We grow many different types of greens in our backyard garden — collard greens, mustard greens, kale, pak choi, spinach, and more! But one of our favorites is one you probably haven’t tried — rutabaga greens!
Rutabaga greens are delicious and can be harvested at any stage of the plant growth. Just pick a few greens and leave a few so the plant can continue to grow. Harvesting the greens won’t affect root development and you’ll still get a nice, big rutabaga down the road.
Join us as we show you how we harvest these greens and some Tennessee Purple Peas that we’ll have for dinner. We’ll also talk about fall pest management in the garden and our strategy for controlling pests without decimating our beneficial insect population.
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34 Comments
Does that azera stuff work ofn flea beetles? they are the only pests i would consider spraying for in my area as most others have healthy predator populations.
I never spray don’t really have problems with bugs if I do I just pick them off .
What insect was eating your collards in nthis video? Good video. Thanks.
great video, I'm usually late spraying , trying to hold off to the last min and it bites me in the butt sometimes lol.
Really a great show. I probably would have hit those brassicas with a spinosad formulation like Monterey Garden Insect Spray since it's effective on those cabbage pests and about a fifth the price of Azera. I have very few pests compared to you, the most serious being aphids, which are a primary disease vector for my high value crops like tomatoes and cucurbits. For them, it's the Azera and I'm not shy about application. If you get one bite from a disease carrying aphid on a tomato plant, you have an infected plant, so I begin before the first aphids ever arrives. Even at that, I can get an 8 oz bottle of Azera to last two seasons. Rutabagas were a famine food during the War and afterwards in England where they're still known as a Swede but mostly grown now as a winter animal forage. I'd like to taste a mess of their greens, however.
In Louisiana we have a small brown moth that predates on my brassicas. I can use less pesticides when I use agricultural insect nets over my raised beds. I put pvc pipe arches on some rebar on each side. I use clips and rocks to hold it down. Keeping those moths off well!! When I get a frost I can replace the net with agrabon frost cloth.
The peas name is good thanks for the name
Awesome.
Have you ever tried diatomaceous earth on your greens?
I’m a never sprayer and have really enjoyed watching the garden fill up with beneficials. I do a lot of hand picking and it gets easier every year. I will try to use insect netting a little more next year as I haven’t been able to get flea beetles under control and they are rough in my garden. My other nemesis is the squash bugs. But if I am SUPER diligent about grabbing those eggs and any that hatch out early in the season, I can usually keep them at bay long enough to get a satisfactory harvest before the most brutal part of summer. At that point, I have no desire to hand pick bugs any longer and I just let them have it. 😊
Since it has heated back up we're getting some cabbage looper pressure on the broccoli field, but it's not bad enough that i'm going to spray. I have never grown or eaten rutabaga, may have to give it a try. Did you mention the variety of lima beans you are growing? I've only hat cutworms mess with lettuce, nothing else.
Do you know where I could get some of those pea seeds
Those peas look great!
TRAVIS WHATS THE NAME OF THE CLIMBING HEIRLOOM FIELD PEA CALLED ? Thanks
I find most the time if I'm religious about using row cover I can avoid spraying. That physical barrier is usually enough to keep the cabbage moths and aphids off my brassicas, the squash moths off of my cucurbits, and the flea beetles and other flying pests off my potatoes and carrots. Nothing seems to bother my lettuces or my alliums. I did try to plant some alliums in every bed as I think the scent is a deterrent for a lot of pests. I have had a couple of incidences of funguses on my Malabar spinach and on tomatoes but copper fungicide treated those pretty well.
Deep South Homestead is growing peas which like yours and they call them Zipper Peas.
Wow amazing greens 😎
Those look similar to Oriental /asparagus beans. If so, we eat ours as green beans. Make sure to cook them well. I test one and if it squeaks when I chew it, then cook longer. I pick five beans per person for a meal.
Those look like Quickpick Pinkeye Purple Hull Peas.
Those field peas look great! I’d love to try growing those. It would save a lot of space for me to grow up a trellis. Will you be selling seeds?
I used Azera this summer and it is an amazing product that really works!
I haven’t been able to grow rutabagas very well, but turnips and beets do well for me if I plant them in fall. Turnip greens and beet greens are yummy.
Where can we get some of those peas?
If I don’t have enough beneficial insects then don’t wait to spray. Organic only and never spray when bees are out and about
Hi Travis, I use insect netting but before I place it I am able to use soap water with spinosad on my cool season crops and dust them lightly with D.E. once. Our weather here on the border of zone7 and 6 gets chilly fast and early frost will not kill off my pests, just slows them a bit..hand pick them as I find them and squish them. Spring and summer is basicly the same except treatment but more often, about every 2-3 wks. I quit growing pole beans bc the bean beetles were out of control, I plan to try the Azera on them if they are affected by it. I refuse to use Sevin at all. Stink bugs are another problem, but manageable if I keep after the nymphs…they like sweet peppers and tomatoes…but not my chilies. 😁 Blessings.
This is my first year gardening and I have thankfully had very few pest issues. I’ve had some but nowhere near enough to warrant me spraying. We’ll see what next year brings when I triple the amount of veggies I’m growing. Awesome content as always Travis.
There's a spectrum of effectiveness (read toxicity) among the available organic insect treatments. You've got your BT, DE, insecticidal soap, neem oil, spinosad, and Azera plus some others. Cabbage loopers are pretty easy to control with about any of these. At the other end are the aphids, grasshoppers, stink bugs and vine borers that shrug off anything short of Azera. Also got your pea curculio that even Azera can't touch, so you'll need to break out the Sevin. Study the label. Spray early or late when the pollinators are inactive. I'm pretty intolerant of insect and fungal threats but always try to use the least toxic option that will still get the job done.
Well now, somebody needs to save some those purple tennessee pea seed and start offering them to those of us watching out here with our mouths watering.
Just stopped in down here in the comments to tell you I did indeed take my Sharpie and turn my HD bucket into a Dawgs bucket.
And apparently just in time, as I heard the Dawgs are playing Tennessee today. Best of luck and go Dawgs
Edit: My Dawgs bucket got it done!!! Wish I could show you the pic here😃
I am not a sprayer i am a prayer. Lol. Extremely tight budget.
I cooked broccoli leaves one time. The taste was a little off for me. Next, I mixed them in with collards. It still threw the taste of the collards off. I was the only one that would eat them. I gave about half of the pot to the chickens after a few days. If I mixed them again, it would only be a few broccoli leaves that were finely cut up
I am a when I need to sprayer. I don't seem to have many issues in the fall, but the late spring is terrible. The pickle worms usually get my cucumbers and that's what ends my season. I do spray somethings on a regular bases.
Thanks for the info.
Saw something yesterday that gave me a good laugh! A fairly new pickup truck passed me on I-20 yesterday that had an Alabama license plate on the rear and a big Georgia Bulldog decal pasted on the rear window. Thought about you and your days on Row by Row joking about Alabama🤣
Kohlrabi leaves are also very good. I try to use every bit of the plants. My mother went through the depression and grew up in the hills of Kentucky.
I have already cooked two pots of rutabaga, broccoli and cauliflower greens. They are so good! You picked yours a little closer than I did. That means I can have them again soon. 😊
I have already cooked two pots of rutabaga, broccoli and cauliflower greens. They are so good! You picked yours a little closer than I did. That means I can have them again soon. 😊