➡ This video discusses survival gardening tips for those planning to live off-grid. The host consults with an expert from Gardening in Canada, who critiques his greenhouse setup and offers advice. She suggests using direct drippers for irrigation, adding mulch to prevent soil cracking, and removing flowers from plants to encourage foliage growth. She also advises on how to handle transplant shock, potential aphid infestations, and the importance of not cutting the tops off onions to allow for larger bulb growth.
➡ The text discusses various aspects of gardening, including the challenges of transplanting plants, the effects of soil quality, and the importance of proper fertilization. It also touches on the potential for cross-pollination among different plant species and the role of bees in this process. The text suggests that the amount of food a garden can produce depends on the types of plants grown and the gardener’s eating habits. Lastly, it mentions the possibility of growing fruit trees in a greenhouse, although this may not be suitable for all types of trees.
➡ The text discusses the importance of understanding your environment when gardening. It highlights the impact of factors like sunlight, soil temperature, and wind on plant growth. The text also emphasizes the need for proper planning and knowledge in gardening, warning that without these, efforts to grow plants, especially in a survival situation, may fail. It suggests consulting with experts for advice on creating a sustainable garden.
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So you think you’re gonna be able to retreat off grid when the shit hits the fan and live like a wild man in the woods? Think again. You are going to die. Unless of course you watch this video. Then you might have a fighting chance to survive what’s coming. Let’s talk about it. Do you want the latest emergency alerts? Subscribe to the Prepper news link in the description below. Alright guys, so we’re back again with my protege, Gardening in Canada. I’m gonna teach her a little bit about gardening today. All jokes aside though, guys, this is the expert.

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She will abuse you, she will annoy you, she will drive you up the wall. But you’ll be able to grow large potatoes. So what do you think of the greenhouse so far? Well, I’m looking at a very nice walkway, but beyond that I’m not too sure. We’ll find out soon. See what I mean? Okay, well let’s take a little walk through. So you see what we got going on here. We got some raised garden beds built myself with my own bare hands. I doubt that I did. I did all the grunt work. We got video footage to prove it.

Got it pre cut or what? No, I cut it. I actually used a saw. I used a screwdriver. You? Screwdriver? Oh yeah, manual. Who needs a lithium powered Milwaukee 18 volt bit driver when you got these pipes? You don’t seem impressed at all. Like. Well I can already tell that you bought these peppers because there’s tags all from seeds. I bought the tags. I asked the guy, give me some tags. What was the brainchild behind the marigold? Out of curiosity? Somebody told me once, I think she was a redhead and she told me that if you put flowers interspersed throughout the garden beds that that’s going to attract pollinators.

Okay, was she right or was she wrong? She was right. I thought you were going to say something about like prevents XYZ and blah blah blah bug, which is false. But you actually listened some of it’s getting through to me. Yep, spacing’s good. The spacing is good. See, I thought you would have been like, those plants are going to be a mile high or too tightly spaced. I will say it’s a greenhouse so it’ll stay warm. But if this was a raised bed outside, these would not produce as many peppers. Why is that? Just because the soil is too cold here.

They’ll just keep growing green and green and green. What’s this? What’s going on here? That is transplant shock. You’ve got some new growth on there, so it’s not like it’s dead dead, but you definitely did something to it. What do you think of my irrigation? There’s a manifold outside, there’s four controls. It’s all underground. Each plant doesn’t have a dripper, but it’s just generic pretty much. Okay. What, so you’re not impressed by my irrigation system is what you’re saying? I mean a 2 year old could do it, but it’s good for you. Let’s just end this now.

So I’m like a kid coming home from school to show his mom is report card and you’re mad because I didn’t get an A, I only got a B. Oh yeah, that’s exactly what this is. The amount of hours I’ve invested in you and this is what I get. All right, well, what could I have done better than, oh, omnipotent one. If you had like those direct drippers like their sprayers you can get with like the really fine quarter inch line and you could put it on each plant and then it also will be flexible enough that every year you can change it.

Or what you could have done is planted the peppers by each one of the holes that you have this way. It’s fine, it’s fine. You’re just going to have to flood it a little bit. Well, here’s why you’re wrong. I’ve been told that if you put the water like elsewhere, the plant roots are going to try to grow towards that water. They will. Yeah, they will. But you just transplanted these. So where are the roots right now? Well, I was doing like spray water for a while. You’re also doing also. Well, I was up until we had this done yesterday.

I mean, until I did this yesterday. Was there a wee in there? There was some help. All the cracking and stuff that you see like the fishering, that’s just normal soil aggregation. Way you prevent that or stop that is to put some mulch on top and then that Will sort that out. If you put it too close to the stem, is that going to affect it? Yeah. So you want to do the donut, not the volcano. So how would you rate on a scale of 10? My pepper garden bed. This one, I think, unfortunately, is going to probably be your best one.

So we’ll give it like a 7.5. 7.5, judging from my peripheral vision and what I’ve seen. What about the herb garden? What do you think of that? Let’s go over there. Did you put straight dirt in that? Well, I ordered the dirt. The triple mix. I never said to put it in a container. Why not? Because it’s way too heavy. That plant is going to suffocate and die a horrible death. Holy shit. All right, so what do you think of this? That’s flowering. And when it flowers. Yeah. It basically is gonna stop putting on foliage, so you need to be removing the flowers.

Bye. This is madness. What else you got for me? What other bad advice? What’d you do to your parsley? I don’t know. What do we do to it? From a distance, it looks like a fertilizer burn, but the leaves themselves are floppy, so it’s gotta be something related to transplant shock. Those ones are yellow at the bottom. That may be a nitrogen deficiency. So I would watch that and then consider putting some nitrogen fertilizer on it. Wow. Sweet potatoes. Like, no one can grow these in Saskatchewan. Oh, really? So we’re probably not gonna have success. No, it’s just they need a longer growing season.

You have a greenhouse that’ll probably. Why are you growing so much parsley? Or is this cilantro? No. You don’t know what this is? Oh, celery. She didn’t know what that was. I’ve always found celery to kind of taste salty, you know, I need my salt. We have really bad aphids where we are, and so especially with the heat. So don’t be shocked if these are covered in aphids partway through the year. You may need to cover this. You have so many planted in one little area that it’s like a little smorgasbord for aphids. That or you’re going to need to get, like, ladybugs or something.

You can buy ladybugs or praying mantises to come in. Oh, that’d be cool. What do you think of my onions? Is this depressing or. This is your 10 out of 10. Really? Yeah. You did two things that most people are incapable of doing. So number one, they’re upright which is impressive. Like, how long ago did you plant these? About a week ago. Okay. So that’s very impressive. They’re upright, number two, because, you know, nothing. You didn’t top them. So that is perfect because most people would actually cut a portion of this off because there’s an old garden tail that if you cut the tops off, the bulb will be bigger.

Now, the reason why that isn’t true is because. What do leaves do, Nate? They have chloroplast and they absorb sunlight. Wow. You even said chloroplast. I see. There’s a reason why I have 1.33 million subs. The only thing you’ll have to do is you’ll have to spoon these. So you got to come out here at night and give them a cuddle. What do you mean by that? So actually taking like a spoon and digging out the soil around it and that relieves the pressure, which allows the bulb to get bigger. Yeah. What do you think, my tomatoes? I think your cages are too small and you’re going to regret that choice unless you put a string from here to here.

Okay, well, you always say that. And my tomatoes never grow that big, so maybe this is the year. What do you think of my trellis? I’m the first person to ever do this in Saskatchewan. What is trellising up them? Do you have seeds planted or. Well, we got some beans coming on this side. Pole beans or bush beans. I don’t know, some kind of bean. Well, I should be bush beans. Do you know what kinds you have in here or. No? Mostly beef steak. We got some. The mal colored ones. We got some cherry tomatoes. Anything that says paste.

Tomato. Don’t prune it at all. Like don’t remove the suckers, leave everything on them. I wasn’t going to do that anyways, okay. Because I just assumed that I would put it in the ground and it would grow food. You’re sure you don’t have fertilizer in here? Nope. I wonder if it’s the water. I’m wondering too if they’ve all got that and that. It’s just now that I’ve seen a second one like that, I’m convinced that’s not transplant shock. I’m convinced there’s something around the roots. I don’t mean to scare you, but it’s giving me kind of like persistent herbicide type damage.

Look. Did you transplant those cucumbers? Yes. They were all like kind of pretty small. So you got like a couple things going on. So that’s mechanical damage. That Kind of white. That cotyledon over there is meant to fall off. So that’s like a normal kind of degradation. But then these floppy ones, that’s all transplant shock. So cucumbers are that plant that just, they don’t transplant well. They’re very finicky, very fussy. So if you disrupt their roots, they usually get pretty upset set. And you’re talking about detangling them. So they’re probably really upset right now. Just like an issue with the wife.

You just gotta ignore it and the problem will get better. Maybe. It depends. I would water them a lot. If you’ve got shade cloth, maybe just even put a little bit of shade cloth over them to give them some reprieve possible. Yeah, don’t let wind kind of like go over them and they should bounce back because they’re in such a confined space. If they were outdoors, I’d tell you that it’s done, it’s game over. Yeah. It’s not gonna turn out well. So here’s a general question for you. Is this space big enough to have enough food for a family of four? People always ask this question and the answer to it is, what do you eat? I don’t know how many tomatoes you eat? I don’t know.

The staple food, potatoes are going out there. This is kind of like the, not the real calorie dense stuff, but all the fix ins, you know. Yeah. So if you like salsa and spaghetti and like that sort of thing, then you have a lot. But you don’t probably have enough. If you like potatoes and french fries and that sort of thing. Then again, you have to take that into consideration. Every plant is going to have different varying numbers of fruits. So for example, like your indeterminate tomatoes are going to have a heck of a lot more tomato than your determinate ones.

Okay, so I got a question for you. Fruit trees in a greenhouse. What do you think about that? I think think you picked the wrong fruit trees for a greenhouse. Why? What kind of fruit trees do we need in a greenhouse? Every plant is bred or designed for a specific growth pattern. So if these are like, these are zone three, I would assume some of them are 2A. But yeah, some of them are zone three. Well, that’s even worse. Well, we’re zone three. No, we are zone three, but this is not zone three. So this is zone four or five.

This is like a microclimate. Yeah. So you need to treat it completely differently than you would outdoor. So it’s too hot in here is what you’re saying. It’s probably going to get too hot and then it’s not going to get cold enough. So maybe towards the end of the season or maybe mid season, we move them into the orchard. Yeah. Okay, so what’s going on with that shock? No, that’s not shock. That’s. That’s. That is what I’m worried about. That leaf curling is a sign that something is wrong with the soil. Specifically, chemical wise, say, for example, because this probably will help people because people have probably been burned literally by this is compost and manures that have persistent herbicides in them.

So, for example, grazon, very common that makes it into this. Their plants will start doing this. Now the answer to fixing that is to add a nitrogen fertilizer. And that nitrogen will increase the microbes and the microbes will go in and start decomposing the herbicide. Because all pesticides are the hurt. Like there will be microbes that decompose them over time. So they will disappear. They all have half lives. So to speed that process up, you would add more nitrogen to kind of help with that. If it’s a situation where it’s like too much calcium or whatever you think is up with the water, then you would flush the system.

So you would water with water that is not, you know, that intense with chemical. And then you would just like flush it, flush it and eventually mechanically, it’ll move out of the root zone. So that’s kind of the two ways that you would treat that. A really good way to know which one it is would be probably to start with some nitrogen fertilizer. Apply it the way that. Can we do that right now? Just so we like you show me how you would apply it. I can. Yes, just sprinkle it on. You just put it. You’re like making it rain on the plant and apocalypse.

I’m going to come around. I’m going to be the rain man. Don’t leave it on the leaves because it’ll burn in. You were just haphazardly throwing shit around. I figured when I do it, it’s a problem. Yeah, these are heavy feeders, so I wouldn’t be shocked if you have to do that more often. Probably. Again, if you heat this, I would suspect that all these are gonna die. This is an experiment. I knew you were gonna say, hey, why are you growing saskatoon berries inside? That’s my exact voice. That’s what you sound like in my head.

If you don’t heat this, then you can leave everything in here. You can even leave those in their containers. And it’ll be fine if I don’t heat it. You do not heat it. What do you think about these strawberries here? Okay, so this is your 10 out of 10 bed. I lied. Oh, yeah? Yeah. You know, I’m an expert strawberry grower. So what is the plan to get pollinators in here? Open the doors. There was bees flying around here the first day when these were flowering. So have you had eaten a cucamelons before? No. Oh, they’re really good.

They’re very tasty. Oh, yeah, very tasty. I love those. They definitely need to be trellised. All right, they need something. We got. We got some trellises. We’re gon some wooden ones. We’re going to mount on there. Now, these carrots, me and Ashley had a little debate. We bought them in this thing and they were all tightly packed together and I was like, we got to transplant those because they’re going to be too tight in there. She’s like, no, you just leave them in there and thin them out. And so who was right? You’re both right. So you thin them, as in like, you remove the excess right off the hop and then throw them out.

Goodbye. The way I do it, I would thin them as I go and eat them as I go. But I would leave some strategic, magically placed so that when you know, it is fall, you do get carrots that are a little bit larger one by one. I individually with my lab suit on my tweezers. Yeah, basically all you. You did thin in a way by putting them into like a bigger space. But yeah, no, you’re both right. Technically. What do you think of this, Stavia? You ever eat stevia off the leaf? It does not taste good off the leaf.

You’ve got to like, do some stuff with it. Sweet. Just try a piece of. Trust me, it tastes sweet. Wow, that’s actually not bad. See, I taught her something. So what else? We got some lettuce, which is, you know, that’s easy peasy. Do these ones have the advantageous root? So if we bury these too deep, is that a problem? Peppers don’t have adventitious roots. Roots. Tomatoes have adventitious roots. Peppers have under differentiated stem cell tissue, as does any plant. So when exposed to conditions that make roots, it will make roots, if that makes sense. It’ll be fine.

It’s basically what I’m trying to say. We got some California reaper, some Armageddon. Is it bad that we’re planting those so close to the other stuff? In the comments, someone’s like, you better not do that. I can’t remember what reason they said that it might cross pollinate. Oh, yeah, no, they’re gonna cross pollinate. Yeah. A bumblebee’s gonna put its butt there, and it’s gonna put its butt here, and bam, you have a hot bell pepper. What do you think about my kiwis? I transplanted them into the dirt that you hate. So we got two males and two females.

How close do they have to be to each other? They could be right next to each other or they could be, you know, five feet from each other. It doesn’t. Again, the bumblebees will. The bees will do the thing. They do their work. If I get a hive, I’d put it, like, maybe back there and they would just. Just do their thing here. Eh? You could probably entice them even more by putting, like, different colored stuff in here, like purples and reds just in general, because they will just come towards that color. How much is too much in a greenhouse? Is shade not a problem in here? One thing I will say is I’ve noticed that the sun is a lot more intense.

So tomatoes that never used to get sun scorch get sun scorch in my yard now. And that’s just happened in the last three years. So I actually have to install shade cloth going forward for that reason. So with that being said, you can put some hanging stuff up and then just leave them. And eventually you’ll find out pretty soon whether or not you have enough light or not. And it may help you because you won’t need to put that shade cloth in, whereas if it is really sunny in here, you’ll notice some burning and some stunting, and then you’ll have to install the shade cloth.

But you. But the containers that you use, you need to get, like, big, big containers and have a way to water them, because hanging containers, like, they will dry out very, very, very quickly. The kale’s doing good, the lettuce doing good. Out of all the ones that you should have planted in a permanent position, rosemary that would have overwintered in here, and it will eventually become a shrub. So should have planted in the garden beds, you’re saying? Yeah, same with that lavender. That would have been another good one to put in the beds because these are higher zones.

Like, they’re probably zone five. Okay. Do you want a piece of kale? I’m good. No? All right. So here we are in the orchard that you helped us plant. This syntropic food forest. It’s become more of an orchard. But there are still some food forest aspects to it. Now, you’ll notice that I took the liberty of putting conifers all around the orchard last year. These plants got their asses kicked by the wind. So I have these conifers. What do you think? Is that going to affect the soil? I know they’re really closely spaced and they have an irrigation line, so they’re going to rock it up probably in a few years.

Yeah, that’s a good choice because that’s. It’s leaves top to bottom, right? So that is a windbreak in and of itself. The only other option would be caragana. The caragana is way too aggressive and it will just take over the orchard, then be too difficult to keep back. That’s going to stay back. It doesn’t turn the soil acidic, yada, yada, yada. That’s all just a myth. That’s a gardener myth. The reason why nothing grows underneath those types of trees is because the needles will fall off and they just continue to coat and coat and coat and coat.

And then eventually you have needles that don’t decompose sitting on the surface, acting like a mulch. So it suppresses the light, it suppresses moisture, nutrients, all of it. So nothing will grow because of that factor. And that’s the only reason why you tend to see that the heck mischievous. What are you, Jace Ventura over here? Cats walking around dogs. Check out this rhubarb. What was that quote that I told you from Batman? Never rub another man’s rhubarb. Oh, yeah. Okay. It’s gonna flower. Isn’t that crazy? That is crazy. It loves its life. What’s going on with this? Is something going on here? It’s not dead by any stretch of the imagination, but it is winterkill.

You can see the soil here is cooler. So the soil is just warming up in this space. So it is waking up these buds. I wouldn’t worry about that. It’s gonna come through just fine. It’s just you’re out in the country, so it’s just going to be different. It’s not going to be like the city, the concrete jungle. And you know, it’s a good thing because mother nature knows how to do her job. So if a frost did hit, which sounds shocking, but it happens in our climate, the plant will be okay because it doesn’t have the leaves or the flowers.

Whereas in the city, we have leaves, we have flowers of a frost. Frost hits, you’re not getting any cherries, you’re not getting any Apples, you’re getting nothing. What about this here with this deformed kind of growing pattern? Is this. Yeah, that’s wild. Well, it got roughed up last year by that wind, because I’m not sure if you remember, but we had them out in pots for the first, I don’t know, two weeks, and they kept falling over and breaking, so you could cut them back. But I would probably just leave it for right now. Yeah, I think everything looks normal.

Your soil is just cold. Like, you made it sound like everything was dead. Dead. This is just things waking up. It’s just colder out here. Like this sort of stuff you have to weed, right. Because that’s too much pressure. Isn’t the grass better than the weeds? No, you’ve got fescue. So this is like natural prairie grass. So fescue roots go meters below ground and they’ve got big hairy root systems. So water and nutrients are immediately taken up by the grass. So we have to uproot that grass or mulch it over. Yeah, or just weed it. Like, just pull it.

Or like put a black plastic around it or this stuff. What about the clear plastic to burn it out? You don’t want to do that because you will burn your plant roots. Hey, you have asparagus. I know asparagus is coming in. See how interesting that is? Like, you very obviously recently installed that black tarp. Yeah, yeah. You can tell those plants are still asleep, particularly on that side. And that’s because they don’t have the black tarp. So the soil took longer to warm up. And this is under that black tarp. And you can tell because all these plants are way further ahead than those.

I mean, these ones aren’t. These. This is just a bit of mulch. No, but this just. Even this, because you can look like these ones are at a stage farther than those ones. And this side is exposed to greenery. These ones are even farther ahead than these ones because these guys got black on both sides. Like, mulch is meant to cool the soil, but it’s. It’s. It works to our detriment in our colder climates because it will cool the soil. So it insulates it, basically to keep it cooler. So what I oftentimes will do in my garden is I will pull all the mulch back once it thaws out enough.

Kind of just put it in a little pile in the corner, and that will allow the soil to actually warm up a little bit quicker. So what do you think of my pride and joy? I think this is probably one of the Nicer plants in here. Which one? This one here. Oh, is that a cherry? Yeah, those are those ones at the University of Saskatchewan. Bred. Hey. Oh, yeah. They just do really well where we are. I have one too. Sour cherries. Yeah, I don’t know, I think this, maybe these are some of the nicest trees that the ones that were most successful.

All right, guys, well, you heard it from her. 10 out of 10, all around. Perfect placement, everything’s good. We’re gonna survive the apocalypse. Am I right or am I right? Right. I’ll take that as a maybe. No, in all seriousness, though, you think I did pretty good here. I think you’ll be okay. I think seed saving is going to be an adventure. But that’s for the future to decide, guys. If you want to get one on one consulting, I would strongly recommend pretty much any question. It’s hard to stumper. I did it a couple times today.

But in all seriousness, if you’re somebody who you got it made, you got the land, you got all the stuff, but you probably don’t know what you’re doing. You need somebody like this, okay, you gotta talk to her and she’s gonna be able to help you actually do something that’s gonna be sustainable and that’s gonna work. Because I think a lot of my viewers, they have this idea. I know one person in particular. He’s got all kinds of greenhouses in cargo containers. He’s got all the tools and he’s like, you know what? If the hits the fan, I’m gonna go, go out and I’m going to have all the time in the world to build it.

What would you say to that guy? He’s going to fail. He’s going to starve. Oh, fine. He can do it. Can you grow something? Absolutely. Is it going to yield high, be good tasting? Can you save seeds from it? Like, no. No, there’s just no way. That takes time and experience and knowledge. There’s a lot to know, but there’s also like a lot of essential principles I found that are kind of applicable across the board. We’ve done many videos with you now, so we’re post links to all those videos. Go and subscribe to Gardening in Canada.

She’ll annoy the crap out of you, but you’ll probably learn something. You know all your subscribers that come over, they say they like me more than you. So you can keep those subscribers. I’ll take them. Those are probably all the old ladies. They’re probably the smart ones. All right, well, I’ve sustained enough abuse for one day. So we’re gonna call it quits. Thanks for coming out. I greatly appreciate we’re handshaking. I guess so do we. Fist bump. Bump. All right. Is that uncomfortable for you? All right. Thanks for coming out. Nice meeting your acquaintance. Until next time.

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