Natural Jersey Girl: August 2014

Sunday, August 31, 2014

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Guess this is why my hands have been hurting last few days.

Hopefully it will be gone before 6am. Have to travel to #AMTRACK 30th St Station in #Philadelphia tomorrow morning to send my youngest son off into the great big world all by his lonesome.

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Monday, August 25, 2014

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How I Grow Hot Peppers in Zone 6b & a Look at the Meyer Lemon Tree I have not shown the container plants I over-wintered, like the ghost pepper plant. If you live in a cold climate, you can move your pepper plants to a container NOW to over-winter indoors – you will have loads of peppers to enjoy next year – just like me! Move them into a container, but leave them outdoors so they have time to adjust to the new soil in the container. Before frost hits, move them indoors. I found it is too much of a shock to put them in a container and also in a new climate at the same time. By doing it gradually, I had better results I will show you how I did it.

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April Cover Crop Update 2014 After a long hard cold Winter. I take a look at all 5 fields of cover crops. Did we think that is cover crop would be so nice. love organic farming

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Quick Pick Vegetable Tip “Compost” In this episode, Mark goes on the scunge for compost from his old compost bays…

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Bathtub Worm Farm update, some new residents for the tub.. Aug 2014 Thought I’d do a Bathtub Worm Farm update as we had some new residents move in I’m trying out some European night crawlers to see how they would go after talking to a mate on FaceBook, Cheers Steven

I got them from a place down in Victoria called “A1 Bait Supplies” if that’s any help to Aussies out there..

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Some of the worms from this tub will be going out into the compost cage to help finish off the compost once it’s done cooking.. The rest will be left in the tub to help build up the population for the next compost cage..

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Container Garden Ideas – How To Find FREE Containers For Your Vegetable Garden http://bit.ly/1nsRpz3 – Container garden ideas – how to find FREE containers for your vegetable garden

I have over 70 containers in my container vegetable garden and I just found a place to get them for FREE all year ’round!

In this video, I show you where to get them and as important, what to do with them, how to prepare them for veggie planting.

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Urine for Garden, Composting Urine Human urine is a great, natural, free source of Nitrogen for your soil or compost.

Flushing your urine after each pee, would waste thousands of gallons of water per year at home. Then, your valuable urine is not only lost, but it goes to a chemical waste center where they must use chemicals on all that water you flushed, since within the sewage pipes it has all gotten mixed with stool.

To minimize the water shortages seen in so many communities, an easy way to save water is by NOT flushing away your urine. Using for your compost or garden is an extra benefit. (If you just let it sit in the toilet bowel until you have a bowel movement, then the urine can start to smell up your bathroom, and your garden or compost would be missing out on a great source of liquid nitrogen.)

Try it…. it is much easier, cleaner, and normal than you might think.

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Time to bury the bokashi compost The bokashi compost has been in the garage for 1-2 months. We are going to bury 18 gallons of bokashi compost that would have ended up in a landfill. No heat is needed for this process

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Hot Pickled Peppers & Solitary Bees Pickling the first batch of hot chilli peppers with a very simple recipe that I found on the internet and something that I think you will find very interesting that is happening out at the cabin with the Mason Bee house and my grafted Asian Pear tree.

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Growing microgreens and sprouts at home Benjamin Carroll shows us how to grow microgreens and sprouts at home. It’s a quick and easy way to get fresh healthy food even in winter!

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Health Benefits of Onions Stacy Harris cooks from sustainable foods including wlldgame, vegetables, fruits, and herbs harvested from the water or woods or garden and foraged from the great outdoors. There are many how to’s on butchering venison and other meats to preparing the food to cook and eat as well as how to build earthen vessels for culinary uses.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014

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Quick Tomato Sauce + 50 More Tomato Recipes – Healthy Green Kitchen

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The Nutrient Cycle Episode 4 in the Garden Soil Series Alberta Urban Garden On todays episode we are going to talk about the nutrient cycle in your garden. Last time we spoke about the Nitrogen Cycle however this is only one of the essential elements for plant growth.

Plants require 18 elements to sustain growth. Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere and water or H20 provide the bulk of the Carbon Oxygen and Hydrogen for energy production and major structural elements. The other 15 elements generally come from the matrix the plant is growing in.

The 15 elements traditionally come from the soil. These are the nutrients of the nutrient cycle. They can be broken down into two general categories: Macronutrients and Micronutrients.

Macro and micro refer to the quantities of which they are required by the plant for growth. They are not categorized by their necessity for the plant as they are all necessary for healthy growth.

Macronutrients required are things like Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen Potassium, Calcium, so on and so forth. They typically form most of the plants mass. The full list is on the screen now.

Micro nutrients are required in much smaller quantities and are things like Iron, Boron, Nickel ext… They typically originate from the parent material as the rock degrades over time.

Both macro and micro nutrients can come from other organic material.

The plant takes up what it needs from the soil incorporating most of it into the plant itself. When the plant dies it decays releasing the component materials back into the environment. This is essentially the nutrient cycle.

Although there are many process involved in the nutrient cycle it does not have to be complicated in your garden.

Compost is a great way to recycle and add more of the organic material and add the essential elements back to your soil. With a diverse feedstock of plant and other organic materials such as eggshells compost can contain the elemental raw materials you require for healthy plant development.

You can add compost a number of different ways to your garden. I choose to compost using traditional composting methods and adding the organic material as mulch on top of my garden soil.

Some of the elements need to be in a certain either organic form like Nitrogen or inorganic form such as Calcium, this is referred to as the bioavailable form. In most cases beneficial organisms are responsible for converting the decaying material to a bioavailable form.

In order to make sure the garden soil, compost or mulch has the beneficial organisms it needs to make the elements bioavailable you can do a number of simple things to help them out.

Actively aerated Compost teas and Steeped Compost extractions both provide plant available nutrients but the bacteria that are essential to a lot of decomposition processes. They also serve as food sources and nutrient stores for other organisms that consume them and release their waste which contains more bioavailable nutrients.

Worms are your best friend. They not only eat and help decay the organic material in your garden but they release bacteria and plant growth hormones into the soil.

You can add them to your garden using compost created by giving organic material to composting worms. This is called vermicomposting. You can then add the compost and worms directly to your garden.

Alternately you can simply provide a nice home the native earth worms in your area. If your using mulch and composting you probably have already given them a nice home !

Finally and simply planting cover crops of green manure that culture bacteria or help repel harmful ones not only helps with the bacterial communities but can fix nitrogen and provide more organic material for your compost.

Common garden problems that are not caused by disease can often be attributed to deficiencies in one or more of these elements.

In summary setting the stage using compost, mulch, compost tea and vermilculture set the stage for active beneficial organism communities in your garden soil and compost will help keep the nutrient cycle turning. A healthy nutrient cycle will result in healthy garden plants that produce more for you and are much more disease and stress resistant.

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Do Tomatoes Grown in Rock Dust Taste Better? A Blind Taste Test Do tomatoes grown in rock dust taste better? I conduct blind taste tests to find out.

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A Greenhouse , Simple Hydroponic Lettuce and Garden Plans A short video on some hydroponic lettuce I have growing in my small greenhouse. I also take a video tour of a garden that I will be growing as well as some idea’s to save money on growing garden vegetables.

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

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In this video I show you how to mix compost so that the grasses do not clump up. That makes it really easy to spread in your garden when it is done cooking:)

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How A Peanut Forms How does a peanut form? well let me show you. Later I will have a complete start to finish video of how we grew our peanuts from raw store bought peanuts.

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Foraging mushrooms, finding happiness Mike Kempenich forages for wild mushrooms all around Minnesota and then sells them to well-known chefs in the Twin Cities. In the spring he finds treasured morel mushrooms, but in the summer he finds greater variety, including chanterelles, lobster and hen-of-the-woods mushrooms.

Kempenich, who has made a career of foraging mushrooms for the past seven years, leads guided mushroom hunts to help people identify wild, edible mushrooms. In the process of hunting for mushrooms, and teaching others to find them, he has found something of his own.

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Garden update, Bokashi update, Fried Green Tomatoes I started classes on the 18th and have gotten so behind in the garden. We also went away for a week the beginning of August which really put things behind. So far I have processed 100lbs of tomatoes, filled the dehydrator 3 times with beans and once with squash. Also fried up a lot of fried green tomatoes for the freezer. I am blessed with an abundance of produce from the garden. It will sure be good this winter:)

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Quick Update Just a short update on Lucky Dews Garden

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Monday, August 18, 2014

Something Everyone Should Know

Make sure you know your rights so that you are armed to competently stop abuse before it starts. Be sure to request on first contact by phone that they cease and desist any and all communications by phone effective immediately so that all communication is in written form. They are far less likely to subject you to harassment and abuse and if they do, you have proof of their violations.

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Sunday, August 17, 2014

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When to Harvest Cabbage – Straight to the Point Joey shows when to harvest cabbage.

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Fall Gardening: Planting Container Peas and Red Lettuce – TRG 2014 In many areas you can have a fall garden filled with cool weather vegetables. Peas and lettuce enjoy cool weather and can take a light frost. You typically plant them in the spring but you can also plant them in the fall for a second season of cool weather crops.

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GARDEN UPDATE + POWDERY MILDEW CURE Powdery Mildew causes and cures talked about during video. Garden update was on August 10th. Powdery mildew can be stopped and you can save your crop with organic methods. Our garden has kicked into high gear for the tomatoes, squash and cukes. Picked 85 cherry tomatoes off of one plant after picking them 4 days ago. 4 and 1/2 wally world bags picked in this video. We lost one Sweet Million cherry tomato and we have a Better Boy in the row so we now have 11 cherry tomato plants in the row with one turning yellow.

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Saturday, August 16, 2014

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Bok choy in containers

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A Tour of my Growing Room & My Collection of Seed Starting Tools and More You asked for a tour so I thought I’d start with my indoor growing room & my collection of seed starting tools (…and more)

Follow Scarlett’s journey to sustainable organic living as she test the tips and tricks her British grandparents taught her as a child on their traditional British farm in southern Ontario Canada…

Scarlett is a raw vegan foodist who is passionate about gourmet raw vegan cooking, animals and gardening. For many years now she has been growing almost all of her food all year round.

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Scarlett’s journey to health started in 2011 after putting all of her energy into building a successful business for more than a decade she had lost the one thing money can not buy -her health.

Scarlett now lives in Europe with her husband Bo and their cats, house trained rabbits and hand raised pet chickens and ducks.

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