hi guys it's Tim here in zone 5 it's a few weeks out before our last frost date
and in this quick video you're gonna learn what we're doing to get ahead of
the growing season you can take some of these tips away to grow more food in
your garden but just a few weeks ago we actually had snow on this footage we
shot about five weeks ago the end of February we started a lot of crops under
this double insulated hoop house I removed a cover two weeks ago have
some nice lettuce and arugula I also have some other red lettuce some dill
over there that's been planted kale as well as some Bambi Bibb lettuce and
there's some more kale um these were direct sown actually in February onions
and we have some baby carrots they're on this bed I have my happy rich broccoli
the hope is that they're gonna give me more yields than a larger big head
broccoli have some more kale as Toscano kale and some winter borer kale I have a
few different kinds of Swiss chard this year and then I have some beets so this
is a four by four raised bed and I have three different varieties of
strawberries that I got at Johnny's this is early glow Sparkle strawberry and
jewel strawberry and these are all these will actually yield at different times
of the year so I planted them this year and they will be ready next year so I'm
going to take the the flowers off so they actually make the roots stronger
this year and then in June mid June and then July we'll have we'll have
strawberries next year here's a quick photo on what the roots looked like
before I planted them this bed hasn't been planted yet I'm gonna be
transplanting anything some basil and squash and this is actually the potato
bed the other side of this bed are potatoes potatoes that are starting to
come up and then this is another 4x4 bed where I have garlic I've planted these
pretty densely for per square foot now this worked well in the past and you
know this is coming out really really nicely over here I'm gonna have actually
corn and this 4x4 raised bed these are actually in the grow room right now the
corn I'm gonna direct seed some as well as transplants so over here this is a
this is where I put my who house actually just warming up the soil
right now it's about yesterday it actually got up to a hundred and forty
degrees in here it's probably a little too hot but I'm gonna be planting out
cucumbers and tomatoes in here very soon cucumbers will go in in a couple more
days it's actually gonna get down to 39 degrees tonight so it's still a little
cool but I'm gonna transplant the transplant the cucumbers in here in a
couple days and I'm gonna leave it vented most of the time because it would
get way too hot if it was invented but it's gonna hopefully keep a consistent
temperature in the evening and it'll be great to get a head start on cucumbers
and tomatoes this is my herb bed over here onions growing herbs have not come
out yet they're still in the girl room in this bed I've got these are started
under the double cover and in the grow room this is Swiss mammoth piece these
are my favorite peas and they actually they have really beautiful flowers so
ever here on the deck I have my my tomatoes that I'm hardening off these
were started back in March and these are about I think 10 different types of
tomatoes and these are all indeterminate varieties you could print them to a
single stem and they can grow up a trellis determinate are actually the
bush type and they like to be in a cage so I'm sticking to indeterminate
varieties and these are all really early varieties so for example this one is a
Sakura well I think it's about 50 to 55 days to building fruit so the idea is I
have a short growing season up here in New England and I want to get some
really early varieties so I have Tomatoes early in the season and I also
have a here are the cucumbers that are hardening off a little guy who wants to
get in hole in one and these cucumbers are great these are
I think it's Johnny select variety I will put the link in the description but
these have given me great yields I grow these up on a a trellis so up about
seven eight feet here's yields I can get about a hundred
cucumbers from one plant but you'll notice that some of the plants actually
did not do very well so check this out you know these are started well at the
same time so it's really good to to grow many of them and it's so early in the
season that I actually have in the grow room some others that are others that
are growing because you you get some that are you know sometimes don't do so
well and these are I think three and a half by three and a half pots and these
are perfect tomatoes I started in four by four pots
I'm started half with soil and once the once the plants about a few inches high
I'll add more soil to you know provide some stability to them and since I'm
playing them out in a couple days I'm not gonna put them I think they'll do
just fine alright so over in these pots these are currently sizeable pots and I
actually have hops that are gonna be growing in here so these were you know
started a few weeks ago and I had a special video coming out that I'll be
posting in a couple weeks or maybe a few weeks once they start sprouting but a
more a how-to video on how to grow hops Pearman ting with drive my own hops
probably to make some tea and beer now let's go take a look at the groom before
we do don't forget to subscribe so you're notified of new videos alright so
here we are in the girl room this is a t5 grow light this has six bulbs a lot
of different Basil's so this year I'm actually trying trying to grow many
different varieties of basil I thought that would be really fun I have a sacred
basil lemon basil lime basil large leaf Italian basil I've got a quite a few
eggplants that were growing here this is really really well and then a large
variety of peppers right I'm gonna actually have to up pot some of these
because there's still a few weeks before they get set out here in zone five we're
gonna plant these out in the end may now I have more peppers bring some
sunflowers and different varieties of flowers for the backyard this is a
thermostat and what I do is I put this under the tray and you can actually set
this to whatever temperature you'd like this is a probe you put this in the soil
and this will actually the mats right down here and then that will heat up you
know based on the temperature of the soil it is very helpful because each
seed has a different germination temperature so I'll put a link to a
chart where you can see the germination temperatures and you know that's where
you can basically set your temperature to the corresponding you know
temperature of the seed germination so that's why we'll get your awesome
germination so actually these sunflowers they germinated in just a few days so I
really recommend a heat mat I hope you found seeing what I'm doing in my garden
helpful and you can take some of these ideas back into your garden to grow more
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we are in the growing season