New Zealand produces the best wool in The world ❤️🙏 Alex, if you have time ans want a laugh, you should watch the British TV series from the 70s called The Good Life. It is absolutely brilliant. Love what you are doing ❤️🙏❤️
I come from 4 generations of growers, master gardeners, etc. and have never put our clippers in peroxide or alcohol. My father,who was the master gardener always put Epsom salts in the holes before planting his tomatoes. I, however, did not get the growing gene, did everything I could to not get disease and got it anyway. My suggestion, no more pruning. Just remember, 100 years ago, people just put stuff in the ground, prayed for rain and it grew. I think we need to get back to all that.
Indeed! I found your channel randomly a couple years ago, honestly probably due to infertility searches, and absolutely fell in love with your channel because of your positivity! I think the bulk of your viewers are riding the roller coasters with yal, as I have definitely cried with yal as much as I have laughed! I love how great you two are at making the best of everything, and it is a real joy to watch you and your family grow (on all fronts)! Thank you for allowing us to be a part of it and for never losing sight of who you are along the way! We love you guys!!
Tada i love hearing her sweet little voice. We fed our chickens all the produce that was over grown. We also went to the Amish store and got boxes of discount fruits & veggies. Their eggs were amazing! Almost every egg was double yolk. I love the blessing God granted you with his precious gift in 3 little girls.
The fruit trees will come good! Don’t worry, they’re fine - mine have been through all of this! Also, all my tomatoes had disease last year, chucked it all in the compost and no disease this year. All those tomatoes moulding on the ground will be self sowing ready for next year too ❤️ it’s all good xx
The girls are getting so big!! You all are precious 💖 You help some of us more than you think no matter what content you put up. It's just nice to see you all living what some of us have as "normal" lives. Eventhough there's absolutely nothing normal about it. Ya know what I mean💞 It's OUR NORMAL and Love, prayers, and family gets us through it 💖
I’ve watched you two (plus littles) for years and I pray you keep doing you tube for a long time. Your positivity is like no other!!! My mom is a great gardener. She always had tomatoes and beans and radishes…. And other things I just don’t remember them all. Love you guys! Cassidy is adorable!!!!!
I have sunflowers, cosmos, zinnias, hollyhocks and marigolds around my vegetable garden. They attract the pollinators in a big way and I love the cut flowers!
Yessss!!!! We have Hollyhocks, yarrow, zinnias, lavender, etc….they attract pollinators like crazy. I just finished harvesting my Bartlett pears, here in Utah. We’re a bit later, our zone is. Our tomatoes have turned out amazingly well. Our biggest pest has been SNAILS!!!
Homesteading isn’t all about growing, it’s about your lifestyle. This year not so good, next the best! Growing is a learning curve. We are all in the same boat.
I literally cannot handle Cassidy. Her sweet little voice gives me so much joy. She has grown so much and it is so beautiful to watch. I have learned lots from your gardening expeditions and I appreciate it. I have a generous garden started this year. It's but self sustaining by any means yet but it's a start and each year you learn more and get better. I've had so much fun and gratification from my garden. I just made my first batch of spaghetti sauce out of about 18lbs of tomatoes. Hoping for another batch and that should do it for spaghetti sauce over the winter hopefully :)
Put fencing around your trees and that keeps all the animals away from the roots and branches.just put it high enough so it's right under the lowest branches and like 2 or 3 feet around
Are you sure the tomatoes are diseased and not just aging/coming to the end of the season plus having a tough season with the weather? I cannot see properly to tell, but Charles Dowding has talked about it in videos. He shows leaves that look bad but he says it's not disease. Yours may still be fine. As to the fruit trees, I select sites that I can get water too, and that is not a frost pocket that might get the blossoms caught in a late frost which would loose the crop. Cassie is super cute.
My grandpa always said farmers learn to do by doing. All of his tomatoes with blossom end rot went into the slop bucket for the pigs. But each year your garden grows and you learn more. I have learned so much from you and Philip about homesteading. Now I am done with my babies and I have grands, but my daughter may never have baby so I follow your infertility journey too.keep on teaching!
First year fruit or any trees need a lot of water to a depth of 3 to 4 feet about once a week (hopefully from rain). Fruit trees need about 8 hours of sunlight every day. Once tomatoes have blight, it usually will move through the plant, Trimming only slows it down especially if it wet or humid. Gardens have been challenging this year in many places.
You guys seriously have 3 beautiful girls. Cassidy has beautiful hair. It's gold!! She is so stinking cute. Life is mistakes dear Alex you're amazing!!!
I left my garden (mind you way smaller than yours 🤣❤️) for about a month on vacation from august 3-19. But I left it with a family a 7 year old girl & they had fun learning all about what I had in my garden. Maybe next time let a couple other families “baby sit” it and let them have produce as their payment ;)
You live and learn……..always!! It’s okay Alex, now you’ve learned, and will continue to learn!! You ARE AWESOME!!!!! By the way, Cassidy is so cute!!! The girls have AMAZING PARENTS!!! Bless you all!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I think it was so sweet to see you're a little 1 he 1 helping you plan that tree And how your kids like to help in the garden All around Cassidy is so cute I thought it was funny when she said Alex
Cassidy was so cute helping with the garden and replant the tree. I would dig a hole and plant that apple tree deeper in the earth. I love that you are planting fruit trees! I would also suggest muscadine grapes! They grow great in the southern states. Don’t feel bad you didn’t get this huge crop. It takes time to learn these skills and some years you get a better garden crop. I would diversify. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket as they say. Still think you need a goat or donkey as cow companion. 😁
Thank you for showing me that I am not alone. My garden has been hit hard this year with so many issues. I thought it was just me. Thanks for being honest. And showing us the highs and the lows of life.
Acre homestead has been really encouraging about her garden, after it be neglected during a move. She also has great tips for buying in bulk from farmers near you, and preserving that.
Had this happen to our tomatoes last year. This year? Bumper Crop. It happens and you didn't do anything wrong. I'm going to put my tomatoes up like you did. I love the idea!
Cassidy is hilarious! Picking the ground cherries to put in her bucket. Then she just peels and eats them. You don’t have to worry about her being hungry, she’ll just go pick something in the garden! 💗
I live in Canada. When our frost comes I pick all remaining tomatoes green included as they ripen inside. Maybe it would help for the drought and disease to pick them all.
I was going to write the same (from Quebec 🇨🇦here) save the rest and pluck them off. A few different ways to store them. And things to make with them and preserve them. Good luck! ❤
Phil, you’re right. It’s so therapeutic watching animals eat.☺️. Wet your Apple tree, leaves and all, and then sprinkle sevin dust on the leaves and base.Bugs were eating my apple and peach trees and that is what I did, plus watering and fertilizing it, but you have to keep on it as bugs are 10 times worse in the country. I had a garden this year but got nothing out of it, so next year I am going to concentrate on my fruit trees and blueberry bushes......not as much work.
Honey, God’s got ya’ll he has ya’ll in the palm of His hands! You are experiencing what ALL farmers are experiencing. I live in Arkansas and prayers are being sent up for all farmers!
Well. I am almost old enough to me your mom (and you are both blessed to have beautiful wonderful moms), not homesteading (although I eat healthy foods 94.3% of the time) but I follow you because I love you guys! I've been with you since your condo days and the joy it brings to see your beautiful family growing and all that you have accomplished!! You are so impressive! Go easy on yourselves!! You are doing a fabulous job in so many ways - including starting a whole new ecosystem!! There will be wins and losses....but only those who try nothing have zero losses You are a fantastic couple and I send you love and blessings. You'll conquer the tomato issues - I have no doubt.
I saw on tiktok today, once tomatoes start to blush they'll not grow any more so can be picked. If you turn them upside down and put them together they produce a chemical which continues to ripen them and in a few days they'll be red. Not sure if it will help but maybe something to try 😊 x
Ok good tip! When your tomato crop fails see if you can find a farmer’s market with Someone who does bulk sales of canning tomatoes. If you can’t find that then try using the bulk cans #10 cans of tomato products for canning your sauce’s for your family. As an example: spaghetti sauce, marinara, pizza sauce, or anything else! Still cheaper to buy and can than you can buy in the long run and better control of what your family eats. Especially if you have a bulk foods or restaurant supply around you. Or if you have a discount store around you like Amy Maryon uses! We don’t have anything like that close to use.
It will come back that tree. Give it regular watering. If it’s got roots it will survive. Put some cow muck in the tree hole before planting properly. That will nourish it. Seriously fruit trees are an excellent idea. 👍💖👍
Gardening is a constant learning activity and depending on something bigger than yourself for proper weather conditions. Just like farmers do all the time. You learned and you grew and you moved on. You’ve come so far. Yes, it’s ok to be upset for a bit. Write it all down in your garden journal and some day when you’re in your 90s you’ll look back on it as a fond memory.
I think the tree will be fine. I have a beautiful oak tree that was planted when we moved into our house. A little baby fragile thing and my German Shepard tore it to pieces leaving just a little of the root . I was so annoyed and upset !!! I didn’t pull what was left out and fast forward 7 years later it’s grown so much! It survived my dogs attack lack of care bx we thought it was dead lol. It is taller than me! So I’m sure ur tree will survive ❤️
Why not grow perennial flowers that you can leave or chop and drop end of season. Salvia, Rudebekia, Verbena, Echinacea purpurea (Cone Flower), Yarrow, Lupins around outside and it will bring in lots of pollinators. Also can cut and have in vase.
Interesting. I never knew there was such a thing as "ground cherries". Interesting. My neighbors and I also had no crops because we had no bees. We had to try and hand pollinate, but I read that bees don't just simply pollinate. They bring with them the energy from other plants so it makes the produce healthy and strong and nutritious to eat. My hand-pollinated zucchini was very hard even though it looked fine and full grown on the outside.
That’s a good point. Starting a honeybee hive might help vegetables taste better if you don’t see many bees around, but I wouldn’t want lots of bees either. Maybe far off in the corner of your property, away from the animals.
When I planted my fruit trees I put netting on it and they did great. Just a suggestion. Praying for you and your family. Love you guys. Cassidy is the cutest 😍
We are in Indiana. Our fruit trees get 6+ hours of full sunlight. It has taken 5 years for our apple trees to start producing. Our pear trees seem to be doing better than the apple trees. Hoping to plant some peach & apricot trees next year.
I am in Middle TN also and have had the same issues with my tomato plants. Right now I am trying to just save the tomatos that I have growing. I have started to pick them as soon as they start to blush and then bring them inside to ripen. They aren't the prettiest tomatos but they will make great sauce. You are doing an awesome job with your garden. The ground cherries don't even make inside at my house. 😁
I live in Central Indiana, alot of gardeners have had trouble with their tomatoes this year. They didn't do well here either. These are folks that have a garden every year and lost most of theirs too.
I live in Connecticut and my garden did not do well this year either. The drought has not helped. We are on a well system and had to cut back on watering. My tomatoes did well but the squirrels got to them before me. Very frustrating. Praying next year will be better. Love the way Cassidy is talking. So cute.
.How to Defeat Tomato BlightToo dry weather or to much water..Copper spray helps a lot. I've tried it, and my friends did as well. However, dont wait until the disease occurs. Spray when seedlings are around 6 inches tall (before planting), then a couple of times every 2-3 weeks (not earlier, as it will damage the plant). IT'S IMPORTANT YOU SPRAY EITHER EARLY MORNING OR LATE EVENING, SO IT DOESNT KILL THE BEES (if the spray it wet on the plant, the bees will carry it to their hive and kill other bees or the queen, which eventually weakens the colony, and if no queen, kills the hive). Ideally, its also good that it rains 3 days after the spray. The fruits can be eaten a few days after the spray.
Alex, some of the issue with the tomatoes is sun scald not disease. They should come back if you cover them with white garden fabric/shade netting during the hottest parts of the day. The issue with the fruit tree and the chickens is they are probably after grubs in the soil. You can take a tomato cage from Lowes or Tractor Supply and snip it down the side, wrap it around the tree larger side down, use some landscape staples to hold it down to the ground and zip tie the side where you snipped it apart, and then wrap the same white garden fabric around it to keep the chickens out. You can even connect two of them together if you want a larger circle around the tree.
I live in an apartment and I have to plant in pots. Any help or advise you have for me would be great. My daughter and son-in-law grow fruit trees. The have apples, oranges, plums, blueberries, raspberries, lemons. They had to move again and took their fruit trees with them! And he has even learned to crossbreed! They have lemon/oranges, apple/plums and they are DELICIOUS! He time he gets new orders They dig up the trees and bushes and take them with! NAVY life❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸
I love watching your videos your sweet family and you are so positive. I’ve been watching since before the baby was born. She’s gotten big and talks so well.
OMG a flower garden around like a cut flower garden?! Lots of pretty lush florals that you could make little bouquets out of!!! Imagine the table having those flowers and gifting them!!
Round bottom of tree cardboard cut a slat and pull round tree will protect roots and put mulch on top maybe that will help (like a cardboard collar around tree base, so when chickens scratch cardboard stays on to protect root. Or put chicken wire around tree to protect while young
We put a little fence around our fruit trees to keep the animals away. We also water them a lot. We are in Canada and not the coast and we got lots of fruit this year.
Get some watering bags for the base of your trees to help water them and protect the base from digging animals. You should put a protective sleeve around the bark of the tree to save them from deer rubbing against it, rubbing off the protective bark. A lot of places have fruit trees on sale right now, to clear them out. Most have a 1-year warranty. Save your receipt, in case it does, to get a replacement tree.
Homemade sauerkraut is the best and tastes so much better than anything in the grocery store. I actually do not like store bought sauerkraut but have had it homemade multiple times and love it.
I can't believe how big cassidy is getting and omg so cute when she speaks so adorable 😍 you guys are doing fantastic with your farming. All good farmers go through the loss and that leads to a learning process so you can do better next time. And what works for someone else may not work for you. Remember your soil water and environment is all different even down to your neighbours.
You can take green tomatoes, wrap in newspaper & store in the basement and you will have them all winter! Cassidy is talking so well and so articulate!
Here’s a suggestion if you want fruit trees. Our 6 varieties of apples, Bosc Asian Pears, Bartlett Pears, & nectarine trees were all pruned the Espalier way. And, Oh, my word. We just harvested our Bartlett for canning!! 😳 Our nectarine tree is fairly new and it only yielded 10, but they’re scrumptious!! But we’re in Utah and everything comes in a bit later. Plus we have SO many grapes!! Lol….ACK!!!Edited to say, we are SO thankful!!! And you two are too cute!! ❤️ Love your family!!
Cassie is getting so big and she is so adorable and smart. Well all the girls are adorable and smart and great sisters to each other. U guys are so great and I really hope u get u another adorable child some day soon because u deserve it and are great parents. I love u guys
If the beetles are getting in the roots, make a little ammonia water, and pour it on the roots... It will get rid of your bugs, and the chickies should leave them alone. Also, you can put metal fencing down on the ground around the tree, and stake it down... Last but not least, sprinkle black, or red pepper on the ground around the trees.... Also...don't put the mulch up on the trunk of the tree...it will make it rot... Good luck!
Gosh so sorry about the hit! I came home from vacation to someone turning off the water to our garden on accident. It’s was 110 and it was off for days 😫. I do love watching how you guys take on challenges. 👏🏻👏🏻
I first found your channel when you found out you were pregnant and surprised Philip. You were shaking your hand in excitement. You have been my regulars to watch as you bought your home, had Cassidy and started homesteading. Keep up the good work but take some days off to reboot yourselves, maybe not a week but 2 or 3 days.😉 Good luck and may God keep blessing you daily.
I live in Southern Illinois (2 miles from KY border) and we lost our garden as well. Despite my best efforts to water and feed our garden the sun burnt it all up. I only got 2 okra and a cucumber. Very sad :(
From experience we don't use peroxide or alcohol anywhere near the plants. Epsom salts we use while planting. If the plants have dried leave we pinch them off. Would be better if you had a sprayer used that on your plants.There are many places to teach you what to use and measurements for mixing. Good luck.
I lost my garden (indiana)..we did go on vacation for 2 weeks in mid June but by 4th of July the garden died. I have hope for potatoes that are planted at my parents. 🤷♀️
I love your channel. I have been here for years. As for your garden, some years in works better than others. I only get to garden in a tiny city backyard in a much colder area than you. I grew potatoes and onions for the first time. They grew and I got to dig up more than I planted so I was happy. Other plants didn’t do as well. I’m still learning and I’m in my mid 50’s. I buy 25 lb cases of local Roma tomatoes and peaches to can.
Alex .. Put the tree in a bucket of compost with the bottom cut out till it roots properly . Chickens cant get to it then plant the whole bucket in the ground when you are happy its rooted. My poor beefsteak tomatoes got "catface"' edible but soooo ugly we think it was the drought. Lovin' Cassidy she's so sassy and her speech is so advanced . Mommy Alex - what a hoot!! Love as always xx Jan 🇬🇧
Whatever you do don’t plant next years tomatoes in the same place in the garden. Do you have agricultural extension offices from a university in Tenn? Ask them what to do
I plant my tomatoes close together. I stake them. As soon as I have flowers and fruit appear, I cut off EVERYTHING BELOW. I have never had any disease.
For us it was the green horned caterpillars that devastated my tomato plants, again 🥴, even though I had planted Marigolds and basil with them. Our peach trees on the other hand produced so much fruit, more than we can pick, so the birds get to eat some too.
Around your fruit trees put some kind of mesh or chicken wire around the trees so the chickens can’t dig it up. Put some across the top of the stuff you put around to cover the ground so the chickens don’t get to the dirt from the top.
If you put a 3rd post in around Ur fruit tree then surround it in chicken wire it should keep the chickens out of the rooting system until it's well established then you can remove it again. Love watching your journey ❤
I have so had this happen. I can’t say enough what good organic fertilizer for tomatos will do for the disease. Disease is also a sign of mineral deficiency.
I follow a page on Instagram where they have these bags that catch Japanese beetles to leave their plants alone. They have about 5 of them, per area, and they just empty them out and give them to their chicken to eat after crushing them a little so they don’t fly out. Maybe that can work for you guys
For the fruit trees if you want to protect the roots from the chickens you need to surround with chickens wire. If not it will happen again until they killed hin
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Alex, if you have time ans want a laugh, you should watch the British TV series from the 70s called The Good Life. It is absolutely brilliant.
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I come from 4 generations of growers, master gardeners, etc. and have never put our clippers in peroxide or alcohol. My father,who was the master gardener always put Epsom salts in the holes before planting his tomatoes. I, however, did not get the growing gene, did everything I could to not get disease and got it anyway. My suggestion, no more pruning. Just remember, 100 years ago, people just put stuff in the ground, prayed for rain and it grew. I think we need to get back to all that.
Cassidy is so precious! Her ground cherries! What a great childhood.
Indeed! I found your channel randomly a couple years ago, honestly probably due to infertility searches, and absolutely fell in love with your channel because of your positivity! I think the bulk of your viewers are riding the roller coasters with yal, as I have definitely cried with yal as much as I have laughed! I love how great you two are at making the best of everything, and it is a real joy to watch you and your family grow (on all fronts)! Thank you for allowing us to be a part of it and for never losing sight of who you are along the way! We love you guys!!
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Well said!
Tada i love hearing her sweet little voice. We fed our chickens all the produce that was over grown. We also went to the Amish store and got boxes of discount fruits & veggies. Their eggs were amazing! Almost every egg was double yolk.
I love the blessing God granted you with his precious gift in 3 little girls.
She thinks everything is a fun surprise!
The fruit trees will come good! Don’t worry, they’re fine - mine have been through all of this! Also, all my tomatoes had disease last year, chucked it all in the compost and no disease this year. All those tomatoes moulding on the ground will be self sowing ready for next year too ❤️ it’s all good xx
Oh my goodness Cassidy is SO adorable!!!
Your positivity and ability to find joy in all circumstances is refreshing. I love when Phil can get Alex to laugh. His laugh is life-giving.
The girls are getting so big!! You all are precious 💖 You help some of us more than you think no matter what content you put up. It's just nice to see you all living what some of us have as "normal" lives. Eventhough there's absolutely nothing normal about it. Ya know what I mean💞 It's OUR NORMAL and Love, prayers, and family gets us through it 💖
I’ve watched you two (plus littles) for years and I pray you keep doing you tube for a long time. Your positivity is like no other!!! My mom is a great gardener. She always had tomatoes and beans and radishes…. And other things I just don’t remember them all. Love you guys! Cassidy is adorable!!!!!
I have sunflowers, cosmos, zinnias, hollyhocks and marigolds around my vegetable garden. They attract the pollinators in a big way and I love the cut flowers!
Don't they also detract many pests? I'm not a huge fan of marigolds, but I hear they help protect the garden from unwanted pests.
Yessss!!!! We have Hollyhocks, yarrow, zinnias, lavender, etc….they attract pollinators like crazy. I just finished harvesting my Bartlett pears, here in Utah. We’re a bit later, our zone is. Our tomatoes have turned out amazingly well. Our biggest pest has been SNAILS!!!
Zinnias are the best!
I love that the girls are so involved in the gardening and helping out with chores. 💖
involved and learning :)
Homesteading isn’t all about growing, it’s about your lifestyle.
This year not so good, next the best!
Growing is a learning curve. We are all in the same boat.
Absolutely! We have to step back every so often to see the grand picture of how it is advancing! Life principle. We got this!
I literally cannot handle Cassidy. Her sweet little voice gives me so much joy. She has grown so much and it is so beautiful to watch. I have learned lots from your gardening expeditions and I appreciate it. I have a generous garden started this year. It's but self sustaining by any means yet but it's a start and each year you learn more and get better. I've had so much fun and gratification from my garden. I just made my first batch of spaghetti sauce out of about 18lbs of tomatoes. Hoping for another batch and that should do it for spaghetti sauce over the winter hopefully :)
Put fencing around your trees and that keeps all the animals away from the roots and branches.just put it high enough so it's right under the lowest branches and like 2 or 3 feet around
Are you sure the tomatoes are diseased and not just aging/coming to the end of the season plus having a tough season with the weather? I cannot see properly to tell, but Charles Dowding has talked about it in videos. He shows leaves that look bad but he says it's not disease. Yours may still be fine. As to the fruit trees, I select sites that I can get water too, and that is not a frost pocket that might get the blossoms caught in a late frost which would loose the crop. Cassie is super cute.
My grandpa always said farmers learn to do by doing. All of his tomatoes with blossom end rot went into the slop bucket for the pigs. But each year your garden grows and you learn more. I have learned so much from you and Philip about homesteading. Now I am done with my babies and I have grands, but my daughter may never have baby so I follow your infertility journey too.keep on teaching!
First year fruit or any trees need a lot of water to a depth of 3 to 4 feet about once a week (hopefully from rain). Fruit trees need about 8 hours of sunlight every day. Once tomatoes have blight, it usually will move through the plant, Trimming only slows it down especially if it wet or humid. Gardens have been challenging this year in many places.
You guys seriously have 3 beautiful girls. Cassidy has beautiful hair. It's gold!! She is so stinking cute. Life is mistakes dear Alex you're amazing!!!
I left my garden (mind you way smaller than yours 🤣❤️) for about a month on vacation from august 3-19. But I left it with a family a 7 year old girl & they had fun learning all about what I had in my garden. Maybe next time let a couple other families “baby sit” it and let them have produce as their payment ;)
You live and learn……..always!! It’s okay Alex, now you’ve learned, and will continue to learn!! You ARE AWESOME!!!!!
By the way, Cassidy is so cute!!! The girls have AMAZING PARENTS!!! Bless you all!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I think it was so sweet to see you're a little 1 he 1 helping you plan that tree And how your kids like to help in the garden All around Cassidy is so cute I thought it was funny when she said Alex
Cassidy was so cute helping with the garden and replant the tree. I would dig a hole and plant that apple tree deeper in the earth. I love that you are planting fruit trees! I would also suggest muscadine grapes! They grow great in the southern states. Don’t feel bad you didn’t get this huge crop. It takes time to learn these skills and some years you get a better garden crop. I would diversify. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket as they say. Still think you need a goat or donkey as cow companion. 😁
Donkeys are happiest with donkeys. Please don’t get her a donkey companion unless you’re getting two donkeys
Thank you for showing me that I am not alone. My garden has been hit hard this year with so many issues. I thought it was just me. Thanks for being honest. And showing us the highs and the lows of life.
Acre homestead has been really encouraging about her garden, after it be neglected during a move. She also has great tips for buying in bulk from farmers near you, and preserving that.
Had this happen to our tomatoes last year. This year? Bumper Crop. It happens and you didn't do anything wrong. I'm going to put my tomatoes up like you did. I love the idea!
Cassidy is hilarious! Picking the ground cherries to put in her bucket. Then she just peels and eats them. You don’t have to worry about her being hungry, she’ll just go pick something in the garden! 💗
I live in Canada. When our frost comes I pick all remaining tomatoes green included as they ripen inside. Maybe it would help for the drought and disease to pick them all.
I was going to write the same (from Quebec 🇨🇦here) save the rest and pluck them off. A few different ways to store them. And things to make with them and preserve them. Good luck! ❤
We do the same, (southwest Ontario 🇨🇦).
We do the same in Ottawa, Ont.
Phil, you’re right. It’s so therapeutic watching animals eat.☺️. Wet your Apple tree, leaves and all, and then sprinkle sevin dust on the leaves and base.Bugs were eating my apple and peach trees and that is what I did, plus watering and fertilizing it, but you have to keep on it as bugs are 10 times worse in the country. I had a garden this year but got nothing out of it, so next year I am going to concentrate on my fruit trees and blueberry bushes......not as much work.
Honey, God’s got ya’ll he has ya’ll in the palm of His hands! You are experiencing what ALL farmers are experiencing. I live in Arkansas and prayers are being sent up for all farmers!
Well. I am almost old enough to me your mom (and you are both blessed to have beautiful wonderful moms), not homesteading (although I eat healthy foods 94.3% of the time) but I follow you because I love you guys! I've been with you since your condo days and the joy it brings to see your beautiful family growing and all that you have accomplished!! You are so impressive! Go easy on yourselves!! You are doing a fabulous job in so many ways - including starting a whole new ecosystem!! There will be wins and losses....but only those who try nothing have zero losses You are a fantastic couple and I send you love and blessings. You'll conquer the tomato issues - I have no doubt.
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Amen 🙌🏻🙌🏻 SO WELL PUT! I second exactly what you said 😉
I saw on tiktok today, once tomatoes start to blush they'll not grow any more so can be picked. If you turn them upside down and put them together they produce a chemical which continues to ripen them and in a few days they'll be red. Not sure if it will help but maybe something to try 😊 x
Ok good tip! When your tomato crop fails see if you can find a farmer’s market with Someone who does bulk sales of canning tomatoes. If you can’t find that then try using the bulk cans #10 cans of tomato products for canning your sauce’s for your family. As an example: spaghetti sauce, marinara, pizza sauce, or anything else! Still cheaper to buy and can than you can buy in the long run and better control of what your family eats. Especially if you have a bulk foods or restaurant supply around you. Or if you have a discount store around you like Amy Maryon uses! We don’t have anything like that close to use.
It will come back that tree. Give it regular watering. If it’s got roots it will survive. Put some cow muck in the tree hole before planting properly. That will nourish it. Seriously fruit trees are an excellent idea. 👍💖👍
Your garden looks wonderful it's amazing how quickly everything grows,,,,,
Gardening is a constant learning activity and depending on something bigger than yourself for proper weather conditions. Just like farmers do all the time.
You learned and you grew and you moved on. You’ve come so far. Yes, it’s ok to be upset for a bit.
Write it all down in your garden journal and some day when you’re in your 90s you’ll look back on it as a fond memory.
I think the tree will be fine. I have a beautiful oak tree that was planted when we moved into our house. A little baby fragile thing and my German Shepard tore it to pieces leaving just a little of the root . I was so annoyed and upset !!! I didn’t pull what was left out and fast forward 7 years later it’s grown so much! It survived my dogs attack lack of care bx we thought it was dead lol. It is taller than me! So I’m sure ur tree will survive ❤️
Why not grow perennial flowers that you can leave or chop and drop end of season. Salvia, Rudebekia, Verbena, Echinacea purpurea (Cone Flower), Yarrow, Lupins around outside and it will bring in lots of pollinators. Also can cut and have in vase.
Interesting. I never knew there was such a thing as "ground cherries". Interesting. My neighbors and I also had no crops because we had no bees. We had to try and hand pollinate, but I read that bees don't just simply pollinate. They bring with them the energy from other plants so it makes the produce healthy and strong and nutritious to eat. My hand-pollinated zucchini was very hard even though it looked fine and full grown on the outside.
That’s a good point. Starting a honeybee hive might help vegetables taste better if you don’t see many bees around, but I wouldn’t want lots of bees either. Maybe far off in the corner of your property, away from the animals.
In canada here, barely any crops because of lack of bees… we also have been self pollinating but meh.
I’m n Nh and the same my little garden just started producing zucchini and summer squash and cukes are very sparse due to no bees sad no rain no bees
When I planted my fruit trees I put netting on it and they did great. Just a suggestion. Praying for you and your family. Love you guys. Cassidy is the cutest 😍
We are in Indiana. Our fruit trees get 6+ hours of full sunlight. It has taken 5 years for our apple trees to start producing. Our pear trees seem to be doing better than the apple trees. Hoping to plant some peach & apricot trees next year.
I am in Middle TN also and have had the same issues with my tomato plants. Right now I am trying to just save the tomatos that I have growing. I have started to pick them as soon as they start to blush and then bring them inside to ripen. They aren't the prettiest tomatos but they will make great sauce. You are doing an awesome job with your garden. The ground cherries don't even make inside at my house. 😁
I love hearing Cassidy talking.
Cassidy is so doggone cute! She’s such a great farm worker bee as well! 😊
You look fantastic Alex!
We had our first garden this year, no-till method that I learned from you. Lots to learn
Way to go Clara!!!
I live in Central Indiana, alot of gardeners have had trouble with their tomatoes this year. They didn't do well here either. These are folks that have a garden every year and lost most of theirs too.
I live in Connecticut and my garden did not do well this year either. The drought has not helped. We are on a well system and had to cut back on watering. My tomatoes did well but the squirrels got to them before me. Very frustrating. Praying next year will be better. Love the way Cassidy is talking. So cute.
.How to Defeat Tomato BlightToo dry weather or to much water..Copper spray helps a lot. I've tried it, and my friends did as well. However, dont wait until the disease occurs. Spray when seedlings are around 6 inches tall (before planting), then a couple of times every 2-3 weeks (not earlier, as it will damage the plant). IT'S IMPORTANT YOU SPRAY EITHER EARLY MORNING OR LATE EVENING, SO IT DOESNT KILL THE BEES (if the spray it wet on the plant, the bees will carry it to their hive and kill other bees or the queen, which eventually weakens the colony, and if no queen, kills the hive). Ideally, its also good that it rains 3 days after the spray. The fruits can be eaten a few days after the spray.
Alex, some of the issue with the tomatoes is sun scald not disease. They should come back if you cover them with white garden fabric/shade netting during the hottest parts of the day. The issue with the fruit tree and the chickens is they are probably after grubs in the soil. You can take a tomato cage from Lowes or Tractor Supply and snip it down the side, wrap it around the tree larger side down, use some landscape staples to hold it down to the ground and zip tie the side where you snipped it apart, and then wrap the same white garden fabric around it to keep the chickens out. You can even connect two of them together if you want a larger circle around the tree.
I live in an apartment and I have to plant in pots. Any help or advise you have for me would be great. My daughter and son-in-law grow fruit trees. The have apples, oranges, plums, blueberries, raspberries, lemons. They had to move again and took their fruit trees with them! And he has even learned to crossbreed! They have lemon/oranges, apple/plums and they are DELICIOUS! He time he gets new orders They dig up the trees and bushes and take them with! NAVY life❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸
I love watching your videos your sweet family and you are so positive. I’ve been watching since before the baby was born. She’s gotten big and talks so well.
OMG a flower garden around like a cut flower garden?! Lots of pretty lush florals that you could make little bouquets out of!!! Imagine the table having those flowers and gifting them!!
Wanted to add that having the flowers would bring more pollinators!
Round bottom of tree cardboard cut a slat and pull round tree will protect roots and put mulch on top maybe that will help (like a cardboard collar around tree base, so when chickens scratch cardboard stays on to protect root. Or put chicken wire around tree to protect while young
You can get traps for them. A bag with a scent attractor at the top. They drop in and can’t get out. About $10 at the hardware store
We put a little fence around our fruit trees to keep the animals away. We also water them a lot. We are in Canada and not the coast and we got lots of fruit this year.
Get some watering bags for the base of your trees to help water them and protect the base from digging animals. You should put a protective sleeve around the bark of the tree to save them from deer rubbing against it, rubbing off the protective bark.
A lot of places have fruit trees on sale right now, to clear them out. Most have a 1-year warranty. Save your receipt, in case it does, to get a replacement tree.
Homemade sauerkraut is the best and tastes so much better than anything in the grocery store. I actually do not like store bought sauerkraut but have had it homemade multiple times and love it.
I can't believe how big cassidy is getting and omg so cute when she speaks so adorable 😍 you guys are doing fantastic with your farming. All good farmers go through the loss and that leads to a learning process so you can do better next time. And what works for someone else may not work for you. Remember your soil water and environment is all different even down to your neighbours.
You can take green tomatoes, wrap in newspaper & store in the basement and you will have them all winter! Cassidy is talking so well and so articulate!
Woah!! I’m going to try this!!!! Temperature storing suggestions?
Love Philip's laughter it makes me laugh and makes my day. You guys are the best . Always 🌹❤️
Lil Cassidy Drew is really a mini girl version of Phil with blonde hair, like mom. She is so cute and sweet!!!
My tomatoes got blossom end rot from not getting enough water often enough. I love your channel!
Mine get it from not enough calcium in the soil
Here’s a suggestion if you want fruit trees. Our 6 varieties of apples, Bosc Asian Pears, Bartlett Pears, & nectarine trees were all pruned the Espalier way. And, Oh, my word. We just harvested our Bartlett for canning!! 😳 Our nectarine tree is fairly new and it only yielded 10, but they’re scrumptious!! But we’re in Utah and everything comes in a bit later. Plus we have SO many grapes!! Lol….ACK!!!Edited to say, we are SO thankful!!! And you two are too cute!! ❤️ Love your family!!
Alex you guys are doing AMAZING!!! Keep it positive my dear cuz you guys give me positivity all the time and I’m so thankful
2:10 seeding in the fall has worked better for me than in the spring, because the little seedlings don't get scorched
Cassie is getting so big and she is so adorable and smart. Well all the girls are adorable and smart and great sisters to each other. U guys are so great and I really hope u get u another adorable child some day soon because u deserve it and are great parents. I love u guys
If the beetles are getting in the roots, make a little ammonia water, and pour it on the roots... It will get rid of your bugs, and the chickies should leave them alone. Also, you can put metal fencing down on the ground around the tree, and stake it down... Last but not least, sprinkle black, or red pepper on the ground around the trees.... Also...don't put the mulch up on the trunk of the tree...it will make it rot... Good luck!
Gosh so sorry about the hit! I came home from vacation to someone turning off the water to our garden on accident. It’s was 110 and it was off for days 😫.
I do love watching how you guys take on challenges. 👏🏻👏🏻
Chicken coop wire around the bottom of the tree to keep the chickens and critters away, and full all day sun, 8 or longer, 6 may be too short.
Lol we just sold our house and are moving into our 40ft RV full time,we can't wait
Ohmygoodness Cassidy is just precious picking those ground cherries 🍒 and helping with dirt arthr apple 🍏 tree! 🥰
I just went through this with my tomato plants. Spray them with Copper Fungicide. It will help all of it including the soil.
I first found your channel when you found out you were pregnant and surprised Philip. You were shaking your hand in excitement.
You have been my regulars to watch as you bought your home, had Cassidy and started homesteading.
Keep up the good work but take some days off to reboot yourselves, maybe not a week but 2 or 3 days.😉
Good luck and may God keep blessing you daily.
You can pick the tomatoes that are not quite ripe yet and place them somewhere in the sun. They will get red, so that you can enjoy them 😊👍
for trees and mulch it should be a doughnut shape, if too much of the truck is covered, it will die
Cassidy is getting such a good life education, what better a way to learn than in nature
We have an AVOCADO ORGANIC MATTRESS. We love it.
I live in Southern Illinois (2 miles from KY border) and we lost our garden as well. Despite my best efforts to water and feed our garden the sun burnt it all up. I only got 2 okra and a cucumber. Very sad :(
From experience we don't use peroxide or alcohol anywhere near the plants. Epsom salts we use while planting. If the plants have dried leave we pinch them off. Would be better if you had a sprayer used that on your plants.There are many places to teach you what to use and measurements for mixing. Good luck.
So entertaining when y’all sit down and talk, Ty for sharing all that you do.
Hugs and love from down south.
God Bless
I lost my garden (indiana)..we did go on vacation for 2 weeks in mid June but by 4th of July the garden died. I have hope for potatoes that are planted at my parents. 🤷♀️
I love Cape gooseberries (what I call ground cherries!) I want to plant some now!!
Where is Callie ? I occasionally see Kinsley but I’m missing Callie and her cute way of dressing and her love of chickens and the garden.
Non bio kid = not as important. 🤷♀️ alot of RUclips families who adopt and have their own are the same.
@@trude_in_adelaide who are you? ARE YOU INSANE? They are so not that kind of people! Please just leave!
@@trude_in_adelaide What a nasty and silly thing to say .
Our fruit trees the one that gets a bunch of sun light does awesome and the other doesn't really do well and it gets about half the sunlight
I love your channel. I have been here for years. As for your garden, some years in works better than others. I only get to garden in a tiny city backyard in a much colder area than you. I grew potatoes and onions for the first time. They grew and I got to dig up more than I planted so I was happy. Other plants didn’t do as well. I’m still learning and I’m in my mid 50’s.
I buy 25 lb cases of local Roma tomatoes and peaches to can.
Alex ..
Put the tree in a bucket of compost with the bottom cut out till it roots properly .
Chickens cant get to it then plant the whole bucket in the ground when you are happy its rooted.
My poor beefsteak tomatoes got "catface"' edible but soooo ugly we think it was the drought.
Lovin' Cassidy she's so sassy and her speech is so advanced . Mommy Alex - what a hoot!!
Love as always xx
Jan 🇬🇧
Whatever you do don’t plant next years tomatoes in the same place in the garden. Do you have agricultural extension offices from a university in Tenn? Ask them what to do
It just a lesson of this season next year is a new season that you will remember all what you learned this year
I plant my tomatoes close together. I stake them. As soon as I have flowers and fruit appear, I cut off EVERYTHING BELOW. I have never had any disease.
For us it was the green horned caterpillars that devastated my tomato plants, again 🥴, even though I had planted Marigolds and basil with them. Our peach trees on the other hand produced so much fruit, more than we can pick, so the birds get to eat some too.
Around your fruit trees put some kind of mesh or chicken wire around the trees so the chickens can’t dig it up. Put some across the top of the stuff you put around to cover the ground so the chickens don’t get to the dirt from the top.
Do you know that you can pick those green tomatoes put them in a sunny place in your house and they will ripen. I have raised many tomatoes
If you put a 3rd post in around Ur fruit tree then surround it in chicken wire it should keep the chickens out of the rooting system until it's well established then you can remove it again. Love watching your journey ❤
I have so had this happen. I can’t say enough what good organic fertilizer for tomatos will do for the disease. Disease is also a sign of mineral deficiency.
In California our orange, lemon, lime and apple trees had direct sunlight all day. The thrived for 35 years then we moved.
We call ground cherries gooseberries, they just grow out in the wild where I live.
Gooseberries here grow on a bush here and don’t have paper-like coverings
Yes, here gooseberries grow on bushes and have prickles on them.
We call your ground cherries Cape gooseberries, my son is 32 and has loved them since he was very little.
They’re sold in CO as gooseberries.
Physalis in the UK
I follow a page on Instagram where they have these bags that catch Japanese beetles to leave their plants alone. They have about 5 of them, per area, and they just empty them out and give them to their chicken to eat after crushing them a little so they don’t fly out. Maybe that can work for you guys
For the fruit trees if you want to protect the roots from the chickens you need to surround with chickens wire. If not it will happen again until they killed hin
This is so precious with Cassidy helping