John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how you can install an automatic watering drip irrigation system in your raised bed garden and how to plant your plant starts. In this episode, John adds a water saving drip irrigation kit to a raised bed garden with automatic water timer that will water your garden without you. You will learn how you can easily install this drip irrigation system with no tools (except a scissors) even if you have had no prior experience.. John will share with you many tips in this epsiode which will be especially helpful for beginners that want to grow and organic raised bed garden. John will first share with you how to install a drip irrigation system with automatic water timer. This is especially important if you are unable to be home to water your plants everyday. John will also share with you his favorite brand of drip irrigation equipment and how you can save money on purchasing a kit instead of the parts seperately. Next, John will go over all the edible plants that he will plant in this raised bed garden. You will discover why John choose herbs for this garden, and the differences between perennial and annual plants. You will also discover the plant spacing he is using. Finally, John will share with you how to install the drip emitters at each plant which puts water where it is needed: at the plants roots. John will then show you how to plant the herbs and vegetable plant starts in the raised bed garden and what he adds to ensure a high level of success when growing your own food. Next, John will go over how long you should set your water timer for in your garden and how many times a day you probably should be watering. Finally, John will share his final thoughts on sourcing, building and installing this raised bed kit as well as talk about the investment that was made to grow your own food. After watching this Do It Yourself Raised Bed Episode, you will have the knowlege and confidence you need to install an automatic drip irrigation system and plant out your plants. Referenced Video: Watch the previous episode to learn how to build a raised bed and choose the best soil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoWZj3S0QTw Open Source Compost Tea Recipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTijkwQaPRI Subscribe to GrowingYourGreens for more videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=growingyourgreens Follow John on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/growingyourgreens/ Watch over 1100 other GrowingYourGreens videos at: https://www.youtube.com/user/growingyourgreens/videos Help John buy a Farm and Get a Tee Shirt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ghgUmXvqBw

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you a $10 Raised Bed Garden Kit by Frame it All on clearance at Lowes. He will also show you the Romberg Reusable Greenhouses. He will also briefly mention the soil he might fill the raised bed kit with as well as recommend some easy to grow vegetables that are all available at Lowes. Lowes clearance prices throughout their stores may vary. Take a print out (below) showing the $9.99 price, and your local store MIGHT just match the price as I got mine to. http://tinyurl.com/khd6rpk Here is a screenshot showing the $9.99 price at Lowes

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits an amazing Tropical Food Jungle in Hawaii and shares with you the growing culture of the Strange, Exotic and Rare GAC Fruit. In this episode, you will learn how to grow, pollinate and eat this powerful fruit with a strange name aka Momordica cochinchinensis. You will discover the reason why the GAC fruit is classified as a superfood with a carotenoid content that is higher than most other foods on earth and make it one of the most nutrient dense fruits. The GAC fruit is 70 times higher in lycopene than tomatoes and contains 10 times more beta carotene than carrots. After watching this episode, hopefully you will be motivated to start growing and eating some of this Southeastern tropical fruit in your garden if you are in zone 8b or better. Learn more about Coconut Chris and his amazing food jungle at http://www.youtube.com/user/CoconutChrisHawaii

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the 1/3 acre Urban Free Farm in San Francisco. In this episode, you will learn more about the Free Farm that is located in the heart of San Francisco that has grown and distributed over 3,000 pounds of food for free. After watching this episode, you will learn more about the history of the free farm, as well as what they are growing and how they are growing various fruits and vegetables. One of the vegetables include, Yacon, which is a delicious tuberous crop that has almost perfect growing conditions in San Francisco.