Comments on: 2009 Garden Vlog 11, Pruning Cucumber Vines, Compost, Beans

By: MyLittleGreenThumb

MyLittleGreenThumb — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:42:38 +0000

I was wondering if you could answer this question for me, are your video files avi and if so how do you edit them, I cannot edit with windows movie maker because my camcorder has AVI files…do you have any idea??

By: Blinkazoid

Blinkazoid — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:05:29 +0000

Thanks MLGThumb! Unfortunately in most things other than compost piles when you keep tossing crap on a pile you wind up with a pile of crap, LOL.

By: Blinkazoid

Blinkazoid — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:39:40 +0000

I edit with Adobe Premiere Elements which handles most file formats including AVI. Actually Windows Movie Maker does handle some forms of AVI. I guess there’s subtle differences in AVI’s and it can’t handle all of them. Continued

By: Blinkazoid

Blinkazoid — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:31:39 +0000

At one point in time I did use Movie Maker and I had to use a file converter to convert my files to .Wmv files.
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By: Blinkazoid

Blinkazoid — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:32:43 +0000

Movavi’s video file converter is very good and you can buy that as a stand alone program. They also have a video editor. I never could get that to work very well for me though. However they’ve done a couple of upgrades since I’ve tried it. Maybe it’s better now but I don’t really know, so I can only recommend their converter and not either their editor or their “Suite* which is a combination of several of their programs including the editor and file converter. Just Google Movavi.

By: Praxxus55712

Praxxus55712 — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:23:23 +0000

I have no idea what that weed is that’s growing around your beans, but I have tons of it growing in my garden too. I let it grow because it doesn’t seem too invasive and doesn’t strangle anything out. You’re right that it keeps other weeds down a bit too. You’re gonna have a whole hell of alot of beans. holy crap! lol

By: Blinkazoid

Blinkazoid — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:58:37 +0000

That weed has really spread a lot alongside my okra row. I’m still leaving it though. One good thing about it is if I ever decide to tear any of it out it’s easy to remove because even though it spreads it doesn’t re-root itself very often. I could tear out a large amount in minutes with minimal effort.

The beans are really a wild card. Even I don’t know how much I’ll get. The 30 foot row I replanted is SUPER healthy looking and I’ve been working hard at picking bugs off it, Cont.

By: Blinkazoid

Blinkazoid — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:58:47 +0000

but the beans I have planted in the corn are having to fend for themselves on the bug front. It’s just too labor intensive to debug them. Those are getting eat on quite a bit but I still think I’ll get quite a few beans off of them.

By: thornekatt

thornekatt — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:55:03 +0000

WOW!!! That’s alot of okra! You had A BUNCH last year, and even did a vid on frying it, didn’t you? I definitely remember you frying/cooking the zucchini!

By: Blinkazoid

Blinkazoid — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:53:34 +0000

Yep, I did cooking vids last year for both okra and squash. And I did an okra contest thing.

This is a fair amount of okra but still nowhere near as much as I had last year. Last year I had almost 100 plants and this year I’m down to 39 because 100 plants worked me to death!!! I’ve still got frozen okra I’ve not eaten yet.