Full Off Grid Vegetable Garden Tour in Zone 4
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- An early September tour of my fruit and vegetable garden in a cold climate (growing Zone 4B) in its third year. In the spring of 2020, I cleared a quarter of an acre of mixed hardwood forest in central Ontario, Canada, to create a fruit, vegetable and herb garden to feed my family of four. This year, I grew a large variety of vegetables but focused primarily on highly nutritious and high calorie foods such as potatoes, corn, beans, squash, carrots, beets, rutabaga and more.
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For cauliflower: as soon as it starts to head up, gather the longest leaves together and tie them over the young cauliflower. Otherwise the sun will scald the young produce. Cabbage, brussel sprouts and cauliflower are heavy feeders, side dress twice during the growing season.
what is side dress?
Shawn, Just a request. Could you map out your homestead with building locations. I have a hard time visualizing the setup even though you explained it well.
Bintje was my Grandfather’s favorite potato to grow here in Sweden. It put a smile on my face when you mentioned it. Congratulations on an amazing garden. A inspiration, as always.
I had a big success with Bintjes in Ottawa, Ontario using Shawn’s straw method.
wow just read this and I'm going to try them
It’s a Dutch potato, Frisian actually, developed by KL de Vries in 1904. (Wikipedia)
My father went to great lengths to get these in Ontario from his Dutch farmer clients. It soaks up gravy like you wouldn’t believe.
@@graceveenema4762 Yup, grandpa was all about Swedish meatballs with Bintje, gravy and lingonberries =)
Wow Shawn, you guys are going to be quite busy this fall, with all that harvesting and canning, the garden looks very productive. I can`t wait to see some of the processing and canning videos.
yeah I think the kitchen might need to be done before the winter starts so they can get everything saved LOL
My husband and I watch your channels, and I appreciate the way you describe your garden. 😃
Hi Shawn, thanks for your amazing videos, as always! Here's a quick tip I recently got from my grandma regarding preparing potatoes for laying: She told me she always keeps the potaoes with green spots, and other small potatoes, for laying. In fact, she places those at the fresh air, not directly in sunlight, but in half-shade, such that they turn completely green. Then she stocks them for the next year for laying. The green stuff is solanine, which renders them inedible, but at the same time this makes them more robust against all sorts of rodents as well.
That's so interesting!
The Cali photo-bomb is still epic! Great looking garden, Shawn. Full of sure to be delicious veggies and fruits. 😀🤠👍👍 & 10⭐ rating.
New garden.
Maybe I've missed it but where is this garden ? It doesn't look like your frontier garden at the
I guess how is the new dome garden ? Are you going to get chickens to help with pests ? Anyway thanks for sharing . I look forward to your videos. I love the peace and tranquility . Good karma my friend. 🙂
@@rojacone Shawn relocated his home and garden
As always, I am just amazed at all the projects you've begun and completed and now are repping the harvest of your labors. Your daughter is really a chip-of-the- old-block. She has done so much and has become so capable at all you have taught her, and she seems so happy and willing to continue in this quest for self-reliance living.
Oh my that garden is beautiful!! Great fence!! Can't believe it's already been two years since you started over there!!
Impressive garden, just like the hand built log home. The time, energy and thought that goes into this is a dynamic combination of skills.
Shawn, if you ever make a trip down to the Ottawa Valley, we would gladly give you a truck loaf of manure to help your garden.. it's completely organic and makes things grow like the dickens!!
Good morning, Shawn! Awesome garden! It's my birthday today! I love watching you work, and you're amazing! I follow you as well as Emily on her channel. I find it peaceful and so relaxing!
Happy birthday! May you have many more with good health and energy!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy and blessed birthday 🎂 .
My Oh My...what a beautiful garden... plus the greenhouse....wow! and I know the work involved! When things get really bad, you and your family will be well taken care of. Good for you and all your efforts. Every year is a learning experience. You learn what works and what doesn't and make the adjustments for the next year. Good Job!
Shawn, Your garden looks amazing! The fresh produce it's providing is essential for winter consumption! As you finish up your homestead build, you will have more time to tend to your gardens! We are harvesting our gardens too! Yummy stuff! I have been frying zucchini with garlic and parmesan cheese.... delicious! Thank You for your garden tour! Until your next video ~~~Stay safe, healthy and happy! 🍓🍆🥔🥕🌽🌶🫑🥒🥬🧅
These are the best videos that you make when you walk the garden and telling us about your harvest of veggies and how things go.... love it . Thanks Shaun+ Cali. Super!
Holy 💩, 😱, had no idea your garden had expanded to that size. Amazed at the expanse it's grown to & how good it's doing in the forest. Great job on that. Have a great day 😊.
That is a lot of food you have grown! Very impressive including your knowledge of home gardening!
Congratulations, your garden looks simply wonderful. The changes you made and disassembled the Hugo beds, very significant.
Thank you so much Shawn. Unfortunately I don't have Instagram or Tik Tok. Only Facebook and TH-cam. I just hope that your message in the comments is real and you really stand behind it. have a great day.
Beautfiful! You keep saying you dont have time but I think you are doing so much that is incredible. You work truly hard and you can only be admired. Off course your family as well 🙂. You are an inspiration for me for sure but I am sure for many of us following you.
I love to see a happy Cali roaming in the background...you have a great family garden. I am also a big fan of Kim Chee.
Looks amazing...never really thought when you started, this fantastic result could be achieved. Great job, Shawn.
So true, I wouldn't have believed it either.
Shawn, thank you for the wealth of knowledge and experience in this video!
YOU ARE AMAZING, THE DIVERSE SKILLS, THE GARDEN IS JUST BEAUITFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOME VARIETIES I'V NEVER EVEN HEARD OF. A COMPOST PILE, GARDEN. THAT IS A BLESSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS, FOR THE GARDEN TOUR, JUST AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! Do take care. Fl., U.S.A.
Shawn, as you were pulling the beautiful veggies and sifting through the rich soil for the seed versions, I was thinking in my head the phrase, "pray without ceasing." Such a beautiful harvest must have inspired gratitude (praying) in your heart and mind to a degree many never experience. Thank you for chronicling it for us.
Happy Labor Day.......Thank you for sharing about what your wife has been doing, I was listening. So good to hear about your family in how they work alongside you in your endeavor. It continues to amaze me at the work you all put into these projects and the amount of study you put into it as well before you start a project........AMAZING.......the growth of your garden as well has taken off as I have been watching from very beginning from seed to harvest.........awesome. Blessings in the fruit of your labor.
You might have had some failures but your garden looks fantastic. The variety of vegetables you grow is amazing and every year you learn more about how to get your plot/soil to produce for you.
Beautiful garden! I love all of the dual purpose plants. Sweet potatoes are my favorite. I eat the potatoes and I use the leaves in salads. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Wishing you and your family much success!
I DO remember you starting this garden which we all thought was at your original homestead. I distinctly remember you saying that the area had hardwood trees surrounding it. And that you chose the area because it had a rich leaf mulch area on bedrock.
This is where you dug out a root cellar.
Whatever. It’s fantastic how the beds have conformed into an excellent growing area.
My favorite way to make zucchini is quarter it lengthwise and toss the 4 quarters in olive oil and some herbs of your choosing and throw them into the grill or campfire rack. Works well with asparagus too.
Hi Shawn, I'm amazed at your vegetable garden 😋 All those wonderful fresh and organic fruits and vegetables WOW 👏 Is there anything you can't turn your hand to? I doubt it. Good on you and your family and thanks for sharing 👍
I love turnip in stew. Cant have without.
Wow what a beautiful garden thanks for sharing this with everyone 👍👌✌🏻🌄
Welcome back to the garden thanks for showing it to us👍🐕WS NC
Amazing vegetable garden James !!!
Nice work Shawn! I have lots of experience in Zone 3b in northern NY state so here are some suggestions: We don't like the idea of black plastic but 1/4 of our garden uses it. Kind of necessary for some things like egg plants peppers and tomatoes in our climate to get production up and reduces your weeding load. We use heavy agriculture plastic covers (choose a thick mil rating) and will last about 5 years, moving the chunks around the garden in rotations. Even small chunks that cover the immediate root zone on starting plants helps warm-up the soil for a good start. We have the same problem with potting soil- low in nutrients and too much partly decomposed wood products sucking up available nitrogen. The solution is to add nutrients or get more expensive potting mixes. Mixing in pelletized chicken manure helps or using your favorite liquid fertilizer. Making a fish emulsion fertilizer would be a self-reliant way of doing this. Last, maybe the problem with some of your transplants in an arrested growth rate after transplant is a lack of nutrients. After plants have been in the soil for a time, the mycorrhizae fungi get to the roots (or the roots get to the fungi) and the plants start to grow. Solution is supplemental fertilizer, usually one application maybe two, promoting growth in the pant until symbiosis gets started (we find this necessary for peppers and eggplants in our sandy soil). Very interested in the results of your potato harvest, hoping you or Emily will have this in a future video. Excellent garden.
Shawn your garden is unbelievably healthy for its first year. A green thumb for sure to go along with all your other skills.
Yes you continue to blow ouer minds ...
Thanks so mutch!
Thanks for your sharing, trellising tomatoes on cattle panels are great!
Yummy tomato and chili 🌶️ cabbage 🥬🍅 beans 🤩 carrots
We like mashed potatoes made half and half with turnips and some roasted garlic. Far fewer carbs and taste is wonderful; nobody will touch rutabagas, however. Our favorite greens are mustard greens, hands down--even their perfume when cooking is Heavenly.
With the food shortages already showing up here in the lower 48, that garden will give your family sustenance throughout the winter. Went to the grocer today - no mushrooms on the shelves, which usually are overflowing with them. Also, no grassfed ground beef in the meat dept. Starting to see less on the shelves, and of more items. Instead of rows of cans 6 to 8 deep, only one or two rows of cans at the front, especially of vegetables. Scary times are coming, if not already starting. Found one of my ration books from WW2 the other day. Wonder if that will become a reality again?
I just LOVE seeing Cali and her tail (plume) in the background..... Photo bombing! Cali is a beautiful girl! 🐕
The garden is huge.
Amazing garden tour and I don't know how you remember everything like you do but you continue to amaze us,so we will be awaiting harvest time and the finishing of the cabin,thanks and we will be praying for all that's coming up.
You are a incredible gardener . Every time you create one of these gardens , it just flourishes with produce . 🌞🙂💚 You Have a Green thumb . 👍🏻
One Green Thumb and one Dirty Thumb…heh, heh…. Kentucky
The first time I have ever heard them called "ground cherries," I grew up calling them cape gooseberries, or just gooseberries - but I love your word for them. They make the most amazing jam or wine and mixed with elderflower cordial and cream makes an exceptional mousse dessert or fool. Very common in Southern Africa, Australia and UK.
I enjoy watching your very healthy garden Shawn. You really have a green thumb. Have a wonderful and blessed day. Take care.
My friend Shawn, I am very impressed with your garden and to show it on this day shows your hard work and dedication on being self reliant. A labor of love indeed. God bless
Enjoyed your garden tour so much and appreciate you sharing your failures along with your successes, that's how gardening goes and nothing is perfect. You have a fantastic garden! It's so rewarding to eat fresh like this several months. We love grocery shopping in our garden.
Waow Shawn, plot of dreams there my man 😍 Credit to the gardeners. All the hours and patience put into this is really paying off now, I know how satisfying that must be and how much potential is still there. Thanks for sharing this with us, incredible work and I love your planting style even if I couldn't do it myself (I like things VERY organised within reason lol). Fantastic stuff. Absolute sea of green and that's from someone living in N.Ireland who's used to it.
Very interesting video. Thanks Shawn! It went same as elsewhere with potatoes in Greenhouse - they go for seeds. One thing - I read somewhere with Oak. Once they start to grow - if you plan to replant them, make sure that "South" remains the same. They fail sometimes if they don't turn right, specially in northern hemisphere. And you showed us why we till our compost every 3 months minimum. Great work - perhaps your could cover your structure there over some of your beds with plastic sheets in the spring to make early green house effect and start the spring early. We use that often in Iceland.
This Garden is already 3 years old and not the same as on the Log Cabin.
I watched you put the garden in 2 years ago when you said it’s a lot of work and you weren’t sure if you wanted to do it ! Now look at all that work . It’s absolutely beautiful and productive ! Great job to you and your family .
What a hard working man you are Shawn. Vast garden plus building the cabin.
Looking at your garden make me hungry for fried green tomatoes!😁
I have garden envy. I've been working on my garden Zone 7B about as long as you Shawn. I've had to develop my compacted clay / tree rooted soil with hugelkultur techniques too. But mine looks nothing like yours as far as productivity. Luckily you have your wife and daughter while you continue to work on the cabin (I don't know how you find the hours in the day). What most gardeners don't understand is that the soil feeds the plants, so what you are doing to feed the soil is building not only this year's garden, but a sustainable plot for years to come. In an urban area, I've had to learn a few tricks about keeping the deer at bay. Funny how we have a herd in our suburban atlanta neighborhood that probably rivals your populations, but here they have no room to roam. And of course, you can cull the herd whereas suburban gardeners can't . Plus there are no natural predators.
I had a bad tomatoe crop here this year, with fungal issues. So, remember to burn (rather than compost) ANY signs of plants with fungus. Once I got it under control, I did not follow the advice to remove some of the plants. I now have plants that are once again producing green tomatoes, and as in your case, I know they won't ripen. However, I HIGHLY recommend green tomatoe chutney, if you haven't already tried it. Great for Xmas presents for family and friends.
Interesting that temperatures here are not that dramatically different than what you have right now. But the sun's presence in the sky will soon change and I'll still be able to grow lettuce, spinanch, Kale, collards, Kohlrabi, etc. etc. all winter long. In fact, my winter garden is probably nicer/more productive than my summer garden. With excessive days in the 90s here this year my beans shed their blossoms and I had lots of plant, but few beans.
All of this is testament to all of the factors that farmers face in putting food on our tables (even if via the commercial grocery store). Everyone with access to land should try urban farming. You learn gratitude at a whole new level. It feeds the soul as much as the body.
I grew Blue Moon Roses to which I added Sky Blue Delphinians to grow beside or near my roses they kept aphids away - also Marigold plants are also good for keeping bugs away.
Excellent garden tour Shawn thanks 👍👍. Great job Emily.
Wow, I'm blown away, what a fantastic garden you got. All the hours you and your family put in to it are now paying of and you have hopefully enough food for the winter season.
Extremely interesting and a real eye opener in what you have been able to achieve with the garden and building your home. You certainly won’t go hungry this year. Well done to you and your family of helpers. Take care, be safe. ❤️ Dorset, UK
Absolutely love your garden. And I grew salsify once and its delicious! I wish I was so successful with growing Celery :).
Glad you are using the Hügelkultur method. I found it very successful, I didn't have to water or fertilize as often and some of my tomatoes got to 6' tall! Okra loved it too. Infact as time passed everything thrived more.
I wanted to write earlier but got distracted with chores, your first year garden yielded an abundant of vegetables all while building a cabin.
Green thumb Shawn
ohhh, that little green tomato is the green tomatillo that they use in Mexico to make the delicious salsa verde!!! look up the recipe, it is soooooooooooo good!!! your garden is amazing, as all you do. There is no other channel i rather see than yours: inspiring, interesting, fun and filled with love and the most amazing, poetic, beautiful nature shots... and the music is great too!!!
🍁The garden looks great Rick from California. Happy 4th of July.🎆
Thats very impressive ,being a very young garden!! It can only get better from here on!!😉👌👍
I would really love to see more detail about harvesting, curing and storing all of this food. For instance you said that you preserve the celery. How exactly? It is amazing to see this garden so lush just a few years in!
Great garden development 👌!! You got a good growth going on!! Your family is going to have plenty of goodies to eat!!
Thanks for sharing your adventure 😀!!!!!
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I'm so jealous of your out of control garden, I have been recovering from a third knee in the same leg (infection) and I haven't been able to have a garden for two seasons and it's somewhat of an outlet to see you build and grow, really appreciate your time. Thanks
Our only garden area is on the west side of the red brick house and 20 feet away. It doesn't receive sunlight until around 11 a.m. Tomato's and peppers were always so-so. A few years ago I was standing next to the brick on a hot afternoon. I could feel the heat radiating from the bricks. IDEA! The next year we planted a Roma and a cherry next to the house. Holy cow. Those plants went nuts. Summer nights here average upper 50's - low 60's Fahrenheit. Out of curiosity, on a July evening I used a laser thermal sensor on the brick at 11pm. Temp was low 80's.
Not sure if you could incorporate a wall of red bricks behind your tomato's. If so, you'll be eating tomatoes in early August. The Chipmunks will like it too.
Garden ducks to harvest when the first snow falls is a great idea!
I find it quite interesting that you have posted this on Labour Day. What an amazing example of what labour is all about. And not just any labour. This is a labour of love. The level of knowledge and experimentation needed to be this successful is incredible. You continue to blow our minds Shawn.
over the years many of these different things have been suggested ,,, and now he is in a place where he gets to test what he was told and adjust things for what he has what he wants and what he desires ..
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I have suggested many things over the years ... some he uses some he adapted and uses ... others he tried ... and they werent right for the location and so on .. and yes some he hasnt done (pole lathe) ... but he definitely has been keeping notes and now he has almost a full year of the first go finished and the various results are giving him plans and ideas for the next run .. you can literally hear his mind working as he talks about what he did and what worked well and what didnt and why he thinks it didnt ...
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to me this is what makes the channel awesome ... he is not against failing ... but he does consider everything he can before he tries something
@@kaboom-zf2bl he certainly isn't afraid to try something new that's for sure 😉
@@dsop66 as they say if you never try you will never accomplish anything
labor day what is has to o with anything. random date choosed by freemasos
I second that. Always amazed at what he does.
Very much enjoyed this vid...thank-you kindly. Your honesty/humilty made the vid a rich watch. Health and God Bless!
Thanks so much! Slowly but surely I am getting my backyard full of vegetables and herbs! Having a hard time with my soil! But I will get there! Your videos and Roaming wild Rosie inspires me ! God bless you and your family! So grateful !🪴🪴🪴🪴
Have you read any Ruth Stout? Gardening from the couch is my favorite. I garden on blacktop. .Started with 6" raised beds. and use hay to feed the soil, lighter than truck loads of dirt. Your abundance is showing, You will be dried in and warm this winter, that's amazing progress.
Maritime gardening has grown salsify... Loved this video!
SHAWN & OUR CALI !!! Good Morning to YOU glad you got the garden There !!! You will need it in the winter months it is hard here in the STATES!!! Have been buying some of the things that didn't grow in the garden !!! Am glad I got rice in the house for later on in the winter time for flour and cooking with !!!
That is quite a garden. I think the basics of your homestead is pretty well established. 👍
Gorgeous garden!
Garden looks great!
Jaw dropping. What an amazing garden you've grown. Stunning.
Is there anything you don’t know or make. Such a hard working man. Do you ever get worn out and do nothing. No I don’t think so
Wonderful video! So interesting, and encouraging for my own gardening.
Thanks for the garden tour. I hope someday you and your family could put together a gardening and preservation book. I learned something today from this video. As always, a great video.
Absolutely awesome Shawn!
I don't know how you do it all, you are amazing and an inspiration.
Thanks for posting.
That's a hell of a garden you have there Shawn. Looks very productive and tasty right now, can only imagine what's ahead in about 5 yrs or so. Take Care Brother
🥒🥦🌶 fantastic...congratulations it's beautiful to see and must be a delight..I love moving with the earth
Man you garden has really done well. I did even know about it until now well I knew you had a green house and few gardens but this garden did fantastic. My tomatoes did not produce Im still watering them in hopes this fall they wil get some cool temps that the need to produce. Our cantalopes did really good this year.
You are an inspiration!
someone asked ... a section of potatoes ... he placed some decent soil and compost down on the ground then laid the seed potatoes on top and covered them with straw ... so yes some he did lay on the ground and cover with grass ...
Salsify is a very popular traditional root vegetable in Belgium.
this is just great ! i know how much work goes into such a garden . i mean in a normal garden ! but waht a work of art you have created i have the utmost respect for. fantastic !
My family used pet ducks for natural pest control, in our gardens. The ducks never damaged our plant, as they ate the insects. Plus the poo adds a bit of fertilizer as they ate the insects.
...can't wait to see the mushroom log harvest!
Make some fried green tomatoes and you can freeze dry them also and pickle some too.
If you're still interested next May we have alot of wild leeks and other wild edibles you can transplant. Sumac, wild elderberry burdock etc
I love gardening and food preservation content too. Excited for that in the future when things are more stable :)
Salsify creamed is wonderful. Your show is so educational and I’ve learned so much. Thank you.
Natural fermented green tomatoes are great.
Hey Shawn your garden is just amazing and there’s an abundance of some of everything that l can’t wait to see on upcoming videos. Thanks so much for sharing. Blessings! ✅✅✅👏👏👏👍👍👍🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯😎😎😎🙌🙌🙌
Hey Shawn try grating the squash, add season, then let it set for about 20 min, squeeze all the water out you can mix with bread crumbs, beaten egg, chop any thing you want make a patty and fry.