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Many gardeners like the idea of putting their garden to bed for the winter. When they do that, it often includes tilling which aerates the soil, loosens it, and allows it to be more workable. The problem is it is the wrong time of year to do it and can lead to more problems in…
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,…
Don’t let inflation give you nightmares. Take charge: Keep calm and carry on gardening! If only we had a magic wand that could magically make groceries cheaper! Well, we have the next best thing – Ben’s top money saving tips for an abundant garden! With over 20 tried and tested inflation-busting tips and tricks, you…
Beat inflation! Go forth and multiply! The cost of living may have gone up, from rocketing fuel prices to inflated food prices, but don’t worry! This video is going to empower you to maximise the yields of your crops through the wonderful propagation technique of division. Yes, you can get more food for free! Swat…
Everyone loves crunchy carrots! But aren’t they really hard to grow..? It’s easy, if you know how! Ben gets to the root of the matter in this week’s episode in his complete guide to growing the best carrots from sowing to harvest. Get your crunch on! If you love growing your own food, why not…
It’s time to get GROWING! But where do you even start?! Whether you’re a seasoned gardener wanting to expand your growing area or a starting your very first vegetable garden, Ben has some top tips up his green sleeves for you that will help you get the most out of your budget and your space.…
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…
Last spring we planted some asparagus and strawberries in a new Ruth Stout bed. And since then, we’ve posted a few mini updates, tacked on to the end of other videos. But, since a number of you have asked for it, we figured it was about time we posted a quick standalone video as well.…
If you’re fortunate to live in an area with mild enough fall or winter weather you should absolutely take advantage of this cool weather growing season! In this video I’ll give you a quick tour of my garden as it is goin into fall then I’ll show you exactly how I turn over my garden…
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.…
Growing Beets Is Both Fun And Easy! Beets are a superfood root vegetable that should be in every backyard garden. Harvested for both the taproot and the leaves, Beets are a cool weather crop than can be sown and harvested in 60 days or less. Grow Beets in transition areas of your garden where you…
Fastest Way To Seed and Sow A Carrot Row! In this video, I show you how I sow a row of carrots for a winter quick crop before the spring and summer veggies take over the beds. From preparing the beds to actual sowing, this video will show you just how easy and fast no…
Time To Sow Your Winter Pea Crops! In this video, I show you how I sow my Sugar Snap Peas using the no till, no dig method of gardening. Watch as we cover all the basics from bed preparation, seed spacing, actual planting, and mulching. No till gardening is one of the best ways to…
NO Till SPRING Cover Crop Planting. Prep for 2020 Backyard Garden. Video link to Purple dead nettel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ym1LW7Mt_s&list=UUE0O3PmRSjoiTmpu9m3vvwQ&index=29 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…
I never thought this day would come. I woke up in London with a fever, missed a train (or two), but eventually made it 100 miles to Charles Dowding’s EPIC market garden, Homeacres. The sky opened up for about an hour, and Charles shared the deep wisdom behind his garden. Charles Dowding is the godfather…
Over the past few years, we’ve been producing a lot of garlic and experimenting with a number of natural growing techniques. As a result, we ended up accidentally comparing 4 slightly different growing conditions, all at the same time: 1. Fresh hay mulch covering natural topsoil 2. Old spoiled hay mulch covering natural topsoil 3.…
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…
Today we harvested our first batch of Silver Queen sweet corn. We have pulled some of the Roma tomatoes and planted more bush green beans. We have some fall plants started in flats. Garden is still producing fairly well!!
Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — Over the past few years, we’ve been covering our entire growing area with thick layers of organic plant-based mulch. And so far, we’ve not yet had to pay for any of it. So, since we receive a lot of questions…
Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — Paula and I were tied up for much of June and July, meaning that we were often away from home and entirely away from our garden. So in this video, we’d like to quickly show you how our deep mulch…
Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — After nearly four years of gardening, we’ve finally decided to plant some asparagus and strawberries! But as usual, we’ve also decided to skip the fertilizer, compost, and manure. We also decided to flip the sod, rather than using a tiller.…
On my vacation to Northern California, I found myself in Reno, Nevada with serious gardening withdrawal. I looked up some farms in the area, and messaged Zach of Prema Farms out of the blue. He agreed to have me out to check out the farm, which is in Zone 5b just outside of Reno, Nevada.…
Tilther demonstration at Goldfinch Gardens in Celo, NC.
NEW! Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — It’s finally starting to look and feel like Spring, so we headed outside to check out how our garden fared through the long frozen winter. Then we chopped and dropped last year’s plants and laid out some mulch. Or…
In the episode of Brew City Gardener I show you how to grow your potatoes in straw using the lasagna garden method. Some may refer to this as the “Ruth Stout” gardening method. Whatever you call it; it yields amazing results so make sure you subscribe to see what we harvest in late summer! Check…
SOIL Pt 6 How to GROW Nutrient DENSE Fruits & Vegetables No Till Garden Method Improvement Series for pennies. How to Build & Start to Grow Garden Soil for beginners method. Link to PART 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsAiZ3ipdMw . Mycorrhizal List: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&v=ZhQITNIN1yU&redir_token=Wc4XalWYc5NJGEPT43U37DGtesV8MTU1MTcyMDQ3NUAxNTUxNjM0MDc1&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rootnaturally.com%2FPlantListMycorrhizal.pdf LINK to Subscribe to My CHANNEL : https://www.youtube.com/user/iamnjorganic Back to Eden Organic Gardening 101 Method…
SOIL Pt 4 How to GROW Nutrient DENSE Fruits & Vegetables No Till Garden Method Improvement Series for pennies. How to Build & Start to Grow Garden Soil for beginners method. Link to PART5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I2re2kNPu4 LINK to Subscribe to My CHANNEL : https://www.youtube.com/user/iamnjorganic Back to Eden Organic Gardening 101 Method with Wood Chips VS Leaves…
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UPDATE: Here’s how we ended up storing them all: Mini “Root Cellar” from broken freezer (for storing potatoes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evM7taps76s Where We Get FREE Garden Mulch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww34XwhdeZ4 — After our first attempt at growing potatoes last year, it was pretty obvious that we’d need to increase the size of our crop if we’d ever hoped to…
