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I found recycled wood helps many to be found with spring cleaning around the corner. There are many DIY fly traps that can help.
Hey Greg…Thanks for the video! It made my Sunday…been out in the garden since early light. Seeded peas, lettuce under some cloches, red onions under cloches, lifted the cold frame off of my herb bed, etc., just an all round awesome morning. Then I come in and my wife has fresh baked bagels sitting out for me…lunch with Greg!
Great plans for the garden and I have always been a supporter of child labor in the garden! 🤣 it is what I grew up with and my kids also.
We are having a house full of family today with our youngest turning 31, my sister turning 77 and of course I get to have my grandkids around. They will be wanting to go out to the garden and visit with the garlic!
Have a great day my friend and Thanks again for the video!
Mike 🇨🇦 🍁 👍
If that is a bush cherry, it's most likely on it's own root stock and they tend to push up suckers.
I use to have alot of cinder blocks which I replaced with reclaimed boards from a 1900 house…my suggestion is do one or two beds in blocks before going all out….just thought they used up space that was needed for me and cost more money than what I liked for that. Seeing your spinach and lettuce I do hope for a good result as I planted a little space of five types of plants this week under plastic cover……..the soil had been covered with bagged leaves during the winter which was great when I went to use.
I like the rock beds myself. I have one two rows of rocks high. I think they can be glued or mortared together.
Thanks for your video, Greg. My gardens are still under 2 feet of snow and ice that is slowly melting with the rain and a few warmer days. One question: How deep is the garden soil inside your beds? One unorthodox idea: 2 winters ago some of the lower branches on my young cherry trees broke or split, similarly to your apple tree. I was quite upset to lose them so in desperation I squirted a carpenters' wood glue in the splits and tied them back up to other branches, closing the splits. Miraculously, all of the branches survived and produced cherries on each one which I did not expect.
Greg, I saw in one of your other replies you moved that cherry rootstock. You should graft that with a scion from your known cherry variety. It's a fun learning process and a fantastic feeling when they take. It's really quite easy, (compared to all the other bushcrafting stuff I've seen you do. Watch a video on whip grafts or cleft grafting (depending on the size of the scion wood/rootstock difference.) As someone who loves to garden and grow fruit trees I think your other fans will be pretty interested to see the process and If it survives (probably will need to put 1/4" hardware cloth wrap around it to keep it from getting eaten by everything.)
You should wait to graft until the rootstock is growing, but you would cut some scion wood that is 1yr old growth about pencil thickness would be good maybe 4 or 5 about 6 inches to be on the safe side. I like to put it in the refrigerator in a ziplock bag.
Just a thought. using 3/4" minus as a material for the walkways as opposed to bank run might slow the erosion issue. It stays in place and is what is used as a driveway ballast.
I love the pond idea, and the use of a (modified) french drain to take advantage of the obvious runoff you already have. I can't wait to see how it evolves. Random question: why don't you grow collards? You grow a LOT of greens, but I don't remember seeing collards. They're yet another brassica, great for cooking with beans and other "heavy" dishes (but not good raw). When you cook them well, they take on a velvety texture that's hard to beat in stews and soups, and the nutrition is way up there. And you have all that space where you're cutting back on the bloody dock…
This is such a nice time of year to be working outside, no black flies. I started a greenhouse on Friday and hope to finish it up this week. Then I have a few more beds to build, a woodshed to build, an archway for the garden, a fence to finish and tree to clear. My list is usually longer than my available time. Happy spring 🌱
Greg, consider landscape lumber for your raised bed. I got an eight foot piece of landscape lumber at Home Depo for $5.98 four weeks ago. Landscape lumber makes an interesting raised bed. It’s not as rustic as you log beds, but it’s close.
Talk about the need to have your soul tested when you have it deep mulched with wood chips…
What a great idea, Greg creating a pond from the natural runoff. And so conveniently located next to your garden. I hope you do film the process I'd really be interested in watching it. Thanks for the spring prep video, as always I benefit from your knowledge.
Understood! Thx enjoy watching your videos…
Good luck with that pond project. Looking forward in seeing how it works out.
Love the waterway idea! Can't wait to see it. I've had good luck with an inexpensive bagged water lilly from the big box store.
Greg that was a really fun video. I've been a bad boy can I help you? You now have more wood for your hugleculture beds. I am a project man and I have several as well. Part of the process and I absolutely love it. Stay safe, keep them coming.
What’s under your hoop frames? And how did they do through winter?
Bhaha, I was looking fwd to learning about pruning that porcupine damage!
Love the pond idea. Do any edible aquatic plants grow in your climate?
Looking good Greg! Can't wait to see what you come up with!
Hey! I am going to start a vertical garden in a school program, we are trying to build a self watering system, reusing rain water to maintain the plants this summer, we have the same system that you showed in your video of how to reuse rainwater, I am wondering if you have any advice or help that we can use, I was thinking of a drip irrigation system but I am afraid if it would be harder to build and reuse the rainwater at the same time.
I planted French Sorrel on your recommendation and I too have more than I need, and I ended up giving away a couple of plants. I see signs of life in mine this spring. The ground is too frozen, I’ve not seen my garlic yet. I planted it a little deeper last fall.
Always 😉 ! After a long drive north a stop in Gettysburg,lots of "spring cleaning" in the garden…
Late last fall I experimented and left a few carrots in the center of one of my raised beds. I covered them with leaves. Just this week I uncovered them and found that they had not frozen, they were all perfectly good and we had them for supper that night. All this caused by you! Thanks!. Best, Liz
Hey a new subscriber here.so happy to find a fellow NB! At least I'll be able to get some growing ideas that il know will work down here! Love your gardens!!!!
volunteer plant some of those lettuce seeds outside the fence for the rabbits?
hey greg: is there any place near you where they sell rough sawn lumber? It can be less expensive and is fully dimensioned (2" is 2", not 1.75", and 8" is just that, not 7.25"!). I get hemlock near me (southwestern maine) and it works out pretty well.
am experimenting with a modestly expensive, but perhaps permanent solution to bed walls…
1- I cut corrugated roofing longitudinally into 1 foot width, then buried it lengthwise maybe 6 inches into the garden, leaving 6" out in the air.
2- ripped roughsawn 2×8 hemlock planks in half then screwed them as a top rail to the metal (on the outside of the metal wall). the hemlock on the sides are screwed into the hemlock pieces on the ends.
-As a result I have galvanized metal in contact with the ground and the wood not in contact. the wood gives something to lean on.
-Will report back in 5 years :-).
At the same stage here in Ark. No frozen soil,though. Get some of that in the 'dead' of winter occasionally. Our growing season is fairly lengthy, however. Just depends on how hot the summertime gets.🤠
New sub here.I stumbled across your channel. I watched a few videos and got some good ideas. I like your style. It is a lot like ours. Greetings from Amqui, Quebec area, zone 3B.
Great project! Looking forward to seeing that develop!