Welcome to Daddy Pete’s Plant Pleaser, where our mission is to help you grow…one plant, one garden, one lawn at a time.

As pioneer men and women cultivating your own lawns and gardens to grow your own fruits and vegetables, we offer recipes to help you bring your harvest from your garden…to your kitchen…to your dinner table.

So let your inner farm out…jump into our website and indulge in our knowledge. Come discover farming through the eyes of Daddy Pete’s. Timeless products…unparalleled quality…our goal is to become more and more creative, so that our creativity equals your increase.

VEGETABLE SEEDS TO START:

Broccoli
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Collard Greens
Kale
Mustard Greens
Turnip Greens

2026 has arrived and we have a list of gardening tips for you to start working on during the month of January! Here is our January to-do list.

Start seeds indoors on broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, collard greens, kale, mustard greens, and turnip greens so they will be ready for early February transplants. Daddy Pete’s Sea n’ Farm is the best mix for starting these seeds.
Freshen your raised beds with Daddy Pete’s Raised Bed Mix or Daddy Pete’s Lawn & Garden Soil; and you can amend your existing soils with Daddy Pete’s Composted Cow Manure or Daddy Pete’s Mushroom Compost.
Plant your bare root trees and shrubs with 50% of Daddy Pete’s Planting Mix mixed with 50% of the dirt removed from the hole. Also, mulch those new plantings with Daddy Pete’s Hardwood Mulch or Daddy Pete’s Pine Bark Mulch.
Add Daddy Pete’s Kickin’ Chickin to your compost bin to keep all of the beneficial microbes working during these colder, winter months.
Buy your seeds this month for early spring planting. Try buying heirloom seeds and then practice saving some seeds from your 2026 harvest for 2027.
Prune only trees and shrubs that have not set buds for early spring bloom such as Crepe Myrtles.
Clean and service your garden tools, and as needed, replace with new ones from your local garden center or hardware store.
Don’t forget your furry friends during the winter months! Daddy Pete’s Sawdust is an excellent, dry bedding for dogs, horses, goats, and other livestock animals.

Don’t forget to visit our website at www.daddypetes.com to submit your questions for our Daddy Pete Podcast with Melvin York. You can listen to our podcasts by clicking this link: https://gardeningwithdaddypete.podbean.com/.

RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS FOR JANUARY…

JANUARY RECIPES

Grilled Steak Bowl with Zucchini Sauce

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Cheesy Cauliflower Bake

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Comforting Smothered Cabbage Recipe

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Bacon Collard Greens and Cabbage

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*mollyshomeguide.com*

Garlic Parmesan Creamed Kale

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Mustard Green Salad

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Rustic Turnip Green Soup with Rice and Root Vegetables

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Welcome to Daddy Pete’s Plant Pleaser, where our mission is to help you grow…one plant, one garden, one lawn at a time.

Pictured above is the Smith farmhouse decorated for Christmas.

FRUITS

Apples
Cranberries
Figs
Grapes
Pears
Persimmons

HERBS

Basil
Chives
Rosemary
Thyme

VEGETABLES

Bell Peppers
Brussels Sprouts
Broccoli
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Garlic
Green Beans
Kale
Lettuce
Onions
Potatoes
Spinach
Sweet Potatoes
Tomatoes

NUTS

Pecans

December is in full force, and Christmas is just around the corner! For our December blog, Daddy Pete’s would like to help with your Christmas meals by sharing some recipes that will allow you to use some of the items you planted and harvested during the year. And don’t forget our sweet treat recipes for Christmas Eve!

Christmas Eve Day is a great time to bake some treats for your family or for Santa, so we have included a recipe for Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookies and for Peppermint Swirl Fudge. For watching football games and Christmas parades, we have some recipes that make great snacks: Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeno Poppers; a Christmas Tree Veggie Platter Appetizer Recipe; a Cranberry Meatballs Appetizers Recipe; and a Crispy Potato Skins Appetizer Recipe. And if it snows where you live, we have a recipe for Snow Ice Cream to enjoy as you cozy up by the fire!

For Christmas breakfast, we have the following choices: Easy Breakfast Casserole with Vegetables and Fall and Winter Baked Fruit. Then for a mid-day appetizer, we have a Christmas Snowman Cheese Board: A Festive Holiday Appetizer; for a salad we have an Apple Arugula Salad with Maple Pecans; and for a soup we have a Winter Minestrone Soup. For your main Christmas Day meal, Beef Tenderloin Roast (Herbed Garlic Butter); Baked Cranberry Chicken with Rosemary; Balsamic Glazed Brussels Sprouts; Best-Ever Green Bean Casserole; Maple Mustard Roasted Carrots; Creamy Scalloped Potatoes; and for your bread, a Cheesy Christmas Treat Bread and/or a Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Easy Dinner Rolls Recipe. For dessert we have recipes for a Christmas Eve Cinnamon-Vanilla Custard Pie-Creamy Holiday Dessert Magic and a Gingerbread Cake. We hope these recipes help add a little joy to your time with family and friends!

Don’t forget your outdoor gardening projects for December. It is still a great month to plant fruit bushes and fruit trees (such as apples, blackberries, blueberries, figs, nectarines, peaches, pears, persimmons, plums, & strawberries); and to plant or prune deciduous trees and shrubs and border evergreen trees and shrubs. The only exceptions for pruning are trees or shrubs that have already set their buds for spring—like azaleas or camellias. And remember when pruning, never take more than 30% of the tree or shrub. For planting, Daddy Pete’s Planting Mix is an excellent growing medium for all of these items.

December is also a good time to freshen the soil in your existing raised beds or to install new raised beds. If you need to amend your existing soil for planting, we recommend using Daddy Pete’s Composted Cow Manure, Daddy Pete’s Kickin’ Chickin, Daddy Pete’s Lawn & Garden Soil, Daddy Pete’s Mushroom Compost, or Daddy Pete’s Planting Mix. If you are installing a new raised bed, Daddy Pete’s Raised Bed Mix is a great mix to use. Remember to put leaves in your compost bin, and to mulch existing plants for the cold weather ahead. And if you are out of ideas for Christmas presents, consider buying gardening supplies for your friends who garden or would like to garden next year!

Whether it’s questions about our products or general gardening questions, don’t forget to visit our website at www.daddypetes.com to submit your questions for our Daddy Pete Podcast with Melvin York. For the month of December, we have several podcasts at the link below.

https://gardeningwithdaddypete.podbean.com/

Always remember that Daddy Pete’s Sawdust is an excellent, dry bedding for dogs, horses, goats, and other livestock animals.

May you all be blessed with a very, Merry Christmas!