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It's amazing how far everything is. I feel like I went to bed, and woke up to the full on growing season this week.
It looks like you re-did the greenhouses at the plot on the last part of this video. I've seen the video you made there a while back (DIY greenhouse) but wondering if you made a new one on the redesign or if your planning on it?
yeah! keep rocking curtis!
When a bed is done like the spinach how do handle the crop residue ? A flail mower like the Queen creek AZ guy ?
Красавчик!
Can you talk about the romaine recalls and such, and what those famers are doing wrong?
I've been watching your channel for a long time. Always Excellent Content! I am curious to learn what methods or programs do you use to forecast when to start various crops? Is it sales driven, weather driven, crop driven or combinations thereof. How do you decide what and when? Is it pure human brain power to build out the seeding schedule? If so, would it be useful to have a program which can predict when to plant? – Rj Beyond Harvest Veganistas a fb group
I wouldn't toss the nutrient rich runoff water from the basil wall. That stuff is liquid gold. The hard part of collecting it is complete. The liquid gold could be dumped on top of the compost pile. Or, let it drip into a bucket and build a passive compost tea. Aerobic or anaerobic compost tea both work equally as well.
I LOVE the wall idea!
Aloha Curtis!
I am curious on your spacing that you seed arugula or mustards in a bed with the jang seeder? Do you do .5inch spacing in the roller with 9 rows per 30 inch bed? Or more or less? Trying to figure out what works best for my farm for baby greens for the restaurants as the larger spacing seems to be yielding larger leaves that are not the best for salad mixes. Mahalo from Maui!
You have been a huge influence on the structure of my farm and been a huge huge help. If you ever make it out here to Maui, Hawaii, please do contact me, would love to link up.
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Michael Marchand
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On the Arugula I noticed the black plastic mulch so is that laid just to to the edges or how do you seed it..direct or other? Thanks man!
You remind me of Chris sabat
Nice basil wall matching t-shirt, was that on purpose? :p
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Tu attends quoi pour aller planter des plantes en Afrique ou en Amérique du Sud … Le Canada froid et les déserts chaud du proche-orient sont des terre veulent la mort de l'homme, trop froid ou trop chaud sur le plan climatique … Vas au soleil l'ami, la vie y est plus douce …
Do you have any trouble with nutrient leaching out of the upper plants in the basil wall? I'm thinking the water draining through the top constantly will leach nutrient out and down to the bottom plants. Very interesting space saving idea, hope it works out. Great videos.
Tip: Watch your intro/exit audio volumes. They don't need to be cranked. Turn them down some. 🙂
So the county building and zoning department told me I'm not allowed to farm commercially on residential land in my county. Is there some loophole in this that I'm not aware of?
Quick question; ok with a quick one word answer.
If you could would you grow everything you grow under a green house or similar cover?
Basil wall is sweet!
Can you provide more info on how the basil wall works? What are the plants sitting inside?
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I’m seeing enough room for a chicken coop where the old growing area was. We got 4 grown chickens this winter with a coop for next to nothing and have 3-4 eggs a day.
QUESTIONS:
+What concerns do you have about the season to come, if it hits 26.3c in the lower mainland, mid-April 2018?
+ have you increased your shade screening (you mention 50% shade cloth — is this up from years previous?)
+ repurposing water (drip irrigation) from Basil wall might be an idea – is there any concern for recycling/filtration for 1/2 water reuse?
Hope you have a great start! Greetings from Montreal, perhaps see you in Ottawa. (@newcolonyfarm)
Do you have a strategy for hand seating your lettuce? Is it just a random spread? How do you keep them so tight with hands spreading
A little off topic for this video but……Curtis, I have watched every video you have made but I haven't seen you talk in depth about how you water your microgreens. I've seen you water them many times but you haven't spent much time explaining how you water crops like broccoli or radish or the microgreens that are very delicate. These crops tend to hold on to the water when they are watered overhead. I have tried stopping the overhead watering 1-2 days before they are harvested to give the leaves time to dry off but they don't last more than a day without watering and start to wilt. I have resorted to bottom watering them but this is time consuming and my setup only allows me one tray at a time. Love the videos. keep up the great work you are doing.
do you have problems with crops being compromised because of overheating in your high tunnels? you mentioned the one tunnel was around 40-45 celsius.
I'm trying to start something very similar to yours here in Central Oregon. Thank you for all your information it's being a business owner I think it's hardest for me and having the mental fortitude to get through it but thank you
Thanks for sharing! Nice to see your Vlogs again! Your caterpillar tunnels look way more effective compared to low tunnels.
Great job Curtis on the Basil wall.. cool.☺