Michigan gardener growing no till permaculture on a 2.5 acre homestead. Tips to help growers save money and make growing your own food less stressful. Your garden should benefit not only you, but nature as well. Nature will reward you if you work with her!
I transplanted my peppers and tomatoes into bigger cups. Now they look dead can you please tell me if they will bounce back. I have the light a few inches above the plants.
In flower you're going to need something bigger. I use a Honeywell to veg. You're correct about veg lighting but if anyone wants big flowers you're going to need at LEAST 800 ppfd. Preferably 1000-1500
Awesome video!! We just bought 40 acres in mid Michigan. My wife just bought me the edible forest gardens books and we are going to use it as a planning guide. It’s great to see your videos and how much of it works in our area. I’ll continue to watch and learn! Thanks 👍👍
@@FastGardeningMichigan I don't know if mine still have time. I will try to cover them with mulch after cutting them back and see if they come back next year. I want some homemade spinach and artichoke dip from my garden veggies. 😋
I think I haven’t “hardened off” effectively- I get my root cuttings established well but then they don’t transition to outdoors. The stems get weak and leaves get pale
I’ve done a few horizontally. Hardest part is def hollowing it out. I put one screw in so I can rotate the door (floor in you house) so u can clean it out….
I wonder if the Black Strawberry could test better with some adjustments in fertilizer/amendments. Can’t tomatoes flavor profile change with how it’s tended to when fruiting?
@@ablacksquare yes. Excess rain can also dilute flavor. I've had these in many conditions but they are nearly tasteless and many others claim the same. Compost and chop and drop are my only amendments
@@yes-ik1it I wanted to do some crosses this year but it may be too late. A video on it is in future plans. It is a delicate process where timing is incredibly important since they self pollinate so easy
Sorry but those are not the Chocolate Stripes variety... Chocolate Stripes is a dark tomato with green stripes (look on Google) - and it is one of the best tomatoes I've ever tasted. But this highlights a problem I've been seeing more often: even trusted seed companies are mixing up and losing our classic and heirloom OP varieties. Which makes it as important as ever for seed savers to protect these varieties (which is ironic, because before the "enemy" was companies like Monsanto, but now it's the OP seed companies themselves). Anyway, it is exactly as you say: the rain diluted the flavour of your tomatoes (and caused the splitting, and fungal disease). I have a dry growing season, so my heirloom tomatoes don't split (because they only get the water I give them)... and watering plays a HUGE role in flavour. I've had Cherokee Purples and Brandywines literally taste like water because I accidentally gave the plants too much water... So perhaps think of growing your tomatoes in rows and put greenhouse plastic (or something similar) on as a 'ceiling' to keep the rain off the plants but still allow direct sunlight in from the side. You will probably also have less fungal disease if you can keep them dryer. A bit like this old video of a grandpa in Texas: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C6yljCs0444.html Anyway, that little girl is a boss with those sunglasses! lol
Damn I just checked the temperatures in Michigan and u guys have it really good, nothing really going over 30 degrees celsius. Where I live our tomato plants (not the fruits) are literally scorched from the insane heat every single day (35-40 celsius). 🙏
We have weeks like that in our growing season too... 40% shade cloth (preferably white, because it reflects more heat, but black works too) and thick straw mulch is a game-changer. But be sure to remove the shade cloth when temperatures drop back into the 20s celsius (otherwise your tomatoes can lack sweetness).
@@jayduplessis7698 Oh nice tips there! We got the mulch part done but never really tried the shade clothing, maybe its time! Alot of our neighbors have the green cloth in their garden but I believe that's used against storm hail.
Grew only one strand of cherry toms this season from MIgardener, they were great for salad, and pico de gallo; they also produced well. Cherry Bomb F-1 is on my list; thank you Fast Gardener.
@@stevebaker8322 I love the heirlooms he sells but it's tough fighting disease issues that come with them. Sometimes disease shuts the plants down, other times they look terrible but still produce
On my feed you were right above James Priggioni and you both have tomatoes in the thumbnails. Thought that was neat. 😂 Your little ones are precious!!!
I just love your philosophy on respecting nature. I try to do just the same! Today, I was out on national forest harvesting service berries & my hunting partner noticed a hornworm crossing the street....🤭 I'm sure there's a joke there! 🤣 We were curious to know what it could have been eating out there. We guessed nightshade plants. Anyway, it had to go thru several potholes full of water, so I decided to pick it up & carry it to the other side & place it in some grass. I swear it screamed as I grabbed it & picked it high into the air!😂 Then after I set it down gently in the grass, it thanked me. 🤣🤣🤣
Not every arborist uses the chip drop site. I called every tree service I could find in my area and have gotten a couple of loads that way. I’m trying to cover an area of over 20,000 sq ft. This is my initial cover, so I’m laying them down about 8” thick. I’m still getting some Bermuda poking through in some areas, but I just dig down to the dirt and clear it out. Once it’s all gone, I’ll only have to keep it outside the fence line. I’ve battled kudzu and won. Oh yeah, my first load of chips came from my local power company. They were cleaning up trees along my road and just stopped and asked what they were going to do with their load of chips.
I'm still fighting quack grass. This fall I'm doing 2 more layers of cardboard on existing chips and 12 inches of chips on that. Been waiting 4 months for chips so I'll be calling arborists.
Thank you. Wish I had been more visualant . There is a high nest on the window frame on the dormer. I'm 69 and my sister is 71. I can buy just a small amount of time before my sister freaks out. I hope that a miracle can save these rascals. I have to live with my actions and ending lives is not my job. 🤧
I was just living with a nest full of hundreds 3 feet off the ground and didn't even know it until my face was right in it 😂. It's good that they're docile
@@Timmsy I spent MANY years watching Steve Irwin. My son found Crocodile Hunter on the TV and watches it now too. One of the coolest language variations
