I love what you do in life and on your homestead, but I enjoy your videos because of you both and your relationship. You’re both such clear, succinct speakers and I love the way you so respectfully take turns but with such synergy. Makes for very easy watching. Thank you
I'm addicted to this channel. Try Kevin's bagels. But the harmony they show us is what I use to attempt to get projects done without drama with my husband. We're married 47 years. My guy can measure 3 times and get 3 different numbers. We inherited all the tools but he is clueless how to use them. I, however, grew up in my Dad's workshop and know what to do, but explaining it to him just brings drama. I'm so frustrated BUT if he watches Kevin and Sarah he gets more mellow and we can get thru a project with less drama. Free therapy for us. I love it.
I agree. There are other channels I watch where some will constantly cut each other off & not let the other finish their thought & I feel so bad for their partner!
You guys are so great and a total inspiration. When ever you are feeling down , remember, you (both) are someone’s silent mentor. Many blessing to you and yours 💚
Here is the list of tomatoes and peppers they will be growing. Tomatoes: Cherry: - Juliette - Large Red Cherry Paste: -Amish - Salvaterra Select - JetStar Peppers: - California Wonder - Craig Grande Jalapeño - Notapeno - Lipstick - Sugar Rush Peach - Ozarks Giant - Aji Arnaucho - Ajvarski Sweet Pepper I can't wait to see how everything will grow in your greenhouse. 😊
You are my wife’s and my favorite people to watch, in 2006 I was involved with a workplace robbery and was injured with a head injury, we lived in Milwaukie Oregon in town, having a small 8x12 greenhouse, small garden area and blueberries,strawberries, triple crown blackberries, raspberries, Fuji & yellow delicious apples and cherries , God, my wife Terri and gardening is what has got me through this, as I have memory issues, Headaches, and 3 or 4 seizures a month, but I am blessed to have at least 2 hours every day to garden, last year we purchased 2.75 acres next to my Son and his family hear in Ringgold Georgia, and just moved into our home we had built two months ago, major change from Oregon, Thank you for sharing your life with farming and raising plants, you help make my days happy ones, God bless you and your family, ( Did I say that I don’t like snakes and high humidity 😃😃😃) keep on homesteading!
“Starting a garden is hope for the future” When I saw “tunnel” in the title, my mind went back a few years when you had an arched tunnel growing birdhouse gourds. That was so cool, how the gourds would hang down and grow inside the tunnel. If I had the space, I’d like to try tunnels for climbing veggies like cucumber, zucchini, even tomatoes..like having a walk-thru garden..
Hi guys, I missed out for about 4 months because life got a little crazy, but I'm back. Just finished watching all the episodes I missed. Love your new place and love your channel. I don't comment much, but I have been subscribed for a few years. I have learned so much from you. You are a tremendous blessing in my life. God Bless
We too have switched to planting the majority of our plants in the high tunnels this year. The weather has become even more unstable these last years not to mention the critters. We are in the DFW area of Texas.
Kevin & Sarah TY for such a fun and helpful video. It is so fun to watch you both explain the process and then complete it. I truly see the Christlike love you have for each other. God bless you both abundantly!
Thank you for the greenhouse help! We put up just a 10x20 Dakota from Grower’s Solutions in the fall last year and planted raised beds we added, plus we moved pepper & basil plants into it. I’ve had so much trepidation on how to manage it in our (sometimes extreme) Oklahoma heat. Now I have a starting point to plan from because you did the research and shared. I should add that my dear husband has worked this greenhouse this winter-even keeping most of the plants alive when the temps hit “0” and I had the flu! You guys are so appreciated ❤
The farmers almanac garden planning website includes planting times for inside high tunnels and greenhouses both heated and unheated. It’s $32 a year for the plan I use, and it has a *ton* of helpful features! I will be investing in the shade cloth for my greenhouse this year. We’re growing corn in the ground this year, everything else will be in raised beds. Thanks for bringing us along!
I'm in SW Missouri as well. I love how excited Sarah is and the smile on her face. Thank you for the greenhouse planting info! It is so helpful. Our high tunnel was completed last year, but this is our first Spring to use it. Want to grow my tomatoes in the high tunnel this year, so this was perfect timing. Thank you again!
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Sarah’s smile is so contagious! I find myself smiling right along with her. And, you are not wrong about seed starting being so exciting. Last year I started all my seeds at my kitchen table. I texted my children to say that I could literally sit and just watch them grow… and since I’m retired, I did! 😊 Best of luck with your garden this year and thanks for the planting tips.
My grandfather used to grow a lot of tomatoes. He has told me a great many things in my life and one of the things he told me is that your tomatoes only split or as you call it crack, if you overwater them you have to get your water levels right.
My husband and I love watching your show. We don't have land or a house but y'all remind my husband of gardening with his grandparents. He's 80 and he will talk to y'all. Y'all are helping lots of people get back to gardening. Thank you
Gardening is a sort of an addiction to me as well. During our long Minnesota winter it’s what keeps me going. Thanks for your videos as we still have 2-3 foot of snow on ground.
The two of you just make my day😊. You are such a delight, working together. I grew up in VT. and my family had the joy of growing beautiful produce; my husband and I also took extras to flea markets which sold so quickly. We had such wonderful response from the people we met. I miss those years, that’s why I am so anxious to watch you whenever I discover a new video. Love you ❤
One thing I noticed is that my garden area even though I wish I had a little more sun, my garden has little afternoon sun and when the sun is so intense in the summer, my tomatoes hardly ever crack from the heat because they are shaded in the intense sunlight.
You guys are getting me itching to start growing. I have all my seeds and seed starting equipment set up and ready to go. But it's Wisconsin, it's cold, and no greenhouse. Oh well, I will force myself to wait for my start dates.
I live about an hour away from Kevin & Sara and had to laugh as they were talking about seed starting. We woke up this morning to about 8 inches of a heavy, wet snow & flickering power thanks to the storm that went through last night. Sure doesn't look like seed starting time to me! 😄
I'm in the lower penisula of southcentral Michigan. We are having a huge snow storm so not thinking about starting seeds. Yesterday, yes, no snow anywhere. But not today!
Sarah, your various smaller peppers are so good pierced and put in a brine in the fridge. They are delicious with everything as a side and you will love them. They take no time to make!
Anxious to see how things grow for you, I'm getting excited to get my seeds and ground ready. Nothing tastes better than a home grown tomato 🍅. Would love to see the roasted red pepper Alfredo sauce. 🌶 thank you for sharing. God's blessings to you
We new high tunnel growers need to stick together, especially on the hard to find info. Thanks! Hey, I’m guessing you’re going to be talking about soil amendments and fertilizing soon, looking forward to that. PS. I love that you’re doing this together as a couple
So excited about this!!! Have had the same exact issues for planting times in my greenhouse. Not too far from y’all, so this is perfect timing!! Thanks for everything you both do and God Bless! Now I go plant💕
Guess what I'm getting? One of those heaters for my green house!! Raised beds drain so fast and you can put low tunnels over them. Build high tunnels with cattle panels and cover them with the shade cloth. Don't need any plastic after the spring rains are done. With starting some tomatoes and peppers now for the green house they'll be ready for harvesting before the ones out in the garden. That way it's easier with canning - half at a time. Plus you can start a third round for the green house for fall time. Watching you 2 today has me so jazzed!!! God willing I'll have pepper seeds started within 2 weeks and then tomatoes 3 weeks later. And so on and so on. I'm so ready for spring and summer. Thanks for sharing. God bless and protect.
Thanks for another informative video guys! Long time viewer here and even though I don’t comment much I just wanted to pop in today to let you know how much I appreciate your great content. Happy 2023 Growing Season!
Shade cloth is a life saver in Southern AZ. I just bought a 20 ft. X 48 ft. 40% Shade cloth tarp. Also have 8 tomato plants that I have over wintered. Should be a good year before the desert sun burns everything up.
This will be our first year using a high tunnel, and I just wanted to say I'm super grateful for Kevin's tip. Will definitely be taking that home to my husband, so he has a good idea of when we need to get that installed in our lower garden. Annnddd... We have planned to get a shade cloth, so it was great to hear Sarah talk about that, because we suffered last year with that intense sun on our plants that were in the open. Thankfully I have a huge old maple that shades the most of my upper garden bed and those plants actually thrived through that bad heat we had. I'm so excited for this year's growing season, just can't wait to get going on it!!
Thank you guys for the information today because I’m going to start my seeding in my greenhouse this year. You are truly the 1st ones to address greenhouse seed growing in February. We are in the southwest and most of u amazing growers are NORTH 😂. We appreciate U both and pray this year is a beautiful fruitful year🙌🏻
your videos are so informative and I love each one. Sarah, I always love the shirts you wear. I can't wait to see your grand that you grow in your high tunnel
Homestead heart are planting her 6 seeds of that pepper from Peru. She been looking for some more but she hasn't been able to find any.. So save the seeds and spread the love.
Would love to have a high tunnel to garden just like you are. Maybe one day. But for now, I'll keep growing all my food outside in a traditional garden. Even with the drought and high heat last year, my garden yielded soooo much! Thank you for sharing.
Last summer you had issues with the black fabric on the garden getting too hot or dry. I discovered using two layers of cardboard under the fabric keeps the ground temperature more stable and stops the weeds from coming up in unused holes. After a few waterings I can use the hand drill hole maker to cut through the cardboard then plant. The worms love it. We leave the cardboard behind in the fall as mulch. Be sure to remove all tape and staples. We pick up a bale of cardboard from our local furniture store.
Very good advice, great video. Sharing the knowledge and experience will help alot of folks learn and be successful with this help. Thanks for the video, love it.
I’m doing a sprout house as well and going to use Solar to make my electricity. Along with sprout house and doing solar for my chicken coop as well. 200 watt arrays respectively. We are closing in on 5 feet of snow here in Utah and it’s brutal but my hens (21) are still laying avg of 18 to 20 a day which I sell for $5 a dozen to help pay for feed and labor. My little girl is paying tithing on the money we make on eggs and we are blessed too. I sure hope my bees make it as they did an excellent job on my garden as we canned close to 400 quarts. I learn so much from you two beautiful people and plan on using grow pods instead of silo cups. I have a Texas seed bank that I catalog my seeds but I love your grow pods/seed pods. I’ll have heat lamps and grow lights which will tap into my solar array. We’ve needed a lot of moisture for our garden so the snow will be a big help. I’ve already planted 120 garlic last fall that are covered to be harvested in summer so am happy for that raised bed. Once again great content and I only wish I had a high tunnel geothermal greenhouse but maybe in the near future. You two are great servant messengers and bless you always.
I live in Texas and Red Snapper tomatoes way out preformed all my many other varieties. Big perfect round delicious tomatoes. Better Belle peppers r awesome heavy producers of very large peppers.
Good Morning 🌞 I am looking forward to watching how you manage your homestead income at your new property. Thank you for sharing your seed starting information. Take care and God Bless. 🌱🍅🌱🫑🌱🌶️🌱🫑🌱🍅
Like you Sarah, I don't care for raw tomatoes (much to my father's dismay as he LOVED raw tomatoes), but I always grow tomatoes for my husband and family. I always thought I was crazy but it's nice to know I'm not alone. I'd love to see that roasted red pepper alfredo...
If it's a little early to start soft tender transplants, it's not to early to hold seed packets, or tightly capped glass canning jars ( for secure seed storage) and dream of the growth and produce. Coming into February. It's time. To start prepping and planting first round of timed, staggered plantings. Great memories.
I am as excited as both of you for those little seeds to sprout!! Been watching your videos for a few years now, and love both of you! Best of luck with your 2023 garden!
Thing about using plug tray is that you start your seeds in a much smaller area. I use plug trays and put one seed in each plug. When people plant in pots, they often put in two or three seeds to insure they'll have one plant grow in every pot. Then they decide which one to keep once they are growing.
for extra growing space in the high tunnel would be to have the chains as in the sprout house holding tall rain gutters put on an angel as high side on one end and slightly lower on the other end. this would put a drip line at top and slowly go to the other end with water. can put lettuce, radish, light or plants with less roots,,, no slugs, less bugs to reach them.. this will free up some of the tubs. can place them to the side of the curve and above tubs below to not interfer the plants below or hit head on.
Our summers are relatively cool and the season is quite short, so we put all of the heat loving plants in the greenhouse and it turned out wonderfully last year. Will be doing so again this year.
Wow your video makes me want to be in my garden so bad! And we’re suppose to get up to 4” snow again today in south central IA! Ugh ! I was going to mention my nephew a few years ago started smoking his veggies for his salsa! Omg delish! You just pile all your veggies on the grill outside on holie cookie sheets that you get in the law. And garden Wal Mart. A couple dollars each. And roast your veggies on low fire a few hours till there smoked! The flavor to your salsa is so awesome! Then make it into your salsa recipe and can it! Wow. Thought I’d throw it out there Incase anyone is interested in this. Amazing flavor smoked salsa at its best ! Yum O
If you run poles and wires over your outdoor garden, you can have saran shade cloth that you can slide or roll back and forth from up above to shade outdoor garden plants [when solar intensity is a problem]. Cheaper than high tunnels and greenhouses. Where do the big black 5 gallon plastic bins come from? You can soak seeds the night before to leach away starch and sugar that would attract damping-off fungi, in case there are any unseen holes in the seeds. Especially for beets. Humidity domes can be made from quarter-inch or half-inch hardware cloth screen material and covered with saran wrap (spray water at overlap edges to hold it tight).
I saw a video last year somewhere in Europe, where they put solar panels over the crops. They were spread out so as not to block all of the sun. So, they reduced the intensity of the sun on the crops & generated electricity. Obviously, this is much more expensive to set up than shade cloth. But over time, it will pay for itself in electricity.
Somewhere in Africa they have turned desert into food crop land by growing under the solar panel fields. Its amazing results for the hungry parts of the world.
Let the FUN begin! Kevin and Sarah- I learned something that I think is valuable, this year, on starting peppers. I am growing some OLD varieties, and first off, I can see why the farmers may have gravitated to the new varieties. Those shells are hard as a rock! Even when they did germinate, the shells came up with them, and after a few days, I had to pick some of the shells off. That is when the AH-HA hit me. HARD as a ROCK. Now, I see why they soaked the seeds, for a day or so before planting. If you are planting a field, that would time consuming! But, on a garden scale- I think worth giving it a shot. Give it a test and see if you have better, and quicker germination on a couple of your peppers, and let us know how it works, if you do.. ☺☺
Soaking the seeds hastens germination too. Where I live, if I plant a bean that isn't about to sprout (or already sprouting), they are damaged by nematodes and never grow into a plant. But I can have them coming up in a day or two, by soaking and then keeping them in very moist towels until they are safe to put into the ground.
I love your videos I’m 15 years old and you inspired me to start a small homestead with my family I have chickens and I want to learn to garden and grow my own food thank you for your videos they really help me 😊
Wonderful to see you planting tomato and pepper seeds. It will be so exciting to follow you and watch them grow. May the Lord bless your harvest this year. Amen! 🙏
Alas, it's still too early for me in Michigan! The seeds are organized, some soil is purchased: now I wait! Maybe I should start some snapdragons or moss roses to scratch the planting itch!
Exciting times!! That's was fantastic information about the 500 miles south for greenhouse seeds 👍 I had forgotten it was Wednesday. Can you imagine how happy I was to see your video pop up? What a treat!! God bless
I'm with Sarah. I love to grow tomatoes for sauces but hate them fresh. This time of the year is so exciting and frustrating. Spring is close but still cold. We struggle now with wet springs too. I have a raised bed garden. I usually cover beds with plastic to keep them dry. Our row garden was nearly 3 weeks late last year. 🙏 🌻
Fantastic video, I really enjoy watching all the different topics y'all cover on the channel. I'm super excited about starting seeds too! I'd like to see you build a vacuum seeder for the trays. I wanted to buy one but WOW thier pricey.
Good morning to you folks. Getting excited about the growing season this year. Got to find us a great farmers market around here and see what I can come up with. Thanks for sharing with us, stay safe up there. Fred.
I had a shade cloth over my high tunnel greenhouse. I proved to myself the shade cloth works and also my plants inside did so well I am building a second high tunnel cattle panel greenhouse. Yes I love the greenhouse. The heat and dry period we was freak weather, also the frigged cold spells we got early on in October/November was also freak that seldom ever happens this far south. I live about 200+ miles south of you. I was sick that I lost all of my greens, beets Chard etc. I love the California Belle pepper they do very well here. I have found some peppers that I am going to buy and plant. I am going to try my art at fermenting some peppers this year and try to make my own Louisiana Hot Sause that me and my husband love. Good luck with your gardening.
You guys have got me so ready to plant seeds! I'm in zone 5b/6a depending on where you look for the info..lol. but, I have a medium size greenhouse in my basement. I'm in central Illinois. So we aren't that far off from each other as far as starting seeds. I paused this video and got out my garden journal at took notes. You do such a great job at explaining everything. I feel like I was in a nice, easy gardening class with friends! I hope to start seeds this weekend. So excited. Love your videos! God Bless.
Since seeds require dark to germinate (seed pop) and light to sprout after germination, you could leave your grow lights off for a few days or until you see the first sign they have begun to germinate.
I understand the little feeling of sadness leaving a place filled with memories but life is changeable and we develop all the time. What suited us 10 or 20 yrs ago doesn´t always suite us later. I´m gonna start up my chili next week, after that I will sow my tomatoes. They say that El Niño gonna give us a very hot summer this (and maybe even next) year so I´m gonna try to grow 1 plant of every tomato variety outside, also try to grow corn against a southern faced wall. Really looking forward to this growing season and building a new and bigger green house!
Just a suggestion. Instead of growing less in outside garden grow animal feed that will last over winter. Pumpkin and other squash sunflower that have long storage life can cut your feed costs and give you back up in case something happens that cuts off the feed store.
DO TELL about the roasted red pepper Alfredo sauce PLEASE and thank you 😊
I was thinking, oh I bet Sarah will do this recipe in her new kitchen!
Yes... Sarah's cooking show!!!
Sounds interesting. Hopefully Sarah shares the recipe!
Very knowledgeable. Good content.
Ditto!
I love what you do in life and on your homestead, but I enjoy your videos because of you both and your relationship. You’re both such clear, succinct speakers and I love the way you so respectfully take turns but with such synergy. Makes for very easy watching. Thank you
I'm addicted to this channel. Try Kevin's bagels. But the harmony they show us is what I use to attempt to get projects done without drama with my husband. We're married 47 years. My guy can measure 3 times and get 3 different numbers. We inherited all the tools but he is clueless how to use them. I, however, grew up in my Dad's workshop and know what to do, but explaining it to him just brings drama. I'm so frustrated BUT if he watches Kevin and Sarah he gets more mellow and we can get thru a project with less drama. Free therapy for us. I love it.
You stated that just right! I've thought the exact same thing! 👍
Thank for the advice ladies. Mine is a year behind my suggestions as his own ideas 🫣
I agree. There are other channels I watch where some will constantly cut each other off & not let the other finish their thought & I feel so bad for their partner!
Sarah's smile when she gets excited about their garden!!!!
You guys are so great and a total inspiration. When ever you are feeling down , remember, you (both) are someone’s silent mentor. Many blessing to you and yours 💚
Here is the list of tomatoes and peppers they will be growing.
Tomatoes:
Cherry:
- Juliette
- Large Red Cherry
Paste:
-Amish
- Salvaterra Select
- JetStar
Peppers:
- California Wonder
- Craig Grande Jalapeño
- Notapeno
- Lipstick
- Sugar Rush Peach
- Ozarks Giant
- Aji Arnaucho
- Ajvarski Sweet Pepper
I can't wait to see how everything will grow in your greenhouse. 😊
Thank you!!!🥰🌻🐛
Thanks so much
You are my wife’s and my favorite people to watch, in 2006 I was involved with a workplace robbery and was injured with a head injury, we lived in Milwaukie Oregon in town, having a small 8x12 greenhouse, small garden area and blueberries,strawberries, triple crown blackberries, raspberries, Fuji & yellow delicious apples and cherries , God, my wife Terri and gardening is what has got me through this, as I have memory issues, Headaches, and 3 or 4 seizures a month, but I am blessed to have at least 2 hours every day to garden, last year we purchased 2.75 acres next to my Son and his family hear in Ringgold Georgia, and just moved into our home we had built two months ago, major change from Oregon, Thank you for sharing your life with farming and raising plants, you help make my days happy ones, God bless you and your family, ( Did I say that I don’t like snakes and high humidity 😃😃😃) keep on homesteading!
“Starting a garden is hope for the future”
When I saw “tunnel” in the title, my mind went back a few years when you had an arched tunnel growing birdhouse gourds. That was so cool, how the gourds would hang down and grow inside the tunnel. If I had the space, I’d like to try tunnels for climbing veggies like cucumber, zucchini, even tomatoes..like having a walk-thru garden..
I can't help but think that tomatoes grown in that good old Ozarks soil outside are the ones that will taste the very best.
I love watching you guys. You are such a great couple and it’s obvious you are best friends. I love how everything is a joint effort.
Look how her face lights up when she is talking about planting. Maternal instinct never fades.
Hi guys, I missed out for about 4 months because life got a little crazy, but I'm back. Just finished watching all the episodes I missed. Love your new place and love your channel. I don't comment much, but I have been subscribed for a few years. I have learned so much from you. You are a tremendous blessing in my life. God Bless
It may sound odd, but I always thought of shade cloth as sunglasses for your plants 😊
We too have switched to planting the majority of our plants in the high tunnels this year.
The weather has become even more unstable these last years not to mention the critters.
We are in the DFW area of Texas.
Kevin & Sarah TY for such a fun and helpful video. It is so fun to watch you both explain the process and then complete it. I truly see the Christlike love you have for each other. God bless you both abundantly!
Thank you for the greenhouse help! We put up just a 10x20 Dakota from Grower’s Solutions in the fall last year and planted raised beds we added, plus we moved pepper & basil plants into it. I’ve had so much trepidation on how to manage it in our (sometimes extreme) Oklahoma heat. Now I have a starting point to plan from because you did the research and shared. I should add that my dear husband has worked this greenhouse this winter-even keeping most of the plants alive when the temps hit “0” and I had the flu! You guys are so appreciated ❤
The farmers almanac garden planning website includes planting times for inside high tunnels and greenhouses both heated and unheated. It’s $32 a year for the plan I use, and it has a *ton* of helpful features!
I will be investing in the shade cloth for my greenhouse this year. We’re growing corn in the ground this year, everything else will be in raised beds. Thanks for bringing us along!
What kind of raised beds do you use?
I'm in SW Missouri as well. I love how excited Sarah is and the smile on her face. Thank you for the greenhouse planting info! It is so helpful. Our high tunnel was completed last year, but this is our first Spring to use it. Want to grow my tomatoes in the high tunnel this year, so this was perfect timing. Thank you again!
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Blessings and thanks to the terrific Professors from north Idaho.
That was fantastic! 6+ years watching your ( one of my fave) channel, it just keeps getting better and better!🌺🌺🌺
Sarah’s smile is so contagious! I find myself smiling right along with her. And, you are not wrong about seed starting being so exciting. Last year I started all my seeds at my kitchen table. I texted my children to say that I could literally sit and just watch them grow… and since I’m retired, I did! 😊 Best of luck with your garden this year and thanks for the planting tips.
My grandfather used to grow a lot of tomatoes. He has told me a great many things in my life and one of the things he told me is that your tomatoes only split or as you call it crack, if you overwater them you have to get your water levels right.
My husband and I love watching your show. We don't have land or a house but y'all remind my husband of gardening with his grandparents. He's 80 and he will talk to y'all. Y'all are helping lots of people get back to gardening. Thank you
Gardening is a sort of an addiction to me as well. During our long Minnesota winter it’s what keeps me going. Thanks for your videos as we still have 2-3 foot of snow on ground.
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The two of you just make my day😊. You are such a delight, working together. I grew up in VT. and my family had the joy of growing beautiful produce; my husband and I also took extras to flea markets which sold so quickly. We had such wonderful response from the people we met. I miss those years, that’s why I am so anxious to watch you whenever I discover a new video. Love you ❤
I cannot tell you how thankful I am for this video! Thank you for taking the time to explain the process so clearly!❤️🙂
One thing I noticed is that my garden area even though I wish I had a little more sun, my garden has little afternoon sun and when the sun is so intense in the summer, my tomatoes hardly ever crack from the heat because they are shaded in the intense sunlight.
Can’t wait to see the Peruvian peppers. What a blessing to have those seeds
Yay!!! Back in the Spout House again! (We in NW Ohio are now getting the snow that you got last night, wow!) Blessings on your day Kiddos!🥰🌻🐛💕❄
I have been thinking about my garden. So excited for all. Hope you like your new house. Praying sale of other house goes well. Lv an Prayers to all.
Grilled tomatoes with Parmigiano cheese with toast is GREAT!!!!
You guys are getting me itching to start growing. I have all my seeds and seed starting equipment set up and ready to go. But it's Wisconsin, it's cold, and no greenhouse. Oh well, I will force myself to wait for my start dates.
I live about an hour away from Kevin & Sara and had to laugh as they were talking about seed starting. We woke up this morning to about 8 inches of a heavy, wet snow & flickering power thanks to the storm that went through last night. Sure doesn't look like seed starting time to me! 😄
I live in northern Michigan- I’ve gotta wait too. I have a greenhouse but no high tunnel. 😞
I'm in the lower penisula of southcentral Michigan. We are having a huge snow storm so not thinking about starting seeds. Yesterday, yes, no snow anywhere. But not today!
@@denisewilson8367 I’m near Traverse City, I’ll start peppers and tomatoes middle of March, in the greenhouse.
Love that you're continuing to learn lessons and improve processes rather than get frustrated! I need more of that 😊
What a joy to watch both of you. Thank you. Love and hugs.
Sarah, your various smaller peppers are so good pierced and put in a brine in the fridge. They are delicious with everything as a side and you will love them. They take no time to make!
You two are such a pleasure to watch.
Anxious to see how things grow for you, I'm getting excited to get my seeds and ground ready. Nothing tastes better than a home grown tomato 🍅. Would love to see the roasted red pepper Alfredo sauce. 🌶 thank you for sharing. God's blessings to you
I would love if you can actually show how you store your seeds that are saved ❤
We new high tunnel growers need to stick together, especially on the hard to find info. Thanks! Hey, I’m guessing you’re going to be talking about soil amendments and fertilizing soon, looking forward to that. PS. I love that you’re doing this together as a couple
How cozy, your new and most likely final Homestead. That must feel great! 🌼
It does!
So excited about this!!! Have had the same exact issues for planting times in my greenhouse. Not too far from y’all, so this is perfect timing!! Thanks for everything you both do and God Bless! Now I go plant💕
Guess what I'm getting? One of those heaters for my green house!! Raised beds drain so fast and you can put low tunnels over them. Build high tunnels with cattle panels and cover them with the shade cloth. Don't need any plastic after the spring rains are done. With starting some tomatoes and peppers now for the green house they'll be ready for harvesting before the ones out in the garden. That way it's easier with canning - half at a time. Plus you can start a third round for the green house for fall time. Watching you 2 today has me so jazzed!!! God willing I'll have pepper seeds started within 2 weeks and then tomatoes 3 weeks later. And so on and so on. I'm so ready for spring and summer. Thanks for sharing. God bless and protect.
Thanks for another informative video guys! Long time viewer here and even though I don’t comment much I just wanted to pop in today to let you know how much I appreciate your great content. Happy 2023 Growing Season!
Insomniac here, only problem is, you don't make me sleepy. Love watching you grow. Good bless
Shade cloth is a life saver in Southern AZ. I just bought a 20 ft. X 48 ft. 40% Shade cloth tarp. Also have 8 tomato plants that I have over wintered. Should be a good year before the desert sun burns everything up.
Yay! Another growing season started. My snow peas go in the boxes this weekend . But we are in CA.
It's nice to see you two so happy and excited about everything 💚
This will be our first year using a high tunnel, and I just wanted to say I'm super grateful for Kevin's tip. Will definitely be taking that home to my husband, so he has a good idea of when we need to get that installed in our lower garden. Annnddd... We have planned to get a shade cloth, so it was great to hear Sarah talk about that, because we suffered last year with that intense sun on our plants that were in the open. Thankfully I have a huge old maple that shades the most of my upper garden bed and those plants actually thrived through that bad heat we had. I'm so excited for this year's growing season, just can't wait to get going on it!!
I work in a high tunnel. Be prepared to use a lot of water. It dries out very easily.
Thanks so much, gets me excited for spring hearing you both talk plants and see you start your garden planning!
Becky@ Acre Homestead grew the peach peppers last year and made salsa with them…she said it was delicious.
Love Becky ❤
This is a exciting time of year! Always love seed starting time!
I love you two you are so genuine hope you have every success.
Thank you guys for the information today because I’m going to start my seeding in my greenhouse this year. You are truly the 1st ones to address greenhouse seed growing in February. We are in the southwest and most of u amazing growers are NORTH 😂. We appreciate U both and pray this year is a beautiful fruitful year🙌🏻
your videos are so informative and I love each one. Sarah, I always love the shirts you wear. I can't wait to see your grand that you grow in your high tunnel
Homestead heart are planting her 6 seeds of that pepper from Peru. She been looking for some more but she hasn't been able to find any.. So save the seeds and spread the love.
Hi guys, good video. Love the sprout house. MayGod bless your seedlings🙏😊❤️
Would love to have a high tunnel to garden just like you are. Maybe one day. But for now, I'll keep growing all my food outside in a traditional garden. Even with the drought and high heat last year, my garden yielded soooo much! Thank you for sharing.
Excited to see more freeze dried items and hopefully recipes in the new kitchen
I’m like y’all, I can’t wait to see them sprout, much love to all ❤
Last summer you had issues with the black fabric on the garden getting too hot or dry. I discovered using two layers of cardboard under the fabric keeps the ground temperature more stable and stops the weeds from coming up in unused holes. After a few waterings I can use the hand drill hole maker to cut through the cardboard then plant. The worms love it. We leave the cardboard behind in the fall as mulch. Be sure to remove all tape and staples. We pick up a bale of cardboard from our local furniture store.
Very good advice, great video. Sharing the knowledge and experience will help alot of folks learn and be successful with this help. Thanks for the video, love it.
I’m doing a sprout house as well and going to use Solar to make my electricity. Along with sprout house and doing solar for my chicken coop as well. 200 watt arrays respectively. We are closing in on 5 feet of snow here in Utah and it’s brutal but my hens (21) are still laying avg of 18 to 20 a day which I sell for $5 a dozen to help pay for feed and labor. My little girl is paying tithing on the money we make on eggs and we are blessed too. I sure hope my bees make it as they did an excellent job on my garden as we canned close to 400 quarts. I learn so much from you two beautiful people and plan on using grow pods instead of silo cups. I have a Texas seed bank that I catalog my seeds but I love your grow pods/seed pods. I’ll have heat lamps and grow lights which will tap into my solar array. We’ve needed a lot of moisture for our garden so the snow will be a big help. I’ve already planted 120 garlic last fall that are covered to be harvested in summer so am happy for that raised bed. Once again great content and I only wish I had a high tunnel geothermal greenhouse but maybe in the near future. You two are great servant messengers and bless you always.
I live in Texas and Red Snapper tomatoes way out preformed all my many other varieties. Big perfect round delicious tomatoes. Better Belle peppers r awesome heavy producers of very large peppers.
Beautiful, sunny day! Makes me anxious for Spring. Winter snow warnings here in Northern Indiana today
Thanks for the update ! I will be growing again this year , I had a bumper crop last year !
I dream of such a building as your sprout house. Thank you for such an informative video.
I love gardening and harvesting what we grow.
Good Morning 🌞 I am looking forward to watching how you manage your homestead income at your new property. Thank you for sharing your seed starting information. Take care and God Bless. 🌱🍅🌱🫑🌱🌶️🌱🫑🌱🍅
for all those who asked - the name of the peruvian pepper is aji arnaucho
Like you Sarah, I don't care for raw tomatoes (much to my father's dismay as he LOVED raw tomatoes), but I always grow tomatoes for my husband and family. I always thought I was crazy but it's nice to know I'm not alone.
I'd love to see that roasted red pepper alfredo...
Me too, please!
Ditto!
It's exciting planning and starting the garden each year. Sarah, would you do a video showing us how you make your red pepper alfredo?? Thank you
If it's a little early to start soft tender transplants, it's not to early to hold seed packets, or tightly capped glass canning jars ( for secure seed storage) and dream of the growth and produce. Coming into February. It's time. To start prepping and planting first round of timed, staggered plantings. Great memories.
I am as excited as both of you for those little seeds to sprout!! Been watching your videos for a few years now, and love both of you! Best of luck with your 2023 garden!
Thing about using plug tray is that you start your seeds in a much smaller area. I use plug trays and put one seed in each plug.
When people plant in pots, they often put in two or three seeds to insure they'll have one plant grow in every pot. Then they decide which one to keep once they are growing.
😃😄😁🌻🌺🌾love all your videos. Sarah is so happy to be planting!!
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for extra growing space in the high tunnel would be to have the chains as in the sprout house holding tall rain gutters put on an angel as high side on one end and slightly lower on the other end. this would put a drip line at top and slowly go to the other end with water. can put lettuce, radish, light or plants with less roots,,, no slugs, less bugs to reach them.. this will free up some of the tubs. can place them to the side of the curve and above tubs below to not interfer the plants below or hit head on.
I want to start seeds so much. I have a small in ground garden....and no greenhouse. And so I wait.
Our summers are relatively cool and the season is quite short, so we put all of the heat loving plants in the greenhouse and it turned out wonderfully last year. Will be doing so again this year.
Wow your video makes me want to be in my garden so bad! And we’re suppose to get up to 4” snow again today in south central IA! Ugh !
I was going to mention my nephew a few years ago started smoking his veggies for his salsa! Omg delish! You just pile all your veggies on the grill outside on holie cookie sheets that you get in the law. And garden Wal Mart. A couple dollars each. And roast your veggies on low fire a few hours till there smoked! The flavor to your salsa is so awesome! Then make it into your salsa recipe and can it! Wow. Thought I’d throw it out there Incase anyone is interested in this. Amazing flavor smoked salsa at its best ! Yum O
If you run poles and wires over your outdoor garden, you can have saran shade cloth that you can slide or roll back and forth from up above to shade outdoor garden plants [when solar intensity is a problem]. Cheaper than high tunnels and greenhouses. Where do the big black 5 gallon plastic bins come from? You can soak seeds the night before to leach away starch and sugar that would attract damping-off fungi, in case there are any unseen holes in the seeds. Especially for beets. Humidity domes can be made from quarter-inch or half-inch hardware cloth screen material and covered with saran wrap (spray water at overlap edges to hold it tight).
I saw a video last year somewhere in Europe, where they put solar panels over the crops. They were spread out so as not to block all of the sun. So, they reduced the intensity of the sun on the crops & generated electricity. Obviously, this is much more expensive to set up than shade cloth. But over time, it will pay for itself in electricity.
Somewhere in Africa they have turned desert into food crop land by growing under the solar panel fields. Its amazing results for the hungry parts of the world.
Let the FUN begin! Kevin and Sarah- I learned something that I think is valuable, this year, on starting peppers. I am growing some OLD varieties, and first off, I can see why the farmers may have gravitated to the new varieties. Those shells are hard as a rock! Even when they did germinate, the shells came up with them, and after a few days, I had to pick some of the shells off. That is when the AH-HA hit me. HARD as a ROCK. Now, I see why they soaked the seeds, for a day or so before planting. If you are planting a field, that would time consuming! But, on a garden scale- I think worth giving it a shot. Give it a test and see if you have better, and quicker germination on a couple of your peppers, and let us know how it works, if you do.. ☺☺
Soaking the seeds hastens germination too.
Where I live, if I plant a bean that isn't about to sprout (or already sprouting), they are damaged by nematodes and never grow into a plant. But I can have them coming up in a day or two, by soaking and then keeping them in very moist towels until they are safe to put into the ground.
I've read that saliva helps with the seeds that come up with the cotyledons
I gotta tell you I'm really excited for your garden and I cannot wait to see how the greenhouse goes!😍💖 ...... tomatoes....😋
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I love your videos I’m 15 years old and you inspired me to start a small homestead with my family I have chickens and I want to learn to garden and grow my own food thank you for your videos they really help me 😊
Those peach peppers are really going to blow you away. They make a terrific hot sauce for things like a pork roast or pork chop sauce.
Wonderful to see you planting tomato and pepper seeds. It will be so exciting to follow you and watch them grow. May the Lord bless your harvest this year. Amen! 🙏
Cool video from future homesteader on TH-cam 👍🏼❤️
This is so exciting!!!! Enjoyed watching the whole process!!!!
THANK YOU!! I'm needing to hear this information. God's blessing over you and your family
Alas, it's still too early for me in Michigan! The seeds are organized, some soil is purchased: now I wait! Maybe I should start some snapdragons or moss roses to scratch the planting itch!
Exciting times!! That's was fantastic information about the 500 miles south for greenhouse seeds 👍
I had forgotten it was Wednesday. Can you imagine how happy I was to see your video pop up? What a treat!!
God bless
I'm with Sarah. I love to grow tomatoes for sauces but hate them fresh. This time of the year is so exciting and frustrating. Spring is close but still cold. We struggle now with wet springs too. I have a raised bed garden. I usually cover beds with plastic to keep them dry. Our row garden was nearly 3 weeks late last year. 🙏 🌻
Fantastic video, I really enjoy watching all the different topics y'all cover on the channel. I'm super excited about starting seeds too! I'd like to see you build a vacuum seeder for the trays. I wanted to buy one but WOW thier pricey.
Much less evaporation, and nutrient dense soil is really my goals for this year as well. I also will try to shade my raised beds.
Good morning to you folks. Getting excited about the growing season this year. Got to find us a great farmers market around here and see what I can come up with. Thanks for sharing with us, stay safe up there. Fred.
I had a shade cloth over my high tunnel greenhouse. I proved to myself the shade cloth works and also my plants inside did so well I am building a second high tunnel cattle panel greenhouse. Yes I love the greenhouse. The heat and dry period we was freak weather, also the frigged cold spells we got early on in October/November was also freak that seldom ever happens this far south. I live about 200+ miles south of you. I was sick that I lost all of my greens, beets Chard etc. I love the California Belle pepper they do very well here. I have found some peppers that I am going to buy and plant. I am going to try my art at fermenting some peppers this year and try to make my own Louisiana Hot Sause that me and my husband love. Good luck with your gardening.
You guys have got me so ready to plant seeds! I'm in zone 5b/6a depending on where you look for the info..lol. but, I have a medium size greenhouse in my basement. I'm in central Illinois. So we aren't that far off from each other as far as starting seeds. I paused this video and got out my garden journal at took notes. You do such a great job at explaining everything. I feel like I was in a nice, easy gardening class with friends! I hope to start seeds this weekend. So excited. Love your videos! God Bless.
Since seeds require dark to germinate (seed pop) and light to sprout after germination, you could leave your grow lights off for a few days or until you see the first sign they have begun to germinate.
I understand the little feeling of sadness leaving a place filled with memories but life is changeable and we develop all the time. What suited us 10 or 20 yrs ago doesn´t always suite us later.
I´m gonna start up my chili next week, after that I will sow my tomatoes. They say that El Niño gonna give us a very hot summer this (and maybe even next) year so I´m gonna try to grow 1 plant of every tomato variety outside, also try to grow corn against a southern faced wall. Really looking forward to this growing season and building a new and bigger green house!
Just a suggestion. Instead of growing less in outside garden grow animal feed that will last over winter. Pumpkin and other squash sunflower that have long storage life can cut your feed costs and give you back up in case something happens that cuts off the feed store.
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Thank you for all your help and hard work and teaching us what you have learned.