I know y'all are busy and have a lot to do. But I really think you should consider this suggestion. From personal experience, I believe an above ground irrigation system is better than a drip system or an in ground system. You can design it any way you like. I have found that the magic number is 8 ft above the ground. The nozzle should be pointed toward the ground. I use an adjustable nozzle to control the width of the spray. I also create watering zones with PVC ball valves. Personally I like to irrigate at night. The system imitates a gentle rain. Not only does the ground get a good soaking but the above ground greenery gets a good bath. Keeps the plants clean and has a tendency to wash off parasitic bugs. Just a thought.

First, happy birthday Jacob!🎉 Heres a thought for watering away from the house. 55 gallon drums. Put in a faucet at the bottom that you can hook a hose to. Put the drums up on your truck bed, fill them up. Then you just drive the truck over and water your garden. This won't work for areas to big of course. But if might be just enough to get your garden thru to when it finally does rain. Just a thought for anyone out there with this problem. I know all about praying for rain, as i live down in phoenix az. Going to be 106 here today!

@Maria-ql3fc

Ай бұрын

100 here today with 100% humidity that makes it feel so much hotter.

@delphine88313

Ай бұрын

Same in Jacksonville, Florida

The bugs have been so bad because we didn't really have much of a winter. And then all that rain at the beginning. We are all struggling in some form or fashion this year. We just have to keep going and do the best we can.

With my tomatoes, I just cut off the bottom sun branches to keep the plants off the ground. They do better than full pruning.

@danabaker596

Ай бұрын

I agree. I only took off bottoms that were on the ground and looked kind of "rough". Other than that, I let them grow, and it's usually just fine. Lots of tomatoes! I get overwhelmed by all the "you have to prune correctly", "you have to get this sucker, and that sucker, but not this one". 😂😂 Sometimes we have to "let go and let God" be in control.

Hey ya'll! Praying for rain for everyone! We are an hour from the coast, in Bladen county, and everything has dried up. Since the hailstorm a month ago, we've had no rain at all. Thank God I preserved more than normal last year. Everyone need to learn the old ways. I'm very blessed and have an old well to water my garden and animals.

That little boy is being raised right. He will be so a head of the game. I was raised like this and worked in tobacco every summer and bought my school clothes. My Parents would buy them for us but we wanted to help them all we could. I am glad to see kids being raised in the country.

Thank the lord he provided you with a good hay supply. He will provide. Happy birthday to JACOB!

Happy Birthday🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ praying your drought breaks with refreshing and needful rain🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Congratulations Jacob on your first cucumber out of your garden that’s awesome to pick your first cucumber out of your garden

Love you guys, thanks for showing us your beautiful place. HAPPY BIRTHDAY J MAN 🎂🍓🍇🛝🏆🎖️🎈🎉🎊 Praying for rain for y’all and others in your area.❤️✝️🕊🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I have 3 Marketmore cucumber vines growing in an arched cattle panel and have canned 16 jars sweet pickles, 20 relish and 12 jars of Christmas pickles. We pick and eat cucumbers everyday and now am giving cucumbers to all the neighbors. All that from just 3 plants and there are tons of baby cukes on the vines. I'm new to your channel and am really enjoying ya'll being real.

Happy Birthday Jacob 🎈🎂🎈 enjoy yr special day

And God we are finally getting some much needed rain

Praying for rain for all the farmers and homesteaders. Is there any way for you to come up with a rain catchment system? My garden is really really small, but I added grow bags this year and asked for a 75 gallon water drum that we hooked up to the rain gutters. I feel good during these hot days of over 100 degrees, I have that “extra” to draw from to water those bags. Dumb question…why doesn’t anyone make sweet pickles? 😋😂 have a great day! 😊

@Maria-ql3fc

Ай бұрын

I do make some sweet pickles for salads and such, but we eat more dills than sweets. I like bread and butter pickles but my son won't eat them.

@karend8575

Ай бұрын

@@Maria-ql3fc thank you for replying! Stay cool!

You are probably like us ---- nothing goes to waste! Chickens love cukes, and tomatoes with worm holes and collards with bug bites and weird watermelons and melons. And what the hens won't eat, the hogs will.

I lost my two little squash plants. But I was told I could replant and they would still make.

@Maria-ql3fc

Ай бұрын

Inject the plants with BT as soon as they start blooming and also spray the plants late in the evening.

Happiest Birthday Jacob!! You are awesome!!!

I heard that if the cucumber didn't fill out it was a pollination issue. 🤷

The length of your videos are really perfect. I watch them when I have a break from my garden work, learn some things, have some inspiration and than I go again to the garden. Thank you so much ❤

Had an old apple farmer tell us he used baby powder on the lower limbs of his trees to help with deer. Said it dries their mouth out. A few years ago we started using it and it took care of all the deer and rabbits eating our garden plants. Any time we find any eaten areas we but it on plant’s and we are good, plus it’s cheap.

Been in the middle 90's here in Kentucky for 9 days got a couple of good rain showers last night thank God.

My project is nowhere near as big as your's. But I still have the same struggles with water, heat, cold, etc. But if I wasn't doing this, I'd be dead by now. I love it. And my wife loves too. Togetherness. Keep on keepin on!

You're a girl out of my own heart. My 95 year old Dad taught me how to can jam and pickles just like you. Use hot brine and flip those jars upside down . I store them in a dark place for a couple of days, then I refrigerator them. I won't make them any other way.❤

Thank you for answering my question about my crooked cucumbers All of mine are that way I live in South Central Kentucky in a town called Scottsville. It is extremely dry here. It came a very small rain yesterday but not as much as we need

@debraflecker151

Ай бұрын

Me too! I was so happy to hear that, I've never had a cucumber do that before this year!

The largest cucumbers are great for cinnamon pickles

@freesianlover

Ай бұрын

@angelalott9370- what are cinnamon pickles? How do you make them?

Lack of complete pollination is a cause of "crooked little tail" on cucumbers. Heat has nothing to do with it.

@hermithillfarm1123

Ай бұрын

I came to say this, not much pollination, nothing to do with moisture

@Maria-ql3fc

Ай бұрын

I know, that's what I learned many years ago. I'm 73 been gardening most of my life.

Love the videos. I was watching while working all weekend and an older video popped up when you went to the nursery. It occurred to me where about ya’ll are located. The wife is from NC, we spent several years over around Goldsboro, then moved to the Charlotte area and spent another several years before coming back home to Arkansas. I know it’s a lot of work but I appreciate all of your videos and look forward to the next one. Just know there are more people like me that enjoy the videos. Thanks for all you do. Jeff in AR.

The odd thing about this oppressive heat this time of year around here, is the total lack of thunder storms in the evening.

Happy birthday to Jacob ! Great looking cucumber he is growing. Love the videos.

Happy Blessed Birthday To Jacob 〽️🎊 🎉 🎈

Sorry about your peppers, Megan. Hope someone knows what caused that so it doesn't happen again. I'm learning from you, Megan. I'm going to get a pressure cooker and follow you to learn more. Especially how to can meat. :)

I’ve always heard those misshapen cucumbers didn’t get pollinated very well.

Happy birthday Jacob 🎉

Megan, make sure to detassle the corn. (Pull those tops off). It will make your corn bigger. It causes all the energy of the plant to go in the corn. Next time you plant, try 1 dead minnow and 3 corn seeds, thin out to save the best one after they come up. Hope that helps if your interested.

Love your videos particularly because they are always interesting and lengthy.So much to see and you show us almost a day in your lives. Love seeing the children as well as your animals and watching you cook in your kitchen keep them coming and I'll continue to watch !!

My Grandma would make pickles . She did both Dill and Sweet pickles. I was so young at the time. Didn't realize how easy. Thank you for sharing your day with us.

I gotta say, regardless of which farm animal you are speaking of, they are happy! You raise happy animals. 😊

Happy birthday Jacob :)😊

Thanks for sharing 👍🤓👍❤dill pickles, never tried making them...yet👍😜 thank you

I just love watching you guys working together.

👍 it's going to be a hot summer here in Colorado 😎🐢 and I do feel like I'm going through a little bit of burnout 🔥🌿🔥 thank you I appreciate your inspiration

Missouri’s not feeding hay yet but if the rain doesn’t come soon we’ll be in the same boat. Never remember this being this hot and dry in June

I love caraway seeds in my pickles, 1/2 tsp per quart jar plus garlic. Also, I have one tomato that has produced six thick (about 16"-18") sucker branches, so I've taken those and planted them deep in the ground in wet soil removing all but the tip top small branches, watering them three times a day for three days in this heat, and they've all taken off like crazy. They look wilted at first but come around after a couple of days. Should have some good tomatoes shortly. One day I was picking the weeds out of the top of the brick fence surrounding my property and thought to myself that if there's good dirt in there for weeds, why not plant tomato seeds in the top of the fence and let them grow down. I did, and they are growing nicely, too. Who'd have thought to do that? Lived in this house 65 years, and just now my pea brain came up with that idea. Lolol.

That is how I've always made my pickels. Nice video today~ We are having historic flooding right now, I wish I could send some of our water your way~

@Maria-ql3fc

Ай бұрын

Oh I wish you could too. It's so dry here even the grass won't grow.

Great video as always. Happy Birthday to your little man!!

Happy Birthday Jacob!!! You are doing a great job with your garden. I am very proud of you. It is very hot and pretty dry here in East TN too. I hate the toll that the weather has taken on yours and everyone else's farms. All I know to do is talk to the Maker of the rain. He knows your needs. Meagan, I love your positive outlook. You and Andy balance each other out perfectly. ❤🙏🙏

good morning, love love love that you share with us. I made tomato cages with concrete rebar mesh. Mine are 5 ft tall and about 2.5 ft in diam and they work great with the 6in x 6in grid. I have tomato clips if they get to heavy and need tied up. This year I actually bought a saddle hoe or a stirup hoe and what an amazing Hoe i so wish i have it long ago, best and easiest weeding tool I have ever used. what would take a 2x4 section to hand weed 30 mins took me 45 seconds. you all keep doing what you do , its amazing!

@missouribroad978

Ай бұрын

I bought my first stirrup hoe a few weeks ago and man does it make quick work of weeding. Love that garden tool!

Love watching you guys.

My Grandma would add blue food coloring to her pickles cause she wanted them pretty on her table lol

Soak your cucumbers in cold water for several hours after picking. It pulls moisture back in and gives really crispy pickles. It also keeps the slicers from getting that rubbery feel! Love your videos!

Good morning from Oregon😊 Praying for rain that’s needed for all of you. We are pretty mild here and the garden is well on its way❤ have a blessed day

Enjoyed yall, Jacob. his first Beautiful Cucumber, awesome! Hopefully rain will come soon!!!!!! Ms. Ruby😊❤🙏

Happy Birthday Jacob! Hope you have a great one! Also, I can't believe Megan don't put peppercorns in her pickles, lol.

Y'all's garden looks beautiful! Though this area definitely needs a good soaking rain. Over here in northeast Tennessee, we missed a good chance for rain last night (Sunday). My phone weather was showing rain and lightening bolts from about 4:00 thru midnight but we didn't get a drop. The wind did pick up and temp dropped a little, so somebody might have gotten some. Megan, those dill pickles look so pretty! Have a good week and I'll see you next time!

I made a video about why cucumbers look like that, especially in dry weather. Cucumbers need to be pollinated multiple times to form nice cucumbers. With a lower moisture level they are less likely to attract pollinators because of less nectar and pollin. You'll notice that there aren't seeds in the smaller areas of the cucumbers because they weren't completely. pollinated

Love seeing you both working together in harmony despite the pests and drought. You are resourceful and well prepared! Wishing Jacob a fun Happy Birthday!! He sure was proud of his first cucumber !! Thank you for teaching me how to making pickles !! I can’t wait till my plants produce enough for a couple jars!! Praying for rain for you all! ❤

@sandrapresnal5486

Ай бұрын

Love you guys. I feel like I am part of the family ❤️. Happy birthday young man. I pray you have a wonderful day 🙏. Thank you so much for letting us be a small part of your life. I look forward to every video and love the way you are raising your children. That's how I was raised and I wouldn't change it for the world. Love you guys ❤.. and pray for your family daily.

I love your enthusiasm about gardening. There isn’t anything better than homegrown vegetables ❤

Oh man I’m so jealous. I want to make pickles so so bad.❤

You may already do this, but we love squash sliced thin and rolled in meal and I deep fry it like I’m frying fish! Get it brown and my daughter loves it a little crispy, you have you to stay with it it will burn quick, we still love it cooked with onions to but fried is our favorite

Oh my slow down… I am dizzy…still love y’all though…❤️❤️

We're also having to feed hay (lower SC). We're definitely rain deficient and already hitting most 100*. Yesterday's heat index was 114*. Im already over it. Ha!

Give those banana peppers some gypsum . It could be a calcium deficiency instead of insect damage. We don't usually have pest that loves peppers. Pickle worms got the majority of my cukes this year and that was a first for me. Soaker hoses would work better than the over head watering and no evaporation or causing disease like powdery mildew. We are in a serious drought in Alabama too. Thankfully I sold all my chickens a month ago, but I'm having to water my garden every day on city water so you know my bill is going to be huge, but I can't let all that hard work and money die. When watering that often I feed the plants once a week with Agrothrive fruit and flower. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACOB!🎂🍿🍭🍰🍧

The vine borers got my first planting of zucchini last year. I did my second planting in early July and had a bumper crop. It's looking to be about the same this year. I'll be planting again next week. Enjoyed the vid. God bless.

Enjoyed it! Happy Birthday to Jacob 🎂 He is one fine boy🥰

Nice cucumber too Jacob ..natural grower!

Good comment Andy been after my raised beds for five years. I'm on the struggle bus this year too. Keep trying.

This video never gets old, I believe I’ve watched it 10 times. I love watching you can your food. I used your recipe and tasted the brine before putting it on my cucumbers and it was great! I love your videos.❤

Hi y’all! Love your teepees! I use these too and they are so pretty! I always poke them in the ground in a circle first then bring the top together and tie them. Makes them very sturdy 😊 everything is looking so great! Take care and God bless you!

2 thumbs up 👍 team True Grit~! p.s. i think i know why the zucchini are attacked when i was a youngster, my italian neighbor would take the flowers🏵 and lightly cook them in egg batter, they were soooooo delicious~!!

Those cows have pretty coats! Good job keeping them going.

IM SURPRISED YOU DON'T HAVE RAIN CATCHMENT YOU HAVE A LOT OF GARDEN AND EXTRA WATER WOULD BE A BLESSING

I was always told those half filled cucumbers was from incomplete pollination?. We finally got about 1/4" rain overnight after 3 weeks no rain. I dry farm cause the only water I have is rain collection. Your garden looks awesome!

@Maria-ql3fc

Ай бұрын

It is lack of complete pollination

Little melons look like acorn squash. Your right it's better than nothing

I can’t wait for my little peach trees are going to make trees with peaches

I’ll let my Kentucky Wonders go shelley at the end of the summer last year. Cooked them like white beans and they were the creamiest best bean I believe I’ve ever eaten. Really enjoy your videos.

She said! No, i got it. She tough woman. Go girl.

My kids (8 yr old twins) would love hanging out with your kids so much. I see a lot of similarities.

I'm not sure what variety of zucchini you planted but I highly recommend pascola zucchini from Hoss Tools. I am growing them for the first time this year and they have done great so far.

Ya hauling water sux. Have fields and livestock to water everyday in this weather. Rain water is what plants really want and need, so we collect all we can or pull from ponds. Really see a difference than from faucets. Faucet water will keep things alive, but very lil growth will happen compared to rain!

@Maria-ql3fc

Ай бұрын

You would change your mind on that if you could see my garden. Watering every day from city water and have huge tomato plants loaded down with tomatoes may well over a lb.

@oops8985

Ай бұрын

@@Maria-ql3fc na you need to see the difference rain can do to plants.

Everytime I go to your channel I have been unsubscribed. I love watching you guys I don't know why utube keeps doing that!! It's happened at least 3 times. Hope their doing everyone that way!!

It's Dry As A Bone In Gainesville, Georgia... Praying For 🌧️

Droughts seem to be worse every year for me. You guys might want to think abought expanding your garden at the house and DRIP TAPE..... best thing I ever did. It just makes life so much easier. On top of that, the weed pressure is so much less between rows. I am supplementing my goats as well, not with hay yet thank God because I have to buy it, but things out of the garden like corn stalks and I'm starting to think about the peas. At least thinning. They were WAY to thick and I didn't have time to thin when they were little. So, may be time to thin or trim them.

I'M IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA, IT'S HOT AND DRY. MY GARDEN IS GONE BUT I'M ABLE TO GET THINGS FROM THE LOCAL FARMERS MARKET. LOVE Y'ALL AND YOUR VIDEOS.

I can't believe that garden has come on like it has,honey hush!! It's sure done good,hear me talkin to ya!

Good job on your cucumber ❤ your little garden is better than mine😀 praying for rain for you

Take the bigger cucumbers and peel them slice in 3/8 of an inch and eat them on bread and mayonnaise. Makes for good eating for a quick lunch on a hot and muggy day. No sence in feeding them to the chickens

I’ve noticed my cucumbers are bitter in hot weather but still make good 🥒 pickles

That’s going to make a lot of pickles 🥒 you guys work wonderful together I love your videos whatever you’re doing on that farm. Thank you. ❤️

Happy Birthday Jacob I hope you have a wonderful birthday

Put you up some cattle panels and boy you will reduce your work load a bunch.. use them for beans, tomatoes, cucumbers and you can even use them for squash. Gotta cut the bottom suckers off when you plant. Cattle Panel’s all the way!

Great video, it is bad dry here in Southeast Alabama. We are running our sprinkler every day. We started feeding with hay the other day.

I really enjoy y'all vlogs. I love your gardens.My husband and I said we see a new insect every year but we keep pushing. Thanks for sharing with us

I tried this dill pickle recipe for cucamelons . I think I only waited a week to try them and they are the best dill pickles I ever tasted !! No wonder your son won't eat store bought !

So once you know when they’re harvest just remember cause I have a pear tree and Asian Pear tree it’s 22 years old, but I get a lot of pairs and I harvest after about a week or two after the Fourth of July but everybody’s different so once you know, you know..document it someway

Happy, happy birthday Jacob!! 👏🏼🎂🎉 Aw, and yay, his first cucumber ripened! 👏🏼🥒 That's great! Funny that the cows can get some fresh peaches too, lol. I really hope y'all get some rain. Always enjoy your cooking and canning! ❤

We’ve had over 8” of rain in the last month in Wisconsin; I’ve never seen anything like it. Every other day or two it pours rain.

I bought an overhead sprinkler for the grandkids to play in

that s what encouraged me to learn how to bake my own bread , around $7 a loaf of bread with a list of ingredients I can't pronounce , no thank you , some ferment good quality flour and water , some patience and good technique to practice to make a good dough and you 've got delicious bread

Y’all, I planted radishes under my zucchini and squash. No vine borers or squash bug yet! Maybe give it a try. I also have distributed marigolds thru the garden. I believe in companion planting.

I had a old timer tell me to put mouth balls around the base of the squash plant, it would keep squash bugs out