A SUCCESSFUL Garden DOESN'T Happen Overnight

[@melanieedmonson1480]

Some of us are behind in our gardens, and we're not even pregnant. You are an inspiration. Be blessed.

[@QuiteQuietASMR]

I am also pregnant (2 days past my due date actually) and I really appreciate that you are still out in the garden working but that you also aren't afraid to grab a chair and do some work in a comfortable position. I have been working hard to get my garden going before the baby arrives - it is my first! And I hope that once the baby is here, I will feel good enough to still get out there and water and plant some of my tomatoes and peppers that are waiting for the last frost date to pass. However, I know my husband will pick up the slack for a few weeks if necessary while I recover!

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

That's awesome, congrats! How exciting you're so close :)

[@JuliaLisArt]

You're the only 'gardening' genre youtuber my husband WANTS to sit down with me to watch. Thanks for your realness :)

[@catracampolieto8989]

If I lived close by I would be so willing to help you. Since I don't, I'll pray for strength and endurance for all of your family. I added another good size raised bed. I'm a Grandmother, I get tired more easily. But watching you garden pregnant, your an amazing person. You've motivated me to keep pushing forward. If I have to stop and take a break, I do. As long as I keep going I'm one step closer to my goal. Wishing your family an abundant harvest. Have a blessed day.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Thanks!

[@paulaelves5160]

i just love how the kids help out and act goofy,it shows how comfortable and happy with life they are,,and may i say you look glowing,and baby bump is looking good,,the garden is coming along great xx

[@Dana-zc1jw]

I just love your little family. The laughter and loving connection between you and your husband is so loving and genuine, it warms my heart ❤️

[@ionianatlas7037]

Working out in the garden that hard while you are pregnant is amazing. Such an inspiration.

[@mompuff]

I just love how you are teaching the kids so much about gardening!! Team effort!! Great parenting!! Love from Kentucky 🐎

[@somdhomestead9031]

You know you're kids are happy when they can act the way the want when mom is trying to talk. Love your videos.

[@brookecross9612]

I’m due June 12th and am so sore with my second baby. I’m so blown away with your commitment 💕

[@hickoryhillinthebigwoods-r759]

I watch you do all you do and can't help but wonder when you will reach that point you want to give up from the burden. Then I remember you have a family that works with you and carries the burden for the goal of the family. You have a beautiful thing going and may the Father bless you all in everything you do.

[@rosensidhe3267]

You and your kids look like you're having so much fun in the gardens! These videos are so educational for us viewers to see, but you're also creating lasting memories for your kids to look back on once they have their own families in the future. This sort of knowledge and experiance is invaluable and incredibly enriching. Food for the soul _and_ the body. Wishing you all well! "To garden is to believe in tomorrow."

[@jaemeh09]

My new favorite Channel I’m so glad this popped up

[@squashit339]

I'm soooo behind on my garden. I'm in a warmer climate but this year we've had way more rain than we've had in years which turned my garden into a jungle. I've slowly been clearing everything out. My seeds I started in Feb got knocked off the picnic table by some puppies we were fostering so I'm behind on tomatoes and peppers. I'm not stressing about it. It is what it is and we will get tomatoes and peppers eventually lol

[@doinacampean9132]

Maybe you can rest the beds for a bit (3 or 4 weeks?) cover and let everything die underneath? Move asparagus somewhere else while you kill the weeds in that bed. I love how Charles Dowding does next to no weeding. The Hollar Family has heavy red clay, and they keep amending with compost, and it becomes fluffier every year. Hopefully, so will yours, in time. Have you watched the Red Garden? He has a very interesting video about using urine (diluted 10:1) as fertilizer, with spectacular results.

[@parva777]

🥰Such a beautiful family ! May the universe keep them happy, and provide them with a healty and cheerful live !🥰

[@joannak4640]

I'm so happy to hear from you ♥️ The garden is looking beautiful!! Everybody is really pitching in to get the job done. The benefits of children getting older and more capable 😁 really happy Cam gets so much maternity leave. Between all of you, I think you will be able to get everything done you need to this season Love you girl ♥️

[@nancyrasmussen2016]

With having to do all that weeding have you ever thought of putting down fabric cloth, it would save you a lot of time. Living traditions on you tube has done that and it worked really well for them. Garden is looking Good! Nancy from nebraska

[@alyviachristensen304]

Bless you mama. I was a pregnant gardener last year… just a heads up, my labor was very fast. Very very fast.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

3 of my 4 have been very fast too, like two hours or less fast! It's a good thing but also makes me worry a bit since we live far outside of town. We'll see what happens!

[@samanthafitch952]

Watching you and your family, just gives me such a happy and peaceful feeling 🙏🏻❤️baby bump is adorable 🌸

[@mariaberger9076]

I have a vague recollection of an acquaintance running their Rototiller, it was a lightweight Rototiller, over the asparagus bed very very early in the season before anything had even thought about popping up. That served as an excellent weeding option

[@healthyelizabeth]

I love this. The way your family gardens and homesteads is very inspiring. Thanks for a piece of encouragement ☺

[@mariaglover6957]

Yay a new baby!! Congratulations I have 5 children and I’m starting my journey of having my own garden I LOVE your channel!!! I wish I could find some of those razor back cowpeas lol

[@nizethpretorius2400]

Your children are having such a nice childhood. Well done

[@moonafarms1621]

Slow and steady wins the race! Thanks for sharing this!!!

[@loriseeley7823]

I think that worm is an invasive species called a jumping worm. Its size and behaviour is what makes me think so. Perhaps do a google search to see what you think. Love the channel! Keep up the good work!!!

[@ashleyt6237]

Your kids look like they have a lot of fun!

[@dorothyrhodes4657]

I was just saying it was time for another video. Thank you so much 💓 I appreciate your family so much!

[@kimlettau4167]

Great video and very informative! I like seeing the family working together! You're getting bigger mama be careful! ❤

[@donnahummel5765]

❤ Ur a amazing 😄 strong women. Wonderful 😊 helpful children. Don't over do it. God Bless 🙏 u all❤

[@karenzorn773]

So good to hear from you, your garden looks great, love to see you all working together.

[@michelekellar7817]

I'm so excited to meet the newest member of your flock!

[@ronaldthoms2147]

Chandler is a very good blueberrie Bless you an your family an new baby 😊

[@ginnyhale2184]

Thank you for your channel. I love watching.

[@karentuzynski7525]

What a wonderful, comprehensive video!!

[@homesteadincrazy7773]

I soooo want your garden. Please explain more about the cover crops, what they are used for, and when you put them in (timing). Love your channel.

[@Frank-bh3cm]

Good luck!

[@sherry2836]

Love this! And kids version of Turkey Trot! Your family works together so well. When is baby due?

[@RyanMercer]

Isn't that the truth. We finally have our peas coming up well and some rain on day 30 of my unemployment. Well start starting some of our seeds here in the next few days for the rest of the season too. Here a little, there a little :)

[@sgrvtl7183]

All the diigent work that you, Rebecca, and your family has done over the past few years, has and will help immensely this year while you have to take it a little easier. It is wonderful that it is a family endeavor. 🤎💚💛 Your children will always remember and never forget what they have learned. Sometimes we, as parents & me a Grama) don't get recognition and then you will get your reward when your grown children ask you 'hey mom what did we do for this & that' ! It is heartwarming to hear my sons ask me, as adults, when, as young ones, I wasn't so sure they were listening.....💜 💗

[@ioanagherman5952]

Your kids are so funny, remained me from my childhood, we always work together in garden and make fun of each other (grandma, grandpa, us the kids and my mom,my dad passed away when I was 6years old).God bless you guys. A lot of work, but you have a lot of work.I like the weather over there,my husband like desert weather, he not move anywhere,I love to raise animals and have bigger garden

[@user-fy1sx4vt4m]

Darrow blueberries are great. Of they couple varieties I've grown they are the closest to Chandler.

[@foodsgoodfarm2429]

you are an all star!

[@iwonaolszewska-szmurlo5267]

Love your commitment but take care of yourself.😊

[@objektivone3209]

At last I found an American youtube channel that maintains its focus on serious self-sufficiency. Otherwise, I only had English ones left after I had stopped following the American ones.

[@Alieombaba]

So true!! Learning everyday! ❤ thank you for sharing 🙏🏽

[@gloriadavidson8599]

Love your videos 💖💖💖 Love from the UK x

[@Hawkknight88]

We got some blueberries from Nourse as well. They're doing okay, but my soil here is a lot of clay and I probably need to amend it more. Love your videos :) Edit: 2:35 kids messing around behind you is precious lol

[@OKae88]

Personally I had no problems growing in clay with my blueberries. Be careful they are invasive and will start popping shoots up everywhere!! Only plant where you don't want them to take over

[@abundantlyblessedhomestead9951]

A HUGE thank you for putting the names of the plants you use on the screen! Helps so much! What zone are you in?

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

6b

[@albertnett7864]

Fun video.😁

[@bethanynelson3959]

Your sweet kids crack my up! Quick question, what type of tomatoes make the best tomato paste and sauce?

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

San Marzano are our favorite. But they are very prone to blossom end rot, so I usually plant a combination of them and Roma.

[@bethanynelson3959]

@@TheSeasonalHomestead thank you!

[@nizethpretorius2400]

Please send me the name of the canning recipe book that you use. I have to order it to arrive before our summer. Thanking you in advance. You are looking absolutely wonderful. Pregnancy is hard but a special time.

[@fafafarmlife]

Không khí thật là tuyệt vời ❤

[@kimjames6672]

Love ya'll and your videos. You are all so, so cute! :)

[@paulweakley3440]

The giant worm is a Canadian nightcrawler (different species than earthworm)

[@jeremiahthomas2669]

The turkey chasing the kids had me dying laughing

[@maryquitecontrary5126]

I just saw a video on jumping worms- wonder if that is what you found. It’s an invasive species.

[@bringdabeat]

What kind of wood chips are you using as a mulch for your beds?

[@am-et4nc]

I hope you're making videos in advance for when your baby comes coz if U go offline for months we will miss you!!!

[@shae899]

That's an invasive Asian jumping worm that your son's found. You can see it in the shot where it crawls towards the camera, that the band is sunken and gray instead of raised and pink. They devastate garden soil. I hope no smaller ones made it in with that mulch.

[@sarahogden3826]

Do you have a video of mixing up your seed starting mix? I’d love to know what you use!

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

It’s linked in the video description 😀

[@julieking4828]

You mentioned “where we are here in the south”. For some reason I thought you were in Montana.

[@homesteadincrazy7773]

I have a question: Would you please tell me, step by step, how to set up a garden like yours? Please? I know you plow and till, but what do you do next? Mark out the beds? Then plant the cover crops? Like if you weren't going to put food in it this year how would you help it (we have clay soil too) and get it ready to go for next season? You can email me if you want to. Just let me know if you would rather do that or just answer me here would be great. I know how to grow things, but this clay stuff has me stumped. I have grown in Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia, and now I'm trying to grow in Alabama. HELP PLEASE!!! Thanks so much for all you do. Praying for you and the baby and everyone. Be safe and Love well.

[@karlastevens9292]

What do you make your seed starting mix out of. You probably said, but I missed it.

[@taraelvira8252]

What kind of wood chips do you use?

[@khome707]

At what year do you break even, money wise? Seems there is so much to buy whether for infrastructures, fencing, soil amendments, pressure cooker, jars, paying for extra water, electricity, gas. Maybe you don't or someone wouldn't and its just about the health benefits of growing your own and knowing that its safer to consume. I know everyone is different with what they want to do, what they have to buy but didn't know if there is some average; like with solar panels they say takes about 8years to break even. They don't know how much electricity anyone uses. You have such a large production and I wouldn't come close to what you do but I am curious for myself if I need to look for more cheaper ways to do things or if I will break even after the first couple of years of getting everything up and running which I could handle. Thank you for your time and videos!

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

On our small homestead (2/3 acre) prior to moving to our current property- we made back our money the first year we did a garden. But it was a combination of no longer buying processed foods and gardening that made our grocery bill drop. We were saving $700 a month. Prior to that I was buying the highest quality ingredients I could find so our monthly grocery bill was somewhere in the ballpark of $1400 for the six of us…. And this was when my kids were little! When we did our first garden we were able to get a lot of free inputs or very affordable ones. Our biggest cost was fencing, cedar raised beds (which aren’t necessary), and water came from the city so it was expensive. We easily made that all back. But all the little extras like kitchen tools, extra garden tools, came slowly we added a little more each year.

[@TalkingBoomslang]

Hahaha I loved it when he popped out of the mulch at the end I really had no idea 😂 and the turkey was funny too reminded me of being a kid. You’re looking beautiful Becky as is your garden and the rest of your family. Thank you for the update ❤ I just got my first greenhouse built. I haven’t started any seeds though because we still get below freezing each night here in Alberta Canada. You’ve been (and continue to be) my inspiration to be self sufficient. Thank you ❤

[@yaseminseven3392]

hi, how to make compost

[@sudoym3484]

❤

[@georgelowellohhdgg63nnd96]

What kind of cover crop are those two rows seen at 3:09? They look like lots of biomass. Thanks.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

It’s a combination of winter rye, crimson clover, and hairy vetch.

[@shae899]

The Asian worms cant tunnel deep or through clay soil, so if you start to notice issues with/evidence of them, unleash the chickens!

[@nathanfranck5822]

Hi

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

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[@christinan7183]

L❤ve

[@samanthaw1419]

You fed that fantastic worm to the chickens??🤯😢 Earthworms live up to 12 years. There's nothing that works harder in your garden, they are mother earths best helper for soil.

[@earthzeroapothecary]

They really are amazing!! If my chickens find worms, that's cool, but I won't actively feed them something that is alive. I hold too much guilt over ending its Earth-life. I leave it up to Nature to decide. Hahahaha!

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Yes, I actually wasn't sure if it was an asian jumping worm or not, that's why it got fed to the chickens :) It was definitely WAY different than any other worm I'd ever seen and I wasn't super keen on introducing a new species if it was the not beneficial type.

[@nicolemarzio5641]

Okay that is a jumping worm it has a white neck band not good please research

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Thanks! I did research it but couldn’t tell for sure, that’s why it became chicken dinner :)

[@TheColourFamily]

Great job :) As for the worm. You might want to look up Asian jumping worm. It was hard to tell in the video but it appeared that the clitellum was not raised. Between that, it’s size and it’s movement it’s probably a good thing you fed it to the chickens.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Yes, that was my thought too. I had heard of the jumping worms, even did some research and asked around about it it but I couldn't tell if it was or wasn't so that's why the chickens had a very good dinner instead :)

[@amyparker1762]

I was thinking the same thing. The Asian jumping worm is invasive and not one you want in your soil.

[@andreamortimer2610]

I believe you are right! Was the first thought that came to my mind when I saw the size and the white clitellum. From Cornell Extension: "One telltale sign of an infestation is a very uniform, granular soil created from worm castings. The texture of this soil is often compared to coffee grounds. When you scratch the top layer of soil you will see the worms thrashing about with an erratic, snakelike movement. These worms, which can reach 6 inches in length, are much more active than European nightcrawlers. The Asian jumping worm can be found on the soil surface and in the leaf litter, making them easy to find. They can live anywhere from urban parks and suburban backyards to rural forests. You are also very likely to find them in compost piles and along roads. The Asian jumping worm has a prominent band around the body of the worm, called the clitellum, where cocoons are produced. The band completely encircles the body, is milky white to light gray, and is flush with the body; the body looks metallic. On European nightcrawlers, the clitellum is raised or saddle-shaped and reddish-brown in color and does not wrap entirely around the body."

[@rickibyrd9183]

That worm was not an earth worm. I’m glad you fed it to your chickens

[@mariasonderman5785]

My day always get better when the notification of a new video pops up!

[@champagnemommy]

The boys are definitely that mischievous stage of childhood. It’s so lovely to see. 😊

[@joegirardi-thegirardihomes9369]

Congratulations. I'd love more land but 3.8 acres might be all I ever see. Money just hasn't managed to fall from the sky for me 😂. Trying to eat healthy since I'm now on 19 medications.

[@TheMudimusHomestead]

taking notes for our Zimbabwean homestead !

[@jeanmuehlfelt7942]

When I get tired out in the garden, I come in and watch some more of the planting of your gardens. It energizes me and I head back out to the sandy dirt pile. 🙂 I learned in one of my master gardener classes that the Australian earthworms can grow to 10-foot long. 🤪

[@thecarolinafarmhouse]

You amaze me, girl! The garden looks amazing! Can’t wait for you to get to enjoy all of the new baby snuggles! 🥰🥰

[@galeluby3471]

its illegal in some states to sell mulch now becasue of the crazy worms

[@rodnawilliams9398]

blueberries are also one of my favorite fruit or berry .. but i too love most fruits and berries

[@frinsingo9643]

The earthworms are the best for the soil ! You need to leave them in next time ! :)

[@waynespringer501]

You have a baby on the way? Congratulations!

[@renie847]

Wow, that is a scary earth worm😮

[@noneyabeeswax3200]

😍😍

[@marshhomestead4963]

I love your sweet baby bump 😊. You are incredibly ambitious and get so much accomplished. I have starts under my grow lights but nothing in the ground. It is so wet and cold this year. I’m in zone 9b.

[@FencemastersDrivewayReplSpecia]

Do you make your own seed starting mix or buy it? If you buy it it, what brand is it?

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

I make my own, I have a video about it. I believe it’s linked in the video description

[@ClassicKas]

That’s the biggest earth worm I’ve ever seen! Lol

[@SgtSnausages]

Overnight? LOL. It takes 6 or 7 years just to get the Weed Seed Bank down to a manageable level here where I live (Ohio River Valley) . Coincidentally, that's enough time to gain experience and figure out what works and doesn'ton your personal ground. If you want to grow ALL you're own food, you won't come close without a good 8-10 years experience and development of your property.

[@renie847]

You have a beautiful family. Is your new baby, who is going to be a marvelous blessing, a boy? I really enjoyed the music selection today. Thank you for sharing your experience.

[@m.d.t.8389]

How do you get your lettuce tires so straight? Do you use string?

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

No we use something called a gridder. It’s linked in the video description🙂

[@VanillaAttila]

I wonder if that's the invasive jumping earthworm. They kill all the other earthworms

[@sarah3607]

I just love watching all your videos! Such an admirable way of life and raising kids! Thank you for posting!

[@junewrogg6137]

Hardest working family I see on YT. And the kids always have fun in between. Such great helpers.

[@iartistdotme]

I bet your bed feels like heaven when you get in it at night! I like to add the mulch, then plant the plants in a hole through the mulch - seems easier to me to just pull the mulch aside as I dig the plant hole and leave it aside after inserting the plant. Like a chimney. One year I did that using two flakes of hay down the whole roll of broccoli and it worked so well. The had acted like insulation and I just laid a board across the top when it was going to frost - was so surprised and happy with the results.

[@Stevie37]

We finally got our land back from the snow this week. It was up to my hips out there all winter. I feel SOOOO behind.

[@sonjacruz4333]

I've been wondering how long the rows were, but you just said it, 90ft rows, that's a long row!