No strawberries for us this year. "BUT" blueberries are coming in and the blackberries are great. My lovely wife canned blackberry jelly this morning and we are canning green beans this evening. It's a lot of work, but something we enjoy. Especially this winter when she starts making soup. I can't eat tomatoes without having stomach issues, so I enjoy mine when it gets to be soup time. Blessings to you and Michelle. Oh, by the way, what debate!
Some friends in the Pacific NW had what they thought was a large blackberry bramble on their land until somebody backed a car into it & found a little house. 🤣 They cleared the brambles & fixed up the house.
I had my fair share of losses this year. Fungus gnats destroyed about 1/3 of my seedlings in the little greenhouse in our garage. We had below freezing temperatures at the end of May that killed my pumpkins most of the squash. Just a couple weeks ago we had a thunderstorm come through with a bunch of hail which killed most of my bush beans. This is our 4th year in North Idaho and I’m so glad the first spring here we built our outside greenhouse. We will still have a decent harvest just not as big as I planned.
When it comes to planting I go by the rule Some Will, Some Won’t, So What and keep it movin. I plant every seed and cutting I can get my hands on. I want my property to be overflowing with food and medicine. Keep PIMPen
The Natives in the Andes had a system , described in Jarred Diamond's excellent book "Collapse" where they would always plant small , spread out patches of different varieties of potatoes, all at different altitudes and or other situations. This led to a bit of extra work smaller yields and inefficiency in harvest compared to Big Ag style industrial ag, so various food scientists tried to get them to stop their "primitive" methods of growing potatoes. They refused to give up their traditions. And it was very good for them that they did, because upon further observation, the food scientists noticed that these natives might not always have the biggest yields, but their spread out and diverse planting methods made their crops VERY resilient to quirks in yearly pests, rainfall and other climate conditions which would hit one variety of potato or location, and not others. Thus, they might not have gotten the biggest crop possible every year, but they at least got A crop every year. Later research showed that had they adopted industrial monocrop potato farming techniques in their location, the local climate fluctuations would have caused a major devastating famine inside of 5 or so years
I find it odd that your Concord grapes are biennial. I have been around and raised Concords my entire life (I'm 81) and they produce great crops every year.
For what it's worth... "altitude" is an amount of distance off the ground, as in an airplane. "Elevation" is an amount above or below sea level on land.
I remember the first tree ripe peach I ever had. I picked it off the tree almost overripe and had to eat it before I even left the pick your own orchard because it was too soft to travel. 😋
way she goes. i've had 5 years in a row of amazing seminole pumpkin production in central florida, this year, zero. Combo of planting a couple weeks late, lack of rain, and intense heat/uv unseasonally. Live and learn. Better to learn while you still have viable plan b's, and not when you're depending on it for survival...yet. The importance of getting into it NOW, practice practice practice. And the main thing to focus on, is what is thriving, and what is struggling. Don't keep trying the things that keep failing, and increase the things that thrive. Also, not that all have this option, but I think its important to not only diversify varieties and where you plant things on your own land, but guerilla gardening out in nature i think is heavily under-utilized. David the good style lol, vacant lot next door? oops i tossed some seeds/cuttings over there...for me I live near the longest nature trail in the state, smack in the middle. I've already identified where natural citrus are growing, and tons of other florida wild edibles/medicinals. Got me thinking, i should be spreading seminole pumpkins and the likes all down those trails...bolster and revive the florida natives, and provide food and abundance for nature and the rest of us
My wife has been making awesome smoothies with blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, honey, and almond milk. Probably cost ten bucks at a retail place.
Too many deer in my neighborhood... they love strawberry blossoms and devoured most of my raspberries last year! The Robins are making quick work of the Cherry trees before they are even ripe! Honestly, I don't know how anyone is keeping these smaller gardens alive with all of the pests! You mentioned stuff falling from the sky!! here we have a lot of fall-out plus they are experimenting with darkening the sky... Dark clouds and unseasonal foggy damp sky has prevailed all spring in addition to COLD nights and cooler than usual days! Cloud seeding is on the rise! They say it's to mitigate the forest fire season... but then nearly ALL forest fires are started as "controlled burns" Grrrrrrr. Life isn't the same as when I was a kid and my grandma had HUGE gardens and fruit tree supply.
I live on a silvopastured farm/orchard behind an 8' elk fence. No other way to grow here. In the arid West, most of our wildfires are started by improperly extinguished campfires or electrical grid failure.
I used to get the really large wild blackberries like those, but , umm...my neighbor mowed them down... Now all we get are the tiny wild ones. Wish I could find another patch like that.
I never lose anything. Not because plants do not wither here at Yard Farm, but because my perspective is different. I don't plant tomatoes, peppers, and Apple Trees. I plant "stuff." If anything grows, I got, "stuff." Planted stuff. Got stuff. 100% success!
PIMP Master Billy another great video staying focused on the positive instead of the negative. Can't wait to be able to walk around this property and do the same thing. Your families dedication over the last few years is paying huge dividends even in such a short time. You and lady Michelle are truly blessed; proof that you reap what you sow. God Bless from TN
Some trees have a two or three year fruiting cycle. Old black walnut I have here will hail walnuts every other year as does the peach tree. Build up some of those hollow reed native bee houses and plant buckwheat to draw pollinators.
Grow a day length neutral variety of strawberry like Seascape along with your June bearing strawberries. The day length neutral strawberries produce all season until the frost gets the blossoms. There isn't a big harvest during summer but there are always a few strawberries to enjoy.
As much as I hate carpenter bees , they where the only pollinators for my blueberries this year since the blue berry flower is VERY early, this is typical for me tho. PS my blueberries are doing great , to bad May was so cloudy making them slightly sour.
Carpenter bees are a wonderful native pollinator. There are ways to keep them out of one's house & structures while still providing some housing & habitat. A good internet search can yield some excellent non-lethal ideas. It's very important to support native bees these days because they've all been so hard hit by the massive use of insecticides & other biocides.
Some Mamas need a little rest after bearing their fruits, at the same time, it gives other Mamas a chance to shine. :) I got into what you call 'permaculture' when many of the raised beds rotted out, and the fencing utterly failed against deer. Add to that, 2 yrs. of not doing anything in the garden at all because of no fencing, and I ended up with, instead, a small field of beautiful mullein & Milk Thistle. Mullein is one of my favorite medicinals, & although not fond of the bites of thistle-kids, they softened the soils wonderfully & the flowers/new leaves are quite useful, as well. It took a few years for both to move out, but they did...and, now, catnip, garlic, & onions & horseradish have taken over...Fine by me! LOL I got to turn my 3yo grandie onto the style, just recently, as a thought-it-was-protected wheelbarrow of tools & my entire veggie seed collection did not go through a hard rain well, only those not in baby-food jars were soaked. We got to quick-make a huuuuge garden mound & wafted all the seeds, everywhere, just for sheets & geegles...and it's growing! Vines, flowers, lettuces, peppers, radishes, you name it, it's in there! :D Should be fun to keep watch on, & get what we get. This is how my gardening experience is going...random, little here, little there, some of this, & some of that, some now, some later, buckets & beds mixed together. Abundance of goodness, nonetheless. :) Blessings, Kiddos...Hope it's a great harvest for All!
Thank you Billy for being honest and showing that not everything survives. It makes us rookies feel better LOL. We live in Connecticut and have learned so much from your channel. Ben from hollar homestead recommended you a year or so ago. We live in a suburban neighborhood with a decent-sized backyard. Since watching you we now have a good-sized veggie garden , a few apple trees and raspberry bushes too. I belong to a Garden Club and we barter seeds and perennials. The cost has been minimal. Thanks to the best teacher there is!!
That dude on yesterday's Rogan was talking about it😮. I can't unhear it either... So I accidentally destroyed my strawberry patch but my raspberries and blueberries are accidentally awesome this year. I have no idea what I did. I know what I didn't do😂
Never heard about it for strawberries but those who have raided fruit trees like pears or apples you can expect every couple of years for one of your trees to take a year off. Wish you better luck next year on your strawberries.
Great video. I am a new sub and a second year Perma Grower in western Colorado. 5900' elevation, south facing, one acre of Beautiful land. I want to buy some of your comfrey. Do you recommend starting in fall or spring?
My dad has grown the best & juiciest peaches for yrs., his does the same as yours did & the aroma .... oh my 😋 yummy. We didn't get any cherries this yr (bird's get them usually), but our apple tree's are doing good so far. I got some strawberry plant's from my mom earlier in the spring, they had numerous shocks to their system, but thankfully all have recovered & at least 1 has berries on it. My blueberry bush has recovered from it shock to at least its growing leaves. So I'm happy. We lost our (store bought) cherry sapling, but the apple saplings appear to be doing good, we've also got farm grown apple saplings & Cherry saplings that need to be dug up & relocated (away from it's mother tree), have a couple walnut tree's (English i think) that a lone squirrel planted for us. 😅 that also need to be dug up & transplanted (one got planted in between pine tree's lol & the other got planted right next to our shop. 😅 I've never liked the taste of store bought blueberries, but I'm really hoping they taste better fresh, otherwise I'm not sure who'll eat them. 😅 Slowly but surely, our food forest, food hill is growing. 😋
GREAT video. QUESTION: How do you keep the birds from eating your blueberries? A number of years ago I put a net over the berries to prevent the birds from eating them all and so many birds died under the net. My dad planted wild blackberries to prevent bears from entering his property and we loved picking them for canning and jam making.
Yeah . . . I planted So. Many. Onions. this year, hoping for a huge harvest. Well, I left on a much-needed vacation for a week, and the grasshoppers wiped them out right down to the ground. They got our beans, carrots, cabbages, squashes, basil . . . all destroyed by the grasshoppers, not to mention all the other annual crops that got chewed on. Some of that I can replant, but it's okay - I've got enough and to spare, saved up from last year, or that I can still replant. The grasshoppers didn't touch the garlic, though, and I've got a bumper crop of that!
i have 3 small strawberry patches in my front yard, all everbearing, one quinalt one ozark beauty and some red flowered variety I don't know the name of. sadly they don't produce runners like the others though.
We started some blueberries last year in large pots. They bloomed and fruited modestly even as first year plants, maybe a literal handful of berries from each plant. This year, though, they easily tripled in size and were positively COVERED in blooms, then unripe fruits. We moved the tubs of blueberries closer to our house to discourage any passersby from being tempted for a stolen snack. Well - one morning about two weeks ago I came outside and found our blueberry plants had been virtually decimated. Pretty sure a few deer came through while we were sleeping and had a heck of a snack of unripe berries and blueberry branches. Each plant now looks about the size they were going into winter last year! Lesson learned, but also I said to my husband, "Well, come Opening Day of Deer Season, at least we know where they've been eating." LOL We have worked in long-lived plants within our garden spaces amongst the annuals, as well as varietals we haven't tried before. Example - we love summer and winter squash, but decided to grow them both in the same type of plant this year. We are growing, harvesting, and loving Tromboncino squash. They aren't bothered by the same pests as most summer squash AND they appear pretty unbothered by heat, humidity, and the occasional nibble from a passing animal. We aren't bothered by the size of the crop cycle - some years seem like nothing we do or don't do affects the "bad year" for a given crop. BUT - we always have a comeback within a year or two and have "more than we can handle" of that crop. This year, we are ready (just in case) and have daily plans in place for handling preserving the harvest in small batches (for now) so it hopefully doesn't become overwhelming. We are also quite lucky to live very close to a food pantry where we can happily donate fresh fruits and veggies if we DO get overwhelmed.
That's awful. That strawberry patch was legit. Now you barely see them there. Deer eat my strawberry plants. I have to put wire cages on them. On raspberries... if you get the yellow/orange varieties the birds don't think they are ripe and you get all of them for yourself.
Good video brother. Yeh them berries and peaches looked good. I got a quick question though, do y'all ever hunt for particular phenotypes. For example you have three peach trees, same variety but too don't taste as good for a couple of years, do you trash em start some from seed from the good tree? Same for other characteristics/traits too like disease resistance, quality, quantity etc..
The difference between homegrown or wild grown fruits and vegetables is incredible. My celery and carrots almost taste like perfume. They are so strong I use less to not get overwhelmed by the flavor.
How in the world can we get around brown rot on peaches - - - we need some kind of help What should be planted around them - we cut down the peach where the canker got into the tree and branches kept breaking - we bought this place 3 years ago in August - KY and IN brown rot everywhere . . . we have mountains of wood chips available if that helps
Thank you, Billy! This was the word I needed to hear tonite! Out of 60 plants I put in this year I think I have 6 left! What in the world? I do have lots of other stuff, as you pointed out.❤
Ugh 🐮 our wandering not-quite-a-cow, calf has shown how much she likes 🍅 ate ALL OF MINE😢and nasturtiums, peppers, sweet potatoes... Left my squash and zenias alone. So there's that 😊
Well if a helper tells you that they are currant say they identify as blue berries, or huckle berries. Or the best answer oh I didn't know what they were, but aren't they pretty.... God Bless from TN
No strawberries for us this year. "BUT" blueberries are coming in and the blackberries are great. My lovely wife canned blackberry jelly this morning and we are canning green beans this evening. It's a lot of work, but something we enjoy. Especially this winter when she starts making soup. I can't eat tomatoes without having stomach issues, so I enjoy mine when it gets to be soup time. Blessings to you and Michelle. Oh, by the way, what debate!
Our blackberries are out of control!
Sounds like you’re doing the right things, my friend!
Some friends in the Pacific NW had what they thought was a large blackberry bramble on their land until somebody backed a car into it & found a little house. 🤣
They cleared the brambles & fixed up the house.
Well, you gotta love that!
sounds like a story I read about a stone cabin near Jefferson? Cool stuff happens! :)
Quote of the day:
" Let's say things get totally stupid and judging by that debate last night, it will". so dang true LOL
😂❤ 🇺🇲
Definitely a sad state of affairs, my friend.
Yup. I actually lol-ed at that one.
And it's a laugh/cry situation. 🤣😥
Hiw is your pastor friend doing? I've been praying for total healing
Still having a rough time. Thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers!
I had my fair share of losses this year. Fungus gnats destroyed about 1/3 of my seedlings in the little greenhouse in our garage. We had below freezing temperatures at the end of May that killed my pumpkins most of the squash. Just a couple weeks ago we had a thunderstorm come through with a bunch of hail which killed most of my bush beans. This is our 4th year in North Idaho and I’m so glad the first spring here we built our outside greenhouse. We will still have a decent harvest just not as big as I planned.
My brother swears by using Mosquito Dunks in his green house soil, the BT kills the larva..try it.
That’s definitely looking on the bright side, my friend!
@@ca1492bob just heard about those; thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks for the truth, not the ego so prevalent today. Love your work!
Thank you very much, my friend!
I've been gorging on black raspberry all day. Great stuff.
I know what you mean. I can’t keep up with them!
Looks great Billy! I don't see you swatting mosquitoes. They are terrible here. We've had so much rain that the mosquitoes are out of control
The mosquitoes definitely aren’t big fans of our altitude.
When it comes to planting I go by the rule Some Will, Some Won’t, So What and keep it movin. I plant every seed and cutting I can get my hands on. I want my property to be overflowing with food and medicine. Keep PIMPen
The Natives in the Andes had a system , described in Jarred Diamond's excellent book "Collapse" where they would always plant small , spread out patches of different varieties of potatoes, all at different altitudes and or other situations. This led to a bit of extra work smaller yields and inefficiency in harvest compared to Big Ag style industrial ag, so various food scientists tried to get them to stop their "primitive" methods of growing potatoes. They refused to give up their traditions.
And it was very good for them that they did, because upon further observation, the food scientists noticed that these natives might not always have the biggest yields, but their spread out and diverse planting methods made their crops VERY resilient to quirks in yearly pests, rainfall and other climate conditions which would hit one variety of potato or location, and not others. Thus, they might not have gotten the biggest crop possible every year, but they at least got A crop every year. Later research showed that had they adopted industrial monocrop potato farming techniques in their location, the local climate fluctuations would have caused a major devastating famine inside of 5 or so years
It sounds like they invented Permaculture!
Yes, & the opposite outcome was that the Irish all planted the same variety, hence the potato famine.
My parents pear trees will have a lot. Then the next year the concord grapes will be. They take turns.
I find it odd that your Concord grapes are biennial. I have been around and raised Concords my entire life (I'm 81) and they produce great crops every year.
That’s exactly how nature works, my friend!
I had little black bugs eat all my strawberries. Every berry had a hole in it. Like 1/2 acre of strawberries scattered everywhere.
I definitely know the feeling my friend.
Excellent adventure!! Well done! Redundancy saves, everyday!!
Great message, my wife and I were just talking about how we need to up our variety to hedge against our losses.
Ecclesiastes was my favorite Bible book for a long time.
For what it's worth... "altitude" is an amount of distance off the ground, as in an airplane. "Elevation" is an amount above or below sea level on land.
Thank you for getting me squared away on that. Precision definitely matters.
You should sell cuttings from those raspberries and blackberrys..!!!
I sure hope to get around to it one of these days.
I remember the first tree ripe peach I ever had. I picked it off the tree almost overripe and had to eat it before I even left the pick your own orchard because it was too soft to travel. 😋
way she goes. i've had 5 years in a row of amazing seminole pumpkin production in central florida, this year, zero. Combo of planting a couple weeks late, lack of rain, and intense heat/uv unseasonally. Live and learn. Better to learn while you still have viable plan b's, and not when you're depending on it for survival...yet. The importance of getting into it NOW, practice practice practice. And the main thing to focus on, is what is thriving, and what is struggling. Don't keep trying the things that keep failing, and increase the things that thrive. Also, not that all have this option, but I think its important to not only diversify varieties and where you plant things on your own land, but guerilla gardening out in nature i think is heavily under-utilized. David the good style lol, vacant lot next door? oops i tossed some seeds/cuttings over there...for me I live near the longest nature trail in the state, smack in the middle. I've already identified where natural citrus are growing, and tons of other florida wild edibles/medicinals. Got me thinking, i should be spreading seminole pumpkins and the likes all down those trails...bolster and revive the florida natives, and provide food and abundance for nature and the rest of us
That’s a really great way of looking at it Tom!
My wife has been making awesome smoothies with blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, honey, and almond milk. Probably cost ten bucks at a retail place.
Probably more than that where I’m located.
Too many deer in my neighborhood... they love strawberry blossoms and devoured most of my raspberries last year! The Robins are making quick work of the Cherry trees before they are even ripe! Honestly, I don't know how anyone is keeping these smaller gardens alive with all of the pests! You mentioned stuff falling from the sky!! here we have a lot of fall-out plus they are experimenting with darkening the sky... Dark clouds and unseasonal foggy damp sky has prevailed all spring in addition to COLD nights and cooler than usual days! Cloud seeding is on the rise! They say it's to mitigate the forest fire season... but then nearly ALL forest fires are started as "controlled burns" Grrrrrrr. Life isn't the same as when I was a kid and my grandma had HUGE gardens and fruit tree supply.
I know what you mean!
I live on a silvopastured farm/orchard behind an 8' elk fence. No other way to grow here. In the arid West, most of our wildfires are started by improperly extinguished campfires or electrical grid failure.
I used to get the really large wild blackberries like those, but , umm...my neighbor mowed them down...
Now all we get are the tiny wild ones.
Wish I could find another patch like that.
I never lose anything. Not because plants do not wither here at Yard Farm, but because my perspective is different.
I don't plant tomatoes, peppers, and Apple Trees. I plant "stuff." If anything grows, I got, "stuff." Planted stuff. Got stuff. 100% success!
I love the way you roll my friend!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 thank you!
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PIMP Master Billy another great video staying focused on the positive instead of the negative. Can't wait to be able to walk around this property and do the same thing. Your families dedication over the last few years is paying huge dividends even in such a short time. You and lady Michelle are truly blessed; proof that you reap what you sow. God Bless from TN
The deer ate our strawberries to the dirt! But we have blueberries.
That’s how we have to roll sometimes!
Mine too .😢
Bone sauce!
Some trees have a two or three year fruiting cycle. Old black walnut I have here will hail walnuts every other year as does the peach tree.
Build up some of those hollow reed native bee houses and plant buckwheat to draw pollinators.
I like the way you roll my friend!
one of your best videos Billy and Michelle, so much for us to strive for. Thank you 🔥 !!
Thank you very much, my friend!
Grow a day length neutral variety of strawberry like Seascape along with your June bearing strawberries. The day length neutral strawberries produce all season until the frost gets the blossoms. There isn't a big harvest during summer but there are always a few strawberries to enjoy.
That’s exactly how we roll as well!
As much as I hate carpenter bees , they where the only pollinators for my blueberries this year since the blue berry flower is VERY early, this is typical for me tho. PS my blueberries are doing great , to bad May was so cloudy making them slightly sour.
They still have a bunch of blueberry benefits, though!
Carpenter bees are a wonderful native pollinator. There are ways to keep them out of one's house & structures while still providing some housing & habitat. A good internet search can yield some excellent non-lethal ideas. It's very important to support native bees these days because they've all been so hard hit by the massive use of insecticides & other biocides.
I love me some raspberries and blueberries and currents. Yep no one wants to talk about the ones falling from the sky.
I totally agree, my friend!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I love my comfrey that I got from you
Some Mamas need a little rest after bearing their fruits, at the same time, it gives other Mamas a chance to shine. :)
I got into what you call 'permaculture' when many of the raised beds rotted out, and the fencing utterly failed against deer. Add to that, 2 yrs. of not doing anything in the garden at all because of no fencing, and I ended up with, instead, a small field of beautiful mullein & Milk Thistle. Mullein is one of my favorite medicinals, & although not fond of the bites of thistle-kids, they softened the soils wonderfully & the flowers/new leaves are quite useful, as well. It took a few years for both to move out, but they did...and, now, catnip, garlic, & onions & horseradish have taken over...Fine by me!
LOL I got to turn my 3yo grandie onto the style, just recently, as a thought-it-was-protected wheelbarrow of tools & my entire veggie seed collection did not go through a hard rain well, only those not in baby-food jars were soaked. We got to quick-make a huuuuge garden mound & wafted all the seeds, everywhere, just for sheets & geegles...and it's growing! Vines, flowers, lettuces, peppers, radishes, you name it, it's in there! :D Should be fun to keep watch on, & get what we get. This is how my gardening experience is going...random, little here, little there, some of this, & some of that, some now, some later, buckets & beds mixed together. Abundance of goodness, nonetheless. :) Blessings, Kiddos...Hope it's a great harvest for All!
Thank you so much, my friend!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 You, Darlin', are so very welcome! :D
Thank you Billy for being honest and showing that not everything survives. It makes us rookies feel better LOL. We live in Connecticut and have learned so much from your channel. Ben from hollar homestead recommended you a year or so ago. We live in a suburban neighborhood with a decent-sized backyard. Since watching you we now have a good-sized veggie garden , a few apple trees and raspberry bushes too. I belong to a Garden Club and we barter seeds and perennials. The cost has been minimal. Thanks to the best teacher there is!!
You are so very kind and sweet Mary! Love and blessings to you and yours and all of your gardening adventures!
That dude on yesterday's Rogan was talking about it😮. I can't unhear it either...
So I accidentally destroyed my strawberry patch but my raspberries and blueberries are accidentally awesome this year. I have no idea what I did. I know what I didn't do😂
Sorry to hear that!
❤NOW THATS A PEACH!🍑Awww Thanks Billy 🎉Look at Those MOUNTAINS 👍
It is definitely beautiful here!
Sounds like the book of Ecclesiastes - because that's just what it is lol!
Thanks you two, blessings and prayers your way...
🙏🙏
Thank you so much, my brother!
what did you mulch that peach with? Tree looks like it has a couple rings of goodness happening ❤
It was just mulch that I found at a local college.
Good Video Billy. KEEP IT UP! AATW Brother
Thanks! Will do my airborne brother!
Lol, i hear ya. Seriously... some of the plants just don't take and it is interesting to figure that out
I totally agree Amy.
Enjoy the blueberries, might need to can more strawberries every year for this reason
I think we got enough strawberries last year to last for the next 30 years at least!
My peach trees are still small. Just a year old. Yep some years are good some aren't.
The good thing is that peaches produce pretty quickly!
Billy, Michelle can only make jam with the berries you do not eat 😂
She can make jam only with the berries neither of them eat. Delayed gratification is eating the jam in winter.
Just preserve the berries with a little maple syrup.
We have them in cans jars, freezer bags, and freeze dried!
Never heard about it for strawberries but those who have raided fruit trees like pears or apples you can expect every couple of years for one of your trees to take a year off. Wish you better luck next year on your strawberries.
Thank you so much, my friend!
Doing the Great Work, and speaking Truth, much appreciated for sharing.
Thank you very much, my friend!
Great video. I am a new sub and a second year Perma Grower in western Colorado. 5900' elevation, south facing, one acre of Beautiful land. I want to buy some of your comfrey. Do you recommend starting in fall or spring?
Tick tick i just got an electric fence for my chickens. When it ticks does that mean something is wrong? It ticked louder when it rained yesturday
Something is grounding it out. We had to weedeat the fence line all the time, the grass got it ticking.
My dad has grown the best & juiciest peaches for yrs., his does the same as yours did & the aroma .... oh my 😋 yummy. We didn't get any cherries this yr (bird's get them usually), but our apple tree's are doing good so far. I got some strawberry plant's from my mom earlier in the spring, they had numerous shocks to their system, but thankfully all have recovered & at least 1 has berries on it. My blueberry bush has recovered from it shock to at least its growing leaves. So I'm happy. We lost our (store bought) cherry sapling, but the apple saplings appear to be doing good, we've also got farm grown apple saplings & Cherry saplings that need to be dug up & relocated (away from it's mother tree), have a couple walnut tree's (English i think) that a lone squirrel planted for us. 😅 that also need to be dug up & transplanted (one got planted in between pine tree's lol & the other got planted right next to our shop. 😅
I've never liked the taste of store bought blueberries, but I'm really hoping they taste better fresh, otherwise I'm not sure who'll eat them. 😅
Slowly but surely, our food forest, food hill is growing. 😋
Sounds like you’re off and running my friend!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 stumbling more like it. Lol
GREAT video.
QUESTION: How do you keep the birds from eating your blueberries? A number of years ago I put a net over the berries to prevent the birds from eating them all and so many birds died under the net.
My dad planted wild blackberries to prevent bears from entering his property and we loved picking them for canning and jam making.
Yeah . . . I planted So. Many. Onions. this year, hoping for a huge harvest. Well, I left on a much-needed vacation for a week, and the grasshoppers wiped them out right down to the ground. They got our beans, carrots, cabbages, squashes, basil . . . all destroyed by the grasshoppers, not to mention all the other annual crops that got chewed on. Some of that I can replant, but it's okay - I've got enough and to spare, saved up from last year, or that I can still replant.
The grasshoppers didn't touch the garlic, though, and I've got a bumper crop of that!
Your echinacea is looking pretty. Mine is getting ready to bloom pretty soon.
i have 3 small strawberry patches in my front yard, all everbearing, one quinalt one ozark beauty and some red flowered variety I don't know the name of. sadly they don't produce runners like the others though.
We started some blueberries last year in large pots. They bloomed and fruited modestly even as first year plants, maybe a literal handful of berries from each plant. This year, though, they easily tripled in size and were positively COVERED in blooms, then unripe fruits. We moved the tubs of blueberries closer to our house to discourage any passersby from being tempted for a stolen snack. Well - one morning about two weeks ago I came outside and found our blueberry plants had been virtually decimated. Pretty sure a few deer came through while we were sleeping and had a heck of a snack of unripe berries and blueberry branches. Each plant now looks about the size they were going into winter last year! Lesson learned, but also I said to my husband, "Well, come Opening Day of Deer Season, at least we know where they've been eating." LOL We have worked in long-lived plants within our garden spaces amongst the annuals, as well as varietals we haven't tried before. Example - we love summer and winter squash, but decided to grow them both in the same type of plant this year. We are growing, harvesting, and loving Tromboncino squash. They aren't bothered by the same pests as most summer squash AND they appear pretty unbothered by heat, humidity, and the occasional nibble from a passing animal. We aren't bothered by the size of the crop cycle - some years seem like nothing we do or don't do affects the "bad year" for a given crop. BUT - we always have a comeback within a year or two and have "more than we can handle" of that crop. This year, we are ready (just in case) and have daily plans in place for handling preserving the harvest in small batches (for now) so it hopefully doesn't become overwhelming. We are also quite lucky to live very close to a food pantry where we can happily donate fresh fruits and veggies if we DO get overwhelmed.
That's awful. That strawberry patch was legit. Now you barely see them there.
Deer eat my strawberry plants. I have to put wire cages on them.
On raspberries... if you get the yellow/orange varieties the birds don't think they are ripe and you get all of them for yourself.
One year I had a bunch of bush beans planted but a sedge grass covered my entire garden and the beans were lost in those 3’ grass
So sorry to hear that Claudette.
Good video brother. Yeh them berries and peaches looked good. I got a quick question though, do y'all ever hunt for particular phenotypes. For example you have three peach trees, same variety but too don't taste as good for a couple of years, do you trash em start some from seed from the good tree? Same for other characteristics/traits too like disease resistance, quality, quantity etc..
Are the chemicals falling out of the sky that nobody wants to talk about affecting your harvest?
The difference between homegrown or wild grown fruits and vegetables is incredible. My celery and carrots almost taste like perfume. They are so strong I use less to not get overwhelmed by the flavor.
How in the world can we get around brown rot on peaches - - - we need some kind of help
What should be planted around them - we cut down the peach where the canker got into the tree and branches kept breaking - we bought this place 3 years ago in August - KY and IN brown rot everywhere . . . we have mountains of wood chips available if that helps
I'd have a hard time getting much done around the homestead with that fence-line full of ripe blackberries!
Same here. Mmy strawberries are mostly weak, my blueberries are jumping. My gooseberries are having the best year ever
I feel like we could be best friends if I lived close to ya. At times I feel like I am watching myself.
How do you know when to harvest peaches. I have a tree that barred this year.
It's loaded, I planted it two years ago.
Thank you, Billy! This was the word I needed to hear tonite! Out of 60 plants I put in this year I think I have 6 left! What in the world? I do have lots of other stuff, as you pointed out.❤
Why? What happened?
There’s always something left…
Love to see it!
Thank you very much, my friend!
Multiple Thank You
Thank you so much, my friend!
Those peaches look off the hook!
The flavor is absolutely amazing!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Thanks for all you do brother. God bless.
I've always loved your videos.
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I have 58 acres. I think berries cover 60 percent
How is pastor Lon doing. Gonna make it the first day. Gotta with the last two.
Gotta work. Damn phone.
Ugh 🐮 our wandering not-quite-a-cow, calf has shown how much she likes 🍅 ate ALL OF MINE😢and nasturtiums, peppers, sweet potatoes... Left my squash and zenias alone. So there's that 😊
Well, I’m glad the cow was at least a little bit considerate.
As usual NC is slow to catch up with the rest of civilization 😏. Currants are still illegal here . 🫣 Even though they’re in EVERY surrounding state 🙄.
Well if a helper tells you that they are currant say they identify as blue berries, or huckle berries. Or the best answer oh I didn't know what they were, but aren't they pretty.... God Bless from TN