Master Gardener Lecture - "Vegetable Gardening for Beginners"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1v9Rdz7s3c

概要

TLDRVideoen gir en omfattende guide til grønnsakdyrking, med fokus på viktige faktorer som sollys, jordkvalitet, vanning og lufting. Det anbefales å teste jorden for næringsinnhold og bruke kompost for å forbedre jorden. Containerhager er en praktisk løsning for de med begrenset plass. Valg av planter bør baseres på personlige preferanser, og det er viktig å være oppmerksom på skadedyr og sykdommer. Roterende avlinger og tiltrekking av nyttige insekter er strategier for å opprettholde sunne planter. Master Gardeners tilbyr ressurser og hjelp til hagearbeid.

収穫

  • 🌞 Sørg for minst 6 timer sollys for grønnsakene.
  • 🧪 Test jorden for næringsinnhold før planting.
  • 💧 Vann dypt og sjeldnere for bedre rotvekst.
  • 🌱 Bruk kompost for å forbedre jordens fruktbarhet.
  • 🦠 Hold plantene sunne for å unngå sykdommer.
  • 🐦 Bruk gjerder for å holde hjort og kaniner unna.
  • 🌼 Tiltrekk nyttige insekter for naturlig skadedyrkontroll.
  • 🧑‍🌾 Roter avlinger for å forhindre sykdommer.
  • 🪴 Containerhager er ideelle for små rom.
  • 📞 Kontakt Master Gardeners for hjelp og ressurser.

タイムライン

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Introduksjon til grønnsakshage og viktigheten av sollys for vekst. Anbefaling om minimum seks timer sollys daglig, og tips for de med lite sollys, som å bruke beholdere.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Viktigheten av jordkvalitet og næringsinnhold. Anbefaling om jordprøving for å forstå jordens sammensetning og nødvendige tilsetninger. Gratis jordprøving i North Carolina nevnes.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Vanningsbehov for planter, spesielt i North Carolina med varierende nedbør. Betydningen av god luftstrøm rundt plantene for å forhindre sykdommer.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Containerhaging som en løsning for de med begrenset plass og sollys. Viktigheten av drenering i beholdere og tilpasning av potte størrelse til plantens behov.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Forberedelse av jorden før planting, inkludert tilsetning av organisk materiale og unngåelse av ugress. Betydningen av å bryte opp leirjord for bedre vekst.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Kompostering og hvordan lage egen kompost. Betydningen av brune og grønne materialer i kompostering, samt bruk av dekkvekster for å forbedre jorden.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Valg av planter basert på personlige preferanser og eksperimentering med nye avlinger. Forskjellige metoder for planting, inkludert direkte såing og forplanting av frøplanter.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Vanningsstrategier for planter, inkludert behovet for jevn vanning og hvordan måle vannmengden. Unngåelse av ugress for å sikre at planter får nok næring.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    Håndtering av skadedyr og sykdommer i hagen. Betydningen av å identifisere problemer og bruke riktige metoder for kontroll, inkludert organisk og kjemisk behandling.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:50:56

    Avslutning med informasjon om Master Gardeners og tilgjengelige ressurser for hagearbeid, inkludert kontaktinformasjon for spørsmål og videre hjelp.

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ビデオQ&A

  • Hvor mye sollys trenger grønnsakshagen?

    Minst seks timer med full sol, men åtte til ti timer er best.

  • Hvordan kan jeg teste jorden min?

    Du kan sende inn jordprøver til statens agronomiske avdeling for gratis testing.

  • Hva er beste praksis for vanning av planter?

    Planter trenger minst en tomme vann per uke, og det er best å vanne dypt og sjeldnere.

  • Hvordan kan jeg kontrollere skadedyr uten kjemikalier?

    Bruk manuelle metoder som å trekke opp ugress eller bruke naturlige avskrekkende midler.

  • Hva er fordelene med kompostering?

    Kompost gir næringsrik jord og reduserer avfall fra husholdningen.

  • Kan jeg dyrke grønnsaker i containere?

    Ja, de fleste grønnsaker kan dyrkes i containere, men sørg for god drenering.

  • Hvordan kan jeg holde hjort unna hagen min?

    Bruk gjerder, avskrekkende midler eller skremmende metoder.

  • Hvor dypt bør jorden være i hevede hager?

    Minst åtte tommer for å gi nok plass til røttene.

  • Kan jeg bruke kyllinggjødsel i hagen?

    Ja, men det må komposteres først for å redusere styrken.

  • Hva er beste metoder for å unngå sykdommer i planter?

    Hold plantene sunne, roter avlinger og bruk sykdomsfrie frø.

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    miscommunication or whatever has
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    happened but I'm glad to pitch in and
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    vegetable gardening is something that I
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    love to talk about so
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    um let's talk veggies and Blake's right
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    this is the perfect time of year to
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    start
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    um your vegetable garden gardening so
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    um here we go
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    okay excuse me going back
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    um so the very first thing you've got to
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    figure out is where are you going to put
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    your garden and the very first and most
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    important piece is that you have got to
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    have sunlight sun sun sun sun and this
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    is at least six hours of full sun so
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    um
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    a lot of our homes aren't
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    um endowed with all that much sunlight I
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    am sunlight challenged in my yard so um
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    I actually do a fair amount of vegetable
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    gardening in containers because those
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    are easier to locate in sunny places but
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    if you don't have the sun you are not
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    going to be able to have good
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    um Crop Production so
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    um they're on the um south end of your
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    property would be best for sun for the
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    entire day but you work with what you've
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    got
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    um the SEC the third thing on this list
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    but um I think it comes under sunlight
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    or after sunlight is your soil you've
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    got to have the proper nutrients in
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    order to grow um plants that are going
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    to produce
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    um fruits and vegetables so we highly
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    recommend for any gardening that you do
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    that you have soil testing done and the
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    um state of North Carolina is awesome
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    because they offer
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    um
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    Free Soil testing it's free from April
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    the beginning of April through
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    um just about Thanksgiving or maybe the
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    beginning of November I'm not exactly
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    sure if those dates but these are done
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    with little
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    um boxes that you fill with soil and
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    aggregate of soil from the areas that
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    you're going to be gardening in you drop
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    it off at the um agronomics division of
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    the um State over on serving of the
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    fairgrounds our office can give you
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    specifics and we also have the kits for
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    you to um to use for putting your soil
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    into but you send it to them they test
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    it and you will get a report that tells
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    you about the compositioners of your
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    soil and any amendments that they
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    recommend that you add
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    it's better to know what is in your soil
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    before you add these amendments because
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    you may be doing harm rather than good
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    for your plants by adding things that is
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    not needed and a lot of these amendments
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    end up in our water table in our water
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    system and it that's not a good thing we
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    don't want chemicals there so making
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    sure that you are adding things to your
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    soil that it really needs and can use
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    um so call our office and our number is
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    going to be at the end of this
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    presentation and you can find out more
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    about the soil testing you also have to
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    water a lot North Carolina is known for
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    our periods of lots and lots of rain our
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    deluges of rain and then long periods of
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    time where we're super super dry
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    especially in the summer so you're going
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    to have to keep an eye on the watering
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    and making sure you do that if Mother
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    Nature does not do that for you and
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    something that a lot of people don't
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    think about with their plants is that
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    they need air circulation it's got to be
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    able to get in and around our plants it
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    makes their stems stronger
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    it helps with keeping diseases at Bay so
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    making sure that you have enough room to
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    actually Garden is really important
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    so like I said a minimum of six hours of
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    Sun eight to ten hours is best
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    um close to the house means if your
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    garden area is so far away that you're
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    not going to go over there often or it's
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    going to be a chore to actually go and
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    garden you're not going to do that
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    especially when it comes to watering
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    especially in the middle of July when
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    it's hot and humid and
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    um it gardening turns into a chore the
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    further away from where you live the
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    harder it is to get yourself motivated
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    to do that and again we've got soil
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    testing in capital letters because you
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    need to do it and water of course if you
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    don't have a water source that's nearby
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    that's going to be a problem because I
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    will tell you hauling water to a garden
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    site again in the middle of well even
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    late June is going to be hot but all
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    through July and August can get to be
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    pretty tedious pretty quickly
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    I mentioned container gardening earlier
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    um
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    most things can be grown in containers
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    which is awesome because again you can
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    put it in spaces where you do have the
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    sun and a lot of
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    um green green things are beautiful in
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    general so a lot of our crops can be
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    used as ornamentation as well as growing
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    food for you and if you have a small
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    yard or a small
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    um place I mean they can be done on
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    balconies of apartment buildings or
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    condos so container gardening is
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    fabulous you you do need to make sure
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    that whatever containers you're
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    gardening in have good drainage there
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    need to be holes in the bottom and as
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    you see these in the picture they're
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    lifted up so that the water can drain
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    out but then the flip side of that is
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    your water can drain out so you have to
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    be even more careful about making sure
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    you're watering
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    um frequently and thoroughly
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    you can use different sizes of pots but
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    of course the size of pot needs to match
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    the size of the um the crop that you're
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    growing the plants that you're growing
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    so too small is not good The Roots need
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    space to grow and they can be a lot of
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    fun you can use a lot of different
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    things these are some of those
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    um it looks like containers that are
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    often at the front doors of houses and
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    they have done a really creative Thing
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    by using some kind of pedestals to lift
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    them up but um my kids grew Things in
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    Old rubber boots one year and had a
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    boot Garden of sorts and it was a lot of
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    fun for them of course we've made holes
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    in the bottom of all the boots they were
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    not boots that were being used anymore
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    and then again the soil and I'm having
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    the right fertility there the right
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    nutrients for your plants is just as
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    important in containers as it is for um
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    the soil if you're planting in the
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    ground
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    can't stress enough the location needs
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    to be good with lots and lots of sun
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    um you get your bed ready if you're
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    going in using the the ground this says
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    tilling the ground we don't necessarily
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    recommend that every year because every
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    time you till the ground you are
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    bringing up more weed seeds
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    um to the light up to the top and that's
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    what they need to germinate is that
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    light along with the right nutrients and
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    water so if you've got a prepared bed
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    already you probably don't need to
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    um till it every year especially if
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    you're adding lots of good compost or
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    maybe mulch or a cover crop in the
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    winter
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    you don't need to do that but if it's
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    new soil of course you're going to need
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    to dig it up you need to break that soil
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    up and as you know here in North
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    Carolina we have that good red clay
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    which is in fact very good it's full of
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    lots of nutrients it holds moisture well
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    it's good for lots of things to grow in
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    but it needs to be broken up with some
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    um some organic material because
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    otherwise it's just this ball of clay
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    almost so if you're if you're breaking
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    new ground make sure that you break that
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    native soil up really well and add in
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    some kind of compost organic material
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    into it to make that soil more
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    productive the the plants are going to
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    need to be able to grow their Roots down
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    in that there needs to be air pockets
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    for the air for the roots and also for
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    water to get through so amending that
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    soil with the compost is going to be
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    really really important of course you
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    want to take out as many of the weeds
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    and all the grass that's around because
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    anything that's in your garden plot that
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    is not your garden
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    specific plants that is um that's going
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    to be fighting for the nutrients those
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    weeds
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    Roots grass seeds Grassroots are going
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    to be competing for all the um the good
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    nutrients and water and we don't want
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    those in there
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    and then like I said once you know what
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    your soil already has in it you may need
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    to amend it with some kind of
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    fertilizers lime
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    um there's a number of things that the
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    soil might need and you need to know
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    first before you add anything in
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    and I mentioned adding some organic
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    material in there so you can buy
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    um compost but
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    it's even easier to make your own but if
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    you're just starting out you may not
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    have that but um rotten leaves
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    um green when you're making compost
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    there are three things that you need you
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    need some brown which would be something
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    like rotting leaves small sticks pine
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    straw that kind of stuff that's going to
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    break down but you also need green stuff
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    which is the newer organic material so
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    this would be your table scraps lawn
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    clippings things that started as living
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    more recently
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    and then it needs some water and over
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    time that breaks down and makes this
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    amazing fertile stuff that will help
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    your plants grow
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    so you may need to start out by buying
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    some of that but then we recommend that
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    you start making your own and using the
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    things the scraps and things that are
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    left over from your own home and in your
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    own yard to create your own
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    compost you can use compost to manure
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    it's not recommended that you use new
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    manure it needs to have some time to
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    break down I mentioned cover crops these
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    are things like Clover and there are
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    some grasses that you can plant on
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    garden beds that help to re-establish
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    some of the nutrients that were taken
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    out by the plants you used in the
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    previous year
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    they can add a lot of nitrogen back into
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    the soil and other nutrients so that's
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    an idea and it also will help combat
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    weeds coming up because those cover
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    crops can hopefully
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    um
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    make sure that they're not popping up as
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    much
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    um and then decompose material so
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    everything is going to break down
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    eventually when you do composting
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    um
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    specifically you can make it happen a
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    little bit faster and that's the idea
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    with having a compost bin or one of
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    those roller things that turn
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    um so you're trying to just break all
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    this down and you have lots of good
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    organisms in there that are helping the
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    heat helps it's it just makes really
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    good stuff so and compost can be done
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    well so that it's not smelly it's not
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    gross it's not unsightly and we have
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    lots of Publications on how to best go
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    about composting
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    so you've gotten your spot you've gotten
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    your soil ready you've tested you're
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    ready to go let's put some stuff in the
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    ground so
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    um a couple of different ways to do that
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    first of all think about what it is you
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    want to plant start with the things that
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    you like to eat if you know you don't
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    like tomatoes and there's probably not
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    any point in planting tomatoes
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    um I will tell you that if you plant a
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    little bit of squash you will come up
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    with a lot of squash so you may not want
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    to plant a lot of squash plants or if
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    okra is one of your favorite things
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    super easy to grow
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    or plant some stuff that you don't even
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    know anything about necessarily maybe
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    seen it in the grocery store at or at a
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    farmer's market and you want to
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    experiment when my kids were young we
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    always pick something new every summer
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    to plant and they didn't always love the
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    things that we grew but they were more
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    um
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    more likely to try it and more likely to
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    like it if they had if they took part in
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    picking it out and actually planting it
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    and taking care of it so it can be fun
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    it can be
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    um
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    it's it can be nutritious it can be cost
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    saving
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    um to an extent
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    um we'll talk about that in a minute but
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    um have some fun with the things that
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    you're planting
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    a couple of different ways that you
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    could plant stuff some seeds are best
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    planted directly into the soil
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    um and that's direct planting and you
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    can see there the person that's putting
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    the seeds they're putting a lot of seeds
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    in those rows so
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    um I'm not going to recommend you doing
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    that we'll talk about how to do that in
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    a minute some people do the seeds
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    indoors and that takes some um some
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    planning because you've got to start the
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    seeds early enough so they're big enough
  • 00:13:56
    when it comes time to plant them in the
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    ground so starting seeds now in late
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    March
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    um you're probably not going to be able
  • 00:14:06
    to have them like maybe you could start
  • 00:14:08
    some tomato plants for planting in late
  • 00:14:11
    summer because we can actually have kind
  • 00:14:13
    of two seasons of tomatoes and some
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    other
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    um
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    other plantings but um what you do is
  • 00:14:21
    look at the seed packet and see how long
  • 00:14:23
    it generally takes those seeds to
  • 00:14:25
    germinate and back date from the time
  • 00:14:28
    you want to plant to the time that you
  • 00:14:30
    need to start the seeds indoors and it
  • 00:14:33
    takes special grow lights you're going
  • 00:14:36
    to have to take some care with uh
  • 00:14:38
    watching out for them making sure they
  • 00:14:41
    have enough water and that light and
  • 00:14:44
    um then hardening them off bringing them
  • 00:14:46
    outside for a little while at a time so
  • 00:14:49
    that they can get used to the
  • 00:14:52
    fluctuations in temperatures outside
  • 00:14:54
    since they've been taken care of inside
  • 00:14:56
    for a while or you can buy these plants
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    transplant so they're there on the left
  • 00:15:02
    from a gardening center or
  • 00:15:05
    um you know some people grow them and
  • 00:15:07
    sell them to people but they've already
  • 00:15:09
    done that work in figuring out when to
  • 00:15:11
    plant the seeds and germinate them
  • 00:15:13
    inside or in a greenhouse and here they
  • 00:15:16
    are ready for you to plant some plants
  • 00:15:18
    are much easier to do that way
  • 00:15:21
    um and so like a tomato plant you would
  • 00:15:24
    not typically you would not plant the
  • 00:15:26
    seeds in the ground you need a
  • 00:15:28
    transplant them so it's already a Little
  • 00:15:30
    Seedling when you put it in
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    foreign
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    let's go back
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    I think I'm going the wrong way
  • 00:15:42
    okay so I mentioned watering um it is
  • 00:15:45
    super critical that your plants get
  • 00:15:47
    consistent water and if you rely on um
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    rain here in the in North Carolina
  • 00:15:54
    that's not going to be enough because
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    like I said we do have periods of time
  • 00:15:58
    where we don't get consistent rain and
  • 00:16:01
    water so they need at least
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    um
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    an inch of water a week you can measure
  • 00:16:08
    that with a um some kind of small can
  • 00:16:10
    like a tuna can in your garden to see
  • 00:16:13
    how that's happening or there are um
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    commercial
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    water gauges that you can buy to find
  • 00:16:21
    out but you want to know how much water
  • 00:16:24
    you're putting on that
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    and what we want to do that consistent
  • 00:16:28
    watering when it goes down this says six
  • 00:16:30
    inches down when you water that much it
  • 00:16:33
    goes down to feed those roots and you're
  • 00:16:36
    promoting your roof root growth to go
  • 00:16:38
    down when you um do those long waterings
  • 00:16:42
    once or twice a week rather than
  • 00:16:45
    watering just a little bit every day so
  • 00:16:48
    um
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    you're not having to do it every single
  • 00:16:51
    day but you need to have a schedule and
  • 00:16:53
    work around what Mother Nature is doing
  • 00:16:55
    for you as well
  • 00:16:58
    I mentioned earlier that if you have
  • 00:17:00
    grass and weeds in your garden area
  • 00:17:02
    that's competing for all the nutrients
  • 00:17:05
    and the water that your crops need so
  • 00:17:09
    make sure they're out of there
  • 00:17:11
    um
  • 00:17:12
    if you're going to use an herbicide
  • 00:17:15
    we need we really want you to follow the
  • 00:17:18
    directions on the bottle or the
  • 00:17:21
    container so that you're mixing it
  • 00:17:23
    appropriately and safely these are
  • 00:17:26
    chemicals they are toxic they are meant
  • 00:17:28
    to kill things so you need to be super
  • 00:17:31
    careful with them read the directions
  • 00:17:33
    there's a lot of them in this small
  • 00:17:35
    print so make sure you're going to take
  • 00:17:37
    the time to do that I'm not real good at
  • 00:17:40
    details like that so my husband is the
  • 00:17:43
    guy who mixes all the chemicals I'll
  • 00:17:45
    spray but he has to mix them for me
  • 00:17:48
    so I'm using his gifts where I need them
  • 00:17:52
    but if you don't want to do chemicals in
  • 00:17:55
    your garden and and understand too if
  • 00:17:57
    you're using organic products those are
  • 00:18:00
    toxic as well to a certain degree so you
  • 00:18:03
    need to be just as careful with those
  • 00:18:06
    but you can also manually get rid of
  • 00:18:08
    your weeds you can pull them you can use
  • 00:18:11
    a hoe or or some other kind of garden
  • 00:18:13
    Implement to to dig them up and you need
  • 00:18:17
    to be careful in any method that you use
  • 00:18:20
    that you're not disturbing the plant
  • 00:18:21
    that you want to keep so you don't want
  • 00:18:24
    to any of the sprays to get on the
  • 00:18:25
    plants that you're um that you want to
  • 00:18:28
    keep and you don't want you want to make
  • 00:18:30
    sure that when you're hoeing things
  • 00:18:31
    you're not chopping down the wrong thing
  • 00:18:32
    we have a fun story about my sister
  • 00:18:35
    hoeing up actual okra plants instead of
  • 00:18:38
    weeds and my grandfather having quite
  • 00:18:40
    the conniption fit but she was young she
  • 00:18:43
    didn't know what she was doing
  • 00:18:45
    but get rid of the weeds
  • 00:18:48
    inevitably you're going to run into some
  • 00:18:51
    problems in gardening if you plant it
  • 00:18:53
    they will come so you will have some
  • 00:18:55
    pests that show up
  • 00:18:58
    um
  • 00:18:59
    there there is a school of thought that
  • 00:19:02
    says um if these are things that you're
  • 00:19:04
    going to be eating you want to be super
  • 00:19:07
    careful and maybe not use any kind of um
  • 00:19:10
    synthetic herbicides pesticides
  • 00:19:14
    um because that may be going into your
  • 00:19:16
    body again organic controls are are a
  • 00:19:21
    little bit healthier in that regard but
  • 00:19:22
    they're not completely safe so you need
  • 00:19:25
    to be careful there too the biggest
  • 00:19:27
    thing with controlling any kind of pests
  • 00:19:30
    and diseases are to know exactly the
  • 00:19:33
    problem that you're trying to tackle
  • 00:19:35
    because if you're using the wrong
  • 00:19:36
    product at the wrong time or for the
  • 00:19:39
    wrong
  • 00:19:40
    problem
  • 00:19:42
    um you're just wasting money and
  • 00:19:44
    spreading stuff out into the environment
  • 00:19:47
    that doesn't need to be there Master
  • 00:19:49
    Gardeners are happy to help you try and
  • 00:19:51
    identify any problems that you're having
  • 00:19:54
    um there are some that are kind of known
  • 00:19:55
    for
  • 00:19:57
    um plants but like tomatoes get blossom
  • 00:20:00
    in rot often and some are unique or not
  • 00:20:03
    unique but more unusual we have a plant
  • 00:20:07
    and insect Disease Clinic that that the
  • 00:20:12
    state has that is happy to help as well
  • 00:20:14
    but if you want to start with the Master
  • 00:20:16
    Gardeners you can call us we have a
  • 00:20:18
    helpline that number will be at the end
  • 00:20:21
    of this presentation we'll be happy to
  • 00:20:22
    help you trying to identify what's going
  • 00:20:25
    on and taking pictures is really helpful
  • 00:20:27
    as well because if we saw this picture
  • 00:20:30
    we would be able to say oh yeah we know
  • 00:20:32
    what that is and how to take care of it
  • 00:20:35
    um the biggest way to combat any kind of
  • 00:20:38
    diseases and pests are to keep your
  • 00:20:41
    plants healthy because the weaker the
  • 00:20:42
    plant is the more of an invitation it is
  • 00:20:45
    to these things to come in and take over
  • 00:20:48
    so healthy plants is number one we also
  • 00:20:52
    recommend that you rotate your your
  • 00:20:54
    crops because and that means planting
  • 00:20:57
    them in different spots around your
  • 00:20:59
    garden bed because the plants will
  • 00:21:03
    um the the host the let me say this
  • 00:21:06
    right the pests and the diseases that
  • 00:21:08
    that attack that particular plant and
  • 00:21:11
    some of them are very picky they will
  • 00:21:12
    only pick certain crops to
  • 00:21:16
    um attack or that they can eat
  • 00:21:19
    um and if they will stay in the soil or
  • 00:21:21
    stay nearby and if you move those plants
  • 00:21:24
    around you're kind of tricking them and
  • 00:21:25
    they would have to walk a little bit
  • 00:21:27
    further to get to your plant and um
  • 00:21:29
    hopefully they will stay healthier
  • 00:21:31
    longer
  • 00:21:33
    um attracting beneficial insects is good
  • 00:21:35
    so having lots of
  • 00:21:37
    um plant other plantings in your yard
  • 00:21:40
    that's going to attract other insects
  • 00:21:43
    um is good
  • 00:21:45
    you've probably heard of buying ladybugs
  • 00:21:48
    and releasing them and things like that
  • 00:21:51
    that's good but the ladybugs don't know
  • 00:21:55
    that they're supposed to stay in your
  • 00:21:56
    yard necessarily so um it's not always
  • 00:21:59
    cost effective to do something like that
  • 00:22:02
    but to make your yard an inviting place
  • 00:22:04
    for all sorts of insects and to know
  • 00:22:08
    which ones are the good ones and which
  • 00:22:10
    ones are the ones you don't want to keep
  • 00:22:12
    because you don't want to be killing any
  • 00:22:14
    of the beneficials that's another reason
  • 00:22:17
    you need to be super careful about any
  • 00:22:19
    of the products that you use in your
  • 00:22:21
    garden because they don't discriminate
  • 00:22:23
    and will kill both beneficial and
  • 00:22:26
    harmful insects and we want to keep the
  • 00:22:28
    good ones around we've all heard about
  • 00:22:30
    bee Decline and that is in part because
  • 00:22:33
    of overuse of chemicals not the only
  • 00:22:37
    reason but one of them and then if you
  • 00:22:40
    are able to use Organics oftentimes
  • 00:22:42
    those are better for the environment as
  • 00:22:44
    well and better for your plants
  • 00:22:47
    I mentioned diseases and there we have
  • 00:22:50
    some tomato blossom end rot there
  • 00:22:53
    prevention again making sure your plants
  • 00:22:56
    are healthy making sure you're rotating
  • 00:22:58
    your crops planting your plants at the
  • 00:23:01
    right time
  • 00:23:02
    um seed treatment just means making sure
  • 00:23:05
    you're using viable seeds they do have a
  • 00:23:09
    use by date on the packaging so that's a
  • 00:23:12
    good thing to keep an eye on if they're
  • 00:23:14
    old they may not germinate as well or
  • 00:23:16
    the plants may be a little bit more
  • 00:23:19
    compromised and not as healthy
  • 00:23:22
    making sure your plants have good
  • 00:23:23
    nutrition which means all the the soil
  • 00:23:26
    nutrients that they need sanitation
  • 00:23:28
    means keeping your stuff clean it's
  • 00:23:31
    recommended that you clean your tools uh
  • 00:23:35
    regularly especially if you are having
  • 00:23:38
    to cut back some diseased material then
  • 00:23:41
    you definitely want to keep your um
  • 00:23:43
    clean your tools with the Bleach not
  • 00:23:47
    straight bleach but a bleach solution I
  • 00:23:49
    cannot remember the exact um
  • 00:23:52
    proportions of bleach to water but um we
  • 00:23:56
    can help you with that that's somewhere
  • 00:23:57
    I just don't know it off the top of my
  • 00:23:59
    head
  • 00:24:00
    um solarization means using the sun to
  • 00:24:04
    um keep diseases at Bay to um because it
  • 00:24:08
    will kill some stuff so you again that's
  • 00:24:11
    one of the reasons you're in a sunny
  • 00:24:12
    location
  • 00:24:13
    and then plants are tested that's one of
  • 00:24:15
    the things that the Arboretum does a lot
  • 00:24:17
    of
  • 00:24:18
    um not necessarily vegetable crops but
  • 00:24:22
    um all these plants are tested and
  • 00:24:25
    um the plant scientists are able to do
  • 00:24:28
    lots of Gene work on them all that
  • 00:24:31
    sciency stuff that I don't know but I'm
  • 00:24:33
    I'm really glad somebody does and they
  • 00:24:36
    develop crops seeds and plants that are
  • 00:24:40
    more resistant to diseases so we have
  • 00:24:43
    recommendations uh the varieties that do
  • 00:24:46
    best in this area because we do have
  • 00:24:49
    again
  • 00:24:51
    lots of drought we have lots of humidity
  • 00:24:54
    we have specific insects and
  • 00:24:58
    um diseases that come or are here
  • 00:25:01
    already so things that are tested to
  • 00:25:05
    work well here are going to be your best
  • 00:25:07
    bet and there will be a link at the end
  • 00:25:10
    for you to get all sorts of information
  • 00:25:12
    about that
  • 00:25:13
    and then
  • 00:25:15
    um using disease-free seeds and
  • 00:25:17
    transplants it's great to get
  • 00:25:20
    um stuff from friends but you want to
  • 00:25:22
    make sure that they have the same kind
  • 00:25:24
    of standards for
  • 00:25:28
    um hygiene in their yard as you do and
  • 00:25:31
    if it's somebody that you're not sure
  • 00:25:33
    about you might want to pass and get
  • 00:25:34
    something from
  • 00:25:36
    um
  • 00:25:37
    a garden center or a person that you
  • 00:25:39
    know is going to have good stuff
  • 00:25:44
    and then we always have our animals that
  • 00:25:46
    we have to kind of battle
  • 00:25:49
    um I have both deer and rabbits that
  • 00:25:52
    love my yard they think that I have
  • 00:25:55
    planted quite the buffet for them the
  • 00:25:57
    deer used to be more of a problem
  • 00:26:00
    um and now I'm seeing more damage from
  • 00:26:02
    Rabbits which is really annoying because
  • 00:26:05
    they're if you see one rabbit there are
  • 00:26:07
    hundreds literally hundreds
  • 00:26:10
    um behind the scenes so um they can do a
  • 00:26:14
    lot of damage really quickly so fencing
  • 00:26:17
    is one of the best things to do there
  • 00:26:19
    are products that are sold that say that
  • 00:26:22
    they keep these animals away
  • 00:26:26
    um the animals habituate themselves to
  • 00:26:28
    just about anything so you have to be
  • 00:26:30
    really careful
  • 00:26:32
    um you have to change things up the best
  • 00:26:34
    thing to do is to try and scare these
  • 00:26:37
    animals and not let them get used to you
  • 00:26:39
    or your yard so
  • 00:26:42
    um you can't shoot them do do not do
  • 00:26:44
    that but scaring them is fair game loud
  • 00:26:48
    noises lots of unexpected
  • 00:26:51
    movements to keep them away from your
  • 00:26:54
    yard and they're basically running out
  • 00:26:58
    of their own natural habitats as we
  • 00:27:00
    build more and more and more so they
  • 00:27:03
    come to eat
  • 00:27:05
    the rabbit fencing oftentimes needs to
  • 00:27:08
    be placed underground a little ways
  • 00:27:10
    because rabbits are very very good at
  • 00:27:13
    digging we all know that from um
  • 00:27:16
    Peter Rabbit who got into Mr McGregor's
  • 00:27:19
    Garden all the time so it has to have
  • 00:27:23
    pretty small holes because they can
  • 00:27:25
    squeeze through just about anything and
  • 00:27:28
    deer can jump great distances so the
  • 00:27:31
    deer fencing has to be at least six to
  • 00:27:34
    eight feet to keep them out of your yard
  • 00:27:36
    so
  • 00:27:38
    um it's an ongoing battle and there are
  • 00:27:41
    some plants that are a little bit more
  • 00:27:43
    rabbit and deer resistant there's not
  • 00:27:46
    anything that's really foolproof but
  • 00:27:48
    when it comes to vegetables and fruit
  • 00:27:51
    things their fair game for any of these
  • 00:27:53
    animals
  • 00:27:56
    foreign
  • 00:27:58
    excuse me
  • 00:28:01
    um one of the beautiful things about
  • 00:28:02
    where we live is
  • 00:28:07
    I failed at um advancing slides
  • 00:28:10
    obviously
  • 00:28:11
    um one of the beautiful things about our
  • 00:28:13
    area is that because we don't have a
  • 00:28:16
    super super cold winter and this year it
  • 00:28:19
    didn't feel like we had a cold one at
  • 00:28:21
    all we have kind of three seasons um to
  • 00:28:24
    grow vegetables in we have our Spring
  • 00:28:27
    Garden and those went in around February
  • 00:28:31
    um and so
  • 00:28:33
    um that's kind of done it says February
  • 00:28:36
    to March but we're almost into April so
  • 00:28:39
    um these crops are usually going to be
  • 00:28:42
    done by mid-april or so and that
  • 00:28:44
    includes carrots kale any of your greens
  • 00:28:47
    like kale spinach lettuce collards all
  • 00:28:51
    those grow in in the cool weather
  • 00:28:54
    um peas there are a lot of peas that
  • 00:28:55
    grow and swiss chard that's another
  • 00:28:58
    green
  • 00:28:59
    um but all of these things like it cool
  • 00:29:02
    so
  • 00:29:03
    um in February before Valentine's Day
  • 00:29:05
    you can start these kind of plantings
  • 00:29:07
    and these can be done again in the fall
  • 00:29:11
    so September October you can be putting
  • 00:29:14
    in some of these things and grow another
  • 00:29:18
    um another round of these things I will
  • 00:29:21
    tell you that fall Gardens sometimes are
  • 00:29:24
    more challenging because you already
  • 00:29:25
    have a lot of pests that have taken up
  • 00:29:27
    residence in your garden pests and
  • 00:29:30
    diseases so sometimes these crops have a
  • 00:29:33
    harder time because they're combating
  • 00:29:35
    the the things that haven't gotten
  • 00:29:37
    frozen out by winter and then we have
  • 00:29:40
    our summer garden and these are our
  • 00:29:42
    traditional summer vegetables like beans
  • 00:29:45
    and cucumbers corn squash Tomatoes well
  • 00:29:49
    these are the things that you can grow
  • 00:29:51
    by seed very very easily
  • 00:29:55
    um so those would go in
  • 00:29:57
    um mid-april to May and then grow
  • 00:30:00
    through the summer
  • 00:30:02
    and then these summer
  • 00:30:04
    um Garden things are usually
  • 00:30:07
    um
  • 00:30:08
    done by transplants so you already have
  • 00:30:10
    the plant that you put in the ground so
  • 00:30:12
    those are your tomatoes and your peppers
  • 00:30:13
    and your eggplants those are all in the
  • 00:30:16
    same family of plants so
  • 00:30:19
    um these are things that you want to
  • 00:30:21
    rotate carefully because they do have
  • 00:30:23
    some very specific diseases that will
  • 00:30:27
    um
  • 00:30:29
    attack these plants and um so you want
  • 00:30:32
    to be careful not to plant them in the
  • 00:30:34
    same place every year and so that goes
  • 00:30:37
    for you know you wouldn't put peppers
  • 00:30:39
    back where Tomatoes were or eggplants
  • 00:30:41
    and you want to rotate all them around
  • 00:30:45
    and then like I mentioned um the fall
  • 00:30:48
    Garden so this cool season things you
  • 00:30:50
    can also broccoli cabbage cauliflower
  • 00:30:53
    brussels sprouts those can be planted as
  • 00:30:56
    well those are generally planted by
  • 00:30:58
    transplants but all these other ones
  • 00:31:01
    that I mentioned earlier can be done
  • 00:31:02
    with seeds
  • 00:31:06
    so like I mentioned the Master Gardeners
  • 00:31:10
    have an office and we have a phone line
  • 00:31:13
    that we man almost all day long nine to
  • 00:31:16
    twelve and then a lunch break and then
  • 00:31:18
    again one to four so you can call us
  • 00:31:20
    there at 919-250
  • 00:31:23
    one zero eight four and somebody is
  • 00:31:26
    there and can look up information one of
  • 00:31:28
    the things that we do is provide
  • 00:31:30
    research-based information because
  • 00:31:33
    um that's just the best way to Garden
  • 00:31:35
    all the stuff that's scientifically
  • 00:31:36
    proven to work and we have the luxury of
  • 00:31:40
    NC State right here in our backyard and
  • 00:31:44
    they provide us all of their research
  • 00:31:46
    information we it's written up in ways
  • 00:31:49
    that those of us that are not scientists
  • 00:31:51
    can understand and we have lots and lots
  • 00:31:54
    of Publications so if you call us we can
  • 00:31:56
    help you find the right publication you
  • 00:31:59
    can also go online and Google a question
  • 00:32:01
    and put in NCSU or North Carolina
  • 00:32:04
    extension and our information will pop
  • 00:32:07
    up we highly recommend that you use
  • 00:32:10
    information from NC State or some of our
  • 00:32:12
    neighboring
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    um land-grant universities research
  • 00:32:16
    institutions like Clemson or University
  • 00:32:18
    of Virginia Georgia
  • 00:32:21
    um any of those that are close enough to
  • 00:32:23
    be have very similar climates and
  • 00:32:27
    um
  • 00:32:28
    kind of gardening years so their
  • 00:32:31
    information is going to be applicable
  • 00:32:33
    here as well as their own States some
  • 00:32:36
    from California or Minnesota not so much
  • 00:32:39
    because they have such a totally
  • 00:32:41
    different climate than we do
  • 00:32:43
    if you want to you can also email us
  • 00:32:45
    with questions at mastermgardner
  • 00:32:48
    weightgov.com
  • 00:32:51
    um if there's another Master Gardener on
  • 00:32:53
    the call they might be able to
  • 00:32:55
    um let me know if that our email changed
  • 00:32:58
    so I think that's the right one but I'm
  • 00:33:00
    not 100 positive
  • 00:33:03
    um there are tons and tons of
  • 00:33:05
    um Publications for just about anything
  • 00:33:08
    you want to grow like I mentioned we
  • 00:33:10
    have the publication that recommends
  • 00:33:12
    different varieties and if you're just
  • 00:33:14
    starting out or even if you've gardened
  • 00:33:16
    before and perhaps you haven't had great
  • 00:33:18
    luck with some of the things that you
  • 00:33:20
    planted perhaps you need to take a look
  • 00:33:22
    at that list and find things that are
  • 00:33:25
    better suited to our area
  • 00:33:28
    so I can see that there are lots of
  • 00:33:30
    numbers on the chat box so there might
  • 00:33:32
    be questions Blake yes indeed there are
  • 00:33:35
    questions and I just want to say I had
  • 00:33:37
    to chuckle when you said you don't have
  • 00:33:39
    to plant a lot of squash in order to get
  • 00:33:40
    a lot of squash I've gotten to the point
  • 00:33:43
    where I no longer plant squash and I
  • 00:33:45
    still get too much squash because
  • 00:33:46
    everybody else is planting squash and
  • 00:33:47
    having to give it all away so yeah I've
  • 00:33:49
    seen a cartoon about people sneaking
  • 00:33:51
    around at night dropping off bags of
  • 00:33:53
    zucchini sure so that nobody knows but
  • 00:33:56
    yeah either you have it or you don't you
  • 00:34:00
    know okay so one question we had was Are
  • 00:34:03
    there specific materials for containers
  • 00:34:05
    that you recommend When taking into
  • 00:34:07
    consideration food safety
  • 00:34:10
    um no not particularly
  • 00:34:13
    um
  • 00:34:15
    that is a good question though I've just
  • 00:34:17
    bought commercial
  • 00:34:19
    um Planters and you may want to wash
  • 00:34:22
    them out first in case there are some
  • 00:34:24
    some residue from the production of them
  • 00:34:26
    or from shipping them again make sure
  • 00:34:29
    you have the holes and if you're using
  • 00:34:31
    clay pots you need to be careful about
  • 00:34:34
    the watering even more careful because
  • 00:34:36
    that clay will
  • 00:34:38
    um let the moisture Escape more easily
  • 00:34:41
    so if you're using clay pots you're
  • 00:34:44
    probably going to have to water them
  • 00:34:46
    daily
  • 00:34:48
    um because they're going to dry out so
  • 00:34:49
    much faster
  • 00:34:51
    for sure uh so you did talk a bit about
  • 00:34:54
    how to keep deer out and somebody had a
  • 00:34:56
    question about generally how to avoid
  • 00:34:58
    deer but what about um deer repellent
  • 00:35:00
    sprays have you do you know anything
  • 00:35:02
    about those if they're effective or not
  • 00:35:04
    um there are some again I mentioned they
  • 00:35:08
    they get used to just about anything
  • 00:35:10
    um and you've probably heard if you're
  • 00:35:12
    battling deer in your garden you've
  • 00:35:14
    probably talked to friends and you've
  • 00:35:16
    got half a dozen or so different methods
  • 00:35:18
    that people recommend and people swear
  • 00:35:20
    by
  • 00:35:21
    um the thing is those deer will probably
  • 00:35:24
    come back at some point
  • 00:35:27
    um there are some we can't recommend any
  • 00:35:30
    specific products but there's one that's
  • 00:35:32
    made locally in Chapel Hill
  • 00:35:35
    um I can't give you the name of it but
  • 00:35:38
    um I've had a lot of good luck with that
  • 00:35:40
    and they make
  • 00:35:42
    um they make some for different
  • 00:35:45
    um animals and I'm gonna have to try the
  • 00:35:47
    the rabbit one because the rabbits last
  • 00:35:49
    year were so obnoxious and
  • 00:35:55
    it wouldn't bother me so much if the
  • 00:35:56
    animals came and ate
  • 00:35:58
    whatever they needed but when the
  • 00:36:00
    squirrels come through and eat a bite
  • 00:36:03
    out of every tomato that that's rude
  • 00:36:06
    um so and and rabbits tend to do that
  • 00:36:09
    too rather than eating an entire plant
  • 00:36:11
    they'll nod off at the base where it's
  • 00:36:13
    tender and new and leave all the
  • 00:36:16
    remnants laying on the the ground to
  • 00:36:19
    make me cry and it's like you know if
  • 00:36:21
    you ate one of these leaves I could be
  • 00:36:23
    patient with you but
  • 00:36:26
    no kidding the nerve of some animals
  • 00:36:29
    exactly
  • 00:36:31
    okay someone asks can fresh young weeds
  • 00:36:34
    no near seeding be put on compost piles
  • 00:36:36
    they always hate to waste them
  • 00:36:40
    um yeah so the way it works with a
  • 00:36:42
    compost pile is I mentioned that you
  • 00:36:45
    need water and it creates heat there is
  • 00:36:48
    actually a lot of activity going on
  • 00:36:50
    inside that compost pile both chemically
  • 00:36:53
    and with organisms that are chewing that
  • 00:36:55
    stuff up it's like a whole village in
  • 00:36:58
    there and you're turning it ideally you
  • 00:37:01
    would turn it regularly and when you do
  • 00:37:04
    that you will find that the compost is
  • 00:37:06
    actually really warm on the inside it
  • 00:37:09
    does need to heat up like that that's a
  • 00:37:10
    natural thing and if when it gets warm
  • 00:37:13
    enough it will kill a lot of those weed
  • 00:37:15
    seeds
  • 00:37:17
    um I don't know the exact temperatures
  • 00:37:18
    that it needs to reach and I've never
  • 00:37:20
    checked the temperature of my compost
  • 00:37:22
    pile
  • 00:37:24
    um so weed seeds
  • 00:37:26
    there are some that I would not put in
  • 00:37:28
    there I would not put any stilt grass
  • 00:37:30
    there because silk grass seeds are
  • 00:37:33
    notoriously long-lived
  • 00:37:35
    um but you know if it's stuff in my
  • 00:37:37
    grass that is not terribly aggressive
  • 00:37:39
    and I don't really care about I don't I
  • 00:37:41
    don't worry about that I put that in if
  • 00:37:44
    it's diseased plant material I would not
  • 00:37:46
    put that into a compost pile either
  • 00:37:48
    because you can't guarantee that it's
  • 00:37:50
    going to break down well enough
  • 00:37:53
    okay someone asked do you need to remove
  • 00:37:56
    the cover crops when you're ready to
  • 00:37:58
    plant for the new season
  • 00:38:00
    um it's a good idea to kind of turn them
  • 00:38:02
    under if you can
  • 00:38:04
    um they're going to naturally die out a
  • 00:38:07
    little bit so you can plant in them
  • 00:38:10
    again the more you turn that soil over
  • 00:38:12
    the more you're introducing more weeds
  • 00:38:15
    into your um your garden area so
  • 00:38:19
    um you may want to hand pull them out if
  • 00:38:22
    they're in the way of you planting the
  • 00:38:24
    new stuff especially Rose of crops
  • 00:38:28
    sure and I would just like to add that
  • 00:38:30
    it probably depends on the type of cover
  • 00:38:32
    crop you're using like if you're using
  • 00:38:34
    Clover because you want the uh the
  • 00:38:36
    nitrogen fixation that it provides the
  • 00:38:38
    clover will fix nitrogen but if you
  • 00:38:40
    don't then work that Clover back into
  • 00:38:42
    the soil then that nitrogen isn't going
  • 00:38:45
    into the soil so the Clover you
  • 00:38:47
    absolutely need to work into your soil
  • 00:38:49
    if however you're just growing like
  • 00:38:51
    annual rye grass just for the sake of
  • 00:38:53
    reducing erosion then in that case you
  • 00:38:57
    would want to use something you'd want
  • 00:38:58
    to crimp it down you'd use a roller
  • 00:39:00
    crimper to crimp it down and like leave
  • 00:39:02
    the the grass there and you can just
  • 00:39:04
    plant in between the grass that you've
  • 00:39:07
    rolled over and flattened and the whole
  • 00:39:08
    point of the rolling over and the
  • 00:39:10
    flattening of the grass is to to
  • 00:39:11
    suppress weeds there so like you need
  • 00:39:13
    the the grass there flat to shade out
  • 00:39:16
    the weed seed so that it doesn't spring
  • 00:39:18
    back up and you're more than welcome to
  • 00:39:20
    just plant directly into the grass that
  • 00:39:23
    you've left there okay so someone asked
  • 00:39:26
    about well they said specifically why do
  • 00:39:28
    my squash plants always die quickly how
  • 00:39:30
    do I keep Vine borers away while still
  • 00:39:33
    being organic but you mentioned several
  • 00:39:35
    things with regards to that you
  • 00:39:37
    mentioned chemical controls you
  • 00:39:39
    mentioned making sure you have healthy
  • 00:39:41
    plants and you also mentioned crop
  • 00:39:43
    rotation somebody had an interesting
  • 00:39:45
    question about crop rotation they said
  • 00:39:47
    my garden is too small to rotate plants
  • 00:39:51
    can you just skip a year and then
  • 00:39:52
    replant them again and is one year
  • 00:39:55
    enough
  • 00:39:55
    foreign
  • 00:39:57
    I do not know if one year is enough that
  • 00:40:01
    is going to help definitely
  • 00:40:03
    um you may want to try and do some um
  • 00:40:07
    uh containers that year and then move
  • 00:40:11
    out but yeah you're right a lot of us
  • 00:40:13
    don't have a lot of space so it's always
  • 00:40:15
    a challenge for me as well and I figure
  • 00:40:17
    if I've moved them a little bit that's
  • 00:40:19
    helped more than not moving them at all
  • 00:40:22
    so
  • 00:40:23
    um yeah I would hate to miss an entire
  • 00:40:25
    year of growing things but
  • 00:40:28
    um
  • 00:40:31
    that's a tough one yeah I want to
  • 00:40:34
    mention also the squash
  • 00:40:36
    um Vine bores
  • 00:40:38
    um those are such a challenge what
  • 00:40:40
    happens is this this moth lays its eggs
  • 00:40:45
    and right around the um the vine of the
  • 00:40:50
    um
  • 00:40:51
    the squash plant and the the insect
  • 00:40:56
    is born and then bores into the vine
  • 00:40:59
    itself and your plants are fine one day
  • 00:41:03
    you walk out the next morning and they
  • 00:41:05
    have flopped over and
  • 00:41:08
    um at that point there is nothing that
  • 00:41:10
    you can do to revive those plants I will
  • 00:41:13
    be honest with you
  • 00:41:14
    that is so discouraging to me I don't
  • 00:41:17
    plant squash anymore
  • 00:41:19
    um because it's a real challenge
  • 00:41:21
    um there are some methods some
  • 00:41:23
    mechanical methods where you put a um a
  • 00:41:26
    cup around the um the plant when you
  • 00:41:30
    plant it or a part of a cup
  • 00:41:32
    um to try and keep them from getting to
  • 00:41:35
    the the vine but
  • 00:41:37
    um there is more information from the
  • 00:41:39
    Master Gardeners about all that but that
  • 00:41:41
    that can be a real challenge I will
  • 00:41:44
    admit sure okay someone's asking can you
  • 00:41:48
    use alcohol to clean smaller tools
  • 00:41:53
    um I believe so yes
  • 00:41:55
    um
  • 00:41:56
    yeah any kind of uh just make sure
  • 00:42:00
    the alcohol is going to dry off but if
  • 00:42:02
    you're using anything else that's you
  • 00:42:04
    know a product for cleaning make sure
  • 00:42:07
    you've you've rinsed that off really
  • 00:42:09
    really well because you don't want to
  • 00:42:10
    introduce any of that into your plant
  • 00:42:12
    material as well
  • 00:42:14
    okay
  • 00:42:15
    someone says I'm more interested in
  • 00:42:17
    growing fenugreek and mustard where do I
  • 00:42:20
    get this specific information
  • 00:42:23
    um
  • 00:42:25
    I would start with Master Gardeners and
  • 00:42:27
    they can research and see
  • 00:42:30
    um what they can find mustard is
  • 00:42:31
    absolutely beautiful too so
  • 00:42:34
    um sure I don't know the first plant
  • 00:42:36
    that you mentioned but um
  • 00:42:38
    research
  • 00:42:40
    yeah I've used fenugreek in Indian
  • 00:42:42
    cooking before so it does have its uses
  • 00:42:45
    and my answer to that question would be
  • 00:42:47
    if you have the seed packets already for
  • 00:42:50
    those plants then the seed packet is a
  • 00:42:52
    wealth of information on when to plant
  • 00:42:54
    them and how long it'll take for them to
  • 00:42:56
    mature and that kind of stuff yeah thank
  • 00:42:58
    you for mentioning that Blake I didn't
  • 00:43:00
    say that but you do need to carefully
  • 00:43:02
    read your seed packets because they are
  • 00:43:04
    going to tell you how far apart to plant
  • 00:43:07
    your seeds How Deeply to plant your
  • 00:43:10
    seeds not all plants are not all seeds
  • 00:43:12
    are created equally and they have
  • 00:43:14
    different requirements
  • 00:43:16
    um how big the plants are going to be
  • 00:43:17
    when they're um
  • 00:43:19
    mature how long they take to germinate
  • 00:43:22
    so when should you expect to start
  • 00:43:23
    seeing things pop up
  • 00:43:26
    um so and what their requirements are as
  • 00:43:28
    far as sun and um water and that kind of
  • 00:43:31
    those kinds of things and all that is
  • 00:43:33
    really important information they put
  • 00:43:35
    that there for a reason so make sure you
  • 00:43:38
    um read that and I mentioned that the
  • 00:43:41
    picture shows someone sewing a lot of
  • 00:43:43
    seeds all together that if you've got a
  • 00:43:46
    whole packet of seeds the inclination is
  • 00:43:49
    often to plant them all I bought them
  • 00:43:51
    and I want to plant them
  • 00:43:53
    um that actually does a disservice the
  • 00:43:55
    plants that you're trying to grow
  • 00:43:56
    because again they're trying to compete
  • 00:43:58
    with one another for all the good
  • 00:44:00
    nutrients and all the light and all the
  • 00:44:02
    water so after you've planted before
  • 00:44:05
    they have their true leaves which is
  • 00:44:07
    that second set of leaves that comes up
  • 00:44:09
    you if your plants are too crowded and
  • 00:44:12
    they're they're closer than what the
  • 00:44:13
    seed packet recommends you actually need
  • 00:44:16
    to go in and horror of Horrors you need
  • 00:44:18
    to pull out and then those plants
  • 00:44:21
    oftentimes it's best done by cutting
  • 00:44:24
    them off rather than trying to pull them
  • 00:44:25
    out manually because if you try and pull
  • 00:44:27
    them out you sometimes um disturb the
  • 00:44:30
    the roots of the plants that you want to
  • 00:44:31
    keep
  • 00:44:33
    okay somebody's asking if you could uh
  • 00:44:36
    go back to the slide that shows about
  • 00:44:38
    composting
  • 00:44:40
    they just want to see that slide again
  • 00:44:41
    if you don't mind
  • 00:44:43
    and while you're doing that uh I don't
  • 00:44:47
    know what this is but somebody's asked
  • 00:44:49
    what do you think about the square foot
  • 00:44:50
    gardening method
  • 00:44:52
    that is a really amazing way to Garden
  • 00:44:55
    it I've done it an adapted way
  • 00:44:58
    um so what is it general what is it
  • 00:44:59
    basically speaking
  • 00:45:01
    um it's showing you how to
  • 00:45:03
    um
  • 00:45:05
    I'm sorry I don't know what my printer
  • 00:45:06
    is doing
  • 00:45:07
    um it's dividing your garden out so that
  • 00:45:10
    you're doing succession gardening first
  • 00:45:12
    of all and
  • 00:45:14
    um
  • 00:45:15
    and
  • 00:45:17
    um complementary plantings so that
  • 00:45:21
    um kind of like when you do the um the
  • 00:45:24
    three sisters gardening you've got the
  • 00:45:25
    beans or the corn stalk with the beans
  • 00:45:27
    and the squash growing up together it's
  • 00:45:29
    that kind of thing and so uh the premise
  • 00:45:33
    is that even in a very small areas by
  • 00:45:36
    square foot you can grow a tremendous
  • 00:45:38
    amount of food
  • 00:45:43
    okay so somebody's asking well they say
  • 00:45:47
    I have chickens and from what I've read
  • 00:45:48
    their poop is too hot to put in my
  • 00:45:51
    garden unless it sits for a year is this
  • 00:45:53
    true yeah that's why I was saying that
  • 00:45:55
    compost has to I mean excuse me
  • 00:45:58
    um for animal fertilizer needs a compost
  • 00:46:01
    itself and there are
  • 00:46:03
    um different there's a schedule for
  • 00:46:04
    different kinds of manure so make sure
  • 00:46:07
    you do um look at that
  • 00:46:10
    awesome okay and I believe this is the
  • 00:46:13
    last question but of course there are
  • 00:46:15
    going to be more that come in since I've
  • 00:46:16
    said that but how deep should the soil
  • 00:46:19
    be in raised garden beds
  • 00:46:22
    that's a really good question
  • 00:46:24
    um typically
  • 00:46:26
    um at least eight inches
  • 00:46:29
    um and there is lots of good information
  • 00:46:32
    on how to to build raised beds
  • 00:46:36
    um but yeah they need they need to be
  • 00:46:38
    able to have enough room for roots
  • 00:46:41
    now they're going to be some plants like
  • 00:46:43
    corn comes to mind that needs a lot more
  • 00:46:46
    space and probably would not work in a
  • 00:46:49
    raised bed but then I'm sure there are
  • 00:46:51
    those of you who have done it in some
  • 00:46:53
    way and had success so um and gardening
  • 00:46:56
    is a lot of trial and error so I'll you
  • 00:46:59
    know we want to give you research-based
  • 00:47:02
    information to help you be more
  • 00:47:04
    successful but none of this is
  • 00:47:06
    guaranteed mother nature and all these
  • 00:47:09
    other things that we've mentioned want
  • 00:47:11
    to to chime in and sometimes thwart our
  • 00:47:14
    efforts and their microclimates so you
  • 00:47:17
    may have a spot that is just not going
  • 00:47:19
    to grow some things well
  • 00:47:21
    yeah thinking speaking of thwarted
  • 00:47:24
    efforts somebody's asking how can I get
  • 00:47:26
    out of control Mint back into control
  • 00:47:29
    that their husband removed a barrier pot
  • 00:47:31
    and without realizing it now they've got
  • 00:47:34
    a weed problem on their hands yeah mint
  • 00:47:36
    is um notorious for being very
  • 00:47:38
    aggressive and very much a bully in the
  • 00:47:40
    garden so things in the mint family it
  • 00:47:42
    is recommended that you plant a
  • 00:47:44
    container into the ground if you're
  • 00:47:46
    going to have it in the ground and have
  • 00:47:48
    the the mint
  • 00:47:50
    um in that too
  • 00:47:52
    um and it will escape on its own so it
  • 00:47:54
    may not just be your husband that did
  • 00:47:56
    that
  • 00:47:57
    um you're gonna have to vigorously dig
  • 00:47:59
    it out and it's going to take a while
  • 00:48:03
    um because uh it it that's just the way
  • 00:48:06
    it rolls and I've got
  • 00:48:08
    um bee balm which is in the same family
  • 00:48:10
    that I'm still pulling out year after
  • 00:48:14
    year because it it thrives
  • 00:48:18
    okay and this will be the last question
  • 00:48:21
    regardless of what other questions come
  • 00:48:23
    in
  • 00:48:24
    they say are there crops that you cannot
  • 00:48:26
    rotate to another spot like if you have
  • 00:48:28
    tomatoes in one spot if you moving
  • 00:48:31
    cucumbers is that bad or
  • 00:48:34
    does it defeat the purpose
  • 00:48:38
    I'm sorry I'm not sure I quite
  • 00:48:39
    understand that about rotating so like
  • 00:48:41
    if you're rotating crops uh uh
  • 00:48:46
    well okay I can't think of any specific
  • 00:48:48
    examples to like gardening but say if
  • 00:48:51
    you're growing let's say you're growing
  • 00:48:53
    tobacco in one spot in your garden and
  • 00:48:56
    then you want to rotate your crops but
  • 00:48:57
    you rotate Tomatoes into it but since
  • 00:49:00
    they're the same family they share a lot
  • 00:49:02
    of the same diseases and stuff so that
  • 00:49:04
    wouldn't really be much of a rotation so
  • 00:49:07
    she's asking are there like
  • 00:49:11
    things that you absolutely cannot plant
  • 00:49:12
    back to back yeah yeah
  • 00:49:16
    um
  • 00:49:16
    no again the best method is going to be
  • 00:49:19
    to rotate but you know we've already
  • 00:49:21
    spoken to the fact that sometimes you
  • 00:49:23
    just don't have the space for that
  • 00:49:25
    um I I think that I would look at trying
  • 00:49:28
    to do some containers elsewhere
  • 00:49:31
    um so that you can avoid having them
  • 00:49:34
    um in the same place I don't know where
  • 00:49:36
    the mulch thing is so I'm gonna
  • 00:49:39
    what I'm going to recommend is that with
  • 00:49:41
    all these extra questions and these
  • 00:49:43
    specific questions call our hotline and
  • 00:49:46
    no it's not really a hotline it's just a
  • 00:49:48
    phone line
  • 00:49:49
    but call us and ask and we can send you
  • 00:49:53
    the links to the um information or like
  • 00:49:55
    I said you can Google some of this but
  • 00:49:58
    sometimes it's easier to talk to
  • 00:50:00
    somebody and be able to talk this out
  • 00:50:01
    and think through all the other
  • 00:50:03
    questions that you have while you've got
  • 00:50:05
    somebody on the phone
  • 00:50:07
    um or if it's in the middle of the night
  • 00:50:08
    it just Dawns on you email us and we'll
  • 00:50:11
    be glad to get back with you
  • 00:50:13
    awesome well thank you so much Leah for
  • 00:50:15
    doing this for us thanks for stepping in
  • 00:50:18
    at literally the last minute well thanks
  • 00:50:20
    to everybody for staying on I apologize
  • 00:50:22
    for the the snafu there but I'm glad we
  • 00:50:24
    got to talk um gardening because
  • 00:50:26
    absolutely one of my favorite things to
  • 00:50:28
    do no kidding I'm in the same boat with
  • 00:50:30
    you thank you so much everybody for
  • 00:50:32
    joining us today I hope you enjoyed this
  • 00:50:34
    presentation put on by the Master
  • 00:50:35
    Gardeners I believe we will be doing
  • 00:50:38
    this again next month if you will give
  • 00:50:40
    me but a moment to retrieve the topic
  • 00:50:43
    yes next month on the 24th of April we
  • 00:50:46
    will be talking about plant diseases so
  • 00:50:49
    I hope you all will join us for that
  • 00:50:50
    we'll see you all next time y'all take
  • 00:50:52
    care bye everybody
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