- Hi, I'm Parris and I've been conducting
an experiment with seeds.
I bought some expensive seeds
at my local home improvement store,
two to three dollars a pack for these Burpee Seeds.
And then at the Dollar Store,
I noticed they had four packs of seeds for a dollar.
So, 25 cents a pack seeds from American Seed.
And two months ago,
I planted these seeds in the backyard
in some raised containers.
One half of the container the Burpee Seeds.
One half of the container the American Seed.
And they've been exposed to the same elements,
same rain and wind.
I've been out there watering them equally
just about every day.
But now, it's harvest time.
We actually have some produce to harvest.
And some things have happened in the past month
you might wanna see.
So I'm about to head out to the backyard
and see how many bushels
of peas, carrots and beans I've got.
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- This is the 3rd video in this series.
I'll link to the other two
so you can see how the progress has been.
But just as a refresher,
these are my American Seed varieties.
And these are the Burpee seeds.
Eyeing me like you're gonna take a bite outta me.
Here's the garden.
I've got my two collecting bowls.
The orange bowl will be for the orange pack Burpee seeds,
which are all the plants
on the left side of these containers.
Here are the carrots.
Burpee, expensive seeds on the left,
American Seed, 25 cents packs on the right.
I'll pull some of those up shortly.
Here are the beans.
The major problem here is apparently I forgot
to plant the Burpee seeds on the left hand side.
And the peas.
You can see that the, on the right side,
the American Seed plants, they did well initially,
but they've got a lotta brown leaves now.
Though there are some pea pods that have grown,
so I'll take those and compare the peas to the Burpee peas.
And over here we have cantaloupe.
This container is actually all just the Burpee.
And this container is Burpee on the left,
American Seed on the right.
Some flowers, no small cantaloupe.
There's just not enough sun in this location,
where we have a tree up overhead.
It gets maybe three or four hours of morning,
early afternoon sunlight, but that's it.
And it really needs eight hours
in order to get some good looking cantaloupe.
Let's pull up some carrots here.
First American Seed carrots.
They're in there somewhere.
Come on.
There's a carrot.
Whoo, that's.
It's not a giant one,
but compared to the first thing I pulled out, much nicer.
Well lets go with the tallest of these
and assume that's attached to the biggest carrot.
Let's try to pull that out.
Nah, it doesn't quite work that way.
Okay, the Burpee seed carrots.
Am I getting gigantic carrots on this side?
Oh there's something big in there.
No, I guess not.
Pretty similarly sized.
Pretty similarly tiny.
Let's see, tallest one.
That would be this.
Okay.
Well it's a carrot.
The American Seed bean pods.
We'll open these up inside, see what the beans look like.
And the peas.
You can see what happened to the plants here
from the American Seed side.
Well that's one.
No seed pods on it.
Oh, the seed pods are on the other side.
Well that was clever of the plant, wasn't it?
These are also, these are from the American Seed.
And from the Burpee side.
Let's look for some bigger ones here.
Make sure they're actually on the Burpee plants.
Okay.
There is no cantaloupe harvesting to be done, sadly.
Just the flowers.
Yep.
Just not enough sun here.
You can see the pumpkin plans that I tried.
It's the same story.
A few leaves and then it went to blossom,
but there are not gonna be any pumpkins.
Just not enough sun to power the plants
to produce that big kinda fruit.
I've washed off the vegetables
that I brought in from the back.
Let me show you a close up of them, side by side.
These are the Burpee carrots,
these are the American Seed carrots.
And these pea pods
came from the more expensive Burpee seeds.
These from the American Seed.
And because of my mistake,
I only have bean pods from the American Seed.
I don't know if that tells so much though,
because 1st graders are given a wet paper towel and a bean
and they even manage to grow bean plants.
The only other way I know to compare carrots
is to taste them.
So let's see what the Burpee carrot tastes like first.
Carroty.
Very authentic carrot taste.
A little bitter up by the end of it there.
By the way the Burpee carrot variety
was Short and Sweet.
The American Seed variety is Chantenay.
Wonder if it tastes French.
Very different taste.
Surprisingly to me.
Much more carroty, but it had that little bitter astringent.
This is a much milder taste, but it also doesn't have that
bitterness to it.
Let's see what the peas look like.
These aren't like edamame, you can't just squeeze 'em out.
Look like peas.
Look like they could do with a little bit more time outside.
They don't quite wanna let go of the pod.
Here are the Burpee peas.
The variety is Burpeeana Early.
Here are the American Seed peas
and this variety is called Little Marvel.
What a cute name.
I wonder who gets to name the varieties.
And side by side, you can see the Burpee peas
are actually a fair bit smaller.
I would say the pea size I'm used to eating
is much closer to that produced by the American Seed.
And the beans.
I can only show you this from the American Seed bean plant.
This is Blue Lake 274.
Took them a lotta tries to get them this good.
Well there we have it.
Both brands seem to produce perfectly fine vegetables.
I think what might be most important
is to find a variety that you like
and then whomever makes that, buy it from that company.
Because I could definitely taste the difference
in those carrots between the two.
So find which one you like
and then maybe don't worry so much
about which brand it is or how much the seeds cost.
Between these two plates,
I don't know if we have enough for even one meal
for a rabbit.
But part of the fun of gardening
isn't getting lots of produce,
though that would be fun, though I haven't experienced it,
so I don't know what that feels like.
But it's fun to take a single seed, a single pea,
plant it, water it, watch it do its thing
and sprout and grow.
It produces flowers, the insects come and pollinate.
Sometimes they eat the plants, but if they don't
you may actually have something that you can eat yourself.
It's just really nice, even on a small scale,
even if you don't have a great garden
or great gardening conditions, like out back here,
we just don't have enough sunlight
to really have a bountiful garden,
but it's a nice experience for adults
and especially if you can bring in
some vegetables from your garden,
which your kids may or may not eat.
But at least you can show them, this is how it works,
this is where they come from.
They don't come frozen
in the freezer department at the store.
I'll post on Twitter if there are any more updates,
anything really surprising happens with the garden,
even if I get a tiny little cantaloupe or something,
I'll let you know on our Twitter account @EpicReviewGuys.
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