My Evening in the Garden // NEW Cucumber Trellis & SHOCKING HARVEST!
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Come walk this garden tour with me as I show you an update and our huge corn harvest of our early summer garden tour as well as do a little bit of garden work with you!!
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The figs ARE the flowers. If you let the figs get overripe and open them up, you'll see all of the flower parts. Like with broccoli, artichokes, etc., we eat the flower as the 'fruit'.
That is AWESOME! Your are like the perfect example of why I love youtube homestead communities. We learn so much! Thank you!
I'm an order filler at the Walmart Distribution Center and the cucumbers at work have little yellow flowers on the end. After seeing what happens there half the time I don't trust some of the produce there. Most of the the time the grapes are harvested at least 6 weeks before they hit the shelves.
@@benjaminschutz727question. Why do the yellow flowers on the cucumbers make you wary?
@@aloras405 that's not my worry, it's other things
The fig is the flower. They are pollinated either because they are self fertile, or by wasps that crawl inside them. That's about as far as my knowledge on them goes. I certainly have no idea how to get them to produce more fruit, although more fruit baring trees usually do so on new wood. I know my ex Mother-in-law has a great tree that produces huge figs, which is rather rare for our area.
brilliant! Thank you so much. I'm gonna dig more into fig info. I so appreciate you!
You go through your garden like I go through my little city gardn. Joy and amazement! I grow food! TFS
I had so much fun with you this morning.
Yes! Let us all find the joy we experience in the garden :)
Hey, enjiying your chaos garden! FYI birds don’t like tomatoes, they’re really after moisture. Put a water source nearby for them and they’ll leave the tomatoes for you! Plus you get to see all the kinds of birds in the neighborhood. 👍🏼
Oh! That's a great idea!
Remember all plants want to go to seats so you gotta keep picking even if you get the kids to pick because then the plant will think it’s done his job and start going to seed everything that you covers the beans anything for sure the tomatoes too just get them a pig if you don’t pick Somebody pick.💚🌱🌱🌱
It is always a happy time to pick cucumbers and strawberries from your garden. Hope you have a abundant harvest.
agreed!
You are not an idiot! That's everyone's plants that don't use chemicals. I plant multiple rounds all season long, in several different places to try and stay ahead of them. But being diligent and looking under the leaves for eggs, (then use duct tape to pull them off) as well as killing adult bugs, (i put them in a bucket of soapy water) helps. You've got this I promise🫶
great idea...succession planting.
There thi good book
Called when to say yesand when to say no . I am a yes person .
I use the bags on my elderberries. My bushes are 10+ feet tall. All of the higher up berries are sacrificed to the birds and the lower ones get bagged.
Fantastic!
How do the people who don't bag or cover berries get any? I'm baffled that some of us have to and others seem they don't
You are so inspiring. I loved this video of your gardening. Thanks soft being you. (So real) love you and your family❤️
I'm so glad you're here and enjoying it all!
The figs don’t need a pollinator. The fig itself is the flower. I was just looking to mail you some seeds. Do you share a PO Box or anything? Your garden is beautiful!
Figs do indeed need a pollinator. There are fig wasps which pollinate the figs by crawling into the figs, laying their eggs inside the fig and then dying inside as well. Some of them are only a few tenth of a millimeter long, so you almost can't see them with the naked eye.
My fridge has died at the worst times.
When I was 38 weeks pregnant AND the day we brought home our jersey in milk.
for real!
I understand about the grass and weeds. But remember, the grass/weeds are stealing nutrients and water from your important food crops.
So true! More motivation to get after that weeding. You're right.
I enjoyed your garden tour that 🥒 was big. That's the result of your growing your own food amazing❤❤
Thanks for being here! It really was so big, right?!
Hey Kelly, those bags are a wonderful thing to have for Berries 👍.
The Pation flower is exceptional 😍!
You could cut the Parsley back when it gets hot or anytime now.
You can use the cuttings while your baby in the garden rests to reup when it gets cooler😊.
Luckily Honeysuckle is hearty💪.
Salt for slugs definatly!
Either leave a trail of it where they are , or go out at night with your boys at night on a slug mission. The usually do their damage at night.
Take your salt box and
put a heavy pinch right on it. The salt shaker are for the baby sluggos😡!
Good luck🤗.
Tha garden does look great and your Corn, Hurray🎉.
JO JO IN VT 💞
That’s fantastic advice! Thank you, Jo Jo!
The comfort you have abundance of comfort you can pull it out, separate the roots and start it in different patches and you’ll get more comfrey is so aggressively. It’s hard to kill Comfrey, but it’s good for the animals good for the garden with the so would you I would pull some out break in pieces and put it here in there
gosh, it is SO prolific!
I love the way you live your life. I have sat here and watched multiple videos and you are such an inspiration to me. Off the topic question and out of season question as well... I would be interested in seeing or hearing about how you homeschool your kids. ❤❤
I’m so glad it encourages you 🥰 I’ll definitely consider sharing homeschool. It’s one of those things that can be an entire video 😂
@BetterTogetherLife ofcourse especially with the more kids you have with varying ages. My kids are 14,12 boys, and 7, 5 girls.
Love it! You’ve got me thinking about fodder trees 🤔 We haven’t got our milk cow yet but she is on the list and those fodder trees sound like an awesome idea!!
Absolutely, you will love them!!!
Pill bugs love strawberries. They are a much larger problem for me than slugs.
we have so few here! I guest pests will pest no matter where :)
@@kellybrotherton2008 Yup.
Your garden is so different from mine.
/ east- north- central a bit Europe/
However watching was a great joy - thank you. I love natural performance of the guide lady ❤
Surely camera man is outstanding, tpp 😇
hahaha! Thank you Renata!
Thank you as always!!! More coming soon!
@3:00 cut transplant some of the strawberry plants to a pot or a vertical something to have them far from the ground 😍👏🏻👍🏻
Great tip!
You might try hand pollination of the zucchini. It feels a little precious, but I noticed a significant difference in the numbers of the fruit that actually developed vs withering on the vine
That's great advice. Now...to decide if I love zucchini that much :)
We used to lose our squash so fast in the south to the vine borers and squash bugs,...so I only did the hand pollination for a few weeks anyway ;) haha
I have been subbed to this YouTub channel for awhile and started watching your channel today and reallyIm enjoyed watching. I don’t usually watch the garden videos because I haven’t found one have enjoyed, 😊👍 I’m going to watch more of this family channel.
Awesome! Thank you!
Bonnie! That’s so kind! Welcome!
I put my tomatoes in freezer bags and cut an x on them. When they are boiled the skins just fall off. Then I dehydrate the skins and make powdered tomato paste.
oh! I probs should have cut the x :)
I forgot to add cut the stem area out. Picked this up from Jess at R and R and it works.
Nice!!!! Love that.
When we lived in SC we had a fig tree...also never flowered.
Apparently, the fig IS the flower. That's amazing!
Passion flowers aren't just a pretty ornamental, they're also a great medicinal.
Very true!
My uncle never weed and he has a beautiful yield.
We are trying to do that also, we need to add some mulch big time!
I am also the idiot who cannot grow zucchini! There’s a lot I cannot grow, but I do try it all lol still learning how to garden in south TX from growing up in CO. Very different garden seasons lol fall is actually my favorite and most prolific garden time. Looking forward to September! 😅
Texas is difficult with these vine borers.
The red noodle beans stay red! They have the BEST flavor too.
Wait hogs don't sweat 😆 but yeah it is getting hot as all get out here in the South y'all get hotter than we do garden looks great nice job. I did 1 tomato plant this year lol but it made me happy to get 3 tomatoes 🍅 so happy and have a couple more coming next year going to find another thing to grow along with tomatoes
Haha! Yup even when it is just a few tomatoes or cucumbers out of the garden….it is still a GREAT GARDEN DAY!! 😁😁
I love the two of you and the silly excitemet! Thats so what I'm like lol you're my people!
I also just love you guys, keep being awesome down to earth homesteaders! ❤🎉
Sooooo much excitement! Glad we get to share it!
I hear you on the bermuda grass. I have one bed where it seems to be kept at bay. I planted a fall cover crop and keep some plant cloth over it over the winter since I had dumbly planted a lime tree that I was trying to keep alive during the freezes. I had also planted garlic which was shaded out by all the cover crop (oats, clover etc). When I went to plant my seedlings this spring, I chopped and dropped and only made space around the seedlings. That seemed to keep the bermuda away. Otherwise, I am thinking solarization might be the only other way which I am not totally sold on. Also: I have found that adding LAB and FPJ made as per Korean Natural Farming is doing wonders!!! It has been a game changer for me. (My frozen lime tree actually came back to life...)
Yes! My next ambition in the garden is to work on more succession planting and understory crops! Thank you for sharing!!!
I get slot of inspiration from you. I garden in Hot west Texas.
Oh, I feel you, Wendy!
Thank you Wendy!!!!! West Texas is HOT! Haha
Thanks . I started watching your channel only recently and I am so happy I did. It is a comfortable feeling.❤
Wonderful! Welcome!
yes that is why I started watching today, she has a great personality.I have a lot of channels I watch but if their personality gets on my nerves I just can’t watch because they are a couple. I think this family is another family RUclips channel that I need . I had dropped cable TV at $220 a few months ago. 😊
The t posts should be outside of the trellis so it braces the cattle panel.
We are in great shape then
👀 Chocolate espresso cupcakes!
Great garden tour! 💚
Mmmmm, sounds like a mashup episode… tea in the garden!
Zucchini does better in the fall out here in West Texas.
Less pest pressure
Then we will be trying them AGAIN!! 😁👍🏻
So this year, I decided to focus on certain things I’ve already planted about 13 picnic cucumbers and about 10 bush beans and about three whole beans my thought was I would make some pickles and can some beans or even eat fresh but the bean production is not as fast yet maybe but the pickles are on overload. I probably made 6 quarts of pickles. I’ve been giving them to friends and family fresh ones I have pickles coming out of my ears, which is a good thing, but I wish it was the same for the beans. I really wanted to do green beans I wanted to do pickle beans I wanted to do you know a lot of beans so I’m actually popping seeds constantly because they did say since we have Texas has a longer seasoning we can just keep popping seats in so I found some new, really nice pickles they’re small but they’re prolific so I’ll try that and I’m just popping in more seats for both beans and pickles. Have a lot of other stuff, but I’m.
Never had honeysuckle? Come on Beau lol 15:35
For real! 😂
Your zucchini has male and female flowers and I found mine produced more male but it's only the female that produces the fruit. I self pollenate o ensure I can get some kind of produce. I don't know if that helps, you are very knowledgeable people so I'm sure you are doing alot better than you think you are x
Nice
Thanks
I love how you make YOUR garden work for YOU. Looks great!
Thank you that’s super kind!
Try tromboncino instead of zucchini! They laugh at vine borers!
Oooo YES I have wanted to try those!!
Love evenings as well. But the moment my husband gets bit, he high tails it. 😢 leaves me alone. So im hoping to make a safe mosquito spray so we can stay out longer
That sounds familiar. Let me know if you find one. We have a dōTERRA repellent and it works great. But even with it I get bit.
Raise up your cucumbers in the way they should go!!!! HA
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I like it!!!!
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Look away if you don’t like snail murder. 🤣
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Hi K and B we also live in Central Texas, but in Bell county and just acquired our land that is just over an acre and just do not know where to start. I’m in the OK now what phase
We totally get that! We were in the “ok now what” stage for SOOOOO LONG!
Haha. In fact I even remember editing in that scene from the movie Finding Nemo where all of the fish are floating in the ocean in bags and they say, “now what?”
Ok. You gotta share. Where did you get the corn seed and what variety is it? From Conroe, TX zone 9a
It was Eden Brothers sweet corn. We also have a gem corn variety. It’s doing so well!
You can eat passion fruit?
You can eat the fruit. But this isn’t a fruit bearing vine per se. There has been fruit on occasion, but it’s small and sour.
What type of strawberries? I live in TX and I bought an everbearing and it's producing like 20 runners which I'm waiting for the root nodes to pop up, but I hear everbearing aren't very heat tolerant, have yet to see a berry in it yet, but seems promising so far.
These are ever bearing. And the only ones I’ve ever grown. So you may actually get a more bountiful yield with another variety.
@BetterTogetherLife I like the idea of having 2 + strawberry harvests a year which is why I chose it. Do they just not produce in their first year? I'm trying to figure out if I did something wrong.
On a side note
I'm So ready for peach season. Parker County peaches are AMAZING, they have a festival in July that I plan on going there to figure out which variety of peach tree to get.
What do camera do you use to shoot your videos?
😂 most everything is shot with an iPhone 13 Pro. And we use DJI mics.
@@BetterTogetherLife I can’t get my quality to look as good as y’all when I upload from my iPhone 😅
Hmm, well we use the Cinematic Mode on the 13 Pro. And then we edit on the computer.
Not sure why it would lose quality.
They almost look like elephant ears
Yes!!