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Slow And Homesteady NJ
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 26 ม.ค. 2012
This is a channel about growing your own food, cooking, and adventures.
What Can We Eat? - Late August Harvest
It's another hot day and I'm grabbing whatever I can find in the garden. Join me for my latest update.
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30 Pound Orange Watermelon Harvest
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I harvest my first watermelon of the season and I'm pretty happy with the results.
Harvest Everything Before The Rain + So Many Melons
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I have four days of rain showing up in one hour. Join me as I check out the garden and grab whatever I can.
Bees Love Sunflowers
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I went out to my garden this morning and saw the bees loving my sunflowers.
Late July Harvest and Garden Tour
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Check out how my garden is looking in late July.
Pan Blistered Shishito Peppers
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This is a delicious way to prepare your Shishito peppers. The recipe is even easier than growing them. These peppers end up so tender and they pull away from the stem so easily. They make a great side dish or snack.
Chinese eggplant in garlic sauce recipe
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I found the recipe at pickledplum.com/eggplant-garlic-sauce/ In my doubled version I used the following for the sauce.. 4 Tbsp coconut aminos 2 Tbsp Chinese cooking wine 2 Tbsp black vinegar (Soeos Chinkiang) 2 tsp sesame oil 4 tsp sugar 1 tsp dried ginger 1 Tbsp Korean pepper flakes 4-5 finely diced garlic cloves sautéed with the eggplant
Quick garden harvest before trip + corn planting
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I was going on a 2 day trip so I grabbed anything I could from the garden before the enemies robbed me. My corn was finally planted also, hopefully not too late in the season.
Fat potato harvest with little work (4ft x 8ft raised bed)
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Come see how many potatoes a 4ft x 8ft raised can can give you with not much effort. The most work I did with these potatoes was harvest them.
Quick garden update (late June)
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This is a quick update of how my garden is doing in late June. I even get a small harvest to enjoy.
How I grow a lot of tomatoes in a small space
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I show you the basics of the single stem pruning method for tomatoes. This allows you to grow a lot of plants in a smaller footprint.
Mosquito Death Bucket
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This video gives you the quick and easy rundown on how to make a mosquito death bucket. Take back your backyard and enjoy the summer.
Old North Sea strawberry harvest
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I take you along for the 3rd harvest of my small Old North Sea strawberry patch. Four or five were planted last year and have sent out enough runners to give me a decent harvest with little work. If you want to give them a try, buy them from the following link. www.rareseeds.com/strawberry-old-north-sea-5-plants-ships-prompt
May 28th 2024 garden and fungus gnat update
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The latest update of how my garden/food forest is doing. I'm showing the wins and the losses.
The great fungus gnat war + onion planting
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I try to tackle a fungus gnat infestation in my raised beds. I find time to plant some onions also.
Birth of a food forest - First yard and garden tour
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Birth of a food forest - First yard and garden tour
The tops of the corn is called tassels, you can cut some and rub them over the white parts called silks, each silk is attached to a corn kernel. Loved seeing the harvest.
That IS a beautiful, bountiful harvest! Great job!
Great potato haul!
Can you actually plant a whole potatoe and get a good harvest without waiting for the eyes to sprout?
@@edwardmarapese868The whole potatoes I planted mostly didn't have any eyes yet.
Awesome harvest!
Is that a tendersweet watermelon?
I believe the variety is orangeglo but did a terrible job labeling so not exactly sure. I need to get some taller signage for my plants
It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Very nice potato harvest. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey.
@@myhomeandgardenchanneldwel7777 thank you for taking the time to watch and subscribe. Hopefully it gets better and better every year. I have a lot of plans for the future.
Just a tip make sure u dig down to ive had the at less 40 cm down b4 amazing harvest tho well done
Dig deeper for potatoes.
Thanks for the tips. I'm pretty new at potatoes. I can see now that I missed at least a few because I have some potato plants growing in between the corn I planted on top after the harvest.
Nice potatoes. But they have eyes on them and should have pull them earlier. 😊❤
What type of strawberry are those? Mine always seem to die in the summer sun
Under the tree is Old North Sea and in the large garden bed is a mix of yellow and white varieties. I believe I got the seeds from migardeners website. The north sea were live plants from rareseeds.com
Your garden looks great. Enjoy your harvest. Your honeynut squash looks ready to pick, Once they turn orange and the tendril has dried it's ready to pick. I'm still waiting on ours and most are still green. We spent two hours today in the heat just picking tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, swiss chard, celery, carrots, cucumbers and some turnip greens. Came in with 3 bushel baskets of tomatoes all in blushing state to ripen indoors. Tomatoes, butternut squash, pumpkins, zucchini, yellow squash, honeynut and Trombonchino squash are on steroids this year. I'm afraid that after 3 to 4 days of all this rain we are suppose to get in northern NJ that the squash plants are gonna take over the yard. Most are grown vertically up over structures but have started to expand outward
@@karenfrankland7763 thank you! I need to get some more hog panels around the garden because I just don't have enough for the amount of melons I want to have growing. Luckily I have a big area of wood chips that they seem to love growing on and doesn't cause the same type of issues that regular soil can cause (disease). Are you talking about the butternut on the ground or that tiny one on the trellis? I was hoping to have a good amount of butternut for longer storage.
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJ Butternut squash are the bigger long lasting tan colored squash. I still have two from last year that are still perfect. The small orange one hanging is a Honeynut butternut. This is our 3rd year growing them. They are a hybrid so you can't save the seeds. The honeynuts are super sweet. The don't store like a butternut. You might get them to store about 3 months.
@@karenfrankland7763 great, thanks for the info.
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJ your welcome, it's always nice to see someone else in NJ growing a garden. Wait til you taste that honeynut squash. I usually cook two at a time. One for hubby and one for me. They are so good. No butter or seasoning required. Slice in half, remove the seeds and bake with a little olive oil or avacodo oil sprayed on the top.
@@karenfrankland7763 I was looking forward to the honeynut but unfortunately that vine didn't do well. At least I have the full size to fall back on. I'll be sure to get some of honeynut going again next year.
Everything is looking amazing, wonderful harvest.
@@growingmyown thank you!
@@growingmyown thank you!
Fantastic potato harvest!
A few recommendations from someone who has been growing potatoes for a while. Nr.1: dig deeper. Some potatoes can be quite far down. Nr.2: after the harvest put some organic fertilizer into your soil. Mix well and leave for a few days and then put in some new potatoes in the soil, so that you have a harvest in autumn. Those potatoes are great during winter months 😋 Nr.3.: worm castings are a great fertilizer for every plant, including potatoes. Maybe you could set up a worm bin. Nr.4.: little mini potatoes are great roasted. Greetings from Austria
@@jessicasturm5099 thanks for all the tips! I ended up putting a short season corn in after the potatoes. Another round of potatoes would be awesome though. Maybe I can squeeze them elsewhere in the garden.
Amazing harvest, you will never have to plant ground cherry again.
Thank you! I didn't realize how prolific the ground cherry fruit would be. It is nice getting some tropical flavored fruit in NJ.
New subscriber. I love to watch the potato treasure hunt!
Thank you for taking the time to watch! I had fun doing it.
Hubby and I have been gardening in NJ for our entire lives and we are both in our mid 60's. The thing we realized was to only grow heirloom varieties and save the seeds each year from the biggest and best fruits. It has paid off big time. It's been a good ten or more years since we have bought seeds . Our favorite two tomatoes are our Pink Heirloom Beefsteak and a striped Roma tomato. I gave up trying to grow san marzano tomatoes as they are just way too small. The only things I do buy are seed potatoes, cabbage and garlic depending on how our harvest went the year before. We do a ton of canning with all our tomatoes. This year alone we have harvested over 300lbs of tomatoes and so far have made tomato soup, salsa, ketchup and pizza sauce so far. It's a daily this time of year for us. 70 percent of our backyard is edibles and all is fenced. We grow in raised in ground beds.
I hope to be at that level one day. Waiting for these fruit trees to pay off big time hopefully. I do need to get into savings seeds. I'm sure you have plants that are perfectly adapted to your yard at this point
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJ Yes we do. As for fruit trees, we lost our nectarine to the squirrels last year. It was loaded and the squirrels had a blast climbing it and breaking off branches that we took the tree down. We do have elderberries, an apple, and several fig trees. The deer ate all of our cherry trees. It's always a challenge but you do the best you can. We grow raspberries and black berries as well as blueberries in a enclosed netted area just so we can enjoy the harvest.
The little butternut looks like a Honey Nut squash. They are super tasty and sweet . This year for us in N. NJ the squash are on steriods and producing and growing like crazy. We just planted our Summer squash about two weeks ago to avoid the squash vine borer and so far so good. The zucchini are just now putting on fruit. We use our chicken and duck poo in all our garden beds as well as mulch heavily with comfrey leaves and grass clippings so we have a good 5 or 6 inches of mulch down to retain moisture. July and August are always jungle mode....we love it. Your gardens are looking great.
North Jersey here for the first time. Lovely potato harvest. You might want to go back into those potato beds with a pitch fork. A lot of times the potatoes can go deeper down. We grew blue potatoes a few years ago in a huglekulture bed and to this day they come back every year even when we think we dug them all. We start Garlic in the ground on Halloween, an easy date to remember to plant them. Usually we harvest ours end of June or at least by July 4th. This year we havested the garlic scapes early May and pulled all the garlic last week of May. Almost a month early with this crazy we have been having.
Thanks for watching and the tips! I've definitely missed a couple potatoes because I already see them growing again! This year I'm actually getting the garlic planted in time. I already have my seed garlic ordered. Good idea with doing it on Halloween.
Potatoes can be poisonous to chickens. They are in the nightshade family
@@sandraclay169 I'll avoid in the future. They are all doing great luckily
Your hen making that noise is laying an egg.
You’d like the Bachans Hot & Spicy version of the bbq sauce. Give it a shot and lmk what you think.
Any store that carries it or I need to buy it online?
From all the videos I've been watching on pruning, fruit trees, you've done well, all the angels were great.
Thank you. The trees have all gotten a lot bigger so I'll have a lot more work to do this winter.
Micro-potato. That one’s for Barbie and Ken.😂 love the clucking.😊 Good yield for a potato soup. Yummy.
Nice one ❤❤
Nice that’s looking pretty good. I always gently salt the eggplant, give it 30-45 minutes to rest, and then pat them dry before introducing them to the oil. Helps prevent them absorbing oil and keeps their texture from getting soggy.
I'm gonna give this a try with some of the Italian eggplant I have that is much thicker. Working with this Chinese eggplant seems to be another beast.
That’s a nice haul. We need Abe Lincoln updates, did it survive the 2 days??
Diatomaceous earth works pretty good for keeping the ants at bay
I'll give that a try also. I have plenty of borax so I think I'll attack them on 2 fronts.
Am amazing harvest, truly reminiscent of a treasure húnt, new subscriber here from @homesteadinginjamaica.
I was very happy with the treasure! Thanks for checking out my channel.
Got dizzy with all the camera movements. Nice harvest! I’m a newbie to gardening. Hope mine do as well as yours
Thanks! The next video will have some movement also. In the future I'll try to be more stable. Even if you don't get as many you can always try next year :)
Why don’t you sit down your camera? Too much movement, it gave me a headache so I didn’t finish watching your video.
@@ninfadoyle1450 I'll start using a tripod more in the future. Some people like the first person view, like you are there.
The potatoes are really delicious, try your best
Need to get yourself a tripod so you can hook in with both hands👌👌😁😁
Haha I have one but haven't bothered using it. 2 hands would have been nice for the potatoes though.
They may be small but I am sure it will be delicious.
What an amazing harvest, I just love to watch potato harvest videos.. New friend here from Growing My Own.
It was definitely a fun treasure hunt. This was my first solid potato harvest .Thanks for watching!
You had a very nice harvest. New friend here. Showing you support. Enjoy your potatoes. Happy gardening 😊
Thanks for taking the time to watch! Hopefully a lot more good stuff to come.
Awesome harvest! Your definitely gonna be enjoying that harvest! 😊
Your soil is really fluffy! What is the name of that marine compost? I might want to get some!
I'll need to go back and see if they have more bags because I don't think I have any footage of the bags. I think it was a Canadian product though, or at least made with Canadian seafood. There was already a solid base in the beds before the compost. Look into promix for something light and fluffy that can be purchased from home Depot. It can get pricey if you need a ton of it though
You gotta have a side channel where you prepare and cook your harvest lol. I bet you got some decent ways to chef up those taters
@@jefferydeverin903 I'll be doing some cooking right on here soon enough 😁
“Oh yeah, we eating tonight” 😂 I laughed with you after you said that
@@jaywlazlowski6395 I was hoping the rest of my harvest was gonna be bigger than that potato marble.
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJ that ended up being a nice harvest dude!
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJthose small potatoes sell for a lot more per pound than the biggies. Mainly because you don’t have to process them, you can just throw them on a pan with some oil and salt and toss em in the oven
@@jaywlazlowski6395 I was surprised how many I got. Can actually eat good tonight haha.
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJ you’re eating good for the rest of the month bro!
Keep up the good videos!
@@nitishjain5393 thank you!
Hello fello New Jersey friend! Thank you for this tip! I can't wait to get one of these set up in my yard!
Glad you found the video! They make a nice difference as long as you also get rid of all other sources of standing water around your property.
We’ve been using Cutter Backyard Bug Control. Has the added benefit of helping against ticks and other insects that may not make their way into the buckets. Are you in an area that has a bunch of standing water around of your property?
I plant a lot of things in the ground so I try to stick with things approved for organic gardening. Wondercide is a product I've considered trying. I do live near a lake so I need to stack multiple mosquito defenses.
Keep up these life changing vids and u will soon have 100 subs..
Thanks buzzard
Thanks, i like that idea :)
mosquitos have a right to deend themselves.....
I'm not sure what you mean.
would be beneficial to you to actually break up that dunk
Looks like it's working as is!
Dūnk
Do they fill up when it rains?
Mine so far haven't because they are under bushes and trees. When you check on them monthly you can dump any excess water. Another option is drilling a hole or 2 at the level you don't want water going above so it just drains out the side.