How We INCREASED our Food Production This Year | Garden Tour
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How big are each of your gardens?
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I am glad to see your pigs are in a healthy environment. They like to be clean and dry.
You can go forage for wild leafy greens if you know what your looking at.
Hi there! Ok, so I live in North Idaho as well, but I know this is applicable to other areas too… how are you keeping the deer away from your gardens?? I know your main crop garden has a fence, but your terraces and kitchen garden do not. I planted a beautiful garden this year, and it was growing great, then the deer came. Now it's totally demolished and I'm getting hardly anything out of it. It's so sad š what's your secret?
Enjoyed the tour – Inspiring!
Thanks for all your videos. How do y'all deal with the flea beetles? They are absolutely destroying my brassicas and I am not sure what to do to keep them away without pesticides. Thanks!
Got any videos of planting time for all that food? Looks daunting, but exciting.
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Hey guys, Love the video. Is it possible to know where you purchased your micro sprinkler system?
Beautiful garden. I love Fava beans. ššš„š½š¶š„š„¦š„¬š§š§ š
Stunning. I love the terrace gardens!
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I'm jealous! Do you have anything that you wish you could grow but doesn't fit the northern climate?? I live on the gulf coast and it gets so hot and humid that it's a struggle to grow brassicas and root crops. Your garden looks great!
What do you use as ground cover between your rows?
Love your Gardens, just shows when you put all the hard work in you reap the rewards!
Love your channel
Do you sell at farmers market? And give to food banks?
Wow you are growing some much food, Wow!! Love it š
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What do you have down between the rows? Sawdust?
Lovely. Inspiring.
This is one of my favorite videos. So simple but felt so personal. Love you guys and Riverbend so much.
Great tour. How do you keep up with the weeding in such a big garden?
My word!! How do you guys do all of this!!?? Amazing!
You grow enough food for a small army lol! I wish this lifestyle was taught in schools
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With those fava beans, beware of black flies. Spray the plants regularly with natural soaps with tea tree oil & mint oil to keep the flies from destroying your crop. I'm also in the PNW, and I've been growing fava beans(aka broad beans) for a few years. Also, top off your plants at around 6"-8" so they'll bush out and produce a lot more. Let a bunch of pods get really big and dry them for next year…you'll never have to buy those seeds again.
Oh, and fava beans are are fantastic eating, raw or cooked.
Wonderful gardens! I appreciate your distinguishing between new and more seasoned beds, because ours is a first year bed in a different climate. Soooo much to learn! But another part of that learning is experimenting and trying again a bit later. Like sunflowers…I tried in March, nope. Tried in June, nope. So in July I took the seeds and tried them in 5 different zones. Yesterday, I discovered 2 growing in the raised garden bed with tomatoes – the last place I expected to work! Tomatoes, well, they've been tricky because they grow many places, but not all types fruited well. And some are fruiting well but much later than expected. Cherry tomato bushes ended up in compost. But I saw 3 others being pollinated, so they get a little longer. Cucumbers grew tall but didn't fruit…until, get this, cicada killer wasps pollinated them in late July! Then a bumblebee joined in. August cucumbers in Texas are unusual, but I'll be glad to see some fruit now! Even our driveway planters had to be an experiment. One side had butterfly flowers and lemongrass, and the other side heat loving flower vines and bushes. In those beds, the butterfly garden thrives in summer. So that's the plan to use. But I have to move the others to the backyard. It's repetitive planting, which is more work. But if I hadn't experimented, I wouldn't know as much as I do for next year's planning. It feels kinda chaotic, but learning where my herbs will and won't grow is essential to me. To feed our family, there is still plenty to learn! But the hens are finally laying eggs, tomato fruits are getting larger (only 1 or 6 varieties thrived), strawberries bare propagating now, so next year they will go in shallower beds instead of the raised garden bed (the scant fruit was wonky there), basil and rosemary thrive, so does hibiscus and lemon balm. And a rewarding success is planting indeterminate green bean vines over our 6' tall chicken pen (we don't like bending). I wanted tall vines, but not to build a trellis. And the chickens needed more shade from summer heat, but I didn't want to buy or build anything else. So just 2 beans now supply a gorgeous green leafy vine covering over 1/2 that area, which the hens love when not free ranging. Its purple flower buds are lovely! And it works as camouflage from hawks too! No wood. No shopping. Just 2 beans. š¤£ Now, that's the kinda strategic gardening I like! šÆ
Hello, I am unable to find any info on your micro sprinkler system. Are you able to share where you got those?
Do you have a root cellar that you store your potatoes in? If not, how do you store them long term? The challenge for me is keeping them between the early to mid Aug harvest and mid to late Sept when the temperatures drop down enough to store them in the garage. I keep them in the basement which is about 60 F until they can go into the garage. (outer Chicago area)
You have a great homestead! Great video! If anyone is looking for another great channel, check out The Veggie Boys! https://youtu.be/E67zuL0Z0Y8
Carolyn and Josh youāre gardens are wonderful! Hard work really pays off.
What are your row middles mulched with?
I always learn helpful ideas from you guys. It's fun to see all of the thriving plants and animals. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
pretty sure I saw a hornworm on your peas at about 4:05 or so
We have a very long growing season in the high desert (along with water challenges), but I am super glad to be able to restart some summer crops that got hit hard with aphids. Cukes and beans! Also, plants to start the winter garden are already in the works. I'll be ordering potato seeds, as well as more garlic and planting onions finally! Lastly, we are adding a hog n about 10 meat chickens to the mix. If we can get out hands on a freezer from the parental unit.
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It looks fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Raspberries! I live in the Berry Capital of Canada, in British Columbia…we had a Heat Dome Event in past weeks, that decimated our crops here….glad to see your crops are doing well.
Inspirational new vegetable growing space. š Especially the traditional and expanding āgrab and instantly prepareā kitchen garden.
Air flow sides in the tomato tunnel is undoubtedly on your improvement list.
Please do tell what perennials youāve established in the new huge chicken coop. šš»š
Howās the milk cow and pond?
Totally understand if youāve decided to stop videoing and sharing videos of daily life on your stunning homestead. Young growing children are 25/7 š(or more). And Joshās day time expert consultancy work must be taking a toll in this heat – Iāve noticed that you donāt have time to interact with comments.
God bless you. And wishing you good health and happiness.
Can you take us through a day of processing/dehydrating your greens for your green powder? You have such a high volume of greens that I would be really interested in seeing how you guys tackle it all. Thank you for your videos!
I'm inspired!
Very envious of your vast gardens……we're past the point we can do this but I frequent Farmer's Markets to support locals, and get great produce – We just moved so no garden of our own this year, but next year there will most certainly be garden beds with food growing!
Beautiful garden. I love your videos. We would love to move to northern Idaho to be closer to our son's family. How are the prices of houses with some property