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Hello, and thank you for visiting my channel! I hope my videos are meaningful and educational, and at the same time fun to watch! My main interests are growing hydroponically, growing sprouts, microgreens, vegetables and herbs. I enjoy traveling and take every opportunity I am given to learn and explore new things. My goal is to share these experiences with you, and also to foster discussion so that we learn from each other (through the comment section). Some of my videos contain affiliate links to products that I use through the Amazon associates program. I hope you enjoy my videos, and comment to be part of the discussion. Thank you for watching!
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Easy, delicious, and fun to grow cucumbers in a raised garden bed. This video shows the progression from planting the seeds to harvesting them in the raised garden bed. This bed is also called a square foot garden bed following the method made popular by Mel Bartholomew. For more information about Square Foot Gardening, check…
Before you touch any of those suckers…there are a couple of things you need to know about pruning tomato plants. This is true whether you are growing a Square Foot Garden or Raised Bed, or Indoor Tomato Plants. In this video I’ll talk about the reasons we prune, some reasons are obvious…some not so obvious…..Next…
So far so good! The deer are staying away, and the tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and even some corn…they are all doing very nicely. Check out this Square Foot Gardening Book for Beginners by Mel Bartholomew (Amazon link): https://amzn.to/2YCfu3x
In this video you’ll see how we built a PVC structure to keep the deer out of our raised garden bed. We got our PVC pipes from Home Depot, and they were nice enough to cut them all to size without charging us extra. This is our first time building anything out of PVC, I’m…
This video is meant for beginners and covers how I planted my seeds indoors to when they were ready to be transplanted outdoors in the raised garden bed (square foot garden). There are MANY ways to plant, and hopefully this video will inspire you to start your own outdoor vegetable garden and to experiment and…
We are giving our outdoor garden another try this season. Past seasons have been disappointing because of the wildlife here. We are planning to build a structure over these raised garden beds using PVC, stay tuned for that video. I have plenty of plants started from seeds ready to go into these beds…various types of…
Follow along as I grow Spinach Hydroponically using the Kratky Method. Spinach is so nutritious and delicious to add to salads, soups, and smoothies. The Kratky method is easy since you don’t need an air pump, and if you have a sunny window you are good to go. If not, use a light that is…
Can you regrow supermarket lettuce? This lettuce was harvested and packaged weeks ago, then sat in the supermarket, and finally in my refrigerator for another couple of days, so can it still put out roots and grow some more? Follow along as I regrow these heads of Romaine lettuce, the results are…..delicious! You can do…
This Kale is easy to grow using the Kratky hydroponic method. For full text of this video please visit my website: https://tikki.co/easy-to-grow-hydroponic-kale-kratky-style/ Kale is believed to be very nutritious and contains the antioxidant sulforaphane since Kale comes from the same family of plants as broccoli. I usually grow Kale as a microgreen, the Kale mature…
The good folks at Wakyme sent me this light to review, and I get to keep the light for reviewing it….so I figured why not? I wanted to try out this sort of grow light, I use mostly 6500k Fluorescent lights to grow microgreens and also hydroponic plants indoors. The Aerogarden has a similar type…
In a past video I followed the growing cycle of broccoli microgreens two ways, one in soil, and one on paper towels. In this new video I decided to leave out the soil comparison and just compare paper towels…. to paper towels…to paper towels. How much of a difference do the nutrients make AND is…
These were quick to grow, and delicious, but not the Mesclun Gourmet Mix I had anticipated. The package listed 7 varieties of lettuce and baby greens, but what grew did not look like 7 varieties! They were eaten and enjoyed nonetheless!
In this video I set up a simple hydroponic kratky system using just Styrofoam and a 12 inch flower pot. The plants are doing just as well as the ones in the 5 gallon tote. When I went to Home Depot they had only one tote left, so I had to improvise, and came up…
Join me on a behind the seeds tour at Epcot. This is a one hour tour of 4 greenhouses with a guide to explain the latest growing techniques, how plants are grown hydroponically, and also the aquaponics area. The tour was very well done, and the guide was very knowledgeable. A must do if you…
I learned my lesson…bigger container…and here it is. A 5 gallon “tote” container. It was pretty easy to set up once I got used to the drill. I planted 2 seedlings in the 5 gallon container and they are growing fast and look great. I will video as they grow and update one they bear…
This is the Story of a cucumber plant that made it, in spite of it being my first attempt at growing cucumbers hydroponically using the Kratky method. This was at the same time I grew the tomatoes using Kratky and learned from that as well. I hope you enjoy this video and learn from my…
Parsley Microgreens are quick and easy to grow. They add a unique flavor to your salads and other dishes. In this video I show how I grow them indoors in 10 x 10 trays. Here are Amazon links for the equipment I used in this video. For seeds go to your favorite seed company, I…
I am growing Bibb Lettuce just past the microgreen stage, but not yet to maturity. The result is tender and quick baby lettuce greens in just 20 days. If you schedule your planting correctly (this is called “succession planting”) you can have fresh baby lettuce every week. Just plant a new tray each week, in…
Success! This was my first hydroponic tomato experience. I rescued these seedlings from the Aerogarden, the pods there germinated more than one plant per pod, so I decided to transplant the thinned out plants from the Aerogarden into the same setup I use for my hydroponic lettuce and other leafy greens, using the Kratky method.…
This video shows how to grow parsley hydroponically using the Kratky method. The Kratky method is a non circulating hydroponic method. That means it is simple to set up, no pumps, no airstones….really a set it and forget it method. If you are not familiar with the Kratky method, check out my video on how…
In this video I am growing Bibb lettuce and Green Ice lettuce hydroponically, meaning in water instead of in soil. I use the Kratky method, which does not need an air pump. When you grow your own lettuce you always have a fresh supply of delicious greens and no worries about e-coli! If you need…
How to pollinate indoor plants….but first WHY? Its pretty obvious, the birds and bees don’t get indoors (usually not) so someone has to do their work! Some plants need more help than others, some are self-pollinating. I hope you enjoy this video on the different techniques of hand pollination. If you have any comments or…
In this video I am growing Buckwheat Microgreens also known as Buckwheat Lettuce. I am using coconut coir as a medium, you can also grow it in soil the exact same way. I found the microgreens took a little longer to grow in the coconut coir than they do in the soil. You can find…
Welcome! This video documents the life cycle of a pepper plant from seed to harvest. The plant thrived in a small container indoors in the coconut coir. I had to feed it every 2 weeks with Miracle Grow since the coconut coir does not contain any nutrients that I know of. In the end the…
In this video I grow broccoli microgreens in coconut coir. This is a follow up video to the previous one I posted about what coconut coir is and how to use it. Here you can see the broccoli microgreens grew nicely, much as they would grow in soil, but took a bit longer to grow.…
This video shows how I used two different brands of coconut coir, aka coco peat, one generic and one called sponge ease (SpongEase) to grow sweet peppers and broccoli microgreens. I also grew sunflower and buckwheat greens in the coconut coir, you will see the results were beautiful. I still prefer organic soil to coconut…
Easy to grow in a mason jar, or in the seed sprouter, either way they are quick to grow and very nutritious. Be sure to check out my video on growing Alfalfa in a seed sprouter. Thank you for watching! You can find the Sprouting lids I use on Amazon, these fit the wide mouth…
Alfalfa sprouts are easy to grow, nutrient dense, and add flavor to salads, soups, wraps….so why not grow? The Two-Tiered Seed Sprouter makes it super easy to grow, or use mason jars….I will be putting out a video on sprouting alfalfa in mason jars very soon, stay tuned! Thank you for watching! You can find…
What are Microgreens and how are they different from sprouts? This video is meant for beginners who want to start growing fresh microgreens or sprouts in their own home. Delicious, fresh, nutritious, what more can you ask for…..oh yes, easy to grow…..I hope you enjoy this video. Below are links from Amazon for some of…
Hi Everyone, in this video I’ll be conducting an experiment with broccoli microgreens. The belief is that the seed contains all the nutrients the young sprout and microgreen needs, and therfore no additional nutrients are needed. If this is true, then the paper towel should yeild similar results to the growing on soil. The paper…
