Cain found that God had no regard for vegetables as an offering. God liked the bloody carcasses of killed animals that Abel offered. So...keep a flock of sheep.
You have a cabbage looper infestation. Try floating row covers for all your brassica crops next season. You can also use Safer's Insecticidal Soap which is allowed for organic gardening.
Thank you for the great video. Have you ever tried any "cold frames" for growing vegetables during the winter and/or colder months? Cold frames will be generally more low profile than a greenhouse.
My grandparents and parents always has a garden. It something I have also, my wife came from a farm. She new how to garden. It's fun to work it together. Your garden looks really good. Love the fresh food taste too.
What is "pending legislation"? Is that code-speak for suspicion of the Obama agenda? You do realize that Michelle Obama has an enormous organic garden on the White House grounds and is a huge advocate of exactly what you're talking about in this video, right?
Also, I'd recommend beans and potatoes. You need protein and starch to survive.
@GalacticSystemBuster I agree. Corn can be tough. I live in an area that usually gets plenty of rain so I tried corn this year. So far almost no rain and watering twice per week is keeping them alive and growing, but not as pretty as I hoped. Squash, both summer and winter types are very productive and form the core of my garden.
Nice! Awesome garden...I think we planted almost all that same stuff in our garden last year. You have a few more plants than we did though! The cantaloupes and zucchini/squashes really do go crazy! We had them in the middle of some 5' x 12' planters and they took the entire space up and spilled over the side onto the ground! I hope to take some video of it next year when we re-plant!
Very nice. I love gardening and will be posting gardening videos starting with Texas fall gardening. I'm perfecting doing it organically. Glad you use the heirlooms.
Thanks for the great video on heirlooms. Your viewers may be interested in checking out our website pureheirloomseeds for a selection of heirloom seeds with free shipping. Happy gardening!
Very nice video, thanks! We're doing container gardening this year as our tomatoes didn't do too well last year for some reason. Peppers, tomotoes, zucchini, and a few herbs. Wish we lived back in the south again. Ohio is nice, but we need a longer growing season!
yes indeed being able to produce food is a must even if it's a container garden good job sootch people should learn self reliance and you are a credit to the community thank you for making this video the more people that can supplement their food the better off they will be.
Good video and some great info.... Lots of usful videos and some really eye opening.... about being prepared... and having a storage of food and supplies....
Hey man, good video.... i have put me and my family a small garden out back this year... this is the first time i have done it... but, it has been very interesting.... i have been having a few bug problems but other than that its been fun checking on it... if you have any tips or advice for a first time gardener it would be aprecaited..... (Thanks)
Here, 50 years ago every body had big gardens...now I'm the only one on my street with one.....kind of crazy when you think that those skills are getting lost. I hope there's not a big cathastophy or I'll have to guard my garden with a rifle ;)
Hi I just received the seeds I bought from: bepreparednow. net They were only $44.99 with free shipping. It has 27 varieties of NON hybrid seeds and it is sealed in a Mylar Bag. It was the best deal I found on the Internet and the variety is great.
Look a Naked baby Cantaloupe! Somebody needs to put a dipper on that, beacus you dont want the youtube wacko's saying you are showing raw naked veggies. Don that Vid was great. I think I will start to plant a garden. I do have persimmon right now, but I can do more. Thanks keep it up!
Scootch may bee you can make a video on preserving seeds harvested from your garden. Great video We had a hard time with tomatoes this year but they are just now bearing fruit . The deer just trashed my garden and well I'll hook them up soon ;)
It's been a bad growing season where i live. Cold in spring and summer and cool and damp now. My tomatoes got the dreaded Late Blight so I had to pull most of the fruit out and bag up and throw the vines away. This is a fungal infection that is crossing the nation and responsible for the potato famine in Europe. White slime appears on the fruit and the vines wither and die. If you see signs of this, act immediately to stop the spread. Remove ALL plant debris from your garden..don't compost it.
squash is definitely part of my survival garden - the box full in your video shows why. However, everyone who is serious about living off of their garden needs to add JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE - the American Indians ate it - it's easy to grow - in fact it is a weed that will take over any garden - so plant it in it's own separate bed. Once it's going - lightly fertilize each year & you will have food all winter. We will be living off IT, Potatoes, Squash, Beans & Tomatoes when EOTWAWKI arrives.
Composting is nothing short of throwing the same plants you eat on the soil it grows in. The bugs eat the leavings and bugshit is eaten by the plants we eat the fruit from. Nature provides the sun, rain and nuetrients we all need. Meat is a curse upon man as he has poisoned the predators into non existence out of fear or ignorance. I agree that large scale farming would not be necessary if we all had small gardens but good luch with that. MO
If you compost your table scraps you will notice that most vegetables reproduce if the soil is fertal. Volonters repeatedly show and seem to know when to grow. The soil needs tending too and the composting plants that we eat puts back into the soil what those plants need most. The initial garden needs added nutrients and spraying the plants with poison is a NO NO. You kill predators and encourage prey that eat the plants. Seek balances with NO poisons. MO
You ndon't come from dust rather you come from your parents. The Bible is wrong about coming from dirt. It smacks of stupidity. The Creator created Creation and Creation produced us from the waters and a few other elements called scalar units. Evolution did the fine trimming and walla! Things have changed to we come from the past evolutions. Nothing comes forth from mud excepts non-truths! MO
According to evolution, we all evolved out of the ooze, mud, whatever you want to call it. Otherwise, we came from aliens? God created man from the dust of the ground.
Sorry but don't come on my channel calling my beliefs stupid. You guys are so funny, ranting on and on just because you're ignorant. Go find a UFO channel to bac your weak theories, one that you can agree with... Bye Bye~
but I agree with you completely. People should have a garden if they have the space. Even a few tomato plants in post on the porch. It saves on food cost and being more self reliant is always good. I love garden grown zucchini and I always look forward to fried green tomatoes.
Greetings from New Mexico. When you started the garden, you told me to get out and do what we could. Well we did and while it is way to small to be a food supply we just got a few fresh squash and our first tomatos look like they should be ready in a few days. I am still to sick to get out there myself but I do get daily photos and I really enjoy the fact that we are growing something in our back yard. We had thought about it but you were the factor that got us to actually do it this yr. Thx.
That's awesome~ You just made my day. You've got to start somewhere and small is best, then work your way up as you get experience and used to preparing your incoming veggies. How can you lose? You have fresh vegtables, a lower grocery bill and it's fun. Always a pleasure :)
Our garden is doing really well... I think I may have screwed up with my squash but everything else is kicking but...
Your veggies look good... try to avoid spraying if you can at all your helper bugs will come in if not this year maybe next but if you spray they will never be able to help you... just a thought...
i'd love to move to the states, somewhere warm.. im at almost the same latitude as N. cali being across the river from detroit.. i think im going north for a more secure feeling though..
have a Garden (and the SKILLS NEEDED TO RUN ONE WELL) are probably the MOST UNDER RATED..MOST IMPORTANT..SUBJECTS for Survival
You see all these people with Thousands of Dollars in Flashy Big Ticket "Survival items"...and yet they dont know the first thing about growing ANYTHING TO EAT
...These tend to be the "Bug out" Folks who think that 300 million Americans are just going to "hunt game" (LOL!)
IMHO if you cant grow food you not going ot last long
Awesome garden! I've sliced and breaded squash before, and freeze. I use half corn mean and half flour. Works pretty good.
This year, first year I've froze green beans. Blanch in boiling water, then to real cold water, then freeze. We'll see how they taste. They sure looked nice and green. Wanting to make pickled green beans too.
Do you do realize that you are interrupting interstate commerce with your little garden? For this reason the federal government is going to regulate your little garden out of existence. You must be assimilate, do not resist.
Freedom is what is left over after the government is through with you.
My folks have a plot in a community garden near where they live in Black Mountain and are using rain barrel gravity fed irrigation with a lot of success. We had some of the newly harvested veggies this weekend and they were wonderful. It's a lot of work but well worth it!
You should plant Parsley,Aster's, Marigold's,Coriander,Dill, Fennel, and Sweet Alyssum will sustain many beneficial insects.Like Soldier Bug,Ladybugs,Green Lacewings,Aphidoletes,Aphidius and Praying Mantis's! You can also use these Heterhabditis Bacteriophora to control bug's! (Edovum puttleri)
If these Bill's (US HOUSE BILL'S HR759,HR875) get passed My family will starve!
It's how we eat year round! It's the only way to Eat and Nourish the soul! Our garden is close to 2 acres in size! Next year it will be 3 acres!Since you Indicate your hard core "Organic" You should start a good size compost pile adding bone meal,urea,etc!
You know, of course, that planting your own garden without a permit and following industrial proceedure might soon be a "terrorist activity" if the govt. has their way, right? Ha! Let 'em catch us all.
Great garden Sootch. Soon it will be time for the winter crop of hardy veggies. BTW, all that squash? Slice 'em down the middle, drizzle with olive oil, dust with garlic pepper and a little basil, and throw 'em on the grill. Good eatin'!
Five stars, dude! On the vid as well as the garden..:)
Your last video "I AM SICK OF THIS S#IT" was awesome! I had my whole family watch and we all had a big laugh. Thanks for making it fun. Long Live the FFM. Just like Verizon: Friends and Family!
When I have an abundance of squash and zuchinni - always this time of year in Ohio - I run them through a juicer along with carrots, radish, lettuce, etc and drink some of my meals. This is nutrition you can feel working.
I'm pleased to report that my tomatoes are already head high. Peppers are booming too. Miracle Grow is a champion. BTW... I sure like hearing those Carolina songbirds in the background!
Nice harvest! I was going to ask what you do about pests, we have a small blueberry garden but the birds and ducks from a nearby lake keep getting at them. I bet a small fence would stop the ducks, not too sure about the birds though.
profesas- take some pieces of broken CD or DVD and hotglue to the decoy's eyes, then hang it using a spring and a swivel. It'll move and spin, and the light-catching properties of the CD/DVD pieces are quite startling. It will work longer than a stationary decoy. My grandma used to hang foil pie-pans in the cherry trees to scare away birds.
You could also put some gillnet over the top of the garden - it's liteweight, won't block the sun, and birds don't like flying through it.
Wow, nice Liberty Garden you have there! Hope you are making lots of relish from that squash and cucumbers. Sure does seem like the more you pick, the more will come on...
You can also look for 'open pollinated' seed, its just another name for 'heirloom' seed. Seems like this year prices really popped up on anything with an 'heirloom' name tied to it.
I've also had lots of germination failure on standard varieties of hybrid bean and pea seed this year. Actually had saved some snap pea seed that was about 12 years old and it had nearly 90% germination, compared to 20% germination on a package bought this spring. I'm hoping it was just a crop failure on the part of the seed mfg that slipped through, and not some darker intent.
Remember, if you want to collect seed from several varieties of the same type of plant, and you want that seed to come true next year, you need to keep some distance between the varieties so that you don't get an accidental hybridization. If you don't have a bunch of space, sometimes you can isolate and protect the female flower from wild pollination with a paper bag, then hand pollinate with a male flower, and save seed only from the fruit that develops from that flower...
LOL! We've been doing the Amish Bread starter for the past 6 weeks and I can feel it around my waist! Zucchini bread is wonderful though :) Thanks Gary
nice garden. i have a small one.......send all your surplus zucchini my way.....make some kick-butt bread .zucchini bread stores and ages well in the freezer.heirloom seeds is the only way to go.cost a little more depending where you purchase , but well worth the investment.don't forget to compost......making a compost bin is easy . coffee grounds , egg shells, organic food scraps and yard waste. keeps moisture and nutrients in the soil.
awesome garden. what do you amend your soil with? where do you live? I live in Florida where the soil is very sandy and it is so darn hot that you need part of your garden shaded. It is a lot of work, but well worth it. there is nothing like homegrown tomatoes!
You guys with the longer growing season make things look so easy. :-( It's been very cool here this summer. The other day it got down in the 50s. Plus I need to trim some trees back. At least I've got all the mulberrys I can eat. :-)
Hey Rodney, put yourself a chicken pen under those mulberry bushes - my grandma had the best eggs - she said it was because the chickens ate the dropped mulberries....
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i have been watching this earlier on and still love it... i'm gonna make myself a fresh salmon salad right now...
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getOccupiedtheMovie 1 month ago
Cain found that God had no regard for vegetables as an offering. God liked the bloody carcasses of killed animals that Abel offered. So...keep a flock of sheep.
numbnuts234567 1 month ago
You have a cabbage looper infestation. Try floating row covers for all your brassica crops next season. You can also use Safer's Insecticidal Soap which is allowed for organic gardening.
Keep the great videos coming!
Grezzoitalian 2 months ago
Dear Sootch:
Thank you for the great video. Have you ever tried any "cold frames" for growing vegetables during the winter and/or colder months? Cold frames will be generally more low profile than a greenhouse.
Best regards,
David
DoubleEagleDelta 3 months ago
wonderful video and i also enjoyed the nature around you, song birds and the dove koowing in back ground.
mecedes4000 3 months ago
are there any vegetables/fruit ect that are able to be grown indoors all year round? say in tubs or window baskets? thanks in advance
kickthetv643 7 months ago
your video is from july 1, 2009 and its july1, 2011 when i saw this video =)
jerrydff7 8 months ago
My grandparents and parents always has a garden. It something I have also, my wife came from a farm. She new how to garden. It's fun to work it together. Your garden looks really good. Love the fresh food taste too.
DennyRec 8 months ago
haha - everything you can't protect 24-7 with weapons will be stolen.
bybronaaa17 9 months ago
SHIT'S ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN - OVER POPULATION - POPULATION - FOOD PRICES - DRUGS IN OUR FOOD - GET YOUR GARDEN GROWING!!
pigeonpsycho 10 months ago
You are so sexy, love the hair.
xrichx04 10 months ago
Subscribed! You had me hooked with the Biblical reference. Kepp up the cool vids!
Mandalore06 10 months ago
Nature is such a miracle
GohanMH1 11 months ago
What is "pending legislation"? Is that code-speak for suspicion of the Obama agenda? You do realize that Michelle Obama has an enormous organic garden on the White House grounds and is a huge advocate of exactly what you're talking about in this video, right?
Also, I'd recommend beans and potatoes. You need protein and starch to survive.
dparrish810 1 year ago
great tips man! Dont waste your time with corn though, its too sensitive and it provides very little nutritional value.
GalacticSystemBuster 1 year ago
@GalacticSystemBuster I agree. Corn can be tough. I live in an area that usually gets plenty of rain so I tried corn this year. So far almost no rain and watering twice per week is keeping them alive and growing, but not as pretty as I hoped. Squash, both summer and winter types are very productive and form the core of my garden.
ChrisGilliam39 8 months ago
Cantaloupe and cucumbers will grow on a trelis, giving you more space for other vegetables...just a thought.
TexasPrepper1776 1 year ago
Nice! Awesome garden...I think we planted almost all that same stuff in our garden last year. You have a few more plants than we did though! The cantaloupes and zucchini/squashes really do go crazy! We had them in the middle of some 5' x 12' planters and they took the entire space up and spilled over the side onto the ground! I hope to take some video of it next year when we re-plant!
NearlyParamount 1 year ago
Well done!!! Bravo, so proud of what you are doing!!! Excellent help to so many, bless you ... Sincerely, Shelley
Shell4445 1 year ago
well i live much farther north than you Sootch00, but i have found a very good vegetable soil its a special mix:
40% good dirt-(loose and dark)
40%composted manure-(loaded with nutrients)
15% peat moss-(helps greatly with water retention)
5.0% bone meal(provides phosphorous for a healthy plant)
if water retention is an issue i recommend using a mulch like coating of cocoa shells.
coldstarter5 1 year ago
Great video to demonstrate what someone can do to be more independent from the petrolium based system. Thanks.
MSGBlair 1 year ago
Very nice. I love gardening and will be posting gardening videos starting with Texas fall gardening. I'm perfecting doing it organically. Glad you use the heirlooms.
TheScruffyJones 1 year ago
Thanks for the great video on heirlooms. Your viewers may be interested in checking out our website pureheirloomseeds for a selection of heirloom seeds with free shipping. Happy gardening!
trueseeds 1 year ago
Anybody tell me why the video keeps stopping and starting?
How do I fix that. thx
longboardsrule321 1 year ago
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Very nice video, thanks! We're doing container gardening this year as our tomatoes didn't do too well last year for some reason. Peppers, tomotoes, zucchini, and a few herbs. Wish we lived back in the south again. Ohio is nice, but we need a longer growing season!
TheChaplinLover 1 year ago
yes indeed being able to produce food is a must even if it's a container garden good job sootch people should learn self reliance and you are a credit to the community thank you for making this video the more people that can supplement their food the better off they will be.
mechanicalbu11 1 year ago
Good video and some great info.... Lots of usful videos and some really eye opening.... about being prepared... and having a storage of food and supplies....
brucenunn37 1 year ago
Hey man, good video.... i have put me and my family a small garden out back this year... this is the first time i have done it... but, it has been very interesting.... i have been having a few bug problems but other than that its been fun checking on it... if you have any tips or advice for a first time gardener it would be aprecaited..... (Thanks)
brucenunn37 1 year ago
Do you use non-hybrid seeds?
I've gotta get started myself.
ristin59 1 year ago
@ristin59 Yes, Non-hybrid seeds are the only way to go. They keep producing year after year. Thanks~
sootch00 1 year ago
@ristin59 Hybrid seeds are fine. The next generation won't be the same as the parent, but they will reproduce.
ChrisGilliam39 8 months ago
Here, 50 years ago every body had big gardens...now I'm the only one on my street with one.....kind of crazy when you think that those skills are getting lost. I hope there's not a big cathastophy or I'll have to guard my garden with a rifle ;)
jihadacadien 2 years ago 8
@jihadacadien
indeed
GohanMH1 11 months ago
Cool.! Check out dehydrate2store on utube she will show you how to dehydrate and store food for emergencies - she has the best info on this
logsliderrjh 2 years ago
equally important as gardening is canning and learning to preserve all that food you've grown
27dcx 2 years ago 2
That is the truth. Once it starts coming in, you've got to be ready to put it up or it will spoil. Thanks for the input~
sootch00 2 years ago
great size garden.. i have 2 raised garden beds 5 x 20ft each
2010purple 2 years ago
Im starting a garden no matter what next year. i have collected the seeds i want to start. even if i have to do them in pots at first.
niffer58 2 years ago
Your a wise man .
julaer 2 years ago
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Hi I just received the seeds I bought from: bepreparednow. net They were only $44.99 with free shipping. It has 27 varieties of NON hybrid seeds and it is sealed in a Mylar Bag. It was the best deal I found on the Internet and the variety is great.
575george 2 years ago
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remy1121 2 years ago
Sure is. God loving government fearing tool.
Uberhilarious 2 years ago
Look a Naked baby Cantaloupe! Somebody needs to put a dipper on that, beacus you dont want the youtube wacko's saying you are showing raw naked veggies. Don that Vid was great. I think I will start to plant a garden. I do have persimmon right now, but I can do more. Thanks keep it up!
stolenknives 2 years ago
Scootch may bee you can make a video on preserving seeds harvested from your garden. Great video We had a hard time with tomatoes this year but they are just now bearing fruit . The deer just trashed my garden and well I'll hook them up soon ;)
nightstalkersasslt 2 years ago
It's been a bad growing season where i live. Cold in spring and summer and cool and damp now. My tomatoes got the dreaded Late Blight so I had to pull most of the fruit out and bag up and throw the vines away. This is a fungal infection that is crossing the nation and responsible for the potato famine in Europe. White slime appears on the fruit and the vines wither and die. If you see signs of this, act immediately to stop the spread. Remove ALL plant debris from your garden..don't compost it.
nellieeeeee 2 years ago
Thanks for the info!
sootch00 2 years ago
Great looking garden. My tire garden did well this year too. Now on to the fall plantings. Good luck.
Survivalist2008 2 years ago
whats with the garden in the winter? i guess its to lake to start now what are the effective months to grow a garden?
avi614614 2 years ago
good vid we have apples,pears and plums growing already but we wanna get some veg growing as well and we are also gonna grow some tobbacco
gunfreak1222 2 years ago
Planted an orange tree this last weekend. Purchased several packs of seeds. Great channel !
urwhat 2 years ago
squash is definitely part of my survival garden - the box full in your video shows why. However, everyone who is serious about living off of their garden needs to add JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE - the American Indians ate it - it's easy to grow - in fact it is a weed that will take over any garden - so plant it in it's own separate bed. Once it's going - lightly fertilize each year & you will have food all winter. We will be living off IT, Potatoes, Squash, Beans & Tomatoes when EOTWAWKI arrives.
yec1JF 2 years ago
Great Video~~Would love to see more basic step by step gardening!
Thanks
BerriedTreasures225 2 years ago
keep it up sootch00 you have inspired me to do even more.
lostcreeksurvival 2 years ago
Great video Bud! The little lady and I have started a garden that has become quite handy and delicious. Excellent job.
opshadow1 2 years ago
Composting is nothing short of throwing the same plants you eat on the soil it grows in. The bugs eat the leavings and bugshit is eaten by the plants we eat the fruit from. Nature provides the sun, rain and nuetrients we all need. Meat is a curse upon man as he has poisoned the predators into non existence out of fear or ignorance. I agree that large scale farming would not be necessary if we all had small gardens but good luch with that. MO
Intent09 2 years ago
If you compost your table scraps you will notice that most vegetables reproduce if the soil is fertal. Volonters repeatedly show and seem to know when to grow. The soil needs tending too and the composting plants that we eat puts back into the soil what those plants need most. The initial garden needs added nutrients and spraying the plants with poison is a NO NO. You kill predators and encourage prey that eat the plants. Seek balances with NO poisons. MO
Intent09 2 years ago
You ndon't come from dust rather you come from your parents. The Bible is wrong about coming from dirt. It smacks of stupidity. The Creator created Creation and Creation produced us from the waters and a few other elements called scalar units. Evolution did the fine trimming and walla! Things have changed to we come from the past evolutions. Nothing comes forth from mud excepts non-truths! MO
The Sheeppy one.
Intent09 2 years ago
I need to correct where I stated that "nothing comes forth from the mud" Actually that is where the futhre comes from. MO
Intent09 2 years ago
According to evolution, we all evolved out of the ooze, mud, whatever you want to call it. Otherwise, we came from aliens? God created man from the dust of the ground.
sootch00 2 years ago
Sorry but don't come on my channel calling my beliefs stupid. You guys are so funny, ranting on and on just because you're ignorant. Go find a UFO channel to bac your weak theories, one that you can agree with... Bye Bye~
sootch00 2 years ago
Excellent vid, brother. Much enjoyed.
patrickhenry3 2 years ago
I dont know how much zukinni bread my wife has made and put in the frez. you are right its not hard
mlong5151 2 years ago
you must live south. I'm in NW Indiana and just starting to a few cuc.,tomatos still green etc....nice garden
bulkfull 2 years ago
Well I don't think there was a garden of Eden.
but I agree with you completely. People should have a garden if they have the space. Even a few tomato plants in post on the porch. It saves on food cost and being more self reliant is always good. I love garden grown zucchini and I always look forward to fried green tomatoes.
sharpie443 2 years ago
Greetings from New Mexico. When you started the garden, you told me to get out and do what we could. Well we did and while it is way to small to be a food supply we just got a few fresh squash and our first tomatos look like they should be ready in a few days. I am still to sick to get out there myself but I do get daily photos and I really enjoy the fact that we are growing something in our back yard. We had thought about it but you were the factor that got us to actually do it this yr. Thx.
shananagans5 2 years ago
That's awesome~ You just made my day. You've got to start somewhere and small is best, then work your way up as you get experience and used to preparing your incoming veggies. How can you lose? You have fresh vegtables, a lower grocery bill and it's fun. Always a pleasure :)
sootch00 2 years ago
Our garden is doing really well... I think I may have screwed up with my squash but everything else is kicking but...
Your veggies look good... try to avoid spraying if you can at all your helper bugs will come in if not this year maybe next but if you spray they will never be able to help you... just a thought...
Jicarilla07 2 years ago
In reality you would need a huge garden inorder to be able to survive for a medium amount of time.
madeinamerica650 2 years ago
possibly, but this also saves money, saves your store bought supplies.. i don't know of any disadvantages..
evoke1988 2 years ago
There are no disadvantages really. But here in Arizona it is difficult to keep a vegitable garden, because it like never rains.
madeinamerica650 2 years ago
i may have more rain over here, but i'd rather be over there for the firearm laws haha
evoke1988 2 years ago
Yea I moved to Arizona from Cali and I really like Arizona firearms laws. They are not restrictive, and the cost of living in Arizona is very low.
madeinamerica650 2 years ago
i'd love to move to the states, somewhere warm.. im at almost the same latitude as N. cali being across the river from detroit.. i think im going north for a more secure feeling though..
evoke1988 2 years ago
then wat about guys at Nevada ?
y512516 2 years ago
Wow looking great !!!
have a Garden (and the SKILLS NEEDED TO RUN ONE WELL) are probably the MOST UNDER RATED..MOST IMPORTANT..SUBJECTS for Survival
You see all these people with Thousands of Dollars in Flashy Big Ticket "Survival items"...and yet they dont know the first thing about growing ANYTHING TO EAT
...These tend to be the "Bug out" Folks who think that 300 million Americans are just going to "hunt game" (LOL!)
IMHO if you cant grow food you not going ot last long
Ooloosoon 2 years ago
Words of wisdom, my friend. Only way to have a substainable food source. Thanks~
sootch00 2 years ago
Awesome garden! I've sliced and breaded squash before, and freeze. I use half corn mean and half flour. Works pretty good.
This year, first year I've froze green beans. Blanch in boiling water, then to real cold water, then freeze. We'll see how they taste. They sure looked nice and green. Wanting to make pickled green beans too.
Pickled okra is yummy too.
Thanks for sharing!
ChrmdLabradorite 2 years ago
You have a beautiful garden! You're right, it is very important to grow veggies if you can. The zucchini looks great!
Any day the supermarket can be closed during an emergency or martial law. If you have your own veggies growing, you will be set.
PrincessChronicles 2 years ago
Do you do realize that you are interrupting interstate commerce with your little garden? For this reason the federal government is going to regulate your little garden out of existence. You must be assimilate, do not resist.
Freedom is what is left over after the government is through with you.
jbranstetter04 2 years ago
Great Garden.
mikevanross69 2 years ago
Good post Sootch,
We've started our personal garden rather late this year also. The problem I forsee is the water. The water bill doubled due to the extreme heat.
arlenearmy 2 years ago
Thanks. I have a couple of 50 gallon rain barrels that I plan to feature in an up coming video. It's amazing how fast they fill during a steady rain.
sootch00 2 years ago
My folks have a plot in a community garden near where they live in Black Mountain and are using rain barrel gravity fed irrigation with a lot of success. We had some of the newly harvested veggies this weekend and they were wonderful. It's a lot of work but well worth it!
jfetcho 2 years ago
Thanks for the Info. I haven't thought about a gravity fed system. I'm about 45 mins west of your folks.
sootch00 2 years ago
I am positively GREEN with envy d;^) Closest I can come to a garden in my current situation is bean sprouts in a jar,
CapnRobusto 2 years ago
Great Job Sootch, looks to be about the size of mine. I call them postage stamp gardens.
BufferSpring 2 years ago
Train your squash to go up....they will vine...keeps them off the ground...also the cucumbers..Looks great!
♥ u!! SensibleSootch!!
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imnotmadonna 2 years ago
Thanks~ Great tips! Especially coming from the Super Shopper :)
sootch00 2 years ago
Everybody need garden..Also save some money
LBCMADDOG 2 years ago
May I add, having a garden is fun too.
nelsonboy707 2 years ago
Looks like I may have to deal with the fungus again on my cucumber plants. They are very small right now.
Hopefl1 2 years ago
You should plant Parsley,Aster's, Marigold's,Coriander,Dill, Fennel, and Sweet Alyssum will sustain many beneficial insects.Like Soldier Bug,Ladybugs,Green Lacewings,Aphidoletes,Aphidius and Praying Mantis's! You can also use these Heterhabditis Bacteriophora to control bug's! (Edovum puttleri)
MrMindfucker 2 years ago
I planted Marigolds and Parsley, but they didn't come up. I do put all the frogs I find in the garden :) Thanks ~
sootch00 2 years ago
If these Bill's (US HOUSE BILL'S HR759,HR875) get passed My family will starve!
It's how we eat year round! It's the only way to Eat and Nourish the soul! Our garden is close to 2 acres in size! Next year it will be 3 acres!Since you Indicate your hard core "Organic" You should start a good size compost pile adding bone meal,urea,etc!
MrMindfucker 2 years ago
You know, of course, that planting your own garden without a permit and following industrial proceedure might soon be a "terrorist activity" if the govt. has their way, right? Ha! Let 'em catch us all.
Great garden Sootch. Soon it will be time for the winter crop of hardy veggies. BTW, all that squash? Slice 'em down the middle, drizzle with olive oil, dust with garlic pepper and a little basil, and throw 'em on the grill. Good eatin'!
Five stars, dude! On the vid as well as the garden..:)
lopinglobo 2 years ago
Nice garden!
KI4VYT 2 years ago
nice garden
vonhismean 2 years ago
Wow that's what it is all about. I appreciate the video, it motivates me to work on my disaster garden Oops Victory Garden.
ElMiner 2 years ago
Your last video "I AM SICK OF THIS S#IT" was awesome! I had my whole family watch and we all had a big laugh. Thanks for making it fun. Long Live the FFM. Just like Verizon: Friends and Family!
sootch00 2 years ago
When I have an abundance of squash and zuchinni - always this time of year in Ohio - I run them through a juicer along with carrots, radish, lettuce, etc and drink some of my meals. This is nutrition you can feel working.
Paul Turner
wilsonpwt 2 years ago
ohio here too
momzilla57 2 years ago
"Dust to dust"... Roger that, Sootch. 5*
I'm pleased to report that my tomatoes are already head high. Peppers are booming too. Miracle Grow is a champion. BTW... I sure like hearing those Carolina songbirds in the background!
armedghost1984 2 years ago
Most excellent! Tomatoes head high! Wow, that makes mine look puny.LOL!
Carolina moon.. at Obama!
sootch00 2 years ago
I can see the headlines from the far left .
"Right wing extremeists makes slaves of poor defensless vegetables ! "
Nice garden Sootch, I have a small garden myself, All the best ! Nice video !
Jeff
mosquewatcher 2 years ago
If I were to make a garden I would much rather make a Green House type set up because of all that stuff they like to spray (chem trails)
RicoRicanNYC 2 years ago
Great video,Great advice. I'm looking to buy about 20 acres. To build and plant on.
BladeoftheSword 2 years ago
that's great sharing! thanks.
Signzit 2 years ago
Nice harvest! I was going to ask what you do about pests, we have a small blueberry garden but the birds and ducks from a nearby lake keep getting at them. I bet a small fence would stop the ducks, not too sure about the birds though.
Otacon237 2 years ago
Owl decoys or a scarecrow should work well. Good luck :)
sootch00 2 years ago
Owl decoys, that's a good idea. Thanks!
Otacon237 2 years ago
i have tried an owl decoy on my backyard garden.
seems to only work for a couple of days, though.
i'll try making a scarecrow and see how i go,
profesas 2 years ago
Ah, that sucks. What if you move it around every once in a while?
Otacon237 2 years ago
moving it around, only helps for a few more hours and then they get used to it again,.
it will have to be moved 4-5 times a day, something not possible as im away at work most of the day.
profesas 2 years ago
I see.
Otacon237 2 years ago
profesas- take some pieces of broken CD or DVD and hotglue to the decoy's eyes, then hang it using a spring and a swivel. It'll move and spin, and the light-catching properties of the CD/DVD pieces are quite startling. It will work longer than a stationary decoy. My grandma used to hang foil pie-pans in the cherry trees to scare away birds.
You could also put some gillnet over the top of the garden - it's liteweight, won't block the sun, and birds don't like flying through it.
hunt1803 2 years ago
thanks hunt1803, for all the info.
will glue some pieces of cd and hang it with a spring and swivel and see how it goes.
profesas 2 years ago
The rabbits where i am will jump or eat right through that...
SONxOfxLIBERTY 2 years ago
Wow, nice Liberty Garden you have there! Hope you are making lots of relish from that squash and cucumbers. Sure does seem like the more you pick, the more will come on...
You can also look for 'open pollinated' seed, its just another name for 'heirloom' seed. Seems like this year prices really popped up on anything with an 'heirloom' name tied to it.
hunt1803 2 years ago
I've also had lots of germination failure on standard varieties of hybrid bean and pea seed this year. Actually had saved some snap pea seed that was about 12 years old and it had nearly 90% germination, compared to 20% germination on a package bought this spring. I'm hoping it was just a crop failure on the part of the seed mfg that slipped through, and not some darker intent.
hunt1803 2 years ago
Remember, if you want to collect seed from several varieties of the same type of plant, and you want that seed to come true next year, you need to keep some distance between the varieties so that you don't get an accidental hybridization. If you don't have a bunch of space, sometimes you can isolate and protect the female flower from wild pollination with a paper bag, then hand pollinate with a male flower, and save seed only from the fruit that develops from that flower...
hunt1803 2 years ago
Thanks for the winderful comments and info! That's what it's all about, helping others.
sootch00 2 years ago
Very nice sootch. I have a garden for the 2nd year and am still learning. I used Big John's seeds. Peace bro.
ljrow49 2 years ago
hint. Zucchini bread lots of Zucchini Bread!
mysacredhonor 2 years ago
LOL! We've been doing the Amish Bread starter for the past 6 weeks and I can feel it around my waist! Zucchini bread is wonderful though :) Thanks Gary
sootch00 2 years ago
nice garden. i have a small one.......send all your surplus zucchini my way.....make some kick-butt bread .zucchini bread stores and ages well in the freezer.heirloom seeds is the only way to go.cost a little more depending where you purchase , but well worth the investment.don't forget to compost......making a compost bin is easy . coffee grounds , egg shells, organic food scraps and yard waste. keeps moisture and nutrients in the soil.
momzilla57 2 years ago
Very nice, it's coming along just fine : )
Darlin2u 2 years ago
awesome garden. what do you amend your soil with? where do you live? I live in Florida where the soil is very sandy and it is so darn hot that you need part of your garden shaded. It is a lot of work, but well worth it. there is nothing like homegrown tomatoes!
originalmetalchick 2 years ago
I added manure while tilling the soil in early March and then added more when planting. That's all. The massive rain has helped. Yes, well worth it!
sootch00 2 years ago
very nice garden. good job.
ironhead41 2 years ago 2
You guys with the longer growing season make things look so easy. :-( It's been very cool here this summer. The other day it got down in the 50s. Plus I need to trim some trees back. At least I've got all the mulberrys I can eat. :-)
Great video!
RodneyHampton 2 years ago
Hey Rodney, put yourself a chicken pen under those mulberry bushes - my grandma had the best eggs - she said it was because the chickens ate the dropped mulberries....
hunt1803 2 years ago
Great stuff. Save some seeds this year for next year. I have cucumbers/tomatoes/bell peppers this year.
You have a longer growing season than me. Must be great.
SleestaksRule 2 years ago
first comment cool vid
skaterperson3 2 years ago