Ok so I totally screwed up

[KillaPutato]

Of course, if we could all get paid to be wrong...damn weatherman...LOL:) I get anxious too, because I watch these seedlings grow since March and I want to get them in the ground. I realize it's me...I just can't wait to smell the dirt and play in it. I'm sending you patience...can u feel it? LOL:)

[mrshammerhankus]

you are so cute and adorable! keep up the great videos, very informative, good and bad, (the frost is bad) the backup plants =good!

[Pepsicarwash]

Do the sunflowers come back every year or do you have to replant them?

[Praxxus55712]

@Pepsicarwash You have to plant seeds each year for them to come back. They're an annual.

[CraftFamilyMO]

yeah, I learned the hard way about hardening my plants... 2 years in a row! I had great seedlings that really shot up and looked fantastic, but I didn't know what hardening was... so I would transplant them outside, and then they pretty much all died... Good thing I learned from my mistake early in the season last year, and I was able to just put the seeds directly in the dirt in time to grow stuff!

[TheSkadooshMove]

So, if I have a wide enough and deep enough container, you think I could grow potatos in the winter time all the way through to maturity rather than just start in January to start them? how deep would you say they need to grow potatos?

Your videos are giving me too many ideas and i want to try them all! It's awesome! I have several plants in my sunroom already! Can't wait to grow more! Thanks for the info!

[Praxxus55712]

@TheSkadooshMove You could grow taters in a container if you have enough room for them to develop but from all that I've seen of other gardeners, the harvest is substantially less. They require very rich soil and more water than some other plants due to the potato-making aspect. It can definitely be done though. I would plant them low in a pot and build the soil around the stems as they grow. This will definitely help.

[RobinsRandom]

I love your videos... I hope its ok that I have mentioned you one of mine, I think everyone deserves a chance to learn from you...

[jedijohnny]

dude, your halarious and informative. i am soooo jealous of your gardens...You try lots of different things that give me ideas..anyways i really Dig...llolol gardening and getting into this youtube stuff..keep posting man..jedijohnny

[Praxxus55712]

@jedijohnny Thanks for tuning in JediJohnny. I try to be serious but I always seem to fall back into being myself.........which is rarely serious and a bit scatterbrained. :)

[bomber2240]

thats cool its mothers today 2 years later :) haha

[22justus2]

saved hybrid seeds means you get either the mother or father that combined to make the hybrid. You can see the genetic diversity in the tomato plants you show here.

[bobinmissouri]

well here it is going into winter again love watching these shows it makes the winter blues a little easyer to handel lol ty Ray for making them and teaching me some new things my pinapple didn't make it i don't know what i did lol but i do have 4 avacotes trees that are 3ft tall that i started in the spring

[Praxxus55712]

@bobinmissouri Sorry your pineapple didn't make it. Sometimes that happens. Even one of mine died. I had three. Two survived, so that's pretty cool. I'm doing an avacado experiment. The results should be uploaded in a couple weeks or so. Green growing things inside definitely helps me stay sane in the winter. :)

[MJB1910]

If your not to far north, you can proply direct seed them, like i do. Its a lot easier cuz i was never that good at harden things off -- cuz you have to bring them in and out, for like two weeks daily and i have a lot of vegables, lol.

[iampchaupt]

Yup, as we say in Wisconsin, there are two kinds of people who predict the weather. Tourists and morons. Stoopid weatherman lol.

[bagger101]

if you dont slowly condition them for outside they`ll get like that from the intense light from the sun

[Praxxus55712]

@bagger101 That's excellent advice! Thanks. :)

[marcjtdc]

@Praxxus55712 I second that, harden those suckers off. Thats what I do with my weed anyways :P

[cootiebooboo]

Ray, I planted sunflowers indoors and they're ready to go outside. Should I plant them deep, up to their little leaves like tomatoes?

[Praxxus55712]

@cootiebooboo I wouldn't plant them that deep. I'd plant them so they're a little deeper than they were in the pot. A couple inches of stem buried is what I do.

[jerrydff7]

i love your videos lol

[eredy]

i used a sheet one yr

lol

[theamazingplant2]

that mean you mentioned sounds good :) you HAVE to tell us how to make it!

[Praxxus55712]

@theamazingplant2 If I can ever remember how to make it. I forget alot! lol

[321man1]

Omg i always say sad face lol

[Brndon076]

i planted the rest of my cucumber seeds and EVERYONE came up. lol so now i have about 25 cucumber plants in about a 3x3 space.

[Praxxus55712]

Brndon076, you're going to have a monolithic harvest of cukes. No human can eat that many and survive. LOL

[niffer58]

im curious? you use alot of compost i notice do you use all compost to plant your seeds inside too? what combination do you use if any...

[Praxxus55712]

For starting seeds and growing plants indoors, I use about 2/3 pure compost and 1/3 peat moss. It's pretty rich, but the new plants go crazy and grow fast in it. Alos you don't have to add any fertilizer at all while they're growing inside. :)

[niffer58]

awsome, well i will definatly try that. i will let you know how it goes next year if you like. just wish i could move more north. hopefully very soon. keep up the great video's it has been very helpful. Give me a good laugh too.

[niffer58]

ok i got to ask you.. i have heard keep all your seeds in a freezer. and i have heard fridgerator, or in a cool dry location. now in my cool dry location being the garage it gets really really cold is there any kind of seeds that you do not keep in the cold? where do you keep your seeds? and do the fruit seeds keep well in a cold location. cold meaning my garage probably gets as cold as outside and right now is getting about 25 degrees or lower at night.

[Praxxus55712]

I've heard that keeping them in the fridge in an airtight container such as a jar with a lid is the best idea. I don't disagree with that. I personally just toss mine in a ziplock baggie, push out the air and toss the ziplock in a padded envelope in my desk. LOL I know it's totally not the right way but the seeds never seem to mind. They're tougher than people give them credit for.

[niffer58]

i did that too had it sitting at the top of my closet in ziplock bags which is what it came in and then in the yellow padded envelope they were shipped in as well. I then put them in my seed box (a cardboard box) i had them in my closet. but was thinking that was not cool enough for them so i put them in the garage. i have several delivery packages of many seeds :) Im not sure if it will hurt them any getting that cold then warm. i may put them in the fridge to keep them a regular temp.

[niffer58]

although after thinking about it seeds natually don't stay a steady tempature... LOL

[limeslimey]

Hello! Speaking of back ups, I have been seed trading.

I have two different varieties of lettuce. I think I

will try container gardens... Practically all my plants died except the scarlet runner beans are doing better... Oh well... I don't think I will grow in Jiffy next year. Found an earthworm in my garden today.

There must be something good in there.

[Praxxus55712]

Container gardens would be pretty easy and also would give you the time to build up your garden soil for another attempt in a couple years or so. It's always a learning process and alot of mistakes and successes......but it's just so much fun. By the way, almost all of my tomatoes in the earlier videos died from two late frosts after this video. I felt bad for a bit. Then I went to the nursery and bought a couple and had a coke and enjoyed the day planting them. :)

ps: Your grape looks great

[makehimhealthy]

Your cucumbers are huge! What kinds are they?

[Praxxus55712]

They're called "Hybrid Bush Pickle". I prefer pickling cukes because they seem to taste better to me. I pick them when they're itty bitty and eat them skin and all. Ok, now I went and done it.............I'm hungry AGAIN! :(

[AugustusLarch]

You cannot trust weathermen. Take a cue from their general appearance. They are all pasty faced soft bellies immersed into a computer screen and records.

Take your weather advice from farmers, pilots, and cattlemen. They live the weather.

I call the broadcast forcasts "allusions on a trend" because that is exactly what they are. 12 hours is all you can count on from them.

There are two types of hybrids. There is intraspecic and interspecific hybrids. The latter has wonky growth.

[bookhound63]

Excellent tips. I have a question. Can you take seeds from a pepper bought at the grocery store and plant them straight away or do they need to "cure" first? Or do they do something to them so they won't grow at all?

[Praxxus55712]

Bookhound63, as far as I know you can definitely grow pepper plants from seeds of peppers you buy in the store. I recommend drying the seeds a week or so and then planting them. This discourages mold from decaying the seed. You don't need to cure the seeds though. YYou want to be sure to use very ripe peppers though. I tried growing peppers from seeds I saved from peppers that were not quite fully ripe and none of them sprouted. Pepper seeds are a bit finicky sometimes.

[bookhound63]

Thanks, that's probably what happened to the ones I tried (mold). I didn't dry them out first. I will definitely try that.

[kwvrad]

as usual your videos are very enlighning and sometimes funny, nice work ! place is looking really nice...

[swaracaroline]

Wow, great videos! I just started my very first vegetable garden. I'm near Montreal, Quebec in Canada though...so I started all my plants indoors a few months ago and now I am starting to plant outside... I bought every single package of seeds I could find and I will post videos as well soon with my progress and/or failure :) I'll keep you posted! LOVE your videos, PLEASE keep them up!!!

[Praxxus55712]

I think buying seeds is one of my favorite thing about spring. I tend to go overboard. I'm gonna have so many extra seeds that I plan on planting spinach, lettuce and radishes next to my desk this next winter....ummm....and....ummm.­.(don't laugh)...a corn plant. :)

[crewlla]

:( I'm crying with you and I feel bad for you. we got snow again today. Back up's ha ha. me too. I cant seem to grow gabbage dont know why but mine always dies.

[Praxxus55712]

When does it stop snowing in your area???? August? lol

[crewlla]

mmmmmmmmmmmm some years we have had snow in july. so strange. One day is nice the next it floods the next snow the next nice. This is Alberta canada's spring. what a laugh.

[3CoolKats]

Yep, I feel your pain. I've have tons of things frostbit in the past. Usually when frost is not forecast. All your stuff really looks healthy. My peppers and tomatoes are looking a little pale. I *think* it's because of a cool spring and too much rain but sometimes you just never know. I'm planting sweet corn this year for the first year in a while and so far it looks good.

[Praxxus55712]

I love sweet corn! Gurney's catalog sells a brand called "Gotta have it" hybrid corn. The cool thing about it is it's short season, puts out decent sized ears AND keeps for a week or more in the fridge and stays as fresh and sweet as the day it was picked. That's AMAZING! I'll let you know if it's too good to be true. I'm growing it this year. Good luck on your corn too! :)

[Blinkazoid]

I guess I'm not too adventurous with the newer hybrids. I'm planting the same thing I always do. Golden Queen and Silver Queen. I actually mix the seed up so they'll cross pollinate better. I wind up getting both types of kernals on the same ear. Supposedly some of the newer hybrids are super sweet but these are sweet enough to suit me and I've always had good luck with them.

[Praxxus55712]

Did you grow corn last year Blink? I saw your okra and was freaked out by the sheer size of it. I literally forgot everything else about your garden after I saw those monolithic man-eating plants. The only thing I could think was "Gonna need a chainsaw to cut those things down". lol

[Blinkazoid]

This is the first year in about 5 years that I've grown corn. I kinda got burned out on processing it the last time I grew it is why I've laid off of it so long. I miss having the corn though. I could live without having to silk it. Silking corn is about the most tedious task ever!

I waited until this spring to cut down those giant okra stalks. They were much easier to cut than they would have been last fall.

[ashleestarzec]

wow! sorry about your frost misfortune but awesome that you have replacements :) thanks for the reminder that I have to harden my plants up this week!

[stepherz76]

Yeah, seed saving with heirlooms is best. I'm sorry about the frost. I've had that happen at the beginning of June. And this year I accidentally left a whole tray of seedlings out and it got too cold that night. The whole lot were dead in the morning. I actually cried...

Good luck!

[webcajun]

The weather, bugs, animals and of course my mistakes has me starting plenty extra too. I made a poor choice in tomatoes this year and have already replace half of them due to disease.  Another great video with good info. Enjoyed it........ Donald

[Praxxus55712]

Really sorry about your tomatoes Donald. I sort of regret saving seeds fom my hybrids, but I did buy an heirloom this spring. I'll save seeds from it and the cherry tomatoes I guess. I'm sort of afraid to save seeds from my hybrids anymore. I might end up with a two headed triffid (man-eating plant in old grade B movie)or something.

Sorry about your tomato deaths. I guess it's a neverending learning experience with us huh? lol

[mywootgarden]

i wanna see your peas and radishes... jack frost just keeps craping on your garden, but soon ra the sun god shall send him back to his lair~~ and the salvation of your garden shall be at hand!

[Praxxus55712]

mywootgarden, I'll show them in the next garden vid, ok? They sprouted and are doing fine. Luckiliy, spinach loves cool weather. Whew!

[Dewhursm]

I love your videos, they are informative and damned funny! "vertically challenged", or it's a "special" plant....that had me cracking up! I can't WAIT to see the finished product! I started very small, just tomatoes and cucumers. So far they are not dead! lol! hurray! If I actually get a tomato or a cucumber, I shall take a pic and post!

Michelle in GA (friends call me mitch) ;-)

[Wizechris1]

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Look at comment below!!

[Wizechris1]

The cherry tomato leaves are really dark green, cause i throw them in the window with full sun. I babied the long leggy better boy tomatoes, that would explain the light coloredness.. Green Peppers are doing great. Cucumbers on second set of leaves. The peas, carrots, cukes, garlic are outside. The rest inside. The last frost date was April 15th, but the night are pretty colld you need a jacket. ill wait awhile. My compost have been hijacked by dozens of earthworms, and one leopard spotted slug.

[Praxxus55712]

Wizechris, earthworms in your compost is a good thing! :)

[BalconyGrow]

Next time try using bedsheets. I always find they're perfect for a light protection against frost. ~Jeri

[jayandallie5]

Hey I am new to gardening but I made raised beds along with hoop houses. A friend saved her gallon jugs. I cut the tops off and put them over the new plants. Between the two I didn't have to harden them off and good on the frost so far. But who know? I live in Colorado and the weather is crazy! It can go from the 80's to freezing. Thus the hoop houses and mini green house. Just a idea. Love your stuff-allie

[Praxxus55712]

Hoop coverings are a great idea. You're very creative for a newbie at gardening. I have a feeling YOU'RE going to be teaching ME before too long. LOL :)

I lived in Colorado for a few years. You're definitely not kidding about it having some iffy weather. I was there in 88 or 89 when the bliizard shut down Denver and Mayor Frederico Pena said "Let the sun do it's job" when asked about what he planned to do about digging the city out. HAHAHAHA Priceless!

[tnjeffofalltrades]

"Too much reality all at once" hahaha

amen brother, i feel that way sometimes.

[stymye]

good stuff ! Alot of times the hybrid seeds will produce a cherry type tomato because they breed alot of varietys with cherry tomatoes for the flavor factor. It's fun to see what happens

[Praxxus55712]

Looks like I'm in for ALOT of cherry tomatoes then. This should be a very interesting tomato year. LOL

[HLCpromow]

Frost will get ya!! I see you were ready for it. Great vid