4 months in our No-Dig Garden: Harvests, Asparagus, and More (Timelapse) - Free Range Homestead Ep26
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- In this video, we provide a 2-month update on our no-dig garden and showcase the latest harvests, including wild asparagus and radishes. We also share tips on separating and planting asparagus corms, using mini hot houses, and making fermented asparagus. Watch Troy demonstrate his handy wire tightening tool and learn how to thin carrot seedlings and sow buckwheat. Join us as we discuss pests in the garden and share a tour of our flourishing garden filled with homegrown salad greens.
Chapters:
00:00 - Building a no-dig garden
00:28 - Wild asparagus harvest
03:00 - Separating and planting asparagus corms
07:02 - Mini hot house
08:25 - Fermented asparagus
09:16 - Radish harvest, lettuce planting
10:20 - Troy's handy wire tightening tool
13:27 - Thinning carrot seedlings
14:46 - Buckwheat to sow
16:34 - Chickens, flying ants and a cuddly goat
20:40 - Spring rain
22:05 - Pests in the garden
29:05 - Home grown salad
31:05 - Garden tour & the end of Spring
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I think I am enjoying these homestead type videos as much or maybe even more than the sailing videos.
Glad you' re still with us after all this time
Love Pascey's new blue jumper.... We are still mourning her green one!
A cool tool for the wire tightening. Nicely done.
That’s awesome the goat wanted that fresh salad’s too.
Thank You for a great year, all the best for 2023....
Loved this videos format with the dates, it’s like a vlog cross
My dog really enjoyed watching this episode and so did I ☺️
Very high praise!
I can hardly remember the sailing, great job, very engaging.
You guys are doing such an amazing job, what a great place to be
Loved seeing the bees!
In the midst of a North American winter very jealous of your beautiful spring! Nice to get ideas for next year though.
Great veggie patch!!!
I am so Inspired. I've drawn out an planned my garden. For when I move..!! Thanks for sharing everything you do. I love to learn or have long forgotten information unused refreshed... I'm grateful for all I've learned from just your channel. Be it land or sea I've truly learned valuable information..!!
I've gotten a job on a TugBoat cooking an night crew an watch...!! It's a long time friend... With plenty of time to ponder .... An plan the next phase of my life . Take the lessons and advice to heart an action ..!! I just feel inspired!! Thanks again for sharing your lives with us grateful for you both!! ✌🏼💗😊🎄
Thanks, Donna
Kawana
Merry Christmas to you both from 🇨🇦. I see the white plastic bucket from the boat is a survivor!
When I first started following you for the sailing I’d no idea I’d end up browsing the lettuce patch … 😂 … but you make each vlog so beautifully, here I am - still committed 🎉😅 … a great year at the ranch, you two! Happy Christmas, looking forward to 2023! 🎄🎉🥂🤙🏽🇬🇧
Very beautiful🍀🌴🌸🌺
absolutely love the show, i know its not a show..its a thing of beauty really, i caught you late at the sailing and then we were farming..cool, i was thinking..im from an island community and understand you have to kill and grow..the tree cutting has been unbelievable 👏👏 the animal culling has been done with taste and honesty 👏👏 and i can practicly taste the hams. Thank you very much for showing us how it can be done x
We wish the trees had been planted more thoughtfully and could have stayed upright but we'll try and make the most of the growing space that has resulted. They were such a grave summer fire risk so close to the buildings.
I hope I didn't upset you with my last comment the two of you work so hard I worry about you both nothing intended I'll follow you guys no matter what you do you're very ingenious no matter what is thrown at you y'all figure it out low budget LOL I wish the best for both of you always👍🎀👀
Its pretty rare that we would get upset by a comment. Most people mean well.
Merry Christmas 🎅 NC 🇺🇸
So rewarding!
What a wonderful harvest! One rule to follow when setting mouse traps is to make sure you have gloves on. The gloves should be the ones like those used at a doctor's office. Use them once and throw them away. The mice have a very keen sense of smell and can smell the human scent left behind on a trap and will not enter it. Good luck!
Foxes have similar requirements. we boil our traps so as to leave nothing to chance.
You can't plant too much shard when you have chooks all excess goes straight to the chooks they love it.
The brassicas are the favorite of lots of bugs aren't you suppose to sprinkle them with Arsenate of lead followed by DDT (not serious people calm down) :)
Around here at times the asian supermarkets sell cheap shallots (on special because they are old and softish) I buy plenty then plant them they shoot grow divide and establish a bed for harvesting shallots later but in the meantime the shoots make the best chives for your salads sort of a cross between spring onions and chives really.
Good tactics!
Another great video thank you
Great video and as usual the music is really on point.
Great garden guys. I'm just getting into fermenting vegetables, love kimchi.
Hi from Tassie! We absolutely love your videos and everything you are doing!
I boil the Rainbow chart just a few minutes and put it in portions to the freezer. We ate a portion actually today with mashed potatoes . quite yummie. Greetings from Luxemburg, Europe!😊
Pascale! Carrot thinning :-) My Grandad used to mix his carrot seeds with his radish seeds and sprinkle in rows. Harvesting the radishes thins the growing carrots ;-) The crafty ol' bugger.
Genius.
As a long time gardener I would have dug and transplanted the asparagus crowns at the end of summer to let the crowns establish new root system over the fall and winter months. Asparagus and rhubarb are two of my favorite perennials in my garden. It is recommended that newly transplanted asparagus bed should not be harvested for the first two to three seasons to let the crowns develop. They are heavy feeders and do not like competition from weeds. I was raised in Washington State and would harvest the wild asparagus in fruit orchards, along irrigation ditch lines and river banks.
Thanks Robert. We didn't get the advice to plant in autumn but it makes good sense. We did however get told to leave it be for some years to establish. There is a nice layer of rotted manure under there but we do wonder how the morning shade under the nearby cork oak will affect growth. That oak certainly does drop some good mulch for us which the rhubarb and parsley seem to love.
Thanks guys. Very enjoyable.
I plant brassicas in February March and still have problems with cabbage moth. The best way I have discovered is to use a white horticultural insect netting over the plants if the moths are about. Spray as you did and cover at the same time to prevent reinfection. I only have a small area so can't afford the space for non productive plants.
We want to source some agricultural fleece for bugs and frost and will also try later planting.
Amazing garden...
Look nice to me good fix😊
Another great video. Wishing you both a very merry Cristmas.
It looks like you’re planting the lamingtons 😊 9:51
You guys are as amazing on land as you were at sea. Keep it up.
So cool !!
Wow. Garden is looking very successful. Great job you two. We have trouble getting corn started also but for us it is the crows that dig it up. This last planting season was accompanied with several of those small plastic windmills that my wife picked up at a local carnival and a couple of cat statues. We got lucky and it worked. I loved Troys wire clamp tool. I made a drawing of it and intend to make one of my own in the spring. Thanks for the idea. I enjoyed the video as always and will keep checking back for the next one. Take care both of you.
I wonder if a cat statue might work on mice?😃
@@FreeRangeLiving I doubt it. Mice are brazen little critters, but hey, if you have one it's worth a try.
Asparagus grows like some prankster is trying to convince you that this is how asparagus grows.
That fork handle was just fine, except Troy has bulked up that physique since the days when he just sat in the boat, sipping cocktails, watching sunsets and eating caviar. Obviously I might be giving the old days a rose-tinted hue, but that's how I remember them.
Watching sunsets and eating tequila oysters is my (hazy) recollection!
when sowing small seeds first mix with fine sand and you will find it spreads the seeds
The magic of time lapse! As always, I love the storytelling you two put together.
Hi Folks .. soil protection should be your first priority, mulch and more mulch.. Love your journey
Absolutely. That garden is cardboard, aged manure, 8 inches of straw and 4 of compost. Its a long way down to dirt! When we do have an exploratory dig, the fungal mycelium is a sight to behold. Very heartwarming.
Beautiful vegie gardens and animals, Troy included!!!
Well done, it is a great journey
@Pascal Here is an alternate method of preparing asparagus. Simply steam the tender portions at the top. Saute the woody portion with potato and onion. Add boiling hot water and continue cooking until the ingredients are tender, Then everything in the blender to make a puree. Then I run the puree through a Foley Food Mill to get out the fibrous part of the asparagus. I now have asparagus soup. If you have an abundance of asparagus, then make the soup from the whole asparagus.
Carrots: To avoid getting too many seeds too close, I cut the tops off of 14 soda bottles, leaving me with 14 funnels. I drilled 14 holes in a board to accept the funnels in 2 rows, The funnels are 7 inches apart from each other in both directions, I place the the board on the ground and drop 4 seeds in each funnel and press them down with a dibble stick that slides through the funnel holes. Now it is easy to thin the plants and 7 inches is a good distance for carrots and parsnips.
Food inflation is a problem here in the US too. The items that I am keenly aware of are eggs, lettuce (there is a shortage due to drought in California) and melons.
To keep the butterfly from lying there eggs and then turning into grubs, try planting Marigold flowers. They look good and the smell will keep the butterfly away, it works really well.
I agree and support your proposal. We use them to protect all lettuce and cabbage beds.
yeah coplanting is pretty key. onion and garlic coplanting are important as well.
We do have marigold but perhaps at the end of the bed is the wrong spot. We will try scattering them throughout.
I have heard of this ...always intended to try it ...according to many it really works also marigold flower petals can be added to the salads according to Ewell Gibbons author of wild edible books
We have gown brassicas organically on a commercial scale in your area for many years ,we just don’t bother in spring because the diamond back moth insect pressure is too much we start planting in December when they go away and finish planting in April with fortnightly plantings ,sometimes in April the moth appears for a short time then ( die-pel) dipel Bt, is quite effective sprayed every 4-5 days ; also Chinese greens tend to bolt before the longest day best after the solstice happy gardening
A relatively cheap solution to your bug problems is to use a high tunnel and raised beds. For the life of me I do not understand why people like to crawl around on their hands and knees in the dirt. I have 2-40 ft long High tunnels with beds raised 3 ft off the ground and I control every aspect of the soil conditions and temp with very simplistic means. All my crops are grown at about waist high. It Makes it so much easier on my body as I get older. I grow enough food to provide for my wife and I and our neighbors and friends. I do not have very many pest problems at all. I plant flowers and clover outside all around for aesthetics and for the bees. I use porch screen during the summer months and apply 6 mil plastic over that for the during the winter and am able to grow pretty much year round without breaking my back crawling around on the ground. You might try just one of these for yourselves. With your ingenuity you would have no problems with this I am sure. :)
Tunnels may be on the cards in the future when our situation is more certain.
GOOD STUFF! The radish go well in the brine along with the Asparagus (Thin sliced).CHEERS from Canadian Westcoast!
Onya guys as Peter suggested marigolds or a simple butterfly net or I should say white cabbage moth net anyway have a merry Xmas keep on keeping on 🌱
play some classical music at night by your garden. I have seen people do research on this and man does it really help. There was a gentleman in the 60's who played classical music for his corn. There was so much more yield and height to the corn and tomato plant than they have ever seen before.
What a delightful episode. Thanks!
Awesome
AWESOME SAUCE!!!!!! Your Garden is AMAZING!!!!! that gives me a goal to make mine Better this Spring GREAT JOB!!!! OH I get Critter that come up from UNDER the plants and take them out MOLES are MEAN on Gardens
We marvel at the all out war that Americans find themselves in each time they produce something edible. We have a few smart critters but you guys are beseiged!
Learn something every time I watch you folks. We have tons of wild asparagus in the area we live and the harvesting of it has, fortunately for us, become a less popular late spring afternoon family activity than in the past so there is much to be had. I have several local farmers that have given us permission to dig some from their ditch banks and make are own bed. Thank you.
I paint all my shovel handles. It seems to stop them weathering and later breaking. It’s also handy for identifying them.
I make a bar out of linseed oil and bees wax and rub some onto any wooden handles.
You have to reapply occasionally but its a quick and easy job.
When you plant your corn kernels in the ground, lay a sheet of fine bird netting on the ground till the seeds germinate and emerge. The little basket wont be able to burrow through that wire.
Companion planting helps with pest..cheers
If you do trap, I find it best to use whatever's being targeted as bait. Peanut butter is very tasty to many critters, but may attract someone new and not the one giving you the problem. I had a problem with a small rodent harvesting young green tomatoes this season. Cherry tomatoes made it, but mid size and larger were wiped out. I suspected voles or chipmunks, maybe squirrels, turns out it was mice. First time they were a problem for me. The live trap I used didn't catch a thing, but rat traps did. I only used young tomatoes as bait, to limit the bycatch.
we have since caught the mouse (spoiler) using popcorn kernels as you say.
Hey folk, Opienel make a curved mushroom knife i find really useful in the garden as you can hook out the leaf/stem/plany/ you want, its also good for light prunning and collecting grass seeds
Thanks very much. We do like Opinel quality.
Troy, you never cease to amaze me mate, a wire tightener, so simple even i could make one. Pascy you are someone that was sent from God to sooth the savage beast that was in Troy but never shown but i could see it. You are such a beautiful soul and i hold you high on my pedestal. To the both of you, Love ya work 😘
Hi from Florida. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thanks and Be Safe.
All that hard work is paying off! You two are swiftly becoming the ambassadors of self sustaining living. Loving every episode!
The effort you two put into these video shine's through! Such a positive space you have created in this crazy world, such a great escape. Thank's so much for sharing your story each week.
Thats what we hoped to build!
to help with transplant shock , leaf growth and soil conditioning , use a seaweed extract concertrate , it will help in all those plus help the microbes and bacteria in the soil to bond to your roots , they help feed you plants and get bigger yeilds .
One summer chore is a trip to the beach for just such treasure.
Yeah that can be good but the extract is easily applied while watering and is super concentrated diluted it can keep you garden active for over two months your greens wont yellow and will have much more flavour
Great video and garden,
Have a great day, it's still snowy here in Michigan
oh that recipe looks great I am going to try it. And you've inspired me to try potatoes in containers as our soil is really bad. Wonderful to watch your videos.
Here's a link to a free copy of a book from the 70's by Esther Dean which is very applicable to poor soil. She was one of the pioneers of what is now 'no-dig' and also lasagne gardens. I like her simple approach the most though. Hope it's helpful.
Troy
soilandhealth.org/copyrighted-book/esther-deans-gardening-book/
@@FreeRangeLiving Thanks so much
hay Pascale and Troy,
It's always nice to see a new video from you (!)
I just keep having the problem of thinking that you live in the southern hemisphere on our earth -- that means - you have summer right now, but here it's winter with -10°C hi.
I wish you both, and your families, a Merry Christmas and all the best
LG from Austria
Rest assured it is quite warm here thanks!
@@FreeRangeLiving 👍
'The Good Life' x
Its Bouquet!
thanks again for another lovely episode!! Love to see all your progress. Watching all the plants and animals thriving under your care is just as exciting as it was to see the dolphins swimming at your bow. Keep up the great work and have a peaceful and happy Christmas. Looking forward to 2023 adventures. Sending you lots of love from Texas.
as a Canadian it seems funny to see October and then spring in the same breath...yes I know the seasons are reversed,,,it just hit me as funny....you guys are fabulous on land or on the sea...it is a treat to spend an half hour with you
Hugely entertaining
Here in the southern USA, some country people (like me) drizzle hot bacon grease over spring lettuce. I don't know if that's done in OZ, but it should be...very tasty.
We definitely endorse such culinary sophistication!
Wow, that salad looked so yummy! Merry Christmas crew
Dipel is pronounced "Die-Pel", not Dipple!
Wonderfully productive garden, pasture and livestock.
Hello Troy & Pascale, you have both made excellent progress with your small farm, crops & animals. I look forward to more videos in the new year. Wishing you both a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. From the UK.
Hi guys from WA.. not sure where you are as yet. Just came across your channel (thanks RUclips) and found it most enjoyable listening to you both, so you now have another subscriber. I live in the South West and have just joined our community garden so I think any info you impart will come in very handy. Merry Christmas to you both and keep up the great work. If its a pleasure to watch you I can only imagine what its like to be you and live your life. Happy gardening 🙏🌻🌱🐔🤗...ps what a hoot..I just read you also live in the sth wst🥰....I wonder where? Although I respect your privacy and dont expect an answer to that question.
Welcome! We are in Manjimup.
A restaurant hack for cutting bacon, put the amount of bacon you want to cook as bits as slices, stacked, in the freezer and slice the stack frozen and simply toss the amount you want to cook in a pan. In fact you could pre-slice a bunch and portion it as frozen stacks ready for the pan in the freezer! My Mom has a recipe for a potato soup that calls for sliced up slices of bacon and I suggested this method to her and I now have the job! Also a good way to season a cast iron frying pan!
Hi guys have a great xmas , I have used a home made garlic spray on my vegs, and had results in keeping the bugs away
Doin well m8, really impressed, that 'fix' on the shovel handle seems pretty good. Have a vague memory of wire round shovel handles and stuff, in my Dad's Dad garden shed back in the early to mid 60s. Not as neat as Troy's fix though.
It's an old idea but with a tool that's easy to make. A better build uses a thread and cross piece to tension the wire a lot more but it's fiddly to whip up.
Nice! Mouse fritters are so good in a light batter with herbs and verblanc.
Serve with a little cheese
Awesome garden. I'm moving my garden to another location on my acreage. Hopefully it will be a good decision.
Good luck. Layering cardboard and compost has proven to be a fairly quick way of establishing a garden. Our biggest challenge is goat exclusion!
@@FreeRangeLiving Thanks for the tip, I'll have to give it a try. My biggest pest are the deer. Major pain, nearly need a super max prison fence to keep those things out. lol
I have been given a tip to keep butterflies out. So among my Cauli & Broccilli I have planted celery & that has worked for me. I've been told Mustard works to but I haven't tried that yet. i have tasted mustard leaves in a salad, Nice with a bit of spice to the flavor.
Bacteria spray is pronounced Di Pel. And try mixing up the vetoes. Lettuce, radish, tatsoi etc. Love your gardening!
Veggies.
Thanks for clearing that up.
I suppose no one told Pascale you can't put a square peg in a round hole. Ha ha.
Force makes anything possible.
when the radishes came on strong I started using them in cooking .. add small slices to fried potatoes and such ... also great in stir fry of course ... any where onions go, radishes can fit also
Great rule-of-thumb, thanks
Hi again folks. I have had problems with my brassica in the past during summer, until someone suggested just have them as your winter veg. And you've already alluded to establishing them in autumn. My problem was with white butterfly.
Btw, I picked up this idea from Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall of River Cottage fame, to lightly steam your asparagus spears, and while still hot and crunchy, dip them into a soft boiled egg. Add salt and white pepper to taste. Then you eat it. Warning.!!
It's very moreish. Thanks again for sharing your day to day experiences. Atb.
Dippy soldiers from asparagus sounds very indulgent!
That's BTK, Bacillus Thuringiensis Kurstaki killing those pesky caterpillars! Use BTI, Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis for mosquitoes and gnats! No chemicals, just bacteria! 👍 😁
Great info, thanks.
I just caught up on your last two videos and really love the content you are putting out. It is evident the patience you have curating the episodes including content over weeks and months. This makes it some enjoyable to watch, we get to see the progress and share the experience of your projects coming together.
The little teasers for the next episode etc are really well done and the music and editing are very subtle which is the best possible compliment :)
I have so much respect and admiration for what you guys are doing but also the attitude to how you approach life, very humble, thoughtful, curious and possitive while being grounded in reality.
Please don't take this the wrong way as you are both looking very good and healthy and the food you make looks wonderful. I am curious though if you have an idea how many calories you are eating and what foods provide the bulk of the energy?
I notice a lot of your meals are smaller portions than what i'd expect with the active lifestyle you lead and that you don't eat much grains or other carbohydrate rich foods.
Perhaps it is the animal fats that keep you more satiated and give you the fuel for working all day?
Thanks for joining in! Yes, we do try to get a lot of our food energy from animal fats and find that they sustain us for longer than when we had a higher carb component to our diet. We find we have less issues related to digestion as well. Trying to provide all of our own food lends itself to raising animals because it would be impossible to get the same range and density of nutrients just raising plants. I guess that is why livestock is so widespread among many cultures living in non-industrial societies.
a keto predominately carnivore diet has been proven to provide longer sustained optimal health and energy than any other diet.
Your raised garden beds are doing very well. Critters you will figure out. Ask neighbors for suggestions. Any plans to jar or sell produce, maybe a local stall? Or participate in a farmer's market - garden supplies, fruit, preserves, bottled product. Potential income to off set farm expenses. Or barter/trade with neighbors & friends.
The pig/goat/chucks pastures are progressing well.
Definitely jarring produce but mainly for us and family. Goat milk soap may be something we might sell in the future. They are very productive and even cheese making leaves a surplus.
Hey Pascal and Troy', what a great video, awesome find with the asparagus, veggie patch looks awesome, that simple tool is genius I'm going to show my husband..I have tiny black things all over my Egyptian walking onions would you know what they could be? Salad looks amazing you guys are a wealth of knowledge xx merry Christmas to you both xx
Do you think they could be mites? We're a bit new to this to be have a great depth of bug knowledge!
@@FreeRangeLiving I actually think they are black aphids apparently they love onions
Broad beans are great to add nitrogen to the soil!
Can you introduce hens to the vegie garden?
Yes they can scratch and disturb the beds, however they may go for the easier meal of caterpillars.
Worth a try?
Our chooks may be a bit too much for that little area. They do a wonderful job of clearing new ground!
When will we see you turn up at your first Farmer's Market? It seems like a logical progression. Loving the transition from killing fish. 😀
We gave a talk about fermentation at a recent agricultural show. Does that count?
@@FreeRangeLiving Why am I not surprised? Merry Christmas to you both. (and the goats, chooks, pigs and dog)
I'm curious about the animal life in your area especially the chirping birds. Do you have a lot of snake life, I mean, I see Troy stepping around old wood which looks like a great home for them. Maybe feature the local critters at some point?
While I'm asking I'm curious how you keep up with all of the video work - it must take hours and hours!
Thank you for what you do.
The videos take about 20 hours each but are very rewarding for us. Yes, there are quite a few snakes here though very few close encounters. They regard us with distaste!
Good job team. Don’s a legend too for imparting some knowledge. The fact he was wearing an Oasis T Shirt scores him extra points.
I’m curious how many hours a day you guys need to work to make this all work.
Happy Christmas 😎
Do you mean the filming or the 'farming'? Our whole day is pretty much used up doing both.
I’d think your ideal candidates for a greenhouse
I love asparagus but as I am on warfarin I have been advised not to eat too many vegetables high in vitamin K. I do lapse on occasions.
Im mind blown how some animal, In all of the area available has managed to find the buried corn kernels 🤯 sounds like an inside job🤔🤣
We need a trail cam!!!
You also need some ruhbarb in there ..
Got it! Doing really well with our parsley patch.
i found handles get brittle when dry. old engine oil where the force is greatest.
Uh, noticed the bunny droppings....I knew there was something I forgot to do before leaving Nebraska, go poach wild asparagus roots from down along the railroad tracks....Can you get a hold of Hemp Stalks(mulched up), if so would try as natural bug repellent in the garden and for next year grow a small stand that you can mulch for new crops???? Try Peppermint Oil Spray???? What, no Croutons????
Using hemp stalks is a new one on us as a deterrent. Very interesting.