If you’re new to gardening, it’s intimidating to grow from seed. There are a lot of things that can go wrong, so here are 9 of my favorite foolproof crops to try growing from seed. I selected these for their popularity, germination time, and relative ease of growing to harvest without any major issues:
1. Beans – Dragon’s Tongue, Contender
2. Cucumbers – Marketmore 76, Iznik F1
3. Beets – Chioggia, Golden, Badger Flame
4. Brassicas – Dazzling Blue Kale, Beni Houshi Mizuna
5. Radish – Black Spanish, Daikon, French Breakfast
6. Peas – Desiree Dwarf Blauwshokker
7. Summer Squash – Crookneck, Pattypan, Zucchinis
8. Lettuce – Lunix, Salanova, Little Gem
9. Sunflowers – Autumn Beauty, Golden Bear, Moulin Rouge
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My cucumbers got absolutely murdered by some caterpillars/worms. I pulled them out and rotated out from some new soil so hopefully there wont be any remaining eggs or anything. I bought some neem oil so I hope it helps.
Can i just ask please what is that plant behind you with the wooden support on the left, it is beautiful?
I love to grow and eat radishes but I never can seem to grow a very big radish what can you add into your soil for big plump radishes
I love dragons tongue bush beans.
I can't seem to get a good root on radish or beats.
Love peas.
Lettuce and kale super easy.
damn you and your linguistic skills….
Hi, thanks for the garden tips. BTW you look a lot like a Latvian Celeb Māris Grigalis. Cheers and stay safe.
What do you mean by form a crown with I've never grown cauliflower so I'm not sure how you do that
Hands down my favorite radish is the watermelon radish – not only tasty but very pretty too! Also, I have found that if you don't water as much, or it's a dry year, the radishes can get quite hot in flavor.
Thank you for the encouragement. I'm starting my first 4' x 4' bed with added containers this year after too many years not gardening, and I'm grateful for your channel and you!
Omg we use the same seed company! The rainbow orach is my favorite.
I eat raw beets and they taste heavenly
We tried sunflower but squirrels completely destroyed them
Beats = Tasty dirt
that squash's name just means 'green and yellow' in French.
Dehydrated beetroot chips are so good! Roasting beets with crushed cinnamon is good too.
I found your channel just recently. Your videos and advice are indeed useful. You are very good! I m thankful to have found you! Your gardening is EPIC!
Just picked up a bunch of seeds from menards, burpees of course-they can be quite a bit when you end up buying like 20 at once. ^.^;;;
Got a good number of different cucumbers including one I'm excited for, a lemon cucumber, found something cool, a purple radish I'm excited about, and various herbs/lettuce greens.
now I just need to make my raised beds. I have a feeling I won't be planing a lot outside this year, but I'll try planting some of the purple radishes and lemon cucumbers in a pot because I don't think I can wait on those and save some seeds for next year. maybe even let them go to seed to see if I can regrow the same plant. ^.^
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Thanks for the tips!
Can you take the shell off the sunflower seed and germinate it from that? A lot of hard shelled seeds need the shell removed to get 'instant' germination results. For example I've broke the shells of plums and lemons to get them to germinate. I am trying germinating olives after cracking them… well see. Will sunflower seeds work the same?
that bean said?
I started gardening a month or so ago. My collection is growing greatly, and I’m enjoying it. Thanks!
You should test out the garden hacks
I am growing spaghetti squash and it is growing very fast and big.
I love beet juice
mother : what do you wanna become when you grow up?
son : I WANNA BE A HARDCORE GARDENER!
(grows cannabis and gets in jail lol)
Hello. I’ve been trying to find your video on how to grow lentils. Can I plant the dried lentils from the grocery store and just plant them? Thank you!!