Planting a Year's Supply of Food for a Family of 7
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- What it looks like to plant a year's worth of food for a family of 7. We haven't bought a veggie from the grocery story for going on 5 years. You can check out my guide on how much to plant here www.theseasona...
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You and your family so impress and amaze me. Gardening is so much work. To have enough that you don't have to buy one single veggie is just awesome
It is so great to have the whole family working together. To me, this is life at its best.
Bring the children to do gardening is a good example to the generations today to learn how grow own food instead playing games on phones or watching tv and can learn also how healthy to eat the food from hard work, watching from philippines godbless guys
I have so much respect for gardeners, farmers, and the like! I didn’t realize how much work, care, and help is needed in planting. May your family have more than an abundance of over flow in vegetation for all of your hard work..😊
Oh my I wish I was your neighbor so I could come learn from you in person 😊
There is something so special about watching your process. To see everyone working together is heart❤warming. I have a small garden that brings me so much joy. I hope your season produces a lot of fruit and vegetables 🌻🥒🫑🍅🥑
Lots of work with the family but the rewards are more than satisfying knowing you grew your own foods, even some for the animals.
See you all at harvest time😁🇦🇺
Love watching the hard work and dedication. Amazing to watch all kids doing their jobs! 👍👍
What a beautiful food garden ❤ So much family hard work gone into it 👏👏👏👏 Such a pleasure to watch things video 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 As always a pleasure to watch Love from the UK x
Why am I always so excited when I see a notification from this channel? ❤❤❤
The vegetable garden is really beautiful, I really like it. you are really good
Beautiful video. Beautiful music. I always get hungry when you mention sweet potatoes! Yum. Your energy and work ethic continue to amaze me.
Your videos are SO enjoyable. I could think of a few other adjectives but......mostly just enjoyable. I have seen everyone. I feel like you have made all of your viewers part of your family. Great job! PLEASE keep them coming and keep up the good work. God Bless you, your family, and your homestead.
Throw some pumpkin seeds on that large compost pile. They'll probably grow amazing.😊 We always put some in our fresh horse manure pile and it grows huge pumpkins every year.
Doesn’t the fresh manure burn the plants?
Thank you for sharing! I always appreciate when you remind us that you've had failures and how long it has taken you to get to this point
WOW! Not only long days, but into the night!! I hope all of your hard work makes for a great harvest this year. God bless y'all and keep growing.
Great music. Wow that's a big plot. Great job.
I love your videos so much!!! I suck up every bit of beauty and knowledge that you share! Thank you so much for the time you take to share this life of yours with us all!
So glad I found your channel! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
I love how meticulously neat and tidy all of you are.
All I can say is WOW! Thank you so much for sharing all of your incredible work. I have the utmost respect for what you are doing. I know tye work that commercial farmers do that have equipment doing a bulk of the work. Seeing you all doing it by hand and never giving up. I hope my children will continue the little bit that we do into something like what you do. What an incredible blessing
I love watching you and your family work together! You are blessed! May you have a wonderful and productive growing season 😊
I absolutely love LI cheese pumpkins. Im growing four times more this year. I grew them because I saw yours. This is my second year growing them. I still have to sow my lemon squash. Your such an inspiration. I added 5 new raised beds and a green stalk. I grow all my starts from seed, so economical. Thank you so much for sharing your garden, recipes and preservation methods. I enjoy all of your videos. I'll even go through and watch your other videos. After four years of gardening, there's always more I am willing to learn. This Grandma wishes she started to garden a long time ago...lol. ❤
Wonderful!
So very pleased the entire family is working towards this great goal.
Wow, I'm so impressed with your garden and how everyone gets involved. Happy gardening 😊
I too had alot of trouble with squash beetles. I learned that if I put up small hoops and frost blanket over the row of plants and bury the edges of the cloth with dirt that prevents nearly 100% of the bugs! Works great
I admire you for What you are all doing. I feel the same, I am the happiest with my current lifestyle, where we grow our own food for a whole year, and I don’t need to go to the supermarket 🙏👩🌾 Happy gardening and all the best to you 🐝👩🌾
I look so forward to your videos and unfortunately I didn't get notified about this one. Needless to say, I didn't see it uploading until it was already 3 hours old 😞
I am so happy you got what you needed done done! Now we get to watch it grow and become food for your family. This is absolutely my favorite time of the year! Watching you bring in the harvest and preserve it into canned, freeze dried and whatever else you are going to do with it. Your family is amazing and you all should be proud of yourselves ❤️
Wow. A lot of effort but so rewarding to harvest your own. I’m jealous that ginger works for you. We grow it but it’s always completely tasteless. No idea why.
Your videos are always informative and entertaining. I just love them.
Love all the information and that the kids are right in there with you.
I wish I was able to grow like u guys. Maybe in the next few years I'll become as productive as u!!! Ur an inspiration
Beautiful family! You all have a wonderful spirit. It reminds of an account I read where a travel asked a young woman for a drink of water. Well her not only gave him a drink. she volunteered to water the camels also. (Considering a camel can drink up to fifty gallons! So, that was no small task). What I'm saying our spirit is undaunted by the challenge.
As a family, this is an important opportunity to talk about food supply, monetary implications, food value/nutrition, budgeting (time/money) pros and cons, seasons and the realities with crops and meat animals. My grandparents instilled this in our family, and it has truly been a Godsend. One of my favorites canned for fall/winter is stewed tomatoes🍅
Love your video. Can you include how many of each plant for when you do your garden tour? You mentioned 150-200 tomatoes; stuff like that. It would be so helpful to know how much to plant. Thank you ❤.
as usual outstanding, thanks you for sharing
we use straw for our strawberries. works really well.
Incredible production!
I just did corn for the first time in cell blocks, it went just fine! Popped up in 4 days, planted after a week and they had roots almost 4" long already!
Its a very hard work. You are the troopers!
That was a very informative and helpful video. Thanks.
I'll be interested to see the corn turnout! I hear it is a hard one to transplant.
Amazing what you do! Great job and video. Val C
I really like the paper base. Never thought of it ❤
Same! Cardboard takes a little while to soften under mulch and it’s a pain to deal with. I wonder how much a roll of it is…
@@emkn1479 When I put cardboard I have tons of slugs living underneath...🤦🏻♀️
But I noticed that when I put some kind of paper it breaks down quick so slugs won't live in it. And watching this video it clicked to me. I think it's the same paper used to wrap things?
@@Gabiviolino that’s what I thought but it’s a specific gardening product that’s linked in the description. Maybe it’s thicker?
garden look beautiful
And as much work as this may seem, it is only half the battle. There is harvesting and preserving it for the winter.
We only have a quarter acre garden and it alone keeps me busy with planting, maintaining, harvesting and preserving.
Hello Kimberly 👋 How are you doing today?
This was great! You guys are amazing. Such a beautiful big garden. I can't wait to see your harvest. Ty for sharing.
Superbe vidéo 😊
Kids are so big wow Love your beautiful family ❤
Your plants look so healthy. Do you have a recipe for your soil block mix?
Omg, TY for putting the tools you use in the description!!! I had no clue a wheel hoe was a thing, BUT NOW I WANT ONE! The tiny little seeder is adorable, and NOW I WANT ONE TOO!
You're also the first person I've seen using weed PAPER... most others I've watched used a mesh/tarpaulin type material or plastic. Do you find the paper to be better in the long run? I assume over time it'll end up composting and being a good carbon addition to the soil, correct?? Now that I think of it, the plastic barriers must be a LOT of work since I assume you'd need to pull them up and replace them every year or so.
Yes, love the paper. I’ve only used it one season but so far it has been fantastic. Only downside is if it’s early in the season and windy and wet the paper easily blows off. Yes, it’s all natural, breaks down, and adds carbon to the soil.
Do you re-use your garden fabric or buy new every year? If you re-use it how do you mark it so you know which is for potatoes and which is for peas etc.? Where do you get yours from to keep the cost down?
Just because my whole family is ill since end of April (all the time someone and something different)...how can you go on while being sick?
We do have chicken and a small garden. Only 2 children. And still are there times I don't know how to get the work done if they all need a special care and I can't sleep at night.
You have a baby and so much more work. Do your days have 72 hours? ❤
This looks truly amazing. I would be curious what the cost is every year for seeds, starts, weed paper, mulch etc Do you have any idea how many thousands of pounds of food you end up producing? I'm guessing it's way to much work to weigh it. 😅
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Simply amazing! Your gardens are beautiful and how you all work together and so hard is astounding! May God bless you with an abundant harvest 🙏🏻
How long does the weed paper last? And I guess you prefer it over woven weave fabric?
Thanks! The weed paper lasts one season max. This is the first year I've tested weed paper and so far I'm loving it! We use the black plastic ground cover on the garden edges to keep weeds from encroaching. However, we have had problems with the bermuda grass coming through it and forming a thick thatch over a season. Right now I prefer the weed paper because as it breaks down it adds organic matter too and we haven't had the same bermuda grass problem. It's more expensive initially but cheaper than paying my kids to weed, haha!
I have never gardened before but would love to. My husband has gardening experience but is always to busy to show me. Where is the first step to start? Local extension center? Figuring out what I like? Plant 1 thing only? I hope to get on your level some day ♥️
Start with one thing! Plant some herbs, they are pretty easy to grow.
Amazing!!
Becky at the farmers co-op where I live you can buy corn plants all ready to go in the ground.also how did you take care of the Japanese beetles that you had at one time? Help please.
While this is an amazing accomplishment, making sure our family’s emotional needs are met and our own mental health stays in tact are of utmost importance. Be careful of comparison. (I say this having homesteaded for 16 years, as a homeschool mama to nine.)
I love your channel. I do not have garden myself but I love plants and I have some on y balcony.
I was wandering how it is cost wise: not to buy in groceries but buy all those papers and covers and seeds and mulch and pay for electricity, fuel and water. And all necessities. Is it still more affordable than going to groceries? Off course it is healthier. Hugs from Europe. Ewa
We had just moved to a new area this season and for the first time I’ve had a massive problem with flies in my carrots. Have you ever had an issue with them and if so do you have any suggestions on how to prevent them because what I’ve found on the internet hasn’t really helped.
I’m not familiar with the weed barrier papers thickness but was wondering if a hole-saw on a cordless drill would work on cutting the planting holes?
Will you do a animal tour?? I love the garden videos !
Sure!
Thanks!!! ❤
Do you grow most of your herbs, oregano, thyme. I have found Mexican Oregano is amazing. Also German thyme.
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Hello, I've been watching you for a few years. I was just wondering how to keep snails and slugs away from my plants? I'm having a real issue with them this year. I've tried putting salt rings around them but the snails and slugs keep coming. They are not slowing down. This morning I removed about 50+ I don't know what to do at this point.😅
What's your total garden area to feed all of you?
I thought how does a husband convince a wife to do so much in a garden and something told me he was recruited instead. Good job
Haha! 😂
Are you finding that you are getting less weeds long term now due to the amount of mulching you do along with the paper you lay down
Where do you get your cute flower tshirts?
The sunflower one is from Farmers Friend
Do you have greater success from planting the whole potatoes? I usually cut them to have 2-3 eyes.
Yes- way better results!
@@TheSeasonalHomestead That's good to know for next year! Thank you!!
I have some pest questions to ask! Do you get squash vine borers there? Those things are killers for me :(. They got 5 of my 8 zucchini plants already this year and I would love to plant pumpkin, but I know they're going to get me as they do every year. Also, do you not have japanese beetle issues on all your strawberries, they decimated mine this year :(
Yes, squash vine borers are the worst. I’ve seen them on my plants already. The eggs are harder to see because they just lay one at a time on the stem. If you pick a squash in the C. Moschata family they are more resistant to the squash vine borers. They branch out more so even if a borer kills one part of the plant often other parts live. That is why I chose Long Island cheese pumpkin, because it’s in that family. Sorry about your strawberries!
How did you end up combating the cucumber beetles? Or was it just a natural boom year for them and they haven’t been an issue since? Last year was TERRIBLE and I’m so scared they’ll be back this year 😭
It was a natural cycle of having many cucumber beetles. There were way less last year. I find that eventually pests balance out but sometimes it can take 2 years of it being an infestation and then it’s better.
I noticed that you were growing one of the varieties of corn I've been researching "Who gets kissed" because I've been having problems with smut this year, and it's supposedly smut resistant. Is this one you've grown before? Have you had any issues with it? Do the ears keep well? The last one is because life sometimes gets in the way, and they might have to stay on for a day or 2 before picking.
Yes, I’ve grown this variety for at least 5 years. I’ve never had problems with smut. No issues with it at all. It does keep for a few days on the stalk and has a longer than usual harvest season. We only deal with corn earn worms.
What is the paper called that u yes for weed suppression?
Are you growing any okra this year?
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What kind of paper is being used? Is it special for gardening?
Yes, it’s made for gardening. I have it linked in the video description.
@@TheSeasonalHomestead thanks for the reply! Also, I think we went to the same college! Go Vikings (even though we have never had a formal mascot).
150 tomato PLANTS?!
I haven't seen your videos in a long time. Wow, your homestead has really progressed! Congrats! The kids have grown a lot too. 🥲 I have never seen the weed paper before. That is very exciting to me! How do you like it? I am trying to reduce my use of plastic. I will be watching to see how it holds up.
What's your husband's role in all this? The unspoken provider who has to work while you play at being self sufficient. He doesn't get a voice except as your willing slave. What's the reality here?
Having large gardens in the past 40years, a half acre, I know the hard work that goes in one. Now being older I use container garden such as laundry baskets ect. I admire your fortitude and dedication
I remember those early blog posts about this journey, both gardening and how it helped your health as well as growing a year's supply of veg for your family. Your yearly updates, refining your numbers and process, helped me so much. So much has changed yet I still refer to that blog page. Thank you so much for sharing! 💚
My first year of growing for a family of 5, more than 300 hundred onion (red and white), tomato, mustard green, sugar loaf and cabbage, carrots, spinach and beetroot, I'm now harvesting mustard and ij can't wait for the rest, we'll done to you and your family
The only problem with your videos....they aren't long enough. Kidding, not kidding :) Always appreciate you sharing your family and gardens, cooking and helpful information. I could watch your videos for hours working as a family Unit. It's a rarity in this day and age. It brings so many memories of growing up on the farm. My parents had a massive garden and I always helped. We would can and preserve and our larder was bursting at the seams for the cold harsh winter ahead. Mom didn't go the store to buy veggies, eggs, dairy or meat, We had our own. So grateful to have grown up to learn the lifestyle. You are teaching your children a very valuable work ethic and hopefully they will adopt a similar lifestyle.
I agree.
I've been successful as a container gardener in the Bay Area, CA since before pandemic. But, still very inspired by gardeners like you! You truly exudes hope that growing food for your family is more than possible. Love how you share your experiences through your videos. Big kudos to the whole family!
Just found your channel, i love hpw helpful your kids are too.
I watch many homesteaders on the ole TH-cam (learning as much as I can) and your videos, my dear, are like none other. The forethought, the meticulous placement of each and every plant, the commitment to success is just unmatched. Seriously inspiring. Keep it up, mama and family. I hope you get to kick back a tad bit now that it's all in the ground! 🌼🤍🌻
Even though I don’t have a space to have a vegetable garden, I love watching your videos. Especially like your background music. All the videos bring a smile to my face watching you and your family create all this bounty for your family.
Nice work my love ❤🎉
We always transplant our corn on this property, otherwise the birds and squirrels rip it up.
Love watching the entire family get involved with the entire process!
I found 2 volunteer plants in my garden plot: one tomato and one huckleberry.
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I don’t know how you keep up with it all even in your mind as far as starting all the different crops at the correct time without missing something. Do you prune your tomatoes? I planted around 60 tomatoes and I find them to be very high maintenance. One thing is for sure. Your children will definitely know how to provide for themselves when they are grown!
I prune the indeterminate varieties to one leader. However, all of the Roma tomatoes get no pruning, they are a determinate type and don't like being pruned!
@@TheSeasonalHomestead That’s what I do but I don’t know how you do so many.
Amazingly beautiful video and garden. Your hard work and knowledge are on full display. Well done!
Your garden always looks so amazing. ❤
New subscriber here! I appreciate your honesty!
Love your videos! You have inspired my family and I to start our own homestead journey! We started in the spring and are learning as we go best practices. We are doing raised beds in a 900 sq ft fenced off area on our 2.5 acre property. Keep the videos coming!!