John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida to share with you a urban farm who grows food in 100% containers. In this episode, you will learn about Fort Lauderdale Vegetables who grow food in the city and teach about decentralized farming. You will learn some of the techniques they use to grow in a tropical environment that gets lots of rain. You will also discover why smoking is not a good idea around your garden and much, much more.
Learn more about Fort Lauderdale Vegetables at
http://www.fortlauderdalevegetables.com/
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Can we grow papaya in so cal John? We are planting a big container garden by some bee hives, any advice? Bees do not bother me. It's on a friends land so I am lucky!
DUDE JOHN WAS IN FT. LUADERDALE! Right next to me
How can I keep rabbits and rats from eating my greens out of the pots?
Another great video John and love the guys mission about farming. We all need this more than ever!
Does anybody have the contact info John did for Azomite with the free shipping? Thanks all!
Wow John that is a great Urban Garden !! I hope one day to work with my city to develop a community garden so people with no space to grow can and to help the local food bank with fresh food ! Thanks for sharing my friend !
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I'm liking the longer video's, thanks a bunch
That sounds like a great idea, but wouldn´t the pollution of the city have a ver negative effect on the quality of the vegetables/fruits they´re growing?
I love Living in Fla or as I like to call it the just add water state .
I was there a few weeks ago looking through the fence! Fort Lauderdale people rock! That garden looks ten times better in person. Made me hungry just looking at it. Thanks John for showing our city's finest downtown attraction..
Succession planting is still something I am working towards. Thank you again to everyone who maintains their YouTube channels… Such a wonderful source of inspiration and knowledge … I look forward to the next video. Hope you have a great day
What kind of growing medium does Michael use???? I would like to try this in Arizona.The weather has been nice.
Awesome video. Useful information! Encouraging, too!
Yeah John! You are my favorite vegan guru man! You teach me so much every week man!
nice video John, awesome that you visit all these amazing grow styles, from different climas to different technics on gardening. Cute lizard taking the run while hanging around the exotic dragons fruit 13:45
what about those car fumes etc?
Dude! Way to go with the compost bucket! LMAO! Your vids are top notch!
Wow Banbanas so cool!
two magnificent human beings and lots of plant beings … thanx again for the inspiration and validation … this is my life I grow in pots and in the ground in North Central FL … pots often do better but just as often serve as home for fire ants … its not easy as we get lots of extreme weather in NC FL but when the seed becomes a plant, I feel so honored to be part of the loop. I cultivate chickweed and purslane in certain beds for salads and juicing; very sweet taste and free. I eat mostly raw like right now having hummus with red mustard leaves, kale, celery, carrots, beets, mizuna flower stalks and broccoli raab flower stalks, most of which I have grown. Lots of trial and error and lots of thanx to you tube educators who help so much.
lol youtube is so late,ive already watched your shows even they bwfore they give up dates.
Lol luv this vid
Best video yet john! Very inspiring
Thank you for the tour!
Lol, His body language when he says, "I smoke one cigarette a day", I'm no lie detection expert, but that's a doozie
another great and inspiring episode, but a pity that he didn't filmed the pot container of that big papaya tree full of fruit, i was very interested, seeing is believing 🙂
Great video John.
This is amazing! I aspire to this!
The sandy soil argument doesn't really hold water (pun intended) because all that vegetation year after year should easily compost into topsoil, let alone outside sources for compost. Potentially having to move perennial plants/trees at some point in the future is a much better reason, as would avoiding the expense of tearing up a paved area or if it's not your property so you don't have permission to do so.
Congratulations, you managed to mention almost all the urban myths / marketing lies about air pots. They are only of benefit in situations where the plant is getting overwatered by owner ineptitude or excessive natural (rain).
How on earth is rock dust sustainable? That's a dumb thing to say. It's mined…
most of the plants look yellow and damaged
My neighbour used to live next to a main road back in the day when there was a lot more lead in car exhaust fumes. She grew some peas and took it to a local lab to test it for contaminates. They refused her as they didn't deal with individuals, so she went to another lab to get her peas tested. They gave her some odd looks, but took it anyway. A few days later, she got a call asking her to come in as they discovered the lead had been absorbed into the peas.
I don't know what the current situation is with regards to car exhaust fumes, especially given the recent VW scandal, but I'd be wary of growing anything in a polluted environment.
Man I could have been in this video… BTW This farm is no longer there…
fyi if you live in Canada you can buy the JackPot from the Canadian distributor http://www.westcoastmicrogreens.com. I bought 1000 for my 1/3 acre farm and they are highly productive and use a lot less water.
Speaking the truth
what's up Jon been watching for a while finally I just subscribed good stuff ..
At the end of this video, there is a box labelled "Last Episode of Growing Your Greens". I believe you meant to say "Previous Episode …" unless the previous episode is also the last, final, never any more episode.
Great idea for Florida, but I wonder about the city pollution, the air quality, all those cars driving by continually, Ft. Lauderdale being on the water, boat exhaust too! more of a fence or green barrier might help, but no space…just wondering.
How deep do your containers have to be to grow watermelons ? Regular size
This looks great but what is the affect of all those cars belching out gunk on the food growing there?…Not sure I would want to eat it…
I was gonna do raised beds this year, was 100% convinced that's what I wanted to do. But now I'm growing stuff in containers and I couldn't be happier. I love being able to move them if the weather changes, maybe they're getting to much sun or rain, maybe I wanna come throw and mow or weed that area of the garden. There are drawbacks for sure but I've become totally sold on container planting.
John – I love your energy, optimism, and encouragement to grow food in urban settings! Do the FL gardens grow kale and lettuces year-round? How? I would love to do. I’m in Atlanta.
God bless grow bags. When four of my discs herniated & I had to go through surgery to have them fused, I didn’t think I would ever be able to garden again. My soil is nasty dense clay that I used to struggle with (it probably ruined my spine!). Then I decided to grow in containers.
I started with 5 gallon cat litter buckets. Then while searching for larger, affordable containers I came across the grow bags. It took a couple of years to figure out which brand I liked best. I like Garden4ever and Casolly Square Garden Bags (the square ones even have loops to put you stakes in. Each year my "garden" gets bigger. I even use the 48" plastic kiddy pools to grow things like beans, herbs & even Jerusalem artichokes. Yea, I know, it’s plastic but it was only $7 bucks. Drill a few holes with a circle saw & you have a small raised bed.
This year we’re putting in two real raised beds for raspberries & haskaps. Next year we’ll make two more raised beds for blueberries & asparagus. The raised beds will have perennials. I will still continue with my grow bags because they are are so versatile. I can arrange to them any way I want. They last many years. They’re even washable. Whoever thought selling grow bags to the public was pretty smart.
Are the bags good to grow in southern California where we get less rain?
as always, thanks for sharing
Can you tell pls the dimensions of those fabric grow bags?! Thx.
This is great! How are they managing today?