TheRustedGarden

This is how you make biomass charcoal or BioChar for you vegetable garden. It is not a fertilizer but it provides other benefits to your garden.

It is important to check your plants several times a week. Look for damage. This is what snail and slug damage looks like. They are best managed with iron phosphate. Treat in the fall and early spring and stop infestations from arriving. Keep a journal of when pests and disease show up in your garden.

A complete radish guide for growing nice sized radishes and not leaves. The tips cover; NO fertilizer, spacing, thinning, loose soil, pest management, planting & more.

This is a tomato seed starting guide for new gardeners. You can also use this set up for peppers, eggplants and other vegetables. I show you how to build your own indoor grow-light, how to set up starting mix & plant seeds, how to water & feed your seedlings and how to acclimate your transplants to the outdoors. The table of contents will help you find what you need. Table of Contents: How to Make the Transplant Grow Light At 0:01 What Kind of Bulbs to Use (Kelvin & Lumens) At 1:41 How Long to Leave the Lights On At 4:45 When to Start Your Tomato Seedlings At 6:55 Seed Starting Mix & Making Your Starting Tray At 8:10 Making a Watering System At 10:15 Making the Planting Holes & When to Plant At 10:55 Dividing the Tomato Seedlings for Planting At 11:51 Watering Your Transplants At 13:15 Fertilizing Your Transplants (Types to Use) At 14:25 Acclimating Your Transplants Slowly to the Sun At 19:45

I show you how to oven dry hot peppers. I dry Red Cayenne, Facing Heaven and Jalapeno peppers. General setting for the oven is 180 degrees F or less. It will take 4 - 8 hours to dry your peppers depending on several factors. I found this to be the best way to quickly process and dry your peppers. If you want more flavor and less oil evaporation... drop the temperature down.

All neem oil is not the same. You want to purchase 100% cold pressed neem oil with azadirachtin not the hydrophobic extract of neem oil as it is garbage. The azadiracthin is what kills chewing insects. I identify the green cabbage looper and show you how I treat it with my neem oil recipe. I also provide alternative options; spinosad and Bt.

I explain bagged garden soil products and their uses for such as topsoil, garden soil, raised bed soil, potting mix, peat moss, soil conditioners and manures. Plus I give you my basic container mix recipe that I will be using for my containers. Don't over pay for bagged mixes. They are very similar across like types.

Here is a very inexpensive way to protect your cool weather crops from frosts and deep freezes depending on the crops. Use layers of material you can find in paint departments. They can be reused year after year. My radishes were protected from 19 and 22 degree nights.

This is a complete video on building a frame for a raised bed vegetable garden. I recommend pressure treated wood. I discuss cost, benefits, designs and savings. Find my channel TheRustedGarden for videos on filling, fertilizing and planting the raised beds I just built!

I will being using a rocket stove to fire roast peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables. It gets very hot with a nice flame and little wood is needed. It is easy to build and only costs about $20 to $30 and even cheaper if you get the bricks for free. This is a great way to roast garden vegetables. The test run was delicious!

An experiment with two of the same heirloom tomatoes. No additional fertilizing. A whole egg and banana is buried in one of the two planting holes. Just like the burying a fish in the planting hole, and egg and banana is suppose to feed the tomato plant. Join me in my experiment. I will post the second part of the video come mid July. *If you don't have the annotation boxes on... the second tomato was damaged by the tail end of a hurricane that came by that summer. High winds snapped it.