Watch this video before you build your first vegetable garden. It will help you get off to a great start growing food and having fun in your garden.
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I’ve started Alpine strawberries this year . I’m so excited for them
I think you forgot to edit out the last few minutes of the video, but otherwise nice vid:)
I planted strawberries 2x in milk crate stacked grow bags. I took them apart after 1st planting and both times they died😢. So mad cause it cost me alot of $$. CALIKIM DOES IT ALL THE TIME, No problem. What am I doing wrong?
Hell yeah, Gary. Lookin to do a new raised bed this Spring in Ohio. Great advice. Your effort to put this out is appreciated.
Hello, and thank you Gary. Very helpful.😊 Have a great weekend
I have a question that seems really dumb to me but I have to ask. Ok I have a 4 ft shelf with the 6000 lumens, it’s working great for micro greens and seedlings. But I’m wanting to switch to led. I bought a 6500, and a 9500. Will the 9500 fry my plants? I also have a 30 inch shelf and the 24 inch leds are 3500 lumen. But it’s 1/2 the space, so do I need half the lumens or do I need 2 lights side by side? I don’t want to fry my seedlings but I don’t want them to be leggy. I’ve put foil around and I’m just setting up this smaller area. Plus being 3500 lumens they do put off some warmth. Might not need a heat mat on the shelf above if I use 2.
I've been gardening for years but I still learn things in these starter videos lol
Hi Gary. Nice tips for people getting started with gardening. I have a large garden, but it is a fraction of the size of your garden, three 4' x 8' raised beds, two 5' x 30.5" raised beds, three 2' x 8' raised beds, three GreenStalk Towers, an 8 ft long cattle panel tunnel trellis, about thirty fabric pots, two plum trees, and three cherry trees. I am debating about adding a Fuji apple tree, and a Honeycrisp apple tree to my tiny orchard. I'm feeding two people, so it is more than large enough. I have plans on adding straw bales for growing Wine Cap mushrooms this spring, and replacing some of my fabric pot groupings with raised beds. I am also introducing more herbs to the garden, Sweet Marjoram, cilantro, chicory, peppermint, and parsley. I am already growing onions, basil, dill, mint, spearmint, comfrey, oregano, and dill. One of these days, I'll get the garden exactly how I want it, but I am starting to run out of room. My orchard is in the backyard (North side of the house), my main garden fills the west side of the property, and my herb garden, and GreenStalk towers are in the front yard (South side). The east side has a road for access to the pond and back side of the property, so no planting there. It also serves as an easement for the utility companies. My garlic and Elephant Garlic are doing great! I have enough Nagasaki cabbage growing for one good harvest, my Komatsuna is beat up but still growing after 5F temp, and I just harvested turnips Monday, and have many more that will be ready to harvest soon. A two legged creature helped itself to the hog wire ring I had protecting my carrots from deer Monday night, so deer got to them and ate the greens down to the soil. I'm not sure if they will grow back, or if they do, will the carrots have time to form large roots? I did manage to pull up one small carrot that is large enough to snack on.
Thank you, this is our first year growing
We’re moving around the Dayton area so I have to start over. But that’s good .
Hi Gary! Do you plan to have a seedling sale this spring? I'm local to you, and would love to support your work this way.
Hi Gary! I still don't get notices on the lives and i really want those with spring around the corner. Entering my third year so I have better questions. Any insight? Thank you!
I have an area picked out I’d like to build my first kitchen garden in. My frost dates at 5/6 & 10/6 and it will be in full 8 hr sun during those growing dates but from November to April it probably gets 5-6hrs of sun. Is this a potential problem for factoring 8hrs for just my growing season?