VIDEO: Chicken Dirt On the Beach
A smattering of garden updates. Garden haul, impatiens, sunflowers, chicken dirt, and lettuce seed.
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: Have I Mentioned We Really Like Green Beans
This video shows today’s harvest of Roma tomatoes and green beans. We picked some Marconi peppers, but just enough to cook with today. I am going to a conference in Biloxi and won’t be back until late Friday. I don’t have a smart phone so I won’t be able to answer comments or comment until…
VIDEO: Groceries for the Month of May
This video shows all our grocery purchases for the month of May. Our goal for the year was to spend an average of $100.00 per month. This month we spent $31.35. We have spent $542.86 this year bringing our average per month to $108.57. Another good month and we’ll have our average where we want…
VIDEO: June 1 Garden Update
Everything seems to be doing pretty well!! This is our monthly garden update.
VIDEO: Coleus and Mini Tour of the Front Yard
Update on the coleus we grew from seed we saved from last year and a tour of the front yard flower and garden bed.
VIDEO: Cucumber and Squash Update
We are starting to see cucumbers and squash on our plants!!
VIDEO: Impatien Update Weeks 2 and 3
This is an update on how our impatiens that we planted in the pond filters are progressing.
VIDEO: Peppers, Sunflowers, and Lolla Rossa Lettuce Update
Just an update on our Marconi Red peppers and our sunflowers
VIDEO: Digging White Kennebec Potatoes
In this video we dig the last of our potatoes, plant okra, and plant sweet potatoes. We also show our garden haul for the day!!
VIDEO: Quail Hatch Out
This video shows our quail eggs in the incubator, the quail on the first day after hatching, and the quail at one week old.
VIDEO: First Green Bean Harvest of the Season and Harvesting Red LaSoda Potatoes
This is our first green bean harvest of the year! We also harvest our Red La Soda potatoes, some carrots, and some Lacinato Kale.
VIDEO: Harvesting Garlic
We are harvesting our garlic in this video. We noticed that it was looking like time to harvest the garlic, but it is a lot earlier in the year than usual. We might have waited a tad too long…
VIDEO: Making and Applying Worm Tea for the Garden
Making a batch of worm tea to spray on the garden. It is good plant food, and we read it might help with the aphid problem as well. This was the earliest batch we made. We’ve made two more batches since this one. I believe that it has helped with the aphids. Either it helped…
VIDEO: Ladybug Larvae Nature's Response to an Aphid Infestation
Ladybug larvae are everywhere!!
VIDEO: May 1 Garden Update
First of May garden update! Shout out to Nina Stephens at Southern Ark Homestead!! https://youtu.be/dhcEpD5hfME
VIDEO: Grocery Shopping for the Month of April 2017
All of our weekly grocery shopping trips for the month of April!
VIDEO: How We Grow Impatiens in Our Pond Filter
We grow impatiens in our pond filter to improve the water quality. The impatiens help remove the nitrates from the pond water completing the nitrogen cycle. We also grow impatiens in pots and in beds but they never grow as well as they do in the filter. They grow insanely large and beautiful in the…
VIDEO: Unpleasant News
This video describes an unpleasant event that happened in our backyard last week.
VIDEO: Snake in the Garden
Just showing a snake that visits our garden. Let me know if you know what kind it is, please. Thanks!!
VIDEO: Easter Sunday Dinner and Dessert
Showing what we cooked for Easter dinner and what we made with some of our strawberries for dessert!
VIDEO: Carousel Package
We received the carousel package from Kent and Sheri at Blessed Farm! We removed and replaced some items and are sending it on to Whimsical WonderFarm. Check out the opening video for this carousel package at Blessed Farm. I’ll link the video below! Thanks!! -Lea Blessed Farm https://youtu.be/YjZiJY0uPLo Whimsical WonderFarm https://youtu.be/tGco1i9I4Sw
VIDEO: Morning Sounds from the Backyard
Morning sounds from the backyard! Quail yeah!!
VIDEO: Tomato Update Roma and Better Boy April 14, 2017
This is an update on our Roma and Better Boy tomatoes.
VIDEO: Strawberry Update and Harvest 4 9 17
This is an update on how our strawberry bed is doing after the heavy mulching we gave it this winter. We harvest and weigh in our strawberries for the day!!
VIDEO: Making Salad from Our Backyard Garden
In this video I am picking vegetables from the garden to make a salad. I pick enough to make a large enough salad to carry to work all week for lunch. Free lunch (practically)!! Woo Hoo!!
VIDEO: Transplanting Tomatoes Into the Garden
We are transplanting the tomatoes we have growing in the red solo cups into the garden. We create a mixture of peat moss, blood meal, bone meal, Epsom salt, worm castings, and Azomite to put around the tomatoes when we plant them. We water them in with fish water and fertilize around them with chicken…
VIDEO: Garden Update After the Two Night Freeze 3 20 17
We prepare the garden for a two night freeze then reveal the damage after it’s over. Everything survived pretty well!! The frost blankets were a good investment.
VIDEO: Tag 30 Random Facts
I was tagged by Zule from Little Bean’s Garden and Calvin from Calvin’sCorner72. In this tag you are supposed to tell 30 random facts about yourself. This was surprisingly hard to do!! In this tag you are also supposed to tag 5 other people to do the 30 random facts. Little Bean’s Garden: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz94c0hz2uBdIPbxW_Zr1MQ Calvin’s…
VIDEO: Garden Update, Hungry Squirrel, and Groceries for the Week
Quick update on what’s growing in the garden, what we have planted from seed ready to be planted in the garden, the critter that has been eating our garden, and our grocery shopping for the week.
VIDEO: Transplanted Seedlings in the Garden
We transplanted broccoli, cauliflower, chard, tatsoi, and kale into the garden from our flats we started from seed.