I absolutely LOVE that you have Bug out playing in the dirt, barefoot. It reminds me of growing up in the 1950"s doing the same. Keep up with your excellent family!!@
All their kids are 99% of the time barefoot outside in all weather while both adults always wear boots or shoes. Barefoot is great except around implements, buried garbage (which is all over their farm) and metal shavings in and around the shop. Barefoot should be an occasional thing not an every day, every weather thing.
I love it also. I am 40 years old and still rather be barefoot outside. I feel more connected to earth. If I could go to the store barefoot I would. I absolutely hate shoes
I’ve found from my over 60 years gardening that seed saved from your own plants has acclimated to your climatic conditions. Therefore it’s plants do so much better. It’s all looking so great. Kudos to your hard work.🎸⚡️🤘🏼🤘🏿❤️
A2 milk is similar to human breast milk, goats, sheep or carmel milk - this is why less people react to A2 milk - I hope the bull you used for AI was also A2 tested - here in New Zealand for the last 20 years you can choose if you want A1 or A2 milk if you are purchasing from the supermarket - we also make A2 grass fed baby formula for the babies that need it
I was so thankful to find a2 brand here in our local stores in Tennessee. I wish all of the products were available to us. I was upset though that one of my grocers has stopped carrying it making space for even more plant "milk". Not happy! But we have a fruit stand about 30 minutes away we can buy low pasteurized fresh whole milk from. We tried it and none of us had trouble digesting it, not even my son who has had major issues since he was 17. Weirdest thing, it was like a switch flipped and he suddenly had gut issues. But our goal is to have our own a2 herd!!
@@jenniferrescott1149 that's because of the market industry. Most stores don't tell you what you're drinking besides giving the percentage of milk fat.
That system with the chicken is a big win. Where there is a will there will be a way around the problem. A good attitude sure helps . Your doing great.
WOW everything looks fantastic! Your hard work is paying off. I pray you will be blessed with a wonderful harvest for your precious family 💗You've been so inspiring to me thank you!
Your video was good but your little daughter is the smartest thing I love how she gets so evolved in whatever you two are doing It is so good that you all get her involved in your gardening. Just love it she will be so smart when she grows up
My mom use to give me a pile of dirt and bucket and sifter to make really fine dirt to cover the small seeds in her greenhouse. She told me it made her job easier and i loved to help…..maybe it just kept me busy. Memories of long ago.
I think it’s pretty presumptuous of someone to tell you how to feed your chickens. You are doing more than most of us AND you’re doing great! Thank you for all the work of posting videos.
Thanks for the reminder that everyone makes mistakes and what’s important is how you respond when you figure it out. No bad feelings or guilt; fix or redo what you can, adapt to what you can’t, laugh and realize that all human beings come with a few bugs in the operating system. 🤣🤣 Lovely to see children being raised by such good role models. 🥰
I love watching you and your family working together to get everything done that is needed on your homestead. I also love that you both are so humble and so very thankful! May God Bless each and everyone of you.
Love seeing Buggie having the best time our Carolina red clay. I'm also working on a permaculture orchard. Might I suggest looking into Redbud trees rather than Mimosa. Personally I love the look of mimosa trees but unfortunately they are extremely invasive in NC. Love you guys.
Just a little note to be very careful when you take up the ground cover later in the year, here in NC black widows love to get up under it during the summer. We are in the eastern part of the state, and we have had such a problem with them getting in the ground cover that we no longer use it for anything.
My daughter and her husband just bought a home, 2.5 acres with a small neglected orchard last fall. They also are trying the wheat yield thing along with a small garden which they will extend next year. You two remind me of them...very excited, ambitious and hard working. I love to watch your family pray together at meals, reminds me of my parents and the way we were raised. Keep growing on!
To get bigger & healthier onions trim the green leaves back by 40%. This stops them falling over (crook neck) more leaves and healthier leaves produce more layers (rings) in onions
It’s crazy how far ahead you are with your growing season compared to where we live (north-east France)… Your garden looks beautiful - love watching your family!
Y'all make it look so easy! I love that yall are transparent , I mean forgetting the weed mat was understandable but it did not discourage you to fix it. Perfect! Humility is a virtue! Thank you for sharing it did not dawn on me either. Lol I like the fact that gardening is so forgiving and everyone does it differently.
Your gardens look fantastic. It looks like a bumper crop for y'all. So happy your cow is A2. Thanks for sharing this tour, and y'all have a Blessed day.
My husband has bad wrists . So for our Gardens he came across the rolled mulch and drip tape. One soooo much less weed pressure two the drip tape is awesome, we use less water its conserved under the mulch less mildew and has kept us able to keep growing thru the worst drought. Bringing fresh vegetables to local food pantry.
I’ve been binging on your blogs recently. I’m so full of admiration for your huge efforts to rebuild your family and to settle in so nicely. Your kiddos will be so grateful to you for the experience of a united family!!
What you are doing with the chickens and cow pies is correct. However, you can skip a step and save a bit of tume if you feed a small amount of whole grain to your cows when you milk. Most of the whole grains go through the digestive tract and come out in the pies. The chickens will automatically take apart the cow pies and you won't have to scatter the feed on the cow pies. 😉
Everything looks great, not professional but most abundant. It’s been in the 30’s at night and a warm up is around the corner. Hoping to get planting this weekend. Wishing you happy and plentiful gardening.
Oh my gosh, I thought I was the only one who used tweezers to plant paper towel-sprouted seeds. My husband thinks I’m a kook. Lol. I did my onions, celery and eggplant like this too celery is painful to germinate but I have just under 30 plants ready to go in the ground now. No, they are not all for us. Everybody else with a garden in our very little Canadian town gets one. You just can’t beat homegrown celery in soups, stews, sauces and stock/broth. I’m growing extra his year so i can chop and freeze for winter cooking. Every year i manage to opt out on buying another type of vegetable. I love your channel. Your homestead is just blossoming. Thanks so much for the videos. Sending best wishes from Canada. Take care all ❤🤗
We use DeWitt Sunbelt woven ground cover 3.2 oz in our garden. Used it last year, no weeds, AND it allowed water to soak through. We used drip tape and put it on top of, not underneath, the woven ground cover. We are doing the same this year. Good luck.
Loved the garden tour! You've come such a long way in the short time you've been living here. And considering you had a baby and renovated the mobile home... just wow! I'm so impressed and can't wait to see it all give harvest.
It's just amazing how far you guys have come with your garden beds. So glad you got that new tiller... save your energy where you can. You've got SO much stuff goin on. You're my heroes! God Bless you all.
You might want to reconsider Mimosa trees. The seeds fly everywhere and you will be pulling Mimosa sprouts from places you would think a weed could never grow. Like gutters, the air conditioning units, foundation cracks, etc. Long after the Mimosa is dead and gone, (the branches snap off easy in high winds), there will still be Mimosa seeds sprouting up in oddball places. And, I mean as much as 25 years later. They may be pretty but, there has to be a better option out there somewhere.
If there are any tomato plants with really exceptional qualities you like, the root ball can be dug up in the fall, wrapped in burlap and, stored in a 5 gallon bucket over winter. The only catch is, you have to find a storage location that stays consistently above 50°F. The next year, if the acclimation process is started between St. Patrick's Day and April 1st, by Mother's Day planting out, you will be way ahead in the gardening game.
I love seeing your little one barefoot and playing in the dirt. We live on a small acreage and when my grandson comes to visit the first thing he does is remove his shoes and socks and tear out the back door. If it’s nice weather we usually find a trail of clothes as well. Love the use of logs for beds.
The tomato bed looks great. Hope the watering will be easy. Thanks for the garden tour. Wow! I did not realize your garden beds were so extensive and the lovely fruit orchard. Your hard work has really paid off. 💞
A rubber mallet is good for pounding in the stakes holding the weed barrier in place. Great plans this year! Possibly think about making a four ft. high screen made from metal chicken wire mesh with zip strips, around the trees in case of deer or whatever. Later you could top them with a bird netting to keep the birds from eating the fruits.
🙋hi from Scotland hi lovly family wow your garden is amazing all that hard work has paid off all of your veg looks amazing ,her in Scotland we can still get frost up untill the end of may I grow all my own veg and can't wait to get all my starts that I grow from seed in to the ground ,I will be planting out my brussel sprouts at the week end they will grow on and I hope to be picking November through the winter I have even picked them in the snow your wee girl is just loving life running about take care till next time cheers 🍷 Anne from Scotland
Maybe you could cover the rest of the soil with grass clippings to prevent weeds and keep the moisture…I find it amazingly efficient and beneficial!☺️ Love following you all!!🥰
Pretty sure you do not live in Western N. C. No amount of grass clippings is going to keep down the weeds in late June and July there with rain at least once every day. The cows are doing a pretty good job of clipping the grass.
@@joannmahaffey1068 in Sweden we have a lot of rain too…when mowing I use the grass to make a layer around all my veggies,100m2,and that works extremely well here,but maybe it’s totally different in NC…
Everything looks really good. You've put a lot of work into your soil. I remember your first garden. I hope you add that deck onto the back of the house soon. It would be a nice place to escape to on a warm summer evening.
Your garden is very impressive and awesome . I do hope that weed barrier let water thru for the tomatoes, it will you from so much weeding. Buggy is so cute when she runs around the property where you are. You are going to have a surplus of food once harvesting start. Job well done. Take care.
Great Save on the weed barrier. Neighbor had a pool 5 years ago. Now it’s a weed patch on my southwest side. Second year Sedge grass overtook my garden. Last year after nearly killing myself from weeding I put in a woven weed barrier. This year I rotated my barrier.
I would LOVE to hear more about the orchard, we are growing ours, second year, and I'm very interested in the planting of comfrey around the trees. I have bocking 14 in my garden, haven't heard about using it around fruit trees.
Love it! If it is so fulfilling for me to watch how far you’ve come and how crazy good the property looks, I can only imagine how blessed you guys feel! Way to kick so homestead butt😄
Make friends with covercrops! You can plant a mixture of annual clover and/or buckwheat seeds all around your tomatos. They will grow fast enough to shade out your weeds. This fall plant field raddish. It will till your soil for you and next year, no tilling!!!! You work too hard. Trust me, if you do this it will be a game changer for you!!! PS: if you do the raddish then you just cut down the tops about a month before planting time and leave the roots to rot and improve your soil.
Don't know how your weed barrier compares to Home depot's house wrap, but I can assure you that stuff is not a water barrier. I built a small recording studio/video editing suite next to my house and since I was doing it alone and it was taking some time, I put the house wrap over my floor thinking it water proof because it did look like it was, my floor got drenched. So it might keep air out, but not water lol! Again, don't know how it compares to what you have, but mine definitely passed water. Love watching you two and the family!
We’ve been using weed fabric for this year will be four years. Water not a problem. We use drip tape, on top of the fabric. Then if there’s a problem we can see it pretty easy. Excellent job y’all!!
That weed barrier is brilliant, you should use it on your main veg beds in the winter, just put down your compost and cover it, the worms are protected and when you uncover in planting season you will find a sweet smelling healthy soil rather than a weed infested compacted mess.
That’s how I put down my first landscape cloth, it was really nice, grew great plants and way less weeds. Come to think of it, my watermelons, zucchini and squash (yellow, patty pan white and butternut) did great there that year! Thanks for the reminder! Yep, sister may be late to the party but she steals the show lol. I love how you use the rocks around the beds. Have fun! ✌🏻
aww buggy wants to help too :-) beautiful your family life is awesome---mom and dad and kids all involved in so many different things together and separate--
I love the garden tours and the amount you have planted. The Orchard is starting to get in shape. If I remember there are berry bushes on your property? Take care!
I truly loved this video and you guys showing us how you are planning your garden and your areas for the trees and everything my gosh you are professionals! God bless you and your land!
U r going to luvvvv the weed barrier. I starting using it last yr. I use it in my entire garden. No weeding. Just harvesting & watering. I use the drip tape to water so that part is easy also👍. Good luck.
Love what you guys do and how you roll especially when you stay humble and humorous when you realize you may have "got something wrong". Maybe there's no such thing as "wrong" when you learn from it and share. Love that RED Gardens, too! Justro was talking in a video about planting wheat on a hill or slope, as opposed to the "flat". Wonder what that's all about? But yeah, flax would be wonderful! So many blessings!
Thanks for sharing your great progress! I’ve been starting a permaculture orchard in my front yard with smaller trees, like goji berry, elderberry, sea buckthorn. I have 5 mature (but smaller) apple trees that are dispersed in my back & front yards. You inspire me to continue!
Re wheat: we grow a variety here in Maine called Sirvinta. It’s an heirloom from Estonia. Grows really tall, not short like modern hybrids bred for combine harvesting. You can get from MainePotatoLady, or drop me a line and I’ll send you some berries. We planted a ten by sixty-five area and got 59 lbs of berries.
Your gardens are beautiful and you are going to gather lots of wonderful veggies from them! I’m so happy for you, as you deserve a bountiful harvest! You have constantly worked to improve the quality of your soil and your vegetables already are showing great signs of healthy growth! 🥦🥬🥕🌶🌱🍅🌽🌻
Foraging is where chickens will peck and scratch the ground to find tasty morsels. This is how the wild ancestors of chickens would have found food scratching with their feed and pecking. Chickens do this even if they have a feeder full of food. I would like to try the vegetable row cover that turns into compost, biodegradable. The sun breaks it down. And it allows water to penetrate. It doesn't stop weeds as good, but it sounds worth trying. Your garden and orchard looks amazing.
The garden is looking fantastic you guys! I use a weed barrier that looks the same, and it is absolutely water permeable. Not only that but it seems to help retain the water. Here in Chattanooga we have had a dry spring, but everything in my garden is thriving and my entire garden is covered in the weed barrier.
Thanks for sharing. I use copper tape on the edges of my beds to help reduce the number of bugs getting into my veggies and use small hoop netting to stop bugs too in other beds. 😊
You need a fabric weed barrier that lets water through it. I remember one time my dat got a roll of carpet padding, it was the old type that was mad from a type of felt, to say the least it was a messy disaster 🥱
Drip tape it you will not regret it. You always should grow onions from seed and now what onion is best for your area. Hoss tools talks about everything onions you need to know, every sense I listened to him I have had great onion havests. Don't do mimosa trees they are what is known as trash trees and you will have them popping up everywhere even in your foudations and fencing and if you are not constantly watching them they can ruin a lot, They are invasive.
Do y'all do high tunnels for your green's? We also live in NC and it works great for us it keeps pest damage on a very low if not much at all level. We have a great harvest from doing this method and another great thing too that helps is planting mint herbs around the permiter or a stouter kind of herb. As a barrier to keep bugs away and rabbits 🐇. The beds look great 👍 😊 Hope y'all have a blessed rest of your weekend! God bless...👋🙂
I use the same type of weed barrier in my garden and it is water permeable. I cut it and leave a couple inches around each plant and have no problems. Love your new posting schedule.
Good Tomato Bed Save! 🍅. How was your asparagus this year? We are zone 7 in a long Spring and the asparagus is just now bolting. Our tomatoes got unhappy with cold nights so we talked nice to them gave them a little Dr. Earth and this week they look much better. 🌱🌞
I absolutely LOVE that you have Bug out playing in the dirt, barefoot. It reminds me of growing up in the 1950"s doing the same. Keep up with your excellent family!!@
All their kids are 99% of the time barefoot outside in all weather while both adults always wear boots or shoes. Barefoot is great except around implements, buried garbage (which is all over their farm) and metal shavings in and around the shop. Barefoot should be an occasional thing not an every day, every weather thing.
@@SagebrushRambles my woodchips even catch in my sandals and cut up my feet. Shoes!!!
I love it also. I am 40 years old and still rather be barefoot outside. I feel more connected to earth. If I could go to the store barefoot I would. I absolutely hate shoes
I’ve found from my over 60 years gardening that seed saved from your own plants has acclimated to your climatic conditions. Therefore it’s plants do so much better. It’s all looking so great. Kudos to your hard work.🎸⚡️🤘🏼🤘🏿❤️
A2 milk is similar to human breast milk, goats, sheep or carmel milk - this is why less people react to A2 milk - I hope the bull you used for AI was also A2 tested - here in New Zealand for the last 20 years you can choose if you want A1 or A2 milk if you are purchasing from the supermarket - we also make A2 grass fed baby formula for the babies that need it
I was so thankful to find a2 brand here in our local stores in Tennessee. I wish all of the products were available to us. I was upset though that one of my grocers has stopped carrying it making space for even more plant "milk". Not happy! But we have a fruit stand about 30 minutes away we can buy low pasteurized fresh whole milk from. We tried it and none of us had trouble digesting it, not even my son who has had major issues since he was 17. Weirdest thing, it was like a switch flipped and he suddenly had gut issues. But our goal is to have our own a2 herd!!
I had no idea. How wonderful for your country.
That's really great. most Americans know nothing about this
@@jenniferrescott1149 that's because of the market industry. Most stores don't tell you what you're drinking besides giving the percentage of milk fat.
@@jenniferrescott1149 those paying attention to our food issues do. 😉
Your homestead is looking beautiful--a huge garden, an orchard, livestock and growing kids. I love it!
That system with the chicken is a big win. Where there is a will there will be a way around the problem. A good attitude sure helps . Your doing great.
WOW everything looks fantastic! Your hard work is paying off. I pray you will be blessed with a wonderful harvest for your precious family 💗You've been so inspiring to me thank you!
Amen
You are coming right along. I wish I had your energy but my years have passed and am now 76. Blessings on you and yours. 💕🙏🏻
Seeing your daughter by your side playing in the dirt just makes me smile. Exploring thr world of nature and having so much fun!
Your video was good but your little daughter is the smartest thing I love how she gets so evolved in whatever you two are doing It is so good that you all get her involved in your gardening. Just love it she will be so smart when she grows up
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My mom use to give me a pile of dirt and bucket and sifter to make really fine dirt to cover the small seeds in her greenhouse. She told me it made her job easier and i loved to help…..maybe it just kept me busy. Memories of long ago.
Love watching "Buggie" help mom and dad. As a grandma I just want to love hug her. She is for sure a daddy's girl. Good job with that girl.
I think it’s pretty presumptuous of someone to tell you how to feed your chickens. You are doing more than most of us AND you’re doing great! Thank you for all the work of posting videos.
Amen!
Thanks for the reminder that everyone makes mistakes and what’s important is how you respond when you figure it out. No bad feelings or guilt; fix or redo what you can, adapt to what you can’t, laugh and realize that all human beings come with a few bugs in the operating system. 🤣🤣 Lovely to see children being raised by such good role models. 🥰
I love watching you and your family working together to get everything done that is needed on your homestead. I also love that you both are so humble and so very thankful! May God Bless each and everyone of you.
Love seeing Buggie having the best time our Carolina red clay. I'm also working on a permaculture orchard. Might I suggest looking into Redbud trees rather than Mimosa. Personally I love the look of mimosa trees but unfortunately they are extremely invasive in NC. Love you guys.
The beauty of the garden and orchard is perfectly accompanied by little Miss Buggie and her cute flower dressed hair. Love it 💛🙏🏻
You do great and it's a joy to watch you. Don't need to be professionals; just learn from your mistakes and keep on growing 😁🌻
Just a little note to be very careful when you take up the ground cover later in the year, here in NC black widows love to get up under it during the summer. We are in the eastern part of the state, and we have had such a problem with them getting in the ground cover that we no longer use it for anything.
Snakes!!
Most Definitely you are PROFESSIONALS!!!!! Feeding a family of 7, Amazing!! The orchard is awesome and the garden, Wow
My daughter and her husband just bought a home, 2.5 acres with a small neglected orchard last fall. They also are trying the wheat yield thing along with a small garden which they will extend next year. You two remind me of them...very excited, ambitious and hard working. I love to watch your family pray together at meals, reminds me of my parents and the way we were raised. Keep growing on!
I love the way you allow your children to explore the world, and always at their own pace. Your children have great parents!
To get bigger & healthier onions trim the green leaves back by 40%. This stops them falling over (crook neck) more leaves and healthier leaves produce more layers (rings) in onions
So true and onion greens can be frozen or dried for any number of uses later
Didn't know that. Thanks
Love when Meg is in the videos!! You are SO beautiful inside and out!! Your guys' garden is AMAZING!! Thanks for all the great info!!
It’s crazy how far ahead you are with your growing season compared to where we live (north-east France)… Your garden looks beautiful - love watching your family!
Y'all make it look so easy! I love that yall are transparent , I mean forgetting the weed mat was understandable but it did not discourage you to fix it. Perfect! Humility is a virtue! Thank you for sharing it did not dawn on me either. Lol I like the fact that gardening is so forgiving and everyone does it differently.
Your Homestead is really growing, Ben and Meg you work hard and the land shows it.
Your gardens look fantastic. It looks like a bumper crop for y'all. So happy your cow is A2.
Thanks for sharing this tour, and y'all have a Blessed day.
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It’s working smarter, not harder, even for/with your animals, bravo, bravo 👏
My husband has bad wrists . So for our Gardens he came across the rolled mulch and drip tape.
One soooo much less weed pressure two the drip tape is awesome, we use less water its conserved under the mulch less mildew and has kept us able to keep growing thru the worst drought. Bringing fresh vegetables to local food pantry.
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I’ve been binging on your blogs recently. I’m so full of admiration for your huge efforts to rebuild your family and to settle in so nicely. Your kiddos will be so grateful to you for the experience of a united family!!
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What you are doing with the chickens and cow pies is correct. However, you can skip a step and save a bit of tume if you feed a small amount of whole grain to your cows when you milk. Most of the whole grains go through the digestive tract and come out in the pies. The chickens will automatically take apart the cow pies and you won't have to scatter the feed on the cow pies. 😉
I just love seeing the baby running around in the dirt! She will be well grounded!
Everything looks great, not professional but most abundant. It’s been in the 30’s at night and a warm up is around the corner. Hoping to get planting this weekend. Wishing you happy and plentiful gardening.
So proud of y’all ! I’m jealous! Beautiful plants!🌸
Oh my gosh, I thought I was the only one who used tweezers to plant paper towel-sprouted seeds. My husband thinks I’m a kook. Lol. I did my onions, celery and eggplant like this too celery is painful to germinate but I have just under 30 plants ready to go in the ground now. No, they are not all for us. Everybody else with a garden in our very little Canadian town gets one. You just can’t beat homegrown celery in soups, stews, sauces and stock/broth. I’m growing extra his year so i can chop and freeze for winter cooking. Every year i manage to opt out on buying another type of vegetable. I love your channel. Your homestead is just blossoming. Thanks so much for the videos. Sending best wishes from Canada. Take care all ❤🤗
We use DeWitt Sunbelt woven ground cover 3.2 oz in our garden. Used it last year, no weeds, AND it allowed water to soak through. We used drip tape and put it on top of, not underneath, the woven ground cover. We are doing the same this year. Good luck.
Loved the garden tour! You've come such a long way in the short time you've been living here. And considering you had a baby and renovated the mobile home... just wow! I'm so impressed and can't wait to see it all give harvest.
It's just amazing how far you guys have come with your garden beds.
So glad you got that new tiller... save your energy where you can. You've got SO much stuff goin on. You're my heroes! God Bless you all.
You might want to reconsider Mimosa trees.
The seeds fly everywhere and you will be pulling Mimosa sprouts from places you would think a weed could never grow. Like gutters, the air conditioning units, foundation cracks, etc.
Long after the Mimosa is dead and gone, (the branches snap off easy in high winds), there will still be Mimosa seeds sprouting up in oddball places. And, I mean as much as 25 years later.
They may be pretty but, there has to be a better option out there somewhere.
It’s about time we had a garden tour 😁 it looks amazing!
Everything is looking awesome. I love you garden. YUMMY 😋
You all please take care and be safe
If there are any tomato plants with really exceptional qualities you like, the root ball can be dug up in the fall, wrapped in burlap and, stored in a 5 gallon bucket over winter. The only catch is, you have to find a storage location that stays consistently above 50°F.
The next year, if the acclimation process is started between St. Patrick's Day and April 1st, by Mother's Day planting out, you will be way ahead in the gardening game.
I love seeing your little one barefoot and playing in the dirt. We live on a small acreage and when my grandson comes to visit the first thing he does is remove his shoes and socks and tear out the back door. If it’s nice weather we usually find a trail of clothes as well. Love the use of logs for beds.
I love the long episode🙊
The tomato bed looks great. Hope the watering will be easy. Thanks for the garden tour. Wow! I did not realize your garden beds were so extensive and the lovely fruit orchard. Your hard work has really paid off. 💞
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What you are doing is awesome. May your homestead be blessed and bountiful. 🚜
A rubber mallet is good for pounding in the stakes holding the weed barrier in place. Great plans this year! Possibly think about making a four ft. high screen made from metal chicken wire mesh with zip strips, around the trees in case of deer or whatever. Later you could top them with a bird netting to keep the birds from eating the fruits.
🙋hi from Scotland hi lovly family wow your garden is amazing all that hard work has paid off all of your veg looks amazing ,her in Scotland we can still get frost up untill the end of may I grow all my own veg and can't wait to get all my starts that I grow from seed in to the ground ,I will be planting out my brussel sprouts at the week end they will grow on and I hope to be picking November through the winter I have even picked them in the snow your wee girl is just loving life running about take care till next time cheers 🍷 Anne from Scotland
You all are doing a great job on the garden and the fruit orchard
Maybe you could cover the rest of the soil with grass clippings to prevent weeds and keep the moisture…I find it amazingly efficient and beneficial!☺️
Love following you all!!🥰
Pretty sure you do not live in Western N. C. No amount of grass clippings is going to keep down the weeds in late June and July there with rain at least once every day. The cows are doing a pretty good job of clipping the grass.
@@joannmahaffey1068 in Sweden we have a lot of rain too…when mowing I use the grass to make a layer around all my veggies,100m2,and that works extremely well here,but maybe it’s totally different in NC…
Amendments make a world of difference in the garden. Your garden is looking great this year the best yet.
Everything looks really good. You've put a lot of work into your soil. I remember your first garden. I hope you add that deck onto the back of the house soon. It would be a nice place to escape to on a warm summer evening.
Your garden is very impressive and awesome . I do hope that weed barrier let water thru for the tomatoes, it will you from so much weeding. Buggy is so cute when she runs around the property where you are. You are going to have a surplus of food once harvesting start. Job well done. Take care.
Great Save on the weed barrier. Neighbor had a pool 5 years ago. Now it’s a weed patch on my southwest side. Second year Sedge grass overtook my garden. Last year after nearly killing myself from weeding I put in a woven weed barrier. This year I rotated my barrier.
I use that particular weed barrier. Totally allows water to drain. No issues at all. Looks fabulous
I would LOVE to hear more about the orchard, we are growing ours, second year, and I'm very interested in the planting of comfrey around the trees.
I have bocking 14 in my garden, haven't heard about using it around fruit trees.
Love it! If it is so fulfilling for me to watch how far you’ve come and how crazy good the property looks, I can only imagine how blessed you guys feel! Way to kick so homestead butt😄
Congratulations on the A2 milk! Sweet score for the whole family 👍👍
Drip tape for the Maters 👍👍
Serious score on the onions
Make friends with covercrops! You can plant a mixture of annual clover and/or buckwheat seeds all around your tomatos. They will grow fast enough to shade out your weeds. This fall plant field raddish. It will till your soil for you and next year, no tilling!!!!
You work too hard. Trust me, if you do this it will be a game changer for you!!!
PS: if you do the raddish then you just cut down the tops about a month before planting time and leave the roots to rot and improve your soil.
Wow! You guys are amazing! You’ve been busy busy and now have an amazing food production and will be provided for during the coming famine!!!
Good gracious! That garden has become huge! This year is definitely going to be a game changer for you!
Don't know how your weed barrier compares to Home depot's house wrap, but I can assure you that stuff is not a water barrier. I built a small recording studio/video editing suite next to my house and since I was doing it alone and it was taking some time, I put the house wrap over my floor thinking it water proof because it did look like it was, my floor got drenched. So it might keep air out, but not water lol! Again, don't know how it compares to what you have, but mine definitely passed water. Love watching you two and the family!
I think you would want water to go through. It is to stop the weed growth. In such big beds it will be a huge help to stop weeds.
It’s for keeping the weeds down not water!
We’ve been using weed fabric for this year will be four years. Water not a problem. We use drip tape, on top of the fabric. Then if there’s a problem we can see it pretty easy.
Excellent job y’all!!
That weed barrier is brilliant, you should use it on your main veg beds in the winter, just put down your compost and cover it, the worms are protected and when you uncover in planting season you will find a sweet smelling healthy soil rather than a weed infested compacted mess.
That’s how I put down my first landscape cloth, it was really nice, grew great plants and way less weeds. Come to think of it, my watermelons, zucchini and squash (yellow, patty pan white and butternut) did great there that year! Thanks for the reminder! Yep, sister may be late to the party but she steals the show lol. I love how you use the rocks around the beds. Have fun! ✌🏻
aww buggy wants to help too :-) beautiful your family life is awesome---mom and dad and kids all involved in so many different things together and separate--
Great first real garden tour Ben and Meg. Amazing!
Such beautiful gardens . I look forward to watching your videos. Thank you ...
I love the garden tours and the amount you have planted. The Orchard is starting to get in shape. If I remember there are berry bushes on your property? Take care!
Your orchard and garden are doing amazing.
I can't get over how big your plants are. Here in s e.Indiana we put our garden in this week. I'm jealous.
Havesting and Preserving your homestead this year will be big! Check your supplies now. Happy for you!
I truly loved this video and you guys showing us how you are planning your garden and your areas for the trees and everything my gosh you are professionals! God bless you and your land!
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Love what you all are doing ... God Bless you all!!
U r going to luvvvv the weed barrier. I starting using it last yr. I use it in my entire garden. No weeding. Just harvesting & watering. I use the drip tape to water so that part is easy also👍. Good luck.
Love how y’all are getting your garden together. 👍🏽
Love what you guys do and how you roll especially when you stay humble and humorous when you realize you may have "got something wrong". Maybe there's no such thing as "wrong" when you learn from it and share. Love that RED Gardens, too! Justro was talking in a video about planting wheat on a hill or slope, as opposed to the "flat". Wonder what that's all about? But yeah, flax would be wonderful! So many blessings!
Thanks for sharing your great progress! I’ve been starting a permaculture orchard in my front yard with smaller trees, like goji berry, elderberry, sea buckthorn. I have 5 mature (but smaller) apple trees that are dispersed in my back & front yards. You inspire me to continue!
Your little girl is always so happy to be outside
Wow! Your garden/property area is looking fantastic! All of your hard work is definitely paying off. Thank you for sharing your journey.
Re wheat: we grow a variety here in Maine called Sirvinta. It’s an heirloom from Estonia. Grows really tall, not short like modern hybrids bred for combine harvesting. You can get from MainePotatoLady, or drop me a line and I’ll send you some berries. We planted a ten by sixty-five area and got 59 lbs of berries.
I really appreciate your videos they are very simple and productive down to earth thank you you have a beautiful family
The dream is real and looking good ! You have came a long way ! Bravo !😂😍
Your gardens are beautiful and you are going to gather lots of wonderful veggies from them! I’m so happy for you, as you deserve a bountiful harvest! You have constantly worked to improve the quality of your soil and your vegetables already are showing great signs of healthy growth! 🥦🥬🥕🌶🌱🍅🌽🌻
I love your mini farm/garden/orchard. You guys are definitely putting Love in your patch of ground. ❤️🙏
Great video. Love the orchard and your vegetable beds. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.
Foraging is where chickens will peck and scratch the ground to find tasty morsels. This is how the wild ancestors of chickens would have found food scratching with their feed and pecking. Chickens do this even if they have a feeder full of food. I would like to try the vegetable row cover that turns into compost, biodegradable. The sun breaks it down. And it allows water to penetrate. It doesn't stop weeds as good, but it sounds worth trying. Your garden and orchard looks amazing.
A food forest. A jamming garden. You guys are doing incredible things with that land.
Love how little Miss Buggy is quite content just sitting in the dirt xx
loved your describing the cow pie/chicken rotation method absolutely fantastic--
The garden is looking fantastic you guys! I use a weed barrier that looks the same, and it is absolutely water permeable. Not only that but it seems to help retain the water. Here in Chattanooga we have had a dry spring, but everything in my garden is thriving and my entire garden is covered in the weed barrier.
I forgot to mention that it was great to see your ginger cat in so many of your edits (especially as I'm a cat lover)...!
Thanks for sharing. I use copper tape on the edges of my beds to help reduce the number of bugs getting into my veggies and use small hoop netting to stop bugs too in other beds. 😊
You need a fabric weed barrier that lets water through it. I remember one time my dat got a roll of carpet padding, it was the old type that was mad from a type of felt, to say the least it was a messy disaster 🥱
Drip tape it you will not regret it. You always should grow onions from seed and now what onion is best for your area. Hoss tools talks about everything onions you need to know, every sense I listened to him I have had great onion havests. Don't do mimosa trees they are what is known as trash trees and you will have them popping up everywhere even in your foudations and fencing and if you are not constantly watching them they can ruin a lot, They are invasive.
Do y'all do high tunnels for your green's? We also live in NC and it works great for us it keeps pest damage on a very low if not much at all level. We have a great harvest from doing this method and another great thing too that helps is planting mint herbs around the permiter or a stouter kind of herb. As a barrier to keep bugs away and rabbits 🐇. The beds look great 👍 😊 Hope y'all have a blessed rest of your weekend! God bless...👋🙂
so good to see you guys joking and smiling while conversing... makes the video more interesting ❤
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I use the same type of weed barrier in my garden and it is water permeable. I cut it and leave a couple inches around each plant and have no problems. Love your new posting schedule.
Good Tomato Bed Save! 🍅. How was your asparagus this year? We are zone 7 in a long Spring and the asparagus is just now bolting. Our tomatoes got unhappy with cold nights so we talked nice to them gave them a little Dr. Earth and this week they look much better. 🌱🌞
Looking good y’all!