In this video, I substitute six popular vegetables with other crops that taste just as good but are easier to grow at home.
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yep yep i planted onions last year and nothing made a head 2 kilos when to wayst cos off weather to much heat last year all the way to november.
Have you tried garlic chives in your freeze dryer yet?
I live in Indonesia, tropical climate all year long in an almost sea level city. To substitute for potatoes, besides sweet potatoes and taro, I plant cassava. You can chop the tree to 30 cm/1 foot long sticks and just stick them on the soil and they'll grow robustly. You can also eat their young leaves as greens. Delicious!!!
Omg I LOVE the taste of Taro. I have two balconies that I grow flowers on. Maybe eventually herbs. If I ever get a house somewhere where the temps don’t dip below 50F I’ll make a garden/garden bed and grow them definitely
Thank you! Great ideas.
sighMore rumors about spinach and oxalates….. how very disappointingI can't seem to grow any alliums from seed, so spring onions from kitchen scraps, onion starts, and garlic chives from starts are my back-up and goto. Garlic chives seemed to have trouble establishing in the small quantities available in nurseries, but once the bunch gets going! I have all of these tucked under and around all beds and containers, and divide them every chance I get.
Good reminder for tropical and subtropical gardeners to try, try, again (and try substitutes; one will hit that sweet spot of growing like a weed, and being tasty).
I do Swiss chard in place of spinach it does not bolt and tastes just like spinach.
Love your channel Mark !????????
Green purslane is the easiest and grows the fastest.
Try dehydrating or deep frying slimy foods, usually they crisp up nicely, no more slime!
Pole beans for potatoes
There's a certain conspiracy theorist that I think lives in or near Austin Texas that looks a bit like you.
For the sake of the video,
you're substituting veggies to get better results
I want to say I substituted the lookalike for the better Australian version, and it resulted in much more wholesome useful content
Chard is a lot like spinach and will grow all summer here in Tennessee US.
This is my first year ever growing potatoes…I chose 3 varieties of fingerlings & they're growing just great in a raised bed!…Tampa, FL
Living in the deep south of the United States we go from jacket weather to shorts weather overnight. Potatoes are a bit tricky but if we plant them in the winter and don't have a hard freeze that last several days usually we can get a pretty good harvest. Our fickle weather patterns are making it a little more difficult but I keep doing it every year. We can only grow sweet short day onions in the south and they don't keep very long under the best conditions. However we grow multiplying onions that makes a small bulb but has great onion flavor and grows year round, best to grow in small raised beds or containers.
My wife and I in Florida zone 9b grow Okinawa spinach and Longevity spinach. It loves the heat and humidity here. The Okinawa spinach seems to be a bit more cold tolerant and stays looking the best all year around. Its a bit more leathery textured than standard spinach but still tastes good in salad or cooked.
Genuinely surprised Mark knows of the band Amaranth. You just keep getting cooler and cooler. Can you adopt me? Please?
Slicing tomatoes are not on my list to grow either, cherry tomatoes are amazing and it's my go to! I live in Zone 9, coastal South Carolina. Very hot and humid here
Good to see you Sir. Here in Ky , zone 6a I can't grow many of your fruits and veggies but your ideas are super for what I can grow. It is fun to see your garden. I love to see what other people are able to grow. I can grow the big tomatoes if the deer let me. The electric fence isn't working too well this year, time to raise the wires, and put the poultry wire up to keep the over population of rabbits out. Got traps set for the squirrals so the fun begins as I replant.
can you grow "longevity spinach" where you are? similar to climbing spinach BUT green stem and leaves are shaped like basil? it grows all year round – i am in southern California – grow zone 9B – i have it right now 1/2 shaded – yet to experiment with the direct hot summer sun ….one way to get new growth – pinch the top of the stem with few leaves and stick in the ground let it grow.