I would recommend still using the back to eden/lasagna layering method WITH the fabric. I can push my arm into my soil because it's so soft. It's full of worms, fungus mycelium and microbes that feed my root nodules and keep the ground soft. Tilling your soil is what's making it so hard. Allowing the fungus to grow in your soil will drastically lossen it up. Just layer your manure and compost. Everytime you till, you kill the mycelium and destroy all the ground softening microbial life in the soil. I had to get the extra long staples because my ground was so soft. Just my suggestion. I'm very grateful for your recommendation of using the ground cloth. It's already making weeding so simple.
I'm a big fan of the deep mulch method too, but K+S have mentioned a couple of times that they don't have access to wood chips or uncontaminated mulching material where they live. Hopefully they'll be able to find a source or grow their own in the future, but when Sarah said it doesn't work for them, she means they just can't get any. Hope you don't mind me jumping in here... they get this suggestion a lot.
You know, I hadn't even thought about doing both! Sooooo gonna start that this year with my friends garden and will continue it in my own when I eventually get one!
You can put gypsum in the planting holes. I have been doing this for quite some time. You can also just spread the gypsum over the top of the soil. It does not have to be tilled in. I realize you wanted to till it in. But, it isn't necessary. And if it saves you time, just drop a handful in the planting holes as you plant everything up. Gosh, I hope you guys see this comment before you plant it all up.
Love the way you plan, decide, and work together!! And WOW...that fence post putter-inner!!! What kind of wizardry is THAT!!?? Hope you have a great day planting!
Here in the mountains of Puerto Rico, it has been raining, super hot, and humid for weeks. Our pepper and tomato plants are suffering, but our sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, ginger, papaya and spinach are having the time of their lives.
The trucker had a GREAT verse on his truck! Numbers 6:24-26! Your garden is going to look great! I'd love to have a garden, but I couldn't keep up with it health-wise, so I'll just bless your garden and harvest! :-)
The ground cover is a game changer! Our time spent in weeding has almost gone to zero. We use T-Posts and cattle panels for trellising. I enjoy your channel so much!
Yes, we purchased it last year, too, just our holes are not as beautiful burnt in as these of the Homestead. It helps a lot. We also need less watering.
Yes we did the ground cover land scape fabric also. Hubby loves playing with the little torch. Lol !but I love going to the garden at anytime and no weeds no mud ! Yes !,, 💖Love This! The Best! As far as the weather I have Onions, Beets, carrots and 17 tomatoes plant. Since that we have had Rain Rain Rain 💦💦💦! Ugh. But as of the past several years I’ve never got to plant till frst week in June and it seem to alway catch up somehow. Happy Gardening to all.
You guys using the woof and weed fabric made up my mind to use it last year when I started my first large garden bed. 20x40 and I used the 6 ft roll. I'm so busy I don't have time to drive up to my community garden plot all the time so the fact that it cuts down on weeding to almost nothing has been such a time saver and back saver that I can't thank you enough for sharing this discovery with us.
We’re having severe drought, wind, and wild temperature swings in northern Arizona. Two days of 50 to 60 mph winds and then 27 degree temperatures the other morning. My poor garden.
Both my brother and father had melanoma on their ears. They never covered them. We farmed when I was young. Drove tractor without cabs. I have been wearing floppy hats for years to try and prevent that.
Yes please use more ear protection! There’s an even rarer form beyond Melanoma. It’s called Merkel Cell Carcinoma🥴please lots of screen and complete coverage of those pink precious ears🙏🏼👍❤️✅
Yes, Kevin and Sarah, you should both wear the big hats to protect your face, neck and ears from the sun and 100 soft. I had a basal cell cancer removed from the top of one ear last May. It still hurts, but I was lucky only for the type.
Here’s a tip from a neighbouring tomato farmer....use single strand plain wire for your trellises, one every 8 to 12 inches, then once the crops finished you just wind it in from the end using a hose reel. No more pulling old dried plant material from your netting....it’s all clean and very fast. Cheers.
We use the weed fabric for the melon beds and the hardest part here on the mountain is fighting the wind as we lay it. 😄 We've also hauled in several dump loads of mushroom compost from J-M Mushrooms to cover the melon beds and fill the raised beds. The cauliflower and cabbage went crazy. Hoping for a great harvest for y'all this year!
I miss mushroom compost. There isn't any around here any longer. We even would get a flush of the brown portobello type mushroom here and there. Thankfully I know a mushroom guy who id them for me cuz you never just eat mushroom out of the yard lol. He took a few pounds and I had quite a few pounds that year. And here I thought you had to grow them in the dark lol. (They do better and are prettier in the dark) But the flavor of them was so lovely. My next goal is getting some old oak limbs as my mom has all kinds of oak out back and try shitake mushroom logs. I tried oyster kits and they are fun and adding it to a small wood pile I got a nice flush of oysters from that. I'm Hoping it will reflush again for me
I found the secret to the squash bug problem here in Missouri. I let my ducks into the garden a few times a week. They make the bugs disappear in no time flat, and then you just herd them back out. It is a timing thing though because if you let them in there for too long, they eat all the bugs and then start snacking on the plants/veggies.
I live in Stone County, MO so I enjoy watching your channel. It’s nice to have someone close who is trying to grow with the same climate & crazy weather. Thanks!
I personally like using the cattle panels. At the end of the year, I just build a fire and slowly drag the panels over it and all the dead plants and vines just burn off. I could probably do the same with wire, but I think the panels will last longer because of being so heavy weight. Another good video, keep them coming. Have a blessed day.
They even unroll the fabric at the same rythme with the same feet...what a lovely couple 🥰 greatings from Switzerland 💚 PS: wrote my message before "the next morning" was not ready for the red hut 🤯 you rock!
Beautiful garden - SO exciting!! Y'all are such hard workers. I wish we lived close to y'all, we would gladly help y'all. God bless your family & your farm!!
FYI, gypsum doesn't need to be worked into the soil, just broadcast it on the surface and for every inch of rain you get the gypsum penetrates that deep into the soil. Hope this helps and assures you its not too late. God Bless.
I have been binge watching your channel now for several days, I am a grandma who lives alone in Fla. I disliked cable, too expensive and my son bought me a ROKU and showed me RUclips videos...I discovered I loved homesteading!!! And your channel by far..is the most educational and interesting one yet!!! You both are truly wonderful teachers, have a wonderful family and I usually never make comments, but I just watched the video with the Birdhouse Gourds and flipped out!!! I just had to say how absolutely amazing and beautiful that was!!! Of course I am a birder and love anything to do with birds anyway!! Thank you so much for so much enjoyment
Planting time is my favorite time!! So exited to see this. I planted half of my garden with weed fabric and the other half without. The weed fabric side is growing bigger and healthier. I’m sold on it!!
The weed fabric really does alleviate a ton of work. We have had issues with the heat reflecting off the black fabric back onto the seedlings or transplants causing them stress. They do overcome it as they grow, but it's something to consider!
I live very, very close to your homestead. The fact that you haven't started your garden yet, makes me feel good. I do have all my (40) tomato plants, peppers, sweet potato slips, and some lettuce in the ground. All seem to be doing great. If I don't get lots of tomatoes this year, I give up!!!
You can still top dress with the rabbit manure since it is cold and the rain will wash its goodness right down to your plants roots. You could also make rabbit manure tea to water with. All is not lost. Your garden always looks so neat and clean. I will be using the woven cloth in my greenhouse thanks to your example. Happy Day!
If you need calcium, you can also add Powdered milk to your planting holes, for now. Or top dress with it and water it in well. I needed it last year, I did it once, and blossom end rot was over.
You should use 40 penny gal nails with fender washers to nail down landscape fabric. Also you can use granular gypsum in planting holes. Gypsum needs to be applied in spring planting and again in fall, it takes several years to work, don't give up on it.Retired landscape contractor of 45 years
Keep the faith. The natural rains will enhance the plant growth. Maybe start your own earthworm "farm". My uncle used an old dresser drawer in a dark area and grew earthworms for his garden and fishing. My mom soaked discarded fish heads for a liquid she poured around plants. Beautiful success in her gardens.
I am so glad that I found you! The weed fabric has been a Blessing, we started using it last year after watching you. We use the 4’ wide version, also I put a piece of para cord though the tube that we use as handles to pull it to Un-roll it. Our biggest problem is with those staples here in SW Missouri, if only rocks were a cash crop 😜
Love the red hat! Watching the two of you roll out the fabric was like watching gardening ballet. Synchronized kicks to the roll, step step step kick! Fun to watch how well you work together!
Just put some amendments and some Rabbit Poop in bottom of the hole of each plant and everything will grow well. That's what I did and everything is growing good. 👍
Today I set sweet potato slips in my 4 raised bed boxes. I staggered 4 rows in each box. 4'x8'x24". It'll be softer soil for digging for sure. If autumns weather cooperates, lol, a late growing season would be great! Happy gardening.🥀🐝
Last saw ur girls when u did beery picking. Heard 1 graduated. What a milestone. I had my 6 grandkids now in college, crazy times. Hope the kids all going where they want. Blessings to u & urs
Of all the videos I have watched yours on the woven weave fabric has been such a blessing for my garden. I have had this for 3 years now and I love it. So much easier to have a garden now. The butane torch cuts it, created holes, etc. Love it too. Thank you for sharing this information on a video.
The compost will make a huge difference on it's own, I think you did the most important part. We have similar soil and amended with compost last year and it was like 300% better. I expect your garden will be epic this year barring any major issues with weather. Woven weed fabric is amazing, I started using it last year after discovering your channel and won't ever go back. I'm part of the Iowa gardeners fb group and many on there mention your channel as the source of so many gardening tips. Thank you! Side note: Same music @10:48 that Matt's Off Road Recovery youtube channel uses in almost all of their videos. That was fun to hear! I thought it was just their theme song of sorts, but apparently it's not.
A suggestion... Maybe you can till in the amendments after the harvest. It can continue to break down during the winter months... Feed the native worms.. 😍
Thanks to you, this is second year using the black weed fabric and using a small torch to cut it. We absolutely love it. We are in our 60's and bending to weed is not pretty. This has helped us so much. Thanks Sue and Michael
One thing you can do with the landscape fab down is make an overnight slurry of worm castings & rainwater and then pour it in the holes as you plant. I wouldn't even bother bubbling it. Just give it a good stir every time you water a hole. My growers group is rethinking everything we do. I got some push back on using 15 ft landscape fab until I explained there were other ways to side dress crops without direct access to soil. It would also stretch our resources. The rhizosphere of any given plant is a narrow area surrounding the plant/seed when young.
Hello!! I.finally finished putting my garden in around 5/17.... now my concern is the temperature. It's been 70s and 80s in Ohio... now they're saying maybe a few nights of 30s ... What??? I'm praying for the temperature to change. Praying for you and your gardens as well .💕🌹
Here in Vegas, I’ve been harvesting beans, zucchini and cucumbers for a month. Strawberries are finished. Melons are softball size. Pepper and tomato plants are full of baby fruits! We’ve been eating apricots for about a week and our figs have about 2 weeks
Someone may have already suggested this, but what about a 55 gallon barrel of rabbit manure tea? Sorry about all the wet weather. Please send a soaking rain to New Hampshire! We love the woven fabric! We could not keep ahead of the weeds. You garden area is ideal. I thought it would just be the deer, but we have a resident black bear who got into my woodland garden and stole my bottle of plant fertilizer :-O There is no accounting for taste...now it is coming around again this spring and we need to electric fence. Best of luck with your planting! ~ Diane
Crunch time in Southern Missouri as always. I'm just now planting ours as well. Love your videos, they keep me inspired. God bless you and your family!
I'm sure it'll do good. My dad started using that stuff with our garden a couple years ago due to the amount of weeds that grow in it during the winter months. Now the only weeds we have to pull in it is the holes that we grow our plants in. Hasn't affected it a bit
I agree with you. It will be your best year yet... In many categories. Neither of you are blind; don't ever lose your vision. Life does not work in rewind regrets. It works in forward motion successes. We do our part And God Does tend to what we can't change. And we all have much to be grateful for. .. Including dumptruck friendships. Blessings to you two. You're doing awesome. Keep it up.
hi i love rain and i do understand perfectly when it rains and cant do garden but God 🙏 will provide, there the sun as you said so today seems to be the time.
Go with a living green cover crop that includes a heavy amount of cereal rye and you'll never have to add anything ever again, and you'll get rid of the plastic too. Once you roll it down you'll have all the much you'll ever need. We do that large scale as grain farmers, as we as on the 80 acres used for my wife's produce production.
My growers group has been challenged by COVID for 2020 & 2021. We are re-thinkinking everything from compost production to bed management. That 15 ft landscape fab will solve a lot of problems for our big production beds with some upfront planning.
You can get sheets of a fabric called limited 24x300 from a greenhouse supply company. I have some that are thirty years old now and still going strong.
Just love your channel. And I love all the decisions you make. And the very special item for today is your awesome hays. Sarah love yours cuz it is neutral. And has a wide brim to block out from hitting your face and neck. And. Kevin yours is an awesome hat. And it blocks the sun from your face. Hope & pray that you have nothing but AWESOME LUCK for your farm. 🙏🤗💙💜❤️
I grew up in the Midwest and the zones the soil the clement, it all varies and it all matters .... timing for your place may not be the same is what I am getting at ... if you feel the time is right plant, if you think it is too late stop think and look at the seed timing to grow and your calendar, do you have time? Seeds are consistent in the need to grow. The how is up to the sower. Have a great day in or out of your garden folks. Thanks to this Chanel we all have super great ideas from this perspective of planning. Thank you guys for being a RUclipsr. Can’t wait for the next one! God bless!
Ya'll have had a lot going on already this year. Give yourselves some grace. We just moved from an Alaskan island down to Appalachia. We are planting our new garden and a neighbor's old garden on Friday...I worried about being too late also; then I thought, well, my family in Pittsburgh said that they don't even think about planting their gardens until after Memorial Day weekend. With that news I thought, that's great...we have a much longer season than they do. So, we will be harvesting later than we would like; but, we WILL be harvesting! Great news!!! I think you'll have a great harvest. We did put our beans in the Greenstalk and are just starting to harvest a few beans and watching more beans come on. Patience and willingness to try allows for harvesting some and amending for next year's larger harvest.
Have you ever heard of "putting the garden to bed" in the fall? You do your last till making sure to remove your summer veggie root systems to also remove any insect and disease tupe things. Then you top dress with used animal bedding and leaves (nothing with seeds ready to grow, at least around here) from 6"-18"deep and call it good for the winter. In spring, rake off what you dint want to till in as a "brown stuff" start to spring compost bins; around here its big-leaf maple leaves and many people use them as a top layer for this reason. Over saturated soil compacts but, heavy rains and snows can compact soil too. That layer of top dressing reduces the pelting power of rain, gives a place for garden worms to travel when the soil is super wet, composts as particles and tea into the dirt, and provides the nutrients for all of the organic,bacterial, fungi, and soil critters to do thier things when the conditions are right. The top layer acts like a moisture absorbing and giving insulation barrier leaving the soils underneath a little warmer fkr more activity in the winter. - Warning, a hungry soil can drop 18" of top dressing down to 4" or less in 4-6 weeks in both fall and spring. Also, some people do a light scattering of organic fertilizer (like throwing scratch to chickens) over the soil before top dressing.
Natural or organic amendments are available. Bone meal, blood meal, gypsum. If flowering/blooming is an issue on otherwise healthy plants, bone meal helps considerably. In regards to ground cover, I think it depends on the size of the garden. We have used the ground cover and it works, but is expensive. Our main garden is 20x30'. 1 roll of the 3'x300', $100. 2 bales of straw, $16. It can be reused. The 6-8"s we put down over our garlic in the fall, gets spread in the main garden the following spring. So we don't always need 2 bales. It also helps retain moisture and eventually decomposes adding nutrients to the soil. Whereas the ground cover eventually needs to go in an already stressed plastic pipeline. Weeds will grow up through the straw, but few and far between. We only spend about 1 hour a week, (10 minutes a day) pulling weeds. That's cheap maintenance. Every one of us is in the garden more than that daily anyway. Gardens as big as theirs..... that would get ground cover. Lastly, whichever method you use.... there's goina be weeds. Good luck all.
Start collecting the rain. Put garbage cans under your eaves, etc. Google. Absolutely adore that smile. Makes my day. And, I can hear you but can not see you because the ad is stuck. Neat I guess. Gardeners Supply has 10 inch staples.
I watch a lot of Homesteaders and your channel in my opinion is the best and you have the best looking Homestead and are the best gardeners next to Gardening with Leon I I loved your feeding stations for the Pigs
Oh I wish I had that torch!! I used scissors to cut everything!!! My garden is no where near that size but this is my first year using the weed cloth and so far I’m loving NO WEEDS!!!
After watching your channel early last year I am using the woven fabric this year and drip irrigation, I am loving my garden this year, these Missouri weeds are ruthless 😎. Thank you
Good job, guys. You will have a great season with the addition of that compost though you could have broadcast that rabbit manure without having to till it in. This would have helped the roots spread out more and take in nutrients and water from a larger area. You will find garden centers and nurseries use that weed cloth extensively. For those interested, that plastic type is designed for weed weed control. it is available in several other materials for different purposes such as erosion control on sloped ground and banks of ponds and others designed to let water through faster than the plastic stuff. Also, if using rock in an area put weed cloth down first, it will keep the rock from migrating into the soil. You may want to consider purchasing some beneficial insects (and plants that attract them) to help fight those bad bugs. That may even be something that could help the cows with their fly problem. Hope this helps in some way, James
Wish we had some of your rain. Every time the weather says rain, it doesn't. Was able to get my garden in a little earlier than normal. Kevin, hope your shirt is waterproof because that hat's a pisser!!!!!!! That's ok though, my hubby uses an old straw hat that was my Mom's, yeah it's pink!!! Thanks for another great video. Cant wait to see the garden planted.
You need to interplant some trees with your vegetables. Or you will have a lot of pests. Trees not only add organic matter to your soil. They provide a good habitat for beneficial insects and birds that will keep some of the worse pest away. Don't cut your grass until it is at least 6 inches long. This way you get a lot more organic matter to fertilize your soil. Grass mulch can also reduce your water use. Trees will also give some good shade for you to plant things like lettuce, basil, cilantro, etc etc.
That woven weed cover is amazing. Our daughter and son n law just got some for their garden. Thanks for sharing your success with it to us! His bless! 💜
We all have to do what works best for us. Guess Ive been lucky that Back To Eden works for me and has been a blessing. Very few to no weeds and hardly ever have to water. I have hard clay soil too, they call it chert dirt here in North Alabama but with so much organic matter and half rotted wood chips for several years has made the soil wonderful dark soil to work with. I put 4- 167ft Premier one poultry netting around our garden. It keeps the wildlife out. Lol that for sure. I'm sure your garden will be wonderful again this year. 👍❤️
If ypu find your garden cloth to work, consider a slow/low watering system placed under your garden cloth. Something similar to the Anderson flat hoses which you (probably) can't afford on a large garden plot vs a landscaped yard. We've used white PVC systems with 1/16th" holes every 6" pretty sucessfully; configure at will to meet site (or raised bed) needs with connectors, short garden hose lengths, brass garden hose valve water flow restrictors, and multi-ways. We had one set-up where we could screw in/turn on a garden hose to a 5-way, slow water 5 rows, and come back an hour later to turn off the hose. We often use an abundance of the in-line, brass water flow restrictors so we can dynamically control water flow; most often due to changes coming into the system.
I save my egg shells over the year. I let them dry then I crush them fine and coarse. I put some fine in the bottom of plant holes and coarse around the top of the dirt. This helps with blossom end rot, plus the coarse edges help with pest control.
OH MY GOSH 😳. A DUMP TRUCK OF BLACK GOLD🤩🤩 It looks so beautiful! That might sound weird to some but I live in the high desert of Northern Nevada. You two work so hard for super production 👍. I’m going to plant tomorrow... I think/ hope we don’t have anymore nights in the 20s😔 Can’t wait to see your garden in full bloom🍅🥒🌶🍆🥕🫑🥕🧤🤩❣️
I’m trying something new pruning my squash vertically, and I put my zucchini in a large pot up off the ground... to avoid squash bugs... also will wrap the stems at the ground in aluminum foil to help prevent the vine borers...I’ll let you know how it works...
Who needs the Texas Two Step when you have the Ozark Weed Cloth Shuffle? 😉
They do have that synchronized kick-stepping down don't they; love the way they work together
LOL! Exactly what I was thinking!
Cute 😂!
Lol yes! 😂👍
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I would recommend still using the back to eden/lasagna layering method WITH the fabric. I can push my arm into my soil because it's so soft. It's full of worms, fungus mycelium and microbes that feed my root nodules and keep the ground soft. Tilling your soil is what's making it so hard. Allowing the fungus to grow in your soil will drastically lossen it up. Just layer your manure and compost. Everytime you till, you kill the mycelium and destroy all the ground softening microbial life in the soil. I had to get the extra long staples because my ground was so soft. Just my suggestion. I'm very grateful for your recommendation of using the ground cloth. It's already making weeding so simple.
Agree!
I'm the same. I don't till my garden but do have the weed fabric over it, at their suggestion. I'm loving it so far.
I'm a big fan of the deep mulch method too, but K+S have mentioned a couple of times that they don't have access to wood chips or uncontaminated mulching material where they live.
Hopefully they'll be able to find a source or grow their own in the future, but when Sarah said it doesn't work for them, she means they just can't get any.
Hope you don't mind me jumping in here... they get this suggestion a lot.
You know, I hadn't even thought about doing both! Sooooo gonna start that this year with my friends garden and will continue it in my own when I eventually get one!
They could have put the compost down. Then put wood chips. Then put the weed barrier over them.
You can put gypsum in the planting holes. I have been doing this for quite some time. You can also just spread the gypsum over the top of the soil. It does not have to be tilled in. I realize you wanted to till it in. But, it isn't necessary. And if it saves you time, just drop a handful in the planting holes as you plant everything up. Gosh, I hope you guys see this comment before you plant it all up.
Gypsum is ment to be applied on top. It will work it’s way threw
Gypsum is great! We added it our garden at our old house and even added it to our front yard! It made such a huge difference!
Side dressing with Gypsum is quite common.
l wondered if that would do the trick. l had wonderful results in hard clay with gypsum in my garden pathways.
Love the way you plan, decide, and work together!! And WOW...that fence post putter-inner!!! What kind of wizardry is THAT!!?? Hope you have a great day planting!
Here in the mountains of Puerto Rico, it has been raining, super hot, and humid for weeks. Our pepper and tomato plants are suffering, but our sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, ginger, papaya and spinach are having the time of their lives.
So glad I watch your channel. That weed fabric was the BEST investment for my garden so far! NO MORE WEEDS for our rainbow garden. HAPOY PLANTING!
That's a great hat! I'm still hoping for some rain. It's so dusty here.
The trucker had a GREAT verse on his truck! Numbers 6:24-26! Your garden is going to look great! I'd love to have a garden, but I couldn't keep up with it health-wise, so I'll just bless your garden and harvest! :-)
The ground cover is a game changer! Our time spent in weeding has almost gone to zero. We use T-Posts and cattle panels for trellising.
I enjoy your channel so much!
Yes, we purchased it last year, too, just our holes are not as beautiful burnt in as these of the Homestead. It helps a lot. We also need less watering.
Total game changer. The weeds would take over so fast and strong, it still causes me anxiety thinking about it. We also use t-posts and cattle panels.
Yes we did the ground cover land scape fabric also. Hubby loves playing with the little torch. Lol !but I love going to the garden at anytime and no weeds no mud ! Yes !,, 💖Love This! The Best! As far as the weather I have Onions, Beets, carrots and 17 tomatoes plant. Since that we have had Rain Rain Rain 💦💦💦! Ugh. But as of the past several years I’ve never got to plant till frst week in June and it seem to alway catch up somehow. Happy Gardening to all.
You guys using the woof and weed fabric made up my mind to use it last year when I started my first large garden bed. 20x40 and I used the 6 ft roll. I'm so busy I don't have time to drive up to my community garden plot all the time so the fact that it cuts down on weeding to almost nothing has been such a time saver and back saver that I can't thank you enough for sharing this discovery with us.
Here in Eastern North Carolina we are desperate for rain!! Hasn't rained in over a month. Please pray for rain for us!!
We finally got rain last night! I hope you did. I’m in Cerro Gordo, NC.
@@renitameares3838 yes. We did too! A beautiful soaking rain. Praise God!!
Talked to my mother about we soon need to be building an Ark... here in southern Sweden.
So much heavy rain hail storms and heavy winds in UK too
We’re having severe drought, wind, and wild temperature swings in northern Arizona. Two days of 50 to 60 mph winds and then 27 degree temperatures the other morning. My poor garden.
Kevin, Im happy to see your new hat that protects your ears from the hot summer sun. We wear floppy hats in the summer also.
Both my brother and father had melanoma on their ears. They never covered them. We farmed when I was young. Drove tractor without cabs.
I have been wearing floppy hats for years to try and prevent that.
I was grinning when I saw Kevin's t-shirt and hat combo.
Thanks for sharing your insight and efforts.
Yes please use more ear protection! There’s an even rarer form beyond Melanoma. It’s called Merkel Cell Carcinoma🥴please lots of screen and complete coverage of those pink precious ears🙏🏼👍❤️✅
Bout time crazy folka
Yes, Kevin and Sarah, you should both wear the big hats to protect your face, neck and ears from the sun and 100 soft. I had a basal cell cancer removed from the top of one ear last May. It still hurts, but I was lucky only for the type.
Here’s a tip from a neighbouring tomato farmer....use single strand plain wire for your trellises, one every 8 to 12 inches, then once the crops finished you just wind it in from the end using a hose reel. No more pulling old dried plant material from your netting....it’s all clean and very fast. Cheers.
We use the weed fabric for the melon beds and the hardest part here on the mountain is fighting the wind as we lay it. 😄 We've also hauled in several dump loads of mushroom compost from J-M Mushrooms to cover the melon beds and fill the raised beds. The cauliflower and cabbage went crazy. Hoping for a great harvest for y'all this year!
I miss mushroom compost. There isn't any around here any longer.
We even would get a flush of the brown portobello type mushroom here and there. Thankfully I know a mushroom guy who id them for me cuz you never just eat mushroom out of the yard lol. He took a few pounds and I had quite a few pounds that year. And here I thought you had to grow them in the dark lol. (They do better and are prettier in the dark)
But the flavor of them was so lovely.
My next goal is getting some old oak limbs as my mom has all kinds of oak out back and try shitake mushroom logs.
I tried oyster kits and they are fun and adding it to a small wood pile I got a nice flush of oysters from that. I'm Hoping it will reflush again for me
@@Emeraldwitch30 that great!
I found the secret to the squash bug problem here in Missouri. I let my ducks into the garden a few times a week. They make the bugs disappear in no time flat, and then you just herd them back out. It is a timing thing though because if you let them in there for too long, they eat all the bugs and then start snacking on the plants/veggies.
I live in Stone County, MO so I enjoy watching your channel. It’s nice to have someone close who is trying to grow with the same climate & crazy weather. Thanks!
You make a great team. Makes working on a farm so much easier.
I personally like using the cattle panels. At the end of the year, I just build a fire and slowly drag the panels over it and all the dead plants and vines just burn off. I could probably do the same with wire, but I think the panels will last longer because of being so heavy weight.
Another good video, keep them coming. Have a blessed day.
Robert, using a fire to burn off the stuborn plant pieces is a great idea!
Yes yes, a fantastic idea. I love it...and will use it this fall. Thanks very much.🥀
GREAT idea! Only, I think I’m going to just use a propane torch and do the burning in-situ.
Using metal and then burning it in the fall kills of a lot of pest eggs, fungi, and mildews.
They even unroll the fabric at the same rythme with the same feet...what a lovely couple 🥰 greatings from Switzerland 💚
PS: wrote my message before "the next morning" was not ready for the red hut 🤯 you rock!
Beautiful garden - SO exciting!! Y'all are such hard workers. I wish we lived close to y'all, we would gladly help y'all. God bless your family & your farm!!
Here in Texas we have had the rain too. Glad to see y’all finally got some decent weather to get your garden in.
Lordy, did we ever! Wish we could train these gee golly mosquitoes to pull weeds🤣
Yes, but we know how to handle them, how to aim and when to pull the trigger!
FYI, gypsum doesn't need to be worked into the soil, just broadcast it on the surface and for every inch of rain you get the gypsum penetrates that deep into the soil. Hope this helps and assures you its not too late. God Bless.
I’m a city girl through and through but I love watching you guys. So happy I found your channel!
I have been binge watching your channel now for several days, I am a grandma who lives alone in Fla. I disliked cable, too expensive and my son bought me a ROKU and showed me RUclips videos...I discovered I loved homesteading!!! And your channel by far..is the most educational and interesting one yet!!! You both are truly wonderful teachers, have a wonderful family and I usually never make comments, but I just watched the video with the Birdhouse Gourds and flipped out!!! I just had to say how absolutely amazing and beautiful that was!!! Of course I am a birder and love anything to do with birds anyway!! Thank you so much for so much enjoyment
Thank you so much for such kind words! So glad you are enjoying our videos.
You found some fine looking compost. The garden looked really good with Kevin's expertise on mixing it in. 👍
I'm amazed the wind didn't pick up 15-20.mph when you rolled that fabric out, y'all really are blessed lol
I thought the same thing!!
Planting time is my favorite time!! So exited to see this. I planted half of my garden with weed fabric and the other half without. The weed fabric side is growing bigger and healthier. I’m sold on it!!
The weed fabric really does alleviate a ton of work. We have had issues with the heat reflecting off the black fabric back onto the seedlings or transplants causing them stress. They do overcome it as they grow, but it's something to consider!
I live very, very close to your homestead. The fact that you haven't started your garden yet, makes me feel good. I do have all my (40) tomato plants, peppers, sweet potato slips, and some lettuce in the ground. All seem to be doing great. If I don't get lots of tomatoes this year, I give up!!!
You can still top dress with the rabbit manure since it is cold and the rain will wash its goodness right down to your plants roots. You could also make rabbit manure tea to water with. All is not lost. Your garden always looks so neat and clean. I will be using the woven cloth in my greenhouse thanks to your example.
Happy Day!
If you need calcium, you can also add Powdered milk to your planting holes, for now. Or top dress with it and water it in well. I needed it last year, I did it once, and blossom end rot was over.
Fat free if possible
Interesting!
Bone meal
You should use 40 penny gal nails with fender washers to nail down landscape fabric. Also you can use granular gypsum in planting holes. Gypsum needs to be applied in spring planting and again in fall, it takes several years to work, don't give up on it.Retired landscape contractor of 45 years
Keep the faith. The natural rains will enhance the plant growth. Maybe start your own earthworm "farm". My uncle used an old dresser drawer in a dark area and grew earthworms for his garden and fishing. My mom soaked discarded fish heads for a liquid she poured around plants. Beautiful success in her gardens.
That is some really nice looking compost good luck with your garden again Y'All work soo Hard God Bless.
You guys look like you are line dancing in the garden!! 😃❤️
I am so glad that I found you! The weed fabric has been a Blessing, we started using it last year after watching you. We use the 4’ wide version, also I put a piece of para cord though the tube that we use as handles to pull it to Un-roll it. Our biggest problem is with those staples here in SW Missouri, if only rocks were a cash crop 😜
Good Morning. Love watching your videos! I started added rabbit manure to my plants as well because of your videos ❤ Thanks for all your info.
Yep! Will be doing my final planting of my garden today
Did application of last bags of compost application yesterday. Looks great.
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Love the red hat! Watching the two of you roll out the fabric was like watching gardening ballet. Synchronized kicks to the roll, step step step kick! Fun to watch how well you work together!
Just put some amendments and some Rabbit Poop in bottom of the hole of each plant and everything will grow well. That's what I did and everything is growing good. 👍
Today I set sweet potato slips in my 4 raised bed boxes. I staggered 4 rows in each box. 4'x8'x24". It'll be softer soil for digging for sure. If autumns weather cooperates, lol, a late growing season would be great! Happy gardening.🥀🐝
You’re so smart and hard working. We love watching you. God Bless! ❤️
You can put gypsum in the planting holes just like you do the rabbit manure
Weed fabric has been a marriage saver, lol! I actually see him on the weekend instead of spending every weekend weeding! Thank you !!
Last saw ur girls when u did beery picking. Heard 1 graduated. What a milestone. I had my 6 grandkids now in college, crazy times. Hope the kids all going where they want. Blessings to u & urs
Of all the videos I have watched yours on the woven weave fabric has been such a blessing for my garden. I have had this for 3 years now and I love it. So much easier to have a garden now. The butane torch cuts it, created holes, etc. Love it too. Thank you for sharing this information on a video.
The compost will make a huge difference on it's own, I think you did the most important part. We have similar soil and amended with compost last year and it was like 300% better. I expect your garden will be epic this year barring any major issues with weather.
Woven weed fabric is amazing, I started using it last year after discovering your channel and won't ever go back. I'm part of the Iowa gardeners fb group and many on there mention your channel as the source of so many gardening tips. Thank you!
Side note: Same music @10:48 that Matt's Off Road Recovery youtube channel uses in almost all of their videos. That was fun to hear! I thought it was just their theme song of sorts, but apparently it's not.
A suggestion... Maybe you can till in the amendments after the harvest. It can continue to break down during the winter months... Feed the native worms.. 😍
Thanks to you, this is second year using the black weed fabric and using a small torch to cut it. We absolutely love it. We are in our 60's and bending to weed is not pretty. This has helped us so much. Thanks Sue and Michael
I love the turkey's response to you.. They faithfully answer everything you say.
One thing you can do with the landscape fab down is make an overnight slurry of worm castings & rainwater and then pour it in the holes as you plant. I wouldn't even bother bubbling it. Just give it a good stir every time you water a hole. My growers group is rethinking everything we do. I got some push back on using 15 ft landscape fab until I explained there were other ways to side dress crops without direct access to soil. It would also stretch our resources. The rhizosphere of any given plant is a narrow area surrounding the plant/seed when young.
Hello!!
I.finally finished putting my garden in around 5/17.... now my concern is the temperature. It's been 70s and 80s in Ohio... now they're saying maybe a few nights of 30s ... What???
I'm praying for the temperature to change.
Praying for you and your gardens as well .💕🌹
My rheumatoid arthritis has my planting behind this year, still hopeful.
Here in Vegas, I’ve been harvesting beans, zucchini and cucumbers for a month. Strawberries are finished. Melons are softball size. Pepper and tomato plants are full of baby fruits! We’ve been eating apricots for about a week and our figs have about 2 weeks
I love that hat Kevin!
Someone may have already suggested this, but what about a 55 gallon barrel of rabbit manure tea? Sorry about all the wet weather. Please send a soaking rain to New Hampshire!
We love the woven fabric! We could not keep ahead of the weeds.
You garden area is ideal. I thought it would just be the deer, but we have a resident black bear who got into my woodland garden and stole my bottle of plant fertilizer :-O There is no accounting for taste...now it is coming around again this spring and we need to electric fence. Best of luck with your planting! ~ Diane
Crunch time in Southern Missouri as always. I'm just now planting ours as well. Love your videos, they keep me inspired. God bless you and your family!
I'm sure it'll do good. My dad started using that stuff with our garden a couple years ago due to the amount of weeds that grow in it during the winter months. Now the only weeds we have to pull in it is the holes that we grow our plants in. Hasn't affected it a bit
I agree with you.
It will be your best year yet...
In many categories.
Neither of you are blind; don't ever lose your vision.
Life does not work in rewind regrets.
It works in forward motion successes.
We do our part
And God Does tend to what we can't change.
And we all have much to be grateful for. ..
Including
dumptruck friendships.
Blessings to you two.
You're doing awesome.
Keep it up.
Freeze dried watermelon?!! Genius!! ❤️🍉
I'm already looking forward to that video!
hi i love rain and i do understand perfectly when it rains and cant do garden
but God 🙏 will provide, there the sun as you said so today seems to be the time.
Go with a living green cover crop that includes a heavy amount of cereal rye and you'll never have to add anything ever again, and you'll get rid of the plastic too. Once you roll it down you'll have all the much you'll ever need. We do that large scale as grain farmers, as we as on the 80 acres used for my wife's produce production.
🍓 watermelons, woven weed fabric, premier 1 electric netting, butane torch sold at walmart in the plumbing section
My growers group has been challenged by COVID for 2020 & 2021. We are re-thinkinking everything from compost production to bed management. That 15 ft landscape fab will solve a lot of problems for our big production beds with some upfront planning.
You can get sheets of a fabric called limited 24x300 from a greenhouse supply company. I have some that are thirty years old now and still going strong.
That's incredible!
Just love your channel. And I love all the decisions you make. And the very special item for today is your awesome hays. Sarah love yours cuz it is neutral. And has a wide brim to block out from hitting your face and neck. And. Kevin yours is an awesome hat. And it blocks the sun from your face. Hope & pray that you have nothing but AWESOME LUCK for your farm. 🙏🤗💙💜❤️
I grew up in the Midwest and the zones the soil the clement, it all varies and it all matters .... timing for your place may not be the same is what I am getting at ... if you feel the time is right plant, if you think it is too late stop think and look at the seed timing to grow and your calendar, do you have time? Seeds are consistent in the need to grow. The how is up to the sower. Have a great day in or out of your garden folks. Thanks to this Chanel we all have super great ideas from this perspective of planning. Thank you guys for being a RUclipsr. Can’t wait for the next one! God bless!
Ya'll have had a lot going on already this year. Give yourselves some grace. We just moved from an Alaskan island down to Appalachia. We are planting our new garden and a neighbor's old garden on Friday...I worried about being too late also; then I thought, well, my family in Pittsburgh said that they don't even think about planting their gardens until after Memorial Day weekend. With that news I thought, that's great...we have a much longer season than they do. So, we will be harvesting later than we would like; but, we WILL be harvesting! Great news!!! I think you'll have a great harvest. We did put our beans in the Greenstalk and are just starting to harvest a few beans and watching more beans come on. Patience and willingness to try allows for harvesting some and amending for next year's larger harvest.
Finished my garden yesterday. I still have some Sunflowers I started in a planter to transplant around the garden boarder.
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add the gypsum and manure at the end of the season and let mother nature work it in over the winter
Have you ever heard of "putting the garden to bed" in the fall? You do your last till making sure to remove your summer veggie root systems to also remove any insect and disease tupe things. Then you top dress with used animal bedding and leaves (nothing with seeds ready to grow, at least around here) from 6"-18"deep and call it good for the winter. In spring, rake off what you dint want to till in as a "brown stuff" start to spring compost bins; around here its big-leaf maple leaves and many people use them as a top layer for this reason. Over saturated soil compacts but, heavy rains and snows can compact soil too. That layer of top dressing reduces the pelting power of rain, gives a place for garden worms to travel when the soil is super wet, composts as particles and tea into the dirt, and provides the nutrients for all of the organic,bacterial, fungi, and soil critters to do thier things when the conditions are right. The top layer acts like a moisture absorbing and giving insulation barrier leaving the soils underneath a little warmer fkr more activity in the winter. - Warning, a hungry soil can drop 18" of top dressing down to 4" or less in 4-6 weeks in both fall and spring. Also, some people do a light scattering of organic fertilizer (like throwing scratch to chickens) over the soil before top dressing.
Finally got our container garden planted yesterday. Prior we had hail and lots of rain along with overcast days.
When you get to much rain send some my way we need it so bad. Love hearing the chickens in the back ground. God bless 🙂
Another awesome video Kevin an Sarah. Garden cover looks really great. Kevin, love that hat. God bless 🇺🇸🙏♥️
Sandbags. No staples. Works great. No unneeded holes.
Natural or organic amendments are available. Bone meal, blood meal, gypsum.
If flowering/blooming is an issue on otherwise healthy plants, bone meal
helps considerably. In regards to ground cover, I think it depends on the size
of the garden. We have used the ground cover and it works, but is expensive.
Our main garden is 20x30'. 1 roll of the 3'x300', $100. 2 bales of straw, $16.
It can be reused. The 6-8"s we put down over our garlic in the fall, gets spread
in the main garden the following spring. So we don't always need 2 bales.
It also helps retain moisture and eventually decomposes adding nutrients to
the soil. Whereas the ground cover eventually needs to go in an already stressed
plastic pipeline. Weeds will grow up through the straw, but few and far between.
We only spend about 1 hour a week, (10 minutes a day) pulling weeds. That's
cheap maintenance. Every one of us is in the garden more than that daily anyway.
Gardens as big as theirs..... that would get ground cover. Lastly, whichever
method you use.... there's goina be weeds. Good luck all.
Start collecting the rain. Put garbage cans under your eaves, etc. Google. Absolutely adore that smile. Makes my day. And, I can hear you but can not see you because the ad is stuck. Neat I guess. Gardeners Supply has 10 inch staples.
Nice Hat Kevin👍😁 I always look forward to watching you plant the garden...then watch it grow. Have a great day!
I watch a lot of Homesteaders and your channel in my opinion is the best and you have the best looking Homestead and are the best gardeners next to Gardening with Leon I I loved your feeding stations for the Pigs
Oh I wish I had that torch!! I used scissors to cut everything!!! My garden is no where near that size but this is my first year using the weed cloth and so far I’m loving NO WEEDS!!!
After watching your channel early last year I am using the woven fabric this year and drip irrigation, I am loving my garden this year, these Missouri weeds are ruthless 😎. Thank you
Good job, guys.
You will have a great season with the addition of that compost though you could have broadcast that rabbit manure without having to till it in. This would have helped the roots spread out more and take in nutrients and water from a larger area.
You will find garden centers and nurseries use that weed cloth extensively. For those interested, that plastic type is designed for weed weed control. it is available in several other materials for different purposes such as erosion control on sloped ground and banks of ponds and others designed to let water through faster than the plastic stuff. Also, if using rock in an area put weed cloth down first, it will keep the rock from migrating into the soil.
You may want to consider purchasing some beneficial insects (and plants that attract them) to help fight those bad bugs. That may even be something that could help the cows with their fly problem.
Hope this helps in some way,
James
Wish we had some of your rain. Every time the weather says rain, it doesn't. Was able to get my garden in a little earlier than normal. Kevin, hope your shirt is waterproof because that hat's a pisser!!!!!!! That's ok though, my hubby uses an old straw hat that was my Mom's, yeah it's pink!!! Thanks for another great video. Cant wait to see the garden planted.
Rain, 🌧 rain go away". We want to 🪴 plant, plants today? Sorry 😢 to 👂 hear there is so much wet weather. Pray there is nice days soon.
You need to interplant some trees with your vegetables. Or you will have a lot of pests. Trees not only add organic matter to your soil. They provide a good habitat for beneficial insects and birds that will keep some of the worse pest away. Don't cut your grass until it is at least 6 inches long. This way you get a lot more organic matter to fertilize your soil. Grass mulch can also reduce your water use. Trees will also give some good shade for you to plant things like lettuce, basil, cilantro, etc etc.
That woven weed cover is amazing. Our daughter and son n law just got some for their garden. Thanks for sharing your success with it to us! His bless! 💜
We put down the fabric last night. I can only imagine how great it would be to have a 15' roll. We'll watch along as your garden develops. Cheers!
We all have to do what works best for us. Guess Ive been lucky that Back To Eden works for me and has been a blessing. Very few to no weeds and hardly ever have to water. I have hard clay soil too, they call it chert dirt here in North Alabama but with so much organic matter and half rotted wood chips for several years has made the soil wonderful dark soil to work with. I put 4- 167ft Premier one poultry netting around our garden. It keeps the wildlife out. Lol that for sure. I'm sure your garden will be wonderful again this year. 👍❤️
That is one clean dump truck. I wish we could trade out some of our dry South Carolina weather for some of your rain.
Love watching all your videos. I love Kevin's hat lol. Congrats to your daughter graduating.
If ypu find your garden cloth to work, consider a slow/low watering system placed under your garden cloth. Something similar to the Anderson flat hoses which you (probably) can't afford on a large garden plot vs a landscaped yard. We've used white PVC systems with 1/16th" holes every 6" pretty sucessfully; configure at will to meet site (or raised bed) needs with connectors, short garden hose lengths, brass garden hose valve water flow restrictors, and multi-ways. We had one set-up where we could screw in/turn on a garden hose to a 5-way, slow water 5 rows, and come back an hour later to turn off the hose. We often use an abundance of the in-line, brass water flow restrictors so we can dynamically control water flow; most often due to changes coming into the system.
Thanks for teaching us the Woven Weed Fabric Waltz.
What a great idea!!! the torch for the cloth!!!! im stealing this idea! hah :) thanks! May God Bless your farm and family!
Now that's quite a cowboy hat! You guys are doing such a nice job. Can't wait to see that Garden full of yummy vegetables. God bless!
I save my egg shells over the year. I let them dry then I crush them fine and coarse. I put some fine in the bottom of plant holes and coarse around the top of the dirt. This helps with blossom end rot, plus the coarse edges help with pest control.
OH MY GOSH 😳. A DUMP TRUCK OF BLACK GOLD🤩🤩
It looks so beautiful! That might sound weird to some but I live in the high desert of Northern Nevada.
You two work so hard for super production 👍. I’m going to plant tomorrow... I think/ hope we don’t have anymore nights in the 20s😔
Can’t wait to see your garden in full bloom🍅🥒🌶🍆🥕🫑🥕🧤🤩❣️
I love to watch you guys getting your garden ready to grow.👍🌱
Don’t over think it! It will be amazing! You’ll see😁🪴
I’m trying something new pruning my squash vertically, and I put my zucchini in a large pot up off the ground... to avoid squash bugs... also will wrap the stems at the ground in aluminum foil to help prevent the vine borers...I’ll let you know how it works...