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Category: Backyard Homestead
Description:
We are keeping a video record of what we plant in our garden, where we plant it, and how much we harvest each year. We also raise chickens, quail, and fish. We are trying to become as self-sufficient as possible in our limited space. We live in a neighborhood. Our garden, fish, quail, and chicken space is about 3,000 square feet total. We wanted to lower our monthly grocery bill and to know where our food is coming from. We want to be able to rely on our own healthy, fresh, homegrown produce and less on processed and packaged food from stores.
VIDEO: Carrot Harvest April 2019
We harvested and canned all of our Danvers Half Long carrots.
VIDEO: Late April Garden Update
We have been able to get out in the garden and do a lot of weeding and cleaning up. It’s starting to look more like a nice summer garden!
VIDEO: Mow Day 4 20 19
I help my brother mow yards on the weekends. We mow everything with push mowers. I thought it was interesting how many miles we walk in a day of push mowing so I thought I’d share! Thanks!!
VIDEO: Garden and Yard Update Before a Spring Clean Up
This is an update of our garden before we started cleaning it up for spring. We were letting a lot of things flower and go to seed to attract pollinators. This video is also an update of our ornamental plants in the front yard and our fruit trees in the back.
VIDEO: A Long To Do List and It Begins With Quail!
Spring is finally here and we have a long chore list that keeps getting longer! The weather is finally beautiful and we are able to get some things done around the place. Today we need to do a long overdue quail harvest and get the incubator going.
VIDEO: Harvesting Asparagus
Our asparagus is growing really well this year! This is an asparagus harvest video as well as a short garden update. We had some severe weather in the area this week and I included some video sharing what our tornado sirens sound like at the end of this video.
VIDEO: February Garden Update
This is an overview of everything we have growing in the garden right now. We also show some blooming plants from other areas of the yard.
VIDEO: Starting Seeds
Today we are getting some seeds started for our garden. We are starting flats of Stowell’s Evergreen Corn, Celery, Broccoli, Cabbage, and Pak Choy.
VIDEO: Planting Candy Onions and Potatoes
It was beautiful and warm this weekend so we were able to get out into the garden. We planted our Candy onions and some Red Lasoda potatoes.
VIDEO: Guess What was Living Under Our Shed!
We have been noticing interesting prints in the mud around the garden and shed. We set a live trap to see what we could catch!
VIDEO: 2018 Garden Roundup Challenge
We have been tagged by Butterfliez Home & Garden for the 2018 Garden Roundup Challenge! https://youtu.be/RRMYklwy3b4 Questions: 1. What was your best crop of 2018? 2. What was your worst crop of 2018? 3. What was your biggest challenge of 2018? 4. What things will you do differently in 2019? 5. What are your plans…
VIDEO: Soggy Garden Update January 3 2019
It is a wet soggy mess here, lol!! This is the second wettest year on record. Daily chores are a lot more difficult when slogging through mud. Our lettuce is starting to look good and some of our direct sow greens are starting to sprout. Our seedlings we have started in flats are starting to…
VIDEO: December Garden Update 2018
Not a lot going on in the garden. It has rained almost constantly for the past three weeks. Maybe a dry day here and there but almost no sun. We’re getting seeds started to replant some fall and winter crops.
VIDEO: Shiitake Surprise!
We found Shiitake growing on our logs we inoculated about three years ago! Pretty cool surprise!
VIDEO: Garden Harvest November 4th 2018
Early November garden harvest! We are still getting green beans from our climbing Rattlesnakes and our Contender bush beans. We are still getting some nice harvests from our pepper plants. Not a bad day in the garden!!
VIDEO: Planting Our Fall Garden!
We’ve started planting our fall crops. We planted Danver’s Half Long carrots, Georgia collards, Siberian kale, Lolla Rossa lettuce, Red Romaine lettuce, Tendergreen Mustards, Black Seeded Simpson lettuce, and Bloomsdale Longstanding spinach.
VIDEO: Watermelon Time!
The huge watermelon that we have been watching for a while is finally ripe!
VIDEO: Garden Maintenance
Some people have commented on how relatively weed free our garden is. We go into a brief description of how we keep the weeds down in the garden in this video.
VIDEO: Garden Harvest September 16 2018
We had a really nice harvest of peppers, okra, butter beans, and green beans today!
VIDEO: Garden Harvest September 1 2018
Garden Harvest! Our green beans and okra are making like crazy!
VIDEO: Garden Harvest and Update August 26th
Today we harvested okra, butter beans, green beans, and peppers. We have a lot of new items planted in the garden we wanted to share as well.
VIDEO: Garden Harvest and Update August 12
We harvest our second planting of sweet corn this summer. We grew Stowell’s Evergreen for our first planting and then planted some Silver Queen. We just harvested our Silver Queen in this video. We also harvested some peppers and butter beans.
VIDEO: Garden Harvest July 31st 2018
It is time to harvest and replant several of our crops. We harvested and pulled the Brussels Sprouts one of the rows of roma tomatoes. We harvested several other items in the garden.
VIDEO: Harvesting Red LaSoda Potatoes
We harvested our Red LaSoda potatoes. Our potato bed was 4′ wide and 30’long, so a total of 120 sq. ft. We harvested a total of 64.26 pounds of potatoes from this potato bed. I also included footage at the end of the video of a disappointing Kennebec potato harvest.
VIDEO: Garden Harvest July 16 2018
We picked tomatoes, Purple Hull Peas, Butter Beans, okra, eggplant, cucumbers, and peppers. Pretty nice harvest day for us!
VIDEO: July Garden Update 2018
An update about our garden for July. We have Purple Hull Peas about ready to pick. Our butterbeans are about ready too.
VIDEO: Candy Onion Weigh In
Our onions are dry and we are cutting off the roots and dead foliage for a final weigh in.
VIDEO: Garden Harvest June 30 2018
Garden harvest time! We picked Brandywine, Black Vernissage, Better Boy, and Roma tomatoes.
VIDEO: Harvesting Stowell's Evergreen Sweet Corn
We harvested our Stowell’s Evergreen corn today! We started some Silver Queen sweet corn in flats about three weeks ago. Immediately after harvesting the Stowell’s Evergreen corn today we cut down the stalks and transplanted our Silver Queen where the Stowell’s had been.