Growing Your Pickling Gitigaan
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My name is Joe Van Olstein, I'm from the Tras Bay bands, do Indians and I'm an Klan. I'm also the chairperson for Zb Mizo, our market side, but then we also have our traditional side, which is our inogen get gins, our three sisters garden. We do grow a lot of heritage seeds there we grow Dale Pole beans, which are native to our area here, Red Lake Flint corn. We also grow Bear Island Flint corn. Get cosmin squash and some other different types of squashes as well. Then we grow, like I said, everything from rug to Zucchini. This is our 30 by 75 foot greenhouse. That's where all those starts will be started. These will be some of the ones that will be in the kits, the join right here. Parsley over here, onions, garlic. We have some tomatoes. More tomatoes, Right? Tomatoes. I'm just kidding. Kids do all over again. Thank you for coming out here and wish thank you much. Hi, I'm Nate Walton. I'm Consumer Horticulture Educator from Michigan State University. And I'm going to talk to you here today a little bit about the pickling garden plants. The pickling garden is going to have your cucumbers, some onions, and some all three of those are going to combine at the end of the season to help you make some delicious dill pickles. I want to make sure that those plants well for you in the garden and that you have a good harvest from them. Some things that might be helpful to think about is that these plants can be divided into two categories. One would be warm season and cool season. The reason that can be helpful is because when you're getting ready to put these out in the garden, the temperatures outside and the soil might be a little bit on the cooler side, that's great for our cool season plants like the onions and l you want to get them on the ground right away, they're going to thrive under those conditions. The onions even can tolerate a little bit of frost. The cucumbers though, are more of a warm season plant. They like the warmer soil conditions. They'll do fine. We started them in the greenhouse, so you've got a plant that's already got a jump start on the season. It's just going to do a lot better later on in the season. The other important things to think about is when you go to transplant some of these plants, the dill and the cucumbers in particular don't like to be transplanted. They just tend to prefer to not have the root system disturbed with the Ll. They have a tap root that they'll send down right away. Dill is a great plant to start from seed. If you can do it that way too, you can start early in the season and then you'll have happy dill plants with the cucumbers. You can also start those from seed. However, it's fine to use transplants and you can just be a little gentler with those plants with the ill in the cucumbers. When you go to transplant them, be careful not to damage the root system too much. If you can grow them in like a compostable pot, that's a pot that's not made out of plastic. It's more of a natural fiber material. You can just plant that directly into the ground. That's a great way to do it too. But in the event that you have them in a plastic pot, you'll just need to gently take them out of that pot and place them in the ground. The cucumbers, because they don't like to be transplanted, are going to stall out a little bit. They're growing is going to slow down. Going to see a lot of new growth right after you transplant them. Just give them a little time, make sure they're getting enough water. And then a few weeks later, you'll notice that they're recovering from that transplant stress and they'll start to put out some new growth and they'll be just fine. Don't worry about that. If they tend to hesitate a little bit and growth right after transplanting, thinking about the whole season as it progresses, the Ll is going to be more of a cooler season plant and they're going to tend to produce flowers once the temperatures get warmer. Great thing to do with the dill is to stagger your planting of it so that as your pickles are coming into maturity and ready to harvest, to put in that pickle jar, always have some leaves or seed heads to put into your pickle jar. You can just, every few weeks, plant a new set of plants and that will make sure that you have dill for the whole season. Thanks for watching. I hope you have a great season of growing and enjoy those pickles.