Put The WILDNESS To Work: Closing Nutrient Loops To Make Gardening Easier
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Jack is such a cute garden helper!
Isn't it amazing how volunteer plants can spread all over? To think the seeds are there, all through the hard freezes of winter, just waiting for the warmth of the sun to trigger the magic!! Thanks for a great video!! Stay safe!
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It's truly amazing! I love it.
Jack is quite the helper!
There are a huge amount of local cats that seem to love my garden, and so far I have never found a way to keep them out of my beds other than netting them. At one point, a neighbour had a female cat that seemed to make it her mission to destroy everything. It was recommended to me to use all sorts of things, including pepper, and chilli powder. She had the mucus membranes of a Dragon! I also purchased a solar powered 'cat scarer'. If annoyed the daylights out of my Son, and I caught her looking straight at me through the window as she peed on the lawn straight in front of it. Since I'm very allergic to cats, I was at my wits end by this point. The only thing that stopped her was my neighbours moved, and rehomed her. To that end, may the odds be in your favour, and Jack not see this as challenge on! lol
They seem to love that bed with the melon. They could have easily contributed to its poor health... I am wondering if I shouldn't have a dedicated bed for them somewhere with loose sand or something to make it easiest. We also talked about fencing off the garden with electric netting. They could totally clear it with one leap but maybe they wouldn't if they had an option on the outside?
@@SageandStoneHomestead That could be something to think about. From what I know from friends with small children, cats love those sand boxes children have, so maybe if they have something like that as their habit place, it will save your beds.
Highlight of my morning is coffee time with Heather ❤❤❤🕊️
Good Morning Carolyn! This morning I have banana muffins and milk, but coffee to follow! ♥
Oh little Jackie is just adorable. For raised garden beds we use your basic 2 by 4 lumber and burn the wood. They have lasted a good 8 years so far. When we pull our tomato plants out, we pick the tomatoes off and give them to the chickens and ducks. It's a favorite for them. We have enough volunteer tomatoes that pop up all over the yard and I don't want them in the garden beds.
How charred do you make it?
@@SageandStoneHomestead Look up Shou Sugi Ban. It's a Japanese method to preserve wood.
Jack loves you. Cuddle him! 😼
We do all the time :) He is a cuddlebug
Love it! We use metal beds, even if they aren't the prettiest there is. When the plants grow, no one looks at the bed holding it, but at the beautiful bounty within! I pulled out my cherry tomatoes the other day and, yes, it does sound like bubble wrap. I have a perennial garden I have been working on. It is walled in with untreated railroad ties and one of them is crumbling like your garden walls. I might have to use some stones to shore it up since I have a million of them.
That will not be the tea bed for next year! It will be the yellow currant tomato bed! 😂😂😂 I love cutting back my garden plants and throwing the greenery back in the bed I think everything grows better because of it!
Yes I think you're right!
That Lufa is so cool!❤ This kitty is the best!
We just LOVE Jack the garden kitty!
I do like the cedar bed.I bet you will have lots of volunteer tomatoes in that new bed too now!❤
I'm sure!! :)
I had dogs and cats that would lay in my raised beds. I just laid my rose trimmings on top. They didn't like the pokey thorns and left the beds alone after that.
smart!!
I don't know what it is about the loofas but now I want to grow them after seeing you do it the last 2 years lol
They are really hands off and fun! You should totally grow them!!
I do the same trick with the Kabob sticks in the raised gardens over here Heather lol. I have a male stray cat whose name is Fati McFadden LOL and since he's a big boy he thinks all of these beds are specifically for him to lie on. It has definitely discouraged him and his lady friend scaredy cat . Every single one of my Gardens is covered with spikes like that or with little pieces of wood and logs and makes the squash and pumpkin beds look like they were visited by a beaver LOL as far as opening up your garden to strangers personally I would not do it and I would never recommend it to anyone else unless you are creating a community garden. My sister and brother-in-law have an acre Garden up north and they began to share it with neighbors and whoever wanted and it turned out that people were coming when they were not invited to come and pretty much it turned out to be a festivity of stealing and they had to put a stop to it because they have cameras all over the place and they didn't feel comfortable having complete total strangers just walking onto their property. It can get out of control fast. Maybe you couldn't find a neighbor around who is low income or someone who is in need and make a gift of spare vegetables and just put it in a cute basket with a beautiful note on their front porch and do it anonymously.?? Even though with so many cameras in the doorbells that's kind of hard hahaha
We have plans to bless neighbors with pumpkins!! :)
I almost thought you were gonna tell us to use the garden kitty to wipe your tomato hands lol 😂
LOL!! I could try, he may not like it haha
Hi Heather! If you don’t have vinegar on hand, mushing up a tomato (it’s an acid source like vinegar) and rubbing it in also helps remove the green from your hands. Finish off with some soap and water and good to go. Have a great day!
Great tip!! Funny the tomato can solve it's own problem haha
If you use untreated wood again consider charring the wood side that stays moist. There is a Japanese word for the process but I don't remember it lol.
Lots of recommendations for that and I've never heard of it! Need to research, thank you!
Ok, just now watching but i have asked you in the past about keeping the kitty's out of the garden bed. WELL, I have discovered that picking up small branches and twigsand placing them in area's they might go, keeps them away!!! It prevents them from being able to scratch around and find a spot to go to the bathroom! Thought I would share😊 love all your videos keep up the great content, and thank you for what you do. Im just starting out, 2 year, and all of your videos are so helpfull❤
Thank you!! I suspect the cats may have contributed to that melon's demise.
For the okra. I made cinnamon sugar coated and dehydrated. Sooooo goood! Such a sweet nutritious snack! Try it. Your kids would probably love it! My grandkids eat them up 🤩
I just slice them in rounds about 1/4 inch thick. Toss around in the sugar cinnamon mix and dehydrate 🤩
Thank you!!
It sounds great!
Heather, we have tried forks and sticks to deter our cats………….3 out of the 4 left it alone but one……….she just pushes them over and crawls in the bed😅
Lol what a punk!
Great video as always! Have you ever tried slicing your okra like you were going to fry it, but tossing it in olive oil with salt and pepper then roasting it? I do it all the time and we love it. 🤍✌️
Yes delicious!
You can get some green bird netting for less than $7 and use binder clips to protect your beds from the kitties. I have to cover my beds because of squirrels. 🐿️
So far the chopsticks are working! We have some netting too if we need to pull that out. So far so good!
Jack is so sweet! But.... did he leave those seedlings alone??? My kitties are always causing mayhem in the beds.
Ha! The chopsticks are brilliant!
So far so good!!!
Lovely video Heather, it's always a pleasure spreading the time with you. Thank you for sharing, till next time God Bless.
When you use untreated wood you can use a blow torch and char the wood its called the shou sugi method. Lasts longer and water proofs the wood!
Ooh very smart, thank you!!
Black hands was exactly what I was thinking as you were pulling up your tomato plants! I had heard of using lemon juice but not white vinegar. Lemon juice doesn't always work well, so I will try the vinegar. Thank you for the tip!!
You betcha!!
We grow in untreated wood raised beds. This is our fourth year and they are still okay. But I am in the desert and don't get rain like you do.
If those were really termites in the bed that would explain how they broke down so quickly!
Have you heard of yakisugi for keeping wood preserved longer ? That is something I would love to try
No but that's definitely on my list to research!
I just had to comment on the sticks in the bed. We used to have a rescue beagle and i always had potted petunias on our back porch. She decided she wanted to perch on the pots! Lord, help me! I cut up a bamboo stake and inserted the pieces around the plants. The beagle pulled each one out and sat on the plants. After a few tries, i gave up and put the pots out front. She never sat in flower beds! Crazy!
Oh my gosh, lol!! That makes total sense that a dog would do that! Wonder if the cats would...
I thought I heard luffa can cross pollinate with your birdhouse gourds and squash or cucumber so saving seeds can be a gamble in a mixed garden like yours. Love to hear if I'm wrong on this but yes way up here in canada zone 3 with only about 120 frost free days a year I also grew birdhouse gourds and luffa's so I did do research on it at the time(4-5 years ago). the plants grew well but never had a shot at luffa , I did get 1 viable birdhouse though.
I bet it could! Will be fun to see if anything strange pops up :)
Have you tried concrete blocks for your raised beds? They’re cheap, don’t rot or rust.
I wasn't really comfortable with what's in them. I did look at cinder blocks
Nice use of the plants that you tore out! Thanks for sharing!
I thought you were going to say a good way to get the green off your hands is to pet your cat. I mean thats what I do :P
Lol!!
Do you still use the plants that are diseased such as tomato plants you pull up at the end to put back into the dirt or would that cause the all the dirt to be diseased for next use?
Any disease that is soil-bourne we don't use and the plants are burned. So blighty plants would not be used to take up space in a garden bed!
@@SageandStoneHomestead Thank you!
Allowing uptick opens yourself up for lawsuits. Be careful as I doubt homeowners insurance would cover you if you were selling to strangers.
Right we have no interest in public events like that.
Thank you for sharing. Thoughts and Prayers. Love and Blessings.
Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘
One word on people coming onto your property…INSURANCE!
Right?! I think I'll pass altogether lol
@@SageandStoneHomestead Smart cookie!
And Jack has really started warming up to being a dedicated garden companion! How lovely to use what's in abundance as fertilizer for next year's garden! I have read that "weeds" pull nutrients from deeper in the soil, and especially in clay soils can break down and make those nutrients availabnle for your garden plants to updake. I've seen an anerobic composting technique where a 50-gallon food-grade barrel was filled with pulled weeds, watered., packed, and layered so all the greenery and roots were covered in water. Then, they sealed the barrel with a lid and let it sit for several months. There was a spigot installed at the bottom of the barrel, and they drained some of the months-old weed water into a bucket and used it just like any liquid fertilizer. I don't know if it was a perpetual liquid fertilizer (by adding weeds and water periodically) or if it was a singal use situation, where they waited until the liquid was completely gone before they started fresh. But anyways - love the video and very much enjoy seeing so many green things thriving. Also, the black spots on your melons COULD be a mosaic-type virus, but we've seen stuff like that on all the melons we've ever grown so maybe it's just part of the natural life cycle for when the fruits are nearly ripe.
The cats like that bed too…. I think it’s probably a multi-cause decline!
It’s wonderful to see how nature provides for us.
Wonderful video Heather. Thoroughly enjoyed the visit. Nice tip about green fingers. Hope I can remember it next year. Fingers crossed for the chopstick experiment. 💜👍💜 Aunt Beth
So far so good with the chopsticks! It's been a couple days.
I absolutely love your videos🙌😁 I could literally watch them every day.
You will LOVE Vlogmas!! I love vlogmas lol!!
@@SageandStoneHomesteadI LOVED vlogmas last year and look forward to it again this year!
@@SageandStoneHomestead can’t wait 🙌🙌🙌🙌
@@SageandStoneHomestead I loved your vlogmas last year too, but it became an addiction very quickly and the month of January felt very empty 😀😀
I loved vlogmas too!! It's way more cozy and personal and it's really special. I'm looking forward to it too ❤️
Hi Heather, I would recommend that you talk to a lawyer about liability before you start letting people come on your property. You may need to have insurance. You may need a lot of value just to make it work.
Thank you. Have a great day.
I might have miscommunicated but we definitely don't want people here foraging the garden. It was someone else's idea and I was explaining why we don't want to do that
What about concrete blocks for your raised beds? They are pretty cheap and you can also get caps to cover them and they would be very aesthetic. You could also put brick veneer around them as well if you want to elevate the look. Those are also pretty permanent, so no concern about them breaking down on you.
Concrete and cinder block have other leeching concerns. We really enjoy our metal raised beds
And I bet you'd find even more luffa seeds right below where that one was hanging - the "plug" was out of it when you picked it. LOL You might get some volunteers to move right there in the garden tunnel walkway in the Spring.
Yes the bottom cracked off when I squeezed it a couple weeks ago! Glad to see it didn’t hurt anything!
That was so fun watching you open the luffa. I grew one once, but the goats got out one day and ate the whole plant down to the ground. It never recovered. 😂
OH my that's crazy! Mine didn't touch the pumpkin vine which surprised me. Good to know they will eat luffa though!
I had a random watermelon growing in the goat pasture and they didn't touch it. It happened years ago, too.
@@hickoryhillinthebigwoods-r759 Goats are weird. You never know what they will or won't touch. They were kept on a dry lot at that time, so that may have had something to do with it.
Windex works great to get the green tomato stains off your hands too. I’ll try vinegar next time!
Loving the garden and the new raised bed.
Hi Heather 👋🏿 your baby cat 🐈 took your place in my heart ❤️ I love ❤️ 😍 cats 🐈 😻
Isn't he just precious?!
@@SageandStoneHomestead absolutely 💯
Little Jack was like "But Mom, I belong UP here. "
And that's a great idea about transferring a resource into an established on purpose resource. The dirt at the base of those trellis' look so amazing and full of nutrients. Might be why the tomatoes kept coming year after year. But to say it another way, the tomatoes coming back year after year is why the soil looks so amazing and full of nutrients. SPOT ON!
The worms love to be fed and their castings are amazing for the garden! Gardens can’t be all “take” and no “give”! ❤️
Lovely vlog, Heather. I liked the relaxing music. The soil in your rutabaga bed looks so rich and healthy! Love the new raised bed! We used heat treated heavy duty(made with new decking boards) to make our raised beds because my hubby got them for free from work. Is heat treated the same as other treated wood?
What I was referring to is pressure treated wood, the kind that looks green because of the chemicals forced into it. It looks like heat treated wood is chemical-free. I have no idea though if it deters pests like termites.
@@SageandStoneHomestead I don’t really know much about different kinds of wood. I wish I could afford cedar. But free is always good lol!
@@kimberlyearly8918 free 99 is the best kind!!!
I treat excess volunteers just like weeds. After I get what plants I want, the rest are worked back into the ground.
I need to get better at that! I'm a sucker for volunteers haha
Great video, Heather - on my third or fourth watch and thought I had posted! Haha. I mentally posted at least ;) So cool seeing the luffa in year two, you won't run out of material for sponge/scrubby making for awhile! Jackjack is so sweet and awesome he's that cuddly while also being quite the little hunter too. I'm of the same opinion, I'd avoid chemically treated wood if possible. There's so many great options of metal beds and the cedar bed you showed is really cool. Hoping the chopsticks do work to keep kitties out of the beds. I appreciate the idea of nutrient cycling from one space to another to reduce outside inputs needed. Also completely agree with limiting people visiting your property, there's so much to consider (planning/scheduling, taxes, liability, safety of family/animals, biosecurity, etc). 💚🐈💚
Jack is such a sweet kitty. I really hope all 3 are here for a good long while. The road freaks me out!
I've seen people pickle okra and use it in cowboy candy and the product with pickled okra and carrots and peppers kinda similar to pepporcini?
Nice!! We have pickled Okra before and it's nice for sure! I am thinking about fermenting some :)
I freeze dried my okra. Well some of it. I'm in Ga so I will keep harvesting for awhile
Yum!!
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Can any other members point me to where I can find the link to the member discord? I have a question about what to do with some older goat milk I found in the fridge.
Hey Brittni check the member's tab on the page, I will post a new link! ♥
@@SageandStoneHomestead Thank you so much!
So the lufa...its like a shower lufa?? Haha whats it for?
Loving the suggestions for the shou sugi wood burning. Such a good idea❤
Hey there! Yes it's not like the plastic ones but the luffa that looks like a sea sponge, It's this!
Literally had no idea it was a plant haha thats awesome! Maybe thats whats in my goats soap that i bought from someone @SageandStoneHomestead
I bet!! It's super common to embed it into soap. Luxurious!
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