VIDEO: Garden Harvest September 1, 2019
Our peppers have really started to produce well! We are harvesting a lot of okra and peppers lately. Our hot steamy weather is really good for okra and pepper production!
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VIDEO: Garden Update and Harvest August 22, 2019
Today we harvested our first batch of Silver Queen sweet corn. We have pulled some of the Roma tomatoes and planted more bush green beans. We have some fall plants started in flats. Garden is still producing fairly well!!
VIDEO: Easy and Delicious Fermented Sweet Pickle Recipe
This sweet pickle recipe was Alan’s Mother’s recipe. These are some of the best sweet pickles I have ever eaten! Sweet Pickle Superb 16 lbs. cucumbers 1 box pickling spices 1/2 box alum (2 1/4 oz. per box) 10 lb. sugar 1 cup salt to each half gallon of water – strong enough to float…
VIDEO: Do We Have Weeds in Our No Till Garden?
This is an update of the peas we planted about two weeks ago. We had a lot of questions about weeds and weed seeds in our garden. We mulch using hay and grass clippings as well as other materials and don’t have problems with weeds. We constantly add mulch and we haven’t tilled since 2012.
VIDEO: Planting Mid Summer Crops in Our No Till Garden
Our squash quit producing almost entirely and our green beans have slowed down dramatically. It’s time to pull out old crops and plant some new ones! We planted more pink eye purple hull peas, some bush butter beans, and some more bush green beans.
VIDEO: Garden Harvest July 8, 2019
Just a description of what we harvested in the garden today!
VIDEO: Garden Harvest July 3, 2019
This harvest video shows a week’s worth of green beans and cucumbers. The last of the Candy Onions we harvested from the raised bed have dried and are ready for a weigh in. The rest of the harvest table is from July 3rd. The peppers are starting to show out!
VIDEO: Final Candy Onion Harvest June 19, 2019
We harvested the last bed of Candy onions we had planted. These are the onions that were in the raised bed.
VIDEO: Garden Harvest June 18, 2019
We harvested our Stowell’s Evergreen sweet corn today!
VIDEO: Garden Harvest June 13, 2019
We harvested more candy onions, squash, and our peaches! We planted some watermelon in the area where we just pulled the onions.
VIDEO: Homestead Harvest Quail, Eggs, and Garden
Today we are showing some of our early spring harvests getting ready and making space for our summer garden crops. We harvested the last of our Red Russian Kale and weighed in our first harvest of Candy Onions. Our garlic dried enough to do a weigh-in. We are also starting to harvest our blackberries and…
VIDEO: Garlic Harvest May 2019
This is our garlic harvest for 2019. We left the garlic in the ground until all the foliage was dead this year instead of digging it as soon as the foliage started to bend over. We had a pretty nice garlic harvest!
VIDEO: Yellow Straightneck Squash Harvest May 25, 2019
We harvested our squash for the first time this year! It’s easy to forget from year to year just how good fresh squash is! We also found and killed a squash vine borer.
VIDEO: Harvesting Red LaSoda Potatoes May 19, 2019
We didn’t intend to plant potatoes this year but we found a box of seed potatoes we had saved from last year’s harvest. Instead of throwing them away we just scattered these seed potatoes on the ground and covered them with hay. This is the resulting harvest.
VIDEO: Garden Update May 19, 2019
Our garden is finally starting to kick in and show some growth. Everything is starting out a little slowly because it has been such a rainy wet spring. This is an overview of how everything is growing!
VIDEO: We've Got WORMS!
The no till deep mulch method attracts millions of earthworms and eliminates the need for synthetic fertilizers. It’s great for soil building and soil aeration too!
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: 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.