I would ❤️ for you all to look at other channels and add your input on what is good advice vs bad. I know the conditions are different everywhere but it would be awesome if we could get facts vs fiction. Of course covid and all the new gardeners have brought too many channels with odd advice. Not bashing anyone but it's getting overwhelming vs a few years back
Could you take a look at the Irish Spring repellent hack? I personally found it was no different than other smelly repellents and none work for very long. I have yet to find anyone else who has used it and found it effective. I think the "Irish Spring Repellent" is anoher well worn urban myth myself!
I would like to see gadgets and/or techniques and items used to collect seeds. I usually am mostly a flower person since I'm surrounded by wildlife but for future reference I would like to see ways to collect and save seeds. 98% of my flower garden this year is from seeds I collected last year. Also, maybe composting products/gadgets. I currently do not compost but in the future would like to and on a relatively small scale, like for a single person living in suburbs 1/4 acre.
Can you provide a review of Android bar scanners, which are on sale today? - in terms of how these devices can assist with keeping track and documenting things, from a gardener's perspective? Thanks
5:38 I remember there was a reddit post from an owner of a small orange farmer in France looking for legal advice. They said that one day they found like 15% of their crop sliced, squashed & left to rot on ground. They were confused why would anyone do that? Later they found out some Tiktok videos of an American tourist picking, slicing & squashing oranges on their farm similar to that viral video. Apparently they kept slicing & squashing these oranges repeatedly until they get the “perfect shot”. Now they’re looking for a way to sue these tourists
That's awful. The addiction to going viral is one of the worst things to ever happen to people in recent years. Hope that unfortunate farmer recovers what he can from that case.
I was having such flashbacks to my families tobacco farm. Like the potato belt planter, we had a very similar machine that did two rows at a time. It sat 4 people (2 on each row) you'd have a big bin full of tobacco plants maybe 6" tall. The machine opened up the soil, watered the trench and this conveyer belt with these rubber "hands" would drop the plants. The hands would open at the top for you to place the plant, close to hold it, then spring open at the bottom and drop them in the earth just as the machine was closing the trench back up. Also too the metal tube planter was also used. After a week or so you'd go back in these field with a very simliar mechanism, it was a little thicker and has a separate chamber for water. You'd thrust that point into the soil where ever a transplant had died. You had a sort of hip pack with transplants and throw one in, the water chamber would drop in a splash of water. Then you'd just sort of take your foot and kick the dirt back around the plant. Filling in the field, could take days. Another very unique thing on Tobacco seedlings is the seeding process. Tobacco seeds are one of the smallest seeds out there, almost like a powder and they don't compete well with weeds. At my Dad's hardware store he sold tobacco plant seeds, they were so expensive, a little 2 oz. container that looked a little like a tiny milk carton would be hundreds if not thousands of dollars. So once you prepare a tobacco bed, you cover it with plastic and release this really toxic gas that kills EVERYTHING. You let the bed soak a bit. The gas only last a short time though (maybe day or two). Then once you have your seeds ready to go, you go back out on a windless day and rip the plastic off, the guys with the seed mix (seeds, sand, fertilizer) almost at a run would spread it all out as fast as possible, then they quickly cover it all back up. All to minimize weed competition. Once the seeds are maybe a couple of inches, you take off the plastic, put in these bamboo arches and cover with canvas to keep out more weeds and filter the sun a bit. These beds are never really out in full use but normally by a wooded area to keep the sun off. I grew up in the heart of the Tobacco belt and it is crazy just the things that are done to raise and harvest and cure the leaf. But this was the backbone of so many family farms and agricultural economies in Virginia and the Carolinas .
Its refreshing to see a professional reacts video where the chosen videos are ones that can be verified as real. It's so much easier to find the mess and point at it. And while there is value in shining light on misleading info, it's just fun to watch something that seems too strange to be real and have it verified as real.
This was interesting and fun! I too love mangoes! Those early planting techniques from Central and South America are amazing. Have you read about the archeological finds that trace the hybridization of maíz? I grew some Hopi Azul corn (before the raccoons dug them up). It was really different. I hope one day to incorporate some of those ideas on a small scale. What you are doing on your Epic Homestead is so inspiring, Kevin!
I’m actually so interested in vertical gardening because we don’t have a lot of soil, but we eat a ton of vegetables. I hope to get to farm next time in my very own backyard!
I found you through Mark at “self sufficient me” a couple years ago. So happy to have someone in the states to reference as well! Just recently figured out you’re San Diego based and I used to live in Imperial Beach! In LA now but I’m gonna be getting a raised bed soon! Thank you for all of your help and the effort you put into your craft!
I really wanna taste that orange juice!!! And all these ancient/innovative farming techniques are necessary information. We need to preserve as many of these techniques as possible.
I had a similar mango in my back yard in Hawaii. It wasn't quite as big but it had a narrow flat seed and a lot of very sweet juicy flesh. I miss that tree! In fact, that's the one thing I miss about Hawaii. Not a big fan of papaya even though my father grew some monster watermelon papaya in the 50's.
@@makulewahine it's likely to be in your genetics if you like them or not! Same with cilantro. To some they taste delicious, to others they taste like dish soap
There's also usually a good amount of manure, from various sources, in the dragonfruit trench style systems in Asia and other places using human and animal labour.
Oh I love these! ❤️ I have seen most of these done by the veggie boys or cut flower farmers. At least tic tock seems to show legitimate information vs blossom
A lot of farmers in Asia just tik tok as their way to advertise directly to consumers rather than sell to a middle man! That's probably why there's so many cropping up now.
I've worked on a planter like the potato, but it was for watermelons, and ive worked on something similar to the video after that, with the tube and planting. We just had a long stick that made a hole and someone passed by and planted whatever they were planting that season.
@epicgardening the Chinampas were actually constructed the opposite way of what you describe in the video. They would create these in lakes they are essentially artificial islands. Created by making a ring wall of sticks and wood and filling it with soil until an island was created. Then they would plant on these islands using canoes to transport goods back and forth.
what i can't figure out about the mango video is why they appear to have piles of what look like fake mangos scattered around the ground and on top of the trees. does anyone know what that's about?
Fabulous video. You are absolutely right about how gardening is hard on backs. Anything that avoids back strain is a winner. Could you do a video about ways of gardening that are easy on the back? Raised beds of course, but what else?
That luffa pile - they are widely used as a dish sponge or a bath sponge in many Eastern Asian cultural areas. Some of them are more delicately processed, and the video as I believe is showing that one of such factory rehydrating the luffa in preparation for further processing.
In Nigeria we have mangoes that can grow as large as watermelons... Sometimes call them kerosene mangoes.. that's what I grew up hearing them called. Don't see them as often nowadays..
Whao thank you for educating us! I thought for the longest time the orange was fake! I love mango, but seriously I feel bad whenever they scoop it with the dirty spoon and you see dirt on the beautiful flesh 😹 it gets me every time...
I'm wondering if you can eat the rind of tne orange at the end like a kumquat? I've always wanted a hybrid giant citrus where the rind could be eaten like a kumquat!
The way the mango was cut in that video is not a trick at all. In fact, that is the most common way of preparing ripe mangoes here in the Philippines just so you know.
"Gardener Reacts" hahaha that title must have been chosen for algorithmic reasons You are a Totally awesome (show them how its done) type of guy and deserves a much then the titel Gardener! Thank you for making this content! it inspired me to try out my first season of growing legal stuff in my garden. Potatoes aint the best so far but ill get them next season!
The chinampas in Mexico were actually like man made islands they would take the mud from the lake bottom and build up a substrate on these rafts of sorts it was kind of like the original aquaponics but with soil you can see what's left of it today in Xochimilco in Mexico city my family lives close to the embarcaderos where tourists take the boats on the canals my wife's friend and her family grow flowers there and sometimes we sell their flowers for holidays like dia de Los Muertos
