Mulch would work well in the beds over winter.
I used an old hose that was no longer usable, I cut sections 6" long, then split them down the middle, they are nice and tight fitting, they just slide on the side of anything even plumbers pipe. Iused them to hold shade cloth,I will use them for frost covers now. Love the re-use of something that was garbage. Plus! It will never rust or break
That is a beautiful sight !! Blue skies, covered raisebeds, and beautiful Missouri land💝💝
Another great video. Watching you plant the mulberry trees made me smile. We have a photo of my great grandmother planting a mulberry tree in the front yard of this house the year it was built...1899. The tree still produces berries every year.
It is so wonderful to watch a channel that shows true homesteaders doing what homesteaders do on a regular basis. You work together so well. Your lives show your love for God. I’m so happy for your accomplishments and rewards.❤
Love seeing how well you two work together! A perfect team! Many blessings your way! Thank you for sharing with us! Enjoy learning from you.
Hello you two, it's a pleasure to watch your vlog, it's very good and meaningful in growing agricultural crops, the tomatoes are very beautiful red, a very meaningful video in growing, wish you both the best of luck.
Hello Duong, nice to meet you here. Haven't seen you make a video in a long time
Nice to meet you here, I think you can apply this method to grow some vegetables for your farm
HI Sarah and Kevin. Yes farm work is hard work, but the fruits of your labor is worth it all. If you two keep all that going until my age (75) you will begin to realize as I do that you did yourselves well because your health will so much better. Honestly, I couldn't even begin to buy the quality of food that we eat. I am facing having to cut back a little at a time. I have a very messed up spine due to the drugs my Dr's gave me (Steroids) for MS for over 10 years. While you are doing all you are doing there you need to be looking ahead to make your old age easier for yourself. Jessie from Arkansas
What a beautiful piece of land tended by hardworking caretakers! Jobs well done indeed!
Good morning Kevin, Sarah, and LT friends🌄☺🍁🍂 Your new garden setup is beautiful! With being in our 60's, we are looking at doing more raised beds.
Our frost date was 9.15. And the frost came almost a month late this year. The weather has been just plain weird. This has been two dry summers in a row for us.
I parted out my first whole hog by myself last week. And finished in one day! Made my first batch of Scrapple last night with all the bits of meat from the bones after making broth, and cooked the head too. Did the German version using oats instead of cornmeal. They traditionally call it Goetz(pronounced "gritz".) Made 15lbs of pork sausage using the same spice mix company you do(used mix #7), and loved it, so every bit of the pig is being used.
Now to get venison into the freezer! God bless and take care🦌🍁🍂
I was wondering if you were going to cover them. I actually use the woven ground cover in my beds and burnt holes in it as you did for your inground beds. It was awesome, hardly a weed! I used the cover and landscape staples in my bed. Will continue to do this again going forward. I feel the soil does not get as beat up from the sun and rain as much. My soil looks amazing. Next year i will pull back add ammendments and top off as needed. Thanks for sharing your journey.
Mulberries are my favorite berry. Here in AZ, they were planted in the 50's everywhere. Yum. Every subdivision had them planted. With blue mouths close to dinner time, it was always "no mom, we weren't eating them" Haha good memories! Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister ❤❤
Your garden is going to be so beautiful! I love the raised beds. Great video as always! 👍🏻❤️
Great job Kevin and Sarah, glad you got the Mulberry Trees planted and the herbs moved. The weedless cover looks good too. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred.
You two are pretty much perfect in everything you do. I love the way you explain things and then get on with the project in part in real time then when we get it, you move on with speeding up slowly to finish and the music as you work is and extra blessing! I mean everything in the kitchen and outside. Thank you so much!
Your plants in the greenhouse look great. Binder clips to hold the weed fabric was a good idea. The ducks will definitely like the mulberry trees too. Great video
Boy! You two think of everything (in regard to the mulberry trees). I am totally amazed with you two. Love you two!
Great tasks completed. You all are so inspiring in how you think and plan out projects. All the best to you all. God Bless!
If you ever do want to grow trees inside Waddlesville, you could make a 4 sided cage around them with pallets. A big Mennonite farm near here in NW Missouri does this in pastures where they have animals. I have read hundreds of pioneer memoirs and I remember in one of them, the family was planting hundreds of mulberry trees. I was so amazed. I believe they planted different types.
We drain our water sprinklers after we our done don’t have to take them out we connect air hoes to it and let the air compressor blow the excess water out and dry the pipe out then put foam grips that goes around pipes then cap ends off to keep real small animals like bee’s an wasp exc . We let the air compressor run for about 1 or 2 hours to dry pipes . Saves us for next year to drag all the hoses back out get them in line. When we already have them set right beside the above ground beds already . .Love those big veggie beds awesome. You planning to put another big green house over the big tubs?
FREE THE SHADECLOTH! LOL. When Kevin said that at 14:24 I had to chuckle. Hello from my homestead in northwest Florida, I'm hoping to be able to get a high tunnel next year, I said that last year but this year flew by with so many projects I have going on that sort of went on backburner.
Dual purpose to your raised beds with dark cover is warmer beds in the spring. Enjoy watching you two work together.
Farmers work hard! Thank you for your hard work and all your information! God bless you!❤😂❤
Hope there is enough room between the fence and tree for lawn mower to fit over the years.
Thank you both for blessing all of us with your desire to expose the daily grind experience.
Your raised beds looks awesome . God bless you two
I love your channel. You sincerely make me believe I could do this at 60. You work so well together and have such a feeling of kindness and genuine desire to share your knowledge to help others. Thank you for creating content that is enjoyable to watch and provides helpful information. God Bless.
I just pulled my tomato plants and gathered as many tomatoes as I could. We usually have colder weather here in southern Alberta by this time of year. Nice to have a longer growing season!
Thank you Kevin & Sarah. Lets go home soon ! Prayers. God Bless you all in Love. Maranatha !
The only thing silk worms eat is mulberry leafs. Maybe it's another adventure you can venture to :)
The plants inn the greenhouse are still looking great. The mulberry trees are going to do great. God's blessings
The views from your farm are just amazing
When I was a kid we had a mulberry tree in our yard, we built a fort in it. One year we decided we wanted to make mulberry "coolaid" so we picked a bunch of berries, put them in a pitcher with some sugar and water and put it in the fridge. Well, after a while that "coolaid" was not legal for us kids to drink, but mom liked it ! 😂
Good job tucking in the beds for winter!!!!
That’s just perfect looks nice and neat perfect look ,good job you guys
Hi LTH, y’all have made so many changes, I have not stopped by for a minute, pls forgive me. But I love what you’re doing with your new way of planting your garden 🪴 in raised beds. I love it, can’t wait to see the beauty of it. God bless y’all.
Enjoyed the video. Loved seeing the chickens in the background kind of checking to see what you were up to.
I thought you were going to do a cover crop in the beds to start making mulch for next spring’s plants. Yes, love those lips for everything! 😊 I’m cooking up the surprise zucchini I found in the garden making zucchini bread while watching. Thank you for taking us all along! ❤
Great job, guys!! God's blessing over you and your family
We had a mild frost in Northern Illinois, unfortunately things die in the winter in a greenhouse unless you heat it- mine is now a chicken run in the winter. Bought myself a grow tower for the winter months that I can grow in the house.
Your production in your greenhouse is incredible! Great job 🎉
Here in Chicago, we haven't had a frost yet, but I'm pretty much done with my two tomato plants.
I just harvested the last of my spearmint and will do the basil tomorrow.
Miss your pigs. Enjoyed today's video.
You sure MAKE me want some of these beds. I have it on a wish list along with irrigation for a very tiny garden but it is so nice to see you all enjoying them and inspiring me!
I have been watching y’all for years!! Since you first started posting vlogs on UA-cam at your old place. I have seen y’all come from your one milking cow and I can’t remember her name right now but yes. Been watching. I think y’all are amazing at what you’re doing! It’s been at least 4 years I have been watching you. So I wanted to say thank you for all your videos and y’all used to cook in the kitchen a lot. I remember the bread and pizza dough and canning etc. loved every bit. Can y’all do more of that too? Not wanting you to go out of what your ability is. But those videos were great. The cooking ones. Your one grown things and foods you made with them for the family. I know your kids were younger and your priorities were meals for your family. But I loved it. Now they are almost all grown. My daughter just went to college and I am the empty nester too. But right with you there. I just don’t have a farm so love watching yours. I am a respiratory therapist. Won’t ever have a farm. But we have tried the huge buckets or pots for tomatoes and next year trying potatoes. Thank you because you have given hope to many families!!
Good solution for weed seed problem. I have a small backyard container garden, now taken down. I stack my containers and put newspaper around any exposed soil. Then the top container gets a thick layer of paper over it to keep the weeds out. If I notice the paper breaking down too early I just add more. It has worked well for me .
How are your folks doing? And your daughters? ❤❤❤❤Nurse Judi in AZ and E Minister
As you are waiting for your first frost, we are having our first snow tonight. We also have a really short growing season. I did manage to grow enough tomatoes for a couple of dinners and am trying to over winter the basil. I do have two kinds of chives in the ground, and that was it for this year. You two are such an inspiration! Thank you.
🤯binder clips! Your a genius and you reminded me of Maryann from Gilligan's Island, with your braid & hat. Why work out when you can just work hard. Inspired
Just a suggestion
I would use an oscillator sprinkler.
2 or 3 spaced would shoot all the way across your raised beds.
Better than the back and forth weave sprinkler.
It all depends on your water pressure.
We enjoy your videos.
🌳Beautiful little trees! Will be so exciting to watch grow up especially if you stay on UA-cam. Looking forward to see the growth in your entire garden. Take care. ❇❇❇
That wiggle wire is a genius idea!!!
Good morning! Have a lovely day! 🌸
Hello Kiddo's good job'''''' the old Marine Homestead God Bless
Good evening! Great idea to cover raised beds! Live that green house is still producing
Looking forward to see your raise bed garden in 2024.
Smart idea of tree location. I think you have a perfect plan.
❤ Amen to a Beautiful life!
My daughter's property came with a giant mulberry tree. We let my chickens free range on her property, and they practically turned purple from them eating the mulberries that fell from that tree. So i can pretty much guarantee that the chickens and ducks will compete for the mulberries. They are delicious too.
Job well done guys.😊
Shade cloth and woven ground cover... two best friends of every grower! We use both virtually every day.
Good morning guys! Happy Autumn🍁🍁🍁🍁
I have used the large size binder clips in my garden for about 6 years. They clip easily to the pvc pipe and garden stakes to hold either shade cloth or plastic covers. Some are rusted and scrody but still work great. You can roast up some of those red peppers and tomatoes and make a batch of delicious roasted tomato and red pepper soup then freeze dry it. The flavor is amazing.
Love your! Please share cooking videos of your Chipotle pepers and such!❤
Funny thing is that while Kevin was talking about putting weed fabric over top of the raised beds and was musing over options to secure it, my first thought was the binder clips.
The herbs will be so pretty in the raised bed garden
Oh my gosh, I literally smelled duck poo when you were digging and planting your trees 🤣😂🤣. I love watching you two work together on all of your projects ❤
You can tell you tqo have worked out a rhythm of doing these through the years.
Exciting! ~Sharon from Florida
Job well done! Looking good!
Love the beds. So awesome so still have veggies that taste good this time of year!
What a clever idea!
Loved seeing you both today. I love to see what's happening in Waddlesville. God Bless you both!
You guys always have great ideas. Love it.
Mulberries bring back memories from childhood. My sister had silkworms that lived under her bed as everyone knows they eat mulberry leaves. Well she lost interest in them and stopped feeding them and the smell was disgusting. Poor things. I am still amazed that mum actually allowed them in the house. The greenhouse looks fantastic. We are so lucky in South East Queensland Australia being able to grow produce all year round in our gardens outdoors. I have a greenhouse but a tiny one 14ft by 8 ft. We are heading for long hot dry summer, I am very grateful for two 5000 litre tanks full of water for my gardens.
Be aware that the binder clips will rust over the winter and could cause rust drips on your new raised beds. I wonder if you could use the black top cap for the edges instead? Or perhaps some fish tank tubing cut with a slit into one side as a fastener?
Well done!~
Everything looks great. One of these days I will be able to buy a green house.
Thank you for sharing your story
Can you show us how to take the sucker branches from a tomato plant and start them in a pot?
Lol.. I use binder clips outside all the time. They work great!
I love your lifestyle and I love your videos. I am doing raised bed gardening. Thanks for your advice.
Good day, on the front range of colorado we have had our first freeze. Tomorrow night we might get our first snow. I still have potted tomatoes plants that I am moving in and out of my place. Still have fruit on all my plants. Have a fantastic day. Fantastic video.
Ahhh the binder clips - I use those things for all kinds of projects. That's what holds the plastic sheet on the gable end of my plant house (6'x6') to the roof tarp and it withstood some 60-70 mph wind last December here in Burlington VT. I'm enjoying your growing-in-pots project and I have had some success - this summer was the first I've tried growing from seeds and I had pretty good tomato success.. I also grew 5 tiny tomato plants and they are still making Pea size tomatoes. They are quite good - like little juicy jewels on a salad. They were Baker Creek spoon tomatoes. You guys have been such a help with my attempts to grow things.
Persimmons are SPOONS! Haven't seen wooly worms yet, nor wild rabbits - I find those signs from the animals are so accurate indications.
I am a born Missourian, and I often disagree with how ppl say "here the weather is..." Because in the past I have seen it so extreme. 1973, 1978, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 we had record blizzards. LMBO, of course I was stuck having babies 2 of those years.
You 2 have had wonderful harvests for everything except potatoes. I'm a lazy farmer & my potatoes always flourished, maybe that's what they like.
Blessings to u & family
Also wondering how the outdoor quail pen worked out ?😊
Do you ever make sweet pickled green tomatoes and onions( with spices)? My grandmother canned them every year at the end of the season with all the green, orange and red tomatoes still on her plants! It was delicious! God Bless! ( Can't wait to see your new raised garden beds outdoors!)
‘ Great video 🤗❤️
Throw a couple magnets in the basket, so if the remaining clips get knocked over, they stay together.
I love how your potted herbs look in the raised bed area...so pretty.
I think u can plant there with that blessed cover that all the people use for their plants . Just burn a hole for each plant!😊
🙏🙏🙏🙂♥️👍. I love my raised beds.
In KY no one's tomatoes did well this year. Too much extreme heat and no rain really decimated the tomato crops.
You always give such good tips. Thank you. Would have never thought of binder clips. Won’t work for my beds but will keep in mind .
I also use binder clips on my raised beds. I use when using bug nets and old sheets for frost protection. I also use driveway stakes to hold them up over the plants. The binder clips attach to those round stakes perfectly.
good morning /// it does look like you have a little bit of settleing in the raised beds!
You should go to Harbor Freight and get some cheap ratchet straps to place around your raised beds to hold the fabric. I did this on my IBC totes I use for rain catchment.
Yay for mulberry trees
I use binder clips for trellises and Greenstalk. Kale is created to grow to weave cucumber plants.
I just put a nice thick layer of grass and/or leaves on my raised beds for the winter; no spring weeds and the worm castings have fed the soil.
Compliment….. I can’t put my finger on it…. Well that isn’t true… I can. I have to say the spirit of love, peace, kindness, goodness that exudes from your videos is so encouraging. You both shine a light into this dark world. The gracious way you both speak about and to each other is beautiful. You teach us so much more than gardening, homesteading, and farming, you give us so an unspoken example and teaching. May Father bless your home and land.
Well said. Agreed!
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You have definitely hit the nail on the head! Thanks for compiling such an inspirational--and 100% true--posting. Doesn't it make you feel kinda like Kevin and Sarah are the world's best neighbors who live just up the road a ways? Man, that'd be pure bliss.
Amen!
Always great vids!👍👋