In today’s video, I’m sharing my top 6 easy vegetables for beginners to grow in their spring garden. I’ll take you from seed to harvest on each vegetable growing choice.
If you have questions about growing vegetables for your garden, need help starting a vegetable garden, want tips for gardening for beginners, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and “garden hacks” , have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and “how to” garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the comment section below!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:06 – How to Grow Peas From Seed
01:05 – How to Plant Potatoes // No Dig Potatoes // Ruth Stout
02:24 – How to grow Lettuce From Seed
03:00 – How to Thin Lettuce Seedlings
03:19 – Hack for Sowing Lettuce Seed
04:07 – How to Grow Onions from Seed
05:44 – Huge Onion Harvest
06:03 – How to Cure and Store Onions
06:19 – How to Plant Garlic / Planting Garlic Cloves
07:33 – Garlic Harvest
07:44 – How to Cure and Store Garlic
08:04 – How to Grow Carrots from Seed
09:03 – How to Thin Carrot Seedlings
09:23 – Extra – How to Grow Tomatoes not Leaves Video
RELATED VIDEOS FROM NEXT LEVEL GARDENING
How to Grow Peas: https://youtu.be/Lns8XgOnR3s
How to Grow Potatoes 4 Ways: https://youtu.be/CqqrBFRlN2A
How to Grow Lettuce: https://youtu.be/EgTasbpQJLE
How to Grow Onions: https://youtu.be/pBxUIH825oc
How to Grow Garlic: https://youtu.be/J58N1CJxoWg
How to Grow Carrots 3 Ways: https://youtu.be/574wflr-AWk
How to Grow Tomatoes: https://youtu.be/9w-7RoH_uic
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31 Comments
Short and sweet!
Good one
Great video! ❤'d it, Thank you!!!
Short but sweet. Thank you very, very, much.
From its own seed or store bought? The seed matters & as far as growth. It doesn't grow to the fullest using it's own seed. Never last long.
Thank you for a refresher course on this. Much appreciated. Watch you all the time on your homestead and next level. Thank you again. We just had 5 inches of snow in PA
I plant potatoes in buckets or large bins. Have some that Im going to harvet today. Another good plant is peanut plants. No effort at all to grow.
Another amazing video. Thank you and I shared your video, with my gardening group.
That was an enormous onion!
I'm not sure I'd classify onions as super easy…if you don't get the timing right they won't bulb up properly. Add that into planting the right day-length type for your region along with feeding, soil type, and length of maturation time, it's getting a little complex for a beginner. Same with carrots…I've had a lot of failures to germinate or destruction of seedlings by bugs, and I'm not a newbie. I think I'd toss in some brassica like sprouting broccoli or herbs instead.
My grandson loves to garden with me so your tip to use a spice shaker for planting small seeds like lettuce, carrots, and onions will be easy for him to use for planting. We are still harvesting the carrots we planted in the Fall using your wood shaving tip to plant them.
The type of day for the onions makes the difference 😊. I found Texas Superstar to be the best if your in the medium to long day zones. They get HUGE! If at high titude in these zones, Vidalia is great. I've had the best success with plants.
Excellent video. Nice pace. Thank you for all the details about growing onions. Last year, for the first time, I grew onions from seedlings from the garden centre. This year, I will be growing them from seeds. Your inions are ginormous!
I have no luck with carrots. Have followed various methods with at best pencil carrots.
Have cut N and just added other macros and still just pretty tops. Not sure if I am going to try again this year. Might since am in a new location; maybe that will change my luck.
Great tips – thanks.
I didn't have much luck with potatoes at all. As for using garlic 😂, you and me both….the more , the better! Onions make everything better too.
Thanks 4 the refresher, Brian! U reminded me i wanted to plant pea n sugar snaps n i better get 2 it despite the rain.
I'm so excited for this spring thanks to everything I've learned from you!
Very informative, I’m so ready for spring.
Those were massive onions you grew.
I tried gardening last year for the first time and I planted peas,onions, peppers,squash,
Zucchini,okra,corn,watermelon,Lima beans,cabbage,lots of winter squash ,carrots,sunflowers and pumpkins.. I think that’s all but out of ALL of that I harvested okra,ugly tomatoes,lots of squash and a handful of snap peas. That’s it!!!! So I’m really trying to learn as much as I can before I make the same mistakes again..
Thanks Brian. 🥶❄️💚🙃
Another good option for hardening off vegs – is cutting off the foliage in the post-Autumn, pre-Fall weather, leaving the bulb or root in the ground at the surface. Cut off the greenery at the 1/2 inch above the topsoil. (This is the easy measurment of your point finger fingernail length).
This stops all photosynthesis of the leaves down to the root. Like stripping grape leaves off Fall vines – forcing dormancy. You are doing the same to vegetables have the roots and bulbs forced into dormancy. The 1/2 inch will start to dry out and dry back to the root or bulb, faster than turning down the greens. It is also safer stopping any potential molds or rot crawling back down to the root or bulb. Make sure that there is no rain in the future, getting into the drying/dried cut tops, and molding/rotting them.
SSSSSSAAAAAAVVVVVVEEEEE the greens – don't let them go to waste !!! Dried onion and garlic leaves (chives, shallots, scallions, wild ramps, wild ransoms), even fresh beet, turnip, rutabaga, parsnip leaves, (even strong carrot leaf) all make great additions to a meal – or to a stew. Otherwise, make garlic and/or onion braids and hang up, and you still have these leaves to use as a byproduct. One can easily blanch, ziplock baggy, and store the veggie greens in the frezer – and still have fresh greens – just put the thawed greens into soups and stews.
One can also do this with potatoes and other tubers (sweet potatoes, yams, taro, lotus, cat tails,…yacon, … bullrush water chestnuts), BEFORE they naturally die off in the Fall and frost period. Dying plants send dying hormones into the tubers (that you do not want). (Forced) dormant plants do not do this. Allow the de-foliaged tubers to lie fallow in the soil and harden off their skins, and they won't have as much "green" in the tuber (like green solanide toxin with potatoes). One can overwinter in the soil, or later in the Fall post-frost harvest, or entirely pull them out with their hardened skins, and the tubers can be safely root cellared.
Using both of these plans, one can overwinter in cool and temperature grow zones, … or especially post-frost, when the roots, bulbs, and tubers all get less watery and conentreate their sweeter sugars, one can then harvest and remove from the soil, and root cellar.
I cosign this list as I grow them in containers and every one of these recommendations is currently thriving in my small space container garden. 👍🏾
I really wish I had someone to help me get some raised beds started. I can’t carry the soil to fill them and buying raised beds are costly so I would have to figure out how to do it VERY cost effectively. I have two small water tanks that I use but they are SMALL and even they are not FILLED with soil but I did manage to get just enough in them to grow a small amount of things . I planted two very small left over potatoes that somehow where missed and I did get some nice potatoes but I would love to be able to plant enough produce that I could either can or freeze. I know, if wishes were horses beggars would ride. 🥶❄️💚🙃
I’ll never get over how your onions looked like pumpkins ! This is my favorite time of year! Planning out my new garden and getting ready for it. It really kicks those winter doldrums in the kiester!!
I wouldn't call all of these easy to grow in my backyard, but I agree that the green peas are easy to grow. Garlic, too, as long as you pick the right variety for your area. I'd add tomatoes, though, because they grow with no real effort – far less than some of the others, at least – again – in my limited experience.
Yo Brian, I planted sugar peas and snap peas last winter and had a great crop going until they got the worst aphid infestation you can imagine! When I shook the vines, the ground had more than 1/2" layer of green aphids below the vines. The vines were also crawling with ladybugs and their larva, but they didn't make the slightest dent in the aphids. I carefully rinsed off as many aphids as I could, avoiding ladybugs. I wrote off the crop and used it as a ladybug nursery until I needed the bed for the next crop. The nearby brassicas had ZERO aphids, so it was a potent trap crop for them.
Thanks so much! I'm looking forward to getting started! Come April and May the gnats will have me going insane and by June here in middle Georgia I'll be sick of it all, but I'm excited for now!! lol
You grow the biggest onions ive ever seen.
I'm in central Alabama. It is too early fore sowing seeds, but it is only about a month away. Snow peas, and shelling peas go in the ground about February 20th. I drop seeds in the ends of my raised beds at the same time. I also sow seeds for radishes, carrots, and beets. Potatoes go in the ground the first week of March. I have about two hundred seed starts growing for tomatoes and peppers. In about a week, I'll be doing another batch of seed starts for mustard, Swiss chard, bunching onions, Creole Onions, basil, dill, oregano, Sweet Marjoram, and chives. My first generation of tomato plants will go in the ground in March, and be protected from frost with a polytunnel. I have both Elephant Garlic, and hard-neck garlic growing that I planted in October, and they are doing great with surviving the Artic blast. I'll grow twice as much next fall. The second generation are sprouting. The third generation will be planted about near the end of April. I have a lot of sowing to do in February, and then again in April. Once the garden is in full bloom, it will be time to work on planning my fall garden. I am in the process of adding five fruit trees, and I am also adding Wine Cap mushrooms to my garden this spring.