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Good Ground Farm
United States
Приєднався 27 бер 2020
Good Ground Farm is a farm in South Texas. We document how we start and manage a small flower farm, market garden and campground.
Flower Farming -- Processing and Storing Corms
A quick video to show you a little bit about how we process and store our corms.
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Відео
Off Grid A-Frame Cabin Tour
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This is a short tour of our off grid A-Frame cabin we built. If you would like to stay in our cabin, you can reserve it at hipcamp.com. Just search for Good Ground Farm in the Texas Hill Country and you should be able to find us pretty quickly. Hope to see you soon! We value your click! If you find this video totally awesome please like, share with your friends, and subscribe so you can do this...
Highland Games
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My friend Chris asked if he could use our farm for his birthday party/highland games....uhhhh YES!!!! What a great day! Mona and I are so grateful to be able to gather people together and celebrate/have fun!!! We value your click! If you find this video totally awesome please like, share with your friends, and subscribe so you can do this farm life with us.
How to Kill Thistles Organically
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Here is a quick video of how we deal with thistles on our property. Hope you find this helpful! We value your click! If you find this video totally awesome please like, share with your friends, and subscribe so you can do this farm life with us.
Irrigation Installation
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Here is how we installed underground irrigation lines into our quarter acre flower farm.
Low Tunnels in the Wind
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Here is how we tie down our low tunnels when it gets windy. Thanks for watching! Like/Share/Subscribe if you would like to see more content like this! We will be updating our low tunnel system as we go and will be sharing a much better way to build a low tunnel system. Credit for this way of tying down hoops goes to floret flower farm. They know whats up!
Grow Lights Explained
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Join us on our first year as flower farmers! Here is some helpful info to start an indoor grow room in a small space in your house. If you found this helpful, we would love to hear from you in the comments. Tell us how you set up your seedling nursery! We value your click! Thank you for watching. If you would like to watch more of our first year of flower farming consider subscribing to the cha...
Off Grid Shower House Tour
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We have a campground on our farm! We love being able to host campers throughout the year. One of the biggest compliments we get from our campers is the access to an off grid shower house. Come along with me and take a tour. We value your click! If you find this video totally awesome please like, share with your friends, and subscribe so you can do this farm life with us.
Potting Up Yarrow Seedlings
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Here is how we use our 2-inch soil blocker to recieve our 3/4-inch yarrow seedling blocks. We value your click! Thank you for taking time to watch If you have any questions on how we do soil blocking, please comment below and we would love to chat with you. If you love this content please like, share, and subscribe to see more like this!
Soil Blocking 101
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Here is a great method to start seedlings indoors and get a jump on your garden this Spring! We value your click! If you find that this video was helpful, please consider liking, sharing with friends, and subscribing to see more content like this!
Golden Hour Chickens
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Sometimes we need to just take some time and chill with the chickens. This is a 10 minute video to just sit back and relax and watch chickens. This is so thereputic to watch and listen to the hens. Enjoy!
Creating Walkways Between Garden Beds
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Here is how we create walkways between our flower beds.
How to collect a soil sample
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If you want to learn how to collect a soil sample for your flower beds or vegetable gardens, watch this video!
GGF Spring 2023 New Beginnings
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We are reshaping our farm into a Flower Farm/Market Garden/Campground! Here is a video from this Spring when friends and family came out to help us start making our dreams into a reality!
Very Nice! Can you share your material costs?
Hey thanks for watching. We purchased most of the lumber during the crazy spike in prices around Covid timeframe so our prices were pretty high. On top of that I don’t really remember how much it cost lol. Best guess for everything including the 16x16 deck it sits on was around $5k?
A thistle plant is a living organism in nature that grows naturally from seed widely dispersed onto naturally fertile ground after being naturally processed in the digestive system of a bird, another living organism. The definition of organic is: Of, related to, or derived from a living organism. How is it organic for you to kill a thistle, a naturally occuring, living organism? Personally, I don't really care what you do with the weeds on your property. But people who raise their noses and repeat the word organic over and over regarding their gardening methods appear shallow, phony, superficial, and are irksome. They're akin to the "birders" who have nature lover stickers all over their Subarus, but are very selective in the nature they choose to love. They'll put out bird feeders and birdhouses to attract birds. Then if House Sparrows or other species THEY deem invasive or they consider unattractive show up at them, they scare them away with a broom or a water hose.
Can you do another video talking about thistle and what you discovered after a year doing a 30% vinegar plus if you have changed your strategy with the vinegar
Sure thing! I’m planning on doing that this fall. Great idea
Canadian? Thistles?
Regular mowing to a short length,will kill thistles.Doubt vinegar will kill the root.
Agreed!
It also kills the grass if the thistles are in your lawn.
Yes it made my grass turn brown but it came back. Also this method seemed to work in killing the foliage but I don’t think it killed all the roots
How many showers / 3 tanks? More or less?
Also. Realistically? How many flushes do you get outta the 24 gallon rolling septic?
Hey! Not sure how many showers you can get out of approximately 150 gallons but I’m thinking a lot!
As for the flushes, you have to keep an eye on it when we have a full campground. I would say you will have to empty it every two or three days if you have 4-6 people camping
What do you do in the winter? Does everything freeze up?
Over the winter we drain the lines. Plus we have very mild winters most of the time so freezing isn’t always an issue. If you lived farther North than us I would drain the lines for sure and insulate all the pipes. Hope that helps!
@@goodgroundfarm I love everything about your place!Thank you for answering.
Does it treat the roots? Will they reappear next season?
Hey! Thanks for watching! I have found that I have had to apply a few times so I don’t think it hits the roots on the first try. I think the trick is to stay consistent and eventually they will die off. Hope that helps!
Can it work on thistles six feet tall?
It will kill them no matter how tall. However they may come back up due to the roots being so deep
Question.. local Lowe’s has 30%.. now is this pure/straight up use or diluted at all. Pulled twice now and too late to dig as that will be spring next year.
The 30% will kill them (wear protective gear). However I’m seeing them slowly work their way back. Don’t think it kills roots as well as I thought. If you stay consistent eventually they will die.
@@goodgroundfarm it’s going to be keeping at bay for now I guess. Yeah it’s some STRONG stuff. Takes your breath away at full strength. How long has it been from dead to back from the grave?
Great design, can you share the time you spend in the construction please. best regards from Chile.
Thanks for watching! My son and I framed it and dried it in over about four weekends. We finished out the inside and painted everything over a couple of months and did the electric and plumbing in two or three weekend. As you can see we just worked on it in our spare time and took around 6 months. I f you dedicated yourself to this everyday you could have it finished completely in 2 or three weeks maybe
@@goodgroundfarm Perfect thanks
I would guess you have to keep at it every time it resprouts. I have been fighting thistles for years, but I never seem to be able to keep up with it. Where do you get 30% vinegar?
Yes you really have to stay consistent in the spring to keep the flowers from forming. But in the Deep South the heat takes care of the rest. I think as long as you stay ahead of them in the spring you will have a considerably easier time the coming years. You can get the cleaning vinegar at big box stores like Home Depot or Lowe’s.
27, 30, 43% vinegar ... HARRIS brand, Home Depot, etc ...
CUTE
Thanks for watching! We hope to continue to add to the cuteness in the future
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Thanks for watching
Nice setup!!❤❤😊😊
Thanks!!! Hoping to finish the interior soon with a video update. Have a good one!!
Dirk would be proud!
Nice... where the video is taken
Thanks for watching! The videos are taken on our farm in Pipe Creek Texas
Oh my, i have one of those thistle trees. I hate them. I put vinegar and only the leaves died at the top.
So sorry to hear that. I think the name of the game is consistency. Other friends on this page have also chatted with me about getting down to the root system to kill it. So this may be a follow up video as we all learn. Thanks for watching
The root system is the problem you kill the top plant but the roots just shoot up another plant …never ending problem until you get the whole weed under the ground
That’s a great point! Thanks for watching.
@@goodgroundfarm The trick is to keep hitting the offshoots until the root lose energy to make more. It can take an entire season to clear them out. You have to check almost daily.
Yes I agree. You can kill them with about any product but root system goes 15 inches deep therefore you get the top but not the root and that’s your problem
@@leotakleewein7311 roots go down and radiate 6 feet….
I had Canada thistle, HAD !! That is till I used milestone herbicide last summer after they flowered !!!!
It's nice that's not a tour all you got to do is look inside you seen it all
Thanks for watching! Yes it’s just a small cozy place in the woods. Have a great week!
@@goodgroundfarm but I would love to have one
Gosh I hope this works! I got a problem too! thanks
The key is to stay consistent! Stay vigilant my friend!
@@jonathanjusti-noaafederal3276 if you do it for years it will work … you kill off the energy supply in the roots. Canada thistle does spread much by seed they spread underground by rhizomes
Bravo from Romania Dracula land ❤🎉
Hey! Thanks for watching!
So, it’s been 4 weeks since the video posted. Did it indeed kill the thistles, or just knock them down? If this works…oh boy.
Hey! It indeed killed them to the point that it doesn’t even look like there ever was a thistle! However all the thistles family showed up to take its place lol. I think the name of the game is consistency!
Hey nice place, whats the footprint and height of the peak?
Thanks! It’s a 10x10 footprint and the peak is around 12’…maybe a bit more.
Beautiful little getaway! 😌
Thanks! Hope you and the family can come out some time soon!
Will this have any effect on the soil? I am worried about changing the pH and endangering other plants.
Depending on how much vinegar you apply it could affect the PH. Vinegar applied just to the foliage probably won’t have much effect on overall soil conditions. However other plants that come in contact with vinegar have the same fate so aim accurately!
The septic tank looks like a bottom to a basketball hoop 😂. Loved this video.
lol would not recommend using a basketball hoop base as a septic 😂 thanks for watching!
If you would like to save money on propane and not even have to use the on demand hot water you can buy a burning Barrel raise it up off the ground burn wood under it and have an olive barrel inside of the burning Barrel, fill water between the olive barrel and the burning Barrel & also filling the olive barrel with clean water. Use a sumo pump inside the OLIVE BARREL as hot water for the shower/sink.... Basically like warming a bottle of milk in a pan of hot water. Just a thought..
Awesome idea! Might do this for a hot tub one day!
Great video! Love that there’s such a simple organic fix to deal with these!
Thanks for watching! Let’s do a cross channel video soon! We love Laurel Ranch!!!
That dilution of bleach is not going t hurt you if you drink some. Dilution is key to safely consuming bleach. The CDC recommends adding eight drops of unscented bleach per gallon of water, if that water is clear. If the water you want to purify is cloudy, and you cannot first filter those occlusions from it, the CDC says you should double that quantity to 16 drops per gallon. In both cases, you need to wait 30 minutes before drinking to ensure the water is disinfected.
Awesome! Thanks for the information! Very helpful!
Thank you Ryan. I had a forest of these last year and they are already taking over this year
Go get em!!!
have to build one this summer, shower will be inside ours. Very nice set up.👍
Hey thanks! Let me know if you have any questions I may be able to help you with. Thanks for watching!
@goodgroundfarm I will be hard plumbing my rv toilet into a 300 gal. punpable septic tank, the sink and shower will be going into a gray water tank that will drain into the ground. What size line does a rv toilet require ? Thanks
Great video!! How do you attach the individual lines?
Thanks! Great question. The individual lines that bring water to the flowers are on a separate line attached to the manifold valves that you see in the video. The pvc line is a separate water line that supplies water to the hoses when we need to hand water baby seedlings or fill buckets etc…
Really appreciate you and this particular post, very informative.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.
If you switch to leds you will get over twice the usable light for 1/3 the cost.
Awesome! Thanks for the tip! At the moment we are using what we have from long ago and will phase into LED as we go. Thanks for watching!
@@goodgroundfarm you can buy led tubes that will fit in your grow lights too.
So cool. I love seeing this! It’s amazing to see all those tiny plants turn into a field in just a short few months!
I feel that same way! It never seems to get old unlike me 😝
That's pretty cool
Hey thanks! Glad you stopped by to take a look! ✌️
@@goodgroundfarm anytime
wow you have done an amazing job, be proud of that, thank you for sharing, very helpful, sub to follow on your exciting journey
Thank you very much! We are so glad you enjoyed the video. Talk to you soon.
The first time I used woven weed fabric, I cut it. That was a huge mistake.
Yep we still have some that we cut and it’s just a frayed mess lol. Burning is the best way and faster than cutting as well.
Wow, very nice, I am definitely picking up a few tricks from your build. I am in South Africa and busy building out my grounds and have been looking for ideas on how to build the out houses. Definitely reusing your strategy. By the way, the toilet and shower both drain into the portable tank ?
Glad you found it useful! The toilet drains into the tank, the shower and sink run into a big hole I dug and filled with rocks under the shower boards. Hope that helps!
So cool bro!!! 🚿
Thanks ✌
Great video 👏🏼🌱
Thank you! Thanks for watching!!!
Do ever have issues with your seedlings growing on top of the blocks instead of in them? And do you cover the blocks with vermiculite or a bit of your soil block mix or anything? Great video!
I have not had any trouble with seedlings growing on top of the soil. It might be your mixture. When researching this problem, they said, too loose and your blocks can crumble and too dense the roots can’t penetrate the soil. Here is the measurements of the ingredients that am using. I use a quart jar to measure. 4 parts coco loco (fox farms) 1.5 parts coco coir .5 green sand 1 3/4 water I have gotten great germination with this mixture. With covering the seeds. Only cover with dirt if they need darkness to germinate. Leave uncovered if the seed packet says they need light. You can add vermiculite even on seeds that need to be uncovered to germinate. Light shines through it and it helps retain moisture. I hope this helped. Have a blessed day.
GREAT video!! This helps me understand soil blocking (finally)! And thanks for showing us the "real" set up--including what it looks like vs what you want it to look like! Too many people just show the pinterest-pretty set up that who knows how long it took them to get there or what their resources are...it's nice to know this can be done with just the basic items! Also--y'all are adorable ;)
Hey there! I’m glad the video was helpful! If we can do it you can as well! Let me know if you have any questions when you start your seedlings.
Great video!
Hey thanks! We are trying to improve on every video we post! Hope you have a great week!
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Keep watching and you will learn lots!
Excited to use this strategy for putting in our row garden! Thanks for the great info!
Glad you enjoyed it! Let me know if you have any questions and have fun!!!!
Id love to see a video of how yall got started on the farm, what was first?
Hey cuz! Well, since you requested it we will get one going. We start recording content this week!