You are the original source where most other KZreadrs take a sip and grow each idea into 10-15 minutes of video and make it sound like their own discovery. Thanks for packing this much wisdom into short video.

I googled 'common sense' and your name came up first. 😊

2024 April - great video -soo much information …I learned so much - thanks .

I like your simple, practical, but effective designs. As soon as I can buy a roll of chicken wire I'll be copying your raised strawberry bed cover. Thank you for the idea. 😊👍

I never could see the logic in the old story that cucumbers didn’t like to be transplanted so I began to start my cucumbers indoors under grow lights. No problem when it was time to put them into the ground, they did fine just like any other vegetable. Another Garden Myth Busted. Last year I started all my seeds indoors under grow lights and didn’t buy any plants I didn’t start myself. My cucumbers made it to mid-July, my tomatoes were done by August 1 and the last eggplants I picked was November 1st. Any issues I had were all weather related due to long periods of no rain and high heat & Humidity (Zone 9A) or days of heavy rains that just drowned some plants. I plant about 8 - 10 watermelon seeds and they were doing great until early Heavy June rainfall basically drowned the vines which all died off but when I went to cut the vines to pull out the roots, I saw new shoots sprouting from the rootstock so I let them alone and those developed into a late batch of nice sized and very sweet Watermelons. So, Mother Nature is going to do what Mother Nature does best and tragedy can turn into success when you least expect it. Great tips Bob. You’re making think of new things for next year already. Soil Science is a marvelous book and wonderful content and an excellent presentation of facts.

Very good information here. I have gardened for over 30 years and still learned new tricks. Well done!

That bush is beautiful! I'll keep that variety in mind.

I love your approach to gardening. I can use a lot of these ideas in my own veg garden here in western Washington. I feel like you are a reliable source of information, so many of the other popular KZread gardeners are not so experienced, but they pretend to be.

Appreciate the channel, but deer will jump into a small area, maybe not often, lol. I had a deer jump into my 8 x 4 ft fenced garden once and trampled everything. Only about 4 ft high. I now use hoops from pvc pipe and cover the hoops with deer netting. Can harvest by removing fasteners on the hoops, and can water through the netting.

Amazing ideas! I am glad that I found your channel. It's valuable. I can't keep up and I am like power watching each and every video. Thank you so much for sharing your valueable experiences. One thing I think you may have missed, or perhaps I missed, is that you were going to show how you built your long lasting arbor. I think that was like 5 years ago? lol I am loving your videos. Zone 5 is pretty hardy. I am in Toronto, zone 6, due to the lack of warmth and short season, I had some slow grow and not so encouraging vegetation in my veg garden. Mind you, my heart is in moving out of the great city. However, I do have some nice backyard space, am building and planting. Oh, so much fun. I need more space of green though. Keep well and keep happy.

I love your green thumb common sense. I’m in Texas so I have to modify it but it’s great

Thank you for this video. This is my first summer planting ANYTHING and I had decent success with heirloom tomatos (4 diff kinds), great success with basil and sage. I threw in a bunch of bell pepper seeds from aldi's bell peppers for fun JUST to see if anything would happen. 1 started to grow towards the end of June. I wasn't expecting much until yesterday I noticed flowers (Its about 1.5ft tall) and wasnt sure what to do. You explained everything very well compared to the other 10 videos I watched. Im just going to leave the flowers be since its already about september and just see what happens for fun!! But def going to try more seriously next summer!!

Ultimate video. One of the Best channels on this topic!

So much information! Thank you for sharing your garden!

Thank you for all of the great information. I really enjoyed this garden video. A couple years ago I changed to mulched, no dig and my soil is improving. My husband still gardens tilling often and he has nick named mine the trashy garden! I garden just north of you on the Dundalk Plateau. I think we might be a zone 4 so I too push the growing season. Thanks again.

Our garden philosophies are exactly the same. The only difference is I use hay instead of straw. I lay it down after a good soaking rain and pile it high and forget about it. It breaks down beautifully in the garden. I figured hay will sustain a cow or horse and it turns out it does wonders in a garden. Nope, no weeds I pile it on so high the few weeds I get if any pull right up. I enjoy your videos, keep them coming.

Thank you, once again. You are generous.

nice, could also use a low chicken wire fence and then just run on or two horizontal bands of wire at 8 feet or less for the deer. Just extend a few of the poles that already exist.

I really like the information you are putting out there for gardening I find it very interesting. Very good information!🙏🙏

Thank you for this excellent video and for sharing your thoughts. I struggle with pest control, but this year, I intend to implement some of your tactics and see how it goes. By the way, the candle/CO2 experiment was very eye opening! Wow!

I only grow sugar snap peas too!

Thanks again for sharing, loved your vegetable garden, i can relate to your zone, i’m in zone 5 also here in west Michigan your technic is very used full, problem with deer yes since our beloved dog passed away 3yrs. ago then they start coming to nimble around the short existing fence and going inside and devoured the vegetables so we changed to 5ft. tall fenced and add 3ft. tall chicken wire that we already have on hand on the bottom for rabbit and other small creatures. This year we didn’t have problem with the animals they still coming around but stayed outside the garden 😰 whew Thank God!! Loved the idea of wire trellis for some climber vegetables, Thanks again mr. Robert for sharing👍

❤️ looks so good!

Great tips!

Great tips and advice. Enjoyed it very much.

Too many cucumbers after eating salads, pickling, veggie trays, etc.? Try cucumber lemonaid... it's the bomb and very refreshing. You can also freeze the cuke lemonaid in ice cube trays.

Thank You very informative video!

@grahamh7041

4 жыл бұрын

Ditto

Brilliant

I love this video!

I like the way you use a fixed trellis system with different plantings on both sides -- that makes a lot of sense! One question I had which I don't think you addressed (unless I missed it) was the _orientation_ of those trellises. Do you align them east-west and grow the heat-loving crop on the south side and the cool/shady crop on the north, or do you align them north-south so that both sides get roughly equal exposure?

@Gardenfundamentals1

2 жыл бұрын

You could do either. I like going north-south - that way both sides get a good amount of light. But peas could be put on the north side.

@andreafalconiero9089

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gardenfundamentals1 Thanks for the reply! I think I'll put mine north-south.

The best

How do I find straw in various parts of southern ontario. Madoc? Bancroft?

What about slugs and snails? I reckon that they thrieve well under that straw mulch. Don't they invade the from the wilderness outside of the patch?

@Gardenfundamentals1

4 жыл бұрын

Not really.

Thanks a lot for sharing your insights. I would like to ask you for an advice, also in the spirit of getting good yields with little effort. I recently got some land in hardiness zone 9a, in north-west of Spain) where there used to be a vegetable garden until 15-20 years ago, but after that it was used to keep cows. So the soil became a bit compact. I would like to use back at least part of this land for a vegetable garden. In your book "Soil Science for Gardeners", you seem to advocate for no-till techniques. In a case like mine, are they applicable from the start? Would you have some suggestion for starting it, in the spirit of reducing the efforts? Thanks a lot in advance

@Gardenfundamentals1

2 жыл бұрын

If you have crappy soil, tilling the first year to get going is OK, provided you till in lots of organic matter at the same time.

@laplacian2008

Жыл бұрын

@@Gardenfundamentals1 Thanks a lot for your answer. I think that for part of the land I'll follow your suggestion. The following could be a bit dumb question: for the only goal of improving a bit the soil by digging in organic matter, does it matter the period of the year for doing this type of work? I am asking because one of the popular wisdom of the area is that one tills and incorporate the organic matter (typically manure) in autumn or in spring. The only way I can make sense of this popular wisdom is because of the temperature and the condition of the land in relation. However, I would like to ask whether you have more grounded insights. Thanks a lot!

LIKE. Your explanations and presentation is good. What would suggest as mulch in places where there are termites. The mulch has only a few days life in such an area. Is it that termites decompose it so fast?!

@Gardenfundamentals1

4 жыл бұрын

Are you sure it is termites? Termites usually do not like wood chip mulch.

@vijayant7213

4 жыл бұрын

@@Gardenfundamentals1 Yes, they are termites. I am not using woodchips, but I see termites in the beds. I think plastic mulch would be better in this situation. Is plastic mulch OK?

@digicandy70

4 жыл бұрын

Pine needles or Straw may be an option.

Is contamination of straw with herbicides like Clopyralid and aminopyrali a concern is using it to mulch vegetable gardens?

@Gardenfundamentals1

Жыл бұрын

Yes - it can hard seedlings and transplants.

@labcat647

Жыл бұрын

@@Gardenfundamentals1 Thank you.

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You have presented a good many great pointers in your videos! I live down the street from the ISKCON farm in Mississippi. There the poor cute little deer come out at times since there is no hunting on the property. They have been very much involved in tourism all along, but might benefit from some of your square foot gardening ideas. For myself I have been getting a really bad grade when starting from seeds. I am having to teach myself gardening and so I am having to grade myself. Seedlings apparently need very careful round the clock nursing. Radishes were kind of easy and easier than broccoli. And incidentally, I have noticed that people sometimes believe that they should kill off all predators in the area rather than elaborate ingenuity with fencing. Killing animals without very serious consideration is a very serious concern. I have had to patch together old chicken fencing to keep the cat off of the Vegetables in the Garden. Thank you for sharing informative and helpful videos!

Do you water your vegetable bed at all? If so how do you water it?

@Gardenfundamentals1

4 жыл бұрын

When needed, by hand. I have a waterline right to the garden.

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who the hell click-baits a video about gardening???

Thx mate