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As the Brew City Garden comes down we have to harvest the rest of our hard work! Check out the final squash harvest as we harvest all of our fruits and begin to clean up the straw bale garden. Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group – “The Global…
The number one thing I have been asked this year is “what is that black stuff.” So here are all the landscape fabric questions answered! Never weed again with this great garden tool. Amazon Links to Landscape Fabric https://amzn.to/31EjDm0 This is for 4 foot wide fabric, we went for 5 feet to have overlap, but…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Speedy radishes can be grown almost anywhere: between larger vegetables, around soon-to-finish crops, in pots, or to give peppery roots both early or late in the season. Try some for yourself, including delicious winter radishes to sow from late summer. In this short video we’ll tell you…
Let’s take a look around the Brew City Garden for the final update of our collaboration series. It’s been a heck of a year for the Brew City Garden as well as for all the other channels who participated in the bale gardening collaboration this year. Everyone has varied degrees of success and failure but…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Whether you call them scallions, spring onions or green onions, versatile and delicious salad onions should be on every gardener’s to-grow list. Racing to harvest in as little as eight weeks, these tasty alliums are perfect for space-strapped gardeners or for intercropping between slower-growing vegetables. In this…
If you’re growing in a small amount of space – or even if you have an acre or more at your disposal – it’s important to squeeze as many harvests as possible from your land as possible. That way you get the MOST food for the least effort. I joined up with Brijette from San…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Wonderful wiggling worms are the starting point to healthy soil and can create truly awesome compost. Put worms to work in your garden by making your own wormery. It’s easy and inexpensive, and will yield nutritious worm compost and worm ‘wee’ to enrich your soil. In this…
Buy the raised beds I have in my garden: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ Today is a special video, I collaborated with my friend Mark from Self Sufficient Me, one of my favorite gardening YouTubers! He’s in winter right now and I’m in summer, so we threw some ideas at each other in a bit of a gardening battle…
So far so good! The deer are staying away, and the tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and even some corn…they are all doing very nicely. Check out this Square Foot Gardening Book for Beginners by Mel Bartholomew (Amazon link): https://amzn.to/2YCfu3x
We are growing over 50 varieties of tomatoes this year in the garden. They are starting to ripen and we are going to walk around and harvest them! 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.…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Extreme summer heat can be as exhausting for our plants as it is for us, but you can make life easier for them by deploying a few simple strategies. By using smart watering techniques, providing shade and removing other stressors you can help keep those harvests coming,…
Fall Garden Planning Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4dtS_fZCUk Tomato Harvest Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pDFaxKC21A&t=664s Varieties Mentioned in this Video: Redmon Cactus Zinnia Stained Glass Coleus Tanya’s Pink Podded Bean Golden Marconi Pepper Criolla de Cocina Pepper Ichiban Eggplant Haskorea Hot Pepper Habenero (NOT Habanada) Sugar Rush Peach Pepper Old Alabama Red Okra Chrysanthemum Melon Mini Red Bell Pepper Kajari Melon…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Pests are a common challenge but that doesn’t mean they need to gain the upper hand. In fact, it’s very easy to prevent pests altogether. Prevention is better than a cure, and it’s kinder on nature too. In this short video we’ll share seven simple strategies for…
In this episode I take you through a tour of the entire Brew City Garden in early July. The summer has just begun and the garden is beginning ignite with incredible growth! This is the point where it really starts getting good and I want to show you where we are at this point. Thanks…
In this video I show you how I set up the drip irrigation in the tomato bucket garden. Irrigation setup really is a simple process when you do a little homework. It’s really worth the effort and saves time and water and really provides peace of mind. Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page!:…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Pollinating squashes by hand is an easy-to-learn, simple yet effective technique to improve fruit set and yields. It can also be used to guarantee that seeds for saving breed true. If insect pollinators are scarce or you just want to give them a helping hand, hand-pollinating is…
Do you have problems with the local wildlife damaging your garden? In this video I cover some tips and trick to help deter rabbits and other wildlife in your garden. If you have any additional tricks up your sleeve be sure to leave them in the comments below. Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook…
I often hear comments from friends and family about how they CAN’T grow food at home, because it’s time consuming, expensive, complicated, etc. Instead of debunking those myths, I’m giving you the 3 BIG reasons that I find it SO important to grow my own food at home. 1. It’s good for your body AND…
It’s time to take another look at the “Jose The Neighbor Garden”! This is a brand new “lasagna” style garden where we are growing this year’s potato crop “Ruth Stout” style. As you can see these potatoes are growing like crazy! I get the feeling that our potato harvest is going to be monumental! You…
Just as the title says; I’m about to find out if I can grow a successful crop of sweet potatoes in Milwaukee WI zone 5b. This is the first time I have ever tried to grow sweet potatoes! Stick around so together we can find out if it’s possible. Thanks for watching! Check out our…
In this episode we are going through a complete comprehensive guide to growing tomatoes. From selection of the right plants, to fertilizing, pruning, staking, disease, spacing, and care. Elastic band by the spool: https://migardener.com/store/the-original-fantastic-elastic-tomato-string-100yd-spool/ We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for .99 cent heirloom seeds,…
Let’s take a look at the BEST tomato cages I’ve ever used. If you plan on growing some monster tomato plants, you need to build some monster tomato cages to hold them up. I show you my homemade cages and what I used to make them. We are one step closer having the tomato bucket…
When you think of Wisconsin, you typically don’t think “okra”. However, all things are possible in the Brew City Garden. Let’s take a look at what I’m doing to help my chances of getting a successful okra harvest this year. Thanks for watching!! Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group – “The…
In this episode we take a look at results for some of the seeds we sowed in the straw bale garden. Let’s take a look at the squash and the cucumbers then we will sow our main crop of pole beans for the season. The garden primed and ready to take off!! Thanks for watching!…
It looks like our bok choi started bolting right after transplanting! There’s nothing worse than a plant going to flower before I even get my first harvest. Now I have to come to terms with getting it out of the garden to make room for something new. Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page!:…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Lettuce is quick-growing, fuss-free and can be grown just about anywhere. Whether you’re growing it for sweet, firm hearts or to create a pick-and-mix of leaves, you won’t want to run short of this dependable salad. Grown for its luscious leaves, there’s a cornucopia of both hearting…
In this episode we try our hand at learning how to grow corn. More notably, we learn how to grow sweet corn in straw! I have scoured the internet and have not been able to find anyone else’s experience or results of growing corn in straw. Does it work? Let’s find out together!! Thanks for…
Let’s take a look around the Brew City Garden for a quick update for our collaboration series. We also discuss the other channels involved with our bale gardening collaboration for the 2019 season. Check out all the channels participating this season!: PG Nano Farm: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmDc_GF-wx6bzh8gBf1dnIA Brainstorm Acres: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv4AZmVDrCvkNx6aWKqw5mA Essayons Family Garden: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5I86nDx8QvkKeVtxk2l9vg Hummingbird Hill Homespun:…
If you have a small amount of space, don’t plant these plants without knowing how to properly grow them. These plants can TAKE OVER. But they can still be loved, just make sure you heed this advice or you will quickly lose your garden to these rapid growing and reproducing space hogs. We do more…
In this episode we cover how to plant your peppers into your bale garden. Planting peppers in your bale garden is as simple as spreading the straw a little and plugging your pepper plants right in. Easy peasy! Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group – “The Global Straw…
