John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you on a tour of his backyard urban raised bed desert vegetable garden. In this episode, you will learn what John grew in the Winter of 2016 in his backyard organic garden in Zone 9a. You will discover how he is growing different vegetables, the vegetables that he focuses on growing in the winter time. Along the way, you will learn a few things about growing food in the backyard of a standard American tract home in the suburbs and how much food you can truly grow in a small backyard that can help to feed a family of 4 easily. Finally, John will share with you the 3 ways he is using his winter harvest in his kitchen that enables him to get more of the most nutritious foods on the planet into him. Referenced Videos: Aquajet Irrigation – How to Make it even better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswxyq0PUhA My playlist on how I prepare my garden fresh vegetables https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL023915A97E3C9410 Subscribe to Growing Your Greens at: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=growingyourgreens Follow John on Instagram: https://instagram.com/growingyourgreens/

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ answers your organic gardening questions. Help John to close caption his videos and get your questions answered with the links below: 1. John will answer your question in an upcoming episode on his channel: http://fiverr.com/groworganic/answer-one-organic-gardening-question 2. John will personally call you and do a 10 minute garden coaching session: http://fiverr.com/groworganic/be-your-organic-gardening-coach-for-10-minutes In this episode, John will answer the following questions: 02:48 How to Best Deal with Bugs in the Garden Organically? 07:40 How Many Times Does Stevia Produce? How Do You Get Stevia Seeds? 08:58 Can I grow purple tree collards in Colorado? 09:46 What is your address for the seed giveaway? 11:13 Where do you get Angelica Keiskei aka Ashitaba? 12:19 How often do I need to water my garden? 15:35 If you are unable to add compost at the end of the growing season, what do you do instead? 16:52 How do you tell when an Eggplant is ripe? 19:20 What are your views on human urine for fertilizer? 22:32 Where do you buy your seeds from? 23:30 There are maggots in my compost pile! Do you have any advice? 27:56 Can consuming sprouts and microgreens be dangerous? After watching this episode you will learn John's answers to these questions and probably alot more about organic gardening as well.

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to St. George, Utah to Tonaquint Park to visit "The Garden" - A water conservation demonstration garden and the St. George Community Garden. In this episode, you will learn about some food crops they are growing in St. George as well as other useful information.

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the home of the best organic biological fertilizer he has ever found. In this episode, John visits San Jacinto Environmental Supply to share with you a fertilizer he would actually use in his garden. John is not a fan of the standard synthetic chemical fertilizer model and believes we need to get back to how nature works to improve our soil. Most conventional fertilizers do not do this. John will share how and why the Microlife Fertilizer is different and how it can benefit you, your garden and the earth. After watching this episode you will be more familiar with organic biological growing methods and how you can apply them in your garden for excellent growing results. To Learn more about Microlife Fertilizer, visit: http://www.microlifefertilizer.com/ I have removed the link to the online source I found to purchase the Microlife. At present time, I am not aware of any other places online that offer this fertilizer. Stay tuned. I am working on some options so people will be able to get this fertilizer by the next summer growing season.