For the past three years I've been gardening like my life depends on it, because it does. I retired on social security, and I very quickly realized that it made more sense to improve and enlarge my garden than to exhaust myself with a part-time job. In these past three years, I've learned better gardening techniques, invested in garden equipment, including a wheel hoe and a drip tape system, and learned to start my own seeds. Now that this virus situation has occurred, these improvements are serving me well.
Good for you! I to am retired and it’s not only the savings but the quality of the food! Nothing more rewarding then to look at all your stored food for the winter! Keep up the good work! Nancy from Canada
Yes they certainly will serve you well to do as much canning if at all possible when the time is right and you see your yard sale anywhere with canning jars or anything that you can can an grab it because you'll be needing them through the years and you'll be surprised how many jars you can go through in one year and these times they make it seem like it's going to be over quickly it's not going to be over quickly it's going to go on and on and on and I'm actually fearful because I have COPD so I'm very fearful to go out in public always go with my mask and gloves and for I getting my back in my car I take clothes off and I wear the mask to all the way home before I come in my house I'll take it off in my shoes and then clean myself up but this whole thing has me fearful when it comes to the end times as how the Bible speaks I'm certain things and now and I'm very concerned but yet I'm not because of its time then I welcome his arrival God bless and have a great day keep your strength up bending over in a garden is very hard at my two I'm disabled broke my back and then it over it's very difficult for me but I've got my tomatoes started green peppers the essentials I can't don't have Garden space for a lot of things but I would love to you make good Investments God bless have a great day
You and I are of the same mindset. I am doing the same thing. My only obstacle is waiting for the additional 600 feet of ground cover. Fyi never order more than one at a time it takes forever even with prime.
We planned at the end of last years garden that we were going to expand for this year. The virus hasn't changed anything...the rain and the freezing temps are holding up progress (crazy Alabama weather). But God has a plan and we will plant when he says/shows us its time. ❤
I’ve always been like y’all. My husband not so much. This year he is actively helping me with everything to plant and grow our own food. My grown children are also planting their own victory garden.
Onion seeds are so easy guys! Just put a pack in a small container a d when they are about 2 to 3 inches tall take them out and transplant! and seeds will make huge onions without bolting!
Thanks so much for acknowledging “the way things are in the world right now, as you said. The uncertainty created by this virus has us all on edge; and by focusing on your thoughtful planting you have and give us all hope that society can go on. It’s the orderliness and steadiness of your work that is so encouraging. J D Burns
Our motto this year is "Grow like your life depends on it." We've expanded out from just our raised bed garden to an earth garden as well as working harder in the high tunnel. Just have to rid myself of my friendly neighborhood chipmunk who dines daily out there. Grrrr
Appalachian Mercantile to get rid of chipmunks, we tried a friends suggestion and it work wonders! Take a five gallon bucket. Fill it halfway with water. Put enough sunflower seeds in to cover the top of the water completely (they will float). Lean a 2x4 up on the bucket to create a little ramp. We had wind issues blowing over our 2x4 so we notched it near the top to hook it over the lip of the bucket. Worked great! The little guys get attracted by the sunflower seeds, get curious, and take the plunge. It started out a little slow at first, but in the end we were getting between 8 - 12 a day. We knew we had some, but NEVER suspected we had that many! You might want to dig a deep hole away from the bucket too! Just dump and cover them. Mess free, unless you’re like me, get clumsy and fill your boot by sloshing! Hope this helps. God bless!
Appalachian Mercantile my problem is Squirrels, I feel for you. They steel my produce and dig up plants and flowers. Such a pain, but they need to eat too. However I sure wish the would quit riding everything up. They totally stripped my overloaded apple tree last year. Good luck.!
I'd love to see how you cure and store onions at the end of their season. I've seen some videos but not in as humid of an area as I'm in and I know you're in a humid area too so I really want to see what works for you.
One thing I do with my onions...I use my food processor to chop them...then I lay a flat layer on cookie sheets...put in my freezer to flash freeze them for 2 hours...then into a freezer zip lock bag...flash freezing them keeps them from freezing in a chunk...at cooking time...I just sprinkle out how much I want, re-zip and lay flat in freezer...last year I got 5 gallon bags, I do the same with bell peppers...and celery too...I use these in a lot of my cooking...nice to have frozen items that pour evenly from your freezer bag...
Living Traditions has a video, "Tempted to sell them all. Onion harvest" from 2019. Melissa K Norris, from humid Washington State, has a great video of 2 different ways she cures her onions for storage. Hope that helps😊
This year, I'm still in the learning phase, but it feels like accelerated learning! I had to quit my job when the virus hit my area because of chronic health issues that weaken my immune system. I think one of the hardest things is knowing how to maintain a schedule and get it all done! Would you be willing to do a video about your daily "schedule"? I've been curious how you structure your day and think it could be very helpful for those of us who suddenly have a whole day where we're "the boss"!
I have added 10 raised beds. After a couple years of planting in ground with poor results we are hoping raising the beds make a great difference. Thanks for all you teach!
Received my ground cover a few weeks ago, started laying it down yesterday, looking forward to less weeds. Thanks sow much for sharing and taking all of us along your on journey.
Growing twice as much as I normally do planning ahead just in case. I'm even planning on putting vegetables within my flower bed. Gotta be prepared. God bless you guys. Thanks for all the helpful advice. 💗🙏⛪🌻💗🙏⛪🌻
It's great to see all that green! We had a snow storm on Sunday in SE MN and its been sticking around all week. Looking forward to when I can plant in the ground!! 👩🏼🌾
Love watching you guys. What caught my eye to your channels was what I was looking at forms for mulch and saw your use of ground cloth. I live at Lake Ozark north of you and was interested in what people in our state used. Thanks for sharing your techniques that work.
To use one of Kevin's terms...in regard to "it may not look as good"...it's homestead perfect! We do what needs doing and we use what we have on hand to use...plastic net wraps off round bales are used with pvc pipe bend over to make climbing trellis for our green peas...works great...and yes, we did plan on doing a lot more than last year...and it's great that it will help us preserve more safe food for us...what has hindered us has been the weather...cold and lots of rain...hopefully...this last night was the end of the 39 deg nights...my tomato starts, green bean starts and bell pepper starts have been sitting in our greenhouse too long...need to get out in the raised beds...We wanted this journey for the reason that I don't trust our food sources anymore...now more than ever...it's really needed...
2 years ago, I picked up a commercial grade ground cover from Walmart. This version ripped, was super thin, and the quality wasnt there.Since watching your video's, and seeing how well your cloth cover worked, I decided to order the same cover through Growers Solutions. I also ordered 10 inch garden staples from another vendor. I'm totally sold on this product and use it in and around my garden.
@@soniagarcia7771 Polypropylene Ground Cover Growers Solutions, go to the menu area, ask for accessories, then ground cover. You'll find it there in multiple sizes. Hope this helps.
This year we are using the woven weed fabric thanks to you guys! We sure appreciate you sharing your knowledge so we don't have to start from scratch. We are planting in a couple of new spaces and decided to plant corn this year which we haven't done in several years. Continued blessings to you!
I remember one year planting my onions and the birds came within an hour and pulled most of them up 😡😳😳i replanted them and put a fleece over them for a week to give the bulbs time to put roots out. We have planted more this year and if we have extra we can always give them to the neighbors. 😃😃
I am taking it more serious and instead of giving away extra plants, I am going to grow them so I can make sure as best I can that I have enough for all of our families. Oh Sara and Kevin.... growing onion from seed is as easy as it gets! Basically dirt seed water wait....one if the easiest things to grow and I think head over heels better onions from ur own plants....I am in MN and I will be planting mine out this weekend. Thanks so much for sharing all ur knowledge!!! It is so important to have like minded people to have ur back! 👍👍
MI gardener has the best easiest onion starting videos! I haven't actually gotten an onion bigger than a golf ball, but it's my fault for not watering them enough, lol! Trying again....
Were still about a month out on starting the garden here in the north. It was snowing yesterday and today it's only 34, so I'm glad I can watch someone getting to work their garden already.
We’ve planted a big garden this year. I’m thankful that we’re able to do a garden. Thank y’all for sharing your life with us. I’ve learned so much from you and I appreciate everything you do. God bless y’all.
In Science we did a project of planting seeds in a clear bottle and put them in the window at school . 2 weeks up to a month , the plants began to show. Thanks for sharing
I have just became a subscriber; bout two weeks. I have learned so much from you guys. All is a great blessing for me to learn. A Okie Cowgirl.. saying,..very thankful to have found you guys!!. God bless!!!..
I feel the same as you. My changes are the following, Incorporating veggies in all of my flower beds, as well as adding several containers on our deck for food instead of just flowers. Im putting onions around my knockouts. hopefully it will add food as well as deter the japanese beetles. Ive added more garlic, more herbs and Im also planting other yards I have for BEd and Breakfast area. We cant get truckloads of compost til may 3rd so Im using cardboard and straw until then as a mulch and help to soil. Where I had straw last fall, it sprouted everywhere. I let it get tall enough to pull, because the straw on this clay soil kept soil moist it pulled out with no effort at all. I just layed the pulled hay sprouts as a green mulch. Using what I have to mulch until I can get truck loads. Im pulling weeds and leaving them on top to breakdown and mulch.
I have found that when I first plant onions sets that the night crawlers will push up and out the sets until they are rooted. Little frustrating but the worms are so good for the soil. Also I am following the potatoes you started and how everything in the high tunnel does. I look forward to each and every one of your videos. Great work your doing.
I'm soooo excited to see you doing this! I did the same thing over the weekend with my granddaughters help. It's an experiment for me too. Fingers crossed that it works for both of us!
Absolutely without a doubt have been more serious this year than ever. Although I have been growing up a garden for over 10 years now but I'm sure this is a crucial time for everyone to get seriously involved with growing them own food it is well worth the effort. Thank you for sharing your story. God bless stay safe much respect for you ,bye for now..lol
I am glad to see you post a video showing that not everything is always perfect in the garden. So many think it is such a great mystery or difficult. I tell people to just do it. i am glad to see that is your message today.
Thank you so much for continuing to teach people what works to grow food in different conditions. People are gaining knowledge and support trying to feed their families. I really enjoy the q and A videos as I can imagine you are flooded with question daily. You are doing Gods'work
We moved from Florida to Western New York in early 2019. Due to the move we weren’t able to garden last year, but this year I have all my starts going well. We can’t direct sow anything in the ground until the middle of May. We are ready and chomping at the bit to plant! God Bless you and your Family, thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us. ♥️🙏😎🐣🌷🐝
Good morning Kevin and Sarah, great video today. Thanks for sharing with us, I hope you have a great harvest. Stay safe and keep up the good work and videos. Fred.
Happily, I ordered my seeds weeks before all this started. I'm in Lansing, Michigan (so city garden) and have started some seeds inside. Happy Homesteading!
I am planting as much as possible. I now have the woven ground cover, cattle panel walls and trellises, grow bags and I am watching and rewatching your videos. Thanks for all the great information.
Two years ago I thought it would be fun and educational to try home canning and I gradually picked up the jars and equipment at thrift shops or when they were on sale. I thought I'd make pickles because that looked easiest but found that I am no cucumber farmer! In two years I think I grew four cucumbers! This winter I saw Sarah's tomato canning video and I'm hoping to have better luck with tomatoes. I even found that crank operated tomato strainer that Sarah uses on sale! I don't have a lot of bed space as I'm more of a perennial flower gardener, but I'm growing twelve heirloom plants from seed. Half of them have sprouted under the grow light so far. I also sowed four types of lettuce seed outside last weekend. It's not really that I am worried about a food shortage as much as that I have an interest in tradition. I've also tried quilting and sewing. I've learned that I don't particularly like those activities but I did get an appreciation for the amount of work and skill they require. I enjoy your enthusiasm and learn a lot from your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Kim, our township started a senior service program 5 years ago & we give a free lunch every Wed. for 60 years old senior, we also added a quilting group (20 people) that meet Thur. from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. You maybe could start a group that would be more fun????
Love watching your videos. We've definitely gotten into gardening more this year. Container planting everywhere possible. You two are so encouraging! Love it. God bless you to overflowing!
I am so.glad that I started following you 2 years ago. I wasn't sure how to grow a garden. Thanks to you sharing your ups and downs I am learning a great deal. Our garden was pretty well a success in 2020. I've learned how to make tomato sauce, salsa, pizza sauce from the tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers we grew. I also planted onions, collards, mustards, green beans and okra. Most of our garden vegetables were put in the freezer. This year I am crop rotating and adding cow peas and turnips. We are using the woven fabric as well and it definitely helped me keep down the weeds. You both are terrific and I thank you for sharing your experiences to help my family learn to survive in these times. 😊
Definitely expanding my garden and I purchased a small greenhouse also. Like everyone, trying to grow more of my own veggies. Can't raise my own meat living in town, but can work on the fresh veggies. Keep on teaching us. I watch every video for the last 14 months. God bless.
I start my Onion seeds in mid January in a dish pan I drilled holes in the bottom. I put seeds very thick and they will be the perfect size to plant right around this time of year. I also doubled the size of my growing area to increase my yields and grow new things. Love your videos.
We have been growing our own food for many years. We can and freeze our food. We are trying the woven weed fabric from Growers Solution for the first time. I hope we have success like you. I'm excited to see how your onion garden does. We already planted ours. I'm still learning every year better ways to garden from others like yourselves. You know the saying, your never to old to learn. I'm learning so much from the two of you. Thank you for all that you do!
S and K: you have the best instructional channel of all. You gave me the confidence to start canning. I learned how to bake bread from you. Because of you I used the black plastic in my garden last year and for the first year, I did not have to spend hours all summer fighting weeds. Even noticed this spring that weeds are not returning to the garden space like they usually do every year.
We have a small homestead farm in Costa Rica. We grow a lot of fruits and some vegetables. Where we live we have a lot of rain. We have to use small greenhouse to grow vegetables. We found that kale and tomatoes do well in the greenhouse. Our fruit is all tropical. I also grow Moringa trees for the leaves which we dry and crush. Moringa is a super food. I like all your tips and will use some of them on my farm.
We have added 2 huge raised beds to our 3 that we have already. We are planting with more of a purpose to can and freeze. I have been watching the canning videos and getting jars when I can. I have a little over a 100 I think that should get me started this year. Thank you so much for all your hard work. God bless
I am planning on doing the same thing this year with onions and garlic. I started using woven ground cover a couple years ago, after watching one if your videos. Keep up the good work. I also ordered one of those mini garden augers for the drill, can't wait t I'll use it.
We have increased the size of some of our in ground gardens added a few more and have many containers as well. Our raised beds are straight square foot gardens this year. It’s going fairly well. Some of the seeds we purchased didn’t germinate and that wasted valuable time. Our compost is a precious commodity from the fall and winter. We’ve just finished using it all and I’m so thankful we were able to fortify it with chicken, duck and rabbit manure that we traded plants to get. A new pile is already begun and we have our own rabbits now. Thankfully we also had purchased additional drip irrigation supplies before lockdown started. We have way too many fruit trees, berries, grapes, and garden beds to hand water! We’ll see what harvest looks like but I’m feeling good about things so far.
This is my first year. I feel so much more pressure to succeed than I did before the virus. I expected some level of failure for a first year, but now I am being even more diligent about doing things in such a way as to have a majority of success.
Paulla Wells remember to have fun! And as my gardening class teacher used to say, “ Your growing season will be chock full of teachable moments!”. I keep a casual notebook of gardening: beginning, middle, and end of the season. I jot down what I did/what worked/what didn’t. I find it so helpful to review from year to year. Good luck, and have a blast!
@@ramonasurprenant2122 - Thank you so much for that advice! I have a notebook ready to go, but keep forgetting to write in it. I will do that now. Even the smallest piece of advice can make all the difference! 💖
The most valuable tip I got from your channel is the woven ground cover -- I got some last year and picking beans, raising tomatoes, etc was so much easier without all those WEEDS. I was amazed at how much easier it made gardening. Thank you.
It is snowing today where I live. Second snow this week, but not a lot. My last frost is said to be mid May, but whst I have started is doing well. Thanks for all the tips and tricks you share with us. They are much appreciated.
I planted onions for the first time and I made sure to put the root end down. But, I didn't know to leave the tips uncovered. But they have come up! Thanks for the lesson!
My biggest change is trying to get sourdough starter going. Flour and yeast are difficult to get, and uve never made homemade bread. But, I'm hoping I can get this going and grab flour when it's available....no yeast needed. 😊
I am with you guys. I am all about food production right now. Partly because I have nothing else that I can do but I have quit my job and am enjoying just staying home and working on things that I couldn't get to before. Still really wishing that I could have someone here at least once in a while to help me with some things but I am managing to get a little bit further every year by myself. So very happy to say that a lot of my perennials that I started in previous years are beginning to take off
I have a container gardening area that I enjoy growing things in. Each year, however, the weeds would get very high around my containers making it difficult to tend my garden. Because of you, I ordered some of the woven weed barrier. It should be here in a few days. I’m so excited to put it down and put my containers on top of it! I am retired and gardening is my therapy. I’ve learned a lot from you and other RUclipsrs. Hopefully, I’ll be able to enjoy some garden vegetables this year. Love you guys!! ❤️❤️❤️
We are using woven fabric for the first time this year. This is my second year GARDENING. I appreciate your videos they're helping me tremendously. God bless you both...and your family!
We did great growing onions with the woven weed fabric last year. Hope you have great success with yours this year. I am envious of you getting yours in now. We have 6 inches of snow today. And I will not get to plant my onions til mid May! Continued success in your homesteading.
I ordered some of the woven fabric as you have suggested and I cannot wait to get out there are get everything started. Weather here in southeast MI has been awful. The last 2 days it has been snowing, and the temps are not looking good for planting anytime in the near future. I am going to have to transplant some of my starters pretty soon. I was one of the lucky few that started ordering some of my seeds, earlier before all of this shelter in place started. Here in MI our governor has closed all home improvement (lumber, paint, and flooring) and also the gardening centers at ALL stores. For me this has been a serious wake up call, and I have promised myself to ALWAYS be ahead of the plans. I hope y'all are staying safe! Thanks for brighting up my morning!
Still recovering from this illness so to say I'm a little weak is unstated and the moment I bend I feel like I'm falling over . I have my onions to plant yellow and reds all my onions I've grown from seed I started them in February I haven't had any success with sets In the past many have just bolted but I wish you all the very best . Far be it from me to even try to give advise but I would be careful about growing in close proximity to rotting wood as wood rots it pulls the nitrogen from around to complete the process . Blessings to you.
We will be using the ground cover for the first time. We have garden all of our lives but at our age had stopped for a couple of years due to health issues but after watching you we decided to try it again using ground cover and doing more organic.
We are doing our best too. It is much harder to do when you work 6 days a week. At this time I surely am not complaining about working . Just doing our best . But I love your concept of everything you do is “ work smarter , Not harder “ thank you again . Stay safe and god bless 🙏😊
Great video. Love watching you all. Moved up to 23 raised beds this year, so lots of veg for this house this year. Plus I grow year round here near Houston.
I had two gardens. I now have 7 total. 12 chickens about 5 weeks old. 15 fruit trees. All this since late Feb. It was planned/dreamt of... I always wanted too- the virus just hurried me up. I ordered the weed cloth to use at the bottom of a raised bed but when I watched your vid about it well, it's going on top. I'm a fan now. Thanks for all the help. Take care, Tom.
Just enjoy watching you guys working together, onions don't grow to well in my red dirt, we haven't planted anything yet my trust has been in the heavenly Father. Soon as health allows garden will go in.🙏
I've finally started making use of my mini farm. I'm starting with a 30 x 30 garden. It's my first year ever trying woven fabric, so it will be interesting to see how it all works out. Best of luck with the onions
Last year we planted a beautiful prayer garden in half of our back yard. This year we are looking to add to the other half of the yard with two raised beds and a two foot area along our back fence all devoted to food. This has really made us think about our own food production.
For the past three years I've been gardening like my life depends on it, because it does. I retired on social security, and I very quickly realized that it made more sense to improve and enlarge my garden than to exhaust myself with a part-time job. In these past three years, I've learned better gardening techniques, invested in garden equipment, including a wheel hoe and a drip tape system, and learned to start my own seeds. Now that this virus situation has occurred, these improvements are serving me well.
Good for you! I to am retired and it’s not only the savings but the quality of the food! Nothing more rewarding then to look at all your stored food for the winter! Keep up the good work! Nancy from Canada
You go, girl!
Yes they certainly will serve you well to do as much canning if at all possible when the time is right and you see your yard sale anywhere with canning jars or anything that you can can an grab it because you'll be needing them through the years and you'll be surprised how many jars you can go through in one year and these times they make it seem like it's going to be over quickly it's not going to be over quickly it's going to go on and on and on and I'm actually fearful because I have COPD so I'm very fearful to go out in public always go with my mask and gloves and for I getting my back in my car I take clothes off and I wear the mask to all the way home before I come in my house I'll take it off in my shoes and then clean myself up but this whole thing has me fearful when it comes to the end times as how the Bible speaks I'm certain things and now and I'm very concerned but yet I'm not because of its time then I welcome his arrival God bless and have a great day keep your strength up bending over in a garden is very hard at my two I'm disabled broke my back and then it over it's very difficult for me but I've got my tomatoes started green peppers the essentials I can't don't have Garden space for a lot of things but I would love to you make good Investments God bless have a great day
That is awesome!
Fantastic!! :)
I've converted almost my entire yard into garden beds for both perennial fruits and annual veggies!! I can now mow my lawn in 5 minutes!!!
pgffemt5895 what a great bonus!!
You and I are of the same mindset. I am doing the same thing. My only obstacle is waiting for the additional 600 feet of ground cover. Fyi never order more than one at a time it takes forever even with prime.
We planned at the end of last years garden that we were going to expand for this year. The virus hasn't changed anything...the rain and the freezing temps are holding up progress (crazy Alabama weather). But God has a plan and we will plant when he says/shows us its time. ❤
I’ve always been like y’all. My husband not so much. This year he is actively helping me with everything to plant and grow our own food. My grown children are also planting their own victory garden.
Love it!!
How did you bring him around? My husband is a suburbs boy upper middle class type. As much as I love him, he drives me up the wall.
@@pamelas9 My husband told me I am the gardener not him. I should tell hin I guess that makes him the cook but I wood get tired of pizza.
100%agree with you on the landscaping staples!!! I toss my new ones out into the elements to get a little fermented before I use them 😂
Great idea!
Bear River Mama agreed!
Onion seeds are so easy guys! Just put a pack in a small container a d when they are about 2 to 3 inches tall take them out and transplant! and seeds will make huge onions without bolting!
Yep I'm pounding dirt planting like a mad man. Great video love the mini torch!!!
Thanks so much for acknowledging “the way things are in the world right now, as you said. The uncertainty created by this virus has us all on edge; and by focusing on your thoughtful planting you have and give us all hope that society can go on. It’s the orderliness and steadiness of your work that is so encouraging. J D Burns
Our motto this year is "Grow like your life depends on it." We've expanded out from just our raised bed garden to an earth garden as well as working harder in the high tunnel. Just have to rid myself of my friendly neighborhood chipmunk who dines daily out there. Grrrr
Tastes just like chicken :)
Appalachian Mercantile to get rid of chipmunks, we tried a friends suggestion and it work wonders! Take a five gallon bucket. Fill it halfway with water. Put enough sunflower seeds in to cover the top of the water completely (they will float). Lean a 2x4 up on the bucket to create a little ramp. We had wind issues blowing over our 2x4 so we notched it near the top to hook it over the lip of the bucket. Worked great! The little guys get attracted by the sunflower seeds, get curious, and take the plunge. It started out a little slow at first, but in the end we were getting between 8 - 12 a day. We knew we had some, but NEVER suspected we had that many! You might want to dig a deep hole away from the bucket too! Just dump and cover them. Mess free, unless you’re like me, get clumsy and fill your boot by sloshing! Hope this helps. God bless!
Same motto here. Its still too cold to plant outside here. I have the greenhouse packed.
Willow Sverge Great thanks
Appalachian Mercantile my problem is Squirrels, I feel for you. They steel my produce and dig up plants and flowers. Such a pain, but they need to eat too. However I sure wish the would quit riding everything up. They totally stripped my overloaded apple tree last year. Good luck.!
I'd love to see how you cure and store onions at the end of their season. I've seen some videos but not in as humid of an area as I'm in and I know you're in a humid area too so I really want to see what works for you.
One thing I do with my onions...I use my food processor to chop them...then I lay a flat layer on cookie sheets...put in my freezer to flash freeze them for 2 hours...then into a freezer zip lock bag...flash freezing them keeps them from freezing in a chunk...at cooking time...I just sprinkle out how much I want, re-zip and lay flat in freezer...last year I got 5 gallon bags, I do the same with bell peppers...and celery too...I use these in a lot of my cooking...nice to have frozen items that pour evenly from your freezer bag...
Living Traditions has a video, "Tempted to sell them all. Onion harvest" from 2019. Melissa K Norris, from humid Washington State, has a great video of 2 different ways she cures her onions for storage. Hope that helps😊
I also wish to see how they are going to keep all the potatoes from sprouting. Maybe a two-fer?
We put ours in the basement fridge drawer. Keep great all year!
This year, I'm still in the learning phase, but it feels like accelerated learning! I had to quit my job when the virus hit my area because of chronic health issues that weaken my immune system. I think one of the hardest things is knowing how to maintain a schedule and get it all done! Would you be willing to do a video about your daily "schedule"? I've been curious how you structure your day and think it could be very helpful for those of us who suddenly have a whole day where we're "the boss"!
wannabeafarmgirl03 I second this “daily schedule” video idea.
I have added 10 raised beds. After a couple years of planting in ground with poor results we are hoping raising the beds make a great difference. Thanks for all you teach!
Received my ground cover a few weeks ago, started laying it down yesterday, looking forward to less weeds. Thanks sow much for sharing and taking all of us along your on journey.
Yea! I'm so impressed...Sarah isn't having to use the rounded end shovel anymore.
Growing twice as much as I normally do planning ahead just in case. I'm even planning on putting vegetables within my flower bed. Gotta be prepared. God bless you guys. Thanks for all the helpful advice. 💗🙏⛪🌻💗🙏⛪🌻
Yes I agree flowers that are nice but my flower pots are not getting flowers this year they're getting vegetables
Such a beautiful and inspiring family, you are! Thank you for filming your journey for us!
super video God bless and as always have a beautiful day
It's great to see all that green! We had a snow storm on Sunday in SE MN and its been sticking around all week. Looking forward to when I can plant in the ground!! 👩🏼🌾
Love watching you guys. What caught my eye to your channels was what I was looking at forms for mulch and saw your use of ground cloth. I live at Lake Ozark north of you and was interested in what people in our state used. Thanks for sharing your techniques that work.
To use one of Kevin's terms...in regard to "it may not look as good"...it's homestead perfect! We do what needs doing and we use what we have on hand to use...plastic net wraps off round bales are used with pvc pipe bend over to make climbing trellis for our green peas...works great...and yes, we did plan on doing a lot more than last year...and it's great that it will help us preserve more safe food for us...what has hindered us has been the weather...cold and lots of rain...hopefully...this last night was the end of the 39 deg nights...my tomato starts, green bean starts and bell pepper starts have been sitting in our greenhouse too long...need to get out in the raised beds...We wanted this journey for the reason that I don't trust our food sources anymore...now more than ever...it's really needed...
2 years ago, I picked up a commercial grade ground cover from Walmart. This version ripped, was super thin, and the quality wasnt there.Since watching your video's, and seeing how well your cloth cover worked, I decided to order the same cover through Growers Solutions. I also ordered 10 inch garden staples from another vendor. I'm totally sold on this product and use it in and around my garden.
Can you please tell me the name of the ground cover you Ordered from growers solution
@@soniagarcia7771
Polypropylene Ground Cover
Growers Solutions, go to the menu area, ask for accessories, then ground cover. You'll find it there in multiple sizes. Hope this helps.
Sandy Oklahomatransient thank you Sandy
Thank you Sandy
This year we are using the woven weed fabric thanks to you guys! We sure appreciate you sharing your knowledge so we don't have to start from scratch. We are planting in a couple of new spaces and decided to plant corn this year which we haven't done in several years. Continued blessings to you!
Did anyone else see the article about Living Traditions Homestead in the Summer issue of THE NEW PIONEER magazine.
No I did not but it was my first RUclips video that I ever watched and I loved it
Stella Mooney sure did! Still working on it!
I remember one year planting my onions and the birds came within an hour and pulled most of them up 😡😳😳i replanted them and put a fleece over them for a week to give the bulbs time to put roots out. We have planted more this year and if we have extra we can always give them to the neighbors. 😃😃
I am taking it more serious and instead of giving away extra plants, I am going to grow them so I can make sure as best I can that I have enough for all of our families. Oh Sara and Kevin.... growing onion from seed is as easy as it gets! Basically dirt seed water wait....one if the easiest things to grow and I think head over heels better onions from ur own plants....I am in MN and I will be planting mine out this weekend. Thanks so much for sharing all ur knowledge!!! It is so important to have like minded people to have ur back! 👍👍
MI gardener has the best easiest onion starting videos! I haven't actually gotten an onion bigger than a golf ball, but it's my fault for not watering them enough, lol! Trying again....
Were still about a month out on starting the garden here in the north. It was snowing yesterday and today it's only 34, so I'm glad I can watch someone getting to work their garden already.
We’ve planted a big garden this year. I’m thankful that we’re able to do a garden. Thank y’all for sharing your life with us. I’ve learned so much from you and I appreciate everything you do. God bless y’all.
Well done, always open for new ideas on how to improve my gardens. I have been gardening over the past 60 years.
In Science we did a project of planting seeds in a clear bottle and put them in the window at school . 2 weeks up to a month , the plants began to show. Thanks for sharing
Yall are hard workin'! I extended my garden and added a raised bed.
I have just became a subscriber; bout two weeks. I have learned so much from you guys. All is a great blessing for me to learn.
A Okie Cowgirl.. saying,..very thankful to have found you guys!!. God bless!!!..
Another Channel I really enjoy is VW Family Farms great family different aspect these two families know each other
I am determined to plant as much as I can this year. Thanks so much for all your videos. I have learned so much from you.
Thank you for sharing.
Take care and stay safe.Many blessing on you and your family.
Love watching you both. Thanks for all you do.
I feel the same as you. My changes are the following, Incorporating veggies in all of my flower beds, as well as adding several containers on our deck for food instead of just flowers. Im putting onions around my knockouts. hopefully it will add food as well as deter the japanese beetles. Ive added more garlic, more herbs and Im also planting other yards I have for BEd and Breakfast area. We cant get truckloads of compost til may 3rd so Im using cardboard and straw until then as a mulch and help to soil. Where I had straw last fall, it sprouted everywhere. I let it get tall enough to pull, because the straw on this clay soil kept soil moist it pulled out with no effort at all. I just layed the pulled hay sprouts as a green mulch. Using what I have to mulch until I can get truck loads. Im pulling weeds and leaving them on top to breakdown and mulch.
I have found that when I first plant onions sets that the night crawlers will push up and out the sets until they are rooted. Little frustrating but the worms are so good for the soil. Also I am following the potatoes you started and how everything in the high tunnel does. I look forward to each and every one of your videos. Great work your doing.
I'm soooo excited to see you doing this! I did the same thing over the weekend with my granddaughters help. It's an experiment for me too. Fingers crossed that it works for both of us!
Great job, we do this on our allotment. We have seeds in our greenhouse growing well. Thanks for sharing 👍😎
Thank you for all you share. 💙
Another fabulous video thanks. My mind is bursting with ideas gleaned from your practical information.
Absolutely without a doubt have been more serious this year than ever. Although I have been growing up a garden for over 10 years now but I'm sure this is a crucial time for everyone to get seriously involved with growing them own food it is well worth the effort. Thank you for sharing your story. God bless stay safe much respect for you ,bye for now..lol
I am glad to see you post a video showing that not everything is always perfect in the garden. So many think it is such a great mystery or difficult. I tell people to just do it. i am glad to see that is your message today.
I’ve been watching your videos for three days and I think they are terrific and I do hope you keep them coming
Thank you so much for continuing to teach people what works to grow food in different conditions. People are gaining knowledge and support trying to feed their families. I really enjoy the q and A videos as I can imagine you are flooded with question daily. You are doing Gods'work
We used to plant a 3' wide row. They were about 5" apart. So you ended up with 5 or 6 rows in a 3' wide row. We did like 1300 onions that way.
I just needed to add ... God Bless you and your family in all you endeavor to do. Stay safe and stay healthy... Thanks again!!
Love you guys, started watching Kevin’s bread recipes, now I have found your videos and just love you.
We moved from Florida to Western New York in early 2019. Due to the move we weren’t able to garden last year, but this year I have all my starts going well. We can’t direct sow anything in the ground until the middle of May. We are ready and chomping at the bit to plant!
God Bless you and your Family, thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us. ♥️🙏😎🐣🌷🐝
Good morning Kevin and Sarah, great video today. Thanks for sharing with us, I hope you have a great harvest. Stay safe and keep up the good work and videos. Fred.
Happily, I ordered my seeds weeks before all this started. I'm in Lansing, Michigan (so city garden) and have started some seeds inside. Happy Homesteading!
Hey you guys! Got my New Pioneer magazine yesterday and you all were featured. I enjoyed the article and your story very much. God bless.
I am planting as much as possible. I now have the woven ground cover, cattle panel walls and trellises, grow bags and I am watching and rewatching your videos. Thanks for all the great information.
Two years ago I thought it would be fun and educational to try home canning and I gradually picked up the jars and equipment at thrift shops or when they were on sale. I thought I'd make pickles because that looked easiest but found that I am no cucumber farmer! In two years I think I grew four cucumbers! This winter I saw Sarah's tomato canning video and I'm hoping to have better luck with tomatoes. I even found that crank operated tomato strainer that Sarah uses on sale! I don't have a lot of bed space as I'm more of a perennial flower gardener, but I'm growing twelve heirloom plants from seed. Half of them have sprouted under the grow light so far. I also sowed four types of lettuce seed outside last weekend. It's not really that I am worried about a food shortage as much as that I have an interest in tradition. I've also tried quilting and sewing. I've learned that I don't particularly like those activities but I did get an appreciation for the amount of work and skill they require. I enjoy your enthusiasm and learn a lot from your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Kim, our township started a senior service program 5 years ago & we give a free lunch every Wed. for 60 years old senior, we also added a quilting group (20 people) that meet Thur. from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. You maybe could start a group that would be more fun????
You probably have better luck growing disease resistant varieties . Planting dates are important too.
Love watching your videos. We've definitely gotten into gardening more this year. Container planting everywhere possible. You two are so encouraging! Love it. God bless you to overflowing!
Great vid guys glad to see how to cut holes in weed fabric ordered mine can’t wait to start all my above ground beds
Love your videos. I learn a lot from you. Thanks for sharing.
Hey we planted onion in the WWF too this year! May we all have success ❤
Thank you for the wonderful videos, instruction and recipes! Y’all are awesome!
I've been following your blog for years I respect your work ethic
I am so.glad that I started following you 2 years ago. I wasn't sure how to grow a garden. Thanks to you sharing your ups and downs I am learning a great deal. Our garden was pretty well a success in 2020. I've learned how to make tomato sauce, salsa, pizza sauce from the tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers we grew. I also planted onions, collards, mustards, green beans and okra.
Most of our garden vegetables were put in the freezer. This year I am crop rotating and adding cow peas and turnips. We are using the woven fabric as well and it definitely helped me keep down the weeds.
You both are terrific and I thank you for sharing your experiences to help my family learn to survive in these times. 😊
Blessings to you and your family.
Keep the good stuff coming thanks
Definitely expanding my garden and I purchased a small greenhouse also. Like everyone, trying to grow more of my own veggies. Can't raise my own meat living in town, but can work on the fresh veggies. Keep on teaching us. I watch every video for the last 14 months. God bless.
I start my Onion seeds in mid January in a dish pan I drilled holes in the bottom. I put seeds very thick and they will be the perfect size to plant right around this time of year. I also doubled the size of my growing area to increase my yields and grow new things. Love your videos.
We have been growing our own food for many years. We can and freeze our food. We are trying the woven weed fabric from Growers Solution for the first time. I hope we have success like you. I'm excited to see how your onion garden does. We already planted ours. I'm still learning every year better ways to garden from others like yourselves. You know the saying, your never to old to learn. I'm learning so much from the two of you. Thank you for all that you do!
So glad u r here in Missouri.
Good morning. Thank you for sharing & teaching us. Great video. Stay safe. God bless
Happy plantng
S and K: you have the best instructional channel of all. You gave me the confidence to start canning. I learned how to bake bread from you. Because of you I used the black plastic in my garden last year and for the first year, I did not have to spend hours all summer fighting weeds. Even noticed this spring that weeds are not returning to the garden space like they usually do every year.
We have a small homestead farm in Costa Rica. We grow a lot of fruits and some vegetables. Where we live we have a lot of rain. We have to use small greenhouse to grow vegetables. We found that kale and tomatoes do well in the greenhouse. Our fruit is all tropical. I also grow Moringa trees for the leaves which we dry and crush. Moringa is a super food. I like all your tips and will use some of them on my farm.
We have added 2 huge raised beds to our 3 that we have already. We are planting with more of a purpose to can and freeze. I have been watching the canning videos and getting jars when I can. I have a little over a 100 I think that should get me started this year. Thank you so much for all your hard work. God bless
We've been gardening for 30 years and am just now getting ready to try the ground cover for the first time! Enjoying your videos in Nebraska!
I am planning on doing the same thing this year with onions and garlic. I started using woven ground cover a couple years ago, after watching one if your videos. Keep up the good work. I also ordered one of those mini garden augers for the drill, can't wait t I'll use it.
augers.. i know right... me too
We have increased the size of some of our in ground gardens added a few more and have many containers as well. Our raised beds are straight square foot gardens this year. It’s going fairly well. Some of the seeds we purchased didn’t germinate and that wasted valuable time. Our compost is a precious commodity from the fall and winter. We’ve just finished using it all and I’m so thankful we were able to fortify it with chicken, duck and rabbit manure that we traded plants to get. A new pile is already begun and we have our own rabbits now. Thankfully we also had purchased additional drip irrigation supplies before lockdown started. We have way too many fruit trees, berries, grapes, and garden beds to hand water!
We’ll see what harvest looks like but I’m feeling good about things so far.
This is my first year. I feel so much more pressure to succeed than I did before the virus. I expected some level of failure for a first year, but now I am being even more diligent about doing things in such a way as to have a majority of success.
Paulla Wells remember to have fun! And as my gardening class teacher used to say, “ Your growing season will be chock full of teachable moments!”. I keep a casual notebook of gardening: beginning, middle, and end of the season. I jot down what I did/what worked/what didn’t. I find it so helpful to review from year to year. Good luck, and have a blast!
@@ramonasurprenant2122 - Thank you so much for that advice! I have a notebook ready to go, but keep forgetting to write in it. I will do that now. Even the smallest piece of advice can make all the difference! 💖
The most valuable tip I got from your channel is the woven ground cover -- I got some last year and picking beans, raising tomatoes, etc was so much easier without all those WEEDS. I was amazed at how much easier it made gardening. Thank you.
It is snowing today where I live. Second snow this week, but not a lot. My last frost is said to be mid May, but whst I have started is doing well. Thanks for all the tips and tricks you share with us. They are much appreciated.
I planted onions for the first time and I made sure to put the root end down. But, I didn't know to leave the tips uncovered. But they have come up! Thanks for the lesson!
My biggest change is trying to get sourdough starter going. Flour and yeast are difficult to get, and uve never made homemade bread. But, I'm hoping I can get this going and grab flour when it's available....no yeast needed. 😊
I’ll be staying tuned in to see your work come to fruition...
I am with you guys. I am all about food production right now. Partly because I have nothing else that I can do but I have quit my job and am enjoying just staying home and working on things that I couldn't get to before. Still really wishing that I could have someone here at least once in a while to help me with some things but I am managing to get a little bit further every year by myself. So very happy to say that a lot of my perennials that I started in previous years are beginning to take off
I love the turkey gobbles in the background!
That certainly is a holy raised bed :-D I doubt I can ever have too many onions
Nice seeing you. I love onions. I am growing some now. I love to know things about the garden. Take care
I have a container gardening area that I enjoy growing things in. Each year, however, the weeds would get very high around my containers making it difficult to tend my garden. Because of you, I ordered some of the woven weed barrier. It should be here in a few days. I’m so excited to put it down and put my containers on top of it! I am retired and gardening is my therapy. I’ve learned a lot from you and other RUclipsrs. Hopefully, I’ll be able to enjoy some garden vegetables this year. Love you guys!! ❤️❤️❤️
We are using woven fabric for the first time this year. This is my second year GARDENING. I appreciate your videos they're helping me tremendously. God bless you both...and your family!
It's Is A Job That Keeps All In The Homestead Thinking 24/7 On How To Improve Their Farm. But The Outcome Is Outstanding.
We did great growing onions with the woven weed fabric last year. Hope you have great success with yours this year. I am envious of you getting yours in now. We have 6 inches of snow today. And I will not get to plant my onions til mid May! Continued success in your homesteading.
Great job yall!
I ordered some of the woven fabric as you have suggested and I cannot wait to get out there are get everything started. Weather here in southeast MI has been awful. The last 2 days it has been snowing, and the temps are not looking good for planting anytime in the near future. I am going to have to transplant some of my starters pretty soon. I was one of the lucky few that started ordering some of my seeds, earlier before all of this shelter in place started. Here in MI our governor has closed all home improvement (lumber, paint, and flooring) and also the gardening centers at ALL stores. For me this has been a serious wake up call, and I have promised myself to ALWAYS be ahead of the plans. I hope y'all are staying safe! Thanks for brighting up my morning!
Still recovering from this illness so to say I'm a little weak is unstated and the moment I bend I feel like I'm falling over . I have my onions to plant yellow and reds all my onions I've grown from seed I started them in February I haven't had any success with sets
In the past many have just bolted but I wish you all the very best .
Far be it from me to even try to give advise but I would be careful about growing in close proximity to rotting wood as wood rots it pulls the nitrogen from around to complete the process .
Blessings to you.
I hope you are better soon. And I hope you have someone to help you while your sick. *hugs*
Thank you .
I planted about 108 onion sets last week, I'm already seeing some green tops! Do excited!
We will be using the ground cover for the first time. We have garden all of our lives but at our age had stopped for a couple of years due to health issues but after watching you we decided to try it again using ground cover and doing more organic.
We are doing our best too. It is much harder to do when you work 6 days a week. At this time I surely am not complaining about working . Just doing our best . But I love your concept of everything you do is “ work smarter , Not harder “ thank you again . Stay safe and god bless 🙏😊
Great video. Love watching you all. Moved up to 23 raised beds this year, so lots of veg for this house this year. Plus I grow year round here near Houston.
Yup! Planting as much as we can. Stay safe.
I had two gardens. I now have 7 total. 12 chickens about 5 weeks old. 15 fruit trees. All this since late Feb. It was planned/dreamt of... I always wanted too- the virus just hurried me up. I ordered the weed cloth to use at the bottom of a raised bed but when I watched your vid about it well, it's going on top. I'm a fan now. Thanks for all the help. Take care, Tom.
Just enjoy watching you guys working together, onions don't grow to well in my red dirt, we haven't planted anything yet my trust has been in the heavenly Father. Soon as health allows garden will go in.🙏
I've finally started making use of my mini farm. I'm starting with a 30 x 30 garden. It's my first year ever trying woven fabric, so it will be interesting to see how it all works out. Best of luck with the onions
Last year we planted a beautiful prayer garden in half of our back yard. This year we are looking to add to the other half of the yard with two raised beds and a two foot area along our back fence all devoted to food. This has really made us think about our own food production.