Hodge Podge Lodge; 935; New Ways Of Gardening

The. Thing. Here here. Here. And now. The White. House. Well. Maybe not. I do like to grow things. There are lots of different ways of growing things in the house and containers and adding garden swirls at the plant our garden at hodgepodge lodge today. And I thought we'd try some new things this year. Talk about some new ways of growing things. I've been reading about special ways that people who live in apartments even can grow radishes and tomatoes and things. I was and I have a new friend who brought us something special to plant in our garden today. Welcome to my home. But what did you bring us

a pepper what looks like 6 pepper plants. We could not we could not plants on here and I knew them to be some left for you and I calmly tried you like peppers. Yes good so do I how about you Ty and Sara. You ever groundcover plants. They're really good for you and not too hard to grow. You brought your own trial good and you live in a house and you have a garden. Yeah in the backyard when you grow a cabbage and lettuce. Do you have any problems with like rabbits are good about you tie any gardeners in your family. Have you ever been to anybody's house that had a garden and picked anything fresh out the garden. It's all strawberries Well I would. Where did you do that. How nice dumpling taste good right off the planet and sorrow.

What kind of gardening goes on in your family. We've got some who likes the garden best. Your father does lots of outside things I was like. I hear he's building a log cabin. That's great. Well suppose you lived in an apartment and you didn't have any yard but just a balcony where you could set things out. I just read a little book called The kind of Tater garden. Planning things in a basket like an old peach basket or a plastic tub. Just anything that will hold the dirt of the soil and the plant and you can do wonderful things I went to the Philadelphia Flower Show this year and the same company had brought all kinds of things growing in tubs that were squashes with squash plants were squashes on them and tomatoes with tomatoes on. It's really

amazing what you can do. All you have to do is be sure to have something for the roots to grow and some fertilizer and keep it watered. You don't even need real soil. You can use synthetic soil but if you're going to plant something in this basket where you think you'd have to do to people the stuff from coming out the cracks What could you do. You could put it in another can right. Can you think of anything else you could do there. How about lining it with a piece of plastic. And then you've still got to look at the basket I like baskets don't you. They remind me of the old days when you got everything in the baskets like that so you could lie with plastic or sell it inside something else so you wouldn't have dirt all over your patio or your or your balcony. And you won't have to worry about this because it has a hole in the bottom and there be room for drainage there. But if you're going to use this. You would have to have some place for extra water to get out so you'd punch some holes. Right around here not in

the bottom but right around your butts and gravel on the bottom. Because plants don't like to have the roots soaking wet all the time. So there are couple ideas if you live in a small place and don't have room like redo to go to go out and dig up a garden. Another idea that you read a lot about nowadays is mulch as you know what a mulch is and have you it's and sort of rich of the soil. Some mulch shows that Rich and Rich the soil right and some of them the main object of a mall just to keep the weeds from well you know lots of people love to play of seeds and plants and then they go away for a week or two and then come back and what's happened when some are bigger than the plants and that's sort of discouraging. So if you start out right by using mulch as you can keep the weeds from growing and you can keep moisture in the ground and some of them all just give food to the plants so you accomplish can accomplish three things let's go look at my

line up over here and talk about the different hives where we actually planning to bring your thank you. I have a lot of fun gathering these up this morning because some of them are fond of feel and smell. What do you think that is in front of you Sarah. The first one just bark. Pick up a handful and take a close look at barking and you have no idea where I got that truth. What do you think I chopped it up myself. What do you think it takes to chop up trees to live. Oh that's a good idea I've seen some trees center over a pile he had one backer has been working and bringing out chips to make his home one that looked just like that. Good idea. Well one of men invented they can grind up trees you know. You see along the road don't you. Working on the trees I take these big branches and throw them in the back of the

special machine. The girl a grand interesting that now they have those machines over there. Well it's a big grinder like you have a lot you might have a grinder to grind up vegetables or meat at your house this is a big grinder that can grind up branches and makes a terrible noise very bad for years. But what comes out is this. These What chips are these wood chips and they are great. Smell smell I handle these and see if you can tell. There's one kind of tree that I know the man most of my working on this day. Just a pile of wood chips smell so good that he won't smell a good tree in there that's good to make a specialty. And don't you get search for maple trees How about sassafras an assassin. Your Girl Scout archers there are a Browning But you'll learn about yourself.

It's not like that's known there is a good thing in small quantities you mustn't drink too much of it like anything else. Too much of it is not to the point. But there are wood chips and we'll put some of those around summer plants. They'll keep the weeds from growing. Keep the moisture in. Make some good mulch. I like that one. What's in front of you Ty. Right. There's another good idea. These are leaves from the willow and they they are pretty tough the last of the leaves this integrate faster but leaves are another good mulch. How about these. Michael is a pine and they smell good too. Maybe especially when out in the sun. And these are from. Pick up a bunch and see how many needles are in you know there are lots of different kinds of pine trees and you can tell pine different kinds of pines by how many needles they have in a

bunch. You count how many are in your eyes. 5 5 5 2 0 4 4. Well you're a little different from white pine trees white pines have five needles in a bunch and when the needles fall off they all together. By. Your palette 5 so this will make a good lunch. How about the stuff you like to look at it and see if you can figure it out. You have an idea like. Well if you pour water wells fargo doesn't hold together as much as spring is made from something in nature like roots. It's just another form of what. But you don't see so much of it anymore. It has a funny name. Excelsior or it's just long strings of wood it's good for packing things and keeping them from breaking when you're shipping them somewhere. It's also good to put in your chickens Nast So they want their eggs won't break like them

but it's also good for right. And now here we have a well stall straw right. Straw is usually green. Straw is good for animals to sleep on. I use the rounds to eat right but that's alright by the lots of people have trouble a lot of my friends have trouble telling straw. But both of them are good for mulch. But you wouldn't want to put good hay on your garden because I would be very expensive. You should be to your animals but sometimes farmers their fields and they get the hay all cut down and then a big nobs and he gets all moldy and it's not good for the cows. Then you should go to the farmers like I have all your spoiled hay to put on my garden for mulch and maybe you can get it somehow you get very cheap that way. So spoiled my use of it.

And then this is the straw that's been used in the stable where the cows were so it's a good mulch and it's also got a lot of good manure in it that will give it to our plants and here's something else I got in the kitchen. Round up coffee and after you make coffee out of them they've met their good the border guard takes a lot to keep the weeds down. Is that everything we've got one two three six different kinds of mulch on there lots more lots more that you could think you go over and really get started plants on your plants. And I guess we can kneel down till we really have to start to work. What's been done to this garden so far and you know what's a first step if you're going to make a garden that's been

dug up it's been dug up with the shells there are shells lined up back there I don't think we don't need our shovels anymore and we worked out a little bit to get the big lumps out of the rocks we've destroyed a lot of little creatures using a little creatures and here. You know their hands and what else lives and earthworms and what are they going to have in the garden. Yes why. Because fertilizer and what else are off. And Rich the soil and one more thing time. What do Anson worms let into the soil when they dig holes and they are ripe for plants to grow they have to have all those things. I hope you all are very careful with your tools in the garden because that's all you can get her to do put your tools down along with it. There

are lots of potato and what do you know about planting potatoes. The root of it. I think I can. I forget whether to go to a stem is meadows down it's the potato is raw right. Most plants what you get what you eat is the fruit of a bit of a spark that grows under the ground and when you want to grow potatoes you don't get seeds. You take a potato and it's better to go to the store and get some seed potatoes like policy but I was into the Nazi rather that which you can't buy at the data you get from the supermarket and you don't have to plant a whole potato. You know how much little you have to plant. Good Sarah that. Well lots of people don't know that potatoes have eyes but where you see a sprout coming out like they're

in there those are the eyes of the potato. So all you need on each piece is an eye. So Sara why don't you cut off your light Mike a cut right there do you know how to use it I fearfully cut through there and take that piece with I on. Maybe later down the road it will be safe. So what they teach Your Girl Scouts good so now you have a piece with an eye on and you can plant that in that hole. This plant like that covered up and I think will be of use for each of you Ty you want to cut right across there. That's three different ways to see which potato goes the best. Your little steak there. So we forget it's hard when you plant potatoes with the pointy end down. All right now let's do yours a different way.

Here's another new way of planting things. Take an old piece of rock. This is a piece of indoor outdoor carpet that was left over. And it's a good mulch. It doesn't contribute anything to the soil but it just keeps the weeds down and the moisture. So it's cold out here. Put that right over ties potato will I don't I will put the hole right over top so will work. You know what I want to make a little hole for and I will plant one without a hole. That's the newest one. Not even digging a hole deeper than that. One of the paddle sent out lots of roots and new potatoes grow on the roots. There are a lot of noises around here. I don't know when

some kind of action. OK cover it up. Let's take a little stake here. The whole right over there. That one starts to come up. Be sure that that's brown. I was up for the whole Iraq. Now Michael you're right there. We'll I think yours are really knew why we don't even dig a hole we just sort of rested on the ground like that little piece of plastic. What is that. Nothing it's a murder site. Whatever it is a very noisy black plastic.

You think you would have what happen if you're transparent. Right and they would. What is it we're trying to keep from growing. Clear plastic. Just like a greenhouse. Plastic is better yet. And what started life. What. Planet you want to go over to the sort of old that it. Still is. So we planted potato's three different ways and there are lots of other ways I read

about people who planted hills and barrels just covered with the barrel and one of my friends planted just the potato peelings under some straw so no lots of new ways of life. I let's try some of your peppers over there our tomato plant. It's a licensed drivers right here and you can take the rest home front yard and you can talk to them. We'll see who gets the most coppers. Would you get a jar of water for my dog. One provide one for Sarah. Hi strawberry. Thank you that one of their By Sara did it. OK now I've got something else here that helps make plants grow. Oh I've never heard of compost. OK who knows what compost it

gets with the bridge. Anybody know anything to add to that but oh grass and stuff. Did you find anything else. Oh I know the meaning of compost. Well Michael hit the nail Now you said the composing material and and Sarah was right. Grass and stuff. Things that were once alive or get a car came from something alive so they can handle this. Handed over to Sara leave Liverpool and you can dig a hole to time find something but if you look at closely in this conflict you'll see it has a round up egg shells and things in it and you just take all your things that are left over in the kitchen. Celery tops and Carrick tops and egg shells and coffee grounds and put them in a big pile and put on someone or in some law I'm and the rain comes down adds water and everything just sort of disintegrates and makes good rich fertilizer for

your plants. So sort of work that around in there. Right but in one of the pepper plants. Oh good you know how to get them out without breaking them off. We probably won't have to put a sign by this goes. Everybody could recognize a pepper but right now here's a tomato plant one of my friends raised with you Sara. It's called a Roma that has those Italian tomatoes on you like broccoli tie. OK got a bite of broccoli. You can just hear the couple and then you'll have a plan. Did you get some compost for yours. You don't mind getting your hands dirty do you. There's another new thing I think it's really an old thing but you've read a lot today about

companion plants. You've heard about companion plants. Now what is a companion. Oh look this part right your friends partners but I think that's a better word a partner a companion plant is something you plant with another plant that doesn't sound good. Like if you plant onions onions but I got some garlic. You plant onions next to certain plants and it keeps the bugs away. So it's a good companion as a partner. It helps it do better. So all you can get books out of the library to tell you which plants to plant next to which other plants you know some plants that are bad for each other. You don't want that that most of it. But anything in the new family is good for keeping bugs away so let's put plastic a couple These next to the pepper plant. OK what else do we have oh you know who knows a story about the old days when the Indians used to buy their corn a

trick they showed to the pilgrims about go fishing catch fish for fertilizer or you would have you read that guy. You heard that story here. Well I don't have a whole page but I have a couple fishes for going fishing so I thought we would put those in little girls at home and see what they did there will plant some without fish and some with us so once you dig a little hole they are. Near our fish heads. Oh you're a brave boy you're not afraid to be Goebbels Melly fish head. Well wash your hands after gardening. I will drop in a couple years couple corny cover it up and I'll find a mistake.

See I think I even had one of the warning. Now what do you think Aurora would like us to plant for him. Some. Sunflower seeds OK. Why don't you and very tall SARA So why don't you make a whole row. You know how to make a row with a hoe. Let's talk. Let's make it let's make it like this. That. There are several different ways of making a row there is one you can go ahead and put some sunflower seeds with a little plant them about six inches apart. And you know this right. Making a hoedown and walk a lot and just walk on it. And that sinks.

That's it. Come back and step on it real hard. How much do you weigh. So that's one way of making something that's that'll do for some very final year. That's that's putting something in there not very fine but you can push them down you. Want you got on the other end time and they plant them about an inch apart. And then for decoration in the corners of our garden let's plant some flowers. You're a pansy. You can put it right there in that corner. As I like to have flowers and vegetables both in my garden. There. And water and poured on. You already did good.

And we need a steak for the beans. Like. There's a special panel rights on plastic Tuesday so you do it and pass it to time. You can write his own song and I'll plant this nice patients right in this corner. To have a flower and vegetable garden. Oh now go get some planted plants go get some compost whichever kind you want and put it around your plant so we won't have to worry about weeds which are what I do think would be the best but I get really sick with a really thick layer on because weeds are so tough. They can come right up through them through a thin layer. Right.

All that looks nice. It's over. You bring me a big handful. We're playing Sara for my impatience like you. You better get some for your happiness. So. Impatient. I'm glad you could help me get our garden started around some more things it takes a lot of work. Good garden to remember to try new ways of gardening. Try planning things in containers. If you don't have much room or if you have a regular garden

lots of different have to do so much work to help you have fun with gardening very much. Thank you for. Were. Were.

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