I just want to say that I tried Holganix Bio 800+ Agriculture at Elise's recommendation and can attest to the vitality, vigor and vibrancy of my veggies this year. There were pests, but the plants that survived were healthy. The President of Holganix (a former Monsanto scientist who is now fully converted to our form of farming) also takes time to answer microbe questions in great detail.
When I ordered mine about 6 months ago I was distraught to find I needed to keep it in the refrigerator! Can't wait to get rid of it this fall! Maybe someday I'll have an air conditioned garage!
I was going to say something similar if I leave leaves or a vegetation on the ground I have to worry about mold because of how much it rains here in central Florida
Thank you Elise for always motivating and encouraging me to keep trying to grow things. I live in a condo and have taken the back yard as my garden. My landscape people don’t know what to think. I just ordered the Holganix and am super excited. If there is one thing I have learned it is to appreciate our farmers. Growing food is hard!!! Thanks Elise. You are the best.
Yes, the true time and cost of food has been so misconstrued. Its absolutely doable just takes more than most people think. I'm glad your growing some food!
Just found your site and subscribed to learn more from your perspective. Growing up dad used fertilizers, compost, and one other thing for the 1/2 acre garden we had. Every year he would hand me the posthole digger and add another section or two to the fence we had. I would go down as deep as I could, adding the dirt from the hole(s) to the compost pile and used next season. I know it won't help you in sunny/sandy FL but may help others. Also recently saw a video out of Australia where they broadcast clay soil over the sand at a farm to help with drainage as well as (my opinion) nutrients to their crops. Have a good day.
Good evening Urban Harvest Gardening. Excellent video. That all looks so wonderful. It's amazing how many things you can grow when you decide to turn your urban yard into a garden - given the fact that there's a tremendous variety of edible and medicinal plants and weeds out there (and it's so much better than growing regular grass). Thank you for sharing your a tour of your garden. Have a wonderful weekend. 😎😎
I’ve been prepping my first ever garden for fall planting. I can’t wait to see how it goes. My starter plants have not done well. They all popped up and looked good for about 2 weeks but I think the heat has stunted them, they are still very small and look pathetic. I followed your video for starting plants but I guess I don’t quite have the green thumb like you do. Lol. I won’t give up. Please keep sharing these informative videos. Happy gardening!!
You can do it! Where they in pots or the beds your planting in to. Depending on the variety it could be too early for full sun. Do you have my what to plant when cheat sheet?
@@TheUrbanHarvest I do have your what to grow cheat sheet. Thanks! I planted in pots in my lanai. They were protected from the hard summer rains (I hand watered)and from the sun. So I am not sure what I did wrong. They aren’t dead yet so I will keep working on it. Thanks for responding. Happy gardening!!
Thanks for everything, following your guide I am becoming a gardener. I have purple hulls watermelon okra growing like mad thanks so much and thanks for thr bed layout
Im in the Land O Lakes area. I’ve been Gardening for almost 20 years. I moved to Florida 2 years ago. My gardening experience here has been extremely rough. The only plants that have been successful is gandules and a variety of pumpkin from Puerto Rico and some flowers. Black soot mold has destroyed my peppers and bugs have been a giant problem. Where can I find your when and what to plant list ?😅 I need help ! 😂😊
thx elise! Im a huge fan of holganix, have known barrett from when they created this and only heard wonderful things about their natural biome fertilizer enhancement, and now using it on our garden too... used the pellets and the spray and our fruit trees are waking up like ents from the lord of the rings movies! cant wait to taste the veggies in a month!
LOVE that analogy lol yes its a great product and am happy to have found it. I think it will help so many gardeners reach that soil ecosystem I'm constantly emphasizing!
Im following your plant calendar going into the fall hoping to have a more successful growing season because my summer was terrible. I was only able to harvest watermelon all my other plants struggled.
If this is your first year growing I think you'll be pleasantly surprised how much easier fall is! A few not full proof but very nearly for fall that I can think of would be chijimisai (just like spinach) or tokyo bekana (like lettuce) or contender bush bean. Good luck!
@@TheUrbanHarvest I been gardening for about 1 and 1/2. My 1st year I just grew whatever seed I can find without really considering the season they grow well in.
under unless your applying foliar teas or sprays like this one. In that specific case it can help because the leaves are able to absorb the nutrients etc.
They sell them at retail locations. Any hose end sprayer will do though (amazon, hd, garden supply stores, etc). I would suggest the bulk so you have several applications worth. Once it mixes with water in the sprayer the whole thing needs to be used. If you have the jug you can put in what you need and save the rest!
I noticed in your video that all your plants are in shade! Is this enough light to grow my garden in FL or did you just film during a shaded part of the day?
Two fold. I do work with a lot of shade but all parts of the garden do get several hours of sun. Plants can take more shade in summer. I just timed things to stay cool, its summer after all!
I live in NW Florida (Levy Co.), I have very sandy soil and being in this area I have a great abundance of Root Knot Nematodes. My last season of tomatoes was a disaster to say the least, big knotty roots, very few fruit and very small stemmed plants. Any suggestions ? I planted some NEMAGON MUSTARD SEEDS but less than 1/2 germinated. I then planted some Fl. Broad Leaf Mustard, they are up and growing. I'll mow and till them in. The mext season I'm going to plant Hybrid Seed.
Marigold also helps for 2-3 months if cover cropped and turned in. Crop rotation helps a lot. Add crab meal which is slow to break down but kind of expensive to do on larger scale. Also the Holganix spray does have beneficial bacteria and nematodes that could potentially help get rid of them.
Fall and winter are good times to plant garlic here in Florida, and for celery I would recommend fall and winter as well, but it can be tricky to grow.
Harvest? I'm just trying to get the darn things to grow. Totally redoing our beds this week. I'm having to go and pick up plants and I don't like doing that. I prefer to do totally organic, non GMO and Heirloom only. Sun Cycle is really not helping the garden this year. I do have my starts that are in pots that fingers crossed are going to be taking off... Central Fl. Seffner area.
Where can i buy seeds Lowes and Home Depot told me it is not gardening season and that seeds will be back for spring. Sorry for stupid question im a newbie.
I have a website like SC mentioned below. That is one of my biggest pet peeves, drives me nuts! Have to make room for the holiday decor so they boot the seeds that are in fact in season 😠No stupid questions here! Thats what Im here for!
Flseed is a seed company in Florida. I also buy from San Diego seed company which offers seed that grow well in zone 9-10. She has seeds on her website. I wanted to get sweet potato slips from her but she only does pick up for those. I was sad 😔
i got all my seeds this year from elise, curated to succeed here in fl climes. I also bought seeds in the big box stores last season and out of the 200 I planted, 120 turned into good starts, and elise warned me that they wouldnt do well here but i tried them anyways, only 12 survived out of the 200 i planted. Grow WITH your environment. get elise's seeds, not the big boxes.. im also looking forward to our first seedclub box! goodluck!
