The Top 5 Ways to Double your Garden's Harvest
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Putting both a transplant and a seed in the ground at the same time gives you a succession planting so more harvest over a period of time. : )
Brilliant! Thank you for such a simple and yet great pearl of wisdom!🌿🌱
Companion planting. Plant radishes, onions, carrots all together. As you pull your radishes, it gives room for your carrots and onions!! And as far as bugs...allow your chickens, ducks and guineas access to your garden. Sure, you'll have a few chicken pecks on things, but they'd rather eat bugs than tomatoes. They till the soil (scratching) and fertilize it all at the same time. Oh, and....you are truly such a blessing. I really enjoy your videos.
Excellent advice! Heard recently
That planting radishes around
Squash plants keeps predator
Bugs away. Every little tip
Someone shares can help
Another person! So, thank you!
My chickens would eat the whole garden
Lol chicken pecks..ok I'm new to this 😃
ALL WELL SAID. My Momma fed 9 of us on a city lot using these practices. God Bless.~Eli.
If you allow pea vetch (nitrogen fixing and vertical shady vines), dandelions (deep roots brings up deep minerals), lamb's quarters and pigweed (amaranth) and modest nitrogen fixers (and edible spinach-like leaves) to grow in the garden, they are compatriot garden growers. Planting mint, lemon balm (mint) (and other mints) across the garden surface - the honeybees will come (love mint!) and they will continue to further pollenate the rest of the garden flowers. Mint aroma chases away other bugs. Plant nasturtiums (all edible leaves and flowers) also protect the garden from bugs. Planting (mustardy) land cress also keeps bugs away - and makes great salad ingredients. Get some mason bees, mason hive, and (mandatory) water source with mud. and they will be even better pollenators than honey bees. Honey bees go for the nectar (and byproduct with pollenation) vs mason and leaf cutter native bees harvest the pollen - making them the utmost pollenators). All of these plants will draw in the butterflies and bees.
Great info, John!
You're absolutely right, but lamb's quarters will take over if you don't stay on top of them. Lamb's quarters are edible too, though.
You can eat leaves of cauliflower and broccoli even before the heads form. I always add them to a sirfry of cabbage, kale and other greens.
I did not know you could eat carrot tops...thank you!! That prompted me to look up some other things too. I learned some new things today!! God bless.
Beet leaves are more nutritious than the beet ... I grow just to pick leaves to juice
I live in a cold climate and i ordered the “lost ways” e-books. There is a manual that shows how to build an underground garden. Love it!
I also bought the lost ways and I live in UK.
So, what are your thoughts on the book? Have you ever heard of, read or owned a book similar to this that you may be able to compare to? Would you consider the book to be a good addition to a personal library or gift to someone? I’ve seen this book but wasn’t quite sure about it. Wanted to ask a few people their personal take on the book.
@@sophietyrrell3131 So, what are your thoughts on the book? Have you ever heard of, read or owned a book similar to this that you may be able to compare to? Would you consider the book to be a good addition to a personal library or gift to someone? I’ve seen this book but wasn’t quite sure about it. Wanted to ask a few people their personal take on the book.
My absolute favorite thing from the garden are beet greens! cooked up with garlic and olive oil, finish with lemon juice. They are to die for! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing.
I like to juice beet greens, very nutritious!
"A word fitly spoken and in due season is like apples of gold in settings of silver." Proverbs 25:11 The scripture you shared at the end was just what I needed to hear! The gardening advice was surprising--I learned a lot in that short amount of time! God bless you, too, Hon!
Using the barrow method, if you make the rows WE, then plant the sun-loving plants on the S slope. Plant the trellis and tall plants (and the biggest deep rooted root tubers) on the top. Plant the sun-shade loving (and water hog vegs - melons, lettuce, celery, pumpkins, squash, gourds, zukes, cukes) on the N slope. Making a 20 foot x 2-3 ft tall barrow (with the 2 foot walk path widths dug out on each side of the barrow, down into the garden soil for 1-2 feet, makes for a 40-60 square foot gardening with maximum production on the diagonal slopes that can't be done with flatlander (even square foot) gardening. The barrow method of such 40-60 sq ft turns into 80-100 sq ft when planting on the diagonal, and having multiple rows of vegs growing taller and taller than the lower rows. Everybody gets water, everybody gets sun, everybody has their own depth of roots (and not fighting their neighbors front, back, and side-to-side of them). Everybody gets the best of fertilizer and nutrition in their space. In the deep trough walkways, place hay bale silage a good foot depth (cut a long hay bale in half and lay each half along the pathway). This keeps the troughs and pathways covered, cool, sucks up any excess waters (rain etc), doesn't dry out the soil, and keeps a higher water level (zone of saturation) for the barrow plant roots. In the next season, you overturn the old barrow atop the straw walk, dig out the new barrow trough, put in hay into that new path, and continue this conversion season after season, and you will have black gold soil, maximum composting of natural materials, and the best of gardening soils. No more flatlander gardening !!! Go with barrow method, and vertical gardening for your garden and the vineyard as well.
Two questions, John. Is there a book about this method, and why is it called 'barrow gardening'?
I know, right? Who is this John Lord? And does he or she make videos too? We love the info and would love to hear more if you don’t mind. Thank you!!
5:30 - I am not a fan of radishes either - BUT here's a trick. They are DE-LISH roasted! Just add them to a pan of roasted veggies. You will be surprised. You will want radishes year round!
Shelly thanks 🙏
Oh, yes, Shelley! Thank you for that reminder! I did do that last year and totally forgot this year! They were scrumptious that way. I have a few left in the fridge I will roast. Thank you!!
Shelly
Well I sure am surprised -- gotta try those! Always wondered what earthly good those things are
Shelly Also the French consider radishes a delicacy on a plate with a bit of sea salt. I started eating them thaw way, pulled young and firm. I developed a craving for them afterward.
Shelly Radishes are delicious thinly sliced on a slice of bread with butter, like a canapé. Or mixed into some cottage cheese with scallions. This is the way I grew up eating them and I love that crunch.
The first year I grew carrots I forgot I had to thin them...lets just say I learned my lesson. Love your garden!!🤗
Weeds I let stay in the garden include, clover, chickweed, lambs quarter, mallow.
Favorite tip, home gardens can be planted way more intensely that the packet instructions say.
Packet instructions are for traditional farming.
I love your videos. Thank you. I love that you show us God's spirit and word in the garden as much as you do. 🙏😊
Great presentation - the joy in your eyes shows the tremendous love you have for making a beautiful and healthy table for your family. So many think of gardening and cooking as drudge - With your attitude it is a creative attitude of wonderful meals and great creativity using what God has given us. TY Oh, and healthy too!
Have you ever tried sauteing or roasting your radishes? Cooking them instead of eating them raw is a totally different, milder flavor. Thank you for the tips!
First fry chopped onions, then sliced radishes, salt pepper and eggs to scramble it all. Any other idea?
Radish soup, no really! It's really good
Roasted radishes are sooo good... just cut into chunks, toss with evoo, s&p, garlic powder and thyme.... yummy.
I use them as a potato substitute !!!
Great use of the livestock panel, in the background. We use them for tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, animal fencing, and arbors. $20 apiece, and they will last for decades.
Hi Christa, What a great video!! Thank you SO much for sharing your wonderful wisdom. I am like you. I love to use every last bit of edible ingredients from my garden. I joke that I "cook with scraps" because I use every last bit and bob from my garden!! And it saves money. And I want to thank you for the idea of double planting. I had never thought of that. I do plant radishes and now I am going to plant something else once they come up! Genius!! And yes, let some native "weeds" grow. Do you know what grows wild around here near streams and ponds? Elderberry!! I have one growing up near our pond!! A tip I can share is probably specific to really hot climates such as where I live (central Texas). I like to mulch really well and then top everything with hay/straw. It really helps keep the soil moist and ground cool. Thank you again - so much - for all your share and all you do!! You are the best!! Love, Mary
Hang heavy melons/gords etc. in cloth pouches tied to a sturdy enuf trellis ... like old underwear or ladies hosiery etc...whatever works...l've seen it done on YT. Hope to try it this year.
You do great tutorials and bless many...🙏☝
Great information! This is the first year I've been in charge of the garden, so any and all good tips are much appreciated. Thank you!
Your smile is contagious
Wild violets- we forage for those and use the flower petal to make cough syrup.
Don't forget edible flowers either. The purple blooms on the tops of chives are beautiful in salads and give off an onion flavor. There's a specific variety of marigold that taste like citrus. Roses petals are edible (not the leaves or stems) and are beautiful additions to fruit dishes. Chrysanthemums are sweet, tangy, bitter, or peppery dependent on the plant itself. We have a deep red wine that's peppery growing next to another deep red wine that's sweet. :) Loads upon loads of other plants grown primarily for their blooms are edible, so the best of both worlds; visually appealing and tasty additions.
Clover Doll I gather wild violet flowers, and garnish a potato salad with them. Of course, only forage ground you know for a fact has not been poisoned.
Always mesmerizing to see you talk passionately, thanks for all you do. One other tactics is the inter plant quick growing herbs and greens around plants that take longer to establish. I grow lettuce, herbs etc surrounding tomatoes, cucumbers, swiss chard, kale etc. By the time the main crop is ready to take over, the inter planted ones are ready.
We are not "fans" of the radish either...but, I learned to roast them in the oven and they are absolutely delicious. Toss in olive oil, place on a baking sheet and we sprinkle with pink salt. Roast until the white cut ends are golden brown. Yummy
Sounds really good, thanks for the recipe.
I have never eaten carrot tops! I used to feed them to my chickens! Carrot seed is good in potato salad leave 3 or 4 to go to seed, hang them upside down in a big loose airy bag! When they fall off you're glad for the bag fill too
You are a very wise woman very beautiful and I admire you a lot. I have been learning a lot from your videos. Blessings
Thank you so much, Adriana! God bless you too!
Yes, she's got it !!!! Vertical gardening, less flatlander space, and using horse fencing for the fence hoop trellis. Plant the sun-loving plants on the outside of the hoop, and the water hogs and sun-shade loving vegs inside the hoop. Plant the vine plants atop the trellis fencing.
Radish tops are delicious fried in butter with salt and spices and eaten with scrambled eggs and toast!! Or layers on slices of tomatoes and topped with cheese! Also make leaf burrito s with stir fried veggies and wrap with large beet leaves!! Soo yummy!!
Thanks for reading verses from the bible, almost for got the love in some ones eyes who is blessed by the love of God, THANKS frm n.c.
I've never run across any of your videos and I'm truly glad I just found your channel. I love gardening and I love our King the most, so this is a win win channel for me.
Thanks for the info and God bless ya.
Love your presentations! I use Cyprus mulch under my squash and cucumber to keep the bugs off. It doesn't take much as bugs are soil borne. I spray my cabbage, etc with soap to keep worms off. Spraying with soap has to be repeated after rain but worth it!
Yes! Thank you for sharing❤️. Your garden is beautiful! Organic also saves the bees. We have bees and our garden is always busy with them gathering pollen. We love our bees 😍. We have the narrow leaf plantain and it is a wonderful wild herb. It has literally healed my very severe acid reflux. No prescription medicines could even relieve it. God provides! Praise his name! The scriptures are always so touching. God bless you my sister in Christ❤️
I also build up just as you shared - and I love all of the great tips below. Thank you for your wonderful prayers and always mentioning our Lord. The joy with which you share our Lord's Gospel is the greatest seed you have to share. Thank you Sister. As for my "tip" I heard you mention containers. I would add to this - don't be afraid of using whatever space available to you. I have a small but mighty victory garden like yours - but I also augment my space with additional containers of things that I find better to grow on their own - or that require different growing conditions. Shared the video with my prepping community on Facebook. Thanks again!
Love your videos. Have you ever done companion gardening? By that I mean, planting say corn in a heap of soil circled by bean seeds and squash? The squash and beans will grow vertically up the stalk of the corn enabling one to double or triple the amount grown in a very limited space. I heard about this through a native American friend.
Yay. I successfully grew ginger!!
Thank you for the scripture and the helpful information, I knew you belonged to Father the moment I saw you.Thank you dear Sister.
Awesome thank you and God Bless you. Happy Thanks Giving & Blessings from Tasmania
You are classy, love your voice and the way you talk. You're so blessed^-^
Open pollinated varieties of vegetables have good seed for growing next year's garden.
Hybrid seed varieties don't grow true to form from seed next year if they grow at all.
Tomato varieties that are indeterminate make tomatoes all season long. Determinate tomato varieties have one crop once a season. It usually says on the packet of seeds whether the variety is determinate or indeterminate.
I usually grow my indeterminate tomatoes on a trellis in a pot so when it gets to cold outside for them to stay alive I bring into the house the whole potted plant and trellis as a house plant. I get fresh home grown tomatoes clear up until January when it is -0° F outside.
Great video! Your garden looks great. Organic is the way to go. The sunflowers also attract bees for pollination.
Agree! Sweet potato leaf 🍃is incredibly 👌. In west Africa it's a huge favourite meal😋 . Thanks
Ty!!💕🌞 For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. Luke 6:44
Frmhevn * Judge not lest he be judged. For whatsoever you mere out to others,,it shall be done unto you,...All four gospels, nearly verbatim.
Plant cabbage in with your potatoes and those cabbage butterflies will not go on the cabbage to lay their eggs. You want to see a frustrated butterfly/moth just do this! Amazing! And I have planted onions in with the strawberries and they both done incredible - the biggest onions ever!! Have fun with these 2 things. And it is amazing to see what a portion of a piece of fish will do for your tomatoes - put in bottom of the hole - cover with soil - then plant the tomatoe and be amazed!
Or, plant green peppers among those strawberries. I got almost a 5 gallon bucket off each plant! Mulch them, too, with pine needles, if your soil is more alkaline, like we have in the Denver area.
We save egg shells, banana peel and coffee grounds and they get dried and blended and sprinkled over everything as a slow release fertilizer.
Vines, all vines, love to go up, versus outward. The natural aspiration of the plants, with upward sap/juice flows (like trees) suck up water, by aspirating out moisture from their leaves. This allows water uptake to the vegs that will grow on the trellis. Cukes, and even many of the HUGE water hogs (melons, pumpkins, squash, gourd, zukes, and cukes) with proper hanging will grow larger, ... not having any soil blight or critters crawling all over the ground-growing vegs.
We have put a small front yard garden in. 2nd year. Last year I got hurt at work. Had to retire now at 60. I was sad about it and found your video. The verses helped. Thank you
Always learning from the past. I have only recently discovered some of these gardening videos. Honestly brings me back to childhood. Growing up my grandpa was a passionate gardener. among the many things he advised me was rodent control. One of the many thing he would add to the soil of his garden was dog hair and elevated above 2ft.
I was given a tip that planting dill plants by the tomatoes causes the tomato plant eating worms to glom onto the dill where they do no harm and less end up on the tomatoes.
Interplant the many quick and slow vegs together. Keep nightshade tomatoes and potatoes away from all the other vegs. Growing slow and quick vegs, you can harvest the early ones, and allow the slower and larger vegs to fill in the space after the quickies are finished.
what a 😃wonderful video, you sure have a lot of carrots in very little space.
GOD🙏🙏 bless you.
EDUARDO MIAMI FL 🇺🇸
I take the blooms of the wild violets and make jelly out of them I also do this with the flower of the dandelions great jelly. Thank you for your videos. They all are wonderful info
Do you know how inspiring you are? If not, please know you inspire me to be a righteous woman of faith and industry. God bless you for inspiring me. I love you dearly my dear sister in faith and good works.
Thank you so much for the advice! We are starting our first garden and I am so excited to learn with my hubby and teach my son!
God bless you for all your help!
Great tips; thanks. The food octave in the body begins everything. ( even the food that is not visible ) and it is quite important what one consumes. One plant I have found useful to grow is Jerusalem artichokes or sun chokes.
This is my first gardening and I'm doing it in my house on my dining room table so not doing too bad but I don't know what I can do to double them so I've learned a few things that I did wrong and I'm trying to fix that.
Yes, eat the weeds!!! Many are very nutritious, and some are medicinal, as well! 🙂
You can use radishes to mark a row of something else that takes longer to germinate and easy to loose. Also radishes will space out carrot seed so you dont have so much thinning to do.
Be glad you have a garden ! Northern California had a recent freeze near Tahoe, while I got 111 F (yes 1-1-1 F at 8 PM, and in the 5 AM morning was 84F here in SanFran. Freezing plants, and heat-burning temps 300 miles away ....
Wow! That is drastic! I hope next year is better for your area!
Pleasanton here :-).. Yep. You are a fountain of information, John Lord :-).
Just waiting to plant here.. I have to learn the seasons..
One thing not commonly discussed on the subject of trellises is the ability to provide protection from the wind and sun. Where I live, both can be an issue at different times of the year. During winter, it is windy. Growing an edible vining plant growing up a trellis can help plants growing beneath a trellis to thrive.
I JUST LOVE YOU! GOD BLESS YOU TOO! TY
This year I can't find poke in my garden . People tell me boil three times. Pour off water twice. Then eat like spinach ,especially with scrambled eggs. I do like it. Purselane I like raw it tastes like lettuce to me . I want to try the wide leafed thing. And look for the lemony one too. -sandy
Huge fan of throwing radish greens in my salad along with celery greens and carrot tops! Thanks for the tip of the yam greens and blossoms though cant wait! I'm actually not a fan of yams myself but everyone else is..hopefully now I can enjoy them too!
5:33 - I am not a big fan of radishes - BUT they taste incredible when added to a big pan of roasted vegetables. :)
Thank you for all you do, God bless you
Annette Funicello🤗
I knew she looked familiar..LOL
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful tips. Thank u.
I am a beginner in planting, and God willing, I am learning.
The only thing, I planted, was mint, and it is growing.
I also tried , last year, basil, but it didn’t grow.
🙏❤️👏☘️👍🌟🌹✝️
Roasted radishes. Worth trying!
We always dig a French and chucked all the household feelings in it for the runner beans.
I smiled at 5 - my favourite too. There is a nice succession through the growing year starting with wild garlic, sorrel and woodsorrel, followed by elder flower (just made some cordial, yum), soon wild strawberries, then raspberries, bueberries and blackberries. And if I get there before the squirrels I might get a hazel nut or two. A few weeks ago I was also harvesting nettle tops and dandelion seeds to try growing as micro greens. I also pick the plant's leaves for salad. As you do, I try to put away some by dehydrating. Those lush spring greens soon turn tough or disapear altogether. Another thing I will take a nibble at in spring is the leaves of hawthorn, birch and beech and the tender new needles of spruce. I keep meaning to eat some plantain and goosgrass/cleavers (both great blood cleanser), but find them rather bitter. An aquired taste.
My favorite edible weed that I keep in my garden is purslane :) I also grow a cultivated variety because its so dang good for you, rich in omegas.
Thank you Christa, for this invaluable video! And I seriously appreciate you ending it on a beautiful scriptural note!
Here is a possibly-odd question for you and for all the commenters here:
Could some of you folks who love roasted Radishes pleeease tell us what are your favorite ways to do it? I have little idea how to roast anything, I mean you put it into the oven on what temp, where do you place the rack, is roasting a broil or bake thing, I think it's uncovered but maybe not? Do you season them with anything? Do you use oil? What kind of Radish? etc..
Again thank you very much for this much-needed information!
God Bless and Keep All of us Safe, and Happy New Year!
My first year at a garden.. I'm trying to learn.. there is so much... thank you
I live in an apartment with a concrete patio instead of a yard 😭 trying to up my urban garden game but man i miss having a real garden... God knows I'm thankful for a roof i can afford but i miss wide open space. Thanks for the tips, I'm working on making some grow towers and having vertical growth has been on my mind. Also trying to grow in my kitchen where plenty of light comes in, some leafy greens and see if it'll continue through winter...
Preserve your harvest! My peach trees crank out way too much fruit for me to eat but I freeze and dry a lot for later.
OK how about a recipe for sweet potato blossoms and leaves?
We ate sorrel when we were children! We called it sour grass.
Thanks Giving grow and give extra to others if you can preserve!
Hey Christa, great tips! It looks like your hay bale garden is really working out well this season!
I need to watch again to glean all the info I need to learn.
We let dandelion and nettles grow for in a smoothie or soup. Great tips!
Wow! Such great ideas. Gotta get my garden going!!!
I live in a very hot desert so I use shade cloth.
That is great , Deborah! That helps so much!
Thanks for the film. One thing that you kind of touched upon was storing your excess. It's good to learn how to use your entire harvest by learning how to preserve what you can't eat today. Thanks again.
Thanks, very informative
I've heard but haven't tried it yet, radishes boiled taste similar to potatoes. Keep saying I'm gonna try it, someday I will.
Love your garden and the trellis idea.
Years ago, I saw a method of gardening that works really well, on garden beds, not rows.
On a prepared soil surface, 3x3 (or whatever size you have)
is good for a packet each of radish, carrot, & leaf lettuce. Broadcast them, and lightly rake in.
Place onion sets in this area, too, like 4-5" apart. Water in, & keep moist until seeds start popping up. As you thin out seedlings/green onions, more air gets to the roots, which they need. Also, the fast germinating radish is a nurse crop for slow germinating carrots, & leaf lettuce shades the surface, so less watering is needed. This is an early spring garden, about the time you plant peas & potatoes. At that same time, start watching for bindweed coming up, and spray that ASAP with straight white vinegar- it will kill the tender shoots all the way to the roots. This method will NOT work on established bindweed, only the baby bindweed. Try it!
I discovered by accident that companion planting garlic in rows between rows of potatoes really cuts down on problems with Colorado potato beetles and then later you can harvest the garlic , grind
up a quart jar full of cloves with a big
onion and a couple raw eggs add to 4 gallons of water in a 5 gallon bucket w/ a lid leave it out in the sun for a few days
strain out the solids put it in your garden sprayer spray it on your potato plants the beetles dont like it . Also deters deer rabbits woodchucks , we spray it on beets beans etc anything the critters love to eat . Only caveat must reapply after rain .
I plant radish everywhere for unwanted bugs. I like to companion plant. Thanx for the reminder to go vertical.
Gods blessing to you !
Experimented with carrots tops by putting in a baking dish with a chicken on top, adding carrots, potatoes,
Celery, and onion. Was the most moist chicken I ever ate. Covered the pan until lat several minutes
For additional browning. Watched a video from a man who raises beautiful garden and orchard with next
To no weeds, no thinning out, and growing things not known to grow in his area. His trick is using
A thick layer of live much, at least 14 inches deep...this gives room for things like carrots to grow and
Expand. People tour his property. First name Paul. Last name starts with a G, something like Gautsky?
You mean Paul Gautschi. I subscribe to his channel (L2Survive) as well as Christa's.. They are both necessary IMHO, and they are both excellent!
Another great vedio and God's Holy Word!!!
You might have mentioned that older poke leaves, berries and roots are poisonous! I just Googled it. Great videos.
Very true. Just the young leaves are cooked for greens, never raw. Always cooked.
Using a flatlander, vertical, or barrow growing method, consider using 5 gallon bucket with small drill points on the bottom. Make contact of the plastic bottom with the soil, and the bucket (with lid and cap !) will only drain out by the soil suction of water into the soil. Only need to put water into the bucket - instead of watering the entire flat land. Can even bury bucket up to neck, and have even more direct watering at depth where the roots and water level will be in a raised barrow. If not a bucket, then consider pinholes on bottoms of buried milk jugs (with caps). Only need to refill milk jug and bucket, keeping maximum at depth irrigation, versus watering the topsoil and evaporating into the air. Using a rainsed barrow (with upraised water level in the barrow) you have even less (proper) watering and irrigation to the plants, and have greater production of vegs.
Yep, that is also called an "Olla", I think.. Thank you, John :-)!
Pea shoots are great in salads and stir fry
..And Potato salad and macaroni salad and soups..
Great video. I dehydrate all sorts of veg tops and foraged plant leaves and create a mixed greens sprinkle that I use with almost every mesl. A great way to sneak extra nutrition in my dishes :-)
First time watching your channel and impressed. There is another downside to using chemicals. What happens if they get banned, run out, whatever. If you haven't learnt an alternative way to control pests then what do you do. Companion planting, wood ash, roasted ground egg shells for calcium. The list is endless.
God Bless
Lloyd, West Wales, UK.
Very informative info. Thank you for sharing
Thank you very much! Also natural fertilizers, compost everything (David The Good), mulch & cover crops for soil protection, moisture retention, and soil health, polycultures, make an ecosystem to make a home for pest pretators :)
Those are excellent additions to the list. Thank you, Elijah!