Can We Grow Brussels Sprouts Like Charles Dowding?

[@Christian-jx3nx]

Cabbage tales! 😆 🎣

[@beckysharpe7268]

Charles Dowding, he's great.

[@nunyabeezwax9991]

Love idea of a start to finish on whatever you grow. Hollis and Nancy do that.

[@jlog7395]

I would really like the start to harvest videos. Maybe from germination to harvest.

[@travisevans7502]

Hollis and Nancy's homestead do videos start to finish, you be able to get some good information from them.

[@lottery8883]

I do like start to finish videos, kind a got spoiled from watching Hollis and Nancy’s videos

[@mommypov4958]

Soooo...I thought the same with Brussels all of my gardening years as it's what I've always been told. The ones I planted for last winter are still thriving in my garden! Try it! My plant is currently around 4 feet-ish. And I live in the west texas desert! Yes sir! And you have to try those Brussel greens! I'm a South Louisiana born and raised and greens are just a staple, let me tell you, those Brussel greens smothered in a little bacon grease(but not in the summer) chefs kiss!

[@CrystalHelms-ku3kp]

Good info, did the Brussel plants bolt in the summer heat? I have some planted for the first time

[@mommypov4958]

@CrystalHelms-ku3kp they actually did not! They are still going strong! That's actually why I had left them, hoping for seed? Maybe? They only thing is the leaves(not sprouts) were not as good as cooler weather. Sprouts were still amazing!

[@Detour4it]

Brussel, broccoli and cauliflower leaves are great... earthy, but I like 'em.

[@junecombs7043]

I appreciate your garden knowledge but lately I watch to see some sunshine because we have none here in southern ohio! so thanks for the sunshine!!!!

[@sandraoconnor5700]

Your start to finish videos will be so helpful for me in Zone 8b❤❤❤ Thanks for sharing your great knowledge ❤❤❤❤

[@EventHorizon34]

Those are some beautiful brussel sprouts Travis!

[@russcampbell2414]

GREAT IDEA! Splicing footage together to show complete life cycle of a vege will be appreciated. I know from talking with other gardeners that this will be a welcome addition to your videos. Good luck!! 🎉

[@Happy2Run4Me]

The idea a great one. Seems like it’ll take a while to compile but the information should be super valuable! I would love that kind of content because being in the south, timing is everything. So any help with that for each crop is gold! 😊

[@ptngarden]

It's great to see and pick cabbage with your own eyes

[@charleselertii6187]

1st Rate Travis! Thank you! Chuck in Jensen Beach, Florida.

[@wesleyjones2546]

I love you start to finish video idea. I think it would be great to see .

[@robertmitchell6061]

It would be nice to see a start to finish video

[@wwsuwannee7993]

Very good. I see a lot of home gardeners waste those outer leaves. They make great cabbage rolls(one of my most favorite foods on the planet :). They are good in casseroles, or as us Yankees call it...hot dish :). A good savory cabbage pie comes to mind. They are a little tougher than the heads usually and might require some blanching...so what, waste not want not right? They freeze well for whatever you might dream up to use them for. Rock solid info for your viewers, thanks Travis.

[@SisterGurlfromanotherwhurl]

That is an awesome idea! Yes, would love to see!

[@dinaducheny3450]

Travis, you need to try roasting those brussels sprout leaves in the oven. They get nice a crispy and crunchy like a chip. So good. Totally different taste and texture from the other greens you eat.

[@lisafahrner8257]

That would be awesome Travis.

[@richardhays2178]

Start to finish compilations sound good

[@RUNNINGWylde-wq1bi]

I think you should just keep doing what you are doing, there's a million start to finish videos for everything on youtube

[@rickthelian2215]

Nice Brussel Sprouts they do look like Charles Downing I agreed his locked extremely nice in his last video… You can enjoy them over a longer period too, rather than picking them alltogether. Huge cabbage, cold will make it sweeter they say.😊

[@urbanbackyardcontainergardenin]

Beautiful sprouts 😊

[@izaacdreddpimp]

Hap hap happy times in 2024!! Its Friday night and the new lazy d0g farm video is ON!? TRAVIS! as far as u giving us some start to finish vid (Like Hollis&Nancy) hey bro, I'm into it if u are. I like your content. I recommend it to folks. Go for it bro. We'll be watching.

[@christiensgarden3325]

Sounds like a great idea on the video series

[@GarrettWhittington-g4l]

Start to finish would be nice to see. It would helpful for each segment if you put in days from planting.

[@robclower9606]

That's a good idea about the start to finish type videos, can't wait for those.

[@mikeharris2985]

Hollis and Nancy does a start to finish videos. Nancy the one that puts it together and she said it’s more time consuming and harder. They show starting then 7-10 days later show harding off 3-5 days they plant then it may be 1 week than show 2-4 how they doing and depending on what video you watching could be like 2-3 months. They did one on a fruit tree and that was like 2 years up date. They the only ones I see that dose start to finish

[@kmb4321]

I would like to see 'start to harvest' videos! Especially on onions and tomatoes!

[@Detour4it]

I've always picked from the bottom up.

[@dvrmte]

Start to finish videos are a good idea.

[@EventHorizon34]

I’ve seen his brussel sprouts on video, they are huge!

[@KimWilliamsystunisia]

Hello from Tunisia 🇹🇳 I would love to see a start to finish video on your Brussels. I live in a warm climate very much yours and I have tried several times to grow Brussels and failed every time 😁 Please keep the videos coming they are a great source of information and entertaining 😊

[@kevindavis3841]

Foldering your grow videos is an awesome idea. Compiling the life of particular veggies would be very helpful. But I partially realize the amount of your time that would consume.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Kevin!

[@davidward1259]

Travis, nice Brussel Sprouts!!!! As to the videos, if you are talking about making the start to finish versions in addition to the regular updates, that sounds great. But I would hate to see you cut back on the usual stuff and get yourself overloaded trying to do that. I have referred a number of friends starting to expand their home gardening to your channel and those compilations would be very helpful to folks like them.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks for not keeping us a secret David!

[@becky3086]

Those brussel sprouts look so good. I started some Red Bull Brussel sprouts but I think mine are going to be more of a spring grown vegetable. It has been COLD here in Wrens, GA. We have had frost after frost. Everything I planted is just sitting there barely growing. The brussel sprouts are still in the greenhouse though and I will be happy if I get some this spring. Your cabbage and cauliflower look great too. Last year was the first time I ever grew cabbage that actually got a real head. I love our new place because it gets so much more sun and sandy soil instead of clay. Hoping for a few more cabbage (ones I started myself) this year and the broccoli and cauliflower are also still in the greenhouse. I love all your experiments, we all learn so much.

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

Thanks for that! Your Cole crops, over all, look really fantastic! Such beautiful plants! Klaus

[@davehardin1239]

Like Mom always said, you have to try it before you can say you don’t like it. Certainly game to watch a start-to-finish video. That being said, I enjoy the multiple topics per video format … perhaps it’s my adult ADHD showing through! What I do know is how MUCH I’ve learned from you … think that would be the case regardless of the format. Plenty of room for both styles me thinks. Look forward to your videos continuing. Best for 2024 👍

[@brucemullis479]

Nice Brussels! I have one plant that is a year old. Bugs tear mine up. In Pensacola

[@oscarherrera9049]

Good to see you Travis, Happy new year my friend

[@anthonycoffee7683]

There is a guy in Florida that does that but I would think it’s more costly. It’s good to watch though and I’m jealous his carrots are big long ones and mine are decent diameter but only 2” long. 😎. I’m just going to let them grow through the winter and see if they get longer as the winter proceeds.

[@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

Hey Y’all, I love on the short videos when you have Brooklyn in the front of the short video she always says hey Trav I get a kick out of that FYI. Now, I like brussels sprouts but the white butterflies they will not come up off of them. They don’t matter what I do, so I just kind of quit growing them. I don’t have like a greenhouse or poly tunnel or anything like that. If they would attack one or two, and leave the rest alone I would do it, but they go after all of them and they don’t quit they don’t play. So now I’m gonna just grow broccolini because my wife loves broccolini. She won’t eat regular broccoli and a lot of the other brassicas I like them. We have a gigantic Hmong community in our area and they have a couple of giant plots and they divide them up into subplots so that each family has a place to farm. They have a couple shared tractors, and a few other shared pieces of equipment and they grow just a ton of vegetables and they go to all the farmers markets, but they have right down the road for me so I can just go down there and get anything I want whenever I want it, that’s pretty cool I just go knock on the door. Somebody will come out with it. It’s pretty fun because the older folks don’t speak English and there’s a child that’s four or five years old trying to interpret English for them. I would throw out a suggestion for people when I was trying to do the hot sauce that you made it was like you said in three separate videos, but I went into the KZbin and made a playlist and I put those three in the playlist and as part of the title I put the timestamp of the video in with the title. So whatever titles you had I would put the time 14 minutes and 44 seconds and that’s where you started talking about the hot sauce so I have to go around looking for it that helped me a lot and if I can help anybody else to give it a try I have some that’s over three or four channels with a couple videos because I like a little thing this one does I like something somebody else does and I just kind of marry them up and come out with what’s good for me. Trust me when you think I was only take me a second of going back-and-forth to find it. You may spend five minutes and pretty soon you might even have the right video and then you make yourself real crazy. Thanks for the video today God bless y’all take care, bye now

[@sanchezable]

I would like to see a start to finish.

[@Mojo-ms8th]

My purple cabbage always heads up later than green even though they are planted at the same time.

[@mikeh8374]

Plant date in greenhouse to transplant dates I think would be a huge help to newbies.

[@Gotpaintinmyhair]

My sprouts came up to my arm pit last year, this year season not so good but tasty all the same. I had a lot of pest damage this year so probably why. The ladybirds were late and blackfly was rampant. I am northern UK, Charles is southern UK., much milder down their. We had snow on may day last year up here.

[@alabamagirl2725]

Hey y'all

[@CrocGardener]

Those are some impressive plants! They look like they have minimal big damage! I'm impressed! Do you grow from seed? I like the idea you have with the videos on the channel. I should do that with my channel!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yes we grow the transplants from seed in our greenhouse, then transplant them to the garden.

[@BustinRootz]

When are we going to get to see your early spring garden seed pick’s the FANS would like to know

[@LazyDogFarm]

I need to do that video soon. Good idea!

[@douggreene4458]

Your brassicas are beautiful. How do you control pests? I am 80 miles north of you and really struggle to keep the worms and other insects off.

[@LazyDogFarm]

We usually have to spray Bt and Spinosad in the winter months, but for some reason this year the pests haven't been a problem.

[@dvrmte]

Clemson extension service doesn't recommend Spring planting of Brussel Sprouts up here. Fall planting dates are too late to get much of a yield except in the mildest Winters. I picked them from the bottom up as they sized up. I didn't know there was any other way. LOL They're just not worth the trouble for me.

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

I can't believe you already have cabbage ready to eat, mine are just started to head. What are you feeding your plants? I'll have to up my game. I think your doing something you've kept secret 😮

[@LazyDogFarm]

No secrets. Just Coop Gro at planting and side-dressed once with Blood Meal. That chicken tractor helps too!

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

@@LazyDogFarm I'm sure that is the difference maker.

[@matthewking2209]

I was going to challenge you to a friendly cabbage competition but I felt I would have got whooped so I didn't. I think I might have had a chance now, I have a late flat dutch bigger than a basketball. I have a brussels sprout that has been growing a year and is 5 ft tall.

[@martinandrews8496]

Heck yea man that will be awesome I guess u will have to see if the extra amount of work on your end equals that many more views. How many hrs u normally spend on one vid / how many views

[@rickygee8412]

💪🏽

[@GardenersPOV]

Hi from Texas, Zone 9a. Our Red acre cabbage is doing the same. Tiny heads! I was about to give up. Should I give more time? Thanks!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Testing our patience, but we will wait.

[@richardscarlett7942]

you might want to get some guidance from Hollis and Nancy channel for start to finish?

[@priayief]

I've tried growing brassicas for many years. Not much success as we are plagued with the dreaded cabbage moth. Last year, I tried covering my brassicas with insect netting. Inside the netting ended up looking like a butterfly farm. Sheesh!

[@baconandeggs9113]

Get dr bronners Castile soap that is scent free. add 2 to 3 tablespoons for each gallon of water and thoroughly spray on. For extra power you can also purchase B.T bacterial spray. It is a spray made with naturally occurring bacteria within the soil. Dr bronners is also safe as it is Castile soap that is also biodegradable.Most brassicas have a protective bacterial layer that protects from frost because it’s used as an insulative layer. If you spray it well enough, that bacterial layer gets agitated and get washed off and will be ‘replaced’ by the soap solution. The bacterial layer will form again so it’ll be fine afterwards. Just maker sure you get the whole entirety of the plant. The base,stem,leaves and the Brussels sprouts. Make sure you get the undersides as well as that’s where bugs usually leave their eggs. If you have any hard shelled bug problems like squash bugs, you can use the same solution but add SURROUND kaolin clay. About 4 tbs. And apply on the leaves and even the fruit.

[@baconandeggs9113]

Also reapply every couple of weeks or after it rains

[@terryl.9302]

The way I've been hearing it ... newer cabbage varieties do better w/ pruning those huge bottom eatin' leaves along the way. Puts more energy into head. Not tried it yet myself. Maybe?

[@GypsyBrokenwings]

I trimmed off bottom leaves last year, due to insect damage, and the cabbage put energy into building a stock. I think it's better to cover them with row fabric.

[@FubarKen]

I've seen a 10 lb cabbage and that wasn't it. Let them go till February or March depending on heat and they will bulk up.

[@papawsplace]

I don't like being a quitter, but I think I'm giving up on trying to grow Brussel Sprouts.

[@Detour4it]

Leave the little buggers. They'll grow.

[@wwsuwannee7993]

Oh...sorry I forgot to mention that those brussel sprout leaves can be used too, just like cabbage.