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It’s a beautiful day in the veggie garden. I’m outside working in the greenhouse, making soil blocks for my next round of starts, and looking for signs of seedlings starting to grow. Come hang out and get an update on the garden.
Garden update from back in mid-March. We are fertilizing our greens with Black Kow and Blood Meal and then mulching with hay.
I tried to make my first milk soap, and everything that could possibly go wrong, does. My milk and lye mixture separates. I get DOS (dreaded orange spots). And I even start to suspect I have lye pockets in some of my earlier soaps! Even though these are all some pretty big failures, I am…
I haven’t had any mold in my main kombucha brew, knock on wood, but I have been able to share out my culture to family and friends who want to start brewing kombucha, and for that reason I am glad I have a scoby hotel. Having a second culture alive and happy in case something…
Ian and Serina battle it out to determine which are better – cheap seeds or expensive seeds. Considering 3 different points of quantity, quality, and variety, they discuss which is actually the better deal. And sometimes cost isn’t as simple to determine as you would expect. So who do you think wins this fight? And…
Ian’s home for the Easter weekend, so we are eating chocolate and chatting about things and the garden. Come and hang out with us 😀
Fensterfarm Greenhouse tagged me to answer the 5 garden question. 1) Why do I garden? 2) Why do I You Tube? 3) How Long Have I been Gardening? 4) What is my favorite thing to grow? 5) What do I grow? Thanks for the tag. Check out his video too! https://youtu.be/Ifbbf3VJ3vg I can’t believe I…
The day was so beautiful that not only did the flowers come out, but also the bees. Come and enjoy the calming sounds and sights of spring with these bees and flowers, in this meditative video of my crocuses. If you know the variety of bees here, I would love to know! __________ Subscribe and…
Wait, everyone is talking about 3 new things we are growing this spring? I definitely am going to take this as an oppertuniyu to talk about seeds again, lol. Today’s seed craziness is brought to you by Instagram, and all the amazing pictures I saw all the “cool kids” posting last year. So get your…
The snow has melted, the crocuses are blooming, the garlic has sprung, and I am excited for it to be spring. Come join me for a walk about the yard, see how things are doing, and chat about things to come. It isn’t the most exciting garden tour, but soon the vegetable garden will be…
Spring has sprung, and it is time to clean up the greenhouse. Come join me as I spring clean the greenhouse, and fill the compost with my dead tomatoes. This is the first step for getting started on my new 2018 garden, and I am excited to finally have things starting.
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.
Just a quick update about what we have growing in our garden in late February!
I have a batch of bad soap that I need to fix, so I am grating it up, adding liquid, and cooking it down. Then I will be whipping it to create a finished soap that floats! Come hang out and chat soap making with me, and get a bit of an update on the…
Spring is just around the corner, which means that it is a perfect time to be buying all your seeds. So the annual seed swap is happening again in Kelowna. And despite the fact that the last thing I need is more seeds, I go and check it out. Join me for a quick visit…
Here’s my 100% undeniable proof that Wranglerstar isn’t a real homesteader, it’s his video, saying this whole thing is just silly https://youtu.be/k_h5AT–AgM I don’t understand why anyone needs to feel the need to come up with a strict definition about what does and does not qualify as “real homesteading”. But even more than that, I…
Starting a garden is as simple as, just planting something. But I always hear excuses as to why “it just won’t work.” The biggest obstacle to your long term success as a gardener, or any other goal you hope to achieve, is YOU. Until you can change the way you think, and start finding solutions…
I can’t believe how great this soap turned out! It looks better than I could have hoped. And it has me really excited for what I could do with the next couple batches of soap, as I work my way through more complicated soap recipes. I was pretty confident while making this bastile cold process…
We got tagged by Life on Beagle Road to answer 5 questions about our YouTube channel. So Serina and a random guy (just joking, it’s Ian) answer the questions from their point of view. Here are the five questions that we were asked to answer: 5 Questions about Why We Do What We Do: 1.)…
Okay, this is stupidly long, but it’s also $500 worth of seeds, so… Also, don’t forget, the gear icon in the lower right corner of the video player gives you the option to watch me at an increased speed, if you actually want to see everything, but don’t have the time, lol. So what am…
This is a very quick update on what is going on here. It has rained every day for about the last two weeks and is supposed to rain every day for the next two weeks too. We are doing as much in the garden as we can, but it is just a wet boggy mess!
I’m out of the basics, and on to more complicated soaping decorating techniques. I do an “‘in the pot” swirl with limited success, but overall I am happy with the looks of this soap. I also learn that castile cold process soap is a pain in the butt when you already struggle with soft soap.…
We got a nice enough day for me to get out and take a closer look at my kale that got damaged by a turn from warm early spring like weather, to -15c overnight temperatures. Our Winterbore kale is very cold hardy, and normally wouldn’t have issues with this weather, but we had some die…
Holy clickbait batman! But this is the nitty gritty back-end of every video and every channel. I’m breaking all the customer service rules by showing it, but as I tell you in the video, I’m here on YouTube so I don’t have to follow the customer service rules. There are no refunds here, you can”t…
This was a shocking success! I didn’t spill soap everywhere, the soap hardened and I was able to cut it, and the layers looked nice and clean. Even the colours turned out nice and bright like I wanted. I’m not quite at beautiful soap yet, but with my fifth batch finished I’m at least not…
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.
