John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the TexasA&M Agrilife Master Gardeners demonstration garden in Houston, TX.
In this episode, you will learn some of the herbs and vegetables they are growing in Houston over the fall and winter.
You will also discover a new way to use 5 gallon buckets to grow more successfully in your raised bed garden by having a garden with-in a garden.
After watching this episode, you will be more familiar with vegetables you can grow in houston and how to use 1/2 of a five gallon bucket to grow more food in a raised bed, an elevated raised bed garden or even over concrete!
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you harvesting of 45 mature garlic bulbs from a half wine barrel container garden. In this video you will learn the best time to harvest your garlic and how to dry your mature garlic.
Thanks so much for this! I've lived in Harris County all my life and didn't even know I had this amazing resource available to me
Awwww… when I saw Texas A&M, I thought you were here in College Station, where the main university campus is. Go back in July and see what's growing there…. or NOT growing in the heat! White buckets beat black planter buckets in the Texas heat… Maybe I'll do the 1/2 bucket thing this year. Maybe the plants will stay cooler with the bucket semi submerged in the garden bed.
John , I'm young and I started gardening in florida ( I grow herbs , coconuts , palms , oak and mango and avacadoes ). I was wondering If you could interveiw Larry a guy I know that lives in stuart , fl in port salerno and on horseshoe point in rocky point .
When r u going to try hydro. Kratky ect
you know you've made it when the new x-men trailer is being advertised on your videos !
I really appreciate that you are open minded to the fact that gardening is a continuous learning process. It's always been your humble sensitivity to your fellow gardeners that really impress me about you, John. I really enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing.
you should come to dallas I would love to meet you.
Wish I had known u came to Houston. U were at bear creek community center.
Thank you for everything you do for us, I just moved to Houston from ny, in ny we were involved in community gardening, it was awesome, I will for go to this place, have great 2016…
I thought concrete blocks are toxic. Can you confirm?
Thanks. I always get good info from your videos. No more jump-ups okay? i want to be able to get my seeds started in early March! :)
Hi, I enjoy your videos because you make gardening look so easy. I'm also glad to see that the spinach berries were safe for you to drink. You kind of had me worried there for a minute. Ha, ha.
wow..john..I m amazed with how much you travel… in so many different cities and states. how can you afford that much of travel !!
what did you say bout the lemon grass? wind
The bucket garden takes half the soil of what it would if it was full up to the buckets' level from wall to wall. Good hack to enable deeper rooted plants in a shallow garden!
Instead of buckets, we use wood veneers. It allows for better drainage, the soil isn't as damp during the winter. During the summer, I'm expecting the soil to lose moisture and provide for greater aeration. I'm hoping this layering of soil conditions lends itself to greater bio-diversity within the soil … the wood veneer has already been colonised by fungi. It should last a year, maybe two.
Hydroponics can be cheap and simple. Check out the Kratky method.
I understand many people prefer not to grow in plastic tubs or use synthetic fertilizers, but cost doesn't have to be the reason to avoid hydroponics.
My concern about the buckets is they are made of plastic. I would like to see buckets made from cardboard, bamboo or something else that will last for a season, decompose & enrich the soil. Raised buckets might be could in areas where gardens experience flooding & ponding
Would the buckets slow down the spread of root born bugs/diseases?
It will be better if you talk less and go straight to the point in all your video
we don't care if you like it or not if you're bitch about it.
Talks too dam much. naugh, naugh, naugh, naugh, naugh!
Why would you say it will last you a year if you don't even eat it very often? Don't grow it if you are so negative about the plant.
thanks John for being so active in helping people understand growing have watched alot of your videos and they help me. thank you
Awesome thank you so much!!!!
5:16 Hey,John, did the garlic fix your infection on your , neck.?
garlic makes u stink
hey john if garlic is bad why would you grow it?
garlic makes your peepee fatter
garlic wards off vampires
Why are they so small?
normally I like your videos, but for the love of pete-stop rambling !!!! If you would pof went deeper with the cloves you would of got bigger bulbs. maybe fewer per pot.
Love the dog going crazy in the end xD
i'm interested to know how you use garlic. I love to cook with it but i'm wondering how you use it without cooking.
Garlic is food, just see how many different cultures around the world use plenty of garlic. If people don't like it, that is another thing, but garlic use in moderate amounts, it's wonderful food.
he's bummed that it is not raining…. must not know a lot about growing anything.
I was one of John's loyal followers until this video, i was really disappointed when I heard his views on garlic, he really didn't do his homework on the benefits of garlic. Blood brain barrier, ????? what a shame.
Hey John I love your videos but what you think about garlic is not true. A few years ago some scholars made up articles about how garlic kills brain cells but it was just a hoax.. Garlic is healthy and completely safe when paired with a healthy diet.