I am so thankful for your videos bc you make them real-life stories!!! Please keep sharing your experience! It is absolutely necessary for other homesteaders or possible homesteaders! We all need to learn and re-learn! What l love the most is that you dont have 10 acres to work on those. You are limited on acreage like a lot of us are. But you manage it!!! Thank you!!!
Garden is looking great. But I hear you when you say things could have been better. I always find room for improvement for my garden and homestead for the following year.
A change in color of the leaves on your potato plant is a telltale sign that the plant is nearing the time when your buried treasures can be dug up. So when they look dead they are ready to harvest, and there is no rush to pick them. Good luck.
Hey, Your garden is awesome. Just a bit of a tip on the garlic? When you see that seed head start to show up, wait for it to curl and cut them off all the way down to the top leaf. These look like a hard neck variety. If you cut them up they are just as yummy as the cloves. I put mine in the freezer. This will stop the seeds from pulling all the energy from the cloves and you will get larger cloves. Wait for the bottom 3 leaves on the garlic to dye off, take the water away from them 2 weks before you harvest. This makes the drying process go much faster. I hope this tip helps you out.
@@AcresOfAdventure I hear ya. Sometimes life happens and you just do what you can do right? Really love to watch your content. I know how much work you put in behind the sceens. It takes more time to set it up then it does to record. Thank you for all the work you do to take us along with you on your adventures. See you on the next one. :)
I could relate when you said that greenbeans and cucumbers can be difficult to harvest in a timely manner. Try growing purple violetta beans. They are puple when ripe turn green when cooked. Also Armenian cucumbers and silver slicers are eastier to see and more pest resistance .
there is nothing wrong with your potatos, you don't harvest them until the green on top die down. So long as the plant is green over the ground leave it be. I do like how full your garden is.
lol thank you!! You will have to send pictures of your parents garden for how they support their tomatoes. We plan on only doing indeterminate varieties next year. Hope to see you guys soon!!
You have your hands full raising kids! Don't feel bad about weeds in the garden or bushy tomatoes! It is impressive that you even have a garden as busy as you are with little ones. It looks like your kids are happy harvesting! Keep it fun and don't worry about the things that don't do well--your garlic, carrots, and cucumbers DID do well! I imagine you will have tons of tomatoes come on your plants! I let mine live their best life and don't prune them. They get a little wild and fall over, but that's ok! The tomatoes taste just as good! With your tomatoes all being together, they aren't falling on smaller plants and shading them out. Don't give up on them; the plants look healthy. They will do great! We all took a break from the outside chores during the heatwaves we have had! Goodness! Nobody wanted to be out weeding the garden in the heat! Give yourself some grace! Take care!
Thank you so much for that perspective!! It can be so easy to see everything you don't do rather than all that you do accomplish. Our kids LOVE harvesting!
Hey I live in Australia and from 1st sept to around middle of April I find it impossible to grow brassicas so I only grow them in winter months. If it snows in winter there maybe grow in glass house you will have best ever and no white butterfly.
I love the garden update. Question... were you still planning on separating the pigs, or did you just decide to leave them together? I love the kids in the garden helping out.
We used tender sweet carrots and made sure the soil was not compacted. I just sprinkle the carrots free handed over the bed to try and disperse it as much as I can. We have never had luck doing the trenches method and then thinning them out. Hope this helps!!
I am so thankful for your videos bc you make them real-life stories!!! Please keep sharing your experience! It is absolutely necessary for other homesteaders or possible homesteaders! We all need to learn and re-learn! What l love the most is that you dont have 10 acres to work on those. You are limited on acreage like a lot of us are. But you manage it!!! Thank you!!!
You are so welcome! Thank you for the kind words. We hope to keep doing this
Little Norah chatting is the best sound ever! Sooo stinking cute!! ❤
being the fourth child, she makes sure she is HEARD lol
@@AcresOfAdventure adorable!!! 🥰
EXCELLENT AND A GREAT WAY TO LIVE 😇👍🏾
BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ❤
🎉🎉 awesome 👍😎
So glad you are still doing you tube. I love your honest and straightforward approach to teaching us about homesteading.😊😊🐝🐝🐝
I’m glad your still on you tube
thank you for supporting us!!
Garden is looking great. But I hear you when you say things could have been better. I always find room for improvement for my garden and homestead for the following year.
always room to do better, we make notes and try again next year!
You guys are an AMAZING family!!!!! Thank you for sharing this with us!!!!🙏❤️
thank you for being here!!
Wow! What a beautiful garden. ❤
Thank you!😁
A change in color of the leaves on your potato plant is a telltale sign that the plant is nearing the time when your buried treasures can be dug up. So when they look dead they are ready to harvest, and there is no rush to pick them. Good luck.
Hey, Your garden is awesome. Just a bit of a tip on the garlic? When you see that seed head start to show up, wait for it to curl and cut them off all the way down to the top leaf. These look like a hard neck variety. If you cut them up they are just as yummy as the cloves. I put mine in the freezer.
This will stop the seeds from pulling all the energy from the cloves and you will get larger cloves.
Wait for the bottom 3 leaves on the garlic to dye off, take the water away from them 2 weks before you harvest. This makes the drying process go much faster.
I hope this tip helps you out.
Thank you for this, last year we use the garlic scapes to make a pesto but this year we got lazy🙈
@@AcresOfAdventure I hear ya. Sometimes life happens and you just do what you can do right? Really love to watch your content. I know how much work you put in behind the sceens. It takes more time to set it up then it does to record. Thank you for all the work you do to take us along with you on your adventures. See you on the next one. :)
Awesomeness, truly, truly appreciate your family sharing ur journey, and we are taking lots of notes.
Thank you so very much.😊🤗
Thank you for watching 😁
I could relate when you said that greenbeans and cucumbers can be difficult to harvest in a timely manner. Try growing purple violetta beans. They are puple when ripe turn green when cooked. Also Armenian cucumbers and silver slicers are eastier to see and more pest resistance .
Thanks i will have too look into the cucumbers! We are growing the purple beans thus year though
Nice looking garden. Kunekune pigs are something I wish i could raise.
They are such good pigs!
What a Beautiful Family ❤😊
You are so kind, thank you!
@@AcresOfAdventure Thank y'all for the awesome videos.
there is nothing wrong with your potatos, you don't harvest them until the green on top die down. So long as the plant is green over the ground leave it be. I do like how full your garden is.
Thank you for the tip!
Weeds grow overnight! And they do make your garden experience feel overwhelming. +
yes they do!
Clicked on this so fast! The garden looks great and loved seeing the family working together and Nora's input lol
lol thank you!! You will have to send pictures of your parents garden for how they support their tomatoes. We plan on only doing indeterminate varieties next year. Hope to see you guys soon!!
Ty acres of adventure. Wow! Lots of good stuff in your garden! Mine gets bugs :(. How do yous keep the bugs away? Please :).
We dont really do anything, lots of marigolds to help get bugs away
Enjoy those little baby conversations!! 😂 miss when my boys were young enough they'd just sit there and yell and talk that baby gibberish 🥲
Aw, we try to soak it all in. She's going to be a little chatter box and make sure shes heard that is for sure!
I like your screen stand! Your kids are great!
so glad it was helpful and hopefully saved you some money!
You have your hands full raising kids! Don't feel bad about weeds in the garden or bushy tomatoes! It is impressive that you even have a garden as busy as you are with little ones. It looks like your kids are happy harvesting! Keep it fun and don't worry about the things that don't do well--your garlic, carrots, and cucumbers DID do well! I imagine you will have tons of tomatoes come on your plants! I let mine live their best life and don't prune them. They get a little wild and fall over, but that's ok! The tomatoes taste just as good! With your tomatoes all being together, they aren't falling on smaller plants and shading them out. Don't give up on them; the plants look healthy. They will do great! We all took a break from the outside chores during the heatwaves we have had! Goodness! Nobody wanted to be out weeding the garden in the heat! Give yourself some grace! Take care!
Thank you so much for that perspective!! It can be so easy to see everything you don't do rather than all that you do accomplish. Our kids LOVE harvesting!
👍👍 GOOD JOB btw... Has anyone ever told you you're voice sounds almost exactly like the guy on RUclips channel .."Farmer Tyler Ranch" 😀 WOW
Here in New Zealand I have just planted out my garlic for the year. I am hoping for a better harvest than last year!
oh wow! We plant ours in oct/nov and harvest typically in mid June.
Awesome garden.
Thank you, it's been a labor of love!
Don't cry, baby 😢
Hey I live in Australia and from 1st sept to around middle of April I find it impossible to grow brassicas so I only grow them in winter months. If it snows in winter there maybe grow in glass house you will have best ever and no white butterfly.
Try burgdeny beans there purple and turn green when cooked. Tastes great.
I believe we have a couple plants of those!! it surprised us when they were cooked that they were green!! The kids thought I did a magic trick lol
I love the garden update. Question... were you still planning on separating the pigs, or did you just decide to leave them together? I love the kids in the garden helping out.
We still want to separate them...it just keeps getting pushed back on our to do list. Hopefully this week it get's done!!
Make relish out of the bigger cucumbers. Once potatoes are done, they will rot if they are wet.
we have never made relish, we will look into that. That is true, we will keep an eye and make sure they aren't in wet ground.
I love your story. WHat do you do about deer an other garden raiders?
Y'all are definitely Blessed by FATHER GOD IN THE NAME OF YESHUA IN JESUS NAME AMEN AND AMEN ❤😊
Yes we are, His grace is too good🙏
AMEN 🙏🏽
I need your secrets for carrots!!!
We used tender sweet carrots and made sure the soil was not compacted. I just sprinkle the carrots free handed over the bed to try and disperse it as much as I can. We have never had luck doing the trenches method and then thinning them out. Hope this helps!!
@@AcresOfAdventure It does, trenching is not working for me. Only 6 germinated out of a 8 foot row. Before that, 1…I’ll sprinkle them next time.
Something is eating all the plants leaves but I don’t see anything?
the cabbage moths are eating all the kale and broccoli and cauliflower.
I thought you were quitting you tube?
I thought you guys where quitting yt
We are continuing for now with some changes with how we are proceeding. Thanks for being here!
the bugs are saving you so you dont eat that green garbage)