In this video I’m going to share the 10 fastest growing crops for your garden. There aren’t a lot of fast growing crops but these are the fastest vegetables you can grow.
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We are way behind this year but I have faith I’ll see the ground soon, or maybe just the fence line :)). I grow all that you mentioned. I’m growing more zucchini this year. I discovered dehydrating and zucchini pizza shells (make the shells and freeze). I’m out of both right now. I also want to put in the plug for the refrigerator pickles from the next level homestead channel. I made them last summer and they are de-li-cious!!! Thank you.
Our snow is mostly melted & its been above zero at night. we got the soaker hoses out today & got them more or less set up & figured out what parts of the watering octopus need to be replaced. Hopefully planting later this week.
Zone 7a in middle Tennessee. We're blessed with rain, but the long range forecast keeps giving me – cool day, cool day, HOT day, rainy day, rainy day – but the nights are still going down into the low 40's. I have plants ready to transplant that I'm still holding inside because it's either too cold for them at night or I'm afraid they'll drown with all of this rain.
I'm in the Portland, OR area, zone 8b, and we are a good month behind this year. It's still cold and rainy, although we made it to 55º today. We've still got nights predicted down into the 30s through the next week at least.
Me too! I am in Northern California and we just got done with all that rain, that i am very grateful for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quick growing and successive and selectively harvested portions – less than 70 days growing period –
Full days of salad and stews/soups with sprouts, leaves, greens, stalks, bulbs, tubers, roots, and flowers/buds
Sprouts – sweet potato, sugar pea
Leaves – mustard, turnip, beet, land/water cress, sweet potato (not yam), hosta (research which species !), stinging nettle, radish, daikon radish, horseradish (sparingly !), parsley, cilantro/coriander/Chinese parsley/Mexican parsley, rose leaves, tea leaves (camellia sinensis), raspberry, blackberry, grape, wild grape
Spice leaves – oregano, thyme, rosemary, marjoram, sage, galangal, lemon grass, mints, basils, balms, hyssop, horehound, comfrey, borage
Baby greens – pearl onion, green onion, garlic, chive, shallot, scallion, leek, regular onion, Egyptian onion, walking onion, wild ramp (onion), wild ransom (garlic), microgreens
Baby leaves – collard, cabbage, kale, Brussel sprouts, kohlrabi, tree kale, tree collard, tree lettuce, spinach, Malabar spinach (less rubbery), chard, lettuce, miner's lettuce, amaranth, lamb's foot, cauliflower, broccoli, broccolini/Chinese broccoli/rabe, (kudzu)
Baby stalks – celery, celeriac, fennel, anise, amaranth, pigweed, lamb's foot, stinging nettle, cat tail
Baby bulbs – pearl onions, green onion, garlic, shallot, scallion, leek, regular onion, Egyptian onion, walking onion, certain species of edible lily (tiger lily and day lily – research !)
Baby tubers – potato, sweet potato, yam, yacon, oca, yam bean (jicama), sunchoke, Jerusalem artichoke, beet, turnip, rutabaga, ginger, turmeric, cat tail
Baby roots – carrot, beet, salsify, radish, daikon radish, horseradish, burdock/(gobo), taro
Flowers/buds – dandelion flower/bud, artichoke flower/bud, squash/zucchini flower, select daisy flower bud (research !), Egyptian onion bud, walking onion bud, lotus
Don't wait for full maturity with seed bolting having woody and rubbery vegetables – when you can harvest and consume every day fresh and tender produce !
FYI – Here in coastal South Carolina, Zone 8, we've had very little winter with only a handful of nights in the low 30s. Normal last frost is mid April but this year blooms started in mid March. I've planted about 10 days early and the forecast is for lows in the 40s for a few more nights and that's it. I got an early start on my raised garden as a result. 🙂
I planted potatoes a month ago, and so far out of nine, so far, I only have 2 plants. I am not sure whether I should replant or wait longer. I will be transplanting tomatoes and planting seeds early next week as spring seems to finally be here after fooling us at the end of March. Fortunately, we have better longer-term forecasts now, so I didn't plant more than potatoes. My tomato plants are getting tall in cups under the grow light, but that will allow me to plant deeper.
You have very informative content. I was trying to get started with my first year of growing on my own, however Tennessee weather has experienced to much unseasonably weather. I don't know what I will do now. Thanks for sharing 😊
My garden is mostly all planted. Waiting to pull the onions to complete the planting. Started pulling today. And yes – Zone 8B Texas. And Brian – MY OKRA seeds started sprouting TODAY. LOL.
Very informative! I love in a suburb of Detroit and don't usually plant my garden until May. This year we are going with raised beds and I want to get them set up soon! I want to try okra this year. We love it but have never grown it. Do you have any videos for picking it? Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!
i am in that camp 😏 , hot cold hot cold , last yr it was in the 30's on May 8th ☹️. I had to blanket my horse for the first time in her life of 25 years , because she was already all the way shed out .
This year seems to be in the same pattern . 😔
Last year cold and wind lasted longer. This year appears the same but I'm going to try other techniques
I grow most of them. 7 out of 10 Zucchini, Peas , Cucumbers, Beets, Carrots, Lettuce and Arugula 😊
Georgia is going through a rain and frost period now. But in Georgia the saying is "If you don't like the weather, just wait a minute".
just put my seedlings out today, its been very cold until today. Garden looks great.
Average start or a tick earlier in Central Maryland
Our last frost date is the first week of may in zone 6a…. It’s Always a wait😄
Snow is melting off. YEAH!!!!
On your TeePee Trellis – where did you find or get the vine going around them???
This list has 8 of the 10 that i love to grow every year.
I'm in the chomping at the bit to get started camp. Moving from 10a to 7b, I'm like "what do you mean I can't plant until mid-April?!?" I'm also in the process of building my garden from scratch. I've gotten several raised beds completed and planted already with cooler crops. Unfortunately, I haven't quite finished the beds for the tomatoes and peppers I already started so I need to get busy! I grew okra for the first time last year and discovered I love it though I haven't actually tried cooking it yet. I snack on it in the garden and love it dehydrated as a snack.
How could your list not include radishes?!? They're not just for salads, I've learned this past year that they are delicious roasted.
Yes you are right about Texas zone 9.
I have okra,beans, cucumbers and tomatoes growing. I would love to grow beets. Can I grow beets in a pot?
Radishes super quick, some grilled> TASTY!
Started my squash early here I Stheast NC early this yr, trying to avoid vine bores, huge problem last 3 yrs! Only zuchini targeted most. Usually get great yellow summer squash!?
My green onions, scallions have lasted 3 yrs, a few, as thought had to harvest when bolting, but left some, just to see? The ones I cut the bolt off, are still going? A couple hand fulls I gave to gardening friend, she replanted & still going! Doing purple onions this yr in beds & ground. Beds already started strong!
Northern California, what’s up with this rain and snow. I live in Redding where it doesn’t snow. I planted radishes before it’s snowed on them. It snowed on them 3 times but they grew just verrrry slowly. Beets didn’t come up too cold , Swiss chard didn’t come up too cold. But the garlic and kale did ok. My artichoke is producing its first fruit and it was thick with ice and buried in snow .
Could get lucky and have a June without the 100 plus days so the tomatoes do better. Great video.
San diego too much rain n cold
We've had an unusually warm winter and spring in Upstate NY but our last frost is always end of May. I don't usually plant out till first week of June cause I don't trust the weather. My gripe is that I started my seeds in mid February and they're all stunted and still only on their first true leaves 😢 I'm gonna try a few things to help them but I did try your magnesium spray for purple seedlings and it is helping.
Another Californian here. I am in SFBA (zone 9b) and it feels like we are one month late this season. My tomatoes are overgrown and only today they go to the rise bad and it is still a little cold for squash and cucumbers.
Radish
When does arugula bloom? Never got that far.
Yup – it is a very late start this year. It snowed recently -_-
Radish
Here in Austin Texas the past two weeks has been a mess. It's been hot low 90s, cold low 40s, sunny, windy and cold rain the past 3 days. Sometimes 2 or 3 of those in the same day.
How do I know what to wear to work. Open the door when I wake up. 😂
Yep snow,rain with flooding and frozen ground. Last frost date is June first anyway
Radishes! I plant succession plantings every couple of weeks. YUM. 👩🏻🌾
What about radishes? They are pretty fast too.
Really late start for me. My garden is still not ready! We had lots of rain and either cold, then hot, then cold again…. Ugh, such a mess and from now on will be hot and humid and full of mosquitoes 😱. Thank you for this video. Yes, I plan on planting all those.
Getting an earlier start this year already planted tomatoes today Oklahoma
Here is a cucumber question, the first round of my fruit is nice and straight and look fabulous, the second round the fruit starts to grow in a "U" shape, what's up with that? Each
set of fruit thereafter are also in a "U" shape and never really become an edible size. Any tips as to what I'm doing wrong?
Arugula is one of my favorite babies. It has reseeded since it’s first planting, takes care of itself. The flowers are also beautiful to me, like a cottage garden.
Central California and yes- snow, yes- freezes and yes- lots of rain. While we have a long growing season my main concern is the Summer heat on my tomatoes. I hope to get them in the garden in a week or two. Mind you my last frost date is averaged at March 8.
Because of the heat(Florida) & lack of bees, my Spring crops are struggling.
Central Texas and I’m just now getting seed in the ground. Well most of it potatoes were planted earlier then onion not long after a week or so later early corn. It just didn’t stay warm enough at night. We had some 40 degree temps just this week. I still have yet to put out tomatoes or a bell pepper or jalapeños. 🤷🏼♀️😁