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Is Lamb, a boy or girl⁉️

This reminds me of A Christmas Romance (1994)

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It’s been a crap year for tomatoes for many down here. They were stunted and very early blight from all the rain. It’s hard to say which I would try again. I like the Prairie fire, but they tend to have black spots if not picked early-blight? One I will always grow is Super Sauce as they are huge. Didn’t matter if they were hybrid or not as they all suffered, but SS fared better. Got enough to preserve and not the taste and quality I normally have. Most everything else did well including the purple beans which are still climbing and on a 4th picking, some by ladder 😅. Hope I find a best slicer soon. I think true tomato flavor is getting lost. Maybe go back to oxhearts and Brandywine. The yellow ones are Yuck! Yes, some of these varieties are difficult to tell when ripe but generally if soft they are ripe. And I also liked the German Johnson, large like mortgage lifter. Will try Steak Sandwich and Bodacious again. In 2012 we had drought and got oxheart from local farm market and they did very well and great flavor. The rain this year watered down the flavors. Getting preservation done as I’m not looking forward to 105 heat index Sunday and glad it’s short lived.

It sounds like a smart decision to scale back a bit and focus on what’s the most important. 😊

Haven’t been able to get out in the garden down here because of the mosquitoes and too humid and hot to cover up with long sleeves, ect. Just read there was a couple West Nile Virus cases in the state. Yes, next year I’m cutting back on certain vegetables also. It’s been too wet for tomatoes in my garden but most everything else is fine. I can imagine too much running to market eats up time.

Can we pick them small to have more squashes, will they ripen off the vine?

Can I freeze them and put into a spaghetti sauce? I’m a brand new gardener

Your garden your rules do what works for you, Ali 🌞🇨🇦

I used to always prune the large leaves, as you’re doing now. Then, I learned that I should be pruning the suckers instead!?! Now, I think it all depends on what your purposes are, what your climate is like, what your forecast is, and if you are praying daily! 😊

Question in regards to your timer. How many times a day are you watering your mums and on average for how long?

Would you recommend this chicken tractor after having it for a couple years?

We prune exactly the same way & have amazing production. We also grow in a greenhouse. We do not use a shade cloth at all on our tunnel. Only on certain beds of greens for obvious reasons. Do what works for you. I feel like we get advice from others in different zones that don't really understand our climate.

It’s not been a good year for tomatoes because of too much rain. Everyone has to do their own thing that works for their garden. I’ve heard pepper growers say they’ve quit topping peppers. The theory is it holds back growth and you may get more, but smaller peppers. Depending on length of season I suppose this might work. My experience with tomatoes outside is they would sunburn by that much pruning. Pruning out side shoots lessens production. Pruning off side growth will make them grow taller. I prune for air flow and that’s about it. The single leader sunburned. What is happening this year is the blight showed up 3 weeks early and it always was the first week of August. Stout vigorous growth has been delayed also. Too much rain, not enough sun/heat. And the mosquitoes are preventing me from tending things. I think what I’ve seen in single leader like you have is they use a line with a pulley and start lowering the vine. All this depends on length of growing season. As we head into fall we top the upper growth so the plant concentrates on growing and ripening the final remaining tomatoes. I just hope to get a big enough crop to can.

This was posted about 3 weeks after July 4th.

It looks so refreshing! 💦

Love the cow videos, please do more!❤ Also, great idea using the skidder to move hay bales, keep up the hard work!

You could paint the fridge door with chalk paint, and then change out your "sign" as needed.

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Thank you for the video, very helpful. Do you have any pests that love your mums? If so, how do you treat them?

I think I may not be letting my Atomics get fully ripe. I am going to try to keep them on longer this year to see. A tip someone told me for the Barry's crazy cherry is to wait until the stem / flower part at the top of the tomato turns from green to yellow. I have been waiting for it to turn yellow for the past couple years before picking and seems to be the trick. Also, I do not prune my cherry tomatoes. They start slower but you get a lot more production. I've tested 2 identical plants side by side and got triple the harvest of the plant that was not pruned. I know everyone in video's say to prune but I will never do it again after testing and my preference. Hope that helps.

I just stumbled across your channel, you have a beautiful farm!

Nasturtiums 😅 the boat looked Great! I don’t even have nasturtiums blooming yet. Oh, you started them inside, that’s why. We have had WAY too much rain down here and mosquitoes are crazy! Not sure if we will have tomatoes as they just aren’t growing very well. Maybe they are ok, I can’t remember, but thought they should be bigger. The potatoes seem to be maxed out and they were huge and a handful of beetles this year, but we dug a collapsed hill and the potatoes are small. Just too much rain. I wouldn’t be able to keep up with pruning tomatoes especially trying to wear a head net and sweating all dressed up for mosquito protection. It’s not pleasant. It’s tuff to figure out fertilizer with so much rain in sandy soil. Can’t use liquid as they have too much water already. Things were looking lime green and used bloodmeal and other granular fertilizer and they look better. An earlier storm rearranged some plants. Thanks for showing your plants as it helps me to understand how big mine should be. It’s something you can’t find pictures of too easily. I was getting a bit worried we wouldn’t get a harvest, but I think maybe ok now. I am happy I planted more hybrids with fungus issues this year. The hollyhocks got rust and will need to get rust resistant varieties I guess as it’s bad. I used copper to help control it yesterday as we had a rare sunny day. Mildew was starting on bee balm also. It will be a struggle I think to get some plants through this year. We’ve had possum digging under garden fence, but bug pressure has been low. I think after the loads of mosquitoes and no sun with all this rain I’m liking the drought better-To a point😉. We are just under 32” of rain since March and our annual is 37” 😮. I bet you’re happy to have pasture back this year!

Thanks for the update. Your place is looking great!!

That's cruel to stick straw up its nose, like really. The calf was doing fine without that nonsense! That was not necessary in this case!

When you grow thos flowers from seed do you have to pay a royalty to then sell them? Or are all these non-patented varieties?

He was a nice dog. I had a friend try and give me one of his Pyrenees dogs one time but I read up and found out they have about a 5-mile range and I didn't need a dog to protect farm animals since we haven't had any since our daughter moved out and on her own. We used to have a female named Tasha that was 1/2 Newfoundland and 1/2 American Malamute. She was so big! 139 pounds and she would not stay in the barn even is we locked her in. She would get out and get bred. She was 10 when she got hit by a car. She had a bad habit of walking down the middle of the road. The problem was, she was deaf and did not hear anything coming up behind her. I hope you guys can get him back to his owner.

I just looked at garden journal and I cut scapes on the 7th, so we are 2 weeks ahead of your growing season in Z5a. So we had some of ours in a stir fry with shrimp over rice. I gave some away and chopped and froze the rest. The mosquitoes could carry us away. Only thing I can figure is there must be some low puddles somewhere or neighbors need to dump holding water. Others say they are thick elsewhere, yet today I was higher up on a hillside and didn’t see a one. Maybe you don’t have them so much yet because your area is still playing catch up with the drought.

Who doesn't love maintenance free and drama free, that's my type of crop! Do you fertilize your garlic at all? Thanks

Nice! Please continue to post these types of videos…I’m pretty successful at growing things…I need more info on marketing and selling!

I seen the cold dropping down in NW and yes, freezing can happen in June even down here in WI. It’s disheartening when that happens and it’s nail biting. Good thing you had cool weather plants mostly. They say to make sure plants are watered before freeze as the water gives off heat. It’s that last hour usually before sunrise the temps drop drastically. Hope all is well. So this was back on the 10th and it’s now the 17th and I’m sure the heat is on. I couldn’t take the humidity and heat at 8:30 And the mosquitoes!!😮 We have a young orchard. Had a ton of blossoms and it was freezing that week and we have ONE plum 😠 and 3 apples. If you want a good berry plant a ton of honey berries as they are tuff and SO delicious!! Your plants are about 2 weeks behind my Z5a down here. Irises are done. I wanted to let you know there could be some rocking storms in your area all through to the weekend and have things tied down especially the high tunnel. I’ve been in some storms at my in-laws cabin over a few decades near Sarona and we had no basement-bit scary. Just watched Max Velocity if you want to checkout what he is forecasting.

Thank you for the info!

Owen! Thank you so much for teaching me!!!!

I’m having trouble figuring out fert for injector and hand watering Any suggestions And what injector are you using? I’m patterning my pumpkins and mum sales after watching your last three years. 😊

Looking forward to watching the little birds nest ❤

Don’t know if you’re working between storms like down here, but it feels good to get things checked off the list. In the last 2 weeks we’ve had probably 10” of rain. Cooler the rest of week they say and things are really going to take off.

Lol, your face on the video was so serious! Hope you don’t get frost. I’m hoping we are out of frost but in my life I’ve seen frost in June down here. I just came in to eat and I am so hoping to get those flowers in as another storm is brewing tonight into Tuesday it sounds like. It’s difficult to harden off plants when they have to get under cover or drown. I left them out for storm yesterday and they are wet. Hey, I’m not complaining about rain as I have a feeling it might be a dry June. I just emptied rain tanks Friday also because it was dry even though we had 5” the week before. Look forward to seeing results of wool pellets.

Good morning and thank you for the explanation of how the pellets work. Did you say you make your own? I have seen them for sale locally but wasn't quite sure what the advantage to using them was. With all the compost from your livestock, is there any advantage to using pellets vs. composted chicken litter or cow manure?

What is the brand you used in this video?

Hi! Isn’t it “Gai-lar-dia”? We have a lot of it here, and it likes to re-seed itself and take over the yard. But, it’s beautiful when you “weed out” the ones you don’t want. At least, that’s how prolific it is here in our climate. Thanks for the tour. I wish my garden was as far along as yours!

😂I’m so far behind there’s not much to it😂. We all are or feel we are because things have advanced because of warm weather this spring. The Mock Orange is already blooming and it should about mid June. It’s throwing me off. Nice fluffy pink tulip! The gaillardia/blanket flower will self seed nicely and if you really want something to spread plant poppies 😂oh Wow! Your tomatoes are more advanced than mine as it’s been cold and now the heat is instantly on! 🥵. We just had 5” of rain last week and you can’t tell the difference as I’m watering already. The drip irrigation helps a lot but need to call company and ask questions about length of zones. Well back to work as I’m trying to get plants in before possible rain once the sun goes down. They say could be bad storms by Tuesday. It’s been a really nice spring start except for freezes during plums blooming and I have ONE plum. You’re not behind it’s the world speeding up.

Does the neem oil kill or just prevent?

Good morning! Just found your channel, everything looks really nice there, I'm sure everyone is happy to be out on pasture again.

Yes! It’s such a busy time for those of us who are obliged to squeeze in a lot of gardening/farming into a relatively short amount of time. But, we do it, and we love it! Thanks for sharing your late Spring/early Summer. 🌱🐑

Omg I've been searching for a video exactly like this for days!!! Thank you for posting and telling us where to find the tank. I can't wait to start my off grid journey. I close on 5 acres at the end of June. It's not much but its a start

Yes! I bought Promix BX and huge difference. What breed of meat bird? Do you send out to be processed? Did you use poultry wire to contain them? We have a bakers dozen, but husband named them so I guess they are pets, Lol. I thought you had a large vent fan in high tunnel. Been busy down here also. Planted out what we needed and gave the rest of veg seedlings away to people in need. Filled a truck and they still didn’t take all away 😅. Had to do something as stuffing them back in GH wasn’t an option with all the rain this week. 5” at least this week and last summer was only 3.5”. We must be out of the drought by now, will see Thursday with new report. Next year I should know exactly what varieties I will stay with in tomatoes and peppers and cut back. Only so I can add more flowers😅. Our tulips were done a week ago and peony is about to bloom and irises are well underway. Yours will be booming soon! A word about hostas. I’ve been trying to get rid of them for a while and it’s almost impossible because one piece of root and they take off. They are invading the lawn. Enjoy the spring as it’s been a nice one so far. Not complaining about rain, but the peppers are a bit lime green and want sun.

This lady should get someone to give her some proper instruction.

Thanks for the great tour and encouragement!