Man! I've been following your family for years now and I'm still addicted to your channel because of your families love. Awesome group of human beings!!!
Of all the homestead video channels out there that I have seen ya'll by far give the most useful/useable information. You do it in a way that is just a pleasure to watch. Thank you for all you do.
I cried at all those holes drilled in the buckets. You may want to checkout how to make water saving (self watering) planters. Good videos by Leon on how to make them.
Good morning 🌞☕ I'm a wildlife rehabber here in NC & I have a suggestion on your possible possum issue. I specialize in opossums & absolutely love them. You could try putting out a dish of food for them in the area you're having the issue. A trailcam will capture what is really trashing your plants. But, then every evening, move the offering of food closer & closer to the woods & away from your plants. Hopefully that would "train" them to stay away. Things you could offer are fresh veggies, yogurt, fruits, raw paultry with bones, fish & so on. I wouldn't give eggs as you don't want them stealing your eggs. If you have any questions, feel free to message me. Best if luck 🥰👍
What do you think about setting some live trapping traps to get them a bit upset and then releasing them in the woods? I also think possums are wonderful creatures.
I t was great that Christy gave Kevin and Sarah the info about possums training. It amazes me still that there rare so many people ready and available to help each other. We hear about the bad of our world but not enough of the GOOD.
First, I am addicted to your videos. I tell my wife about them all the time. Now, when you were talking about your raised potato bed you mentioned that the half with whole potatoes had grown larger than the half of the bed with the pieces. I noticed that during your video the half with the potatoes cut into pieces was in the shade. Is that the case the rest of the day, because that could certainly make the difference. My wife and I are absolutely fascinated to see how your potato experiment turns out. We are not homesteaders, but we do live on 55 acres in New Hampshire. You have a long lovely growing season. Our growing season is about an hour and a half in the middle of July. It has been a struggle for us to get things in the ground early enough or keep them in the ground long enough to get decent harvests. Thank you both for sharing your journey with us!
Those big buckets are nice! I got my hands on some and plant my potatoes in them. One thing I like to do that might be a help for you, I drill holes in the rim and put rope handles on both sides. It makes it very easy to move those heavy pots.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I just run a piece of rope through the holes and tie a knot on both ends to keep it tucked under the lip but it can't slip through the holes 👍🏻 I used to just lift by the rim but the ropes have been a huge upgrade!
TheLissabee you can get new ones (similar to these) from feed stores and hardware stores. I found some at menards for $8 a piece which I thought was a good price. You can also use the really big flower pots and add handles. I've found those xx-large flower pots at garage sales for a buck or two. Menards had liners for the half whisk barrels. They work very well too. Hope that gives you a couple of ideas. You could check with livestock farmers and ranchers in your area and see if they have them. (Left over mineral block buckets that is what they did)
My aunt always grew pinto beans and then canned them as GREEN BEANS! She simply picked them early, cut them up and threw in some of the beans that had been shelled. Obviously she harvested them before they were dried on the vine. In our family, they are famous. Now I sooo want to learn her recipe. I want to say thank you so much for your channel. My husband and I have learned so many things that have helped us in our own garden. We have been encouraged to venture further into the world of self sustainability. I know I am blessed to already have the basic skills of gardening and preservation but your videos have taught me more and I am eager to try new things. Thank you and God bless!
Seeing large gardens and having my small garden, makes me envious in some ways, and relieved in others. Just witnessing the garden growing, and the bounty setting would be wonderful. But with larger gardens comes more pest and disease issues, more potential pest issues, and when the fruit is ready, endless hours of harvesting, tying plants to trellises, removing dying or diseases leaves and branches, cleaning the harvest, and preserving in the heat of summer. I guess I will be happy with my too small garden. If I were younger like you 2, and had someone to work with me, your gardens would be my playground.
A big help for those who may have limited resources or budget for composting deep buckets or beds-use rotted logs or branches, pour a thick layer of manure over the top and then add your dirt. Burned limbs/logs are great as well, and they provide lots of good nutrients under your plant babies. It's especially great if you have HUGE raised beds you need to fill.
Hi! I followed your suggestion and went to my grocery store and Yes!!! the bakery department gave me away some big food grade buckets that they did not need anymore and were going to be recycled. I will plant my peppers in them. My backyard is not that big but the bucket-planting great idea, thank you. God bless you, stay safe, stay healthy and keep growing. Love
So many plants! It's going to look like the garden of Eden out there in a few weeks! You guys are doing an awesome job! Can't wait to see how much harvest your family gets.
I took your suggestion and went with ground cover this year and completely re did my watering system was soaker hoses pretty awesome follow your video faithfully worked out great.Wife and I have 1/3 of an acre for a garden so the ground cover was very important for weeds control and time management. Thank you again, keep up the teaching
Beautiful gardens. Great tour, Kevin and Sarah. I was the editor of a major Home & Garden publication for many years and deeply appreciate knowledgeable people like you two sharing that knowledge and experience with others. I am a big believer in drip irrigation, not only because it works but also it saves lots of water resources and money. Really interested to see how your weeding approach works with the sweet corn. Always fun to tag along on your homestead.
I know you are very excited. I can see it in your smiles. You should be very proud. You have all worked hard and I hope and pray you have a very fruitful harvest. Happy Eating!!
Wow, Wow, Wow...you guys have put in sooooo much hard work...now you are getting to see the rewards...great gardens! We are much smaller scale but have been so pleased with our harvests! We have switched several brands of different veggies and are amazed at how well they are doing! I just canned 14 pints of contender green beans from my 1'st harvest...so I know I will be busy with a lot of canning this season! God Bless!
I used the ground cover this year with soaker hoses, I dug out my holes before I put it down and filled the hole with really moist compost and then put down my fabric and cut my holes out. My plants have only been in the ground since the fifteen of may and it is growing unbelievably fast . I will never plant a till garden again . Thank you so much for showing me how to do this
Just amazing! Have you ever done a video on the pantry and storage for your bounties? I converted an old bedroom. Still got more shelves to build but nervous about it all fitting. God Bless
Farmer John, they did a Q and A a little while back and explained that they don’t really have a large pantry area, they have a little section in their hallway and then they put the rest in extra spaces under beds in closets etc.
You should look into red worms for making own compost, you’re in a good climate for them. They are a gardener’s best friend! Instead of buying your compost you’ll be able to make your own in little time and no turning the compost or anything. So healthy for the garden!
I honestly would have thought with all your animals and wood vegetation on the property you would produce all the compost you could ever use. We have an 1 acre total garden space in use and 4 horses supply more manure then we need along with the old contaminated hay. We add in our kitchen and plant scrapes. We even composted a few of the farm animal carcasses in a couple piles. Road kill works well also. Between all the manure and vegetation/leaves etc you certainly have the resources should you choose to make tons of great compost. A good quality chipper if you have a decent amount of forest area is worth it. Overall decomposed wood makes some of the very best loamy compost. You can also make your own biochar to add to it. That would make a cool video as well.
I have a small container garden. I wish I was young and have the land to enjoy growing in. I will dehydrate and can a lot. Husband decided to repair front deck so it will be a busy summer. I enjoy watching your videos. Makes me dream of a farm. Of course love the critters your raising.
RN in KC here! thank you for all your wonderful tips, we are learning how to garden thanks to you guys, we have a small urban backyard but is big enough to plant a small vegetable garden. I purchased the ground cover last week and can't wait to put it down. Thanks!!
We have really appreciated watching your videos lately. I found your channel right as we were starting our garden. Because of your recommendations for the woven ground cover, we ended up using it. It’s amazing and has made life so much more enjoyable gardening! Thank you!
My favorite place for my culinary herb garden is by the kitchen door. It's a quick harvest for cooking. My medicinal herbs are interplanted among my vegetables.
I asked a question a couple days ago from a vlog that was done earlier..... I asked whether or not you were sustained completely by UA-cam, no need to respond, I have looked through your past videos and I have found the answer that I am looking for. Congratulations to you Kevin and Sarah for being completely debt free..... kudos to you both. I absolutely love your Channel!!!!
I suspect the difference in the potatoes is the far end is in shade while the other end appears to be in full sunshine when you shot the footage. Gardens look super this year! Nice work guys!
We just got done planting our garden last night! Complete with woven ground cover! Can’t wait to see how it does with our crazy invasive weeds here in NE ND!
You are so inspiring to me!! Thanks to your previous detailed video on the drip tape I was able to get my pumpkin/watermelon patch set up with it!! It was sooo easy I love how it turned out. You are both so helpful, you've definitely made me a better gardener. Can't wait for your new place and all you do with it! ❤❤🍉🍉😁😁
I love your way of growing potatoes, no hilling required. What a time saver! I'm excited to see the harvest. All of your hard work is definitely paying off. I'm with you Kevin, can't wait to munch those fresh tomatoes! Good luck catching the critter damaging the bucket crops.
Great garden tour! I wanted to mention that when you showed the difference in the potatoes, it looked like the back half gets more shade so maybe that could be the difference in growth instead of the seed potato.
I just ordered 2 of your cookbooks can't wait to get them. I raise new Zealand whites for my family only. God bless your family I'm learning a lot from your canning and cooking videos. Luv your family!
Try dehydrating the green's and saving them in a jar. You can use them in soup's and salad's during the winter. Rain Country does it, she has video's on it. I got my dehydrator and will be doing it this year. We've been building our raised beds and will start planting this weekend. The temp's have been all over the place. Trying to get hoop's/low tunnel's over alot of the bed's. Sure wish spring had come on time and been really a good one. Would be done with most of the building and planting. But making the best of thing's. Thank's so much for all the great info/video's. Wish my garden was as far along as your's and as beautiful. Thing's are looking wonderful at your place. Stay safe and healthy. God bless
I tried the method of Gardening with Leon.....my tomatoes are doing very well and I do not have to water everyday....he grows soooo many veggies in his greenhouse....just a suggestion to take a look...... I take branches and place them around my buckets so as to keep animals and our cat out...she thinks it’s great to crawl up into a plant and lay down for a snooze. I bought Tulle fabric, it’s 54” by 40 yards from Amazon ...I think it was $12.....and I cut a piece and wrap it around the sticks and clip with clothespins to keep insects out of my brassicas ..works great also when plants are small to keep squirrels and chipmunks from having a snack...
If you have place with good drainage you may want to plant the hedge type of Rosemary. It makes a nice hedge, bees love the blossoms, it smells wonderful when you run your hands over the leaves, it also has medicinal properties, as well as it is nice in cooking.
Suggestion: can use a bungee cord to keep a load secure on a hand-truck. For example, I have 2'x2'x3'H racks I built for firewood that I can move around with a hand-truck alone. Once they're balanced, the bungee cord will account for any bumps, etc. Same thing with garbage cans of compost.
We used to do a half acre of potatoes. Dad would plow a row & I'd follow behind & drop in potato pieces & he'd go next & cover each row. Then leave them alone. Later brush hogged then ran the plow & pick thru the ground. Then ran plow through cross ways. Pick thru, plow 1 more time. Any potato that was cut from plow was used immediately the rest was put on shelves of wire to dry & store... often we had potatoes all winter. We were lazy farmers...lol
Just found you. Love what you are doing. We planted cucumbers with our corn when we were young. Racoons stopped bothering the corn because they don't like prickly vines. Also we didn't have to bend over to pick cucumbers since they grew up the corn stalks!
Loved seeing the progress so far. You guys are doing an amazing job (and you seem like such a great couple, very like minded! That’s good! 😉) Stay well!
Now I am motivated to post a video of my porch container garden ... Potato... Onion ... Garlic ... Sweet pepper ... Tomato ... Mint ... Chive ... Raspberry ... Strawberry ... Onion bed weed looks like one here that makes underground runners ... Now you need a bee hive ...
Good 🌄 you gotta looking 👍 out there. my plants never looked that amazing ! I 🙏 🙏 that everyone be safe from that virus, bad weather and all the violence in your community. I wanna thank you guys for sharing and i 💘 your channel. God Bless You and continue the 👍 work!
One good tip to use way less dirt in your large containers used for more shallow rooted plants is to fill the bottom 1/2 of the container with old water bottles (with the lids on to keep them from getting crushed), and then fill the rest of the way with your dirt. Saves dirt and money, and makes the very large containers much lighter :). Also, check out the Ruth Stout method for potatoes! Sooooooo easy, and yields such a gigantic harvest!
You can use vinegar to take away the weeds it harmless for the vegetables but the weeds dies, what a wonderful garden, you will be busy at harvest time 😊👍
Malabar spinach would love the high heat in your greenhouse, all summer, and it is abundant and delicious. loves to sprout around 80 degrees. I regularly put it in my eggs in the morning with onion greens and some cheese, my instant omelet.
A 4th generation farmer told me that squash bugs like the color yellow. Paint a board yellow, place it in your plant bed and you can easily pick off the bugs.
Everything is looking great guys. I love watching you two all the time. You work so hard and everything looks great. Thanks for showing us how the watering system works, it does a great job. Sara you could put tullé over them all the way across those buckets to help keep the opossums out, it's not that expensive and works great and will last for several years. love you guys again and God bless.🌻🌻🌻🙏💕😊
A raised bed of strawberries would be great! They do well for early summer harvest in your part of the Ozarks. You could make preserves for the winter.
I am really looking forward to see how your potatoes do under the woven ground cover. I planted the same way this year. I have 2 40' rows of Red Pontiac and 2 of Kennebec. I tilled the area, added leaf mold. Added the cover and burned holes every 12". Drip tape on top with an emitter over each hole. I planted my seed pieces 4 to 6 inches deep. All have come up. My Red Pontiac were first and are starting to bloom right now. I have had lots of criticism of not being able to hill them. I think the cover will keep the potatoes from getting sun burn, depress weeds definitely. When done, pull the tape, cut the tops, pull the cover and start digging! I guess we will both see.
Not much space so am doing a container gardening. Had my grandkids over for the weekend and made some potatoe salad for them. Well the potatoes had started to grow some roots. They asked if they could plant them. Well am nana so I went got some soil we used disposable cups. We planted those skins with roots. Am thinking there's no way they will grow. But they sure did and kept growing. So that's the start of my container garden. And of course I had to get some more for them to plant flowers, tomato, pepper,squash ,zucchini these were bought at a Lowe's as transplants. So will see how our container garden grows
I planted potatoes for the first time this year. I used the woven ground fabric like i do with my veggie garden and they are looking great. Zone 6a has been crazy weather wise we had snow 4 weeks ago. Everything looks great. I need to get ahold of some of those crystelx pots... Great resource.
Can you please do a vlog re: selling your produce, etc. at the farmer’s market? Is the farmer’s market your only source of revenue (other than UA-cam)? Please speak on this aspect of homesteading. Thanks!!!
To Keep the cut worms from cutting the plants. Take a small twig . Push it into the ground next to the stem of the plant. Worms can't wrap around the stem of the plant. A nail works just as well.
Looking good Kevin & Sarah!! Thank you for the update, I was really wondering about how the potatoes were doing. Please keep doing updates throughout the season. Also, if you could do a video on how you deal with pest control that would be helpful! I planted green beans the first time this year and the slugs are decimating them! Thank you so much for you videos!
you might look into diatomaceous earth. i had never heard of it but someone recommended it for helping with some bugs i found in my flour and other things. in reading about it it was mentioned that it was good for getting rid of slugs. it also seems to be good for just about everything. hope you check into it. let me know. dakotafarmgirl
Love your videos. I do such a great job. Your gardens look great and will surely keep u busy. I am doing just one small raised bed and some pots. We have had a cold spring so not much is doing all that good, except the tomatoes. I cannot garden much but I do like fresh tomatoes and pickles. Have fun gardening.
I'm just about done with summer squash. I'm experimenting with Cucuzzi to see if it will be a good replacement for my family. The squirrels gave you a black walnut tree in your onion bed! I love how everything is set up and the different experiments. Can't wait to see how it all turns out. Killed my first cucumber beetle of the season today.
I also tried my potatoes under the ground cover this year for the first time. I had to remove the cover because the plants came up not matching the holes. They are doing amazing though. I used shredded leaves as a mulch.
Man! I've been following your family for years now and I'm still addicted to your channel because of your families love. Awesome group of human beings!!!
Everything looks great! You guys have worked so hard!!
You both make me wish I was younger. Live through watching you. Much love 🌻
I’ve been narrowing down who I watch about homesteading. And I have to say y’all have one of the best channels out there 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Of all the homestead video channels out there that I have seen ya'll by far give the most useful/useable information. You do it in a way that is just a pleasure to watch. Thank you for all you do.
I cannot wait for a video of your potato harvest! There's just something so satisfying watching potato harvested. I bet yours is going to be amazing!
I so agree. I love watching potatoes being harvested.
I just dug up about 20 (small ones) from my garden just the other day. Then, I stuck some more seed potatoes in the same spot!
I cried at all those holes drilled in the buckets. You may want to checkout how to make water saving (self watering) planters. Good videos by Leon on how to make them.
Good morning 🌞☕
I'm a wildlife rehabber here in NC & I have a suggestion on your possible possum issue. I specialize in opossums & absolutely love them. You could try putting out a dish of food for them in the area you're having the issue. A trailcam will capture what is really trashing your plants. But, then every evening, move the offering of food closer & closer to the woods & away from your plants. Hopefully that would "train" them to stay away. Things you could offer are fresh veggies, yogurt, fruits, raw paultry with bones, fish & so on. I wouldn't give eggs as you don't want them stealing your eggs. If you have any questions, feel free to message me. Best if luck 🥰👍
What do you think about setting some live trapping traps to get them a bit upset and then releasing them in the woods? I also think possums are wonderful creatures.
That would just invite all the other wildlife to join them.
I love possums!!!!
I t was great that Christy gave Kevin and Sarah the info about possums training. It amazes me still that there rare so many people ready and available to help each other. We hear about the bad of our world but not enough of the GOOD.
@@loissouthard5619 Kevin & sarah have better things to do than feed possums, racoons and other predatory vermins. Let dumb christy and you feed them.
First, I am addicted to your videos. I tell my wife about them all the time. Now, when you were talking about your raised potato bed you mentioned that the half with whole potatoes had grown larger than the half of the bed with the pieces. I noticed that during your video the half with the potatoes cut into pieces was in the shade. Is that the case the rest of the day, because that could certainly make the difference. My wife and I are absolutely fascinated to see how your potato experiment turns out. We are not homesteaders, but we do live on 55 acres in New Hampshire. You have a long lovely growing season. Our growing season is about an hour and a half in the middle of July. It has been a struggle for us to get things in the ground early enough or keep them in the ground long enough to get decent harvests. Thank you both for sharing your journey with us!
Those big buckets are nice! I got my hands on some and plant my potatoes in them. One thing I like to do that might be a help for you, I drill holes in the rim and put rope handles on both sides. It makes it very easy to move those heavy pots.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I just run a piece of rope through the holes and tie a knot on both ends to keep it tucked under the lip but it can't slip through the holes 👍🏻 I used to just lift by the rim but the ropes have been a huge upgrade!
Where can I buy those black buckets??
TheLissabee I think they said they get them from the dairy farmers...I believe some kind of feed or minerals come in them.
TheLissabee you can get new ones (similar to these) from feed stores and hardware stores. I found some at menards for $8 a piece which I thought was a good price. You can also use the really big flower pots and add handles. I've found those xx-large flower pots at garage sales for a buck or two. Menards had liners for the half whisk barrels. They work very well too. Hope that gives you a couple of ideas. You could check with livestock farmers and ranchers in your area and see if they have them. (Left over mineral block buckets that is what they did)
My aunt always grew pinto beans and then canned them as GREEN BEANS! She simply picked them early, cut them up and threw in some of the beans that had been shelled. Obviously she harvested them before they were dried on the vine. In our family, they are famous. Now I sooo want to learn her recipe. I want to say thank you so much for your channel. My husband and I have learned so many things that have helped us in our own garden. We have been encouraged to venture further into the world of self sustainability. I know I am blessed to already have the basic skills of gardening and preservation but your videos have taught me more and I am eager to try new things. Thank you and God bless!
Seeing large gardens and having my small garden, makes me envious in some ways, and relieved in others. Just witnessing the garden growing, and the bounty setting would be wonderful. But with larger gardens comes more pest and disease issues, more potential pest issues, and when the fruit is ready, endless hours of harvesting, tying plants to trellises, removing dying or diseases leaves and branches, cleaning the harvest, and preserving in the heat of summer. I guess I will be happy with my too small garden. If I were younger like you 2, and had someone to work with me, your gardens would be my playground.
A big help for those who may have limited resources or budget for composting deep buckets or beds-use rotted logs or branches, pour a thick layer of manure over the top and then add your dirt. Burned limbs/logs are great as well, and they provide lots of good nutrients under your plant babies. It's especially great if you have HUGE raised beds you need to fill.
Things are lookin' great!! I have to say it again... "What a team you are!! You compliment each other sooo well!" I love your videos!!
It's always nice seeing the chores and all but this video was truly enjoyable seeing all the plantings and progress. Thank you.
Hi! I followed your suggestion and went to my grocery store and Yes!!! the bakery department gave me away some big food grade buckets that they did not need anymore and were going to be recycled. I will plant my peppers in them. My backyard is not that big but the bucket-planting great idea, thank you. God bless you, stay safe, stay healthy and keep growing. Love
The Black covering over the greenhouse is making it much hotter!
So many plants! It's going to look like the garden of Eden out there in a few weeks! You guys are doing an awesome job! Can't wait to see how much harvest your family gets.
Bless y’all’s hearts! I love watching you work. Wish I had that energy again!! Beautiful garden and family. Much to be proud of!!
I took your suggestion and went with ground cover this year and completely re did my watering system was soaker hoses pretty awesome follow your video faithfully worked out great.Wife and I have 1/3 of an acre for a garden so the ground cover was very important for weeds control and time management. Thank you again, keep up the teaching
Beautiful gardens. Great tour, Kevin and Sarah. I was the editor of a major Home & Garden publication for many years and deeply appreciate knowledgeable people like you two sharing that knowledge and experience with others. I am a big believer in drip irrigation, not only because it works but also it saves lots of water resources and money. Really interested to see how your weeding approach works with the sweet corn. Always fun to tag along on your homestead.
I know you are very excited. I can see it in your smiles. You should be very proud. You have all worked hard and I hope and pray you have a very fruitful harvest. Happy Eating!!
I enjoy watching you design and plant your gardens. They all look beautiful!
Wow, Wow, Wow...you guys have put in sooooo much hard work...now you are getting to see the rewards...great gardens! We are much smaller scale but have been so pleased with our harvests! We have switched several brands of different veggies and are amazed at how well they are doing! I just canned 14 pints of contender green beans from my 1'st harvest...so I know I will be busy with a lot of canning this season! God Bless!
Those DIMPLES!!! and when she smiles that cheeky lil grin.. You two are too cute.
I used the ground cover this year with soaker hoses, I dug out my holes before I put it down and filled the hole with really moist compost and then put down my fabric and cut my holes out. My plants have only been in the ground since the fifteen of may and it is growing unbelievably fast . I will never plant a till garden again . Thank you so much for showing me how to do this
Just amazing! Have you ever done a video on the pantry and storage for your bounties? I converted an old bedroom. Still got more shelves to build but nervous about it all fitting. God Bless
Farmer John, they did a Q and A a little while back and explained that they don’t really have a large pantry area, they have a little section in their hallway and then they put the rest in extra spaces under beds in closets etc.
You should look into red worms for making own compost, you’re in a good climate for them. They are a gardener’s best friend! Instead of buying your compost you’ll be able to make your own in little time and no turning the compost or anything. So healthy for the garden!
Yes!!! Not only do they make great compost quickly, the worm 'castings' aka poop make it even better. Get red wigglers worms from a bait store.
Chris Moore red wigglers good to know 🤘🏻
I honestly would have thought with all your animals and wood vegetation on the property you would produce all the compost you could ever use. We have an 1 acre total garden space in use and 4 horses supply more manure then we need along with the old contaminated hay. We add in our kitchen and plant scrapes. We even composted a few of the farm animal carcasses in a couple piles. Road kill works well also.
Between all the manure and vegetation/leaves etc you certainly have the resources should you choose to make tons of great compost. A good quality chipper if you have a decent amount of forest area is worth it. Overall decomposed wood makes some of the very best loamy compost. You can also make your own biochar to add to it. That would make a cool video as well.
I have a small container garden. I wish I was young and have the land to enjoy growing in. I will dehydrate and can a lot. Husband decided to repair front deck so it will be a busy summer. I enjoy watching your videos. Makes me dream of a farm. Of course love the critters your raising.
RN in KC here! thank you for all your wonderful tips, we are learning how to garden thanks to you guys, we have a small urban backyard but is big enough to plant a small vegetable garden. I purchased the ground cover last week and can't wait to put it down. Thanks!!
We have really appreciated watching your videos lately. I found your channel right as we were starting our garden. Because of your recommendations for the woven ground cover, we ended up using it. It’s amazing and has made life so much more enjoyable gardening! Thank you!
My favorite place for my culinary herb garden is by the kitchen door. It's a quick harvest for cooking. My medicinal herbs are interplanted among my vegetables.
Loved the garden tour, your garden and greenhouse planting into the big buckets are looking amazing right now.
Loved watching, just marvel how you kids work so well together to make all of this work.
I asked a question a couple days ago from a vlog that was done earlier..... I asked whether or not you were sustained completely by UA-cam, no need to respond, I have looked through your past videos and I have found the answer that I am looking for. Congratulations to you Kevin and Sarah for being completely debt free..... kudos to you both. I absolutely love your Channel!!!!
Lunchbox Peppers are my favorite. Very sweet and productive!
Everything looks beautiful! Hard workers! Bless you both!
Thank you. Please keep doing the garden updates.
Awesome 😎 video! I am soooo thrilled to be watching along on your gardening experience 🌱🍅🥬🍠🌽🧄 Blessings from Ohio ❤️
You guys are amazing gardening couple. I love your teamwork and everything looks so organized. Have a blessed day!
Wow! Thai is a LOT of garden to take care of! It all looks beautiful!
All of our supplies for the watering system and fabric came today.. We are so excited!!! Thank you for sharing. We love you guy's!!!
Your rewards come thru the sweat of your brow!!! Good for your family. You have a wonderful garden and homestead. Bless you!
Interesting and fun garden tour to watch. Thank you for sharing this lovely video...
You're both looking very healthy and well..
I suspect the difference in the potatoes is the far end is in shade while the other end appears to be in full sunshine when you shot the footage. Gardens look super this year! Nice work guys!
I plant lunch box peppers every year. Love putting cream cheese in halves. Yummy!
Thank you for sharing part of your life with us. This is the best channel in my opinion. Love watching and learning from you. 😊🙏🏻
We just got done planting our garden last night! Complete with woven ground cover! Can’t wait to see how it does with our crazy invasive weeds here in NE ND!
Your garden has got yo be the most organized garden I've ever seen ... just so you know I am trying to grow in buckets this year on my back porch
You are so inspiring to me!! Thanks to your previous detailed video on the drip tape I was able to get my pumpkin/watermelon patch set up with it!! It was sooo easy I love how it turned out. You are both so helpful, you've definitely made me a better gardener. Can't wait for your new place and all you do with it! ❤❤🍉🍉😁😁
I love your way of growing potatoes, no hilling required. What a time saver! I'm excited to see the harvest. All of your hard work is definitely paying off. I'm with you Kevin, can't wait to munch those fresh tomatoes! Good luck catching the critter damaging the bucket crops.
I'm so happy that you are posting more videos. You really brighten my day!
What was that device that Kevin used to cut the weed fabric?
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Great garden tour! I wanted to mention that when you showed the difference in the potatoes, it looked like the back half gets more shade so maybe that could be the difference in growth instead of the seed potato.
What a fantastic garden. As always, your videos are so inspiring and I love to see the progress. God Bless!
I just ordered 2 of your cookbooks can't wait to get them. I raise new Zealand whites for my family only. God bless your family I'm learning a lot from your canning and cooking videos. Luv your family!
You both have such amazing work ethic! Great looking 🌱 ☺️
Try dehydrating the green's and saving them in a jar. You can use them in soup's and salad's during the winter. Rain Country does it, she has video's on it. I got my dehydrator and will be doing it this year. We've been building our raised beds and will start planting this weekend. The temp's have been all over the place. Trying to get hoop's/low tunnel's over alot of the bed's. Sure wish spring had come on time and been really a good one. Would be done with most of the building and planting. But making the best of thing's. Thank's so much for all the great info/video's. Wish my garden was as far along as your's and as beautiful. Thing's are looking wonderful at your place. Stay safe and healthy. God bless
Thanks for the update on the gardens! 🤗👍❤🙏
I tried the method of Gardening with Leon.....my tomatoes are doing very well and I do not have to water everyday....he grows soooo many veggies in his greenhouse....just a suggestion to take a look......
I take branches and place them around my buckets so as to keep animals and our cat out...she thinks it’s great to crawl up into a plant and lay down for a snooze.
I bought Tulle fabric, it’s 54” by 40 yards from Amazon ...I think it was $12.....and I cut a piece and wrap it around the sticks and clip with clothespins to keep insects out of my brassicas ..works great also when plants are small to keep squirrels and chipmunks from having a snack...
Thanks for sharing with us Kevin and Sarah, looks great aroma there 👍👍. Fred.
If you have place with good drainage you may want to plant the hedge type of Rosemary. It makes a nice hedge, bees love the blossoms, it smells wonderful when you run your hands over the leaves, it also has medicinal properties, as well as it is nice in cooking.
Suggestion: can use a bungee cord to keep a load secure on a hand-truck. For example, I have 2'x2'x3'H racks I built for firewood that I can move around with a hand-truck alone. Once they're balanced, the bungee cord will account for any bumps, etc. Same thing with garbage cans of compost.
We used to do a half acre of potatoes. Dad would plow a row & I'd follow behind & drop in potato pieces & he'd go next & cover each row. Then leave them alone. Later brush hogged then ran the plow & pick thru the ground. Then ran plow through cross ways. Pick thru, plow 1 more time. Any potato that was cut from plow was used immediately the rest was put on shelves of wire to dry & store... often we had potatoes all winter. We were lazy farmers...lol
I love watching how fast your garden takes off !
Just found you. Love what you are doing. We planted cucumbers with our corn when we were young. Racoons stopped bothering the corn because they don't like prickly vines. Also we didn't have to bend over to pick cucumbers since they grew up the corn stalks!
Loved seeing the progress so far. You guys are doing an amazing job (and you seem like such a great couple, very like minded! That’s good! 😉)
Stay well!
Dont forget your brassica greens, not just fruit. The broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage leaves are amazing sauteed.
Now I am motivated to post a video of my porch container garden ... Potato... Onion ... Garlic ... Sweet pepper ... Tomato ... Mint ... Chive ... Raspberry ... Strawberry ... Onion bed weed looks like one here that makes underground runners ... Now you need a bee hive ...
I’m installing your drip system today. My drip tubing is stretched out getting rid of the curl right now!
Good 🌄 you gotta looking 👍 out there. my plants never looked that amazing ! I 🙏 🙏 that everyone be safe from that virus, bad weather and all the violence in your community. I wanna thank you guys for sharing and i 💘 your channel. God Bless You and continue the 👍 work!
One good tip to use way less dirt in your large containers used for more shallow rooted plants is to fill the bottom 1/2 of the container with old water bottles (with the lids on to keep them from getting crushed), and then fill the rest of the way with your dirt. Saves dirt and money, and makes the very large containers much lighter :). Also, check out the Ruth Stout method for potatoes! Sooooooo easy, and yields such a gigantic harvest!
Thanks for the tour! Looking good. We would love to see an update on the outdoor shower area you planted last year! Happy harvest.
You can use vinegar to take away the weeds it harmless for the vegetables but the weeds dies, what a wonderful garden, you will be busy at harvest time 😊👍
Tetti Vestberg what strength vinegar and do you dilute it?
Hello Kiddo's you all make us tired just watching you Good Job ,,,,,Old marine Homestead ,,,,prayers
Malabar spinach would love the high heat in your greenhouse, all summer, and it is abundant and delicious. loves to sprout around 80 degrees. I regularly put it in my eggs in the morning with onion greens and some cheese, my instant omelet.
I'm from joplin Missouri nice to see some people from around my area on here
I planted lunch box peppers as well. We'll see how they do in my desert. Its pretty hot here until late September. They are in full sun as well.
You folks have everything set up so wonderfully. Plants coming to life. Lots of work paying off.
Looks great 👍 we have planted everything except our beans and corn. Those will get planted this weekend.
A 4th generation farmer told me that squash bugs like the color yellow. Paint a board yellow, place it in your plant bed and you can easily pick off the bugs.
Those Buckets are perfect for patio or balcony.Nice height for easier access.Less bending/stooping
And bigger pots are always better! They dry out less and don't get as hot in the summer as smaller ones. Great recycling too!
I have stacked recycled pallets I get free about 2 or 3 high to make them higher and discourage animals.
Everything is looking great guys. I love watching you two all the time. You work so hard and everything looks great. Thanks for showing us how the watering system works, it does a great job. Sara you could put tullé over them all the way across those buckets to help keep the opossums out, it's not that expensive and works great and will last for several years. love you guys again and God bless.🌻🌻🌻🙏💕😊
You're both looking very healthy! Awesome garden, giving me tons of ideas for mine someday!
A raised bed of strawberries would be great! They do well for early summer harvest in your part of the Ozarks. You could make preserves for the winter.
I am really looking forward to see how your potatoes do under the woven ground cover. I planted the same way this year. I have 2 40' rows of Red Pontiac and 2 of Kennebec. I tilled the area, added leaf mold. Added the cover and burned holes every 12". Drip tape on top with an emitter over each hole. I planted my seed pieces 4 to 6 inches deep. All have come up. My Red Pontiac were first and are starting to bloom right now. I have had lots of criticism of not being able to hill them. I think the cover will keep the potatoes from getting sun burn, depress weeds definitely. When done, pull the tape, cut the tops, pull the cover and start digging! I guess we will both see.
Not much space so am doing a container gardening. Had my grandkids over for the weekend and made some potatoe salad for them. Well the potatoes had started to grow some roots. They asked if they could plant them. Well am nana so I went got some soil we used disposable cups. We planted those skins with roots. Am thinking there's no way they will grow. But they sure did and kept growing. So that's the start of my container garden. And of course I had to get some more for them to plant flowers, tomato, pepper,squash ,zucchini these were bought at a Lowe's as transplants. So will see how our container garden grows
Just an FYI (I’m in Texas County MO), my summer squash is doing FABULOUS in the High Tunnel as everything else is bolting.
I planted potatoes for the first time this year. I used the woven ground fabric like i do with my veggie garden and they are looking great. Zone 6a has been crazy weather wise we had snow 4 weeks ago. Everything looks great. I need to get ahold of some of those crystelx pots... Great resource.
Potato bed looks great. Possibly trim back trees, not enough sun on end of bed. ☺
Can you please do a vlog re: selling your produce, etc. at the farmer’s market? Is the farmer’s market your only source of revenue (other than UA-cam)? Please speak on this aspect of homesteading. Thanks!!!
Thank you for the tour. Love your descriptions. Good luck...
To Keep the cut worms from cutting the plants. Take a small twig . Push it into the ground next to the stem of the plant. Worms can't wrap around the stem of the plant. A nail works just as well.
Great garden! Thanks for sharing all your labor.😀
Looking good Kevin & Sarah!! Thank you for the update, I was really wondering about how the potatoes were doing. Please keep doing updates throughout the season. Also, if you could do a video on how you deal with pest control that would be helpful! I planted green beans the first time this year and the slugs are decimating them! Thank you so much for you videos!
I hear you. I mulched with newspaper to keep the weeds down and had the worst slug infestation, never could get rid of them it was so discouraging.
you might look into diatomaceous earth. i had never heard of it but someone recommended it for helping with some bugs i found in my flour and other things. in reading about it it was mentioned that it was good for getting rid of slugs. it also seems to be good for just about everything. hope you check into it. let me know.
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Love your videos. I do such a great job. Your gardens look great and will surely keep u busy. I am doing just one small raised bed and some pots. We have had a cold spring so not much is doing all that good, except the tomatoes. I cannot garden much but I do like fresh tomatoes and pickles. Have fun gardening.
I'm just about done with summer squash. I'm experimenting with Cucuzzi to see if it will be a good replacement for my family. The squirrels gave you a black walnut tree in your onion bed! I love how everything is set up and the different experiments. Can't wait to see how it all turns out. Killed my first cucumber beetle of the season today.
You two are awesome....God bless you💝
There is alot more shade on the half potato bed, the full potatoes seem to have full sun. That may be a contributing factor. BLESSINGS, -Kate
I also tried my potatoes under the ground cover this year for the first time. I had to remove the cover because the plants came up not matching the holes. They are doing amazing though. I used shredded leaves as a mulch.