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0:00 Intro
0:35 Cover crops
4:32 Demystifying composting
11:19 Using cold-frames
12:37 Save those propagations!
17:22 A quick word from our sponsor
20:00 Save those seeds!
23:26 Propagate, don’t buy!
25:11 Tending fruiting plants
28:22 Fixing crowding problems
31:05 Garlic planting timing
32:52 Harvesting sweet potatoes
35:55 Checking on the pumpkin patch
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22 Comments
Why do you think the pumpkins failed? Squash vine borers?
Austrian winter peas are easy to kill in the spring, you can just weed eat them down. I generally have plenty of time to kill Winter rye in the spring, by tarping for a few weeks before I need to plant my summer crops into it. My last frost is May 15th on average, so I would probably tarp mid April.
Sorry I have not caught what area and zone your are in? I need to figure out what will work for me based on your ideas. thanks
Do you have suggestions for finding good sources of wood chips?
AAAAhhhhhhh!! I miss my caprinies… I am trying not to stare at Anne's…. BTW, caprinies is a term for Caprine, aka Goats, for anybody who went astray. I have a goat barn that no longer have goats since my family claimed the milk was just "ok." "Ok" was not esteeming enough. Also, Anne has a great point regarding composting. A slightly off compost is TOTALLY better than a no-compost!! Keep it going Anne! ❤🤍💙
Ultimate lazy gardening: rabbit litter straight into the beds/instead of soil in pots! Man, you wouldn't believe the growth that happens! After my experimentation with that this year, I'll be using my hutch clean-outs from now on, no soil!
Lazy gardening? You’ve achieved more in a half hour video than I have all year! 😃
I use buckwheat and red clover and lacy phacelia and never had to terminate those cover crops, I just let them live and die on their own. I love seeing doves collect the dried lacy phacelia stems for their nests. its the sweetest
hello! Why do you overwinter strawberry roots in the fridge?
What a cool chick! We need you as a neighbor.
Awesome and real truth gardening information that we all need to make our busy lives easier and more prolific, thanks.
the broad fork still looks like its breaking up soil connections
5:38 Yo goat. I herd you're a goat, so I painted a goat on a goat full of goats.
Once again, your videos fascinate me. They are my favorite showertime entertainment. 😅
I know this is possibly not what I was meant to take away from the video, but seeing the repair in Anne's jeans as she was crouching down to show us stuff made me so happy. It's not the point of the video at all, but it shows that Anne is the same person and carries the same values through all aspects of her life.
Huge respect.
Thank you for the baby goat parade; I needed that!
Clear plastic kills by solarization, the opaque by occultation. I use the opaque or dark to kill the covers after cutting them down for just two weeks. I've watched the soil temp which stays relatively moderate and doesn't dry out. I'm in zone 6a however. I would hardly classify your efforts as lazy and understand why might you choose not cover crop though.
Cover crop selection is extremely important. I'm certainly not disagreeing with you, because there's no real arguing against observation based decision making 😉 You're in Tennessee now, after being in the Pacific northwest. Neither place gets hard winters, and that can make winter kill for cover crops a dubious thing 😉 I'm in the southern tier of Michigan, where, so far, we get hard enough winters that I can rely on some cover crops winter killing. There's a lot of situational decision making involved with cover crops.
So I can either use the grass clippings from my lawn mower for the greens in my compost or, if I don't have any, I can use my friend's lawn mower? I don't think she'll like that. Her lawn mower's one of those fancy electric mowers. That's some expensive compost. Do you think the rubber tires will break down, or should I remove them and just use the plastics and metals? 🙂
I'm only poking fun, of course. Love your videos!
OMG! My heart DID need a baby goat parade! Thanks so much!
You are living my dream.
i have attempted to propagate fig trees at least 3 times and failed miserably every single time! no matter how much i baby them and make sure that their watered just right and humidity domes and checking on them every 3 days, even keeping them in doors, nothing seems to work. Zone 9b.