. Give that a try with this year’s garden. My whole garden blew up after doing that. I’ll definitely repeat this year. My favorite tomato is the watermelon beefsteak good luck with those
My favorite things to grow are peppers of all sort. I’ve had a banana pepper tree for four years. It did get hit by the cold, so I’m not sure if it’ll come back on me but that’s what I’m really good at bell peppers, habanero, hot and spicy peppers so I’m gonna be starting them this week as well the seats they take a long time to get up there and peppers.
MI gardener seeds are great. I used to do Baker Creek but I was having less success. A good thing is if you have a feed store near you a lot of times the feed store sells seeds by the scoop that are made for your climate in your area. I have one in my area so now I started buying the peppers from him, the potato seed, all kinds of stuff, because what he has is for our climate I think I’ll buy some onion seeds from him as well. Try your local feed store.
Datil pronounced DAT-ill (like that'll) they are a sweet heat and not too spicy.. they are popular in St. Augustine FL often used to flavor chicken wings and chili. It is also really good in sloppy Joe's 😊 looking forward to seeing your garden and all your home projects and cooking ❤
So you can put Allums with your some veggies and the onion flavor in the allium smell and flavor will deter past I don’t know about the true thing about Mold I mean I’m not done so well, but I know that they do great when I throw in an onionin it or chives anything that’s Allium is really good for the garden by your vegetables that will help help you with pest
We let them out to roam our entire property currently, but once I start planting more veggies in the garden I’ll probably try & keep them out of the garden space & direct them down towards the orchard area
Not if we strategically plant them in separate spots & stagger the planting times :) need to plan the planting dates out specifically though, for sure!
That’s the goal! Little bit better than last year. Grow more, save more, cook more… I live by the rule “do it at minimum 20% better than before “. It’s a life long process.
you're so right!
Those datil peppers are really good! They are very productive. I've grown them since 2020 and they will be on my to grow list every year. They are spicy and make a great, pretty yellow hot sauce. Definitely grow 1 of these.
Hello, my wife and I are in our 30’s, living in South Carolina on 6 acres with a pond. We’re enjoying watching y’all’s story and gives us inspiration to make more at home. Thanks for the content and hoping for a great year of harvest for everyone.
Hi there! So glad to hear this & happy to have you here :) sounds like you guys are doing a lot of similar things as we are! thanks so much for watching!
Praying for an abundant garden
Let your ducks into the vine vegies garden. They will eat the bugs, but they don’t scratch and tear up the plants. As long as there are bugs they don’t bother plants.
They definitely eat a bunch of my plants. I know most people say this but I highly don’t recommend to anyone else unless you know your own ducks well enough to now they won’t eat your plants.
Not Just Farmer's has a pepper variety he's mentioned at least 4 times in his vlogs thru the year. Dang, I'll list the variety for you when I come across it. Sounds like a fantastic variety!! One this AZ nurse could eat on the daily. Yum!
I'll have to try and find it!
I get my seeds from a variety of companies, I love Botanical Interests, MIGardener, Territorial, Adaptive, and a few others. But nothing beats Johnny's! They have the biggest variety and so many amazing disease resistant varieties that they've developed. My uncle owns a large ranch and has a huge garden and pretty much only buys from Johnny's these days. I just wish their shipping costs were lower LOL! I also love saving seeds and swapping with people in my community for hyper local varieties. Soooo excited for the 2024 garden!
I hateeee paying for shipping lol I'm so cheap about that, but I'm quite excited to try the varieties I got from them! wishing the best of luck for your garden this year!
Love this! This was my first year growing Genovese basil and omg..the pesto it made was TOP TIER 🤌 I’ll never have another garden without it in it. Love the flower picks! I grew the double dutch cosmos a while back but the heads on them seemed to be way too heavy for the stems so they got really droopy. They’re super pretty though. Good luck this season!! 🥰
yesss the genovese is 10/10!!! I think I might try and twine around the cosmos a bit this year to hold them more upright, because they do tend to droop!
oh and while you're up there and you're looking for seeds go to the fresh market. They have like two pretty big stands of botanical interest seeds.
I'll look into it!
Try growing radishes with your cucumbers. I do to help keep the cucumber bugs off. It works well.
will do! thanks!
I love seeing seed hauls! I have quite a collection of seeds, mostly from MIgardener, but also from Botanical Interests, Baker Creek, High Mowing, Johnny’s, Seed Saver’s Exchange, Burpee, and Park. I recently placed an order at Seedville USA, and there are some seeds at Hoss Tool I will most likely order as well. Luke at MIgardener just added 30 new seed types, including a few of his favorite hybrid varieties of corn, so I might be placing another order there. I think that will be at least my fourth order at MIgardener for the upcoming gardening season! (Uh, yeah, I might have a problem!)
Haha wow! Sounds like you've got quite the collection, too. It's not a problem! Its a hobby Lol
Mickalya if you love bread and butter pickles try 14 day pickles. They are a refrigerator pickle not canning but are fabulous. Made 2 1/2 gallons last year and going to increase that this year
yum! I want to try some sweet pickles this year, too. I've seen a lot of refrigerator versions of those.
Oooo, I got some of the Datil Peppers, too. They are supposed to be really hot!
Oh gosh haha I'll make taylor taste test them first for sure
I also ordered basically everything from MIgardener! It's funny we ordered completely different things! 😂 I can't wait to give their seeds a try this year!
Haha that’s great! I have so many more from them from last year still that I’ll be growing, too. Best of luck on your garden this year!
I received all of my seeds this week and I am very excited to start planting. It seems that we have similar taste in flowers, as I had to chuckle when I realized that I had selected all the same types of flowers. This year, we plan on going all out with our flower garden.
I ordered most of mine during sales back in October, so it was super fun to crack them back open and get pumped up for gardening season all over again. If I’m able to save seeds in the future I’d loveee to swap some with ya! 😊 excited to see how your flower garden turns out!
Great seed haul!! I grew both varieties of the scallop squash last year and they were delicious. I’m in Louisiana,I just stuck the seed in the ground and had good germination rate. Good luck!!
What part of Louisiana are you from? I’m in Thibodaux
@@julieagain how cool!!!! Im in Springhill..about an hour north of Shreveport. As far north as you can go before the Arkansas line lol!
thank you!
We had 2 San Marzano plants last year, and they did so well for us!
I’m excited to try it!
Can't wait to see how colorful your gardens are with all the flowers you are going to plant. The pollinators will love them for sure. I only have a few raised beds so only plant what we will eat and it's mostly pick and eat for just the two of us. Always feel good when I plant something and am successful in getting something that I can enjoy.
I sure hope to have lots of color out there this year!
love the seed haul
Great seed hauls! I’m with you on the nasturtiums - I think I ordered 7-8 varieties to grow this year. Homemade pickles is a great cucumber choice - it’s really reliable and prolific for us every year!
Glad I’m not alone! I think that nasturtiums are just such cool plants. I want them everywhere! Excited to try out the homemade pickles as…homemade pickles lol
If you like cheap seeds, I recently was introduced to Pinetree Seeds. They're based farther north (New England), but they have tons of options for around $2/packet
I’ll have to check it out! Thats the main reason I love MIGardener, because they’re all $2😁
Ooh, thanks for this! They have tons of flower seeds!
Careful with the African marigold! Its HUGE, and ate my whole raised bed of peppers!
They do get pretty big! But they’re so pretty
Good luck.
Thanks, you too!
I love this! I 100% recommend going to the store. I went to the store while I was working up that way and it is the cutest little store. I had to stop myself from getting too many. I already started some onions from them and out of all the onions that I planted, they are the only ones that germinated 100%. Plus the people working there are super nice. You'll love it. Watch out for all the little critters as you're clearing up the space. I moved out here last year and I find a new little critter every day when I try to clean up the land. but I can't wait to see how your garden grows.
See, I'm not sure I could stop myself lol I don't have that kind of willpower! I do reallllly want to go visit, though.
Here in South Florida, we did terrible with the San Marzano, but have bumper crops with the Amish paste tomatoes. Find out what varieties other people in your area grow successfully, and make decisions from there. Can't wait to see how this year goes for you!
Amish paste are next on the list for 2025 if the san marzano don't thrive! I have a friend who's trying amish paste this year nearby, too!
When planting corn remember to plant them in blocks rather than long rows. They are pollinated by the wind and if they are in a long row or two the chances of getting good pollination is pretty low. Better to have 4 or 5 short rows than one or 2 long rows.
definitely doing blocks spread out by variety & planting date around the garden this year
I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!!!! Thank you for sharing!! This gave me some new ideas! I like that you talked about the use for each one as you went, that was helpful.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
Enjoyed the video 😊
Glad you enjoyed!
this is my first year gardening and I to got my seeds from migardener I started January 5th with the seedlings they look good but then some of them died well we see how it goes 🙂🌻
Hey that’s okay! Some of mine always die😆 you’ll only learn if you practice! I’m starting onion seeds, broccoli, cabbage, and peppers this week🌱
We use the same seed storage things!
love em!
do you have herbs growing as well?
loved the flower seeds, so many...
thanx for sharing
I will have many, many herbs! I just didn’t order any of the seeds this time around because I already have so many from last year☺️
I didn’t order that many seeds now I ordered some a few months back but I’ve gotten better at seed saving. Please try this after this harvest you do save some seeds because they adapt to your climate better and then you’ll be able to have some better veggies 🌱
I ordered most of these back in October when the sales were happening :) I would love to save seeds, and I do save some, but with how busy our lives are right now it’s definitely not a priority. There are too many things on my to do list so I try not to stress about saving seeds if I can’t find time.
New subscriber. Thanks for sharing your seed haul 😊.
Thanks so much :)
@@calicocowacres Thank you as well.
I’ve already planted some things yesterday. I’m in Houston Texas so we don’t get the freeze. I’m in we’re done with that little freeze that we had but I don’t do really great in summer. I do OK but spring and fall. I do great in the fall.
Well kid, you have a bunch of prepping to do! Nice video and good luck with your garden!
Sooo much seed starting 😆 thank you!
All of my tomatoes did wonderful last year & all I did differently was use MIgardners trifecta & I also added mushroom compost from Lowe’s. Give that a try with this year’s garden. My whole garden blew up after doing that. I’ll definitely repeat this year. My favorite tomato is the watermelon beefsteak good luck with those
thank you!
My favorite things to grow are peppers of all sort. I’ve had a banana pepper tree for four years. It did get hit by the cold, so I’m not sure if it’ll come back on me but that’s what I’m really good at bell peppers, habanero, hot and spicy peppers so I’m gonna be starting them this week as well the seats they take a long time to get up there and peppers.
we've brought pepper plants in over winter for years and they always come back! hope to do that again this fall.
MI gardener seeds are great. I used to do Baker Creek but I was having less success.
A good thing is if you have a feed store near you a lot of times the feed store sells seeds by the scoop that are made for your climate in your area. I have one in my area so now I started buying the peppers from him, the potato seed, all kinds of stuff, because what he has is for our climate I think I’ll buy some onion seeds from him as well. Try your local feed store.
We'll probably get some from our local nursery, too! They do it by the scoop :)
Hii, where did you get the wild flowers poster in the back? It is beautiful!!
Loved the video!
Etsy! Thank you :)
Datil pronounced DAT-ill (like that'll) they are a sweet heat and not too spicy.. they are popular in St. Augustine FL often used to flavor chicken wings and chili. It is also really good in sloppy Joe's 😊 looking forward to seeing your garden and all your home projects and cooking ❤
Thank you for the pronunciation! I was definitely just guessing 😆 I’ll definitely have to try them in sloppy joes. That sounds so good!
So you can put Allums with your some veggies and the onion flavor in the allium smell and flavor will deter past I don’t know about the true thing about Mold I mean I’m not done so well, but I know that they do great when I throw in an onionin it or chives anything that’s Allium is really good for the garden by your vegetables that will help help you with pest
Maybe try making your own paprika with the pimentos?
Oh that’s a good idea!
Pimento make the best little stuffed peppers! I made all of them that way last year.
Hello there! How's your seeds going? Any update on these? :) Tag me up! Thanks!
I too love zucchinis but them darn vine board bugs get a hold of them. That’s why I’m just gonna do spring and not summer.
The vine borers are tough to deal with!
Can you explain where the name Calico Cow came from. I’ve always been curious as you don’t have any cows I need the back story!
I will explain in depth in a video soon❤️ in the meantime go check out our website “about us” page. That might answer your question!
Do you have a duck garden where they are allowed to just roam and graze?
We let them out to roam our entire property currently, but once I start planting more veggies in the garden I’ll probably try & keep them out of the garden space & direct them down towards the orchard area
Have you ever considered growing flower cabbages?
Never heard of it! I’ll have to look that up
@@calicocowacres pike market in Seattle sells flowering cabbage bouquets. They are very cool.
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All those corn varieties? Won't thete be a problem with cross pollination?
Not if we strategically plant them in separate spots & stagger the planting times :) need to plan the planting dates out specifically though, for sure!
Do you and your husband work out of the home? Or from home?
Both, actually! Taylor has a 45 minute commute to SC each way. I work from home.
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I buy way too many seeds every year!
Same😅 I definitely accidentally ordered some duplicates that I already had. Oops😂
Us Yooper gardeners are struggling with resisting seed starting lol