My son loved a dirt spot/pile/hole or any combination of those for years. Starting around 2 with toddler sized Tonka Trucks, he had to use them in the back yard. As his "spots" began to grow, I asked him to move away from the steps to the porch. After the dog fell into a unknown hole, nearly choking himself to death with his tie out, I had to give my son a designated area. As he grew older and his trucks got bigger so too did his holes. By the time he was in school every little boy in the neighborhood wanted to come play in his hole. Leggo neighborhoods and action figures played out disasters and heroic rescues on a daily basis. He eventually dug a hole big enough for him and a friend to sit in and the dirt and rocks became walls and mountains around them. His friends mothers asked me if I was going to let him keep it etc. I said of course! For the price of some grass seed when he no longer plays with it, he has had years of washable fun, not in front of the TV, using his imagination and building skills. Best toy ever! Eventually he outgrew his hole and we filled it back in. At his high school graduation I had kids coming up to me saying they would always remember me and the hole I let them have. It was something that they would never forget about their childhood no matter where life took them.
I used to feel that way too about radishes and turnips, but this year we grew a ton of both and they HAVE saved me money, because I’ve been using watermelon radishes in place of carrots in soups and stews..and then the white turnips and daikon radishes I’ve been using in place of potatoes. We’ve done daikon French fries, zuppa toscano soup with daikons instead of potatoes, and mashed daikons (like mashed potatoes).
Thank you for sharing such a wonderful day with us. Love that the Little Man has such a great construction fleet, plus an adventurous dino. Can't believe that he stayed with the project all the way through, in spite of the dino drama. I expect great things from him in the future with these rich experiences growing up.
I love the nanday parakeets screeching in the background of all of your videos. I have a flock at my house that dominates my bird feeder and harasses my grackles. Cracks me up.
I use an old rectangular laundry basket with some bailing twine as a tow rope. I put two three gallon buckets in it for easy dumping. :) It may look Sanford and Son-ish, but it's free. :)
I've started becoming quite fond of the market garden model. For home gardeners who don't have tons of acres but want to grow enough food to feed their family, it seems like the way to go. Boutique gardening is great for pinterest, market garden is for high yield is small spaces.
It looks great! I can't wait to turn most of my lawn into gardens. I waste money on other things that I could use for my garden. I'm guilty of going to the store to buy items to make a meal, and that one meal and a few other things ends up costing me 30 to 40 dollars. If I would have stayed home and ate beans, rice, canned vegetables or other things in my pantry, I'd still have that money to spend on my garden. Gardening can be expensive to get started, I eat a lot more beans now! 😁
LOL! Yes, it can be expensive to get started. I would say sweet potatoes and seminole pumpkins can have a really good return on your investment and don't take a lot of cost to get going.
May I suggest something to you about your garden's perimeter? The stuff we Floridians call grass sends out runners that thrive in the wood-chips and mulch. If you don't make a bare-earth perimeter around your mulch perimeter then you will get thousands of runners undermining your mulch and then your garden. The solution is to make a 12 inch perimeter of bare -earth that you can monitor for runners. Lookin' good.
There's no running in my yard/jungle/forest. However, I am a runner and I do like to run through various neighborhoods to get ideas of what else I can do in my yard. While kids can't run in my yard, they can explore and see some very interesting things in nature.
Wow, this was quite a project! I’d love that your boys are involved with this and really seem to be having a good time. Looking forward to seeing your harvest grow
Wow looks great. I was wondering if the strawberries I sent you made it? Mine have some huge berries on them and lots of flowers. Can't wait to watch you plant your new garden beds.
Yes I did! One is starting to flower. I think I will need to move the pot. The shade is too much in the front. Thank you again for sending the strawberries! 🥰
Looks awesome.. .1.How will you keep critters out of your new backyard garden? 2. Are you concerned about growing veggies in grass previously treated with chemicals? (Like mine) and 3. No cardboard? Are you worried about weeds eventually invading? I ask bc I am planning the same thing in my front yd but don't want to use raised beds if possible.
I'm get so excited when you post a new video. I need so much help since I'm very clueless about growing in Florida. & you are so close to our area & I am pretty sure we are in the same zone too. One of my boys are worried I'm gonna take over to much of our yard & he won't have enough room for his dreams for the yard. It's so interesting how you track everything. &I love how well you & your husband team work it. I will most likely be on my own trying to make my dreams come true. Hopefully I can get my family into helping. I love how David the Good has his kids helping too. My kids like to plant &maybe water & pick the foods but can't really get them into weeding. Which I understand because that has always been my least favorite part too especially when I was a kid. Your kids are so adorable.
I wish you the best in your garden. I take a mindset of letting them help with what they like. It is my hobby at the end of the day. And I want the time to be quality time. Hoping you continue to make wonderful memories with your family! 🥰
I went to the city website and found it under the waste management section. It may be similar for your city or county. One of the keys was understanding what happened with brush removal that landscapers took. They hand it over to the city is what I heard from them and then my city makes mulch and compost.
Oh no! In the raised beds. I've been starting to educate myself more on nematodes. I'm not sure if I have had a significant issue. But I get regular questions from the group that I'm trying to learn more.
Do you read? What books would you recommend for someone who wants to get into reading about native butterflies/birds and other wildlife and plants for Florida?
Is there any risk to eating vegetables planted in city mulch? I’m in St Pete, too - and my back yard is covered in city mulch, but assumed it had pesticides or other dangerous (non edible) chemicals.
It's all good. Many people are just curious. And I know me explaining helps them with conversations that are happening in their homes. On my mom... eh... she always has lots of opinions 😂 I'm used to her.
I Love seeing those Kids help and play wow! teach them well.
Wonderful and your saving time going shopping for your veggies 🥗
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Nicely done.
It looks good 👍 👌 😋 happy gardening. Kids too.💛🌱🌺🌻🍃
Nice job!!
Thanks!
So fun to see the whole family involved!!
My son loved a dirt spot/pile/hole or any combination of those for years. Starting around 2 with toddler sized Tonka Trucks, he had to use them in the back yard. As his "spots" began to grow, I asked him to move away from the steps to the porch. After the dog fell into a unknown hole, nearly choking himself to death with his tie out, I had to give my son a designated area. As he grew older and his trucks got bigger so too did his holes. By the time he was in school every little boy in the neighborhood wanted to come play in his hole. Leggo neighborhoods and action figures played out disasters and heroic rescues on a daily basis. He eventually dug a hole big enough for him and a friend to sit in and the dirt and rocks became walls and mountains around them. His friends mothers asked me if I was going to let him keep it etc. I said of course! For the price of some grass seed when he no longer plays with it, he has had years of washable fun, not in front of the TV, using his imagination and building skills. Best toy ever! Eventually he outgrew his hole and we filled it back in. At his high school graduation I had kids coming up to me saying they would always remember me and the hole I let them have. It was something that they would never forget about their childhood no matter where life took them.
little excavators, yayyyyy
dirt movers with little ones is the very best memories you will ever create
I agree! I had so much adorable footage of the two boys playing in the dirt pile.
Great job Wild Floridian family! Big project look forward to seeing the next step.
I used to feel that way too about radishes and turnips, but this year we grew a ton of both and they HAVE saved me money, because I’ve been using watermelon radishes in place of carrots in soups and stews..and then the white turnips and daikon radishes I’ve been using in place of potatoes. We’ve done daikon French fries, zuppa toscano soup with daikons instead of potatoes, and mashed daikons (like mashed potatoes).
That is awesome! 🙌 I hadn't thought of that! Maybe I should try daikon? 🤔 Thank you for the inspiration Molly!
Thank you for sharing such a wonderful day with us. Love that the Little Man has such a great construction fleet, plus an adventurous dino. Can't believe that he stayed with the project all the way through, in spite of the dino drama. I expect great things from him in the future with these rich experiences growing up.
I love the nanday parakeets screeching in the background of all of your videos. I have a flock at my house that dominates my bird feeder and harasses my grackles. Cracks me up.
Do you think the soil is deep enough that the grass won’t come up through? I’m curious to see.. keep us posted! I know you will. 💕
Based on my past projects, it should be plenty. And I will absolutely tell you if it doesn't work 😉
I use an old rectangular laundry basket with some bailing twine as a tow rope. I put two three gallon buckets in it for easy dumping. :) It may look Sanford and Son-ish, but it's free. :)
That is awesome!
I've started becoming quite fond of the market garden model. For home gardeners who don't have tons of acres but want to grow enough food to feed their family, it seems like the way to go. Boutique gardening is great for pinterest, market garden is for high yield is small spaces.
It looks great! I can't wait to turn most of my lawn into gardens. I waste money on other things that I could use for my garden. I'm guilty of going to the store to buy items to make a meal, and that one meal and a few other things ends up costing me 30 to 40 dollars. If I would have stayed home and ate beans, rice, canned vegetables or other things in my pantry, I'd still have that money to spend on my garden. Gardening can be expensive to get started, I eat a lot more beans now! 😁
LOL! Yes, it can be expensive to get started. I would say sweet potatoes and seminole pumpkins can have a really good return on your investment and don't take a lot of cost to get going.
Yes, track front vs back!. I want to know. That was a lot of work but it looks fantastic!. Can't wait to see your garden producing.
Thank you Sandra!
May I suggest something to you about your garden's perimeter? The stuff we Floridians call grass sends out runners that thrive in the wood-chips and mulch. If you don't make a bare-earth perimeter around your mulch perimeter then you will get thousands of runners undermining your mulch and then your garden. The solution is to make a 12 inch perimeter of bare -earth that you can monitor for runners. Lookin' good.
There's no running in my yard/jungle/forest. However, I am a runner and I do like to run through various neighborhoods to get ideas of what else I can do in my yard. While kids can't run in my yard, they can explore and see some very interesting things in nature.
We are alike! I'm always scoping out neighbors' yards!
Wow, this was quite a project! I’d love that your boys are involved with this and really seem to be having a good time. Looking forward to seeing your harvest grow
Thank you Sarah! The boys had a blast... especially little guy. He was out there almost all the day. He was a big helper 😊
Wow looks great. I was wondering if the strawberries I sent you made it? Mine have some huge berries on them and lots of flowers. Can't wait to watch you plant your new garden beds.
Yes I did! One is starting to flower. I think I will need to move the pot. The shade is too much in the front. Thank you again for sending the strawberries! 🥰
Your very welcome. I can't believe how big the berry gets.
Looks cool and the kids are having a ball. That's pretty freakin awesome.
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This is so sweet! Thanks for sharing a funny family moment 😂 I thought I was the only one with littles delaying garden plans 😂
LOL!!!! No, you are not alone. I just cut it out of videos. But I thought the side quest would be good fun to see 😂
Looks awesome.. .1.How will you keep critters out of your new backyard garden? 2. Are you concerned about growing veggies in grass previously treated with chemicals? (Like mine) and 3. No cardboard? Are you worried about weeds eventually invading? I ask bc I am planning the same thing in my front yd but don't want to use raised beds if possible.
How come you did not choose to rip out the grass first?
In past projects I tested depth and method and found I didn’t need to do anything extra with the type of grass I have.
I'm get so excited when you post a new video. I need so much help since I'm very clueless about growing in Florida. & you are so close to our area & I am pretty sure we are in the same zone too. One of my boys are worried I'm gonna take over to much of our yard & he won't have enough room for his dreams for the yard. It's so interesting how you track everything. &I love how well you & your husband team work it. I will most likely be on my own trying to make my dreams come true. Hopefully I can get my family into helping. I love how David the Good has his kids helping too. My kids like to plant &maybe water & pick the foods but can't really get them into weeding. Which I understand because that has always been my least favorite part too especially when I was a kid. Your kids are so adorable.
I wish you the best in your garden. I take a mindset of letting them help with what they like. It is my hobby at the end of the day. And I want the time to be quality time. Hoping you continue to make wonderful memories with your family! 🥰
Can I just say... I am so glad I found your channel. You help give my Ocala garden some direction. :)
How did you go about getting mulch through the city? I wish ChipDrop came to my area because I need a lot of area covered.
I've had luck calling local arborists directly, or talking to them when they're in my neighborhood
I went to the city website and found it under the waste management section. It may be similar for your city or county. One of the keys was understanding what happened with brush removal that landscapers took. They hand it over to the city is what I heard from them and then my city makes mulch and compost.
So do you plan on growing nematode resistant varieties? I even have them in my raised beds.
Oh no! In the raised beds. I've been starting to educate myself more on nematodes. I'm not sure if I have had a significant issue. But I get regular questions from the group that I'm trying to learn more.
Do you read? What books would you recommend for someone who wants to get into reading about native butterflies/birds and other wildlife and plants for Florida?
I think she might have a video on this...or on a q and a. I think she for sure recommended the uf extension handbooks on Florida friendly landscapes
@Mrs. Funk thank you! I must have missed that one when she posted it.
Is there any risk to eating vegetables planted in city mulch? I’m in St Pete, too - and my back yard is covered in city mulch, but assumed it had pesticides or other dangerous (non edible) chemicals.
I cant believe you have to explain yourself as to why you want to change your home, its your home!!!!!
Anyway thanks for the video!!!! Great work!
It's all good. Many people are just curious. And I know me explaining helps them with conversations that are happening in their homes. On my mom... eh... she always has lots of opinions 😂 I'm used to her.
@@WildFloridian I have a similar opinionated mom, still. love her too
Curious about the soil! Is it just considered top soil from the bulk source? We’re getting ready to do a big project too 🎉 thanks!
The place I got it from had many options. Ground fill, top soil and garden soil. I went with garden soil which has compost in it.
@@WildFloridian awesome thank you! It looks great 😊
Let mom know you need it for RUclips content 😂 you may be able to quit the day job to just garden. ❤
BWAHAHAHAH! She says she just loves the look of grass...