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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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Saving Tomato Seeds Is Easy! In this video, I show you the 3 essential steps you need to do to successfully save your Heirloom Tomato seeds for next spring. No more buying them at the store or trying to order from seed houses that are sold out or not selling to the little guys like…
Mars Hydro Grow Tent Modifications. In this video, I show you how I get my 4 foot x 2 foot Mars Hydro Grow Tent into perfect form for winter indoor growing. I show you the light I use for this size, as well as how I modify the bottom of the tent to prevent moisture…
Beets In Buckets, Its Easier Than You Think! Its easy and I’ll show you how. Beets are a fantastic, underrated root crop that often plays second fiddle to carrots and potatoes. Well, no more. Grown for its insanely nutritious bulbous root, Beet leaves are delicious in salads, wraps, and stir fry! This is indeed a…
Mars Hydro SP 3000 Unboxing And Review! The SP 3000 is a new full spectrum LED grow light from industry leader Mars Hydro. In this video I show you the features of the light, as well I go through the installation using the rope-ratchet system. LED grow lights are evolving every year and this new…
In need of an emergency, solar/crank powered AM/FM radio with a powerful PED flashlight? Well, look no further then the Sunglife Solar Powered Emergency Radio Unit. – AM/FM radio complete with 7-station Weather Band (WB) – 2000mAh internal battery that can double as a power bank – chargeable through 3 methods (USB, Solar, Power Crank)…
Growing The Best Strawberries Requires Strategy! In this video I show you how to take your spent Strawberry patch or bed or container and revamp it for maximum harvest next year. Strawberry plants actually grow and multiply on their own, outcompeting themselves and thus outgrowing their surroundings. They must be divided and replanted every 3-5…
Planting and Growing Rosemary For Maximum Health! You’ve followed along and rooted cuttings from your mother Rosemary for new, free plants. You’ve even moved those cuttings on to small pots to start them in soil and get them really growing. Now, its time to pot up your Rosemary plants into larger pots or even their…
Make Your Own Organic Fertilizer From Weeds Right Out Of Your Garden! Weeds are amazing plants with the ability to extract nutrients and elements where other plants cannot. We can use the foliage from these weeds to make a super-charged liquid fertilizer that will send your backyards crops to the stratosphere! This homemade fertilizer is…
Freeze Your Onions Safely To Preserve And Enjoy Them All Year! Onions are a “ready-at-once” crop in that, like garlic, you harvest the bulbs all in one shot. They preserve well, but not forever, and certainly not until next harvest. In this video, let’s look at how we can freeze raw onions to preserve this…
How To Plant Strawberry Runners! Strawberry mother plants send out runners as a reproductive strategy. These runners are akin to a tomato sucker and are a vegetative offshoot of the main plant that’s trying to become a plant on its own. This is great and a fantastic way to expand your Strawberry patch for free!…
How To Grow Your Own Lemon Tree Plant Right From A Store Bought Lemon! Its super easy, just takes time and patience. The key is in germinating the seeds which can take up to a month. Once germinated, the little trees grow fast and you could be swimming in Lemons if grown right! In this…
What Are Strawberry Runners And What Should We Do With Them? Most Strawberry mother plants send out several runners (stolons) every spring/summer. These runners are akin to a tomato sucker and are a vegetative offshoot of the main plant that’s trying to become a plant on its own. This is great and all, and a…
Grow More Tomatoes Instead Of Leaves! Pruning Tomatoes 101 is now in session! We prune Tomatoes early in the summer to maximize harvest and yield later on. In this 2020 video, let’s look at how to properly prune our Tomato plants, both the Determinate and Indeterminate varieties. Let’s also discuss the different sections of a…
Mars Hydro 4×2 Grow Tent Assembly and Review. Let’s have a closer look at the new Mars Hydro indoor Grow Tents as we investigate the features of this new series of tents as well as fully assemble the 4×2 model. Early impressions are that at this price point, these Grow Tents swing well above their…
How In The World Did I Get To 100K Subscribers? Quite a journey and I honestly didn’t think it was possible. I was happy with the 100 and 1000 sub milestones and never looked beyond that. As a gardening channel in an ultra-competitive space, I feel like we’ve really done something cool here. Not a…
Beets In Buckets You Say? Yes! Its easy and I’ll show you how. Beets are a fantastic, underrated root crop that often plays second fiddle to carrots and potatoes. Well, no more. Grown for its insanely nutritious bulbous root, Beet leaves are delicious in salads, wraps, and stir fry! This is indeed a powerhouse crop…
Garlic Grows So Easily In Containers. And quite often, container Garlic is ready for harvest before your Garlic grown in raised beds or straight in the ground. Its all due to heat and being warmer faster expedites the formation of bulbs. In this video, let’s look at how we harvest both hardneck and softneck garlic,…
Fabric Grow Bags Are All The Hype. They are lightweight, inexpensive, last a long time, come in every size imaginable, and even somewhat prevent root-balling! Their use has skyrocketed the last 5 years so we might as well look at how to use them! In this video, I show you how I plant up my…
Grow Amazing Ginger In Pots! Running out of space in your garden, but you still want to grow your own Ginger? No problem, Ginger is so easy to grow in containers or pots, right on your deck or patio, and right from store-bought Ginger root! In Part 1 of this video series, I show you…
With Vegetable Gardens, Plant Spacing Is The First Thing We Should Think About. Plants start out very small, and too often we plant them close together, not wanting to see unsightly empty spaces in our garden. The mistake however, is that plants grow, often beyond what we imagine them to. And the spacing they experience…
Reuse Your Old Potting And Container Soils To Save Money! Container gardening is fun, easy and has numerous advantages. One disadvantage however, can be cost. Potting soils are not cheap and even just a modest amount of container veggies can send expenses through the roof. In this video, let’s look at two ways that we…
Roma Tomatoes Are Awesome And Easy To Grow! In this video, I’ll show you how I plant my Roma Tomatoes in my summer garden for maximum success. Romas are a determinate variety of tomato. That is, they are a bush-type of plant that grows to a fixed size (large) and sets fruit within a short-ish…
Mulching 101: Here Is Your Comprehensive Guide To Mulching! Mulching is easy and basically involves simply covering the bare soil of your garden in and around your plants with an organic shredded mixture. This mix can be anything from green grass clippings to shredded leaves to coarse straw mixes of those components and much more.…
Seeds vs Starters, How Should You Plant Your Garden? everyone has their preference on how the plant and grow their vegetable gardens. But have you ever wondered what is the best way to plant your favorite crops? Should you be direct seeding plants that have a limited window to grow before the cold fall nights…
Grow Lettuce….From Lettuce! You can regrow Lettuce from store bought heads! Simple, easy, and fun! The cut Lettuce regrows in just water and you can see it grow almost daily. In this video I’ll show you how to regrow a head of Romaine (or any Lettuce really) by placing the cut stump in water, in…
The final video. Was it an indoor crop success….or was it a complete failure? 6 Part Indoor Gardening Series! Let’s put the Mars Hydro TS 600W LED Grow Light to the test. Let’s take a vegetable crop, normally grown outdoors, being it inside and see if we can successfully grow it from seed to harvest…
Thin You Carrot Rows For Maximum Yield! Carrots are one of the best root crops to grow in the backyard. They are easy to grow, easy to harvest, and fun to eat! Kids love ’em, especially first-time veggie eaters! But Carrots need to be thinned to within no closer than 1 inch from each other…
Don’t Throw Away That Old Basil Plant! Basil is a universally-loved herb. Its easy to grow from seed and readily germinates at room temperature and grows indoors. However, your Basil plant can easily start to fail due to weather damage, wind burn, drying out, over harvesting, over watering, and even from becoming pot bound. In…
Grow A Mango Tree From Seed, Everytime! Mangoes are an unbelievable fruit, that most people around the world never get to see the plant they come from. Well, let’s change that! In this video, I’ll show you how to grow your very own Mango tree, right from the seed of a store-bought fruit! The seeds…
Successive Planting Of Your Crops Can Produce Insane Results! Very few garden strategies are as powerful and productive as succession planting. Not to be confused with Companion Planting, Succession Gardening is when you plant a new crop, right alongside an existing crop that has yet to be harvested. It only works with a few different…
