Yes! It's my first year growing it, and it's going crazy and I love the look of it in my gardens! The only problem is I only have one luffa so far because the ants have been swarming it from the second I put in the garden, and it seems like they are destroying the blooms! I don't want to spray anything so I don't know what to do to get rid of them because I really want to make these nesting pads for my girls but at this rate I'm not going to get any more luffas 😢 any tips to get rid of ants???
I bet it was an awesome feeling making something by hand AND having the chickens actually use it. My chickens were finnicky as well. Lol they were spoiled and not ashamed of it.
We use chopped straw from tractor supply. It's a huge bag that last a really long time for about $15. If your chickens end up not liking the new pad maybe you could use the straw. The luffa pad is super cool though!
I was so nervous to see if the girls would lay eggs in in the luffa pads 🤣🤣 You should definetly start sewing! It's so much fun. I recommend Evelyn Wood here on youtube, her channel it´s filled to the top of information 🥰
Wow, great garden! If ever you feel like some of the tomatoes are not getting ripe because the plants are dying, I suggest making jam with green tomatoes, with a little bit of vanilla it's delicious :)
I sowed my pole beans today as well. Saved them from last year's crop. I'm not doing too great on succession sowing but doing a little bit like 2nd round of direct sowed zucchinis. As far as those tomatoes not doing well, I have a stockade fence on 2 sides of my garden and over the years I've realized I have to plant as far away ss possible (just a matter of a few feet). But I find they have been doing better since I've relocated them, and I attribute that to the lack of air drainage before.
Well done that's fantastic I find your garden really inspiring because it's much closer to the size garden we will have when we move. Re making the nesting pads with a sewing machine it really depends if much dust or bits come off the loufa if they do it might wreck your new machine when you get it. Just a thought, it would still be great for dresses ect.
Hello bre my name is Lulu I am a 15 years old from Australia,I love❤watching your videos I think I have watch all of them. 😂I love watching you because you have a garden similar to mine. And your very understanding please keep up the good work but I was wondering if you could do a video on how and when you clean your chicken coop and how you keep your coop from diseases it would be helpful thank you ❤
How fun doing something by hand. Would you be willing to show how you fertilize your plants. And trim your determinate tomato’s to look so good in there cages. ? Mine are a disaster.
I was so excited to grow luffa this year! I think I started my seeds in March but at this point I don’t even have one flower 😢. It’s such a great feeling when the perfect solution falls into place. So glad the chickens are using the nest pad.
I’m hoping to get my little flock next spring and I’m going to grow luffa to make my own dish sponges and now I’ll try the nesting pad idea, too! Your girls are so pretty! Thanks for the ideas. 💗🐓
Hey Bre, I do look forward to your videos. You are always so upbeat and positive. I really love the flow to the video the information show and tell or demonstration. Some folks just need to see a step or two and then they are off to the races. I garden in our yard also and some years it is massive amounts of food and others not so much. Like this year over 25 inches of rain the spring and all my okra was 3" underwater and it all drowned. The replacements are just germinating now. I will get a fraction if any okra this year. However I am already harvesting Cherokee Purple and Beefsteak tomatoes in July in Minnesota. There must be a hundred tomato plants this year! So I am more grateful for what I do get and less focused on what I do not get. Thank you for the video I am glad I found your channel. Cya next thyme, Steven
I’m planning on growing garlic in October and hope I can make it by trying. Also I’m planning on growling some jalapeños next year and sunflowers as well.
Hi, just want to let you know im loving your videos! Hope you keep posting and making vids. You are inspiring me to start gardening and planting in my backyard. I want to start gardening in my backyard and any advice from you will be appreciated.. more power to u! -kathy, your new subscriber ❤
Determinate tomatoes seem more productive because they fruit all at once. Indeterminate are more slow and steady and will produce until frost or disease ends them. They just require more patience. I have better luck with indeterminate because they can recover from setbacks. If you get a problem with determinate at the wrong time then there will be no tomatoes that season at all!
I have never been successful with tomatoes in grow bags. I think the nutrients have flushed when draining after watering. I applied tomato tone and fish fertilizer. I finally decided to never use grow bags for tomatoes. I now just grow pepper in grow bags now.
My indeterminate cherry tomatoes grow out to 10+ feet long every year and turn into full in bushes. I give away carton fulls every day. It’s insane. No idea what I’m doing lol but my romas are always slower.
Praying for your green beans. mine aren't even producing anything, they're getting destroyed by the Japanese beetle. Im just leaving it in at this point as a trap plant 😢
I had a similar thought but I have the same soil in other area and those plants are thriving. All new soil for those areas this year, and I’ve been feeding the plants weekly. I had a few get hit with some herbicide drift at the beginning of the year and I’m thinking more got affected then I originally thought. I had a neighbor spraying on a 50mph day… but never know! Sometimes tomatoes are weird and finicky and this is a area with the most sun. Thinking that could have stressed them out farther with how hot we were getting. The other two areas get a bit more shaded during peak day. Funny how the same plants are thriving just 20 feet away lol got to love gardening for keeping you on your toes!
Are you growing luffa this year??
Yes, I am! They're still little, but they're there!
We will be trying them for the first time - sowing soon as I am based in New Zealand!
I'm not sure but maybe you can prune your indeterminate tomatoes at little more underneath to really spur growth
Yes! It's my first year growing it, and it's going crazy and I love the look of it in my gardens! The only problem is I only have one luffa so far because the ants have been swarming it from the second I put in the garden, and it seems like they are destroying the blooms! I don't want to spray anything so I don't know what to do to get rid of them because I really want to make these nesting pads for my girls but at this rate I'm not going to get any more luffas 😢 any tips to get rid of ants???
Where do you get your luffa seeds??
I bet it was an awesome feeling making something by hand AND having the chickens actually use it. My chickens were finnicky as well. Lol they were spoiled and not ashamed of it.
Totally is!! Glad my chickens arnt the only ones who are picky and spoiled 🤣❤️
@@itsbreellis❤❤❤those picky Chicks 🐔😮😂 how dare they be that way 😅😂
Its a massive undertaking to make a garden like that.
I have neither luffa nor chickens but I was on the edge of my seat! Well done, you’re an inventor! So cool! 😊
That’s a good way to save money since you already have the luffa and now the eggs roll down so that’s awesome.
It is so nice to see how well you take care of your chickens. The healthier they are, the happier they will be and provide a better production.
We use chopped straw from tractor supply. It's a huge bag that last a really long time for about $15. If your chickens end up not liking the new pad maybe you could use the straw. The luffa pad is super cool though!
Quilted patchwork nesting pads. Honestly a genius idea and a cozy winter day craft project. I need to plant more luffa
Aw your chickens are so enjoying your creativity & care for them 😊 This is a brilliant idea!!
I was so nervous to see if the girls would lay eggs in in the luffa pads 🤣🤣
You should definetly start sewing! It's so much fun. I recommend Evelyn Wood here on youtube, her channel it´s filled to the top of information 🥰
Wow, great garden! If ever you feel like some of the tomatoes are not getting ripe because the plants are dying, I suggest making jam with green tomatoes, with a little bit of vanilla it's delicious :)
I sowed my pole beans today as well. Saved them from last year's crop. I'm not doing too great on succession sowing but doing a little bit like 2nd round of direct sowed zucchinis. As far as those tomatoes not doing well, I have a stockade fence on 2 sides of my garden and over the years I've realized I have to plant as far away ss possible (just a matter of a few feet). But I find they have been doing better since I've relocated them, and I attribute that to the lack of air drainage before.
Thanks for the reminder that I need to get my fall plants started!
I'm so excited the nest pad works!
Bre, you need to patent those luffa nest pads! You just stumbled upon something, great job. 👏👏👏
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Love your videos. You are so talented and I love seeing the chickens.
Well done that's fantastic I find your garden really inspiring because it's much closer to the size garden we will have when we move. Re making the nesting pads with a sewing machine it really depends if much dust or bits come off the loufa if they do it might wreck your new machine when you get it. Just a thought, it would still be great for dresses ect.
Hello bre my name is Lulu I am a 15 years old from Australia,I love❤watching your videos I think I have watch all of them. 😂I love watching you because you have a garden similar to mine. And your very understanding please keep up the good work but I was wondering if you could do a video on how and when you clean your chicken coop and how you keep your coop from diseases it would be helpful thank you ❤
This video is such a vibe, and i love how well you treat your chickens!
How fun doing something by hand. Would you be willing to show how you fertilize your plants. And trim your determinate tomato’s to look so good in there cages. ? Mine are a disaster.
Wouldn’t you be able to wash those really easy too? That’s a big bonus
Great video Bre, you are so crafty.
Thank you!
This made me so happy, good job Bre!
Thanks for watching!
I was so excited to grow luffa this year! I think I started my seeds in March but at this point I don’t even have one flower 😢.
It’s such a great feeling when the perfect solution falls into place. So glad the chickens are using the nest pad.
Very cool idea! Thanks for sharing
I’m hoping to get my little flock next spring and I’m going to grow luffa to make my own dish sponges and now I’ll try the nesting pad idea, too! Your girls are so pretty! Thanks for the ideas. 💗🐓
Hey Bre, I do look forward to your videos. You are always so upbeat and positive. I really love the flow to the video the information show and tell or demonstration. Some folks just need to see a step or two and then they are off to the races. I garden in our yard also and some years it is massive amounts of food and others not so much. Like this year over 25 inches of rain the spring and all my okra was 3" underwater and it all drowned. The replacements are just germinating now. I will get a fraction if any okra this year. However I am already harvesting Cherokee Purple and Beefsteak tomatoes in July in Minnesota. There must be a hundred tomato plants this year! So I am more grateful for what I do get and less focused on what I do not get. Thank you for the video I am glad I found your channel. Cya next thyme, Steven
I’m planning on growing garlic in October and hope I can make it by trying. Also I’m planning on growling some jalapeños next year and sunflowers as well.
I love your idea
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💕I’m attempting to grow a loofah 🤞🏽 I hope it works…. I love love love the nest pad you made!!!
Hi, just want to let you know im loving your videos! Hope you keep posting and making vids. You are inspiring me to start gardening and planting in my backyard. I want to start gardening in my backyard and any advice from you will be appreciated.. more power to u!
-kathy, your new subscriber ❤
❤ love your voice
Determinate tomatoes seem more productive because they fruit all at once. Indeterminate are more slow and steady and will produce until frost or disease ends them. They just require more patience. I have better luck with indeterminate because they can recover from setbacks. If you get a problem with determinate at the wrong time then there will be no tomatoes that season at all!
Love your garden! What lavender did you grow that blooms in the first year?
Are the girls still using the loofah pad?
So far!
PsA.... loofa/luffa grow like weeds. So choose wisely where you plant in your garden❤
Are you going to keep seeds from that volunteer sunflower incase you don't get another next year? It is so big and who doesn't love giant sunflowers
Do you have a link to that planting schedule guide you were talking about from your ag extension? 😁
Where’d you get those baskets for your cantaloupes???
Looked like she made them
She called them hammocks
Also looks like macrame popular in the 70's and 80's
Can you please tell how to grow Organo rosemary basil and to take care of them
I lowkey want chickens now help 🤭
I have never been successful with tomatoes in grow bags. I think the nutrients have flushed when draining after watering. I applied tomato tone and fish fertilizer. I finally decided to never use grow bags for tomatoes.
I now just grow pepper in grow bags now.
You can do that for hanging plants???
My indeterminate cherry tomatoes grow out to 10+ feet long every year and turn into full in bushes. I give away carton fulls every day. It’s insane. No idea what I’m doing lol but my romas are always slower.
😮nice idea and side note where did you get that cute overalls?
Thank you! They are from patagonia! Worn them a ton and they are still in great shape!
Praying for your green beans. mine aren't even producing anything, they're getting destroyed by the Japanese beetle. Im just leaving it in at this point as a trap plant 😢
Maybe the dirt in the containers or lack of fertilizer on the tomatoes.
I had a similar thought but I have the same soil in other area and those plants are thriving. All new soil for those areas this year, and I’ve been feeding the plants weekly. I had a few get hit with some herbicide drift at the beginning of the year and I’m thinking more got affected then I originally thought. I had a neighbor spraying on a 50mph day… but never know! Sometimes tomatoes are weird and finicky and this is a area with the most sun. Thinking that could have stressed them out farther with how hot we were getting. The other two areas get a bit more shaded during peak day. Funny how the same plants are thriving just 20 feet away lol got to love gardening for keeping you on your toes!
@@itsbreellis❤❤❤
How do you deal with blight? We had to pull out all of our tomatoes and cucumbers
😮😢 Awwe I'm so sorry
Do you sucker your indeterminate tomatoe plants?