How We Feed our Family with a 20x40 ft. Garden - COMPLETE TOUR
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2023
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This is a garden tour of our 20x40 ft garden in zone 4b - Wisconsin. Not all information is provided in this video as it would be far too long. If you have questions, we will happily answer you in the comments.
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Hurray! I have a 20 by 40 plot and I grew 2 years worth of food last year! I focused on potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, carrots, beets, onions, celery, pie pumpkins, and cucumbers. I canned all of it!
Wow!
2 years worth of food in the same amount of space.
That's impressive.
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Amazing job Anne! Keep doing it 😉
🌏🌎🌍🕊️ for everyone 🙏🏼
Awesome!
I am so happy for you!! Wonderful and very inspiring. Then you canned it, even better.
@@togetherweharvest What gauge size of wire mesh do you find bendy enough to trellis/arch with?
Before you toss out the broccoli plants, you can save the leaves and eat them too. I save all mine and use it like I would spinach or kale in my omelets and soups…They freeze really well too.
Yes!
That's a good idea.
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Leaves are more nutritious than the broccoli heads.
I bet, that some one along the line .. figured they could get more money from selling the flower heads then the leaves it -may- have once only been grown for.
Hmmm.
❤live the cattle pen trellis
Love not live
I am 78 yrs oldand have always had large gardens. I have Never seen a better planned garden. Great job!!!🥰
That’s kind of you.
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Subscribed! This is what social media should be about: sharing knowledge and inspiring each other to live better. Thanks🎉
Welcome to the channel!
I agree. Social media is often a messy place. I believe one of my responsibilities as a video content creator is to help encourage people to take a different path.
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You’re right - Many new gardeners give up too easily. Every year has to be looked at as a “learning experience.” Just be sure to take notes and implement what you learn from one year to the next and in just a few years you’ll start to become more and more successful. 😊
Yes, agreed.
One of the benefits of videos like this one is to look back and remember how things looked and what worked well.
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For sure. Each year I take lessons learned and work to verify what worked. Then I choose one or two new things to try so I can get better ideas. Practice and perseverance really make a huge difference. been at it for 3 years now and my garden get better each year. :)
@@hirofortis 🙂 this year I tried starting some seeds inside. I also tried several new vegetables this year like Brussel sprouts, carrots, potatoes, onions (not a success), beets, cabbage and Swiss chard. I’m also seeing if I can grow some of these into the fall a bit. Good luck to you!
@@joybrown8644well for onions I live in Idaho, so I need long day onions. So I use Walla Walla or Spanish Onions. I start the m indoors and when i planted them outside I gently use a hose to wash them apart. I then put 4 per square foot in my raised bed. I keep them away from the sides though as onions like a bit cooler soil. The ones I grew this year were the size of my fist or larger. probably 5 to 6 inch diameter.
@@hirofortis that’s awesome! Thank you for the tips. I had mine down the side of my bed maybe three or 4 inches from the side and maybe that was their downfall.
I love people who are so enthusiastic about gardening! It makes me excited too!
Excellent!
For us, this simpler way of living is a life style and gardening certainly helps.
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So inspirational tbh. I’m daydreaming about garden layouts while at work.
Thank you.
I also find it easy to daydream about how great a garden can look…growing season will be here before we know it
We eat a ton of celery and I've found that half a dozen plants is more than enough using the cut and come again method. We rarely use a whole head of celery at a time so it makes sense to take the stalks we need and leave the rest of the head to keep growing.
That's a good idea.
What zone are you in?
Celery here takes a really long time to get to harvest size.
@@togetherweharvest we're in zone 7 but I think that's really not a good guage, we're at 5k ft elevation in the high Sierra with a last frost date of may 29th and a first frost date of Sept 30. I start my celery indoors in January and plant it out in April depending on temps and how much snow we have. This year we still had 6 feet of snow so it went in a little later. I can extend them into November and December sometimes with frost blankets.
I grew a single stalk of celery in a bed of mulched leaves.. the flavor was SO strong I cut it up and froze it... took us 6 months to use it all
@@ronallens6204 try planting it where is shaded in the hot months, it tends to get extremely strong flavored in the heat. I had that same problem until I grew them with a shade wall of Vining plants directly to the west of them protecting them from that hot afternoon sun.
I have never thought of that . Thank you . Much appreciated. I do start mine from the ends of cut celery. The whole stalk.
You need to grow comfrey next to a lot of your other veggies and it will improve your soil and your vegetables, plus comfrey is a wonderful compost fertilizer. You just chop it & drop it in your beds & it will greatly energize your plants
I also learned from recent No-Till Growers channel vlog interview that comfrey as a border will keep the grass from encroaching into garden edges. As for chop and drop, that may be counter-indicated by tender annuals if wanting to avoid slug habitat. During the growing season anyways :).
Good to know!
What time of year do you plant it?
Thanks for the tip.
@@togetherweharvest people plant comfrey both fall & spring.
Just make sure it's not the self-seeding variety or it will spread everywhere!
Very important to get a sterile variety, or else it will not only take over, but is a pain to eradicate.
My favorite butternut squash recipe is cutting peel your squash by putting it in the microwave for a few minutes and then it will peel really easily cut it up and put it in chicken broth with a half a carrot until tender drain and use your immersion blender to make it into a light sauce from there add a half a cup of sour cream, chili powder, cumin, and enjoy I make it into a dip for corn chips. It’s awesome.
That sounds amazing! We'll look into that. We normally make it into soups with onion, chicken broth and avocados.
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Nuking your food is very detrimental to nutrition
Your comment made my mouth water. I love butternut squash.
Tell me more about peeling them this way please. I'm assuming you stab it first so it doesn't explode? Peeling butternut is such a pain; I've gotta try this.
Microwave water, let it cool, then water a seedling, they grow so sickly if at all. Water your plants with cooled microwave water, they eventually die. 😭
you have a good sense toward your garden. A lot of people don’t express that. PS, you have a great garden and I’m very jealous.😅
Thank you so much!
I really appreciate all the abundance you have in such a small space. My garden is only 25 x 35 (plus my deck) and I am able to grow much more than most would expect. Small spaces don't necessarily mean small gardens!
Thank you so much.
Decks are always a great space to grow more crops.
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@@togetherweharvest Great, I look forward to them!
I'm not sure what's more adorable... The arched trellis, or the cooing of your little one!
Definitely the little one.
LOL!!~ Great point! It could be a tie!!
I really like how you were resourceful with natural and repurposed elements to help build your garden. So beautiful &great stewardship! Appreciate the ideas.
Thank you!
I'm glad you noticed and appreciate the resourcefulness of the garden infrastructure.
We have SO MANY tiny trees so it only makes sense to use them.
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This should really help me. I am new to gardening. Last year I purchased this home with 2 acres. My dream is to one day be self sufficient. It has been alot of work getting things clear and learning the land. I got my garden laid out to be 25' x 30'. I have that space covered in woodchips now and plan to start my garden next spring.
Glad to help.
What would you like to be self sufficient in? Energy, food, etc? Just curious.
What did you put under your wood chips?
Sounds like you've got a good plan! Look forward to hearing how things go.
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@@togetherweharvest For right now looking to be food sufficient. I didn't put anything under the woodchips, hopefully I didn't mess that up lol. I maybe going the direction of raised beds and using those as filler anyway. I got a few months to figure that out.
@@StevenScone You may experience many weeds growing through the chips after a while. I take thick cardboard from the post office and place that down before the chips. That helps a lot.
Awesome. Looking great.
So precious your daughter saying, Hi”, as though she just saw you there, suddenly.
Thank you.
Haha yes, she's funny.
We love having her in the garden.
Very nice! Praise the Lord, Jesus Christ! Blessings to you and your family! Happy gardening and health!
God bless you and your family.
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❤🙏 amen!
Hallelujah
Yeshuwah
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Loved this beautiful family gardening video. ❤
What I love about gardening is it's so apolitical in a world that's become black vs. white on every possible subject. You can garden because it's good for your family bonding and teaching your kids responsibility, or because it decreases how many slave-labour tomatoes we all buy. You can garden because it's healthier to eat organic, or because it's good for the environment. Personally, as an anarchist, I garden because it disrupts the five companies that create all of our processed food and keeps money out of their grubby, blood-soaked hands 👌❤ That money goes back into my community when I buy/trade for compost/seeds.
There's literally no downside, no matter your values
I agree with that 100%.
There are so many great reasons to grow your own food and they're all good.
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Brother, what an amazing garden you have! Great use of space; abundance out the wazoo; really well done! Blessings, Jim
Thank you so much!
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A trellis above the raised bed is SO genius and I never would've thought of it. Zone 3 here o season is incredibly short, but when it's hot it's HOT. This is a game changer for me
Thanks - we love it. Much easier to control weeds too.
Zone 3, huh? Where are you located?
You can also cover your trellis with clear plastic to extend your growing season. Black plastic on the soil will warm up your soil a little faster.
I used cattle panels at $30-35 each. Cheap and very sturdy!
Plant early crops and shade crops or ones that need shelter from the heat underneath.
You could even do peas with squash or melons because the peas will be spent by the time the others will be taking over.
We are in Zone 3 too!
Absolutely beautiful!!! Such an enjoyable tour!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love seeing your thriving garden, and the beautiful foods growing up voluntarily to feed your family!
Yes, what a great blessing.
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Sweet potatoes shoots are delicious when cooked.
That's what I heard - we'll have to try it sometime. I don't want to take any away until the very end of the growing season to allow the sweet potatoes maximum growing time in the soil.
Your garden is absolutely stunning! Loved this tour! 🙌🍅
Thanks so much!
Year one of straw berries, I had a single plant, I then collected the seeds from the berries, by shaving the exterior skin off the ones I would eat, and stickng them to egg cartons or newspaper, and I put thousands of seeds down, getting maybe 10 plants to germinate.
From those 10 plants in year two, I have somewhere in the ballpark of 50-100 plants now, due to runners.
Cut them anywhere from 6" to 12" in length, and bury them up to the last 2 inches.
They are able to use the 4-10" area under the soil to get moisture, so they can quickly root up.
I never use anything to help them root, and I rarely wait till the runners themselves have roots, and they do just fine with this method.
Good tip!
Thanks for sharing.
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LOVE the Kentucky Wonder Beans. They were incredibly prolific, even in Zone 10a heat, with just a few plants producing one family green bean side dish a week. Kids loved to pick the many beans as well.
And so yummy when cooked in olive oil, salt and a little lemon juice.
Yeah those are good. Didn’t realize they would do well in your warm climate. A couple years ago, they started going bad in our garden mid summer and I thought it was because it was getting too hot.
Some nut case suggested that 1 person needs 9000 square feet of garden to produce enough food to survive. It's good to see proof you provided proof that most families have yards far less than 9000 square feet that are plenty big to provide food for a family . The leaves over the potatoes is a stroke of genius!. MI Gardener is a champion too!
I don't know where people get those numbers from. They are literally just numbers, often taken out of context as well. Meaning, they aren't considering growing zone, crop selection, weather, seeds, soil quality, etc.
We don't get all of our food from this garden, but we do harvest a lot of our produce for sure.
By intensely planting crops with high quality soil, we are able to maximize the space.
the fencing and wood branch tripod ideas are awesome; I might try to make containers using the sections vertically and cutting them in half for taller containers.@@togetherweharvest
If you include the area you need to grow compostable and mulching materials like those leaves for the potatoes, you can pick your number really. But most people don't need to grow their own compostables and mulches in their own backyard.
I do believe this is the best garden walk thru video I have seen. You have an absolutely beautiful garden and you showed the fails with the wins and explained why. Great job, Sir!
Wow, thank you!
We try to be down to earth and relatable. Some gardens can intimidate beginning growers.
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I just found your video and LOVE your garden! I am sad to see that you have not posted on a year, hope to see more soon!!!
I'm glad you like it.
We will be posting weekly videos on this channel going forward.
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Just found you too! Glad you're going to keep posting videos😍
I really enjoyed watching you walk through and explain everything. Thank you for taking the time. You guys are doing a super good job. Your baby girl is adorable saying hi to Daddy. God bless you and your family!
Thank you!
I appreciate you noticing the hard work that is paying off this year.
God bless you and your loved ones as well.
We are from Srilanka and like your video very much got some ideas for my garden too. All the best 👍👍👍👍❤
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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 your garden looks good
Thanks so much!
Gorgeous garden!
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Great video! Really appreciate your realistic style to gardening! So many gardeners have everything perfect to where its not relatable.
Thank you for noticing that. I appreciate realistic, relatable content myself. The average person needs it.
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New subscriber and I would have loved to see you pull up a potato plant to see the size. I also have way too many trees and an abundance of leaves. This year 3/4 of my 50x50 garden I harvested 135 lbs of potatoes. I also have 4 trellis's. My garden cost me a whopping $33.00 this year. I have put up 40lbs of tomatoes so far and I am sure I am going to pass the 100 lb mark. 12 heirloom plants...seed saved for 33 years!!! The real true heirloom tomatoes that are huge. You are blessed with your beautiful garden. Thanks for sharing!!! It just goes to show you can feed your family for a whole year of produce on very little money. If you seed save....next to nothing. When I see organic 3 lb bag of potatoes for $6.00 it shocks me and assures me I am doing really good. My goal for next year is $15.00 garden because of my seed saving and having a simple grow light system to start my own plants.
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We have looked at a few of the potatoes under the leaves and saw some nice big one. We covered them back up until later.
I will make a potato harvest video in a few weeks - that'll be a fun video since we're experimenting with this growing method.
Sounds like you have a nice setup for growing your own food. Well done!
Thanks for watching.
@@togetherweharvest I am interested in your technique....even though mine works. Mine is back breaking. I am 65 and digging 86 shovel depth holes is getting more difficult each year. Would love to see a potato planting video in the spring if your harvest this year turns out great.
@@togetherweharvest How did your potato harvest go? I piled a LOT of leaves in my garden. I am still going to dig and plant in the ground but I am going to put the leaves back over the top to retain moisture. So I am interested in how yours did? Was it a win or a fail?
I'm sure there are tools to help you dig? @@5GreenAcres
heck yea keep it up
Will do!
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The joy of seeing all this grow and all the nutrition and journeys saved.
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.......nothing more beautiful and heart warming than seeing a dad carry his baby! It reminds me how my Heavenly Father carries me thru this life. Jesus said, I will never leave or forsake you....I AM with you always.
That's a great to be reminded of.
Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful garden!
Thank you!
One of the best garden tours ever!! Don't forget to plant a fall garden 🥰
Definitely in the plans.
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Thank you for this video. I am elderly and started a container garden during the pandemic. I have a granddaughter living with me, and I do feel my garden is big enough for the two of us. I also just plant the stuff that I usually buy, but I feel it is not doing so well. My granddaughter has two chickens, and I never thought of using chicken compost! This year I planted some squash and will have to see how that go. I live in the southern hemisphere and we are going into summer season now. ❤️🌹🐝
Best of luck!
I hope everything you grow does well.
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@@togetherweharvest brother I live in warm climate also. I've always been concerned for chicken manure being "hot" and burning tender plants: So I muck out the chicken area and compost for a couple months BEFORE using on plants. But don't let me be negative: It is easy to overlook you basically feed your chicken from your garden too: Which is a hot idea!! This vid is perfect for me: Really appreciate your hard work.
I love these types of videos. And my small upstate NY garden is all MIgardener seeds with the exception of dollar general flower seeds...lol Keep the videos coming!!! Happy gardening😊
I'm in upstate NY also. Many grand blessings everyone
We have similar growing climates. I live in central WI.
Gotta love the cheap dollar store seeds that produce.
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Mi gardener really is a great option for seeds. I think his did even better than baker Creek for me.
Agreed.
I've heard from other gardeners that the traditional seed companies have been somewhat disappointing the last few years.
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Beautiful garden plots, the broccoli is the prettiest and healthiest I've ever seen from a home garden. It's better looking than even store bought broccoli (& much healthier and tastier too I bet!). Love the repurposed fallen tree limbs, especially the trellis in the 18 foot raised garden bed. Looks sturdy and great way to hold up those big plants. Like how you have mixed varieties of vegetables interplanted with each other.
Thanks for noticing!
We also love the diversity of crops in the same bed. In the future we plan to create more beds like that - with tree limb teepees and crops growing underneath.
We have found it's a great way to utilize space.
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I love your garden. I enjoyed seeing your baby girl' s interaction with you and your garden. Precious
Thank you!
Yes, we love having her in the garden. She’s learned excellent life skills
Brilliant! This is inspiring on so many levels. I have similar access to tons of leaves, wood from the forest, plenty of wood chips, also. I never knew I could grow THAT MUCH in such a small area! Love the I-got-chickens-to-help-my-garden idea. I love the low maintenance aspect as well. You have inspired me to dream again.
I’m pleased to hear I’ve inspired you. Just remember my garden is still far from perfect - I’ll make an end of the season video about the mistakes I’ve made this growing season. But yea, you can grow a ton of food once the infrastructure is setup properly - also another video I plan on making.
Good to know you have lots of leaves. They are absolutely wonderful in the garden.
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Enjoyed the video
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Good job guys 💪 👏 👏 I like the little farm inspector with the little pink hat😅😅😅
Ha, thanks!
She's fun to have out there.
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I just found you on UA-cam today and I've been watching gardening videos on UA-cam for years. Just so happens that my own garden is also 20x40. Perfect fit
Good deal.
It's a great size I've found that is easy to focus on and manage. Never seems to be too much, but also big enough to get a lot of food from.
nice I am learning
Keep it up. I think you'll do great.
Best advice at the end love y’all keep on growin! ❤
Thank you!
A little encouragement can go a long way.
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This is the best moment in this entire video 3:53 😀
Haha, yes!
Amazing! So well done. I also love the 'Hi' from baby 😊
Thank you!
Yes, she's a sweetheart.
Love having her in the garden exploring.
leave the strawberries alone and in two years they will fill that bed and beyond. Juneberries do that, everbearing not as much but will to a lesser extent. I'd let them keep going through the yard! strawberries are awesome
Will we still receive good harvests?
@@togetherweharvest yeah, the harvest will literally double every year and because they get so thick and start growing earlier in the spring than the weeds, they out compete the weeds and you have to do very little weeding if any
Incredible, beautiful garden! 😮❤
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I never thought about trying to grow potatoes in leaves. Thanks for that idea!
Yes! It works really well. We ended up with more potatoes this year than we did when growing traditionally in the ground.
Great video, You've given me a lot of ideas for next year. Definitely doing the potatoes like you demonstrated. I also have a lot of wood chips and use them all the time,
Glad I could help!
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Garden looks great! If you want to prevent deer from getting into the garden, plant cucumbers all along outside perimeter of your fence every 12 inches or so. Cucumber vines are toxic to deer and many other vegetable predators. I am glad your butternut are doing well. They do not typically do well being trellised. Squash have roots at every joint of their vines, so if the main part of the plant dies, the vines will still provide nutrients and water by those rooted joints. I trellis my melons and cucumbers, but not my squash. You can vertical trellis any summer squash like zucchini and yellow straightneck squash because they don't have that rooted joint vining structure. You're right, though, it has been a horrible cucumber year. I've never struggled with cucumbers like I have this season. The tomatoes have been a bit of a struggle as well. They're finally starting to do something. Our season is really short here in Cheyenne WY.
Good tip!
Thankfully, we haven't had any issues with deer (yet).
The butternuts did poorly last year because of what you said, the roots throughout the vine and so forth.
We tried a new type of butternut called Walworth from migardener and they're exceeded our expectations.
We have a short season here too, being in Wisconsin - timing is important.
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The deer strip the leaves off my cucumber and pumpkins every time they get into my yard🤔
@@BellatrixLove weird mutant deer with steel stomachs.
@@BellatrixLove "Deer resistant vegetables in the nightshade family include tomatoes and tomatillos, potatoes, eggplant, and some peppers. Other plants toxic to deer : Rhubarb and cucumber leaf are toxic to deer."
I really wish this was true. Unfortunately deer absolutely do eat nightshade vegetables Especially tomatoes. This theory about deer not eating these plants is absurd. I have been gardening and for many years and there are Very few plants deer will not eat! I have seen them jump 8 ft fences and demolish all the plants you have mentioned!
Your inspector definitely enjoys the garden.
haha yes she does! It's a pleasure to have her with me.
You can regrow celery from the original stalk after use . Guarantee a new plant will form.
Yup - that's right.
What a beautiful garden! Everything looks so healthy. Thank you for sharing! This is my first year trying to grow more than cucumbers and sweet potatoes. I'm in zone 8a Georgia and it's been difficult keeping everything alive with the heat. The sun is the only thing growing around here. 😂 The heat index is supposed to be 110 today. In addition, I don't have any trees in my yards, not even one, for shade.
Thank you for your kind words of encouragement.
I always think that growing in the south would be easier than here in WI, because of the longer growing season in comparison.
However, I often forget about the heat you all deal with down there. I can see how we all have our struggles!
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use shade cloth friend
thankyou you have given me so many great ideas for my vegetable garden ,keep growing great job
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Zucchini chocolate cake freezes very well. Yum
That sounds really good
Great looking garden! Really enjoyed this video! 😃
Thank you!
subbed today, stop by and say hi!! i have new content in process, thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you.
I'll check out your channel soon!
Thoroughly enjoyed this!!! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love this ❤
Thank you! I appreciate you watching.
Very informative, well documented.
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Love your video! Your vegetable garden is a delight as is your narration. Very inspirational. Thank you so much! 🙂 Liked! Subscribed! Shared! 😀
Thank you!
I appreciate that.
Love this
Thank you!
Your celery looks great. I think we should try it. I was afraid we were too far north. We've set up six raised beds to make gardening easier as we get older. Adding raspberries this year. Blackberries here have produced very well. Enjoying ground cherries last few years too. We eat them fresh from the garden and they are great to mix with other fruit when making jam or pie. I really enjoy your video. Your enthusiasm is wonderful. We've grown a lot more flowers in the last few years. It's great to bring in pollinators and it's really nice to have flowers to cut for gifts and bring into the house. We learn something new every year. Gardening-A hobby bringing health and joy!
Yes, they turned out well. Did you see my celery harvest video?
Ground cherries, huh? Tell me about those. I'm interested!
What zone are you in? Being too far north should hurt your celery chances, as long as you start them early indoors.
We're now in Zone 6a. I just found you on UA-cam. I'll look for your celery video. Ground cherries look like small tomatillos. They taste a bit citrus like, also a bit like pineapple when fully ripe. In some parts of the country they are considered invasive as they are rampant re-seeders. I planted too many the first few years. Two plants in large pots were plenty last summer. If planting a row, it is helpful to plant surrounded by a landscape fabric to keep the fruit clean and reduce self-seeding by making clean up easier at the end of the season. Kids love harvesting and eating them. They are called ground cherries because you harvest when they fall to the ground. Best eaten raw, baked into a pue or cake, or made into jam. I like it mixed with other fruit best. Easy to grow.
Woot woot! Hi Kevin and Sarah! Love your show! Definitely interested in getting started and learning to freeze dry foods! God Bless y’all
Freeze drying would be a good skill to learn.
I'm glad you enjoy watching our channel!
We feel encouraged with comments like yours.
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I ❤️ your beautiful and productive garden. Looking forward to see more videos . Good job 👏👍
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I dried and crushed my broccoli leaves, then added them to sauces, main meals, and no one knew, they couldn't taste them, and they got the health benefits. No fuss eating!!😊
That’s a good idea. Most people would never think of that
True. It does work. Hope you give it a try too, but shhĥ, mums the word when it comes to those who are finicky. 😊 thanks for your comment!
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
Naic ❤
I’d like to see a video on how you preserve all that! Thank you for this video. Your gardens look great!
Here's the thing...
We only can tomatoes (sauce) and pickles. Everything that can get frozen, we freeze - carrots, green beans, celery, etc.
The potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash and onions get put into cold storage.
We heat our house with a main floor wood stove. Our basement is not heated so storage the cold storage items works well.
So for a video, you'd see us just putting things on shelves and in the freezer. Not terribly exciting.
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Very beautiful thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome!
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awesome....bless you and your family!
Thank you! You too!
Potatoes are very resilient lol. I’ve got potatoes that were meant to be composted, instead growing out of the air holes in my compost bin. I just let ‘em grow. Curious to see how many potatoes I’ll get
Quite a few.
Hopefully you end up with many. Depends on their access to sunlight as well. I'm assuming your compost has good sun access.
We have some volunteer potatoes growing in a shaded area where the chickens used to be and they may not do well.
Me too! Mine were moldy in the fridge but they are thriving in my “not meant to be a compost pile” pile 😂
Awesome setup! I'm on year 2 and still brainstorming. Never stop learning!
Thank you!
Hopefully you've gathered a few ideas that will help you.
exactly!! I'm on year 19 and learning! This is the first year I planted Roma Tomatoes determinate, as I had always gone with interminate: So glad I "learn" that as I had my best year for tomatoes -ever- just on that change! Best wishes to you.
New subscriber. Looking forward to your journey and channel. God Bless you all and many prayers. Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister ☦️ 🙏🏻
I stumbled upon your channel and let me tell ya, I am impressed! I’m gonna have a 30 by 35 garden soon. You have given me some ideas on how to do it. I’m subscribing right now! Thanks for sharing💚
Welcome aboard!
Let me now how things go moving forward.
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Beautiful garden arrangement, love your video..wish you success and be healthy always
Thank you so much and God bless!
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@@togetherweharvest you're welcome
Loved the tour of your garden. Everything looks great.
Thanks so much! It took a few years, but we finally 'got there'. Still many improvements for the future.
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Thank you for this video
My pleasure
Just found your channel and watched this. Man you have got lots
I know some hasn’t worked out but I heard that even good gardeners have problems so all gardeners have problems in my book. But I see it that if 50% or more does good in the first few years then you are doing well.
I believe about 80% + in your garden. As the volunteer crops boost the ones that didn’t take.
Also I believe we are always learning. And every little step that isn’t what you want you can change next year. Take what works and keep that then tweak what doesn’t then each year you should do better. But remember you have an idea outcome but pests, diseases, and weather play a huge factor in what your outcome will be. These are things you can’t change…. So have to work with or against.
Well done on all you have done.
Hope to look forward to more .
Thank you.
It's encouraging to know that sometimes 50-80% can be expected. Yes, pests, disease and weather are critical factors that we can't always control.
The learning process is all part of the fun in my opinion.
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@@togetherweharvest yea I love to learn and learn what grows well in my garden. As all climates are different.
New subscriber here! I love how you thought this all out and set it up. I am learning more every day. I began my first garden last year. It was one raised bed that was 4' by 12'. I am 66 years old. I didn't even know If I could make a garden. But it grew. I got a few tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and green tails. And a very few peppers, which were not at all how I wanted them. I couldn't have a garden this year due to Achilles tendon surgery, but I plan to have a fall garden. Last fall I planted collards, but because I couldn't walk to tend them, they were severely eaten by bugs. I hope to overwinter them and do better next year. 😊❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Thank you for your hard work in creating these videos! I have much to learn! Like how to re-claim a severely weedy, bug infested garden. 😅 I love my garden. ❤
Thanks for subscribing. It took 3-5 years of setting things up, moving them around, taking things down, etc to come up with this design. Thanks for noticing and watching the video.
Sounds like you have a good starting point for your garden going forward, regardless of the size.
Don't stop brother you can do it!! There years ago, gophers wiped me out, especially my beautiful potatoes. They ate everything I had planted, when it was nearly ripe for the harvest!! I was so discouraged. Now I do everything in containers!!! I am not giving up from a bunch of gophers!! Best wishes and good recovery on your surgury. I'm 65. We still have alot to give our world. Best!
Very well done!!!
Thank you!
Amen my brother
Wonderful presentation. I’ve been an apartment dweller in Brooklyn, NY for over two decades. I have always wanted to grow things on my own, even if it was just on my window sill. My wife and daughters love plants but for some reason or another they don’t thrive indoors. I follow Epic Gardening’s channel as well. I really like your narration and garden advice. Blessings for a fruitful harvest.
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Epic Gardening channel is full of great tips and advice as I'm sure you're aware!
Maybe check out the garden stalk. It’s a vertical planter system that can be used by people with apartments.
For things like cucumber and tomato that can easily get diseases due to heat stress, try doing a shade cloth cover over them . The only thing you will have to build for it is a small support frame with PVC or whatever you have handy. It will really help. 40% is probably adequate)
Good advice.
I have never had an issue with heat stress on the tomatoes (yet).
That's a good thing to look into for sure. It's the first year this has happened with the cucumbers too, which has me even more puzzled. We live in WI, zone 4b so we don't get 'too hot', at least not compared to most places.
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@@togetherweharvest yes, but your cukes look so delicious!! I never thought to grow them expressly for pickles!! Will you ship me a jar to CA??? hehehehe. Cukes are so great for chickens too right? I love them and eat them sliced up with onions and vinegar. Yummy!
Great garden. Loved it ❤
Thanks for visiting.
A really beautiful farm, thank you for the tour. I have been mulching parts of my soil with dry leaves but I found that these mulched spots became a breeding ground for the german cockroach. Any suggestions?
Thank you!
Are you using mulched leaves from a lawnmower bagger or straight from the ground?
@@togetherweharvest does it matter? I mulch leaves straight from the ground....
Just saw your garden in my news feed. Very nice use of the space. I have the same size garden and you have given me some ideas on what to do next year. I noticed how well your 8 cabbages are doing in the raised bed. Any issues with worms on them or do you cover them also? Do you use any type of fertilizer to feed your plants? Thanks for sharing your space.
No fertilizer at all. We added liquid fish fertilizer in the past, before we using our chicken compost.
The 8 cabbages only had a few worms for some reason. Normally they have more so we were lucky this year. I picked the worms off and so far they've been growing well.
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Beautiful garden. Great job!
Thank you!
GREAT!!!!!!! video!❤
Very inspiring!
Thank you so much!
What growing zone are you in? My gargen is about 10x20 this year but plan on expanding a little each year! Looks great
Centrail WI - zone 4b. Good idea with expanding your garden. Definately worth it!
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@@togetherweharvest I had the same question. Maybe think about adding it to your channel description - I looked there before grubbing around in the comments.
Inspiring. I’m from so cal. I wonder how much water you use. What kind of climate do you have? Great work 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
We hardly use any water. We live in central Wisconsin and receive rain throughout the summer. If we go 6-7 days without rain, I'll water the garden.
With the plants growing so close together combined with the leaf mulch, watering isn't much of an issue.
The crops I water the most are the potatoes in grow bags and the celery.
The zucchini plant in that pot also needs more watering than the rest of the garden.