Didn't have many, but I lost most of my tomatoes... :-( the subject of failures is very important and sharing it helps others to motivate and to overcome the discouragement. Thanks a lot for another great video. ;-)
Every video I learn something new from you (and the comments, too - I didn't realize you had a blog, so I've now subscribed to that, as well). I aspire!
It’s such a joy to watch your videos. I feel peaceful and full of hope with life. It’s another kind of life that I have not thought about at all but may be the best for kids and health. Thank you so much.
Seeing all that garden area with a good fence makes me happy! Working on a garden expansion myself, coons and possums are my main troublemakers, but I did have deer mow down my Peace rose just outside the fence. Your soil is so similar to ours!
Many blessings for this time of cultivation!! may God bless you greatly, I would like to know what state you are in. I would like to go buy your products.
Gosh you all work so hard! Lovely to watch We have a very small vegetable plot but we do well and grow lots ! We also have fruit trees and have just used the last of cooking apples and wild blackberries! Also l made loads of chutney! Good luck xx
Wow, what a garden! Love everything you share with us who follow you. So much knowledge growing so many different veggies/fruits are priceless! Can’t wait to see you can/process everything you grow. Just Incredible of what the two of with your family have achieved on your homestead! Everything you do is so educational for homesteading!
We live in a forest and the chipmunks can easily squeeze through the 1x1 inch chicken wire so some of our tomatoes are sacrificed. I want to plant strawberries but I'd have to create a tiny 10x2ft bed of quarter inch wire to keep the chippys out.
If you ever find a way to keep chipmunks out I'd love to know the secret. They steal so much of my harvest I'm about ready to take lethal action on them.
Hello from Canada! Thank you for sharing your video! Beautiful garden! I don’t know how you will find the energy to take care of all that!!! Your going to have to build a house just for your preserves🤣🤣🤣God Bless
I loved watching this - we’ve been h’steading for a whole 4 months in subtropics (unsuccessfully) and are currently up to fencing - we (thankfully) have a 2stroke post digger that drills the holes for us *phew*. Watching this has given me actual knowledge on how to build a fence - going to be so handy in the next few days when we put it up. Thank you for sharing!!! From Australia!!
I love your channel! You are my Homesteading Hero! Quick question: Where do you get those humongous tarps to kill the weeds? I live in NC and the centipede grass and weeds are almost impossible to kill.
Where the fence changes height I would just plop a wood post. It will keep that corner from folding over and sorta look like you did it on purpose. :) Looks great though. I'm a sucker for a well built fence.
Great video! Doing more fencing at my garden is on my list next. I have the roll of fencing laying there just waiting on us to get started ☺️ could you share where you got your large tarps that you cover the garden with? I think those would be very handy to have in my garden!
I see you using sew blocks, why you don’t use little plastic seedling pots? It seems to be a lot of work to make these blocks Btw, if you dig a 12-15 inch holes and plant the tomato this deep (need to cut branches) the stem will form roots and it will suck water from the soil. I planted mine this way a few times and even though I had a tomato plastic hood, didn’t need to water them AT ALL.
YAY!! You know I was excited to see a new video pop up ❤️ Everything looks like it's coming along fantastic. Question: How are the strawberries doing. I was afraid that putting all of that on top of them would kill them 🤷🏼♀️ Also, how did you put the electric fence along the area where the new fence was higher? Did you trim it down to match or run the electric along the outside? Exciting times on your farm!!
So far so good for the strawberries! They are just peeking up through the mulch now. On the sides of the rows (where there was less mulch laid down) they are all the way through. I have a different variety in each row, one is Jewel and the other is Flavorfest. The flavorfest are incredibly vigorous, I think it would be hard to kill them! Jewel wasn't as strong last year and there are definitely less on that row and they aren't popping through as fast. I think something that also helps is we get a lot of rain here so all that compost and mulch settles down to only being about 3-4 inches thick. Cam is thinking of trimming the fence or the other option he said was to mount the electric a few inches out with a different plastic piece. It's hard to explain and I'm not sure I totally get it myself (he is the one who does it and I just nod my head and say that sounds good!)
@@TheSeasonalHomestead I'm happy about the strawberries 😁 Yes, I know exactly what Cam is talking about. It's actually quite a good way of doing it as long as it's on the outside of the fence 👍
We have hand watered up to this point, but definitely have plans to put in a drip irrigation system soon. Video of that coming sometime this summer, likely :) Thanks for watching, glad you enjoy the videos :)
Did you get your Mizuna as a “free seed” from Baker Creek? :D that’s what I got this year as my free seed! 🤗🤗 I’ve never grown it before, but I’m excited to try it!
honest read to the end I have a point LOL So lately I've been having a lot of anxiety and work is slowed down which is good for me however health-wise you know finding out that you have a cataract of 46 that's crazy but my autoimmune disease has been doing pretty good since I've gone to an acupuncturist anyways this is why I'm watching your video. Because it's productive it's relaxing and you guys are so enjoyable to watch. So there's been a recent concern that past couple years regarding forever chemicals. And finding out it's in a lot of plastics and so forth so it's a huge concern for me right now because when I moved down here from northern Maine I didn't have allergies and let me tell you I was around a lot of country. I only started getting allergies when I started working in an office. And then my health kind of deteriorated. Anyhow forever chemicals are not good and there's more products that have it. I truly believe that it should be labeled forever chemicals. I was just wondering have you researched about this and if you have where did you get your information and what products do you avoid?
Hey there from the UK 🇬🇧. These forever chemicals are global. Damage already done to our food/air/water supply. Even within so called “organic” vegetable gardening due mainly to the policies of the nefarious recycling mob. We’re all in it together and do the best we can given the cards we’ve been dealt. As a great POTUS once said, go home and look after your family and community as best you can. In the UK, I grow as much food as I can that anyone can steal if the going gets more tough. Given our nation’s health is dire and multiple millions on years long waiting lists, there’s not even much point worrying about our health. Doing so adds stress. Be happy, me me, in the knowledge you’re not alone. There’s billions of us. 😃👍🏻😇
Right now the cows and pigs keep it well mowed for us, as we rotate their pastures year round. Soon we hope to plant some grains to try growing our own wheat, etc. We'll see how that goes...
Quick question for you would you be able to pick up produce from places like say a supermarket to feed your hogs? I know that in supermarkets that I vendor in Farmers come and pick up the produce that no longer can be sold.
Tried asking a few local supermarkets around here. They already had their food scraps set aside for other charitable causes. Also, we raise our pigs 100% organic. so ensuring that the supermarket food scraps are organic would be a whole other ordeal in itself. We are considering planting a "hog garden" of sorts to supplement their feed even more while giving them some awesome nutrient rich foods to enjoy.
We do an initial tilling and then no-till gardening after that. I just got Charles Dowding's book and it seems that no till and no dig are very similar. No dig potatoes does not work well where I live as I mention in the video. Yields are much lower because they are not in cool soil.
I know organic is important to you, so do you use pressure treated fence posts? I'm trying to find an alternative to pressure treated for our garden. Thanks!
Yes, we did use pressure treated fence posts. It definitely wouldn’t be my first choice but we really had no options locally. My fence posts are 15- 20 feet away from the garden so I wasn’t worried about it leaching into the soil that is near the crops. I believe something gaining popularity is heat-treated posts instead of chemical. They may be more readily available now. Our high tunnel kit used heat treated wood for the base so it wouldn’t rot- it’s definitely more natural.
The average last frost in Central AR is April 8. Was this video filmed much earlier or is your frost date completely different? BTW, I binge-watched all your videos the other day, and now I'm watching them again and taking notes :)
We are northern AR, average last frost says April 19th but I never go by that because it is almost always wrong. It's closer to April 24th where we live. Also yes I usually have a couple weeks worth of filming in each video :)
have you ever mentioned your canning book? it seems like you did. i have checked out a couple of older videos and the book section on your website. am i missing it? can you link it somehow?
No, not specifically. I mention it here and there. I started some directly in the ground and I did some in soil blocks as backups, then transplanted them in the ground were the others didn't sprout. I have a blog post I wrote about how to start onions from seeds that may help you. www.theseasonalhomestead.com/how-to-grow-onions-from-seeds/
Ours is an old 1976 Deutz 38hp tractor. It's old, rusty, ugly...and wonderful! :) It needs treated like an old man, but when treated like that, it keeps on ticking!
Probably a stupid question but why did you double the size of the garden? Was the first one not making enough, or is it to sell? Are you planning to expand again?
The first garden is not quite big enough for our year's supply of vegetables (and we also have strawberries in there too). But we also expanded so our kids could each have their own garden space, and the rest will be for growing grain in the future for us and for our animals. We haven't sold any produce yet, but we may in the future. Our kids created a farm website so that they could sell eggs, but we will also sell meat and any extra produce we have too through that to locals.
We turn the ground once when building the garden, to add amendments like sand, fertilizer, etc to bring it to a proper pH. Then after that, we layer mulch, broadfork, and plant. Very much following no-till gardening here :)
No preservatives. Our feed is made from cracked grains and a nutritional supplement. Whole grains have a shelf life of 30 years. Cracked grains is less then that but It will last at least a few years if stored properly. Even the nutritional supplement can last a year if stored in a cool dark area.
We have a local guy that sells them as rain barrels. We buy them before he punches spigot holes in them and use them for feed. They originate at a local food production plant where they used them to store nut butter, oils, hot pepper relish, and all sorts of bulk food processing items...
great work - I'm retiring from the USAF, we moved to OK, and we are starting a microfarm as well! Our channel is Coram Deo Farm - check us out. Love watching this vid! We might take a stab at more animals too, want to get some ducks for pest management.
What is that nifty tool called in 3:23? You make the soil blocks with it. I need that in my life! Great job on expanding your garden. Cant wait to see what the kids are going to do with it. 😁🌸🍉🍓🥕🌽🥬🍠🧄🫑🧅
I love the aerial view of your garden. I cannot imagine where you’re going to find the energy to preserve all your harvest. I always love your videos.
Didn't have many, but I lost most of my tomatoes... :-( the subject of failures is very important and sharing it helps others to motivate and to overcome the discouragement. Thanks a lot for another great video. ;-)
Impressive, great job! Your farm will be a success, way to go.
Glad you added a fence, so frustrating when animals come and destroy what we built.
Every video I learn something new from you (and the comments, too - I didn't realize you had a blog, so I've now subscribed to that, as well). I aspire!
The way you install that fencing was pretty smart
Wow! Amazing! that is a lot of work and you did an amazing job!!! Love the kids waving... so cute!! and thanks for sharing your ideas and experiences.
It’s such a joy to watch your videos. I feel peaceful and full of hope with life. It’s another kind of life that I have not thought about at all but may be the best for kids and health. Thank you so much.
I love that you are giving your kids their own garden! What do they want to grow?
Mostly watermelons, sunflowers, tomatoes and cucumbers :)
Seeing all that garden area with a good fence makes me happy! Working on a garden expansion myself, coons and possums are my main troublemakers, but I did have deer mow down my Peace rose just outside the fence. Your soil is so similar to ours!
So glad to see a new video!! Hope all is well!! 🌻🌻🌻
you guys are an inspiration! Keep this up. you are feeding our souls. ❤️🙏🏽
love love love this!! we got our first steer to raise for meat today! thank you for inspiring us to live this lifestyle 💚
I like when your Children help in the garden, and what are their ideas for their owen garden space
Many blessings for this time of cultivation!! may God bless you greatly, I would like to know what state you are in. I would like to go buy your products.
Gosh you all work so hard! Lovely to watch We have a very small vegetable plot but we do well and grow lots ! We also have fruit trees and have just used the last of cooking apples and wild blackberries! Also l made loads of chutney! Good luck xx
Nice fence. Well done.
When I "knock on wood" I usually use my head! 😁
Edit: PS, you have a beautiful blog.
Thank you!
Amazing effort by all! Here’s to an amazing growing season and bountiful harvest!
Wow, what a garden! Love everything you share with us who follow you. So much knowledge growing so many different veggies/fruits are priceless! Can’t wait to see you can/process everything you grow. Just Incredible of what the two of with your family have achieved on your homestead! Everything you do is so educational for homesteading!
We live in a forest and the chipmunks can easily squeeze through the 1x1 inch chicken wire so some of our tomatoes are sacrificed. I want to plant strawberries but I'd have to create a tiny 10x2ft bed of quarter inch wire to keep the chippys out.
If you ever find a way to keep chipmunks out I'd love to know the secret. They steal so much of my harvest I'm about ready to take lethal action on them.
Sometimes you indeed need to take lethal action on them :)
@@TheSeasonalHomestead I know, but it's hard because they're so cheeky and cute.
Hello from Canada! Thank you for sharing your video! Beautiful garden! I don’t know how you will find the energy to take care of all that!!! Your going to have to build a house just for your preserves🤣🤣🤣God Bless
Your videos touched my heart. This is dream kind of life is like.
What a lovely garden and what great help you have ! Great video, thanks for sharing.
Wow guys l love what you have done. It's inspiring. Debs from Down Under
I loved watching this - we’ve been h’steading for a whole 4 months in subtropics (unsuccessfully) and are currently up to fencing - we (thankfully) have a 2stroke post digger that drills the holes for us *phew*. Watching this has given me actual knowledge on how to build a fence - going to be so handy in the next few days when we put it up. Thank you for sharing!!! From Australia!!
I love your channel! You are my Homesteading Hero! Quick question: Where do you get those humongous tarps to kill the weeds? I live in NC and the centipede grass and weeds are almost impossible to kill.
I need to get one of those dirt block tools. We planted our first beds ever today, and getting the seedlings out of the trays was a *pain.*
Been there done that too. The soil blocks make transplanting sooooo much easier!!
Good video. Thank you
Idk y am I so obsessed with this channel 🥺❤
3 seasons all that fence that is burried is going to be rusted out. Took mine 2 seasons to show and 3 to start breaking
OMG your kids are beast 😆 You're doing a great job 👏
Where the fence changes height I would just plop a wood post. It will keep that corner from folding over and sorta look like you did it on purpose. :) Looks great though. I'm a sucker for a well built fence.
Good idea! I may just have to do that. Much easier than trimming the fence height to match, which was my other thought... !!
Great video! Doing more fencing at my garden is on my list next. I have the roll of fencing laying there just waiting on us to get started ☺️ could you share where you got your large tarps that you cover the garden with? I think those would be very handy to have in my garden!
Love your channel!
Great job!
Can you do a video on the seeder please
Oo new garden spaces! What are you going to grow in the new section? Other than the kids gardens of course.
I see you using sew blocks, why you don’t use little plastic seedling pots? It seems to be a lot of work to make these blocks
Btw, if you dig a 12-15 inch holes and plant the tomato this deep (need to cut branches) the stem will form roots and it will suck water from the soil. I planted mine this way a few times and even though I had a tomato plastic hood, didn’t need to water them AT ALL.
Thanks for the video. Where can I purchase the black plastic to cover the weeds?
YAY!! You know I was excited to see a new video pop up ❤️ Everything looks like it's coming along fantastic. Question: How are the strawberries doing. I was afraid that putting all of that on top of them would kill them 🤷🏼♀️ Also, how did you put the electric fence along the area where the new fence was higher? Did you trim it down to match or run the electric along the outside? Exciting times on your farm!!
I’m also interested in how the strawberries are doing!
So far so good for the strawberries! They are just peeking up through the mulch now. On the sides of the rows (where there was less mulch laid down) they are all the way through. I have a different variety in each row, one is Jewel and the other is Flavorfest. The flavorfest are incredibly vigorous, I think it would be hard to kill them! Jewel wasn't as strong last year and there are definitely less on that row and they aren't popping through as fast. I think something that also helps is we get a lot of rain here so all that compost and mulch settles down to only being about 3-4 inches thick.
Cam is thinking of trimming the fence or the other option he said was to mount the electric a few inches out with a different plastic piece. It's hard to explain and I'm not sure I totally get it myself (he is the one who does it and I just nod my head and say that sounds good!)
@@TheSeasonalHomestead I'm happy about the strawberries 😁 Yes, I know exactly what Cam is talking about. It's actually quite a good way of doing it as long as it's on the outside of the fence 👍
Hi, Becky! Do you eventually hill up the potatoes so they are deeper than 4-6 inches? Thanks for making videos, your homestead is just beautiful!
Looking for video where you put white powder in potatoe hole just before planting.
The only powder I’ve ever put in potato holes is greensand. It adds minerals to the soil and a little bit of potash.
The veggie boys use a biodegradable one I think it's made out of corn?
Yes
Hey! I just love your work overalls! The brown ones! Where are they from?
Thanks! Dovetail Workwear dovetailworkwear.com
Look at John satin u tube on how he uses compost for weed Controll
What do you do for watering? Im in Arkansas too and we get lots of rain but I'm curious if you do any irrigation? Love your videos!
We have hand watered up to this point, but definitely have plans to put in a drip irrigation system soon. Video of that coming sometime this summer, likely :) Thanks for watching, glad you enjoy the videos :)
Did you get your Mizuna as a “free seed” from Baker Creek? :D that’s what I got this year as my free seed! 🤗🤗 I’ve never grown it before, but I’m excited to try it!
Maybe soon you can grow your own hog and chicken feed. I heard that it was going to get terrible in terms of pricing.
I started buying my chicken feed months before i got my baby chicks.
honest read to the end I have a point LOL So lately I've been having a lot of anxiety and work is slowed down which is good for me however health-wise you know finding out that you have a cataract of 46 that's crazy but my autoimmune disease has been doing pretty good since I've gone to an acupuncturist anyways this is why I'm watching your video. Because it's productive it's relaxing and you guys are so enjoyable to watch. So there's been a recent concern that past couple years regarding forever chemicals. And finding out it's in a lot of plastics and so forth so it's a huge concern for me right now because when I moved down here from northern Maine I didn't have allergies and let me tell you I was around a lot of country. I only started getting allergies when I started working in an office. And then my health kind of deteriorated. Anyhow forever chemicals are not good and there's more products that have it. I truly believe that it should be labeled forever chemicals. I was just wondering have you researched about this and if you have where did you get your information and what products do you avoid?
Hey there from the UK 🇬🇧. These forever chemicals are global. Damage already done to our food/air/water supply. Even within so called “organic” vegetable gardening due mainly to the policies of the nefarious recycling mob. We’re all in it together and do the best we can given the cards we’ve been dealt. As a great POTUS once said, go home and look after your family and community as best you can.
In the UK, I grow as much food as I can that anyone can steal if the going gets more tough. Given our nation’s health is dire and multiple millions on years long waiting lists, there’s not even much point worrying about our health. Doing so adds stress. Be happy, me me, in the knowledge you’re not alone. There’s billions of us. 😃👍🏻😇
Do you use cement on the bottom of the posts? Can you share what the process is?
Awesome video! I’m curious what you do with the rest of your acres?
Right now the cows and pigs keep it well mowed for us, as we rotate their pastures year round. Soon we hope to plant some grains to try growing our own wheat, etc. We'll see how that goes...
Quick question for you would you be able to pick up produce from places like say a supermarket to feed your hogs? I know that in supermarkets that I vendor in Farmers come and pick up the produce that no longer can be sold.
Tried asking a few local supermarkets around here. They already had their food scraps set aside for other charitable causes. Also, we raise our pigs 100% organic. so ensuring that the supermarket food scraps are organic would be a whole other ordeal in itself. We are considering planting a "hog garden" of sorts to supplement their feed even more while giving them some awesome nutrient rich foods to enjoy.
Have you tried Korean natural farming or no dig? It could help with your weeds and your pest problems
We do an initial tilling and then no-till gardening after that. I just got Charles Dowding's book and it seems that no till and no dig are very similar. No dig potatoes does not work well where I live as I mention in the video. Yields are much lower because they are not in cool soil.
How long/tall are the posts you used for the corners and how deep are they buried?
What is the name of the food storage vacuum system you have and where did you purchase?
I know organic is important to you, so do you use pressure treated fence posts? I'm trying to find an alternative to pressure treated for our garden. Thanks!
Yes, we did use pressure treated fence posts. It definitely wouldn’t be my first choice but we really had no options locally. My fence posts are 15- 20 feet away from the garden so I wasn’t worried about it leaching into the soil that is near the crops. I believe something gaining popularity is heat-treated posts instead of chemical. They may be more readily available now. Our high tunnel kit used heat treated wood for the base so it wouldn’t rot- it’s definitely more natural.
The average last frost in Central AR is April 8. Was this video filmed much earlier or is your frost date completely different? BTW, I binge-watched all your videos the other day, and now I'm watching them again and taking notes :)
We are northern AR, average last frost says April 19th but I never go by that because it is almost always wrong. It's closer to April 24th where we live. Also yes I usually have a couple weeks worth of filming in each video :)
have you ever mentioned your canning book? it seems like you did. i have checked out a couple of older videos and the book section on your website. am i missing it? can you link it somehow?
Do you have a video on how you start your onions?
No, not specifically. I mention it here and there. I started some directly in the ground and I did some in soil blocks as backups, then transplanted them in the ground were the others didn't sprout. I have a blog post I wrote about how to start onions from seeds that may help you. www.theseasonalhomestead.com/how-to-grow-onions-from-seeds/
@@TheSeasonalHomestead thank you!
What kind of ride-on tractor do you have? Does it work well for you?
Ours is an old 1976 Deutz 38hp tractor. It's old, rusty, ugly...and wonderful! :) It needs treated like an old man, but when treated like that, it keeps on ticking!
Probably a stupid question but why did you double the size of the garden? Was the first one not making enough, or is it to sell? Are you planning to expand again?
The first garden is not quite big enough for our year's supply of vegetables (and we also have strawberries in there too). But we also expanded so our kids could each have their own garden space, and the rest will be for growing grain in the future for us and for our animals.
We haven't sold any produce yet, but we may in the future. Our kids created a farm website so that they could sell eggs, but we will also sell meat and any extra produce we have too through that to locals.
@@TheSeasonalHomestead Awesome. Thanks for responding. :)
@@TheSeasonalHomestead Cool! I look forward to seeing videos about grain!
Where do you live? In what country? I am from Ukraine. I want to live in such a beautiful place as you.
We live in Arkansas, in USA. Glad you enjoy the videos!
were did you get your corner post
Corner posts were made using two upright posts and a horizontal "h" brace.
Do you sell produce at market or is your garden only for your family's use
Check out Alaska prepper chicken culling
Do you rototill your garden.
We turn the ground once when building the garden, to add amendments like sand, fertilizer, etc to bring it to a proper pH. Then after that, we layer mulch, broadfork, and plant. Very much following no-till gardening here :)
The owner at our food mill said the feed only is good for 3-6 weeks. Is there a feed that you’re using that had a preservative?
No preservatives. Our feed is made from cracked grains and a nutritional supplement. Whole grains have a shelf life of 30 years. Cracked grains is less then that but It will last at least a few years if stored properly. Even the nutritional supplement can last a year if stored in a cool dark area.
Where do you get the 55 gallon drums from?
We have a local guy that sells them as rain barrels. We buy them before he punches spigot holes in them and use them for feed. They originate at a local food production plant where they used them to store nut butter, oils, hot pepper relish, and all sorts of bulk food processing items...
@@TheSeasonalHomestead Thanks, me and my wife love your channel!
What is wichit mulch?
Wood chip mulch
@@TheSeasonalHomestead laughing; I have closed caption on since I am going deaf and it said “witchit” - thought it was something new fangled 😂😂😂😎
great work - I'm retiring from the USAF, we moved to OK, and we are starting a microfarm as well! Our channel is Coram Deo Farm - check us out. Love watching this vid! We might take a stab at more animals too, want to get some ducks for pest management.
What is that nifty tool called in 3:23? You make the soil blocks with it. I need that in my life!
Great job on expanding your garden. Cant wait to see what the kids are going to do with it. 😁🌸🍉🍓🥕🌽🥬🍠🧄🫑🧅
It's a soil blocker :P
Yep, soil blocker. I linked them in the video description 🙂