Moved into a rent house years ago & the previous tenant had left a few packs of seeds in a kitchen drawer. I threw them outside in a flower garden that had nothing in it but dead roses & weeds. I never tilled, weeded, fertilized or watered... nothing. Those were the best bell peppers & tomatoes I’ve ever grown. 🤣
Im a new gardener and I got sucked into the hgtv side of gardening and was telling my husband today I don’t understand how gardening is so expensive if Americans grew victory gardens during the Great Depression. Doesn’t make any sense but that’s because I learned that it’s the big box stores and the fancy you tubers that tell us that gardening is expensive when it doesn’t have to be. You’re one of the only gardeners on UA-cam that I found that’s speaking this kind of wisdom
Gardening is nearly free if you want it to be :) keep your eyes out for free boards for garden beds. Pallets can be repurposed that way, but make sure to get the heat treated ones (marked with HT)
@Sabrina Pulley.....same boat, I'm super intimidated by growing food, but God has been calling me to do this since 2020 and He even gave my neighbor a dream about me having a patio full of fruits, veggies & flowers to which she asked me if i was a gardener👀🌿. I have some supplies now and need to start my pots (i have to do container food). I just subscribed 🙏🏾😁. I love this Brother's Spirit, he's for the people and God is definitely using him in this hour. Blessings and much harvest (food and souls into The Kingdom 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🔥👨🏾🌾👩🏽🌾❤
I feel this! You should also check out The Prolific Familystead for more gardens on a budget type information. I also really like roots and refuge for seed information.
I've gardens for about the last 10 years. Started with just one tomato and one pepper in buckets. And I've literally watched thousands of gardening videos. First time watching one of yours. Love your passion and enthusiasm. This one video alone will give so many the motivation to just start!! Thank you for sharing. Much love and abundance to you and yours.
Like never before! I have always canned, frozen, dried, etcetera; but, NOW, it is an unending sense of getting more done NOW! Even when I am doing something else or trying to get some sleep, it feels as if I should be up doing one more thing...
Every single day I do something to further self sufficiency. This is crazy, but I had 2 old onions on my back porch from last season and they were just a sprouting these green onion leaves out the top. So, I went and stuck them in my raised bed. Sounds crazy, I know, but I figure I can get something to eat out of it. Before, I would have composted them.
@@cinnamonone4759 I have tried this before. It is tricky. Will produce green stuff on top, but won't produce an onion. You usually start with onion sets. You should check out a few videos.
I was at Walmart a hour ago. I purchased a budding Lemon tree $7.45 and a Lime tree $5.00. Great condition healthy and thriving from the clearance section in the garden center. I am in Central Fl. I went to buy herb seed's and some sweet corn. I got lucky as I was about to buy the tree's from an online nursery for $50-$75 each.
Lead is right. I watched a video of his last year and told my hubby I was going to get some containers for a garden and he said I'll make some raised beds. In the meantime I got my buckets and got it started. The BEST thing I ever did for us! I got buckets, raised beds and tubs on a small patio of 10W x 33L and I planted kale, spinach, tomatoes and peppers on the side of the house too. Stop playing family! It's time to EAT! Keep dishin' it out just like you do Lead!
Yes I hear you 👍 all my pastors are saying get ready, even if I am plucked from this earth I am leaving something for my kids. Be Blessed everyone 🙏💖💖💖
GWP - Gardening While Poor. I have been gardening since the '70s. It's sad to hear that people are throwing away good pots. I encourage folks to use what they have. Dishpans, old pots, buckets even burlap bags. I built a raised crate garden out of 12 milk crates and free wood palates. Thank you for this encouraging video.
I'm frugal here too...love gardening for many reasons. grew up with it I can't go a season without one, I tried...lol part of me so I guess the lord wants me to grow things.
@@caddycraft6823 I believe for many of us gardening is instinctive. Years ago before grocery stores, we had to grow our own food. There may come a time when we may have to again.
Kiddie pool = garden plot, just make sure you drill a few holes in the bottom. Can fill in the bottom few inches with; leaves, small branches, kitchen raw vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, egg shells, paper egg cartons, then top it off with gardening soil and plant.
My godmother grew up in the Depression. Her whole back yard was full of rows of food, not grass. I always had our small plot full of the same. My neighbors and friends make fun of us but we have never lacked anything. Last year after many years wo a family flock, we bought some birds including buff Orpingtons. This was the first year we had babies ever. They are amazing moms and do well in the north. Thank you for encouraging others, and being real. Water gardens and fancy landscapes are pretty, but these days not practical. Friends, he’s right 1/2 hour a day do something. Tomorrow I’m taking elderberry cuttings and planting them in yogurt containers for my friends and family. With so much illness, the berries are a hot item to have to make syrup, tincture, or juice from. One step at a time. Just put your foot forward.
Great talk!!! I see no lies. I grew some lettuce this past few months in a leftover plastic sherbet ice cream bucket to show some fam you can grow food in anything. Poked holes in the bottom, seeds were $.01(didn’t even dent the pack) from DG and the little potting mix I used and some fertilizer from WM were also dirt cheap because I got tons of everything 90% or more off during the early fall gardening sales. Use what ya got! Do some basic research, read, take notes, ask questions, then just do it.
Yes! It’s time to make decisions for MYSELF! Yes Brother Lead!!!! Man, you are ministering to me! Thank you and your wife sir for being obedient and courageous.
To Mr & Mrs Lead Farmer. This video was so inspirational that everything you have mentioned I have either thought, observed or done. I'm a newlywed and we recently moved into our townhome in the middle of winter. When one day My Mr. looked up and I was outside measuring our patio space where my garden will be. Just bought my water & pressure canners and my seeds have been ordered. Nothing stopping this train. Thank you again. Keep the real content coming muchly needed.
For me, it’s about economics and common sense….I began a compost for the veggie garden and a compost for other areas of the garden for non-edibles…..I can’t afford soil…compost will add nutrients to the soil naturally, so I don’t buy fertilizer….can’t afford that either….I re-use and re-mix my soil all the time. My backyard garden is two years old…built with discarded wood and rock surrounds I picked up at the ranch….in the city though, I need to have a fence put up…..to keep strays out….sadly…. My abuela used to throw seeds in a front little bed and the herbs would grow!!! I’ve labeled myself a haphazard gardener….I’m going to keep trying and sharing! God bless us all! For the strength what this life will bring. 🙏🌌🌟💖💐💗✨
First time I've seen you and I'm hooked! You tell it straight up! I'm tired of everyone saying they don't have time or space...I'm done! We have been doing the homestead thing for about 4 years now and I am so glad it happened before all this bullshit. We were slightly ahead of the game. Forget politics, race, religion, affiliations. We are all gonna suffer if folks don't get on board. We have told and said till we were blue in the face. Time will tell for them at this point. We will keep on doing our gardening, our raising and butchering our own meat. If you're lacking and you come looking to me, well,, I just don't know if I can help. I will if I can but not to the detriment of my own household! You're doing a great job, we'll be watching from now on! Thank you!
I have family that complain "it takes to much time, energy, etc to grow a garden". Let them go! I plant a garden every year since 1981. My co workers know I grow, and can my food & tell me " I don't have time", well with what's going on with food shortages they better find the time!
I'm growing sweet onions and garlic that sprouted on my kitchen counter! My family and I are also sprouting green cabbage, red cabbage and broccoli under grow lights and will plant other veggies as well. But seeing you eat another kumquat was enough to convince me to order my first tree! I grew up with great-grandmothers who grew everything they could - time to continue the family tradition.
Word! I’ve been getting my family prepared to be self sufficient. We started gardening. I heard that you can bury fish heads in the soil to enrich it, so I started fishing. I then taught my 3 sons to fish. Now, we have fruit, vegetables, and fish to eat. I started getting into solar a few years ago. My goal is self-sufficiency.
Cynthia, back when I was growing up my brother and I used to go bow-fishing with my dad on carp season and the fish were exclusively to bury in the garden...the whole thing! so yes, it's a thing and works very well. It is a native growing method...many cultures do similar
TRUTH!! Nailed it my friend. People need to find what edible and medicinal plants are in their area. NOW!! Any container can be used as long as you put holes in the bottom for drainage. People waste their time. There is nothing you can not learn how to do from searching the internet. Learn how to grow. Learn how to preserve the food you grow. Dehydrating- you can find them dirt cheap in second hand stores, garage sales Water bath canning and pressure canning. Hundreds of you tube channels have videos on how to do it. Most important food you can grow is a potato. You can SURVIVE on potatos. Does not apply to us up here in the great white north though. Been a horrid winter with cold down to -43. Gardening for us is June to September so have to grow it all at once. Am starting onions, leeks and medicinal herbs next month. Fortunate to be homesteader. Prepped and ready. Thank you. 🤜🤛🇨🇦
@@taililly2483 I grow chamomile both german and roman, comfrey, lemon balm, bee balm, echinacea, mullein , yarrow, hyssop , calendula as well as culinary herbs ( rosemary, thyme, oregeno, sage, marojam, dill, fennel) which also have medicinal properties. ( I get my medicinal plant seeds from Baker Creek seeds from USA) I live in zone 3b so this requires me to start these seeds in house. Our last frost is June 1. A few of the herbs I must grow outside in a make shift hoop houses (zap straps on ends of plastic and a frame made with willow branches or other materials to protect them from an unexpected frost. Have lost cucumbers, beans and squash 1st week of August. Usually first frost 1st week of September. So I do a workaround now. Buy my greenhouse plastic from a local tree grower. They change their plastic every two years $50 for 100' The rest of my medicinals I.e bark, lichen, plant I wildcraft from my area I.e. plantain, usnea lichen, elderberry etc. Other medicinals like corn silk for example is good for Urinary tract infections and kidneys. So many uses for things we throw out not realizing it's worth. Look up lemon seeds. I have to grow majority of them as annuals as we see -40 in winter. I dry them and make decoctions, tinctures, infusions, salves and teas.
Gardening is the healthiest addiction for sure. Those empty store shelves need to serve as a warning to folks, Brother Lead. My wife was in our local grocery store today and sent me a photo of the empty produce shelves. My first thought was "I feel so sorry for those folks not growing and storing their food."
Mannnnnn!!! I say the same thang EVER SINGLE DAY! I feel so sorry for the folks that just don’t or won’t get it through their heads that things are bad and about to get worse!
This was so good!! I have over 20 fruit trees after watching you for years. You described that feeling of getting fruit perfectly. Thank you for your knowledge. Take care.
Thank you for so many tips and encouragement I am a southern n.c girl raised on a red dirt farm now living in Raleigh n.c but didn't forget what I learned on the farm I am 73 but still freeze,& can it's some work but oh thank u lord i am reaping the rewards,they r calling for a winter mix mix starting sunday morning chance of power outage I have fresh corn on the cob,cut off the cob,mama taught nine girls how to make homemade biscuits I will prep.for the storm with some fresh corn cheese biscuits. Some with butter,cheese smoked sausage ladies learn to can & freeze string beans taste like just picked from the bush bless all this is a very trying time bless all
YESSSSSS!! We need to become self-sufficient. didn't really realize how much we depended on the stores till everything happened. I agree! we need to think for ourselves and do things for ourself and our family ❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much for all your conmen sense encouragement. It’s so important to not burden down a job like gardening with so many conditions that it never gets done. Love your work. You and Lady Led take care.
You are the Father that I never had, thank you for caring. Your words is watering the seed within, its helping me to grow that seed within. I needed your words to water the seed within so that I can make the seed for my Garden of Paradise. Making this older Woman cry to start the Healing.
I feel the same way. But it’s more that my tween kids look at Lead like the father they never had. They have a dad who is a dork. They love watching Lead. It’s the only way I can teach them that not all men are abusive and selfish. ❤
"Buy one of everything, that's what us gardeners do." Made me laugh, I can admit to that, love them seed packets. Blessings to you man, cause you are right on.
There's a respect shown for folk when you talk straight with them. No nonsense, no fluff, straight talking commonsense borne by caring for others and wanting them to thrive. Straight talking, straight DOING and straight caring, thank you, i'm glad i stumbled across you, from Prison Camp Australia 😂
Say it brother, too much complaining, just do it, a lot of stuff will grow from kitchen scraps, it's interesting what you grow by saying let's see what happens
New gardeners Dollar Tree has there seeds 4 for $1. Get them while you can, you then save the seeds from which you have grown for next year. Happy Gardening 😊
You can also collect seeds from the food you eat. Sweet & hot peppers, watermelon, squash, dried beans, dried peas, popcorn, strawberries, apples, peaches, pears, and so on. You can propagate berries, by cutting the cane soaking for a few hours in a bucket of water then planting in good soil, and keep watered. Lots of videos showing how to propagate plants and trees, some are easier to do than others.
Last spring, I felt like my grandparents (they passed about 15 years ago) started urging me to figure out how to grow some food. They were avid gardeners their whole lives (Great Depression, poor southern upbringing) and I felt like they were tapping me on the head like "you need to grow your own food!!" So i got some basics going, then added more and learned more as the months went on. I'm looking forward to this year! I have all kinds of stuff to plant :)
Thank you for opening my eyes about canning and gardening. I grew up with this but lost touch and understand why mom dad and grandma did what they did. After watching a few of your canning videos I went and borrowed grandma canner and have 2 deer in jars at the moment. I'm not going to be living in the middle of town forever been buying seeds for a few months and built a few window planters to get things going (live in the north) so I'm ready when the ground isn't frozen. Thanks for telling it how it is and the analogies..
Now is the time you are absolutely right. I have got myself a garden tower has I have a very small garden living in the UK but need to get some seeds if you can help me out with seeds I would be grateful, if people are new to gardening get a garden tower it's sold in the USA and allows you to grow up to 50 of what ever and you can add you food waste to the soil and its on wheels for those of us who have bad back's growing is a must but we must also get juicing are health right now is are life line.
You can get seeds from your grocery store too. Bell and hot peppers, tomatoes, the ends of scallions and leeks, even some herbs. Potatoes can be sprouted and started indoors. Save your food scraps for free garden material!
Thank you LF and Mrs. LF for your dedication to the well-being of us all. Although my husband and myself are not completely self-sufficient, we are a lot further along than we would have been! Thank you again and much love and respect! Together we are strong 💪🏽
Thank you so much dear family for your amazing knowledge and information! I haven’t been gardening since my mother passed in 2016 due to me being blind and not having much assistance! However today is a new day definitely going to dig in ask for assistance! Also thank you for the information on the kumquat!! Keep teaching! Greatly appreciate you!! Loving on you from Philly!!! 💜💜
Thank you so much for your kind words I greatly appreciate you! I am pre-ordering seeds and pre-sprouted plants for the upcoming season and also my torpedo pots!! I feel this is going to be a beautiful 2022 growing season!! In loving memory of my mom! Happy growing to you!! Blessings and much love from Philly!! 😊🙏🏽🦋💜💜
Video of the year when it comes to survival and food tactics. Amen and amen. Prayers for you and your family sir. May God keep you and bless you all threw the droughts the system wishes to impose on the people of God.
Quick tip* You gotta keep in mind when planting items in the ground that will grow tall is how much shade they will eventually begin casting across your existing garden space. For those with limited sunshine in the yard this should be a planned thought. 👍🏻
Thank you!! Look for the answers yourself. There is information all over the internet. If you don't want to search the internet. There are old folks with decades of knowledge in their heads! There is information online for all the growing zones! Don't sit around wanting someone to hold your hand! Its great to take advice on here from others....but darn people, get up off your butt and do something for yourself! Do you think when things get REALLY bad that someone is gonna be there to hold your hand? NO. Everybody else is gonna be busy trying to take care of their own families.
Thanks, heaps Lead for giving me some inspiration on planting. I am guilty of procrastinating because I bought a fig tree and a mango and thought, "where in the heck am I gonna plant that!", mind you, I have 5 acres, of mainly clay, but we have had a lot of rain so the ground is easier to dig. So I figured just put them in somewhere, and they are powering. I also have a blackberry that came up in my veggie patch from seed, I stuck it in a pot, and it has taken root through the drain holes! No movin' that sucker now! LOL.Thanks for the great advice mate. I'm so glad that I am not the only chaotic gardener! :D The shortages are hitting even here in Australia, so get your house in order folks. Take care Lead and family!
You are right on, as always brother! There is no trash in the garden! Eveyting gets composted or reused in SOME kinda way. The elders did it that way for a reason... because it works! Thanks for another great vid!
In eastern NC here. While getting the garden ready last week( 2/20) I dumped wheel barrow loads of growing weeds into 2 of our compost bins & hubby said ain't that going to cause more weeds to grow? Nope. The heat from the compost kills all those weed seeds!
I couldn't have said it better myself OG thank you for the wisdom knowledge is key and that goes a long way real talk family! May God bless everyone from all walks and backgrounds of life today tomorrow and always peace Amen Amen and Amen🙏🏼
What a Divine Ministry you have... You are a very blessed Man!!! I love that you are trying to teach others to fend for themselves and plant and survive without stress... Common Sense!!! And Amen!!!! Keep on Keeping on!💖🦋💯🙏🏾
I just discovered your videos. I just have to say I LOVE your honesty. Some people try to make gardening seem so hard (must be the HGTV type gardening) and you just simplified it. It's about doing and seeing what works. It's all dependent on where you are, what kind of soil you have, etc there is no one size fits all. Even people in the same zone can't necessarily grow the same things.
As far as land, I go to the R E office and ask if they have land available. I have purchased 5 plots of land. Private party land loans. Usually the lands are a little out of town but so what. People are so afraid to live out of a city. It's like their brainwashed that they can't. Please do not fear. Do not live in fear. I love living 7 miles from a town. My first piece of property was 12 miles from my town and I loved it. My children who are now adults do not and cannot sleep in a crowded city.
Mr Lead. I so can relate to what you’re teaching. Use and reuse. Dumpster diving. Gathering my own Poo. Free wood chips. Saving seeds. Gardening is an ongoing experiment and learning curve. Great to hear your truth.💃
Because of the “soil” here in FL I have a lot of pots instead of in ground plants. My soil is sand, ain’t no soil in it so I amend my potting mix to my plants needs. Can’t wait to link up with you one day in the future! I’m from TN but live in FL (military life). I started documenting my garden journey. I agree with everything you say!!
Oh, Hollings and Nancy are the cutest and most AMAZING HOMESTEAD Gardners from Georgia,, who now grow in Florida..So fun to learn their Easy and Prolific Vegetable Teachings
You can make your own soil with a worm farm. Lots of videos showing how to. You can do a no til plot by laying out layered cardboard then put gardening soil on top, one bed/plot at a time. I would contain the sides with bricks garden edging or something to keep it from washing out of the bed with all the rain Florida gets.
Also if you need buckets don't buy them. Go to your local grocery store and see if you can get them for free. I get them from the bakery at my local Publix for free. Best thing is you already know they are food safe.
Thanks Lead. I have harvested lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, collard greens and kale for the first time. I'm waiting on Brussel sprouts, carrots and spinach. All in Containers !!! I started a compost pile and I have plants growing out of it. God makes it all grow.
My first greenhouse came in the mail today, it was under 200.00 for a twenty footer, I am so excited. We started our first garden last year and had a amazing time watching your videos. Thanks 😊
Love it.. Just order one . it was on sale. Got it for 139.85. Shipping included.( 11.5x10x7) I have been collecting window from high end houses in my city to build a more permit one. Trusting I will have it up by summer.
I got a quick tent off amazon. Not the best when it’s freezing or below for most plants but my broccoli, cauliflower, kale and snow peas did fantastic!
Thank you thank you thank you thank you. I love your videos, but man, I can't tell you how refreshing it is to hear someone saying " just get out and do it". I sometimes feel like I'm beating my head against a wall trying to tell my family and friends to start growing their food. It's just nice to know that there's someone out there who has the same outlook.
Hello Mr. Lead! I hate that I missed the live, but I was actually catching up on your other posts 😊 You can actually compost those old dead pepper plants, and other yard waste. Why throw it away?! Also there is an South African method of farming where you dig a trench down the middle of your garden beds and bury garden waste like branches, dead plant stalks and even leaves, and cover it with dirt. It helps to hold water in so you can water less and of course it also breaks down for nutrients.
Let me tell you this... YOU are the person who inspired me to grow. Your advice is ALWAYS 100% spot on. You learned through trial and error, and although you encourage watchers to do that, they don't want to waste time & resources, so they are looking for the surefire way. (We know that don't exist, you touched on that) Now you taught me how to mix and refresh soil and my plants thrived. But the MOMENT i changed soil to a dollar store brand, i killed 80% of my plants. I don't advise to "just use ANYTHING" unless you KNOW what you're doing.
Lead loved this one. Didn't get the notification so caught the replay. So encouraging and important to hear for old and new gardeners alike. Just start! Get those trees and seeds. My meyer lemon tree will be delivered Tuesday and getting ready to start dropping seeds indoors for the spring garden. $Tree already has seeds and garden supplies on the shelves.
Dollar Tree has seeds 4 packs for a dollar. I have always had great luck with those seeds sprouting and growing. Why spend a ton on seeds. Even better save some from your plants at the end of the season in fall. Just found this channel. I really love the real, honest talk! Glad I found you!
You crack me up! 🤣 I've been doing the same thing for years! I just pull out the dead plants and add some more fertilizer and soil to top it off. I'll reuse the bucket until it cracks. Every year I get FREE icing buckets from my local grocery store.
You are amazing! Thank you. Recently bought a piece of property in the mountains, and looking forward to starting my gardening in the spring. In the meantime, learning as much as I can from gardeners like you. We definitely need to grow our own food. Tough times coming.
You keep it 💯 👌 all the time and the knowledge is priceless. You showing us how to provide for our family's . It's winter here in Atlanta but you inspired me to start my garden in the basement and transport in the spring. We ready and we watching. You are our reality TV.
Hello. Just discovered you. We live in a second floor apartment and I started a balcony garden 3 years ago. I dont have space to overwinter stuff but I use any leaves that dont have disease. I cover my soil with them and let it break down over winter right in the pot. Last year I covered it all with bags and I had the prettiest soil this time around. I started with top soil. The cheapest thing and now it's all pretty. No worms or nothin. I dont have a lot of space but I'm using the balcony to learn so when we get land I can grow what I want. I grow in small walmart trashcans and long storage containers used for storing shoes. I just put holes in them and use the lids to catch water on the bottom. My balcony was full of food. I was trying to grow all kinds of stuff. Lol
Lead, this video is THE TRUTH100%.....My husband and I was JUST talking about this today and then I go to you tube and your vid pops up. Real talk. Thanks for speaking the truth brother. Blessings 🙏💚
We've been ripping out our old rotted raised beds today and putting in our new concrete block beds. Gotta go get the fencing tomorrow to put up a fence around the new raised bed garden to keep the chickens out. Lol
People should be scrambling to come together in communities and build a new break away society of people laying down their lives for their FRIENDS and not mammon! Combine resources and secure water sources and start growing food together 💪🤠
you are an adorable human. Subscribed not 2 minutes into your video. Love your energy and the truth telling. Don't forget growing flowers that bring the pollinators in! My production has gone up 40% since I put some cosmo's and zinnias in. God Bless!!!!!
Mr. Lead thanks for all your words of advice, and encouragements, I definitely appreciate all that you do in showing me how to plant different fruits vegetables and so much more!God's Blessings to you and your family.🤗❤
God bless you and your family Lead farmer. You're always dropping truth bombs but for some reason the way you worded it today if you just got 20 minutes an hour get growing something for some reason that made it seem doable thank you!
Buff Orphintons are great but so are the other such as bardrocks, Americanas, Rhode Island reds, etc. Just get some hens. I have been having chickens 30+ years. They pay for themselves. I sell my eggs all spring and summet. They pay for themselves the whole year.
Hey take up all them leaves and mix it in the soil. Burn the dead plants and use the ashes for the soil too. I love your channel you keep everything simple☺️👍
Yes! I been putting bare roots into all my existing citrus and berry pots! Comfrey, Strawberry, Artichoke. I'm repotting 5 Fig trees (one a day) because I got them as bare roots last year and now I have tiny trees! :D This summer or next summer I will have figs!
I just found you today! Im on year two of gardening and this was refreshing. Ive watched a bunch of videos last night on planting in buckets and trying to be all perfect & pretty for this patio garden. Now you’ve inspired me to start a Meyer lemon tree in cold ass Pennsylvania. Im starting it tah-day! Thanks!! -Dawn 🥦-
We have chickens we have 21 hens and a rooster and we collect on an average 15 eggs a day and I tell my neighbors we live out in the country who go to the store and buy eggs and complain about the prices get some chickens they're not hard to raise and take care of
I just came across your channel. You are wonderful!!! And I live out in the country and i want to turn my whole lawn into a garden of all sorts of goodies. Times are changing and we need to be prepared for ourselves and help our neighbors. Thank you!
This feel like an old school Spanking...I sent this to my brother this is the best Live ever...I can't wait for my grow lights to come...I'm glad I have coffee and scones...I'm 51 feel like crying though but smiling all smiles...So inspirational...be encouraged people and share...Good Job Mr. Lead wowwww...just do yall...start germinating now too anything everybody
Stocking and growing should of been the focus last six months. Longer of course but it’s certainly been prevalent 2021 . Also 90 mins solid isn’t a bad live plus I’m more likely to look at the replay understanding the first 10-15 mins is awaiting for the crowd and saying hey to the crowd. Good info per usual
Still Love watching you here and seeing what you are into! And your wife is so supportive too. Love how she won't wait for you to plant.. Great work It's not about perfection..
Lead I heard that!! 12 years ago, hubby and I were young just moved out on our own and hubby had just left for work...he use to leave at 3:30 in the mornin. Well he had been gone bout 15 minutes or so and I heard someone walkin round our property. I called the police, he's messing round with the door and crap I'm freakin clear out. Long story short police didn't come for several hours. I called the hubby and he's like call the neighbor he'll be there in a second, called him he came running across the road blazin and took care of it scared the dude off. After that moment hubby and I was like nope ain't doin that no more. We don't have no problem with police but buddy we know how to take care of ourselves too. We got to take responsibility for ourselves for all things!
Wanted to comment because I live in Alaska, I use to live in the Valley with land surrounding me, had a garden but all changed. Now live in apt complex, my building has no hallways every one has there own entrance. Have a small patio area and would like to start a garden. Want to work with what I have ! Started my compost with soil and scraps
After watching your video last night I purchased two Meiwa Kumquat plants, yuzu ichandrin and a eucalyptus. If anyone is in the Portland, Oregon area One Green World off 134th and foster has an amazing selection.
I truely enjoyed watching and listening to you my brother. I grow my own food and I love when we eat fresh. Starting my nursery early for spring indoors.
Great tips!!!!!! "You don't know unless you plant it", what you said is so true. Last year I just planted and tried things based on what I felt would work and had a very successful year. Previous years I tried the rules and it was stressful and not very fruitful. Love the laundry tub idea. Was looking for a pot to grow rasberries in and was looking $30, I am getting a laundry tub for it. Thank you for the video and all the tips!
I ❤ this message brother. Keep it comin and know you and your beautiful family are much appreciated! PS. Hope your feeling better! I said a prayer for ya! 🙏
Good Morning, Gov. McMaster declared a state of emergency for tomorrow. I have some sweet potatoes in the greenhouse, but I'm not sure how they'll turn out. They've been in the ground since November.
Loved this video! Gardening is my favorite drug, that and feeding the birds 😅 I can't wait to get back into my garden and I enjoyed watching the beautiful chaos in yours.
Moved into a rent house years ago & the previous tenant had left a few packs of seeds in a kitchen drawer. I threw them outside in a flower garden that had nothing in it but dead roses & weeds. I never tilled, weeded, fertilized or watered... nothing. Those were the best bell peppers & tomatoes I’ve ever grown. 🤣
I live on the third floor of an apartment. I compost. I grow onions, potatoes, tomatoes, garlic, jalapeños, kale, lettuce, herbs and more.
That's amazing, everyone can grow right where they are.
Love it. I grow what I can indoors in my apartment til I can move to my land in 2 years. ❤❤❤
Im a new gardener and I got sucked into the hgtv side of gardening and was telling my husband today I don’t understand how gardening is so expensive if Americans grew victory gardens during the Great Depression. Doesn’t make any sense but that’s because I learned that it’s the big box stores and the fancy you tubers that tell us that gardening is expensive when it doesn’t have to be. You’re one of the only gardeners on UA-cam that I found that’s speaking this kind of wisdom
Gardening is nearly free if you want it to be :) keep your eyes out for free boards for garden beds. Pallets can be repurposed that way, but make sure to get the heat treated ones (marked with HT)
Absolutely. The idea of a “Victory Garden” should be commonplace. Self reliance is freedom. Great comment.
You should check out David The Good!
@Sabrina Pulley.....same boat, I'm super intimidated by growing food, but God has been calling me to do this since 2020 and He even gave my neighbor a dream about me having a patio full of fruits, veggies & flowers to which she asked me if i was a gardener👀🌿. I have some supplies now and need to start my pots (i have to do container food). I just subscribed 🙏🏾😁. I love this Brother's Spirit, he's for the people and God is definitely using him in this hour. Blessings and much harvest (food and souls into The Kingdom 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🔥👨🏾🌾👩🏽🌾❤
I feel this! You should also check out The Prolific Familystead for more gardens on a budget type information. I also really like roots and refuge for seed information.
I've gardens for about the last 10 years. Started with just one tomato and one pepper in buckets. And I've literally watched thousands of gardening videos. First time watching one of yours. Love your passion and enthusiasm. This one video alone will give so many the motivation to just start!! Thank you for sharing. Much love and abundance to you and yours.
I feel such an Urgency to keep moving, storing, stacking, gardening, prepping, and keeping my head on a swivel more and more...keep teaching
Good job, Keep going
Me too!!
Like never before!
I have always canned, frozen, dried, etcetera; but, NOW, it is an unending sense of getting more done NOW! Even when I am doing something else or trying to get some sleep, it feels as if I should be up doing one more thing...
Every single day I do something to further self sufficiency. This is crazy, but I had 2 old onions on my back porch from last season and they were just a sprouting these green onion leaves out the top. So, I went and stuck them in my raised bed. Sounds crazy, I know, but I figure I can get something to eat out of it. Before, I would have composted them.
@@cinnamonone4759 I have tried this before. It is tricky. Will produce green stuff on top, but won't produce an onion. You usually start with onion sets. You should check out a few videos.
I was at Walmart a hour ago. I purchased a budding Lemon tree $7.45 and a Lime tree $5.00. Great condition healthy and thriving from the clearance section in the garden center. I am in Central Fl. I went to buy herb seed's and some sweet corn. I got lucky as I was about to buy the tree's from an online nursery for $50-$75 each.
Dang! great deal! I have to go there tomorrow. I’ll go see what’s in my garden section! Hope I run across a deal like that!
I will go to look for any sales
Wow! That's an incredible deal, I wish I could get that here
Is u close to live oak
Wish they carried those up in New England. I'd grow them inside if I had to!
Lead is right. I watched a video of his last year and told my hubby I was going to get some containers for a garden and he said I'll make some raised beds. In the meantime I got my buckets and got it started. The BEST thing I ever did for us! I got buckets, raised beds and tubs on a small patio of 10W x 33L and I planted kale, spinach, tomatoes and peppers on the side of the house too. Stop playing family! It's time to EAT! Keep dishin' it out just like you do Lead!
Yes I hear you 👍 all my pastors are saying get ready, even if I am plucked from this earth I am leaving something for my kids. Be Blessed everyone 🙏💖💖💖
GWP - Gardening While Poor. I have been gardening since the '70s. It's sad to hear that people are throwing away good pots. I encourage folks to use what they have. Dishpans, old pots, buckets even burlap bags. I built a raised crate garden out of 12 milk crates and free wood palates. Thank you for this encouraging video.
Reminds me of my late aunt. She had everything imaginable used as a flower pot. Kitchen pots etc.. she had the gift.
I'm frugal here too...love gardening for many reasons. grew up with it I can't go a season without one, I tried...lol part of me so I guess the lord wants me to grow things.
@@caddycraft6823 I believe for many of us gardening is instinctive. Years ago before grocery stores, we had to grow our own food. There may come a time when we may have to again.
Kiddie pool = garden plot, just make sure you drill a few holes in the bottom. Can fill in the bottom few inches with; leaves, small branches, kitchen raw vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, egg shells, paper egg cartons, then top it off with gardening soil and plant.
My godmother grew up in the Depression. Her whole back yard was full of rows of food, not grass. I always had our small plot full of the same. My neighbors and friends make fun of us but we have never lacked anything. Last year after many years wo a family flock, we bought some birds including buff Orpingtons. This was the first year we had babies ever. They are amazing moms and do well in the north. Thank you for encouraging others, and being real. Water gardens and fancy landscapes are pretty, but these days not practical. Friends, he’s right 1/2 hour a day do something. Tomorrow I’m taking elderberry cuttings and planting them in yogurt containers for my friends and family. With so much illness, the berries are a hot item to have to make syrup, tincture, or juice from. One step at a time. Just put your foot forward.
Great talk!!! I see no lies. I grew some lettuce this past few months in a leftover plastic sherbet ice cream bucket to show some fam you can grow food in anything. Poked holes in the bottom, seeds were $.01(didn’t even dent the pack) from DG and the little potting mix I used and some fertilizer from WM were also dirt cheap because I got tons of everything 90% or more off during the early fall gardening sales. Use what ya got! Do some basic research, read, take notes, ask questions, then just do it.
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Yes! It’s time to make decisions for MYSELF! Yes Brother Lead!!!! Man, you are ministering to me! Thank you and your wife sir for being obedient and courageous.
“Shake that sucker like he stole your wallet”. 😂
To Mr & Mrs Lead Farmer. This video was so inspirational that everything you have mentioned I have either thought, observed or done. I'm a newlywed and we recently moved into our townhome in the middle of winter. When one day My Mr. looked up and I was outside measuring our patio space where my garden will be. Just bought my water & pressure canners and my seeds have been ordered. Nothing stopping this train. Thank you again. Keep the real content coming muchly needed.
For me, it’s about economics and common sense….I began a compost for the veggie garden and a compost for other areas of the garden for non-edibles…..I can’t afford soil…compost will add nutrients to the soil naturally, so I don’t buy fertilizer….can’t afford that either….I re-use and re-mix my soil all the time. My backyard garden is two years old…built with discarded wood and rock surrounds I picked up at the ranch….in the city though, I need to have a fence put up…..to keep strays out….sadly….
My abuela used to throw seeds in a front little bed and the herbs would grow!!! I’ve labeled myself a haphazard gardener….I’m going to keep trying and sharing! God bless us all! For the strength what this life will bring. 🙏🌌🌟💖💐💗✨
First time I've seen you and I'm hooked! You tell it straight up! I'm tired of everyone saying they don't have time or space...I'm done! We have been doing the homestead thing for about 4 years now and I am so glad it happened before all this bullshit. We were slightly ahead of the game. Forget politics, race, religion, affiliations. We are all gonna suffer if folks don't get on board. We have told and said till we were blue in the face. Time will tell for them at this point. We will keep on doing our gardening, our raising and butchering our own meat. If you're lacking and you come looking to me, well,, I just don't know if I can help. I will if I can but not to the detriment of my own household! You're doing a great job, we'll be watching from now on! Thank you!
I have family that complain "it takes to much time, energy, etc to grow a garden". Let them go! I plant a garden every year since 1981. My co workers know I grow, and can my food & tell me " I don't have time", well with what's going on with food shortages they better find the time!
I'm growing sweet onions and garlic that sprouted on my kitchen counter! My family and I are also sprouting green cabbage, red cabbage and broccoli under grow lights and will plant other veggies as well. But seeing you eat another kumquat was enough to convince me to order my first tree! I grew up with great-grandmothers who grew everything they could - time to continue the family tradition.
Amen to that TRUTH!!🦋💕🦋
I drove the school bus and after my morning break I either transplanting start up or start seeds. Let's get it yall!!!!
Word! I’ve been getting my family prepared to be self sufficient. We started gardening. I heard that you can bury fish heads in the soil to enrich it, so I started fishing. I then taught my 3 sons to fish. Now, we have fruit, vegetables, and fish to eat. I started getting into solar a few years ago. My goal is self-sufficiency.
Cynthia, back when I was growing up my brother and I used to go bow-fishing with my dad on carp season and the fish were exclusively to bury in the garden...the whole thing! so yes, it's a thing and works very well. It is a native growing method...many cultures do similar
"smell like despair" I haven't laughed that hard in so long! Thank you! I really enjoy your videos and your message
TRUTH!! Nailed it my friend. People need to find what edible and medicinal plants are in their area. NOW!!
Any container can be used as long as you put holes in the bottom for drainage.
People waste their time. There is nothing you can not learn how to do from searching the internet. Learn how to grow. Learn how to preserve the food you grow. Dehydrating- you can find them dirt cheap in second hand stores, garage sales
Water bath canning and pressure canning. Hundreds of you tube channels have videos on how to do it.
Most important food you can grow is a potato. You can SURVIVE on potatos.
Does not apply to us up here in the great white north though. Been a horrid winter with cold down to -43.
Gardening for us is June to September so have to grow it all at once. Am starting onions, leeks and medicinal herbs next month.
Fortunate to be homesteader. Prepped and ready.
Thank you.
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Amen 🙏🏽
@@taililly2483 I grow chamomile both german and roman, comfrey, lemon balm, bee balm, echinacea, mullein , yarrow, hyssop , calendula as well as culinary herbs ( rosemary, thyme, oregeno, sage, marojam, dill, fennel) which also have medicinal properties. ( I get my medicinal plant seeds from Baker Creek seeds from USA)
I live in zone 3b so this requires me to start these seeds in house. Our last frost is June 1. A few of the herbs I must grow outside in a make shift hoop houses (zap straps on ends of plastic and a frame made with willow branches or other materials to protect them from an unexpected frost. Have lost cucumbers, beans and squash 1st week of August. Usually first frost 1st week of September. So I do a workaround now. Buy my greenhouse plastic from a local tree grower. They change their plastic every two years $50 for 100'
The rest of my medicinals I.e bark, lichen, plant I wildcraft from my area I.e. plantain, usnea lichen, elderberry etc.
Other medicinals like corn silk for example is good for Urinary tract infections and kidneys. So many uses for things we throw out not realizing it's worth. Look up lemon seeds.
I have to grow majority of them as annuals as we see -40 in winter.
I dry them and make decoctions, tinctures, infusions, salves and teas.
Gardening is the healthiest addiction for sure. Those empty store shelves need to serve as a warning to folks, Brother Lead. My wife was in our local grocery store today and sent me a photo of the empty produce shelves. My first thought was "I feel so sorry for those folks not growing and storing their food."
Mannnnnn!!! I say the same thang EVER SINGLE DAY! I feel so sorry for the folks that just don’t or won’t get it through their heads that things are bad and about to get worse!
Ya better than my diet coke!
I learned how to can last year!
And I go bare footed on my patio!
I did not know that Candada grew lemons! Yes we been lied too!
This was so good!! I have over 20 fruit trees after watching you for years. You described that feeling of getting fruit perfectly. Thank you for your knowledge. Take care.
Thank you for so many tips and encouragement I am a southern n.c girl raised on a red dirt farm now living in Raleigh n.c but didn't forget what I learned on the farm I am 73 but still freeze,& can it's some work but oh thank u lord i am reaping the rewards,they r calling for a winter mix mix starting sunday morning chance of power outage I have fresh corn on the cob,cut off the cob,mama taught nine girls how to make homemade biscuits I will prep.for the storm with some fresh corn cheese biscuits. Some with butter,cheese smoked sausage ladies learn to can & freeze string beans taste like just picked from the bush bless all this is a very trying time bless all
YESSSSSS!! We need to become self-sufficient. didn't really realize how much we depended on the stores till everything happened. I agree! we need to think for ourselves and do things for ourself and our family ❤❤❤❤
Just recently discovered your channel Sir. Your passion for preparedness and survival is appreciated. Thanks for the motivation.
Thank you so much for all your conmen sense encouragement. It’s so important to not burden down a job like gardening with so many conditions that it never gets done. Love your work. You and Lady Led take care.
You are the Father that I never had, thank you for caring. Your words is watering the seed within, its helping me to grow that seed within. I needed your words to water the seed within so that I can make the seed for my Garden of Paradise. Making this older Woman cry to start the Healing.
So Beautiful. I feel the same way ❤
I feel the same way. But it’s more that my tween kids look at Lead like the father they never had. They have a dad who is a dork. They love watching Lead. It’s the only way I can teach them that not all men are abusive and selfish. ❤
"Buy one of everything, that's what us gardeners do." Made me laugh, I can admit to that, love them seed packets. Blessings to you man, cause you are right on.
There's a respect shown for folk when you talk straight with them. No nonsense, no fluff, straight talking commonsense borne by caring for others and wanting them to thrive.
Straight talking, straight DOING and straight caring, thank you, i'm glad i stumbled across you, from Prison Camp Australia 😂
Say it brother, too much complaining, just do it, a lot of stuff will grow from kitchen scraps, it's interesting what you grow by saying let's see what happens
Lead Farmer taking us to church again 🙌 so much truth and knowledge every video. You're my people Lead. You give me hope for our Nation
New gardeners Dollar Tree has there seeds 4 for $1. Get them while you can, you then save the seeds from which you have grown for next year. Happy Gardening 😊
Oh good you already said it. I was just about to comment this. I just stocked up the other day.
Best you can buy those with EBT food stamps
You can also collect seeds from the food you eat. Sweet & hot peppers, watermelon, squash, dried beans, dried peas, popcorn, strawberries, apples, peaches, pears, and so on. You can propagate berries, by cutting the cane soaking for a few hours in a bucket of water then planting in good soil, and keep watered. Lots of videos showing how to propagate plants and trees, some are easier to do than others.
Last spring, I felt like my grandparents (they passed about 15 years ago) started urging me to figure out how to grow some food. They were avid gardeners their whole lives (Great Depression, poor southern upbringing) and I felt like they were tapping me on the head like "you need to grow your own food!!" So i got some basics going, then added more and learned more as the months went on. I'm looking forward to this year! I have all kinds of stuff to plant :)
Thank you for opening my eyes about canning and gardening. I grew up with this but lost touch and understand why mom dad and grandma did what they did. After watching a few of your canning videos I went and borrowed grandma canner and have 2 deer in jars at the moment. I'm not going to be living in the middle of town forever been buying seeds for a few months and built a few window planters to get things going (live in the north) so I'm ready when the ground isn't frozen. Thanks for telling it how it is and the analogies..
Watching your replay. Amen, Lead!! Reuse the soil and do something in your garden everyday. Great advice!
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Lmao, you smell like dispair! 🤣🤣 well I must stink! Great talk. But dang, you are so funny! Love it!
Now is the time you are absolutely right. I have got myself a garden tower has I have a very small garden living in the UK but need to get some seeds if you can help me out with seeds I would be grateful, if people are new to gardening get a garden tower it's sold in the USA and allows you to grow up to 50 of what ever and you can add you food waste to the soil and its on wheels for those of us who have bad back's growing is a must but we must also get juicing are health right now is are life line.
You can get seeds from your grocery store too. Bell and hot peppers, tomatoes, the ends of scallions and leeks, even some herbs. Potatoes can be sprouted and started indoors. Save your food scraps for free garden material!
“Kick that sucker out, kick him out the club. he’s disorderly.”😂😂 appreciate your message.
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Thank you LF and Mrs. LF for your dedication to the well-being of us all. Although my husband and myself are not completely self-sufficient, we are a lot further along than we would have been! Thank you again and much love and respect! Together we are strong 💪🏽
Love you big brother lead, let’s keep pushing your videos are so soothing to the soul very motivating. May the most high keep blessing you.
Thank you so much dear family for your amazing knowledge and information! I haven’t been gardening since my mother passed in 2016 due to me being blind and not having much assistance! However today is a new day definitely going to dig in ask for assistance! Also thank you for the information on the kumquat!! Keep teaching! Greatly appreciate you!! Loving on you from Philly!!! 💜💜
Thank you so much for your kind words I greatly appreciate you! I am pre-ordering seeds and pre-sprouted plants for the upcoming season and also my torpedo pots!! I feel this is going to be a beautiful 2022 growing season!! In loving memory of my mom! Happy growing to you!! Blessings and much love from Philly!! 😊🙏🏽🦋💜💜
Video of the year when it comes to survival and food tactics. Amen and amen. Prayers for you and your family sir. May God keep you and bless you all threw the droughts the system wishes to impose on the people of God.
This is the additional motivation I've been looking for....thank you!! On it!!!🙏🏽💚🤗
Quick tip* You gotta keep in mind when planting items in the ground that will grow tall is how much shade they will eventually begin casting across your existing garden space. For those with limited sunshine in the yard this should be a planned thought. 👍🏻
Thank you!! Look for the answers yourself. There is information all over the internet. If you don't want to search the internet. There are old folks with decades of knowledge in their heads! There is information online for all the growing zones! Don't sit around wanting someone to hold your hand! Its great to take advice on here from others....but darn people, get up off your butt and do something for yourself! Do you think when things get REALLY bad that someone is gonna be there to hold your hand? NO. Everybody else is gonna be busy trying to take care of their own families.
Thanks, heaps Lead for giving me some inspiration on planting. I am guilty of procrastinating because I bought a fig tree and a mango and thought, "where in the heck am I gonna plant that!", mind you, I have 5 acres, of mainly clay, but we have had a lot of rain so the ground is easier to dig. So I figured just put them in somewhere, and they are powering. I also have a blackberry that came up in my veggie patch from seed, I stuck it in a pot, and it has taken root through the drain holes! No movin' that sucker now! LOL.Thanks for the great advice mate. I'm so glad that I am not the only chaotic gardener! :D The shortages are hitting even here in Australia, so get your house in order folks. Take care Lead and family!
You are right on, as always brother! There is no trash in the garden! Eveyting gets composted or reused in SOME kinda way. The elders did it that way for a reason... because it works!
Thanks for another great vid!
In eastern NC here. While getting the garden ready last week( 2/20) I dumped wheel barrow loads of growing weeds into 2 of our compost bins & hubby said ain't that going to cause more weeds to grow? Nope. The heat from the compost kills all those weed seeds!
You are hilarious! Thank you for sharing this truth and being so real. Happy growing and much prosperity to you and yours.
I couldn't have said it better myself OG thank you for the wisdom knowledge is key and that goes a long way real talk family! May God bless everyone from all walks and backgrounds of life today tomorrow and always peace Amen Amen and Amen🙏🏼
What a Divine Ministry you have... You are a very blessed Man!!! I love that you are trying to teach others to fend for themselves and plant and survive without stress... Common Sense!!! And Amen!!!! Keep on Keeping on!💖🦋💯🙏🏾
I just discovered your videos. I just have to say I LOVE your honesty. Some people try to make gardening seem so hard (must be the HGTV type gardening) and you just simplified it. It's about doing and seeing what works. It's all dependent on where you are, what kind of soil you have, etc there is no one size fits all. Even people in the same zone can't necessarily grow the same things.
As far as land, I go to the R E office and ask if they have land available. I have purchased 5 plots of land. Private party land loans. Usually the lands are a little out of town but so what. People are so afraid to live out of a city. It's like their brainwashed that they can't. Please do not fear. Do not live in fear. I love living 7 miles from a town. My first piece of property was 12 miles from my town and I loved it. My children who are now adults do not and cannot sleep in a crowded city.
Hi, what is a R E office? Than
I'm guessing real estate.
Mr Lead. I so can relate to what you’re teaching. Use and reuse. Dumpster diving. Gathering my own Poo. Free wood chips. Saving seeds. Gardening is an ongoing experiment and learning curve. Great to hear your truth.💃
Because of the “soil” here in FL I have a lot of pots instead of in ground plants. My soil is sand, ain’t no soil in it so I amend my potting mix to my plants needs. Can’t wait to link up with you one day in the future! I’m from TN but live in FL (military life). I started documenting my garden journey. I agree with everything you say!!
Have you heard of David the good? He was a Florida Gardner and has grown several food forest in Florida. He teaches how to grow in Florida
Oh, Hollings and Nancy are the cutest and most AMAZING HOMESTEAD Gardners from Georgia,, who now grow in Florida..So fun to learn their Easy and Prolific Vegetable Teachings
You can make your own soil with a worm farm. Lots of videos showing how to. You can do a no til plot by laying out layered cardboard then put gardening soil on top, one bed/plot at a time. I would contain the sides with bricks garden edging or something to keep it from washing out of the bed with all the rain Florida gets.
Also if you need buckets don't buy them. Go to your local grocery store and see if you can get them for free. I get them from the bakery at my local Publix for free. Best thing is you already know they are food safe.
Yup! Places like delis have big pickle buckets too
Walmart charges you per bucket. At least mine did.
Thanks for sharing that tip, I'll check my local grocery store to see if I can get a few.
Thanks Lead. I have harvested lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, collard greens and kale for the first time. I'm waiting on Brussel sprouts, carrots and spinach. All in Containers !!! I started a compost pile and I have plants growing out of it. God makes it all grow.
I use to tarp my pile, Then grow squash around it. They get HUGE! Best place to grownsquash!
My first greenhouse came in the mail today, it was under 200.00 for a twenty footer, I am so excited. We started our first garden last year and had a amazing time watching your videos. Thanks 😊
Love it.. Just order one . it was on sale. Got it for 139.85. Shipping included.( 11.5x10x7) I have been collecting window from high end houses in my city to build a more permit one. Trusting I will have it up by summer.
@@chitownholmes where did you order yours?
Nice! Where did you order yours?
Ordered it online from home depot, free delivery 😀
I got a quick tent off amazon. Not the best when it’s freezing or below for most plants but my broccoli, cauliflower, kale and snow peas did fantastic!
Thank you thank you thank you thank you. I love your videos, but man, I can't tell you how refreshing it is to hear someone saying " just get out and do it". I sometimes feel like I'm beating my head against a wall trying to tell my family and friends to start growing their food. It's just nice to know that there's someone out there who has the same outlook.
Hello Mr. Lead! I hate that I missed the live, but I was actually catching up on your other posts 😊 You can actually compost those old dead pepper plants, and other yard waste. Why throw it away?! Also there is an South African method of farming where you dig a trench down the middle of your garden beds and bury garden waste like branches, dead plant stalks and even leaves, and cover it with dirt. It helps to hold water in so you can water less and of course it also breaks down for nutrients.
You can also put those things in the bottom portion of a raised bed and top with garden soil.
Let me tell you this... YOU are the person who inspired me to grow. Your advice is ALWAYS 100% spot on. You learned through trial and error, and although you encourage watchers to do that, they don't want to waste time & resources, so they are looking for the surefire way. (We know that don't exist, you touched on that) Now you taught me how to mix and refresh soil and my plants thrived. But the MOMENT i changed soil to a dollar store brand, i killed 80% of my plants. I don't advise to "just use ANYTHING" unless you KNOW what you're doing.
Lead loved this one. Didn't get the notification so caught the replay. So encouraging and important to hear for old and new gardeners alike. Just start! Get those trees and seeds. My meyer lemon tree will be delivered Tuesday and getting ready to start dropping seeds indoors for the spring garden. $Tree already has seeds and garden supplies on the shelves.
You and your wife are so awesome. You have so much common sense to share and thank you for doing it!
Dollar Tree has seeds 4 packs for a dollar. I have always had great luck with those seeds sprouting and growing. Why spend a ton on seeds. Even better save some from your plants at the end of the season in fall. Just found this channel. I really love the real, honest talk! Glad I found you!
You crack me up! 🤣 I've been doing the same thing for years! I just pull out the dead plants and add some more fertilizer and soil to top it off. I'll reuse the bucket until it cracks. Every year I get FREE icing buckets from my local grocery store.
You are amazing! Thank you. Recently bought a piece of property in the mountains, and looking forward to starting my gardening in the spring. In the meantime, learning as much as I can from gardeners like you. We definitely need to grow our own food. Tough times coming.
You keep it 💯 👌 all the time and the knowledge is priceless. You showing us how to provide for our family's . It's winter here in Atlanta but you inspired me to start my garden in the basement and transport in the spring. We ready and we watching. You are our reality TV.
Hello. Just discovered you. We live in a second floor apartment and I started a balcony garden 3 years ago. I dont have space to overwinter stuff but I use any leaves that dont have disease. I cover my soil with them and let it break down over winter right in the pot. Last year I covered it all with bags and I had the prettiest soil this time around. I started with top soil. The cheapest thing and now it's all pretty. No worms or nothin.
I dont have a lot of space but I'm using the balcony to learn so when we get land I can grow what I want.
I grow in small walmart trashcans and long storage containers used for storing shoes. I just put holes in them and use the lids to catch water on the bottom. My balcony was full of food. I was trying to grow all kinds of stuff. Lol
Lead, this video is THE TRUTH100%.....My husband and I was JUST talking about this today and then I go to you tube and your vid pops up. Real talk. Thanks for speaking the truth brother. Blessings 🙏💚
We've been ripping out our old rotted raised beds today and putting in our new concrete block beds. Gotta go get the fencing tomorrow to put up a fence around the new raised bed garden to keep the chickens out. Lol
People should be scrambling to come together in communities and build a new break away society of people laying down their lives for their FRIENDS and not mammon! Combine resources and secure water sources and start growing food together 💪🤠
One of the best advice videos I've seen yet. Straight to the point!
you are an adorable human. Subscribed not 2 minutes into your video. Love your energy and the truth telling. Don't forget growing flowers that bring the pollinators in! My production has gone up 40% since I put some cosmo's and zinnias in. God Bless!!!!!
Mr. Lead thanks for all your words of advice, and encouragements, I definitely appreciate all that you do in showing me how to plant different fruits vegetables and so much more!God's Blessings to you and your family.🤗❤
God bless you and your family Lead farmer. You're always dropping truth bombs but for some reason the way you worded it today if you just got 20 minutes an hour get growing something for some reason that made it seem doable thank you!
You’re a real OG Lead…you said that’s “bullshit”! 🤣 THANKS FOR ALWAYS KEEPING IT 💯
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Buff Orphintons are great but so are the other such as bardrocks, Americanas, Rhode Island reds, etc. Just get some hens. I have been having chickens 30+ years. They pay for themselves. I sell my eggs all spring and summet. They pay for themselves the whole year.
Hey take up all them leaves and mix it in the soil. Burn the dead plants and use the ashes for the soil too. I love your channel you keep everything simple☺️👍
Yes! I been putting bare roots into all my existing citrus and berry pots! Comfrey, Strawberry, Artichoke. I'm repotting 5 Fig trees (one a day) because I got them as bare roots last year and now I have tiny trees! :D This summer or next summer I will have figs!
I just found you today! Im on year two of gardening and this was refreshing. Ive watched a bunch of videos last night on planting in buckets and trying to be all perfect & pretty for this patio garden. Now you’ve inspired me to start a Meyer lemon tree in cold ass Pennsylvania. Im starting it tah-day! Thanks!! -Dawn 🥦-
Lead thank you for sharing all your information.
Check out winter sowing ...you plant in containers, leave outside and in spring you have tons of plants to plant
We have chickens we have 21 hens and a rooster and we collect on an average 15 eggs a day and I tell my neighbors we live out in the country who go to the store and buy eggs and complain about the prices get some chickens they're not hard to raise and take care of
I just came across your channel. You are wonderful!!! And I live out in the country and i want to turn my whole lawn into a garden of all sorts of goodies. Times are changing and we need to be prepared for ourselves and help our neighbors. Thank you!
This feel like an old school Spanking...I sent this to my brother this is the best Live ever...I can't wait for my grow lights to come...I'm glad I have coffee and scones...I'm 51 feel like crying though but smiling all smiles...So inspirational...be encouraged people and share...Good Job Mr. Lead wowwww...just do yall...start germinating now too anything everybody
People never question what there food from the grocery store or farmers market are grown in.
Stocking and growing should of been the focus last six months. Longer of course but it’s certainly been prevalent 2021 . Also 90 mins solid isn’t a bad live plus I’m more likely to look at the replay understanding the first 10-15 mins is awaiting for the crowd and saying hey to the crowd. Good info per usual
Still Love watching you here and seeing what you are into! And your wife is so supportive too. Love how she won't wait for you to plant.. Great work It's not about perfection..
Lead I heard that!! 12 years ago, hubby and I were young just moved out on our own and hubby had just left for work...he use to leave at 3:30 in the mornin. Well he had been gone bout 15 minutes or so and I heard someone walkin round our property. I called the police, he's messing round with the door and crap I'm freakin clear out. Long story short police didn't come for several hours. I called the hubby and he's like call the neighbor he'll be there in a second, called him he came running across the road blazin and took care of it scared the dude off. After that moment hubby and I was like nope ain't doin that no more. We don't have no problem with police but buddy we know how to take care of ourselves too. We got to take responsibility for ourselves for all things!
Thank you brother for all your wisdom and guidance. Your passion and advice is greatly appreciated. Peace!
Praise the Lord for you.
And the Honey ed.
Teach how to fish...
I just found you on YT - thank the Lord! Totally hooked! Learning a lot from you. I think you're awesome. ❤ from NJ
Wanted to comment because I live in Alaska, I use to live in the Valley with land surrounding me, had a garden but all changed. Now live in apt complex, my building has no hallways every one has there own entrance. Have a small patio area and would like to start a garden. Want to work with what I have ! Started my compost with soil and scraps
After watching your video last night I purchased two Meiwa Kumquat plants, yuzu ichandrin and a eucalyptus. If anyone is in the Portland, Oregon area One Green World off 134th and foster has an amazing selection.
We have elders who have this knowlegde!!
Ask questions they are happy to teach you what they know.
Thank you for your honesty. I grew up in Detroit and you are the most real person I've seen. You're right on point
I truely enjoyed watching and listening to you my brother. I grow my own food and I love when we eat fresh. Starting my nursery early for spring indoors.
Great tips!!!!!! "You don't know unless you plant it", what you said is so true. Last year I just planted and tried things based on what I felt would work and had a very successful year. Previous years I tried the rules and it was stressful and not very fruitful.
Love the laundry tub idea. Was looking for a pot to grow rasberries in and was looking $30, I am getting a laundry tub for it. Thank you for the video and all the tips!
I ❤ this message brother. Keep it comin and know you and your beautiful family are much appreciated!
PS. Hope your feeling better! I said a prayer for ya! 🙏
Good Morning, Gov. McMaster declared a state of emergency for tomorrow. I have some sweet potatoes in the greenhouse, but I'm not sure how they'll turn out. They've been in the ground since November.
Loved this video!
Gardening is my favorite drug, that and feeding the birds 😅
I can't wait to get back into my garden and I enjoyed watching the beautiful chaos in yours.