Thanks for the video ❤ Try putting down ur soil enhancements from lower, as its mostly power, its easy to breath in some of them in. Even if its organic it will still affect ur respiratory organs if u breath in the stuff. Same goes with cleaning sprays u use in the house. So instead of spraying on to surfaces, u can spray on to sponge or microfiber cloth n then use the cloth to wipe down. Hope this helps. ❤
I wish I could properly express how nearly miraculous it is that you can take a little chunk of potato, plant it in dirt and it grows two, three, five, new, beautiful potatoes...from what? Dirt? Air? It's truly a work of God, like all His creation, we often take for granted. Enjoy your beautiful harvest.
Yes Kelsey. I'm in Hawaii, and so many people are sick here. It's a days long headache that turns a cough for weeks. It must be what they are spraying over us. I'm super health conscious, too. Eat fresh and all homemade. It's very different this year for sure. Your harvest looked pretty great to me. Those potatoes looked amazing. What type did you plant? They look thin skinned which is my favorite. Thanks for another great video.
Hi! I just wanted to say that I absolutely love your Patty! She is so beautiful, she looks almost exactly the same as a cat my family had, her name was Tiffany, and she lived until she was 23 years old, she was best mouser ever! Your Patty seems so affectionate ❤️
I loved watching you dig the potatoes. Sorry you’re not feeling well. I’m 82 and lots of my friends have been having illness on and off all this year and just can’t seem to kick it and have no explanation as to what it is. Several had been diagnosed with bronchitis, but they don’t think it’s that. I had a touch of it but was able to do ok the rest of the time. My prayers are with you. I’m in eastern PA. I just enjoy your channel so much. Love your little family and gardens. ❤
Soil & potato variety, good. Some refuse to store long term. Coming out Dry is the first storage hurdle. Keeping them Dry preserves the longest. Cd try diatomaceous earth+ absorbent newspaper balls or shreds. Store cool, dark, cover w/ air cloth. Do not air lock containers. Sometimes stored in heavy grocery bags 5-10 lbs at a time is better than a large bin. *I live in NE OH & immediately plant those tiny potatoes. Can often get Xmas harvest from them. Best Wishes.
Potatoes look good! Ours should be ready by the time we get back from PA, yes I get to see my beautiful mountains and camp in them too! Our grow time in Mn is almost over and with the flooding and heavy rains I am glad I didnt plant alot this year. We get about 110 grow days here in a good year so no second crops for us. I am looking forward to being able to do that again once back in PA! Blessings!
I really enjoy your content Kelsey, informative, beautiful and inspiring and sweet music. We live in New Zealand and our family including us all over the country have repeatedly got sick this year. One of my children's family have had pneumonia and viruses with two adults and two children. It is the same for friends and people we talk to. We eat out of our garden all year and have chickens etc.
I watched a you tube the other day and she did something new to me. She kept row cover over her bug magnet plants and from day to day she would hand pollinate. The plant she showed was a big zucchini plant that was pristine under cover. She didn’t mention it but I think you could probably control the number of zukes you get by only pollinating the number you want at a particular time. All available or partial. Also, the flowers were beautiful, if you like to stuff them.
You and the family take care of yourselves. God bless you all. And I think you have a really good harvest overall. I wish I could grow a garden again. But I still buy from the farmers and can what I can and enjoy that food that doesn’t have the preservatives in.
What a beautiful harvest! You do an amazing job. So sorry you are sick! Homesteading Family just did a video and they are detoxing. Josh was especially sick and they explained how it’s part of the body’s response to the detoxing process. Idk if that could be part of what you are experiencing? Praying you are all better soon. ❤️🙏🏻Val C
118 lbs of potatoes is a good start for the year. Hopefully your second harvest will be good so that you have enough for the year. Sorry to hear that you are sick again. We have not had sickness in our house thankfully. I’m going through chemo so I stay home and don’t go to stores so I not exposing myself. Sending prayers for a speedy recovery for you and your family ❤
I soooo enjoy watching your videos. My small garden is not producing that great. I live a few hours north of you along NY/PA border. My raspberry early crop has been just enough to eat fresh and second crop may be better but not great. Lots of hot hot weather and not enough rain. Praying you and your family get feeling better abd keep sharing. You are an inspiration!!
My son was sick ALL the time with any and all viruses that was in the classroom. He had pneumonia at the age of 10, again going around the classroom. His friend had it twice and was hospitalized. We spent too much time at the urgent care! I started using a teaspoon full of coconut oil in my coffee every morning and noticed I quit catching all his sickness. So, I started him on coconut oil every morning, just a teaspoon full in a little hot chocolate. (He loved it, it tasted like a Mounds Hot Chocolate). He quit getting sick, we went almost 3 years without any sickness! I was even a lunch lady around kids all day, still no sickness! We got lazy, quit the coconut oil, and he gets mono from school, I got sick with it as well. Short story long...." Organic Unrefined " Coconut Oil, I buy mine at Aldi, for $5 a pint jar, pure GOLD! Blessings to all! Edit to add, we've had no pokes, never had c**id.
Nice potato harvest. Sorry you and your family are getting sick so often. My husband and I have not gotten sick this year. We don’t tend to get sick often or for long if we do
I have had an organic garden since 1980 which feeds my family and the childcare loves I have cared for since the 70's. I fully believe both have allowed me great health, as my immunities are constantly being boosted, I work long days, ten hours with the children and many hours growing and prepping food. I have had one sick day in all those years. Blessed in so many ways. I do take precautions. Sanitize surfaces before and after meals. Have children wash hand properly several times per day. Pre-soak all eating utensils in a bleach solution before washing, Every child has their own designated cup. I feel small measures add up to great results. Love you and your channel. Prayers for great health for all your family,
It’s so therapeutic to harvest potatoes or any root vegetable. You never know how many potatoes you’ll get. It’s also rather therapeutic to watch you as well. You’re so slow and methodical about it. Please don’t use a form or anything but your hands. Maybe your kids’ hands. But God gave you those tools first. Plus it’s so much fun! I’m so sorry your family has the yuckahs again. We haven’t had anything going around here up Maine way. We keep raw unfiltered local honey in our daily diet plus we weekly detox. Maybe that’s why. Maybe it just isn’t up in Maine. 🙏🏼healing prayers for you and your family ❤
I agree that harvesting potatoes is like being on a treasure hunt. Sometimes you find treasure and other times not. I’m needing to amend some beds that when we first started a garden we filled with top soil 😮. I knew right away that was a mistake because of how the dirt was compacting. You mentioned mushroom dirt and I am curious if that is used for nutrients or for aiding the soil to break down or both? Also, what nutrients were you using in the beds you planted the second round of potatoes in? Our potato harvest wasn’t to great. I believe the lack of loose soil didn’t help. I did fertilize the beds but maybe can do better with that as well. Praying for a speedy recovery for your family and you friend. Have a blessed week.
Pretty good harvest. We could never grow a lot of potatoes on our homestead. We tried everything but never got a good harvest. We have gotten upper respiratory or head colds every couple of months here as well. It goes through the whole family. We just go over our last bout of it. We take vitamin C daily and elder berry too.
Those tiny potatoes are around $5 for a small bag in Central Texas. My son-in-law cooks them, takes a fork, and smashes them halfway. They are always a big hit with everyone, including the kids. I loved watching you dig up all of the beautiful potatoes.
I saw someone turn a chest freezer into a place to store produce long term, like potatoes, carrots, apples, etc. Google it, or do a RUclips search if you're curious. I know they had to have the correct humidity and darkness, along with the optimal temperature.
This is a good thought. When I was looking into cheese caves there were hacks to convert fridges into a cave which requires temp and humidity regulation. As I recall there was a small piece of equipment that attached to the fridge that regulated. Maybe something to look into for cold storage.
Have you ever tried growing potatoes in containers? Can dump the soil on to a tarp and not have to use a gardening tool at all to find the potatoes, may help with avoiding spearing the potatoes 🤗 great videos as usual!
I have! I’ve tried grow bags twice and they were my poorest harvest yet 😂 could be user error lol. I was so irritated I haven’t tried again, perhaps I’ll give it a go in the future if my sweet potatoes do well this year!( I have them in grow bags!)
Potatoes, I didn't plant potatoes this year because we didn't get much harvest no matter what I have done. Tried ruth stout, in dirt, over sprouted potatoes not seed. I have one spot that gets quite a bit of sun. But all my plants want it!😂 Just felt the harvest wasn't worth the work. They were the best tasting potatoes however! Hubby would have to add beds up on our hill, in meadow area ...but schelping amendments UPHILL is not very exciting to me! Lol I have so much to do as it is!
All the time we spend planning, starting seeds and transplanting I can't believe it's already August. It goes by so quickly. I'm already planning out next year's garden 😂😂
Great harvest friend! The heat here in Florida also got to many of my potatoes. So encouraging to watch you harvest from all your hard work and efforts❤ I'm also going to do a second planting of potatoes🙂🙏
I'm fairly new to watching you. Sorry about your peas, have you tested your soils acidity or alkaline status? Temperatures of soil is also important when planting. Keep up the fantastic lifestyle you have for your family
Great harvest!!! Sorry to hear you are sick again. Hubby and I haven't been sick for well over ten years. We never got the J......, spend everyday outside working in the garden and free ranging the chickens and ducks. We are swamped at the moment with tomatoes and peppers so it's canning season every morning for us. Very little time going to the grocery store and never wore a face diaper. Our adult kids who got the J..... are always sick with a cold which seems like it's every few months. They also had to wear face diapers at work. I hope you feel better soon as I'm sure that's not pleasant when having young children and a garden to tend to. Rest up and keep growing. Love watching your videos as they are so real and peaceful to watch.
@@seedandsparrowhomestead So happy to hear. Do you do Elderberry tincture and syrup? Every morning before our coffee we take elderberry tincture and at bedtime take a teaspoon of elderberry syrup. Not sure that is what has worked for us. I do grow a lot of Elderberry in our backyard so able to make a years worth for our family.
I just remember when I was your age and I had two littles and I worked in the health care industry, I caught everything!! Now I’m in my 60s and I haven’t been sick in decades. Your immune system is getting everything at once and it’s building your immune system. Hopefully your medicinal herbs will help you cope!
Yes I have had an on going URI of sorts for almost a year. It WAs dx. As chronic sinusitis. Can't seem to get rid of it. Had RSV in January. Had a cough ever since. I've started on some herbal teas. Hoping for some results.
Garden by trees, maybe the PH/ composition is off due to trees too? We have an area thats like that too. We had a few trees taken down too. Adding lime really seems to help our area, frankly our whole yard, grass, everything!😂
Hi Kelsey. I was wondering, how much water do you set your irrigation for in these potato beds? I’ve grown in raised beds and grow bags and am doing in-ground next year so just wondering about a baseline. We probably have rockier more clay heavy soil up here but still similar growing conditions in Northeast PA.
Do you make thyme and red onion fermented honey? It’s very beneficial as a preventative as well as taken first sign of symptoms. We live a very healthy lifestyle as well but I have noticed that I have to up my prevention if I babysit my nephews.
have you ever dry canned potatoes......my favorite way ...I do them in diced for hash browns, in F.F. sticks, in chunks to mash, i have a old coal room in my basement but i still love canning them once i found this way also. so nice to just open and jar and have potatoes ready and not mushy. pan fry, air fry , heat and mash. I learned from grow and preserve channel .
That’s one method I can’t get behind. I’m a pretty by the book canner, I only use safe, approved recipes and methods. I’m a little more lenient than some but dry canning is just not something I’m comfortable with. I always say “your kitchen, your rules” ☺️
@janlovesiowa6142 I am interested in the dry canning method, I saw that Ruthann Zimmerman does hers that way. I figure Im going to cook them after I take them out of the jar, so even if they had botulism, which I doubt, it would die when I cook them. I haven’t liked the ones I’ve canned in water. Do you pressure can them or water bath?
@@seedandsparrowhomestead yes, due to it being pressure canned and not water bathed I am good with it and have never had an issue. but again your kitchen you choices. you keep digging for treasure it is my favorite also
The first time I grew potatoes they were super ugly, dirty, holes, really gross. I laid them out to cure and thought, well, crap, I guess this is what home grown looks like with no chemicals and I spose I should get use to things not looking like they came from a store.Then the longer I thought about it, I decided I didnt care if I ever eat another potato again as long as I live, I threw them out and decided theres no way Im growing them again. 😂 Everyone I watch has very clean potatoes....🤷♀️
@@seedandsparrowhomestead thanks as I thought I'd give it a try down here in Florida - we haven't been sick around here much at all but I've made some Elderberry medicine just in case we feel it coming on. First time my elderberry had berries and I'm loving it - took over 5 years but now I'm glad I didn't cut them down.
@@iartistdotme yay for keeping the elderberries! That’s so exciting! I’ve been pretty good about prevention and understand sickness happens but man, this is a bit much 🙃😬😂
This is the first year I've planted potatoes. I planted them around late May or early June but my plants aren't dying back (Maryland location, zone 7b I believe) how do I know what they're doing?
@@EternallyLoved92 anytime 3 weeks after they have flowered you can start to harvest. Most likely will have small to medium potatoes, more for fresh eating than storage. If you wait until they have completely died back you’ll probably have bigger potatoes, thicker skin, better for storage. Totally up to you! If you’re feeling ansty, you can dig around a plant and see what you’re working with ☺️
The dirt in your bed is beautiful,so much so that you can get in it with your hands! Good job Kelsey! Enjoying your videos
Thanks for the video ❤
Try putting down ur soil enhancements from lower, as its mostly power, its easy to breath in some of them in. Even if its organic it will still affect ur respiratory organs if u breath in the stuff. Same goes with cleaning sprays u use in the house. So instead of spraying on to surfaces, u can spray on to sponge or microfiber cloth n then use the cloth to wipe down. Hope this helps. ❤
I wish I could properly express how nearly miraculous it is that you can take a little chunk of potato, plant it in dirt and it grows two, three, five, new, beautiful potatoes...from what? Dirt? Air? It's truly a work of God, like all His creation, we often take for granted. Enjoy your beautiful harvest.
Yes Kelsey. I'm in Hawaii, and so many people are sick here. It's a days long headache that turns a cough for weeks. It must be what they are spraying over us. I'm super health conscious, too. Eat fresh and all homemade. It's very different this year for sure.
Your harvest looked pretty great to me. Those potatoes looked amazing. What type did you plant? They look thin skinned which is my favorite. Thanks for another great video.
Hi! I just wanted to say that I absolutely love your Patty! She is so beautiful, she looks almost exactly the same as a cat my family had, her name was Tiffany, and she lived until she was 23 years old, she was best mouser ever! Your Patty seems so affectionate ❤️
I loved watching you dig the potatoes. Sorry you’re not feeling well. I’m 82 and lots of my friends have been having illness on and off all this year and just can’t seem to kick it and have no explanation as to what it is. Several had been diagnosed with bronchitis, but they don’t think it’s that. I had a touch of it but was able to do ok the rest of the time. My prayers are with you. I’m in eastern PA. I just enjoy your channel so much. Love your little family and gardens. ❤
Soil & potato variety, good. Some refuse to store long term. Coming out Dry is the first storage hurdle. Keeping them Dry preserves the longest. Cd try diatomaceous earth+ absorbent newspaper balls or shreds. Store cool, dark, cover w/ air cloth. Do not air lock containers. Sometimes stored in heavy grocery bags 5-10 lbs at a time is better than a large bin. *I live in NE OH & immediately plant those tiny potatoes. Can often get Xmas harvest from them. Best Wishes.
Potatoes look good! Ours should be ready by the time we get back from PA, yes I get to see my beautiful mountains and camp in them too! Our grow time in Mn is almost over and with the flooding and heavy rains I am glad I didnt plant alot this year. We get about 110 grow days here in a good year so no second crops for us. I am looking forward to being able to do that again once back in PA! Blessings!
I really enjoy your content Kelsey, informative, beautiful and inspiring and sweet music. We live in New Zealand and our family including us all over the country have repeatedly got sick this year. One of my children's family have had pneumonia and viruses with two adults and two children. It is the same for friends and people we talk to. We eat out of our garden all year and have chickens etc.
I watched a you tube the other day and she did something new to me. She kept row cover over her bug magnet plants and from day to day she would hand pollinate. The plant she showed was a big zucchini plant that was pristine under cover. She didn’t mention it but I think you could probably control the number of zukes you get by only pollinating the number you want at a particular time. All available or partial. Also, the flowers were beautiful, if you like to stuff them.
Hoping you and the family get well soon.
I live in Canada I'm 75 and haven't been sick for many years 🙃 🤧.
Take care.
You and the family take care of yourselves. God bless you all. And I think you have a really good harvest overall. I wish I could grow a garden again. But I still buy from the farmers and can what I can and enjoy that food that doesn’t have the preservatives in.
You can put some cold weather crops there like broccoli coli flower and stuff
What a beautiful harvest! You do an amazing job. So sorry you are sick! Homesteading Family just did a video and they are detoxing. Josh was especially sick and they explained how it’s part of the body’s response to the detoxing process. Idk if that could be part of what you are experiencing? Praying you are all better soon. ❤️🙏🏻Val C
Your potato harvest was much better than mine. This year was pretty paltry for me.
118 lbs of potatoes is a good start for the year. Hopefully your second harvest will be good so that you have enough for the year.
Sorry to hear that you are sick again. We have not had sickness in our house thankfully. I’m going through chemo so I stay home and don’t go to stores so I not exposing myself. Sending prayers for a speedy recovery for you and your family ❤
Praying for your family ❤
❤ potato hunting, getting ready to plant our first batch
Woohoo! So exciting! ❤️
good job💙💙
Thank you ☺️
I soooo enjoy watching your videos. My small garden is not producing that great. I live a few hours north of you along NY/PA border. My raspberry early crop has been just enough to eat fresh and second crop may be better but not great. Lots of hot hot weather and not enough rain. Praying you and your family get feeling better abd keep sharing. You are an inspiration!!
My son was sick ALL the time with any and all viruses that was in the classroom. He had pneumonia at the age of 10, again going around the classroom. His friend had it twice and was hospitalized. We spent too much time at the urgent care! I started using a teaspoon full of coconut oil in my coffee every morning and noticed I quit catching all his sickness. So, I started him on coconut oil every morning, just a teaspoon full in a little hot chocolate. (He loved it, it tasted like a Mounds Hot Chocolate). He quit getting sick, we went almost 3 years without any sickness! I was even a lunch lady around kids all day, still no sickness! We got lazy, quit the coconut oil, and he gets mono from school, I got sick with it as well. Short story long...." Organic Unrefined " Coconut Oil, I buy mine at Aldi, for $5 a pint jar, pure GOLD! Blessings to all! Edit to add, we've had no pokes, never had c**id.
Nice potato harvest. Sorry you and your family are getting sick so often. My husband and I have not gotten sick this year. We don’t tend to get sick often or for long if we do
I have had an organic garden since 1980 which feeds my family and the childcare loves I have cared for since the 70's. I fully believe both have allowed me great health, as my immunities are constantly being boosted, I work long days, ten hours with the children and many hours growing and prepping food. I have had one sick day in all those years. Blessed in so many ways. I do take precautions. Sanitize surfaces before and after meals. Have children wash hand properly several times per day. Pre-soak all eating utensils in a bleach solution before washing, Every child has their own designated cup. I feel small measures add up to great results. Love you and your channel. Prayers for great health for all your family,
Get well. I like to grow sweet potatoes in our hot climate.
Get Well! We need you. Thank you for being You!!!
Thank you! Already on the mend, just a mild cold this time! ❤️❤️❤️
It’s so therapeutic to harvest potatoes or any root vegetable. You never know how many potatoes you’ll get. It’s also rather therapeutic to watch you as well. You’re so slow and methodical about it. Please don’t use a form or anything but your hands. Maybe your kids’ hands. But God gave you those tools first. Plus it’s so much fun!
I’m so sorry your family has the yuckahs again. We haven’t had anything going around here up Maine way. We keep raw unfiltered local honey in our daily diet plus we weekly detox. Maybe that’s why. Maybe it just isn’t up in Maine.
🙏🏼healing prayers for you and your family ❤
Lucky Number 187 to like this video. Shared already. So I am now commenting to say I agree. Hugs from Esquimalt
Grant gets it naturally from his mother! Let them dig! Hugs from Esquimalt
Another fun video. Pretty good potato harvest...great job. Hope you feel better soon!
I agree that harvesting potatoes is like being on a treasure hunt. Sometimes you find treasure and other times not. I’m needing to amend some beds that when we first started a garden we filled with top soil 😮. I knew right away that was a mistake because of how the dirt was compacting. You mentioned mushroom dirt and I am curious if that is used for nutrients or for aiding the soil to break down or both?
Also, what nutrients were you using in the beds you planted the second round of potatoes in? Our potato harvest wasn’t to great. I believe the lack of loose soil didn’t help. I did fertilize the beds but maybe can do better with that as well.
Praying for a speedy recovery for your family and you friend. Have a blessed week.
Pretty good harvest. We could never grow a lot of potatoes on our homestead. We tried everything but never got a good harvest. We have gotten upper respiratory or head colds every couple of months here as well. It goes through the whole family. We just go over our last bout of it. We take vitamin C daily and elder berry too.
Thank you! Ugh, yes so much upper respiratory and sinus issues! We take preventives too!
Potato harvest is my favourite
Digging up potatoes is so satisfying isn’t it.
Truly nothing like it 😍
Use echinacea drops. We are 5 in our family and not one of us has been sick in the past 5 years. Not once. Your garden is gorgeous! Nice harvest :)
Healing prayers to you and the family. Harvesting potatoes is so much fun!! Great job
Thanks sweet friend! Appreciate you ❤️
What a nice harvest
Thank you! ☺️ ❤️
Those tiny potatoes are around $5 for a small bag in Central Texas. My son-in-law cooks them, takes a fork, and smashes them halfway. They are always a big hit with everyone, including the kids. I loved watching you dig up all of the beautiful potatoes.
Digging potatoes is so much fun! Yours look nice.
Yes my whole family go back a forth with sickness and I’ve been saying the same thing. What is going on? Love your videos. Your sons adorable
I love your music. Your channel brings me peace and joy. Thank God for your little family. I will pray that you all get well soon and completely.
Aw I’m so glad! Thank you so much, blessings! ❤️
I saw someone turn a chest freezer into a place to store produce long term, like potatoes, carrots, apples, etc. Google it, or do a RUclips search if you're curious. I know they had to have the correct humidity and darkness, along with the optimal temperature.
I saw someone bury one?? We’ve considered it just haven’t committed to the work yet haha 😂
Not a great idea for potatoes because they need air flow.
This is a good thought. When I was looking into cheese caves there were hacks to convert fridges into a cave which requires temp and humidity regulation. As I recall there was a small piece of equipment that attached to the fridge that regulated. Maybe something to look into for cold storage.
Have you ever tried growing potatoes in containers? Can dump the soil on to a tarp and not have to use a gardening tool at all to find the potatoes, may help with avoiding spearing the potatoes 🤗 great videos as usual!
I have! I’ve tried grow bags twice and they were my poorest harvest yet 😂 could be user error lol. I was so irritated I haven’t tried again, perhaps I’ll give it a go in the future if my sweet potatoes do well this year!( I have them in grow bags!)
Go patty cakes 🐈⬛💕
She’s a good girl ☺️
What fertilizers did you use when you planted your fall potatoes. Always love watching potatoes being harvested
Potatoes, I didn't plant potatoes this year because we didn't get much harvest no matter what I have done. Tried ruth stout, in dirt, over sprouted potatoes not seed. I have one spot that gets quite a bit of sun. But all my plants want it!😂 Just felt the harvest wasn't worth the work. They were the best tasting potatoes however! Hubby would have to add beds up on our hill, in meadow area ...but schelping amendments UPHILL is not very exciting to me! Lol I have so much to do as it is!
I'm in Australia and yes my family is the same this year. Keep get sick 😫
For us we have had recurring UTI infections .. And stomach viruses.
Feel better 🙏
All the time we spend planning, starting seeds and transplanting I can't believe it's already August. It goes by so quickly. I'm already planning out next year's garden 😂😂
Great harvest friend! The heat here in Florida also got to many of my potatoes. So encouraging to watch you harvest from all your hard work and efforts❤
I'm also going to do a second planting of potatoes🙂🙏
Ugh the heat this year! Hopefully both our second rounds fair well! ❤️❤️❤️
I'm fairly new to watching you. Sorry about your peas, have you tested your soils acidity or alkaline status? Temperatures of soil is also important when planting. Keep up the fantastic lifestyle you have for your family
I think your harvest is wonderful. I hoped our could have done as well.
Your harvest of potatoes was fabulous ❤ what about using a shovel? Would that help?
Great harvest!!! Sorry to hear you are sick again. Hubby and I haven't been sick for well over ten years. We never got the J......, spend everyday outside working in the garden and free ranging the chickens and ducks. We are swamped at the moment with tomatoes and peppers so it's canning season every morning for us. Very little time going to the grocery store and never wore a face diaper. Our adult kids who got the J..... are always sick with a cold which seems like it's every few months. They also had to wear face diapers at work. I hope you feel better soon as I'm sure that's not pleasant when having young children and a garden to tend to. Rest up and keep growing. Love watching your videos as they are so real and peaceful to watch.
We are like you and your hubby, it seems odd so much sickness! Thank you so much ☺️ ❤️
@@seedandsparrowhomestead So happy to hear. Do you do Elderberry tincture and syrup? Every morning before our coffee we take elderberry tincture and at bedtime take a teaspoon of elderberry syrup. Not sure that is what has worked for us. I do grow a lot of Elderberry in our backyard so able to make a years worth for our family.
Wow those are some nice shallots..my husband and I both had the yuck..it seemed to last forever.
The baby ones are perfect for Salt Potatoes 😋
YAS! Love those ☺️
Have you thought about putting salad greens and cilantro in that shady area since neither of them like heat?
Growing up my mother used a small fork that wasn't any bigger than her other garden tools, about the size of the blade looking thing you use.
I just remember when I was your age and I had two littles and I worked in the health care industry, I caught everything!! Now I’m in my 60s and I haven’t been sick in decades. Your immune system is getting everything at once and it’s building your immune system. Hopefully your medicinal herbs will help you cope!
Yes I have had an on going URI of sorts for almost a year. It WAs dx. As chronic sinusitis. Can't seem to get rid of it. Had RSV in January. Had a cough ever since. I've started on some herbal teas. Hoping for some results.
I live in Western New York… yes everyone here has been sick this summer or is still sick. Suspicious. 🤨
Garden by trees, maybe the PH/ composition is off due to trees too? We have an area thats like that too. We had a few trees taken down too. Adding lime really seems to help our area, frankly our whole yard, grass, everything!😂
Interesting! I’ll look into that! Thanks so much!
What were you sprinkling into the soil near the end of the video?
@@annamccosker7878 azomite trace minerals, MIGardener Sassy Lass, bone meal and all purpose organic fertilizer ☺️
lime will help neutralize the ph in the soil.
@@seedandsparrowhomestead thank you!
Hi Kelsey. I was wondering, how much water do you set your irrigation for in these potato beds? I’ve grown in raised beds and grow bags and am doing in-ground next year so just wondering about a baseline. We probably have rockier more clay heavy soil up here but still similar growing conditions in Northeast PA.
Do you make thyme and red onion fermented honey? It’s very beneficial as a preventative as well as taken first sign of symptoms. We live a very healthy lifestyle as well but I have noticed that I have to up my prevention if I babysit my nephews.
I haven’t heard of that one! I’ll look it up, thanks! I need to work on upping our prevention too!
have you ever dry canned potatoes......my favorite way ...I do them in diced for hash browns, in F.F. sticks, in chunks to mash, i have a old coal room in my basement but i still love canning them once i found this way also. so nice to just open and jar and have potatoes ready and not mushy. pan fry, air fry , heat and mash. I learned from grow and preserve channel .
That’s one method I can’t get behind. I’m a pretty by the book canner, I only use safe, approved recipes and methods. I’m a little more lenient than some but dry canning is just not something I’m comfortable with. I always say “your kitchen, your rules” ☺️
@janlovesiowa6142 I am interested in the dry canning method, I saw that Ruthann Zimmerman does hers that way. I figure Im going to cook them after I take them out of the jar, so even if they had botulism, which I doubt, it would die when I cook them. I haven’t liked the ones I’ve canned in water. Do you pressure can them or water bath?
@@cynthiafisher9907 yes I do them just like Carter does on her channel "grow and preserve".
just type in potatoes in her search engine
@@seedandsparrowhomestead yes, due to it being pressure canned and not water bathed I am good with it and have never had an issue. but again your kitchen you choices. you keep digging for treasure it is my favorite also
What is the fertilizer you are using for the potatoes?
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Can you use the tiny potatoes as seed port?
It’s pollen in the air
The onions looks so good, what's variety, bunching onions?
Zebrune Shallots ☺️
The first time I grew potatoes they were super ugly, dirty, holes, really gross. I laid them out to cure and thought, well, crap, I guess this is what home grown looks like with no chemicals and I spose I should get use to things not looking like they came from a store.Then the longer I thought about it, I decided I didnt care if I ever eat another potato again as long as I live, I threw them out and decided theres no way Im growing them again. 😂 Everyone I watch has very clean potatoes....🤷♀️
What able putting in a fruit tree where the potatoes were?
We’ve noticed a lot of vague illness issues.. like stomach, fatigue etc
What were the soil additives you used at the end to refresh and replant? THANKS!
Azomite trace minerals, bone meal, MIGardener Sassy Lass and an all purpose organic fertilizer ☺️
@@seedandsparrowhomestead thanks as I thought I'd give it a try down here in Florida - we haven't been sick around here much at all but I've made some Elderberry medicine just in case we feel it coming on. First time my elderberry had berries and I'm loving it - took over 5 years but now I'm glad I didn't cut them down.
@@iartistdotme yay for keeping the elderberries! That’s so exciting! I’ve been pretty good about prevention and understand sickness happens but man, this is a bit much 🙃😬😂
I wonder if you’re getting sick from the church nursery? When my grandson was going to daycare(he lives with us), we were all sick all the time.
Yes, we have been cycling through strange illnesses without any obvious source. Makes me feel suspicious..
This is the first year I've planted potatoes. I planted them around late May or early June but my plants aren't dying back (Maryland location, zone 7b I believe) how do I know what they're doing?
Have they flowered?
@@seedandsparrowhomestead they have, multiple times actually.
@@EternallyLoved92 anytime 3 weeks after they have flowered you can start to harvest. Most likely will have small to medium potatoes, more for fresh eating than storage. If you wait until they have completely died back you’ll probably have bigger potatoes, thicker skin, better for storage. Totally up to you! If you’re feeling ansty, you can dig around a plant and see what you’re working with ☺️
@@seedandsparrowhomestead awesome, thanks for that information!
U r a gorgeous lady