Grandpas Tips for a Successful Garden, Fertilizing your Tomatoes for Free and Propagating Grapes

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Grandpas Tips for a successful garden, Fertilizing your Tomatoes for Free and propagating grapes As many of you know my Grand parents are a huge part of the reason I love to garden. They are great mentors and have such a wealth of knowledge that I have been lucky enough to have shared with me. Some of my most cherished memories are gardening with my parents and grandparents. This last summer when in Ontario I spent some time interview my Grandpa Legaree about his garden. Some of you whom have been following my garden adventures since the summer of 2013 may remember him from the grapes he gave me that I now grow in my garden. I am so very proud of them. I thought today I would share some of Grandpas best tips for a successful garden! Grandpa What is your best tip to be successful in the garden? 2. Why did you start gardening? 3. How do you fertilize your Tomatoes? 4, How do you make your compost? 5. Why do you use dirt in your compost? 6. What is your earliest memory in the garden? When grandpa told me he grew grapes just like him I was surprised. Grandpas surprise that they grew here too 7. a. How do you propagate your grapes? 7.b How long does it take for the grapes to root and when do you start? At the beginning of this video I shared with you that gardening with my family is a huge reason why I love gardening and the source of a lot of my most cherished memories. I would love to hear your family gardening stories that you hold close to your heart. I hope you have all had a safe and wonderful holiday season so far. I for one have taken this time to reflect on how lucky I am to have a such a wonderful family and a kind group of friends. Thank you all and a special thank you to Grandpa Legaree. Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/stephenlegaree14 Webpage: www.albertaurbangarden.ca Google +: google.com/+StephenLegaree Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlbertaUrbanGarden Twitter: https://twitter.com/northern1485 Pintrest: http://www.pinterest.com/ABurbanGarden/

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Good to hear from grandpa again Stephen. Thank you for sharing. Gardening is our way of life growing up. If we don't plant anything we don't eat. We also grow food for the local markets. I live far away from home and I still grow food. My garden is my heaven on earth even if its full of weeds LOL

My family come from Lithuania and have always had huge allotments with cabins where I would spend countless days in the summer. I remember picking strawberries and marvelling at the multicoloured peppers that were growing. Or picking my salad straight out the garden in summer. I now have an extensive container garden on my large apartment balcony and it gets bigger and bigger every year.

Great video!

Good information, eh ?!

Happy new year!

Wonderful video. I know in the future you will look back and be so glad you did this. Thanks for sharing.

both my grandparents had gardens that encompassed the whole of the back yard every square inch was some kind of garden.. I loved walking thru the jungle as a kid and exploring and helping them

cool video

Nice to see the knowledge be passed down.
Cheers mate.

Nice to see your grandpa again Stephen! Best of wishes to you and your family for the coming year.

Grandpa is missing 2-fingers. I squashed the four fingers of my right hand in a 15-ton press machine. I like the sense--that plant a lot and take the ---things as they come. Nice video Stephen.

My mother took 8mm film of me helping in the garden when I was 3. so I claim to have over 70 years of gardening experience. We moved to the farm when I was 4. When I was 6 like your grandfather said I was assigned a row 200 feet long that I either had to weed or hoe in the summer time before I could go swimming in the bay.

Awesome job! Nice to get the wisdom of the other Generations. Some of us don't have that luck as my grandparents all passed away when I was younger. Now you have recorded history for generations to come in your family.Great Job!Tim

OMG your grandpa is adorable!! I grew up in North York, an area that used to be farmland that was developed as urban in about 1928. I was born in 73 and at that time our neighborhood was mostly a combination of Italian immigrants and Canadian's of Irish/English ancestry. My Italian next door neighbour was a very talented gardener and had converted every square inch of his backyard into a garden. He made the most of vertical space and he had a compost pile. He would take me on our tour of his garden and teach me about what he would grow and let me taste the plants and fruit. He and our other neighbours were always in their gardens and I could see their intense passion for gardening. It was beyond a fun hobby for them - it was an important resource to them. This gardening education I received as a child was my foundation of wonder and interest for gardening. I grew my first garden at 16 in my parent's backyard. My Italian neighbour helped me space the plants and we traded plants with each other. This was all before the Internet and I somethings wonder what else my neighbour would have done with his garden if he had had access to all this information.

Thanks for all of your informative videos.
Gardens are the link between generations.

Your grandpa is so Canadian. I love the sayings like "hey." Stephen, he is a treasure. I gardened a bit with my mom in a community garden and worked on a farm as a teen. I came back to it this year and hope my 7 year old son will have my passion so we can do it together.

I enjoyed that, my friend!

I grew up in Arkansas, and my grandpa did everything big, plowing a 200 foot long field and getting all the kids and grand kids to help plant. What the heck did he do with 200 feet of cabbage? Nobody knows.