VIDEO: How We Water Our Garden with Water from Our Fish Pond
We show how we attach a hose to the pump in the pond to water our garden with our good nutrient rich fish water.
Tag: urban homestead
VIDEO: Chick
We have integrated Chick into our flock of girls. We closed off her escape route so she has to learn to get along. It’s going fairly well, hopefully it will get smoother for her.
VIDEO: Planting Purple Hull Peas
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.
VIDEO: Pulling the Roma Tomatoes and Replanting
The Roma tomatoes have really slowed down in production, so we decided to pull them. We harvested all the tomatoes from the plants, pulled the vines, and replanted where they were with butter beans.
VIDEO: Timelapse of Aquaponics Impatiens
A week to week look at how our impatiens grew over time in the pond filters.
VIDEO: Fertilizing our Peppers with Worm Tea and Chicken Dirt
We are fertilizing our peppers with worm casting tea and chicken dirt. We then mulched the pepper bed with hay.
VIDEO: Groceries for the Month of June
Groceries for the month of June. We spent $62.03 for food for the month of June. We have spent $604.89 for the year. This brings us to an average of $100.82 per month for food. Our goal for the year is $100.00 per month on average!!
VIDEO: Garden to Table Meals for Tuesday through Friday and Garden Harvests
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.
VIDEO: Tropical Storm Cindy and Our Garden
The remnants of tropical storm Cindy came through bringing some pretty heavy rains and high winds. The corn and sunflowers didn’t have fun…
VIDEO: Canning Tomato Sauce
We are canning tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, and tomato juice.
VIDEO: Feeding the Catfish in Our Backyard Pond
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…
VIDEO: Propagating Our Strawberry Plants
We are capturing the daughter plants from our existing strawberry bed to use to plant another strawberry bed.
VIDEO: Moving Day for the Baby Quail
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.
VIDEO: Chicken Dirt On the Beach
A smattering of garden updates. Garden haul, impatiens, sunflowers, chicken dirt, and lettuce seed.
VIDEO: Have I Mentioned We Really Like Green Beans
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…
VIDEO: Groceries for the Month of May
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…
VIDEO: June 1 Garden Update
Everything seems to be doing pretty well!! This is our monthly garden update.
VIDEO: Coleus and Mini Tour of the Front Yard
Update on the coleus we grew from seed we saved from last year and a tour of the front yard flower and garden bed.
VIDEO: Impatien Update Weeks 2 and 3
This is an update on how our impatiens that we planted in the pond filters are progressing.
VIDEO: Digging White Kennebec Potatoes
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!!
VIDEO: First Green Bean Harvest of the Season and Harvesting Red LaSoda Potatoes
This is our first green bean harvest of the year! We also harvest our Red La Soda potatoes, some carrots, and some Lacinato Kale.
VIDEO: If Everyone Had an Urban Homestead!
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…
VIDEO: Harvesting Garlic
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…
VIDEO: Making and Applying Worm Tea for the Garden
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…
VIDEO: Ladybug Larvae Nature's Response to an Aphid Infestation
Ladybug larvae are everywhere!!
VIDEO: May 1 Garden Update
First of May garden update! Shout out to Nina Stephens at Southern Ark Homestead!! https://youtu.be/dhcEpD5hfME
VIDEO: How We Grow Impatiens in Our Pond Filter
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…
VIDEO: Morning Sounds from the Backyard
Morning sounds from the backyard! Quail yeah!!
VIDEO: Strawberry Update and Harvest 4 9 17
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!!
VIDEO: Making Salad from Our Backyard Garden
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!!