John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shows you the vegetables you can grow in zone 9 winter garden growing and harvesting right now in his winter organic vegetable garden. You will learn the vegetables that he grows in the cool season in his zone 9a desert garden.
In this episode, John walks you around his backyard Mohave desert urban vegetable garden, and shares with you all the vegetables he has planted in his garden.
You will also learn about some of the unique vegetables he is growing and why he prefers to grow some vegetables instead of others.
You will learn what he was able to grow over the wintertime when the weather got below freezing on many nights.
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
00:00 Episode Starts
00:15 Growing Outdoors all Winter Zone 9a
00:59 Grow & Eat Leafy Greens!
01:31 Grow Microgreens & Sprouts indoors
01:53 When were these planted?
02:16 Long Raised Bed with Edible Flowers, Fava Beans and Sugar Snap Peas
03:12 Need to Harvest Malabar Spinach Seeds
03:38 Grass Jelly
03:53 Warmest Spot in my Garden
04:15 growing frost sensitive plants
04:55 Kumquat Tree
05:06 Bulls Blood Beets, Purple Mizuna, Napa Cabbage, Siberian Kale, Gotu Kola
05:58 Perennial Tree Collard Bed
06:07 Long Perennial Bed removed Fo-Ti
06:45 Purple Mustard Greens, Bok Choi and Tat Soi
07:39 Lolla Rossa Lettuce,Escarole and Nevada Lettuce, Radiccio
08:52 Hydroponically grown butter lettuce
9:08 Why I use round raised beds
09:29 Frost Damage Raised Bed
10:09 Rosemary Bed
10:26 Dinosaur Kale, Purple Brocolli, Red Russian Kale, Siberian Kale
11:03 Romanesco, Chomolla, White Russian Kale and Red Russian Kale
11:15 Mint, Leeks and Tree Collard
11:54 Walking Onions and Tree Collards
12:09 Trout Lettuce, Sierra Nevada Lettuce
12:35 Imperial Green Spinach
12:53 Bok Choi – Two Varieties
13:30 Cilantro Bed – Bolts First
13:55 Bloomsdale Spinach
14:00 How did the Bele Tree Do
14:20 Red Ball Brussel Sprouts
14:52 Red Russian Kale, Dinosaur Kale and Curly Kale
15:06 Egyptian Walking Onion, Green Onions, I’itoi multiplier onions
15:43 Lettuce and Arugula, Tree Collard
16:06 My favorite Bed: Komatsuna
16:57 Purple Mizua, Apollo Napa Cabbage
17:07 Green Onions & Sugar Snap Peas
17:27 Curly Parsley
17:38 My Favorite Veggies to Grow
18:12 How to eat your greens
20:05 What greens will you grow?
After watching this episode, you will be more familiar with some of the cold-tolerant vegetables that you should grow if you live in a climate that can lightly freeze in the fall and winter so you can continue to grow your organic food.
Referenced Episodes
Why every gardener needs to grow purple veggies
Don’t plant mint in a raised bed or this will happen
How to Eat Your Bolting Tops for the Most Nutrition
Grow these 3 Veggies in Spring to Eat First from Your Garden
How to Cook Greens in Instant Pot
Juicing Greens
Vacuum Blended Smoothie
Fresh Salad
Tree Collards – My favorite Perennial Vegetable
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22 Comments
Always love your gardens, and really want to find the tree collards! Also would love to know where you get your watering/drip hoses!
I once steamed a large whole
Spinach leaf, used to wrap a meat conche'. It worked
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
00:15 Growing Outdoors all Winter Zone 9a
00:59 Grow & Eat Leafy Greens!
01:31 Grow Microgreens & Sprouts indoors
01:53 When were these planted?
02:16 Long Raised Bed with Edible Flowers, Fava Beans and Sugar Snap Peas
03:12 Need to Harvest Malabar Spinach Seeds
03:38 Grass Jelly
03:53 Warmest Spot in my Garden
04:15 growing frost sensitive plants
04:55 Kumquat Tree
05:06 Bulls Blood Beets, Purple Mizuna, Napa Cabbage, Siberian Kale, Gotu Kola
05:58 Perennial Tree Collard Bed
06:07 Long Perennial Bed removed Fo-Ti
06:45 Purple Mustard Greens, Bok Choi and Tat Soi
07:39 Lolla Rossa Lettuce,Escarole and Nevada Lettuce, Radiccio
08:52 Hydroponically grown butter lettuce
9:08 Why I use round raised beds
09:29 Frost Damage Raised Bed
10:09 Rosemary Bed
10:26 Dinosaur Kale, Purple Brocolli, Red Russian Kale, Siberian Kale
11:03 Romanesco, Chomolla, White Russian Kale and Red Russian Kale
11:15 Mint, Leeks and Tree Collard
11:54 Walking Onions and Tree Collards
12:09 Trout Lettuce, Sierra Nevada Lettuce
12:35 Imperial Green Spinach
12:53 Bok Choi – Two Varieties
13:30 Cilantro Bed – Bolts First
13:55 Bloomsdale Spinach
14:00 How did the Bele Tree Do
14:20 Red Ball Brussel Sprouts
14:52 Red Russian Kale, Dinosaur Kale and Curly Kale
15:06 Egyptian Walking Onion, Green Onions, I'itoi multiplier onions
15:43 Lettuce and Arugula, Tree Collard
16:06 My favorite Bed: Komatsuna
16:57 Purple Mizua, Apollo Napa Cabbage
17:07 Green Onions & Sugar Snap Peas
17:27 Curly Parsley
17:38 My Favorite Veggies to Grow
18:12 How to eat your greens
20:05 What greens will you grow?
Referenced and Recommended Episodes
Why every gardener needs to grow purple veggies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbiZoXCBoOM
Don't plant mint in a raised bed or this will happen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHihmTLCC2k
How to Eat Your Bolting Tops for the Most Nutrition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvJwC_VezwY&t=439s
Grow these 3 Veggies in Spring to Eat First from Your Garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHs7TQSdK8w
How to Cook Greens in Instant Pot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxXGgx1IbhA
Juicing Greens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiocBPeXRvk&t=857s
Vacuum Blended Smoothie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfaCiknTeTA
Fresh Salad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbVfv9U1Ke0
Tree Collards – My favorite Perennial Vegetable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-ale1UP4M
Perfect! I'm in 9b!!!!
Ok so Installing a Hoop house with Bug Netting to Keep our chickens out this year! They wiped out 85% of our starts. Plans are to 5 gallon bucket farm since the soil is rock clay and rocks… did I mention rocks?
Our seed bank is growing as donations come into the Shire. Been mailing out mini seed banks to subs to get rid of the abundance to new growers. 5 gallon pails will concentrate limited supply of hand mixed garden soil. We use 100% rain water. It rains here weekly ( mostly) in TN 7a.
Hoping for leafy greens ( Lettuce and spinach, turnip ) after last frost date. Mixed herbs ( man does basil do well here! <- seed saved tons! Our Tiny home off grid runs on solar so i have to be careful with power.
Heat comes in quickly so nothing cold hardy longer than 60 days. Then the Normal abundance of warm weather crops Tomatoes, cukes, beans, summer squash, zucchini melons. Not doing onions or asparagus or any bi-annuals. No space.
Note on melons. Heavy feeders so we want to grow small varieties.
Once fall hits its all Brassicas more lettuce, spinach and sugar pumpkins and winter squashes.
3/4 acre plot with 1/4 growing space. People think that's small. Many have trouble managing a 4 by 8 ft raised beds.
We're still breaking ground and busy teaching solar and helping out the off grid community here.
We're blessed to have you and have learned so much over the years.
John is a Gem to the Garden community.
Many Many thanks and Blessings as you go forth to PR and tropical grow! Can't wait
Shire OUT! Good luck my friend!
P.S. If your not under contract plz contact Joe from Grow Big TV tell him Billy from the Shire sent you. ( We understand your busy )
He and Cortney are doing wonderful things for the garden community and has had some awesome Growers on their channel.
Come visit me john zone 9b
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Right now its perenial brassicas perenial chard fava dill some lettuces ckales cabbage radish lots of leaf mulched beds and weedy beds that need to be covered berry bushes and grapevines running amuch unpruned giant mulberry tlc yard young food forrest😊
lets gooo zone 9b
I never understood zones🐸🍺🔪🔥
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A loquat tree has been growing in my garden since 2013, has once again set fruit, zone 7 b for example, frost is usually critical for fruit, with luck and a mild winter there will be harvests.
I live in the So Cal high desert on the border of zone 8b/9a. This area experiences extreme summer heat and freezing winter temps in addition to bouts of fierce winds. Last year was my first year gardening here. I have a VERY small garden area and last summer the tomatoes and squash took up too much precious space, and although I love both, this year I am planning on planting more nutritionally dense leafy greens including longevity, Egyptian, galilee, malibar and perpetual spinach. I failed at moringa last year so am trying it again this year. John, you commented last summer that I was likely killing it with too much water, so I will be much more careful this time around. I will be planting miner's lettuce, purslane, several dandelion varieties, colorful chard (it is still producing even after days of freezing temps) and a plethora of edible and medicinal herbs and flowers, in addition to some heat tolerant lettuce like Black Seeded Simpson which did really well until the temps hit over 100F. I had good luck with Japanese eggplant, okra and basil, so will give them a spot of their own again. I am also planting a few more pepper varieties this year. I kind of went crazy with figs last year. They are still very small, and if they survive the winter, I am going to have to figure out where to put them! I grow microgreens most all year and have given them most of my kitchen counter by a sunny window (my cat, however, does not approve of this arrangement).
I have learned so much by watching your videos. Thanks to you, I would be willing to bet that I have the healthiest garden soil in my area! I look forward to the videos of your new home's garden and can't wait to see what wonderous things you accomplish!
I've been wanting egyption walking onioins for a while. Did you get yours locally or did you order them online?
What is the best place to buy starts and seeds for the Sierra Nevada lettuce ?
IM IN HENDERSON NV THANKS FOR THE VIDEOS.
hell yea bro love your videos…but for real wearing an organic bean stock thong that i made myself that i grew in my backyard makes your videos hit sooo much harder!!! thank you!
I think the dark green Bok Choy is called Tatsoi .
Looks great John where is your radishes
Thank you, this is so inspiring and informative! So much produce in a small yard! Wow!
Nice!
😊greetings, thank you so much for all your garden help.❤