Walk with us and visit as we discuss challenges in gardening. Don’t give up! Be relentless.
Walk with us and visit as we discuss challenges in gardening. Don’t give up! Be relentless.
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Hey good afternoon! I have been busy growing my channel but wanted to stop by. Great video 👩🌾
I am confused. Are you thinking the grocery stores will be empty completely because of transport and weather? Attacked by other countries? What resources say this survival mode is needed? Just not sure what you are saying.
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As I've mentioned before, I started having rodent issues in my coops and gardens this past late Fall. Still battling them today. Yesterday I moved a big wooden cable spool I had been using in one coop as a feeder support. The middle was full of nest and adults (during the daytime). My hens made short work of them. I think they actually got full, since they left a dead one in the run. I filled the center of that spool with pea gravel and cement after cleaning it well. That should stop anything from making a home in the hollow center. I do keep all my feed in metal drums with good weighted lids, but of course there is feed in the bedding. Still a mystery to me why I suddenly have rodents after all these years. I have noticed I have more owls, hawks, and maybe a pair of eagles (!) around here, so that's a good thing. I also seem to have acquired a stray orange tabby cat in the back of the property. I think it's a Tom, but not sure yet. Extra help with the rodents is always appreciated, as long as he/she doesn't develop a taste for chicken.
Garden is progressing. Garlic is almost ready to harvest, onions looking good. The last of the cool weather greens is about to be done, leaving some to go to seed as usual. Been mixing up fresh container soil and making wicking tubs for a new area I created using cardboard, weed cloth, and mulch over a hard compacted area that was once the location of a storage shed. I'm hoping that hard bare soil (I sod-busted it as best I could before layering on the cardboard and so on) will get a little softer in a couple of years after having it covered. I'll line my wicking tubs on top of all that and grow things that take a lot of room. Pumpkins, watermelons, and so on. Should have that area going before the weekend. Being puny for almost a month set me back a bit, but then the weather hasn't really been right either, so I guess we'll just do what we can when we can.
I just finished cleaning out all the coop deep bedding (pine shavings and chicken poop. done twice a year) and adding that used bedding to the compost and some of the already composted-in-place stuff to my beds and containers for this season's crops. No need for fertilizer when I have that lovely stuff. Can't really apply the fresh bits to the beds because it's still too "hot" as a fertilizer, but the stuff at the bottom is already mostly broken down and aged. It sure helps lighten our hard clay native soil. Luckily pine shavings are still cheap. I have a good source for pine needles and tree leaves, which I do use in my runs, but inside the coops I really prefer the shavings. It keeps the eggs cleaner and the coop smelling fresher.
I'm helping a nice young couple that moved in down the street a few months ago. They are wanting to keep a small backyard flock of laying hens. I've got a few extra newly started girls, so probably going to share some with them. I'm happy to help them, and it helps me knowing they have healthy birds so near to my own flock. I don't want to scare them off keeping 3-4 hens, but I am going to be sure I impress upon them the need to keep to a good biosecurity program. I don't want anyone coming here and telling me I have to kill off all my girls and can't keep anymore poultry of any kind for X number of years after.
I surely hope your Pop's house sells quickly and all goes smoothly. I'm sure it'll be a relief for everyone when he is comfortably settled in his tiny house close to hand. He'll have a lot to do and be involved in at your place, and that will certainly be good for his mind and body. Isolation is not healthy for any of us.
Glad I got to watch your video today. It's always a salve to my soul to hear your voice and see how well you and Greg are doing. Keep at it, sweet Jill. Hugs and blessings for you and yours. 😉
Setting out some peppers tonight. Working double time. Still thinking about Easter…🤔. We'll see. BTW no shenanigans here today. Guess they're letting us rest.
How hard did you get hit by this storm? We did ok. Wanted to tell you i saw another channel where the guy mixes equal parts of baking soda and cornmeal together for rats if thats what it is. Kills them within 4 days. The baking soda blows rats up. They can,t burp or fart. I think rabbits can,but mice and rats,it kills fast. I,m going to put that in my garden. We get field mice bad. He cuts a hole in a tupperware,and they go in and eat it. Well,worried about the Smokey Mts. They,re burning bad. Love you all. I heard another storm coming
Thank you.🙏🏻
What a beautiful garden 😍 I live in northern AZ. I’m just starting mine. We still get some freezing nights here. I’ll be praying for your dad’s home sale and getting settle down.
Prayers for your Pop’s home transition 🙏🏻
So much good information in this video
Praying for you all and a quick sale for Pop! Your kale looks great! I just finished transplanting all my seedlings to larger containers. Need to start building the raised beds this weekend if possible. Supposed to snow again! Hugs to you all!
I'm new to Texas gardening so thank you for letting me know about it being ok to plant full sun in partial sun. I've not experienced a Texas summer, so don't know yet how to Garden. Would love as many tips for all the new gardeners, there's a lot more wind here and HOAS with yard rules. Both of these present challenges in addition to the weather fluctuations and concrete clay soil, but I'm excited to be a Texas gardener💜
Jill your alls plants are looking really good and the cover crop is filling in nicely!
Yes maam! God bless you too Jill.
Unfortunately, we probably won’t get anymore rain until next October or November.
Loved it! Blessings
HEY. I can't turn on notifications for your channel. I keep losing you in the shuffle. 😔. It gives me a notification that says this option is not available for content made for kids. I'd like to be notified when you upload. 😃
Hey buddy…not sure if this will help anything with critters trespassing but….a few years ago I was trying to plant a few little things and the bunnies thought it was for them.
Well, I read somewhere that if you will put some pieces of any ole kind of wire fencing (pieces of chicken wire, small mesh kind of fencing) around the base of the plant or tree…they will not mess with it. I don't think they understand the word trap but they do understand when something is not natural and it spells danger to them. Stepping on the metal laying in the grass just doesn't work for them. I have used it often and not had problems again. Hope this helps.
Thanks for all the tips and info and encouragement you send our way. Jesus bless.
This is my first video of yours and I'm grateful to have found you. I threw everything but the kitchen sink at my first year attempt at gardening here on our first homestead. We keep getting below freezing but my covered raised beds are still going strong with carrots, onions, garlic and a plethora of companion plants. My containers are hit and miss, poor little things but I'll just add a few more seeds tomorrow. Fertilized with crushed egg shells today. You have great information and I can't wait to watch more! Thank you for your time!
Rodents have been a problem here also. We never had them before this year. We thought it was because they tore down an old abandoned motel down the street from us. But hearing this from you makes me wonder if it is more than this. Creatures are coming up from the bottom of the ocean that have never been seen. Under water volcanoes are being blamed for this. Magma is moving like crazy and rising closer to the surfaces. Are these rodents signs of becoming too hot where they lived? Just asking since it is happening all over.
What do u use for aphids on peppers? I've been using soap spray and strong water spray but they r terrible.
Jill everything you have just looks gorgeous! I have only two raised beds and bought a ton of grow bags to do even more. Started seeds indoors but some of them are still a little small, I started indoors 3/8 bc I got behind. Do you recommend hardening off now or waiting a few more weeks? I already have greens in one bed outside and they’re still slow to come along and those were planted in succession since 2/18.
I'm new to north Texas. Coming from Missouri where you just put seed in the ground and get a crop, I have been having a difficult time with timing of when to plant and have had terrible success with bugs! (tomato horn worms – blech!) We do not (yet) have a high tunnel and from your video it looks too late for broccolli, turnips and beets? 🙁 You are very encouraging for me to keep trying, in spite of the hot Texas summers! Last night's rain may have destroyed the potatoes I planted a couple weeks ago. Still have not pushed through, so hopefully I had enough holes in the bucket. Nevertheless, I have more buckets and will give it a go again. Thanks so much for the great videos and looking forward to having your Pop live near you! That is so wonderful! God bless!
Hi Jill. I’m in Southern California and trying to get started on some backyard homesteading. I follow you on Locals and have really enjoyed your videos. I wonder if you have considered uploading videos to Rumble in addition to YouTube. I would much rather watch on Rumble instead of giving YouTube my views. Plus, Rumble will help people find your Locals community easier. 🙂
I am go glad you are all ok. I saw your video and really concerned. God Bless you
I know this was 2 weeks ago that you posted this prayers for your grandpa is the place in Tennessee incredible tiny homes Randy Jones great prices and good ideas for you and I see you have chemical trails love that government right
Starting my real Garden this year up here in Anza California where is 4300 lots of wind that was God's help in container gardens I'll have a good harvest