An Unexpected FINAL HARVEST! Setting the 2024 Homestead Garden up for Success
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- čas přidán 23. 10. 2023
- Hey Friend, its time to set the garden up for a successful 2024 growing season and put it to bed for its long winters nap. We are adding lots of high quality, organic compost and tidying up the beds. There is a frost fast approaching so everything that can be harvested is coming inside. There was one harvest in particular that was super surprising and fun!
Thanks for joining us,
Kelsey
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Beautiful harvest and garden! I love that your kids are out with you picking fruit and playing.
Thank you ☺️ they are my garden babies ❤️
Yes! You can totally take the full trusses of green cherry tomatoes inside and hang them to ripen. I hung all of mine from an old coat tree last year and called it my winter tomato tree. 😁 I would go into that room every few days and harvest all the ones that had turned red and was left with very few green ones by the time they were done.
Awesome! Thank you!. Its fun going to the basement and having a "produce" department 😆
I remember when my kids were little if they were dirty….they were happy. Good memories!!!!
This is true for my kids! Happiest when dirty 😂
Happy 6th Birthday Eleanor! 🎂🎈🎁
Aww thank you!! 🤍
Grant always steals the show
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I love both your children but Grant is at that age you just fain love with.
Happy birthday, Eleanor. Hope it was special.
@@judygillespie3242 🤍🤍🤍
That road noise would make me crazy-er.
Your content is great and the kidos fun to see them helping and playing.
I cannot wait for the day we can live away from a noisy road!!!
Immature loofahs are edible. The green tomatoes make excellent salsa verde. Typically you pull peanuts after the first frost or the leaves have turned yellow.
I’m from MI (zone 6A/5B) and we had our first frost Sunday night. At around 9 PM Sunday I saw that the temp outside was 33! I ran outside and gathered all the tomatoes I could. In a way I’m ready for winter. The deer have decimated our garden so I gave up on our fall garden a while ago. Our plan is to expand our garden next spring and put in a fence. I’m so excited! I have my MIgardener wishlist ready to go for 11/1 when his 2024 seeds go live. Do you have plans on a 2023 garden recap video? If not, I’d love to know what did well/not so well in your garden and what you’d plant again. Great video Kelsey and happy belated birthday Eleanor 🥳
I’m ready for winter too, I think 😂 I’m just ready for slow. That is so exciting for next years garden! I need to go do my wishlist too, ahhh I love this part. The dreaming and planning while it’s cold. Yes! I’ll be doing a garden recap and plans for next year! Thank you so much friend 🤍
The absolute audible matched energy I had with you when you pulled that peanut plant! My cat looked at me funny when I exclaimed **gasp** “You grew peanuts!! Haha that’s so cool” along with you 😅
THANK YOU! I'm so glad someone shared in my excitement!
I loved when you dug the nuts and said " That is nuts" HAHA! Love the excitement that Eleanor had over the beautiful colors of the raspberries and how Grant was messing in the mower, but didnt want to drive it! I grow Sweet Annie every year, it is my very favorite scent in the whole world. If you can cut them when the flowers are yellow the scent is just amazing! Oh the mountain in the background! I am still looking daily for something close to Gettysburg, but oh those prices! My garden was done the end of Sept and I sure do miss the extra grow season! Thank you for sharing everything with us. Blessings!
Wow!! I have never seen peanuts harvested. That is soooooo neat!!
Yes here in the south we leave the peanuts lying on the ground for a couple of days then bring them inside to finish curing on the plant.
Now I know! We'll see if these turn out!
Your garden put to bed looks fantastic! I tried peanuts this year also - just for fun. I had a huge pest problem and the one bucket I tried just didn't make it. I know that all the Florida farmers around here pull the peanut plants to expose the peanuts to dry right in the rows before they bring them out of the fields. We had gotten a huge batch years ago and laid the pulled plants on picnic tables inside our fenced in yard to dry. It also would have worked well BUT our hog of a horse decided to jump the fence and EAT THEM ALL! He of, course, got foundered and my husband walked him all night in the rain keeping him from rolling and getting his intestines knotted up. Come morning, our hog horse was just fine and didn't try to roll - amazing. He also ate a 50 lb bag of molded dog feed by pawing at the closed shed door but he managed to pull through that also. I thought you may want to know about drying the raw peanuts. If you plan on boiling them, you may not need to dry them first (like they do potatoes and onions) since they will be boiled but I know nothing about that. I know you need to roast them in order to make into peanut butter but haven't done that either. Bugs and a hog/horse prevented any trials I planned before giving up completely. LOL Loved your video today - experimenting has it's downfalls but is so exciting and I love to watch you try new things. Your kitchen will l look so very pretty with the hanging beauty. Have you ever done things with calendula? I found a bottle of dried flowers while cleaning up today - had planned on having more but I can't seem to grow it well - maybe it is the Florida heat. Anyway, I dried the flower petals and bought some carrier oil but now need to do my research. You are a wonderful instigator!
Sorry I was too enthralled by the purple overalls!! I love anything purple!! LOL!!
While watching this video, I was canning swisschard! My family loves the mildness of this particular green. I even had a 3 year old child in my childcare request swisschard pizza on our menu again before we get a frost! Can you believe it, nearly the end of October here in Central Maine and we still haven't had a frost!! I believe our first anticipated one is around November 02 this year!!! Years ago, I lost a garden to a heavy frost at the end of August!!! I am amazed at all you do in the garden, in your home, in food preservation, for your family. You provide an incredible inspiration through your thoughtful and peaceful presentations. Thank you Kelsey. Blessing and continued prayers for good health.
Aw thank you so much! I truly appreciate your kind words of encouragement 🤍 Too funny about the Swiss chard, it is a power house of nutrients. It always makes me smile hearing little one choose the good stuff ☺️ Blessings friend 🤍
Im from New Holland, PA. And we live on almost half an acre. Thanks for all your tips and such.
Hey there! My pleasure, thank you for watching!
You mentioned a cookhouse. Is that like an outdoor kitchen/BBQ area? Thank you. And happy birthday Eleanor.
Love seeing all your dried flowers! Your channel is informative, inspirational, and calming. I watch while getting my work completed. My favorite is the calming music along w work. And loving your recipes 💕. Have a blessed day with your family
Thank you so much! I appreciate the encouragement. Blessings 🤍
Loved this a great unexpected Harvest. xxx
I woke up monday morning and I had frost. I marked it on my calendar and I am ready for winter. Zone 6b Michigan
Friend, I’m ready for winter too!
I grow peanuts for peanut butter but I also boil them. I’m from Georgia, it’s basically a law that I boil them 😂
LOL, ok so how does one eat a boiled peanut? As is or is boiled for a use in certain ways? Can you tell I’m not from the South? 😂
@@seedandsparrowhomestead lol, soak them in the shell for 8 hrs or overnight. Drain them, stick em in a crockpot with some salt or some cajun seasoning -I would try salted first - about a 1/2 Tbs per cup of nuts. Cook them on low for 6-8 hours, your looking for soft but not mushy peanuts so start checking them after 6 hrs. Let them cool a little then crack the soft shells open with your teeth, suck out the juice then open it up and eat the peanut. Good stuff 😀
Wow! I need to grow peanuts!! So fun! I’d love more info on how you’re going to do it and how you use them!
Our everbearing raspberries are still turning red right now, it’s 10/26/23! Once it frosts, hard, they’ll stop. We’ve got 47 plants - there are hundreds of white ones out there yet. I hope yours keep going 😊
Your Dahlias are gorgeous! I quit growing them here in northern Michigan, I’m too lazy to dig them up every year. They do not survive in my zone, which the USDA says is 6a.
My granddaughters best friend loves dinosaurs too. Like shes crazy about them. She will be 17 soon! So, don't be surprised if this never changes! I think its awsome.
So cool! Eleanor can name just about every dinosaur there is and it amazes me. I’ll take the dinosaurs over all the silliness out there today! 🤍
Your Dahlias are gorgeous❣️
Thank you ☺️
Don’t stop growing the chard. Feed it to the chickens and the bunny! My animals love it.
They did enjoy it! Thats a good thought, perhaps it will stay!
Tulip bulbs here in 7b, are considered an Annual...have to replant every year.
They come back for me each year and multiply!
They do need cold enough temps over the winter in order to produce a bloom, so I’m assuming that’s why they work for me in 6 ☺️
Your dahlias are beautiful; especially more meaningful because my parents live on Dahlia Street.😂
Thank you, and how fun!
thanks for sharing
I'm in SE PA!!!
Pineapple sage is an annual in zone 6..
Good to know! I may try and bring it inside and see if I can keep it going!
Happy Birthday, Eleanor!
Thank you 🤍🤍🤍
I think I learn something in every video. You’ve inspired me to work on my own garden.
Yay! That’s awesome, blessings 🤍🤍☺️
Happy birthday to your little one❤🎉 wonderful harvest👍
Thanks so much! 🤍
I take in trusses of tomatoes and have pretty good results. Some of the smaller, less developed tomatoes don’t fair so well but even 80% is good enough.
That’s what I figured, some of the small ones looked underdeveloped but how fun to continue picking tomatoes from the basement 😂
Happy birthday, Eleanor. Congratulations on your peanut success. TFS
Thank you so much!
Happy birthday Eleanor! I love Grants jibber jabber in the background!
Thank you!! 😊
Happy Birthday
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I have tulsi and blue spice basil pop up all over the place but since I drink tulsi daily, I’m okay with that.
Same and same! I love tulsi ❤️
Happy Birthday Eleanor. I love your videos and always look forward to the next one. I hope you do a video for the elecampane tincture.
Thank you so much ☺️ I’ll be sure to include all my tincture making over the fall and winter 🤍
Wow, your dahlias are so stunning!
Give me all the dahlias! 🤍🤍🤍
I put my garden to bed last night. Just need to put my mint in the ground (out of buckets) so they don't freeze to death . we're expecting hard freezes 4 consecutive nights next week. I'm actually sort of relieved it's done. I'm tired.
Friend, me too. Just tired and ready for change
Great video.i absolutely love your garden, and all the flowers, so pretty. It was chilly here this morning as well -9C (15.8F) I scored a big load of two year old manure so I am very excited about that. Anyways take care 🌷
Thank you! I share your excitement in getting the manure! How awesome 😎
Who knew you could grow peanuts in your area! Congratulations!
Thank you! I’m still so excited about it, even if I messed it up 😂
Your garden is just beautiful! I might have to try peanuts next year, I’m in zone 8b. I had to dig my dahlias up in September because the deer were eating all of the leaves off and I didn’t have any flowers. So I just put them in 5 gallon buckets in my garden which is fenced. I was worried without leaves the tubers would die. They have leaves now and even some blooms. I’m going to store them and then put a fence around them for next year. Keep up the great work. 😊
Thank you! The peanuts may have been a garden highlight for me! I think I want to expand my dahlia collection next year, I'm hooked. Blessings
Beautiful dahlias! Can you provide the names of them please? So glad I found your channel ❤
Thank you! I wish I could but I don’t know them, they were a dahlia mix from Walmart I got in the spring ☺️
Have you ever thought about entering your dahlias in the state fair competition? They are gorgeous!
Thank you! I honestly haven't. I have had a few locals tell me to enter my produce, flowers and canned goods! Perhaps one day :)
What a productive few days you had in the garden! I’ve had this fascination with peanuts too! I so felt your joy when you pulled the plants up! 🧡 I’ve got peanuts on the wish list for next year but towards the bottom of the priority list. Creating space for more medicinal herbs is highest on the list. I have a Tabasco plant still in the garden with peppers on it. I didn’t know you could bring in the whole plant 😮 but I’ll have to do that and see if they’ll ripen. My cayenne peppers have all been harvested so I won’t worry about that but I sure appreciate knowing this for next year. Great unexpected harvest and clean up in the garden.
Have a blessed week.
Happy 🎈 Birthday 🎂Elenor! 🥳🦕 🦖
Thank you! Oh how fun, I have medicinal herbs as priority next year! I'm starting a wish list over at Strictly Medicinal Seeds as I research what I want to add. Matt and I are both planning to take an herbalism course this winter and get into foraging! Blessings friend 🤍🤍🤍
@@seedandsparrowhomestead I love hearing that you and Matt are both doing the class. Foraging for the herbs creates a whole new adventure as well as great outdoor fun. This summer I signed up for classes that I can work thru at my own speed. I’ve been thinking that my ‘winter to do list’ may be getting a little out of control lol. Bless you sweet Kelsey. 🩷
@@cherylpresleigh6403 I'm so excited that he wants to do it with me! We both love this lifestyle but struggled with finding a common interest in it. Its going to be so much fun learning with him! Also, I feel ya on the winter to do list getting out of control... it may not be the "slow season" after all.
@@seedandsparrowhomestead Exactly my thoughts every time I hear someone say they’re looking forward to some down time…I’m certain I’ve said it myself lol but then I see the ever growing list and pile of books 🤦♀️.
I understand the struggle to find the common interest. My husband and I have been married for 42 years. He is a very hard worker and helps me outside a lot! I couldn’t do it without him. But his involvement is more about supporting me, and appreciating what comes from the work and not about it being his passion. He doesn’t dislike the lifestyle he is just one of those guys that goes with the flow, diving in and supporting me along the way. I make the to-do list and he comes alongside and makes it happen.
🤗 consider yourself hugged.
I was watching you cut your gorgeous pepper plants and saying no!! Why didn't you over winter those gorgeous plants? Watch pepper geek. He has an easy way not to loose those plants.
I have in the past! I’m not sure I’m growing peppers anymore though, I can’t have nightshades at the moment and my family doesn’t eat much of them! I have so much preserved I’m not sure I’ll need to grow any next year unless something changes.
In the South we boil green peanuts, so I'm pretty sure those will work out for that. I've never grown or dried raw peanuts, but it seems like what you're doing would work.
We are gonna find out 😂 I’ll keep everyone posted ☺️
PEANUTS!!! That’s so amazing, how did you plant them or get starts from? I 1,000% feel you on the cómo😂I bought rutabagas, so many radish seeds, and all the popular varieties because I want to be like all the other girls. Lol.
I am zone 6b on the shore of Lake Ontario, western NY. I have my pineapple sage up against my house facing east. It is an annual for up north but it seems every other year I do have luck overwintering. In my case, it may be that the house foundation adds just enough warmth.
Good to know, thank you for the info. I may put in a pot and keep it in our cookhouse over the winter. We shall see if it comes back :)
I let mine bloom for the late hummingbirds
I love dahlias. I'm trying to decide if i want to try to let mine start in the ground and take a chance or dig them up. I really don't have a good place to store them.
I’m just wrapping them up and putting them in the basement!
Would the plants hold their colour when their freezedried? They look so pretty
ohhh thats a thought! Perhaps I'll try that, thank you!
Swiss chard isn’t bad in soups and omelets but I get it. I don’t use it much myself because I can use kale instead.
Exactly, we love kale! I’d rather grow more kale personally ☺️
Freeze dry those flowers that will turn brown and they might stay the original color
I need to try that!! Thanks 😊
What is the name of the raspberry plants. I want to plant in the spring. I am in central pa.
Also you said your pantry is in the basement. Do you find it is too warm for your can goods.
The red are Joan J, the yellow are Anne and the pink are called Double Gold. We do keep the pantry in the basement and we have a coal stove. I haven’t had any issues with canned goods but but it’s not good for squash or root veggie storage! Those I keep in a closet upstairs ☺️
Do you have a freeze dry machine that you recommend? I’m interested in getting one but they seem to be astronomical? Would love your input!
I have a Medium size Harvest Right with a Premier pump. You’re right, they are astronomically priced but can be worth it. I have a lot of produce coming in and it is a great aid in preservation for me! Takes a lot of the work away from me resulting in more time and a better preserved product. If you like to prep food it will pay for itself in no time compared to buying the emergency freeze dried food online! You do have to consider though, if you are really just using it to preserve food to eat in the short term how you will use that food. It’s a mindset shift, knowing how to use it and considering the time to rehydrate and the texture differences. Any specific questions let me know! ☺️
Have you considered eating the immature luffa? I know they are edible, but I’m curious if they would be good. Lol
I have not, we had surplus of zucchini so there just wasn’t a need, I have heard however that they taste like a zucchini and cucumber combined, not good raw but sautéed is pleasant ☺️
People have enjoyed loofah in dishes for thousands of years. While the loofah is referred to as a fruit or gourd - it can also be enjoyed as a vegetable. ⁴ Loofahs are part of the cucumber family and can be cooked like squash, boiled, sauteed, pickled, or even eaten raw.
So this is probably a dumb question, but as this is the first year that I have really been serious about my garden, expanded it and even planted a fall garden, I have no idea what it means when it’s your first frost date. Is that when the temperature dips below 32° like what is the first frost? Because it’s been getting into the upper 40s here at night😅
You got it! First frost is the first temp of 32 in the Fall and typically when most everything will die, except for a few frost hardy plants.
Also, no question is dumb!
Where are your gloves young lady? 😅😅😅. Take care and be blessed.
LOL, I don’t do gloves usually, I like to feel my hands in the dirt plus it’s good for you!
I think you should at least try to just cover those raspberries at night for a little longer. I bet you could get at least one more maybe two harvest before winter
Thats a good thought! I might do that if I can find the material.
Are you Amish?
Definitely not! Curious what made you think that? They have a very specific way of dressing. We do live in Amish Country!
@@seedandsparrowhomestead when you were talking to your little cutie pie while in the garden a couple times you ended your sentence to him in the form of a question an it reminded me of another you tuber I use to follow she phrased her sentences the same at times🤷🏻♀️I no longer follow her not because she Amish I find their way of life very admirable she was just a very hyper person or she seemed to be an I came away very nervous sometimes just listening to her!🤣I think that’s one reason I like you so much your videos are very soothing!❤️
Your garden look unorganized & messy..why don't you use wooden plots for all your planting bedding..so that it's easy to control the weed.@ grass..at the border of the bedding you can make a walking path with small stone so that the grass will not so fast growing in thar area..it also can make the view of your garden clean & beautiful..btw..i love you watch your video anyway..😊😊keep it up..standby for the winter soon
Everyone has their own style, I like a bit more whimsy and natural flow to my gardens. Cottage gardens hold my heart. I also like practicing different methods of gardening as well, like no dig in ground planting. I'm not a big fan of clean lines and order, give me wild and free lol.
Love that it's unorganized, as you say. Nature just grows where the seeds come up. I myself like her style .
@@judygillespie3242 Thanks friend 🤍
It’s nice for you to voice an opinion. However please remember not everyone has the same one. My garden is scruffy and overgrown but I’ll get to it I work full time. You garden your way and we’ll garden ours.
@judygillespie3242 I agree! Her garden is spectacularly wild with flowers, herbs, berries and vegetables and I love it! ❤
Love the Texas buckets
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