when gardening you end up growing some vegetables that are excellent
and some vegetables that are exceptional in today's video we look at the top
5 vegetables that you must grow in your garden because they just grow so well
first up are peppers the winner in the pepper category
is anaheim chili peppers the anaheim chili peppers are one pepper variety
that are not only very prolific but they are also very easy to grow
and are extremely disease resistant you can start and ham chili peppers from
seeds or you can plant them directly by
getting transplants from the nursery but in either case you will get amazing
looking pepper plants as you see here these are the ones that
we grew from seed in a whiskey barrel container
and these are just amazing plants the peppers
are extremely good tasting they're mostly sweet with a little bit of heat
and they just grow amazingly well both in containers or in raised beds
and surprisingly this pepper plant is very resistant to insects and diseases
so you can grow some very healthy pepper plants we have been growing so for
several years now the anaheim chili peppers are also very
productive they produce abundantly and this is one
pepper variety that i highly recommend for any home gardener
our runner-up in this category is the bird's eye chili pepper
if you're looking for a hotter pepper variety and need a pepper plant that
produces abundantly look no further than the bird's eye
chili pepper this chili pepper plant will produce
peppers in clusters as you can see here and can be easily
grown in containers raised bed or the ground in fact we even
had one bird's eye chili pepper plant that was growing indoors
and it's still produced abundantly it produces
a lot of chili peppers that are extremely hot and you can even wait for
them to mature they turn red when mature and you can
even prepare chili powder from them but all in all a great pepper variety
moving on to tomatoes our winner in the tomato category is the
juliet tomato now you might have seen my videos on
growing the juliet tomato we have been growing this for many years now
and this is one abundantly productive tomato variety
it's also resistant to a lot of insects and diseases
this tomato variety starts producing very early
i have started seeing tomatoes in this plant as early as january in southern
california and you can harvest it very late almost
till october or november in some areas now the best thing about
the juliet tomato plant is that it is very resistant to
insects and diseases so it's very easy to grow for any home gardener
but it also produces abundantly and the fruits stick to the plant for a long
time and you can see the fruit here it is
larger than a cherry tomato but is also smaller than a regular size
tomato but all in all it's a great tomato
variety it packs a lot of flavor and it's something that i highly
recommend that you all should try growing
our runner up for the tomatoes is the red pride hybrid tomato
the red pride hybrid tomato is a very compact plant
as you can see here the plant just grows to about a foot
maybe two feet and it produces these abundant
blooms right in the center that become full-size tomatoes
very quickly now for the space that this tomato plant takes
it's hard to find a comparable tomato variety that produces so many tomatoes
in such a compact space so this is a tomato container gardener's
dream come true it is a very compact plant and produces
these large juicy tomatoes and that too in a very
short time and you can get the red pride hybrid
seeds in most nurseries most garden stores
and you even have an option to buy transplants so that you can grow your
own and moving on to eggplants our winner in the eggplant category is
the little prince eggplant this eggplant variety which can be
bought as seeds from Renee's garden seeds
can be easily grown in containers you can grow three or four plants very
easily in a whiskey barrel sized container
like this one that you see here and the reason i like growing this eggplant
variety is because the eggplants are absolutely
delicious these small eggplants pack in a lot of
flavor and this plant is an abundant producer
it will produce clusters and clusters of eggplants
all through the growing season and this plant is also very resistant to insects
and diseases our runner-up in this category for
eggplants is the black beauty eggplant the black beauty eggplant is a very
common eggplant variety that you will find in a lot of garden
centers nurseries the seeds are very easy to buy as well
and this eggplant produces huge eggplants as
you can see here which are also delicious the only thing
about the black beauty eggplant is that the eggplants contain a lot of water
but if you're grilling your eggplant or cooking it in a way that
will remove all the excess water this eggplant variety will give you a huge
amount of eggplants in a very compact sized plant
and moving on to radish in this category our winner is the minowase radish
the minowase radish is one of the most grown radish varieties
and if you've been following my videos for a while this is one variety that i
like to grow now the minowase variety is mistakenly
sold as the daikon variety but the daikon variety is a different
variety it's a japanese radish variety but the minowase grows
these long radish roots as you can see and i have
grown the minowase radish in raised beds as well as in containers extremely small
containers too and they've never disappointed me this
plant produces really nice looking radish roots which have the
classic pungent radish taste and they look beautiful and they're
extremely delicious our runner-up in this category is the
white icicle radish now the white icicle radish is another
very commonly available radish variety especially sold as seed packets you can
easily propagate them from seeds and radishes usually can't be bought as
transplants but you can direct sow these radish seeds very easily
and the reason i like the white icicle radish is just because it's an excellent
producer and this is not one of your radishes
that's gonna stay in the ground for you know 60 to 90 days just like the
minowase radish this radish variety produces very
quickly and gives you beautiful looking radish
and finally let's look at okra our winner in this category
is the nombo giant okra the nombo giant okra is a heirloom variety that i have
been growing for many years now it's extremely easy to start from seeds
indoors before the last frost date and then transplant your
seedlings into containers they grow excellent in containers and
they grow very well in raised beds as well
and this plant gives out a huge burst of okras
right from the beginning you can see here it produces these okras in clusters
all around the plant stem and these okras are quite large now
unlike conventional okra which becomes mature very quickly the nombo
giant okra will be on the plant for quite a long time
and once the season is over you can save the seeds from your nombo giant okra
plant and store them for many years to come a
runner-up in the okra category is the baby bubba okra now the baby bubba
okra is one new okra variety we tried for this
year but overall it was a very prolific
variety we grew this in whiskey barrel containers
and we planted a lot of okras together in this whiskey barrel container
and they still grew pretty well now we were able to harvest a lot of okras from
this baby bubba okra plant and it's meant for growing in containers
but i'm sure you can grow it in raised beds as well as in the ground
and these are delicious okras they remind me of the jambalaya okra
which i tried many years ago and the jambalaya okra is one variety i will try
for the next year as well and as we learn gardening we come across
new okra varieties the jambalaya for example is one variety
i will try growing again next year but all in all this year the baby bubba
okra was an incredible okra variety that produced abundantly and it was also
resistant to a lot of pests and diseases so overall the runner-up okra the baby
bubba okra variety is also a great variety to grow in your
home garden especially if you're limited for space
so which are your top five vegetables to grow in your home garden
are there any vegetables that are very prolific that you love growing each year
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