Something I do to save time: whenever I'm moving from one part of yard to another, or going inside or outside, or to the back yard, if I have hands free I grab stuff that needs to be going that way, and drop it off. So a lot of my work gets done while I'm actually up to doing other stuff.
Thanks again Jon! I never get tired ow watching your videos. And there are SO many! Thank you.
hey thnx for the tip on increasing the speed cuz there r some tubers who talk really slow, I never realized that could be done. I always enjoy ur vids John.
we use a wash basin for washing cloth and dishes. the drain pipe is connected to a filtering bucket that then connects to a pipe to the garden. We reuse as much as possible in a city dwelling.
Hi John, I have a sprouter Fresh life (FL 3000). I have trouble with mold and smelly odor when growing wheatgrass . Please let me know what I can do to avoid mold in the water
Hi John love your videos mate they are a real inspiration. Im curious on your take of the blatent & widespread chemical geo-engineering occurring in our sky's, all of which eventually fall down to earth and enter the soil and water supply. What effect is this having on our gardens, Is it even possible to grow organic food anymore?
you can harvest some of the red shiso flower and seed pods. Collect the seed pods the whole stem and place them in a vinegar to season and color the vinegar to a pretty red/maroon color. The vinegar will take on the shiso fragrance. It really makes for a nice base in salad dressing. Then you can eat the seed pods. Really good! nice video!
One little mistake here, you said Kale bolts, but it's a biennial. It produces greens all summer long and is perfect for northern gardeners who can't have tree collards.
I didn't see this in the other comments so I thought I'd add it. I do a pretty lazy (but effective for me) combination of bacterial, fungal and worm composting in a simple geobin. I keep my compost bins close to the house so I'll actually pay attention to them and it makes it easier to add kitchen scraps. Most everything in the yard (1/4 acre permaculture, native trees and raised beds for the annual veggies) goes into the compost bins. I only need two of these bins to meet my needs. The yard scraps get shredded by a worx leaf shredder (do yourself a favor and get burly .095" trimmer line) that I place in the compost bin and shred in place. Larger material goes through a dr chipper shredder and is used as mulch around the yard. As I add material, the bacteria/fungi move in and do the initial breakdown. If a bunch of green material is added at once, i get an exothermic breakdown. The worms move out temporarily (to a deeper/cooler layer of compost) and not much later the various bugs move in and the worms follow. Whenever kitchen scraps go in, I stir them in to the top 6-10+" of the pile (always bury your kitchen scraps to keep the flies down and get a lid of some sort to keep the rodents out). As the matter composts, the pile shrinks making room for more input. I only empty the bins once per year and it all goes into the raised beds when I'm prepping them for the next season. The top "active/living/still composting" layer of the bins are set aside to be put back in as the base of next year's compost bin. I'm always greeted with dark rich compost that's full of worms and am having great gardening success. Love your show; it has definately influenced my gardening habits. Keep on growing!
If you want to consider shorter videos because you want to, may I suggest a quick tips of the week or month. I enjoy your videos. The video duration doesn’t bother me one iota. Keep up the good work!
For people that dont have the time to watch this whole episode, Jump to the following tips: 00:36 How to Save 1/2 the Time Learning How to Garden Online 02:05 Set up an Automatic Irrigation System 03:27 Start from Transplants to Have Jump on Season 04:55 Use a Bulb Planter to plant Transplant 06:01 Grow Low Maintenance Crops 07:11 Grow Perennial Vegetables 08:45 Grow Wild and Rambunctious Vegetables 10:28 Aerate Your Compost 12:13 Do Research before you start gardening – Grow What Works in Your Area 13:50 Grow in Nutritious Soil and Use Good Amendments 16:06 Use Mulch to Cover Ground 17:17 Grow Crops that Grow Quickly
Make it an hour long buddy il still watch it I love its speed up option that would be funny to watch a fast talking jhon im from Scotland I would understand haha
I have that awful grass invading in two of my gardens that sends it's roots underground. I dig and dig and dig. No amount of covering stops it. Would appreciate any tips. The fight is continual and exhausting.
For those growing potatoes. Grow in deep mulch (Sooooo much easier to dig!) when you dig them, plant one of them back. It will come up the next spring and you would have saved all the spring planting time (planting one back while you dig them takes zero time)
Short and long videos have advantages. New gardeners appreciate more comprehensive information about a plant variety, soil preparations, etcetera. Experienced gardeners enjoy your enthusiasm and motivation to keep on going, trying new varieties, and introduction to new discoveries you've made.
So keep up what you're doing. A mix of short and longer videos. Take it as a compliment when you get complaints about the longer videos. It only means that they never want to miss a post from your channel, but often don't have the time to devote, as much as they would like.
Who keeps requesting short videos? Stop watching tv. Saves about 8 hours a day. Listen to his videos! I download John’s videos to my iPhone and listen to them while I’m at work or in the garden. Download and save data. Put in your earbuds and happy gardening!
O my! Ur vids are never too long to me! Love everyone!
What the hell its over allready ..that ain't right …bring back the longer videos ….hahaha
How do you make essential oils then?
Something I do to save time: whenever I'm moving from one part of yard to another, or going inside or outside, or to the back yard, if I have hands free I grab stuff that needs to be going that way, and drop it off. So a lot of my work gets done while I'm actually up to doing other stuff.
Thanks again Jon! I never get tired ow watching your videos. And there are SO many! Thank you.
hey thnx for the tip on increasing the speed cuz there r some tubers who talk really slow, I never realized that could be done. I always enjoy ur vids John.
Thanks for the video it was fantastico, energy 112%
we use a wash basin for washing cloth and dishes. the drain pipe is connected to a filtering bucket that then connects to a pipe to the garden. We reuse as much as possible in a city dwelling.
Going out into the garden to water your plants is enjoyable and gives you the chance to check for pests and diseases.
I listened to this in 1.5 speed. Unfortunately, chromecast doesn't allow one to change the playback speed, but maybe they will in the future.
I think if someone is interested in gardening, I'm sure that also have time to watch the 50min videos 🙂
ROTFLOL at 2x speed! sure save a lot of time.
Hi John, I have a sprouter Fresh life (FL 3000). I have trouble with mold and smelly odor when growing wheatgrass . Please let me know what I can do to avoid mold in the water
that bulb planter is cool!
Do you sell any of the tree collard seeds or transplants?
Hi John love your videos mate they are a real inspiration. Im curious on your take of the blatent & widespread chemical geo-engineering occurring in our sky's, all of which eventually fall down to earth and enter the soil and water supply. What effect is this having on our gardens, Is it even possible to grow organic food anymore?
My hack is to watch John Koehler
Stick to the point dude.
you can harvest some of the red shiso flower and seed pods. Collect the seed pods the whole stem and place them in a vinegar to season and color the vinegar to a pretty red/maroon color. The vinegar will take on the shiso fragrance. It really makes for a nice base in salad dressing. Then you can eat the seed pods. Really good!
nice video!
One little mistake here, you said Kale bolts, but it's a biennial. It produces greens all summer long and is perfect for northern gardeners who can't have tree collards.
I didn't see this in the other comments so I thought I'd add it. I do a pretty lazy (but effective for me) combination of bacterial, fungal and worm composting in a simple geobin. I keep my compost bins close to the house so I'll actually pay attention to them and it makes it easier to add kitchen scraps. Most everything in the yard (1/4 acre permaculture, native trees and raised beds for the annual veggies) goes into the compost bins. I only need two of these bins to meet my needs. The yard scraps get shredded by a worx leaf shredder (do yourself a favor and get burly .095" trimmer line) that I place in the compost bin and shred in place. Larger material goes through a dr chipper shredder and is used as mulch around the yard. As I add material, the bacteria/fungi move in and do the initial breakdown. If a bunch of green material is added at once, i get an exothermic breakdown. The worms move out temporarily (to a deeper/cooler layer of compost) and not much later the various bugs move in and the worms follow. Whenever kitchen scraps go in, I stir them in to the top 6-10+" of the pile (always bury your kitchen scraps to keep the flies down and get a lid of some sort to keep the rodents out). As the matter composts, the pile shrinks making room for more input. I only empty the bins once per year and it all goes into the raised beds when I'm prepping them for the next season. The top "active/living/still composting" layer of the bins are set aside to be put back in as the base of next year's compost bin. I'm always greeted with dark rich compost that's full of worms and am having great gardening success. Love your show; it has definately influenced my gardening habits. Keep on growing!
If you want to consider shorter videos because you want to, may I suggest a quick tips of the week or month.
I enjoy your videos. The video duration doesn’t bother me one iota. Keep up the good work!
People should improve, and taking suggestions shows good character. However, there's a fine line, but I think that you get that.
For people that dont have the time to watch this whole episode, Jump to the following tips:
00:36 How to Save 1/2 the Time Learning How to Garden Online
02:05 Set up an Automatic Irrigation System
03:27 Start from Transplants to Have Jump on Season
04:55 Use a Bulb Planter to plant Transplant
06:01 Grow Low Maintenance Crops
07:11 Grow Perennial Vegetables
08:45 Grow Wild and Rambunctious Vegetables
10:28 Aerate Your Compost
12:13 Do Research before you start gardening – Grow What Works in Your Area
13:50 Grow in Nutritious Soil and Use Good Amendments
16:06 Use Mulch to Cover Ground
17:17 Grow Crops that Grow Quickly
Make it an hour long buddy il still watch it I love its speed up option that would be funny to watch a fast talking jhon im from Scotland I would understand haha
hahahaha! especially if you're from new york. This is so true, i only watch vids x2
Excellent video, to thank you.
I have that awful grass invading in two of my gardens that sends it's roots underground. I dig and dig and dig. No amount of covering stops it.
Would appreciate any tips.
The fight is continual and exhausting.
For those growing potatoes. Grow in deep mulch (Sooooo much easier to dig!) when you dig them, plant one of them back. It will come up the next spring and you would have saved all the spring planting time (planting one back while you dig them takes zero time)
water polymers add them to the soil they hold water and slowly release it and are approved for omri organic production
I prefer the longer videos
Short and long videos have advantages. New gardeners appreciate more comprehensive information about a plant variety, soil preparations, etcetera. Experienced gardeners enjoy your enthusiasm and motivation to keep on going, trying new varieties, and introduction to new discoveries you've made.
So keep up what you're doing. A mix of short and longer videos. Take it as a compliment when you get complaints about the longer videos. It only means that they never want to miss a post from your channel, but often don't have the time to devote, as much as they would like.
Who keeps requesting short videos? Stop watching tv. Saves about 8 hours a day. Listen to his videos! I download John’s videos to my iPhone and listen to them while I’m at work or in the garden. Download and save data. Put in your earbuds and happy gardening!
Do people realize they have a pause button if the video is "too long". Such a stupid excuse!
My best gardening advice is to pour some beer on it. ?
transplants are often sprayed at the nursery so it's better to go from seed and ya you got it it's more expensive. It is convenient though 😉
I save composting time by grinding everything up first – including kitchen scraps in the blender: https://youtu.be/l698hczXpMM
Theres millions of short videos on youtube. Do not comply
AMAZING! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! YOUR VIDEOS ARE CHANGING THE WAY WE LOOK AT NUTRIENT DENSE FOOD!!!