Never thought of using fish emulsion such a good idea! I have learned so much from you! Just told my husband he needed to build me a sifter for my wheelbarrow. He said to tell Todd to stop making you things I need 🤣🤣🤣
I've been watching you for a little over a year now and continue to marvel at y our work ethic! Today I finally got it!!! You completely believe in the earth's ability to provide us with all we need as long as we are willing to put in the work, which nowadays means dedicating the time to do it after our "day jobs." That is something you really love and the learning never ends. Not many of us are that committed to the work.While I marvel at you, you marvel at nature.
Well thank you, I'd only rephrase one part. I completely believe in God's ability to bring forth the harvest but I have to work hard on my end to meet him halfway 😉
Beautiful compost, our chickens free range in a 1/2 acre area behind a poultry fence. I have started a couple of areas to layer grass clippings and wood chips for the chickens to compost. Maybe next year we will have some.
Brilliant compost! I've got chooks and turkeys making my compost, and I've just added ducks. Such a wonderful, easy way to keep pens from going stinky and soggy and build soil fertility at the same time.
@@1870s I love it so very much!💜 living in Michigan as well and it's great to find others with awesome gardens and helps me keep on track for what everything should look like or when I should plant such helpful advice 🤗
I love how methodical you are in your homesteading techniques. You obviously have tried and true methods and get amazing results. Love watching you use your square foot mould to plant seeds and looking forward to seeing your carrot sowing. I saw somewhere recently that if place planks of timber over your carrot seeds and keep the timber moist you can improve germination but I don't think that you need that tip. You grow amazing carrots!
Such great ideas for composting. After watching you, i turned the dirt with manure in my sheep pen. And I may put chickens back into my beds I have empty to prepare for my fall garden. This is my first year garden. Want to make sure I have good compost beds
That's how you keep in great shape. Gardening can be a good way too keep us going. Compost should always smell almost sweet. Keep your vids going. Thanks. Stay safe
I've never heard of a butter pea but I love, love, love butter beans. The compost looks fabulous Rachel, glad Todd was available to help pull it to your planting spot for you. I do remember when you cleaned the chicken coop out, they really do help produce such a nice rich soil. Hand clap to the chickens. Have a great day!
Butter peas - I have never grown them myself but when we lived in Houston I would see them fresh frozen (blanched first) or in their natural dried form. They are great either way for cooking. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do for you in your garden. I have them on my tentative seed list for next year's garden :)
Yes, I grow them. But I pick them green. I blanch and freeze them. They are xery prolific and do hold on the plant fairly well. Seee they almost all come at once. Yummm
That 1870's Homestead I shell them out. Bring water to a boil, dump in the shelled peas, bring the water back to a boil and wait 2 minutes. Then drain and cool in ice water. I like shelling peas and beans. Dixie butter peas are a fat tight pod of peas. Almost alway with 3 peas. They are hard to shell if picked too green. But you can tell which ones are ready. And sometimes I will just leave them till they are all ready then pull the plants. Easier on your back!
I have the same set up for sifting my compost. I use my trowel and it’s a lot easier to get it through the hardware cloth then just using my gloved hand. I also learned to put buckets or large flower pots in the wheelbarrow and then all I have to do is pick up the flower pot and dump it into the garden area.
I grew the Dixie Butter Peas from Hoss Tools this spring. They grew well and next year I'm going to use a short trellis because they sprawled a good deal. I planted a small crop for seed saving. I harvested the pods as they dried out. I found the dried pods had a tendency to mold a little if I left them on the plant too long. They shelled easily once completely dried.
I have a sifter like yours without the extensions, just a square. I put it over a large rubbermaid trash can designated just for my compost and shake it to sift. Helps not bending over the whole time. Although I can't move it after it's full. Lol I have to unload it into buckets or a wheelbarrow to move it. I love making compost!!
If you make a frame for your compost a little wider and longer than the one for your 'barrow; raise one end so it is about two feet or so off the ground, as you fork the compost onto the frame, it will rill down and save you a lot of time and work. We used to have an old single bed frame for this chore of sifting the compost.
Gosh everything still looks beautiful and green. Most of my garden is showing some heat stress here in Texas and a few plants gone and pulled out. We didn’t get any squash at all this year. :( your compost looks great. Will do carrots for the first time this fall. Tfs. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
Rachel, that vine I said was growing from my compost pile was actually coming from the neighbor behind me...under his solid (plastic) or whatever) fence. Turns out it is an 8 ball zucchini. Had to look it up to see how to use it. I will be harvesting it in a couple of days and there is a few more coming along. hahaha SURPRISE. Your garden is beautiful. Good luck with the fall garden. Have a Blessed day.
@@1870s They are a very pretty green with light stripes and according to the recipes I found they each make two servings (cut in half and stuffed) or they can be fried or steamed as any other summer squash.
U can take ur buckets that u mix fertilizer in and add a spicket to it. Super cheap and much faster. Set 1 bucket on top of the other and boom easy to drain off.
I wish we still had our chickens. We are rural suburbs so we are “forbidden” to have them 👎🏻😫 Great stuff, hard work! I feel your pain. Happy pea and carrots growing.
The wire mesh is called Hard Cloth Cover.please send the rain to NETexas. I’d REALLY appreciate it! have you ever just sprinkled the carrot seed and covered them with a board? It keeps them moist for sprouting. Then wine the carrots sprout,lift the board and grow as usual.
I'm LOVING that chicken composting idea it is so clever! Now wondering how I can do it in their yard - which is about the same size as your veggie garden space. Thoughts?
Yes I've seen where they use like a high tunnel to keep it contained in one area, you put all your input in there and the chickens have a fun place to play
Oh that is perfect, thank you! Giving them somewhere to play is exactly what we need as well because I’m going to be fencing off a part of their (large) space soon to plant pumpkins in. Now I won’t have to feel guilty!
I use pine shavings for my girls, and really need to figure out how they can build better compost for me! Maybe I'll put down a layer of old hay before I clean the coop in the spring? It's truly amn ongoing process, isn't it?!
Great video! I’m going to try making my first hot compost pile soon. I have three big piles of different organic ingredients. I’m hoping it works. I guess I’ve always been afraid to use the chicken litter straight for fear of burning the plants. Last year we tilled up and planted squashes in an area that had been our chicken yard for about 15 years. The seeds mostly didn’t germinate or died shortly thereafter. I read that phosphorus will build up in a chicken pen after a lot of years. So, I guess your idea of putting straw down and letting it compost and then harvesting it every year is a good one! Great job! I’ve never heard of butter peas, what will you do with them?
You definitely don't use the chicken litter straight away, clean out done in early March, and piled up multiple times to get nice and hot to speed the breakdown, now using in time for fall crops
Question: To be clear...are you creating this compost (or I mean the chickens creating it) by dumping the coop litter and the garden trimmings into the chicken yard? What else are you throwing into their yard?
I'm further north than you here in Michigan...do you think carrots are still possible for another planting? My first year really attempting a Fall garden...so I'm kinda nervous lol
I can't find any information on trimming back sweet potato vines because they Rob the tuber. I can find articles that say the opposite. Can you elaborate? I don't know which way to go 😊 thanks.
It's not so much about cutting them back as it is keeping the vines from rooting that will cause small tubers at the main vine. Another option is to continually toss them from keeping them from rooting. I just assume to harvest and preserve, they will continue to grow vigorously throughout the season, not farming the main vine output.
Go to chipdrop.com and get yourself at least one load of free wood chips. These wood chips come from tree Arbors in your area. Let your chickens work on them during the winter months plus let it age over the winter and spring you will have some decent wood chips too late down in your garden area you'll have to lay the wood chips out in the fall and winter for a decent first year I do not do that this year I put my wood chips out in the spring and my garden has suffered for it. The wood chips are a free source to you as a free mulch and great for your chickens to scratch and dig through in the winter months to keep them active oh, it will also help keep the ground dry in mud free. Especially if you layer nice and deep in the chicken run
Never thought of using fish emulsion such a good idea! I have learned so much from you! Just told my husband he needed to build me a sifter for my wheelbarrow. He said to tell Todd to stop making you things I need 🤣🤣🤣
Lol, he's good at coming up with homestead tools
Great idea letting the chickens doing the composting. I love that idea so much Great video
Love your dapple weenie. We had one just like it. He was a no touch but we loved him . He was the smartest dog I’ve ever seen .
Ours is a sweet little girl, her name is Mika
The hardest working woman in America 👍😊🌼
harldly, but thanks
@@1870s okay, okay. A little overstated but hard working for sure. I really enjoy your videos.
Your compost looks awesome! I saw your sweet potato video and loved your reaction during the harvest,Gardening is so wonderful.
I've been watching you for a little over a year now and continue to marvel at y our work ethic! Today I finally got it!!! You completely believe in the earth's ability to provide us with all we need as long as we are willing to put in the work, which nowadays means dedicating the time to do it after our "day jobs." That is something you really love and the learning never ends. Not many of us are that committed to the work.While I marvel at you, you marvel at nature.
Well thank you, I'd only rephrase one part. I completely believe in God's ability to bring forth the harvest but I have to work hard on my end to meet him halfway 😉
@@1870s I really appreciate what you just said!
Beautiful compost, our chickens free range in a 1/2 acre area behind a poultry fence. I have started a couple of areas to layer grass clippings and wood chips for the chickens to compost. Maybe next year we will have some.
Brilliant compost! I've got chooks and turkeys making my compost, and I've just added ducks. Such a wonderful, easy way to keep pens from going stinky and soggy and build soil fertility at the same time.
Sounds great!
Thanks for sharing. I love gardening so have to use containers.
So glad I watched! I'm cleaning my coop tomorrow! Get them boots back on you looked so cute!
I feel like you should be apart of the abundance plus! You give so much knowledge in an awesome way💜
Wow, thank you! So happy you enjoy our content ♥
@@1870s I love it so very much!💜 living in Michigan as well and it's great to find others with awesome gardens and helps me keep on track for what everything should look like or when I should plant such helpful advice 🤗
“A dangerous piece of glass, which I will put in my pocket!” Lololol
Thankfully I remembered to remove it before washing :)
Lol I was thinking the same thing...lol
I love how methodical you are in your homesteading techniques. You obviously have tried and true methods and get amazing results. Love watching you use your square foot mould to plant seeds and looking forward to seeing your carrot sowing. I saw somewhere recently that if place planks of timber over your carrot seeds and keep the timber moist you can improve germination but I don't think that you need that tip. You grow amazing carrots!
Video coming out today
Such great ideas for composting. After watching you, i turned the dirt with manure in my sheep pen. And I may put chickens back into my beds I have empty to prepare for my fall garden. This is my first year garden. Want to make sure I have good compost beds
That's how you keep in great shape. Gardening can be a good way too keep us going. Compost should always smell almost sweet. Keep your vids going. Thanks. Stay safe
Very true!
Great to spend the morning with you 8n garden before work. Thx!!!
Our pleasure!
I've never heard of a butter pea but I love, love, love butter beans. The compost looks fabulous Rachel, glad Todd was available to help pull it to your planting spot for you. I do remember when you cleaned the chicken coop out, they really do help produce such a nice rich soil. Hand clap to the chickens. Have a great day!
Thanks so much, have a blessed week
Wow! You always stay busy in the garden and it shows with the awesome results.
Take care and stay safe,
Rob
I sure do! This time of year I never have enough time to stay on top of it all
Butter peas - I have never grown them myself but when we lived in Houston I would see them fresh frozen (blanched first) or in their natural dried form. They are great either way for cooking. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do for you in your garden. I have them on my tentative seed list for next year's garden :)
Awesome thank you
Yes, I grow them. But I pick them green. I blanch and freeze them. They are xery prolific and do hold on the plant fairly well. Seee they almost all come at once. Yummm
Thank you, how do you use them blanched in their green pods?
That 1870's Homestead I shell them out. Bring water to a boil, dump in the shelled peas, bring the water back to a boil and wait 2 minutes. Then drain and cool in ice water. I like shelling peas and beans. Dixie butter peas are a fat tight pod of peas. Almost alway with 3 peas. They are hard to shell if picked too green. But you can tell which ones are ready. And sometimes I will just leave them till they are all ready then pull the plants. Easier on your back!
i love butter peas. i usually can mine. they are so good canned. enjoy your videos
I can’t even imagine how amazing your gardens must be. 🌹🌹
I have the same set up for sifting my compost. I use my trowel and it’s a lot easier to get it through the hardware cloth then just using my gloved hand. I also learned to put buckets or large flower pots in the wheelbarrow and then all I have to do is pick up the flower pot and dump it into the garden area.
Great tip!
Im soooo grateful I found your channel. You're videos are amazing and extremely helpful
I'm so grateful you are here and look forward to learn together
Beautiful compost there . Enjoyed watching 😊
Glad you enjoyed it! Happy Gardening.
We always picked the butter peas as a green shell bean and froze them.
Ok thank you, I think I'm going to let them dry on the plants and store as a dry bean
I grew the Dixie Butter Peas from Hoss Tools this spring. They grew well and next year I'm going to use a short trellis because they sprawled a good deal. I planted a small crop for seed saving. I harvested the pods as they dried out. I found the dried pods had a tendency to mold a little if I left them on the plant too long. They shelled easily once completely dried.
Oh good to know, I can't wait to try them. How did you eat them?
That 1870's Homestead I haven't prepared any yet. Probably prepare them like pinto beans pinto beans.
good luck on your fall plantings hope they do well
Thanks, you too!
I have a sifter like yours without the extensions, just a square. I put it over a large rubbermaid trash can designated just for my compost and shake it to sift. Helps not bending over the whole time. Although I can't move it after it's full. Lol
I have to unload it into buckets or a wheelbarrow to move it. I love making compost!!
Sounds great!
That’s a cool system
hi good job
If you make a frame for your compost a little wider and longer than the one for your 'barrow; raise one end so it is about two feet or so off the ground, as you fork the compost onto the frame, it will rill down and save you a lot of time and work. We used to have an old single bed frame for this chore of sifting the compost.
Gosh everything still looks beautiful and green. Most of my garden is showing some heat stress here in Texas and a few plants gone and pulled out. We didn’t get any squash at all this year. :( your compost looks great. Will do carrots for the first time this fall. Tfs. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
I can't imagine trying to grow in your conditions, best of luck on your fall garden
Rachel, that vine I said was growing from my compost pile was actually coming from the neighbor behind me...under his solid (plastic) or whatever) fence. Turns out it is an 8 ball zucchini. Had to look it up to see how to use it. I will be harvesting it in a couple of days and there is a few more coming along. hahaha SURPRISE. Your garden is beautiful. Good luck with the fall garden. Have a Blessed day.
That's so fun! I think I'd like to try those 8 balls
@@1870s They are a very pretty green with light stripes and according to the recipes I found they each make two servings (cut in half and stuffed) or they can be fried or steamed as any other summer squash.
nice video
Thank you
Awesome looking compost👍
Thanks 👍
Love your Channel subscribed to it a few weeks back
Awesome! Thank you! Happy to have you over.
(Hardware cloth - that’s what the sifter is made with)
I like the wheel barrel where did you get it from?
U can take ur buckets that u mix fertilizer in and add a spicket to it. Super cheap and much faster. Set 1 bucket on top of the other and boom easy to drain off.
I’m terrible at planting in straight line, my sister and I both planted a row side by side and mine looked like a ongoing “S”😂
This is life....🥰
Just now realizing you're in Michigan (my home state).
Good morning very nice gardan
Have you fish field in your gardan
With my best wishes
I wish we still had our chickens. We are rural suburbs so we are “forbidden” to have them 👎🏻😫
Great stuff, hard work! I feel your pain. Happy pea and carrots growing.
What all are you putting in your coop for them to scratch through...that compost is beautiful..THKS 😁
Garden cleanout, kitchen scraps, leaves, grass clippings, straw, deep litter from their chicken coop in the spring
BLESSINGS
thank you Carolyn.
How long does it take before chicken manure is safe in the garden? Or is it immediately good for gardening?
The wire mesh is called Hard Cloth Cover.please send the rain to NETexas. I’d REALLY appreciate it! have you ever just sprinkled the carrot seed and covered them with a board? It keeps them moist for sprouting. Then wine the carrots sprout,lift the board and grow as usual.
TheChristina Jo Hardware Cloth
I'm LOVING that chicken composting idea it is so clever!
Now wondering how I can do it in their yard - which is about the same size as your veggie garden space. Thoughts?
Yes I've seen where they use like a high tunnel to keep it contained in one area, you put all your input in there and the chickens have a fun place to play
Oh that is perfect, thank you!
Giving them somewhere to play is exactly what we need as well because I’m going to be fencing off a part of their (large) space soon to plant pumpkins in. Now I won’t have to feel guilty!
Oh, no way! I’m in the mitten, too. West side by Lake Michigan.
Awesome!we have a cabin about an hour north of Muskegon
Ludington?
Lol. Never mind. You probably don’t want to be that specific. I wouldn’t blame you
We have quite a few videos on it
I use pine shavings for my girls, and really need to figure out how they can build better compost for me! Maybe I'll put down a layer of old hay before I clean the coop in the spring? It's truly amn ongoing process, isn't it?!
It is, but so worth it when you can create your own garden magic dust.
I used to have a garden cart like that, it’s not balanced well. It makes you lift the weight.
Great tips thank you 🙂
You are so welcome!
Great video! I’m going to try making my first hot compost pile soon. I have three big piles of different organic ingredients. I’m hoping it works. I guess I’ve always been afraid to use the chicken litter straight for fear of burning the plants. Last year we tilled up and planted squashes in an area that had been our chicken yard for about 15 years. The seeds mostly didn’t germinate or died shortly thereafter. I read that phosphorus will build up in a chicken pen after a lot of years. So, I guess your idea of putting straw down and letting it compost and then harvesting it every year is a good one! Great job! I’ve never heard of butter peas, what will you do with them?
You definitely don't use the chicken litter straight away, clean out done in early March, and piled up multiple times to get nice and hot to speed the breakdown, now using in time for fall crops
I think I'll use the butter peas in some homemade soups this year. I think they are considered a creamy bean texture
Question: To be clear...are you creating this compost (or I mean the chickens creating it) by dumping the coop litter and the garden trimmings into the chicken yard? What else are you throwing into their yard?
Every fall alot of leaves fall from the trees in there, we add some random grass clippings from time to time, kitchen scraps and that's about it
For watering I use a immersion pump and I plug my hose on it WORK so well
Homemade fertiliser I do the koreen natural farming with M. Cho
Great tip! I'm sure there's still a lot for us to learn. 🐰
Great idea with the compost. How on earth can you work in the garden with sandals? And is it a bean or pea ?
Lol I work in the garden barefoot it helps root me
I garden barefoot too 🥰
I'm further north than you here in Michigan...do you think carrots are still possible for another planting? My first year really attempting a Fall garden...so I'm kinda nervous lol
Absolutely, I just planted my fall crop yesterday
I can't find any information on trimming back sweet potato vines because they Rob the tuber. I can find articles that say the opposite. Can you elaborate? I don't know which way to go 😊 thanks.
It's not so much about cutting them back as it is keeping the vines from rooting that will cause small tubers at the main vine. Another option is to continually toss them from keeping them from rooting. I just assume to harvest and preserve, they will continue to grow vigorously throughout the season, not farming the main vine output.
Got it! Thanks for clarifying.
Go to chipdrop.com and get yourself at least one load of free wood chips. These wood chips come from tree Arbors in your area. Let your chickens work on them during the winter months plus let it age over the winter and spring you will have some decent wood chips too late down in your garden area you'll have to lay the wood chips out in the fall and winter for a decent first year I do not do that this year I put my wood chips out in the spring and my garden has suffered for it. The wood chips are a free source to you as a free mulch and great for your chickens to scratch and dig through in the winter months to keep them active oh, it will also help keep the ground dry in mud free. Especially if you layer nice and deep in the chicken run
I also wanted our chickens to do the compost but we have free range chickens 🤷♀️
What is the brand and name of the fish emulsion that you use?
I think it's just called Alaskan
Here is what we use: amzn.to/2We0XZx
@@1870s Thank you!
Love your videos!
Thank you!
Hello ur chickens r saying itt christmas already there saying think u
ecellent :)
please put subtitles in Portuguese
To do other languages, it's a manual process. And we don't speak Portuguese - so not sure how to make that happen. Sorry ❤
@@1870s No problem. Maybe on day, find someone who can do that. Thank you.
Go back to the tank tops