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.
Tag: home grown
VIDEO: Snow Storm and Prepping the Garden for Spring
We had a little snow storm and a long period of freezing weather. Our garden is pretty much gone. We cleaned up all the dead vegetation and started prepping the garden for spring!
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: Fall Planting in Our Aquaponics System
It has grown too cold for the impatiens in our pond filters. We are replacing the impatiens with some fall garden plants. We’ll see how they do!
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: 6 Proven Strategies for Year-round Harvests
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. While there’s never any shortage of delicious fruits and vegetables to harvest during the main growing season, those quieter times of the year can prove a little more challenging. There are a number of tricks and techniques that help to extend the growing season beyond what you’d…
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: Weird or Wonderful? Growing Food In Unusual Places!
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. When it comes to finding space to grow your own fruits and vegetables it pays to look beyond the obvious. There are many quirky places to raise your homegrown produce – and more than a few will raise an eyebrow or two! In this short video we’ll…
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: Groceries for the Month of July
This video shows our grocery shopping trips for the month of July. Our goal is to spend an average of $100.00 per month for the year for groceries. This month brings our grocery spending for the year to $717.82. This brings us to an average of $102.55 per month. We have five more months to…
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: How to Grow Your Own Peanuts! – Complete Growing Guide
Have you ever wanted to grow your own peanuts? In this episode we will show you just how easy it is to grow them. We will cover everything from fertilizing, to soil type, to sunlight needs, watering, and harvesting. Enjoy and try this amazing plant for yourself! Send mail to: PO box 131 Marysville, MI…
VIDEO: Timelapse of Aquaponics Impatiens
A week to week look at how our impatiens grew over time in the pond filters.
VIDEO: Groceries for the Month of June
Groceries for the month of June. We spent $62.03 for food for the month of June. We have spent $604.89 for the year. This brings us to an average of $100.82 per month for food. Our goal for the year is $100.00 per month on average!!
VIDEO: Garden to Table Meals for Tuesday through Friday and Garden Harvests
About a week’s worth of garden to table meals and garden harvests. I tried to remember to video everything we picked and what we cooked each day. We only eat a midday meal. We don’t eat breakfast or supper.
VIDEO: Canning Tomato Sauce
We are canning tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, and tomato juice.
VIDEO: Feeding the Catfish in Our Backyard Pond
Feeding our catfish during the day. They are usually night time feeders, but we wanted to try to catch them eating on video. I misspoke in the video and said they will be two years old in October, that is incorrect. They will be a year and a half old in October. Some of them…
VIDEO: Propagating Our Strawberry Plants
We are capturing the daughter plants from our existing strawberry bed to use to plant another strawberry bed.