Archives for April 2018

If you’re buying seeds from a local nursery, oftentimes you’ll get 6-pack inserts that are overcrowded. Instead of thinning these out to 6 individual plants to transplant, you can use this ‘wash and separate’ method to get 5-10x as many seedlings to transplant into the garden.

This works great for things like onions, carrots, and any other seedling that nurseries oven over-seed. It might be a bit time consuming, but if you can turn 6 seedlings into 30-60 seedlings…then it seems worth the effort to me. After all…you already paid for them!

I get about a 70% success rate with transplanting carrot seedlings that I separate with this method, and even higher for less delicate plants like onions, basil, etc.

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Learning how to grow beets is pretty easy, but a common questions is when to harvest them. Because they grow under ground, we often can’t see their progress.

We don’t want to risk taking our beets out too early as they won’t have formed solid beetroots, but if we take them out too late they’ll be woody and not great for eating. In this video we talk about the ideal time to harvest beets as well as some beet storage info.

As an added bonus, I pulled out my favorite beet variety from the garden, the Chioggia beet. These are absolutely beautiful. I also go into a bit of beet benefits, specifically beet tops.

Enjoy!

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Ah, basil…the “Kingly” herb. If you want a never-ending supply of basil, you need to learn how to grow basil from cuttings. In this video we’ll go over the technique I use every time I clone basil.

There are other methods, such as rooting in water, but I find this one has the highest success rate for me and the most flexibility – I can transplant these rooted basil cuttings into any growing system I want. Soil, hydroponics, aquaponics…anything.

If you have any questions about growing herbs from cuttings, leave a comment down below. And let me know what video you’d like to see next!

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Much of high-yield urban gardening comes down to playing with two things: time and space. Mastering succession planting is one of the best ways to squeeze out the absolute maximum amount of produce from your yard as you possibly can.

With succession planting, you can:
– Get more regular harvests of your favorite crops
– Squeeze quick-growing crops into the “shoulders” of the growing season
– Never leave any part of your garden barren for too long

In this video I go over the way I think about succession planting. You only need to know three things:

1. Your last frost
2. How long your desired crop takes to grow
3. Your first frost

With those three variables, you can plan an entire garden by working backwards from your desired harvest date.

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We put a lot of time into our gardens, so let’s make sure we get the most out of our greens! Lettuce, spinach, mustard greens, and many other leafy veggies can be harvested many times over using the cut and come again method.

As long as you don’t damage the growing tip or “crown” of the plant, you’re in good shape. Either take scissors and chop off the outer, mature leaves, or come in with a high-quality and SHARP chef’s knife and slice off just above the crown.

This method makes harvesting mustard greens and all sorts of other ‘odd’ greens a breeze as well, so don’t discriminate!

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