VIDEO: Tropical Storm Cindy and Our Garden
The remnants of tropical storm Cindy came through bringing some pretty heavy rains and high winds. The corn and sunflowers didn’t have fun…
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VIDEO: Canning Tomato Sauce
We are canning tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, and tomato juice.
VIDEO: Propagating Our Strawberry Plants
We are capturing the daughter plants from our existing strawberry bed to use to plant another strawberry bed.
VIDEO: Moving Day for the Baby Quail
The baby quail are about five weeks old so we are moving them to their outdoor coop! We are also starting a new batch of eggs in the incubator.
VIDEO: Introducing a New Chicken to Our Flock
We got a new chick the Thursday before Easter. This video shows how we have attempted to introduce her to the rest of the girls.
VIDEO: Chicken Dirt On the Beach
A smattering of garden updates. Garden haul, impatiens, sunflowers, chicken dirt, and lettuce seed.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.
VIDEO: Garden and Flower Update
Quick update on our tomatoes we planted in the red cups, our seeds started in the flats, and our daffodil bed.
VIDEO: Groceries for the Week March 4, 2017
Quick video about what groceries I got at the store this week and how much I paid for them.