Easy Vertical Hydroponics Tower Garden - Even Beginners Can Grow Food
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to a residence in South Florida to share with you the Mighty Fine Vertical Vegetable Garden. In this episode John shares with you the harsh growing climate of South Florida and how this tow hydroponic system using gro pots is allowing the homeowner to grow their own food. In addition, you will learn more about vertical farming as well as a special shade cloth that reduces not only the light from the sun, but also the heat. Finally, you will learn about a seed raft and how it almost guarantees 100% seed germination.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to Boone Street Farm in Baltimore, Maryland to share with you this urban farm and community garden. In this episode, you will learn about Boone Street farm that was started in 2010 and each year grows over 1000 pounds of produce for the local community as well as teaches others how to cultivate gardening skills and grow their own food. After watching this episode you will know what is growing on at Boone Street farm.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you his annual Jerusalem Artichoke harvest and how he best stores them for the winter. In this episode you will learn how John loves to eat his Sunchokes and how he harvests these edible tubers. You will also discover the best way for storing your sunchokes if you choose to dig them out of the ground.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how he eats his malabar spinach berries. You will learn if John believes the malabar spinach berries are edible or not. In this episode, John shows you the damage done to his garden due to the first frost. Including his damaged peppers, eggplants and the malabar spinach.
In this episode, you will learn how John harvests his malabar spinach berries aka fruits to save time. The Red Stem Malabar spinach is also known as Basella rubra. or Rubra Spinach.
You will learn how John extracts the nutrition out of the purple malabar spinach berries so he can get the nutrients . into him with minimal potential toxins and maximum amount of beneficial vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and phytochemicals.
You will discover the special kitchen appliances that allow you to extract the highest level of nutrition out of your vegetable garden: The fruit and vegetable juicer.
Finally, John will combine the not-so-sweet purple malabar spinach fruit juice fresh pressed sugar cane juice and let you know how it tastes.
After watching this episode, you will know what do do after a light frost in your garden to save some of the crops you are growing. You will also learn if Malabar Spinach fruit is edible, and how to best extract the nutrition from the fruits and vegetables in your garden.
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you an update of his 4 tumbling composters. In this episode you will learn which of the tumbling composters work best. In addition, you will learn John's techniques for "dialing" in the composting to ensure it is happening as quickly as possible and possible things to adjust to improve your composting skills. Finally you will see the difference adding some air can make to a pile. After watching this episode you will learn the 4 things you may want to try to get your compost pile really cooking.
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:
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First John will announce the winner of the Boogie Brew Victory Garden Contest.
Next, in this episode, John will answer the following questions:
07:12 What are the best types of lights for indoor gardening?
09:14 What is your opinion on restaurant waste compost?
11:19 What is the best source of information for growing weed?
13:57 How to add rock dust if your plants are already established?
15:55 What is the best mushroom spores to break down wood chips?
17:03 How to get a career in the field of edible gardening?
20:23 Any internships that you know of about edible gardening?
21:19 What are the best crops that produce the most mass to feed yourself from your garden?
After watching this episode, you will learn John's answers to these questions, and probably learn a few things along the way as well.
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Growing Microgreens Indoors:
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Supersize your garden with Wood chips and Rock Dust
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to Farm Girl Nursery in Novato, California. In this episode John will show you the amazing work of Lisa who started with an empty slate just 6 months ago, and now has a lush, beautiful and productive garden just 6 months later. In this episode you will get a mini tour of the garden and learn some tips from Lisa so you can also have a beautiful and productive garden.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you his top 3 reasons why you should never grow iceberg lettuce. John will also share 1 reason why you MIGHT want to grow iceberg lettuce in your garden.
In this episode, John will share with you his experience growing 6+ varieties of lettuce in his fall/winter/spring garden and which kinds of lettuce he likes the grow the best and why.
You will discover the types of lettuces that are the most nutritious as well as the type of lettuce that may be more susceptible to rot.
After watching this episode you may not grow certain varieties of lettuce ever again and you will learn John's favorite kinds of lettuce to grow.
John will also reveal some of his other tips on how to ensure you have a successful garden.
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you his experience about building two compost tumblers. First, the Lifetime 80 Gallon Compost Tumbler. Next is the Urban Compost Tumbler UTC-7 a composter made from a 55 gallon Barrel. After watching this video you should be able to build your own compost tumbler using a barrel and some parts from the hardware store. In addition, you will learn John's simple recipe to ensure your composting success when composting.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you on a tour of his four $17.50 big lots greenhouses. In this episode John shares with you why he put up the greenhouses and how it will enable him to more effectively weather the winter storm and grow food throughout the colder winter months. You will discover the specific crops he is growing that will thrive in unheated greenhouses in zone 9a. After watching this video you will have some ideas on some ways you can use your greenhouses and grow food in the winter time so you can eat out of your yard instead of the grocery store.