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Do you want to start enjoying harvests from your garden as soon as possible? This video highlights 10 crops you can harvest in under 2 months, with the first ready in only 2 weeks! Imagine being able to harvest 10 different vegetables in 8 weeks – that is a lot of food!!! Many of them…
The garden is still producing pretty well for this time of year. It hasn’t rained in over a month and we are experiencing record high temperatures. We are still harvesting peppers and okra and we picked our first harvest of butter beans of the season!
We have an abundance of okra right now so we are preparing it to freeze in different ways. We like some of our okra unbreaded to use in soups and gumbos but we also like to freeze some of the okra breaded and ready to fry. This video shows how we bread our okra and…
This sweet pickle recipe was Alan’s Mother’s recipe. These are some of the best sweet pickles I have ever eaten! Sweet Pickle Superb 16 lbs. cucumbers 1 box pickling spices 1/2 box alum (2 1/4 oz. per box) 10 lb. sugar 1 cup salt to each half gallon of water – strong enough to float…
This is an update of the peas we planted about two weeks ago. We had a lot of questions about weeds and weed seeds in our garden. We mulch using hay and grass clippings as well as other materials and don’t have problems with weeds. We constantly add mulch and we haven’t tilled since 2012.
This is our garlic harvest for 2019. We left the garlic in the ground until all the foliage was dead this year instead of digging it as soon as the foliage started to bend over. We had a pretty nice garlic harvest!
We harvested our squash for the first time this year! It’s easy to forget from year to year just how good fresh squash is! We also found and killed a squash vine borer.
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.
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.
One of the first harvests of our squash! We planted groups of squash in several different areas of the garden.
See my favorite new raised beds here: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ Two of my good friends recently asked me to help them set up a DIY raised garden bed in their suburban backyard. I jumped at the chance, because they’d never wanted to garden before! What a great opportunity. In today’s video, we’re going to walk them through…
We are planting some White Kennebec Potatoes. We have one area in our garden that is dry enough to plant. We will plant more as the garden dries out.
We are prepping a bed and planting Candy onions. The soil amendments we used are Blood Meal, Bone Meal, and Black Kow composted cow manure.
We had a little snow storm and a long period of freezing weather. Our garden is pretty much gone. We cleaned up all the dead vegetation and started prepping the garden for spring!
We set out a lot of the plants we have started from seed. This video shows the new plantings and updates the existing plantings in the garden.
We had a pretty productive weekend! We harvested quail, cut firewood, and picked the beans in the garden.
The Food Forest is built on a thick wood chip mulch, which is the same technique used in the “Back To Eden Method.” I let the worms and the fungus do the work for me. Working with nature rather then against it. Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/user/thepermaculturgarden?sub_confirmation=1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/james.prigioni LAWN TO HIGH PRODUCTION FOOD FOREST: https://youtu.be/7ByAh_0CIW8 CUCUMBERS, Everything…
We are planting purple hull peas where we pulled the last two rows of corn. We also plant climbing green beans where the other Roma tomatoes were.
We are canning tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, and tomato juice.
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…
Everything seems to be doing pretty well!! This is our monthly garden update.
Regardless of where you live or how old you are… there are many levels of homesteading that can be done! A wonderful garden, a small orchard, berry patch or even a few hens (if permitted) can absolutely change the entire sustainability of every family. Add in working with wood heat, cast iron and even attracting…
This video is an update on what we’ve done with our Shiitake logs and how our strawberries are doing.
