John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you his 63 Advanced Organic Gardening tips that will ensure you have the most productive organic garden that grows the most nutritious crops.
In this episode, John comes to you from his backyard organic vegetable garden at 10 pm at night to share with you some of the most important tips that he has ever put into one short-format episode.
These tips are for growing a biologic organic garden, which goes beyond just "organic" but takes into consideration building the soil and habitat for other living creatures including bacteria, fungi, insects, etc so you can have a more successful and resilient garden.
Jump to the following tips: 01:24 Start a garden today 01:34 Grow in Raised Beds 01:39 Focus on building and feeding your soil; not growing vegetables 01:54 Create a Habitat you and other creatures 02:20 Value other creatures on the plant. Positively Identify creatures before taking any action 02:50 Grow Microgreens Indoors 03:00 Buy a Tee Shirt 03:40 Compost all your food scraps and garden waste 03:51 Don’t use chemical fertilizers or non-organic sprays in your garden 04:15 Save your seeds and re-grow them each year 04:27 Share your seeds with others 04:36 Use No-Till gardening methods; increase soil biology that will aerate your sol sell your tiller. 04:53 Use Reusable plant ties in your garden instead of single use 05:05 You can grow in the shade 05:16 Check to make sure its legal before gardening 05:28 Continue your gardening education every day 06:00 Spend time improving your garden every day 06:16 Keep a Collection of Reused 5 Gallon Buckets in your garden 06:34 Have Fun 06:45Walk Your whole Garden once or twice a day 07:02 Grow up all vertical fences and walls in your space 07:24 Put up a greenhouse or hoop house to extend your growing season 07:38 Start growing early in the season and end late in the season by covering your beds 07:53 Experiment with 20-25% new varieties every year 08:12 Brix test your harvest to see how you can improve quality of the food you grow 08:28 Visit local gardens, farms and other local gardens to find out what works and what doesn’t work in your area 08:48 Pull out Dead plant as soon as possible and replace with healthy plants 09:20 When you have a failure, ask yourself how can you do better 09:42 Source the best compost in your area for your garden beds 10:05 Add fungal dominated compost to your garden beds 10:21 Use Rock Dust in your garden beds for Trace Minerals 10:38 Add a good quality Worm Casting to your garden beds 10:49 Use Seaweed for better plant growth 11:00 Cover your soil with mulch. I prefer to use a living mulch 11:21 Add beneficial bacteria and fungi in to your garden 11:36 Use Insect Frass in Your Garden Mix 12:00 Add Biochar to your garden by adding up to 20% to your compost pile 12:28 Make and Use Compost Tea at every week or two 12:45 Foliar Feed Sea Minerals once or twice a month 12:57 Pee in your garden; natures most valuable nitrogen fertilizer 13:36 Grow High Value Crops 14:14 Grow Leafy Greens 14:25 Grow Herbs 14:40 Plant crops that are proven in your area 15:07 Plant crops at the right time of year 15:26 Ensure Plant has the proper microclimate 15:54 Grow a variety of edible foods to ensure success 16:11 Grow a good percentage of perennial vegetables 16:45 Grow a percentage of Wild Foods / Edible Weeds 17:17 Plant transplants spaced systematically 17:42 Pick off bad bugs or spray with high-pressure water before spraying even organic sprays 18:24 Grow Plants that are resistant to pests 19:01 Attract Pollinators to your garden 19:15 Attract beneficial insects to your garden by planting attractant plants 19:25 Release Beneficial Insects besides ladybugs in your garden 19:40 Optimally, don’t keep a worm bin; keep the worms in your garden beds and feed them appropriately 20:09 Harvest Rain Water to water your plants 20:21 Install a water-efficient irrigation system on an automatic timer 20:45 Water Each Plant Enough. Not Too Much, not too little. 21:00 Filter City Water to remove chlorine that negatively affects soil life 21:25 Go out to your garden before every meal to harvest food to eat, so you minimize buying inferior quality food at the store 21:48 Juice Your Vegetables so you can get more nutrition in you 22:25 Ferment your vegetables to increase certain nutrients and increase storage time
After watching this episode, you will learn 64 Advanced Organic Gardening tips that will catapult your garden to the next level so you can produce more high-quality food from your home garden.
