Watch Our Greenhouse Come Alive! It’s Planting Day!

[@metalmartha2571]

Really like the style of video! Very informative and inspiring. I can’t wait to put my own garden in. Still a month away. happy planting.🌺

[@bryanlloyd1099]

I love tomatoes also and can't wait to see how the plants turn out!

[@roxanneheusdens8051]

I'm watching from Racine, WI and can't wait to get the rest of my garden in! I have the cold weather crops and onions and lettuce in, but my basement grows lights have lots of peppers and tomatoes waiting to be planted, somewhere between Mother's Day and Memorial Day.

[@jurassicgardener3136]

You also might want to move the Habanada peppers away from the spicey peppers as people have mentioned some of the heat transfers during pollination so be careful.

[@LivingTraditionsHomestead]

We’ve never had that happen and we’ve planted like this for years 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@boldlygo3469]

I love you folks. Great videos and good information. You're living the sort of life that Americans crave (even if they don't know it).

[@luisferrer6464]

What ever happened to the citrus trees?

[@debarnold5019]

Here in Colorado we had gorgeous Spring weather with temps in the mid sixties. Last night we got three inches of snow and tomorrow's temp is back to 65. There is a saying that goes: If you don't like the weather in Colorado, wait ten minutes. 😂

[@julietesterman]

Have you considered using food grade DE (diatomaceous earth) on your plants? I use it in my house to keep away critters. If they get in they die pretty quickly (but not instantly because it’s not poison).

[@joyarnett6570]

My husband and I planted in or garden today ..onions..potatoes so far we are expecting frost for a couple of days....😊

[@captainron1960]

Kevin's shirts always make me laugh . Love some tomatoes and those Amish paste is one of my favs ! Peppers , like them hot !

[@Dianatorres6990]

I'm American of Mex. decent and can't eat hot sauce like a Mexican.😫😂

[@amybarthel479]

My favorite cherry tomatoes that do well for me in Minnesota are sun gold and bumblebee sunrise. Grow them every year

[@anneo3754]

Winter has returned here. We had three wonderful days this week in the 70's and now I'm feeling colder than I should be! You got a lot done in the greenhouse. It makes me wish I had the room for one. I have a few more plants I want to start. Still another month before the last frost here. June usually is best for the warm weather plants maybe a little earlier this year because of our mild winter the frost is out already 😊

[@mindycollier9087]

Not so wintery here in Southern Ohio but cold enough to turn my heat back on after wearing shorts for the past three days!!

[@justYouJesus1God]

Where are you, I'm in Montana I still don't know when to start either

[@anneo3754]

You can look up your area on the USDA zone map or call your county extension agent 😊

[@margaretsullivan2206]

It's fall here in Tasmania. It feels like summer still. Perhaps we have stolen your spring.😊

[@CindyOrangeNeely]

Love this video!!!!! It made me so happy to see yall digging in the dirt! I'm in Central Virginia and I just took some my seedlings out to the greenhouse today. It's still too chilly to plant outside. I can't wait to get my hands dirty in the warm soil!!

[@kimberlywalders6063]

Our weather isn’t being so good to us in Northern Iowa. Waking to the temp of 32 degrees and the high of 42 today! Ugh. Can you believe this. All week is going to be on the colder side. Can only hope the Sun is on the way! Happy gardening to you. God Bless !

[@loriy7532]

I love your tunnel garden , you are so wonderful together as you work and talk.. I can feel the love light coming from you guys when you look at each other. I have bought a couple of 12 ft raised beds , they will be here tomorrow , I showed my husband , fellow garden buddy your raised bed garden and he thought it would be great not to bend over so much too. Happy growing..My husband likes to always check out Kevin's shirts ,always a chance for a friendly laugh .....

[@auntbee2167]

Wisconsin weather chased you away 😂 Friends in cold 🥶 places

[@julieschossow9315]

Glad you didn’t get caught in the tornado. My kids both drove through it and had a lot of damage to their cars.

[@Willene1950]

I'm glad they're OK

[@JeanneKinland]

I hear you when it comes to scaling down the amount of tomatoes this year because we had such a bumper crop last year. Love Kevin's shirt. I'm a tomato too! We don't plant tomatoes until next month up here in Nebraska. It's actually freezing here this weekend and I had to cover our cabbage, strawberries and onions over night. I need to try the Amish Paste sometime. Don't they have different variety tomatoes for growing inside green houses? Our garden is mostly in ground outside. I grew contender and jade last year and compared them in our grow stalk containers. I really didn't notice much difference. They both did great. I tried the not spicy habanero peppers (last year) and they were prolific but honestly I wasn't a fan of the taste. Do you use epsom salts to prevent blossom end root? I heard that if you plant RADISHES and let them go to seed they create a crop plant for the squash bugs. I'm not sure how it works but, I'm going to try it. Good Luck! Yes, Summer is starting for you guys but, not for us yet.

[@jetman258]

Nice nice, if you can find these onions called "sugar babies" I only found them on Amish farms. They as big as a grapefruit and Sweet, White in color.

[@diannplatt-roberts8692]

Watching you plant, I’m really getting anxious. However, it was in the 30’s here today so I’m going to wait awhile.

[@sarahrizer6055]

So excited to watch it all grow😊

[@normarosado5697]

How wonderful and exciting to watch you both plant the greenhouse Looking forward to seeing everything grow🎉. Thanks for the video.

[@Donna-fi2ue]

Good morning. Even in raised buckets, if your knees aren't dirty, you're not doing it right, LOL. I aways look forward to your videos thank you!

[@KathyW5]

My wonderful daughter-in-law is from Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin. Wisconsin is a beautiful state and we spent many camping trips there during the 10 years we lived in northern Illinois. Now we're back in Washington state, but I still have very fond memories from yours.

[@fredthegreg]

Very interesting! I used to work in ft Atkinson! And now I also live in Spokane

[@KathyW5]

@@fredthegreg Oh my gosh. My son and daughter-in-law went to Gonzaga and have lived in Spokane since 2003😀

[@swianecki]

I love watching your videos and can hardly wait for tomato season. Dreaming of summer plants gives me a much needed diversion from worrying about my husband’s health. Can’t wait to see your greenhouse come alive with all those wonderful plants. God Bless!

[@Willene1950]

I hope and pray your husband gets better soon

[@tnt2abb]

I just love watching you work in the greenhouse. One day, I will be able to get me one. Thank you for all the inspiration on gardening, both inside the greenhouse and in your raised beds. Have a blessed day!

[@TempusSolum]

I really enjoy how considered and organized you guys are. Always fun to watch. I was curious about the lemon tree, and how it is doing. You haven't mentioned it for some time.

[@creativerita]

Thank you for taking us with you as you launch this garden season

[@juliecolbourn8232]

Just wondering if you (or anyone) has had problems with mealy tomatoes. Last year all of tomatoes in the greenhouse were mealy and not a good texture for fresh eating. I still could freeze and can but so disappointing. Thanks for sharing. I had many different varieties that I had started all from seed. I have them on drip with a single emitter. Thanks for highlighting Canada 🍁

[@gaylesmith1738]

I'm really enjoying your step-by-step planting! Thanks for sharing your expertise!! 💕

[@Grammyabigail]

Thank you for your efforts to always share so much. I ebjoyed every moment. I have learned a lot from you over the years. May the LORD continue blessing your lives and the work of your hands. ❤

[@deltorres2100]

Peppers are my favorites 🫑🌶️🫑🌶️🎉 I did over winter 3 plants so I’m already getting bells now

[@gelwood99]

I used to grow the Black Beauty zucchini and yellow crookneck squash but several years ago I bought the Golden Zucchini squash from an organic farmer, friend of my husband who sells at our local farmers market. Squash bugs had taken out my squash, those Golden Zucchini were the best I ever ate. They. take the place of both yellow and green squash so now I only grow the Golden zucchini. Grilled planks are awesome and we also are on the Ketovore lifestyle so they fit into our eating habits, they are great cut up with onions and cooked until tender with butter, and at the end add heavy cream to finish it. It is like a dessert it is so good!

[@wytchwoodhomesteadandkenne5036]

Wow, you're as bad as I am. I am a fanatic about cucumbers 🥒 and tomatoes 🍅... Preferably sliced on a plate. Both of them lol. So I Winter Sow, and this year in my jugs I planted Homestead (repeat) Roma VF Pork Chop (yellow with orange stripes) Hartman's Yellow Gooseberry (yellow cherry and DELICIOUS) (repeat) Beefsteak Pineapple (orange tomato)(repeat) Then today I finally emptied it enough seeds trays and planted Dad's Sunset (red and orange) (repeat) Super Sweet 100 (Red Cherry) Black Cherry (Cherry)(repeat) Black Krim (Russian black tomato with green shoulders) Burgundy Pink Fruited (pink) Amish Paste (repeat) San Marzano Brad's Atomic Grape (purple and yellow) And more I can't even remember right now lol. The ones that say repeat, I grew last year. The rest are new. I absolutely adore the light, citrusy taste of the yellow and orange tomatoes. Now last year the only trouble I had with my tomatoes, and my Amish paste suffered as well I should mention, is I had blossom end rot because of the drought. I don't have a well and I can't catch what won't fall, so watering was a labor of love. I also went and got some tomato and veg granulated fertilizer and that mostly put an end to that. But with the dad's sunset, man those are amazing tomatoes. They are so so so so so so delicious. But it took so long to finally get some. They sat there on the vine and they would be huge and I would be waiting for them to start to turn and then when I thought okay this is it it's turning I can grab it and put it on the counter!!, I would go to pull it off and find a rot spot under it so... That was pretty miserable. But again, blossom end rot was my main issue and then not getting the Dad's Sunset to ripen! They would sit there day after day after day, and just not turn.

[@leighannf.4730]

Rose de Berne is a delicious tomato!! I hope you guys love it. 🥰 (And Jade green beans are my main bean crop! Excellent choices!)

[@katiez5660]

We got our pots for free from store and a farmer.

[@Coptergirljs]

I get squash bugs up here in Maine every 7 years and they aren't as bad as you get in the south. The last time I had them, and once the squash vines were pulled, I put black plastic over the bed and left it until June when the soil warmed up. So far I haven't seen any and that was years ago. I also did that on the potato bed and it killed the potato beetles also. We don't have the option of growing a second crop.

[@brianpalmer967]

Happy planting season everybody!

[@traceywelsh9696]

Kevin, I LOVE the shirt. It made me laugh

[@eddiebarrera-ws8vu]

You can always feed left over vegetables to the chickens.Saves a bit on feed.

[@k.p.1139]

My squash plants are beyond huge. It's been years since I have seen them this big and I'm hoping to start harvesting this week.

[@mskippi]

Oh I wish I had a large greenhouse, it would be a game changer for growing food

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Thanks for sharing with us Sarah and Kevin. Enjoyed the big planting in the greenhouse. Sure would like to try some of those Nadapeno and Habanada peppers you folks have up there. I love the flavor of them but can not stand the heat from them. Maybe one of these days we will get to travel up through there again and find some to bring home and try. Stay safe and keep up the great work around there. Fred.

[@jeffreygraf3358]

Watching you guys got me itching to put my starts in the ground, but it's 32° this morning in SE Wisconsin, so I'll just watch your video again and hope for warmer weather.

[@marcialittle7893]

Kevin and Sarah,use your fruit tree bags, until plants are flowering. I'm trying that this year, may be the ticket to skipping the vine borer moth and maybe squash bugs too.

[@lindafessant8021]

It continues to Amp up my anxiousness to plant. My seeding are doing well ❤.

[@scrapykat3028]

Yellow pear tomatoes are so delicious! Cherry size and grow forever!

[@scrapykat3028]

You should try same plant both inside and out. Experiment with electroculture too!

[@homesteadblessings8886]

We have a freeze warning tonight. Ready for the weather to stabilize. God's blessing to you and yours

[@jeffmartin693]

I too plant a lot of cherry tomatos, last year I smoked / dried them on the pellet grill on a cookie sheet halfed and salt and peppered. I stored them in the freezer for snacks in the winter, and just loved them.

[@maplewoodhomestead2017]

Love the tour!!! We started our homestead the year after you and its been neat to see how much you've grown and changed over the years. We also started keto 5 years ago and it's nice to have fellow keto homesteaders!!! Woohoo!!!

[@ramonasurprenant2122]

You can also plant the base of the tomato sideways if your pot isn’t as deep. The “hairs” on the stem will root once they’re in soil 🍅

[@traceydysert6096]

I'm in Ohio and our weather is supposed to get cold this coming week. Like down into the thirties. We've had about the same weather as you guys have had but I hope your greenhouse stays warm. For about the next 5 or 6 days it's supposed to get down into the 30s at night. 😬 I have a small greenhouse outside that I use in April to put all of my stuff outside from in the house. I start everything in February or March and put it outside in April to harden off and grow but I also have a small heater out there to keep everything close to 50° or higher. I love the seeds from MIgardener and purchased a little over $300 in seeds last year! Everything I grew performed better than I could have ever imagined and I also put stuff together a lot closer than in years prior. I sort of used a square foot gardening method in my rows for the garden. Thank you for all the teaching moments! I have learned a good bit from you guys.

[@jurassicgardener3136]

If you get to where you want a BLT sandwich try Natures Own Keto Life bread. I am elderly and am keeping my A1C in the 5's with no meds and every day I have an egg, cheese, and a deli meat slice on two slices of this bread and my glucose meter shows below 120. I find the bread in a subsidiary of Kroger (City Market) here in a very small town in Colorado. Google says its in Safeway and Walmart also. Happy farming to y'all.

[@kathybiddle9006]

What Luke said about the centiflora is right. I planted 2 plants last year. Never say anything like them. They probably had a thousand or more on the 2 plants.plants went everywhere.

[@mindydillow504]

Here is an idea for your last two buckets...Delicata Squash. They are delicious small squash and the skin is edible.

[@AC-hy1xd]

It was 94° here in central Kansas last weekend and today it snowed and there’s a good chance for a frost overnight tonight. My spinach all bolted in the heat last weekend, but I’m so glad I waited to put any tomatoes in the ground.

[@franceswatts4001]

Two videos this week? Or did I imagine it? Whatever, I am delighted.

[@Maria-ql3fc]

I'm growing in containers, raised beds and a small in ground space. I put my indeterminate tomatoes where they will only get a few hours of sun each day as it gets so hot and humid here they get hit hard and die. I depend on the hybrids for canning tomatoes because they handle the heat and humidity better and put on the majority of their fruits within a couple weeks are all ripe and done.

[@tbone9194]

I enjoy watching your videos!🫑🍅

[@brianlykins6663]

Really enjoy yall's videos. Like your idea on the raised bed gardening outside. I think thats gonna work out much better for y'all. Love your greenhouse. Opens up so much more options for planting and growing. Plus the weather doesn't delay or deter planting. God bless ya'll and hope ya'll have a blessed and happy year.

[@Rbridges7]

👍🏻on the jade and contender bush beans, I’m anxious to see how they compare. Jade is new to me also. I have the seed but haven’t planted them yet.

[@MelissaM83]

How exciting! ❤ summer is definitely here once the plants get put in lol ❤ Thanks for sharing.

[@ericjohnson1008]

Y'all are getting things done, it's exciting.

[@rebeccaplumlee9601]

Temps dropped, I had to turn furnace back on

[@dennismoore8351]

I have been watching you for a few years now. I have done a few types of tomatoes to find out what works best here in southwest Georgia. One that you kept talking about is the Jet Star. I ordered seeds for Boxcar Willy and Jet Star. I started them the same day in my seed starting rack. The Boxcar Willy and some cherry tomatoes took off rather quickly. The Jet Star did not germinate at all. I kept tending to them. About two weeks later I noticed two of the 6 I started popped up. Then another and then the rest. So they all germinated. But they lagged behind all the others for a few weeks. I finally up potted them and put them out in the greenhouse. Still a week later they were lagging behind everything else. About two weeks ago, I went to water the plants and was pleasantly surprised to see they almost doubled overnight. They are now the same size as everything else. They are beautiful plants. Thanks for the recommendation.

[@borountree4539]

Bacon tomato lettuce wraps, yum! Who needs bread? 😂

[@fredthegreg]

Very yummy indeed. Just be mindful, that depending on the size of tortilla you are using, it could be almost the same amount of carbs as 2 slices of bread.

[@wayne2091]

I love white wounder cucumber from MIgardener they have the best taste and are crisp. I have had no disease problem with them.They grow all season. try Piennolo del Vesuvio cherry tomatoes deliciousthey are not hybrids. you have to go on line for them. they originated the same place as San Marsano tomatoes. planting nasturtiums with your squash and cucumbers will repell squash bugs and cucumbers beatles.

[@tambrasmith9707]

Amish paste is my favorite but my Amish paste seeds didn’t do too well this year , so I have a few more different kind of tomatoes planted… not just a few more .. I have 26 tomato plants planted so far

[@Ayeloroz]

God bless you and your crops! Love the videos!

[@annsmith8343]

Ooooo you’ll love the Jade! Pick them young for freezing and or skillet blistering 🤤Or let them get big for canning. I’ve got people who say they don’t like green beans to requesting the recipe for skillet blistered green beans!

[@junewrogg6137]

I love MIgardener seeds. I started seeds for most of the ones you did and the plants look so nice! I love your poly tunnel and your new raised bed garden. I'm in the process of putting my beds together.

[@elainebuchka6533]

❤HAPPY GROWING! PRAYERS IT ALL PRODUCES GREAT GOD BLESS

[@marthacalkins8054]

I just harvested last year’s enormous oregano crop (from one very healthy plant) and made an oregano-parsley pesto. I’ve been thinning it with a northern Italian salad dressing, and I can’t get enough of those salads!

[@callieflanagan3310]

To keep them from cracking, cut off the whole cluster and leave them on the stem for a day or so before pulling them off. I think they dehydrate a little and that helps a lot.

[@shirleyk623]

What a glorious day in the greenhouse. Congratulations, those plants will be gorgeous soon and producing lots of delicious groceries.

[@jamessteffens8337]

I will be going to Wisconsin for July 4th. She lives in Oshkosh, Our farm is in is in Chesterton Indiana so i will drive. I live in Las Vegas for the winter. I’m 82 and I live alone. I was married for 52 years, you guys remind me of us. God bless jim80

[@shellycarter155]

We have issues with squash bugs here too! I can easily do 2-3 crops of zucchini in very northern Illinois as well! 😊

[@belieftransformation]

Wow, great progress in your planting! Thanks for sharing! Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦

[@Pamela-B]

I love your solution for squash bugs. That is so smart! Thank you 🙏 😊

[@babbsd7235]

I'm so excited to see you planting!

[@marycountry]

Awesome, prayers for your harvest🙏

[@tonileigh8660]

High tunnel looking fantastic!. We're still getting temps in the low 30's and next week a couple nights in the 20's. Last year I bought a pack of Jersey Devil seeds from MIgardener and LOVED them. Such big paste tomatoes and so many on each plant! Growing twice as many plants this year. Also tried Cubanelle peppers from them last year for roasting. They are delicious so I'm planting twice as many of them this year too. Love watching you get plants in the dirt. Can't wait to be getting more outside here. Just have carrots, parsnips, turnips and onions so far.

[@laststophomestead2853]

April 20th mid MO. and overnight getting as low as 36*.. :/ Not chancing a frost so everything vulnerable is covered back up once again. Tomorrow night 35*.

[@TheBest-ob1kj]

So fun to watch upu guys do your planting. Here in Wisconsin we had frost warnings and temp were down to 30 degrees . So we have to wait a bit longer!

[@njon5926]

Your channel is great with variety between the animals, the growing, the cooking etc. Thanks for being kind teachers. If you could think of something other than "you guys" to call me I could die happy. On Wisconsin. I know you can think of something 🤔

[@janemosherpage2748]

Glad to see you're trying the Gold Nugget and Rose de Berne tomatoes! I've started some of them for the first time, too! Growing in Quebec, Canada.

[@carolallen662]

Tess's Land Race is much smaller than the small tomatoes you grew last year. They are tiny with a great taste. I love them but could only find them from MI and those were different than what I had planted before .The real Tess is a great little tomato and while you will get tired of picking, you will not get tired of eating them. I hope to find a more reliable source for seed again.

[@itme7685]

Jersey Devil is very delicious, but it is not a paste tomato. It looks like one. You could use it if you really needed, but they have a decent amount of water in them. I grew them they weren’t always so productive and seemed to have disease problems. My experience is they always looked terrible to start, but caught up in the end. I haven’t grown them in a while.

[@kaybusby7507]

Great planting anxious to watch everything come up. Thank you for sharing

[@jolyanpratt2350]

Absolutely love the way you work together and your videos, keep up with the whole program🥰 so nice. Thank you were your fans!

[@coffeecupcraftswithkelly2826]

How are your citrus trees going? Haven’t seen an update on them in a bit.

[@renatal1972]

I so wish I wasn’t allergic to tomatoes, I’m jealous when I watch all the tomatoes being planted.

[@helenmcclellan452]

I can't wait to hear what you decide to plant in the last two buckets and in the rest of the raised beds.

[@waynespringer501]

Golden Nugget is prolific but it's a determinate which get done producing early. Kellogg's Breakfast is the Best Beefsteak Tomato

[@cheriprovencio9442]

Nice job, you guys rock

[@Mark19766]

I have been growing the SMR- 58 cucumber for the past 17 years saving my seeds from year to year.. You guys will absolutely love it. It’s a great pickler, disease and pest resistant does very well. I’m only about a 2hr drive from your farm outside of Chester, IL. Btw pick them small pick them frequent. Love the channel

[@ozarksbuckslayer2484]

I'm a little over 30 miles from y'all the way the crow flies and it got 93 degrees here breaking the all time record high that was set back in like 1981.

[@Jomama02]

You won't be disapointed with the JADE green beans. Only kind i grow or buy!

[@robertaallen4785]

You mentioned saving seeds from the rosa de bur tomatoe. Are you concerned about cross pollination with all the tomatoes so close?

[@christymartin9404]

We love the Jade bush bean. It's always been a great producer & delicious.