Great to see you here. I really enjoy our conversations when visit our booth at the farmers market.

@@gardeningsimplified You and your wife have the best booth of them all! Your vegetables are superb! I enjoy our conversations as well.

I used brake cleaner from the auto parts store to clean the sight glass.

I can't remember. I rarely mention dry times, because they vary widely due how heavy the trays are loaded, room temperature, and even what size freeze dryer. I also add ten hours of extra dry time. I am mostly concerned about making sure my my finished product is completely dry, for the longest storage life. I can say say that herbs have a much shorter dry time than everything else.

You can use Slug Bait that is organic approved. I think it's just iron phosphate. I occasionally have a little issue with snails, and it works well.

Thanks for that additional information. Sometimes it can be related to how the jars are handled between seasons. It only takes a small scratch or chip. I'm thankful it is a rare thing to happen.

You're right, then I could pay the money that I saved, and then some to big pharma. If not for the ground cover I wouldn't be able to grow the volume of produce that I grow. We would not have enough time to keep up with weeds. What is your time worth? What is your health worth? When you gain the knowledge of what is in the processed food you buy, and what is chemicals are used on the produce you purchase, you would know that you can't justify the cost of not spending the money to grow your own food. I'm surprised you didn't say anything about the $12000.00 greenhouse. I know exactly what's in my food. From the seeds I plant to the crops I harvest. The excess I grow more than pays the cost to increase my overall production. I don't get rich from farming, very few do. But my customers at the farmers market appreciate the effort we make to make quality produce affordable to them. My goal isn't money, it's help humanity doing something that I love. Wouldn't this world be a wonderful place if everyone thought that way? As a final note, my wife said putting down ground cover was one of the best decisions we made.

I'm not sure what's worse micro plastic in my food that mimics estrogen or big pharma​@@gardeningsimplified

​​​@@gardeningsimplifiedthat's Americas biggest problem they put a made up number that a bank sets to what their time is worth. My time is free black plastic costs money

​@@KevinHillier-ru5ppYou can avoid micro plastics.

​@@KevinHillier-ru5ppIf your time is free, I want two months of it. I guess they don't have to give a paycheck at your job. I know the value of my time, and I've wasted enough of with someone who doesn't.

Yes you can.

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Kaolin cray is the top quality clay used to make pottery. This brand works great. I probably need to reapply it more often during the wet season, but I still had great results. Very little pest damage.

@@wendyburston3132, I think it's one of the reasons. One of their food sources is aphids, which attack plants when they are stressed. Once they come in they multiple and turn to other food sources that include plant leaves and beneficial insects. High plant sugars should help destroy their life cycle.

@@gardeningsimplified thank you

@@vickiwestlund7777, Even after gardening for nearly half a century, I'm finding out new ways to do it better. Thanks for watching.

There's no brand name on it. It looks like a old butter knife with a flexible blade. My grandmother had one like this and it holds a razor edge. They're folded steel, and the only place that I know you can one is a thrift or antique store.

@@Lvaladez114 I have to water my beans twice a day this time of the year to get good germination.

I appreciate your update and encouragement ; just found your channel. Late planting quite a bit myself and fixing to start some cabbages…

We do freeze dry some of our green tops,but as with everything else, we only need so many. I don't waste my time with restaurants. Nothing goes to waste. The leftovers are composted.

$2 each.

That is low for elephant garlic. Here in Canada, some places selling for $7 Can each

Anyone that took the time to look at the description knows when it was. Every KZbin video shows the date it was posted.

Right, I’m simply suggesting when you make the video… Instead of “this time of year”, you could simply say Sumer, spring, fall, winter. Just a suggestion. Didn’t mean to trigger you.

​@@robertoayala9203I wasn't triggered, it was a simple logical statement, that the time this was done was right there in the description for anyone that was interested