In winter months from October-April I add kitchen veggie raw scraps, no tomatoes. I add crushed eggs shells and used coffee grounds. Basically I am using my raised beds as a compost pile. By the time of planting most of these are broke down and feeding the new plants. I also just top dress the raised beds with 2 inches of garden soil, mix in. I have been doing this for 5 years. Plants healthy and their immune systems are strong
I do the same. I also start a new raised bed with raw compost and put leaves and wood chips from my tree trimming I do in the spring. Usually I only have to add 4 cubic ft of soil on top. Depending on how quick it all breaks down. I can sometimes get by with using finished compost as a topper in the summer when it’s time to rotate crops.
What I do is very similar only. I have two half gallon plastic coffee containers In each 4x4 bed. I bury the container up to the lid. And every week I add more to it with or more organic matter. And when all is finally said and done, I have a wonderful bucket of warm castings . I put it in the container so that I don't have to worry about rodents coming and digging things up or being attracted to my garden .
Hello Homestead I really appreciate you sharing this information and I pray that the Most High will bless your family and your garden a good harvest! Shalom 🙏🏾💕💕
Those of us that have tiny garden and use pots need to remember those pots dry out quicker than the ground or raised beds. And raised beds will dry out quicker than tje ground!
I think the top five of your list is wonderful specially when you guy said consistency a lot of times that’s the problem with most gardeners. They think if they plant it it’s going to just grow just fine but we have to remember that we have took it out of his natural environment And now that plant stands all alone💚🥬🪴Happy Growing
You are two very beautiful people and I'm glad that isn't a requirement for a good garden otherwise I couldn't grow anything! The wife and I started our third year of trying to grow things (just potatoes the first two years) and we have been delighted to get collards, broccoli, and brussels up here in Alaska. Lots more work to do to expand it, but we're paying attention to your compost videos and how much your chickens provide. I'm hoping to make an area to keep the moose in so they provide some easy to scoop compost. Happy holidays to you, love your videos!
I agree 100% with your list. It has taken me years and I continuously work to amend my sandy FL soil. Rabbit poo has been a game changer. I have built my crops from as local as possible sources. But, I also have had good success with the seeds I bought from you . Thank you.
Here's what I do. I get the half gallon plastic coffee jugs and I put lots of holes all around the side and all around the bottom. And I make it into a little compost bin. I'll put dirt or leaves on the bottom kitchen. Two scraps dirtier, leaves, kitchen, food scraps and it breaks down and by the time everything in there is all broken down. You have half a jug of worm castings. And talk about worms in the garden and it was free! I do this all throughout the growing season. I have two coffee jugs and a 4x4 Square raised bed. I start filling it in the spring and then next spring I dump out the castings into my garden around where my plants will be. And then I start all over. I don't use any other fertilizer. Just whatever naturally. Decomposes and my little composting in place that in return gives me gold.
I really enjoy watching the two of you together giving tips and encouragement to new and older gardeners, the journaling of what worked and didn't for me is key to getting a harvest and not a disappointing surprise when things didn't grow😊
I started my garden a few years ago. Like you, we have a lot of sand. What i did was a partial raised bed (logs for the sides). I put down cardboard, followed by leaf litter, layer of wood chips and layer of straw. Nothing was planned the first year. Last year, the wood chips weren't fully broken down, so I made holes for planting and filled them with compost. This year I added the compost, but there wasn't much wood chips left. By this fall, my beds looked so good as everything was finally broken down. Topped the beds with my chicken manure last week and can't wait to see the beds in the spring. This year, despite excessive rain in June and drought to end the summer and early fall, it was one of the best harvests I've ever had!
I love you two! I have failed at growing strawberries in the spring. Now I know now. The weather has killed my garden. I also broke my arm. But I will start my spring garden with faith and patience. Thanks for words of encouragement. Be forever Blessed! ❤❤❤❤
I’m blessed to have black gold. I get lots of leaves every year. I just mulched them with the mower on Friday and added them to all of my tables and beds😊.
#5 Good soil. #4 Good quality seeds #3 Be consistent taking care of your garden #2 Faith!!! Believe it will happen thank you God#1 patience ❤❤❤ Mrs. H where did you get the coveralls if I may ask... I would love to order some ❤
And I think that we're all happy to be here. I mean, speak for myself and probably other people. But yeah, I am very happy to be here. I have learned so much from you too. And you always make me smile. You have a blessed day❤❤❤
Oh, y'all! Thank you for the video & the encouragement & the perspective. I love it. Enjoyed your video & learned from you. Thanks so much! God bless y'all!
Call a company that does waterproofing...they may give you fill dirt...which you can add lots lots of leaves and manure don't forget some cities will bring you wood chips...cover this with black plastic. Forget for two years ....then when you take off plastic...just till and mix together...this will be consist of very dark earth. I used to have two piles like this going at all times...that way some was always ready and one working ...
early spring ... I plant chunks of rainbow trout about 8-10 inches deep into my soil. . every year and haven't had any issues doing it.... rainbow trout are very abundant and easy to catch February and March my area
You guys are so very beautiful. Your faith shines like the sun on you. ❤ I'm excited about your seed shop can't wait to get my cart going there. Also a comment on building up soil. My soil was dead. Couldn't even grow weeds for nearly 20 years no matter what I did. Truck loads of raw manure. The muck from the chicken coop. Rabbit hutch droppings . Then I got some ducks and a kiddie pool that needed to be drained and cleaned out twice a week. All that water was siphoned to a prospective garden patch. A couple years later I can grow plants that look like something from Jurassic Park.
You two are so cute, love your channel & especially your canning skills! Thanks for the tips, just started on my 5th year of gardening at 72 years young and it’s gotten better each year!
Good morning. Thank you so much for the information. I really needed it. I didn't do good last season but I know God put it in my heart to garden. I won't despise small beginnings. 💕
#5 That's me bless too have black gold soil well truth be told this was a farmland, good soil ✅ calendar✅ Homestead heart seeds ✅Prayer✅ patients✅ I do forget some that I planted Thank You
Seeds ahead of time, compost, seed starting items for early indoor, fencing around my garden( we have rabbits out here). And people like you both for guidance. I can and process a Lot and love to watch mrs H. I’m going to do her red beans and rice recipe
Fusarium wilt disease has infested one of my raised beds. I suspect it was from infected transplants. Now I have to be careful with choosing crops that are resistant to it for the next five years, or change the soil and start over with building it. I think I’ll just be selective with what I plant in it. I have other raised beds that I plan on using for growing cabbage starting in February. My first crop of Dutch Cabbage wilted and died in about ten days after transplanting them. When I dug them up, they didn’t have any root development. I figured it was something I did wrong. The second crop lasted longer, nearly a month before succumbing to the disease, but not before I figured out what was causing it. I have plenty of other cabbage growing elsewhere in my garden, red cabbage, Pak Choi, Yellow Heart Winter Choy, and as an experiment I am growing Napa Cabbage. All of them are healthy, and the Pak Choy and Yellow Heart Winter Choy are ready to harvest. As it turns out, the eight heads of Napa Cabbage I am growing are now the replacement crop for my lost six heads of Dutch Cabbage.
Thank you two, for explaining what happened to your garden this year. I was wondering after that fiasco with the poisoned manure. I enjoy your interaction too - loving and good humored.
I live in sw Missouri in the ozark mountains. I live on top of a giant rock lol. Right now my garden is all raised, but i have a couple of places that I'm throwing any of my potting soil from house plants that i repot and other organic matter for what will hopefully be a corn and pumpkin patch someday. ❤
In western Minnesota we have black gold soil! That prairies grass! Only down side is short season but you can still grow ALOT, its just all at once and you gotta HUSTLE!
I am 4 miles from the Canadian boarder zone 3. These are the things I need. 1. I need a plan, I also rely on my journal. 2. Indoor grow lights to starts plants ahead of time. 3. mulch, mulch mulch. 4. TH-cam friends to garden with (Mr. and Mrs. H, and others). 5. Grace.
Such a cute ending! 🤣 I think every year it is good to reevaluate what works and what doesn't. (Locations, sun requirements, varieties, etc.) I tried new things and discovered what I will plant again, and things that I will not. Last year I had a rather poor harvest, quantity wise, so this spring I went overboard and planted twice as many plants. Holy cow...I ended up so overloaded I ran out of freezer space and canned many cases til I ran out of funds for jars, lol. I gave some away, and still had too much. So some of it ended up in the compost pile. So I will definitely do things a little bit different next year. 🤣
I have saved seeds from every single thing ...veggie and flowers that I grew this year!!!; I have enough for myself and enough to share with our libraries seed catalog ❤
Buy plants that match your lifestyle if you don’t have that much time go for succulents and cactus. Some of these plants are edible. Also my number 1 recommend is to buy seeds that grow well in your region because they require much less care and thrive with a little bit of love. Also learn from mistakes and plant in high quality because some plants always die and you may never know why
I believe soil is foundational...so I would say it's #1. It needs air, water, fungi, enzymes, and organic matter for all those things to work on. Yes....weeks grow on 'dirt' but that is their prefence...many medicinal plants and herbs like 'poor' soil...but for healthy produce, you need healthy soil.
A lady told me once if the apocalypse happened, then she’d start learning to garden/can…. So many people have no idea how it takes ALL of what y’all spoke about.
Good afternoon you precious souls, so good to see your smiling faces! Sending you tons of love! We have a quick question can I put straight chicken manure on my garden soil and let it be watered in over the winter? Thank you in advance for any help you can offer you guys take care! 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
In winter months from October-April I add kitchen veggie raw scraps, no tomatoes. I add crushed eggs shells and used coffee grounds. Basically I am using my raised beds as a compost pile. By the time of planting most of these are broke down and feeding the new plants. I also just top dress the raised beds with 2 inches of garden soil, mix in. I have been doing this for 5 years. Plants healthy and their immune systems are strong
I do the same. I also start a new raised bed with raw compost and put leaves and wood chips from my tree trimming I do in the spring. Usually I only have to add 4 cubic ft of soil on top. Depending on how quick it all breaks down. I can sometimes get by with using finished compost as a topper in the summer when it’s time to rotate crops.
wow! You just wrote out my blueprint for this off-season! 😁
What I do is very similar only. I have two half gallon plastic coffee containers
In each 4x4 bed. I bury the container up to the lid. And every week I add more to it with or more organic matter. And when all is finally said and done, I have a wonderful bucket of warm castings . I put it in the container so that I don't have to worry about rodents coming and digging things up or being attracted to my garden .
We are in texas my top 5 are; rain rain rain rain and rain. Lol
Blessings and good morning
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🗣FACTS!!!!
Amen!!!
🤣🤣🤣LOVE IT!
Mrs. H, you are hilarious 😂😂😂
She really is comical thought I was only one who noticed her awesome sense of humor.❤❤❤😂😂
1. Sun
2. Soil
3. Good seeds
4. Plenty of water
5. Time to tend/priorities
I truly enjoy learning and watching yall. Thank you!!!
Y’all are so cute.
Aren't they, though. 🥰
No shade but is he alot younger than her 🤔
Hello Homestead I really appreciate you sharing this information and I pray that the Most High will bless your family and your garden a good harvest! Shalom 🙏🏾💕💕
Yes. I agree with you also they are excellent and shalom
THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOU GUYS LOOK SO BEAUTIFUL
I grew up with that cartoon 😄 gotta have patience
ROFLAO! I love the outtakes! Never give up everyone, that is the biggest key on top of the top 5 things you must have.
We just Love Y'all Thank you so so much!!💕
yes true. FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD. thank you both so very much
Thank you for sharing Mr & Mrs H.! 😊
What a treat to have both of you presenting! Thanks for all you teach us! Peace and blessings!👍🏾🧡
Those of us that have tiny garden and use pots need to remember those pots dry out quicker than the ground or raised beds. And raised beds will dry out quicker than tje ground!
I think the top five of your list is wonderful specially when you guy said consistency a lot of times that’s the problem with most gardeners. They think if they plant it it’s going to just grow just fine but we have to remember that we have took it out of his natural environment And now that plant stands all alone💚🥬🪴Happy Growing
Mrs. H. You got me rolling in laughter up here in Missouri...I absolutely loved the "Bloopers" at the end of the video. 😀😂🙃🤣😁😀
😊
I use old horse manure and chicken compost and leftover kitchen scraps.
Patience, perseverance, prayer, hope, faith!
I love you guys and forget to check on ya’ll. TH-cam used to recommend ya’ll a lot.
You are two very beautiful people and I'm glad that isn't a requirement for a good garden otherwise I couldn't grow anything! The wife and I started our third year of trying to grow things (just potatoes the first two years) and we have been delighted to get collards, broccoli, and brussels up here in Alaska. Lots more work to do to expand it, but we're paying attention to your compost videos and how much your chickens provide. I'm hoping to make an area to keep the moose in so they provide some easy to scoop compost.
Happy holidays to you, love your videos!
I have been known to scoop up moose droppings. If you start early in doors you can even get corn (one ear per plant). Ed Hume seeds seem to work well.
The spoofs at the end just tickled me. Love y'all. Peace and blessings!
I agree 100% with your list. It has taken me years and I continuously work to amend my sandy FL soil. Rabbit poo has been a game changer. I have built my crops from as local as possible sources. But, I also have had good success with the seeds I bought from you . Thank you.
Thank you Mr. & Mrs. H. This information was so good. Love you guys. I will continue to pray for you guys. Love Never Fails!
Love the bloopers 😂
You all are so fun to watch! Bless you!!
Here's what I do. I get the half gallon plastic coffee jugs and I put lots of holes all around the side and all around the bottom. And I make it into a little compost bin. I'll put dirt or leaves on the bottom kitchen. Two scraps dirtier, leaves, kitchen, food scraps and it breaks down and by the time everything in there is all broken down. You have half a jug of worm castings. And talk about worms in the garden and it was free!
I do this all throughout the growing season. I have two coffee jugs and a 4x4 Square raised bed. I start filling it in the spring and then next spring I dump out the castings into my garden around where my plants will be. And then I start all over. I don't use any other fertilizer. Just whatever naturally. Decomposes and my little composting in place that in return gives me gold.
I put my chickens on the garden spot after garden last year.
I put the crushed egg shells in there too.
Excelent!!!
Mr and Mrs h have good organic seeds I was successful with most of mine purchased from them
I really enjoy watching the two of you together giving tips and encouragement to new and older gardeners, the journaling of what worked and didn't for me is key to getting a harvest and not a disappointing surprise when things didn't grow😊
I started my garden a few years ago. Like you, we have a lot of sand. What i did was a partial raised bed (logs for the sides). I put down cardboard, followed by leaf litter, layer of wood chips and layer of straw. Nothing was planned the first year. Last year, the wood chips weren't fully broken down, so I made holes for planting and filled them with compost. This year I added the compost, but there wasn't much wood chips left. By this fall, my beds looked so good as everything was finally broken down. Topped the beds with my chicken manure last week and can't wait to see the beds in the spring. This year, despite excessive rain in June and drought to end the summer and early fall, it was one of the best harvests I've ever had!
Thank you folks
God bless you and yours and God bless the USA
I love you two! I have failed at growing strawberries in the spring. Now I know now. The weather has killed my garden. I also broke my arm. But I will start my spring garden with faith and patience. Thanks for words of encouragement. Be forever Blessed! ❤❤❤❤
I’m blessed to have black gold. I get lots of leaves every year. I just mulched them with the mower on Friday and added them to all of my tables and beds😊.
#5 Good soil. #4 Good quality seeds #3 Be consistent taking care of your garden #2 Faith!!! Believe it will happen thank you God#1 patience ❤❤❤ Mrs. H where did you get the coveralls if I may ask... I would love to order some ❤
And I think that we're all happy to be here. I mean, speak for myself and probably other people. But yeah, I am very happy to be here. I have learned so much from you too.
And you always make me smile. You have a blessed day❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing your list.
Oh, y'all! Thank you for the video & the encouragement & the perspective. I love it. Enjoyed your video & learned from you. Thanks so much! God bless y'all!
You two are so cute. You're so funny. I love you guys. I have learned a lot. You have reminded me of things my Mom told a long time ago.
Faith, faith, yes, I cry if something happen in my, I work sun up sun down 😊
Yes consistency is the most underrated part..I have falling victim to this.
Ooooooo yess!!! I need help with my container gardening 🪴
Great Must Have Tips and Conversation 🙏🌱💜🌱🙏💜
OMG...😂 Foghorn Leghorn. I learned hints about carrots. I've not had great luck so far. Love you two! ❤😊
Youll are so cute. Lol, Loved that ending. ❤❤Thanks for sharing.
Hello again Mr. &Mrs. H. 😊 I have to say add to that list motivation to not quit. I’m not a green thumb person but I keep trying. ❤
I've tried the ash from our burn pile and my chicken stuff. We also have sandy dirt. Good advice on how to grow a garden.
Call a company that does waterproofing...they may give you fill dirt...which you can add lots lots of leaves and manure don't forget some cities will bring you wood chips...cover this with black plastic. Forget for two years ....then when you take off plastic...just till and mix together...this will be consist of very dark earth.
I used to have two piles like this going at all times...that way some was always ready and one working ...
What😊 a lovely couple!
Love your channel! You guys bless my heart.b♥️
early spring ... I plant chunks of rainbow trout about 8-10 inches deep into my soil. . every year and haven't had any issues doing it.... rainbow trout are very abundant and easy to catch February and March my area
So appreciate your videos 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
You guys are so very beautiful. Your faith shines like the sun on you. ❤
I'm excited about your seed shop can't wait to get my cart going there.
Also a comment on building up soil. My soil was dead. Couldn't even grow weeds for nearly 20 years no matter what I did. Truck loads of raw manure. The muck from the chicken coop. Rabbit hutch droppings . Then I got some ducks and a kiddie pool that needed to be drained and cleaned out twice a week. All that water was siphoned to a prospective garden patch. A couple years later I can grow plants that look like something from Jurassic Park.
You two are so cute, love your channel & especially your canning skills! Thanks for the tips, just started on my 5th year of gardening at 72 years young and it’s gotten better each year!
Always enjoy your channel, and Grizzo looks awesome.
Good morning. Thank you so much for the information. I really needed it. I didn't do good last season but I know God put it in my heart to garden. I won't despise small beginnings. 💕
Thank you for the good information in this video. God bless you.
Learn to grow what you and your family like to eat
I have gone with learn what grows well and learn to like it😂
Some varieties do better for my area then others, save seed, amend the soil at the end of the season, and watch your channel.
#5 That's me bless too have black gold soil well truth be told this was a farmland, good soil ✅ calendar✅ Homestead heart seeds ✅Prayer✅ patients✅ I do forget some that I planted Thank You
Seeds ahead of time, compost, seed starting items for early indoor, fencing around my garden( we have rabbits out here). And people like you both for guidance. I can and process a Lot and love to watch mrs H. I’m going to do her red beans and rice recipe
Fusarium wilt disease has infested one of my raised beds. I suspect it was from infected transplants. Now I have to be careful with choosing crops that are resistant to it for the next five years, or change the soil and start over with building it. I think I’ll just be selective with what I plant in it. I have other raised beds that I plan on using for growing cabbage starting in February.
My first crop of Dutch Cabbage wilted and died in about ten days after transplanting them. When I dug them up, they didn’t have any root development. I figured it was something I did wrong. The second crop lasted longer, nearly a month before succumbing to the disease, but not before I figured out what was causing it.
I have plenty of other cabbage growing elsewhere in my garden, red cabbage, Pak Choi, Yellow Heart Winter Choy, and as an experiment I am growing Napa Cabbage. All of them are healthy, and the Pak Choy and Yellow Heart Winter Choy are ready to harvest. As it turns out, the eight heads of Napa Cabbage I am growing are now the replacement crop for my lost six heads of Dutch Cabbage.
And the ability to do hard work.
Be intentional 😊
Thank you two, for explaining what happened to your garden this year. I was wondering after that fiasco with the poisoned manure. I enjoy your interaction too - loving and good humored.
Lovely to see you being silly together ❤️
I live in sw Missouri in the ozark mountains. I live on top of a giant rock lol. Right now my garden is all raised, but i have a couple of places that I'm throwing any of my potting soil from house plants that i repot and other organic matter for what will hopefully be a corn and pumpkin patch someday. ❤
In western Minnesota we have black gold soil! That prairies grass! Only down side is short season but you can still grow ALOT, its just all at once and you gotta HUSTLE!
Love, love your videos! I need to plant some seeds today, Zone 8a.
I founded elephant, chicken stool, where they had been feed organically food, works great
I am 4 miles from the Canadian boarder zone 3. These are the things I need. 1. I need a plan, I also rely on my journal. 2. Indoor grow lights to starts plants ahead of time. 3. mulch, mulch mulch. 4. TH-cam friends to garden with (Mr. and Mrs. H, and others). 5. Grace.
My part of AZ is far from black gold soil. Gophers love my yard. I grown in containers. I do compost.
Seed shop open in December! Great gift ideas❤
I just really appreciate you guys for sharing this information!
Awesome top five I love it!❤
Love the bib overalls
Such a cute ending! 🤣 I think every year it is good to reevaluate what works and what doesn't. (Locations, sun requirements, varieties, etc.) I tried new things and discovered what I will plant again, and things that I will not. Last year I had a rather poor harvest, quantity wise, so this spring I went overboard and planted twice as many plants. Holy cow...I ended up so overloaded I ran out of freezer space and canned many cases til I ran out of funds for jars, lol. I gave some away, and still had too much. So some of it ended up in the compost pile. So I will definitely do things a little bit different next year. 🤣
Looking forward to the seed shop!
Decide what you want to grow
Yes, what your family is going to eat
Can I just have y'all and put y'all in my pocket. I need help with my raise bed garden ❤ my Yah continue to bless y'all.
I have saved seeds from every single thing ...veggie and flowers that I grew this year!!!; I have enough for myself and enough to share with our libraries seed catalog ❤
I like your top 5, and thanks on how to grow top soil! I’m on it. ⭐️
Buy plants that match your lifestyle if you don’t have that much time go for succulents and cactus. Some of these plants are edible. Also my number 1 recommend is to buy seeds that grow well in your region because they require much less care and thrive with a little bit of love. Also learn from mistakes and plant in high quality because some plants always die and you may never know why
Awesome chat❤
Thank for another nice video! Great points too!
Love you guys! From cold n. Idaho!!
Thank you! I really enjoy your videos❤
Very helpful video, thanks!
My watermelon started growing out of season, beats me I was just thankful from The Most High ( I planted in season)
Ok - you had me up until you said patience. That isn't my best virtue. LOL! Thank you for the advice!
I believe soil is foundational...so I would say it's #1. It needs air, water, fungi, enzymes, and organic matter for all those things to work on. Yes....weeks grow on 'dirt' but that is their prefence...many medicinal plants and herbs like 'poor' soil...but for healthy produce, you need healthy soil.
🌽 silk leaves
God is just like having a baby you got to be patience with it and let it grow
You are cilly. Thanks for sharing
A lady told me once if the apocalypse happened, then she’d start learning to garden/can…. So many people have no idea how it takes ALL of what y’all spoke about.
THAT'S what I'm talking about!❤❤❤
Is it a shady vegetable or a sunny vegetable
Thank you ❤
Good afternoon you precious souls, so good to see your smiling faces! Sending you tons of love! We have a quick question can I put straight chicken manure on my garden soil and let it be watered in over the winter? Thank you in advance for any help you can offer you guys take care!
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
Good one Mr H
❤ the video