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6 Easy to grow vegetables for beginners.

 

In this video, I'm going to
show you six easy-to-grow vegetables at home. These are great for beginners. we're going to start off with peas, peas are easy to
grow and have very few pests, they're one
of my favorite Fresh Garden snacks they
rarely make it inside eaten fresh or
cooked, they're not the same as the peas
I grew up on that  Frozen or Cammed
if those two ways are the only ways
you've eaten peas you're in for a real
treat by growing your own.

The best way to start peas is to sew the seed in the full sun directly in the ground about 1 to 2 in apart they're cold tolerant and can be sewn Outdoors 6 weeks before your
last frost date, if you have milder
Winters you can sew peas in the fall and
grow them right through spring. Peas need
to be trained on some sort of structure
as they are a Vining crop bamboo tree peas
and cattle panels have always been the
the best way for me to Trellis them you can
Harvest snap peas as soon as you see
peas starting to develop in the Pod
since these peas are grown mainly for
eating the whole pod for shelling peas.

Do you want to wait until pods swell and
look nice? full potatoes are one of
the most fun things you can grow in the
garden mostly because you never know
what you're going to dig up at the end
of the season, it's like buried treasure
the flavor of a homegrown potato fresh
out of the earth is something you just
have to try chitting your potatoes 
before planting gives them a head start
in colder winter climates it also let
you know before burying them in the soil
which potatoes are viable and which ones
aren't to chip potatoes four to 6 weeks
before your last frost date set the seed
potatoes in an egg carton in a bright
warm place once they have broken their
Dorcy and Sprouts are about half an inch
tall they're ready to be planted
chitting or not you can plant your
potatoes 2 weeks before your last frost
a unlike the traditional method of
burying potatoes deep in the soil
there's a much easier way to place the
potatoes on top of the soil about a foot
apart cover your potatoes with a thick
layer of straw keep them well watered
keep adding a straw if the potatoes start
to show through when potato flowers fade
and the plants start to turn yellow it's
time to remove the straw and see what
kind of harvest you've got when first
harvested the Skins are very thin and
fragile you can rinse them but don't
scrub the soil off they need to be
stored in a cool dark place for 7 to 10
days to really cure that.

Skin lettuce is a great starter plant
especially leaf lettuce if you've never
gardened before lettuce is a great place
to start it germinates quickly and grows
quickly and you can start harvesting 
less than a month there are two main
types of lettuce that you can grow leaf
lettuce and head lettuce head lettuce
takes more time and space to harvest and
leaf lettuce is quick-growing and can be
tucked in just about anywhere they like
a moist rich soil but will grow in most
spaces and can even handle partial shade
lettuce is a cool season crop and
germinates very easily as long 
temperatures remain under 80° F 27 
seeds are very small and it's easy to
sew them too thickly they do need to be
thinned about 4 to 6 in apart for leaf
lettuce and about 12 in apart for most
head lettuce you can eat the thinnings
if you hate to pull up hundreds of tiny
baby plants but there's also a trick I
can share take an Old Spice shaker
bottle put a couple of tablespoons 
sand into it along with the seeds from
one seed packet Shake It Up when you
sprinkle the contents out it will
naturally space the seeds Out Among the
sand most lettuces are surface sewn but
some need a thin covering of soil to keep
them evenly moist as the plants grow a liquid organic feeding helps to make more robust leaves and can be applied every two weeks in
the case of head lettuce you 
make sure that the head is on the right 
size before harvesting it should feel
firm and completely filled out before
cutting it from the stock you you can
treat leaf lettuce as a cut and come
again crop meaning you can remove the
outer leaves frequently for salads and
New Growth will continue to grow in the
center of the plant.

 Onions have been cultivated for over 5,000 years it's pretty easy to see why I can't think of
don't involve onions I'm not sure why
but growing my own onions and cooking
with them is so satisfying maybe because
they're so flavorful and add so much to
so many dishes of different varieties need a
certain amount of sunlight per day for a
specific number of days in the United
States it's broken down like this if
you're in the northern part of the
United States you're going to grow long
day onions in the central part of 
country you're going to grow
intermediate day onions and in the South
we grow short day onions if you don't
grow the right type of onion for the
latitude you live in you'll get only
green onions or leaves but not the bulb
in southern mild winter climates, we can
sew short day onion seeds in mid
November or if we miss that window we
get another chance in February to sew
intermediate day onions if you're
colder winter climates you can start
seeds indoors 8 to 10 weeks before your
Last Frost  you can sew a whole packet
of seeds very thickly it will crumb up
like freshly sewn grass for the next 4
weeks let them grow 4 weeks before your
last frost AE you can separate the 
seedlings and plant them out in the
garden about 6 in apart onions are
fairly easy to grow make sure they get
plenty of sunshine and moist moisture
and you're sure to get nice large bulbs
to ensure this you feed them every 2
weeks with a balanced liquid organic
fertilizer you'll know it's about time
to harvest when the stems start to bend
over at the neck just above the bulb
when about half of them have flopped
over go ahead and very gently bend the
rest of them over at the same spot this
signals the plant that it's time to
prepare for dormy when it's time for the
actual Harvest you want to dig up your
onion bulbs From Below and not just pull
them out by the stem brush any remaining
soil off of the bulbs and roots and lay
them in the Sun for 3 days in a single
layer after that they will go inside or
in the shade in a single layer for
another 3 to 4 weeks until the leaves
are crispy and brittle then store them
in a cool dry place.

 I don't know about you but I can't get enough garlic in recipes that call for garlic I add it 
 At least double what it calls for growing
garlic is fun and much easier than you
might think you can also get quite a
large Harvest out of a very small space
garlic is planted in the fall and you
want to get it in the ground before your
ground freezes 6 weeks before is ideal
in climates where the ground never
freezes you can plant garlic through
November and even December since they're
bulbs they like phosphorus so put some
organic phosphorus like a bone meal in the
bottom of the planting holes you want to 
choose these strongest biggest clothes
those will produce bigger plants and in
the end bigger garlic bulbs. 
garlic likes a full sun location and
Rich well- well-draining soil plants each
Clove Pointy ended up about 4 in deep and
6 in apart garlic is almost a plant
and forget it crops need to be fed
every so often but that's about it as
long as the soil stays moist and was
well amended before planting they get
by pretty well on their own it takes
about 8 to 9 months to get a harvest and
you'll know when it's about time when
the bottom leaves turn brown and start
to dry up when this happens dig down a
little next to a couple of plants and
check the bulb size if they look like
they're the full size you can pull them up
you can eat garlic fresh but if you grew
a lot you want to prepare it to be 
stored so that it lasts as long
possible dust the dirt off the bulbs
leave the stock and Roots intact lay
them out in a single layer to dry or tie
8 to 10 together and hang the bulbs
side down to dry they need to dry in a
 fairly dark and cool environment for 3
to four weeks until the roots and stocks
are dry and crispy at this point you 
 cut off the roots and the stock and
continue to store them in a cool dark
location picking carrots in my
My grandparents' Garden is probably my
the earliest memory of gardening all root
vegetables are fun for adults and kids
to harvest because you never know what
you're going to get in mild winter.

Climates carrot seed can be sewn 
fall in cold winter climates you can sew
carrot seed Outdoors 3 to 5 weeks before 
your last Frosty carrots don't like to
be transplanted so you will need to sew
the seeds directly into the Garden in
whole Sun they' like a moist lightweight
root run without a lot of nitrogen
adding manure or other high-nitrogen
source to the soil will cause your 
carrots to twist or Fork carrots are
notoriously difficult to germinate they
take a while anyways and they don't
really want to be covered with any soil
the problem that presents itself is the 
seeds have to stay moist at all times
one trick I use is to sew the seed and
cover it up with vermiculite or 
shavings let the light through but
keep the moisture in and continue to
keep them moist and they will grow 
quickly you want to make sure you thin
your carrot seedlings so there's at
At least an inch or two between each
cut off all the rest at ground level the
the only way to truly know if a carrot is
ready to harvest is to brush the soil
away from the base of the plant to
expose the top of the carrot root if it
looks to be the diameter it should be
it's time to pull.

I didn't include tomatoes in this
list even though they're pretty easy
because it does take just a little bit
of knowledge to grow them really 
successfully. 



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