I could watch you for hours talking in the garden! Please do lots more videos!! Hubby and I love your content! We are currently renting until we find our forever property! We are learning so much from you. We will be first time larger scale gardeners when we move so all the info you can give us on growing, nurturing, maintaining, harvesting and preserving would be amazing! Thank you guys!
I'm moving to my new house next week and starting my homestead. I've owned the land for 23 years and my level of excitement cannot be contained. Your garden is my inspiration!! Its exactly what I envisioned for the acreage. The lighting and herringbone walkways are gorgeous! I think it will take me longer than you but by next summer it should start to really take shape. Looking great thanks so much for sharing your slice of heaven :)
Thank you so much for the kind words and the best of luck to you with transforming your property. It will happen in time and some things take longer than others, while some don't take nearly as long as what you had imagined. Glad to have been able to inspire you and keep us up to date on your progress. Best of luck and have fun with it!
Thanks for watching and yes to eating fava greens, we typically like to harvest the young tender leaf tip growths and the plants will get more branchy when you top the plants in this manner.
5:41 we have tons of those in the Azores Islands- Portugal 🇵🇹 the little ones are more popular. Try to cut them in halves ou quarters, put them in a bowl and cover with milk and a bit of sugar. Let them stay in the fridge overnight are for a few hours to get a delicious fruit salad ( the milk will turn into a liquid yogurt with guava flavour). The bigger ones in the photo I think are a different species pinkish inside.
Thank you so much for watching, glad you can still follow along here. You can check out our website for accompanied Garden Tour post that has a lot of pictures and descriptions as well.
Would be so nice to garden year-round, you're so lucky!! I live in Kiowa, CO -along the Palmer Divide- our frost dates are Jun 1- Sept 15th (Zone 5a) nothing survives the winters here lol. Your garden is so beautiful can wait to try raised beds this year!! Thx
Just discovered your channel. Love it. Thank you for sharing. Excellent mix of content (permaculture, herb/veggie gardening, orchards, cannabis, chickens) Hope to see some updates this spring.
It’s probably just the time of year. My turmeric is dying back, getting ready to be harvested whatever isn’t pulled will come back with vengeance. I experimented with ginger and most of my ginger left in the ground did not come back. Live in south Texas zone 9b.
Hey! Oh yeah, I know turmeric always starts to die back and looks a little sad/yellow this time of year. I just meant it didn't grow nearly as large, lush and full in general than it has in previous years. Usually the greens/leaves are much more robust, so I'm not expecting as large of a harvest either. We shall see! Thank you so much for tuning in!
Thanks for the tour. Would love to have a garden like that. Do you have some vegetables that are unknown to me would love to see how they’re fixed. Maybe sometime you how to do it food prep for the more uncommon foods. And on the turmeric I would love to see what you do to prepare it for use.
We eat a ton of greens throughout the fall and winter months. Plus, many of these beds contain cabbage, cauliflower, or broccoli which we won't be eating much of until they actually form their main head. Although you can harvest and eat broccoli and cauliflower leaves as well. If we have a surplus of food, we preserve it! Freeze, dehydrate, can, ferment... etc. We make a lot of soup to store in the freezer while also making fermented krauts. We also have neighbors that are typically more than willing to accept garden goodies. Over the summer we also donated excess food to local food banks as well.
@@HomesteadandChill Well there's no doubt in my mind that you folks are extraordinary people w vast stores of energy. It all looks beautiful! And sharing the wealth of good nutrition w your community! That is the way of the future.
Looking up videos to build my wife raised beds I came across your page!!! Love it !! What do you lay down as a base for your walkways around and under your beds??
We covered the ground with landscape fabric before using 3/8th inch gravel as a hardscape. We show the process in more detail in these articles on our website. homesteadandchill.com/homestead-update-new-garden/ homesteadandchill.com/new-garden-reveal/
Hi! I love your videos. Your garden space is a dream! I had a question, do you have a video or blog post on how you made your trellises and the beautiful arches you have? Thanks!
Thank you so much for the kind words, the metal arch trellises we got from our local Ace Hardware store who has an extensive nursery section. We do have an article on how we build trellises in our garden but they are made with wood and wire remesh that may be of interest to you. homesteadandchill.com/how-to-build-a-trellis/
@@hazelchance8886 We don't often harvest leaves form cabbage, broccoli, or cauliflower (although you can) as we wait for the plant to head up before harvesting the cabbage heads or cauliflower/broccoli heads. For all greens such as bok choy, mustard greens, kale, collards, chard etc., we harvest a few of the most outer leaves from each plant every week and will typically harvest off the same plant for months to come.
Thanks for the request and we may do one in the future, we do have an article on our website all about starting seeds indoors as well as a few other seed starting articles if you are interested: homesteadandchill.com/seed-starting-101/ homesteadandchill.com/tag/seed-starting/
I just found you! You and your homestead are incredible! Your video on your irrigation left me in awe of your knowledge and intelligence. I live in San Diego's East County zone 10a and the critters are crazy wild here with bunnies, squirrels, rodents, gophers and wonderful birds. I have lost many plants and trees due to gophers and we started making our baskets from hardware cloth as well. When you showed the picture of yours you showed no bottom and I couldn't sleep last night realizing that my trees are stunted because of this. So can you please confirm that you don't put a bottom in your baskets and maybe you can do a tutorial. Thank you for your inspiration and sharing your beautiful yard!
Thank you so much for watching and yes, gophers are quite a pain to deal with. When we make gopher baskets, we do include a bottom as well. We typically try and make the basket 2-3 times larger than the root ball so it has some room to grow in and it still allows for their smaller roots to spread out. Here is an article on how we build our gopher cages: homesteadandchill.com/homemade-gopher-basket-trees/ And our article on non toxic gopher control in the garden: homesteadandchill.com/non-toxic-gopher-control/
beautiful garden! Did you put every single plant ( the ones not in raised bed) in gopher baskets? we have huge gopher problems, I’m dying to know how on all your i- ground plants survived!!
Yes we put every plant, tree, and shrub inside a gopher cage as they would be killed by gophers if not. We have used two types of pre made gopher cages along with ones we make ourselves (which are the most durable). The pre made gopher cages that are rigid and made from chicken wire are preferred to the ones that are rolled up and put on the rootball like a sock. The plants that have been eaten and killed by gophers, all had the roll on type cages around them and the gophers just chew right through it.
Love your videos and Instagram. Did you put the fencing in or was it already there? Do you have a good recommendation for a fencing company on the Central Coast?
Thankfully the property was already fully fenced in with country type metal fencing and the previous owners added the black vinyl fencing to the center garden/orchard area. On our previous property, we had the fence on one side of our lot replaced and we used Royal Gate and Fence Co. and they did a really good job. It may depend on what type of fencing you are looking for as they did a standard 6 foot, wooden cedar fence for us. Hope that helps and thanks for the kind words and for following along.
Hi Deanna, we’re in Ky zone 6 but would like to move to California to be able to grow year round and buy an acre or two and create something lovely like you have. We don’t know California at all. Can you suggest an area that doesn’t get fires or floods? Also an area that would be under $1m for a property like yours with a modest house. Thanks
We eat and preserve a lot of it, we also give a lot away to neighbors as well as local food banks. We had a ton of eggplant las summer so we gave away probably at least 50 pounds or so. With tomatoes, we make a lot of soup and sauce to store in the freezer to use throughout the year and we make pesto with our basil to store in the freezer as well. Butternut and other hard squash are great to grow because they can be stored for long periods of time. We still have butternut that we are using from our harvest in October.
@@hazelchance8886 We don't often harvest leaves form cabbage, broccoli, or cauliflower (although you can) as we wait for the plant to head up before harvesting the cabbage heads or cauliflower/broccoli heads. For all greens such as bok choy, mustard greens, kale, collards, chard etc., we harvest a few of the most outer leaves from each plant every week and will typically harvest off the same plant for months to come.
Hey there! In some places that works, but not everyone can just plop plants in the ground and succeed either. Here, gophers eat EVERYTHING in ground. Raised beds with hardware cloth below is an absolute must to block the gophers, no other way around it for annual veggies (trees we can cage). Raised beds are also great when people have poor soil quality, such as clay or areas that regularly flood - so you can fill them with rich, well-draining soil and compost instead. They're also ergonomic for more body types, and easier to keep weeds out. Plus I like they way they look!
I could watch you for hours talking in the garden! Please do lots more videos!! Hubby and I love your content! We are currently renting until we find our forever property! We are learning so much from you. We will be first time larger scale gardeners when we move so all the info you can give us on growing, nurturing, maintaining, harvesting and preserving would be amazing! Thank you guys!
I'm moving to my new house next week and starting my homestead. I've owned the land for 23 years and my level of excitement cannot be contained. Your garden is my inspiration!! Its exactly what I envisioned for the acreage. The lighting and herringbone walkways are gorgeous! I think it will take me longer than you but by next summer it should start to really take shape. Looking great thanks so much for sharing your slice of heaven :)
Thank you so much for the kind words and the best of luck to you with transforming your property. It will happen in time and some things take longer than others, while some don't take nearly as long as what you had imagined. Glad to have been able to inspire you and keep us up to date on your progress. Best of luck and have fun with it!
So, what happened the last 23 years?
It´s new, but you owned it?
So many Australian native plants in your garden! It spins me out seeing Americans with them. Cool stuff.
Absolutely, we share the same Mediterranean climate! Although sometimes they get hit with a light frost which they don't always love 🤣
Same!!! Hubby and I said the same thing when we were watching!
@@HomesteadandChill its ok we breed things tough over here, they’ll be right mate LOL
@@kimwalter1269 it’s like seeing a border collie or cattle dog in America, makes me do a double take. Lol
@@catherinejones6481 yes!!!
It’s fantastic garden with such great veggies. So love those beautiful grapes. Thank you for awesome sharing 😍❤️👍
I just re-watched your summer tour last week. Great job!
You are living the dream! Thanks for the info. I never knew we could eat the fava beans greens. I have been growing them for years.
Thanks for watching and yes to eating fava greens, we typically like to harvest the young tender leaf tip growths and the plants will get more branchy when you top the plants in this manner.
Your garden space is amazing, love 💕.
5:41 we have tons of those in the Azores Islands- Portugal 🇵🇹 the little ones are more popular. Try to cut them in halves ou quarters, put them in a bowl and cover with milk and a bit of sugar. Let them stay in the fridge overnight are for a few hours to get a delicious fruit salad ( the milk will turn into a liquid yogurt with guava flavour). The bigger ones in the photo I think are a different species pinkish inside.
Sounds delicious!
I was so sad to not get your garden updates since deleting Instagram. It’s looking gorgeous, so happy to see!
Thank you so much for watching, glad you can still follow along here. You can check out our website for accompanied Garden Tour post that has a lot of pictures and descriptions as well.
I'm so better off w/o an Instagram habit. Gave it up years ago. Here's to good choices!
Would be so nice to garden year-round, you're so lucky!! I live in Kiowa, CO -along the Palmer Divide- our frost dates are Jun 1- Sept 15th (Zone 5a) nothing survives the winters here lol. Your garden is so beautiful can wait to try raised beds this year!! Thx
Thank you so much and yes, you have a pretty tight growing window there and hope you have fun gardening with raised beds!
Just discovered your channel. Love it. Thank you for sharing. Excellent mix of content (permaculture, herb/veggie gardening, orchards, cannabis, chickens) Hope to see some updates this spring.
Beautiful garden
Love your videos
Thanks for sharing your videos, your garden is beautiful
Yay California!
Thank you so much, we appreciate it.
@@HomesteadandChill I want dwarf olive trees!
@@MeandYouHello They should be readily available at your local nursery if you live in an appropriate climate.
It’s probably just the time of year. My turmeric is dying back, getting ready to be harvested whatever isn’t pulled will come back with vengeance. I experimented with ginger and most of my ginger left in the ground did not come back. Live in south Texas zone 9b.
Hey! Oh yeah, I know turmeric always starts to die back and looks a little sad/yellow this time of year. I just meant it didn't grow nearly as large, lush and full in general than it has in previous years. Usually the greens/leaves are much more robust, so I'm not expecting as large of a harvest either. We shall see! Thank you so much for tuning in!
@@HomesteadandChill oh 🙈, keep us updated! Thanks for sharing, inspired by your content.
Thanks for the tour. Would love to have a garden like that. Do you have some vegetables that are unknown to me would love to see how they’re fixed. Maybe sometime you how to do it food prep for the more uncommon foods. And on the turmeric I would love to see what you do to prepare it for use.
What do you DO with all of that food? It's gorgeous. Thank you for the tour.
We eat a ton of greens throughout the fall and winter months. Plus, many of these beds contain cabbage, cauliflower, or broccoli which we won't be eating much of until they actually form their main head. Although you can harvest and eat broccoli and cauliflower leaves as well.
If we have a surplus of food, we preserve it! Freeze, dehydrate, can, ferment... etc. We make a lot of soup to store in the freezer while also making fermented krauts. We also have neighbors that are typically more than willing to accept garden goodies. Over the summer we also donated excess food to local food banks as well.
@@HomesteadandChill Well there's no doubt in my mind that you folks are extraordinary people w vast stores of energy. It all looks beautiful! And sharing the wealth of good nutrition w your community! That is the way of the future.
i really enjoyed this video!! thank you for spending the time making it for us :)
Thanks for watching and glad to hear you enjoyed it!
Looking up videos to build my wife raised beds I came across your page!!! Love it !! What do you lay down as a base for your walkways around and under your beds??
We covered the ground with landscape fabric before using 3/8th inch gravel as a hardscape. We show the process in more detail in these articles on our website.
homesteadandchill.com/homestead-update-new-garden/
homesteadandchill.com/new-garden-reveal/
Hi! I love your videos. Your garden space is a dream! I had a question, do you have a video or blog post on how you made your trellises and the beautiful arches you have? Thanks!
Thank you so much for the kind words, the metal arch trellises we got from our local Ace Hardware store who has an extensive nursery section. We do have an article on how we build trellises in our garden but they are made with wood and wire remesh that may be of interest to you.
homesteadandchill.com/how-to-build-a-trellis/
love, love, love your garden! Definitely an inspiration for when I set mine up😊🌿
Thank you so much, best of luck with creating your garden and have fun growing!
@@HomesteadandChill what about collage greens do you pull the leaf from the bottom of cabbage or do I pull the whole plant up
Collage green I mean I am sorry
@@hazelchance8886 We don't often harvest leaves form cabbage, broccoli, or cauliflower (although you can) as we wait for the plant to head up before harvesting the cabbage heads or cauliflower/broccoli heads. For all greens such as bok choy, mustard greens, kale, collards, chard etc., we harvest a few of the most outer leaves from each plant every week and will typically harvest off the same plant for months to come.
Can you make a video of how you plant seeds indoor.
Thanks for the request and we may do one in the future, we do have an article on our website all about starting seeds indoors as well as a few other seed starting articles if you are interested:
homesteadandchill.com/seed-starting-101/
homesteadandchill.com/tag/seed-starting/
I just found you! You and your homestead are incredible! Your video on your irrigation left me in awe of your knowledge and intelligence. I live in San Diego's East County zone 10a and the critters are crazy wild here with bunnies, squirrels, rodents, gophers and wonderful birds. I have lost many plants and trees due to gophers and we started making our baskets from hardware cloth as well. When you showed the picture of yours you showed no bottom and I couldn't sleep last night realizing that my trees are stunted because of this. So can you please confirm that you don't put a bottom in your baskets and maybe you can do a tutorial. Thank you for your inspiration and sharing your beautiful yard!
Thank you so much for watching and yes, gophers are quite a pain to deal with. When we make gopher baskets, we do include a bottom as well. We typically try and make the basket 2-3 times larger than the root ball so it has some room to grow in and it still allows for their smaller roots to spread out.
Here is an article on how we build our gopher cages:
homesteadandchill.com/homemade-gopher-basket-trees/
And our article on non toxic gopher control in the garden:
homesteadandchill.com/non-toxic-gopher-control/
@@HomesteadandChill Thank you so much for your response!
What ever happened to the cats that you acquired when you moved onto this property? Can we get an update in a future vid?
beautiful garden! Did you put every single plant ( the ones not in raised bed) in gopher baskets? we have huge gopher problems, I’m dying to know how on all your i- ground plants survived!!
Yes we put every plant, tree, and shrub inside a gopher cage as they would be killed by gophers if not. We have used two types of pre made gopher cages along with ones we make ourselves (which are the most durable). The pre made gopher cages that are rigid and made from chicken wire are preferred to the ones that are rolled up and put on the rootball like a sock. The plants that have been eaten and killed by gophers, all had the roll on type cages around them and the gophers just chew right through it.
Love your videos and Instagram.
Did you put the fencing in or was it already there? Do you have a good recommendation for a fencing company on the Central Coast?
Thankfully the property was already fully fenced in with country type metal fencing and the previous owners added the black vinyl fencing to the center garden/orchard area.
On our previous property, we had the fence on one side of our lot replaced and we used Royal Gate and Fence Co. and they did a really good job. It may depend on what type of fencing you are looking for as they did a standard 6 foot, wooden cedar fence for us. Hope that helps and thanks for the kind words and for following along.
Where did you get your fountain from? It’s gorgeous, you have such garden goals happening… 👍
Thank you so much for the kind words! We got our fountain at our local Outdoor Supply Hardware store.
Thank you! I have one close to me…👍👍👍
Where do you live? The black widow part got me wondering. 😅
Central Coast of California.
It would be helpful if you said what zone your property is in (9b?). And general location (near 101 in Northern California?)
Hey there! I mentioned at the start of the video that we're in hardiness zone 9. We are on the Central Coast of California.
Hi Deanna, we’re in Ky zone 6 but would like to move to California to be able to grow year round and buy an acre or two and create something lovely like you have. We don’t know California at all. Can you suggest an area that doesn’t get fires or floods? Also an area that would be under $1m for a property like yours with a modest house.
Thanks
What do you do with all your harvest?
We eat and preserve a lot of it, we also give a lot away to neighbors as well as local food banks. We had a ton of eggplant las summer so we gave away probably at least 50 pounds or so. With tomatoes, we make a lot of soup and sauce to store in the freezer to use throughout the year and we make pesto with our basil to store in the freezer as well.
Butternut and other hard squash are great to grow because they can be stored for long periods of time. We still have butternut that we are using from our harvest in October.
i'm new to your channel, where are you guys located? like what state? thanks.
Central Coast of California, hardiness zone 9.
Do you pluck leaves off collage green and cabbage
Are do you pull the whole bush up for cooking
@@hazelchance8886 We don't often harvest leaves form cabbage, broccoli, or cauliflower (although you can) as we wait for the plant to head up before harvesting the cabbage heads or cauliflower/broccoli heads. For all greens such as bok choy, mustard greens, kale, collards, chard etc., we harvest a few of the most outer leaves from each plant every week and will typically harvest off the same plant for months to come.
Hey I’m new here. What’s the point of making a raised bed? I mean why can’t we just put the seeds straight to the ground?
Hey there! In some places that works, but not everyone can just plop plants in the ground and succeed either. Here, gophers eat EVERYTHING in ground. Raised beds with hardware cloth below is an absolute must to block the gophers, no other way around it for annual veggies (trees we can cage). Raised beds are also great when people have poor soil quality, such as clay or areas that regularly flood - so you can fill them with rich, well-draining soil and compost instead. They're also ergonomic for more body types, and easier to keep weeds out. Plus I like they way they look!
@@HomesteadandChill thanks
My husband just said if i can find us a property like Deanna’s for under 1 million and a few golf courses nearby, we’re moving
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