Welcome home! Right back to business! Amazing harvest!! You inspired me to grow onions this year and they were excellent! I grew candy and walla walla. Had no idea about long day and short day when I planted but they still did well here in central Alabama. Thank you for the inspiration!
Yes, the sweet varieties should do well in Alabama just like the ones in Georgia. I grew up in California where spicy brown onions are normal as are slightly hot purple or even white. No sweet varieties except as exotics in the CA supermarkets usually.
There's something so relaxing about harvesting from the garden don't yall think?? I was blessed this past spring with some bread racks from a grocery store and hubby and I are going to use them to store our harvest on this year.. hope everyone has a great day!
My aunt Marilynn, Marilynn Stein, worked at California University at Davis and developed the tomato into a fruit that can ripen all at once and be picked by a machine. (Which made affordable canned spaghetti sauce to be sold on shelves) But her favorite was the sweet potato that she developed to be so sweet that you bake it and mix in a bit of orange juice and it’s better than any sweet potato with brown sugar and butter! It has the nickname “the Marilynn”
I think watching Laura Harvest has got to be some of my favorite videos! ... ss well as watching her grow from seed. There's something special about starting a plant from a seed as opposed to purchasing seedlings and putting them in the ground. Every year it's exciting to see the end product, And why throw out the potatoes that are full of eyes ? Laura has shown us that you can throw them in the ground if you have the space and enjoy them for months to come. I've never planted potatoes before but watching this year's Harvest and her planting the eyes earlier this year has been fascinating! Yes, I love Harvest Time! It brings me joy! Thank you Garden answer for inspiring me!
wow what a great harvest. I remember the "root cellar" off the chicken coop. The under ground room. Your progress on the property is fantastic. I have been enjoying so much watching the gardens grow and develop so beautifully from the beginning. I look forward to your videos so i can be a part of your journey as i am unable to garden anymore.
Good morning I planted onions and potatoes so if your digging so am I. We suffered lack of rain this summer I tried watering them but I have to pay for every gallon I use, soooo I’m digging. Have a blessed day 🙏🏻❤️🧅🫑🍅🍓🥔.
You are such an amazing young woman! You inspire this old lady to try and grow more crops and mix in beautiful flowers in my 6 raised beds. I'm trying to take over the front yard but I'm having resistance from my husband. I'll make it happen sooner or later.
Here again, homesickness sets in. Reminds me of growing up on the farm near you. Harvesting potatoes and onions (only on a vastly bigger scale). I can smell the dirt, onions, and spuds!💚💚💚
I grew up on a dairy farm in Queensland and my dad used to grow potatoes. This is back in the 50s and 60s. Some years he also grew beans and tomatoes. I can remember walking behind the tractor picking up potatoes and bagging them. He used to sell the produce but of course when he had them so did everyone so he never made a fortune.
@@loissaedder2214 that is cool. The area Laura is in also has some dairy farms. She speaks of the vast amount of onions produced there, (and there are plenty of potatoes to - it’s on the Idaho boarder). There are fruit orchards, wheat, barley, corn and soy bean fields as well. These things have historically been sold to processors to be made into French fries, tater tots, onion rings. Frozen foods, dried or powdered. The locals traded fresh produce with each other out of garden plots and gleanings from the fields. Now in roadside stands and farmers markets. My family ran farm there for 4 generations. My brother, his kids and now grandkids are still in the area. It is high desert as Laura has said, and without irrigation, grows very little more than sage brush. With irrigation, it is a garden basket as you can see from Laura’s videos.
@@laraemitchell9064 where I grew up was on the coast, nearly, just inland from the Gold Coast. It's amazing isn't it what some water can do. PS I just noticed you said spuds. I didn't know Americans used that. Everyone in Aus knows what a spud is.
Love this video. It is so fun to harvest the fruits of your labor. You have definitely got growing potatoes and onions down to a fine art. Have a blessed day
Which varieties keeps longer? Right there with you on harvesting potatoes, well any root crop and fruit. I think it like a surprise or when I was a kid finding the hidden eggs. I absolutely love your gardens and it’s not like the SE where weeds take over in 3 days or in Alaska, the trees can grow 4 foot in a couple of months or less esp. when it rains almost every day. But then it’s unusual weather. Great idea for the cool room. When you redo your house, you can make a refrigerator room in the house with an inside and outside handle for it and just gave a freezer appliance for the kitchen. Thank you and Aaron for being the wonderful family you are, well , your whole family❣️😊I appreciate your integrity and kindness.💗👏😊❣️
You are so beautiful - personality and passion! I just love watching your videos.... You have no idea how much they have inspired me and lifted my spirits over the last six months 🙏🏻❤️ Thankyou ❤️🙏🏻
Potatoes are so fun to grow! Mine are in my plot at our community garden. A little girl was there watching me harvest. When I lifted the pitch fork up she shouted”wow, potatoes! Like a real farmer!”. It was the cutest thing 🤗 Thanks for showing me how satisfying and easy it can be 😊
The South garden (secret garden flagstone area specifically) would be a great spot for that arch and bird bath. It'd help you declutter behind the barn too.
Like minds! I was thinking that the beautiful bird feeder would look gorgeous on a decorative post out in the new gardens- maybe towards the cutting shed. So many beautiful concrete pieces to play with out in the new areas!🤩🐦🏠
Amazing!!! And your person who edits….! I love watching the process. And zinnias are my favorites ❣️ The flowers that keep on giving. The more I clip the flowers the more they bloom. And for those of us with small gardens….saving the seeds is the way to go.
What a satisfying video! Your harvest is incredible! I also love learning more about your root cellar and seeing the interior spaces of your barn. Any organizational tips are appreciated! Thanks, Laura. Glad y’all are safely home. Enjoyed your Mackinac Island videos so much. I’ve now asked my husband, Mel, if we can make that trip for our 20th anniversary next year! ~Cassandra Senter, Zone 9A
Thanks Laura for sharing this aspect of harvesting. I had no idea that certain vegetables needed to cure. I always find it amazing that despite your poor soil and less than ideal weather conditions you are able to grow so many different crops, flowers, plants and trees. I think that is an inspiration to all of us who may not have the most ideal situations
One thing that Laura taught me was that poor soil and harsh weather seems to be good for potatoes and onions! Different parts of our country offer excellent conditions for different crops. I do miss the black soil from Iowa sometimes.
Your onions are huge! I tried growing Candy onions for the first time this year based on your recommendation and I was thrilled with how big mine got and their taste too. Thank you for sharing 😊
@@bluebirdhomestead It is very good. I use the recipe in the red gingham cookbook(BH&G?). It seems like it’s too runny, but don’t add more flour than it calls for, or they will be soggy.
I want to thank you Laura for encouraging me, us, to try and not to give up if you fail. I tried something and I knew my mom and others thought I was stupid, as usual, but I did it and I didn't fail. I planted corn and sunflowers in railing planters and a few deeper ones. I got corn, the smallest one had 3 little kernals. It is so cute with its little hair tuft on top. The others are not too big but the corn is sweet, straight off the plant uncooked. So I learned how I can improve and I am encouraged to try more things that normally shouldn't work. So thank you Laura. One more thing that has been a awesome thing that has happened for me because of /through you is Aaron's dad. I go to youtube and watch him preach and boy he is just what I need right now. God was speaking right to me through him and I would not know about it if I didn't find your channel. You are blessing many many people in so many different ways and in turn He is blessing you through us.
You are amazing. As I watched you harvesting potatoes and onions with all that hard work, I noticed how many times you had to reset your camera. That’s the part we never see. For instance one view was you driving the gator around to the back of the building with your potato haul. That meant before you drove back there you had to go set the camera up and then go back to the gator or drive the gator back to the front and then come back around that corner straight at the camera so we got that view I also noticed while you were digging the potatoes you moved the camera a couple of times. So you are taking a lot more steps than we ever see. Great work.
👋🌞Good Friday morning, Laura! WoW, those are some HUGE onions!!! Did I miss or not remember what type of onions those are? Wala Wala, maybe? My brain plays tricks on me... Hubby and I aren't fans of strong onions; so, sweet ones would be perfect for us. Aaron/Ken, thank you for the nice 👂👂candy 🎶🎸🥁🎶 👏👏👏 👋🐈Hi Cheddar!!! I have missed seeing you, Russell, Benjamin and Samantha Grace this week!!! Good to see you little feller!🤗🤗 WoW, 70#'s of onions!!!! That's crazy and amazing, since you've already harvested others, as you went along the season... I hope your neighbors and friends appreciate the corn, onions, potatoes, etc generosity of you and Aaron. Do they ever, occasionally, bring you rewards/treats in exchange? I hope so. Ok, at 24:06 you said Wala Wala and Candies. I want to buy some seeds of those, to plant next Spring. Question? I noticed ladder racks hanging on the outside of the barn(?) and the ladder on the ground behind the drying table. Is it easier to access that way, temporarily, while the drying table is up? I know you 2 typically try to keep stuff stored in/on their homes. No criticism intended, just curious/nosy. 😉😂🤣😂 Holy potatoes, Batman..... 🤯🤯🤯 Laura, you are gorilla strong!💪💪💪 WHAAAAAT???? 652#'s???? You could feed an entire village. Zoinkers What is that wooden rack, with the slotted shelves, behind your tater haul for? It looked interesting. Being curious/nosy, again...🤔 😂🤣😂🤣😂, yes, that would be impressive, if you could eat 652#'s a year! HowEVER, you all would look like potatoes.....😂🤣😂🤣😂 Have a Blessed and Beautiful day/night 🌞/🌜 ✨️⭐️🌟⭐️✨️ 🌐 everyone! Kimberley F in Avondale, Arizona USA 🇺🇸 (Zone 9b) 🌞🌵💞
You are such a trooper, Laura!! Not only do you share beautiful gardens during a downpour of heavy rain (Mackinac Garden Tour video), you also with bare hands dig and lift heavy crates of potatoes and onions!! So impressed at the amazing hard worker & inspiring person you are!! 💚🪴😊
Compost is better than cow manure. Cow manure will just make the sand compact like a brick because oxygen can't penetrate the soil. I made that mistake here in Rockport Texas. Trust me sandy soil is hard to amend, good luck.
Good evening Laura and family 🌸 Great to see you all back home and safe. What a beautiful harvest you did great. Loved your videos from your trip. 😊 Thank you for sharing your hard work. Have a goodnight 😴
I have a ? I got this Telegram from Laura saying I won on my post. How do I get my prize or is there a prize I see that you got the telegram too what did you do
Sounds like this was perhaps a job you completed prior to travel to Mackinac Island. While I benefit from your flower planting and enjoy the veggie work (although I never plant anything other than a few cherry tomatoes 🍅), your drip irrigation videos have provided me with great auto-watering success and I traveled to Mackinac without needing anyone to check on my gardens. How did you plan garden chores for your crew/family/friends who took care of your place while you traveled? What did you need to do prepare to get away (not including the care for your kiddos!)?
Love that you still do harvest videos. It’s so satisfying and I never get tired of them. It’s what we plant for. To harvest! Sometimes when I have garden fails I live vicariously through you. 😂💙
I love your zinnias! I just ordered 16 different varieties from Johnny's Seed a few days ago and I'll be saving the seeds from my Zinderella peach, Giant Dahlia Flowered Deep Red, and Senora for next year! My plan is to have a giant patch of them next year 🌼 I started them all indoors this year, but I think I'll try starting them in the ground next year as well. I also had really great luck with my dahlias this year. I didn't plant nearly as many as you (only 60 ish), but all of my taller dahlias passed 5ft tall! Unfortunately I didn't stake them well enough and last week a big wind came through and knocked them all over, but they are flowering strong!
@@callikohl5698 Absolutely! Once the blooms are spent, I snip them off and put them in an open shoe box (easy for keeping them sorted) and let them finish drying up. At the end of every petal is a little arrow head shaped seed. Once they are brownish in color and have no green left on them, I put them in paper packets and keep them in a cool dry place for next year. So fun to save seeds!
@@jodip719 thank you so very much. I love to save seeds from my own flowers. I would have never guessed this. I so appreciate your taking the time to share with me.
@@callikohl5698 Not a problem, I am happy to help! I love it too. My sister got me started on saving seeds last year and it has worked out really well.
Thank you for the wonderful tours you did on Mackinaw Island...I am a Michigan transplant to NC and find your videos so informative ...such different planting and harvesting times...but your recent trip to Michigan made my day....I am currently recovering from double knee replacement and can't work in my gardens, but watching you gives me hope for next year!
I just love to see you side tracked by the other beautiful things going on in the garden. I do the same thing with animals and plants. Friends will ask about animals then I get distracted by plants too. Everyone calls me the tour guide. Love how everything is going. You bring a happiness to my soul. Many blessing!
I also think potato harvesting is super fun! It's a bit like looking for Easter eggs, it's a surprise every time what you're going to find.😃 My children often tease me that I sometimes impale the potatoes with my rake when harvesting. But now I could say "Look Laura does that too sometimes"😁
Yasss , finally you go back home .. we missed your garden and we need updates ... make september tour , when you will plant your bulbs ? ... big love 💕
I love when your home, you make everything so fun and interesting. Onion crop is so amazing and big and beautiful. Thank you for sharing all you and Aaron and your sweet, beautiful little mama do with all of us. love y'all like you are part of the family.❤️🥰❤️
WOW 2 great harvest. But then I am not surprised. After all you are Laura on Garden Amswer 😊. Your entire extended family will have plenty of potatoes for the year! How wonderful to be able to grow food that well. Laura you have definitely found God's purpose for your life. Gardening and educating his flock on gardening. Stay Safe and Have a Blessed Week.
Your onions are absolutely gorgeous. I need to amend some soil before I plant onions. I can never have enough onions. Those butternuts look good too. I'm excited for you.
Enjoyed this video…like finding treasures in the earth…(some huge!) onions and the amazing potatoes (652lbs…👏💪) Great varieties…hard work. Wowza …fantastic grow L!🌞👏👏
I live in Walla Walla, WA and it is exciting to see the success you have had growing the Walla Walla Sweet onions. When the growers are harvesting the onions, the aroma of sweet onions lingers in the air! There aren't as many sweet onion growers as there use to be so enjoy them while you can. They can be frozen and dehydrated also.
Morning all! Glad you're home safe and sound! Wow! That is the most beautiful produce I've ever seen! Well Done! Started to make my mouth water. Enjoy your day. xo
Awesome harvest!!! You could also use some of the space in your butler's pantry for storing extra dry & canned goods. For as much as you guys grow, Including flowers, might be worth creating another small root cellar in a couple of years.
Your garden looks incredible. God Bless you. Whats you secret to such amazing onions. I planted the Texas Grano Onion, hoping to get some decent size onions atleast.
Hi Laura , i just love when you do cooking episodes.. what will you do with the onions? make an onion relish , pickled onions.. i love the sweet onions
Potato and onion harvests are just the best! I can see why you love doing the potato harvests. That's an amazing bounty---you're definitely doing something right with how you grow them. And Aaron's filming skills are becoming more and more impressive! A good recipe for using potatoes and onions: Polska Kielbasa with Onions, Potatoes and Red Bell Peppers, all cooked together on the stovetop with some oil, first the sliced potatoes go in, then the sliced onions and bell peppers, salt and pepper as you go along, and then the sliced polska kielbasa (1/4 to 1/2 inch slices) last since it's already pre-cooked. Have a good one and thank you!
Love hearing about harvest storage! I’ve been doing a lot of freezing and canning this year for the first time. I’ve got my onions stored in small dollar store laundry baskets in my basement.
Up to her ears in potatoes and onions! What a glorious harvest. We know you are very generous with their distribution, but definitely enough to feed immediate family and friends. Impressive!
QUESTION: What routine did you follow to grow such large onions: 1. How deep did you plant the onion starts. 2. Did you trim the tops at any time? 3. How often did you water and fertilize, and which fertilizer did you use, if any? POTATOES: 1. How frequently did you water and fertilize your potatoes? 2. Did uou side-dress at any time? Thank you for sharing your harvest. Hopefully I can learn to grow potatoes and onions in our area, zone 7b, TN.
Great harvest, congrats!! There's a lot of good eatin' in those baskets and crates. So much fun to bless your neighbors and family too. I look forward to these harvests each year!!!
Yes you certainly do produce lots of onions and potatoes in your area! I drove a truck for many years and we hauled many of them plus the frozen potatoes out of the plant in Ontario.
I love the use of the Gorilla cart. I recently pulled my first ever harvest of Yukon Gold and purple potatoes. I used my Gorilla cart and a fence panel to dry them out. :D I hope you travel safe on your way back from MI and get smothered in baby love when you return.
Good morning Laura! Wonderful harvest!! Thank you such for taking us along to Mackinac Island but you know the whole time we were thinking about the projects going on at YOUR garden. So glad you are home safe and I bet those babies were happy to see Mom and Dad! Hugs from N.C..❤️
Those onions were huge!! While you were working on them behind the barn..I was trying to get a good look at the Espalier pear tree😊. How is it doing? I’ve been wanting a close up view sometime. I wish I had half of your energy!!
Wow-that was quite a harvest! The size is amazing. I love that you give away and share your harvest. We lived in a 200 year old house that had a hand dug root cellar. We didn’t use it for anything because it was a little on the creepy side.😂 What a guessing game it was for the the farmers that did use! I don’t grow potatoes or onions, but your videos are so interesting I watch them all. Thanks for sharing!
I admire all the hard work you did!! Wow, you really did a good job!! The good thing is you love what you are doing! No one gets hungry with all the bountiful harvest!!
Laura and Aaron wasn’t the garden show wonderful! It was so much fun seeing, hearing your relaxed 😉and informational presentation with Jennie, and visiting. What a huge following you have! You are both such welcoming, warm and genuine people. If you’ll do it again I’ll be there! Wish I had enough space to grow just a few of those onions. Yummy!
holy moly harvest! how satisfying is that! i have to agree, digging potatoes is such fun - it's like digging for gold or a pirate's chest, lol... up to one's elbows in dirt is the only way, lol... that root cellar has paid for itself many times over, too... and yes, 2 rows of zinnias, they have become my favorite flower this year! love the 'gator port' idea behind the barn, and i especially love the way y'all are always thinking of ways to become more efficient and have better storage/use of the property y'all have... it's inspiring, too, to help us look around at our own places, no matter how big or small and see what we can do to create a more useful and clean space... feels good to be organized, doesn't it? great couple of days harvesting (can't wait to see that walkway!) 🥰❤thanks for the video!! 🥰❤
I helped my dad harvest his potatoes once when we were visiting. He had an acreage and grew a big garden of potatoes, onions and beans and other stuff. My mom canned a lot of beans and canned a relish from what was left in the garden. Anyways, he would dig and I would pick them up, put them in a basket and then put them on a flat bed wagon to dry. I thought it was fun, but hard work too. Then in a few days, we’d brush off the dirt, inspect them. Use the ones he accidentally cut first. When I was young, my mom always sent me out to harvest a few new potatoes to put in the green beans she was cooking. They were so good. You’d just reach your hand under a plant and take a few little ones from each plant. I’d get a couple of onions too and just clean them right out there in the garden. So good. I miss those good old days.
Welcome home! Right back to business! Amazing harvest!! You inspired me to grow onions this year and they were excellent! I grew candy and walla walla. Had no idea about long day and short day when I planted but they still did well here in central Alabama. Thank you for the inspiration!
I’m so inspired by your story, I’m definitely going to try and grow them next year! Potatoes too!
I want to try walla walla, they are the best 👌
This video was shot before the trip.
Yes, the sweet varieties should do well in Alabama just like the ones in Georgia. I grew up in California where spicy brown onions are normal as are slightly hot purple or even white. No sweet varieties except as exotics in the CA supermarkets usually.
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Wow, your onions and potatoes are marvelous! 🥔🧅Have a wonderful day everyone!🌼
You too 🎀
There's something so relaxing about harvesting from the garden don't yall think?? I was blessed this past spring with some bread racks from a grocery store and hubby and I are going to use them to store our harvest on this year.. hope everyone has a great day!
Cool!
My aunt Marilynn, Marilynn Stein, worked at California University at Davis and developed the tomato into a fruit that can ripen all at once and be picked by a machine. (Which made affordable canned spaghetti sauce to be sold on shelves) But her favorite was the sweet potato that she developed to be so sweet that you bake it and mix in a bit of orange juice and it’s better than any sweet potato with brown sugar and butter! It has the nickname “the Marilynn”
Hats off for all your efforts! I love seeing anyone willing to work with their hands than use gloves! 🙌
I think watching Laura Harvest has got to be some of my favorite videos! ... ss well as watching her grow from seed. There's something special about starting a plant from a seed as opposed to purchasing seedlings and putting them in the ground. Every year it's exciting to see the end product, And why throw out the potatoes that are full of eyes ? Laura has shown us that you can throw them in the ground if you have the space and enjoy them for months to come. I've never planted potatoes before but watching this year's Harvest and her planting the eyes earlier this year has been fascinating! Yes, I love Harvest Time! It brings me joy! Thank you Garden answer for inspiring me!
Good to have you back home Laura there’s nothing more soothing and beautiful than your place! ❤️
Good morning, Laura ☕️ Goodness, what a haul 🙌🏻🙌🏻 🧅 🥔 The garden is so productive. Great job. 👏🏻Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈
What an unbelievable harvest. I enjoyed the video, I’ll be back to watch you in the garden. Blessings.😇🫶🏾🥳
wow what a great harvest. I remember the "root cellar" off the chicken coop. The under ground room. Your progress on the property is fantastic. I have been enjoying so much watching the gardens grow and develop so beautifully from the beginning. I look forward to your videos so i can be a part of your journey as i am unable to garden anymore.
Wow totally forgot about that root cells she really has come a long way
You are the most busy little lady I have ever seen,I love your videos
Good morning I planted onions and potatoes so if your digging so am I.
We suffered lack of rain this summer I tried watering them but I have to pay for every gallon I use, soooo I’m digging.
Have a blessed day 🙏🏻❤️🧅🫑🍅🍓🥔.
Those onions are so big and beautiful. Two of my favorites. So yummy. Good job Laura.🥔🍠🧅🧅🧅
You are such an amazing young woman! You inspire this old lady to try and grow more crops and mix in beautiful flowers in my 6 raised beds. I'm trying to take over the front yard but I'm having resistance from my husband. I'll make it happen sooner or later.
I especially liked your description of loving the feel of the soil on your unloved hands: a gardener's dream.
Here again, homesickness sets in. Reminds me of growing up on the farm near you. Harvesting potatoes and onions (only on a vastly bigger scale). I can smell the dirt, onions, and spuds!💚💚💚
I grew up on a dairy farm in Queensland and my dad used to grow potatoes. This is back in the 50s and 60s. Some years he also grew beans and tomatoes. I can remember walking behind the tractor picking up potatoes and bagging them. He used to sell the produce but of course when he had them so did everyone so he never made a fortune.
@@loissaedder2214 that is cool. The area Laura is in also has some dairy farms. She speaks of the vast amount of onions produced there, (and there are plenty of potatoes to - it’s on the Idaho boarder). There are fruit orchards, wheat, barley, corn and soy bean fields as well. These things have historically been sold to processors to be made into French fries, tater tots, onion rings. Frozen foods, dried or powdered. The locals traded fresh produce with each other out of garden plots and gleanings from the fields. Now in roadside stands and farmers markets. My family ran farm there for 4 generations. My brother, his kids and now grandkids are still in the area. It is high desert as Laura has said, and without irrigation, grows very little more than sage brush. With irrigation, it is a garden basket as you can see from Laura’s videos.
@@laraemitchell9064 where I grew up was on the coast, nearly, just inland from the Gold Coast.
It's amazing isn't it what some water can do.
PS I just noticed you said spuds. I didn't know Americans used that. Everyone in Aus knows what a spud is.
I need a video dedicated to how your root cellar is made!!! Trying to convince my husband that I need one :)
Oh Laura, you ARE the harvest queen! My goodness, everything you plant grows to the max!!
YES
Good morning Garden Answer🤗💛🤗🌺🌸🌻 Wow!!!! Lots of onions and lots more potatoes! Love it!!!!
in my country onions are braided into bunches and the hang in attics somewhere in the barn if one has it, same as garlic
same in india as well
Always love watching you pull your onion and potatoes. Watch you pick. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️💚🥰🤗
Those are BLOOMIN huge onions! You ❤️ guys are so very blessed!!!
Yay!! I look forward to your harvest videos every year! So satisfying to see the fruits (well roots🤓) of your labor! ❤️🥔🧅🧅
Love this video. It is so fun to harvest the fruits of your labor. You have definitely got growing potatoes and onions down to a fine art. Have a blessed day
Which varieties keeps longer? Right there with you on harvesting potatoes, well any root crop and fruit. I think it like a surprise or when I was a kid finding the hidden eggs. I absolutely love your gardens and it’s not like the SE where weeds take over in 3 days or in Alaska, the trees can grow 4 foot in a couple of months or less esp. when it rains almost every day. But then it’s unusual weather. Great idea for the cool room. When you redo your house, you can make a refrigerator room in the house with an inside and outside handle for it and just gave a freezer appliance for the kitchen. Thank you and Aaron for being the wonderful family you are, well , your whole family❣️😊I appreciate your integrity and kindness.💗👏😊❣️
You are so beautiful - personality and passion! I just love watching your videos.... You have no idea how much they have inspired me and lifted my spirits over the last six months 🙏🏻❤️ Thankyou ❤️🙏🏻
Good morning. I've been eagerly waiting for this 🥔 potato crop to be harvested. So exciting!! Wonderful crop.
Potatoes are so fun to grow! Mine are in my plot at our community garden. A little girl was there watching me harvest. When I lifted the pitch fork up she shouted”wow, potatoes! Like a real farmer!”. It was the cutest thing 🤗 Thanks for showing me how satisfying and easy it can be 😊
Congratulations on a wonderful harvest!!! I was so glad to see that someone else in this world besides me works on their knees on the garden! 😉
It’s the only way I can. (Partially disabled). Sure makes for dirt knees😁
The South garden (secret garden flagstone area specifically) would be a great spot for that arch and bird bath. It'd help you declutter behind the barn too.
Good idea. Both of those are on my wish list.
Like minds! I was thinking that the beautiful bird feeder would look gorgeous on a decorative post out in the new gardens- maybe towards the cutting shed. So many beautiful concrete pieces to play with out in the new areas!🤩🐦🏠
Amazing!!! And your person who edits….! I love watching the process. And zinnias are my favorites ❣️ The flowers that keep on giving. The more I clip the flowers the more they bloom. And for those of us with small gardens….saving the seeds is the way to go.
What a satisfying video! Your harvest is incredible! I also love learning more about your root cellar and seeing the interior spaces of your barn. Any organizational tips are appreciated! Thanks, Laura. Glad y’all are safely home. Enjoyed your Mackinac Island videos so much. I’ve now asked my husband, Mel, if we can make that trip for our 20th anniversary next year! ~Cassandra Senter, Zone 9A
Thanks Laura for sharing this aspect of harvesting. I had no idea that certain vegetables needed to cure. I always find it amazing that despite your poor soil and less than ideal weather conditions you are able to grow so many different crops, flowers, plants and trees. I think that is an inspiration to all of us who may not have the most ideal situations
One thing that Laura taught me was that poor soil and harsh weather seems to be good for potatoes and onions! Different parts of our country offer excellent conditions for different crops. I do miss the black soil from Iowa sometimes.
Amazing how productive your yield is! Good job!! 🌼
Your onions are huge! I tried growing Candy onions for the first time this year based on your recommendation and I was thrilled with how big mine got and their taste too. Thank you for sharing 😊
Try making onion rings with them!
@@cynthiafisher9907 mhhh that sounds so good! I am going to try that 😊😆
@@cynthiafisher9907 mhhh that sounds so good! I am going to try that 😊😆
@@bluebirdhomestead It is very good. I use the recipe in the red gingham cookbook(BH&G?). It seems like it’s too runny, but don’t add more flour than it calls for, or they will be soggy.
@@cynthiafisher9907 I have that cook book! I am going to try this tomorrow. Have you tried air frying them?
Those huge onions make me want a blooming onion! I never usually fry any foods but I'd make an exception for those! Yum!
I want to thank you Laura for encouraging me, us, to try and not to give up if you fail. I tried something and I knew my mom and others thought I was stupid, as usual, but I did it and I didn't fail. I planted corn and sunflowers in railing planters and a few deeper ones. I got corn, the smallest one had 3 little kernals. It is so cute with its little hair tuft on top. The others are not too big but the corn is sweet, straight off the plant uncooked. So I learned how I can improve and I am encouraged to try more things that normally shouldn't work. So thank you Laura. One more thing that has been a awesome thing that has happened for me because of /through you is Aaron's dad. I go to youtube and watch him preach and boy he is just what I need right now. God was speaking right to me through him and I would not know about it if I didn't find your channel. You are blessing many many people in so many different ways and in turn He is blessing you through us.
You are amazing. As I watched you harvesting potatoes and onions with all that hard work, I noticed how many times you had to reset your camera. That’s the part we never see. For instance one view was you driving the gator around to the back of the building with your potato haul. That meant before you drove back there you had to go set the camera up and then go back to the gator or drive the gator back to the front and then come back around that corner straight at the camera so we got that view I also noticed while you were digging the potatoes you moved the camera a couple of times. So you are taking a lot more steps than we ever see. Great work.
👋🌞Good Friday morning, Laura!
WoW, those are some HUGE onions!!! Did I miss or not remember what type of onions those are? Wala Wala, maybe? My brain plays tricks on me...
Hubby and I aren't fans of strong onions; so, sweet ones would be perfect for us.
Aaron/Ken, thank you for the nice 👂👂candy 🎶🎸🥁🎶 👏👏👏
👋🐈Hi Cheddar!!! I have missed seeing you, Russell, Benjamin and Samantha Grace this week!!! Good to see you little feller!🤗🤗
WoW, 70#'s of onions!!!! That's crazy and amazing, since you've already harvested others, as you went along the season... I hope your neighbors and friends appreciate the corn, onions, potatoes, etc generosity of you and Aaron. Do they ever, occasionally, bring you rewards/treats in exchange? I hope so.
Ok, at 24:06 you said Wala Wala and Candies. I want to buy some seeds of those, to plant next Spring.
Question? I noticed ladder racks hanging on the outside of the barn(?) and the ladder on the ground behind the drying table. Is it easier to access that way, temporarily, while the drying table is up? I know you 2 typically try to keep stuff stored in/on their homes. No criticism intended, just curious/nosy. 😉😂🤣😂
Holy potatoes, Batman..... 🤯🤯🤯 Laura, you are gorilla strong!💪💪💪
WHAAAAAT???? 652#'s???? You could feed an entire village. Zoinkers
What is that wooden rack, with the slotted shelves, behind your tater haul for? It looked interesting. Being curious/nosy, again...🤔
😂🤣😂🤣😂, yes, that would be impressive, if you could eat 652#'s a year! HowEVER, you all would look like potatoes.....😂🤣😂🤣😂
Have a Blessed and Beautiful day/night 🌞/🌜 ✨️⭐️🌟⭐️✨️ 🌐 everyone!
Kimberley F in Avondale, Arizona USA 🇺🇸 (Zone 9b) 🌞🌵💞
Love your harvest videos! It was so satisfying to see the little veggie stand in front of Andrew's in previous videos! Thank you for all you do!
You are such a trooper, Laura!! Not only do you share beautiful gardens during a downpour of heavy rain (Mackinac Garden Tour video), you also with bare hands dig and lift heavy crates of potatoes and onions!! So impressed at the amazing hard worker & inspiring person you are!! 💚🪴😊
Wow, those onions are ginormous!!! 🧅🧅🧅
Good morning all have a safe and blessed day
That is an amazing harvest of potatoes and onions 🌰 😋
I have soil envy!!! We have super Sandy soil and this year I plan on amending with tons of
Cow manure to give it a nice boost!
Compost is better than cow manure. Cow manure will just make the sand compact like a brick because oxygen can't penetrate the soil. I made that mistake here in Rockport Texas. Trust me sandy soil is hard to amend, good luck.
Good evening Laura and family 🌸
Great to see you all back home and safe. What a beautiful harvest you did great. Loved your videos from your trip. 😊 Thank you for sharing your hard work. Have a goodnight 😴
I have a ? I got this Telegram from Laura saying I won on my post. How do I get my prize or is there a prize I see that you got the telegram too what did you do
So glad I found your Channel!!! I love gardening and harvesting videos! Happy Fall! 🍁🍃🍂
Sounds like this was perhaps a job you completed prior to travel to Mackinac Island. While I benefit from your flower planting and enjoy the veggie work (although I never plant anything other than a few cherry tomatoes 🍅), your drip irrigation videos have provided me with great auto-watering success and I traveled to Mackinac without needing anyone to check on my gardens.
How did you plan garden chores for your crew/family/friends who took care of your place while you traveled? What did you need to do prepare to get away (not including the care for your kiddos!)?
Love that you still do harvest videos. It’s so satisfying and I never get tired of them. It’s what we plant for. To harvest! Sometimes when I have garden fails I live vicariously through you. 😂💙
I love your zinnias! I just ordered 16 different varieties from Johnny's Seed a few days ago and I'll be saving the seeds from my Zinderella peach, Giant Dahlia Flowered Deep Red, and Senora for next year! My plan is to have a giant patch of them next year 🌼 I started them all indoors this year, but I think I'll try starting them in the ground next year as well. I also had really great luck with my dahlias this year. I didn't plant nearly as many as you (only 60 ish), but all of my taller dahlias passed 5ft tall! Unfortunately I didn't stake them well enough and last week a big wind came through and knocked them all over, but they are flowering strong!
Can you share with me how to save seeds from zinnias? I have some beautiful ones this year and would really like to save the seeds.
@@callikohl5698 Absolutely! Once the blooms are spent, I snip them off and put them in an open shoe box (easy for keeping them sorted) and let them finish drying up. At the end of every petal is a little arrow head shaped seed. Once they are brownish in color and have no green left on them, I put them in paper packets and keep them in a cool dry place for next year. So fun to save seeds!
@@jodip719 thank you so very much. I love to save seeds from my own flowers. I would have never guessed this. I so appreciate your taking the time to share with me.
@@callikohl5698 Not a problem, I am happy to help! I love it too. My sister got me started on saving seeds last year and it has worked out really well.
What a haul! its impressive how big those potatoes and onions got! I cant wait to have a bigger space to grow them.
Thank you for the wonderful tours you did on Mackinaw Island...I am a Michigan transplant to NC and find your videos so informative ...such different planting and harvesting times...but your recent trip to Michigan made my day....I am currently recovering from double knee replacement and can't work in my gardens, but watching you gives me hope for next year!
I just love to see you side tracked by the other beautiful things going on in the garden. I do the same thing with animals and plants. Friends will ask about animals then I get distracted by plants too. Everyone calls me the tour guide. Love how everything is going. You bring a happiness to my soul. Many blessing!
I also think potato harvesting is super fun! It's a bit like looking for Easter eggs, it's a surprise every time what you're going to find.😃
My children often tease me that I sometimes impale the potatoes with my rake when harvesting. But now I could say "Look Laura does that too sometimes"😁
Yasss , finally you go back home .. we missed your garden and we need updates ... make september tour , when you will plant your bulbs ? ... big love 💕
I love when your home, you make everything so fun and interesting. Onion crop is so amazing and big and beautiful. Thank you for sharing all you and Aaron and your sweet, beautiful little mama do with all of us. love y'all like you are part of the family.❤️🥰❤️
WOW 2 great harvest. But then I am not surprised. After all you are Laura on Garden Amswer 😊. Your entire extended family will have plenty of potatoes for the year! How wonderful to be able to grow food that well. Laura you have definitely found God's purpose for your life. Gardening and educating his flock on gardening. Stay Safe and Have a Blessed Week.
I bet the grocery store is someplace you rarely go! What a haul!
My oh my…600 lbs of potatoes wow! The onions look amazing! FYI…the video film quality was gorgeous today!💜💜💜
Your onions are absolutely gorgeous. I need to amend some soil before I plant onions. I can never have enough onions. Those butternuts look good too. I'm excited for you.
Laura will you do a cooking video with some of the harvest? Love to see what you all eat from your garden!😀🥔
I love digging potatoes, you never know what your going find. 🌺💚🙃
Enjoyed this video…like finding treasures in the earth…(some huge!) onions and the amazing potatoes (652lbs…👏💪) Great varieties…hard work. Wowza …fantastic grow L!🌞👏👏
So inspiring! I really hope I can grow onions that big next summer!!
I live in Walla Walla, WA and it is exciting to see the success you have had growing the Walla Walla Sweet onions. When the growers are harvesting the onions, the aroma of sweet onions lingers in the air! There aren't as many sweet onion growers as there use to be so enjoy them while you can. They can be frozen and dehydrated also.
And here’s the Star 💫 of the show ❤
Good morning! 🌻🐝
Morning.
Good morning 😊💐
Morning all! Glad you're home safe and sound! Wow! That is the most beautiful produce I've ever seen! Well Done! Started to make my mouth water. Enjoy your day. xo
Awesome harvest!!!
You could also use some of the space in your butler's pantry for storing extra dry & canned goods.
For as much as you guys grow, Including flowers, might be worth creating another small root cellar in a couple of years.
Your garden looks incredible. God Bless you. Whats you secret to such amazing onions. I planted the Texas Grano Onion, hoping to get some decent size onions atleast.
Oh those huge onions will make yummy blooming onions!!
Hi Laura , i just love when you do cooking episodes.. what will you do with the onions? make an onion relish , pickled onions.. i love the sweet onions
Potato and onion harvests are just the best! I can see why you love doing the potato harvests. That's an amazing bounty---you're definitely doing something right with how you grow them. And Aaron's filming skills are becoming more and more impressive! A good recipe for using potatoes and onions: Polska Kielbasa with Onions, Potatoes and Red Bell Peppers, all cooked together on the stovetop with some oil, first the sliced potatoes go in, then the sliced onions and bell peppers, salt and pepper as you go along, and then the sliced polska kielbasa (1/4 to 1/2 inch slices) last since it's already pre-cooked. Have a good one and thank you!
Love hearing about harvest storage! I’ve been doing a lot of freezing and canning this year for the first time. I’ve got my onions stored in small dollar store laundry baskets in my basement.
Up to her ears in potatoes and onions! What a glorious harvest. We know you are very generous with their distribution, but definitely enough to feed immediate family and friends. Impressive!
QUESTION:
What routine did you follow to grow such large onions:
1. How deep did you plant the onion starts.
2. Did you trim the tops at any time?
3. How often did you water and fertilize, and which fertilizer did you use, if any?
POTATOES:
1. How frequently did you water and fertilize your potatoes?
2. Did uou side-dress at any time?
Thank you for sharing your harvest. Hopefully I can learn to grow potatoes and onions in our area, zone 7b, TN.
Great harvest, congrats!! There's a lot of good eatin' in those baskets and crates. So much fun to bless your neighbors and family too. I look forward to these harvests each year!!!
Yes you certainly do produce lots of onions and potatoes in your area! I drove a truck for many years and we hauled many of them plus the frozen potatoes out of the plant in Ontario.
The onions are so large & beautiful! So many potatoes! You are such a grower! You will need another vacation!
I love the use of the Gorilla cart. I recently pulled my first ever harvest of Yukon Gold and purple potatoes. I used my Gorilla cart and a fence panel to dry them out. :D
I hope you travel safe on your way back from MI and get smothered in baby love when you return.
Good morning Laura! Wonderful harvest!! Thank you such for taking us along to Mackinac Island but you know the whole time we were thinking about the projects going on at YOUR garden. So glad you are home safe and I bet those babies were happy to see Mom and Dad! Hugs from N.C..❤️
Those onions were huge!! While you were working on them behind the barn..I was trying to get a good look at the Espalier pear tree😊. How is it doing? I’ve been wanting a close up view sometime. I wish I had half of your energy!!
I too just LOVE digging up potatoes. And definitely prefer to do it by hand too. I love that excitement of finding that one extra deep
Potato!! 🤗🤗🤗
Wow-that was quite a harvest! The size is amazing. I love that you give away and share your harvest. We lived in a 200 year old house that had a hand dug root cellar. We didn’t use it for anything because it was a little on the creepy side.😂 What a guessing game it was for the the farmers that did use! I don’t grow potatoes or onions, but your videos are so interesting I watch them all. Thanks for sharing!
I admire all the hard work you did!! Wow, you really did a good job!! The good thing is you love what you are doing! No one gets hungry with all the bountiful harvest!!
652 lbs Amazing crops! Love the variety. Go Walla Walla !
Wow!!! I wish I had the sun and space for onions and potatoes!!!
Huge is right 😲 phew! Love to have a harvest like that! Blessed.🙏🏻💐💗
I really need to start growing potatoes and onions here in the uk
Those 2 crops are so satisfying to watch you harvest, I love it ❤️
Wow superbe récolte bravo
Magnifique potager j'adore 👍 👍 👍
Laura and Aaron wasn’t the garden show wonderful! It was so much fun seeing, hearing your relaxed 😉and informational presentation with Jennie, and visiting. What a huge following you have! You are both such welcoming, warm and genuine people. If you’ll do it again I’ll be there! Wish I had enough space to grow just a few of those onions. Yummy!
Good morning Laura, great video today as always.. Wow, that’s a lot of potatoes and onions!! They look great.. Have a wonderful day
holy moly harvest! how satisfying is that! i have to agree, digging potatoes is such fun - it's like digging for gold or a pirate's chest, lol... up to one's elbows in dirt is the only way, lol... that root cellar has paid for itself many times over, too... and yes, 2 rows of zinnias, they have become my favorite flower this year! love the 'gator port' idea behind the barn, and i especially love the way y'all are always thinking of ways to become more efficient and have better storage/use of the property y'all have... it's inspiring, too, to help us look around at our own places, no matter how big or small and see what we can do to create a more useful and clean space... feels good to be organized, doesn't it? great couple of days harvesting (can't wait to see that walkway!) 🥰❤thanks for the video!! 🥰❤
THE most satisfying garden task is digging potatoes! Thanks for bringing us along!
Laura, you and your family are a blessing to so many people.
So awesome to reap the rewards of all your hard work. So great that you also bless others❣️
Such a great harvest! I do like to garden as well not using gloves. thanks Laura your always an inspiration.
I'm growing red globe onions in a grow bag for the first time this year. So excited!
I helped my dad harvest his potatoes once when we were visiting. He had an acreage and grew a big garden of potatoes, onions and beans and other stuff. My mom canned a lot of beans and canned a relish from what was left in the garden. Anyways, he would dig and I would pick them up, put them in a basket and then put them on a flat bed wagon to dry. I thought it was fun, but hard work too. Then in a few days, we’d brush off the dirt, inspect them. Use the ones he accidentally cut first. When I was young, my mom always sent me out to harvest a few new potatoes to put in the green beans she was cooking. They were so good. You’d just reach your hand under a plant and take a few little ones from each plant. I’d get a couple of onions too and just clean them right out there in the garden. So good. I miss those good old days.