We asked YOU what the most over rated crops are in the garden, and these were your answers. Kevin reacts with his personal takes…let us know if you agree!
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00:00 – Intro
00:40 – Brad’s Atomic Grape
01:40 – Bell Pepper
02:35 – Potatoes
03:53 – Tomatillos
04:40 – Watermelon
05:49 – Corn
07:04 – Malabar Spinach
08:21 – Cilantro
09:39 – Summer Squash
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Do you agree or disagree with my takes? What are the most overrated crops to YOU?
I grow cilantro from seed specifically TO bolt, because it's so good for pollinators, as a trap crop, and as a companion plant. However, to delay bolting (which I often do when it's a companion), I trim it by about half several times before I finally say OK, bolt away. It also self seeds for the most part.
Brussels sprouts. I have 6 this year. They take up way too much room for the yield.
Yes, I have to have my potatoes.❤
I alsways do cilantro in my house so I can always control the heat. I keep it in a hydroplics system, but I am sure to could just plant it in a pot and put it on the windoseal and it will do fine. Does anyone know when to harvest corn, because I have it in my box, and it has the resembles of corn on the stalks. Thank you!
Watermelon issues? wtf, when i was a kid i would throw the left overs out into the yard and one summer i ended up having a huge vine with over 7 of em, course im in Louisiana soo
Corn is time, water and fertilizer intensive. You can find it 3 for a dollar here from local farmers. I'll never grow it again.
Cilantro is cheap at the store and a pain, it never is there when I need it, I throw seeds out and pray it does not bolt in a week after it germinates.
Potatoes are cheap to buy too and honestly I prefer russet for most things anyway. I will still grow some because they are fun, but they are not worth it to grow a bunch.
Eggplant, I grow it for my wife and she never uses it. I don't like it so I don't use it. Not in the garden this year.
Here in the Willamette valley the last few years we have 2 seasons, a 7 month winter and a 5 month Summer. Cool weather stuff just has not done well for me. Very frustrating coming from California.
I agree with bell peppers 3rd year and this year I have 4 big peppers which are turning red. Hoping to harvest them. The yellow I'm not doing to good with.
This is my third year trying to grow bell peppers 😩 first year I grew them inside and it got destroyed by a plague of thrips right before the fruit ripened. Second year they all got black mold or something and just shrivelled up black. This year all my 4 outdoor peppers are dying of black mold and I have 1(one) 30cm tall pepper plant in an indoor greenhouse with 3(three) flowers. At this point I just want a single solitary bell pepper 😭
Slow bolting cilantro is best used as a companion plant in raised beds or pots. I get 2-3 months of harvest from it this way.
I love zucchini in everything. I freeze it shredded and add it to soups and chilis to thicken them (have to let it cook until it breaks down)without using flour since I cook gluten free.
I think ive always been more of a production gardener but to me diversity has always been more of a common theme for my garden for many years, i think i just like watching plants ive never seen or heard of before grow, and seeing how well they produce and taste
Sweet potatoes never succeded to grow from slips, all cucumbers( even parthenocarpic give you 1 small fruit and a lot of diseases+ squash like you mentioned before)
Cilantro is getting expensive($2.00) so cilantro is never not gonna be mine, of course not in 10 Fahrenheit winters
I am so far 2 seasons into trying to grow watermelons and cantaloupes in Canada. It is not easy to do with our short seasons. My first season I did manage to grow one somewhat small cantaloupe that was ripe enough to eat, and that was awesome. This past season we had terrible weather and then when the cantaloupes and watermelons finally set fruit, all of them were lost to pests. 😢
Never gonna give up on homegrown watermelon since watching your video of cutting into one. Man I’m dying for that feeling 😂
I think zucchini is a great one to grow. I don’t eat a lot of it so one plant was enough for me to have it occasionally with my family through the season, and it grew some massive fruits for my first time growing them. Satisfying as hell harvesting a massive vegetable that you grew yourself.
The one time I grew a lone tomatillo plant from seed, it grew brilliantly and produced a crazy amount of fruit compared to my tomatoes. The fruit were a bit odd-tasting, but they grew on me with time and I found myself eating them raw as snacks. I'm planning to grow them again this year.
I always grow snap peas. Super tasty, hard to find in stores, and they grow so well. Purple peacock pole beans grow well here too, and taste better raw than any other pole bean I've tried. Lettuces/mescluns are great. Kale gives leafy greens at times of year when little else is coming from the garden – and then kale florets a little later. Red Russian is sweet after frost and tasty.
Carrots are hit and miss. Sometimes I get great crops, other times nothing. Parsnips are also erratic, but can do very well indeed.
Not ideal:
Beets I don't grow for myself, because I dislike the taste. Chard looks gorgeous but I haven't figured out what to do with it. I like winter squash, but I have trouble getting it to fruit – except zucchini, cucumbers and cucamelons. I like the last two, but don't like zucchini so I don't grow that for myself. Peppers don't grow well in my area – they need more heat, run into fall, and I don't have a greenhouse. Which is a shame because I love bell peppers and they're expensive here. I did find a small one I think called Jingle Bells which produced well – I should check if I can find that again. Peaches – they get peach leaf curl so badly it's not funny.
Blackberries are a special case. They grow themselves, but I don't grow them in my garden because I can go out and harvest as many wild ones as I can eat.
I live in a sub mediterranean zone. Doesn't get very cold in winter but gets super wet, dry summer but not a lot of heat and the lack of heat means some stuff doesn't ripen even though the growing season should be long enough.
I don’t like Malibar spinach but my chickens love it
Thanks for all the tips! you have inspired me to grow my green thumb. What mineral oils would you recommend to stop the corn worm?
I like growing corn. It’s one of those fun crops that gets really big and is so pleasing to see your hard work pay off.
However…I just found out I’m allergic to corn 😅
I am going to try cilantro as a microgreen indoors to see if it is more controllable to add to salsa in midsummer.