Just started watching some of your videos and I love that you and your husband laugh, chuckle and giggle when things go wrong or you make a mistake. It’s a good lesson for your kids to see. There’s an old saying “It will all be funny eventually so why not laugh now”.
Don’t plant sunflowers near your squashes. At least here in the south, sunflowers attract bugs that love to eat squash, tomatoes, and cucumber. We avoid planting them near each other. Your garden is absolutely amazing! 💗
Thanks for sharing all the info about your trouble with different pests! It's good to see the good and the bad, I'm sure its way more frustrating than you are letting on! Those sunflowers are just magical!
We appreciate your comment. It's good to see some "real" reality in all this, and not just the unicorn fluff of perfect posts that really doesn't exist, right?!? Thank you for tuning in!
I just discovered your channel and I just wanted to thank you for making these videos! Your my inspiration! Truly! I did not grow up with gardening or even eating fresh food, my family was a big fan of fast food and microwaves, but now that I'm married and we have our own home, my husband and I have been researching more and more into being self sustaining and growing our own food. This has really inspired me and helped me map out kind of what I want our home to be like!
Start smaller than you think you want. It can get discouraging fast. Grow it a little every year. Especially with disease and pests. Gardening is a learning curve.
This is so inspiring. Imagine the world if everyone tended to the earth this way and lived in such closeness with nature. Imagine the health and wellness benefits. Imagine how we could restore our soil from erosion and regreen our world 🌎 compost helps a lot with that too!
Good morning I am watching your video this morning i love how you talk and laugh your place looks beautiful I have very small Allatment and things never grow like the us in the uk the weather doesn’t help a lot all the best for you and your family
Thank you for making such beautiful, inspiring videos. I just started my vegetable garden this year (only two raised beds a few feet wide) so seeing your amazing garden blows my mind (in a good way!). Best wishes from Yorkshire, in the North of England. 💚
You can eat the sweet potato tops (leaves). Either you mix them as vegetable in the soup or blanch them, iced bath then make it a salad like spinach or like our local salad (mix with tomatoes, onions, vinegar, sugar and salt to taste). The sweet potatoes, you can fry them as is like fries, or fry and sugarcoated (search kamote que) you can also make a dessert using them like boiling it, mash them, then cook them like a sauce by mixing with milk and sugar until they thicken like paste. (Looks like a jam) . For the bellpepper or chili pepper leaves, we also use them to soup based cooking like (search) Chicken Tinola (ginger or lemongrass based chicken soup with chili pepper leaves). As for the corn, you can cook them with beef, cabbage and potatoes,. Soup based tender beef (search beef bulalo). 😊😊😊 We are really enjoying your videos! 😊 You have. A big land, it would also be more great to see you guys plant fruit trees and strawberrries, other berries and grapes 😍 I wished we can send you seeds from our local vegetables here too! 😊
Thank you for sharing all that you do! Your videos keep me motivated to say the least. I thought I might share as well in case you find this useful. Even though you have a tremendous yield of tomatoes and nothing goes to waste, I just heard that catnip deters the tomato horn worm. Even though I haven’t tested this out myself just yet I thought I would share this info. Happy Harvests!!!
Do you have a cookbook or episodes relating to how you use your preserved foods? I eat a great deal of raw vegetables but very little meat so I'd like to learn how to use items like the dehydrated bell peppers or apple slices in my everyday cooking.
Wow, what a garden. it must be a full time job to manage, cultivate and preserve something of this size and obviously very satisfying for you both. Wanting to start a vegi garden and fruit orchard this year with full height fencing and netting to keep deer, kangaroos, and birds out to achieve some level of self-sufficiency. Mine is planned to be only 300 square meters (900 square feet) so just a fraction on yours and thinking of raised beds.....still not sure if raised beds is a good direction to take :) Always had "token" vegi patches, but for me this is the next level and yours is something I'm likely not to venture down....would like to but are very time-poor. Looking forward to seeing your progress.
I've had friends ask if they get a pet kangaroo could they "store it" at our place, lol!! Sounds like you already have enough of them down in your neck of the woods.
you should consider growing your own mushrooms. It can grow on compost or downed trees, can be low maintenance and provides a nice hybrid of the nutrients available between plants vs animal. Plus they are delicious flavor vessels.
Beautiful garden!!! Have you ever tried planting marigolds by your cucumbers to ward off the beetles? They don’t like the smell of marigolds. Would be interesting if it worked for you. Keep up the good work!
A video around that is in the works. As a quickie, we made Asian stir fry last night 100% fr5om our garden(well, minus the rice, I guess). Carrots, Cabbage, ginger, onions, and sliced pork from our pasture pigs this summer! Yum yum!!
I stumbled upon your channel yesterday and I'm so glad I did! Serious life goals here. We are on 2 acres and are year 3 into our homesteading journey. I love learning from others. You are doing so well with raising your beautiful family and amazing homestead. Can I ask what zone you are growing in? We are in eastern Idaho and our zone 5a is quite the challenge!
We are in Zone 6b Arkansas. You may need an extra greenhouse to prolong the growing season, but be grateful for the soft soil and lack of pesky bugs up there in Idaho!!! Cheers
I love your channel. I garden in the Midwest on a similar scale and I love seeing how you turn over beds and deal with pests and problems. You’re garden looks great, but not so perfect that’s it’s unrealistic to me, which is so refreshing.
Just discovered your channel. Love it and learning lots. Would love to know what you do with your turnips. Ours grew Hugh but not keen on the taste. Debs from Australia
Not sure if you'll see this anytime soon, but I'm curious about how you grew potatoes. How far down did you start your trench and how many times did you mound dirt on them? I've watched all your tours and can't see much of the process besides the hay. Thank you!
You're obviously becoming an expert and I don't mean to patronage you by my suggestion but I just happened to stumble on the fact that marigold flowers are probably the best guard against bugs you don't want in your garden. I planted them here in Colorado around my garden because they were easy to grow and very attractive. They attracted the honey bees for pollination and even some very non-aggressive Hornets that would eat a lot of the bad bugs in our garden. No one in my family ever got stung. We live next to a large field with a ton of grasshoppers and they wouldn't get near the marigold border. And they are a volunteer plant so if you plant them once they'll keep coming back but it's easy to pull them out if you don't want them
Thanks for the tip. We have planted marigolds around our garden, but perhaps we don't have quite enough!! Bugs are still definitely winning the fight right now, lol. We'll see about putting a more marigolds next spring!
Hard for sure. We are hoping that nature is in our favor and that over the next year or so it kind of takes care of itself... or at least isn't as bad of a bug problem... squash bugs have to have a predator, right?!?
Can you explain why the cover crop i have seen alot of people plant them does it put nutrients back in the soil ? I have a very short grow season i am in the far north of British Columbia Canada and when it freezes here the frost if 4 or 6 feet into the ground by mid winter And then you are in permafrost after 6 feet that never goes away I just found your channel and i am binge watching it and really enjoying it thank you for sharing
We rest very little, but it's enough for us :) We get so much time with the kids, cause they are at home all day. After school, we work together, play together, eat together, laugh together. This lifestyle allows us ample time with our kids. Real time too, not screen time.
I'm wondering if the watermelon was too close to another plant that the vine borer was getting in. Sad about your watermelon! I have to ask, what state is this...just started following this blog. Looks like a perfect spot for a farm, guessing maybe Virginia Kentucky or Tennessee? You could maybe blanch your potatoes chopped, and freeze for homefries. #theseasonalhomestead
Wonderful Garden & Good Work :D Can you do a video maybe a two parter, video on canning. The whole shabang, the kitten and kaboodle lol :P Pretty Please :D
Whew! I wish I had a better answer, but we haven't figured out how to stop blossom end rot. We just take it as it comes and cut the ends off of the tomatoes. 90% of the tomato is still good to use.
@The Seasonal Homestead thank you!! honestly we kinda thought that the whole tomato wasn’t any good if it had rot so that’s good to know that the rest is good to use! 😆
@@kal.salmon Yes! It usually is good. Sometimes if the rot is really bad it is moldy and we toss it. I'll also add to Cam's comment above, putting plants on a drip system would help with blossom end rot and also a soil test to make sure everything is as it should be with the soil. Hope that helps! -Becky
When you see it happening remove the few tomatoes hit and hit it with a water + powdered milk drink and get it that quick calcium to save the remaining tomatoes to form. Also inconsistent watering. Measure and have a watering schedule. Can plant them with tums in the holes for a little Jump at the beginning as well and set up for success down the road.
This current crop is our first planting from saves seeds from last year. We tagged the largest ears last year, saved their seeds, and planted them this year. We will continue to do this, with hopes that the corn continues to get large...but not oo large :)
Yes!!! And doubles as a bird deterrent while the seeds are sprouting. Had our entire corn planting last year go to the birds cause we didn't cover it. That was fun to replant, lol!
Just ❤❤❤ your farm! You're such an Inspiration! So much so, I've got a 🤓 nerdy gardener question for you: Can you tell me what brand your garden/farm boots are?! Clearly you do a lot of gardening/farming & comfy feet are important, so I'd say great boots are an important tool to have! I'm going from a traditional suburban home/garden to a couple of acres & I'd ❤ to get a great pair of boots 👩🌾 Thanks again for sharing your videos!!! 😊
@@TheSeasonalHomestead It does! Go out at night with the black light (bonus if it’s a headlamp) and you’ll see them light straight up! Even the little ones. Super helpful and it saves so much time!!
The burlap cover serves multiple purposes: retains moisture when we water, so it doesn't evaporate as quickly in the hot summer, and protects against birds from stealing the seeds. Birds seem to have a sixth sense for when certain seeds are freshly planted :)
Yep...cucumber beetles got me as well 😔 ALL watermelon and cucumber plants are dead. I have replanted the cucumbers last week, hopefull there is enough time 🤞 Any tips for voles?
Good luck! For voles, we set a few traps and it seemed to keep them under control in winter when they are really bad. Here is a link to what we used (it's an affiliate link) amzn.to/3ALcXnf .You can also find the same traps at any hardware store. We've used both the kind for rats and for mice. Stuck them in the tunnel with peanut butter on it. It's not perfect, but works well enough!
We scatter chicken poops when we have it, but other than that, not much really. We do use a lot of mulch, which breaks down and provides it's own natural nutrients, carbon, etc...
I thought I was going to cut it back, but when I went out today to do that I found the better course of action was to crimp it down. I parted it in half so there is 6 inches bare soil in the middle and the rest is lying flat on the ground. This is all sort of experimental but I think it is going to work great for planting fall cabbage in that spot while also keeping weeds down. It's hard to describe in words but I have some of it on video that I will share in the future.
@@TheSeasonalHomestead That makes sense. I have raised beds, garden in zone 5b and would like to plant buckwheat, but I'm not sure if I should till it in once it flowers or let it winter over and till it in in the spring. Thanks for responding! :)
Love the question Jacob! Husband eats well, but does not count calories at all. Eats until satisfied, then perhaps a tiny bit more ontop of that ;) Works it all off chasing cows and pigs, lol!
@@TheSeasonalHomestead Thank you very much! Would you also share what kinds of foods are eaten? Like rough/gut-feel of proportion for food? Something like: veggies 20% fruits 10% grains 30% legumes 5% fats (oil/butter) 15% meat 10% dairy 10% Annnnnnd could you also share eating windows? Like 4 hours a day from 8am-12pm or 12 hours a day -- something like that? Have been looking into diets, food consumption, whether calories matter, and eating windows for a while trying to better understand how we react to what we ingest. Super curious about all these things haha. Thanks! :D
Just started watching some of your videos and I love that you and your husband laugh, chuckle and giggle when things go wrong or you make a mistake. It’s a good lesson for your kids to see. There’s an old saying “It will all be funny eventually so why not laugh now”.
I love that!
That is an adorably tolerant chicken! Cute how your kid wants to make sure we see her.
I was going to say same.
Don’t plant sunflowers near your squashes. At least here in the south, sunflowers attract bugs that love to eat squash, tomatoes, and cucumber. We avoid planting them near each other. Your garden is absolutely amazing! 💗
Thank you for the tip! We may try relocating the sunflowers and squash to a safer location...away from eachother!!!
I did not know that!
I love watching your videos because of how productive your garden is. You make (semi) self-sufficiency seem attainable.
It's a lot of work, but work we enjoy. Thanks for tuning in!!
Thanks for sharing all the info about your trouble with different pests! It's good to see the good and the bad, I'm sure its way more frustrating than you are letting on! Those sunflowers are just magical!
We appreciate your comment. It's good to see some "real" reality in all this, and not just the unicorn fluff of perfect posts that really doesn't exist, right?!? Thank you for tuning in!
Just discovered your channel and am amazed by your self-sufficiency. Your garden(s) is/are amazing and am inspired 💗💗
Impressive! Thanks for sharing! 😊
I just discovered your channel and I just wanted to thank you for making these videos! Your my inspiration! Truly! I did not grow up with gardening or even eating fresh food, my family was a big fan of fast food and microwaves, but now that I'm married and we have our own home, my husband and I have been researching more and more into being self sustaining and growing our own food. This has really inspired me and helped me map out kind of what I want our home to be like!
Very wise choices your family is making. Good for you! Enjoy the journey
Start smaller than you think you want. It can get discouraging fast. Grow it a little every year. Especially with disease and pests. Gardening is a learning curve.
What a great garden! You've definitely have a gift! Our garden is exploding! Thanks for sharing! Cheers from Minnesota!
Wonderful garden and video! 👌🦋🌻
What an amazing garden. Love it.
Thank you for watching. Enjoy!!
your videos are so relaxing after a tough week for me!!!!!!!!!
So happy to hear this from you :) Makes me happy!
Superbly well organised veg plot. you really do make it look so easy, but I am totally aware of the massive work that went into it. Well done.
I love watching your videos. Great job!
Good for you. I couldn't be happier for your family
This is so inspiring. Imagine the world if everyone tended to the earth this way and lived in such closeness with nature. Imagine the health and wellness benefits. Imagine how we could restore our soil from erosion and regreen our world 🌎 compost helps a lot with that too!
You are definitely headed in the right direction :)
Borage is an excellent companion plant for tomatoes. Bees love borage too. Borage repels tomato hornworms and cabbage worms.
Thanks for the tips!
Good morning I am watching your video this morning i love how you talk and laugh your place looks beautiful I have very small Allatment and things never grow like the us in the uk the weather doesn’t help a lot all the best for you and your family
Just found your channel. You’re making a great life for your family. Thanks for sharing
Love,love,love your videos….blessings from Pingelly in the wheatbelt of Western Australia 🇦🇺☺️☺️☺️
Discovered your channel one of my two favorites
Your family is beautiful and so is your garden. Loving these vidoes.
Absolutely love your garden.
I am so impressed with you! You are doing it right!
Thank you for making such beautiful, inspiring videos. I just started my vegetable garden this year (only two raised beds a few feet wide) so seeing your amazing garden blows my mind (in a good way!).
Best wishes from Yorkshire, in the North of England. 💚
So nice of you. Thank you Gemma for your kind words!
Love to watch your videos
Great video. Replanted green beans and
This is looking great for August thanks for sharing!
Thank YOU for tuning in!!!
Garden goals.
You can do it!! Takes work, but 100% worth it!!
Your garden is absolutely stunning! Love it! 😍🙌🏻
It looks amazing! So happy for you guys that you are finally in your house 😊 you are such an inspiration to me
Thanks for sharing! I’d love to to see what meals you make from the garden. Also, how you preserve ♥️
Yes! This please!
The garden looks great!
Thank you!
wow, awesome garden!
You can eat the sweet potato tops (leaves). Either you mix them as vegetable in the soup or blanch them, iced bath then make it a salad like spinach or like our local salad (mix with tomatoes, onions, vinegar, sugar and salt to taste). The sweet potatoes, you can fry them as is like fries, or fry and sugarcoated (search kamote que) you can also make a dessert using them like boiling it, mash them, then cook them like a sauce by mixing with milk and sugar until they thicken like paste. (Looks like a jam) .
For the bellpepper or chili pepper leaves, we also use them to soup based cooking like (search) Chicken Tinola (ginger or lemongrass based chicken soup with chili pepper leaves).
As for the corn, you can cook them with beef, cabbage and potatoes,. Soup based tender beef (search beef bulalo).
😊😊😊 We are really enjoying your videos! 😊 You have. A big land, it would also be more great to see you guys plant fruit trees and strawberrries, other berries and grapes 😍
I wished we can send you seeds from our local vegetables here too! 😊
The picture of health!
You can eat fresh corn raw so you can always just try it by eating it right there not just by looks..
Looks amazing!!
Thank you for sharing all that you do! Your videos keep me motivated to say the least. I thought I might share as well in case you find this useful. Even though you have a tremendous yield of tomatoes and nothing goes to waste, I just heard that catnip deters the tomato horn worm. Even though I haven’t tested this out myself just yet I thought I would share this info. Happy Harvests!!!
I just discovered your channel and it’s inspiring. I can really see how much you love it. You should offer lessons!
Your garden is amazing 🥰
Great job !!
Thanks so much! 😊
You have a gorgeous family. Congrats.
Thank you so much! Very kind of you!
Binge watching your videos … so amazing and an inspiring…. One day ill have own field /garden as big as yours…. #goals #inspiration
Aloha! You can do it! Thanks for watching, and we're glad you are finding some inspiration from our crazy adventure 👍👍
Do you have a cookbook or episodes relating to how you use your preserved foods? I eat a great deal of raw vegetables but very little meat so I'd like to learn how to use items like the dehydrated bell peppers or apple slices in my everyday cooking.
Wow, what a garden. it must be a full time job to manage, cultivate and preserve something of this size and obviously very satisfying for you both. Wanting to start a vegi garden and fruit orchard this year with full height fencing and netting to keep deer, kangaroos, and birds out to achieve some level of self-sufficiency. Mine is planned to be only 300 square meters (900 square feet) so just a fraction on yours and thinking of raised beds.....still not sure if raised beds is a good direction to take :) Always had "token" vegi patches, but for me this is the next level and yours is something I'm likely not to venture down....would like to but are very time-poor. Looking forward to seeing your progress.
I've had friends ask if they get a pet kangaroo could they "store it" at our place, lol!! Sounds like you already have enough of them down in your neck of the woods.
Very nice!
you should consider growing your own mushrooms. It can grow on compost or downed trees, can be low maintenance and provides a nice hybrid of the nutrients available between plants vs animal. Plus they are delicious flavor vessels.
Beautiful garden!!! Have you ever tried planting marigolds by your cucumbers to ward off the beetles? They don’t like the smell of marigolds. Would be interesting if it worked for you. Keep up the good work!
Marigolds and basil throughout the garden ward off pests. I comoanion planred both with my tomatoes, it works!
Very cool to see all the different things growing
Hola no entiendo mucho inglés pero me guío por las fotos ,y tiene muy Buenos consejos me gusta mucho el canal saludos de argentina ...
Plant lemon grass around your vegis to help with bugs
I would love to see what you cook with your harvest and how you preserve everything. ☺️
A video around that is in the works. As a quickie, we made Asian stir fry last night 100% fr5om our garden(well, minus the rice, I guess). Carrots, Cabbage, ginger, onions, and sliced pork from our pasture pigs this summer! Yum yum!!
You should sprout the black oil sunflower seeds
I stumbled upon your channel yesterday and I'm so glad I did! Serious life goals here. We are on 2 acres and are year 3 into our homesteading journey. I love learning from others. You are doing so well with raising your beautiful family and amazing homestead. Can I ask what zone you are growing in? We are in eastern Idaho and our zone 5a is quite the challenge!
We are in Zone 6b Arkansas. You may need an extra greenhouse to prolong the growing season, but be grateful for the soft soil and lack of pesky bugs up there in Idaho!!! Cheers
love it!!!
We do as well!! Thanks for watching 😃
Thanks for sharing❤️
Beautiful garden!
Your gardening and canning skills are fantastic. Very informative videos. Did you have a video on your high tunnel assembly?
If you plant after June 15th your squashes and melons then you will miss the squash borerr....we have learned that!!!
We will have to try that. Would save a lot of trouble if this is true :)
Good video. Thanks.
I love your channel. I garden in the Midwest on a similar scale and I love seeing how you turn over beds and deal with pests and problems. You’re garden looks great, but not so perfect that’s it’s unrealistic to me, which is so refreshing.
Thank you, and sincerely appreciate your forgiveness of our "messy" garden. Seems like for every seed we plant, two weeds sprout, lol!!!!
Your garden is truly inspirational!!
Thank you for watching!
Just discovered your channel. Love it and learning lots. Would love to know what you do with your turnips. Ours grew Hugh but not keen on the taste. Debs from Australia
I wish you do harvest videos 💚💚💚
Not sure if you'll see this anytime soon, but I'm curious about how you grew potatoes. How far down did you start your trench and how many times did you mound dirt on them? I've watched all your tours and can't see much of the process besides the hay. Thank you!
You're obviously becoming an expert and I don't mean to patronage you by my suggestion but I just happened to stumble on the fact that marigold flowers are probably the best guard against bugs you don't want in your garden. I planted them here in Colorado around my garden because they were easy to grow and very attractive. They attracted the honey bees for pollination and even some very non-aggressive Hornets that would eat a lot of the bad bugs in our garden. No one in my family ever got stung. We live next to a large field with a ton of grasshoppers and they wouldn't get near the marigold border. And they are a volunteer plant so if you plant them once they'll keep coming back but it's easy to pull them out if you don't want them
Thanks for the tip. We have planted marigolds around our garden, but perhaps we don't have quite enough!! Bugs are still definitely winning the fight right now, lol. We'll see about putting a more marigolds next spring!
All the rain we've been getting in North Central Florida has caused FUNGUS to grow on many plants, never seen before
Had that happen here in past years. Always a love/hate relationship with rain, right?!?
I feel your pain with your watermelon and winter squash plants. I'm experiencing the exact same thing :(
Hard for sure. We are hoping that nature is in our favor and that over the next year or so it kind of takes care of itself... or at least isn't as bad of a bug problem... squash bugs have to have a predator, right?!?
👏👏👏
Can you please make a video how to preserve food in glass jars, and how to store it ? and recipies.
Can you explain why the cover crop i have seen alot of people plant them does it put nutrients back in the soil ? I have a very short grow season i am in the far north of British Columbia Canada and when it freezes here the frost if 4 or 6 feet into the ground by mid winter And then you are in permafrost after 6 feet that never goes away I just found your channel and i am binge watching it and really enjoying it thank you for sharing
I watched all the videos, I like them a lot. I would like to know how you make dry egg powder. thank you
Sua horta está linda, os porcos ficaram muito felizes com as melancias haha =D
Porcos AMAM as melancias !!! Obrigado por assistir!
Becky how you prepare the soil for carrots 🥕? And did you thin them?
I don’t see that your harden is fenced. How do you keep animals (deer) out of the garden?
This is amazing! When do you rest?
Have time for your children?
Wao!!
We rest very little, but it's enough for us :) We get so much time with the kids, cause they are at home all day. After school, we work together, play together, eat together, laugh together. This lifestyle allows us ample time with our kids. Real time too, not screen time.
Where did you purchase the row cover for the cabbage. I buy the small 8 ft x25 ft row cover. I love the row cover on the roll. Amazing.
I'm wondering if the watermelon was too close to another plant that the vine borer was getting in. Sad about your watermelon! I have to ask, what state is this...just started following this blog. Looks like a perfect spot for a farm, guessing maybe Virginia Kentucky or Tennessee? You could maybe blanch your potatoes chopped, and freeze for homefries. #theseasonalhomestead
Thank you for watching! We live in Arkansas - yes very similar growing zones to Kentucky and Tennessee :)
Wonderful Garden & Good Work :D Can you do a video maybe a two parter, video on canning. The whole shabang, the kitten and kaboodle lol :P Pretty Please :D
Look for one very soon on canning! Just what the doctor ordered :)
Your videos make me want to be a better gardener 🌱😄 Do you do anything to prevent blossom end rot? Thank y’all for sharing!!
Whew! I wish I had a better answer, but we haven't figured out how to stop blossom end rot. We just take it as it comes and cut the ends off of the tomatoes. 90% of the tomato is still good to use.
@The Seasonal Homestead thank you!! honestly we kinda thought that the whole tomato wasn’t any good if it had rot so that’s good to know that the rest is good to use! 😆
@@kal.salmon Yes! It usually is good. Sometimes if the rot is really bad it is moldy and we toss it. I'll also add to Cam's comment above, putting plants on a drip system would help with blossom end rot and also a soil test to make sure everything is as it should be with the soil. Hope that helps! -Becky
When you see it happening remove the few tomatoes hit and hit it with a water + powdered milk drink and get it that quick calcium to save the remaining tomatoes to form. Also inconsistent watering. Measure and have a watering schedule. Can plant them with tums in the holes for a little Jump at the beginning as well and set up for success down the road.
Do a video on how to get corn so large. My obsession is corn and I have done better fertilizer this year
This current crop is our first planting from saves seeds from last year. We tagged the largest ears last year, saved their seeds, and planted them this year. We will continue to do this, with hopes that the corn continues to get large...but not oo large :)
Burlap ..good idea for moisture retention
Yes!!! And doubles as a bird deterrent while the seeds are sprouting. Had our entire corn planting last year go to the birds cause we didn't cover it. That was fun to replant, lol!
nice
Thanks
Just ❤❤❤ your farm! You're such an Inspiration! So much so, I've got a 🤓 nerdy gardener question for you: Can you tell me what brand your garden/farm boots are?! Clearly you do a lot of gardening/farming & comfy feet are important, so I'd say great boots are an important tool to have! I'm going from a traditional suburban home/garden to a couple of acres & I'd ❤ to get a great pair of boots 👩🌾
Thanks again for sharing your videos!!! 😊
They are Bogs brand. I've owned several pairs. I won't buy anything else, they are great!
@@TheSeasonalHomestead Thank you soooooo very much for sharing! I'll definitely invest in a pair...or 2 or 3 👩🌾
Have you tried using a blacklight for catching the hornworms?
Haven't tried a blacklight yet, does it make them glow? If so, I'll be buying one for next season for sure!!!
@@TheSeasonalHomestead It does! Go out at night with the black light (bonus if it’s a headlamp) and you’ll see them light straight up! Even the little ones. Super helpful and it saves so much time!!
If you were to make your squash, cucumbers, etc trailing plants go vertical on trellises would that prevent the bug issues?
I love your channel! Glad I found it!
Great video! Where do you get your burlap? Thanks
Can you tell me about why you cover with the burlap?
The burlap cover serves multiple purposes: retains moisture when we water, so it doesn't evaporate as quickly in the hot summer, and protects against birds from stealing the seeds. Birds seem to have a sixth sense for when certain seeds are freshly planted :)
hope you can grown some watermelon next year!! this year bit to late
We do too! Hoping next year is better, as watermelon is my husbands favorite fruit by far!
Yep...cucumber beetles got me as well 😔 ALL watermelon and cucumber plants are dead. I have replanted the cucumbers last week, hopefull there is enough time 🤞
Any tips for voles?
Good luck! For voles, we set a few traps and it seemed to keep them under control in winter when they are really bad. Here is a link to what we used (it's an affiliate link) amzn.to/3ALcXnf .You can also find the same traps at any hardware store. We've used both the kind for rats and for mice. Stuck them in the tunnel with peanut butter on it. It's not perfect, but works well enough!
@@TheSeasonalHomestead thank you so much! I will try this and pray lol
What do you use for fertilizer?
We scatter chicken poops when we have it, but other than that, not much really. We do use a lot of mulch, which breaks down and provides it's own natural nutrients, carbon, etc...
Why does this only have 1288 views!?
Might want to review one of these comments.
Done, thank you.
Do you grow grains and make bread ?
We make bread for sure, but we do not grow grains...yet. Definitely researching that, but have not yet gone down that path.
Where do you buy your (cowpeas) seed?
When you cut the buckwheat back, do you till it in or what do you do?
I thought I was going to cut it back, but when I went out today to do that I found the better course of action was to crimp it down. I parted it in half so there is 6 inches bare soil in the middle and the rest is lying flat on the ground. This is all sort of experimental but I think it is going to work great for planting fall cabbage in that spot while also keeping weeds down. It's hard to describe in words but I have some of it on video that I will share in the future.
@@TheSeasonalHomestead That makes sense. I have raised beds, garden in zone 5b and would like to plant buckwheat, but I'm not sure if I should till it in once it flowers or let it winter over and till it in in the spring. Thanks for responding! :)
May u say how much space do u have?
Thank you David. We have 52 acres. Fenced garden is only 100ft x 100ft at the moment.
What diet does your husband have? Does he count calories at all, or just eat to satiety with veggies/fruits?
Love the question Jacob! Husband eats well, but does not count calories at all. Eats until satisfied, then perhaps a tiny bit more ontop of that ;) Works it all off chasing cows and pigs, lol!
@@TheSeasonalHomestead Thank you very much!
Would you also share what kinds of foods are eaten? Like rough/gut-feel of proportion for food?
Something like:
veggies 20%
fruits 10%
grains 30%
legumes 5%
fats (oil/butter) 15%
meat 10%
dairy 10%
Annnnnnd could you also share eating windows? Like 4 hours a day from 8am-12pm or 12 hours a day -- something like that?
Have been looking into diets, food consumption, whether calories matter, and eating windows for a while trying to better understand how we react to what we ingest. Super curious about all these things haha. Thanks! :D
When you cut the buckwheat does it hold up in a vase? It’s so pretty and wondering if it’s a good cut filler flower?
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