Category: The Ripe Tomato Farms
Description:
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.
Location: Canada
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VIDEO: DIY Natural and Safe Insecticide Spray
Soap Is Safe! Well, natural, castile, free-of-perfumes and dyes soap is anyways. By far the easiest and safest way to control the big 4 indoor pests (Aphids, Fungus Gnats, Spider Mites, and Whiteflies) is to use an insecticidal soap spray. And fortunately, making your own at home is not only inexpensive, but its extremely easy!…
VIDEO: Direct Seeding Vs Starter Plants – A Beginner’s Guide On How To Plant Your First Garden
Planting A Garden For The First Time Can Be Confusing. One of the more debated topics, even among seasoned gardeners, is whether to Direct Seed your crops, or use Starter Plants. As if planning out your garden in 2021 wasn’t hard enough! I firmly believe that both planting methods have their place, and in this…
VIDEO: Seeding Heat Mats Explained For Beginners – Plus Vivosun Heat Mat Review
Seedling Heat Mats Are An Invaluable Tool For Early Germination And Beyond! As we increasingly want to get a head start on the new spring growing season, our thoughts turn to sprouting a lot of our warm weather crops (tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, zucchinis, etc) early indoors to max out our growing window. The #1…
VIDEO: How To Prune Blackberry Bushes – A Guide To Better Yields!
Did You Know That Blackberry Bushes Are Pruned Twice A Year? Indeed they are, once at the end of fruiting as you enter fall, and again at the end of winter right before spring bud burst. Fall pruning involves removing all the spent floricanes, the branches that produced fruit that summer. Then again in the…
VIDEO: How To Grow Wheatgrass – A Complete Guide
Growing Wheatgrass Is Super Easy! Don’t be frightened off by the high prices of processed Wheatgrass juices and powders. You can grow an epic crop of Wheatgrass right in your own home, for pennies, in as little as 10 days. There are 4 steps to getting this right, making it less than 2 weeks until…
VIDEO: How To Make Your Own Seed Soil Mix
Make Your Own Seeding Soil Mix! Potting soils can get expensive, but they pale in comparison to what Seeding Soils cost. There’s nothing special about Seeding mixes in particular, but the qualities that make a good seeding soil are necessary to really maximize your germination and early growth results. Yes, seeds will sprout in just…
VIDEO: How To Start Vegetable Seeds – The Definitive Guide For Beginners
Start Your Vegetable Seeds Indoor Early To Get A Jump Start On Spring! In temperate climates, the growing season is often just not long enough to get the most out of your tomato, peppers, cucumber, or other warm weather crops. For the plants to flower, fruit, and produce for you, they need a specific amount…
VIDEO: How To Prune Grape Vines – Easy Cane Method
Prune Your Grape Vines In The Winter! As impressive as Grape plants are in full summer foliage, they become neglected and forgotten in the dormant months. Understandably, as the vines themselves become barren sticks giving no indication of their summer awesomeness! But winter is right when you should be giving your Grape vines the most…
VIDEO: Seed Starting Basics – What You Need To Get Started
Starting Your Favorite Vegetables Early Indoors Is Fun and Easy! Not only that, it is often necessary. Certain summer crops need the extra time to grow, especially if you live in a temperate region with an extended winter. Join me today as I show you the basic tools and accessories that you’re going to need…
VIDEO: Alfalfa Pellets As Fertilizer For Your Garden
Alfalfa Is The Ultimate Organic Slow Release Fertilizer! Alfalfa Pellets and Alfalfa Meal are fantastic additions to your soil amendment schedule for several reasons. An excellent source of slow-release Nitrogen, Alfalfa Pellets can boost your plant’s photosynthetic capacity and send your yields to the next level, both for indoor growing and outdoors. In this video…
VIDEO: How To Make Bone Meal
Make Your Own Bone Meal! Bone Meal is one of the most popular soil amendments for vegetable and flower gardeners around the world. Use as a rich source of Phosphorus as well as Calcium, Bone Meal as a slow-release organic amendment is very effective in getting the most out of your plants. While readily available…
VIDEO: How To Get Rid Of Indoor Aphids – 4 Natural Ways
Aphids Are The Worst! And indoors, they are twice as deadly! Left unchecked, an Aphid outbreak will quickly decimate and ruin your indoor plants, crops, and vegetables. Often, when we bring plants indoors over the winter, Aphids hitch a ride inside. Without their natural predators and weather pressures, their populations explode! Fortunately, there are safe,…
VIDEO: Mulching Garlic – 4 Reasons Why You Should
Don’t Mess With Your Garlic, Mulch It! For best results of this unique over wintering crop, it should be mulched. Mulching does many things for many different plants and crops, but even more so for Garlic. Because Garlic is actually grown over winter, unlike most crops, mulching of it becomes quite necessary. In fact, I’ll…
VIDEO: Seaweed Fertilizer – 4 Easy Ways To Amend Your Garden With Seaweed
Seaweed Makes Amazing Fertilizer! Seaweed has been used for centuries as a garden amendment or mulch to supercharge soils and boost crop potential. With over 60 trace minerals and elements as well as beneficial amino acids and plant growth hormones, Seaweed extract is like no other soil additive you’ve used. In this video I will…
VIDEO: Top 10 Gift Ideas For Gardeners
Top 10 Gift Ideas For Your Favorite Gardener. Yes, we are notoriously hard to buy for, because in our minds, when we’re in our backyards, we already have everything we could possibly want! Good for us, not so good to shop for! There are great gift ideas however, if you can think like a gardener!…
VIDEO: How To Grow Cilantro (Coriander) Indoors – The Definitive Guide
Cilantro, Or Coriander, Grows Amazing Indoors! In fact, I don’t even grow it outside anymore because of the speed of growth and quality of harvests when growing indoors! You can grow the best indoor Cilantro as well! In this video, I show you from start to harvest how to grow your own Cilantro indoors, whether…
VIDEO: Ash For Your Garden – 4 Ways To Apply It Properly
Wood Ash As A Fertilizer! Ash, or Potash, is comprised mostly of Calcium Carbonate and Potassium. It is a highly soluble source of two valuable macronutrients that when used sparingly and carefully, can be very very effective in your garden. In this video, I explain what Wood Ash/Potash actually is, what it is made up…
VIDEO: Banana Peel Fertilizer – 3 Ways To Use Banana Skins In Your Garden!
Banana Peels For Our Garden? Yes, you better believe it. Bananas are not just good for us, their peels contain valuable nutrients, Potassium in particular, that can be extracted and used in our garden as a water soluble, organic source of nourishment. In this video, I show you 3 easy ways to prepare and use…
VIDEO: Speed Up Your Compost Pile – 5 Easy Ways
Faster Compost, Better Results! Want to learn how to get better Compost, faster and easier? Compost piles can often slow down, become inefficient, and not perform like we want them to. Has your pile stopped producing that Black Gold we covet so much? Are you running out of room because your organic waste isn’t decomposing…
VIDEO: How To Grow Garlic In Warm Climates And Tropical Regions
Growing Garlic In Warmer Climates Or Tropical Areas Is Possible! Not only is it possible, but growing Garlic in warmer areas of the world is actually quite easy. In this video, I’ll show you the steps you need to take to grow your own epic organic Garlic, right in your garden this year! Garlic is…
VIDEO: 6 Benefits Of Hydrogen Peroxide On Plants And In Your Garden
Hydrogen Peroxide And Plants? Yes, H2O2 has many benefits in your garden ranging from a disinfectant for garden tools and pots and work areas, to an anti-fungal and pest control powerhouse spray. Its uses are many, which is why Hydrogen Peroxide should be in any gardener’s tool belt! In this video we’ll cover what exactly…
VIDEO: Composting Tutorial – Guide To A Better Compost
Composting Does Not Have To Be Hard. In fact, your Compost does most of the work on its own! However, as with anything new, it can be hard to visualize, hard to get started, and hard to know if you’re on the right track. In this video, I explain what Compost is, how it is…
VIDEO: Companion Planting Garlic
Garlic Loves Other Plants…And Other Plants Love Garlic! Garlic is one of the best Companion Crops you can plant. It can be used as a natural pest deterrent and even a fungicide. Garlic has very few incompatible neighbours and its space – nutrient requirements are very minimal. Companion Planting is an easy, low maintenance way…