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We didn’t intend to plant potatoes this year but we found a box of seed potatoes we had saved from last year’s harvest. Instead of throwing them away we just scattered these seed potatoes on the ground and covered them with hay. This is the resulting harvest.
Our garden is finally starting to kick in and show some growth. Everything is starting out a little slowly because it has been such a rainy wet spring. This is an overview of how everything is growing!
The no till deep mulch method attracts millions of earthworms and eliminates the need for synthetic fertilizers. It’s great for soil building and soil aeration too!
We have been able to get out in the garden and do a lot of weeding and cleaning up. It’s starting to look more like a nice summer garden!
This is an update of our garden before we started cleaning it up for spring. We were letting a lot of things flower and go to seed to attract pollinators. This video is also an update of our ornamental plants in the front yard and our fruit trees in the back.
NEW! Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — It’s finally starting to look and feel like Spring, so we headed outside to check out how our garden fared through the long frozen winter. Then we chopped and dropped last year’s plants and laid out some mulch. Or…
Spring is finally here and we have a long chore list that keeps getting longer! The weather is finally beautiful and we are able to get some things done around the place. Today we need to do a long overdue quail harvest and get the incubator going.
Our asparagus is growing really well this year! This is an asparagus harvest video as well as a short garden update. We had some severe weather in the area this week and I included some video sharing what our tornado sirens sound like at the end of this video.
This is an overview of everything we have growing in the garden right now. We also show some blooming plants from other areas of the yard.
Today we are getting some seeds started for our garden. We are starting flats of Stowell’s Evergreen Corn, Celery, Broccoli, Cabbage, and Pak Choy.
It was beautiful and warm this weekend so we were able to get out into the garden. We planted our Candy onions and some Red Lasoda potatoes.
We have been noticing interesting prints in the mud around the garden and shed. We set a live trap to see what we could catch!
It’s a New Year Everyone and it’s time to “Get into It” and become as self-sufficient as possible! This is our new Self Sufficient Me Channel Trailer it shows a quick epic hit of what this channel is about and some sneak peeks of what videos and projects to expect this year. Remember, you don’t…
We have been tagged by Butterfliez Home & Garden for the 2018 Garden Roundup Challenge! https://youtu.be/RRMYklwy3b4 Questions: 1. What was your best crop of 2018? 2. What was your worst crop of 2018? 3. What was your biggest challenge of 2018? 4. What things will you do differently in 2019? 5. What are your plans…
It is a wet soggy mess here, lol!! This is the second wettest year on record. Daily chores are a lot more difficult when slogging through mud. Our lettuce is starting to look good and some of our direct sow greens are starting to sprout. Our seedlings we have started in flats are starting to…
Not a lot going on in the garden. It has rained almost constantly for the past three weeks. Maybe a dry day here and there but almost no sun. We’re getting seeds started to replant some fall and winter crops.
All you need is a single plant to provide you with an abundance of food, and even get more plants from it! And different ones too! This video tells you exactly how there is no excuse to NOT grow your own organic homegrown fruit and vegetables in your garden for free and for the rest…
Help support our channel: https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality Now that we’ve doubled our growing area, it’s time to plant our garlic. Also: Crop rotations, our homemade hole poker thing, lessons learned, etc. Plant Hardiness Zones, Annual Rainfall, and Other Important Information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrAJbE0ZTA8 Instant Raised Garden Beds by Flipping Sod: Expanding our Garlic Patch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tay9Mi7XM4U No Dig Garlic: Planting,…
We found Shiitake growing on our logs we inoculated about three years ago! Pretty cool surprise!
Early November garden harvest! We are still getting green beans from our climbing Rattlesnakes and our Contender bush beans. We are still getting some nice harvests from our pepper plants. Not a bad day in the garden!!
We are getting firewood for the winter. We didn’t have time to get firewood and season it ourselves, so this year we are buying firewood from someone local. We are buying 3 cords for the winter. Ian’s in charge of picking it up, and Serina is in charge of stacking firewood. We are excited for…
We’ve started planting our fall crops. We planted Danver’s Half Long carrots, Georgia collards, Siberian kale, Lolla Rossa lettuce, Red Romaine lettuce, Tendergreen Mustards, Black Seeded Simpson lettuce, and Bloomsdale Longstanding spinach.
The huge watermelon that we have been watching for a while is finally ripe!
Hey, everyone, I’m BACK! This VLOG style video outlines my trip to the USA to visit YouTube Spaces in LA and I touch on what preparations I did to “holiday-proof” our food garden whilst we were away. Enjoy 🙂 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme Help support the Channel and buy a T-shirt/Merchandise from our Spreadshirt…
Help support our channel: https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality After a long and difficult summer, we’re finally ready to give some garden updates. So let’s start off with the changes we’ve been making to our garlic beds, by flipping sod.
Some people have commented on how relatively weed free our garden is. We go into a brief description of how we keep the weeds down in the garden in this video.
Earlier this week I had the pleasure to visit Liz and Mr J over at Byther Farm! I have been following their progress on their fantastic YouTube channel and I am amazed at how productive their set-up is. So I went down for a day to visit and had an amazing time and I can…
We had a really nice harvest of peppers, okra, butter beans, and green beans today!
Garden Harvest! Our green beans and okra are making like crazy!
Today we harvested okra, butter beans, green beans, and peppers. We have a lot of new items planted in the garden we wanted to share as well.
