John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you on a field trip to Planet Claire Farmacy to show you how you can grow a food forest and market garden for free and cheap.
In this episode, you will learn about many techniques that can be used to build soil fertility. You will discover how this farmer is able to grow crops in the sandy soil of Florida.
You will learn how she is using a free resource to build organic matter in the soil throughout her entire garden.
You will learn a technique for making a pile of fungal dominated soil every year using only woodchips.
John will then give you a tour of this food forest and share the top fruits, roots, shoots and leafy green vegetables that will grow well in South Florida.
You will also learn how to protect your garden from rodents, deer and other creatures with free materials that may be available near you.
You will get a tour of many areas of the farm including the market garden and Microgreens area that is growing in the soil instead of trays. You will learn how you can better benefit from growing your own grains for your chickens.
You will discover how wood chips and logs and how they can be used in the garden to build a garden that conserves and holds moisture.
You will discover how free wood pallets and logs are used to make a hugelkultur bed, Raised beds with no sides using mulch as borders
You will see examples of many different structures that are used to grow food and trellis plants up off the ground to use more vertical growing space.
Finally, John will sit down with the farmer, Annette and ask her the following questions about her farm:
0:56:27 Interview with Annette
0:56:50 What motivates you to get up and work in your garden everyday?
0:57:37 What are some of the foods you grow that grow well? What do you grow instead of zucchini that gets squash bugs?
0:59:45 Tell us about the loofah gourd and how you grow it, eat it and use it?
1:00:16 Share with us a little about the Seminole Pumpkin?
1:01:01 What is the best tomato to grow in South Florida?
1:02:00 How do you use all the food that your grow here?
1:02:50 What do you feed your dogs? and how do you make it?
1:04:05 What have you learned about brix testing?
1:05:33 Tell me more about the low brix hydroponic lettuce?
1:08:09 What is one gardening practice that you think everyone should do?
1:09:00 Any final words of wisdom for my viewers?
1:09:37 How did you learn how to garden?
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Referenced Videos:
Growing High Brix Crops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXRNHGJK1bY
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