Greenhouses enable year-round cultivation of crops by providing controlled temperature and humidity conditions, allowing farmers to grow cool-season vegetables like collards, broccoli, and citrus trees regardless of outdoor weather conditions; successful greenhouse design requires proper ventilation systems, shade panels, and adequate air circulation to prevent overheating while maintaining optimal growing conditions.
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Added:Hello everybody.
>> Hey. Hey.
>> We're here. We had an alarm set and it did not go off.
>> Yeah, I just happened to look at my phone.
>> How's everybody doing?
>> Hey, Meg's Little House in the country.
Hey, L and Tom. How are y'all this evening?
Our weather's okay. It looks like it's trying to be a little bit stormy, but I don't know. Is it supposed to storm?
>> Not that I know of.
>> Yeah, we did have some good rain this weekend, though.
>> Yep.
>> Hey, up and go.
How's it going?
>> Hey, Allison.
We're good. We're rocking and rolling.
Hey, Chris Smith.
Cooling off was 100 degrees today. Yeah, we'll be 104 Tuesday in Dallas. Oh my gracious, it's hot.
Hello from wet Mississippi. Hey, Susan Alexander.
>> No rain on the beach.
>> Hey, Glenda. [laughter] No rain here on the beach. H. Yeah, >> usually rains every day on the beach.
>> Yeah.
Hey, >> South Carolina.
>> What What is What is their name? Sio Green.
>> Okay.
Hi, Stormman in South Carolina.
>> Yep. That tropical storm, I guess, is heading up the coast.
>> Hey, Kelly.
>> She got her some seeds.
>> All right. Got some seeds and things you might be interested in. What'd you get?
Where'd you get them from?
Oh, Kelly's always finding a good bargain somewhere.
Uh, Meg's Little House, I'm glad to see you making scrubbies for my Etsy store while I watch. All right, >> nice.
>> Y'all go check out Meg's Etsy store. It is your store named Meg's Little House in the Country.
Put up your information here on your store.
>> Hey, Dorothy.
>> Hey, Dorothy.
>> Hey, Glenda.
>> [clears throat] >> Northern Cow Teen job on Good job on the fencing.
>> Thank you.
>> Oh, yeah.
Now we just got to get our Huh.
>> Tracy didn't even tell me that.
>> Yes, I did.
>> Um I got to get we got to get um a gate up. Yep. Right there on the page fence and then we'll be able to let our chickens out. It's a long time coming.
We've been talking [clears throat] about this for years.
>> Yes. More chickens, too. More chickens.
>> Yeah, we need more chickens. Our old girls are dying off.
So, we got to What? I counted them yesterday. We have 14 hens and two roosters left. That's all we've got. And we did have like 30 something.
>> And probably five or six of them is real old. They're probably not even laying anymore.
>> I think we got [clears throat] some hens out there. That was some of the first ones.
>> I know.
>> I think we do. [clears throat] They're old girls.
>> Mhm.
>> But I love the tour of your garden.
Beautiful. And lots of hard work. Oh, thank you.
>> You keep showing your nose hairs when you >> Sorry, [laughter] Shelby. Got them where got lots of seeds and seed starter pods and trays. Oh, wow.
>> I wish there was a way we could put the >> I know >> words over here.
>> We're going to get a better setup in the future.
>> Future. We're working >> back to the future.
>> Back to the future.
>> Did you already put honey mine or no?
>> No, it's still staping up.
>> I didn't want to put too much in there.
>> I am drinking a walk in the garden tonight and Jean is drinking his favorite, which is golden hour.
>> Yes.
>> Yep. So, >> got to have my favorite.
>> A Walk in the Garden is just a night nice light tea. I can't even remember what all is in it.
I'm gonna go get my tea packet and tell everybody what's in it because I can't remember. Yeah.
>> Oh, I can tell you.
[laughter] >> No, I can't tell her.
[clears throat] So, yeah, we've been busy. I'm sure y'all have been, too. But, wow, this weekend was rough. I got so hot. I got dehydrated. I went to bed Saturday at >> spilled my tea.
>> Went to bed Saturday at a whopping 5:30 p.m.
>> He nearly had a heat stroke.
>> Woke up at 5. Let's see. Woke up at 8:30, took a shower, and went to church.
[laughter] >> I looked out the window. Well, tell them what you were doing all day. I was cutting trees with chainsaw on, you know, 35 foot boom lift.
>> We rented a called a cherry picker, isn't it?
>> You call it a lull cherry cherry picker.
A boom lift.
>> Just a lift thing like the power people use.
>> Yeah, I should have >> I should have rented the one you drove around, but this one you had on your hitch and had outriggers, but um it was all electric. It was pretty good, but it was just a lot more work setting it up to get the cut.
>> We had a couple of trees that we had to get down that was kind of dangerous to cut down trees >> over in the area where we're going to put our new shop. And then he just went around the property and limbmed up >> so we could see the creek better, get better views. Some of the lot of rotten limbs >> out on the farm. And um over at my parents house, we had some limbs I needed to cut. Then I cut some over so they could see off their porch into the goat pastures and sheep. And uh >> made it look a lot better.
>> It was hard clean up.
>> I think I came I finished cleaning it up. I came home after church Sunday and finished some more cutting and then I cleaned up with a tractor. But it looks good.
>> Yeah, it looks really good.
>> You can see all the way to the creek now.
>> Yep. It looks nice. Nice. Nice.
Um, >> and I had a few battles with some limbs.
Let's see. Where is it?
>> Yeah, you got some cuts.
>> And then I got But that was when I was on the ground. Dad come out there helping me pulling limbs and we both I think took a tumble in the in the debris. I told him not to walk out there, but he was walking in this in the brambles.
>> Chase, our son, came and helped all day Saturday.
>> Yep.
>> Which was good. Really good. And then at I don't know it's towards the end of the day I had come in the kitchen and was cooking us something to eat. Looked out the window and Jean was just like hanging over the bucket [laughter] and I thought, "Oh my god, >> my battery my battery depleted. I was gone."
>> It wasn't but just a few minutes after that and they were coming in and then it wasn't a few minutes after that and he was in the bed. That's hard hard work.
Hey Debbie Lamb Wooten, congratulations on the new grandbaby. Adorable.
>> Hey, Crazy Granny.
>> Grandbabies are the best. Absolute best.
>> But I tell you, anytime you work outside in the heat and you get dehydrated, that's no fun because I mean, you pay for it for several days.
>> Yeah. And I'm sure you were past the point of dehydration.
>> Um, so, uh, someone asked what tea we're drinking. Mine is a walk in the garden and it has roselle hibiscus, blue butterfly pea petals, rose petals, peppermint, red raspberry leaf, chenula, lemon balm, lemongrass, elderflower, lavender buds, and dehydrated orange. It is a beautiful tea blend. It's so pretty.
>> So Susan, >> and it tastes really good, too.
>> I'm watching the heat and there wasn't anything on me dry. My pants were soaking wet. I think I had couple inches inside my boots wet and my shirt. But I found out when I get wet like that, I can't breathe. My skin can't breathe. So I I changed shirts what, twice?
>> You brought me a shirt out there.
>> And I brought you like four different liquid IVs. [laughter] I was trying to keep him hydrated, but he just sweats so much he can't stay hydrated. Jean's drinking golden hour, which this is both of this is our favorite.
>> Yeah.
>> This one's got simple ingredients.
Rosel, rose hips, lemongrass, cinnamon chips, and orange. And it's so good.
It's good. Cold, good, hot.
>> A little honey in it.
>> Yep. It's good. Good. Good.
>> Coconut water. Yep.
>> Yeah. [clears throat] Yeah. Coconut water would be good.
>> Yep.
>> Oh me. Anyway, we got the tree work done. That was a big check off the list.
what you did this morning. He went through went through our chalkboard.
>> Oh, >> checking off my ginormous list of things to do.
>> It it never ends.
Oh my gracious.
>> Never ends. In fact, he he got he got two major things checked off of our list.
>> Matter of fact, I think I'm going to show these people >> my task list for my taskmaster over here. Let me show you. It never ends. It never ends.
>> Yeah, we get stuff done though.
Loved your Oh, good, Diana. That's awesome. Did it. So, it helped her.
I love hearing that. I love love love hearing that the savves and the te's help people.
>> So, when I walk in the door, when I come home, this is what I see.
[laughter] >> I got it front and center. Hey, and it it never ends.
>> Well, it actually >> I got to strike off that. Let's see that one.
>> And there's still 40 million on here.
>> Well, and that's the second round this year. I done wiped it clean and started over.
>> And she just added me another major project >> on top of the other major.
>> Don't tell them yet. Don't tell them yet. Hey, Juwel. Hey, Kaani.
Becky says, "If I don't have a greenhouse and want to start collarded seeds, where is the best place to put them?" Um, well, they're going to need some heat to germinate. And then once the little seedling starts coming up, they're going to need some sunlight. But you don't want to put it in direct hot sunlight all day long because um [clears throat] I I don't know. I just don't think they're going to do that great just like sitting outside in super hot direct sun all day long because they are a cooler season vegetable. But um just remember heat to get it to germinate and sunlight to keep it from getting leggy and stretching and to for your little seedling to grow.
>> So I have an announcement to make. All you um seasoned women out there that need a farm man, I'm thinking about leaving this farm. [laughter] So, if y'all have a vacancy, [laughter] >> you're not leaving me.
>> She's killing me, y'all.
>> You got stuff to do.
>> She's killing me. She's encroaching on my hunting season. Oh, >> okay. You use clear that. Hey, those clear totes makes perfect green houses.
Susan said, "I sprayed her grandson down with a hose while he we eated."
[laughter] Yeah, that's a good idea. That's [clears throat] a good idea.
>> So, you can go to justd digitfarmms.com [laughter] and I'll put my resume on there for you.
Oh my gracious.
>> No, no, no, no. You can't have him.
>> Oh, >> y'all can't have him, lady.
>> He's all mine.
>> Oh my god.
Uh, the reason he's saying that, y'all, >> I was in there working today on my regular job. She comes in there with this little smirky smile.
>> And guess what?
Guess what, y'all? Guess what phone call I got today? Can you guess? Can you guess what I'm excited about?
>> All right. Allison said she starts her fall seeds outside in a part shade spot on her property. The greenhouse is just too hot. I agree, Allison. The greenhouse is too hot. But let me tell you, my new greenhouse that I got, the little seed starting greenhouse, we got the one that has like some uh like it's not clear panels on the top.
It's it's got like >> regular >> half and half >> panels on the top. And it actually creates a little bit of shade in there.
Some shade.
>> So, as the sun moves, it it's it's getting sun, lots of sun.
>> And we got the exhaust fans in there.
And >> got some solar solar fans on the end and on the front. So, it's got a draft coming through.
>> And y'all, it uh it really don't get that hot in there. No, it really really don't. It's it's crazy. But like I leave the door open, I leave the windows open.
There's good air circulation and it's really not that hot and my seedlings are actually doing pretty good in there which is unusual because this time of year it is hard to this is the time of year to start your cool season vegetables from seed but the greenhouse usually is a little bit too hot to be doing that but um mine's doing okay.
Okay, let's see. Kelly said, "You got the hoop house."
Guess what, y'all? I got a phone call today from Caitlyn at NRCS and they she reubmitted my application. She had called me like two weeks ago or three weeks ago and said that >> there was some money calls and calls.
[clears throat] No one was awarded a greenhouse this year. No one was. It all went to cattle farmers and a and other agriculture departments. So, nobody was awarded a greenhouse. And because of that, they decided to resubmit some of the applications and award a few people the green houses. Well, I already had in my mind it was rode off. Like, we're not doing that this year.
>> We're not getting that this year. Jean was happy that we weren't doing that this year. And um anyway, she called me today and she said, "You were awarded the grant for the greenhouse. You have been pre-approved for the grant for the greenhouse, y'all.
For the hoop house." So, we've been preapproved. We still got paperwork. She's working on it right now. She said about two weeks. Then that paperwork has to go to to people who have to approve it. And then she's going to meet with us and go over all the rules and the regulations and all the details. And as long as we agree to everything, then we'll sign the contract. And she said within a month, we should have we should be able to purchase the greenhouse, get it here within a month. And then in three more weeks, >> our shop building will be here. And then that is a whole major project to complete the interior of that and all that comes with that. And see, we didn't know we were like the greenhouse was completely out of mind. I thought it was we weren't getting it this The rule we've had was we're not starting any project till we finish the freaking one we got on the plate.
>> This is business.
Business is different.
>> This is business. I check.
>> I'm getting a bass boat. I'm getting some pigs.
>> They don't make money. Bass don't make money.
[sighs] >> Anyway, it's exciting, y'all. It's exciting. Big major.
>> So exciting. big major steps towards our business and our goal. This has been a goal from the beginning and the plan and the vision.
And don't look so sad. You don't have to build it.
We're going to hire somebody to build the greenhouse.
>> No, I'm not assembled.
>> Yeah, that's too much. I do the water and the power, but I'm not a >> So, I told Jean and then I immediately called Catherine. She was number two because Katherine is the one that told me about the grant. Katherine is the one that encouraged me to go for the grant.
Catherine got the grant.
>> Stop encouraging.
>> Katherine re won the grant last year and built a big, beautiful, huge hoop house.
She has mastered it all. she knows all the details. So, I called her and told her and um asked her 14,000 questions.
And the gist of it is is we're just going to copy Katherine. [laughter] >> We're just going to copy everything Catherine did. We've seen it. We're copying everything Catherine did because it's perfect, y'all. It is perfect.
Like, she figured it all out. What are we going to do on her own?
>> What are we going to do with these plants?
>> And she she figured it all out on her own and it is perfect.
>> What's the ROI? What are we going to do with these plants?
>> Everything's the ROI with Jean, which is good. But um anyway, so we're just going to copy Catherine. We're going to get the exact same greenhouse except I don't know if I'm going to be able to get that big because I don't know if our spot's going to hold that.
>> Oh, it'll hold it. It's just >> It's huge, y'all. It's a We've been approved for the 30 by 72. That is >> That's bigger than our house.
>> How many square feet is that?
>> 20.
>> That is huge.
>> And it about killed Catherine this year.
>> Oh, great.
>> So, all the all the growing and harvesting that is 2,160 square feet, which is >> about 100 square feet of our house. So, it's massive.
>> Oh, boy.
>> But anyway, >> shiver me timbers.
>> Stop kudos to Katherine. Yep, Katherine is fabulous. I told her today a hundred times she's awesome. And she told me not to tell anybody that cuz she she's too tired to be awesome. Uh Debbie said, "Jean, you need D to come help. He [laughter] and Miles are working on irrigation this week." Okay, cool.
>> Oh my gosh, it's so hot.
Hey, we saw Matt >> um Matt got a shout out. He probably knows, but he got a shout out from uh uh good gracious, what's their Lacowski's >> um up in up north about the deer mineral video. He he posted Matt's video on his video. Gave him a shout out for research.
>> That's awesome. Debbie and uh David's son, >> he has a he has a YouTube channel called Mismatch Camo.
>> It's about hunting.
>> It's good.
>> And uh anyway, a big hunter hunter and YouTube person gave him a shout out. So, that was pretty fun to see that.
>> Lee and Tiffany Lacowski.
>> Yeah, Jean can't wait to be out there getting doing the greenhouse and the building all at the same time. But listen, the greenhouse is somebody else will come install it.
And we're still gonna have work to do. We're still going to have a lot of work to do to it. But it's okay, y'all. It's okay.
We can do it. I keep telling myself that we can do it. I'm I'm a little nervous about it myself.
>> What was my song I had about it?
>> Because I I'm a little bit nervous.
>> What was my song I had about it today?
[laughter] >> I can't remember.
>> I can't remember. I can't remember the T.
>> It's exciting though, y'all. It's exciting.
>> It's right on the tip of my tongue.
>> So, we got the greenhouse, a massive greenhouse, and we've got the shop all right around the all going to be at the same time probably. It's all going to be arriving about the same time. Insane.
We're insane. We're absolutely insane.
Hey, Cockoodle Sue.
>> Cockoodle Sue.
Oh my gosh. Anyway, so the green what the plan is for the greenhouse is to grow citrus trees in it.
>> Yes.
>> Um I have some citrus trees right now in pots and we have to move them into one of my green houses during the winter time and they're outgrowing the pots. In fact, they're suffering a little bit because they're not they need to be either repotted or planted. So, y'all know I worked at Petals from the Past and Dr. Powell built an orangeery, a citrus house is what we called it. And it's a big hoop house just like the one I'm going to get just about. And um it's in inground planted citrus trees inside the hoop house. So, it's very very cool.
What's great about it is we're going to be able to go out there and get bananas year round >> fruit and nothing sprayed on it to give us green purple freckles on our face or liver damage or >> Yeah.
>> No chemicals.
>> It's going to be awesome. Plus, we can grow tomatoes year round.
>> Yeah. Vegetables.
>> I mean, there's so much we're going to be our grocery store.
>> Open up the door. So many opportunities.
>> Yeah. The primary point and use of the greenhouse will be or or the hoop house will be the citrus trees >> because I use a lot of citrus in in these teas. I dehydrate oranges and lemons and um limes for the teas. So that's going to be >> a lot of herb production in there.
>> Yeah. and a lot of herbs. I'll be able this can completely catapult the herb production.
So, I am super excited. But we're also going to grow some vegetables in there.
>> We're not going to be growing in that crazy herb now.
>> No, we're not growing [laughter] that.
Um anyway, that's the plan for the greenhouse.
So, we're looking forward to it. Thank you everybody for the congrats. Um, yeah.
>> Yeah. She's sending us a uh tips and tricks and what she learned and did wrong and >> so that'll help help us on the curve a good bit.
>> Catherine's is a 30 by 722.
A 30 by 72. That's her size and that's the size I was approved for.
>> Yeah. Uh, so the grant was approved for the greenhouse, everything that that entails, installing everything and the irrigation system that's going to go in.
>> Chamomile, chenula, chamomile.
>> Oh man.
>> Yeah, I can grow chamomile in there in the [clears throat] winter. I mean, that that's going to completely level up the herb production for all of these >> teas and that's right.
>> Uh, herb product business, which is what the shop's about. So, it all it all connects together and it's just a matter of um the energy.
>> Yeah, >> the energy to get it all.
>> You need to make an energy tea.
>> Yes, I do. I can do that.
Um anyway, I'm excited about it. I'm excited. Nervous, anxious, excited, all of the emotions, all of the above.
So, thanks everybody for the congrats and thanks everybody for all your prayers that you sent up that I would be awarded the grant because we thought for sure >> that reminds me of the song we used to sing at church. Angels bow before him.
Heaven and earth adore him. What a mighty God we serve. [applause] What a mighty Hallelujah.
>> She got a green.
>> That's an old one. [laughter] >> Oh boy.
>> Let's see. Have we What have we missed?
Gotta go put Nemo on my cucumbers. I'm fighting the spottern lantern fly. Yep.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> I'm telling you, my garden's full of uh stink bugs and um >> Yep.
>> That's basically it. Nasty stink bugs.
Yeah. Cross's a good energy tea.
>> Mhm.
Um, >> yeah, she tried to make me drink Just Digging Z's. And >> yes, I'm getting close to bedtime, but I didn't want to take it. I sleep just fine right now. [laughter] >> Just doing Z's will knock you out.
[clears throat] Knock you out. Um, what else? What else?
Okay. So, I have started um I started broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, kale.
>> Some of it's already started coming up.
>> Cabbages. I started those today.
>> Well, some I seen some out there already coming up.
>> That's chindula, maragolds, chamomile, some I started another run of basil. So, all those things are coming up. I've got more to start, but I'm just kind of trying to spread it out a little bit.
So, have y'all started any fall seeds? I know Allison has.
What have y'all started? Let's see. In the garden, I have I planted some more corn.
I tried I reached Nebraska today.
>> Okay, awesome. Yay.
>> Earwigs.
>> Oh, okay. finding them everywhere, even in the house. Oh goodness.
>> What are those?
>> Uh, they look like See, I'm show them to you.
>> What are they? Is it like a stink bug?
>> Uh, >> what? I not know what that is.
>> You know it when you see it.
>> I don't I don't know if I've seen that.
Yeah, you >> something similar to that, but I don't like bugs period.
>> Um, >> planted tomato, >> potatoes, y >> pumpkins tomorrow.
>> All right.
>> Started fall. Greg's got broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, onions. Good gracious. Rudabas. Heck yeah.
>> Yep. I'm gonna be starting those soon.
My rudabaggas and turnups soon.
>> Yeah. Growite >> and carrots. All those are direct soap.
I d dehydrator's done. I direct sew those things. So, I um I'll be starting those real soon. I just replanted more corn. We've got enough time for that. I planted more pumpkins.
Um >> yeah, crazy granny. I did see that where that lady supposedly suing Hos.
>> Yep. But I also read in the comments another guy posted on there that in the state of New York there's a statute where they already had a case like this and in the guy was selling coffee and had a website and a lady tried to sue him for that very same exact reason and it was overturned and it was stated that that in the state of New York and in the states that if you have a website selling a product that it does not comply. and it was already it was overturned by the state of New York. So hopefully >> hopefully this is just a big scam.
>> But um it's just sad.
>> I think it's legit.
>> Well, >> it's those big greedy New York lawyers, but they named the lawyer and they named the case against that coffee company and it was over and it was in 20 it was last year.
>> Yeah.
>> So >> I kind of cry. I've watched enough I've watched enough TV shows that if there's already a precedence, they can't overturn that.
>> Just burns me up. That jump. That's ridiculous. Ridiculous.
Yeah, it's a legal scam.
>> Hey, Mama Kathy.
>> Stinks. Stinks.
>> Hey, Mama Kathy.
>> Hey, Catherine. We've been talking about you. I told everybody my good news.
>> That's what I told them, Katherine. It's a legal scam. That's right. Yeah. I don't believe that horse crap.
>> Yeah. It's ridiculous. people do this to small and that's who they go after is the small business. They don't go after the big people.
>> They go after the small businesses who's just out here trying to do good things.
>> Giddy up and go says, "I I'm I'm any attorney. I am an attorney."
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Heck yeah.
>> All right.
>> But it was a it was a case. They mentioned it and it was >> Yeah.
Anyway, we're praying that it all works out for their favor, you know, because that's just ridiculous.
>> And the whole thing is is the lady that's actually suing them probably ain't never even bought a pack of seeds in her life.
>> And that lawyer just contacted her and paying her, like Katherine and I were talking about paying her a little bit of money and so she's going for it and it's just ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
And I'm all about [clears throat] ADA compliant. I mean, we things need to be, you know, >> we've already talked about our porch on the shop. We need to build it to where people handicapped can can access >> it. I mean, I'm all about that being ADA compliant. All about it because, you know, >> handicapped people need access and benefits, too.
>> Yes. But the whole thing is is the lady's blind. All she's got to do is call and say, "Hey, hos, uh, I'm trying to order some seeds and I can't do it because I'm blind." And they would break their backs and go out of their way to help that lady. And it ain't even about that cuz like I said, she probably ain't never even tried.
>> What's going on in the Facebook?
>> Anyway, I'm gonna get off my rant because that kind of stuff burns me up.
Yeah, she probably ain't my >> ain't [laughter] no party like a Holy Ghost party and a Holy Ghost party don't stop.
>> Yeah. What is it? If you're selling a product and you're sending said product, what what did he say before that? Or what what did she say before that? I don't know. Yeah, I love Halls, too.
They're good good people just trying to help people. So, uh, Jean, are you excited [clears throat] about the hoop house?
Catherine, >> thanks, Catherine.
>> Jean's actually mad at you, Catherine.
>> Thank you, Catherine. [laughter] >> He'll be okay.
Um, >> it's getting too close to hunting season, Katherine. I already got a building to build shop.
>> Oh, I do feel sorry for him. I didn't want to go in there and tell him. I really didn't because I knew it was just gonna stress him out more.
>> I'm g have to call Tony and just start I need to go camping and get a break.
[laughter] Girl out some steaks, go fishing, put my feet in the water.
>> Yeah, that's all we do is work.
>> Sister friend.
>> Yeah, buddy.
Anyway, it's good things. Good things.
[laughter] >> Oh, boy.
>> Hey, Donna Gardner.
No, long time no see.
>> Hey, that's right. I told her this shop, I'm putting in a Mr. cool unit in it.
And uh it's going to be nice cuz I'll have me a little place to go stay >> or either she will have a place to stay and I'll stay here.
>> Yeah, I was going to say you probably don't want to go out there. That's where work will be happening.
>> Not if I'm in it.
>> Yeah, I'm hoping to move everything out there. All the whole apothecary out there.
Um >> yeah, the corn [laughter] the corn, Donna, we [clears throat] >> Thank you, Donna.
>> We commented on that um I think last week, but >> we planted corn two different times. It sporadically came up.
>> Yeah.
>> Didn't have a good harvest. Um Hos said his first plantings, he didn't have any come up. So, something's going on.
>> I think they ended up with corn, though.
>> They did. I seen a video. But >> yeah, >> he had to plant it again. But >> yeah, >> a lot of people's not having corn this year. Yeah, I'm hoping this comes up. I planted it so thick, it's not going to be fun going back and thinning it out.
But I sewed so many seeds just hoping some would germinate.
>> Just harvested some corn for supper.
Catherine's going to grow corn in her hoop house.
>> I seen a video today of that.
>> She's going to grow uh the whole hoop house, I think, in corn.
>> That's awesome.
>> That's cool, isn't it? And so yeah, that's going to be neat.
>> What you going to do? Cuz rain makes corn.
>> You ain't going to get no rain.
>> Then you won't get no whiskey.
>> That W makes Tracy frisky. [laughter] >> Good evening, Jean. Tracy in chat. Mom made it back home with her out of state surgery. Fine. Good.
>> Nice. I was thinking about her yesterday.
>> Nice.
>> That is good. I'm glad she's doing good.
>> Sweet. Thank you, Lord.
>> Awesome.
>> Drip.
>> Yep. That's right.
>> Thought the birds were eating the seeds.
Well, anything's possible.
>> That's right.
>> I was watering this morning and the corn seed, like a lot of it, not all of it, but a lot of it was on the surface of the soil.
>> Well, how did you Well, I did it right.
>> Do you know what you're doing?
>> I know what I'm doing. [laughter] So, I don't know what happened. I don't know if like the um sprinkler thing maybe >> well >> washed it. I don't know.
>> It's so sandy it kind of >> Thank you. Coala noodle soup.
>> How many ears of corn per stalk? It depends on what variety, but usually on silver queen and peaches and yeah, three, maybe four >> and more depending on the variety or how good the corn's growing, but >> usually about three or four. It's a good number.
>> That's right, Susan. I'm excited to share the journey of these two new big projects with y'all. It's going to be fun, fun, fun. And the thing with the hoop house is it's a whole learning curve. Like growing inside a hoop house is completely different than growing in the garden. Just like Katherine was talking about today, she said she's already through harvesting and preserving everything because she, you know, got to plant a lot earlier and like it's just a whole different learning curve of how to grow.
>> Crazy granny. So, you're going to Arizona training for special forces?
Really?
>> What? heading to Arizona training for special forces.
>> Wow.
>> What do you mean by that? What What do you mean?
>> Well, she might not be able to say >> for special forces.
>> God speed on you cuz >> what what do you mean?
Um huh.
>> I hear you.
Well, this golden hour is good. I'm curious now. What What What do you mean? Um >> are we going to let the cats in the greenhouse?
>> Cats go anywhere they want to go.
[laughter] They're welcome in the greenhouse. Maybe they'll keep um unwanted animals out of the greenhouse. No snakes lately. Thank the Lord. No snakes.
Oh, what else is going on? Let's see. I planted some more uh rattlesnake pole beans yesterday.
I ripped out I've been ripping out the tomatoes and the um beans peas.
>> You got the butternut squash didn't you and all that?
>> Yeah. Got all lit up harvested. So I'm transitioning all of the beds for >> Oh, your granddaughter. Okay. Okay.
Okay. All right. Oh, wow. Nice.
Very cool. Safe travels.
>> Yes.
>> Safe travels.
Um, so I planted rattlesnake pole beans last night. Today I planted more Mississippi purple purple hole pink eyed peas. I'm going to plant some butter beans when I get the back bed ripped off.
I've got I planted pumpkins and another bed of pumpkins.
Um I'm about to plant a bunch of sunflowers.
Uh because we're planning an event out here.
>> So >> also in [clears throat] September.
>> So it was Saturday.
>> We'll announce that soon.
>> Saturday. So, Saturday morning, I I got the machine, the the lift Friday afternoon. And Saturday, I went out there. I'm not kidding y'all.
It was I I got a late start, but Saturday about 9:30, I get out there. I get a fairly brand new chainsaw. It's not been used maybe two months.
I go I fuel it up. I go to start to crank it.
I hear something. Yeah.
>> I look down on the ground. A piece of plastic's rolling down through there. My brake >> broke off the chainsaw.
And here I am, no chainsaw.
I have bad luck with chainsaws. And that I jumped in Tracy's truck, flew down to the hardware store, and they had the one I wanted. They didn't have in stock. So I said, "Can I have the one on display?"
They said, "No, cuz it was made really well." So, I got another one. Anyway, it about broke my arm. It's so heavy. But that thing was outrageous. Just just extra chains on it was 40 bucks plus tax for one. That was a very unexpected cause >> because these trees, some of these trees are really old and they they used it for bob wire and when you go to cut the stump, you get all >> you get all up in bob wire and it just eats your chain up. But that's the only way you can cut the trees down.
>> Oh, and then today, what happened?
>> What happened today?
>> Our air conditioners are broke.
>> Oh, yeah. I go in there to strike off the little our little farm project list that she's got me that never ends.
>> Um I went in there to strike it off and I heard >> Oh, give me that. I got to add new ones on there.
>> Oh >> Greenhouse got to go on there.
>> The dog on brand new air conditioner that I I bought it with my left leg. Um >> it was very expensive.
is is froze up >> again.
>> Again. So, I told the guy, >> we've got a fiveyear warranty on it. I told the guy, I said, "Look," I said, "You were out here last year having to put more freon in it." And I said, "If there's a" He said, "There's a little crack in the in the lines somewhere." I said, "Well, if there's a crack in the lines, I don't want just a stop leak put in it." I said, "If it's a crack, I want a new unit." He said, "Well, we'll do it. We'll put the die in it and check it out tomorrow morning." So, my gracious.
>> I mean, we're still paying for the darn thing.
>> Oh my gracious. [laughter] >> They're expensive.
>> Luckily, the air is still working, but I'm having to put towels in there because it's drip drip drip drip drip drip.
>> That's right, Cather.
>> It's a train. A train. The best one they make. It's got a built-in dehumidifier.
Cost us out the wisely.
>> That's right, Katherine. So, Katherine's done all the work for us on this greenhouse. All the work. Jean was looking at different ones today. is like, "We're not looking. We're not looking. We're not researching. We're not studying nothing. We're copying Catherine. She's done all the homework.
>> I've already talked to >> all the leg work. She sent me all the specs. I >> already talked to her contractor that put the bill, put it together.
>> Yeah. We're just We're just copying Katherine. Period.
>> Yep.
>> Yep. Just copying her.
>> We're copycats. That's right. [laughter] Copycats.
>> I don't care. It don't It don't hurt my pride. None.
>> [laughter] >> She's done it, figured it out, mastered it. Why would you? You don't have to reinvent the wheel.
Hey, Susie Christian. Christian.
>> Hey, Christie. S Christian. [laughter] I was reading that other No, he didn't.
I don't think they dropped it. They We've We've had what? Three air conditioners we've bought in this place.
>> Yeah.
>> Have we? before before we bought the the head unit. We bought we've had oh my gracious >> ridiculous.
>> So I when when the we bought the second or third one I said man we're buying the best. I don't care how much it cost and we bought a train and it was outrageous but reputable guy. He put it in. He's a great guy lives up the road and but we got a warranty and they've been >> Catherine. We didn't actually get in touch with the um greenhouse guy that um what was his name?
>> Oh, Lou.
>> Lou. Yeah. He's out of town.
>> He's out till tomorrow. So, I left him a message.
>> But Jean did talk to Roberto, the one who built put your greenhouse together.
And we got >> we got things lined up with him as soon as we get um >> he said he'd do it. So, as soon as we get the greenhouse and everything in place.
>> That's sweet, Allison. I mean, Landa, [laughter] >> I want to be like Catherine, too. She is awesome. I'm sorry, Catherine. I told you I wasn't going to tell nobody that.
>> I know, Edie.
Buy local.
>> Yeah.
>> Hey, Susie. Tracy got approved for the greenhouse.
>> Yeah, that's what we're talking about.
[laughter] Jean's a little stressed, but we're super to be stressed.
>> We got it. We got it. We got it. We got [clears throat] it.
>> Oh, I can't believe it.
>> I cannot believe we got it. But we got it.
Is Ella watching? Kani, she loves that song.
She loves that.
>> Baby, we got it.
>> The uh wipers on the bus and she goes, "She's so cute.
She a little mess. Ella's our granddaughter who is >> Ella Jiss.
>> She is going to be two in September. She is cute as a bug.
>> She ain't no bug.
>> She is so cute.
>> Bugs are ugly.
>> She's a mess though. She is a mess.
>> Yep.
>> Um, somebody asked earlier and I never answered. Asked how your parents were doing. Hoping they're doing good.
>> Yeah, he was. Mom and dad when I was out there working over there on their side clearing out some trees.
>> Thank you, Susie.
>> And the limbs that were dangerous, um I didn't want any falling around their place or on their place and um they came out there with chairs and was watching me and they were helping dragging a few limbs and then me and dad fell both of us fell down in the in the brambles.
That's where I where is it? Right there.
Scarred. I got a spot on top of my head somewhere.
>> Yep.
They're doing good. In fact, Pop has a birthday coming up.
>> Sunday he will be 81.
He'll be 81 years old.
>> 81 years old Sunday.
>> Mhm. We're going to celebrate with him and >> Yep. I heard you said that mom was going to uh >> Flying Peach.
>> The Flying Peach.
>> They're going She's going to Flying Peach [clears throat] to get some barbecue and >> that chocolate.
>> Brenda's No, Brenda's making him a carrot cake.
>> Okay. carrot cake.
>> So, he's gonna have a good birthday.
>> Yes, carrot cake. I love carrot cake.
>> Uh, Giddy Up wants to know why you're so stressed. Somebody else is gonna do all the work.
>> Uh, you hadn't been listening then.
[laughter] No, somebody else is going to build the green, assemble the greenhouse, >> but then Jean's got to run the electrical, the water, the irrigation line, hook up >> and and your shop.
>> We got to prep the soil in there, lay down the weed barrier.
>> Like, it's a lot, but it's okay. We're going to get it done, y'all.
>> And there's rules.
>> Yeah. There's specs. You got >> They're going to come out and inspect it with a measuring tape before I can cover it up with dirt. Katherine said they come out with a ruler and make sure if it >> she's stirring the pot on me.
>> If it says [laughter] if it it says that the mulch needs to be six inches thick, they come out with a ruler and measure 6 in thick to make sure you got it.
>> Yeah.
>> So, we got rules to follow.
>> But what if it rains and it sinks in a half inch?
>> It's covered.
[laughter] >> Uh, yep. Nanner pudding is good from Flying Peach.
>> A ruler and a yardage wheel. We used to have a yardage wheel. What happened to our yardage wheel?
>> I had a bunch of them when I did u design. I had tons of >> Yeah, you had a time with that thing.
>> I know. Tell me about it. Greenhouse is bigger than my The hoop house is going to be bigger than my house. Our house.
It's humongous.
It's huge. It's so huge. Well, but the deal is is you've got to have you your rows. You've got they got specs every three feet you can have a row. So, you know, it's a big greenhouse, but if you think about it, >> read Katherine's comment. You need to know all that.
>> Oh, okay. What if I use PEX pipe?
There's no writing on it. They got to measure.
>> They don't pay for PEX.
>> Oh, you got to use PVC.
>> Remember, she told us if you decide to use PEX, you got to pay for that yourself. They don't pay for pets.
>> Bunch of rascals.
>> They will not cover the >> Well, I ain't signed the deal yet.
>> I'm gonna sign it.
>> Okay. [laughter] >> I'm gonna sign the deal.
>> Uh yeah. C uh Caitlyn told us no PEX on it. So, we have to pay for it if we decide to do that.
>> Why are they against PEX?
>> We're not paying for it. So, >> PEX doesn't leak.
>> I don't know. It's crazy. Really? PEX is the best thing to use.
>> Yeah, cuz you're putting all that glue in them seals and then you >> Oh, no. Anyway, we got to follow the rules.
>> Yep. Lots of rules.
>> We don't need no education.
>> We're definitely copying Catherine.
Don't worry. [laughter] >> We're going to go over there. We've already been over and saw a greenhouse when she first got it, but we're going to go over there with some different eyes.
and look at it soon.
>> I am the eye in the sky.
>> He's got a song for >> looking at you. I can read your mind.
>> Less bugs, less predators.
>> Yep.
>> It's going to be good, y'all. It's going to be good.
>> Yep.
>> It'll be good. It's going to be fun.
Another ch a challenge. A gardening challenge to learn how to grow in the hoop house. I'm super excited about the citrus trees though.
>> Yeah, >> I'm really excited.
>> I just always think of Jimmy and Mildred's >> It was like a jungle.
>> They did they didn't have the ability to make >> but they had fruit in there.
>> Tons of >> He had meer lemon trees. Well, what it was >> tons of fruit. And the thorns on that meer lemon tree, he would reach up in there and grab big old lemons and well >> and his blood just be running down his arm just >> but his trees had thorns [clears throat] because he >> didn't maintain it.
>> He grew it from a roottock and it wasn't like it was a whole thing. But anyway, he had they had tons and tons of fruit in there >> and we would go over there and pick kumquats and then Mildred make us a kumquat pie which is freaking out of this world.
Yeah. So, Margaret, PEX, I've run almost everything here in PEX.
>> PEX is easy.
>> PEX is not that expensive, especially for the run we're doing up here. And there's no joints in it cuz every time if you use PVC, you've got to use pipe.
And when you use the glue and stuff over time that p the PVC those joints can come apart and that glue if you put it too thick it can it can actually eat that PVC and it's down in the ground and it starts leaking. With PEX it'll it'll take a freeze. It it's amazing. And I can have it running and just put a PEX clamp on it and it it's sealed. I love it.
>> Honey so pretty to me.
Um, well, we may have to pay extra for the >> I mean, that's what all the new houses have is pecs in it.
>> Whatever you decide, >> but we'll do whatever the government tells us.
>> I don't know that we're going to trellis the citrus trees.
>> We're not planning on it. Um, Dr. Pavle just grows them freestanding in the citrus house.
>> It's like a jungle >> and it's I'm I'm gonna tell you something. this hoop house.
And I can't believe this is coming out of my mouth because everything has to be pretty and cute in my opinion and beautiful and aesthetic. But this hoop house is about ease, lowmaintenance as possible and ease. So, it's I don't want the trellis in cuz I don't need extra work. Like, we're going to put down the weed fabric, the um everything that we can do to make this easy maintenance is how we're going.
>> I'm thinking there'll be less weeds in a greenhouse than out from the ground cuz birds are not dropping.
>> Well, not really though. Um anyway, >> yeah, because you can't >> you can only put mulch. You can't put top soil or >> Well, you don't have to put m the weed fabric.
>> Yeah.
>> Is considered the mulch if that's what you decide to use. Katherine said we can we can put that in the contract that we would rather use the weed.
>> Katherine said hers is not pretty.
>> Yeah. I don't care if it's pretty. And I can't believe I'm saying it because I want everything to be pretty. But I can't believe I mean I can't believe I'm saying it. But anyway, I don't care if it's pretty. I mean, I care if it's nice and neat and tidy and organized, but I don't care if it's pretty. I care that it's going to grow.
>> It's going to be a fun.
>> It's going to be easier to maintain.
That's what we're going to try to set this up as.
Awesome.
>> Yep.
>> Yeah.
>> What have we missed? Yeah. Myer lemons are so good. So, right now I've got a Myer lemon, a >> satsuma, >> sweet kumquat, a satsuma, >> and we're going to grow moringa. We're going to have massive moringa tree with monkeys.
>> Grow my [clears throat] moringa in there.
>> It would be, man, that'd be awesome. You would.
>> What else we got? We got a cara navl orange, which is my absolute alltime favorite.
>> We need some starf fruit.
>> We got a ruby grapefruit.
We've got >> coconuts, bananas, >> Persian lime.
>> Oh, bananas.
>> I'm telling what we got.
>> Well, we're going to get ready.
>> We're going to get bananas.
>> And I'm just going to keep adding to the citrus trees and then we'll have other herbs growing in there.
>> Yeah, we we talked about growing some cut flowers in there. That's going to be beautiful.
Yeah.
>> Mhm. And our bees, we can leave the door open. The bees can go in there and pollinate.
>> Oh, it'll be it's close to the beehives, too. So, it's not good.
>> Hey, I'm going to tell you what. When we first got the um or when they first got the orery at Petals, the we had some beehives out there and those bees went to that orangey when they were in bloom. All the citrus trees were in bloom. And if y'all never smelled citrus blooms, it is so fragrant. So >> smells them. She lives in Florida.
>> Yeah. So the bees went in and pollinated the orery and the honey that we got from those bees had a citrus flavor to the honey and it was I've never had honey that good.
>> Yeah, dragon fruit.
>> Our honey's the best. But that honey was so unique.
>> It was so good. And it it was a citrus flavored honey.
>> I remember one year I remember one year our some of our honey tasted real citrusy.
>> Anyway, I'm excited about it.
You're making me h honey hungry.
>> Oh man.
[laughter] >> Oh no. Allergic to the citrus blooms.
Yeah, that kind of messes with your sinuses a little bit.
>> Yeah. Can't ground too good on pea gravel.
>> Yeah. And I do like to work in the garden barefooted.
>> Yep.
>> That's why I got that barefoot bomb. Old garden feet.
My son Chance calls them crusty old garden. [laughter] Orange blossom special.
Oh yeah. That sounds good, don't it?
Well, all right y'all.
I was looking forward to sharing our exciting news with y'all tonight.
Citrus canker. Yeah.
>> Yep.
>> Yeah. I I remember when there was um I I don't know if it's the citrus canker or what it was that went through and was wiping out.
>> It was wiping out those >> citrus nurseries and orange groves.
>> It was wiping out the uh what do you call them things? The iguanas falling in the road [laughter] following frost down there. It's got cold down in Florida.
>> We need a sav called crusty dusties.
[laughter] >> Oh me.
>> Well, all right y'all.
>> Yeah, it is that time.
We appreciate you guys tuning in.
>> Yeah.
>> Yep. Thanks for hanging out with us and thanks for all your prayers that you sent up for the greenhouse and >> Yep.
>> for everything and um [laughter] my roommate had an iguana in college. Oh my gracious, >> that thing freaked me out.
>> Good night.
>> Good night, Glenda.
All right, everybody. Have a good week.
We'll see y'all next week. We love you guys.
>> Just dig it.
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