What to Plant in Your Garden - FHC Q & A
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2024
- Most everyone starting out in homesteading is usually tempted to try their hand at growing every vegetable or seed they can get their hands on. But as you develop in your farming and homesteading, you may find it more beneficial to concentrate on growing fewer things in your vegetable garden and consequently saving those seeds that are most valuable to you. On this edition of the Farm Hand’s Companion Q and A Show, Pa Mac discusses how one can determine what crops might be best to plant. And for a crop to be Pa Mac’s favorite, it depends on seven characteristics or criteria that that vegetable or crop possesses.
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Hey! Your childhood friend here , Lori. I enjoy your videos always . I never comment but I thought I would today . We ( daddy and I) always grow certain things together because of tradition and function. Corn, G90 & Silver Queen. Purple Hull peas . Daddy loves Better Boys and Early Girl tomatoes and I always plant Arkansas Travelers For Mamaw. Turnips in the fall always . I'm still into trying new to me herloom tomatoes. ( ❤ Pineapple, Dr wyche , Berkeley Tie Dye). Just started all of our tomato and pepper seeds in the cattle panel greenhouse daddy and I just built. I start enough seeds for all of us out here in Nubbin Hill . It is a love for the Earth and the life it gives, family and family traditions that fills the heart and our little farms and gardens. Thank you for letting the world see these things ( with a little humor) through your channel. 😊
Oh and Okri... Yes we always grow Okra. But I found a new variety that does so well but it is red. But great for our area
Hey Lori!
Not only my childhood friend but junior high and high school sweetheart! So good to hear from you; give Jim my best, and please tell Steve, Lindsey, and Cheryl "hey" for me. Your daddy always had the biggest, most admirable garden around, and will always be one of my gardenin' and farmin' heroes. Give your mama (Cheryl-my second "mama") a big hug from me.
I will! I think Jack wants to get in contact with you. Tell Lenna I said hello!! I hope we all have good garden crops this summer 😊
Been watching your videos since the pole barn. We finally got our little patch of heaven in SW OK. God bless you and yours. Looking forward to more great content!
Thankyou so very much for taking the time to answer my question! Covered everything i wondered. As always, fantastic content!
Great video Pa. I generally grow vegetables I like to eat. Grandma and Grandpa used to plant big corn patches as well as Irish potatoes and sweet potatoes. Grandma used to plant an heirloom green bean and saved seed every year. You should do a video on your chickens and what breeds you like in your flock.
Great video Pa Mac. Grow what you like to eat but don't be afraid to try some of the other foods grown and raised around you. You do a fantastic job entertaining us and sharing your Faith, Family , and Farming skills with your everyday actions and videos. Fred.
My granddaughter loves to walk in my garden and eat fresh peas and loves broccoli stems more than other veggies, she calls them green carrots.
Great pep talk for Spring planting! I agree 💯, especially the simpler is better part, and the healthy life part like our forebears. In the words of Charles Atlas, famed bodybuilder, " The more you do with what you have, the more God will give you to do with."
I'm having a good time with your channel... Good hob
Yes!!! Thank you! Just keep it simple😉. Wonderful video as always. God bless y’all ❤
I thuroughly love gardening, but struggle devoting time to it,especially weeding and cultivating. Ive grown a myriad of stuff in the past,but i think this year im gonna tryin keep it simple and neat. It wont make my wife happy,but im thinkin of limiting myself to 3 or 4 different crops instead of a dozen or more. Thanks for reminding me it was time to get diggin😂
Did you actually plan to have that backfire on your tiller match the tune of the music? Genius, I love it!!!!
Hmm, this Pa Mac seems like a cool dude - Subscribed !
Each winter i do multiplying onion and multiplying leaks. I also do horned mustard and a variety if potatoes- texas hill country near San Antonio zone 9a
😂The three stooges should be banned for at least 15 min just for not checking out your other videos.
I agree with all of your plant selection steps. But I am one that like to trial different varieties any different crops. I have difficult soil to say the least (very wet) so my family’s all time favorite varieties would not work in my garden. I had to find new things.
I second your opinion on kohlrabi and broccoli, even though I plant both. Broccoli takes up too much space to produce only one basic family meal per plant. I still plan it because you can’t eat the leaves and the currently I have garden space. Kohlrabi just looks interesting and it comes in purple 😊. This year‘s new crops are leaks and parsnips.
By the way, I absolutely love your red butter beans. I have a pint jar of them saved and they will be going in the ground as soon as it’s time.
Dual crops like beet root and beetgreens, turnips and greens, greenbeans and leaves. Sweetpeas and leaves.
hope the rain hold off here in Ma so I can get out and turn over my garden , Great vid.
My beautiful mother loved to garden, she perused those seed catalogs greedily.😂
As for me, I posses a "khaki thumb," meaning there are some plants I can grow, mostly roses, as they are hard to kill.😏
As for veggies, I love to eat maters, tomatillos, peppers, pickling cucs, bush type summer squash, peas, green beans, radishes, broccoli, cauliflower, and lettuces of all kinds. My husband grows the veggies, I weed, water, harvest, and cook 'em up. I don't particularly like beets, but I think I might grow them for their tops! I also want to try watermelon and pumpkins, not sure we have enough room for them though. Thanks Pa Mac!❤
Thank you for making these
A Martian😂😂😂😂 same here buddy!
Could you show how you cover your little "root cellar" that you had in this video. Any air flow on cover etc.?
As always, you arr the man!!!
Thanks for another great video! Been learning a lot from your show and I'm very grateful for the work you do. Im planning on homesteading soon and was hoping you could recommend a booklist for knowledge related to all things farming. Planting, storing, animal husbandry, traditional methods, weather, etc. Would you consider a video detailing some literature you recommend?
Thank you!
Chris
I've always loved the wierd curvy wrenches or the ones with multiple slots for turning nuts. Monkey wrenches!
Do you have some of those?
I'm a pepper freak, lol! I have 10 types starting. This year I cut down to 5 types of tomatoes. For something different I'm building up a medicinal garden...toothache plants are started.
I want to know why I can eat peas just fine, but regular beans tare me up!
I am in Arkansas as well, My parents and grandparents never grew broccoli and cauliflower as well.
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I noticed you were putting potatoes or something in a bin in the ground , do you have a video on digging an underground vegetable storage bin ?
Okri...I love it! I'm a transplanted Alabama girl and love okra but the rest of my family will only eat it in gumbo/jambi and I don't make either of those very often. I just loved the way you said it 😂
in north alabama we call it okri
@@longbowbanjoAL yep. If I hadn't been transplanted to California as a child and stayed here I'd say it the same way still. Sadly I purposely lost my accent because I was teased for it but if I'm talking to a Southerner it comes right back.
@@mleonard3163 just dont lose it lol
@@longbowbanjoAL lol don't worry I won't ever fully lose it! My household doesn't appreciate drawl but my daughter who's never been to the South does a surprisingly good impression of an old redneck 😜. Mine often comes back when I'm upset or being more animated.
@@longbowbanjoAL the main thing is that I've kept my traditional Southern values but that's actually due to my California farm raised mom 😉
As a child my family grew what is called rice peas which were a tiny white pea. Like lady peas but smaller. No one kept that seed and I can't find it any where.
Thank you for sharing what YOU like to grow in your garden. Could you please make a video regarding what I should plant in MY garden? I'm not quite as demanding as you, as I only have three criteria. I have a 5' x 10' raised garden bed. Here are the three criteria the crop you choose for my garden must meet:
1. Easy to Grow
2. Grows in zone 6
3. A harvest that can be sold for a million dollars.
I am somewhat flexible on the first two criteria.
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Plant coal, place many heavy boulders on them and wait.
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Good morning
We stoped by your store last Friday afternoon not a sole in sight . What hours are you open?
Hey Steve, I was there, myself, from 10 am till 4 pm. So sorry we missed you (please come by again!)
the butter bean you described, what is the variety?
Hopi Red Lima
@@farmhandscompanionMany thanks for sending the info on the butter bean although you suggested we come up to Arkansas to purchase it. We'd love to but we're busy on the homestead this time of year and we really don't drive that far by ourselves any more. The roads are just too busy for us quiet country homesteaders in our 70's. We so enjoy watching you share your expertise that reminds of of our growing up years and how our grandparents and parents taught us to live. We are still learning!
What is that super secret butter bean variety??
Hopi Red Lima (I just call it "that red butter bean")
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How do I split a log into a rail? I only have a machete and hatchet. I tried to find that video, none had machete.
Ok, I will self impose a 1 hour video ban.
Great info in this video! I noticed you “holing” your taders in a tader hole! Did you have a video on that I missed? My grandpa said they always holed there potatoes and cabbage heads.
Hey FlutyLickHomestead, no you haven't missed a video on that; I'm still tryin' to perfect it!
I guess I need to plant some high fat ground beef, cause that's what I eat. 😄
When you find the seeds, can you share some with me?