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Hello welcome to Yellow door Urban Homestead I am Asia and I’m a Urban Gardener growing in a small space in my Backyard so we’re going to do a garden tour today but first I need to take care of the chickens because it rained pretty much all day yesterday and so things are wet and things are muddy so we’re going to take care of the chickens first the chickens and the quail honestly because
Yeah I need to get some bedding down on this ground some wood chips so that they’re not walking around in mud and then in the inside of the C I just need to get some more wood chips down because as you saw those eggs were really really gross but also nail
Cam so those are my December Nails my uh winter Nails it’s like a sweater on this one I think it’s so cool all right so my wood chips that I use is just some pine needles not pine needles uh Pine shavings right now literally all of the
Chickens are sleeping in the coup nobody Sleeps on the roost anymore so yeah it’s pretty gross in here but I use the deep litter method when it starts to get cold so we just keep piling wood shavings on top and everything compost the uh season
Goes on and it also helps to keep them warm uh during the winter because as the things are compost it’s warming up inside of the coup you got to take care of the ground portion too so I have lots of bags of shavings and we’re going to throw it all well not
All of it we’re going to grow throw a lot of it down on the Ground so listen I thought it was going to end up getting chilly while I was out here it’s in the 60s and I was like well it’s probably going to get chilly while I’m out here and that’s why I got all like bundled up with this heated coat
Y’all I’ll leave a link to it it’s really awesome it’s Milwaukee my son got it for me for my birthday I had been talking about it so I recently started wearing it it’s amazing this is not an affiliate affiliated uh conversation here it’s literally me I’ve been wearing
Weing it and I love it my son got it for me for when I’m out here but it is totally not cold enough for this oh in addition to chickens I also raised Quail I’m going to show you them off camera I went ahead and fed them and replaced
Their bedding in their Coupe area but I pull theirs all the way out cuz theirs gets really smelly really quickly so I pulled theirs out dumped it off cleaned it and then put new beding in there um so quaill are really uh cold hearty anyway so they’ll be fine so our chicken
Um so I have seven chickens in case you’re new here I have seven chickens I have two black sex links I have one Americana I have one brah I have two Olive Edgars and I have a majestic Moran so I’m feeding the quail if I can get
One oh took off running if I can get one I’ll show them to you they’re eating so I’ll probably be able to kind of grab one and they won’t notice that I’m grabbing them those are the quail and here on my Homestead they are for meat
And for eggs so that’s a mail right there pretty simple to take care of stop it go away go away just go they’ve been packing me ever since I got out here but yeah so on my Homestead I have Quail outside I have five and
Then I have about 13 or 14 right now in the inside that I hatched out not too long ago um and we will be processing them shortly I am thinking of keeping like six of them inside for uh eggs because for eggs through the winter because the quail outside have stopped
Laying the chickens have not watch out so in case you’re new here let’s just sit down really quick and talk about my garden and my growing space and all of that stuff now the space have no idea how much space it is I do know it’s a normal siiz Urban backyard
The other thing is I grow 365 days a year so all year long my garden has some kind of plants in them um I normally do cover I did not cover last year I’m not going to cover this year because I don’t want to I am in Virginia Zone 7B um so we
Don’t have very cold Winters now we do freeze we do get to the teens but we don’t get into like the the single digits often and we definitely don’t get into the negative temperatures which is why I’m able to grow 365 days a year of course I’m only growing the things that
Are cold tolerant I’m not growing like Peppers or tomatoes or anything but all year long I could come out here and get something from out of the garden and in case you’re wondering when I started gardening I started gardening in 2020 um you know when we were all being told to
Stay in the house so I’ve been gardening for about 3 years I’ve had my chickens for 2 years some of them and I’ve had some of them for less than a year I got new chicks this year because I wanted different color layers um and so I have seven
Chickens total in my area I am allowed to have six but my chickens are kept and no one complains so I have seven right now like I said I have five Quail outside quite a few Quail inside they are for meat they are for eggs um and so
Let’s go ahead and take a look at my garden if you have any questions any other questions for me um you can leave them in the comments below oh also the way I grow I grow in raised beds I grow in bags containers uh no dig I grow
INR and uh that’s it that’s how I grow okay so what am I growing right now in zone 7B in Virginia I am growing cabbage collards kale leaks uh broccoli corabi carrots I’m growing radishes well no we pulled those not too long ago we have Rudy Bas and turnip still growing
We have artichokes which aren’t going to give us artichoke right now because um it’s too cold for that but it will continue to give us the greenery and next year it will come back and hopefully I will get my first artichoke next year so artichokes are perennial in
My area which means they will die back and then they will come back next year same thing for a lot of the herbs that I grow I am still growing herbs I still have Rosemary growing I still have thyme growing there’s another animal that’s on the homestead that’s puppy if you’re new
Here she’s pit lab mix and she is the sweetest little thing ever aren’t you friend so I also do a lot of growing up and these are trellises these are cattle panel trellises that I have all around the garden here’s another one that I cut there’s another Arch one there nice
Sized Arch here as well and then there’s another Arch so that is how I grow um you know up so that I have more space because I don’t have a lot of space you know on the ground but let’s go ahead and get into the garden tour so this is
My asparagus bed I still do have a few asparagus uh ferns that are growing I cut a lot of them down laid them on the bed and then they just started growing again um asparagus does not grow in the cold like this is going to die eventually we’ve had a few freezes it’s
Still trying to live but it’s not going to live my next bed uh we have some Swiss chard up here we had transplanted some lettuce so here’s the thing in Fall these plants are not going to grow fast because it’s colder which is why you plant your fall
Garden at the end of summer so you still get some warmth they can still grow still get established and then they will grow through fall and some of them through winter if I were to cover all of this would survive I’m not covering and with that being said what survives
Survives we also have leaks in here uh we have cabbages going down here that’s a cabbage this is a Collard which I need to uh Harvest this is a cabbage back here there’s a cabbage over there I’ve said it before I’m not the best at growing cabbage right now I am sure I
Should have a head on that cabbage but I’m going to leave it and I’m going to see what happens beside the Cabbage we do have broccoli and we actually have broccoli growing I keep showing y’all that like right in here there’s a little broccoli growing too so so I’m pretty
Sure when I looked all of these plants have at least one small broccoli on them so pretty excited about that in the holes of the uh blocks this is actually garlic but there’s also onions in the holes of my bricks and onions and garlic will over winter and then in Spring
You’ll start to see it get larger and then you’ll be able to harvest it like uh mid spring I believe it is and back here there’s one little Collard plant that I transplanted a little while ago in the bed beside it if you remember we
Had a bunch of corabi right here so we have pulled a lot of the kabi and ate it but we still have two pretty large ones left in here and we’ll eat those soon too because I don’t want to leave them too long if you leave kabi too long and
That’s quite a few vegetables uh like root vegetables corabi grows over the top but it’s kind of like a root it’s a it’s a big stem um it they can get uh Woody and I don’t want them to get Woody they should be the texture of uh of an
Apple and so we transplanted some things um this is another Collard and over here we transplanted a Swiss CH that wasn’t doing well over in this B um but behind that you have more cabbage um and we have a few more collards here and then broccoli and some pretty kale in the
Back and so we also have broccoli growing over here it’s looking a little brown like I said we had some um Frost but it feels fine and then we have some pretty and I do mean pretty uh kale back here purple is my favorite color and it
Is so pretty look at it y’all and this kale plant had gotten eaten down so it’s smaller than the rest but it’s growing in the bed beside that one we have more broccoli back there and I don’t think we have any heads on it because this bed is
Shaded the bed is shaded way more than the two beds I just showed you um but we will get broccoli from that bed it’s just going to come a lot later and then we have some cabbages down here and the one that was getting eaten up is still
Getting eaten up but we’re leaving it because this one is not so like I said before it’s like a trap crop we also have collards in this bed that don’t look nearly as good as the other collars that I’ve showed you today but at the
End of the day still a collar and it’s still growing and again like I said get shaded and then you have more Corby and some Swiss chard so everything’s looking a little saggy a little sad but that’s because I’m not covering and because it is it’s freezing
At night it’s starting to freeze at night um and so when plants freeze sometimes the uh structure of the leaves are damaged and so that’s what’s happening when you see the saggy leaves but the roots as long as the roots aren’t dying the plants are going to
Keep growing um and the plants that I’m showing you they’re cold Harley they do not mind a freeze um uh well they don’t mind a frost and some of them can tolerate a freeze and so those are the things that I planted for fall so that’s
Why I made the decision to plant what is planted out here because what can survive I want it to survive because it will start to grow a quicker and faster and larger in the spring when the weather breaks again but until that time I could still get you know Harvest off
Of the plants it just won’t be as much and it won’t come as quick the other thing I don’t know if I told you all the garlic did indeed start sprouting so perhaps I need to wait even longer I waited longer than I did last year this
Year and it still started sprouting and as far as I know it should still be fine I’m not sure why mine did what it did last year as it relates to the way that it grew and it was separating early and things like that but I’m going to figure
It out um I planted a little bit later we’ll see how these go this year if they go well then we know we could plant it that time I planted them way earlier last year uh so that could have had something to do with it so we also have
This bed over here which is collards and kale um also shaded a little bit more than the other beds so you know they’re looking a little like um I don’t know they looking a little thin but the leaves are still edible and I could still eat them I can still get a
Meal out of them so I’m excited about that the bed that we had the radishes in if you remember we went ahead and put some lettuce here and I’m not too concerned about the lettuce like not being big or whatever right now because it’s fall like I said things are going
To grow slower U this is a Collard that we went ahead moved um and then those are rudaba in the back you have the carrots right here you have turnips then there’s a few more collards that I had put in so that’s what that bed is looking like and we had radishes in
There we got a nice amount of radishes we harvested a lot of radishes from that bed and I was hoping to catch this bed so that the plants that I moved into it would be able to get established so we’re still crossing our fing fingers
For that bed right um but it started to get cold and so this may not be a bed that I get a lot of harvest off and that’s okay and the last bed that we’re going to talk about today is uh the bed right when you come into the garden that
Little broccoli that we put in a while ago it’s still struggling those Dinosaur Kale didn’t do much and then this is the bed that we harvested all of our greens from for Thanksgiving so if you didn’t know greens collards kale those type of things you can do what they call cutand
Come again so you just pull the leaves and leave the plant and the plant is going to continue to grow in the middle and you’re going to continue to have the plant until you’re ready to pull it out so the blueberries they still have leaves and things on them giving off all
The pretty fall colors but by you know end of fall going into winter there won’t be many leaves on them but early spring we’ll come out here and we’ll start to see flowers hours and we will be getting blueberries so there are 1 2 3 4 five five blueberries in this row
And then there’s a blueberry over there that I moved because it was right here in this walkway and all of my bags have been covered so all of the soil in the bags and in the beds have been covered with leaves and this is how I’m going to
Protect the soil um you know in the in the winter when it starts to snow and different things like that if we get snow we don’t always get snow here but sometimes we do um it’s the same thing for the rain though so that when the rain comes down it doesn’t knock the
Soil out of the beds and you know that kind of stuff no erosion so we’re going to go inside really quick I’m going to show you the quail that are inside and then we’re probably going to end this video okay so it’s time to take care of
The quail that’s inside and I’ll show you them um they’re in totes inside and they have not gotten food or water today because I was uh I was in the bed and I went to get my nails done so we’re going to go ahead and feed them and give them
Water and so if you were here when I lifted up the bag of food for them and realized that it was chicken food you remember I said that they were small like I was wondering why were they so small and then I got the right food which is which is Gang bird
Feed and they’re getting so much bigger like they are ready to harvest they’re finally at harvestable size and I am happy about that I’m not exactly sure when I’m going to harvest them but it won’t be too much longer so I harvest them around 8 weeks normally um these of
Course will be longer because they weren’t being fed the right food and so they weren’t really growing like they were supposed to but it won’t be Long So I also never got around to getting a bigger tote but we only ended up with one like unfortunately that last batch did not you know it didn’t go well that and a lot of it was my fault so we only ended up with one he or she I can’t tell
Just yet which what it is seems just fine being able to be under the heat like that um and they love it and so I’m just gonna leave them and something I never really showed because to me they’re not a part of the homestead animals but my daughter has button
Quail they are literally just pets because I was trying to get Quail the journey to getting Quail was a lot y’all but I was trying to get Quail to uh to get eggs so that I could hatch and then I wasn’t paying attention to the post in
My area and I did not notice that it said button quail and then she wanted to keep them and so we have button quail too so another way that I grow that I didn’t even think to tell you was a Hydroponics and so we did this together
Last week I think it was last week yeah and that one has already sprouted that is a tomato in there there’s sunflowers in there and everything up here has already sprouted too some of them I’ve taken the covers off others I haven’t um because I wait until they get close to
The top of the cover before I take it off but yeah so that’s a baker’s rack and it has Hydroponics growing systems on it so now you’ve seen the indoor animals the outdoor animals and the garden I hope you enjoyed it if you did don’t forget to like share subscribe
Don’t forget to visit me over on Instagram where I post about the things going on in the garden almost every day bye y’all
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I did move my collards and planted garlic, covered with leaf mulch, they are sprouting . Hope they make it through winter.
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So my garlic has sprouted is that a bad thing? I'm confused🤣
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Looking forward to the quail harvesting video
Nice tour,tfs
Great tour!!
hello asia hope you had a geat thanksgiving love your video as always i was able to havest some collads picked the rest of my eggplants and peppers after ourr second frost in ga nam hoping the frost killed what has been eating my collards you have an amazing personality
love the video and the quail.
Great video video 😊
Love your channel Sis.
I love love love 💕 your vlog
Hello 😊! Your garden looks beautiful . cabbage looks really big , I’ve never grown cabbage before, but now I’m thinking about next season , I’m too late for this year 😅
Thank you so much for taking the time and sharing with us ❤️
Love your video. Wish I could have quail or chickens. Keep growing. 😊
I really enjoy content! You encourage me to do better with my garden. Keep up the great work!
Do you have a squirrel problem.
Your channel is so great and inspiring! Thank you so much for having such education yet fun to watch videos 🙂
Best gardening channel on the youtube. Thank you for sharing.
Nice tour, you have lots of food. 👍🏾🌱.
I am so impressed with your knowledge of caring for your animals and plants😊
What do you use as reference guides?
Sooo maybe I'm not too late putting in my garlic after all…lol. Its on this week's to-do list. (7b here as well).
Can you only eat the broccoli and cabbage heads or are the leaves (which yours look really developed) edible too?
Dad thinks it best to cut the whole collard plant and then replant collard seed in Feb/Mar. But I'm doing the cut and grow method this year. Did you get a good result last spring after letting the fall collards over winter?
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Garden Looking great
OMG PUT YOUR HAIR UP,
Hi love the video ❤ what's happening with your greenhouse , I'm curious because I'm about to purchase one
I’m curious, I’m growing onions right now and they are looking nice. I’ve seen another gardener give them ammonium sulfate to ensure they bulb. Do u do anything special to your onions ? Also for your rutabagas do you fertilize them at all ?
Hey Asia! Do you do anything with the artichoke greenery? I was wondering if they were edible. I have a beautiful artichoke plant. No head yet. Thx!
Thank you for the video! Oh, how often do you water in the winter?
Beautiful garden, thank you for informative video. It’s so motivating!
Do you have any videos about your chickens like the setup and dos and donts. Love to keep chickens but I have some reservations about it
Hey Asia, your smile is infectious. Great video. Where did you find the purple kale?
Girl! I love seeing your garden! I also love purple and NEED that kale in my life! What kind is it? Thanks!
I'm wondering if you've heard of Cossack Kohlrabi? It gets BIG and never stringy or woody – and we grew one larger than a volleyball this past year. It was SO good! I sauteed up the leaves in a stir-fry of mixed veggies and chicken and made a huge batch of cole slaw with about half cabbage and half kohlrabi that turned out well. All those greens (and purples!) are looking awesome in your garden! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Awesome
I love fall garden season the best. This Texas heat is too brutal. You have a beautiful and bountiful garden. Thanks for sharing.
Your nails and garden is beautiful.One day can you show how you process the quail? I want meat birds but scared about the process. Thank you forsharing your garden with us.😊
I just came across your channel and already in love! Also, I commented on an older “shorts” video about composting chicken 💩 but I see in this vid that you got it down pact haha! I love your space! I too am a 7a/7b zone depending on how rude the weather wants to be and living in a TN valley, weather changes every 2 days, but we’re neighbors so I am sure you understand lol. Question are quails loud? I thought about raising rabbits for meat and to compost waste in the garden. I have also started in 2020 and I have a really big yard. I do have 3 kids, 3 dogs, 6 chickens and an aviary of 3 birds lol. But once the kids start their journey on their own, that fort and trampoline are out and extending my garden haha! What are some recommendations that you have for fall/winter? I have a winter bed that I am housing herbs and a wide variety of lettuce and some radishes I plan to pickle. This is my first year of making a cold frame bed and it works pretty good! I get all day sun in my yard as well, so it is a plus! Happy gardening and thanks for sharing!
Where is the link on your heated jacket? It's not here as you said in video.
That scarlet kale is poppin' Thanks for tip on the button quail, I'm thinking about getting quail for meat birds. Thanks for sharing!
Cute quails. Your page is quite educational.
What accounts should I set up? How many videos per week?
New here. Every tried Artic King for winter hardy? I grabbed a pack from Baker Creek along with some other stuff (other than collards) for winter growing.
PS: Grew up in Williamsburg. Down in Carolina now, been for a long time.
Merry Christmas.
This is Awsome ❤
You are in the growing zone as me, I need to grow more food like you
I have a question. Do you direct sow your seeds or do transplant? A lot of my seeds that were direct sown are not moving as fast or the birds have relocated my seeds.