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Here’s how we store our cabbage long term in the fridge crisper. There’s nothing hard or tricky about it except that it’s best-stored whole as head, to begin with, and then cut it as needed. Obviously, keeping the cabbage for this long is a bit dramatic and it’s best eaten within several months but this…
Part 2 Just showing what I have going. Recovering from health problems, catching up on projects as well as job search forced me to hold back on my garden this year. In spite of that it appears I have more than I thought or even intended.
We show how we attach a hose to the pump in the pond to water our garden with our good nutrient rich fish water.
First installment of what our garden is looking like. I reduced my ambitions for the garden this as I am still recovering from the long illness but mostly because I have several other projects that absolutely must be done.
We are canning tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, and tomato juice.
This is how we preserve mangoes when we have too many to eat fresh. Dehydration is our preferred method because the pieces of dried mango can be used for kids snacks, added to breakfast cereals, and many other uses. The bagging video mentioned is here: https://youtu.be/dERblAPWai0 Buy a dehydrator on Amazon: https://bit.ly/2sWaQOF Blog: http://www.selfsufficientme.com/ (use…
Here is a simple way to protect fruit on your backyard fruit trees from animals like birds and possums – perhaps even squirrels but we don’t get them here so I can’t say definitively although I do know we’ve had good success here in Oz preventing some pretty cunning pests from getting our produce. I…
This is the Sunrise Lime tree and fruit – it’s a great food plant/fruit tree to grow in the home garden or on your homestead and one of the best citrus fruits I have tasted! Blog: http://www.selfsufficientme.com/ (use the search bar on my website to find info on certain subjects) Forum: http://www.selfsufficientculture.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SelfSufficientMe-260782203958500/ Twitter:…
This week I am harvesting my cherries and pruning the tree. Some of the cherries will be used for jams to last us the year and maybe some juice. The rest will be used to distill Schnapps. Not necessarily for drinking. I am not big on drinking but I do find the quality of alcohol…
In this video, we plant over a dozen different fruit trees and I talk through an example of how I dig the hole at the same time giving some extra tips on how to get the tree off to a good start. Blog: http://www.selfsufficientme.com/ (use the search bar on my website to find info on…
It’s true! Vegetables do grow in my lawn especially during winter when the grass doesn’t grow as fast. This video explains how I make use of self-seeding vegetables that pop up through my lawn. Thanks for your support! Cheers 🙂 Blog: http://www.selfsufficientme.com/ (use the search bar on my website to find info on certain subjects)…
Video on the work at home will come later but for now I am resuming work at the property away from home
In this video, I show a smothering method to manage unwanted weeds and grasses in vegetable garden beds. At the same time, I also explain several other tips and my own thought process/reasoning for doing what I do. Thanks for your support 🙂 Blog: http://www.selfsufficientme.com/ (use the search bar on my website to find info…
Finally began bed prep on the separated properties. Slow but started. Finishing the grow room video I started last week. This time with the positive stuff.
I was asked the question, do you need to clean out your duck pond/dam? So I give the answer as we watch the ducks and chickens go about their morning play time. 🙂 Stop leaking dam: https://youtu.be/S8XL2DvdV_8 PVC liner to stop ducks eating dam wall: https://youtu.be/n08375XfYK8 Blog: http://www.selfsufficientme.com/ (use the search bar on my website…
Here’s our fire pit grill set up it’s a tripod hanging grill, which hangs over the fire pit and has an adjustable height via a pulley system in order to regulate heat or get it out of the way etc. Amazon (similar product) https://bit.ly/2qP2UKO For Aussies – I got mine from Barbeques Galore Blog: http://www.selfsufficientme.com/…
All of our weekly grocery shopping trips for the month of April!
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!!
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!!
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…
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.
We go for a walk around our self-sufficient acreage and I explain my thoughts behind continuing my channel and blogging. I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank you for subscribing to Self Sufficient Me – your support is amazing! Blog: http://www.selfsufficientme.com/ (use the search bar on my website to find info on certain…
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…
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.
We transplanted broccoli, cauliflower, chard, tatsoi, and kale into the garden from our flats we started from seed.
Quick update on our tomatoes we planted in the red cups, our seeds started in the flats, and our daffodil bed.
Quick video about what groceries I got at the store this week and how much I paid for them.
The nesting material in our chicken nesting boxes was getting raked out leading to dirty and cracked eggs so this is how I fixed the problem. Also in this video, I show my latest experiment of trying to use broody hens to hatch out quail eggs. Blog: http://www.selfsufficientme.com/ Forum: http://www.selfsufficientculture.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SelfSufficientMe-260782203958500/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SufficientMe Subscribe…
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!
Our tomato plants that we started from seed have outgrown their containers. We are repotting them.
