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Let's start Monday off with a grand 'ol garden tour. I hope you enjoy (and learn lots from my mistakes!).
I found out about "Zanfel" for poison ivy from the Paul Harvey show. Saved my face, literally! It is pricey but worth every penny because it was a miracle worker! Best wishes and God bless you and yours!❤
I live on the east coast of Canada and have been picking Sweet Million tomatoes everyday. My cucumbers have been very slow due to squash beetles and earwigs! Nice garden you have there!
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Cows, sheep, goats etc. like to eat corn. Both the plant and the corn cob or what it's called. It doesn't have to be composted, unless you need to, if no animal will eat it. Chicken also like corn, even the raw kind. 😊
The Elliott Homestead: Please don’t forget, this is very important. If you want all the sweetness and flavors from your sweet potatoes, to cure them for 2-3 weeks under the proper conditions. You are going to love them, especially going into the cold season, they are definitely a comfort food.😉👍🏼
I love how your daughter is munching on peppers while you're packing them in jars. When my kids were little they'd follow me around the back yard, foraging & stuffing their little faces the whole time. I didn't even care that they were eating half of my garden before it was ready to harvest. 🤣
We pulled green tomatoes attached to the vines last year in October, when frost was forecast. We hung the vines in our mudroom on pegs, and all the tomatoes slowly ripened. We had tomatoes through thanksgiving! It was a great new solution for us
Wow - thx for posting
I’ve done this for a few years as well. I have to check them often to pull out any that have gone bad, but I’m always surprised by how well they do!
I made green salsa with mine! It was good!
You can use the bigger cucumbers for cucumber salad. And you can actually cut them down into spears and pickle them. Neem oil is wonderful to get rid of beetles.
Guinea fowl were the only solution that worked for our squash beetles. They are hilarious to watch and they don’t touch my garden veggies. Beautiful no dig!
How do you stand the noise?
We harvested our corn this week and now we feed the stalks to the goats until our first frost.
Pick some of your sweet potatoes leaves. The younger ones are the best, stem also. We cook them in butter with sliced onions and fresh garlic, salt and pepper them, so yummy!!!! They taste like spinach. It's a staple dish for us. Been eating them my whole life. You can also stem them and use them in different dishes. We also add them to our smoothies. Remember, it's only the new leaves and their stems that we use. My great grandmother used the tougher leaves and the stems, sautéed in tallow with spices and then puree them to add to soups as a base, meat loafs, artisans breads and homemade green crackers. My favorite! Thank you for sharing your gardens with us. GOD bless you all.
What are green crackers? I also love sweet potato leaves - so good.
Not sure if anyone mentioned, let the large okra dry, it splits beautifully exposing the seed. Makes an awesome ornament!
My husband swears by dawn dish soap when it comes to poison ivy. He recommends that you take it in the shower and wash all of your skin with it if you think you have touched poison ivy. Since it's a degreaser, it should take those oils right off.
I have used dawn successfully for it as well.
Same here
I’ll have to remember that one. Thanks!🐝🤗❤️
Huh. I've never thought of that before! I've always used the Burt's bees poison oak/ivy soap, but dawn would definitely be cheaper!
Works on mosquito bites too. 👍👍
Watching your channel is like a mini vacation. Lol.
You guys are awesome.
God bless y'all.
Truly...after watching you...I will never, ever take for granted where my food comes from. 🤗❤
This is so discouraging and encouraging in regards to my own garden - I've had so much trouble with grass growing in our no dig beds, but I think my weeding expectations were severely off because no one talks about just how much weeding they actually do. It it ridiculously helpful to hear you say you spent 3-4 hours a week, which is probably at least 30 min a day which is way more than I thought I'd need to commit to. But I'm going to try to commit to that next year and see if the method works better for us. (LORD WILLING WITH A BABY COMING IN FEB AND A 1 YR OLD ALREADY) Thank you. What beautiful gardens you have created.
@Margot Cavanaugh THANK YOU and CONGRATS on your little one that you're about to meet so soon!
Instead of more weeding, water the garden heavily, and tarp or cover in heavy mulch, leave covered for 2-4 weeks. Then pull back the mulch or tarp and plant. Most of weed seeds will have germinated and died. Then instead of weeding, cultivate, disturb the soil around all your plants once a week. This will catch the weeds in the thread stage and they come right up with light cultivation.
Hehehe, just like my tomatoes. I always seem to never get round to staking them and every year I say I'll keep on top of it...and never do LOL
The cow was beautiful. Loved the 4 -legged gardeners too although the miniature 2-legged ones were also cute!!
Your okra pods that are too big you could pull off and if they’re heirloom you could save them inside until they dry out and the seeds will be viable to plant next season! :)
As you know fall hasn't arrived in the south. I am envious of your fall weather. The light has changed and looks so golden and pretty in your video. Your garden is so big and lush. Appreciate you taking us al9ng.
I am on Vancouver Island. Today I dug up potatoes that I had planted in the summer. You can actually leave you potatoes in the ground and they fair very well and avoids you having to store them in a cool dark place
Beautiful garden! Looks like you need to buy a potato fork. It would make harvesting those many different potatoes sooo much easier. And you won’t miss as many🐝🤗❤️
Hey Shaye and Stue, I'm so pleased your Vacation was enjoyable 🐦.
Nice save on the Okra👍.
I had Potato Bugs this year for the first time 😝.
I did get a few to Enjoy!
You should see my Butternuts they are peeuny
they were on a roll then they stopped with the cool nights, I really thought I figured it out 😢.
Yours are beautiful 😘.
Thanks for sharing your Garden. I think it's gorgeous for the first Year 🙌💥.
JO JO IN VT 💕😄
Beautiful garden filled with bounty and nutrition! Imagine how much more had you been home!
Omg, what a beautiful garden and harvest!
Thanks for the tour! I always learn something from you and appreciate you sharing!
So happy to start my day with your inspiring content! Thanks for showing us a look into your life!
As my garden is in sweltering heat, this feeds my soul!!
Beautiful garden Shaye, and what a harvest. So looking forward to autumn this year.
I like watching your disappointments as much as I like watching your wins. Because in gardening there are always fails and successes and that’s what keeps your videos natural. Thank you for that. Someone suggested wood ash over your squash, I will try that this year and see if it keeps the squash bugs at bay.
Lovely video as always! I absolutely adore the style of your videos, they are so enjoyable to watch.
How much fun was this....Thank you ♥
Shaye, you are an excellent teacher!💖💖💖 Thank you for sharing your knowledge and beautiful life with us! We appreciate you so much!
Thank you for sharing both the downs and the ups!
So excited for you and the sweet potatoes! I can’t wait to try growing them
Such an abundance of fresh vegetables and canned goods. Great job!
Love your harvesting basket! I have had one for years, and bought my daughter and daughter-in-laws each on last year.. they love them also! Garden is looking great!
Hey BeautyFull!
Thank you so much for taking us along on this end of summer garden treasure hunt and sharing so many valuable details! I deeply enjoyed the ride and learned something!
Blessings
Stormy morning an what a great treat 💜God Bless you an your whole families hard work 🇺🇸
I enjoyed this more in-depth video sprinkled with insight on harvesting, pests, storage, etc. Thank you!
P.S. I was so excited for you when you pulled out the sweet potatoes!🤗
It would be really interesting to know how you meal plan! Future video please!!! Love your Channel! You inspire me!!!🥰🥰🥰
That was SUCH a delight to watch! Thanks for sharing!
I loved watching you pickle! I’m over here measuring all my ingredients like a newbie.
Love all of your videos and I adore your books, I have read them multiple times. Your garden looks great, mine is mostly dead at this point. Thanks for sharing.
What a delightful video! Thank you, Elliotts! :)
This was my first year with sweet potatoes too and it was so rewarding. We have lots of moles and they aparently love them but yes, the sweet potatoes blanketed everything
I learn a lot just by watching other people talk about their gardens informally - sharing failures & successes. Thanks for taking the time to make this video because it helps to see things in actual practice vs. just reading about them.
I'm envious of your many days of warm weather! Here in coastal (400 feet from the ocean) WA, I'm still figuring out what will grow to maturity in our long cool summer days and short growing season.
How fun too see your harvest! In the midwest we had extreme heat and drought so my harvest was very poor. Next year will be better!
Depends on where you are in the Midwest .. northwest portion had drought but eastern and south portions had a perfect year .. I live in the Midwest and our state has no drought at all and had slightly below average temps this summer ...
Your videos are always so beautiful, even when you're talking about losing crops to disgusting bugs ;)
Thank you for sharing the good, bad, and ugly; it's easy to just show a highlight reel without admitting that sometimes, things just don't go as we'd hoped.
Congrats on your sweet potatoes!! I’m getting ready to try out a recipe for sweet potato dinner rolls . 🍞 🧡🍠
That sounds yummy!
Love your living totem poles!
How fun! I grow sweet potatoes too down in our valley and am amazed they do decently here! Hooray of you Shaye! Cheers!
August into September I feel like I have feet in both worlds. One in the garden bringing in and preserving the last of the harvest and prepping the farm for winter and the second homeschooling our children. This balancing act happens again in April/May when it's time to plant yet school is in its final days. It is so crazy busy right now U can barely keep it all together.
Compost must be much thicker for no dig potatoes. I always plant my potatoes in ground because I don't like the no dig method for potatoes. I go down 4 to 6 inches and plant, then once they come up I keep covering them repeatedly until I get to sometimes 3 feet of cover over the potatoes, then I leave them to finish. I got 35 - 50 pounds on each of the 3 or 5 pound bags of seed potatoes I planted.
Cheyenne: that's wonderful for you! Also, grow zone & climate has to be considered
Do you have any tips as to were to buy potato “seeds”?
@@erikawoods8975 Seed potatoes I usually either just pick up a bag of organic potatoes from a health food store or just in the organic section of a store, "chit" them which is just cutting them up, just make sure there are eyes on the piece you are cutting, cure it overnight, and then plant them. I will occasionally pick up seed potatoes at supply stores like Tractor Supply, Menards, Murdochs, Walmart, Lowes, etc. I typically get Kennebec potatoes because they are tried, true, a lot of times bigger than Idaho potatoes, consistent, resistant to pests, and taste amazing.
There is plenty of use for such big cucumber. Perfectly fine for fermenting.
Amazing! I got a bit anxious when you showed everything and I thought, “this girl is a far better woman than me”. Everyone gets a piece of that labor…… family and the animals and I’m sure, friends. The production at the end was so impressive. The colors of the peppers in the jar were popping. As always, a great video and love to see the kids partaking! You all got some nice color on your vacation. Well deserved. XO
As they only produce tubers at or above the level of the seed potato, you need at least 4 inches of mulch on top of the soil in your no dig patch. It's best to mulch them with straw or other material lightly when planting , then more heavily after the plants come up. Hope that helps next summer.
Love the kitty helpers.
Our quail go absolutely nuts for an over grown cucumber. It's the most prized snack. I like to tell them the big ones are simply too special for us to eat...
I saw this method in Farmers almanac how to remove poison ivy oil. Since then I never had a problem after catching some poison ivy. You need a washcloth with a soap, I like to use dish soap, and just rub the affected area as if you trying to remove mechanic oil from your skin. And repeat that each time it starts itching. In my case the each went away and irritation dried up very very quick. The most important thing is washcloth.
And degreaser type soap.
Goats can eat poison ivy, so maybe borrow one to eat it and then tackle what’s beneath the ground. Our neighbor has goats and got rid of all the poison by in our adjoining wooded area. 😊
Thank you for all the helpful tips and a look at some successes and failures!
The potato desapointment in the nodig area is likely due to the excess of nitrogen. The tomato patches also gives it away.
Can you expand on this? I thought nitrogen was a good thing and never enough of it! I wonder if its because of growing straight in compost as opposed to tilling the compost into native soil 🤔.
@@kareharpies Im not an expert in soil nutrition, but I was oriented by a friend that is a researcher in soil nutrion regarding a few crops I was planting. He told me that different crop has different demands regarding nitrogen. For example, beans in general and leafy veggies need and respond very well in nitrogen rich soils. On the other hand, potatoes and tomatoes will produce mostly leaves in the same conditions. Whenever possible, it is a good idea to assess the nutrient content of the compost to check wich areas will need nutrient correction for specific crops. For what I have been able to follow in Shaye's videos, the onions produced wonderfully well. I guess that only the tomatoes and sweet potatoes produced more leaves than fruits/tubers.
You have a beautiful garden 🤗🍃
Love watching your harvest! Please tell me you have lots of help...if you do, it would be nice to acknowledge that so we all don't feel like slugs!
Count yourself lucky!! My friend was also stung in the eye and lost her sight in that eyeball
Loved seeing post vaca garden. Had same experience in August. Corn was a loss. Smiled to see you pulling up stalks to be repurposed for fall decor. Mine are setting beside the pile of rotting pumpkins that i planted too early and were overrun with squash bug while we were away for a week. Guess no more summer vacations for us now that we are fully committed to grow-your-own.
Thanks for sharing failures as well as successes; wasn't sure why my peas all burnt to bits in April until I watched your spring video on hot compost. we eventually got things growing. Love no dig. Have 5 different beds...some with zero weeds and some where we pull grass all summer. Always experimenting.
Would love to see video of your composting system sometime. Like you, we trucked in compost, but can't be doing that forever. $$$! Used fluffy compost from chicken run to hill our potatoes for nice harvest. Next year...sweet potatoes. As always, so inspired! Thanks!
Here in South I would leave the potatoes in until the plants are dead or for me until the flooding begins. We plant in February and March and harvest in May or June. I use no dig methods. They don't like the mulch pieces though so they go in raised compost and sand with mulch foot paths. Had a great season this year before it began flooding. I love your content btw! Thank you. I mention you often on our stuff! BTW love SC!! Great state!
Elliott,,thanku for Sharing
I Could see the excitement on
Your face,,getting back into the
Field of your back yard. Yea
Things look amazing,,peppers
Sweet potatoes,,Butter Squash
Also,,like the jars with peppers
Inside....Look nice...Is It Cider
Juice you use to Fermetize things
Great to See your kids,,how big
They grown....Do threwout this
Spring-,,grow More Flowersss
O.k...Many blessings
I love watching your videos they are so beautifully done and inspiring.
I’m going to make the rosemary infused olive oil that I watched you do
Sweet potatoes are one of my favorite, most satisfying things to grow!
Hello from Sweden.....🇸🇪💖
Shaye, looking at you, digging potatoes, with your bare hands made only one thought come to my mind...
"Does she not have a really great potato hoe"?...
I know you are trying out the "no dig garden" which is a wonderful method.
But with potatoes I think this method is maybe not the best if you don't have a thicker layer of sand filled dirt. At least you do have to have a thicker layer dirt to get a bigger potato size and a bigger amount of potatoes....
But back to the potato hoe. I use a potato hoe that has been used for many generations in my family, and it still works very well. It's a wonderful tool!💖💖🇸🇪
Anyways, love watching all your beautiful videoes and I am learning a lot from them ..... And you have a gorgeous garden.... Everything looks very beautiful planned .... The design, the patterns, both the beds, but also the leaves patterns, works so well together.... And then there is all the colors..... They totally make their way into my heart.... I so love what you and your family are doing with the garden and I can hardly wait until next spring to watch it come to live again!!!
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Don’t be disappointed with your potatoes. I piled my beds about 12” above the cardboard. I made this bed in the spring-about a month after I made the bed. I had the biggest harvest I’ve ever had. The plants were past my waist. I harvested when they fell over.
GREAT garden tour. What a great place younhave created. September weather is definitely nicer and I'm so impressed with the weed control. The tomatoes are incredible!! Love your sweet potatoes blanket! Just really impressive garden space.
Great video! Excited for the fall videos
I have seen farmers put tarps over their onions in the winter and just pick them as they need them through the winter.
Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
Blessings from Croatia 💖💚💗
I just love your video's! We have so much in common, we homeschool too, used to be homesteaders (my husband and I were raised that way), I do home cooking from scratch, veggie ferments, tinctures, homemade pasta, the works, and I used to grow large gardens like you, at least a couple acres. Now we live in town and I only have a backyard one so I'm learning urban homesteading which is interesting! Our backyard garden doesn't get a ton of sunlight so it's been interesting to figure out what will do well. I learned this year cabbage does great in it. BTW, if you get into poison ivy again a mix of clay (Redmond or bentonite) mixed with water and some oils like tea tree help so much to draw it out.
You inspired me to ferment pickles for the first time. Then I happened to pick some plums and decided to make plum syrup with cinnamon and orange zest. I am going to preserve some green beans today. I'll store the tomatoes in oil I stead of letting them rot on my counter. Usually we grow things every year but then I dont know what to do with it and I hate canning in a water bath. I would not have done these things without your inspiration. Thank you.
Beautiful video…. I love, love parsley too… I chop it and store it in the freezer… I will have it green and fresh all the time..🥰
Sweet potatoes grow like crazy here in the desert. My favorite!
Where are you? I’m in North Central Texas . This was my first time planting sweet potatoes and mine didn’t do too well.
South Carolina!?! I am in Beaufort SC. 😃 I hope you enjoyed your time in our neck of the woods!
This was a great video!! Thanks!
Guessing you must have gone to Gulf Shores, AL !!! I used to live in Daphne, AL. I hear you mention Fairhope now and then.
Again, I enjoy your videos. So relaxing--almost like a trip to the shore.
Love your gardening style, a lot like me. To be honest, I just like to grow things and even if garden is a bit messy, I get wonderful soups out of. Add homemade bread and I am happy!
Hi, love your video 😊 ! You can burry parts of the sweetporato vine in the soil and that part will also grow sweetpotatos. It should help with a larger harvest. 🤗
Your kitties are beautiful. Lol their fun 😉
Glad you got to get away for some rest and renewal time!
Bindweed would have come up anyway, sadly. It’s tenacious!
I understand you not wanting to deal with the squash bugs. The problem with leaving them is they will keep multiplying over the years. Ugh! I hate them! I have had success(the only success) with spraying them with Neem oil mixed with Azamax.
Excited for your sweet potato harvest! Someday I will.
Can you talk about how you use all the vegetables preserved in vinegar you have? Can it be used the same as fresh? Thank you!
Best way I have found to pickle peppers is to bring the ac vinegar to a boil.. pour over packed peppers to cover and seal lid. So simple and peppers stay crisp.
Sweet potato leaves sauteed with sesame oil, soy sauce, salt and pepper and sesame seeds is delicious.
I just love fresh corn I made corn cob jelly this year
Thanks to your video, I have 3 jars of hot peppers currently fermenting for hot sauce.
You can preserve the butternut squash that needs to be preserved quickly by pressure canning them in jars for long term storage
Congratulations on your sweet potatoes!
Oh we use those big cukes for six day day and mustard pickles. And when the go yellow, i make relish...easy with with a food processor 🥰
What a haul!!! Love it. We are just coming into spring here in Australia and I can't wait to see the bounty my garden brings in this year.
with the no dig, the potatoes did really well in our garden.
You can take the okra slice across,dry the little stars for Christmas decorations 🤶🏻
You have to keep hilling on your potatoes. I actually don't grow mine in dirt at all. As the leaves come out cover them in hay and repeat at least once more. I grow mine in hay alone. So easy to harvest. Grows well but is more subject to voles
would love to see your compost system and what and how you compost.
Your no till garden is really beautiful and healthy! I agree, from past experience with bermuda grass, definitely use AT LEAST 3 layers of cardboard under the woodchips and make sure they overlap 6-12" so not a speck of sunlight can get through :)
Technu Ivy wash is the best thing I've used for poison ivy. I'm severely sensitive and the Technu wash did shorten the rash outbreak last year. This year I have used it whenever I even had a hint of an itch and so far no breakout.