Home Gardener’s
Weekly
Issue
No. 89
August
23, 2024
Enjoy Your Harvest Workshop Series
Airing September 4-6, 2024
We are thrilled to invite you to download our 2024 Enjoy Your Harvest Event Guide, your essential companion for the 2024 Enjoy Your Harvest Workshop Series—a must for anyone looking to elevate their garden-to-table experience.
This workshop series features expert-led sessions on everything from creating the perfect homemade pickles, to mastering the art of fermentation and making your own herbal vinegars. Whether you are harvesting from your garden or sourcing from local farmers, this event guide and workshop series will inspire you to savor every bite of freshly harvested produce. Don’t miss out—download your guide today and start enjoying the full potential of your harvest!
[Video] Measuring Your Shadow & Sunlight Hours
Many of you are in the peak of your growing season. Now is a great time to map out your shadow and sunlight so that you can make the necessary adjustments for your next growing season. This week’s featured video covers 5 keys for a successful vegetable garden location. Your best growing location may surprise you!
Weekly Garden Tip:
One of the best things you can do for yourself as a grower is to be open to giving ingredients you don’t like another chance every so often. Our taste buds can change over time. PLUS! When you are harvesting right from your backyard, you might find you actually like a certain food you previously thought otherwise. This happens to many people who start to grow their own fresh food!
Imagine meals full of fresh, flavorful, and nutrient-rich produce, all while significantly reducing your grocery costs.
That’s what the Enjoy Your Harvest Workshop Series can do for you.
Meals created with fresh produce is a powerful way to cultivate health, sustainability, and savings.
By joining the free Enjoy Your Harvest Workshop Series, you’ll learn to:
• Save Money: Reduce your grocery bills using fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs—whether grown yourself or from your local farmers market.
• Boost Flavor: Discover the unmatched taste that homegrown produce and conscious ingredient selection can provide
• Enhance Nutrition: Enjoy the benefits of fresh, nutrient-dense foods that contribute to your vitality and well-being.
The Enjoy Your Harvest Workshop Series is designed to inspire you with new culinary garden-fresh creations and provide you with practical tips and techniques for utilizing and preserving your own food.
Follow along with fresh food experts for some new and exciting ways to incorporate fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs—and even flowers!—into your meals. From garden to table, you’ll be guided every step of the way.
🧑🍳 Here’s a sampling of the tasty creations you’ll discover:
• Crispy Air Fryer Zucchini Fries w/ Vegan Chipotle Ranch Dressing with Kim Murphy
• Garden Fresh Cooking: Black Bean Burgers with Nichole Dandrea-Russert, RDN
• Herbal Vinegars for Your Healing Pantry & Apothecary with Kami McBride
• Homemade Quick Pickles with Unlimited Flavor Potential with Stacey Murphy
• How to Preserve Kale, Beets, and Sweet Potatoes for Peak Flavor with Tom Bartels
• Fresh Rosemary & Roasted Garlic Bread Boule with Lauren Groves
• Rose Hip & Ginger Quick Jam with Crystal Meserole
The interactive event happens September 4-6. Don’t miss this opportunity! Register now for the free workshop series so you can transform your meals—AND YOUR BUDGET!
If you’re a fresh food advocate, this event is for you! Learn to boost your meals with added nutrition and flavor that everyone—even the picky eaters—will love!
📝 BLOG
Craft Delicious Jams in Record Time
Say goodbye to the time-consuming process of jam preservation and craft delicious jams in record time. Jam-making has been revolutionized for modern life. If you want fresh, nutrient-dense fruit spreads tailored to your taste buds but don’t want to dedicate an entire weekend or more to the process, quick jams are where it’s at! Nutrient-Rich Spreads in Minutes
Product Feature: GYOV Aprons!
🧑🍳 Now you can “Enjoy Your Harvest” even more with this new apron. The onesize apron comes with a tie-back closure to fit securely.
We have two versions available: brown with tan straps and white with white straps. These aprons are assembled in the USA from globally sourced parts!
Dear Arti:
Question: I would love to get some help on transferring our plants using proper bedding material from the pot to the garden. I have a great garden growing inside and would not want to lose it in the transfer. We have had a once in a lifetime mild winter in southern Ontario, Canada, and I wouldn’t want to lose my plants in the transfer.
I already have the garden worked up with the addition of cow & chicken manure as well as a good volume of worm castings which I was able to get for free. Any help I could get now would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your 8 week course. I greatly appreciated watching it. – Larry
Answer: Hi Larry,
Great question! Transplanting your plants from indoors to the garden doesn’t have as much to do with proper soil substrates as it does timing. So long as your garden grows healthy plants each year and your transplants are growing well, you should be good to go! A few things to note:
1) Remember to harden off your seedlings. You always need to slowly adjust plants anytime you change their environment.
2) If your plants are too old, they may not do well being transplanted. It’s just like humans: when we’re young, we recover from accidents more easily than we do later in life.
3) You will almost inevitably experience some failure. In farming, there is an accepted germination failure rate and a field failure rate. The field failure rate can be up to 20%. This is why farmers grow extra transplants. It’s a good idea to grow a little more than you need for this reason. And if you end up with extras you can find a spare place in the ground, in a pot, or share with the neighbors and give some plants as gifts!
I hope that helps Larry!
🏡 In the GYOV Garden
GYOV CEO and Lifestyle Gardener Denise Beins has been nurturing new growth in her garden! Her Himalayan marigolds are thriving in her raised beds this season. Did you know that marigolds bring something a little extra with their vibrant beauty? They are natural pest deterrents! She also has a pumpkin growing, which is an exciting sign that homemade pumpkin pie is on the way soon.
Fresh Food Events for You!
FREE EVENT
Enjoy Your Harvest
3-Day Workshop Series
WHO: Grow Your Own Vegetables
WHEN: September 4-6, 2024
WHAT: Enjoy Your Harvest is a brand new event here at Grow Your Own Vegetables featuring visionary fresh foodies coming together to support growers and fresh food enthusiasts alike.
During this event, you’ll discover how to:
• Support Gut Health: A healthy digestive system plus improved gut microbiome
• Enhance Flavor: Vibrant, natural flavors that elevate your dishes
• Boost Nutrient Intake: Fresh, nutrient-rich produce at its peak
• Improve Health: Increased vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants
• Promote Sustainability: Reliance on commercial agriculture reduced
• Foster Creativity: Culinary creativity with a variety of fresh and preserved ingredients
• Provide Year-Round Access: The taste of summer even in winter
• Encourage Healthy Eating: More accessible and appealing nutritious meals
Join us to be inspired with new ways to enjoy meals prepared with fresh produce! Enjoy Your Harvest is here to support our global community on their journey to a healthy, fresh food lifestyle.
WORKSHOP:
Plant Based
Coaching
WHO: Food Revolution Network
WHEN: Starting TODAY! August 23 – 25, 2024
WHAT: Do you want to harness the latest nutrition science to help others? This three-day Plant-Based Coaching Workshop will teach you how.
You’ll get expert insight into how to help people prevent diseases and boost energy with a plant-based diet.
Plus, you’ll gain the coaching skills to help people get lasting results in their lives, all while building a new or existing career.
Day 1 explores the Nutrition Pillar, Day 2 tackles career-building and coaching techniques, and Day 3 is all about the impact you can make on yourself and the world at large.
If you want to make a difference and help build a healthier world, we think you’ll love this workshop.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HARVEST CLUB
Garden Jam LIVE Q&A happening soon where Harvest Club members get LIVE support for all their garden questions to help you get more out of your garden.
Monday, Aug. 26th, check out a special presentation with Marjory Wildcraft on Gardening with Weather Changes
Wednesday, Aug. 27th, join the LIVE Jam. Link to join will be emailed to Harvest Club members.
NON-Harvest Club Members: Want to see what LIVE Q&A’s are like? Click Here and watch our March 25th, 2024 GYOV LIVE Q&A.
Not a member of our garden membership Harvest Club? You can get a one-time complimentary two month membership with any of our courses. Harvest Club has tons of resources to help you thrive. Plus, you get access to ongoing garden support through email. Learn more here.
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