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I’d love to hear how you manage your plant maintenance workload. Do you follow a daily checklist or use a calendar system to stay on top of caring for all your plants?
Yikes i missed the Q&A, wanted to ask you what would be a good netting for cucumbers, since i've just planted those merlin cucumbers you suggested a few videos ago
Hey my celery is doing great – used tge asian2garden hope yours is good all good sound and video
I hear ya😊
We can hear you
Missed you again, you went on live during our busy dinner time. Happy Valentine's to you three! New Jersey, I miss the deli's!! At least the pre-2000 Deli's. Anyway, all seed starting complete, for now. Please give a day prior update on live if you can, I know it's on a whim and dependent on your schedule, appreciated. 💮
Aw man i missed this live. How did that happen?
Replay crew here!
Hello, from California while watching from Misawa, Japan. Love all your content ❤️❤️❤️
Dang it! Missed it! Maybe I'll catch the next one. Still, your videos are always awesome!
Sorry I missed you on line. I have 1 major question I see you use black shade cloth on your tomatoes in the summer to block out the sun and to lower the temperature. Where black a tracks heat why not use white shade cloth ? Thank you from Maine.
My first thought when i heard "those with livestock can't leave" was why would you ever want to leave? 😆
Very helpful video, answered questions i didn't know i had!
Thank you!
Really thankful that you have this channel. Not only is the garden informative exceptional, the money you have saved us by putting all the products for sale is amazing. Blessing to you and your family. Special kisses to Dale!!!
How did I miss this?
#replay
Would you announce your next Live ahead of time? I’d love to catch you on a Live
To the rhubarb question, zone 8-9 is too hot. Can grow it as an annual only.
Is pinestaw a good filler for raised bed
My garden took big hit during the recent arctic freeze in Dallas. How do i start again
very nice thanks
With regard to stone fruit, I’m also a big dehydrator person been doing it for definitely more than a decade and I won’t admit how long from here… But I will tell you that a couple years ago I started dehydrating black plums along with South Carolina and North Carolina peaches and totally the bomb the other thing that I would add for those of you who can eat nightshade, is get Roma tomatoes and cut them long ways and dehydrate them and then use all the seasonings and oil that go with. Sun-dried tomatoes usually people use olive oil. I kinda like avocado oil better… Extra-virgin non-GMO blah blah blah blah blah. You guys know the drill garlic, various herbs that you would like to your taste and then you can use something to preserve the color that you feel is safe for you and your family. It just depends on your family’s needs and how long you want to store it but I just love going into a big box store and buying 2+ pound thing of of sun-dried tomatoes and then making a pizza or a lasagna or something. That’s totally gluten-free and saving the extra oils after you drizzle it over the top and put whatever your favorite cheese blend the last few minutes that it’s in I like asiago and Romano, etc.… But then you can add to and reuse the oil from the sun-dried tomato and then learn to make your own concoction, and all of that to say this:
When tomatoes are in season, get them harvest them put them on your dehydrator and you know whether you’re getting red slicers from Canada or whether you’re doing Roma or other tomatoes make your own deal for what you like and by the way, they’re good on all kinds of other things so if the one you buy to begin with is based with olive oil instead of avocado oil go for it add avocado oil if you wanna take a chance of how they blend and if you don’t, then get some really good high-quality olive oil cause there’s a lot of cheap fakers out there for olive oil Even the big dollar are full of junk and they’re not cold express and they don’t have practice is so check into your supplier before you spend the big bucks or spend a little box after you check into your supplier. If you live somewhere else and you have invested in an Explorer cold explorer press make your own go for it. Take the leap next is gonna be something else that several thousand dollars is gonna be free dry stuff but anyway I just wanted to respond to that and I look forward to the rest of this cast. Thank you so very much for doing this. Ask any question please if you have responses to what I’ve said here, please reply. Just know I have a medical condition that keeps me from typing with my hands so if there are miss words or so forth, just know that read it for content and interpret it to the highest level of what you know that I mean and thank you for your grace in advance!
I recently since they’re in season, dehydrated some green beans and put all kinds of different flavors on them. Had someone come over and taste the different things and holy mackerel put the right things on green beans just gently halfway through put a very small amount of avocado oil on them so that the flavor stick whatever you like I can give you suggestions if you ask me I’ll tell you I don’t have a YouTube channel… So I’ll reply here when I see I’m only on every couple days but holy smokes with a different kinds I’ve made you could survive on them and water… Hopefully hopefully purified
I don’t use stone fruits for i.e. the seeds from the stone fruit, for composting I wait till they dry out remove the center, which of them contain high levels of asbestos, and then I used them in place of rocks in my planting in the future and it creates incredible root space And it’s phenomenal. There’s a couple other things that I do but for right now I’ll leave it at that but peaches, plums, nectarines, etc. take the sinners out after they dry. They are various methods for doing that, but if you look it up peaches and particular the little part in it’s so absolutely adorable can kill you and in the wrong increments so don’t eat them don’t plant them. Don’t put them in your your garden for things to grow from because traces at the very least can get in. If you got information that’s different than that please comment here correct me give me your source. I love love love learning, and love, love, love, growing fruits, and vegetables.!
So South Carolina is the number one peach producing state in the US North Carolina is the number one sweet potato producing US… I would say dick and deep to the people who have become experts there and good grief what I would like to know if anybody knows is, what state is the best producingbutternut squash state and what did they do this different than what other places do so that you can put them in your Roof seller, not touching each other and have them last for a long time and have them at every gathering your meal that you want to have them for!??? Mark.
When it comes to peanuts, it depends on what kind of peanuts is it the ones that Billy and Jimmy Carter made popular back in the country was at the 70s late 70s maybe although Billy split off and went to beer, lol. But there are bushes that are different kind of peanuts that don’t have an inclination to mold and unfortunately at the moment I forget what those are but they’re more of a bush.
Please, if you know, come here and help me get acclimated to that.… If I recall correctly, they do not have the same inflammatory disposition on people who have arthritis and so forth as regular peanut stew… Just like with almonds peanuts, you should briefly blanch them and remove the skin because they are detrimental to your health the skin that is.
With regard septic system is no matter where you live, and the warmer the environment or the more hot the environment. The more this statement is going to be true, gas is rise through the concrete of the septic tank… So the hotter environment you live in the further you want to plant them from the septic tank from what I havelearned experienced and understood. Again, if you have different experiences, please reply here I love to learn from you guys and find out what you experienced in different climate. Thank you!
Have you ever worked with NC Cooperative Extension?
Asparagus is much better on the perimeter since you mentioned it and even if you get cold, whether you cover them or not once they’re mature say 2 to 4 years in, but I would say 2 to 3 years in they they keep coming back and you have fresh asparagus weekly if not at least 2 to 3 times a month soI would agree 100% keep them away from the septic system!
Yeah, definitely established muscadine‘s… And if you do some research, you will find that muscadine grapes have medicinal purposes, as well as make some really nice flavored wine scuppernong might be another thing you’re considering do some research on Near the asparagus again it depends on what zone you’re in and what your elevation is that’s really super important! Your elevation for those grapes and then the season four the asparagus is pretty important not only that but cultivating and then cutting the asparagus, you know once they establish and like you said, make sure you put some barriers. I think you use the word quarantine, but put some barriers up so they don’t travel And unless you like like a lot of people do asparagus. I mean it’s not gassy like broccoli so if you would like to have asparagus, several times a week for the essential values of your nutrition, then you know go for it, but there are three or so ways that you can block that Distance that they go… Again requires a little bit of research. I can’t wait till I can go somewhere that I can grow asparagus because I love to eat it at least 23 times a week… Not only that but it’s super expensive especially out of season so I’m working on finding out some information about dehydrating and freezing neither of which are highly recommended however, if youheat them properly or snack on them and season them properly, they can be incredible… If you’re going to dehydrate them then do them at a super low temperature for the first part maybe one 4145 for the first hour or two and then drop it way down and dehydrate them for a longer period of time so they keep their nutrients for you.
Please expand on or make another video on dragon fruit because I started a whole bunch of seeds last year then the freeze wasn’t actually really a freeze, but it was the freezing wind that cost some problems with I think one out of my six growth I’ve done a fair amount of research, but if you could give some specific Info on dragon fruit, I would love to know what you have found out you can no matter where you live put them in Green in the house with a lot of other things that are more subtropical you didn’t like avocados and mangoes, etc. but get out that not withstanding. I got like 60 pineapple plants and three of them froze this year because of the incredible 30+ mile wind, even though the ambient temperature was not below freezing. So please let me know what you know if you know something about those things.
Great Q&A. As always, I took notes, laughed along, and commiserated. Thanks for the honest update on James. Love that tip for not going out for the "special" Valentine's menus. 😂
Question for you or anyone else who would like to reply: cranberries, I’d love cranberries I love to dehydrate them or freeze dry them or what have you come and use them in various things. What would you recommend for how get cranberries you’re around both either growing or buying them from other areas?
You know it’s incredible to dehydrate your ex… Especially if the people who you give to our half backers or way backers or snow burners… Byrd BIRDERS… You can start them on a food safe temperature and then lower them and I just gave away 40 something jars of I’ve said I dehydrated between eight and 11 years ago not a single spot of mold I’ve been eating them myself as well as three other families… I broke down a couple years ago and bought a really super neat dehydrator which I won’t mention here if they decide to sponsor me someday then I’ll do that but nevertheless the point is as long as you have dehydrated, homegrown food, and a proper water filtration system then regardless of what happens you can eat healthy maybe not meat so much but there are things that you can grow that have iron and the B vitamins and so forth you talked about citrus I have not had good success with citrus because even if you stop it when it’s between 89 and 91% dehydrated in just a couple weeks, it turns dark brown and then a couple weeks more black and it’s not aesthetically pleasing it still taste good drop it in a glass of water you know and that’s all good but the whole thing is is how much of the vitamin C have you lost in that process? I don’t know the answer to that. But I do know this all of the other fruits and vegetables that I have both grown and purchased have held shelfstable for much longer than the Internet will tell you that they’ll hold for. I do use usable, moisture grabbers is what I call them that they’re silica Based and then you can remove the moisture in various ways. I have had very few fail turned the opposite color over the years every now and then with something like bananas or apples, you might have to put them in your convection oven or your dehydrator again to remove the moisture, but I have not ever seen one spec mode And eight people in the last five or six months have eaten stuff that I have gone through my oldest dehydrated items… Not a single one has had a problem Health wiser otherwise with them so I would say mixture gardening with dehydration… And if you have a couple few Grand to take the next level up and freeze dry and go for that because they’re lightweight their shelf stable for a very long time and I hope one day to have a good quality unit. But for now, I am super thrilled with what I’ve been doing for a whole lotta years. Like I said, if if if you have had good fortune with citrus, please Respond here cause I have not. They’re either over or under undone and I haven’t found the happy medium… If you over or underdo them, you know you’re talking about weeks not years… I opened up a 16 ounce mason jar that I had sealed with a vacuum sealer From 11 years ago and they were as crispy as the day I put them in after they cooled.
In raised beds, from last year what is best to add on top to re energize the soil?
Oh gosh, somebody helped me hear. What is the sausage potato based soup that Olive Garden has that also happens to be gluten-free?
I saw a video a while back where those were freeze dried. It was freeze dried and then they rehydrated out on a hike or camping expedition and it was unbelievable. One note to make don’t forget the meat has to be cooked to 160 something 165 I think so do that in advance and then make it and you can make it with either spinach or unless fragile green like kale for example. I have done that and added the green vegetable, such as kale or more fragile spinach. What an incredible thing to freeze dry and then add water later, and have quite a tasty delight!
Oh! I missed this! but I still have question, I am from Nebraska and I was wandering about olive trees do I have to prune them in pots? thank you.
what do you suggest in treatment for scale?
What are your thoughts on wicking mats under seed starting trays as opposed to setting them into the solid trays and adding water?
Hey I am in Washington nc and love your advice!!! I’m transitioning to market gardening now and ur info is so helpful!
I CANT FIND A SMITH IN SOUTH TEXAS 😭😭😭😭
I hear you, Son
When do i need to start pruning my rabbiteye blueberry? I'm in NC zone 7.