homemaker vlog: my garden plans

homemaker vlog: my garden plans

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It is the time of year where you got to let your curls be curls. I have to have the next day prepared in my head. And that does wonders for my brain anyway. But I think my soil wasn’t good last year. I think I I think I know what my issue was. Good afternoon. I’m out taking my walk. It’s a nice day. It’s cloudy. Oh, it’s windy. It’s windy trying to block the wind for you. I’ll talk to you at home. Okay, I’m home from my walk. I’m sweating. I didn’t need the sweater today. Okay, the workers are on their lunch break, so Oh, I think they’re coming back. Okay, I’m going to quickly show you the garden. These are my strawberries. Forgive my breathing. I did a lot of hills. This is where we’re at. Lots of little baby ones that were last year’s runners. And we still got little hearts coming out. Okay. Yeah. Look at there. They’re all coming back. And these all were like tiny like that. So, they’re growing. Oh my gosh, I’m sweating. I’m going to take a shower. I got to put more straw. Okay, I’m going to show you my lilocks cuz they are starting. Look at my lilocks. It’s going to be beautiful. This is all lilac. So nice. Lilocks are probably my fave. I got my hydrangeas. And look, can you see that? They’re starting. See the green? Oh, and down here. Can you see some green? And this one too. So, my pione that one there, someone trampled on that, I think. Got that. And this is my dad rose bush. Look, it’s all coming. These are all new leaves. Remember, this was all like sticks. And this is the most beautiful coral rose bush ever. It’s my workout. Can you guys see? There it is. There. My workout, my walk is what I meant to say. It’s not bad. It is the time of year where you got to let your curls be curls. They’re still a little bit wet. Ignore that. But if you have curly hair, I think you understand. Especially if you don’t wear curly all the time. There hits a point in the year where you got to let your curls be curls because it’s too hot to be messing around with blow dryers. It’s not even a hot hot day, but I just No. From May till like October, Novemberish, my blow dry my blow dryer like hits the hay. I can’t be messing with blow dryers when it’s hot. More times than not in the summer it’s curly because it’s so much easier. But I do find it’s hotter when my hair is curly. Like I feel like it’s just it gets big and it gets like really hot and I don’t know. Anyways, the workers are done for the day and it’s so lovely to be able to sit outside. It’s the only downfall about them doing a lot of work on the road is that I don’t really get to come sit outside cuz like they they like break in my yard. like they’ll have their break in my yard and uh I don’t know. I’m just not like that girl that will just sit out here while they’re all like having their break. So, I’m enjoying the sun right now, though. It’s so nice. Tomorrow’s going to be beautiful. Tomorrow’s going to be the nicest day we’ve had since last year. So, I’m very excited. So, I showed you guys my strawberries and my the strawberries are my favorite thing that I grow cuz it’s basically the only thing that was successful last year were my strawberries. Uh so, well, I had some str beans, but you know, that’s those are pretty easy to do. I’m trying to like think about what I want to grow in the garden. And I want to grow string beans, cucumber, green pepper, but I’ve never had a successful like I’ve had little baby green peppers, but I’d never got like a big green pepper. And I’ve never gotten a cucumber. So, I’d like to do that this year. And the strawberries, they’re going good. But I want to get a blackberry bush because I my 5-year goal is to be growing blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries on our property because we eat so much fruit, especially in the summer. So, how perfect would it be to just not have to do that in the summer? Like last summer, I was getting strawberries until October. I have videos of me showing bowls of strawberries. So, you know, we I honestly I last summer I did not buy strawberries. Did not buy strawberries and I never went strawberry picking at like a farm. We just ate out of that garden last year and that was our first year with them. And typically like you don’t get the best harvest in your first year. Uh so I can’t wait to see what we get this year. But yeah, I definitely want to get like a blackberry, blueberry, raspberry, but I’ll just have to see how much they are. If they’re if they’re expensive, I’ll just get one for this year and that will be blackberries, I think, because that’s what the kids want. So, I definitely will be getting a blackberry bush and probably soon cuz I remember last year I really wanted to do that, but they sold out. But also Facebook Marketplace, you can get people that sell their stuff. So that’s an al also an option, too. That’s where I got a lot of my strawberries. So that’s the plans this year. Really want to um take good care of the strawberries. They kind of do it themselves and I really don’t know what I’m doing. I just kind of do what I see other people do and then you kind of learn. But so I’m going to do that. Focus on my strawberries. I’m probably going to plant more strawberries and get a blackberry bush, hopefully a blueberry and raspberry because as they get older, they get better, right? So, why not start now? I wish I would have had planted them last year cuz then we could have them this year. And the vegetables are still up in the air. I definitely want to do like stream beans cuz we eat those. So, stream beans. Well, everything I’m growing is stuff we eat, but stream beans, cucumber, green pepper, my carrots. I think I did the carrots wrong last year. Could do carrots, but I think my soil wasn’t good last year. I think I I think I know what my issue was. So, we’re going to fix that. I’m going to put down a lot of manure, like seafood compost or whatever. seafood compost, maybe like sheep manure and and last year I filled it with grass clippings and leaves. I got to give it a good mix. There’s lots of coffee in there and eggshells. I got to give it a good mix. So hopefully the soil is better this year than last year cuz I really didn’t get anything last year from that garden at all. I think it was cuz I just used regular old soil. So I didn’t put any like I didn’t spray them with anything. I didn’t put anything in the soil like fertilizer. Like I didn’t do anything. I just planted them and watered them. So I got like I would get like flowers on all the stuff but then it would just die. So we came close. Gardening humbles you. So anyway, I’m going to read my book, The Silent Patient. I I haven’t started it yet. I’m going to start it today. Hopefully it’s good. I heard good things about it. I never read the backs of the book, so I don’t know. Oh, a man wrote it. is a man. It’s a man author. So, I don’t know. I don’t even know what it’s about. It’s probably about a patient. We’ll see. Somebody asked in my comments uh about the overnight oats. And they asked what oats I was using. I I just used what I have. So, this is what I had. So, cuz I think I used this for a recipe at some point. So, I’m using this large flake oats, 100% whole grain Canadian oats. I don’t know if it’s like there’s probably a better option. So, this is what I have. So, that’s what I used. But, I use a third of a cup of that. And then the yogurt. They asked what yogurt that it wasn’t very good. So, just know like I can make them good. I just got to figure out what I’m doing. But uh the yogurt was just like a vanilla yogurt. It I was source maybe that it’s I don’t have any left so I don’t remember the brand. I think it was source vanilla. It’s not the greatest. I mean it’s good yogurt but it’s not like healthier yogurt for you or anything like that. But I uh I’m going to I think I’m going to switch my overnight oats to a Greek yogurt. And this with the powdered peanut butter. I ordered it on Amazon. And once that comes, I’ll figure out my recipe. I didn’t eat it. I didn’t eat the overnight oats today cuz they weren’t they weren’t really that good at all. So, um yeah, once I have everything and figure out what is actually like tasty, I’ll share everything with you guys. But yeah, those are the oats that I’m using. Uh, but a lot of you guys have said that you guys are in the same boat. You need to clean things up, get moving. So, we are in this together. I’m doing really really good. I I feel really good. And the only thing is I did not want to I did not want to go walking today. I think it’s more so cuz there was like people outside my house working and like they’re in my yard and I just didn’t want to like go out and you know but they went on break so I was like I went out but um yeah I really didn’t feel like walking today at all but I did it. I got my walk in. So today will be the third day in a row that I get 10,000 steps because I’m at 9,071 right now and it’s 3:00. So, I’m definitely going to hit 10,000. So, anyway, it’s going well. The thing that I find the most helpful for me is I have to have the next day prepared in my head. And that does wonders for my brain anyway. Like, not just for like health reasons, but like I mentally like knowing what the game plan is the next day. So, having a game plan for the food, it just does such good things to my brain. So, tomorrow we’re having sourdough toast with avocado because Alex really really wanted to try avocado and they are ready. They’re ready. They’ll be perfect tomorrow. So, we’re going to do tomorrow morning avocado on toast and eggs. That’s going to be our breakfast tomorrow. So, things like that like and then I knew today I wasn’t going to do the oats because I didn’t love them the day before. So today for breakfast I had eggs with some fruit and turkey bacon. Hey Ellie. So I like knowing. And then supper. I told you what we’re having right today. We’re having chicken, sweet potatoes, and string beans. So, if I don’t have a plan and I start to feel like there’s nothing to eat, I might as well just, you know, if I keep a plan in place and know what we’re having the next day and make sure we have it in the house, then we’re good. What do you want? So, anyway, that’s where I’m at. I did some sour Oh, and water. I’m drinking water like crazy. Um, this is on its I still have to do stretch and folds. This is a, you know, beginning of it. But this will be the bread that I bake tomorrow. So, yeah, I kind of had a nice quiet day today. Like a quiet day to myself. Like do like not even really vlogging. That’s what I mean. Like I got a lot of work done. I still have a bit of laundry to fold, but I washed our bedding. I did a walk. I cleaned out the freezer. And I I thought I was going to do my closet, like switch it over to spring or summer or whatever, but I didn’t get around to it. So, I did do a lot today and it was a nice little quiet day. I listened to my um audio book. So, I’m listening to The House of My Mother by Sher Frankie, and it’s such a good book. It’s a really sad It’s It’s a really sad story. If you follow that whole case, then you know you know that you know what it is. But it’s really sad and but I’m liking the book a lot. So, that’s what I’ve been listening to on my walks for the past few days. And the walks just go by like that. So, that’s good. I’ll probably have that booked done by Friday. This is supper tonight. Chicken, sweet potatoes, and green beans. Whenever I’m eating healthy, the whole family is eating healthy. It’s kind of the way it works, isn’t it? See what I mean by the hair just gets bigger and bigger as the day goes on? Um, this supper’s really, really good. Sometimes I forget about sweet potatoes. I love them, but I don’t always think of them. It’s a very good meal. Like, I like food like this. I don’t know why I stray away, but I do. It’s good, eh? Okay, guys. I’m going to leave you here. I’m going to spend the night reading. I have a little bit of more laundry, relaxing, and I’ll see you tomorrow for a beautiful sunny hot day here on the island. Good night. We’ve burned it. All those whirlwinds can’t touch us no more. We’ve earned it. We’ve earned [Music] it. Your eyelids and perfect lips got me rushing panning. I’m so like lily you open. Your fragrance goes to my head. My darling, I get everything that has been don’t matter no more. We’ve [Music] burned all those whirlwinds.