I talk about why i tore out all of my raised beds in my vegetable garden and why after using them for seven years i came to realize they are not for everyone and that the issues they have far outweigh the advantages. Two things I forgot to mention in the video: 1) I had to add more soil to the raised beds every year because the soil was so light the wind just blew it away 2) All of the issues combined I described in this video just equaled lower vegetable harvest (as compared to my experience growing the same vegetables and varieties in the ground) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awpFYw5HIAI

Garden preparation for 2021 vegetables .... what you should be doing in mid to late february to get those plants ready. The dates suggested as for zone 6b but I have a free spreadsheet to help you figure out the best date for your seed planting ... I will link to it in the top right video suggestions. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrMi0Tv3d8c

I have uploaded numerous videos on the way i have started sweet potato slips for gardening for nearly my entire life. It works, it's slow, any failures are due to my own actions. While i was battling cancer, someone suggested a different method and said it was much faster. This year i decided to try making sweet potato slips from store bought sweet potatoes using that method and also my old school foolproof way too as a backup plan in case the new way didn't work. Lemme just preface this to say, the new way is 600 times faster (based on the average time to see first sprouts). This experiment is still ongoing but wanted to share what i know up to this point. older video (I can't seem to find the first ones I recorded but the pictures are on my instagram all the way back to early 2000's): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFcL4HKTGdA trays I use in video: https://amzn.to/49BnAtQ dome I use in video: https://amzn.to/4aOwR2A heat mat I use in video: https://amzn.to/4aDfhiA 72 cell inserts for trays: https://amzn.to/3vPm6y8 48 cell inserts for trays: https://amzn.to/3VWe6WN 32 cell inserts for trays: https://amzn.to/3xz6K1h ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmHwk9Q48Kw

I've done these videos before but they probably get lost in the 700 videos I've done (plus I know you all miss my beautiful face) There are cold acclimated chicken breeds and not cold acclimated chicken breeds. Most likely, if you bought chickens, they are cold acclimated to arctic weather. That means, they will do just fine no matter how cold it gets as long as you don't mess up their natural biological process that's existed for thousands of years. Chickens don't need anything special during cold arctic weather. All animals will acclimate to cold if they have fur or feathers. Last year it got down to -35F lows with highs around 5F for around 10 days straight and my chickens were outside just as happy as if it were 80F. They don't want to be "cooped up" in their chicken coops, let them out where they want to be. You don't have to do anything special for them in cold weather. Where people make mistakes is when they do silly things like heating chicken coops, its not needed at all. For water, i just simply swap the waterer twice a day. Only put as much water as they need in the waterer so it doesn't freeze up and bust. Then just swap it in the morning with a fresh waterer and again mid-day which is about 12-1PM for me. 1/2 Gallon of water doesn't sound like much but they never even drink that amount entirely in 4-5 hours before i switch it again. Make sure they have plenty of food. Chickens, like all warm blooded animals including humans, generate heat by eating and digesting food. They wont eat food or drink water after the sun goes down so no sense in placing those in the coop. Stop raising chickens by your heart strings and do what they do naturally before you kill them by breaking their biological process. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXpsnncsgGI