Wait… you had legs and feet this whole time??? Mind blown. You’ll do great with this new channel! We’ve been doing this for 13 years now, and you probably already know more about it all than we do. (We may or may not have a Pampers box or three in our gardens, so I won’t tell on you.)
You've done research alright! I'm close to retirement & my father used newspaper & cardboard to suppress weeds, along with leaves from several blocks around for mulch. This was applied every year that made the night crawlers ( worms) happy. In five years the soil got black & very rich. Fireplace ash was sprinkled around every time it got cleaned. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one to benefit from the old ways. Happy Green Thumb 👍!!!
I used to get 200 90gal garbage bags full of oak leaves from one house down the block where I used to live every fall. Great for creating dirt in a short amount of time.
I have a similar setup, with one important difference that you might want to try. Right in the middle, I dug a circular pit, got a metal trash can from HD, the kind that has the enamel coating so it doesn't rust out. Then I sawed the bottom off of the can and buried it about 4-6". All the food waste, pulled weeds, spent soil from repotting houseplants, grass clippings, basically all the biotrash that can fit in there goes in there. Handful of dolomitic lime pellets and perlite every now and then, like once a month, then keep the lid on. Planted a horseshoe of hardy hibiscus around it, keep a big potted confederate jasmine on top of the lid during the summer for looks, and my food crops all around the inner perimeter of the enclosure. So the compost pit is constantly leeching nutrients into the soil around it, and every spring and fall I have a trash can full of compost to use wherever I want. It gets amended with neem cake if the compost goes in a houseplant pot, to kill off pest larvae and give the plant a pest shield from the inside. Keeping my food crops healthy and producing was a lot harder before I started doing this. It feeds blueberries, tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkins, cantaloupe, squash, carrots, and herbs like basil and thyme for a groundcover between the bigger plants.
Ok, I gotta admit. I learned a LOT from this vid. NEVER would have thought to use cardboard. I've always used that damn weed barrier crap that causes more trouble than it helps.
I’ve been on my three acres for about 12 years now in northeast MS and have tried several methods of gardening. I am settling in on creating a food forest, which does incorporate the back to Eden thing of sorts as well as hugelkultur. The garden channel with James Prigioni is my main source of inspiration. Where he only has a back yard to cover in wood chips and stuff, I’ve got a full acre, but little by little, I’m getting there. And talk about doing things on a budget, I’m 67 years old living off social security and military retirement. It’s taking me well over a year to build a greenhouse, which is still only about 1/3 complete. Anyway, gongrats on the new channel and I’ll be watching.
Oh, Liberty Toddler will become your biggest taste tester, too. My youngest daughter is eight. We had a food plot when she was a toddler, and we had a tough time restraining her from eating all the tomatoes. Harvest was always a race to get hold of as many as possible, before she went through and demolished them. On the plus side, she made sure we always had volunteer tomato plants popping up throughout the yard. 😁🤣 She loved her "meetoes".
@@libertyhomestead I had a feeling. When littles grow up eating raw fruits and veggies as a big part of their diet, they won't like the other stuff later on. The only downside is keeping them from being the only ones who get to enjoy the fruits of your labor. 🤣
THAT was precious! The only time I tried a garden in my failed attempt to go 'off the grid' ... the only things that produced were cucumbers, ochre, basil and dill. Your pickle making vid would have been helpful back then. You did say roving herds of deer. Hmmm, waiting on that venison spaghetti making lesson. Hint, hint. 🤠
I love your Liberty Doll channel, I'm sure this will be a success for you as well. Smart and pretty. Gardening in the south is a lot different than the north. Weed pressure is CRAZY in the south and you are off to a good start with your cardboard barrier.
Your teddy is adoraball! 🤗 Been living off-grid in Alaska for over 6 years now. Haven’t quite gotten around to a garden yet. That comes next summer when we plow a hill to mount solar panels on. But the nice thing about gardening here is an abundance of edible food grows wild here and even though there's no growth for half the year, the half that we do get growth in is like the jurassic era. And it's room temperature outdoors generally, making it easy to manage things. Anyway, what you are doing is somewhat common here. Subsistence gardening is very popular here and people have a tendency to do it hobbit style, with minimal environmental impact. One of the unsung perks of home gardening is you aren't getting the crap they put in produce. That and it tends to taste better and fresher.
That excellent and I’m excited for this new channel. My wife has started gardening on out 10th of an acre in the city. With the yard measured we can fit 7, maybe 8, 4’x12’ garden beds out front and an 8’x8’ in back. For fertilizer the cheap option for us are the rabbits my daughter raises. Get some meat rabbits and their manure is a cold manure that won’t burn roots so it can go straight into a garden.
Great way to start a garden. I did a small raised bed last year and quadrupled it's size this year. What I love about composting is the surprise plants that grow up on their own. A week after harvesting my potatoes I had a pumpkin plant shoot up and now I have about a dozen pumpkins growing in my potato bed. Perfect timing Lol
You can always get free seeds from a local library that works with a local planting hobby group. The one that I go to has the free seeds. The only issue is that you're kind of at the mercy of whatever type of seed they have there.
They have a seed library here that rotates between locations, but i had already gotten my seeds for the season when it opened. Then I completely forgot. I'll have to mention it in another video!
Talking from personal experience...the packing tape you left on the boxes will never degrade. You'll find it years later still in the ground. Not a big issue. You just get rid of it when you dig it up.
some towns also have mulch/chip piles that the local residents can use what they need. its form all the leaf and tree debris and xmas trees they pick up and shred
Well, well, well! The first video on this channel. I’ve got to say I love getting in on the ground floor,so to speak. Really looking forward to this channel growing and expanding. Thank you for what you do!!❤
Oh dear! I did not know you did this! I started researching homesteading on quarter acre plots a year ago. Thanks for spreading this to the 2Acommunity
Looks like you’ve been holding out on us, Girl. Huge news! Looks like Liberty Toddler been taking the 5th on this all year as well. YT algorithm finally got off its duff and pushed the news to me today. What zone you in? Here’s some other homestead/gardening sites I follow. They may help. It’s not that they are better, or compete. I find it fun to see the similarities I have, and note the differences. Plus, I compare my gardens to theirs. Other organic sites: Charles Dowding - expert on mulches Lazy Dog Farm - I learned so much from him this year Growfully with Jenna - Locally by me. That 1870’s Homestead - Locally, by me You’ll do well on this channel. There’s an enormous gardening community out there. 🧑🌾👨🌾👩🌾
I started Building my garden around March. I'm using old military crates (I got them from work) and filled them with the soil. I've sectioned out areas of my back yard, layed down weed barrier and mulch. Then placed my crates. I now have strawberries growing and Anaheim Peppers. I've also place paving stones as walk ways, just to be a little pleasing to the eye. Also for the strawberries, I've made a lid of chicken wire to keep critters out. My future plans include watermelons, various herbs, raspberries, and maybe a grape vine.
I love that you are starting this channel! Homesteading and 2a certainly go hand in hand. We moved to NC a year and a half ago and sadly we found out the DuPont company contaminated our well with PFAS chemicals. We are starting with raised beds just in case it's in the soils as well. It's all new to us, so we are learning right along with you!
My 1st year of learning to garden I read a book by Ruth Stout & used her method with wonderful results. The only thing I didn't do that she did was to garden nude...LOL
Thank you for the information on "Chip Drop". We use multiple truck loads a year and they are harder to find in recent years. I like your new channel. You offer good guidelines for gardening.
For vegetable matter, I use a lot of grass clippings and pulverized leaves (my mower can bag). I dig shallow pits and mix leaves, grass and dirt in them.
I’m glad to see you expanding into prep! I don’t have much of an online presence but I’ve been seriously gardening in a “let’s see if THIS will work” sort of way for about 10 years. My first location was in an area that was originally a soda lake and the soil was alkaline and could not be used. I used scrap wood from the shot up target backers on our gun range to build raised beds…. Failed! The delivered soil could not be laid on the alkaline soil even with cardboard under it. One step at a time I kept adding protective measures until we got to completely raised scrap wood container boxes the size of my picnic table with soil made from Starbucks used coffee grounds and wood chips, 50/50 mix. It took me about 6 years to master gardening over awful ground and by the time I moved from there I had managed to have enough wood chips groomed by several dozen free range chickens to start growing crops on the ground.
From what I gather, gardening is all trial and error, lol. In the future I want to do a video on how to test your soil. It was a little too much for me to try out this year
yes! I laid my cardboard and compost in October or November, didn't add my wood chip until I think February or March, planted in late May. It's nice you can start whenever and do it in chunks.
Might I suggest looking into incorporating some permaculture onto your land? I'm just starting to learn more about it myself. Also, I don't know what kind of beans you're growing, but so far this year I've grown a twenty-one and a half inch long snake bean! Also known as yard long beans, Asian beans, Chinese beans, Japanese beans etc... They require a trellis, but are very light. I have mine growing along the same four foot tall fencing you have around your garden. If you do get some, go with the red ones, they are much easier to see when surrounded by tons of green leaves.
Thanks for inviting me to your new channel. I FINALLY got back into home gardening, after a long break. Started last year actually (it was disappointing). No tillage is important on 100+F days. Don't work hard for your garden, make your garden work hard for you!
Yes! My neighbors till and their stuff has been drooping a lot faster than mine in this heat. Finally going out to water today after about maybe 5 or 6 days, even though it's supposed to rain the rest of the week. Just going to give them a sprinkle to hold them over
A great and easy way to deter deer beyond fencing is to get pantyhose and put a bar of Irish spring soap in them. Deer dislike the smell of the soap and a bar will typically last all through the growing season. Just make sure to tie them at each corner and in the middle along the sides for good coverage.
@@libertyhomestead as is everything in life. I just never devoted enough time to research what not to do. Weed management has been my main issue, we had heard about the cardboard and mulch but thought that some 3 year composted manure would not have living seeds in it and boy were we wrong. That mixed with what was living underneath it killed our last attempt. Now we know better though!
The boss says you must bounce? I think she wants a fun piggyback ride. 🙂 In my woods I use cardboard and ashes to keep the path clear, until this year. I blame my grandson for keeping me too busy, he's 2 1/2. This looks like a good channel. Keep up the good work. Everyone have a wonderful day.
@@libertyhomestead Wood ash is an exceptional fertilizer. I'm not sure how using it to keep paths open would work out, but we used to till ours into our garden every spring. It grew food and we ate it, so, I guess it worked out fine. 😆
Great job, I’ve loved your other channel, and I watch numerous “homestead” and garden channels. I like this. My wife was enamored by your “apron” good reuse of stuff
Check with your local power company for wood chips. Ours (Arizona Public Service) has a program, but you are not guaranteed what kind or how much (or when) you will get. It depends on their trimming ops around the power lines.
Hey Doll, fancy meeting you in SC ( Upstate here ) on a Homestead channel - watched you before the move on your Patriot channel - like your style - your babes beautifull - welcome to the land of red clay, ya'll and centipede grass - take care - ketch ya later 😊
Ha! I started watching and right away thought "She looks a lot like Liberty Doll?!?!" As someone with prepper tendencies I have substantial interests in both guns and gardens, lol. Judging by the solid substance in your Liberty Doll videos I'm looking forward to some GREAT content on this topic!
Great video. I've always had mixed feeling on the "survival garden" concept. Pro and cons, I guess. I've gone more with fruit trees and bushed, a bit lower maintenance. A few years back got a couple of Goji berry bushes, deer got one and other finally really took off this year. I love your tool apron. That one had not occurred to me. Isn't it great to have been born with the "MacGyver" gene. 😃😃😃 Looking forward to more video. Be well.
@@libertyhomestead Thought you were just running late and forgot to put your shorts on. Then they were backwards when you ran the belt through. Though I might just try that... That does look extremely comfortable. 🧐
I've always heard that deer won't eat stuff grown in horse manure. One technique I like is the three sisters plant corn when it gets so big you plant climbing beans and squash to cover the ground if you plant family garlic it looks like green onions around your garden it will help keep the critters away
Really happy to see this channel. I have been really saddened by some of the other channels like Doug and Stacy and patriot Nurse has moved far away from the prepping, homesteading that they founded their channel on and are now gone totally crack pot conspiracy theory, especially Doug. Just stick to your original thought and you'll do really well. edit: make sure when you lay cardboard you are removing all packing tape on the cardboard as it does not decompose and will make a root barrier in your soil. Also, yeah avoid the glossy cardboard boxes as it doesn't decompose well either. Good thought on how to get the brown boxes, look online in FB or other list sites for people who just moved, or contact a moving company to see if they have boxes that were used and are now going to be discarded.
Great video! I've learned so many things the hard way, LOL! I blame you mostly for not having this channel up five or so years ago. Now I'm going from an Indiana growing climate to a central Tennessee climate. So much to learn all over again.
A tip. Local county fairgrounds are usually a good source of manure, straw bedding mixed with droppings (carbon + nitrogen) and it is free all you have to do is load it, transport it, and spread it.
Delighted to see you have a variety of interests! As a kid we hijacked part of a farmer's windrow to make a large garden. The experience was extremely positive for us kids. You're a lot more willing to try new foods when you've watched it grow. Even with that experience, I have found Backwoods Home (magazine) to be a useful resource.
Just watched from hub’s computer while I sit on this iPad. I’ve watched you for a few years on your other Chanel which the hubs subscribes too. We are both retired and have a garden every year ( wasn’t sure I’d have one this year cuz I had knee replacement mid April). Hubs tilled up the garden KNOWING if I had to look at that tilled patch of dirt, I’d have to put the garden in. We had such drought here in east central Iowa this year I only pick 1 gallon of black raspberries, fortunately I picked about 5 gallons of mulberries. Canned up21 qts of tomatoes, frozen up packages of green peppers, and last week dehydrated 16 qts of puffball mushrooms. Canning is great but consider a dehydrator and a vacuum seal machine. Those two have really helped up preserve things. O, I’ve also vacuum sealed canning jars too. Love to see you out there with your little supervisor, maybe next year she can help you weed. Sending hugs to you and yours from east central Iowa. .
We have a vacuum sealer and use it for meat all the time. A dehydrator is definitely on my list! Sorry to hear about the rough garden season out there this year
Also check with your local city and county maintainance department, as well as local utility companies. They all are removing problem trees all year round and would probably be glad to have somebody take some off their hands. There may also be a local municipal compost site making compost for the local community.
Love seeing others get into this hobby. I did ChipDrop myself last fall, in 9B, and also ended up with a 12t pile of chips in my driveway. Took me almost 2 weeks to move it all, one wheelbarrow load at a time, to the back because of my day job and the fact that Phoenix is still triple digits in September. If you don't already have one, pick up a good broadfork tool. They break up compacted soil better than high powered gas tillers, making them great for no-till setups.
@@libertyhomestead I purchased mine from a small family business in Wisconsin named Treadlite. They offer 20in, 24in, or 30in broadforks, with steel or ash wood handles. Heavy welded steel forks.
Sources to consider: Cardboard: Pallet "slip sheets." Buy if you can't mooch from a local business. Wood chips: I use pine pellets for cat litter. Need I say more? Looks like you could rename your garden a "health club" and get folks to pay for the privilege to help out :)
Good job, I was born in may way back in 1965, Mom took me outside and worked her kitchen garden that spring so I guess I've been learning how to do this since I was born, LOL. If you can find some organic Poop, chicken cow ect NOT PIG!!!! get that composting it's wonderful. And trellis your tomato's
Chip Drop is great. I got a call and they let me show them where I wanted it all. I paid $20 to offset their fees and couldn't be happier. Took about 2 weeks and I had my shipment.
@@libertyhomestead I tended to use local tree services a made sure I had six packs of the drivers favorite well chilled soda on hand. They always seemed very willing to place the chips where it worked best for me 👍
I just came over here to subscribe to the brand-new channel and found that I was already subbed. Welcome to the journey of gardening, composting, and prepping.
Wait… you had legs and feet this whole time??? Mind blown.
You’ll do great with this new channel! We’ve been doing this for 13 years now, and you probably already know more about it all than we do. (We may or may not have a Pampers box or three in our gardens, so I won’t tell on you.)
Aw, thank you!
You've done research alright! I'm close to retirement & my father used newspaper & cardboard to suppress weeds, along with leaves from several blocks around for mulch. This was applied every year that made the night crawlers ( worms) happy. In five years the soil got black & very rich. Fireplace ash was sprinkled around every time it got cleaned. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one to benefit from the old ways. Happy Green Thumb 👍!!!
I used to get 200 90gal garbage bags full of oak leaves from one house down the block where I used to live every fall. Great for creating dirt in a short amount of time.
I have a similar setup, with one important difference that you might want to try. Right in the middle, I dug a circular pit, got a metal trash can from HD, the kind that has the enamel coating so it doesn't rust out. Then I sawed the bottom off of the can and buried it about 4-6". All the food waste, pulled weeds, spent soil from repotting houseplants, grass clippings, basically all the biotrash that can fit in there goes in there. Handful of dolomitic lime pellets and perlite every now and then, like once a month, then keep the lid on. Planted a horseshoe of hardy hibiscus around it, keep a big potted confederate jasmine on top of the lid during the summer for looks, and my food crops all around the inner perimeter of the enclosure. So the compost pit is constantly leeching nutrients into the soil around it, and every spring and fall I have a trash can full of compost to use wherever I want. It gets amended with neem cake if the compost goes in a houseplant pot, to kill off pest larvae and give the plant a pest shield from the inside.
Keeping my food crops healthy and producing was a lot harder before I started doing this. It feeds blueberries, tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkins, cantaloupe, squash, carrots, and herbs like basil and thyme for a groundcover between the bigger plants.
Ok, I gotta admit. I learned a LOT from this vid. NEVER would have thought to use cardboard. I've always used that damn weed barrier crap that causes more trouble than it helps.
I’ve been on my three acres for about 12 years now in northeast MS and have tried several methods of gardening. I am settling in on creating a food forest, which does incorporate the back to Eden thing of sorts as well as hugelkultur. The garden channel with James Prigioni is my main source of inspiration. Where he only has a back yard to cover in wood chips and stuff, I’ve got a full acre, but little by little, I’m getting there. And talk about doing things on a budget, I’m 67 years old living off social security and military retirement. It’s taking me well over a year to build a greenhouse, which is still only about 1/3 complete. Anyway, gongrats on the new channel and I’ll be watching.
Favorite guntuber gone homesteadin I'm here for it.
yay!
Oh, Liberty Toddler will become your biggest taste tester, too. My youngest daughter is eight. We had a food plot when she was a toddler, and we had a tough time restraining her from eating all the tomatoes. Harvest was always a race to get hold of as many as possible, before she went through and demolished them. On the plus side, she made sure we always had volunteer tomato plants popping up throughout the yard. 😁🤣 She loved her "meetoes".
Omg this kid is CONSTANTLY covered in tomato seeds. She loves them
@@libertyhomestead I had a feeling. When littles grow up eating raw fruits and veggies as a big part of their diet, they won't like the other stuff later on. The only downside is keeping them from being the only ones who get to enjoy the fruits of your labor. 🤣
THAT was precious! The only time I tried a garden in my failed attempt to go 'off the grid' ... the only things that produced were cucumbers, ochre, basil and dill. Your pickle making vid would have been helpful back then. You did say roving herds of deer. Hmmm, waiting on that venison spaghetti making lesson. Hint, hint. 🤠
I love your Liberty Doll channel, I'm sure this will be a success for you as well. Smart and pretty. Gardening in the south is a lot different than the north. Weed pressure is CRAZY in the south and you are off to a good start with your cardboard barrier.
The garden looks great. Horay for the first video!
Your teddy is adoraball! 🤗
Been living off-grid in Alaska for over 6 years now. Haven’t quite gotten around to a garden yet. That comes next summer when we plow a hill to mount solar panels on. But the nice thing about gardening here is an abundance of edible food grows wild here and even though there's no growth for half the year, the half that we do get growth in is like the jurassic era. And it's room temperature outdoors generally, making it easy to manage things.
Anyway, what you are doing is somewhat common here. Subsistence gardening is very popular here and people have a tendency to do it hobbit style, with minimal environmental impact. One of the unsung perks of home gardening is you aren't getting the crap they put in produce. That and it tends to taste better and fresher.
That excellent and I’m excited for this new channel. My wife has started gardening on out 10th of an acre in the city. With the yard measured we can fit 7, maybe 8, 4’x12’ garden beds out front and an 8’x8’ in back. For fertilizer the cheap option for us are the rabbits my daughter raises. Get some meat rabbits and their manure is a cold manure that won’t burn roots so it can go straight into a garden.
Love seeing Liberty Toddler helping out in the garden!
Great way to start a garden. I did a small raised bed last year and quadrupled it's size this year. What I love about composting is the surprise plants that grow up on their own. A week after harvesting my potatoes I had a pumpkin plant shoot up and now I have about a dozen pumpkins growing in my potato bed. Perfect timing Lol
This is very soothing and informative, there's still beauty and goodness in the world thanks Miss Liberty. 🌱🍅
Glad I found this! I follow Liberty Doll, glad to be here!
Congrats on this channel! Liberty will survive on homesteads like yours!
“Semi feral toddler” 😂😂😂😂 that was cute
You can always get free seeds from a local library that works with a local planting hobby group. The one that I go to has the free seeds. The only issue is that you're kind of at the mercy of whatever type of seed they have there.
They have a seed library here that rotates between locations, but i had already gotten my seeds for the season when it opened. Then I completely forgot. I'll have to mention it in another video!
Talking from personal experience...the packing tape you left on the boxes will never degrade. You'll find it years later still in the ground. Not a big issue. You just get rid of it when you dig it up.
When the video opened up, I didn’t know you had baby on your back. Then that little head peeked around and it cracked me up! So cute!!
some towns also have mulch/chip piles that the local residents can use what they need. its form all the leaf and tree debris and xmas trees they pick up and shred
Well, well, well! The first video on this channel. I’ve got to say I love getting in on the ground floor,so to speak. Really looking forward to this channel growing and expanding. Thank you for what you do!!❤
I'm looking forward to more of this channel.
Semi feral toddler...lmao.
Had a kid, can confirm!
I look forward to seeing how this works out, as I have no experience planting either.
Here from the main channel for the antics! 😁👍👍👍🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Liberty doll I immediately signed up for your new channel. Whenever I can see you and liberty toddler It's a win-win!😂
Thank you! Hello and welcome
Oh dear! I did not know you did this! I started researching homesteading on quarter acre plots a year ago. Thanks for spreading this to the 2Acommunity
Looks like you’ve been holding out on us, Girl. Huge news! Looks like Liberty Toddler been taking the 5th on this all year as well. YT algorithm finally got off its duff and pushed the news to me today. What zone you in?
Here’s some other homestead/gardening sites I follow. They may help. It’s not that they are better, or compete. I find it fun to see the similarities I have, and note the differences. Plus, I compare my gardens to theirs. Other organic sites:
Charles Dowding - expert on mulches
Lazy Dog Farm - I learned so much from him this year
Growfully with Jenna - Locally by me.
That 1870’s Homestead - Locally, by me
You’ll do well on this channel. There’s an enormous gardening community out there. 🧑🌾👨🌾👩🌾
I started Building my garden around March. I'm using old military crates (I got them from work) and filled them with the soil. I've sectioned out areas of my back yard, layed down weed barrier and mulch. Then placed my crates. I now have strawberries growing and Anaheim Peppers. I've also place paving stones as walk ways, just to be a little pleasing to the eye. Also for the strawberries, I've made a lid of chicken wire to keep critters out. My future plans include watermelons, various herbs, raspberries, and maybe a grape vine.
Careful with raspberries. I planted them & they spread everywhere. Now I'm in a three year battle to eradicate them.
I love that you are starting this channel! Homesteading and 2a certainly go hand in hand. We moved to NC a year and a half ago and sadly we found out the DuPont company contaminated our well with PFAS chemicals. We are starting with raised beds just in case it's in the soils as well. It's all new to us, so we are learning right along with you!
I got into hydroponics this year. I was harvesting in May when my neighbors were just starting their gardens.
Basically back to eden gardening. Great use of free materials, exactly as mother nature intended.
Yessir!
Look at you go! Great job!
My 1st year of learning to garden I read a book by Ruth Stout & used her method with wonderful results. The only thing I didn't do that she did was to garden nude...LOL
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
"Semi-feral toddler." LOL
It's accurate 😂
Liberty Doll = Gardening Doll ❤
Good stuff, but as always, Liberty Baby steals the show.
Liberty Doll and Liberty Feral Toddler (the best kind) in a Liberty Garden.
Thank you for the information on "Chip Drop". We use multiple truck loads a year and they are harder to find in recent years. I like your new channel. You offer good guidelines for gardening.
Thank you!
For vegetable matter, I use a lot of grass clippings and pulverized leaves (my mower can bag). I dig shallow pits and mix leaves, grass and dirt in them.
I’m glad to see you expanding into prep! I don’t have much of an online presence but I’ve been seriously gardening in a “let’s see if THIS will work” sort of way for about 10 years.
My first location was in an area that was originally a soda lake and the soil was alkaline and could not be used. I used scrap wood from the shot up target backers on our gun range to build raised beds…. Failed!
The delivered soil could not be laid on the alkaline soil even with cardboard under it.
One step at a time I kept adding protective measures until we got to completely raised scrap wood container boxes the size of my picnic table with soil made from Starbucks used coffee grounds and wood chips, 50/50 mix.
It took me about 6 years to master gardening over awful ground and by the time I moved from there I had managed to have enough wood chips groomed by several dozen free range chickens to start growing crops on the ground.
From what I gather, gardening is all trial and error, lol. In the future I want to do a video on how to test your soil. It was a little too much for me to try out this year
Have to start sometime/where. The key word is Start.
yes! I laid my cardboard and compost in October or November, didn't add my wood chip until I think February or March, planted in late May. It's nice you can start whenever and do it in chunks.
..."a semi-feral toddler" ?? hahaha. Good one!
LD, is this your only job now? I love your enthusiasm and spirit. Nice to see you working hard and being creative.
Indeed it is. I closed my practice to be a stay at home mom a week before she was born
@@libertyhomestead Love that for you and your family! 💕
Love the new channel, Doll! 🎉😊
Yay! Thank you!
Is that liberty baby?!? Growing up so quick:)
Might I suggest looking into incorporating some permaculture onto your land? I'm just starting to learn more about it myself. Also, I don't know what kind of beans you're growing, but so far this year I've grown a twenty-one and a half inch long snake bean! Also known as yard long beans, Asian beans, Chinese beans, Japanese beans etc... They require a trellis, but are very light. I have mine growing along the same four foot tall fencing you have around your garden. If you do get some, go with the red ones, they are much easier to see when surrounded by tons of green leaves.
I like the positively reinenforced information . Doing good .
She’s cute like her momma! Good start to your new adventure!
Thanks for inviting me to your new channel. I FINALLY got back into home gardening, after a long break. Started last year actually (it was disappointing).
No tillage is important on 100+F days. Don't work hard for your garden, make your garden work hard for you!
Yes! My neighbors till and their stuff has been drooping a lot faster than mine in this heat. Finally going out to water today after about maybe 5 or 6 days, even though it's supposed to rain the rest of the week. Just going to give them a sprinkle to hold them over
@@libertyhomestead I use cardboard & newspaper, along with vegetable scraps to feed the worms I raise in 5 gallon buckets.
I’m a simple man. I see Liberty Doll, I click subscribe.
Thank youuuu
A great and easy way to deter deer beyond fencing is to get pantyhose and put a bar of Irish spring soap in them. Deer dislike the smell of the soap and a bar will typically last all through the growing season. Just make sure to tie them at each corner and in the middle along the sides for good coverage.
I've heard that, and might try it, as I expanded a little more the other day outside the fence line lol
100% of my.gardening attempts have been complete failures, guess winging it wasn't a good idea! 😅 Thanks for the good info
People keep telling me a lot of gardening is trial and error
@@libertyhomestead as is everything in life. I just never devoted enough time to research what not to do. Weed management has been my main issue, we had heard about the cardboard and mulch but thought that some 3 year composted manure would not have living seeds in it and boy were we wrong. That mixed with what was living underneath it killed our last attempt. Now we know better though!
I‘be been experimenting with gardening for almost 20 years.
That doesn’t make me an expert but I do know a heck of a lot now about what didn’t work 😊
We need a Liberty Doll deer hunting video to cull the roving deer herd.
I could never. 😅 I'll eat it, but getting it is the husband's job lol
@@libertyhomestead ok we'll have to split the difference and do a video showing you and the your husband processing said deer once he gets it. 😉
The boss says you must bounce? I think she wants a fun piggyback ride. 🙂
In my woods I use cardboard and ashes to keep the path clear, until this year. I blame my grandson for keeping me too busy, he's 2 1/2.
This looks like a good channel. Keep up the good work.
Everyone have a wonderful day.
Oh, ash is a good idea!
@@libertyhomestead Wood ash is an exceptional fertilizer. I'm not sure how using it to keep paths open would work out, but we used to till ours into our garden every spring. It grew food and we ate it, so, I guess it worked out fine. 😆
Great job, I’ve loved your other channel, and I watch numerous “homestead” and garden channels. I like this. My wife was enamored by your “apron” good reuse of stuff
Hooray and welcome! My neighbor made the apron, it's great
Check with your local power company for wood chips. Ours (Arizona Public Service) has a program, but you are not guaranteed what kind or how much (or when) you will get. It depends on their trimming ops around the power lines.
Oh, good tip, thanks!
This is great to watch! I'm planning for my first garden for next year so really look forward to hearing how it's going for you so far 😊
LIBERTY BUNNY LADY! I am really glad to see you've joined our ranks!
Hey Doll, fancy meeting you in SC ( Upstate here ) on a Homestead channel - watched you before the move on your Patriot channel - like your style - your babes beautifull - welcome to the land of red clay, ya'll and centipede grass - take care - ketch ya later 😊
Ha! I started watching and right away thought "She looks a lot like Liberty Doll?!?!" As someone with prepper tendencies I have substantial interests in both guns and gardens, lol. Judging by the solid substance in your Liberty Doll videos I'm looking forward to some GREAT content on this topic!
Thank youuuu
Great video. I've always had mixed feeling on the "survival garden" concept. Pro and cons, I guess. I've gone more with fruit trees and bushed, a bit lower maintenance. A few years back got a couple of Goji berry bushes, deer got one and other finally really took off this year.
I love your tool apron. That one had not occurred to me. Isn't it great to have been born with the "MacGyver" gene. 😃😃😃
Looking forward to more video. Be well.
My neighbor made it for me...it's great!
@@libertyhomestead Thought you were just running late and forgot to put your shorts on. Then they were backwards when you ran the belt through.
Though I might just try that... That does look extremely comfortable. 🧐
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She's just walking around acting like there's no baby on her back.
Simply amazing.
I've always heard that deer won't eat stuff grown in horse manure. One technique I like is the three sisters plant corn when it gets so big you plant climbing beans and squash to cover the ground if you plant family garlic it looks like green onions around your garden it will help keep the critters away
Liberty Family is AWESOME!!
Ah grew up in north west,,,, Idaho,,,,,,, congrats winter sucks,,,, love to see your baby girl,,,, welcome to the gardening world.
Really happy to see this channel. I have been really saddened by some of the other channels like Doug and Stacy and patriot Nurse has moved far away from the prepping, homesteading that they founded their channel on and are now gone totally crack pot conspiracy theory, especially Doug. Just stick to your original thought and you'll do really well.
edit: make sure when you lay cardboard you are removing all packing tape on the cardboard as it does not decompose and will make a root barrier in your soil. Also, yeah avoid the glossy cardboard boxes as it doesn't decompose well either. Good thought on how to get the brown boxes, look online in FB or other list sites for people who just moved, or contact a moving company to see if they have boxes that were used and are now going to be discarded.
avoid lead ink newspaper! (from years ago) also wood char but not charcoal briquets! Can't wait to see your harvest.
I like the new channel. Thank you for all the valuable information.
Great video! I've learned so many things the hard way, LOL! I blame you mostly for not having this channel up five or so years ago. Now I'm going from an Indiana growing climate to a central Tennessee climate. So much to learn all over again.
A tip. Local county fairgrounds are usually a good source of manure, straw bedding mixed with droppings (carbon + nitrogen) and it is free all you have to do is load it, transport it, and spread it.
Bring heavy trash bags and boxes when you do that. The SUV or minivan shouldn't smell like manure the next day!
@@haroldhenderson2824 I use a truck and hose out the bed when I'm done. Everyone else should too.
Can you trust it? It might have Grazon herbicide which passes thru the animal and poisons the manure for broad leaf crops.
Oh Goodness 🎉🎉🎉 You're doing great 😊 Looks Wonderful ✨ I subscribed to your channel 🙏
Thank you so much!!
@@libertyhomestead you're very welcome 😁 Have a wonderful day 🙏
Thanks for sharing!
Excellent as always 👍
Delighted to see you have a variety of interests!
As a kid we hijacked part of a farmer's windrow to make a large garden. The experience was extremely positive for us kids. You're a lot more willing to try new foods when you've watched it grow.
Even with that experience, I have found Backwoods Home (magazine) to be a useful resource.
Made me so happy to see you start this channel..
Nicely done!
Thank you!
There is a familiar face!
thanks
Enjoyed it! I'll be watching for more.
Great first vid! Looking forward to more like this.
Just watched from hub’s computer while I sit on this iPad. I’ve watched you for a few years on your other Chanel which the hubs subscribes too. We are both retired and have a garden every year ( wasn’t sure I’d have one this year cuz I had knee replacement mid April). Hubs tilled up the garden KNOWING if I had to look at that tilled patch of dirt, I’d have to put the garden in. We had such drought here in east central Iowa this year I only pick 1 gallon of black raspberries, fortunately I picked about 5 gallons of mulberries. Canned up21 qts of tomatoes, frozen up packages of green peppers, and last week dehydrated 16 qts of puffball mushrooms. Canning is great but consider a dehydrator and a vacuum seal machine. Those two have really helped up preserve things. O, I’ve also vacuum sealed canning jars too. Love to see you out there with your little supervisor, maybe next year she can help you weed. Sending hugs to you and yours from east central Iowa. .
We have a vacuum sealer and use it for meat all the time. A dehydrator is definitely on my list! Sorry to hear about the rough garden season out there this year
Also check with your local city and county maintainance department, as well as local utility companies. They all are removing problem trees all year round and would probably be glad to have somebody take some off their hands. There may also be a local municipal compost site making compost for the local community.
This is going to be fun.
Liberty Baby is almost big enough to hook up to a plow... but if you're no till, I guess LB rides the sherpa instead. Thanks for posting.
Omg, thanks for the laugh 😂😂😂
Love your videos (all channels), love your cute toddler, subscribed with the bell (all notifications) ♥️
Checking in! Said I'd be here and glad it's published! I'm among the first 500 subs!
Love seeing others get into this hobby. I did ChipDrop myself last fall, in 9B, and also ended up with a 12t pile of chips in my driveway. Took me almost 2 weeks to move it all, one wheelbarrow load at a time, to the back because of my day job and the fact that Phoenix is still triple digits in September.
If you don't already have one, pick up a good broadfork tool. They break up compacted soil better than high powered gas tillers, making them great for no-till setups.
I need to get one. I looked in the spring and frankly was overwhelmed by all the options
@@libertyhomestead I purchased mine from a small family business in Wisconsin named Treadlite. They offer 20in, 24in, or 30in broadforks, with steel or ash wood handles. Heavy welded steel forks.
Good supervision is key. 😅
Great start to what will be an awesome channel. Thanks for the extra work and information, Doll! God bless from the Ozarks!
This is great.
Looks like someone is aware of what's going on in the world. Good on you.
You always do a wonderful job explaining everything. Thank you. And watch out for the feral sweetie. She is just too CUTE!!!!!
Sources to consider:
Cardboard: Pallet "slip sheets." Buy if you can't mooch from a local business.
Wood chips: I use pine pellets for cat litter. Need I say more?
Looks like you could rename your garden a "health club" and get folks to pay for the privilege to help out :)
Haha, I like the way you think!
love the garden, best of luck on a bountiful harvest
Good job, I was born in may way back in 1965, Mom took me outside and worked her kitchen garden that spring so I guess I've been learning how to do this since I was born, LOL. If you can find some organic Poop, chicken cow ect NOT PIG!!!! get that composting it's wonderful. And trellis your tomato's
Chip Drop is great. I got a call and they let me show them where I wanted it all. I paid $20 to offset their fees and couldn't be happier. Took about 2 weeks and I had my shipment.
I also ended up paying the delivery fee thinking I'd get them faster. They came like four days later
@@libertyhomestead
I tended to use local tree services a made sure I had six packs of the drivers favorite well chilled soda on hand.
They always seemed very willing to place the chips where it worked best for me 👍
I just came over here to subscribe to the brand-new channel and found that I was already subbed. Welcome to the journey of gardening, composting, and prepping.
Welcome aboard!