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Back on our other property. Looking at three volunteers. A Schwetzgen purple plum, a Mirabella plum and the wild roses wanted for the rose hips. Trying to get things cleaned up and reorganized after my long illness prevented work.
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.
The remnants of tropical storm Cindy came through bringing some pretty heavy rains and high winds. The corn and sunflowers didn’t have fun…
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We are canning tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, and tomato juice.
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…
We are capturing the daughter plants from our existing strawberry bed to use to plant another strawberry bed.
The baby quail are about five weeks old so we are moving them to their outdoor coop! We are also starting a new batch of eggs in the incubator.
A smattering of garden updates. Garden haul, impatiens, sunflowers, chicken dirt, and lettuce seed.
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…
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…
Everything seems to be doing pretty well!! This is our monthly garden update.
Update on the coleus we grew from seed we saved from last year and a tour of the front yard flower and garden bed.
We are starting to see cucumbers and squash on our plants!!
Part 2 of garden progression and planning.
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!!
This is our first green bean harvest of the year! We also harvest our Red La Soda potatoes, some carrots, and some Lacinato Kale.
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…
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…
Ladybug larvae are everywhere!!
First of May garden update! Shout out to Nina Stephens at Southern Ark Homestead!! https://youtu.be/dhcEpD5hfME
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…
This video describes an unpleasant event that happened in our backyard last week.
Showing what we cooked for Easter dinner and what we made with some of our strawberries for dessert!
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!!
This video will self destruct after a few days. Not the type of video I want to leave up long.
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!!
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A bit of my springtime prep and what has hindered me for the last week.
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…
