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We’ve been adding onto our gardens in the last few months and we wanted to give you a Big Spring Garden Update Tour as tubers and seedlings are starting to grow in our newly established garden beds. Please leave comments and questions on our social media! Don’t forget the Spring Plant Sale is still on.
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Jerusalem artichokes produce an abundance of edible tubers that can be harvested any time of the Winter and once cured in the sun for about a week they can be used in many ways just like a potato. In this video we’re showing you how we plant ours and we will give you a few […]
Rainwater is ideal for watering plants, the challenge is to catch it using a regular polytunnel. In this video we’ll show you how we installed a gutter on our polytunnel without straight sides or guide rail. We use a 12V pump to move the water until we have the connections for the IBC tanks. Later […]
It’s that time of the year again. Lets start seeds! In this video we’ll demonstrate starting seeds using soil blocks and conventional plastic trays. Both methods have their ups and down. Mainly the soil blocks air-prune the roots resulting in a higher quality seedling that will take off quicker. Using plastic trays requires less preparation […]
Spring is nearly here, we’re prepping all of our existing no dig garden beds. We like to keep it simple and effective with these 3 steps to get your growing space ready for the next season. Pizza MAKING OF Videos LINK
Hi All, it’s been a while. In this video I’m talking about what we’re doing in late Winter in the garden. For us it’s time to do what little maintenance our no dig gardens require and replenish fertility. Having readied existing grow spaces both annual and perennial, we will move onto starting plants from seed […]
Here’s a quick video on our little Bumble Bee Garden. It came into being by complete coincidence, or rather by opportunity. After we created our Pizza Garden we were left with a blank spot which is where the pile of compost was resting for a couple of months. We simply loosened up what compost was […]
In this video we’re going to discuss how to store edible tubers and root vegetables such as Oca, Potatoes, Mashua, Carrots, Artichokes, Apios, Yacons and even Dahlia. Unlike the potato, most of the ancient edible tubers will keep growing all year producing tubers until the first hard frost knocks back the leaves. Some of them […]
Did you know where marshmallow sweets originally came from? They were traditionally made from the roots of the marshmallow plant since the time of the Egyptians whom reserved them as a food for gods and royalty. In this video we’re going to harvest a 1.5 year old plant just at the end of it’s second […]