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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.
Finally Planting Garlic November 2024
Better late than never. I was supposed to plant these in October but getting it done now. Next year I'll be sure to buy enough to fill the bed.
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Late October Garden Tour - Exploding Watermelon
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I show you how the garden is doing at the end of October. There isn't much to look at but I talk about future plans and cut open a surprising watermelon.
Rainy Harvest Day - Dragon Tongue Beans - Chinese Eggplant
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I'm out grabbing food before the rain and friends start to roll through.
September 10th Harvest First Figs! Tomato Hornworm Intruder
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The nights are getting cooler but my garden is still pumping out plenty to eat. I also get to try my first homegrown fig and do battle with a large garden beast!
These Plants Don't Take A Holiday! Habanada Pepper-Chinese Eggplant-Orangeglo Watermelon
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It's Labor Day so I decide to labor outside and harvest some food. There are some new things to try today.
What Can We Eat? - Late August Harvest
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It's another hot day and I'm grabbing whatever I can find in the garden. Join me for my latest update.
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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How I grow a lot of tomatoes in a small space
May 28th 2024 garden and fungus gnat update
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May 28th 2024 garden and fungus gnat update
The great fungus gnat war + onion planting
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The great fungus gnat war onion planting
Birth of a food forest - First yard and garden tour
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Birth of a food forest - First yard and garden tour
Another name for this type of mosquito trap is "Bucket of Doom'. If you don't have an appropriate lid for the bucket just place an "Escape Stick' in the bucket so insects and various small animals which may end up in the bucket can climb out. Toss in a new mosquito dunk every month during mosquito season, add water when necessary to keep the bucket about half full, and pour out excess water if the bucket gets too full due to rain. Keep the bucket, or buckets, in shady areas away from the outdoor areas you spend time in. I keep one on each side of my back deck, and one on the north side of my front porch. This appears to work well and does not kill valuable insects that that our natural areas depend upon.
Good call on 86ing that weird tasting fruit tree. Those things tasted so funky.. and that’s some awesome looking seed garlic you got there! It would be a cool experiment to see a comparison of how store bought garlic grows compared to buying it from a seed company, if you end up not getting your order in in time
@@jaywlazlowski6395 good idea about the experiment. I could go to the store tomorrow to grab some organic garlic and get that started quick. Seed garlic is pricey but you actually get to know what you're planting.
Awesome haul, the garden is looking amazing
Very nice tour😊
@@myhomeandgardenchanneldwel7777 thank you very much! Try an earlier video to see the garden with some more life :)
Wow, such a beautiful harvest😊
By the time you Shot the Video maybe it was , if you shot the video 3 days earlier before Posting , And Big Seeds means Plants are having Too Much Stress and They know its Late Season so they just Go Streight For Seeds , its Amazing you still get fruit at this point 😂❤👍
@@SomeOneHigh haha yea I can't really complain when I still have watermelons to cut in October.
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJ and im not complaining too , im growing Hot Peppers and basils and mints and strawberries in Containers ( Hydroponic ) all different Varieties and im Having Constant Produce and meanwhile i do breeding and seeds and im really Happy with the Results 🌿👍🌍
@@SomeOneHigh nice I definitely want to get into some hydroponics in my basement. Any style you recommend?
From what I have been watching people are planting their garlic in the fall. I have never grown it so I wouldn't know. Might check into it and find out. You did get a good potato harvest. The russett bed you said produced the least you actually pulled most of off the vines.
Bruh! Why’d you waste all that watermelon beer?! 😂
@@jaywlazlowski6395 it was tempting but I figured I'd let the chickens party 😂
Great job with the wood chips 😉
Great video, would you be able to provide a link for the Amazon cover?
Hi and thanks for watching. I used these lids but anything similar should work fine. 6 in. Wide Lip Bucket Basket (Pack of 6) | 5 Gallon Bucket Lids for DWC, Net Pots for Hydroponics + Twin Canaries Chart a.co/d/5YKoT2l
Nice!
Fantastic potatoe harvest...
When did you plant your garlic? Garlic needs a cold period and usually is planted in the fall about 4 to 6 inches deep. Let grow until late summer. It needs to be fertilized with nitrogen at planting and again a little later .No telling how big your potatoes would have grown if they would have been watered once or twice a week. Nice potatoes. Do you compost your chicken droppings? A good source of nitrogen but must be composted for several months to kill off any bad pathogens.
@@carolparrish194 I definitely planted it way too late.. I'm much better prepared for this year!
@@carolparrish194 also, I do compost wood chips from the chicken coop and when I'm raising new birds. Other than that I haven't touched what's in the run yet. I plan to eventually sift from the run to spread around the garden. I'll be finally using the compost from my bin in the winter..I haven't touched it yet.. hopefully have black gold.
That squash at the end is called patty pan squash
I could feel your disappointment through the screen when you revealed that sad cross section.
Great harvest! I have a friend who actually still says "cool beans"! 😂
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.