We grow loads of tomatoes. Living in the burbs, it's difficult to have a garden large enough to sustain our family (plus horrific back issues). Several years ago, we started supporting an organic farm as a shareholder. They reached out to see if our home's porch could be a pickup location for shareholders. We agreed and now get to keep all unclaimed shares for ourselves or to share with others. It is a HUGE blessing to our family. Sometimes there are so many unclaimed shares that i struggle to get it all put up. We are so thankful for farmers. Love your channel.

@debmichelleparks3538

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What a blessing indeed! 🙏❤

@pamshouse99

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That’s awesome!

@roniboyd613

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Or donate to a food bank??

@ykk239

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@@roniboyd613 We often donate to widows and families in our church who are struggling. I use much of it to can and make preserves, etc. and bless many families with it as well as our own.

@roniboyd613

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@@ykk239 Awesome❤ I hope you understand I wasn't being critical, just curious😊

Peppers are definitely in our top 5. We slice and freeze them an use them in stir-frys, fajitas, pizzas, etc. We use them all year long.

@CarlinFarm

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We do too! Last year I stuffed some with cream cheese, bacon, and seasonings then froze them. We loved having them to just toss in the air fryer

@tammymann6292

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@@CarlinFarm That sounds delicious! :)

@wuznotbornyesterda

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I tried freezing and hate the mush! I prefer dehydrating peppers. Actually, I really would just rather have fresh.

I dehydrate peppers, run them through a blender, and have pepper spice. Fantastic on beef, whether it's roasts or burgers. I use it on all meat. I keep it in a jar in the freezer, doesn't clump up.

Peppers are the "hidden" vegetable in sauces. Blend them and put some in your pasta sauce so good.

I can be having the worst day but after watching you two I forget all about it. Thank you love you both.

My top 5 are Tomatoes (salsas, soups, pasta sauces, pizza sauce, bruschetta, ketchup, BBQ sauce, enchilada sauce, Chili base, stewed, whole, diced, salsa verde, green tomato curry starter, green enchilada sauce) Sweet/hot peppers (pickled several different ways,hot sauce, diced or sliced and frozen for cooking, harissa, ingredient and other things like salsa and sauces etc) garlic & onions ( used in just about everything) lettuces for fresh eating, and number 5 is beans (green as well as shelling). I'd add my apples/plums/figs/berries too But I don't have to plant them every year.

Grew up on subsistence type farm and we grew/raised almost everything we ate. Lots of green beans with each quart canned with a cloce of garlic. Sometimes when there were only enough green beans for one or less canners full was when mom would mix it up using other veggies. One of my favorites was mixed with tomatoes. Some of them would just have about 2/3 beans with 1/3 of smaller péeled tomatoes. Loved that as a side dish in winter. My top 5 have alot to do with storage longevity even if you arent able to can or freeze. 1. Potatoes 2. Winter squash 3. Kale 4. Cabbage 5. Onions

Had my first homegrown salad of the season today. Baby greens, radishes and chives. So good. ALWAYS GROW LETTUCE.

I freeze my peppers to use in soups and chilis dirkng the fall and winter. We're fine with the taste/texture that way.

Our family love carrots...I also can about 50+ quarts of my soup mix which is 1/2 carrots, 1/4 celery, and 1/4 onions.. it is a wonderful soup base for many soups. Something I can EVERY year!! Just a tip..if using a food processor to do your onions, put them in the bottom of your quart jar, as if you put them on top..the water has a difficult time going through them...

I'm surprised squash wasn't in the top 5 because they are super easy to grow and yields a ton

@michellediesterhaft456

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Yeah, I'm with you. I grew butternut squash for the first time last year and was able to get probably 30 squash off of 6 plants. It was incredible, and I learned to actually like butternut squash, and make a crazy good soup with them.

@terriwhite6273

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Pumpkin varieties. They store well in fall for soups and sides

I really enjoyed this video. I have planted almost all you mentioned and I just know this is going to be my best garden year ever. I'm 62 but only started gardening in 2020 and really only seriously in 2021. Each year I learn more and more. Keep the garden videos coming...even if you repeat yourself...we forget from year to year and appreciate the reminders.

I love sweet potatoes, but want plenty of white or yellow potatoes, too. We grow ours in grow bags. No bugs, no spiders, or any other pests. I agree with all five choices for basic start and most versatility. Yum!

Something I wanted to toss in here real quick.... Those carrot tops are edible. I toss them in when I cook greens or make salads. If you have chickens they will love those carrot tops too. This is my first year with a real garden at the new house, so I put down little bit of everything just to see what is going to work. Our soil is really heavy, mostly clay so I spend off seasons adding compost and trying to get it amended into something useful. I currently have tomatoes zucchini, lettuce, spinach, collards, mustard, 3 kinds of tomatoes, onions, shallots, radishes, carrots, honey dew melons, and peppers. I just have a tiny bit of everything. I want to find out what my pests are going to be before I commit to anything. I found out we have a small army of squash beetles from my efforts last year.

@barbmussmann2944

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😊

@C.C_Creations

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a lot of tops are edable , like radish greens, and radishes can be cooked in butter then add the greens and cook a little more, I think they taste like corn that way

I love dehydrating my lettuce/kale/spinach/beet greens whatever. I make a green powder with it and add it to just about everything for extra green goodness.

Great video!! My small garden is 10% fresh eating and 90% preservation. The only thing on your list that I don't grow is sweet potatoes, but I get them from a local organic farm to can. I plant whites. I can only hope that the organic part is correct! My carrots are overachievers, and always do well. My garden goes 365! It adds up!!

I love your attitudes, smiles and laughs! I'm growing regular and sweet potatoes for the first time this year. Storage will be a learning process for these this year. I typically grow lots of tomatoes, peppers, herbs, cucumbers and berries. I either can or dehydrate most things to preserve. I plant fruit trees wherever we live but rarely get to harvest from them before we move. At 69 I think we may be in our last home? maybe 😄 I have 4 apple, 2 plum, grapes, black berries, raspberries, Honeyberries and eldeberries as permanent crops.

Hey Zach I am gonna try Jade and Strike Beans this year..Patricia..Homestead Heart suggested as they produce a ton..the Strike and have to grow in Containers so need the most bang for buck..Patricia

So my husband and I processed our first 10 meat birds on Mother's Day. Of course we have our garden. I still have pumpkins that are from last year and still have some canned foods left over. We plan to get a freeze dryer this year. Please keep putting out videos its inspiring oh and we have layer chickens. ❤❤❤❤.

As for carrots, I would add, they need very 'light or fluffy' soil to be successful growing them. I added a mix of peat or coco coir and perlite to my soil to fluff it. My top 5 is pretty similar, but I do freeze my bell peppers and dehydrate the hot peppers for making powders (chili and paprika). Of course, I am using them in cooking during the off season. We get plenty of fresh eating, since I have a pretty long growing season. My other must grow is blackeyed peas instead of green beans. I shell and freeze them. I do not like them canned or dried and reconstituted or from the store. Also, the leaves of carrots and sweet potatoes are edible, so could add a few of the leaves to your salad for variety.

I don't like green beans. However, edible pod peas are just as prolific.

@brendachapman4559

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I've never liked green bean either until my sister came to visit and we were having green beans for dinner and she said she always put garlic in hers so I tried it and now I love green beans. Much Love and Blessings

@nickijames4250

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I agree not a big fan of green beans. Do grow them cause my husband loves them. For me it's definitely peas! Sweet peas and sugar snaps!

I dehydrate the carrot tops and use them like parsley in rice, soups, pasta, and stews. I also pick the sweet potato leaves from the vines when I harvest the potatoes, blanch them and freeze to use like I would spinach. Broccoli stems are good shredded and either used like slaw or sautéed with other veggies.

Can't believe 5b wasn't squashes. All of them are good. Storage is easy for the butternut and acorn. I live in 7b and it's pretty much a steam bath here too. Thanks for this vid. God bless!

I have canned my green beans like that for years I also add onion😊

Having chives both garlic and onion varieties come up every year with no work needed. I like easy and they are so so easy.

You didn’t mention okra I don’t think. Love your channel. I have learned so much from both of you and I have gardened for years. My husband will be 70 next month and I will be 67 in a couple months. We started our first garden back in 1977. You can never stop learning. Love you guys and the pool looks great!

Please tell me more about growing carrots in a greenstalk please. Do you have to use a small variety?

@susanmurten6178

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Carrots can be grown in the classic Greenstock, the pockets are deep. You could also grown the round carrots.

@suzetteblair8419

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I grow Parisian Carrots. They’re rounder and shorter😊

I didnt know bugs go after green beans..I have grown blue lake green beans on a cattle panel trellis for yrs..I have never had pest...maybe because I grow sweet 100 tomatoes at each end of the bed???..I didnt realize it was a thing..Im zone 4a

@marygrott8095

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I don't have peat problems on my green beans either. But maybe it depends on the location.

@karenreaves3650

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In Florida we have a fungus problem.

@caralyn-ca-5016

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Yah I never had bugs on my green beans in Chicago or here in southern Indiana. must be regional

Sweet potato chili is the Bomb with a dash of cinnamon. You can sub the cubed potatoes for either the meat or the beans.

TN neighbor here. About 4 hrs away. Love listening to y'all. We unfortunately live in the burbs so not much room for large garden but I do containers. I grow tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce and trying carrots this year. Green beans have always intimidated me but I do love them. Maybe I'll get the courage to try them!

I grow so much food....my favorites are....Sweet peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, green beans, onions. I would add on my 2nd top 5 list lol honey butternut squash, garlic, Brussel sprouts, rutabaga, zucchini. And my 3rd top 5 list is celery, cabbage, broccoli, strawberries, carrots. I grow for a years worth. I fresh eat, freeze and can so many different meals. Happy growing everyone. 🌱

Love you two, youre so adorable together! So much joy is great to see. What Breath of fresh air! Happy gardening! ❤

Sweet potatoes are also a double food crop. You get tubers and the leaves are edible. Win, win!

Cabbage-tons of it! Peppers-sweet and hot, tomatoes-slicers and paste, Brussel sprouts-tons of them. Kentucky Wonder pole beans and bush varieties. Onions and garlic and potatoes. Zone 6-A, South Eastern WV

I flash freeze chopped peppers on a tray. Then, I slide them into a freezer bag. They never get freezer burn. They taste great in anything I cook.

@ouachitafarmacy

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Yes!

Tomatoes, tomatoes, and tomatoes! Thee most versatile vegetable in your garden!!!

We live in FL, we grow grin beans, tomatoes, lettuces, squashes, this year we grew carrot’s mostly for the rabbit greens, potatoes, different onions, watermelon,cucumbers and others can’t think of it all right now. We share a lot of it with family friends neighbors etc.

I grow sweet potatoes in a raised bed.

I grow green beans, tomatoes, onions, eggplant and carrots for my top five, but I love my herbs and lettuce. I just harvested my first ever broccoli- I have tried to grow may times, but this spring has been better than usual in Georgia for brassicas. Great video-thank you for sharing.

@danaramey6519

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I am also in Georgia and just harvested my first broccoli. Actual second year growing broccoli. I planted earlier this year and beat the cabbage worms. 🎉

@ritamccartt-kordon283

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@@danaramey6519 Try a row cover. Put it on as soon as you transplant. Keeps the moths off that lay the worm eggs. Works great on cabbages.

@danaramey6519

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@@ritamccartt-kordon283 I am going to do this for my fall crop.

Green beans , tomatoes, squash , potatoes, sweet potatoes herbs

I love the purple and black tomatoes! They are so sweet! 😊

I live in the high desert and can Not grow sweet potatoes and lettuce. It’s SO hot and dry here that the plants don’t thrive. 🥴 I’ve tried everything. I do sprouts indoors instead. Squash of all sorts, rhubarb and asparagus do great here. I grow a small patch of “popping corn” for snacks. It’s absolutely the tastiest. I dehydrate everything and it turns out great. As for the rest of your suggestions you are spot on, my garden overflows with the goodness. 😋 God bless you both. You two are so adorable together.

When starting out. Grow what eat/buy most at store. You will enjoy growing, processing and feel great when done at the year.

We grow cherry tomatoes & cucumber next to the porch for snacks

I enjoy growing garlic. Plant it in October, cover it with a layer of straw and let it go!! Love getting the scapes-so so good! Then I cover garlic cloves with local raw honey and that helps boost immunity as well as helps shorten the time of a cold or flu-and it keeps away the vampires!!!! I wish our growing season was long enough for sweet taters, but it isn’t. Can’t plant in ground till June 1st and first frost is by med September if not before…

Tomatoes, onions, garlic, peppers, cucumbers. Zone 7. I grow to can or preserve for the year.

Butternut Squash we love them and they are great for freezing and so easy to freeze. Cut them up and throw into a freezer bag. And done.

We do green beans, and potatoes canned together, with a little sliver of salt pork for that awesome old fashioned flavor! Sooo good!

I cut pepper in small pieces freeze them and use them in omelettes Or a potato casserole , in fried potatoes.

You guys are great..thanks for the smiles! Top 5 are broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, tomatoes, and peppers.

Every garden in Newfoundland has: Potatoes. Easiest to grow Carrots. In the past, normal weather at planting time was weeks of drizzle. So germination was good. Rutabaga. Minimize the need for thinning by sowing seeds 4" apart and they usually do well. Beets. Just a culture thing. But they are easy to grow. Rhubarb. Stupidly easy to grow! If I had to choose just five: I would replace beets with baking beans. A source of protein that is easy to store and can be prepared in several different ways. And winter squash instead of Rhubarb. Takes a lot of space and water to grow but sits on the shelf for many months. It can be canned if you get it right. Or frozen. There's so many varieties that can make dishes of many tastes and textures.

Tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, squash, strawberries ❤

I have grown a couple of pepper plants in a large container and then overwintered in a basment window and watered lightly and set them back outside in the spring. They develop woody stems and wondered if people in the tropics would raise them as shrubs like rosemary? They lasted fine for 3 years like I did and because of size I started over again.

Purple Cherokee tomatoes are amazing. So are the lemon boys.

once again...I have never had hornworms on tomatoes..I grow the same every yr, triple crop, red brandy wine, opalca for my paste, my determinates are big red, beefsteak..I grow 3 keloggs breakfast for a little color..and of course sweet 100s for my cherry..and I start red robin in Jan...getting nice cherries now..they are a patio tomatoe..I also have a sm green house where I have them now..

Zone 8b in WA state. Top five would have to be tomatoes, peppers, pickling cucumbers, corn and potatoes. Fun video and I love seeing what others are growing too.

I grow organically and even eat the carrot tops 😋

I would add winter squash

I have only grown ' sweet corn' a few times but plan to grow some in future when i have another garden space

my peppers are great frozen. take the seeds out cut into strips and throw into the freezer in a zip lock bag. I don't really have any pests, I plant marigolds. Maybe my garden will get them when the garden gets larger, we'll see. I live in Georgia, just west of Atlanta. I just pulled my lettuce up and planted cabbage,a couple of days ago, it really gets bitter now and starts to bolt, radishes will all come out tomorrow same problem, but have plenty of things to put in their place! Also dug garlic this week, all the tops had died, they did just OK and they were hard neck I may try soft neck next year. Thanks for all your info enjoyed the five herbs also, I'm trying ginger for the second time and I will try the tumeric. I did grow some big carrots this time that I am enjoying but it take me 3 times to get it right lol Love ya'll, Carol

cucumbers are one of our top 5. Cucumber, tomato and onion salad is delicious. Another is snow peas because we love them and they are so expensive in the stores.

My top 5… 1 tomatoes 2 peppers 3 cucumbers 4 potatoes 5 green beans and snap peas tied for 5th place

Hi, I live in Southeast Texas that is zone 9. I grow Tomatoes, Bell Peppers, Okra, Potatoes, cucumbers, squash and green beans. Also trying for the first time Radishes and beets (doing great so far), and Carrots (not so good).

You can also eat the greens of sweet potatoes! Bonus over potatoes.

Pickle peppers and put in oil. They are great in oil. I make a ton of cowboy candy

Sweet potato greens are delicious and nutrient dense….also, green beans stewed with tomatoes.😊

Wow Im lucky. No bugs ever bother my green beans. 😳. Thanks for sharing this.

I live on fixed income,want a freeze drier but can't afford.I'm 78yrs young.

I plant bush beans in the same spot my garlic came from. It feeds nitrogen to the garlic the next year and it keeps bugs away from the beans. Have done this 3 years in a row in the same spot. No bug issues at all and strong healthy garlic. Hope this helps.

Marglobe is a stabled hybrid of two tomatoes that is now an heirloom.

My top 5 would be spinach, potatoes, broccoli carrots and tomatoes. My family doesn't eat green beans as much as the spinach and broccoli. We are zone 6 and I winter over the spinach and small carrots with just plastic row cover.

Zach sweet potatoes what fertilizer I heard they do Not need alot of fertilizer..if growing in container maybe the fish..weekly..I need as many as can in containers..any ideas?

Onions are a major staple along with potatoes carrots, green beans,

Tomatoes lettuce squash green beans garlic oranges we can are fruit too

You can dry…. Dehydrate peppers 🌶️ and then powder them for seasoning ❤😊

We havnt found a spot potatoes will grow. The groundhog digs through them. I found best solution is hardware cloth under your raised bed. I am going to try that next year. I'm trying black beans this year instead of green beans. My favorite thing to grow is onions! 3 years of growing and they are my most satisfying. I chopped them and made dry chopped and powder and it was the most flavorful I've ever had. 6B and my favorite things to grow are onions, herbs, beans, tomatoes and summer squash. Those are just in my 3 years of gardening, not my top preps. As we double garden space each year I pick more and more. I have a love hate relationship with cucumbers, we get too many and they never stop, I have to pull a healthy plant still producing near end of the year cuz we just can't eat any more

I'd have to add greens..collards, kale, turnip greens to the list.

I always plant Kentucky Wonder.

Oh my gosh! We use our brightly colored bell peppers to make pepper relish, and it is delicious and beautiful! We eat it on hot dogs, sandwiches, and BBQ. I make some sugar free for my keto lifestyle. Everyone raves about it. It lasts two or three years when water bath canned. We also love stuffed peppers and stuffed pepper soup, which I am going to freeze dry when our bell peppers start producing. I freeze dry that bag of frozen peppers and onions from Walmart, and they are fantastic!! Don't rehydrate them, just snack on them as crunchy pepper chips. People are shocked when they bite down on one of those crunchy freeze dried red peppers. They usually like them better than any of the other veggies. Ya'll just aren't fixing them right, LOL!! BTW, they have more vitamin C than oranges. I would put them above carrots, as peppers are FAR more versatile, when you talk about many many ways to fix them. I freeze dry and powder them to add to spaghetti sauce, chili, or omelets. Our favorite quick meal is stuffed jalapeno poppers, with cheddar and bacon!! They freeze well, and sometimes I add Mexican chicken. We are pepper people, I guess. :)

Hey y’all

You can also eat the sweet potatoe greens.

I started making homemade pizza sauce and canning it and it is amazing, good way to get tomato products in your pantry !!! Homemade Rotel also !!!

I just found your channel. Y'all are awesome! I love the content and rational behind your answers. So cute together. Will be binge watching....when I get time between garden, chickens & "puttin'-up" in the pantry.🤟

Growing in the city here in container gardens and an eeeked out in ground garden (stole space from the teeny tiny backyard (sorry dogs, lol) which was a first last year. Every year I grow tomatoes, loved adding bush beans to the list just last year, lettuce, cucumbers and edible flowers. Mine is more of a top five for container gardening and fooling the HOA and neighbors into thinking all that greenery is beautiful, lol!

Carrot tops can be added to your salad also

Beautiful green background for your video! I have wanted to try sweet potatoes but always thought I was too far north (mid-northern PA) might have to do some research on it to see if they would grow here. I got a mini tomato from Baker creek this year called Orange hat, the whole plant only gets 6-9 inches tall and I want to try growing them all winter long under my grow lights *fingers crossed* My top 5 every year are tomatoes (Dr. Wyche's!) lettuce, habanada and green peppers, zucchini and okra!

We do qts of green beans as we enjoy leftovers.

Squash, Zucchini, Tomato, Ground Cherries and Green Beans/Peas. In Zone 5a :)

Jen I am with you. Nothing better than a tomato sandwich.

Here in Ireland the top 5 would be 1. potatoes, 2. Onions and leeks, 3. English peas, 4. Broad beans, 5. Brassicas. Love your channel, keep up the great work. Hugs from Ireland 🇮🇪 xxx

hugs from pam and john keep it coming on video way to go

It has rained so much here this year,my Irish potatoes may rot this year.

Here's a great idea that I got from a catering company in California. Youu take some good seeded crackers, I like the long rectangular ones, or any organic style ..you rub some hummus on the cracker and like to put the feta cheese on top of itcause it sticks to the hummus However the feta is prettier on top afterward as a garnish..then you add some roasted red bell peppers, the Kind you buy In a jar..and Greek Calumetta Ollive',..s chopped up if you like and you got yourself an hordeurve . Just an idea to eat roasted red, green or yellow pepper's as. DreamWeaver

We started freeze drying then powdering left over peppers of all kinds. I love the flavor of bell pepper in meatloaf; however, my husband doesn't "like" the pieces of peppers yet, he does like the flavor. This is how we use the left over peppers. Making chili powder, meat rubs, adding flavor to meat dishes, soups and stews. Also, dips, salads, dressings and potato dishes.

Good evening, carrots can go into tomato sauce all kind of great things!! Thank you for sharing!! Blessings to you all!!!

I love all tomatoes. I feed hornworms to our Koi lol. I find that im seeing fewer and fewer hornworms every year 😉 i have lettuce growing everywhere and i plant half of them lol. And chamomile too

I just got my raised garden started. I’m just waiting to transplant my tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, peas,

Oh this is my first time doing a garden.

Pumpkin seeds are a great dewormer for animals.

Making my mouth water🥲....me n hubby were just talking about we can wait until we can eat a tomato sammich🥰 we sliced a store tomato the other day n just sliced n no seeds spilled all over the place like a fresh garden tomato does🥰 Definitely planting all these things u mentioned....last year we planted greenbeans two different times but hardly any germinated....do the bugs/worms eat the seed?