Before the new growing season starts I find it useful to look back at the previous year, to identify some of the many things that I learned in and around the vegetable gardens. And 2022 has offered a lot of opportunities to explore and learn, often through errors and mistakes.
0:00 Intro
0:47 1. Seed Savers Can Make Mistakes
1:30 2. Don’t rely on the experience of others
2:14 3. Compost can kill
3:07 4. Firm compost is better
3:43 5. Compost takes a lot of time too integrate
4:29 6. Poor compost needs extra nitrogen
5:14 7. Soil under the compost pile is very fertile
6:05 8. Wire frames work
6:42 9. Climbing is better
7:25 10. Beans seem to self-limit
8:16 11. Plants keep growing if you keep harvesting
9:05 12. A double stem is better
9:58 13. It might be possible to grow melons
10:31 14. Weeds will keep going
11:14 15. Pest pressure changes
11:57 16. How ideas spread, or not
13:01 17. Practice makes things easier
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