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How to grow great onions from seed
Market gardener Dan demonstrates mid-March onion seeding in a 72-cell tray, intended for transplanting within 7-8 weeks.
Good light is necessary during the germination and initial growth phase, so if seeding indoors, grow-lights are recommended as well as a heat pad.
If you prefer to avoid transplanting and wish to direct seed, you could do so from mid-April to early May. The main drawback will be a slightly smaller onion. We're in the Pacific Northwest, so you'll need to adjust timing to your local climate.
For more information on the pros and cons of transplanting versus direct seeding onions, refer to Dan's blog post from April 2022 at localharvestgardening.com/dir...
That article also includes tips on onion spacing, watering, harvesting, and drying.
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Free eCourse: Succession planting with carrots
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Market gardener Dan shares how to achieve two carrot harvests each year, with the first harvest in July/August and the second in Nov/Dec, even up to March/April if your growing region allows it. Local Harvest is based in the Pacific Northwest (zone 7). Here we can overwinter our second carrot planting and enjoy fresh carrots right through until April. How to achieve two carrot harvests each yea...
Free eCourse: How to successfully grow tomatoes
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In this video, market gardener Dan shares his experience on how to avoid common problems when growing tomatoes, including what to focus on when pruning them. - Good airflow is vital - Use drip irrigation and monitor to ensure your soil is not too moist - Regularly apply compost, and vary the composition of your compost and mulch - The ideal growing temperature is in the 25-32°C = 77-90°F range ...
Free eCourse: Succession Planting
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This free eCourse module is about succession planting in your garden for a continuous year round harvest. Did you enjoy this free video? Consider joining the full digital gardening course at LocalHarvestGardening.com where you will enjoy hours of content relating to beyond organic gardening and how to work with nature's free fertility factory that lives in the soil, the soil food web. Follow us...
Free eCourse: Irrigation
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This free eCourse module is about setting up irrigation in your garden. Leverage the multifaceted benefits of irrigation in the garden to prevent bolting, increase photosynthesis, protect the soil food web and of course to give your plants the water they need to thrive. Did you enjoy this free video? Consider joining the full digital gardening course at LocalHarvestGardening.com where you will ...
Converting to a no-till garden system using cover crops.
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In this video I answer the justifiable criticism that our deep-mulch, heavy input, no-till farming system is unfeasible for most farms around the world. Very few farms have access to huge amounts of organic matter. And even if they did, it's often cost prohibitive. Here I advocate for a cover cropping approach instead as a way to build soil fertility and eliminate weeds. This approach has been ...
Pruning tools
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Jack highlights one of his favourite tools for pruning
Winter pruning a plum tree
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Jack and Dan demonstrate how to prune a plum tree. Pruning fruit trees is something you will learn in the 2022 Local Harvest Gardening course. Register for the gardening course at LocalHarvestGardening.COM Follow us on Instagram: Dan @localharvest Jack @fruitsandshoots Andrew @terrafloraorganics
December, 31 2021 - Welcome to the course!
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Dan, Jack and Andrew welcome new participants to the course, speaking specifically on the topic of what gardeners can do right now during the months of January, February and March to prepare for the upcoming 2022 growing seasons!
Dana at Valley to shore
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I learned about the course from the trailer on the Local Harvest website. I knew right away that I wanted in. Having never grown before, the idea of gardening intimidated me. I held a packet of seeds in my hand as I stood in my newly built greenhouse, afraid of making a misstep. But with Dan and Andrew and the rest of this wonderful Local Harvest Gardening community cheering me on I started. Th...
Elysse in Chilliwack
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Elysse is a Chilliwack resident and participant of the 2021 Gardening Course.
Michelle at Green Acres Family Farm
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I am a Kindergarten teacher, market gardener and organic garlic farmer. Green Acres is a family-run farm in Greendale, BC, practising traditional, no-till farming methods. Our garlic is first-generation, raised from bulbils, in order to provide the healthiest, cleanest, strongest seed bulb possible to our customers. The Local Harvest Gardening course and the community of people within it have i...
2022 Gardening Course: How to achieve or give the gift of personal food security
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Farmer Dan & Andrew Couzens take us on a harvesting tour of the Local Harvest farm on November 12, 2021. Dan harvests beets, sunchokes, cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, celery, Brussels sprouts, leeks and celeriac. From the 32:45 mark, Dan and Andrew provide an overview of the fall/winter offer on our forthcoming 2022 course. This will allow you to give the gift of gardening, food secu...
Vanessa at May Blooms Acreage
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Vanessa at May Blooms Acreage, a must see farm nestled away in beautiful Yarrow, BC, is breeding heritage breeds of poultry and pastured chicken. She also provides fresh eggs for her community and inspirational & educational content via her Instagram account @may_blooms_acreage || maybloomsacreage.com Learn more about the essentials of organic, no-till vegetable gardening at localharvestgardeni...
Companion planting at Local Harvest
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Dan explains how he applies companion planting in a unique way at Local Harvest
What does no-till soil look like after 7 years of intensive farming?
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What does no-till soil look like after 7 years of intensive farming?

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  • @Wilk853
    @Wilk853 Місяць тому

    You didn’t show nothing

  • @jamestyrer6067
    @jamestyrer6067 2 місяці тому

    THANKS FOR THIS INFORMATION 👍

  • @SuperReznative
    @SuperReznative 4 місяці тому

    Combat, grasshoppers/ pests,no till ,

  • @TavsIsAbout
    @TavsIsAbout 7 місяців тому

    Think you killed it

  • @austinkreller4336
    @austinkreller4336 7 місяців тому

    Hey, im also from chilliwack, is it worth getting the soil tested?

  • @fatihakhan4381
    @fatihakhan4381 9 місяців тому

    Is this work with soil with lots of rocks. Your soil looks beautiful. Do you have no till beginners guide. Thanks.

  • @pigare8163
    @pigare8163 Рік тому

    Hmm,canibalizing other sites for organic matter in order to get a rich soil in smaller lot..

  • @bobanderson6656
    @bobanderson6656 Рік тому

    Late to this discussion..... Have to second what the previous poster said: a good cover crop would expedite the process.

  • @whyguy3651
    @whyguy3651 Рік тому

    I think your farm would benefit from a diverse cover crop

  • @trabelsisami6423
    @trabelsisami6423 Рік тому

  • @sethb723
    @sethb723 Рік тому

    P R O M O S M 💥

  • @bethkemp7515
    @bethkemp7515 Рік тому

    🙌❤️

  • @williamlinton9398
    @williamlinton9398 Рік тому

    Respectfully, this video provided no information helpful to understanding the reason or logic for/or why/or how to prune a plum tree. This is not an instructional video in any way. Didn't serve its purpose.

  • @anajinn
    @anajinn Рік тому

    When you say "store them in the ground" I assume you mean "don't pull them up until the next year". Is that correct please? What PH is required please? Is it zone 7 in Chilliwack or 8b?

  • @innovativelearning36
    @innovativelearning36 Рік тому

    Thanks for posting this. I didn't realize I could direct sow bulb onions so late. Appreciate you sharing the varieties that work well.

  • @DustySplinters
    @DustySplinters Рік тому

    Which brand trays last longest? Best value?

  • @RJ1999x
    @RJ1999x Рік тому

    If you actually believe anything this guy is selling, then go in your backyard, which hasn't been tilled, and dig a hole with your shovel.

  • @JohnDoeHumdrum
    @JohnDoeHumdrum Рік тому

    Does no-till, yearly composting add essential minerals to depleted fields?

  • @johnbalasa711
    @johnbalasa711 Рік тому

    it looks like you have ben adding a lot of mulch. this will make the soil healthy .Biomass is the way to go.

  • @davidblank9043
    @davidblank9043 Рік тому

    Money is a weed that nature has no concept of.

  • @peterkroeker753
    @peterkroeker753 Рік тому

    You're kidding.....farmers are massively skewed towards men. Men do the majority of the work

  • @gratitude354
    @gratitude354 Рік тому

    Thank You for sharing such detailed information... people like me who want to start their self sustaining way of life.. need this type of knowledge the most...so from the bottom of my heart .. Thank You and Congratulations for the great job

  • @beverlyfitzgerald5222
    @beverlyfitzgerald5222 Рік тому

    Are

  • @georgecarlin2656
    @georgecarlin2656 Рік тому

    I can't see if you have (enough) biochar in your tomatoes soil, if not I strongly suggest adding 40% biochar (apply 2ft deep) to any clay soil - it will grow better/more tomatoes than your best compost, and unlike your compost the biochar will be there forever, so no more work/money spent. I recall watching a video like a month ago where a local farmer was growing tomatoes in soil with lots of biochar which was his secret advantage over other farmers. Same from my own experience.

  • @syedahmedabbasrazagardezi5174
    @syedahmedabbasrazagardezi5174 2 роки тому

    No till methods can apply in all types of crops

  • @Hansulf
    @Hansulf 2 роки тому

    Even that tilled compacted soil has so much potential... Men, I live in a place where you can't even put a shovel that deep... We use pickaxes to dig here, and after 50cm is all stones and clay.

  • @KawakebAstra
    @KawakebAstra 2 роки тому

    🍃😎👑🍃yes .. excellent explanation no till rules .. keeps myriad of micro systems in place 🙏♥️🕊🍃 makes even Florida sand into fertile life filled soil … now if the relentless Florida chem trails ✈️💨💨💨stopped dimming the Sun 😿🙏🙏🙏🐝🍃🌞

  • @Giggiyygoo
    @Giggiyygoo 2 роки тому

    I have an area in my backyard that was covered in 6 inches of decorative stone for 20 years. The soil was hard as concrete, couldn't even get a shovel an inch in. Started a small no dig bed there and within a year I can dig down a foot with my bare hands.

  • @leroybyler4022
    @leroybyler4022 2 роки тому

    How does this work with invasive wire grass

  • @blackpepperkitchen7056
    @blackpepperkitchen7056 2 роки тому

    Boring Camera man🤣🤣

  • @DavidSimsStocks
    @DavidSimsStocks 2 роки тому

    My Mom has zero interest in gardening. My dad spends all day in his garden. Me too.

  • @audas
    @audas 2 роки тому

    Women are responsible for feeding the world? I'll go tell the 94% of farmers who are male - like you.

  • @MarcellaSmithVegan
    @MarcellaSmithVegan 2 роки тому

    Your thumbnail looked like you grew a Dragon Egg, hehe

  • @chrisstanford3652
    @chrisstanford3652 2 роки тому

    🤗🤗

  • @WhiteWolfeHU
    @WhiteWolfeHU 2 роки тому

    I appreciate all farmers but if I had to thank someone or something for feeding the world it would be petroleum.

  • @Tentangbertani
    @Tentangbertani 2 роки тому

    Good job 👍

  • @jeremymartens4860
    @jeremymartens4860 2 роки тому

    Great education

  • @Bluepilled-c5t
    @Bluepilled-c5t 2 роки тому

    A gardening course! Fancy that

  • @robertcorradi8573
    @robertcorradi8573 2 роки тому

    Big suggestion here . Please just let the 'farmer' , the person who is actually practicing No Till explain the process. Your constant interruption very nearly made me 'turn off' . Very , very annoying.

  • @bobthompson4133
    @bobthompson4133 2 роки тому

    Bwahahaha the beginning statement is hilariously untrue

  • @grumpyoldfart3891
    @grumpyoldfart3891 2 роки тому

    I have done 3 years on my beds. They are INFESTED with earthworms. The only tools that I used to harvest my potatoes were my fingers. My beds don't have dirt, they have soil.

  • @northernforestwhitetail
    @northernforestwhitetail 2 роки тому

    I like the concept of no-till. however, it seems anyone doing it, is not farming at the scale that we would need in order to maintain our current production of corn, soybean, wheat. Am I seeing this clearly?

    • @localharvest
      @localharvest 2 роки тому

      No-till doesn't mean less production per acre. But it does mean more farmers per acre.

  • @larrypestes2205
    @larrypestes2205 2 роки тому

    Ok So how do I raise Oat Hay and kill the Wild Radish without spray?

  • @Ed19601
    @Ed19601 2 роки тому

    I totally disagree with your opening statement about women, but let's stick to gardening

  • @northrockboy
    @northrockboy 2 роки тому

    We can barely dig in where old pastures have been grazed for years. Where we till we can dig freely.

    • @localharvest
      @localharvest 2 роки тому

      Follow the principles of no-till and the examples of many farmers practicing regenerative ag and you'll turn the hardest pastures into soft, rich soil.

  • @martinclayton2746
    @martinclayton2746 2 роки тому

    Why his green houses behind you

  • @cosmicrealm1567
    @cosmicrealm1567 2 роки тому

    Beautiful! Gorgeous! How do you start seeds with so many twigs and debris on the surface?

    • @localharvest
      @localharvest 2 роки тому

      It's not as impossible as it seems. Move twigs aside with a rake and seed.

  • @austin3626
    @austin3626 2 роки тому

    What was that land before it was no-till? That’s pretty important