The Weather Finally Cooperated...Kind of. The Garden is Planted...Kind of.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2021
- It's FINALLY time to plant the garden. We are working against the clock as more rain moves into our area. Will we get it all done in time?
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Sarah, planting her garden in bare feet and braids. God is smiling down on you both today.
Is there anyone else like me who absolutely *loves* the background gobbler noises in the background!? ~ Kir in Tennessee
Yes! It warms my heart! We loved our chicken and turkey vocals accompanying our days! Its like a friend from the past visiting every time! God bless!
Sounds like you've found your ASMR calling. lol
Yup! In fact I got turkeys this January because of hearing them in the background so often! :D
Yup it’s the first sound that comes across before they can even speak
Not me. Kind of annoying.
Thank you. I’m 85, can’t plant anymore so you do it for me
Are you able to even get a single planter indoors to bring some joy to you? Maybe get help setting it up and planting, but continuing to have something to water and care for can bring a lot of joy to an old gardener's heart!
My 89 year old grandma loves to care for the 2 planters on the front porch, the flowers make her smile so beautifully.
David Skonieczny ,
Are you bedridden ? Can't get out of bed ?
@@h.s.6269 ,
I have citrus trees growing in large containers. They sit upon large saucers that have wheels. Since I live in Ohio they are in my livingroom for the colder months. I have two varieties of oranges , two kinds of lemons and one lime tree. For the warm months I roll them outside to my front deck. One thing to be careful of is sun burn. I use something like a garden row cover until they become acclimated to the sun. Those limes are really sour for eating fresh but wonderful for flavoring foods.
It is a blessing when your spouse can help in the garden. Sadly as we get older sometimes you are left to do it on your own due to health problems. Yet I find that even if the help is only advice, its well worth it. Besides the garden is my escape at times. Sitting out in the evenings with my wife and just watching everything grow.
Sometimes just having their company as you work can be just as fulfilling! I like to have my mother sit out with me when I work, partly to get her to stop working so hard and just breathe in fresh air and chill out. And yes, health issues can be a huge problem when trying to do projects as time sensitive as gardening.
The last 2 years I had fibro flare ups (i get nearly bed bound from pain) that lasted nearly a month right at the time the tomatoes NEEDED to get properly trellised and supported. When I was finally able to get out there it was a forest and the stems had touched ground and started new roots randomly so there was no fixing it, lol!
That is a wonderfully positive attitude. My husband has MS, and it is a real issue for us, as well, but right now, he's doing very well, thank God, so we work together. Of ever a day comes when either one of us cannot tolerate the work, I will reflect back on this comment, and have gratitude to give, or receive input from my spouse❤
Enjoy your peaceful time in the garden❤
I love your lifestyle. I wish I were still young and homesteading the way you're doing it.
Age is just a number.😁😁
Me too!
I just turned 49, the husband is 53, we just moved to 2 acers to start a verticle farm and dwarf tree orchard.
44 here and I'm working my butt off in the garden and transforming the landscape around my house.
70 in 3 weeks and still planting. It just takes a little longer with many more brakes than when I was 60, lol!
It has rained the better part of 3 weeks here in Fort Worth, and North Texas. There are several funnies I've seen on Facebook. One says, the real gas shortage will start when we all in Texas start running our lawn mowers after all this rain. The other is a picture of a guy in front of a grill with the meat on a plate beside the grill along with the utensils. The water is up to about a couple of inches below the cooking part of the grill and it says, when you buy all your meat for Memorial Day, you still have to cook it.
😅 I'm just north in AR. We haven't gotten as much as y'all, but it's sure been VERY WET! ☂️☂️☂️
I'm in Ky and there was no rain for 16 days at @87*. Now it 47* and rain. It's been a struggle to garden this year, but if we succeed, it'll be worth it. That's what I keep telling myself, lol. Happy gardening friends.🥀
It is amazing how fast the seeds germinated! It is so thrilling when you can see those green leaves popping through.
We spent the day in Ava yesterday. Ate some BBQ and visited the quilt store. Had a great time.
Thank you Kevin & Sarah. God Bless you all in Love.
I enjoy your channel so much!! I actually made my own personal playlist of my favorite videos of you guys. With this video, I am now up to 370 videos in my Living Traditions playlist ❤️
Thanks for sharing
God bless
I do the same!
40s on our Ozark mountain this morning. This is the cusp of June?! 😄 My poor tomatoes and peppers are so confused. But my cabbage are loving it.
When you drill your holes for your plants put a foot on each side of hole and that keeps the dirt from going under your weed barrier as much.
Drop your seeds through 1/2 inch pvc pipe or so...love yall! I'm getting old. LOL
I've got a 3 1/2 ft doll rod stick (3/4 in diam?) with wide diameter clear tubing (so I'm sure the seed didn't hang up in the tube) attached to the doll stick. I offset taping the clear tubing to one end of the stick leaving about 2 in of stick protruding I could poke a hole in the ground without getting dirt in the tube. This bending over crap must stop. I pitch down a handful of dirt & tamp it with my foot.
@@flatsville1 that's the way it works
@@thomasgleaton685 There are a variety of stand up seedling planters. Have you tried one or more of them? (Some of them are not "cheap." There's a made in China one that looks OK & is affordable.
@@flatsville1 that's a fantastic idea!
@@elainesalyer2926 Back & knee pain is the mother of invention.
I've got a stand up dibble fork based on the broad fork design for making lots of holes at one time. You can make them with different spacings/depths out of trash lumber. I can also drop seeds using my clear tube into those holes or get a kid to drop seedlings & cover them for me. By " kid" I mean anyone youger than me.
Hope you can get those peppers in this weekend. Your garden is going to be so much fun to watch this year. You are such hard workers and we appreciate you taking us along on the journey. God Bless!
Kevin, I love your shirts- Callaghan Auto last week and now Vandelay Industries. Shout out to Tommy Boy and Seinfeld. Just added bonuses to all the great content you put into your videos!
I got a chuckle out of the Vandalay Industries one. 😂😂😂
And you want to be my latex salesman...
I had a cat named Vandelay back in the late 90s!
I just Love you guys, thanks for all the education you provide for me. 🙏😊❤️
I'm also in Missouri about 30 minutes from Jefferson city, it's my first year doing an in ground garden on my new property and can I just say it's been a struggle, between realizing how Clay our soil is, to the rain storms dumping, to rabbits eating all my cauliflower crop, and seed potatoes completely rotting. It's a very trying learning experience. My strawberries are doing fantastic and I'm getting about 5 cups a day so that's been my saving grace 🍓🙂
Samantha Fletcher ,
You could always trap and eat rabbit instead of cauliflower. As for your clay soil , it's mulch , mulch and some more mulch. Clay soil is usually good for growing plants in. But very hard for working the soil. More mulch.
@@donaldmiller8629 all very nice recommendations, thank you Donald.
I can't believe those beans from 2015 germinated. That is awesome! You guys are as good at making videos as you are gardening. I could literally sit here and watch your videos all day. From my perspective, you guys are living the perfect life. The perfect life for me anyway. I'm so jealous.
As I sit and watch this in the scorching 47* weather outside. Not a 80* day insight until next Friday lol. Seems once again we were duped here in Missouri by those couple of nice warm days.
It's roughly the same story in Ohio, with a few degrees variance. I feel ya. Thankfully I got about half the gardening done while it was still hot, and before the rains came.
Amen. It's a bit chill here in SE Missouri but it's nice for some outdoor chores without sweltering at least if it isn't pouring rain!
It was 38 degrees this morning in Michigan! Cold! Last week it was 85 at 3 pm.what a shock!
@@hopeking3588 , brrrrr! I loved living in Michigan but as I got older I decided I didn't want to have to shovel snow. However, I miss the sunrises and sunsets there
Thanks for having us! No rain!
Good day to you guys, The only thing I can think of when the two of you are out there on the farm is "poetry in motion"..Your farm is out standing and so are you guys.Thank you for all the good tips.
I love that the turkeys gobble every time you get the drill going .. lol
I LOVE that you just grabbed that manure! 🖐 That’s a true gardener! 👩🏻🌾
So smart using the little butane burner. Love watching your videos! Thank you for what you do!
I'm growing on my third year of the same okra plants I planted 3 years ago, when the season is over I cover the stalks after cutting about 6 inches from the ground, ends up with about a foot of new covering of dirt, in the spring I uncover and the plants come up again.
I am trying that this year. What's your growing zone?
I just love your garden, and the techniques you implemented. Great job!! 👍👍👍
Some kind of crazy weather for sure but I’m not complaining it’s much nicer then the last few years so far not to hot not to cold. Well till last night that is got down to the middle 40’s and I got babies out there.. chicks and bunnies.
I am so thankful it’s not just me getting a late start on my garden! I love SWMO, but SO. MUCH. RAIN!!
Would love a rabbit update whenever you can grab the time 🐇 Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿
We're all going to sprout webbed feet here in Missouri!!! Another week of this coming, too. Your garden is going to be glorious, so I'm going to be gardening through you this year. Having surgery next week, and will be out for six weeks. 😕 Thanks for bringing this to us, you two!! 💜
Even my ducks are sick of all the rain!😄
Don't feel bad. We're getting inundated in SE Texas, too. I think we've gotten 16" of rain in the last 10 days.
Thanks for sharing with us Kevin and Sarah, praying that your harvest is going to be a blessing! 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
How exciting!! The two of you make the dream team, I love watching you work together and how you are both so excited about each project.
Happy birthday to the baby seed sprouts!!! We finally got almost all of our plants in the ground, and most of our seeds as well! Yay gardening!!!
Love your choice in planting your garden. You’re great people.
Been fighting the moody Missouri weather in Joplin area too. Had flooding last week and cool temps. I feel like my garden is 2 months behind. Praying it'll still be a fruitful season.
Realizing you know, but didn't mention: test old seed germination prior to planting using the "paper towel baggy" method. Awesome the way you're using modern ideas to make gardening enjoyable!
I tried that baggie method this year too and it has worked great. I saw it on "An American homestead" Zac showed how well it worked,. Bless you guys, love your channel 😍🙏💞👼
If you have an instant pot, you can speed up the germination. The process uses the yogurt setting. Search here on you tube for videos.
Thank you for enabling all your viewers to benefit from your vast gardening knowledge. We can now amaze our family and friends with our prolific gardens this year. You are my #1 gardening go-to channel.
Here in Ontario, Canada, the weather keeps saying rain but then nothing. I love your garden. It's amazing!
You guys have strung together so many great practices/hints for prospective homesteaders. GREAT JOB!! LOVE IT !!
So nice to see a man who knows his way around the garden! You guys work together so nice. Love it!
Now is the time to set up rainwater catch system.
How do you keep the mosquitoes out of it?
@@jaceanderson9345 keep it enclosed, or if not for consumption you can keep fish in it
@@jaceanderson9345 use the same screening you use on windows if the drain pipe is not fitted to tank top.
It is always such a pleasure watching you guys get excited about gardening and growing when I am sitting under a blanket in the Australian winter
SARAH I know you layed new gr cover. Color code spreadsheet builder here: Since spacing is consistent for crops, why not color code the tarp so when you pick up and lay down you could rotate the gr cover with Red for tomatoes, etc, green for peppers, so the whole sheet moves and is already set for spacing and rotation. (Not sure that's clear, lol)
Great idea
That is a great idea! Thank you for pointing that out!
Because by the end of the growing season the colour would wear off and if it didn't it could leak poisonous chemicals into your soil for the plants to suck up. Also, if you are rotated your plants every year it is pointless to put that much effort into marking the ground cover as you would have to constantly be remarking it. All the work into remarking it is too time consuming when you are having to do a ton of other things on your homestead on top of planting your garden. It is just not practical. Plus, she has the planning sheets from the years before that she can look back on for reference.
@@jessicapearson9479 You could just spray paint a line on the end of the fabric so you know which is which. That wouldn’t wear off quickly.
Good morning precious people. You guys have such a soothing channel. You live in peace and share that peace with us. I love the music you have on and recognize the him I must tell Jesus. Can you share with us where you got the music. Blessings upon you and your girls and your parents. Blessings upon your garden and your animals and your farm as a whole. Thank you for being the hands and feet of the Lord and sharing the life that got intends for us to live. Anxious to see all the little plants come up and produce abundantly. I love you guys 😘✝️📖🙏🌄🌈🍽️🌾
You are working hard! Hope your garden produces a lot!
I feel your pain about the rain. We're in SE Missouri and hoping to get more of our garden planted before the rain begins again on Tuesday.
So happy you got in what you did. We are working in between rain. Temperature for our low last night was 48. We will get what the good Lord wants us to have. God Bless
Amen! 🙏
Thank you, I learn so much from watching your videos. You take us from preparation to harvest each year in a no nonsense, commonsense way. By far, the best homesteading videos. I’m in Australia and have just planted my hairy vetch cover crop.
I am already nosy about your huge new Greenhouse that´s coming up
😂
Looking forward to your new greenhouse going up.
What a nice organized garden, just beautiful! Thank you for sharing! :}
I ordered the long earth auger for the drill right after you showed it in the video for my father-in-law for Father's day. He's an avid gardener and has a bad back. I think he'll love it. Thank you for sharing. Your garden looks great, and I cannot wait to see it at full growth. We also received our large harvest right, and look forward to lots of freeze dried foods. It will be so handy when we are full time RVing while my husband is traveling for work. There will be so much weight reduced in our travel trailer with freeze dried foods. Have a blessed growing season.
We got your rain ☔😂
I just love your channel, you both just always work on everything together jobs get done with ease. Wish you could send us here in S. Utah some of that rain. Thanks for taking us along with you. Take Care and God Bless
I liked this video....kind of. Haha! Just kidding! Another great one. Thank you for sharing the varieties. I like to hear what people are growing. Keep up the good work! I hope the weather cooperates so you can finish getting everything in the ground.
Good morning everyone! We love our fabric today we will be planting the rest of our garden to! We also love our chicken moat! Have a great weekend
I love watching videos of thunderstorms and then I listen to music I like like delta parole or metallica! Nothing better and more relaxing like that!
Laughing at myself! I only planted a few Cucumber Plants last year...probably no more than 6-8...this year we have almost 50! And thanks to your videos I have been inspired to learn how to can over the last year!! I'm going to be canning tons of pickles!!
I put an egg in each hole for my tomato's this year. I cracked the egg and sprinkled a little dirt on it before putting the plant in. They look good. and if you use a spade, you can bring the soil up, so you dont have to dig under the fabric.
If I may suggest mark that weed fabric. With a 1,2,3 and 4. This will help rotational planting. If you mark the ends with spray paint. You can simply switch and turn the weed fabric. God bless
I freeze all my seeds in freezer planted green beans in garden last week ( they have been in freezer since 2013 ) already up looking good
Isn't seed life awsome? Best wishes from a fellow seed saver🥰👍❣
I e never heard of that before. 🤔
Praise be to God in his infinite wisdom. He will always take care of his children. Everything we need he has provided. Janet, you know a thing or two, please keep sharing. Knowledge is power to survival.
Varieties of beans in Europe are killed by cold! It must be useful being able to keep fresh seedlike thar.
shew....lucky you guys are getting some rain...it's been so dry here in NC....good for those fruit trees!!
I love the Juliette, but couldn’t find them this year. Enjoy learning from you two. Thank you & prayers.
That's interesting. I couldn't find Juliette as well this year. It is a favorite of mine too.
I am a 79 year old woman with only a 4 by 5 foot yard , in a senior citizen house . I miss my garden ,but I have sweet potato growing in bucket
I was watching your banana bread and I put in 1 table spoon of cream cheese it makes the bread moisture and not dry.
Hard work produces great rewards. Great going guys.
Barefoot on the weed fabric. Sounds like me! Nice and warm and nothing tracks on your feet. I'm so excited to see your garden grow!
I love okra to that is one of my favorite foods which I eat raw and cooked steamed ect... love every food plants that we can plant and I do do experiments on some different kind of foods to and have found some foods that we have planted that we like and didnt even know that we could grow
Can't go wrong with that Opalka tomato. Fantastic flavor, very dependable and productive. So exciting when the seeds get to sprouting. Love your method.
I grew the Chicago picklers one year buy didn't care for them because they have too many spines. I'm with cucumbers like Kevin is with tomatoes. I like to pick and eat right there. Try Boston picklers far a small delicious snack.
I was surprised that you didnt have the electric fence up as soon as you planted the tomatoes. Have a wonderful summer and may your plants be fruitful! 🌱🌱🌱
I love to hear the turkeys in the background
Love how you burnt holes in tarp. Great idea. Loved how you drilled the holes. Very smart.
Good morning to y’all! I’ve had to fight the rains in my plantings too.
I love it
It was one of those "KINDA" weeks. Love you two through Christ. Blessings to you and your family.
Do miss the morning choirs love seeing the animals but do know work needs to move forward have a blessed day thanks for your time
Y'all are so inspiring. Rough start here this year, lost most of my plants even after hardening off and doing all the right things. Very discouraging.
Your place is fantastic!
Blessings, julie
Love your channel. I can only imagine how crazy it must be with the all the problems our country is going through in the last 2-1/2 years. Can’t wait to see the finished project.
The garden prep work looks great. Prayers for everyone trying to get garden's in.🧵
We've had a lot of rain here in Barry County, MO so I know you guys have had a lot as well.
I thought I was weird when I get excited over seedlings. Glad I’m not the only one. lol x
Nope; it’s a sincere addiction of mine too. It’s life affirming. 💚🌱
@@melissasullivan1658 I get excited when I see the tiny apples starting to for on the trees, the little buds coming out on the tomatoes. All of it. I missed out on so many years of this. I’ve only been gardening for two years. All those years wasted. X
It's always an enjoyable time with yall.🙂 I pray yall have another super successful year on the homestead! I also pray the Father continues to keep you strong in spirit, soul and body.🙂
I love your garden covering idea! Sure would save on all that weeding! Keep up the great work, you both are so inspiring!
My tried & true greenbean is a bush bean called Jade. They produce lots of beautiful stringless beans.
We love Jade green beans!
So glad weather a bit better let hope and pray weather be nice for u ! Love all u do
Wow ypu both work so hard! I'm sure the end result will be worth it!
You are going to love Juliet! Super sweet!
Nice relaxing video, I love seeing the seeds germinate. Thank you.
God Bless your garden to grow and produce a lot of food for the family.
The auger attachment is amazing. Bought it the 1st yr I saw Kevin use it and man oh man is it a time saver!!
God bless you, your family and your land!
Truly though I'm really glad you're finally planting at least you shouldn't have to stretch the garden hose. I got some potatoes planted in buckets. They are kicking butt
It's chilly here in NW AR this morning! Not raining thankfully. But burrrr. Thank goodness you could finally get the garden in. Love how it looks so far can't wait til it starts to grow!
The turkeys sound pretty along with the other birds in the background! ❤️
I'm so happy to see the planting begin! I can't wait to watch your beautiful garden grow!
I love watching you guys garden.
Love this video!! Inspiring and fun to watch and learn! Ty
I have used egg shells in the past. This year I went to the elevator and got a bag of oyster shells. Then gave them a shake of miracle grow in the hole too. Weather is still in the low 40 in north Iowa with on going rain. I got onions, beets, carrots and part of my tomatoes. I’m really thinking I need one of those drills . Your looking good. Wishing your garden the Best. GodBless all!
I have said this before, but you have such an organized rational garden. Even when there are problems you still approach things in a reasoned and tidy way. I'm so impressed with both your way of working and productivity. Very thrifty!
Last night we had freezing conditions( don't know why I didn't check the forecast DUH!) ... Lost all my peppers and tomatoes and others stuff that was ready to go! I think you were blessed with being a bit later with your plants! Broke my heart having to buy plants to replace them but better to have some than none! Happy gardening!
Wow! That is amazing, thank you for the planting tips! Now I want rabbits for their manure!!