HELLO! from POORBOYS' LITTLE HOMESTEAD. Guys I never get tired of watching your videos. You have such a beautiful place. Stop in and say Hello sometime. God Bless!
Raspberries! I live in the Berry Capital of Canada, in British Columbia...we had a Heat Dome Event in past weeks, that decimated our crops here....glad to see your crops are doing well.
You all are really blessed to live where you can grow that much food. We rent from a farmer but we can grow many thing because he sprays his fields and there are hardly any bees. We do plant some at our parent's but they live 1-2 hours from us. We have been trying to find our own place but it's not easy in this economy. We are praying that God will lead us to that place. We grow what we can but it's not enough for our family of four to really put anything back. Thank you for being so inspiring and sharing your wisdom with all of us. Please keep us in your prayers.
Very envious of your vast gardens......we're past the point we can do this but I frequent Farmer's Markets to support locals, and get great produce - We just moved so no garden of our own this year, but next year there will most certainly be garden beds with food growing!
Can you take us through a day of processing/dehydrating your greens for your green powder? You have such a high volume of greens that I would be really interested in seeing how you guys tackle it all. Thank you for your videos!
Wonderful gardens! I appreciate your distinguishing between new and more seasoned beds, because ours is a first year bed in a different climate. Soooo much to learn! But another part of that learning is experimenting and trying again a bit later. Like sunflowers...I tried in March, nope. Tried in June, nope. So in July I took the seeds and tried them in 5 different zones. Yesterday, I discovered 2 growing in the raised garden bed with tomatoes - the last place I expected to work! Tomatoes, well, they've been tricky because they grow many places, but not all types fruited well. And some are fruiting well but much later than expected. Cherry tomato bushes ended up in compost. But I saw 3 others being pollinated, so they get a little longer. Cucumbers grew tall but didn't fruit...until, get this, cicada killer wasps pollinated them in late July! Then a bumblebee joined in. August cucumbers in Texas are unusual, but I'll be glad to see some fruit now! Even our driveway planters had to be an experiment. One side had butterfly flowers and lemongrass, and the other side heat loving flower vines and bushes. In those beds, the butterfly garden thrives in summer. So that's the plan to use. But I have to move the others to the backyard. It's repetitive planting, which is more work. But if I hadn't experimented, I wouldn't know as much as I do for next year's planning. It feels kinda chaotic, but learning where my herbs will and won't grow is essential to me. To feed our family, there is still plenty to learn! But the hens are finally laying eggs, tomato fruits are getting larger (only 1 or 6 varieties thrived), strawberries bare propagating now, so next year they will go in shallower beds instead of the raised garden bed (the scant fruit was wonky there), basil and rosemary thrive, so does hibiscus and lemon balm. And a rewarding success is planting indeterminate green bean vines over our 6' tall chicken pen (we don't like bending). I wanted tall vines, but not to build a trellis. And the chickens needed more shade from summer heat, but I didn't want to buy or build anything else. So just 2 beans now supply a gorgeous green leafy vine covering over 1/2 that area, which the hens love when not free ranging. Its purple flower buds are lovely! And it works as camouflage from hawks too! No wood. No shopping. Just 2 beans. 🤣 Now, that's the kinda strategic gardening I like! 🎯
Next spring with coming hard times will be our first attempt at a real garden. I’ve dabbled in years past but nothing serious. Changing times will change that. Buying canning supplies, cast iron Dutch oven, will start making my own compost and probably invest in a wood chipper/shredder. We have a lot of work ahead but I’m preparing now for hard times tomorrow. I fear all our lifestyles are about to change and millions will suffer.
I agree. I started prepping in 2015. I’m a single 51 year old female. I have a beautiful garden and a small greenhouse. I live on 10 gorgeous acres and wish I had the tools and man power to expand. I wish you all the best. If you would like seeds or anything I’m more than happy to Mail some if you have a p o box.
The way you piece together these episodes around the seasons and time them to coincide with the next and past . It's amazingly well put together and thought out . Literally a visual encyclopedia of general gardening.... so thank you for putting so much time and energy and dedication in to helping others. Later taters ✌
I absolutely loved seeing the garden tour. Next time can you spend more time showing and explaining what's in each section and give a tip for success? This is my 1st year container gardening and even though I've made major mistakes, my cucumbers are thriving. I just have to work more on my other plants. I'm happy you're posting more often, I truly enjoy both of you.
Inspirational new vegetable growing space. 😃 Especially the traditional and expanding “grab and instantly prepare” kitchen garden. Air flow sides in the tomato tunnel is undoubtedly on your improvement list. Please do tell what perennials you’ve established in the new huge chicken coop. 🙏🏻😃 How’s the milk cow and pond? Totally understand if you’ve decided to stop videoing and sharing videos of daily life on your stunning homestead. Young growing children are 25/7 😉(or more). And Josh’s day time expert consultancy work must be taking a toll in this heat - I’ve noticed that you don’t have time to interact with comments. God bless you. And wishing you good health and happiness.
Beautiful looking gardens! It's such a blessing to be able to run out & get fresh vegetables for a meal. I try to get enough so we don't need to buy much over our long cold winter. I grew up with 10 children in our family, so know how much it takes to feed that many. It's a lot of work but very rewarding!
That calf ❤️ spaces are looking good despite all the crazy weather. That's one of the benefits of planting different things in different spaces, even when a few crops have a rough year, there will be others that do great.
@Homesteading Family WOW! What amazing gardens. 😊 With those fava beans, beware of black flies. Spray the plants regularly with natural soaps with tea tree oil & mint oil to keep the flies from destroying your crop. I'm also in the PNW, and I've been growing fava beans(aka broad beans) for a few years. Also, top off your plants at around 6"-8" so they'll bush out and produce a lot more. Let a bunch of pods get really big and dry them for next year...you'll never have to buy those seeds again. Oh, and fava beans are are fantastic eating, raw or cooked.
We have a very long growing season in the high desert (along with water challenges), but I am super glad to be able to restart some summer crops that got hit hard with aphids. Cukes and beans! Also, plants to start the winter garden are already in the works. I'll be ordering potato seeds, as well as more garlic and planting onions finally! Lastly, we are adding a hog n about 10 meat chickens to the mix. If we can get out hands on a freezer from the parental unit.
Thank you so much for putting this together! We are starting our homestead this year and it helps to not only hear about your practices but see them in play. I am so excited to get started on our soil and make amazing beds!
Love your gardens. My family and I live in the city in Ontario but we have a small garden. We have tomatoes, lettuce, herbs, zucchini, kale, lavender, carrots and beets. My husband really enjoys it. Maybe one day we will have a bigger piece of land.
Thanks for all your videos. How do y'all deal with the flea beetles? They are absolutely destroying my brassicas and I am not sure what to do to keep them away without pesticides. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing your homestead with us. I love your terrace garden! What planting zone are you in? I really am enjoying and learning a lot from your Abundant Pantry class. Looking forward to the dairy class. Enjoy!!
The gardens look great! We have 5 gardens - well 2 are potato gardens. We love potatoes. The rabbits got into our garden with our green beans and chewed them down. We are getting some but not enough. My tomatoes are looking great, just waiting for them to ripen. I had my first Purple Cherokee tomato last weekend and it was so good. My okra is not doing as good and something is eating the leaves. We have never had issues in the one garden before so time to redo the fencing. Our cucumbers are coming in like crazy.
Do you have a root cellar that you store your potatoes in? If not, how do you store them long term? The challenge for me is keeping them between the early to mid Aug harvest and mid to late Sept when the temperatures drop down enough to store them in the garage. I keep them in the basement which is about 60 F until they can go into the garage. (outer Chicago area)
The heat has been awful for some of our vegetables, but really good for others. The ground squirrels have been the hardest on my garden though. We’ve lost 5 tomato plants, all but 2 red onions, all my white onions, 2 Swiss chard, a kale plant, and i think I’m up to 8 green bean plants lost. So frustrating to put so much work into the garden to have pests come eat them up. We are in northern Idaho also, wondering if you have problems with them and have you found a fix?
So beautiful! Your family is such an inspiration. Just wondering.. how many acres do you guys have? I am wondering since you have so much space for gardening! Thanks!
Beautiful garden. I love your videos. We would love to move to northern Idaho to be closer to our son's family. How are the prices of houses with some property
I'm jealous! Do you have anything that you wish you could grow but doesn't fit the northern climate?? I live on the gulf coast and it gets so hot and humid that it's a struggle to grow brassicas and root crops. Your garden looks great!
I live in an even colder climate than they do, can't grow tomatoes or chilli's outside, cant grow watermelon, can't grow corn. Struggle with pumpkins and French beans. Mind you kale pretty much grows as a perennial here, as long as you keep the caterpillars off brassicas can be pretty much ignored
What are ways to keep the tomato hornwarm out of my garden and off my plants? The moth lays the eggs in the soil? If so, how do I kill those eggs? TIA.
Tarp it over for a few years? I don't actually know good ways of getting rid of pests once settled in but having "sacrificial plants" like eggplant alongside south African wine or "designated predetors" like ladybugs could be avenues of research.
Hi there! Ok, so I live in North Idaho as well, but I know this is applicable to other areas too... how are you keeping the deer away from your gardens?? I know your main crop garden has a fence, but your terraces and kitchen garden do not. I planted a beautiful garden this year, and it was growing great, then the deer came. Now it's totally demolished and I'm getting hardly anything out of it. It's so sad :( what's your secret?
CONTAINERS! That’s all I use. I even planted corn in them. I had a beautiful bumper crop of corn, tomatoes, tomatillos, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, okra, turnips, carrots, lettuce, peppers, asparagus, herbs, berries, cantaloupe and watermelon. ❤️❤️
It's funny how everybody keeps saying "it's been so hot so early this year." I'm in NWArkansas and it's usually 90-100 by July. This year it's been only in the 80s in the day and 60s at night until this week. This week has been 90ish and after today, it's supposed to be back in the 80s again. Wonder what gives?
Yeah another funny thing is in the southeast it's been raining and from Virginia up we have hardly gotten anything! The grass has been brown for a month.
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I am glad to see your pigs are in a healthy environment. They like to be clean and dry.
HELLO! from POORBOYS' LITTLE HOMESTEAD. Guys I never get tired of watching your videos. You have such a beautiful place. Stop in and say Hello sometime. God Bless!
Raspberries! I live in the Berry Capital of Canada, in British Columbia...we had a Heat Dome Event in past weeks, that decimated our crops here....glad to see your crops are doing well.
You all are really blessed to live where you can grow that much food. We rent from a farmer but we can grow many thing because he sprays his fields and there are hardly any bees. We do plant some at our parent's but they live 1-2 hours from us. We have been trying to find our own place but it's not easy in this economy. We are praying that God will lead us to that place. We grow what we can but it's not enough for our family of four to really put anything back. Thank you for being so inspiring and sharing your wisdom with all of us. Please keep us in your prayers.
Very envious of your vast gardens......we're past the point we can do this but I frequent Farmer's Markets to support locals, and get great produce - We just moved so no garden of our own this year, but next year there will most certainly be garden beds with food growing!
Can you take us through a day of processing/dehydrating your greens for your green powder? You have such a high volume of greens that I would be really interested in seeing how you guys tackle it all. Thank you for your videos!
Beautiful garden
Wonderful gardens! I appreciate your distinguishing between new and more seasoned beds, because ours is a first year bed in a different climate. Soooo much to learn! But another part of that learning is experimenting and trying again a bit later. Like sunflowers...I tried in March, nope. Tried in June, nope. So in July I took the seeds and tried them in 5 different zones. Yesterday, I discovered 2 growing in the raised garden bed with tomatoes - the last place I expected to work! Tomatoes, well, they've been tricky because they grow many places, but not all types fruited well. And some are fruiting well but much later than expected. Cherry tomato bushes ended up in compost. But I saw 3 others being pollinated, so they get a little longer. Cucumbers grew tall but didn't fruit...until, get this, cicada killer wasps pollinated them in late July! Then a bumblebee joined in. August cucumbers in Texas are unusual, but I'll be glad to see some fruit now! Even our driveway planters had to be an experiment. One side had butterfly flowers and lemongrass, and the other side heat loving flower vines and bushes. In those beds, the butterfly garden thrives in summer. So that's the plan to use. But I have to move the others to the backyard. It's repetitive planting, which is more work. But if I hadn't experimented, I wouldn't know as much as I do for next year's planning. It feels kinda chaotic, but learning where my herbs will and won't grow is essential to me. To feed our family, there is still plenty to learn! But the hens are finally laying eggs, tomato fruits are getting larger (only 1 or 6 varieties thrived), strawberries bare propagating now, so next year they will go in shallower beds instead of the raised garden bed (the scant fruit was wonky there), basil and rosemary thrive, so does hibiscus and lemon balm. And a rewarding success is planting indeterminate green bean vines over our 6' tall chicken pen (we don't like bending). I wanted tall vines, but not to build a trellis. And the chickens needed more shade from summer heat, but I didn't want to buy or build anything else. So just 2 beans now supply a gorgeous green leafy vine covering over 1/2 that area, which the hens love when not free ranging. Its purple flower buds are lovely! And it works as camouflage from hawks too! No wood. No shopping. Just 2 beans. 🤣 Now, that's the kinda strategic gardening I like! 🎯
Love your Gardens, just shows when you put all the hard work in you reap the rewards!
My word!! How do you guys do all of this!!?? Amazing!
You grow enough food for a small army lol! I wish this lifestyle was taught in schools
This is one of my favorite videos. So simple but felt so personal. Love you guys and Riverbend so much.
Stunning. I love the terrace gardens!
The lighting and quality of this video is just beautiful!!
Next spring with coming hard times will be our first attempt at a real garden. I’ve dabbled in years past but nothing serious. Changing times will change that. Buying canning supplies, cast iron Dutch oven, will start making my own compost and probably invest in a wood chipper/shredder. We have a lot of work ahead but I’m preparing now for hard times tomorrow. I fear all our lifestyles are about to change and millions will suffer.
I agree. I started prepping in 2015. I’m a single 51 year old female. I have a beautiful garden and a small greenhouse. I live on 10 gorgeous acres and wish I had the tools and man power to expand. I wish you all the best. If you would like seeds or anything I’m more than happy to Mail some if you have a p o box.
I hope your garden experience is doing well for you this year.
The way you piece together these episodes around the seasons and time them to coincide with the next and past . It's amazingly well put together and thought out . Literally a visual encyclopedia of general gardening.... so thank you for putting so much time and energy and dedication in to helping others. Later taters ✌
You can go forage for wild leafy greens if you know what your looking at.
Wow you are growing some much food, Wow!! Love it 😇
Very inspiring
such a beautiful homestead 🤗
Wonderful garden tour, I really enjoyed it!
Ahhh I just love watching you guys. God bless you all
I absolutely loved seeing the garden tour. Next time can you spend more time showing and explaining what's in each section and give a tip for success? This is my 1st year container gardening and even though I've made major mistakes, my cucumbers are thriving. I just have to work more on my other plants. I'm happy you're posting more often, I truly enjoy both of you.
Love your garden tour . all your thought and hard work are paying off
I'm dreaming of this kind of life. We just moved from the city to the countryside of New York. I'm hoping and praying to get some land to work.
Inspirational new vegetable growing space. 😃 Especially the traditional and expanding “grab and instantly prepare” kitchen garden.
Air flow sides in the tomato tunnel is undoubtedly on your improvement list.
Please do tell what perennials you’ve established in the new huge chicken coop. 🙏🏻😃
How’s the milk cow and pond?
Totally understand if you’ve decided to stop videoing and sharing videos of daily life on your stunning homestead. Young growing children are 25/7 😉(or more). And Josh’s day time expert consultancy work must be taking a toll in this heat - I’ve noticed that you don’t have time to interact with comments.
God bless you. And wishing you good health and happiness.
Your garden looks amazing! 🌱🌿🍃
Beautiful looking gardens! It's such a blessing to be able to run out & get fresh vegetables for a meal. I try to get enough so we don't need to buy much over our long cold winter. I grew up with 10 children in our family, so know how much it takes to feed that many. It's a lot of work but very rewarding!
beautiful gardens...thanks for the tour. Did you say your family was growing? Are you expecting again?
It looks fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That calf ❤️ spaces are looking good despite all the crazy weather. That's one of the benefits of planting different things in different spaces, even when a few crops have a rough year, there will be others that do great.
Thank you. So love seeing the garden tour as it gives me future garden ideas to utilize our space more. Blessings. 🙏🏻❤️🥰
@Homesteading Family WOW! What amazing gardens. 😊
With those fava beans, beware of black flies. Spray the plants regularly with natural soaps with tea tree oil & mint oil to keep the flies from destroying your crop. I'm also in the PNW, and I've been growing fava beans(aka broad beans) for a few years. Also, top off your plants at around 6"-8" so they'll bush out and produce a lot more. Let a bunch of pods get really big and dry them for next year...you'll never have to buy those seeds again.
Oh, and fava beans are are fantastic eating, raw or cooked.
Hey there, was up in your neck of the woods this week. Was in Twin Lakes, Athol and Sandpoint. Love it up there.
I always learn helpful ideas from you guys. It's fun to see all of the thriving plants and animals. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Enjoyed the tour - Inspiring!
Carolyn and Josh you’re gardens are wonderful! Hard work really pays off.
It all looks so beautiful!
We have a very long growing season in the high desert (along with water challenges), but I am super glad to be able to restart some summer crops that got hit hard with aphids. Cukes and beans! Also, plants to start the winter garden are already in the works. I'll be ordering potato seeds, as well as more garlic and planting onions finally! Lastly, we are adding a hog n about 10 meat chickens to the mix. If we can get out hands on a freezer from the parental unit.
Beautiful garden. I love Fava beans. 💚💚🥕🌽🌶🥒🥦🥬🧄🧅💚
Growing family 😊
This was a lovely video. So happy and proud of you guys
My garden was so abundant this year♥️♥️♥️♥️
Mine too. Still thriving. I have no room for my fall garden.
So many great ideas! You are so helpful!! 💚🌞
As always, a great video 😀
Great job! The gardens look amazing!
Looks great! Good stuff.
Absolutely beautiful!!
Beautiful! Praying the heat lets up for you soon. Have a blessed day!
Our growing season started off well with lots of rain, but this heat ( in Ga) is baking everything.
Thank you so much for putting this together! We are starting our homestead this year and it helps to not only hear about your practices but see them in play. I am so excited to get started on our soil and make amazing beds!
Got any videos of planting time for all that food? Looks daunting, but exciting.
Love your gardens. My family and I live in the city in Ontario but we have a small garden. We have tomatoes, lettuce, herbs, zucchini, kale, lavender, carrots and beets. My husband really enjoys it. Maybe one day we will have a bigger piece of land.
Hello fellow Ontarian, from a small town west of Ottawa😊
I love the water system you have? 😇
Thanks for all your videos. How do y'all deal with the flea beetles? They are absolutely destroying my brassicas and I am not sure what to do to keep them away without pesticides. Thanks!
Very Pretty.
Thank you for sharing your homestead with us. I love your terrace garden! What planting zone are you in? I really am enjoying and learning a lot from your Abundant Pantry class. Looking forward to the dairy class. Enjoy!!
I'm inspired!
The gardens look great! We have 5 gardens - well 2 are potato gardens. We love potatoes. The rabbits got into our garden with our green beans and chewed them down. We are getting some but not enough. My tomatoes are looking great, just waiting for them to ripen. I had my first Purple Cherokee tomato last weekend and it was so good. My okra is not doing as good and something is eating the leaves. We have never had issues in the one garden before so time to redo the fencing. Our cucumbers are coming in like crazy.
Love your channel
beautiful ❤
Impressive 👍👍
Do you have a root cellar that you store your potatoes in? If not, how do you store them long term? The challenge for me is keeping them between the early to mid Aug harvest and mid to late Sept when the temperatures drop down enough to store them in the garage. I keep them in the basement which is about 60 F until they can go into the garage. (outer Chicago area)
Their basement preserve kitchen is in the storage/cold room
Loved the tour! Thank you! What were those tall plants in the greenhouse with yellow flowers, shown at the start of the tour?
Amazing!
Do you have a link for the water system you use. Beautiful garden.
The heat has been awful for some of our vegetables, but really good for others. The ground squirrels have been the hardest on my garden though. We’ve lost 5 tomato plants, all but 2 red onions, all my white onions, 2 Swiss chard, a kale plant, and i think I’m up to 8 green bean plants lost. So frustrating to put so much work into the garden to have pests come eat them up. We are in northern Idaho also, wondering if you have problems with them and have you found a fix?
Hey guys, Love the video. Is it possible to know where you purchased your micro sprinkler system?
So beautiful! Your family is such an inspiration. Just wondering.. how many acres do you guys have? I am wondering since you have so much space for gardening! Thanks!
Beautiful garden. I love your videos. We would love to move to northern Idaho to be closer to our son's family. How are the prices of houses with some property
Hello, I am unable to find any info on your micro sprinkler system. Are you able to share where you got those?
I'm jealous! Do you have anything that you wish you could grow but doesn't fit the northern climate?? I live on the gulf coast and it gets so hot and humid that it's a struggle to grow brassicas and root crops. Your garden looks great!
I live in an even colder climate than they do, can't grow tomatoes or chilli's outside, cant grow watermelon, can't grow corn. Struggle with pumpkins and French beans. Mind you kale pretty much grows as a perennial here, as long as you keep the caterpillars off brassicas can be pretty much ignored
We're in southern part of Idaho & been hitting triplet digits. Until today.
Is picking fresh food from the gardens a morning chore?
Great tour. How do you keep up with the weeding in such a big garden?
Hello from New York! Beautiful abundant gardens 💙 how do you keep critters out, from eating your vegetables?
Berryhill irrigation has them.
Very nice, do you have any machinery or do you work by hand?
Do you sell at farmers market? And give to food banks?
What do you have down between the rows? Sawdust?
Beautiful garden!! What do u use the Swiss Chard for? I grew some this year but could use some ideas other than salads 😁
What do you use as ground cover between your rows?
What are your row middles mulched with?
What are ways to keep the tomato hornwarm out of my garden and off my plants? The moth lays the eggs in the soil? If so, how do I kill those eggs? TIA.
Tarp it over for a few years?
I don't actually know good ways of getting rid of pests once settled in but having "sacrificial plants" like eggplant alongside south African wine or "designated predetors" like ladybugs could be avenues of research.
Hi there! Ok, so I live in North Idaho as well, but I know this is applicable to other areas too... how are you keeping the deer away from your gardens?? I know your main crop garden has a fence, but your terraces and kitchen garden do not. I planted a beautiful garden this year, and it was growing great, then the deer came. Now it's totally demolished and I'm getting hardly anything out of it. It's so sad :( what's your secret?
Our 2 dogs do a GREAT job at keeping the deer away.
We need to improve our soil. We have red clay and gravel. Any suggestion?
Same here. All I do is add compost, compost and compost. Over years it has gotten better. But took me almost 5 years. And still need more nutrients.
CONTAINERS! That’s all I use. I even planted corn in them. I had a beautiful bumper crop of corn, tomatoes, tomatillos, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, okra, turnips, carrots, lettuce, peppers, asparagus, herbs, berries, cantaloupe and watermelon. ❤️❤️
How do you preserve brassicas?
How do you start from scratch to build a garden?
It's funny how everybody keeps saying "it's been so hot so early this year." I'm in NWArkansas and it's usually 90-100 by July. This year it's been only in the 80s in the day and 60s at night until this week. This week has been 90ish and after today, it's supposed to be back in the 80s again. Wonder what gives?
Northeast Missouri period about 4 inches of rain last night
@@paulprigge1209 Wow....I forgot to add that with the mild temps here in Arkansas, we've had lots of rain....my garden is in Heaven!
God I wish, here in Utah it has been on average 100 degrees every day for the last 2 months. Many blessings to you all.
@@florencekirk9021 wow....we got our weather's flip flopped!
Yeah another funny thing is in the southeast it's been raining and from Virginia up we have hardly gotten anything! The grass has been brown for a month.
Ok... how can I get a hat?
You are the family that can survive the apocalypse
pretty sure I saw a hornworm on your peas at about 4:05 or so
Why don't you cover the soil? You won't have to water as much with a back to eden system
God's country
How big are each of your gardens?