2022 Vegetable Seed Haul (and MORE Flowers too) : Flower Hill Farm

[@FlowerHillFarm]

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[@GrowWithSara]

I love your personality, your joy rubs off on me when I’m down and I’m so thankful for you!!! 🥳

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thank you so much! 🥰

[@jodiminton8815]

I live about an hour from Baker Creek Heirloom seed company! I’m going to buy seeds Monday for the first time, can’t wait!!!

[@sundogfarm4750]

Okra...I grew up down south where okra grows no problem. After moving to zone 3 I have to start my okra inside. It needs heat to germinate. Your greenhouse may be the ticket too. The best success I have is growing it in a hot house/greenhouse. I have to have okra, so go to great lengths to make it happy and hot. It's the best any way you eat it! Good luck!

[@seedaholicgardens9085]

I'm trying a lot of African varieties since my African heritage is from Ghana and there a lot of those varieties in the Baker Creek catalog this year! Girl! the ending was HILARIOUS! "🤣🤣Blessings of Bounty and May Your Gardens and your Life always Bring You Joy, Inspiration and Abundance!" - Hope( & Mark)!👍👍💖💖🦋🦋

[@jenniferhooks2454]

Oh my mercy! Nicole you are high on the excitement of seed starting. This video was too funny!!😂

[@juliekahler632]

I am starting a pepper alley this year. Would love to see your recipe for the Jalapeños. ❤️

[@laurabaughman1272]

I second the want to see the recipe for the jalapeño poppers.

[@jennifermolino5428]

I don’t know what hers is but I stuff my jalapeños with cream cheese and shredded cheese mixed together. Then I wrap the whole stuffed pepper with bacon and roast them in the oven. They are amazing. I agree with her though. It’s like playing Russian roulette with the heat lol.

[@mariaslibeck9984]

Celery! You hit the nail on the head….getting to the center of each celery head. To that crisp, more delicate flavor of the more tender pale center!!!! Yes! I’m headed to Baker Creek right now! THANK YOU!

[@katherinemcalary4800]

I ordered the sweatheart cherry tomato last year. Ugh so amazing. I ended up starting one and potting it up for my grandma. I sat on her porch and she sent me weekly updates haha. So productive and tasty!

[@greenrockgarden2851]

I am excited to start a full-on food garden. It won’t be large, just a small variety of things. I am used to mostly flower growing.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Veggies are my first love and I feel so bad for neglecting them! You’ll love growing veggies 🥗

[@greenberryhillfarm7965]

We are so the same with sounds when pulling out our seed packs. Lol, I enjoy watching you have fun!

[@LeisurelyBlooms]

Your personality brings out the best in me! So glad to have found you. I finally have land of my own! first year of a cut flower and a veggie garden.. so excited

[@afitz8862]

We are a poultry and veggie farm. This year for the first time....CUT FLOWERS! I am so excited!

[@SummerChica89]

I'm starting a vegetable garden for the first time this spring. Tomatoes. cucumbers. bush beans. Squash. Carrots. Parsnip.

[@metchpoirier]

My 4years old saw me watching you on my tv and went crazy : mom it's Nicole look at her flower shirt. I love her. Well you have a new fan. Hi from Qc Canada 😋

[@kelliwebb2870]

I find myself snickering a lot while watching your videos! You are quite entertaining.

[@abbybishop7339]

This year im trying flowers! Last year I grew a small patch of Zinnias in my vegtable garden and they brought me so much joy! Excited to expand my flower knowledge a bit this year.

[@SDStellaD]

I love baker creek! I buy most of my seeds there. I’m especially excited this year for the white marigolds and cucumelons. Have never grown either of those. Can’t wait to see your veggie garden! Didn’t realize that you also do a seedling sale-I truly respect your hustle! You’re doing what you gotta do to build your business and I really enjoy seeing the journey.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thanks Stella!

[@quirkycottageshenanigans9003]

I am excited to grow more Thai Roselle Hibiscus- it makes a wonderful, healthy red herbal tea. I only had a handful of plants but want a bunch more to have Christmas tea for loved ones. The leaves are edible & have a tart flavor. 🌺

[@FlowerHillFarm]

That sounds lovely!

[@Olivia54984]

I grew Casper Kale in 2021; super ornamental and sweet and mild ALL summer long even in mid-90 drought days! You will love it! (I also cut several bouquets with it.)

[@melinaking9430]

I grew coleus from seed last year. It has been a landscape/planter staple for a few years and I just took the plunge! It was a success! And I bought some Kong series this year!

[@meganplessinger8222]

Blue popcorn is a new thing I’m trying this year. Super cute. I can’t wait!!

[@AdelineWilliams]

Out of all our tomatoes last year black beauty and cream sausage were our top favorites of the 10 varieties we grew. I recommend them to all my friends

[@sheilamorse2624]

I've been growing seeds from Baker's Creek for nearly 20 years now and get just as excited as you do!! I'm looking forward to growing Pink Jazz tomato, Cardinal basil, Ajvarski Peppers and greens and more greens.

[@Scowlingoverlord]

I got the pink jazz too so excited to try

[@sheilamorse2624]

@@Scowlingoverlord you're going to be delighted with it's growth habit and the fruit is amazing!

[@cheryljames7913]

I've been binge watching your videos all weekend. Thanks for all the great info. I'm a vegetable market gardener in B.C. Canada and I'm just getting into flowers. I may have gotten a little too excited about growing season. $$$ I just seeded my Majorette Double Champagne Hollyhocks today. Hopefully they will be big enough to sell at market by first weekend in May. Meanwhile... my husband is busy converting my walk-in cooler to my new temperature controlled germination chamber. Dual purpose year round. Cheers!

[@barbarafegley5566]

I grow the nadapenos for my salsa. They are great.

[@carolineholland4178]

Brilliant to see you getting back into your veggie growing plans. I like to try something new every year. Last year it was cucamelons they are sooooo cute and quite a tasty little snack and they pickle so well. This year, baby sweetcorn. The squirrels always eat my proper corn cobs if I don't fight them off and I'm hoping the little fluffy tailed munchers can't be assed with the baby corn if I grow some big ones nearby. Trying to time this later in the year with Pak choy and chilli ripening. 🌶 Spicy stir fry and noodles 😋 yum!

[@yesterdayseyes]

I was surprised to see squirrels stealing my corn cobs that were bigger than the squirrels themselves. Strong little theives!

[@rosanna810]

Funny. I bought so many of the same seeds you got from Baker creek. I am looking forward to planting this year. Thanks for the tips.

[@lindasowash7054]

I’m excited about growing the Baker Creek Kajari Mellon. I’m also trying popcorn. Pretty excited. I’ve started. Lot is seeds for the first time. Thursday I’m planting my onions outside as well as direct seeding radishes and snap peas. Yahoo. I can’t believe I’ve started coleus and they are growing. Yahoo....

[@littleblessingshomestead5138]

The Great Whit tomatoes are so delicious! I bought a few plants last year on impulse and I'm buying seeds this year because they were by far my favorite!

[@lauriesickles5393]

Most excited to try cut flowers, all the flowers!!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

😊💐

[@kayceparker9714]

Clemson spineless okra is the only variety I grow. Pick it young when it’s tender though, or it will get fibrous. This past growing season was my husband’s first experience with it. He was thoroughly impressed with the amount of harvest, and the height of the plant. The more you cut, the more it seems to grow! This year will be my first year of cut flowers, so I’m excited to learn from trial and error 😆 Happy gardening everyone!

[@nildavargas7836]

omg I subscribed immediately cause of your quirky nature. Your so funny and informative. Starting my first garden this year. Excited.

[@christineann7620]

I’d love it if you did a video all about how you do your seedling sale! Also, love Skillshare and I never even thought to check out the flower stuff!! So thank you!

[@ericaallen2756]

exciting!!! i'm most excited to grow purple bell vine this year. Erin @ Impatient Gardener was so enamored with hers last season, I can't wait to try for myself. I'd LOVE to grow Bells of Ireland - pop pop was so impressed with yours; so cute!

[@meagantrout2127]

Ahhh I was so tempted to try it too. I went with black eyed Susan vines from bakers creek for the area instead though

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Gramps loved those! 🤣

[@dranzerbeast0308]

The Yod Fah is wonderful. Been planting it for 5 years. Just like broccoli

[@heatherbright7214]

Officially starting my cut flower farm.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Good luck!

[@maggidull1952]

New for me, this year I ordered (From Baker Creek)Jing orange okra (grew some Clemson Spineless last year),and New Hanover Ground Cherry. Also, taking your lead, Bright Lights , Fizzy Rose, and Black Magic Cosmos.Also Chocolate Cherry Sunflower that is on BC's catalog cover page. (Love them sunflowers!) Ajvarski Pepper will be grown again this year as they are the prettiest red pepper that are sweet and great for roasting. And finally, in my SWFL garden growing now are San Marzano and Amish Paste tomatoes, just beginning to ripen. All are new to me (except Ajavarski) to grow this year. Gardening is such fun!

[@gardeningjunkie2267]

I'm excited to grow Habanada and Etiuda peppers, a bumper crop of cucumbers again, and many different heirloom tomatoes.

[@thedreamingbun5998]

I grew coleus from seeds last year. They were super slow at first and then suddenly grew like crazy and I ended up with so many plants in many beautiful colors and patterns that I could put them everywhere in the garden. They also stay nice in a vase for a very long time and grow roots very soon. The only concern: they are the slugs' favorite meal right after basil and dahlia seedlings.

[@sarahmunoz14]

I’m limiting my growing to things I actually want to eat (cabbage, broccoli and peas early spring then tomatoes, sweet peppers, cucumbers, watermelon maybe, drying beans, yellow zucchini, pumpkin and some smaller winter squash). I’m going to play with flowers this year 👏🏽

[@FlowerHillFarm]

It’s super important that you love what you grow! Extra motivation 😊 sounds like a good plan

[@graceinthegarden9151]

It is such a blessing to watch your excitement sharing your seeds and plans of growing. It helps me build confidence. Even though I am OLD, 😊 I have about 95% failure of growing from seeds. 🤷‍♀️. In saying that, I just keep trying. 🤣 I figure sooner or later ANYTHING is possible. 😂 Have a great weekend.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

You can do it! 😊👍👍

[@melissaschloneger9902]

Add a heat mat and a grow light, and most seeds will germinate. Just dont overwater, then they definitely wont…

[@graceinthegarden9151]

@@melissaschloneger9902 thank you. I have a heat mat and grow light. I may have over watered them. Thankfully I only planted 3 of everything I started. I use Bakers Creek seeds, so I have plenty more seeds and I know they are good. I will try again and less water. Have a good weekend.

[@thelittlehomesteadbythesea1285]

In regards to trying to put plastic on the old frames, you can make “clips” to hold the plastic on the metal frame using pieces of pvc about 2-3” long and cut a slit down them long ways :) then you can put the plastic over the frame and clip on top :)

[@sunflowerflight]

All of your seeds fall into two groups, ones I also own and the other is seeds I need to buy now 😆. Everytime, I think I am done buying seeds I find another seed website. I cannot wait to see what your vegetable harvest is like this season. Baker Creek seriously needs to sponsor your channel or at least send you a box of free seeds to review. Much love to you and your family! I hope your day was amazing!

[@CurlyQsgarden]

Calendula for salve, chamomile for tea and skin care, big leaf basil for amazing basil wrap sandwiches, new kuroda carrots were amazing last year!

[@beckyb4068]

I'm most excited about growing our 3rd and last baby. Due in June and we decided not to do much of a garden this year so I can spend the summer snuggling with baby and enjoying the newborn stage. We are talking about filling part of the garden space with sunflowers and then doing a cover crop as well. We will still get asparagus, rhubarb, strawberries, onions, garlic and potatoes as they are already planted in the garden from fall.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Well now! You’re growing the most exciting thing of all!

[@wordvendor1]

You must try Suyo Long cucumbers from Baker Creek! They're so good! I'm growing lots of okra and cucumbers for pickling; jalapenos for salsa and raspberry pepper jelly; lots of tomatoes for juice, paste, and salsa; so many peppers; snap and snow peas; watermelon and honeydew (YUM); pumpkins; sweet corn; and taters. Cannot wait!!

[@jameswesnga7709]

Hi Nicole, Talking of “removing heat:” Heat and cold/cool is part of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is related to the balance of yin-yang chi (energy) in our bodies. Foods have properties that can help to maintain this balance. Imbalances trigger illnesses. You can find out more online. East Asians, like Chinese and Koreans, are obsessed with heat and cold in our foods; which are reflected in our cuisines. Btw, Chinese celery has a pungent smell, used mainly in soups and garnishes. Good luck in trying our all your seeds. Oh before I forget, your growing season may not be long enough to grow bananas, but they are great as ornamental plants. Love your channel and your videos. Keep them coming.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thanks! I’ve never heard of it before. I would definitely be bringing the bananas indoors for half of the year. Everyone around here who grows them treats them as indoor plants 🍌🪴

[@ntur117]

Ohhh this was so much fun!!!! I want to try some of these too!!!! Im going to have to rewatch some of your video :). Those spoon tomatoes cracked me up!!! I haven’t grow beans or melons and planning to try both on the new trellis arch we’re going to put in :). Im so excited!!!!!!

[@GiantOakCo]

I'm excited to try new varieties of okra! I've done the Clemson variety and had success. I'm hoping to try to pickle it too! 😋

[@sunflowersteve3940]

Its good to see you are cutting back...LOL. Squirrel😂

[@andreagrowsthings]

I’m always so impressed by how much you grow in a shorter growing season. :) I have Job’s tears too and am excited to grow that for beads. 🥰

[@jeanneamato8278]

I’m growing a stuffing tomato. It’s hollow, hence ‘stuffing’. Also a perfume gourd that was used by Victorian ladies to put in their pockets to smell when the surroundings were less than fragrant.

[@marylujan3975]

im most excited for the sunflowers!!

[@elisabethlundt6155]

Great white was my favorite last year. The best tasting one I have ever grown

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Great to hear!

[@BrightestBlessings7899]

I had planted peppers, all kinds last year and I grew brussel sprouts first time too. I will definitely grow more peppers. I had a surprise seedling, a volunteer Cantaloupe and I was so excited that they can grow here in Malakwa BC....I did just find out that we are in zone 3/4 and I'm thrilled to grow them this year! May I just say, Hun, your make-up is on par today! Gorgeous! Brightest Blessings

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thank you so much!

[@saraloggins8365]

I think I have perfected the loofa/luffa after 3 years of almosts. I had about 4 plants last year that had huge luffa gourds that were drying when the first hard frost hit. I left them out there, but they didn't really dry properly after the plants died. I got 3 luffa "sponges" and had enough to give as Christmas gifts, but I WANT MORE! The flowers are gorgeous and still blooming very late into the season. The pollinators loved them and the vines covered my ugly chain link fence. Win, win, win!

[@radmilamiljanic5977]

Those beads are called Theotokos Tears here, people make rosaries, necklaces and bracelets. You make my day start smiling:)))

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Amazing! 😊

[@brittanyragon6033]

My husband pickled the okra we grew just fridge pickles but he loved it!

[@amyhulbert4828]

Growing Kajari melons for the first time! And I didn’t even see the coleus when I did my baker creek order yay for free shipping!

[@arnorrian1]

Asian eggplants are a revelation. I grew Ping Tung and Nagasaki from Baker Creek last year, so good. Never bitter, thin skin, silky meat, prolific.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Yummy! Growing eggplants is super satisfying

[@julieventimiglia]

I too am trying 2 kohlrabi varieties, Kajari melons sugar rush peach habanero and ground cherries this year. So excited!

[@nathinaduncan4328]

I did the same thing you did, hyper focused on flowers and neglected my 160 tomato plants and everything else last year 😞 Since we bought our 55 acre farm this winter, I have no idea where the ground will be soggy in the spring....we will see. Most excited about the acres worth of strawberry plants we bought but getting Brussels, beans, peas and some lettuces going will feel so good!!! Thank you for sharing all your packet names and tips!! 💗

[@FlowerHillFarm]

How exciting! 😊

[@MickeyBulldog]

First time veggies for me. Got some shallots started already. Then in spring will start some sweet chocolate peppers, zucchini, onions in grow bags in my tiny yard.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

I love grow bags! So handy

[@amysgardenstead2879]

I thought I got all my seed orders done early this year then I watched your seed video. I ordered again from Baker Creek, Select Seeds and some one else. Sigh. Now I want more. I’m tried artichoke last year. Beautiful plants but no fruit. I will try again this year. I’m also going to try Gogiberry.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

I kinda want more too after reading all of these amazing comments!

[@backroadblooms3820]

GASP how did I miss this?! I literally watch all your videos as soon as the notification pops up lol

[@8Gammie]

Hello from HappyValley, Oregon! This year I'm going to try sunflower seeds from your video. Went out to his website and bought several different varietals. I'm almost 71 and never grown sunflowers before, except from a plant. I also bought some milkweed to attract monarches. I have a very small yard but, try to grow many things anyway. Always have a pot of lettuce growing.. love, hugs,prayers

[@FlowerHillFarm]

That is great Barbara! Good luck 😊

[@Edu_Kate]

What?! No fennel? I read they're a real caterpillar magnet. I really like the bulb cooked or raw and thinly sliced in salads. I love eggplant. I think the blooms are so pretty. You being Italian probably have many recipes. I think of my grandmother whenever I hear about "nasty sturshiums" (her word for them). 😆

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Haha love that! At the very end of the video I mentioned the fennel packet - I have so many herbs 🌿 that I didn’t mention from last year. I’m excited about the fennel this year. It’s going to be amazing 🤩

[@prayingthruit554]

Good like with okra! I would suggest starting early and then only planting out once it warm, no chance of cold snap. Keep it in the new tunnel to keep it warm. Lazy Dog Farms has great videos on how to grow “Okree”. You will love it pickled. You may also like canning Cowboy Candy. We serve it over a cream cheese (whipped placed on a plate, pour a jar over it). 🌱 Happy Gardening 🪴 love to se the 🥗 🥕 🥦

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Yum! I make and can corn with peppers, vinegar and sugar that we eat with tortilla chips. I’m not sure if it’s the same thing. We love it!

[@plot10homestead58]

This will be my first year selling cut flowers (super small scale....we live on 1/3 acre suburban lot) so I'm giving up a little veggie space. I'm determined to grow as much food as possible so I'll add more containers and mix some edible plants in existing borders. I'm trying the Martino's Roma tomato this year, as well as Brad's Atomic grape....they're beautiful so we'll see how they taste. I grow new pepper varieties every year...this year I'll be trying a Pepperoncini, Sugar Rush peach, Ozark Giant sweet pepper and a Red Ember cayenne. I'm also testing a bush cucumber, Ishikura bunching onions, Seychelles pole beans and Salanova lettuce. Should be an exciting growing season :)

[@frasersgirl4383]

I got my flower seeds!! Woo hoo!!

[@mfoster040111]

I love Baker Creek! Such fun, neat seeds to try! Cant wait to see your garden! I will be starting flowers by seed for the first time this year! Im in lower Alabama, and am starting salvia, vinca, petunias, and impatiens in a green house ... if you have any tips please let me know!

[@rebecaorsi554]

Love your hair cut . 2022 looks good on you . Happy and prosperous New year

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thank you!

[@gardenergal5198]

Love the stuff you picked and Bakers Creek seeds! My friend always grows sun gold cherry tomato seeds and they are the absolute bomb so I am growing them this year! Those mini eggplants are so cute!!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

I wish I liked sun gold- they have a weird taste to me. Sorta like ground cherries and I don’t care for those either. I guess I like the sweet ones! 🍅

[@lisajelle714]

Balsam is super easy and beautiful in light shade! Just toss them down and you’ll have them forever- they reseed!

[@ktne2619]

Great seed haul. I focus primarily on flowers, but I do enjoy growing a variety of lettuces, radishes, cucumbers, etc. Last growing season, I found a seed company somewhat close to you in Rochester, NY that sold bulk quantities of flower and veggie seeds. Great variety of flowers and veggies and much larger quantities than what I could find from most online companies. I decided to go ahead and buy in bulk so I wouldn't have to buy any seeds for a few years. What in the world I thought I would do with 250-1000 seeds of each variety I don't know, but I figured I would be set to never order seeds again. Ha! I think I ordered as much or more from them again this year. I must grow all the varieties!

[@earthlovingmomma1703]

I'm starting up a small scale cut flower, market garden, pumpkin patch field! I'm excited about it all, but I am most excited about the pumpkins, glass gem corn and all the fun weird winter squash I'll be growing in hopes of a small but successful pumpkin patch stand.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Love growing pumpkins!

[@salami5050]

King of the North is such an amazing pepper. One of the only ones I can grow well in Canada!

[@shanetn.1381]

I swear, Girl!!! I just love your personality! It's so easy to watch you cause I know I'll be cracking up at some point. Great try with the Aji Cachucha (A-Hee Kah-Chu-Cha) pronunciation. It's also known as Aji Dulce (A-Hee Dul-Say) and we use it in the Caribbean to make seasonings like Sofrito. Mucho delicioso and so fun to grow. You're gonna love it!

[@sonyahaley7350]

Grew okra in a small greenhouse first time last summer. Awesome just eaten off stem with salt. Love pickled okra. GrowIng more in greenhouse this year.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Good idea, maybe I’ll put it in a hoop

[@baileerobison7543]

I'm giving artichokes a go this year... last year I couldn't get a single one to germinate 😅. Also trying some new varieties of tomatoes like tigerella, mushroom basket, persimmon, and white tomesol!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Ooooo I grew artichokes a couple years back and ended up with one that formed an actual artichoke. It was very pretty!

[@juliewolfe7558]

White Tomesol is very very good. I got a free packet from Baker Creek last year and honestly it was one I never would have chosen myself. I don't even know why I grew it. It's not like I had room. It was wonderful!!! It's one of my favorites now.

[@cynthiafisher9907]

Bailee Robison Check out Gary Pilarchik. He just did a video on germinating artichokes.

[@altheab.8907]

Nice seed haul, Nicole. Regarding the echinacea….if you have groundhogs, put some protective fencing or something around them. They love echinacea. They have eaten mine to the ground the last 2 years. It’s all out war this year!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Oh boy! I have about 75 littered around the property and they haven’t found them yet. Fingers crossed!

[@janetn1925]

I'm excited to start a winter sowing project. I'm not a big seed starter but watched a couple videos with the water jug method and thought why not. I'm in Maine in zone 5B. I'm just doing a few Poppies and Coneflowers. I have only done a few small tomatoes and peppers on the deck. I'm more of an ornamental gardener. If I had more sun space I would definitely do more veggies.

[@yoclark2723]

I am growing two new varieties of peas this year. They are podded up now and should be ready by February. I also have broccoli, lettuce and spinach. For the summer, Zucchini and yellow squash, green beans and 5 varieties of tomatoes. I've grown nadapenos before and they were great! We grew balsam and they were just too weird to do anything with. They also have exploding seed pods and are hard to get rid of. Good luck on your seed starting! I'm so excited for planting season to get here.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Ooo great info! Thanks so much! Jealous that you have peas podding up right now 😭

[@ml9854]

I started Nadapenos in the fall, they're a cute size and have so many buds!

[@CottageGardensonForest]

I grew Balsam last year in my long border and really enjoyed them. Coleus took a long time to get to a decent size to plant out for me as did petunias for some reason. I tried two years in a row and finally got decent size plants by mid summer when I was hoping to have larger plants earlier in the season. I’m scaling back my tomatoes this year so I can grow more types of vegetables in my raised beds.I suggest growing the spoon tomato where you walk by often so you can snack on them because it’s a nightmare to harvest. Lol

[@FlowerHillFarm]

That’s a job I’ll leave for the kiddos 🤣

[@jksatte]

I have the Queen Lime Red Zinnia. Oh that is so pretty. I am also excited about my broccoli. I have several hybrids I will be growing. I am expecting big things from them.

[@cowgirlkaylee4]

I am excited to try and grow Aunt mollys ground cherries!

[@zoltanpali7272]

Hey Nicole, I used to live in Thailand, they use snake beans there a lot, but the eat it mostly raw, either in green papaya salad or just as side veggies for spicy stuff, like chicken laarb salad. The texture is crunchier and a bit tougher than regular green beans. The small eggplants I've seen used in curries, especially green curry, they keep their texture and bite, so would probably work in stir fries too. Job's tears I've eaten there in salads, when you cook it, it's a bit like pearl barley but sweeter 😊

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thanks so much for sharing! Love this info and learning about how they are used in other places 😊👍🌱

[@jackwilkinson9343]

Watch out for the peppermint stick balsam!! I grew it last year and mine went to seed and their were hundreds of little seed pods that explode when you touch them! Really cool but i think this year I will have hundreds of volunteer balsam haha

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Oh wow! Thanks 😊

[@laurie4914]

My son needs gluten free and I read that Job's Tears makes a good GF replacement for barley in beef barley soup; however, I could never find it locally to try. I never thought that maybe I could grow it! I so wanted the Astra Rose Sunflower but I resisted since I had ordered so many other seeds. However if I going to order the Job's Tears, I might as well fill the package. Those melons sound delicious...

[@amysgardenstead2879]

I start my okra inside to give them a head start. Last year I had one variety that grew 8 feet tall so I couldn’t harvest anymore in sept.

[@rorie1326]

I'm doing artichokes this year!!🥳 fingers crossed they do well

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Best of luck!

[@DemocracyPrevailsNow]

I am most excited for the grow along with you! I have never grown cut flowers before. Im so excited to learn along so many people I can get advice from and be beside new growers like myself. Im adding tomatoes to my garden this year and i’m excited to try my first ever home grown tomato sandwich. 🍅 🥪

[@DragonflyArtz1]

YOU!!! LOL I'm growing Licorice Basil!!! Ahhh! I'm growing for the first time (from seed) Celert and Artichokes and Onions. Loads of new Pepper varieties and Tomatoes/ Tons of Herbs including Fennel and Black Sesame Seeds! Ahhh! I'm so excited!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Amazing!

[@rm.a.5064]

I did baker creek’s orange jing okra and omg it is so good and is beautiful. Lots of peas, beans, long beans, greens, pineapple squash, lots of varieties of tomatoes (I had a whole section of black and purple veggies), I’ll do the purple marasaka (I think) pepper….delicious pepper jelly. Oh, and doing amaranth again - you can actually eat the seeds like tiny popcorn and use the plant to dye wool.

[@k.millen4046]

I'm starting a Flower Farm :) . SO everything is new! haha wish me luck. I love your videos. You are awesome. Thank you for all the information and entertainment in one☺

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Good luck!

[@trudymautz4388]

I did the Yod Fah broccoli last year, it was so delicious and kept on giving all summer. Also, I grow Martino's Roma every year, and it's so prolific. I grew Abe Lincoln last year also, and let me tell you, it was not only huge, it was my best tasting out of 40 varieties, that I grow. Good Luck

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Abe Lincoln is truly deliciousness!

[@cherylwhitesell2522]

Like to watch your seed hauls! It gives me ideas for ones I haven't tried! I know you are very busy but it would be nice to have you do those halapeno popper recipe or a rutabaga one to share how you make them. Guardian Answer does that on occasion and its fun to see how someone else cooks things! Love Baker Creek. I too am trying those super duper echinaceas. Cant wait!

[@juliewolfe7558]

Bring on the corn - I love corn and you make me laugh! Thank you!