13 Crops You'd Be INSANE Not To Plant in May
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Kevin - If I’m growing melons vertically (which I am experimenting this year, there would obviously be no field spot to look for. Once the tendril is all dried up, is there like, a 7-10 day waiting period or should I just go ahead and harvest My melons don’t seem to ever pass the fingernail press test.
Date: 2024-04-30
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MDRstudi0s
Ima CEO i needa save time; wish someone did this for me! hope it'll save y'all time; but please watch the video and check the video description for more details on the picks
pick 1 summer squash ( video uniquely highlights a cool variety)
pick 2 winter squash; unique variety
pick 3 so happy to see this! great detox tea, fun to add to soups and salads, grows like weeds in Texas; viny plant
pick4 cucumbers (any gourd/melon or viny plant) pickle cucumber variety
pick 5 flower ( research use)
pick 6 luffas = surprise they yield fruit
pick 7 okra = non southerners skip
pick 8 green beans; variety long beans watch for more info
pick 9 tomatoes (Texas recommended early as feb)
pick 10 jicama ( if ya know ya know)
pick 11 soy beans = i hate soy, unfermented soy is not healthy for humans especially males.
recommend planting a tuber like peanuts!
pick 12 unclear/ companion plants like tomatoes with basil and marigold; and alyssum.
recommend planting that with tomatoes from pick 9 then opting for an onion with good herb/pest control flower.
pick 13 melons; water, green, yellow, white, and orange.
hope someone from my climate (Houston) benefits from my analysis. great video epic gardening!
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Ima CEO i needa save time; wish someone did this for me! hope it'll save y'all time; but please watch the video and check the video description for more details on the picks
pick 1 summer squash ( video uniquely highlights a cool variety)
pick 2 winter squash; unique variety
pick 3 so happy to see this! great detox tea, fun to add to soups and salads, grows like weeds in Texas; viny plant
pick4 cucumbers (any gourd/melon or viny plant) pickle cucumber variety
pick 5 flower ( research use)
pick 6 luffas = surprise they yield fruit
pick 7 okra = non southerners skip
pick 8 green beans; variety long beans watch for more info
pick 9 tomatoes (Texas recommended early as feb)
pick 10 jicama ( if ya know ya know)
pick 11 soy beans = i hate soy, unfermented soy is not healthy for humans especially males.
recommend planting a tuber like peanuts!
pick 12 unclear/ companion plants like tomatoes with basil and marigold; and alyssum.
recommend planting that with tomatoes from pick 9 then opting for an onion with good herb/pest control flower.
pick 13 melons; water, green, yellow, white, and orange.
hope someone from my climate (Houston) benefits from my analysis. great video epic gardening!
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epic_gardening
In Jacques' winter squash piece. it always astounds me how much smaller 5 gallon grow bags are than 5 gallon home depot buckets.
I don't get it.
I've had kabocha and it's very very close to my favorite, buttercup. It's just a little bit creamier than the kabocha. less fibrous maybe. and it has that bump like a Hubbard.
I was hoping that the zinnias I left to go to seed last year would come back. not yet in zone 8 Georgia.
My jicama has started. in pots for now.
I don't have well drained sandy soil. i have hard water repellent Georgia clay with some grey sand that sticks to itself mixed in. I'm going with a lot of grass clippings on top of the hard dirt.
I'll be passing on the estrogen precursor beans.
Basil. I love the smell of the flowers in the garden. cant' stand that in my mouth though. too soapy perfumy.
I put two packets of dollar store alyssum out. 0% germination.
To grow melons and okra, I need a clone or two just to sit with the. 12 ga watching the deer try to eat my garden. Even in broad daylight. a couple of the young ones were in there last year. munching the okra plants.
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In Jacques' winter squash piece. it always astounds me how much smaller 5 gallon grow bags are than 5 gallon home depot buckets.
I don't get it.
I've had kabocha and it's very very close to my favorite, buttercup. It's just a little bit creamier than the kabocha. less fibrous maybe. and it has that bump like a Hubbard.
I was hoping that the zinnias I left to go to seed last year would come back. not yet in zone 8 Georgia.
My jicama has started. in pots for now.
I don't have well drained sandy soil. i have hard water repellent Georgia clay with some grey sand that sticks to itself mixed in. I'm going with a lot of grass clippings on top of the hard dirt.
I'll be passing on the estrogen precursor beans.
Basil. I love the smell of the flowers in the garden. cant' stand that in my mouth though. too soapy perfumy.
I put two packets of dollar store alyssum out. 0% germination.
To grow melons and okra, I need a clone or two just to sit with the. 12 ga watching the deer try to eat my garden. Even in broad daylight. a couple of the young ones were in there last year. munching the okra plants.
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Chet_Thornbushel
I have had poor luck with okra. No, I don’t live in the south but I do have very hot summers(90-110F. It seems like they just sort of stunt and stop growing when they’re less than a foot tall. I have them right in the same beds that I grow everything else so I wouldn’t think it would be a soil or nutrient issue. But I wonder if maybe I am planting them out too early and should hold off until the soil stays around 70 degreeslike it is starting them off on a bad foot and they don’t recover Or it could be lack of humidity I know they grow in humid places but I don’t know if they need it to be humid I wasn’t going to grow any this year but now I feel like I need to again so I can crack the code! If anyone has any ideas I’d be happy to hear them
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I have had poor luck with okra. No, I don’t live in the south but I do have very hot summers(90-110F. It seems like they just sort of stunt and stop growing when they’re less than a foot tall. I have them right in the same beds that I grow everything else so I wouldn’t think it would be a soil or nutrient issue. But I wonder if maybe I am planting them out too early and should hold off until the soil stays around 70 degreeslike it is starting them off on a bad foot and they don’t recover Or it could be lack of humidity I know they grow in humid places but I don’t know if they need it to be humid I wasn’t going to grow any this year but now I feel like I need to again so I can crack the code! If anyone has any ideas I’d be happy to hear them
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veryberry39
Regarding the marigolds, for what it's worth I just watched a video the other day from a Canadian gardener/soil scientist who said the effect is only good where. I forget the technical term, but basically unless you have that marigold crowding in against the tomatoes, it's not providing much of an effect. She said that growing the marigolds as ground cover, then coming in later and planting those tomatoes where the marigolds used to be, is the best way to do it (because of course you're planting into soil that had those chemicals all throughout it.
I'm probably totally butchering what she said, and of course if you're actually having success planting marigolds the way you already do, then keep going with it! I just figured I'd bring this up just in case!
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Regarding the marigolds, for what it's worth I just watched a video the other day from a Canadian gardener/soil scientist who said the effect is only good where. I forget the technical term, but basically unless you have that marigold crowding in against the tomatoes, it's not providing much of an effect. She said that growing the marigolds as ground cover, then coming in later and planting those tomatoes where the marigolds used to be, is the best way to do it (because of course you're planting into soil that had those chemicals all throughout it.
I'm probably totally butchering what she said, and of course if you're actually having success planting marigolds the way you already do, then keep going with it! I just figured I'd bring this up just in case!
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EC-dz4bq
Hey can you do a video talking about vego brand I honestly had tried to buy a birdie box and thought I was ordering one and ended up buying a vego. Was a really nasty experience, took weeks to get a product even processed (not sent. When it arrived all of it was bent all up, banged up and I just want people to learn from my experience and I really feel a bit let down this year. took a while to be able to afford one. Trying to raise a family. I hope to buy a actual birdie box in the future. especially their round ones. But please warn people vego beds (10 in 1 is what I got) =/= Birdie box and its a scam.
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Hey can you do a video talking about vego brand I honestly had tried to buy a birdie box and thought I was ordering one and ended up buying a vego. Was a really nasty experience, took weeks to get a product even processed (not sent. When it arrived all of it was bent all up, banged up and I just want people to learn from my experience and I really feel a bit let down this year. took a while to be able to afford one. Trying to raise a family. I hope to buy a actual birdie box in the future. especially their round ones. But please warn people vego beds (10 in 1 is what I got) =/= Birdie box and its a scam.
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hilpri
Dang! Just when I think I'm done ordering seeds. back to BI I go. Quick question. I was born and raised in California and now live in the Pacific Northwest, zone 8b. Since I left CA, one thing I cannot grow to save my life is California Poppies. Every year I scatter seed around the yard. This year I even germinated some in cells and then planted them out. They died. Every other plant in the pollinator garden is thriving except the freaking poppies! I even brought in sand! Help!
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Dang! Just when I think I'm done ordering seeds. back to BI I go. Quick question. I was born and raised in California and now live in the Pacific Northwest, zone 8b. Since I left CA, one thing I cannot grow to save my life is California Poppies. Every year I scatter seed around the yard. This year I even germinated some in cells and then planted them out. They died. Every other plant in the pollinator garden is thriving except the freaking poppies! I even brought in sand! Help!
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kimp2678
Okay I have a silly question about loofah squash. The presenter said that she leaves them on until they start to turn brown. I was always told with cucumbers if I let them get too ripe on the vine, it'll send a message to the plant done its job, and the cucumber plant will die.
Since cucumbers and loofah gourds are in the same cucurbit family, if I leave it on my vine until it turns brown. will my vine die, and I have to start all over planting
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Okay I have a silly question about loofah squash. The presenter said that she leaves them on until they start to turn brown. I was always told with cucumbers if I let them get too ripe on the vine, it'll send a message to the plant done its job, and the cucumber plant will die.
Since cucumbers and loofah gourds are in the same cucurbit family, if I leave it on my vine until it turns brown. will my vine die, and I have to start all over planting
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guineapig289
Great video the videos were it tells what to plant every moth is awesome since I always forget what to plant looking forward to seeing what to plant in June
Also do you have any tips on how to germinate, watermelon, squash, cucumbers, and sometimes beans, peas and sunflowers whenever I try to grow them they never germinate and if they do the snails kill them and also the birds, I think also kill them
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Great video the videos were it tells what to plant every moth is awesome since I always forget what to plant looking forward to seeing what to plant in June
Also do you have any tips on how to germinate, watermelon, squash, cucumbers, and sometimes beans, peas and sunflowers whenever I try to grow them they never germinate and if they do the snails kill them and also the birds, I think also kill them
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wiggle-buttcrochet
You need someone in the west PNW as so much rain I haven’t even started my stuff as I don’t have a room in my house for starters so waiting for it to stop raining long enough to work. But maybe add someone that lives near the Washington Oregon boarder and one further up we seem to have a lot of different growing zones in this state.
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You need someone in the west PNW as so much rain I haven’t even started my stuff as I don’t have a room in my house for starters so waiting for it to stop raining long enough to work. But maybe add someone that lives near the Washington Oregon boarder and one further up we seem to have a lot of different growing zones in this state.
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Seraph318
LOVE that there is now someone from Central FL on the team! I live just outside of Tampa, so I am stoked for this: D FL STRONG! The pests here don't play, bT is my best friend, and flowers are my essential form of passive pest control, zinnias and cosmos do AMAZING here, they just keep on coming back and keeping those bees here: D
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LOVE that there is now someone from Central FL on the team! I live just outside of Tampa, so I am stoked for this: D FL STRONG! The pests here don't play, bT is my best friend, and flowers are my essential form of passive pest control, zinnias and cosmos do AMAZING here, they just keep on coming back and keeping those bees here: D
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epic_gardening
Patty pan squash pancake with a ck gravy yumm I started my squash in my aero garden a month ago and left them in too long and had root damage removing themthen the spring sun cooked them time to restart my zucchini & yellow. Thankfully I was smarter on the spaghetti squash and patty pans and thankfully they re doing much better
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Patty pan squash pancake with a ck gravy yumm I started my squash in my aero garden a month ago and left them in too long and had root damage removing themthen the spring sun cooked them time to restart my zucchini & yellow. Thankfully I was smarter on the spaghetti squash and patty pans and thankfully they re doing much better
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jacobbruch3244
I’ve got a rather bold Squash strategy for this season. Because I have limited space, I’m planing 4 varieties of squash (yellow, black beauty, butternut, and spaghetti) in a 6x2. 5 raised bed. Due to my limited space I’m going to put a tall trellis in the middle for them to climb. Let’s hope it works.
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I’ve got a rather bold Squash strategy for this season. Because I have limited space, I’m planing 4 varieties of squash (yellow, black beauty, butternut, and spaghetti) in a 6x2. 5 raised bed. Due to my limited space I’m going to put a tall trellis in the middle for them to climb. Let’s hope it works.
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operator1192
I’ve always loved winter squash (buttercup. My great-grandparents introduced me to them young when I helped them in the garden and I grow them in that very same garden and it evokes great memories. I planted like 5 seeds 2 years ago and I ended up with 96 good sized winter squashes.
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I’ve always loved winter squash (buttercup. My great-grandparents introduced me to them young when I helped them in the garden and I grow them in that very same garden and it evokes great memories. I planted like 5 seeds 2 years ago and I ended up with 96 good sized winter squashes.
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epic_gardening
I'm growing soybeans (from botanical interests) for the first time and they are doing amazing for central GA. No pests and they have an epic amount of pods on them in just 40 days. I did use burpee pea/bean booster innoculant which always gives me the best snow peas and spring peas
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I'm growing soybeans (from botanical interests) for the first time and they are doing amazing for central GA. No pests and they have an epic amount of pods on them in just 40 days. I did use burpee pea/bean booster innoculant which always gives me the best snow peas and spring peas
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GoingGreenMom
Are there differences in timing/etc when planting in containers on a rooftop Like I know I am good on tomatoes by mid-May, but just trying to figure out how much difference there is between containers in Chicago versus in ground in the lake effect to the east of Lake Michigan
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Are there differences in timing/etc when planting in containers on a rooftop Like I know I am good on tomatoes by mid-May, but just trying to figure out how much difference there is between containers in Chicago versus in ground in the lake effect to the east of Lake Michigan
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vicisaacperez2661
I've always liked planting and growing things it's always seem like straight up magic, but I gave up after having my plants wouldn't grow. Seeing your videos has re-inspired me I now have my own compost and im actually growing some watermelons. Thx for the spark.
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I've always liked planting and growing things it's always seem like straight up magic, but I gave up after having my plants wouldn't grow. Seeing your videos has re-inspired me I now have my own compost and im actually growing some watermelons. Thx for the spark.
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JasonsGreenSleeves
Great video! Growing plants from seed is so rewarding! I love the suggestions in this video! I need to start the butterfly pea flowers in my garden. Tagetes patula is amazing too! I love how you have the melons layered under those Zinnia's! Incredible: -!
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Great video! Growing plants from seed is so rewarding! I love the suggestions in this video! I need to start the butterfly pea flowers in my garden. Tagetes patula is amazing too! I love how you have the melons layered under those Zinnia's! Incredible: -!
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mynazarene1233
I really like all of your voices. You guys all have very calm, gentle voices that is pleasant to listen to. I know that sounds crazy, but I find that I am enjoying, listening to your content and each one of you have very nice voices- lol am I the only one
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I really like all of your voices. You guys all have very calm, gentle voices that is pleasant to listen to. I know that sounds crazy, but I find that I am enjoying, listening to your content and each one of you have very nice voices- lol am I the only one
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user-ei2nv6rk3d
we planted matoes and peppers in April and i knew it was going to frost and meant to cover them and completely forgot as well as my 5 large hibiscus plants i brought outside. all lost 100% of foliage from one bad frost. Never messed up this bad. UUUGHHHH
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we planted matoes and peppers in April and i knew it was going to frost and meant to cover them and completely forgot as well as my 5 large hibiscus plants i brought outside. all lost 100% of foliage from one bad frost. Never messed up this bad. UUUGHHHH
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