I love how Millie always keeps an eye on you guys when you're outside. She doesn't seem to get in your way, just serves as a supervisor; she has the orange vest after all.
100 strawberries will be 500 by next year. For every plant I planted. By the end of the summer, each one had about 3-4 daughters. I was picking 1 gallon every other day.
I just planted 75 more strawberries to join the approximately 60 or so plants I already had. I now have 5 Greenstalk towers of 6 tiers each full of strawberries. I also bought 4 blueberry bushes, two apple trees, two pecan trees, two mulberry trees and two peach trees. I’m working hard to get an orchard going
My neighborhood is about 25 years old. They planted Bradford Pear trees in almost every yard except ours. They're all dead now and have had to be replaced. We were blessed with an American Linden tree in our postage-stamp front yard. American linden trees grow to 60 to 80 feet tall with a spread of one-half to two-thirds the height at a medium rate. After about 15 years its roots had begun destroying our driveway and was heading toward the walkway to our door. It was also dwarfing our driveway and our neighbor's tree. We had to make the horrible decision to have it cut down because of those things. It was a BEAUTIFUL tree and it broke my heart to have to get rid of it. We have one in the back yard also, but for some reason it never grew like the one in front did, like it was stunted somehow. We still have that one, thank goodness.
Can’t ever have to many strawberries. The kids have all sprouted up and your oldest looks like a grown up now days. Buggy will be a great cook one day!!
I love the Spring videos when everything outside is coming alive from the winter and it's time to plant the gardens. Grafting the trees is a brilliant plan!! 👏 Take care and God bless.
Oh Ben. How I wish you could have met my father in law. He thought about trees like you do and his garden was magnificent. He had every tree in his backyard grafted with anything he could do. And his wife made wine with the leaves. How I wish I had asked more questions and learned more from them. I love Milly. And I wish I had a piece of Buggy’s cinnamon roll. She’s on it!! And Meg!!!! Bees are my favorite thing. Looking forward to this journey. How cool to one day… sell your home grown wares. And Bee Products. Fruits and Vegetables. You know Ben would build you the coolest roadside stand ever. ❤❤
I have a Bradford on my property that I have saved as a pollinator for my Asian pear. I am definitely going to try grafting other pear varieties onto it. Thanks for the inspiration
Hey Hollers, Ol Cog Hill just put out their first food wagon yesterday. Just Eggs for now,but they Sold 👍. It's a lot when it's homemade😋. Great idea to graft Yahoo! JO JO IN VT 💞
This was an amazing, entertaining, and informative video. The boys at the table playing a game, Buggy helping Meg with dough, Brett and Corbin helping Ben with the strawberries, handsome Jack and Tyler always ready when needed, ya'll doing it right. Can't wait for the bee episodes.🥰
I do not know if you have seen "Cog Hill Farm"'s greenstalks that they planted with flowers and have them at the entrance of their greenhouse. It literally looks like a tower of flowers. The blooms are so dense that you do not even see the stalk. Amazingly beautiful.
It’s sofun to add new perineals to the homestead! Discovering food potentials is exciting, too. What ifound was the need to grow much more than seemed necessary, and have them in multiple areas. They choose the best spots and you know, two is one. Can’t have too many. Discovered netting for brassicas in the garden last year and blankets for the winter. Had a row of turnips live all winter, even through the 20 below wind chills. Each year we harvest more which helps us and the community!
I had to order wayyyy more strawberries too. Severely underestimated the amount I’d need for our retaining wall lol and bees! Yay! We’ve been researching them more this week, but we’re going to wait til next year.
EVERY single vlog Buggy melts my heart when she puts her head on that table when you say Grace 😫 she is just cutness overload ❤ Your boys are so good with her too, it's so lovely to watch. Lin, UK x
Don't worry - 100 strawberry plants are going to turn into 1,000 pretty quick. We started with 6 plants 10 years ago - now we have a 50'x20' solid mat of strawberries which my dad had to till a path through last year so we could get to the ones in the middle without doing the strawberry dance. We actually need to choose the best of the daughter plants to re-plant this year (but we've been saying we'd do that for five years at least). Last year I made 40 pints of freezer jam and freeze dried about five batches of berries from our plants, and we still had more than enough to eat fresh with crepes and cream and make strawberry pies with. I didn't actually think that one could have too many strawberries, but we might have reached that point.
We started new bare root strawberries last year so we can let them go to fruit this year! Last year we had to pinch off the flowers so they could grow. It'll be nice to eat strawberries this year. We do the June bearing strawberries because they get big. The everbearing strawberries aren't so big. We have our strawberries in two raised beds. I like your idea of adding the strawberries to your orchard! I like the name of Cindylopers! That's great that Meg can go get some bee stuff! Yum, rolls! Yum, homemade chicken lunchmeat! We used one of my GreenStalks for strawberries too! It works great. That's great that you can graft into those horribly thorned Bradford pears! Wow Meg, carbonara and ice cream, yum! Thanks for this video Hollar family!
Good to see daddy's little kitty helper making sure dad did everything the right way.~~ The combo tree you grafted sounds like it would make some great jelly.
I encourage you guys to consider black raspberries. You don't see them much commercially because they are very fragile and don't travel well, but they are the sweetest, richest berry I've ever tried. They are easier to limit than red raspberries since the end of the stalk needs to touch the ground to start a new plant, they don't come up from the roots. Not tart like the red ones they are a smooth, rich flavor. A black raspberry cobbler is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
Oh I remember a huge tree growing full of them, they were so delicious. I haven’t seen any here in Australia. But in America I remember seeing one tree full of them as large as a grown man’s thumb. Thanks for the memories. God bless
Absolutely agree! Black raspberries are so delicious! My grandma used to make black raspberry cobbler and pies and they were so delicious. I wish they were more readily available to purchase also
You can exponentially increase your black raspberry garden by growing them from seeds. I haven't purchased a single plant. My first plants were wild volunteers and then I took seeds from them to make more plants. I now have about 60 plants and more berries than I know what to do with. I even made a wine from them. You simply cannot buy wine that good. When grown from seeds, most of the plants will be true to seed. However, I did get a hybrid black/red raspberry plant that I call purple raspberry. Yum! Best of luck!
I had strawberry plants in the ground for a good 5 years. They provide tons of berries yearly, and loved pine shavings which surprised me. I put the shavings around the plants to keep the berries clean. I was told not to put pine shavings around the berries because it's not good for them.....did I listen...No! They plants did good with the pine shavings. Until last summer, the heat, and temperatures just killed every living thing. I ordered strawberries again for this season from Johnny's, can't wait to get them next week. Instead of putting them in the ground, I'm going to look at making a gutter system of some sort on posts. That chicken lunch meat has peaked our interest Meg. Would you maybe consider sharing what type of herbs you used to season your chicken My husband found your video 😊 Ben nice experiment on thise Bradford Pears!!! We have a few, and can't stand them. We have several Redbud trees in the woods. There gorgeous, and you can make jelly/jam with the berries, do y'all have any of those?
If 6ou tend your strawberries for propagation, you can get 2 to 4 sets of baby carrying vines in a year. Moisture more towards the surface, pinning down the crowns of the babies and cresting some soil as needed to promote root growth, clipping the babies from the vine, LIGHT fertilization or scant scattering of compost through the season, keeping the babies watered until they put down a decent root system. You may need to green house the last set of babies due to an immature root system; you're holding not growing so give them soil depth and 0lant closely. You may need to sun shade adults and babies of all ages. With Temps below 10 , and even at 0, degrees you may need to cold protect. They like minerals or river silt too.
I LOVE Greenstalk! So worth the money!!! The most produce last year came out of mine and not my garden. I did different kinds of peppers, strawberries, lettuces, flowers, bush beans, and much more! So great to have one even if you have a garden
Perhaps a Catch basin at the bottom would be mindful? The drainage will contain a plethora of nutrients to recycle as recovered? Just a thought 🤔.. I've used this effectively in small growing environments before... Love all of you! Such a joy to watch!
love you guys,a good man,a precious woman=kids who are excited about life, thanks for letting me live part of my fantasy life vicariously through you ,as the black sheep of a very succesfull good family i appreciate you guys
YOU have extra farm hands - get those boys out there pulling Bermuda grass areas at a time! Offer some incentive!! But your place is coming along so nicely! Still living vicariously through you all too!
What I have learned about strawberries is they grow every where you don't want them to grow lol can't wait to see all your garden and trees do this spring!
I got about 50 strawberries last year and thought where am I going to put all these, half hour later they covered my asparagus bed and up in my herb garden. I would love your Carbonara recipe! My mouth waters every time you make it💕
Another great vlog. One of the things I admire most about both you and Meg is ni matter what you come across/have you find a way to make more. That is so cool with the pear tree. You are both so resourceful. Just like Meg making her own cold meat/deli meat. (We call it cold meat). Nothing goes to waste. Alot of people claim to be resourceful like that but few truly are. I applaud you both. I am a long time follower/supporter. Just don't comment much. I can't get enough of Buggy. She has c one out of her shell and is speaking so clearly and smart as all heck. Just like the boys, she is learning more than she ever would in a traditional school home with both of you. She will be just like her momma! ❤❤❤❤
OMG, little Buggy is so doggone adorable….chocolate face and all💜! Grafting to the base of the pear tree is such a fantastic idea and, hopefully the two apple grafts take also! Meg, that homemade ice cream looked so yummy😘!
Just an idea I have my strawberrys in a tower. It is made from tires. Tractor tire at bottom the fill with soil (rocks in middle) then a lg truck tire, regular tire and a mower or atv tire at the top. The plants vine down into lower tiers. Make for higher growth in smaller space and added benefit is you can pick alot of them standing up. This method works good for most vining plants
We planted around 75 strawberry plants about 4 years ago. They spread like crazy and now we have a huge patch. Now, we get SO MANY strawberries for about 4 weeks or so. We can't keep up with picking them all and have to call people over to help pick. Plus we're able to make enough jam for the year easily. What I really want to expand are raspberries. They are so good that they get eaten before we can collect enough for more than a few jars of jam. I also WISH we could grow blueberries, but our soil is too alkaline.
Those bradford pears are planted all over suburbia in the south because they flower soon and pretty - but they are horrible after they mature because they are so easily damaged in storms! We hate them!
Bradford pears are a selection of a Callery pear called Pyrus calleryana 'Bradford'. Bradford pear trees do not normally have thorns, however their root stock the true Callery pear does have thorns. The birds are eating the small fruits and sowing them freely.
I planted 100 strawberries and ended up with about 100 more with the runners. With the raspberries I cut them back after bearing fruit ended the cone back stronger and bigger berries. I always buy the ever bearing berries extents the fruit season. Thanks for showing the home-made deli chicken sandwich looked good. Yeah bees should be fun plus delicious honey. Blessings to all. 😊🇺🇲
Loved the Bradford Pear story, good luck with the grafting. Thankfully you did not pull them all out. Can't wait to see how you do with bees, so important. Great looking lunch and beautiful children. Bye
The strawberries are on sale at Stark Bros. right now! If you feed the bees with native flowers you will have tons of native bees to pollinate all your veggies and fruit trees. The native bees are more endangered than the honey bees.
This is what I did with my roses when I lived in NJ. I waited until November and just hacked them back to about 3-4" off the ground. In the spring they grew and redeveloped all over again. I never lost a rose bush that way. And, you can get new plants to grow by just leaning the long branches over touching the ground, and putting a heavy brick, a full 5 gallon bucket or a huge bag of garden soil (still in the bag) over where it touches, and new roots will develop. Especially if it's native to your area.
I planted new strawberries 1.5 years ago. The old ever bearing variety I had bought locally never produced. Originally from MI my mom grew the June berries which always produced very large sweet berries. I purchased a 25 bundle of Jewel June berries from Gurney's and had my first real crop last year. I had at least six gallon bags crammed full in the freezer. Used it for jams and smoothies over the year. This plant threw so many runners that I cut off, but some I let root and transplanted. I also placed some under my blueberry bushes. Very prolific variety which does well in northern Ohio. Good luck Ben with the transplants. I hope your vision for the food forest produces well. Happy gardening!
We just moved to a new property. Yesterday I transplanted runners into a new bed. Two more beds are going to be transplanted. We also planted our first fruit tree. Of course I have plans for a whole orchard.
I repotted up my strawberry plants today in my stackable planters. (In Australia we have Mr Stacky pots) I went from 23 plants to now well above 50 plants now just from them multiplying. I now have 2 stackable planters filled and hopefully be able to also transplant some more as I buy more pots and planters. (As money allows.) I also have 3 in hanging baskets. Strawberry jam here I come. 23 meant I had enough to eat some every day and start to save a few in the freezer for jam. I’ll be getting lots more now. Once I am able to afford a few more planters I’ll also buy more strawberry plants to ensure I can have up to 100-200 plants and then just keep adding to my collection every year xx Great job 👏
You can take those cuttings and root them and grow more rosebushes all over your property for free. Just make a fresh cut, dip the cuts in Root Tone and put it in some sterile medium like seed starter and keep it moist in the green house for you can enjoy the roses growing up every vertical surface you want. At the current price of roses it is a great deal for a packet of Root Tone and a bag of sterile medium. Speaking of “sterile”, ALWAYS make sure you dip your clippers in a cup of bleach water between cuts, to prevent spreading diseases on the plants.
Hey Ben, I'll take a sandwich just like yours!...I wish! It looked so delicious. That's a great idea to make a chicken loaf for lunch meat, Meg! I've got 3 GreenStalk towers that I raise green beans in. Since I don't have a garden, I'm able to eat fresh green beans I grew in the GreenStalk. And having 3, that provides green beans all summer for me!! Will those strawberries produce berries this year? Hope Buggie's foot is feeling much better! See y'all tomorrow👋
That was interesting about the bradford pears. There's a big push to get rid of them right now, so it's cool to hear a use for them while mostly removing what makes them invasive and problematic.
🍓 Congratulations on becoming a strawberry farmer! Ponchatoula, LA is the best around this area. They have the strawberry festival and the best strawberry wine, cakes, etc. I think they all grow them on hilled up rows, in the ground, with the black plastic cover, in big fields, if I’m not mistaken. It keeps the berries clean and the babies from rooting in. They love full sun. We use to go to a u-pick strawberry farm and pay by the flat. Imagine a big strawberry cut out of 4x8 plywood that says U Pick. Grab an empty flat and get to pickin lol. I love that you may put out a farmstand!
The North Carolina extension office will give you a real pear tree in NC if you show proof of cutting down the Bradford pear. But it looks like it’s working for you as a graft. It became pretty invasive in my yard and came up right beside my old pear tree ! Just some FYI , incase .
I love that you guys let Buggie do ALL the things. She's going to grow up to be a Mini-Meg!
I love how Millie always keeps an eye on you guys when you're outside. She doesn't seem to get in your way, just serves as a supervisor; she has the orange vest after all.
I agree! She likes to keep an eye on The Feeder, Ben.
@@SandraNelson063 yup. He’s her guy!
100 strawberries will be 500 by next year. For every plant I planted. By the end of the summer, each one had about 3-4 daughters. I was picking 1 gallon every other day.
I like them kind of problems 😂
1 Walmart hanging strawberry buckets transplanted outside . 5 years .34 acrses covered. Will keep going if u don’t stop it
I was thinking the same thing, and it will 2000 strawberry plants not long after.
Those runners will be off and running!
I'm not sure how they multiply in the greenstalk container.
I would love to see how you grafted the pear trees!
God Bless The Hollar Homestead! The world needs more of what you're doing🙂
Buggy is a pro, when she thinks that dough needed some cinnamon she went ahead and added that cinnamon🤣
Buggie is Adorable ❤❤
I just planted 75 more strawberries to join the approximately 60 or so plants I already had. I now have 5 Greenstalk towers of 6 tiers each full of strawberries. I also bought 4 blueberry bushes, two apple trees, two pecan trees, two mulberry trees and two peach trees. I’m working hard to get an orchard going
I envy anyone who can grow pecans in their yard.
My neighborhood is about 25 years old. They planted Bradford Pear trees in almost every yard except ours. They're all dead now and have had to be replaced. We were blessed with an American Linden tree in our postage-stamp front yard. American linden trees grow to 60 to 80 feet tall with a spread of one-half to two-thirds the height at a medium rate. After about 15 years its roots had begun destroying our driveway and was heading toward the walkway to our door. It was also dwarfing our driveway and our neighbor's tree. We had to make the horrible decision to have it cut down because of those things. It was a BEAUTIFUL tree and it broke my heart to have to get rid of it. We have one in the back yard also, but for some reason it never grew like the one in front did, like it was stunted somehow. We still have that one, thank goodness.
Can’t ever have to many strawberries. The kids have all sprouted up and your oldest looks like a grown up now days. Buggy will be a great cook one day!!
Their oldest are twin boys, one has short hair.
Congrats on the bees 🐝 if you have any questions please feel free to contact me. They are easy and lots of fun.
I love the Spring videos when everything outside is coming alive from the winter and it's time to plant the gardens. Grafting the trees is a brilliant plan!! 👏 Take care and God bless.
Oh thank you for showing us how the "lunch meat" turned out! We are going to attempt this this weekend! Thanks guys! ❤️🍁 🇨🇦
Oh Ben. How I wish you could have met my father in law. He thought about trees like you do and his garden was magnificent. He had every tree in his backyard grafted with anything he could do. And his wife made wine with the leaves. How I wish I had asked more questions and learned more from them.
I love Milly. And I wish I had a piece of Buggy’s cinnamon roll. She’s on it!!
And Meg!!!! Bees are my favorite thing. Looking forward to this journey.
How cool to one day… sell your home grown wares. And Bee Products. Fruits and Vegetables. You know Ben would build you the coolest roadside stand ever. ❤❤
I have a Bradford on my property that I have saved as a pollinator for my Asian pear. I am definitely going to try grafting other pear varieties onto it. Thanks for the inspiration
Every plant, every insect and all God’s creatures have got a use. The joy of discovering you have a whole lot of established trees! 💕💕🌻🌻
Hey Hollers, Ol Cog Hill just put out their first food wagon yesterday. Just Eggs for now,but they Sold 👍.
It's a lot when it's homemade😋.
Great idea to graft Yahoo!
JO JO IN VT 💞
This was an amazing, entertaining, and informative video. The boys at the table playing a game, Buggy helping Meg with dough, Brett and Corbin helping Ben with the strawberries, handsome Jack and Tyler always ready when needed, ya'll doing it right. Can't wait for the bee episodes.🥰
I do not know if you have seen "Cog Hill Farm"'s greenstalks that they planted with flowers and have them at the entrance of their greenhouse. It literally looks like a tower of flowers. The blooms are so dense that you do not even see the stalk. Amazingly beautiful.
Thanks for showing the finished chicken roll. I bought more strawberry plants today to replace some that froze in my GreenStalk.
It’s sofun to add new perineals to the homestead! Discovering food potentials is exciting, too. What ifound was the need to grow much more than seemed necessary, and have them in multiple areas. They choose the best spots and you know, two is one. Can’t have too many. Discovered netting for brassicas in the garden last year and blankets for the winter. Had a row of turnips live all winter, even through the 20 below wind chills. Each year we harvest more which helps us and the community!
Perineal is your pubic area! Makes a big differnce to spell things correctly LOL!
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I had to order wayyyy more strawberries too. Severely underestimated the amount I’d need for our retaining wall lol and bees! Yay! We’ve been researching them more this week, but we’re going to wait til next year.
I think you always underestimate how many plants to buy unless you are standing in the garden actually counting spots to plant.
@@Bennybob01 for sure & even then, you could always have more! 😁
EVERY single vlog Buggy melts my heart when she puts her head on that table when you say Grace 😫 she is just cutness overload ❤
Your boys are so good with her too, it's so lovely to watch. Lin, UK x
Just like every other spring, we have brand new baby birds in our Green Stalk. They love it and I just let them make a nest every year.
Don't worry - 100 strawberry plants are going to turn into 1,000 pretty quick. We started with 6 plants 10 years ago - now we have a 50'x20' solid mat of strawberries which my dad had to till a path through last year so we could get to the ones in the middle without doing the strawberry dance. We actually need to choose the best of the daughter plants to re-plant this year (but we've been saying we'd do that for five years at least). Last year I made 40 pints of freezer jam and freeze dried about five batches of berries from our plants, and we still had more than enough to eat fresh with crepes and cream and make strawberry pies with. I didn't actually think that one could have too many strawberries, but we might have reached that point.
She will always be “the baby.” 💗
Valerie in SC
Heavy on the mayo. My kind of sandwich. Way to go!!!
Make sure you update us & let us know if the Apple grafting worked on the pear!! That’s really cool!!
Yes I agree I have seven Bradford pears I'm going to cut down
We started new bare root strawberries last year so we can let them go to fruit this year! Last year we had to pinch off the flowers so they could grow. It'll be nice to eat strawberries this year. We do the June bearing strawberries because they get big. The everbearing strawberries aren't so big. We have our strawberries in two raised beds. I like your idea of adding the strawberries to your orchard! I like the name of Cindylopers! That's great that Meg can go get some bee stuff! Yum, rolls! Yum, homemade chicken lunchmeat! We used one of my GreenStalks for strawberries too! It works great. That's great that you can graft into those horribly thorned Bradford pears! Wow Meg, carbonara and ice cream, yum! Thanks for this video Hollar family!
Good to see daddy's little kitty helper making sure dad did everything the right way.~~ The combo tree you grafted sounds like it would make some great jelly.
Love that you grafted that Bradford pear! Awesome!
I encourage you guys to consider black raspberries. You don't see them much commercially because they are very fragile and don't travel well, but they are the sweetest, richest berry I've ever tried. They are easier to limit than red raspberries since the end of the stalk needs to touch the ground to start a new plant, they don't come up from the roots. Not tart like the red ones they are a smooth, rich flavor. A black raspberry cobbler is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
We love black raspberries! I keep trying to order them but they are always out of stock. I guess everyone else loves them too.
Oh I remember a huge tree growing full of them, they were so delicious. I haven’t seen any here in Australia. But in America I remember seeing one tree full of them as large as a grown man’s thumb. Thanks for the memories. God bless
@@DLRyoung - I think you're talking about the (black) mulberry tree... Mulberries can also be red and white :)
Absolutely agree! Black raspberries are so delicious! My grandma used to make black raspberry cobbler and pies and they were so delicious. I wish they were more readily available to purchase also
You can exponentially increase your black raspberry garden by growing them from seeds. I haven't purchased a single plant. My first plants were wild volunteers and then I took seeds from them to make more plants. I now have about 60 plants and more berries than I know what to do with. I even made a wine from them. You simply cannot buy wine that good. When grown from seeds, most of the plants will be true to seed. However, I did get a hybrid black/red raspberry plant that I call purple raspberry. Yum! Best of luck!
Just love how Buggy enjoyed the ice cream 😂😅❤
Buggy sees you and Meg talking on video so she talks on video. She was about to plant Millie in the strawberry patch. 🍓🍓🍓🍓
I had strawberry plants in the ground for a good 5 years. They provide tons of berries yearly, and loved pine shavings which surprised me. I put the shavings around the plants to keep the berries clean. I was told not to put pine shavings around the berries because it's not good for them.....did I listen...No! They plants did good with the pine shavings. Until last summer, the heat, and temperatures just killed every living thing. I ordered strawberries again for this season from Johnny's, can't wait to get them next week. Instead of putting them in the ground, I'm going to look at making a gutter system of some sort on posts.
That chicken lunch meat has peaked our interest Meg. Would you maybe consider sharing what type of herbs you used to season your chicken My husband found your video 😊
Ben nice experiment on thise Bradford Pears!!! We have a few, and can't stand them. We have several Redbud trees in the woods. There gorgeous, and you can make jelly/jam with the berries, do y'all have any of those?
OMG.....that is freaking genius. Grafting onto trees we dont like. Love it.
Buggy is so adorable and so smart! I love that she always wants to help Meg in the kitchen and you in the garden!
Ben, the best time to plant strawberries is in the fall. That way they can get established over the winter.
If 6ou tend your strawberries for propagation, you can get 2 to 4 sets of baby carrying vines in a year. Moisture more towards the surface, pinning down the crowns of the babies and cresting some soil as needed to promote root growth, clipping the babies from the vine, LIGHT fertilization or scant scattering of compost through the season, keeping the babies watered until they put down a decent root system. You may need to green house the last set of babies due to an immature root system; you're holding not growing so give them soil depth and 0lant closely. You may need to sun shade adults and babies of all ages. With Temps below 10 , and even at 0, degrees you may need to cold protect. They like minerals or river silt too.
LOVE seeing Daddy and daughter GROWING daily with family time.
It's very important. Love, trust, and fun.
I just planted strawberries in my Greenstalk today! I am so excited to see what happens.
I LOVE Greenstalk! So worth the money!!! The most produce last year came out of mine and not my garden. I did different kinds of peppers, strawberries, lettuces, flowers, bush beans, and much more! So great to have one even if you have a garden
Perhaps a Catch basin at the bottom would be mindful? The drainage will contain a plethora of nutrients to recycle as recovered? Just a thought 🤔.. I've used this effectively in small growing environments before... Love all of you! Such a joy to watch!
That's a really good idea.
I have my strawberries in a green stalk and I love it. I want to buy another one.
I love watching your videos, I love all the homemade cooking
Loved all the lessons in this video...inspired to experiment with things I've never done before...
Buggy is so adorable. So glad for Meg. Her little princess.
love you guys,a good man,a precious woman=kids who are excited about life, thanks for letting me live part of my fantasy life vicariously through you ,as the black sheep of a very succesfull good family i appreciate you guys
Biggie is adorable! You all are precious! God bless 💞🤗🙏
Friends of ours co-plant strawberries with asparagus.
One beautiful blessed family🦋♥️🙏
You guys are so kind. I love watching you guys.
YOU have extra farm hands - get those boys out there pulling Bermuda grass areas at a time! Offer some incentive!! But your place is coming along so nicely! Still living vicariously through you all too!
thanks
What I have learned about strawberries is they grow every where you don't want them to grow lol can't wait to see all your garden and trees do this spring!
My daughter plants them in a Green Stock and they are off the ground and easy to harvest.
Another great video guys! Very productive couple of days, I'm so excited to see the bee project development. 👊🏻🐾🐾🕊💜♻️♾️
I got about 50 strawberries last year and thought where am I going to put all these, half hour later they covered my asparagus bed and up in my herb garden.
I would love your Carbonara recipe! My mouth waters every time you make it💕
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Y'all have the most precious family! Love and blessings to you all ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love mini megs wild hair. BEAUTIFUL family.
So excited you are getting bees. Been doing it about 5 years and love watching bee videos.
I always love your family's attitude and demeanor, oh and congratulations on the grafting success!
1000000% recommend the new version flow hive
Best investment ever
Little Miss Buggy would look so cute with little pigtails in her hair
Another great vlog. One of the things I admire most about both you and Meg is ni matter what you come across/have you find a way to make more. That is so cool with the pear tree. You are both so resourceful. Just like Meg making her own cold meat/deli meat. (We call it cold meat). Nothing goes to waste. Alot of people claim to be resourceful like that but few truly are. I applaud you both. I am a long time follower/supporter. Just don't comment much. I can't get enough of Buggy. She has c one out of her shell and is speaking so clearly and smart as all heck. Just like the boys, she is learning more than she ever would in a traditional school home with both of you. She will be just like her momma! ❤❤❤❤
OMG, little Buggy is so doggone adorable….chocolate face and all💜! Grafting to the base of the pear tree is such a fantastic idea and, hopefully the two apple grafts take also! Meg, that homemade ice cream looked so yummy😘!
I prune my rose bushes every winter. They come back beautifully every spring. I envy that bread that Meg is always making, all of it!
Buggie’s hair looks amazing as she’s helping mom with bread!❤❤
Just an idea
I have my strawberrys in a tower. It is made from tires. Tractor tire at bottom the fill with soil (rocks in middle) then a lg truck tire, regular tire and a mower or atv tire at the top. The plants vine down into lower tiers. Make for higher growth in smaller space and added benefit is you can pick alot of them standing up. This method works good for most vining plants
We planted around 75 strawberry plants about 4 years ago. They spread like crazy and now we have a huge patch. Now, we get SO MANY strawberries for about 4 weeks or so. We can't keep up with picking them all and have to call people over to help pick. Plus we're able to make enough jam for the year easily. What I really want to expand are raspberries. They are so good that they get eaten before we can collect enough for more than a few jars of jam.
I also WISH we could grow blueberries, but our soil is too alkaline.
Those bradford pears are planted all over suburbia in the south because they flower soon and pretty - but they are horrible after they mature because they are so easily damaged in storms! We hate them!
Bradford pears are a selection of a Callery pear called Pyrus calleryana 'Bradford'. Bradford pear trees do not normally have thorns, however their root stock the true Callery pear does have thorns. The birds are eating the small fruits and sowing them freely.
I planted 100 strawberries and ended up with about 100 more with the runners.
With the raspberries I cut them back after bearing fruit ended the cone back stronger and bigger berries.
I always buy the ever bearing berries extents the fruit season.
Thanks for showing the home-made deli chicken sandwich looked good.
Yeah bees should be fun plus delicious honey. Blessings to all. 😊🇺🇲
Meg is surely a jack of all trades in the kitchen
Loved the Bradford Pear story, good luck with the grafting. Thankfully you did not pull them all out. Can't wait to see how you do with bees, so important. Great looking lunch and beautiful children. Bye
Great progress, planting & growing! Thanks for sharing info, how to’s & your wonderful family life. Blessings to all 🤗💜🇨🇦
The strawberries are on sale at Stark Bros. right now! If you feed the bees with native flowers you will have tons of native bees to pollinate all your veggies and fruit trees. The native bees are more endangered than the honey bees.
Here in Missouri they are giving you native trees for cutting down the Bradford pear
I’ve been hoping for this update on the grafted pear trees. That opens up so much potential. Great job ben.
I'm with Buggie! Chocolate warpaint!
We love our bees! They are so interesting and rewarding. You will not regret it. So happy for you all.
This is what I did with my roses when I lived in NJ. I waited until November and just hacked them back to about 3-4" off the ground. In the spring they grew and redeveloped all over again. I never lost a rose bush that way. And, you can get new plants to grow by just leaning the long branches over touching the ground, and putting a heavy brick, a full 5 gallon bucket or a huge bag of garden soil (still in the bag) over where it touches, and new roots will develop. Especially if it's native to your area.
Thanks!
Thats so exciting about the trees!!
I planted new strawberries 1.5 years ago. The old ever bearing variety I had bought locally never produced. Originally from MI my mom grew the June berries which always produced very large sweet berries. I purchased a 25 bundle of Jewel June berries from Gurney's and had my first real crop last year. I had at least six gallon bags crammed full in the freezer. Used it for jams and smoothies over the year. This plant threw so many runners that I cut off, but some I let root and transplanted. I also placed some under my blueberry bushes. Very prolific variety which does well in northern Ohio. Good luck Ben with the transplants. I hope your vision for the food forest produces well. Happy gardening!
City kids have play-doh.. Buggy has bread dough helping mama.. she will have perfected breadmaking in time for all the strawberries
We just moved to a new property. Yesterday I transplanted runners into a new bed. Two more beds are going to be transplanted.
We also planted our first fruit tree. Of course I have plans for a whole orchard.
A very wholesome family 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
I repotted up my strawberry plants today in my stackable planters. (In Australia we have Mr Stacky pots) I went from 23 plants to now well above 50 plants now just from them multiplying. I now have 2 stackable planters filled and hopefully be able to also transplant some more as I buy more pots and planters. (As money allows.) I also have 3 in hanging baskets.
Strawberry jam here I come. 23 meant I had enough to eat some every day and start to save a few in the freezer for jam. I’ll be getting lots more now. Once I am able to afford a few more planters I’ll also buy more strawberry plants to ensure I can have up to 100-200 plants and then just keep adding to my collection every year xx
Great job 👏
You can take those cuttings and root them and grow more rosebushes all over your property for free. Just make a fresh cut, dip the cuts in Root Tone and put it in some sterile medium like seed starter and keep it moist in the green house for you can enjoy the roses growing up every vertical surface you want. At the current price of roses it is a great deal for a packet of Root Tone and a bag of sterile medium. Speaking of “sterile”, ALWAYS make sure you dip your clippers in a cup of bleach water between cuts, to prevent spreading diseases on the plants.
Hey Ben, I'll take a sandwich just like yours!...I wish! It looked so delicious. That's a great idea to make a chicken loaf for lunch meat, Meg! I've got 3 GreenStalk towers that I raise green beans in. Since I don't have a garden, I'm able to eat fresh green beans I grew in the GreenStalk. And having 3, that provides green beans all summer for me!! Will those strawberries produce berries this year? Hope Buggie's foot is feeling much better! See y'all tomorrow👋
That was interesting about the bradford pears. There's a big push to get rid of them right now, so it's cool to hear a use for them while mostly removing what makes them invasive and problematic.
🍓 Congratulations on becoming a strawberry farmer! Ponchatoula, LA is the best around this area. They have the strawberry festival and the best strawberry wine, cakes, etc. I think they all grow them on hilled up rows, in the ground, with the black plastic cover, in big fields, if I’m not mistaken. It keeps the berries clean and the babies from rooting in. They love full sun. We use to go to a u-pick strawberry farm and pay by the flat. Imagine a big strawberry cut out of 4x8 plywood that says U Pick. Grab an empty flat and get to pickin lol. I love that you may put out a farmstand!
Looking forward to your bee adventure. I personally want to raise bees. Hope you are successful with your strawberries. Hope you have a great weekend.
Love Greenstalk. So happy about the bees.
Just so much glory going on over there. Meg's cooking is dreamy. You go, Ben.
68 tomorrow here. But nasty storms to follow.
OHHH Chicken Loaf............Can't find it anywhere here in NY. Ohio has it everywhere..........I miss it. With Miracle whip..........Yummy
All the things you all do, then I see Meg knitting? What a busy bunch you are. God bless😊💗
Love that you all sit down and eat supper as a caring family.
The fat noodle is a great dish that I love too.
You should watch "Cog Hill Farm" he's got a fruit orchard👍
The North Carolina extension office will give you a real pear tree in NC if you show proof of cutting down the Bradford pear. But it looks like it’s working for you as a graft. It became pretty invasive in my yard and came up right beside my old pear tree ! Just some FYI , incase .