How to Build a FREE Plastic Crate Raised Bed Garden
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how you can make an entire raised bed garden out of FREE plastic crates. In this episode, John will show you how to build a garden from start to finish using plastic produce crates. The plastic garden is perfect for people who rent or may move soon. You will learn about soil, ammending the soil, planting starts and seeds. After watching this video you will have the knowledge you need to start your own garden today using plastic crates.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the 2011 San Francisco Flower and Garden share with you some of his favorite vendor booths. In this episode, John will share with you: Where you can purchase rare seeds from Italy, How to Kill Garden Pests with Water, Purchase a waist height raised bed garden, how you can provide a home for bats and make your own bat guano and learn about a laundry to landscape greywater system and an easy part that will allow you to turn any 55 gallon plastic drum into a rain barrel.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you the top 5 ways to save water when container gardening. In this episode, you will discover John's favorite ways to conserve and save water when you grow fruits and vegetables and other plants in pots.
You will learn some of the best products available today that will enable you to save more water when you are growing your food.
You will also learn some low cost tips to save one of the world's most precious resources: Fresh water.
After watching this episode, you will be empowered to save water and grow healthy plants.
Referenced Links:
Aqueous and Oasis Commercial Pots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTJFZrZmuAk
Aquacamel Self Watering Pot:
http://www.aquacamel.com/
Nimbus Smart Self Watering Container:
http://www.nimbuspot.com
Drought Grid:
http://www.droughtgrid.com/
Growoya:
http://www.growoya.com/
Best place to purchase pot saucers:
http://www.monstergardens.com/
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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.
04:14 Where can you get your rare and unique edible plants?
06:26 Can I apply your growing techniques in India?
09:15 Is it ok to use other Neem Oil than Super Clean Neem?
10:30 How much coconut coir should I use a tray to grow microgreens?
12:00 What type of peppers would you grow instead of bell peppers?
13:49 What soil additives would you use to improve the taste of figs?
15:29 Are you selling Jerusalem artichokes this year?
16:24 How can I grow crops in 122 degree weather?
20:18 What do tree collards taste like? and how do they grow?
22:18 Isn’t Bacterial Compost better for vegetable gardens?
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits Moringa Place, a nursery in Loxahatchee, Florida and shares with you the best variety of Moringa Oleifera he has found. In addition he shares many unique cultivars of some herbs, spices, fruits and vegetables. You will learn about unique and rare varieties of:
Dragon Fruit that is a blue/purple color
Comfrey Bocking 14
Stinging Nettles without the Stingers
Lemon Grass from South America with Higher Oil Content
Epazote with different leaf shape and mild flavor
Fig Trees that are adapted to the Tropics
Stevia that is sweeter with less after taste
Moringa that produces more seed pod faster with improved taste.
Please note: George's Web site is not yet up. I spoke with him yesterday and he said it will be up later this week. He is "garden guy" not an "tech guy" so the best way to contact him is to call 561-633-8751. Multiple viewers have written me to say George has taken money and not shipped products.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you on a field trip to the Grow Your Own Festival that took place in Las Vegas, Nevada to share with you how you can grow your own fruits and vegetables at home.
In this episode, you will get a tour of the Vegas Roots Community Garden, where this event took place.
You will discover the best vegetables, herbs and fruit trees to grow in Las vegas, as well as other desert climates.
You will learn the Fruit Producing trees that will produce food with little water and little care.
Next, John will share his 3 favorite booths at the4 Grow Your Own Festival:
26:15 It'll Grow Soil and Soil Amendments
35:12 Great Basin Permaculture and Las Vegas Seed Library
38:41 Desert Urban Homestead - Microgreens and Avocado for Las Vegas
After watching this episode, you will learn some of the best edible fruits, vegetables, and herbs you can plant in las vegas, You will also discover the best source of organic soil that is now available in Las Vegas. You will learn how you can get free seeds to start your garden in Las Vegas. You will learn the #1 food you can grow year round inside your house as well as a special avocado variety.
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Related / Referenced Episodes:
Original Vegas Roots Community Garden (formerly called Tonopah Community Garden) from 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkL8oGhZe5c
How to Grow Microgreens Inside Your Home Year round
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blBwFvAghTs
Desert Urban Homestead Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QmFP5cww9Y
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/ goes on a field trip to Las Vegas, NV to share with you a viewers urban homestead that is growing fruits and vegetables in the Las Vegas desert. In this episode you will get a full tour of this urban homestead, including many of the different edible crops growing. You will discover some of the techniques that were used to make this a bountiful, and productive garden.
You will learn how to quickly and easily dig a 3'x3' foot hole into hard desert soil, how they start their seeds and transplants, how to plant two fruit trees in one hole, some of the best nutrients you can add to your garden, and so much more.
You will also discover how standard EMT electrical conduit was used to make garden structures such as a bird netting frame, hoophouse frame and even a trellis.
After watching this episode you will learn alot about starting and growing your own urban homestead so you can supply you and your family with a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Learn more about April and her husband at:
http://artisticgardener.wordpress.com/
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you his latest research on coconut coir to learn if it is deficient in certain nutrients and may be "out of balance" for using in your garden. In this episode John will share with you what he is adding to the coconut coir to make it better balanced.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how he deals with diseased plants in the vegetable garden. You will also learn which vegetable plants grew disease free and which vegetables succumb to disease.
In this episode, John visits his girlfriends parents garden to share with you some of the vegetables that grew well, and some that did not grow so well in the Houston, Texas area.
First, you will learn some of the best growing and performing vegetables you should grow in your garden in coastal texas. Next you will discover some of the vegetables that did not do so well in houston and what John would do about these diseased plants.
After watching this episode, you will better know what to do if your plants are diseased in your vegetable garden.. How to handle the situation and more importantly, how to avoid the situation in the future.
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Referenced Videos:
Perennial Vegetables for Houston at JRN Nursery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VzILo5xxKQ
Best Organic Compost in Texas Made from Trees and Leaves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuvmXjFJhQY