VIDEO: Chicken Dirt On the Beach
A smattering of garden updates. Garden haul, impatiens, sunflowers, chicken dirt, and lettuce seed.
Tag: home grown
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: Cucumber and Squash Update
We are starting to see cucumbers and squash on our plants!!
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: 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: 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, 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.
VIDEO: Grocery Shopping Trip for February 25th
My grocery shopping trip for the week, end of February update on how much we’ve spent on groceries and how much food we’ve harvested from the yard, and our meals for the weekend!
VIDEO: Repotting Tomato Seedlings
Our tomato plants that we started from seed have outgrown their containers. We are repotting them.
VIDEO: Chickens Taking a Dirt Bath and Groceries for the Week
I caught the girls taking a dirt bath and caught them on camera. The butter sale I’ve been waiting on finally happened. Grocery budget update.
VIDEO: Planting Potatoes
Saturday, February 4, 2017 We prep and plant one of our potato beds.
VIDEO: Updates on Shiitake Logs and Strawberry Bed
This video is an update on what we’ve done with our Shiitake logs and how our strawberries are doing.
VIDEO: Frugal Weekend Lunches
This video shows our lunches from last weekend. Frugal meals that cost us very little to make. The food was either harvested in our yard, given to us by a friend who hunts, or bought for very little at the store.
VIDEO: When Steam Meets Camera and Lunches for Two Weeks
In this video I make my lunches to carry to work. I combined two weeks of lunch making videos. Just showing how I use produce from the garden combined with items from the store to make very frugal meals to carry to work. Inexpensive and tasty!! Sorry about the steam…
VIDEO: GGC – 59 – Homesteading: Planting Our Hugelkultur Vegetable Garden
After completing the construction of our Hugelkultur mound in the previous video, we finally got around to planting some vegetables and covering the entire thing with straw mulch.
VIDEO: Growing Beets from Sowing to Harvest
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Beets (also known as Beetroot) should be a staple of every vegetable garden. They’re really easy to grow from seed – and you don’t have to wait long ’til harvest time. Beets have quirky seed that produce multiple plants, so they need special aftercare to avoid overcrowding.…
VIDEO: Forest Gardening, A Functional Design
An update on the progression of the food forest, and some information regarding growing one.
VIDEO: Beyond Organic/Natural Gardening
The Food Forest has progressed well this summer, especially the trees.
VIDEO: 7 Gardening Hacks with Plastic Bottles – Simple, Free and Extremely Effective!
Plastic bottles and soda bottles accumulate quickly in many homes however they are an excellent resource for growing vegetables and in particular small-space gardens. And no these aren’t simply 7 different shaped pots, these 7 hacks range from seedling guards to slug traps and seed storage to water reservoirs. Use these hacks to make your…