Gardening is my passion, and growing Food Forests is my specialty. I go beyond organic gardening and work with nature rather then against it. Gardening doesn't have to be hard, and you don't have to be a servant to the garden. I can help you too create a gardening system that works with you and for you rather then you working for it. I use No pesticides, No herbicides. No fungicides, No growth hormones, No antibiotics, and No fertilizers. I allow nature to be the teacher and mimic the natural forest model to create an ideal living environment for all living things. I know their aren't a lot of people who are super excited about growing their own food, but at a time when GMO's and pesticide laden foods are causing so many health problems, I am standing in the gap showing others there is a different, and a better way!
2 questions- Can I direct sow for the second planting? Even if I’m dealing with vine borers and squash bugs? And What to do with the leaves I prune if they are diseased?
Wow, what a beautiful harvest so far this year! Those colorful cauliflowers are so gorgeous! I love all the fruit growing throughout. Cant wait to see what the harvest will bring next! I followed some of your tomato pruning tips. It's my first time growing indeterminate tomatoes, so I hope I can get at least a few tomatoes this year! Im having to rebuild my new garden from scratch and I miss my old plants, but trying to focus on all the new things I can grow!
How often do you trample your strawberries? I imagine you have so many that you accept some collateral damage just as you accept some loss to birds and animals.
Hey, I have a balcony garden that is now one year old. There are two dwarf trees (apple), a raspberry plant, two blueberry plants, strawberries, herbs and annuals. I had a good yield of the tomatoes and cucumbers next year, and I´m enjoying the first strawberries!!! :)
Hey James - love your channel. I have considered kaolin but have read that it naturally contains a certain amount of lead. Does any brand test for this or do you recommend any brand? thanks.
Hi! Love all your videos, easy to understand and follow! I found video about tomatoes is the best video I have been watching to learn how to grow them. I’m so new to the gardening and now struggling to find about potatoes… do you have a video about them? I checked your play list but what I see it’s a small listing but maybe I’m looking g wrongly somehow thank you Nina xx
Hey James, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us! I love your videos! One thing i always wonder about how do you deal with your brassicas? I see you grow them pretty much everywhere and a lot of them. Because they are heavy feeders they say you should plant brassicas at the same spot for the next 4 years do to crop rotation rules. How do you deal with it? Do you follow a crop rotation especially for brassicas? Do you use insect netting for them and so on… Maybe a whole video about this would be so interesting! 💚
J.P.'s Secret Stuff All Purpose Fert appears to work really well, nice job James; your garden is well planned and well executed, I started a square foot garden after seeing your successful sq foot work.
I was told multiple times when I moved to Seattle 'you can't grow big tomatoes here, it doesn't get hot enough, the climate doesn't support it'. Lo and behold, if you do it right you get back what you put into it. NEVER let people tell you what you can grow.
Greetings from Australia…Oh my goodness. Found your site recently….wow!…love love love….recently retired and if I can’t eat it, I don’t grow it. Hubby plants the flowers for the pollinators…..oh and a BIG ❤❤❤ for little man Tuck….cuteness overload…
Great Video 😁🎉❤️ Always so much Fun watching you and Tuck doing what you do best.. My backyard Garden sometimes gets frustrating to keep up with and especially with the high heat and no shade. I take it as a learning experience and love Growing ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for sharing this Video 🎉 Truly an Inspiration 🙏 Many blessings to you and Tuck.. 🐕😊
Thank you for always being motivational and encouraging…💗you are so informative and full of energy! 🤩I’ve been gardening for a lifetime but it’s the first year I’ve had such a large garden-it’s been testing me a lot-🫤and I’ve had bouts of giving up, not to mention my own naysayers, but your channel has helped me continue on…🌱🌱I have quite a bit of personal issues going on and the garden is my solace and escape✨but it’s had its moments of trying my patience this year!!😢thank you for your positivity and knowledge, it’s helping keep me focused 🍅🌿and for sharing little Tuck☺️🐾💗he’s a darling 🥕I have my own garden dog/helper🍓🐶too! 😊always look forward to seeing more informative videos from you 🍅🌿💗so much gratitude 🙏🏼 for people like you!💗🌱💗
How do you keep weeds down surrounding the beds? I don’t use Glyphosate and it’s so hard to keep weeds down. I’ve tried cardboard and mulch, black plastic, torching weeds, and still have problems with weeds.
James, you are becoming quite the teacher! I am watching all your videos, you are sharing so much of your knowledge and I so appreciate the encouraging messages you include with your lessons of the food forest. And of course, can't enough of the little boss, Love seeing you in every video Tuck....garden guardian 💚💚💚💚
💜💜💜💜💜Tuck! I am amazed at all the early and spring crops you still have! I am not in North Carolina and all of my spring crops are done! We have had several days over 90 degrees already. I love all of your videos! I garden organically too! I just ate my first Mortgage Lifter tomato sandwich! I have 36 tomatoes! Some are the ones you suggested. I grew over 250 plants from seed using the Winter Sowing method. Costoluto Genevese, Sun Gold, Barry’s Crazy Cherry, Black Cherry, Super Sweet 100;are new ones for me.
I really enjoyed your final thoughts segment today. Learning nature is the boss is a great burden to be lifted because no one really knows what she wants so we get to be kids in the sand again.