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Move the chicken fence over the old potato beds to eat the potato beatles before the next crop!
Heck yeah! Great observation. Let's greaux!
My thought as well!
@@familyfungi geaux tigers?
They'll also fertilize the bed, a little.
Thats what i also wanted to suggest. They will really enjoy eating them
Can we all take a minute to tell Ben his hair is beautiful 😍, and that garden is really coming along🥰💐
I am from a family of 8, we had a huge garden and a separate, never ending…it seemed as a kid…potato garden. It was the children that daily took care of the potato beetles…we had a game to see how many each could collect in a day! Gardening was hard work for everyone, but we sure enjoyed the fruits of our labour❤️. Your children seem interested and involved…it’s wonderful to see their cheerful faces!
Always a pleasure to get a holler from the Hollars!
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So glad that you discovered beneficial nematodes. Next time you want to have enough for two applications, usually about 10 days apart. One application will make a good dent in the bad critters, two will make a much bigger dent. We have been using them for two years now and they have made a huge difference for us. We went from having 75% of our potato crop eaten to almost no bug damage at all.the nematodes can make a huge difference for other bugs, too. Love watching you guys! Have a great week!
I just want to stop in and compliment you on your beautiful gardens and the sweetest things y’all have growing…the family. Thanks so much sharing. God bless y’all!
A lesson from Ireland.
If bugs and blight dont get a particular variety potatoes keep growing them. But that means remembering the names. If Russets do well, keep growing them.....
One final potato point, and a general rotation point, dont grow potatoes in that spot next year the beetles eggs can last...
Crop circulation is very important. Once you end up with potato blight (phytophtora infestans) it'll take many years before you get your soil healthy and balaced enough again. So I agree those nematodes are a VERY good idea! Perhaps along with that comfrey tea you could experiment with compost tea?
Haven't seen your hair down for a while. Reminds me of me 'back in the day' . Nowadays, not much of it and too thin. But that's life.
Thanks for sharing your family adventure with us. Garden is looking nice. Every year, a little less bought from the store.
All the best.
Hi, Ben! You are not too much off schedule for digging potatoes here. We always dug ours the week of July fourth because that’s when the mills closed for vacation. I think you are doing just fine. You have worked very hard since you moved here, and I am very proud of your accomplishments I am very excited but patiently waiting for Bumblewood.
When do you plant them
What’s the best way to store them
Ben, a couple of things you might find advantageous, when you cut your comfrey, lift and divide the roots to increase the number of your plants - each small piece of root will create a new plant for you hence increasing your potential yield - also, if you purchase a small fish tank aerator pump and put that in your strained comfrey tea, it will deal with the intense stink of the brew...aeration will reduce the stench of any fertiliser tea batch
Yes!! We do this when we make compost tea. When he started "brewing" Hubs didn't have an aerator so he just vigorously stirred it each morning and even that helped.
Also, moringa and comfrey leaves will help keep your chicks clean internally from pests,we chop and drop for them too! Great to see everyone working together, God bless you all.
Lol, it's a girl's life. Especially with big brothers. They take such good care of her.
Wonderful work guys.
In the uk alot of people put there seeds in fridge.frezzer it help stimulating as some times are winter are not cold enough to give the seeds the cold simulation in order sprout.
Good luck the soap making it looks like buggie will need her own supply!!!
Yes, that little girl is going to understand the male mind and she will be tough and ready by hanging with her bros and also spoiled to the max. Perfect.
The comfrey „tea“ works great in combination with stinging nettle „tea“ /manure. Lovely to see you all having fun digging the potatoes.
First I wondered why he had his backpack on and I thought well maybe to put potatoes in??? A minute later I see little cutie legs hanging out of the backpack I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair! You guys are the best
I thought the same thing too.....but it was the little eyes I saw first .....hahahahaha
Exactly I too thought the samething
OMG, seeing you without your hair in a bun was AMAZING! You're like Homestead Jesus, haha!
Jesus had an afro
When I saw your comment I scrolled ahead just to see “the hair”! Lol
I am afraid I had the same thought.
@@dawnjackson6741 yep… it is amusing what “they” have done to history.
Garden looks great. Also those kids you're growing are getting big too. Buggy is too cute in the potatoes in the wheelbarrow. Who is Meg's helper? And your hair, Ben, I'm seriously jealous, of both your's and Men's hair! Thanks for the vlog.
Meg's helper is an intern. Introduced in a recent video, can't recall title.
When you water with a spray wand at night, the water stays on your plants all night and that encourages fungus and molds. So if you want to stay with nice wand, use it early in the morning. Or if you want to water at sunset, switch to a drip type system or a soaker hose some kind of flood irrigation system. You will have much less problems with plants diseases by keeping water and mud off of the foliage. Hope this helps.
BTW you have beautiful hair.
Yes! My husband builds a burrum around our potatoes and tomatoes and waters from below.
Boy, look at the improvement in the soil in just 2 years. Looks good for a follow on crop.
It's always such a pleasure to see the boys helping their dad. You have a truly amazing family....you're really blessed 💞
For potato beetles, get a battery powered hand vacuum (the kind you clean your car with) and let the boys have at it. Works a charm
I've followed Hollar Homestead for quite a while now and I have to say that you are the number one most informative program that I've seen. BTW, I grew up on a farm in SW Iowa.
LOL. Hey Ben, you're looking a bit Farbio at the end there.
I think he looks great with long hair
Farm Fabio.. Lol I see what you did there!
@@CindyWhopantsCarter3421 So do I. It's just that he normally wears it up.
Fabio looks like Ben!!!
So nice to see the family. Wow the boys are getting tall and the little Munchkin is almost 1 year old. Time sure flies when you are busy. The garden looks awesome !!!!
Meg and Ben you have such a beautiful family! blessings to you all!
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Love those red potatoes with the skin on! Buggy is so cute in the wheelbarrow trying to eat the potatoes.
Throwing them into the wheel barrow will bruise them and cause rot if you were storing them.
I was also going to point that out. They may be hard but they do damage
I was going to say this too but he did say they'll be eaten within a couple weeks. Still, I shuddered watching them bring tossed around like that😂 I'd have at least harvested them directly into the buckets(or even onto drying racks) to prevent so much handling🤷♀️
Between you and me kids not playing in dirt is why they get sick .
Totally agree,they need to build up their immune system…
My Mom used to say, "Everybody's got to eat their peck of dirt", meaning both that getting some dirt in your mouth is natural and good, and also that everybody should learn to swallow some criticism. Listen to your Mom.
So agree. Over washing of the hands and using that hand gel stuff, it is a recipe for blighting your immune system. Being exposed to a bit of germ builds up immunity.
Babies that play in the garden have healthy immune systems.
Exactly right and sanitized interiors , air tight spaces. Heck my sons and I ran in the rain, made mud pies in the mud, they played outside until meal time then scrubbed hands before eating and after shopping
Those potatoes are great for canning. I always canned my small potatoes or the ones I stuck my potato fork into. Due to health issues I can no longer garden or can. I miss it so much.
Your boys are such a big help for you.
Have a blessed evening, stay safe and healthy 🥰👍👌🙏✝️🙏🇺🇸🙏
You have a great looking garden! I’m happy to see that you plant in the ground! You will get a good yield that way. My dear Mother used a white powder of some kind to sprinkle on the leaves of the potatoes to keep bugs off, so next year you can try that. Every pound you grow is a pound you don’t have to buy. Your soil looks amazing!
I'm wondering why Ben has better hair than I do...lol! Love the garden update. I'm in Michigan and the potatoes I planted intentionally are struggling a bit because of the warm weather we had early, then the cold weather, and then the dry, hot weather, and now the wet, hot weather. I'm eager to see what I get at harvest time. I just have a small row...enough to roast and enjoy that delicious, homegrown potato flavor. My purple volunteers are rocking, of course, in my pathways and strawberry bed. :)
I’m so happy for you guys and how great your garden is doing! Your boys are taking such great care of their sister....so sweet to watch!
So good to see you. I've missed you too. .THANK YOU . GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU.
YOU HAVE THE NICEST SONS. PRAYING for you. LOVE from Michigan. CHOW. I love potatoes.
Garden looks great. Fresh grown tater taste so much better than store bought.
Lili, is getting so big almost one . Too cute sitting in the wheelbarrow. Good sons out there helping you. Miss the videos, wish ya did more but understand, your busy. Cya when we do. Have a great week
My Father used to sprinkle wood ashes on Potatoes as they were growing.
yepp ashes from our woodoven and campfire, Greatgrandpa did it, Grandpa did it, Dad does it and i do it too. The years we(dad & i ) did it not we had potato bugs. I hate them.
I put a sprinkling in the soil, mix it up then plant the seed potatoes too.
You can’t do that if you live in an area where the soil is alkaline, though. It makes it more alkaline.
Yes... I used ashes on my garden as well just on the soil, For 10 yrs straight til this year, moved to apartment, and no bugs except abit of kale would get lost from those little white butterfly larvae.. then I started dusting the kale plants with ashes with a fine screen strainer. All was well after that 👍
Babies that play in the garden have healthy immune systems.😁
Yes they do.
And healthy dispositions, because the microbes in the dirt make you feel good & are a stress reliever.
That is the truth!
I love comfrey tea, affectionately known at our farm as 'stinky water'. I just cut a big bunch of comfrey leaves, packed in like you did, and fill the bucket with water, and it gets super stinky and the plants....LOVE IT! It's been 20 years I've been using it, and it has a lot of nitrogen, magnesium, and potassium, as well as many other hard to get minerals for the planties. Thanks for showing this.
Lovely to see the children interested in the garden. I was wondering Ben and Meg do you know what is going on with Art and Bri? There are no updates on their you tube channel.
When I and my siblings were young my dad showed us what potato bugs, their eggs and larva looked like than gave us each a tomato paste can with an inch of kerosene in it and a short stick and put us to work debugging our plants. After two or three passes the infestation was over and we were unemployed until harvest time. I was seeing orange egg masses in my sleep for awhile. Good times.
Did you put the paste on just the eggs, or does it work on larva and beetles too?
So happy to see your garden is so productive. Thanks for sharing all that you are doing. Enjoyed watching the boys digging for gold. That potato crop is like having gold. Glad to see your daughter crawling around and playing in the dirt as well. Builds her immune system LOL. Y'all have a Blessed day.
Raise some guineas and you will be amazed how many bugs and ticks they eat!!! We have around 18 on several acres and haven't seen a tick yet this year.
Your boys are such good big brothers to that sweet baby . I'm glad you all let her get dirty. I was the mom that chased my kids around with wash rags and they bathed a couple of times a day in the summer. But that's how it was for me growing up. Love your all's channel and you guys have taken on your farmer roll very well. God bless
Your garden is looking blooming beautiful!
I have had great success with my garden by sprinkling blood meal around the water line when I plant my vegetables, then at the half way mark, usually end of July, I sprinkle the same amount of bone meal. My garden flourished and the volume or produce doubled, especially egg plants. I forgot to mention I only use organic blood and bone meal and it's about $7 or $8 if you buy it in the spring but I try to buy it at the end of the season when it's reduced to about $4.
I put banana peels in water and let it ferment, dilute it with water and water it into the dirt on new starts. It is supposed to help with root formation. I use it mostly on flowers. The fish emulsion I used a lot. It is a foliar food so put it all over the leaves. Don't spray leaves with water if you can help it.
Your garden is beautiful and looks like it will produce a big harvest. Happy days!
Thanks for this episode. I live in Vegas & need all the help I can get when it comes to garden teas etc. I’m going to load my yard up in comfrey plants plus, it’s a beautiful, lush looking herb. Excellent episode. I’ll definitely create the same garden tea for my hardiness zone 9.
Thanks for the advice brother !!!!! Will definitely put this to use this spring !!!!!
Just a thought how about an out door shower. A family called My Little homestead, they live in the desert one of the first things the built was an out door shower geting the heat of the shower out doors. There have also built bedrooms for the kids out of earthbags. They are fun to watch!
I had questions, I had comments, then bam, Ben with his hair flowing in the wind.
I agree. Majestic.
😂 seriously!
You know exactly how to put things! EXACTLY!
Am literally laughing out loud!!
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So glad you are back. We call the bugs Colorado beetles. They are nasty and we have to report them in England.
Chickens, ducks and geese love comfrey! We plant it jus outside the chicken yard and throw them leaves. Plus there is some in our salsa garden. We let the chickens in to the area in the Fall. They eat the comfrey down to the ground and it comes back every Spring. Definitely will try comfrey tea.
OMG bless your kids heart. He sounded like forest gump when he said he was digging for gold. Love it.
Your garden looks fabulous. Had to laugh when the baby poked her little face out of the carrier on your back 🤣 😂
I have quite a crop of comfrey at home and find if you lift up their leaves you can scoop up the most lovely ready made compost from around the plant base where the lower leaves lay. Wonderful stuff and a truely wonderful plant.
As momma used to say - time for the dunkin bucket by the door and towels - we got dunked a few times and then dried off so lots of dirt didn’t go into bath LOL w also dunked feet before coming in as we got older and were too big for the bucket - mind you never heads under - just the filthy parts - was a fun memory! Comfrey tea, nettle teas and uses - weed teas are all fabulous fertilizers and great to make use of weeds too!! Get all those minerals out of your ground back!
We used a hose by the back door to spray off bare feet and boots and occasional, filthy jeans.
Such a great informative video!! Thanks for sharing!!! Meg I miss your filming parts. Hope you'll start picking up the camera too! God bless,
Love to see Meg making soap.
You can still plant potatoes now.. Here in northern Maine snow in May,, mud in June many a potato doesn't get planted until Late June,, Dug up October, November !! Watering the leaves at night can cause power mildew/ blite,, & squash to rot if the blossoms are open & fill & get wet inside with water.. Best to water morning & the ground not leaves or blossoms... Potato bugs,,, ,take a 2 lb coffee can, large opening , inch of diesel in the can knock them off into the can,, once a week dump em in the fire pit!! Good Luck.. Aloha
Thanks for all the helpful information at the end of your video! My garden needs a boost.
I use Comfrey as a tea for upset stomach or just to drink before bed to help me relax .
Favorite quote “this stuff smells like hot garbage.”
Thanks for keeping it REAL
Great video as usual. Buggie is going to be an outdoors girl. Planting comfrey in your orchard is beneficial. I make fish fertiliser out of the cheapest tin of fish. Of course I do not have as much garden as you. Lovely to see you all. 🌻
Thanks
With 3 boys why would your garden go unwatered? 😂 I was not ready for the Jesus look at the end. 😂😂😂
I've been missing you glad u all are alright. no major problems. enjoy your kids they grow up so fast. give them bunches of hugs for me as well. from Tulsa Oklahoma
I wish I could afford a pricier "Applause" but I like to be able to do them often as opposed to one big one, lol. Thanks for another awesome videos. It's so great to see the boys out there working with you. I love that they are so willing to help with their baby sister too. Take care and I'm already looking fwd to the next video!
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Read a bunch of the comments and I just want to say what a really great job of editing! The close ups of blooms & early produce & the music. Great talent there Meg. 👍👍💯
Ben, love the tips, knowledge & especially the hair. You're batting it outta the park this year with the garden. Impressive! 👍🌞🥔🥕🍆🌽🌶🥒🍅🌻
Me and my wife have about 25 plants and have been using comfrey tea for 4 years this year was the best garden we have ever had,we love it!!
Have you ever tried worm castings? I grow a worm farm in a large tote. The castings are rich in nutrients. I grew them in my classroom and we used castings in solution to fertilize all the house plants in our school. At home I used them in my garden.
The fish/comfrey application sounds great. But, since we have very near neighbours to our garden, this would probably cause very real social issues for us! So glad for heads up re the aroma.
You can also make an infused oil out of the comfrey leaves,add beeswax and make a salve. It’s good for broken bones. It’s an also an anti inflammatory. Broke my ankle last fall and it really helped heal the break and I didn’t need much pain meds.
Comfrey has some medicinal uses too. The roots can be crushed to extract a thick sap similar to aloe vera. It makes sort of a "glue" to hold a wound together and prevent infection.
Comfrey knits bones together.
After I Strain it I put the leaves in my compost pile. the leaves are still good to be used and your compost pile It will continue to fertilize even if it's mushy
Just harvested my potatoes this week. Just red spuds in 5 gal. Lowe's buckets, but that's what I can do in my condo backyard.
Well done you! I have a small walled garden on the side of a hill and can even grow some exotic plants that local gardening centres fail at. Just be kind. To animal, (My favourite), nature and awful mankind!!
Well done you! I have a small walled garden on the side of a hill and can even grow some exotic plants that local gardening centres fail at. Just be kind. To animal, (My favourite), nature and awful mankind!!
love your channel, garden looks great this year. busy time of year but remember to take time to chill.would like to see family fun days ,your family are such hard workers, go for a day at the lake enjoy your surrounding areas too.
Growing potatoes in something like a raised container works way better. I grow mine in large flower containers 4ft across. As well as in an old storage shelving unit that I tipped over, remove the shelves in, and bumped off the back. It's my most productive bin and was mostly filled in with old logs.
Comfrey salve....wow, the benefits are amazing.
When I cut my comfrey, I leave zero leaves on it and it still comes back. They get huge! I just use them as mulch for my fruit trees and other areas that could use good mulch. I am going to get me some nematodes! Thanks for the info.
We always put lime in a burlap bag and shake it over potato and tomato plants to coat them. Keeps bugs away and improves soil.
Ben your hair is incredible!! The garden is looking great :)
Nice haul of little reds. Thanks for sharing the fertilizer recipe!
Good to see the family-baby in the wheelbarrow-and Meg back at her homemade soaps! How big a garden and how many turnovers would feed your family for a year? Don’t be strangers. 😉🥔🥬
Hiya Beautiful People at THH👋 Nice to see y'all getting some of the potatoes harvested before the bugs get them. Always a joy to see the little ones helping 😍 Appreciate y'all sharing your knowledge with us. Stay safe and God Bless y'all and the homestead 🙏✌❤🤗
Hey Ben ,is that a Potato BUGGY in the wheelbarrow LoL
Really learned a lot... I need to get some comfrey! Fertilizers are so expensive!
Woah! That's one great head of hair there Ben! 🤪😎
The garden beds and the trellis’s are beautiful!
best time to spray this on plants is early morning when the pores of the leaves are open. they close in heat of sun
Plants look lush. Buggy is racing around now and no doubt getting into everything she shouldn’t! She’ll be bossing those brothers around in no time at all. 👶
Thank you, Ben, for sharing your straightforward recipe for comfrey/fish emulsion foliar spray. I've got lotsa comfrey growing, which I chop'n'drop under my fruit trees. But I've also got some anemic-looking beans and peppers, so I'm planning to copy you. Monkey see, monkey do.
Always a pleasure to get a holler from the Hollars
Hey Ben the garden is looking awesome, and it's great that the kids love digging potatoes
Potatoes are our favorite thing to grow! So much fun digging for them. Carrots are also a lot of fun!
With the comfry leaves you can plant them under the tomatoes and it neutralizes the diseases that tomatoes seem to have. It also deters pest in the garden.
Great informative video, Ben your hair looks great!
So great watching your sons work along side their Dad, who they adore.
Your garden looks awesome.
Your garden looks awesome. You have enough potatoes to last almost a month. I noticed someone posted that tossing potatoes will bruise and cause them to rot. They will not have time to bruise. nummers When my dad grew them years ago we would throw them down on the basement floor from ground level. Lasted all winter. By spring we would be pealing shriveled potatoes but once they are resting in cold water they plump right back up. Could not feed to pigs and buy new ones as that cost and we were frugal farmers.
Oh Hilltop Farm, I was hoping I was the first one to say the NEW Fabio. He probably don't even know what we are talking about. LOL. Always great to see you guys! Girly is really growing!
Lol I’m old enough to know who Fabio is..
Has soon as potatoes sprout from earth put spent coffee grounds on and around them...have not had them in years
Its been a long time guys, glad you are back. Missed you.
Your plants are all looking fantastic. It’s worth the odor.
Your crew members look great too, right down to the youngest addition!
If you covered the potatoes with the white cloth like Justin Rhodes uses would it keep the pests out??
It depends when you cover them. Potato beetles overwinter in the ground, so you may just be trapping them with the plants.