30 Awesome Gardening Hacks – Epi-3018

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This is a topic we really have not dug into for a long time.  These are 30 of my best gardening hacks developed over almost 40 years of gardening.  Additionally we have a bonus 16 hacks provided by community members via Flote and MeWe.

Some of these you will have likely heard of or even used, but as much as we will cover “lightning round” style today I think everyone will come away with a few things they had never considered before and certainly a few that they can implement in the coming spring gardening season.

  • Some of my best gardening “hacks”
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    1. Water Plant Baskets for Hardening Off
    2. Store tools right in the garden
    3. Composting with wire fence rings
    4. Cover crop in winter
    5. 15 Minute Timer Wicking Beds
    6. Regrow produce – celery, box choi, green onions, living lettuce, watercress, carrot tops, root basil, baby beets
    7. Micro and Mini Green Houses – Video One – Video Two
    8. Old pots as plant protection
    9. Aspirin for Tomatoes and Beans
    10. Freeze Elderberries To Harvest Them
    11. Garden along natural often used pathways
    12. Coffee Grounds
    13. Peel and Stick Plant Prison
    14. Get free coffee grounds from Starbucks etc.
    15. Weed/comfrey tea for fertilizer
    16. Use seed spacing jigs
    17. Spot kill pests with soap or orange oil – 2.5 TBPS of dish soap to 1 gallon of water – 1-2 TBPS of orange oil plus dry mustard to the gallon for hard scale pests.
    18. Garlic Pepper Tea – link to recipe
    19. Cornmeal for disease control, composting and more – how to use it
    20. Water in the early morning if you can
    21. Pond plant fertilizer
    22. Use crushed not half egg shells, trust me
    23. Sand and mineral oil tool storage
    24. Direct compost under mulch
    25. Radish trap crops
    26. Seed organize by season and start method
    27. Grow Sorghum and Sunflower in your veggie garden
    28. Mulch like crazy and get almost free wood chips with 12 packs of beer
    29. Maximize the use of “eastern sun” in hot climates
    30. Over winter sweet potato as a house plant instead fo starting slips
    31. Bonus – Use my 7 part fertility program – link
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  • Hacks suggested by the audience
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    1. Transplant wild edibles – Christopher on MeWe
    2. Automate irrigation – Mike on MeWe
    3. Label, label, label – Andy on MeWe
    4. Use tarps not tilling – Dave on MeWe
    5. Local grocery store floral departments for free pots – Michael on MeWe
    6. Heavy duty office shredder for all paper and light cardboard to compost – Susan on MeWe
    7. Cattle panels and t-posts for trellises – Kate on MeWe & Belsnickle & Rsteva on Flote
    8. Mint prison pots – Eric on MeWe
    9. Make friends with livestock owners if you don’t have any for waste manure – Clyde on MeWe
    10. Mass planting madness – Miller on MeWe
    11. Raise meat and eggs and barter for veggies – Darby on MeWe & Jameson on Flote
    12. Tie into local wisdom, talk to older local gardeners and farmers – BendingReids on Flote
    13. Build a vortex tea brewer (50 gallon under 100 bucks to do) Scramblin on Flote
    14. Dance tulle as pest netting – Reset Remedy on Flote
    15. Diluted urine as fertilizer – Doctor Steve on Flote
    16. Chicken tunnels around garden permitters – Rsteva on Flote
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  • The real key is this is all mostly learned by experience, seeing a need and sharing information, get your hands dirty and you will learn.

 

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Spiderwire Wolf Tackle Bag – Item of the Day

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Special Note – I love and I mean absolutely LOVE this bag.  I have used it now for more than 6 years.  It is the best and I mean absolute best tackle bag I have ever found, period.  And today it is on sale.  It isn’t a huge mark down but this bag has been in the TspAz catalog almost as long as it has existed and it has only been on sale twice before.  If you want one, get one today.

Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the Spirderwire Wolf Tackle Bag.  Today’s Item of the day is the Spirderwire Wolf Tackle Bag this review includes a video of my behind the truck seat go anywhere fishing kit and all the items in it.

The key about this bag is capacity and function.  There is just a ton of storage in it, again as you can see from the video below.  One of the great features in the line minders on both sides of the bag, this allows you to spool line onto your reel with zero twist and with just a bit of practice no spool over as well.

With this bag I am able to carry three full sized telescopic rods, a cast net, a minnow trap, various prepared baits, an aerator, tools, a full tackle assortment and more.

The quality of this bag is also amazing, all the stitching is super high quality and it is made of very tough 1680 denier material.  While quite large it is still small enough to fit in a truck tool box or say behind a truck seat.  The carry strap is nicely padded and well made making hiking into a spot really easy.  And by using the telescopic rods you are only carrying the bag with no rods to thread in between trees, bushes and snagging briars. 

So check out the Spirderwire Wolf Tackle Bag I think you will find it to be the best currently available tackle bag on the market.

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P.S. –  The best way to really show you what this bag has to offer so check out the video below.

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P.S. – Please note that the particular brand of telescopic rods in this video are no longer available.  I have yet to find a suitable replacement mostly because I really don’t need any new ones yet.  I am going to trial a few this summer and hope to have a new brand to recommend soon.  If you have a suggestion let me know in the comments below.

16 Reasons Why Muscovy Ducks are the Perfect Homestead Bird – Epi-3017

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After a 3 year absence I have brought Muscovy Ducks back to Nine Mile Farm.  And there is a reason; well, at least 16 reasons they are back.  I can sum it up this way though, they are the perfect bird for homesteading and for permaculture systems.

Doubt me?  Well tune in today for a fun episode where we completely ignore the news cycle, politics, bad news, etc and dig into why the Marvelous Muscovy is such a great choice in small livestock for food production systems from small to large.

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  • Sixteen Reasons Muscovies are the Perfect Homestead Bird
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    1. Long Lived (avg 12-20 years)
    2. Good Volume of Eggs (120-150 a year, seasonally)
    3. Egg Production is solid for 8-10 years
    4. Very Hardy
    5. Require Minimal Shelter
    6. Very Little Mess
    7. Exceptional Meat
    8. Easy to Train
    9. Very Broody
    10. Good Foragers on Herbage
    11. Very good predators of pests
    12. Great feed utilization
    13. Quite Cute Noises
    14. Easy to Sell Surplus if you Don’t want to Harvest
    15. Get Along with Other Animals
    16. Suspicious of “New Things”
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  • A  Few Negatives
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    1. Need Annual Wing Clipping
    2. Seasonal on Egg Production
    3. Can be difficult to handle (claws)
    4. Can easily become “your friends”
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  • The basics of care
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    • Water – they need to be able to bathe I use 21 gallon mixing trays
    • Shelter –  a coup is best with at least a 3 sided shelter
    • Feed – us any good quality poultry feed, here is why I never feed soy though
    • Forage – turn them out on good forage and let them do their thing
    • Wing Clipping – if you don’t you will wish you did
    • Sourcing Birds – I’ve always gotten them from CL but Metzer Farm is adding them this year
    • Brooding – If you must you must but momma ducks will do a better job if it is an option
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  • Final Thoughts – May not be for everyone but likely the best fit for most small to large homesteads

 

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DeWalt Cordless Jig Saw (Bare Tool) on Sale – Only 8 in Stock

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UPDATE – After I posted this this AM the 8 in stock clearly sold out.  It now is reading again as “13 in stock” but the price went to 168.  This is an okay deal but not the smoking deal on the inventory they apparently wanted to clear out.  This happens frequently with DeWalt, their reasoning behind it I don’t claim to know exactly why they do this, but it is a clear pattern.  Remember if you don’t want to miss out on deals that often expire before the daily show goes live, join the TSPC Telegram Announcement Channel.  https://t.me/tspcbroadcast

Okay just saw this one and with the inventory so low it won’t be the item of the day.  Just a quick heads up, if you want to add a DeWalt 20V cordless jig saw to your kit today is the day, if you get there first.

It is on sale right now as a bare tool only for 143 bucks, the retail on this item is 219.  This is a top end brushless tool, and one of those tools you tend to get last in your power tools kit.  If you need one and are already on the DeWalt platform, get this now before the inventory (again 4 in stock at the time of this posting) is gone.

Out Back with Jack – Epi-3016

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Today we are back after our holiday shutdown with an episode of  “Outback with Jack”.  These podcasts will be generated though back porch (weather permitting) live steam sessions done early early in the morning.  That will be approximately 0730-0830 CST.

These podcasts will are a lot like old school TSPC episodes on a variety of topics, many quite topical from the news and from social media.  Each show will covers a bullet point list of 5-12 topics that I will handle rather rapid fire.

From there we will talk about what ever the live audience comes up with.  These livestreams will then be converted to MP3s and put out in the standard TSPC Podcast feeds under the new series title of “Outback with Jack”

Today we discuss trust in media, the current state of the crypto market and we look at the recent SCOTUS rulings on vaxx mandates, city, states and nations buying Bitcoin, protests and violence from them, a bit of politics, car kill switches, cloning perennials and more.

Todays Pre Set Subjects Include…

  • Hate to say it but I think SCOTUS got both rulings on the mandates right – link
  • More cities and states are going to put Bitcoin on the balance sheet – link – link-2
  • Will there be more violent protests in 2022 if so will they be connected to the elections
  • The senate is not going to kill the filibuster so what is really going on there
  • Thoughts on “finding a partner” (romantic) when you live in a “blue state”
  • Mandatory car kill switches is in the infrastructure bill, what exactly does that mean
  • Thoughts on using ebb and flow seed starting systems for cloning perennials – link to rooting hormone I mentioned
  • Building a business in 2022 with/without FaceBook
  • Muscovy ducks are returning to Nine Mile Farm
  • Follow up on using aspirin to prevent tomato diseases – link – link-2

 

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Expert Council Q&A for 1-6-22 – Epi–3015

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Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on Fauci’s incompetence, a stunning statement by Pfizer’s CEO, communications, knife making, strokes, diet, fodder trees, predictions for 2022 and more.

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  • In the Ron Paul Liberty Highlights
    • Why hasn’t Fauci resiged yet – Dr. Ron Paul
    • A stunning statement by Pfizer’s CEO about the vaxx – Dan MacAdams
    • Avoiding traps of mental despair – Chris Rossini
  • Developing a protocol for emergency family communications – John Pugliano
  • Some finer points on handle attachment for knife making – Patrick Roehrman
  • Risk factors and mitigation of the risk of stroke – Dr. Bones
  • How a “plant based diet” compares to a keto diet – Dr. Ken Berry
  • Fodder trees in tropical climates – Nick Ferguson
  • My 12 Predictions for 2022 – Jack

 

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Fiskars 7in Take-Apart Shears – Item of the Day

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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is one of my favorite kitchen tools, kitchen shears.  Here is the issue, my past recommendation was RedYetiWare Shears but they were discontinued, so I now have gone back to my old favorite, Fiskars 7in Take-Apart Shears.  These are great quality shears, excellent steel, very sharp and they hold and edge well.

Once you have a good quality pair of shears the next thing you want to look for is can you take them apart and do they stay together during regular use.  These do that and I am not sure why but so many others that come apart by design also come apart during use.  I mean it really isn’t that hard to make a pair that stays together during use but I guess Chinese chop shops can’t figure it out.

Fiskars makes great quality stuff and always has, while they manufacture some things in China, as many do, they maintain stiff quality controls and offer a lifetime guarantee on these shears.  And at about 15 bucks a pair a set belongs in your kitchen if you don’t already have great shears.

Let’t talk about the take apart feature though and why it is a must have for me.  I use my shears to do things like cut up veggies but I also use them to break down a chicken, these things will take a back bone out of a chicken as though it had a zipper.  So do you want chicken skank on your veggies?  I sure as heck don’t!  And to me the only way to be sure they are fully clean is to be able to take them apart.

These things have a great grade on Fakespot so you know the reviews are real and they get 5 stars with over 600 reviews.  The only complaints that are somewhat legitimate is that the hinge can develop rust.  This is because the screw that holds the hinge is made with carbon steel to reduce wear, so when you wash them put a drop or two of oil on the hinge screw and they will last damn near forever.  Any oil will do, I generally use olive oil because its the one I cook with most often and so its always at hand.

So if you don’t have a set of quality shears in your kitchen pick up a set of Fiskars 7in Take-Apart Shears at around 14 bucks and change with free shipping they are a hell of a deal.

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Cathrine Bonandin on The Anarchapulco Conference – 3014

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Catherine Bleish Bonandin is a long time freedom activist with roots in the Ron Paul 2008 campaign, and was one of the leading voices pushing back against the growing police state over a decade ago. Now she the producer Anarchapulco, an annual gathering based in Sunny Acapulco Mexico. In it’s 8th year, this event continues to bust paradigms by bringing people together during global travel shut downs and covid inspired medical totalitarianism.

This week-long even is best experienced in person at their tropical jungle venue, along side some of the biggest names in freedom. They also offer decentralized watch parties and virtual tickets for those who are unable or unwilling to travel during the ever changing global climate.

Come ready be be inspired and to walk away with implementable strategies to create freedom in this unfree world. Topics that will be covered include philosophy of anarchy, gardening/homesteading/intentional communities, crypto/agorism, health/wellness, spirituality, activism and more. This year’s event will take place Feb 13-18 2022. If your schedule permits, many people choose to stay a while and participate in unofficial community events and parties before and after the main event.

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The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation – Item of the Day

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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Item of the day is the book The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation by Fred Pearce.  I learned of this book in a video by Geoff Lawton.  I was so impressed with Geoff’s video that I included in an expert council podcast.  (episode 2914).

When I read this book I was flatly blown away.  Many online attack Fred Pearce and this book and acting as if Pearce’s view is that you can just import anything anywhere with zero concerns and there are no real negative consequences to “invasive species” or what Pearce calls “aliens”.  I will just say any zealots shrieking such things, could not have read this book.  I mean COULD NOT HAVE read it, period.

On the contrary this is not some utopian view that “aliens” only have positive impacts on their new homes.  Rather it is only a pragmatic and logical look at how it has all happened, how many times it has actually been positive on impact and how even the negatives are largely exaggerated, often for political purposes.

Here are few such examples you will learn about in this book…

  • How an “alien tree” was blamed for drying out rivers in the US, though it was growing down stream of the dry out
  • How a plant in the UK is claimed to “break though home walls” to the point where if it is on a property you can’t get a mortgage to buy it, yet it has never happed even once.
  • How a water plant considered a pestilence actually helped clean one of Africa’s largest lakes
  • How an island that was 95% bare rock was turned into cloud forest with mass species plantings
  • Why the concept of stopping these plant an animal migrations is flatly ridiculous at this point
  • How thousands of species are moved around annually just from ballast water in ships or trade winds
  • How a piece of a jetty traveled with dozens of species in the current from Japan to Washington state

 

Honestly this book fits very well with a video that was part of my Miyagi Mornings series Why I Don’t Trust the Authority of Science – Miyagi Mornings Epi-133.

There seems to be a total emotional and political disconnect across the globe about the actual impact of what we have been taught to see as “invasive species” to there point where natives are called invasive simply because they do things humans object to.  And even how invasives are accepted erroneously as natives because people simply like them.   All of this builds to situations where people have tried to wipe out natives calling them invasives to protect invasives that they called natives.  Yes really!

In any event I and Geoff Lawton both highly recommend reading this book which will forever change your perspective.  This won’t be done though rose colored utopian glasses, rather simply a pragmatic and fact based look at the reality of this issue.  You know the way science is supposed to examine an issue.  So check out The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation by Fred Pearce and I think you will really enjoy it.  And yep you can get it in Kindle or Print formats.

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Starting Seeds for Spring Planting – Epi-3013

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Today we talk about starting seeds in a variety of ways but mostly from the stand point of starting them indoors to get plants ready to be put out after danger of frost.  This is an area where a lot of people struggle and frankly a lot of mistakes are made.

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  • Understanding how seeds germinate in the wild (this answers so many questions)
  • Setting up your seed starting systems
    • How much do you want/need to start
    • Indoors, garage, outdoors, green house, “indoor greenhouse”
    • Lights – I now only recommend LEDs specifically Barrina Lights)
    • Heating (mats, space heating, etc)
    • The payback on equipment
    • Soil vs. hydro for starting your seeds
  • Things I have Learned Since Last I Did this Topic
    • Rack orientation is important
    • Going really high in vertical systems results in poor maintenance
    • Pure hydro makes hardening off before planting problematic
    • Letting plants go to long in hydro starting system create some root issues
    • Lights can be lowered or simply increased in time/output
    • Lights make heat and the plant doesn’t care if it gets light at night
  • Determining your starting dates
    • Determine last frost date
    • Plan at least one week later
    • Count backwards based on time to “set out”
  • Trouble shooting and issues brought up on social media today
    • Slow / Low germination
    • Leggy
    • Poor color
    • Mold, slime, dampening off, etc.
    • Trouble with peppers
    • How many seeds per cell
    • Moss, gnats, mites, other bugs
    • Using solo cups – yes – drill side holes too
    • Timers
    • Getting screwed by your last frost date
    • Topping seedlings for bushier plants
    • Doing your starting outdoors – green house with shut off water
    • The final cost/benefit analysis on buying vs. doing all this
  • Final thoughts

 

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