Why do YOU dehydrate or can or ferment or preserve your food? Don't forget the GreenStalk Sale ends Monday, May 15, 2023. Use code PANTRY10 with this link: lddy.no/1fw97
When I first started i literally knew nothing! Hence my garden looked pitiful and I got discouraged, then I lost my income and I rolled up my sleeves and told myself this isn’t a part time some time job! It’s my ability to put food on the table so when one crop fails grow another! Don’t give up ! Learn from each fail! Can up what your able to harvest and dehydrate! Celebrate each harvest thank the Lord for by his hands we are fed! This is my 3rd season and I have learned so much! And the savings I help my husband with, it took me 9 months at 60 to get hired, I thank the lord daily as never would I have thought working on road construction would be the job for me but the Lord knows us better than we know ourselves. Thank you so much for your vids your help to all us learning is so appreciated
You can put some mint in a small pan of water on your stove and steep it, turn to low and just let it cook add cool water when needed to keep from burning the pot, it makes your house smell awesome, you can do the same with Cinnamon sticks and sliced lemons.
Darcy, always so helpful! I turn to your channel several times a month for ideas and problem solving. You’re a treasure! I, too, have been ambivalent about gardening and bail when it’s hard, but the Greenstalks are reinvigorating my gardening enthusiasm.
You are so encouraging !! I have a garden (3 years of learning) most of the time we just eat what we grow. This year I am hoping for a larger harvest and I just ordered a dehydrator!! I have never ever canned, I don't have a freezer. To hear you talk of the many benefits and to show me the way is so helpful. I am so glad I just found you!!
Darcy! Your GreenStalks look amazing! Loved seeing you and dad and your rekindled go at gardening. You can't beat the easy set up, maintenance and ease on your body from a GreenStalk. So many of your herbs are cut and come again so you're really going to have so much put away for later in the year :)
Thanks, Cassandra! We end up losing a lot of our herbs once the hot weather hits in Texas, but the tomatoes and peppers should start popping at any minute!!
WoW! Beautiful parsley Darcy. I pray that you enjoy every minute with your Dad. Even when you are tired and short tempered. It is very lonely and that empty place is always there when they are gone. A great legacy for him to be patient enough to keep you moving forward with that great looking garden♥
The best gardening I have done was when Daddy and I did it together. He taught me so much about "southern" gardening that his parents taught him. I wouldn't trade that time now for anything and I can grow you some of the best Alabama tomatoes, squash, zucchini, peppers, okra, cucumbers, peas and Butterbean. Stay the course, Darcy, and enjoy this time with your Dad.
I grow most all I can , dehidrate, ferment, freeze. I grew up doing it and living a sustainable and cheaper life is what I have always did. Herbs are a must , I hang most of mine. Love your channel
Gardening is challenging in Texas, for sure, because of the multitude of bugs, the heat and humidity, and diseases. I'm glad you're finding some joy in it by gardening with your dad. You are blessed to have him there.
I have a huge jar of green stalk power powder that l make mostly from greens that most people throw away. Like: green ends from Strawberries ( if there is still a bit strawberry on there that is just fine), hulks from peas, greens from carrots, the stem and whatever l cut out of my peppers, leaves from cabbage and Broccoli, sorted out stems and so on. After drying and grinding they all go in one jar and l add more as l get them .No strong dominant tasting herbs though.
Darcy, I can’t thank you enough for introducing me to Greenstalk. I have 3 total and I have ll sorts of goodies in them, including catnip. Unfortunately my kitties don’t like it fresh, but they roll around in it when I give it to them dry. I will be harvesting peppermint, spearmint and basil this weekend.
YAY! I'm so glad! We're about to pull all of the lettuce and plant something - hoping it's not too late, but wanting to experiment now that those pockets have given their all the last couple of months. It's funny what you say about the catnip mine prefer it fresh over dried! They are here waiting anytime I go out back hoping that I'll bring cuttings inside for them!
I enjoyed watching you and your dad plant your greenstalks. I have since gotten my second one (the first one is doing amazing), that I've planted in seeds (kale, spinach, radishes, carrots, etc). I love growing tea herbs (mint, lemon balm, chamomile), they are doing so well this year.
We added greenstalks to the garden this year because of disabilities. I love gardening and fresh food and found it difficult to totally give it up. I've grown and dehydrated most of my own herbs for many years.
hi darcy 🤗 gardening is definitely a lot of work. so glad your dad encouraged you to keep growing. im still hoping to get a freeze dryer, but in the meantime, i use my old dehydrator. tfs
Don't have one, sorry. Strawberries on the top of the left one, herbs on the next two, beans and tomatoes. Lettuce on top 2 rows of right one and then herbs on the rest.
I to am ready to give up, I put my sprouts outside for the first time the other day and the squirrels got my brussel sprouts, they were not outside even 4 hours and they decimated them. I am so fed up with these squirrels. They do so much damage and have cost me thousands of dollars. On a brighter note my squash, peas and cucumber survived the squirrels so far.
Great job, Darcy! I’ve got 2 Greenstalks, too but growing in the desert SW (zone 8a) is much harder than in my old home in N CA (9b!l) What zone are you in?
@@ThePurposefulPantry well dang, girl….more power to you! 😄. I’m great growing winter greens but the desert sun and it’s pests (squash bugs, grasshoppers) are just too much for me to fight. I *know* my limits! 🤣🤣
@Amoreena51 I was a Vermont gardener for years and it was too easy, toss the seeds and everything just grew, no pests. I moved to Florida zone 10a over 20 years ago and tried umpteen times to garden and gave up. Everything just died or were consumed by bugs. Just started back last year thanks to watching youtube gardeners in my area and have learned the time of year and the varieties you choose are VERY different, as well as pest control. I just ordered my 4th greenstalk yesterday, love them! As I build up my lasagna garden bed for my trellising plants like cucumbers, peas and tomatoes, although i do use my greenstalks for some of them now, i know i can have a larger healthier harvest with better airflow and more spacing. I hope that helps encourage you to keep trying. The health benefits of homegrown food and the exercise doing is are worth it. For me, its also a mental relaxation away from ‘the have to get done chores and corporate work’ to something I just enjoy doing.
Soon we'll hit the hot season where growing anything will be hard. Greens will die off pretty quickly here, and even tomatoes/peppers will go dormant, but it won't begin to happen until late June unless we get a freakish hot spike.
Not everything, because I've got enough experience with drying that I know if it's dry or not - and I tend to dry longer than necessary to accomplish the same thing. But yes, for any powders that need it, I condition them after.
I have to laugh my rear-end off everytime I here people say "take some to your elderly neighbors" my neighbors are hopeless frozen/take out food people. I fear box food is beyond most of them... I'm a 72 year old with a job, a garden, 2busy pressure canners, a busy dehydrator and a maker of scratch food where the leftovers become freezer meals for the future. I whole heartedly believe that those who cannot/will not scratch cook or garden or set aside for a future WithOut conveniences are doomed to be the end of us all.
Dana, I'm glad that you have the ability to do that. My elderly neighbor who only has one child who comes to visit on occasion and is in need of occasional care because he can't get out and do all the things any longer, but can still live on his own appreciates a little extra attention from someone so that he doesn't feel alone. There have been times when he's needed some help when he's sick - compassion is a great thing.
I have a question..I really need answer before I mess up. I canned some chicken drumsticks but I realized I didn't add any liquid. It is sealed but can I open it and recan? All of the seasoning is at the bottom. Someone please answer. I waterbath canned them. About 10 quarts jars
Any meat has to be pressure canned because it is a low acid food. If you eat water bathed meat, you stand a good chance of possibly killing yourself or whoever eats it.
The green stalk does NOT work. I broke mine up and it is all spread out along the house now to grow in. And, in the greenhouse, the sun actually distorts the plastic.
So....all the food we're growing on it is a myth? I'm sorry that you had an issue with yours, but ours is performing just fine, thanks - and it's year two for one of them.
@@ThePurposefulPantry I barely got a strawberry and the majority of the strawberry plants died. I had taken out my in ground strawberry plants because the plot was old. I am very sorry that I did that and am reestablishing my original plan. "AND, I followed the directions to the T as to how to put the dirt in and YES - another year or so and your warping of the plastic will cause a real mess. I love your channel and know that ut cut your money severely - sometimes, just best to not sell things. Another person had all of the ebikes recalled that they were selling. So, just protect yourself. IF you have food this year, it is probably because of your dad's love for gardening and his great experience. Enjoy it while you have it.
Again, Martha - your experience doesn't negate what thousands of others are able to do with it. It's not for everyone, and like all tools, sometimes it just doesn't work for someone. And thanks, but it's not 100% my Dad. I work hard out there, too. And please don't assume anything about my money or my business, thanks.
Why do YOU dehydrate or can or ferment or preserve your food? Don't forget the GreenStalk Sale ends Monday, May 15, 2023. Use code PANTRY10 with this link: lddy.no/1fw97
When I first started i literally knew nothing! Hence my garden looked pitiful and I got discouraged, then I lost my income and I rolled up my sleeves and told myself this isn’t a part time some time job! It’s my ability to put food on the table so when one crop fails grow another! Don’t give up ! Learn from each fail! Can up what your able to harvest and dehydrate! Celebrate each harvest thank the Lord for by his hands we are fed! This is my 3rd season and I have learned so much! And the savings I help my husband with, it took me 9 months at 60 to get hired, I thank the lord daily as never would I have thought working on road construction would be the job for me but the Lord knows us better than we know ourselves. Thank you so much for your vids your help to all us learning is so appreciated
You can put some mint in a small pan of water on your stove and steep it, turn to low and just let it cook add cool water when needed to keep from burning the pot, it makes your house smell awesome, you can do the same with Cinnamon sticks and sliced lemons.
Mrs Darcy for the win!
Darcy, always so helpful! I turn to your channel several times a month for ideas and problem solving. You’re a treasure! I, too, have been ambivalent about gardening and bail when it’s hard, but the Greenstalks are reinvigorating my gardening enthusiasm.
Fell in love with that standing herb garden 🪴 ❤️
I'm so glad you're enjoying life with your father. My dad moved in with me too...best time ever! I'm still learning from you, thanks!. Keep it up.
You are so encouraging !! I have a garden (3 years of learning) most of the time we just eat what we grow. This year I am hoping for a larger harvest and I just ordered a dehydrator!! I have never ever canned, I don't have a freezer. To hear you talk of the many benefits and to show me the way is so helpful. I am so glad I just found you!!
Darcy! Your GreenStalks look amazing! Loved seeing you and dad and your rekindled go at gardening. You can't beat the easy set up, maintenance and ease on your body from a GreenStalk. So many of your herbs are cut and come again so you're really going to have so much put away for later in the year :)
Thanks, Cassandra! We end up losing a lot of our herbs once the hot weather hits in Texas, but the tomatoes and peppers should start popping at any minute!!
WoW! Beautiful parsley Darcy. I pray that you enjoy every minute with your Dad. Even when you are tired and short tempered. It is very lonely and that empty place is always there when they are gone. A great legacy for him to be patient enough to keep you moving forward with that great looking garden♥
We are loving this time!!!
The best gardening I have done was when Daddy and I did it together. He taught me so much about "southern" gardening that his parents taught him. I wouldn't trade that time now for anything and I can grow you some of the best Alabama tomatoes, squash, zucchini, peppers, okra, cucumbers, peas and Butterbean. Stay the course, Darcy, and enjoy this time with your Dad.
I will, thanks!
Green stalks do take a learning curve but I love mine
I grow most all I can , dehidrate, ferment, freeze. I grew up doing it and living a sustainable and cheaper life is what I have always did. Herbs are a must , I hang most of mine. Love your channel
Happy Mother's Day, and I hope you have a great day as well!
Thanks, you, too!
You're doing great! Happy Mother's Day!
Your plants look beautiful! I love it
Gardening is challenging in Texas, for sure, because of the multitude of bugs, the heat and humidity, and diseases. I'm glad you're finding some joy in it by gardening with your dad. You are blessed to have him there.
I am!! I'm loving it!
I have a huge jar of green stalk power powder that l make mostly from greens that most people throw away. Like: green ends from Strawberries ( if there is still a bit strawberry on there that is just fine), hulks from peas, greens from carrots, the stem and whatever l cut out of my peppers, leaves from cabbage and Broccoli, sorted out stems and so on. After drying and grinding they all go in one jar and l add more as l get them .No strong dominant tasting herbs though.
Yep - we do, too!
You are amazing thank you your vegetables look beautiful you are so gifted
Thank you so much
Loved this video. Very encouraging
Darcy, I can’t thank you enough for introducing me to Greenstalk. I have 3 total and I have ll sorts of goodies in them, including catnip. Unfortunately my kitties don’t like it fresh, but they roll around in it when I give it to them dry. I will be harvesting peppermint, spearmint and basil this weekend.
YAY! I'm so glad! We're about to pull all of the lettuce and plant something - hoping it's not too late, but wanting to experiment now that those pockets have given their all the last couple of months. It's funny what you say about the catnip mine prefer it fresh over dried! They are here waiting anytime I go out back hoping that I'll bring cuttings inside for them!
Always nice to have a gardening buddy. I'm jealous.
I enjoyed watching you and your dad plant your greenstalks. I have since gotten my second one (the first one is doing amazing), that I've planted in seeds (kale, spinach, radishes, carrots, etc). I love growing tea herbs (mint, lemon balm, chamomile), they are doing so well this year.
I'm glad!
Absolutely love your videos, especially lately. You are so helpful.and inspiring. Love the idea of Mrs. Darcy.
Aww, thanks, Jennifer! I appreciate that!!
Your garden is looking amazing Darcy. I felt the same way as the rain and cold was really getting me down but now the sun is out the garden is growing
Woohoo!
The green stalks look fantastic!
Great tips. New friend here .
The Greenstalk planters are great!
This is my first year with a green stalk and I wish I started using one years ago. I can see more in my future.
We have one sitting on the deck ready to be built :D and I have a feeling we'll buy one more this weekend just to make the area symmetrical :D
We added greenstalks to the garden this year because of disabilities. I love gardening and fresh food and found it difficult to totally give it up. I've grown and dehydrated most of my own herbs for many years.
Yep - that's why we ended up doing it, too - it's helped Dad a lot.
and I have to admit, me, too! :D :D :D I cut out the sore back clip when I was doing the lower troughs lol
hi darcy 🤗
gardening is definitely a lot of work. so glad your dad encouraged you to keep growing.
im still hoping to get a freeze dryer, but in the meantime, i use my old dehydrator. tfs
Dehydrators are awesome!!!
Your towers are beautiful! Can your share your planting diagram?
Don't have one, sorry. Strawberries on the top of the left one, herbs on the next two, beans and tomatoes. Lettuce on top 2 rows of right one and then herbs on the rest.
Great harvest. Here in Oklahoma ours isn’t doing that well.
You guys have had some wicked weather lately! We've been spared most of it this year. Just one small hail storm.
Wow. This is such an interesting video!
Thanks!
I’m growing dill, oregano, rosemary , basil and mint. I haven’t started drying yet. How do you make mint tea?
Throw my mint leaves into my iced in a tea ball, or into my hot tea. SOme people brew mint leaves alone for tea.
I to am ready to give up, I put my sprouts outside for the first time the other day and the squirrels got my brussel sprouts, they were not outside even 4 hours and they decimated them. I am so fed up with these squirrels. They do so much damage and have cost me thousands of dollars. On a brighter note my squash, peas and cucumber survived the squirrels so far.
I hate squirrels
Can you cage them so that squirrels can't get into them? Sorry!
Great job, Darcy! I’ve got 2 Greenstalks, too but growing in the desert SW (zone 8a) is much harder than in my old home in N CA (9b!l) What zone are you in?
8a
@@ThePurposefulPantry well dang, girl….more power to you! 😄. I’m great growing winter greens but the desert sun and it’s pests (squash bugs, grasshoppers) are just too much for me to fight. I *know* my limits! 🤣🤣
@Amoreena51 I was a Vermont gardener for years and it was too easy, toss the seeds and everything just grew, no pests. I moved to Florida zone 10a over 20 years ago and tried umpteen times to garden and gave up. Everything just died or were consumed by bugs. Just started back last year thanks to watching youtube gardeners in my area and have learned the time of year and the varieties you choose are VERY different, as well as pest control. I just ordered my 4th greenstalk yesterday, love them! As I build up my lasagna garden bed for my trellising plants like cucumbers, peas and tomatoes, although i do use my greenstalks for some of them now, i know i can have a larger healthier harvest with better airflow and more spacing. I hope that helps encourage you to keep trying. The health benefits of homegrown food and the exercise doing is are worth it. For me, its also a mental relaxation away from ‘the have to get done chores and corporate work’ to something I just enjoy doing.
Soon we'll hit the hot season where growing anything will be hard. Greens will die off pretty quickly here, and even tomatoes/peppers will go dormant, but it won't begin to happen until late June unless we get a freakish hot spike.
Great idea about the Mrs.Darcy (Mixing them).I recently tried dehydrating some herbs and they all dried except the thyme, even after 2-3 hrs longer.
It was likelly the stems that didn't dry, not the leaves. You can always pull them off and put a mesh over the top so they don't fly away.
@@ThePurposefulPantry thank you, I am new at this.
Do you condition first before making the powders? Do you condition the powders?
Not everything, because I've got enough experience with drying that I know if it's dry or not - and I tend to dry longer than necessary to accomplish the same thing. But yes, for any powders that need it, I condition them after.
My herbs get decimated by bugs every year.
I dehydrated some fruit & made powder they turned out lumpy. How do I stop the lumpiness plz?
www.thepurposefulpantry.com/keep-dehydrated-powders-dry/
I have to laugh my rear-end off everytime I here people say "take some to your elderly neighbors" my neighbors are hopeless frozen/take out food people. I fear box food is beyond most of them... I'm a 72 year old with a job, a garden, 2busy pressure canners, a busy dehydrator and a maker of scratch food where the leftovers become freezer meals for the future. I whole heartedly believe that those who cannot/will not scratch cook or garden or set aside for a future WithOut conveniences are doomed to be the end of us all.
Dana, I'm glad that you have the ability to do that. My elderly neighbor who only has one child who comes to visit on occasion and is in need of occasional care because he can't get out and do all the things any longer, but can still live on his own appreciates a little extra attention from someone so that he doesn't feel alone. There have been times when he's needed some help when he's sick - compassion is a great thing.
I have a question..I really need answer before I mess up. I canned some chicken drumsticks but I realized I didn't add any liquid. It is sealed but can I open it and recan? All of the seasoning is at the bottom. Someone please answer. I waterbath canned them. About 10 quarts jars
You need to throw it out. Chicken needs to be pressure canned, unfortunately.
Any meat has to be pressure canned because it is a low acid food. If you eat water bathed meat, you stand a good chance of possibly killing yourself or whoever eats it.
I watch other youtubers who waterbath. Let's say it was canned in a pressure canner. Can I open it and recan. Did I need to add liquid?
You're going to see a lot of youtubers do a lot of things that aren't safe.
@The Purposeful Pantry ok. So for the future is it possible to open and recan using a pressure canner?
The green stalk does NOT work. I broke mine up and it is all spread out along the house now to grow in. And, in the greenhouse, the sun actually distorts the plastic.
So....all the food we're growing on it is a myth? I'm sorry that you had an issue with yours, but ours is performing just fine, thanks - and it's year two for one of them.
@@ThePurposefulPantry I barely got a strawberry and the majority of the strawberry plants died. I had taken out my in ground strawberry plants because the plot was old. I am very sorry that I did that and am reestablishing my original plan. "AND, I followed the directions to the T as to how to put the dirt in and YES - another year or so and your warping of the plastic will cause a real mess.
I love your channel and know that ut cut your money severely - sometimes, just best to not sell things. Another person had all of the ebikes recalled that they were selling.
So, just protect yourself.
IF you have food this year, it is probably because of your dad's love for gardening and his great experience. Enjoy it while you have it.
Again, Martha - your experience doesn't negate what thousands of others are able to do with it. It's not for everyone, and like all tools, sometimes it just doesn't work for someone. And thanks, but it's not 100% my Dad. I work hard out there, too. And please don't assume anything about my money or my business, thanks.