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Tips and techniques for backyard fruit and vegetable gardening. Focusing on encouraging newcomers to pick up basic gardening and encouraging them to develop their skills and knowledge base. Sharing the wit and wisdom of time spent digging in the dirt with family and friends and my faithful companion Cosmo the Wonderpup. Cosmo is a Weimaraner and the namesake of the channel and my garden. Weimaraners are often referred to by their nickname “Grey Ghost”. When Cosmo was a puppy, prowling and exploring the garden was one of his favorite things to do.
I am a high school teacher and I'm always looking for ways to maximize the return on my time in the garden. Additionally, I tend to focus on vegetables that my family will actually eat! So I don't venture off into the exotic very often. But I do love to experiment with different varieties, different techniques, and new ideas to see how they produce.
So join me and let's see what we can grow!
I am a high school teacher and I'm always looking for ways to maximize the return on my time in the garden. Additionally, I tend to focus on vegetables that my family will actually eat! So I don't venture off into the exotic very often. But I do love to experiment with different varieties, different techniques, and new ideas to see how they produce.
So join me and let's see what we can grow!
Easy Air Layering - Simple Steps for Success!
Here is the process I use for air layering my fig trees. Air layering is not voodoo or sorcery! It is a great way to create a clone for your fig tree (or just about any other kind of fruit tree). An air layer, once rooted, gives you a significant jump start on the growth of a fig tree. Ideally, a branch should be at least the thickness of a pencil or maybe a Sharpie. It is also possible to air layer VERY thick branches, even the main trunk of a tree. Search for the Traveling Gardeners CZcams channel to see some jumbo air layering!
In this video I run through the steps of setting up the air layer, material you will need, and a few other tips and tricks that I have used successfully. Here is the biggest take-away for me, just try new things in your garden or your fig orchard! Whether you’ve got 1 fig tree or a 100 trees, air layering is a propagation technique all fig growers can become proficient at. Similar to rooting cuttings, no one is ever 100% successful so don’t be afraid to try and fail.
Here are the materials you will need: some kind of container to hold the rooting media around the air layer (rooting ball, water bottle, zip lock bag), rooting media (moss, ProMix, Coco coir, potting soil), a knife, zip ties, rooting hormone (optional but highly recommended), and tin foil to wrap air layer. That’s it!
If you’ve got any questions about what I did, please leave them in the comments. I make no claims to being a fig expert. I’m just a guy who has become absorbed (addicted according to my wife) with everything fig. The information I share is just how I do it and how I’ve experienced success. Are there other ways, absolutely! Are there better ways, maybe. But this has worked for me, so I will continue until so find something more efficient and productive.
Thanks for watching and if you saw something something in the video that was beneficial, hit the LIKE button. I would be thrilled if you would consider SUBSCRIBING and click the BELL to be notified when I post new content.
In this video I run through the steps of setting up the air layer, material you will need, and a few other tips and tricks that I have used successfully. Here is the biggest take-away for me, just try new things in your garden or your fig orchard! Whether you’ve got 1 fig tree or a 100 trees, air layering is a propagation technique all fig growers can become proficient at. Similar to rooting cuttings, no one is ever 100% successful so don’t be afraid to try and fail.
Here are the materials you will need: some kind of container to hold the rooting media around the air layer (rooting ball, water bottle, zip lock bag), rooting media (moss, ProMix, Coco coir, potting soil), a knife, zip ties, rooting hormone (optional but highly recommended), and tin foil to wrap air layer. That’s it!
If you’ve got any questions about what I did, please leave them in the comments. I make no claims to being a fig expert. I’m just a guy who has become absorbed (addicted according to my wife) with everything fig. The information I share is just how I do it and how I’ve experienced success. Are there other ways, absolutely! Are there better ways, maybe. But this has worked for me, so I will continue until so find something more efficient and productive.
Thanks for watching and if you saw something something in the video that was beneficial, hit the LIKE button. I would be thrilled if you would consider SUBSCRIBING and click the BELL to be notified when I post new content.
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Air Layer Success!
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About 3-4 weeks ago I set about a dozen air layers on several of my fig trees. Well, some of them are ready to be removed from their mother trees and potted up! Air layering is a fantastic way to produce clones of your successful fig trees. It is very easy to do. I will put out another video sometime in next week or so showing how simple it is to set up air layers. The day I set these it was ra...
June 12, 2024
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Here is a quick comparison between two different sizes of containers that I am using for my fig trees. Since I live in suburbia and don’t have a lot of space to put all my trees in ground, I have to use containers. Ultimately, the trees will end up in either 10 gallon containers or 25 gallon containers. The 25 gallon containers are protein tubs that I get from friends and family who run cattle....
Up Potting a Fig Pop!
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In this video I am up potting a little fig pop that was successfully rooted. The cutting is a Marseilles Black VS and I am moving it from the ziplock bag it was rooted in to a 1 gallon container. Fig pops are an efficient and economical way to root cuttings. You really save on material, especially your growing media. In my case, I used ProMix HP and fig pops really can help you stretch that med...
Up-Potting Figs: Setting trees up for success!
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I up-pot three fig trees in this video into square 10 gallon pots. I use the potting mix that is a 5-1-1 blend. This potting mix is discussed at length in an article posted on figbid.com. The recipe is really simple: 5 parts - pine bark fines 1 part - sphagnum peat moss 1 part - perlite Lime Slow release fertilizer So, I used 2 cubic ft of pine bark fines (sold locally as Soil Conditioner). I a...
Time to Prep for Potatoes
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A quick unboxing video of the four different potato varieties I am going to plant this spring. I purchased my seed potatoes from Wood Prairie Family Farms from Maine. To be clear, I have NO affiliation with Wood Prairie Family Farms. I found them a couple years ago and have been pleased with their product ever since. It’s a LONG way to ship seed potatoes from Maine all the way to Texas but I th...
Simple, Fast & Delicious Blackberry Cobbler!
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This video is a change of pace from videos directly about the garden. In this video I share one of our favorite recipes for turning fresh fruit into a fantastic dessert! We lovingly call this “Stick-O-Butter” Cobbler. Traditionally, we used fresh dewberries which use to be commonly found around our neighborhood. However, as more and more of the land has been developed, dewberries have become in...
Pruning Determinate and Dwarf Tomatoes for Healthier Plants and Better Production
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Pruning Determinate and Dwarf Tomatoes for Healthier Plants and Better Production
Planting Micro Tomatoes for my Mom and a March Garden Update
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Planting Micro Tomatoes for my Mom and a March Garden Update
Hilling Container Potatoes: How to hill container potatoes for greater production!
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Hilling Container Potatoes: How to hill container potatoes for greater production!
It’s Tater Time! Unboxing and Chitting Seed Potatoes
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It’s Tater Time! Unboxing and Chitting Seed Potatoes
Five Gallon Bucket - Container Potatoes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…of my potato harvest
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Five Gallon Bucket - Container Potatoes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…of my potato harvest
Unboxing Surprise at Grey Ghost Gardening!
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Unboxing Surprise at Grey Ghost Gardening!
Awesome video! Great info!
I love this video. It is easy to understand and follow for a newbie. I just bought 2 fig trees for the first time two weeks ago in 5 gallon buckets (Ronde de Boudreaux and Smith). I am totally new and trying to learn as much as I can. Is there a best time to air layer (zone 6b Harrisburg, PA) or can it be done anytime? Also, can you make a video on how to prune for the winter?
@@sarahhoover2069 thanks for watching! Air layering is best in spring and summer. You will run out of time for your growing zone in another month or two. The two figs you got are fantastic varieties! Are you growing them in containers? The Smith will for sure need protection from your winter. To answer your last question, you don’t really need to prune going into winter, once the tree goes dormant, because of winter, you may want to do some pruning. Be careful over pruning the Smith. They can get wonky if you overprune them. Where I live, Zone 9a, SE Texas, we don’t get much of a winter…usually. Look for a guy named Ross Raddi or Ross the Fig Boss on CZcams. I think he lives in Philly. He is a walking, talking encyclopedia of fig knowledge. He will have lots more information relative to winterizing figs.
@@greyghostgardening5353 thank you!
I did this to elderberry branch a couple of months ago… Unfortunately, the branch just proceeded to die off . I’m not sure what I did wrong…
@@mweber5459 it’s hard to say why ALs fail. Did it root at all? I’ve never tried elderberry before.
Thanks for sharing and good hobby.
❤❤❤ Can’t wait until my first tator harvest ☺️ so excited ❤
@@Pinkpumpkingardener what zone are you in? My potatoes were all harvested over a month ago!
@@greyghostgardening5353 I started later than I’d like 😬 😩 but I’m in northern va It’s been so dang hot 🥵
@@Pinkpumpkingardener yeah, been hot here too, now we’ve got this dang hurricane to deal with. Should mostly be a rain event, but it’s hitting right in the middle of fig season! Oh well, I’m sure by August we’ll be begging for rain!
Beautiful cutting there Scott, well done. I'm putting out my 2 Avocado trees that I grew from seed 2 years ago, one is about 5ft tall the other is about 3ft tall. I also have first blossom on my fruit trees this year, also grown from seed 3 years ago. I've got some young Grape vines that I will take cuttings from next year and have sown some Wisteria this year that have germinated so it's all looking good 😁🌱☀️
What kind of avocado trees do you have?
@@greyghostgardening5353 I have no idea, I was given the nuts to grow but they have different foliage so not the same variety. They are healthy, I overwintered them in the house and gave them rainwater, their trunks are starting to wood at the base now and I've potted them up with my own compost, the look very happy 😁🌱☀️
How many did you plant to yield that amount?
It looks great . But I’ve seen people Poke holes in their containers they say it gives it air and it helps them grow better and bigger and I’ve seen it they were really big potatoes too
My phone heard me asking someone if they thought my son in laws fig tree had survived our winter in NC. And here is your video with great info. Thanks
Great to see your Avocado trees doing well Scott 😁🌱☀️
I just found your channel, and enjoyed watching you gather your harvest. What I could see of your garden, is absolutely, beautiful. Unfortunately, I have to watch on an old tablet, and the sound is too low, and the music, although is nice, Makes it harder, to hear you speak. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it enough to subscribe. Thank You, for sharing.
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Potato plants have the ability to grow roots anywhere soil touches the stems. Stems will grow more potatoes every where stems grow more roots. Stems will grow new potatoes at 2 or 3 or 4 different levels it depends on how high up you hill the plants. I usually get 1 lb of new potatoes from each level. If I don't hill potatoes I only get 1 lb of new potatoes from 1 plant. If I hill soil up high enough to have 4 levels I get 4 lbs of new potatoes from each plant. If a seed potato has 4 eyes and grows 4 plants with 4 levels it will grow 4x4=16 lbs of new potatoes. Tall 12" hills are a space saver more new potatoes per square foot of garden space. I sometimes plant like you do 100 plants produce 100 lbs of new potatoes, easy to plant, easy to harvest. 25 hilled plants produce 100 lbs of new potatoes.
What variety of potato do you plant?
@@greyghostgardening5353 I have very good luck with Red Pontiac, Kennebec, Red Norland.
I can only give you one tip from experience... WATER WATER WATER... especially the ones in grow bags.. when potatoes reach the stage where the tubers are forming, they need tons of water... but they also need a well draining medium.. If you give plenty of water, they will make much larger tubers.
OMG I love jackfruits ❤❤❤❤ Ahao was so proud sharing his sister’s food to his friends 😂😂
seeing you be upset about the noodles but then immediately going to improve them is amazing and inspiring to me! i would've given up but you didn't and i really respect that! I love your videos. And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
Good video footage but couldn't hear your commentary over the music 😢
Welcome Back Scott. Thank for the tips.
Dfw area herei have tomatoes growing in my garden now cherry and romas
Great harvest🥔
What a nice pool you have!!!
Love the video and the handsome Wei. Our Wei girl protects me from little lizards and possible frog attacks in the vege garden. She does occaisionally disappear with self serve harvested sweet potatoes, snow peas and any cherry tomatoes in reach. Its late Spring down under and our Grey Ghost has discovered the pole beans. We dont mind, we just plant an extra couple for her to snack on. Funny, the first time she tried a cucumber, spat it out, not to her liking at all, so we plant them in easy to get at spots and tuck things we want safe behind them. Best dogs ever.
I liked that you introduced your dog. I'd say you have a pile of potatoes!
OMGOSH, you had an AMAZING haul! 😍🌱🥰 You just reminded me I got four containers I still need to harvest. 😂 We just had our first frost today.
Scott, I hope you doing well am wondering if you have any video coming any time soon.
Our heat wave here in Texas has finally broken. I am just starting to plant fall veggies. At my house NW of Houston we had 58 days out of 61 with temps 100+. In fact the average temp for month of August was 102! Heat index as high at 117. I have been struggling just to keep anything alive. During this time, we’ve only had 1/2” of rain to boot. But that is behind us now and I’ll try to get something creative and hopefully informative out.
Here in north africa we only have hybrid seeds we dont have this kind of potatoes who can send me some seeds i'd love to grow this variety
Which variety do you want to try? Where are you in North Africa?
@@greyghostgardening5353 any one you seguest I never grow this varieties before and iam from algeria
Γειά σας! Η εμπειρία μου λέει ότι τα καλάθια χωρίς πάτο παράγουν καλύτερα ! Αν θέλετε δοκιμάστε!
That a good harvest. I would love to get such a harvest
Good harvest 🥔
In the last frame you look like Bert in Big Bang Theory! Would be nice to know your USDA grow zone and latitude. Too hot to grow a second crop?
I’m in 9a, just northwest of Houston, TX. I am going to grow potatoes again in the fall. It’s wayyyy too hot to grow potatoes in late spring/summer where I live.
Hi from Houston! Your soil looks EXCELLENT! However, I have seen others use those containers and get much more yield. Do you think it's our CLIMATE that blocked your production on some of your containers or do you have something to teach us about 'Mistakes' you may have made? Fertilizer, watering, variety, timing, placement, etc... I am always interested in Homesteaders/Gardeners in my own State no matter where because we face many of the same CLIMATE issues. Be blessed.
I think variety plays a big role. I have been trying many different varieties the past couple of years to see which produce best. Red Norland is far and away the best for our area in my opinion. I had excellent results this year with Yukon Gold…but they were planted in ground. I think here in SE Texas you had better plant super early. I’m still learning with the containers, trying to find the right balance of moisture, soil composition, and fertilization. Watch my videos from this spring’s harvest. The first was disappointing, but the 2nd was pretty good. I harvested over 150 lbs of potatoes from my containers and a 4’x8’ raised bed. I was pretty satisfied with that. I’m going to see if I can coax a few potatoes out of my fall garden this year. What kind of potatoes do you grow?
@@greyghostgardening5353 Haven't tried potatoes yet, looking to more 'experienced' growers (like yourself) to ensure my little bit of money gets the best yield. Tomatoes, Peppers, Lettuce & Squash are very successful for me. Can't get 'Cucumbers to grow to save my life lol'. I had a mishap with containers recently, (health issues forced me to try something else) but I think that was my SOIL. Everything grew beautifully for a while and then suddenly DIED... no Pests or diseases! Perhaps OVER FERTILIZATION because I 'babied' those containers too much! Thank you for responding, I subscribe to all SUCCESSFUL Texas Homestead/Gardeners... much continued success to you!
May also be certain times of the year when 'grocery brought' potatoes DON'T sprout for you so you have to know your grocery cycles and about SEASONAL growing and HOW FAR your store is shipping IN it's produce. But for those who CAN'T buy 'Seed Potatoes', many Gardeners/Homesteaders, both here in the US and abroad have proven *_you can_* grow potatoes from Store brought stock. But for all the reasons he mentioned and most of those guys would testify, if you can get a good ORGANIC supplier, that's best.
I grow store bought potatoes as I don't get seed potatoes.
Houston hails ya! You spent money for that SOIL (I bet it was amended and Compost & other things added in) so get yourself some of those CHEAP blue tarps to dump your containers onto so you don't lose your money. Right now, as a 'dude', your thinking 'Well I can afford... *_i, i, i!...'_** NO!* _Hard times come to everyone_ don't throw away your money. You can 'sterilize, amend and reuse that soil.' I see a GOOD HARVEST, congrats!
Mmmmm...that looks so delicious, I'm going to make that as soon as our blackberries are ripe, we have another 4weeks to wait 😱🤣🌱☀️
Four more weeks!!! Oh my, that is a long time to wait☹️
@@greyghostgardening5353 yes, but then once you're berries are finished mine will still be producing, it's the way of the world 😁🌱☀️
Might want to try a tarp next time
Canning potatoes are great
😂🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♀️😂Im ready
The reason the potatoes are so small are likely due to being over watered and/or just too wet to often. Potatoes should only be watered in a container like that a few times a week once the foliage is up. Also you can boost your harvest by adding agricultural lime to the soil when you plant. Good luck on your next batch!
New subscriber here. Loved the video content! I dump my potatoes out onto tarps when i grow them in containers. What soil do you use? Thank you for sharing your wonderful gardening journey. 🥬🍃🌾🌿🥗
I make my own soil. Equal parts organic potting soil, organic compost, and peat. I also add a big dose of bone meal at planting and a 2nd time about 1/2 way through the expected grow period. Thanks for watching!
Thank you, first timer on growing potatoes. I am in Florida, 9b, will start in October.
Did you allow the plants to die completely back ? Those last 2-3 week are important for the growth of the taters. It’s best to allow them to die completely for optimal growth.
Yes, some were completely dead, and some were 90% or so dead. I really believe part of the issue with some of these containers was that they were packed in too close to one another, we’re of various sizes, and some (smaller ones in particular) had their vegetation smothered by plants from larger containers after a couple of early storms beat them down.
You got a good harvest,enjoyed the video. Just Subbed.
too many seeds planted for area,you worried too much about spuds getting wet as long as its not weeks it wont hurt,we harvest when its wet they just need to dry before storing
still very poor compared to mine i grow in ridges, i leave maincrop from april to end of september by that time tops have well died off and skins hardened
Where are you growing? My plants won’t survive the summers where I live.
@@greyghostgardening5353 england
thats disappointing a poor harvest potato wise how long were they growing ,aslong as tops are alive potatoes should grow if enough nutrients and water
Not too bad. I had good results when I sprinkled a tablespoon of sulphur and the same amount of chicken manure over the seed potatoes in the container before covering them with soil. Love watching you playing in the ground! Mavis Re
really enjoy your videos! New subscriber :)
Thanks for watching and a huge thank you for subscribing! Where do you garden?
@@greyghostgardening5353 I am in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. drought, and now cold and rain makes for an unhappy garden
G'day from Australia your carola (sp?) spuds are heavy feeders ( they need a lot of food , more than the average ) and wont grow unless you have a LOT of nutrients , cow manure works good horse or sheep works well if you add some ashes and super phosphate 15% moo poo added to soils that are nutrient rich works well , we grow exclusively in 10 gallon buckets here as we are in the little desert region of Australia and these are a lovely spud if you keep the food up to them , feed through the season as well to get the best yield, best of luck next season ! cheers from the outback
Many thanks for the info on the Carola!
Nice haul! Here in the U.K. my potatoes won't be ready for a good while yet. I also grow in containers with varying results depending on the seed potato variety. One thing that I have learnt over the years is using a pelleted organic chicken fertiliser works really well as far as feeding the growing tubers, I've had some surprisingly good results with it. Nice video, happy gardening.
I have never tried pelleted chicken fertilizer. I will certainly look into that! What part of the U.K. Do you hail from?
@@greyghostgardening5353 Hi, I'm from the East Midlands, namely Northamptonshire. We have pleasant summers that range anywhere between 23 deg c and last years high was around 41 deg c, quite a range of temperatures! In F, that's about 72 deg- 106 deg! Our winters are usually very wet!
If you want bigger taters in the South, Purple Viking seed potatoes and Russet and red grocery store potatoes yielded big and more inplastic pots and grow bags for me. I’m in Memphis. My inground Purple Viking not ready yet. Used 10-15 gallon containers alot of compost and leaf mulch, fertilizers and ALOT of water! Got 7-10 per potato seed.