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Swiss chard is high in oxalates.
I do grow a lot of "favorites" but i always try new things every year – long beans, goji berry, and this year red amaranth.
I feel like we Swiss chard along time ago as well.
I like to experiment with some crazy superfood. I usually like them and would eat them even if I didn’t like them if someone tells me they’re healthy! My family on the other hand asked me why I don’t plan more things that people eat! Lol maybe I go too far over to 10% ?
My lItalian heritage has many different vegetables including Swiss chard I look for this delicious veg in winter. I live in New England no delicious greens in winter😊
I love having an "experimental crop" in the garden every year. Last year I had leeks and sugar beets. This year purple and cheddar cauliflowers. My husband is one of the really, really boring gardeners and even more boring when he eats. As someone who sells at our local farmers market, some heirloom tomatoes are the easiest "fringe" veggie to sell especially if they are red. Other colors, not so much. Most people don't know what a gooseberry is, or what a rutabaga is, or any squash beyond a jackolantern or acorn squash. In September I always have 2-3 every market stare in wonder on how I can have rhubarb and just nod and walk away when I say it's swiss chard.
I like trying new varieties, but also have to be cognizant I have a small urban garden with limited space and if we end up not liking it, it can be a waste. So i try a few new things here and there, but definitely take up more space with tried and trues.
It is easier to convince my mom to try new varieties of known things (like a new tomato, squash or eggplant) than it is to get her to try something wholly unfamiliar like swiss chard.
Scalloped squash and Japanese eggplants have become a favorite of ours.
I have got carried away with new things this year. Mashua, yuca, oca. The temperature and climate can restrict choices. Greenhouses and polytunnels open that out a bit.
Food prices have been steadily increasing over the past 15 years or so, and some prices have continued to rise since 2020. Like many people, during lockdown is when I started to explore growing some of my food at home. I started growing my own lettuce, Swiss chard, mustard greens, beet greens, and kale hydroponically. And I eventually looked at what I could grow outdoors. My growing space is fairly limited (my deck and patio under the deck), which limits what I can grow and how much I can grow. I did a ton of research on what I could grow in my limited space, and what would be the best way of growing it. In my search for veg that will grow well in my space as well as zone, I found a ton of different veg that I had never considered to grow at home. In my research, I learned that I could grow some of the larger veg I wanted to grow vertically in grow bags, and this year I have added a few vertical planters. Also, for the first time, I am trying my hand at growing potatoes (so far so good). I am also trying different varieties of vegetables I love (peppers, tomatoes, squash, sweet potatoes, and beans). Variety is the spice of life!
I just planted some salsify and culantro seeds yesterday. I'm very curious to try them both
I loved this chat! Eating outside of the box or growing is one of the best things I have done in my life. I grew up eating bland food and when I started cooking it opened me up to so many other flavours and then seeing if I could grow any of it to add to our diet. I even use the chick weed and lambsquarters for our salads as well as dandelion leaves. They are free and require no work on my part 😂.
I did it backwards. Almost my entire garden is full of stuff I haven't tried before 😅
Hey Luke, I''m a 67-year-old gardener living in the middle of Kansas. Swiss Chard is awesome. it is loaded with vitamins and minerals I think you should have included this in that short video maybe you can expand more on it if you would research I enjoy your videos maybe you can expand on this a little bit more I enjoy your videos you and your family take care
Swiss chard tastes like blood to me. Beets too. Yuck. Arugula tastes like diesel.fumes, and yes cilantro tastes like soap.
Tried growing strawberries this year. So far so good. What next? Yellow tomato🤷
Do a video on overrated crops
so awesome
I tried goosefoot or lambs quarters for the first time recently. I had no idea it was so good! Even better than spinach, it doesn’t disappear the same, it’s my new favorite weed!
the variety of tomatoes that i have is old german tomato, cherry tomato, big beef tomato.
I already have blooms on 1 tomato plant
Every year I try something new. I have found that I want to allot more space to the things we actually use a lot of, that I preserve, or that store for months. Carrots, onions, garlic, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, beans
I am trying cauliflower and brussel sprouts, and last year we enjoyed the few eggplant I tried. This is fun, but I am not sure how I will preserve, except freezing. I bought some inexpensive starts. We will see.
I have found that only scallop squash and one other heirloom do well because they resist squash bugs and fruit a bit later.
I grow a lot of other things, but my garden space is mostly dedicated to the things that supply us throughout the year, until next season.
It also makes a big difference growing your own food. Asparagus from the store can be so woody. My own I love eating it raw straight from the garden
Most city people have no clue what they are buying at a Farmers Market, or when that particular fruit or vegetable is even in season.
I cannot relate to this to be honest, I will try about anything and it has a lot to do with how I was raised. I grew up eating authentic Mexican food, Indian food, Greek food, and all sorts of other things because my father learned how to make food from many cultures. It can be hard to find tomatillos where I live so I grow them and since I grow the green ones I may as well grow the purple ones too, since they are a lot like golden berries and ground cherries might as well grow those too, I try everything because I dont just love gardening I love plants. I grow poison ivy and witch hazel too, I have a trifoliate orange tree which as massive thorns and fruit that are like a grapefruit and lemon gross but with latex like a dandelion.
Variety is important to me.
Yes! Yes!! I post pictures on Facebook of cucamelons. People have no idea what they are missing. I love Swiss Chard. My problem is if someone talks on social media about a veggie or fruit I've never had, I want the seeds! 😂
I just had to laugh as I watched this! We now live on the farm I grew up on. My mother had a massive garden – about an acre – when I was a kid, but she also had my dad who could plow in manure from our own cows for her, regularly and five kids to help with the work. That area is much smaller now. It was also largely abandoned, getting smaller over the years before my parents stopped gardening altogether, and then only patches were used by nearby family members. The last plow job before we moved back was horrific, leaving massive ruts all over. I'm told the person who did it was probably drunk at the time. Then there are the trees. Some planted with poor planning, now shading out much of the area. Others self seeded and allowed to grow, now causing massive problems as their roots choke out my garden bed. I also discovered our soil type has a name: dark grey zone. There's a very shallow soil surface, then it's all gravel, sand, clay and rocks. The frost/freeze cycle pushes the rocks up every spring. We literally grow rocks. So I've been working on dedicated beds, instead of the 30+ rows she used to grow, slowly building them up to higher raised beds as resources allow. I'm also growing foods my household of 4 adults will actually eat. For the past few years, I've been trying different varieties to see what my family likes and am just now starting to settle on some varieties that we will grow every year. Plus, I always insist on growing at least one thing, just for fun.
My mother, at 94 years old, is horrified. I use mulches. She never did. I use trellises. She never did. I have raised bed. She never did. I try new things. She tells me I should grow only the things she used to grow. When we first moved here, she was angry we didn't garden immediately, expecting us to recreate her massive garden in our very first summer. Then, when we did start to garden, she was angry because we didn't do things the way she did and didn't grow what she would have grown. It's like trying new things and doing things differently was viewed as a personal insult (it probably was).
The irony of this is, I know my parents were filling to try new things! We also grew red and white potatoes from our own seed potatoes, but I remember one year, my father got "blue" potatoes (they were purple) to try. I remember my mother talking about growing "like carrots, but white" (parsnips). Something she never grew while I was living at the farm, but tried after we left. She was even angry that I spent money on seeds instead of using saved seed, though where I would have magically gotten these saved seeds from, she never answered. She mocked me for starting things indoors until I told her I remembered the cold frame my father built for her where she started cabbages. She admitted that, then added she started tomatoes indoors – oh, and she always used onion sets… without admitting that she had to buy them… 😄😄
Sometimes, people just get it into their heads, how things "ought" to be, and anything that is different is seen as a criticism of their choices, instead of just being different.
Just spent a bunch of money with perry pawpaws last week. Funny to hear you shout them out.
I'm an adventurous eater and gardener. Maybe it's because I'm an artist that I enjoy creativity & variety. If a plant or a dish sounds exotic or new I'm eager to try it. I always grow Swiss chard, green, yellow & red. It's reliable, pest resistant, heat tolerant, nutritious, tasty, beautiful to look at.
I’m 65 and have been eating Swiss chard since I was 12. However I try growing something new every year! Try new things!
I've added things I've never tried before…kinda excited!
Your taste buds definitely change the older you get…I now love cabbage, brussel sprouts and spinach…things I never would have ate when I was younger
Did you get Lasik eye surgery? Or contacts?
I love trying new things. Our rule is one bite, and most the time they absolutely love it!
How do tastes changes over time?
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That's why those farmers taking NEW THINGS to market should have a couple days during the season when they have 'free samples' of those uncommon things so people can try them. an din most cases they'll probably end up buying them either right then OR at a later date in the near future.
Least believable part of this video is the statement “I have many friends” 😂nattttttt
Did swiss chard because it was recomeded on every gardening channel. Not a fan
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I was lik ethat when I was a kid/teens too- Didn't like a lot of vegetable but that definitely changed when I got older. Don't know why but it surely did happen. And I don't need to have it drenched in all kinds of tuff for me to 'like it'. I will them as they are or maybe a little salt/pepper. And I will like eating them. Even look forward to eating a number of those things now 🙂