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Strawberries Need Winter Protection. Especially if you live in a cold climate. When the plants start to shut it down in the early fall, the temptation to set them of for winter his high! But we have to resist doing this too early, and today I’ll show you why. 🙂 Other Strawberry videos of interest:…
Peppers Can Be Stubborn! The nights are getting colder, yet you still have dozens of immature peppers on the vine, taking their sweet time to ripen. And unlike tomatoes, you can’t pick them and ripen them indoors so easily… Well, in today’s Garden Quickie, I got 3 ways for you to ripen those peppers faster…
Fall Gardening Has Its Advantages. With the cooler temperatures and general slowing down of the gardening activities, the keen grower turns his/her attention to fall planting. With winter looming, the clock is ticking and some growers are a bit apprehensive about starting new crops at this time. Will there be enough time? Will the crops…
Herbs Are Amazing Plants To Grow For All Skill Levels. Relatively easy, fast-growing, and highly productive. Everyone loves Basil and Sage and Cilantro, but those plants have a time limit, and once they flower or winter hits, whichever is first, that’s it. Enter Perennial Herbs. These plants are built to last, coming back year-after-year, even…
Fall Planting Made Easy! No question, spring and summer growing get all the attention. At the end of long growing season we often think more about cleaning up and taking a break than we do growing even more plants. But that could be a mistake because Fall Gardening is some of the most rewarding planting,…
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,…
Worldwide Community Garden Bed Phase 3! The joint venture where you guys pick the crop and I do all the work! We harvested Peas and Radishes in the last video, and kept the momentum going by planting even more crops! Our job today will be to harvest all the remaining plants and clear the bed…
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,…
Don’t Throw Away That Soil! After the crop is over, particularly potted plants, the spent leftover soil is usually just discarded. This is both expensive and wasteful. There has to be a better way. And there is! Today, even though its a Quickie, I got 5 ways to reuse your old soil to not only…
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…
Potatoes….the world’s number one root crop! A backyard favorite and dietary staple in almost every culture. Nothing beats a fresh potato out of your own garden however. Today, we’ll look at everything it takes to grow the humble potato in your very own garden from chitting (sprouting) the potato eyes, planting, watering, hilling, fertilizing, and…
How To Store Potatoes! Harvesting fresh spuds from the garden has to be tops on the list of favorite things we growers get to do. But this highly prolific crop often produces more than we can possibly eat right away, so we turn to storage. And that’s where today’s Garden Quickie comes in. In a…
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…
Grow Your Biggest Peppers Yet! With the proper feeding schedule as well as the right fertilizer, your pepper harvests could be off the charts. The key is knowing what to fertilize with, and when. Today, we’ll go over everything you need to know to feed your pepper plants right from the seedling stage, all the…
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…
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…
The Complete Guide To Strawberry Runners! Every year we see these vigorous offshoots coming off our main Strawberry plants. Its great to see and it means the plants are growing and are healthy. But the runners can’t stay, they need to be removed fairly quickly. And today, we’ll discuss why. Why is it so important…
Grow Your Biggest Blueberries Ever! This North American super food has been a favorite of temperate growers for decades. The varieties we have available to us now produce more Blueberries than ever before! But, if you want to grow the BIGGEST berries, then there’s a few things extra we can do. Today, I got my…
Garlic Needs Space. That’s what we’ve always been taught. 4 inches spacing between each clove when you plant them and 2 inches from the sides of the bed or pot. We plant them that way every year without question and get great harvests. But what if we didn’t? What if we spaced them close, but…
Zucchinis Are Best Grown Alone. I love companion planting and interspecies crop rotating, don’t get me wrong. But not all plants play well with others and some are just an outright terrible choice for it. Today, I got 3 reasons why you should never companion plant Zucchinis. Even though they are one of my favorite…
Growing Potatoes Indoors? Can it be done? Yes, it most certainly can. Should we though? Well, that’s what we aim to find out today in Part 3, the final video in our series of How To Grow Potatoes Indoors. This is a 3-part video series where we take regular grocery store potatoes, wash and chit…
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…
It Is Finally Time To Harvest Your Garlic. After 9 months or more of building (and bulbing!) up, the wait is over at last and Garlic harvest time is upon us! As a low-maintenance crop, the journey hasn’t taken a lot of effort, but we have played our part. At planting, we ensured the proper…
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…
Garlic Harvest Time Is Finally Upon Us! Its been a long wait, so what better than a quick video showing us 3 hot tips how Garlic is harvested. These 3 tricks are a great refresher if its been a while for you, and if this is your first year growing Garlic, then you’ll definitely want…
Peas Are Literally The Perfect Beginner Crop. Just starting out with your gardening journey this year? Maybe you’ve tried a few things and they didn’t take or the harvests were poor? Well, even if you have little space or acres of land or just a few raised beds, Peas are the crop for you! In…
