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#AcreHomestead #PlantingGarlic #OrganicGardening Instagram https://www.instagram.com/acrehomestead/ @Acre Homestead Garlic is one of my favorite things to grow! planting Garlic in the fall will increase the chances of a great garden harvest in the following summer! Choose the largest cloves to ensure the largest heads of garlic! My recipes are on Scratchpantry.com Seeding Square – https://amzn.to/3FgOZSP Square…
Look after your soil and your soil will look after you! Healthy soil means healthy plants and NOW is the time to show your soil some love before winter sets in. In this week’s episode, Ben shows us how to protect, feed and nurture your soil with these three simple techniques. Get ready to get…
We are growing lots of swiss chard in the garden. Swiss chard is one of my favorite crops to grow because of how stunning it is.
In this video I’ll explain what to look for when sourcing your seed garlic, then I’ll take you to my original urban farmstead where I’ll walk you through the most important considerations for planting location, soil preparation, planting, maintenance and more. I’ll share my tried and true process as well as some tips and information…
I am so excited to share something with you that I have just discovered and will become a huge part of my autumn and winter gardening strategy and I felt that I had to share as soon as possible so you too can give this a vegetable gardening hack a go. I can see this…
It’s finally time for me to share my method for getting high quality free annual mulch, and I am NOT talking about wood chips! MY FAVORITE GARDEN PRODUCTS 🧰 💯 → Birdies Raised Beds: COUPON CODE: TUCK https://shop.epicgardening.com →Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/2z7NIRQ → Sulfur Dust for Fungal Diseases: https://amzn.to/2VETaXP → UV Resistant Marker: https://amzn.to/3oUevXb →…
We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers and gardening tools. We ship worldwide! website/shop: http:www.migardener.com/store our daily blog: https://migardener.com/blog facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIgardener instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MIgardener send garden snail mail to: MIgardener 227 Huron Ave Port Huron MI 48060 Our book is out!…
It is late Fall and the gardens are still producing a lot of food, so let’s jump in and see how they are growing! MY FAVORITE GARDEN PRODUCTS 🧰 💯 → Merch: https://jps-store-5.creator-spring.com → Birdies Raised Beds: COUPON CODE: TUCK https://shop.epicgardening.com → 40% Shade Cloth- https://amzn.to/3vrAYNF → Sulfur Dust for Fungal Diseases: https://amzn.to/2VETaXP → UV…
This video is full of autumn/fall gardening tips that are going to really help make your vegetable garden super productive next spring! When it comes to organic gardening it is crucial that we only use 100% natural ingredients and amendments, and one of the most impactful tasks we can carry out in autumn is making…
If you want to start your own farmer’s market, this is the tutorial for you! In this episode, we will tackle all the filing and planning pieces to a market. We will tackle business organization, creating a market plan, rule book, insurance, and other very important parts to the process. We do more than, JUST,…
Are you a fellow vampire-defeating,🧛♂️ bad-breathed garlic-lover?! 🧄 🧄 🧄 Well, get planting NOW! Many people do not realize that planting garlic in autumn can offer the best results. There are so many pungent and tasty varieties to choose from and they all offer health benefits along with their flavor-boosting goodness. Ben demonstrates how to…
Starting a farmer’s market isn’t on most people’s radar when they think of ways to generate passive income. In this new mini series I will be showing you everything you need to know to start your very own farmer’s market. We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online…
All the leaves are brown 🍂 and the sky is grey☁️ The autumn leaves start to fall… But here’s a silver lining 🌤because all those leaves can be turned into gardeners’ gold! Ben shows us a variety of uses for fallen leaves, putting all their goodness to use around the garden, from protecting plants to…
Cover crop mix I used: https://bit.ly/3DCvP9o I am a HUGE fan of practical, efficient gardening practices, and cover cropping is an under-utilized one for the home gardener. It’s a fantastic way to prevent erosion, build nutrients, loosen soil, provide habitat, and more. Best of all, it’s DEAD SIMPLE. 0:00 – Intro 0:38 – Benefits of…
Subscribe to Epic Homesteading for the bread update coming soon: https://www.youtube.com/c/epicurbanhomestead I grew my own wheat! This video takes you from seed to harvest, including threshing and winnowing the wheat so I have a relatively clean product to grind into my own flour. 00:00 – Intro 00:48 – Wheat Varieties 01:40 – Site Prep 03:41…
These MASSIVE Tomato Trees are pumping out huge harvests! This is an incredible amount of food. MY FAVORITE GARDEN PRODUCTS 🧰 💯 → Merch: https://jps-store-5.creator-spring.com → Birdies Raised Beds: COUPON CODE: TUCK https://shop.epicgardening.com → 40% Shade Cloth- https://amzn.to/3vrAYNF → Sulfur Dust for Fungal Diseases: https://amzn.to/2VETaXP → UV Resistant Marker: https://amzn.to/3oUevXb → Garden Straw Mini: http://bit.ly/gardenstraw…
It’s the end of the growing season… or is it?! Ben takes us on a tour of his garden and shows us some essential jobs to do and some essential crops to grow this autumn, to keep you growing right into spring. For yummy and ingenious ways to store your produce over winter, check out…
We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers and gardening tools. We ship worldwide! website/shop: http:www.migardener.com/store our daily blog: https://migardener.com/blog facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIgardener instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MIgardener send garden snail mail to: MIgardener 227 Huron Ave Port Huron MI 48060 Our book is out!…
I wish I knew this when I first started growing fruit trees! If I knew the 5 things I share in this video I would have saved years of time and frustration. Learn from my mistakes and spend more time harvesting. MY FAVORITE GARDEN PRODUCTS 🧰 💯 → Merch: https://jps-store-5.creator-spring.com → Birdies Raised Beds: COUPON…
Soils are the basis of all terrestrial life. A teaspoon of healthy soil contains close to a billion bacteria, many yards of fungi, and thousands of protozoa and nematodes. Through decades of poor management techniques such as ongoing tillage, chemical inputs, and compaction, soil has become degraded the world over. This results in a massive…
I didn’t even harvest 1/3rd of what we could have, because I ran out of space in my fridge! As we wind down the summer season and move to fall, I wanted to share with you some growing tips to take with you into next season. The garden teaches endlessly, and I pick up new…
Harvest time! 🙌 It’s the time we green-thumbed gardeners have all been waiting for! But with so much to pick 🍎 pluck 🥦 and pull 🥕 harvesting can be hard work! Ben has some really rather clever ideas 🤓 to share with you to make your harvest easier, quicker and help your produce to keep…
For anyone who watches this channel, they’ll know that no dig vegetable gardening is the foundation to the way that I grow food. I realised that I don’t actually have a video summarising my take on what no dig is, and to talk about the history, core principles, key benefits and also the limitations no…
In this video, I show how much food can be grown organically and harvested from our small homestead backyard garden. Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden bed in the USA: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ and use SSME2020 for a 5% discount. In Australia & New Zealand go to https://birdiesgardenproducts.com.au/ or https://birdiesgardenproducts.co.nz/ and use Code SSMEbird for a…
Learn more: https://www.epicgardening.com/neem-oil/ Neem is critical tool for many organic gardeners. I use it here and there in my own garden, though as a general rule of thumb I try not to spray if possible. Learn what neem is, how to use it, and what it is and isn’t effective against! Preventative 0.5% Neem Solution…
In this video I’ll show you how I prune my fruit trees during the first summer after planting. These are all two year old trees and this first summer pruning is necessary for size control and structure creation specific to backyard orchards with a wide variety of trees in a small space. Ideally I would…
How to plan a fall garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4dtS_fZCUk&t=436s What I planted in the 2019 fall garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPK2oWdrw8s Full FALL Garden Tour 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzMSBnh6txQ&t=1s Companion planting in the FALL Garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWtNhgakJ4&t=71s NEW stickers from our shop: https://www.rootsandrefuge.com/shop Order my book: https://amzn.to/393lzZZ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/roots_and_refuge Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arootsandrefuge/ Our website: https://www.rootsandrefuge.com Email Us: rootsandrefuge@yahoo.com To drop us a…
Shoot Airam a follow on IG: https://www.instagram.com/itsthymetogarden/ My friend Airam is a local, self-taught San Diego gardener who got started in 2019 and is now supplying about 50% of her family’s veggies directly from her yard. I love her garden because it’s an example of exactly what you can do in a smaller, suburban space…
We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for .99 cent heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers and gardening tools. We ship worldwide! website/shop: http:www.migardener.com/store our daily blog: https://migardener.com/blog facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIgardener instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MIgardener send garden snail mail to: MIgardener 227 Huron Ave Port Huron MI 48060 Our book…
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