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Hello there!

Thank you so much. Hopefully we will get the forecasted rain this evening.

I have never used pesticides or fertilizers in any of my gardens over the past 40 years. Pesticides are what is destroying our honeybee populations and other necessary insects. It also poisons the soil and can destroy water supplies. Take for example locations in Wyoming with high nitrates in their soil and water supply causing reverse osmosis filtration in order to use their water supply. There are large beet farms in Wyoming and loads of pesticides and fertilizers are used. What use is it to keep growing and shortening the life of your soil and water by continuing to use products that we know are destroying future crops and killing pollinators. Companion planting, strategic planting, and physical vigilance is the best preventative. We just have to many decades of testing, education, and examples. There are years of my crops every year here on the channel to see how things went in prior years. Of course, you are entitled to your opinion and your method of doing things.

@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead You just like me have a choice to make. If none of us choose to use a safe pesticide on what we choose to grow then what can happen is our herbs, or plants, or tress can be eaten and maybe die. Our food could also end up being eaten, or maybe contaminated as well, and only we can blame ourselves, for not caring, and trying to protect what we choose to grow. The point of using pesticide is to rappel insects, and hopefully animals from eating our plants, and food, and this includes pollinators. Truthfully speaking pollinators are not needed to grow food. I could manually pollinate a plant because I spent my time learning how to pollinate a plant, so I do not need any pollinators. I can explain how a human is able to pollinate plants. It's not difficult to do, but it looks like to me you lack knowledge in agriculture then what I suggest you do is not try to pollinate what you grow.

@@knowledgeandmultiskilled you and I will not agree on this stance you have. There is no denying the fact that poison leaches into soil and examples have been made. Now, when you say "safe" pesticides...only if they are natural and organic, such as Neem, Diatomaceous Earth, etc. Insects breathe through their skin. You can dust your Brassicas with pot ash, Diatomaceous Earth, even flour, and it will work to repel insects and kill what is already on there. But, I am pretty researched on chemical pesticides and they are not good.

@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead You don't know what my perspective of pesticide is, and you have no clue about what I am thinking of. Yes, insects will not like it, and probably animals as well, but it will not harm the soil. It will not even harm insects. It will just turn them off from approaching whatever I choose to grow.

@@knowledgeandmultiskilled I am pretty sure that I know your perspective on pesticide with this statement you made "I think that can turn out to become a mistake to not use pesticide." You also made a statement about use of fertilizer and compost. If you had noticed in any of my other videos, I mentioned that the only fertilizers that I choose to use on occasion is compost AND fish fertilizer, only if it is all natural. I welcome conversation and growth through knowledge, research, and having an open mind with critical thinking skills, but I will not tolerate accusations, assumptions, or flat out insults.

I'm not sure what sort of response you expect here, but this is your response...You do you. You are not me. I am not you.

The Master Gardening program can be helpful to learn more techniques and understand what makes plants do what they do. It is mostly information about understanding the foundation of plants, planting, conservation, etc.

Howdy from Missouri!

We got a LOT of rain when we moved here for a good 2 months. It just stopped about a week ago really. We did end up getting some rain earlier today. Not sure how much, but it was enough to soak the garden.

I've seen some wonderful gardening video's coming out of Australia. Self Sufficient Me is the channel, he's awesome.

Thank you. We have been busting our tails on getting the garden in and seeing what all we can do with the acreage. But...put up our feet and relax? Never! LOL...

Thank you!

@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead you're welcome

These are extensions to our garden.

He definitely comes back with a stained mouth and stained hands from all the picking and eating.

@@marka6719 nothing like free grub

@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead ha ha ha

Hello there!

I have a field full of wild ones and I have a few to plant of domestic ones.

I make the cut where the limb joins to the main stem and try to get part of the joint. That helps it to root better.

Yes, it is.

Thank you. I've been fearing that we were way behind, but I'm still planting. Plus, I'm starting seeds for Fall crops pretty soon. We are working our tails off.

I would have to take a few parasol's to make some shade for Plunger, but he does have shade down in the pasture under the trees and also in the barn. Surprisingly, in the barn is the coolest.

Thank you! Working hard on it.

I am hoping so.

I am going to try to. He goes into the pasture sometimes and lays under the trees.

Thank you. We just picked up another 16 Barred Rock chicks yesterday evening. 50% off at our local Tractor Supply.

Hello there!

Thank you and yes, you're right, once it is in, it's easier to maintain it. I'm trying to not let it get overwhelming, but I think we left overwhelming months ago. LOL.

I have stored mine both with and without bands on and never had any issues whatsoever in over 30 years of canning. My Mother and Grandmother always left their bands on as well for many years prior to that. Thank you for the suggestion.

Exploding! Pretty much everything I have planted has been up within a few days. Corn and beans were up in 4 days. Potatoes up in 5 days. Rutabaga, Collards, and Beets were quite actually up overnight. My tomatoes have already adjusted and growth is happening within a few days. Same with the peppers. However, I've had a little issue with a pocket gopher. It snatched a couple of cantaloupe plants, but I think it moved on. So, I replanted. My squash were up within 3 days. It's crazy the amount of germination speed here. It would take sometimes 21 days for corn and beans to come up in Cheyenne.

Thank you! We had a surprise this morning that I will be making a video about very soon. Hint: It involves an entire farm.

Yes, I have. It works great. I give it a little extra kneading after the dough cycle and then just bake it as I would if I were not using the machine.

@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead I’ve used it on dough cycle, it’s great!

@@gracechen7615 That is awesome!!! I knew it would be.

@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead I want to try using the dough cycle fully where I will take the dough out just for the final shaping but I’m unclear how this would turn out or how long it will take.

Can you make cannabis infused bread?

Thank you for subscribing! That would be awesome if you check out the prior videos. It has been a change moving from Cheyenne WY to Missouri, but we LOVE it.

Yes Ma’am. I bet it is a change. We look forward to catching up with y’all’s journey. If your ever in SW Missouri stop in and say howdy.

Thank you for the compliment. We nearly came to Southern Missouri after seeing Living Traditions Homestead. We looked at the property they had up for sell. Somehow we ended up here in Milan, Missouri.

Thank you Sandi. I need to update my address with you. We have been exhausted every day from doing everything we're doing creating this homestead. Creating fences is a whole new one for me! Wow, your hair is growing so fast again!

@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead please do!!! and I am so excited for you and this new adventure.

I had a strawberry tower, just be careful using these "garden towers", the strawberries sometimes just won't overwinter in them. They get colder than in ground or in a converted kiddie pool.

I LOVE converting kiddie pools. So much space, they get warmer, faster, and they stay warmer longer so they extend your season slightly.

Me too! The view is absolutely the best we've ever had. Happy gardening to you as well.

That's what I keep saying, but I also remember we're already behind for the new gardening season in Missouri.

@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead life is a challenge you push forward. Remember your always chasing the the sun you lose it at night but it comes back in the morning.

Thank you for the tip. He has broken out twice now. We have found out that he wanders about a bit and then comes home for his evening food. Now he hasn't tried it again. I guess he just needed to get used to the place.

Thank you! We are LOVING it.

Always!

Turned out I didn't need one.

There are things that I will miss about Cheyenne WY and there will always be the 9 years of growing experience that I have there. Everything I attempted there I found a way to make it work. There will be a lot of footage of the new homestead. We may be a little slower than some of the bigger homesteading channels, but there will be progress.

That's good to know. Looks like they blanket a few different brands. Anchor Hocking is completely separate, however, and I've started using a lot of their jars.

Glad I could give an honest impression and help along a decision.

It is really windy in Cheyenne which is more damaging on plants than anything else, in my opinion. There is a lot of Wyoming that is being purchased by folks like Bill Gates. Rare Earth minerals have been discovered in the mines near Gillette which can cause complications to obtaining property there. I'm glad we did not end up in that area now. Basin, Wyoming is one of the most fertile growing areas with warmer soil temperatures and far less wind. The land there can be really expensive. It takes a lot of research on the wind corridor, etc.