Taking Over Kevin's Homestead!
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- Опубликовано: 24 июн 2024
- While Kevin enjoys his well-deserved vacation, Jacques and Paul are revisiting their year-old test garden. Today's project: reviving some sweet potato slips! Watch them construct a cattle panel trellis and documenting the entire experiment. Stay tuned for the results!
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This was my first time seeing Paul, and I both love how dry he sounds, and also how he and Jacques kept sniggering together like a couple of kids. Film more of yourselves before Kevin gets back! LOL
For the past 3 years, I have planted my sweet potatoes in metal filing cabinets. Last year, I got 75 pounds of sweet potatoes! They loved the heat of the cabinet and just flourished. It was nice to reuse something that would have landed in the land fill and get a successful crop that was so easy to do. I enjoyed watching the vining go over the cabinet and all over the backyard gardens. Bonus, the vines helped keep the weeds at bay as well.
That’s cool
That's so cool! Did you take the drawers out and lay it down on the ground? I'm trying to picture it.
@@nicolephillips4320 I did take the drawers out, making sure that there is a bottom to the cabinet or the dirt a would fall out. I filled it up with some smaller logs on the bottom, some straw, used up potting mix and a few bags of new soil to keep it light for a growing medium. The sweet potatoes were various sizes from small to large! Best harvest to date. I can't garden directly into the ground anymore because of severe back issues, so this is one way I can still enjoy gardening. Everything is in raised beds, large pots, bags or Greenstalks now. I also use the metal drawers to cut grow flowers in or herbs. These file cabinets work great.
@@nicolephillips4320 the cabinet sits on its backside, upright, so where the drawers would be is facing the sky.
Jacque is like Bob Ross but a gardener... You know what I mean?
“happy little peas…” 😂😊
Yes! 😂
For those buying cattle panel. Tractor Supply sells and delivers it if you don't have a large van or a truck. It's where I got mine a few months ago!
Good to know
"So, Kevin's chickens, the most spoiled chickens in the world - -" I'm dead😂
Spoiled chickens are the best kind of chickens ❤
YAY a Paul and Jacques video!
Need more Jacques and Paul videos!!
You 2 need to be a new regular segment. The Roo’d Boys. Lol😂
I am using sweet potatoes as ground cover/understory ,soil builder in Central West Florida. 2 sweet potatoes turned into a couple hundred slips.
Paul is such a cutie!!! More of him please! 😊
Paul and Jacques, you guys are so flippin cute raiding Kevin’s fruits. I love seeing Paul in more videos these days - Paul, you’re awesome! Maybe someday I’ll be brave/confident enough and join the RUclipsr family like you legends. PS 4 yr old says “hi again to Jacques-y!”
Suddenly feeling a lot better about my sweet potato planting last week 🤣 My slips weren't looking great but I also didn't have my grow bags yet, so I stuck them in water so they wouldn't die. Then after I got them planted, the only part of my garden that fit them was partially shaded. Now I'm feeling confident that those were both were actually good things to do for them! Yay!
Great job Jacques and Paul :D
One year I ordered slips. When they arrived, they were pathetic. I called the company. They said to plant them, they should be fine. I did and they actually grew like crazy. I got some big ass sweet potatoes. This year, i put in water prior to planting. They are taking off.
I’m growing my sweet potatoes in grow bags. I saved some of the plant from last year and had it in the house as a house plant. I kept making new plants from it. When I planted it there were little sweet potatoes. I got a good harvest last year, so I put them in the same spot. I just started another bag because I found some slips on a sweet potato in the house from the store. You guys are great. So much fun. 😊
Kevin: interacts with Jacques
Jacques: now you'll find out why i'm the gardening *hermit*
I planted purple sweet potato slips 🌱🍠from the Asian market and they’ve done great in the heat. Delicious foliage, and smoky flavored roots.
Peaches and nectarines DO ripen off the tree. Often good to harvest them right before they get soft to beat the birds and pest to it. They will get both softer and sweeter off the tree
Yo Jacque, you should go on vacation and maybe Kevin can come over and install that pond he keeps hinting at!
I don’t normally comment tho I love your channels Kevin as well as Jacques’. Today I just wanted to mention how nice your garden areas are looking. You’ve all worked very hard to make it look very warm, welcoming, and beautiful these past several months. I hope you’re able to actually enjoy it as well (you all work SO hard), glad to hear you got a vaca. Thanks so much for sharing. Take care and God bless you all. ~ Lisa
You need the gopher spike that vibrates. They don’t like the vibrations in the ground. Pinwheels also vibrate the ground slightly when they spin. If you can find the hole opening sprinkle some hot pepper powder in it. Next year put hardware cloth in the ground around your borders. They can go above ground and back under to get past the hardware cloth but then maybe a predator gets them while they are above ground. I put it around my entire property, vertically buried and horizontally. Hardware cloth is usually 25-50 cents per square foot.
I'm growing sweet potatoes in Birdies and your grow bags this year. I started my slips in my kitchen from sweet potatoes I bought in the grocery store produce dept. I also kept mine covered with shade cloth for two weeks. I live in the central valley of CA zone 9b. The micro climate in my yard is very hot on hot days because my home is in a track housing development so I use shade cloth a lot. I built a pannel trellis for them to climb on. Right now they all look healthy. I'm excited to see what they do when I get to harvest them. I love to watch these test videos you share. Can't wait to see what your results are, too! Thanks for sharing!! I'malso very interested in the gopher stakes you're testing!
Thank you for using a cattle panel in this video!!! I asked for this in one of the surveys I took. You all are amazing!
My sweet potatoes went in 3 weeks ago. Zone 8 GA. We've already had a couple days of 100+ degrees. They're taking off.
I started my own slips from last year's minimal harvest.
I didn't do nearly as good a job at loosening the soil as you did, but I did improve on last year. I've been dumping grass clippings on that spot since I pulled them last fall. I tilled that in back in April.. now it looks like there were never clippings there.
My ground eats organic matter.
Most of my garden is in grow bags...
a few pots,
some 18 gallon totes (squash, low in the bin, we have wicked winds over here)
and 5 of those stone looking, above the knee high, round planters.
I'm starting asparagus crown in two of them.. marigolds, lots of them in another (my transplants come out of that one)
and the other 3 are catching all my summer garden pruning debris on top of native dirt (can't call it soil) preparing for my winter garden.. I want broccoli, cauliflower and dwarf peas in those.
I lobe my cattle panel arcs! If you want it a little wider to have room to walk through after everything starts climbing on it I space mine wider but then lift it off the ground 18inches to 2foot off the ground on both sides! Still get the great height and plenty of width to walk through when the plants that are climbing it go crazy! 😅
I’m growing sweet potatoes for the first time this year. I have no clue what variety, I just grew slips off the organic ones that I buy at Costco 😆 I have a very short growing season so I don’t anticipate a major harvest but our summers are very hot and we have a lot of sun hours up here in a northern state so 🤞🏼
You guys are a riot! Way to fill in for Kevin. 😂
For the first time growing sweet potatoes I used a grow bag, an experiment. It turned out well but there are things I am going to do for the new growing season in Tasmania, Australia in my cool to temperate zone. Working on a micro climate to build up the heat for their desired growing conditions. Love experimenting in the garden. I have to work out if I can grow out of my zone. Just gone into winter now, can't wait for spring in October.
Plant daddy left without getting a garden babysitter 😱
Good thing the garden hermit saved the day 🙌
That's it!
It seems that soft soil is best.
My soil was packed
I couldn't even fit my fingers in, let alone my hands.
So I could only make micro mini carrots😭
It was the size of my little finger
I also tend to squeeze my onigiri very tightly. 🍙
Please try the onigiri too.
Looks like I need to pile up some soil.
Each time you water it, the soil gets firmer and harder.
What shall I do
You are harvesting big, big fruits. (👀!)
Touching the fruit brings back a nostalgic sound😏🚼🎶
Is that how you shade potatoes?
I love the troll of Kevin's fruit. You snooze you loose, or just go on leave 😂
I did bayou belle last year grew 90lbs in 4 4x4 square ft beds my neighbor couldn't believe it he has been growing Beauregard for years in ground .
Loved this episode.........hysterical! I even snorted LOL!!!
You should set up a fence to let the chickens forage under the fruit trees
Love when yall take over his garden 😂
I have had papaya struggles myself but I finally have fruits for the first time, after 3 years of trying!
The banter in this episode was great
Arc de soleil, cool hearing them here. Good taste
Those spikes got rid of my vole problem.
I saw the gopher hawk traps in the potatoes. Surprised you didn’t mention them as they work great!
I have those spikes, used them for 2 years and so far no issues
I put gopher wire under all my raised beds to keep critters out. New house has moles and they have trails all around the beds but not in them thank goodness. No dahlia tubers for them!
OMGosh, those peaches look delish!!! 😋😋😋
Beauregard is a popular southern variety. It’s used in sweet potato pie,amongst other southern dishes.
LOVE this!
No joke I harvest basketball yes basketball sized sw. Potatoes last year from a raised bed. Digging them out was insane 😳... I did containers this year lol
Yeah, I didn't know much about planting these out and I put 6 in a 5 gallon bucket. I guess I am just growing vines this season! lol
Good 👍
I have had great success using gopher spikes AND castor oil granules. Molemax has the granules and they are available at Home Depot, probably elsewhere. Follow the directions on the bottle. I'd love to hear if anyone has success with this method.
you wanna fork it well so you can shove your hand in easily 😅
love Jacques!
Go Jacques!😊. Go Paul!😊
i hope this becomes a series or a recurrent thing everytime kevin is away
Time for a peach cobbler with some vanilla ice cream.
More Paul!!
Whatever happened to the sweet potatoes in the half-barrels that Kevin did a video on? Never saw the end result. I'm trying it out with Stokes Purple sweet potatoes from slips that I cultivated myself. I'm in coastal Ventura County 10a. Fingers crossed!
My son who's 8 yes old just adores the "squishy" sounds of the 🍑. Man he just chuckles. 😅
The GopherHawk trap works great!
Great Video! I was wondering if you can give me the brand name for the broad fork that you used in the video?
Hey jaques! Just wondering what that round hose attachment is. I always see it but was wondering what its purpose is.
A note with cattle panels tunnels. I set the Tpost at 4 feet wide and leave a 1-1.5 ft gap from the ground. I find it's easier to add fert, compost, mulch and also clear out the plants once they're done for the season. 🫶🏼 Any string or stick can be added to make up the gap for vines
EPIC Letterkenny reference from the Rookie!!!!!
My friend told me her neighbor has hearing aids for his daughter and she picks up the frequency from the pest control device she has in her yard. He kindly asked if she could remove or turn off certain times during the day when the child needs to have her aids on.
Wow! I never would have thought of that. Good to know!
I may or may not have a crush on Paul 🙃
Really honoring that garden hermit title
Can you guys do a video or provide some suggestions on ant control? I’m in Arizona, and they have invaded my garden bed! They laugh at Diatomaceous Earth, and the garden safe Terro ant baits didn’t work. I even tried cornmeal? As a last effort, I’m hoping cedar mulch might help convince them to move out. So frustrating….I’m sick of being bitten.
I live in Phoenix, just take your hose and find the main hole they are coming from and flood that hole with the hose, that will make the ants move from that location and if your lucky and drown the queen then the whole colony will become confused and die
Borax and sugar recipe. 1 part borax to 3 parts sugar in a jar with holes in the top. They take that to queen and they all die. There are ant traps with the same mixture. Borax is in the laundry section. They ate my beets. I had to start another round and they are still small now.
I feel like the arch should be a little wider. Once it fills with vines you won’t be able to go through it.
I do grits or boiling water or leave them alone if they're not bothering me.
papayas grow like weeds here in Florida. if only I liked papayas.....lol
Jacques and Paul, I heard a rumor that Eric said it was OK to eat some fruit!
I might try potatoes next year. Idk I’m on the fence.
Does Paul have his own garden he's like to show off?
I put a similar spike in my moms yard. The gophers are not impressed. They are still there and digging. If yours works I need details.
I have those gopher spikes in the ground where my morning glories, wild flowers and sweet peas are.I think hey are used to the sound. I am trying gas now. I'm fed up tring to Deter them. I want them gone.
Sweet potato slips are very hearty
Papayas are good in salsa
Research it
You don’t need shade cloth for sweet taters , they like hot weather, a good 4 months of hot weather
The peaches are beautiful
I’d make an apple pie
I feel like the trellis should be wider. Once you have vines growing on it, you won’t be able to walk through it.
They had to make it tall as Kevin is quite tall, but you are not wrong ! I felt a bit claustrophobic looking at it !
Y'all got ripped off with slips that weren't even rooted? My slips only handled water only for a short time. Then I temporarily put them in a pot, and they got TOO big. . . lol Good luck!
Fert in the planting hole? Its very easy to over fertilize and get too many leafs not many tubers, that my prediction 😂
A terrier will take care of the gophers 😂
PAULLL✨️✨️
Wait you didn’t create your own slips? What?!
jaques has annexed kevins property
Gophers spikes don’t work at all. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news
How does Eric feel/
Como Paulqueria
Now if you paint the T posts black, they’ll disappear 👍
Lol
Hello ❤❤❤❤
Who's Kevin? I thought that place belonged to Eric
You guys are so funny
(btw first)
Stone fruit pits and chickens are a big no-no.
3 yrs later u will still be digging up potatoes
Could you stop the ringing? It sounds like I'm getting too many phone calls
It is a constant disappointment with friends and you-tubers: these men build a great, fulfilling life and once all the hard work is done and rewards are coming, here comes the “girlfriend”. And she gets to decorate his home, decide his sleep schedule and actually takes him away from the things that made him prosperous.
In this case: his garden.
Kevin, I hope you see this.
This girlfriend will crush you out.
I see it around me with successful men that fall for it.
Here are the crush out steps: hard working man, ready to get his rewards.
Here comes the girlfriend. She wants you to work less.
She becomes wife.
Has a kid. Two.
You have to work more.
She complains you just grew apart.
Here comes the divorce.
She keeps the garden , the kids and half of everything.
She moves in the boyfriend. Your garden becomes lawn.
And you are back to your patio garden.
Hard working men: the girlfriend that comes in your life to decorate your home, is the girlfriend that will destroy your life and you will never get to your retirenment.
Just stop please.
I have seen it too many times.
This is the wife of a successful man, that has been for 20 years and we both started with nothing.
Please believe me: if you are already successful , just stay single.
I don’t like anyone in my garden .
A matter of biosecurity with my poultry.
You shouldn't feed your chickens apples. The seeds are poisonous to chickens