In this episode, John is at Certified Plant Growers Nursery in Norwalk, California picking out some plant starts to plant out in his winter garden. He will share with you 10 tips that can help beginners or more experienced gardeners alike to select the best starter plants for your vegetable garden.
After watching this episode, you will learn some of John's top tips for choosing the best plant starts that allow him to have bountiful harvests in his raised bed 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/ shares with you an inexpensive $20 greenhouse that will cover your 4 foot x 4 foot raised bed garden that will enable you to grow a vegetable garden in the winter.
In this episode, John unboxes the Greenland Gardener Greenhouse. You will discover why John is covering one of his raised beds and how he keeps some of his frost sensitive perennial vegetables alive in the winter.
This inexpensive greenhouse cover for a raised bed will allow you to extend you growing season into the winter and keep snow off your plants and provide a warmer climate that can allow you to grow your own food in the winter outdoors.
John will explain how easy it is to assemble this 4 ft x 4 ft greenhouse and review the overall quality of this greenhouse and share his opinions on growing a garden in the winter.
After watching this episode, you will be aware of a low-cost greenhouse that will allow you to extend your growing season so you can grow more food from your vegetable garden.
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Referenced Videos:
Three Ways to Protect Your Plants from the Cold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAf-tZfvqKI
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you on a field trip to Monster Gardens, a hydroponics store to share with you his favorite products that will make your plants explode with growth. In this episode John shares the good, the bad and the ugly products at a hydroponics store and talks about his favorite products that enable you to grow nutrient dense foods at home. After watching this episode you will learn about building the life in your soil that feeds the plants you are growing and you.
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ answers your organic gardening questions.
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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:
01:35 Should I compost over a grass lawn or remove it before planting a garden?
02:29 What web site are the fermentation crocks available that you used?
03:01 What is the update on the Sun-Mar Composter?
05:35 How do I apply rock dust and Sea-90?
07:53 At the end of the season do I just add new compost and NOT till it?
09:29 Will adding mushrooms to my compost make it fungal dominated?
10:19 What are your suggestions for dealing with bugs in acontainer garden?
14:15 Do you keep bees? What are your thoughts on keeping bees?
17:49 What are the best vegetables to grow in Los Angeles? Can I grow tomatoes year round?
Referenced Videos:
Fermenting Vegetables without Mold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAIR7aVf9P0
Lifetime Barrel Composter from Costco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKPW6jmDPFQ
How to till your garden without a rototiller:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwbXPXxMxuQ
End your pest problems forever in your garden (Neem and Dr. Bronners Soap)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Q0uP4odh4
Bumblebees to pollinate your garden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAuBhjI1HJw
Best place in Los Angeles to buy vegetable starts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y9pWCyuQU0
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ attends the 36th Annual EcoFarm Conference put on by the Ecological Farming Association and gives you a tour and review of the event. You will learn first-hand what it is like to attend some of the events at EcoFarm Conference that takes place at the Asilomar conference center in Northern California every year.
In this episode, John will show you around the EcoFarm Conference including sharing the seed exchange as well as the exhibitor area to share with you the best exhibitors for the event.
Exhibitors Visited:
15:05 Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds http://www.rareseeds.com
16:02 Heirloom Expo http://www.theheirloomexpo.com/
18:38 Natural Resource Conservation Service http:/nrcs.usda.gov
20:18 Sea Agri Trace Minerals http://www.seaagri.com/
28:41 Eon Micro Rock Dust Trace Minerals http://www.eonmicro.com/
32:29 Dynamax Real Time Plant Sensors http://www.dynamax.com/
35:09 Aquasap - High K water soluble Seaweed Powder http://www.aquasapseaweed.com/
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Finally, John will share his personal notes from several of the workshops about what he learned at the EcoFarm Conference 2016 including topics on: Manage Crop Nutrient Levels to Manage Disease, Hoophouses and how to get the government to pay for it. Farmacology, Sandblasting Weeds, No-Till Farming 102, Organic Herbicides and Pesticides and much, much more.
Referenced Videos:
EcoFarm 2014 Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPV24862T8A
Eco Farm 2015 Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRvOWusFZ0
Grow 216 pounds of pumpkins in 15 square feet of space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BxXUdRKSAU
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com answers your questions including best wood to build raised beds out of and Faucet to Drip Irrigation and More.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to visit the Garden at a local winery to find the rare white edible borage herb. In this episode you will learn what parts of the borage plant is edible as well as how to collect and save the seeds its produces. The Borage is also called the starflower due to the shape of the beautiful flower.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you a Tropical Permaculture "Wonderland" that grows over 100 varieties of edible crops as well as uses many permaculture design techniques.
In this episode, you will get a tour of the Amazing Permaculture Garden of Coconut Chris on the Big Island of Hawaii on how he took pastureland and transformed it into a Food Wonderland growing many rare, unique and little known varieties of fruits and vegetables with goals of sharing seeds with the community, and by teaching interns with real-world day-to-day permaculture gardening experience.
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In this episode, John will take you for a tour around the many different areas of the garden, including the food forest, the fruit forest, the banana orchard, the water saving vegetable garden and much, much more. You will learn some specific varieties of fruits and vegetables you may want to grow if you live in the tropics.
This is a must-watch episode for anyone that lives in the tropics, such as Hawaii, South Florida, or otherwise to empower them to grow and use some of the tips that Coconut Chris employs on a daily basis to keep his plants growing.
At the end of this video, John will interview Coconut Chris where he will share some of his wisdom about becoming a better gardener and much,much more
Referenced Videos:
Gac fruit video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-_8x5LdGqQ
Passion Fruit video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHJerRgRScE
Permaculture Fruit Forest Feeds off Grid Family:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uAmdB7nxuc
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In this episode, you will get a tour of the Amazing Permaculture Garden of Coconut Chris on the Big Island of Hawaii on how he took pastureland and turned it into a Food Wonderland growing many rare, unique and little known varieties of fruits and vegetables with goals of sharing them with the community, and by teaching interns how to do what he did through actual real-world day-to-day permaculture gardening experience.
In this episode, John will take you for a tour around the many different parts of the garden, including the food forest, the fruit forest, the banana grove, the water saving vegetable garden and much, much more.
This is a must-watch episode for anyone that lives in the tropics, such as Hawaii, South Florida, or otherwise to empower them to grow and use some of the tips that Coconut Chris employs on a daily basis to keep his plants growing.
At the end of this video, John will interview Coconut Chris where he will share some of his wisdom about becoming a better gardener and much,much more
Referenced Videos:
Gac fruit video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-_8x5LdGqQ
Passion Fruit video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHJerRgRScE
Permaculture Fruit Forest Feeds off Grid Family:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uAmdB7nxuc
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shows you around his urban homestead where he grows his own fruits and vegetables. In this episode you will learn about some tropical fruits that John is currently harvesting. Some of the plants that will be discussed include Runner Beans, Litchi Tomatoes, Raspberries, Cape Gooseberries and Loquats.