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Winter Is Coming! With another successful growing season nearly behind us, and the summer crops beginning to wane, dormancy is closing in. In this latest Garden Quickie, let’s look at 3 ways to protect your gardens and garden beds this winter so that you can hit the ground running next spring! It feels just like…
In this video, a hungry kookaburra eats a worm we found in our mulch/compost pile in the garden. Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden beds in the USA, Canada, and UK: 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…
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…
Someone or something is stealing all our mulch from around our fruit trees! Long version of this video is here: https://youtu.be/yQFB9M2UdK0 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…
Nothing Beats An Epic Harvest. It feels good to know all that hard work finally paid off and we have reaped the rewards. But the work isn’t over. Our soils need our help to recover. For crops like tomatoes and peppers and even peas where we simply pick the fruit leisurely and cut the plants…
Mulching Makes All The Difference! In our backyard gardens, just like in nature, bare and exposed soils are just no good. Walk through a forest or any natural greenscape and you’ll won’t see the naked dirt. Nature has designed seasonal systems and processes to eliminate exposed soils for protection and to keep the plant-soil interaction…
Animal bedding makes a terrific mulch to keep soil warm throughout wineter and help the plants break dormancy faster in the springtime.
We are mulching the garden today and Aidan and I took the trailer to pick up some free mulch. We later found a very exciting surprise.
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…
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…
Sign up to be notified of the Epic Garden Straw release: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ It’s HOT right now across most of the USA, and many of you expressed some sadness over friend plants, discouraging results in the garden, etc. So I figured I’d drop a few tips that have helped my summer garden beat the heat. 0:00…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Hot, dry weather means lots of watering. It takes time and can be costly, but a simple technique – mulching – offers a simple way to conserve precious soil moisture. Covering moist soil reduces evaporation, erosion and weed competition, which means less work for you! Use organic…
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.…
Your garden needs TLC every winter! Use these three strategies to help protect your garden in the winter and to ensure that come the spring, you are hitting the ground running and ready for action when the warm days return! Don’t Prune In The Fall!: https://youtu.be/cM7mkzXWSmc Get those nursery seedling trays so that come January,…
Fix Frozen Soil | Still need to Plant Onions & Garlic in my Back Yard Garden Mycorrhizal list : http://www.rootnaturally.com/PlantListMycorrhizal.pdf FACEBOOK Page : https://www.facebook.com/iamorganicgardening Subscribe to My CHANNEL : https://www.youtube.com/user/iamnjorganic Back to Eden Organic Gardening 101 Method with Wood Chips VS Leaves Composting Garden Soil #2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAXrKFjs77o . How to Build a Raised Wood…
They thought I was crazy to Backyard Garden this way with Cover Crops | When | Why | How. Mycorrhizal list : http://www.rootnaturally.com/PlantListMycorrhizal.pdf FACEBOOK Page : https://www.facebook.com/iamorganicgardening Subscribe to My CHANNEL : https://www.youtube.com/user/iamnjorganic Back to Eden Organic Gardening 101 Method with Wood Chips VS Leaves Composting Garden Soil #2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAXrKFjs77o . How to Build…
Mulching VS Cover Crops in the Backyard garden | Which is Better Mycorrhizal list : http://www.rootnaturally.com/PlantListMycorrhizal.pdf FACEBOOK Page : https://www.facebook.com/iamorganicgardening Subscribe to My CHANNEL : https://www.youtube.com/user/iamnjorganic Back to Eden Organic Gardening 101 Method with Wood Chips VS Leaves Composting Garden Soil #2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAXrKFjs77o . How to Build a Raised Wood Chip Organic Gardening Bed…
No till seeding, easy and quick! In the third video in the No Till Farming series, I show you how to weed a raised garden bed and then plant the bed with seeds, lettuce and snow peas, using the no till method of gardening. The no till method of gardening involves the conscious effort to…
No till farming is easy! In fact, easier than conventional gardening and agriculture! Welcome to the second video in the no till farming series. In this video we discuss how to properly remove an existing plant (a large Collard Green) and plant two tomato plants in its place. But we do this without disturbing a…
Grab some Birdies Raised Beds: https://bit.ly/34b9cZU Mulch is a gardener’s best friend, but sometimes it’s not the friendliest on the budget. There’s really NO need to buy mulch at garden centers or nurseries if you don’t want to. With a bit of creativity, you can learn how to mulch with cheap or free sources in…
This video shows what happens when you use mulch in the garden such as grass clippings, sugarcane, woodchip, poultry litter, cardboard, and even general garden waste. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme Help support the Channel and buy a T-shirt/Merchandise from our Spreadshirt shop: https://goo.gl/ygrXwU Shop on Amazon for compost tumblers: https://bit.ly/2V1o46A Shop for Tumbler composters…
In this video, I show you my top 3 methods for preventing or slowing down the colonization of weeds in my veggie garden beds. Use these 3 methods together, and you’ll spend a fraction of the time weeding and much more of the time doing the stuff you love.
In this video, I show not only how I mulch my plants, but also why mulching is literally the key to any successful organic farm or garden
Hey guys, in this video I explore the concepts of Lasagna Gardening and why you should be employing this method in addition to your no-till farming practices
Hi guys, my name is Jeff and for the past six years I have been running a permaculture farm on Southern Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest. I decided to document some of my practices so that I can share the tips and tricks that I have learned over the years to help you grow…
Don’t make these big 3 mistakes when you are mulching your trees. Send mail to: PO box 131 Marysville, MI 48040 450+ varieties of Heirloom & Non-GMO Vegetable seeds .99/pack, fertilizer, garden tools, blog & More: http://www.MIgardener.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MIgardener Instagram: http://instagram.com/MIgardener G+: http://plus.google.com/+MIgardener Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/MIgardenerYT/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/MI_gardener Tumblr: http://tumblr.com/MIgardener Check out our new clothing line!…
We need to mulch our garlic and strawberries so they are protected from the cold weather coming. The mulch will also help insulate the soil to reduce watering and stress from heat. Send mail to: PO box 131 Marysville, MI 48040 450+ varieties of Heirloom & Non-GMO Vegetable seeds .99/pack, fertilizer, garden tools, blog &…
So you have given your garden a good mulch of a specific organic material, now the problem is how do you know if you should apply the next layer of mulch. This video explains in more detail and outlines 2 ways of knowing when your gardening or beds are in need of a top-up of…
You would have thought the world stopped spinning when I installed our raised beds directly on green living grass. The internet lost it’s mind. Send mail to: PO box 131 Marysville, MI 48040 450+ varieties of Heirloom & Non-GMO Vegetable seeds .99/pack, fertilizer, garden tools, blog & More: http://www.MIgardener.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MIgardener Instagram: http://instagram.com/MIgardener G+: http://plus.google.com/+MIgardener…
Our awesome sponsor: https://www.firsttunnels.co.uk – This video is packed with 10 ways for you to have a more productive vegetable garden not only in 2017 but beyond. I hope that this video will arm you with more ideas to help increase productivity so you can grow more fruit and vegetables at home and save money.…
