Male: Hey everyone. Probably the most watched shows on Garden Fork is how to build a cold frame, the other one is how to build a grow light. This is late March and I tried that over winter mesculin some salad greens and stuff in my cold frame here. And it got really cold and it didn’t work. I guess I’ve, maybe there was something I didn’t do right, but I put a layer of the floating roof fabric down and then I put my cold frame on top, but it gets really cold up here in Northwest, Connecticut.
So, what was one cool benefit of this is the fact that the ground here in my garden bed is ready to be seeded right now and the rest of this place is still full of snow and the soil is frozen salad. So, I can take this, like I’d open it and I could put seeds in here. So I’m going to put in some mesculin mix and spinach and some sugar snap peas.
Where’s your ball? Oh, nice.
So, I’ve got some arugula, some spinach, ah mescaline mix and sugar snap peas, and then I got some inoculated legume, inoculants, ah, for the peas, really simple to use but it helps the germination.
Hey everyone. It’s a week later now since did a little garden update. And I want to show you a progress we’ve made. First, rule number one, don’t put your coffee down because your dog will drink it. We’ll see how long that lasts.
Female: So you just put it down?
Male: Well, I got to put that down to show people, but dogs will come over and drink it a little bit, a funny little shot.
Female: He doesn’t like it.
Male: Okay. I just want to show you the progress inside our cold frame here. This is the next mesculin mix that we put in.
Female: Oh, it’s starting.
Male: Yeah, it’s coming up. I mean, it’s some weeds in here too. This is the kale and arugula over here.
Female: It’s their birthday.
Male: It’s their birthday today.
Female: It’s three.
Male: They’re three years old today.
Female: Big three.
Male: Well, what I want to talk about—Loof, out! Are the batteries dim in the cameras?
So we’re back here. Earlier, I covered this with black plastic, I left this uncovered and I thought I’d see what kind of temperature difference we have, nut is forty six, okay? So, let’s go under here.
Female: When did you come in there, last week?
Male: Last week and that’s thirty seven.
Ffemale: That’s not really what we’re expecting, is it?
Male: Oh, but that’s thirty three. Oh I guess it just depends.
Female: I guess it can’t breathe.
Male: That’s thirty three, all right. My point is the black plastic overtime will heat up the bed pasture, so I’m going to cover, and I’m going to cover the rest of the bed with black plastic. You know, we reuse plastic and I’ll take this and cover this up, and it’ll heat it up faster and that way we could put here like you could put in tomatoes or something like that.
Female: Because they need really warm soil.
Male: They need really warm soil, so they like it warm. So you just have anything fancy you could be. You hold it down with rocks. It could be plastic bags if you have those, or someone’s thrown out a bunch of plastic, grab it. You know, you could use clear plastic too but black plastic works best for that.
Male: Which is why?
Male: Yes and we have this, a promotional item. We have garden fork and rear wood green t-shirts and switchers now. There’s a green house on the back and the front.
Garden Fork, its lovely. This will crank up our ratings on YouTube, girl with the t-shirt. So on this bed here, I took off these mulched leaves that we had, and I left them on a winter, so I want to see, you know, versus plastic all winter and you know like a leaf mulch all winter, what would happen? So let’s, let’s stick the thermometer here and see what happens. Let’s go in.
Female: That seems all that we put in are made.
Male: Yeah, it is, I mean but our food comes from the ground. So this is 39 . So that’s substantially warmer than the plastic or the bed with no mulch at all on them. Thirty seven.
Female: That’s natural.
Male: Well, it just, it just shows that, you know, this works. So I just want to show you the leaf composting real quick, uh that we made last fall, that we took all our shredded leaves that we mulched with our lawn mower or gas guzzling lawn mower, I heard about that. So, remember last fall we made our simple chicken wire leaf compost in and this is after the winter, this is what it’s like. It’s almost halfway, it’s reduced by fifty percent, there we go.
Female: That’s we’re technical here.
Male: Yeah, but I wanted to see what temperature this thing is. No48, 46, but it’s not getting this cold as it’s not as cold as the bed czar. So it’s kind of neat, so that kind of proves about leaf mulch. Leaf mulch is good for over the winter.
Female: Is this all going down?
Male: No, it’s staying at forty six. So we’re good. All right, so there you go, come check our site, we’re having a lot of book giveaways. We’re giving away Ken Druse’s Planthropology. I have a hard time saying that word. We just had a video book or view on that; we’re going to have a giveaway. Go out and garden, cook with your food, buy local food and come to our site and tell us what you think, alright? Make a great day.
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