2024 Gardening plans | SEED HAUL | Part 1 Spring Garden

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Hey guys welcome back to Sparkman Homestead my name is Christa today I want to show you what I plan on planting in my 20124 garden I can’t believe we are already at that time of year it’s so exciting so we are at the beginning of February Groundhog Day just passed and

The groundhog I believe he didn’t see his shadow so that means we are going to have an early spring so that means I’m getting my seats out I mean I’ve already started my seeds I show you guys usually on my weekly videos give you guys an update don’t mind the grow

Lights but here we have our onion starts and I’ll show you what onion varieties we are growing this year we have our artichokes and then we have some Blackberry um branches that I’m trying to propagate and see if I can get them to sprout or if I can get them to root

That way I can get for more blackberry plants I thought I would sit down with you guys today and show you what I plan on growing GR in my garden I love doing these videos love love love them because I get to talk about my garden and I get

To talk about all the different varieties that we’re going to attempt to grow this year it’s so exciting so I think what I’m going to do because this is how I keep my seed packets I have these really cool containers that I actually picked up

From I think this one is was from Amazon um and then these two I actually picked up at Hobby Lobby um and what they look like inside them oh sorry inside them they have these little cases this is like photo storage cases and so I have them all categorized so this particular

Box right here this is all my spring fall stuff so cool weather crops and then this is just a box of beans because I don’t have enough space I need to get another one of these this box right here is all my summer crops and then this one

Is herbs and flowers so this is definitely going to be a sit down video one where you can just kind of relax put your headphones in you know chill out have a tea that is going to be this style I’m not going to be doing any

Cooking today it is just a sit down video which again I kind of like doing because we did a lot of stuff in the kitchen the past couple weeks and I’ve been doing a lot of cooking with the pantry challenge not that I don’t normally cook but anyways just it’s a s

Video so what I’ve done earlier was I actually planned out I kind of went through my seeds already and kind of planned out what I’m hoping to grow now this list will very much change especially once the Alish Green Houses open up I tend to start going there and

Then even though I don’t really technically need something I see new varieties and I’m like I’ll just buy one of these and maybe one of these and then I end up coming home with a thing full of plant starts that I didn’t or originally has written down so that’s

Just how it works so I’ll tell you what I’m planning on doing Loosely again it will definitely change and I’m going to bring you guys along with the whole gardening stuff this year um it’s not as popular as my cooking videos or my um canning videos but I still want to be

Able to share that with you because I love gardening that’s where I get a lot of my food from is from my garden I don’t have a huge Garden I Garden in zone 7B I am in South Central Kentucky right on the Tennessee border so that is

That’s where my zone is so if you’re looking for similar advice I’m in s 7B I think they just changed it to I think I was 7A before maybe I was 6 I don’t know I think I’m 7B I have no I just am planting what I have historically planted before and that

Does well for me in my area every year I try to add two more things new to my garden that I haven’t tried before because I love experimenting with new things so on last week’s video I showed you guys what we were seed starting and one of the things that I’m experimenting

This year is this variety now it is I picked this up a couple years ago from baker’s Creek uh just their seed store in Petaluma and what it’s described as is a unique fruit in 1760 um it was called the nectar of gods it’s a 2-in fruit round yellow orange in

Color and perfect for making delicious sweet tart juice so I’m thinking it’s going to be very similar to kind of like a citrus plant kind of not quite like an orange but it’s going to be a tarte plant um it says I needed to start it 24

Weeks before my last frost so it is really not Frost hearty it does well in States like I would say probably like zone 9 so this is a gamble by me trying this I’m hoping it does okay I asked the lady in the seed store about this

Particular thing I told her where I lived and she said she wasn’t quite sure um she said you may have to end up bringing that plant in in the winter because it might not produce by the time you get it outside and transplanted so I

Think what I’m going to do is I’ll put these in pots and then that way I can bring them inside and hopefully they’ll work okay so the onion varieties that I just showed you over there that we are growing I’m growing three different onion varieties onions go according to

Three different areas you have shortterm Gro days which is actually below so those are most of the southern states like Texas all down below the southern states that is called a short day variety then you have us in the middle we are considered an intermediate day variety and then you have the

Northerners which are all long day variety I am very jealous of the Northerners because they can grow the most amazing onions and we kind of we get a lot of humidity here so our onions don’t always turn out the best but we’re going to try these varieties

Um some of them are short day and some of them are intermediate I’m just double checking this one to see if it says anything here this one doesn’t say what it is as far as intermediate this is the white variety that we’re going to grow actually it says it’s day neutral I

Just wrote it on the back here it’s day neutral so this means pretty much it can grow in any zone so we’re going to try this white variety and then we are going to try this this is a short day variety this is going to be our yellow onion

Hopefully it works okay and then this is the red variety and this is an intermediate day one so those are the three we’re going to try I find that the yellow or excuse me I find that the white and the red don’t store as long as

The yellow so I didn’t start as many of these as I did the yellow cuz these ones tend to be the best storage onion for me so those are our onion varieties that we’re going to do and like I said I already got those started so we are

Going to start with our spring stuff um this is going to be probably a really really long video and hopefully my battery doesn’t die it probably will die at least once but it’s going to be a long video so stay tuned you can skip over some of the stuff if you don’t

Really necessarily care about some of it but we’re in spring now so spring varieties I am very very I guess the word is OCD type A personality I have everything in alphabetical order in my seed thing I wanted to actually show you guys the um okes that we’re growing so

This is the variety of artichokes that we have started um these ones it says that you have to start 12 weeks before your first or at last frost date right first frost date is in the fall last frost date is in the spring so these ones you have to start

12 weeks before your last frost a so we got these started they’re doing really good they’re supposed to be okay in our area hopefully I’ve never had much success growing arter choke so this year I’m going to put an effort into it and then we have a couple of um asparagus

Beds outside um and this is the variety that we have planted outside I planted them 5 years ago so this Year we will definitely be able to harvest off of our asparagus so that’s what we have growing so far okay now we’ll get started with the

Beets so this year I’m going to grow a couple of different varieties of beets I’m going to grow some Golden beet I grew this last year and then canned it up into just regular just beets I really enjoy them I like beets I love them roasted they’re just pickled oh pickled

Beeds is my favorite so we’re just going to do a couple of these varieties and then some of these as you can see I kind of get my seeds from everywhere I don’t I just look to see different varieties that I like not every place has the same

Variety but I’m definitely finding that Mi Gardener is one of my favorite seed places his seeds are really really good price so I really like um purchasing from him plus he is just he’s a wealth of knowledge and I love people that are very passionate about gardening and so I

Like to be able to support him so a lot of my seeds you will see will be M my Gardener seeds and I can leave his Link in the video description for you guys for his shop he actually has an app now where you can order seeds from which is

Not the best thing for me I had to actually delete the app because I said I have enough seeds right now I don’t need anymore so I had to get off my phone so I stop ordering seeds I’m not getting any more seeds in though I’ve got my

Last seed delivery last week week so the other type of beet we’re going to try to grow is this sugar beet hopefully it’s focusing on that and not on me this I never grown before I tried to do it in the fall last year and it was too late

In the game and nothing came up but this I’m trying to grow as kind of like a sweet replacement I unfortunately don’t have honeybees I really really really really really want honeybees but they are very very expensive to do I have zero experience with it and honestly

Right now I don’t think my capacity could handle taking on another project like that so honeybees I would love to have but I don’t have them so I don’t really have like a sugar source so we’re going to try to grow these and see if we

Can do something like that and see if we can use these as like a sweetener experiment that’s going to be my experiment this year and then broccoli I am going to be growing two different varieties this year I’m going to be growing this and this one so I actually need to get these

Started pretty soon today is like 62 outside I’ll leave the Celsius below so you guys that are in Celsius will know what 62 is but today it’s supposed to be 62 outside and I’m really like do I put my radishes out already but I’m like no because we’re supposed to get another

Cold snap at the end of February so I guess this would officially be like our first fall spring this week I don’t know um I am going to be doing Sprouts but I’m actually not going to be doing them until the fall I don’t start them in the

Spring here because we go from like kind of Colder Weather to all of a sudden like full heat and humidity so Russel Sprouts don’t do really really well here in the spring so that will be a fall project that I have so for cabbages this year I am

Going to be growing a couple of different varieties I am going to be growing this I love to have this in stir fries so so I’m going to do a couple of these and then this one right here this actually does pretty good when it comes to Cabbage Moss they annihilate my stuff

We have really really really bad cabbage Moss or cabbage worms whatever you want to call them they’re really really bad here I found that last spring I kind of did a comparison I planted this variety which I’m going to be doing again this year but I planted this and I put it

Beside this this one did extremely well and hardly got e at all this one was like disintegrated it looked like lace so they don’t gravitate towards this color very much but it was funny though because in the fall I planted these two again and this one it didn’t matter the

Cabbage worms completely disintegrated this one as well so those are the two varieties I’m going to grow and then we’re also going to actually try I’m hoping it’s picking up we’re going to try this variety also I don’t eat a lot of cabbage I do love of um

Sauerkraut so I’m hoping to be able to get enough that I can make some sauerkraut but we’re going to just do a couple of those not too much again because we don’t really eat a lot of cabbage I love it but Stephen’s not a

Fan of it so I can’t put it into a lot of recipes if I had my way we would have cabbage like all the time but he doesn’t like it so I’m not going to grow too much of it because honestly I can’t eat that much the other thing that I’m going

To try this year is to really focus on doing carrots carrots in here in the spring again that’s kind of like a fall crop for here because what happens again we go from cold to really really hot all of a sudden so I’m going to try to put

In a couple of spring carrots but most likely majority of my carrots are going to be grown in the fall so I’m going to try this variety it is supposed to do really really well in hard clay soil we do not have the best soil here we have

Clay soil I’m working on slowly getting amended I’m in my fifth year gardening in certain garden beds in certain Garden spots but the majority I keep adding to my garden so every year I have new plots of brand new soil and that soil is just clay clay clay like really thick clay

And it’s not even like a good healthy clay it is like completely nutrient deficient clay it’s just gray clay it’s not good so I have to do a lot of amending to certain spots but these carrots say they do well in clay so we’ll we’ll try it um and then I’ve

Grown this variety four so we’re going to try a little bit of those um and that’s it for the carrots okay and then cauliflower I’m so excited about this kind this is going to be a new kind for me this year this looked so interesting

And I thought let’s just give it a try and see how it is so we’re going to experiment with this variety this year and then we are going to do a couple of these and a couple of these I don’t have a really big garden and cauliflowers

Tend to grow really really big so they need quite a bit of space so I usually only end up planting about six to eight cauliflowers and six to eight broccolis and usually like four maybe five at the most cabbages that’s what I have space

For so that’s kind of what I do but we are very blessed in this area where I can do a fall Garden or excuse me I can do a spring garden of brocc and cauliflower and I can also do a fall Garden so I can get two crops

Essentially at it which is perfect because I don’t have a lot of gardening space so those are going to be our cauliflowers that we’re going to do and same with the broccoli I need to get those started pretty soon and then for salary I’m going to do a couple of these

This is a variety I grew last year and it was I I made the mistake and I didn’t water them enough saler needs a lot a lot of water so I’m going to try to grow them in a different garden bed this year one that gets a way more water and I can

Get at it easily with with the hose that’s the other thing I don’t have water run out to my garden so I literally have to take 200 Ft worth of hose and drag it out to my garden and water so sometimes I don’t have the energy to go and do that so sometimes

Stuff suffers salery was one of them but I did some research and found this variety so we’re going to try a bed of this and a bed of this and we’re going to see which salery works best for me I’m hoping that this one does a little

Bit better because I really want to master the salary I have yet to master it and maybe this year maybe this year will be the salary year and then for kale this year we are going to grow some black magic kale I’m looking forward to this this sounds

Really really good this is my favorite kale right here so we’re going to grow some of this now the black Magic’s description said that it’s kind of like this kale but a little bit sweeter more mild tasting so stepen might like this because Steph’s favorite variety is this one so we’re also going

To grow this this year and then we’re going to do a little bit of this going a little faster this one we love Kale like love love kale we eat a lot of it like a lot I almost try to get it in every single meal because

It’s so easy to incorporate and it’s just delicious so we like to have a lot of kale growing in our garden and then I’m going to try to get a lot in the spring and then preserve some of it just throw it in the freezer that way during the hot summer when it

Just goes to seed um at least I’ll have some preserved in the freezer and then I can get another fall crop going and then we do love corabi it’s so delicious the way I describe karabi is it’s kind of like a broccoli stem it’s got a cabbage

Broccoli taste to it I love it it’s so delicious especially steamed with a little bit of melted butter on it andt salt and pepper it’s just it’s delicious so we’re going to grow this variety and then we’re going to grow this variety this sparkle stuff that you see is just

Tape that I have to close my things because the seeds fall out really easy so I just use that tape to keep my seeds from falling out so one of my favorite things to grow is lettuce like I love lettuce I love pretty much everything I there is really

Not a vegetable that I hate I cannot think of one vegetable right now that I don’t like I love them all like I really do love them all so gardening to me is just like I just have like all of the vegetables I love it so we’re into the

Lettuce section now so I got this variety I’m actually going to go and put some of this in pots today and try to grow some of this in my little tiny Greenhouse I have an unheated um uncooled Greenhouse it’s just is the little Greenhouse that Steven actually built for me and so

We’re going to put some of these in pots and we’re going to try to see if we can get them started this description says it can grow in temperatures as low as 5 fahit without being like phased so this is going to be kind of my winter lettuce

I’m excited about it so we’re going to get some of that started today this is one of the free things that I got from baker’s Creek this order and I’m excited about it it says it’s kind of like a Roma lettuce so we’re going to try that

And then we got some slow bolt arugula because it gets so hot here so quickly It Bolts really quick so I’m going to try to get some of this started also and then I have the regular arugula but we’re going to try the slowboat this

Year and see if we can do it I’m on a whole bunch of Facebook gardening groups it’s really really good tool to use to find gardeners that are in your local area to find things that were work really really well for them somebody suggested that this particular lettuce

Variety it is a black seated Simpson lettuce they said that in my area so South Central Kentucky it does really really well so we’re going to try to grow this variety they said it tastes really well also so we’ll try that one this one is one of my favorite

Favorite Lett uses to grow it tastes delicious not only does it taste delicious but it is so pretty the Lea Lees are just like this speckled color it’s just it’s really really really pretty it’s almost like you could use it as like a um like what is the word I’m looking for

Like ornament gardening you know where you just I don’t know landscaping that’s the word I’m looking for you could use this in landscape gardening it’s really really pretty but it tastes really really delicious it’s like a butterhead lettuce so good and then I just have a couple of different seed packets here

This is what I’m saying when the Alish Green Houses open up they sell seeds and again these are seeds that are good in my area so I tend to pick up some seeds there these are some lettuce seeds that I got there this is a salad bow gr Green

Leaf loose leaf lettuce and like this is this is why I buy from the Amish can you see that price this bag was full and it was $160 amazing and then this one I think I paid 70 cents for this bag and it was full when I got it so this is a

Butterhead lettuce so I like to get some seeds from them uh and then I’m just going to be doing the regular Roma lettuce cuz I love doing like lettuce wraps so we’ll do these two varieties um I also have this variety that does well here too so we’ll grow some of that and

Then I have some slow bolt lettuce I tried this last year it still went to seed I mean it really needs to be like really really slow bolts here because it’s it will even this stuff went to see pretty quickly so we’re going to put a

Little bit of this in and then you know just like the regular lettuce is so what I do when I plant my lettuce like I mean I have a whole bunch of lettuce varieties but what I do when I plant my lettuce is I like just to do

One row of one variety another row of another variety and I just do like little tiny rows of all different lettuce and I usually like to just come and just cut them when they’re really L little with the exception of the Roma lettuce the Roma lettuce I like to have

Big Roma heads just good for Caesar salads and stuff like that and like I said they’re wraps but most of them my lettuce I just kind of cut when they’re little and we have like baby lettuce we really like that type of salads so I plant a lot of different varieties so

That we can have like a variety salad so spinach this year I am going to try to do this again it does not do well for me at all here because again hot um we’re going to try to do some of this I’m going to try to do some of the

Spring and then maybe we’ll get some in the to fall now the one variety I actually found that did extremely well in this area and last year I showed a little bit on my videos of what it looked like when it was like in full

Bloom in the Dead Heat of August like it was hot like 100 degree days hot this stuff was just kicking this does amazing in my area I asked Stephen do you want me to grow it again this year because it was kind of nice having like some

Greenery in the dead of Summer but Malibar spinach has a taste to it it’s like spinach but it has like almost like a slimy aftertaste to it um it’s good in a pinch but it wasn’t our favorite so I don’t know if I want to dedicate a whole

Arch trellis to it because it is a Vining thing it will Vine up it covered my whole trellis I I’m going to insert a photo of it there for you guys but it covered my whole trellis and it’s good chicken food like the chickens also

Liked it but we weren’t fans of it so I don’t think I want to devote a whole trellist to it I have some Swiss chard seeds but honestly I’m not going to do Swiss chard we are not super super fans of it we like kale which is kind of

Similar to it so I’m not going to devote any space to Swiss chard this year now peas are one of my favorite things to grow I love them they do really really well here in the spring so I have a whole bunch of different pea varieties

And we’re going to get these started in March so stay tuned for that but we’re going to do this variety and then we are going to do some of this variety and then some of this variety and then also some snap peas these are really really good so for the

Peas I think what I’m going to do this year is I still have my tomato trellises up I never ended up taking them down last year so I think what I’m going to do is I’m going to get all my my Peas on my tomato trellises Because by the time

The peas are phasing out I’ll be the tomatoes will be kind of starting to grow a little bit so I’m going to try to interplant those two crops they apparently do okay together I have like a little list of things that grow really well together I can see if I can

Potentially screenshot it and put it in here for you guys it is really really good to deciding what grows well together and what doesn’t grow well together and I think peas and tomatoes were one that were good together so those will go there and then like I said we’re going

To actually get a radishes started really soon so this year for radishes I’m going to grow this variety I’m going to go grow some French breakfast I really like these ones and then some watermelon and then this one is called Pink Beauty it’s just another kind of

Like this variety so we’re going to get those in the ground I think I start those the end of February I think that’s what I did last year and they turned out really really good and then we are also going to get some turnips put in I love love turnips

Turnips are so good in a stew you can put them in with like potatoes carrots and turnips it just makes the best stew ever so that is everything that is in my spring box so we’re done that box so let’s get to the fun Garden which is the

Summer garden that’s my favorite because I get to grow pumpkins watermelon and tomatoes which are like some of my favorite things so we’ll get to that one hey guys I’m going to end this video right here and the reason why is because I started editing this video and I

Realized that it is well well well like so over an hour and I don’t want to bore you guys with all these seeds I mean I do love talking about seeds but I am going to end up splitting this video into a part one which you just watched

And a part two which will be coming up in a couple of days so you guys are going to get an added bonus you’re going to get a couple of videos this week part one and part two I just don’t want to have one huge long video for you just in

Case you know you have other things to do which you probably do so that is going to be it for today’s video I hope you enjoyed part one my Spring Garden and you know what actually have already been outside and started some of those seeds um the other thing that I didn’t

Mention in this video but I do mention it actually on my second part of the video I didn’t go through any flowers or herbs that I am starting just because that again would be part three of the video it would make it really really

Really long so I didn’t go over it but I did seed some of my more heartier um herbs Like My Rosemary um what else did I get started I got some couple flowers started like my patunas my pansies all of those can tolerate pretty cold weather I got some more Sage started

Also but I didn’t go over any of that even in the second part just because again it it would be really long I just grow my basic herbs so if you want to see part three let me know in the comments and then I could potentially film a part three for

You guys and just letting you know what flowers I’m going to be growing because I grow a whole bunch of flowers and what herbs I do because I like to grow all of my medicinal herbs also so anyways thank you guys so much for watching today’s

Video and I hope you enjoyed it I hope you have a great day or night whenever you’re watching this and I will see you on the next video bye guys