Thanks for this video Josh and Caroline and wonderful kiddos! Thanks especially for giving us a peek at baby Nathaniel.. he's grown so much!! Blessings from southern Canada 🇨🇦
The girls look so much like momma! At first I thought Rachel was her momma 😂 Good to see such hard working kids. Also love the bean tunnel! Such a great idea!
It’s always interesting to see how different the seasons are from one state to another. We are in Southern California, close to the boarder to Mexico. We are able to grow in our garden all year round. Right now, a lot of my summer crops are finishing up. In October when it starts to cool down, we will start growing our cold weather crops. Summers are for fruit, berries, herbs, cucumbers and tomatoes. Beans do well too, and I was able to get a fair amount of peas. It get very hot from July through September, so most crops have some shade. I harvested plums today, and we are waiting for passion fruits and guava. We pretty much have fruit all year round. While I do a lot of canning, it’s mostly crops like berries, cucumbers and tomatoes since we can grow everything else all year. Right now I am planning my cold season, with lots of brassicas, and root vegetables, while I wait for out hot season crops to finish. We grow melons, winter squash and pumpkins during the hot season.
What an awesome huge Kohlrabi plants . Nice netting to protect from Flea-beetles !! Your peppers look great. Tomatoes hate 90 degrees an over, Nathaniel looks like the daddy's mini-me. Lovely , smart , glorious children harvesting the green beans. Your soil looks rich. You go Goose-berry girls ! Wow, noisy train ! Awesome garden tour...., nice grapes. You have a great growing space with lovely , well-planned crops. Do you deal with Gophers ??, they are the worst pest severing roots for not good reason. Awesome, well-planned garden of Eden.
There's not much better than a thriving garden with a bunch of cutie patooties running around in it! ❤️ I've suggested ollas in the past. Y'all really should consider them. They're a massive help with extreme temp changes.
Euer Bohnen- und Erbsentunnel ist großartig, wenn ich den Platz hätte würde ich das auf jeden Fall nachmachen. Super, daß Eure Kinder von Anfang an den Bezug zur Natur und zur eigenen Nahrung bekommen. Das ist sehr viel wert. Gute Idee, die Kohlköpfe mit Netzen vor den Erdflöhen zu schützen. Meine Asiasalate sahen vor lauter Löchern dieses Jahr selbst aus wie Netze. Danke für das schöne Video und Grüße aus Deutschland! Ich genieße es, Euren Videos zu folgen
Your garden looks wonderful! We have had trouble with deer and a woodchuck this year. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. God bless you and your beautiful family.
I use 40% shade cloth over my tomatoes, which I string up in a hoop tunnel and they are not stressed. I had cherry tomatoes in another section that were growing leggy, not many leaves, no fruit until I put up a shade cloth. It made all the difference, and same for my cucumbers, too. I just buy the type with grommets so I can attach them to anything. I even suspended one over my pumpkin patch which helped prevent afternoon heat stress. I Love them!
Same here in north central WA. I use shade cloth over my tunnel. Keeping the plastic on helps a little with the cold nights and the shade cloth makes all the difference in the hot days.
My parents taught me to seed carrots and radishes together. The radish seeds are bigger and they space the carrot seeds better. Radishes also mature faster and when you pull them you are creating spaces for the carrots to grow.
I grew up on a homestead in North Idaho. My favorite treat from the garden was gooseberry-strawberry jelly. I'm thinking about planting a gooseberry at my current house just to make it. On a side note, every time I watch your videos I wonder if I knew Carolyn as a kid. She feels very familiar. I mostly lived in Sagle and went to high school in Sandpoint.
In regards to the tomatoes being effected by possible residual chemicals, oats are a great cover crop in terms of bioremediation. The bacteria associated with them is great at breaking down glyphosate, atrazine, and other chemicals that stay in the soild for years. Of course, if you do cover crop it you shouldn't just have one species but if you did oats as over 50% of the mix and the only grass in the mix it should have a very good effect.
I just subscribed about 20 mins ago. I googled about planting carrots and your website is what came up first! Then i did a RUclips search to see if you had a channel and here we are!! Gosh if i could have 1/2 of the garden you do!! Mine is much smaller. Next garden 2024 is going to be much larger and i cant wait!!
Watching your kids not only harvest but are happy! Excellence in progress!! Loved the tour and the explanation of growing carrots. We live in Boise and will be starting a bigger full garden next year. For now ( no canner as yet) I have made salsa, pasta sauce and hubbies bbq sauce. Next is cucumber so I appreciate all of your information. Now subscribed and I have several courses of your beautiful wife’s! We so appreciate you! God bless!!
Garden looks good. Those Kohlrabi are huge - I have found that when they get large like that they have a tendency to split, much like a cabbage, and so I plant a little thicker to slow down the growth a bit. I am starting to think that growing single leader tomatoes is part of the issue with plant stress during the heat waves and such - I grow mine on trellis and do not prune at all. While perhaps the fruit is smaller the plants themselves are huge and there is minimal signs of stress. Granted I do not get up to 100+ F but we have had temps up to 90 (32 C) with cool nights similar to your temps and although I had to get a little brutel to tie them to the trellis recently, they look good. Just an observation I have made over last while. I like that basket Rachael. Good video!
Love your channel!! A couple of questions: 1. how far apart do you make your cattle panels for the pea tunnel? 2. What ordinal direction do you run the tunnels?
Love that y'all have some kohlrabi growing! We grew some kossack kohlrabi early this spring (in Georgia) and it got LARGE and was delicious in many different ways. We have always had great success when we alternately grow marigolds and basil between our tomatoes. Marigolds help eridacate root-knot nematodes and basil helps deter some of the pests. Thank you for the garden tour - everything looks so lovely!
Love this style of video! I can relate to your climate because im only a couple hours east of you in Montana and have the same issues with my tomatoes. Thank you homesteading family ❤
Same. I saved an extra tunnel for winter squash and they have done poorly. My beans were grown using the FL weave but outgrew and well, it's a mess. I think I am going move the tunnel and use it for beans next year plus grow crops that like shade underneath. Done deal.
Similar issues with tomatoes at my place. I now have them in built up metal garden beds which help to retain the heat for the cooler night time temperatures. I also have them near my metal fencing, so I shade during the day and then let the radiate heat in the cool of the day help keep the plants warm. I heavily mulch my tomatoes with pea straw.
Here in Northern Wisconsin it got too hot too quickly (80s in late may when we plant), none of our carrots germinated! Same thing with our Amish neighbors, nothing! Now that's the weather is a bit cooler (strange for this time of year), I've got some carrots seeds soaking to hopefully help germination. A winter without carrots will be a bland winter indeed.
The bean structure is really interesting. I would love to know more about construction of it and strategy and why (at least it looks like) the bean plants are on the inside
I live in the Desert, I accidentally found that the beige shade cloth doens't just help reduce heat in the day, helps keep them a bit warmer at night. Just an idea.
I would like to amend my garden soil for next year. I plant in boxes and in the ground. Should in get compost this fall and lay in the garden do it works in during the winter.. during the winter, I also drop the compost from the chicken coop.
I would love a series on what you do with the kohlrabi, turnips, beets once you get them in...i don't grow any of these because i don't know what to do with them other than roasting...same with leeks....also has adding the freeze dryer changed what or how much you plant of certain crops?
Video topic idea or pantry chat idea- Would you have any input on a concern I have about attempting this lifestyle (I'm 51 and Husband 52 and our son is grown). We dream of being more self- sufficient and living in the country. I have deep concern about how we would manage it all when we get old. God forbid one of us passes and the other can not do all the work required to keep it going. It would be devastating to then have to leave it all behind for city living again. Have you all thought about that and if so, what may be some advance preparations to combat this inevitable? Thank you for your consideration.
I planted my 5 rows of potatoes 7 to 8" deep and only 12" apart this summer knowing all i would need to do with them is to add water. I had the biggest crop I had ever gotten (6 to 10 medium to very large potatoes from each plant. My father (age 89) insisted i planted them wrong and wouldn't get any potatoes.
Can you give a link to the cover netting that is over your cauliflower? This video was great to see! So inspiring and has given me ideas for next year!
Hello from the mountains of NE Nevada. We also have a long storage time/short growing season. We have an issue with grasshoppers in the garden this year. They are a real pain! The birds do the best they can, but we're still overwhelmed with them. If you know any way to eradicate them please do share. They're hideous. Guh! Beautiful garden you guys 😍 Love seeing your bounty.
Same here. I did have to spray with Spinosad (OMRI approved). Whatever chewith, doth die. It kept the population down, but did not eradicate because I only did it once. I covered my kale, collards, and chard with a fine black netting to keep the chewers out. It's like screen material, but finer. I was using the white bug screen (cloth material) before but the grasshoppers chewed right through it. So, this year I ordered this 10x30 netting from amazon. As long as I can keep it weighted down all along the sides, it keeps out the grasshoppers, cabbage butterfly, and aphids. This netting is firmer than the cloth netting, too. I don't have a huge garden, so I cut it down to fit over several beds.
Thanks guys for the great ideas! Next year I'll be better prepared for sure. I dont remember having them this bad before and it caught me off guard I suppose. Thanks again!
Do you harvest and eat the carrot tops? I would think they would go well in soups & stews if dried. I always dry the celery leaves for soup & stews. Fresh celery leaves just peak up the flavor of any food you put them in.
I really like your bean tunnel. I was trying to look at how you have it in the ground, I'm assuming t-posts?? Also, it looks so nice and high as well as wide. Could you share your construction directions for making one?
Hi..love all your videos & have learned so much. I have a canning question & this is the newest video! What brand/ where to get a hotplate big enough for my pressure canner? I have a glass top stove! Did one load of ground venison & have almost ruined one of my burners. Ive seen Carolyn use a hotplate and just cant find one with a burner larger than 7". Any help would be so appreciated! And am looking forward to the Summit next month!
Do you know of someone who does something similar to you but lives close to north Florida. I love your lessons, but the heat here limits what I can use.
Curious about what you do with the greens from your carrots, beets, turnips, etc. Are they fresh critter food? Dried critter food? Or do you dry them and make a powdered green mix to add to soups and stews? Or do you feed them to your compost pile?
@@altasadventures1139 I have not and use diamataceous earth when I don't have wood ash----- works on squash borers too if you catch them soon enough and bury the destroyed vine after dusting.
All those sweet and beautiful blonde haired babies. That’s the most impressive crop you’ve grown!! ❤❤❤
Love how your daugthers are involve in the miracle of growing food.
That little adorable chunky monkey made my heart happy!! He is too adorable!!!
What an amazing garden.. beautiful!
Rachel looks just like her mom!
Thanks for this video Josh and Caroline and wonderful kiddos! Thanks especially for giving us a peek at baby Nathaniel.. he's grown so much!! Blessings from southern Canada 🇨🇦
Love the garden tour. Things looking good
I love seeing garden tours! I learn so much, and I get inspired. Thank you for sharing your garden.
Thank you for watching!
The girls look so much like momma! At first I thought Rachel was her momma 😂 Good to see such hard working kids. Also love the bean tunnel! Such a great idea!
I love seeing the whole family out there helping out!
It’s always interesting to see how different the seasons are from one state to another. We are in Southern California, close to the boarder to Mexico. We are able to grow in our garden all year round. Right now, a lot of my summer crops are finishing up. In October when it starts to cool down, we will start growing our cold weather crops. Summers are for fruit, berries, herbs, cucumbers and tomatoes. Beans do well too, and I was able to get a fair amount of peas. It get very hot from July through September, so most crops have some shade. I harvested plums today, and we are waiting for passion fruits and guava. We pretty much have fruit all year round. While I do a lot of canning, it’s mostly crops like berries, cucumbers and tomatoes since we can grow everything else all year. Right now I am planning my cold season, with lots of brassicas, and root vegetables, while I wait for out hot season crops to finish. We grow melons, winter squash and pumpkins during the hot season.
What an awesome huge Kohlrabi plants . Nice netting to protect from Flea-beetles !! Your peppers look great. Tomatoes hate 90 degrees an over, Nathaniel looks like the daddy's mini-me. Lovely , smart , glorious children harvesting the green beans. Your soil looks rich. You go Goose-berry girls ! Wow, noisy train ! Awesome garden tour...., nice grapes. You have a great growing space with lovely , well-planned crops. Do you deal with Gophers ??, they are the worst pest severing roots for not good reason. Awesome, well-planned garden of Eden.
There's not much better than a thriving garden with a bunch of cutie patooties running around in it! ❤️
I've suggested ollas in the past. Y'all really should consider them. They're a massive help with extreme temp changes.
Euer Bohnen- und Erbsentunnel ist großartig, wenn ich den Platz hätte würde ich das auf jeden Fall nachmachen.
Super, daß Eure Kinder von Anfang an den Bezug zur Natur und zur eigenen Nahrung bekommen. Das ist sehr viel wert.
Gute Idee, die Kohlköpfe mit Netzen vor den Erdflöhen zu schützen. Meine Asiasalate sahen vor lauter Löchern dieses Jahr selbst aus wie Netze.
Danke für das schöne Video und Grüße aus Deutschland!
Ich genieße es, Euren Videos zu folgen
Your garden looks wonderful! We have had trouble with deer and a woodchuck this year. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. God bless you and your beautiful family.
Love your garden.
One of my favourite videos in the past few months. Your family is amazing
I use 40% shade cloth over my tomatoes, which I string up in a hoop tunnel and they are not stressed. I had cherry tomatoes in another section that were growing leggy, not many leaves, no fruit until I put up a shade cloth. It made all the difference, and same for my cucumbers, too. I just buy the type with grommets so I can attach them to anything. I even suspended one over my pumpkin patch which helped prevent afternoon heat stress. I Love them!
Same here in north central WA. I use shade cloth over my tunnel. Keeping the plastic on helps a little with the cold nights and the shade cloth makes all the difference in the hot days.
Gonna have to try shade cloth-- maybe there is something as TOO much sun even for tomatoes. 😀
@@WarriorGnome definitely!!! Blessings everyone everywhere.
Super vidéo !
Blessings +++!!!
Rachel looks exactly like her mom!
💚 Garden and children looking good! Wow, that Kohlrabi is spectacular, so large a beautiful! 💚
Thank you!
I really enjoyed the walk through the garden. Your children are beautiful. Thanks for the video.
My parents taught me to seed carrots and radishes together. The radish seeds are bigger and they space the carrot seeds better. Radishes also mature faster and when you pull them you are creating spaces for the carrots to grow.
Your garden looks wonderful! I always look for your videos, they are the greatest! Love the basket on the back!
Thank you so much!
Beautiful garden, I wish I had your skills.....
Thanks for visiting!
Very nice garden, the family has done exceptionally well starting and harvesting 🙏
I grew up on a homestead in North Idaho. My favorite treat from the garden was gooseberry-strawberry jelly. I'm thinking about planting a gooseberry at my current house just to make it.
On a side note, every time I watch your videos I wonder if I knew Carolyn as a kid. She feels very familiar. I mostly lived in Sagle and went to high school in Sandpoint.
My cousin lives in Sandpoint.
In regards to the tomatoes being effected by possible residual chemicals, oats are a great cover crop in terms of bioremediation. The bacteria associated with them is great at breaking down glyphosate, atrazine, and other chemicals that stay in the soild for years. Of course, if you do cover crop it you shouldn't just have one species but if you did oats as over 50% of the mix and the only grass in the mix it should have a very good effect.
Wow, good to learn, thank you!!
I just subscribed about 20 mins ago. I googled about planting carrots and your website is what came up first! Then i did a RUclips search to see if you had a channel and here we are!! Gosh if i could have 1/2 of the garden you do!! Mine is much smaller. Next garden 2024 is going to be much larger and i cant wait!!
Watching your kids not only harvest but are happy! Excellence in progress!!
Loved the tour and the explanation of growing carrots. We live in Boise and will be starting a bigger full garden next year. For now ( no canner as yet) I have made salsa, pasta sauce and hubbies bbq sauce. Next is cucumber so I appreciate all of your information. Now subscribed and I have several courses of your beautiful wife’s! We so appreciate you! God bless!!
Good tips
If the rest of our garden grew like our kale does, there would be no hunger in the world…
Ever try putting busted raw eggs under tomato plants? Seems to help them fight disease. Many grand blessings everyone everywhere.
Thanks for some great tips. I will put them to good use in Spring here in Australia.
I keep the carrot tops and dry them. They are loaded with vitamin K and I use them in stir fry veggies and soups, all year round!
Garden looks good. Those Kohlrabi are huge - I have found that when they get large like that they have a tendency to split, much like a cabbage, and so I plant a little thicker to slow down the growth a bit. I am starting to think that growing single leader tomatoes is part of the issue with plant stress during the heat waves and such - I grow mine on trellis and do not prune at all. While perhaps the fruit is smaller the plants themselves are huge and there is minimal signs of stress. Granted I do not get up to 100+ F but we have had temps up to 90 (32 C) with cool nights similar to your temps and although I had to get a little brutel to tie them to the trellis recently, they look good. Just an observation I have made over last while. I like that basket Rachael. Good video!
Love your channel!! A couple of questions: 1. how far apart do you make your cattle panels for the pea tunnel? 2. What ordinal direction do you run the tunnels?
Loved seeing the kids enjoying harvesting!
Your Kohlrabis are amazing. I wished I could find them in our grocery stores. We can’t grow them in Central Texas. It is just too hot.
So great to see the kids helping and of course the baby ❤️
You have been a blessing, thank you for sharing your knowledge and life with us
Love carrots! I live in zone 9, Southeast (coastal) Texas. We are 10” low on rain. Having to water to keep plants alive.
Same Same. Having to water daily.
great vid thanks 4 sharing
Thanks for watching!
Love that y'all have some kohlrabi growing! We grew some kossack kohlrabi early this spring (in Georgia) and it got LARGE and was delicious in many different ways. We have always had great success when we alternately grow marigolds and basil between our tomatoes. Marigolds help eridacate root-knot nematodes and basil helps deter some of the pests. Thank you for the garden tour - everything looks so lovely!
Love this style of video! I can relate to your climate because im only a couple hours east of you in Montana and have the same issues with my tomatoes. Thank you homesteading family ❤
Tha k you for the walking tour. What a beautiful garden. Now I want a bean tunnel 😅
Same. I saved an extra tunnel for winter squash and they have done poorly. My beans were grown using the FL weave but outgrew and well, it's a mess. I think I am going move the tunnel and use it for beans next year plus grow crops that like shade underneath. Done deal.
Similar issues with tomatoes at my place. I now have them in built up metal garden beds which help to retain the heat for the cooler night time temperatures. I also have them near my metal fencing, so I shade during the day and then let the radiate heat in the cool of the day help keep the plants warm. I heavily mulch my tomatoes with pea straw.
Here in Northern Wisconsin it got too hot too quickly (80s in late may when we plant), none of our carrots germinated! Same thing with our Amish neighbors, nothing!
Now that's the weather is a bit cooler (strange for this time of year), I've got some carrots seeds soaking to hopefully help germination. A winter without carrots will be a bland winter indeed.
I love this video! ❤ What a beautiful family and garden! 🥰
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve missed seeing videos like this!
The bean structure is really interesting. I would love to know more about construction of it and strategy and why (at least it looks like) the bean plants are on the inside
More on it here: homesteadingfamily.com/diy-bean-tunnel-or-hoop-house/
@@HomesteadingFamily Thank you! Thank you! I hadn't seen that video.
Rachel sounds like Caroline ❤
I live in the Desert, I accidentally found that the beige shade cloth doens't just help reduce heat in the day, helps keep them a bit warmer at night. Just an idea.
Beautiful garden. Congratulations
I would like to amend my garden soil for next year. I plant in boxes and in the ground. Should in get compost this fall and lay in the garden do it works in during the winter.. during the winter, I also drop the compost from the chicken coop.
I would love a series on what you do with the kohlrabi, turnips, beets once you get them in...i don't grow any of these because i don't know what to do with them other than roasting...same with leeks....also has adding the freeze dryer changed what or how much you plant of certain crops?
Video topic idea or pantry chat idea- Would you have any input on a concern I have about attempting this lifestyle (I'm 51 and Husband 52 and our son is grown). We dream of being more self- sufficient and living in the country. I have deep concern about how we would manage it all when we get old. God forbid one of us passes and the other can not do all the work required to keep it going. It would be devastating to then have to leave it all behind for city living again. Have you all thought about that and if so, what may be some advance preparations to combat this inevitable? Thank you for your consideration.
Rachael looks a lot like Carolyn.
I thought that too!
Lol, you lost me on the crunching! I can't stand listening to people chew! On a positive note, you have great sound quality 😂
I planted my 5 rows of potatoes 7 to 8" deep and only 12" apart this summer knowing all i would need to do with them is to add water. I had the biggest crop I had ever gotten (6 to 10 medium to very large potatoes from each plant.
My father (age 89) insisted i planted them wrong and wouldn't get any potatoes.
Forty one degree nights?? Oh, I wish! It's miserable hot in the south!
We're getting 90's days only in the last month and then 50's-60s nights.
Can you give a link to the cover netting that is over your cauliflower? This video was great to see! So inspiring and has given me ideas for next year!
Hello from the mountains of NE Nevada. We also have a long storage time/short growing season. We have an issue with grasshoppers in the garden this year. They are a real pain! The birds do the best they can, but we're still overwhelmed with them. If you know any way to eradicate them please do share. They're hideous. Guh!
Beautiful garden you guys 😍 Love seeing your bounty.
Same here. I did have to spray with Spinosad (OMRI approved). Whatever chewith, doth die. It kept the population down, but did not eradicate because I only did it once.
I covered my kale, collards, and chard with a fine black netting to keep the chewers out. It's like screen material, but finer. I was using the white bug screen (cloth material) before but the grasshoppers chewed right through it.
So, this year I ordered this 10x30 netting from amazon. As long as I can keep it weighted down all along the sides, it keeps out the grasshoppers, cabbage butterfly, and aphids. This netting is firmer than the cloth netting, too. I don't have a huge garden, so I cut it down to fit over several beds.
Thanks guys for the great ideas! Next year I'll be better prepared for sure. I dont remember having them this bad before and it caught me off guard I suppose. Thanks again!
More garden video's with the kids!❤
Do you harvest and eat the carrot tops? I would think they would go well in soups & stews if dried. I always dry the celery leaves for soup & stews. Fresh celery leaves just peak up the flavor of any food you put them in.
Your garden looks amazing. I notice you companion plant. Do you have a book you can recommend on companion planting?
Do you use carrot tops for eating???? Many grand blessings everyone everywhere
I really like your bean tunnel. I was trying to look at how you have it in the ground, I'm assuming t-posts?? Also, it looks so nice and high as well as wide. Could you share your construction directions for making one?
More on it here: homesteadingfamily.com/diy-bean-tunnel-or-hoop-house/
Where are you located? Beautiful gardens.
Would like information on the basket
Hi..love all your videos & have learned so much. I have a canning question & this is the newest video! What brand/ where to get a hotplate big enough for my pressure canner? I have a glass top stove! Did one load of ground venison & have almost ruined one of my burners. Ive seen Carolyn use a hotplate and just cant find one with a burner larger than 7". Any help would be so appreciated! And am looking forward to the Summit next month!
How do you deal with potato bugs
Beautiful job in your grocery this year
Do you know of someone who does something similar to you but lives close to north Florida. I love your lessons, but the heat here limits what I can use.
What does it take to cure vegetables for winter storage?
how do you keep the weeds and grass out of your garden?
Curious about what you do with the greens from your carrots, beets, turnips, etc. Are they fresh critter food? Dried critter food? Or do you dry them and make a powdered green mix to add to soups and stews? Or do you feed them to your compost pile?
We like to use our greens like this: homesteadingfamily.com/diy-homemade-super-greens-powder/
Do you direct sow your celery or transplant? I live in WA and haven’t had success getting seed to start indoors 🙁
Do you preserve the grapes for storage somehow?
What is the sprinker system you use?
Do you know if kohlrabi can handle a light frost?
Have you tried wood ash on cabbages?
@@altasadventures1139 I have not and use diamataceous earth when I don't have wood ash----- works on squash borers too if you catch them soon enough and bury the destroyed vine after dusting.
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I grew carrots this season, but they’re all chodes.