Ep 4 - Abundant homestead garden this Summer

Welcome to Devon Cottage, our half-acre homestead in Southland, New Zealand where we're living a simple life in tune with nature.
We're on a journey to live off our land as much as possible, growing all our own vegetables, preserving food for throughout the seasons, we're establishing a fruit orchard integrated with the chicken's run and have just started a food forest this year to let more wildness into our garden.
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In this episode I'm sharing with you EVERYTHING I'm growing in the garden this Summer, with an extensive tour around the property, answering some commonly asked questions along the way.
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[@ShereesAlchemy]

What an absolutely beautiful and abundant homestead!

[@athomewiththehortons_]

Thank you!

[@rosemaryjasper1121]

Nice to see you have failures as well as winners. It’s also nice to see an untidy garden! That you too don’t manage to get all the weeds out! It’s satisfying to see a garden that isn’t regimented, that doesn’t have straight rows of plants and that have plants in crazy places! Do you think your apple and pear crops? ❤

[@athomewiththehortons_]

Thank you @rosemaryjasper1121. I’m glad you enjoyed it - the garden is always a work in progress and filled with many learnings :-) Our apples have cropped for the last 2 years and this is the first year we’re getting pears - most of the orchard has been in for 3-4 years now.

[@missmaziecat5058]

I feel as you do about the hand watering. It's my time to be one with the garden. 😊. Wow, you are berry rich! Here in Seattle, the blackberry feels like a weed - they're all up and down the highway. That looks like a rhodedendron in your yard, where the chickens like to hide. I love when they flower. Thank you for a beautiful tour!

[@athomewiththehortons_]

Thank you! Feeling very berry rich in the garden here this Summer :) 🍓🫐 Blackberries are a weed here too, the one I grow for fruit is a thornless blackberry but still just as invasive if you don’t keep it in check! Thanks again for watching!

[@jessicaellis6626]

I just found your channel. I love watching you gardening. I live in USA in upstate NY so the weather is below zero.

[@athomewiththehortons_]

Thanks for watching! Glad to give you some garden time while the weather is wintery for you currently :) I do the same in our winter - spend my time watching the Northen Hemisphere gardeners to keep me inspired for next season :D

[@LindasFlowersandVegetablesGard]

Wonderful vegetable garden!

[@athomewiththehortons_]

Thank you for watching :)

[@rochellereuelu8210]

It’s looking amazing. Would love to see all the produce you have bottled and frozen too. So great!

[@athomewiththehortons_]

Great idea! Thank you for watching :)

[@mariawhite1328]

Gorgeous garden!❤️

[@athomewiththehortons_]

Thank you! 😊