 Hi there and welcome to getting clean on the prairies. It's a beautiful evening out here in the garden the weather is turning nice and warm here on the Saskatchewan prairies and I'm starting to feel a bit panic now because it's like okay. We need to get stuff in the ground. It's warm about a week Week away from our last frost date. So, you know stuff like beets carrots potatoes I should have them in the ground now. So I I just got off work for the day and so I have to spend my evenings out in the garden Which is not a bad thing because it's beautiful out here So you'll see over here this little setup here is how I'm Gonna be planting or how I did plant up my beets and carrots I'm gonna show you how that's done and I also use this seeding square and you're probably wondering You know, how does that work in a round container? So I'll show you how it kind of made it work for me to mark out for my carrots and beets So let's get going and I'll show you how I direct so some beets and carrots in containers and planting some potatoes under straw So I thought if I used my seed Seeding square here for my carrots and beets Just to kind of give me a good Guideline to follow and in my spacing here So the red dots are for carrots So I'm just gonna mark them out here not really Supposed to be about a half inch deep Quarter to a half inch deep So of course, this doesn't work perfectly in a round container So what I'm gonna do I'm just gonna extend out from each Spot here just eyeball it just mark another Another few holes here. It should be spaced out Pretty good and maybe squeeze another one at the Top of each one here just kind of Remark them here a bit before I put the seeds in This one's I'm going to be planting some Danvers half longs so another thing that I Realized when I did the first one here is you got a Kind of keep track of which holes you've dumped them in and go in some kind of organized go in some kind of organized fashion here when you're putting your seeds in because I Kind of was all over the place and then I'm not sure which ones I had put seeds in Trying to put only a two or three in each hole and then I can thin them out later but I Just can't Be bothered to be too Picky about it. I think I'm putting probably Three or four in a hole some of them are not making the hole but We'll see how it goes. So in this container, I'm going to try planting some Chiagia beat I cannot pronounce that very clearly but This is a red and white striped beat supposed to be non-bleeding and It's an Italian heirloom and I think it's going to be a bigger beat I'm supposed to plant these about two to four inches apart So I'm going to use the yellow Seeding square spots here to spread them out So these seeds course, okay a little bit bigger than the carrots So I should be able to easily put two in each hole And see how the germination goes So now that I've got these planted up and how it's got to give them a good watering I'm going to try the method of covering up these containers just blacking them out so that They can germinate and I'm going to you've probably seen a lot of videos Where they do this using boards or cardboard or something to cover up the soil until till the seeds germinate so I Figured I got some extra red tubs here. They are the same size. So they'll cover this up easily So I'm just going to set one on top of each of these like that probably put a Little bit of weight inside here so they don't blow away then So that gives it pretty good coverage. I think with using these tubs So what I'll just do is come out each day give it a Check to make sure the soil is staying moist and it should be about five to ten days till germination Starts so as soon as I see that happening. I'll remove the tubs from the top and Let them grow from there So it will be interesting to see how this goes So I've got my first row ready here to plant up. So I pulled back the straw and made myself kind of a fairly straight row I'm just going to check the soil here and show you what it looks like under all these layers of straw So we brought this we cleared off this space here to two falls ago And it was all trees and bush and we chopped out the trees So the ground wasn't too weedy. It was quite quite nice forest floor type Soil when we covered it up with straw. So I'm just going to show you kind of what it looks like now You dig down We've got some really nice soil to work with here and I can see there's some moisture. Thank goodness we are Haven't had rain yet this spring. We had very little snow since this new year and It is looking very dry here We're actually getting quite concerned that we're heading into a drought Because there's no rain in the forecast. So I'm going to just put these potatoes Directly on the ground here and then we'll cover it up with some straw So these are the red norlins that I was Chitting and I had a quick video on that a few weeks ago. These things are Got some really nice Sprouts going on them So I'm just going to lay them out about a foot apart set them on the ground with the sprouts Heading upwards I think the spacing is supposed to be about a foot apart. So I Will get them all in place and then I'll show you before I cover them up So this would be my third or fourth season of using this roost out method of planning my potatoes and I Definitely won't go back to the traditional method of rotatilling and digging and weeding with Dirt only I really like this method. It works great for me It's a lot less maintenance and I have no problem with weeds. I get pretty good Pretty good production off of these. I think the soils only get improved every year as The straw breaks down and continues to add nutrients to the soil. I Also in the fall before I Covered it with some more straw. I pulled it back and dumped a lot of Compost and partially finished compost under the straw here so that it broke down over the winter and Just added that extra organic material to the soil So that's one row of potatoes planted. These are my red norlands I'm going to use my buckets here that I planted these potatoes in about a week and a half ago as my markers Okay, so the potatoes are planted and that probably took less than 30 minutes to do it from start to finish So I'm just gonna show you my rows here So this is what a no dig no weed no watering type Potato garden looks like I didn't have to try and get my husband out here to Rototill the garden for me, which if you're married to a farmer that can be quite a challenge getting them to get you to help you open the garden and Didn't have to worry about digging in the potatoes They're all covered up. My only concern will be moisture. So I'm going to leave these for a week or so and Hopefully we will get some rain because the straw will retain a lot of moisture. It doesn't need to be water too much So so the Sun is setting now and I managed to get my potatoes planted Got a couple kinds of carrots going and some beets So I hope you enjoyed this video. 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