How We Grow Our Own Food (for a family of 6!) | Kitchen Garden Tips for Beginners
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2024
- How do we do everything? We don’t. But we still feed our family homegrown vegetables ALL YEAR LONG! How do we do it? I’ll take you on a homestead garden tour, and show you. I’ll hand out some kitchen garden tips for beginners along the way. This is how we grow our own food, and avoid burnout on the homestead.
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Dude. Y'all need to try growing figs and mulberries. 😍 Both are PROLIFIC .They are MY FAVE!!! 👌🏼
Dunno about figs, but we’ve got mulberry trees growing like weeds in our tree rows 😂 The kids love em.
Both are too pasty and sweet for my liking. I prefer tart and refreshing fruits, though I don’t mind figs in baked goods and mulberry juice is tasty.
This year was the first-time I planted watermelon. Got 6 from 2 plants. Got 10 pumpkins from 4 plants. I'm in zone 8a and had a good crop of blueberries. 8 green pepper plants yielded lots until the deer found them and ate all the leaves. The leaves grew back in time for the deer to munch on them again. I got plenty to make salsa, and chow chow relish (mixture of cabbage, peppers, onions, zucchini and green tomatoes) best stuff ever! Anyway things I never planted before was a success in my book.
That’s really cool! It’s a satisfying feeling.
I never had any luck with onion bulbs either so I tried starting my own from seed and now grow good onions, in fact my onions took a red ribbon, 2nd at the county fair this year. We live in Ohio as well
Nice!! Congrats!
cant stop watching keep up the good work and thanks for letting us in on your lifestyle.
Thanks so much 😊
I discovered your channel by reels on FB, which led me to here ! I've watched several of your videos, and plan to watch them all. Such great information and content.
A few questions-
1) what zone/state are you in?
2) do either of you have a background or come from a family who has farmed/gardener?
3) how did you start your garden beds and do a layout of where everything was going, like what ammendments did you add to your soil?
4) do either of you work outside the home, I Imagine that it's a full-time job running the homestead- so how did you get started and how do you live /pay bills - your food bill I assume is primarily what you grow and store, then selling eggs, a calf, some produce, and hopefully some monetary gains from being on here.
Sorry if these are a lot of questions, I'm really interested in how it all works and how you all got started.
That’s so cool! Glad you’re here! I really hope you find the videos helpful and inspiring.
We live in Ohio, zone 6. I grew up in the country, and we had a couple horses. I remember having a garden and chickens for a year or two when I was really young, but I didn’t learn anything from it 😏 My wife, Shelli, grew up on a veal farm.. helpful in some ways, but quite an opposite approach from what we do here 😁 She did grow up with a garden though. I call her the Garden Ninja 😁 We’ve learned and tweaked over the years doing more sustainable practices, but she definitely had a solid foundation. We don’t have any raised beds yet.. I want to put some in this year. But if you’re talkin about like our perennial areas they came about by slightly wingin it 😁 There’s been thought put into it, but we just kinda went with what made sense at the time, or what worked. Our 2 main garden areas themselves got put where they are because that was the logical available space we had. We’ve never done a soil test 😬 That’s always been on our to do list, but just hasn’t gotten done. We use a LOT of compost though since we have so much from the chickens and cow. We’ve definitely noticed our soil improve every year. I have a full time job.. I do work half days on Fridays so I have a little more time to get stuff done. It’s a LOT of work, and hard to get things done, but we’re working towards our dream. So far everything has been done on the side. The bit we get from egg sales and selling the occasional calf helps. We also do herdshares for milk. After expenses there’s really not a lot of cash there though. Most of the monetary value we get is in lowering our own grocery bill. We raise all of our own milk, beef, chicken, eggs, vegetables, and some fruit. We aren’t monetized on TH-cam yet, but our goal is to build a business around it so that I can be here on the homestead all the time. Let’s just say with a job, a homestead, and a TH-cam channel we have to be very intentional about not getting overworked and overstressed. It’s been a real journey for us. Any video “shares” etc. is greatly appreciated 😉 I hope you continue to enjoy the videos! If you have any questions/topic suggestions I’d love to hear them!
You mean her favorite fruit! 🥒 Great video. 😊
"Everything except cake," ROF-LMHO! Love you!
I absolutely LOVE your gardening videos!
Absolutely amazing!!!
You guys are amazing
Omgoodness I loved this video so much good advice!!! Thank you thank you
Loved seeing your gardens! They look beautiful!
Thanks! Shelli is the garden ninja.. I’m just the braun behind it 😉
Congratulations on being the first to leave us a comment! I feel like there should be an award.. I’ll have to think about that 😁
I loved seeing all you grow! good video!
Hey thanks bro! Come see it in person sometime 😉
Thank You! Beautiful gardens. Love how you are raising your children, love that both if you are interested in growing a homestead. Super important, great environment, healthy therapy❗️💜
Thank you! and I agree on the importance of both partners wanting the life. It makes a huge difference because we can share responsibilities:)
Dried beans are super easy and versatile- my favorite!! Black, red kidney, pinto and cow eye are my go to’s and save seed for next year
Onion cake, yumm!?!?!?! Made me laugh. Great video as always!
You guys are an inspiration for my family and our homestead plan first year Gardener this year but learning alot! Keep the good stuff coming we will be watching
Awesome! Thank you!
Hi! I am from North Western PA Currently living in Phoenix, AZ. Your property reminds me of where I grew up North of Pittsburgh in the New Wilmington & Grove City areas. I am going to binge watch your videos. I like your style and you are doing a great job with content. Thank you. 😊
Thanks for sharing! Welcome to the community!
Nicely Done! You have a wonderful talent in smoothly transitioning your knowledge onto the video. Keep practicing and someday I hope to see you on a National Level explaining the How to's and Why not's to the starving families than really need to grow their own vegetables and down the road, bring livestock into the picture. Curious as to what state you live in, as it seems all you grow could be planted in the northern part of the country.
Thank you very much! We’re in Ohio.
I hope you don't use toothpaste with floride. If you do. Make sure you rinse it out well.
my 3 year old calls asparagus paintbrushes! It's so cute she's like I want a paintbrush! And this means she wants us to share a asparagus with her from our plate!
Awwww! 🤩
Onion plants grow better than onion sets because onions are biennial. The set is a second year plant and the second year plant focuses on fleet and seed production. When you plant the plant, the first year so the energy goes into producing a strong bulb.
Thanks for the info!
I so envy your farm, hope we can do homesteading too
I hope so too! And thank you!
Hi Cody, nice garden! By the way the heartburn is from luck of acid in your stomach. Dr Eric Berg (on TH-cam)explais how that works.
You might have the reaction because of the preservatives.
Blessings
If you have heartburn, you need to take an enzyme, it's for digestive support. It works.
Tomatoes and Cucumbers are the two ‘staples’ that I try and grow every year if possible, plus they are my two favourite vegetables so my parents always made sure to grow lots as they would have very little trouble getting me to eat those…😊
I try and use trelliss in my garden to grow much of my vegetables onto as I have limited space, so my cucumbers don’t get hit by bugs or disease as often.
All the other veggies I grow in my garden are basically whatever I can afford or know how to care for, some are only a one year experiment while others are almost regular things.
Whatever I don’t eat myself or have extra, I take to my churches daycare for them to use for the kids meals that are enrolled in the program…
Sounds amazing!
New to the channel but loving it so far! Also where did you get your square tomato cages from?
Great! Welcome here! We got them from a local nursery, but Berlin Seeds carries them berlinseeds.life/
Thank you guys for your videos! Do you have any telling how many plants you do for your family to get the right amount to feed for the year? Also, how do you keep wild life out?
That would be a lot to type out here, and a lot of it is very fluid. We plan to do a seed ordering video this winter and we will go over that then. We don't have many issues with wildlife. Our dog helps out the most 😊
Great tour. Thank Cody (sorry if I spell your name incorrectly). Just wondering roughly how much percent of your family's food do you grow yourself? I mean how self-sufficient you are? Maybe make a video about a budget saving of such homesteading. That would be great incentive to many.
th-cam.com/video/g94ep1HYEnE/w-d-xo.html Hey great idea...We have put out a few videos already on self-sufficiency and what all we grow/raise for ourselves. I don't know an exact percentage but I'm guessing we raise around 85% of our own food. We do milk, meat (beef, chicken), eggs, and all of our veggies and berries. The main things we buy are bulk foods like flour and oatmeal and rice, and then some fruit like bananas and pineapple.
I just found your channel and love your videos. Can you please tell what variety of rhubarb you are growing that is red? I am interested in growing red rhubarb.
That's great! The variety is Crimson Red. It does great for us!
TOMATOE PIE IS DELICIOUS YOU WILL LOVE IT IF YOU'VE NEVER HAD IT ❤
Thanks for the idea! Definitely never heard of it:)
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You mention you had teeth problems, can you elaborate on that and how eating things you grow has helped? I think it would be beneficial to do a video about that subject as so many people struggle with dental heath.
Is it safe to use any plant, like your lemon balm, that grows over a septic system?
love your channel. what variety of raspberries do you grow?
So glad! We grow Heritage.
7:49 How do you keep the slugs from hiding in the straw and eating all your strawberries?
Just really haven't had the issue...
@@morethanfarmers Fair enough, it’s probably regional. Where I am in the PNW it is constantly rainy and cool. Last year I found almost 20 slugs on a single young pepper plant! It was terrible. They really like the straw, so I had to stop using it. I am moving nearer to you guys soon (Michigan) so your comment gives me hope that the slugs won’t follow 😁
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I know this is an old video, but I was wondering what you do to keep bugs off your plants. We have a real problem with potato bugs, and aphids can destroy our brassicas.
I'm gonna ask Shelli to type out an answer for you on that.. She's got a lot more of the know-how in the garden (I call her the Garden Ninja). I'll see if she can give you an answer tomorrow.
From Shelli: I only have trouble with aphids in my raised beds…Never in my garden. Not totally sure why but I know people have trouble with aphids in greenhouses as well. Too much nitrogen is a huge factor in aphid problems. Back off on manure and high nitrogen fertilizers in areas where you have aphid issues. As for potato bugs. We don’t have them here but as a child I picked tons of potato bugs. If I had them, I would 100% go after them with a 20v DeWalt vacuum. This is the fastest and most effective way that I’ve found to control beetles of any kind. Surround and diotamacous earth can also be helpful but definitely not a cure all. I hope this helps!
How do you stop the mole's from eating on your sweet potatoes as they grow. I had some big sweet potatoes growing and when I pulled them up the bottom half was gone.
We used to have mole problems, but not after having a dog and a cat for a couple years.
that garden soil is all uncovered. gotta put down a mulch to protect the soil from sun and etc
Yep, that's how we do it.
I noticed you mentioned having teeth problems in the past. Doesn’t drinking lots of chocolate milk affect your teeth ?
If it was from a Hershey's bottle 😊 Raw milk is extremely good for healthy teeth, and there's also a lot of protein added to my chocolate milk. It's sweetened only with maple syrup. Still sugar, but it doesn't seem to be hurting my teeth. Unless obviously I'd drink way too much.
Try Armenian yard long cucumbers. They taste like a cuc, but are a melon and bugs dont like them.
Dogs can’t eat garlic