You're a pure pleasure to watch and learn from. Hope your partner appreciates what a rare treasure you are! Greetings from Ireland ☘☘☘

@OurSmallholdingAdventure

2 жыл бұрын

What a lovely comment 💚 hi from England 👋

@anastasiarose16

2 жыл бұрын

🥺 the amount of sweetness here is lovely, hello from NE USA👋🥰

@theirishcailin333

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! She's amazing. From Ireland too

When you put that single cherry tomato in the basket, I laughed and my heart smiled. 🤩

Becky, you make me smile & remember how I felt every time I'd see something growing in my 2.5 acre garden. I remember eating some of my harvested items just as I picked them, like you do. You make me feel young again & I get so excited when I see your face lihgt up when you spot something in your garden to show us. You make my days brighten & I catch myself smiling & rememvering days long past. For all the smiles you give me & others, I thank you & thank you for all the gardening tips you share with others who are working their own gardens/farms. You are a very special young lady & I'm so glad I found your channel ❤ ❣ The energizer bunny is envious of you 🤭😄👍❣ Much love❤ & prayers 🙌🙏from S. Florida🏖 ⛵ 🏝 ☀️🌦🙋‍♀️

@vickiwills9950

2 жыл бұрын

Well said!❤😊

Every time you say, "I'll show you what I'm doing with..." Or "I'll show you guys that recipe" Im yelling YES! Love you and your channel, Becky. Way to go on your garden this year so far

@margaretjacobs914

2 ай бұрын

❤

Start saving milk jugs and cut the bottom out. When you plant your tomatoes next year, put a milk jug over each of your tomato plants and let them stay until you are sure the cold snap is over. The tomatoes love the warmth in the jugs and any frost will not damage the plants inside. When the tops of the plants grow out the top of the jug, it's probably time to take them off if you are sure the cold is over. We have had to rush out before dark many times in Central Alabama to cover our tomatoes when we are expecting a cold snap with frost.

Hi Becky, I know this is an older video, but I just want to let you know that i am soooo inspired by you and your garden - so much that I am creating my own beds like yours on my newly bought farm! My goal is to grow food for me and my boyfriend, kind of self-substainable and I also want a booth down by the road to sell my flowers, fruits and veggies! (very common summer thing to do in Denmark) My farm has 50 fruit-trees (plums, apples and pears), and I am learning so much from you and how you garden. I am so impressed by your knowledge about gardening and I strive to be like you with my garden, :)

I have a little story for you. I have several Jack-O-Lantern pumpkins growing out in my garden, however, originally I never planted them. I had 1 random pumpkin come up in my flower bed the first year I was in this house 5 years ago. I saved the seed from it and now the seed that I have every year is all from that original 1 pumpkin that I never planted and did not even have seed for. So these pumpkins likely came from a bird. You can pack and can pumpkin puree from Jack-O-Lanterns as well and it's just as good as any other.

@jswhosoever4533

2 жыл бұрын

I planted watermelons 2 years ago and got a bunch. Didn't plant them last year or this year, but I have a TON of watermelons on a cattle panel arch this year over top of a couple of rows of peppers😁

@SaltySeed

2 жыл бұрын

We tried to make puree out of Jack o lanterns it was super watery and we cooked it for 10hrs trying to dry out up some. Now we use acorn squash instead.

@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

@@SaltySeed Never had that issue, might be an area and how much rain you had. Pumpkins are pretty good at retaining water when they need it.

Save seeds from the ones that survived the frost or freeze and you’ll know that you saved the hardy ones that are best for your area xx

In Spain we grow luffas and we get a looooot of heat in the summer, like 40°C I think it's 110F, so maybe they need lots of heat. Epic Gardening has a KZread video about luffas, maybe it can help! And what you say about the tomatoes and the bush beans, it might be because beans fix nitrogen into the soil and tomatoes loooove that

All of my tomato cages went completely horizontal during a big storm we had about two months ago and in a feat of epic laziness I decided to just let the plants stay down since the plants were already pretty big. They have been producing wonderfully and require little effort from me so I consider that a win.

@outtapocket1220

2 жыл бұрын

Just curious, are you having any trouble with pests like mole crickets with the vines being along the ground?

@lindsayhanson2338

2 жыл бұрын

@@outtapocket1220 surprisingly no! Obviously them being on the ground isn’t ideal but so far it hasn’t been such a bad thing.

Your impromptu potato harvest made me laugh! We reconfigured our main veg garden this year adding in some raised beds and eliminating a large in-ground one to give a better layout and flow in our backyard. Welp, I got volunteer potatoes growing out of my lawn now from where the garden was last year 😂 I started watering them specifically and I can’t wait to dig them up to see what kind of harvest it will be lol! We call them the lawn potatoes

@robynm7221

2 жыл бұрын

😄🤭 Love your name for them: Lawn Potatoes 🥔 😊 You'll have to lettuce 🤭 know how many you were abke to harvest. Now I have recipes going through my mind for your Potatoes 🥔 🙃 🤭❣

Girl, you’re AMAZING!!!! Love, love, love your channel.

@AcreHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

Yes for the growing in containers series!🙌🏻 I can’t wait 😁 I live in an apartment and grow all from containers, just learning as I grow!!

Your garden is looking great. Last year my tomatoes really struggled with the heat and wind that we get in Missouri. This year I decided to let them sprawl. I planted 2-3 of each verity at the end of each bed. They have sprawled and set roots into my wood chip paths. I already have about 30, 1/2 pints of tomatoes in the pantry.

Those potatoes looked amazing, hope they tasted good! You’re doing sooo well, better than many old timer gardeners! Brilliant update Becky

Hey Becky I just found your channel and I'm on a legit homemade wine fueled binge! Your no-nonsense realness while still living the dream, to us that want to homestead, is so inspiring. Cheers from the nearly arctic (Finland).

@AcreHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Aw thanks!

The little editing touches like the silent shot placing a single cherry tomato in the huge basket are so good!

You mentioned that this is your second year gardening, it looks like you've been doing it all your life ! Very impressive!

Please make a video of the fermenting hot sauce. That’s my goal for mine this year too! 🫑🌶

@AcreHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

I will!

I just love your enthusiasm 💕 It makes watching your vlogs so much more fun. And your garden is definitely amazing!

Omg just opening YT and see that there’s a new Becky video it makes my evening better. Always a relaxing night when there’s a new video thanks for so much inspiration

Becky I heard that your husband Josh built all of the boxes your using in your garden. Your garden is heaven.and your the little angel who is caring for them. I’m learning so much. Thank you.

"Oh that's a rock", I found that so hilarious. I never thought I would enjoy a video like this. Thank you. I don't have a green thumb but I am trying to learn. I have a tiny tiny back yard and I want to start growing herbs and other things and have no clue where to begin.

Borscht is a great way to use beets 😉

For your labels, wash and save your dairy containers. Create a template 3/8"-"-3/4"across, 3"-6" long, with a point on one end which is f,at across the other. Use a Sharpie type perma-mar,er to trace your template around the outside of your dairy container and expendable or garage scissors to cut your plant markers out. Optionally, use an expendable hole punch (or a nail setter punch over an expendable piece of wood) to out a hole in the end for suspending on a trellis. Use a Sharpie or Ultra-fine perma marker to write your plant name etc...9n the white side. For a little more cost, contractors flags are pretty quick and easy to use as plant labels. Use the different colors to color code your garden. Use Sharpies to write in tne flags and keep the text to words you're willing to use through years 2 to abiut 5. They make a bright garden u til the foliage grows; and after dele ding upon the height of your folliage.

Cabbage growing tip: my grandma used to always take one of the cabbage leaves from the outside of the plant and lay it on top of the head as it grew so that bugs would not burrow or eat into the head. Works like a charm! Loofa will grow anywhere if it’s nice and warm… Unfortunately they take forever to get going. I start/plant mine in the greenhouse every year… by this time they are just starting to grow LOL I am zone 3B northern Canada

I put some of my extra cucumbers in the ninja, froze into ice cube trays, then vacuum sealed. Cucumber water all year long :)

@kaymack5304

2 жыл бұрын

So funny you posted this. I just got back from vacation and the person taking care of my garden mistakenly put my dukes in the freezer. When I looked up ideas for the frozen cakes, I came across the recommendation to defrost, purée and freeze in ice cube trays. Who knew?!

I absolutely love your videos.. I love gardening and I am a first timer also. I just started a handful garden of bush beans, tomatoes and okra last year. And this year on my balcony I have peppers, tomatoes, herbs and flowers.

If you're a beginner gardener then idk what i am lol I'm like pre k or something lol

@meagantrout2127

2 жыл бұрын

Right? I’ve been gardening for awhile but I guess I’ve been held back in first grade lol

@theirishcailin333

2 жыл бұрын

Me too 😂

@AB-ol5uz

Жыл бұрын

:)

I love your videos Becky! I’m a new gardener and I’m so thankful you’re sharing what you learn! 🥰 I use the app PictureThis to help me identify weeds/plants but it can also diagnose problems if you upload photos of your plant. And its free!!! Maybe it can help your sweet potatoes! 🍠

Yay, I just watched your onion and basil harvest and dehydration this morning and then looked at your channel and wished you had more videos made. So thank you! My oven has a dehydrate setting but I really hesitate to use it while I'm running the AC. I have loads of basil but I've mostly been giving it away.

@Imjetta7

2 жыл бұрын

You could chop and freeze it, or make pesto and freeze that.

Remember to rotate your crops to reduce nutrient loss in your soil and minimize pests year after year.

I love your variety of Tamatoes. Just a little trick we do on our homestead. Tamatoes cross pollinate so to save the seeds of a special variety I use a small organza bag over the flowers to ensure it stays pure.

I call The volunteers, gifts from God.

@AcreHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Love that

Thanks for sharing your garden! It is such an encouragement. It is not uncommon for echinacea to not bloom the first year. Next year it will be covered in blooms starting as early as mid June 😁

@AcreHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Oh thank you!

Spring starts in about 3weeks for us in Cape Town, so I'm looking forward to getting some growth in the garden especially some tomatoes. Your garden is looking fabulous. Such a great harvest

I literally have no words……..your garden is perfection. The envy is truly real. I haven’t had to water this garden all year. It’s raining a lot this year and I am kind of worried about them getting too much. My tomato plants are so heavy with fruits, but they aren’t red yet. My spaghetti squash has kind of come to a stand still. I hope it picks up. ☮️💕

@piscesdreamer1154

2 жыл бұрын

The envy is real here too! I'm in the desert and have to water every morning lol I dream about that rainy life 😍✌❤

@maryegerton6848

2 жыл бұрын

@@piscesdreamer1154 life is kinda crazy 😜

Becky I'm going through some of the shows I missed I don't know how I end up missing them but I'm going through and I found shows that I never seen before so I keep you informed

Hi Becky, I really look forward to your videos. Their such a de-stressor for busy days. Seeing you garden is a pleasure.

Hello, just a little garden tip, you mention that you are going to plant beans again in the same bed, you might want to consider crop rotation, the ground will benefit from this practice

Beets are naturally sweet and can be eaten fresh, cooked in stews, roasted, fermented, sweet pickled, . So healthy.

It is so crazy to me that this is only your 2nd year growing stuff. The amount that you are growing and the quality of looks fantastic. I know there is still a learning process going on but dang you are doing SO good 👍👍

I had an abundance of hot peppers so I started to feed them to my chickens. They love them and I swear that my eggs have a Beautiful pepper taste to them.

Blue lake was my go to tomatoes, I kept canning and the more I picked more grew. ALOHA

these garden tours are my favourite of the videos you do!!! thanks for letting us into your garden :)

For your tomatoes I've found that it's good to let your tomatoes keep 2 suckers. Try and keep them even, one on the left of plant and one on the right. This way your tomatoes have 3 strong producing branches. I mark my suckers I'm keeping and then make sure to remove all the others. 🙌

I love how knowledgeable you are about all these homesteading techniques! did you learn from a book or by experience ? What book would you recommend?

Thanks for sharing. I just love gardens and yours is such a treat to see. God is good. 👍🏾

Yay garden tour AND harvest!! Im so excited

ive been so busy ...of course as soon as i get a chance i catch up all ive missed 😊😊 ...oh how wonderful ... your gardens thriving n the bees are buzzing ...pure bliss ⭐⭐

Your garden is growing beautifully! Thank you for sharing!

Yaaas! Love it! Everything is just thriving Becky!

The cattle panels are stellar! Much better than stakes or cages!!

Becky, your garden looks amazing! You go, girl.

This is your second year!? Girl, get it. 🙌😍❤ I'm in my second year as well and have A LOT of plants crammed into roughly 400sq ft of space lol Trellised of course. But, its producing and I'm happy. Love and Light sister 😍✌❤

Love your garden can’t wait to see what you do with it all

You're amazing!! Such a light & you always bring a smile to my face! Thank you Becky! God Bless

Becky your garden is looking SO beautiful 💙

Its so good to watch u harvest n see how well ur garden is doing. I wish I could do what u do. Great to watch.

Love the garden updates and it was nice seeing your orchard update! We are planning to plant fruit trees for the first time and I’m really excited 😄

Apparently I have to watch every single video to catch your awesome ideas! Thr chip drop thing is huge if it works. I never knew about this and I'm pumped! I really want to get my berries, fruit trees and grape vines surrounded with woodchips

Sometime, check out "sweet beet pie". Tratitionally winter overed beets were shred, cooked, riced, and whipped with the cream; or as a mid-winter fresh from the garden treat. It was also used to use up canned beets in anticipation of the current year's food prep season...I had it once with orange-pickled beets which was thickened up with cornstarch or maybe tapioca; I was a little kid so taste and texture were most important to me, not how but what. - it does taste best with small, fresh spring beets harvested for thier greens; and likely to thin the garden.

How exciting!

So excited for your garden! Those squash are going off!!! My favorite clip though from this video is you putting that one cherry tomato in your giant basket, lol! That is me right now.

@marybk882

2 жыл бұрын

That made me chuckle too.

I'm so excited about how fast your channel is growing lately!😊 All your hard work is paying off and setting you up for even bigger dreams! Sometimes I feel like I'm watching the beginnings of Roots and Refuge here:') Thanks for sharing!🙏💕

Love your videos. I live a couple hours north of you, so I get a lot of ideas for my garden.

I loved when you put that one tiny tomato in your big basket! It was like a little promise of the baskets full to come! 🍅

Becky, your garden is gorgeous. Good job, I think you are a gardener for sure.

What a beautiful garden! ❤️

I am so, so impressed with how much you plant and keep up and harvest alongside a full time job. It's just incredible, and super fun to watch. I have three tiny raised beds, some pots, and another patch on the side of the house that I'm just starting to plant as a bee garden, and that's plenty of work for me! And even in that tiny amount of space, I have three volunteer squashes and a tomato that can only have come from my compost, so I'm super curious to see what comes of them. Thanks for taking us along in your garden as it's growing!

Harvard beets are a family favorite here! They can well too. You make gardening look so easy and fun! You're an inspiration, love your enthusiasm! Sending love from 🇨🇦

Awesome thank you! Just signed up for chipdrop!

Love the potatoes!!! Like treasure hunting 😀 thank you for making these videos. . I'm sure it takes a lot of time and work to do them. You make them so interesting, educational and entertaining.

For your potatoes - look at what are called "potato stacks". For an experiment, begin with a square tomato cage and line it with a King bed sheet, burlap coffee bean bags (in hindsight, there are reasons to look for organic coffee bean bags), or the sides of card board boxes which just fit inside your square cages. Slough the 3dges of cloth based items down the sides. As the potato tops grow, add your cloth or box based sides in about 12" (or 18") tall increments, then add dirt or growing medium. The buried greenery roots up then grows more potatoes. To harvest, you topple your tower and go from there. - if this suits your fancy, you can drift to locking/ fastened wood frames; diy of course but you amy be able to buy them. Others use repirposed metal items but, they can be burned to kill eggs and larve like the dreaded potatoes battle or potatoes fly. Metal culverting of one type or another is a favorite. Metal can get hot in tne heat; cloth and cardboard can get dry and even wick (or suck'cause it sucks) moisture out of dirt or growing medium.,

I have three pumpkins starting to grow from my surprise pumpkin patch! I’ve made sure to water them tons. I also love seeing how many bees 🐝 have been hanging around.

I think loofahs drag along until you think they won’t do ANYTHING, then they jump into gear and make like crazy.. I threw out a couple seeds of Jack O’ Lantern pumpkins (way too) early this spring, and they, surprisingly, survived several frosts and a freeze.. They must absolutely LOVE where they are because they’ve spread to a 75’ diameter and I have about 30 pumpkins in various stages, and still blooming! I am not new to gardening, but this is My first year to grow pumpkins.

💛 July garden tours

This was great! Thank you for sharing. I am 100% planting green beans next year. I've not done it before.

Your garden looks awesome! My squash and pumpkins are all flowers and filled with bees so I am hoping to see fruit soon! Thanks for your energy and sharing your passion 😊

Your garden is a dream! I’m so jealous that you can grow pretty much anything you want without loosing crops to insects or disease. Here in Southern Ontario, I’m constantly fighting something. Do you ever have issues with squash vine borer? What about the cabbage looper? It’s near impossible to grow anything in the collard family without insect nets out this way.

@kristenswanson5819

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. I live in Colorado and as I’m sure you can relate, our growing season is super short. I’m so jealous that her garden looks so amazing in May. We’re still getting snow in May here.

I planted two of the Barry’s Crazy Cherry tomatoes and have been living off them for weeks! I will definitely plant those again!

Ok...confession..... I didn’t watch your video. HOWEVER I listened to it as I cleaned my kitchen (unload & load dishwasher, wash some items by hand, scrub stove top, really wipe down surface tops). This may be a no big deal task for some. For me, it’s huge!!!! I have clinical depression & severe anxiety. I’ve wanted to get my kitchen in order. But I’ve felt too overwhelmed. And too, I had the mindset of who cares. I knew if I at least had your voice in the background, I would connect your voice to your incredible sense of “get er done” mentality. I write this because I did it! My kitchen is clean. So I thank you!!! 🌻 Now, I’ll watch the video. 😉

@AcreHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Wow Jody! Thank you for sharing that with me! It makes doing all of this so worth it! Trust me tho I have very messy parts of my house too! You are a rock star and should be very proud of yourself! Keep it up!

you have a beautiful, lovely garden. i really love that it is very natural. good job, i hope you will have a more successful garden this year!

Garden tour🤸🌻🤸YAY 😁 Love these! I can dream= you give me Goals! Inspiration!💕Thank you!

Wow what a lovely veg garden channel. So glad I've found you (kind of) near the beginning of your journey. Off to binge watch all the other videos after this one. Much love from York, UK 🇬🇧❤

Your beets are beautiful. I really enjoy sauteed or stir fried beet greens.

I'm 5'4" too! I always thought u were shorter, lol but we're the same height! 5'4" is perfectly average no matter what those tall folks say hehe

Hi, Becky! Your videos are so good! I can't wait to see how you will preserve all the garlic, which you harvested earlier! You inspired me to use the dehydrator, which was sitting lonely in the corner :) Now I'm dehydrating some tomatoes and earlier I dehydrated blackcurrants, mint leaves and lemon and made a fantastic tea out of it! Can't wait to drink it in the cold winter days. Best wishes from Lithuania (country in the Europe) and waiting for the next video. Good luck with the harvest!

So jealous of all your squashes!! So awesome!

Another awesome video!! Thank you!!

this was great! 😍😍

Hi! You have so many fruits and veggies growing or ready to be harvested, it's amazing! You've put in so much time and energy on your beautiful garden, you're a superstar! 🌟🤗🌟🤗 I am a new sub of a few weeks, and absolutely love you and your channel..thanks for making these videos, you're incredible girl! 🥰

Love ur enthusiasm, it's infectious, ur hubby should show his face once in a while, he is one supportive dude

You should have millions of followers. You are simply amazing!

My theory is that volunteer potatoes are bigger because they've been growing longer. The plant knows better than I do when conditions are conducive for growing.

I use wood chips too. And I grew sun gold cherry tomatoes for the first time

I came to rewatch this video! It’s July of 2022 and I wanted to know how your garden was last year.

I agree, I think you went crazy with the pruning of the tomatoes. Man you must like beans you’ve got all kinds of them everywhere. I like green beans I’ve never tried the other kind. And for going out there to the garden to do the harvest you didn’t harvest very much in this video. Lol. That’s a darn nice garden

You will love your blue lake green beans. We had six rows prob 25 or 30 foot long and we canned 120 quarts off them plus they were picked 2extra times by my husbands aunts once we were done with them. My favorite. My kids while picking loved to see who could pick the longest beans

Last year I also lost track of what was what in my garden in terms of varieties, so this year I put some effort into making labels. I use plastic yogurt containers, scissors and a sharpie pen. I cut long narrow rectangles of the plastic, fork one end and write the variety on each label and it’s been super helpful from when I started my seeds to now. The plastic labels are durable and can be re-used next year too. No more forgetting what I planted!