We bought our first property in Georgia. We had beautiful deer in our back yard. We decided to have a gardens so we dug holes and stood railroad ties up. We then took 2x4s and put chicken wire around the top. It was back breaking work but when we finished I told my wife that a giraffe couldn't get in there. The next morning a big buck deer was standing in the garden and I am sure it was laughing at both of us.!!!! Good luck.
Haha! Oh my! 🤣 Those deer can jump! It certainly is backbreaking work for sure. We thought that too with the moose, so we added the electric to hopefully deter them from trying to get in. So far, so good 👍
Tip for everyone, if you are using soil from your land make a 4X 8 foot screen with a 2X4 every 16 inches then dump dirt through it to get roots and other things out. It really does make a garden much more easier. You can even scrape the garden each year and screen in your soil and mulch, compost in layers right in the garden. It's really a great way to clear out the soil super fast and ready for spreading.
Thank you for the tip! Unfortunately, this year, we were really pressed for time as the snow didn't melt until nearly June, so we were quite late in getting the gardens built and planted. With the immense amount of topsoil that we skimmed for the garden and the greenhouse this year, it would have taken about a month or so to screen all that dirt manually, and with the short growing season, we had to get the plants in the ground as we were already weeks behind schedule. This is something we will be taking into consideration in the future. Thank you for watching! 😀
On the top gate hinge the pin should point down. A moose can lift your gate off the pins as easy as you put it on. Turn the top pin so it points down and loosen the camp on the gate so you can slide it down and then push it up onto the pin. That will lock the gate so it can't be lifted off the pins.
We have a top gate that rests on the bottom gate and, when latched, would make it impossible for a moose to lift up. It's been 3 months now with success 😀 Thank you for watching!
We visited Alaska in 2011 in our then new motorhome. While in Soldotna, we went to Safeway and saw they had small watermelons for $14.00 each. Your hard work in making the garden will pay off for fresh produce. Great job!
Wow! I am unsure of the current price of watermelon here but I'm sure it is still high. We enjoy fresh pineapples from time to time and they are pricy. We are looking forward to improving our gardens next season! Thank you 🙂
I think it is great that you are starting right out with the high-tunnel and outdoor garden. You get a good idea of what is going to work in your new area 💚
Yes! We have learned so much already that we can improve on for next year! The climate here has had its challenges that we never expected in terms of growing plants. We actually talk about this in some detail on our video coming out in a few days.
@@northtoalaska2022The state has some good information on growing in Alaska. I had a sister that grew organically certified vegetables for the farmer’s market in the Mat Su and Anchorage that took classes at the college in the Mat Su. This summer has been unusually cool for gardens. We grow most of our own produce. We also have hinged hoop covers on 5 of our raised beds outside.
@@northtoalaska2022 The University of Fairbanks (UAF) cooperative extension service for agricultural has a lot of helpful information. Last year we had more tomatoes,squash and cucumbers by the middle of July than have this year the end of August. We start in our greenhouse near the end of March. It is built 4’ in the ground with an insulated foundation off a daylight basement. It has 10mm polycarbonate panels and thermal storage.
Thank you! It's definitely a great size! The top gate makes it easy to get in and out with the skid loader, if needed. But it's nice that we only have to open the bottom if we are just walking in 😀
I look forward to a Q and A when you tell us how you prepped for the trip, equipment acquisition and plans to sell as appropriate, and cash . Nice series
We have received so many questions that I know a lot of people are curious about, we plan to do a video like this over the winter when we have more downtime to hopefully explain a lot of these aspects 🙂 thank you!
Very true, since gardens and soil are never perfect the first year, it gives us a head start for having a great garden in the second year! We are happy to hear you are enjoying our videos 😀
The sound of machinery, birds singing, people talking, etc. is far more fascinating than loud music that one have to listen to all the time. Please refrain from engaging in this behaviour. lovely woman.🥰🥰🥰
I’m sure it will work. Our fence is only 5’ and we never have moose problems and we live along a meadow that the locals call “Moose Alley “ as we see moose all the time.
Great garden fence build.🦌🐻👍💪🛠 17:22 Have you considered reaching out to Milwaukie to become brand ambassadors?🤔 Need to watch the chicken coop build to see how you upcycled the old cabin.😮🛠 Will you be making hand made cutting boards, charcuterie boards, etc from some of the wood you've harvested? 😉🤔 it would be a great way for your fans to show their support. 🌞
Thank you! ❤️ we are not sponsored by anyone, but sponsorship from Milwaukee could be helpful 🙂 we do have a few ideas for the future with crafts such as this. Time will tell!
Thank you! I'm not sure there will be anything worth eating in there for the moose over winter. So far we have seen moose walk up and look at the fence and they usually walk away in defeat. The electric fence may have not been necessary. 🙂
I am still watching your hair in Maine and you were working very hard in a nice job putting up the fence to keep the animals out and your garden looks very good I’m sure you’ll get some nice vegetables off in it so keep up the good work and I will keep watching it you are both hard workers God bless
Loving your channel. One wish is that you would put the date and maybe temp range on your videos. Always curious about when it is happening. Thanks for sharing.
Hello, and thank you for watching. We are glad you enjoyed our content 😊 this garden video was from the end of spring, but it actually took about three weeks to complete because we had other projects in between going on at the same time. The temperature was fluctuating wildly as summer was trying to set in, and the snow had just melted away. In the future, if we have videos that are not over long periods of time, we will include time and temperature range to help everyone feel they are here with us. Thanks again!
Hey youngin’s Rev. Paul, Eustis Fl. Where y’all located?? I grew up in Anchorage till grown them lived/worked all over the place lol…. Valdez, Fairbanks, N. Pole, Chitna, Glenallen, Prudhoe Bay, Aleutian chain, panhandle chain, Copper River ect….. some places had no names… lol…. My 3 sons and Pastor Davey/church gave me a bucket list trip there. So much has changed y’all we were 3 of the first to live in Spenard outside of Anchorage WOW my family lived through the 1964 9.2 magnitude earthquake…. my girlfriend & we jumped fissures opening & slamming closed all around us. Sorry being a Preacher tend to get a little long winded…lol.. Rev. Paul, Eustis Fl.
Hey, Rev. Paul ! Your earthquake story is very interesting. I can imagine that was terrifying! Sounds like you have been all over alaska! What a great place to grow up in! We are living in the southern kenai peninsula near Homer alaska. Hope you are enjoying our videos! Thanks for watching 🙂
Hello. Looking great with your garden. After your done growing what you are going to grow. It be a good thing to have your Chickens put in there to till up all the plants & they will get to eat the greens & what is in there & bugs to & let them help fertilizer the ground for you. They are great for doing that. just have to look out for the Hocks & Eagles & other birds that pray on them. If you do put them in the garden like that. You would have to put a netting over the top over it. Just a thought for you to thing about. Or when you clean up there coop make a mulch place to put there waste in from the pen, to make it in to Mulch. Any other animals you get also put there waste in the Mulch place you have. & you can use it in your garden. You might want to get black plastic to put over the garden to kill all the weeds so you wont have to do a lot of weeding at all. Hope all goes great in your garden this year.
Hello! That's a great idea for putting the chickens in there to till in the fall! We will keep that in mind for next season 🐔 we do keep their manure and add it to our compost. Hopefully, it will be ready come spring!
Just catching up on your videos, really impressive work. Hope you are “harvesting” the rabbits for protein and angle braces at the corner posts and either side of the gate would not go astray.
Thank you! The fence certainly came in handy as we have many moose that came through this summer. Next year, we will add amendments for the soil, so better production and hopefully get more sun 🤞 Thank you for watching! 😀
Thank you! We hope so! Unfortunately, the rain and chilly, overcast days haven't done the garden much good so far. 😞 But we are on the right track to have some harvest.
If you put a extension on the side you can put a greenhouse in it so you can start your plants off sooner seeing that you have used timber around the top all you need for the extension is too use shorter post further out about 8feet and timber around and you can use coragated perspex for the roof you can use clear plastic for the side and change it as you go make cold frame for some of the raised bed so things that are started off with some heat don't go straight out and get stunted
I commend you on your garden fence. You both made a wonderful job. I live in Australia so really no need in the suburbs to have fences but out in the countryside you would need to have fences to keep out kangaroos. Good luck I look forward to watching your channel!! Vicki ❤️❤️
Thank you! That's pretty wild having to worry about kangaroos! We would have never even thought about that. I bet a fully enclosed garden would be necessary to keep them out. Thank you for watching! 😀
It's hard to explain but I did the same Boo Boo on a cow gate. The Top bolt that You screw in needs to be the opposite so they can not just lift their head up and push the gate off the Hook. Or Nail 2 Blocks above it to do the same thing.
How do the rabbits survive the winter? I,m from NZ, so pardon my ignorance. My understanding is that rabbits live in burrows, so how do they survive in the long cold winters in Alaska, there would be little food for them. Do they burrow thru the snow to get vegetation?
Great question! When we moved here, the end of last winter rabbits were running all over the forest on top of the deep snow! We would see them chewing on tree roots, bark, and conifer needles. They also would eat any food scraps we put out on the snow for them aswell. A few of them were so friendly we could almost walk up to them. While out snow shoeing, we stumbled across many dens with fresh tracks going under the snow.
Thank you for the tip! We are slowly making some compost for next year and will add some in. I actually added a little wood ash to a few vegetables this year. Unfortunately, it was probably a little too late.
@@northtoalaska2022 a lot of those rotten logs would go great in a compost pile. They’re on the verge of becoming dirt again. Look up “hugelkultur” gardening. It’s a German way of using everything around you to feed the soil.
You've grounded out on the post, put single wires on and insulators and attach your hot wire to the single wire I'd put around the outside of fence you have at least four times around starting at three footspace it two feet apart going up
Curious why when you are building a fence using wood posts, with such wet weather, why you did not appear to use any water proofing agent on the posts beneath ground level.
I just found your Channel today and am presently watching you install your 'mooseproof' garden site. I am very impressed so far ....until it was mentioned that you had numerous BUNNIES to contend with. OH BOY ! You had better start digging a trench several feet around the plot ( including the gate) and installing a small meshed strip around the entire circumference so that these naturally able bunnies don't get under your very capable garden fence. Being a Yorkshireman ( now in Vermont) I am very aware of the abilities of BUNNIES to dig deep warrens. Of course you have the presence of the Alaskan deep freeze but the presence of large quantities of rabbits tells me that the have learned to dig when the ground is sofr.
We do have a lot of snowshoe hare! We ran chicken wire at the bottom of the fence/ gate and about a foot out from it onto the soil staked down to help deter digging at the edge of the fence. We also buried a wood beam under the gate. Last growing season we did not notice any signs of rabbits making it inside 🤞🤞
Unfortunately, all the snow did not melt until about June in our location this year. We started them all from seed but had a long delay planting in the ground because of frozen soil. The season was abnormally short and rainy this year. It made growing very difficult.
The short answer is that it was still hitting below freezing temps at night. If we ever go back to make an upgrade, we will pour concrete 4 feet down in an 8-inch hole with a steel bracket at grade height to bolt the post in. That way, no wood is below grade it would last forever.
I think porcupines are the only critter that might try to climb and get in (aside from squirrels), but the electric wire is at 4 ft and 6ft and it's too close to the fencing that it would still touch. So far, we haven't had anything try to climb in🤞
Thank you! We will keep that in mind. We usually use it for loud things. Those battery operated tools sound way louder on camera than they do off camera.
We did receive an email invite, but unfortunately, we will not be attending. We are in the process of many projects that need to be finished before freezing temperatures. Hopefully next year we can make time to go. It is always a good time to meet new people.
We saved the lumber from that collapsed structure and used it to make about 9 raised garden beds. We have not torn down the big cabin yet only the collapsed cabin/ shed.
Hey, diver! Thanks for your input. In our case, it did not matter because there is another gate above, so the lower one can not be lifted by an animal. Our thoughts on the upper pin facing upward is that it gives more support for the gate to rest on instead of all of the weight on the lower pin. It has been working well for us without issue. Thanks for watching. We hope you enjoyed the video 🙂
We brought a 30-year-old motorhome with us to live in temporarily while we build our cabin. We have a water cistern for running water, solar inverter battery bank, and Toyo oil heat inside so it is comfortable to live while building up our new property. We use satellite internet to keep in contact with everyone and upload to youtube for evryone to enjoy!
Awesome garden, will be fun to watch how it turns out. I probably would have put some concrete in the post holes, but I'm anal like that. And on the bright side, you don't look to have very rocky soil, but you do have icy soil, lol.
Thank you for the compliment 😊 to be honest, we were in a big time crunch to get the garden up as soon as our snow melted so we could plant as soon as possible. As we were laying out the garden, we were already envisioning clearing out more forrest eventually to expand. So, some of those poles will need to be pulled out in time. If it had not still been diping below freezing at the time we built it, I would have preferred to pour concrete footers with steel pole brackets on top so the wood was not in contact with the dirt at all. Thanks for watching 🙂
Yea, inflation is out of hand. We had seen a major increase in food cost prior to leaving Pennsylvania. Some of the prices we spent up here on groceries have been outrageous. There are some places we can go to get better prices and quality but it is a 2 - or 4-hour drive to save money. Our local groceries are about a 45-minute drive, and the cost is double what it should be with a "tourism tax" on top of it all 😅 hopfully people vote in somone that has American interest at heart and we all get some relief soon.
Please don't give away the whole video with an opening shot of the finished product. It's discouraging to sit through to wait for the finished product. Ultimately, I understand it's your video
That puppy is living his best life in every video. ❤
That is the truth! He loves it out here
We bought our first property in Georgia. We had beautiful deer in our back yard. We decided to have a gardens so we dug holes and stood railroad ties up. We then took 2x4s and put chicken wire around the top. It was back breaking work but when we finished I told my wife that a giraffe couldn't get in there. The next morning a big buck deer was standing in the garden and I am sure it was laughing at both of us.!!!! Good luck.
Haha! Oh my! 🤣 Those deer can jump!
It certainly is backbreaking work for sure. We thought that too with the moose, so we added the electric to hopefully deter them from trying to get in. So far, so good 👍
Great story❗️ I bet that buck was beautiful❗️
Very inspiring to watch you all build such a wonderful homestead. Thank you!
Thank you 🙂
The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.
Thank you! It really is!
Thank you for watching😀
Tip for everyone, if you are using soil from your land make a 4X 8 foot screen with a 2X4 every 16 inches then dump dirt through it to get roots and other things out. It really does make a garden much more easier. You can even scrape the garden each year and screen in your soil and mulch, compost in layers right in the garden. It's really a great way to clear out the soil super fast and ready for spreading.
Thank you for the tip! Unfortunately, this year, we were really pressed for time as the snow didn't melt until nearly June, so we were quite late in getting the gardens built and planted. With the immense amount of topsoil that we skimmed for the garden and the greenhouse this year, it would have taken about a month or so to screen all that dirt manually, and with the short growing season, we had to get the plants in the ground as we were already weeks behind schedule. This is something we will be taking into consideration in the future.
Thank you for watching! 😀
On the top gate hinge the pin should point down. A moose can lift your gate off the pins as easy as you put it on. Turn the top pin so it points down and loosen the camp on the gate so you can slide it down and then push it up onto the pin. That will lock the gate so it can't be lifted off the pins.
We have a top gate that rests on the bottom gate and, when latched, would make it impossible for a moose to lift up. It's been 3 months now with success 😀
Thank you for watching!
Garden now looks fantastic after fencing with beautiful gate.Keep working and smiling.
Thank you! 🙂
We visited Alaska in 2011 in our then new motorhome. While in Soldotna, we went to Safeway and saw they had small watermelons for $14.00 each. Your hard work in making the garden will pay off for fresh produce. Great job!
Wow! I am unsure of the current price of watermelon here but I'm sure it is still high. We enjoy fresh pineapples from time to time and they are pricy. We are looking forward to improving our gardens next season! Thank you 🙂
I think it is great that you are starting right out with the high-tunnel and outdoor garden. You get a good idea of what is going to work in your new area 💚
Yes! We have learned so much already that we can improve on for next year! The climate here has had its challenges that we never expected in terms of growing plants. We actually talk about this in some detail on our video coming out in a few days.
@@northtoalaska2022The state has some good information on growing in Alaska. I had a sister that grew organically certified vegetables for the farmer’s market in the Mat Su and Anchorage that took classes at the college in the Mat Su. This summer has been unusually cool for gardens. We grow most of our own produce. We also have hinged hoop covers on 5 of our raised beds outside.
Yea, it is a shame about the summer season. The sun hardly showed itself. Is the growing information the state provides available online?
@@northtoalaska2022 The University of Fairbanks (UAF) cooperative extension service for agricultural has a lot of helpful information.
Last year we had more tomatoes,squash and cucumbers by the middle of July than have this year the end of August. We start in our greenhouse near the end of March. It is built 4’ in the ground with an insulated foundation off a daylight basement. It has 10mm polycarbonate panels and thermal storage.
At 4:07 what a groovy tree in the upper left. It has an almost perfect angle with a cute poof at the top😍.
That tree is so funky! 🌳 it really does have the perfect angle! 😀
I've watched just about all of your videos, some twice because it seems like you two got the last two tickets to sanity.
Garden is going to be a nice size. Love the top gate, what a great idea!
Thank you! It's definitely a great size! The top gate makes it easy to get in and out with the skid loader, if needed. But it's nice that we only have to open the bottom if we are just walking in 😀
I look forward to a Q and A when you tell us how you prepped for the trip, equipment acquisition and plans to sell as appropriate, and cash . Nice series
We have received so many questions that I know a lot of people are curious about, we plan to do a video like this over the winter when we have more downtime to hopefully explain a lot of these aspects 🙂 thank you!
Getting that garden in before alot of other things is good thinking! I enjoy your channel.
Very true, since gardens and soil are never perfect the first year, it gives us a head start for having a great garden in the second year! We are happy to hear you are enjoying our videos 😀
The sound of machinery, birds singing, people talking, etc. is far more fascinating than loud music that one have to listen to all the time. Please refrain from engaging in this behaviour. lovely woman.🥰🥰🥰
My dog Beau looks exactly like your puppup. He is part Lab and part Great Pyrenees.He loves to lay on his back and chew sticks also.
Thanks!
Thank you so much! It's truly appreciated! 🙂
Great work on your garden guys. It looks fantastic. I really hope the fencing works for you. Well done 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thank you , we hope so too! 🙂
I’m sure it will work. Our fence is only 5’ and we never have moose problems and we live along a meadow that the locals call “Moose Alley “ as we see moose all the time.
I am enjoying watching you two build your homestead in Alaska.
Thank you for watching, we are really enjoying ourselves here and have a lot more content on the way 🙂
I’m loving it !! Finally catching up on the videos. Miss you.
Woohoo! Enjoy! We miss you too ❤️
Great garden fence build.🦌🐻👍💪🛠
17:22 Have you considered reaching out to Milwaukie to become brand ambassadors?🤔
Need to watch the chicken coop build to see how you upcycled the old cabin.😮🛠
Will you be making hand made cutting boards, charcuterie boards, etc from some of the wood you've harvested? 😉🤔 it would be a great way for your fans to show their support. 🌞
Thank you! ❤️ we are not sponsored by anyone, but sponsorship from Milwaukee could be helpful 🙂 we do have a few ideas for the future with crafts such as this. Time will tell!
Great job on fence, all you have worry about is those Alaskan Flying Rabbits!!!
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That looks awesome guys, you are going to be able to grow lots of vegetables and fruit in garden and hot house
Thank you!
You're making great progress!
Thank you!
Y'all seem to be masters at building anything. Great video, thanks for sharing 😊
Thank you! We make a great team 😀
@@northtoalaska2022 you really do
garden looks good
Thank you!
Wow! You guys know how to work and to make good things happen! I hereby dub you Mr. and Mrs. Energizer Bunnyt.
😂 winter is coming, no time to waste!
That's a nice fence. Keep us posted if something is able to break through it this winter!
Thank you! I'm not sure there will be anything worth eating in there for the moose over winter. So far we have seen moose walk up and look at the fence and they usually walk away in defeat. The electric fence may have not been necessary. 🙂
Still catching up on your videos… it’s looking so good!❤❤✌️
Thank you! I'm so happy to hear you are enjoying our videos 😃
What's that white dog name. Never heard you say. As always be safe and God Bless. Keep up the great videos
His name is Benelli! 😃 thank you 🙏
I am still watching your hair in Maine and you were working very hard in a nice job putting up the fence to keep the animals out and your garden looks very good I’m sure you’ll get some nice vegetables off in it so keep up the good work and I will keep watching it you are both hard workers God bless
Thank you! We are excited for the next growing season already! 🙂🙏
Loving your channel. One wish is that you would put the date and maybe temp range on your videos. Always curious about when it is happening. Thanks for sharing.
Hello, and thank you for watching. We are glad you enjoyed our content 😊 this garden video was from the end of spring, but it actually took about three weeks to complete because we had other projects in between going on at the same time. The temperature was fluctuating wildly as summer was trying to set in, and the snow had just melted away. In the future, if we have videos that are not over long periods of time, we will include time and temperature range to help everyone feel they are here with us. Thanks again!
You two have accomplished a phenomenal amount in just a few short months. Great filming too.
Hey youngin’s Rev. Paul, Eustis Fl. Where y’all located?? I grew up in Anchorage till grown them lived/worked all over the place lol…. Valdez, Fairbanks, N. Pole, Chitna, Glenallen, Prudhoe Bay, Aleutian chain, panhandle chain, Copper River ect….. some places had no names… lol…. My 3 sons and Pastor Davey/church gave me a bucket list trip there. So much has changed y’all we were 3 of the first to live in Spenard outside of Anchorage WOW my family lived through the 1964 9.2 magnitude earthquake…. my girlfriend & we jumped fissures opening & slamming closed all around us. Sorry being a Preacher tend to get a little long winded…lol..
Rev. Paul, Eustis Fl.
Hey, Rev. Paul ! Your earthquake story is very interesting. I can imagine that was terrifying! Sounds like you have been all over alaska! What a great place to grow up in! We are living in the southern kenai peninsula near Homer alaska. Hope you are enjoying our videos! Thanks for watching 🙂
Hello. Looking great with your garden. After your done growing what you are going to grow. It be a good thing to have your Chickens put in there to till up all the plants & they will get to eat the greens & what is in there & bugs to & let them help fertilizer the ground for you. They are great for doing that. just have to look out for the Hocks & Eagles & other birds that pray on them. If you do put them in the garden like that. You would have to put a netting over the top over it. Just a thought for you to thing about. Or when you clean up there coop make a mulch place to put there waste in from the pen, to make it in to Mulch. Any other animals you get also put there waste in the Mulch place you have. & you can use it in your garden. You might want to get black plastic to put over the garden to kill all the weeds so you wont have to do a lot of weeding at all. Hope all goes great in your garden this year.
Hello! That's a great idea for putting the chickens in there to till in the fall! We will keep that in mind for next season 🐔 we do keep their manure and add it to our compost. Hopefully, it will be ready come spring!
I just love your videos. Great job
We are happy to hear you enjoy them 😊 thank you!
Just catching up on your videos, really impressive work. Hope you are “harvesting” the rabbits for protein and angle braces at the corner posts and either side of the gate would not go astray.
We do have a few snow shoe hares in the freezer! 🙂
Love the channel, that fence is amazing and your garden is going to flurish xx
Thank you! The fence certainly came in handy as we have many moose that came through this summer. Next year, we will add amendments for the soil, so better production and hopefully get more sun 🤞
Thank you for watching! 😀
That is an awesome fence. Looks great
Thank you! 🙂
Garden is amazing 🇬🇧😊
Thank you! 😀
Enjoying watching here in ENGLAND a nice garden you have built i hope you grow wonderful vegetables🐭🐹🐸🦋
Thank you 🙂
Awesome job on the garden fence, keep it safe.
Thank you! 😀
Nice work on the garden fencing and the raised beds. We hope you have a great harvest! All the best. Barb &Bob from Eagle River,Wi.
Thank you! We hope so! Unfortunately, the rain and chilly, overcast days haven't done the garden much good so far. 😞 But we are on the right track to have some harvest.
If you put a extension on the side you can put a greenhouse in it so you can start your plants off sooner seeing that you have used timber around the top all you need for the extension is too use shorter post further out about 8feet and timber around and you can use coragated perspex for the roof you can use clear plastic for the side and change it as you go make cold frame for some of the raised bed so things that are started off with some heat don't go straight out and get stunted
Thanks for your suggestions, we do have plans to expand in the future 😀
I commend you on your garden fence. You both made a wonderful job. I live in Australia so really no need in the suburbs to have fences but out in the countryside you would need to have fences to keep out kangaroos. Good luck I look forward to watching your channel!! Vicki ❤️❤️
Thank you! That's pretty wild having to worry about kangaroos! We would have never even thought about that. I bet a fully enclosed garden would be necessary to keep them out.
Thank you for watching! 😀
Great progress so far. Garden is looking good 🎉🎉
Thank you!
Nice job on your fencing
Thank you!
Great job guys!
Thank you!
It's hard to explain but I did the same Boo Boo on a cow gate. The Top bolt that You screw in needs to be the opposite so they can not just lift their head up and push the gate off the Hook. Or Nail 2 Blocks above it to do the same thing.
I saw the foraging video and wondered if you have sumac there. Living in Northern WI I loved Sumac tea and its a great source of Vit C.
Hmm, we have not seen any sumac. Maybe it grows farther south in the state I am unsure.
Excellent work!
Thank you!
How do the rabbits survive the winter? I,m from NZ, so pardon my ignorance. My understanding is that rabbits live in burrows, so how do they survive in the long cold winters in Alaska, there would be little food for them. Do they burrow thru the snow to get vegetation?
Great question! When we moved here, the end of last winter rabbits were running all over the forest on top of the deep snow! We would see them chewing on tree roots, bark, and conifer needles. They also would eat any food scraps we put out on the snow for them aswell. A few of them were so friendly we could almost walk up to them. While out snow shoeing, we stumbled across many dens with fresh tracks going under the snow.
Wood ash is excellent fertilizer.
Thank you for the tip! We are slowly making some compost for next year and will add some in. I actually added a little wood ash to a few vegetables this year. Unfortunately, it was probably a little too late.
@@northtoalaska2022 a lot of those rotten logs would go great in a compost pile. They’re on the verge of becoming dirt again. Look up “hugelkultur” gardening. It’s a German way of using everything around you to feed the soil.
You've grounded out on the post, put single wires on and insulators and attach your hot wire to the single wire I'd put around the outside of fence you have at least four times around starting at three footspace it two feet apart going up
Vary good job
Thank you!
Curious why when you are building a fence using wood posts, with such wet weather, why you did not appear to use any water proofing agent on the posts beneath ground level.
Hello, these are pressure treated posts that are ground contact rated. Should last roughly 20 years in soil. Thanks for watching!
I just found your Channel today and am presently watching you install your 'mooseproof' garden site. I am very impressed so far ....until it was mentioned that you had numerous BUNNIES to contend with.
OH BOY ! You had better start digging a trench several feet around the plot ( including the gate) and installing a small meshed strip around the entire circumference so that these naturally able bunnies don't get under your very capable garden fence.
Being a Yorkshireman ( now in Vermont) I am very aware of the abilities of BUNNIES to dig deep warrens. Of course you have the presence of the Alaskan deep freeze but the presence of large quantities of rabbits tells me that the have learned to dig when the ground is sofr.
We do have a lot of snowshoe hare! We ran chicken wire at the bottom of the fence/ gate and about a foot out from it onto the soil staked down to help deter digging at the edge of the fence. We also buried a wood beam under the gate. Last growing season we did not notice any signs of rabbits making it inside 🤞🤞
Your dog looks happy.
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Where did you guys buy your fence post brackets? They seem more robust then what I usually see.
Hello, We found them at Home Depot. They seem to be working out well for the fences. 🙂
I am loving your videos. I love the dog too!! What is his name?
Thanks! We are glad you enjoy our content 😊 his name name is Benelli 🐕
Your starter plants seem so big compared to what we start with here in Texas.Do you have to buy them that way because of the short growing season?
Unfortunately, all the snow did not melt until about June in our location this year. We started them all from seed but had a long delay planting in the ground because of frozen soil. The season was abnormally short and rainy this year. It made growing very difficult.
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I'm curious as to why you didn't concrete the posts in the ground.
The short answer is that it was still hitting below freezing temps at night. If we ever go back to make an upgrade, we will pour concrete 4 feet down in an 8-inch hole with a steel bracket at grade height to bolt the post in. That way, no wood is below grade it would last forever.
You need enough electric wire to keep out the climbing critters too.
I think porcupines are the only critter that might try to climb and get in (aside from squirrels), but the electric wire is at 4 ft and 6ft and it's too close to the fencing that it would still touch. So far, we haven't had anything try to climb in🤞
You guys need to use ear protection... It doesn't bother you right now, but just wait 20 years... You're doing a great job, keep up the good work.
Thank you! We will keep that in mind. We usually use it for loud things. Those battery operated tools sound way louder on camera than they do off camera.
Good suggestion, was thinking the same - always nice to have ears in top condition in country with predators :)
Did hear about the TH-cam creators meetup in big lake Saturday
We did receive an email invite, but unfortunately, we will not be attending. We are in the process of many projects that need to be finished before freezing temperatures. Hopefully next year we can make time to go. It is always a good time to meet new people.
Could you or did you save some of the lumber from the old cabin to use in other projects?
We saved the lumber from that collapsed structure and used it to make about 9 raised garden beds. We have not torn down the big cabin yet only the collapsed cabin/ shed.
Just a note. The top fence support should face down so it can’t be picked up without a wrench to loosen the bolt. just fyi
Hey, diver! Thanks for your input. In our case, it did not matter because there is another gate above, so the lower one can not be lifted by an animal. Our thoughts on the upper pin facing upward is that it gives more support for the gate to rest on instead of all of the weight on the lower pin. It has been working well for us without issue. Thanks for watching. We hope you enjoyed the video 🙂
what are you carrying for bear protection, maybe a 40 cal.
Normally 10mm. Thanks for watching 🙂
I'm told battery has to be off ground to last better
Good job😅
Better doing now then later.😀
You are absolutely correct! That's what we thought too! 😀
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Where do you guys sleep when you’re not working on your projects?
We brought a 30-year-old motorhome with us to live in temporarily while we build our cabin. We have a water cistern for running water, solar inverter battery bank, and Toyo oil heat inside so it is comfortable to live while building up our new property. We use satellite internet to keep in contact with everyone and upload to youtube for evryone to enjoy!
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Thank you!
OK now that should do it.
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Put some chains on your skid steer it will give you a lot more grip and you are going to be less likely to get stuch
Hey, we actually have chains on all four tires. Thanks for watching 🙂
Awesome garden, will be fun to watch how it turns out. I probably would have put some concrete in the post holes, but I'm anal like that. And on the bright side, you don't look to have very rocky soil, but you do have icy soil, lol.
Thank you for the compliment 😊 to be honest, we were in a big time crunch to get the garden up as soon as our snow melted so we could plant as soon as possible. As we were laying out the garden, we were already envisioning clearing out more forrest eventually to expand. So, some of those poles will need to be pulled out in time. If it had not still been diping below freezing at the time we built it, I would have preferred to pour concrete footers with steel pole brackets on top so the wood was not in contact with the dirt at all. Thanks for watching 🙂
You should get your self some safety glasses. have fun!!
We have them 😀 thanks for watching!
Would an electric fence work better?😊😮
Make sure to you put corner suports
Good point, we may have to revisit this in the future, thanks!
Since the top is braced it supports the corners.
Why not edge your beds with dead logs,creates wider usable beds+ grow mushrooms on logs
Looks like a prison fence haha. Now all you need is some barbedwire and some murderers 😂😂😂
🤣 at least the bears can't get us when we are inside! 🐻
Lol, just what they need 😂
You need a permit to hunt moose ,but what about rabbits ?
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Your garden has more security than a prison 😆😆😆
Possibly 😅
hey even down here in the lower 48 states we are all growing gardens because it costs so much to eat veggies because who is in the white house
Yea, inflation is out of hand. We had seen a major increase in food cost prior to leaving Pennsylvania. Some of the prices we spent up here on groceries have been outrageous. There are some places we can go to get better prices and quality but it is a 2 - or 4-hour drive to save money. Our local groceries are about a 45-minute drive, and the cost is double what it should be with a "tourism tax" on top of it all 😅 hopfully people vote in somone that has American interest at heart and we all get some relief soon.
sorry to see you burn the cabin ,,,,,,,,that was someone's life
Oh yeah I forgot to tell y’all about the 7 yr cycle of rabbit, die off from diseases, can be nasty y’all…. Just sayin…..
Oh wow, I have not heard of this! That would be disgusting. The population of wild hare here is really high, so maybe they are overdue for this!
And when that happens the predators that depend on rabbits for food get very hungry and will look for food in all the wrong places.
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Oh my word your posts look so unstable. It worries me a little.
Please don't give away the whole video with an opening shot of the finished product. It's discouraging to sit through to wait for the finished product. Ultimately, I understand it's your video
Sorry about the spoiler!
It's not discouraging AT ALL. it's nice to sit through the video to see how you got to the final product!