Yes! I grew up on a dairy ranch but never had a garden. It’s a huge dream of mine to homeschool our kiddos, be more self-reliant, and grow/harvest/cook our own food.
You guys look really happy! Many people don’t understand the joy that growing brings. Even if it’s only a 4’x4’ bed. The video of mom crying on the first day of owning their own property says it all. I can work in a garden 10 hours a day 7 days a week and never get tired of it. When it’s a passion and love it it never becomes work…… God bless you and your children.
You are so great!! Thanks for your kind comment. We really love this life, and feel blessed that we can do it in this way, and provide this life for our children. Lots of life lessons that will hopefully lead to success in whatever they choose to do.
Your garden and produce is very impressive! You showed true grit when it came to the bugs - good for you. I hope you enjoy many wonderful meals of the food your produced.
It’s hard to believe a beautiful young lady like you would be willing to do hard work farming and raising 3 kids!Hard work , but happy family! Raising your kids , ho e schooling and training them to produce their own food!!! Love your life style ! Lovely family!
Seeing all the work you put into growing your own organic food is amazing. I also found new respect for all farmers for the hard work they put in growing food.
I am completely in love with your channel. I've watched the 2020 and 2021 growing season twice today alone ❤️ I would love to see more videos of really any kind with you and your wonderful family. Cam is a hoot 😂 It would be so nice to see videos of other things on your homestead. Just the regular building of your land and stuff. Thank you for sharing Joanna Corpus Christi TX
You are so wonderful Joanna!! Thanks for watching, and we are glad you enjoy the videos as much as we enjoy making them :) I'll try to put Cam in them more future videos, lol!
It warms my heart to see families guarding together. My grandpa was a farmer I would follow him around when I was little he had a lot of patience.. I guarded now but I'm the only one in the family who does so it's just a little garden but it makes me happy
Your family is very inspiring! I love to see your children working along side you. I have five children and I find it challenging to get everyone motivated to help.
Oh don't let us fool you, it's still a challenge with our children, depending on the day. Once they realize their chores aren't going away, they find a way to enjoy the journey with us a bit more :) Thanks for watching!
Seeing you picking the bugs reminded me my childhood - 25 years ago, in Ukraine, so far away, me and my cousins handpicked colorado bugs from my grandma's potato field. Never can't imagine I will be nostalgic about those times)
Thanks for all the garden tips. Please post if you find out how to deal with SVB (squash vine borers). I’ve never been able to successfully keep them from killing my squash before they can produce. I don’t spray my garden either. I do add beneficial insects. I buy praying mantis chrysalises, ladybugs, and add them to the garden when pests start to emerge. For stink bugs I go out in the evening with a shop vac. It works well and doesn’t damage the plants. The stink bugs can’t fly away because of the suction of the vacuum.
Learning to grow and make yr own food is so much more valuable than regular school. unfortunately not everyone owns a nice piece of land. I would love this, but its hard work. And im a city girl in a very tiny country.
Oh my goodness ya'll did an amazing job on everything!! And bless your heart on all those bugs there were so many but you handled it like a champ! I need to go look and see if you've done a video on canning the cajun cowpeas LOL we love anything cajun!! Thanks for sharing!!
Ma'am you and your wonderful family life represent my future family goals. Being in Co-Vid Lockdown has made me reassess my life goals and has made me realise what is the most precious thing in my life. And it is the simplicity of family and love, working as a team with my family to help create a healthy, happy and loving home...just like yours. Thank you for this wonderful content and inspirational ideas. Greetings from Auckland, New Zealand.
You can buy plastic yellow plates or cups and staple them to stakes. Coat them with dollar store vaseline. and put them in the garden The yellow will attract the bugs and the vaseline will not let them go.
Love your videos. Really admire that you use no sprays for bugs, I have been doing the same and was a little discouraged this summer with my cabbage but I’m gonna keep at that!
Oh ty! I've been trying to identify that ! Just seen it for the first time this year! And you're so right about letting nature take care of things! I have never had something so bad that it actually takes out a crop, before mother nature steps in...
I'm from northern Maine in I used to pick potatoes and I used to pick 50 barrels of potatoes sometimes more a day. And when my father was like 11 used to pick a hundred barrels a day.
I would love to see some how-to videos from y'all! Even what might seem so simple-like the potatoes, why they were laid on cardboard, needed to be dark, use of a fan, and so on🙂 and although some of those things I know, it's always good to have a refresher!
I grew 3 tomato plants in my little garden one year and they were so delicious. When we were expecting a hard freeze, there were so many still on the vines in various stages of ripening. I dug/pulled them up leaving the dirt on the roots. I then hung them upside down in the cool garage and they continued to ripen. It naturally took them longer without sunshine but I was able to use the smallest ones in a salad for Thanksgiving.
I think you’re absolutely inspirational! Well done Family! Watching from Australia. We have never ever had to worry about food shortage ever until now. So thank you for sharing ideas and skill sets. God Bless
Makes you think harder about those easy trips to the grocery store, doesn't it?! We're seeing the fragile nature of the supply chain in real time. We'd rather be reliant on ourselves than on someone else to bring us our food. Cheers from America!
Hmm, lots!! Most books by Joel Salatin(You Can Farm, Family Friendly Farming, Folks This Aint Normal) and Eliot Coleman(New Organic Grower) are good starters. Also The Garden Primer, by Barbara Damrosch is a great reference. Vegetable Gardening for Beginners by Jill McSheehy. Check out our blog page for more: www.theseasonalhomestead.com/shop-my-favorite-things/
We also don’t use any sprays in the garden. If you’re near a aquatic food source I recommend using them for bait. We catch our fish and yabbies using bugs from the garden. They love caterpillars!
You might want to try adding beneficial nematodes to the garden this fall. Most of these pests are soil born, and the nematodes will stop them in their larval stage. Love what you guys are doing, God bless y'all.
I had tulle left over from my daughter's wedding(bought a whole bolt). I used it this year on my straw- berries and so far I have the best crop ever, b'cause the birds, squirrels and even the slugs don't seem to like it. It is a good idea that I saw on another web site. Good luck keeping the bugs at bay!
We had the harlequin bugs eating all of our kale and it was very discouraging. After picking them off for several weeks we finally have our kale thriving again. They also went for the turnips too. Tried an organic spray one application but it didn't do much so we didn't continue that.
I saw your new video 2 minutes after it was released to TH-cam. I learn something new every time I watch. Enjoy watching and listening to your videos. I've watched your chicken stock video three times because I wanted to try this on a limited basis this fall with my electric pressure canner. I live in a small apartment and this was worth the investment. Just wanted you to know that I watch for new videos every day when I log on. Thank you.
I enjoyed watching your video. It gives me a glimpse of what I imagine my future to be. I’m newly married and we hope to be blessed with 4 children too. And also want lots of land, all the animals. I just started canning and preserving food too. We’re currently in Florida but looking to move anywhere to start building our homestead. How do you like Arkansas? Have you lived there all your life?
A portable, battery-powered vacuum cleaner works great to remove harlequin bugs. It appears you have a heavy infestation. If you freeze the collection cup or bag and kill the collected bugs, I think you chickens might like them. A perfect circle of life! Keep up the good work.
We don't have the stink bugs but do struggle with the cabbage worms on brassica plants. For the worms, you can spray with Thuricide (aka Bacillus Thuringiensis, or BT for short). It's organic and works wonders especially on curly kale which loves to hide those little green worms.
I am a organic farmer in Northern MI. Look into Grandevo and Regallia .. They are not super cheap but work to keep my crops pest and disease free. They are OMRI listed, and wont cause a resistance issue.
Hello love your channel, you should get some guinea foul birds they are the best with eating bug, easy to take care of and their eggs are great for baking and the meat is delicious!! God bless your beautiful family
I wish we all could do what you do but there is just no way we can afford buying a pressure canner unless we can find a used one plus I live in the city and pay rent so I would only be able to grow so much I'm open for ideas I've been looking at plastic bottles and a couple of above the ground bed's.but very glad to see you able to do this thank you and God bless your family.
Wow, what a dream!! I'd love to live like this but I would probably kill all my plants since I have 0 experience lol. Truly love this beautiful family 👪 ❤
So many memories of my grandma. I wish I could live in the countryside! PS: it takes too much time to peel the cowbeans like that. My grandma would put all the harvest together in a sack, beat them, and the beans being heavier would land at the bottom, while the skin would stay on top. (sorry, I can't find the right words in english)
It would be cool if you could explain some of the tools you use in the garden sometime. You have used ones I haven’t seen before. Thank you for sharing all your inspiring experiences 💕
The black widow spider looks like an Australian red back spider.I have never heard of cow peas.🤔I really enjoyed this video..Cheers, from Sydney, Australia.😁
Yeah the two spiders are closely related. I grew up in a part of the US that has black and also brown widows. I'm in Australia now and the redbacks are for all practical purposes to most people, could pretty much be described as the same with habitats, behavior, and how poisonous they are. I've always liked the widow species looking spiders and personally think the red back, with it's more visible red portion, is a bit cooler looking than the black widow but like the hourglass shape on the black widow more.
Loved this video! I’m a new subscriber and I’ve binge watched all of your videos. I’ve been gardening for years on and off…planning to try your method for doing multiple plantings on each row next spring. I’m over in Tennessee so very similar growing season to yours. I’ve recommended your channel to some friends. Looking forward to seeing more from your channel in the future!! I’d love to know how you plan out your garden layout each year/season. Are you a pen and paper type or digital? Would love to see you do a video on how you plan your planting/growing seasons. 🙂
Thanks! That is kind of you. I also appreciate the idea for a garden planning video. I am making a list of ideas for the future and it helps to have some feedback!
I know you’ve done an amazing video on your preserve cupboard, and am wondering if you do a tour/explanation video of your root cellar and cold room some time in the future please?
We'll have a video of our canning and cold room (they are combined now) coming out in November when we wrap up preserving and harvesting for the year. We will do a specific video about how we made the cold room sometime after that!!
Take some guinea for the bugs. They are noisy but they will eliminate the bugs even small ones like flees. They are more wild compare to chikens. They can fly but in the garden they do not destroy like chikens. Base food for them is bugs tiks flees. i wash socked with them when i see that they taken bugs end give them to small chiken.
I’ve seen other homesteaders using guinea fowls for bugs control. Personally I haven’t tried it so I can’t tell you from experience how effective they really are.
I think you guys are doing a great job! I want to do all of this stuff to but I am pregnant with my 4th and just can’t quite do it all. I assume it gets easier as the kids get older! P.s your a beautiful woman!
Thank you! Yes it does get easier as the kids get older. They can help more and are more independent. I get a lot done now. When my kids were smaller I took a lot of time to read books and learn, listen to podcasts, and had a much smaller garden to dabble in. Both were fun, just different seasons in life and I tried to make the most of it.
You should raise ducks and keep them in your garden. Ducks do not eat your "fruit" or the plants (although you need to protect the very young plants initially), they also don't tear up the soil, but they will seek out and eat every bug and slug in your garden that the can reach. You can fence them in specific rows, like the cabbages, squash, etc. that have the worst pest problems. Chickens can go in the garden only when the plants are more mature, but they tend to also eat some of the fruits, and often dig up plants because of their scratching (I usually only let the chickens into areas where the corn, melons, pumpkins, and squash are planted). Guineas are also extremely beneficial in the garden but will eat young tender plants, but they will devastate the insect population!
Hats off to you for being so resilient and patient in removing the harlequin bug and other pests manually and not even using the organic pesticides! But I was just wondering that when you let the chickens loose amongst your veggies, do they do a good job of pecking off the pests and serve as natural pest control ?
I would love to see content of you cooking meals using your homegrown and preserved food. :)
Amen
Me too
This woman is a super mom!
A jewel 💎
Love how the family works together..true simplicity of life. There’s something to be said for this.
One of the most beautiful things to see… bowls you fill up from your own garden to have for dinner that night. 💜
It really is!
Great video! Would love to see more about how you cook & process your harvest. I loved the canning video & would love more of those!! Great work!
Yes! I grew up on a dairy ranch but never had a garden. It’s a huge dream of mine to homeschool our kiddos, be more self-reliant, and grow/harvest/cook our own food.
You guys look really happy! Many people don’t understand the joy that growing brings. Even if it’s only a 4’x4’ bed. The video of mom crying on the first day of owning their own property says it all. I can work in a garden 10 hours a day 7 days a week and never get tired of it. When it’s a passion and love it it never becomes work…… God bless you and your children.
You are so great!! Thanks for your kind comment. We really love this life, and feel blessed that we can do it in this way, and provide this life for our children. Lots of life lessons that will hopefully lead to success in whatever they choose to do.
Your garden and produce is very impressive! You showed true grit when it came to the bugs - good for you. I hope you enjoy many wonderful meals of the food your produced.
Exposing children at a young age to this lifestyle is huge help when they grow.
It’s hard to believe a beautiful young lady like you would be willing to do hard work farming and raising 3 kids!Hard work , but happy family! Raising your kids , ho e schooling and training them to produce their own food!!!
Love your life style ! Lovely family!
You work so hard but you're getting your reward. My husband is less help in the garden but he helps out plenty with the eating. Kidding. Or not...
Love to see the kids helping parents gardening!
Seeing all the work you put into growing your own organic food is amazing.
I also found new respect for all farmers for the hard work they put in growing food.
I am completely in love with your channel. I've watched the 2020 and 2021 growing season twice today alone ❤️ I would love to see more videos of really any kind with you and your wonderful family. Cam is a hoot 😂 It would be so nice to see videos of other things on your homestead. Just the regular building of your land and stuff. Thank you for sharing
Joanna
Corpus Christi TX
You are so wonderful Joanna!! Thanks for watching, and we are glad you enjoy the videos as much as we enjoy making them :) I'll try to put Cam in them more future videos, lol!
It warms my heart to see families guarding together. My grandpa was a farmer I would follow him around when I was little he had a lot of patience.. I guarded now but I'm the only one in the family who does so it's just a little garden but it makes me happy
Your family is very inspiring! I love to see your children working along side you. I have five children and I find it challenging to get everyone motivated to help.
Oh don't let us fool you, it's still a challenge with our children, depending on the day. Once they realize their chores aren't going away, they find a way to enjoy the journey with us a bit more :) Thanks for watching!
Seeing you picking the bugs reminded me my childhood - 25 years ago, in Ukraine, so far away, me and my cousins handpicked colorado bugs from my grandma's potato field. Never can't imagine I will be nostalgic about those times)
Thanks for all the garden tips. Please post if you find out how to deal with SVB (squash vine borers). I’ve never been able to successfully keep them from killing my squash before they can produce. I don’t spray my garden either. I do add beneficial insects. I buy praying mantis chrysalises, ladybugs, and add them to the garden when pests start to emerge. For stink bugs I go out in the evening with a shop vac. It works well and doesn’t damage the plants. The stink bugs can’t fly away because of the suction of the vacuum.
a lot of work but the results are amazing..great family
Girl, you just need to broadcast that cover crop seed by hand! Super quick and easy 😁
Good job momma and family! Blessing on you!
Thank you! You too!
Planting chives through out your garden will help with bugs they don’t like the smell, so that will help some for you. Great video.
It's a paradise.....
So inspiring. We’re starting small this year but love to see your example of how to grow our plot! Thanks for sharing!
Just amazing! Thank you for sharing with us!
Learning to grow and make yr own food is so much more valuable than regular school. unfortunately not everyone owns a nice piece of land. I would love this, but its hard work. And im a city girl in a very tiny country.
love your garden! can't wait to see more this coming season!
Oh my goodness ya'll did an amazing job on everything!! And bless your heart on all those bugs there were so many but you handled it like a champ! I need to go look and see if you've done a video on canning the cajun cowpeas LOL we love anything cajun!! Thanks for sharing!!
Ma'am you and your wonderful family life represent my future family goals. Being in Co-Vid Lockdown has made me reassess my life goals and has made me realise what is the most precious thing in my life. And it is the simplicity of family and love, working as a team with my family to help create a healthy, happy and loving home...just like yours. Thank you for this wonderful content and inspirational ideas. Greetings from Auckland, New Zealand.
I love watching! I hope to have even a 1/4 of this one day!
I have seen these same little beetles in my garden in NC. I will definitely be picking them off from now on. Thank you so much!
SUCH a beautiful family. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, which is so important.
You can buy plastic yellow plates or cups and staple them to stakes. Coat them with dollar store vaseline. and put them in the garden The yellow will attract the bugs and the vaseline will not let them go.
You've got a great team working with you! Great video!
Love this! You are living the lifestyle my husband and I aspire to live
Masha Allah 🧿 ❤️
You work so hard!
I always love watching your videos, they inspire me to do more.
Awesome! Thank you!
Beautiful!
Love watching these updates.
Thank you Stephanie! Glad you are enjoying the vids!
Love your videos. Really admire that you use no sprays for bugs, I have been doing the same and was a little discouraged this summer with my cabbage but I’m gonna keep at that!
I always enjoy listening to your family’s adventures! Thanks for sharing!!
Learning so much, too!
Beautiful simple life wish I knew how to achieve this living in the city. Keeping it up G-d bless you your family and your home
Oh ty! I've been trying to identify that ! Just seen it for the first time this year! And you're so right about letting nature take care of things! I have never had something so bad that it actually takes out a crop, before mother nature steps in...
I'm from northern Maine in I used to pick potatoes and I used to pick 50 barrels of potatoes sometimes more a day. And when my father was like 11 used to pick a hundred barrels a day.
That's a lot of potatoes!!!
This is so beautiful guys! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Very inspiring. Very good and beautiful family. Love this..🥰
Very self reliant.
I would love to see some how-to videos from y'all! Even what might seem so simple-like the potatoes, why they were laid on cardboard, needed to be dark, use of a fan, and so on🙂 and although some of those things I know, it's always good to have a refresher!
Great idea!! Things that are just every day things for us are new to a lot of folks!!
@@TheSeasonalHomestead yes, exactly! I'll be looking forward to them 😁
That's good inspiration for all the people , am Verly Wenka love watching your channel.
I keep coming back to your channel because I admire your determination and hard work ethic!! Great realistic videos!! You bless me and motivate me!
your journey towards eating healthy food is amazing, you could even plant your own food forest❤️🌳.
Your videos have breathed new life into me. Thank you
Wow, thank you. Glad you are enjoying them!!
I like this life may God bless your family.
Great video! Love what you’re doing!
Thanks so much!
I sprinkled dried sichuan peppercorns on all of my bed with chinese leafy veggies. It works miracles.
The Beyonce of the homestead community! Love you and your content! Helpful 😄🥰✌️
Ashes mixed with water and sprayed on. Treats soil and bugs. My fil who was a farmer during depression taught me that.
awesome stuff
I'm so glad we don't like cabbage or much squash in my family for when I start my garden! 😆 A few less bugs to worry about!
Nice!!! Grow what you actually eat - a surprising number of our friends haven't seemed to figure this out yet (shhhh) :)
what a beautiful family 💞
You are so kind
I grew 3 tomato plants in my little garden one year and they were so delicious. When we were expecting a hard freeze, there were so many still on the vines in various stages of ripening. I dug/pulled them up leaving the dirt on the roots. I then hung them upside down in the cool garage and they continued to ripen. It naturally took them longer without sunshine but I was able to use the smallest ones in a salad for Thanksgiving.
I think you’re absolutely inspirational! Well done Family! Watching from Australia. We have never ever had to worry about food shortage ever until now. So thank you for sharing ideas and skill sets. God Bless
Makes you think harder about those easy trips to the grocery store, doesn't it?! We're seeing the fragile nature of the supply chain in real time. We'd rather be reliant on ourselves than on someone else to bring us our food. Cheers from America!
You're garden is so beautiful 😊
I would love to know what books were most helpful as you planned you're new homestead.
Hmm, lots!! Most books by Joel Salatin(You Can Farm, Family Friendly Farming, Folks This Aint Normal) and Eliot Coleman(New Organic Grower) are good starters. Also The Garden Primer, by Barbara Damrosch is a great reference. Vegetable Gardening for Beginners by Jill McSheehy. Check out our blog page for more:
www.theseasonalhomestead.com/shop-my-favorite-things/
Thank you for these wonderful and inspiring videos! I’ll be curious to see what you do with a lb of potatoes each day! :)
We also don’t use any sprays in the garden. If you’re near a aquatic food source I recommend using them for bait. We catch our fish and yabbies using bugs from the garden. They love caterpillars!
You might want to try adding beneficial nematodes to the garden this fall. Most of these pests are soil born, and the nematodes will stop them in their larval stage. Love what you guys are doing, God bless y'all.
I had tulle left over from my daughter's wedding(bought a whole bolt). I used it this year on my straw- berries and so far I have the best crop ever, b'cause the birds, squirrels and even the slugs don't seem to like it. It is a good idea that I saw on another web site. Good luck keeping the bugs at bay!
Hello, I love your channel and I just subscribed. Your content is extremely inspiring. 👏👏👏
We had the harlequin bugs eating all of our kale and it was very discouraging. After picking them off for several weeks we finally have our kale thriving again. They also went for the turnips too. Tried an organic spray one application but it didn't do much so we didn't continue that.
I saw your new video 2 minutes after it was released to TH-cam. I learn something new every time I watch. Enjoy watching and listening to your videos. I've watched your chicken stock video three times because I wanted to try this on a limited basis this fall with my electric pressure canner. I live in a small apartment and this was worth the investment. Just wanted you to know that I watch for new videos every day when I log on. Thank you.
Thank you!! It is always more motivating to make videos when we know others are enjoying them. I'm glad you said so! -Becky
I enjoyed watching your video. It gives me a glimpse of what I imagine my future to be. I’m newly married and we hope to be blessed with 4 children too. And also want lots of land, all the animals. I just started canning and preserving food too. We’re currently in Florida but looking to move anywhere to start building our homestead. How do you like Arkansas? Have you lived there all your life?
your chickens will take care of the bugs :)
A tip for you put dry beans the hol beanstk on plastic hit with stick . Then you do t have to sit and do it one by one . Just an idea
I wish I had a farm like this. Lord , please help me get one too.
You guys are so blessed. I'm so happy for you.🙏
A portable, battery-powered vacuum cleaner works great to remove harlequin bugs. It appears you have a heavy infestation. If you freeze the collection cup or bag and kill the collected bugs, I think you chickens might like them. A perfect circle of life! Keep up the good work.
Good idea!
We don't have the stink bugs but do struggle with the cabbage worms on brassica plants. For the worms, you can spray with Thuricide (aka Bacillus Thuringiensis, or BT for short). It's organic and works wonders especially on curly kale which loves to hide those little green worms.
I love your videos and am interested in your canning recipe sources. The cow pea soup sounds delicious!
You are a amazing woman you have beautiful familys God bless you and families ♥️❤️♥️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much!
I am a organic farmer in Northern MI. Look into Grandevo and Regallia .. They are not super cheap but work to keep my crops pest and disease free. They are OMRI listed, and wont cause a resistance issue.
Hello love your channel, you should get some guinea foul birds they are the best with eating bug, easy to take care of and their eggs are great for baking and the meat is delicious!! God bless your beautiful family
We've had lots of neighbors offer us their guinea fowls for free. Weird how bad they want to get rid of them, lol Maybe someday...
@@TheSeasonalHomestead 😂😂😂 they kind of loud birds. But they are very good with picking bugs. Take it for a few months and then enjoy meet.
I wish we all could do what you do but there is just no way we can afford buying a pressure canner unless we can find a used one plus I live in the city and pay rent so I would only be able to grow so much I'm open for ideas I've been looking at plastic bottles and a couple of above the ground bed's.but very glad to see you able to do this thank you and God bless your family.
👌👌👌👌
Wow, what a dream!! I'd love to live like this but I would probably kill all my plants since I have 0 experience lol. Truly love this beautiful family 👪 ❤
So many memories of my grandma. I wish I could live in the countryside!
PS: it takes too much time to peel the cowbeans like that. My grandma would put all the harvest together in a sack, beat them, and the beans being heavier would land at the bottom, while the skin would stay on top. (sorry, I can't find the right words in english)
You are a super woman. You do all. That things I salute
It would be cool if you could explain some of the tools you use in the garden sometime. You have used ones I haven’t seen before. Thank you for sharing all your inspiring experiences 💕
The black widow spider looks like an Australian red back spider.I have never heard of cow peas.🤔I really enjoyed this video..Cheers, from Sydney, Australia.😁
Yeah the two spiders are closely related. I grew up in a part of the US that has black and also brown widows. I'm in Australia now and the redbacks are for all practical purposes to most people, could pretty much be described as the same with habitats, behavior, and how poisonous they are. I've always liked the widow species looking spiders and personally think the red back, with it's more visible red portion, is a bit cooler looking than the black widow but like the hourglass shape on the black widow more.
Loved this video! I’m a new subscriber and I’ve binge watched all of your videos. I’ve been gardening for years on and off…planning to try your method for doing multiple plantings on each row next spring. I’m over in Tennessee so very similar growing season to yours. I’ve recommended your channel to some friends. Looking forward to seeing more from your channel in the future!! I’d love to know how you plan out your garden layout each year/season. Are you a pen and paper type or digital? Would love to see you do a video on how you plan your planting/growing seasons. 🙂
Thanks! That is kind of you. I also appreciate the idea for a garden planning video. I am making a list of ideas for the future and it helps to have some feedback!
Oh just found your channel. I'm subscribed to many homesteading channels. Now I found you and subscribed. Awesome video..
Thank you!!
Awesome! Thank you! We hope you continue to enjoy the vids.
I know you’ve done an amazing video on your preserve cupboard, and am wondering if you do a tour/explanation video of your root cellar and cold room some time in the future please?
We'll have a video of our canning and cold room (they are combined now) coming out in November when we wrap up preserving and harvesting for the year. We will do a specific video about how we made the cold room sometime after that!!
You might want to plant pest repelling flowers within your crops next year.
Try lavender, marigold and petunias.
Sptember 26, pigs headed to butcher OR Sptember, 26 pigs headed to butcher . Love form China
Late to the video, but there are bug bags you can purchase, they attract and trap beetle type bugs without you having to pick them by hand
All good :)
Take some guinea for the bugs. They are noisy but they will eliminate the bugs even small ones like flees. They are more wild compare to chikens. They can fly but in the garden they do not destroy like chikens. Base food for them is bugs tiks flees. i wash socked with them when i see that they taken bugs end give them to small chiken.
Damn I would like you folks to be my neighbour. Your attitude and life style is so positive. Hard work pays off! Thumbs up and a definite sub.
Thank you so much Bill! Yes, lots of work, but sooo worth it!
My grandma used to use lemon juice spray to take care of bugs and it seemed to work.
I’ve seen other homesteaders using guinea fowls for bugs control. Personally I haven’t tried it so I can’t tell you from experience how effective they really are.
I think you guys are doing a great job! I want to do all of this stuff to but I am pregnant with my 4th and just can’t quite do it all. I assume it gets easier as the kids get older! P.s your a beautiful woman!
Thank you! Yes it does get easier as the kids get older. They can help more and are more independent. I get a lot done now. When my kids were smaller I took a lot of time to read books and learn, listen to podcasts, and had a much smaller garden to dabble in. Both were fun, just different seasons in life and I tried to make the most of it.
You should raise ducks and keep them in your garden. Ducks do not eat your "fruit" or the plants (although you need to protect the very young plants initially), they also don't tear up the soil, but they will seek out and eat every bug and slug in your garden that the can reach. You can fence them in specific rows, like the cabbages, squash, etc. that have the worst pest problems. Chickens can go in the garden only when the plants are more mature, but they tend to also eat some of the fruits, and often dig up plants because of their scratching (I usually only let the chickens into areas where the corn, melons, pumpkins, and squash are planted). Guineas are also extremely beneficial in the garden but will eat young tender plants, but they will devastate the insect population!
Hats off to you for being so resilient and patient in removing the harlequin bug and other pests manually and not even using the organic pesticides! But I was just wondering that when you let the chickens loose amongst your veggies, do they do a good job of pecking off the pests and serve as natural pest control
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