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Good tipsb
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Thank you Jordan
Staples plan please. Great idea I will do this with my students! Thanks
@3:26 I was so excited when I saw that one could grow macaroni that I started looking for cheddar cheese seeds. Imagine my dismay when, upon closer review, I realized it was labeled Marconi, bummer. I fully support composting and your mini greenhouse idea. Excellent tips. Good video. Thank You…
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Thank you, Jordan for these tips. I really appreciate it. I’m getting excited for the warmer weather to start planting.
I LOVED this video, thanks so much!
Great video!!
Amazing information – so kind of you to share ❤️
We composed for 18 years here in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Voles consumed our garden the last two years, and we learned that we were really giving them a warm winter hotel in our glorious compost pile. We’ve taken a sabbatical for a bit.
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Hardwood ashes in large quantities in soil will kill cutworm moth larvae easily too. However, acid loving plants will die from ashes as well, so it is best to have plants that love Alkaline soils.
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In Germany we use sting nettles instead of comfrey, and fyi: Grass clippings make wonderful mulch!😊 thanks for your great video. Always helpful.❤
Quick little note. The compost recipe is actually 2 parts brown to 1 part green. It can be done 1 – 1 but works better as 2 – 1.
Definitely good teaching it makes me understand clear as i am not origin English speaker!! Lo
Thank yu !
This is the absolute Best gardening video I have seen online since internet started! Thank you from a city dweller who knows nothing about gardening- I know feel I could survive growing my own food supply
Cant Thank you enough!
I find these garden hacks very interesting. Does it matter what seeds I plant in these jugs? I would like to plant onions, peppers, tomatoes, squash, and basil.
What can I use for free to replace the potting soil? I have zero money 🤦🏻♀️
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Squash and peppers from the store are not likely to grow true to variety because they cross pollinate very easy. Tomatoes are usually hybrid varieties, so again, you don’t know what you’re getting. I used to mulch heavily with leaves, straw etc., but now only apply mulch in late fall and remove ASAP in spring and move it to the compost pile. I was simply creating an ideal living space for slugs, who ate every seedling that emerged. You show installing foil around large plants. Cutworms don’t eat plants that large. I cut the bottom out of coffee cups and press into the soil, then plant the seed or seedling inside it. When the plant is larger, I remove the cup.
Tomatoes, peppers, and bell peppers need at least 27 degrees Celsius to germinate.
So growing them outdoors in the winter seems highly unlikely to me.
Or you could wait until spring arrives.
But then you'd be too late.
Then you wouldn't have a long enough growing season left to get a harvest.
I sow peppers and bell peppers indoors on a heat mat in early February.
And tomatoes indoors on a heat mat in early March.
Also, the daylight hours are still far too short, and the plants that will germinate will become leggy and will need a daylight lamp to prevent that.
Sorry, but I find this all highly unlikely.
So where are you located that you can winter sow? At least include your zone! This always drives me crazy since some of us have snow on the ground until May.
Seed save from your own plants.
A couple things about the wood chips – it is a phenomenal way to get mulch. That said there are a couple things to look out for. Some municipalities use some chemicals you don't want added to your garden. Most don't – but you want to ask first. Secondly, I've lived in five states and multiple counties within a couple of those states – the right place to call varies in every one of them. The place to call that's most likely to point you to the right department is your township office or city hall – ask them who keeps the trees from growing over the power lines and clears trees that fall in the roads. Everywhere, there is a department for this – but… it's a different department even within some states. Your city hall or township office is most likely to know the right department. Finally, I can attest that if you're remote there are some places they simply won't bring chips =/ MOST places will, but one of the places we lived told us the drive was too far – and they were our closest department.
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Fertilizer – if you have the ability to get manure or fish carcasses you can make your own fertilizer that's significantly better than compost tea. If you are able to produce enough compost you might not even need any fertilizer as well. Don't be afraid to compost food scraps and bones, bones can be boiled to soften before composting.
Great video🎉
Thank you for this public service. Texas.
if you leave the leaves on the grass and around trees, you will get good insects (including fireflies, ladybugs, lacewings, etc.), because that's where they over winter — BUT only if you don't mow as soon as you can — you have to wait until the bugs hatch or wake up and are moving about before you mow (and you can put shredding blades on your mowing and leave the leaf powder on the lawn — fertilizer and organic matter that holds water and stabilizes the soil .
If you have a ring of cardboard around the base (toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls work) and it will break down later in the year when the plant is too big for the worms; have also used popsicle sticks next to the base but if you leave room, the cut worm can get it; love comfrey!
I would be worried about the chemical breakdown of those black plastic bags. I would definitely dump them out of those bags, and cover them with something natural, or just let the top layer of leaves be the cover. Great ideas here! Thank you for sharing.
Running the leaves over with the mower kills a lot of the ladybugs. If you like ladybugs, or have aphid issues, you can just use the leaves whole or wait until spring to cut them.
Thanks for all the great info!!
Brilliant tips. Thanks! 💚🌱🌞
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Thank you so much for the info!! 🍃
Please send me the staples plan. Thank you!
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Do not plant grocery store potatoes! Seed potatoes must be free of horrible fungus that will live in your garden FOREVER and make it impossible to ever grow potatoes again. Save your own potatoes grown from purchased seed potatoes and plant those. Cheap seed is typically better than from grocery store produce. Dollar tree has them in early spring.