This STINKS! But We Needed A New Start. Working On Our Cabin Homestead
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If the rabbit manure is dry you can pulverize it into powder form and use it that way so it’s not so stinky.
I use to plant marigolds at each end of my rows. I really like the red orange ones. ❤
I would suggest adding another layout of bricks to at least one bed for your tomatoes. They need more room for roots. Inside the blocks is a great place for herbs and beneficial flowers to keep the bugs away.
I was just thinking that, about the flowers and herbs in the bricks. Marigolds are good for bug repelling.
Mel, Gary, and children, your garden looks so great now that you have it all clean up and planted. I'm working on my planting here at my home . Apt
Great idea ! Perfect herb garden !!
Go into the woods and "mine" the natural compost. You will find it under the leaves in any little hollow or from around fallen logs. Leave some for the forest but you should be able to get plenty for your garden!
Fill the holes in the blocks to plant strawberries in!
I am looking forward to seeing your garden grow. 😁
The weed barrier will help so much! It looks great!
I used two rows of block high. But if your beds go straight to earth then your depth is fine. If you get tired of weeding the block interiors, when you can afford it get the flat cinderblock caps and just lay them on top. No more weeds. Great video and congratulations to a great start!
Mel, don't plant things "in" the blocks that will grow taller than the produce in the beds as they will block the sun. That's why I mentioned last year about planting radishes & maybe green onions & chives "in" the blocks. If you want to grow potatoes, sweet potatoes or carrots you'll need to make your beds deeper.
Great job on the garden. You could use those empty spaces im the blicks to grow herbs if you wanted. 😊 Marigokds are good for any garden. Chickens love the flower heads. The green is a great repellent. I even grow them with my strawberries.
Hi Mel and "blue catus dairy goats" 🐐 💙 youtubers from Arizona have brought land called the long skinny, and have decided to summer over in their new Arkansas land. ANOTHER HARD WORKING homesteading family . They are hand clearing there land..
The garden looks neat and tidy. Hope you and family had a great trip. I enjoyed the drive through, because I never driven through those states.😊❤
You have to cover carrot seeds with a wide flat board or cardboard till they sprout. After planting water gently and cover… pull off the cover after you check and see them sprouting underneath. That’s the only way I can get the carrots to come up! It really works!
That is my secret also. Plant seed, water, cover and check daily, uncover after sprouts show. Good luck.
Oh my goodness. 😂😂I absolutely love them running around on the 4 wheeler. Gary, quit farting.😂😂😂
Weeding sure spruced up the garden so it's looking good. I thought once while Gary was spreading the rabbit manure that I thought I caught a whiff of it. I laughed 😂🤣thinking the fun of mind suggestion.
It's exciting to see the garden being prepared for another growing season!!
A few suggestions...
- At the end of the growing season, cover the garden beds with the same weed fabric you use in the walkways. It will keep weeds out of the bed and helps build up good soil. In the fall, you can even mulch up a bunch of leaves and add some rabbit manure and then cover. Just be sure to pull out any diseased plants before you cover.
- Check out garden grids from Garden In Minutes for even watering across the entire bed. I have DIY'd some of my own and bought theirs. It's easier to purchase them but you can make them for 1/2 the cost if you want to invest the time. It has made a huge difference during the hot summer.
- For veggies that are pest prone, I never place all of them in a single bed. If you have a pest infestation of one plant, it could easily spread to all of them.
- I remembered that you put 8 inches of good soil from ground level to the tops of the cinder blocks. However, make sure that you have good, workable soil under that as well. If not, you may want to make the beds deeper. Below is a soil depth guide for some of the common veggies:
6 inches - herbs & lettuce
12 inches - carrots, radishes, peppers
18 inches deep - tomatoes, cucumbers, squash/zucchini, kale
Very well said. Good advice.
Happy gardening & happy Easter. Your garden should do great this year, your getting a lot of good advice. I even learned something from your subs suggestions and I have gardened for decades. Thanks all.
Great JOB! Guys on the garden. We mean super clean and organized! Happy Easter and Happy Spring! God Bless All
My neighbor always planted her herbs in the blocks. Saved garden space for other things.
I laughed so hard out loud with Gary gagging and reaching on the rabbit strw😂
Catnip next to your tomatoes. To keep the worms away. FYI
Happy Easter and Happy Good Friday and an excellent video.
You can do the same with chicken litter, but I would suggest putting the chicken litter in the compost pile, and use that to fertilize the garden about a month before your planting time. Bunny pooh is also good. Making tea is rough when you use it.
You garden look very nice .
You can't plant pollinators flowers in those cinder block holes , also herbs grow well in them too!! Happy Gardening 😊
You should get you some saw dust and every so ofter cover the rabbit dung that way it will break down with the rabbit droppings and urine but help keep it from smelling bad and make for better compost
Kale an underestimated crop. Surviving heat, cold and have good nutrition. Lovely garden and godspeed on it! Thumbs up from Sweden 🇸🇪
Nice job on the garden. You have a great are for a good garden. Looking forward to watching it grow. Good luck🌸✌️🇺🇸
If it even smells as bad as it looks I don’t know how you weren’t loosing your breakfast or lunch😮. Make sure to turn it over into the soil really well … it could burn your plants. Cant wait to seethe outcome. My mom added chicken manure and the squash just went crazy that year running over the top of the corn and headed towards a hedge. We were harvesting squash the size of watermelons every other day
Roxanne and Anthony already said they were going to put lights on their garden posts
The garden looks fantastic ❤
What a great video your garden looks fantastic
Melanie and Gary , the cinder box's holes will be good for rosemary , sage , parsley and organo and whatever spices y'all can think of , Happy Easter to the kiddos ❤ 🐰🌹🌷❤ y'alls
Hi Mel and Gary, I am following u guys ever since you started but why have you stopped on the house. There is no more progress. What happened. Greetings from Europe
We have been working on it this week. You'll see soon.
We can't build on it every day. There is lots to do when building a whole homestead from scratch.
lots of progress happening in all areas .😃
suggestion could create hot tunnels using cattle panels hoop over raise beds and cover with clear plastic sheeting till past the last frost then roll plastic sides up for summer the roll back down for fall possibly have harvest into November or later depending on what it is cabbage family like it cool
and root corp will keep longer in ground
Kohlrabi is like an above ground turnip. You peel off the skin of the bulb and can eat raw or cooked with a cream sauce.
FYI, Broccoli is a cool temp veggie. Should be planted in early spring or late summer. Mid to late summer planting is best.
fill those holow blocks with earth and grow stuff in there i have before they work good
Those weeds and clover will be great for your chickens and rabbits 🐇 🐔
Hi Guys, Love how you are getting back to basic. Your homestead is coming along great! I just had a small tip for you, when you plant peas or beans and even corn, try soaking the seeds in water overnight before planting. This helps them come up easier and faster. Just something that always worked very well for me! ❤️🇨🇦❤️
Put a hole for carrots 1 or 2 seeds in each that way you dont have to thin out. Space 2" apart. Same w radishes. I miss gardening. We'd get truck loads of cow manure 😂stinky and barefooted 😂😂
Looks like you're off to a great start!
when I used to keep my porch lights on all night it got to where copperhead snakes were laying outside the door or on the steps. Almost stepped on one a couple times. I realized the bugs come to the light, then the frogs come to eat the bugs and the snakes come to eat the frogs. I quit keeping the outside lights on. Just be watchful.
Huge love ❤ from Canada.
Was hoping for a night shot of the garden wire lights. Such a cliffhanger!! Me southern AZ.
You can plant pansys and use the flowers in the salad
God Bless from your Canadian friend.
Gary had me laughing so hard with the rabbit pooh stew. Great to see the garden going. It's too early for a garden here in PA.
Wishing you & your family A very Happy 🐣 Easter.
Plant rosemary between your tomato plants to keep horn worms away from your plants
❤The tomatoes will need deeper soils than last year to produce better.
We found you while watching 3MS. We are in Mississippi as well.
Garden looks GREAT!!!❤❤❤
Hello from the old lady deep down in France my comment has nothing to do with gardening, I can help thinking that this horse trailer will make a wonderful tiny home for guests or grown child in case one day your are not so busy anymore lol bless you all ❤❤❤❤
Keep your campfire wood ashes to mix in
Guys I'd find a good area and plant some apple & cherry trees this way by the time they mature ya'll be all set ..
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Garden starting off good 👍
Nice getting garden going 😉 how sweet of kids picking up garbage 💖 Happy Easter weekend 🙏🌷🪻
😂 Garry, your expressions made me laugh. Don't let it ever sit again. However I am sure it will be good for the plants.
Well it's going to be some good fertilization taking place. It's looking good. Y'all and Rox and Ant garden are really going to grow some great veggies,fruit and herbs and. Flowers in some areas. Another great job. ❤❤❤❤
I love gardening with mel and gary episodes its very relaxing...later laters😊
In the cement holes I'd plant marigolds or other anuals.
Floating dock on pond
That liquid gold you pored on that garden is going to make the best garden you will ever have! It will be even better next year!
I am so proud to watch ya'll do what we did before the tiller and edger. So much hard work that NO one realizes goes into a spectacular garden!
I definitely would’ve blew chunks if I was pouring something like that in my garden! I have the weakest stomach.
Me toooo 😂😂
Hi guys ,why not fill the bricks bordering your beds wjth soil and plant them too
Great team work getting the whole garden cleaned and planted. It looks so nice.
Maybe fill all the blocks with topsoil and use each one as a separate planter for the smaller plants and herbs. Leaves you more room to plant more of the items you need more room for. Yellow squash and cucumbers are great and easy to grow.
May God bless you guys with an abundant harvest this season 🙏
Man that is some good soil
The garden looks great.
The garden looks great 👍 ❤
Garden looks fantasic ! Have A Wonderful Easter 🐇🪻
Looks like your going to have lots of goodies this year to eat. Y'all have done a great looking job on the garden. Enjoyed watching and thanks.🥰🥰👍
Nice Garden Starts!
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So good. Lots of good food for you all. Hope you gets lots❤❤
If you are doing any companion planting, carrots LOVE tomatoes!!! Nantes carrots are THE BEST!!! 🎶❤️❤️❤️🎶🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Your garden area is beautiful
Mel so happy to see you put ground cover down. I hope you plant on it. I use a torch to burn holes where I want plants, it's great stuff. My whole garden has it, garden is about 120x90! We just made it twice it's normal size for growing more this year. Husband grows turnips every year they grom best outside of beds. In the dirt or in gravel. 🤣 Maybe corner of the fence line. After summer season hang upside down in garage to let seed pods dry out. Drill holes in a buckets put it on another bucket put the pods in top buckets with holes and shake rind up with your hands, you'll get hundreds of seeds for next season.
Its looking great guys
Plant some garlic in the block they keep the bugs away plus good to eat
I learned along ago that when you pull weeds you break off the roots and more grow. I would either round up or torch the weeds outside the beds. In the beds not much choice but to pull
Watch Acre Homestead, she uses weed cloth in plant areas, no weeds
I suggest wearing gloves and a mask when working in the garden.❤😊😊
Great job guys can't wait for the green to pop thru❤️🇨🇦
Hey Mel do you hear your man his breathing is not good please take him for a check up better be safe then sorry. He’s a good man and father take care of him. Love your family
I had commented on Gary’s breathing too but never got a response.
Gardening is so good for the soul.😀. I was wondering why your porch lights keep coming on and off all the time🤷♀️. Noticed it when Anthony and Rox was feeding your dogs while y’all were on vacation.
Gary is a mouth breather. I don't mean that in a disrespectful way that the term has been stolen and transformed into being - but in a literal he breaths out of his mouth kinda way.
He has been to the doctor for check ups and is a healthy, strong man. No worries.
I been watch Mel and Gary for long time he same fine his Gary
We are getting a BIG Storm Monday. (Nader Storm ) April 1st.
Walmart have pretty flowers in pots some look good in your garden and on your deck when you get it finished.
Clyde’s garden planner is a very handy slide chart that gives you a lot of info in a slide chart! They’re not expensive at all. It has all the planting data, plus companion planting. It has Spring planting on one side & Fall on the other. You just slide it out to the last frost in your time zone. It’s great for succession planting. Lettuces(esp in your area) do much better in part shade(like behind your vining plants)
Gary doesn't seem to be into pulling the weeds. Plus his huffing and puffing breathing labored. Need to check it out.
He always breaths heavy. I thought he had asthma
I had to turn the volume off, couldn’t take it
I would recommend a book to identify some of those weeds. You'll be surprised at how many are edible and highly nutritional.
U 2 r a Grr8 team. The garden looks Good to Go. And done B4 Easter. I am impressed! Gary & Mel.
Hope it's more successful than last year GOOD 😊LUCK
Mel, there's a few days below 32 in April careful of what you plant so early. A good rule of thumb for gardening in the Midwest is mothers day weekend. You should put a strawberry in each hole on your blocks. Also plant raspberry plants next to your chicken coo fence, so your chickens and eat the ones against the fence,
If you ask me, your soil looks great. Your garden plants will love it😊❤ will be beautiful😊
Great job, guys!!!😊🎉😂
hope the little lights don't melt the garden cover
have a Happy Easter
Hi SLR, I was just thinking before you mentioned planting flowers in the block holes, how cool it would be to plant strawberries in each hole. You are my favourite off gridders. Love you guys. ❤️❤️🫶🫶🫶❤️❤️
Good afternoon Gary & Mel.
Liquid gold 😁😂👊
Your garden looks great.
It's gonna be amazing.
Have an awesome day/Weekend 🌞🌱
I was busting on Gary with the rabbit stew in the garden. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤
So. Funny watching gary with that fermented rabbit poop😅😊😂
Good job we done have smell a vision....lol
Get a hand cultivator you push it in beds to till the old stuff under