Jeremy Jungels, director of horticulture at the Horticultural Society of New York, explains which vegetables are best suited to your backyard garden. 

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Wake Up With Cheddar

Here Are Some of the Best Vegetables to Plant in Your Garden 

Welcome back, everyone on this Thursday morning to wake up a cheddar or wake up a chat. Now I'm at a, the weather is getting nicer, which means people are spending more time outside looking for ways to make their backyards and garden bloom. You and I are definitely in that crowd. Our own. Chan Lanier is at Camba Gardens in New York City this morning to give us some pointers on what veggies to plant this season. It's a little chilly this morning to see this. Yeah, we're trying to get it all together and it is cold out here. It's like 45 degrees. You see, I kept my sweater on because it's that cold, but apparently cold weather could be good for plants. So I am with Jeremy Jungles. He is the horticulture director at the Horticultural Society of New York. But first of all, Jeremy is your real last name? Jungles. It really is. It really is. Ok. I think that's the perfect name for what you're doing out here with all these plants and you guys have an entire hard here, but I'm not sure a lot of people know what the Horticulture Society of New York does. So, could you break that down for us first? So, we're an older organization. We've been around since 19 oh two. Um, we've changed a lot in that time. Um, our mission now is to improve human life through plants. Um, and we do therapy you guys are doing here. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, you know, we run therapeutic horticultural workshops here, um, at the, as well as, you know, dozens of other locations throughout the city. Ok. So what do you have here? What are some of the things you guys have planted out here? So, we have the, so things here, we have, we just have some herbs set up here, some rosemary and some chives as well. Um, that we're gonna be planting in, in this bed here, do this a little bit later. But I see some, got some peppers over here. We've got some tomatoes in the background that have had a lot to grow in now. Yeah, they're wonderful. Yeah. Are there certain vegetables that are good to plant right about now. The month of May. So, I mean, we're kind of in the sweet spot of time right now where you can plant a lot, a lot of different things. We're well past the, you know, the danger of real cold weather. So we're getting tomatoes and peppers and all of those things out there that really like a little bit more heat. Ok. But I think the the nights are still cold enough that you could do things like heating lettuce and some of those things that really like those cooler temperatures as well. So, you really have to know what these plants like, like, for example, chives are these things that, like sun. I'm always trying to read these tags, like full sunlight for six hours is what these like for sure. So, you have to really know where you're gonna plant these things. Right. Absolutely. And, and almost all vegetables are gonna want a lot of sun for the day. They're gonna want, you know, six plus hours of sun. Um, you know, some things, some herbs you can get away with a little bit less. But, you know, most of these things that it really, you do need a, you do need a good amount of sun for them to do well and to really, you know, produce root and produce, we know sun is important. We know water is important. What about soil? How do you know the right type of soil because they have all these different types of soils at the hardware store. And I'm like, I don't know which one is supposed to be good. And what about like, rocks do we put rocks under the soil for filtration? Well, I mean, this really depends on where you're planting here. We're planting in these raised beds, right. So, you know, drainage is not an issue. We can certainly put rocks in the bottom, particularly if you know, but most importantly, you want to have access, like if you have a container that there's a hole in the bottom, that water can drain out because you don't want the container flooding, right? Sitting water. Ok. Yeah, you never want sitting water. Of course, soil is of course, incredibly important. You know, what we have here is, you know, we've really added a lot of compost to this garden. So, so a lot of organic matter, oh the dirt down underneath it. So you got dirt down here and then on top is the compost to help to keep the moisture in. Is that what that's for? So the compost does a lot of things. It does help with soil retention by adding organic matter. Um It brings in nutrients that are, you know, needed for to get rigorous plant growth and a number of other things. Ok. I'm learning a lot out here because I can kill a plant like nobody at his business. So when we come back out here, live in about 30 minutes, we're gonna actually put these plants in the ground. I don't even know how to get them out. We're gonna, he's gonna teach us, we're gonna figure out how to actually plant these plants. So you could do it at your house too. And hey, you'll have your own rosemary chives and all kinds of vegetables at your home. So come back out here in about 30 minutes. We got, we got tips for you. Don't worry, he's gonna be burning all of this. If he can't get that out of the container, he's got a lot of work to have his friend will help. Thank you so much.