It’s great! My shed has been completed and it turned out nice looking and sturdy and it is way better than the sheds that many of my neighbors had put up. Of course, I'm pleased with the outcome and this Ryan’s th-cam.com/users/postUgkxGZedDTcDfgD7fG_uU4esfx_EgxzlY2_1 Plans was extremely useful to me as a guide.
alternatively, If she does not really want, or feels to be a part of Kris's youtube venture i would 100% wish her the best and hope to never see her. I wish them both the best in their IRL partnership. i love this channel
Put tomatoes in a box with plenty air holes. Sort every couple of days. They will ripen in boxes. My brother picked all green tomatoes on outside and still 180 plants in green house. You are a great builder and love watching your builds. I live in Colorado in USA
A basket isn't great, he's thinking of a fruitbox. I managed to convince a restaurant owner to give me some collapsible plastic crates, that's what I ripen the rest of them in.
@@artfx9 baskets are traditionally woven with wood or are tightly weaved together; even thought permit air to pass: are fairly restrictive to airflow. The only exception I can think of is a laundry basket. I wouldn't refer to putting them in baskets, or else they'll likely get moldy. I would say a "fruit box with large holes", or a "plastic crates" and not a "basket". No different then telling someone to use a lightbulb to start seeds indoors: you'd mention a specific light bulb, not just "a light bulb"; a light bulb could be a 5W incandescent which won't so anything. Same goes for basket 🧺 ☺️
I am impressed with all that you accomplish and the level of craftsmanship that your work shows. I am a retired sheep rancher from the Colorado mountains and my only comment about your sheep operation is that with your obvious appreciation of choosing the proper tool for the job, I recommend a Border Collie as an eager partner to make your own efforts more efficient. As the old saying goes, "A good dog is worth four men".
Our cats are currently bringing in mice roughly twice a day and rabbits every other day! Considering they were rescue kittens from a pretty awful situation i think they are very happy indeed! (We have also had dragonflys and a duckling brought in as presents, dragonfly flew off once revived with some water , and the duckling totally unharmed, despite its 200 yard journey from the farm lagoon to the house and in through the cat flap which is in a window 3 foot off the floor, was happily returned to its mum!)
Chris keep in mind actually tomato's and cucumbers do well together in holland we call them wet fruits. What we call dry fruits, aubergine, paprika, pepers not go well together in the same space as tomatos and cucumbers. And as you see you pepers now start to grow well now your tomatos and cucumbers came to an end. When you make a seperation in the greengous, with a glass wall of some plastic, and dry fruits and wet fruits are not in clice contact you will see both types do much better and you can harvest dry fruits much earlier.
@@sroberts605 Why, ask mother nature :-) I have three 5x3 meter greenhouses in my garden and most people at our complex have two greenhouses specific for that reason. It is most probably as the bees land on the flowers of the wet fruits and than on the flowers of the dry fruits and back and forward mixing pollen around which the dry fruits not like. Seperating them, or preferably split them into two greenhouses, is stronly reducing the mixing of pollen. And especially cucumber pollen seem to do the harm as when the cucumbers come to an end the paprika will start growing. Regareds, Guus
With garlic, I grow the biggest bulbs, and the small ones I peel and puree with a little oil and sea salt. I freeze the puree in silicon bottomed ice cube trays, and then store the lot in a tub. It makes for easy use, and not having to deal with sprouting garlic/no garlic later in the year. I sell any excess (generally the best examples) at £10 a kg, a couple of months after harvest, when dry. I freeze sweetcorn dehusked, chillis as is, and tomatoes go for jarring as passatta. I'd love to process and freeze my spuds, but lack freezer space. All storage is solar powered.
Great to see another video from ewe. The veg looks great, home grown is defiantly best as they come in all sheeps and sizes. Hopefully the peppers come out well but only time wool tell. Kris is becoming quite a sheep wrangler, ewe herd it here first. Some people in the comments really don't listen, ewe have to ram the point home. Kris makes the best videos on EweTube.
Looking good Kris. It's amazing how productive gardens can be. Harnessing the power of nature that most overlook every day. It's literally right under our feet.
Do you preserve your yields ? … I’m fascinated with a couple from Alaska (Simple living Alaska) who are masters at growing and preserving food for over their long winters … they make lots of sauces etc as well … I know you are busy but you should check them out . Excellent produce this year … loving all your vlogs … 🙏☘️😘
With land like that & a pair of his hands,i am a believer in hazel Forrest would do him the world of go0d,just imaging the hurdles this young man could fling up & meaning he could get rid of his wired fencing,this is only a thought of mine,what ever the young man creates well my hat is of to him & go0d luck to him,so to speak!
Its a lot of work to can your harvest. I kid you not I can quite a bit. Each batch of tomatoes takes 90 mins in a water bath. Depending on your set up and how much you intend to can it can take the whole day to can 40 to 80 quarts then the next day you have to do it all over again except that its 10 quarts and then 10 the next day and so on. You will have very high yield days and the more you grow the more you have to do. I do not know that channel and I doubt I would ever watch it as most of them make it look easy and fast when its not even close to being that. I processed over 1200 lbs of tomatoes this year. Of which took me the better part of the summer along with a lot of other stuff.
@@villain1409 He sure is an amazing young man … he took a leap of faith , got out of the big city and really made such a good life for himself with added bonus of his lovely partner too … I agree get rid of wire fencing in favour of Hawthorne or Hazel ! … 🙏☘️😘
British English = "peppers"; American English = "bell-peppers". British English = "aubergines"; American English= "egg plants". Your garden looks healthy and plush. All the best to a man who is a good caretaker and custodian of the earth (agronomist) who takes his work seriously and who teaches others his skill-craft. Greetings from Israel.
Put a door on your greenhouse keep the heat in. that will ripen the tomato`s plus it will keep the pests out. close all gaps in the greenhouse and just have a little air flow. with the door on the greenhouse it will keep the soil warm also
And there we are all thinking you go it alone, you sneak, suddenly appears super Dot, what a beautiful lady and a real worker, High Dot from all of us keep the reigns tight I bet you don't know what he 's gonna do next. Great vid guy's keep them coming come on TH-cam show these of grid Guy's, what it's like to produce, almost anything. That's our Kris.
Sat on the precipice of sixty watching you jump all over your roofs and hump stuff around all day, I do chuckle when you say..... "I'm getting older" 😂😂😂 Well if you are I'm really in trouble. Another grand video, the drone has been a great addition 👍
Though I am not much of a drinker, you inspired me to make hard cider last year. I brewed up 24, 20 ounce bottles and I still have 12 bottles left. Turned out great! Thank you for the inspiration you two! Blessings Abound.
You can also make green tomatoes chutney, it's a good way to use up your tomatoes, with it being an old English 🏴 vinegar based recipe. Hope you do make it I haven't eaten it since my Gran last made it when she was about 70 almost 50 years go. That top workshop is really coming on, Kris, you're one heck of a wood work builder, keep it up. 👍
You can remove the lower leaves on the aubergines to make harvesting easier, all the curling leaves too. Tomatoes need sun to ripen, even on the plants. Thin out a lot of those leaves and remove all of the lower leaves exposing at least the bottom third of the plant. Charles Dowding’s vids of his greenhouse this and last year are good examples. Um, garlic are heavy feeders so if you put compost on anywhere that bed could use at least 1/2”. A few questions… Will you be putting in any broad beans/broccoli/cabbages for overwintering? We’re in 8b and they all do fantastic over the winter. (Autumn planted Brussel sprouts do have to stay the entire summer before they produce but we love them.) Will you be overwintering the peppers? (They are perennials.) Do you feed the apple pulp to the chickens? A real treat for them!
Did I hear you say you made a 100 liters last year??? Sounds like it is time to make some Vinegars for storing up the rest of your bounty :) Thanks for the videos. It is good to see you thriving and living out your plans.
Kris, keep those pumpkins in a cool place and they will last up to a year. I still have some butternut from last year, they make great curries or in a Thai stirfry (pad fak tong). With all this food preserving you will have to build an underground fruit/preserve store! Keep up the great videos.
I grew a lot of cucumbers one year and made bread and butter pickles. Another year I did the same to zucchini’s. But after that year I made mustard pickle from zukies. Well done with the spectacular aubergines so pretty and I’ve been trying for years to grow them. Think I need a green house. Well done
Growing your own sure teaches you humility, always at the mercy of the weather. I find that a poor apple year one year will often mean a bumper crop the next.
Have either of you watched Living Traditions Homestead? They are great homesteaders and preserve their food in a number of different ways. It's great to be able to give to family and friends, but by the looks of it you've got a good amount you could preserve as well. Love your videos.
Kris, if you are having problems with potatoes, try growing them in containers... I have been doing this for a few years now and found I was getting a much better yield than growing into the ground. Thanks for the upload.
This year I pulled well over 1200 lbs of tomatoes from my garden and another 500 to 750 lbs of cucumbers, squash, butternut, green peppers and yellow peppers. I also grew a bunch of herbs and just pulled the last of the herbs a couple of weeks ago and have have 16 large bunches hanging in one of my rooms from hooks from the ceiling. In the end I canned damn near all of the tomatoes with a loss of around 10% or less that were tossed due to grasshoppers or other bad looking stuff or just overall waste from either peeling them or turning them in to sauce. My yield was around 400 quarts of which weigh about 2lbs each. ( 800 lbs total give or take ) Lots of it was cooked down in to sauce, rotel ( its a mix of tomatoes, spices and green chilies for tacos ) Of the rest of the stuff we canned the yellow and green peppers or froze them for later use in other things we canned. We tried to give away as much squash as we could and ended up just tossing a bunch of it in one of our ditches for the animals. We did can all of the butternut squash as we use that a lot when we have them. Overall I am quite happy with this years yield. Though I am not happy about the back breaking work that goes in to picking them. This coming planting season I will be redoing the entire garden and adjusting the drip line system to be on more than a single zone. I will also be changing the fertilizer to a water base one. The high end weed barrier did its job so well that it can be used for years and years to come. Except for the fact that the 2 rows that I have right now will be moved so that the new garden design can be put in. We are going to build hoops for all of the vine plants and then box in for the random other stuff. Boxing in is just adding a frame so that what weed barrier is cut open does not spill out on to the rest of the garden area. Less work and more food. We did not have to do a darn thing this year on tending to the plants. The less we have to do the better. We are only after the food. Overall I am very impressed for this season. Next season will be geared towards more odds and ends stuff.
Hi there. Iv been watching you're Chanel for a month now and it has been a pleasure watching you build a beautiful dream. Not only do I also build and love to tinker with projects. I felt it was my duty to reach out and say! You sir are a amazing craftsman the idea and know how are wonderful to watch... how do I know you're blessed, well when you built you're greenhouse and there just so happened to be a perfect spring right in the middle... thank you for the inspiration of the build and pursuance of a dream.. say hi to cat for me..
G'day Kris and Dot, just a suggestion, get cardboard and a load of woodchips from your friendly neighbourhood treelopper for the walkways between the vege beds, Charles Dowding style! Love the channel guys 👍🇦🇺
Yes we really do need a good place to store it all, for now it just lives in my man cave but I want that back soon. I just have to much to do at the moment to be starting any new projects.
@@KrisHarbour Awesome harvest...just a side note... a good dehydrator would be worth getting... the bulk foods are shrunk down, so more can be put up with less space taken and easier to store.. every thing you harvested this year would dehydrate down nicely and only take three or four shelves each 3' x 10' .. thats feet btw. lol.... PS, also, you can store in either glass jars or in mylar bags.. you would also need to get a vacuum sealer... they make a jar vacuum sealer attachment for those as well.. if in mylar, with an ox absorber pack, they would store for years in a dark dry place that is critter free.. you have good healthy soil is why your garden produced so much for you.. if your interested in dehydrating, there is a lady here on yt 'OurHalfAcerHomestead' who has very good instructions on how to dehydrate and store foods... =) good luck ..
@@jensage58 I simply have a cardboard box with 2 pieces of mesh, sitting on a wooden frame, over our wood burner, as my dryer. Works fine with harder fruit, leaving a 3 gallon bucket of apples reduced to a quart sized plastic bag.
Dot needed a beach for the apples and you needed a jig for the drill. Protect your backs at every opportunity. Another great update vid and as always you two are exceptional. All the best from Oz.
pickle cucumbers in a large barrel and then have them all through the fall-winter-spring. boiled or fried potatoes go well with dill pickles. also there are spreads you can make with those. my favorite is tuna or sardines in oil minced then add finely diced pickles, finely diced hard-boiled eggs, and fresh diced onions. mayo can be added as well. vary it a bit by adding fresh minced garlic and/or finely grated soft cheese of you favorite variety. salt and pepper to taste. can be very nice on a slice of freshly baked bread or toast in the morning. give it a try.
I love your channel dude! What you show us and what you do and ACTUALLY achieve is far beyond what some of us could aspire to do. I personally really enjoy your presentation style and your content is really well edited too. Keep up the good work! ✌🏻
Absolutely amazing haul from that garden, and you're right to be proud of it. I remember shelves of preserved goods in the cool, damp basement growing up, and it's surprising how much I miss all of that. You're living the dream (well, my dream at least!).
Another great video Kris, Pickling the cucumbers will give you loads in winter super easy too do, dried squash will last all winter, green tomatoes and peppers for chutney or ripening in your home about a week should do it. Hundreds of ways to store your produce. 💕
delightful video this time - amusing sheep 🐑 escapades, funny watching the chopper munch the fruits - “enough waffling” is almost as good as “pleased, well pleased” - beautiful property of the garden - that’s an interesting name for 🍆 eggplant - love seeing tiger! cheerio, mc
Ya know Kris a video I would like to see is just a kind of discussion video! If you don’t have time do a regular video, why not just set up the camera in the house for 10-20 min and talk to us about your experience and things you’ve learned! Or a QnA? Love the content Kris!
Would love to see you build and run a preserves store.. Just a small hut that you can store food stuffs from your garden.. like stews soups pickles ect ect..
Just good to see you guys are both well. Great haul from the garden, especially the flying saucer squashes and huge aubergines! Thanks for the update Kris.
Im the coast of Oregon and really enjoy watching your videos and the amount of love and care you put into every project. As you say there “Job well done”!
Leaks are good left in the ground for a few frosts. So no need to harvest them right away. Build up the soil around and cover them in mulch to give them some protection. I find they taste better after a frost or two. Garden is looking good.👍
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You're truly a rich man, plenty of good food with enough left over to give to friends and family. Have a warm and dry winter.
Very nice comment
*Warm and dry inside ... considering he runs off hydro in the winter, it better not be too dry or he'll sit in the dark :D
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It’s great! My shed has been completed and it turned out nice looking and sturdy and it is way better than the sheds that many of my neighbors had put up. Of course, I'm pleased with the outcome and this Ryan’s th-cam.com/users/postUgkxGZedDTcDfgD7fG_uU4esfx_EgxzlY2_1 Plans was extremely useful to me as a guide.
that greenhouse is thing of beauty
You do have a one heck of a bounty, your friends and neighbours will be great full!
Love that you just wash the squash off in the natural spring you built into the greenhouse.
Yes, that made me giggle. So right!
Hope Dot will cozy up to the camera,would love to hear her views on stuff and things,she seems a peaceful spirit.
Agreed, Dot seems to be such a tranquil presence. I wish her well. She will appear when she wishes, and I'm OK with that.
alternatively, If she does not really want, or feels to be a part of Kris's youtube venture i would 100% wish her the best and hope to never see her. I wish them both the best in their IRL partnership. i love this channel
@@Aeradill Exactly.
Put tomatoes in a box with plenty air holes. Sort every couple of days. They will ripen in boxes. My brother picked all green tomatoes on outside and still 180 plants in green house. You are a great builder and love watching your builds. I live in Colorado in USA
A box with air holes... do you mean a basket? 😃
Live in Lakewood
A basket isn't great, he's thinking of a fruitbox.
I managed to convince a restaurant owner to give me some collapsible plastic crates, that's what I ripen the rest of them in.
@@jamess1787 what is the difference?
@@artfx9 baskets are traditionally woven with wood or are tightly weaved together; even thought permit air to pass: are fairly restrictive to airflow. The only exception I can think of is a laundry basket. I wouldn't refer to putting them in baskets, or else they'll likely get moldy. I would say a "fruit box with large holes", or a "plastic crates" and not a "basket".
No different then telling someone to use a lightbulb to start seeds indoors: you'd mention a specific light bulb, not just "a light bulb"; a light bulb could be a 5W incandescent which won't so anything. Same goes for basket 🧺 ☺️
I am impressed with all that you accomplish and the level of craftsmanship that your work shows. I am a retired sheep rancher from the Colorado mountains and my only comment about your sheep operation is that with your obvious appreciation of choosing the proper tool for the job, I recommend a Border Collie as an eager partner to make your own efforts more efficient. As the old saying goes, "A good dog is worth four men".
I love how you regularly create beautiful wooden works of art but still use a piece of scrap for the scratter lid lol
I'm almost positive that I seen you yesterday in your Delicia towing a trailer in Felinfoel I did beep my horn and wave to you lol 😆
That's a compromising position there Kris while you're shredding!!
Kris Harbour on a Friday after a long long week. What a treat.
12:04 25:55 - Farm cats are some of the happiest cats around as their natural wild senses are catered for.
Our cats are currently bringing in mice roughly twice a day and rabbits every other day! Considering they were rescue kittens from a pretty awful situation i think they are very happy indeed! (We have also had dragonflys and a duckling brought in as presents, dragonfly flew off once revived with some water , and the duckling totally unharmed, despite its 200 yard journey from the farm lagoon to the house and in through the cat flap which is in a window 3 foot off the floor, was happily returned to its mum!)
as soon as I saw that basket I had the same thought, it's a really nice looking basket
I use our apples with chicken , just put pieces of apple on top of the meat while making it ready. I use butter and olive oil.
Chris keep in mind actually tomato's and cucumbers do well together in holland we call them wet fruits. What we call dry fruits, aubergine, paprika, pepers not go well together in the same space as tomatos and cucumbers. And as you see you pepers now start to grow well now your tomatos and cucumbers came to an end. When you make a seperation in the greengous, with a glass wall of some plastic, and dry fruits and wet fruits are not in clice contact you will see both types do much better and you can harvest dry fruits much earlier.
Interesting, but why?
@@sroberts605 Why, ask mother nature :-) I have three 5x3 meter greenhouses in my garden and most people at our complex have two greenhouses specific for that reason. It is most probably as the bees land on the flowers of the wet fruits and than on the flowers of the dry fruits and back and forward mixing pollen around which the dry fruits not like. Seperating them, or preferably split them into two greenhouses, is stronly reducing the mixing of pollen. And especially cucumber pollen seem to do the harm as when the cucumbers come to an end the paprika will start growing. Regareds, Guus
The look on your face with the aubergines says it all.The gifts of you're dedication. Proud 👍
With garlic, I grow the biggest bulbs, and the small ones I peel and puree with a little oil and sea salt. I freeze the puree in silicon bottomed ice cube trays, and then store the lot in a tub. It makes for easy use, and not having to deal with sprouting garlic/no garlic later in the year. I sell any excess (generally the best examples) at £10 a kg, a couple of months after harvest, when dry. I freeze sweetcorn dehusked, chillis as is, and tomatoes go for jarring as passatta. I'd love to process and freeze my spuds, but lack freezer space. All storage is solar powered.
Great to see another video from ewe. The veg looks great, home grown is defiantly best as they come in all sheeps and sizes. Hopefully the peppers come out well but only time wool tell. Kris is becoming quite a sheep wrangler, ewe herd it here first. Some people in the comments really don't listen, ewe have to ram the point home. Kris makes the best videos on EweTube.
How long did that take you?
Great garden. No waist 👍👍👍
@@fishmud3264 ewe guess
@@markchambers9415No ewe guess!
@Fish Mud & @Mark Chambers ……
OK guys, this is free entertainment so calm the flock down.
Nobody got fleeced.
You have done an amazing amount of work to get your homestead going !!! I have so enjoyed watching the progression. You really have come so far
I just enjoy watching you so much. Especially the tiger helping with the garlic 😂
Looking good Kris. It's amazing how productive gardens can be. Harnessing the power of nature that most overlook every day. It's literally right under our feet.
that kitty is such a good garlic planter
What a delightful video! It was well worth waiting for. Your little tiger is a champion scamperer!
Do you preserve your yields ? … I’m fascinated with a couple from Alaska (Simple living Alaska) who are masters at growing and preserving food for over their long winters … they make lots of sauces etc as well … I know you are busy but you should check them out .
Excellent produce this year … loving all your vlogs … 🙏☘️😘
i LOVE that channel (this one too :D)
Hi, another great channel.
With land like that & a pair of his hands,i am a believer in hazel Forrest would do him the world of go0d,just imaging the hurdles this young man could fling up & meaning he could get rid of his wired fencing,this is only a thought of mine,what ever the young man creates well my hat is of to him & go0d luck to him,so to speak!
Its a lot of work to can your harvest. I kid you not I can quite a bit. Each batch of tomatoes takes 90 mins in a water bath. Depending on your set up and how much you intend to can it can take the whole day to can 40 to 80 quarts then the next day you have to do it all over again except that its 10 quarts and then 10 the next day and so on. You will have very high yield days and the more you grow the more you have to do. I do not know that channel and I doubt I would ever watch it as most of them make it look easy and fast when its not even close to being that. I processed over 1200 lbs of tomatoes this year. Of which took me the better part of the summer along with a lot of other stuff.
@@villain1409
He sure is an amazing young man … he took a leap of faith , got out of the big city and really made such a good life for himself with added bonus of his lovely partner too …
I agree get rid of wire fencing in favour of Hawthorne or Hazel ! … 🙏☘️😘
British English = "peppers"; American English = "bell-peppers". British English = "aubergines"; American English= "egg plants". Your garden looks healthy and plush. All the best to a man who is a good caretaker and custodian of the earth (agronomist) who takes his work seriously and who teaches others his skill-craft. Greetings from Israel.
Your next project will have to be a roadside vegetable market. Congrats on your beautiful harvest! 🇨🇦
I love your cat. She cracks me up. She was helping to cover the garlic 😆
Cat is a carnivore, what does she eat?
I have never seen that type of squash before! They are beautiful ! Like flowers! You two are doing just great both of you have learned so much!
Genius Kris & Dot....if people could gleen a fraction of your resourcefullness this planet could pull out of the nose-dive!!
Put a door on your greenhouse keep the heat in. that will ripen the tomato`s plus it will keep the pests out. close all gaps in the greenhouse and just have a little air flow. with the door on the greenhouse it will keep the soil warm also
Blackcurrants and elderberry makes a great drink for the winter gently warmed👌🏻
Canning, drying, freezing and preserving is a great way to use up the excess produce.
Looking fabulous
Keep trading my friend best of luck
Make a load of Tzatziki with your cucumbers Kris :)
Green tomatoes make delicious chutney.
And there we are all thinking you go it alone, you sneak, suddenly appears super Dot, what a beautiful lady and a real worker, High Dot from all of us keep the reigns tight
I bet you don't know what he 's gonna do next.
Great vid guy's keep them coming come on TH-cam show these of grid Guy's, what it's like to produce, almost anything.
That's our Kris.
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Amazing yield. Looks like you'll have to have lots of green tomato chutney!
Sat on the precipice of sixty watching you jump all over your roofs and hump stuff around all day, I do chuckle when you say.....
"I'm getting older"
😂😂😂 Well if you are I'm really in trouble.
Another grand video, the drone has been a great addition 👍
Though I am not much of a drinker, you inspired me to make hard cider last year. I brewed up 24, 20 ounce bottles and I still have 12 bottles left. Turned out great! Thank you for the inspiration you two! Blessings Abound.
You can also make green tomatoes chutney, it's a good way to use up your tomatoes, with it being an old English 🏴 vinegar based recipe. Hope you do make it I haven't eaten it since my Gran last made it when she was about 70 almost 50 years go. That top workshop is really coming on, Kris, you're one heck of a wood work builder, keep it up. 👍
Pickled green tomatoes are wicked, best use for them in my book
if everyone lived like this the world would b a perfect place
Awsooome. I already know this ones gonna be a Gooden. Keep the content flowing kris mate. It’s very much appreciated
Any plans to run a farmer's market stall in the future when there's such an excess? Organic cider, veg & eggs, it's good money! ;-)
You can remove the lower leaves on the aubergines to make harvesting easier, all the curling leaves too. Tomatoes need sun to ripen, even on the plants. Thin out a lot of those leaves and remove all of the lower leaves exposing at least the bottom third of the plant. Charles Dowding’s vids of his greenhouse this and last year are good examples. Um, garlic are heavy feeders so if you put compost on anywhere that bed could use at least 1/2”.
A few questions…
Will you be putting in any broad beans/broccoli/cabbages for overwintering? We’re in 8b and they all do fantastic over the winter. (Autumn planted Brussel sprouts do have to stay the entire summer before they produce but we love them.)
Will you be overwintering the peppers? (They are perennials.)
Do you feed the apple pulp to the chickens? A real treat for them!
Always love a new upload! I love the sheep color, I am a yarn spinner so naturally colored fleece is a love of mine.
If only there were purple sheep
@@09conrado 😂 they would be cute. White fleece is fun to dye purple, after shearing of course.
Excellent!! And I am so impressed with the aubergines....especially in the Welsh climate. There's lovely!😁🤣
Did I hear you say you made a 100 liters last year??? Sounds like it is time to make some Vinegars for storing up the rest of your bounty :) Thanks for the videos. It is good to see you thriving and living out your plans.
Great vid as per usual Kris. Glad to hear the hydro business is taking off, and always a pleasure to see Dot
Made me crave swede and carrot mash and baked aubergine with leeks and mushrooms in tomato sauce. Yummm...
Kris, keep those pumpkins in a cool place and they will last up to a year. I still have some butternut from last year, they make great curries or in a Thai stirfry (pad fak tong). With all this food preserving you will have to build an underground fruit/preserve store! Keep up the great videos.
I grew a lot of cucumbers one year and made bread and butter pickles. Another year I did the same to zucchini’s. But after that year I made mustard pickle from zukies. Well done with the spectacular aubergines so pretty and I’ve been trying for years to grow them. Think I need a green house. Well done
Beautiful place you have, and the home grown food must test amazing. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Growing your own sure teaches you humility, always at the mercy of the weather. I find that a poor apple year one year will often mean a bumper crop the next.
You're an amazing talented man. Nice to see your partner in the videos.
Have either of you watched Living Traditions Homestead? They are great homesteaders and preserve their food in a number of different ways. It's great to be able to give to family and friends, but by the looks of it you've got a good amount you could preserve as well. Love your videos.
I just watched all of your cider videos. I do enjoy the process. Thanks, Kris. 🙂👍
Kris, if you are having problems with potatoes, try growing them in containers... I have been doing this for a few years now and found I was getting a much better yield than growing into the ground. Thanks for the upload.
Very enjoyable to watch, very relaxing.
The spring really is handy.
Outstanding crop!! Well done over all. Wont be going hungry anytime soon. peace and prosper
Looks like it’s time to dig a root cellar and start doing some canning to preserve all of your hard work. Great job.
A great haul from the garden. Hope all is well and looking forward to your next videos. Take care
This year I pulled well over 1200 lbs of tomatoes from my garden and another 500 to 750 lbs of cucumbers, squash, butternut, green peppers and yellow peppers. I also grew a bunch of herbs and just pulled the last of the herbs a couple of weeks ago and have have 16 large bunches hanging in one of my rooms from hooks from the ceiling.
In the end I canned damn near all of the tomatoes with a loss of around 10% or less that were tossed due to grasshoppers or other bad looking stuff or just overall waste from either peeling them or turning them in to sauce. My yield was around 400 quarts of which weigh about 2lbs each. ( 800 lbs total give or take ) Lots of it was cooked down in to sauce, rotel ( its a mix of tomatoes, spices and green chilies for tacos ) Of the rest of the stuff we canned the yellow and green peppers or froze them for later use in other things we canned. We tried to give away as much squash as we could and ended up just tossing a bunch of it in one of our ditches for the animals. We did can all of the butternut squash as we use that a lot when we have them.
Overall I am quite happy with this years yield. Though I am not happy about the back breaking work that goes in to picking them. This coming planting season I will be redoing the entire garden and adjusting the drip line system to be on more than a single zone. I will also be changing the fertilizer to a water base one. The high end weed barrier did its job so well that it can be used for years and years to come. Except for the fact that the 2 rows that I have right now will be moved so that the new garden design can be put in. We are going to build hoops for all of the vine plants and then box in for the random other stuff. Boxing in is just adding a frame so that what weed barrier is cut open does not spill out on to the rest of the garden area. Less work and more food. We did not have to do a darn thing this year on tending to the plants. The less we have to do the better. We are only after the food. Overall I am very impressed for this season. Next season will be geared towards more odds and ends stuff.
Afternoon Kris Dit & tiger lol 😂 It’s so relaxing watching you both harvesting you’re own grown food 😊
Hi there. Iv been watching you're Chanel for a month now and it has been a pleasure watching you build a beautiful dream. Not only do I also build and love to tinker with projects. I felt it was my duty to reach out and say! You sir are a amazing craftsman the idea and know how are wonderful to watch... how do I know you're blessed, well when you built you're greenhouse and there just so happened to be a perfect spring right in the middle... thank you for the inspiration of the build and pursuance of a dream.. say hi to cat for me..
Love you talking to the cat about the juice. "You wouldn't like it." 😁
The Greenhouse looks beautiful. I'm looking forward to an update on your hydroelectric setup.
Yes!! I am very interested in your hydroelectric power generation capabilities.
Great colour soil in your veg garden!
I really missed the weekly upload. Good luck on your projects and thanks for documenting your daily life. Its inspirational.
G'day Kris and Dot, just a suggestion, get cardboard and a load of woodchips from your friendly neighbourhood treelopper for the walkways between the vege beds, Charles Dowding style! Love the channel guys 👍🇦🇺
Loving the new drone footage. Looks like next on your construction list is a root cellar with all that produce!
Yes we really do need a good place to store it all, for now it just lives in my man cave but I want that back soon. I just have to much to do at the moment to be starting any new projects.
@@KrisHarbour Awesome harvest...just a side note... a good dehydrator would be worth getting... the bulk foods are shrunk down, so more can be put up with less space taken and easier to store.. every thing you harvested this year would dehydrate down nicely and only take three or four shelves each 3' x 10' .. thats feet btw. lol.... PS, also, you can store in either glass jars or in mylar bags.. you would also need to get a vacuum sealer... they make a jar vacuum sealer attachment for those as well.. if in mylar, with an ox absorber pack, they would store for years in a dark dry place that is critter free.. you have good healthy soil is why your garden produced so much for you.. if your interested in dehydrating, there is a lady here on yt 'OurHalfAcerHomestead' who has very good instructions on how to dehydrate and store foods... =) good luck ..
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I simply have a cardboard box with 2 pieces of mesh, sitting on a wooden frame, over our wood burner, as my dryer. Works fine with harder fruit, leaving a 3 gallon bucket of apples reduced to a quart sized plastic bag.
@@ps8432 Good for you! People like you are the solution to the problem!
Dot needed a beach for the apples and you needed a jig for the drill. Protect your backs at every opportunity. Another great update vid and as always you two are exceptional. All the best from Oz.
looks like a good year for garden, amazing what can be grown in a small area
I knew this was due! I just pressed 17 litres! Bring on Christmas!
pickle cucumbers in a large barrel and then have them all through the fall-winter-spring. boiled or fried potatoes go well with dill pickles. also there are spreads you can make with those. my favorite is tuna or sardines in oil minced then add finely diced pickles, finely diced hard-boiled eggs, and fresh diced onions. mayo can be added as well. vary it a bit by adding fresh minced garlic and/or finely grated soft cheese of you favorite variety. salt and pepper to taste. can be very nice on a slice of freshly baked bread or toast in the morning. give it a try.
Love these videos every year of you guys making apple cider. It's almost become a ritual.
I love your channel dude! What you show us and what you do and ACTUALLY achieve is far beyond what some of us could aspire to do. I personally really enjoy your presentation style and your content is really well edited too. Keep up the good work! ✌🏻
Absolutely amazing haul from that garden, and you're right to be proud of it. I remember shelves of preserved goods in the cool, damp basement growing up, and it's surprising how much I miss all of that. You're living the dream (well, my dream at least!).
Roast parsnips with buttered spouts and fluffy, crispy, golden brown roast potatoes.... delish! :)
Squash soup......it freezes very well. Cucumber and apple juice
Another great video Kris, Pickling the cucumbers will give you loads in winter super easy too do, dried squash will last all winter, green tomatoes and peppers for chutney or ripening in your home about a week should do it. Hundreds of ways to store your produce. 💕
delightful video this time - amusing sheep 🐑 escapades, funny watching the chopper munch the fruits - “enough waffling” is almost as good as “pleased, well pleased” - beautiful property of the garden - that’s an interesting name for 🍆 eggplant - love seeing tiger! cheerio, mc
Ya know Kris a video I would like to see is just a kind of discussion video! If you don’t have time do a regular video, why not just set up the camera in the house for 10-20 min and talk to us about your experience and things you’ve learned! Or a QnA? Love the content Kris!
Those drone shots really put everything together. Fantastic !
Would love to see you build and run a preserves store.. Just a small hut that you can store food stuffs from your garden.. like stews soups pickles ect ect..
Thank you, this is all very fascinating. I really find myself wishing the both of you the very best in all you do and the "tiger".
I love the way you talk to your sheep 🤣 a gentle soul
inspiring video to the last, well done.
Just love this channel. Your living my dream life 😍
You need a board with a round hole in the middle to pop the apples in.
or even better with a funnel on top
Fried green tomatoes,,! There awesome,,,,
Just good to see you guys are both well. Great haul from the garden, especially the flying saucer squashes and huge aubergines! Thanks for the update Kris.
Fried Green Tomatoes our fabulous to eat
It's awesome that a small piece of land can produce so much food.
Im the coast of Oregon and really enjoy watching your videos and the amount of love and care you put into every project. As you say there “Job well done”!
Leaks are good left in the ground for a few frosts. So no need to harvest them right away. Build up the soil around and cover them in mulch to give them some protection. I find they taste better after a frost or two. Garden is looking good.👍
Seems everything you touch turns to gold. Your hard work pays off.