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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…
Heat Waves Are No Joke. Nothing takes down a plant faster than heat and drought. With climate throwing us a curveball every year, on top of all the other things that make gardening challenging, we need help….we need a reprieve! In today’s video, I’ve got 8 strategies to help your garden and your plants this…
Make Your Own Safe And Natural Insect Spray! Pesky aphids and those dreaded whiteflies don’t stand a chance! This is the time of year when insect outbreaks rear their ugly heads and start to invade our gardens. We’ve put way too much time and effort and sometimes money into growing our crops up to this…
Everyone Loves A Bonus! Two for the price of one…..buy one, get one free….nothing like getting a great deal and us gardeners are the best at sniffing them out! But in our world, even better than saving money, is double harvesting our favorite crops! And I don’t mean multi-harvesting like when you cut fresh herbs…
Everyone Wants To Be More Self Sufficient. One of the best ways to do that is to grow your own food. But within our commonly cultivated food crops, there are specific plants that rise above the others in terms of self propagation. In today’s video, we’ll look at the top 5 crops to grow this…
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…
Companion Planting, Should We Plant Our Crops This Way? Which ones? What plants go together? What plants do we avoid? So many questions. Honestly though, other than a few hard rules and plants to avoid combining together, Companion Planting is not hard at all. You just need to get started. And in today’s video we…
Composting Shouldn’t Be A Mystery. It definitely has its tricks and nuances, but the science is pretty basic when you work it out and understand the components at play. That said, no one became a master composter overnight! In today’s video, I take the 6 most asked questions on composting that I get in the…
Baking Soda Has Many Uses…..how about as a pesticide? Or maybe a fungicide? Today, let’s look at how to use Baking Soda, or Sodium Bicarbonate, in the garden for an effective treatment against aphids, whiteflies, thrips, caterpillars, spider mites as well as prevention of fungal outbreaks such as powdery mildew. There are a few caveats…
Thyme Cuttings Made Easy! As a member of the Mint family, Thyme is very easy to grow from the cuttings of adult plants, and possible even grocery store stems if they are fresh enough! It is not hard at all and doesn’t require any tools or equipment. In this video, I’ll show you how to…
Any Garden Can Be Profitable! With the right crops, the right strategies, and the right market, no matter the size of your farm or garden, you can turn a profit. Today, I’ve partnered up with Local Line (www.localline.ca) to show you 4 ways to grow your backyard garden or hobby farm into a thriving, viable…
Growing Potatoes Indoors. Why not? The long-awaited Part 2 of the 3-part series where we take regular grocery store potatoes, sprout them, and plant them under grow lights indoors. We’re doing all that in this episode, PLUS we are building the best indoor, customizable potato growing bed that has ever existed, LOL! Join in on…
Want to start gardening and growing your own food, but you don’t know where to start? Well, you’ve found the right video. Or should I say, series of videos. In this 4-part video series, we’ll cover all the basics from seeds to harvests, and tools to terminology. Gardening can be daunting if you are just…
Don’t Throw Away Those Old Seeds! Actually, don’t use them either… Old seeds, unknown or untrusted seeds, or just plain crops that aren’t working out. How can we know if we are the problem, or if the seeds are the problem? Simple. Do a Seed Viability Test! A quick paper towel test under optimal conditions…
Regrow Store-Bought Green Onions For Free! If you ever wanted unlimited Green Onions, then look no further. Also known as scallions or spring onions, these members of the Allium family are quite literally the easiest crop to grow for new gardeners. Cut the root ends off, stick them in a shallow glass of water, and…
We made it guys! The final video in the series Growing Your First Garden. We’ve covered a LOT up to this point and it doesn’t stop now! In the finale we cover the three H’s of gardening: Happy, Harvesting, and Healthy. Let’s put all that knowledge we’ve built to date to work and see what…
Its Time To Plant! Today, we’re going to cover all the nuances of container gardening, direct seeding, seed starting, and transplanting. We are 3/4 of the way through the series and the excitement to get that first crop going has never been higher! With a new year brings a new enthusiasm for growing our own…
Want To Start A Garden? You’ve found the right video series! In Part 2 of “Growing Your First Garden”, we’ll look at the 3 S’s of gardening: Soil, Seeds, and Spacing. As we advance through the series, you’ll become more comfortable with common gardening concepts and arm yourself with the tools necessary to growing your…
Want to start gardening and growing your own food, but you don’t know where to start? Well, you’ve found the right video. Or should I say, series of videos. In this 4-part video series, we’ll cover all the basics from seeds to harvests, and tools to terminology. Gardening can be daunting if you are just…
Snow Is Good For Your Garden! While it may seem like a freezing cold setback for your plants, a thick, fluffy blanket of snow is actually the opposite. In temperate regions, this layer of the winter white stuff is a welcome sight for veteran gardeners. In this video, I’ll show you 5 reasons why snow…
Soap Is Safe! Well, natural, castile, free-of-perfumes and dyes soap is anyways. By far the easiest and safest way to control the big 4 indoor pests (Aphids, Fungus Gnats, Spider Mites, and Whiteflies) is to use an insecticidal soap spray. And fortunately, making your own at home is not only inexpensive, but its extremely easy!…
Seedling Heat Mats Are An Invaluable Tool For Early Germination And Beyond! As we increasingly want to get a head start on the new spring growing season, our thoughts turn to sprouting a lot of our warm weather crops (tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, zucchinis, etc) early indoors to max out our growing window. The #1…
Did You Know That Blackberry Bushes Are Pruned Twice A Year? Indeed they are, once at the end of fruiting as you enter fall, and again at the end of winter right before spring bud burst. Fall pruning involves removing all the spent floricanes, the branches that produced fruit that summer. Then again in the…
Growing Wheatgrass Is Super Easy! Don’t be frightened off by the high prices of processed Wheatgrass juices and powders. You can grow an epic crop of Wheatgrass right in your own home, for pennies, in as little as 10 days. There are 4 steps to getting this right, making it less than 2 weeks until…
Make Your Own Seeding Soil Mix! Potting soils can get expensive, but they pale in comparison to what Seeding Soils cost. There’s nothing special about Seeding mixes in particular, but the qualities that make a good seeding soil are necessary to really maximize your germination and early growth results. Yes, seeds will sprout in just…
Start Your Vegetable Seeds Indoor Early To Get A Jump Start On Spring! In temperate climates, the growing season is often just not long enough to get the most out of your tomato, peppers, cucumber, or other warm weather crops. For the plants to flower, fruit, and produce for you, they need a specific amount…
Prune Your Grape Vines In The Winter! As impressive as Grape plants are in full summer foliage, they become neglected and forgotten in the dormant months. Understandably, as the vines themselves become barren sticks giving no indication of their summer awesomeness! But winter is right when you should be giving your Grape vines the most…
Starting Your Favorite Vegetables Early Indoors Is Fun and Easy! Not only that, it is often necessary. Certain summer crops need the extra time to grow, especially if you live in a temperate region with an extended winter. Join me today as I show you the basic tools and accessories that you’re going to need…
Alfalfa Is The Ultimate Organic Slow Release Fertilizer! Alfalfa Pellets and Alfalfa Meal are fantastic additions to your soil amendment schedule for several reasons. An excellent source of slow-release Nitrogen, Alfalfa Pellets can boost your plant’s photosynthetic capacity and send your yields to the next level, both for indoor growing and outdoors. In this video…
Make Your Own Bone Meal! Bone Meal is one of the most popular soil amendments for vegetable and flower gardeners around the world. Use as a rich source of Phosphorus as well as Calcium, Bone Meal as a slow-release organic amendment is very effective in getting the most out of your plants. While readily available…
