Vegetable Garden Mustard Green Harvesting and Freezing

[Tygenja]

I Enjoy your videos, been growing lots herbs and tomatoes for a while in my home in london,

[webcajun]

@Tygenja ...Glad you enjoy the vids......Donald

[rebeccapalga]

We have learned so much from you. We add salt to our water when we are soaking them for cleaning. The salt kills any bugs and they will float to the top.

[webcajun]

@rebeccapalga ...Thanks for the tip.....Donald

[peacelovehippychick]

how do you cook mustard greens? what do you put in them? maybe you could make a video on that. :o)

[231MasseyFerguson]

Mr. Donald, I am having trouble with my mustard greens. They are turning yellow! Why is this? We have got a few pickings out of them but not near as much as we should get. Do you have any advice on what I need to do? Think I should take the weedeater to them??Thanks! Oh, and I am 26 years old and live in Livingston Parish.

[webcajun]

@231MasseyFerguson ... we lived in Watson years ago. How old are they and have you been getting lots of rain? Have you fertilized? Where we lived the soil was very poor.........Donald

[231MasseyFerguson]

@webcajun I'm very familiar with the Watson area. I live a few miles below I-12 between Walker and Llivingston....The mustard greens are about a month or a month and a half old. It's maybe rained once or twice since then. I fertilized the ground 1 good time right before I disked and made the rows to get ready to plant....The turnips are growing, but the roots are small. We harvested a mess this evening, but they are small. I took the weed eater to the mustard greens. They should sprout out good.

[webcajun]

@231MasseyFerguson ... My mustard are usually ready to cut between 6-8 weeks. The colder it gets the slower some vegetables will grow. Give em a little time..........Donald

[231MasseyFerguson]

@webcajun THANKS!...... Will a hard freeze kill them? The vegetables we have growing are mustard greens (picked em and ate em Several times), turnips (very small roots, but got our 1st pickin today), green onions (already got enuff to put in the freezer), garlic (not doing much at all), and cabbage (heads are just starting to form). YOU ARE A VERY INSPIRATIONAL PERSON AND HAVE THE BEST VIDEOS ON THE INTERNET. PERIOD!

[webcajun]

@231MasseyFerguson ... the greens, onions and garlic will be fine. Turnip I don't grow so not sure about them. The cabbage MAY be hurt by ice and a real hard freeze. Glad you enjoy the videos.........Donald

[231MasseyFerguson]

@webcajun Thanks again, and I sent you an e-mail.

[Kedeaux]

Love it! Thanks so much for your help!!

[webcajun]

@Kedeaux ... Yeah it's that time of the year again. Got about 50 ft. planted (I know that's a lot) hoping to get some cold weather on them to make em taste so much better...........Donald

[myshizzleneal]

love all your videos mr donald, you did however leave out key part to mustard greens. they are dang good eatin. goodness gracious alive, give me some cornbread and some greens and im livin large thanks for sharing, neal in ga

[webcajun]

@myshizzleneal ... Hey Neal, you're right about that. Ate my first ones fresh out the garden a couple of weeks ago. They have since grown back and ready to cut again. I can make a meal just out the greens............Donald

[kulkarniar]

This is a great video. I grew mustard (any plant for that matter) for the first time this year. So I was wondering how to harvest them (yay!) when I found your video. Conditions are a bit different here in the Pacific NW but your advice is very useful for a clueless urbanite like me. Thanks!

[webcajun]

@kulkarniar ... glad it was helpful......Donald

[dljones33]

Now THAT is a knife!!! It is sort of like swatting flies with a sledge hammer lol.  But hey, it works good. Thanks for the vids. They are really neat. I especially enjoy them after a long hard day in the office. It is nice to get back to nature and play in the dirt.

[webcajun]

I use that cane knife for all sorts of things from cutting mustard to cutting branches. Glad you enjoy the vids...... Donald

[webcajun]

It also comes in handy for cleaning large gar fish....... Donald

[blacksmithtech]

Donald,

Thanks for the cane knife info - not much sugar cane in Illinois :) so that may be why I have never seen one!

Love the dogs in the way - reminds me of my knot-head lab, they always want to be involved. Take care - Mike

[blacksmithtech]

Donald - love the videos!

What is that harvest machete you use on the greens??

Never seen one like it - Thanks for the info -

[webcajun]

It's called a "Cane Knife" used to cut sugar cane in the old days. That hook sure comes in handy for all sorts of thngs........ Donald

[LEEBLANTYRE]

your video,s are great!!!,im starting to plant myself your a real insperation thanks

[webcajun]

My approach to gardening is "keep it simple". Thanks and you're welcome...... Donald

[500passwords]

great video , like your laid back style and your accent.

[webcajun]

What accent?  LOL ...... Donald

[OhItsJustMe2]

HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING!!!!

[webcajun]

Yall too!

[ussyless]

how long do those mustard greens take to grow? they are a spring/summer crop, right?

[webcajun]

Mustard Greens are a cool weather crop mostly grown in the fall and spring gardens. I planted these Sept. 19 and cut the first harvest Oct. 22 (about 5 weeks). They can be harvested about every 2 weeks after that...... Donald

[ussyless]

thanks=P they only take 2 weeks to grow back? neat

[mywootgarden]

do you do voice overs? the audio is allways so nice. any special treatment to your vids sound?

[webcajun]

Sennheiser wireless microphone. See the first vid in my "Favorites" ...... Donald

[JCarter3000]

Nice onions. Are those from seeds?

[webcajun]

Yes they are from seed planted directly into the garden. Same ones I planted in the "Vegetable Garden - Fall Garden Part 2" video a little over a month ago. I think they were about 4 weeks old in this vid. Starting to see little bulbs forming...... Donald

[DoctorsWife56]

We always just ate 'em up. Thanks for showing how to keep some for later when you aren't the mood to wash, look and cook. Great video.

[webcajun]

My favorite way of putting them up is cooking em down, with the bacon, onions, and Tony's seasoning then freezing em. When you want some just throw the block in a pop and heat em up. If I had to wash, look and cook each time, I wouldn't eat them nearly as often...... Donald

[DoctorsWife56]

A frost sweetens 'em. For us, just fatback bacon & salt. I start eating 'em when they melt down about 10 minutes when I was a kid. My dad used to laugh at that. Funny how your best memories are about food, especially what you grew... Donna

[blowinganddrifting]

I am sure I would like it. If you notice in my videos we crammed all our growing into a few months. One thing though, the hurricane was bad, we get snow storms but not with damage like that!! Glad to see your place back in shape. Dean

[blowinganddrifting]

I have enjoyed your videos for a few months now. Up here in Michigan I have been done with the garden for a couple weeks and preping for snow plowing. Video of that to follow. Dean

[webcajun]

You would really enjoy it down here in Louisiana with our long growing season...... Donald