Buggy is a true southern country girl! Bare feet and covered in dirt! She's going to be a real farmer developing this love of the garden so early. Love watching the kids grow up so natural and happy. Good job!
Making the compost right in the raised beds is a good example of working smarter, not harder. We love your videos, you and Meg are both so creative, talented and hard working. Great job!
Oh, how happy you've made my old heart, seeing you and your youngsters planting those fruit trees and berries! I virtually grew up in my Grama's greenhouse and her gardens, and I can almost still smell that rich, fecund earth as I watch you turning your compost heap and mulching the new plantings. Love watching your videos. Of all the homesteader vlogs I follow, you're the best.
My goodness Buggie is growing so fast. She is adorable! My mother canned everything that she could. She was big on canning lots of jams and jellies. When she cooked pancakes, she would take a jar of jam or jelly, add some water to the jam and then heat it up and serve it as syrup. I didn't know what store bought syrup was until I was in high school. I'd rather have the homemade syrup made from fruit.
Omg. I love seeing Dad wearing that baby girl. Good bonding and visceral learning ♥️♥️♥️♥️ she’s gonna be a growing garden queen 👑 Love love love all the plantings. Yay Stark
Do the kids ever miss the excitement of travel? Are the other boys as interested in growing something themselves as Jack is? That baby is just a delight.
Love, Love, LOVE seeing buggy playing in the dirt and the boys barefoot and fancy free!!! THE BEST WAY TO GROW UP !!!! You are such an amazing family!!! Keep it up!
I bet Bug just LOVES being on your backs all of the time when y'all are working. Keeps her occupied watching... And i am sure she is learning as she goes. She will be your little farm girl in no time! :)
That Buggie smile made me laugh right out loud. The plants falling into your lap/garden, paid for your gas there, and almost for the Airbnb. Lol 💗💗💕💕😘😁👍👍
@@ardenpeters4386 Is that a question about what I meant? Or about who it was about? The baby is Buggie, just ask her Mom. She smiled and made my day. Also, they got all those plants, which if they could've afforded, they would have purchased. Went to the conference and they were gifted plants. WIN! Does that explain things?
First... dang sure wish I had hung out for free plants lol Secondly to your cranberry. It doesnt need the bog to grow. The bog is just how they harvest it because the plants are to delicate for mechine picking and the berries are hollow. So they flood the field and then use a 'beater" to loose the berries wich then float and are skimmed off the bog surface
That is so good to know! I grew up in Wisconsin and recall the harvest story... but am unaware that they do not require wet marshy areas to actually grow! I may send a few plants to family as gifts!!
Worst case the earth will correct any mistakes we do with compost. It always finds a way. 🥰 Guess that’s why it’s called mother earth. Always fixing the kids’ mistakes.
Meg...when the hops come in next summer they would be great in a new Beer/ Hops soap. It was a big hit when I was making soap, I added stout FO and they always sold out.
I think you have a new channel in the making ;-) the Buggy show ;-) She's clearly not only a nature lover but also a natural star:) Sooooo precious! Thank you for sharing her with us.
check your hardy kiwi has a male and a female plant intertwined in pot or if the two pots have separate male and female - they are a vine which grows rampantly but you do need male and female planted together. produces smooth skinned grape size fruit which are great tasting and will do best on a protected wall or fence. we have never trimmed ours and it is very productive with the vine now measuring 16ft wide and 7ft tall.
Wheelbarrow babies are happy babies! It's not just the shared knowledge in your videos, which Ben is a wealth of, it is the general happiness you make us feel! I smile through every video. peace y'all
Did you see hoe Curtis Stone at his off grid property uses human waste in his compost? Diago footer has modified the Sue-Johnston method for compost as well. Good points from each perspective.
My teens have learned so much from your videos. You would be amazed to see their big garden. They are already discussing how to do composting after this video.
This is another one of my favorite videos 😊 You two had great experiences at the HOA and came back revitalized. So nice that you got Jack more ducks. Take care.
I’ve been composting for three years. I’m still struggling to get the pile “happy “. Thanks for showing again how to put one together that is “happy “ and hot. I noticed how much your soil has improved, it doesn’t look like red clay anymore. Your doing a fantastic job. I love watching y’all’s channel. The kiddos are growing up so fast. Blessings y’all from N Mississippi 🙏🏻🥰🌻🦋
Watching the kids grow up on the farm playing in the dirt is wonderful. The baby has grown so much and I can just imagine what a handful she is be as she gets bigger.
I stumbled across “garden tea” one year when I put a huge pile of oak leaves into a very large hole ridden stock tank. It rained a lot and I saw it was actually holding water, and becoming very putrid. I watered my caged tomatoes with that brown tea, and then put the leaves that had not entirely broke down, also under the tomatoes. Well, as you might imagine. That year we grew five to six foot lush tomatoes bushes, but few tomatoes. Lol. Great lesson.
You showed your appreciation for the different plants you received by taking the time to plant them straight away. Real people , coupled with a load of kindness
I’d put the American cranberry down by the creek. I’d make a pergola the full length on the front of the house and grow the hops on both sides. You’ll have additional shade at the front of the house as they grow up that pergola.
This is my favorite video you have ever made! Love to see you all out doing what you love as a family. You can see your love for the land again. HOA has encouraged many and I see that in you all too. Thanks for sharing! 💜
Thank u Ben!!! I really appreciated u going thru step by step how simple compost can be! Sometimes we can get lost in all the 100’s & 1000’s of examples. U guys have come home with such a calm peace & confidence within ur selves. It’s beautiful to see. Oh Buggy! Ur so so sweet! I adore u & ur whole family! 💕🌸🪲🦋
Great job with those berries. The bed looks great. Just a little tip for the blackberries, though. For best production, they need trellising and to be pruned. It doesn't take much time to do that, but you will need to pay attention to the length of the canes. Top them when they get to 5 or 6 feet to encourage the laterals. Laterals are where the berries come from. Trim the laterals in the spring to about 23 inches and your plants will explode with berries. After they're done, trim off the spent canes, compost them, and hang the new canes. You can then use the cuttings from the tips to create new blackberry plants if you want. Just use Ben's willow water and a pot of soil. Cut all but one leaf set off and put at least two leaf nodes under the surface of the soil then water it with the willow water. Finally, trim off all but one leaf and cut that leaf in half if it's more than about an inch long and wide. This will encourage it to force growth of roots.
I love watching Buggies face when she is playing in the garden. She will be like her brother who loves planting things. Thank you Starke Bros....you couldn't have gifted finer people with the berries and fruit trees. They have a wonderful home. Thanks for sharing your very busy day with us and y'all have a Blessed day.
if you want to keep the grass down around the base of the orchard trees, i use the removable lids from plastic barrels, cut hole in and then place at the base of the tree with bricks on to keep them on the ground, the grass withers away, it also helps when you mowing the lawn too....
I am so edified by the reboot you did to your marriage. If more people did the work you did to save what you had there would be a healthier society! This video is the example as to where you’ve come. God bless you a peace and blessings!
Boy, I have so much to learn about compost. Lottsa little tidbits of info in this video that can help, appreciate that. This was the first year after I built the garden and the soil need a lot of organic matter and compost. My compost pile sucks pretty bad though. Brown, green then brown again...seems easy but you gotta put in the work. That'll be my winter viewing pleasures on UA-cam...studying compost. How to make it, how to use it, what can go in, how moist should it be. Be sure to give some updates as you go along. Gotta build an enclosure cause my Old English Sheepdog keeps rummaging in there. Cheers folks, Chad.
Amazing video. Those are amazing gifts from Stark. Not sure what kind of fig tree that is but they can get huge. Not telling u what to do on your land but you may want to put her in the orchard.
Thank you for the compost tips. Though I’ve gardened off and on for forty years, I’ve never used compost but used manure to fertilize. I am working towards a more organic garden and your ideas help a lot. Thank you. I love your vlogs and I get a lot of good ideas from them.
I live in SC, 15 miles east of Augusta Ga. I realize that you are farther north but a trick we use for citrus seedlings we have used for wintering has been to use clear garbage bags upside down for mini greenhouses. I get them from friends of mine who work at hotels or large restaurants.
Fig trees can get enormous. I'm thinking it will outgrow that spot in no time DEPENDING ON VARIETY PERHAPS? What kind of fig did you get? I have a corkey sweet that fruits spring AND fall. 😋 DELICIOUSLY SWEET.
So excited you got all those goodies to plant !! What a blessing. Buggy is so darn pretty with those big blue eyes. I think Ben and the boys will need a shotgun to hang over the front door when she gets older. Lol 💕
I love how you say just try it! You guys have inspired me to "just try" so many things. I made my first productive garden this year, got chickens and have even started making my own soap. I love watching you guys!
Buggy is such a happy little girl and so well behaved as long as she's near Mom & Dad!!♥️♥️She's not afraid of anything and she loves the dirt and the animals definitely the garden like her parents! Very good video on mulching was a good Theme of "Keep it simple… Pretty much anything goes... and respect a few basic Rules"! I think that when children grow up doing things with their parents outdoors and around the garden and animals and family projects they will always have that teamwork attitude in their adult life whether they live on a farm or not. They'll Become good Mates with their spouses; The good employees for their bosses; be good friends who you can Count on for GOOD HELP; & SO APPRECIATIVE OF THEIR PARENTS FOR EVERYTHING THEY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN & EXPERIENCE (& EAT) GROWING UP in a HARDWORKING, TEAM EFFORT, LOVING FAMILY♥️♥️
Best thing I ever did for compost production is aquire a pull behind lawn sweeper, I used about 60 tons over summer putting in my market garden so its imperative that I can make a lot before its time for top offs on the rows
It's easier to put down wet cardboard and mulch and THEN cut and plant through the layers than putting cardboard in between after planting. Done both, and it's way more time efficient to plant afterwards. Love to see you smile so much
Have you ever looked into worm tea (aka: black gold)? You take worm castings and add them to oxygenated water with molasses (to feed the enzymes) and it is supposed to be, well, gold. You can only feed your worms manure tho. You take the water and spray it onto plants and soil.
Welcome home! We have plenty of carbon with all the wood chips we have but need more nitrogen for our compost piles. Maybe I'll try the fish emulsion. Nice score on the plants! -Mike
Ben I am an almost 64 yr old homesteader doing it on my own with 5 acres. What did you use to secure your pallets for your compost bin? I tried using T posts and that was an epic fail. But I am going to put it in my front yard (where my garden is) what a great idea!!!! I make the most beautiful soil. Just remember all it takes is even parts of green and brown and water. Cardboard is FANTASTIC. Many don't like to use it because of the glue in it, but I say...Hey it all breaks down and mother nature has a way of cleaning things up. Cardboard in my experience really speeds up the break down process. I throw in some of my chicken coop clean up in it too and ohhhh how it produces worms! Love you guys and to me, you are the most beautiful all American couple. You really have it all. You don't need a BIG house. Kids grow and then you have a huge dwelling and really how much time do you spend in your home? (except for winter) lol. Well, let me take a little bit back....your family grows once your kids get married then the house seems really small. Imagine 5-6 children with their wives and your grandbabies. Lol.
I have been interested in organic ways of doing things for a long time. By other half being a farmer thought his ways were right. (He is changing his thinking 20 years later). We were at the beach so collected some seaweed to bring home. I put it in a lidded bucket at the back of some shrubs. After it had been cooking for a long time, my hubby came in one day and said what on earth were you keeping that smelling stuff for, I emptied it and washed the bucket out. The shrubs loved it, my vege patch missed out. Another great video from you. Buggie is so happy in the garden. So good you accepted some responsibility for Jack’s ducks and replaced them. You are a great family. 🌻🌻💕💕
Them giving you those plants couldn’t have went to a more deserving family! Y’all are doing such amazing things for your family that will teach those young lads to be well rounded and great men! Oh and the little miss will be there telling them all what to do!! She’s gonna have them boys wrapped around her wee finger😂sending y’all big hugs and well wishes🇨🇦♥️
A key component of growing cranberries is that they require a unique environment. The vines or shrubs thrive in layers of gravel, then acidic peat soil and sand.
They are grown in boggy areas in Wisconsin. I recall stories of them being harvested by canoe! Unaware if there may be dryland cranberries. The berries float... bad ones sink.
One thing I'd heard of and like to try to add is fermented comfrey or weeds as a supplement to the garden. Supposed to smell good and add great nutrients and biology to the garden.
feeding Mother 🌎 with Mother 🌎is a gift to your future selves ..seeding your compost W/ y'all's soil is a great key to garden friendly compost Y'all have a wonderful rest of your week Hollar Family ☮️&🌱's
You know what I really like about the way you do things? Your method is even easier to attain than some other homesteaders. Getting pallets is easier to come across than lumber and corrugated metal roofing sheets. For myself, I find I get bogged down badly with "analysis paralysis." I see how someone else does something, but if I can't logistically get my hands on similar materials, it seems too hard, so I back off. Your way of doing things seems more attainable, so it's more encouraging to follow suit. Thank you.
I’m loving more videos lately! You guys are doing so many awesome things and raising a beautiful family with love, hard work and morals! It’s a beautiful thing to see. Wishing you abundant blessings💖🙏
I just kept getting the feeling you two were about to make another kind of announcement as I would see the little grins to one another. Maybe my eyes were not seeing properly, lol. Compost and gardens looks great. Good score on the free plants and stuff! You look do happy! 👍🏻💕😍
I live in a tract home and we compost cardboard (cross-shreader) from so many boxes from shipping and business use, and coffee grounds from our local mini mart. I add everything else from grass clippings, eggshells, house waste. It does smell if I dont turn it and it gets too wet. Putting a layer of brown on top keeps bugs/smell down. My garden is a jungle. No science involved for me. I add steer manure to my garden and compost. When i did not have it covered and we had snow...it stayed too wet so I simply spread it out over the garden unfinished. Worked like a charm.
Love your channel. We are gardeners and Charles Dowding, who makes a layered compost and came up with this method goes something like this. We call it our garden lasagna, the bottom is something brown, whether that is leaves or grass, something like paper or cardboard, then the next layer is something green and we use this as our green or veggie food waist, then another layer of paper or cardboard, then the key here is put some cow manure or chicken manure but don't use it right away because it's hot. By the beginning of Spring we had earthworms falling out everywhere. The comfry tea is awesome stuff. It stinks to high heaven, lol.
Going to make compost never thought it would be as easy. Got lots of leaves and grass. Had my kids packed more than once like that, lol. Have a great weekend
This is the best compost video I’ve seen and I made a new playlist just to keep this one on file. Thanks for the valuable input. I’ve been trying composting for 3+ years and this really helped. Thanks so much!
Just a quick note. Try raking your chicken caged areas, add that to your compost. Chuck grass clippings into replacing soil. Great for the composting effort. Love 💕 to all, Ellen Queensland, Australia.
Hey guys...im from Oregon and i find it absolutly amazing watching you guys dig into your gardens and just digging up your earth layers out there. I see red dirt. Im not used to seeing red dirt i think its beautiful. Im used to seeing brown and black dirt. But i really like the Red.
Wonderful parents are people who can say "I'm sorry" and make it right. Great life lesson in doing the right thing.
Buggy is a true southern country girl! Bare feet and covered in dirt! She's going to be a real farmer developing this love of the garden so early. Love watching the kids grow up so natural and happy. Good job!
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Making the compost right in the raised beds is a good example of working smarter, not harder. We love your videos, you and Meg are both so creative, talented and hard working. Great job!
I love seeing the boys running around barefoot all the time, reminds me when I was a kid, we always ran around during the summer barefoot.
Your kids are learning so many life skills and character-humility with accuracy AND error, among the most important. 👍
Thank you Stark's for blessing this wonderful family with all your excess plants! They will reap the rewards from your generosity for years to come.
Try not to laugh--I wrote down Ben's Compost recipe. I'm older but have never done this and have been anxious to try it. thanks!
Me too
Thats wonderful and to smile about,I was about to msg my sister and tell her the recipe 😀 she has many leaves. Wonderful recipe. Mmmm.
So did i!
Oh, how happy you've made my old heart, seeing you and your youngsters planting those fruit trees and berries! I virtually grew up in my Grama's greenhouse and her gardens, and I can almost still smell that rich, fecund earth as I watch you turning your compost heap and mulching the new plantings. Love watching your videos. Of all the homesteader vlogs I follow, you're the best.
My goodness Buggie is growing so fast. She is adorable!
My mother canned everything that she could. She was big on canning lots of jams and jellies. When she cooked pancakes, she would take a jar of jam or jelly, add some water to the jam and then heat it up and serve it as syrup. I didn't know what store bought syrup was until I was in high school. I'd rather have the homemade syrup made from fruit.
How cool to receive the extra plants, and trees from Stark. Those plants, and trees will thrive with the compost you've created.
Omg. I love seeing Dad wearing that baby girl. Good bonding and visceral learning ♥️♥️♥️♥️ she’s gonna be a growing garden queen 👑
Love love love all the plantings. Yay Stark
oh the wonder and magic of wheelbarrow rides!
Do the kids ever miss the excitement of travel? Are the other boys as interested in growing something themselves as Jack is? That baby is just a delight.
Love, Love, LOVE seeing buggy playing in the dirt and the boys barefoot and fancy free!!! THE BEST WAY TO GROW UP !!!! You are such an amazing family!!! Keep it up!
Buggy is such a good helper. She is so content to just hang out on Daddy's back. Thank you Stark for taking care of our Hollars!
Buggy is so cute! She loves playing in the dirt - your farm girl!!
She needs a sun hat 👒
I bet Bug just LOVES being on your backs all of the time when y'all are working. Keeps her occupied watching... And i am sure she is learning as she goes. She will be your little farm girl in no time! :)
Love seeing the boys out helping their dad . THE BABY IS SO CUTE AND PRECIOUS. VERY HAPPY YOU HAD A GREAT TRIP.
That Buggie smile made me laugh right out loud.
The plants falling into your lap/garden, paid for your gas there, and almost for the Airbnb. Lol
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@@ardenpeters4386 Is that a question about what I meant? Or about who it was about?
The baby is Buggie, just ask her Mom. She smiled and made my day.
Also, they got all those plants, which if they could've afforded, they would have purchased. Went to the conference and they were gifted plants. WIN!
Does that explain things?
First... dang sure wish I had hung out for free plants lol
Secondly to your cranberry. It doesnt need the bog to grow. The bog is just how they harvest it because the plants are to delicate for mechine picking and the berries are hollow. So they flood the field and then use a 'beater" to loose the berries wich then float and are skimmed off the bog surface
That is so good to know! I grew up in Wisconsin and recall the harvest story... but am unaware that they do not require wet marshy areas to actually grow! I may send a few plants to family as gifts!!
Wow! Great knowledge, thank you.
If your lawn mower collects your grass clippings you could run over the leaves and collect them up that way.
Worst case the earth will correct any mistakes we do with compost. It always finds a way. 🥰 Guess that’s why it’s called mother earth. Always fixing the kids’ mistakes.
Meg...when the hops come in next summer they would be great in a new Beer/ Hops soap. It was a big hit when I was making soap, I added stout FO and they always sold out.
I think you have a new channel in the making ;-) the Buggy show ;-) She's clearly not only a nature lover but also a natural star:) Sooooo precious!
Thank you for sharing her with us.
check your hardy kiwi has a male and a female plant intertwined in pot or if the two pots have separate male and female - they are a vine which grows rampantly but you do need male and female planted together. produces smooth skinned grape size fruit which are great tasting and will do best on a protected wall or fence. we have never trimmed ours and it is very productive with the vine now measuring 16ft wide and 7ft tall.
Who would have known? Thanks for the information. Sounds like a fun plant to grow!
Wheelbarrow babies are happy babies! It's not just the shared knowledge in your videos, which Ben is a wealth of, it is the general happiness you make us feel! I smile through every video. peace y'all
Just another wonderful day on the homestead with family.
Did you see hoe Curtis Stone at his off grid property uses human waste in his compost?
Diago footer has modified the Sue-Johnston method for compost as well.
Good points from each perspective.
My teens have learned so much from your videos. You would be amazed to see their big garden. They are already discussing how to do composting after this video.
This is another one of my favorite videos 😊 You two had great experiences at the HOA and came back revitalized. So nice that you got Jack more ducks. Take care.
I’ve been composting for three years. I’m still struggling to get the pile “happy “. Thanks for showing again how to put one together that is “happy “ and hot.
I noticed how much your soil has improved, it doesn’t look like red clay anymore. Your doing a fantastic job.
I love watching y’all’s channel. The kiddos are growing up so fast.
Blessings y’all from N Mississippi 🙏🏻🥰🌻🦋
Watching the kids grow up on the farm playing in the dirt is wonderful. The baby has grown so much and I can just imagine what a handful she is be as she gets bigger.
I so love watching you guys do your thing outside and inside and absolutely love Buggy and her playing and smiling. Can't wait for the next video
I stumbled across “garden tea” one year when I put a huge pile of oak leaves into a very large hole ridden stock tank. It rained a lot and I saw it was actually holding water, and becoming very putrid. I watered my caged tomatoes with that brown tea, and then put the leaves that had not entirely broke down, also under the tomatoes. Well, as you might imagine. That year we grew five to six foot lush tomatoes bushes, but few tomatoes. Lol. Great lesson.
Doris, it sounds like it really did work, but after wards, some fertilizer to promote blooms and fruiting was needed
…you had to get milk…can’t wait to see the cow video! 🐄🤠
You showed your appreciation for the different plants you received by taking the time to plant them straight away. Real people , coupled with a load of kindness
I’d put the American cranberry down by the creek. I’d make a pergola the full length on the front of the house and grow the hops on both sides. You’ll have additional shade at the front of the house as they grow up that pergola.
Enjoyed every minute of this video. Compost….
Black gold to us gardeners! ❤️
This is my favorite video you have ever made! Love to see you all out doing what you love as a family. You can see your love for the land again. HOA has encouraged many and I see that in you all too. Thanks for sharing! 💜
Thank u Ben!!! I really appreciated u going thru step by step how simple compost can be! Sometimes we can get lost in all the 100’s & 1000’s of examples. U guys have come home with such a calm peace & confidence within ur selves. It’s beautiful to see. Oh Buggy! Ur so so sweet! I adore u & ur whole family! 💕🌸🪲🦋
Good evening everyone, nice to see you back safely. 👋🏻👋🏻 😊
Great job with those berries. The bed looks great. Just a little tip for the blackberries, though. For best production, they need trellising and to be pruned. It doesn't take much time to do that, but you will need to pay attention to the length of the canes. Top them when they get to 5 or 6 feet to encourage the laterals. Laterals are where the berries come from. Trim the laterals in the spring to about 23 inches and your plants will explode with berries. After they're done, trim off the spent canes, compost them, and hang the new canes.
You can then use the cuttings from the tips to create new blackberry plants if you want. Just use Ben's willow water and a pot of soil. Cut all but one leaf set off and put at least two leaf nodes under the surface of the soil then water it with the willow water. Finally, trim off all but one leaf and cut that leaf in half if it's more than about an inch long and wide. This will encourage it to force growth of roots.
I love watching Buggies face when she is playing in the garden. She will be like her brother who loves planting things. Thank you Starke Bros....you couldn't have gifted finer people with the berries and fruit trees. They have a wonderful home. Thanks for sharing your very busy day with us and y'all have a Blessed day.
if you want to keep the grass down around the base of the orchard trees, i use the removable lids from plastic barrels, cut hole in and then place at the base of the tree with bricks on to keep them on the ground, the grass withers away, it also helps when you mowing the lawn too....
You guys are on the ball getting your new trees and fruit plants in the ground already. Way to go. 🍁🎃🌾
I am so edified by the reboot you did to your marriage. If more people did the work you did to save what you had there would be a healthier society! This video is the example as to where you’ve come. God bless you a peace and blessings!
You were definitely in the right place at the right time with all the Stark plants. They now have a very good home.
I have really enjoyed watching your homestead's soil go from red to black. 🤸♀️
Boy, I have so much to learn about compost. Lottsa little tidbits of info in this video that can help, appreciate that. This was the first year after I built the garden and the soil need a lot of organic matter and compost. My compost pile sucks pretty bad though. Brown, green then brown again...seems easy but you gotta put in the work. That'll be my winter viewing pleasures on UA-cam...studying compost. How to make it, how to use it, what can go in, how moist should it be. Be sure to give some updates as you go along. Gotta build an enclosure cause my Old English Sheepdog keeps rummaging in there. Cheers folks, Chad.
I enjoy watching y’all as a family working in your garden and that pretty baby girl riding in the wheelbarrow made my day
Amazing video. Those are amazing gifts from Stark. Not sure what kind of fig tree that is but they can get huge. Not telling u what to do on your land but you may want to put her in the orchard.
Snacks while gardening... !!
Buggy , so cute in the wheel barrow. Good luck with all your new plants.
What a wonderful bounty of food plants and gifted to the best family.
Thank you for the compost tips. Though I’ve gardened off and on for forty years, I’ve never used compost but used manure to fertilize. I am working towards a more organic garden and your ideas help a lot. Thank you. I love your vlogs and I get a lot of good ideas from them.
Rake the leaves on a large tarp then drag them to the compost pile. Cuts down on the wheel barrel trips!
i agree ! growing up on a farm we used large 15'x20' burlap sheets. I now use an 18' sheet of house wrap
I know that Stark was so happy to see y'all planted the plants right away instead of letting them waste.
I live in SC, 15 miles east of Augusta Ga. I realize that you are farther north but a trick we use for citrus seedlings we have used for wintering has been to use clear garbage bags upside down for mini greenhouses. I get them from friends of mine who work at hotels or large restaurants.
My grandfather had Red and also Purple figs, I surely miss those days.
Fig trees can get enormous. I'm thinking it will outgrow that spot in no time DEPENDING ON VARIETY PERHAPS? What kind of fig did you get? I have a corkey sweet that fruits spring AND fall. 😋 DELICIOUSLY SWEET.
When you get old like me (81) your going to ❤️ having these pictures of your kids.
Love watching your little girl and how much she loves playing in the dirt.
You need to make that pepper plant a house plant till next year when night temps are over 45-50. 🌶🌶
So excited you got all those goodies to plant !! What a blessing. Buggy is so darn pretty with those big blue eyes. I think Ben and the boys will need a shotgun to hang over the front door when she gets older. Lol 💕
Your garden did great. Thank you for the compost information. I seen the complicated videos. I will try it.
I love how you say just try it! You guys have inspired me to "just try" so many things. I made my first productive garden this year, got chickens and have even started making my own soap. I love watching you guys!
Omg my heart just melted from Buggy smiling at the camera from the wheel barrow 😫😍
Love seeing more videos of my beautiful family❤️
Buggy is such a happy little girl and so well behaved as long as she's near Mom & Dad!!♥️♥️She's not afraid of anything and she loves the dirt and the animals definitely the garden like her parents! Very good video on mulching was a good Theme of "Keep it simple… Pretty much anything goes... and respect a few basic Rules"!
I think that when children grow up doing things with their parents outdoors and around the garden and animals and family projects they will always have that teamwork attitude in their adult life whether they live on a farm or not. They'll Become good Mates with their spouses; The good employees for their bosses; be good friends who you can Count on for GOOD HELP; & SO APPRECIATIVE OF THEIR PARENTS FOR EVERYTHING THEY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN & EXPERIENCE (& EAT) GROWING UP in a HARDWORKING, TEAM EFFORT, LOVING FAMILY♥️♥️
Best thing I ever did for compost production is aquire a pull behind lawn sweeper, I used about 60 tons over summer putting in my market garden so its imperative that I can make a lot before its time for top offs on the rows
It's easier to put down wet cardboard and mulch and THEN cut and plant through the layers than putting cardboard in between after planting. Done both, and it's way more time efficient to plant afterwards. Love to see you smile so much
Yeah, we just forgot to put it down first 🙈
Have you ever looked into worm tea (aka: black gold)? You take worm castings and add them to oxygenated water with molasses (to feed the enzymes) and it is supposed to be, well, gold. You can only feed your worms manure tho. You take the water and spray it onto plants and soil.
buggy is the most cared for and loved kid in the USA
Some shade is good for the garden, I grow my lettuce in the shade so I have it for longer into the spring and summer
Welcome home! We have plenty of carbon with all the wood chips we have but need more nitrogen for our compost piles. Maybe I'll try the fish emulsion. Nice score on the plants! -Mike
Ben I am an almost 64 yr old homesteader doing it on my own with 5 acres. What did you use to secure your pallets for your compost bin? I tried using T posts and that was an epic fail. But I am going to put it in my front yard (where my garden is) what a great idea!!!! I make the most beautiful soil. Just remember all it takes is even parts of green and brown and water. Cardboard is FANTASTIC. Many don't like to use it because of the glue in it, but I say...Hey it all breaks down and mother nature has a way of cleaning things up. Cardboard in my experience really speeds up the break down process. I throw in some of my chicken coop clean up in it too and ohhhh how it produces worms! Love you guys and to me, you are the most beautiful all American couple. You really have it all. You don't need a BIG house. Kids grow and then you have a huge dwelling and really how much time do you spend in your home? (except for winter) lol. Well, let me take a little bit back....your family grows once your kids get married then the house seems really small. Imagine 5-6 children with their wives and your grandbabies. Lol.
I have been interested in organic ways of doing things for a long time. By other half being a farmer thought his ways were right. (He is changing his thinking 20 years later). We were at the beach so collected some seaweed to bring home. I put it in a lidded bucket at the back of some shrubs. After it had been cooking for a long time, my hubby came in one day and said what on earth were you keeping that smelling stuff for, I emptied it and washed the bucket out. The shrubs loved it, my vege patch missed out.
Another great video from you. Buggie is so happy in the garden. So good you accepted some responsibility for Jack’s ducks and replaced them. You are a great family. 🌻🌻💕💕
Welcome home.
Great video.
"Buggy in the Barrow". 💖
Orchard's gonna be amazing !!!
Them giving you those plants couldn’t have went to a more deserving family! Y’all are doing such amazing things for your family that will teach those young lads to be well rounded and great men! Oh and the little miss will be there telling them all what to do!! She’s gonna have them boys wrapped around her wee finger😂sending y’all big hugs and well wishes🇨🇦♥️
I must say I love your little buggy she’s so sweet and very very helpful one of my favorite is when she bowed her head at the table 👍🏽♥️🌹❤️
I just started ripping out my garden and made a compost pile. I hope it’s ready for next year garden.
I love the process that you all went through remodeling, and making your home what you both dream of.
A key component of growing cranberries is that they require a unique environment. The vines or shrubs thrive in layers of gravel, then acidic peat soil and sand.
They are grown in boggy areas in Wisconsin. I recall stories of them being harvested by canoe! Unaware if there may be dryland cranberries. The berries float... bad ones sink.
One thing I'd heard of and like to try to add is fermented comfrey or weeds as a supplement to the garden. Supposed to smell good and add great nutrients and biology to the garden.
One of your best! I enjoyed this so much! Thank you!
Going to start using your picking up leaves technique. Never thought of using two fan rakes. Also, YAY for free plants!
feeding Mother 🌎 with Mother 🌎is a gift to your future selves ..seeding your compost W/ y'all's soil is a great key to garden friendly compost
Y'all have a wonderful rest of your week Hollar Family
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You know what I really like about the way you do things? Your method is even easier to attain than some other homesteaders. Getting pallets is easier to come across than lumber and corrugated metal roofing sheets. For myself, I find I get bogged down badly with "analysis paralysis." I see how someone else does something, but if I can't logistically get my hands on similar materials, it seems too hard, so I back off. Your way of doing things seems more attainable, so it's more encouraging to follow suit. Thank you.
Buggy in the back pack... lovin' life with Daddy making compost!!!
Stark Bros were a true blessing! While your sons are handsome young men that little girl is so so cute.
I’m loving more videos lately! You guys are doing so many awesome things and raising a beautiful family with love, hard work and morals! It’s a beautiful thing to see. Wishing you abundant blessings💖🙏
Kiwi it’s amazing and it’s very productive. Build a nice and sturdy trellis and you’ll have tons of fruit. You need a male and female plants thou
I just kept getting the feeling you two were about to make another kind of announcement as I would see the little grins to one another. Maybe my eyes were not seeing properly, lol. Compost and gardens looks great. Good score on the free plants and stuff! You look do happy! 👍🏻💕😍
I live in a tract home and we compost cardboard (cross-shreader) from so many boxes from shipping and business use, and coffee grounds from our local mini mart. I add everything else from grass clippings, eggshells, house waste. It does smell if I dont turn it and it gets too wet. Putting a layer of brown on top keeps bugs/smell down. My garden is a jungle. No science involved for me. I add steer manure to my garden and compost.
When i did not have it covered and we had snow...it stayed too wet so I simply spread it out over the garden unfinished. Worked like a charm.
Those leaves will make a nice acid tea for the berries as they decompose.
Good call
Love your channel. We are gardeners and Charles Dowding, who makes a layered compost and came up with this method goes something like this. We call it our garden lasagna, the bottom is something brown, whether that is leaves or grass, something like paper or cardboard, then the next layer is something green and we use this as our green or veggie food waist, then another layer of paper or cardboard, then the key here is put some cow manure or chicken manure but don't use it right away because it's hot. By the beginning of Spring we had earthworms falling out everywhere. The comfry tea is awesome stuff. It stinks to high heaven, lol.
Comfrey is a compost starter, it's wonderful stuff. You need 2 kiwis for fertilisation.
Love how you make everything look simple:)))
Stinky = anaerobic. No stinky = aerobic. Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚 🌻 🌿
Going to make compost never thought it would be as easy. Got lots of leaves and grass.
Had my kids packed more than once like that, lol.
Have a great weekend
This is the best compost video I’ve seen and I made a new playlist just to keep this one on file. Thanks for the valuable input. I’ve been trying composting for 3+ years and this really helped. Thanks so much!
Just a quick note. Try raking your chicken caged areas, add that to your compost. Chuck grass clippings into replacing soil. Great for the composting effort.
Love 💕 to all, Ellen
Queensland, Australia.
Hey guys...im from Oregon and i find it absolutly amazing watching you guys dig into your gardens and just digging up your earth layers out there. I see red dirt. Im not used to seeing red dirt i think its beautiful. Im used to seeing brown and black dirt. But i really like the Red.
Me too, in Houston, Texas we have clay, they call it gumbo, grey gumbo, black gumbo, once in awhile red gumbo, and on occasion some sand!!