Jason holding Penelope as a baby is adorable! I'm glad Lorraine has gotten comfortable visiting with us, she is a peach. The gardens are all doing so well this season, you should all be proud of the results.

@johnchaffin5494

Ай бұрын

He looks so confused and scared.....that's a good thing😊

I’ve really enjoyed seeing Loraine on the videos too. It’s so nice when your family joins you.

@SowtheLand

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much

@bettyferguson2815

Ай бұрын

Labor day is when my family always dug potatoes.

@shirleybird6422

Ай бұрын

Cilantro seeds is coriander. Used in cooking too

Love seeing Lorraine so excited about the garden. She's like a kid in a candy shop. lol

That photo of yourself holding your daughter looking at empty raising beds is a masterpiece. It made me feel something. I don't know how to describe it. It's like those artistic photos that hold great stories behind them. A piece of art.

Anyone remember the TV show “Green Acres” and the pig Oliver? 😊

@Miguel195211

Ай бұрын

Yes

@laurel7704

Ай бұрын

I can still sing the song!

@revonda5204

Ай бұрын

​@laurel7704 yep, that's the place for me ....🎵🎶🎵😊

Lorraine, not soft pebbles either. They will get soooo hot with the sun hitting them, you'll be back in boots/tennis shoes 👟

@nancyseery2213

Ай бұрын

I agree, no pebbles! Pebbles are very hard to move if you decide you don't want them. Wood chip will break down all on there own.

@jdp6ofus

Ай бұрын

I ended up just putting down the woven high quality weed block fabric with nothing over it between my big raised bed garden. I don't like the look, but I can walk barefoot even in midday sun in AL on the fabric. I can blow off leaves and debris year round to keep it neat. I found it is better to let the fabric go under the beds a little and then secure it to the inside edges of the bed before filling them with dirt. But where I didn't do that, weeds grow in the gap between the fabric and bed around the beds. At least they are usually easy to pull out and I get plenty of volunteer veggies and flowers and herbs to transplant to other areas. I don't use wood chips or other stuff in the walkways as I can't get a steady supply of it, nor do I have time and energy to put it out by myself if I had enough stuff to put in the walkways. I run our farm full time mostly alone, plus do all the house and kitchen work, gardens, livestock care, etc while my husband works off the farm. No children left at home either to help. Since putting the fabric down, I no longer have snakes in the garden. But there are voles, moles, rats and mice that tunnel under it and in the raised beds that are 6" high. But they don't get in the 12" & 18" beds so I use the drier beds for root crops and actually get a good harvest.

The pigs looked so overwhelmed by the goodies!

Your opening photo really is worth a thousand words, or more! I feel blessed by your knowledge and willingness to share, thank you

"How does your garden grow?"......"Very well! Very well indeed!" Nice video you guys! Have a great weekend!

Great job on the garden! That's a lot of cabbage for 3 people. LOL!

@SowtheLand

Ай бұрын

You got that right!

I have been watching you on your homestead since before you moved to this property. I think y'all have come along very far and fast in the last two years. God bless y'all, remain patient, learn as you go and most of all---Keep Growing!!!

In that picture, you can almost see Jason’s mind plotting and planning, inventing and dreaming.

I love ALL Sow the Land videos!

Pulling grass out weeds out is chicken food yummy weeds😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😛😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋

Harvesting and then preserving is the final faze of gardening. Look how far you've come this year!

Cabbage party...Cabbage party..😂🤣😂🤣 Your family has been putting in the work and your hard work is showing. The garden areas are fantastic and growing an abundance of food. Would love to see how Lorraine preserves the harvest for winter meals. Best Wishes and Happy Homesteading. 🤗❣️

Amazing Garden. It's great to see all 3 of you today. See you tomorrow for FRIDAY SHOPTALK. GOD BLESS YOU SE MICHIGAN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

What a beautiful homestead you all have created...Hard work always brings big rewards...so happy for all of you...great success is on the way.

Good job Jason looks like high tunnel is working out, love your garden and feeding the pigs, keep on farming.

You guys have done a great job with your garden and animals. 🙂

Cole Slaw Stuffed cabbage Minestrone Pork Dumplings My top 4

Your greenhouse vegetables are so beautiful.

Just a thought about the beet tops - I dehydrate my greens and then grind them and save them in a jar. When I make soup or a smoothie I pour some in. It's a great way to add greens during the time you can't grow greens. For me in South Florida that is during the summer months.

I’ve been waiting so long to see your vegetable gardens. Everything is so beautiful. I love grass between raised beds. It’s less work in the long run and very nice to walk on. So happy for you all. ❤

Cabbage Party just put a smile on my face!!!!

It looks like you have a magical life in North Carolina!!!

@SowtheLand

Ай бұрын

We do

Good day to all.

Great to visit with your family, farm & animals! Thanks & blessings 🤗🇨🇦

Your harzesting and i just planted a week ago. What a difference

I love the sound of the cabbage being harvested, crunch, crunch, crunch.

I love the excitement for the garden! All that hard work is paying off. All the different beds look fantastic! The pic of Jason and Penelope is absolutely adorable.

Key phase - We'll get there. Well I'll be there

Make kapusta. Slovak cabbage & onions. Fried. The best side. Polish as well, but I'm Slovak. Baba & Dido always made it. Yummy

@sandhollowhomestead6972

Ай бұрын

My adopted mother was Slovak. Her name was Stella Schebesta.

@hollyporter1193

Ай бұрын

Southern style: fry up 1 lb bacon in a pot, leave all grease & bacon ( cut up into pieces)in the pot. Cut up 1 large head of cabbage. Put in 2 handfuls of cabbage in pot, season with salt, pepper, & sugar, stir into bacon , repeat until all cabbage is in pot, stir & simmer until cabbage is soft. Serve over steamed rice. Eat with cornbread, makes a delicious dinner!

Everything looks so yummy. Great job a lot of hard work paid off.

@SowtheLand

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much

You guys have a gorgeous homestead…. and Zeke and Elvira and the littles, are the icing on the cake!!!

Yea!! Love garden tours.❤❤ you have some amazing plants.😊

You should do another picture like that looking at this garden.

What an accomplishment! The garden looks so good and the family and animals well fed.

I am so excited for y'all!!!! The gardens look amazing and just think of all of that food you will be putting up this year.

There is a lady from Australia where I’m from, who lays cardboard, leaves, weeds, manure, wood chips between her garden rows (In ground) beds which you may be interested in. Her channel is Huttons Valley Permaculture, by doing this she just piles the now composted material on to her rows for her next planting. I like this idea as you don’t need to walk or transport anything as it’s right there between your rows & it stops weeds.

You guys are doing a great job! Thanks for the video!

You can also can coleslaw to enjoy in the winter months! I like to freeze cabbage leaves for future cabbage rolls. So glad to see your efforts are successful.

Of all the gardens videos I watched your is the most beautiful one and producing one ❤❤❤❤❤❤. Would never know you were once city folks ❤

Wow, garden is so far ahead of us in New England! Hey, Jason at cog hill farm in Alabama plants daikon radish to break up hard soil…. Feeds to animals and the bees love it when they flower!

When you plant corn, plant it in blocks instead of rows. It allows the plants to support each other during windy weather.

Another great day on Sow the Land! Gardens are looking wonderful! Yes... one day at a time and one season at a time! Blessings on your family and your growing season Kiddos! 🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿💚🙏🥰

Truly special how you've progressed, and that you have everything filmed so you can go back and compare where you started to where you are now. And those piglets! So stinkin' cute!!

❤🎉well let me just start off by saying I feel that you all have come a long way since then a lot bigger and wiser well done love your journey so far ♥️ Pete cape Town south Africa 🇿🇦 ♥️

Favorite channel. I've said before, too long solo in a UK smallholding. You have an awsome family, sir. Working together, as you do, you are headed for success every year. God bless you guys. 😊

Very nice, Jason. I'm so glad for you that Lorraine and Penelope are just as enthusiastic as you are about homestead success.

It feels like it is easier to weed and see accomplishment when the rows are shorter. I like it. It’s beautiful

Lorraine you had me laughing guessing what some of the veggies are in the greenhouse. I planted tons of vegetable and flower seeds then totally messed up the labels when I planted them out. And I thought I was being so organized. Good thing I like surprises! 😊

I knew your latest was growing groceries. Stupid KZread said it was baby chicks. I knew l already saw that one. I've seen every vid you've put out since day l. Now I'm going to check & made sure I'm still subscribed. They have yanked that from me before. But l still love KZread. Lol. &&& your channel ❤❤

Hi.,.. Jason and Loraine thanks you for showing your video homestead bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍

Wow you are months ahead of us in Nova Scotia

@markstevens7838

Ай бұрын

I agree (from Vancouver).

❤ loving this season ❤

Your crops look so good! Great job.👍🏽

Love that first garden photo of you looking like, "Uhh....yeah forget this, I'm going to N. Carolina!" You have all come a long way and it is wonderful! I can't get over how much Penelope has grown. AHHH. 😭

Killin' it team! Look how far you've come!

I like the way Lorraine has placed the rows in the high tunnel. Really nice layout for your gardens 🌻🦋🌻

To me, seeing how you have increased the amount and styles of gardening since moving to this property is amazing! All 3 areas are beautiful and so productive, I could practically taste everything you’re growing! I heard Lorraine say she’s thinking about pebbles for between beds because they’re not pokey like wood chips but my daughter put them between her rose beds and I think they’re hard to walk on because they roll. I like the picturesque ideas of grass or pebbles but they take work and time you may not have for now when there’s so much that needs to be done. An inexpensive, fairly easy to do now and change later is using cardboard with chips on top. Appliance stores often have large boxes that end up in the trash so taking them for mulch is better for you and the environment. The cardboard is heavyweight so one layer is plenty. Also, there’s often a tree service or even the electric company that would be happy to dump wood chips on your property. Another source might be an Amish sawmill or anyone who has a sawmill. Those chips are smaller and without the occasional small branch that slips through without being chipped up. If your mower has a hitch on the back or something to hook or tie onto, you could pull a Gorilla Cart or some other wagon filled with chips between the raised beds and dump or shovel the chips out. My cart has a dump bed which is very helpful for me at 71 and not nearly as strong as I once was! If you want to know an easier way to do something ask an older person, especially old ladies since we’ve never been as strong as men even in our best of times but we usually figure out a way to get things done! 👵🏻😉

Pickled cabbage slaw to can. Great pantry staple to have on hand.

Your gardens are outstanding, and those cabbages are beautiful!! excellent work, Lorraine and Jason and Penelope!!💕

your gardens look wonderful:) FYI putting down cardboard with no stickers or compostable paper then wood chips make great soil for the gardens in a year or two. I have one more suggestion hill your corn it helps it stand up better.

It is great watching you guys harvesting so much food so early in the season while other homesteaders are still in the process of planting. It is almost like you could give up the grocery store and eat off the homestead.

You can boil the turnip greens and the cabbage with bacon grease and boil the water very low. Soooo good! Also, cabbage freezes well to cook later. I like to fry cabbage too. Love it!

You both have progressively learned and accomplished so much over the past several years. Your gardens are showing how much you have learned. Very impressive.

I agree Loraine, rain does better. Thanks very much for showing your garden! It all looks yum! Love the hydrants! Happy Days! 👏😁☀️🥰🤗🙏🏻

You keep getting bigger than family you’re going to be truck farming before long 😊

Your family is in my prayers permanently. Much love.

Sunlight and rain would account for more progressive heads on the cabbages outside. Each rain drop releases nitrogen, amongst other stuff, when it hits a leaf. The high tunnel offers filtered light. But in saying that, it makes for staggered harvesting which is convenient. The gardens look great, I’m very jealous.

Everything looks great. You are hard on yourself. Yes, it takes time, money and a ton of hard work!!

That before and after shot of the land...WOW!! You have most definitely improved that land. Look at Penelope grow. That was a sweet picture of her as a tiny thing with you.

Moss or clover lawns are soo lush on the feet absolute loveliness for the raised beds garden. Pinterest has quite a handful more variety of options available 😊

Good job guys..keep it up from Africa Tanzania 🇹🇿 ❤❤❤

Love your high tunnel. And the way you planted in it. It’s perfect. And all the rest too.

So happy to see how far you’ve come in your gardening endeavors!

Fantastic video! Your talk at the end of how you progress each year is a huge encouragement to me. LOVE your channel. 💜

Yes I agree year after year I get a little better thanks for sharing 👍 love from Virginia ♥️

All I can say is WOW! INCREDIBLE!

I miss cilantro in summer too. So I make cilantro pesto. Yum.

I am growing Serrano, Poblano Jalapeno and Hababero for my Latina friend. I am also trying Chayote for her and I am excited for them because I have never heard of this squash before. I am growing bells , Sweet banana, and lipstick peppers as well.

Impressive ! You've worked really hard to meet your goal for all the infrastructure and both gals do a fantastic work in all the garden plots.....but my favorite is piggy tv, just love those kids 😂

Jason, Your garden looks amazing from one end to the other. You're doing such a great job !! 🙏🙏

Another great video! Garden and high tunnel look amazing!

Loraine You have the green thumb touch Beautiful gardens

I found your channel from Justin Rhodes and today your's, Hollar Homestead and Justin Rhodes are my favorites. 😊

Fried cabbage with bacon bits is amazing. My husband and I LOVE it with pork chops. Yummmm

If you have a freeze dryer all your vegetables and herbs are wonderful to freeze dry plus it is wonderful to have all those vegetables year round

Have you thought about an overhead watering system? That way you don't have to mess with the water hoses each time you plant. Another way we did it when I was a kid was to make moats around the plants and just put the hose there. It would fill the moat up with water and was easy. You could do pvc down the side of the high tunnel and put spigots at each row and just adjust the flow. Then put an automatic timer at hose bib.

Beautiful harvest! When we have excess cabbage, I slice slaw style and freeze to pull out all year for "egg roll in a bowl," pot stickers, or actual egg rolls. It cooks up beautifully and delicious even after months of storage. Love seeing you rehab this land

So enjoy your family!! ❤❤😊

Y’all have a nice garden going on! One of the ways we found that we really enjoy our cabbage is to slice some into strips and then fry it with some bacon, jalapeños, and garlic… so good!!!

Love your Videos !! 💕

@SowtheLand

Ай бұрын

Thank you!!

Snakes don’t get into woodchips but they do love landscape fabric and stones

Pull up the dirt on the side of the corn to give the stalk more stability. If the stalk looks weak again, add more dirt.

I just figured out that equal amounts shredded cabbage and cilantro makes an awesome slaw. Its a great way to use up cilantro when you have a lot of it.

💚 Things looking really good in All your gardens! 💚

Ha Ha Ha, that picture of you and your daughter, you look so forlorn. I wasn't sure if it was a new beginning or a foreclosure, but thankfully that little lady has grown into a young woman, and you have also pursued your dream. That is all awesome.

I recommend using cardboard in between the beds and rows. When you weed whack up and down the walk ways you are throwing grass and weed seeds. into the rows.