Adventures of a 100% vegan grown farm- August 6th 2017
I am still amazed that we managed to get something to grow, after all the challenges this year.
Carrots
Kale
Swiss Chard
Keep in mind the daily pests or issues we have to deal with....
Rain, ALL THE TIME!!
These little leaf eating shitheads, but I am sure benefit some other being somewhere.
The mud. The never ending mud!!
In the end, the plants decide....
Tomatoes
Zucchinis
Bhut Jolokia- almost 30 peppers per plant!!
I'm hearing its a tough season all around. You'd think clean eating would be an interesting subject. Sure opened my eyes. More to come :-) Upvote if you can
Wow, interesting. We've been having it tough in Ontario, Canada too. More rain than I've ever seen this time of year, and abnormally cold temperatures. Luckily the farmers in my area for the most part have drainage which helps with that. I'm curious if any of your difficulties are due to the fact that you are a 100% vegan grown farm, or if it's mainly just do to the unusual weather conditions?
Hi, thanks for your question. The difficulty this year is definitly the amount of rain. My neighbors farm is not vegan grown, and he is having the same issues. The only difference is we do not add any animal compost. We get our green fertilizer from clover and rye, at the beginning and at the end of the season, and its just as nutrient dense, if not more. The only crops that seem to be doing well this year is corn, but they seem to be smaller than usual. Nature will be nature. :-)
Okay, thanks for your reply. Yes, I've noticed that about our surrounding corn fields out here :)
Ugh this year's gardening has been harsh for us here in North East BC Canada. My leafy greens are holes everywhere. The flee beetles have been nasty. We cannot harvest none of them.
The insects and bugs have been bugging the summer squash too 😫😫😫
Love love love your jolokia plants!!!
We didn't plant them this year, only some Hungarian wax peppers.
Here is hoping you will harvest awesome goodies!!
The jolokia have recovered well, after 10 days of harsh rain, we got real worried for a bit, as the leaves yellowed. Now, they are producing between 30 and 50 peppers per plant. Its an important crop for us.
That is wonderful to hear. Normally we have winter from October to June (the joy of living in the north 😫), but this year has been a lot of thunderstorms and a couple of tornado-to be (so unusual for us), which was worrying a lot (still is for neighboring areas as wildfires raging sadly). So yeah too many bugs, too moist soil, lots of rotting crops in the garden for us.
Super jealous for the jolokia for sure!!
The Jolokia has a pretty specific technique used on it. I haven't seen it through a whole life cycle yet, but the results have been the same for about 6 years on other plots. This is the first attempt in clay soil.
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Hey Nantchev, thats an interesting channel you have there. How do you see us fit in to the content?
I am interested in finding people that are doing remarkable things with their life to talk about what it is they are doing: why they are doing what they are doing, what change they want to make in the world and what difference they want to see happen.
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Plus, lately, I have playing with a vegan diet and it would be cool to have you on the show, because I want a variation of people from different backgrounds.
Nice, Im sure we can work something out. I'm not an expert on anything but dont mind answering questions. :-)
The podcast is all about you and everything you are doing and believe in.
Garden looks pretty good considering all the rain. I have the opposite; hot and dry!
My peppers would no doubt enjoy your climate better :-)
That's for sure. I usually have a good crop. The hot peppers get really hot with the heat and dry.
Thats awsome @johnnycapote im thinking about starting something similar, just got an acre. Upvoted followed
It takes next to nothing to get started, we have 8 beds, four feet wide, by 200 feet long. Just start it, the rest follows. Do not place expectations, rather let your observations be your expectations. No stress, no worries :-)
I like that thnx
That's still awesome, it's good that you get around to grow and eat something that you worked hard on.
Thanks