Walls, Arbors & Fences
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- čas přidán 22. 02. 2024
- In this video I get a lot done and have to redo part of it. But I got the cottage log retaining wall done, I got the rustic cottage arbor done and started the charming cottage fence.
Chad's CZcams channel: youtube.com/@DownHomeBackyard...
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Hi I'm Brian with Next Level Homestead. If this is your first time here... welcome! I'm glad you're here! If you're a longtime friend, welcome back!!
For most of my life I was a city boy, gardening in the suburbs. I was the first generation in my family to not grow up on a farm and somehow it was still there inside me. So now my wife Emilie, son Noah and I have moved to a small farm (at least it will be) and we're documenting our journey on this channel. Building gardens and chicken coops, buying a dairy cow and who knows what else lies in store. But we can't wait to take you with us!
I just realized what I like about your channel. Well, there are many things I like but right now there's a particular thing I would like to say. You guys are easy to follow. I know the land isn't as large as you would like, but I find it perfect for your channel. The scenery is beautiful! Your projects are not humongous and are easy to learn from and enjoy. You don't have a million animals to care for. For an anxious introvert like myself it's just enough chores and work to get me inspired. So, thank you both for being such a wonderful family with the courage to do what you do.
Thank you so much!!
Yes! Your comment made me realize this is why I love Brian's ideas more than some of the big ones. :) Thanks.
Don't you just love spending a day working hard, getting dirty and sweating but at the conclusion of it all standing back and marveling at the beauty your effort created? There is immense satisfaction and motivation for me in doing projects like that .... both things I want and need more of. LOL Great job!
Thank you!
Oh, but chickens are cute! I can sit and watch their fluffy butts walk around all day😅
Rustic & free, the perfect combo. I'm sure it will be be beautiful someday.
When my daughter got married in the '90s, she and her husband bought a beautiful arbor for them to stand at for the ceremony and to give to me for my garden when the party was over. It was covered in flowers in no time, and after the first year, you could barely discern what the arbor itself might look like because the flowers stole the show. Your rustic (and FREE) arbor is lovely, but take pictures now or you won't remember what it looked like. 🥀🌺
Ah, the CowCam. Could even be a Daisy Dashcam! LOL
She is just such a little sweetie.
Lol I would totally watch Daisy cam🎉🎉❤
Your content makes my heart happy. That trellis looks great. I am about to start a new garden in a new climate, so will be concentrating on functionality my first year. Your channel feeds my need for beauty, cost savings always rocks my world as a single mom. Your channel gets the creative part of me excited for the future, while also keeping the information stream coming. Thank you! ❤
I love the tomato contest, great idea. The usage of wood you already have is marvelous.Everything is looking good.
Thanks!
We think our chickens are just as cute as our other cuties. They each have their own personalities. They’re awesome.
I always marvel at the way you picture the designs you want to make and what to use, like the log retaining wall & the arbor and when completed it’s almost like magic because it turns out almost always the way you planned. It’s beautiful. Well done! Can’t wait to see the roses on the arbor blooming. 🌹🌹 I notice some little or big gardening tip that I can use to help me garden better from almost every video. Thanks so much, Brian. 👍. Many blessings for a safe & restful weekend
Thank you
Oh that's going to be nice. And it will be a 'finished' area - as much as gardens are ever finished! LOL. yeah, I think your perspective is spot on. you know how bougainvilleas can get MASSIVE? The rose covering that arbor will look like that if the height is a bit off. It is a great joy to see this all develop. SO much hard work but so very much beauty. And the person who commented earlier about the views is spot on. Anyone who could dig and walk and work and not stop to enjoy all that around you is totally missing out. You chose a beautiful spot.
The best part of this video has to be the transformation of the cottage garden with the addition of the log retaining wall, rustic arbor, and the start of the charming cottage fence. It's incredible to see how these elements bring the garden together, adding both functionality and aesthetic appeal. Plus, the anticipation of the arbor being covered in roses in a few months adds an exciting future element to look forward to. Great work on the garden, and I can't wait to see the fence completed!
Thank you!
I like the arbour and fence. It looks great and I love that you are re-using branches from your property :-D
Always enjoy your videos love seeing Bella she a beautiful girl and got to see scar on the rooftop again see you in the next one 😊❤
I love the arbor and fence. It is rustic and charming. I agree with @bonniebell1104. I think your land is a perfect, manageable, size and it is beautiful. Even when your gardens are 'finished' (though they really never are) I know you will be adding to, subtracting from, and tweaking them for a long time. It's in your DNA. Even the 'Italian Cypress' trees in the distance add to the look of the whole area. It's all really beautiful. ...hmm, patiently waiting for the new critters.
Thank you so much!
Great job Brian, so love the beauty you create our of your own yard.
Thanks 😊
My layered pot with tulips on the bottom with daffodils on top, the daffodils are poking through!! Great idea poking the egg whites to cook faster because I like my yolks runny too!! Thanks! My husband is building our chicken coop and run but nothing like your gorgeous cottage. I hope to make it cute though. My husband builds fences on the regular. He always paints tar on the ends and just above the soil line. They won’t rot.
I really like how the fence is turning out. It's nice and rustic which is what that space calls for. Great job as always.
Thanks Paulla ❤️
I love watching Chad! Can't wait to watch this challenge!!!
A day off is important. The pork cereal looked great! I make my own sausage patties and didn't have pork, so I used ground beef, and it tasted almost the same! The key was ground fennel and fresh sage.
Love the arbor. I really like
rustic stuff. I really enjoyed this video.
Thank you very much!
Ohh..yummy breakfast..we are Ketovore/carnivore..such a wonderful life 😊
It really is!
Love everything that you are doing . Im still waiting for the rest of our 12 inches of snow to melt. We have mud every where. Have to where the mucking boots. You are very talented with your designs and carpentry.
Thank you
Growing grass for a lawn... I bought a house in central Texas. I refused to water the lawn. "If it can't survive Texas summer without being watered, it doesn't need tobe in a Texas lawn." 2 years I had a brown lawn... 3rd, the native grasses took over and I had a green lawn all year for the next 16 years.
The arbor is beautiful! I love rustic❤...and breakfast made me hungry (thanks a lot)😊...
My pleasure 😊
I can't wait to hear your tips for roses. They are probably my favorite flower and I just planted 5 new ones yesterday 😂 got your book in today and can't wait to get started on that and all those tips as well. Your videos helped me tremendously last year. Awesome video as always
Gravel will sturdy up those posts! No need for cement 😊 we used gravel only for fence posts in our family graveyard and they are solid as a rock if you tamp the gravel down real good ❤😊
I think some stain & seal on your fence and arbor would make it last much longer. Looks awesome!!
Thank you!
I love finally seeing how you're using those posts you put aside from the tree removal. Love the look of it. Now I can't wait to see the arbor covered in roses! And if you consider the scale of the cottage, the fact that it's smaller just makes it seem farther away in perspective. You can say you planned it that way, right?
Yes! Thank you!
Hello Brian. It's so neat to hear your answer to a question I commented on another video.
Thank you for taking the time to read the comments (especially mine 😊) and for taking the time to answer. ❤
I love your videos on this channel and your other one.
Keep up the awesome work!
Thank you
Funny how our pets always supervise us and our project! LOVE IT! Have a terrific weekend Brian and Family!
Thanks! You too!
Your videos -with all the beautiful scenery and lovable adorable critters-never ceases to put me in a super lovely zen mood ❤💚🌿
Thank you very much!
my mom had chickens. she put more egg boxes in the yard in two different areas. It helped some but there was always one rogue hen who would try and find a place to hide her eggs so she could hatch them.😏
I have been enjoying tomatoes here in Florida all winter long so far! Amazing because we get cold weather and even had 32 degrees for two hours one day! Got up into the low 60's in the day. I didn't cover them. Cherry tomatoes but my big tomato plants are now still flowering through that!
I was a little surprised on why you don’t feed the rabbits. You’re already up there feeding the chickens? Lol. Love the arbor. The arbor makes the cottage look even more
whimsical. 🌺
What a great chill day! Love when that happens! Going to check out Chad's channel - look forward to more beginner gardening stuff from him and NLG series.
We have cameras that give us an overview of our horses just for my piece of mind. Have one that lets me look at the chicken coop as well.
The area around your place is just beautiful - wish we had green that wasn't weeds!
Completely love the arbor & the fence - what a great use of a simple thing you have on your property! You have the best ideas!!
Can't wait to see the flowers videos - after watching you and others in SD I'm going to start a flower garden in a little area in the front of my house - never done that before but looking forward to trying it out.
Awesome!
I’ll be right over for breakfast!
You also have cuteness with Emilie!😉❤️🤗❤️
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Morning,
I have a few daffodils that return every year. The paper whites always come up along with the muscari. I'm working on Dahlias , and Iris now.
Hey Brian, if you haven't already put in the cement you might want to look into setting the posts in gravel. You might need bigger hole, but I've seen some pretty good-sized posts set with gravel packed around them that were sturdy.
Shore the posts of the fence up with rebar on the backside where you won’t see it, and you won’t have to use cement.
Chickens are very cute!❤
You post I have to watch!! Oh, your Emily is a lucky woman. I have been backyard container and raised bed gardening since my bout with breast cancer. That journey was hard but was caught early. Gardening is something I wanted to do for some time. So it happened. I am not the best gardener but I try each year. Gardening in No. Calif. zone 9B. I have problems with critters biting into melons, tomatoes and demolishing my strawberries. Have resorted to wire cloches and cages from garden sites. Keep up the good work. You seem so full of energy!!!
Thank you
I love the Arbor❤ True Artist❤
Thank you
I think the arbor is just fine being a bit tall. Everything is going uphill at that angle 🕶👍🏻
Thank you for a good mood video. I really needed it. I smiled through entire video. Beautiful clouds on a mountains. Big hello to your family. Want to see both them included more often. Thank you!
I’ll try to get them in more often 😉
I love the fence and the arbor!!!
Thank you!
I showed my doubtful husband the retaining wall -I was gathering logs for ours! I got mulberry branches for a fence and now you’re doing it! I used them in the raised bed tomato garden for your stringer trellis! No place for pictures 😢👩🏼🌾
Oh good!
I love chickens! They are so cute and silly! I could watch them for hours. But I suppose I could watch Daisy and Bella for hours too.
Are you kidding me...your cottage garden, including that arbor is absolutely adorable! It will be so beautiful this Spring and Summer, love it.
Thank you so much!
We don't use cement where I live, it rots the tops of the post as water sits on it and has nowhere to run through. Instead we dig down like we would if using cement and use base and/or gravel which allows for drainage and keeps the wood from rotting in a specific spot. I live in the high mountain desert,, just as a comparison. Thanks for your content and looking forward to your summer lushness!
I love your charming cottage
Thank you
We have a donkey who can open gates, so we wrapped a chain around the outside gates and an extra lock to get into the barn. Anyway if she and the rest of the crew get in the barn or outside the fence it’s usually are fault. They can smell feed or green grass just as easily as a dog can smell something and they had right to it!
It never rains in southern Kalifornia.
We have a lot of plants, shrubs that are very confused. Our lettuce and bok choy are bolting. Our temps are still very mild with temps in the 40s and 50s at night with low 60s and 70s during the day.
Love the arch!!!
Yay DaisyCAM !!!!
You can buy a stone egg, usually alabaster, to inspirethe hens to lay in the proper spot.
Awesome as always. Thank you
My pleasure!
You can use pea gravel in the holes also. The sharp type
I might leave the fence without the cement until you have a heavy rainfall and see if they stabilize. Or you could try pouring a bucket of water down the holes and see if it helps. Maybe only use cement in every second hole? Cement or no cement, it looks great. I love this channel. Thank you!
Thank you
Some of Daisy's used hay bedding would be good slope cover, and rain suck-up features (like a hay bale fence line down the road shoulder), stopping further rain runoff and soil erosion on the low lands.
Omg! Dude same here ! Today will be more productive 😅
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I love the arbor Brian!❤
Thank you
That was awesome to shout out another channel. Don’t see that a lot.
Ya, chickens do that. I accidentally left the feeder open after filling it yesterday, and found an egg in it today! Chickens aren't really cute, but still, never a dull moment.
Very true!
Youhave cuteness with Emily and Noah too🥰
Thank you
I had a couple of chickens that laid their eggs in the bottom of my toolbox 😂
Oh wow!
Addend, thanks to warming Claremont gets less frost these days so the grass stayed green-just didn’t need mowing.
I love the fence and arbor being eucalyptus. I once lived in a eucalyptus grove, and that's the CA I knew and loved.
I can’t imagine living in such a beautiful place.
I like the arbor !!!!!!!
Thank you!
Brian, I ❤❤❤ the look of the arbor & fencing🥰. I like to do this inside my garden for my raised beds. I love a natural look!!
You’re doing a terrific job ‼️👵🏻👩🌾
Thank you
I think the arbor and fence are very complimentary to the cottage ❤
I like the arbor.
Thanks
😂😂😂😂😂squirrel!!!!
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Hi there Brian, just a for info. You mentioned black coated chicken wire but if you haven’t already bought it, just buy regular chicken wire and a can it two of black matt spray paint. Undo the wire holding it all together and let it unwind some while still being in a roll ( it just loosens up) spray thinly from the outside all around then spray the inside. It very quickly gets completely coated. Give it a few mins to dry then attach to your fence with a stapler. I then used garden staples hammered into the ground to hold it down so that the rabbits can’t get underneath!! Much cheaper than buying coated wire!! ( and because it’s black you don’t see it!!)
Keep up the good work and when you get a few mins ( I know, not often) let me know your thoughts if you have any yet about the stained glass windows for the cottage. No rush! Lol
Do 5 gallon buckets with cement that way if they start to rot you can remove them and replace them
I love it!!!
Watched an interesting documentary the other day about raising chickens for eggs. From research, they find that loved and petted chickens are more contented and lay more eggs. Fascinating to me as I just love chickens and would spend time petting them. Sadly, I have no room for them.
Ha! I love the rustic fence. Brian, thank you. You just gave me some great ideas to enclose my raised beds and mini corn field. I’m so excited. Love your channels.
Be well ❤😀
Awesome!
I do not know if it is done here, but back in Europe we always used a plaster egg in the nest, so that hens knew where to lay.
Not sure how its relaxing to watch someone else work, but...☺️
Its your peaceful energy I guess!
I really liked when you said you played video games in the afternoon! Sometimes ya gotta 👍❤👍
What a helper doggie you have!
if you flame treat the wood it will last much longer. i build fence and trellis for my garden too but burn it with my propane weeder wand which makes them very resistant to rot. as for the strength, i put in longer posts and go down at least 4' making cement unnecessary. i love what you are doing. many parallels to my orchard / garden. just think how awesome it will be once everything has established itself 🙂
I would think the retaining logs would be easier to set and would retain their positions better if you put a gravel base under them. I know it would be more expensive, but that's just how I think.
I hope you use Redmond's real salt for optimal health.Nice well-rounded video
I am loving the arbor and the fence! So looking forward to seeing all your beautiful flowers blooming soon.
Thanks so much!
The brisket would probably made some delicious spaghetti carbonaro.
Don't mind me, just taking my cow for a walk. Smile
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I wish I had that vision. I have a smaller yard and still struggle to see the vision at times.
Bella is filling out now, she's almost grown from the skinny pup she was at first... I mean for the breed when they become adult.
I give my bulbs bone meal when planting and if the dogs wat to eat it scratch it in,or I use espoma bulb food a scattering in late spring before they bloom inwild hedgerows.
That brisket and egg breakfast looks wonderful. Using those round logs was a great idea. Love the arbor and fence. ❤
Thanks so much!
You just had to do it. Made me cry again 😢😢😢😢😢 Just like my oldest son. Work, Work, Work. ❤😢😢😢😢😢❤ Your girls are so good. Yay Bella and Daisy.❤
Redbud Jelly!
I love watching your channel! I love the other one, too but it's so relaxing watching this one. This channel is for relaxing - the other is for learning. Thank you for sharing so much. Your homestead is so so beautiful!!!
Thank you so much!
Chickens are too cute!!! If I were your chickens, I'd poop all over the eggs because you said that. 🤣😂😭🤣
my golden retriever watched your video with me for a while and she barked at bella so funny
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Thanks for the videos. I have been following you for a little over a year and never realized that you had other things going on your property other than your vegetable garden. 😂😂 I have learned some different things from you and use them in my homestead. Enjoy the different things you are doing. How's the pond coming along?
I love the arbor and the rustic fencing. I am enjoying the journey. Thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome!