Eating These Changed My Life!

[@LazyDogFarm]

What are your favorite greens to eat from the backyard garden? Let us know! SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees 0:00 Intro 1:18 Harvesting Broccoli from Our Backyard Garden 4:13 Dealing with Worm Damage on Our Cauliflower 5:31 Harvesting Watermelon Radishes in Our Raised Bed Garden 7:13 What's the Best Way to Bag and Store Lettuce? 12:07 Harvesting Collard Greens from Our Raised Bed Garden 13:59 The Health Benefits of Eating More Greens 14:35 Harvesting Celery from Our Raised Bed Garden 17:06 Checking the Size on Our Raised Bed Carrots

[@Peterjtaurino]

The broccoli leaves are the healthiest part of the plant. You can cook them up just like kale or collards or any other kind of greens.

[@charlesvickers4804]

Funny meatloaf story. A truck stop chain was advertising home made meatloaf on the menu. I asked the waitress if it was made with bread or cracker crumb or oats . The cook hollers out I don't know it comes in a plastic role ,I slice it and heat it. I had a long conversation on the phone with corporate. Couple weeks later the new menus read home style meatloaf.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Great story!

[@kcuzz4091]

As someone with reflux I can tell you the more green vegetable I eat the better I feel. Also other vegetables and less red meat. I eat a lot of fish, shellfish, chicken and Turkey and have a lot less issues than I used to have.

[@CartersGardens]

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[@robertantolik2146]

Collards, cabbage, broccoli and rutabagas is all I've harvested thus far. My lettuces, spinach, kale and chard haven't really kicked off so good. However we had some broccoli greens for the first time and they were really good. If you haven't tried them, you're missing out

[@luannepelsynski4721]

Yes, especially the young tender greens!

[@desirreemarlenaclonch7593]

Beets Carrots Celery Parsnips , are only a few of the Greens available for salads, steamed , cooked , baked , Bon Appatte

[@64smiles42]

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[@MotosAllotmentGarden]

Your garden is looking great, thank you for share 😊👍

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks for visiting

[@a.racetiffany2966]

Believe it or not the green leaves from broccoli are great tasting as a replacement for collards add to chicken soup or your flavor meat, tasty on a bologna or meat of choice sandwich. Or in smoothie, Yummy, besides compost. Thank you for your hard work, proud of ya😊

[@Freaysclaw56]

Just a thought. Consider raising a small batch of black soldier flies. The excess from your garden are fed to the larvae, then at the pupae stage the pupae are fed to your chickens. The larvae/pupae create frass, the larvae/pupae poo. The frass works as a natural bug deterrent and a feed for the plants. You can build your own black soldier fly set up or buy one. One company that makes them is in North Carolina. The cost before shipping runs $325 but they are built to last forever with care. And the process is easier. Considering your weather the payback would be fast as your BSF season is long and could easy be 10-12mos a year. BSF, like maggots from house flies, are excellent protein, fat and carbohydrates for chickens and can replace up to 30% of their feed. They will eat meat, breads and garden waste.

[@chartimbe946]

First-time viewer your garden is very organized and beautiful.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Welcome to the channel!

[@cathywco]

Zone 7b here, this week I harvested collards, kale, spinach, carrots, some rosemary and thyme. I sure do envy your longer growing season. Thinking mine may have to end this next week with the cold front on the way.

[@autohelix]

I agree with stuff possibly getting in the single digits out in the country. Collards and kale are very tough though and some of those varieties can go down in the single digits uncovered, covered they could probably pull it off.

[@CH-hm8ud]

You always can put blankets over!

[@Handcraftedbydebbie]

I harvested my tomatoes and peppers and lettuce. I’m in zone 6b and I still have tomatoes growing! Thank you for such inspirational videos.

[@christineayre796]

Just an FYI even when you have your own fresh organic broccoli, they suggest you flash boil it before you eat it so that it breaks a barrier that broccoli has so you can easily digest it.

[@paulnipper4071]

Thank you for announcing the date of your video. This helps me gauge me progress in my garden, where I'm 150 miles from you (Columbus). I'm in a suburban standard lot; growing turnips, cabbage, beets, radishes, carrots, kale, brussel sprouts.

[@LazyDogFarm]

You're very welcome Paul!

[@maewatson9774]

We have been harvesting, broccoli, cabbage, collards, mustard, turnips and rutabagas so far. Enjoy your videos! Thank you for sharing!

[@virginiatalbert4094]

Not much ready here in NE Texas. I planted late. I have all the cabbage heading. I have young turnips, Rutabagas, Spinach, Radishes, Kale, Bunching onions and Collards.

[@hayzuese4842]

I have lettuce and collards coming out of my ears. First year doing a big garden. The kids like going to the garden store and picking all they want for the week.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Awesome!

[@tamararoberts9307]

Here In south-central Indiana I've been harvesting loose-leaf lettuces and baby kale and parsnips and a few radishes here and there as well as some herbs and wild onion

[@ironleatherwood1357]

Also excellent for eye sight!

[@cybersal7]

We once had a fabulous garden, and I sure miss it. Yours looks heavenly. Supposed to be the healthiest all time veggie is sprouted broccoli. Even folks with sensitive digestive systems can tolerate it.

[@readbooks9985]

Very cool backyard grocery store.

[@CH-hm8ud]

Hi everyone! For sure some of the comments are hilarious, well I harvest green pigeons, bananas, Napa cabbage, pak Choi, oregano cilantro, ginger, turmeric, parsley, turnips and kohlrabi. But I for real enjoy when everyone harvest different things and your garden is amazing organized and pretty!

[@L.A.6482]

I like to ferment sliced radishes and rosemary and garlic together in salt water brine. Very good for your gut microbiome! Use in salads for months, keep in fridge. Had a good harvest of the white Japanese turnips I had never tried here in Deep South but did well.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I've fermented radishes, but never that way. Might have to try that!

[@robingalloway3541]

Do you have a recipe? I'm getting a fermentation kit any day now!

[@cowboykelly6590]

Do you mean you pickle them ? I have a gut problem I'm trying to get over . I would like to try your recipe . Thank you, much Respect and Blessings to you and your family . 🤠🖖

[@grovermartin6874]

That sounds like kim chee without the Napa cabbage and hot pepper! So not recognizable to any Korean, lol!

[@kirstmlarson1]

I grew celery last season and loved being able to cut just what I needed. Even after I cut the rest before the frost, a few weeks later it had started to regrow!

[@robertshrewsbury5067]

I was raised eating broccoli but in growing my own plants, I tried the leaves and they are great to eat.

[@anitamcdonald9629]

Yes! Before growing them I didn't know the entire broccoli plant is edible, even the flowers (if you don't harvest soon enough), same with broccolini!

[@grovermartin6874]

@@anitamcdonald9629 Broccolini! This is the first year I've grown broccolini, just one plant (that cost $5 as a young plant at Walmart!) and I am in love! Such a full, mellow, sweet and delicate flavor, and it would probably still be sending out shoots if I hadn't had to put the garden to bed for the winter. I did read there are several varieties, so I want to be sure to buy the right kind of seeds.

[@shikhalemuel6802]

I am watching this video from the NE part of the states. I am freezing my tail off pining for the day I can go out and start my garden. The smell of warm earth and the feel of fine soil is calling me!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Come summer we'll be pining for some of your weather! lol

[@tracyjudd3877]

Some good Eatin groceries. Proud of y’all for working so hard taking care of your family. With all those fresh groceries feeding those boys, you’re going to be growing football players:) Praying over you & your sweet 💗family, Trav🙏

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Tracy! Hope y'all have a Merry Christmas!

[@gitatit4046]

Mighty fine looking greens Travis. That broccoli will definitely make some super dishes for sure. We've been harvesting a good bit of onions (multiplying onions) ourselves lately which also goes well in a salad. Thanks for sharing.

[@matthewking2209]

Greens keep you clean. I had a craving for kimchi so I planted a bunch of Napa cabbage. Now I got about 15 heads I need to process.

[@LazyDogFarm]

That'll be delicious!

[@markb3129]

Travis your raised beds are producing great and look awesome! We have been harvesting broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and radish largest cabbage was 10 lbs, it was one of the giant varieties, bigger than a basketball.. you're right fresh greens will turn it around and turn it loose 🤣!!✌🏻

[@LazyDogFarm]

A 10 lb cabbage is always impressive!

[@markb3129]

@@LazyDogFarm Travis I sent you a couple pictures of the cabbage and other items we harvested so far. ✌🏻

[@ahmedm6041]

Sir...that's the best good looking vegetables garden!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks!

[@rickthelian2215]

Your Broccoli is looking good...😊 Radish, lettuces, kale collards rudibakers (spelling), celery, parsley, carrots though small. looking good in the Dream garden, yes better than the supermarket. Potatoes in Sydney Australia 😊

[@derekrobinson7892]

Fantastic winter garden!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Derek!

[@HandsintheDirt]

Those broccoli leaves are delicious too cook them like you would cook collards.

[@bonstar3221]

Just found your channel Getting lots of zucchini come through and when I have lots of zucchini I chop Blanche and dry the zucchini and store it away for over Winter to use in soups and stews etc in winter i also give some to family, from Australia i wish my broccoli would grow as well as yours.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Welcome!

[@newdayfarm9463]

Beautiful Grocery Store!

[@cindyelmore7784]

Been picking cauliflower, broccoli, collards and cabbage.😋

[@singncarpenter6270]

I've only got 6 broccoli plants in my beds. One of them is a few days away from harvest and they all have small heads on them. It's going to freeze tomorrow night, so I'll be deploying my Agribon covers over the onions (planted yesterday), rutabagas, mustard greens, cabbage, cauliflower and a few others. I have some beets ready to harvest and my carrots aren't even as big as yours yet, nothing to see there. The lettuce is feeding us enough to force us to eat salads, which is good. I have a Sungold tomato plant I planted last March that is still producing, but that will end tomorrow night. The rest of my Fall tomatoes will be harvested tomorrow. A few will be green, but we did pretty well with them this year. The weather was kind to us this Fall. I did get one Fall Pumpkin the size of a basketball that will be decorated like Santa with a mop beard a Santa hat and some Christmas lights. Texas 8B. Merry Christmas to you and your family Travis and to anyone who read down this far.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Merry Christmas to y'all as well!

[@trishapomeroy9251]

Only thing ready for harvest in our garden is snowballs, but we have some good potatoes, onions, and squash in the root cellar for winter eating. Watching you garden this time of year sure makes GA look nice.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Just don't eat those yellow snowballs. lol

[@leroneerwin7605]

Bro, you speaketh da troof regarding your machinery being finely lubed. I made a salad with kale, arugula, fennel prawns, spinach and chard and woowee! I guess when it's really fresh it has a better impact. POUNDS LIGHTER!

[@pamsam2284]

I LOVE EATING THE BROCCOLI GREENS TOO.

[@Frank-fs5nv]

The greens are a great way to get full and healthy at the same time.

[@karmelicanke]

Greens are proven to clear arteries of plaque, reversing heart disease. The leaves of broccoli and cauliflower are at least twice as nutritious as the fruiting vegetable. Delicious and worth eating.

[@jonothandoeser]

Are you implying that these plant have improved your bowel movements?

[@Frank-fs5nv]

LOL. Hey, nothing wrong with that.

[@arturoroco7301]

I’ve only been growing for 2 or 3 years so not much experience. So I appreciate you walking through the farm and actually looking at all the different vegetables. Thank you and Merry Christmas🎄

[@LazyDogFarm]

Merry Christmas Arturo!

[@daphne3661]

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[@jillachen7217]

Absolutely beautiful produce!! Thank you, from Baudette Minnesota USA

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Jill!

[@johac7637]

In Arizona we are in our 3rd growing season, cool weather stuff, Chiles, Tomatoes are in the starter trays, the soil is 70sF in 1st week of March. Then heat, heat, heat till end of Sept, when we plant Brassicas, beets, carrots. Spinach. After the melons get terminated. Oct is Sweet Potato harvest time, the cotton fields get treated for defoliation and the white flies come to the gardens. Life is great.

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

Our harvest is ice and snow! I’m gardening vicariously watching you garden! Roll on spring! Klaus

[@Daddyo_farms]

Picked me some collards yesterday

[@rickthelian2215]

Merry Christmas 🎄👒🎅🥳🙏

[@LazyDogFarm]

Merry Christmas Rick!

[@waynec3121]

Hey Travis, we are picking a ton of green beans and kale from the backyard grocery store. Great video

[@LazyDogFarm]

Sounds great!

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

What a great idea, Travis 👍

[@TalkingThreadsMedia]

My favorite is “Cheesy broccoli”! Your backyard grocery store looks terrific! Best wishes, Kate in Olympia, WA - 12-17-2022.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Kate!

[@chrisramage5581]

Sweet leaf , is another green winner,

[@Srhsbmet]

In Upstate SC harvesting cauliflower, Savoy cabbage and rutabaga greens. Had never eaten the rutabaga greens till you turned me on to them. Delicious!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Glad you like them!

[@paulcote1562]

I love watchin this guy! I want to plant a garden now!!!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Paul!

[@lisafahrner8257]

I love love love your garden!!!!!

[@danaramey6519]

I’m also in Georgia and I’m watching cauliflower, first time growing it and they are looking beautiful. Enjoy your videos.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Just keep a close eye on it. If you've got heads exposed and expecting a freeze, might want to wrap the leaves around the heads or go ahead and harvest it.

[@danaramey6519]

@@LazyDogFarm thanks there only about 2 inches across, I’ll cover them tonight for sure.

[@lelandshanks3590]

Great job Travis, after u picked the broccoli. Heafs, tou will get side shoots later. Heck yes on the greens, we love kale and collards cooked up, here's a tip 4 you. Add liquid smoke to taste you will love it.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks for the tip! Haven't tried that.

[@lelandshanks3590]

Ever wonder why some southern recipes are guarded? I experimented on my own. It just works. Travis put it on your channel later. If more folks get on board with greens I'm happy!

[@garyharris4008]

In northern Idaho plant brassica in late summer & cover appropriately for 2 feet snow. Time corn & squash by variety of growth time, & (if you can,) greenhouse time.

[@tamararoberts9307]

I use the carrot tops as well in my recipes 😋

[@oldnorthstateoutdoors2002]

Travis you gotta try mixing broccoli greens in with your mustard greens. Also your chickens will love them.

[@randymack1234]

Travis, looks like were going to get down into the low 20's next week. Are we going to loose our pretty fall garden veggies ? Maybe you could do a show on how to try to protect your garden, from total loss. Thanks

[@LazyDogFarm]

We'll be doing some of that on Wednesday's video. Just covered a few things yesterday and will be covering more throughout the next week.

[@lindalagarce8996]

Love those groceries you have been harvesting! I’m hoping I’ll have a better crop next year as I have just started resurrecting our garden that has been laying dormant for about 20 or more years. We are the 3rd generation living here and I’ve been recently forced into retirement due 5o disability so he better time than the present to get t(e garden going again. If yo7 have any suggestions I greatly appreciate them. I’m planning on adding drip this winter for the summer since it was so dry last year. We also stated planting the orchard with a few varieties. I’ll,be adding 9me raised beds to this for some herbs and veg eatables as well. We have almost 10 acres but only using part of it as each year my goal is to add onto t(e garden until we get enough to put up, and cook most of our meals from. We have chicken which offer some fertilizer and just added some rabbits. Zone 8b hugs and love from Texas.

[@kate739]

you are just a wealth of knowledge, thank you for sharing it.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Kellie!

[@diannevaldez8670]

Hey there Travis and family, some great and yummy plans for that awesome looking broccoli! Wow! Those worms are the bane of a gardeners existence. So glad you have informed us of a good alternative to get those suckers.

[@dwightjackson3180]

I don't like to garden but you make it look fun!.........wish you was my next door neighbor!

[@ronaldhagan6474]

Brother you have a grate garden have fun God bless

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Ronald!

[@carolynmoody9460]

Blessings ❤️ loved the over view of the beds.. Blessings

[@christiensgarden3325]

Great video

[@Kimm_99]

Beautiful garden, thank you for sharing..

[@barbarapeppers2182]

Beautiful gardens!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Barbara!

[@mutantryeff]

Just picked a bunch of beet tops, chard, spinach, and bok choy to eat tonight (hopefully). This past week I pickled carrot/daikon strips and nibble on those regularly. It may be time to pull the 'gai lan' but I'll check that out this weekend.

[@chrisfisher3900]

Brocolli greens looked ready to harvest and cook up

[@snarky_farmer]

I think we're in the re re re re fall with possible snow Christmas (I call bs) before early spring and re re re re re fall. Gotta love lower SC and GA.

[@mattpeacock5208]

S.E. Texas has the same crazy weather.

[@pamelacofield2302]

Enjoyed watching this and seeing g your backyard groceries.

[@nancybaird9252]

What a beautiful garden you have! I'm harvesting turnip greens and purple collards.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Nancy!

[@chrisparker9115]

Absolutely just stumbled upon this video. Excellent looking garden! Just had some collards a few minutes ago but they didn’t look nowhere as good as yours. I live near Orlando now but grew up in the Sale City area. Brought back lots of memories and enjoyed seeing home! Good job and keep the videos coming.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Chris!

[@davidward1259]

Good looking greens Travis! We've been growing Green Magic broccoli and had great results with it as well. You need to keep a close eye on that lucky GA bucket. The Dawgs got to keep their winning streak going into the Peach Bowl on New Years Eve!!! Keep a sharp eye out for some Ohio scouts looking for you lucky bucket, and have the decoy ready! Go Dawgs!!!

[@ssrmsoak5766]

roll tide!!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Haha!

[@tinanieborg787]

love your garden

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Tina!

[@lavernfoy4591]

Loving all the groceries you are harvesting God Bless and Merry Christmas!! Love y’all ❤️🙏

[@LazyDogFarm]

Merry Christmas LaVern!

[@josephppopp7493]

Good, good stuff 😊

[@sandramorton5510]

Travis, looking forward to your video on the freeze coming Friday in Florida, who would of thought.

[@LazyDogFarm]

We'll have more on that next week.

[@MisterSoThrowed]

I’m from south Texas and we have re-falls, re-summers, and re-winters in any given order 😁

[@LazyDogFarm]

Haha!

[@faithwalker5196]

Your garden is beautiful and amazing! I could listen to your voice all day.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Faith!

[@zannahmartell9813]

Those greens would be excellent chips. Kale chips are yummy. I imagine they broccoli greens would dehydrate really well. You could also make green powder tò

[@hoosierpioneer]

Last thing I got around mid November was beet greens, arugula, tiny boy choy, pepper cress. Ground froze after that.

[@charlesvickers4804]

Curled mustard,rutabaga cabage Siberian kale Chinese cabbage purple tops curly kale swiss chard beets spinach carrots sweet peas collards radishes. Kohlrabi. In SE NC

[@edithattreed4762]

I’m growing aibika plants and ofenga plants that are high in magnesium,betel plants,dandelion plants and other herbs

[@jeffreythomas2787]

Greens are good .and good fer ya.

[@brycekirby1567]

Greens are nutritious and clean you out

[@carolynmoody9460]

MERRY CHRISTMAS 🌲🎄🌲

[@LazyDogFarm]

Merry Christmas Carolyn!

[@whitestone4401]

That lettuce is beautiful! The price here in the north is insane! I too envy your growing season.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Don't be too envious. Our summers are brutal. lol

[@diannevaldez8670]

I was at the grocery store yesterday and a small, somewhat withered, bunch of romaine for $2.50 !!!! Everything else was just as outrageous! My jaw dropped. I don't go to the store that often but this was enough to make me get off my behind to do a winter garden next year!!!

[@whitestone4401]

@@diannevaldez8670 I went to purchase a package of organic Romaine leaves , not a head, just a handful of leaves $7.00!!!! Insane!

[@got2kittys]

All those brassicas can go into saurkraut, as a big part of the ferment. I've had half collard, half cabbage kraut. Pak choi and Napa cabbage goes in kraut very well . Culture the brine with a tbs. of plain, natural live culture yogurt. It's the same cultures. (Lactobacillus.)

[@andypuskas7220]

Go Dawgs!

[@CartersGardens]

I had to completely change my diet and start eating alot of greens to get my gut to a proper biome

[@conservativetothecor]

Yep, Clean pipes makes everything go smoother Trav...lol

[@doraw7766]

Thanks.

[@MrSymbolic7]

Looks delicious, I stepped out this year and planted some Bok Choy just to try something different , but the window seal sprouts are mighty leggy , so we shall see how that turns out .

[@sueannchism1128]

Dang worm doo doo! 😂

[@oldgloryhillfarmturtlewoma9132]

Generally speaking, gardeners tend to cut out the broccoli heads, cauliflower, etc. But the leaves can be eaten just like any other greens.

[@HeadWestOn90]

Beautiful, tidy garden beds! Can you please share the names of the four lettuces and where you get the seeds, especially the red one on the right side of the raised bed? Thanks!

[@LazyDogFarm]

The 5 varieties of lettuce we have planted are: Cherokee (that's the red one), Sparxx, Muir, Bauer, and Adriana. We got all these seeds from Johnny's Seeds online.

[@HeadWestOn90]

@@LazyDogFarm thank you!

[@ronaldhagan6474]

You need to eat the greens after first frost, they are so sweet.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yes they are!