How to Make a Fresh Picked Garden Salad that Everyone Will Enjoy
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shows you how to make a fresh picked garden salad. First, you will discover the different types of leafy green vegetables he will be picking for his salad. Second, you will learn the best leaves to harvest for a salad. Finally, John will share with you one of his salad dressings that has been a hit with others when he has given food demonstrations in the past. After watching this episode, you will learn yet another delicious and nutritious way to use the leafy greens in your garden to build the health of you and your family.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ answers your organic gardening questions. In this episode John will answer the following questions:
1. How to Grow food despite of Gophers in Your Garden.
2. Will you sell some seed for achocha? (caigua)
3. What should I do with my winter crops that are still in the ground when I want to plant my spring garden?
4. Why do we have to rotate our annuals vegetables and not our perennial crops.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how he grows more food in less space by cultivating food crops normally considered weeds as well as encouraging volunteer plants that he will grow vertically to maximize production in his small tract home residential backyard.
First, John will share how he actively promotes growing edible weeds amongst his vegetables to maximize production in his raised bed gardens during the early season. You will also learn about some of the edible weeds that like to reseed themselves on their own in John's garden.
Next, he will talk about volunteer vegetable plants that grow where they want in his garden, and why this can be very beneficial to gardeners and how he uses these "weeds" to his benefit. You will learn how he specifically stakes, trains, and trellises his volunteer tomatoes to grow where he wants them to grow. He will show you how to single stem prune a tomato plant.
Finally, John will show you another example of how he grew a rogue striped armenian cucumber plant that grew amongst his peppers that would normally out compete his peppers. Instead he grow the vines up and over a walkway to provide him with more food without significantly affecting the yield of his pepper harvest.
Finally, John will share some of his insight about gardening to grow your own food, and his tip on the best method for resolving conflicts between plants and people.
After watching this episode, you will better learn how to maximize your yields and nutrition by growing more edible weeds and volunteer crops in your garden.
Referenced video:
10 reasons to grow peppers instead of tomatoes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3rRf32IGLY
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to Venice High School, which is the site of The Learning Garden. In this episode John will share with you the amazing garden including aquaponic system growing at Venice High School and how it is used to teach kids about where food comes from with real world experience. After watching this episode you will also learn about a Seed Bank at the Learning Garden where you can get FREE seeds to start your garden.
My videos with fruit trees for Southern California:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJeBvn8LEA0
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXPUwD0JT8
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you harvesting of 45 mature garlic bulbs from a half wine barrel container garden. In this video you will learn the best time to harvest your garlic and how to dry your mature garlic.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you his top 5 container gardening tips that will enable you to be successful at growing food in a container garden whether you are a beginner or someone who has more experience.
In this episode, John shares with you his small container garden, and his most important tips that has enabled him to be successful growing a vegetable garden in half wine / oak barrels.
After watching this episode, you will learn about some of the most important general tips for growing food in containers.
Related Videos:
Yield up to 400% more food when using worm castings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Emu9hwhsc
Increase Size and Yield of Produce by using Rock Dust:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYV_HK0cTFc
How to Set up an Easy Patio Container Garden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJRSjaycVGE
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the Maximum Yield Indoor Gardening Expo 2012 in San Francisco. In this episode, John will spotlight his favorite booths at this expo that offer unique products that allow you to grow more and yield more when growing your own fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs. After watching this episode you will be aware of some of the latest products that will: lower water consumption, combat insects naturally and allow you to better grow in the winter.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the 2011 San Francisco Flower and Garden Show and shares with you the edible landscape displays that show you ways to grow more food. In addition, he will share some of the different areas of the show, including Sproutopia, the area for kids where an organization is teaching kids about growing food.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how and why to grow the best food at home - sprouts, microgreens, leafy green vegetables indoors or outdoors at your house.
In this episode, John will share with you how you can grow the best food on the planet for your health at you standard American tract home with small amount of land that can feed you and your family.
Next you will discover how you can have green thumbs no matter where you live even if you have never grown anything before. Learn how John lives in one of the harshest climates in the USA and how to grow food there.
Next, you will learn why leafy green vegetables are the most important food you should grow at your home. You will also learn about the perennial vegetables that are much easier to grow than standard annual vegetable crops.
Next you will learn 5 reasons why John loves the food he grows. You will discover John's opinions the healthcare system and how including more plant foods in your diet can increase your health. You will also learn how John eats to stay young and healthy as well as his recommendations on eating a healthy diet. You will learn his #1 reason for growing and eating his leafy green vegetables.
Next, John will share his favorite perennial vegetables that he grows that are the easiest and that you should grow that will provide food for you day after day, week after week.
Next, John will share his standard annual vegetables that he is growing and why he favors some over others.
Next, John will share his opinions on building soil and how important it is to build your soil. He will share his top 3 nutrients that he adds to his garden to grow the most nutritious vegetables.
Next, you will learn how to best eat and use the food you grow to maximize your health by juicing and blending. John will demonstrate making a green juice as well as a green smoothie which are John favorite ways to eat the food he grows.
Next you will discover how to grow your own sprouts inside your home. John will demonstrate a very simple technique to grow sprouts in a glass mason jar with a mesh lid.
Finally, John will share how to grow your own microgreens quickly and easily inside your how to grow one of the most nutritious foods in the world.
Learn more about the Home Grown Food Summit at:
http://www.homegrownfoodsummit.com/
Purchase Sprouting Seeds and Supplies at:
https://www.handypantry.com/
Purchase Microgreen Seeds and Supplies at:http://www.growingmicrogreens.com
To get the special GrowingYourGreen discount for growing sprouts or microgreens you must call Handy Pantry at: 800-735-0630 (open monday thru friday) and ask for the GYG or GrowingYourGreens discount.
Purchase John's favorite soil nutrients (rock dust, etc) at a discount:
http://www.boogiebrew.net/gyg/
Learn how to improve your yield up to 400% with Worm Castings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Emu9hwhsc
Support John and his work by purchasing your juicer or blender at:
http://www.discountjuicers.com/
Referenced video with Katrina Blair on growing weeds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyDOFpltFVk
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ answers your organic gardening questions.
Help John to close caption his videos and get your questions answered about your garden with the link below:
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After watching this episode, you will learn John's answers to these questions, and probably learn a few things along the way as well.
08:37 What are the best vegetables to grow In dirt bed in my basement?
12:28 What is the best way to enrich the soil for my apple trees that are not growing that well?
14:10 Do you own a microwave?
15:50 What are your thoughts on Miracle Grow OMRI Organic Soil?
21:14 How to maximize the amount of vegetables in a 3 ft x 6 ft raised bed?
21:40 Can Bonnie plants be considered Organic or Not?
23:50 What are the best Organic Fertilizers / Nutrients?
33:11 What is the best organic matter for mulching?
35:35 Is rain from the roof safe to use in the garden and soil?
37:55 Have you ever gotten a rash from compost?
40:52 How do you grow in the dry heat of Las Vegas?
45:00 Your videos are too long. I could edit them shorter.
49:56 Are you concerned about not washing the food from your garden?
56:16 Where can I get Bok Choi?
58:31 what are the best edible micro plants I can grow inside an RV?
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