#latebloomer ~ Jam packed week on the homestead getting ready for spring planting and discovering more native plants, but I had to make room for planting peas! Follow my progress and please share! MAKING ROOM FOR PEAS (more native plants in the strawberry bed!) City girl urban gardener now sharing life on my Tennessee homestead with my five cute cats! Subscribe so you won’t miss out!
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I think I enjoy watching seeds come up..and then are disappointed when I don't get the harvest I expect.. haha
Looks good!
You have been busy as a bee! : )
I love your videos. You are such an example to me and your other viewers. Watching your videos is like being there with you. I would love to be on your homestead and help you out. Late bloomer in Columbia Falls MT
🌹lovely 🌻🌶HAVE A GREAT DAY!
BTW I was looking into pomegranate.. love them too…did you know you can create a pomegranate bonsai ..yes you can 😁so if you're keeping it inside that may be an option
yes,you need a smaller rototiller.I just bought a 9lb.vacumn to replace a 50+lb.one.It makes doing a tiresome chore almost enjoyable…
Good Morning Kaye – so awesome you got a pomegranate tree and hope it does well for you. Just got a filter for my hose but now I need a new hose so it never ends. Hope your onions perk up soon too. Wishing you a blessed day!
Hi Kaye! Be careful when deciding where to plant your pomegranite. I live an hour from the coast and I have a three year old pomegranite that the frost kills back every year. I am going to half to put it in a pot, or figure out a way to cover it. 🙁
"Yes, mom, I'm eating grass again and I'll be barfing soon".
Oh I just saw the neatest gadget for outside hanging baskets or bird feeders that allows you to pull them down to water or fill!! Did I save that?? Can't remember. My laundry room and kitchen both had very small but damaging leaks that I had no idea about until they had already done the damage so my entire kitchen has been torn apart. I guess I should be thankful this is NOT going on at the other end of summer when I'm trying to can!!😊
Supposedly if you put water in a container and leave the lid off for 24 hours it helps the toxin's to escape….
You know I just love to see what you're doing in the garden! You're doing great, my friend! I'm looking forward to seeing where you plant that pomegranate tree!! That, along with a few olive trees, is something I'd like to get, too. I hope you don't get tired of my suggestions, and please know I'm just trying to help you. If you can, you might want to get some drip irrigation for your raised beds. Travis at Lazy Dog Farm has some great suggestions and you can also get kits from Hoss Tools. Hand watering with a hose wreaks havoc with my back, and as the days get hotter, you'll be doing it more. The drip irrigation will save you SO much time, and will also make better use of your water.
I'm going through the same watering dilemma here in North Florida. We have a bottled water company that is literally sucking our wells dry. I have very limited water and water pressure right now, and until it either improves or I have County water installed, my neighbor is letting me use his County water. Yes, it's chlorinated, but it's better than no water at all! I'll be planting sweet corn as weather permits in the next week, and it requires a LOT of water as it grows, and if nature doesn't provide, I'll be doing what I can with what's available. It beats not having a good corn crop.
Bear in mind that onions and sweet corn both require a LOT of water and are heavy feeders. You almost can't water either of them enough! And make sure you supplement them heavily with nitrogen and a balance fertilizer. I'm lucky to have chickens, because composted hen manure is a rich, natural source of nitrogen, but if you want to use a natural, organic fertilizer, you might want to invest in Nature Safe – It's great stuff, I find it expensive.
Hearty, looking meal! 💚 the video
Kaye, I use a little 58v battery operated mantis tiller that i purchased off Amazon for $125.00 about 3 yrs ago … it works surprisingly well. Its so light weight (24 lbs) that I get inside my raised beds plus my ground beds to cultivate. I created ground beds using the tilling mode . You can use it for both tilling and gentle cultivating.
Spring is definitely here. And the weather is changeable. 80 yesterday. 50 today. LOL. I have been busy with pressure canning. I jumped in feet first to get shelf stable meat protein in my pantry. I did 13 qts and 7 pints of ugly chicken. 4 pints of pulled pork. 9 pints of hamburger. 6 1/2 pints of pork sausage and finally 13 half pints of orange marmalade! Thank you for the pressure canning videos.
Always love your videos
Having the right tools makes such a huge difference, especially as we age. I need new tools but I’m looking for sales. As for weeds, I’ve been learning that some bring up nutrients from deep in the soil that have been depleted in the upper layer. I still pull them, but usually right before they go to seed.
MANTIS tiller is great and easy to use.
I. Under tornado warnings here in my area of Michigan. Watching closely…bad storms last night with strong lightning .
I have never seen strawberry plants with red flowers. Always white. Do you know the variety?
Kaye be careful with your back tilling the ground garden
Cats eat grass as a digestive treatment to get fur balls of their stomach ,,,,,,, not going into detail how it happens !
ok see you later soon will motor over to Arizona,,,Ed
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You are Beautiful Sister Golden Hair 🤩
Hi Kaye. Love following your homeatead adventures. I too am planting peas this week. (Sugar snap peas). Happy Gardening!
I feed the birds in my yard too
Kay if you put down a black tarp or weed fabric you will safe yourself all the back breaking chores of weeding
I have a mantis tiller and it’s easy to operate but you still have to start it by pulling a rope. Not easy on my shoulder electric or battery would be so much easier 😊
Hard to believe it is still so cold there and getting hot in South Florida..