good morning everybody the delivery guy just came and I'm super excited I'm like
a kid at Christmas this is one of my many seed orders for the garden this
spring but I'm very excited about this one because this has a lot of my
favorite products and varieties that I use and grow every year so I want to
share my haul with you today now this is from Gurney's Seed & Nursery Company and
the first thing I've got in here is their vegetable food so Gurney's has a
full line of different foods and fertilizers for fruits and vegetables
and I think I've used all or almost all of them at this point the vegetable food
I like because it can be used on a wide array of items I usually use it on like
green beans and leafy greens and squash and things like that but I like the
whole line of Gurney's foods because they're a naturally based slow release
fertilizer slow release foods will give the plants a long slow sustainable
feeding which ultimately will lead to hardier, tougher plants which is really
what you want the synthetic fertilizers will give you pretty amazing very quick
results but that artificial growth surge is not what's best for the long-term of
the plant so I really like to use the slow release fertilizers the next
product I have in here is one that I've used every year for at least the
last six or seven years this is green step caterpillar control and I do not
like to use really any kinds of sprays insecticides fungicides anything like
that in my garden if I can help it however cabbage worms are my sworn
mortal enemy and at this point I'm an all-out war with them and this product
is a product which is really effective against cabbage worms I cannot grow a
cruciferous crop without taking some kind of preventive action I've tried
using row covers which actually work really well on a small scale and if you
get your timing just right you have to get them covered
before the adult cabbage moths are out and being active but I just have had a
really hard time staying on top of that the green step is a naturally occurring
bacteria BT I believe the pronunciation is bacillus thuringiensis I may be
totally butchering that but it's something like that basically from the
way that I understand it the caterpillars eat this while they're
eating the plants and it essentially makes their guts explode which is a
horrible terrible death but it's really really effective I feel
a little better about using this product than I do some of the harsher chemical
based products for the garden I really don't mind there being bugs on my
produce in general I always pick bugs off when I bring the stuff in to wash it
the problem is with like my cabbages and cauliflower and kale broccoli to a
lesser extent I cannot even grow a harvestable crop
because the cabbage worms do so much damage to the plants so I've found this
really effective this will be the first time I've tried this new ready to use
format so this is already mixed ready to go you just go out and spray it on your
plants in the past I'd use the concentrate which you mix up in a
sprayer and go out and spray it's just that for the amount of plants that I
need need to spray I really don't need much more than this so I'm excited to
try this new format and then I've got a bunch of seeds so like I said a lot of
these are my favorite varieties and I've grown these for multiple years the first
one if sweetie kohlrabi mix and I would love to hear from someone else am I the
only person that gets this excited about kohlrabi I don't know what it is like
I've always liked it we grew up my dad always always grew it in the garden but
the last couple years I've just gone crazy over it I think I ate it three
meals a day the entire spring while I had a kohlrabi harvest but this variety
I like really well it's actually a very beautiful purple and green mix and it
has an incredibly crisp juicy texture and a really nice sweet flavor with just
a hint of that nice mild cabbage flavor and I'll just cut it up to use it with dip
shred it into salads it's delicious roasted it's just a wonderful versatile
vegetable that I think is really underutilized
I've got Gurney's blue-ribbon broccoli and I love broccoli roasted broccoli is
delicious I use it in all kinds of dishes but Gurney's blue ribbon is the
only broccoli that I've grown that I can actually eat and enjoy raw it really has
a sweet flavor and a really nice tender texture and it puts on these big
beautiful heads really early in the season and the nice thing that I found
is after that primary head is harvested it continues to put on large side shoots
as long as the weather cooperates double delight sweet pepper now this is a mix
of red and gold I'm not just actually sure if this is a bullhorn or more of an
Italian fryer type but it's got that long conical shaped fruit and for
whatever reason I have found I have a lot better success with those types the
conical sweet peppers but I do with the big sweet bells I don't know why that is
I keep meaning to look into it but I have not yet but usually with the bell
peppers I have issues with where I'm just getting into them issues with sun
scald issues with them just rotting before they color all the way off and
it's really frustrating with the double delight I get it big harvests a big
fruit it colors up the fruit is perfect there's no blemishes there's no rotten
spots they're just really carefree and easy to grow and delicious now luffa
gourd this is one that I feel like has been on my wish list for like five years
where I've said I wanted to grow it and then for whatever reason I think usually
because I run out of space and never gets put in the garden loofah to me
looks like it would be a lot of fun I want to try growing it on
a cowl panel trellis I'm gonna put one over my two raised beds for a walkway
this year and I want to try growing the luffa gourd over that and I think it'll
be a good fit cause it's got big vigorous vines and then I think it will be really
handy to then use the mature gourds as the actual like dish scrubber cause we're
buying scrubbers from the store anyway that closely resemble the loofah and I
think this makes a lot of sense and I think the kids will find it really
fun too so this is gonna be the year I'm gonna do it this year
ah the Gherking pickler cucumber now this is one of my newer favorites I've been
growing this for the last two years and I grow pickling cucumbers every single
year we make a lot of pickles we eat a lot of cucumbers
but this so far has been one of my favorites so I have a lot of issues with
all the cucumber everything like everything they can get the cucumber
beetles downy mildew powdery mildew bacterial wilt like any problem that
cucumbers can have I get here in Ohio and this one I've had really good luck
with it seems eventually it will succumb to something later in the season and I I
do eventually lose the vines but this one seems to stay healthier later into
the season and the yields are just amazing this thing puts on so many
cucumbers and they stay this really nice like 3 to 4 inch size about an inch
thick they have that kind of warty gherkin type skin they make excellent
cucumbers they keep their texture they don't get soggy and soft like some
cucumbers - and they're really good for fresh eating - they don't have that
bitter skin like some cucumbers do and we've just between pickling and snacking on
these guys just eating them all season long this is Gurney's primo jalapeno hot
pepper and we grow jalapenos every single year we usually just brine them
and preserve them and for use all through the season but a couple years
ago someone suggested to me smoking jalapenos and if you have not smoked
jalapenos you must it was life-changing so my my husband loves smoking things
and the first year we tried this we just took a great big batch threw them on the
smoker cooked them down and they are delicious in all kinds of recipes and
then I actually just took those smoked jalapenos and froze some and then did
some in the same kind of like salt water brine that I did my fresh jalapenos and
they just add a great depth of flavor to kind of any recipe that you want to put
them in I strongly recommend trying smoked jalapenos and primo jalapeno is a
really great variety because it just has phenomenal yields beautiful peppers
large size no I I have not had any disease or pest problems on them and
like I said like one plant almost is enough for our family and we go through
a lot of jalapenos Miragreen pea is another perennial favorite for our
family I think I've been growing this every year for gosh
like at least the last ten years and it never gets old I really like Miragreen
because it is a pole type so I grow it up a fence or a trellis it has big
healthy plants it puts on a lot of pods and the pods are really long with a lot
of berries per pod it's got a great sweet taste and my kids love to just go
out in the garden and pick the peas and just shell them and eat them right in
the garden because they're really sweet and tender and delicious I always mean
every year to freeze more peas than I do but it's hard to even get any after the
kids have had their share and what I really like about this one besides the
flavor is it tends to continue to produce later in the season then even
other pole varieties and it keeps that really nice eating quality longer so
that's it for now stay tuned because as I get these things into the garden and
get things growing I'm going to be giving updates on all of these products
you can actually see them out in the garden and if you have any favorite
products or must grow varieties I would love to hear about those from you thanks
for watching and I'll see you next time