Gardens here there and everywhere

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]Okay guys, today in today's video, we are going to talk about gardening. Um, so first off, I'm going to just go over what my plans are for gardening this year. A couple people asked, a couple people were confused um about what my plans were. So, the house that we just bought has 2 acres. Those are not two usable acres. Um, it is probably maybe an acre of cleared land. Not really. Um, but that also includes like our driveway. So, there's just little plops and I'll share at the at the end of the video like the little plops of land that there is that we can garden in. There's no big expansive space. Um, we do want to possibly put a trampoline out back. That's something that all the kids enjoy between like a swing set or a trampoline. The kids would want a trampoline more than a swing set. So, we want to like create that space. We also have a hill, Mount Septic, which our septic is on. And so we can't really plant on that hill. That's where the kids kind of are using. They have like a little rope thing that goes there. So there's not a lot of usable, workable space for this 2 acres as far as gardening. But to even get land here at all is incredibly difficult. land goes for upwards of 250,000 an acre or more in the area that we're at. So, I feel blessed that we bought our house and have 2 acres.

[00:01:32]>> A lot of it also down we have like the road and there's the gully with all the water in it. So I think it's8 of an acre is state easement or like they have the right to be on um that land as far as those things go and then the water is kind of like spilling into our land over that way. Is it the ideal property? No. Is it the uh property that we could afford?

[00:01:59]Yes. And my children can get outside and play and that was our goal. So, we do not have enough land to plant the 100 tomatoes down here. Um, we also where we live, planting tomatoes is not as easy as planting tomatoes and picking throughout the season. It is really hard to grow warm crops because our season is so so short, so short. So, um I actually up north I could not do tomatoes um outside and get them to the point of ripening up north. I always had to pick green tomatoes. And if you know this, a lot of times um in commercial green houses, almost always tomatoes are actually picked green. like the ones in the grocery store are picked green and then those are allowed to ripen um with natural gases or with gases that make them ripen on the trip because if you picked a bunch of tomatoes, you would have tomato sauce by the time you get to your destination.

[00:03:04]So, um in a commercial environment, tomatoes are picked green and um then ripened through gases. They're not ripened through the sun. I see lots of people putting their um tomato in the window to try to ripen it. That's actually not what ripens it. It's the gas that um tomatoes let off. So, if you want to ripen a bunch of tomatoes at once, you want to pick a bunch of green tomatoes and then put a red tomato into the green tomatoes and they're just going to the gases are going to come off and it's going to ripen the tomatoes fairly fast. So, the items that we are growing up north are things that would it be best if they were picked on a daily basis? Yes. Um, but it's going to be things that may or may not be picked on a daily basis. So, we plan on going up monthly throughout the summer. The first little bit, I think, is going to be about 10 days when we're planting everything. I just ordered a mantis tiller. Um, or I need to order a mant Did I just I just ordered a mantis tiller. So, we'll have the mantis tiller. Our mantis tiller up there, as you saw, was broken. And so the mantis tiller will be used here as well as up there. I'm not buying two separate ones. Um I am planting some things here. Um trying to think about those things and what we're going to plant. So I actually got this book. I'm pretty excited about this book. This is the aotment and gardening guide. I also have um some other information. I kind of want to do a little victory garden here. Now what is a victory garden?

[00:04:40]During World War II, um many people in Britain and in America and all over the country, um Canada was a little bit different. Canada was saying, "No, don't um plant a victory garden." Because they wanted to leave it to the experts. And then they came back and said, "No, the um the experts were actually saying no, we'll teach and train other people to plant gardens, which was wonderful."

[00:05:04]Absolutely wonderful. Anyway, so they wanted people, they encouraged people to dig for victory, which was your part was remember they were on rations at that point. And so they did not have lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. They did not have lots of um means for trucking or shipping or anything. So supplies were really limited. So they encouraged people to grow um vegetables on in their yard or even aotment or wherever they could go grow vegetables to grow vegetables. So, um, no matter what the size yard, they wanted people growing vegetables and families were excited to grow vegetables at that point, even though they didn't know what to do. Um, because I mean, you're talking about city people and they didn't really if they had like a small lot, they had never grown vegetables before and they would actually send out um, pamphlets um, in um, in Britain. They also, somebody said that they did not send them out um in the United States. They did send some things out in the United States because my grandmother actually used to have a couple of the pamphlets. Um one of them was about gas and um she remembers the gas rationing was huge. I should actually look through I still have my grandmother's ration book. I'm not sure if I have the pamphlets though. Um, I will look into that because I'm going to be doing some videos about ration food type eating. Um, but they always supplemented what they had from their gardens in for their um in for their diet. And a lot of times like Lord Walton pie was just that. It was just vegetables in a pie crust. So there's no meat in that. It was just vegetables. Um, and we're going in hard times right now. I mean, look at the grocery store prices. I am almost planning preparing for something that was like 2020. Um, I'm don't call me out on this or anything. I just I'm one of those people that likes to be prepared for a little bit of a crazy time and with the prices just skyrocketing, you know, I just and the numbers and such, I just I can't see it being a time of free and plenty. So, that's why I decided to plant both places. Um, some people were a little concerned with the um, soil here and in a way I'm a little concern concerned too. I don't know um, how the soil was here. I do know what the um, we have a well and I do know what the well reads. So, I'm kind of just taking it off of that.

[00:07:49]I don't really have time at this point to send soil samples away. I would not be surprised if there was some um chemicalish residue. Um but I'm try where I'm going to plant or where I think I'm going to plant is actually further out from like the main living area. So an area that like we didn't see like animal feces and stuff in. So I'll share that with you. But what I'm trying to do is use a lot of the techniques that are in wartime gardens. So I have this book and then I have another book that's called Feed Your H Feed Your Families and another one called Make Your Garden. So let me go get those other two and I'm just going to show them to you real quick. Okay, so here is the other book. I have another one, but it's more like cooking and it's a blue one and it's kind of like this. It's called Feed Your Families. It's more about like how to cook with the foods that you're growing. Um, this one is really nice. It goes like through the year. Um, I really like this.

[00:08:54]Going to hold it up here because I'm a geek and sometimes I like to screenshot things like this. Um, and then learn from the way that they were planning things out. So, if you guys like to do the same, you're more than welcome to do that, I guess. Um, but I don't know if you can even get this book anymore.

[00:09:14]It is. Both of these are from Britain.

[00:09:18]I got both of them off of Thrift Books.

[00:09:23]I tried to buy this one here off off Amazon the other day and it was like $70 or something like that. I got this one off Thrift Books. This is really cool because it has um the old signs.

[00:09:39]So, this is kind of cool. Here it says, "Your own vegetables all year round if you dig for victory now." So, they're just encouraging. And wouldn't that be wonderful if our governments encouraged us to grow our own food? That would be so cool. How to prune fruit and vegetables. Um, so in this book, the pages are really like thick, glossy pages, which is nice. It talks about different ways of storing fruits and vegetables. I want to really like dive into this book. I literally just got this one. I'm pretty excited. Okay, so what am I planting where? Um, my plan is, as you know, we already put tomatoes up north. So, I have over 100 tomatoes in one row up north.

[00:10:26]Some of the beds that are up north are just falling in falling around. And I was like, "Oh, what am I going to do?" I think what I'm going to end up doing is roatilling it all in. I know everyone's going to be like, "You shouldn't rotail your garden."

[00:10:39]We're talking about just making food work. So, I think I'm going to um rotoill. Now, when I roatill, I don't deep roat till. I use a mantis tiller, which only goes like so deep. The tines are probably like bringing it down maybe 4 in, not even. Um, and most of my stuff inside of my high tunnel is actually there's it's it's not like fresh ground.

[00:11:02]It's stuff that I've added to it. So, I've added seaweed, I've added manure, I've added all those things to my high tunnel. I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to end up just like mantis tilling the whole high tunnel and planting everything that I can and then going up once a month to try to maintain that. That's going to be my main focus this year. I also am going to start like a little herb bed right here. You can kind of see there's a tree right here.

[00:11:29]Which way do I move my finger? Right there. That tree. That tree underneath it. There's a section there. We also have a lot of shade in our yard. So, I think under that tree, I'm going to try to plant a couple things. I want to plant some um herbs down there along with some flowers and then maybe a couple zucchini plants in there. And then um because zucchini I really have to like pick pick pick and um squash in the high tunnel the past couple years has been a hot mess because there has been squash bugs like nobody's business.

[00:12:02]So, to give it a year of rest of squash would be great.

[00:12:05]So, going to do that. And then I think I planned out my spot. I was thinking about putting a garden over to the right of the house. But then we measured out the land and um or like I when I measure it like out like in my when I'm thinking about how wide and how long it is, I don't know. Like I can't I don't think I can clear much that way because there's um a house over the other side that way.

[00:12:31]So, I think that it would make more sense to do out front, which is kind of odd, but I think that's going to be my best plan to do. So, in the high tunnel up this year, I think I already have part of a row of sweet potatoes, and I think I'm going to do the rest of that row into regular potatoes.

[00:12:48]Yeah, I think so. So, we'll do regular potatoes and sweet potatoes because those just got dug once. Now, out in the outside gardens, those we're going to plant into squash. Um, so I'll plant all those into squash. I'll probably end up digging some vines for raspberries and bringing them here. I'm just not sure I'm going to plant them yet.

[00:13:10]Um, what else am I doing?

[00:13:14]I don't know. I'm trying to think on what I want to do. So, I'm going to be looking at both of these books and thinking, what are the like hearty crops like root vegetables? You know, carrots don't need to be picked every day. Beets don't need to be picked every day. I might end up putting turnups. I don't know. Um, those things don't need to be picked every day. So, I'm probably going to put like those things that don't need to be picked every day. Onions, if I can get onions. Like, I didn't start onions this year. Normally I start them from seed and then I have little things. But I might be able to get some onion sets.

[00:13:48]If I can get some onion sets, then I could try to put some onions in there.

[00:13:53]Um yeah, and just try to plant those types of crops and then leave here for some of the other things that do need to get picked. I know green beans I'll definitely put here. Although I might do some dry beans up there. I'm kind of contemplating if I wanted to put like a section of corn in the back. Um so those are kind of my thoughts. So, my high tunnel up north is 32 by 96. How many square feet is that?

[00:14:19]>> Okay. So, 32 * 96 is 3,72 square ft. So, we'll do that up there and then we'll plant smaller things down here and see how that works. I want to do down here so the younger kids also get like the knowledge of like how to do that. So, definitely beans. Beans are really fun and we eat lots of beans. I did try to plant sweet peas. Um, and we'll see if those take or not. I think we need water though. It's been so dry.

[00:14:49]Anyhow, I'll probably need to water all my stuff in. It's probably a good plan.

[00:14:54]I should look at the weather.

[00:14:56]That is my plans for this. If you get a chance, I'm going to read through this book. I've not read through this all together. There's also a video and I'll see if I can link it in the description box of this that it's literally like telling people how to plant gardens. Um, and it's a garden aotment that or a garden like on a farm or whatever. And it's telling you plant two rows of this and this and this and this and it goes on and on with that. Um, and I'll try to link that. It's an older film from that from I think it's late 30s. Um, which is neat. It was just Yeah. So, how to plant a victory garden. So, I'll try to link that in the description box below.

[00:15:41]Um, a couple people asked what a victory garden was. So, that's why I kind of wanted to explain it.

[00:15:46]And I think we're in this time that we need to be doing that. Just taking the lawns and the spaces that we have that God's allowed us to have and plant some food. because the more we plant, the less we have to buy from the grocery store that wants to hike up the prices.

[00:16:06]So, I hope you guys have a blessed and wonderful day. If you are gardening, let me know down in the comments below. If you're getting creative with your gardening skills or doing anything different this year, let me know down in the comments below. As well, if you have ideas about any of my gardens, I'd be happy to hear them.

[00:16:27]have a great day. Aren't these pictures great? Like, >> I don't know. That must have made such an impact on them. We are outside of my house and I'm going to share with you what I plan on doing.

[00:16:38]>> This area right here, I already put things out a little bit. You can see where the um thing is. So, I want to rotatil this area. Just planted the strawberries that we brought from up north. We planted kind of a border of them here. So, I got to actually pick the flowers are coming up. I got to pick those flowers off so the roots will establish better. So, I have just a row of those here.

[00:17:07]Going to walk you this way.

[00:17:10]So, they had already planted various plants here that came up.

[00:17:16]I'll leave those for now until I have another idea. So, my original idea was to maybe plant over here. And I might I might plant a long row coming like this along here. Let me see if I can I might plant a row like a 4ft row like coming this way. Um that way it would give the kids still this area, but it's really challenging. We also are probably going to take out our line is not too far in the woods there.

[00:17:51]So, our line is probably See if I can pull out a little bit. Our line is probably like 4 foot in there. So, I don't know that I want to like cut all the way there and not having an exact um measurement. So, out back that's our mount septic there.

[00:18:10]Mount septic. And then there's just this little area here.

[00:18:18]And then this here. So, there was a pool there and then the hot tub here. We haven't figured anything out with any of that.

[00:18:29]So, we want to still be able to give the kids like yardish. And then in the winter, I want the kids to be able to like I know they're going to grab their sleds and probably sled down that hill.

[00:18:39]They have a rope swing there and then there's a zipline. I can't see it. Right there.

[00:18:48]That was already there that they are doing. I don't know what this bush is.

[00:18:53]It's kind of like oddly planted right in the middle of the yard.

[00:18:58]Anyhow, we're going to walk this way.

[00:19:09]A lot of these trees too are like fairly close to the house. So it's not like we without a tractor we couldn't like safely follow those. Well, maybe we could. I mean something like that tree we could because then you could like pull it a little bit with the truck.

[00:19:23]We've done situations like that before.

[00:19:27]The kids made a path through the woods too. See, I see the flags over there.

[00:19:32]So, I think that it must have got sprayed before.

[00:19:38]So, we're going to go here.

[00:19:41]Going to focus. I think what I'm going to do is focus up here.

[00:19:50]Most of the morning sun, this is open.

[00:19:56]So, I don't know. I don't have lots of space to actually garden well here.

[00:20:01]at all. So, I think I can probably cut some of this out and cut that tree down.

[00:20:10]And then this would be okay, at least for part of it. But, as you can see, the ground is not growing very much. I don't know, guys. I feel like we need to grow more up north. I don't know. I think that I'm debating if I want to just try to figure out how to make a like with the wood chips if I want to try to put cardboard down and then do that and then like come with a fall garden. I don't hard because I don't want to take out too many trees because then it won't feel as private because it's really not a huge lot. Um, at the same time, I do want to grow food, but I'm thankful that we have up north so that I can do that. Okay, so I planted peas here, but I don't know if they took or if something got in them. I'm not entirely sure. I think what I'm going to do is dig to see if there's still peas there and then um try again. I have more peas, so I can dig that, throw some peas in there, and then maybe throw this fence over top of it. I'm not even sure. Maybe I'll do beans instead for this year. I don't know. But these are my rhubarbs.

[00:21:22]If I did do a layered garden, then I wouldn't have to really worry about what was in the ground. But then I couldn't plant till next year.