Perennial greens can be planted once and harvested for years. Here are some of my favorites, for both tropical and temperate climates. If you don't own Eric Toensmeier's book Perennial Vegetables, I highly recommend it. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3fJbYtm And my new book
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Sometimes you just need to use what you have. In this case, it was 10-10-10 and the help of some cute kids and a marvelous sister-in-law. Since I'm not around to get proper organic systems going and only had a few days, we stood in the gap in the food forest by throwing around some chemical fertilizer. Food first, then we can worry about "was that EVIL!???" later!
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What a beautiful plot of yams! So much promise!
Today I finish the yam staking and give you a look around the yams, dasheen and the peanut and sweet potato beds.
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Our sugar cane syrup making quest continues as we join Ben White in Lower Alabama and see his cane press and incredible cane boiler setup while enjoying the beautiful fall weather.
Ben's system features a brick site-built cane syrup cooking area, fired by wood, and a 60-gallon steel kettle. His mill is a Chattanooga Plow Company model, and today he is borrowing a second antique cane mill powered by a hydraulic motor driven by a log-splitter.
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Let's talk fall gardening and WHY I AM NOT GOING NO-TILL, YOU CRAZY CULTIST FREAKS!!!
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Find more gardening inspiration at http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com. We are growing beans for seed-saving and not eating them this time around - Rachel explains how we are using seed-saving to increase our supply of an heirloom vegetable. Purple-pod Roma beans are beautiful and easy to harvest, and we want more! Once we have plenty of seeds, these easy-to-grow pole beans should be growing on our homestead for years to come. Saving heirloom beans is easy... you just need to practice delayed gratification.
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Let it be officially known that this channel is going to have a lot more videos starting today, We're attacking the empty building lot and installing gardens all over it. Today is the first of a series. We'll be planting yams, pumpkins, corn, all kinds of vegetables and maybe some flowers. But first we have to clear all the piles of brush without burning the neighborhood down. Let's see what we can do on one hour a day, every weekday.
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Today Daisy and I share how to plant sugarcane cuttings and how to grow sugar cane in a row garden in zones 8, 9 and beyond.
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How to Grow Sugarcane (Even Outside the Tropics)
Sugarcane is easy to grow from zone 8 on through the tropics. Today, Daisy and I will demonstrate how we plant them in rows.
Fall is the time to plant sugarcane in the Deep South. Till up an area in which to plant and rake out all the weeds and grass you can.
Then, dig some trenches about 3-4' apart. We make our trenches about six inches deep.
Once you have your trenches ready, it's time to plant your cane. But first you need some cane cuttings! Though some sugarcane varieties set seed, cuttings are the normal method for growing sugarcane. You can get canes from a farmer's market or ethnic market, or online, then chop them up so each cane has a few nodes. We throw away the top, immature part of the cane and use the rest for planting.
How to Plant Sugarcane
We lay out cane cuttings in our trenches, end to end, continuing until all the trenches are planted. Then we cover over the trenches with soil.
In a climate with winter frosts, it may also be beneficial to mulch the ground to project the canes from freezing. We throw down whatever mulch we have, from old sugarcane leaves to tree leaves, to straw or wood chips.
When Does Sugarcane Sprout?
Now all you have to do is wait until spring. When the weather warms, your cane will start sprouting. It looks like little corn sprouts as it comes up, then rapidly thickens and grows as the weather gets hotter. At the end of the season, before the first hard frost, harvest your canes for sale for making juice, syrup, sugar or other exciting things. A patch of sugarcane can last for years and will regrow the next spring when the weather warms.
Uses of Sugarcane
Sugarcane can be used to make cane syrup, juice, sugar and rum. It's also a beautiful ornamental.
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