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I just discovered how much I need humidity in my adult life, specially for sleep. I was miserable for so long. I live with a microclimate that renders weather forecast 90% inaccurate😢
Glad I was able to find this older video! I’ve picked up 16 blueberry plants ( 4 varieties), and was wondering when I should be pruning them. I guess I should wait a few years. Do you have a pruning video? I’d love to learn about it for the future
Did this guy just say that there is no difference to synthetic fertializer and natural fertalizer? If so, id like to know more on why he says that, because i dont full see how thats true. From what i understand from other sources, is that pure nitrogen from fertalizer is washed out and kills/pushes away organic matters in then soils. If this channel is still active, please get back to me on this.
I don't recall the entire conversation, but what I imagine what he said was plants can't tell the difference between nitrogen sources. Plants use nh3 and nh4 (available nitrogen); regardless of the source, and both are water soluble. Nitrogen that is attached to proteins and amino acids do not wash away - but they are also not usable by plants. They only become useable when they are broken down by soil organisms - when they become NH3 and/or NH4. I hope that makes sense.
For some reason cucumber beetles were scarce this year (yay) and my first succession of cukes are still producing. My favourite eating variety that seems to withstand the wilt that the beetles usually impart to my vines is Summer Dance and boy are they productive! Not the greatest for pickles though - they wrinkle up. I tried Avenger for pickles this year and it is still producing. This was my first season for those so I don't have much experience to go on for how they do year after year. S. Ontario.
Make rye bread..lol nothing like the smell of fresh baked bread. Thank you. Reminds me of Robinson Crosoe bread ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P3bKbk5ZXWw.htmlfeature=shared
Thanks so much for this. No thermometers, no mixer, no kneading, no dust cloud of flour coating my kitchen AND easy clean bowls. I'm in! Going to see if my pandemic yeast stock is still good and give this a try.
LOL Greg, you have the same metal mixing bowls and measuring cups as I do....Must be a NS thing.....LOL Mom has those exact same bread pans...Blackened from years of use.
Since watching your cooking shows I've realized my wife needed those SS bowls, she struggles with lifting heavy glass bowls. Since I got them for Christmas she no longer complains of wrist pain.
Couldn’t disagree more about being able to significantly add microbial life to soil, especially depleted soils, directly through the use of inputs. And I don’t mean inputs that you go buy at a store or online, but ones that you can , and should, collect and culture yourself. Things like KNF’s use of Indigenous Microorganisms (IMO) collections from your local forests and inoculating your soils with it. Or JADAM and its microbial solution (JMS), which is similar to IMO, but just proliferated through different techniques. Or even the basic use of LABS or EM1, or incorporating activated biochar into your soils. Yes, he is correct that a lot of microbial life is already in the soil/environment and just need to be given the proper conditions to thrive, but most soil in gardens and lawns and the average urban backyards are pretty limited in their diversity (and particularly bacterial dominated. It’s not just about the overall population of microbes that you need, but it’s also necessary to have a wide diversity of microbial life which can be significantly increased by using the above mentioned techniques of collecting and inoculating your soils with wild microbes. There are a ton of soil biologists and expert practitioners that I think would greatly disagree with his perspective and have the data and anecdotal evidence to prove otherwise…Elaine Ingham, Matt Powers (Regenerative Soil), Chris Trump (KNF), Youngsang Cho (JADAM), Hankyu Cho (KNF), and on and on. And not that it matters to anyone other than myself, but I’ve been able to significantly improve the quality of soil on my property (food forest and annual gardens) by directly incorporating the inputs from KNF and JADAM, without needing to add a 1-2” layer of compost on a year basis. Yes, I also use some compost that I make myself from the biomass and debris of my own land, and I also practice a lot of chop and drop mulching, but I could never begin to make enough to cover my 2+ acres of growing space with that much compost every year. And from reading the other comments, it seems like I’m far from being the only one that disagrees with this.
@@maritimegardening4887 Lol…clearly didn’t read my comment. I said inputs that you don’t buy, but make yourself. The only money I’ve spent was for the JADAM book (and really didn’t even need to), and some rice & brown sugar for making/storing IMO. Only thing you need to make JMS is water, leaf mold, a few potatoes (that you grow yourself), and a 5 gallon or larger bucket. Everything else can be easily learned on YT or from websites for free, just like someone watching your videos. I’ve never bought a single microbe inoculant product from anywhere, made it all myself. People can buy EM1, but you can also just learn to make it yourself…make my own LABS, my own Bokashi grain, my own JMS, my own IMO, and on and on.
@@tcoxor52 Apologies - I get a lot of comments and can't always respond thoughtfully to an essay. Short answer - I don't do any of that stuff and my garden is great. Robert doesn't do any of that stuff and his garden is great. I just keep it mulched and maybe once every 4 years add an inch of manure. Roberts main point is that your soil can only support the soil life it is able to support - so adding more soil life will not do much unless the soil has the organic matter to support it. Robert is drawing his information from a preponderance of information from soil scientists - so I'm not sure where that leaves us. Here is a podcast I recorded with a soil scientist on "improving your soil" pretty sure we touched on this topic as well. Maybe listen to that and get back to me. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GKrckiR1IZc.html
Mine are ready to harvest in July. I think I mentioned to you my rot problem this year from trying to cure in a shed that was too hot and lacking air circulation. I have to figure something different next year. Maybe the front porch with a fan.
Please let us know the onion varieties you are growing and which onions you recommend: yellow onions, red onions, white onions, Aisla Craig onions, sweet onions, long day onions, best storage onion.
I have seen video where the gardener breaks the tops over in August which is said to promote size. I have not had success with growing onions, small in size, wet mushy interiors. Such a simple growing plant but still so much to learn for great results.
This was the first summer I picked all my tomatoes when they were 1/2 to 3/4 way to fully ripe and then left them on my kitchen counter to finish up inside. What a benefit! No more split tomatoes or pest damage or squishy over ripe ones and most notably, the flavour was just as delicious as if they finished on the vine. I read somewhere that tomatoes "cut themselves off" from the mother plant well before they are fully red (I think that's what you were referring to when you said some green ones will ripen and others won't) and after that point, they are not going to acquire anymore nutrients etc from the mother plant. Worked well for me and I'll continue this practice in future years. It was a great year for tomatoes.
Frost advisory most of NS Sep 22 www.google.com/maps/@45.8910839,-61.6150787,5.75z/data=!4m2!21m1!1s%2Fg%2F11whtymrq4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxOC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
I picked all of the ones that look like yours are. If they have that much red. If I leave them birds and insects will put holes in them. I have a nice big bowl of red and a second with lots of almost ready. I also have heirloom tomatoes and they are really nice.
I took out one of my roma plants by accident when cutting a tree down. I took all the green tomatoes off and sure enough half ripened, the other half didn't. Not sure what that magic tipping point is either.
Tomatoes are looking good! I just picked 3/4 of mine still green. They are just not ripening. We had very cold June followed by extreme hot July and lots of blossom drop due to extremes. Not a great tomato year out here in Z3 Alberta. Try again next year 😊
We just got our first frost warning for tonight in central NB. I was thinking of pulling all my plants and bringing them inside but now I think ill just lay them down and cover. great tip. Not that I really need any more tomatoes, it's been a great year for them.
When I see a rain system coming our way I will also go pick all the ripe ( even half ripe ) tomatoes to avoid splitting. That variety you have a somewhat like Scotia tomatoes that I like but maybe I will give that variety a try, I don't need the big types.
You should have a good harvest of kale soon. The plants are looking healthy. I missed seeing your eggplant microclimate this year. I tried the panels in my garden this year around my peppers and a few squash plants. Even though this summer wasn’t the best conditions for those types of plants they did better than any planted without the panels. Thank you for the idea. It was successful enough that I will use it again.
Thank you for a great video. Good to know that it will grow in shade. This summer was brutal and the shade was a good thing for delicate or unestablished plants
hello from manitoba where canola fields can breed vast numbers of flea beetles, the best protection you can give those kale is seed radishes near them, the FB really love radish and will leave kales alone as long as they are eating radishes. fast cold hardy radishes can be crop savers lol, i do not eat them but i plant many every year lol
