Touring My Winter Garden | Vegetable Uses and Growing Tips

Come take a tour of my winter garden which has filled in nicely with all the rain we have been getting. I share some of my favorite uses for all these wonderfully plants in the kitchen as well as my planting plans and ideas.
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[@rosabandera_home]

Kevin definitely didnt tell me to tell you to get rid of that 15 year old kale tree 😂😂

[@magsj2387]

😂

[@jacquesinthegarden]

He is just jealous!

[@angdolonkon]

@@jacquesinthegarden TEAM 15 MORE YEARS!!

[@julialarsen9637]

Hahahah

[@GreenRocksDay]

We need a Jacquesgarden update every 2 weeks!

[@jesswelsh9838]

Pleeeease!🙏

[@juliarroberts1621]

Yes pleeeeeeease

[@davidbrooks9576]

Nah, I just need Jacque in MY garden 🙂

[@sheliaheverin8822]

I agree

[@JoyoftheGardenandHome]

3:50 There's the Collard Kevin is very threatened by

[@1MzSyd1]

Bwahahaha 😂😂😂

[@jacquesinthegarden]

He has been slandering my tree collards since the beginning!

[@AndreBrown-qv7lx]

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

[@chiaragibbs1693]

I had a tough day at work, saw that you had put out a video, grabbed a glass of wine and used this as my calming safe space ❤ never change ❤

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Love this 🙌

[@dinacasey7034]

I love the midwest, but I have to say, I do envy the climate you enjoy in Southern California. I also have Sorrel. It dies back in the winter here in Missouri, but will come back after the weather starts to warm up. Love your videos, Jacques. I DO NOT fall asleep listening to them. 🤣🤣🤣

[@louisamichelleloll]

“I play risky and lose often.” Lmao yeah, now I finally have a label for my gardening style. I also just want to experiment way too often with new varieties even though I don’t have the space. The gardens look so beautiful!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

It's just so fun to see what you can get and try to grow!

[@thefumblingcuisiniere]

Don't get me wrong, love everything you're doing in the garden, but what I really love is the Cosmo doggy spot! 😂❤️🐾

[@bublhed]

I never tire of your garden tours. I appreciate your describing the flavors of herbs and veggies some people might have never tried. I’m probably going to order sorrel seeds, now 😂. I’m no expert at grape growing but when I had them I cut them back severely at the end of the season. They always came back with a vengeance. I visited a few wineries off season and all their vines were cut back in the shape of a “T”.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Sorrel is a lot of fun! Yeah cutting back to a T is pretty standard for easy management and production. That is why I am thinking of trimming back even more to get close to a T form.

[@EvaMaria-rd4bu]

These videos are like therapy for me tbh

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Glad to hear they are beneficial 🙌

[@saal0]

Sometimes im too tired to listen to what you’re saying but it’s a beautiful vid to fall asleep to

[@bellepfeiffer3630]

And then sometimes I go back the next day and replay it - pick up where I drifted off.

[@waterbitten]

I fall asleep to Jacques videos all the time. The lack of background music is perfection, I've "watched" plenty of videos multiple times.

[@adigmon]

That makes total sense! I live in a high pest pressure area and I just happened to plant my brassicas next to green onions and leeks. Nothing has touched them!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Makes sense to me, these delicious stinky plants can protect our brassicas

[@user-dq6yc3oo4n]

Be the change that you want to see in the world.

[@annierampersad3982]

Your winter garden is looking great Jacques. Much love from Trinidad 🇹🇹

[@mangomarin4635]

I would love to see more about the flowers you’re growing. Maybe like a flower tour in the spring? You tend to gloss over your flower beds sometimes but they’re so pretty and deserve a little spotlight too

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I did that last year and will probably do it again! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZmUpnuBmsudmZo

[@mountainbikingwithlogan6163]

I love the tours/ wall throughs and updates, thanks Jacques! I appreciate you

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Glad to hear it! These are fun for me to do as well!

[@VaultDwellerGal]

The green garlic tip sounds like a game changer. I would have never thought about planting the little ones for the tops, but I sure will be doing it now. Thanks!!!

[@olgacaballero1998]

You can even plant an entire head of garlic and you'll get a garlic bush. Happened many times when tops die out and I loose the location till it sprouts next season 😅

[@jacquesinthegarden]

It's so delicious and intensely garlicy!

[@anthonym8339]

First thing I thought of when seeing your Pride of Madeira behind you, before you gave it a shout out, was “oh man, that’s gonna look amazing in just a few more weeks”. Ours here is getting very close to blooming. Can’t wait!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

It is one of my favorite times of year. Seeing giant spears of purple covered in bees never cease to amaze me.

[@Burn1naday]

Love my sorrel as well. Had it back home in Russia so I was happy to get some seeds from the local nursery a few months ago

[@jacquesinthegarden]

It's tasty stuff!

[@leavesofchange]

do be careful! toxic levels of oxalate. there have been cases of death. Don't give to elderly - and I wouldn't even eat it yourself.

[@theslinkymaniaa]

I transferred my peppers from the 4-cells to the 6-cells like you suggested! Just had my first sprout today-Jimmy Nardello! 🥳

[@jacquesinthegarden]

That's awesome, glad it worked!

[@ohkaymo]

Cosmo in the greenhouse is too cute! Maybe if he (she?) is lucky a doggie bed will show up there :)

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Haha even if I got a bed he would probably still sit in the chair

[@Vangrsky]

What I’d like to see next is for you to ask Kevin how to say chamomile. Or is it Cha-mom-me-lay? That video made me happy just for that! 😂😂😂

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Haha cha mom me lay will live on forever

[@marktoldgardengnome4110]

Good morning Jacque. Glad to see you trying to use Alliums as a defense mechanism. One thing I forgot to mention is, with hard necks all your plants will develop scapes that you will need to cut to keep them from flowering, thereby the plants will put all their energy into larger bulbs. But a beneficial side affect is, it will intensify the scent that the Cabbage Moth detests, at about the same time your Brassicas need it. Also, a light side dressing that is high in a nitrogen type amendment, will really help get you to the finish line. With your Leeks, at time of planting, just put your starts into about a 2-3" diddled hole, do not backfill. Regular watering/rain will fill the holes back up the with soil naturally. When your plants get to be about 8-12"s tall, slide a cardboard tube down over the plants. This will promote blanching the stalks further up, above ground keeping less soil from getting in between the stalk leaves as they continue to grow. Toilet paper, paper towel, gift wrapping tubes all work well. They are free, biologically degradable, and can be cut to desired length. These tubes also work to help slow down slugs and cut worms from devouring tender direct sown plants when they germinate. TYFS your garden with us, looks awesome

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Very cool to hear, I love the delicious garlic scapes as well! I will try the toilet paper rounds for blanching next growth spurt

[@jessibishoproyse]

I think I am okay with living in the midwest- because summers don't get too bad. But then I watch these videos and Kevin's with all the produce coming in and I have to rethink everything.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Haha it's hard once you have had a taste, sometimes I wish I was ignorant to California

[@Neenerella333]

I wish my Lacinato kale came back like yours. The hard freezes really demolish the stalk cellulose.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Oof having no hard frost is definitely a great thing!

[@davidniemi6553]

Nothing better than being a gardener and a rebel! I concur there are some big difference in cold tolerances of different peppers (especially once you get outside C. Annuum), even though no really useful pepper species can survive a hard freeze. Conventional wisdom is that you should just give up the moment temperatures ever fall below 60F. I do find a lot of tropical island peppers (Trinidad, Tobago, Hawaiian lowlands) drop all their leaves if it goes below 50F, but they are one extreme of a big spectrum. Every fall, I leave some established peppers and tomatoes out to see what they can take, and many varieties keep thriving until a decisive freeze finally does them in. I "accidentally" overwintered a Tabanero (Frutescens x Chinese) cross which spent nearly the whole winter in a tiny greenhouse not much bigger than a cold frame, and the temperature inside that "greenhouse" dropped to ~28F many nights; I only brought it into the garage when ambient temperatures went below 22F. Freed from the greenhouse, it is now vigorously leafing back out now that it is seeing daytime temperatures into the 60s and 70s. I'm in zone 7B (new reckoning).

[@emkn1479]

Second the mashed rutabaga! A friend made it for me and I was so surprised at how tasty it was. I love all the experimentation-the best way to learn in the garden.

[@christopherbaby3842]

Jacques, Jacques. Listen. Jacques... The world record for the tallest kale plant is 5.54 meters or 18 Freedom Units. How EPIC would that be if someone from your company claimed that record. Just throwing it out there.

[@TrackOfAllJades]

I know somebody that had a tomato plant that got covered in powdery mildew and white fly. All leaves and fruit were destroyed. They left on a long trip and came back to the vine revived and covered in growth. Nature 😎

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Often it is tempting to react but many times the garden takes care of itself 🙏

[@Mark723]

Green is definitely your color.

[@ponwajeechrans7372]

❤ your winter's garden, and yes garlic..the green leaf of it you put in the soup...yum

[@karinsoderberg5391]

Sorrel is one of my favorite perennial vegetables in my La Mesa garden as it appears so early in the cool winter months and brings the promise of spring!. When visiting Ukraine I had a delicious "green borscht" made with sorrel rather than beets. So good! My chickens love snacking on the sorrel leaves as well. I'm a little jelly of your in-ground chard and kale beds--apparently all the rabbits are at my house and not yours! and yes, skunks have gotten in to my raised garlic beds too. Thanks for your update--you motivate me!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Someone else commented saying sorrel In borscht was good but now I want to try straight sorrel soup!

[@StardewHomestead]

I'm not going to lie, I've been waiting for this video since you posted about your cabbage patch 😂

[@jacquesinthegarden]

This cabbage patch is giving me life!

[@user-vl5bj6of2s]

Just what I needed ,a garden tour.❤❤ you have a lot of cool things in your garden. Excited to watch them grow.😊

[@rockandpillarrange6104]

I have seven acres in zone 7, and absolutely love watching Jacques when out planting crops! 🎩

[@gryphonrampant1]

Cosmo is adorable in his chair!

[@danieladeutsch1708]

Dear Jacques, I would love to see you cooking some Bulgarian recipes, that would me amazing. Your garden is gorgeous, I love the everything grows and your way to explain us everything. Much love from Slovakia, Daniela XX

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I will for sure do more this year, I've mainly done them as short forms so far

[@PacificGardening]

Every video needs Cosmo ❤

[@lyndelgado6138]

Thx Jaques 4 wood chip drain in clay soil! I made a trench from gate to sidewalk to move water from backyard that was collecting behind gate.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

That's awesome, glad it's working for you!

[@PepperplacewithShawna]

Thank you, Jacques! The garden is beautiful!

[@bertarnoldo5199]

Love it! My primal blood is flowing with the new coming of this growing season 😤🌱

[@jacquesinthegarden]

It's time to let it loose

[@tambrasmith9707]

Your winter garden is beautiful

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Thank you!

[@jordanyeager9220]

Yes, Katrina dig in girl! ❤

[@dimanadobrikova]

Winter garden, you say... This is a full blown mid to end spring garden here in... Bulgaria 😅 I love the channel and I'm thankful for all the great advices you give.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Haha it's weird calling it winter but that's just how it is in San Diego! The gardens I see in Bulgaria are always my favorite, the soil is beautiful!

[@micheler.5]

Oh to live in that climate! Dreamy.

[@colbr06]

You should do another 3 sisters bed to see if you can get the timing down.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I will for sure be doing it again this year!

[@Adier_Twigg]

Ah, California... beautiful!

[@oSo2033]

Beautiful! Thanks as always for the great tips

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Thanks for watching!

[@jackiek4159]

Obsessed with your garden Jacques! 😍🙌🏻💚

[@sheliaheverin8822]

I never did get my grapes trimmed back. 😭 I love pickled beets. I canned about 18 pints last year. I love tea herbs. I grew a ton of lemon balm last year, so good.

[@Elizabeth-uz1mn]

Loved hearing you transplant beets…have my seeds on the dining table ready to start indoors, and have been wondering about beets. (Garden envy ….tomatoes in February! Wow!)

[@jacquesinthegarden]

They are great transplanted and can be sort of fit wherever you happen to find space.

[@domesti-city]

Great tour! When I had grapes, I would always spray them with diluted milk in late January when we usually have a few days of mild Santa Ana dry sunshine. This prevented or minimized the mildew later in the year. It needs to be warm and sunny. Your vines are not leafing out yet (in this video), and we may have another mild Santa Ana in late March, so it might be worth spraying the grapes then, rather than not at all. I got busy at work earlier this month and when I wasn't looking all my broccoli bolted. Before that I was getting some beautiful shoots off them. Now the busy are making broccoli honey.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

They always bolt when you stop watching! I have never tried the milk method and have always wondered if it smells. I do plan on being proactive this year.

[@Gardeningchristine]

Eating a salad with lentil sprouts and micro greens I grew in my window. Supposed to be 26f tonight. I’ve still got a couple months before I should plant anything outside. Your garden looks great though!

[@RealBradMiller]

Had a salad with lettuce I grew in my utility room! It was beautiful the past two days, and is gonna be cold here again in Ohio tonight... The chill isn't bad, it's the twenty mph wind 😞

[@jacquesinthegarden]

It is pretty wild how much we can grow in San Diego this time of year. Everything grows so slowly it is my most relaxing season by far. Fingers crossed you get an early start this year!

[@Gardeningchristine]

@@jacquesinthegarden thanks!

[@LindasFlowersandVegetablesGard]

Wonderful Tour! love your vegetable garden!

[@ladybirdgib]

This all looks so lovely!

[@alex_morgan9048]

Don't sleep on those brussel sprout greens either! I cook mine like collards and they're absolutely delicious.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I usually cook the whole top like with olive oil and garlic 👨‍🍳 delicious stuff

[@melanieallen8980]

such a productive garden.cheers from Australia 😊

[@PlantManGuy]

Love your videos - excited for spring 🌱

[@willsolarski8550]

Your garden is looking great, beautiful layout! It would be cool to see how your drip irrigation is run for your setup and what system you use. I love the video update series thanks for posting them!

[@howdyEB]

Beautiful garden, I love all the garlic. 😍

[@tanyawales5445]

Jacques, you should try growing bloody dock/sorrel (Rumex sanguineous). It tastes the same as sorrel and is very decorative. Sweet marjoram is a member of the mint family as are most culinary herbs.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

That's a beautiful one I have always seen but for some reason never tried before, will have to give it a go.

[@RoyHolder]

Thanks Jacques, camera lens needs a hood to cut that sun glare. ( not a hand) Lol! 😂😂

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Haha, I was like oh well at least now its real :)

[@SampsonBeard]

She opened up her third bottle of wine of the night.

[@margakat]

I love how many favorites you have

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Haha they are all favorites for me

[@echoes.of.alexandra]

Ahhhhh that's what the problem was with my grape. I've never had a grape before but the place I moved into has a very old grapevine. I did wonder where it needed a more severe hack.

[@michaelgilliland6047]

Have you ever seen peppers sleeping? Looks like they're drooping from lack of water but only at night. My first mad hatter was the first pepper plant i had seen that on

[@winie5665]

Curious about possibly starting tomatoes in the 16 cell then burying them deeper in the 6 cell!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Oh yeah totally possible, honestly not sure why I didn't go straight into them first

[@Lisa-zp4pc]

Beautiful garden ❤

[@diannasgardenmenagerie967]

I planets the burgundy broccoli last fall and it has produced all winter!!!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Crazy productive and delicious variety!

[@kathyv3909]

I'd love to learn about growing the components for Sharena Sol. I went to Forte Tapas in Las Vegas and instantly fell in love with Bulgarian food and that secret powder on the table of which they would not share one of the ingredients. LOL. If you are willing I am listening. And I think I figured out the secret ingredient was summer savory, of which I will be growing more this season.😋Perhaps a Bulgarian dish growing and cooking series. ??

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Summer savory is for sure the secret ingredient. Sharena sol on buttered bread is so perfect👨‍🍳

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Also, I think a series is definitely in mind

[@kathyv3909]

@@jacquesinthegarden YAYYYYY! I'm seriously excited for a series like this to come out. Food is the gateway to learning about and respecting so many cultures. And now it's time for some buttered bread with a wannabe mix of sharena sol.

[@aloras405]

I’ll be perfectly honest about the marjoram. It tastes like soap. I’m not joking. Marjoram is a popular scent for fabric softener and soap.

[@jkdruid]

I bought some sorrel seeds,I used to eat them wild as a child .I can't wait to grow them.

[@prettyboy54321]

I am in South Florida and I harvest my snowpeas in the morning AND evening so I catch them before they get too big. I love them with garlic and oyster sauce. (Blanche them for 20 seconds, then keep them in ice water until the sauce is ready, then add them just long enough to coat them in the sauce. DELISH!)

[@jacquesinthegarden]

So delicious with on a quick saute!

[@gwendolynwebster7722]

Your garden is just beautiful, Jacques! Thank you for all the tips and tricks.

[@nataliemc3215]

With the Rutabaga I recommend looking up finish LANTTULAATIKKO

[@LittleKi1]

Yeah, your favorite section of the garden is just popping through the camera as if we were there, which is hard to capture! It's amazing what a few real rains will do for the colors in the garden!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

The rains have been so amazing for plants this year 🙌

[@LifeHomeandGardenwithAnaRica]

Thanks for awesome tips!

[@sherrylingenfelter8991]

Your garden looks great! Getting ready to put out some brassicas in zone 6b/7a.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

👏 excited for everyone's spring garden!

[@jkdruid]

Love your garden!excellent tour!

[@Hunting528]

I love your channel and me myself im starting seeds

[@brittany8364]

I love the garden tours! Do them more often plleeaasseee

[@juliemcgugan1244]

I personally love kailan that has flowered. It is not tough or bitter at all, but maybe it is different from a kailan-broccoli hybrid?

[@Patbythesea]

I love sorrel sauce with fish! Creamy and zingy sourness, amazing.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Oh man that makes a lot of sense, must be delicious!

[@danakuzik1370]

Would love a cookbook from your garden harvesting! Also sorrel is amazing in Ukrainian summer borscht.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Oh amazing, when we make borscht next I will add some sorrel!

[@bettytsang]

HELLO COSMO!!

[@nildaotero2933]

Loved the garden, thanks for sharing

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ChickenFarm98]

have a nice day . I watched .it's very good and I followed you

[@Briceharris1989]

Love your garden! I’m finally going to be building some raised beds to really get to planting!

[@carriecreates1207]

This was VERY interesting and informative. Thank you!!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kikks461]

Sorrell is great in a smoothie- I add a few leaves with kale and/or chard, blueberries, banana, etc.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Oh interesting I can actually see that being a nice little zing

[@nolodescartes58]

Really love how your garden looks and these videos motivate me to keep working on mine. Finally getting a good amount of tomatoes and more fruit from my fruit trees. Thanks for all the guidance.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Excited to expand into more fruit trees and get those wonderful harvests

[@nolodescartes58]

@jacquesinthegarden Recently planted an extra banana plant, a yellow lime tree and I've been amending the soil around my established breadfruit tree and coconut tree for close to a year now and they've been producing a lot more fruit. I'm from Puerto Rico so these grow really well here and breadfruit is a staple. Looking forward to your future content.

[@Mightype]

I can’t wait to see it after the commercial ends

[@JonWillis9]

pay for premium or block ads my guy :) your brain will thank you

[@saal0]

VideoLite for ios

[@RealBradMiller]

YT no longer allows creators to chose when ads play, or the amount of ads that will play, if I understand correctly. Sometimes a glitch will happen where you get an ad every minute or so, just close out of the app, they aren't accidentally going to pay that particular creator the ad revenue for the mess up. Cheers!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Yeah sorry, without premium there is no real control to ads. They have "simplified" ads on YT and also even if you check no ads they can still run ads.

[@saal0]

Sometimes I watch ads, sometimes i use an app. Wish youtubers had like a union or sth

[@innovativelearning36]

Can you do something on fig trees, please.

[@aileenbell6750]

As always you continue to educate and inspire. I tried growing “green garlic” on your recommendation, but I had yet to try them…now I know what to do with them (besides feed them to my parents) 😝.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

My parents eat them raw straight up, occasionally I do but it is quite the experience haha

[@sharonknorr1106]

Since I have been growing a row of garlic down the middle of each of my raised beds (stock tanks), have noticed much less pest problems, especially the aphids on my brassicas. Could be a coincidence, but I am going to keep up with the garlic. Just put in my last(?) seed order for the season a few days ago and included spigariello for the first time, I think I might have heard about it from you on a previous video; like to grow a few new things each year and that looked good. Agree about sweet marjoram, similar to but not as harsh as oregano/thyme as it does have a slight sweet note, it is one of my favorite herbs for cooking. Wish you could ship us some of your rain, it continues to be dry here in Colorado. Hoping for some good spring rains/snow.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

The last few years have been amazing for rain here in San Diego, three years ago though it was miserably dry hoping you guys get some relief. The spigarello is a lot of fun, looks cool and tastes super interesting

[@lawrenberghanson4401]

Your garden space is looking great!! I know you wanted to create pollinator amenities. Are you still planning to work on that this season?

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Yes for sure, as I transition to the spring garden I will have much more pollinator areas coming up!

[@beckymartinez9926]

I’m so jealous of your peas lol. I planted 5 packs and were blooming but froze in January. 😢

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Oof sorry to hear that, luckily spring is around the corner!

[@fortablet2933]

The famous kale plant

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Haha legends have been told

[@jeffbradford1999]

Enjoy your channel. So concerning Brussel Sprouts, I have nursed 3 plants for months and they are not forming sprouts just mini plants. Will they form, if not I am pulling them, I need the space. Thanks

[@timjoyner174]

Great and health looking garden. How big is your garden space because you have a a lot growing.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I haven't measured in a while but it is somewhere in the 2-3k square foot range.