Chopping Cover Crops & Huge Beet Harvest!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- Join @jacquesinthegarden and I as we get a little too excited with our new machetes and chop down the cover crop we planted in late fall of 2021. We also picked up a massive harvest of golden and red beets, and you get a sneak peek on how the Epic Chickies are doing.
00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Chop N Drop
04:15 - Beet Harvest
05:53 - Beet Processing
08:20 - Feeding Leaves To Chicks
10:16 - Sneek Peak/Outro
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Just two dudes bonding over beets and machetes. This is the wholesome quality content I signed up for.
The way life is meant to be
Yeh enjoyed the bonding but i would probably just take the pole hedger and walk along and trim everything down. I ain't got time for this insanity hehe.
You guys' reaction to Bobca showing off the lizard was priceless. Only to be bettered by your reactions when it started to run. 😆
A tip for using all those beet greens: discard the dead or damaged leaves, cut the good ones into thirds or quarters, (depending on what size you want) and boil them all. Then strain them and let them sit to dry out. And you can freeze what you're not going to immediately use in bags that are big enough for one dinner. And when you want to use it, fry it in some oil, and add salt, and enjoy.
The kitty steals the show again ;) Coming from part of the world where we have no lizards (well, I think 3 native ones that are very rare) seeing her capturing one was hilarious. I did also laugh at your machete attempts, looked pretty good in the end,trying new toys is part of the fun! Glad to see you're managing to get some good over wintered harvest from the beetroot etc. Pickled just in vinegar with a few peppercorns is the absolute best way to eat it.
Ps. I've been thinking this for ages but Jacques has been a wonderful addition to your channel, having someone to play your humour off against is a really good addition, you seem more confident and like you're genuinely having great fun filming.
It's fun having friends around!
Thank you for the laughter in this video
The fact EVERYTHING STOPPED when the cat appeared is fantastic♥︎
I'm surprised you guys didn't use the scythe. You were having so much fun with it the last time you used it.
Honestly same!
Maybe hit a little lower...I used to use a scythe. The circular shape catches a bundle.
That’s what I thought. A scythe is the right tool for that task. But maybe they did it for the show. 😄
Yeah i was thinking
The probably want to chop it to smaller pieces.
You guys are hysterical. The chickens are growing so much. Blessings from Australia.
Truly enjoyed watching this. Not only learning but watching you guys having fun.
Pro tip. Add some beet greens to your beet borscht! The greens also go good in a nice “zumma borscht” (aka summer borscht that doesn’t have beetroot in it). I also love beets roasted with salt, dill, and feta. I like cooked feta though and it sounds like that might not be the vibe Kevin wants 😅
I adore beet greens. I make a warm salad of the wilted greens and soft chivy goat cheese. Love to pluck them as cut and come again until the root is bigger.
the fun you guys have together is totally infectious :)
Lmao your camera person is BRAVE AF 😁🤣😁🤣😁
I got so freaked out after I ate a bunch of red beets then went to the bathroom afterwards! I thought i had internal bleeding but then remembered I ate a bunch of beets.
Lazy dog farms, mows his down and then works it in. You can also plant that, let it get up a little and put chickens on it, then you can work it in.
The mural!!!!!
Just two garden guys having a great time on the homestead 😂😂😂
Yeah to more videos!
Yep
did I miss the video about the Mural? It looks so cool!
Coming soon ;)
It was on the Epic Instagram a couple weeks ago. It’s amazing, go check it out so you can zoom in for the details. :)
Love the mural on the wall! So colorful and fun. I think the bushmaster was sharper. Glad to see you made it through the chop n drop and didn't clip any body parts. LOL. 🌈❤️🌎✌️
In my country, we juice the beets with carrot and citrus.. then sugar.. best juice for people for lost a lot of blood.
Golden beets are the best
I do a 1/4 inch cubed carrot and beets chilled then pour warm coconut oil over the chilled beets,carrots. Salt to taste before. I use big natural salt
You can also put tarp over the cover crop and let it decompose that way
Borsht goes with everything.
Radish seed pods are delicious when pickled.
I used the beets I grew this past season in some smoothies. They turned out surprisingly sweet and delicious. I'd say beets eaten raw can be quite versatile. Mark from Self-Sufficient Me lists some good uses for beets in his beet video. Also ngl, the way you guys used those machetes did look pretty fun.
Oh my gosh I’m laughing so hard at the machete stances! Love that you don’t take yourself seriously and it’s so fun to laugh with you about it all. 🤣
The mural in the background is beautiful. Please tell us all about it🙏
Bloody nuttas. Take your arms off with those lol. Green manures are such a good way to protect the soil and improve its structure and nutrient values. Brill video guys
Hahaha we can't resist
i love the lavender orpington
Chickens love beet greens.
I agree with you- when there's too many? It's not.
Also I pickle most of my Beets they last a long time in the refrigerator and they're wonderful pickled be sure and add some sugar to the pickling brine
Woohooo!
Shower area is starting to look good 👍
Machetes work well for root division, cutting off bottom tangled plant roots that were in containers.
When you casually cut the Dikon like a BOSS😂😂
Pure
You boys are hilarious.
I have a lovely beet quiche
The homestead has come a long way. Love the chicks. 🐥
Machete improvises.
Omg I was a little scared w you guys swinging those machetes. Be safe ❤️
We live in the tropical jungle, so machetes are with us all the time and our cat catches lizards, iguanas, mice, rats... you name it.
I just mowed mine down.
Pickled beets is my go to 😊 yummm. Looking good, Chete dudes.
Get a weeder and put a table saw blade on it to chop that down its crazy
I would definitely go at it with a weed whacker. Ours is electric too, so it's not too loud
+1 for Bobka!
Epic Chicks, lol, love that :)
I freeze those beet greens and put them in my smoothies, the beets themselves are good in smoothies too. I get it that you had a lot to process but they are so good!
Add some lemon and toasted walnuts to that beet salad too. It’s yummy.
Beet Jelly!
you guys have the same reaction to those earwigs as i have to snails lmao
If you want to try another awesome beet salad try cooked, cubed and add to cooked cubed potatoes, capers, cut up cornichons, parsley, green olives, black olives, salt, pepper, in a Dijon vinaigrette.
Lol when you patted your butt. Careful with those machetes. My husband's grandmother, when she was younger, almost lost a leg when her machete bounced back from her swing and hit her hard in the shin. She has a huge scar.
Informative and funny video. There are sharp rake type implements that you swing that can chop without tiring the arm with that tennis swing.. I never ate a dicon radish. But I love roasted beets and steamed beet green grown without pesticides. I wrap the beet in foil and put it in the oven or on the grill to steam roast. Nothing like those nasty jars from the store. And after roasting and slicing, they can be frozen in bags for later consumption hot or cold without loss of flavor. I learned that 2 years ago when I had an over abundance. Beet tops can be blanched like spinach and frozen too.
Love the Cat's lizard and how it escaped. Lots of fun distractions. Happy gardening
Literally just finished watching the seed video on the other channel
Sooo much salad fixings! I have friends that would pay big for the flowers.
Some food banks would take the beet greens.
I need to fine tune my machete technique. Probably sharpen mine as well. This was super fun to watch.
My cats watching this with me and is very interested in your cat and her lizard
Time to get pickling! That's a s*%!load of beets. Well done.
My vote is to put in a giant pumpkin. I can hook you up with 2,000lb pumpkin seeds/genetics. Super fun they put on 40lbs a day when they are hitting their stride!
No way?!
Way, that's not even uncommon. And 2,000lb genetics nowadays are not that hard to come by. A lot of people want their seeds grown, so they will throw their heavy genetics around the country like candies!
Love the machetes
this project screams emergency room visit
i love to pickle beets, jar after jar
OMG! Good thing kitty wasn't hiding in the cover crops when you were chopping it down! Could you use a hedge trimmer to cut the crops down? You guys are too funny, LOL! The Epic Chicks look very healthy and happy - way to go "Dad!" WIth your irrigation set up, doesn't the mister cause problems with the wet leaves? Say, when did the mural go in? How did I miss that video?
"You didn't cut anything" 😂 that actually made me lol
Ummmmm when did I miss the MURAL???? WOW!!
I would love to see an area dedicated to making lechon but since this is about gardening, growing pumpkins or watermelon where you "manually plowed" would be a good addition to the garden.
So happy for a new video.. Please upload more videos.
Two a week now!
One of the more interesting videos you e posted in a while!!!
i would love to see you mow that and turn it into compost
Grow some sunflowers and then give the chicks the sunflower seeds, they love them!
So fun!🤣🤣🤣
Sorry boys. But no one looks better than Michael Douglas wielding a machete in Romancing the Stone. 😉 💗xoxo
Would be great to see a Milpa patch back there!
Beet greens in curries and lasagna instead of spinach is absolutely delicious! I love my beet greens!
Love the mural!
Your silver lace should be called Prada. Then you have Gucci and Prada, the designer sisters.
I prefer a sickle.
Mmm bake the beets in the oven in a foil pack, with chévre cheese (feta cheese, or brie can work sometimes too), pumpkin seeds and a drizzle of honey and a little balsamico vinegar. Man, it is sooo goooood. 💚
That looks so fun. I want to chop thingsssssssss
You guys work really well together! Great team!😊🌱👏
To your beet salad - try with walnuts (or nut of choice) to add texture and protein 😊 and maybe goats cheese (chèvre)
It's fun but there's such an easier way to kill a cover crop. You just use a pallet, a big plank of wood, or anything flat and heavy you can step on. You squash your cover crop, by really stepping on it so you hurt the stems, crunches them. And you advance step by step into your cover crop field. In the end, you'll have a nice mulch. At this stage, I usually add a bit of wood chips, and if it's a hungry crop, some spent barley or compost as well. The cover crop will die, coz once it flowers, it cannot get itself upright. That's one of the reasons it's so important to let it flower (the other one is to get more biomass, carbon in the soil, and mulch out of it).
If you want the best cover crop ever, the key is different plant groups. IE if you plant one type of crop, it'll be a lot less biomass than 4 different types. And same thing, don't go with one grass and 3 legumes, you're better off with one legume, one grass, one asteracae, one brassica. Recently it's been proven (see Christine Jones webtalks) that it really increases your biomass coz plants exchange nutrients through micorrhizae or bacteria. Some will be better at getting phosphorus and sulphur (like the brassicas), others at getting nitrogen (like the grass and legumes). The key is that you don't necessarily need the legume in there : all plants are able to get nitrogen from nitrogen fixing bacteria (a discovery that's pretty recent) as long as you don't fertilize them (adding ammonium or nitrates will stop plants from being able to get nitrogen from the rhizosphere). It's just that legumes have nodules on their roots while other plants have the rhizosphere form those nodules.
I bet the chickens would love the earwigs
Golok is Indonesian machete FYI.
I love this dynamic the two of you have. It’s great!
Picked beets! Definitely delicious- and then you can make red beet eggs.
This is what they mean when they say 'boys will be boys' 😂
Chickens will love the garden greens, just don’t give them any nightshade greens because of Solanine toxicity.
I help offset my feed bill in the summer with weeds and yard trimmings. They need to be given grit, or access to free roam and find grit in the yard, but it works well to keep them happy.
You could call the silver chick ‘Sterling’ as in the ‘Sterling Silver’ metal!
Hey Kevin, great video! I clipped your video so I could easy find your tip to cooking Beets and your recipe! Definitely want to try it! Sounds delicious!
I would use a scythe for those kind of work
You two are hilarious. Machete Brothers! Ha! We want to see all the things going on on the homestead! The good, the bad, the ugly! It would be fun to see a snapshot of your week vlog style.
Love this video! Got me laughing 😆
Great beet harvest! I can’t believe you didn’t keep the greens….they’re yummy.