A really good pest tip: Get yourself the cheapest beer you can find and fill a bunch of little paper cups half full, then burry them half way in the dirt near your plants. Space them about 4 to 5ft apart and the bugs love it so much that they go for the beer before the plants and drown themselves. I learned this from my 3rd grade teacher who is a huge gardener. I've done this and passed the knowledge to my mother in law and it works every time. She was able to get a good plant harvest that season. Even the slugs go for it.
Or we can plant stuff they like to eat alongside our food and think about more than ourselves. We should be supporting our environment with native plants for everyone :)
@@StayDownComeUp512 yes let's waste time, effort, and potentially money to feed pest bugs that destroy crops with no benefit that only live for a few weeks at most. when it comes to growing your own food with that mentality its basically the same thing as having more kids just so our favourite ones wont get kidnapped, or worse. also PSA, most of the foods we eat in first world countries arent even native to the area we live in.
I have to laugh at this, My mother in law always asks me how I can walk around the yard without my shoes. As soon as my husband and I watched your video, he pointed out your bare feet! LOL It does feel so good when we can let our souls feel that cool grass.
As a Grandma…I am really impressed with y’all and how you are on this homesteading journey! We need more young folk to follow your lead! Continue to follow the Lord in your decisions! Enjoying your vids.
@@ageofechochambers9469 If you haven't started container gardening, I will let you know that making yourself a nice aquaponics garden on your patio is amazing! We use PVC pipes and honestly we have grown our fish AND veggies every year for 6 years now. I can't tell you how much better everything tastes without growing in soil! Especially the Arugula and romaine and butter crisp lettuce. This year I am doing all my spices too with our new system built out of old aluminum roofing pieces my husband got that is about 11 inches wide and almost 3 inches deep, we put two together to build long boxes and went 4 shelves high and they are 8 feet long. Got a ton planted! The only things we ever have to buy are seeds.
@@ageofechochambers9469Indoor vertical gardens like the brand Gardyn and others. Allows you to grow a lot in just 2 square feet of floor space. I think it’s like 6 feet tall. So space wise it’s very manageable and you can grow a lot from it year round.
My wife and I found your channel a few days ago, both of us in bed recovering from Covid. What a great way to spend the day! Learning from how you do your garden, preservation, etc. Wow! We’re so impressed and inspired. It’s a huge amount of work to do what you do, then adding TH-cam and knowledge sharing with the rest of the world… wow. Above and beyond, but very needed for the new group of homesteaders (like us) starting from scratch. Thank you, thank you. ❤
For carrot seed planting you could make a "gravy" with corn starch and water. When rhw gravy is still warm but not hot mix your seeds into it and put it in a plastic bag with a tiny corner cut off or reusable cake decorating bag with the tiny hole tip and make a striped in each row. It spreads the seeds out more evenly and you waste less seeds.
To help your cucumber, you need to pinch your plant after the fifth real leaf. That will help your plants to produce both male and female flowers… 🥒 For your tomatoes, remove the lower branch will help prevent mildiou from forming… 🍅 Thank for your tips! And happy gardening 😉
Always pick cucumber and other seed plants before they are fully ripe. The plant will produce more fruit. If they get fully ripe, they stop because they think it's time to make seeds for reproduction.
It depends on the variety, some are parthenocarpic and don’t require pollination. I love Cool Breeze, stays sweet and crispy even if they get bigger. They hide sometimes.
I too was a diehard heirloom tomato purist but got tired of losing tomatoes early to fungus and such. So this year I grew hybrid paste tomatoes and had the best crop I ever had.
What do you use to keep the ants and spiders away so you can enjoy the barefoot walking. Just moved to GA and I’ve seen nothing but huge ant mounds and a bunch those little 🕷️ jumping all over the place
Michelle, I just wanted to let you know that you are such a dream girl, beautiful inside out, full of homestead knowledge, gardening plus taking care of your kids by insuring a healthy diet from your garden. God bless you and your husband. Wish you more success. Love your videos, keep going...❤ You have earned new subscriber!
This is the best video I have seen till now. So simple and clear explanations. Perhaps I have a tip or 2 for small white worms in raspberries: We always put the berries in salt hand warm water after picking them. The worms will sink to the bottom and you can easily remove the berries from the water without the worms. Another tip for strawberries: if you seem to be allergic to strawberries: just wash them off in HOT water followed by COLD water. In that way the small hairs on the outside of the strawberries will fall of....the hair is what people are reacting allergic to, NOT the berry itself. Everybody can eat strawberries for they are kisses of the son : ) Namaste
A great cabbage recipe that your husband may love is steamed cabbage with bacon. Cook your bacon until your desired doneness. Remove. Add butter about 4tbs. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cook the cabbage until soft and add back bacon before the cabbage finishes cooking. Its finished! ❤
FYI - Heritage raspberries are the only variety I know of that you mow down every year. Most raspberries bear fruit on second year canes. Best to find out if your berries bear on primocanes (1 yr) or floricanes (2 yr) and prune for that variety.
I did the best with cucumbers growing the vine varieties on a trellis shared with snow peas. It gets hot in summer here and the peas protected the cucumber perfectly
Cucumbers probably protect the peas more than the other way around. Peas are more cold weather plants. I plant peas every two weeks from March 17 through August 15.
@@ravenhummel8202 not snow peas they are a summer variety and always grown very easily, whilst cucumber always gets burnt sending fruit a bitter yellow color
@@banana3955 I don't seem to have the same issue. That being said, I think we are going to have to look at symbiotic plant relationships more and more as the weather changes. ADAPT is the word of the century bc we aren't going to stop it. Great things come from cyclical heat ups.
Perhaps in the future, you guys could do another garden tour, and box by box tell us how many plants you put in and what your yields are. It’s extremely impressive that you grow all your own veggies on 1/8th of an acre…but how much space do you allot to each thing to get enough to feed your family?
You will have less problems with pests in your raspberries if you dig up half to 2/3 of them and make 1 to 2 more rows planting the plants further apart. If you have the room. Otherwise, thin them out and sell the thinnings. With space you'll see an increase in production and less worminess. Don't do it until spring, when frost has passed. Raspberries and thornless blackberries should be planted 4 to 6 feet apart, depending on the variety. 6 is better if you have the space. They will fill in. As for squash, if you put down ag fabric, the good kind, not weed barrier, and cut holes in it and plant your squash in the holes, the leaves will not be touching soil ever. Makes a huge difference. For the tomatoes, once they get big enough, cut off the bottom branches for the first foot to avoid water splash up and you won't get as many issues. Also, trim out suckers so that their is air flow and you will have a healthier plant all around. If you want to grow actual zucchini, there is a kind called Escalator zucchini that is a climbing zucchini. It keeps the plants off the ground. I've had it climb as high as seven feet in a good year, but usually it is around five. I haven't had any problems with disease with those ones and it is very tasty, too.
I just wanted to say that I also have the pepper problem post COVID. I used to love bell peppers, now they just taste like straight dirt to me. I haven't found anyone else who has that issue, I'm sorry that you do, but I'm thankful that I'm not the only one!
Something to try next year, if you get the 16 ft long cattle panels and then put the short end into one raised bed (where your cucumbers are) and the arch it up and over the walkway where you are standing, and into the other raised bed to your right, then the cucumbers can grow up and over making a really nice leafy tunnel to walk under and it’s very easy to harvest them this way. It works well for all type of vining plants and is really nice for squash.
Cucumbers do well with a bit of succession planting because they don't last all that long. You can always direct sow new plants on the outside as well as long as you keep it well manicured for air flow@@morethanfarmers
I appreciate your comment about peppers and covid, my partner taste buds got very affected, particularly with eggs, cilantro, and fish. They did got enhanced with avocados. That was back in late 2020, it has lasted all this time, but he mentioned that finally this year things are improving a little. I love your video! Excellent and honest.
I lost my sense of smell and did something crazy, I used sacred frankinsense EO on my nose(and I figured heck its already gone so put it in my nose🥴) until my smell came back. took a few days but began smelling again 😮 IDK just felt like I should do it (not recommending, but thankful I can smell!)
I’m not a huge fan of cabbage either, but Sarah (my bride) made some by chopping some into strips and fried the cabbage with some bacon and jalapeños… Soooo good!!!
Try it with an Asian sesame dressing from Little Sunny Kitchen. I didn't like cabbage until I tried that combination. Make a salad with it. Many more vitamins and minerals than lettuce.
Hello from the UK, Having just found your channel it's great to see how your planning to live your life being self sufficient. All your hard work is great to watch.
My husband and I just found your channel, and after watching a few of your videos we subscribed to your channel. We truly enjoy your videos, very educational and enjoyable. It’s beautiful to see a wise young couple with a beautiful family, may God bless and keep you all!
Have you thought about trying to trellis your tomatoes, (snip leaves about 6" up from the ground all so the wet leaves won't cause mildew) squash, zucchini, and smaller melons? keeping them off the ground helps with rust or fungus. Planting marigolds, keep slugs, etc. off the base of plants, and flowers that invite the good insects into the garden. Also planting herbs in rows between vegetables helps with beetles, bugs that want to crawl up the stalks to lay eggs.
I grow tomatoes upside down. Topsy turvey style. Makeshift your own with 5 gal Homer buckets. Cut hole in bottom. Stick young plants thru the center hole of a slice of pool noodle to protect it from sharp cut edge. Water from top. No staking. No touching ground. Ditto for strawberries. Make holes on sides of bucket for straws
You're welcome! It's comforting somehow to know that others can identify with the off taste buds...not that I'd wish it on anyone though, of course. :)
If you open that trellis up so it’s one huge square or rectangle, then place it down the middle of the bed. The cucumbers will grow up it on either side of it. My cucumbers get to be 8-10’ high. Much easier to see and pick the cucumbers too. You’re going to have a hard time seeing them inside the trellis and also getting to them once they’re huge.
Hi Codi and Michelle, I just stumbled across your channel and love your content. I've learned so much by just watching a few of your videos. Love that you're following Jesus as well.❤
Yes ... Danver (Denver?) Half long carrots are good for storage because they don't break off when you pick them because they are short and fat. Stonehead cabbage is a good variety because it's leaves are tighter together and you get less pest problems.
A fabulous and inspirational video. Lots of wonderful tips we can use to start a better garden in town. We haven't had much luck with ground gardens and will be try with raised ones. Our fruit trees ase doing well so far. Even in central Alberta, we have a good selection of fruit trees available that will do well in our climate. So far, we have a pear, cherry, apple, plum and apricot trees as well as raspberries and a few strawberries which will do better with your tips. Thanks for sharing.
Started watching you guys a couple months ago. Really impressed with how you guys film and the content you offer. We just moved to our homestead in Michigan last month (from Cleveland, OH). Moved right at the peak of spring/summer sowing so all brassicas will need to go in the ground next month for fall harvest. We haven't posted any videos lately because the craziness of moving but you guys are truly inspiring. Thank you for sharing your journey.
For antifungal spraying, I recommend using a mixture of baking soda and water as a preventative measure. It alters the pH on the surface of the plant, preventing the formation of mold
Two teaspoons of baking soda, one teaspoon of oil, and one liter of boiled water. Let the solution sit for about half an hour, then pour it into a spray bottle. Apply to tomatoes once a week for prevention, and every other day to every third day in case of mold infestation.@@caitlinladuke3874
I never had much success with cucumbers either. Took me a minute to figure out the process. First, I grow a pickling variety. I utilize a ton of fresh compose amended with castings & guano. Then I add approx 40 percent vermiculite. I also mulch with a good layer of hay. I allow the cucumber plants to hang over the edges and drape down. Cucumbers are heavy feeders and require heavy watering at the base, as water on the leaves with allow powdery mildew and mold to proliferate. Plus it is imperative to pick all fruits early and often. Once one fruit ripens on the vine , its game over and the plant will end its life cycle. Good luck and gappy gardening.
Loved the garden tour, thank you so much for sharing. Love how organized and abundant it is! Right now we have raspberries, a persimmon tree, and I grow most herbs and some veggies and fruits, but the bulk of my tiny garden is flowers. This is inspiring me to aim towards more food!
It's amazing to see what you guys can do on 1/8th of an acre! This helps my brain with planning a garden that I always think needs to be an acre minimum.
We've always burned off our asparagus in the fall without cutting any of it off and it's helped the patch get so much denser having the ash as soil feed.
It happed to my mom. My mom’s taste of peppers changed after Covid. She loved her salsa and unfortunately doesn’t enjoy it now. So weird! You’re the first person I heard this happened to other than my mom. Thanks for sharing.
You guys have it going on. We bought around 6 acres of overgrown land with a house that needs alot of tlc about 3 years ago. Slowly learning year to year. This year was our best year of green beans, corn, tomatoes we have ever had. Also added aji peppers to the mix and they did amazing.
You guys are awesome! Love hearing from your family ❤️ If you stick a cattle pannel between your beds in a arched trellis you can run the butternuts on them and save a ton of ground space and also keep the fungus and mildew at bay.
@@morethanfarmers One American doctor recommended tobacco for recovering taste buds and smell etc lost through co vid. He recommended chewing one piece of the smoking cessation gum each day for a few days until the taste buds etc return -- if a non-smoker he recommended a quarter piece of the chewing gum each day.
We have a symbiotic relationship with Yellow Jacket Hornets. They tend to build in or around our garden area. We pay attention to where they are and do our best not to disturb them. The pay off is that we don’t get stung and the harvest the small green leaf eating caterpillars to feed their larvae. Win win!
That's amazing! Most people would spray insecticide on those. It's awesome when we can see in real time how things we thought were our enemies are actually our friends!
They say there is a bee shortage. Not here. They love the sunflowers, sunflowers are covered in bees. Then they go to the cuckes, zucchini and butternut flowers. We plant different types of sunflowers every year and are full of bees here in R. I.
@@josepharchambault8368 here the bubble bees are covering the sunflower, tomatoes, corn, cucumber, radishes, leafy greens, zucchini and pumpkin as well as wild weeds, mostly Canadian thistle. There are also honey bees every where but mostly on the sunflowers and thistle
only time i remember getting stung was a wasp nest in a evergreen tree and they stung me under my eye so my eye swollen shut for a day i think i was 8 years old but i've been stung a lot over my years and most of it was due to work they have big nest under a mobile home and the owner didn't say a word about them but i had to get the job done and all i would do is knock the nest down and away from my work area then this way i didn't have to kill the bees
Been gardening for decades yet you gave me so many tips, helped me understand why some just haven't worked out - just loads of tips all in one video! Thank you and I'm now a new subscriber!
i would suggest winter sowing in jugs outside for the broccoli and cabbage plants. i started mine back in febuary and im zone 6A/ PA and they actually did the best out of everything i winter sowed. i think because they love cold weather but because of the jugs being mini greenhouse keep them just warm enough it really helps them have a good start in my opinion.
Same here! Winter sowing for brassicas and onions has been especially helpful for me. The best onions I’ve ever grown were started from seed by winter sowing in Jan/Feb (zone 6). I never get good fat bulbs when I use purchased onion sets.
Cut your raspberries in the fall instead spring . It will produce the same amount of fruit, but it will stay producing for a longer time. Early spring spread some garden lime (before first shoots come out) on top of your bed, to help with diseases.
Hey guys... here in South Australia we too have some trouble with mildew. We have found that opening up our plants as much as possible in how we grow them helps to cut it down. Also a spray of 50/50 milk/water on the leaves when you see it helps the mildew not grow on the leaves. Finely, when growing cucumbers, we've tried a few ways and found this to be the absolute best... 2 posts each end of the bed, 8' higher than the top of the bed... 1 x wire from the top of the posts over the bed... Then we put a string line (something that doesn't rot so use garden tie string for e.g.) from the base of the plant up to the wire, then grow the cucumbers up that. The string must be fixed to the ground (tent peg for example) and you just rotate it around the stem of the plant. It works the best and stops the mildew greatly. Thanks for your lovely informative videos - hope this might help you or others too.
I’ve started using ROW cover netting on my brassicas. It works great and no worries about keeping pollinators away since they don’t need to be pollinated. Awesome results for avoiding caterpillars. Also, if you avoid touching your squash leaves while wet with morning dew or newly irrigated, it may help against powdery mildew. Also, water below the leaves like trickle irrigation.
Don’t think i ever had asparagus insects, grass for lawnmower spreading seed and now quackgrass pita, can’t pull cause rezones creeping up der plants. On year 20 with my five crowns still 20 lbs a year 🤞i love asparagus and my French dwarf green beans. Late tomato blight but still getting some that are blushing so pick and sit on window sills. Btw fruit flies a plenty, oh boy! Gr8 show, keep going 👍
I can definitely relate with what you said about peppers! I had covid in 2021, and for the longest time I could not handle the taste or smell of peppers. It was so bizarre.
I grow all my cucumber's up a trellis. (and zucchinis, first time last year and worked a treat). Really high humidity where I live so it keeps them well aired and also ahead of any powdery mildew that generally hits the older lower leaves first. if at all. Good tip on the mint oil re white butterflys. I look forward to seeing if our locals white monsters here in New Zealand are also adverse to it! Nice garden!
Hi ,i just wanted to say that i lived on a farm once and it's nice to see a young family that grows it's own food and having a farm thats the good life.
Yesterday, your channel have 16k subbies in less than one day it has grown into 17k plus, so happy for you. Hope you can also show us your daily chores with the kids in your homestead 😊
@@evan8463 oh, but it wasn't recommended in my case though, I actually typed and searched for a homestead videos as I am looking for other homesteads aside from the two YT channels that I am currently watching.
It was recommended to me today, and now you are at 103k friends with over a million views….wow congrats!!! I have a flower garden and I just clicked on this. Now I am off to research how to keep animals out since I live next to the woods. Thanks for the motivation, new garden friend here 😂
Hey guys, I am not an expert gardener myself, however, on your tomatoes I have found that when you plant them in the spring, sprinkle epsom salt inside the hole with the plant before you plant it. It really helps with blight and fungus later in the year. Also, the next day sprinkle some on the ground right where the tomato was planted. It works in VA so hope it works for y'all too! Love the videos.
Hey there! Love your channel! Great bounty! ❤ I had a similar issue with my tomatoes and blossom end rot. Somebody suggested "dolomite lime" and WOW did it work! I could not believe the difference. I hope this helps! Keep up the great work. ❤
Y'all are amazing!~ So glad you're doing what you're doing, AND somehow taking the time and effort to share your new and growing wisdom with us. I found this video super easy and fun to watch and effortlessly learn tons of great gardening tips! Thanks y'all.
Hi my friends, so excited to find your channel! My husband took my container garden from our deck to the ground a few years ago. Whaaaaat? This year we took our garden from the ground to raised beds. We had some problems with growing broccoli, cabbage, carrots, onion, and celery. Thank you for your video I will be trying this for next year in our garden.
Great content. Clear and concise. I think your channel is about to see tremendous growth! We homestead in Northern California but are originally from Ohio as well! I do watch quite a few different gardening/homesteading channels and your video was really good (it's the first of yours I've seen).
Wow, thank you! Very encouraging comment! We are really excited to see our channel finally seeing some growth...we've been at this for awhile now😉 Welcome to the community!
I agree. First time watching, and there is always something to learn. . Been gardening for years... you're authentic and descriptive being right to the point. Dont change. !
Inspired! My absolute maximum growing space is 1/10th acre (everything else is house 😢) & I am trying to grow all our own veggies and fruits (family of 5 atm), but I didn't think I had enough space. I know 1/8th is a little bigger, but this still gives me hope I can get pretty dang close to not buying produce. Also love that you mentioned about how even organic sprays can harm beneficial insects. Just because it says "organic" doesn't mean it's good to use - we still need to think critically and discern whether what we're using is actually best for the health of ourselves and mother earth! Have you heard of JADAM? Thank u for this wonderful video ❤
Amen to all of that! You can do so much on 1/10 acre! And since we've gotten honey bees, we've thought even more about organic sprays. We see our own bees buzzing around the garden and really don't want to kill them off! I looked up JADAM and it looks great! Will hafta look into that more!
You totally can do it! We have 1/10th acre including our house and shed and it’s amazing how many spaces you can turn into garden and still have space for kids to play. We grow beans up our trampoline and have turned half our section into a food forest and then gardens along every fence line. Grow peas up the base of trees, stake zucchini onto sunflowers. It’s quite fun figuring out new ways to use a space, we’re even getting chickens soon. The trick is to have pathways amongst it all so the kids have a circuit they can run, bike, kick a ball around. They love exploring through the gardens and getting snacks as they play off the plants too.
So glad I found your channel. I’m in SE Michigan and I’m hearing some new information that I’m anxious to try. Since Covid, I can’t eat store bought bread. I can smell and taste every additive and it’s awful. So, now Friday is bread day.
Such a great video! Thanks for sharing! COVID definitely messed with my taste buds. Oranges, tomatoes, chicken and beef taste off now. It's been two years now since we got sick. I was hoping my taste would return. One of my daughters has the same issue but the rest of the family have no taste issues.
Thank you! Yes...most of our family had no issues with taste returning. But for me, I have about 5 foods that I don't think will ever taste the same again. It's a bummer.
A really good pest tip: Get yourself the cheapest beer you can find and fill a bunch of little paper cups half full, then burry them half way in the dirt near your plants. Space them about 4 to 5ft apart and the bugs love it so much that they go for the beer before the plants and drown themselves. I learned this from my 3rd grade teacher who is a huge gardener. I've done this and passed the knowledge to my mother in law and it works every time. She was able to get a good plant harvest that season. Even the slugs go for it.
Good to know! Thanks!
Thank you for the advice
Or we can plant stuff they like to eat alongside our food and think about more than ourselves.
We should be supporting our environment with native plants for everyone :)
Awesome tip, I’ll have to try it this year!
@@StayDownComeUp512 yes let's waste time, effort, and potentially money to feed pest bugs that destroy crops with no benefit that only live for a few weeks at most. when it comes to growing your own food with that mentality its basically the same thing as having more kids just so our favourite ones wont get kidnapped, or worse. also PSA, most of the foods we eat in first world countries arent even native to the area we live in.
I love that you are walking barefooted and letting your body soak up the goodness of the earth.
Amen!😊
I have to laugh at this, My mother in law always asks me how I can walk around the yard without my shoes. As soon as my husband and I watched your video, he pointed out your bare feet! LOL It does feel so good when we can let our souls feel that cool grass.
Barefoot is good for grounding the body
I always find it funny when people point this out because I have just always done it not thinking about it.
As a Grandma…I am really impressed with y’all and how you are on this homesteading journey! We need more young folk to follow your lead!
Continue to follow the Lord in your decisions! Enjoying your vids.
Thank you so much!
lord ?
why is 'the Lord' relevant?
Because, if you have faith, follow our Lord. You will see what awesome things will happen. GO WITH GOD PEOPLE!
@@AZJH8374🤣🤣🤣. No thank you.
Watching this from an apartment, wishing that maybe 1 day .
Go for it! There's a lot you can do even now in an apartment to learn so that you're that much farther ahead when you can move to something bigger.
@@morethanfarmers thank you, thats a big encouragement.
I'll start looking into what can be done in a small space.
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@@ageofechochambers9469 If you haven't started container gardening, I will let you know that making yourself a nice aquaponics garden on your patio is amazing! We use PVC pipes and honestly we have grown our fish AND veggies every year for 6 years now. I can't tell you how much better everything tastes without growing in soil! Especially the Arugula and romaine and butter crisp lettuce. This year I am doing all my spices too with our new system built out of old aluminum roofing pieces my husband got that is about 11 inches wide and almost 3 inches deep, we put two together to build long boxes and went 4 shelves high and they are 8 feet long. Got a ton planted! The only things we ever have to buy are seeds.
Search videos for apartment gardening. Tower gardens, indoor gardens, shoe pockets, etc.
@@ageofechochambers9469Indoor vertical gardens like the brand Gardyn and others. Allows you to grow a lot in just 2 square feet of floor space. I think it’s like 6 feet tall. So space wise it’s very manageable and you can grow a lot from it year round.
Teaching your babies is such a blessing I wish I would have paid attention to my Great Grandfather when he use to garden...
Me too.
I loved watching how enthusiastic your children were about gardening. A garden is great for everyone!
Cody, you are very blessed to have such a industrious woman as your wife. You have found the needle in the hay barn.
I agree 😏
I agree. I think they should be selling strawberry rhubarb pies!
My wife and I found your channel a few days ago, both of us in bed recovering from Covid. What a great way to spend the day! Learning from how you do your garden, preservation, etc. Wow! We’re so impressed and inspired. It’s a huge amount of work to do what you do, then adding TH-cam and knowledge sharing with the rest of the world… wow. Above and beyond, but very needed for the new group of homesteaders (like us) starting from scratch. Thank you, thank you. ❤
I hope y’all get better soon!! Glad we can brighten your day 😊 Thanks for the kind words!
For carrot seed planting you could make a "gravy" with corn starch and water. When rhw gravy is still warm but not hot mix your seeds into it and put it in a plastic bag with a tiny corner cut off or reusable cake decorating bag with the tiny hole tip and make a striped in each row. It spreads the seeds out more evenly and you waste less seeds.
Interesting! We’ll have to try that.
One of the best videos on gardening ever!!!
To help your cucumber, you need to pinch your plant after the fifth real leaf. That will help your plants to produce both male and female flowers… 🥒 For your tomatoes, remove the lower branch will help prevent mildiou from forming… 🍅 Thank for your tips! And happy gardening 😉
Thank you! Very helpful. I haven't done cucumber pruning yet, but I always take off the bottom branches of the tomatoes😊
Always pick cucumber and other seed plants before they are fully ripe. The plant will produce more fruit. If they get fully ripe, they stop because they think it's time to make seeds for reproduction.
It depends on the variety, some are parthenocarpic and don’t require pollination. I love Cool Breeze, stays sweet and crispy even if they get bigger. They hide sometimes.
@@pamela6074BINGO!
Cucumbers must be harvested early & often. If a fruit is allowed to ripen on vine, it's game over.
Why not put your squash and cucumbers on to trellis more air flow should help cut down on the fungus and powdery mildew
I too was a diehard heirloom tomato purist but got tired of losing tomatoes early to fungus and such. So this year I grew hybrid paste tomatoes and had the best crop I ever had.
I hear ya! That’s great!
I also LOVE how you walk around your garden barefoot! There is very little better way to connect with nature than to feel it with our feet. ♥♥♥♥♥
For sure 😊
And the benefits of grounding/earthing can’t be beat. It’s sooo good for us. I’m a big fan of going barefoot!
What do you use to keep the ants and spiders away so you can enjoy the barefoot walking. Just moved to GA and I’ve seen nothing but huge ant mounds and a bunch those little 🕷️ jumping all over the place
@@barryaustin6742 that is not an issue for us. We don’t have spiders, nor ants really too much, in the grass here in central NY.
You don't do that in Florida . You'll be so bug bit you’ll regret it.
Michelle, I just wanted to let you know that you are such a dream girl, beautiful inside out, full of homestead knowledge, gardening plus taking care of your kids by insuring a healthy diet from your garden. God bless you and your husband. Wish you more success. Love your videos, keep going...❤
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King of the North peppers always beat the tar out of CA wonder.
Many Grand blessings everyone everywhere and always
This is the best video I have seen till now. So simple and clear explanations. Perhaps I have a tip or 2 for small white worms in raspberries: We always put the berries in salt hand warm water after picking them. The worms will sink to the bottom and you can easily remove the berries from the water without the worms. Another tip for strawberries: if you seem to be allergic to strawberries: just wash them off in HOT water followed by COLD water. In that way the small hairs on the outside of the strawberries will fall of....the hair is what people are reacting allergic to, NOT the berry itself. Everybody can eat strawberries for they are kisses of the son : ) Namaste
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the tips.
A great cabbage recipe that your husband may love is steamed cabbage with bacon. Cook your bacon until your desired doneness. Remove. Add butter about 4tbs. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cook the cabbage until soft and add back bacon before the cabbage finishes cooking. Its finished! ❤
FYI - Heritage raspberries are the only variety I know of that you mow down every year. Most raspberries bear fruit on second year canes. Best to find out if your berries bear on primocanes (1 yr) or floricanes (2 yr) and prune for that variety.
You plant your Garden how ever you like .
I just found your channel and I absolutely love what you and your husband are doing. Blessings ❤
I did the best with cucumbers growing the vine varieties on a trellis shared with snow peas. It gets hot in summer here and the peas protected the cucumber perfectly
That's amazing! Thanks for the tip!
Cucumbers probably protect the peas more than the other way around. Peas are more cold weather plants. I plant peas every two weeks from March 17 through August 15.
@@ravenhummel8202 not snow peas they are a summer variety and always grown very easily, whilst cucumber always gets burnt sending fruit a bitter yellow color
@@banana3955 I don't seem to have the same issue. That being said, I think we are going to have to look at symbiotic plant relationships more and more as the weather changes. ADAPT is the word of the century bc we aren't going to stop it. Great things come from cyclical heat ups.
Loved the garden tour...and wow those carrots are huge. Very nice. Y'all Rock!
Thank you so much!
I love growing squash and cucumbers on trellises. Amazing!!
Perhaps in the future, you guys could do another garden tour, and box by box tell us how many plants you put in and what your yields are. It’s extremely impressive that you grow all your own veggies on 1/8th of an acre…but how much space do you allot to each thing to get enough to feed your family?
Love the idea!
"It was heartwarming to see how excited your kids are about gardening. A garden truly brings joy to everyone!"
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You will have less problems with pests in your raspberries if you dig up half to 2/3 of them and make 1 to 2 more rows planting the plants further apart. If you have the room. Otherwise, thin them out and sell the thinnings. With space you'll see an increase in production and less worminess. Don't do it until spring, when frost has passed. Raspberries and thornless blackberries should be planted 4 to 6 feet apart, depending on the variety. 6 is better if you have the space. They will fill in. As for squash, if you put down ag fabric, the good kind, not weed barrier, and cut holes in it and plant your squash in the holes, the leaves will not be touching soil ever. Makes a huge difference. For the tomatoes, once they get big enough, cut off the bottom branches for the first foot to avoid water splash up and you won't get as many issues. Also, trim out suckers so that their is air flow and you will have a healthier plant all around. If you want to grow actual zucchini, there is a kind called Escalator zucchini that is a climbing zucchini. It keeps the plants off the ground. I've had it climb as high as seven feet in a good year, but usually it is around five. I haven't had any problems with disease with those ones and it is very tasty, too.
Thanks for the tips!
I just wanted to say that I also have the pepper problem post COVID. I used to love bell peppers, now they just taste like straight dirt to me. I haven't found anyone else who has that issue, I'm sorry that you do, but I'm thankful that I'm not the only one!
Not fun!
Something to try next year, if you get the 16 ft long cattle panels and then put the short end into one raised bed (where your cucumbers are) and the arch it up and over the walkway where you are standing, and into the other raised bed to your right, then the cucumbers can grow up and over making a really nice leafy tunnel to walk under and it’s very easy to harvest them this way. It works well for all type of vining plants and is really nice for squash.
That's what I wanted to do, but Michelle didn't think of that when she planted them.
Cucumbers do well with a bit of succession planting because they don't last all that long. You can always direct sow new plants on the outside as well as long as you keep it well manicured for air flow@@morethanfarmers
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I appreciate your comment about peppers and covid, my partner taste buds got very affected, particularly with eggs, cilantro, and fish. They did got enhanced with avocados. That was back in late 2020, it has lasted all this time, but he mentioned that finally this year things are improving a little. I love your video! Excellent and honest.
Thank you! That taste bud thing is really annoying!
I had the same thing happen to me... still fighting it.@@morethanfarmers
Lost my sense of smell, but oddly, I didn't notice any changes to taste.
I lost my sense of smell and did something crazy, I used sacred frankinsense EO on my nose(and I figured heck its already gone so put it in my nose🥴) until my smell came back. took a few days but began smelling again 😮 IDK just felt like I should do it (not recommending, but thankful I can smell!)
I’m not a huge fan of cabbage either, but Sarah (my bride) made some by chopping some into strips and fried the cabbage with some bacon and jalapeños… Soooo good!!!
That is very good. Cabbage and bacon 🥓 is a great combo
Try it with an Asian sesame dressing from Little Sunny Kitchen. I didn't like cabbage until I tried that combination. Make a salad with it. Many more vitamins and minerals than lettuce.
Also chopping up an apple and adding it to fried cabbage is amazing and then put some balsamic vinegar on top and it's out of this world!
Ilove boiled cabbage .with a side of cornbread.
@@coramdayo Yummy, sounds delicious. Will have to try.
Hello from the UK, Having just found your channel it's great to see how your planning to live your life being self sufficient. All your hard work is great to watch.
Welcome aboard! and thank you so much!
My husband and I just found your channel, and after watching a few of your videos we subscribed to your channel. We truly enjoy your videos, very educational and enjoyable.
It’s beautiful to see a wise young couple with a beautiful family, may God bless and keep you all!
That’s awesome! Good to have you here 😊 and thank you.
Your channel is a goldmine for anyone interested in farming. Keep up the fantastic work!
Thanks!😊
Have you thought about trying to trellis your tomatoes, (snip leaves about 6" up from the ground all so the wet leaves won't cause mildew) squash, zucchini, and smaller melons? keeping them off the ground helps with rust or fungus. Planting marigolds, keep slugs, etc. off the base of plants, and flowers that invite the good insects into the garden. Also planting herbs in rows between vegetables helps with beetles, bugs that want to crawl up the stalks to lay eggs.
Yes, we're considering trellising next year. We do prune the bottom branches.
I grow tomatoes upside down. Topsy turvey style. Makeshift your own with 5 gal Homer buckets. Cut hole in bottom. Stick young plants thru the center hole of a slice of pool noodle to protect it from sharp cut edge. Water from top. No staking. No touching ground. Ditto for strawberries. Make holes on sides of bucket for straws
Hello from Texas! My family and I enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work 🌱🌱🌱
Wow! Wonderful! We've visited Texas quite a few times. Glad you guys are enjoying the content!
Hi Michelle, thank you for all these tips. And yes i can definitly relate to the taste issue,nothing tastes the same.
You're welcome! It's comforting somehow to know that others can identify with the off taste buds...not that I'd wish it on anyone though, of course. :)
You and your family is so much blessed with grace and abundance 🙏🏼God bless
Thank you so much! You too!
Thanks for sharing your experience ❤
Gardening isn’t just a hobby, it’s a wonderful way to connect with nature. Thanks for the inspiration!"
If you open that trellis up so it’s one huge square or rectangle, then place it down the middle of the bed. The cucumbers will grow up it on either side of it. My cucumbers get to be 8-10’ high. Much easier to see and pick the cucumbers too. You’re going to have a hard time seeing them inside the trellis and also getting to them once they’re huge.
I was wondering how hard it would be to get the cukes out from under. Thanks for sharing these tips!
Hi Codi and Michelle, I just stumbled across your channel and love your content. I've learned so much by just watching a few of your videos. Love that you're following Jesus as well.❤
Welcome aboard! Thank you so much!
Hey she has a Pretty smile . Give her the Love .
Thank you for the great tips and sharing your expertise. God bless your beautiful family.
The drone shot at [9:10] is absolutely breathtaking! Really adds a unique perspective to the video! 🚁
Yes ... Danver (Denver?) Half long carrots are good for storage because they don't break off when you pick them because they are short and fat. Stonehead cabbage is a good variety because it's leaves are tighter together and you get less pest problems.
Amen to all of that!😊
Your husband is so sweet to always give you compliments on the things you make! Love it! Good job and God bless you! ❤
The BOTH of you are doing phenomenal. The WHOLE process is the journey. So motivating. I look forward to watching your channel. 🌱🙏🏼🙌🏼😁🥒🥦💯
Thank you so much 😊 I hope you continue to enjoy!
A fabulous and inspirational video. Lots of wonderful tips we can use to start a better garden in town. We haven't had much luck with ground gardens and will be try with raised ones. Our fruit trees ase doing well so far. Even in central Alberta, we have a good selection of fruit trees available that will do well in our climate. So far, we have a pear, cherry, apple, plum and apricot trees as well as raspberries and a few strawberries which will do better with your tips.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! Glad it was helpful! Good luck!😊
I really appreciate the detailed breakdown at [5:30]. You covered everything I was wondering about.
Started watching you guys a couple months ago. Really impressed with how you guys film and the content you offer. We just moved to our homestead in Michigan last month (from Cleveland, OH). Moved right at the peak of spring/summer sowing so all brassicas will need to go in the ground next month for fall harvest. We haven't posted any videos lately because the craziness of moving but you guys are truly inspiring. Thank you for sharing your journey.
Wow! Thank you! Totally understand the no filming thing...TH-cam videos take a ton of time. Not for the faint of heart. Best wishes on your new land!
For antifungal spraying, I recommend using a mixture of baking soda and water as a preventative measure. It alters the pH on the surface of the plant, preventing the formation of mold
What ratio of baking soda to water do you use?
Two teaspoons of baking soda, one teaspoon of oil, and one liter of boiled water. Let the solution sit for about half an hour, then pour it into a spray bottle. Apply to tomatoes once a week for prevention, and every other day to every third day in case of mold infestation.@@caitlinladuke3874
I spray vinegar
I never had much success with cucumbers either. Took me a minute to figure out the process.
First, I grow a pickling variety. I utilize a ton of fresh compose amended with castings & guano. Then I add approx 40 percent vermiculite. I also mulch with a good layer of hay.
I allow the cucumber plants to hang over the edges and drape down.
Cucumbers are heavy feeders and require heavy watering at the base, as water on the leaves with allow powdery mildew and mold to proliferate.
Plus it is imperative to pick all fruits early and often. Once one fruit ripens on the vine , its game over and the plant will end its life cycle.
Good luck and gappy gardening.
Thanks for all the info!!
I'm learning so much from you guys. I love this😁
good video . thank ad ❤
Wow! Thanks for the tour! What a beautiful job you guys are doing!
Thank you so much!
Loved the garden tour, thank you so much for sharing. Love how organized and abundant it is! Right now we have raspberries, a persimmon tree, and I grow most herbs and some veggies and fruits, but the bulk of my tiny garden is flowers. This is inspiring me to aim towards more food!
It's amazing to see what you guys can do on 1/8th of an acre! This helps my brain with planning a garden that I always think needs to be an acre minimum.
We've always burned off our asparagus in the fall without cutting any of it off and it's helped the patch get so much denser having the ash as soil feed.
It happed to my mom. My mom’s taste of peppers changed after Covid. She loved her salsa and unfortunately doesn’t enjoy it now. So weird! You’re the first person I heard this happened to other than my mom. Thanks for sharing.
Oh no! Sorry to hear that!
Excellent content. This has given me several new ideas for crop management. Can't wait to try hilling potatoes with leaves!
Wonderful! So glad we could be of help! We love the leaves!
I found your channel recently and am really enjoying your videos. Thanks for your effort.
Welcome to the community! So glad to have you here!
You guys are such an inspiration. Thank you for the tips and for sharing your journey with us. ❤
Our pleasure! Thanks so much for your support:)
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Good luck!!😊
Thanks for the great tour and tips!
You guys have it going on. We bought around 6 acres of overgrown land with a house that needs alot of tlc about 3 years ago. Slowly learning year to year. This year was our best year of green beans, corn, tomatoes we have ever had. Also added aji peppers to the mix and they did amazing.
That’s awesome! Keep at it. Little by little and one day you’ll look back and be amazed at what you’ve accomplished.
You guys are awesome! Love hearing from your family ❤️ If you stick a cattle pannel between your beds in a arched trellis you can run the butternuts on them and save a ton of ground space and also keep the fungus and mildew at bay.
Great tip! Thank you so much!
@@morethanfarmers One American doctor recommended tobacco for recovering taste buds and smell etc lost through co vid. He recommended chewing one piece of the smoking cessation gum each day for a few days until the taste buds etc return -- if a non-smoker he recommended a quarter piece of the chewing gum each day.
@@morethanfarmers His name is Dr Ardis and he has his own website.
Growing butternut squash on a fence will help with the fungus.
Knowledge is true wealth. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and tips!
The green leaves on cabbage are so good . BEAUTIFUL GARDEN❤❤
We have a symbiotic relationship with Yellow Jacket Hornets. They tend to build in or around our garden area. We pay attention to where they are and do our best not to disturb them. The pay off is that we don’t get stung and the harvest the small green leaf eating caterpillars to feed their larvae. Win win!
That's amazing! Most people would spray insecticide on those. It's awesome when we can see in real time how things we thought were our enemies are actually our friends!
I love watching them patrol the rows looking for pests!
They say there is a bee shortage. Not here. They love the sunflowers, sunflowers are covered in bees. Then they go to the cuckes, zucchini and butternut flowers. We plant different types of sunflowers every year and are full of bees here in R. I.
@@josepharchambault8368 here the bubble bees are covering the sunflower, tomatoes, corn, cucumber, radishes, leafy greens, zucchini and pumpkin as well as wild weeds, mostly Canadian thistle. There are also honey bees every where but mostly on the sunflowers and thistle
only time i remember getting stung was a wasp nest in a evergreen tree and they stung me under my eye so my eye swollen shut for a day i think i was 8 years old but i've been stung a lot over my years and most of it was due to work they have big nest under a mobile home and the owner didn't say a word about them but i had to get the job done and all i would do is knock the nest down and away from my work area then this way i didn't have to kill the bees
Been gardening for decades yet you gave me so many tips, helped me understand why some just haven't worked out - just loads of tips all in one video! Thank you and I'm now a new subscriber!
Welcome to the community! And thanks so much for the encouragement!
i would suggest winter sowing in jugs outside for the broccoli and cabbage plants. i started mine back in febuary and im zone 6A/ PA and they actually did the best out of everything i winter sowed. i think because they love cold weather but because of the jugs being mini greenhouse keep them just warm enough it really helps them have a good start in my opinion.
Thanks for the tips! Sounds great!
That’s what I do in Missouri with success. I have a grow room but my brassicas don’t love it in there.
Same here! Winter sowing for brassicas and onions has been especially helpful for me. The best onions I’ve ever grown were started from seed by winter sowing in Jan/Feb (zone 6). I never get good fat bulbs when I use purchased onion sets.
BTW, you have a beautiful farm, again, Thank you for Sharing.
Thank you very much!
After COVID, cucumbers and watermelons taste way off for me. Such a huge bummer because I loved both!!
That is a bummer!!😕
Cut your raspberries in the fall instead spring . It will produce the same amount of fruit, but it will stay producing for a longer time. Early spring spread some garden lime (before first shoots come out) on top of your bed, to help with diseases.
Hey guys... here in South Australia we too have some trouble with mildew. We have found that opening up our plants as much as possible in how we grow them helps to cut it down. Also a spray of 50/50 milk/water on the leaves when you see it helps the mildew not grow on the leaves. Finely, when growing cucumbers, we've tried a few ways and found this to be the absolute best... 2 posts each end of the bed, 8' higher than the top of the bed... 1 x wire from the top of the posts over the bed... Then we put a string line (something that doesn't rot so use garden tie string for e.g.) from the base of the plant up to the wire, then grow the cucumbers up that. The string must be fixed to the ground (tent peg for example) and you just rotate it around the stem of the plant. It works the best and stops the mildew greatly. Thanks for your lovely informative videos - hope this might help you or others too.
Wow! Thanks for all the tips. We will definitely take us into consideration for next year.
I’ve started using ROW cover netting on my brassicas. It works great and no worries about keeping pollinators away since they don’t need to be pollinated. Awesome results for avoiding caterpillars. Also, if you avoid touching your squash leaves while wet with morning dew or newly irrigated, it may help against powdery mildew. Also, water below the leaves like trickle irrigation.
Don’t think i ever had asparagus insects, grass for lawnmower spreading seed and now quackgrass pita, can’t pull cause rezones creeping up der plants. On year 20 with my five crowns still 20 lbs a year 🤞i love asparagus and my French dwarf green beans. Late tomato blight but still getting some that are blushing so pick and sit on window sills. Btw fruit flies a plenty, oh boy! Gr8 show, keep going 👍
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You are doing very well
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You guys are my new favorite channel, very well done videos edited perfectly and great information and inspiration to the rest of us keep it up
Wow, thank you so much! Glad you enjoy 😊
I can definitely relate with what you said about peppers! I had covid in 2021, and for the longest time I could not handle the taste or smell of peppers. It was so bizarre.
No fun!
Your trellis looks great and yes, once they start to grow they will be easy to trellis up. Love your channel!
Thanks so much! That gives me hope😊
So many good n practical tips! Tqsm. You got a new sub all the way from Malaysia ❤
Awesome! Welcome here!
Oh WOW, I had NO idea about the STRAWberry thing. Thank you SO much for sharing that! I am definitely going to do that this year!
I grow all my cucumber's up a trellis. (and zucchinis, first time last year and worked a treat). Really high humidity where I live so it keeps them well aired and also ahead of any powdery mildew that generally hits the older lower leaves first. if at all. Good tip on the mint oil re white butterflys. I look forward to seeing if our locals white monsters here in New Zealand are also adverse to it! Nice garden!
Great tip! Thanks!
Your garden looks awesome! I love seeing everything you are growing. -Cara
This is so good! Thankyou for a thorough garden tour- keep ‘Em coming, we love them! ❤🇦🇺
Thank you! Will do!
Just watching this again…
Hi ,i just wanted to say that i lived on a farm once and it's nice to see a young family that grows it's own food and having a farm thats the good life.
Good tip for us
Yesterday, your channel have 16k subbies in less than one day it has grown into 17k plus, so happy for you.
Hope you can also show us your daily chores with the kids in your homestead 😊
I think the video randomly got recommended to a bunch of people lol. That's why I'm here
@@evan8463 oh, but it wasn't recommended in my case though, I actually typed and searched for a homestead videos as I am looking for other homesteads aside from the two YT channels that I am currently watching.
Thank you! Yes...we're finally seeing some channel growth. We're so excited! We may just have a kid's chore video coming up😉
@@morethanfarmers oh nice
It was recommended to me today, and now you are at 103k friends with over a million views….wow congrats!!! I have a flower garden and I just clicked on this. Now I am off to research how to keep animals out since I live next to the woods. Thanks for the motivation, new garden friend here 😂
Hey guys, I am not an expert gardener myself, however, on your tomatoes I have found that when you plant them in the spring, sprinkle epsom salt inside the hole with the plant before you plant it. It really helps with blight and fungus later in the year. Also, the next day sprinkle some on the ground right where the tomato was planted. It works in VA so hope it works for y'all too! Love the videos.
Thanks for the tips! Will definitely be doing that! I'm wondering if it would be too late to sprinkle some now. I'll look it up.
@@morethanfarmers nicely put
Hey there! Love your channel! Great bounty! ❤ I had a similar issue with my tomatoes and blossom end rot. Somebody suggested "dolomite lime" and WOW did it work! I could not believe the difference. I hope this helps! Keep up the great work. ❤
Y'all are amazing!~ So glad you're doing what you're doing, AND somehow taking the time and effort to share your new and growing wisdom with us. I found this video super easy and fun to watch and effortlessly learn tons of great gardening tips! Thanks y'all.
Thank you so much!! So glad we can be of some help to you😊
Hi my friends, so excited to find your channel! My husband took my container garden from our deck to the ground a few years ago. Whaaaaat? This year we took our garden from the ground to raised beds. We had some problems with growing broccoli, cabbage, carrots, onion, and celery. Thank you for your video I will be trying this for next year in our garden.
Sounds great!
Great content. Clear and concise. I think your channel is about to see tremendous growth! We homestead in Northern California but are originally from Ohio as well! I do watch quite a few different gardening/homesteading channels and your video was really good (it's the first of yours I've seen).
Wow, thank you! Very encouraging comment! We are really excited to see our channel finally seeing some growth...we've been at this for awhile now😉 Welcome to the community!
I agree. First time watching, and there is always something to learn. . Been gardening for years... you're authentic and descriptive being right to the point. Dont change. !
@@josepharchambault8368 Thank you so much 😊 Welcome here!
Inspired! My absolute maximum growing space is 1/10th acre (everything else is house 😢) & I am trying to grow all our own veggies and fruits (family of 5 atm), but I didn't think I had enough space. I know 1/8th is a little bigger, but this still gives me hope I can get pretty dang close to not buying produce. Also love that you mentioned about how even organic sprays can harm beneficial insects. Just because it says "organic" doesn't mean it's good to use - we still need to think critically and discern whether what we're using is actually best for the health of ourselves and mother earth! Have you heard of JADAM? Thank u for this wonderful video ❤
Amen to all of that! You can do so much on 1/10 acre! And since we've gotten honey bees, we've thought even more about organic sprays. We see our own bees buzzing around the garden and really don't want to kill them off! I looked up JADAM and it looks great! Will hafta look into that more!
Add window boxes and containers to every building, inside and out. Add grow walls inside the buildings too.
You totally can do it! We have 1/10th acre including our house and shed and it’s amazing how many spaces you can turn into garden and still have space for kids to play. We grow beans up our trampoline and have turned half our section into a food forest and then gardens along every fence line. Grow peas up the base of trees, stake zucchini onto sunflowers. It’s quite fun figuring out new ways to use a space, we’re even getting chickens soon. The trick is to have pathways amongst it all so the kids have a circuit they can run, bike, kick a ball around. They love exploring through the gardens and getting snacks as they play off the plants too.
For the powdery mold use a three part water one part milk and spray the vegetation and fruit😊
Yes,I do the same also on the leaves of the zucchini plant .
So glad I found your channel. I’m in SE Michigan and I’m hearing some new information that I’m anxious to try. Since Covid, I can’t eat store bought bread. I can smell and taste every additive and it’s awful. So, now Friday is bread day.
Same here...very sensitive to chemical additives.
Every video is highly detailed, offering step-by-step guidance from theory to practice
Such a great video! Thanks for sharing! COVID definitely messed with my taste buds. Oranges, tomatoes, chicken and beef taste off now. It's been two years now since we got sick. I was hoping my taste would return. One of my daughters has the same issue but the rest of the family have no taste issues.
Thank you! Yes...most of our family had no issues with taste returning. But for me, I have about 5 foods that I don't think will ever taste the same again. It's a bummer.