Hey guys, I think this is my first post to you. I to was diagnosed with anxiety during the late 80's. I'm 57 years old and when I was young nobody knew what anxiety was not until I was around 19.I found a dr that knew exactly what I had. Of all the years I had to go through it I still suffer from it but I make the most of what I got through gardening, raising chickens, and doing what I love. You guys have come a long way after watching you for so long .. You have a nice barn and I think you have a awesome green house. I live in VA. and we have a long growing season. I was a carpenter for many years, then I got my contractor license. My crew and I built many houses over the years and I had to retire because of injuries. I won't go through all that. But you guys have come a long ways and your doing awesome job on your farm. I wish you all the best in your hard work and Olvia reminds me of my daughter whose 25 in July. They grow up quickly. I raised my daughter by myself since she was 2 years old. But anyway I think the world of you all and what a great greenhouse and everything you have accomplished since I've been watching you! Keep up all the great videos and God will supply you all the food you will have for many years to come!
I have found that being out in nature, and having enough physical activity have helped me quite a bit with my anxiety. As a kid I used to think that everyone lived with this.. luckly.. coping skills, medication AND meditation have brought me a long ways. Never give up... there is help.
I'm so old, that emotional issues were never thought of making physical issues. I remember that I was always nauseated during the school year, but was never sick to my stomach during the summertime when school was out- Only when I got old did I learn about the cause, thanks to the internet, and people like you conveying their life stories and solutions. I'm living in the country also.
Al has mentioned more than once that he too suffers from anxiety. It's one of the reasons they do what they do. Take care and remember, you are not alone.
I learned to plant my carrots from a farmer in New Hampshire who was born in 1896. He showed me how small the seeds were. He would take a clean sheet of white paper and fold it corner to corner. He put the tiny carrot seeds in the center of the folded page. He would then open up the fold some and with a shaking action he could lay just one seed at a time. And place them accurately where he wanted them. He told me to leave the space of my thumb between seeds. We grew a great crop of both orange and red carrots.
Good morning Lumnahs... New Yolk City on lockdown? Them rogue chickens did it to themselves 🤣 Gina worked so hard to beautify the place and I’m loving how the woman’s touch just adds a certain panache. The greenhouse has really given you a big advantage this year. So glad Olivia wanted her own garden. It’s wonderful to see the younger generation stepping up and learning how to be more self sufficient. Have a great weekend everyone 🤙
Gardening is not a "woman's touch." Please stop genderizing gardening...and cooking...and cleaning. Let's raise all our kids to understand these tasks/hobbies are for all of us, regardless of our gender. We all eat, cook and clean.
@@Bamboo4U2You did not read the sentence... you just reacted as any reactive woman does. She clearly said the "woman's touch adds a certain panache", and she is right!!!!! .
How exciting! Your homestead is looking awesome! Those blueberry bushes are gonna look good once they start growing :) Love seeing the whole family getting in on the action with gardening and homesteading. Great to see Olivia having her own chickens, garden bed and bees coming soon.
When you move your chicken tractors, position them so they share a common side - the left side of one is touching the right side of the other. That will reduce the total perimeter exposed to predators by 25% for free!
I love watching your videos. Your animal family has grown a lot. I have been watching your channel since early 2018 & can’t wait to see the next one.. Keep sharing your farm animals.
yes they are. Also check out Living Off Grid w/ Jake and Nicole, Justin Rhodes, Sow the Land, Simple Living Alaska, Life Uncontained, and Simple Living Alaska... All are so awesome. Learn a lot from all of them. Great channels and a better community.
Janice Aucoin I am sorry 😐 if it’s the Jason I’m think of I really apologize. However I’m not sure who you are talking about sorry 😐 please let me know the channel. Thank You 🙏
With Olivia being home more she is learning way more valuable lessons from what yall are teaching her than she would've ever gotten from school! Just my opinion. She is turning into such a wonderful young lady. You guys are such a wonderful example for all of us parents in these trying times.
Your homestead just gets better and better 🥰❤️ I have really enjoyed during quarantine binge watching from where you started.... now for Hope babies 🙏🏻🥰❤️💖 God bless you all Lumnah’s
Morning all. Thanks for the great content. When planting very fine seeds. Take a mason jar, put some sand in it. Add your seeds and shake. As you sprinkle the sand in your rows the seeds will be distributed at a much more even rate. The more sand, the more sparse your planting rows. Reshake from time to time to keep seed distribution even.
Gina & Al, you're so Blessed to be able to have the greenhouse & garden's you & Al have created. My dream garden would have every kind of Berries there are out there, especially Gooseberries & Dark Berries. I would also have fruit tree's of the fruits I love & the veggies I love, which is just about all of them lol. That reminds me. Save some space in your greenhouse for big clay pots to grow Dwarf Citrus Fruit Tree's & other's that your climate won't allow you to grow outside. My favorites are Mandarin Oranges, Tangerines, Limes, Myer Lemons, Cherries & a few others. They also have tree's that grow different types of fruit of the same species on just one tree. I'd love to experiment with that. That would be another great project for Olivia. The Dwarf Fruit Tree's could be part of her garden. Now that you have the greenhouse, you can basically grow almost anything you want to grow. So start thinking outside the box about what you want to grow. Things you've wanted to grow but couldn't because of your climate. Now the sky is your only limit lol. I can't wait to see what all of you end up creating in your garden's & greenhouse.
Raspberries, blackberries, currants, gooseberries and service berries would all be delicious additions to your berry patch. You might even think about planting some eating grapes. Fill in around your berry bushes with strawberry plants to round things out.
You just described what _I_ have been planting the past 2 years! First I put in cider and apple trees 4 years ago, followed by other fruit trees (pear, peach, quince - still want plums), berry bushes (Cornus mas, currants, gooseberries, raspberries - native trailing blackberries everywhere), and strawberries as groundcover. I also planted chestnuts and a copper beech this spring. I've been panting perennials first - then I'll think about the annuals. I'm in the PNW - I can see Victoria, BC from the road. P.S. There are _so many_ strawberries that the few that get trampled (though I haven't trampled _any_ in the past 2 years even under fruit trees and berry bushes) are not that big a deal.
Living in central Florida it always surprises people to hear we had temps down in the 30’s an low 40’s in the winter. Now I live in Georgia and we can get temps down in the teens. The 50’s feel nice as long as there isn’t wind and rain with it. You are right about going from one extreme to another just screws with your system
Beautiful progress on your plans for food production. Interesting to see how you plant blueberries and nice that Livie has her own garden in the greenhouse. 👍
I put my carrot seeds on wet paper towels, then fold and place in baggie overnight. I then make a non-gmo corn starch slurry (let cool) gently add in the soaked seeds. The slurry suspends the soaked seeds. I place in a baggie with a small cut off the corner and 'pipe' into my rows. I have a much better germination rate. I also have to grow mine in the fall as they do better in Texas.
@@JerryB507 You need deep soil too to grow roots. And I toss in air and don't cover with soil, rather use peat moss (rubbing it between hands to shower over the seeds LIGHTLY) then water the peat moss to make contact with the seeds to keep them moist, you'll have great success.
Another great Video, just a little hint, if I may. I use a drainage pipe, cut in half to grow seeds in, and once germinated and large enough to handle I slide the full pipe of plants on to the bed for easy planting and spacing. This is an extra step but helps me alot.
Looks like Lumnah is becoming your own Garden of Eden. Can't wait to see everything start growing and producing produce. All your hard work is starting to pay off. Lord Bless your Homestead.
Good morning Lumnah family.It made me so happy to see the blueberries being planted.I love them.When we bought our home(this year it's 100 years old) there were blueberry bushes already here.I have no idea when they were planted but I'm still picking berries from them after 25 years being here.I don't have problems with deer but the blue Jays and I have a battle royal every year lol
I would have loved to have planted a few Quince trees 35 years ago. No one ever heard of them here in this part of Virginia. I thought for the longest time it was just a tree found in the Pittsburgh, Pa. area. My Mother made the best jelly. They are sold as heirloom. Gina, the lasagna looked delicious & beautiful! I really enjoyed this video & spending time on the Homestead with you folks!
I put in 2 different blueberries last year the blue crop did far better than the other but could not find more plants so I stopped the video halfway through and got more ordered thank you!!!! I live in the UP of Michigan and mine is loaded with flowers right now!
Al, you should put a timelapse camera in the greenhouse to track the plant growth. Would be a fun addition to the videos and help show how much the plants grow each night.
I planted blueberries 6 yrs ago with landscape fabric. I took a 5 ft width x 70 ft, pegged it down with 6D landscape spikes that had fender washers on them. I took a straight piece of scrap wood, put it down the center of the fabric and ran a torch down the side to cut and seal the edges. I put the plants in the center, spaced 36" apart and topped it with composted saw dust and wood chips. The slit in the fabric makes it easy to mulch, pull an occasional weed etc. We have drip tape running down the center as well, under the mulch. They are huge now, tons of fruit. The landscape fabric helps to blunt the weed pressure, retain moisture and allow the addition of mulch on a regular basis. Weed pressure really stunts blueberries. Good luck with your berries
I'm from North Carolina and I started picking our blueberries two days ago. I'm hoping your plants do well for you. I saw someone posting about putting up a deer fence but we have not had that problem. Our problem is birds. I have some cream colored shear cloth I keep over our bushes and it still let's the light in and rain will go through it. So far it's worked. I enjoy watching you guys.
The blueberry patch looks so nice and the rain will be wonderful for it. Buttercup at least showed interest in the milking stand and went straight for the snack feeder. Can't wait to see Olivia's row garden sprout and grow. God Bless
Love how you both work together. Team work! 😃 Gina, you are such a wonderful mom. I love when you praise her and give her compliments. My mom never did. Your gardens are booming with richness! You’re gonna need to bring in some relatives to help harvest. 😁 The baby goats are so so fun to watch. But I’m concerned about the boys being in with the doelings. They are being aggressive and well, they are trying to act like big boys. I hope the girls don’t get too stressed out. I’m feeling like a protective mom. 🥰
The only thing I'm planting this year is a indoor catnip plant under a grow light. I miss the days I could do a garden. It's fun to see you'all making the most of all you have and thinking outside the box!
Blue berry growers near me (in NSW Australia) often plant two plants per hole to ensure good fertilisation of flowers. You waste a lot of space planting carrots in rows. I mix radish,beetroot and carrot seeds and spread over 1 sq meter(or more ,depending on the amount of seed you sow) . No thinning -radishes come and go quickly,leaving spacing ,carrots and beetroot crop at different rates but if they are too close pull immature and use in salads.Once beets and carrots are of usable size pull (carefully)and the small ones left will grow to full size . Harvest and repeat.
So, a year or so from now I'm betting you'll be building some raised troughs for the veggies in your greenhouse. Saves a lotta bending! Happy weekend! 🙂
Great looking gardens going. Glad to see Olivia wanting to have her own garden too. Won't it be nice to just go out to your own blueberry patch and pick fresh for the pancakes and bread etc. Olovia is learning to cook too, not only that, but making memories with Mom. It just doesn't get any better. Y'all have a Blessed day.
Hey guys your homestead is beautiful it looks so nice Gina Olivia is a big help that lasagne looks delish Can’t wait till the next video Be safe God Bless
Hi Luminah's , from Newcastle in England. I am enjoying your long journey in creating your own homestead. Suggestions for planting would be leeks (Musselborough), white cauliflowers(snowball) Kohl Rabi- Sprouts you can eat the tender tops of these as greens, and (Durham Early) Cabbage which the bottom leaves can be eaten like spring cabbage and then the hearts left to form pointed heads. Early sowings of radish will keep you well supplied throughout summer and are a good catch cropper for salads- (Little gem) lettuce is nice in sandwiches and salads. (Purple Milan) Turnips, Parsnips, Dwarf French Beans, Boleti beans (nice in soups and casseroles) (Cavell Nero) Kale. Potatoes. Swiss Chard. And (Boltardy) Beetroot- Onions- we use these everyday Ailsa Craig- Sturon (sets) Japanese onion (sets) spring onions(White Lisbon) sown every couple of weeks plant out in bunches of 4-5 6 inches apart . Elephant Garlic. (heavy cropper) Shallots planted out in bunches of 4-5 and 6 inches apart.
Wow, what as Grand amount of planting! I will be excited to see how much food you start getting from everything. Best of luck with your Blueberries! Gina the lasagna looks so Yummy!
My goodness this homestead is going to have Everything!!! You guys are such an inspiration, although i cannot homestead here at the moment due to financial issues it is awesome to watch you guys grow
I 'hope' you're taking the opportunity with your younger does and especially your new doelings to get them happy with having their udders touched! Feed them treats and touch them all over, also getting them on the milking stand from time to time (not only for unpleasant things...!). If they move, the treats stop, slowly each day spending more time on stomach/udder etc. By the time it's milking time they should be used to the stool and an association of touch = nice things happen = be still (no kicking!) = easy milking!
Blueberry roots generally only go down less than a foot, so we put all of our amendments on the top of the soil. Your area should be nice and weed-free for a long time! Looks great!
I was about Miss Livies age when I got my own "garden". I think the seeds came from Burpee. It gave me a sense of pride to contribute more than just pulling weeds 😀😀😀😀 I bet Livies will feel the same😀
I do love blueberries. We have an organic blueberry orchard not far from here tho I would like to grow my own. We do have a literal TON of wild raspberries, black raspberries & wineberries all over our mountain and they make the most amazing cobblers! That lasagna looked amazing! Looking forward to Buttercup's milking video on Monday! Blessings to all.
Everything is going to be well worth it, when harvesting time comes. I bet they are going to be delicious. I have spinach, kale, green onions, Vidalia, beefsteak tomatoes and carrots coming up in my containers.
I did some baby carrots in my wiskey barrel. Only place I can plant where I live. They are coming up nicely. Way better than last year. Excited to have fresh carrots with dinner!
When I plant my carrots are use an old bulk spice container. The type that we get at Sam’s club here in New York. I put sand in it and then mix the tiny seeds and with the sand and sprinkle it on the ground. That way you can see where you seeded because the sand is lighter color you can see where you planted and then there’s less thinning of the plants later. I plant them in blocks instead of rows. I use it for my kale and lettuce. Just a little FYI it works with any tiny seed.
I so love seeing all things come together on the homestead so nicely. Glad you got the chickens on lock down, they did it to themselves. lol i know they just want fresh grass, but still. The vegies in the greenhouse are looking amazing. I love that Olivia wanted her own little bed, she is going to be so prepared when it is time to leave the nest, which will come all to quickly-or maybe she will want to live on the homestead in another house with her husband. That would be awesome. Anyway, everything is looking great, love seeing how much changes from year to year. Hope your blueberries do great Gina, I know you will add more plants too. They are going to look beautiful!
I remember when I was a little girl There Were Ten of us kids and we all had our own row in the garden to plant whatever we wanted that is one of my most Fondest Memories of my childhood. Your blueberry Orchard is looking beautiful, I had one blueberry bush that was my sons when they moved they gave me one of their blueberry bushes to take to my apartment and I wish I would have known more then how to take care of it because it ended up dying and I was so sad because that was one of the things left from their garden and it was just sentimental to meet cuz my son worked so hard on that Garden, but there's always more blueberry bushes to plant and remember my Sons Garden 💗😊💗
I know you have invested a lot in Tractor Supply buckets but I watch you go back and forth for things while planting and my only thought is Invest in a quality wheelbarrow. It will save walking back and forth and your back. Enjoy your channel all the time. Keep it up.
Between your veggies and your blueberries, you’ve done such a painstaking job, you and your family deserve a bountiful crop!💕 I’m so excited for the outcome! Thank you for the updates on Hope. I met her through her birth on Weed’Em & Reap. The extra TLC she received, I’m excited to see the wonderful mom she’ll be! Can’t help loving her💕
Y'all are going to fall in love with that woven ground cover, I wouldn't plant a garden without it. Gina it looks like it's time to put a rock wall around your blueberry patch. Jimmy
a good way to keep your soil acidic is to add coffee grounds. If I remember you get lots of coffee grounds from a local coffee shop...this is a good place to use them! I take my fresh blueberries, and freeze them on cookie sheets and then store them in bags for use in the winter...blueberry syrup on pancakes....oh my!!
@ Hap Newsom , Coffee grounds are also a source of a small amount of nitrogen. Another thing is that earthworms love coffee grounds. So the coffee grounds attract earthworms which add oxygen to the soil for you by making tunnels , make tunnels for water to flow through , and turn the coffee grounds into worm castings for you. Well , actually for the plants. lol Coffee shops may be happy to give you coffee grounds rather than paying to have them taken to a landfill . I also get some discarded vegetables and fruits from a local supermarket. My chickens love them . Pigs would also. What the chickens do not eat goes into my compost pile. One way or another it gets used up rather than just wasted in a land fill .
I use the edge of wood, works perfectly to make very level, straight and perfect depth. Just lay a yard stick on the ground then use your wood to press your lines, cake city. Makes beautiful rows. You're welcome.
wonderful so happy for Gina she helps and works so hard nice to see she has her own little passion too, you guys are a great team, olivia is lucky to learn from you all, here in NY if i didnt have fencing around my blueberries the deer would get them, how about you, do you have alot of dear? My neighbor has hers with bird netting over it too so the blueberries dont become lunch for the animals. Enjoy and good luck we love your channel
50F/10C is about as cold as it gets where I live! If it drops under 68F/20C we start putting on warm clothes! Funny how we adapt so well to our local climates.
@ Charlotte , In southern California my former wife used to put on a nice warm sweater when the night time temperature dropped down to 90 * F. She was " COLD " or so she said. It was only 15 * F below our normal daytime temperature of 105 * F.
A fun tip for Olivia....cut a slice tomato about a quarter of an inch wide, place it on top of a flowerpot filled to within an inch of the top, cover to the top with more soil, water well and get ready to count your tomato plants 5 to 10 days later. Cheaper than buying seeds.
Great job! looks awesome, you should have a great harvest from those blue berries one day soon. Looking forward to seeing buttercup being milked I hope she is good. Great lassana girls, God bless you and your family 💞🙏👼💖
In the fall we would cover the root crops carrots beets turnips parsnips and some potatoes with straw and a water barrier to keep straw dry and havest them as we needed saving room in our limited space celler
Hey guys, I think this is my first post to you. I to was diagnosed with anxiety during the late 80's. I'm 57 years old and when I was young nobody knew what anxiety was not until I was around 19.I found a dr that knew exactly what I had. Of all the years I had to go through it I still suffer from it but I make the most of what I got through gardening, raising chickens, and doing what I love. You guys have come a long way after watching you for so long .. You have a nice barn and I think you have a awesome green house. I live in VA. and we have a long growing season. I was a carpenter for many years, then I got my contractor license. My crew and I built many houses over the years and I had to retire because of injuries. I won't go through all that. But you guys have come a long ways and your doing awesome job on your farm. I wish you all the best in your hard work and Olvia reminds me of my daughter whose 25 in July. They grow up quickly. I raised my daughter by myself since she was 2 years old. But anyway I think the world of you all and what a great greenhouse and everything you have accomplished since I've been watching you! Keep up all the great videos and God will supply you all the food you will have for many years to come!
I have found that being out in nature, and having enough physical activity have helped me quite a bit with my anxiety.
As a kid I used to think that everyone lived with this.. luckly.. coping skills, medication AND meditation have brought me a long ways. Never give up... there is help.
I'm so old, that emotional issues were never thought of making physical issues. I remember that I was always nauseated during the school year, but was never sick to my stomach during the summertime when school was out- Only when I got old did I learn about the cause, thanks to the internet, and people like you conveying their life stories and solutions.
I'm living in the country also.
Al has mentioned more than once that he too suffers from anxiety. It's one of the reasons they do what they do.
Take care and remember, you are not alone.
@@daenydovahsdottir3757 🤗
I learned to plant my carrots from a farmer in New Hampshire who was born in 1896.
He showed me how small the seeds were.
He would take a clean sheet of white paper and fold it corner to corner.
He put the tiny carrot seeds in the center of the folded page. He would then open up the fold some and with a shaking action he could lay just one seed at a time. And place them accurately where he wanted them. He told me to leave the space of my thumb between seeds. We grew a great crop of both orange and red carrots.
Rhubarb!...that's what you need.
The lovely tart taste of rhubarb crumble with the sweet taste of custard, makes a delicious desert.
+ it's a beautiful plant 👍
Strawberry and rhubarb pie, big favorite at house.
Love a good homemade/grown, rhubarb crumble
Yummy
Good to eat and the flower stalks are lovely.
I just love how libby wants to learn and do everything. She will grow into a very well prepared adult. Beautiful child.
Love your videos.
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Good morning Lumnahs... New Yolk City on lockdown? Them rogue chickens did it to themselves 🤣 Gina worked so hard to beautify the place and I’m loving how the woman’s touch just adds a certain panache. The greenhouse has really given you a big advantage this year. So glad Olivia wanted her own garden. It’s wonderful to see the younger generation stepping up and learning how to be more self sufficient. Have a great weekend everyone 🤙
Gardening is not a "woman's touch." Please stop genderizing gardening...and cooking...and cleaning. Let's raise all our kids to understand these tasks/hobbies are for all of us, regardless of our gender.
We all eat, cook and clean.
@@Bamboo4U2 Hi Jake I think you may have miss understood the comment. It happens to everyone at times have a great day.:-)
@@Bamboo4U2 ....A bit of an over reaction, genderizing is in your mind, it wasn't meant in that way.
@@Bamboo4U2You did not read the sentence... you just reacted as any reactive woman does. She clearly said the "woman's touch adds a certain panache", and she is right!!!!! .
@@ancimargarita2763 it's nonsense. Her genitals don't add panache to a garden. Her artistic talents? Sure, but that has nothing to do with her gender.
A special orchard for a special lady and a garden for a special girl. Best protect the blueberries from critters. You folks are amazing.
How exciting! Your homestead is looking awesome! Those blueberry bushes are gonna look good once they start growing :) Love seeing the whole family getting in on the action with gardening and homesteading. Great to see Olivia having her own chickens, garden bed and bees coming soon.
I love to see you and the family each day. It is such a treat. Thank you for sharing
When you move your chicken tractors, position them so they share a common side - the left side of one is touching the right side of the other. That will reduce the total perimeter exposed to predators by 25% for free!
If hard work is a measure of success , you guys are totally successful. Love the way your daughter works right along side of you.
Loved your choice of song while you and Gina were planting, made me tear up. Love watching you guys. I've learned a lot!
I love watching your videos. Your animal family has grown a lot. I have been watching your channel since early 2018 & can’t wait to see the next one.. Keep sharing your farm animals.
Y'all put a lot of love, and work into that blueberry patch.I hope GOD blesses you with more blueberries then you could ever eat.
I am so anxious to see what your “ big picture” is with your farm. You are probably the hardest, most ambitious homesteaders on utube. Great job!
yes they are. Also check out Living Off Grid w/ Jake and Nicole, Justin Rhodes, Sow the Land, Simple Living Alaska, Life Uncontained, and Simple Living Alaska... All are so awesome. Learn a lot from all of them. Great channels and a better community.
john keyes Sawyer homestead is also hard workers. Jason and his wife Alex she keeps right up with Jason. God Bless 🙏
@@jill.arbogast6538 Jacob, not Jason. (Jason is the one that bad mouths everyone.)
Janice Aucoin I am sorry 😐 if it’s the Jason I’m think of I really apologize. However I’m not sure who you are talking about sorry 😐 please let me know the channel. Thank You 🙏
With Olivia being home more she is learning way more valuable lessons from what yall are teaching her than she would've ever gotten from school! Just my opinion. She is turning into such a wonderful young lady. You guys are such a wonderful example for all of us parents in these trying times.
WOW your farm is really coming together this year. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
Your homestead just gets better and better 🥰❤️ I have really enjoyed during quarantine binge watching from where you started.... now for Hope babies 🙏🏻🥰❤️💖
God bless you all Lumnah’s
I never realized how much chemistry was involved !!! Just a city slicker at heart I guess LOL
Morning all. Thanks for the great content. When planting very fine seeds. Take a mason jar, put some sand in it. Add your seeds and shake. As you sprinkle the sand in your rows the seeds will be distributed at a much more even rate. The more sand, the more sparse your planting rows. Reshake from time to time to keep seed distribution even.
Gina & Al, you're so Blessed to be able to have the greenhouse & garden's you & Al have created.
My dream garden would have every kind of Berries there are out there, especially Gooseberries & Dark Berries.
I would also have fruit tree's of the fruits I love & the veggies I love, which is just about all of them lol.
That reminds me.
Save some space in your greenhouse for big clay pots to grow Dwarf Citrus Fruit Tree's & other's that your climate won't allow you to grow outside.
My favorites are Mandarin Oranges, Tangerines, Limes, Myer Lemons, Cherries & a few others.
They also have tree's that grow different types of fruit of the same species on just one tree. I'd love to experiment with that.
That would be another great project for Olivia. The Dwarf Fruit Tree's could be part of her garden.
Now that you have the greenhouse, you can basically grow almost anything you want to grow. So start thinking outside the box about what you want to grow. Things you've wanted to grow but couldn't because of your climate.
Now the sky is your only limit lol.
I can't wait to see what all of you end up creating in your garden's & greenhouse.
Raspberries, blackberries, currants, gooseberries and service berries would all be delicious additions to your berry patch. You might even think about planting some eating grapes. Fill in around your berry bushes with strawberry plants to round things out.
Can they grow grapes up there?
@@ardenpeters4386 ever hear of concord grapes.. yeah they probably can
i agree with finding places to grow things but strawberries under berry bushes are just going to get trampled when you are picking the berries
ALSO, strawberries will be trampled if under-planting, ALSO, too shaded from high bush berries. They NEED FULL SUN.
You just described what _I_ have been planting the past 2 years! First I put in cider and apple trees 4 years ago, followed by other fruit trees (pear, peach, quince - still want plums), berry bushes (Cornus mas, currants, gooseberries, raspberries - native trailing blackberries everywhere), and strawberries as groundcover. I also planted chestnuts and a copper beech this spring. I've been panting perennials first - then I'll think about the annuals.
I'm in the PNW - I can see Victoria, BC from the road.
P.S. There are _so many_ strawberries that the few that get trampled (though I haven't trampled _any_ in the past 2 years even under fruit trees and berry bushes) are not that big a deal.
Living in central Florida it always surprises people to hear we had temps down in the 30’s an low 40’s in the winter. Now I live in Georgia and we can get temps down in the teens. The 50’s feel nice as long as there isn’t wind and rain with it. You are right about going from one extreme to another just screws with your system
Beautiful progress on your plans for food production. Interesting to see how you plant blueberries and nice that Livie has her own garden in the greenhouse. 👍
Love to see the entire family participate in raising the garden.
When you plant Carrots try mixing the seed with sand then sprinkle the mix in the row and cover , you don't have to thin out .
Only a seasoned gardener knows little tricks like this.
PS keep the cardboard wet!
I put my carrot seeds on wet paper towels, then fold and place in baggie overnight. I then make a non-gmo corn starch slurry (let cool) gently add in the soaked seeds. The slurry suspends the soaked seeds. I place in a baggie with a small cut off the corner and 'pipe' into my rows. I have a much better germination rate. I also have to grow mine in the fall as they do better in Texas.
@@kflan3342 I may have to try that. I've had terrible luck with carrots. Maybe this fall.
@@JerryB507 You need deep soil too to grow roots. And I toss in air and don't cover with soil, rather use peat moss (rubbing it between hands to shower over the seeds LIGHTLY) then water the peat moss to make contact with the seeds to keep them moist, you'll have great success.
It's so enjoyable watching y'all preparing beds and planting the garden.
Another great Video, just a little hint, if I may. I use a drainage pipe, cut in half to grow seeds in, and once germinated and large enough to handle I slide the full pipe of plants on to the bed for easy planting and spacing. This is an extra step but helps me alot.
Looks like Lumnah is becoming your own Garden of Eden. Can't wait to see everything start growing and producing produce. All your hard work is starting to pay off. Lord Bless your Homestead.
Good morning all from Tokyo, thunderstorms in the area here.
Cheers!
Stu
👍👍👍 You folks are building up a lovely farm and home for your family. Good on you! 💞☝️ be well and God bless you all.
Good morning Lumnah family.It made me so happy to see the blueberries being planted.I love them.When we bought our home(this year it's 100 years old) there were blueberry bushes already here.I have no idea when they were planted but I'm still picking berries from them after 25 years being here.I don't have problems with deer but the blue Jays and I have a battle royal every year lol
I would have loved to have planted a few Quince trees 35 years ago. No one ever heard of them here in this part of Virginia. I thought for the longest time it was just a tree found in the Pittsburgh, Pa. area. My Mother made the best jelly. They are sold as heirloom. Gina, the lasagna looked delicious & beautiful! I really enjoyed this video & spending time on the Homestead with you folks!
GREAT JOB . We need a drone over the homestead 2 years AGO and NOW what a big difference. HUGS
I put in 2 different blueberries last year the blue crop did far better than the other but could not find more plants so I stopped the video halfway through and got more ordered thank you!!!!
I live in the UP of Michigan and mine is loaded with flowers right now!
Fantastic Gina, you got all ure yummy blueberries in the ground....love the family working together for the common goal....
Good job guys. That Blueberry garden looks nice.
Al, you should put a timelapse camera in the greenhouse to track the plant growth. Would be a fun addition to the videos and help show how much the plants grow each night.
We use the mat it works great, wood chips will also help keep the wind from getting under it to blow it off.looks great 👍 14 eggs 🥚
I planted blueberries 6 yrs ago with landscape fabric. I took a 5 ft width x 70 ft, pegged it down with 6D landscape spikes that had fender washers on them. I took a straight piece of scrap wood, put it down the center of the fabric and ran a torch down the side to cut and seal the edges. I put the plants in the center, spaced 36" apart and topped it with composted saw dust and wood chips. The slit in the fabric makes it easy to mulch, pull an occasional weed etc. We have drip tape running down the center as well, under the mulch. They are huge now, tons of fruit. The landscape fabric helps to blunt the weed pressure, retain moisture and allow the addition of mulch on a regular basis. Weed pressure really stunts blueberries. Good luck with your berries
You are my favorite channel to watch. I love to watch the growth and new things you are bringing to your homestead.
Good Job Olivia. Dinner looks Great.
I'm from North Carolina and I started picking our blueberries two days ago. I'm hoping your plants do well for you. I saw someone posting about putting up a deer fence but we have not had that problem. Our problem is birds. I have some cream colored shear cloth I keep over our bushes and it still let's the light in and rain will go through it. So far it's worked. I enjoy watching you guys.
Thanks! Gina has gotten some bird netting for them.
The blueberry patch looks so nice and the rain will be wonderful for it. Buttercup at least showed interest in the milking stand and went straight for the snack feeder. Can't wait to see Olivia's row garden sprout and grow. God Bless
Blue crops are our favorite. We’re in Oregon and we grow tons of blueberries here! Enjoy
Just curious do you need a pollinator when you plant blueberries ?? Thank You 🙏 God Bless 🙏🙏🌻🌻
Love how you both work together. Team work! 😃
Gina, you are such a wonderful mom. I love when you praise her and give her compliments. My mom never did.
Your gardens are booming with richness! You’re gonna need to bring in some relatives to help harvest. 😁
The baby goats are so so fun to watch.
But I’m concerned about the boys being in with the doelings. They are being aggressive and well, they are trying to act like big boys. I hope the girls don’t get too stressed out. I’m feeling like a protective mom. 🥰
You're garden looks great Olivia!
When you were shaking the phosphate on the garden bed, my dog came in to find the dog that was panting so loudly. LOL
The only thing I'm planting this year is a indoor catnip plant under a grow light. I miss the days I could do a garden. It's fun to see you'all making the most of all you have and thinking outside the box!
Blue berry growers near me (in NSW Australia) often plant two plants per hole to ensure good fertilisation of flowers. You waste a lot of space planting carrots in rows. I mix radish,beetroot and carrot seeds and spread over 1 sq meter(or more ,depending on the amount of seed you sow) . No thinning -radishes come and go quickly,leaving spacing ,carrots and beetroot crop at different rates but if they are too close pull immature and use in salads.Once beets and carrots are of usable size pull (carefully)and the small ones left will grow to full size . Harvest and repeat.
So, a year or so from now I'm betting you'll be building some raised troughs for the veggies in your greenhouse. Saves a lotta bending! Happy weekend! 🙂
Great looking gardens going. Glad to see Olivia wanting to have her own garden too. Won't it be nice to just go out to your own blueberry patch and pick fresh for the pancakes and bread etc. Olovia is learning to cook too, not only that, but making memories with Mom. It just doesn't get any better. Y'all have a Blessed day.
Hey guys your homestead is beautiful it looks so nice
Gina Olivia is a big help that lasagne looks delish
Can’t wait till the next video
Be safe God Bless
Olivia is growing up so fast and is becoming more helpful and prettier everyday
Hi Luminah's , from Newcastle in England. I am enjoying your long journey in creating your own homestead. Suggestions for planting would be leeks (Musselborough), white cauliflowers(snowball) Kohl Rabi- Sprouts you can eat the tender tops of these as greens, and (Durham Early) Cabbage which the bottom leaves can be eaten like spring cabbage and then the hearts left to form pointed heads. Early sowings of radish will keep you well supplied throughout summer and are a good catch cropper for salads- (Little gem) lettuce is nice in sandwiches and salads. (Purple Milan) Turnips, Parsnips, Dwarf French Beans, Boleti beans (nice in soups and casseroles) (Cavell Nero) Kale. Potatoes. Swiss Chard. And (Boltardy) Beetroot- Onions- we use these everyday Ailsa Craig- Sturon (sets) Japanese onion (sets) spring onions(White Lisbon) sown every couple of weeks plant out in bunches of 4-5 6 inches apart . Elephant Garlic. (heavy cropper) Shallots planted out in bunches of 4-5 and 6 inches apart.
Wow, what as Grand amount of planting! I will be excited to see how much food you start getting from everything. Best of luck with your Blueberries! Gina the lasagna looks so Yummy!
My goodness this homestead is going to have Everything!!! You guys are such an inspiration, although i cannot homestead here at the moment due to financial issues it is awesome to watch you guys grow
Can't wait to see the blue berrys! Always a awesome video!
Love the chamber pot planter!!!
Hi Olivia !! I hope your garden does great! You remind me of my 2 daughters.. always smiling.. Keep up the good work!!
I 'hope' you're taking the opportunity with your younger does and especially your new doelings to get them happy with having their udders touched! Feed them treats and touch them all over, also getting them on the milking stand from time to time (not only for unpleasant things...!). If they move, the treats stop, slowly each day spending more time on stomach/udder etc. By the time it's milking time they should be used to the stool and an association of touch = nice things happen = be still (no kicking!) = easy milking!
You all have been working so hard, the pay off will be huge. Happiness!
It really looks great! Love blue berry!
Blueberry roots generally only go down less than a foot, so we put all of our amendments on the top of the soil. Your area should be nice and weed-free for a long time! Looks great!
Olivia, your bed in the high tunnel looks great. I hope you have bumper crops. Yea yea yea for blueberry
Haven't seen you planting garlic. That's my favorite, also cantaloupe. Garden looks great and all the goats seem happy.🙂
I was about Miss Livies age when I got my own "garden". I think the seeds came from Burpee. It gave me a sense of pride to contribute more than just pulling weeds 😀😀😀😀 I bet Livies will feel the same😀
You guys are an awesome couple and team...it shows in your harvest...you were def meant to be life mates..js..you guys def balance each other out..
Blue crop is my favourite blueberry to eat! They are sweet. They can be a bit small, but are worth the work! 💕
What a wonderful way of life!!!💖👍💐😊👏
Such memories be made with your daughter quaility time
I do love blueberries. We have an organic blueberry orchard not far from here tho I would like to grow my own. We do have a literal TON of wild raspberries, black raspberries & wineberries all over our mountain and they make the most amazing cobblers! That lasagna looked amazing! Looking forward to Buttercup's milking video on Monday! Blessings to all.
Everything is going to be well worth it, when harvesting time comes. I bet they are going to be delicious. I have spinach, kale, green onions, Vidalia, beefsteak tomatoes and carrots coming up in my containers.
I did some baby carrots in my wiskey barrel. Only place I can plant where I live. They are coming up nicely. Way better than last year. Excited to have fresh carrots with dinner!
When I plant my carrots are use an old bulk spice container. The type that we get at Sam’s club here in New York. I put sand in it and then mix the tiny seeds and with the sand and sprinkle it on the ground. That way you can see where you seeded because the sand is lighter color you can see where you planted and then there’s less thinning of the plants later. I plant them in blocks instead of rows. I use it for my kale and lettuce. Just a little FYI it works with any tiny seed.
Glad Olivia has her own little garden, good for her. Your lasagna looked delicious.
I so love seeing all things come together on the homestead so nicely. Glad you got the chickens on lock down, they did it to themselves. lol i know they just want fresh grass, but still. The vegies in the greenhouse are looking amazing. I love that Olivia wanted her own little bed, she is going to be so prepared when it is time to leave the nest, which will come all to quickly-or maybe she will want to live on the homestead in another house with her husband. That would be awesome. Anyway, everything is looking great, love seeing how much changes from year to year. Hope your blueberries do great Gina, I know you will add more plants too. They are going to look beautiful!
I remember when I was a little girl There Were Ten of us kids and we all had our own row in the garden to plant whatever we wanted that is one of my most Fondest Memories of my childhood. Your blueberry Orchard is looking beautiful, I had one blueberry bush that was my sons when they moved they gave me one of their blueberry bushes to take to my apartment and I wish I would have known more then how to take care of it because it ended up dying and I was so sad because that was one of the things left from their garden and it was just sentimental to meet cuz my son worked so hard on that Garden, but there's always more blueberry bushes to plant and remember my Sons Garden 💗😊💗
You are now my favourite homesteaders
Almost 200K subscribers. Well done Lumnahs.
Ha! Those carrots are SAINT Valary...not Satan Valary….just how it sounded on tape - funny!!!Your guys' greenhouse is FABULOUS.
Gosh, that was allot of work for blueberries.. I'm impressed. And impressed with Gina's lasagna! Looked yummy!
I know you have invested a lot in Tractor Supply buckets but I watch you go back and forth for things while planting and my only thought is Invest in a quality wheelbarrow. It will save walking back and forth and your back. Enjoy your channel all the time. Keep it up.
Love your content. Keep up the good work and thank you all!
Between your veggies and your blueberries, you’ve done such a painstaking job, you and your family deserve a bountiful crop!💕
I’m so excited for the outcome!
Thank you for the updates on Hope.
I met her through her birth on Weed’Em & Reap. The extra TLC she received, I’m excited to see the wonderful mom she’ll be! Can’t help loving her💕
Y'all are going to fall in love with that woven ground cover, I wouldn't plant a garden without it. Gina it looks like it's time to put a rock wall around your blueberry patch.
Jimmy
a good way to keep your soil acidic is to add coffee grounds. If I remember you get lots of coffee grounds from a local coffee shop...this is a good place to use them! I take my fresh blueberries, and freeze them on cookie sheets and then store them in bags for use in the winter...blueberry syrup on pancakes....oh my!!
Wow that’s good to know. Do you put anything else on them besides the coffee grounds and H2O. ??
@ Hap Newsom ,
Coffee grounds are also a source of a small amount of nitrogen. Another thing is that earthworms love coffee grounds. So the coffee grounds attract earthworms which add oxygen to the soil for you by making tunnels , make tunnels for water to flow through , and turn the coffee grounds into worm castings for you. Well , actually for the plants. lol Coffee shops may be happy to give you coffee grounds rather than paying to have them taken to a landfill .
I also get some discarded vegetables and fruits from a local supermarket. My chickens love them . Pigs would also. What the chickens do not eat goes into my compost pile. One way or another it gets used up rather than just wasted in a land fill .
Its awesome that her dream was able to come true.
I'm planting carrots today also! My attempt at blueberries failed, but the BlackBerry and raspberry root stock is leafing out nicely.
Your blueberry plants are going to love where they've been planted. Gina, your lasagna looks delicious!!
Al: Put some short rubber hose pieces on the rake tines in the spacing you want for the rows . Then you can make two or maybe even three at once.
Frill, that's such a good idea!
Nice!! Gonna use that when I do my fall planting. Thank you 😀
I use the edge of wood, works perfectly to make very level, straight and perfect depth. Just lay a yard stick on the ground then use your wood to press your lines, cake city. Makes beautiful rows. You're welcome.
wonderful so happy for Gina she helps and works so hard nice to see she has her own little passion too, you guys are a great team, olivia is lucky to learn from you all, here in NY if i didnt have fencing around my blueberries the deer would get them, how about you, do you have alot of dear? My neighbor has hers with bird netting over it too so the blueberries dont become lunch for the animals. Enjoy and good luck we love your channel
I learn soooo much from you! Thank you from Chicago
50F/10C is about as cold as it gets where I live! If it drops under 68F/20C we start putting on warm clothes! Funny how we adapt so well to our local climates.
@ Charlotte ,
In southern California my former wife used to put on a nice warm sweater when the night time temperature dropped down to 90 * F. She was " COLD " or so she said. It was only 15 * F below our normal daytime temperature of 105 * F.
Looking great Lumnahs
That lasagna looked amazing, Gina always makes sure there are good vittles on the table.
A fun tip for Olivia....cut a slice tomato about a quarter of an inch wide, place it on top of a flowerpot filled to within an inch of the top, cover to the top with more soil, water well and get ready to count your tomato plants 5 to 10 days later. Cheaper than buying seeds.
I'm sure you are going to be doing this again on the new property. Looking forward to that. Maybe more berry varieties. I like it. 😊😊😊
Olivia's hair is adorable.
And dinner looks yummy. 😋
Great job! looks awesome, you should have a great harvest from those blue berries one day soon. Looking forward to seeing buttercup being milked I hope she is good. Great lassana girls, God bless you and your family 💞🙏👼💖
In the fall we would cover the root crops carrots beets turnips parsnips and some potatoes with straw and a water barrier to keep straw dry and havest them as we needed saving room in our limited space celler