In this video I discuss my garden plans and current progress more in depth. This is episode 01 of my gardening self sufficiency series! I will be posting new episodes in this series every 1-2 weeks 🙂 stay tuned to see how the cucumbers and okra turn out!
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Hey everyone, welcome back to the channel. In today’s video, I want to show you my garden and talk a little bit more about my goals with gardening this year. And this ties more into my self-sufficiency goals that I covered in my first video that I posted. Um, in case you missed it, I recently posted a video where I introduced myself and talked a little bit about my goals this year, and gardening happens to be one of them. I’ve dabbled a little bit in gardening before, but more so in terms of herbs and just like smaller plants. I also have a lot of house plants, so I’ve taken care of house plants and gotten pretty good at that, but I have never really grown a vegetable from seed or like a fruit from seed before. So, this is my first time doing that. So, this is my current gardening setup. I am using grow bags which are just easy and really accessible. So, this is great for beginners like myself. I had started some seeds earlier this season. Today is July 4th. So, I am technically a little late for any kind of spring gardening, of course. So, any of the gardening that I’m going to be doing today is actually going to be more of a fall harvest. I had started some radishes and just some various lettucees, which you can see they for some reason just didn’t grow very much. So, I’m thinking my plan today is to just unfortunately, as sad as it is, I think I’m just going to take everything out of here, add fresh compost, and just start from scratch. I have new seeds that I’ll show you for crops that are supposed to produce in the fall. So, that’s what I’m going to be planting today. Now, over here, this bag is really thriving. These big plants here are cucumbers, and they’re doing really well. I do need to trellis them up a little bit better. As you can see, they’re starting to get a little jumbled up. I’ve got two really big cucumber plants. And then these plants here with the red sort of node here, these are okra. So, one of the advantages of this particular bag is the fact that there’s quite a bit of shade under these leafy cucumber and okra plants. And I think what I’m going to do is I’m going to plant some lettucees or just plants that need a little more shade in this bag just so that as these kind of start to grow out even fuller, we’ll have this really nice shaded area for some of the more delicate plants like a lettuce. And then in this bag, I am honestly not exactly sure what this plant is. I believe it’s a sage. It looks very much like sage, so that’s what I’m guessing it is. But again, with this bag, I just didn’t have a lot of success with the seeds that I had sewn. I believe I had sewn sage, of course, and I had sewn some actually I had sewn some basil, which I’m really surprised that it didn’t germinate. So, this little plant right here, it’s a pepper plant. And unfortunately, I don’t think I will be getting any peppers this year because I, you know, this is one of my beginner gardener mistakes. I honestly didn’t realize that you’re supposed to start pepper plants indoors several weeks before the frost date, then transplant them outdoors. I kind of just mistakenly assumed that you can just start the seeds outdoors. And I know some people have luck with that, but I clearly didn’t. So, I’ll try peppers next year, but clearly my cucumbers and okra are doing really well. So, I’m going to definitely keep those. But, I’m going to figure out what else I want to plant in this bed. And this bed [Applause] Okay, I’m back inside and I wanted to show you all of the seeds that I got. I got two varieties of radishes. I got the sparkler white tips and French breakfast, some bok choy, some broccoli, some notoriums, nappa cabbage, and beets. These are the early wonder variety. I’ve been doing some research and so today is July 4th like I said earlier and it really sounds like according to the internet at least that most of the vegetables I’m planning on growing are going to be best if I start them indoors and per the farmers almanac for the broccoli it looks like if I start it indoors now I should be able to transplant it the third week of July. So I’ve got a little bit of time. So, I think what I’m going to do actually today is just go ahead and get this started indoors. That way, I can have a more successful crop outdoors. I really want to learn from my mistakes regarding the um some of the other things that I had planted, especially like the peppers, and I want to make sure I do it correctly. So, I am going to start the broccoli indoors. And I believe on things like radishes, because they’re more of a root crop, these are actually best started outdoors. But my farmers almanac says that I should hold off till the third week of August to even plant these outside. So definitely going to hold off on the radishes for now. And I believe it was the same with the beets. I’ve got a little bit of time before these are ready to be planted outside. So, as of right now, I think all I can really do is start the broccoli and the bok choy and the cabbage pretty soon indoors. And then in a couple of weeks, I’ll be transplanting those outdoors. I do think I will go ahead and plant the ntoriums today though because I am getting some pest problems. I’m getting some fungus nuts. I’m not too familiar with exactly what ntorium repels, but I know that it does repel pests in general. And I know that ntorium is also edible, so why not give it a shot? So, I’ll do this. I do think I’m going to try one more time for the lettucees right now. Um, as you saw in that bed where I have cucumbers and okra, there’s a lot of shade underneath those plants. And I’m thinking that some lettucees and maybe some arugula even might do really well under there. So, I’m just going to give it a shot and see how that goes. If anything, you know, later on in a couple of weeks, I’ll be able to plant these up in that area. And then I’m thinking as the cucumbers get bigger and bigger, if the lettucees don’t survive again, then I will probably just plant these radishes and maybe even the beets in that bag because I do know that the cucumbers and okra are going to provide a lot of shade. That’s kind of my plan for now. So, I guess I will see you in a couple of weeks. I will get these started today and I’ll film a little bit of that process. I think I’m just going to find some random containers and throw some compost in there maybe. And I don’t really have potting soil or Pete moss or anything like that. All I really have is compost maybe which which might not be a bad thing. So, we’ll see if I have any success starting these seeds and compost. After that, I’ll probably see you guys in a couple of weeks.
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If you really want to be self sufficient the key, the most critical one, the one no one ever even thinks about, regardless of the fact that its literally used to construct our brains… Are, DHA, EPA, and ARA, those can only come from marine, or, at least aquatic sources, algae species are the best producers, seaweed is decent, typically, every species has a different DHA, EPA, and ARA profile, kelp is also a source, but it kind of sucks as a source… Anyway, freshwater algae and aquatic plants produce it too. Fish, mollusks, and marine/aquatic, and semi-aquatic/amphibious arthropods all consume algae and/or, organisms that consume it. birds that consume algae and/or animal aquatic or marine life, will have DHA, EPA, and ARA. I only know of one terrestrial land plant that produces DHA, flax… and a few that produce GLA, borage, primrose, and black currant, in the seeds…I only know of two, thaproduce CLA, sunflower seeds, and safflower.
Plenty of plants produce LA and ALA, best source for LA, honestly, cannabis seeds, cannabis went extirpated from NW Asia (Europe), and the Neanderthals managed to stick around for another few thousand years… On the Coasts of Iberia, particularly Gibraltar, where they had the closest to a complete, constant supply, of omega fatty acids…
Chenopodium berlandieri is extremely underrated, better than Chenopodium quinoa, and honestly, don't interbreed the two, they're different species, and Chenopodium berlandieri is native here anyway, quinoa should honestly be treated as just as invasive as Chenopodium album. the leaves also contain vitamin C, A, all B vitamins except 12, E, K, and, every mineral the human body needs, cannabis seeds do the same, except they won't give you any C, both will give you all 9 essential amino acids, but, cannabis seeds have a lot more, in a lot less biomass, for all 9. Chenopodium berlandieri seeds (you do have to rinse them, you can make soap with the rinse water by the way…), and leaves are high in all nonessentials, and low in all essentials except 3, that it is disproportionately high in. One of them, is lysine… Lysine is the one essential amino acid cannabis seeds have the least of…
Cannabis-LA
Chenopodium berlanieri-ALA
Sunflower seeds, safflower/ eggs, meats (honestly not worth the cholesterol…CLA
Black currant seeds/Borage/Primrose-GLA
Algae/seaweed/kelp/fish/mollusks/water-born and amphibious arthropods, certain birds, amphibians… Flax-DHA
Algae/seaweed/kelp/fish/mollusks/water-born and amphibious arthropods, certain birds, amphibians, and reptiles- ARA impossible for terrestrial plants to produce…
Algae/seaweed/kelp/fish/mollusks/water-born and amphibious arthropods, certain birds, amphibians, and reptiles -EPA