I used to watch this channel a lot about five years ago. John, I think you look younger now. You are quite the testimony for the health benefits of a plant-based diet
Man I've watched this guy for years, he's literally THE guy that got me through everything gardening, been about 5 year's , and I won't stop. I wish he socialized online though, it would be more educational getting into more questions, and it would make more videos . Gluck John , you're definitely the best on RUclips!!!
John you are absolutely my favorite you tube gardener! Have you ever thought about making a video showing how you got started learning about gardening? That would be so cool!
MORINGA DOES GREAT IN LAS VEGAS! MINE GETS THE MORNING SUN. BY 2 3 ISH pm it starts to get evening shade from my house. it has died twice but the resprout do way better in 1year. so now ive had for 2yrs and it has already given me good green leaves and the pods were little but i think it will do better this year👍😉👌
Hi John, Great video. It answered the questions I was needing to know. Particularly about your approach to fruit trees. I just planted 3 figs trees and two lemon trees all in 15 gallon pots.
Thanks so much for making this video! I am surprised you have Rollie pollie pill bugs in a desert, I thought they were semi aquatic and only a problem in wet coastal regions. I have aa serious problem with them eating my strawberry crop every year! When we have heavy rains, they also eat corn and tomatoes and beans and peas and pretty much anything they can find close to the ground.. sometimes they climb up plant stalks to feed after a rain. Some people think they are strictly decomposers, but this is not so, when it is wet, they will eat many fresh crops. The only thing I can do to reduce Rollie pollies is to keep things drier and use less organic matter. I am sorry you have this problem, but it it comforting to know that I'm not the only one with this issue! It seems to be somewhat uncommon of a problem. I garden in a swamp, so I have weird things eating my crops. Thanks for this video, John. Cheers!
John hopefully one day in a few years when I'm ready you'll come visit our channel in Louisiana:)......soon baby soon...im working at it...it has to be right for a visit from a gardening legend I know
@35:00 I have a Swiss chard going to seed that looks exactly like your beets going to seed. (Same family) When you mentioned the “unique” smell I had to laugh because it took me days to figure out where that “unique” smell was coming from, Drive me crazy till I figured it out!
Always check with state and local authorities on growing plants. I just checked online, here in Florida they say you have to obtain a special permit to grow water spinach as it's considered to be invasive
Hi John, I recently posted a picture of my moringa on I want more Moringa Facebook Channel and I live here in Glendale Arizona. I was gifted this moringa tree. I chose the wrong spot and it gets a little too much shade I think but it has never gotten huge it's been in the ground for almost 3 years and I have eaten most of the leaves off of it every year the first winter I thought it was dead but Dave Stone of I want more Moringa suggested that I just keep watering it and giving it nutrients which I did and late spring last year up came to shoots from The Roots which have grown 2 about 6 foot tall then I cut it down last fall and this spring it grew one side two about four foot in the other side about 6 foot this is the first year that it has gotten any flowers or pods. Laughingly it has three pods which I had to eat one when it was about 6 in Long it was so tender with an earthy peppery taste I loved it one pod a family member ate. The pod I left to grow in about a month and a half it is approximately 1 foot long and as big around as any of them that I have seen it's very nice sized easily called a drumstick. Just hoping this will hang on throughout the summer until it dries out hoping for seeds. I have thought about moving it to a sunnier spot but I think I'm just going to plant some seeds and put them in the sunny or spot and see how I do. I do love your videos and I have learned so much over the years from you. I am a really slow starter but finally I'm on my way. hopefully I will finish out like a tortoise have a great Fourth of July John thank you so much for all that you share.
Thank you for your videos John. This is my first year growing and it has greatly been influenced by your channel. I'm in Reno NV so the desert growing is totally applicable. My garden is getting killed with pests though hahaha
I loved the garden tour!! Question. Have you thought about growing some clumping bamboo in small sections to try and provide a natural shade? Do you think that would work? I've seen a lot of online sellers pushing bamboo as a great hot climate shade choice. Thank you for the video, and wow! That flood table was a big score!!
Garden is looking good John! I don't have a drip system set up yet so having to hand water 2 gardens in this 100 degree heat in NC is a JOB. Raised beds and pots lol I'd like to see what you are using in the potted trees as a vid. I have many that need to be potted up asap including a Fig :)
@@ptheds100 I actually looked at those a few weeks back but it would take maybe 30 or more of them. Drip system would probably be cheaper I think. Thanks tho :)
John how does malbarb spinach taste? I’ve never heard of it but I love plants I can grow on my trellises . Btw I so enjoyed meeting you at baker creek seed festival! I saw you video taping there and I’m looking forward to seeing them, hopefully??
The stems of marigolds make a great hay mulch when dried. Easily removed and very efficient at water retention, and it's the best worm area in my garden!
It’s like your speaking a slightly different language. Do you have a gardening for dummies class? I don’t know what most those are or how I’d use them. I like your desert growing info, but literally how to plant, what to plant, how to take care of them, how much water, how to trim, when to pull. How to prune, do you need to feed plant food? What soils and stuff in soil. It’s very overwhelming as I’ve never done particularly good with plants and I really don’t want such an overwhelmingly big garden. Just a kitchen garden, herbs, cooking veggies, and some greens, oh and I found out I live loquats. This desert heat and hard dry dirt is quite a challenge. Doing good with agave and aloe but I can’t even seem to keep rosemary. Thanks for all your videos. I’m starting to slowly absorb some info I think.
Health over wealth my friend ;) wanted u to see my perrenial garfen john but now the chard finally died all over the place cuz 3rd year alive so now looks shitty lol but the huge tree stalks dont die so i have new shard growth comin out everywhere maybe u can visit cen cal in october harvest time is always a good time for visits
Hey John I live out here in Boulder City. I have a wicked bad problem with rolly pollies. Do you just put out rhines and wait for them to swarm and then kill em all, and do that over and over?
I know I am not John. I had this problem in the past, those little buggers ate all my new seedlings. I used beer, put a small container in the ground level with soil fill with beer. I came out the next morning and they were full of rolly polly.
In this area the crops that do the best are weeds. Most taste bitter but with enough butter and beer they go down fine. The secret is butter though. Not margerine
Hey John ... Can you share the link where to buy the freeze drier for fruits and veggies... And also, do you have a vid..about it? Share please..love your channel 😁😁😁😁
Just to let you know, Starting yesterday, In Florida anybody can grow a garden in the front yard without the city and county saying anything,, all their ordinances stopping people is no longer any good of course it does not apply to people living
Good! I'm glad. I find it ridiculous that one can't grow veggies and fruits in front of their own homes. That's why I refuse to purchase homes that have HOA, SIDS/LIDS, etc.
I am moving to Oahu soon. Zone 12. I can’t really find anything that helps me know what I can and can’t grow due to the fact that they have no frost dates and also unsure if any fall or winter crops would have a chance. Please help. Any help would be appreciated. I would love any advice on any appropriate crops I can grow. Thank you
Hi, question.. so growing the plants next to the block wall and metal trellis is ok? ... I always feel afraid to plant them there because I think they will burn their leaves... I live in desert too.. ( arizona)
I thought rolly pollies usually went after dead leaf, not the live plants and stems. I have some in my composting pile, but they dont go after my plants at all.
What zone(s) do you go by for vegas? I'm a first-time gardener, and have been trying to figure this out since vegas gets so cold in the winter and so hot in the summer. I see the USDA says we are zone 11, however I've read people go by 9 as well.
I live in Vegas and mine is Zone 10ish. I still grow fruit trees and veggies and herbs. With the help of shading cloth, my veggies and herbs are actually thriving. Fruit trees also need shad cloth over it if it's still young or the area is super hot/full sun. Also painting the trunk of fruit trees helps prevent sun burned from the Vegas heat. Also spray an organic paint spray (diluted) on the leaf of fruit trees to help protect sun burned to new leaves.
can u please do a video of wild or "weeds tht grow in the desset" that are edible and if u could please please tell us how u eat them or combine them... i stopped using weed killer years ago actually only used it one year but felt wrong about it, anyhow i get all kinds of ramdon herbs shrubs plants that i cant really identify😖. so if u could please make a video of that so tht i can make a good use of those plants. Umm just dandelion alone its so difficult for me to identify here
Hello John, In one of your Video's you mentioned your Electric Cement Mixer didn't mix potting soil very well. Do you ever find something better ? Thanks
Hey john this is unrelated to your video but last night my BF told me in his pesticide herbicide, etc. certification training that he asked about USDA Certified ORGANIC Foods. The Guy Re-Certifying my BF and the rest of his Arbor team said that when goes to big commercial Organic farms in California at midnight that their will be workers in the fields spraying wearing head lamps. And said that they just pay off the USDA ORGANIC Officials!!!! I buy only organic now due to a brain tumor I had last year and to hear this just angers me! How true you think this is!!!!???
Seems like someone would see people out with headlamps spraying fields and that would be reported to more than just the USDA, news outlets is where I'd go if I saw it. Who knows tho, the dairy and meat industry have been paying off the government forever. Just look at the only thing kids can get at public school to drink.....Milk. Which many of us, including myself and my son can't even drink, lactose intolerant. You can't even get water, it's crazy. I'm trying to grow as much food as I can for our family, not eating meat or dairy makes it a bit easier for sure. I don't trust the food from the store or where it's even coming from. Half of it is now coming from Mexico but listed as organic.
Belinda Right!!! Yea I grow all my fruits and vegetables I grow as much as possible from seed organically. Very diligent about it! Used to sell at my local farmers market and did very well. But I’m no longer able to keep up. So now I just grow organically for myself and my family and friends and whoever in need bc I can’t eat, can, freeze, or dehydrate it all!! I just love to grow!!! lol
@@rachellove6990 You are 100% correct!! The label "ORGANIC" or "USDA ORGANIC" is not so organic in most produce and fruits. Big farms uses chemicals to spray on their produce but would pay off the "Organic Inspector" to pass. My cousin is a big rice farmer in California and he said that MOST (most but not all) big farms in California uses chemicals, herbicides, insecticides, and pesticides in their fields but would lie and say their rice is "Organic". Same goes for veggie farmers and fruit farmers. It's all about the money. These big farmers know that when it's labeled "Organic" they can sell for a higher price. Veggies and fruits from Mexico are NOT organic even if the label say "organic", it's not. There was a ducumentary on farms in Mexico and India that would use chemicals and herbicides in their fields but would shipped it into USA and Canada to sell under the label "Organic". The documentary used to be free to watch on RUclips but I think RUclips deleted it.
@35:00 I have a Swiss chard going to seed that looks exactly like your beets going to seed. (Same family) When you mentioned the “unique” smell I had to laugh because it took me days to figure out where that “unique” smell was coming from, Drive me crazy till I figured it out!
I used to watch this channel a lot about five years ago. John, I think you look younger now. You are quite the testimony for the health benefits of a plant-based diet
how old is john?
Is bacon a plant?
Man I've watched this guy for years, he's literally THE guy that got me through everything gardening, been about 5 year's , and I won't stop. I wish he socialized online though, it would be more educational getting into more questions, and it would make more videos . Gluck John , you're definitely the best on RUclips!!!
U got all kinds of veg that most people have never heard of.
John you are absolutely my favorite you tube gardener! Have you ever thought about making a video showing how you got started learning about gardening? That would be so cool!
Always nice to get your feedback on desert gardening.
I'm glad you can grow all that here in Las Vegas. I'm trying to learn some vegetable gardening in the desert.
MORINGA DOES GREAT IN LAS VEGAS! MINE GETS THE MORNING SUN. BY 2 3 ISH pm it starts to get evening shade from my house. it has died twice but the resprout do way better in 1year. so now ive had for 2yrs and it has already given me good green leaves and the pods were little but i think it will do better this year👍😉👌
John when are you moving to a bigger plot? if anyone needs one you do, you are a great gardener!
Good to see you John and I like your videos on what you yourself grow in your own garden.
Hi John, Great video. It answered the questions I was needing to know. Particularly about your approach to fruit trees. I just planted 3 figs trees and two lemon trees all in 15 gallon pots.
Thanks so much for making this video! I am surprised you have Rollie pollie pill bugs in a desert, I thought they were semi aquatic and only a problem in wet coastal regions. I have aa serious problem with them eating my strawberry crop every year! When we have heavy rains, they also eat corn and tomatoes and beans and peas and pretty much anything they can find close to the ground.. sometimes they climb up plant stalks to feed after a rain. Some people think they are strictly decomposers, but this is not so, when it is wet, they will eat many fresh crops. The only thing I can do to reduce Rollie pollies is to keep things drier and use less organic matter. I am sorry you have this problem, but it it comforting to know that I'm not the only one with this issue! It seems to be somewhat uncommon of a problem. I garden in a swamp, so I have weird things eating my crops. Thanks for this video, John. Cheers!
John hopefully one day in a few years when I'm ready you'll come visit our channel in Louisiana:)......soon baby soon...im working at it...it has to be right for a visit from a gardening legend I know
@35:00 I have a Swiss chard going to seed that looks exactly like your beets going to seed. (Same family)
When you mentioned the “unique” smell I had to laugh because it took me days to figure out where that “unique” smell was coming from, Drive me crazy till I figured it out!
Thanks for Sharing.
Always check with state and local authorities on growing plants. I just checked online, here in Florida they say you have to obtain a special permit to grow water spinach as it's considered to be invasive
Hi John, I recently posted a picture of my moringa on I want more Moringa Facebook Channel and I live here in Glendale Arizona. I was gifted this moringa tree. I chose the wrong spot and it gets a little too much shade I think but it has never gotten huge it's been in the ground for almost 3 years and I have eaten most of the leaves off of it every year the first winter I thought it was dead but Dave Stone of I want more Moringa suggested that I just keep watering it and giving it nutrients which I did and late spring last year up came to shoots from The Roots which have grown 2 about 6 foot tall then I cut it down last fall and this spring it grew one side two about four foot in the other side about 6 foot this is the first year that it has gotten any flowers or pods. Laughingly it has three pods which I had to eat one when it was about 6 in Long it was so tender with an earthy peppery taste I loved it one pod a family member ate. The pod I left to grow in about a month and a half it is approximately 1 foot long and as big around as any of them that I have seen it's very nice sized easily called a drumstick. Just hoping this will hang on throughout the summer until it dries out hoping for seeds. I have thought about moving it to a sunnier spot but I think I'm just going to plant some seeds and put them in the sunny or spot and see how I do. I do love your videos and I have learned so much over the years from you. I am a really slow starter but finally I'm on my way. hopefully I will finish out like a tortoise have a great Fourth of July John thank you so much for all that you share.
Thank you for your videos John. This is my first year growing and it has greatly been influenced by your channel. I'm in Reno NV so the desert growing is totally applicable. My garden is getting killed with pests though hahaha
Great video, and thanks for update on your garden.huge praying mantis egg.lol couldnt believe it.take care.
I loved the garden tour!! Question. Have you thought about growing some clumping bamboo in small sections to try and provide a natural shade? Do you think that would work? I've seen a lot of online sellers pushing bamboo as a great hot climate shade choice. Thank you for the video, and wow! That flood table was a big score!!
Bamboo grows like an invasive grass and is actually really hard to get rid of.
A wealth of knowledge and info! Thanks John!!
Garden is looking good John! I don't have a drip system set up yet so having to hand water 2 gardens in this 100 degree heat in NC is a JOB. Raised beds and pots lol I'd like to see what you are using in the potted trees as a vid. I have many that need to be potted up asap including a Fig :)
Belinda check out olla. See if they might help
@@ptheds100 I actually looked at those a few weeks back but it would take maybe 30 or more of them. Drip system would probably be cheaper I think. Thanks tho :)
Please do a tour of your front garden.
John how does malbarb spinach taste? I’ve never heard of it but I love plants I can grow on my trellises . Btw I so enjoyed meeting you at baker creek seed festival! I saw you video taping there and I’m looking forward to seeing them, hopefully??
The stems of marigolds make a great hay mulch when dried. Easily removed and very efficient at water retention, and it's the best worm area in my garden!
It’s like your speaking a slightly different language. Do you have a gardening for dummies class? I don’t know what most those are or how I’d use them. I like your desert growing info, but literally how to plant, what to plant, how to take care of them, how much water, how to trim, when to pull. How to prune, do you need to feed plant food? What soils and stuff in soil. It’s very overwhelming as I’ve never done particularly good with plants and I really don’t want such an overwhelmingly big garden. Just a kitchen garden, herbs, cooking veggies, and some greens, oh and I found out I live loquats. This desert heat and hard dry dirt is quite a challenge. Doing good with agave and aloe but I can’t even seem to keep rosemary. Thanks for all your videos. I’m starting to slowly absorb some info I think.
Health over wealth my friend ;) wanted u to see my perrenial garfen john but now the chard finally died all over the place cuz 3rd year alive so now looks shitty lol but the huge tree stalks dont die so i have new shard growth comin out everywhere maybe u can visit cen cal in october harvest time is always a good time for visits
Hey John I live out here in Boulder City. I have a wicked bad problem with rolly pollies. Do you just put out rhines and wait for them to swarm and then kill em all, and do that over and over?
I know I am not John. I had this problem in the past, those little buggers ate all my new seedlings. I used beer, put a small container in the ground level with soil fill with beer. I came out the next morning and they were full of rolly polly.
I gotta get with the program. lol I need to fill in my beds!
I like the food forest
Nice and natural. Have you checked out BluMat watering systems? Might be your lifesaver. Cheers
33:20 what was the purple flowered small plant growing underneath the Kale in the pot? Doesn’t seem to be ashitaba or agretti?
I've been waiting for this video
Picked up some Chilean wine palm tree the other day from our friend in cali
I would never immolate you John, LOL
In this area the crops that do the best are weeds. Most taste bitter but with enough butter and beer they go down fine. The secret is butter though. Not margerine
Make sure it's GRASS FED butter. Grass-Fed make any weed taste better. Lmao
Love the shirt!
you need to have people come over and harvest for you
You're the best 👍🏼
Hey John ... Can you share the link where to buy the freeze drier for fruits and veggies... And also, do you have a vid..about it? Share please..love your channel 😁😁😁😁
Just to let you know, Starting yesterday, In Florida anybody can grow a garden in the front yard without the city and county saying anything,, all their ordinances stopping people is no longer any good of course it does not apply to people living
Good! I'm glad.
I find it ridiculous that one can't grow veggies and fruits in front of their own homes.
That's why I refuse to purchase homes that have HOA, SIDS/LIDS, etc.
John you are so funny!
P.s. thanks for the videos, they have been very helpful!
Of course we want to know what soil you made your trees :)
Woah, where have all the breeze blocks come from?
I am moving to Oahu soon. Zone 12. I can’t really find anything that helps me know what I can and can’t grow due to the fact that they have no frost dates and also unsure if any fall or winter crops would have a chance. Please help. Any help would be appreciated. I would love any advice on any appropriate crops I can grow. Thank you
Hi, question.. so growing the plants next to the block wall and metal trellis is ok? ... I always feel afraid to plant them there because I think they will burn their leaves... I live in desert too.. ( arizona)
I thought rolly pollies usually went after dead leaf, not the live plants and stems. I have some in my composting pile, but they dont go after my plants at all.
Didn’t you live in Az and Cali?
Mix for trees John please!
What zone(s) do you go by for vegas? I'm a first-time gardener, and have been trying to figure this out since vegas gets so cold in the winter and so hot in the summer. I see the USDA says we are zone 11, however I've read people go by 9 as well.
I live in Vegas and mine is Zone 10ish.
I still grow fruit trees and veggies and herbs.
With the help of shading cloth, my veggies and herbs are actually thriving.
Fruit trees also need shad cloth over it if it's still young or the area is super hot/full sun.
Also painting the trunk of fruit trees helps prevent sun burned from the Vegas heat.
Also spray an organic paint spray (diluted) on the leaf of fruit trees to help protect sun burned to new leaves.
can u please do a video of wild or "weeds tht grow in the desset" that are edible and if u could please please tell us how u eat them or combine them... i stopped using weed killer years ago actually only used it one year but felt wrong about it, anyhow i get all kinds of ramdon herbs shrubs plants that i cant really identify😖. so if u could please make a video of that so tht i can make a good use of those plants. Umm just dandelion alone its so difficult for me to identify here
Already covered.. search is your best friend ;)
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The link for the Dallas nursery doesn’t work. Which nursery were you at?
How are u going to harvest your figs when the plants are 12ft tall?
Does anyone know the name of that heat loving tropical lettuce at minute- 8:30?
Hello John,
In one of your Video's you mentioned your Electric Cement Mixer didn't mix potting soil very well. Do you ever find something better ?
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rad hat i want one
John , how do you spell your last name ; ARE YOU on Twitter ; can I email you !!!!????
Some of the names please like the tropical lettuce and the others which aren't named
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Can I get the name of the jelly plant please
Are your yard lil shade and sunny
Like to no how to grow garlic from garlic i have as a whole head of garlic
Tha 209 triangle harold Wilton galt
Hey john this is unrelated to your video but last night my BF told me in his pesticide herbicide, etc. certification training that he asked about USDA Certified ORGANIC Foods. The Guy Re-Certifying my BF and the rest of his Arbor team said that when goes to big commercial Organic farms in California at midnight that their will be workers in the fields spraying wearing head lamps. And said that they just pay off the USDA ORGANIC Officials!!!! I buy only organic now due to a brain tumor I had last year and to hear this just angers me! How true you think this is!!!!???
Seems like someone would see people out with headlamps spraying fields and that would be reported to more than just the USDA, news outlets is where I'd go if I saw it. Who knows tho, the dairy and meat industry have been paying off the government forever. Just look at the only thing kids can get at public school to drink.....Milk. Which many of us, including myself and my son can't even drink, lactose intolerant. You can't even get water, it's crazy. I'm trying to grow as much food as I can for our family, not eating meat or dairy makes it a bit easier for sure. I don't trust the food from the store or where it's even coming from. Half of it is now coming from Mexico but listed as organic.
Belinda Right!!! Yea I grow all my fruits and vegetables I grow as much as possible from seed organically. Very diligent about it! Used to sell at my local farmers market and did very well. But I’m no longer able to keep up. So now I just grow organically for myself and my family and friends and whoever in need bc I can’t eat, can, freeze, or dehydrate it all!! I just love to grow!!! lol
@@rachellove6990
You are 100% correct!!
The label "ORGANIC" or "USDA ORGANIC" is not so organic in most produce and fruits.
Big farms uses chemicals to spray on their produce but would pay off the "Organic Inspector" to pass.
My cousin is a big rice farmer in California and he said that MOST (most but not all) big farms in California uses chemicals, herbicides, insecticides, and pesticides in their fields but would lie and say their rice is "Organic".
Same goes for veggie farmers and fruit farmers.
It's all about the money. These big farmers know that when it's labeled "Organic" they can sell for a higher price.
Veggies and fruits from Mexico are NOT organic even if the label say "organic", it's not.
There was a ducumentary on farms in Mexico and India that would use chemicals and herbicides in their fields but would shipped it into USA and Canada to sell under the label "Organic".
The documentary used to be free to watch on RUclips but I think RUclips deleted it.
Where's the Cannabis Plants, lol.
It may not be legal there yet. Idk
@@budsvilleusa8888 It is Lawful.
@@budsvilleusa8888
It's legal in Vegas.
Legal for medical use as well as recreational use.
Dam typos
remove the flowers from your culantro plant and it'll do much better.
@35:00 I have a Swiss chard going to seed that looks exactly like your beets going to seed. (Same family)
When you mentioned the “unique” smell I had to laugh because it took me days to figure out where that “unique” smell was coming from, Drive me crazy till I figured it out!