 these guys get nice and big and really, really grow. Hello friends, good morning. So I am actually sitting in front of a greenhouse right now. We are up and at it early today. We are planning to get most of the garden in today. I have the girls with me, and we're actually meeting my mom and my grandma here. And I just need to get most of my vegetable plants. So if you are completely new here and you don't know what's going on, we recently moved to an old farmhouse and we are doing a lot of different things in the house, doing a lot of painting and stuff like that. The garden has been a little bit of a challenge to get in and to really just get everything tilled and whatnot. We actually ideally would have liked to put some more topsoil and just some other things on the garden, but because of the timeframe and wanting to get everything in, we weren't really able to do that. Cory did put a layer of compost on the whole thing. And yesterday we did a lot of setting up. We set up some trellises and some of the posts and kind of got the rows figured out. And I will be showing you guys all of that. Plus I'll be showing you some of the fruit bushes and trees that we have on our little homestead as well. I don't know if I can technically call it a homestead yet, but it's what our goal is. We'd like to have some chickens and things like that. We're getting there slowly, but surely. So this morning we stopped at a local really small hardware store and I got a second 100 foot hose. So our garden is way up on a hill. So of course that brings some challenges. Number one, making sure that we can get water up there. Number two, it's very, very dry because most of the water trickles down off the hill. So we do have to deal with that, but I decided that this year is going to be a learning experience. Whatever we get out of it is whatever we get out of it. And we're just gonna enjoy the process as we go. So we're gonna go in here. Oh, one other thing I wanted to add is the other reason that I'm getting a lot of plants is because we just had so much chaos going on with like painting and all the stuff we're doing in the house that I did not have time to start anything from seed. And I just wanna give my garden the best shot it has by getting some more mature plants since we don't have the best soil. And so we're just kind of dealing with what we have. So enough rambling, let's go ahead and go in and see what all they have at the greenhouse. All right, so we are home from running around a little bit. We actually ended up going to three different greenhouses and just to find the different things we needed. This past weekend would have been the main time for people to really go through and plant and all of that. So a lot of places were sold out of certain things. So we just had to go and make a couple stops to get everything that I needed. And then we also stopped at a local creamery and the girls got some ice cream. My grandmother bought them ice cream. They love whenever they get to see Gigi. They don't live very close to us. So it was nice that she could stop in and then she came here and I kind of showed her the house. She hadn't been here before and all that. So now we're actually getting to the planting part of the day. So I am going to go up. I'm about to pull my hair back and I actually think I might grab my sun hat because the sun is starting to really, really shine. And I'm going to start planting. I think once I have the garden completely planted, so this video will probably go between today and tomorrow depending on what all I get planted. Then I'll do a tour of the garden and I'll also show you all like our fruit trees and what else we have here on our little home. Let's go head up the hill because we have to walk up the hill behind me to go up to the garden. 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I feel like it's such an important skill to pass on to children plus it teaches them the importance of responsibility because if you don't nurture and water and take care of your plant, it is ultimately not going to thrive. And another thing I really love about gardening with my children is it's just a special time that we can spend together outside and we are just in the dirt. We're enjoying talking about how our things are gonna grow or watching things sprout. The girls have had so much fun seeing the things in the garden as they grow little by little every day. I'll be having a couple more maybe for next year. If you're gonna stay. So if you wanna go watering can and start watering all the time. Wherever you start, just keep track of where you're watering. Okay? Okay, so when it comes to gardening another thing you really wanna keep in mind is there are certain plants that are gonna do better as years go on and things like asparagus, you can have them come back for 20 years and it continues to just make more shoots and more harvest. And this is some lavender and more than likely I will see these guys get nice and big and really, really grow next year and the next. But I wanna go ahead and plant them and get them started. So some of gardening is definitely thinking about the future, thinking about what you want when strawberries are a lot like that if you guys are completely new to gardening. Strawberries you don't actually get berries the first year and for the most part depends on the maturity of the plant. So this pot is kind of a little future gift to myself. All right, so I decided that I'm going to put all of my herbs in pots around the edge of the garden and some of my pots have more than one herb in them as you guys are gonna see. But one thing that you wanna keep in mind is you do want to make sure that you're planting herbs with friends. Some herbs don't get along. So if you're gonna do a pot where you have two or three herbs, you want to make sure that they definitely are going to get along and not hinder each other and you can actually just Google it like I took parsley, what gets along with parsley, what doesn't, that kind of thing. So this here is like a curlier parsley I would consider it to be. And then I'm also planting it in the same pot as my basil. And as you can see, this pot gets a lot of shade in the morning and both of these plants I read can do a little better with some shade and not as much sunlight, not drying out the soil quite as much. So I'm gonna fill this with potting soil and then we're gonna plant these in here. I would normally water this after planting but I actually soaked these plants this morning. All right friends, so I decided to sit down the garden, the main garden back here is completely planted. We have a few other odds and ends. I know this fall we want to put in a strawberry patch kind of behind our house. I still have to plant some tea that I'm getting some transplants from my neighbor and yeah, just some little odds and ends and some of that you guys will see in the next couple of weeks in some other videos but today's focus was the main garden behind me and so it has been not quite a whole week since you guys saw that first day when I went to the greenhouse. So I thought I would share with you what I've learned just in the first week of having some stuff in this garden. So number one, gardening on a hill calls for a lot, a lot of water and I actually think I may have lost a couple of plants. I don't know, I'm trying to revive them just by skipping a day of watering and so that goes to show that we are gonna have to really, really focus on that. We didn't get any rain this week but we're still not even in the hottest part of this gardening season. Cory told me this morning he actually ordered a tripod sprinkler so we will set that up up here. We do have soaker hoses which you guys will see whenever I walk through the garden with you now and it's just going to take a lot of attention to that meaning every morning I'm going to have to come up and water things and just check what needs water and all of that which my neighbors that have gardened on this hill, their garden is actually that direction also told me that I'm gonna really need a lot of water. So it's not like a shock, I think I just realized, wow I can't skip a day of coming up and watering and the other thing that's really interesting is with the marigolds that I planted along the sides of the garden. So I planted a row kind of on the bottom half the whole way to the other side and then also on the top half and the top half ones are struggling. So that just goes to show that a lot of water comes down this way for sure and so I'm glad I did my tomatoes on the bottom half where the slope is coming down since they're gonna need a lot of water to just grow and make some big juicy tomatoes. So we will see how all of that goes. I just, I am excited for this year but I'm also seeing that it's going to be a learning experience as well. And another part of all of this, and I've heard this before but I think actually being out in the dirt almost every day and really working on this is really spoke to me and that is gardening is such a spiritual lesson as well and how if you miss one day of getting in to the Bible and really connecting with your maker how you need that water every day. And it just spoke to me so much on not missing that connection and just really connecting and getting that watering from Jesus every day that I need. And yeah, just very convicting, really spoke to me. So I just see how this whole thing of tending a garden is a lot of work. I have been loving it though and I think Corey has been a little bit surprised. I think he thought maybe I wouldn't like it as much as I've been but there's just something really relaxing even though it's so laborious to doing this whole gardening thing. So anyway, I'm going to turn the camera around. We're going to walk through the garden and then I'm going to show you some of our fruit and then I will be doing some more projects with that probably in the next week or so and you guys will get to see that because you're going to be seeing a lot more videos from me in the next little while. I have a lot to share with you all just about life in general but let's go ahead and take a walk through the garden. All right, if you hear some noises behind me the neighbors are working on their farm and I hear them over there. So here's the back of our house. If you guys watch my home channel that is the little screening porch I just kind of did a makeover on and I wanted to put these chairs up here just to give me a little place to sit and then from there up the hill, sorry I'm a little out of breath I had to run down and get another battery. We have the garden and you can see how big this area is it could potentially be fenced in at some point something like that. We have our little fire pit way over there. As you can see in the mornings like this this large tree above me gives a lot of shade and just a nice cool space. I don't know how the garden is going to take that but we will wait and see. It does get pretty hot up here in the afternoons so I think it's gonna get the direct sun that it needs but I didn't realize how much it was going to be shading the garden when we picked this spot we thought about going up further but we'll just see how it goes. I mean the worst case scenario we end up seating it in and moving it next year but I think it'll be okay here. If you expert gardeners can let me know that but so I kind of divided the garden in half with these cellices and made myself two walkways so having the herb pots kind of dividing out the walkways here that go up the middle of the garden and in these pots I have my different herbs so you all saw me planting that one there's my neighbor's garden over there that I was talking about down there is their farm so that's why I can ask her a lot of questions about how things grow since their garden is pretty much parallel to ours so this pot right here is the one you saw me planting and that has the basil and the parsley in it and then I'm gonna go on one side of the garden and then we'll come back down and we'll go over on the other side so here I actually squeezed in a row of onions I had a bunch of onions left over the little starts and I just didn't want them to go to waste and I knew that with making salsa and stuff this summer I could definitely use the onions if they grow so we'll see how that goes this pot here has a pineapple mint plant in it it's so delicious we love mint tea so I actually am going to be making a large tea patch down this way here this next week so I have a couple different tea plants or mint plants that you can make into tea so these rows here are all tomatoes I think there is 14 tomato plants in this area here and I had gotten 10 of these spiral posts and then I realized I had more space so we just put in some wooden posts that could get close to me at a greenhouse and most of these are pretty half and half in being romas which would be like a paste tomato and then just some good big juicy tomatoes I did a pretty big variety of different kinds so I'm kind of just waiting to see what does well and then what I wanna do next year the next area here I've got two rows of green beans in here they haven't sprouted yet I'm waiting to see them sprout up and maybe I'll share that on my Instagram once they do so if you guys don't follow me over there you can definitely go over there this next row we've got some big gaps I know it's a little hard to see with the shadows of the tree but here is the green beans and then up here is the next row so you see we've got this big gap and that's because this is spaghetti squash I love spaghetti squash, it winters well so even if you get a huge crop of it you can put it in your cellar and you can keep it over the winter so I have three plants here of that giving them lots of space to crawl around because they get really really big and then up here on these two mounded rows I have sweet potatoes and I'm gonna be honest it got pretty cool this week so I'm not totally sure how these are gonna do I noticed this morning their coloration was a little bit different and if you are a pro at growing sweet potatoes you can tell me maybe why I was thinking it might be because they got cold there you can see that top leaf just is a little bit darker so I don't know we will see this guy over here looks really good he's sticking up okay so here is another herb pot and then this is my soaker hose but I've got some chives in here and then also cilantro and I'm hoping they grow grow grow because I love chives on potatoes going out from that pot is another row of the marigolds and I just can't explain how these look different than the ones on the bottom without you seeing them in person but they just aren't thriving as well as the ones on the bottom so this pot is a peppermint plant pot and I'm hoping that that really takes off mint usually does over from that I have some oregano and some dill and then over there is some lemongrass in that pot so we'll walk around to that side but all of the trellises that are going through the middle of the garden they are all cucumbers and I am so excited to see how these grow they're actually a few different kinds and the one lady I know from the greenhouse suggested to plant about two plants per rod which I had a few extras so I popped them in she said you'll just get more just the more you plant the more you're gonna have so we'll have to train these up the trellises and I do have some wiring I may end up putting some wiring in between just to give it some extra support we will see so we'll start at this top I don't know if you can see but these guys are just struggling I watered them really well this morning and I'm gonna have to probably get my soaker hose up here but it's just with this side being a good bit higher it really drains out a lot and over here I have got a lemon balm in this pot along with a pineapple sage plant and I'm gonna actually show you this so it actually flowers and the gardener at my greenhouse said a lot of people love this just for decoration but if you all could smell this it smells delicious kind of gives a savory type smell she said some people use it in jams and jellies I actually think I may use it in some meat marinades it just smells so delicious so walking back over here to our little pathway down the other side of the trellises I have got my yellow squash here and then zucchini out here again giving these guys a lot of space to really roam and grow and then over here I've got a row of Brussels sprouts and I have some organic spray coming for them because I already know my neighbor told me that a lot of bugs get to these along with the purple cabbages that's what I put in here I really love both types of cabbage but I read that purple cabbage is a little less prone to bugs than regular cabbage probably because of the color so we'll see if these guys survive I know they can be really difficult we've got two rows of onions here and then here I've got a row of butternut squash and I'm going to be canning that up like pumpkin my grandmother said she actually likes to can it like pumpkin more so than like a pumpkin pie pumpkin so excited about that I'm sure those will do well and then over here is mostly peppers I have some red and green bell pepper plants some yellow bell pepper plants a mini bell pepper plant I have a couple hot couple varieties of hot bell peppers a jalapeno plant I have a cayenne pepper plant that I want to dry them and make my own cayenne powder and then these three right here are tomato plants these two are yellow tomato plants and then that one there is like a grape tomato plant and so and then we did finish out this row with a few onions too because I just didn't have enough plants to finish the row so we filled it in and then over here on the end I did one more row of onions because we just had more of them and then in this pot it is spearmint love love spearmint tea so delicious and then down here is our last herb pot that you guys haven't seen and this is a plant I may have lost due to lack of water and I have to really work with it it's a time plant you can let me know if you are a good herbalist and you do really well with herbs let me know if you think that that guy is a goner or if he will revive but here is my sage and then this is rosemary for like barbecuing and grilling it's actually called barbecue rosemary I'm excited to freeze dry all of these herbs that's one of the reasons I decided to go ahead and do so many herbs and so many pots is because I have my freeze dryer and I know that I will really enjoy freeze drying herbs and using them in my kitchen throughout the year even when they are not fresh so we're gonna take a little walk down the hill here's the garden overview we're going to walk down this way this is the side of the house and this is where you will see how steep everything is it's just incredibly steep down the back of this we had some challenges even getting my husband's truck up to the garden just because of how deep all of this is so we have some plans for all of this this was actually really really bad and Cory really took care of cleaning all lot of this out I think I'm gonna put my tea patch in here for garden tea and we are thinking maybe strawberries along here that is our very nice mature blueberry bush you can circle it then you'll know where I'm talking about and we're considering putting a couple more in here so we'll see but we'll have one blueberry bush that we can pick from and then we can go down the hill and this is also where our water hookup is so just to give you an idea this is the side of the house and up there you can't even see the garden that's how steep the hill is and up there is our large front screened-in porch and this is the entry to our cellar from the outside all right so this tree here is a very mature large very overbearing not overbearing but heavily bearing plum tree and I'm going to pick some out because I know it's gonna be hard for you to see on camera how much is in here because they're the same color but there you can see one of them they are just all through this tree so I'm going to have some black plums to figure out what to do with I know I heard that you can make barbecue sauce with them that's super exciting to me so we'll wait and see and then over here I also have a peach tree it's a really small peach tree so if you guys have any tips for me but that is what we're pretty sure that it is and it also has a lot of fruits on it that I'm hoping mature and actually we have some peaches this is out our lane here I'm just gonna kind of pan around that's the farm over there and walk back this way here is the plum tree that I showed you and then back over here is where we're going to actually have our raspberries we have them all in pots for now but we are going to eventually probably make a raised bed or something to plant them into next year but for now this is how they all are in another video this next week I will be building a bird net over this because I know that the birds are going to have hay day and I actually need to get down here and water these today but so there's three pots that one's a little hard to see it's under there they have really grown a lot in the last two weeks since we brought them over here from my parents that's where they were at and they have already just like begun to blow up and grow all over the place so yeah, so we're just kind of finding little nooks and places where we want to put things and just be able to really enjoy growing things and have our place here so I'm just gonna show you back up the hill there's the two chairs that you all saw there's the garden and I just wanna thank you guys for watching today thanks for catching up with me I was excited to share this outdoor work with you guys and of course there's so much more that's gonna happen but I just know that I wanted to give you a good overview before everything starts growing and then we can look back together and see how far the garden has grown and hopefully it does grow it's hard when it's a first year garden especially being on a hill don't forget to check out the information about Brooklyn and below I know that you all will enjoy their sheets as much as we have and you can also take 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