Michigan gardener growing no till permaculture on a 2.5 acre homestead. Tips to help growers save money and make growing your own food less stressful. Your garden should benefit not only you, but nature as well. Nature will reward you if you work with her!
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I didnt do a tip because their map showed that no one in my area has ever gotten a delivery before. Alot of drops about an hour east of us. Very few an hour south of us, but thats it. So not sure if tree trimmers in my area work with chip drop.
It's been tough this year. Going on 3 months without a drop. I need 5 or 6
Just got my grow light set up however wanted to know if I could put this on my covered porch and run the lights. My cats keep getting on the shelves and pots.
Dollar store shower curtain stops the cats! Mine will jump up and eat EVERYTHING! I've seen them do it 😂
I also use green wood. Each time i try to make a cup,it always cracks after i get the inside dug out. I guess leaving the bark on would help??
Green wood wants to dry. Green wood will crack easier. It's best to use seasoned wood
It's usually humid here so mine is still doing great. The bluebirds love it
Nice to see a fellow mad scientist, I used cross mostly purples with Brandywines. The further you F (as I like to call it), you'll get yourself a stable variety), who knows you may get a Mortgage Lifter and your financial worries will begone. Best of luck.
@@Oran-35 crossing into a hybrid will make the task harder, but I am going to keep growing these out to try to stabilize. The more I eat them, the more they've become my favorite. When they're not baked in the sun they have a fruity and sweet taste.
@@FastGardeningMichigan Keep trying. Nothing worth having comes easy. When referring to the F process I am referring to the stabilization process, sorry for any confusion. Again, I wish you the best and your efforts are fruitful. Oh yeah, try soaking some of the seeds with some aspirin it makes them more productive and decease resident. I've have even used a few drops of peroxide and a dash of Epson salt when soaking. My go to thing was Superthrive also. I hope it helps
Good information. You may have saved me lots of work. Thank you!😊
Thanks for watching!
That's super cool but make sure you save and sow a ton of seeds it's not true new variety until the genes are stable. Thought I guess you could clone
Stable would be a new heirloom. These are currently an F1 hybrid
Which lights would you recommend
@@shellz2da95 I like my rural king lights but every big box stores has their version of them and they're honestly probably the same lights with a different name
Great video.
Thanks!
Congratulations on your new tomato. So if you got seeds they would only produce the parent variety? Bummer. Do you have plans for preserving the lot of tomatoes you are growing outside of the experiments?
@@ablacksquare well I'll save seeds from these and grow them out. If any exhibit the good genes I'll save those. That's how Heirlooms are created. Takes years of saving the best! I do have some of these seeds left to grow next year as well just for the taste!
Damn, I was hoping it would taste terrible.
@@kentuckycunctator I just ate a bunch in the cooler weather. My new favorite! It's got a fruity hint to it along with sweetness
Appreciate the great advice thx 👍⚾️
Thanks for watching!
Did you notice any fungus gnats? 😔 I’m growing mine outside and I don’t know if this is a bad thing
Gnats, flies, slugs, snails. They are all in there!
Love it. Learned a lot. Thank you, sir!
Thanks!
I like this video, i have large one on side of house, im goin to leave it alone, you did the right thing, totally understandable in the area by your back door, thanks for being a good steward of nature
As long as it's not somewhere where you'll be getting within a few feet they won't attack. The carnivorous stinging insects are just as important as the pollinators. They play a crucial role.
Hi, may I ask if it is expensive to grow veggies like this? Electricity is expensive nowadays u know :D
I did a video on how to calculate operating costs. Basically, the higher the wattage, the higher the operation cost. It's not expensive with lower water LEDs, but it's not free!
Mine too. Had a grip on it, but a back injury set me back. Gardening should not be a constant battle with thistles. I will spray paint the patch with the most blown thistles, and then keep on pulling them out. At least the vinegar method also bugs rodents.
Thistles are a giant rhizome network. The shoots we see are just small pieces of a larger underground colony. Constant pulling and distress to the root network eventually takes out the colony. They make good compost, chicken food, and mulch. There are ways to to embrace it. I just never let it go to seed
I thought perhaps I could spray enamel paint onto my ready blown thistle seeds and try to pull them after..
Will grass clippings also work for indoor gardening as well?
Without the creatures that break them down there would be little benefit indoors.
Thank u! Exacly what I wanted to confirm! But you were right.. there is little to none content regarding pruning sunflowers. THANKS!😊
Many other plants grow the same way and can be pruned this way for more vertical growth as well!
I am doing a greenhouse out of bamboo and PVC fittings and plastic. I found mercury vapor lights 50 dollars each. 35,000 lumina. 8 lights. I've got to put them up.
Is there any risk of the chip pile spontaneously combusting like a hay fire? I feel like that could be an issue of you don't get it moved quick enough.
@@ashlynwanderer2107 I've never heard of it being an issue. The piles do get hot though.
Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏🙏✌️🇺🇲💪
Why don't you just grow all veggies indoors? You are amazing and thanks for looking out for our pockets.
@@brandyburgess8267 no matter what's done inside, outside plants will always grow better
How many hours a day are you keeping the lights on for each stage of growth? distance from plant also in each stage of growth? I have 15000L can't I just put the lights a little higher because of the brightness or being scared they will burn. Did you do a demo from seed to harvest with demonstrating how the lights really work?
@@brandyburgess8267 I have videos with various stages of growth. I may do a video on the full process but I do 16 hours until the plants are 1.5 inches tall, then cut down to 12 hours. 15,000 lumens is very high. You would need to experiment with distance. That's 3x the lumens I use, so maybe try the plant height x 6. (Example: 2" plant, put light at 12".) Along with the lights I use a potting mix made from sifted potting soil, peat, and compost from my chicken run. This gives the plants everything they need. I also use exclusively rain water. Any other water can't compete with rain water and I swear by it
We had a large nest on the side of the house that died off. We just leave it there because it looks cool and to scare off other hornets
Those nests can be sold for a lot of cash
@@FastGardeningMichigan I think it looks cool I wanna bring it inside
@@FastGardeningMichigan sold? Why would anyone wanna buy it
How do you know when the light is to close? To far away?
Too close and plants turn yellow and stop growing. Too far and plants will stretch, or lean towards the light. I like to go 2x plant height, but start at 2" for new sprouts
Listen to yourself, So your saying you prune off the pumpkins so the plant will focus on one pumpkin right? which is true and is how ppl grow those huge ones for market, BUT... your not pruning off fruit on the sunflower... that's the difference, your pruning off leaves the give the plant energy to grow, now if that leaf is yellow and dying YES prunes off dying "sucker" leaves NOT HEALTHY GREEN ONES! Those bug holes are nothing , earwigs and Jap beetles eat WHOLE leaves on mine it's a constant battle. Sunflowers DO NOT LIKE COMPOST no idea where you got that from, They actually thrive in crappy clay soil. Sunflowers are all about SUN yes SUN that's it. The more sun they get the better 8-10 hours and they will be monsters. For Big Sunflowers you need genetics , save the seeds from the biggest tallest Sunflower and repeat the process year after year.
love ur garden, ur crops at 2:03 looking nice :) greetings from germany
Those went in the ground 2 weeks ago. The ones planted early June are pretty big now.
What if it’s an organic apple 🍏
@@user-mp2rt4qh7k same thing
The chicken house, coop, run looks amazing nice job. Oh yeah, the compost and plants look good too. 🪚🔨👍
@@stevebaker8322 thanks!
i have my chickens drop manure on wood shavings in the coop and run . Is it possible to just grab the wood shavings with manure on them and throw them on top of soil to amend it?
@@Steven-yx1ic I do the same under the roost. Without them getting mixed oxygen can't fire up so I use that when I make 18 day compost. In the run, yes. The chickens constantly mix it up. You'll want to add other materials as well. When it's compost it will look like compost when it's done, no matter what ingredients
@@FastGardeningMichigan ok, i was also thinking horse manure, i get it for free and its safe, i was going to just lay fresh horse manure on top of soil and let it sit for a year to amend the soil, same thing i was thinking with chicken manure and wood shavings. so much to do, but this is also my first year growing and its been really good.
You guys are obviously not growing weed. Haha
@@livefreeordie1776 yes we are
The kitty's like "anything the chickens can do, I can do better" 😂
The stray cats always find me!
@@FastGardeningMichigan 😂
August to late to start and get a seed stock?
What zone?
@@FastGardeningMichigan east coast Virginia
@@davidhansen9665 you need about 80 days to get viable seed pods
You keep any roosters? I used to see wild ones when I was living down in Louisiana in the 90's for a bit .
@@4quall no. Might not be great for non-free range birds. The ones I buy are listed as pullets, but occasionally a rooster gets mixed in. Hopefully the new 6 are all hens
@@FastGardeningMichigan or you get a chicken dinner in the upcoming months ha
@@4quall 😂 we are thinking about raising meat birds
Could this work in a greenhouse?
What you want to know, is, the, PPF.
As an electrician, this is a criteria I do not look at
dude this is so helpful, i was about to spend hundreds of dollars on 8 separate aquarium lights, and now i got 3 that cover EVERYTHING
The ones I use are down to 20 bucks now.
You are completely right. My momma said! funny but right
Momma knows best
Real good advice 👍QUESTION How do you keep snails from eating your sunflowers overnight ? We got an invasion of this guys here with the non stop rain.
Garlic spray works but needs to be reapplied after rain. Crushed Oyster shells, copper wire around seedlings. I always plant extra knowing some will be slug food
hi there. how often do you rake the chicken compost out and replace with new stuff to start again?
@@cheryljobe6917 I take it as needed, and I'm always adding new stuff. The largest portions go in during the fall when I cut my grass when leaves are covering the ground. I'm always throwing in yard waste, food waste, and ash.
Appreciate your care.
Every creature is beneficial some way, even if we can't comprehend it. I do not harm them, and they take care of my pest problems. I even allow yellow jacket nests to remain. I give them space and everyone is happy
Mmmmm, blue oysters 😋
Delicious!
Dang I haven’t seen fireflies or lightning bugs since I was a kid living on the east coast
There are a lot here!
GREAT info! Makes perfect sense!
Still works!
Really important info, many thanks for this. I have the same soil and conditions and results than you with this technique. Though from experience and gardener friends, there are big issues (especially with trees) with this method. - This acts like an inground pot, meaning, the roots will NEVER leave this fertile hole, as it's too painful around it, hence making the roots turn around like in a pot. - This doesn't help much with increasing fertility overall in the full plot (as opposed to subsoiling / ripping, though that is costly and with heavy machinery, or with two years of back to back cover crops) - This is not really scalable (it's similar to Zai technique in the Sahel) except by scaling work hours.
This has helped overall fertility. Worms move the materials through the soil.
Wondering how to amend clay soil without hauling in new soil. Would you just like, grow cover crops, till and repeat over and over till it's not so clayey anymore?
Excellent 🙌🙌🙌!!!
Thanks!
Applied this method in a 7' x 7' garden three seasons ago; weeded and tilled with a shovel and my favorite hoe in June 2024. I mixed the fluffy "earth pots" with OG clay soil after three seasons and noticed the O.G. soil was slightly better because of plant roots. The 7x7 was mulched with incomplete compost materials every season; the materials broke down in the 7x7 and needed more mulch every season. The lowest budget garden is becoming better every season. Having access to wood chips has been a game changer in the compost department. No chickens or rabbits yet.
Mulch is an underappreciated, dual purpose, soil amendment. I do a lot of chop and drop and it's gone in a few days in this warmer weather
No castings and compost in the hole? 😬 It would really boost the biology and SOM.
Castings will naturally show up in there. This the bare bones approach for those that don't have access to other amendments. I'll add compost or fish guts to my planting holes because I have it but not everyone does.
Great presentation!❤