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Hello everyone! Roxane and I have tried to get the supplies we needed in our small town but no luck. We need to go into the big city to get what we need. We decided to take this time to prep the garden for the new season almost upon us. Thank you all for being here, we appreciate you all! Enjoy!
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The rabbit manure could contain viable grass and clover seeds. That could account for the extra grass and clover in your garden beds. It better to make a rabbit manure tea.
The reason your lettuce & spinach didn’t grow is bc it’s way too hot. You’d make out better planting those in a shady area. Mine are in a Greenstalk on my porch under the roof. I turn it every day to where the sun hits it. It lasted a lot longer without bolting. I also top my beds with cardboard(make sure all the tape is off)then leaves in the Fall. The cardboard kills the weeds, but breaks down & really helps the bed. My hubby & I have been gardening & canning for 28 years. Will share all my “live & learned” lessons with you so you don’t have to!
Hey Rox, you may want to purchase a really decent silage tarp (because its uv protected so will last much longer than normal plastic tarps) or a heavy duty plastic instead of the weed mat. That will kill off weeds and weed seeds, and whilst its no good left down long term, you can leave it for a few months. It doesnt let water or air get to the soil which is why its not good long term but lots of folk use it for a few months to kill off the weeds and weed seeds before planting in them again. The weed mat is more typically if you are planning to leave it down and just cut holes into it to plant through it.
If you want a natural solution, you can use plain cardboard or newspaper - just try and stay away from colour print or cardboard with a plastic kinda skin to it. Then the newspaper/cardboard will break down in time with the growing seasons and add to your soil integrity :) its also cheaper 😂.
The weed mat will allow your soil to breathe and let water through, which is great for keeping your soil alive but in my experience and i believe why silage tarp/heavy duty black plastic is suggested, it doesnt do the best of jobs and the weeds grow back as soon as the weed mat is removed. ❤ hopefully the info can help for you to have an even better less maintenance needed garden next year x
Also take a look at next level gardening on youtube, he does and sells tomato hooks (imo the best out there) and teaches how to build a "frame" to use them. They'd be great for you so you don't need to worry about your tomatoes growing too tall for cages etc, and they're a much easier system to harvest from too. And as it grows taller, you just let the hook rope down to lower the bottom of the tomato down. If you watch his videos you'll see what I mean. Look at his more recent tomato videos from the last year or 2 because they moved to the property they're at now, but it's fab and actually you could use it for other food crops too, I guess for crop rotation. He's an amazing resource for learning so much though. ❤ x
Very jealous of your beautiful greenhouse, looks classy and expensive.very Homes and Garden..😊
One thing I'd suggest, is the practice of good garden hygiene in there, for instance, don't bring old soil inside, those pots and hanging baskets are likely to be harbouring pest eggs and disease from the previous season, they need emptying and a good washing out with hot soapy water before replanting.
I know others don't like the grass pathways but if you don't mind the hard work of maintenance they can look lovely. In my garden we laid down a thick layer of cardboard and some thick old carpet, upside down, and covered it with broken pieces of grey slate. it has lasted over seven years with very little maintaining. Better than gravel which weeds like to seed into. Just yet another suggestion from a fellow gardener.. 😊👍🇬🇧 I really love the trellis!
Save your egg shells and crush them to add calcium and keep out snails, food grade diatametious earth is good applied at the beginning of the garden season and marigolds help keep bugs out as well. Bugs don't like the smell of marigolds. I use brown paper bags and straw for my weed barrier, paper bags breaks down during the growing season, straw takes a bit longer but is good to cover the beds for winter and will continue to break down adding to your soil. Looking good guys.
Moisten your soil in a bucket or tub before you put it in your seed trays it stops seeds from floating or moving when you water . Greenhouse is looking great 👍 ❤
I agree! Also I would use Seed Starting Mix soil.
I just found out you can freeze cherry tomatoes whole! What a game changer for me. We have a few bushes that grew up from dropped fruit and they are so prolific i get cherry tomatoes all year round. Hard to eat so many..but yet not enough to make a decent amount of sauce. Freezing them gave me that option.. 12 jars of spaghetti sauce this week 😃😃
I see you have the tower in your green house....my lettuce and spinach and herbs do really really good in the stackable towers...just buy some really good potting soil and give it some food once a month and yours will do good ....And sense you had so many bugs on your zucchini make sure you plant zucchini in a different bed in Spring because the bugs will stay in dirt you had them in , so you have to trick them and plant somewhere else ...Just plant something in the old bed that the squash bugs don't like...I was happy I saw you could use the plant tags I got them at the dollar store they sure come in handy ..I hope the pot didn't break that I sent ..... I use the giant grow bags for potatoes and they did really well this summer. the garden is looking great and hope you can finish your supply room before the rain....
Roxanne, how about offering Mel a little space to grow some winter herbs. Fresh herbs are always better than spice rack, and if she knows what you have going on it makes it easier to house sit when you are away.
There are a lot of videos about "balcony gardening" and greenhouse gardening! Basically getting the most production from a small plot! Could serve you well. If you keep it heated, you could even do hydroponics, that is very productive! ❤❤
Do some research on companion plants. Certain plants planted by each other repel garden pests, like aphis, squash bugs, etc.
You better get that door on that greenhouse
You will need a grow light for winter
Cabbage needs deep dirt beds Carrots need deep dirt, potatoes need deep dirt. Lettuce, radish, egg plant, tomatoes, peppers, kale, herbs for winter green house.
I'm excited for you and your greenhouse growing. Good times ahead 👍
You DEFINITELY need to add compost & manure before you plant. Your soil needs nutrients every year.
Greenhouse looks fabulous but throw out the soil from your pots and hanging baskets and wash the pots out so ther hygienic for the next time your planting with fresh soil or compost … that way ther isn’t any contamination from previous growth… I never use the same soil or compost…I wldnt have grass growing in your garden I wld have stones not grass for convenience but if you like grass your right you do have to keep on top of the grass maintenance… I still have tomato’s growing in my greenhouse but the darned snails got to my cabbages…I had egg shells all round and I had copper all round to pots but they still came…I think you did really well with your garden last season… you might as well grow what you can in the greenhouse…
The garden looks beautiful, even with not much growing. I will be amazing next season.
1/2 IN PLYWOOD WILL WORK FINE FOR SCAB PLATES TO MAKE TRUSSES !! THOSE PRESS PLATES WILL NOT WORK RIGHT WITHOUT A PRESS !!! TOO HARD TO INSTALL WITH JUST TRYING TO HAMMER THEM IN PLACE !!!
I understand you like grass.. but it's just not going to ever not be a lot ofvwork and the grass will always get into your garden beds.. onky way to fix is to kill the grass.. Use black plastic.. Use cardboard. Love the tomatoes. We're actually just about ready to plant tomatoes here in Phoenix.. over 100 today..
You’re exactly right. Weeds will grow in the grass & both will drop seeds.
@@chrissyfrancis8952 butvthe seeds arent going to jump up in the rsised beds..
They wont drop seeds if kept mowed
Good Afternoon dear Rox’s and Ant 🐜 Have a Beautiful and Wonderful Weekend be safe 🇺🇸🇺🇸❤❤🙏
Do you give your tomatoes to your chickens ? I grew pear tomatoes and other little ones just for my chickens, they go crazy over the tomatoes.
Great job
The garden looks great. I hope you have better luck with the grow bags. They seem to really dry out here in Oregon.
Just as a suggestion check into testing your soil to see what your soil is lacking I think those kits are free...it may help in your harvest
If you eat collard greens you might could get a crop of them this year if you plant them now
Only if they are cooked in bacon grease Mmmmm
Don't beat yourself up because of the weeds...you have been doing a lot of canning and helping to build....but the weed barrier will save a lot of work
Love your greenhouse…you may still need grow lights in your greenhouse for winter. I have a small greenhouse and I use grow lights in winter and also in spring when starting my transplants. I also use the clear covers until they germinate. I was always taught to mix your seed starting soil with water in a container ( not dripping wet ) then add that to your seed trays before adding your seeds. I know you love grass but grasshoppers and other pests like to hid in the grass during the day and come out at night to munch on your plants….I learned the hard way when I had raised beds.
Roxanne your tomatoes look wonderful!! Looks like some delicious sauce coming in the future!! Watching this brought back memories of my grandmother doing her gardening!! Thanks for sharing!! ❤ Mamma Carolyn
Put down cardboard weed barrier and gravel outside the garden beds I would look so nice and less work and more gardening. I know you said you like the grass but you do have grass in your yard I would concentrate on more grass in the yard.
Use plywood for the truss gusset. It will work..
Looking good! Think about mixing your own potting soil with compressed peat moss and some perlite. Lots cheaper and has more nutrients than pre-bagged potting soil. MIgardener has great gardening suggestions, if you are interested. Thanks for the great videos!
Yeah, I mix my own too. I followed the rusted garden tutorial. Basically, 1/3 ea of compost/manure, peat and top soil. Throw in a couple of handfuls of slow release. Works great and way cheaper.
I remember you had a compost pit. Ours is made from pallets. He do cold compost(meaning we pile all our clippings & produce scraps in then let it compost slowly) If you alternate your leaves, produce scraps etc it’ll breakdown over winter. Just pile it high 75% brown & 25^ “green” wet it down by Spring it’ll be garden gold. You have chickens & rabbits, free nitrogen! If you add that into your compost, it’ll breakdown faster!
Put Thompsons water seal on everything inside the greenhouse, and condensation will mold and rot the wood. Reseal in spring and fall every year. And leave tge ground cover on your garden until you plant next spring.
I personally cover my whole garden in ground cover, 2 years ago. I cut holes for where I want the plants, a d don't remove the ground cover until it needs replaced. Now I haven't seen a horn worm in 2 years, and my squash plants stay safer as well.
Roxie transplant 1 melon plant to the greenhouse.
Made sure you put your grow bags on plastic, because constant wetness will rot the wood.
Don't take off the raised beds covers, put rabbit poo right in the holes when you plant.
Rabbit poo don't have to sit like most stuff, you can add it fresh it won't burn your roots like chicken cow, or harsh chemicals
Hello, Great Job. Looks really nice. You have had a Fantastic Growing Season. Congratulations. Blessings
The garden beds need to be deeper with soil so the plants like tomatoes will not fall over.
Other plants have deeper root systems than you think.
The wind blew them over when they got to tall
Greenhouse looks great. Don’t beat yourself up over the weeds. Gardening is a lifelong learning process. Each season seems to be different, and present different challenges. As you gain experience it will be less stressful and easier to manage. Have a great weekend everyone!!
You two work so hard, but your places shows that! Garden & green house looks good. Have a great time with all the good friends at the BBQ!
Rake the leaves and add it to your compost piles stir it it. I still going to say as long as you have the grass in the garden area you will always have weeds growing in your beds. Cut the grass out like sod and transplant it in areas you want grass. I hate to see you working so hard to not have everything taken over by bugs and weeds. ❤❤
Hi Rox and Ant, the garden area looks good all cleaned up.👍👍❤️❤️🇨🇦
I saw where it’s better to lay cardboard on the ground to kill off the weeds than the weed barrier because the weeds can force their way through in the weed barrier material
Try putting netting over those seedlings. Leave enough room for growth.
Just love your videos love your gardens👍
I think your weeds are bad because of the grass you have between your beds. It spreads. Keeping it mowed outdoors help, plus edging it so it doesn’t grown under the edges of the bed.
Off grid with Doug and Stacy, always have grass between beds.
Get materials and supplies now because we have a bad storm that happened and also a container supply strike coming soon that will effect the entire East coast!! ❤ Thanks for sharing!! Mamma Carolyn
Rox, Hey! Living in Maine comes with some real unconventional methods to growing a productive garden. Our first garden was in the ground, fenced and did a-ok. The grass was the forever element we could not control along with moose and deer. We love gardening and freezing veggies for the winter so we found another method that beats traditional in ground or raised bed. We use recycled kitty litter buckets and have been for the last five years. We have 36 buckets we can plant anything in and it works great...best part>>>>>NO GRASS OR WEEDS!! We recommend this method to everyone for many points: Frees up your time;
Movable plantings into sunny areas; Faster planting time; Easily managable for all ages; Gardens should reflect your needs.
Your garden is wonderful, from the grass, bugs you placed on the fence, green house, garden beds. If makes me SMILE. Yours and Anthony's work is wonderful.
Garden looks good. Hope your seeds take off and grow for you. Can’t wait to see what you grow and how things go with the greenhouse. Good luck. Take care🇺🇸✌️❤️❤️❤️
My Dad used to make truss plates out of a piece of plywood. Of course this was back in the day when we didn't have this huge selection of things. Stan Sullivan was the guy on TH-cam that I saw making them.
Deer love green tomatoes maybe gary can feed him to his deer he wants to entice. Maybe need more dirt in those beds.
I agree that the planter beds need more dirt.
The beds are open on the bottom to the top soil. Plenty of dirt
You need some cow & some very good compost black dirt on & in your beds. That is just one of the reasons your carrots and squash and zucchini and pumpkins and stuff don’t grow. Put the mix of cow manure & black dirt compost put 40 cow to 50 black dirt then fill your beds too the top then put the cover on them but you need to add very good compost to your beds every year. You can add rabbit poop too your beds put you need to add water too it. Say you got a 1/2 a Bucket you would need too fill it almost too the top let it set for a week but Stir it every day to Break it down into a liquid form it works a lot better. Just remember if you don’t have deep bedding your Carrey & other root plant want grow. & you the deep bedding for root to grow down into you never had that for your try this. Plant your career with your white & red onions they work well together oh cover a spot for your pumpkins to kill the weeds out for over the winter.
Everything is looking so good.yes, a garden is a lot of work. You will reap what you sow, Galantines 6 verse 7, 9.❤😊 👍
Will you be insulating the greenhouse to help hold warmth during the winter? It's a beauty.
Also, are you planning on adding more soil in the garden beds? It will help raise the area, so you don't need to bend over so far.
Your homestead is coming along nicely. Great job 👏 👍
Thank you for sharing your plans. In the end, it's your garden and your choice of what you want to do with the garden. Each suggestion should be taken with a grain of salt. You can always reference books, online or magazines, so there is plenty of resources at your fingertips. So happy that the storm didn't hit your area!
As long as you keep the grass short it will make great mulch. It gives your gardens lots of nitrogen and helps the soil from drying out. Homesteading with the Zimmerman's has lots of good things to say about grass. I am not trying to be bossy just helpful. God bless
Roxanne, if you can find it in your area add some Black cow compost to the beds when you’re ready to till and plant the spring gardens you will e very pleased with just how much it will boost your growth rate!
Wonderful job getting all of those nasty weeds out of your garden as they are such a pain. Also I’m glad you got some plants planted in the greenhouse!! Can’t wait to see how they do. Take care!! 💜
Looks amazing you two. Good job. Thumbs up and love, from S. California.
The hard work is showing off ! Great job you two! Roxann you are going to have so much fun in your greenhouse . Thank you Anthony for building that for your wife .. You two are killing it !
Have you ever heard of green ketchup? Saw it on another site
I think it was That 1870s farmhouse. I don't eat a lot of ketchup, but my green cherry tomatoes are now pickled, salsa Verde, green sauce. Tired of seeing them, but still have two bags of green tomatoes turning. Also froze some to include with red tomatoes when I make more sauce.
Roxanne, I think Anthony and you worked so hard on clearing the garden for the start of next year's plantings. I look forward to seeing how everything grows in the greenhouse this winter.
R u putting your greens in compost pile.
That's what I used,best fertilizer around, you will be amazed at how well your plants will do.
My mom says soil, not dirt, every time .
The leaves had nothing to do with it. Seeds remain in soil for decades..it was your soil and the weather together. Leaves sre actually good to help prevent weeds.
You don't have very much , if any, insect damage on cabbage and such when grown in fall in our zone.
Watch the goats so they don't eat your roses
Enjoyed watching the channel!
Anthony, why was I thinking the pole barn/Supply room was going to be twice as wide? I thought at one time you said once the house was done, you would build the second half, mirroring the first half. The two roofs would be connected and that would give you your gable style roof. Or am I just getting delusional? lol. ❤❤
Yes I believe I heard that too but maybe plans changed ?
That was the plan I heard as well. It's been a few years though. Things change.
@scottburk4083 Well at 74, you don't remember if it was their idea or yours! 😁
@@bpatton3671 I'm 56 and suffer from that same affliction!🤪
You are hard working. You are so positive and encouraging.
Rox, if you bag the leaves into clear bags, they will break down over the winter, and the collected heat will help that process to kill the weed seeds. Just put the bags into the beds, because clear plastic is not UV Protected. When you're ready to plant, just grab the top of the bags, and the bottom will fall out. Makes some of the best black gold I've ever planted in. The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardeners put out a great video of how they planted carrots into 5 gallon pails without a bottom, and they were huge.
Your garden and greenhouse are looking good! The green thing you found is called a dibble, used for making holes in soil.
The seed hole maker with measuring marks is a Dibble. You can take suckers off your tomato plants, you can plant them to make new plants. No need to wait for seeds to grow. If you like cucumbers, you could have dug up the lone cucumber plant and put in pot in greenhouse to grow.
Little tricks to prolong season if you want to next year.
We put masking or painters tape across the front of the seed containers and write which seeds we plant. You can do the same seeds from front to back on 1 or 2 rows.
Hello Anthony & Roxane 🤗 nice getting garden cleaned up & starting greenhouse planting 👌
you need to do that something a couple times a week to keep on the weed problem they grow like crazy
Aww man, it's looking so good! Can't wait to see how the plants do in the greenhouse.
We use homemade tomato sauce with heavy cream and make Tomato Soup.😊
Anthony like Pulp Fiction movie 😅honey bunny.😊
It’s looks so much better I see the 🐐 hopeful y you get a lot more greens for next year
So what do u think about transparent the cucumber and put it in ur Green House
Roxy you should make tomato and herb soup or tomato and onion soup x
It looks so much better guys good work .💕😊💕
O Tomatos look so good
Make katsup- so easy
What kind of wood you use to build your garden bed?
Rox if you mow through your garden every week the plant doesn't get a chance to grow to maturity and produce seed that get in your garden beds. God Bless from your Canadian Friend.
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Great job
Move that cucumber into your greenhouse.
Roxane wants to start them from seed in the greenhouse
Put some rabbit poo on everything
lettuce thrives in soil named loamy
Acre homestead has great recipes for tomatoes
I hope you have wonderful success in your green house. Never give up.
As your leaves fall pull back your weed narrier and add them to your bed too. They will compost over winter.
Hello Roxanne and Anthony 🐜🦋🌻
I would not give the chickens any of the tomato plant itself. Just the fruit. The leaves can be toxic to chickens. I plant 1 tomato, 1 pepper and lots of lettuce, radishes and green onions in my greenhouse in OKC, OK durning winter. I think we are in the same planting zone 7. Just be sure to plant determinate tomato or it will take over the greenhouse. My first year growing in winter I planted 2 and they took it over. When you opened the door, all you could see was vines. I really enjoy your videos and veiws. Thank you for sharing...Your garden looks great!!
Google to find the supplies.
If you put a thermometer in your copost pile, I note many homesteaders watch for 160 degrees. Does 160 degrees mean the weed seeds will be burned up? Im a city girl and just don't know all the ins and outs of composting. I know leaves are acid.
I used black 6 mil plastic under my beds. It prevented weed growth and grass creep. Also double the soil depth of your beds. This creates a greater biome bed for plant nutrition. Cover the beds every fall with 6 mil black plastic to prevent weed intrusion. Try a test bed and see if I am right. By the way, even miracle grow bags of soil have weeds! I love your garden!
This year for my garden, I saved my 30 pounds dog food bags. Turned inside out they make great grow bags. With as many dogs as you have. You should have a lot of bags you could recycle into grow bags. Fill them and set them around your fence. Even if you just use them for flowers, they are free. And can be trimmed to any height you prefer.
Hi Ant, you can use ply wood as those truss plates, it’s surprising how strong ply makes them, cheaper too. Rox, I am going to be watching with great expectation for successful greenhouse produce. I think that thing is a podger, that just seemed to pop in my memory when I saw it. Try a challenge for out of season strawberries in there, just for fun. You will get great pleasure from these last few builds. Stay safe, see you on your next. Oh, also try to get some of those styrofoam boxes to use for seed starting. I used them and made newspaper tubes for the seed starters inside. I simply transplanted the tubes into the garden without disturbing the roots. They worked well for me, but like you, there was great competition for those seedlings coming to edible veggies. Rats, bugs and birds did the damage which was dissapointing.
Rox you could make some Spanish Cornichons or some Sweet Gherkin Pickles.I love those tiny ones. You could grow snow snow peas, Winter Squash should do ok .
Living Traditions uses a handful of rabbit droppings in the holes when they plant their plant starts. They have wonderful plants. You can check them out.