E139: Summer "Minisode" From Dave's Organic Garden at Sage Garden Greenhouses

Episode 139: Listen here!

Welcome to our second and final “minisode” of the Summer! Next time you hear from us, we’ll officially be back with an incredible lineup of guests for our Fall 2022 season. Subscribe to The Grow Guide so you don’t miss when the first episode drops.

Today we’re in Dave’s organic garden located at his business Sage Garden Greenhouses in Southern-Manitoba. Maggie virtually walks listeners through Dave’s amazing “experimental” garden space and asks every question under the sun. You’ll love this garden tour and are bound to end the show feeling inspired!

Dave’s “secret garden” has several nooks with cozy chairs like this one for his team at Sage Garden Greenhouses to relax during their breaks.

This episode covers:

• Where Dave’s garden is located and a look into the 17 acres Sage Garden Greenhouses sits on

• Dave’s deer fencing solution

• Dave’s watering management practices for his container garden

• Growing 50+ pepper plants in 400 gallon recycled geotextile grow bags

• Dave’s fav pepper varieties that are highly productive

• The fruiting fig tree growing in a large container — tune into our past episode covering Growing Figs Across All Grow Zones with Steven Biggs

• Mullein plants and their interesting history

• Dave’s late July succession planting experiment

• Black radishes

• A walkthrough of Dave’s 20+ geo pot raised beds

• Why Dave thinks plants grow better in raised beds

• Dave’s DIY raised bed hoops for row covers

• All about Mermaid’s Tale Cabbage discussed in our past episode with Petra, co-founder of Fruition Seeds

• Why cabbage plants sometimes get big leaves but don’t head

• Dave’s experimental lettuce patch he’s purposely let bolt

• The Alexandria ever-bearing strawberries

• Dave’s experiment harvesting vs. not harvesting his garlic scapes

• The mulberry and gogi berry patch

7,000 square feet of fenced in garden space.

Mullein grows +7 feet tall!

400 gallon Geotextile Grow Bag growing 40+ pepper plants

Northern fig tree

Container herb garden.

Maggie tries out of the cozy corners in Dave’s “secret garden.”

Brassica bed with Dave’s DIY hoops that he uses attaches light weight row covers to.

Mermaid’s Tale Cabbage

Hardneck garlic gone to seed.

Alexandria Everbearing Strawberries.

Tomato raised beds growing under an old swing set for trellis support.

Experimental lettuce bed that’s purposely gone to seed.

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