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[eGuide] 5 Keys to Invite Beneficials into Your Garden

Face it, gardening has its ups and downs.

Some days, we float through the garden harvesting armfuls of beautiful produce. Our plants have grown since yesterday. New blossoms promise an abundant future. The bees hum a good morning tune, crickets chirp along in harmony, and cute little birds land on our shoulders to sing us a song of encouragement.

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Other days, we trudge through the garden doing the dirty, sweaty manual labor. There are holes in the kale and worms in the tomatoes. The zucchini that was so lush last week lays limp on the ground. The only song to be heard is the mosquitos as they swarm our ankles.

When your plants get eaten up by pests, all of your garden work starts feeling like…well, work.

We can all use a partner in the garden–someone who really knows what they’re doing.

Who are you going to call??

Call on Mother Nature! Team up with her, and she’ll do the work for you.

When you partner with nature, incredible things can happen. You can…

❤️ Manage pests with less work by inviting beneficial insects into your garden
💛 Save money on pesticides, herbicides, and amendments
💚 Set up your garden for long-term success and pest protection
💙 Spend less time fighting and more time winning big (big harvests, that is)
💜 Create sustainable garden systems that do the work for you

Creating a sustainable garden starts by partnering with Mother Nature…including her creepy crawlies 🦗

And as your partnership deepens, you’ll find that she’s happy to do a lot of the pest management for you. All you have to do is set up your garden ecosystem to be an inviting home for beneficial insects.

That’s why Crystal Meserole created a FREE guide to inviting beneficial insects into your garden!

>>> Download 5 Keys to Invite Beneficials into Your Garden here!



Inside, you’ll learn how to:

🕷️ Adopt a pest management mindset of sustainability and balance
🐛 Use “trap crops” to draw pests away from your garden
🐜 Introduce beneficial insects into your garden–and keep them there!
🐝 Include flowers and perennial herbs in your garden plan for natural pest protection
🐞 Protect and support your beneficial insect populations

>>> Download your FREE copy of 5 Keys to Invite Beneficials into Your Garden

Even on those not-so-great garden days, take a moment to stop and look around. Your garden is absolutely full of life! You might just find a new friends you never knew you had 🐞

Let’s go, team garden!

🌱 Grow Your Own Vegetables Team 🌱
 
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Hello Urban Farmer Jimi,
We have two incredible free classes on Zoom this week that I wanted to share with you about. All our classes are designed to get you thinking and motivated toward growing your own.
These classes take place at 5pm AZ which is 5pm Pacific, 6pm Mountain, 7pm Central and 8pm Eastern.

NEW Q&A OPTIONS!​

We have a NEW option for getting your questions answered. We are really enjoying connecting with you for the chats, and in a brainstorming session we developed our new Q&A Voicemail line. You can call in and leave a message for us on our dedicated voicemail extension. We will sort through these questions and add them to our Q&A in our monthly chats. We may even use your recorded question in a chat or in one of our podcasts. Call us at 602-248-9256 ext 4 and leave a message.

Come join a class and we will keep growing together.​

 
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Hi Jimi,

A good movie can excite us. But a great movie has the power to change our lives forever.

And if you’re ready to be inspired, entertained, and moved to your core, we want to share a must-see film that you can watch right now for free.

It’s called Fantastic Fungi. And for a limited time, you can watch the special event edition, plus get 20 mouthwatering mushroom recipes (for no charge!).

Explore the fascinating world of fungi and learn about their incredible healing properties … for you AND the planet.

“Fungi generates soil … that gives life.”

(Shown below: mushrooms popping up in our bucket of compost!)



Be prepared for a thrilling ride with gorgeous time lapse photography and cutting-edge wisdom that will give you chills, instill you with a newfound sense of wonder, and fill you with hope for the future.

The vast network of fungi could hold keys to human health, happiness, and maybe even the survival of life on our planet.

Not sure how that’s possible? Watch the critically acclaimed film and get ready to be INSPIRED.

>>> Catch the special event edition of Fantastic Fungi right now, free for four days.

When you sign up, you’ll also receive 20 delicious (and super healthy!) mushroom recipes, courtesy of the Fantastic Fungi team and our good friends at Food Revolution Network.

Mushrooms are famous for their health benefits because of all the fiber, protein, and antioxidants they contain. And the flavor profile can’t be beaten… You might want to whip up one of these recipes tonight!

Enjoy!

🌱 The Grow Your Own Vegetables Team 🌱

P.S. Fantastic Fungi has earned 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and received rave reviews from critics, calling this a film you CANNOT miss…

“One of the year’s most mind-blowing, soul-cleansing, and yes, immensely entertaining.” — RogerEbert.com

“Mushrooms are the new superheroes.” — Los Angeles Times

Most importantly, this film isn’t just entertaining — it will give you hope and tools to make your life and your world better.

>>> Claim your free viewing pass for the special event edition of Fantastic Fungi, and get all 20 amazing mushroom recipes, right here.
 
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My manager at an auto repair job once said "J*** kinda grows on you (like mold)"
I responded "that's because I'm a "fun guy"
Going to watch that fungi movie later today.
 
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Thank you so much for the link (Fantastic Fungi) I'm half way through it and loving it. I knew much of this already but the fantastic visuals (both time lapse and CGI) will get people's attention and get them thinking.
It reminds me of the old book I read years ago: Rodale, Let It Rot! Paul Stamets is an amazing guy and no surprise to see him in this video.
 
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VapeOn1960 said:
Thank you so much for the link (Fantastic Fungi) I'm half way through it and loving it. I knew much of this already but the fantastic visuals (both time lapse and CGI) will get people's attention and get them thinking.
It reminds me of the old book I read years ago: Rodale, Let It Rot! Paul Stamets is an amazing guy and no surprise to see him in this video.
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You are very welcome my friend, glad you are enjoying it ;)
 
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WOW did we have a great webinar last night that explored how your home garden can be 100 times more productive than industrial agriculture! In many ways it confirmed what I have been saying for years. Join us for this replay that will transform how you think about your garden.
 
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The Need To Grow (Film) Replay​

The Need to Grow has consistently been popular with Eat4Earth subscribers.
This film reveals a breakthrough soil-restoring, energy-generating technology called the "Green Power House" as the film follows the stories of three solution innovators – an inventor, a farmer, and an 8-year-old girl – who are working on ways to regenerate soils and heal our food system.
Narrated by Rosario Dawson, this award-winning film will have you on the edge of your seat all the way to the surprise ending!
==> Sign up here to watch
If you decide to own it (only $7), you'll have the opportunity to also get another upgrade with an amazing set of bonuses, including exclusive content from Zach Bush, MD, full gardening courses, and more.
Here are some of the bonus trainings available with their upgrade package:
  • How to Grow $400 Worth of Vegetables and Herbs in 40 Days From Stacey Murphy (Value: $197)
  • Jump Start Your Urban Farm: Learn How to Start Growing Your Own Food From Greg Peterson (Value: $97.00)
  • Foods To Heal Your Microbiome: The Gut Soil Connection with Dr. Zach Bush
  • Nutrient Density: How to Grow Healing Foods with Erik Cutter
  • Starting a Seed Library with Alicia Serratos
  • The Most Important Steps to Your First Garden with David King
  • Eliminating Pesticides from Schools and Communities with Mackenzie Feldman
  • The Magic of Soils Simplified - Part 1 - with Toby Hemenway
  • The Magic of Soils Simplified - Part 2 - with Toby Hemenway
  • Introduction to Permaculture with Larry Santoyo
  • Avoiding GMOs: A Family Shopping Guide with Jeffrey Smith
  • How to Use Biochar with Michael Smith
  • Sprouting: Highest Nutrient Density with the Least Effort with Roe Sie
  • How to Compost At Home with Stacey Murphy
  • Balcony Growing: Apartment Farming Medicinal Plants with Sheela Mahdavi
  • Increasing Your Footprint: Gardening at Any Scale with Farmer Rishi
  • Healthy Soil Makes Healthy Kids with Dr. Joel Warsh
  • Indoor Gardening: Simplified Tools to Grow Anywhere with Trystan Donovan
And there's even more than that! There is over-the-top massive value in the upgrade package, so make sure you order lifetime access to the film for $7 and then check out the additional upgrade package they're offering.
>> Click here to watch it now for free!
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Anaerobic Compost Tea: An Easy Way to Stretch Your Compost

David the Good says he used to spend a lot of time making compost. Now, he uses a much easier—and more effective—method: anaerobic compost tea!

Learn how to make it here.
 
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Are you wanting to give your front yard more pizzaz and looking for new ideas?

Or do you live in a neighborhood with rules on what you can or cannot plant in your front yard?

Here's your chance to get inspired by some unusual yet stealth edibles.

While you don’t want to dedicate 100% of your space to the unknown, experimenting with 15% of your space keeps things fun and fresh.

Unusual Edibles: 3 Types of Stealth Food for Front Yard Growing



There are many factors to consider when picking your plants each growing season.

One factor you might HAVE to deal with … does your neighborhood allow front yard gardens?

Discover unusual edibles for your front yard
 
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“It feels like turning on a ‘light switch’ in your brain.”

That’s how one of our students described the guided visualization in Stage 1 of Spirit Gardening.

Is your world feeling small, lonely, confusing, and full of challenges? You can use this visualization exercise to flip your mental “light switch” too! In just a few minutes, you can shift your mindset to find the possibilities, connection, ease, and solutions that are already all around you.

It’s all about opening yourself up to abundance.

How?

Trade your garden worries for garden wonder by getting curious!

Stage 1 of Spirit Gardening is all about wonder.

The first stage of Spirit Gardening is all about wonder. Wonder is the first step to gaining more joy, hope, and energy in your garden, and you can access it by tapping into your childlike curiosity.

When your mind is in a curious state, it’s almost impossible not to find wonder… because Mother Nature is so freaking cool and mysterious!

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Cultivating curiosity and wonder is simple. All you have to do is think like a three year old and start asking “Why?”

You can tap into your curiosity anytime, anywhere. Just say to yourself…

“I wonder why ________ ?”

Try this short version of Stacey’s guided visualization from Stage 1 of Spirit Gardening:

1️⃣ Take your curiosity to your garden, and try this short version of Stacey’s guided visualization from Stage 1 of Spirit Gardening:

2️⃣ Take a notebook and go out to your garden, or sit in a comfy chair nearby. Close your eyes, and breathe deeply. You can set a timer for 5 minutes or count 50 breaths.

3️⃣ Tune into the sounds and sensations you’re experiencing. While your eyes are closed, ask Nature to show you her abundance.

When you’re ready, open your eyes and take a moment to really notice your garden. In your notebook, start writing down “I wonder why _______?” questions–as many as you can think of, no matter how silly.

If you have trouble figuring out where to start, notice…

🌷 Are there plants around you that you didn’t notice before you sat down?
🌱 Has anything new sprouted or grown?
🍃 Do leaves or flowers stand out to you that didn’t before? Why do they stand out?
🐦 How about any insects or birds? What are they up to?


Just sitting in your garden wondering can open a whole new world for you! Wondering connects you to the excitement and joy of Nature all around you.

Stacey discovered the power of this exercise one day when she was feeling down. She felt like she was watching other gardeners find success with plants she had struggled with for years. She couldn't help but feel a little broken.

The voice in her head was asking...

“Why does it seem like there are things that I can’t get for myself?”

She decided to sit down and meditate on this question in her garden. In her meditation, she asked nature to show her that life is full of abundance. And that she CAN have beautiful things for herself in her garden.

When Stacey opened her eyes, a WONDERful surprise greeted her!

All around her, she saw tiny asparagus plants popping up through the soil. It was September, and these asparagus plants shouldn’t have been there at all! Asparagus shoots up in early summer, so by September, they should’ve been tiny, dried up nubs.

But here they were… right in front of her! 😊🙌🌿✨

Nature was showing Stacey abundance. And it had been there all along! The only difference was that now her mind was open to see it.

That mindset of abundance is what we want for YOU in Stage 1 of your Spirit Gardening journey!

Try the short “I wonder…” exercise, and bring what you learned to our special Q&A session on Spirit Gardening with Stacey Murphy.

>>> Click here to save your spot for the How to Practice Spirit Gardening Q&A on August 7th

Stacey will be live to help you answer your gardening mindset questions.

Tomorrow, we’ll talk more about Stage 2 of Spirit Gardening… which will take a lot of the STRESS out of your garden! You’ll find out how to have ease on demand in your garden.

Until then, happy wondering!

🌱 The Grow Your Own Vegetables Team 🌱
 
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Have you ever had a job where it felt like your boss might’ve been looking over your shoulder?

Like they were “just checking in” to make sure you’re working?

When you have a boss like that, it’s easy to pick out work that makes you look busy...even when you don’t have any real work to do.



Do you feel like you need to “look busy” for your garden? .

Many gardeners we’ve met treat their garden like a job. They have to stay busy, or they feel like they won’t get their payday of a harvest at the end!

And they put a lot of pressure on themselves for not doing enough.

But keeping busy isn’t always the most efficient or productive way to get things done. Doing extra work without seeing extra results is a one-way ticket to overwhelm and burnout. And burnout is one of the main reasons people give up gardening.

Do you want to love gardening for years to come?

Create a sustainable relationship with your garden by learning to take it easy.

That’s what today’s stage of Spirit Gardening is all about: Ease.

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But how do you “do ease?” Here’s a helpful question to ask yourself...

When do you feel the most at ease? 😌

Think about going to your favorite coffee shop to meet your best friend. You feel relaxed and comfortable. You can tell your friend anything and not feel judged. You can even just sit in silence observing the goings-on around you and feel at peace.

That is “doing ease!” And you can create that kind of relationship with your garden starting today.

Your garden shouldn’t feel like a bad boss. It should feel like visiting with your best friend.

Breathe, relax, and enjoy being among your plants.

When you’re at ease, you’re most observant of the world around you. You can take in the little things in nature and, most importantly, listen to what your plants are telling you!

You’ll learn more about your garden needs just sitting among your plants for a few minutes than from an hour of rushing around “keeping busy.” .

Being at ease is also a state of being with yourself. You’re trusting your intuition and what you feel is right for your garden.

Your goal for Stage 2 of Spirit Gardening is to sit in your garden and be at peace instead of “doing” your next project.

Want to learn more about creating ease in your garden routine?

Stacey is hosting a live Q&A on August 7th answering your questions about Spirit Gardening and how ease can help you get more joy and abundance from your garden. Submit your questions here!

>>> CLICK HERE to save your spot for the Live Spirit Gardening Q&A

We hope to see you there!

To more EASE in your garden,
🌱 The Grow Your Own Vegetables Team 🌱

P.S. — We’ll be back tomorrow to show you how to have more FUN in your garden while growing more than ever before!

P.P.S. Did you miss yesterday’s email about Wonder? You can read about Stage 1: WONDER here.
 
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Have you ever seen children playing house? (Or remember doing it yourself!)

Pretending to be adults going about their everyday life. Going to work, making dinner, going shopping. They turn things that we adults often find dull and boring into play.

And they have a blast doing it!!

Numerous studies have shown that imaginative play is how children develop their social, emotional, and language skills.

It turns out that play is learning.

There are reasons that so many math games, reading games, and science games exist. You are designed to learn more when you having fun!

That's why the 3rd stage of Spirit Gardening is Play.

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Gardening is the best way to get the freshest, healthiest food.

But what if we told you that gardening does a lot to keep your MIND healthy too?

Studies have shown that gardening provides incredible health benefits for your brain, including:

🧘 Less stress and anxiety, more peace and contentment
💪 Self-esteem when your hard work pays off with a bountiful harvest
🤓 Improved attention span and concentration
💞 Social bonding when you garden with others or share your harvests in your community.

And when you apply Spirit Gardening, it takes these health benefits and amplifies them. Stage 4 of Spirit Gardening is all about your evolution.

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You’ll take what you’ve learned from the previous three stages and decide how to grow and evolve from it.

Here’s how...

Stage 1: You fostered a mindset of wonder and curiosity.
Stage 2: You listened to your plants and noticed things about them and your garden.
Stage 3: You took playful, inspired action based on your observations
Stage 4: Now your garden has responded to what you did, and you’ll choose how you respond to your garden.

Your garden’s response may or may not be what you expected. Maybe you wanted bigger zucchini and a more abundant harvest. But instead, you got similar-sized zucchini to last year and less of them.

Your opportunity to evolve and grow lies right here.

No matter what the outcomes are, you get to choose the story about what happens!

Many people react to not getting the result they wanted with guilt, anger, or shame. They feel like failures.

Your garden is an amazing place to connect with and work through these darker emotions. It’s okay and totally normal to feel that guilt, anger, and shame! But when you Spirit Garden, you learn to release those emotions. You realize these feelings are just teachers to help you get closer to your goals next season.

You always win! Because you either got what you want or you gained a lesson.

What happens in your garden is not your fault. But how you choose to respond to what happens is your responsibility.

As you grow and evolve in this stage, you’ll realize that your garden does so much more than nourish and rejuvenate your body. It nourishes and rejuvenates your mind as well.

You’re going to feel more successful, and we promise that you will see positive results with time.

Gardening for this kind of growth is therapy.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg!Which is why we want to invite you to join Stacey LIVE this Sunday, August 7th for her “How to Practice Spirit Gardening Q&A”.

>>> CLICK HERE to Register for the Live Spirit Gardening Q&A
 
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What’s Eating My Garden??
An Epic Mystery Adventure With A Twist At The End!​

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What's Eating My Garden?? An Epic Adventure with a Twist at the End! - The Urban Farm

We live in southeast Chandler, AZ in a neighborhood established 20 years ago. Last year in mid-September (2018) we planted romaine lettuce, curly kale, rainbow blend carrots (all seed) and six small broccoli plants in my vegetable garden (raised 6’x12’ plot). Within a couple weeks everything...
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Hi Jimi-
the first harvest of some veggies from my garden- hopefully more will ripen , lol, still waiting on my summer squash,egg plants and tomatoes. Watermelon has some tiny buds- lol. Cucumbers are growing crazy good here. Only one green pepper so far.
 
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Climate Victory Garden Series
Climate Victory Garden Series​
FREE SERIES The new Climate Victory Garden Series on Mother Earth News Fair Online covers all the steps involved with incorporating a greenhouse into your market gardening system. Meet the folks at Congaree and Penn, a 330-acre Jacksonville, Florida agricultural destination, as they construct and utilize a greenhouse as part of their farm-to-table restaurant, culminating in how the crops are harvested and integrated into their culinary offerings.

The first video in this series has been posted, and you can watch it in its entirety here – just click the “View” button to check it out!

Access to this series is FREE thanks to our sponsor Greenhouse Megastore! Don’t miss out!​
 
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Planting Fall Garden Crops​
In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, Leah Webb joins us to share how to successfully plan and plant your fall garden. With an emphasis on small gardening spaces, Leah breaks down the kinds of plants that work well in smaller gardens and for beginning gardeners, when to plant fall garden crops, how to establish healthy soil, and more.​
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What if we told you that you could have SO much abundance in your garden that you’ll start to RIP OUT plants to make room?

It may sound far-fetched. But it’s totally possible when you live in the 5th stage of Spirit Gardening… AWE!

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This stage is so powerful, it can make all other stages feel like a warm up to true Spirit Gardening. We’ll explain how in a bit…

First, let’s talk about how we get to awe.

If you’ve noticed a theme so far, kids know how to do this stage a lot better than adults. The whole world leaves kids in awe!

Remember thinking that your dad was the strongest man in the world?
Or that your mom made the best mac and cheese EVER?

That’s because you were living in a state of awe. Everything was new and exciting! And there were all these people around you who had more experience at this “life” stuff.

You felt like these people had magic at their fingertips.

🚨Spoiler Alert 🚨 They probably didn’t use magic, but what they gave you is much more powerful…

… LOVE!

And here’s a not-so-surprising surprise… Love works for your garden too!

Ikea did a study with two plants that Stacey shared recently. They experimented with “loving” one plant and “bullying” the other one. The result?

The loved plant thrived, and the bullied plant wilted:

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The same lesson works in your garden. If you focus on what is thriving and love it, you will help it thrive even more!

To be honest, we don’t know exactly how it all works. But we’ve seen it work for our students too many times to think this isn’t real.

When you focus your love on something, it thrives!

It wants to grow even more for you and make even more delicious herbs and vegetables!

And if something doesn’t respond to your love, guess what?

You can actually PULL it from your garden. Yes, that’s right. You can take plants out of your garden at any time.

Because here’s the counter-intuitive truth…the thriving parts of your garden will be more than happy to take up the space! This may seem totally crazy, but it works.

And if the plant you’re pulling out is one you really want to harvest this year…don’t worry!

Sometimes, just pulling out one plant that is doing so-so and replacing it with a fresh starter is enough. Eventually (and with enough love), you will get to harvest all the vegetables and herbs you want. All plants respond to love.

But you don’t need to go crazy loving on your plants, either (you can if you want to, though!). Sometimes, just having your morning coffee with your plants and telling them what good things might be happening in your day is enough.

If you want MORE examples on how gardeners like you love on their plants, come to the live Q&A session tomorrow, August 7th:

>>> CLICK HERE to save your spot for the Spirit Gardening LIVE Q&A

Stacey will be sharing some of her favorite techniques for living in Stage 5 of Spirit Gardening, Awe.

It’s really a magical stage to be in once you practice for a while!

You don’t have to go through the other stages to get to Awe, either. You’ll see how to reach stage 5 of Spirit Gardening even if you haven’t practiced the other 4 stages yet. Just come to the free, LIVE Spirit Gardening Q&A session.

We’d LOVE to see you there. 🙂

To your AWE-some garden,

🌱 The Grow Your Own Vegetables Team 🌱

P.S. If you missed any of the emails about the previous stages, you can read them here:
Stage 1: Wonder
Stage 2: Ease
Stage 3: Play
Stage 4: Evolve
 
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I dug taders today, well and a few last night:rolleyes:
They sure were disappointing :(
This is what happens when you get in too late, you get small taders;)
The first wagon of red's were from 2 rows:facepalm:
and the second wagon was from 4 rows:facepalm:
But very thankful for the ones I have since in the stores here organic potatoes are $7 for a 3 pound bag:crazy:

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And here's the guy who dug them tryin to recover:giggle:


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Jimi,
We are up for another exciting August of seed education. Starting on Aug 24th with our all new Growing Grains in your Gardens online class, then on Aug 27th our Seed Up Saturday SeedAThon Q&A. Sign up for both for free and take in the learning!
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Growing Grains in your Garden
Aug 24th 5pm Pacific/AZ - 8pm Eastern
Sign Up HERE​

Once upon a time, one could find small-scale, local grain growing in every nook and cranny of our great nation. Thousands of resilient, flavorful, and adapted whole grains formed the foundation of nearly every meal. Whether you have gluten caused gut troubles or have come to see the harm caused by chemical grain production, this class will help you understand why a return to fresh-ground, ancient and heritage grains may just be the simple and elegant solution you have been looking for. Join with us in the Fresh Flour Movement…
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Q&A Seed-A-Thon at SeedUp Saturday
Aug 27th 11am Pacific/AZ - 2pm Eastern
Sign Up HERE​

We are at it again – except this time we are making MORE room for your questions. Seed Up Saturday is our answer to keeping the seed education accessible from our local Seed Up event. This is 3 hours of seed education to elevate your own inner gardening guru by learning to save seeds. Presented by the Great American Seed Up and Urban Farm U.
Join us on this Zoom event to update and refresh your skills on seed saving.
  • We are going to cover a series of seed topics with short mini talks on each followed by open time to answer your submitted questions.
  • Explore innovative ways to engage your community and increase access to local seed varieties.
  • Join a community focused on ensuring future crop security.
  • Belle, Bill, Janis, Kari and I will answer seed questions during multiple live Q&A sessions.
  • Plus you will have an opportunity to stock up on bulk seeds!
Look forward to seeing you at one or both of these great events!
 
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Hi Jimi,

Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, or simply trying to go more plant-based...

There’s an A-MA-ZING new eCookbook from Brian Vaszily over at The Art of Anti-Aging called 24 Best Easy, Delicious, Antioxidant-Loaded PLANT-BASED Recipes, and we can assure you that you’re going to LOVE these tasty recipes focused on using true plant superfoods…

>>> Get your completely FREE copy here right now

 
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Container Gardening: Pick the Perfect Potting Mix
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When you imagine a thriving garden, what do you see? A sprawling country landscape, complete with chickens? Acres of vegetables? A cottage surrounded with herbs and flowers?

Gardens are so beautiful and exciting that our imaginations want to go big. But sometimes, thinking big can make gardening feel overwhelming and out of reach.

Since she founded Grow Your Own Vegetables, Stacey has taught tens of thousands of people about dozens of gardening topics. She got started with just two trays of greens on a bookshelf in a studio apartment in Brooklyn, and everything grew from there.

Big garden dreams often start small.

Growing a container garden is a simple step that can lead to big things, no matter how much garden space or experience you have. Containers give you the flexibility to grow indoors or outdoors. For beginners, container growing offers a chance to learn gardening basics without having to first invest a lot of time and money. For more experienced growers, incorporating containers into your garden routine can increase your garden space and extend your growing season.

Just a few considerations can get your container garden growing quickly and easily.

Plants grown in containers are not connected to the earth’s soil, biology, or nutritional resources. They rely on the fertility available in the container to thrive. That’s why one of the most important elements to get right for container gardening is the growing medium!

Download Your Free Copy of Container Growing Medium here!

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Jimi

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Here's last night's potatoes and today's take
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These potatoes went in a week earlier than my others did and you can see the difference in the harvests from the two different plots. The first plot posted weeks ago actually was grown in better dirt than these but these are bigger. Potatoes are so easy to grow and good potatoes (organic ones) are getting outrageous in price, $7.99 for 3 pounds at my Walmart and the non-organic are so full of GMOs they aren't fit for consumption.

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Here's the whole take, a couple hot peppers, box of cukes, two boxes of tomatoes plus the three I ate while pickin them (that always happens) and the taders from last night all washed
 
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Jimi said:
Potatoes are so easy to grow and good potatoes (organic ones) are getting outrageous in price, $7.99 for 3 pounds at my Walmart and the non-organic are so full of GMOs they aren't fit for consumption.
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The book "The Botany of Desire" by Michael Pollan was eye opening. I've never wanted non-organic potatoes since reading it. He talked about how the potatoes are sprayed with pesticide on a schedule, I think he said four times during the growing season, and potatoes are thin skinned. The poison goes into the soil and soaks into the plant roots. And GMO, I think we have no idea what it is doing to all organisms from garden microbes to humans, in the long run. The author speculated that the plant could, at some point, simply refuse to grow in a domesticated form for us anymore, in protest. The full title was "The Botany of Desire, a Plant's Eye View of the World", so he looked at farming in terms of a cooperation between the plant and the human. Cooperating with us, the potato ensures its own proliferation by letting itself be farmed, but Pollan, in a very non-woo approach, indicated that plants have their own imperatives for healthy survival.
 
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Have you heard about this, an Amish organic farm that sells privately to its food club membership, under siege by the US government:

www.rebelnews.com

PETITION: Leave Them Alone

The U.S. government must stop persecuting Amos Miller, an Amish holistic farmer, for exercising his religious freedom to grow food in accordance with his religious beliefs.
www.rebelnews.com www.rebelnews.com

and more on it:

www.foodsafetynews.com

Federal action against Amos Miller and Miller's Organic Farm goes to oral arguments in November

Amos Miller and Miller’s Organic Farm still plan to go up against the government in settlements talks, but only after a Sept. 17 discovery deadline.
www.foodsafetynews.com www.foodsafetynews.com

It's the world we live in. These government parasites won't be happy until we're all dying from an unhealthy diet.
 
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Jimi said:
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Here's a better look at the tomatoes. The yellow/orange one is one of the meatiest standard shape tomato I have ever grown and very tasty, they all are ;)
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Wow Jimi- great job, all your veggies look awesome. Mine garden just stared producing- I have 5 tomatoes, 25 jalapeno peppers, 3 Green peppers, 6 cucumbers, and 2 egg plants are almost ready to pick. Ooops almost forgot so far I have 3 summer squash.
 
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Bliss Doubt said:
The book "The Botany of Desire" by Michael Pollan was eye opening. I've never wanted non-organic potatoes since reading it. He talked about how the potatoes are sprayed with pesticide on a schedule, I think he said four times during the growing season, and potatoes are thin skinned. The poison goes into the soil and soaks into the plant roots. And GMO, I think we have no idea what it is doing to all organisms from garden microbes to humans, in the long run. The author speculated that the plant could, at some point, simply refuse to grow in a domesticated form for us anymore, in protest. The full title was "The Botany of Desire, a Plant's Eye View of the World", so he looked at farming in terms of a cooperation between the plant and the human. Cooperating with us, the potato ensures its own proliferation by letting itself be farmed, but Pollan, in a very non-woo approach, indicated that plants have their own imperatives for healthy survival.
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Michael Pollan and I would get along great, he is so right, the non-organic potatoes in the stores are GMO potatoes and deadly poison to humans. (also very high on the dirty dozen list, none of the dirty dozen veggies that are not organic are not fit for human consumption. GMO's have been proven to cause cancer just by touch so just think about what it does when you eat it o_O:crazy:
Thank you, I'll haveta check that book out, I am sure I would like it cause that's just how I grow, in harmony with the plant.
 
Jimi

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Bliss Doubt said:
Have you heard about this, an Amish organic farm that sells privately to its food club membership, under siege by the US government:

www.rebelnews.com

PETITION: Leave Them Alone

The U.S. government must stop persecuting Amos Miller, an Amish holistic farmer, for exercising his religious freedom to grow food in accordance with his religious beliefs.
www.rebelnews.com www.rebelnews.com

and more on it:

www.foodsafetynews.com

Federal action against Amos Miller and Miller's Organic Farm goes to oral arguments in November

Amos Miller and Miller’s Organic Farm still plan to go up against the government in settlements talks, but only after a Sept. 17 discovery deadline.
www.foodsafetynews.com www.foodsafetynews.com

It's the world we live in. These government parasites won't be happy until we're all dying from an unhealthy diet.
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Yes I had heard about the Amish farm but never seen much on it yet, thank you for the links

How very true, them and some of the very wealthy (Bill Gates for one) say there's too many people in the world for the food produced.
 
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SnapDragon NY said:
Wow Jimi- great job, all your veggies look awesome. Mine garden just stared producing- I have 5 tomatoes, 25 jalapeno peppers, 3 Green peppers, 6 cucumbers, and 2 egg plants are almost ready to pick. Ooops almost forgot so far I have 3 summer squash.
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Thank you my friend, those sound delicious. I missed egg plant this year:facepalm:. I love jalapenos, I wish I woulda grown some of them too. I am glad you grew some, homegrown are the healthiest you can get. I hope you get lots more garden goodies.
 
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