GARDENING
Raised Bed Garden Tips – Raised Beds 101
An introduction to and tips on raised bed gardening. This video covers why used raised beds, advantages of raised beds, raised bed dos and don’ts, and includes bed preparations, weeding, briar pulling, watering, hose care, and much more. I discus how I let my garden get away from me and my work to recover it.
Planting Sweet Potatoes – Organically, Including Bed Preparation
Quiz, what’s the last photo in this video?
Harvesting and Drying Garlic
Lean the steps toward harvesting and drying garlic. See how it is done – step by step. Quiz, what’s the last photo in this video?
Harvesting Elephant Garlic Scapes
Quiz – What’s the last 2 photos in this video?
Feeding Turmeric – Worm Tea and Fish Emulsion
Turmeric is a heavy feeder. See how to feed it (or anything you are growing) with worm tea and fish emulsion.
Late Summer Veggie Planting
Planting Rattlesnake Beans
Organic method for planting rattlesnake beans for a trellis with wood chips for weed control.
Tying Up Tomatoes When It’s Too Late
How to tie up tomatoes to a trellis when you let them go too long. How to remove morning glories from your tomatoes. Quiz: How many cats are there in the next to the last picture?
Setting out Peppers with Horticultural Cloth – Landscape Fabric
Quiz – What’s the last 2 photos in this video?
Planting Turmeric with Landscape Fabric
See how to plant turmeric with landscape fabric for weed control.
Small Farm Homestead Advantage
See some the advantages of smaller homestead farms for sustainability and food production, even in adverse weather.
Seeds Of Survival – Why Seeds Are Vital – Story of the Trail of Tears
See why seeds are vital to survival, prepping, bugging out, and bugging in. I relay a heartbreaking story from the ultimate forced bugout, the Trail of Tears, that reveals just how important seeds were to Native Americans. See why they would starve before they ate their seed corn, and an even more stark story.
Making a Living on a 10th of an Acre Farm – Part I – How to Grow your Food & Sell Produce in a City!
Meet the Dervaes family who grows over 6,000 – 7,000 pounds of food for eating and making a living for a family of three adults on 1/10th of an acre in the city of Pasadena, California. This family sets the bar for how you can survive, and thrive in the big city in good times, and even after it hits the fan. If a lot more people followed their lead, the cities would not be such a trap of despair when it hits the fan. This family sets the example for us to follow for a sustainable, successful, and bountiful future for humanity, both in how to grow food, but especially in their attitude toward life! They are a wonderful family!
10th of an Acre Farm Tour – Part II – Dervaes Family Farm
Tour the Dervaes family farm where they grow over 6,000 – 7,000 pounds of food for eating and making a living for a family of three adults on 1/10th of an acre in the city of Pasadena, California. See their grow beds and lean how they do it! This family sets the example for us to follow for a sustainable, successful, and bountiful future for humanity, both in how to grow food, but especially in their attitude toward life! What a wonderful family!
Planting Garlic – Bed Prep and All
Learn about planting elephant garlic, regular garlic, and garlic corms with trowel shovels and tulip planters. Also learn how to prep your beds organically to plant garlic. An introduction to and tips on raised bed gardening.
How to Plant Turmeric 2019 & 2017 Footage
How to plant turmeric. See how I grow organic turmeric in hugelkultur type raised beds rich in worms and worm castings.
How to Fight Johnson Grass
Johnson Grass is a gardener’s big enemy here in the south! Discover why it grows like crazy! See how to fight it organically.
Deer Defense – A No Suspense Hoop Fence
How to keep deer and other animals out of your garden. What do you do when you don’t have room or money for a regular fence?
Planting and Harvesting Radish – Pest Tips Too
How to plant and harvest radish. Learn how to use radish to control some pests.
Feed Your Pollinators
Feed your bees and pollinators by maintaining flowering plant. Crucial for your garden!
First Turmeric Harvest of 2018
See my first turmeric harvest of the season. See how I grow organic turmeric in hugelkultur type raised beds rich in worms and worm castings. See how I dig it up, and prepare it for the market. Then see me at the farmers market just realizing I left it at home! LOL! At least I had microgreens and aquaponics lettuce to sell!
Sharpen and Use a Scythe
How to sharpen and use a scythe. A scythe is a great tool to have, especially if the power goes down. They are good to use to mow hay, and even mow your lawn.
How To Pull Up a Thorny Black Berry Bush Bare Handed
Learn how you can pull up a thorny black berry vine bare-handed. A great gardening tip. First feel around really carefully so that you don’t grab a thorn. You do not want to clamp down on one with your hand. But before you try it do bear in mind – I did grow up in a brier patch! 😉 Other words – kids, don’t try this at home!
Manual Grid Down Tools for Garden Homestead and Market Garden
The tools you need for your garden when the grid goes down. What are the most essential tools for your garden and homestead.
Hoe Review Know Your Hoes
Some important considerations for buying a hoe and other garden hand tools.
Deer Repellent, Growing Turmeric, and Fall Garden Tour
How to keep deer and other animals out of your garden, Lettuce beds, overwintering green onions, and my turmeric patch. Natural grown garden with no chemicals – just worm castings and worm tea.
MICROGREENS
Make Money Growing Microgreens In Your Home!!!
Learn how to make money growing microgreens in your home, in your living room or a spare bedroom. I show you my microgreens racks and tell you how to make good money in your spare time growing in your own home! You will also see some of the lettuce I have started indoors for my aquaponics greenhouse.
How To Grow Microgreens With No Soil on Biostrate
How to grow microgreens with no Soil on biostrate felt. This video shows how to best cut and prepare the biostrate felt, how to do a last minute sanitation of the trays before planting in them, how sow four different types of seeds (where seed size varies the techniques), and how to sow, water, and cover the seeds. How to control mold is covered too.
Pea Shoot Grow Day 0
How to grow pea shoot microgreens with no soil or growing medium. This video shows how to sanitize presoaked pea-shoot seeds and plant them with no growing medium.
Pea Shoot Grow Day 1
How to grow pea shoot microgreens with no soil or growing medium. This video shows how the peas look after a day of sprouting. And how to water and prepare them for the second grow day.
Pea Shoot Grow Day 2
How to grow pea shoot microgreens with no soil or growing medium. This video shows how the peas look after two days of sprouting. And how to water and prepare them for the third grow day.
Pea Shoot Grow Day 3
How to grow pea shoot microgreens with no soil or growing medium. This video shows how the peas look after three days of sprouting. You can start to see the little leaf buds starting to form. Learn how to water and prepare them for the fourth grow day.
Pea Shoot Grow Day 4
Check out how much these peas shoot up in 4 days! There is a bonus section at the end to show how to raise sun flower shoots on paper towels and ho you can mix crops, Learn how to grow pea shoot microgreens with no soil or growing medium. This video shows how the peas look after four days of sprouting. You can start to see these peas shooting up!. Learn how to water and prepare them for the fifth grow day.
Pea Shoot Grow Day 5
How to grow pea shoot microgreens with no soil or growing medium. This video shows how the peas look after five days of sprouting. You can start to see the little leaf buds starting to form. Learn how to water and prepare them for the sixth grow day.
Pea Shoot Grow Day 6
Check out how much these peas shoot up in 6 days! Learn how to grow pea shoot microgreens with no soil or growing medium. This video shows how the peas look after six days of sprouting. You can see these peas are really shooting up!. Learn how to water and prepare them for the seventh grow day.
Pea Shoot Grow Day 7
Check out how much these peas shoot up in seven days! Learn how to grow pea shoot microgreens with no soil or growing medium. This video shows how the peas look after seven days of sprouting. You can see these peas are really shooting up!. Learn how to water and prepare them for the eight grow day.
Pea & Sun Shoot Grow Day 8 Under the Lights
Check out how much these peas and sunflowers shoot up in eight days! Learn how to grow pea shoot microgreens with no soil or growing medium. This video shows how the peas look after eight days of sprouting. I’m also showing sunflower shoots on day eight, mustard shoots on day seven, and daikon radish, kale, broccoli, and red amaranth look on day their grow day six. You can see these peas are shooting up and growing green along with the other greens!. Learn how to water and prepare them for the ninth grow day.
Pea Shoot Grow Day 9
Check out how much these peas shoot up in nine days and after one day under the lights! Learn how to grow pea shoot microgreens with no soil or growing medium. This video shows how the peas look after nine days of sprouting. You can see these peas are really shooting up!. Learn how to water and prepare them for the tenth grow day.
Pea Shoot Grow Day 10
Check out how much these peas shoot up in ten days and after two day under the lights! Learn how to grow pea shoot microgreens with no soil or growing medium. This video shows how the peas look after ten days of sprouting. You can see these peas are really shooting up!. Learn how to water and prepare them for the eleventh grow day. I also show other microgreens such as radish, broccoli, kale, and red amaranth.
Pea Shoot Grow Days 12 & 13 Last in Series
Check out how much these peas shoot up in days 12 and 13! Learn how to grow pea shoot microgreens with no soil or growing medium. This video shows how the peas look after 12 and 13 days of sprouting. You can see these peas are really shooting up!. I also show my lettuce growing hydroponically for transfer to the aquaponics greenhouse.
AQUAPONICS AND GREENHOUSE
Adding Tilapia to an Aquaponics System
How to add fish to an aquaponics system. I will do a comprehensive Aquaponics 101 video in the not too distant future.
Adding Tilapia to an Aquaponics System
How to add fish to an aquaponics system. I will do a comprehensive Aquaponics 101 video in the not too distant future.
Emergency Winterization Of My Aquaponics System Part 1 of 3 for 11 Nov 18 Cold Snap
Emergency winterization of aquaponics greenhouse. This video looks at emergency steps I took to winterize my aquaponics greenhouse for an unexpected autumn hard freeze on 11 November 2018 in Alabama. Subsequent videos will cover in this series will cover the effectiveness of the aquaponics water in providing thermal mass to sustain temperatures, and construction of solar hot water heaters to heat the water in the greenhouse.
Warming the Greenhouse with Aquaponics Water – It Works, Green House Winterization Part 2 of 3
How 5,000 gallons of aquaponics provided the thermal mass to maintain the temperature of a large 24 x 75 foot hoophouse (with a 16 foot ceiling) at 38 degrees Fahrenheit whilst outside temperatures dropped into the 20s.
Solar Heating the Aquaponics Greenhouse Part 3 of 3
How to heat an aquaponics greenhouse with a solar siphoning water heater . I will do a comprehensive Aquaponics 101 video in the not too distant future.
Aquaponics Greenhouse Entering Production Halloween 2018 Update
My introduction of plants into my deep water culture (DWC) aquaponics system and various fixes to the aquaponics greenhouse, and a broad system overview.
My First Video – Intro to My Aquaponics Greenhouse
This video shows the progress on my large scale home made DIY aquaponics greenhouse which is still underdevelopment. This is a tour though the entire system. I show how I covered the deep water culture grow-bed with the Styrofoam rafts I will grow lettuce with to control algae growth. Discover how to balance the water-flow from a pump that is too powerful by setting up a bypass line and adding valve controls. You will see how I am starting my lettuce.
Aquaponics Greenhouse Development Update
Aquaponics Greenhouse Initial Run