2021 GARDEN TOUR | Raised Beds | Containers | WHAT Is Growing?

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

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[@diversitylove5460]

Not wildlife on the corn. That sweet super sweet corn is attracting baby bugs to the shoots. If you put a pesticide down elsewhere, look for them lost baby bugs

[@diversitylove5460]

Then make an offer pile for them bugs and put corn in a tray or add rags on the bottom with repellent

[@mitchdickson254]

@@diversitylove5460 Bugs? Nah. Danny turned and harrowed that ground. The bugs are dead. Look to crows. They will pull up the whole field if you don't deal with them. Now if you like bugs and cutting worms, try "no-till". That will guarantee you a bumper crop of bugs ;) To improve that, pile a bunch of wood chips on top LMAO!

[@mitchdickson254]

@@diversitylove5460 That is white field corn. It is not sweet. But sweet enough. You can do anything with it from grinding into animal feed to making corn meal.

[@diversitylove5460]

Not 100 percent true. That’s what industry sells. Permaculture has proven differently. In fact. The monoculture is the pestilent target. The eradication of one bug is the domino if them all. This is why we have 75 percent extinction if insects in a natural reserve. According to Paul Stamets. The world dies with every lie. Although people dream to live on mars after conquering the earth, radiation draws a line. Mass extinction again. Manmade extinction again So far from the rapture.

[@kamicrum4408]

My grandmother used to say about processed food, they processed the goodness right out of it!

[@sharlenejustice7700]

Hopefully people realize that we are running out of time to educate ourselves and to get ready for this coming food shortage and all that it brings with it. I honestly feel like I've been in Church each time I watch you guys!! 💜💙

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Thanks we are trying to get the message out there.

[@weathermanplus]

I love y'all property so much, it is really a beautiful & relaxing place.

[@weathermanplus]

Thank you for the shout-out brother, GOD bless you two!

[@cbwhitedove]

Hey weatherman plus, can we get ypur info for middle Ga?? Or are you just in Ms?

[@weathermanplus]

@@cbwhitedove I can help you with anything, what city?

[@Katydidit]

@@weathermanplus while you wait for miss Cindy black to respond maybe you can help me ? ... in NW Houston, TX. :) Wished I had planted some late potatoes!!

[@weathermanplus]

@@Katydidit Of course, what can I do for you

[@legauxmc]

Good morning Been blessed to awake once more.

[@lorenstribling6096]

Good morning Danny and Wanda. Time for coffee and a mini vacation in your garden.

[@polettirosahomestead7075]

Thank you Danny, you made me feel better this morning. I am still a beginner gardener, only my 4th year ever with a garden at the age of 60. This year has been tough in the mountains of Virginia, the rain and cold temperatures have caused a lot of issues for me. You just gave me the confidence to keep going. At least now I feel that it wasn’t me failing. Thanks again.

[@SuperEvilC]

Food Forest is such an excellent idea/thing. ❤

[@malcolmt7883]

I don't think I've ever built a fire in the wood stove so late in the year. 40 degrees is a cold May morning in my book.

[@midsouthhomestead7527]

Here in South West TN we have had a fire in my HR woodstove really late in the season too.

[@jenniferbeach6166]

Good morning from Texas😊

[@Txnative7]

You're right about the need for change in how we garden. Central Texas here, just had weeks of torrential rains/ unseasonably cold. All my beds are raised.

[@rebeccajones9735]

My dad passed in 2003. He grew about 35 acres in gardens and orchard. He sold produce out of his store and a farmer's market as well as to customers at several beauty shops in a nearby town. He planted a variety of corn called "summer sweet" and got the seeds from Twilley. It was the best corn!!

[@weathermanplus]

Good morning Danny & Wanda.

[@kenadams5988]

I had birds on corn they did the same thing. They ‘dig’ down to the left over seed and eat the seed which in turn plucks the plant up!

[@gonzaga45377]

My chickens got into our garden last year and did that exact thing.

[@Emeraldwitch30]

I have had raccoons and chipmunks do it to me too. I don't mind sharing my garden but goodness critters are some of the worst sharers lol I swear they have parties out there like Peter rabbit. Lol

[@susanschneider-baker49]

I have had birds and raccoons dig up the corn for the bit of corn seed. Damndest thing watching them do it. Ended up putting a pan of cow corn about 100' from my garden to feed the momma critters during the baby feeding stage.

[@susanschneider-baker49]

Been planning my farm for aging in place, too. The Fruit Trees & Berry Bush rows in the Orchard are progressing from a nutrient rich grass & clover cover crop that we mow to 8' wide wood chip mulch row under the Trees & Bushes. Next phase will be fencing a Poultry Moat around the Fruit Orchard for pest control. The chicken & ducks will be let into where the Trees & Bushes are occassionally for fruit cleanup, pests, fertilizing and scratching work as needed. Next year, we will be transplanting the Edible Hostas from the City house to the farm. We have 8 varieties for salads and for making steaming food pouches.

[@jimt6151]

Loved the homestead walk-around! I drive a truck, so I'm not home for weeks at a time. When I can't be at my place out in the sticks, it's great to watch your videos and hear all the birds singing, cows and calves, and all the other natural background sounds while learning from y'all! God bless!

[@kenadams5988]

I am in zone 8b and if my garden was not raised beds the roots to all my plants would have drowned/rotted.

[@janiceseigler6317]

I totally agree Danny, that we are having to constantly change our crop growing to keep up with the weather and what man throws at us, too!

[@bcrouch2626]

Besides that another bed of asparagus will give miss wanda more to snip early and eat lol

[@sharonm.3197]

Good morning Danny and Wanda! Thank you for the garden tour. I hope y’all have a blessed day!

[@tbear4557]

Good Morning and Happy Friday!

[@marciannaprice1882]

Good morning 🌅🌄 I agree with the weather outlook, I have 2 high tunnels already, planning on 2-3 more..it's middle of May, and nothing is really producing in my raised beds, but my high tunnels doing great!

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

This is going to be the best way to grow in the future.

[@cbwhitedove]

Thank you so much Danny and Wanda for all you do to teach us newbys how to grow our food and live sustainably!! Love yall, God bless you both!!😊

[@abcxyz-io7wt]

I for one love hearing the cows in the background 😊 nice tour 👍💝

[@saddleridge4364]

I got my main garden tilled today using my brand new SunJoe electric tiller, And I made a new small garden my third one) to put my kakai pumpkins in. The tiller was cranky about the power switch and I had to keep checking my extension cords, thought maybe one of them quit. FINALLY ,the tiller revved up and it did a great job. Now, all my plants I've been growing in the house since February can go outside middle of next week when the night temperatures will finally be in the 50's. I'm happy, and thank God for Spring finally coming to PA.

[@gerhardbraatz6305]

I'm trying a bunch of heirloom tomatoes for a few yrs to see what will do the best in my area but I am enjoying watching your hybrids experiment.

[@Emeraldwitch30]

If you can find it Purple Russian tomatoes do very well where its cooler(it does okay in the heat too but I haven't lived down south in many years so never tried it down there) Its a purplish/deep red/mahogany colored long roma shape with a few that get as big as oxhart shapes(same plant too lol I save seed from the biggest ones I can). Wonderful dryer tomato for sauce with a rich taste that my romas do not get. I love my heirlooms. I have seed for my other favorite sonewhere(I'll find them son finally flew the nest and ive been sorting through my storage) its opalka the best sauce tomato for me in our area. Long skinny roma types with almost no gel/seed area. Less cooking to make a thick sauce. I've grow tons of others and I can't say I've ever grown a tomato I didn't like but those 2 stand out for me. Have a great garden season

[@midsouthhomestead7527]

You have helped us save a lot of our crops. Thanks!

[@irmawing591]

It was 44 here in W Central Ga this AM . Cold and windy this week. Back to the 80s tomorrow. Warm weather plants are not as big as usual but broccoli is happy except for cabbage worms . BT in full force for those little worms. Never a dull moment in the garden.

[@donaldmiller8629]

Irma Wing , Hmmm, I thought that we are in the midst of global warming ? Why is it so cool ?

[@irmawing591]

@@donaldmiller8629 Because global warming is a lie?

[@donaldmiller8629]

@@irmawing591 , Global warming is not exactly a lie. Nor is it quite the truth. The fact is that the Earth has been warming and cooling for millions of years. Evidence has been found that shows that there was once tropical plants growing in the area of the North Pole. Global warming ? Then more recently ( in Earth years time ) we had a cooling. Which resulted in an Ice Age. Up until approximately 10,000 years ago the northern part of the Earth was covered in ice. More than 2/3 of North America was covered with ice that was hundreds of feet thick. The Great Lakes were formed by that ice. Thank GOD we had some global warming which melted the ice. Otherwise we would not have any of our northern states ( or Canada ) and we would be wearing warm parkas during the summer. I've been hearing lately about a proposal to spread some reflective material in a low space orbit to reflect the sun's energy. That would be great. It would save on my air conditioning bill . And I suppose that they could use some snow in Florida. I do have a question though. Once these billions of reflective particles have been distributed in space all around the entire Earth , how do they propose to remove them when they are no longer needed ? To prevent another Ice Age for example ? Perhaps we should not attempt to manipulate the Earth. After all , the Earth has been doing it's own thing for 3-4 BILLION years now and it's still here.

[@irmawing591]

@@donaldmiller8629 I agree. There are always unintended consequences . Man needs to stop trying to manipulate these things. But it will continue until we manage to destroy ourselves but the earth will go on after man is gone.

[@deecooper1567]

Yes, things are definitely changing & we have to learn how to change with it. Thank you for taking us on a tour 🌽🍎🧤

[@apiecemaker1163]

I appreciate the journey from seed to table. Thank you and God bless. 👩‍🌾☀️💛

[@lilcricket4379]

I got tired just looking, oh man! Such a huge place. I'm glad you've got one another.

[@artherenewilliams7435]

Your homestead is an oasis. Just beautiful.

[@09echols]

We've put our watermelons on top of our leaf compost pile to keep them warm. Put about 8 inches of soil on top of it and planted my starts directly into it. They seem to be doing great in this strangely colder weather

[@suzettepayne3361]

Just wanted to say thank you for educating me on gardening. We moved from the DFW area a couple of years ago to a ranch in Comanche County Texas. You and Wanda are my school. I really value the gardening tips you share. My garden is not doing anything like it did last year. We are having rain and cooler weather too. I’m looking forward to the future videos.

[@juliekraft4102]

Sure hope the weather straightens up for all of us soon.😬

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Don't count on it.

[@aureus1210]

Gotta be flexible to meet the needs of the future….absolutely! Been saving for our high tunnel that I hope we’ll purchase this fall!

[@Katydidit]

Thank you, thank you! I really appreciate the way you explained pruning tomatoes. I have done this in many different ways ... and this one just made alot more sense to me. I love you all... you are the mentors for many!

[@ladonhilley461]

Thank you sir for all of your videos. It like a wonderful childhood memory.

[@kyeneal3243]

The weather has been so unpredictable this year. I lost 120 tomato plants with the late season frost here in Kings Mtn NC. I have since replanted and they are doing great. It's still in the mid 40's some nights. Thanks for the tour. The sounds of the calves are bringing back memories. I haven't even planted watermelons and cantaloupes yet. My peas got killed by the frost. I'll be planting later for fall harvest. Celebrity is my all time favorite canning and eating tomato. Blessings to you and Wanda.

[@marithag2319]

Thanks for explaining the pruning of tomatoes. 😁 Now I better get to trimming. Looking forward to the fruit video and learning what those 7 layers are!

[@franpaterno486]

I’m trying to watch as manning of your video as I can I’m learning as I watch thanks to you and Wanda Fran P 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@melissareed9453]

Thank you for your time, It’s appreciated.

[@vivienneschnell4717]

Danny, with your corn, that is the work of cutworms. These sly critters come out of the ground at night and wrap themselves around the stalk of the small corn, and literally just eat through the stem where they wrap around it. They are very similar to lawn grubs. You can protect the small plants with paper or cardboard tubes around the stems until they get taller. Once they reach a certain size, the cutworms dont eat through them. There are some other ways to combat them, but this is the most direct. Things like the tubes from toilet paper rolls or from paper towels will save your corn plants. Its not the variety, they will do it to any corn. Its just circumstances with the weather and so on.

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

I caught squirrels doing it.

[@hart796]

Love the upcoming berries and nuts segment. Great point on ability to change and adapt to weather and high tunnels Love your channel. Ty vm for sharing both successes and failures. God Bless.

[@debrawade6656]

I so agree that planting changes with aging. We have gone from traditional gardens to raised beds and a 20x20 high tunnel. Bending over harvesting beans is hard on the back. Our peas didn’t do well this year either so I pulled them up after getting a pitiful harvest. Enjoyed your tour of your gardens.

[@monikas5125]

Good morning Danny. I love my raised bed

[@jthepickle7]

Male squash blossoms dipped in pancake batter and fried. Yum! I can see you had a cold Spring. Had to pause for a second and order canning lids. Last time I went to the store they were sold out. (people are getting ready for something - as it's not yet canning season) I've heard that with using chem fertilizers the plant sugars don't turn to complex starches and remain in a sugary state longer, attracting sugar-loving bugs, and maybe squirrels! We use blood meal - $80 for a 50 lb sack.

[@carlaw2661]

Good morning Mr. Danny and Ms. Wanda!! So glad that you are here. I'm following your growing journey to learn what I need to be successful. Thank you both very much. Crazy Daze is awesome as well Ms. Wanda!! 💕💕🥒🥔🍅🥕🌽

[@TheDealDepot]

Great video! Reminds me of our garden a little bit that garden fabric is a big time saver and it looks great! We also have been using that stuff for the past couple years on our channel! Have a great weekend!

[@heidifrog7894]

I absolutely love the tour and garden updates so I can watch it all grow. So valuable. Thank you Mr Danny & Ms Wanda. Because of you both I have been picking fresh produce every day from my gardens and I continue to put into practice all the advice you give. 🙏🌱💕

[@ErnieHatmaker]

I totally agree about the garlic. Never too much!

[@beverlymichael5830]

I get amazed with each video how well your gardens are doing.

[@dmacisaac9382]

Hmmmm my tomatoes need some friends lol , thinking that the carrots will be a great idea 😁

[@alinapatricia8639]

Your property looks beautiful and serene. That pump - how creative! :-)

[@loriy7532]

Love all the info you are giving to us ,makes me very happy..

[@johnnytyson8645]

Good video right about the getting 0ld part where did the time go i was just 16 couple weeks ago now im 72 god bless

[@charmainemontgomery582]

I had no idea how beneficial clover was until now. Thank you for sharing!

[@monicag75]

My watermelons looked exactly the same. 😞 So i yanked them out yesterday. We have storms in the forecast everyday next week but it’ll finally be in the 60’s at night. Instead of these 40’s 🤦🏼‍♀️. In May. In Oklahoma 🤨 So I’m replanting my watermelons in grow bags to give them a fighting chance finally. God bless.

[@BigSmashKing]

Please do more like this! And tell us how to grow each type of vegetable. Thanks

[@jefferylayfield5788]

Going back to my roots my grandfather use to be a gardener and I paid attention but life happens but I am back to the old ways worms and all and my tomatoes and etc are doing good I understand where you and people like us understand it's eather being hungry or ? Keep it up what your doing valuable information!

[@musicianswife8596]

Tomato experiments! I’m so excited!

[@theIAMofME]

I love your tour videos. So much knowledge just listening. I will never grow potatoes in the ground again. Both times I did they rotted because of so much rain. And probably where we had to plant them also. But, its guarnteed to get potatoes if I plant them in big pots. I have 4 stages of pots wrapped around an area in my back yard each planted a week apart. I'm going to have more potatoes than I know what to do with. Pots with potatoes never fail me. I also grow sweet potatoes in a large raised bed. I save my in ground for corn, tomatoes, peppers and squash/melons. Which btw, I'm having the same issue with all squash type plants. This weather is scary. Thanks again for another great tour video!!

[@MrCntryjoe]

Busy, buzz the bees know it's time. Replant is always here. Peppers, tomatoes frost killed. Replant today. Squash, pumpkins and watermelons + a bunch of stuff. Season on here now. Always nice. thank you. ☮️ HTGDE.

[@sweetpea3472]

I really appreciate your videos. Glad you're doing this channel!

[@RoneysPlayNcreate]

Always love y’all’s tour. Everything is growing and changing. Beautiful and relaxing 💕

[@horticultureandhomes]

I love hickory king. My grandparents always grew it for cornmeal, chickens and cattle. I have grown it for years. The yellow is my favorite for making corn relish. It makes good roastin ears but goes by quick. You can freeze it for fried corn too but it's better for roastin ears, in my opinion. You have about 4 days to pick for fresh corn. I like it at about the 4th day for corn relish. It has a good crunch and lots of starch. The yellow and white hickory king get to be about 11 or 12 ft high in my zone 6b garden. It's a dent corn so it is not sweet but boy does it taste like corn. It's good for making parched corn too!

[@kipboswell4955]

Crows will pull corn up. I grew hickory kind two years ago and it was the tallest and most productive I’ve ever grow

[@retayannone165]

20s at night and almost foot of snow up here in mt Alot of gardens lost...now rain rain and wind..

[@rainlyte2003]

hey Danny. Stephanie from Cover Corners sent me your direction. We've been having the same conditions here in SE MO. With all the rain and cold in our forecast I've not even put anything outside. Seedlings in the greenhouse doing well. I'm starting from scratch this year with raised beds (yet to be built til first week in June) so I'm counting this as a starter year though I've been gardening for years. Will be adding a new chanel soon - An Ozarks Journal Homestead. I look forward to seeing how your garden progresses. Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Welcome and Thanks Stephanie.

[@williamtyson4307]

Enjoying your videos Danny..We are on the same page.I pray for our country.

[@lynettetucker5236]

☀️ Good morning Danny and Wanda the garden is looking great I was just going to say somebody is really hollering for you guys that's cute they know your outside 🐂🐃🐐 👍

[@jacquelinejohnson7541]

Wow what a large bit of land u HV ,u must work very hard bless u

[@mitchdickson254]

Danny, heard you say this was the last year and next (if we live that long) you were going back to regular old farming. I watch you jump through hoops countless hours just to put out quality videos for the "tourists" LOL! Up here in Tennessee we have to have 8 or 10 old hound dogs laying around the yard for the tourists as well HEHE! But we don't do any of that trellicing, ground covers, etc. If Mama wants 200 quarts of beans, we plant 10, 100 ft. rows and let it go. Same with tomatoes. This year I planted 175 plants. I will get 50 or more quarts and plow the rest under in the fall. Don't stick a one! Don't prune them or anything. Right now I probably got 500 or more green tomatoes and will have bushels and bushels by harvest time. I think you make a difference in that you have made them aware of the difficulty they will soon face! It's gonna get tougher than a wood peckers lips!!! I do enjoy "Porch Time". Keep on truckin' Danny!

[@gailsgardenherbsmore1605]

Sounds like you are getting all the rain that we are NOT getting. Super dry here and hot winds in the afternoon. We expect another bad fire season...and this year is the driest I remember for May.

[@deb5710]

Good video! Let the sunshine...

[@frogfoothollar5349]

Enjoyed the tour. It was 46 here this morning in SC Midlands.

[@nancycook6644]

We had to replant our watermelons a couple of days a go. Been a little cool here also.

[@marybethham4967]

Im on board with you all with the garden. Weather here is crazy. Woke up to 38 degrees. Things in my garden will be late. Do have somethings in the raised bed that I can cover. Always love watching your videos....prayers for all.

[@kenadams5988]

You use the same pruning of tomatoes I do. I read the article in Organic Gardening in the 1970’s for intensive raised bed gardening. Then after the first set of blooms, I prune the suckers. I interplanted dill all the way around the tomatoes. Then, on th sides , I have snap beans on two sides to run up on a trellis, cucumbers on one side and watermelons on the other side with an 8x12 foot bed of black plastic covered with mulch for them to run on all in an 8x8 foot raised intensive bed.

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Permaculture on steroids sound's like.

[@kenadams5988]

My pumpkins have leaves over a foot wide as well as the spaghetti squash.

[@saddleridge4364]

Had to comment twice, because when you showed your corn bit off at ground level, I perked up. That is exactly what happened to some of my Astronomie Dominie corn last year, bit off at ground level, couldn't find any bugs and that garden is fenced in! I'm going to put plastic jugs over the seedlings this year and see if that foils whatever did that to my corn. That variety grows colored kernels, but it's a sweet corn and was very good.

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

We found out it was squirrels.

[@HoeIngandSowIngGardening]

I made tomato cages like that and those darn tomatoes keep escaping. LOL Garden tours are my favorite videos. I love that you are experimenting in the containers. I do all my gardening pretty much in container. Those darn squirrels. LOL TFS! 👍😎🌴🌻🌸😀😎🌴👍 - LazyLizLife

[@marybercegeay8069]

Our homestead here in South Louisiana is very low to start with and if things are not planted in high rows or raised beds it will drown for sure, , in the last 3 weeks we recorded 21 inches of rain here, too much rain just like south Mississippi.

[@urbanbackyardcontainergardenin]

Such a beautiful homestead!

[@davidclark5138]

Good stuff, I just got 2 new pair of Round House Bibbers love the fit

[@elizabethnelson2033]

Love your videos. I learn so much. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@billybradyjr6008]

Dig around where the corn is coming up with your finger. If it’s a cut worm he won’t be far away.

[@cjcc-anwhjmpastorjamesm.mc4725]

Excellent point of knowledge

[@jacquelinejohnson7541]

This is what I am trying I only HV small buckets for now am thinking of getting Sm big planters maybe 4 and see if things grow ,I HV to learn from the beggining I dnt kn much am willing to try and learn

[@dreamasue]

Beautiful garden!! ❤️

[@jamesbaker9383]

Yep, Mark is about the best out there. I listen to him also. Weatherman Plus.

[@TheSeeker-uj6lo]

Thank you Danny for sharing your beautiful gardens and knowledge. Love your channel. Thank you brother. .

[@sallystephens1524]

I’m going to be 89 this summer so believe me I know you can’t do as much when you get older as you did when you were young!

[@dc0145a]

New subscriber from NH. My brother-in-law had similar problem with corn; turned out to be crows. They pull it out and eat the seed.

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Thanks for subbing.

[@harrykersey9086]

I believe cutworms are getting the young corn seedlings

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Nope killed a squirrel doing it in the act.

[@twistedponies7480]

I love that water pump! Is there a video on that?

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Yes it's several years ago.

[@ConfedVet]

My garden has been fighting Mother Nature too. It's just now starting to take off. Really like all the info you give us. Thought I was doing something wrong until I heard it from the Pro, so I know it's not me or the seed. Harvested mustard greens last night they were so good! Will be trying the tomato and carrot thing. Planting more fruit trees today wish me luck, Lol.

[@Sheenasalesthriftytreasures]

Ps looks like the high tunnel is going to be the way to go from here on out our lives are changing

[@triciasklodowske5653]

Could you use low tunnels over the watermelon's and squash ? Thanks for sharing. Prayers for the weather to get better for all of us. God bless