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Ashley has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science.
Some of Ashley’s interests are KZbin, in which she posts informative videos about plants and gardening. The focus of Ashley’s KZbin channel is to bring science to gardening in a way that is informative but also helpful to others learning to garden. She also talks about the importance of having your own garden and the joys of gardening indoors. Ashley continues to study plants in her free time and hopes to expand her KZbin channel as well as her reach to up-and-coming gardeners.
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[@GardeningInCanada]

GICs if you had to pick a number one must do in fall what would it be?

[@chriskimber7179]

plant garlic

[@user-pb2jp5sg8c]

Love you girl! Greetings from Southern Ontario! Planting my garlic is a must this time of year. And cutting things down. I tried tarping one year. Didn't see any benefit unfortunately. And never heard of percolation of soil before. Love your content!

[@dfriz8513]

I live in sask and will throw some plastic out right away. Great video. I am going to search your videos to see if you have some advice to keep my roses alive over winter. I love roses and tend to get a 75% winter kill each year.

[@dr.froghopper6711]

I’m desert SW US. I plant garlic. But this year, due to disability, I’m having to rebuild my garden to accommodate a wheelchair. It’s gonna be 90%+ raised beds. When I’m done, earthworms will do my tilling. As I disassemble the old to rebuild, I’m gonna be planting a living mulch to build soil.

[@blacksmithden]

Pray for an early snow to cover up the mess I left by not keeping up with my yard work ? LOL. Seriously though....An absolute is I have to blow out my auto drip irrigation system to make sure it doesn't freeze and start breaking things. I take many of this years plants such as peppers, cut them off at the ground, pick any remaining peppers off them (it's amazing how many you can miss, especially with jalapenos) and lay them down on top of the beds they're in. I've got a spot that I transplanted onions into in order to get seed from them next year. I also planted garlic in there....but that's beside the point. The point is, I took a tiger torch to the area before I put anything in there and burnt it to the soil...ashes...nothing left. That takes care of the tops of any weeds, and any weed seeds that are on or very close to the surface. Then I dug it up and pulled out as many weeds and as many of the evil plant from hell (quack grass) roots as I could. A digging fork is pretty good at dragging them to the surface. THEN I plant my garlic and onions. It's been a couple of weeks since I did it, and no weeds. Onions still have green tops even if they've fallen over, so they're doing ok. I also take all the soil out of my buckets and dump it in a big pile. I'll chew the living daylights out of my compost pile with my lawnmower, and mix all that stuff with the old bucket soil and cover it up. It'll stay warmer a little longer, and it helps digest the shredded shmoo compost material. Pulling down the bean vines off the trellis' in front of the patio door is a must because the lady that rules over my life hates the way dead vines look and she wants to be able to see what the dogs are doing when they're outside. It also lets a little more sun in the room during the winter. Let's not forget seed harvesting. That's a must do. I always leave a huge number of beans on the vines until they're dry because I seem to supply every friend and relative I have with seeds of various types. Put away the hoses. Bring out the snowblower and make sure that's running. If it needs something, I'd rather fix it in a light jacket in daylight than in the dead of winter in a parka. Drain fuel from the lawn mower and weed whacker. Oh dear lord...I'm depressing myself. I'm so far behind this year.

[@longarmsupplies]

Get nerdy, girl! The more we know, the better we can grow!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Ahahah 😏

[@Argo53]

Love the actual science tidbits. Though, have to admit, I'm never going to check the math!

[@Delgwah]

Thank you, I’ve seen lots of people who clear the snow off the lawn. They have very healthy lawns.

[@ArtFlowersBeeze8815]

I do a bit of pulling and a bit of cutting off at the base. I do put down alfalfa meal then wood chips around perrenials when needed. Cover crop and then black tarp it if i can.

[@stephown5374]

Definitely appreciate the geek speak. Haven't considered using exposure to cold before. Shovelling part of the garden on my winter task list.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Geek speak I like that 😂

[@sadabahar90song]

hard work makes you more charming and beautiful ❤

[@gabriellakadar]

Your explanation of surface cold might have been why this year we had less pests. Toronto didn't have a cold winter but we also had very little snow cover. I thought with the warmer winter we'd have pest bonanza. It didn't happen. Seems the voles took a big hit as well. When we've had significant snow that stayed around, the voles were having a fabulous time making trails underneath. We still had cucumber beetles. Next year I grow seedless cukes under netting. Lack of snow cover also meant that we didn't get the bumblebee population or butterflies like usual. We barely had any butterflies.

[@mary1973tx]

thank you so much for all your nerdy info I love it because you say it in a way I actually understand thanks 🙂🌻

[@GardeningInCanada]

You are so welcome! 🙏

[@chriskimber7179]

Another GREAT winter seeding is Spinach In fact, if you plant it right now (early October in the rockies zone 5, for example) they will germinate and grow -not big enough to harvest, but big enough to survive until spring. I don't cover or mulch them, we usually get a foot or two of snow for protection. Spring growth often has many dead or damaged leaves and a few weeds -pull the weeds and mow the spinach, give it a light liquid fertilizer and get ready for the sweetest, earliest spinach leaves you've ever tasted. Does wonders for the soil too. I've never tried peas, that might work! Beans makes no sense to me as they require plenty of heat to germinate and are super frost sensitive. They also get eaten really quickly.

[@abydosianchulac2]

I wonder about combining the tarping with the winter uncovering to freeze the pests. It takes some time and energy for these microbes and insects to winterize, so what if you uncover the soil on a sunny yet cold day and black-tarp (or maybe clear-tarp) that area until nightfall? The sun should heat the plastic and the air underneath it quite a bit, with any melting snow providing moisture, and that combination should get at least some of those pests triggered to start waking up. But then when you remove the tarp at night, the temperature shock should happen faster than they're able to compensate. At least in theory.

[@debbielavers9836]

Another great video. Thank you Ashley.

[@debbiebolman2705]

Yep nerdy is good! I couldn't get hydrology info into my students' heads with a pry bar. Some high schoolers are buttheads

[@GardeningInCanada]

AHAHAHA pry bar 😂

[@Nocare89]

With tarping it has to be a clear one to solarize or a proper silage tarp after tilling. A regular one will slow growth up until plants puncture it and make it hard to remove. I think a couple layers of cardboard + mulch is best if you live somewhere wet, where it'll largely break down by spring. I tarped the cardboard+mulch of one section and it was worthless. Just keep adding mulch instead.

[@rdraffkorn3184]

ok. i know you live in canada and yes i like it when you talk nerdy lol but when you said "capture that snow that's about to fall ... " sounded really funny to me down here in the south . hearts to you :D

[@sadabahar90song]

good morning from Pakistan ❤❤❤

[@donaecapps4324]

I have a plastic covered greenhouse that we built this past Spring. We are in Zone 3 interior BC. I want to protect it through the winter. Should I cover it with a tarp or just leave it and hope for the best? I love it when you talk nerdy to me! 😊

[@stephaniel3378]

Love the geeky stuff ❤ thank you😊

[@GardeningInCanada]

So glad!

[@BrianM-44041]

Okay maybe I have a gardening problem because I think like this too lol

[@riveroflife84]

I just found your channel! Thank you. could make suggestion as to how best way to kill massive thistle in winter? Would suggest for me to tarped? Thank you SO much, and so glad that I found your channel

[@GardeningInCanada]

Hey! And I would try the solarizing trick

[@tammyohlsson7966]

I sure enjoy your wisdom! But wish I had a YOU for hot humid climates. 9b garden year round, pest are always a problem. Blessings!

[@GardeningInCanada]

That is a hot zone! Holy Moly

[@tammyohlsson7966]

@@GardeningInCanada trust me, I know! Blessed and cursed!

[@dr.froghopper6711]

Talk nerdly! It’s my middle name!

[@ausfoodgarden]

Is that going to be your new merch? Talk Nerdy to me. 😁 If that's in your store already, sorry I'm in Australia so only get a subset. Oh, and suggesting more chores? How dare you! I don't even finish my existing chore list.🤣

[@jr4062]

Enjoyed your video. There is a lot of land for me to do your weed attacks. The thing I use on my walking surface to the street is vinegar. I hope that doesn’t kill essential insects, but my weeds grow fast and high. I need something that can spread vinegar to cover a wide area. I thought about sprinklers, but I don’t have any, and live in a rural area.

[@abydosianchulac2]

Just how widespread do you want to distribute the vinegar at once? Would a backpack or hand-punp sprayer broadcast it quickly enough?

[@bethvanaalst2168]

Talk nerdy to us. 😊

[@GardeningInCanada]

LOL

[@janew5351]

What about covercrops like Veatch or red clover? Prevent weeds and add to soil fertility for spring.

[@jarretpaul]

I can plant my peas now? They won't accidentally pop up before snowfall during warm days? Northern Alberta here. Daytime highs are still around 15C.

[@JakobIlar]

I notice you didn’t mention coconut coir to break up compacted soil. What does the science say about adding it to garden soil?

[@lorihry6236]

Would the freeze kill off beneficial bugs as well as bad bugs?

[@GardeningInCanada]

Unfortunately it could

[@c.o8016]

I'm curious about beans as indicator seeds. Don't they die/rot if it's not warm enough when they're planted?

[@GardeningInCanada]

The survive the winter 🥶 mind blowing I know

[@theoldguy9329]

Nerdy is OK but need to better define terms. I did have a question. Where I am there is sandy soil BUT lots of roots. I took down a lilac going apple next to a 50 foot Scotch pine the city will not let cut. It is a small space so likely a shallow raised bed. I have those roots plus Virginia Creeper, ivy, and some wild grape to fight off too -- they grow up through my 3 foot raised beds. I figured I would put down black landscaper cloth (with weights) for the winter (after I level the area a bit and put in the raised bed in the spring). Am I better off with the poly for controlling that stuff?

[@happyhobbit8450]

Plants need 'air' just like we do ... is this 'percolation'? My second choice of study was botany but I got into commerce at the UofA -- I love plants more than commerce. Commerce in French means competition which is where everything goes sideways for me since I'm a Pacifist and love everything about nature because there is no 'war' (competition) just truth/reality ... no enemies in nature. Thank you for the nerdy science stuff ... I watch 'No-till Growers' and Jesse is like you = nerdy science stuff

[@rayathome151-i1n]

More information please 😊

[@kendravoracek3636]

💚💚

[@GardeningInCanada]

❤️❤️❤️

[@wayneessar7489]

Do folks in your area dig in sulphur or lime before freeze up? Should we wait, in places without frozen soil? Some water tables here are perched and do not drain until they are drenched.

[@yevgeniyakononoff3435]

I ah e blight in my garden for the last two years! HELP! I plan to tarp. What else can I do? Do I still cut at the root? Or should I remove the sick plants with the roots?

[@sqeekable]

At 3 min mark, she mentions Cnd company makes sustainable peat replacement? Sounds like ‘ tyfa’? Transcript did not catch it. Anyone know?

[@GardeningInCanada]

typhacompany.com/

[@johannakuhlin4787]

I have an urgent video-reqest! How do I start a Mandragora officinarum seed?

[@melissalan8105]

Ok now i want to know more about this peas story! You plant peas before snow??

[@draganarc0131]

Yes she does. Last fall I planted peas so we would have an early crop this spring. Works awesome, going to do it again this fall.

[@melissalan8105]

​@@draganarc0131whoa i never heard of this now i want to try. Thank you

[@draganarc0131]

@@melissalan8105I also plant a portion of my beets, carrots and spinach in the fall.

[@GardeningInCanada]

I’ll have a video about this later this week

[@melissalan8105]

@@GardeningInCanada well thank you!! Love your videos❤️

[@ChrisReher]

Exposing weeds and other unwanted stuff to the cold seems logical, but you'd also kill beneficial insects along with the flea beetles. Seems a little scorched earth to me.

[@ArtFlowersBeeze8815]

And boing! Flea beetles are back.

[@katjoy9921]

Do tarping kill good soil bacteria fungii.

[@JD-zb4ve]

Fire alarm battery needs changing??

[@GardeningInCanada]

No 😂 that’s my parrot

[@JD-zb4ve]

@@GardeningInCanada you need to introduce him/her!!

[@JohnJude-dp6ed]

Broadfork time? I'd think a layer of mulch of leaves and grass clippings and garden waste is my.method.

[@blacksmithden]

I watched the whole thing, and then you lost me when you said you pee all over your yard. ;)

[@GardeningInCanada]

LMFAO

[@lindaspellman2108]

Is THAT what the "plant peas on president's day" nonsense is about is soil temp indicator?? Cause my January planted peas struggle and eek along until I get disgusted and pull them to make room for the april sowing that is actually trying to grow. O wouldnt bother with packets of peas though, when a pound of pinto beans is under $2 (for now)