Oh I am so glad I'm not the only one who does this! I live in the UK and while planting some seedlings out in my front harder I automatically shouted 'Grow'. A woman and her husband who where walking past both stopped, smiled and said "I love buggy too".
Ben you get so sidetracked, I totally get that, I am the same. Meg stays focused and gets the job done, that is how my husband is. I think it's a good balance. 😊
Buggy is gonna know how to pull a transmission, skin a pig, milk a cow, build a house, bake bread, plant a garden, and drive a tractor before she even turns 10 😂
I've been watching your channel since you loaded up and moved to the farm--it's by far the best homestead channel on YT. You both have created such a wonderful place for all of us to see a part of your daily life, learn some animal husbandry, how to grow food, process food, cure food, can food, eat real food, and watch the kids grow. You guys are the real deal. Thank you!
Carla Emery writes in The Encyclopedia of Country Living about tucking potatoes into every nook and cranny of her growing space. Potatoes are what got her family through during the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s & 1970s.
Given all that's happening in your lives? Not getting into a 'marital' is first class, and I honor you for sharing that (as usual...lol). Blessings to you all!
it would be nice if they would tell what it is but everybody always wants to keep everything a secret and they want ever respond to messages on here @@Brenda-qm4sy
"Having a marital" sounds unusual to my British ears,lol. We'd say " Having a domestic" Ha ha, i love all the differences between us across the pond. ❤
My Gramps was born in the early 1900s. He'd plant a section, step back to see that it was what he wanted, his wizard hands would rise & I'd hear "Grow dayum you GROW!!!" He fed a family of 16 without fail. So I had always wondered where Buggie learned it. I know she has an old soul but she wasn't alive when Gramps was. 😂
😅After hearing y'all tell the seeds to "GROW!" I decided to do the same with a dozen pots of seeds. LOL, they started coming up 5 days earlier than normal! Thanks for the info! Love y'all!
Hi guys, I have a big smile on my face when I seen your videos I just smiled and I’m still smiling. Thank you for this video. Love watching your family. That little adorable buggy.
About your hugelmound growth during the winter...there was a greenhouse in Nebraska that I used to visit. Every fall, they would take a tractor through their high tunnels and greenhouses, and pull out all of the soil in there, and dump it into the compost heap where they made the compost they used and sold. Then they would haul in a couple of feet deep in all the tunnels of manure from local farmers. Then they would scatter some minerals and then top with another couple of feet of wood chips and sawdust. They would water it in, and then sink all their tender plants pots into the stuff up to the rims, then they'd replace their tables and that rotting mix would keep those greenhouses from freezing all winter long (that and they double layered their poly). Come spring when they started rolling up the sides and moving plants out, they would rake it smooth and plant a thick layer of low growing clover to help keep things rather cool all summer. Then in the fall they'd move the soil into the compost heap...so...yeah, what you are doing with the hugelmound is keeping those plants surrounded by a little microclimate of warm that keep them growing through the winter.
I'm having a difficult time walking today & watching Buggie running through the rocks barefoot has been torture. I remember the good old days. Thank you Ben & Meg for giving us this little angel!!!
I watch an animal sanctuary online which has 2 pigs. The owner was sharing how pigs have the intelligence of a 4 year-old child. They can be trained easily.
Last year I watched as you were planting in the poly, and buggy was going behind you, shouting. "Grow" in her most commanding voice. It just made my day. Thanks for the backstory. I'm gonna have to try that.
Since cold air flows down hill, I doubt being in the dugout protected the onions, unless from wind, depending upon the direction of the wind. So my guess, is the lower layers of the Hugelkulter are composting and the rising heat is causing a micro climate that is keeping the onions from freezing. You should add a walking onion to the pile. But don’t forget to yell grow, darn you!😂
The Hollars brought the Cali "hang ten" vibe to Appalachia...and their kids are gonna' have to register their feet from karate class and walkin' 'round the homestead...as deadly weapons?...Hands too...maybe🤔🫢👍🇺🇸👀👀👀
A hugelbed is great too in spring. Because of the composting process the ground will be warmer. So it all will grow quicker and lesser problems with frost. If you make a little plastic tunnel for it, it will be even better.
Buggy, running up, saying Piglets are taking a nap?😅. Am intrigued to see how potatoes can grow in the Stalk plantar. Love how you'll just Stick stuff in ground and it grows, 😊. Been with you'll since you left California, amazing family you have. Thanks for sharing.
Meg, I made your basic bread a few days ago, one loaf regular plain , and one cinnamon raisin loaf… they were over-proofed, so the plain loaf was a little floppy, but the crumb on both was very good. Today, I made it again; one regular loaf (PERFECT this time!!) and some burger buns to go with tonight’s supper.. Thanks!! I think this is my new go-to bread recipe!!!
So fun watching HH develop and grow....in ALL ways! With that nice slope y'all have the pigs on, have you considered building a water catchment system at the "topish" of the property, like your friend Jason at Sow The Land did? Looks like their work was well worth it! Just curious! Meg, you look wonderful...Oh, I miss the sweet blessing of feeling the little ones growing inside of me knowing Who is growing him or her and has already ordained his or her days!(Psalm 139)...such joy is for the next generation - yours - now! Y'all likely already do this, but I just dehydrated green onion tops and powdered them which was a BEAUTIFUL color (good for dips and spreads) and very tasty! Prayerfully in Christ. a Deep South YT "Grandma" ☺
I know an old lady that I basically call my second grandma that either threw an Aloe or Lucky Bamboo on the back stoop then it sat out all winter. She then felt bad brought it back and told the plant you have one more chance so "grow damn it grow" and know the plant is amazing!
I planted red and white potatoes in one of my greenstalks a week ago and as of yesterday, they've broken the soil surface! Can't wait to see what they do.
Ben great idea about the mound hope when the time comes you tell how did the crops grew😊. Love roasted garlic I eat it like candy and especially awesome on steak. Blessings to all the family. 😊🇺🇲
What beautiful sounds of the birds chirping and the pigs snorting and the Lil Bug running through with her lil girl voice ….send me a pig to clear out our wooded property that has poison Ivy and brambles etc… we have actually considered renting goats.
When I am helping people put in their trees, I plan out the alleys to be use for critters and annual type crops depending upon the site. I mark the sides of the alley with a chalk paint (ground up sidewalk chalk, line seed oil, white glue to finger pain constantly) on the bark of the mature trees that will stay. The marks face the alley so if you cannot see the marks when you set your fence, check carefully for you plantings. I am working in the maritime pac NW on slopes up to 38 degrees. I do my alleys slightly off contour in interlocking switch backs aiming for something a wheelchair can traverse because hauling a full wheelbarrow or a chicken tractor up a wheelchair capable slope it much easier than some of the paths I see people create.
❤ 🎉 😊 you just gave me a perfect idea to build a bed frame, rake all the twigs n branches my 3 large trees dropped this past year, and do a Hugelculture bed!! Thanks. That dinner sounds so good I'm gonna do the same❤ Will be watching y'alls podcast tonight as well. Love them all.
I am sorry Ben but you cannot grow potatoes in a greenstalk. There is not enough room. Potatoes like space outwards and not so much deep. When I used to grow potatoes in a 6 gallon pail I would get one large one and a couple marble sized or maybe 3 small to medium size. I would try potatoes that grow no bigger than marbles or maybe fingerling type potatoes. Good luck. Large reds or russets are to large. Joe Scott Muddy Dog Ranch God Bless
Hey Meg, if you want a yummy different recipe for your canned green beans. I take a pint jar of beans, some brown sugar, a couple tablespoons of white vinegar and real bacon bits. And heat them together. You can adjust the amount of brown sugar and vinegar to your taste. Even people who say they hate canned green beans. Love these. I also canned green beans with a liquid of water, brown sugar and vinegar. Left out the bacon till I open a jar to heat and serve. Really good. And a different way to have green beans. Also I like to can green beans with different spice blends. Variety is the happy of life!😊 it's a nice sweet and sour taste with the brown sugar and vinegar and bacon.
I have successfully grown fingerling potatoes in one of my Greenstalk planters. It was so easy to water and to harvest! I planted half and two weeks later I found enough more potatoes to finish the whole tower. I did add some green onions to the top tray, for cooking of course. They were so easy to harvest, only needing to take what I needed or wanted until I was ready for the remainder. I may try a few sweet potatoes this year if I have too many slips for the raised beds. I don't mind if the sweet potatoes are on the smaller side when I'm dicing them up anyway.
I have a permanent potato bed, Ben. An area that started out as extremely poor, weed infested soil. (In addition to the semi-rotation vegetable garden.) It’s been there for 6 years now. Inspired by BTE; we pull a plant and pop one back. It’s where we dump the woodchips. I try to organise the delivery not to cover the main area. But needs must when a free delivery is offered. Anyway, apart from the first year when the potatoes had scab due to the overload of carbon, it’s been an extremely resilient (from blights) and reliable early harvest area. We then concentrate on the main garden for mounding up or hilling depending on resources, harvest for curing and main crop storing. However, we also harvest from the permanent potato bed area throughout winter. Having experimented with a permanent garlic bed in another area (left to multiply and go to seed), we learned that we could never get a healthy harvest because of allium leaf miners despite new growth each year. But we’d harvest green leaves from the garlic each spring. Anyway, I cleared the permanent garlic bed last year and threw bulbs into the permanent potato area. This year we’ve already been harvesting garlic greens for fresh eating. I’ll let them go to seed/multiply - just like your onions. Love me some permaculture! ✅ (and experimenting) But for main crop garlic, I still grow it under fleece in the main garden (to protect against allium leaf miners). Megan. We love roasting whole onions in foil when barbecuing ✅
I love picking my green onion, and leeks, slicing them up and putting them in the freezer. Then when make stew or soup I put them in there. They freeze really well.
I just ordered my first greenstalk…I was going to try potatoes…this gives me the courage. And I’m doing the top half in strawberries and some herbs and then I’ll see from there! Can’t wait…I live in southwest Missouri. Originally from St .Louis. I’ve already popped Yukon gold in my garden and onions. Next will be peppers and tomatoes when it’s a little closer to non freezing temps!
About your onions - Soil with a lot of composting organic matter can keep the roots and deeper roots from freezing when conditions zre on the edge. Wind chill when things are cold is very real on folliage. We have windfall evergreen boughs/ branches and if you tent a small shrub or plant with them, ypu can get them to live when it shouldnt have a chance. It works best if you tent while the soil temps are comparatively warm(er).
if you want really big onions, your can spoon them. What that means is, as soon as you notice bulb development start moving the soil away from the side of the bulb. Make sure the roots stay covered, but expose as much of the the bulb to the air as possible.
That pig manure is magical. I had some of the best veggies I have ever grown volunteer behind my pig pin. Where all the runoff from the pin went & seeds accidentally got past the pig into the runoff.
I got my first greenstalk delivered about a month ago and used your code. Can’t wait to get it filled and planted. I’m in Michigan. Buggy is so cute and love the way she runs around barefoot (as well as the boys) GROW!!! Enjoy watching your channel and your family grow. You are a true inspiration and blessing to so many of us. ❤❤
The Hugelkultur bed will be doing good & keeping frost free as the sticks/logs etc will be rotting down making heat not a huge amount but enough heat to keep frost away 🇬🇧😀👍
Hi folks avid fan from Western Australia i look so forward to your channel. So much you provide for living on homestead, how much you folk work it ... not an easy life but the most satisfying providing for family ... learning so much survival skills ... cooking delightful meals to the hard slog to keep farm animals going gardening. Love it thank you for sharing
I'm glad you are moving your pigs. I love my GreenStalk planters. Planting shallots in one of them is a good idea. I like the story about the old lady and the onions. It's cute that Buggy does that now. I like your hugelkultur mound. I bet you'll get the best onions, sweet potatoes, and potatoes from there! Yum, roasting some garlic, chickens for tomorrow, potatoes, grilled steaks, and green beans. I bet that was a fabulous dinner! Thanks for this video Hollar family!
Hey Hollers, you probably won't see this, but if you do ,I planted those little gourmet potatoes in my Greenstalk last year. They did very well 🎉. Good luck👍. YumO enjoy🎉. JO JO IN VT 💞
I just planted my Greenstalk yesterday and today! I refurbished the soil with hummus and worm castings. I just ordered a new basket weave design one and I used your code to get $10 off. Thank you for your code....I love the Greenstalks!
I recently watched a video called "frequency" (I think) It shpwed how rice in a sealed jar reacted to positive and negitive words. One molded and I think the other one did not. Saying GROW is a positive thing. I encourage you to keep saying grow. Blessings to you.
You’re going to love growing potatoes in the greenstalk tower. I have been doing it for the past five years. They don’t get huge but they produce lots of small to mediums. Lots! We have 18 five tier (the deep ones) greenstalk towers and produce enough potatoes for the year for us.
Old tyres are great for growing potatoes in ..stack them up and fill.. lots of space for you potatoes to grow. Will be interesting to see green stock results. Much love and respect to you all
I've got 3 GreenStalk planters and love them! I plant green beans in mine every year and they do fantastic! One channel I watch, they grow all their potatoes in about 10 of the black grow bags and get bushels of potatoes to harvest. They put 4 or 5 seed taters per bag. I always love to see what Meg's cooking up for supper!!!😘
I love seeing all of you,i love seeing garden up dates,i love seeing meag pregnant,i cant wait to see the new rooms done.ben and the boys keep up the good work
Ok I have a confession! Because of a certain little 3 year old , I now tell my plants "GROW!"😂😂😂
Me too!
Me too!! lol
So do I and I am a professional bedding plant grower but it’s just so cute!!!😊❤
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I use Happy Frog 🐸 planting soil ❤❤❤
Oh I am so glad I'm not the only one who does this!
I live in the UK and while planting some seedlings out in my front harder I automatically shouted 'Grow'. A woman and her husband who where walking past both stopped, smiled and said "I love buggy too".
I look forward to your posts so much. It's like going to visit good friends. Thank you so much for sharing with us@!!
My feelings exactly! I love this family!
Oh, I agree!!!
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Me too 🥰
Ben you get so sidetracked, I totally get that, I am the same. Meg stays focused and gets the job done, that is how my husband is. I think it's a good balance. 😊
As this nation inches towards food insecurity/supplier, grower issues, you and yours will happily subsist. Smart folks!
Buggy is gonna know how to pull a transmission, skin a pig, milk a cow, build a house, bake bread, plant a garden, and drive a tractor before she even turns 10 😂
I've been watching your channel since you loaded up and moved to the farm--it's by far the best homestead channel on YT. You both have created such a wonderful place for all of us to see a part of your daily life, learn some animal husbandry, how to grow food, process food, cure food, can food, eat real food, and watch the kids grow. You guys are the real deal. Thank you!
Omgosh, there’s just something about this little girl that makes my heart smile whenever I see her on your blog . Running around barefoot
Carla Emery writes in The Encyclopedia of Country Living about tucking potatoes into every nook and cranny of her growing space. Potatoes are what got her family through during the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s & 1970s.
A Marital! LOL!!! Sometimes you do what you gotta do!
I love ALL The Hollar Homestead videos!
Given all that's happening in your lives? Not getting into a 'marital' is first class, and I honor you for sharing that (as usual...lol). Blessings to you all!
“Don’t wanna get into a marital about this…”😂🤣😆You two are amazing and I love ya.😊❤
Every time you video your family praying... My soul and spirit smiles...🙏💜
God bless you💜🙏
400+ views in 4 minutes? Wow!!!🎉
I guess I'm not the only one on baby watch 🤗
Have a blessed week!
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Baby is due in May...
Anyone have any guess Boy, or Girl
@@Brenda-qm4sy little girl ❤❤❤❤
it would be nice if they would tell what it is but everybody always wants to keep everything a secret and they want ever respond to messages on here @@Brenda-qm4sy
Twins! 💕Am I the only one thinking that?
"Having a marital" sounds unusual to my British ears,lol. We'd say " Having a domestic" Ha ha, i love all the differences between us across the pond. ❤
Most of us just say "have a fight". Meg & Ben are treasures 😊
Glad to find out the story of Buggy telling the plants to grow. When I've heard her say that I wondered where it came from.
I want to know which babies are taking a nap. Buggy said the babies are taking a nap! 😂
Oh, I thought she said the piggies are taking a nap! 😂
My Gramps was born in the early 1900s. He'd plant a section, step back to see that it was what he wanted, his wizard hands would rise & I'd hear "Grow dayum you GROW!!!" He fed a family of 16 without fail. So I had always wondered where Buggie learned it. I know she has an old soul but she wasn't alive when Gramps was. 😂
My daughter and I planted seeds in the greenhouseand she told them to GROW! I was so confused until she told me about Buggy. That is so cute!
😅After hearing y'all tell the seeds to "GROW!" I decided to do the same with a dozen pots of seeds. LOL, they started coming up 5 days earlier than normal! Thanks for the info! Love y'all!
I must say, for Red Onions up North, that's a miracle. Maybe Buggy's been talking to them? ... 🍬💌🍒
Meg, and Ben, having a marital over what to plant in the green stalk....you two are cute!
Hi guys, I have a big smile on my face when I seen your videos I just smiled and I’m still smiling. Thank you for this video. Love watching your family. That little adorable buggy.
How flippin cute,, Daddy the babies are taken a nap.!!
ADORABLE LITTLE GIRL!!
About your hugelmound growth during the winter...there was a greenhouse in Nebraska that I used to visit. Every fall, they would take a tractor through their high tunnels and greenhouses, and pull out all of the soil in there, and dump it into the compost heap where they made the compost they used and sold. Then they would haul in a couple of feet deep in all the tunnels of manure from local farmers. Then they would scatter some minerals and then top with another couple of feet of wood chips and sawdust. They would water it in, and then sink all their tender plants pots into the stuff up to the rims, then they'd replace their tables and that rotting mix would keep those greenhouses from freezing all winter long (that and they double layered their poly). Come spring when they started rolling up the sides and moving plants out, they would rake it smooth and plant a thick layer of low growing clover to help keep things rather cool all summer. Then in the fall they'd move the soil into the compost heap...so...yeah, what you are doing with the hugelmound is keeping those plants surrounded by a little microclimate of warm that keep them growing through the winter.
I tell my seeds to grow and I tell them Happy Birthday when they sprout😂
I'm having a difficult time walking today & watching Buggie running through the rocks barefoot has been torture. I remember the good old days. Thank you Ben & Meg for giving us this little angel!!!
Your hugle mound is decomposing underneath and mist likely producing heat still. Preventing things from freezing.
Have fun doing the FRIDAY SHOPTALK. I LOVE LAUGHING WITH WITH YOU GUYS. GOD BLESS YOU. STAY AWAKE!!!❤❤❤
I have ten green stalks and I grow tons of stuff. Well worth the money especially for space saving. Carried over kale and Swiss chard all winter.
Grow! Channel Grow!
I watch an animal sanctuary online which has 2 pigs. The owner was sharing how pigs have the intelligence of a 4 year-old child. They can be trained easily.
Last year I watched as you were planting in the poly, and buggy was going behind you, shouting. "Grow" in her most commanding voice. It just made my day. Thanks for the backstory. I'm gonna have to try that.
Since cold air flows down hill, I doubt being in the dugout protected the onions, unless from wind, depending upon the direction of the wind. So my guess, is the lower layers of the Hugelkulter are composting and the rising heat is causing a micro climate that is keeping the onions from freezing. You should add a walking onion to the pile. But don’t forget to yell grow, darn you!😂
Those kids have tough feet to be able to walk in the woods like that.😆
The Hollars brought the Cali "hang ten" vibe to Appalachia...and their kids are gonna' have to register their feet from karate class and walkin' 'round the homestead...as deadly weapons?...Hands too...maybe🤔🫢👍🇺🇸👀👀👀
A hugelbed is great too in spring. Because of the composting process the ground will be warmer. So it all will grow quicker and lesser problems with frost. If you make a little plastic tunnel for it, it will be even better.
I l❤ve listening to little buggy singing.
*I love watch you all - thank you for posting!*
Experimenting is the best part of homesteading!
Buggy, running up, saying Piglets are taking a nap?😅.
Am intrigued to see how potatoes can grow in the Stalk plantar. Love how you'll just Stick stuff in ground and it grows, 😊. Been with you'll since you left California, amazing family you have. Thanks for sharing.
Moe should have a bigger bachelor pad for when all the ladies come to visit.
Oh that meal, steak, potatoes, green beans,& roasted garlic on bread/toast!!! Yummmmm!
God grant you a Safe Delivery! Praise The Lord for Folks like you on TH-cam! Love Your Channel!
Meg, I made your basic bread a few days ago, one loaf regular plain , and one cinnamon raisin loaf… they were over-proofed, so the plain loaf was a little floppy, but the crumb on both was very good. Today, I made it again; one regular loaf (PERFECT this time!!) and some burger buns to go with tonight’s supper.. Thanks!! I think this is my new go-to bread recipe!!!
Hollars are the fam ive looked forward to watching most the past 8 months ❤
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I hope your having a good week.
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So fun watching HH develop and grow....in ALL ways! With that nice slope y'all have the pigs on, have you considered building a water catchment system at the "topish" of the property, like your friend Jason at Sow The Land did? Looks like their work was well worth it! Just curious! Meg, you look wonderful...Oh, I miss the sweet blessing of feeling the little ones growing inside of me knowing Who is growing him or her and has already ordained his or her days!(Psalm 139)...such joy is for the next generation - yours - now! Y'all likely already do this, but I just dehydrated green onion tops and powdered them which was a BEAUTIFUL color (good for dips and spreads) and very tasty! Prayerfully in Christ. a Deep South YT "Grandma" ☺
The Hassen Homestead did the same Green Stalk planting as the Hollar homestead did today. We planted strawberries in ours.
I know an old lady that I basically call my second grandma that either threw an Aloe or Lucky Bamboo on the back stoop then it sat out all winter. She then felt bad brought it back and told the plant you have one more chance so "grow damn it grow" and know the plant is amazing!
Geez! Your suppers always make my mouth water, hahaa ♥♥♥
I Love to see your Videos always waiting for your Videos .😊
Compost in the bottom of a raised bed heats the top during winter, add plastic and you have a self heating greenhouse.
I planted red and white potatoes in one of my greenstalks a week ago and as of yesterday, they've broken the soil surface! Can't wait to see what they do.
Hi.... Meg and Ben thanks you for showing your video homestead beautiful great good job BYE
Don't forget to shut the water off!
Ben great idea about the mound hope when the time comes you tell how did the crops grew😊.
Love roasted garlic I eat it like candy and especially awesome on steak.
Blessings to all the family. 😊🇺🇲
What beautiful sounds of the birds chirping and the pigs snorting and the Lil Bug running through with her lil girl voice ….send me a pig to clear out our wooded property that has poison Ivy and brambles etc… we have actually considered renting goats.
My little Lulu, tells everything we plant to GROW ❤❤❤❤ Love it ❤❤❤
When I am helping people put in their trees, I plan out the alleys to be use for critters and annual type crops depending upon the site. I mark the sides of the alley with a chalk paint (ground up sidewalk chalk, line seed oil, white glue to finger pain constantly) on the bark of the mature trees that will stay. The marks face the alley so if you cannot see the marks when you set your fence, check carefully for you plantings. I am working in the maritime pac NW on slopes up to 38 degrees. I do my alleys slightly off contour in interlocking switch backs aiming for something a wheelchair can traverse because hauling a full wheelbarrow or a chicken tractor up a wheelchair capable slope it much easier than some of the paths I see people create.
❤ 🎉 😊 you just gave me a perfect idea to build a bed frame, rake all the twigs n branches my 3 large trees dropped this past year, and do a Hugelculture bed!! Thanks. That dinner sounds so good I'm gonna do the same❤ Will be watching y'alls podcast tonight as well. Love them all.
I am sorry Ben but you cannot grow potatoes in a greenstalk. There is not enough room. Potatoes like space outwards and not so much deep. When I used to grow potatoes in a 6 gallon pail I would get one large one and a couple marble sized or maybe 3 small to medium size. I would try potatoes that grow no bigger than marbles or maybe fingerling type potatoes. Good luck.
Large reds or russets are to large.
Joe Scott Muddy Dog Ranch God Bless
Love your family, and your content... y'all keep it real and I'm thankful.
Hey Meg, if you want a yummy different recipe for your canned green beans. I take a pint jar of beans, some brown sugar, a couple tablespoons of white vinegar and real bacon bits. And heat them together. You can adjust the amount of brown sugar and vinegar to your taste. Even people who say they hate canned green beans. Love these. I also canned green beans with a liquid of water, brown sugar and vinegar. Left out the bacon till I open a jar to heat and serve. Really good. And a different way to have green beans. Also I like to can green beans with different spice blends. Variety is the happy of life!😊 it's a nice sweet and sour taste with the brown sugar and vinegar and bacon.
I have successfully grown fingerling potatoes in one of my Greenstalk planters. It was so easy to water and to harvest! I planted half and two weeks later I found enough more potatoes to finish the whole tower. I did add some green onions to the top tray, for cooking of course. They were so easy to harvest, only needing to take what I needed or wanted until I was ready for the remainder. I may try a few sweet potatoes this year if I have too many slips for the raised beds. I don't mind if the sweet potatoes are on the smaller side when I'm dicing them up anyway.
I have a permanent potato bed, Ben. An area that started out as extremely poor, weed infested soil. (In addition to the semi-rotation vegetable garden.) It’s been there for 6 years now. Inspired by BTE; we pull a plant and pop one back. It’s where we dump the woodchips. I try to organise the delivery not to cover the main area. But needs must when a free delivery is offered.
Anyway, apart from the first year when the potatoes had scab due to the overload of carbon, it’s been an extremely resilient (from blights) and reliable early harvest area. We then concentrate on the main garden for mounding up or hilling depending on resources, harvest for curing and main crop storing. However, we also harvest from the permanent potato bed area throughout winter. Having experimented with a permanent garlic bed in another area (left to multiply and go to seed), we learned that we could never get a healthy harvest because of allium leaf miners despite new growth each year. But we’d harvest green leaves from the garlic each spring. Anyway, I cleared the permanent garlic bed last year and threw bulbs into the permanent potato area. This year we’ve already been harvesting garlic greens for fresh eating. I’ll let them go to seed/multiply - just like your onions. Love me some permaculture! ✅ (and experimenting) But for main crop garlic, I still grow it under fleece in the main garden (to protect against allium leaf miners).
Megan. We love roasting whole onions in foil when barbecuing ✅
Hello, thanks Buggy for your help in getting my plants to grow!! Have a wonderful day to you all!
I love picking my green onion, and leeks, slicing them up and putting them in the freezer. Then when make stew or soup I put them in there. They freeze really well.
I just ordered my first greenstalk…I was going to try potatoes…this gives me the courage. And I’m doing the top half in strawberries and some herbs and then I’ll see from there! Can’t wait…I live in southwest Missouri. Originally from St .Louis. I’ve already popped Yukon gold in my garden and onions. Next will be peppers and tomatoes when it’s a little closer to non freezing temps!
My most favorite family ❤
I love watching all your experimentation. Looking forward to your follow up videos seeing the progress.
Planting potatoes. We cut the potatoes and make sure you have two eyes on each piece. Then let it harden off the cut side and then plant.
A "marital" I will use this 'new to me' term! ❤❤
About your onions - Soil with a lot of composting organic matter can keep the roots and deeper roots from freezing when conditions zre on the edge. Wind chill when things are cold is very real on folliage. We have windfall evergreen boughs/ branches and if you tent a small shrub or plant with them, ypu can get them to live when it shouldnt have a chance. It works best if you tent while the soil temps are comparatively warm(er).
Hope it works in both areas!! Hope y'all have a great weekend
if you want really big onions, your can spoon them. What that means is, as soon as you notice bulb development start moving the soil away from the side of the bulb. Make sure the roots stay covered, but expose as much of the the bulb to the air as possible.
That pig manure is magical. I had some of the best veggies I have ever grown volunteer behind my pig pin. Where all the runoff from the pin went & seeds accidentally got past the pig into the runoff.
I got my first greenstalk delivered about a month ago and used your code. Can’t wait to get it filled and planted. I’m in Michigan. Buggy is so cute and love the way she runs around barefoot (as well as the boys) GROW!!! Enjoy watching your channel and your family grow. You are a true inspiration and blessing to so many of us. ❤❤
I am curious to see how these potatoes in the green stalk turn out. I would have never thought to do that.
Wonderful day Ben and family. Glad to see Moe. ❤
And I thought I was just a bad gardener,now I know it wasn’t my fault,I just never told my plants to grow.🤔
The Hugelkultur bed will be doing good & keeping frost free as the sticks/logs etc will be rotting down making heat not a huge amount but enough heat to keep frost away 🇬🇧😀👍
I honestly get so excited when I see a post! Meg, how are you feeling? When is your due date. You are a beautiful pregnant mamma♥️
Hi folks avid fan from Western Australia i look so forward to your channel. So much you provide for living on homestead, how much you folk work it ... not an easy life but the most satisfying providing for family ... learning so much survival skills ... cooking delightful meals to the hard slog to keep farm animals going gardening. Love it thank you for sharing
That garlic made my mouth water, so good. thank you ALL, stay safe
I'll be watching you on the podcast. Especially to see if you fall asleep 😴 😊
When is the new baby coming Meg happy for you guys thanks for sharing the farming share.
I'm glad you are moving your pigs. I love my GreenStalk planters. Planting shallots in one of them is a good idea. I like the story about the old lady and the onions. It's cute that Buggy does that now. I like your hugelkultur mound. I bet you'll get the best onions, sweet potatoes, and potatoes from there! Yum, roasting some garlic, chickens for tomorrow, potatoes, grilled steaks, and green beans. I bet that was a fabulous dinner! Thanks for this video Hollar family!
Enjoyed your vlog as usual. Buggy is so full of energy. Great to watch you all working together to make your home . 💕💕🌻🌻
Much progress & a great family working together! Thanks for sharing! Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦
Hey Hollers, you probably won't see this, but if you do ,I planted those little gourmet potatoes in my Greenstalk last year. They did very well 🎉.
Good luck👍.
YumO enjoy🎉.
JO JO IN VT 💞
I just planted my Greenstalk yesterday and today! I refurbished the soil with hummus and worm castings. I just ordered a new basket weave design one and I used your code to get $10 off. Thank you for your code....I love the Greenstalks!
Good show thank you all
I recently watched a video called "frequency" (I think) It shpwed how rice in a sealed jar reacted to positive and negitive words. One molded and I think the other one did not. Saying GROW is a positive thing. I encourage you to keep saying grow. Blessings to you.
God bless you all have a wonderful week
I’ll be telling my plants to “grow” from now on❤
You’re going to love growing potatoes in the greenstalk tower. I have been doing it for the past five years. They don’t get huge but they produce lots of small to mediums. Lots! We have 18 five tier (the deep ones) greenstalk towers and produce enough potatoes for the year for us.
Ben, That's a bulldozer that turns into Bacon! Nice Bacon-Dozer. LOL🤣
That mound and seeing its growth is pretty rad. I like it.
Old tyres are great for growing potatoes in ..stack them up and fill.. lots of space for you potatoes to grow. Will be interesting to see green stock results. Much love and respect to you all
That's how i plant too, guys. I just look at my video to jog my memory.
I've got 3 GreenStalk planters and love them! I plant green beans in mine every year and they do fantastic! One channel I watch, they grow all their potatoes in about 10 of the black grow bags and get bushels of potatoes to harvest. They put 4 or 5 seed taters per bag. I always love to see what Meg's cooking up for supper!!!😘
I love seeing all of you,i love seeing garden up dates,i love seeing meag pregnant,i cant wait to see the new rooms done.ben and the boys keep up the good work