4 Best Ways to Use Your Zucchini from Your Vegetable Garden
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ gives a demonstration talk at the 2nd annual Heirloom Expo in Santa Rosa, California. In this episode John shares his 45 minute lecture on the 4 best ways to use the zucchini from your garden in delicious recipes. After watching this episode, you will have a better understanding on why John grows his own food, and uses it in the healthiest ways possible.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to Kokua Worms in Honolulu, Hawaii to share with you how important earthworms are to your organic garden.
In this episode, you will learn about three different types of worms that you can use in your garden to provide your soil and plants benefits such as: fertility, diversity, aeration and more by simply adding the right kind of earthworms into your organic garden or on your farm.
You will also learn about 3 different types of worm homes aka worm factories so you can keep your own worms at home to compost your food scraps.
You will also learn tips on how to properly feed your worms so you do not get smelly, rotten food when making your own vermicastings.
Next, John will talk about the benefits of using the vermicastings in your soil and how they can be used to brew your own compost tea to spread out the biodiversity of microbes including beneficial bacteria and fungi in your garden or on your farm. You will also learn if leachate (what comes out of the worm factory) is the same as compost tea.
Finally, John will recommend some books on gardening or farming using the power of earthworms as well as other microbes that are living in the soil so you can have the most fertile soil in your garden without having the continually purchased bagged or boxed chemical or synthetic fertilizers.
After watching this episode, you will want to purchase some worms and get them in your garden as soon as you are able to reap the benefits of these amazing earthlings that should exist in your soil.
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Referenced video:
Increase Your Yields up to 400% with this Organic Fertilizer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Emu9hwhsc
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you the top reason why biochar does not always work for people in their garden and 5 ways you can easily fix this problem.
In this episode, John visits the farm of Josiah Hunt, Biochar expert who will share with John 5 ways to activate or charge your biochar before you use it for the best results.
Many people have been using biochar with great success, but others have failed to get desired results using biochar and this may be the answer. The methods included in this episode should be used when making biochar for the greatest soil benefit (especially way #4)
At the end of this episode, John interviews Josiah Hunt about if biochar is a new fad soil amendment that you must purchase, why it is different than other carbon sources in your soil such as composted woodchips and why you should start using some biochar in your garden or farm today to see superior results and build your soil instead of destroy it.
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you his Kakai Hulless Pumpkin Harvest. In this video you will discover how growing vertically can drastically increase your yield in a small growing space. After watching this video you will be more familiar with this Austrian-type pumpkin that is grown primarily for its oil rich seeds but can also be eaten for its slightly sweet pumpkin flesh. In addition, you will be amazed by the over two hundred pound yield.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the 2011 San Francisco Indoor Gardening Expo. This expo is mostly about growing indoors with hydroponics. In this episode, John will share some things he liked that can be used for outside gardeners as well.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the Mother Earth News Fair 2012 in Seven Springs, PA. In this episode, John shares with you the Seed Savers Exchange heirloom display. After watching this episode you will know what an heirloom vegetables are you will learn about heirloom vegetables and what they are as well as some heirloom varieties and other interesting tidbits. John shares with you the Seed Savers Exchange SSE heirloom display.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you his favorite books for organic gardening. In this episode, John will go on a field trip to Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds in Petaluma, California and share with you some of his favorite books on organic gardening. After watching this episode you will now know the best books for identifying pests, weeds and the best books so you can grow more and consume less. Finally John will share his favorite two books on food preservation and they aren't about canning.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com shares with you how he transplants starts that are in peat pots into his raised bed garden. In this episode you will learn John's method for transplanting that has gotten him a high success rate when planting vegetable starts in his square foot raised bed garden. After watching this episode, you will learn about the two ways he adds beneficial microbes when transplanting to encourage healthy root growth and explosive yields.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the Oregon Food Bank. In this episode you will learn how the Oregon Food bank is taking a leadership position in solving the nations hunger problem by addressing the root cause of hunger.. people not knowing how to grow their own food. In this episode John will visit the Food Bank Garden and share with you, "Whats Growing On?"
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you to DenBeste Yard and Garden Supply to answer the question if you should use Mushroom Compost as well as other recycled material that has been blended into the soil for your vegetable garden.
First, John will tell you more about DenBeste, a premier soil provider in Sonoma County, California. You will learn how they supply soil to Caltrans as well as many popular wineries in the area.
You will discover some of the many ingredients they use to blend their soil mixes to ensure growing results.
First, John will climb up the water town at DenBeste to give you an overview of the soil yard. Next, John will take you around to many of the different materials that DenBeste offers and shares his opinions on them.
You will learn about: pea gravel, wood chips, sawdust, mushroom compost, horse manure compost, brewery waste, volcanic rock, and quarried soil.
Next, you will learn about some of the heavy equipment at DenBeste including the loader and soil mixer that allows them to create their soil blends.
Finally, John interviews Paul Denbeste, the owner of Denbeste soils.
You will learn the answers to the following questions:
16:30 Why did you start the landscape supply company?
17:06 Can your soil be used to grow medicinal herbs?
18:00 Tell me more about the soil you designed?
18:44 What are some of the companies that you have sold your products to?
19:57 How can someone get ahold of you?
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Referenced Video:
6 Reasons Why I don't use the Mittleider Gardening Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUGhy8a6kNQ