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The Ripe Tomato Farms is a forward-thinking micro-farm located on beautiful South Vancouver Island. It is a small-plot intensive farm, run by one guy, Jeff. He lives and breathes gardening and personal food production. Join him and explore the many new and progressive methods of highly-productive organic farming on a small scale and be a part of the paradigm shift in how we think about food, and where it comes from.
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Zucchinis Are Best Grown Alone. I love companion planting and interspecies crop rotating, don’t get me wrong. But not all plants play well with others and some are just an outright terrible choice for it. Today, I got 3 reasons why you should never companion plant Zucchinis. Even though they are one of my favorite…
Growing Potatoes Indoors? Can it be done? Yes, it most certainly can. Should we though? Well, that’s what we aim to find out today in Part 3, the final video in our series of How To Grow Potatoes Indoors. This is a 3-part video series where we take regular grocery store potatoes, wash and chit…
Nothing Beats An Epic Harvest. It feels good to know all that hard work finally paid off and we have reaped the rewards. But the work isn’t over. Our soils need our help to recover. For crops like tomatoes and peppers and even peas where we simply pick the fruit leisurely and cut the plants…
It Is Finally Time To Harvest Your Garlic. After 9 months or more of building (and bulbing!) up, the wait is over at last and Garlic harvest time is upon us! As a low-maintenance crop, the journey hasn’t taken a lot of effort, but we have played our part. At planting, we ensured the proper…
Why Do Plants Bolt? What Exactly IS Bolting? And Is Bolting Bad? These are all questions that we get this time of year as the temperatures rise, moisture levels drop, and our crops start to get a little bit older. Even though this is a Quickie, today we’re jam-packed with enough information to answer all…
Garlic Harvest Time Is Finally Upon Us! Its been a long wait, so what better than a quick video showing us 3 hot tips how Garlic is harvested. These 3 tricks are a great refresher if its been a while for you, and if this is your first year growing Garlic, then you’ll definitely want…
Peas Are Literally The Perfect Beginner Crop. Just starting out with your gardening journey this year? Maybe you’ve tried a few things and they didn’t take or the harvests were poor? Well, even if you have little space or acres of land or just a few raised beds, Peas are the crop for you! In…
Summer Is In Full Swing! I love this time of year because the garden is just massive and the harvests have already started. Early crops are giving bounty daily and the larger fruiting ones are well on their way. To help you guys along your way, here’s episodes 71 to 80 of Volume 8 of…
Heat Waves Are No Joke. Nothing takes down a plant faster than heat and drought. With climate throwing us a curveball every year, on top of all the other things that make gardening challenging, we need help….we need a reprieve! In today’s video, I’ve got 8 strategies to help your garden and your plants this…
Make Your Own Safe And Natural Insect Spray! Pesky aphids and those dreaded whiteflies don’t stand a chance! This is the time of year when insect outbreaks rear their ugly heads and start to invade our gardens. We’ve put way too much time and effort and sometimes money into growing our crops up to this…
Everyone Loves A Bonus! Two for the price of one…..buy one, get one free….nothing like getting a great deal and us gardeners are the best at sniffing them out! But in our world, even better than saving money, is double harvesting our favorite crops! And I don’t mean multi-harvesting like when you cut fresh herbs…
Everyone Wants To Be More Self Sufficient. One of the best ways to do that is to grow your own food. But within our commonly cultivated food crops, there are specific plants that rise above the others in terms of self propagation. In today’s video, we’ll look at the top 5 crops to grow this…
Mulching Makes All The Difference! In our backyard gardens, just like in nature, bare and exposed soils are just no good. Walk through a forest or any natural greenscape and you’ll won’t see the naked dirt. Nature has designed seasonal systems and processes to eliminate exposed soils for protection and to keep the plant-soil interaction…
Companion Planting, Should We Plant Our Crops This Way? Which ones? What plants go together? What plants do we avoid? So many questions. Honestly though, other than a few hard rules and plants to avoid combining together, Companion Planting is not hard at all. You just need to get started. And in today’s video we…
Composting Shouldn’t Be A Mystery. It definitely has its tricks and nuances, but the science is pretty basic when you work it out and understand the components at play. That said, no one became a master composter overnight! In today’s video, I take the 6 most asked questions on composting that I get in the…
Baking Soda Has Many Uses…..how about as a pesticide? Or maybe a fungicide? Today, let’s look at how to use Baking Soda, or Sodium Bicarbonate, in the garden for an effective treatment against aphids, whiteflies, thrips, caterpillars, spider mites as well as prevention of fungal outbreaks such as powdery mildew. There are a few caveats…
Thyme Cuttings Made Easy! As a member of the Mint family, Thyme is very easy to grow from the cuttings of adult plants, and possible even grocery store stems if they are fresh enough! It is not hard at all and doesn’t require any tools or equipment. In this video, I’ll show you how to…
Any Garden Can Be Profitable! With the right crops, the right strategies, and the right market, no matter the size of your farm or garden, you can turn a profit. Today, I’ve partnered up with Local Line (www.localline.ca) to show you 4 ways to grow your backyard garden or hobby farm into a thriving, viable…
Growing Potatoes Indoors. Why not? The long-awaited Part 2 of the 3-part series where we take regular grocery store potatoes, sprout them, and plant them under grow lights indoors. We’re doing all that in this episode, PLUS we are building the best indoor, customizable potato growing bed that has ever existed, LOL! Join in on…
Want to start gardening and growing your own food, but you don’t know where to start? Well, you’ve found the right video. Or should I say, series of videos. In this 4-part video series, we’ll cover all the basics from seeds to harvests, and tools to terminology. Gardening can be daunting if you are just…
Don’t Throw Away Those Old Seeds! Actually, don’t use them either… Old seeds, unknown or untrusted seeds, or just plain crops that aren’t working out. How can we know if we are the problem, or if the seeds are the problem? Simple. Do a Seed Viability Test! A quick paper towel test under optimal conditions…
Regrow Store-Bought Green Onions For Free! If you ever wanted unlimited Green Onions, then look no further. Also known as scallions or spring onions, these members of the Allium family are quite literally the easiest crop to grow for new gardeners. Cut the root ends off, stick them in a shallow glass of water, and…
We made it guys! The final video in the series Growing Your First Garden. We’ve covered a LOT up to this point and it doesn’t stop now! In the finale we cover the three H’s of gardening: Happy, Harvesting, and Healthy. Let’s put all that knowledge we’ve built to date to work and see what…
Its Time To Plant! Today, we’re going to cover all the nuances of container gardening, direct seeding, seed starting, and transplanting. We are 3/4 of the way through the series and the excitement to get that first crop going has never been higher! With a new year brings a new enthusiasm for growing our own…
Want To Start A Garden? You’ve found the right video series! In Part 2 of “Growing Your First Garden”, we’ll look at the 3 S’s of gardening: Soil, Seeds, and Spacing. As we advance through the series, you’ll become more comfortable with common gardening concepts and arm yourself with the tools necessary to growing your…
Want to start gardening and growing your own food, but you don’t know where to start? Well, you’ve found the right video. Or should I say, series of videos. In this 4-part video series, we’ll cover all the basics from seeds to harvests, and tools to terminology. Gardening can be daunting if you are just…
Snow Is Good For Your Garden! While it may seem like a freezing cold setback for your plants, a thick, fluffy blanket of snow is actually the opposite. In temperate regions, this layer of the winter white stuff is a welcome sight for veteran gardeners. In this video, I’ll show you 5 reasons why snow…
