Action4Canada - April 12, 2023


A4C Prepper Dan March 2023


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It's mid-march here in eastern Canada! This is the time of year where we start making our maple syrup, it's also the time we start some indoor seedlings. It's amazing what you can grow with just a little bit of plastic!

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00:00:00.000 This is mid-march here in eastern Canada. This is the time of year where we start making our
00:00:10.080 maple syrup. It's also the time of year where we start some indoor seedlings. It's been a productive
00:00:15.480 winter in the greenhouse and it's amazing what you can grow with just a little bit of plastic.
00:00:20.100 But we're gonna go inside in just a few minutes. We're gonna start some seedlings. We're gonna
00:00:25.860 have fun doing it. It's a great time of year. So let's go inside and let's have some fun.
00:00:30.840 Okay the first thing we're going to do today is we're going to plant some seeds because it's the
00:00:41.480 middle of March here in eastern Canada. If you live in the west, bonus, because you've got extra
00:00:47.900 growing season. So what we're gonna do here in the east, we're gonna start some seedlings here,
00:00:53.100 especially some tomatoes. We make our own sauces here. So we're gonna plant especially some Romas
00:01:00.480 and some beefsteak. And here we have some heirloom, what are these now? Some magnificent Manitoba tomatoes.
00:01:12.300 We're also gonna plant some peppers and some, I call them jalapenos, but some jalapeno peppers,
00:01:18.720 as well as a few little flowers. The tiny tims, I'm the only one in the family that eats a little tiny
00:01:24.160 tims, as well as some of these wonderful little yellow pear-shaped tomatoes. So we're gonna plant
00:01:29.940 these in some of these little peat pots here that we're gonna use. And what we're also gonna do today
00:01:38.400 is I've got a few leeks that I have started about a month or so, well a few weeks ago, and we're gonna
00:01:46.640 transplant these into these little pots here. Now it's important to have all of your seeds available.
00:01:53.620 Now what I did a few months ago is I ordered some seeds for this coming year, and I've always got a
00:01:59.780 really good stock of seed here. As you can see I've got, well quite a bit, my beans for the summer,
00:02:05.700 my peas, as well as my squash, all of that family here. Vegetables, I've got some leftover from last
00:02:13.980 year, but I also saved my seeds as well, and I put them in these little yellow packets here. My
00:02:19.260 scarlet runner beans, pole beans, peas, cucumbers, and more peppers here. Vegetables and herbs as well,
00:02:28.500 some of these are leftover from last year, as well as catnip for the cat, different types of lettuces as
00:02:33.880 well. And flowers, we've got all kinds, I grow a lot of sunflowers, different kinds of sunflowers,
00:02:39.340 lupins, all kinds of basket type flowers, and those are in here, and flowers, and more sunflowers,
00:02:46.420 sunflowers, sunflowers, sunflowers, and we have a lot of birds here, and they love them. And I grow
00:02:52.420 giant Russian, I grow multi-headed sunflowers, as well as nice colorful red ones. So let the fun begin,
00:03:02.120 and we're going to start planting these pots.
00:03:32.120 Okay, next we're going to take some of these leeks that I planted about three weeks ago,
00:03:49.640 and we're going to transplant them into these little, uh, little planters. I recycle these,
00:03:55.880 they usually last me a couple of years or so. And I always use these, um, recycled, uh, mushroom
00:04:01.860 containers. Sometimes I plant in these directly, but I poke holes in them first. These ones don't
00:04:07.280 have holes, and these fit in there just nicely. And then once these leeks are transplanted in here,
00:04:13.040 they'll stay in here for about, uh, three weeks. And then I'm going to move them into my greenhouse
00:04:17.560 for another month or so before I put them out in the garden. I always use some really good, uh, potting
00:04:23.740 soil. And, um, the stuff I'm going to be putting them into it here is, um, has got some, uh, compost in
00:04:31.720 it as well. So it's going to give them a good, uh, a good chance to, to get some really good growth
00:04:37.540 here. So these again, this is, uh, recycled as well. This is what you get your full chicken in at
00:04:44.400 Superstore. So this is the bottom. It comes with a plastic lid. And when I start these,
00:04:49.500 I put the plastic lid on top and I have, uh, I'll show you after I've got some heat mats that these
00:04:55.680 go under. And so this really helps to germinate quite a bit too. So, uh, these are old leek seeds
00:05:01.640 here. So some of them didn't take too well, but what you want to do with these leeks here is really 0.76
00:05:07.980 get, um, get it so, so that the roots are a little bit deeper in these containers. And you want to keep
00:05:19.400 building the soil up around them. So usually what I do is I take two and I, I put them in fairly deep
00:05:25.960 and then I'm going to keep adding more soil to them. So we're going to do this until all of our leeks are
00:05:33.700 in their new homes for the next few weeks. So nice and simple. And I'm going to reuse this container
00:05:40.660 here and I'm going to plant this full of marigolds because marigolds are good for the garden.
00:05:47.780 We love marigolds. Again, I grow different types of marigolds. I have some marigolds that grow four
00:05:53.980 feet tall. They're a special heirloom variety. And, uh, not too many people around here grow those.
00:06:02.420 Again, I save my own seed from those as well. Now these ones here are a little tricky because
00:06:08.660 they're a little short. So, yeah, I'll have to be careful with these ones here.
00:06:13.700 Nothing like getting your hands dirty in the springtime.
00:06:29.940 And we'll continue this until the other package is full as well.
00:06:38.180 And we'll continue this until the other package is full as well.
00:06:54.180 Well, we're going to take a quick look inside the greenhouse.
00:07:04.820 This is the 21st of March, 22nd of March, I think. Right now it's saying it's two degrees outside.
00:07:13.620 Feels like minus four and it's beautiful out. We still have snow on the ground here,
00:07:19.380 but inside this greenhouse, things have been growing for the last couple of months.
00:07:24.100 Let's go inside and take a look. Things have shifted a little bit.
00:07:30.420 Let's see what we've got.
00:07:35.780 Oh, does it ever smell nice in here? And let's see. We're fogging up.
00:07:41.860 23 degrees in here already. Yeah, we've taken a little bit of a hit here with our turnip,
00:07:52.100 but things have survived. There's been no heat at all in the winter here,
00:07:55.140 and we've gone down to 20, 22, 24 degrees below. Our carrots are doing okay.
00:08:02.980 Our Swiss chard died, but it's coming back. A few of them there.
00:08:07.940 We have parsnips are coming up. Our beets took a bit of a beating too, but yeah, look at that. I mean,
00:08:16.020 stuff is coming up. Another month or so, we should be able to harvest all this before we put
00:08:20.740 some of the spring crops in here. So, and even some of our herbs are coming back and some of our
00:08:26.980 planters that will be going outside. And last year, this right to the ceiling goes to, it's about
00:08:34.100 eight feet tall, nine feet tall. Everything was growing right to the ceiling. So, all of this
00:08:39.380 plastic will be coming off in about a month's time or so, and it'll get really, really warm in here.
00:08:45.220 And yeah, look at that. It's like summer in here, 24 degrees, and it feels like minus four degrees
00:08:52.660 outside. Again, no heat whatsoever in here. So, wonderful little invention, these greenhouses.
00:09:01.060 Again, I'm fortunate that I have my own sawmill, so I was able to build this for relatively cheap,
00:09:08.900 but if you can find somebody that's got a sawmill that can mill something like this for you,
00:09:15.780 we have to have this because we're literally up in a gravel pit here. But,
00:09:22.500 and this little thing is only eight by 12, and it really has done us well.
00:09:31.540 So, I am really fortunate that because I have some livestock, I'm able to get some really good
00:09:37.380 poop and make my own, my own fertilized watering stuff for them, some good manure tea. So, we have
00:09:45.460 some chickens here that want to say hello. Say hi, girls. Say hi to the camera. 1.00
00:09:53.780 Say hi to everybody, girls. These girls give us good eggs every day. But we also have some bunnies, 1.00
00:09:59.860 and the thing with rabbits is you can use the manure fresh. You don't have to compost it at all.
00:10:04.740 So, let's take a little trip to rabbit town. Yeah. So, this is what we use right here. 0.99
00:10:12.100 This is the good stuff. And what we're going to do with that is we're going to take some of that stuff,
00:10:18.820 and I'll show you real quick as we go over to Bunnyville, because in Bunnyville is where we're
00:10:27.060 going to get some stuff. We're going to take a five gallon bucket, and we're going to take some of
00:10:32.180 that stuff, put it in here, and put water in here, dilute it, and then we're going to mix that,
00:10:38.900 and in our watering cans, once a week, we're going to water our seedlings with that, and poof,
00:10:47.220 stuff is really going to grow.
00:11:01.540 We're going to be available for everybody.
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00:11:29.460 Okay, a quick wrap up, here we have all of our peppers planted, again in our mushroom
00:11:59.140 recycled containers, here I've got them in an old jiffy pot container with a lid on top,
00:12:06.420 underneath I have a heat pad, now this one here has a controller, I know it's upside down but
00:12:12.900 it's a controller with a, I can control the temperature of the heat pad, I do have another
00:12:18.420 heat pad underneath this one here that's just automatically set and it keeps this whole
00:12:24.740 contraption fairly warm and I've just put the this one on top of the heat pad and this whole top here
00:12:31.780 will get nice and condensed and all kind of foggy inside but this really helps with the germination
00:12:39.380 so tomatoes peppers usually within a week to 10 days I should have some nice little plants in here
00:12:46.820 I had some lettuce seed left over the other day from the tower garden I threw them in here
00:12:52.420 this is about I'm going to say two weeks old so I just threw this in here and I'll probably end up
00:12:57.780 giving these away and a little bit of wheat grass that we grow for the chickens just cut this off and
00:13:02.660 throw this at them and again two extra trays that I had from rotisserie chickens and I just threw some
00:13:09.620 seed in here uh three different kinds of marigolds and so in a couple of weeks we'll come back and
00:13:15.780 I'll show you the the end product of this so just a few things to wrap up some grow lights as well that
00:13:23.060 I got off amazon these ones they don't have anymore but there's all kinds of them usually for a set of
00:13:29.940 they come in a set of six and I have these on a timer they come on at six o'clock in the morning
00:13:34.980 and they go off at about 11 o'clock at night so a few things just to go over with you
00:13:43.540 this is a wonderful time of year I trust maybe you've gotten your seed catalogs already
00:13:49.460 but with the price of food what it is these days what a joy it is to be able to grow your own fruits
00:13:56.820 or your vegetables anyhow we don't grow we do grow some fruit here we have an abundance of blueberries
00:14:02.100 here in our own land blackberries and we forage as well we have strawberry farms not too far away
00:14:08.580 but vegetables for sure we have a greenhouse on our property for an added long season this year
00:14:15.460 I'm probably doubling if not tripling our raised bed gardens as I've said earlier we live in a gravel
00:14:21.860 pit here but I'm also building more raised beds with covers on them so I can extend my growing
00:14:26.500 season by two weeks in the spring and maybe as long as a month in the fall so one thing to remember
00:14:33.780 as well I mentioned doing a manure tea if you don't have your own bunnies or your own chickens to make
00:14:39.540 your own manure tea you can buy a bag of compost or a bag of manure at superstore Canadian Tire wherever
00:14:47.140 they sell that stuff you can make your own get yourself a bucket put the fresh manure in there with
00:14:52.260 the manure in there put water in it let it seep for about a week and then just get the
00:14:56.420 water the the the manure tea out of that and all you're doing is in a watering can you put about
00:15:02.180 10 percent of your manure tea in there the rest with water one thing to remember don't water just
00:15:10.100 that your freshly planted seeds in there they don't need it but wait until your plants are well established
00:15:15.300 a few inches high then you start giving them that manure to you about once a week and I always use the
00:15:20.660 miracle grow seed seed starter soil when I plant my seeds go with a good soil and just as a tip
00:15:31.220 I usually buy buy about five to six bags of that stuff when it goes on sale in the fall that way I'm
00:15:38.340 sure to have it because a lot of places they don't open until later in the spring and you want to have
00:15:43.620 it this time of year so I hope this is helpful we're going to come back in a few weeks you're going to see
00:15:49.140 some stuff having grown already stuff in the greenhouse should be a lot bigger and we'll have
00:15:53.860 some more tips and by that time we'll be planting some more stuff all right that's it god bless you
00:16:00.100 you have a great day