VIDEO: Garden Update After the Two Night Freeze 3 20 17
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.
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VIDEO: Tag 30 Random Facts
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…
VIDEO: Mail Call and a mess cleaned up
Cleaned up some of more other property and got a few trees pruned. Mail call today. Hardcore Gardener https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTe2HUURGGPXqOtCVCt42fw Southpaw Davey https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbiADGmgvP-h3bBKyYF_4Gg Southpaws gold prospecting and adventures https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmLMqojxG-wvZA2aoSYfeFg Dale Calder https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe02R4jhI4YVd6rljP9uhrQ
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: Top Five Citrus Fruit Trees To Grow in Your Backyard
Here are my recommendations for the best five (5) citrus fruit trees you can grow in the backyard. I’ve assessed the trees on growth, production, fruit taste, and several other factors to come to my own personal conclusions as to what I consider to be the top five citrus trees to grow. Enjoy! Blog: http://www.selfsufficientme.com/…
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: Starting Coleus and Basil Plants and Picking Asparagus
We are starting some coleus and basil plants from seed we saved last year.
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: A Surprise from Louisiana and Weekly Grocery Trip
We received a really sweet surprise this week! We share our weekly grocery shopping trip. Love Kroger, Kroger Free Friday and Bonus Bucks!! http://973thedawg.com/my-brother-is-one-of-those-unique-individuals-on-youtube/
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: Home improvement: A huge mistake made
A simple install turns into a nightmare!
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: End of January Update, Questions about Garlic, and a Surprise from Our Girls!
In this video I give updates on how we are doing with our grocery budget and an update on our produce harvest for the month of January. I also have questions about our garlic and share a surprise from our girls!!
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: Plant Markers, Propagation Trays, and Seeds!
We got the plant markers, propagation trays, and seeds we ordered! We get a bunch of seeds started and label all the things we have planted outside in the garden. Mini tour of the cleaned up and replanted garden.
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: Panama Berry – Tastes Like Cotton Candy (Muntingia)
Growing the Panama Berry Tree is definitely a recommendation I’m happy to give to all backyard food gardeners. It’s a good looking tree and produces fruit for most of the year – it’s an early fruiter too! Blog: http://www.selfsufficientme.com/ Forum: http://www.selfsufficientculture.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SelfSufficientMe-260782203958500/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SufficientMe Subscribe to my channel: http://goo.gl/cpbojR -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: “5 Fruit…
VIDEO: Harvesting the Remaining Turnips and Carrots
We decided to go ahead and pick all the turnips and carrots that were damaged by the freeze. Trying to salvage what produce we can and clean up to plant some more!
VIDEO: Patio Table Improvement
Refurbishing an old patio table. music by audionautix.com http://audionautix.com/ Creative Commons License 3.0
VIDEO: Making Cobbler in the Fire Place
During the “sleet event” it was cold enough for us to need a fire. Since the fire was burning anyway and it was too cold to play outside, we experimented with cooking different things in the fireplace. First we baked potatoes, then we moved on to this pear cobbler!
VIDEO: GGC – 73 – Preparing our Hugelkultur Garden for Winter: Chop and Drop
Though Hugelkultur is a very low maintenance method of permaculture gardening, there are a few things you have to do throughout the year. So right now, as autumn draws to an end, it’s about time we prepared our garden for the winter, using a simple technique called: Chop and Drop!
VIDEO: GGC – 71 – Planting Garlic in a Modified Ruth Stout Permaculture Garden
UPDATE – Here’s a video of our results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhpvMg5d1OM Fall is garlic planting season in Canada, so we took what we learned about the Ruth Stout method and customized it for a 260 plant garlic garden!
VIDEO: Gathering and Weighing the Chicken Eggs
In this video we visit the chickens, gather the eggs, weigh the eggs, and enter the amount into our records.