Final Step Every Gardener Should Take | Strawbale Garden Wrapup
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- Опубліковано 11 лис 2021
- It's that time of the year again. Time to put the garden beds to rest for the cold winter months ahead of us. We try to mimic nature as much as possible for projects like this. Do do this with what we have on hand at the time - grass clippings mixed with leaves work best. But just leaves will do just fine if that's all you have. Even Pine straw will work just fine. Add a nice layer 3-5 inches deep and just leave it there until spring. The snow will come, back it all down, and saturate it with moisture.
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So very happy to hear you, Rachel, giving our Lord Jesus all the Glory for your garden. God Bless
I love how you gave Jesus the credit! And I admire how you two work together, my husband has always thought everything is my job, he is a retired Physician Assistant, now has Alzheimer’s. You guys are blessed, and a blessing!!
So very sorry. God bless you in your caregiving. I was my mom's caregiver for her last 2 1/2 years. What a blessing she was able to remain in her home. Hospice came twice a week.
It would be so awesome to have a wonderful marriage like these two have. If we could only be so lucky
Goodnight Garden, sleep tight till Spring! You guys did a wonderful job, such an awesome team. Thank the Lord for His blessings. He always comes through for us. Praise Him! Enjoy your dinner date guys, hugs...
Whew! We just caught a breath. We've been doing the same and been SO busy! Sorry for it taking so long for a comment, guys. We're so glad the straw bales worked as you'd hoped. We don't ever want ours to break down to that extent (too messy), as ours stand with the original twine only, all season. Our lawn sweeper is our fall best friend too!😁 Your garlic harvest turned out great! On 10/13, we planted 117 cloves, plus 14 Elephant Garlic cloves. It's our first time with the Elephant Garlic! Stellar job getting the garden all wrapped up for winter! Love you! God bless! 😗💪🏆🙏💗
Those mulit-colored leaves that you spread were pretty, and looked like nature confetti. 🙂
Great to hear you give Glory to God and his creation. Love watching your video’s
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What you said about chemicals is so true. I watch "Deep South Homestead" and Danny had bought some round bales of hay for his Dexters. He put their manure in the compost pile and didn't find out for some time the the hay fields had been sprayed. He put the compost in the greenhouse and nothing would grow. So, if you buy hay or straw, be sure it's not contaminated. I like the way you get it all ready for winter. The soil is a living thing and must be feed. Feeding it with something it recognizes is important. Good video.
Very true!
The other thing that Danny said was that it had been sold to him as organically grown BUT they DID NOT say that as they cut it, it was chemically (Grazon) sprayed. So they could claim the organically grown label - nothing says that they need to say that they spray as its harvested.
That's why Danny & a few others have been having "fun" finding their hay now. They've learned what questions to ask those that grow it.
They were also told that the cows could eat the Grazon with no problems, BUT it could kill horses - the differences being in how their stomachs process it.
Grazon-its a nightmare for growing.
Loved watching this one. We've got plenty of leaves to cover the garden with this fall since the grasshoppers ate all the seedlings that came up. Jesus does give us all we need. The more I garden, the more I see Him in everything else I do.
Leaves are a great resource! We took a rocky barren hillside and tilled in leaves every year for close to ten years and now that has the richest black soil to garden in.
Thank you for your continued witness!❤️
Good job!! It all looks great! Now our gardens rest from a summer abundance. Thanks for a very nice video. 🍂 🍁
I absolutely loved this video but I am sorry you had to work so hard Rachel! The beautiful thing is that even when you get tired, you don't seem to mind. You just calmly perform your chores knowing what the benefit will be. I'm not a homesteader or gardener and didn't know this is what is meant by soil amendment. I literally thought you had to shovel every spot, adding something, to amend the soil. Thanks for teaching us!
Covering nature with nature..love it...Rachel, awesome you gave credit to the Lord for his provisions...all the credit to you guys for showing us how to make the most of it 🤗🤗🤗💓
Thank you! Thank you!! This was just what I needed! This was my first year with a larger garden and a lot that I have done has been pure guess work with a little dose of knowledge. I live in the north, and I have been second guessing myself since I put my beds to sleep. This is almost exactly what I did. But will remember to make my compost thicker next time! I really appreciated this video!! Thank you so much! Be well from South western Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Fun seeing your fall routine and helpful too. I was considering using leaves but hadn't settled on it yet. Now I have! My husband always did all that and he passed away 5 weeks ago. I'm trying very hard to keep his beautiful garden as he did. It calms me being out there too. On a side note: I also harvested way more garlic than I can use in 5 years lol. Easy to over plant garlic, isn't it. Now if I can just get the lawnmower to start I will be mulching with leaves! Then to study what to do with our youngish fruit trees. So much to learn.
Hello love, I hope that the garden continues to be a connection for you. I am sure he would be so happy to see you continue the garden as you are able. Do not let it become a burden or chore as that would really detract from the connection. So maintain the amount that make you happy. May God bless you give you grace and peace for this journey. bye for now
Sorry to hear about your loss, May he RIP
Thank you…you made me realize what I knew but had forgotten. We went to a local cemetery that was doing their fall cleanup of leaves and helped ourselves to 2 truckloads of leaves! They were already piled up and the guy doing the work told us to take all we wanted!
For some reason we don’t get as many leaves as we need!
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Oh wow! And they did most of the work for you ♥
My heart glows when you give thanks and credit to the One who matters above all.
At our old place we never left our beds naked. We had a small garden and had plenty of compost we made ourselves. The compost we used throughout the year as side dressing, mulch, or amendments.
Now being that we moved onto our new homestead this year, we have a harder time finding and creating compost since we have have chickens and more worms to feed our food waste too.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Great to see yawl! Very interesting to see this, here in central Texas we really don't do this until January. We are very close to setting up out UA-cam page and should have our first video this weekend. God Bless you two!
I'm in Arlington, so I can attest to this!!! And there's that whole "Texas has two seasons. One is summer and lasts for 11 months. The other is pre-summer."
Where in Texas are you cared? I'm north central Texas. Can't wait for your channel!!
i am so thankful for this video!...this is a huge informational benefit for me as this was my first year having a garden since i bought my homestead this year! I appreciate you 2 i have learned so much!
Hi Rachel and Todd. That is a good one. "Putting the garden to bed for the winter". I am so glad you took the time to get ready for next year. God Bless you Rachel and Todd. The two of you are awesome and so amazing. I wanted to let the two of you know that I am going through therapy now. Hope to get my shoulder strong enough to get back to work. I will give you more updates later. Stay safe my friends. Maria. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😀😀😀😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
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Blessings to all!
One of your best informative videos!!
All tucked in and ready for a good winter's nap! I could almost smell the leaves and feel the chill in the air! Fall is the best season! 🍁🍂🍁
Hey there! We are in Michigan too! Glad I found your channel.
Welcome!! ♥
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What a satisfying moment for you guys. Well done once again this year!
Rachel I think it's time for a quick tour of your eyeglasses ❤️ I think we have the same obsession!
Thank you for sharing your tips! I’m taking notes! I cannot wait for spring!
Rachel,you are the sweetest hard working young women
Definitely doing straw bale gardens next year! Thanks
Great tips
Great video Rachel 😊 loved watching you put your garden to bed
Ohmygoodness! All of that yummy material! Garden Gold!!
And its free ♥
Enjoyed watching this! Thank you so much for all you both do❤🙏🏼
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Super video, as usual.
Thank you! Cheers! ♥
Been using leaves for several years....the gardens love it!
Thank you, I so enjoyed this video
Glad you enjoyed it! ♥
Hey Y'all I just got my garlic in this week three varieties from Wisconsin so the will grow well here in Minnesota. I prepared my onion beds and covered with straw so they will be ready for bulbs in the early spring. I have all of the Old Alabama Gardener's onion videos saved. I printed a spreadsheet with all the dates and steps he outlines. So I am so excited to see this process next year. I want to try your straw bales garden next year and see how that goes. thank you for the video today I love watching Y'all work together because you work so well together. God Bless y'all this winter spring will come soon enough. bye for now.
May Jesus continue to bless you and your family. 🤗🤗🤗
You do a great job of gardening, Rachel! And it’s so nice that you have help. I wonder if you need more mulch on your garden beds when you have so much rain/snow?
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We started chopping leaves last year and they make great compost! Our tomatoes, peppers and other plants were much healthier. Our township collects leaves to do the same so now we are helping our own gardens.
I’ve got an agrifab gas powered leaf vac and it makes amazing compost. It helps chop the leaves up a bit in the first place, but then you put them in your pile with a nitrogen source, wait a couple weeks and turn it, wait a couple more weeks and suck it back into the leaf vac and it comes out perfectly finished compost. It’s a beautiful thing
If anyone is curious, I changed the setting to public on the photo I uploaded to FB of the pile I made. Just search my name and it should be one of the first posts you see on my page.
Cool, I'll check it out! ♥
I do the same thing. I came home with 25 large bags of leaves last weekend and expected to have more this weekend. I also bed my chickens with them. They get fresh bedding and I get compost at the start of next season. It saves the neighbors from having to take them to the dump and my garden and my chickens benefits too.
Chickens make the BEST compost ♥
I placed some leaves in a few of my garden containers today. I need to do the side garden too but I'm still growing kale and collards in both garden areas.
It rain all day here in Traverse City, Mi too with a little snow.
You just gave me a huge lightbulb moment. I was on the phone to my 82 year old Gran yesterday and she's been raking all the leaves on her lawn areas of the farm and dumping them back under the trees to compost in place. I could help her out by raking the leaves and taking them home for my garden (not that she needs it, she does the lawn mowing, manual push along I might add, and gardening to keep her fit but it's a huge farm for one old lady) . I get left over straw from the farm but it never even occurred to me to go and take some leaves! Sometimes you really someone to point out the obvious :)
Glad to help ♥
Pine straw is great in the chicken run!
That would all blow away here.
I live on top of a windy hill, and they really don't blow away if they've been mulched first!
I use softwood brush on top of the mulch. No wind issues.
Amen
Thank you for that last tid bit of info. My friend has a mulberry tree and has been bagging up the leaves. She called wanting me to color her hair and I asked if she had leaves? Win win! She's bringing me leaves.
That's awesome. Free leaves, and free labor ♥
Love your videos, we’ve learned so much from them. Thanks for sharing. We want to make some raised beds this winter. What do you build your beds out of?
Freeze dry your old garlic and make your own garlic powder! It takes a ton of garlic to make a decent amount, but it's amazing!
Last sweet potato harvest
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I cover crop and mulch my leaves and cover the garden every year. Leaves are a little late falling this year
Hi guys
I heard hard neck garlic lasts 8-10 months or something like that. Soft neck garlic lasts a year which is why you usually find soft neck in the grocery stores. I just planted 73 cloves of garlic. My advice is PLANT YOUR GARLIC! Think of the garlic scapes you will miss out on!
Leaf drop is so late in michigan this year. We got snow last night. Just a few big fluffy flakes that covered the cars and a bit of grass
Oh but I have to ask. Do you have the same issues with first cold/snow and the 100 + year old houses and mice invasion? I've gotten 2 in the past 2 hours 😳 and 1 a night for the past few day not to mention the ones the cats have gifted me by dropping them in bed with me. Lol.
We've gone though the basement and put stainless steel scrubbies in holes aluminum flashing and canning lids on holes etc..
I don't poison after one of my first cats got really sick eating a poisoned mouse(she was fine and lived to 18).
So far just setting out the old snap traps with a pumpkin seed tied to the trigger with peanutbutter smeared on top, seems to work but any other suggestions 🤔?
Oh one last thing. I grow comfrey too. I cut leaves and use them for green chop compost. Its full of good stuff for the soil. It also grows completely bonkers and spreads so you end up with plenty.
I would LOVE to see you plant garlic and tell us where you get it and how you do it! I have tried twice and I get nothing but top growth! Google was not my friend with that project!
We have a lot of videos on planting, harvesting garlic already. Here's some: ua-cam.com/channels/GlnnV1P-cUPZ-laIOL62_Q.htmlsearch?query=garlic
Thank you for sharing great tips such as these as well as sharing your experience and your life with us. :) I for one appreciate it greatly. You guys are one of my favorite channels to watch and I have Rachel to thank for my soup canning days. :) About your garlic...We had a large(ish) harvest and I was trying to determine the best way to store them for future use should we not eat them fast enough and canning isn't recommended (based on what I found). When you froze yours did you freeze the whole head? Each bulb? Did you peel them first? Thank you again! God bless you both! :)
I had my husband chop up a bunch a leaves and put on my garden I didn't know if I was doing the right thing but I guess so
Loved seeing how you ready your garden for winter. I have 6 pots planted with ginger in my front flowerbed. I'll cover if we get a freeze. Do you think they will grow In the pots ok?
It’s that time of year, just picked up 22 bags of leaves. Last year my total was 80 bags, I have a route that I go around to pick the neighbors leafs. Great ending
Free labor is the best ♥
I have no leaves left at all on my trees. We got out first Blizzard yesterday.I live in Northeast South Dakota.
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Thanks for a wonderful demonstration! Will the leaves blow away in the wind?
Not really, when chopped they tend to stay put.
Mulchem if you got em.
Hmm, freezing garlic? Tell us about that, please!
Just peel it and put in a Ziploc freezer bag. Use it like you would regular garlic. 🍀
Yup ♥ Ours aren't even peeled.
Does the lawn sweeper pick up grass cutting in the summer?
I have put leaves on my no dig, no till garden in past years, but it makes a great habitat for slugs. This year I told my husband to just mow over them and leave them under the trees. Do you have slug issues with your garden? It seems the slugs seek refuge in the wood edges on the garden boxes too.
Only in our strawberry beds.
WILL THOSE LEAVES BLOW AWAY?
I seen this from you and did it this winter. But when its time to start planting, do you mix in the leaves in the dirt or keep them there and plant with it like mulch? Ty!
I pull back any that haven't broken down and use for mulch
I'm new at gardening here at my new place, I want to do raised bed gardening, how did you get started and did you plant stuff in it that same year ? The soil here is no good, so that's the only way I can think of to be able to garden here.i want to garden so badly.
What does one do with oak leaves covered in powdery mildew? I've already used these leaves earlier to cover my plant. How do I treat plants contaminated by powdery mildew?
Freeze dry the garlic
How do your garlic?
I know this doesn’t exactly pertain to the video... but what kind of gloves do you use when it starts getting cold outside taking care of the animals? We have rabbits and I was going to get chickens in the spring but I didn’t think about taking care of the animals outside and cleaning coops when it’s cold 😅
So what do u use on your lawn for fertilizer and to keep weeds at bay? Or do you not do anything?
We don't put anything on our lawn. No herbicides, and no fertilizer.
I have only 2 raised garden beds but do not have grass clippings or leaves saved. What would be best to cover them with now? Should I purchase a straw bale or 2 and break that over them? Thx
That can work.. makes sure it is not sprayed with herbicides or pesticides and it may still be breaking down in the spring... takes a couple of years most times.. but just move aside and plant and then put back around the plants when they are bigger than the mulch layer. Now is the time to start aging it, because it can absorb nitrogen at first and then release it again as it breaks down.
Rachel...how do you keep dandelions out of your yard? Mine are multiplying so fast and hand pulling is not slowing them down ;} I don't want to use Weed n Feed because I collect a lot of grass and leaves for composting.
In the yard, really we just ignore them. They cover things in the spring quite a bit, but by summer they're gone. Late fall a few may bloom. We just leave them. Our bees need them.
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@@1870s Thank you. Great information to have.
Please tell me how do you preserve garlic?
We store in our basement mostly. You can also break apart the heads, toss the cloves in a freezer bag, and store in freezer. We're researching other ways.
Wrll well..im back again..and summer is coming here and me beetroot are finally up..making canned beets tp sell ..this virus has ruined my business..tc
Why don’t you use a rake?
Do the leaves ever blow away? I recently put straw on a new garden bed and it blew everywhere.
Chopping them up seems to really help.
Where you buy those bales?
Found an ad for no-spray straw bales, over near Ann Arbor area. I think it was on FB, or Craigslist.
where are yall at in Michigan, I live in Michigan & used to have a cabin in Harrison.. Clair county🙂
They are near Monroe in SE Michigan near Lake Erie
Our homestead is in SE michigan. And our off grid cabin (other videos) is about an hour north of Grand Rapids.
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Hopefully we'll get back up there in Mid Jan - before the snow gets too deep ♥
Is that a cemetery behind you?
lol. no. not sure what you're seeing? maybe our beehives?
Garlic freeze dries very well then grind into a powder. It would be a shame to have to use imported store bought garlic.
Did you say you're getting a cow?!?
Beef for the freezer ♥
I hope that you are blessed with a wheelbarrow this year!
You need a gorilla cart….Worth Every. Penny…instead of carrying tubs to each bed.
Definitely, and you should always save your back whenever you can ❤️❤️❤️
Yes, she does have back issues.
I cringe when I see you spreading those leaves with your bare hands. Having had Lyme disease, I can tell you it is a giant health scare. The ticks are prevalent in our area, I hope they aren’t in MI. There is nothing more satisfying than working the earth with ones hands but there are dangers to avoid, stay safe.
They are in MI, but this time of the year there's usually NONE around anymore. Too cold for them. In the spring we have to be really careful.
Amen