The bunny bucks were ready to get started and the bunny does just were not lifting - Hopefully a little extra time in the cooler weather will make them feel more like cooperating. I loved seeing the progression with the tomatoes but I was saying, "Heather, use your LEFT hand more so your elbow doesn't hurt later!" (Hopefully it wasn't too much.) I think the addition of the mushroom compost will really jump-start those new beds, as well as the fact that you're giving them fall and winter to start getting their mycelium network underway. Even with fall/winter crops putting pressure on them, I think your revised layering will make a difference. It's almost time for us to do the same with putting our summer garden to rest, amending with the "big stuff" (mostly chicken coop litter) and mulching heavily for the beds we aren't growing in for fall/winter.
I have NO grip strength to cut through the thick stalks with my left hand! I'm so silly when trying to do anything with that hand except milking and driving lol!!
Same here,buck is keen as mustard,doe refuses to lift point blank..several times now,at first I thought it was a maturity issue,now wondering if she will ever cooperate..I only have the 2 rabbits at the moment. There's no violence she just parks her butt in a corner and hunkers down ignoring his best efforts 😅
I've really liked how my other beds using the Kelloggs have developed over the season, lots of mushrooms coming up so I know it's got great things it's working on!
We had five litters born four days ago. Today is the first day of kidding season that actually started finally lol 🤣. Two were bred today two more to go. I had bred 6 does about a week ago and left them with the bucks for 24 hours I only saw one that was bred. We will see in 3 more weeks. Thank you for sharing. Till next time God Bless.
I honestly believe you are going to be surprised at what that bed produces from the start. Especially considering you got the barn scrapings in it. There is your microbes and fungi. Don't be afraid to plant some really awesome stuff in it.
Awesome video , more bunnies in the future 😁 I hope it's not only me , but each raise bed I add to my garden, it takes a couple years to produce somehow okay crop. All of this homemade stuff takes time .
Heather - Love seeing how you progress through seasons and really appreciate the sharing of this transition time too. The light method for the rabbits is cool to hear as well as the other ideas, but also hearing out of the various options what has worked for you (light). Hoping you get some gorgeous color bunnies, coming soon, once they figure it out haha ;) Sorry the orange accordian tomato didn't live up to its beauty, but at least the kids liked them! Kids often like more bland/neutral things too, so that might be a difference? I think its is super logical to use what you have excess (barn cleanout) of from one area to support another area's (garden beds) needs - to me that's a truly great cycle being built up and maintained. I have made mental note to try the mushroom compost for sure in my future raised beds, as I really do think the mix of bed filler ingredients you have sounds ideal to overcome less than ideal bagged soil. Setting realistic expectations for a first year garden space is also important to hear, as many of us could potentially feel defeated maybe on first year's harvest when time really will help improve things a lot through the natural process. 💚💚
Wow surprised how many tomato horn worms you have in your greenhouse. I'm in NJ and we grow all our tomatoes outside in raised in ground beds. Maybe once or twice a year we will see a horn worm. The horn worms usually get attacked by the parasitic wasps by us. You can go out at night with a black light and the horn worms will glow so you can pick them off, and feed them to your chickens. We have also just moved the horn worms to a different location of the yard in hopes the parasitic wasps find them and breed on them. OMG I love watching little Jackie. I'm partial to orange kitties. We recently got 2 feral kittens but they are black and white.I'm on the hunt for another orange kitty as ours recently passed at the old age of 18. We have never bought store soil. What works best for us is 3 truck loads of wood chips from a local tree company, shredded leaves, all our kitchen scraps, grass clippings, chicken, duck, quail and rabbit poo and paper bedding. We also shred all of our cardboard and paper (minus anything with a waxy coating and all tape). We have 4 large compost bins that sit side by side and our chickens have access to them when they free range. We are able to produce enough compost to add a good 4 inches of compost to each of the beds. Any larger planters or tubs get a huglekulture system built into them. Start with logs, then grass clippings, wood chips, kitchen scraps, weeds, leaves and then topped off with compost. We add a good 4 to 5 inches of mulch along with comfrey leaves as our fertilizer. Been doing so for over 30 years as well as only grow heirloom veggies that we save seed from year after year.
LoL at the buckets. Once my son wanted to know why I didn't use the wheelbarrow to muck the pens and haul the bedding to the compost pile because it would be so much faster and more efficient.. I had to explain to him it was easier on my body to carry 5 gal buckets than to push the wheelbarrow uphill through the rocks. If I were you instead of doing flat layers I would mix them together a little bit, especially the mushroom compost into the bagged soil just so there isn't a defined line between them but more of a little transition area. When I fill big pots and buckets usually the bottom half to 2/3 is rough compost from the goats, so mostly waste alfalfa plus manure. It will have cooled off to ambient air temps but still be lumpy and course. After wetting it down in the pot to help settle air pockets I'll dump in a mix of used potting soil mixed with some finer finished compost. I usually add in some gypsum for calcium and sometimes a little organic veg fertilizer high in potash since my soil is low in it. Things have done pretty well with this as long as I can keep up on the watering ;-)
Enjoyed visiting this morning Heather! Bunnies. It seems here for me, I have no problem getting fall-offs at the start of the season. What I have trouble with is heat sterility. It seems like he has to move out the old and make room for the new. But its a dance, you dont want much time between breeding sessions because you can get fertilized eggs with diff ages. They all deliver at the same time tho. Generally its a pain at the beginning but soon falls into a nice rhythm. I am looking forward to cooler weather!! I have had more than enough heat. 💜👍💜 Aunt Beth
I wonder if some of it is that I have the rabbits in a decently dark area of the barn. I mean it's not oppressively dark but it may be dark enough to simulate "Winter" sooner? Don't know!!
I agree! The light works best for me too. If anything n the sun flower seeds makes my does a little too heavy which seems to slow breeding / reduce my litter sizes. I also have a couple does who have preferences for certain bucks. My most stubborn doe who is also my best doe (she knows she’s got it lol) can be aggressive toward some bucks but seemed to really love our new buck. The pairing didn’t take but it was still pretty hot, but the fact that she was presenting for him so I am anxious to try again soon!
Eeeee! LOL yup. I gave up on rabbits in Arizona. Too much maintenance for me in the summer. Also, being a single woman trying to do everything myself, I have to pick my battles.
Love your channel Heather, thank you for all you share. I had to comment because I’m so happy to hear someone say they didn’t enjoy shishito peppers. I tried them at all different stages and just didn’t get the hype! It’s so funny how different we all are. I will happily plant something different next year 😂
You are not the first person to comment that!! Seems like there is a lot of hype but I didn't love them either. The texture was just off when cooked and they were only "okay" raw. Plus I hated the random risk for a hot one!
That garden bed fills me with eager excitement! I look forward to seeing what grows in there!!! Happy fall gardening! It gets too cold too fast here, so we don't put in a fall garden. So I might be just a little jealous, but I'll enjoy watching your garden grow.
Hey hey. Sorry I haven't been around for a while, things have not been great here. However, seeing you were collecting tomatoes I wanted to stop by and let you know about the Blue Cream Berry you sent me. We've had an absolutely terrible weather year here. It's been like perpetual winter, dark, cold and horrendously wet. The tomatoes have seriously struggled going from water-logged compost, to hydrophobic, compacted compost as it's tried to dry out. Yet the Brad Gates varieties are the stars of the show as per usual. I did worry about the BCBs, as they set fruit early, but just refused to ripen at first. However, then they started. Jed, like myself, did not like the Blue Berries, or Blue Gold Berries, so I wondered what he'd make of these compared to his favourite Barry's Crazy Cherry... He really likes them! They are really great, and despite all the hurdles these poor plants have gone through, they have really got the job done. Also, I worried about them since I'm in a high Blight risk area, and the Blue/Blue-Gold Berries were the first to get hit very early in the season when I grew those, but these plants are still Blight free. Which considering our year is a bit of a miracle, but I really do believe that plants prove their worth in the worst of conditions. Sadly, I couldn't get the melons to grow as it has been just too cold, but I'm sat here having sorted all my seeds ready for next year already lol I may have been quite here, but know you have walked through my Yorkshire garden with me often!
Hugs! I’m so sorry it’s been a bad year! I appreciate your update and I’m glad the plants did alright despite the weather, and I’m glad you like the blue cream berries!!
They did and miracle gro did best. Truly though none of those peppers they grew preformed the way they should. They all looked sad. Miracle gro doing best on its own has been my experience too. But we are trying to get away from that. Our barn clean outs should improve the soils and add organic matter.
My biggest tomato threat has been locust/grasshoppers. I have seen them literally chomping on them and they leave the very marks behind that was on your orange accordian tomato. They are beautiful! I had the same reaction to the pineapple tomato. My dino kale has not been sprouting either. The last few years have just been lame as can be for kale. And oh my goodness...I have so many rolly polly bugs in my garden. I need to get rid of them!!
Better luck to you than we had. We tried Several color variations with our California rabbits and no matter what we did they always produced black first generation. I’m curious to see what you get.
I am thinking if you use a tarp or something to catch the rabbit urine with the manure together that should have enough nitrogen to help the "raised bed soil" finish composting and be more ready for plants sooner. I learned the hard way this year those together can burn plants like strong fertalizer does haha, took about 2 weeks to no longer be too strong when I used too much. Thanks for showing and explaining who/what/where/when/why about your rabbit breeding :) Have a great day.
I so miss having meat rabbits... my last year of having them we put in the freezer/canned 78 of them. Now that my 25 year long marriage is over and I live in an apartment I cant have fresh rabbit anymore.
I was disappointed with my Shoshito peppers too. My first time growing them and they were abundant, but like you I wasn’t impressed with the flavor at all. You might want to pick the peppers off the plant you put in your raised bed to compost so they don’t come back up. Loved seeing Nefarious!
So nice to see the rabbits again i have a soft spot for rabbits content i just love it 😅 Its my first year gardening and i didnt think that you could use green tomatoes 😯 What can you use them in? And im excited for the fall garden and baby goats😆 Such a lovely video i always love your content 😊
I found that I really love green tomato salsa (AKA salsa verde but with tomatoes rather than tomatillos). I'm not a big fan of fried green tomatoes, but maybe I just haven't had them cooked properly.
How do you decide what to plant next to what? How many different plants can be planted in your raised beds? I want to start with 2 to 4 raised beds like your metal ones in your greenhouse. Some will be vining, and some won't. I appreciate any tips you're willing to share😊
I read a couple books on square foot gardening and on companion planting. I talk about those books in this video: ruclips.net/video/1d-k4DGuDKo/видео.html
So many things to comment on. Did you find that growing your peppers up a string lessened the amount of fruit or was it about the same? I left the roots of my cabbage that I grew in the spring in the ground and they are growing back lol. It's sad but oddly satisfying to pull things out of the garden. We got compost by the truckload from a local place and my garden really struggled to get going. Things were stunted for so long. It was leaf compost and it wasn't broken down as much as it should've been. Most of where we used it was brand new beds too so I know that had an impact. I have tried so many bagged soils and they are all disappointing. There's so much bark in them! There's nothing more satisfying in the garden than to see a bed freshly composted and ready for the next thing.
Forgot one more thing lol! I was planning to grow the orange accordion tomato next year. I'm glad you did a taste test on camera. I'm finding that a lot of varieties just all taste the same. I was looking forward to some variety in flavors but just didn't get it.
The peppers were less productive growing them the way I did! It was a fun experiment but I won't do it again. (Never say never I guess but I doubt it) Dr Wyche tomatoes were very very good. Not as strikingly pretty but similar color. Very meaty and delicious!
You raise goats and rabbits and have cats, I'm fairly new to goats, have had rabbits for about 18 years. New problem rabbits with fleas? Goats have them, working on eradicating them, but they don't share the same space. Used DE liberally on the rabbits this morning. The only common denominator is a kitten that wanders the entire property quite rapidly and walks on top of the rabbit cages. He was treated with Frontline the morning, which can't be used on rabbits. How do you handle fleas or lice on your critters? Love your channel!
We only have noticed fleas on our indoor house rabbit and he gets revolution monthly as well as all the cats. The dog has a flea tag that gets changed out regularly and I've actually never noticed fleas on the goats!
@@SageandStoneHomestead our milk goat is where I found them first. The kitten loves to help milk, maybe he is where they originated. Treating the goat with topical sulphur. Internal sulphur works better, but effects copper levels. 20 rabbits rabbitry kind of expensive to use revolution that's why the DE first. Thanks for the reply.
Do you use the rabbit manure in your beds ? I've heard it's an excellent fertilizer & have wanted them for that sole purpose. Also I've used azomite & moldy alfalfa pellets to put in beds & that has worked pretty well
Yes! Earlier in the year we filled a lot of beds and used mostly rabbit manure, the piles have not built back up quite yet so we are using goat barn cleanout right now. :) Rabbit manure is awesome!
It depends. I won't repeat it now for another week because we have temps in the 90s this week and the boys will be temporarily sterile because of that. Otherwise we would repeat everyday, and it doesn't take long for them to lift once the light is turned on.
@@SageandStoneHomestead thanks I'm wondering if mine are getting enough light,I'd been trying them in the early evening as the daytime temps have been warm..but not hot..thanks :)
Why dont you make vermicompost soil? Memes worms sells worms in America. Im sure she can ship to you. I planted my fruit trees (Kumquats) in vermicompost and they are producing fruit one more time this year. Its very easy to setup. You need a barrel, chop it in half and fill it with coffee grounds and shredded paper. Wet it and mix it up. Order worms and feed them weekly :) I highly recommend it. Worms can make any soil good as long as theres no pesticides.
We feed worms directly in the beds. This is talked about in the next video :) the gist is, it’s more work to create a dedicated setup vs just do it in the bed.
Hello from Sage and Stone's Second Channel! Come check out the kitties and goats and their crazy antics!
The goats looked so cute drinking from the water hose. ❤❤❤
Wasn’t that adorable?!
@@SageandStoneHomestead yes! I loved it. ❤️❤️❤️🐐🐐
I’m so inordinately excited for baby goats 😂
SAME
What a thrill seeing all those pumpkins all lined up!
Aren't they so pretty?!
Rabbit manure is really good for your garden and it won’t burn your plants.
You are right! Love that stuff! We like to add it to the planting holes :)
Thank you for sharing. Thoughts and Prayers. Love and Blessings.
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Thanks for watching!
😂 You tapped into some Oregon Trail lore! I love your videos!
LOL Thanks!! I could not stop thinking about using a meme of that haha
The bunny bucks were ready to get started and the bunny does just were not lifting - Hopefully a little extra time in the cooler weather will make them feel more like cooperating. I loved seeing the progression with the tomatoes but I was saying, "Heather, use your LEFT hand more so your elbow doesn't hurt later!" (Hopefully it wasn't too much.) I think the addition of the mushroom compost will really jump-start those new beds, as well as the fact that you're giving them fall and winter to start getting their mycelium network underway. Even with fall/winter crops putting pressure on them, I think your revised layering will make a difference. It's almost time for us to do the same with putting our summer garden to rest, amending with the "big stuff" (mostly chicken coop litter) and mulching heavily for the beds we aren't growing in for fall/winter.
I have NO grip strength to cut through the thick stalks with my left hand! I'm so silly when trying to do anything with that hand except milking and driving lol!!
Same here,buck is keen as mustard,doe refuses to lift point blank..several times now,at first I thought it was a maturity issue,now wondering if she will ever cooperate..I only have the 2 rabbits at the moment. There's no violence she just parks her butt in a corner and hunkers down ignoring his best efforts 😅
I’ve used that bagged soil for years. I mix it with peat and fertilizer and sometimes perlite. It will break down and give you loads of worms 😊
I've really liked how my other beds using the Kelloggs have developed over the season, lots of mushrooms coming up so I know it's got great things it's working on!
Seeing the hornworm (ewww) I think I'd wear a hat in there. 😂😂😂
I should have lol!!!
We had five litters born four days ago. Today is the first day of kidding season that actually started finally lol 🤣. Two were bred today two more to go. I had bred 6 does about a week ago and left them with the bucks for 24 hours I only saw one that was bred. We will see in 3 more weeks. Thank you for sharing. Till next time God Bless.
Yay Congrats!
I honestly believe you are going to be surprised at what that bed produces from the start. Especially considering you got the barn scrapings in it. There is your microbes and fungi. Don't be afraid to plant some really awesome stuff in it.
I'll definitely be putting fall stuff in here! ♥
Awesome video , more bunnies in the future 😁
I hope it's not only me , but each raise bed I add to my garden, it takes a couple years to produce somehow okay crop. All of this homemade stuff takes time .
It's not just you!!! You are so right it takes time to develop the soil.
Really enjoying your videos thank you ❤
Heather - Love seeing how you progress through seasons and really appreciate the sharing of this transition time too. The light method for the rabbits is cool to hear as well as the other ideas, but also hearing out of the various options what has worked for you (light). Hoping you get some gorgeous color bunnies, coming soon, once they figure it out haha ;) Sorry the orange accordian tomato didn't live up to its beauty, but at least the kids liked them! Kids often like more bland/neutral things too, so that might be a difference? I think its is super logical to use what you have excess (barn cleanout) of from one area to support another area's (garden beds) needs - to me that's a truly great cycle being built up and maintained. I have made mental note to try the mushroom compost for sure in my future raised beds, as I really do think the mix of bed filler ingredients you have sounds ideal to overcome less than ideal bagged soil. Setting realistic expectations for a first year garden space is also important to hear, as many of us could potentially feel defeated maybe on first year's harvest when time really will help improve things a lot through the natural process. 💚💚
Yes good things take time and often persistence!! Fingers crossed the fall garden loves the way these new beds are set up!
Wow surprised how many tomato horn worms you have in your greenhouse. I'm in NJ and we grow all our tomatoes outside in raised in ground beds. Maybe once or twice a year we will see a horn worm. The horn worms usually get attacked by the parasitic wasps by us. You can go out at night with a black light and the horn worms will glow so you can pick them off, and feed them to your chickens. We have also just moved the horn worms to a different location of the yard in hopes the parasitic wasps find them and breed on them. OMG I love watching little Jackie. I'm partial to orange kitties. We recently got 2 feral kittens but they are black and white.I'm on the hunt for another orange kitty as ours recently passed at the old age of 18. We have never bought store soil. What works best for us is 3 truck loads of wood chips from a local tree company, shredded leaves, all our kitchen scraps, grass clippings, chicken, duck, quail and rabbit poo and paper bedding. We also shred all of our cardboard and paper (minus anything with a waxy coating and all tape). We have 4 large compost bins that sit side by side and our chickens have access to them when they free range. We are able to produce enough compost to add a good 4 inches of compost to each of the beds. Any larger planters or tubs get a huglekulture system built into them. Start with logs, then grass clippings, wood chips, kitchen scraps, weeds, leaves and then topped off with compost. We add a good 4 to 5 inches of mulch along with comfrey leaves as our fertilizer. Been doing so for over 30 years as well as only grow heirloom veggies that we save seed from year after year.
We have been burning our cardboard. maybe we should shred it for compost! Thanks for that!
LOVE mushroom compost. We amended ours for fall with it as well.
It's great stuff and relatively inexpensive for what it does in the garden!
This year I didn't get hornworms but there was enough butterflies and their larvae to make up for it.
We had army worms bad too!
LoL at the buckets. Once my son wanted to know why I didn't use the wheelbarrow to muck the pens and haul the bedding to the compost pile because it would be so much faster and more efficient.. I had to explain to him it was easier on my body to carry 5 gal buckets than to push the wheelbarrow uphill through the rocks. If I were you instead of doing flat layers I would mix them together a little bit, especially the mushroom compost into the bagged soil just so there isn't a defined line between them but more of a little transition area. When I fill big pots and buckets usually the bottom half to 2/3 is rough compost from the goats, so mostly waste alfalfa plus manure. It will have cooled off to ambient air temps but still be lumpy and course. After wetting it down in the pot to help settle air pockets I'll dump in a mix of used potting soil mixed with some finer finished compost. I usually add in some gypsum for calcium and sometimes a little organic veg fertilizer high in potash since my soil is low in it. Things have done pretty well with this as long as I can keep up on the watering ;-)
Great tip! Thank you!
Enjoyed visiting this morning Heather! Bunnies. It seems here for me, I have no problem getting fall-offs at the start of the season. What I have trouble with is heat sterility. It seems like he has to move out the old and make room for the new. But its a dance, you dont want much time between breeding sessions because you can get fertilized eggs with diff ages. They all deliver at the same time tho. Generally its a pain at the beginning but soon falls into a nice rhythm. I am looking forward to cooler weather!! I have had more than enough heat. 💜👍💜 Aunt Beth
I wonder if some of it is that I have the rabbits in a decently dark area of the barn. I mean it's not oppressively dark but it may be dark enough to simulate "Winter" sooner? Don't know!!
I agree! The light works best for me too. If anything n the sun flower seeds makes my does a little too heavy which seems to slow breeding / reduce my litter sizes. I also have a couple does who have preferences for certain bucks. My most stubborn doe who is also my best doe (she knows she’s got it lol) can be aggressive toward some bucks but seemed to really love our new buck. The pairing didn’t take but it was still pretty hot, but the fact that she was presenting for him so I am anxious to try again soon!
There is nothing like farm dust on a fresh tomato. So good!
Right?!
TY; SO much work!
YES we look forward to winter's rest!
Good morning Beautiful Lady.
Wow, when you walked into your greenhouse my jaw dropped. Looks great on our side of the camera.
It's so pretty in person!! The lovely pumpkins ♥
Eeeee! LOL yup. I gave up on rabbits in Arizona. Too much maintenance for me in the summer. Also, being a single woman trying to do everything myself, I have to pick my battles.
Love your channel Heather, thank you for all you share. I had to comment because I’m so happy to hear someone say they didn’t enjoy shishito peppers. I tried them at all different stages and just didn’t get the hype! It’s so funny how different we all are. I will happily plant something different next year 😂
You are not the first person to comment that!! Seems like there is a lot of hype but I didn't love them either. The texture was just off when cooked and they were only "okay" raw. Plus I hated the random risk for a hot one!
Same! I planted them last year and wasn't impressed so I didn't plant them this year.
Girl you inspire me to grow rabbits 🐇 and I'm gonna. Will be looking to you for guidance 😆 ❤
We have a whole raising rabbits playlist if you haven't seen that ! :)
You’re one hard working gal!! That’s what it takes for success, all the best to you😊
Thank you! You too!
That garden bed fills me with eager excitement! I look forward to seeing what grows in there!!! Happy fall gardening! It gets too cold too fast here, so we don't put in a fall garden. So I might be just a little jealous, but I'll enjoy watching your garden grow.
Fingers crossed it does well! Fall gardening is hit or miss here
Love seeing the rabbits ❤❤❤🕊️
We are getting into rabbit season for sure!
Hey hey. Sorry I haven't been around for a while, things have not been great here. However, seeing you were collecting tomatoes I wanted to stop by and let you know about the Blue Cream Berry you sent me. We've had an absolutely terrible weather year here. It's been like perpetual winter, dark, cold and horrendously wet. The tomatoes have seriously struggled going from water-logged compost, to hydrophobic, compacted compost as it's tried to dry out. Yet the Brad Gates varieties are the stars of the show as per usual. I did worry about the BCBs, as they set fruit early, but just refused to ripen at first. However, then they started. Jed, like myself, did not like the Blue Berries, or Blue Gold Berries, so I wondered what he'd make of these compared to his favourite Barry's Crazy Cherry... He really likes them! They are really great, and despite all the hurdles these poor plants have gone through, they have really got the job done. Also, I worried about them since I'm in a high Blight risk area, and the Blue/Blue-Gold Berries were the first to get hit very early in the season when I grew those, but these plants are still Blight free. Which considering our year is a bit of a miracle, but I really do believe that plants prove their worth in the worst of conditions. Sadly, I couldn't get the melons to grow as it has been just too cold, but I'm sat here having sorted all my seeds ready for next year already lol I may have been quite here, but know you have walked through my Yorkshire garden with me often!
Hugs! I’m so sorry it’s been a bad year! I appreciate your update and I’m glad the plants did alright despite the weather, and I’m glad you like the blue cream berries!!
I know epic garden channel did a bag soil test
They did and miracle gro did best. Truly though none of those peppers they grew preformed the way they should. They all looked sad. Miracle gro doing best on its own has been my experience too. But we are trying to get away from that. Our barn clean outs should improve the soils and add organic matter.
I use Kellogg's. I bought some other kind from Lowes on sale and my plants struggled in the Lowes soil.
My biggest tomato threat has been locust/grasshoppers. I have seen them literally chomping on them and they leave the very marks behind that was on your orange accordian tomato. They are beautiful! I had the same reaction to the pineapple tomato. My dino kale has not been sprouting either. The last few years have just been lame as can be for kale. And oh my goodness...I have so many rolly polly bugs in my garden. I need to get rid of them!!
sluggo Plus is what we put down for rolly pollies!
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Hi Heather. It was great to see the rabbits again. Thanks for that. Are you still going mushrooms?
Thank you have a great day.
Yes! Mushrooms to start up again once the rest of winter is upon us. Mushrooms and microgreens :)
That's great, I will looking forward to seeing those videos.
Better luck to you than we had. We tried Several color variations with our California rabbits and no matter what we did they always produced black first generation. I’m curious to see what you get.
Wow!! Black furs would be welcome, that's neat they did that.
I am thinking if you use a tarp or something to catch the rabbit urine with the manure together that should have enough nitrogen to help the "raised bed soil" finish composting and be more ready for plants sooner. I learned the hard way this year those together can burn plants like strong fertalizer does haha, took about 2 weeks to no longer be too strong when I used too much. Thanks for showing and explaining who/what/where/when/why about your rabbit breeding :) Have a great day.
FYI Ammonia: Rabbit urine contains higher proportions of ammonia than urine from other mammals.
Oh I bet!! I'm sorry you had some plants burn! We have been using manure but allowing the urine to drain into the ground
I so miss having meat rabbits... my last year of having them we put in the freezer/canned 78 of them. Now that my 25 year long marriage is over and I live in an apartment I cant have fresh rabbit anymore.
Hugs to you ♥
I was disappointed with my Shoshito peppers too. My first time growing them and they were abundant, but like you I wasn’t impressed with the flavor at all. You might want to pick the peppers off the plant you put in your raised bed to compost so they don’t come back up. Loved seeing Nefarious!
They are very deep down so I think it will be fine! :)
So nice to see the rabbits again i have a soft spot for rabbits content i just love it 😅
Its my first year gardening and i didnt think that you could use green tomatoes 😯
What can you use them in?
And im excited for the fall garden and baby goats😆
Such a lovely video i always love your content 😊
I found that I really love green tomato salsa (AKA salsa verde but with tomatoes rather than tomatillos). I'm not a big fan of fried green tomatoes, but maybe I just haven't had them cooked properly.
We like to make a green tomato relish with ours!
How do you decide what to plant next to what? How many different plants can be planted in your raised beds? I want to start with 2 to 4 raised beds like your metal ones in your greenhouse. Some will be vining, and some won't. I appreciate any tips you're willing to share😊
I read a couple books on square foot gardening and on companion planting. I talk about those books in this video: ruclips.net/video/1d-k4DGuDKo/видео.html
You need a harvest apron, maybe someone will get you one for Christmas.
I have a Roo Harvest Apron! The Basket is also part of creating a thumbnail for the video, you can see what's in it :)
So many things to comment on. Did you find that growing your peppers up a string lessened the amount of fruit or was it about the same? I left the roots of my cabbage that I grew in the spring in the ground and they are growing back lol. It's sad but oddly satisfying to pull things out of the garden. We got compost by the truckload from a local place and my garden really struggled to get going. Things were stunted for so long. It was leaf compost and it wasn't broken down as much as it should've been. Most of where we used it was brand new beds too so I know that had an impact. I have tried so many bagged soils and they are all disappointing. There's so much bark in them! There's nothing more satisfying in the garden than to see a bed freshly composted and ready for the next thing.
Forgot one more thing lol! I was planning to grow the orange accordion tomato next year. I'm glad you did a taste test on camera. I'm finding that a lot of varieties just all taste the same. I was looking forward to some variety in flavors but just didn't get it.
The peppers were less productive growing them the way I did! It was a fun experiment but I won't do it again. (Never say never I guess but I doubt it) Dr Wyche tomatoes were very very good. Not as strikingly pretty but similar color. Very meaty and delicious!
@@SageandStoneHomestead Maybe I’ll give Wyche a try! I found an orange paste type tomato from baker creek. I plan to grow more paste!
You raise goats and rabbits and have cats, I'm fairly new to goats, have had rabbits for about 18 years. New problem rabbits with fleas? Goats have them, working on eradicating them, but they don't share the same space. Used DE liberally on the rabbits this morning. The only common denominator is a kitten that wanders the entire property quite rapidly and walks on top of the rabbit cages. He was treated with Frontline the morning, which can't be used on rabbits. How do you handle fleas or lice on your critters? Love your channel!
We only have noticed fleas on our indoor house rabbit and he gets revolution monthly as well as all the cats. The dog has a flea tag that gets changed out regularly and I've actually never noticed fleas on the goats!
@@SageandStoneHomestead our milk goat is where I found them first. The kitten loves to help milk, maybe he is where they originated. Treating the goat with topical sulphur. Internal sulphur works better, but effects copper levels. 20 rabbits rabbitry kind of expensive to use revolution that's why the DE first. Thanks for the reply.
Do you save a couple plants for slicing tomatoes?
Yes we still have the volunteers near the perennial garden
Do you use the rabbit manure in your beds ? I've heard it's an excellent fertilizer & have wanted them for that sole purpose. Also I've used azomite & moldy alfalfa pellets to put in beds & that has worked pretty well
Yes! Earlier in the year we filled a lot of beds and used mostly rabbit manure, the piles have not built back up quite yet so we are using goat barn cleanout right now. :) Rabbit manure is awesome!
When and how often do you repeat taking the does to meet the boys?
It depends. I won't repeat it now for another week because we have temps in the 90s this week and the boys will be temporarily sterile because of that. Otherwise we would repeat everyday, and it doesn't take long for them to lift once the light is turned on.
@@SageandStoneHomestead thanks I'm wondering if mine are getting enough light,I'd been trying them in the early evening as the daytime temps have been warm..but not hot..thanks :)
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Why dont you make vermicompost soil? Memes worms sells worms in America. Im sure she can ship to you. I planted my fruit trees (Kumquats) in vermicompost and they are producing fruit one more time this year. Its very easy to setup. You need a barrel, chop it in half and fill it with coffee grounds and shredded paper. Wet it and mix it up. Order worms and feed them weekly :) I highly recommend it. Worms can make any soil good as long as theres no pesticides.
We feed worms directly in the beds. This is talked about in the next video :) the gist is, it’s more work to create a dedicated setup vs just do it in the bed.
Hello what kind of pumpkin is that?
Dutch Fork Pie pumpkin :)
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Are the times from Amazon?
Sorry I think there's a typo there. Is what from amazon?
@@SageandStoneHomestead timers sorry.
✅ I didn’t enjoy Shishito peppers either.
All I've heard is high praise for them and I did not like the texture of the skins when cooked! They were fine raw. But just fine.