Top 6 Easy To Grow Vegetables For Beginners/SEED TO HARVEST
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- In today's video, I'm sharing my top 6 easy vegetables for beginners to grow in their spring garden. I'll take you from seed to harvest on each vegetable growing choice.
If you have questions about growing vegetables for your garden, need help starting a vegetable garden, want tips for gardening for beginners, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and "garden hacks" , have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the comment section below!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:06 - How to Grow Peas From Seed
01:05 - How to Plant Potatoes // No Dig Potatoes // Ruth Stout
02:24 - How to grow Lettuce From Seed
03:00 - How to Thin Lettuce Seedlings
03:19 - Hack for Sowing Lettuce Seed
04:07 - How to Grow Onions from Seed
05:44 - Huge Onion Harvest
06:03 - How to Cure and Store Onions
06:19 - How to Plant Garlic / Planting Garlic Cloves
07:33 - Garlic Harvest
07:44 - How to Cure and Store Garlic
08:04 - How to Grow Carrots from Seed
09:03 - How to Thin Carrot Seedlings
09:23 - Extra - How to Grow Tomatoes not Leaves Video
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Short but sweet. Thank you very, very, much.
You're welcome
I’ll never get over how your onions looked like pumpkins ! This is my favorite time of year! Planning out my new garden and getting ready for it. It really kicks those winter doldrums in the kiester!!
Yes 💯
I haven't did gardening since I was a kid but want to start one this year
You should!
Same but I don’t even know how to start. We had one in school
@@LisalisellsTHIS IS MY DILEMMA
I'm a first time gardener (started gardening in August 2023) and I am so excited to see that I am growing 4 out of 6 of these (peas, potatoes, onions, and garlic). I'm hoping for a successful harvest!
Thank you for a refresher course on this. Much appreciated. Watch you all the time on your homestead and next level. Thank you again. We just had 5 inches of snow in PA
Thank you. 🥶 stay warm!
My favorite kind of video to watch from you! I enjoy them all, but this kind help me most. You're a very natural teacher, explaining in simple, easy to catch ways.
I'm so excited for this spring thanks to everything I've learned from you!
I appreciate that
The type of day for the onions makes the difference 😊. I found Texas Superstar to be the best if your in the medium to long day zones. They get HUGE! If at high titude in these zones, Vidalia is great. I've had the best success with plants.
Excellent video. Nice pace. Thank you for all the details about growing onions. Last year, for the first time, I grew onions from seedlings from the garden centre. This year, I will be growing them from seeds. Your inions are ginormous!
Thank you
In the Northeastern US, you can plant hardneck garlic. This gives a bonus crop of garlic scapes. They taste like garlic flavored green beans
Very informative, I’m so ready for spring.
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There is only one vegetable that I've always found super easy to grow, and that is tomatoes. No matter where I've lived or the soil and climate conditions, I have been able to produce a crop--starting outdoors from seed--without fail.
Thank you so much Brian, I finally found intermediate day onion seeds (am in Sonoma) from Johnny seeds, just sewed the seeds indodors, crossing fingers!!
Another amazing video. Thank you and I shared your video, with my gardening group.
Thank you ❤️
Great tips - thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Even though I don’t grow them, radishes are the earliest thing I can recalled growing as a kid. Since I was probably 5, they must be easy, lol. Carrots never did well in our clay soil, but that’s one I grew as a kid as well. Mom gave my own (kid section) of the garden.
Short and sweet!
Exciting! This is our first year planting veggies. I tried your paper towel and ziplock bag method on heat mat to start my jalapeños and bell peppers. Seeds sprouted in just 5 days! Moved them to the seed tray today. Off to a great start! Thanks!
I am new to gardening and this year will be my 2nd round at it. I am using the bucket/container method for growing because the dirt I have is more like sand and it's easier to use containers at this time. There are so many recommendations for plant food and growing techniques. I am confused. Last year, I grew tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, radishes, spinach and potatoes. I had a pretty good harvest. Instead of buying so many different products, can you narrow down the best products to use for seed starting mix, what to use to enrich recycled soil, best fertilizer to use. I think I have watched too many different gardeners and I am just flat out confused..... any guidance you can provide is greatly appreciated.
Thanks 4 the refresher, Brian! U reminded me i wanted to plant pea n sugar snaps n i better get 2 it despite the rain.
Yes!
I didn't have much luck with potatoes at all. As for using garlic 😂, you and me both....the more , the better! Onions make everything better too.
Definitely!
I plant potatoes in buckets or large bins. Have some that Im going to harvet today. Another good plant is peanut plants. No effort at all to grow.
Sorry don't mean to sound dumb but like actual peanut ?
It might just be the soil. Try making sure to test your soil potting mix. Could just be the nitrogen
I have no luck with carrots. Have followed various methods with at best pencil carrots.
Have cut N and just added other macros and still just pretty tops. Not sure if I am going to try again this year. Might since am in a new location; maybe that will change my luck.
I wouldn't call all of these easy to grow in my backyard, but I agree that the green peas are easy to grow. Garlic, too, as long as you pick the right variety for your area. I'd add tomatoes, though, because they grow with no real effort - far less than some of the others, at least - again - in my limited experience.
Great video! ❤'d it, Thank you!!!
Thanks!
My grandson loves to garden with me so your tip to use a spice shaker for planting small seeds like lettuce, carrots, and onions will be easy for him to use for planting. We are still harvesting the carrots we planted in the Fall using your wood shaving tip to plant them.
I tried gardening last year for the first time and I planted peas,onions, peppers,squash,
Zucchini,okra,corn,watermelon,Lima beans,cabbage,lots of winter squash ,carrots,sunflowers and pumpkins.. I think that’s all but out of ALL of that I harvested okra,ugly tomatoes,lots of squash and a handful of snap peas. That’s it!!!! So I’m really trying to learn as much as I can before I make the same mistakes again..
It takes some time and each year is different. After 30+ gardening years I still have bad ones. Last year for instance..except the onions lol. Just enjoy the process.
@@NextLevelGardening Oh I did enjoy it very much. May sound weird but I feel like me and my husband grew closer together. I have been planning for this spring garden ever since last year! I’m so Excited!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Maybe only try to plant a few things for a couple of years. That will give you time to really learn about what those things need to grow. And then add one or two different things every year after that. That was some advice given to me last year. It’s so hard though because I wanna grow everything already.
@@penelopegrier5073 Yeah that was my plan. Then my husband came in and informed me that he is tilling up another 1/2 acre for gardening this year. Last year it was Not planned at all. We didn’t even start planting until May then 3 weeks later we got a flood rain and all my seeds were washed away or eaten by my chickens and turkeys. So we had to replant . Then something got into it and ate nearly all the seeds again! So we replanted again! By then I didn’t even know what we had out there.. It was a mess!! But it was fun.
I’m REaDY this year!! At least I think I am. 😄
Hi I just watch you 4 year old tomato video and you talked about the rat problem.
I use to live in the Southern California next to an Avocado Orchard and had a big problem with rats. Always fighting to keep them out of the underneath the house and in the attic could never leave the garage open. We had many pests and i was trapping Ground Squirrels and raccoons with a live trap. I found that most of my catches were rats. So i modify with some smaller screen and went to town.
Always just used bord seed and a pellet gun, your good.
Good one
Thanks
Thanks Brian. 🥶❄️💚🙃
You're welcome
Wow! Thanks, Brian. I had forgotten how easy gardening can be. Your instructions are simple to follow from seed to harvest; and encouraging to see the end product. My parents grew potatoes in a similar manner and had abundant harvests. Your video makes me want to try to grow veggies I haven’t grown for years and try something new. Is it time for you to write another great book about gardening? Lol. Thank you for sharing. Many, many blessings
That's great! Happy to hear that Sharon!
Your video is amazing..so informative. THANKS FOR SHARING
I'm in central Alabama. It is too early fore sowing seeds, but it is only about a month away. Snow peas, and shelling peas go in the ground about February 20th. I drop seeds in the ends of my raised beds at the same time. I also sow seeds for radishes, carrots, and beets. Potatoes go in the ground the first week of March. I have about two hundred seed starts growing for tomatoes and peppers. In about a week, I'll be doing another batch of seed starts for mustard, Swiss chard, bunching onions, Creole Onions, basil, dill, oregano, Sweet Marjoram, and chives. My first generation of tomato plants will go in the ground in March, and be protected from frost with a polytunnel. I have both Elephant Garlic, and hard-neck garlic growing that I planted in October, and they are doing great with surviving the Artic blast. I'll grow twice as much next fall. The second generation are sprouting. The third generation will be planted about near the end of April. I have a lot of sowing to do in February, and then again in April. Once the garden is in full bloom, it will be time to work on planning my fall garden. I am in the process of adding five fruit trees, and I am also adding Wine Cap mushrooms to my garden this spring.
I am a newbie This is my 3rd year. I am currently making a list and sorting all my brassicas for indoor planting under grow lights. I have learned a lot by watching him with all his tons of advice in his videos. Today before watching this video I sorted and planned all my dates by recommendations. Some of his sow 4 to 6 weeks before last frost is not the same as on my seed packets and chart. So I am confused. I am in zone 8a or 8b idk now in N E Texas. We have been 10 degrees for past week but it's moving out tomorrow. I am ready for some success this year.
At 10F, I would consider your area as 7B regardless of the BS climate change narrative that is being pushed. Look to your actual frost dates for starting seeds. Plants that are cold tolerant, and take time to mature need to be planted early. This includes all brassicas (cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli). For my area, the cut off for planting brassicas is January 20th central Alabama). So start your seeds now, and transplant six weeks from your frost date (February 20-March 1st). Faster growing crops, lettuce, spinach, Swiss Chard, mustard and radish, can be direct sown mid-February (six weeks). This is also a good time to direct sow seeds carrots and beetroot. Brian is in California, so his planting times are going to be very different from NE Texas, but similar to mine, and Arkansas. Here is a link for a planting chart for your region. cass.agrilife.org/files/2014/02/Vegetable-Planting-Guide.pdf
I cosign this list as I grow them in containers and every one of these recommendations is currently thriving in my small space container garden. 👍🏾
That’s amazing! I’m sure that’s a good feeling.
Thanks for sharing!!
@@NextLevelGardening 😆 Thank YOU for sharing!
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It is raining cats and dogs right now, so I am watching this as inspiration for when we can start planting again!
For me: peas, radishes, spinash, swiss chard, cabbages, carrots, beets, zucchini, winter squash, cucumbers, lettuces,
Thanks so much! I'm looking forward to getting started! Come April and May the gnats will have me going insane and by June here in middle Georgia I'll be sick of it all, but I'm excited for now!! lol
Lol. Yup
Another great video.
Great videos!
I love your soil.
I love the straw method for the potatoes, would pine straw work? I have an endless supply of that!
I'm not sure I'd classify onions as super easy...if you don't get the timing right they won't bulb up properly. Add that into planting the right day-length type for your region along with feeding, soil type, and length of maturation time, it's getting a little complex for a beginner. Same with carrots...I've had a lot of failures to germinate or destruction of seedlings by bugs, and I'm not a newbie. I think I'd toss in some brassica like sprouting broccoli or herbs instead.
@jeannamcgregor9967 🌱🌽
So nice to have this community back. The priceless comments and the instructions really flow when this gentleman posts!!
I like to notice names from new friends like you, too, and was happy to see a McGregor in our midst! Hopefully no relation to that fella that Peter Rabbit ran into! 😯🌿
Then it sounds like you need some sacrificial nasturtium vines (and marigolds) in the garden protecting the desired produce. Also switch from the (I say) "airport flight line" method of planting single crop in lines and rows. Its just the perfect "line"-of-sight for bugs to fly, land on the flight line, and chow down at the local bug airport restaurant. Same for having a massive portion of the garden planted with a single crop in a small area. That (I say) is the bull's eye - and another bug attractor hitting the bull's eye all the time. Plant 1-2-3 maybe 4 in an area intermixed with other veggie types. Then plant others in another place with other vegs. This mutes the veggie smells with other veggie smells, and it is no harder to plant or harvest than any conventional garden. You make a baseball diamond - they will come ! So make smaller veggie type decentralized micro-garden areas - and you shouldn't see as much bug infestation.
Great video! Could you make a similar style video for easy to grow veggies for containers?
In the works!
That was an enormous onion!
Right!?
Thank you #savesoil #Consciousplanet
Can this stuff be grown in pots.. my back yard is small
Ive never planted anything. i move to my own house with garden in april/may and i really wanna start planting my own veggies. i am keen on onions, but especially potatoes. your tutorial looks very nice but now i ask myself where you are supposed to get the straw/hay for putting on top of the tomatoes?
Thank you #SaveSoil #Consciousplanet
Hi , love your Videos
Live in Switzerland. Wich is the onion on the video?
I really wish I had someone to help me get some raised beds started. I can’t carry the soil to fill them and buying raised beds are costly so I would have to figure out how to do it VERY cost effectively. I have two small water tanks that I use but they are SMALL and even they are not FILLED with soil but I did manage to get just enough in them to grow a small amount of things . I planted two very small left over potatoes that somehow where missed and I did get some nice potatoes but I would love to be able to plant enough produce that I could either can or freeze. I know, if wishes were horses beggars would ride. 🥶❄️💚🙃
Watch my upcoming garden budget series in february
I put my seed potatoes straight from the bag into the ground. No chit.
hi Brian, I have tried growing the garden pea also called English pea with no success, they are always leggy with just the main stem and no side shoots. please help
Vermiculite has asbestos 😂 I don’t know if I’d want to be gardening with that
For some dumb reason, I have better luck with tomatoes than anything else. Most everything else I have failed. I tried beans and it was a no go but an apple tree I can do? I think I’m broken.
Another good option for hardening off vegs - is cutting off the foliage in the post-Autumn, pre-Fall weather, leaving the bulb or root in the ground at the surface. Cut off the greenery at the 1/2 inch above the topsoil. (This is the easy measurment of your point finger fingernail length).
This stops all photosynthesis of the leaves down to the root. Like stripping grape leaves off Fall vines - forcing dormancy. You are doing the same to vegetables have the roots and bulbs forced into dormancy. The 1/2 inch will start to dry out and dry back to the root or bulb, faster than turning down the greens. It is also safer stopping any potential molds or rot crawling back down to the root or bulb. Make sure that there is no rain in the future, getting into the drying/dried cut tops, and molding/rotting them.
SSSSSSAAAAAAVVVVVVEEEEE the greens - don't let them go to waste !!! Dried onion and garlic leaves (chives, shallots, scallions, wild ramps, wild ransoms), even fresh beet, turnip, rutabaga, parsnip leaves, (even strong carrot leaf) all make great additions to a meal - or to a stew. Otherwise, make garlic and/or onion braids and hang up, and you still have these leaves to use as a byproduct. One can easily blanch, ziplock baggy, and store the veggie greens in the frezer - and still have fresh greens - just put the thawed greens into soups and stews.
One can also do this with potatoes and other tubers (sweet potatoes, yams, taro, lotus, cat tails,...yacon, ... bullrush water chestnuts), BEFORE they naturally die off in the Fall and frost period. Dying plants send dying hormones into the tubers (that you do not want). (Forced) dormant plants do not do this. Allow the de-foliaged tubers to lie fallow in the soil and harden off their skins, and they won't have as much "green" in the tuber (like green solanide toxin with potatoes). One can overwinter in the soil, or later in the Fall post-frost harvest, or entirely pull them out with their hardened skins, and the tubers can be safely root cellared.
Using both of these plans, one can overwinter in cool and temperature grow zones, ... or especially post-frost, when the roots, bulbs, and tubers all get less watery and conentreate their sweeter sugars, one can then harvest and remove from the soil, and root cellar.
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Should I be worried about bad stuff in straw? I love straw for Ruth Stout gardening. 😢
Those were massive onions you grew.
They definitely were
I wanna grow sausages 😐
Those are the biggest onions I’ve ever seen
You grow the biggest onions ive ever seen.
They were the biggest I'd ever seen too!
4:35 but where is europe? Like. Man
From its own seed or store bought? The seed matters & as far as growth. It doesn't grow to the fullest using it's own seed. Never last long.
That depends on the plant... I save many seeds, hybrids sometimes do weird things, but heirloom varieties... I have hundreds and hundreds of different types of plants and varieties saved. It's much more complicated than you think, but not black or white! You cannot save seed from potatoes though(though for Clancy variety I believe you can), you have to save a potato or a handful of then through the winter to continue your growing next year. Cheers. 👍👍
@@RealBradMiller yes...I've saved seed reson for my comment.
It doesn't grow to its 100percent growth. But the store seeds do.
CZcams Stefan Sobkowiak and his Ontario Canada Permaculture Orchard gardening tip. When growing fruit trees give them hard and difficult soil nutrition to start, when transplanting them put them into superior soil . Having lived a hard life when young, with better soil nutrition they really take off in growth and fluorish more than an originally planted and spoiled veg all its life. There might be some good wisdom in this.
@@johnlord8337 lol...only wisdom I got from it was for me. Harsh difficult devastating cruel impossible unfair no justice type of life my childhood was & yet still is.
But the planting....I don't know.
I don't think I can do it like that.
I already hate & dread seeing my nephew & babies go through turmoil & mistreatment...I can't think to do a baby plant that way. Or a plant period.
Have you heard the “gods that be” are condemning home gardens now because of their carbon footprint?? 🤬🤬🤯
I'm doing a video on that tomorrow on next level homestead!
@@NextLevelGardening ..Brian, can you direct me to where you get the “Kellogg Breakfast” (????) tomatoes? Thanks. I’m in Lincoln, NE
What are you talking about gardens reduce your carbon footprint.
@@christophersnedeker …the Internet can fill you in more. Look up “home gardening.”
Peas are fruits and NOT vegetables
I’m sorry WHAT
Most vegetables can be replanted. Carrots you can replant the top potatoes the eyes, tomatoes come back from the seeds you just bury a piece same with peppers, lettuce you harvest the outer crown until it bolts than.let go to seed, broccoli you can replant the stem, onion can replant the top, mushrooms can leave the underground part or bury a piece in same location, beans can bury a runner or the dried beans, squash can bury a runner etc
YOU'VE INSPIRED ME TO START MY OWN GARDEN and post the progress on my CZcams channel!
If I have questions, is it okay to send you an email? Or, can I just comment my questions below your latest videos to get in touch with you??
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
Another great video.