Most recent lesson: We got our first 4 chickens. We wanted them to be free range and I love them following me around. Well, now we need to either fence them in or fence in the gardens because, chickens love vegies too. Little peckers!
Good rant 😁 My rule if it does well, collect seed and repeat. If it fails then, we just don’t eat that or buy it locally. I try new things every year with winners and losers.
What a truth bomb!! I've had so many garden fails with little success, it's been absolutely heartbreaking! But as long as I am able to learn SOMETHING then I can talk myself off the ledge 😅
My grandfather has always done his garden the same way for as long as I can remember, when I did my small garden it worked for me as well, when we expanded (its a less than ideal area) it failed we tried doing the whole garden tarped, wood chipped nothing worked and we rarely got what we needed. This year we have embraced chaos gardening, ignore planting recommendation spacing did rows hilled them up and planted clover as a cover, wow it's working so well for us, I'm convinced to much of our garden was losing water the clover keeps the water in and doesn't fight the crops, it naturally prunes our plants and is just so beautiful. We also companion Plat pest repellent flowers, we have the most beautiful garden to date, and boy my wife thinks I'm crazy for putting in 20+ tomatoes of several varieties I'm excited to can.
I needed to hear this, thank you :) David The Good recently had a kinda funny video about just letting it die, lol. Just curious, why not use cucumber from the store for a lacto ferment? I made a batch from store bought pickles and dill and turned out really nice. Fresh would probably turn out better though. Speaking of pickling, you were one of the people that got me to make my first batch of saurkraut, thank you so much :) On my second batch now, and it's so good! God bless!
Usually cukes especially need to be fresh for a ferment. It think it has to do with the natural yeast that comes on the outside of the skin. But usually, people who have fermented with store bought cukes experience failure. Maybe you got away with it. 😂
My plants from collected seed from 2-3 years is amazing!!! Can’t wait till all is at year 4 when the seed is supposed to be very adapted to your personal growing environment. Going to start collecting mustang grapes that grow wild here this weekend to hopefully make jelly, wine and mead.
If you want to ferment cucs that are not same-day fresh, but have been in the fridge for days, soak them in ice water until thoroughly chilled, then ferment.
Oh my goodness, I am ruthless with my trimming, especially on my tomatoes! And I don't clean my snippers either. They are gross, but work just fine. I agree, we learn my doing. Some things work, others, not so much. I have planted my cukes in an area away from my garden for 2 years now. They are just not happy. The first year, they were in the garden and very happy. Next year, Lord willing, they are being planted back in the garden again. It's trial and error and it's fun learning along the way. Thanks so much. God bless.
What kind of garden cloth are you using? You are absolutely right. Experience is the best teacher ! I've learned so many lessons about the Bible and how to grow food spending time in the garden.
I have lots of extras in my garden- currently cucumbers, and I had a volunteer Genovese zucchini that is an over achiever. I don’t need as much as I am getting. So I take my extras to work and place on a table in the break room. I work in long term care, and the workers just don’t get paid alot. All the veggies are gone when I check the table as I go home. Makes me feel helpful. I also have sheep, funny because mine would do the same, and have been in my garden.
tell me about failure....my tomato plants are still suffering from that damned store-bought compost....they are only about a foot tall but are starting to fruit. Potato in boxes are looking good though.....
“Landrace Gardening” by Joseph Lofthouse! Should be in every gardener’s library. The Bible of saving seeds. Which btw, is exactly what he’s talking about in this video. Every garden is different, and it’s different from year to year. Fall vs Spring. I live in zone 8b, and have the heat and humidity, but I live in the forks of to major drainages which causes late frosts in spring. Last year it was aphids and corn ear worms. No problem with either this year. This year a small problem with tomato hornworms. The hornworms were on my indeterminate plants (heirloom), but not the determinate ones (hybrid).
When planting our potatoes on a Friday, we left the fence down. On the Sunday two days later, on our way to church we saw our geese in the potatoes pulling them up and out of the ground. We've been behind this year so they didn't bother anything else. A couple of other times our chickens have snuck in. When we're in the garden, the animals all line up against the pasture fence waiting for weeds, carrot tops, ugly produce....
Oh gosh the sheep in the garden hahaha. It’s like I post on those “gardeners” channels. There’s many ways to skin a cat. Some of these guys are just gardening to garden. Others like us are gardening to survive and have a good food source that we know where the food came from.
That was a great video on not pruning. Basically, if you want to be lazy don't worry about pruning. You might get less production but you'rll still get production. But, yes, it was weird saying that plants can't handle being pruned. Sure they can. I can cut a cucumber or summer squash just fine and the plant is happy.
Tomatoes - regarding pruning: I have learned to prune the indeterminant varieties and not prune the determinate varieties. For instance, an Amish paste tomato is a indeterminate variety. When you prune it, it will just keep growing and growing and growing. A Roma tomato on the other hand is a determinate variety. If you prune the suckers off of it, you are just reducing your yield. I do prune some of the lower leaves though so they don’t touch the soil. This is what I learned growing in northern Utah zone 4 to 5. Our average last frost date is June 14 and our average first frost date is around the third week of September
Shabbat Shalom, This Sabbath is Chukat, "is the judgement," Numbers 19:1-22:1; Judges 11:1-33; John 3:1-36. Theme: as Moshe lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Messiah be lifted up. Baruch Hashem! Am Yisrael chai, Baruch haba b'shem Adonai! (Matthew 23:39) Be well and be Blessed! A fellow sojourner
Fantastic advice Zac. Especially learning from failure. Just looked up homesteading expo. Have to wonder if they consider or even know that people like us observe torah sabbath on Saturday. otherwise I would do a booth at that event.
ZACK, I never prune my tomatoes. I plant them and let them grow. I do use cages to keep them off the ground. The only thing I do is cut off the branches that start to die off as summer rolls on. I do agree that some years, some plants do better than other years. This year has been very hot, the hot loving plants are doing great. Peaceout
Hot peppers for us and our neighbors was horrible this year. Did the exact same thing as last year and had so many hot peppers we pulled the plants. No idea why it failed now. Bell peppers are going great
That was his essential message.... you have to garden different depending on where you live and what your environment provides. Just bc something works for one person doesnt mean it will work for you. I know the 3 year I did heavy pruning my plants did not perform as well. I decided 3 months ago that I wasnt going to prune this year and they look like terrific plants again. The real story will be told over the next 8 weeks as we harvet and preserve.
As far as disease's in the garden or being a germphobe, I remind myself of that king or Lord of a manor who loved the Rubar plant so much he colleted the towns sewage waste at his expense to feed his gardens to grow the plant.
I built a nice raised bed garden in the kinda sunny backyard and dreamed of the tomatoes i would grow. Well they did grow but not very well, I kept trying and decided to build a raised bed in a full sunny location and now I grow way too many tomatoes so I give them away. I now grow green beans in my first raised bed and they do great. So keep at it folks, some things will work and somethings won't. When you finally are successful those dang old wildlife creatures will come and eat your hard work, so grow plenty.
With listening to both sides and i agree with your take on plants. Farmers with large land of crops don't play the soy boy thinking. They can't play nurse maid with plants i share this thinking. I was quit funny about your son leaving the gate open and then you also for the sheep. What i like about you is your down to earth living in the real world and not small time garden thinking. Thank you for your wisdom and experience
I love Missouri, but despise gardening here. If it’s not floods, it the insane amount of weird insects that destroy crops. We are building an enclosed aquaponics system. No bloody insects. Also, if I grown anything outside it will be in the Fall season, hopefully the insects will back off.
I had tomato plants die because it was 100 and more everyday this June. So no. Watering them alone enough is not enough. Fermented yeast and sugar gives them what they need to survive those temps. I will find out next summer. But is did dramatically help the plants that were dying, in my home. So.
What is your opinion on shade cloth for tomatoe plants in the heat of the summer, like now thru August? ALL of my tomatoe plants have leaves that are all curled up! That same millennial gardener that said don't prune your tomatoes also said shade cloth will help tomatoe leaves not curl up, get diseased, etc. So what say you about shade cloth? Do you use it for your tomatoes? Does it help prevent leaf curling??
I had bought some Achocha cucumber seeds from you a few years ago, but they never germinated at that time. Is there a secret to successfully geminating these seeds?
You have done amazingly well my learned teacher of life, both physically and spiritually. On my bucket list is to shake your hand and thank you in person for all you've done for me. Again, thank you!!! P.S. Just a thought, put a spring and self locking latch on your gate ... your goats are getting fat. LOL
For everyone mocking how clueless Joe Biden is my question is this: Why are so many fixated on a meat puppet? How about researching who really owns the office of POTUS in America? And every other branch and government agency ..
Theres NO such thing as too many cucumbers 😂 Cucumber Limeade is so delicious and refreshing over a glass of ice (throw in a twist of basil leaves) . You'll be sad you didn't grow enough.
@Anamericanhomestead no recipe really, just blend up some cukes with water, sweetner of choice and maybe 1/4 c lime juice (depending on how tart you want it - I use the bottled stuff for convenience) strain it over ice and there you go. Instant hydration in the summer. Still waiting on our cukes! They're just starting where we are.
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The sheep coming in the garden was comedy gold! Something that would happen to me
Most recent lesson: We got our first 4 chickens. We wanted them to be free range and I love them following me around. Well, now we need to either fence them in or fence in the gardens because, chickens love vegies too. Little peckers!
😊We tried that too, we have fence for them now but a few of ours even escape the fence 🤦🏻♀️
Good rant 😁 My rule if it does well, collect seed and repeat. If it fails then, we just don’t eat that or buy it locally. I try new things every year with winners and losers.
And if you fail try again because you fail once doesn't mean you will fail it every time. Carrots just might not be my thing though. Lol
@@DanlowMusic Very True. 😁
What a truth bomb!! I've had so many garden fails with little success, it's been absolutely heartbreaking!
But as long as I am able to learn SOMETHING then I can talk myself off the ledge 😅
My grandfather has always done his garden the same way for as long as I can remember, when I did my small garden it worked for me as well, when we expanded (its a less than ideal area) it failed we tried doing the whole garden tarped, wood chipped nothing worked and we rarely got what we needed. This year we have embraced chaos gardening, ignore planting recommendation spacing did rows hilled them up and planted clover as a cover, wow it's working so well for us, I'm convinced to much of our garden was losing water the clover keeps the water in and doesn't fight the crops, it naturally prunes our plants and is just so beautiful. We also companion Plat pest repellent flowers, we have the most beautiful garden to date, and boy my wife thinks I'm crazy for putting in 20+ tomatoes of several varieties I'm excited to can.
Some of the vegetable growing channels remind of the saying for Fishing tackle shops:
Fishing tackle shops are there to catch fishermen not fish.
I needed to hear this, thank you :) David The Good recently had a kinda funny video about just letting it die, lol. Just curious, why not use cucumber from the store for a lacto ferment? I made a batch from store bought pickles and dill and turned out really nice. Fresh would probably turn out better though. Speaking of pickling, you were one of the people that got me to make my first batch of saurkraut, thank you so much :) On my second batch now, and it's so good! God bless!
Usually cukes especially need to be fresh for a ferment. It think it has to do with the natural yeast that comes on the outside of the skin. But usually, people who have fermented with store bought cukes experience failure. Maybe you got away with it. 😂
I agree. There are so many people that act like if you aren't doing A or B, you are not doing things right. 😐
My first year using garden fabric, it has been a time saver
No way I can grow some things without it.
Great talk, lots of good stuff to say to my grand kids~
My plants from collected seed from 2-3 years is amazing!!! Can’t wait till all is at year 4 when the seed is supposed to be very adapted to your personal growing environment.
Going to start collecting mustang grapes that grow wild here this weekend to hopefully make jelly, wine and mead.
😂😂Make sure that you let your son know that you left the gate open as well! Thanks brother.
Yeah we've all done it. The issue is will you leave the garden and not close the gate behind you?
@@Anamericanhomestead I do it, but only the small critters find their way in....Thanks for the great video!
Last year I had a lot of strawberries. This year, hardly any. I was bummed, but what are you gonna do?😕
If you want to ferment cucs that are not same-day fresh, but have been in the fridge for days, soak them in ice water until thoroughly chilled, then ferment.
You are correct... every garden has it's own set of circumstances... love your channel!
We juice our cucumbers, freeze the juice and flavor our water keifer with the juice all year.
Oh my goodness, I am ruthless with my trimming, especially on my tomatoes! And I don't clean my snippers either. They are gross, but work just fine. I agree, we learn my doing. Some things work, others, not so much. I have planted my cukes in an area away from my garden for 2 years now. They are just not happy. The first year, they were in the garden and very happy. Next year, Lord willing, they are being planted back in the garden again. It's trial and error and it's fun learning along the way. Thanks so much. God bless.
Thank-you looking forward to your video on pickles😊
Homestead Tessie mentioned you today. New friend.❤❤❤ Yeah, it's a crazy show. Love gardening!
My son didn't want to prune his tomatoes this year - we won't be canning tomatoes this year =(
You're way ahead of us, we're up at about 7,300' elevation in the Colorado rockies .. Late start this year, still perfecting the art of warfare 😎
I have same problem with my chickens getting into my greenhouse! Your cukes look wonderful! I enjoyed your sharing info.
Cucumber, look great. Thanks sharing
What kind of garden cloth are you using?
You are absolutely right. Experience is the best teacher ! I've learned so many lessons about the Bible and how to grow food spending time in the garden.
I have lots of extras in my garden- currently cucumbers, and I had a volunteer Genovese zucchini that is an over achiever. I don’t need as much as I am getting. So I take my extras to work and place on a table in the break room. I work in long term care, and the workers just don’t get paid alot. All the veggies are gone when I check the table as I go home. Makes me feel helpful. I also have sheep, funny because mine would do the same, and have been in my garden.
tell me about failure....my tomato plants are still suffering from that damned store-bought compost....they are only about a foot tall but are starting to fruit. Potato in boxes are looking good though.....
“Landrace Gardening” by Joseph Lofthouse! Should be in every gardener’s library. The Bible of saving seeds. Which btw, is exactly what he’s talking about in this video. Every garden is different, and it’s different from year to year. Fall vs Spring. I live in zone 8b, and have the heat and humidity, but I live in the forks of to major drainages which causes late frosts in spring. Last year it was aphids and corn ear worms. No problem with either this year. This year a small problem with tomato hornworms. The hornworms were on my indeterminate plants (heirloom), but not the determinate ones (hybrid).
When planting our potatoes on a Friday, we left the fence down. On the Sunday two days later, on our way to church we saw our geese in the potatoes pulling them up and out of the ground. We've been behind this year so they didn't bother anything else. A couple of other times our chickens have snuck in. When we're in the garden, the animals all line up against the pasture fence waiting for weeds, carrot tops, ugly produce....
I appreciate you and you've actually encouraged me many times🙂👍
I planted my yellow squash to close to my cucumber, now my cucumbers are coming out looking like a yellow squash mix. Still tasty
Oh gosh the sheep in the garden hahaha. It’s like I post on those “gardeners” channels. There’s many ways to skin a cat.
Some of these guys are just gardening to garden. Others like us are gardening to survive and have a good food source that we know where the food came from.
I had no idea people washed their pruners!! First I heard that, I've never washed mine either.
I never have either. Lol
Looking forward to getting some of those seeds this fall.
Thanks Zach, gotta tell ya,I laughed when you forgot the gate
That was a great video on not pruning. Basically, if you want to be lazy don't worry about pruning. You might get less production but you'rll still get production.
But, yes, it was weird saying that plants can't handle being pruned. Sure they can. I can cut a cucumber or summer squash just fine and the plant is happy.
I just thought his entire video was ridiculous. But maybe it works for him.
I love your garden and your cucumbers they look great mine are still so small. I am hopeful they will get growing.
Tomatoes - regarding pruning: I have learned to prune the indeterminant varieties and not prune the determinate varieties. For instance, an Amish paste tomato is a indeterminate variety. When you prune it, it will just keep growing and growing and growing. A Roma tomato on the other hand is a determinate variety. If you prune the suckers off of it, you are just reducing your yield. I do prune some of the lower leaves though so they don’t touch the soil. This is what I learned growing in northern Utah zone 4 to 5. Our average last frost date is June 14 and our average first frost date is around the third week of September
Shabbat Shalom,
This Sabbath is Chukat, "is the judgement,"
Numbers 19:1-22:1;
Judges 11:1-33;
John 3:1-36.
Theme: as Moshe lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Messiah be lifted up.
Baruch Hashem!
Am Yisrael chai,
Baruch haba b'shem Adonai!
(Matthew 23:39)
Be well and be Blessed!
A fellow sojourner
Gardens looking good!
Fantastic advice Zac. Especially learning from failure. Just looked up homesteading expo. Have to wonder if they consider or even know that people like us observe torah sabbath on Saturday. otherwise I would do a booth at that event.
Biden show is close to Carol Burnett! Found our first hornworm today!
ZACK, I never prune my tomatoes. I plant them and let them grow. I do use cages to keep them off the ground. The only thing I do is cut off the branches that start to die off as summer rolls on. I do agree that some years, some plants do better than other years. This year has been very hot, the hot loving plants are doing great. Peaceout
I love that you showed the goats in the garden. 😅
Not goats....sheep. I wouldn't be caught dead with Goats. 😂
Garden looks good, do you leave the weed fabric out year round?
No, I roll it up in fall and sometime in the winter, dump sheep manure over the garden. Then put it back in the spring.
Hot peppers for us and our neighbors was horrible this year. Did the exact same thing as last year and had so many hot peppers we pulled the plants. No idea why it failed now. Bell peppers are going great
That was his essential message.... you have to garden different depending on where you live and what your environment provides. Just bc something works for one person doesnt mean it will work for you.
I know the 3 year I did heavy pruning my plants did not perform as well. I decided 3 months ago that I wasnt going to prune this year and they look like terrific plants again. The real story will be told over the next 8 weeks as we harvet and preserve.
👍 Thanks !
As far as disease's in the garden or being a germphobe, I remind myself of that king or Lord of a manor who loved the Rubar plant so much he colleted the towns sewage waste at his expense to feed his gardens to grow the plant.
I built a nice raised bed garden in the kinda sunny backyard and dreamed of the tomatoes i would grow. Well they did grow but not very well, I kept trying and decided to build a raised bed in a full sunny location and now I grow way too many tomatoes so I give them away. I now grow green beans in my first raised bed and they do great. So keep at it folks, some things will work and somethings won't.
When you finally are successful those dang old wildlife creatures will come and eat your hard work, so grow plenty.
With listening to both sides and i agree with your take on plants. Farmers with large land of crops don't play the soy boy thinking. They can't play nurse maid with plants i share this thinking. I was quit funny about your son leaving the gate open and then you also for the sheep. What i like about you is your down to earth living in the real world and not small time garden thinking. Thank you for your wisdom and experience
I don’t clean my pruning shears and sometimes I just pinch off with my fingernails’ 😂😂😂
I love Missouri, but despise gardening here. If it’s not floods, it the insane amount of weird insects that destroy crops. We are building an enclosed aquaponics system. No bloody insects. Also, if I grown anything outside it will be in the Fall season, hopefully the insects will back off.
I had tomato plants die because it was 100 and more everyday this June. So no. Watering them alone enough is not enough. Fermented yeast and sugar gives them what they need to survive those temps. I will find out next summer. But is did dramatically help the plants that were dying, in my home. So.
What is your opinion on shade cloth for tomatoe plants in the heat of the summer, like now thru August? ALL of my tomatoe plants have leaves that are all curled up! That same millennial gardener that said don't prune your tomatoes also said shade cloth will help tomatoe leaves not curl up, get diseased, etc. So what say you about shade cloth? Do you use it for your tomatoes? Does it help prevent leaf curling??
Fun fact. There’s no R in “wash”. Last time I checked we speak English in this country.
There is in my vocabulary! Depends are where you were born and your dialect!
You've heard of the silent "e"? Well this is the invisible "r". 😂
"my body doesn't make chlorophyl...ok?"....Lol...statement of the week
My silver lab ate my cabbage and broccoli. Damn soy boy dog. 😂😂
Give that poor dog a steak
Common sense ain't common Will Rogers...great video with a lot of common sense
I have reviewed many different sources and then just go with my instincts. Also what is your salsa recipe, I need a good by one?
Zack, the man that invented TV Sid it wouldn’t be good.
I had bought some Achocha cucumber seeds from you a few years ago, but they never germinated at that time. Is there a secret to successfully geminating these seeds?
You have done amazingly well my learned teacher of life, both physically and spiritually. On my bucket list is to shake your hand and thank you in person for all you've done for me. Again, thank you!!!
P.S. Just a thought, put a spring and self locking latch on your gate ... your goats are getting fat. LOL
Mate love your work 👍 ❤🇦🇺🌳
too many mini cukes NEVER ferment them and dont forget to put you black tea bag in the jar to keep those yummies crispy!!
i’ve never heard of the black tea bag. Thanks
My experience growing pickles and cukes on feedlot panels…. There’s no such thing as a bitter end. If they lay on the dirt the ends will be bitter.
How do you spell the name of that cucumber?
For everyone mocking how clueless Joe Biden is my question is this:
Why are so many fixated on a meat puppet? How about researching who really owns the office of POTUS in America? And every other branch and government agency ..
Like father-like son
(On the gate)😂😂
I use scissors to trim plants in my garden. I have never cleaned them ever. It's just dirt😊
Lol. Solid advice!
They know where the good food is!!😂
LOL the sheep! Can't really scold the young 'un now, right? (not that you would ... it's a gardening learning experience for him too)
I am a Rambo gardener. Only the very strong survive.
open gate and they will come!!
❤🎉😊
Theres NO such thing as too many cucumbers 😂 Cucumber Limeade is so delicious and refreshing over a glass of ice (throw in a twist of basil leaves) . You'll be sad you didn't grow enough.
Recipe please!
@Anamericanhomestead no recipe really, just blend up some cukes with water, sweetner of choice and maybe 1/4 c lime juice (depending on how tart you want it - I use the bottled stuff for convenience) strain it over ice and there you go. Instant hydration in the summer. Still waiting on our cukes! They're just starting where we are.
0:07 what are we learning today?! 😜
Millions of city dwellers don't work in the garden.
I don't
love #Mash4077 probably one of the reasons I became an ER nurse, but ya politics are ridiculous
chickens bad chemicals good...grasshoppers...whatever...I can't grow a garden without chickens or chemicals...make a choice...I chose chickens.
If you don't try you're never gonna learn everybody fails. I don't care who you are.
Success and failures every year-just like life. Sheep will be testing the gate every day now😅
after 12 years I gave up gardening. Too much slavery. I help in an orchard and like trees much better.
Tree planting season is about over...better plan for 2025 season.
Well, now you can't get on your son,s case😅.