We are in Australia with a 200ac homestead. Your channel is by far our favourite US homesteaders channel. Some of the bigger channels are just difficult to watch. Love the way we see you both and the boys actually doing the work without having employees/interns managing it for you, not plugging books, vlogging about health issues etc. You all do an amazing job and it great to see you teach your boys, and others’ children, the skills they can use for life. Meg is a kitchen wizard and also a wonderful, calm and loving parent. Absolute pleasure watching your family and property grow. Thank you.
Have to congratulate this reply. You, Meg & all your family on the honest, living blog that ALWAYS shows through. I’ve followed you through all obstacles, and victories, your videos are a very REAL honest approach. Even when things don’t go ‘RIGHT’ you are still there waiting for your life to show you what’s next. Meg - you are the kitchen master cook. Love little “Buggsy” interaction.
I deeply appreciate your comment, but I do want to be transparent - I am not a perfect parent! We are human like everyone else and I definitely have days where I have little patience and might be harder than I need to with the kids. 😔 Always a work in progress!
@@TheHollarHomestead I hear you! We have 6 grown children. It’s definitely not always rainbows and glitter. Still, your videos are a pleasure to watch. Thanks again
@Tommie Jones Abandoned it many moons ago. Homesteading is NOT paying others to do the homesteading. AND how many freezers of food does a family really need?
The cool thing about your videos is that they are real and authentic which is why I love your channel so much. I have enjoyed watching the growth you have made on your land from the very beginning. And the growth of your family has been a joy to be a part of virtually... I think you are wise to let the twins do their own thing...very smart of you to do in this weird climate of youtube-isms.
I enjoyed the longer video of your farming! It was a delight! I was able too enjoy my cup of coffee watching todays video! It was likes old times, enjoying a good half hour of splendid family farm living! Thank you so much! ❤️❤️❤️
Great to get more plants in the ground. Not only good for covering the soil but the more roots in the ground the more the soil organisms get feed and the better the soil becomes!!
Hey guys. I’m in the UK. Had “extras” just like you. Planted most out : Tomatoes, squashes (no point Sweet Potatoes here), kept last year’s bolted carrots, leeks and parsley, this year’s bolted onions and cilantro… zero honey bees but now there’s an abundance of wasps and hover flies that are pollinating everywhere and predating aphids and other harmful bugs. Spare starts are obviously a boring necessity, but heck! Don’t they just save the day in ground anywhere rather than sit there taking up our time. Anyway, sweet potatoes in the woodchipped orchard could well become a permanent volunteer sweet potato bed like in Back to Eden. If nothing else, the rotating cattle will love the vines next year. 😃👍🏻👍🏻
You do Billy and Danny proud with your planting diversity in the orchard!!!!! Don't sweat the potato harvesting timetable. We, in the PNW can harvest til the ground threatens to freeze. The taboes just grow larger!
Glad to see I'm not the only one that lets the weed eating get away from me. Love your idea of finding places to plant tomatoes, potatoes & peppers in odd places. That will be one of my projects for today!
Loved the weed whacking. Just as satisfying as doing it myself almost.😊 Such a beautiful difference. The garden just looks so amazing. Such beautiful progress. You are making a beautiful place out of your homestead. What a difference you have made from the first reveal a few years ago.
Yes, plz show the mundane, cause that's just what I needed to get motivated to do the mundane!! The grass around my boxes and garden is as bad as yours was. Seeing how much better it is mowed, I must now do the same😭😭, lol. Thanks for the motivation 🥰🥰
To protect the fruit trees take two PVC pipes and cross them over the trees to make a tent frame, drive rebar into the ground to put the PVC on, then put bird netting over the pvc. Tie it up so it’s not dragging the ground. My sons father-in-law did it and it’s working. The birds are staying away and the trees don’t get tangled in the netting.
My favorite part of the garden was the toy tractor you were growing!! 😂 I love that you guys show real life gardening and not the perfect picture manicured garden. Thanks!
I just subscribed today. My first thumbs up for you. We left a city life in our fifty’s over17 years ago. Our home is an oldie and not quite a goodie yet, may never be but as we approach our seventies we learned to embrace our homes blemishes. We lost lots of our retirement savings to savvy double talking financial advisors. One day, down the road from our house I saw a sign that was covered by weeds the size of trees. We looked at each other. My husband pushed the weeds apart and I called the realtor and he met us on the 8 acres. The land was way ver priced, so we put a ridiculously low bid, and put our retirement on the line. Seems the land was on the market for a long time and they accepted our bid. We were happy to get the funds away from the advisors. It’s almost 7 years of up’s and downs but thanks to channels like yours and going to UA-cam school we are finally getting harvest enough for two older people. Keep up the good work. We will be doing a marathon over the weekend watching your beautiful family videos.
I really love it so much when y’all take us on a walk thru you garden areas!! Ben, I totally get when you say you like to see all the edges after you weed…it is truly a thing of beauty🤗!
Your homestead gets better and better each and every year because you have removed all of that gross trash from everywhere on it and you continue to feed your soil and take care of it. It says to each one of you, "Thank You!" God blessed you with abundance because of it, lovely to watch.
Everyone does yard work...I wish! I wish I could, I'm getting older and I don't have a yard to mow, weed or plant. I miss having a yard! And being able to take care of it. I was very blessed with amazing neighbors who helped cut my grass the last year I had a yard. My kid's are buying property so maybe one day soon I will have a place for yardwork!! 😊 Thank you for your "mundane clips", I miss mundane! You show yard work anytime you want. I am just glad you guys are taking us on this journey with you. Thank you.
I love yard work and love to see the afterward. Looks a lot better. Please never hesitate in sharing what some may consider mundane as not everyone sees it as that.
What is it now, the 3rd or 4th year garden must be so satisfying to see what you have done in that short time. The garden in the over all looks great. I'm sure there will always be "experiments", but you've turned what you said was depleted soil into a great harvest!
We got behind on our lawn for the last little while since I brought Covid home after my flight back home from visiting family. None of us feel good enough to mow. I guess I brought home a pretty hardy strain of Covid. I keep moving the goats around to help. The chickens like it because there are more bugs. Our chickens and ducks are doing okay so far. I have a bunch of 18 new layers I'm raising this year and I just got 24 Cornish cross in the brooder to raise for meat with the neighbors. What a wonderful tour of the garden. It looks really good guys. Wow, no wheat grew. I enjoyed that tour immensely. Thanks Hollars.
I enjoy watching these videos so very much. Your not pretending! Your as real as it gets and I enjoy that! 😊 Family and what is best for your family and showing us what has worked or not for you with your gardens. Thank you! 🥰 My parents would every year grow this squash that climbed up and grew to look like a baseball bat. It is one of the yummiest squash and very versatile. Let one grow to a huge size and get next year's seeds from it. Just hang it up and let it dry out until next year for the seeds. Wish I knew what it was called. But I'm sure you'd love it.
Whoo Hoo, you are gardening machines this summer. 💪👏 The garden is producting so much food and I am looking forward to seeing how much corn you get from that space. Take care and God Bless.
Farmstead is looking really great! We use sweet potatoes as ground cover here in Hawaii. Cools the soil as green mulch and bonus we get edible sweet potatoes! We also use comfrey as a ground cover in our citrus orchard.
@@homeandgardendiaries6384 May I ask what other greens are edible that many of us don’t know about? I’m looking for a variety of greens to juice. Thanks!
Greens from Fava beans are edible (similar to spinach). Beet greens are edible, as are the greens from rutabagas. Good luck and best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA.
Thank y'all so much for sharing your homesteading journey and for being so genuine!! We live in a small mobile home on a little over an acre in SC and enjoy gardening very much!! God bless you all always,much love and prayers,God is so good all the time ❤️🙏🙌
I love the way you two bounce off each other........ so thankful you put the effort into saving your marriage - can see that it has worked big time!! HUGS
Good to see that you show the real “growing stuff” including stuff that doesn’t grow (wheat) and when something doesn’t quite fit into how you want it (yard beans), and the don’t know why it didn’t work(black-eyed beans). That’s part and parcel of being a gardener.
Always love watching your stuff grow. It’s the middle of winter here in Australia and it’s been really wet. I’m just starting my seeds off in pots at the moment. I’ll be ready in September to start planting and I can’t wait. Cheers all.
I have had no luck with beets the past 2 years. Very frustrating. If you cut the head off a sunflower, throw in with the chickens. They love sunflower heads. The Tonka truck in the squash bed made me giggle. There is nothing like watching kids imagination on a farm. Warms your heart.
I am never bored with the mundane chores because we all have them. Yours are just on a homestead. I loved the garden tour and seeing your bountiful garden with good and bad. What is going on with your Greenstalks? Maybe having them near your front door with herbs and flowers will be easier to care for and water. Your daughter could help Meg with the watering. My granddaughter has her own watering can to help me in the garden.
I just started watching Hollar Homestead and I think you guys are AWESOME !!! I’m up north in Michigan ! I love watching you planting your gardens . I’ve gotten a few gardening tips from you ! Keep on UA-caming !
Hi😀 I have been watching you all from the beginning!! I’m from CA as well. You inspire me!! I’m enjoying every new episode.. You all have done such an amazing job!!! The kids bring a smile to my face reminds me of my childhood😀❤️ For future projects I would love to see Ben and the boys build a deck/porch off the sliding door.. It would be added space for you all possibly to eat outside… just a thought Never stop being you!!! It makes every video special.. Always remember you are helping/inspiring others like me!
Hello from TN. Although he passed away this past year, the Old Alabama Gardener has so many videos that can help people get off on the right foot with your Garden, in the South! Like an Egg IN the hole for Tomatoes! Also making a powder from the Eggshells, for tomatoes! Check out his Playlist! He also had some homemade Remedies and DELICIOUS recipes too! Take the time, to make the time, for OAG, Old Alabama Gardener! You won't regret it. Will all of your squash, and peppers cross pollinate. So that you won't have true seeds of the varieties? GOD bless
Your garden is beautiful! The drought here killed ours. We watered it, but the constant high ninety to 108 degree temperatures just baked everything. Even our established oak, apple, peach, and pecan trees are dying. God bless your family.
I like how you’re not pitching those plants but using them for purpose. Tip for you guys: with all the heat and dryness we’re experiencing all over the country, put out water sources for your wildlife. That may be why the birds are being jerks and picking off your fruit. For the first time, we didn’t get any of our black raspberries. Usually birds only eat a few.
Good Sunday to you. I binge watched you last night from California - road trip ,, my son said Not a thing to watch tonight for a weekend, so 😃 I thought to go back to then and see HOW FAR YOU HAVE COME. Ben had said something about 4 years so that’s what made me wanna go watch the journey Not sure what you were all visiting but Meg was totally in awe, looked like you started to get quite emotional 🤗
My uncle was a farmer in Illinois and we were visiting him one summer and we were out on the tractor. He just had tomato plants on a fence that just grew wild and he left them. He was a little eccentric and he had salt and pepper shakers on his belt like a holster and we were out on the tractor turning over the fields and we stopped and there were these plants on the fence full of tomatoes, big huge round tomatoes and they were hot in the sun and he cut one in half and put a bunch of salt on it and gave it to me and he ate the other half and it was amazing. But he said they were completely wild and probably because he threw some tomato on the ground there at one point and it just grew. I would never just throw them away I would just go stick them out at the edge of your property somewhere and let them go wild if nothing else and see if they keep coming up. Hopefully the work out by the Orchard.
Love to see fresh mowed grass. I always enjoyed cutting the grass. Garden looks good. Fried okra, yay! I grow shishitos, roast in skillet with olive oil and a little salt, delish. These peppers grow very well. Love them.
I'm almost 62. I love to garden & mow. The excitement of the changes & how beautiful everything looks after you work for awhile is very satisfying. Weed whacking is getting harder to do with my ailments tho it does look finishes & tucked in afterwards.
Question. Where do you learn the medicinal benefits of all the different plants ? I have always been interested in what we call home remedies. I think that it’s awesome the abundance of knowledge about plants y’all have. Love watching your channel ❤️❤️❤️
Epic, indeed. So happy for you that you have a beautiful, thriving garden. There will always be challenges and room for improvement. That's part of the fun! So glad you share it all with the rest of us - I am very "edutained" by it all. :)
Great garden tour. You can't beat Contender bush beans for the garden. We have been growing them for years and saving seed from them. They are just loaded with great beans every year and they can well. We love them. PLUS, they are not stringy. That is a huge plus for me. Crisp and tender. We eat them fresh off the bush w/a little olive oil, salt and pepper and cooked just a little so they are still crunchy. We also cook them w/bacon and new potatoes and make a meal out of just that. Then we can the rest. Big bang for your buck. :)
Maybe you should get you a couple scare crows out there or something thats gonna move with the wind that will scare the crows away! Just a thought! Sure is a beautiful garden!! Thanks again for sharing!! 👍💞💖💝💖💞👍
If it is one thing around the homestead I do not like doing it is weed eating. YES, when you trim around everything and the squareness of all the beds come back it is so very much satisfying. Such a beautiful you both have put so much work in and it shows. Have a wonderful weekend and God Bless
When those passion fruit get ripe, take pineapple, banana, papaya fruit, and add the passion fruit juice , seeds all together it makes the best fruit salad!! Went on a mission trip to Africa, and that's one of the things we ate, very good!! You can add some of those melons too..yum..
Yes, most insects are our garden friends. If there are pests, there is usually a predator to take them out. I love the natural ecosystem of the garden which is beautiful. Some pests get out of control like the Hoopla and Japanese beetles which need intervention . I am growing Loofahs which are flowering , but yours are pristine. I like your cattle-panel set-up . This is a jam-packed informative and fun garden video. Even your mundane chores look fun ! We wish we got rain to jump-start plants. We need rain here in northern Ca.
Yes - really did enjoy the garden tour... it all looks so healthy and well established. Also you both have so much more confidence talking about your various plantings. Keep well... blessings to the whole family.
Say what you will, this was a very relaxing video watching you plant, weed whacking (nice edges ) and showing what's worth growing and what's not worth growing. Garden looks wonderful, Ben your so resourceful, I wouldn't have thought to plant around the fruit trees with the excess plants. Blessings to all of you. 😊🇺🇲
I did the weed eating around the garden beds today myself. Then dug a hole for a clothesline pole and cemented it in. Watered All the beds. Got in the pool for a bit. Then sat on the couch.
Hi y’all from Montreal 🇨🇦 we are so different in growing seasons 🌸 your 🪴 plants are way more advanced! on my top floor apartment balcony ... I am growing green beans, pumpkins, morning glory purple flowering vines and a hang pot of strawberries 🍓 all my vines are just starting to flower and my strawberries give me about 5-6 big treats per day! Enjoyed this today ☮️🌈💚
The vegetables you are growing are awesome and productive. It is so hot and humid hear that my garden is close to death. My spicy and sweet peppers are doing good, my okra is good so as my tomatoes. Several pots of basil is producing good. Hopefully my fall garden will be better I hope. I’m a newbie and I might be doing something wrong. I love the way you fill the empty areas with plants. You both are great parents and good working with your kids and showing them how to grow food from seeds. They are blessed. Love watching your videos and I learn something new when I watch. Thanks for sharing.
I diluted 1 gal of milk to 4 gallons of water and gave each tomato plant at least 1 qt to help blossom end rot. It helps. I don't know how expensive the other stuff is, but can use a resource you already have... Maybe?
Try some bird scare tape to keep the birds away from your apples. I use it for my grapes, peaches, Raspberries and Apples. I use to lose all my grapes to the mockingbirds and tried netting and other stuff. The scare tape worked and I actually got to eat some grapes last year. Also if they are getting to your tomatoes I tried what sounded like an old wives tale but has worked every year for me. --As soon as you plant hang some red christmas balls out. I put them on my cages. The birds peck them and realized that it is not food and so they never bother the tomatoes when they turn red. I enjoy your videos.
It’s not just you wanting to take back your yard edges from the weeds. It IS SOOO satisfying to have a ‘clean’ yard
No one shows the reality of “yard work”. Everything always looks pristine. It’s good to find someone willing to show actual reality 👍
You can show as much “yard work” as you want! It’s awesome to see how others maintain their garden areas and it’s encouraging for others 🤪☺️☺️☺️
I love work, I can sit and watch it all day
It makes me want to get busy too.
So true... never get tired of watching how focused you guys are. Your enthusiasm is contagious. Thanks for all you do.
Milky spores kills Japanese beetles and moles for 20+ years. Sprinkle granules in spring before they come out. It's expensive but worth it
Sounds like you have some toads singing...natural bug 🐛 killers.
We are in Australia with a 200ac homestead. Your channel is by far our favourite US homesteaders channel. Some of the bigger channels are just difficult to watch. Love the way we see you both and the boys actually doing the work without having employees/interns managing it for you, not plugging books, vlogging about health issues etc. You all do an amazing job and it great to see you teach your boys, and others’ children, the skills they can use for life. Meg is a kitchen wizard and also a wonderful, calm and loving parent. Absolute pleasure watching your family and property grow. Thank you.
Have to congratulate this reply. You, Meg & all your family on the honest, living blog that ALWAYS shows through. I’ve followed you through all obstacles, and victories, your videos are a very REAL honest approach. Even when things don’t go ‘RIGHT’ you are still there waiting for your life to show you what’s next. Meg - you are the kitchen master cook. Love little “Buggsy” interaction.
I deeply appreciate your comment, but I do want to be transparent - I am not a perfect parent! We are human like everyone else and I definitely have days where I have little patience and might be harder than I need to with the kids. 😔 Always a work in progress!
@@TheHollarHomestead I hear you! We have 6 grown children. It’s definitely not always rainbows and glitter. Still, your videos are a pleasure to watch. Thanks again
@Tommie Jones Abandoned it many moons ago. Homesteading is NOT paying others to do the homesteading. AND how many freezers of food does a family really need?
Yes, everyone does yard work…
But, it is so enjoyable watching someone ELSE do their yard work!
I love watching the mowing and weedeatering. your videos are never boring.
IKR, the time lapse weedeating was SO satisfying, lol.
Don’t call it mundane.
It is fun to watch the progress, improvements & maintenance of your homestead!
The cool thing about your videos is that they are real and authentic which is why I love your channel so much. I have enjoyed watching the growth you have made on your land from the very beginning. And the growth of your family has been a joy to be a part of virtually... I think you are wise to let the twins do their own thing...very smart of you to do in this weird climate of youtube-isms.
We love yard work and mundane chores on the Hollar homestead! Everything looks great!
Not everyone has a yard to do work in.. it's quite nice to watch someone be oddly satisfied with doing the mundane! TY
Hollar Homestead is looking thoroughly productive, you guys are killing it and Thank You for all the hard work of bringing us along 😀
I enjoyed the longer video of your farming! It was a delight! I was able too enjoy my cup of coffee watching todays video! It was likes old times, enjoying a good half hour of splendid family farm living! Thank you so much! ❤️❤️❤️
I absolutely love watching mundane chores and construction projects in fast forward. It's so cool watching things come together.
Great to get more plants in the ground. Not only good for covering the soil but the more roots in the ground the more the soil organisms get feed and the better the soil becomes!!
Hey guys. I’m in the UK. Had “extras” just like you. Planted most out : Tomatoes, squashes (no point Sweet Potatoes here), kept last year’s bolted carrots, leeks and parsley, this year’s bolted onions and cilantro… zero honey bees but now there’s an abundance of wasps and hover flies that are pollinating everywhere and predating aphids and other harmful bugs.
Spare starts are obviously a boring necessity, but heck! Don’t they just save the day in ground anywhere rather than sit there taking up our time.
Anyway, sweet potatoes in the woodchipped orchard could well become a permanent volunteer sweet potato bed like in Back to Eden. If nothing else, the rotating cattle will love the vines next year. 😃👍🏻👍🏻
And sweet potato leaves are edible!
I think it’s awesome to see you guys take care of your property
Grow food people! Grow food! It has become a real matter of survival...
You do Billy and Danny proud with your planting diversity in the orchard!!!!!
Don't sweat the potato harvesting timetable.
We, in the PNW can harvest til the ground threatens to freeze. The taboes just grow larger!
Wow what a difference from when you moved there
Glad to see I'm not the only one that lets the weed eating get away from me. Love your idea of finding places to plant tomatoes, potatoes & peppers in odd places. That will be one of my projects for today!
Loved the weed whacking. Just as satisfying as doing it myself almost.😊 Such a beautiful difference. The garden just looks so amazing. Such beautiful progress. You are making a beautiful place out of your homestead. What a difference you have made from the first reveal a few years ago.
When are you going to start working on the soap making room
Yes, plz show the mundane, cause that's just what I needed to get motivated to do the mundane!! The grass around my boxes and garden is as bad as yours was. Seeing how much better it is mowed, I must now do the same😭😭, lol. Thanks for the motivation 🥰🥰
To protect the fruit trees take two PVC pipes and cross them over the trees to make a tent frame, drive rebar into the ground to put the PVC on, then put bird netting over the pvc. Tie it up so it’s not dragging the ground. My sons father-in-law did it and it’s working. The birds are staying away and the trees don’t get tangled in the netting.
My favorite part of the garden was the toy tractor you were growing!! 😂 I love that you guys show real life gardening and not the perfect picture manicured garden. Thanks!
The time lapse clips are always enjoyable.
I just subscribed today. My first thumbs up for you. We left a city life in our fifty’s over17 years ago. Our home is an oldie and not quite a goodie yet, may never be but as we approach our seventies we learned to embrace our homes blemishes. We lost lots of our retirement savings to savvy double talking financial advisors. One day, down the road from our house I saw a sign that was covered by weeds the size of trees. We looked at each other. My husband pushed the weeds apart and I called the realtor and he met us on the 8 acres. The land was way ver priced, so we put a ridiculously low bid, and put our retirement on the line. Seems the land was on the market for a long time and they accepted our bid. We were happy to get the funds away from the advisors. It’s almost 7 years of up’s and downs but thanks to channels like yours and going to UA-cam school we are finally getting harvest enough for two older people. Keep up the good work. We will be doing a marathon over the weekend watching your beautiful family videos.
You guys are killing it. Only goes to show what can be accomplished when everyone is on board. Much continued success with your homestead
I really love it so much when y’all take us on a walk thru you garden areas!! Ben, I totally get when you say you like to see all the edges after you weed…it is truly a thing of beauty🤗!
Your homestead gets better and better each and every year because you have removed all of that gross trash from everywhere on it and you continue to feed your soil and take care of it. It says to each one of you, "Thank You!" God blessed you with abundance because of it, lovely to watch.
You failed to mention the Tonka squash!
Glad we got to see a tour of your gardens! Excellent!
Luv watching your progress! Missed the kitty cats. Hope all the piglets growing strong. 😃🐞🐝🦋🐾🐾🕊♻️
I love a freshly manicured yard. It just changes the look of everything
What beautiful abundance of goodness in the garden! It’s beautiful! ❤️
Everyone does yard work...I wish! I wish I could, I'm getting older and I don't have a yard to mow, weed or plant. I miss having a yard! And being able to take care of it. I was very blessed with amazing neighbors who helped cut my grass the last year I had a yard. My kid's are buying property so maybe one day soon I will have a place for yardwork!! 😊 Thank you for your "mundane clips", I miss mundane! You show yard work anytime you want. I am just glad you guys are taking us on this journey with you. Thank you.
I love yard work and love to see the afterward. Looks a lot better. Please never hesitate in sharing what some may consider mundane as not everyone sees it as that.
Ben an out door shower and mud room would help Meg a lot. Walking into your home clean and fresh goes a long way.
You can eat the sweet potato greens like a spinach alternative 😊 So, more food!
Great video as always!
Everything what you plant and touch is a blessing to your family
You put the seeds and God is doing rest 🙏. Love you all
What is it now, the 3rd or 4th year garden must be so satisfying to see what you have done in that short time. The garden in the over all looks great. I'm sure there will always be "experiments", but you've turned what you said was depleted soil into a great harvest!
We got behind on our lawn for the last little while since I brought Covid home after my flight back home from visiting family. None of us feel good enough to mow. I guess I brought home a pretty hardy strain of Covid. I keep moving the goats around to help. The chickens like it because there are more bugs. Our chickens and ducks are doing okay so far. I have a bunch of 18 new layers I'm raising this year and I just got 24 Cornish cross in the brooder to raise for meat with the neighbors. What a wonderful tour of the garden. It looks really good guys. Wow, no wheat grew. I enjoyed that tour immensely. Thanks Hollars.
I enjoy watching these videos so very much. Your not pretending! Your as real as it gets and I enjoy that! 😊 Family and what is best for your family and showing us what has worked or not for you with your gardens. Thank you! 🥰 My parents would every year grow this squash that climbed up and grew to look like a baseball bat. It is one of the yummiest squash and very versatile. Let one grow to a huge size and get next year's seeds from it. Just hang it up and let it dry out until next year for the seeds. Wish I knew what it was called. But I'm sure you'd love it.
I’m in southern ohio and I had FANTASTIC results out of the mangel beets. They were VERY easy to grow for me.
Y’all have a beautiful garden I just love your place y’all have come a long way hugs and prayers
I love that for you guys this is the summer of figuring out where to grow all the potatoes!!! I'm so jealous!
Hi.... Meg and Ben nice to see you, thank you for showing your video homestead chickens farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐣🐥🐖🐄🌱🌺🌹🌻🌼🌸🌷🏡🎥👍👍👍
Real people doing real chores.
Love seeing both of you beautiful people.
I really enjoy watching you do mundane things…
Yard work has to be done and let’s be honest makes the gardens look so much better. Enjoyed this vlog
Whoo Hoo, you are gardening machines this summer. 💪👏 The garden is producting so much food and I am looking forward to seeing how much corn you get from that space. Take care and God Bless.
Farmstead is looking really great!
We use sweet potatoes as ground cover here in Hawaii. Cools the soil as green mulch and bonus we get edible sweet potatoes! We also use comfrey as a ground cover in our citrus orchard.
You can eat sweet potato leaves too.
@@homeandgardendiaries6384 May I ask what other greens are edible that many of us don’t know about? I’m looking for a variety of greens to juice. Thanks!
@@orchidlife9482 Radish greens.
Greens from Fava beans are edible (similar to spinach). Beet greens are edible, as are the greens from rutabagas. Good luck and best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA.
Thank y'all so much for sharing your homesteading journey and for being so genuine!! We live in a small mobile home on a little over an acre in SC and enjoy gardening very much!! God bless you all always,much love and prayers,God is so good all the time ❤️🙏🙌
Everything Yall do is
Awesome & Amazing!
Much Love ❤& God🙏 Bless 😘Yall
I love the way you two bounce off each other........ so thankful you put the effort into saving your marriage - can see that it has worked big time!! HUGS
Good to see that you show the real “growing stuff” including stuff that doesn’t grow (wheat) and when something doesn’t quite fit into how you want it (yard beans), and the don’t know why it didn’t work(black-eyed beans). That’s part and parcel of being a gardener.
Always love watching your stuff grow. It’s the middle of winter here in Australia and it’s been really wet. I’m just starting my seeds off in pots at the moment. I’ll be ready in September to start planting and I can’t wait. Cheers all.
I have had no luck with beets the past 2 years. Very frustrating.
If you cut the head off a sunflower, throw in with the chickens. They love sunflower heads.
The Tonka truck in the squash bed made me giggle. There is nothing like watching kids imagination on a farm. Warms your heart.
🙋🏼♀️🕊. Meg sure needs a summer kitchen. Blessings that’s a lot of food to process 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊. Hope your grandmother comes ❤️❤️
Mate .. yard work videos are great 👍 I loved the cleanup with the trimmer 💯
I did enjoy watching the garden edges pop out of the jungle! This was a very generous episode, thankyou!
I am never bored with the mundane chores because we all have them. Yours are just on a homestead. I loved the garden tour and seeing your bountiful garden with good and bad. What is going on with your Greenstalks? Maybe having them near your front door with herbs and flowers will be easier to care for and water. Your daughter could help Meg with the watering. My granddaughter has her own watering can to help me in the garden.
I just started watching Hollar Homestead and I think you guys are AWESOME !!! I’m up north in Michigan ! I love watching you planting your gardens . I’ve gotten a few gardening tips from you ! Keep on UA-caming !
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I have been watching you all from the beginning!! I’m from CA as well. You inspire me!! I’m enjoying every new episode.. You all have done such an amazing job!!! The kids bring a smile to my face reminds me of my childhood😀❤️
For future projects I would love to see Ben and the boys build a deck/porch off the sliding door.. It would be added space for you all possibly to eat outside… just a thought
Never stop being you!!! It makes every video special..
Always remember you are helping/inspiring others like me!
I spotted your toy truck plant!! 🥴😁
Watching mundane chores on here inspires me to go complete them on my farm.
Your garden has grown so much, awesome job.
Hello from TN. Although he passed away this past year, the Old Alabama Gardener has so many videos that can help people get off on the right foot with your Garden, in the South! Like an Egg IN the hole for Tomatoes! Also making a powder from the Eggshells, for tomatoes! Check out his Playlist! He also had some homemade Remedies and DELICIOUS recipes too! Take the time, to make the time, for OAG, Old Alabama Gardener! You won't regret it.
Will all of your squash, and peppers cross pollinate. So that you won't have true seeds of the varieties?
GOD bless
Ben,that looks so good now. I love trimming everything. So satisfying to stand back and see everything pop
Your garden is beautiful! The drought here killed ours. We watered it, but the constant high ninety to 108 degree temperatures just baked everything. Even our established oak, apple, peach, and pecan trees are dying. God bless your family.
I like how you’re not pitching those plants but using them for purpose. Tip for you guys: with all the heat and dryness we’re experiencing all over the country, put out water sources for your wildlife. That may be why the birds are being jerks and picking off your fruit. For the first time, we didn’t get any of our black raspberries. Usually birds only eat a few.
30 min video???!??!? Thank you very much
Good Sunday to you. I binge watched you last night from California - road trip ,, my son said Not a thing to watch tonight for a weekend, so 😃 I thought to go back to then and see HOW FAR YOU HAVE COME. Ben had said something about 4 years so that’s what made me wanna go watch the journey
Not sure what you were all visiting but Meg was totally in awe, looked like you started to get quite emotional 🤗
My uncle was a farmer in Illinois and we were visiting him one summer and we were out on the tractor. He just had tomato plants on a fence that just grew wild and he left them. He was a little eccentric and he had salt and pepper shakers on his belt like a holster and we were out on the tractor turning over the fields and we stopped and there were these plants on the fence full of tomatoes, big huge round tomatoes and they were hot in the sun and he cut one in half and put a bunch of salt on it and gave it to me and he ate the other half and it was amazing. But he said they were completely wild and probably because he threw some tomato on the ground there at one point and it just grew. I would never just throw them away I would just go stick them out at the edge of your property somewhere and let them go wild if nothing else and see if they keep coming up. Hopefully the work out by the Orchard.
You have so much garden space. Wow. It is amazing how many different things you can grow. 💞
I’m so envious of your garden!!!!!!! Such blessings are abounding.
YOUR GARDEN IS DOING GREAT HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND
Love to see fresh mowed grass. I always enjoyed cutting the grass. Garden looks good. Fried okra, yay! I grow shishitos, roast in skillet with olive oil and a little salt, delish. These peppers grow very well. Love them.
I'm almost 62. I love to garden & mow. The excitement of the changes & how beautiful everything looks after you work for awhile is very satisfying. Weed whacking is getting harder to do with my ailments tho it does look finishes & tucked in afterwards.
Question. Where do you learn the medicinal benefits of all the different plants ? I have always been interested in what we call home remedies. I think that it’s awesome the abundance of knowledge about plants y’all have. Love watching your channel ❤️❤️❤️
Epic, indeed. So happy for you that you have a beautiful, thriving garden. There will always be challenges and room for improvement. That's part of the fun! So glad you share it all with the rest of us - I am very "edutained" by it all. :)
Great garden tour. You can't beat Contender bush beans for the garden. We have been growing them for years and saving seed from them. They are just loaded with great beans every year and they can well. We love them. PLUS, they are not stringy. That is a huge plus for me. Crisp and tender. We eat them fresh off the bush w/a little olive oil, salt and pepper and cooked just a little so they are still crunchy. We also cook them w/bacon and new potatoes and make a meal out of just that. Then we can the rest. Big bang for your buck. :)
I love how you're stuffing food crops everywhere. Such reckless food growing - yes! 😃
Maybe you should get you a couple scare crows out there or something thats gonna move with the wind that will scare the crows away! Just a thought! Sure is a beautiful garden!! Thanks again for sharing!! 👍💞💖💝💖💞👍
Sometime during the winter I would love to see a compilation of "Thing''s we'll do again next year". This years sweet potato.
If it is one thing around the homestead I do not like doing it is weed eating. YES, when you trim around everything and the squareness of all the beds come back it is so very much satisfying. Such a beautiful you both have put so much work in and it shows. Have a wonderful weekend and God Bless
I love to see how differently others do chores or the tools they use etc. Never feel that we don’t want to see yard work. I love it
I love the smell of the grass when I am cutting.
When those passion fruit get ripe, take pineapple, banana, papaya fruit, and add the passion fruit juice , seeds all together it makes the best fruit salad!! Went on a mission trip to Africa, and that's one of the things we ate, very good!! You can add some of those melons too..yum..
Always looks great after you trim the weeds and uncover the garden beds
Yes, most insects are our garden friends. If there are pests, there is usually a predator to take them out. I love the natural ecosystem of the garden which is beautiful. Some pests get out of control like the Hoopla and Japanese beetles which need intervention . I am growing Loofahs which are flowering , but yours are pristine. I like your cattle-panel set-up . This is a jam-packed informative and fun garden video. Even your mundane chores look fun ! We wish we got rain to jump-start plants. We need rain here in northern Ca.
Looks soo good guys. All your hard work paying off
Yes - really did enjoy the garden tour... it all looks so healthy and well established. Also you both have so much more confidence talking about your various plantings. Keep well... blessings to the whole family.
Say what you will, this was a very relaxing video watching you plant, weed whacking (nice edges ) and showing what's worth growing and what's not worth growing. Garden looks wonderful, Ben your so resourceful, I wouldn't have thought to plant around the fruit trees with the excess plants. Blessings to all of you. 😊🇺🇲
I did the weed eating around the garden beds today myself. Then dug a hole for a clothesline pole and cemented it in. Watered All the beds. Got in the pool for a bit. Then sat on the couch.
Hi y’all from Montreal 🇨🇦 we are so different in growing seasons 🌸 your 🪴 plants are way more advanced!
on my top floor apartment balcony ... I am growing green beans, pumpkins, morning glory purple flowering vines and a hang pot of strawberries 🍓 all my vines are just starting to flower and my strawberries give me about 5-6 big treats per day!
Enjoyed this today ☮️🌈💚
That’s amazing!
The vegetables you are growing are awesome and productive. It is so hot and humid hear that my garden is close to death. My spicy and sweet peppers are doing good, my okra is good so as my tomatoes. Several pots of basil is producing good. Hopefully my fall garden will be better I hope. I’m a newbie and I might be doing something wrong. I love the way you fill the empty areas with plants. You both are great parents and good working with your kids and showing them how to grow food from seeds. They are blessed. Love watching your videos and I learn something new when I watch. Thanks for sharing.
I’m with you on this one .. I can’t let a plant go without giving it a chance ✅✅
I diluted 1 gal of milk to 4 gallons of water and gave each tomato plant at least 1 qt to help blossom end rot. It helps. I don't know how expensive the other stuff is, but can use a resource you already have... Maybe?
Try some bird scare tape to keep the birds away from your apples. I use it for my grapes, peaches, Raspberries and Apples. I use to lose all my grapes to the mockingbirds and tried netting and other stuff. The scare tape worked and I actually got to eat some grapes last year. Also if they are getting to your tomatoes I tried what sounded like an old wives tale but has worked every year for me. --As soon as you plant hang some red christmas balls out. I put them on my cages. The birds peck them and realized that it is not food and so they never bother the tomatoes when they turn red. I enjoy your videos.
I love to see the yard work…lol! The transformation is fun to see.
What a beautiful bounty. God has given His increase.