Are you able to even get a single planter indoors to bring some joy to you? Maybe get help setting it up and planting, but continuing to have something to water and care for can bring a lot of joy to an old gardener's heart! My 89 year old grandma loves to care for the 2 planters on the front porch, the flowers make her smile so beautifully.
@@h.s.6269 , I have citrus trees growing in large containers. They sit upon large saucers that have wheels. Since I live in Ohio they are in my livingroom for the colder months. I have two varieties of oranges , two kinds of lemons and one lime tree. For the warm months I roll them outside to my front deck. One thing to be careful of is sun burn. I use something like a garden row cover until they become acclimated to the sun. Those limes are really sour for eating fresh but wonderful for flavoring foods.
I can't believe those beans from 2015 germinated. That is awesome! You guys are as good at making videos as you are gardening. I could literally sit here and watch your videos all day. From my perspective, you guys are living the perfect life. The perfect life for me anyway. I'm so jealous.
It is a blessing when your spouse can help in the garden. Sadly as we get older sometimes you are left to do it on your own due to health problems. Yet I find that even if the help is only advice, its well worth it. Besides the garden is my escape at times. Sitting out in the evenings with my wife and just watching everything grow.
Sometimes just having their company as you work can be just as fulfilling! I like to have my mother sit out with me when I work, partly to get her to stop working so hard and just breathe in fresh air and chill out. And yes, health issues can be a huge problem when trying to do projects as time sensitive as gardening. The last 2 years I had fibro flare ups (i get nearly bed bound from pain) that lasted nearly a month right at the time the tomatoes NEEDED to get properly trellised and supported. When I was finally able to get out there it was a forest and the stems had touched ground and started new roots randomly so there was no fixing it, lol!
That is a wonderfully positive attitude. My husband has MS, and it is a real issue for us, as well, but right now, he's doing very well, thank God, so we work together. Of ever a day comes when either one of us cannot tolerate the work, I will reflect back on this comment, and have gratitude to give, or receive input from my spouse❤ Enjoy your peaceful time in the garden❤
I'm in Ky and there was no rain for 16 days at @87*. Now it 47* and rain. It's been a struggle to garden this year, but if we succeed, it'll be worth it. That's what I keep telling myself, lol. Happy gardening friends.🥀
I've watched quite a few of you're videos over the last several months. I took your advice and ordered the weed cloth for the first time. I was able to plant a little over a month ago here in S.C. I've had great success thus far with very few little weeds around the base of the plants that I've had to pull. Im not a spring chicken, at 59 years old, this has been the easiest planting of my entire life, and weeding (or lack thereof). My health has taken a nose dive too, with 3 major surgeries in the last year and half. So to have this much success with my garden has been a complete life changing experience. THANK THE TWO OF YOU SWEET THINGS For All your advice in your videos. Haven't harvested yet, so still tuning in frequently to see how you canned your harvest. Thanks again guys, you've been a true blessing to an older farmer !!! May God's grace be on you !!!🙏🙏
I put an egg in each hole for my tomato's this year. I cracked the egg and sprinkled a little dirt on it before putting the plant in. They look good. and if you use a spade, you can bring the soil up, so you dont have to dig under the fabric.
I ordered the long earth auger for the drill right after you showed it in the video for my father-in-law for Father's day. He's an avid gardener and has a bad back. I think he'll love it. Thank you for sharing. Your garden looks great, and I cannot wait to see it at full growth. We also received our large harvest right, and look forward to lots of freeze dried foods. It will be so handy when we are full time RVing while my husband is traveling for work. There will be so much weight reduced in our travel trailer with freeze dried foods. Have a blessed growing season.
Kevin just needed his lucky Cowboy hat for today's planting, didn't he? Yep, that rain would have held off if only the clouds had looked down and seen that bright hat shining upwards. :-) Wow!, Isn't this family just the best vitamins for the soul as we watch them make magic occur on their homestead??
It has rained the better part of 3 weeks here in Fort Worth, and North Texas. There are several funnies I've seen on Facebook. One says, the real gas shortage will start when we all in Texas start running our lawn mowers after all this rain. The other is a picture of a guy in front of a grill with the meat on a plate beside the grill along with the utensils. The water is up to about a couple of inches below the cooking part of the grill and it says, when you buy all your meat for Memorial Day, you still have to cook it.
Can't go wrong with that Opalka tomato. Fantastic flavor, very dependable and productive. So exciting when the seeds get to sprouting. Love your method.
Good morning precious people. You guys have such a soothing channel. You live in peace and share that peace with us. I love the music you have on and recognize the him I must tell Jesus. Can you share with us where you got the music. Blessings upon you and your girls and your parents. Blessings upon your garden and your animals and your farm as a whole. Thank you for being the hands and feet of the Lord and sharing the life that got intends for us to live. Anxious to see all the little plants come up and produce abundantly. I love you guys 😘✝️📖🙏🌄🌈🍽️🌾
I've got a 3 1/2 ft doll rod stick (3/4 in diam?) with wide diameter clear tubing (so I'm sure the seed didn't hang up in the tube) attached to the doll stick. I offset taping the clear tubing to one end of the stick leaving about 2 in of stick protruding I could poke a hole in the ground without getting dirt in the tube. This bending over crap must stop. I pitch down a handful of dirt & tamp it with my foot.
@@thomasgleaton685 There are a variety of stand up seedling planters. Have you tried one or more of them? (Some of them are not "cheap." There's a made in China one that looks OK & is affordable.
@@elainesalyer2926 Back & knee pain is the mother of invention. I've got a stand up dibble fork based on the broad fork design for making lots of holes at one time. You can make them with different spacings/depths out of trash lumber. I can also drop seeds using my clear tube into those holes or get a kid to drop seedlings & cover them for me. By " kid" I mean anyone youger than me.
SARAH I know you layed new gr cover. Color code spreadsheet builder here: Since spacing is consistent for crops, why not color code the tarp so when you pick up and lay down you could rotate the gr cover with Red for tomatoes, etc, green for peppers, so the whole sheet moves and is already set for spacing and rotation. (Not sure that's clear, lol)
Try powdering your eggshells. If you don't powder them it doesn't help very much until next year. It just doesn't break down enough being crushed. It doesn't take a whole lot more to powder them. Give it a try. I always do a mixture of powdered egg shells, epsom salt, coffee and or tea grounds and worm castings.
Thank you, I learn so much from watching your videos. You take us from preparation to harvest each year in a no nonsense, commonsense way. By far, the best homesteading videos. I’m in Australia and have just planted my hairy vetch cover crop.
I enjoy your channel so much!! I actually made my own personal playlist of my favorite videos of you guys. With this video, I am now up to 370 videos in my Living Traditions playlist ❤️ Thanks for sharing God bless
Some kind of crazy weather for sure but I’m not complaining it’s much nicer then the last few years so far not to hot not to cold. Well till last night that is got down to the middle 40’s and I got babies out there.. chicks and bunnies.
As I sit and watch this in the scorching 47* weather outside. Not a 80* day insight until next Friday lol. Seems once again we were duped here in Missouri by those couple of nice warm days.
It's roughly the same story in Ohio, with a few degrees variance. I feel ya. Thankfully I got about half the gardening done while it was still hot, and before the rains came.
@@hopeking3588 , brrrrr! I loved living in Michigan but as I got older I decided I didn't want to have to shovel snow. However, I miss the sunrises and sunsets there
Kevin, I love your shirts- Callaghan Auto last week and now Vandelay Industries. Shout out to Tommy Boy and Seinfeld. Just added bonuses to all the great content you put into your videos!
Good day to you guys, The only thing I can think of when the two of you are out there on the farm is "poetry in motion"..Your farm is out standing and so are you guys.Thank you for all the good tips.
Thank you for enabling all your viewers to benefit from your vast gardening knowledge. We can now amaze our family and friends with our prolific gardens this year. You are my #1 gardening go-to channel.
I'm also in Missouri about 30 minutes from Jefferson city, it's my first year doing an in ground garden on my new property and can I just say it's been a struggle, between realizing how Clay our soil is, to the rain storms dumping, to rabbits eating all my cauliflower crop, and seed potatoes completely rotting. It's a very trying learning experience. My strawberries are doing fantastic and I'm getting about 5 cups a day so that's been my saving grace 🍓🙂
Samantha Fletcher , You could always trap and eat rabbit instead of cauliflower. As for your clay soil , it's mulch , mulch and some more mulch. Clay soil is usually good for growing plants in. But very hard for working the soil. More mulch.
Been fighting the moody Missouri weather in Joplin area too. Had flooding last week and cool temps. I feel like my garden is 2 months behind. Praying it'll still be a fruitful season.
Last night we had freezing conditions( don't know why I didn't check the forecast DUH!) ... Lost all my peppers and tomatoes and others stuff that was ready to go! I think you were blessed with being a bit later with your plants! Broke my heart having to buy plants to replace them but better to have some than none! Happy gardening!
I love that you all use that torch for cutting everything! My husband is a torch lover, so I think we will invest in another one, and some butane! I like that it almost works as a plasma cutter does, to metal! Much better for those circles, and to prevent unraveling of the fabric. I love your ideas...I think you have quickly become my favorite homesteading channel, I don't know how I have missed out for this channel for this long Also, I enjoy seeing what you plant, and your seed source. I am gonna see if there are any other videos in your collection, of that type video. I'd love to see your experiences farming, and homesteading, as we do here in VA, and try out some of your methods, placement, and varieties of veg/fruit. I have wanted to do companion farming, like a native American "milpa", I would like to put my own twist on that though. This is only year 3 for us, we have finally reclaimed enough land to have a substantial garden, so I am excited to try new things. Thank you so much for the huge inspiration, this morning...it does get overwhelming!
I have used egg shells in the past. This year I went to the elevator and got a bag of oyster shells. Then gave them a shake of miracle grow in the hole too. Weather is still in the low 40 in north Iowa with on going rain. I got onions, beets, carrots and part of my tomatoes. I’m really thinking I need one of those drills . Your looking good. Wishing your garden the Best. GodBless all!
I love okra to that is one of my favorite foods which I eat raw and cooked steamed ect... love every food plants that we can plant and I do do experiments on some different kind of foods to and have found some foods that we have planted that we like and didnt even know that we could grow
Hope you can get those peppers in this weekend. Your garden is going to be so much fun to watch this year. You are such hard workers and we appreciate you taking us along on the journey. God Bless!
Love your channel. I can only imagine how crazy it must be with the all the problems our country is going through in the last 2-1/2 years. Can’t wait to see the finished project.
I'm growing on my third year of the same okra plants I planted 3 years ago, when the season is over I cover the stalks after cutting about 6 inches from the ground, ends up with about a foot of new covering of dirt, in the spring I uncover and the plants come up again.
If I may suggest mark that weed fabric. With a 1,2,3 and 4. This will help rotational planting. If you mark the ends with spray paint. You can simply switch and turn the weed fabric. God bless
Hi from Annandale, Minnesota about an hour NW of Minneapolis. We used to live in Alaska. I purchased many Earth Boxes due to cool ground there. I have limited space here so have planted 2 tomatoes per Earth Box (they water through a tube into a resovoir in the Box. I really like this system. The black fabric on top of potting soil keeps weeds at a minimum (virtually none) and the soil is so warm. I buy determinate tomatoes and they all grow on my patio beautifully. Sorry - this has turned into a book -- know you have a huge garden; however, small spaces thrive in this type of gardening. Thanks and keep up your hard work. Best wishes for your oldest daughter in her future endeavors now that she's graduated and will be spreading her wings out into the big wide world! :-)
I just started watching a couple of weeks ago. I have enjoyed your successes and trials. I just wanted to give you an idea you might try. When I was in horticulture school many many moons ago, we would test our seeds before planting. You randomly select 10 seeds from the packet. Place a wet paper towel in a quart size ziplock. Put the seeds on the wet paper towel leave air in the bag and seal it. Take note of the days to germination for your particular seed. Place the bag in a warm place. At the end of your germination time count the number of seeds that sprouted. If you have 9, then you can expect approximately 90% of your seed to germinate, 5 sprouts = ~50% ect. When you plant your seed you can adjust accordingly. Thanks so much for sharing your experiences.
My Daddy was such a gardener, and he loved being exact like this even though her never had this fancy of a garden. but he sure would have love to had to try it... less weed, and lovely straight measured rows... would have just tickled him.... and he would have wanted to do it like now ... bless him... I miss him so so much....
So happy you got in what you did. We are working in between rain. Temperature for our low last night was 48. We will get what the good Lord wants us to have. God Bless
It's chilly here in NW AR this morning! Not raining thankfully. But burrrr. Thank goodness you could finally get the garden in. Love how it looks so far can't wait til it starts to grow! The turkeys sound pretty along with the other birds in the background! ❤️
I just love your channel, you both just always work on everything together jobs get done with ease. Wish you could send us here in S. Utah some of that rain. Thanks for taking us along with you. Take Care and God Bless
We're all going to sprout webbed feet here in Missouri!!! Another week of this coming, too. Your garden is going to be glorious, so I'm going to be gardening through you this year. Having surgery next week, and will be out for six weeks. 😕 Thanks for bringing this to us, you two!! 💜
Realizing you know, but didn't mention: test old seed germination prior to planting using the "paper towel baggy" method. Awesome the way you're using modern ideas to make gardening enjoyable!
I tried that baggie method this year too and it has worked great. I saw it on "An American homestead" Zac showed how well it worked,. Bless you guys, love your channel 😍🙏💞👼
Is there anyone else like me who absolutely *loves* the background gobbler noises in the background!? ~ Kir in Tennessee
Yes! It warms my heart! We loved our chicken and turkey vocals accompanying our days! Its like a friend from the past visiting every time! God bless!
Sounds like you've found your ASMR calling. lol
Yup! In fact I got turkeys this January because of hearing them in the background so often! :D
Yup it’s the first sound that comes across before they can even speak
Not me. Kind of annoying.
Thank you. I’m 85, can’t plant anymore so you do it for me
Are you able to even get a single planter indoors to bring some joy to you? Maybe get help setting it up and planting, but continuing to have something to water and care for can bring a lot of joy to an old gardener's heart!
My 89 year old grandma loves to care for the 2 planters on the front porch, the flowers make her smile so beautifully.
David Skonieczny ,
Are you bedridden ? Can't get out of bed ?
@@h.s.6269 ,
I have citrus trees growing in large containers. They sit upon large saucers that have wheels. Since I live in Ohio they are in my livingroom for the colder months. I have two varieties of oranges , two kinds of lemons and one lime tree. For the warm months I roll them outside to my front deck. One thing to be careful of is sun burn. I use something like a garden row cover until they become acclimated to the sun. Those limes are really sour for eating fresh but wonderful for flavoring foods.
I can't believe those beans from 2015 germinated. That is awesome! You guys are as good at making videos as you are gardening. I could literally sit here and watch your videos all day. From my perspective, you guys are living the perfect life. The perfect life for me anyway. I'm so jealous.
I love your lifestyle. I wish I were still young and homesteading the way you're doing it.
Age is just a number.😁😁
Me too!
I just turned 49, the husband is 53, we just moved to 2 acers to start a verticle farm and dwarf tree orchard.
44 here and I'm working my butt off in the garden and transforming the landscape around my house.
70 in 3 weeks and still planting. It just takes a little longer with many more brakes than when I was 60, lol!
I LOVE that you just grabbed that manure! 🖐 That’s a true gardener! 👩🏻🌾
Sarah, planting her garden in bare feet and braids. God is smiling down on you both today.
It is a blessing when your spouse can help in the garden. Sadly as we get older sometimes you are left to do it on your own due to health problems. Yet I find that even if the help is only advice, its well worth it. Besides the garden is my escape at times. Sitting out in the evenings with my wife and just watching everything grow.
Sometimes just having their company as you work can be just as fulfilling! I like to have my mother sit out with me when I work, partly to get her to stop working so hard and just breathe in fresh air and chill out. And yes, health issues can be a huge problem when trying to do projects as time sensitive as gardening.
The last 2 years I had fibro flare ups (i get nearly bed bound from pain) that lasted nearly a month right at the time the tomatoes NEEDED to get properly trellised and supported. When I was finally able to get out there it was a forest and the stems had touched ground and started new roots randomly so there was no fixing it, lol!
That is a wonderfully positive attitude. My husband has MS, and it is a real issue for us, as well, but right now, he's doing very well, thank God, so we work together. Of ever a day comes when either one of us cannot tolerate the work, I will reflect back on this comment, and have gratitude to give, or receive input from my spouse❤
Enjoy your peaceful time in the garden❤
Love your choice in planting your garden. You’re great people.
I'm in Ky and there was no rain for 16 days at @87*. Now it 47* and rain. It's been a struggle to garden this year, but if we succeed, it'll be worth it. That's what I keep telling myself, lol. Happy gardening friends.🥀
I love rain and stormy weather. I wish you would show us your homestead during a rainstorm. I would love to see your garden when it's raining.
I've watched quite a few of you're videos over the last several months. I took your advice and ordered the weed cloth for the first time. I was able to plant a little over a month ago here in S.C. I've had great success thus far with very few little weeds around the base of the plants that I've had to pull. Im not a spring chicken, at 59 years old, this has been the easiest planting of my entire life, and weeding (or lack thereof). My health has taken a nose dive too, with 3 major surgeries in the last year and half. So to have this much success with my garden has been a complete life changing experience. THANK THE TWO OF YOU SWEET THINGS For All your advice in your videos. Haven't harvested yet, so still tuning in frequently to see how you canned your harvest. Thanks again guys, you've been a true blessing to an older farmer !!! May God's grace be on you !!!🙏🙏
I put an egg in each hole for my tomato's this year. I cracked the egg and sprinkled a little dirt on it before putting the plant in. They look good. and if you use a spade, you can bring the soil up, so you dont have to dig under the fabric.
You are working hard! Hope your garden produces a lot!
I ordered the long earth auger for the drill right after you showed it in the video for my father-in-law for Father's day. He's an avid gardener and has a bad back. I think he'll love it. Thank you for sharing. Your garden looks great, and I cannot wait to see it at full growth. We also received our large harvest right, and look forward to lots of freeze dried foods. It will be so handy when we are full time RVing while my husband is traveling for work. There will be so much weight reduced in our travel trailer with freeze dried foods. Have a blessed growing season.
I love that the turkeys gobble every time you get the drill going .. lol
Kevin just needed his lucky Cowboy hat for today's planting, didn't he? Yep, that rain would have held off if only the clouds had looked down and seen that bright hat shining upwards. :-) Wow!, Isn't this family just the best vitamins for the soul as we watch them make magic occur on their homestead??
I just Love you guys, thanks for all the education you provide for me. 🙏😊❤️
I love watching videos of thunderstorms and then I listen to music I like like delta parole or metallica! Nothing better and more relaxing like that!
Barefoot on the weed fabric. Sounds like me! Nice and warm and nothing tracks on your feet. I'm so excited to see your garden grow!
It has rained the better part of 3 weeks here in Fort Worth, and North Texas. There are several funnies I've seen on Facebook. One says, the real gas shortage will start when we all in Texas start running our lawn mowers after all this rain. The other is a picture of a guy in front of a grill with the meat on a plate beside the grill along with the utensils. The water is up to about a couple of inches below the cooking part of the grill and it says, when you buy all your meat for Memorial Day, you still have to cook it.
😅 I'm just north in AR. We haven't gotten as much as y'all, but it's sure been VERY WET! ☂️☂️☂️
I am so thankful it’s not just me getting a late start on my garden! I love SWMO, but SO. MUCH. RAIN!!
Love how you burnt holes in tarp. Great idea. Loved how you drilled the holes. Very smart.
Can't go wrong with that Opalka tomato. Fantastic flavor, very dependable and productive. So exciting when the seeds get to sprouting. Love your method.
I love to hear the turkeys in the background
You guys have strung together so many great practices/hints for prospective homesteaders. GREAT JOB!! LOVE IT !!
Good morning precious people. You guys have such a soothing channel. You live in peace and share that peace with us. I love the music you have on and recognize the him I must tell Jesus. Can you share with us where you got the music. Blessings upon you and your girls and your parents. Blessings upon your garden and your animals and your farm as a whole. Thank you for being the hands and feet of the Lord and sharing the life that got intends for us to live. Anxious to see all the little plants come up and produce abundantly. I love you guys 😘✝️📖🙏🌄🌈🍽️🌾
I am a 79 year old woman with only a 4 by 5 foot yard , in a senior citizen house . I miss my garden ,but I have sweet potato growing in bucket
I was watching your banana bread and I put in 1 table spoon of cream cheese it makes the bread moisture and not dry.
Drop your seeds through 1/2 inch pvc pipe or so...love yall! I'm getting old. LOL
I've got a 3 1/2 ft doll rod stick (3/4 in diam?) with wide diameter clear tubing (so I'm sure the seed didn't hang up in the tube) attached to the doll stick. I offset taping the clear tubing to one end of the stick leaving about 2 in of stick protruding I could poke a hole in the ground without getting dirt in the tube. This bending over crap must stop. I pitch down a handful of dirt & tamp it with my foot.
@@flatsville1 that's the way it works
@@thomasgleaton685 There are a variety of stand up seedling planters. Have you tried one or more of them? (Some of them are not "cheap." There's a made in China one that looks OK & is affordable.
@@flatsville1 that's a fantastic idea!
@@elainesalyer2926 Back & knee pain is the mother of invention.
I've got a stand up dibble fork based on the broad fork design for making lots of holes at one time. You can make them with different spacings/depths out of trash lumber. I can also drop seeds using my clear tube into those holes or get a kid to drop seedlings & cover them for me. By " kid" I mean anyone youger than me.
So nice to see a man who knows his way around the garden! You guys work together so nice. Love it!
SARAH I know you layed new gr cover. Color code spreadsheet builder here: Since spacing is consistent for crops, why not color code the tarp so when you pick up and lay down you could rotate the gr cover with Red for tomatoes, etc, green for peppers, so the whole sheet moves and is already set for spacing and rotation. (Not sure that's clear, lol)
Great idea
That is a great idea! Thank you for pointing that out!
@@jessicapearson9479 You could just spray paint a line on the end of the fabric so you know which is which. That wouldn’t wear off quickly.
Try powdering your eggshells. If you don't powder them it doesn't help very much until next year. It just doesn't break down enough being crushed.
It doesn't take a whole lot more to powder them. Give it a try. I always do a mixture of powdered egg shells, epsom salt, coffee and or tea grounds and worm castings.
Thank you for this.
I've got that shirt.....My wife was being funny.....Larry @ Scoot's Organic
Happy birthday to the baby seed sprouts!!! We finally got almost all of our plants in the ground, and most of our seeds as well! Yay gardening!!!
Thank you Kevin & Sarah. God Bless you all in Love.
We are still fighting to get the garden done. About 75-80% there. Maybe I can get the last of it done today.
Thank you, I learn so much from watching your videos. You take us from preparation to harvest each year in a no nonsense, commonsense way. By far, the best homesteading videos. I’m in Australia and have just planted my hairy vetch cover crop.
I enjoy your channel so much!! I actually made my own personal playlist of my favorite videos of you guys. With this video, I am now up to 370 videos in my Living Traditions playlist ❤️
Thanks for sharing
God bless
I do the same!
Nice relaxing video, I love seeing the seeds germinate. Thank you.
It is always such a pleasure watching you guys get excited about gardening and growing when I am sitting under a blanket in the Australian winter
I love watching you guys garden.
God bless you, your family and your land!
So glad weather a bit better let hope and pray weather be nice for u ! Love all u do
Some kind of crazy weather for sure but I’m not complaining it’s much nicer then the last few years so far not to hot not to cold. Well till last night that is got down to the middle 40’s and I got babies out there.. chicks and bunnies.
Thanks for having us! No rain!
How exciting!! The two of you make the dream team, I love watching you work together and how you are both so excited about each project.
We spent the day in Ava yesterday. Ate some BBQ and visited the quilt store. Had a great time.
As I sit and watch this in the scorching 47* weather outside. Not a 80* day insight until next Friday lol. Seems once again we were duped here in Missouri by those couple of nice warm days.
It's roughly the same story in Ohio, with a few degrees variance. I feel ya. Thankfully I got about half the gardening done while it was still hot, and before the rains came.
Amen. It's a bit chill here in SE Missouri but it's nice for some outdoor chores without sweltering at least if it isn't pouring rain!
It was 38 degrees this morning in Michigan! Cold! Last week it was 85 at 3 pm.what a shock!
@@hopeking3588 , brrrrr! I loved living in Michigan but as I got older I decided I didn't want to have to shovel snow. However, I miss the sunrises and sunsets there
Kevin, I love your shirts- Callaghan Auto last week and now Vandelay Industries. Shout out to Tommy Boy and Seinfeld. Just added bonuses to all the great content you put into your videos!
I got a chuckle out of the Vandalay Industries one. 😂😂😂
And you want to be my latex salesman...
I had a cat named Vandelay back in the late 90s!
Good day to you guys, The only thing I can think of when the two of you are out there on the farm is "poetry in motion"..Your farm is out standing and so are you guys.Thank you for all the good tips.
Thank you for enabling all your viewers to benefit from your vast gardening knowledge. We can now amaze our family and friends with our prolific gardens this year. You are my #1 gardening go-to channel.
Would love a rabbit update whenever you can grab the time 🐇 Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿
The long s so much nicer yes . You’ll. Love ❤️ it
Hard work produces great rewards. Great going guys.
I'm also in Missouri about 30 minutes from Jefferson city, it's my first year doing an in ground garden on my new property and can I just say it's been a struggle, between realizing how Clay our soil is, to the rain storms dumping, to rabbits eating all my cauliflower crop, and seed potatoes completely rotting. It's a very trying learning experience. My strawberries are doing fantastic and I'm getting about 5 cups a day so that's been my saving grace 🍓🙂
Samantha Fletcher ,
You could always trap and eat rabbit instead of cauliflower. As for your clay soil , it's mulch , mulch and some more mulch. Clay soil is usually good for growing plants in. But very hard for working the soil. More mulch.
@@donaldmiller8629 all very nice recommendations, thank you Donald.
I bet your backs are hurting... good thing your young!! I’d be on my knees!!😆 love watching!!!!!
So meditating 🙏
The auger attachment is amazing. Bought it the 1st yr I saw Kevin use it and man oh man is it a time saver!!
Been fighting the moody Missouri weather in Joplin area too. Had flooding last week and cool temps. I feel like my garden is 2 months behind. Praying it'll still be a fruitful season.
Last night we had freezing conditions( don't know why I didn't check the forecast DUH!) ... Lost all my peppers and tomatoes and others stuff that was ready to go! I think you were blessed with being a bit later with your plants! Broke my heart having to buy plants to replace them but better to have some than none! Happy gardening!
I love that you all use that torch for cutting everything! My husband is a torch lover, so I think we will invest in another one, and some butane! I like that it almost works as a plasma cutter does, to metal! Much better for those circles, and to prevent unraveling of the fabric. I love your ideas...I think you have quickly become my favorite homesteading channel, I don't know how I have missed out for this channel for this long
Also, I enjoy seeing what you plant, and your seed source. I am gonna see if there are any other videos in your collection, of that type video. I'd love to see your experiences farming, and homesteading, as we do here in VA, and try out some of your methods, placement, and varieties of veg/fruit. I have wanted to do companion farming, like a native American "milpa", I would like to put my own twist on that though. This is only year 3 for us, we have finally reclaimed enough land to have a substantial garden, so I am excited to try new things.
Thank you so much for the huge inspiration, this morning...it does get overwhelming!
I have used egg shells in the past. This year I went to the elevator and got a bag of oyster shells. Then gave them a shake of miracle grow in the hole too. Weather is still in the low 40 in north Iowa with on going rain. I got onions, beets, carrots and part of my tomatoes. I’m really thinking I need one of those drills . Your looking good. Wishing your garden the Best. GodBless all!
Yes. I love hearing the turkeys. Laneville, TX
You can tell you guys plan. Great! Blessings.
You. Guys are so amazing
Thanks. You’re so good.
It is amazing how fast the seeds germinated! It is so thrilling when you can see those green leaves popping through.
Goodmorning family hope all is well and love your family Happy Memorial day weekend to your family.
I love okra to that is one of my favorite foods which I eat raw and cooked steamed ect... love every food plants that we can plant and I do do experiments on some different kind of foods to and have found some foods that we have planted that we like and didnt even know that we could grow
My wife and I could have sworn we spotted you two shopping in the Ava Walmart last week. Your channel is a blessing. Praise God
Possibly!
Hope you can get those peppers in this weekend. Your garden is going to be so much fun to watch this year. You are such hard workers and we appreciate you taking us along on the journey. God Bless!
I just love your garden, and the techniques you implemented. Great job!! 👍👍👍
40s on our Ozark mountain this morning. This is the cusp of June?! 😄 My poor tomatoes and peppers are so confused. But my cabbage are loving it.
Well Done Folks!👍🏻🌱🌱🌱
Love your channel. I can only imagine how crazy it must be with the all the problems our country is going through in the last 2-1/2 years. Can’t wait to see the finished project.
Wow! That is amazing, thank you for the planting tips! Now I want rabbits for their manure!!
Love this video!! Inspiring and fun to watch and learn! Ty
I'm growing on my third year of the same okra plants I planted 3 years ago, when the season is over I cover the stalks after cutting about 6 inches from the ground, ends up with about a foot of new covering of dirt, in the spring I uncover and the plants come up again.
I am trying that this year. What's your growing zone?
If I may suggest mark that weed fabric. With a 1,2,3 and 4. This will help rotational planting. If you mark the ends with spray paint. You can simply switch and turn the weed fabric. God bless
Hi from Annandale, Minnesota about an hour NW of Minneapolis. We used to live in Alaska. I purchased many Earth Boxes due to cool ground there. I have limited space here so have planted 2 tomatoes per Earth Box (they water through a tube into a resovoir in the Box. I really like this system. The black fabric on top of potting soil keeps weeds at a minimum (virtually none) and the soil is so warm. I buy determinate tomatoes and they all grow on my patio beautifully.
Sorry - this has turned into a book -- know you have a huge garden; however, small spaces thrive in this type of gardening. Thanks and keep up your hard work. Best wishes for your oldest daughter in her future endeavors now that she's graduated and will be spreading her wings out into the big wide world! :-)
Great gardening as always!
What a nice organized garden, just beautiful! Thank you for sharing! :}
Love your gardens. We too are fighting rain and cool temps. In 40's
Here in KY
Wonderful !!!! Yay !
You are going to love Juliet! Super sweet!
Good luck with the garden
I just started watching a couple of weeks ago. I have enjoyed your successes and trials. I just wanted to give you an idea you might try. When I was in horticulture school many many moons ago, we would test our seeds before planting. You randomly select 10 seeds from the packet. Place a wet paper towel in a quart size ziplock. Put the seeds on the wet paper towel leave air in the bag and seal it. Take note of the days to germination for your particular seed. Place the bag in a warm place. At the end of your germination time count the number of seeds that sprouted. If you have 9, then you can expect approximately 90% of your seed to germinate, 5 sprouts = ~50% ect. When you plant your seed you can adjust accordingly. Thanks so much for sharing your experiences.
My Daddy was such a gardener, and he loved being exact like this even though her never had this fancy of a garden. but he sure would have love to had to try it... less weed, and lovely straight measured rows... would have just tickled him.... and he would have wanted to do it like now ... bless him... I miss him so so much....
So happy you got in what you did. We are working in between rain. Temperature for our low last night was 48. We will get what the good Lord wants us to have. God Bless
Amen! 🙏
Thanks for sharing with us Kevin and Sarah, praying that your harvest is going to be a blessing! 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
Fantastic video
It's chilly here in NW AR this morning! Not raining thankfully. But burrrr. Thank goodness you could finally get the garden in. Love how it looks so far can't wait til it starts to grow!
The turkeys sound pretty along with the other birds in the background! ❤️
I just love your channel, you both just always work on everything together jobs get done with ease. Wish you could send us here in S. Utah some of that rain. Thanks for taking us along with you. Take Care and God Bless
We're all going to sprout webbed feet here in Missouri!!! Another week of this coming, too. Your garden is going to be glorious, so I'm going to be gardening through you this year. Having surgery next week, and will be out for six weeks. 😕 Thanks for bringing this to us, you two!! 💜
Even my ducks are sick of all the rain!😄
Awesomeness!
Please discuss how well the plants get water 💧with fabric down...
Love all the farm animal noises in the background...
When you drill your holes for your plants put a foot on each side of hole and that keeps the dirt from going under your weed barrier as much.
Love the ground cover, that is nice
Good morning fron NJ. Have a great Memorial weekend!
Realizing you know, but didn't mention: test old seed germination prior to planting using the "paper towel baggy" method. Awesome the way you're using modern ideas to make gardening enjoyable!
I tried that baggie method this year too and it has worked great. I saw it on "An American homestead" Zac showed how well it worked,. Bless you guys, love your channel 😍🙏💞👼
If you have an instant pot, you can speed up the germination. The process uses the yogurt setting. Search here on you tube for videos.
I love the new weed fabric!