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..to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Stephanie,... I just returned
from two days of jam-packed Garden hopping with my partner in all things
gardening and food, Jacq Davis at Epic Yarn farm in Phoenix. I met some
wonderful gardeners, wonderful ladies and some by, we dropped in on, and some were
expecting us. Take a look at day one.
I'm Jacq Davis and I believe there's way more experienced gardeners here than me.
The main purpose for my trip was to attend
Jacq's urban garden talk, biodiversity and low input gardening, at the Global
Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.
..and high density gardening. Those are not very conventional
gardening practices, so basically try to be more natural with the way we grow.
And the goal is to use as little
input from us as possible, and reuse the resources that's within
the ecosystem that you create on your property.
To keep them vigorous, we do a lot of heavy pruning,
so moringa in one I will prune to my height every year,
and they'll grow back another 15 feet, in one season.
In a relatively small front yard they were
able to fit in quite a number of perennial fruit trees, which is desirable
in the hot desert climate, as it creates its own microclimate. The temperature
around the trees is at least 10 degrees cooler than even on the driveway and
sidewalk.
Immediately after, we made tracks to Mesa, Arizona, for Angela's brunch for
gardeners who had connected on Instagram, followed by a tour of her garden.
I really want to grow this. And it'll it'll pop up. Is it time to plant it?
What is it? Indian Blanket.
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Love that.
It's peeing. A bug isn't it? A bug. It's a, yeah, it's an insect that sucks juice and
spits out. The summer is harder to compost because it dries out so fast and you
don't have as much material in the summer either. I know. I have tons of, you know, yard waste.
I have a spinal condition so I can't turn it but I stir it.
Hi, my name is Angela, and welcome to my garden in Mesa, Arizona. I've been gardening for
about ten years. You put all of this entire garden together in ten years?
I did my first square foot garden, it was that very first one back there, and
it's grown from there. That's wonderful. What's your favorite thing about
gardening? Feeding my family from the garden. Wonderful, cuz you know what's in
it. Right. My name is Jennifer, and I have an urban farm in Phoenix. I have probably
about six raised, large raised beds, many fruit trees, I try to plant as much
edibles as I can, chickens, I have a desert tortoise that roams around the backyard,
yeah, that's about it. And a baby, a farm addition.
My neighbor used this for her whole vegetable garden.
You know, she had her greens in there...
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Yeah, and the year before I got tons of them and the flowers are good for,
in your salad. What are they? Hyacinth beans, you don't eat the
beans. What's it called? Hyacinth bean, oh hyacinth bean.
What's that? What's your plan for the front?
I'm putting a pathway and rocks and rose bushes and things.
This is cute, good way to use a tool box.
Jeramy's probably got a handful of those
laying around. His are all new.
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Why don't I see any bug holes on your..
Okay, so I use a BT solution which is an organic solution,
1/4 teaspoon of BT in a spray bottle and I spray my brassicas
pretty regularly, once every couple of weeks. If I start to see caterpillars,
then I'll spray more often, like maybe twice a week.
Just a little bit of that seems to work. Wow.
One of the ladies there, Mandy, had been following my channel for five years and
we arranged to visit her garden next.
While I was having fun in Phoenix,
California was experiencing its worst wildfire in California history,
to the tune of death and destruction, and my heart goes out to everyone who's been
affected. The fires did not get close to our village, so I'm very fortunate. If
anyone was concerned about me, thank you.
Finally, today is Veterans Day and my father was a proud member of the U.S.
Navy serving in World War II and I want to give it up to all of our service
members and their families for supporting them, for putting their lives
at risk for our freedoms in this country. So, happy Veterans Day.
Thanks so much for watching this video
and if you enjoyed it, please watch these.
Oh, and don't forget to like the video
and follow me on social media.
I'm on a big push to get new subscribers
before January 1st, so..
I can start the new year sustainably,
or, shall I say, not in the red. Ha, ha.
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