We went on a road trip to support a small family owned greenhouse and nursery that even in the face of hardship and adversity they were innovative and found a way to reach gardeners.
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We were so happy here in Florida to see that all the nurseries, garden centers, and home improvement stores were open as long as everyone stayed 6 ft from each other. No seed ban either. Our county has a high number of older people and we still have less than 100 cases and less than 15 deaths (nursing home patients). Our local nursery was and still is so busy they actually need to hire more help!
Yes totally agree support your local businesses , but stop depending on internet processes . Wakeup guy your privileges will soon evaporate on the net and any other device that depends on the net. If you don't see how you have no control and will be dictated to, you never will.
This has hurt everyone. I’m in Washington, luckily we have not had our hardware stores and garden centers shut down. I buy most if my stuff in seed, but I always buy my soil, compost, prep locally. I always need some last minute starts abd I ge those locally from greenhouses. We’re a blue state. I’m not sure why Michigan is doing this with gardening specifically.
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How can I grow sweet potatoes in a container…please help
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Tell me I'm not crazy! I have container gardens and I planted a bunch of tomatoes and jalapeños and strawberries. With the recent cold snap at night (temps are dipping below 40 and continues through to the next week) I've been dragging in my 5 gal and huge bins into the house at night and dragging outside around noon when temps are 50 and up.
Oh HI! I was just at Hessel's last weekend supporting them as a small business. Ive always had a garden at my parents property in Armada, but getting my first garden set here in Shelby Twp. Thanks for supporting local – we need it in Michigan now more than ever! And thank you for your vids, currently watching the Diatomaceous Earth vid 🙂
I do not agree with the Governor's decision to close greenhouses (and a lot of other things). She obviously is not ai gardener or being advised by anyone that is. Luckily I had started my seeds inside and have plenty of seeds for my garden. I do agree that adapting to new technology is a very good thing and, hopefully, will help some of these smaller businesses survive not just now but in the future as well.
Hi Luke! How can I get your seed packets sticky again so they can close properly?
Here in Virginia, we are able to visit and purchase from garden centers with only keeping the social distance rule. Yes the vegetable plant sales have been very strong here as well; along with soil, compost, containers and raised beds. My wife and I increased our garden this season to include container gardens and raised containers. We have already begun to harvest out lettuce.
Very informative video, thank you!
I know a guy, who knows a guy who’s sister’s neighbor can get you some black market tomato starts. Really good stuff man.
I hope you all in Michigan realize you should not only not re-elect that heart and brain dead governor you elected but you should make her resign. Do not fall for a pretty face that has no decent real human behind it!
I am struggling in utah to find plants. I am trying a patio garden and my seeds from earlier didn't make it. Also any ideas for a struggling orange tree? 6 years old and no flower.
California here! Just found your channel. Totally new to gardening. Gardening up a storm now!!
A week late in watching this, but the same thing here in NM. Local greenhouses were required to be closed but the big boxes remained open. Even with the EO explicitly stating ag supply would remain open, several rural ag supply stores found themselves served with an order to close, forcing ranchers and producers to travel even further to get items from big box stores.
That insane NutHouse Governor you Michigan people have should be tarred & feathered
Hello my friend! I just got into gardening and I love it. Your videos are fantastic. What are your thoughts on Geoengineering affecting crops? They are spraying the sky with aluminum to reduce sunlight. Scientists just tested the aerosol trails in our skies and found metal oxides damaging to human health.
Here is the video my friend. Please let me know your thoughts.
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/the-dimming-film-preview/
Good for you. I have done the same.
This pandemic has really set my mind to gardening for food, for two reasons: one, I am home all the time, so I finally have the time to devote to a garden, and two, I'm not sure if we'll be facing food shortages, so at least I'll have some fresh food (hopefully!). I live in Toronto, so I'll be planting my seedlings outside in early June, but I've got some arugula and radishes on their way. And yeah, the online ordering is key! I ordered some seedlings (strawberry, bell peppers, and a bunch of herbs) from a greenhouse just outside the city, and I am sooo glad they had that service. I don't drive so I wouldn't even be able to do a curbside pick up (that's really common in Toronto, very few of us have cars because of traffic). Hoping that my balcony container gardening gives us a bit of harvest this year!
While I'm an avid gardener myself and fully support small business, I think that there is an argument to be made about how yes, greenhouses can give you plants for your food supply, but the yield isn't until mid-summer to fall. I live in Michigan also and the greenhouse orders were a few weeks and people can now go buy their plants. It was deemed non essential because it wasnt essential for a few week period. As someone whose family has been greatly affected by this virus it is hard for me to see people diminish efforts to slow the spread in the stead of profit. I thought about unsubscribing for a moment. I then realised that maybe people who believe the shutting down orders were unnecessary maybe haven't had family members pass from this yet and all they see is their livelihoods being taken away. I sympathize with this sentiment but I also implore people to be more understanding of how this pandemic can cause great harm and it is not a common flu.
In supporting local, do you care where the plants are organic?
Greenhouse sales are booming here in Canada
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I was very concerned by your comments. As a family of medical professionals and experienced in understanding the way a virus works and how to combat it. As we discover more each week about it's life cycle and the effects we know this is not over and we will all experience it again in the very near future. I feel your comments were understandable about your industry I also have had to stay home, but very misguided about the danger to our populous. The Governor has stood strong which is her job to protect all the people even from themselves. She has faced armed protestors and had threats to herself and family. That is just unacceptable and shows how much this state needed a lock down. I and my husband have been in Medicine for over 40 years and this is not not our first rodeo with new epidemics, but it is the first time it was so horribly handled in Washington. If you want to blame someone go to the source who caused thousands of people that could have been saved from a painful and rapid death As of this posting over 50k have died in the US. Until there are no deaths at all and no new cases this has not ended. Beware, please be safe and wear a mask. If you need one I will send it to you has I have been making them.
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Happily, in California, garden centers were considered essential because they sell food/plants that grow food. I've been gardening all through COVID and it's been a real meditation and distraction for me. I love your videos, Luke and appreciate your information. Would you do a blueberry growing guide? My blueberry bush isn't flowering and I don't know why. Thanks! Stay healthy and safe.
i am all about people growing their own food. i am compelled to bring to light the effect greenhouse coverings are causing. studies are showing fruits and vegetables grown in greenhouses have 4 to 5 fold LESS flavonols than those grown outside, the way God intended it to be. i quote from the study "Consequently, growing plants in greenhouses, which blocks ultraviolet light, reduces the flavonol content in plants. Vegetables grown outdoors contained four- to five-fold more flavonols than those cultivated in greenhouses." – cannot post link to study, so search this on google – 'systematic study of the content of phytochemicals in fresh and fresh-cut vegetables'. flavonols act as ANTICANCER factors. so is there a correlation that skin cancers are going up as we grow more and more food in greenhouses? or is this just coincidence? IF the answer to eliminating cancer in society was to grow more of this potent food, what would happen to all the jobs in the cancer industry? i ask anyone reading this, which is more important: eliminating cancer which might eliminate millions of jobs, or keeping those millions of jobs?