I am less successful, but I save lots of time and trouble by putting the seeds 3 weeks later. I don't have to cover them. Patient. Not really. To cold, I experiment growing something inside my house. But I love your perspective. And I get to know things before, thanks to you. Appreciate.
Thank you for sharing this valuable information. I will be planting carrots and parsnips this weekend and this was a question on my mind. Also this is my first year for no till gardening. I just planted potatoes this past weekend. I can clearly attest to how moist the soil was even with little rain here lately and the amount of worms etc that I came across. So for anyone unsure of this method, go ahead and jump in. Thank you for all that you so freely share. Greatly appreciated. 🇨🇦😎
Thanks for all your information you share. I am in Southern Ontario and surrounded by property owners who rototill and spray fertilizer on their gardens. And … these neighbours have no issues wandering over to my garden and asking me why I'm not tilling, or telling me I need to spray my violets or weeds or put out cages to capture squirrels etc etc. I'm a bit of a novice to vegetable gardening (this is my 3rd season) so channels such as yours are extremely helpful. Great to get some Canadian content too.
Hello Greg, I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experiences in your garden and showing us what works and doesn’t for you. I definitely have to mulch with our very hot spring and summer the sun really beats down on every living plant, mulch also helps with moisture retention. We will probably reach 100 this week. I’ve gone out and put up shade cloth on some of my plants or they will drop their blooms. Thank you for putting up with the flies to get us the video, ☺️ my tormenting pests are mosquitoes grrrr they send me indoors after a few bites. Thanks again, be well!
Thanks Gregg, I forgot about using cardboard as a mulch. I planted a row of parsnips with a row of radish on one side and a row of baby boy chop on the other side of the parsnips. The three rows are very close together which makes it difficult to straw mulch without smothering the radish seedlings and the boy choy seedlings. Replacing the straw with cardboard will give me much more precision. Thanks again for the reminder.
Happy Victoria day to you and your blackflies!😁 As for the paper mulch that is one of your ideas i have embraced (Thank you) and it works a treat! Yes the dang robins are in my garden all the time but I do not mind having to clean up their mess now and then! They need to live too so no biggie! Had a whole weekend of rain here and I got a bunch more stuff into the ground before so at least it saves me watering! Great video Greg stay safe! Mike
I direct seed many plants like you and some like heat loving plants I start indoors where I can control germination and growing seedlings to a good size. It's been a very cold Spring this year but my peppers, tomatoes and egg plants are all a good size to transplant into my open field beds at this time. I don't think I could grow these plants by direct seeding without alot of work trying to control the temperature in an outdoor micro climate. I even lost a tray of eggplants because I forgot to cover them at night in a greenhouse. The summers heat only last so long and I want to get as much out of these plants before the end of August. I transplanted my sugar snaps 4 weeks ago into my beds and they have hardly grown at all and are just now starting with warmer weather. The only 2 plants that have any shown growth are my garlic and lettuce, otherwise everything is just trying to survive. The other benefit of growing indoors and or in a greenhouse is that plants are bigger when you transplant them and maybe a little stronger to withstand pests.
I have had some success black fly wise with vicks vapo rub. Used like the avon product the name of which escapes me, dabbed sparingly around on skin keeps the buggers at bay pretty well. Not perfect, but can allow me a half hour outside with limited bites right before nightfall when infestation can be brutal. bugs don't like the eucalyptus extract apparently.
Hi Greg. Great episode. But it does beg the question; what plants - that you grow - can be seeded completely covered by mulch and which ones need to be uncovered until they reach a 6-inch height? I struggle with that, trying to decide whether to mulch over or not the very young seedlings. Thanks.
I knew someone would ask that. It woudl take some serious trial and error to make a thorough list - but I'll see what I can do and add that to my list of videos to make :)
Yes, I got to eat about 5 Black fly's myself this afternoon- as 150 of them took bites out of me....grrrrr ! Good news is that I have got my fencing up and secure- should keep the deer and critters away from my fruit trees. Now- how to keep my dog from jumping and digging around in the beds !
I thought I was safe to put some grass thatch mulch on my turnips as they were growing strong. Wrong! Two days later the flea beetles have done a number on them. I had the mulch pushed back but those flea beetles are tenacious in my garden. I’ve been trying DE on them but I think they are goners.
I am less successful, but I save lots of time and trouble by putting the seeds 3 weeks later. I don't have to cover them. Patient. Not really. To cold, I experiment growing something inside my house. But I love your perspective. And I get to know things before, thanks to you. Appreciate.
Thanks
Into my second year with no-till and mulch gardening. Your comments are invaluable to me, and my garden has never looked better ;)
So nice of you
Thank you for sharing this valuable information. I will be planting carrots and parsnips this weekend and this was a question on my mind. Also this is my first year for no till gardening. I just planted potatoes this past weekend. I can clearly attest to how moist the soil was even with little rain here lately and the amount of worms etc that I came across. So for anyone unsure of this method, go ahead and jump in. Thank you for all that you so freely share. Greatly appreciated. 🇨🇦😎
Wonderful!
Thanks for all your information you share. I am in Southern Ontario and surrounded by property owners who rototill and spray fertilizer on their gardens. And … these neighbours have no issues wandering over to my garden and asking me why I'm not tilling, or telling me I need to spray my violets or weeds or put out cages to capture squirrels etc etc. I'm a bit of a novice to vegetable gardening (this is my 3rd season) so channels such as yours are extremely helpful. Great to get some Canadian content too.
Thanks :)
Hello Greg, I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experiences in your garden and showing us what works and doesn’t for you.
I definitely have to mulch with our very hot spring and summer the sun really beats down on every living plant, mulch also helps with moisture retention.
We will probably reach 100 this week. I’ve gone out and put up shade cloth on some of my plants or they will drop their blooms.
Thank you for putting up with the flies to get us the video, ☺️ my tormenting pests are mosquitoes grrrr they send me indoors after a few bites. Thanks again, be well!
Thanks Gregg, I forgot about using cardboard as a mulch. I planted a row of parsnips with a row of radish on one side and a row of baby boy chop on the other side of the parsnips. The three rows are very close together which makes it difficult to straw mulch without smothering the radish seedlings and the boy choy seedlings. Replacing the straw with cardboard will give me much more precision. Thanks again for the reminder.
Good stuff!
Happy Victoria day to you and your blackflies!😁 As for the paper mulch that is one of your ideas i have embraced (Thank you) and it works a treat! Yes the dang robins are in my garden all the time but I do not mind having to clean up their mess now and then! They need to live too so no biggie! Had a whole weekend of rain here and I got a bunch more stuff into the ground before so at least it saves me watering!
Great video Greg stay safe!
Mike
Mmmmm ... lamb's quarters :-) They make a lovely salad.
I direct seed many plants like you and some like heat loving plants I start indoors where I can control germination and growing seedlings to a good size. It's been a very cold Spring this year but my peppers, tomatoes and egg plants are all a good size to transplant into my open field beds at this time. I don't think I could grow these plants by direct seeding without alot of work trying to control the temperature in an outdoor micro climate. I even lost a tray of eggplants because I forgot to cover them at night in a greenhouse. The summers heat only last so long and I want to get as much out of these plants before the end of August. I transplanted my sugar snaps 4 weeks ago into my beds and they have hardly grown at all and are just now starting with warmer weather. The only 2 plants that have any shown growth are my garlic and lettuce, otherwise everything is just trying to survive. The other benefit of growing indoors and or in a greenhouse is that plants are bigger when you transplant them and maybe a little stronger to withstand pests.
Seems to be an ongoing theme with your comments John....
Oh, the black flies...and just when you think you're free, the deer flies come out in force. Thanks for another great video.
The deer flies are worse!!!
Humm...very interesting. Will be doing this for my broccoli. Thanks Greg! You need a big jacket.
I have had some success black fly wise with vicks vapo rub. Used like the avon product the name of which escapes me, dabbed sparingly around on skin keeps the buggers at bay pretty well. Not perfect, but can allow me a half hour outside with limited bites right before nightfall when infestation can be brutal. bugs don't like the eucalyptus extract apparently.
Hi Greg. Great episode. But it does beg the question; what plants - that you grow - can be seeded completely covered by mulch and which ones need to be uncovered until they reach a 6-inch height? I struggle with that, trying to decide whether to mulch over or not the very young seedlings. Thanks.
I knew someone would ask that. It woudl take some serious trial and error to make a thorough list - but I'll see what I can do and add that to my list of videos to make :)
Yes, I got to eat about 5 Black fly's myself this afternoon- as 150 of them took bites out of me....grrrrr !
Good news is that I have got my fencing up and secure- should keep the deer and critters away from my fruit trees.
Now- how to keep my dog from jumping and digging around in the beds !
Congrats on the fence!
Wonder if a yogurt container cut at bottom could have protected it after the cover came off, for awhile.
I'm not sure how that would work for a row of carrots that's 30 feet long.
@@maritimegardening4887 you'll just have to start eating more yoghurt!
Not a snail until this morning when I found 10!!!! Not for long! Happy black fly season Greg. Great input.
Thanks Heidi :)
I thought I was safe to put some grass thatch mulch on my turnips as they were growing strong. Wrong! Two days later the flea beetles have done a number on them. I had the mulch pushed back but those flea beetles are tenacious in my garden. I’ve been trying DE on them but I think they are goners.
DE is overrated in my opinion. If it worked great I'd be talking about it all the time. I use a pyrethrine-based spray, sparingly, when needed.