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@Fishingdad257

Ай бұрын

Jumped on that as well! Awesome stuff man!

I always set out with Kevin's mindset, I have nice plans for everything to be set up cleanly and orderly. Then when I actually get in the garden and basically end up doing whatever feels right at the time 😂

@bethb8276

Ай бұрын

Call it chaos gardening, giving it a name makes it feel purposeful! 😂 Personally, I like finding surprises in a garden, sometimes I find out something likes it better in a place I didn't expect, or next to something I hadn't thought of.

@makers9693

Ай бұрын

I do the same thing every spring!

@pamelacooley6457

Ай бұрын

I do the same and it drives my family nuts 😂😂😂. I had to have surgery a few weeks ago. Day before my surgery the family helped me plant everything….its much neater right now……wait till I’m better in a few months and get back to my shenanigans 😆

@hmfoden

Ай бұрын

Bahahaha yes this is SO ME 😂😂

@dannyvelez1012

Ай бұрын

Omg same. I had my garden beds neatly planned then got to planting and said “ima just do whatever.”

I just wanna take a moment to tell you guys how much i enjoy your content. Whenever i watch one of your videos i get a super mood boost and it just makes smile seeing how your garden is thriving. Thank you for being so awesome and always keeping up with the great videos

@epichomesteading

Ай бұрын

Means a lot to hear!

Behind?? 🤔 9 days,ago we had snow. This week we finally hit 50° with spring rains, so we are putting our cold weather plants in the ground now. 😁🤣😂

@nef4588

Ай бұрын

haha keep in mind us 10b growers can keep plants out pretty much all year. Spring started on my 10b coast in early feb 😄

@ugosmith7529

Ай бұрын

Yeah, this was a weird spring near Ottawa 🇨🇦, we had super warm weather for weeks in march, then came super cold weather for a few weeks, then warm again, then random snow and cold for a few days. Now we have 4 days of spring and it looks like summer is starting next week TLDR: planning has been weird this year 😂

@Chiggerhollow

Ай бұрын

Clipper you hens one wing it make them off balance when they try to fly so the don't get out of pens.just trim every few weeks.

@ahealthkit2745

Ай бұрын

Yeah, same boat different lake! I am not even out of frost risk yet and I can't wait to get my peppers in the ground xO

@annaisangulo696

Ай бұрын

Late frost here in Jersey so I’m just starting the garden up now!

I love it when you two do videos together like this. Its so damn entertaining 🤣

@GoncaloAlves-ty8df

21 күн бұрын

Me too

What's better than watching a new gardening video? Having it interrupted by the delivery of your fruit trees (apples, plums, asian pears) and strawberry plants. I know what I'm doing over the next couple of days 🎉🎉

@epichomesteading

Ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

I love a collab when Kevin and Jacques get it done in the garden!! You two are OG.

I just love the dynamic you two have. It makes the videos really enjoyable

Is anyone else here for the bromance just as much as they are here for the gardening content? "Ever hear of rain? It's fine!" 🤣😂🤣

I love it when you two are together ❤❤😂😂 it’s so fun ! You can see you guys have developed a great friendship❤

You two always crack me up. I literally sit here and laugh out loud while learning new things. Thanks guys:)

I almost spit out my water at Jacques' eyes when he sniffed the chamomile. Perfect, hilarious timing

Jacques, did you get a new hat? Looks great. Kev, looks like you've kept up the healthy lifestyle. You look amazing.

@epichomesteading

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Bro same. I started so late but I'm still growing. Thank you Garden Men.

@erukaseven

Ай бұрын

Decabbagetated.

@erukaseven

Ай бұрын

We have a Chocolate Cake Pepper plant in the garden.

You can freeze the eggs! Take 6 or so, whip them up in a bowl and add a little salt. Pour into ziplock and pop into freezer. Then you have them in the winter when the production goes down. Be sure to date the bag for FIFO use :)

@theoneandonly1158

Ай бұрын

Or pour in ice cubes, freeze then bag.

@Raidawg06

Ай бұрын

maybe dry freeze the eggs

The growing community is what tv used to be for me, way better but i can only put it in those words lol I just need constant videos of everyones gardens in every stage and all .

Not the knees 😂😭

"Vibe it out" that's how I plant too...and your chard is 😮

I'm in zone 4b and i'm just putting stuff in the ground tomorrow! That's the thing with the shorter growing seasons, it really gets me through the last few months of winter tending to my starts indoors 😄

Last year I started my tomato seeds indoors in January. It took forever for them to grow. This year, I started late February, outside (socal) and my plants look healthier and pretty much the same size as last year, at this exact time. For some reason, planting late has been less work this year, with better results 😊

@theoneandonly1158

Ай бұрын

They hate the cold. Cold slows everything down at the soil level. They always pick back up when it heats up.

I just laughed so hard about the knee pedi!!😂😂😂😂

I'm doing my watermelons and cantaloupe vertical. I also have a fig tree that will need some branches wrapped and something called a sugarberry tree.

I love, love, loved this video. It was so refreshing to see someone answer questions the normal backyard gardener has.

Zone 10 here. My tomatoes are about 5-6 feet tall and have tons of little babies. My peppers are growing great.

Kudos to your production team--love the longer segments of walking around the garden.

The red eyes after chamomile always gets me lol

I'm definitely adopting this "Vibe Gardening" placement thing

Yay on the 3 inch pots!! I actually just looked at your site last night to see if you had 3" ones 😊 I love the 6 cells and 4 cells!

Aren’t we all late? The weather has been bull-ish.

The joke, single-laugh intro followed by the blooper at the end, is honestly hysterical. I'd be laughing along with Jaques, the situation is hilarious.

This makes my heart as happy as a perfect ripe summer tomato made into a egg, bacon, tomato, lettuce sandwich, or even just by itself with a bit of salt!! Look at all the plants! I live up north, it's been so cold that nothing has come in, there's not much growing yet, so I LOVE to see that you have a full garden. ❤ It makes me think I should move somewhere warmer 😅

@epichomesteading

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

Its so nice to have help in the garden. You guys make a beautiful team and it shows in the plants.

I'm a no plan gardener tooo I have random things everywhere but it all makes sense to me lol

Love watching you guys especially Jaque❤...1 your vid is to short and 2 you guys always make me laugh...love you guys

Great video guys! You are not alone in being behind in getting the garden put out. We've had so much wind, 30 to 60 mph, that made it impossible to get out and do anything to my planters, let alone the yard. The rain this year is so unpredictable! Sometimes we get a gentle rain, maybe a half inch, or we get like last night 4 1/2 inches in three hours, water flooding the streets and pooling in patches in the yard. I am just going with the flow, I get what I can get done. I look at it as mother nature must have looked at my garden diary and decided it was too much for me to do, so she is making me recalculate what I really need to plant.

Love Jacques no planning garden philosophy! It my favourite way to garden, I like to call it Freestyle gardening :) We have had a pretty cold spring here, it feels like we are a couple weeks behind too!

I love you two together chatting/working!

you two are so funny, I love your videos!

Best gardening channel ever! So fun and good info. Love the chickens too!

Not even 2 mins in and I could relate to this feeling of this video. Exactly how my kitchen been looking for the last two months. NJ weather has been REALLY DRAMATIC WEATHER CHANGES. Like nights were 30 degrees and days were 80 degrees. My poor greens were struggling up until last week. Finally was able to put everything in the ground and in the raised beds. I had at least 7 different veggies going at once all in the kitchen .

Love you guys! Always so fun yet informative ❤ So excited for 2024 growing season!

What blooming gorgeousness! The homestead is so beautiful.

LOOKS AMAZING!

Love your video chats❤ Im a seasoned gardener but have learned from you both new tricks and tips . Appreciate you both so much. I’m just growing hots this year. The sweet peppers are hard for me to grow,I’m in Georgia.I just gave up for this year…taking a break.Not growing corn this year either.

Yes! Please do vertical squash and teach us how. I'm not understanding how this will work.

This year I’m trying serano, habanero, Tabasco and 2 kinds of bells. I’ve already plucked off the first blossoms to shoot for a taller plant and it’s going SO WELL! They’re all in grow bags except 2 I planted in the landscape and mulched (these are looking the best). As far as melons I have Crimson Sweet and I am looking forward to pumpkins later on

I hope you guys are besties 🥰🥰. Yall have such great chemistry and look like you truly enjoy each others company ❤❤

I feel like I am behind, too. Last week it was cold, this week in the 90's and by Saturday we are back to a high of 52...crazy. Trying to harden off the tomatoes in hopes of planting them this weekend.

Thank you so much to both of you...your personalities and knowledge is wonderful...love it and love what you do and love the humor so much!

Thanks to you guys, I now have French Breakfast radishes about to be ready to get into my tummy (a week away), some purple broccoli that is looking AMAZING, and I direct-sowed a whole bunch of stuff that I haven never grown before and am so pumped to see it pop soon. Really stepped up my game this year, and I blame you for it. In a good way.

I used the stake support/tie back method for my mints last summer. They were so bushy they were shading out other plants. Worked great.

My megaton jalapeño seeds I bought from botanical interests are starting to put out peppers now! So many flowers too. I’ve neglected them big time but they are still thriving. They may or may not be in their nursery pots with roots out the bottom 😅 I know I know, first year growing anything I’m learning 🤣 transplanting asap

@epichomesteading

Ай бұрын

Love to hear it! It's a cool variety

I'm so ready to get into my own garden! Our last frost date is next week. Can't wait to start moving all of my seedlings outside.

I'm loving the back-to-back uploads!!! I appreciate you guys 🙌

Thank you for the very helpful videos .👍 This is our first year.planting our garden. When are the cabbage suppose to start forming the cabbage?

Great post, I loved that you try to claim being behind when the garden is flourishing 😁 Excellent duo!

A bit behind as well due to the cold spring we have been having, won't be getting into overnight temps above 50 till this weekend so I can finally plant out all my peppers mostly Bahamian Goats/Scotch Bonnets, and get my determinant tomatoes in the ground.

Acting classes are paying off for Jacques 😂

I can't even see chamomile now without saying "cham-mom-milee" in my head. 😂

All my tomato seedlings died, so when I planted everything else out yesterday, I planted tomato seeds too. I'm prayimg for them to germinate because last year I had NO tomatoes and it was a very sad summer. Here in 6b, I never put plants out until after Mothers day but I believe our last frost this year was 3 weeks ago.

This was a fun style of video. Thanks for sharing. I just had a baby so I’m actually behind! You guys are doing great!! 🪴💚

Loving all the flowers! You guys are fun

8:31 My 10 tomato plants all had perfect roots like that pepper when I transplanted outside a few days ago. Its always fun to have things work out well. Nice looking peppers Kev! I'm excited for my peppers this year as well

I like your style. Planting here and there confuses the insects too. So much fun learning here. Thanks.

I'm still waiting to plant, we just got snow today :(. I'm about a month away from planting. All my seedlings look good though :). I'm like Kevin, I need a planned garden but I will be adding more flowers everywhere like Jaq. :)

You 2 need to learn how to love hog panels, for vertical. They work beautifully for all of the vine plants, and those poppies love them. JS

Looking forward to the vertical squash! If you could show how you prune them - I am attempting the same for the first time this year.

You guys are fun together and obviously good friends.

I have peppers started but don't ask me what kind. I seem to like to surprise myself. I'm absolutely horrible about labeling. 😂 Fingers crossed that my Jimmy's made the cut!

@kevinbossick8374

Ай бұрын

I don’t label either. I do make a video so I know what they are later.

Well Trent, it's excellent to see you and Jaques working at it once again.

I love watching the hens came running to the brussel sprouts!❤❤❤❤❤❤

Me too! Just got the tiny peppers into the ground as it's been too cold on the coast south of LA. The tomatoes are doing great but the bananas will not ripen enough to cut! I direct seed cucumbers, melons, and squash (both).

I used your ‘tie up the flowers’ technique on my sweet peas. They just wanted to wander all over the place so I ran twine around the entire patch at three different heights. It has worked great!

@epichomesteading

Ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

So, you need more land! I’d love to see you with a couple acres 👏👍

@epichomesteading

Ай бұрын

I do!

@kkeenan536

Ай бұрын

@@epichomesteading 😆

I did something new this year, where I still made a plan for all of my raised beds, in ground beds, etc. To maoe sure I was sowing enough seeds, but not entirely TOO MANY, for the space I have, But I kind of switched things up, once I got to the point to actually plant, I planted things in different spots & mixed a lot more flowers into my raised beds this year. Last year I only planted veggies in my vegetable beds (whereas I usually do a lot of flowers mixed in, & not just companion plants- Inspired by The Lawrence Family Garden 😊) & this year I definitely wanted to get back to mixing them in my vegetable beds. It looks so pretty & attracts more pollinators!

I’m also late, 9A Texas, and ngl I’ve been sad about it. It’s my first year growing anything! Seeing peoples garden producing like crazy when I still haven’t transplanted most. Seeing this makes me feel better!

@lelurve

Ай бұрын

If it makes you feel better, I’m in 10b and my pepper seedlings are still 1in and most still have no leaves 😢 I started them in March!

@epichomesteading

Ай бұрын

Get after it!!

Watching this and thinking I would love to glean from your garden as you turn it over to your late Spring / Summer crops!

@SouthFloridaSunshine

Ай бұрын

Some hotties! 😂🤣😂

I Russia we always plant a pair of capsicum about 15cm apart... It's for making shade for each other as well as support. It doesn't impact on harvest..

Another fun video! Love you guys!

I love how wild the homestead is getting. Wild and free......!

Nice kevin, I'm going for long and big pepper harvests this year. Gonna be making ALL of the dried spices!

I wholeheartedly agree with planning your garden based on vibes. It’s worked for me for years!

Potato/Chard Soup: Steam chard but don't keep the water (too much oxalates). Boil potatoes - keep that water. Make a gravy with 1% milk, whole wheat flour, onions, garlic, veggie spices cooked in butter. Blend. A really tasty way to use a lot of chard.

Lucky for you to plant out peppers. Here on east Vancouver Island still too cold for tender vegetables. Lows to 2-3C or 35-40F. Such a cold spring.

Love these two together.

Oh my gosh! Thank you for not only the garden share and education but I literally laughed so hard at the pedicure story I think I was given a gift of life and longevity. The more I watched the better I felt …the better I feel … the longer I live! Anyway Thank you guys! 💕

My fav videos are the ones with the two of you playing off of each other, LOL! I was also admiring all the beautiful flowers at the homestead! Everything looks fantastic.

I love all of your content. I consider myself an experienced gardener, but I always learn something new from your videos every time I watch them. You are the only gardening KZread channel that I can listen to every day. In fact, my kids are getting sick of hearing Kevin's voice!

I love it when the two of you get together.

Can't wait to see the rest! Btw i love cowhorn, cherry, and tobasco peppers

I’m in SE Texas. No excuse for not planting. I planted bare root strawberries in a greenstalk that I haven’t stacked yet. They’re scattered in the yard with green strawberries on them. I have 3 tomato plants that I moved from 4” pots to large drink cups from Sonic. There is 1 tomato that’s almost 2”wide. 🤦🏼‍♀️ I’ve been working on an in-ground melon patch for over a year. First cardboard. I started dumping quail trays with poop and shavings onto it in November. Stopped in March. I forked it a few times. It still seems too soft and poopy to plant. I think about my garden all the time. I just can’t get out and do anything about it. 😫

I do hope that beautiful pond is doing well

I love you guys! Just make my day.

What's the name of the sunflower next to the poppies? Those are beautiful and I love the structure

I was only 2 minutes into watching this video and I had to stop everything and go to the Botanical Interest's website to buy that awesome hat that Kevin is wearing... & this is after I just bought a TON of seeds during the Memorial Day sale! 🌻

I bought some new grow lights this year because I had a lot more seeds to start than the past 2 years and for some reason most of my seedlings were doing poorly. Barely growing at all after sprouting and they all ended up shriveling and dying. Not sure if I overwater or not enough. Now I’m back to square zero starting over this week. Too bad I really wanted to try Brussels and broccoli but I fear it may to be hot here now in zone 8a. I also got strawberries for the first time, planted them, and it immediately got below 40 degrees and they all died before they even sprouted. I’m just having horrible luck this year.

I live in a city and don’t have a huge lot size (mostly by design…less yard maintenance). Someday I kind of want to remove my tiny backyard lawn and just replace it with garden beds. I don’t quite think I’m ready for backyard chickens. I also want to replace the hostas up front with rhubarb plants. Still decorative, but edible.

Love watching your episodes I've learned a lot in regards to gardening. One thing that I have noticed though is that Jacques loves to keep his hands on his hips😂😂😂😂

I love the laughing when you two start your videos!!

My scotch bonnets are around the same size. Sowed in February.