3 Powerhouse Veggies You Need to Be Growing!

[@malcolmt7883]

This year, I mixed a half a cup of different types of seeds and sprinkled them thick along the rows. Mustard, kale, collards, beets, radishes, spinach, and a lot of loose mystery seeds in the bottom of a zip-lock bag. We'll just let them fight it out to see who's the strongest.

[@lindapearson6928]

I too bought the Savannah mustard seeds from Lazy dog last year. Wonderful crop and delicious.

[@jaredenders4981]

We are enjoying Savannah mustard greens at our house now. We bought our seeds from Lazy Dog Farms and are very pleased. Already harvested leaves twice from the plants. They are very fast growing and I would certainly reccomend for everyone to give them a try. Thank you Lazy Dog Farms!!

[@virginiatalbert4094]

I love all varieties of greens but my favorite Mustard is Florida Broad leaf.

[@marthakemp127]

I don't remember not eating greens. Collards, mustard, turnips, cabbage. Love them all!

[@tammyohlsson7966]

Never had any cooked greens but spinach. I would love a cooking demo for us that didn’t grow up eating greens! Blessings!

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

You’re missing out on so much. You need to try it.

[@marvinhirsch3262]

​@@iwanttobelieve5970Try some sweet tasting Swiss chard. Stems cook tender and in my opinion better than spinich.

[@sandysmith8567]

I'd love that, too. Mom used to cook dandelion greens but used so much vinegar. Couldn't get passed that smell back then, but taste changes.

[@marvinhirsch3262]

@@sandysmith8567 I just boil in water salt if desired

[@sandysmith8567]

@@marvinhirsch3262 thanks! I'll give it a try!

[@deanharrison556]

I love all greens but collard greens are my favorite

[@DavidBrown-vx6fb]

If you wait until frost is on the collard greens, they will be sweeter! As always, I enjoyed you video!

[@jaredkugel2947]

Top 3 powerhouse greens here in Nebraska are beef, pork, and chicken. They also serve powerhouse fruits, grains, and dairy. Lol

[@everettmcdonald2088]

Savanah Mustard, Champion Collards, Red Russian Kale, Swiss Chard, and Rutabagas. They’re just germinating now. Looking good!

[@lynnlovessoil]

I love mustard greens. Greenwave, savanna and komatsuna

[@FrankKiss-h5g]

I always grow all three! Mustard greens are my favorite😊

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

Homegrown Mustard greens are so good.

[@TeeRust15]

Growing Florida broadleaf mustard and Flash collards here in Mississippi right now.

[@reggiepalmersr1003]

We love your videos thanks

[@LittleGirlBlu]

I use the turnips like potatoes. I put them in roast and stews. Covered in onion gravy, they are very tasty.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

You should try rutabaga if you haven't already.

[@terriewilliams8831]

I mix my mustard n turnip greens, cook the turnip root in them and drop some cornbread dumplings in the whole pot. Good eating.

[@guesswho4944]

I’m with you…I absolutely love collards too. But, I have issues with aphids when I grow them.

[@whitestone4401]

I had aphids on my greens for the first time this year. Sprayed milk on them and it was amazing how great it worked.

[@TnCountryBoy]

Hey Travis, another great vid.!!! One of my favs, and I've saved it. You really threw out tons of useful info. I'll be trying the Savana type here in a few days. Planning on seeding Broc, cabbage, diacon radishes and turnip root/greens. Thanks for all you're efforts. Dave in The.

[@hardstylzz5024]

Saved a ton of Florida mustard seed and Georgia collards seed from this early summer, now be replanting again soon, my chickens love this stuff.

[@baneverything5580]

I`ve already planted them and everything else I could think of for fall/winter in Louisiana. I like to nibble on raw mustard greens for the medicinal spice and their huge stems are mild and closer to celery raw. I love raw beets and turnips too. Cooked rutabagas seem more rich and potato-like in texture than turnips. I direct sow bulk seeds a lot in my main no-till garden and mix it up and just let the plants decide where to grow. In another area I more carefully plant my collards, kale, celery, swiss chard, cabbage, green beans, cucumbers etc and the smaller carrot varieties. In fall/winter/early spring I use the rich mounds under my fig trees for greens, herbs and tubers and in summer I plant some red ripper peas under the fig trees and train the vines to run outward away from them. I noticed the beetles that sting the peas aren`t nearly as bad in late summer and in mid summer I just boil the young green pods like asparagus beans before the beetles ruin them. Otherwise there`s no harvest. I also noticed that red ripper peas on some trellises don`t get stung. My crowder peas were ruined by the stings 99% so I`ll never plant those early again.

[@ladyemerygizer]

Turnips mixed with potatoes are pretty good. Greens on the side.

[@JohnSlater-cn4ro]

Great video. I planted all three--turnips, mustard greens, and collard greens--this fall. Of the three, I prefer collard greens and crop them to get continual harvests. Collards are extra tasty after frost hits them. I agree with you, as you stated in an earlier video, if you do not like collards greens either something is wrong with you or you have not had them cooked right. Keep up the great work and keep providing great content. Thanks.

[@nancymcmillan3890]

My family relocated to South Georgia from Ohio when I was a teenager. A friendly neighbor asked if we would like to have some mustard. In a short while we were presented with a bag of leafy greens. Needless to say, we were expecting a yellow jar. 😂

[@chomershaphal6674]

Man oh man I'm gonna have a great green fall and winter. I managed to keep my collards going since spring, they look like little palm trees now, and still going probably harvested them 10 times now, got going curly mustard( still have some from spring too) got , beets, turnips, rainbow Swiss chard, spinach... I like to mix them all in the instant pot, with daikon radish with the greens, ruby radishes with the greens, carrots, and looking forward to some turnip roots this year... Love all them greens! Now if I could just figger how to grow a bacon plant, I'd be set....😂

[@diannevaldez8670]

Chomer, yum!!! All those vegetables sound so good! Let us know if you hear about a bacon plant going anywhere!!😅

[@FrogRogers]

Try the white ice sickle radishes. You can cook the the whole plant like you do turnips. They taste like a very mild turnip when cooked with the greens. We like cutting up the root and cooking it with bacon and eggs. They seem to take on the flavors of whatever you add them to

[@ScotWalt858]

All good!

[@Maria-ql3fc]

Wow I can't hardly believe you aren't a week late with a video Travis. I don't like cooked greens, but I like some of them raw.

[@leslierowell392]

A confession. I add a bit of sugar in my pot of greens and bacon. 😋

[@chomershaphal6674]

@@leslierowell392 me too! ( brown sugar)I just go ahead and add apple cider vinegar to them while cooking also...

[@rickthelian2215]

Nice Travis😊 How are the chickens doing😊

[@murdok1100]

i have my cabbage, collards, and onions started. started my spinach last night. mustard and turnips are in the ground. i have my rutabaga seeds in fridge. is it better to direct seed rutabaga or transplant em. smothered cabbage and cornbread is probably my favorite meal

[@johndavis2011]

'Just right' turnips are the best turnips

[@baneverything5580]

What type of Brown Turkey Fig is much larger than a golfball when ripe with no hollow spot in the center and mostly greenish/yellow with splotches and spots of purple covering about 25% of the skin? Very sweet and delicious too with a reddish interior.

[@glenwoodard5304]

What time of year do we plant collards in south Georgia? I plant in mineral tubes!!

[@takeitslowhomestead5218]

Spinach…until we get a hard freeze.

[@EvetteAviles-s7s]

ANOYHER GREAT VIDEO

[@amyschultz8058]

We planted I think southern giant mustard, green wave mustard and tried spinach but germination was pitiful with that. Got cabbage and broccoli, carrots going as well. The rest of the area we are composting and letting it rest.

[@mikeedge2119]

What do I need to fertilize my greens with

[@mikeedge2119]

Florida mustard greens in purple top turnips what kind of fertilizer

[@LazyDogFarm]

Something relatively balanced will work fine.

[@jeffengland1862]

Jeff from East Tennessee. I will be planting collars,kale,mustard,lettuce, and spinach. I don’t have any of these plants even started yet. I do have cabbage planted and broccoli in trays. It was such a pain dealing with the heat this year. Just going to wait a little longer. Question: This has to do with bell peppers!! I planted a bunch of different varieties this summer. This included a lot of King Arthur bells. They produced some peppers at the start of summer but just flat out stop when it got hot. I know peppers will drop their blooms in hot conditions. I watered them with oceans of water. The plants looked great and got big and beautiful. Just no peppers. In your heat, do you still get peppers??? When is your peppers toast in Georgia??? PS. They are now making tons and tons of bell peppers!!! I mean like 5 gal. Buckets every few days!! I have about 50 plants!!!!

[@chomershaphal6674]

@@jeffengland1862 my peppers, all types, jalapeños, pablano, bell, grew huge like 5 foot, but didn't start producing until I put shade cloth overhead. I would pull it back for early mornings but then the peppers would sunburn, so I just left them covered, but the fruits are small now, even my pablanos... I used 60% because last summer was so brutal but I think I will have to go with 40% next year. We will still get 100 here in Central Oklahoma this Friday, then hopefully cool off and I can remove it... this has been a brutal hot summer, even my potted fig trees, and citrus I had to put in shade...

[@Not_So_Weird_in_Austin]

Lacinato Kale and Rainbow Chard are my standards

[@trueblue_73]

Collard Greens are THE superior greens. Don't @ me. 🤣😋🌱

[@joshsparks6915]

My fave too

[@LindyRoy-n6m]

I cook mine in chicken broth

[@lindawilbert3202]

I don't know what to do with collard. BUT, I grow Kohlrabi, which are high in fiber as well and taste fantastic raw or cooked. Spinach is great broccoli. But you covered those in another great video already. Keep up the great work :)

[@chomershaphal6674]

@@lindawilbert3202 ooooh, kohlrabi with collards is so yummy. I forgot to plant some, thanks gonna get seeds tomorrow. And the greens on them are yum too!

[@Terri_Stauffer]

Not a fan of mustard greens or turnip greens. Collards cooked right are delicious though. Swiss chard, kale, spinach, bok choy, tatsoi, baby Napa cabbage, are more greens I like to grow.

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

Just seeded Mustard greens today, and I have turnip and Collard greens. 🥬