Casual Gardening with Dustin

11/13/2024

11/01/2024

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Depending on where you live, leafminers can be the bane of your existence or may not come up at all. This is a group of maggots and caterpillars that survive...

10/28/2024

Which one's your favorite? Look forward to a new video on November 1st!

10/22/2024

Look upon my red skull jacket and despair.

As winter approaches, it's time to put your garden to bed. Reflect on another year of gardening and prepare your plants for the colder months ahead.As the 20...

10/14/2024

If you're in Utah, make sure you check this garden out. If you're not in Utah, you probably have a botanical garden that's worth your time locally.

I was lucky enough to have a chance to talk to a horticulturalist at the Red Butte Garden and Arboretum last week. We talked about the garden, but also about...

10/08/2024

Why is this video about bread? Because it's really about something to do with extra basil, that's why.

This bread truly was magic! I managed to disappear half of a loaf just as soon as I'd cut into it. Use up extra basil with this low-effort sourdough recipe t...

09/30/2024

Another video! Wanna grow tomatoes from saved seeds? Wanna hear me complain about Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds?

Either way, this video is for you.

It's time to save seeds from our summer crops to grow next year! I'm going to show you how to save tomato seeds, and tell you how to save pepper, zucchini, c...

09/19/2024

Field bindw**d, aka morning glory, aka Convolvulus arvensis is a bane to many gardeners. This season may be your best chance to be done with it!

Bindw**d feels like a forever w**d. It's like garden glitter because once it shows up, it seems to appear everywhere. Autumn is the best time to take control...

09/12/2024

Things got maybe a little weird in this gardening video. Watch it anyway.

Our gardens are complex systems nested in larger, even more complex systems. So today I want to talk about unforeseen consequences of seemingly unrelated eve...

09/09/2024

Are you at a loss for what to do in your garden this September? I have some ideas- especially if you're growing in zone 6.

It's September, and that means here in Zone 6 we're trying to wring every last vegetable out of our gardens before the frost gets us. This video shares some ...

09/07/2024

Next week's video, "Tasks for a Productive September Garden" is uploading right now!

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09/02/2024

Are you starving your soil? Don't starve your soil.

We know our gardens feed us, but it's also important to feed our soil- and I don't mean with fertilizers. Fertilizers don't feed the soil, they just feed the...