Greetings from Wisconsin!! What an awesome job driving the horses Brenda !!! Hats off to all of you getting those bales in from the field!! Love love your videos!!!
Seeing that Brenda is part of the Working team on the farm, it’s a small request to have her view of the mildew stained decrepitated wall boarded up. My vote is Just do it Jim.
Brenda is such a trooper - sloshing through the field to get the video! Great job driving the horses! Baron has so much energy. Your garden is amazing. Bless you guys.
Baron seemed a perfect gentleman with Brenda..........I have found that sometimes a stud will react differently with a "lady driver"!! I remember my aunt always preferred to drive stallions
I think the cows were cheering for Brenda. 😀 She did a super job driving Baron for the first time. Jim and Brenda are a very fine example of a farm couple working together. 😀😀😀
Brenda - For spider mites, aphids. Squash bugs. For most plants. Cucumber especially. Peppermint oil spray. 1-2 teaspoons of peppermint oil per gallon of water and a little squirt of dish soap to disperse the oil. From Gary at The Rusted Garden.
I know of some farmers who not only separate their round bells from each other but they also raise them up off the ground so that the bottoms of the rolls don't start to rot.
Brenda, your garden is so beautiful. You're becoming a teamster. Jim, your fields and mill look so orderly and well managed. You are both an inspiration.
Everything looking good there Jim Brenda, God has given you a blessing with the rain 🌧 🙏 to keep everything watered , 🌽 looking good , tralior looking great , Baron has got some energy alright l guess he's a young male , good job Brenda 👏 working Baron , we're they swallows flying around you in the paddock , ok all have a good weekend
While Jim was parking the horses, I was thinking the top of the wall was in need of a makeover. Wonder how much Andy would charge to put some boards up.
You have a glorious garden, Brenda! Congratulations! We are blessed with 2.5 irrigated acres on the edge of the desert in western Colorado. We have 2 LG dogs, Hannah and Arlo, 4 kitties for mouse countrol, 40 chickens (including 2 roosters), 3 garden plots and 52 assorted fruit and nut trees. It was 95°F today, and heading for 100°F+. July and August are our hot months here. Our highs are usually around 100°F to 104°F. One year we had 105°F, another year we had 106°F, and our all-time high was 107°F. God bless Gordon Family Farm and all who dwell there! 🙏🙏
I think Baron would be fun to ride the way he prances! He is becoming a good "backer upper" like Bill! So, will you let us know if Lady's breeding took place! If it did, she should foal the end of May or 1st part of June next year, right?!!! As for good draft horses go, do you prefer one that's high energy or one with less energy? It definitely takes an experienced driver to handle/train him! Your cattle were telling you to drop off one of those bales for them!😘 The tameric(? sp) wood is beautiful. Would make beautiful tables! Brenda, your garden looks wonderful! Taters like nice and healthy. My goodness, what a huge bunch of grapes!!!!🍇 Delicious! And you will have plenty of apples to put up later on too! I remember you put up a lot of applesauce last fall. Do you ever make crockpot apple butter? My mom used to do that and her's was so good. Hope you all have a beautiful weekend! Will your son and family get to visit for the 4th? Hope the grandbabies get to see and love on Bree soon!!!
I love your Garden Brenda, and great seeing you and Jim picking up the round bales of hay. The Horses look great too! Barron knows he is the Man. HE feels so good and healthy. As are the other Horses all look great!
I can remember being a young stud but I didn't prance like Baron does. What handsome horses you have. I agree that you need some more vertical 2 Ex's to stop the boards from bending in to keep from breaking. I give you 4 thumbs up on all of your videos. God bless and keep safe
Your garden is wonderful in comparison with mine. We, in Western France, have had a very dry spring and summer. There was 6mm (Just about ¼ inch) last night. Feb, March and April were very dry with a NE wind winch made it cool. The water table is very low as last summer was dry and we did not have the winter rains to replenish it. Bravo for driving Baron.
I am in Nebraska and we put them up tight to each other to try to protect the ends. Some put them in a pyramid. But I found the bottom ones go bad faster.
I think it would be easier to add the strength to hold Baron if you just add in a huge support beam for building out the rest of the wall. It would look great, be efficient, give you something to screw your rings into, and get rid of that ruin of a top wall. I love old buildings and barns and farms. I love the way time has added a patina to everything. But when you stick a beautiful wooden wall beneath a broken, dirty, mossy wall…it just draws attention to all the problems. I know how busy you are. I also know how you love this farm. The legacy of what you show us and demonstrate to us is important. And that includes 1) keeping the wife happy 2) supporting the infrastructure of the farm and 3) demonstrating suck-up-manship (the ability to just give up and get-er-done).
Thank you Jim and Brenda . Your hay and gardens look beautiful. I have been hauling water to my garden for a month . We finally got some rain . GOD bless you and yours❤
Baron stuck his head in that window and saw that little baby in there with Lady and he also knows what’s coming next. He has to step up and get to work for his kids. Jim hang on to the reins. He is on the move and got work to do.😂
Enjoyed the video picking up hay❤. With the way u had the camera felt like I was literally riding along w yall!!💕💕 so excited to hear Lady is bred again. Her foals are GORGEOUS!! Bree will have a playmate in about a year👏👏🥳 Brenda your gardens are BEAUTIFUL!! I wouldn’t mind pulling some weeds w ya. Gotta make em look all pretty😊😊😊 God Bless!!
I know it’s a family show and you won’t show the actual mating, but handling him before and after and how you pad her up would be so interesting. It’s part of farm life and us city folk are interested.❤
I’ve watched a video of this on a different YT channel - and did not enjoy viewing it. I am thankful Brenda and Jim choose not to show these on their channel.
Brenda and Jim you must be be busy from morning to night. You two definitely get your cardio and then some! Brenda your gardens look great you just can't beat home grown vegetables and fruit!
Having your own food and not needing the grocery store is true freedom. I agree that Baron needs to work harder. He is still being obedient, but he is full of himself. He's like a racehorse who just keeps getting fitter and fitter, and you just can't tire them out. Since the other two are older, they probably can't work him down on their own. It will probably take both Kenny and Bill to wear him out.
My Mom and Dad used hydrated lime on the leaf's of the plant just took a nail and poked holes in the bottom of a coffee can for a shaker. If still persist use a little seven dust
Thanks, for sharing you Garden and your Flower Garden Brinda, lots of work to keep things looking nice. And thanks for suturing my fond Memorys of those that have gown before me and there Garen's, the little joys in Life.
Gardens looking really good. Good luck w/ weed control. I never enjoyed weeding. Barron is really full of himself. Hope Lady settles and delivers again next spring. Thank you for sharing.🐴🐴
Brenda you do a excellent job at doing videos especially this time with the sawmill getting beautiful close cool shots of the working’s of the sawmill. You two are such hardworking couple. Brenda your garden looks so beautiful, of course with all your hard work. Happy 4th of July 🎉😂❤. Love ❤️ from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
What a variety of good work and projects you have going! Sometimes just trying to think of what to do when wears me out at our place! Nothing like all the practical thinking through things to encourage! Thank you for the garden tour Brenda 😊!
Brenda, what a fine job you did with Baron!! I have to admit, he's my favorite, although I do love all your beautiful horses! My husband & I so enjoy watching your videos, & look forward to all your posts. By the way, the garden is looking lovely as well. Also couldn't believe your beautiful Clematis was that old, that's amazing! We just purchased one called Nelly Moser the other day. Have a safe & fun 4th of July weekend, Brenda and Jim!!!
Jim I think it would be nice FOR Brenda and the wall would look great with boards all the way up. Everything is looking so nice . Looking forward Brenda to seeing your garden up close just love Clematises and dahlias. Hopefully on the way to another beautiful foal 😊👍👍
Hello from Sweden!Storing bales outdoor during winter is mostly done in a pyramid stack close together and then a tarp over the top, not all the way to the ground to keep them dry and ventilated.
The benefit of round bales is that rain runs off and moisture only collects where they sit on the ground. When you stack them on top of each other you create contact areas where moisture collects and can seep into the bales. So, in regions with a lot of rain it is not beneficial to stack round bales on top of each other.
Hi Jim and Brenda, how I have my round bales is to stack them tight together with palettes underneath. I have seen that some cover it with fleece, but that fleece is quite expensive. Not sure if it makes a big difference. I would not put boards on the wall to the top, but you might consider doing it for Brenda if it makes her happy 😄 Today I have heard that the Canadian wildfire smoke reached Europe meanwhile 🤭 Have a nice evening and wish you good luck with further haying. -Chris
Hello, and thank you for sharing your daily lives with us. Please keep doing so it makes me happy. Wagon looks really good. You’re a good builder. Good job Brenda
Set one bale on end so the string or net wrap is not on the ground. Then set the next one on top strings down so the water runs off. Leave some space in between. Pyramid stacks let the water run down between the bales and rots the whole pile. Just my experience. Thank you keep up the great work and videos!
Thank you for another enjoyable video. Love the updates of Duke and Earl and your lovely garden. I know the garden takes a lot of time and work. Do you still have chickens and guineas? Always look forward to your videos
I put our bales like you have them there up on slabs. I’ve read “the best way” to do it is to flip one up, then lay the other on top, making it look like a mushroom. I’m really not sure. Love your videos as always. 👍✌️
Brenda is a natural driving Baron. Re the bales, in Australia, many places wrap in plastic these days. While the rest of us are making concerted efforts to rid our lives of the retched stuff, agri is just now seeing the benefits! Those would be bales that need to sit through heavy rain and or snow mostly. But in anycase, most bales seem to be pushed together in long lines 2-4 deep and 2-3 high. If they need to go higher they will be sat on end and stacked 4 high, Those ones are often made stronger and denser to tolerate being stacked and placed on the bottom. Some round bales are getting to over a ton each these days. But pushed together with no air between and covered completely with huge tarps after stacking. I don't know how the inner bales are at the end of the sitting season right before use. Maybe they are not that good unless wrapped in plastic. Some use black plastic while others use white. I don't know if there is a difference or just manufacturers. Silage seems to come in black plastic here, so maybe that is the only difference. Those two horses are like chalk and cheese. Bill, being a Belgian is taller with a long slow stride. While Baron, being a Suffolk, is a stouter horse with a short choppy stride, so he is always going to be trotting or jigging a little bit because he sees Bill taking these long slow strides. He feels he needs to jig along a bit to keep ahead. He wants to keep ahead because he is a stallion. He will always be like that. If he was cut you would see him change and slow down in just a few months. Yes the garlic need to loose their scapes asap or they won't bulb up. It is best to remove the scape when you first see it curl around. The scape is actually new garlic bulbuls trying to reach the ground but if you allow that, the main plant won't form the big hefty bulb that we cherish so much. But it is possible to do both. Just leave a couple of scapes to touch the ground. The rest are then cut to form bulbs. Your garden is a treat, Brenda. I am so jealous! I can't grow anything in my typically Aussie impoverished dirt. It is far too thin to hold any nutrient. All vegetative matter is consumed by the ants in a few weeks leaving just the bones of dirt. I use potting mix with limited success inside a well-protected shade house. I can't have a grape on the place! The birds eat them while they are still tiny beads. If I net them I *may* get a few that the hares have missed! But again the soil is terrible so they rarely grow more than 2ft high so hardly worth the effort. I tried berries of different types but again if not the birds, it is the hares or the wallabies or some other pest getting everything while it is dead green. I don't feed any wildlife here. The garden does it for me! 🙄
Wow the hay is beautiful. The garden is coming along nicely. We just got done with strawberries here in south Fl. I have a U Pick farm near me and I go pick. I have a small garden in the winter months Oct -April Hope Bree is good👍😁
I have always put the bales tight against each other. Unless you put a tarp over the bales, a pyramid rots the hay faster, I have found. The lower bales are soaking up the water that is shedding off the top bale.
I see Greg Judy storing the round bales on 6" to 7" cedar logs 4' to 5' long 18" to 24" apart. This keeps the bales off the ground and allows for air circulation. In your area you could use Tamarec. Hope spelling is correct. I thoroughly enjoy your videos all the way here in Jamaica 🇯🇲 👍🏽
I agree with Brenda the boards should go to the top and with Jim about needing some more 2x4 bracing. I also envy your garden and fruit trees. I sure would like to have a grape vine like yours again. We used to have one but it got cut down accidentlythru a miss communication. We never have found another one. Thank you for your fine content in your films.
My brother in law in N.D. always did a tight 3-2-1 pyramid for his 200 head plus head of beef cows. Some piles lasted up to 5 years as long as they were not piled in a low spot.
I always enjoy your videos!! 😊 If Lady's breeding takes, does she then lose interest in Bree & wean her herself? You guys work well together!! The two of you show a well rounded picture of your life. I have a little deck garden...I was hand watering for a long time. Then we finally got some good rain & wow! It took off!!! I see I have little tomatoes!! I am so excited!! Lol!! I pray you are blessed with a bountiful garden & many round bales!! God is so good!!
I think that horses with a high level of energy like Baron are just motivated to work even harder when having to pull heavier loads. Nothing replaces working long hours, the load doesn't even have to be so big. After all, Baron is only three years. I draw my conclusions from doing hayrides in fall for many years. Pulling rolling loads 8 to 9 hours did more to calm down my horses than the occasional heavier work for short times.
Jim, Brenda did great driving Bill andBaron!!, I enjoyed being in the mill cutting boards for for your new hay wagon. Jim, to answer your question on round bales, you stack them tight, and pyramid them, right! Jim, Nova Scotia, Canada. Hi to Trudy, and Abby.
put a heavy spring on the front of the pole, something like a snowplow spring that has a little give in it, when he goes forward the spring will coil up and send him backwards!
Brenda, I enjoyed seeing your garden and that you mentioned what you're growing. I can't have a garden and so it is a treat to hear about yours. How are your chickens? I have been enjoying the sounds of summer bird songs here in northwest Indiana. Kathy
I look at your place with the tall grass and the stuff put not in a perfect straight line and and perfect condition and I think about my place that looks just like yours. thank you so much for being real. On a different note my little stud colt is three days younger than yours. His name is Loki and he lives up to his name. He is a blast. Oh buy the way I have Shires
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Greetings from Wisconsin!! What an awesome job driving the horses Brenda !!! Hats off to all of you getting those bales in from the field!! Love love your videos!!!
Seeing that Brenda is part of the Working team on the farm, it’s a small request to have her view of the mildew stained decrepitated wall boarded up. My vote is Just do it Jim.
Brenda is such a trooper - sloshing through the field to get the video! Great job driving the horses! Baron has so much energy. Your garden is amazing. Bless you guys.
Good job Brenda driving. I can see you're more confident in the way you handle the rains.
Baron seemed a perfect gentleman with Brenda..........I have found that sometimes a stud will react differently with a "lady driver"!! I remember my aunt always preferred to drive stallions
As much as those horses know ,,,and I know they know..how much Brenda loves them..I just can not see them running away with Brenda driving.
@@joqlady888 Any horse can get startled and run, no matter who is driving.
I love your gardens Brenda! You've certainly got a green thumb.
I think Baron will have " his swagger" attitude for some time yet .
I think the cows were cheering for Brenda. 😀 She did a super job driving Baron for the first time. Jim and Brenda are a very fine example of a farm couple working together. 😀😀😀
They were like go mom!!!
I thought they were hoping to get that round bale off the skid steer. 😄
Jim, new boards to the top of the truck box = Happy Wife. Just saying...
Wow! Brinda's two new careers becoming a Skid steer operator and a teamster.
Barron's jigging is just swagger! Cool dude.
Brenda you're becoming one fine farmer, I bet Jim really appreciates having you home working beside him! Good job 👍
Brenda - For spider mites, aphids. Squash bugs. For most plants. Cucumber especially. Peppermint oil spray.
1-2 teaspoons of peppermint oil per gallon of water and a little squirt of dish soap to disperse the oil. From Gary at The Rusted Garden.
I know of some farmers who not only separate their round bells from each other but they also raise them up off the ground so that the bottoms of the rolls don't start to rot.
Another enjoyable video. THANK YOU BRENDA AND JIM.
Just watching Baron trotting along, his gait looks so smooth. I'd be willing to bet he would be a very comfortable riding horse too.
You do what Brenda tells you to do fella.
Thanks for the stroll through your gardens, Brenda. The grapes are amazing! Nice job driving the wagon, too!
Brenda, your garden is so beautiful. You're becoming a teamster. Jim, your fields and mill look so orderly and well managed. You are both an inspiration.
Everything looking good there Jim Brenda, God has given you a blessing with the rain 🌧 🙏 to keep everything watered , 🌽 looking good , tralior looking great , Baron has got some energy alright l guess he's a young male , good job Brenda 👏 working Baron , we're they swallows flying around you in the paddock , ok all have a good weekend
Hey Brenda,,,I loved that lil wave you gave us. God Bless ya'll mightily.
Me too!
Me to
I vote with Brenda, put the wall all the way to the top.
While Jim was parking the horses, I was thinking the top of the wall was in need of a makeover. Wonder how much Andy would charge to put some boards up.
I say double-up the mid section.
Brenda couldn’t be more right! The wall would be so lovely and an incredible backdrop for your videos
Brenda, you are right on with your suggestions😁
Love you guys...thanks for all you do!!! GodBless.
I agree with Brenda. The wall would look great with boards all the way up. 😊👍👍
You have a glorious garden, Brenda! Congratulations! We are blessed with 2.5 irrigated acres on the edge of the desert in western Colorado. We have 2 LG dogs, Hannah and Arlo, 4 kitties for mouse countrol, 40 chickens (including 2 roosters), 3 garden plots and 52 assorted fruit and nut trees. It was 95°F today, and heading for 100°F+. July and August are our hot months here. Our highs are usually around 100°F to 104°F. One year we had 105°F, another year we had 106°F, and our all-time high was 107°F. God bless Gordon Family Farm and all who dwell there! 🙏🙏
I think Baron would be fun to ride the way he prances! He is becoming a good "backer upper" like Bill! So, will you let us know if Lady's breeding took place! If it did, she should foal the end of May or 1st part of June next year, right?!!! As for good draft horses go, do you prefer one that's high energy or one with less energy? It definitely takes an experienced driver to handle/train him! Your cattle were telling you to drop off one of those bales for them!😘 The tameric(? sp) wood is beautiful. Would make beautiful tables! Brenda, your garden looks wonderful! Taters like nice and healthy. My goodness, what a huge bunch of grapes!!!!🍇 Delicious! And you will have plenty of apples to put up later on too! I remember you put up a lot of applesauce last fall. Do you ever make crockpot apple butter? My mom used to do that and her's was so good. Hope you all have a beautiful weekend! Will your son and family get to visit for the 4th? Hope the grandbabies get to see and love on Bree soon!!!
Jim, we put round bales in a single row, like you, but push them together, end to end, as tight as possible. Keeps them protected. Brenda is awesome!
Love your veggies and fruit! Great gardens!! And beautiful flowers!! Great job today busy lady! 🥰
Love the videos as always! I find myself telling my dog 'careful, careful' when connecting his leash lol. But with Jim's accent.
I love your Garden Brenda, and great seeing you and Jim picking up the round bales of hay. The Horses look great too! Barron knows he is the Man. HE feels so good and healthy. As are the other Horses all look great!
I can remember being a young stud but I didn't prance like Baron does. What handsome horses you have. I agree that you need some more vertical 2 Ex's to stop the boards from bending in to keep from breaking. I give you 4 thumbs up on all of your videos. God bless and keep safe
Stone boat hauling in hay Baron is still prancing on the way back to the barn. Garden looks like it's growing good
Your garden is wonderful in comparison with mine. We, in Western France, have had a very dry spring and summer. There was 6mm (Just about ¼ inch) last night. Feb, March and April were very dry with a NE wind winch made it cool. The water table is very low as last summer was dry and we did not have the winter rains to replenish it.
Bravo for driving Baron.
We always butted the bales together! To me it seemed to keep the ends fresher. Y'all stay safe!
I so enjoyed this video Brenda and Jim. Actually there hasn’t been one that I haven’t. Be safe, and enjoy what is left of your day.
As big and strong as they are their so darn cut both of them loved the ĥand full of grass brenda gave them 😂
I am in Nebraska and we put them up tight to each other to try to protect the ends. Some put them in a pyramid. But I found the bottom ones go bad faster.
I think it would be easier to add the strength to hold Baron if you just add in a huge support beam for building out the rest of the wall. It would look great, be efficient, give you something to screw your rings into, and get rid of that ruin of a top wall. I love old buildings and barns and farms. I love the way time has added a patina to everything. But when you stick a beautiful wooden wall beneath a broken, dirty, mossy wall…it just draws attention to all the problems. I know how busy you are. I also know how you love this farm. The legacy of what you show us and demonstrate to us is important. And that includes 1) keeping the wife happy 2) supporting the infrastructure of the farm and 3) demonstrating suck-up-manship (the ability to just give up and get-er-done).
Thank you Jim and Brenda . Your hay and gardens look beautiful. I have been hauling water to my garden for a month . We finally got some rain . GOD bless you and yours❤
Jim, Brenda is correct the boards need to go to the top!!!!
Thank you 🤗
What great team work
Great job with your animals. supper watching them being worked
Baron stuck his head in that window and saw that little baby in there with Lady and he also knows what’s coming next. He has to step up and get to work for his kids. Jim hang on to the reins. He is on the move and got work to do.😂
Enjoyed the video picking up hay❤. With the way u had the camera felt like I was literally riding along w yall!!💕💕 so excited to hear Lady is bred again. Her foals are GORGEOUS!! Bree will have a playmate in about a year👏👏🥳
Brenda your gardens are BEAUTIFUL!! I wouldn’t mind pulling some weeds w ya. Gotta make em look all pretty😊😊😊 God Bless!!
I know it’s a family show and you won’t show the actual mating, but handling him before and after and how you pad her up would be so interesting. It’s part of farm life and us city folk are interested.❤
I’ve watched a video of this on a different YT channel - and did not enjoy viewing it.
I am thankful Brenda and Jim choose not to show these on their channel.
Brenda and Jim you must be be busy from morning to night. You two definitely get your cardio and then some! Brenda your gardens look great you just can't beat home grown vegetables and fruit!
With all that is going wrong in our world it is so soothing to watch your channel every day. Does Jim help with the housework? God is so good.
I agree with Brenda finish the wall with boards, all sh does she deserves that! Thxs Jim you won't regret it..... happy wife happy life for you ❤️
Old Pallets to keep them off the ground, pushed tight together is how I store the round bales. Keeps the ends for soiling.
Good job Brenda!
Having your own food and not needing the grocery store is true freedom. I agree that Baron needs to work harder. He is still being obedient, but he is full of himself. He's like a racehorse who just keeps getting fitter and fitter, and you just can't tire them out. Since the other two are older, they probably can't work him down on their own. It will probably take both Kenny and Bill to wear him out.
gardens look great, have a safe and happy 4th
Always something to do on the farm,keep you busy!
My Mom and Dad used hydrated lime on the leaf's of the plant just took a nail and poked holes in the bottom of a coffee can for a shaker. If still persist use a little seven dust
I really like the videos of the sawmill . I love the horses , too and the farming , but I like the sawmill stuff and working on things .
Thanks, for sharing you Garden and your Flower Garden Brinda, lots of work to keep things looking nice. And thanks for suturing my fond Memorys of those that have gown before me and there Garen's, the little joys in Life.
I see you have barn swallows flying convoy when you're driving equipment in the fields. I have some that 'help' me mow. :)
That is great that lady is bred again! She did deliver very well with Bree 😊
You got a great wife jim she gets right in and does what she has to do to help 😉
You got a good garden thank you for showing it ❤️✌🏼
We’ve piled bales 3 high. 3,2,1. Without any trouble as long as you know they’re good and dry.
Gardens looking really good. Good luck w/ weed control. I never enjoyed weeding. Barron is really full of himself. Hope Lady settles and delivers again next spring. Thank you for sharing.🐴🐴
Brenda you do a excellent job at doing videos especially this time with the sawmill getting beautiful close cool shots of the working’s of the sawmill. You two are such hardworking couple. Brenda your garden looks so beautiful, of course with all your hard work. Happy 4th of July 🎉😂❤. Love ❤️ from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Brenda, you veggies and flowers are so pretty 😊. Working in the hay field brings back so many memories from my childhood 😊❤to all the horses.
Hi Jim and Brinda, the stone bot looks like a good idea. I'll be watching to see how well it works.
I think the wall would look really good covering the complete side of the truck body and painted.
We finished it all - very good!
Loved seeing duke & earl, seems like it’s been quite awhile and they look amazing and healthy.
Love how your saw mill works awesome job Jim 👍
love your garden Brenda. Baron was very well behaved in the hay field.
What a variety of good work and projects you have going! Sometimes just trying to think of what to do when wears me out at our place! Nothing like all the practical thinking through things to encourage! Thank you for the garden tour Brenda 😊!
Brenda, what a fine job you did with Baron!! I have to admit, he's my favorite, although I do love all your beautiful horses! My husband & I so enjoy watching your videos, & look forward to all your posts. By the way, the garden is looking lovely as well. Also couldn't believe your beautiful Clematis was that old, that's amazing! We just purchased one called Nelly Moser the other day. Have a safe & fun 4th of July weekend, Brenda and Jim!!!
Love watching your videos Find soooo relaxing
I'm with Brenda, Jim you have the lumber, I would finish the trailer with wood..I put the round bales end to end tight together.
Jim I think it would be nice FOR Brenda and the wall would look great with boards all the way up. Everything is looking so nice . Looking forward Brenda to seeing your garden up close just love Clematises and dahlias. Hopefully on the way to another beautiful foal 😊👍👍
Hello from Sweden!Storing bales outdoor during winter is mostly done in a pyramid stack close together and then a tarp over the top, not all the way to the ground to keep them dry and ventilated.
The benefit of round bales is that rain runs off and moisture only collects where they sit on the ground. When you stack them on top of each other you create contact areas where moisture collects and can seep into the bales. So, in regions with a lot of rain it is not beneficial to stack round bales on top of each other.
Hi Jim and Brenda, how I have my round bales is to stack them tight together with palettes underneath. I have seen that some cover it with fleece, but that fleece is quite expensive. Not sure if it makes a big difference. I would not put boards on the wall to the top, but you might consider doing it for Brenda if it makes her happy 😄 Today I have heard that the Canadian wildfire smoke reached Europe meanwhile 🤭 Have a nice evening and wish you good luck with further haying. -Chris
Way to go Brenda!!!
Hello, and thank you for sharing your daily lives with us. Please keep doing so it makes me happy.
Wagon looks really good. You’re a good builder.
Good job Brenda
Yes enjoyed the video. like the interaction of Jim narrating what he does next and Brenda showing the Beach Boys, I call Duke and Earl. Keep em sawing
I wonder who did such a good job with the planks of the wagon ! 😀 Excellent team work everyone.
A wonderland , thankyou for sharing .
Amazed at all you do .
Set one bale on end so the string or net wrap is not on the ground. Then set the next one on top strings down so the water runs off. Leave some space in between. Pyramid stacks let the water run down between the bales and rots the whole pile. Just my experience. Thank you keep up the great work and videos!
Beautiful looking garden Brenda , nice to see you get time driving the horses 🐎 around the field. 😊
Thank you for another enjoyable video. Love the updates of Duke and Earl and your lovely garden. I know the garden takes a lot of time and work. Do you still have chickens and guineas? Always look forward to your videos
I put our bales like you have them there up on slabs. I’ve read “the best way” to do it is to flip one up, then lay the other on top, making it look like a mushroom. I’m really not sure. Love your videos as always. 👍✌️
Brenda is a natural driving Baron. Re the bales, in Australia, many places wrap in plastic these days. While the rest of us are making concerted efforts to rid our lives of the retched stuff, agri is just now seeing the benefits! Those would be bales that need to sit through heavy rain and or snow mostly. But in anycase, most bales seem to be pushed together in long lines 2-4 deep and 2-3 high. If they need to go higher they will be sat on end and stacked 4 high, Those ones are often made stronger and denser to tolerate being stacked and placed on the bottom. Some round bales are getting to over a ton each these days.
But pushed together with no air between and covered completely with huge tarps after stacking. I don't know how the inner bales are at the end of the sitting season right before use. Maybe they are not that good unless wrapped in plastic. Some use black plastic while others use white. I don't know if there is a difference or just manufacturers.
Silage seems to come in black plastic here, so maybe that is the only difference.
Those two horses are like chalk and cheese. Bill, being a Belgian is taller with a long slow stride. While Baron, being a Suffolk, is a stouter horse with a short choppy stride, so he is always going to be trotting or jigging a little bit because he sees Bill taking these long slow strides. He feels he needs to jig along a bit to keep ahead. He wants to keep ahead because he is a stallion. He will always be like that. If he was cut you would see him change and slow down in just a few months.
Yes the garlic need to loose their scapes asap or they won't bulb up. It is best to remove the scape when you first see it curl around.
The scape is actually new garlic bulbuls trying to reach the ground but if you allow that, the main plant won't form the big hefty bulb that we cherish so much. But it is possible to do both. Just leave a couple of scapes to touch the ground. The rest are then cut to form bulbs.
Your garden is a treat, Brenda. I am so jealous! I can't grow anything in my typically Aussie impoverished dirt. It is far too thin to hold any nutrient. All vegetative matter is consumed by the ants in a few weeks leaving just the bones of dirt. I use potting mix with limited success inside a well-protected shade house. I can't have a grape on the place! The birds eat them while they are still tiny beads. If I net them I *may* get a few that the hares have missed! But again the soil is terrible so they rarely grow more than 2ft high so hardly worth the effort. I tried berries of different types but again if not the birds, it is the hares or the wallabies or some other pest getting everything while it is dead green. I don't feed any wildlife here. The garden does it for me! 🙄
Wow the hay is beautiful. The garden is coming along nicely. We just got done with strawberries here in south Fl.
I have a U Pick farm near me and I go pick. I have a small garden in the winter months Oct -April Hope Bree is good👍😁
Baron dances while he works!
I have always put the bales tight against each other. Unless you put a tarp over the bales, a pyramid rots the hay faster, I have found. The lower bales are soaking up the water that is shedding off the top bale.
I see Greg Judy storing the round bales on 6" to 7" cedar logs 4' to 5' long 18" to 24" apart. This keeps the bales off the ground and allows for air circulation. In your area you could use Tamarec. Hope spelling is correct. I thoroughly enjoy your videos all the way here in Jamaica 🇯🇲 👍🏽
I agree with Brenda the boards should go to the top and with Jim about needing some more 2x4 bracing. I also envy your garden and fruit trees. I sure would like to have a grape vine like yours again. We used to have one but it got cut down accidentlythru a miss communication. We never have found another one. Thank you for your fine content in your films.
Jim the field come back nice and green with clover. 😊
My brother in law in N.D. always did a tight 3-2-1 pyramid for his 200 head plus head of beef cows. Some piles lasted up to 5 years as long as they were not piled in a low spot.
There,s no doubt about you two. Your quite a team,including the horses.❤😊
I always enjoy your videos!! 😊 If Lady's breeding takes, does she then lose interest in Bree & wean her herself?
You guys work well together!! The two of you show a well rounded picture of your life. I have a little deck garden...I was hand watering for a long time. Then we finally got some good rain & wow! It took off!!! I see I have little tomatoes!! I am so excited!! Lol!!
I pray you are blessed with a bountiful garden & many round bales!! God is so good!!
I think that horses with a high level of energy like Baron are just motivated to work even harder when having to pull heavier loads. Nothing replaces working long hours, the load doesn't even have to be so big. After all, Baron is only three years. I draw my conclusions from doing hayrides in fall for many years. Pulling rolling loads 8 to 9 hours did more to calm down my horses than the occasional heavier work for short times.
Jim, Brenda did great driving Bill andBaron!!, I enjoyed being in the mill cutting boards for for your new hay wagon. Jim, to answer your question on round bales, you stack them tight, and pyramid them, right! Jim, Nova Scotia, Canada. Hi to Trudy, and Abby.
put a heavy spring on the front of the pole, something like a snowplow spring that has a little give in it, when he goes forward the spring will coil up and send him backwards!
Brenda, I enjoyed seeing your garden and that you mentioned what you're growing. I can't have a garden and so it is a treat to hear about yours. How are your chickens? I have been enjoying the sounds of summer bird songs here in northwest Indiana. Kathy
I look at your place with the tall grass and the stuff put not in a perfect straight line and and perfect condition and I think about my place that looks just like yours. thank you so much for being real. On a different note my little stud colt is three days younger than yours. His name is Loki and he lives up to his name. He is a blast. Oh buy the way I have Shires