We’ve officially lived on the homestead for one week. Had some ups and downs already but it’s time for a huge UP. Getting started building our new terraced vegetable garden. I’ll show you how to create simple terracing to get started and how to create a new vegetable garden from scratch.
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20 years ago my husband and I bought 5 acres in Rainbow. I know just what you are going through. I am 72 and garden daily. I can share plants and knowledge of what grows well in this zone 10B.
You are doing a great job. The first year your plants will thrive. Second year the critters will discover the wonders of fresh vegetables you are growing.
I don’t even like many vegetables but grow as many as possible for the challenge of it and to share with family and friends. It’s really the flowers for me. Having a fresh vase of flowers every day in the summer with more to share just feeds my soul. Can’t wait to see how your property unfolds!
Totally love working the dirt
Could you add some weight to the Tiller so it has an easier time of digging?
I had a visitor for several weeks. He made mention that your garden takes so much time. I tried to explain how much pleasure I get from watching things grow. I was, in some way, happy to hear you’ve had followers ask the same question.
While gardening the world goes away and pleasure fills me. Hours pass and I am joyful! 🍓🍅🌶🍆
Brian, you're gonna look like a fitness guru when your done improving that property to a workable soil.it's not only going to take time, lot of effort and tons of additives but also a payload of Patience and persistence. Wish you all the best and watch your health af all times. Prio1
I fully agree with you Brian it is the benefit of working and seeing a finished product and seeing what you can get out of something that was a patch of thistles
I have always done my gardening for mental/spiritual health. I in the past only grew flowers, but when I moved to my current location I started with veggies so that I knew there was some good organic food my children could eat. Some things I honestly grow for others and not myself. My current yard was an old rock garden that hadn't had anything done for many years and all the effort with your terracing reminds me of all that back breaking work. Your doing great, but remember to take care of yourself.
Hi! I'm a new subscriber to both your channels. I will follow this channel and catch up with the videos on your original channel. The situation you find yourself in [with a lot of what seems to be heavy compacted soil [perhaps clay?] full of rocks/stones] and nothing approaching a 'garden' to start with compared to what you left behind reminds me of what I was faced with in hot, hot, hot, SW France where I had an acre of solid clay/rocks after moving from a loamy soil in the cooler climes of North West UK. I don't envy you but with your skills, the rewards should eventually be immense, but try to pace yourself. Don't try to do too much at once. Think a few sq feet at a time rather than a couple of dozen or so. That clay in France damn near killed me because I simply didn't respect how physically heavy it was.
Gardening is very Hard, BUT very REWARDING!! Knowing that all the effort and work you put on a the most juicy and exquisite tomato. Has no price! Growing up my Dad will take me to the farm. I enjoyed it but now a value the time and I wish I learned more from him! Keep the good work Sir and please keep sharing your dreams. Is not only encouraging but also uplifting Thank you!
I have heard the same comments n I only have a sm garden out back. Built the house 45 years ago all clay n always had a garden . Seeing your clay brought back a lot of memories. Has gotten smaller as I got older because I just couldn’t keep up the way I want it to look. As long as I can walk n bend I will have veg n flowers . Being out in the garden makes me feel better n u can’t compare the stuff u grow to the store. Everyone that has anything I made from garden all say what a difference it makes from vine to table. Trying to teach my grandchildren some gardening 🤷♀️
The harder it is to accomplish the more satisfaction you will get out of it. It is not going to be easy. That is the good part! You will have a beautiful garden little by little. It will fuel your soul. Try not to get discouraged along the way
Oh my, Brian! The garden IS my mental well-being. I work in health care. The past 18 months have been insane, as everyone knows! My son had a traumatic brain injury last year and my mom stayed with us for 4 months during the winter for cancer treatment. The garden and greenhouse saved me. Truly. They are the places to which I can escape. I can find sanctuary and peace. Yes, I get vegetables and flowers…but most of all, I get ME back. I cannot overstate the value of gardening to me personally. I love watching you and your channel. I also love watching Monty Don and Charles Dowding, the no-dig guy. You 3 make me feel calm. Hugs and peace to all of you who are fed by the earth, mind or body!
I would of thought wetting the ground would of soften it all up. Did the tiller say not to do that?
Keep visualizing your dream…before you know it …it will be reality! I have gardening all my life. My husband retired this year and to my surprise has joined me in the garden. He loves it! What I am getting out of it is something me and my husband finally get to spend all day together doing. I always loved it but love it even more now!
Progress looks amazing. Definite the rototiller was needed. I cannot imaging how the garden is going to look in 6 month. What I get by working in the garden, hum…happiness, accomplishment, knowing I can turn an area of nothing into one of beauty, love to nature and above all humbleness.
I had this in my back yard. I do not have your muscles, so I used water and gypsum.
Thank you for sharing your home, your garden , your dreams and your heart with us! I too resonate with the intangible benefits of gardening, and am blessed by you! Blessings too to all my fellow gardeners who are tending God's beautiful earth.
To me you are still a " no till gardener" because I doubt that the rototiller will be used on the beds after they are prepared. I have the same soil you have and that rototiller will make that prep work much easier and even possible! I find soaking the soil "flooding it" and waiting until the soil is damp will make. it so much easier to work on. I now use wood chips to improve my soil since I have time and little monet to buy amendments.
Why didn't you soak the ground first…a lot easier on you and the machine..
Yes it's a lot of money, I rent my home but being a good steward to the land as I learn to be a gardener not per say build a garden. I know hardly anything about gardening but I do know how to spend money I don't have learning all I can and trying. Someone else may benefit from it one day or heck it might get torn out of here never to be enjoyed again once I am gone one day when I hope I can buy a place of my own. But I am not stopping anything I am doing because I am buying peace, serenity and knowledge! You can't put a price on any of those things. Love your channel Brian, the other one as well. Bright Blessings!
Congratulations to yr new channel as well as new property.
I enjoy watching my plants grow. It brings great satisfaction!I am a new gardener and look forward to becoming better.
Last week on YouTube there was 2-3 videos that Dr. prescribed to theirs patients to go and do gardening: playing with the ground to finally obtains flowers or veggies to help the mental and physical health!! So continue, we have fun to look at you till it’s not me doing it!!! Lol!
My garden is my happy place. It is like ozygen to me. A lot of people will not get that but if you are a gardener, you will understand. Nature is the best medicine!
My gardening adventures ARE FOOD FOR MY SOUL. The praises from total strangers is rewarding and nice too. God BLESS YOU BRIAN!!!
Just wondering why someone who is so into gardening didn't buy a piece of property with flat land.
We all need a place to go for peace, tranquil moments and a place to gather outdoors with family and friends as well. I have a small yard but it works for us. I enjoy having a garden but my husband and son have to do most of the work due to my RA. I am thankful for them and for all your tricks and tips. This year it is in progress due to many factors. Hopefully we will be able to fix and finish some projects in the fall and be better prepared for next season. Things are not perfect and probably never will be, but there will finally be a place where I can enjoy the outdoors and find some solace when We are finished.
Spending so much time and money just to get a 50 cent tomato????
Where are these viewers getting organic tomatoes for 50 cents?
Firstly, in case anyone isn’t aware…there’s a food shortage looming over our heads, secondly…the quality of food available to us isn’t anywhere what it once was…..consuming pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and GMO’s!!!!!. The opportunities of filling your larder with home grown quality food is endlessly exciting. Finally the industriousness of having a garden and interacting with nature is priceless. It’s paramount to meditating. Yes it’s hard work and can be costly at times. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy. So you keep doing what you’re doing and we’ll let those less evolved persons knock themselves out with their 50 cent GMO tomato. Enjoy those pesticides!!!
Have you heard of JADAM? I’m getting into it this year. It’s really what farmers and gardeners need instead of buying fertilzers etc
Watching you tilling all that rocky soil, it made me realize that as an artist you are beautifying the earth and bring it back to it's full potential.Thank you for sharing this with us!!