You did a really good list 👍🏻 only 3 little suggestions with in addition to communication will be navigation how to properly read a map with a compass. Maybe trapping can fall under hunting category as well. Having multiple caches in different locations.

"You never know what kind of situation will come up." <= So true! 👍The homestead izskatās brīnišķīgi!

Great recipe sir and I'm planning to work in lativa

Also my favorite thing to grow - onions! I seem to have better luck with onions than anything else. You gardens look great. Never mind the few losses. Everything else looks really good.

THANK YOU. This Is A Well Made Video. Well Explained. Keep Up the Great Job That You do so well.

Thanks for the tour! I’m sorry about the insect damage, I didn’t know ants would eat the plants. I have used borax mixed with sugar and a little water to make a paste to kill them.

Thank you so much for sharing. The more different plants you put on your property the more you can save or sell & trade all for later

Nice to know for survival purposes too 😉👍

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Love what you've done with the land. Everything looks wonderful. I think in Latvia you need more Polytunnels' if you want to fill your winter root cellars. It seems like your spring and fall weather is unpredictable. I know my parents from Skrunda really missed their hometown but I think I would have a hard time living there in winter but the USA also has northern states that are cold as well. lol

Hello Baltic Homesteaders, I think you are missing something while uploading a video that's why your KZbin channel does not rank on the top search results.

Thank you for the tour everything is looking real nice and as always keep up the great work 👍🏻

Liels paldies!

How do you 'do' seeds? Do you save each year and plant from that, or do you buy them in?

Thanks!

This is so impressive! How do you keep track of where everything is? Your knowledge and memory is great.

I would suggest using any chemical type soil PH tester. Everything looks great, but in Latvia while water is mostly on alkaline side soil tends to go acidic. I often add chalk or dolomite flour to water. Then you could nuke your tomatoes with more nitrogen and potassium fertilizer for bigger stronger stems. Also there is almost none elemental sulfur in our soil, so it might be missing for you.

Beautiful house, and an amazing recipe!

so..how many teaspoons per 1 gallon of water?

The music reminds me of when Ron Jeremy and Johm Holmes used to be doing "There thing" back in the day!😂😂😂. I leaned some new cooking technique though so thank you.

Those both look really good! But who in the world thought that one one up? Lol! You’re a great grill master, it looks like!

Both look really good 👍🏻 & tell your daughter happy birthday from me 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

What did you use to burn your posts?

I've seen the burning of poles to help preserve them in the ground several times and I am going to do it with some posts that will form a dead hedge. Everyone it seems these days calls the process by the Japanese term - sho shugi ban (or however it is spelled), but it was not invented by the Japanese, there are the remains of iron age houses in Scotland that show this charring technique was used back then. Personally I refuse to use the Japanese term when we have a perfectly good British word and centuries of history to go with it. The same goes for tsunami, why have people stopped calling it a tidal wave ! Sorry, just a bit of grumpy old man coming out. Or Korotiotio as i was named by the Maoris.

Thank you for sharing and this is a really good idea to utilize the space in between the greenhouses 👍🏻

Using a plastic swimming pool, on top of a palate...live in Alaska, heavy equipment to peal back tundra. Im only 1, also not in the budget to hire someone to strip back the tundra. Question is, how deep of base please, and thank you!

I plant a small block of corn, a bit larger than what you planted, but similar spacing. I believe pollination is better when more densely planted. We had a pretty good corn harvest last year, but I had to check the silks every day for earwigs.

For an efficient cooling I suggest you to put vertical windows facing north at the top of the north roof. The windows would be like just above and at the top of the north roof. In order to have vertical windows the south roof must go higher and over the north roof and the north roof supports the south roof about 3ft under it. This way the top windows have their top fixed to the south roof and the bottom is fixed to the north roof. It is what I did with mine. I know, a drawing would be more explanatory.

I love your ideas and your execution is always impressive!

Fantastic bean trellis. Very aesthetically pleasing and practical too. I'm quite fond of that triangle garden bed - no idea if it might drive one mad trying to get to the bits in the middle, but it brings the conventionally laid parallel beds and the offset greenhouse together. Is the plan to leave the trellis up over winter, or would you dismantle it? (Not sure what your winters are like, if there's a great deal of winds or damp?) I was beginning to wonder exactly how much cardboard you had on hand before you said you'd run out. You have far more patience than me, cutting them up into nice neat squares.

good job

this looks like somebody will get hurt in time

Ah yesss... In Poland we make leczo also. My favourite is with zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, sausage and bacon.

What spacing in row?

Great job in the yard. The house and the outbuilding are coming along well. Love barley and cook it often. I like it better than oatmeal. I have it for breakfast at times. Mom cooked it often, so I think it's an eastern and northern European thing. Had it in St Petersburg on vacation as well.

Nice smoker. Glad I found you we live in Alaska.

Thank you for the video hopefully one day I can have a house with a little bit of land so I can do a big greenhouse. Unfortunately I'm in a townhouse it's nice but no yard I can only do herbs like I said before.

It seems like you have thought of everything and you have brilliant tips! I’m excited to see the progression of this solar greenhouse.

I don't know mate, I do absolutely nothing, just germinating and then planting in to the ground outside (heavy mulched bed with hay from last year) :)

Thanks for the good video 👍🏻

Seems very practical. Would you recommend IBC for unattended drip irrigation setup if one uses pump water? Or in that case 100EUR is better invested in setting up standalone operation for the pump?

Hi, I went through a similar mistake regarding power sources and in the end I have 2 separate power sources to feed the esp32 and the relays. As my device is working remotely I am sending the data to ThingSpeak periodically so I am able to monitor the system and detect the main bugs.

Think of it like this you didn't fail you just did a test for a future upgrade. It's always good to do upgrades because you can make it better and like you said for your future self

Looking forward to Greenhouse Controller 2.0! Always with designs and building it's a dilemma between allowing for future expansion, and keeping a new project simple and accessible enough to be attainable. Personally, I find the continual improvement of a project as satisfying as making it in the first place.

A list of the components you use for ver. 2.0 would be very apreciated, that way we can avoid using sh**y components.... been waiting for this part a long time

This project is approaching enough "complexity" that it would benefit from a design review. Showing your designs and code to other people will help catch issues before they happen. For example, the polarity switching module you want is called an "H Bridge". You've effectively recreated one using individual relays, but a dedicated H bridge module is not that expensive and includes additional safety features to prevent the issues you ran into with your compounded relays.

Lovely video.. thank you. But may I ask where you filmed this… beautiful setting!!

You’re doing marvelously with your gardens and greenhouses this year! I love to see the growth and your diligence.

Love it and love the drone shots as well, shows what a scale you're growing on.

Thanks for the updated video everything is looking good for the growing season