My Flowering Broccoli And Monster Cabbages | Garden Reset

My broccoli knew I left for vacation and decided it was time to flower meaning no more tasty broccoli. At least it has given me the opportunity to show you how to know when to give up on your broccoli and how to turn those beds over. We also go on a side quest to protect my giant cabbages before it is too late!
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[@epicgardening]

You've got me on cabbages this year... - Kevin

[@winie5665]

Hi Eric!😁

[@kaptynssirensong2357]

@@winie5665😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@CWorgen5732]

I absolutely love seeing you out here, demonstrating your competence. You've got this quiet, relaxed demeanor, and it showcases how much you know in a way that others, being more showy, cannot achieve.

[@matthew_tom_brisbois]

Stop comparing to others. Just be happy with the content

[@leighannf.4730]

I just love watching you work through garden chores, explaining and teaching us as you go. So glad you started your own channel!!

[@brianmoore4299]

Loved it. Mentioning that it was the end of Feb . A lot of good complete info, not always found on other channels. I love how you aren't afraid to show failure and pest problems. After all, we ALL suffer from that garden curse. I believe any gardener who denies failure (of whatever kind) is not being entirely truthful. Good job garden hermit.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

A perfect garden doesn't exist! I don't want to just showcase perfection I want to show how to solve issues and teach people to understand that nothing is perfect and you shouldn't get discouraged. I appreciate the comment thanks for sharing!

[@brianmoore4299]

@@jacquesinthegarden I agree. I tell everybody who asks about my garden that mistakes happen. Be grateful for them. It was an opportunity to learn. Never get discouraged instead take it on as a challenge that you will win. Love your approach to gardening and the methods you use to teach.

[@karenlayton7806]

I would love to see the process for saving seeds from a variety of different fruits, vegetables and flowers!

[@sheliaheverin8822]

Your cabbage caterpillar was on the leaf you picked. I use a mesh to cover up my cabbage. It works so well.

[@TessyTest19]

18:24 the little guy is actually ON the leaf he tore off! :P

[@StillOnTrack]

Omg yeah I see it! 😂 right side of the big middle vein

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

That sea of yellow flowering broccoli was actually very beautiful. A season to season gardener must move on. At least the chickens are thrilled, and the bees were happy for a time. A Beautiful winter garden!

[@nathanieltan3569]

Very jealous here in zone 6b waiting to be able to put my plants in the ground

[@CWorgen5732]

I learned yesterday that Alyssum is a Brassica! Actually, it was on the Botanical Interests website when I was browsing flowers and I saw the family name, so I almost learned it from y'all 😂 It makes sense now that I think about it, and it opens my eyes as to companion planting opportunities.

[@user-mz6mg9of2m]

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

[@Keithlynd_]

rarely see flowering brassica/broccoli but everytime I see one, they are just so beautiful.

[@virginiatibbetts1551]

I made bunches of cooked broccoli and cauliflower leaves in the instant pot. I put in a bit of water, balsamic vinegar, tamari and date syrup. So friggin' yummy. Nothing goes to waste but the woody stalks.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

The leaves are truly delicious, very underrated green!

[@a.l.a.7847]

"if your honey tastes like broccoli..." 😆 I was a wee bit sad to see the wonderful bee-friendly buffet of brassicca flowers have to go.... hopefull you will have lots more yummy flowers for the bees soon! Thanks for all you do. 🐝

[@ann7318]

I am glad you do not use poisons on your garden. I don't watch gardeners who use poisons. I try to keep my garden as organic as I can.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I try to let nature correct itself as best I can for the first line of defense.

[@michaellange5560]

love the transparency on the pesticide-use, keep it up jacque. Have been watching for years and just getting really into gardening myself, probably because of you and kevin.

[@emkn1479]

I 100% agree with leaving roots when removing the top growth of plants. Makes total sense. Plus it sounds like I’m murdering something when the roots crack and snap 🫠 And bonus, you can always get regrowth! I have some snapdragons that made it through winter. I’m so glad I left them in the ground!

[@bronowiczj]

Thanks Jacques! My uncle is building my aunt a proper greenhouse this spring. I can’t wait to see how you utilize your greenhouse in the future for aspirations.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

That is an amazing addition to the garden, my seed starting has never been better!

[@emkn1479]

Just sprouted favas from a bag from the store and planted them out today 🙌 love the mention of store beans.

[@DerrickSpender]

Sarah ran from the serial killer holding a jug of milk.

[@ruthannecoro6198]

I had broccoli flowers last year too, and the bees loved it!

[@deb7639]

Wow! I learned SO much from this video. I love the fact you talk about what works in your garden and your challenges. You give us the options and potential solutions, along with why you do certain things. Love this!

[@FabianHamblin]

Thanks for the heads up about the straw not robbing nitrogen. I’m always mad careful about my straw when repotting because I figured it was just like wood chips, mulch is mulch. 👍🏾

[@Yeshuaisking559]

Thanks for your videos and sharing your knowledge ! Love watching your videos and I think I saw that caterpillar on the leaf up pulled off that cabbage 🥬 !

[@smas3256]

Humungous cabbages. Nice. We don't have the space so we buy organic ones. Nothing like home grown though. Shredded fine with small amount of shredded onion and home made mayo. Raw veggies have more nutrients. Loving your green house and the raised beds. Zone 6 b. East Coast. Hubby has the green thumb and started lettuce and Swiss charge under lights, fan. Looking forward.

[@vee5032]

The caterpillar was on the leave 😂, surprise you didn’t see it good video

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Haha I guess watching the camera and my hand at the same time made me blind

[@OMNIBEAST550]

Bro came back with the compost at 9m:15s BAKED LOL. I feel you my dude. ☁️

[@melw3518]

My Labrador dog would have made short work of that broccoli stem. We break off parts in pieces when the season is over and he loves eating it (I think he loves the crunch). So the chooks may not like it but my dog certainly does! He also has his favourite 'snack plants' in the garden including bush beans and strawberries that he snacks on when our backs are turned lol

[@JWDicus]

You can actually see the caterpillar in the video on the chunk of leaf you pulled out - on top near the midvein of the leaf piece. They do blend in well. We used row covers on all of our brassicas this year and it worked great. I can see cabbage white butterflies in my garden taking nectar on our flowers. But they can't get to our brassicas. I got so tired of cutting around holes in my cabbages with butterfly poop in them, it became worth it for me to just use row covers.

[@bethsands7665]

I see that bad caterpillar at 18:25 , right as you pulled a leaf full of poo and turned it saying that you don't even see it. It was on the white vein of the leaf you pulled. Wow your cabbages look awesome !

[@catherinedonley2781]

I see it now too!

[@annanitschke6727]

I'm growing Spigariello for the first time this year because of your recommendation - excited to have new greens

[@AmandaHayes]

Poor beans! I swear my biggest challenge in gardening is pest management! Every year I find a new adversary in the form of critters 😅

[@sandiepetersonsellsraleigh]

Prayers for you

[@ChaosKLC]

There is no reason at all to justify your need to use an organic pesticide my man. Got to do what you got to do!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

It is mostly to help people understand the different choices out there, hoping it can help other make the choice for themselves. But end of the day most of us are gardening to eat and that becomes a priority!

[@jackmackerel4151]

I used bug netting for the first time and though it's annoying to have to roll it up to access my plants, it did allow for some nice aphid and cabbage worm free brassicas. Bonus, it also keeps out the raccoon that digs up my beds.

[@chridtinechan9046]

I’ve stopped using pesticide except for BT and baking soda last season but I had to resort back to Sluggo in the Fall. Would love your thoughts on Iron Phosphate on slugs

[@jerrybfowler4407]

Root knot nematodes, oh no!!!! I used to live in an area that had them and made a useful discovery with my compost pile. I noticed that volunteer tomatoes that had roots growing in rotted Bermuda grass covered with the white fungus that causes Green Gill toad stools in your yard, had no root knot nematdes. The roots of the volunteer tomatoes growing on through to my normal soil were choked with root knots then growing on into another layer of Bermuda grass with white fungus, no more root knots. If you have Bermuda grass in your area try composting it but first put it in a black trash bag and st in the sun to kill the grass as Bermuda grass is a bane in any garden.

[@arnoldreiter435]

as i sat watching your work in the garden i was encouraged. it was 12f last night and will be around 22f tonight. I live in a zone4 area but still watch how others are doing it.......

[@CWorgen5732]

Gardening In Canada is zone 3, she's got some good content and seed starting recs too!

[@gabybop]

I would have such a hard time culling all that because I love feeding the bees❤

[@AlexGomez-ds9xq]

Garden is looking great Jacques! Keep up the good work.

[@nildaotero2933]

Excellent video Jacque. Loved it

[@mercurybard9794]

Assembled my first raised bed today. Waiting for tonight's storm to water it down so the soil settles, then I'll top it off and add mulch to try and keep the weeds out as I wait for my actual planting date. Thank you for all these guides and garden walk throughs. They've made me feel like this -- my 3rd year -- will be the year I actually get produce from my yard

[@sunniewright3335]

Good morning! That hat, I had that exact hat years ago! Mine was purchased at our local (Ace Hardware) Floyds General Store in Shafter. My youngest son and I now live in Bakersfield, which is a hop skip and jump from Shafter. There are two Floyds here, the closest is less than a mile away. We were just there yesterday evening, should have looked for a hat!

[@tamarabarnhart5936]

Thank you for the info on the cabbage worms. I also had that issue. So helpful. Love your channel and info you provide.

[@SplitComp]

Great tip on the BT

[@pascalxus]

gosh this looks just like my garden! i've got those broccoli flowers everywhere! I'm grlad I'm not the only one.

[@CWorgen5732]

I just learned today that Alyssum is a brassica too!

[@chezelleconroy2951]

Thankyou! So much helpful info and delightful presentation. Thanks!

[@bethb8276]

I had a good season of cabbage this year, made me happy! That sure is a biggie you have there Jacques, sweet!

[@joelsantos1959]

I enjoy watching these videos, very knowledgeable. These videos give me inspiration to go into my garden and cultivate

[@jkdruid]

Love these up dates, love your channel

[@FarmToMarketRoad]

Just watched one of your videos on seedlings. Very informative. I've seen you before, but not your channel. Subscibed. Now i have to watch all your vids. I went full time gardener last year because of illness. This is my 2nd year selling plants at market. Looking forward to your insights and wisdom.

[@erukaseven]

The birds dropped corn in my dirt mix so now I'm just growing corn. Same thing with the sunflowers

[@Karoljustiniano]

Awesome video and so informative!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@chrisfisher3900]

I love broccoli greens

[@AvroChan]

i am jealous of your cabbages! those are incredible!!

[@robmclaughlin420]

Great planting tips

[@cheaputhyvan4705]

Beautiful 😍

[@anapaulacrawford5837]

I am learning 😊 awesome video !

[@PepperplacewithShawna]

Thank you! Very informative!

[@cathymalapit2988]

Thanks so much for this helpful video especially for 4x8. Gonna try it this year. Carrots, greens and beans

[@dinacasey7034]

Great video, Jacques! I always learn from you and reminded of upcoming of possible problems. Thanks a bunch. MO follower.😀

[@bertarnoldo5199]

Try growing a bed of mustard anywhere where you think the nematodes might be and it will solve your problems. Your king strepharia will also eventually take care of that as well. Together might be a force to reckon

[@ErraticPerfectionist]

I planted Provider bush beans just a week ago! It's end of summer and now into autumn in Australia, but we'll still get enough warmth to get beans before they die back because of the chill.

[@joem924]

I filled our new raised beds last year with a base of logs and branches from our yard, then about 12 inches of sandy loam from our yard, and then topped it with about a foot of the kellog garden mix which is basically all wood lol....I am learning...funny though, a 24 inch planters basically receded 12 inches over a year lol. I over-winterered my peppers in place and they all survived so hoping I can pull them all successfully, top off my planters and put them back in place. Your winter setup came out great! Looking forward to seeing your setup come spring.

[@teebob21]

That Kellogg garden mix IS basically all wood, but it grows decent crops and also breaks down over a few years into a very nice raised bed medium.

[@mcravenufo]

Your video is flipped so everything is like looking in a mirror. Love your videos!

[@franceshoward7112]

I discovered many years ago that the smell the cabbage white butterfly really HATES is the scent of large leaf tomato plants like sweet million or any other tomato with as big leaves as possible. If you interplant your brassicas with any of the large leafed tomato variety the butterflies will eagerly fly up and then gasp and turn away as soon as they are close to these leaves. On hot days when the tomato leaves are particularly stinky they can't even come near a brassica. I see many cabbage white over the course of a summer but it is years since I have seen a caterpillar. (Now slugs are a different matter). I am in zone 5 in eastern Canada and the growing season is different from yours in San Diego, nothing begins to grow until April/May but mostly June. so the overlap brassica/tomato leaf would be a little different perhaps. But the effect is the same. Tomato leaves gas cabbage white butterflies. Take your coffee and watch how they hate them, it is very satisfying. And even better not to have caterpiller damage.

[@debralauesen4225]

Thanks for the video, excellent as always! I

[@Aries162]

I love the bee buffet!

[@kittiew260]

One tip BT anytime it rains reapply as it does wash off.

[@hcambo5373]

Good morning ❤

[@childofthefox]

If your going to spray you really need a backpack sprayer. It is much easier to use kinder to you body. I have three and they are labeled with what you use it for. I have always used pyrithens because i can wash it off on things close up for eating. I have one for mildew and one for killing grasses. I have a rather large gardens. But i also have a regular farm and fighting some of the stuff it brings in is a battle. And i want some of my food.... not share it all with the compost heap.

[@robo3644]

I moved houses in october so i started my garden there with sime brassica, first time growing them and first time growing through winter, I planted them late so now i think i am just growing brussel sprouts seeds and got some small cauliflowers 😅. There is one brussel sprout plant that was attacked by a bird or something and got cut and its growing side shoots now have no idea what it will do, hopefully at least one plant will produce anything bigger than a small bead

[@Nihlink]

Kale is the only one where no matter how low I cut it the roots still sprout.

[@ElizabethBarber-tu9ey]

We have used self rising flour on brassicas. The worms eat some of the flour, and the levening in their digestive track..... well..... No more worms.

[@marktoldgardengnome4110]

Does that help with slugs also Elizabeth?

[@ElizabethBarber-tu9ey]

@@marktoldgardengnome4110 Salt at night on the slugs, and beer in saucers for them.

[@marktoldgardengnome4110]

@@ElizabethBarber-tu9ey TY, will give it a go.

[@terrivance8750]

Jacques, Just an FYI--BT is an effective treatment to get rid of the larval form, which is what a caterpillar is, of a number of pests. For example, it is the active ingredient in Mosquito Dunks, effectively killing mosquito larvae. It is also quite effective vs. fungus gnat & drain fly larvae. 😊

[@CWorgen5732]

Interesting! I had heard of dunks, but I didn't realize it was BT!

[@PlantObsessed]

Broccoli flavored honey. 😮

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I would try it but I wouldn't buy it blind that is for sure haha

[@Newtechniquestreeplanting99]

thanks🥰👍

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

LOL! I would so leave that one solo broccoli to regrow. My garden is a bit chaotic... 💚

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I was VERY tempted but I need to be better at walking away!

[@judysocal8682]

​@@jacquesinthegardenI think that is one of the hardest things to learn and constantly have to relearn😅

[@marchettejw]

Ha, I'm watching you plant.. and I just got 6" of snow this weekend.. but spring is right around the corner here in Northern Utah and I'll be doing the same thing here in just a few weeks.

[@lisasparkman2924]

Me too, here in southern Oregon 😊

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I can feel the March gardening energy starting to simmer nationwide!

[@marchettejw]

@@jacquesinthegarden ha yup, for me it’s three fold, gardening starts, motorcycle riding season starts, and my line of work asphalt starts.

[@wesnerdesir3168]

Jacques, thank you for all your good videos. Can you please tell me how you irrigate your gardens? I am new to gardening and do not know the best way. Please help.

[@RealBradMiller]

🥬🎶I'm telling you to tighten up then cabbages (uh huh) But you keep waterin' (uh) Sayin' what you gon' do to it (uh huh) But I ain't seen nothin'🎶🥬

[@christophergetchell6490]

The most disappointing part of this video was the end seeing those beautiful cabbages, then zooming in to see the holes in one of those gorgeous heads! Last spring was interesting here with the temperatures shooting to almost 90 in April which likely caused my broccoli to bolt just like that. I'm glad the bees enjoyed it though!

[@Gardeningchristine]

Nice! Haven’t had luck with brassicas. I’m putting out my leeks and brassicas today. My last frost date is mid April but they should be fine.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

In my area I can really only grow them in the winter otherwise they get destroyed by pests!

[@truthandlove0]

Hey Jacque, can you make a video as to why you don't use other pesticides? I know pollinators can be affected, but any other reason? I have noticed that generally healthy plants are fine, it's when a plant is indeed stressed that it causes issues in the garden, but some plants in my case are stressed from seed, like my yard long beans, so I used CJ's neem Max and it cleared them out so the plants can thrive. I've done everything to help those yard long beans out but they are just not happy here in zone 10a, both vine and bush versions.

[@discoverFigureitout]

Hey great video… how tho is organic matter too much for the chickens? They’ll scratch for ever.

[@Popintheegarden]

Do yall experiment w any of the tropical/near spinaches? I'm in S.FL so we do a lot of malabar, sissoo, tetragonia, lagos/celosia, Egyptian Spinach Not exact comparisons of course but most of our clients find at least one they love!

[@mmmmmmyeeeaaahhh3880]

I grew some incredible brocoli and cauliflower this year and each harvest was infested with aphids even though I stayed on top of them, blowing them off the entire winter. Once they were actually harvested, if you peek into the heads... they were everywhere! I let them soak in water and salt, eventually even baking soda and either way, no matter how many died... there we still hundreds. Honestly, not growing those two again. I have neem oil but the issue with in the head.

[@francestaylor9156]

Aphids can sometimes mean too much nitrogen in the soil.

[@MyFocusVaries]

I had the same problem with my brussel sprouts. Aphids between every layer of leaves. The aphids didn't touch the plants right next to the sprouts.

[@Seraph318]

Hey Jacques, how are you able to go out in the middle of the day and cut down all of those flowering plants without the bees getting all irritated? Most of my cool weather stuff has gone to flower, and the bees are super active all day out there, which is great, but they don't seem to love when I am also out there lol. Buzz around my head or hands, makes maintaining the garden and harvesting a bit of a challenge sometimes, and I have flowers all throughout the garden lol. How do you manage these type of things?

[@dannyomo]

what are your thoughts on a leaf shredder to get a jumpstart on composting (and to save some space)?

[@Tf03]

I love seeing you grow vining plants so I was just wondering if you’re planning on growing any squash, loofah or pumpkin this year

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I will for sure be growing lots of squash and pumpkins! Loofah is too low yielding for me to bother with it. My yard just doesn't get hot enough for them to thrive.

[@teebob21]

Spinach has a taproot on most varieties and isn't a fan of being transplanted. You might get better results with direct seeding.

[@terrivance8750]

Jacques, If you use the same tools in your raised bed--rake, spade, etc.--as you use in your in-ground tomato beds, won't the tools spread the root-knot nemotode to the raised bed? Thank you. 😊

[@lizlucey3812]

Spinach hasn’t liked me this year either! 😅

[@user-su5du9ln8r]

Jacques, if the broccoli roots continue to push up new growth, is it possible to "over-Summer" and keep stumping them until Fall/Winter to grow edible heads/florets? If so, it would surely save a lot of time/effort starting over from seeds.

[@helenmcclellan452]

We have so much rain in TN that I have to set up hoops and netting before I plant any lettuce or brassicas, otherwise snails and worms devour everything. I will need to try that spray this year, thanks for sharing! Can you put up a picture of the BT you use in the future so I make sure to purchase the correct one? Thank you!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Here is the one I show in the video! www.amazon.com/Bonide-BND803-Thuringiensis-Insecticide-Concentrate/dp/B001D1H6SE/

[@kikks461]

Hey, interesting note about BT - I use it too (used to use Neem but it didn't seem to work as well). WONDERING about nematodes, etc. Arbico Organics catelog has all kinds of "beneficial insects," etc. Have you used any?

[@domesti-city]

If I didn't have a couple giant self-seeded borage to feed the bees, I would feel bad about yanking out my broccoli flower towers. I have some pixie and tiara cabbage seedlings I'm going to put out to see if I can get produce before it gets too warm. Also, my landlady's caregiver has been putting wood ashes in my compost and the PH is way alkaline. I'm thinking about mixing some azalea potting soil into my beds now that I already put that compost on this last fall. I figure it can't hurt.

[@beckymartinez9926]

What kind of wand do you have on your water hose? I have had a hard time finding a good one that sprays gently.

[@kfetter9046]

Jacques, if I want to harvest seeds from a plant, do I have to leave the plant in the ground to let the seed pods mature, or can I take the plant out and just save the pods until they dry out?

[@amyjackson4703]

When you cut the broccoli flower stems off do you allow them to dry out in the sun in order to harvest the seeds from the pods?

[@mollyb898]

Jacques, do you use a tool or app to plan your garden out? Or just kind of squeeze starts in where you can when they're ready to go in the ground?

[@mariapina1973]

give us a link to what you sprayed the cabbage with sounds like something I would like to try great video thanks 🙂🌻

[@daisyblooms4813]

Bacillus Thuringiensis commonly called BT