John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ answers your organic gardening questions. In this episode John will answer the following questions: 1.Is there protein in vegetables that you are growing in your garden? 2. How many okra plants would you plant per square foot in a square foot garden? 3. Have you heard of the new nano sized azomite that is almost water soluble? 4. Why do you use a ball valve as a pressure regulator than a pressure regulator in your drip system irrigation? 5. My tomato plant has mushrooms growing underneath them. Should I dig them out? 6. How can I collect Jerusalem artichoke seeds aka sunchokes?

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits the Vanacore Family Farm in Vermont. In this episode, you will see how a family farm is using rock dust and compost to grow large, nutritious, strong and healthy fruits, vegetables, herbs, chickens and more. First, in this episode, John will give you a tour of the Vegetable Garden sharing with you some the experiments that are being done there, as well as a supersized red russian kale plant. Next, John will head into the apple orchard to share with you how the apple trees are stronger even though they are fully loaded with fruit without the need for 2x4 supports that are used in many orchards. Finally, John will sit down with Tom Vanacore, who has been involved with rock dust for over 30 years to ask him the following questions regarding rock dust: 15:32 How did you get into rock dust and learn about it? 16:29 What does Rock Dust Local do? 18:26 What are the different types or rock dusts? 22:00 Are all rock dusts created equal? What are the best? 24:42 Why should I use rock dust when everything grows great already? 27:54 What are the problems with using synthetic soluable fertilizers? 31:05 Do you plants really ONLY need 15-20 minerals to grow? 33:42 What is the book Mental and Elemential Nutrients about? 35:35 What do the the rock dust trace minerals do for the plants? Subscribe to GrowingYourGreens for more videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=growingyourgreens Referenced Video: Supersize your crops with woodchips and rock dust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEkFFRjDkvs For the special deal on Rock Dust Local products for GYG viewers visit: http://www.rockdustlocal.com/growingyourgreens.html To purchase CBD Rock Dust by Rockdust local visit: http://www.boogiebrew.net/gyg/

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you the Garden Couryard at the 2011 National Heirloom Expo. In the Garden Courtyard, you had the opportunity to see first-hand hundreds of varieties of rare and heirloom plants that were grown using Baker Creek Seeds that are available from RareSeeds.com. In addition, at the end of the Expo most of these heiroom plants were sold for only $2! Check out what John Scored at this Heirloom $2 Plant Sale

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to his local farmers market in Santa Rosa, California to purchase some locally grown plant starts. In this episode, John will share if its best to start seeds or purchase plant starts. In addition, you will discover some delicious edible flowers and learn which varieties of fall / winter greens John prefers to grow and why.