Tip: take those labels off the trees and give each tree a number with a stake (more permanent). Keep the labels in a binder with their corresponding number to keep track. You will need it in the future. It helps a lot when tracking information. Also, a great ground cover is purple creeping thyme. You can get seeds. All the best to you.
i still can’t believe you guys are uploading again-what a gift! thank you so much for all of your efforts to curate and share these absolutely beautiful videos (and your life) with us. i can’t even begin to describe how content and peaceful this channel makes me. again, thank you guys!
Can I just say, I have never seen a family on TH-cam who shows such a perfect amount of your personal life and little boy! I love seeing you guys be a little family and I love "seeing" your boy grow, but I think it's so sweet and special and SMART that you keep his face off of the internet
Our land used to be farm land, so there were just a few small trees there, put in by the builder. My husband planted some oak and other trees with the help of our kids 25 + years ago. We took pictures of them by one of the main tree every year for a long time. This tree is now HUGE and provides shade over our bedroom! My husband also digs up the volunteer trees, pots them, and offers to plant them in our neighbors'/friends' homes. It's so much fun to watch our baby trees grow in their yards!!
Love watching your progress! Zach sounds like a horticulturist, I wish I had his brain to pick. Here in Texas it’s hard to grow full sun plants without them burning. RBK you look stunning. Love the homestead vibe RBK, Raw Homestead Kristy. ❤️ 🌳 Your son’s babble only adds to the video, don’t fret, he’s a welcome spark of joy.
I am so impressed that you are doing all of this pretty much yourselves using a lot of things that were already there. I have a small yard so I’m living vicariously through your videos! 👏🥰
Same! I so badly wish we could do a honey crisp but I don’t think it would do well here, I’m not really sure. We already have 4 huge trees on our property, a pretty small backyard but a quite large front/side yard for town) and a 5th tree we had to have cut down last year bc it was dying. I’ve asked and asked my SO if we could at least do a small garden in the back because we already have flower beds out, but he doesn’t want to “deal” with it. Like, apparently I start projects and never finish most of them🤷🏻♀️ I won’t say if he’s right, but we do have a whole room with half finished furniture, projects, paintings, etc. 😅
My mouth started watering when you were reading the nectarine tree description. What a fantastic little PNW Eden you're creating, hope to see the progress as it grows!
Put cardboard boxes down before you mulch. You can cut them around the trees and that's the best way to keep the weeds and grass out. Love the orchard 🥰
Thanks for the reminder! We mulched a row recently & had grass grow back n simply could not figure out what we'd done differently this time hah. Gonna need some boxes.
@@FireflyShift I've been saving all of mine most of the winter! They're always gone by the next year and it's helped tremendously with the weeding. 🙏🏻 Happy gardening! 🌻🌺
I could honestly spend forever watching you and your little family grow a life together. Thank you for sharing what you do with us. Wonderful to see you both again.
In the fall spray your trees with dormant oil to keep the fruit flies down and in the spring spray with sulfur to keep the mildew down. An old guy down my street told me a bit of advice that I thought was nuts but it works, in the spring before the fruit trees flower, roll up a newspaper and whack the bark around the base a few times, it causes the trees to think they are under attack and the will produce more fruit.
Just a heads up about apples.... most aren't self pollinating. So make sure that you have compatible apple trees to pollinate your honeycrisp otherwise you will have very few /no fruit. While they are delicious apples, they can be a tricky variety to deal with. Apples can get some pretty awful diseases that need managing and monitoring. Good luck with the little orchard. From your friendly neighborhood apple breeder
For the ground cover in the orchard, when in Mallorca I saw the orchards had wildflowers under the trees. I guess it helps with attracting pollinators. You can get perennial wild flowers as hydroseed
kristi: "high five!" baby: ... baby: ... baby: slowly lifts tiny hand to delicately tap against mama palm you guys are amazing :) beautiful to see all the progress with the homestead, and also THANK YOU for being one of the best examples of how to be a responsible parent as a content creator. the way you protect bubba's privacy is really admirable, and allows the focus of the video to remain on the adults and the work being done. rock on!
Kristi, I don’t get on here much anymore but I’m PRAYING you see this. I posted here a few times last year when I lost my daughter at 4 months pregnant. I received support and was so grateful. After a year of being told I have problems conceiving, I AM PREGNANT. 😭😭😭😭 This is my miracle, my rainbow baby, and I just wanted you/the people who gave me such support to know because following your journey of motherhood has truly inspired me and changed my life. I’ve been watching you for 6-7 years and I wanna thank you for helping me really become the person, and soon to be mother, that I am. I’ve had terrible experiences over the last several years with mental health and you have quite literally walked me through my journey. Seeing you come out strong has changed my life. 💗
Oh my gosh Heather this is so touching I could cry!!! I am SO HAPPY FOR YOU MY FRIEND!!!! This is absolutely wonderful news and I am so thankful you commented to let me know. Congratulations on your sweet rainbow baby!!!!
We had leaf curl. We bought copper and sprayed the trees in the winter. Worked perfectly. And we pounded fertilizer fruit tree stakes in that we got At Bimart and our trees exploded the next season with SO MUCH FRUIT!
I had no idea how much I missed these videos! Thanks for sharing! You guys are a few years ahead of my dream, love seeing the process while I’m working my way there!
I love ❤️ watching as you and Zach have gone from growing herbs in raised beds to having an orchard and a soon-to-be no till garden. You’re an inspiration
Seeing a toddler running around in the background of your videos is the best thing ever. I haven’t seen any of your videos in a while, and you look so happy and healthy and your hair is beautiful
The last few weeks of videos have been amazing. I really hope you guys continue uploading showing your projects! I'd love to do stuff like this but being in Oklahoma with no land, I live through these videos! I'm so happy for you guys. The value you're adding to your property is insane! I know you don't plan on selling anytime soon but I hope yall know that you're really adding so much equity with your hard work!!
I suggest getting a soil test at your local extension office to see what amendments you need. You may need to adjust the pH. I plant orchards for a living if you have questions. Also get some limb spreaders for your trees to change the branch angles.
It’s like a more relaxed realistic(to my life at least) version of Garden Answer! Absolutely loving the videos on this channel! Seriously obsessed! Oh how we have missed you Kristi! I know you needed time. I’m so glad you have been sharing your journey with us. My son just turned 13😳btw I swear it happened over night! Anyways the first year of his life was beyond tough for me, thank god I had my moms help. I too had severe post partum. Like I’ve never seen anybody other then you have it as bad as I did. It’s truly something you can’t fathom going through until you do. It felt like it would never end and I would never sleep or feel normal ever again. It was terrifying and so unbearable. Anyways, I knew eventually you would feel better, but I would have never told you that in the worst of it. Nobody wants to hear that shit in the worst moments nor does it help. I’m so happy to see you doing better and using your platform to be open and honest about it and bring more awareness to it, and letting people know it’s normal and YOU CAN GET THROUGH IT. So many things we don’t talk about and we would all be better off if we did! Anyways rant over! I’m obsessed with these videos of your house and property and such! Definitely loving them and can’t get enough. Also your sons voice is the sweetest most precious thing ever. Motherhood looks amazing on you! Sending lots of love from Idaho girl!
Honey crisp is our favorite! We bought a tree this year. At our WM it's $8 for a bag. We paid about $35 for a three foot tree! It's beautiful can't wait for it to produce fruit 😍🍎 Love your homestead!!
Thank you so much. What a beautiful sound. Mommy. I am so proud of you. I cannot believe the love I have for you guys. In Texas we are so Jealous lol. We just cannot wait to watch the beautiful trees. You did this on you own.. Wow to be happy in your environment is more blessing than you know!!! I have great news after we lost our 20 year old Cat, another precious one found our way. Thank you WE LOVE APPLES!!!!
I have two apple trees that we planted the year we moved in, then two years ago had to remove a dying ash tree in my front yard, so I used that as an excuse to plant a crab apple tree meant for cooking and eating, and also planted two plums and a pear tree as well. We also have currant and cherry bushes, and five separate garden beds (A big veggie bed, a bed for herbs and lettuce, one for raspberries, one for strawberries, and a three sisters bed with popcorn pole beans and pumpkins). Last year I also put in a wild flower bed, and this year I am redoing one of my landscaping beds with rose bushes and lavender and other perennial herbs. And we also have 3 chickens in our side yard. Our yard isn't enormous, about a third of an acre, and we fit this stuff in by using food bearing plants for all of the landscaping. I don't know if you like to plant tomatoes, peppers, or eggplant anywhere on your property, but make sure that you plant the black walnut really far away from where you would like to grow those veggies. Black walnut roots produce a chemical called juglone that poisons the soil against anything in the nightshade family.
It’s so perfect!! His sweet lil voice is adorable!! They way he said eww melted my heart you two are the best parents in the world and your love is so pure!!
This is the content that gives me LIFE. I'm slowly building my own orchard, too. I have three lemon trees in pots inside, and then outside I have some apple and cherry trees. As well as a few blueberry bushes.
About your apple tree that was fallen over. There is an interesting seasonal documentary about Yew Gardens and the trees they have- a large tree there was uprooted by a storm and that ended up saving it. Something about soil compaction around the roots being bad for the tree, but the lifting of the soil ended up being good for it. Trees are really amazing plants. Your orchard is really spectacular! Such a dream!
Oooh yes! I just planted our own backyard orchard here in Central Texas. 2 peach (Harvester and June Gold), 2 apple (honeycrisp and pink lady), 2 mandarin, 2 cold hardy avocado trees, and 2 banana trees! I'm so excited.
Love hearing baby boy in the background. We have a one year old a few months behind him and life is so much more fun/interesting now. Yay for orchard tours and gardening. I enjoy your homestead videos IMMENSELY. Keep it up, sis. You’re doing great.
I love your videos. Sooo much. The apple tree story that was pulled down ... there's a sermon in there somewhere. Cool analogies come to mind when hearing this very cool tree saga!!
You guys are living my dream!! 🥺 I’m a single mom working my butt off in nursing school so maybe one day I can have a beautiful home and start a garden, you inspire me so much. ❤️
May you ask (it’s none of my business of course you owe me nothing) I’m just coif your comfortable sharing how you’ve been able to afford to do all the renovations on your property when you have been healing over the last year? I’m so glad your doing better and grateful to see you uploading again as it brings me genuine joy and peace to watch these videos. I’m truly and honestly grateful for this kind of content from a creator I enjoy and connect with so wholeheartedly. Thank you so much for your time have an amazing day momma! Sending Lotsa love and light from Alberta Canada. 🍄🪴🐣🌈🐞🐸🍄🪴🐞🌟🌈
Chamomile lawn for the orchard,smells great and never needs to be mown.It’s the non flowering variety.The garden is looking awesome,I’m so jealous,I have a tiny one.
Plants have a lot of common names so people tend to go with their Latin name to avoid confusion. By the way- I've been watching all your videos since November 2021 and I absolutely love you guys. So exciting to see your plans come to life. I'm currently working as a horticulture technician and I love watching you guys plant and plan on your land!
On the Apple tree that got knocked over and put back in place you guys should try grafting other Varieties of Apples or you could graft any other type of fruit onto the tree. Just thought I’d throw my two cents in since you guys mentioned that your willing to experiment. I just watched this amazing video about this guy who grafted like 40 different fruits onto one tree and his trees were beautiful and they flower all year round♥️
I am a makeup lover at heart and I am so happy when you upload on your main channel. What I didn’t know was how much I would be in LOVE with this channel, too. I am LIVING for these videos. You are so empathetic and care so much about the environment and I cried because you cried about cutting down the tree. I am obsessed with your videos and your little family. Thank you for bringing me so much joy ❤️
I'm so so happy that you guys are back I have been thinking about you all but I know with covid life changes things don't always happen the way you wanted to happen but I'm happy that you all back. And the tree I never wanted you guys to tear that tree down because I know with all the TH-cam videos I've been watching that a crabapple tree works good in a garden for other trees and things like that but I'm happy that it all worked out for you guys and then you getting good Delicious fruit. Oh and the baby talking in the background is so adorable keep it in I love it cuz he wants to be a part of everything as well and he's part of the family so we get what we can get whenever he wants then put his information then let's hear what he has to say anyway God bless have a great week can't wait to see more
I remember a video years ago where you said your dream of where and how you wanted to live, private land, farming and gardening. You talked about how you wanted a family but was trying to accept that wasn't an option, and I was thinking you clearly want it and many options. Now look at this...all you dreamed of living you woke up to this morning. Pretty cool. 😉 Many years of happiness living your dream realized.
So happy for you guys that you finally have your little own dream home/ hobbit farm & orchard and all that your doing! It’s so inspiring to see you Kristi be outside and enjoying your home and life. Didn’t know I could be so happy for someone I don’t know but it’s all beautiful !!! 🥹🤗👏🏼🐝🌳🌲🌿🍄💐🌺🌸🌼🌻😊🤟🏼
We have a frost peach and a hardy red nectarine, also in PNW. Both suffer with peach leaf curl but the nectarine has been most effected. Copper fungicide and a regular organic spraying schedule can help to keep it in check. Planting oregano around the base can keep the spore numbers down over our wet winters as well, but it's invasive when grown wild so keep that in mind. Good luck! We're considering pulling our nectarine and buying a new tree now that we've learned how to treat the curl.
Those mushrooms supposedly mean whatever you are doing, keep doing! Look at them as happy, thank you mushrooms 🍄 ❤ I get geeked when I find them on our property where I've planted! Love this more than you know! These videos are everything and more that the world needs ❤
I want to say a big thank you for showing us this. I regularly daydream about my dream home and your property seems like something I'm praying for. Best of wishes, thank you for the inspiration and hope
So much fun to watch and be educated as well. There's that adorable word again that I love..."Hobbity". Nothing more precious than a little one's voice!
I love these videos! So, if you can, please make more! I totally understand why you guys took a break from this channel. You had much more important things to take care of and get through. I hope your orchard thrives and I can't wait to see updates on, not only these trees, but also on your entire property! Thank you so much for providing all of the videos you do on both channels! I really appreciate you and all of your hard work!! 💜💜💜 Stacy
I grew up around orchards. My parents are from the Wenatchee Valley area and my grandparents used to have different orchards from Leavenworth down to Wenatchee & up in the Methow Valley where my grandma grew up. No matter what the Season, the orchards were one of my favorite places to be. On that note, yes apples prefer a leader branch, peaches and apricots are healthier without a leader. They need to have what’s called a wide crotch, meaning trim the branches that are growing straight up & keep the ones growing out. I like the way you described it as a bowl. Your apples should do just fine although you might want to invest in a smudge pot to protect them from any late Spring freeze that can kill off new growth, or early Autumn freeze that will destroy your crop before it’s ready for harvest. I’m excited to see how your orchard grows. I hope your little one enjoys his orchard as much as I did when I was a kid. 🌱🍏🍑🍒🍐🌳
I'm also planting an orchard! We have 2 apples, 2 Asian pears and 1 sour cherry. And going to plant more next year! You are seriously my fav TH-camr. Your content brings me real joy 😊
You guys should look into the Cosmic Crisp apple, since you're in Washington. They are our family's favorite apple. I think they're crossed with the Honeycrisp and Enterprise varieties. They're literally perfect.
Pine straw at the base of the trees keeps the moisture in. You could do a circle of pine straw at the bottom and then mulch everywhere you walk.. hope that makes sense. Looks amazing!!!!
What a blessing to get some fruit trees in there to enjoy. I used to love just going in the back yard to grab an apple or pear. I do think some are too close together though perhaps. The Honey Crisp should be 10' apart if dwarf, 20' if they aren't. Do take time to look up planting distance before they take root in case you need to move them further apart. You want them to get all the sun and nutrients they need to fill up with fruit in a few years. I'm so jealous and hope one day to have fruit trees again.
No worries about being away from the channel. Life happens. I'm happy you are having such a great time on your property! My partner and I also live in Western WA and we have tiny property now. We're working up to pretty much what you're doing. I mean. Goals. I love watching you just going for it! Thank you for being so open and real about what is and isn't working. ❤️
When your kiddo said "mommy" and then " eww" just cracked me up. I swear your kiddo reminds me of my oldest lol. I always had to be on my toes with him and as hard as it was...it was also a blast and Iooking back I wouldn't change a thing...except maybe giving myself a few extra hours of sleep
Tip: take those labels off the trees and give each tree a number with a stake (more permanent). Keep the labels in a binder with their corresponding number to keep track. You will need it in the future. It helps a lot when tracking information. Also, a great ground cover is purple creeping thyme. You can get seeds. All the best to you.
Genius!
i still can’t believe you guys are uploading again-what a gift! thank you so much for all of your efforts to curate and share these absolutely beautiful videos (and your life) with us. i can’t even begin to describe how content and peaceful this channel makes me. again, thank you guys!
I couldn’t agree more. I love it!
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Agree 100%! I love their videos 🥰
Yes it's such wonderful content🥰
Yes, beautifully said Laura. Thank you guys so much for bringing some beauty to our days 💕
Can I just say, I have never seen a family on TH-cam who shows such a perfect amount of your personal life and little boy! I love seeing you guys be a little family and I love "seeing" your boy grow, but I think it's so sweet and special and SMART that you keep his face off of the internet
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Kristi: “you’re just going to have to deal with the toddler noises it’s life now.”
Me: “I.totally.relate.” Lol 😂
I thought Alder’s talking was my boy waking up his nap lol
#normalizetinyhumansounds 👏🏼😆
Even after all this time it still makes me smile that you finally get to be called mommy! 🥰 Ànd also get to live your dream of homesteading. 🖤
The orchard is brilliant and a step further to self sufficiency. Love hearing bubba in your videos. Love the fact your a mom now. X
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Our land used to be farm land, so there were just a few small trees there, put in by the builder. My husband planted some oak and other trees with the help of our kids 25 + years ago. We took pictures of them by one of the main tree every year for a long time. This tree is now HUGE and provides shade over our bedroom! My husband also digs up the volunteer trees, pots them, and offers to plant them in our neighbors'/friends' homes. It's so much fun to watch our baby trees grow in their yards!!
Kids talking over parents is the only language I've spoken for 17 years. Makes me feel right at home! Love the orchard!
Love watching your progress! Zach sounds like a horticulturist, I wish I had his brain to pick. Here in Texas it’s hard to grow full sun plants without them burning. RBK you look stunning. Love the homestead vibe RBK, Raw Homestead Kristy. ❤️ 🌳
Your son’s babble only adds to the video, don’t fret, he’s a welcome spark of joy.
You can contact your county's Extension office or Master Gardeners and they'll help you for free.
I am so impressed that you are doing all of this pretty much yourselves using a lot of things that were already there. I have a small yard so I’m living vicariously through your videos! 👏🥰
Same! I so badly wish we could do a honey crisp but I don’t think it would do well here, I’m not really sure. We already have 4 huge trees on our property, a pretty small backyard but a quite large front/side yard for town) and a 5th tree we had to have cut down last year bc it was dying. I’ve asked and asked my SO if we could at least do a small garden in the back because we already have flower beds out, but he doesn’t want to “deal” with it. Like, apparently I start projects and never finish most of them🤷🏻♀️ I won’t say if he’s right, but we do have a whole room with half finished furniture, projects, paintings, etc. 😅
You can do SO MUCH with a small yard! My favorite way is by creating a english cottage garden to replace your lawn 🥰
My mouth started watering when you were reading the nectarine tree description. What a fantastic little PNW Eden you're creating, hope to see the progress as it grows!
Put cardboard boxes down before you mulch. You can cut them around the trees and that's the best way to keep the weeds and grass out.
Love the orchard 🥰
Thanks for the reminder! We mulched a row recently & had grass grow back n simply could not figure out what we'd done differently this time hah. Gonna need some boxes.
@@FireflyShift I've been saving all of mine most of the winter! They're always gone by the next year and it's helped tremendously with the weeding. 🙏🏻 Happy gardening! 🌻🌺
I could honestly spend forever watching you and your little family grow a life together.
Thank you for sharing what you do with us.
Wonderful to see you both again.
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Man, Kristy and Zack out here living the dream. What a wonderful homestead you both have, your son will love growing up in those trees
Nothing wrong with the toddler noise, that's the sound of music right there.
In the fall spray your trees with dormant oil to keep the fruit flies down and in the spring spray with sulfur to keep the mildew down. An old guy down my street told me a bit of advice that I thought was nuts but it works, in the spring before the fruit trees flower, roll up a newspaper and whack the bark around the base a few times, it causes the trees to think they are under attack and the will produce more fruit.
Just a heads up about apples.... most aren't self pollinating. So make sure that you have compatible apple trees to pollinate your honeycrisp otherwise you will have very few /no fruit. While they are delicious apples, they can be a tricky variety to deal with. Apples can get some pretty awful diseases that need managing and monitoring. Good luck with the little orchard.
From your friendly neighborhood apple breeder
For the ground cover in the orchard, when in Mallorca I saw the orchards had wildflowers under the trees. I guess it helps with attracting pollinators. You can get perennial wild flowers as hydroseed
Honey crisp apples are the best thing in the world! Especially with peanut butter. I love seeing y’all’s progress!
Lol the way your son said ewww !!! Love it!!!
“You’re both wrong.” 😂
I love the toddler noises!!
kristi: "high five!"
baby: ...
baby: ...
baby: slowly lifts tiny hand to delicately tap against mama palm
you guys are amazing :) beautiful to see all the progress with the homestead, and also THANK YOU for being one of the best examples of how to be a responsible parent as a content creator. the way you protect bubba's privacy is really admirable, and allows the focus of the video to remain on the adults and the work being done. rock on!
Kristi, I don’t get on here much anymore but I’m PRAYING you see this. I posted here a few times last year when I lost my daughter at 4 months pregnant. I received support and was so grateful. After a year of being told I have problems conceiving, I AM PREGNANT. 😭😭😭😭 This is my miracle, my rainbow baby, and I just wanted you/the people who gave me such support to know because following your journey of motherhood has truly inspired me and changed my life. I’ve been watching you for 6-7 years and I wanna thank you for helping me really become the person, and soon to be mother, that I am. I’ve had terrible experiences over the last several years with mental health and you have quite literally walked me through my journey. Seeing you come out strong has changed my life. 💗
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Oh my gosh Heather this is so touching I could cry!!! I am SO HAPPY FOR YOU MY FRIEND!!!! This is absolutely wonderful news and I am so thankful you commented to let me know. Congratulations on your sweet rainbow baby!!!!
You two are ROCKSTARS. It's that simple. Your vibe just speaks to my soul! Thank you for sharing this beautiful journey!!! Blessings to you!! ✌️💚🙏
I love the style of your fencing!
We had leaf curl. We bought copper and sprayed the trees in the winter. Worked perfectly. And we pounded fertilizer fruit tree stakes in that we got At Bimart and our trees exploded the next season with SO MUCH FRUIT!
the most wholesome content. I literally can't take it. it's such a breath if fresh air
His little voice makes my heart squeeze! Time goes by so fast! I love your orchard❤️ What a fun family thing to do!
I had no idea how much I missed these videos! Thanks for sharing! You guys are a few years ahead of my dream, love seeing the process while I’m working my way there!
your dreams of how you wanted this property and house to look are literally coming true
I love ❤️ watching as you and Zach have gone from growing herbs in raised beds to having an orchard and a soon-to-be no till garden. You’re an inspiration
Oh my goodness my baby calls all bugs bees too 🤣🤣 even ants lol! That’s too funny
Seeing a toddler running around in the background of your videos is the best thing ever. I haven’t seen any of your videos in a while, and you look so happy and healthy and your hair is beautiful
I love his little voice saying "apple" 🥰
What a beautiful home you both created together. I show my husband your videos and tell him this is what I want one day for our family.
i could watch hourssss of this! This is my dream
I love the toddler noises 😍 makes my heart so happy.
You could get a wood chipper for all your fallen branches to use as mulch xx
We have one and have used it a ton! It only does branches probably at MAXIMUM 2” and jams a LOT but we’ve gotten tons of use of our wood chips so far!
Well that was the cutest high 5 I’ve ever seen.
yall out here really living your best lives
These videos literally give me so much calmness. Honestly thank you! They help reduce my anxiety
The last few weeks of videos have been amazing. I really hope you guys continue uploading showing your projects! I'd love to do stuff like this but being in Oklahoma with no land, I live through these videos! I'm so happy for you guys. The value you're adding to your property is insane! I know you don't plan on selling anytime soon but I hope yall know that you're really adding so much equity with your hard work!!
I suggest getting a soil test at your local extension office to see what amendments you need. You may need to adjust the pH. I plant orchards for a living if you have questions. Also get some limb spreaders for your trees to change the branch angles.
It’s like a more relaxed realistic(to my life at least) version of Garden Answer! Absolutely loving the videos on this channel! Seriously obsessed! Oh how we have missed you Kristi! I know you needed time. I’m so glad you have been sharing your journey with us. My son just turned 13😳btw I swear it happened over night! Anyways the first year of his life was beyond tough for me, thank god I had my moms help. I too had severe post partum. Like I’ve never seen anybody other then you have it as bad as I did. It’s truly something you can’t fathom going through until you do. It felt like it would never end and I would never sleep or feel normal ever again. It was terrifying and so unbearable. Anyways, I knew eventually you would feel better, but I would have never told you that in the worst of it. Nobody wants to hear that shit in the worst moments nor does it help. I’m so happy to see you doing better and using your platform to be open and honest about it and bring more awareness to it, and letting people know it’s normal and YOU CAN GET THROUGH IT. So many things we don’t talk about and we would all be better off if we did! Anyways rant over! I’m obsessed with these videos of your house and property and such! Definitely loving them and can’t get enough. Also your sons voice is the sweetest most precious thing ever. Motherhood looks amazing on you! Sending lots of love from Idaho girl!
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Honey crisp is our favorite! We bought a tree this year. At our WM it's $8 for a bag. We paid about $35 for a three foot tree! It's beautiful can't wait for it to produce fruit 😍🍎 Love your homestead!!
Thank you so much. What a beautiful sound. Mommy. I am so proud of you. I cannot believe the love I have for you guys. In Texas we are so Jealous lol. We just cannot wait to watch the beautiful trees. You did this on you own.. Wow to be happy in your environment is more blessing than you know!!! I have great news after we lost our 20 year old Cat, another precious one found our way. Thank you WE LOVE APPLES!!!!
Love the toddler talk. 💕
Personally love the toddler chatter in the background, love to hear the developing personality coming through 💕
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I have two apple trees that we planted the year we moved in, then two years ago had to remove a dying ash tree in my front yard, so I used that as an excuse to plant a crab apple tree meant for cooking and eating, and also planted two plums and a pear tree as well. We also have currant and cherry bushes, and five separate garden beds (A big veggie bed, a bed for herbs and lettuce, one for raspberries, one for strawberries, and a three sisters bed with popcorn pole beans and pumpkins). Last year I also put in a wild flower bed, and this year I am redoing one of my landscaping beds with rose bushes and lavender and other perennial herbs. And we also have 3 chickens in our side yard. Our yard isn't enormous, about a third of an acre, and we fit this stuff in by using food bearing plants for all of the landscaping.
I don't know if you like to plant tomatoes, peppers, or eggplant anywhere on your property, but make sure that you plant the black walnut really far away from where you would like to grow those veggies. Black walnut roots produce a chemical called juglone that poisons the soil against anything in the nightshade family.
It’s so perfect!! His sweet lil voice is adorable!! They way he said eww melted my heart you two are the best parents in the world and your love is so pure!!
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This is the content that gives me LIFE. I'm slowly building my own orchard, too. I have three lemon trees in pots inside, and then outside I have some apple and cherry trees. As well as a few blueberry bushes.
We accidentally killed our citrus this winter by leaving them on the porch with string lights. It didn’t keep them warm like the internet promised 😂
@@zacks.4655 Were they LED string lights or incandescent?
About your apple tree that was fallen over. There is an interesting seasonal documentary about Yew Gardens and the trees they have- a large tree there was uprooted by a storm and that ended up saving it. Something about soil compaction around the roots being bad for the tree, but the lifting of the soil ended up being good for it. Trees are really amazing plants. Your orchard is really spectacular! Such a dream!
Oooh yes! I just planted our own backyard orchard here in Central Texas. 2 peach (Harvester and June Gold), 2 apple (honeycrisp and pink lady), 2 mandarin, 2 cold hardy avocado trees, and 2 banana trees! I'm so excited.
Love hearing baby boy in the background. We have a one year old a few months behind him and life is so much more fun/interesting now. Yay for orchard tours and gardening. I enjoy your homestead videos IMMENSELY. Keep it up, sis. You’re doing great.
Found you threw your makeup channel but now I have binged all of the videos on this channel. Love love love what you guys are doing.
Holy shit, I cannot believe you guys have physically built this beautiful life that spans across all aspects of your living situation. Super vool.
It's all so exciting!!!!
I love your videos. Sooo much.
The apple tree story that was pulled down ... there's a sermon in there somewhere. Cool analogies come to mind when hearing this very cool tree saga!!
Love these ❤️ You and your fam are so precious! Thank you for sharing.
Crab apple trees actually help boost pollination of your other apple trees btw. ❤️
You guys are living my dream!! 🥺 I’m a single mom working my butt off in nursing school so maybe one day I can have a beautiful home and start a garden, you inspire me so much. ❤️
May you ask (it’s none of my business of course you owe me nothing) I’m just coif your comfortable sharing how you’ve been able to afford to do all the renovations on your property when you have been healing over the last year? I’m so glad your doing better and grateful to see you uploading again as it brings me genuine joy and peace to watch these videos. I’m truly and honestly grateful for this kind of content from a creator I enjoy and connect with so wholeheartedly. Thank you so much for your time have an amazing day momma! Sending Lotsa love and light from Alberta Canada. 🍄🪴🐣🌈🐞🐸🍄🪴🐞🌟🌈
His little “peach” 😭❤️❤️❤️😭😭
Your property is a dream! Imagine having family get togethers or birthday parties for your son! So awesome.
Lovvvve. Can’t wait to see more! ❤️❤️
I will watch any and all videos on this channel, I love this content so much
Chamomile lawn for the orchard,smells great and never needs to be mown.It’s the non flowering variety.The garden is looking awesome,I’m so jealous,I have a tiny one.
Plants have a lot of common names so people tend to go with their Latin name to avoid confusion.
By the way- I've been watching all your videos since November 2021 and I absolutely love you guys. So exciting to see your plans come to life.
I'm currently working as a horticulture technician and I love watching you guys plant and plan on your land!
On the Apple tree that got knocked over and put back in place you guys should try grafting other Varieties of Apples or you could graft any other type of fruit onto the tree.
Just thought I’d throw my two cents in since you guys mentioned that your willing to experiment. I just watched this amazing video about this guy who grafted like 40 different fruits onto one tree and his trees were beautiful and they flower all year round♥️
I am a makeup lover at heart and I am so happy when you upload on your main channel. What I didn’t know was how much I would be in LOVE with this channel, too. I am LIVING for these videos. You are so empathetic and care so much about the environment and I cried because you cried about cutting down the tree. I am obsessed with your videos and your little family. Thank you for bringing me so much joy ❤️
Obsessed with this series!!
I'm so so happy that you guys are back I have been thinking about you all but I know with covid life changes things don't always happen the way you wanted to happen but I'm happy that you all back. And the tree I never wanted you guys to tear that tree down because I know with all the TH-cam videos I've been watching that a crabapple tree works good in a garden for other trees and things like that but I'm happy that it all worked out for you guys and then you getting good Delicious fruit. Oh and the baby talking in the background is so adorable keep it in I love it cuz he wants to be a part of everything as well and he's part of the family so we get what we can get whenever he wants then put his information then let's hear what he has to say anyway God bless have a great week can't wait to see more
SO happy that you guys are sharing these home videos! love love love it.
honestly - I would go with clover in there to help attract the bees.
I remember a video years ago where you said your dream of where and how you wanted to live, private land, farming and gardening. You talked about how you wanted a family but was trying to accept that wasn't an option, and I was thinking you clearly want it and many options. Now look at this...all you dreamed of living you woke up to this morning. Pretty cool. 😉 Many years of happiness living your dream realized.
So happy for you guys that you finally have your little own dream home/ hobbit farm & orchard and all that your doing! It’s so inspiring to see you Kristi be outside and enjoying your home and life. Didn’t know I could be so happy for someone I don’t know but it’s all beautiful !!! 🥹🤗👏🏼🐝🌳🌲🌿🍄💐🌺🌸🌼🌻😊🤟🏼
Please never stop doing these videos! I look forward to them so much and they are such a comfort
We have a frost peach and a hardy red nectarine, also in PNW. Both suffer with peach leaf curl but the nectarine has been most effected. Copper fungicide and a regular organic spraying schedule can help to keep it in check. Planting oregano around the base can keep the spore numbers down over our wet winters as well, but it's invasive when grown wild so keep that in mind. Good luck! We're considering pulling our nectarine and buying a new tree now that we've learned how to treat the curl.
Those mushrooms supposedly mean whatever you are doing, keep doing! Look at them as happy, thank you mushrooms 🍄 ❤ I get geeked when I find them on our property where I've planted! Love this more than you know! These videos are everything and more that the world needs ❤
Hearing your son saying mommy is just a full circle moment, so happy you guys are in your property, you got your sweet boy and now the orchard💗💕
I built my chicken coop in urban dallas and I’m so proud of it. I wish I could live in a rural area. I’d have bees too.
The toddler babble didn’t even phase me 😂 that’s how you know I have a toddler at home and am used to having to talk over the crazy man gibberish
I want to say a big thank you for showing us this. I regularly daydream about my dream home and your property seems like something I'm praying for. Best of wishes, thank you for the inspiration and hope
So much fun to watch and be educated as well. There's that adorable word again that I love..."Hobbity". Nothing more precious than a little one's voice!
I love toddlers they are sooo freaking adorable!
I'm soooo excited to see everything you two are doing on your dream property!! And the toddler babbling is just so precious 🥰
Love that you're uploading again, LOVE following along while we do ours
Loveee these last two videos!!!! I never knew what a water sucker was! Our apple tree has a ton!! I will now be trimming them!! 🍎 🍏
A tree will put out water suckers if it gets over-pruned, so you might want to just trim a few at a time.
I love these videos! So, if you can, please make more! I totally understand why you guys took a break from this channel. You had much more important things to take care of and get through.
I hope your orchard thrives and I can't wait to see updates on, not only these trees, but also on your entire property!
Thank you so much for providing all of the videos you do on both channels! I really appreciate you and all of your hard work!!
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This is literal goals right here! Love it! 😍🙌🏻
I am so so happy for your family, living the dream! I am super excited to see how your garden fence turns out! I love it all!!!!
I grew up around orchards. My parents are from the Wenatchee Valley area and my grandparents used to have different orchards from Leavenworth down to Wenatchee & up in the Methow Valley where my grandma grew up. No matter what the Season, the orchards were one of my favorite places to be. On that note, yes apples prefer a leader branch, peaches and apricots are healthier without a leader. They need to have what’s called a wide crotch, meaning trim the branches that are growing straight up & keep the ones growing out. I like the way you described it as a bowl. Your apples should do just fine although you might want to invest in a smudge pot to protect them from any late Spring freeze that can kill off new growth, or early Autumn freeze that will destroy your crop before it’s ready for harvest. I’m excited to see how your orchard grows. I hope your little one enjoys his orchard as much as I did when I was a kid. 🌱🍏🍑🍒🍐🌳
Braeburn ! Cripsy sour sweet apples they are delicious
I'm also planting an orchard! We have 2 apples, 2 Asian pears and 1 sour cherry. And going to plant more next year! You are seriously my fav TH-camr. Your content brings me real joy 😊
You guys should look into the Cosmic Crisp apple, since you're in Washington. They are our family's favorite apple. I think they're crossed with the Honeycrisp and Enterprise varieties. They're literally perfect.
Pine straw at the base of the trees keeps the moisture in. You could do a circle of pine straw at the bottom and then mulch everywhere you walk.. hope that makes sense. Looks amazing!!!!
These videos make me so happy. I love seeing how your property continues to develop and become a home. And I LOVE that hobbit fence omg!
What a blessing to get some fruit trees in there to enjoy. I used to love just going in the back yard to grab an apple or pear. I do think some are too close together though perhaps. The Honey Crisp should be 10' apart if dwarf, 20' if they aren't. Do take time to look up planting distance before they take root in case you need to move them further apart. You want them to get all the sun and nutrients they need to fill up with fruit in a few years. I'm so jealous and hope one day to have fruit trees again.
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No worries about being away from the channel. Life happens. I'm happy you are having such a great time on your property! My partner and I also live in Western WA and we have tiny property now. We're working up to pretty much what you're doing. I mean. Goals. I love watching you just going for it! Thank you for being so open and real about what is and isn't working. ❤️
When your kiddo said "mommy" and then " eww" just cracked me up. I swear your kiddo reminds me of my oldest lol. I always had to be on my toes with him and as hard as it was...it was also a blast and Iooking back I wouldn't change a thing...except maybe giving myself a few extra hours of sleep