your homestead is beautiful your animals are beautiful I appreciate the fact that you're sharing your lifestyle with all of us it seems so peaceful and your children seem so all of you seem so happy I love the garden I just love everything when I see it it makes me want to jump into the the screen here and just go there and just pick things from your garden it's just seems so cool to live the way you guys live
I am not sure what type squash it is but I think it is great that the little ones are learning how to grow food. This is such a fun learning tool. My first garden I had something round a little green and fussy. My neighbor whom was an experience farmer even though we lived in the city got the biggest kick out of it. It was a canteloupe. I had planted a few watermelon and canteloupe as well. I told it looked like a fussy watermelon but he enlightened me.
this video reminds me, I need to go prune one of my tomato plants...off to the patio garden :) also love how you feel about digging up the potato plant for your girls interest and learning really is a small sacrifice with big gains for the wee ones, I also think the squash is an acorn. another great video
What a happy garden, and what a lovely schoolyard. That mystery squash looks so much like an acorn squash, but time will tell. I did the same thing with my BOSS - but only planted a single row. There's a few Mammoth and Siberian sunflower seeds mixed in the batch. Mine aren't nearly as tall as yours. May you have zero blight on your tomatoes!
I read somewhere that sunflower plants shouldn't be planted next to potato plants, because sunflower takes lots of moist from the ground, and potato also needs a lot of it for its roots to grow big, so they kinda fight over it.
That appears to be a yellow acorn squash. They can be yellow or green. I planted both in two different areas at the same time and both color variations are doing very well.
I had a squash that was a cross of zukinni and butternut squash. It grew like a zukinni and tasted like a butternut squash. 22 squash from 1 plant. rnut squash
Just saw the session of you helping your Dad harvest corn (6 months ago).... couldn't leave a comment there but please tell him a little mineral spirit on the corn silks keeps the worms away. TY
ButterKin Squash, yay. Great job on tomatoes. Kids so cute as they learn about the plant and learn to help. Do they have a radih patch so they can grow somthing they can eat quickly? I even enjoy that. Keeps me patient for first harvest of carrots. :-)
I have found that by mulching heavily and preventing any splatter from the soil when it rains I do not get blight on my tomatoes. Here's hoping the blight stays away for you to get a good harvest. Will Bri be doing sauce or juice or canning tomatoes or so many things you can do for tomato storage.
Oh yes a great snack and if I have an abundance I will dry the tomatoes and then grind them to make a powder. Wonderful to add to dishes for added nutrition and flavor. But I will say I make a lot of juice since it is the easiest to make and I can always cook it down later if I need sauce or even paste
Questions: I thought potato plants had to flower and then wither before growing edible potatoes? How do you decide which tomato stem to cut and why trim them?
They do. We were just having some fun with the kids. We are trimming them specifically to prevent blight. Where we live we have very wet summers. It is incredibly hard to grow tomatoes because they tend to get blight. By cutting off all of the branches that are close to the ground we are hoping to lesson the possibility of blight since it is caused by wet humid conditions where the leaves are touching the ground.
Great tune at the beginning. Sounds like a harp Guitar. Check out Michael Hedges! Was an awesome harp guitarist, and did an awesome cover of All Along The Watchtower. Great video also. Garden looks great. Not sure about the squash. :D
Your garden looks great ! Can grow peanuts in your area? That's the one thing I'd like to grow but our summers are too short here in MN. Bri's going to have her hands full canning this fall, but what a blessing when it's all preserved.
Art/Bri, how long did it take for the comfrey to come up from the roots you bought? I just got my comfrey I ordered & have to plant them. I was wondering about how long to expect to see something maybe. Just curious is all. =) Man, I remember when y'all got Flopsy, She's looking so much better. So is Miss Dolly girl. Gosh she was so boney. Great job with the children in the garden Arthur. Absolutely the best way to teach is to do. They remember better this way. Thank you so much for sharing all of this with us, I love your channel so much. I hope you keep it easy & down home like this. 🌱Be Blessed ღ 🌼
Our friends at Commonwealth Seed Growers (commonwealthseeds.com/varieties-offered/) in Virginia have crossed a Butternut squash and Seminole pumpkin to achieve Downy Mildew resistance along with great taste. You might end up with a great variety there if the right traits mix.
Feed those grubs to your ducks or chickens! Mine fight over them. Whenever I'm digging in the garden, the ducks pace back & forth hoping I'll throw them some.
Thank goodness you all have not had the rain we have had in Alabama. I was able to tie up some of the Tomatoes, but the rest that were on the ground had issues with slugs and such. Love your lovely Jersey, but still don't see a calf in that oven. Please kick my butt if I am wrong. She maybe coming into heat and the vulva swelling and such, ready for a bull. Cows are easy to AI (artificially inseminate). Worked on the Dairy Farm at MSU (Michigan State University) for some time. We heat checked cows twice a day to wanting to puke! LOL. The cows in heat, we marked and the inseminator came and bred them. I still remember looking through the bull book and seeing all the beautiful bulls who had semen for sale. The probability info was listed for each bull. Probability on breeding was one of my favorite classes. The math was to the extreme and the probability amounted to the chance of this bull giving you the thing you want to improve on in your herd. OK, I am a geek... but it was fasinating and use some of the basic principles to this day on my Nigerian Dwarf Goat herd. OK, OK, getting to GEEK.... Bottom line, have a vet rectal check your cow for pregnancy. I actually learned to do that at MSU-- MOO U. Of course I can't do that to my little goats, and don't get kicked to California, like cows do. Can do a blood test with Biopyrn and know if your cow is pregnant. I do CAE and Johne's with them and blood tests for pregnancy in the spring. Good luck, garden looking great! We are almost done with our first tomatoes, the cucumbers done and the next crop doing well. The rain caused some blight which did my favorite cucumber in, but have another batch going. Love You All!
If she doesn't calf soon we will do a pregnancy check. I have been wondering if she was in heat, so perhaps that is what we were seeing. I hope not! You live, you learn. I LOVE all of the valuable information you share with us, so feel free to geek out on our comments any time!
Yes, learning critters is a life long thing. I still think you made the right decision to buy the older cow. She still has many years of calving and is a sweet pea. Nothing worse then having a witch to contend with... Or being kicked across the field. I still remember that so clearly, even though it was at least 15 years ago... LOL I still feel the pain even now when I think about it... Weird...
We are cutting the bottom stems off to prevent blight. Where we live it is very hard to grow tomatoes because of our wet, humid summers. By cutting off the branches lowest to the ground this aids in the prevention of this tomato killing curse!
My goal is to eliminate my lawn behind my home and grow edibles and ornamentals. Watching you live your dreams feeds my dreams and goals. Thanks for sharing, teaching and inspiring!!
Way Out West Blown-in blog. Check them out. They are great stewards of the Earth. And have great information on their videos. Cute video for the kids about their goose being a Dino.
DONT TIE TOMAMOS! next time try twisting them around the stick its kinda tricky with out breaking the steam to much but they bend a good bit if your easy on em .. try it out lets us know if it works
for years I never staked my tomatoes, just let them run. I planted them close together and they would support each other. Blight sometimes occurs in wet humid weather, so I understand why you are supporting your plants. It looks good otherwise.
There's just something so satisfying about hearing cows and horses eat apples or carrots.
that was so good of u teaching your children about gardening,joyful is amazing love her clothes
Love seeing your kids working along side you in the garden! It's so good to see kids take an interest in learning that way.
That was no sacrifice. Your child wanted knowledge, and you provided it. Great parenting :)
Blessings ~
Looks like a lot of learning went on in the garden. So exciting when they're interested.
The scent of tomato vine is in my top 10 favorites.
What a good dad you are to your kids I love that.
This year we are dehydrating our veggies to save space. You are way ahead of us.
Amazing great good job you are growing some vegetables 🐔🐓🐥🐂🐏🎥👍👍👍
your homestead is beautiful your animals are beautiful I appreciate the fact that you're sharing your lifestyle with all of us it seems so peaceful and your children seem so all of you seem so happy I love the garden I just love everything when I see it it makes me want to jump into the the screen here and just go there and just pick things from your garden it's just seems so cool to live the way you guys live
I am not sure what type squash it is but I think it is great that the little ones are learning how to grow food. This is such a fun learning tool. My first garden I had something round a little green and fussy. My neighbor whom was an experience farmer even though we lived in the city got the biggest kick out of it. It was a canteloupe. I had planted a few watermelon and canteloupe as well. I told it looked like a fussy watermelon but he enlightened me.
Your children are very lucky to have such a wonderful lifestyle!
Your garden is beautiful! And yes, digging up the potato actually helps the children learn! You and Bri are awesome parents!
To be honest, I would have said no, BUT Arthur keeps me flexible and is always reminding me to go with the flow a bit more.
Lovely job teaching your children. ~Smile!
Gr8 job with the kids. You're doin it right!
I love watching your family!
You are such a wonderful dad Art!
Your garden is so lush and green! Everything looks so nice.
NeverDoneHomestead sun arise you
that was great Art with you working with the kids. see great kids isn't JUST Great editing ha ha!
I love how peaceful your videos are. Thank you for sharing.....Blessings
Garden is looking so gorgeous!!
Your garden is lovely. Your squash does look like an Acorn. Yum. One of my favorite.
I always enjoy watching your videos. Keep them coming.
Beautiful children along with a awesome plot...🌱🚜🌱👊
every fruit in the world comes from a flower. that's a sweet little fact.
Such a fabulous garden!
this is a good garden. proud of you.
I just want to say I love your guys videos I have learned so much on homesteading thank you can't wait to see your giys frist harvest in the garden
this video reminds me, I need to go prune one of my tomato plants...off to the patio garden :) also love how you feel about digging up the potato plant for your girls interest and learning really is a small sacrifice with big gains for the wee ones, I also think the squash is an acorn. another great video
U have a beautiful farm. God bless your family
What a happy garden, and what a lovely schoolyard.
That mystery squash looks so much like an acorn squash, but time will tell.
I did the same thing with my BOSS - but only planted a single row. There's a few Mammoth and Siberian sunflower seeds mixed in the batch. Mine aren't nearly as tall as yours.
May you have zero blight on your tomatoes!
Art and Bri, your chamnel has quickly become my fav. Thank you for sharing your journey.
Thanks for watching!
you guys are amazing parents
Food garden looks wild guys! I love it! And can we hang out before summer is over!? 🙃
YES!!!!
Me encantan sus vídeos. Los veo y me dan ganas de vivir, gracias por compartirlos. Saludos desde Costa Rica
I am so jealous of your garden. I didn't plant sweet corn, but I did plant popcorn. It isn't knee high yet, but it is growing.
garden looks amazing!
I love seeing Dolly on the homestead 💜
I love you guys so much to keep the hard work up
Thank you for sharing your sweet lives. I am learning so much from you and ready to expand my garden a little next year. :)
Ha!ha!I did the same thing with my 5yr old grandaughter concerning the potatoes!
Dolly has it made. That is a pumpkin. Nice looking garden- I love sunflowers
Garden is looking awesome!!!
your garden is amazing
great looking garden
Your garden looks good.
I'm so happy you got that mulch.
Art, I had a volunteer squash vine come up too. Had a bunch of those little green babies, only one acorn squash reached maturity. Delicious tho!
I read somewhere that sunflower plants shouldn't be planted next to potato plants, because sunflower takes lots of moist from the ground, and potato also needs a lot of it for its roots to grow big, so they kinda fight over it.
It looks like a acorn squash which will get dark green!
I think so too!
Yes, it looks like acorn. We grow a lot of them here in Ohio.
Agreed.
That appears to be a yellow acorn squash. They can be yellow or green. I planted both in two different areas at the same time and both color variations are doing very well.
By the way your garden looks wonderful!
Your garden is awesome! Greetings from Adelaide in South Australia. 🌱
Hi!
I had a squash that was a cross of zukinni and butternut squash. It grew like a zukinni and tasted like a butternut squash. 22 squash from 1 plant.
rnut squash
It looks like a Delacata squash....I've ground them. They are very good.
u guys make me want to plant sooo much stuff
PLEASE OH PLEASE SHARE YOUR Garden mulching techniques
Just saw the session of you helping your Dad harvest corn (6 months ago).... couldn't leave a comment there but please tell him a little mineral spirit on the corn silks keeps the worms away. TY
I never knew my dad but I always liked to imagine that if I did, he'd be cool and knowledgeable (just like Art :D)
nice garden
Hi, that looks like a winter squash.
Love your videos
love yall
ButterKin Squash, yay. Great job on tomatoes. Kids so cute as they learn about the plant and learn to help. Do they have a radih patch so they can grow somthing they can eat quickly? I even enjoy that. Keeps me patient for first harvest of carrots. :-)
I have the seed pack right in front of me Art I think that squash you was wondering what it was is a Heirloom Baby Round Zucchini :)
At 7:20, that looks like long-leaf plantain. Did y'all plant that on purpose? If that is plantain, it is an amazing healing herb.
I hope it's a butternut squash + pumpkin = bumpkin!
I have found that by mulching heavily and preventing any splatter from the soil when it rains I do not get blight on my tomatoes. Here's hoping the blight stays away for you to get a good harvest. Will Bri be doing sauce or juice or canning tomatoes or so many things you can do for tomato storage.
I will be doing sauce and diced tomatoes.
If you have or can borrow a dehydrator, dry some sliced tomatoes too. They make a yummy snack and a great pantry ingredient.
Oh yes a great snack and if I have an abundance I will dry the tomatoes and then grind them to make a powder. Wonderful to add to dishes for added nutrition and flavor. But I will say I make a lot of juice since it is the easiest to make and I can always cook it down later if I need sauce or even paste
Your garden is beautiful. What do you use for pest control?
It cool a high breed spush hope it teast good you get to cook
Questions: I thought potato plants had to flower and then wither before growing edible potatoes? How do you decide which tomato stem to cut and why trim them?
Sarah Tennessee I've been wondering that too
They do. We were just having some fun with the kids. We are trimming them specifically to prevent blight. Where we live we have very wet summers. It is incredibly hard to grow tomatoes because they tend to get blight. By cutting off all of the branches that are close to the ground we are hoping to lesson the possibility of blight since it is caused by wet humid conditions where the leaves are touching the ground.
Great tune at the beginning. Sounds like a harp Guitar. Check out Michael Hedges! Was an awesome harp guitarist, and did an awesome cover of All Along The Watchtower.
Great video also. Garden looks great. Not sure about the squash. :D
I remember Michael hedges! I think on the recommendation (indirect) of David Wilcox. Know his music?
Your garden looks great ! Can grow peanuts in your area? That's the one thing I'd like to grow but our summers are too short here in MN. Bri's going to have her hands full canning this fall, but what a blessing when it's all preserved.
Yes, some folks do peanuts.
Art/Bri, how long did it take for the comfrey to come up from the roots you bought? I just got my comfrey I ordered & have to plant them. I was wondering about how long to expect to see something maybe. Just curious is all. =) Man, I remember when y'all got Flopsy, She's looking so much better. So is Miss Dolly girl. Gosh she was so boney.
Great job with the children in the garden Arthur. Absolutely the best way to teach is to do. They remember better this way. Thank you so much for sharing all of this with us, I love your channel so much. I hope you keep it easy & down home like this.
🌱Be Blessed ღ 🌼
It took so long we thought ours were dead. BUT obviously they turned out great! So I would say 6 weeks.
Our friends at Commonwealth Seed Growers (commonwealthseeds.com/varieties-offered/) in Virginia have crossed a Butternut squash and Seminole pumpkin to achieve Downy Mildew resistance along with great taste. You might end up with a great variety there if the right traits mix.
"In the middle of the screen, you can see a doe...a deer. " A female deer... *Cues The Sound of Music*
Feed those grubs to your ducks or chickens! Mine fight over them. Whenever I'm digging in the garden, the ducks pace back & forth hoping I'll throw them some.
Thank goodness you all have not had the rain we have had in Alabama. I was able to tie up some of the Tomatoes, but the rest that were on the ground had issues with slugs and such. Love your lovely Jersey, but still don't see a calf in that oven. Please kick my butt if I am wrong. She maybe coming into heat and the vulva swelling and such, ready for a bull. Cows are easy to AI (artificially inseminate). Worked on the Dairy Farm at MSU (Michigan State University) for some time. We heat checked cows twice a day to wanting to puke! LOL. The cows in heat, we marked and the inseminator came and bred them. I still remember looking through the bull book and seeing all the beautiful bulls who had semen for sale. The probability info was listed for each bull.
Probability on breeding was one of my favorite classes. The math was to the extreme and the probability amounted to the chance of this bull giving you the thing you want to improve on in your herd. OK, I am a geek... but it was fasinating and use some of the basic principles to this day on my Nigerian Dwarf Goat herd. OK, OK, getting to GEEK....
Bottom line, have a vet rectal check your cow for pregnancy. I actually learned to do that at MSU-- MOO U. Of course I can't do that to my little goats, and don't get kicked to California, like cows do. Can do a blood test with Biopyrn and know if your cow is pregnant. I do CAE and Johne's with them and blood tests for pregnancy in the spring.
Good luck, garden looking great! We are almost done with our first tomatoes, the cucumbers done and the next crop doing well. The rain caused some blight which did my favorite cucumber in, but have another batch going. Love You All!
If she doesn't calf soon we will do a pregnancy check. I have been wondering if she was in heat, so perhaps that is what we were seeing. I hope not! You live, you learn. I LOVE all of the valuable information you share with us, so feel free to geek out on our comments any time!
Yes, learning critters is a life long thing. I still think you made the right decision to buy the older cow. She still has many years of calving and is a sweet pea. Nothing worse then having a witch to contend with... Or being kicked across the field. I still remember that so clearly, even though it was at least 15 years ago... LOL I still feel the pain even now when I think about it... Weird...
when to plant potatoes and when to harvest? some one answer pleased.
It depends on where you live. Ask someone local or search online for your region.
I saw the deer Art why are you cutting off the tomatoes will they not die i never saw that done before.
We are cutting the bottom stems off to prevent blight. Where we live it is very hard to grow tomatoes because of our wet, humid summers. By cutting off the branches lowest to the ground this aids in the prevention of this tomato killing curse!
My goal is to eliminate my lawn behind my home and grow edibles and ornamentals. Watching you live your dreams feeds my dreams and goals. Thanks for sharing, teaching and inspiring!!
That sounds like a wonderful goal!
Way Out West Blown-in blog. Check them out. They are great stewards of the Earth. And have great information on their videos. Cute video for the kids about their goose being a Dino.
Even though they are small it's fun to eat them raw!
We should have eaten that one little potato!
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DONT TIE TOMAMOS! next time try twisting them around the stick its kinda tricky with out breaking the steam to much but they bend a good bit if your easy on em .. try it out lets us know if it works
stay on top of the suckers take them all off and i never prune the leaves above the fruit
Acorn squish
for years I never staked my tomatoes, just let them run. I planted them close together and they would support each other. Blight sometimes occurs in wet humid weather, so I understand why you are supporting your plants. It looks good otherwise.
Nice that you are able to do that. We have observed that branches that lay on the ground here go brown in just a few weeks.
I laik it
Don't count them before they're ripe unless you're going to fry them green. ;-)
Yes sir!
sacrificing a potato plant or two for the children was a wonderful parenting decision.
Acorn or butternut
pumpnutsquasch?
Butterkin squash? 😊
Kirsten Whitworth pumpnut or butterskin, probably depends on who the father was?
What state do you live in
класс
Looks like kabocha squash
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabocha
Pepper or Acorn
Art,why do you always have a rubber band on your wrist? Haha,I'm so nosy!
Because he used one. He sometimes has two or more ;)
I just put them there when I find them. -A
Dolly looks closer to freshening, doesn't she?
I keep going back and forth on it!!! I honestly have no idea.
actually, isn't a flower your boys pick and give to their mother a sunflower?
acorn
That cow looks skinny
Please, DON'T feed apples to Dolly. Cows can shoke on them!!!!
Mk