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*If you like the video please subscribe and hit that thumbs up! Hey folks, thanks for stopping in again. Here’s another quick tip to help you along with your balcony garden. We’re going to talk about creating a soil mix for your container garden. However this can also work for raised beds. There are many soil mix recipes out there, but after much research this is what I came up with. The mix seems to have a good combination of aeration and moisture holding properties while also being readily available in most big box stores. Here’s the recipe: 2 parts Potting soil 2 parts Sphagum Peat Moss 1 part Perlite Don’t settle for dumping a bag of potting soil in your containers! This little bit of work is well worth the reward. Your plants will thank you for it! Hope that helps you all out. Get out there and take steps toward preparedness and self sufficiency! Remember guys and gals…Plan for Tomorrow so you can Live for Today! Scott “TheXGrasshopper”

Busted my back digging over the unused garden beds, gave the chooks something to munch on. Checked my compost bin was ready and started to plant out some french beans and green onions or spring onions as we call them here in Oz. As I’ve had a few questions on green onions, I thought I should do a close up look at how I plant them out. Hopefully you don’t fall asleep during it.. hit the fast forward button if needed I’ve got a heap more stuff to show you all but 3 videos in one day is probably enough for now Stay tuned for the other half of the garden and my seedling update. Thanks for watching!

So this is a crate I picked up before it was trashed. Can you believe it someone was actually going to send that to the landfill! Well lucky me to have saw it, I didn’t get the right soil for it but what i have wont go to waste just means another run to Homedepot. The evergreen i cut down when the new growth starts to fill in I will begin the shaping to a bonsai style evergreen…Cool right? Good way to keep your snips sharp.

This year I decided to mix a blend of manure’s and soil together to enhance the garden beds. I have Cow, Horse and Alpaca manure, mixed with some garden soil purchased from the garden center. It takes some time to mix it and blend it all together… gives your legs and back a work out, let me tell you… but the hard work at the beginning of the season should pay back with great results. We all need food, as do our plants… I hope that this blend, along with plenty of water and TLC will give me a bumper crop this year.

I live in Wisconsin and planted three plants in early spring after frost threat gone. I have very hearty plants that have began to climb a wire fence and spread out quite a bit. I have never grown this plant before and didn’t research much, just read seed pack directions. There are many many blooms on each vine with four to five vines per plant. So far I have one very large melon which I put on a plate so it wouldn’t rot in wet soil, I have a smaller one growing and will put on a plate soon and a few tiny buds that resemble the beginning of the two melons already there. I read only four melons come from one plant but it seems I have many more starting. I want to be sure they are getting the nutrients needed to be great melons and didn’t know if there was a top of vine I should clip since I know with tomatoes you do so you have better yield. I water three times per week and have well drained soil as it is in a raised bed with rocks lining the bed instead of wood. I also wondered how I tell if the melon is ready for harvest since I thought it would be later near fall. Also is it normal to have so many melons in varying stages of growth? I don’t know the type of canteloupe but it is green and white striped smooth skin so far. Sorry for all the questions its just frustrating I couldn’t find this info readily online and find people who know of these things are better resources. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. I am new to organic planting .

While most of the Pacific Northwest home gardeners are still looking at green tomatoes on their vines this year, we at Best Raised Beds are enjoying out first round of good eats! Website: www.BestRaisedbeds.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/BestRaisedBeds

I have about 60 square feet of various raised beds and everything has been wildly successful except my root vegetables. Beets, turnips, carrots, even radishes! they don’t grow well, and are very undersized when I pull them. Last season I tried adding composted horse manure which everything else got a big boost out of, but not the root veggies. Next month starts "season" here in mid Florida zone 9 and I really want to solve this so we can have all these great veggies with the same abundance the rest of my garden has supplied. My gardens are 16 to 20" high, the bottom is filled with various (free) compost, composted manures, dirt, etc but the top 8-10" is Mels mix, with 1/3 each vermiculite, peat and various composts. As I said, everything else has exceeded my expectations – I still have some (browning rapidly) tomatoes in mid August, and they are usually gone by early July due to the night time heat.

any help will be greatly appreciated!

John from www.growingyourgreens.com shares with you two ways he gets free tomato plants from his garden. In this episode you will learn what a tomato sucker is and how to identify it in laymans terms. John grows his tomatoes in a raised bed front yard garden

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This is a video on how i built my two raised garden beds in my back yard. The beds are 16 inches deep by 8 feet long and 4 feet wide. The materials used were pressure treated 2x10x 8ft boards held together by galvenized nails and deck screws. The project took about 4 hours all together including the trip to the hardware store. This video will be the first in a series where I share my trials in raising a first year garden.