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Phosphorous is very important when growing, flowering and fruiting plants. If you don’t have enough phosphorus for your plants, they won’t produce the most amount of fruits they can produce. Once we found this out, bonemeal is now always added to our garden.


My go to fertilizer is bonemeal. It is made from steamed animal bones, which are then grounded to powder. Once applied to the soil, the bonemeal will take around 2 months to become available for the plants to use. So it’s best to apply some now to your cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, etc.

Application: Take 1 tablespoon of bonemeal. Sprinkle it over the soil surface around the plants. Then mix it into the soil.

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Plants grown indoors under grow lights haven’t withstood outdoor conditions. The hot sun, the wind, the rain and fluctuations of temperatures. Once you plant unhardened plants outdoors, they will often wilt right away, fall over, develop sunburn, experience stunted growth, and show leaf discoloration. To prevent all those things, here is my method to hardening of your seedlings. 

Step 1: Introduce Outdoor Shade
Place plants outside in a shaded, protected area for 1–2 hours on the first day.

Step 2: Increase Outdoor Time Daily
Add 1–2 more hours outside each day. Expose the time your plants stay outside in the sun.

Step 3: Transplant After 7–10 Days
Once plants can handle the full sun, wind, and cooler temperatures well, plant them into the garden.

Step 4: Protect them outside for 2-3 days
Since transplanting disturbs the roots, we still have to protect the plants so they won’t wilt in the sun. You can use shade cloth or setup some stakes and place a sheet to create some shade.

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Over the years we've grown potatoes many ways: in mounds, raised beds, and different containers, but I wonder what methods have you tried for growing potatoes and that worked, or perhaps didn't, but you still learned something from it.

PS. I like growing potatoes in raised bed but I also want to try growing potatoes in laundry baskets this year. If that's something you'd want to see as a video later; let me know and subscribe.

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Before when we were small kids, our mom and dad grew a cucumber plant, and they told us it was the sweetest, most delicious cucumber. Now that we’ve grown up a bit, we grew our own cucumbers, and I got to taste my cucumber. They were sweet and crunchy and so good picked fresh, and now every growing season I look forward to harvesting lots of yummy cukes; so today I just wanted to share a few of our best tips with you.

1. Cucumbers hate the cold, and one time when we planted ours out early, they got stunted for an entire month, and even when it became warm, they grew lethargic for the rest of the season.

2. We grow our cucumbers currently up a trellis, and it makes it so that the flowers that have to be pollinated are easier to find daily. A wire trellis works good, but lately I’ve been testing a string trellis system and it’s been even easier to manage and it gets more airflow.

3. Cucumbers are over 95% water, and if they aren’t getting enough of it, they will taste bitter or, worse, not even produce for you. So we like to water them every day or other day once they start producing.

4. With cucumber the more you pick is the more you’ll get. Every day, we check through all our cucumber plants and religiously pick off all the fruit that is ready. If you let even ONE cucumber turn yellow, then the whole plant dies. It sounds insane, but it’s happened to us.

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One time, all of my pepper plants had just got eaten by aphids, which meant I had no peppers for that year. Pepper is my favourite crop, and so I decided this year I would not let that happen again. I went through and tested 9 different methods for killing aphids. Some worked, other not so well.

If you want to check out the video, I just released it and the link to it is here: https://youtu.be/8sQAQrjcuQw

PS. The results surprised me.

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We’ve grown our fair share of good cabbages, some bigger than others. And the cabbage that we grew tasted a lot better than the store. Because I’m planting my cabbage shortly, I wanted to take this opportunity to share my best tips for growing great cabbages; so you hopefully can do the same.

1. Give your cabbage enough room when planting them out. Cabbages don’t need a lot of room to grow, but they do need some. About 16 inches is how far I plant mine apart in both directions.

2. Cabbages are heavy feeders and they need a lot of compost to grow. I like to use cow manure that’s composted because it is high in nitrogen which promotes leaf growth and what work best for us.

3. Cabbage white moth is the main pest of cabbage because of their eggs that hatch into caterpillars and then they devour your plant. But with a trusty insect netting which I put over my cabbage it makes it so that they can’t even get in. If you want to grab some, I recommend this one that we use: freshfood4life.com/amzn-to-4c1obgo

4. Apply mulch to your cabbage about a month after planting. When you transplant your cabbage seedlings and they are still small, if you add mulch it can tend to smother them a bit. So I like to wait until my cabbage has a few medium to big set of leaves before applying my straw mulch.

5. Another pest you must stop is slugs. The best way to prevent slugs is by not getting the leaves wet. But if you do get them, there are many ways to get rid of slugs which I made a video on and you can check out the link here: https://youtu.be/wig8yBD4vKQ

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Any gardening problems? I'm coming up with ideas to make videos on, but I just thought why not ask you since you're the one watching my videos. I'd like you to inspire the content that you want to watch. So comment what video you would like to see on the channel below.

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Insect netting is your best friend in the garden. Newly planted plants are great targets for birds and pests, and I know it can be frustrating, taking care of your plants indoors and when you transplant them outside they get eaten.

Insect netting is one of the most useful tools you can have in the garden. It creates a protective barrier that keeps pests away while still allowing sunlight, air, and water to reach your plants. It also helps shield delicate plants from strong winds, heavy rain, and intense afternoon sun.

One of the biggest benefits is protection from common insects that attack brassicas like cabbage, broccoli, kale, and cauliflower. Cabbage worms and flea beetles. They can quickly destroy young plants, but using netting prevents them from ever reaching your crops in the first place.

The best part is that insect netting is simple to use and can save you a lot of frustration later in the season. By using it the plants grow faster, stronger, and produce better harvests when they are protected earlier on in the spring.

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Borage are small flowers individually but as a plant they produce upward of 900 flowers per plant. With nectar that refills every 2-5 minutes its bright blue star-shaped flowers are a magnet for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, helping boost harvests nearby. It’s also a great companion plant for tomatoes, squash, strawberries, and cabbage because it attracts beneficial insects that prey on common pests like hornworms and cabbage worms. Because borage is a cousin of comfrey, it is rich in minerals like potassium and calcium, and when the leaves break down they help feed the soil too.

Borage is also super easy to grow. And what I do is I fill a medium seed starting cup almost to the top with soil, place a few seeds on top, then cover them with soil and water it in. They grow also grow pretty quick and in about 3-4 weeks is ready to transplant out. You can also just direct sow them into the garden. Borage loves full sun and doesn’t need perfect soil to thrive. The flowers are edible too with a mild cucumber-like flavor that works great in salads and drinks.

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Freshly picked peas are sweet, crisp, and tasty. They make one of the best garden snacks! Peas produce heavily for you when they’re happy, but they slow down fast when stressed, so here are six ways to give your peas the best growing conditions possible:

1. Plant your peas at the right timing. Peas don’t like temperatures that are cold or too hot they like the cool shoulder season. Start sowing peas when temperatures is 25°C/77°F in the spring or early fall.

2. Soak pea seeds for faster and better germination. The seeds are dry and hard. So soak them for 6hrs or overnight then plant. That way they’ll come up in 3-5 days instead of the normal 10-14 for unsoaked seeds.

3. Don’t space peas too far apart. The closer your peas are together they will support each other better and you’ll get more yields out of the same space! I like to do mine about every 2 inches apart.

4. If you can, grow peas on a trellis. It doesn’t have to be fancy. Just 3 stakes and some chicken wire connected with zip ties is all you need. The build only takes about 20 minutes.

5. You MUST protect you peas! Birds are notorious for nibbling and snapping off the top of young pea shoots. A hoop or a strucutre to throw some insect netting over it will goes a long way to protect precious pea shoot while they mature till harvest. This is the netting I use:freshfood4life.com/amzn-to-4c1obgo

6. Pick more often to encourage higher production. Like any other fruiting veggies, whether beans, cucumber, or peppers; peas similiarly will produce more the more you pick! So once they start producing pick them daily and enjoy them.

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