Your videos are AWESOME. I am so glad someone like you takes this so serious and records everything. Your videos are my drug. Keep up the dirty work! I am completly serious by the way.
Your videos are AWESOME. I am so glad someone like you takes this so serious and records everything. Your videos are my drug. Keep up the dirty work! I am completly serious by the way.
Thank you so much for doing your videos again this year. I watched all your videos from 09 this past winter.... and I have started my first veggie garden here in Kentucky! Watched and learned from all your videos so Thank you so much!! Im subscribed to your videos now and look foward to seein how it all goes this year.
Thank you so much for doing your videos again this year. I watched all your videos from 09 this past winter.... and I have started my first veggie garden here in Kentucky! Watched and learned from all your videos so Thank you so much!! Im subscribed to your videos now and look foward to seein how it all goes this year.
@jenchamberlaine . Thank a lot for the comment. I'm glad I could pass along the things I learned on youtube. If you post any videos let me know. Good luck!
I just watched all of your videos from your garden in 2009. I had to subscribe. I am loving this. I plan to head to the market tomorrow to try my hand at some of the upside down plants. Good luck this year. I look forward to your updates.
My advice would be to not pull up the strawberries. Even though they look like crap now, the roots are still good to go and will shoot out new leaves in abundance! I know you're thinking "nono, they are really dead..." but trust me, they aren't!!!!
Hey Jason! Yes, I do have a suggestion since you are building raised beds. Build them twice as high! But, keep the dirt at the same level. In the fall, when you are doing your fall clean up from the plants that are done, toss in a mix of radish, spinach and lettuce seeds. Wet it all down or wait for a couple of good rains. Then, get some clear plastic and cover the beds. You don't have to get fancy. Just hold the plastic on by pinning it down to the ground with bricks.
This will basically turn your raised beds into cold frames. With any luck you will soon have a mess of salad that will last way into the winter. And, it very well might be still growing in the spring. I am eating bowls of salad right now from seed I tossed in last fall. It never died off over the winter even though in February the growth slowed down a bit. I am in Kentucky so it should work even better for you. In the spring, you can clear some out and start your spring plants very early.
Thanks for the tips. If you watch my next few you will see I have things setup, but could still add another section to the top. I will probably do some lettuce and cold weather crops in the fall since I haven't done any yet.
Hi. Thanks for watching. I haven't gotten any books yet, but may need to look into that as the bed i had last year i planted using the square grid and will again this year.
Hi Jason! Cool you're gonna go with raised beds this season. Your videos are always fun to watch and I'm sure you are gonna have a great season! Up North here in Rye, NY the soil was just un-frozen enough for me to turn my raised garden bed over and take a soil test. Got a few things started in the greenhouse but it won't be till about May 15 that I can safely plant in the bed! -"Farmer" George
Hey George!! Good to hear from you. Hopefully warmer weather gets there soon. Our winter has been bad relative to the south.
I hope to see some of your videos soon. I wish I had a green house. It looks as though the warmth has arrived here, but will wait till about the end of March to plant to remove all chances of frost.
In lieu of a green house, I have some old white tarps that I have wrapped around my "pavilion" on the deck. An Instant Shelter from E-Z Up, which can be gotten on sale right now, would work if you wrapped it in white tarps and held it firm with good ground anchors (the kind that screw into the ground). This is a pretty good green house with the advantage that the whole thing can be collapsed and stored in little space when not in use.
In your area, you really shouldn't need much more than that, I would think. Maybe, you have a friend with an E-Z up type camp shelter that they don't want to use so early in the year. They might be willing to let you try it out before you spend money on one. Also, you might find one used for next to nothing. the white tarps would be good to have even if you don't like the "greenhouse". I love mine so far.
Strawberry plants always die back in winter but come back in spring. That's just how they grow. Mine do it every year and come back bigger and stronger every spring. There's no need to protect the plants with straw or anything. That's what their dead stems and leaves are for.
They're like asparagus. The older the roots = the better the plant.
hi jason, like your videos and what you did last year. now about your strawberrys, from my experience with them they are pretty tough to get rid of i had them a couple years ago but then pulled them out but the next year they came back so i think most of them will come back but you could pull all the dead ones out.
Thanks for the comments. I started to clear out the dead parts and found the roots to be very much alive. So it will be interesting to see how much they sprout back.
for me this year im growing from seeds so i started inside already. i want to try the upside down method to see what the difference is. i also want to do raised beds because i think there better againest weeding and less bugs.
hi jason, just a suggestion on the raised beds, i used 1'x6' cedar fence boards from Home Depot with a non treated 2x4 cut into 11' lengths in the four corners fastened with deck screws. Each 3x6 bed cost me around $16 dollars to construct. Although 1 end of the fenceboards are dog eared i still used them as is. john from growingyourgreens also uses similar materials.
Thanks for the tip. I actually bought my wood already :). I couldn't wait. Luckily i still had deck screws from last year so all i needed was the wood. Thanks for watching.
I'm sorry to have offended you. The information that I had seems to be outdated. I received this information from a State of FL Agricultural Agent as part of our "Master Gardener" training some years ago. Also, years ago, my aunt used it in her garden and for about 5 years afterwards everything she planted there died.
The reason I posted it was that, as far as I knew, Roundup killed EVERYTHING it touched. Now, if they say it's ok, then there's no problem and my info is outdated.
Oh don't worry it takes a little more than youtube comments to offend me. But when someone post multiple comments on my videos all stating the "horrors" of RoundUp without having the correct information it can scare off other people. I'm somewhat information driven so I simply found the correct information and shared it with you.
Good to see you start up again; I've been waiting! I have some fruit trees (all dwarf) that should take off this year. Have you looked into aquaponics? YouTube has a lot of videos on the subject. That's going to be my biggest project this year. Good luck. Heck put aquaponics.
Glad you liked the raised beds so much. I'm starting mine over too and building from scratch. I had tomatoes started indoors but that hasn't gone too well. I'm going to try chickens and gardening this year.
On the strawberries. They produce way more the second year. And you got quite a lot of green ones left. Mine look like that. I think they will do just fine.
I don't know if you are notified when people put new comments on your videos or not. Just in case you don't, I put a couple of comments on your videos 15 & 16.
Roundup is NOT our friend. Once used in an area, it will continue to kill anything planted there. I'm concerned that your new garden, even if the sod is removed, will end up dying from residual Roundup in the ground. When it gets wet, the Roundup can still be taken up by the root system if moisture gets through the base material.
You do NOT have the correct information. I don't know why you are posting this. Check out Round Up's website. It is completely ok, unless they are blatanly lying on the site, which I doubt.
On their Main Site towards the bottom left there is a link where you can "View the product guide". Once you click on this it takes you to a PDF that shows all their products and has a check mark next to "In or Around Vegetable Gardens" for the Ready to Use product, which is what I used.
Also if you start at Scotts (who makes RoundUP) home page and follow the page flow I have outlined below they have another section that specifically talks about using RoundUp around your Vegetable Garden. * Home * » Solve * » Solutions * » Weeds * » Weeds Around Vegetables
your strawberries are fine, ours do that every year... just give em some liquid fish food when they start growing again and you will be amazed how quickly they become full plants. You could dig them up and transplant them at this point...
Also, if you have it you could lay Alfalfa flakes down at the bottom of your raised beds to kill the weeds and improve the soil and then add 12 inches of soil on top...
You are welcome, I will look for my video on our strawberries... hard to find sometimes or make a new one but they look like yours except Angie pulled all the dead off... I think ours are Alpine ever bearing so the produce a smaller strawberry most of the year. When the send out shoots Angie will set a 1 gallon pot under where the new plant leaves form and get a new plant that way. Once the roots have grown you cut off the shoot.
Oh I knew I was addicted by about my 3rd video last April when I had about doubled my garden size from the beginning when I didn't think it was going to be that big :). It is definitely fun.
awsome that you're filming this year too! I don't grow upside down in my pots, but even with all my space I like pots for the patio. Are you gonna plant something in the trash can!? ph and your stawberries will grow back. For zucchinis I made myself a long 2 feet wide garden for them a little out of the way.
No, nothing in the trash can. I'm going to "try" and not have anything in containers this year. I'm hoping the 3 new beds will be big enough, but i've said that before.
Yes am sure that your strawberries are fine and the will come back as the the weather warms more. First time with strawberries everyone thinks that they have died. I think the straw really just makes it look prettier. Yes and a thick layer or cardboard or newspaper will kill of your grass and lets the worms turn it to compost, adding extra nutrients to you garden. While it looks dead at the moment, ifyou just put dirt on top the grass would start coming up through it. Best Wishes
I don't bother digging the bottom of a raised bed. I cover the grass with a thick layer of newspapers and cardboard and fill the beds with compost and soil or whatever I have. The worms love cardboard so will soon be working away for you tilling the soil. No idea about strawberries, I am starting with those this year.
That is a good idea. I dug out my last one and used newspaper. The bermuda grass grows like crazy, but you are probably right if I also put down cardboard there is no way it could grow up through. I appreciate it! Thanks for watching.
I agree about the hanging pots, I am still going to do some, but I am planning on planting my tomatoes in the ground, not in boxes, just in the ground with string supports. I think your strawberries will come back, they are perennials. I have a bed that I have had for a few years. Every fall it gets covered with leaves from the big oak in our yard and we just leave them, I see them starting to poke out now. Good luck this year. Looking forward to seeing what you do. I'll post soon.
I'm pretty sure the strawberries will come back. The top leaves always die in the winter actually most people will cut them all off before frost, but the roots should still be alive and you'll start to see lots of new green growth soon.
Your videos are AWESOME. I am so glad someone like you takes this so serious and records everything. Your videos are my drug. Keep up the dirty work! I am completly serious by the way.
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14dollarz 10 months ago
Your videos are AWESOME. I am so glad someone like you takes this so serious and records everything. Your videos are my drug. Keep up the dirty work! I am completly serious by the way.
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Thank you so much for doing your videos again this year. I watched all your videos from 09 this past winter.... and I have started my first veggie garden here in Kentucky! Watched and learned from all your videos so Thank you so much!! Im subscribed to your videos now and look foward to seein how it all goes this year.
jenchamberlaine 1 year ago
Thank you so much for doing your videos again this year. I watched all your videos from 09 this past winter.... and I have started my first veggie garden here in Kentucky! Watched and learned from all your videos so Thank you so much!! Im subscribed to your videos now and look foward to seein how it all goes this year.
jenchamberlaine 1 year ago
@jenchamberlaine . Thank a lot for the comment. I'm glad I could pass along the things I learned on youtube. If you post any videos let me know. Good luck!
14dollarz 1 year ago
I just watched all of your videos from your garden in 2009. I had to subscribe. I am loving this. I plan to head to the market tomorrow to try my hand at some of the upside down plants. Good luck this year. I look forward to your updates.
shellbise 1 year ago
@shellbise . Thanks so much for the comment. Good luck with growing this year. If you put up any videos please let me know.
14dollarz 1 year ago
hey like your video but it makes me dizzy, too much movement! very cool!
earlinecosmo 1 year ago
Ha! I completely get that. I do not have a steady hand and talk to fast as it is. Thanks for watching.
14dollarz 1 year ago
My advice would be to not pull up the strawberries. Even though they look like crap now, the roots are still good to go and will shoot out new leaves in abundance! I know you're thinking "nono, they are really dead..." but trust me, they aren't!!!!
bcgarden2010 1 year ago
Hey Jason! Yes, I do have a suggestion since you are building raised beds. Build them twice as high! But, keep the dirt at the same level. In the fall, when you are doing your fall clean up from the plants that are done, toss in a mix of radish, spinach and lettuce seeds. Wet it all down or wait for a couple of good rains. Then, get some clear plastic and cover the beds. You don't have to get fancy. Just hold the plastic on by pinning it down to the ground with bricks.
SSanf 1 year ago
This will basically turn your raised beds into cold frames. With any luck you will soon have a mess of salad that will last way into the winter. And, it very well might be still growing in the spring. I am eating bowls of salad right now from seed I tossed in last fall. It never died off over the winter even though in February the growth slowed down a bit. I am in Kentucky so it should work even better for you. In the spring, you can clear some out and start your spring plants very early.
SSanf 1 year ago
Thanks for the tips. If you watch my next few you will see I have things setup, but could still add another section to the top. I will probably do some lettuce and cold weather crops in the fall since I haven't done any yet.
14dollarz 1 year ago
You can use the bed for sweet potatoes. You have lots of room to be very creative. Go for it.
QuickGardens 2 years ago
Hi! Love your video! Do you have a book called " All New Square Foot Gardening"? Absolute "must have" for a novice gardener (I can attest!).
dylan14570 2 years ago
Hi. Thanks for watching. I haven't gotten any books yet, but may need to look into that as the bed i had last year i planted using the square grid and will again this year.
14dollarz 2 years ago
Hi Jason! Cool you're gonna go with raised beds this season. Your videos are always fun to watch and I'm sure you are gonna have a great season! Up North here in Rye, NY the soil was just un-frozen enough for me to turn my raised garden bed over and take a soil test. Got a few things started in the greenhouse but it won't be till about May 15 that I can safely plant in the bed! -"Farmer" George
edbogus 2 years ago
Hey George!! Good to hear from you. Hopefully warmer weather gets there soon. Our winter has been bad relative to the south.
I hope to see some of your videos soon. I wish I had a green house. It looks as though the warmth has arrived here, but will wait till about the end of March to plant to remove all chances of frost.
14dollarz 2 years ago
In lieu of a green house, I have some old white tarps that I have wrapped around my "pavilion" on the deck. An Instant Shelter from E-Z Up, which can be gotten on sale right now, would work if you wrapped it in white tarps and held it firm with good ground anchors (the kind that screw into the ground). This is a pretty good green house with the advantage that the whole thing can be collapsed and stored in little space when not in use.
SSanf 1 year ago
In your area, you really shouldn't need much more than that, I would think. Maybe, you have a friend with an E-Z up type camp shelter that they don't want to use so early in the year. They might be willing to let you try it out before you spend money on one. Also, you might find one used for next to nothing. the white tarps would be good to have even if you don't like the "greenhouse". I love mine so far.
SSanf 1 year ago
Strawberry plants always die back in winter but come back in spring. That's just how they grow. Mine do it every year and come back bigger and stronger every spring. There's no need to protect the plants with straw or anything. That's what their dead stems and leaves are for.
They're like asparagus. The older the roots = the better the plant.
Praxxus55712 2 years ago
hi jason, like your videos and what you did last year. now about your strawberrys, from my experience with them they are pretty tough to get rid of i had them a couple years ago but then pulled them out but the next year they came back so i think most of them will come back but you could pull all the dead ones out.
copperhead228 2 years ago
Thanks for the comments. I started to clear out the dead parts and found the roots to be very much alive. So it will be interesting to see how much they sprout back.
14dollarz 2 years ago
for me this year im growing from seeds so i started inside already. i want to try the upside down method to see what the difference is. i also want to do raised beds because i think there better againest weeding and less bugs.
copperhead228 2 years ago
hi jason, just a suggestion on the raised beds, i used 1'x6' cedar fence boards from Home Depot with a non treated 2x4 cut into 11' lengths in the four corners fastened with deck screws. Each 3x6 bed cost me around $16 dollars to construct. Although 1 end of the fenceboards are dog eared i still used them as is. john from growingyourgreens also uses similar materials.
1978graham 2 years ago
Thanks for the tip. I actually bought my wood already :). I couldn't wait. Luckily i still had deck screws from last year so all i needed was the wood. Thanks for watching.
14dollarz 2 years ago
I'm sorry to have offended you. The information that I had seems to be outdated. I received this information from a State of FL Agricultural Agent as part of our "Master Gardener" training some years ago. Also, years ago, my aunt used it in her garden and for about 5 years afterwards everything she planted there died.
The reason I posted it was that, as far as I knew, Roundup killed EVERYTHING it touched. Now, if they say it's ok, then there's no problem and my info is outdated.
Sorry.
umstetter 2 years ago
Oh don't worry it takes a little more than youtube comments to offend me. But when someone post multiple comments on my videos all stating the "horrors" of RoundUp without having the correct information it can scare off other people. I'm somewhat information driven so I simply found the correct information and shared it with you.
14dollarz 2 years ago
Yep. :) Up here, up Nauwth, I'm thinking about peas soon.
MarkBH70 2 years ago
Good to see you start up again; I've been waiting! I have some fruit trees (all dwarf) that should take off this year. Have you looked into aquaponics? YouTube has a lot of videos on the subject. That's going to be my biggest project this year. Good luck. Heck put aquaponics.
TheSavvySwed 2 years ago
@TheSavvySwed Last sentence should read "Check out aquapnoics". Darn Iphone...
TheSavvySwed 2 years ago
Thanks a lot for watching. I'll check out the aquaponics. I'm always interesting in new things. I appreciate it!
14dollarz 2 years ago
Glad you liked the raised beds so much. I'm starting mine over too and building from scratch. I had tomatoes started indoors but that hasn't gone too well. I'm going to try chickens and gardening this year.
destroyahdes 2 years ago
Hey, I've seen your chicken video's. That is cool. I probably won't try that myself just yet, but always interesting to see what other are doing.
14dollarz 2 years ago
On the strawberries. They produce way more the second year. And you got quite a lot of green ones left. Mine look like that. I think they will do just fine.
JustFresh099 2 years ago
Great. I appreciate everyone replying on that. I had no idea. They looked dead, but folks say the roots should be good.
14dollarz 2 years ago
@14dollarz
Yep folks are right. :P
Good luck with your garden, shame you arent planting anything now!
JustFresh099 2 years ago
YAY, Jason is back!
I'm going to be planting peas and carrots next week!
JustFresh099 2 years ago
I don't know if you are notified when people put new comments on your videos or not. Just in case you don't, I put a couple of comments on your videos 15 & 16.
Roundup is NOT our friend. Once used in an area, it will continue to kill anything planted there. I'm concerned that your new garden, even if the sod is removed, will end up dying from residual Roundup in the ground. When it gets wet, the Roundup can still be taken up by the root system if moisture gets through the base material.
umstetter 2 years ago
You do NOT have the correct information. I don't know why you are posting this. Check out Round Up's website. It is completely ok, unless they are blatanly lying on the site, which I doubt.
On their Main Site towards the bottom left there is a link where you can "View the product guide". Once you click on this it takes you to a PDF that shows all their products and has a check mark next to "In or Around Vegetable Gardens" for the Ready to Use product, which is what I used.
14dollarz 2 years ago
Also if you start at Scotts (who makes RoundUP) home page and follow the page flow I have outlined below they have another section that specifically talks about using RoundUp around your Vegetable Garden. * Home * » Solve * » Solutions * » Weeds * » Weeds Around Vegetables
14dollarz 2 years ago
Glad to see you back again this year. I'm looking forward to seeing your progress this year. Don't give up on those strawberries too soon.
Rob
robmelnoahzane 2 years ago
Hey thanks. I've been watching you new potato videos. I'm not going to tackle them this year, so will see what I can learn from you there.
14dollarz 2 years ago
your strawberries are fine, ours do that every year... just give em some liquid fish food when they start growing again and you will be amazed how quickly they become full plants. You could dig them up and transplant them at this point...
Also, if you have it you could lay Alfalfa flakes down at the bottom of your raised beds to kill the weeds and improve the soil and then add 12 inches of soil on top...
Great video, looking forward to more!
JimboJitsu 2 years ago
Thanks for that info. It's good to know they will come back. Thanks for watching. I should have another one up next week.
14dollarz 2 years ago
You are welcome, I will look for my video on our strawberries... hard to find sometimes or make a new one but they look like yours except Angie pulled all the dead off... I think ours are Alpine ever bearing so the produce a smaller strawberry most of the year. When the send out shoots Angie will set a 1 gallon pot under where the new plant leaves form and get a new plant that way. Once the roots have grown you cut off the shoot.
Glad to hear another video is coming out!
JimboJitsu 2 years ago
ha ha I told you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your addicited now :) I read some where you should move every thing around in diffrent spots in the garden.
crewlla 2 years ago
Oh I knew I was addicted by about my 3rd video last April when I had about doubled my garden size from the beginning when I didn't think it was going to be that big :). It is definitely fun.
14dollarz 2 years ago
awsome that you're filming this year too! I don't grow upside down in my pots, but even with all my space I like pots for the patio. Are you gonna plant something in the trash can!? ph and your stawberries will grow back. For zucchinis I made myself a long 2 feet wide garden for them a little out of the way.
jihadacadien 2 years ago
No, nothing in the trash can. I'm going to "try" and not have anything in containers this year. I'm hoping the 3 new beds will be big enough, but i've said that before.
14dollarz 2 years ago
@14dollarz I thought you were keeping the green pots.
jihadacadien 2 years ago
Nah I'm going to take them down and put the dirt into the new beds I will build.
14dollarz 2 years ago
@14dollarz Those too..well best of luck with the new beds!
jihadacadien 2 years ago
What are you going to do with the pots?
JustFresh099 2 years ago
I will probably put most them in the recycling and keep a few.
14dollarz 2 years ago
Yes am sure that your strawberries are fine and the will come back as the the weather warms more. First time with strawberries everyone thinks that they have died. I think the straw really just makes it look prettier. Yes and a thick layer or cardboard or newspaper will kill of your grass and lets the worms turn it to compost, adding extra nutrients to you garden. While it looks dead at the moment, ifyou just put dirt on top the grass would start coming up through it. Best Wishes
homewouldheart 2 years ago
I don't bother digging the bottom of a raised bed. I cover the grass with a thick layer of newspapers and cardboard and fill the beds with compost and soil or whatever I have. The worms love cardboard so will soon be working away for you tilling the soil. No idea about strawberries, I am starting with those this year.
Getting exciting, isn't it?
Best Wishes, Brendan
baconsoda 2 years ago
That is a good idea. I dug out my last one and used newspaper. The bermuda grass grows like crazy, but you are probably right if I also put down cardboard there is no way it could grow up through. I appreciate it! Thanks for watching.
14dollarz 2 years ago
I agree about the hanging pots, I am still going to do some, but I am planning on planting my tomatoes in the ground, not in boxes, just in the ground with string supports. I think your strawberries will come back, they are perennials. I have a bed that I have had for a few years. Every fall it gets covered with leaves from the big oak in our yard and we just leave them, I see them starting to poke out now. Good luck this year. Looking forward to seeing what you do. I'll post soon.
atticus9799 2 years ago
Thanks for the strawberry tips. It's good to hear they may re-sprout.
14dollarz 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure the strawberries will come back. The top leaves always die in the winter actually most people will cut them all off before frost, but the roots should still be alive and you'll start to see lots of new green growth soon.
HBKitmitto 2 years ago
Cool. I didn't think about the roots surviving.
14dollarz 2 years ago
Can't wait to see your progress. My videos will probably start pretty soon aswell.
vonhismean 2 years ago