Here are the top things I learned from my garden this summer. Some Brussels sprout stocks will be strong enough to stay up and some will not. So, you might as well put a steak in the ground or something to help hold them up. Tomatoes will explode if you don’t contain them and take over everything. I think I like eating Brussels sprout leaves for dinner more than I actually like eating Brussels sprouts. Zucchini will also expand and grow everywhere. This guy was planted over there. Only plant squash if you have something specific to make with it. Otherwise, you will grow all of it and literally use not even one squash. Keep an eye on your broccoli cuz one day it’ll look like broccoli and the next day it’ll look like this. Your pepper bushes will grow an unreasonable amount of peppers. And if you don’t love peppers, you’re definitely not going to eat all of them. So, just be ready for an unreasonable amount of peppers.
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I definitely learned the same lessons about squash and tomatoes 😅
My tomatoes need to take notes from yours
I love your sense of humor. You always make me giggle.
Get a food dehydrator, doesn't need to be fancy. Perfect for all of the excess peppers and tomatoes you can't eat.
Broccoli leaves are better than the crowns, too.
I always put a tomato cage on brussel sprouts. Trellis your zucchini for better control. Did a great job this year!❤❤❤
The squash statement is so true
The zucchini. I planted 5 in a big bed since the two potted ones we had last year didn’t produce much. I failed to realise that the poor peppers I planted there would be no match for the beasts the zucchini plants would become. We ate all sort of muffins, pancakes, found like 5x new ways to cook with them and still had to give many away so they wouldn’t rot in the house. Same with green tomatoes. Barely had any last year so I wanted “at least enough for some sauce”…. 20 batches later, we’ve had green enchiladas at least twice a week and I have a freezer with lots more waiting and the dang bed is still producing new flowers 😂 we’ve lost more than we’ve used because of animals beating us to them.
My peppers only grow 2-3 peppers per plant. I've quit growing them it's hardly worth it. My mom has been growing most of her own vegetables her while life and it's the same for her. We might be too far north.
Plant leaf broccoli like spigarello, you can pick it constantly. Make a hog panel trellis for your vining plants, gives you a shaded area underneath and makes harvest easy. Grow pickling peppers or hot sauce peppers to put up for the winter. You can pick determinate tomato varieties that won't go crazy like that.
Ditto on the peppers amd tomatoes
Idk I get a lot of squash off of two or three plants and do have more unused than what gets used. But if gotten better at substituting squash in for potatoes, cause my go to side is red potatoes
And for the peppers, cold pickling has been my go too. I’ve done straight white vinegar with cow horns. Same with peperoncino. I recently harvest dill seeds and made a dill and garlic pickled banana pepper
My pepper plants have onky ever given me 1 pepper at a time😂
I know that in Asian cuisine they take the squash blossoms and they batter them and fry them…. I was wanted to try that
YOUR BRUSSELS SPROUT PLANTS LOOK AMAZING! Mine stayed tiny all season and are juat starting to make sprouts now, in October. 😂😭
😂I enjoyed the quite frank truth
Maybe consider what you will not eat donate to your neighborhood food pantry.
I try to dehydrate all of my peppers and excess tomatoes, onions, garlic and blend them into my own spices. Nothing like having your own beyond organic, home grown spices all thru the year. Preservation goes hand in hand with gardening and will turn you into a better cook and a healthier, more independent human being. Grow as much of your own food as possible!
I learned to grow one or two summer squash and the rest winter squash so I could store it and it doesn’t go to waste. Personally, I would recommend utilizing the space you’re using for brussel sprouts and squash for either 3 sisters (corn beans and squash) or for potatoes and carrots. They all store very well and are far more versatile in the kitchen.
You can stir fry squash sprouts with garlic and tomatoes. Yum!
The broccoli one is too real 😂
My peppers went BOOM this year, but I still need to work on the proper spacing.
Tomatoes, well let’s say I need to apologize to my neighbor for my plant growing into their yard.
Shred and dehydrate your zucchini. Then add it to the things you cook for extra fiber. Mmm
You must have wonderful soil. Thanks for your video.