I’m impressed by how well your kiddos take care of their own garden space! Please, let them know I think they’re terrific farmers! I hope they’re enjoying the seed catalogs and dreaming of what they’ll plant next!🍅❤️🥬❤️🌶️❤️🥦
Good thing you caught the freezer issue before you lost it all! Funny how it "made" you get the bone broth prepped and canned. Chloe was like "I'm HUNGRY"!!
May I say that, it is so refreshing to see your channel! You’re always so joyful and I love that you include your garden. So many channels lately are not enjoyable to watch anymore. Ty so soooo much for the garden your. ❤️
I am so happy you are enjoying the channel! We love showing what's going on around here. I love showing the garden in spring and summer. There usually is not much going on in the garden in winter but this winter is different! :)
With freezers and cold weather, look for freezers or refrigerators listed as "garage ready" by the manufacturer. Those models can handle being in an unhealed space through the winter weather. They usually cast a little bit more, but can be worth it. If you're looking at a used or older unit, you can look the model number up and usually find the same information.
Thank you! I had no idea that existed. Our current fridge/freezer combos that are outside were purchased at a scratch and dent place. Thanks for the info about looking up the model numbers!!
Absolutely LOVE that Chloe! 😂. Carrots do very well in my northern climate. Carrot top pesto is a delicious way to use some of those tops 😊. I will use sunflower seeds instead of pine nuts to save moola!
Gorgeous green!! We still have snow on the ground. Another blast is coming tonite. I worked in the rabbit shed this morning in preparation. Cali wanted a nest box so I gave her one. Altho she isnt due till later next week. Always something, never boring 😂😂 You are doing such a great job Heather! 💜👍💜 Aunt Beth
I think you were talking about your elephant garlic when you said you were rooting for it. I had to laugh because that sums up so much of homesteading. We can only spread ourselves so thin and we also have this drive to want to try too many of the new things that come along all the time!!!
I think so! Really what I'd love to get right is my timing with seedlings. Ideally all of these brassicas would have been harvested by now to reset for spring
Thank you so much Heather You're great and you teach me a lot and inspire me to get my greenhouse going on this off-grid property! I just picked up a metal shelving in the trash yesterday so that's going to be my greenhouse
My freezer stopped working when it got really cold as well! The service guy said if they don’t say “ garage ready” they can’t hold really cold or really hot- 🤷🏼♀️ who knew!
THANK YOU! So appreciate the garden tour and observations of everything! Learning so much from you! Great save on the freezer items too! Blessings on you and your beautiful family Kiddo! 🌿💚🙏💕👵
We have been eating our greens from everything. I wish we had more this winter because I have been enjoying eating kale/chard/broccoli salads. We don't have a green house, and the plant lasted quite a long time under a double layer of pest barrier. I was so bummed to have to harvest my cabbages the other day.
Oh no!! I never knew that! I literally ran out to check our freezers in the well house, all good! 😅 Our freezers use to be in our basement before. I think it's important to see what a garden looks like in the winter. It's the unattractive side that is forgotten and a great time to start amending. Oh man, Chloe is so adorable!
My fridge freezer is also messing up. We havnt had this cold of a winter in years here in fredericksburg va. My turkey and turkey broth are still solid frozen but the pizza bites and a few things were softening up more than I like. I do have a simple amazon fridge and freezer thermometer thay tells me what they are and my freezer says it's staying around 26 degrees ans the fridge is around 28-30. Really frustrating but managing it ok
@SageandStoneHomestead it doesn't make any sense. Why wouldn't the freezer get colder or stay it's normal temp. I'm ok with the fridge being colder but not okay with the fridge being warmer 🙃 making me crazy
I am happy that you saved meat from the freezers. I love kohlrabi. I have 2 growing. Just wanted to try them. My lettuce is really growing. I think that they are to close to each other. Next time I will do them further apart. My Zinnias are gorgeous. Soo tall and the colours are wonderful. Thank you for sharing. Thoughts and Prayers always. Love and Blessings. Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘
Sounded like the Rooster also gave his seal of approval. As far as the trees go in your greenhouse, I've heard that some fruit trees need a certain amount of Cold Night Hours to produce fruit, How might that affect the Bonfire Peach? Your Bok Choi is looking absolutely Yummy, and so does the Cabbages. Sorry, just random thoughts throughout the video.
Good question! Online it says they need 400 hours below 45° to set fruit, which I think we manage most years. Maybe more chill hours outside the greenhouse though! Do you happen to know as a GA resident if blossoms can come with no fruit set? I think they are putting on blossom buds right now.
I bought the Kebtek battery powered clipper from Amazon because I do so much pruning and gardening. It is amazing! Clips with very little finger pull. Maybe a help for all you do.
I've been having the same issue, mostly at the top, when I kick up the Fridge side temp the freezer compressor will kick on. I moved all my meat out of there but left cheeses, some fruit with plans to use them up in the next month. I figure it's essentially just now a 2 sided fridge!
Yes!! I left in some of the meat to continue to thaw and use this weekend. We are getting some LOW temps coming up but after that I hope to convince the freezers to freeze again before spring haha
Hey, Heather - could you please spell out the sprouting broccoli variety you pointed out? We’re in central Georgia and would love to try it for it’s heat tolerance! Thank you so much for sharing it with me! ❤️🥦❤️🥦❤️
Good morning! We are selling some goats today. We will be trimming hooves and checking famachas and giving copper bolused as needed. Do you do anything else before sending yours off to a new home? Thanks for a splash of green this morning!
Good morning! Depending I sometimes will send them home with a dewormer or coccidia dose just because moving often causes a bloom. I don't give it to the goat but give it in a syringe with instructions when to give it/what to look for.
Carrot tops freeze dry and add well to green powder. Mystery green! Did you say the cow thinks the kohlrabi looked good too? Feel like I missed something.... Pea shoots are yummy in a salad. Yum.
It was so funny to see Chloe root at that pumpkin, rolling it like a pro but looking for "how to get those tasty seeds and pulp"! I never knew the honeybee bump as a warning - Thank you! I researched the issue with your loose-leaf Brussel Sprout plant and two main issues that cause this apparently are the temperature is too warm for them or excess nitrogen. So, you were right I think to point out the excess nitrogen in the newer raised bed soil. One other thing mentioned regarding this is an unstable hybrid seed, which is rarer when seeds are obtained through seed retailers, but not impossible. I also enjoy how you explained how the soil possibly has too much nitrogen: The mulch and barky bits (that were tying up nitrogen) have completed breaking down, which frees up the nitrogen already in the soil and because you amended with a balanced fertilizer, any nitrogen from the fertilizer that wasn't used up by plants is now also present in the soil. If you have an at-home soil test kit, it would be entertaining to see "how high" is apparently too high for the different main nutrients. BTW - the most often recommendatio for balancing the excess nitrogen, besides planting heavy-feeding crops is actually to place "brown" mulches like leaves and straw in the top layer of soil and water more frequently to leach nitrogen deeper into the soil.
Thank you !! I wonder if the goats ate up all the leaves by the pond.... They haven't been down there in a bit!! Watering more is great advice too! I appreciate you!
for your grapes it like a puzzle you need 2 branches like -|- for the grape's other need pruning brown branches need pruning too > I'm working self on a vineyard so I can help enter that question for you btw grapes needs pruning after the frost is over other you will kill it
Losing the contents of my freezers is a nightmare for me, I check them every single day because we can't afford to replace if we lose the food. Also, what the hell is with that Kohl rabi??
@SageandStoneHomestead yes I listen to little bit longer on your video and I said yep we need not to pee on them because it's too much nitrogen I understand I am definitely learning
I’m impressed by how well your kiddos take care of their own garden space! Please, let them know I think they’re terrific farmers! I hope they’re enjoying the seed catalogs and dreaming of what they’ll plant next!🍅❤️🥬❤️🌶️❤️🥦
I will tell them! Thank you so much!!
BEAUTIFUL gardens. So envious of your ability to grow in winter!
Good thing you caught the freezer issue before you lost it all! Funny how it "made" you get the bone broth prepped and canned.
Chloe was like "I'm HUNGRY"!!
May I say that, it is so refreshing to see your channel! You’re always so joyful and I love that you include your garden. So many channels lately are not enjoyable to watch anymore. Ty so soooo much for the garden your. ❤️
I am so happy you are enjoying the channel! We love showing what's going on around here. I love showing the garden in spring and summer. There usually is not much going on in the garden in winter but this winter is different! :)
With freezers and cold weather, look for freezers or refrigerators listed as "garage ready" by the manufacturer. Those models can handle being in an unhealed space through the winter weather. They usually cast a little bit more, but can be worth it. If you're looking at a used or older unit, you can look the model number up and usually find the same information.
Thank you! I had no idea that existed. Our current fridge/freezer combos that are outside were purchased at a scratch and dent place. Thanks for the info about looking up the model numbers!!
@SageandStoneHomestead thanks for needing some of the random knowledge that I'm full of! Makes me feel important!☺️
I just heard about refrigerators called garage ready the other day. I wasn't curious enough to look it up, thanks for the definition of that!
Absolutely LOVE that Chloe! 😂. Carrots do very well in my northern climate. Carrot top pesto is a delicious way to use some of those tops 😊. I will use sunflower seeds instead of pine nuts to save moola!
Oh SO sorry to hear about freezers. Totally disrupts schedule.😢
It worked out! Just made things a little more hectic than normal for this time of year!
Gorgeous green!! We still have snow on the ground. Another blast is coming tonite. I worked in the rabbit shed this morning in preparation. Cali wanted a nest box so I gave her one. Altho she isnt due till later next week. Always something, never boring 😂😂 You are doing such a great job Heather! 💜👍💜 Aunt Beth
I've had rabbits really want to nest early too!
I think you were talking about your elephant garlic when you said you were rooting for it. I had to laugh because that sums up so much of homesteading. We can only spread ourselves so thin and we also have this drive to want to try too many of the new things that come along all the time!!!
YES! Some stuff needs to be left to it's own devices haha. For plants at least!
Looks like you had a eventful day lol. Thanks for the tour, looking good to me. Hope everyone has a great day
You have a great day as well and stay warm!!
I was watching an older video... I was like awwwww..look baby ferral🥰❤❤
Awe yeah baby feral was so dang cute!!
Greens powered or dehydrated can be ut in cookies, sweet breads, etc.
It is possible to use rowcovers or lowtunnels inside a high tunnel to provide extra protection/warmth in such weather.
The frost fabrics work great !
I think so! Really what I'd love to get right is my timing with seedlings. Ideally all of these brassicas would have been harvested by now to reset for spring
This is what I will probably have to do when I finally get a green house. We yo-yo from hot to cold so much here in southern Ohio.
Heather, you are more than an inspiration. You are the daughter every mom longs for. Thank you for sharing your heart and soul with us.
Thank you so much!! ♥
I just love Chloe! She’s seems so sweet
She really is! I love her too ♥
Thank you so much Heather You're great and you teach me a lot and inspire me to get my greenhouse going on this off-grid property! I just picked up a metal shelving in the trash yesterday so that's going to be my greenhouse
Great find!
My freezer stopped working when it got really cold as well! The service guy said if they don’t say “ garage ready” they can’t hold really cold or really hot- 🤷🏼♀️ who knew!
So far really hot has been a non-issue!
My 2 year old daughter loves your videos. She hears your voice and comes running and says 'baaaaaaa' because she loves your goats ❤
How cute! She may have just decided what my Monday video will be. I've been trying to decide what to film for next week! :)
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THANK YOU! So appreciate the garden tour and observations of everything! Learning so much from you! Great save on the freezer items too! Blessings on you and your beautiful family Kiddo! 🌿💚🙏💕👵
Thanks so much! I am so happy the freezer issue was discovered before anything was lost!
Amen! ❤@@SageandStoneHomestead
Yes! I learn so much from this channel and enjoy Heather's positivity and clear love for her animals and the lifestyle ❤️
I bought a curved garden knife last year and it was a game changer for cleaning off my trellis beds. Much easier and quicker than using pruners!
Thank you!
We have been eating our greens from everything. I wish we had more this winter because I have been enjoying eating kale/chard/broccoli salads. We don't have a green house, and the plant lasted quite a long time under a double layer of pest barrier. I was so bummed to have to harvest my cabbages the other day.
Do you add oil and or lemon juice and massage like a kale salad?
Oh no!! I never knew that! I literally ran out to check our freezers in the well house, all good! 😅 Our freezers use to be in our basement before. I think it's important to see what a garden looks like in the winter. It's the unattractive side that is forgotten and a great time to start amending. Oh man, Chloe is so adorable!
Yes keep an eye on them! It's weird how the freezer thawed while the fridge is below freezing? I can't explain the science lol
My fridge freezer is also messing up. We havnt had this cold of a winter in years here in fredericksburg va. My turkey and turkey broth are still solid frozen but the pizza bites and a few things were softening up more than I like. I do have a simple amazon fridge and freezer thermometer thay tells me what they are and my freezer says it's staying around 26 degrees ans the fridge is around 28-30. Really frustrating but managing it ok
@SageandStoneHomestead it doesn't make any sense. Why wouldn't the freezer get colder or stay it's normal temp. I'm ok with the fridge being colder but not okay with the fridge being warmer 🙃 making me crazy
@@girlmamax3 I have no idea, it is very frustrating!
I am happy that you saved meat from the freezers. I love kohlrabi. I have 2 growing. Just wanted to try them. My lettuce is really growing. I think that they are to close to each other. Next time I will do them further apart. My Zinnias are gorgeous. Soo tall and the colours are wonderful.
Thank you for sharing. Thoughts and Prayers always. Love and Blessings.
Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘
Your garden sounds lovely, Doris!! ♥
@@SageandStoneHomestead You inspired me 🤗
Sounded like the Rooster also gave his seal of approval.
As far as the trees go in your greenhouse, I've heard that some fruit trees need a certain amount of Cold Night Hours to produce fruit, How might that affect the Bonfire Peach?
Your Bok Choi is looking absolutely Yummy, and so does the Cabbages. Sorry, just random thoughts throughout the video.
Good question! Online it says they need 400 hours below 45° to set fruit, which I think we manage most years. Maybe more chill hours outside the greenhouse though! Do you happen to know as a GA resident if blossoms can come with no fruit set? I think they are putting on blossom buds right now.
I bought the Kebtek battery powered clipper from Amazon because I do so much pruning and gardening. It is amazing! Clips with very little finger pull. Maybe a help for all you do.
indeed! I think my husband put something like that in our Amazon Wish list
I've been having the same issue, mostly at the top, when I kick up the Fridge side temp the freezer compressor will kick on. I moved all my meat out of there but left cheeses, some fruit with plans to use them up in the next month. I figure it's essentially just now a 2 sided fridge!
Yes!! I left in some of the meat to continue to thaw and use this weekend. We are getting some LOW temps coming up but after that I hope to convince the freezers to freeze again before spring haha
Everything looks great! Happy Friday!
Also, what size pampered chef pans do you have?
Thank you!! Happy Friday to you!
Heather try Mr. Big Pea from Hoss . The Brussel Sprouts should be fine to leave .
I will look into that seed, thank you!
I wish I could figure out how to grow broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts!
I'm still figuring it out! For me it's about timing and for some of it, the variety. Hybrid broccoli has worked best for me.
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Your Bok Choy is beautiful!!!'
Hey, Heather - could you please spell out the sprouting broccoli variety you pointed out? We’re in central Georgia and would love to try it for it’s heat tolerance! Thank you so much for sharing it with me! ❤️🥦❤️🥦❤️
Yod Fah Broccoli! ♥
Sorry about your freezers and aphids. 😮😮😮❤❤❤
It's really okay, both are just bumps in the road :)
Good morning! We are selling some goats today. We will be trimming hooves and checking famachas and giving copper bolused as needed. Do you do anything else before sending yours off to a new home? Thanks for a splash of green this morning!
Good morning! Depending I sometimes will send them home with a dewormer or coccidia dose just because moving often causes a bloom. I don't give it to the goat but give it in a syringe with instructions when to give it/what to look for.
Great video. I love watching your channel, and I learn so much. What is in with the peach trees?
That is alyssum! Some of it has died back enough that I need to cut it back.
Carrot tops freeze dry and add well to green powder. Mystery green!
Did you say the cow thinks the kohlrabi looked good too? Feel like I missed something....
Pea shoots are yummy in a salad. Yum.
You could hear her neighbors cow making noise in the background.
Haha yes the neighbor's cow was excited to see her hay delivery on the way. She's not really excited about my Kohlrabi haha
@@SageandStoneHomestead lol. I initially thought "how could she get a cow without telling me!?". lol.
It was so funny to see Chloe root at that pumpkin, rolling it like a pro but looking for "how to get those tasty seeds and pulp"! I never knew the honeybee bump as a warning - Thank you! I researched the issue with your loose-leaf Brussel Sprout plant and two main issues that cause this apparently are the temperature is too warm for them or excess nitrogen. So, you were right I think to point out the excess nitrogen in the newer raised bed soil. One other thing mentioned regarding this is an unstable hybrid seed, which is rarer when seeds are obtained through seed retailers, but not impossible. I also enjoy how you explained how the soil possibly has too much nitrogen: The mulch and barky bits (that were tying up nitrogen) have completed breaking down, which frees up the nitrogen already in the soil and because you amended with a balanced fertilizer, any nitrogen from the fertilizer that wasn't used up by plants is now also present in the soil. If you have an at-home soil test kit, it would be entertaining to see "how high" is apparently too high for the different main nutrients. BTW - the most often recommendatio for balancing the excess nitrogen, besides planting heavy-feeding crops is actually to place "brown" mulches like leaves and straw in the top layer of soil and water more frequently to leach nitrogen deeper into the soil.
Thank you !! I wonder if the goats ate up all the leaves by the pond.... They haven't been down there in a bit!! Watering more is great advice too! I appreciate you!
and roses help the grapes to fungi - fungi can kill the grapes
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Cheers!! ♥
for your grapes it like a puzzle you need 2 branches like -|- for the grape's other need pruning brown branches need pruning too > I'm working self on a vineyard so I can help enter that question for you
btw grapes needs pruning after the frost is over other you will kill it
We will have frosts well into April! Thank you!
@@SageandStoneHomestead i have other question for other youtuber with goats what help's with birth's
@@ellendort not sure what you mean! You can send me an email too as replies sometimes get lost. SageAndStoneHomestead@gmail.com
Losing the contents of my freezers is a nightmare for me, I check them every single day because we can't afford to replace if we lose the food. Also, what the hell is with that Kohl rabi??
Lol I don't know its a monster!
Aphids in the winter? Uggh how rude!
I know right?! The greenhouse is great for a lot of things but that also means keeping bugs warm enough to thrive.
Never mind peeing on it will produce more nitrogen and you're saying that's too much nitrogen I am learning
I wonder if you can just pee on them to produce more nitrogen
Well, what we need is less nitrogen and not more
@SageandStoneHomestead yes I listen to little bit longer on your video and I said yep we need not to pee on them because it's too much nitrogen I understand I am definitely learning
A little tip I learned from my Mam-ma…on root crops when harvesting…push down before pulling up! Let me know if it works for you. ✌️🤍
Smart!! I will try that when we come to harvest the rest!