Totally! We just bought a home on almost an acre and it's been overwhelming trying to think of how to plan it out. It's awesome seeing someone who knows what they're doing just going free form. We had resigned ourselves to doing it that way, but now I feel encouraged.
@@mikekeller61 I tried to diagram exactly which plant was going to go where and how much space it needed, but all of that got overwhelming and took the joy out of it. I'm starting the seeds that I want and building my garden space now. If I end up with more seedlings than space when it comes time to plant then I'll just give some spares to friends - there's no use stressing over it! (I know a lot of people DO get joy out of planning every detail, and more power to them, that's just not me!)
Right! I decided a couple of months ago that I wanted to start growing some vegetables but spent so much time mulling over how to plan it, and I had a few things started in pots that I couldn't decide for weeks what to do with. One day I just picked up a shovel and started digging and transplanted some peppers in and it was such a relief to just get something done, and now that I have a starting point I can actually plan it a lot easier.
Yo Kevin, I'm sure you're already done moving the water by now, but just use your hose to syphon out the trash can. Gonna save your back in the long run. Take the hose off the wall and throw the whole thing in the can (you want the hose to fill with water). Then kink the end (or plug it with your hand if you don't like kinking) to create the suction like you would do with a drink straw. Then just drag the end of the hose to anywhere you want to water, as long as it's lower elevation than the water in the tank.
Desert soil, especially in developed housing areas can be hard. People who have never lived in Southern California or Arizona don't really know or understand how baked hard the ground can be. It's one of the reasons we get flash floods--the ground can't absorb that much water at first and it just moves quickly over the desert floor. Welcome Jacques! Also, thanks for showing me how to use that scraper tool. I had no idea.
I 100% agree with the notion that a good till to start the system is not a bad idea. Here in the high desert that’s what I did last season and I was very pleased with the results. We shoveled fairly deep and then worked in all sorts of organic material with a borrowed tiller. From here on out, I’ll just be top dressing with good layers of compost each season and continue to mulch the paths to keep weeds down and continue to feed the soil.
My daughter wanted to grow dahlias in the front yard this year, so I built 2 raised beds and filled them with the branches of the mallow bush we removed and followed your instructions on how to fill the bed from Epic Gardening. Oh, and then we decided to renovate our old citrus tree. Oh, and then we decided to set up containers with basil, peppers, sweet peas, and pansies. Today I'm heading out to peel up the cardboard so I can set up the bed in the middle of the front yard for the pie pumpkin patch. This video dropped just in time! Living in the Bay Area, in a development, boy is that soil rock hard! Watching another California gardener has been fantastic and I've learned so much because my New England methods don't work as well here.
In uk you have to pay to have your green waste removed and buy green compost back ! Luckily where i live. I have a load of horses around me so can get free compost.
Don't know if you have but you should think of doing a skincare/body health video. (Stretching, sunscreen, proper footwear, gloves... things you like that work for ya... I am a tall gardener too)
I, too, feel as though I might be attracted to that bed XD Excellent video, Kevin! Can't say enough how I enjoy seeing your step-by-step improvements of this Epic space!
This is a really good video. I've opened a new garden space and have only deep mulched half. In the other half, this spring, I am going to do traditional in ground rows with soil amendments. Save me alot of time and still get a good yield. Then when the season is over, I will deep mulch it.
I love all the WE, WE, WE, did this, while Jacques is working his ass off and Kevin is doing all the filming. Let Jacques do some filming of Kevin(Eric) working his ass off... LOL, love all the videos, you have pushed me to start growing again!
Me too 🙌! I think it's just how reality is: So much work to do, always on the go, no need for super high quality, easier to follow changes or new upcomimg ideas, and the list goes on....... For me it's just authentic 🙃😉.
Wheelbarrows - two-wheel wheelbarrows are the only way to go. Having 8 or 9 of these on our farm, it makes a world of difference on how you move stuff around, compared to the one-wheel wheelbarrows. Cannot rate they highly enough (especially if you load them full of 6 or 10 cubic feet of dirt or manure!). Great looking bed!
Both Charles Dowding and Richard Perkins use quite a thick layer of compost the first time they make a bed. I felt like you had little compost on the bed and this might let a lot of the weeds through. Obviously your condition and climate is different but what do you think about this?
~4:30 i've seen a couple videos from guru charles dowding and i can say with absolutely no doubt whatsoever that he does disturb the soil when he establishes a plot on troublesome soil. eg with a weedy shrub that has very invasive roots he will rip it right out.
The snow from last week will soon melt, and it will get warmer quite fast, just like I predicted last year. Strong winter and early spring. Garlic is also sprouting already, guess I gotta plant them already
You're growing a lot of food. What do you plan to do with the food you are unable to eat? Are you canning or preserving and if so can you do a beginner video on that or a video on what your plans are for the extra food. I only ask because you are only one person and even with my family of four I have to make sure I do not overgrown.
Hey Kevin, note to keep a really large clear area leading up to those powerpoles (are they power poles?!?), so the maintenance team can get access if they need to replace them........unusual to see them sitting in someone's back yard (well, from an Australian perspective, anyway :-)
Tell me about your city’s compost. Mine (Tallahassee) has really good rough and fine wood chip compost, but not food compost. I need to get my city on that! I, however, do make great compost myself, with food scraps, coffee grounds, egg shells, grass clippings, leaves, urine 😬🤷🏽♂️😆.
I love these videos 🥰 I’m also so impressed that you can get free compost! Here in the UK (as far as I know) we have to purchase compost from these kind of schemes, but tbh I don’t mind paying as it still helps reduces waste going to landfill. Can’t wait for further updates!
Contact the council and they will let you know where to get free compost in your area, if you have land maintenance around you that cuts the grass every now and then, they would also know
Here in Orange County, my town also doesn’t have a free compost. The city recommends several private green-waste businesses on their website,and I have purchased a bag once that was pretty affordable!
was going to help him....lol that bright blank wall behind y'all...have you ever grown wallflowers? giant sunflowers would be somewhat wind protected there. Are you going to incorporate daikon radishes throughout to help break up the clay? Up front the new bed could be sexier with even more compost on that part of the quilt...are the tee shirts in that pattern all the same colour? Let it grow let it grow let it grow....i got snow and a polar vortex heading this way. the grass that is dug up can be flipped upside down to dry its roots and help compost it down
GREETINGS❗ from #thevelvetloungelife ✨🤗✨ Just an idea you can use a siphon with a long tube so that you don't have to cart the water back and forth in pail 5 gallons at a time. 👍🏼
Just binged watched all your videos on this channel. Looking forward to all the future projects. Wondering what you found on the right side of your garage?
Love your homesteading videos! I just received the three Birdies beds I ordered last month. I always line all of my raised beds with 1/2 in hardware cloth to prevent gophers from eating my veggies/plants. All plants/trees I plant in the ground are planted in gopher baskets. What will you do if gophers invade your no-dig beds?
The process looks like you're preparing the ground soil to go into composting mode. Adding air and water. Only thing missing is the greens - but you topped it with compost which has the greens. We use these colloquial words like "till" just for comprehension sake. Itll be interesting how many weeds your "gentle" lifting of the soil brings up. Thanks for the breakdown!
It's so funny that you have a garden manager and all the many other staff you have for this little garden. Jacque you should make your own UA-cam channel.
The one till then never again is my method. I loose the soil with a digging fork when making a new bed. It's nice to see You and Jock wear the mask and don't think you know better than the medical experts. 😘
hey man, ive been subbed since you had less than 10k subs. you have come leaps and bounds, super happy for you. keep up the hard and great work love from down under mate.
Kevin this looks great! Maybe I missed it in the rain harvesting video, but are you planning any filtering? This is my current obsession since my rain harvesting opportunity is from a New Jersey asphalt shingle roof. Assuming that is that the ice dams ever melt!
im doing a till 2 season method. im on squishy rocky clay so drainage is hard so far. I fill at least 1.5, 5 gallon buckets with rocks every 50 ft row I till 😂
Hey Kevin, long time viewer first time reaching out.. I was thinking about multi planting peppers per hole, maybe two or three per. was wonder what your thoughts were on this?
How do you manage rodents. I’m in south Orange County and my tomatoes were constantly getting burgled by rats. Tried snapping and would get plenty but could not really deter them. Any pest control/abatement advice would be appreciated.
Don't you have those rat traps with poisonous food that animals don't die from immediately, but later, so they don't associate the food with the trap and death? German viewer here - in Germany, homeowners have to do this once a year or extra when there is a rat plague.
Welcome Jacques to the Epic Gardening fam!
Sup Jacques !
Welcome Jacques!!👍
Are you going to do a video officially introducing Jacques????
Hello Jacques . You make weeding and watering look easy..
Welcome! 🤝
I love the freeform add-as-you-go style in the backyard. It makes me feel better about my utter lack of planning so far!
Totally! We just bought a home on almost an acre and it's been overwhelming trying to think of how to plan it out. It's awesome seeing someone who knows what they're doing just going free form. We had resigned ourselves to doing it that way, but now I feel encouraged.
@@mikekeller61 I tried to diagram exactly which plant was going to go where and how much space it needed, but all of that got overwhelming and took the joy out of it. I'm starting the seeds that I want and building my garden space now. If I end up with more seedlings than space when it comes time to plant then I'll just give some spares to friends - there's no use stressing over it! (I know a lot of people DO get joy out of planning every detail, and more power to them, that's just not me!)
Right! I decided a couple of months ago that I wanted to start growing some vegetables but spent so much time mulling over how to plan it, and I had a few things started in pots that I couldn't decide for weeks what to do with. One day I just picked up a shovel and started digging and transplanted some peppers in and it was such a relief to just get something done, and now that I have a starting point I can actually plan it a lot easier.
I don't plan much. I mostly improvise and it works fine.
I'm so invested in watching the development of your homestead.
Yo Kevin, I'm sure you're already done moving the water by now, but just use your hose to syphon out the trash can. Gonna save your back in the long run. Take the hose off the wall and throw the whole thing in the can (you want the hose to fill with water). Then kink the end (or plug it with your hand if you don't like kinking) to create the suction like you would do with a drink straw. Then just drag the end of the hose to anywhere you want to water, as long as it's lower elevation than the water in the tank.
I love the main channel, but I swear Epic Homesteading is quickly becoming my favorite. Love the updates!
It's crazy how excited I am about this project. I'm definitely attracted to that bed. Currently surrounded by snow. Come on spring!
It's coming!
Desert soil, especially in developed housing areas can be hard. People who have never lived in Southern California or Arizona don't really know or understand how baked hard the ground can be. It's one of the reasons we get flash floods--the ground can't absorb that much water at first and it just moves quickly over the desert floor. Welcome Jacques! Also, thanks for showing me how to use that scraper tool. I had no idea.
What you write here is also true of the New Mexican desert.
Watching your backyard progress has me saying "next year" as I am purchasing the vacant lot next door this year!
NICE
That sounds amazing good luck on your gardening!
@@iriszee129 thank you!
Awesome! I'm so excited for you.
@@GreenGorgeousness thanks!!
I 100% agree with the notion that a good till to start the system is not a bad idea. Here in the high desert that’s what I did last season and I was very pleased with the results. We shoveled fairly deep and then worked in all sorts of organic material with a borrowed tiller. From here on out, I’ll just be top dressing with good layers of compost each season and continue to mulch the paths to keep weeds down and continue to feed the soil.
Man seems like Jacques has a dream job! Im jealous
My daughter wanted to grow dahlias in the front yard this year, so I built 2 raised beds and filled them with the branches of the mallow bush we removed and followed your instructions on how to fill the bed from Epic Gardening. Oh, and then we decided to renovate our old citrus tree. Oh, and then we decided to set up containers with basil, peppers, sweet peas, and pansies. Today I'm heading out to peel up the cardboard so I can set up the bed in the middle of the front yard for the pie pumpkin patch. This video dropped just in time!
Living in the Bay Area, in a development, boy is that soil rock hard! Watching another California gardener has been fantastic and I've learned so much because my New England methods don't work as well here.
You've got a lot going on!
Hubs just got me your field guide to urban gardening for valentines day!
Perfect!
2 videos in a row! We need more!
Even if it's bone dry, good that your soil is actually soil. We do raised-bed gardening because our house block is all hard clay and builders rubble.
Hello and welcome to Jacques!
That turned out amazing! That's exactly what I need to do soon and I'm so glad to have this as a guide 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Never knew watching a guy working his Jacques in the backyard could be so enjoyable! Good work guys!
✌😎
Wow I would love to have a home like that! Kinda hard though to find a homestead in LA, but I’m glad you could have a huge backyard like that.
In uk you have to pay to have your green waste removed and buy green compost back !
Luckily where i live. I have a load of horses around me so can get free compost.
:(
Can’t wait for you container book and the 6-cell planters I bought!!!!!
Cool. Look forward to watching the land come to life.
Looks great especially for Clay or sandy soil. Way to utilize mother nature and collecting rain water
Don't know if you have but you should think of doing a skincare/body health video. (Stretching, sunscreen, proper footwear, gloves... things you like that work for ya... I am a tall gardener too)
I, too, feel as though I might be attracted to that bed XD Excellent video, Kevin! Can't say enough how I enjoy seeing your step-by-step improvements of this Epic space!
I set up an in-ground bed a few weeks ago. I got compost and wood chips for free off Facebook for it! I’m so excited to grow in it!
Welcome Jacques! Epic Homestead is looking great!
LOL "I might actually be attracted to this bed"
new bed looks great! I can't wait till winter is over here so I can start growing again!
Dylan Cory, good work, Jacque!
This is a really good video. I've opened a new garden space and have only deep mulched half. In the other half, this spring, I am going to do traditional in ground rows with soil amendments. Save me alot of time and still get a good yield. Then when the season is over, I will deep mulch it.
So awesome we get to see the process and the progress!
Best Quilting Project everrrr
"That's a sexy bed"
Me to my starters: I can't wait to get you into bed
LOL
I watch you everyday and I want to see you build your homestead up with more videos
Looking great Kevin you have made such an improvement!!
I love all the WE, WE, WE, did this, while Jacques is working his ass off and Kevin is doing all the filming. Let Jacques do some filming of Kevin(Eric) working his ass off... LOL, love all the videos, you have pushed me to start growing again!
I like these vlog style videos even more than the original channel!
Glad you like them!
Me too 🙌! I think it's just how reality is: So much work to do, always on the go, no need for super high quality, easier to follow changes or new upcomimg ideas, and the list goes on.......
For me it's just authentic 🙃😉.
Wheelbarrows - two-wheel wheelbarrows are the only way to go. Having 8 or 9 of these on our farm, it makes a world of difference on how you move stuff around, compared to the one-wheel wheelbarrows. Cannot rate they highly enough (especially if you load them full of 6 or 10 cubic feet of dirt or manure!). Great looking bed!
"I may actually be attracted to this bed." Well you know what they say, gardeners do it in their beds!
Great job 👏to you and your new guy, Jacque. He looks like your perfect right-hand man 👍
Both Charles Dowding and Richard Perkins use quite a thick layer of compost the first time they make a bed. I felt like you had little compost on the bed and this might let a lot of the weeds through. Obviously your condition and climate is different but what do you think about this?
I'm leaning on the actual nutrient quality of the soil here more than they would in the initial plant-out
Oh cool cool
Awesome video Kevin! Keep up your amazing work!🍅✨🌿
Beautiful new bed!
Do add anything to encourage mychorrizal funghi growth for micronutrient exchange? Like a chlorine filter?
Haven't yet, but it's on the (long) list
~4:30 i've seen a couple videos from guru charles dowding and i can say with absolutely no doubt whatsoever that he does disturb the soil when he establishes a plot on troublesome soil. eg with a weedy shrub that has very invasive roots he will rip it right out.
Came for the garden bed, stayed for the copper gutters 👌
Also, welcome Jacques!
The snow from last week will soon melt, and it will get warmer quite fast, just like I predicted last year.
Strong winter and early spring. Garlic is also sprouting already, guess I gotta plant them already
I’m so jealous you guys have sunshine and are in shorts and tshirts!😆 I haven’t even paid attention to what you’re saying.🤦🏾♀️
Well you're in a great mood
You're growing a lot of food. What do you plan to do with the food you are unable to eat? Are you canning or preserving and if so can you do a beginner video on that or a video on what your plans are for the extra food. I only ask because you are only one person and even with my family of four I have to make sure I do not overgrown.
Can, preserve, donate
@@epichomesteading oh nice !!
More space to plant more food to eat!
Hey Kevin, note to keep a really large clear area leading up to those powerpoles (are they power poles?!?), so the maintenance team can get access if they need to replace them........unusual to see them sitting in someone's back yard (well, from an Australian perspective, anyway :-)
Yup!
It looks so good!
Tell me about your city’s compost. Mine (Tallahassee) has really good rough and fine wood chip compost, but not food compost. I need to get my city on that! I, however, do make great compost myself, with food scraps, coffee grounds, egg shells, grass clippings, leaves, urine 😬🤷🏽♂️😆.
I love these videos 🥰 I’m also so impressed that you can get free compost! Here in the UK (as far as I know) we have to purchase compost from these kind of schemes, but tbh I don’t mind paying as it still helps reduces waste going to landfill. Can’t wait for further updates!
That's wild!
Contact the council and they will let you know where to get free compost in your area, if you have land maintenance around you that cuts the grass every now and then, they would also know
@@ollie3395 great tip, thank you! I will try this.
Here in Orange County, my town also doesn’t have a free compost. The city recommends several private green-waste businesses on their website,and I have purchased a bag once that was pretty affordable!
was going to help him....lol that bright blank wall behind y'all...have you ever grown wallflowers? giant sunflowers would be somewhat wind protected there. Are you going to incorporate daikon radishes throughout to help break up the clay? Up front the new bed could be sexier with even more compost on that part of the quilt...are the tee shirts in that pattern all the same colour? Let it grow let it grow let it grow....i got snow and a polar vortex heading this way. the grass that is dug up can be flipped upside down to dry its roots and help compost it down
Yes we are gonna do a LOT of that stuff!
I watch this with anticipation and then.... we have a major snow front coming through and already a couple of inches on the ground... Of course...
GREETINGS❗ from #thevelvetloungelife ✨🤗✨ Just an idea you can use a siphon with a long tube so that you don't have to cart the water back and forth in pail 5 gallons at a time. 👍🏼
Love watching your videos!
Hey there! Will you make another “garden with me” for spring preparations?
Looking good 😌 inspired to try an area like that!
Nice ! I hope you are going to use the brick wall in the fall/winter for warmth for plants ❄️
Just binged watched all your videos on this channel. Looking forward to all the future projects. Wondering what you found on the right side of your garage?
Nothing yet!
I am envious of that lovely climate but grateful for my good soil. My beds are buried under snow. Not sexy.
They will be soon
Love your homesteading videos! I just received the three Birdies beds I ordered last month. I always line all of my raised beds with 1/2 in hardware cloth to prevent gophers from eating my veggies/plants. All plants/trees I plant in the ground are planted in gopher baskets. What will you do if gophers invade your no-dig beds?
I'll have to figure out a solution...right now gambling that I don't have any / many! P.S. Thank you for your order!
The process looks like you're preparing the ground soil to go into composting mode. Adding air and water. Only thing missing is the greens - but you topped it with compost which has the greens. We use these colloquial words like "till" just for comprehension sake. Itll be interesting how many weeds your "gentle" lifting of the soil brings up. Thanks for the breakdown!
You bet!
It's so funny that you have a garden manager and all the many other staff you have for this little garden. Jacque you should make your own UA-cam channel.
? What other staff, it's just me and Jacques in the garden hahaha
Something that I found that goes quicker than a broad fork is pickaxe. The only thing with a pick is it hurts your back more.
The one till then never again is my method. I loose the soil with a digging fork when making a new bed.
It's nice to see You and Jock wear the mask and don't think you know better than the medical experts. 😘
hey man, ive been subbed since you had less than 10k subs.
you have come leaps and bounds, super happy for you. keep up the hard and great work
love from down under mate.
Appreciate you a lot Graham
Hi,
I live in Florida. I have no worms in my ground. It's mostly sand and clay. Can I make the same soil bed?
Hoping you devote a future on watermelons, gonna try to grow my own this year!
Invest in a submersible water pump for $50 and you can water easily with a garden hose from all of your rain barrels!
Great progress! I wish I could use my city's compost, but it uses biosolids and I just can't with that.
Wonderful video
Very nice bed, love the channel, keep it up
How do you recommend we clear out weeded areas quickly and without harmful chemicals so we can create some in ground beds like this?
I was wondering where you got your seed organizer at?
What kind of scraper tool were you using to remove the weeds?
That was so Fast!!!
Kevin this looks great! Maybe I missed it in the rain harvesting video, but are you planning any filtering? This is my current obsession since my rain harvesting opportunity is from a New Jersey asphalt shingle roof. Assuming that is that the ice dams ever melt!
Working on that, ya!
Enjoying every episode : }
👏🏻 thank you!
8:25 damn I love nature, buuut you might like it more 😅
What type of potatoes are you growing and what zone are you in?
10b, list is on another vlog!
Ohh great thank you👍
now you just need a few fish carcasses under that mulch and you're golden.. lol
Hey Kevin, what's your opinion on City water?
8:31 is okay Kev, I may be attracted to the bed as well.
Looks like a fair amount of clay in there.
im doing a till 2 season method. im on squishy rocky clay so drainage is hard so far. I fill at least 1.5, 5 gallon buckets with rocks every 50 ft row I till 😂
Works!
Do you ship to Canada? I tried to order your starting trays, and it says there was no shipping options and will not place the order.
Great video
Hey where do you get your seeds from
Hey Kevin, long time viewer first time reaching out.. I was thinking about multi planting peppers per hole, maybe two or three per. was wonder what your thoughts were on this?
I'd plant close but not multi
like how water get fertilizer soak deep dirt.
Are you watering by hand rn? Will you be adding drip in the future?
Hand and then yes, we will likely use drip
I have that same fire pit!!
I was shopping around for one and saw your face.. Sold 🤑
😂😂😂 that was a fun gig
How do you manage rodents. I’m in south Orange County and my tomatoes were constantly getting burgled by rats. Tried snapping and would get plenty but could not really deter them. Any pest control/abatement advice would be appreciated.
Snap trapping + getting a cat seems best, but also clearing debris they'd like to hide in also works well
Don't you have those rat traps with poisonous food that animals don't die from immediately, but later, so they don't associate the food with the trap and death? German viewer here - in Germany, homeowners have to do this once a year or extra when there is a rat plague.
Yes Melons!!!
Epic, what kind of mulch fo you use?
Usually shredded straw
@@epichomesteading Thanks for the response!
Great job .new subscriber here