VIDEO: Asparagus Bed
Our asparagus bed has finally decided to kick in and make asparagus for us!
Tag: growing your own food
VIDEO: Garden Update and Adding Black Kow and Blood Meal to our Greens
Garden update from back in mid-March. We are fertilizing our greens with Black Kow and Blood Meal and then mulching with hay.
VIDEO: Planting White Kennebec Potatoes
We are planting some White Kennebec Potatoes. We have one area in our garden that is dry enough to plant. We will plant more as the garden dries out.
VIDEO: February Garden Update
Just a quick update about what we have growing in our garden in late February!
VIDEO: This Has Been a Very Rainy February!
This is a very quick update on what is going on here. It has rained every day for about the last two weeks and is supposed to rain every day for the next two weeks too. We are doing as much in the garden as we can, but it is just a wet boggy mess!
VIDEO: Planting Candy Onions
We are prepping a bed and planting Candy onions. The soil amendments we used are Blood Meal, Bone Meal, and Black Kow composted cow manure.
VIDEO: Plans for More Vegetable Growing Space
We are still trying to find ways to expand the available growing space in our backyard.
VIDEO: Seedlings Started for Early Spring
We are starting our seedlings for the early spring garden!
VIDEO: Our Chicken Coop and Setup
We’ve had a couple of question from people about the size of our coop, how it was built, and other chicken questions. We are addressing some of these questions in this video.
VIDEO: 1,300 lbs of Produce From Our 3,000 Square Foot Backyard Homestead
We produced 1,300 lbs. of edible produce from our 3,000 feet of usable backyard space.
VIDEO: It's Been a Cold Week in Mississippi!
Our aquaponics system in our filters for our catfish pond has frozen over completely! We have had an extremely long cold snap for our area. Yesterday was the first day in about 7 days that the temperature got above freezing!
VIDEO: December Garden Update
This is an update for the month of December and end of the year!
VIDEO: November Garden Update
We set out a lot of the plants we have started from seed. This video shows the new plantings and updates the existing plantings in the garden.
VIDEO: Harvesting the Last of the Jalapenos
The last few nights of below freezing temperatures have taken their toll on the Jalapeno’s. We are harvesting them and doing a final weigh in.
VIDEO: Weekend Garden, Quail, & Firewood
We had a pretty productive weekend! We harvested quail, cut firewood, and picked the beans in the garden.
VIDEO: October Garden Update
Garden update for October. We have been adding a lot of fall vegetables to the garden. We need a little help identifying a mystery plant. Thanks!!
VIDEO: Harvesting Blue Lake Climbing Green Beans
October 15, 2017 – Harvesting some Blue Lake climbing green beans and other produce from the garden!
VIDEO: Groceries for the Months of August and September
Grocery update for the months of August and September. We are on target to meet our goal of spending less than $100.00 per month this year on groceries!
VIDEO: End of September Garden Harvest
We harvested the first of our new Top Pick Purple Hull Peas along with a lot of other things from the garden. We also dug our sweet potatoes. We show our garden produce weigh in update!!
VIDEO: Root Knot Nematodes
The foliage on our peas was looking yellow and curled and the plants weren’t growing very quickly. I consulted a friend and he gave us some insight.
VIDEO: Garden Harvest and Lunch
We picked cucumbers, green beans, tomatoes, and peas.
VIDEO: Pulling Green Beans and Planting Peas
The green beans have slowed down so much that we decided it is time to pull them and plant some more purple hull peas.
VIDEO: Creating a New Strawberry Bed
We are creating a new strawberry bed with the daughter plants we caught off the plants in our original strawberry bed.
VIDEO: How We Water Our Garden with Water from Our Fish Pond
We show how we attach a hose to the pump in the pond to water our garden with our good nutrient rich fish water.
VIDEO: Planting Purple Hull Peas
We are planting purple hull peas where we pulled the last two rows of corn. We also plant climbing green beans where the other Roma tomatoes were.
VIDEO: Pulling the Roma Tomatoes and Replanting
The Roma tomatoes have really slowed down in production, so we decided to pull them. We harvested all the tomatoes from the plants, pulled the vines, and replanted where they were with butter beans.
VIDEO: Timelapse of Aquaponics Impatiens
A week to week look at how our impatiens grew over time in the pond filters.
VIDEO: Fertilizing our Peppers with Worm Tea and Chicken Dirt
We are fertilizing our peppers with worm casting tea and chicken dirt. We then mulched the pepper bed with hay.