For those who can't handle super-hot peppers, this is a fairly quick way to reduce the heat level (amount of capsaicin) from the fruit. In this video, I treat an 'Armageddon' pepper (around 1,000,000 scoville) with regular cooking oil and a paper towel to remove some of the heat. Also, a quick flood update (at the end) for those concerned about the farm.
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You can make your own Bokashi Bran "from scratch" with this DIY recipe. The purpose of the bran is to inoculate the food waste with microorganisms to help them ferment - the main organism is lactic acid bacteria. My experience has been that this simple method of culturing lactobacillus from rice starch makes for an effective bokashi starter. I gather the starch from rice wash (rice water), culture the lactic acid bacteria using milk, then finally inoculate the wheat bran. When finished, the bran can be dried and stored for a year or more. This method is quite inexpensive compared to buying the bran in small batches commercially or even buying the EM starter liquid.
My comparison of Bokashi vs hot compost: https://youtu.be/zCHSpNwYm58
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If your plant's foliage begins to yellow or discolor, there are quite a few potential causes. In this video, I'll discuss 8 reasons for yellowing leaves on plants:
0:55 Moisture Stress
3:21 Nutrient Deficiency
4:53 Root Damage
6:03 Natural Variation
6:52 Foliar Fungus
7:59 Spider Mites
8:52 Herbicide Damage
9:33 Virus
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I've selected 20 of the most fragrant roses to put in your garden - renowned for their various perfumes, but also chosen for a diversity of flower colors, forms, growing habits and bloom cycle.
I mentioned I would link to the David Austin guide on rose fragrance: https://eu.davidaustinroses.com/pages/rose-fragrance-guide
There are more than a few ways gardeners can describe the scent of their rose: sweet, Damask, fruity, spicy, myrrh, citrus, tea and musk. I've given some examples for most of these. One important note: not everyone can agree about the character if the fragrance of a given rose. That's biological, I'm told, with some people being far more sensitive to some scents over others. So the real test about the "best" rose perfume is in the nose of the beholder, so to speak.
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Photo credits:
Ebb Tide by Tracie Hall CC BY-SA 2.0
Fragrant Cloud by HomeinSalem CC BY-SA 3.0
Papa Meilland by Someone10x CC BY 2.0
Fragrant Plum by Rexness CC BY-SA 2.0
Gertrude Jekyll by Andy Mabbett CC BY-SA 3.0
Scepter’d Isle by Kelvin Song CC BY-SA 3.0
Aloha by David J. Stang CC BY-SA 4.0
Francis E. Lester by Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz CC BY-SA 4.0
Roseraie de l’Hay by Malcolm Manners CC BY 2.0
Angel Face by David J. Stang CC BY-SA 4.0
Sheila’s Perfume by T. Kiya CC BY-SA 2.0
Leontine Gervais by Wilrooij CC BY-SA 4.0
Sunsprite by David J. Stang CC BY-SA 4.0
Rose de Rescht by Captain-tucker CC BY-SA 4.0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0HjUhdIC3I
This cute little black duck was the survivor a coyote attack on our farm, and as you'll see from the footage, she doesn't like to be alone. She's taken to following humans around the farm and visiting the neighbors when we're not handy. In this vid, we find a new home for our lonely duck, and it's a good one: with Chris and Stef from the Lovin Off The Land channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lovinofftheland
Sorry, not much gardening content in this video - but it's just a slice of our life around the farm.
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With a single method, you can propagate and grow many different plants from stem cuttings. In this video, I'll show you 4: hydrangea, currants, St. John's wort, and Russian sage (three shrubs and a perennial) all prepared with the semi-hardwood technique. 3 weeks later, all varieties have either rooted or callused. I'll also discuss a couple of different ways to maintain humidity while the plants trying to root.
For a longer (more detailed) version of the semi-hardwood propagation method, refer to my video on rooting roses: https://youtu.be/211r10Jj_OY
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Photo credits:
Ribes sanguineum photo by Mark Robinson, used without changes under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
Perovskia photo by Andy Mabbet, used without changes under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
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Taken June 8th 2023 at Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver BC - a tour of the rose garden and quick shots of the sunken garden too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoU3QF796Bg
This rose video is focused on planting bare-root roses (mainly grafted). For my video on own-root (mainly potted) rose planting, here's the link: https://youtu.be/8fNRsm0Qaoo I've included a full discussion on planting depth, which takes a bit of times, but I've included a topic index in case anyone wants to skip ahead:
2:55 Planting depth
10:36 Amendments for the planting hole
14:23 Tamping down the soil
15:25 When to plant
16:02 Where to plant
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Garden plants require calcium, but are crushed eggshells the solution? When I hear this folk garden remedy repeated, I think of it like a placebo: it makes you feel like you're doing something about a problem you may or may not even have. It's a harmless practice (if a little time consuming if you follow some of the recommendations out there) but my concern is that it often ends any real discussion about soil calcium. In this video, I'll try to shed some light on whether you really need to worry about additional calcium for your garden soil, the role of pH in the matter, and whether eggshells can make much of a difference.
My normally quite camera-shy ducks make a brief background appearance at around 5:24, BTW
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Photo credit:
Soil pH effect on nutrient availability, by CoolKoon, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTWv4JqiZo
One property of your potting mix you should be concerned with: does you soil have enough air spaces to maintain healthy roots? In this video, I'll demonstrate a quick an easy way to measure the approximate air-filled porosity (AFP) of your potting mix. The higher the porosity, the more air space there is for your plant roots - but it also means you may have to water more frequently. With a lower AFP, you can go longer between watering, but your plants may be more susceptible to root rot disease. Generally, a good AFP for containers and nursery production is between 15 and 25%. Here's a link with more details on what the % ranges mean:
https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/nursery-cutflowers/potting-mixes
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