I have One Word For You What I see and what I hear is determination- that is your gift to the world finally someone Who finds ways to succeed, and why? I think because of commitment but also connection to nature. Thanks you for showing that, love it. Greetings René from the netherlands
I had no idea that was how you hung garlic!!! Amazing! Super helpful. Love your videos!!! I’m brand new to gardening, but my husband isn’t, so we planted a HUGE one. Your videos give me inspo to keep harvesting and preserving!! ❤️❤️
I don't know where you're at, but I'm in East TN and the squash bugs this year have been insane! I swear they are multiplying by the millions. I actually risked my crop and brought my chickens out to them. It helped a lot. The chickens, once I got them to notice the bugs, were far more interested in the bugs than my pumpkins and zucchini. Just doing that for about an hour get the bug to a level I can handle again with daily spot checks. I still have them, but they're manageable. Good luck in your war!!!
This probably isn't relevant to this video but I would LOVE a video on all your must-have appliances for saving all of your food. I know a pressure canner, dehydrator, etc. I would be curious about the nick-nack time-saving items and other less common items. Even a top 5 list would be cool!
My experience with the pests on squash and zucchini is that the culprit that usually ends up killing them is the squash vine borer. The squash bugs can do some damage for sure but it’s the darn borers that do them in. I keep them controlled with “safer brand caterpillar killer”.
Just came across your channel and love the videos! I am on year 2 of my garden and I suck at it LOL. But I'm bound and determine to keep going. The ants are driving me crazy, I have a cat and mouse chase with the white moths everyday with the fly swatter and a mysterious worm that is cocooned in a web keeps popping up. Thank you for being such an inspiration!
Our land is too small but second planting of green beans, onions, yellow squash, zucchini and cucumbers. Planted Cherokee Tan pumpkins, Cushaw and Butternut squash. The last 3 will go into winter. Thank you for the video. God Bless, stay safe.
I love watching your channel but all I can keep thinking is I hope you are wearing sunscreen. You are outdoors so much. Stay safe and thank you for sharing your journey with us.
Does your chickens go to their coop for night? Are they around the garden all day? Love your videos! I just found you about a week ago and watching your videos from the start. So inspiring! You have a lovely family 🙂
This IS inspiring! Someone else asked below, and I am curious as well, how you store certain things so they don’t rot. I understand garlic dries nicely, but all those carrots, wet in the bags? Do you leave them refrigerated? Or, otherwise, what else do you do to them? How long will they last?
Thanks! Yes, I leave the carrots refrigerated. We usually go through them fast enough that I've never really had one go bad. I imagine they can last at least a few months. You would probably want to dry them a little more thoroughly than I did though if storing them through the winter. I keep them in the bags and remove tops because it keeps the humidity high and they don't shrivel up. I plant another succession of carrots in the beginning of August (zone 6b) and they are ready at the end of October. This is my winter supply of carrots. I leave them in the ground all winter and pick them when I need them. I do cover them with several inches of straw, shredded leaves, or wood chips to keep them from freezing in the ground. Every vegetable has different storage requirements. I have some tips for storing vegetables over winter, and share specific vegetable storage requirements on a blog post I wrote. You can find it here: www.theseasonalhomestead.com/10-tips-for-storing-vegetables-through-winter/
Those red onions look amazing! If I remember correctly, I think you mentioned those are Rossa di Milano onions, which is a long day onion. Could you please share when you start the seed and which month you plant them outside? I am in an intermediate day growing zone and haven't had much success with growing big bulb red onions. Thank you for your response.
I’ve been watching for a few months and have caught up with your previous videos too. I love watching all that you’re doing and have learned a lot too. How do you store your summer squashes and what are your favorite recipes to use them?
this is so inspiring! are the blackberries wild or did y’all plant those? would love a video about how you rotate crops and a behind the scenes of planning each season of the garden out! thank you for sharing 🤗
Thank you. They are wild blackberries. The perimeter of our property is surrounded by them! I will definitely put that on my list of videos to make. Thanks for the suggestion :)
Just curious...did you cure the garlic before braiding it? Would love to see a more detailed instructional video on how you did that! Just came across your channel the other day and I am so glad I did! Trying to soak up as much knowledge as I can so one day when I have a place I can do some of the same. Thanks for sharing!
I see you children learning about growing and making their on food and I keep thinking about all these hysterical adults in big American cities who were screaming that without restaurants opened they are facing death by starvation. I'm Polish, it's totally normal for us to make your own food from scratch and it was a shock to me to find out that this is not common in som countries Your channel is very inspiring
It changes weekly depending on what is in season! I sort my recipes differently than most people, every recipe gets categorized by vegetables required. That way if I have tomatoes and squash in season all I need to do is pull out all my recipes that use tomatoes and squash. This week we had spring roll rice bowls, tacos, pasta salad, greek salad, stir fry, and tomato sandwiches. We get all our vegetables from the garden- year round, but still buy some fruits, grains, and dairy from the store. Our meat will all come from our farm this year too. We are slowly making changes to get more and more from the land. It's a process but so fun!
Do you have any tips for time management during the huge harvest season? Waking up to pick and can green beans, needing to can beets, make and can salsa, manage a home and 3 small children...it can be overwhelming. Do you have any tips? 1/2 acre garden here and blessed but busy!
Your onions look beautiful! Do you order your seed sets or do you purchase them locally? Is there a certain type of onion that you have had the most success with?
I know nothing about gardening so this is a genuine question. Could you not have chickens or ducks that could eat the caterpillars and other insects or would they eat the crops also? Also do you have a video on how you store the vegetables so they last all year and dont rot
Yes, I have chickens and they do eat lots of bugs! I occasionally let them in my garden but sometimes they do more harm than good. And on the flip side sometimes they do lots of good and little harm. It just depends on what stage or time of year my garden is in. I don't have a video on storing vegetables yet, but I did write a blog post with some tips on it a little while ago. You can find that information here: www.theseasonalhomestead.com/10-tips-for-storing-vegetables-through-winter/
Why are you washing the carrots ( they last longer without washing and in a dry cool place) and putting them in the fridge in a plastic? Isn't that going to cause them to want to sprout and mold?
Yes, I've heard of it! What I picked recently isn't really meant for winter storage, we will eat it before then. I plant another succession of carrots at the beginning of August and they are full grown by end of October. Those stay in the ground all winter, I put straw, shredded leaves, or wood chips over top to keep them from freezing when the time comes. So a very similar idea to clamping carrots but the lazy version, I guess :) I would like to try it with potatoes sometime though to see if it works in my climate. Last year I chickened out because we had so many voles I was afraid they would eat them all in the ground. Have you done it before? Any advice if I do try it?
I have One Word For You What I see and what I hear is determination- that is your gift to the world finally someone Who finds ways to succeed, and why? I think because of commitment but also connection to nature. Thanks you for showing that, love it. Greetings René from the netherlands
Your family and your lifestyle choices are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing a part of your life with us. I am inspired and so happy for you all.
Great video! Blackberry pie looks delicious! I live your honest sharing, very personable. 🦋🌻
I had no idea that was how you hung garlic!!! Amazing! Super helpful. Love your videos!!! I’m brand new to gardening, but my husband isn’t, so we planted a HUGE one. Your videos give me inspo to keep harvesting and preserving!! ❤️❤️
I don't know where you're at, but I'm in East TN and the squash bugs this year have been insane! I swear they are multiplying by the millions. I actually risked my crop and brought my chickens out to them. It helped a lot. The chickens, once I got them to notice the bugs, were far more interested in the bugs than my pumpkins and zucchini. Just doing that for about an hour get the bug to a level I can handle again with daily spot checks. I still have them, but they're manageable. Good luck in your war!!!
I hear guinea hens are better then chickens ....my chickens eat and scratch everything
This probably isn't relevant to this video but I would LOVE a video on all your must-have appliances for saving all of your food. I know a pressure canner, dehydrator, etc. I would be curious about the nick-nack time-saving items and other less common items. Even a top 5 list would be cool!
My experience with the pests on squash and zucchini is that the culprit that usually ends up killing them is the squash vine borer. The squash bugs can do some damage for sure but it’s the darn borers that do them in. I keep them controlled with “safer brand caterpillar killer”.
Just came across your channel and love the videos! I am on year 2 of my garden and I suck at it LOL. But I'm bound and determine to keep going. The ants are driving me crazy, I have a cat and mouse chase with the white moths everyday with the fly swatter and a mysterious worm that is cocooned in a web keeps popping up. Thank you for being such an inspiration!
There's still plenty we don't do well either :) Always about improving on last years efforts. Hard work but sure worth it!
I adore your space . I wish I could live that way! Beautiful your hard work shows! Thank you for sharing💯❤️
Beautiful!! It's hard work, but so worth it. Thanks so much for sharing with us.
What a fun FHE activity to make a pie together! Love it!! 😍 you are so good at preserving through the garden hardships! Way to go darling!
Wonderful! I do hope you share about how you preserve/store your bounty. Thanks!
Thanks! I will definitely share as time allows!
Very inspiring. Thanks for making the videos!
that pie looks soo good!
Good work! I love watching your videos ♥️
Thanks for your kind words! I appreciate them!
Wow! I learned two things: 1) expand my garden 2)succession planting!
I honestly don’t know how you do it
Thank you! It's a lot of work but very fulfilling :)
I’m new to y’all’s channel. Love it!
Thank you for enjoying our adventure with us :)
Blessings to all!
Our land is too small but second planting of green beans, onions, yellow squash, zucchini and cucumbers. Planted Cherokee Tan pumpkins, Cushaw and Butternut squash. The last 3 will go into winter. Thank you for the video. God Bless, stay safe.
i have braided my soft neck garlic, but we mostly grow hard necks which you get the scapes from, you cant plate! but i just keep them in a basket.
GRATEFUL !!!! THAnk you!
Those blackberries look so good. Yum!
I love watching your channel but all I can keep thinking is I hope you are wearing sunscreen. You are outdoors so much. Stay safe and thank you for sharing your journey with us.
I have been using captain Jack’s dead bug. It’s organic. I could not keep up with all the leaves either.
Does your chickens go to their coop for night?
Are they around the garden all day?
Love your videos!
I just found you about a week ago and watching your videos from the start. So inspiring!
You have a lovely family 🙂
This IS inspiring! Someone else asked below, and I am curious as well, how you store certain things so they don’t rot. I understand garlic dries nicely, but all those carrots, wet in the bags? Do you leave them refrigerated? Or, otherwise, what else do you do to them? How long will they last?
Thanks! Yes, I leave the carrots refrigerated. We usually go through them fast enough that I've never really had one go bad. I imagine they can last at least a few months. You would probably want to dry them a little more thoroughly than I did though if storing them through the winter. I keep them in the bags and remove tops because it keeps the humidity high and they don't shrivel up.
I plant another succession of carrots in the beginning of August (zone 6b) and they are ready at the end of October. This is my winter supply of carrots. I leave them in the ground all winter and pick them when I need them. I do cover them with several inches of straw, shredded leaves, or wood chips to keep them from freezing in the ground.
Every vegetable has different storage requirements. I have some tips for storing vegetables over winter, and share specific vegetable storage requirements on a blog post I wrote. You can find it here: www.theseasonalhomestead.com/10-tips-for-storing-vegetables-through-winter/
@Allan Drugovich or sand or sawdust. Hellen Nearing used autumn leaves.
Those red onions look amazing! If I remember correctly, I think you mentioned those are Rossa di Milano onions, which is a long day onion. Could you please share when you start the seed and which month you plant them outside? I am in an intermediate day growing zone and haven't had much success with growing big bulb red onions. Thank you for your response.
I’ve been watching for a few months and have caught up with your previous videos too. I love watching all that you’re doing and have learned a lot too. How do you store your summer squashes and what are your favorite recipes to use them?
Great job!!!
Thank you!!
Have you thought about using the lint rollers to get those squash bugs?
I'm wondering how these row covers fare after storms and wind? Love seeing the little bakers making it themselves.
this is so inspiring! are the blackberries wild or did y’all plant those? would love a video about how you rotate crops and a behind the scenes of planning each season of the garden out! thank you for sharing 🤗
Thank you. They are wild blackberries. The perimeter of our property is surrounded by them! I will definitely put that on my list of videos to make. Thanks for the suggestion :)
Just curious...did you cure the garlic before braiding it? Would love to see a more detailed instructional video on how you did that! Just came across your channel the other day and I am so glad I did! Trying to soak up as much knowledge as I can so one day when I have a place I can do some of the same. Thanks for sharing!
I see you children learning about growing and making their on food and I keep thinking about all these hysterical adults in big American cities who were screaming that without restaurants opened they are facing death by starvation.
I'm Polish, it's totally normal for us to make your own food from scratch and it was a shock to me to find out that this is not common in som countries
Your channel is very inspiring
You can't get more fresh then that blackberry pie :)
What does a week of meals look like for your family since you grow your own food?
It changes weekly depending on what is in season! I sort my recipes differently than most people, every recipe gets categorized by vegetables required. That way if I have tomatoes and squash in season all I need to do is pull out all my recipes that use tomatoes and squash.
This week we had spring roll rice bowls, tacos, pasta salad, greek salad, stir fry, and tomato sandwiches. We get all our vegetables from the garden- year round, but still buy some fruits, grains, and dairy from the store. Our meat will all come from our farm this year too. We are slowly making changes to get more and more from the land. It's a process but so fun!
I get exhausted just watching you.
Thank you. After being a homestead channel, we are sometimes a reality workout tv channel :)
Do you have any tips for time management during the huge harvest season? Waking up to pick and can green beans, needing to can beets, make and can salsa, manage a home and 3 small children...it can be overwhelming. Do you have any tips? 1/2 acre garden here and blessed but busy!
You may want to consider planting other plants like, sunflower, or carrots around the squash plants to attract insects which prey on squash bugs.
I just discovered your channel. Can you do some videos on the tools you use? I am not familiar with some of them.
Where do you get your low tunnel material
Wow
The ELLIOTT homestead RUclips channel could be of help with how to handle the pesticide
Kudos
How far apart do you plant your onion starts? I'm still learning. This will be my 5th year gardening.
Did you know you can the squash leaves
Have you tried or do you use Bt for your squash bugs? We are buying in NWA and curious about managing them
To the 4 people who down voted this amazing video... "I have a specific set of skills, skills acquired over a long career, i will find you..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣😝😝
What material you using on the video to cover your cabbage seedlings?
Once you planted your onion seeds/starts and they began to grow, did you give them a " haircut" ir did you just let the green tops grow until harvest?
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Your onions look beautiful! Do you order your seed sets or do you purchase them locally? Is there a certain type of onion that you have had the most success with?
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I know nothing about gardening so this is a genuine question. Could you not have chickens or ducks that could eat the caterpillars and other insects or would they eat the crops also? Also do you have a video on how you store the vegetables so they last all year and dont rot
Yes, I have chickens and they do eat lots of bugs! I occasionally let them in my garden but sometimes they do more harm than good. And on the flip side sometimes they do lots of good and little harm. It just depends on what stage or time of year my garden is in.
I don't have a video on storing vegetables yet, but I did write a blog post with some tips on it a little while ago. You can find that information here: www.theseasonalhomestead.com/10-tips-for-storing-vegetables-through-winter/
@@TheSeasonalHomestead thanks for replying
How do you store your carrots for long term please?
interesting
What type of squash were those?
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Is that a 2 CARROT ring? Asking for a friend.
Ha! I honestly don't remember what size the ring is. Thanks for noticing though :)
Why are you washing the carrots ( they last longer without washing and in a dry cool place) and putting them in the fridge in a plastic? Isn't that going to cause them to want to sprout and mold?
I think she explained that these carrots will be eaten fairly quickly and she plants a second crop of carrots for the winter.
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Do you know about clamping carrots etc to keep them fresh underground?
Yes, I've heard of it! What I picked recently isn't really meant for winter storage, we will eat it before then. I plant another succession of carrots at the beginning of August and they are full grown by end of October. Those stay in the ground all winter, I put straw, shredded leaves, or wood chips over top to keep them from freezing when the time comes. So a very similar idea to clamping carrots but the lazy version, I guess :) I would like to try it with potatoes sometime though to see if it works in my climate. Last year I chickened out because we had so many voles I was afraid they would eat them all in the ground. Have you done it before? Any advice if I do try it?
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Food grade Diatomaceous Earth for your bug problems...
How do you water YOUR HUGE GARDEN???
By hand so far. We are in the middle of putting in a drip system, which will make thinks much much easier!!!
What's your job? :)
Incredible! Your garden is incredible! Are y'all officially moved into your home?
Thanks! Yes! It's finally official! Wahoo!!!
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please, kitchen and house tour ;D