From now on, Cover all your Brassicas with bug netting immediately after planting them. weigh the netting down with bags of sand . Make hoops from pvc pipe to support the netting above the plants as they grow. You can see through the netting and you can water through it. Saves you a world of heartache and food loss. I did it for the first time last spring and did not have any bugs in my food at all.
Its advisable to buy the Made in America (really, just not Made in China) stuff. The sometimes significantly cheaper Chinese stuff you have no idea what they used to make it with, and if anything unhealthy is leeching from the material into your food and soil. 70% of China's freshwater is undrinkable due to self poisoning: they don't care a whit about safety and health of their products. To say nothing of durability, reliability and value.
I, too, cover with “mosquito netting” and it keeps EVERYTHING out, including all rodent type pressure. I also wrap tomato plant cages (LOL tomato plants inside) because it protects from the wind and keeps hornworms away.
Buggie was having a ball riding around on the mower with her daddy!!🥰 I love listening to her talk! The chicks mutilated the cabbage patch, good work girls!! And another crew tomorrow will end the flea beetle infested cabbage. Meg, your supper was divine!! Watching you make biscuits made me want to make some tonight for our supper. I would love for you to have a cooking podcast of your own in addition to your family podcast. You have so much food preparation knowledge for even an older girl like me (68 yrs) to learn from plus all the thousands of other viewers that love watching you cook! You all are my favorite homesteaders to watch on RUclips. Great family!🥰
But then the bugs will go "weeeeee" into our other plants... lol thank you 4 that meg. Needed a good laugh this AM. Keep it coming fam, your YT presence is much appreciated!
I always enjoy your videos. I cannot remember ever not being entertained amidst the heatfelt storytelling. I usually find more than a few things funny enough to smile at. But I don't remeber ever suffering an uncontrollable laugh like I did when your young camera-child described the over-exposure from moving from a darkened house to the sunny outdoors as being "...like Jesus coming back". I have no idea why I found it so funny. It was so Walton-esque in its purity, and earnest in its delivery, I just had to remark upon it. Thank you. I needed that :-)
I found them when they were in the process of buying their farm! I’ve gone back and watched all their videos of the time they lived in California, and their travel during the year prior to settling on their farm! It’s been great!
So fortuitous that you scored that smoker for your homestead!! Buggy looks so happy to be tootling around the property in her Daddy's lap!! Go chickens, no flea beetle circus, Meg ... you made me laugh!!
I grow eggplant as a trap throughout my garden. I start everything indoors. Plant Sweet Alyssum, dill, and allow cilantro to bolt throughout the garden; they attract parasitic wasps. Other nectar/pollen producing flowers also help. These little wasps are my best friends. They take care of hornworms and a number of other pests. It takes a couple weeks for the good guys to show up, but it's worth the wait.
@@mrsjones3742 A trap crop. The pests prefer that plant over others. In my garden, flea beetles go to the eggplants before anything else. It buys my other plants a little time for the beneficial insects to start doing their work. I can't net the entire garden, so this is another level of protection that actually works. I also use Blue Hubbard squash to keep squash bugs and cucumber beetles away from my squash, cucumbers, and melons once netting comes off. There are a number of trap crops you can use around your garden.
I take a piece of flat, white plastic, (maybe 5x7) attach it to a stake and slather it in Vaseline. The flea beetles seem to be attracted to the white, et voilà! Very little collateral damage to the beneficials.
You really have to cover most of the cabbages with bug netting to prevent this. If you are careful, the bug netting can be used for several years. When we grow it, we just make some low tunnels. Don't take the netting off until harvest time. Just have a soaker hose in the bed to keep the fabric from getting weighed down by traditional watering. It will make a world of difference.
When you said “ starting the evening chores”, me looking at the time, and it is time for the evening chores. Time to put everyone to bed, turkeys, hens, ducks, and then the roosters. Good night.
Hello Hollar Homestead!! We just recently found your channel and we soooo appreciate you sharing with us your simple, joyful life! We are a family of seven that farm, homestead, RUclips, homeschool, raise sheep, cattle, goats, bunnies, etc..Always so much to learn and do on the farm! Blessings to you from your friends from Kansas!
Meg…. We need a Hollar Homestead Cookbook…. Please!! That potato salad looked so good! The cookbook could be more of a guide than a book of recipes, since we know you adjust them as needed…
Great to see you again - I missed you over the last few days! I just sat in front of my monitor drooling over Meg and Bens cooking! Buggy seems to grow up really fast and the grin on her face while riding the "tractor" with daddy could probably be seen from space. God bless you all.
We struggle also with the flea beetles on our eggplants. Last year was a major win here!! Sacrificed a few of the lower leaves by coating with petroleum jelly and had an amazing harvest!!!
What do you think the long term soil life implications would be? Most pesticides rely on petro-chemicals like those found in petroleum jelly. Did it effect the worms? Any detectable signs of impact on microbial life? Not judging, just curious about any secondary and tertiary impacts outside of the immediate goal.
I really haven’t seen any negative effects. Worm presence is actually higher this year than ever. I don’t feel like the Vaseline gets into the soil it stays on the leaves and kills the flea beetles
@@movinon1242 If you don't compost those leaves treated, there's no environmental impact other than the bugs getting stuck in the coating. I suppose you could use whatever sticky stuff you wanted, but most of us have some sort of "petrolatum ointment" around. Petroleum jelly smeared on a few lower leaves to trap beetles is a good low impact way of staying true to safe gardening and saving your plants. Or did you have any actual advice for OP? I suppose you're against trap apples and other sticky traps, too? Whitefly, aphid, and kitchen sticky traps are used by gardeners as a regular thing. What's your stance on those?
Flea beetles usually take out my eggplant. Last year I figured out that if I plant a early crop of radish and allow the flea beetles to find those first they don't bother my eggplant. By the time the radish is ready to harvest the flea beetle season is mostly over and my eggplants get to thrive!
I loved this video so much….really enjoy when you show little clips throughout your day💜! The food looked absolutely delicious! The chickens looked pretty full and very content!
Great idea with the chickens! I know you are super busy Ben, but I keep hoping you replace the banquet table with a homemade one of you crafting with the boys. Something special to be an heirloom.
Cover them with the white Fabric Frost Covers. I do that with my cabbages, and I leave it on the entire year. They still get sun, and it helps the Bugs stay off if you tuck the fabric covers into the dirt. Its been successful for me for a couple years now.
Just want to tell y'all that I love you and cheering you on every video!! Y'all are a breath of fresh air. God bless and much love from the Oklahoma Grandma
Pulled pork is good, but the stage you carved it is also superb, especially as a sandwich, with the sauce of your choice. There's a nice bite, and IMO a pork-lettuce-tomato with mayo is just to die for. It's so sweet and salty and juicy...
I just can't get over how stinkin' cute buggy is, didn't think it was possible but with each video she just gets cuter and cuter. Glad you guys at least got a crop of the cabbage this year! the farm is coming along nicely!
Love those fat happy chickens! I watched Biggies huge smile riding on the way back with cinder blocks, reminded me of a memory riding with my dad on the tractor in the hay fields🤗❣
Have you ever thought about using diatomaceous earth for flea beetles? I have used it successful on my radishes combatting flea beetles. I put it both on the ground and on the plants.
Two years ago I couldn’t find crop cover fabric so I bought a bolt of wedding vail fabric pretty cheep. I put that over my cabbage and blackberries and got a great harvest. The berries I waited for them to get pollenated, but the cabbage I put it on when I planted them. Used some water tubing for a hoop and cloths pinned it to that. Worked great.
Nylon netting from the sewing world has been used to protect veggies from bugs, fruit from birds. Traditionally it is sewn together, also polyester yarn is used with a hand sewing needle applied running stitch, to make covers of the right dimensions. In the fall, many soak the nylon and polyester in a bleach water solution then hang to dry. This kills any bugs, eggs, molds, and mildews.
Ben, there are two things I noticed. You make knives and Meg knows how to use them. Don't make her upset or those cabbages could be you. All joking aside, what were you putting on the pork butt prior to your seasoning? What you do in the kitchen is amazing Meg. My wife and I think Lillyanna is adorable. She sees things through the eyes of a two year old, the rest of us take for granted. God Bless your family!
So something I just learned a few months ago from Appalachia‘s Homestead when making biscuits just press down the cutter into the dough without turning and your biscuits rise more☺️
I’ve never commented before…been watching since my sister in White Pine, TN told me about you…years…! I just love you guys…your quiet spirit, your all out, take us as we are..your simpleness, without you verbally saying “without God, we would be nothing”… you are blessing and ministering to so many.❤️ From Bradenton, FL. PS LOVE that valor balm, Meg. Will definitely get more if you make it again! Won’t even get into what that stuff has healed!!!
I made potato salad, cole slaw, and baked (sweet, kidney) beans for a graduation party this past weekend. 10 pounds of potatoes, 2 dozen eggs, 3 heads of cabbage, 2 pounds of dry beans. Homemade brown sugar. 8 onions. 1 whole celery. 1 pound carrots. I was EXHAUSTED. But it was soo good!
Wow, those beetles are bad! We have cabbage moths that attack our cabbage so we don't get any. It's so good you have home grown pest control that can help you take care of the pests and give you eggs! That pork butt roast looks beautiful. Yes, you have to fully thaw the meat before you smoke it. That rub was simple to make. The potato salad, coleslaw, and biscuits look wonderful. The chickens looked pleased after managing the pests. Thanks for this Hollar family.
Thank you guys for all the work you do to bring us good content and tips. Trial and error is the best way for not only yourselves but others as well to learn. We are all on this homesteading journey together. Good luck with your garden this year. I am sure it's going to be amazing!
We also have flea beetles, and ours go after a lot of different veggies. We have been planting tobacco, not for consumption, but because the leaves act like fly strips and the beetles stick to them! Also, good old cheep fly strips hanging in the garden can help.
Love watching your vids bc your life is symbiotic. Everything has a purpose and it all works together- its how life was meant to be! Dont really kno why Ive never had bugs in my garden. Corn gets 10ft tall too. I fertilize with diluted human pee. I use blood meal & make my own compost. In winter I cover the garden with cardboard, it breaks down & adds so much to the garden bc it controls weeds & makes worms go crazy (lots of castings).
That child 🧒🏻 is having such wonderful growth and developmental opportunities there on the farm with your wonderful inclusion style parenting. I think of her and my grand son and she is talking so much better at an earlier age . He’s a city slicker stuck in the house. At least he swims like a fish. Love you guys
I'm so happy to live in Alaska. We have minimal problems with these kinds of bugs. Slugs, yes. This spring has been phenomenal. Warm sun, but minimal rain. My potatoes, squash, and snow peas are going crazy.
The garden is looking like Eden. I say this world needs more Holler like people….Meg watching your hands as you cook reminds me of when I was little watching my Gran cook🥰she had 14 children…if it is not to pushy I would like to impart a trick she taught me when making biscuits ( scones here in Australia), when you cut your biscuit don’t twist the cutter as it inhibits the rise. You guys share so much knowledge and this is what the world needs more of “ the university of life”. Blessings to you all.🙏
Neem oil!!! It's all organic and it actually works on garden pests! I use it on my fruit trees too. It works! Small bottle, a bit pricey but it's concentrated so a little goes a long way AND it's all organic! Win, win! My best to y'all always! Giant hugs from SE Missouri my friends Ps... I got my Neem oil from Menards but Lowe's carries it too
Oh wow how neat to let the chickens to do the work and fill up up on food ! I Can go back and watch your videos over and over again. Let’s get the Hollers subscribers to the 130 mark guys!!!!!!!
Those ladies did good! This winter move them in the garden area to eat all the bugs, Grubbs and larvae. That looked yummy! 😂 Meg cuts the potatoes and boiled eggs just like I do🤗Good to see you guys!🤗💗🤗
Ben must be a big fan of potato salad...his face lit up! My hubby loved it too...fresh made before it went in the fridge. Had my last conversation with him a year ago today (June1, 2021). He left by ambulance from his barn man cave about 7pm and was put on life support early the next morning in the ER. Taken off support on the 5th and I cannot believe it has been a year! Hollers, thanks for the happiness you bring to me!!
I was shocked when I learned how small your house is! Inside and and out it looks so much larger. You are brave souls to take on this.challenge along with your family. I wish I was young enough to do it! It's how I grew up!
Meg I needed that biscuit recipe. Please consider a recipe-ish playlist. Ur down to earth style of cooking has inspired me to do more. Not into all the fancy crap. I hope one day my Dutch oven looks like yours 😊❤️👍🇨🇦🍁
One of the options you have for containing the chickens inside the bed is to make a quick chicken wire hoop cover with tarp over 1/2 to 3/4 for shade. It’s what I’ve done in the past and it worked pretty well and allowed me to keep the chickens in the bed for several days without moving them back and forth at night.
I have good success with putting an old sheer drape completely over my barassica beds when I first plant them out. I put a brick over each end of the bed making sure to keep it covered when I am not working on it🐞🇨🇦
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From now on, Cover all your Brassicas with bug netting immediately after planting them. weigh the netting down with bags of sand . Make hoops from pvc pipe to support the netting above the plants as they grow. You can see through the netting and you can water through it. Saves you a world of heartache and food loss. I did it for the first time last spring and did not have any bugs in my food at all.
Its advisable to buy the Made in America (really, just not Made in China) stuff. The sometimes significantly cheaper Chinese stuff you have no idea what they used to make it with, and if anything unhealthy is leeching from the material into your food and soil. 70% of China's freshwater is undrinkable due to self poisoning: they don't care a whit about safety and health of their products.
To say nothing of durability, reliability and value.
@@movinon1242 Don’t understand what this comment, that I agree with, has to do with what I was suggesting? I was referring to bug netting.
I, too, cover with “mosquito netting” and it keeps EVERYTHING out, including all rodent type pressure. I also wrap tomato plant cages (LOL tomato plants inside) because it protects from the wind and keeps hornworms away.
Lori from Whippoorwill Hollar mentioned using rolls of “tulle” as used in dressmaking- said it’s cheaper and works well.
@@Zombie-adventures Yes! Great idea
Buggie was having a ball riding around on the mower with her daddy!!🥰 I love listening to her talk! The chicks mutilated the cabbage patch, good work girls!! And another crew tomorrow will end the flea beetle infested cabbage. Meg, your supper was divine!! Watching you make biscuits made me want to make some tonight for our supper. I would love for you to have a cooking podcast of your own in addition to your family podcast. You have so much food preparation knowledge for even an older girl like me (68 yrs) to learn from plus all the thousands of other viewers that love watching you cook! You all are my favorite homesteaders to watch on RUclips. Great family!🥰
But then the bugs will go "weeeeee" into our other plants... lol thank you 4 that meg. Needed a good laugh this AM. Keep it coming fam, your YT presence is much appreciated!
I always enjoy your videos. I cannot remember ever not being entertained amidst the heatfelt storytelling. I usually find more than a few things funny enough to smile at.
But I don't remeber ever suffering an uncontrollable laugh like I did when your young camera-child described the over-exposure from moving from a darkened house to the sunny outdoors as being "...like Jesus coming back".
I have no idea why I found it so funny. It was so Walton-esque in its purity, and earnest in its delivery, I just had to remark upon it. Thank you. I needed that :-)
It was indeed a moment of innocent truth revealing what is to come!!
Love when I look at my notifications after a really long day, and the Hollar's have posted. Thank you!
Love Miss Buggy 'driving' the mower with Daddy. Also love watching Meg prepare food. Thank you for sharing.
Imagine how good their next few eggs are going to taste after all the bugs, grass, and that cabbage. Those will be really good.
Been watching your channel for quite awhile now and I just want to say y'all are a prime example of what a fantastic father and mother are ! Awesome !
They are the real deal and I have been watching since they were in Anaheim.
I found them when they were in the process of buying their farm! I’ve gone back and watched all their videos of the time they lived in California, and their travel during the year prior to settling on their farm! It’s been great!
So fortuitous that you scored that smoker for your homestead!! Buggy looks so happy to be tootling around the property in her Daddy's lap!! Go chickens, no flea beetle circus, Meg ... you made me laugh!!
Buggy sitting on Daddy's lap on the mower is just precious!💕
I grow eggplant as a trap throughout my garden. I start everything indoors. Plant Sweet Alyssum, dill, and allow cilantro to bolt throughout the garden; they attract parasitic wasps. Other nectar/pollen producing flowers also help. These little wasps are my best friends. They take care of hornworms and a number of other pests. It takes a couple weeks for the good guys to show up, but it's worth the wait.
Absolutely!! I do the same!!
What is a trap
@@mrsjones3742 A trap crop. The pests prefer that plant over others. In my garden, flea beetles go to the eggplants before anything else. It buys my other plants a little time for the beneficial insects to start doing their work. I can't net the entire garden, so this is another level of protection that actually works. I also use Blue Hubbard squash to keep squash bugs and cucumber beetles away from my squash, cucumbers, and melons once netting comes off. There are a number of trap crops you can use around your garden.
I take a piece of flat, white plastic, (maybe 5x7) attach it to a stake and slather it in Vaseline. The flea beetles seem to be attracted to the white, et voilà! Very little collateral damage to the beneficials.
Good to know! Thanks for sharing, as I fair well expect to see them soon upon my eggplants!! This the season. :(
I noticed the other day how healthy and radiant Meg is looking. Are we going to have a little play mate for Buggie. 💖
You really have to cover most of the cabbages with bug netting to prevent this. If you are careful, the bug netting can be used for several years. When we grow it, we just make some low tunnels. Don't take the netting off until harvest time. Just have a soaker hose in the bed to keep the fabric from getting weighed down by traditional watering. It will make a world of difference.
When you said “ starting the evening chores”, me looking at the time, and it is time for the evening chores. Time to put everyone to bed, turkeys, hens, ducks, and then the roosters. Good night.
The boys have been here in NC long enough to sound like it 😉 The hens were drunk off Beetlejuice! 😄
Hello Hollar Homestead!! We just recently found your channel and we soooo appreciate you sharing with us your simple, joyful life! We are a family of seven that farm, homestead, RUclips, homeschool, raise sheep, cattle, goats, bunnies, etc..Always so much to learn and do on the farm! Blessings to you from your friends from Kansas!
Love your channel!
"Yeah but then the bugs would just go wheeeeee". That cracked me up.🧡🧡
Buggie was having a blast helping dad drive the zero turn.
Loves Munchie's comment about the bright light.
The food looked amazing like always.
😂 "I walked outside and it was like Jesus was coming back" your kids are awesome 👌 my husband reflects light off his legs too
Meg…. We need a Hollar Homestead Cookbook…. Please!! That potato salad looked so good! The cookbook could be more of a guide than a book of recipes, since we know you adjust them as needed…
Just love watching Meg bake! So those biscuits are what I know as scones 😁
Great to see you again - I missed you over the last few days! I just sat in front of my monitor drooling over Meg and Bens cooking! Buggy seems to grow up really fast and the grin on her face while riding the "tractor" with daddy could probably be seen from space. God bless you all.
It's so beautiful to see the little buggie working with her daddy.💖
That is so "Priceless"!🥰👍
We struggle also with the flea beetles on our eggplants. Last year was a major win here!! Sacrificed a few of the lower leaves by coating with petroleum jelly and had an amazing harvest!!!
What do you think the long term soil life implications would be? Most pesticides rely on petro-chemicals like those found in petroleum jelly. Did it effect the worms? Any detectable signs of impact on microbial life?
Not judging, just curious about any secondary and tertiary impacts outside of the immediate goal.
I really haven’t seen any negative effects. Worm presence is actually higher this year than ever. I don’t feel like the Vaseline gets into the soil it stays on the leaves and kills the flea beetles
@@movinon1242 how would you do it?
Petroleum jelly not a good idea
@@movinon1242 If you don't compost those leaves treated, there's no environmental impact other than the bugs getting stuck in the coating.
I suppose you could use whatever sticky stuff you wanted, but most of us have some sort of "petrolatum ointment" around.
Petroleum jelly smeared on a few lower leaves to trap beetles is a good low impact way of staying true to safe gardening and saving your plants.
Or did you have any actual advice for OP?
I suppose you're against trap apples and other sticky traps, too? Whitefly, aphid, and kitchen sticky traps are used by gardeners as a regular thing. What's your stance on those?
Flea beetles usually take out my eggplant. Last year I figured out that if I plant a early crop of radish and allow the flea beetles to find those first they don't bother my eggplant. By the time the radish is ready to harvest the flea beetle season is mostly over and my eggplants get to thrive!
Meg I love how cook from scratch, honey you are my kind of cook thats how my grandma taught me and I love it.
I absolutely love watching your children savor the taste test.
I loved this video so much….really enjoy when you show little clips throughout your day💜! The food looked absolutely delicious! The chickens looked pretty full and very content!
Buggy is so cute. Love to watch Meg prepare food, she is a natural. God bless💥🍉🌽🥕
Great idea with the chickens! I know you are super busy Ben, but I keep hoping you replace the banquet table with a homemade one of you crafting with the boys. Something special to be an heirloom.
"...the bugs will go, weeeeeeeee..." Love it.
Me too, it was the bright spot of my day :)
Anyone notice the cat doing his evening chores at the end there as Ben and Meg were signing off? Talk about getting photo-bombed!!
Cover them with the white Fabric Frost Covers. I do that with my cabbages, and I leave it on the entire year. They still get sun, and it helps the Bugs stay off if you tuck the fabric covers into the dirt. Its been successful for me for a couple years now.
Just want to tell y'all that I love you and cheering you on every video!! Y'all are a breath of fresh air. God bless and much love from the Oklahoma Grandma
Meg, your constant smile is so sweet. Such a great family
I can't tell you how often I have had my boys riding on my tractor with me. The memories you get are amazing.
Thanks for taking us along. It's fun to hang out with your family
Pulled pork is good, but the stage you carved it is also superb, especially as a sandwich, with the sauce of your choice. There's a nice bite, and IMO a pork-lettuce-tomato with mayo is just to die for. It's so sweet and salty and juicy...
I just can't get over how stinkin' cute buggy is, didn't think it was possible but with each video she just gets cuter and cuter. Glad you guys at least got a crop of the cabbage this year! the farm is coming along nicely!
Love those fat happy chickens!
I watched Biggies huge smile riding on the way back with cinder blocks, reminded me of a memory riding with my dad on the tractor in the hay fields🤗❣
Hi, Ben and Meg! You two prepared a feast. Looks scrumptious.
Love how Buggy is riding with Daddy now!!! So cute.
Have you ever thought about using diatomaceous earth for flea beetles? I have used it successful on my radishes combatting flea beetles. I put it both on the ground and on the plants.
You have the most beautiful family, full of love, fun, & working together.
Chickens are full, we are full, a good day for sure!
I can’t rest until I hear Megs sweet voice say “bye “❤️❤️
Two years ago I couldn’t find crop cover fabric so I bought a bolt of wedding vail fabric pretty cheep. I put that over my cabbage and blackberries and got a great harvest. The berries I waited for them to get pollenated, but the cabbage I put it on when I planted them. Used some water tubing for a hoop and cloths pinned it to that. Worked great.
Nylon netting from the sewing world has been used to protect veggies from bugs, fruit from birds. Traditionally it is sewn together, also polyester yarn is used with a hand sewing needle applied running stitch, to make covers of the right dimensions. In the fall, many soak the nylon and polyester in a bleach water solution then hang to dry. This kills any bugs, eggs, molds, and mildews.
And the bugs go "weeeee..." Best line of the week. 👍🏾😅
The cooking preparation was mesmerizing. 😌
Ben, there are two things I noticed. You make knives and Meg knows how to use them. Don't make her upset or those cabbages could be you. All joking aside, what were you putting on the pork butt prior to your seasoning? What you do in the kitchen is amazing Meg. My wife and I think Lillyanna is adorable. She sees things through the eyes of a two year old, the rest of us take for granted. God Bless your family!
It looks like mustard…you can use mustard or olive oil as a ‘binder’ to hold your seasoning on :)
So something I just learned a few months ago from Appalachia‘s Homestead when making biscuits just press down the cutter into the dough without turning and your biscuits rise more☺️
You two prepared a feast. Looks scrumptious
I’ve never commented before…been watching since my sister in White Pine, TN told me about you…years…! I just love you guys…your quiet spirit, your all out, take us as we are..your simpleness, without you verbally saying “without God, we would be nothing”… you are blessing and ministering to so many.❤️
From Bradenton, FL.
PS LOVE that valor balm, Meg. Will definitely get more if you make it again! Won’t even get into what that stuff has healed!!!
I made potato salad, cole slaw, and baked (sweet, kidney) beans for a graduation party this past weekend.
10 pounds of potatoes, 2 dozen eggs, 3 heads of cabbage, 2 pounds of dry beans. Homemade brown sugar. 8 onions. 1 whole celery. 1 pound carrots.
I was EXHAUSTED. But it was soo good!
Pork butt is even better when not cooked to shreddiness. I like it exactly how you made it.
Like the chickens going after the pests!
What a lovely dinner y'all had. It is a shame those beetles did so much damage. Thanks for sharing your time, have a Blessed day.
Wow, those beetles are bad! We have cabbage moths that attack our cabbage so we don't get any. It's so good you have home grown pest control that can help you take care of the pests and give you eggs! That pork butt roast looks beautiful. Yes, you have to fully thaw the meat before you smoke it. That rub was simple to make. The potato salad, coleslaw, and biscuits look wonderful. The chickens looked pleased after managing the pests. Thanks for this Hollar family.
I always get excited to find your blog on Tuesday and just relax watching it.
Happy chicks!! Very smart!💖
Thank you guys for all the work you do to bring us good content and tips. Trial and error is the best way for not only yourselves but others as well to learn.
We are all on this homesteading journey together. Good luck with your garden this year. I am sure it's going to be amazing!
12:20.... LOLOLOLOLOL I laughed so hard at that one. TY for leaving that quip in. Super funny little man.
🤣 Same here, that was my favorite part of the whole video. Such delightful children.🥰
Supper looked amazing. I could smell it from here and now my mouth is watering!
We also have flea beetles, and ours go after a lot of different veggies. We have been planting tobacco, not for consumption, but because the leaves act like fly strips and the beetles stick to them! Also, good old cheep fly strips hanging in the garden can help.
So relaxing to watch your channel.
It is great to see how everything gets used on the farm and turned into food one way or another , either thrue compost or animals 😀.
Love watching your vids bc your life is symbiotic. Everything has a purpose and it all works together- its how life was meant to be! Dont really kno why Ive never had bugs in my garden. Corn gets 10ft tall too. I fertilize with diluted human pee. I use blood meal & make my own compost. In winter I cover the garden with cardboard, it breaks down & adds so much to the garden bc it controls weeds & makes worms go crazy (lots of castings).
Love watching you guys cook and do the farm thing 😊🇭🇲
That child 🧒🏻 is having such wonderful growth and developmental opportunities there on the farm with your wonderful inclusion style parenting. I think of her and my grand son and she is talking so much better at an earlier age . He’s a city slicker stuck in the house. At least he swims like a fish. Love you guys
I'm so happy to live in Alaska. We have minimal problems with these kinds of bugs. Slugs, yes. This spring has been phenomenal. Warm sun, but minimal rain. My potatoes, squash, and snow peas are going crazy.
At least they're in no danger of a single skeeter draining all of that sweet toddler's blood in 15 minutes or worse, carrying her off!
@@movinon1242 They are a little worse than usual this year. And it takes at least three of them to carry off a dog or a kid...
Your garden is really starting to look so good
When he said, it was like Jesus coming back, that got me, lol🤣🤣
The garden is looking like Eden. I say this world needs more Holler like people….Meg watching your hands as you cook reminds me of when I was little watching my Gran cook🥰she had 14 children…if it is not to pushy I would like to impart a trick she taught me when making biscuits ( scones here in Australia), when you cut your biscuit don’t twist the cutter as it inhibits the rise. You guys share so much knowledge and this is what the world needs more of “ the university of life”. Blessings to you all.🙏
That is such a great way to stop and hopefully eradicate those bugs. Much better than any chemicals.
Hi.... Meg and Ben, thank you for showing your video homestead chickens farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐣🐥🐄🐖🌱🌺🌹🌿🌻🌼🌸🍀🌷🏡🎥👍👍👍
Neem oil!!! It's all organic and it actually works on garden pests! I use it on my fruit trees too. It works! Small bottle, a bit pricey but it's concentrated so a little goes a long way AND it's all organic! Win, win! My best to y'all always! Giant hugs from SE Missouri my friends
Ps... I got my Neem oil from Menards but Lowe's carries it too
Several pests are sensitive to being sprayed with a (organic) soap solution. That might help to keep them under control at the start of the season.
Oh wow how neat to let the chickens to do the work and fill up up on food ! I Can go back and watch your videos over and over again. Let’s get the Hollers subscribers to the 130 mark guys!!!!!!!
You guys cook some of the most delectable food! You could start a cooking channel 😋
A good chuckle.."i don't measure anything....a bit more for good measure"....LOVE IT
Really enjoying the channel again! The farm is looking amazing. What an inspiring transformation. Well done.
Chinese cabbage transplanted into my Greenstalk grew excellent this spring. The shape was perfect for the pockets.
Now thats what i call daddy's girl so cute. You have a beautiful family guys. Stay safe.
The chickens are full. You’re full. Life is full.
row cover is my friend.. it keeps the flea beetles out and cabbage moths . also use it on my egg plants
Those ladies did good! This winter move them in the garden area to eat all the bugs, Grubbs and larvae. That looked yummy! 😂 Meg cuts the potatoes and boiled eggs just like I do🤗Good to see you guys!🤗💗🤗
Full bellies! Good way to end a holiday weekend. God bless and keep growing
OMG Girl ….you can cook! Amazing. Wish I had your knowledge, both of you! Great job as always
Buggy must be a Daddy's girl, I love it!
Butt looked amazing! Living in Southern Virginia all my life I found there is a lot less big pressure plant brassicas in the fall.
Ben must be a big fan of potato salad...his face lit up! My hubby loved it too...fresh made before it went in the fridge. Had my last conversation with him a year ago today (June1, 2021). He left by ambulance from his barn man cave about 7pm and was put on life support early the next morning in the ER. Taken off support on the 5th and I cannot believe it has been a year!
Hollers, thanks for the happiness you bring to me!!
Molasses is the by-product of making white sugar, so you are actually adding a step and putting it back in! 😄
So good to see y’all ❤
Amazing, sweet, and happy vlog. Every body is full and happy.Hahahaha, cheers!
I was shocked when I learned how small your house is! Inside and and out it looks so much larger. You are brave souls to take on this.challenge along with your family.
I wish I was young enough to do it! It's how I grew up!
Meg I needed that biscuit recipe. Please consider a recipe-ish playlist. Ur down to earth style of cooking has inspired me to do more. Not into all the fancy crap. I hope one day my Dutch oven looks like yours 😊❤️👍🇨🇦🍁
One of the options you have for containing the chickens inside the bed is to make a quick chicken wire hoop cover with tarp over 1/2 to 3/4 for shade. It’s what I’ve done in the past and it worked pretty well and allowed me to keep the chickens in the bed for several days without moving them back and forth at night.
I have good success with putting an old sheer drape completely over my barassica beds when I first plant them out. I put a brick over each end of the bed making sure to keep it covered when I am not working on it🐞🇨🇦
Dinner sounded delisious. Them chickens looked absolutely satisfied no hangry about it. Lol 👍🤗❤
Did she give anyone else a heart attack when she was chopping with that knife? Love you guys!!