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Charles Parks
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 16 ธ.ค. 2011
Gardening: Building a Compost Pile
Layers of green and brown organic materials will give the pile fuel to reach 131 degrees F, about 55 C. At this temperature weed seeds won’t sprout and diseases diminish.
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Gardening: Constant Squash Yields by Planning for Life Cycles
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Straight neck squash mature earlier than scalloped, or patty pan squash. And winter squash are just producing new fruit. Staggering them allows for months of squash production instead of a few weeks.
Gardening: Summer Squash Moisture Problems Caused by Lack of Air Flow
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High humidity and constant thunderstorms create special problems for summer squash. When caught early the solutions are simple.
Gardening: Summer Squash and Potatoes
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The end of first early potato season usually coincides with the beginning of summer squash. I grow two types, straight neck and scalloped, also known as patty pan.
Gardening: Growing Carrots
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Loamy soil sure helps, but if soil quality is a problem try these Danvers Half Long carrots. Wedged shaped, they punch through tough soil and make the next crop easier. Don’t forget to like and share!
Gardening: Cleaning Garlic for Curing and Long Term Storage
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Don’t forget to check out all our garlic videos! th-cam.com/video/ICAFWlG4uJM/w-d-xo.html
Gardening: After Eight Months, Our Garlic is Ready!
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The latest planted were the earliest to mature, and therefore smaller. I use a trowel to keep from breaking off the stem. Yes that used to happen a lot. Don’t forget to like, share, and watch my other gardening videos!
Gardening: How to Fight Dry Winds, and Spring to Summer Transition
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Lower humidity and constant wind have dried out some important areas of the garden. How you water matters!
Life in the Cold compost pile
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Worms in abundance are breaking down the organic matter into useable top dressing for the raised beds.
Gardening: Planting Spring Onions in March
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Tokyo long white spring onions, started indoors first week of February, planted out first week of March. These onions were bred to tolerate frost, so plant early.
Making a Compass With a Needle
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Add static electricity to charge the needle and it will align with the earth’s magnetic field! Handy thing to know when you have a map but no compass.
Gardening: Rescuing Thrown Away Potatoes
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Potatoes tossed into the compost bin because they were sprouting are good candidates for planting! If they get killed in a frost we only lose a few square feet of garden. If they grow we could get several extra pounds of potatoes.
Gardening: Planting and Harvesting in December!
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Gardening: Planting and Harvesting in December!
Gardening: flipping the Cold Compost Bin
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Gardening: flipping the Cold Compost Bin
Gardening: Flowers on Potatoes, the Harvest Clock Starts
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Gardening: Flowers on Potatoes, the Harvest Clock Starts
Gardening: Spring is Here! Planting Onions and Making Strawberry Beds
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Gardening: Spring is Here! Planting Onions and Making Strawberry Beds
Gardening: Sowing the Fastest Growing Vegetable
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Gardening: Sowing the Fastest Growing Vegetable
Gardening: Opening the Cold Frame 2023 Prep for Strawberries
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Gardening: Opening the Cold Frame 2023 Prep for Strawberries
Gardening: Hardiness Zones versus Soil Temperature
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Gardening: Hardiness Zones versus Soil Temperature
Gardening: Freeze Damage to Cabbage, and the January Tour
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Gardening: Freeze Damage to Cabbage, and the January Tour
Really nice cleaning…keep it up bro💪🏻
Good on you fighting cancer. Growing your food is cool too. Also a good way to beat cancer back.
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Great video! Thanks for the lessons
My pleasure!
I had a beautiful straight neck variety. I lifted the main stem to get the mower a bit closer and next day it was done
Yes, the stem is rather delicate. I check them for vine borer entry marks, and spray them with BT whenever it decides not to rain for a few days. BT is an organic spray than makes larvae sick when they eat the plant.
Love your content man! Keep up the awesome work!
Is this Elephant garlic?
No, these are regular softneck garlic.
and the few that are hiding down there come up next year. I love new potatoes!
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I forget how amazing that soil is. GA is red clay & rocks. I feel like over 20 years I have amended 1/2 ac but then again I still hit rock most times I plant. That VA soil is just the best.
Ten thousand years of sediment didn't hurt us! The clay on top of sand was the toughest to ammend, but I have a video on that as well, showing the growth in the depth of topsoil in Bed One. th-cam.com/video/sA13IJXL8qs/w-d-xo.html
Great Video
Looks Great!
My onions ended up drowning. I've never heard of the Tokyo longs, but it sounds like a type I need to start growing.
How do you decide these numbers, currently going insane trying to decide a wing cross section 😭
Rest In Peace Mr. Brad.
Condolences to all who had the pleasure of knowing Brad, you will be remembered 🙏
When would be the best time to edit your work? After all your pages are drafted, or gradually after you write each page?
I often edit after a chapter is completed. That way I know some easy errors can be caught, but it doesn't interrupt the flow of creative writing.
Thank you for the very interesting and useful video.
In order to avoid creeping errors I first make a rib pattern in aluminum sheet. You can pick up small cut off scraps from any aircraft repair shop. The aluminum is easy enough to cut with a scroll saw and then smooth with a file or sandpaper. Trace it onto the balsa with a soft led pencil, cut them out a bit oversize, stack them and sand them all to the same shape at the same time. I drill two 1/8 holes in the ribs to keep them together as you sand. The 1/8" dowel will also hold them in place when you glue them to the spars. A bonus suggestion: keep your file wet with WD-40 and it will never plug up with aluminum filings. Good luck!
yep, Aluminum or hardwood would be my choice as well.
Honestly, I've always been watching all your videos and whenever I watch, it's giving me a calm and relaxing vibes and a positive energy. Also, your videos help me relieve my stress. Always take care and so is your family. Thank you for always giving us these wonderful videos ❤
Doge
how did you finalise the airfoils for your glider
Part of the problem was how delicate balsa is, so I made the airfoil thicker to accommodate two 1/8 inch diameter spars. Two balsa pieces broke anyway during construction, but I reglued them around the spars, and that seemed to work.
Why did I have to like wait a whole minute just for the like to go up🤦🏾
Legumes are lit
Mmmmmm, legumes!
I responded so fast it's still loading 😅
Thanks for the great demo! Definitely will try this.
Curing room looks magnificent! Great work to you and Brad both 👍
Thanks so much!
Texas Grande? Maybe you meant Grano
Hey Mr.Parks my bean plant you gave is doing super well.
Good video
Hhhhhhh this is what I need, thank you
what are these digits ?
I have another video on the NACA 4 digit airfoil that explains them in detail.
Once the tops have died back completely, cut them back and leave for 2 weeks. The potatoes will condition themselves in the soil
Why did you harvest when the potatoes still had much more time to maturity?
These are first earlies, not Russet or other main crops. Their growth is completing when the leaves and stalks begin to turn color. This particular batch got over 110 pounds of harvest from 3 pounds of seed potato. Charles Dowding from the UK has a good video on harvesting first earlies as well.
Hot July and August days feels pretty long when you’re working outdoors. I’ve seen people just sprinkle seeds in a raised bed and thin them for spring onions and leave the rest to bulb. I sow mine in the winter indoors and plant them out at about 6 inches. Onions require a lot of nitrogen to grow a lot of foliage which makes the individual rings on the bulb.
Let them plants lay down and die back before you harvest.. Those taters would have kept growing and getting bigger.. You harvested right when those plants were putting the most energy into the potatoes..
These are first early potatoes, not main crop potatoes like Russets. This batch had a 110+ pound harvest from 3 pounds of seed potato.
@Charles Parks It doesn't matter my friend.. If the plants are still green.. They are still storing energy in the tubers.. Thus, the tubers will continue to grow bigger.. I've been growing pontiac reds since I was in diapers.. You want the plants to lay down and die completely before you harvest them.. You killed your plants right when they were putting the most energy into the tubers.. Your 110lbs probably would have been closer to 200lbs if you would have let them finish..
Banjo out getting some sun also! Best wishes for your radish crop 👍
Thanks for explaining this so simply.
A little birdie told me you don't like Collard Greens. Now, if that's so (BRAD P), we need to talk! You need Juanita's collards with pot licker and you'll be a convert!
Beautiful greens! Looks like the Frankenstein tomatoes are still thriving in their bush as well 👍
Beauty lettuce, also the carrots, . . . . Your neighbor is shooting.
He's special forces and has to stay in practice. And he doesn't miss much!
"Just because it looks dead doesn't mean it can't be useful to us." Wise words extend beyond our gardens! 😄 Very happy to see the carrot transplants have some measure of success!
Hi, Im have trouble remembering, did you say fall is the time to plant garlic? thx 😊
We plant in late October/early November here in coastal Virginia, right around our first frost date.
Beans
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So proud of bed 4, she was fighting with a significant intrusion of grass and weeds and now looks ready to conquer the world! Oh and once you taste those scuppernongs (muscadines) you'll know why they didn't make it to scale! 😂
You and Tim have done yeoman work. Great job guys.
Thank you for the detailed garlic prep, will you save any for planting.
Yes, we will save roughly 150 of the best cloves for replanting in November. Most will be soft neck, but we have a few hard neck bulbs we’d like to grow for the scapes as well as the bulbs.
Good job Ed.