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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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Indoor Garlic Growing Made Easy! Did you forget to plant your Garlic this fall? Or maybe you didn’t plant enough and you want more, but the ground is frozen or covered in snow? Well, fear not my temperate friends… You can grow Garlic indoors and its super easy. Check that….almost TOO easy. There’s a couple…
Cover Crops Are An Amazing Tool For Organic Gardeners! The use of Cover Crops in a modern organic garden is both easy and fruitful. These living mulches condition and enrich spent soils, break up hard-packed clay mixes, prevent pests from laying their eggs, add nutrients back into the top layers of the soil profile, and…
Cabbage…..The Original Brassica! What a perfect fall crop to showcase some no-till, no-dig, regenerative, permaculture practices right in our very own backyards! Cabbage is super easy to grow, no different than cauliflower or broccoli or kale! Give it some space, plant 6 weeks before first fall frost, pH neutral soil that is rich in organic…
Fall Is The Time To Plant Broccoli! This autumn wonder crop is probably the most famous of the cultivated Brassica plants. Growing Broccoli right in your backyard is super easy. Even easier is growing Broccoli using no-till, no-dig, regenerative agriculture methods. Let me show you how! In this video, let’s take a typical raised bed,…
Growing Arugula Indoors Is Easy! This peppery salad green, also known as Rocket, is a really quick grower and can be cut and harvested many times, making it one of the most bountiful as well! Arugula’s growing needs are very simple and once you grow a few crops of it indoors, you’ll wonder why you…
Planting Cauliflower In The Fall. Cauliflower loves the fall. The cooler temperature produces the sweetest florets and the cleanest, pest-free harvests! Join me today as I plant a raised bed from start to finish, using the no-till, no-dig method of gardening to plant Cauliflower starters in a raised beds. No music and no commentary, just…
Raspberry Plants Need Winter Care! As hardy and as vigorous as Raspberry plants are, they most definitely can benefit from a few simple steps to prepare the for the coming winter. Left unchecked, you could be subjecting yourself to an unruly patch at best, and poor to no harvests at worst. In this video I…
Prepare Your Strawberry Plants For The Coming Winter! Strawberries are super hardy plants, enjoyed in temperate climates around the world. However, a few extra cold nights here and there and even the hardiest of berry plants can perish. Now is the time to set up your Strawberry plants for their winter dormancy. The few steps…
Seeds WANT To Germinate! They are built for it. These amazing tiny kernels of life are the starting point of nearly every one of our crops. But every year, without fail, there is failure. Failure to germinate. Failure to continue growth as a seedling. And failure as a crop and thus a waste of our…
Grow Your Own Sweet Potatoes Indoors….Year Round! Sweet Potatoes are not like regular Potatoes and are in fact only distantly related. Instead of planting chunks of the tuber in hopes that the “eyes” will sprout, Sweet Potato growers sprout the shoot end of the tuber with a mass of new vines known as “slips”. From…
Growing Green Onions Indoor Right From Seed To Harvest! Green Onions are an awesome staple in most gardens, easy to germinate, even easier to maintain, harvest, and eat! Treated as a perennial in most climates, people often want to try their hand at growing these guys indoors. Well, let me tell you…its just as easy!…
Growing Garlic Is Easy! Planting fall Garlic is one of the most enjoyable and rewarding experiences for us backyard gardeners. It is also one of the easiest, maintenance-free crops to grow, in addition to making use of beds and planters that would otherwise lie dormant over winter. Join me today and learning all the basics…
Fertilizers…Do We Need Them? In my experience with organic backyard gardening and farming, no, we really don’t. The concept of synthetic chemical fertilization of food crops is a modern construct, yet farming has existed successfully for thousands of years. Chemical fertilizers solved a need that was created by modern agriculture destroying the very land it…
Growing Fall Radishes Isn’t Hard. In fact, it is so easy that Radishes are the de facto quick crop, and for good reason. They germinate fast, and grow even faster. If you have a small window of time to grow, especially in cooler weather on the fringes of the season, really consider giving Radishes a…
Spider Mites Can Be Treated Safely And Naturally. As we move our growing indoors, our plants become susceptible to a whole new host of pests. At the forefront of these are Spider Mites, particularly the Two-Spotted Spider Mite (Tetranychus urticae). Fortunately, we can treat and prevent these plant pests both safely and naturally using a…
Why Should We Bother To Fall Garden? With the summer shutting down, isn’t it better to let our gardens go dormant and give our soils a much-needed rest? No no no no no no my friends. Planting and maintaining a fall garden is one of the best things you can do! Let me show you…
Fall Gardening Is The Best Gardening! Planting fall vegetables is not hard, there’s no magic secret to a successful fall garden other than timing. Respecting your first average fall frost date, coupled with each plant variety’s timing and requirements will dictate what you can and cannot plant. In this video, I give you my top…
Peppers Are Actually Perennials! No matter where you live, you can keep your Pepper plants alive over winter, and have the ready for action next spring! This will eliminate the need to start seeds next spring, and your plants will be further ahead and more advanced as the warm weather returns! Its not hard, and…
Growing Lettuce In The Fall. Lettuce is the perfect end-of-summer crop! With the super hot days of summer behind us, we can grow this fast crop before winter hits for a cheeky late season freebie, or, if you have mild winters, Lettuce just might be your source of greens until spring! In this video I…
How To Grow Turmeric From Store Bought Tubers – Part 1 of 2. Turmeric is a rhizomatic tropical plant used for its bright orange fragrant root tubers. Its in the Ginger family and is quite easy to sprout and grow from the organic stuff you buy at the grocery store! Given the health benefits of…
Atreum VELA 320 Horticultural Grow Light Unboxing. Things just got a bit brighter in the grow room as we unbox, inspect, assemble, and install the new Atreum VELA 320W LED Grow Light. This fully water-proof, flush-mounted LED light has some serious horsepower behind it, and I’m excited to get it up and running. I’ll show…
Cool Weather Is Coming, But The Gardening Doesn’t Stop! Whether you are trying to get a quick crop in before your Broccoli or Garlic, or whether your summer crops have shut down early and you still want to grow, its pretty hard to beat a simple and easy quick crop of juicy SPINACH! In this…
How Do You Freeze Tomatoes? Its easy! In this video, I show you in less than 3 minutes how to properly freeze your Cherry Tomatoes for storage while you wait until next year’s bounty is ready to be harvested! If growing fresh organic fruits and veggies for you and your family is something you’re passionate…
Tomatoes Taste Best Right Off The Vine! As fall approaches, the nights get colder and in certain regions, our Tomatoes reaalllllyyyy begin to slow down their ripening. This is unfortunate because Tomatoes really do taste best when picked right off the plant fresh. Fortunately, I have 6 unique ways that you can speed up Tomato…
Growing Your Own Sweet Potatoes Starts With First Growing The Slips. Sweet Potatoes are not like regular Potatoes and are in fact only distantly related. Instead of planting chunks of the tuber in hopes that the “eyes” will sprout, Sweet Potato growers sprout the shoot end of the tuber with a mass of new vines…
Indoor Growing Needs Moving Air No Question! If you are growing indoors, even in a somewhat open greenhouse, the importance of good air circulation is often understated. Plants need airflow at all times over their leaves for many reasons. Today we’ll discuss the top 2 reasons. As well, let’s review the new 12” High Velocity…
Growing A New Pineapple Plant From A Store-Bought Fruit Is Awesome And Easy! In this video I give a quick refresher on how I am successful every time in getting new, robust Pineapple plants from just the top of the fruit. Then we take a deep dive on caring for that plant as we set…
How To Save Roma Tomato Seeds. Romas are a bit different of a Tomato when it comes to saving their seeds. Far less prolific in terms of seed count, you could need up to 4x as much Roma Tomatoes as a traditional variety to get the same number of seeds. In this video, I show…
Growing Avocados, Everyone Can Do It! Earlier in the year we showed you how to sprout an Avocado right at home from a store-bought Avocado fruit. It was easy, although it did take a while to finally sprout and grow. Now with our Avocado plants around a foot tall and outgrowing their current homes, let’s…
Summer Is HOT! Your plants love and hate it at the same time. Heat, water and light make plants grow…but excessive heat with improper access to water can have disastrous effects on the productivity of your garden. In this video I show you my top 5 ways that I beat the Summer heat and help…
