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!
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.
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.
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. Thanks for watching!
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!!😊
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. 😊
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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 :).
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. Thanks for watching! Weekly videos going forward.
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. 😭
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!
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. Thanks for watching!
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. Thanks for watching. Weekly videos going forward.
@@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.
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
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
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.
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.
Your garden is a beautiful testament to nature’s freshness and abundance. I can completely relate to the joy of bringing fresh harvests to the table-it truly is one of the most rewarding feelings. I’ve been growing vegetables for a while too. Managing weeds is another tough hurdle, especially without a weed barrier, as I’ve learned firsthand. It takes a lot of dedication and hard work, but the results are always worth it. Your trellises for gourds and cucumbers are fantastic! I’ve been growing bottle gourd, bitter melon, and luffa, and they all require large, sturdy trellises as well. Wishing you an abundant harvest and continued success with your garden!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the garden, and I appreciate you noticing the effort put into the trellises. To manage weeds, we use cardboard for the walking paths and mulch heavily with leaf mulch on the soil. It's actually really easy and involves minimal effort.
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!
I harvest celery stalks all summer and freeze or dehydrate them. Just a few plants give me tons of celery because the plant keeps sending up more shoots all season.
Finally a channel that I think can help me. So many are in ideal growing zones. We are in a zone 5a and we have a short growing season with temps in the summer often 100°+. Can't wait to watch more of your 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!
I till, then water for about a month every other day for about five minutes after planting,once like june 20th hits watering stops. i weed for about 20 minutes over the week in a traditional in the ground garden. As long as you do a little every day or every other harvesting and preserving quickly become the most difficult part
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.
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. Thanks for watching and commenting.
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. ❤️🌹🐝
@@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.
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.
Thanks for subscribing! 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 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.
I took the bottom part of celery stalk Put into a bowl of water Put in the window It did its own thing started shoots Then I planted them So much fun to see something you've grown Thank you For this video Love the insightful information
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. Thanks for watching!
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,
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.
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. Thanks for watching! Weekly videos going forward.
@@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!
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.
There is no need for a new celery plant every week. Harvest the outer stalks all season long. They will keep growing from the inside. They freeze well. No blanching, just spread cut celery onto cookie sheet before freezing, like you would for berries. Not for salads but good on stirfries, soups and stews.
I realize that. We want a big harvest at the end of the season so we can pull out a celery plant each week from the freezer. Celery grows really slow. If we were to wait to harvest the outer stalks, that would take months just to get to that point. We don't grow celery to eat fresh from the garden. It is used as an ingredient for recipes to be incorporated into our meals.
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😊
We have similar growing climates. I live in central WI. Gotta love the cheap dollar store seeds that produce. We plan on creating weekly videos going forward. Thank you so much for supporting this channel.
New subscriber. Looking forward to your journey and channel. God Bless you all and many prayers. Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister ☦️ 🙏🏻
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.
Agreed. I've heard from other gardeners that the traditional seed companies have been somewhat disappointing the last few years. Thanks for watching! Weekly videos going forward.
Wow! What a very nice and organized garden. Enjoyed every minute of your video as I'm planting my seeds for this year. One thing I took away from your content is that after 20 years of gardening, I need to step up my game in organizing my space. I started gardening as a self imposed therapy; and to provide fresh food to my family after our first child. Fast forward, now our children are grown and out the house. One thing you can count on is your child will always remember time spent with you gardening and an appreciation of quality food.
I'm glad you like the garden. Always making improvements. I'm looting forward to having conversations with my children once they're older, about time spent growing our food. Thanks for watching!
.......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.
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.
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. Thanks for watching! Weekly videos going forward.
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.
I did not do a great job clarifying why we grow them all at once. We use celery in soups, stir fry, etc. We grow 52 plants so that we can freeze all 52 plants after harvest. Each week, we take out one package of celery to use in our meals.
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. Thanks for watching.
This is a great video. I have been gardening for many years, and watch some gardening videos for new or different ideas. This is great. Watched it all the way through and got many ideas.
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.
So I love that you covered the broccoli from the moths. but does that stop the bees from getting in during the flowering? I'd like to know more about that. I have trouble with that whole group of plants every year getting eaten. thank you.
That's a great question. I don't really know the answer. I do know that our broccoli and cabbage turned out great. The more I look at the netting setup, the more I see it as protection from herbivores more so than moths.
You can use the strawberry runners and plant them in your vege garden to act as a cover crop, helping retain moisture in your beds through the house months, plus you will get more strawberries.
@@togetherweharvest No worries! It's all about keeping that top layer moisture in. If you have fruit trees, a ring of comfrey around the trunk will do similar, plus you get free fertilizer when you chop it.
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! Thanks for watching! Weekly videos going forward.
Freeze drying would be a good skill to learn. I'm glad you enjoy watching our channel! We feel encouraged with comments like yours. Thanks for watching!
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.
Thanks for watching.
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.
Thanks for watching
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.
Thanks for watching!!
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.
Thanks for watching!
That is what the creator wanted all along.
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!
I would put the dried leaves in the blender and keep the powder
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.
Thanks for watching!
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'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!!
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
I also daydream about garden layout at work😊
Mine was 24 x 48 and it is nice to see that is almost the same size. Thanks for the confirmation
Great to see young people gardening and growing their own food. It is so important to try to be self-sufficient especially with the world going crazy.
Agreed.
Teach someone to grow food and they be fed for a lifetime.
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.
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.
Thanks for watching.
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.
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!
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. 😭
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 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.
Wow.... what a paradise!!!!
Thank you!
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.
omg, when she opened her arms to hug dad...i lost it! so cute!
haha yea...she's adorable. Great to have her being apart of the food growing process.
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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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!
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.
Your garden is a beautiful testament to nature’s freshness and abundance. I can completely relate to the joy of bringing fresh harvests to the table-it truly is one of the most rewarding feelings. I’ve been growing vegetables for a while too.
Managing weeds is another tough hurdle, especially without a weed barrier, as I’ve learned firsthand. It takes a lot of dedication and hard work, but the results are always worth it.
Your trellises for gourds and cucumbers are fantastic! I’ve been growing bottle gourd, bitter melon, and luffa, and they all require large, sturdy trellises as well. Wishing you an abundant harvest and continued success with your garden!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the garden, and I appreciate you noticing the effort put into the trellises.
To manage weeds, we use cardboard for the walking paths and mulch heavily with leaf mulch on the soil. It's actually really easy and involves minimal effort.
Brother, what an amazing garden you have! Great use of space; abundance out the wazoo; really well done! Blessings, Jim
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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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I am starting cold weather veggie plants today from seed inside
Oh really?
What zone are you in?
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 harvest celery stalks all summer and freeze or dehydrate them. Just a few plants give me tons of celery because the plant keeps sending up more shoots all season.
What zone are you in?
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😍
00:50 - Your explanation on soil quality is spot on. So important for healthy plants! 🌍
Thank you for noticing.
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. ❤
Matthew 6:5
Finally a channel that I think can help me. So many are in ideal growing zones. We are in a zone 5a and we have a short growing season with temps in the summer often 100°+. Can't wait to watch more of your videos.
Glad I can help you.
So inspirational tbh. I’m daydreaming about garden layouts while at work.
Thanks.
It is fun to think about garden designs for sure.
Go be creative!
This is exactly what I'm going to do. What a great garden and a great way to live.
Thank you!
Keep me updated on how it goes.
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.
I till, then water for about a month every other day for about five minutes after planting,once like june 20th hits watering stops. i weed for about 20 minutes over the week in a traditional in the ground garden. As long as you do a little every day or every other harvesting and preserving quickly become the most difficult part
Many ways to have success growing your own food. Thanks for watching.
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.
Absolutely beautiful!!! Such an enjoyable tour!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love around the 2:50 mark or so, this little pink hat comes strolling through the garden as you are speaking. I can hear humming. lol It soo cute.
Thanks for mentioning that. It's a pleasure having the little one around out there.
Your garden is absolutely stunning! Loved this tour! 🙌🍅
Thanks so much!
I'm in zone 5a. I put my small potatoes right bk in the ground & let them set over winter
That’s a good idea.
Do you find you harvest just as many that way?
I am zone 5b. I will try that!
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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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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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.
Cattle panels are a heaven send. 👍👍 nice job.
For sure!
I'm thinking to use some for a winter chicken run. It'll be a little green house for them to warm up in during the colder months.
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!
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@@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
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.
We are from Srilanka and like your video very much got some ideas for my garden too. All the best 👍👍👍👍❤
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I took the bottom part of celery stalk
Put into a bowl of water
Put in the window
It did its own thing started shoots
Then I planted them
So much fun to see something you've grown
Thank you
For this video
Love the insightful information
Good advice with the celery. That could be easier than growing from seed.
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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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The joy of seeing all this grow and all the nutrition and journeys saved.
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One of the best garden tours ever!! Don't forget to plant a fall garden 🥰
Definitely in the plans.
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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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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.
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!
I admire how well-researched and informative your content is-it's clear a lot of effort goes into each video.
Thank you! I appreciate you noticing the time, work and effort.
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.
There is no need for a new celery plant every week. Harvest the outer stalks all season long. They will keep growing from the inside. They freeze well. No blanching, just spread cut celery onto cookie sheet before freezing, like you would for berries. Not for salads but good on stirfries, soups and stews.
I realize that. We want a big harvest at the end of the season so we can pull out a celery plant each week from the freezer. Celery grows really slow. If we were to wait to harvest the outer stalks, that would take months just to get to that point.
We don't grow celery to eat fresh from the garden. It is used as an ingredient for recipes to be incorporated into our meals.
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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New subscriber. Looking forward to your journey and channel. God Bless you all and many prayers. Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister ☦️ 🙏🏻
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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!
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1:30 mins into the video already subbed! Great job 👏
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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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This year I hope I get a more serious garden going . So I’m watching for pointers. Thanks
I hope this video helps you on your garden journey!
If I can do it, anyone can
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.
Really nice and well kept garden. Everything is lush and beautiful. ❤
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I'm glad you like it.
thankyou you have given me so many great ideas for my vegetable garden ,keep growing great job
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XSo good to see a gardener that succeeds,enjoying what nature gives him back!
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Wow! What a very nice and organized garden. Enjoyed every minute of your video as I'm planting my seeds for this year.
One thing I took away from your content is that after 20 years of gardening, I need to step up my game in organizing my space.
I started gardening as a self imposed therapy; and to provide fresh food to my family after our first child.
Fast forward, now our children are grown and out the house. One thing you can count on is your child will always remember time spent with you gardening and an appreciation of quality food.
I'm glad you like the garden. Always making improvements. I'm looting forward to having conversations with my children once they're older, about time spent growing our food.
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Over a million views shows how much people are concerned about having access to food…
Couldn’t agree more.
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.
Beautiful garden!
Thank you!
.......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.
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Your inspector definitely enjoys the garden.
haha yes she does! It's a pleasure to have her with me.
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.
Nice job. You show how to make it less labor intensive, and that it's always good to experiment.
Yes, efficiency is key. I call this my 10 minute garden.
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.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 your garden looks good
Thanks so much!
I think she's ready for her close up.Just love it when the kids just get into the video without you asking them to 😊
Definitely! She's a ball to have around while filming!
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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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.
I did not do a great job clarifying why we grow them all at once. We use celery in soups, stir fry, etc. We grow 52 plants so that we can freeze all 52 plants after harvest. Each week, we take out one package of celery to use in our meals.
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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This is a great video. I have been gardening for many years, and watch some gardening videos for new or different ideas. This is great. Watched it all the way through and got many ideas.
Thank you.
I appreciate your open-mindedness.
Dad: *showing garden*
Daughter:
*minding her business in the garden* hehehe…hehe…hehe
-5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great content!!!
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Amazing! So well done. I also love the 'Hi' from baby 😊
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Yes, she's a sweetheart.
Love having her in the garden exploring.
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.
So I love that you covered the broccoli from the moths. but does that stop the bees from getting in during the flowering? I'd like to know more about that. I have trouble with that whole group of plants every year getting eaten. thank you.
That's a great question.
I don't really know the answer. I do know that our broccoli and cabbage turned out great. The more I look at the netting setup, the more I see it as protection from herbivores more so than moths.
Beautiful garden arrangement, love your video..wish you success and be healthy always
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wow, your squash and tomatoes are so big. You are very good at farming ❤
thank you. They tasted good too
I ❤️ your beautiful and productive garden. Looking forward to see more videos . Good job 👏👍
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You can use the strawberry runners and plant them in your vege garden to act as a cover crop, helping retain moisture in your beds through the house months, plus you will get more strawberries.
That’s a good idea.
Thank you
@@togetherweharvest No worries! It's all about keeping that top layer moisture in.
If you have fruit trees, a ring of comfrey around the trunk will do similar, plus you get free fertilizer when you chop it.
Very informative, well documented.
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We buy celery from grocery store cut at base set in ground. Gives us beautiful celery and seeds for seasonings.
That’s a good idea.
Incredible, beautiful garden! 😮❤
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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
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!
Thanks for watching!
Weekly videos going forward.
use shade cloth friend
Good job guys 💪 👏 👏 I like the little farm inspector with the little pink hat😅😅😅
Ha, thanks!
She's fun to have out there.
Thanks for watching.
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.
Thanks for watching!
I like your style
Thanks