Posts Tagged ‘gardening’
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Well I am on the road today on my way to Norther Tennessee for some vacation and RV time. Let’s face it, it is HOT right now, it is 4 days until the dog days of August begin but that actually means fall is bearing down on us all like a freight train. Only about 40 days from now many of us will be standing in the dove fields with shot guns in hand, kids will be back in school and archers will be scouting for the coming deer season. The days will shorten, the leaves will turn and summer will become a memory. The ants will be going made getting prepped for winter and many gardens will “shut down” until next spring.
There is no reason to shut down garden operations in fall, it can be and often is the best time of the year for many crops. While the peppers may die in the first freeze and even a mild frost will take out the green beans there are a lot of things that can tolerate frost or can be container grown and sheltered at least from the first few frosts. Add a bit of frost protecting and you can have garden free salad on Thanksgiving day.
Join me today as we discuss my favorite fall crops an how to get them going before the cold air they loves is available.
- Starting seeds indoors isn’t just for spring
- My favorite 12 fall garden veggies
- Lettuce, red, green, speckled and more
- Spinach
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Beets
- Kale
- Orach
- Vegetable Amaranth
- Carrots
- Garlic
- Fava Beans – YUM!
- Turnips
- Why even hardy plants need a start in the warm periods
- The mini green house tricks that cost little money and tiny effort
- Break out the containers
- Time for a green house?
- Spring is a long way off – too long for me
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
It’s Friday again and we are back with more of your questions called into 866-65-THINK, we have some really great stuff today, lots on gardening, choosing a new generator, leveraging a skill set, dealing with visual impairment, prepping in an apartment and more.
Join me today as I answer your questions on…
- Getting a garden plot ready for next season
- Gardening when you are on the road
- Prepping for truckers, what to carry
- Dealing with unproductive peppers
- Tomato blight has defeated many of us in the south
- Square foot vs. bio-intensive gardening what is the difference
- How do you leverage a hobby or skill to increase your preps
- How can you set up remote monitoring of your BOL
- A tip for keeping stuff cold in the freezer during a power outage
- How to choose a good generator for your needs
- When if ever do you borrow from a 401K
- How do the vision impaired prep effectively
- What guns really need to be a left handed version for a lefty shooter
- What do you do when you run out of prep space in an apartment
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Monday, July 19th, 2010
Mike Gasior is mostly known as a financial luminary who has a nack for making the complex simple while pulling no punches. Mike joined us last time to discuss the state of the U.S. economy and what the future holds in that respect. Today he comes back to talk about his efforts as a homesteader.
Mike is quite the homesteader some of his activities include…
- Heating his home with wood heat
- Multiple back up generators
- Large gardens
- A small orchard he planted
- A variety of perennial edibles such as straw and raspberries
- Storing stabilized fuel
- Wood lot and forestry management
- And a lot more
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Well I asked for calls last night and boy did you guys deliver, over 67 at this point came in so let me apologize to the majority that won’t be on the air today but let me say I going to use a lot of them to preload a bunch of shows that will fill in for me when I am on vacation from July 27th – August 6th.
Join me today as we discuss…
- Dealing with perennial native grasses in your raised beds
- Installing drip irrigation on a budget
- Getting internet access in remote areas (if you have a better solution please let me know)
- What do our soldiers get paid, do they get a “bonus” for being shot at
- What is a spring house and what is a Hydraulic Ram Pump
- Are those little family stickers on cars a bad idea – probably
- What is wood gasification and what can you do with it
- Why is deflation bad, how can it be worse than inflation
- What to do with 23 acres of raw land
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Friday, July 9th, 2010
So it is Friday and I am ready to roll with another great round of you questions. Today I answer three awesome gardening questions, how to deal with riots and unrest, prepping for a new born baby and more.
Join me today as I answer questions like…
- What to consider when using cinder blocks to build raised beds
- How to you get grapes and blueberries ready for winter weather
- Freeze, dry or can, if you can do any which do you choose and why
- How do you prepare for riots and civil unrest
- What preps should expecting parents make for emergencies with a new born
- Does karma apply in a SHTF, you bet your ass it does
- What are my thoughts on the 17 HMR
- How do you find your true passion so you can make good choices for career and lifestyle
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
What? What the hell is wrong with Jack? Here we are it is just about to be the 4th of July, the “dog days” of August are still over a month away and I want to talk about fall? Yes indeed officially “fall” or autumn begins on the 21st of September with the autumnal equinox but when I think about fall gardening I use September 1st as my starting point. Sure it is still hot in many places but the turn of the seasons can be felt already, the days are noticeably shorter, the sun’s angle has begun decline and most fall/winter crops can manage for a few weeks until cooler weather arrives.
But why now, what should you be thinking about for fall in July? Glad you asked, join me today as we discuss…
- Starting plants indoors or in shade, yes really
- Finding your first frost date, isn’t this like spring in reverse
- Time to grow those plants that can’t handle your heat
- Some beans don’t produce well in heat but they can grow in it
- A few frost tolerant crops to plant in the early fall
- Cress
- Spinach
- Lettuces
- Radishes
- Garlic/onion
- Peas
- Carrots
- Broccoli
- Cabbabge
- Calendula
- Swiss chard
- Beets
- The evil squash vine borers are almost done laying eggs, quick plant now
- If you have multiple beds start planning come cover crops for winter
- Is it time to build that green house perhaps one with shade
- Tomatoes? Now? Perhaps
- Peppers in pots
- Surviving the first and second frost really extends a season
- Fire up the canner and dehydrator
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Join me today on the Survival Podcaast as we take your questions and feedback for June 14, 2010. Today we have great questions on shot gun options, rifle calibers, tree removal, life and health insurance, the gold standard and more.
Join me today as I answer your questions such as…
- Can a camp ground be a good BOL under some circumstances?
- How to deal with complex tree removals and the right equipment for the job?
- Nixon closed the “gold window” in 1971, so why do I always talk about 1975?
- How do you preserve books and documents long term?
- What type of health insurance do I recommend?
- What type of term life insurance do I recommend?
- How would I structure a 50/50 spit buying property with another party?
- How long can you really store dehydrated vegetables?
- How likely is secession, is it legal, when would it most likely be successful?
- Is secession necessary for “state sovereignty” or is there constitutional middle ground?
- What are my thoughts on the 8MM Mauser as a hunting round?
- How do you deal with failure in life day to day, not just in a SHTF?
- Can you run a well with a mechanical pump and how do you choose the right one?
- Will mulching with wood chips rob nitrogen from your soil?
- How exactly do chemical fertilizers destroy your soil and the life inside it?
Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.
You also now can call in questions or comments for the host at 866-65-THINK, (866-658-4465) please read the suggestions for calling in before you do for the best chance of getting your comments on the air.
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
I think there is a big misconception over exactly what guerrilla gardening really is. Is it a hippie in San Francisco that beautifies a highway median by sneaking in at night, is it the survivalist that grows food on his own land with out clearing a plot or is it the hermit that lives in the mountains and tends “wild crops”, the answer is yes, yes and yes.
Join me today as we discuss…
- What does guerrilla war mean and how does that apply to gardening
- What are some of the advantages to guerrilla gardening
- Where should you consider guerrilla gardening
- Do guerrilla gardeners “break the law”
- Why is guerrilla gardening a survival technique
- What tools do you need to be an effective guerrilla
- The seed ball, the guerrilla’s secret weapon
- How do you handle water for your gardening
- Which annual plants make the best candidates for the guerrilla
- Which perennials make the best choice
- How can native plants (or naturalized invasive plants) be utilized
- How do you find a location with out becoming a true outlaw
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Today we take a look at developing eight conventional and unconventional skills for the survival gardener. Ways that you can maximize production, protect your crops, extend your seasons and maximize space.
I am also going to do a follow up on my comments about the Arizona immigration bill yesterday, giving you what Paul Harvey would call “the rest of the story”.
Join me today as we discuss…
- Succession planting
- Trellising
- Guerrilla gardening
- Companion planting
- Container gardening
- Sheet mulching and rough mulching
- Water harvesting
- Wildlife identification
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Monday, April 26th, 2010
Today we have another round of your questions including things like Arizona’s new immigration bill, left handed AR shooting, China’s growing influence in Africa, the movie Food Inc and more.
Join me today as I discuss your feedback on…
- The reality of the new Arizona Immigration Law\
- Could we have State level deportation, well sort of if I was Governor
- Watch Food Inc. be aware it may change how you see food
- How Food Inc. and illegal immigration are linked
- How do you set priorities in dealing with debt and living in a place you don’t like
- Should left handed shooters learn to shoot right handed
- What is a master eye, why does it matter
- What is China doing in Africa and why should we care
- Concealed carry for the dress wearing lady, (help me out gals)
- A simple law in Georgia leads to deep constitutional and libertarian questions
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
