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Wait! It’s not quite time to hang up your boots for the season yet. There’s a crop you can still sow that will give you some of your earliest harvests of 2023 if you get them in now! It’s the vegetable that time forgot, the humble broad bean or fava bean. The long lost legume…
Not everything you see on TikTok is nonsense…in fact, there are a TON of amazing gardeners on the platform! Today we look at some epic plant tips that’ll work pretty well in your garden. 00:00 – Intro 00:07 – Propagating Garlic 02:16 – Weird Toilet Paper Hack 03:48 – Basil Hack 06:50 – Growing Onion…
100 Episodes. Hard for me to believe how far we’ve come. Its strange too, because when my nose is down in the dirt, doing my thing, I feel like we’ve just scratched the surface. I feel like the next 100 episodes is right there, ready for us to explore. Either way, I’m thankful for the…
There’s a group of plants that you can plant once and harvest year in year out. They’re called Edible Perennials. Many of these plants are not commonly known, but they deserve to be because not only do they practically grow themselves but many of them are delicious and beautiful too. In this week’s episode, Ben…
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How much could you slash off your grocery bill by growing your own vegetables? Find out which crops are the most beneficial for your wallet as Ben counts down his top 5 crops that are the easiest to grow, most nutritious and the best value for money. Ben has calculated the average prices of vegetables…
Serina is sick, and making it to the farmers market will be a challenge since she does almost all the flower harvesting and bouquet arranging. This week is the last of the Lisianthus, so it would be a travesty if we couldn’t make it to market with them. The cosmos, marigolds, amaranth, and sunflowers are…
How To Save Your Own Beet Seeds! Saving seeds is not only fun, but in today’s economic times, it also makes sense. Beets are a very prolific crop that will easily produce thousands of seeds for you to collect….if they have the time! Today, we’ll take that time. In this video, we’ll go over everything…
Its that time of year where our garden beds and plots are starting to receive their final harvests. Crops are coming out as the summer winds down and us growers are left with the chores of that end-of-season cleanup. One way to easily and quickly clean out your beds of spent plants is a no-till,…
My uncle is a commercial bean farmer. He shared with me everything he does to get massive and consistent green beans and snap beans. These tips I am sharing with you to help you grow big and yield big!
How To Save Carrot Seeds! Saving carrot seeds is easy, but it’s also time consuming. As a Biennial plant, carrots take two years to complete their life cycle. They need to go through a winter “vernalization” period to stimulate flowering and seed production. This makes carrot seed production a little more involved with a couple…
Onions Need Space. Not a lot, given the way they grow and the nature of their foliage. But, most certainly there’s a defined amount of space for them to grow optimally, as well as to utilize your available garden area most effectively. And today we’ll cover all of it. Even though its just a Quickie,…
We have been so busy selling flower bouquets from our roadside stand and farmers market, that we are falling behind on some tasks. So this week we are getting some help from our friends to check some projects off of the to do list. Our roadside stand is getting a small deck built out front,…
How To Save Cilantro Seeds! Cilantro seeds, often called Coriander are a wonderful second crop for an already amazing herb. Fragrant and flavorful, the seeds are a welcome sight when normally us growers are trying to stop the flowering and seeding process at all costs! In today’s video, let’s look at how to easily save…
Why Are My Zucchinis Failing? A question often asked by new growers when their seemingly large, lush plants produce a failed Zucchini crop. It doesn’t make any sense and the plants looked amazing right up to the time the Zucchinis appeared…what gives? In this video, we’ll explore my top 5 reasons for why you’re maybe…
Come along with me on a tour of my garden as I return after three week away fighting wild fires here in Northern California. I’ll show you my tomato garden, a few of the trees in my orchard, my blueberry collection, and some unique tropicals and subtropicals that I’ve been collecting for an upcoming project.…
Are you struggling to grow carrots? Why can’t i grow carrots? How long do carrots take to grow ? You are not alone. Do you find growing carrots not a simple as it Looks. Are you looking for some type of solutions to the reason why your carrots are looking small or strange looking? Watch…
This summer has been a hot one! Record temperatures, drought, and many severe conditions still lingering around Canada, the US, and abroad. Now, more than ever, its the little tips and tricks that can keep our garden humming along, with the promises of harvests up until fall! Individual Episode Links: Episode 81 – Fertilizing Peas:…
What Is Full Sun? Part Shade? What’s the difference between Part Sun and Part Shade? Burning questions that we gardeners need to know! Light levels for plants are a crucial parameter in the success of the crop. Without access to adequate light, plants will suffer and so will your harvests. On the flip side, too…
Plants Need Water. But so does your soil! And in these days of increasing heat and more frequent heat waves the ability of your soil to grab and hang onto moisture is more important than ever. In Quickie style, I got you covered. Today, we’ll focus in on your soil’s water retention with 3 ways…
Many people don’t realise that there is a very simple trick you can use to multiply your strawberries to create literally a lifetime supply of strawberries. It’s far easier than planting seeds or dividing plants! All you need is one plant. Ben show us how in this week’s episode. Want to see more about growing…
My Top 5 Easiest Crops To Save Your Own Seed From! Growing your own food is a path to self sufficiency. Saving seeds from your own harvests for next years crops? Well that’s NEXT LEVEL self sufficiency! In today’s Quickie, we’ll look at the 5 crops I always save seeds from. These crops are ideal…
We are halfway through the farm season, and this year has both positive and negative aspects. On the positive side, sales have been better than we hoped, and within reach of our long term sales goals for the farm. These strong sales show us that there is a viable business and a future for our…
In this video, I show you my sweet potato harvest in just one small part of a raised bed. Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden beds in the USA: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ and use SSME2020 for a 5% discount. In Australia, go to https://birdiesgardenproducts.com.au/ and use Code SSMEbird for a 5% discount. In New Zealand, go…
Unlike animals, plants can’t move around to find a mate, so they have to rely on pollination, mainly from insects. It’s how they reproduce. The question is, are your plants getting enough? Our job as gardeners is to help our plants to achieve pollination, so that we can increase our chances of a bumper crop…
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…
I will show and explain why and how to prune fruit trees during their summer growing period. In this easy summer pruning demonstration I’ll be pruning my Spice Zee Nectaplum, but this pruning process can be adapted to a wide variety of fruit trees including peach trees, cherry trees, plum trees, apple trees, persimmon trees…
In this #shorts video, I show how I remove a pumpkin that has become stuck and wedged on a mesh trellis. Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden beds in the USA: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ and use SSME2020 for a 5% discount. In Australia, go to https://birdiesgardenproducts.com.au/ and use Code SSMEbird for a 5% discount. In New…
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…
TikTok has some of the wildest gardening videos I’ve ever seen, so let’s take a look at them together and see what’s going on from a gardener’s perspective! https://www.instagram.com/reel/CdMDB0cA6d_/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://www.instagram.com/reel/CcgR_9eNvry/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://www.instagram.com/reel/CcPKb1OD9hR/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cd0nnjejPh-/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cdxan6wlH6f/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/CdiGAKtAlGl/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRRE62vA/?k=1 00:00 – Intro 00:17 – Magic Greens Cutter 01:29 – Huge Mangoes 02:18 – Dragonfruit Trench 03:29 – Potato Machine…
