HUGE Butternut Squash Harvest, Orchard Grass Update & Chicken Coop Window Box Planting! 🙌🌾🧡
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- HUGE Butternut Squash Harvest, Orchard Grass Update & Chicken Coop Window Box Planting! 🙌🌾🧡
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I'm a doctor and my therapy is also gardening
It effectively saved my life when I had severe depression, almost suicidal
That's when I found gardening to be such a joy and your channel too
I’m so glad you are doing better. I have anxiety and after the loss of my younger son, gardening has been my therapy and peace. Take care and be well! ❤
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Gardening is beautiful therapy. Planting a seed is hope. Weeding and working the soil is so nourishing to my head. I can't wait to get to my garden after work or when feeling hopeless.
So glad you found it too!
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@@IntrovertedAF21 thank you so much and I too wish you would be able to heal and find peace soon
Gardening is the best therapy there is
Hi. I start every morning with Laura and then head right to Aaron's father's sermons. His detailed teaching of the Bible, verse by verse, has saved my life! And he's so funny! I can't do a 1/5 of what Laura can in my own yard due to medical problems and disability, but I've been watching them since the beginning and love seeing their progress and changes they've made. And I highly encourage you to watch Pastor Paul, too! Be safe and take care!!
I love how Laura just picks up a random piece of fruit & just takes a bite!!🤣🤣
She's COMPLETELY adorable!!!
I was thinking the same thing!! “Oh look! A pear!!”
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We country girls have great immunity.
Oooh! A stone wall in front of the orchard would be stunning and a great tie in with the design around the house and Hartley. Love that idea!
Plus it’d keep the natural grass from spreading into the manicured grass. It’d set the orchard off and look lovely!
It would be beautiful. Almost give a cottage vibe
@@heatherderganc5984 I was thinking that too, especially as the orchard grass spreads by rhizomes!
I completely agree! It would keep it looking cleaner and the grasses separated.
Yes, a little cottage rock wall would be so adorable!!
🍐 I vote to keep the pear tree. 😊 Its starting to thrive & showing you it wants to live.
Good Morning Everyone 😊
Good morning Cara 😊
@@user-gm5zd4mz1d Good morning 😊
You will never know how much you’ve helped me with my flowerbeds, garden and landscape design! I love your channel and enjoy seeing your sweet family help with your projects. If I want something done in the yard all I have to tell my husband is “Laura says…” 😂 but we do trust your judgment when it comes to plants.
Agree! Started with pots and
Annuals! It’s snowballed from there! Life is good! Already looking forward to Spring 2023
Thank you so much Kristie! I'm so happy to hear that I've helped! ❤️
Laura I’m sure you know how you literally brighten everyone’s day with a simple “Hey Guys how’s it going?” But today I especially helped. Life has been tough and I look forward to getting of on my own brain even for a little while when watching your videos. Thank you. You and the family are truly a blessing 🌸🌼
Hope things look up for you really soon. 🙏
Laura, that was an amazing harvest of Butternut squash from only 2 plants! It would be fun to explore the new property with you. You and your lovely mom will be able to forage for winter decorating on your own land, how fun! Please take us along the next time you do, because we would also like to see what the good Doctor planted that is still surviving today. I hope all of you have a great weekend! ~Margie🤗🍃🍁
Wouldn’t it be fun to throw some water out in the spring to see what may come up?! Maybe some gorgeous Iris!
Maybe a bit of clean up for accessibility in the "Doctor's garden" ... maybe rail fencing with arches? (okay.. too soon?). 😘
The pear! You could forage and survive if you had to, but you would have butternut squash forever! Two plants! That's your magic touch, Laura!
Oh! I love it when Laura get distracted! 😍 What a treat. You are blessed for sure. Have a wonderful day.🍐🥀
It feels like it was just yesterday that we saw you seed your yard. It has grown in so quickly!
Loved hearing the 🐓 🐓 🐓 happy chickens clucking! So cute❤️
Me too ! They sound content!
The hawk was likely a Coopers Hawk or Sharp-Shinned Hawk. Both of these acrobatic raptors are excellent at catching song birds. And are great pest control for rodents and managing populations of invasive House Sparrows and European Starlings. Such a cool experience. Good job! It means you’re creating a balanced ecosystem!
“Acrobatic raptor”! That would be a great name for a race horse or something. I was thinking to myself that it might be preying on the little birds there in the maze and your comment confirmed that. Thanks for the info. So cool. 🦅
Cooper’s hawk based on size at least. And definitely hunting those finches!
We have a family of 4 of them in our garden and they catch mice and small birds and even rabbits for us. I love them.
We occasionally have a Cooper’s hawk that will sit and camp the bird feeder. If I notice the birds aren’t out there for a bit I will usually see the hawk. Sometimes I’ll bring the feeder in just to break the cycle but those guys gotta eat too and it’s all about the balance in nature anyway. We love them all and it’s sure nice to have such great rodent control.
Excellent explanation, thank you! I forgot to include this in my comment and looked to see whether anyone else had mentioned it. So glad you did. ~ Lisa
10:41 Oh my goodness I have squash envy haha
A stone wall tall enough to sit on!! Would be a magical little spot to rest.
We had a hawk get one of our Robin's. Upset me so. One day it was trying to get into my chicken pin.. From then on we would run it off every time it showed up. Some hawks can get huge. I would run it off if it keeps coming back to protect your cats.
Good night from Australia to everyone,
how lovely to be able to see the progression of your dream garden and how wonderful it is looking.
I love your Mum and your children are so adorable.
I sincerely wish you all the very best and my love and good wishes are being sent to you all in the wind from me to you all.
Love Fiona 🦘😊🙏
3:46 Wow 😮 😍😮 How fun to be able to get that close to a hawk! What a fun surprise ❤
I thought that was cool too!
I love hearing the hens just talking in the background, just love it!
I love how you mix formal and informal in your garden design. It is so beautiful. Love the area of the new property by the ditch too. So interesting about the previous owner and how your family knew him.
I can't wait to see the squash pumpkin dudes! What a great idea💡 🤓
Loved it. I miss the chicken coop gardens! How fun is the new property!! 😁 I bet that Dr. would’ve loved to have been neighbors with you!! 😊♥️
I’m at work and my husband is home sick and he sends me a text, “she harvested 64 butternut squash! “. I got him hooked on your channel. 😂🎣
The best moment is when you take a bite from that pear and eat it like you never did before. You are so natural and so adorable! Never change, Laura!
I also love poking around in what we call fence rows . I forage things for fall and winter decorating ,actually I prefer the natural things over Hobby Lobby silks any day and they are free !
Good morning ya'll and Laura! Your videos have become a part of my Medical school exam day routine. 😊 I always watch your videos before taking my exams to relax. Thanks for always being amazing and letting us be part of your journey!
Bless your heart!!! You've chosen a hard road!!!!
Good luck on your exams!
I really enjoyed this video…I think because there was no music..just the surrounding sounds..birds, dogs and those chickens. 🥰🥰
Great video. Love that you take us along for the unexpected hawk , pear just whatever is happening cats children etc. Always interesting!
I love butternut squash! I just made a butternut squash apple soup the other day that was so good. I actually made two batches in one week, because we ate it so fast 😂
Morning Bluebird, do you have a recipe to share??
@@Gin0827 I am interested in the recipe also.
Yes pls share with us!! That sounded so good.
@@Gin0827 The latest video on my channel @bluebirdhomestead has the recipe 😀
@@tracey1782 The latest video on my channel @bluebirdhomestead has the recipe 😀
I vote for a beautiful Stone Wall in front of the orchard. It would be dreamy and kind of Anne of Green Gables like plus provide definition. Can you imagine an apple tree cascading over a stone wall that you could climb on? Anyway that’s just a thought!
The sounds of the chickens is so adorable. Our HOA won’t let us have them which makes me so incredibly sad.
Good morning from Western Oregon, another sleepless night but so pleased that Laura and the rest of you can be here with me in these wee hours of the morning. I'm like so many of you I click on the thumbs up even before watching because I just know what's going to be wonderful and it always is. There are many episodes that I watch more than once the day they are posted and then I have those days where I find others that have just been my favorites whether it's in the last year last 2 years last 3 years and further back than that and I'm always amazed that Laura looks just the same. It must be genetics, lucky you. By the way, has your mother had her 50th birthday yet?
Susan must be older that 50 as I think Laura is in her late 30s and I believe her brother is older than she is! Susan just looks amazing, as does Laura!!
Checking in from Southern Oregon. I too, go back to view older GA videos for pertinent information.
Laura PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give us a video of u just going throughout the new property!! I would love to know what the plants and trees are back there. Plus it makes us feel like we're walking thru with u lol
I second this motion. ~ Lisa
Laura, I may have shared this with you last time you harvested butternuts, but one of my favorite recipes with them is: roast a salted and olive oiled butternut, cut in half, on sheet pan face down with a little water until soft and caramelized. Use it to make quesadillas with caramelized onions, goat cheese and cilantro. It’s one of my favorite fall recipes. I cook quesadillas in olive oil with salt until tortilla is lightly browned and crisp. (You can sub goat cheese and cilantro if those aren’t to your liking) It was a Martha Stewart recipe. Congratulations on you beautiful harvest.
Dearest Laura, what can I say....I am in aww of the results you get with everything you plant. I'm a beginner outdoor gardener and I hope to, someday, get production like you! You are an amazing gardener, mom, and human being. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us! I have learned A LOT!
Laura I’ve had pair trees for over 30 years and I can tell you that pairs never get ripe on the tree at least not like experience you take them off you let them sit for a week and they’ll be ripe and ready to use!
Laura, you are excited about your produce harvest this year. I am excited about your harvest! Thank you for taking us along to the new property. One of my favorite childhood memories is the story my mother told about my father and mother walking their new farm property line together and imagining what their lives would bring. Mother always repeated how amazed (and proud) she was that her husband could dig a hole by hand so large and deep when he was planting the cornerstone pole to mark the property line of their new homestead.
Aaron is rocking the grass pathways. Genius.
This is what I found: Heavy rain or over enthusiastic irrigation is the most common reason for butternut squash splitting. This extra water signals to the squash that it should grow more. The problem is, the outer shell has already hardened, so when the fruit grows, there isn't anywhere for it to go. It's like blowing a balloon up.
That looked like a Cooper’s Hawk that primarily hunts songbirds 😳 which it captures with its feet but also eats small rodents and grasshoppers.
Awesome harvest! 🍁🍂🤎💛🧡🍂🍁
Hawks have to eat too. Circle of life.
I just adore your new property! I think of it as The Secret Garden and low-and-behold, you actually have a secret garden out there! I am so glad you showed us the rose hips, grape vines, apricot, and pear trees! My grandma used to have a massive garden and if the rain was "irregular" or too heavy, her winter squash would "split". This was in North Carolina though so I don't know if it could be the same thing that happened to your crop. Thank you for a great video!
That Hawk is probably looking for a tasty bird snack that gathers around your sunflowers…😬😬😬
You put some many beautiful things into the earth. I’m sure she was happy to bless you with some unexpected surprises. 💜
Bad news to have a hawk around with your cats....they will scoop them up in no time. Watch your fur babies!!
There is easier prey for a bird that size than the cats. I don't think she needs to worry about the cats.
The flower shed is my favorite structure on your property. I love the orchard grass and your grass pathways too.
Boy is Aaron going to have a lot of grass to mow!! Love your vision for your garden.
First, I think you should have a rock wall to separate the orchard to the grass pathways, of course will need entrances for mowing, but it will finish off the quaint cottage feel of the area. Make it more rustic. Second question (still watching video), can you grow butternut squash on a trellis? I learned so much from this video, thank you! How many of us use your videos over and over again for instructional purposes, my hand is raised! This one will be visited again for the butternut squash, my favorite squash. And that wild area, oh my, treasure and history, so very glad its yours.
What a MAGNIFICENT butternut squash harvest! I loved Laura's clear, detailed (as usual!) explanation of how to know when a squash is ripe, complete with visual examples, and advice to eat the scratched ones 1st. Agree: Laura immediately chomping on a random "found" pear was the best part of this video, ha. I really enjoyed the history of the gardening doctor previous owner. Laura's sharing this rich feeling of connection with the land is the icing on the cake.
I'm hoping for a lavender row! lol either around the shed or hedge around the orchard. love GA
Love the sound of the chickens in the background and seeing the Hartley up and running.
Oh what fun to be with you!
A hawk! Some hens! Love the hen house curtains.
An amazing Butternut harvest!!!
Harvesting your lovely geraniums in the Hartley....
Can it get any better?!!!!
Yes do arock wall in the orchard, that would look amazing!!
Laura, I love the blouse you’re wearing. That shade of green is beautiful on you!
'Huge' butternut harvest was an understatement! WOW And the smiling butternut trio is so FUN! I can't wait to see it.
Love the orchard look and vibe! That hawk was beautiful! He likes those little birds too 😋
I vote for the rock wall!!! There are many for it in the comments too!!!
Love it!you are living the dream and taking us along! Thanks!
What a magical garden area left by the doctor, such a special blessing to enjoy.
Everything is looking incredible! Love the new property fruit trees and rose hips. That is such a blessing! The wildlife is awesome. I love the chicken coup area. Congratulations on the butternut squash harvest!
I LOVE LOVE when we get in on the history of your land!! So fun!❤
I love listening to the chickens in the background!
Pears are picked green they don't ripen on the tree. They ripen afterwards.
Good morning Laura! Great butternut squash harvest!!!! ❤️❤️ the natural grass and the pathways. The garden is really going strong . Hugs from N.C..❤️
The damaged ones look like the boogie woogie man! Those will be fun to decorate
Wow, that’s an amazing haul! As a new canner, I’d definitely be pressure canning a bunch of those! The vine borers got all mine, not one butternut squash this year (in No GA Zone 7b). However, I was fortunate to get 9 pie pumpkins! 🎃
I appreciate that you didn't put music on when you were renovating the chicken coop planter. I do not often enjoy that when there is 'nothing but silence or modern noise but I did enjoy that chicken clucking and potting. Thank you!
2 PLANTS...64 SQUASH!!!
AMAZING💖
I AM GOING TO PLANT SOME!
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We have hawks here in Williamsburg, VA too. We also have lots of rabbits, moles and voles, which is why the hawks are happy here. One landed in my back yard and found lunch. I was only about ten feet away from it, and I was hugely impressed by its size, and eyes. It turned its head slowly to look at me as I turned the corner, and I can only say I would not want to be prey in its line of sight. I backed away slowly and let it enjoy its feast. Impressive.
What a great experience! Heartstopping, but great!
Thank you for sharing the lovely story about the Doctor ❤
Are you kidding me, the butternuts are giant and abundant!! What variety are they?
I love the story about the doctor gardening with a head lamp. That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing.
That little piece of land with pear, rosehip trees and grapes looking vines remind me of Chateaus surroundings in France. Wild and charming. Love stone wall idea as it gives weight to your expansive and open property like the one by the new brick path you showed yesterday which is so gorgeous. The children are so adorable and loved Samantha planting Russel with mulch lol...
Wow on that butternut squash harvest! Have a wonderful day
Good Morning! 🎃🍂🍁The grass is so pretty! What pleasant surprise, a hawk came for visit! From now until late Winter early Spring we have eagles around our farm & they sit in the trees around our house! They sit in the trees & watch me work outside, they are part of my wildlife family! Great butternut harvest! Love those chicken coop window boxes!! 🥰🧡🍂🍁🦅🌳😊
Omg, that’s a lot of squash, amazing makes me want to grow some next year I can feed the neighborhood!
Good morning from Michigan!! You have an amazing set up there. I am SO jealous. I have never planted squash before and took a chance on it. I also planted two that I got from my garden center. I had no idea how it grew and planted it in my tiny garden. Let’s just say they completely took over. But I love it!! I had to string them through bushes and I have a ton that are just hanging out in the bushes. It’s kind of hilarious. I have about 15 with a bunch more that are still green. I’m not sure they will make before our first frost. But I am so grateful that put all the info you did about them in here. I was going to pull them after I harvested the ones that were ready. But I will definitely let them go and see what happens. Thank you. You have an amazing gift. 💚
Love the idea of a rock wall to section off the fruit trees. Your gardens are so, so beautiful and peaceful! You and your videos are a blessing to all of us. 😊
I could probably eat off of one of those squash for a month lol! Unbelievable harvest 👏👍🎉 I do like butternut squash soup!
Have you tried growing spaghetti squash? Wondering how easy it is to grow since my family loves eating that more than butternut squash and it's easier to cook with. Also a rock wall would be lovely, such a great winter interest.
Was anyone else just not even focussing on what Laura was saying when driving and just anxiously watching that little butternut squash wobble about on the back of the trailer? 😬🤣 Couldn't help myself hahaha - great video all the same!
Good morning! Peace and blessings, and thank you for another relaxing video. 🍂🧡🙌
Hi Laura, 2 plants, WHOA! Only Laura can get 70 plus squash from 2 plants.
Does anybody remember the small variety she grew a while back that didn't get that big? That gold mind in the back. Your grandchildren will have cool stories as well. 😎
Greetings, Laura, from Windermere Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸
Beautiful morning over here. It was 64°F at 6a.m...glorious day
Happy Gardening Everyone 👩🌾 👍 💓
My favorite rose you have is the Zephrein (sp?) rose. After watching you murder the roses for a few years and they come back with a vengence I no longer have anxiety attacks when its prunning time for anything. lol
What a beautiful Harvest! Everything looks so pretty. I love listening to the chickens.
How fun it would be to keep a large portion of the new property wild-a wildlife habitat for Benjamin and Samantha to explore.
The amount of energy you expend in a week blows my mind! 🙂
When I hear 'Land and Sea' for compost, all I think is "Oh, surf-and-turf for plants!"
Ooh i just notice the clamps on the windows of the cut flower shed are gone 😆 i guess you finaly got the hardware for the windows. 👏
Haha now we know why Laura doesn’t get sick
That hawk is after those little song birds. 😕
Now I'm craving soup
When I wake up everyday, I look for your videos I just love love love to watch you and your family thank you so much for sharing it with us.
Just wanted to pauze the video, and say how special it feels to see someone 'just like me' out there despite living in another country, never growing butternut squash in my life, dalia's, nor owning chickens. But the enthousiasm and look on life is so so relatable. It has nothing to do with the size garden you have (or maybe any garden at all) to be able to enjoy the video's you guys provide. Thankful to find a fellow garden, antique and nature friend that follows hawks and likes to discover the grounds around her with us.
What a harvest!!!!!! I had to pull my plants, they just didn’t grow much and never set fruit. I did plant them
From seed saved from an actual
Squash so it was probably genetically modified seed. Next year I will purchase seed cause we love butternut! I’m amazed at how much came from 2 plants, you have seriously great soil out there. Unfortunately I live on a sand pit .
I think a stone wall would look wonderful on each side of the flower shed. I think it would lend to the English cottage garden look.
Oh my god. You guys I'm so so so happy and jealous at the same time. You bought another piece of land and I'm sure it will turn out gorgeous. Can't wait for Christmas decorations
Congratulations on your spectacular butternut harvest! The "scratch marks" look more like splitting from too much water to me, as opposed to being caused by some external injury. It's especially obvious on the ones with the large splits, or mouths, as you appropriately called them. Also, you can still use the green squash; just cook it the way you would a summer squash. Or, you can give it to your chickens. ~ Lisa
Do you know if it would ripen in time, off the vine?
@@cynthiafisher9907 I don't understand your question, sorry.
@@LB-vl3qn The greener squash, will it ripen as it sits, off the vine. Or will it rot and not ripen?
@@cynthiafisher9907 It won't ripen off the vine.
@@LB-vl3qn Ok, thanks. I had heard that they would.
just wanted to you to know that I have been watching your videos for many years and I have to say you are an amazing woman. I look forward to your videos every day.
Oh my gosh a Stacked wall in front of the orchard would be so beautiful!!! It would make that orchard feel like an old world garden room and it would look pretty with the “shed” AND tie in to the main house and gardens with your new stacked walls. Oh I hope you do a stacked wall!! Haha so funny I even have an opinion or a hope for YOUR garden but I can just SEE IT! ❤️ In the end I know you will make it beautiful no matter what. Thank you for inspiring me (us) daily!!