Hello my dear yes the long stems you held up is the runner. The original plant is called the mother. Runners are the daughters. If the daughters touch soil they will root and now you have a new plant. But, as long as the mother is connected to the daughter energy will go to the daughter instead of producing your 🍓🍓🍓Do you want more plants for next year?

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Oh that makes sense. So should I have been rooting the runners the whole time and they would have kept producing?

@theheardhomestead

Ай бұрын

@@AGardenersJourneyHomestead yup they would have made you new plants for next year. If you root them you have to wait to make sure they have secured themselves in the dirt before cutting them from the mother. It’s like an umbilical cord. If you cut it before they root the new baby plant can easily die. If you want a nice strawberry patch for next year you can keep rooting them to stock up on plants. If you want the mother to give you strawberries, root the babies and cut them from connecting. Oh and “daughters” send out more daughters. So the runner can get very long with a new plant on it about every 10-12 inches.

Barb, u b cracking me up! Great onion harvest. U two are a great team.

@marygrott8095

Ай бұрын

Barbara is hysterical! I think she makes me laugh in every video.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Yes he's a good partner!

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

@@marygrott8095 Lol thank you!!

Great harvest Barbara that's what I am talking about growing your own groceries ❤❤❤

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

We must!

Yes that's a runner. Place the small leafy spot that's at the end. On soil so it can take root , that's a new plant do that for each one. That will grow and production will begin again.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

I can do that now?

Beautiful harvest friend!

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thanks friend!

Great harvest Barbara. Way to go ❤😊

Congratulations on your harvest !❤

“The runner”, the part that has the long string has several strawberry plant on it. the part that has the leaves & young roots is a new plant . You have 3 to 4 new strawberry plants on the runner.

You may get weeds but the harvest is still plenty! Sounds like a sermon topic!

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Yes it absolutely does!

Congratulations such a beautiful haul. You did great girl even with those what I call bad weeds.

Once it has taken root then you can clip the connecting vine. Not until it takes root. Give your plants some 5:11 to help it spread and start producing.

Just love how you show it like it is!! Amazing harvest. I'm almost 61 and I have the 1 foot raised beds and a enclosed garden with just dirt rows. I make it a point to just pull a few weeds in the morning or evening when the sun's not so hot. I don't mind the bending it's great exercise for me so far lol. I just bring a small pail n pull a bit and enjoy a walk through.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Yes that is a good practice!

I'm 72 and have a garden to work raise beds is the answer I know you are happy about your harvest get those beds I have the 17 in.

Now THATS what I'm talkin bout! Yall did that! Wonderful wonderful harvest. Whatever you all decide on the beds is the right decision. 😉

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

While I have not experienced growing strawberries yet, yes those are runners. From all the research I have done on YT, you can place those in dirt and they will root. The spot where you see a small plant on the vine.

TELL HIM MORE AND MORE THAT YOU LOVE HIM❤BLACK LOVE

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Indeed!

Good afternoon, praise the Lord for the harvest onions looks good to me❤️

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

HEY BARBARA, YES THOSE LONG STRINGY VINES ARE YOUR RUNNERS, AT THE POINT WHERE YOU SEE (HAVE) SOME SPROUTING LEAVES (LIKE AN ELBOW AREA) YOU PLACE THAT PIECE OF THE PLANT IN SOME SOIL UNTIL IT ESTABLISHES ITSELF (YOUR NEW CROWN) FOR A NEW STRAWBERRY PLANT AND ONCE IT'S ESTABLISHED YOU CAN CUT FROM THE MOTHER PLANT....GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR RUNNERS 🍓🍓🍓👍🏽👍🏽😊😉🙏🏽🙏🏽

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

I can do this now in the Greenstalk?

@sheilab329

Ай бұрын

YES, IF YOU HAVE SOIL IN ANOTHER POCKET OF THE GREEN STALK AND ROOM FOR IT TO GROW....GO FOR IT SIS 😊👍🏽🍓🍓😊

The cost is why I garden in the ground.😊Nice onions.I'm going to set one day this week to pulling weeds,ugh.

Congratulations on your harvest! That’s the way I felt when I got my onions! It was my biggest and best harvest of onions to date! I was about to do the ”happy dance” out in the garden! Now, if only I can figure out how to get the rest of my stuff to grow in this Texas heat!

Very nice onion harvest Barbara! You’re awesome for dealing with those weeds. I surely would have had the hubs come pull those for me. I have my limits. 😂 One thing I noticed is it looked like your onions had more growing to do. The greens were very lush and large. They typically fall over when they’re ready. That could have been one reason they were hard to pull out as well. I’ve found when they are really ready, they just pull right out. That’s my own experience though. Enjoy!

your garden is beautiful! you help encourage me to get out and do what ever I can. love your channel! thank you for sharing your journey.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thanks and I am glad you are encouraged!

yesssss shout out for THE husband

I'm so happy for your harvest. Do it again the same way. Deal with the weeds as best as you can. Great video.❤

Barbra that was a great harvest😁

Love the boots!! Great harvest of onions!!👏🏽💞

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Nice harvest Barbara,my onions didn't do too well this summer.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Oh no-what happened?

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾for your back believe i know what you mean i am 77 and believe i know 😂 especially when i bend and pick my harvest.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

You are doing great!!

Barbara, instead of contending for the faith, you’re fighting for the food 😂. Beautiful harvest, congratulations!

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Yes sis! I am trying to do both!

Hey Barbara. Great onion harvest. As long as you have a husband with a good back, put those onions back in the ground next year.😂😂

Great harvest

Do it again. Absolutely.

Excellent onion harvest. Raised beds would be nice, but free might be the way to go until you get a sponsor for them.

wow! Great harvest & ur garden looks fantastic!

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Tell them you love them while they are above ground. I pray you can get sponsors for those beds because the soil is not cheap to fill them.I have the fabric bags and the ones that have six pockets. I have to use my chair at times.All that bending ain't no joke😅. Congrats on the onions. I can't eat to many, so I buy only a few.I do the bunching onions.

Hi Barbara! I love your personality and your garden enthusiasm, you are awesome girl. And yes, your onion harvest is awesome too!. I am an enthusiastic gardener as well. I'm 67 years old and I have a much smaller garden location. When you can get those container beds, get them. In the meantime, you definitely should continue growing onions. I have been growing them for almost 12 years now and I am bold enough to tell you that mine always come out "pearl size" lol. I have used a lot of nitrogen and everything, but I guess I was not using enough. I have been using Dixondale forever but this fall, I will order the fertilizer for the first time as well. Perhaps that was the key. Anyway, I have the Vego beds. At my age, gardening has to get easier. You are going to love them when you get yours and I pray that you get a sponsor because you are a working gardener. I totally agree with you, gardening is hard work, and your videos are going to bring you favor. I have 10 containers altogether, but only 6 are set up and in use. I live in Georgia, where it is hot and humid as well. Do you take emails? I have a couple of containers brand new, but they are 32 inches tall. Here is my email if you are interested:ahgrower60@gmail.com. In any case, i enjoy your videos. Simply awesome!

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much and yes, you can email me! If you are interested in selling them-let me know! 32 inches tall is the real high ones!

Put those onions in the ground and learn from this year.

I have back pain as well. and i refuse to stop/fight for your food is a must

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

We must!

Great harvest! Add some coffee grounds to the soil with your strawberries.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thanks. What does that do?

@krystalevans-gardenqueen3752

Ай бұрын

@@AGardenersJourneyHomestead it helps produce more strawberries.

❤,I think you guys should do what you did again! And your husband already has a plan worked out! And yes ma'am always brag on the Hubby!!❤❤ You guys are beautiful!

Yes do it again.

Girl, do it again it’s worth it for sure ❤

I would do it a again great harvest sis

EPIC EPIC lol yes

Barbara , the small onions are sold in the store and people like me who are single. They don’t need a lot of onions. I don’t wanna waste them by them so that’s a great harvest. And what are you going to do with the green onions? They will make great green onion powder c

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Oh I did not even think about that? Are you referring to the onion tops?

Everything you grabbed was a runner if you stick every cluster of leaves into a starter pot and let them root then snip them off mom and replant where you want, I clothes pin little pots of dirt to my green stalk, push a runner snuggly to the dirt and they will root into the pot

Barbara, Save your back and save that money to purchase raised beds for next year onions 🌰 😊

Barbara, So jealous of the watermelons . I am in western NY My goal was to have watermelons and I have maybe 7 plants but your are so pretty.. lol

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

You can get some knee pads and crawl along your rows and harvest your food. GREAT JOB!

Hi Barbara. Thank you for you spirit and spunk! Can you please share where you got your beautiful pink shirt. Your o nion harvest is wonderful!!! Don't forget about your great shirt. Thanks so much.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

I am sorry I cannot remember -I am pretty sure I bought it at the Homestead festival last year.

@mariaoshoko8289

Ай бұрын

Blessings, Thank you.

Hi, Those are all runners!! I stick my runners inside another empty pocket. I don't know if you can cut them and replant them. I follow "Yellowdoorurbanhomestead", and she grows lots of strawberries. I would ask her. I have lots of strawberry plants in my Greenstalk but no strawberries and I barely got any berries!🤔 I'm kinda upset. 😡This is my first time growing strawberries. 🤷

Everbearing strawberries will come and go. It has been so hot I am only getting a couple berries now off a 12’ by 12’ patch. Yes those stems coming out are runners. You can cut them off and plant them

I vote to do the onions in the same spot , just with the revision your husband suggested. My reason for saying that is because 1) You got an awesome onion harvest and 2) If tou don't have to buy the raised beds, you can save that money for the dog you really want.(I forgot the breed.) Just my opinion. Will that amount of onions get you through a whole year?

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Hmm not sure on the onion count because I have never had this many. We will see!

yrs the "new plant" is the runner.. BUT you have to get roots on the ends of them before your cut them off!! I didn't and they died.

I would love to know when you order and plant your onions so I can mimic you as we are in the same growing zone.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Of course! I plant the last week of February/1st March. Typically order them in November.

❤❤❤❤❤

My vote. make raised with tin Jealous of those boots😍

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Yes these boots I love!

I love seeing your awesome harvest. I have a 17 inch raised bed. It’s good if you have a seat but if I’m standing I’m wishing for a 32 inch high raised bed. I’m 5 ft 7. Just something to consider. All those onions look great to me. I planted a few this spring in a grow bag now I’m wondering if I should transplant them so they can grow bigger.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Yes 32 inch would be awesome but that is even more money!

@RoscheetaMonique

Ай бұрын

@@AGardenersJourneyHomestead it is.

I started typing this last night and my phone died. Lol. So on the strawberries. I know some major channels have greenstalks for strawberries, but the math has never worked for me. I started with 4 plants and rooting runners(around 12 years ago). A few years ago we were finally getting enough berries for a mess of strawberry shortcake, and this year we had 1 mess, I have a gallon bag in the freezer, and the last 2 quarts were lost to me not getting them cleaned in time. Theoretically this year would have been probably another 1/3 bigger, but since they started turning 2 weeks after I broke my foot, it was on the kids to do all the picking and while they are young adults, gardening isn't their passion, so where I would pick and weed simultaneously, they would skip super weedy sections or not pick berries up off the ground and prop them up, so we lost a lot more to rot, ants, slugs, etc than most years. But like I said, I am more diligent about going out once a day then twice a day during the peak if the season. Normally we start picking memorial day week, this year our season started 2 weeks early and we run to mid-June for our season. I want to say when we lived near Gallatin Mom would buy berries late April to May down there. But quantity.... I have hundreds of plants. They are my weed suppression secret. I plant something, and it gets surrounded by berry plants. The leaves shade out many of the weeds, and mulch does the rest. I just can't imagine getting enough berry plants in a greenstslk to be worth it. Oh, and the long things you had on thd berry plants, those are runners, and if they don't find soil, they will send out another runner.... kinda like spider plant babies do. Congrats on the onions! I vote in ground.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the explanation on the strawberries and I am going to look at some other channels that are growing them in Greenstalks. And thanks for your vote!

He bless one's. He bless you again in that same bed good job 😅

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Amen I receive that.

Vote: raised beds. Get you a sponsor, girl.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Yes I need a sponsor!

Yes Do It🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Raised Bed is way to go

Invest in 5 beds and the rest in ground

In my opinion, the yellow and red ones are the ones that are truly _Grocery Store_ size as they are the 'average-sized' ones you would find in a *_BAG of onions._* The large ones are the ones you would buy _individually_ in the grocery store. Just my opinion.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

That is a good observation and true!! I forgot about the bag of onions you buy in the store.

I vote for garden beds. I'm sixty two, and I can't imagine bending over like you did. I'd have go get on the ground to pull them, and then call the fire department to come get me up. The first time I grew onions, in a garden bed they were grocery store size. I love pearl onions and that's about all I got. You still have grocery store size. I always buy the three pound bags, and they're about the size of your smaller ones.

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Ok good to know!!

🎉hi barbra my name is kathy i live in tennessee to manchester in fact love your gardens all of them where are you located

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Welcome Kathy! I am in Pulaski.

Just make smaller holes.

Garden bench r pad So you stressing your back

What fertilizer do you use when planting and as they grow?

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Dixondale 10-20-10 fertilizer for onions

Do it again the way you did. Just find a way around the weeds unless you get a sponsor.

Why didn't you wait for the onions to bend at the neck to harvest? I thought that's what we're supposed to do. 🤔

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Hey! Yes true1 I went ahead and pulled them because the temps here have changed and well over 90 and too much heat will make them bolt, plus there was going to be another week pf rain and I was tired of looking at them lol. But they had been in the ground their maturity time of 100 days.

raised beds save your back, as we get older.

@guineapigsarecute1118

Ай бұрын

ive been adding 2 per year. plus one green stalk lol

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

agreed!

We all know you will be planting more onions. Girl stop playing with us. & I'm 52 with 12" beds...

@AGardenersJourneyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Lol you right!!!

No Ma’am. Please keep your $3000 in your pocket for now and use what you have.

Raised beds, investing for your future garden save-your-back self🧅🧅🧅🧅