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Aphids Are The Worst! And indoors, they are twice as deadly! Left unchecked, an Aphid outbreak will quickly decimate and ruin your indoor plants, crops, and vegetables. Often, when we bring plants indoors over the winter, Aphids hitch a ride inside. Without their natural predators and weather pressures, their populations explode! Fortunately, there are safe,…
Don’t Mess With Your Garlic, Mulch It! For best results of this unique over wintering crop, it should be mulched. Mulching does many things for many different plants and crops, but even more so for Garlic. Because Garlic is actually grown over winter, unlike most crops, mulching of it becomes quite necessary. In fact, I’ll…
Seaweed Makes Amazing Fertilizer! Seaweed has been used for centuries as a garden amendment or mulch to supercharge soils and boost crop potential. With over 60 trace minerals and elements as well as beneficial amino acids and plant growth hormones, Seaweed extract is like no other soil additive you’ve used. In this video I will…
Top 10 Gift Ideas For Your Favorite Gardener. Yes, we are notoriously hard to buy for, because in our minds, when we’re in our backyards, we already have everything we could possibly want! Good for us, not so good to shop for! There are great gift ideas however, if you can think like a gardener!…
Cilantro, Or Coriander, Grows Amazing Indoors! In fact, I don’t even grow it outside anymore because of the speed of growth and quality of harvests when growing indoors! You can grow the best indoor Cilantro as well! In this video, I show you from start to harvest how to grow your own Cilantro indoors, whether…
Banana Peels For Our Garden? Yes, you better believe it. Bananas are not just good for us, their peels contain valuable nutrients, Potassium in particular, that can be extracted and used in our garden as a water soluble, organic source of nourishment. In this video, I show you 3 easy ways to prepare and use…
Faster Compost, Better Results! Want to learn how to get better Compost, faster and easier? Compost piles can often slow down, become inefficient, and not perform like we want them to. Has your pile stopped producing that Black Gold we covet so much? Are you running out of room because your organic waste isn’t decomposing…
Growing Garlic In Warmer Climates Or Tropical Areas Is Possible! Not only is it possible, but growing Garlic in warmer areas of the world is actually quite easy. In this video, I’ll show you the steps you need to take to grow your own epic organic Garlic, right in your garden this year! Garlic is…
Hydrogen Peroxide And Plants? Yes, H2O2 has many benefits in your garden ranging from a disinfectant for garden tools and pots and work areas, to an anti-fungal and pest control powerhouse spray. Its uses are many, which is why Hydrogen Peroxide should be in any gardener’s tool belt! In this video we’ll cover what exactly…
Composting Does Not Have To Be Hard. In fact, your Compost does most of the work on its own! However, as with anything new, it can be hard to visualize, hard to get started, and hard to know if you’re on the right track. In this video, I explain what Compost is, how it is…
Garlic Loves Other Plants…And Other Plants Love Garlic! Garlic is one of the best Companion Crops you can plant. It can be used as a natural pest deterrent and even a fungicide. Garlic has very few incompatible neighbours and its space – nutrient requirements are very minimal. Companion Planting is an easy, low maintenance way…
Indoor Garlic Growing Made Easy! Did you forget to plant your Garlic this fall? Or maybe you didn’t plant enough and you want more, but the ground is frozen or covered in snow? Well, fear not my temperate friends… You can grow Garlic indoors and its super easy. Check that….almost TOO easy. There’s a couple…
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…
Cabbage…..The Original Brassica! What a perfect fall crop to showcase some no-till, no-dig, regenerative, permaculture practices right in our very own backyards! Cabbage is super easy to grow, no different than cauliflower or broccoli or kale! Give it some space, plant 6 weeks before first fall frost, pH neutral soil that is rich in organic…
Fall Is The Time To Plant Broccoli! This autumn wonder crop is probably the most famous of the cultivated Brassica plants. Growing Broccoli right in your backyard is super easy. Even easier is growing Broccoli using no-till, no-dig, regenerative agriculture methods. Let me show you how! In this video, let’s take a typical raised bed,…
Growing Arugula Indoors Is Easy! This peppery salad green, also known as Rocket, is a really quick grower and can be cut and harvested many times, making it one of the most bountiful as well! Arugula’s growing needs are very simple and once you grow a few crops of it indoors, you’ll wonder why you…
Planting Cauliflower In The Fall. Cauliflower loves the fall. The cooler temperature produces the sweetest florets and the cleanest, pest-free harvests! Join me today as I plant a raised bed from start to finish, using the no-till, no-dig method of gardening to plant Cauliflower starters in a raised beds. No music and no commentary, just…
Raspberry Plants Need Winter Care! As hardy and as vigorous as Raspberry plants are, they most definitely can benefit from a few simple steps to prepare the for the coming winter. Left unchecked, you could be subjecting yourself to an unruly patch at best, and poor to no harvests at worst. In this video I…
Prepare Your Strawberry Plants For The Coming Winter! Strawberries are super hardy plants, enjoyed in temperate climates around the world. However, a few extra cold nights here and there and even the hardiest of berry plants can perish. Now is the time to set up your Strawberry plants for their winter dormancy. The few steps…
Seeds WANT To Germinate! They are built for it. These amazing tiny kernels of life are the starting point of nearly every one of our crops. But every year, without fail, there is failure. Failure to germinate. Failure to continue growth as a seedling. And failure as a crop and thus a waste of our…
Grow Your Own Sweet Potatoes Indoors….Year Round! Sweet Potatoes are not like regular Potatoes and are in fact only distantly related. Instead of planting chunks of the tuber in hopes that the “eyes” will sprout, Sweet Potato growers sprout the shoot end of the tuber with a mass of new vines known as “slips”. From…
Growing Green Onions Indoor Right From Seed To Harvest! Green Onions are an awesome staple in most gardens, easy to germinate, even easier to maintain, harvest, and eat! Treated as a perennial in most climates, people often want to try their hand at growing these guys indoors. Well, let me tell you…its just as easy!…
Growing Garlic Is Easy! Planting fall Garlic is one of the most enjoyable and rewarding experiences for us backyard gardeners. It is also one of the easiest, maintenance-free crops to grow, in addition to making use of beds and planters that would otherwise lie dormant over winter. Join me today and learning all the basics…
Fertilizers…Do We Need Them? In my experience with organic backyard gardening and farming, no, we really don’t. The concept of synthetic chemical fertilization of food crops is a modern construct, yet farming has existed successfully for thousands of years. Chemical fertilizers solved a need that was created by modern agriculture destroying the very land it…
Growing Fall Radishes Isn’t Hard. In fact, it is so easy that Radishes are the de facto quick crop, and for good reason. They germinate fast, and grow even faster. If you have a small window of time to grow, especially in cooler weather on the fringes of the season, really consider giving Radishes a…
Spider Mites Can Be Treated Safely And Naturally. As we move our growing indoors, our plants become susceptible to a whole new host of pests. At the forefront of these are Spider Mites, particularly the Two-Spotted Spider Mite (Tetranychus urticae). Fortunately, we can treat and prevent these plant pests both safely and naturally using a…
Why Should We Bother To Fall Garden? With the summer shutting down, isn’t it better to let our gardens go dormant and give our soils a much-needed rest? No no no no no no my friends. Planting and maintaining a fall garden is one of the best things you can do! Let me show you…
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…
Growing Lettuce In The Fall. Lettuce is the perfect end-of-summer crop! With the super hot days of summer behind us, we can grow this fast crop before winter hits for a cheeky late season freebie, or, if you have mild winters, Lettuce just might be your source of greens until spring! In this video I…
How To Grow Turmeric From Store Bought Tubers – Part 1 of 2. Turmeric is a rhizomatic tropical plant used for its bright orange fragrant root tubers. Its in the Ginger family and is quite easy to sprout and grow from the organic stuff you buy at the grocery store! Given the health benefits of…
