How to Mitigate Strong Winds in Your Vegetable Garden and Harbor Freight Greenhouse Improvements
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you the damage that the high 30 MPH winds did to his frontyard and back yard gardens. In addition he shares with you his techniques for mitigating the damage before you get strong winds. Finally he shares some improvments you can make to the harbor freight greenhouse, including how to make sure your panels have a lesser chance of blowing away!
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 beach to wild harvest some Salicornia aka Pickleweed to grow in his garden. In this video you will learn about this edible weed but also learn how you can harvest wild foods to grow in your home vegetable garden. After watching this episode hopefully you will be inspired to grow more common wild edible vegetables in your garden to expand the amount of edibles you are growing at home.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you his most important criteria you should consider before you purchase and plant a fruit tree on your property.
After watching this growing your greens episode in a minute, you will know the best questions to ask yourself before you purchase any fruit tree to ensure you make the best purchase for you and your family.
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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/ shares with you how you can grow your own organic cannabis indoors. In this episode, John gets his medical cannabis card to use and grow medicinal cannabis aka marijuana per prop 215 in the state of California.
In this episode you will learn where john will choose to get his "medicine" and then you will go in a behind-the-scenes tour of a North Coast Naturals, a medicinal cannabis collective (farm). You will learn many of the practices they use to grow organic cannabis successfully.
You will discover the specific soil blend they use, as well as the solid nutrients as well as liquid organic nutrients they use as well as the different organic pest controls they use to keep their cannabis "clean" of prohibited and toxic chemical pesticides and fungicides.
You will learn some of the alternatives to using avid and floramite and some of the potential dangers of using these chemicals on your crops.
You will also discover how North Coast Naturals stays legal by growing the number of plants allowable under law but still reaping maximum yields by specially training and pruning the cloned plants, using special pvc trellis structures and maximizing the canopy of each plant to maximize the numbers of buds they are producing. You will also discover how they naturally air dry their harvest to get maximum air circulation, and dry to maximize the effects of the medicine they are growing in this California legal growing establishment.
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on another field trip to visit the Orange County Great Park to learn more about what's growing on at the Great Park. The Great Park was a former military base now partially converted to a great park. After watching this video you will learn more what's growing in their raised bed gardens, see their waist height raised bed garden and learn about the hay bale garden and more.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares his favorite last minute Christmas gifts for fruit and vegetable gardeners. In this episode, John will share a handful of items that can be purchased today and STILL arrive by December 25th.
In this episode, you will learn about the lowest price ever on the Boogie Brew Compost Tea with Heavy Harvest reusable compost tea bag as well as the Deluxe kit that also includes the Boogie Blue Water Filter.
Next, John will share the Gardeners Hollow Leg, which is John's favorite bag for harvesting, pruning and weeding his garden. You will learn how John uses this convenient harvest basket / bin to save time pruning and harvesting in his garden. The Gardeners Hollow Leg is available in a 1 gallon and 5 gallon size and three colors.
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shows you how easy it is to install the Melnor 4 Zone Wifi Aqua Timer to his drip irrigation system in his garden. In this episode, John takes you through the process of removing his old Melnor 4 Zone Water timer and replace it with the WiFi enabled model that will enable him to monitor the weather in his garden as well as turn off and turn on the watering cycles and change the programming from anywhere in the world when he is connected to the internet on his PC, Laptop, Tablet, or even smartphone.
You will see how to easily pair the Wifi Aqua timer to your home network using the Android or IOS app that comes with the timer.
You will then learn how to install the timer into your garden and then pair the timer and control unit together.
Next, you will discover how you can easily program the Wifi Aqua Timer using a Internet browser on your tablet, smartphone, laptop or desktop.
Finally, John will share how you can install an additional rain sensor that senses the moisture in the soil that will turn off the WiFi aqua timer from watering, to save you water automatically when it is raining.
The Melnor Wifi Aqua Timer as tested in this episode was model 15043 with the optional Model 3300 Rain Delay Sensor.
Install of the original Melnor 4 Zone Water timer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0FajsQnurw
Watch the initial video on the Wifi Aquatimer & other new products at the 2015 National Hardware Show at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzZtHLoPTwo
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com visits with his friends who he helped build a raised bed in their back yard to grow their food one year ago. There were 7 episodes that show the process of buying, building, planting and irrigating the new raised beds. In this episode, learn how their garden has been growing and learn about their new raised bed and what plants do better in shade, as well as how to single stem a tomato plant