John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits his friend Evan in Southern California to give a garden consult. In this episode you will learn:
1, How John would protect his crops from rats, bunnies, deer and other wildlife.
2. An easy kit that allows anyone to build their own greenhouse.
3. How you can use a Bagster sold at Home Depot to make a raised bed garden
4. What to do if you live on a slope and how to garden there.
5. How to more effectively compost your food scraps to make compost
and much, much more.
All presented in HD for your viewing pleasure! Thumbs up if you like the HD!
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Welcome, new HD camera! 🙂
Love the new intro! … I live fairly close to Topanga Cyn! Thanks for comments on local stores for protective wire, etc. Spent way too much feeding local wildlife!
@Keepskatin I N I na discriminate. I N I grow herb, I n I easy skankin.
Thank you for the videos! Love them! A QUESTION if I may…: I am just using a regular hose from the spigot on the house. Is there a filter I can attach to the hose or spigot which will purify my water supply? Thanks again! Keep on growin on! ~Newport Beach Grower
The new videos look great!!! Thanks for the helpful info….because if you, I have a beautiful 20×20 foot garden.
It's a big difference with HD. John, nice change.
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So glad you're in HD John. You are literally my tv in addition to other channels I sub too. I appreciate your info.
Evan, you need to grow your soil to grow your plants. Composting is the best way to grow your soil. In order for compost to work properly you have to keep the pile larger than a cubic yard. If you take all your waste in the pile now and grab the neighbors carbonaceous yard waste, like leaves, and make a new pile it would really cook. Just put your bin on a pallet and start filling when it is 2/3 full lift the sides and keep filling till it is too tall. Just let it settle a few days when you fill
Love the new intro and camera John!!! Now all you need is a quality mic to save your voice 😀 great video!
"many those early girls,man it got to hot they didn't put out man!"
THAT IS GREAT IDEA.
The greenhouse is not for growing stuff in the middle of the summer, it's for extending the season before and after when it's too cold to grow things.
It's ok every once and a while like he does…
Hey Evan, if your temps only get down to 40 in the winter, just plant your bananas outside. I'm in S. Florida and our tropical bananas will live when we have short freezes. The cool thing about bananas is you only plant them once. It grows, produces fruit and a pup which turns into your next tree. I harvested 13 bunches off our Dwarf Cavendish last year.
Awesome thanks!
I was thinking the same thing. I would want to make sure they didn't come around my place… rats and rabbits bring snakes and coyotes.
The bagster won't work because there is no rigid structure to the bag it will eventually start to round out and sag
For the rodents, I recommend snap traps.
Thanks John! Another fantastic video with some great ideas. The more we watch – the more we learn! Especially with your great energy and passion to share and teach! You are making the planet a better place and helping to motivate so many! We MUST share our expertise in the areas that we are best in – – Wishing you joy!!!
That's a fair statement but's he needs to make a living as well, just as ALL the sharing he does. So, having his site be there a couple of seconds for memorizing is a small price (no pun intended) to pay for his generosity.
I do 50/50…. 50% of the food is mine. The rest 'they' can have…I also feed them in winter time. Have birds and little mice. They can't eat all, it's just to mutch. And i don't bother if a little bit is eaten, it's still good food. 😉
Have apples, and a lot of berries and herbs. The rest i going to do when my front garden is ready. And don't need the space…. Thanx for making.. Enjoyed it.
I wanted to thank you for sharing your skills. You gave me the confidence to start my own raised beds with drip irrigation! I saw the above video today and I agree 100%. A whole food, plant based diet is the best for our bodies. Given the proper nutrition the body can do amazing things- including heal itself. That is incredible! Thanks to you- now I grow my own greens and save a lot of money and my health in the process.
You are the man Sir. Be well,
His compost will be fine so long as he gets the mixture right, more like 2:1 browns to greens. Structure it so air can flow. Turning will be built in when he digs out the center of the compost pile (where it composted more thoroughly), then lets the edges cave in and form the starter culture of the new pile.
I dont think the bagster works for a permanent raised bed.. I like it more for a compost pile area
I would look into a vetiver plant system to build your terraces, amazingly strong and they would stablize that hillside… *oogle it =-) also the sides of the bagster will last longer in you fold some black plastic (ugh! recycle some construction plastic) over the sides to block the sun damage… a challenging site but you are young! lol
I like watching your channel John, even more when your guests are hot!!!! Evan where did you get that jackfruit from? I've driven all the way to TJ just for some jackfruit, didn't know it was available here in California. You sure would save me the trip, thanks!
@growingyourgreens I pulled a bunch of squash plants they dried out in the sun a bit for a day but still had some green. I consider that Nitrogen for the compost but it is a leaf so is it also carbon? Explain?
love the idea of using the bagster!! 🙂 Can you do a follow up and let the viewers know how well it held up without being reinforced?? Also, how much soil did it take to fill??
I love John Kohler but that other dude is WAY TOO Spacy & and stereotypical of your Ca surfer kid.
me love john long time
I think the company who sell these garbage bags expect them to be returned…..at some point hehe
Can you post a link to this greenhouse kit, Evan?
Plant onions sporadically in your crops. It deters rodents.
Pickering mango would grow good in that greenhouse because it is a dwarf variety.
Literally seen the neighborhood cat hanging out with the large cotton tail in my yard. It's hilarious!
I have been thinking of this idea myself everytime I am in line at the home store….so happy someone is doing it and giving feedback