Know how is my treasure! Thank you for enriching me.

The old "Soiled Briefs" method... farmers been using this method since agriculture began! ;)

Black spruce is the strongest spruice

We burn everything we can get our hands on! And if it fits in the stove no need to split it. And winter is a good time to sift through the garage for wood scraps I've been saving all year. Free pallets work well for kindling. And free paper and cardboard from the local recycling center.

This recipe is in the oven right now, can't wait. Nice, easy basic recipe, I love it! Banana bread is one of my favorites, thank you, Greg.🌻

Thanks! Great video!

This is very similar to my grandmother's cookies. Big difference between her recipe and yours is not nearly as much molasses in them. We always called them ginger cookies but the recipe calls them molasses cookies. I make them every Christmas. They are my favorite Christmas cookie.

Would have thought lard was better than shortening, healthwise and cooking too... Have Healthy happy New Year.

All you have to do is get a shell pest strip, used to hang up to kill flying insects, and cut a 1/2 inch square, and place the 1/2 inch piece right at the ant hill's hole, so every ant that goes in and out of that hole craws across that cube and dies, and then go pick it up and put it on another anthill hole, that tiny piece placed at the hole entrance will kill every ant in the that hill, you will be amazed....And you can reuse each piece many times..... Reply

Just catching up on videos. Your garden looks great! I managed to only get 1/2 my garden beds prepped for winter before the snow and freezing temps put an end to outdoor gardening. Best thing we did was pull carrots beets and parsnips, packed them into metal garbage cans and stored them in the barn with hay bales stacked around to keep them from freezing. I gave a friend garden carrots for Christmas and she loved them. Looking forward to catching up on your other videos.

looks so delicious

And I just about to start my New Year’s resolution: lose weight and cut out sweets. Your cookies look delicious! Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

How is drainage during a lot of rain ?

Thanks buddy from all us poor folk

Why are using a Celsius reference for temperature and a square foot reference for house size? Great video but odd on the two different systems of measurements.

Any advice on how to get heavy rocks onto a truckbed? I need some rocks about the size in your video, and I see some being given away on Facebook, but even the seller admits that the buyer needs to haul them themselves.

Happy Holidays, Greg. Thank you for a great year of videos.

hi maritimegardening....when do you start your egyptianwalkingonion give away.

Good video. Just the content I needed.

Yum! This reminds me of the banana bread my granny made. I have found it to be really customizable, like I've used tahini as the fat, whole wheat and ground pumpkin seeds for the flour, crumbled walnuts throughout, etc. I haven't tried adding allspice - great idea!

Do you have to put holes in the box?

Those are Texas toast sized and then you do one normal sized slice and call it ridiculous lol, good times!

Very informative and helpful!! Thank you.

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I did something like this on a large scale. Covered a 12-foot by 140-foot area with 18-inches of shredded leaves in the Fall. Will cover with topsoil, and in the Spring will top dress with composted manure to plant into. The theory is exactly what you explained, as leaves break down they add rich minerals and hold precious water. In a season or two I'll have a few inches of new rich topsoil. I plan to repeat each year for a few years.

I’ve been looking for a how to video on how to turn my drainage problem into a wildlife pond in my garden without bells and whistles, pumps and liners, and finally stumbled onto this! Thank you so much! I love your honest, down to earth style. Very much appreciated!

Hmm but it's hybrid! 😞

Love the idea of getting some earlier greens harvests by doing this. Would you adjust your crop rotation schedule because of this though?

I have the same stove and the bastard is the worst wood stove in the world to start. Definitely does not draft like yours. I have to preheat the stove pipe and everything beforehand or ill smoke the whole house out every time

Thats basically the way I did my turnip and collard greens,we had temps down in the teens so far this year.

Great update Greg! Thankyou! I have always envied your garden but I know it looks like it does because of the fact that you work your ass off! Just want to give you a quick report on my storing carrots in leaves! Last December (2023) we dug up all our carrots. Cut off the tops but left about 4" of green, just brushed off the dirt. Then we put a nice 2" or so layer of dry maple leaves in a box, laid a layer of carrots, another layer of leaves, etc. Those carrots stayed perfect until about June of this year when we ran out. It worked very well. Now, we store this kind of stuff (parsnips, garlic, potatoes, carrots, etc.) In an old upright freezer, I made wood shelves in it and a light socket, I put a 25w bulb in there to keep it from freezing in the really cold weather. The freezer is in a shed outside so it does get pretty cold in there. This storage solution works extremely well and cost pretty 0 as the freezer was a freebie! My favorite kind! Cheers and Merry Christmas to you and your family! Mike 🇨🇦

Looking good.

It’s my understanding that your cold frame will increase the climate under the cold frame one garden zone. So, if you’re in garden zone 6, with the cold frame, your garden bed will have garden zone 7 conditions.

Hey did you really mean baking SODA ? I think you meant baking POWDER.

Made in Canada, now that is rare, almost as rare as the population lately, being made in Canada.😆When I make banana bread I usually make at least two or more loaves some plain or with nuts or raisins mixed in, while the oven is going. One for eating and the rest in the freezer pre sliced for later use. Pull out a couple of slices for a quick snack no need for the whole loaf. I prefer mine cold/room temp. as well

I just picked some last week and cooked it Thursday. Very sweet. The freeze really has an effect on kale. I didn't cover mine last year and it survived down here so not going to cover this year. Good luck. Show us in the spring if it survived.

I noticed that in my raised beds when I cover them with leaves tomato plants seem to survive the winter. I've always removed them in the spring and replanted but I'mwondering if is possile to try saving the oldplants.

Yum, but you never had fresh milk from right out of the tank!

Thanks for the tips, been looking for ways to improve making banana bread

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Greg, once again you are my inspiration. I’m thinking about bringing your banana bread to my Christmas dinner. I was thinking that it’s better than a fruit cake! Thank you for this timely post. MERRY CHRISTMAS! As I enter the baking world, I’m interested in the idea of lift or rise. Perhaps it’s due to the number of times my bread has failed to rise. I’m looking at your recipe, and I asking myself how is this banana bread going to rise? Where’s the acid to interact with the baking soda? So, I go on the internet to discover the ph of: bananas, cinnamon, and allspice. I come to discover they are All acidic! I really liked your ideas about quickly combining the wet and the dry ingredients and placing your loaf into the oven. Your advice with the wax paper is also a good one. I’ve had too many bake goods get stuck to the bottom of the pan. By the way, one is too many. My idea for greater lift, if you wanted greater lift, is adding honey or lemon juice to the list of ingredients. Of course you risk the flavor and texture of the banana bread when you play with the ingredient list. And, why do that to a great loaf of banana bread? Thanks again!

Foolproof is a personal challenge 😅

I decimated my sub list recently. You made the cut. Thanks.

If you add a pad of butter when you're making jelly it will keep it from foaming At a rapid boil!🙂

I'm trying these under my powerful grow lights this winter.

If you research its patent, it seems to indicate that Fire Fresh is a hybrid of beets and chard. So the edible roots are not an anomaly.

Another KZbinr suggested using small jars with metal lids and puncture 1 or 2 holes only on one side of the lid. The purpose you lay the jar on the side with hole on upper side. This stops water getting into jars. Lots of Love, Light and Laughter Forever!

Your not gardening in the Canadian Maritimes if you don't find yourself hoeing up frozen veggies with a headlamp on. Out last night. Got a row or so more yet😅

I'm trying those 😊

I noticed those bulbs forming on my chard also but never tried eating them. I don't know if they're as big as you're getting with the fire fresh but I'll have to take a look at what is out there and give them a try if they are big enough. I've been growing rainbow which is a mix of different colors but will look into the fire fresh variety.