Garden Surprises | Vegetables Garden Tour May 2022

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Ryan & Cara
101 N Pinetta Dr.
#PO Box 35525
North Chesterfield, VA 23235 Hi Y'all!
Today we are taking a walk around the garden! The vegetable garden is full of life and there is a lot to show you. We have a few surprises in store as well. Come along and see what we have growing in May 2022.
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[@LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow]

☀️🌼👨‍🌾🌻🐝🌸🦋🫑🍅🥕🥬🐝 I’m back for another update of your beautiful garden. It’s amazing to see the changes in your plants over time. I look forward to watching your garden grow! I love watching my garden grow a little each day, that is my favorite part of gardening. It’s so fun to have the growth documented over the season to look back at and see progress. I love that about being a garden KZbinr. Let’s learn & grow more together!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Well thank you so much for stopping by! What you described is exactly one of the main motivators for starting our KZbin channel. We are on a new property so there are going to be so many changes and it will be fun to be able to look back and see how far we have come. Garden and otherwise!

[@takeitslowhomestead5218]

On the onions, I say leave the tops alone. Your cabbages and broccoli look beautiful! Thanks for a great garden tour.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you! I have decided to leave the tops alone. Mainly because I am too busy to mess with them right now haha 😂

[@tractortalkwithgary1271]

Everything you grow yourself tastes better Great job on the garden.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Indeed! I truly think so, maybe it’s the freshness maybe it’s the hard work that goes into it 🤷‍♀️ either way it’s tasty! haha 😆

[@SouthernLaura]

I love how you showed your little sugar snap pea flower. I get excited about small things like that too. You have a beautiful garden. ❤️

[@bluebirdhomestead]

haha thanks! I get so excited about little flowers growing. I edit out my squeals hahah 😂

[@LifeHomeandGardenwithAnaRica]

Your garden is amazing! you got so many varieties of vegetables, the cattle panel is perfect for the tomatoes, and beautiful scenery! Thanks Cara and Ryan havea good weekend!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Hello Ana Rica! Thank you so much for your kind words 💚 The cattle panel is my favorite way to trellis tomatoes, it is very sturdy and makes ripping the plants off at the end of the season easy too! Hope you have a wonderful weekend as well 😊

[@LorriesWorld]

Always so exciting to see what's coming up! Garden surprises are the best surprises! ♥

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Yes they are! It is always fun to see things grow in the garden 🪴

[@gulfcoastbutterflygardening]

Y’all are so cute!!! I love your excitement over the hose nozzle; I have the same one! And that’s incredible about the 5 year old corn seed! Wow!!! It wants to live! That’s the best kind!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Haha thank you! Yeah for the the same hose nozzle! 😜😆 Seeds definitely want to live. We were really surprised the corn germinated as well as it did. Honestly I expected it to have spotty germination if any, given it’s not only old, but was stored in less an idea conditions. It was a great surprise 😊😊

[@dylanslabach4090]

2:54: Love Radish in a stir fry!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Oh good to know! I will try that next time! Thanks :)

[@SciencePotli]

61❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍 Wow! So beautiful and amazing garden. Wonderful job💐💐💐💐 Stay safe and healthy. God bless you friend

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much! The garden makes me so happy. 😊😊😊

[@crubbythebeagle57]

garden surprise great crubby enjoyed

[@bluebirdhomestead]

I am so glad 🙂

[@sheilabutts1044]

Beautiful !! Love the garden how nice. Cardboard and mulch will help weeds alot.. God bless.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you! Indeed, we did that for the landscaped beds around our house and it has worked really well so far! :)

[@sheilabutts1044]

Wonderful God bless..

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@sheilabutts1044 Thank you, same to you!

[@bellyacres3jillyandkerry281]

OMG what a beautiful garden! 1tsp Dawn to a spray bottle of water and spray on to the squash bugs will kill them. Me and Kerry are pea addicts! We are hoping to plant enough to freeze some instead of eating them all in the garden-yup, we do that. I top the onions a few times and use in stir fry, makes a bigger bulb. If you allow your lawn to get tall and before goes to seed, the cuttings makes a great mulch like straw to layer for your wildflowers in place of straw. I'm so glad to have you found me so I could subscribe to yours. Will be watching! Thank you!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Hello Jilly and Kerry! Thank you so much for the dawn dish soap tip! I will definitely be using that this year! 😊 We are guilty of eating all our sugar snap peas before they leave the garden too haha. We planted as many as we did this year in the hopes that maybe a few will actually make it to the kitchen 😆. Great tip on the grass mulching idea! I am going to try that 🙌

[@OliveCityOasis]

What a lovely garden tour, Cara! You have a beautiful property and are growing so much already! Those cabbages are quite impressive. 😮 Hey, we're both growing Moon and Stars Watermelon - aka, Cherokee Watermelon! I've been growing it for five years now. It's soooo delicious! 😁 And I love the big yellow moon spot along with all the small star spots. So pretty! I agree with you on radishes, hose nozzles, and gorgeous evening views on the homestead. 😊

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much! How fun that we are both growing the Moon and Stars Watermelon! This is our first year growing it, so I am glad to hear that it is delicious 😊Hopefully we will both get lots of big ones!

[@creativefloralswtMartina]

Absolutely beautiful set up of your garden. Like how spacious where you can grow anything you want.. I like this episode a lot. Thank you for sharing. 🙏☺️💐

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much! I appreciate your kind words 😊

[@BARBSCOUNTRYHOME999]

Im not a big radish fan either but they are beautiful... The broccoli & cabbage look great. I love sugar snap peas. Your garden is absolutely beautiful. 🌱

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much! I agree, although the flavor of radishes are not my favorite their color is gorgeous 😍

[@flowerfolkfarm3553]

Hi cara!! Ohhh you’re garden is divine!! It’s growing so well!! I agree, it’s so lovely to have a veggie patch that looks pretty too!!! Hahahaha the hose attachment got me excited too 😅 Great news on the corn!! Great tour guys, Happy gardening 🌽🍉🫐🥬

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Hi Anita my friend! Thank you so much, that is so sweet of you to say! 💚 A new garden hose attachment is pretty exciting around here haha. We were really surprised about the corn germinating after having been kept in unfavorable conditions so that was definitely a nice surprise 😊

[@OurHomeOurLife812]

Your garden looks amazing!!! Thanks for sharing it with us!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much, I am glad you like it! We love spending time in the garden for sure 😊

[@ATravelerOfWorlds]

My goodness, you have the most beautiful garden and it's so full of life!! Seeing all those vegetables grow and being so healthy is wonderful, I hope I'll achieve to keep mine healthy too throughout the summer. This was such a lovely tour and video!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Awww thank you so much @atravelerofworlds ! What kind words! Being in the garden makes me so happy and I am thankful everything seems to be pretty happily growing this year. What are you growing this summer?

[@ATravelerOfWorlds]

@@bluebirdhomestead I can imagine!! I'm keeping it pretty basic haha cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchinis, potatoes, salads, herbs, carrots and those kinds of things. I hope I'll get to harvest some of it!!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@ATravelerOfWorlds Not “basic” at all! It sounds like you are growing some wonderful vegetables 🥕 🥦 😊😊👏👏

[@kresrogersuk6308]

Sugar snap peas one of fav. vege its crunchy your huge garden full of defferent vegetables plant thank you for sharing enjoy watching

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Yeah another sugar snap pea lover! They are definitely one of our favorites 😊

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

Everything is beautiful Cara 💕 as for the radishes I eat them raw, chopped and thrown on my salad 🥗 but I tend to eat them like sweets 🍬🤣🤣

[@bluebirdhomestead]

These defiantly were not sweet Jasmine haha I guess maybe I let them get too big? That is my thought. I technically pulled them way before their "maturity" date, but we had had a few very hot weeks there. -Cara

[@hilltophomeplace6802]

Such a beautiful tour. Everything is going great and you’re going to have a lot of food to put up-Big Blessing! Can’t wait to see how the corn progresses.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much Laney! I am really surprised about that corn, because my father did not think it would grow haha. It had actually been in his hot garage for 5 years and a friend had given it to him before that. Which is friend didn’t remember how long he had had it. 😊

[@hilltophomeplace6802]

@@bluebirdhomestead That’s the most fun kinds of things to grow. They have a story. Be sure to dry out a few stalks and save the seeds from the ears. 👍

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@hilltophomeplace6802 That is a great idea! I will definitely try that 😊 It must be a decent genetic makeup to have this great of a germination rate 👍

[@myrustygarden]

Morning Cara and family my peas are just getting first flowers finally. Everything looks fantastic and so lush your doing a great job 👏. Salad sounds delicious. There is something eating everything 😂😂 the tiny holes may be flea beetles 🪲. We just use radishes sliced in salads and yes the bigger they are the woodier 🤦🏼‍♀️. Slugs oddly nibble radish too 🤷‍♀️. If soil is too rich they will grow more leaf than radish and apparently the seed pods are edible too. Very cool tiny broccoli 🥦👏👏👏. Great update have a fabulous week 🐝 safe

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Hello!! Thank you so much! We have been loving fresh salads. They are so sweet straight from the garden, even the kids eat them right up 😊 Lot of little holes in several things just in that one bed. Thankfully that is the only bed in the garden right now with pest damage. Hopefully it stays that way haha 🤞🤞

[@EricWhiteChooseGod1st]

I think that they are super good with Ranch (as a dip) but that is just me. Have a great Memorial day weekend.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Ohhhhh now that is the first time I have heard that as a suggestion! I am going to give that a try. Do you cook them first or eat them raw?Thanks 😊

[@theswissgardenvlog3189]

Onions are not easy for me either, it looks like I‘ll be getting less than 50% big bulbs from my fall onions🤷🏾‍♀️ Great tip on the strawberries, I completely forgot to cut off the first flowers to allow a good root system formation👍🏾 Beautiful view of the sunset 🌅 Nice to see your dad five years old corn are growing just fine🙂 Unbelievable how fast the asparagus grows once it’s out of the ground. Thanks for sharing💚

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Hi Germaine! It is so hard for me to pinch my strawberry flowers off, I did leave a few so that I can try a sampling this spring. 😊 We were really surprised honestly to see that the corn had germinated as well as it did! I have grown older seeds before, but they were always kept in a cool, dark place. Not a hot humid garage haha We planted our asparagus at the same time practically this year! Fun to see it growing up. It really does take off fast, that’s for sure!

[@cindysplace]

Everything looks awesome. Beautiful garden. Thank you for the update.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much Cindy! 😊💚

[@HomesteadOnAPrayer]

Your garden looks so green and beautiful!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much! 😊😊😊 It is always really fun to see things growing!

[@christasmicroflowerfarm2695]

I'm a tad jealous and your garden is amazing.🍅

[@bluebirdhomestead]

awww haha, our garden definitely wouldn’t be where it is today with out all of Ryan’s hard work so I have to give him props 😜-Cara

[@madpharmtech]

I use radishes in my pasta salad all the time. Or potato salad.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Nice! I might like they mixed in with something, I had been trying them just roasted as a side dish.

[@Hatfield_Country]

Very nice garden and beds! Everything looks great 👍

[@bluebirdhomestead]

thank you so much 😊

[@Fil-AmGardening]

Your garden is amazing ❣️

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much! It has been so much fun getting to plan out the garden from scratch!

[@PershijsmachnijKherson]

Hello, thanks for sharing this video, great upload, keep it up. Good luck!!🌾🌼👌

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much 😊

[@soutpilaar]

I put the onion greens in soup , curry ect. They grow back very fast.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

that would be a good idea, I will have to try that 😀 Thanks for the suggestion! -Cara

[@larosablooms]

We have horrible squash bugs in our area too and I've just given up. Love your garden:)

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Oh no! Don’t give up the fight haha. I typically do have to succession sow my plants though 🤷‍♀️ and thank you! Hope you have a wonderful day 😊

[@billvalsallotments5915]

Hi Cara and Ryan you have nice amount of space in which to grow , see you have cuca melon enjoy not for us , plus you have minasota midget which we were sent and trying so looking forward to tasting them, we have some of our radish in a tray back they become softer and sweet . keep safe Bill and val

[@bluebirdhomestead]

This is my first time growing a cucamelon actually, so hopefully we like them haha 🤞. I only planted one plant, since we weren’t sure if we’d like them or not. That exciting that you have a minnesota midget melon as well! Cantaloupes are Ryan’s favorite 😊

[@growingwithfungi]

Fabulous tour! Amazing garden! Gosh you are so hot compared to us here right now i am in Ireland. TFS Love the smoothie idea too 😁🌱💚🙏✨

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Hello 👋 Thank you so much for watching all the way from Ireland! What is your weather like there currently?

[@growingwithfungi]

@@bluebirdhomestead Thank you so much it's actually a lovely evening the sun is out, kinda cool though 60f ish... Sending love 😁🌱✨🙏✨

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@growingwithfungi That sounds so nice! 😊 Hope you have a wonderful day!

[@cozyrosemary]

すてき！❤️ Your garden is awesome 🤠 ✨🧚

[@bluebirdhomestead]

thank you!

[@cozyrosemary]

@@bluebirdhomestead I'm looking forward to watching your videos again!💓🤗 Good luck!!!💞

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@cozyrosemary thank you!

[@megslittlehouseinthecountry]

You have such a beautiful garden. I love the peas, I plant them every year. Not a lot, so they hardly ever make it in the house. 💖😊💖

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much 😊 As you can tell we LOVE sugar snap peas! I do think maybe I went a touch over board this year though haha

[@megslittlehouseinthecountry]

You can never have too many peas! 💖😂💖

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@megslittlehouseinthecountry True true. We are sharing lots with friends and family too!

[@LorriesWorld]

Cardboard, then mulch will keep the weeds down!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thanks! We have some cardboard we having been saving just for that purpose 😊😊

[@travel_nature_and_life]

well , a good growing process in your garden 👍🌿💚

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much 😊

[@sunshinencountry7]

Such a beautiful garden

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much 😊

[@Amy-fd8cs]

How clever using the wire fencing for an arch like that. How did you secure them to your garden beds? Also I love seeing you are Ryan in videos together! 💚

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you! We secured the wire arches with directly to the raised beds by screwing a board into the side of the bed.

[@matthewspatch9529]

Loved that spinach powder video. Your lettuce looks superb. We love roasted radish but do use mild varieties. Everything looks so healthy. Cabbage White Butterfly are hitting us now so envious of your brassica crops.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you Matthew! Oh no! Hopefully the cabbage butterflies stay away from us 🤞. What seasoning do you use when roasting your radishes?

[@matthewspatch9529]

@@bluebirdhomestead We mix them into a vegetable medly in place of potatoes (spring onion, pumpkin, beetroot, sweet potato etc) and add rosemary and Moroccan style seasoning. We find they blend into the background without losing their presence. We used milder types and it goes great.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@matthewspatch9529 That sounds really nice! I should try to mix it with other vegetables like you guys do. So far I have only tried raw and roasting them.

[@Orange-gamerforYOU]

Great video...love your video's...thanks for the share..have a great weekend 👍

[@bluebirdhomestead]

That is very kind of you to say! Thank you so much 😊

[@annieskitchengarden818]

Hi Cara, just subscribed! 😉 Wow....what a gorgeous plot you have. Everything looks so lush and healthy. I think you must be about a month ahead of us here in the UK, so I am looking forward to following you! Take care Annie 🐞🐝🌱

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Hi Annie! Thank you so much for subscribing 😊😉 I really appreciate your kind words! We have been having crazy weather here this spring, hot on day and cold and rainy the next. The weather can’t make up its mind haha 😂

[@AHomesteadingHustle]

English breakfast radishes if picked early are pretty mild and really yummy! I actually just recently saw a recipe for an asian sauce marinated radish dish which looked pretty delicious! Your garden looks great! It makes me excited to see all the greenery start coming up here!!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

I will write that variety down to give it a shot 😊 An asian sauce marinated radish dish sounds like something we may like! Do you remember where you saw the recipe?

[@AHomesteadingHustle]

@@bluebirdhomestead shoot, I don't remember...I will find it! I actually think it was an instagram reel!

[@GrowingonVancouverIsland]

Radishes get starchy the bigger they get. The really taste best picked on the smaller side. The are a bit spicy though..

[@bluebirdhomestead]

I might have to try them again in the fall then and pick some small to give a try 😊

[@soutpilaar]

you can pickle the radish Flavour it to your taste

[@bluebirdhomestead]

That is a good idea! I have never tried to pickle it before!

[@clivesconundrumgarden]

Hey guys !! We didn't like radishes either. This year we sowed them in early spring, it was cool (well cold) and lots of moisture, we ended up with sweet juicy radishes. Icicle are our favorites. If you let them go to see, you can eat the pods, apparently delicious. Maybe try a late fall sowing this year, you might be pleasantly surprised!! Garden looks fabulous!! Cheers J&C 🌱🌱🌱

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thanks for the tip Jason and Colleen! We will have to try a late fall sowing like you suggested 😊

[@clivesconundrumgarden]

@@bluebirdhomestead we'll be watching !!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@clivesconundrumgarden 😊😊

[@lisanowakow3688]

Try pickling the radishes. My sister loved them that way.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

I will give that a try :)

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

Greetings, Cara,from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 I think your garden is terrific and you are definitely finding success. Now to add Red Wigglers to a Worm bin 🪱 to add another layer to the Homestead. I just uploaded another video on Worm Tea that you can do even if you don't have Castings. I can't say that I have tried it, but I have loads of Worm Castings so I Garden What You've Got 🌿 💚🌿 Happy Memorial Weekend 🇺🇲

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Exactly! We are seriously considering it Peggy 😊It would be great to have for the garden indeed!

[@NicoleSmithGardening]

Gosh, I love your garden! 😍 I don’t know if I’ve seen it before. In my experience, cooking radish takes all the heat out. I dice them small and sauté them in better with my green beans and collard greens, Yum! With that kind of heat you are having, what state/zone are you in??? 🥵 Yeah, I just love your garden 💚💚 I have dill growing up through my delicata squash, and I’ve still seen squash bugs on them 😬 sorry. I watched a video from Lazy Dog Farm, and he said not yo touch the tops of your onions. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I love for the garden to be pretty too; not just functional 👌 I love the vision you have for your garden. It’s going to be beautiful 💚

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much Nicole!! 💚💚 Maybe I need to try mix them with other vegetables instead of having the radishes be the main side. We have had crazy weather, 100 degrees one day and 60 the next. It can’t make up its mind haha. Oh no well at least I will have extra dill for my potato salad haha 😂 I have seen your videos on using the syringe for vine bores and I will have to give that a try this summer. I am excited for the arched pergola over the entrance, I can’t wait 😜

[@TheHappyWhisk]

I love sugar snap peas. I like to eat them raw, like snacks. The radishes are huge and so pretty. You have such a great growing area! OMG. One day we were outta celery for garbanzo bean salad with a mayo, and onions. So I chopped radishes small like celery and hubby enjoyed it. Gave it a good crunch and the ones we had, a little heat. Love that you're growing your own cabbages! Your whole area is very nice. Going grapes is on my wish list!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

I am with you there! I love raw sugar snap peas 💚 Last year none made it out of the garden, because we would eat them right off the vine haha. That’s why I planted so many this year. Do you have a favorite sugar snap pea variety to grow?

[@TheHappyWhisk]

@@bluebirdhomestead I don't know enough about them. Mine were from the Farmer's Market in town. And I just ate them outta the paper bag. I also love string beans that way. I did used to grow pole beans. Those were yummy cooked for breakfast!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@TheHappyWhisk Beans are so yummy! I grew up eating green beans right off the vine. It is so yummy. I still do that and Ryan thinks I am crazy for it haha

[@TheHappyWhisk]

@@bluebirdhomestead It makes sense to me! I used to make rice and a Hungarian gravy with the raw beans that didn't need much cooking but warmed through to go with the warm breakfast bowl. So fun.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@TheHappyWhisk Hungarian gravy? What kind of spices are in that?

[@LifewithBlindaandChuck]

Kara and Ryan? Y'all have a beautiful garden. And weeds are the bain of my existence. lol Although I've had several people tell me they are good for the garden, I still think they are just robbing my plants and cluttering up the place.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Yep we are Cara and Ryan 😊 Weeds are really annoying. I prefer the garden to be weed free, but it is always a struggle to keep them gone completely. Do you have any tips haha?

[@LifewithBlindaandChuck]

@@bluebirdhomestead Yeah. I decided to check your about page. lol And you've seen my garden, I believe, so you know I have no idea.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@LifewithBlindaandChuck haha yes I have seen your garden 😊, it honestly doesn’t look like you guys have too many weeds. At least by my definition haha

[@oceanbrothers7223]

346🍎 Done. Beautiful vlog💙 Keep it up my friend 😍 Perfect 💚

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much!

[@CaponeCabin]

Your garden is gorgeous! You have things past thier prime already? I'm jealous! My pants are still not mature 😒

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much! I love the way the garden looks right now too, it is so full of life! The biggest things that need to be pulled out is the winter spinach and arugula.

[@backtonature433]

That's an awesome corn,still grows after five years????👌👌👌

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Right!?! We were honestly a little surprised, because it was stored in a hot garage so not exactly idea seed saving conditions haha

[@backtonature433]

@@bluebirdhomestead 😆😆😆

[@creativefloralswtMartina]

Try to mix your radish in your garden salad sometime.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Good idea! 😊

[@GrainFreeHomestead]

garden looks awesome checking out your other videos

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much 😊

[@FindingHappinessInAllYouDo]

Hello there love while everything looks so great you're doing a good job can't wait to see all the things you get to harvest and I can't wait for us to be able to do a permanent area for our garden eventually with a greenhouse and seating station cleaning station Exc

[@bluebirdhomestead]

That sounds so excited! I hope you get to do all that soon! I am so excited for all the harvesting too. There is a lot we are eating out of the garden already, but the summer bounty’s are going to be great hopefully!

[@FindingHappinessInAllYouDo]

@@bluebirdhomestead It is and thank you so very much I appreciate it oh harvesting your own vegetables fruits and stuff are just Super awesome and the only thing that I wish that I would have bought but a irrigation system might still have to because the stuff that are in the fabric containers they dry out so quick that if I want to travel or go somewhere I need to ask somebody to come watering twice A-day and summer

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@FindingHappinessInAllYouDo There is something so amazing about growing and eating your own food. I am so thankful I can grow food for my family indeed! Wow you must get really hot summers there! What is your favorite thing to grow?

[@JustOneDonna]

I’m not a huge lover of radishes and started roasting them this year, too. Did you roast yours along with other veggies? I cut mine in half and add them with other vegetables being sure to include onion and colorful peppers. The sweetness of the onions and peppers works well with the radishes. I like to have a mix of flavors in my roasted veggie medleys so radishes are a nice addition. All that said, I’m not converted to a radish lover.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Hi Donna! When I roasted them I just did them without any other vegetables. Maybe I should be treating them more like a spice than a vegetable 😊 I am glad I am not the only none radish enthusiast haha

[@MichelleTech]

I don't like radishes either but am trying this year, like you! I figured they'd be good barter :)

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Yeah I am not alone haha! I figured I would give them a shot this year. I must say the color was gorgeous when I cut into them 😊

[@MichelleTech]

They are definitely pretty and fun to grow! I just have trouble getting past that flavor and the burpy smell...doesn't sit right even if I can smell someone at the office with radishes at their desk! Lol

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@MichelleTech hahaha I don’t blame you there. I can relate, I am the same way 😂

[@TheSHOP411]

Looks good. Y'all gonna be busy for a while.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

haha yep, busy, but happy 😊. Spending time in the garden is a lot of fun for us. 😊

[@TheSHOP411]

@@bluebirdhomestead having a homestead gives you something to do for the rest of your life. You will never see a bored homesteader. 😁

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@TheSHOP411 This is so true! 😊 the last several years we were in the city and we were bored haha. I grew up on a farm so I much rather being doing “chores” outside.

[@EverythingShakes]

Awesome video!!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

thank you so much 😊

[@FlickerHill]

I would prune the bottoms of your pepper plants, it should help you get better top growth and fruit. Peas don't have to have trellis, at the farm I worked at they would keep them laid down and we would just flip them over when we picked them. I still trellis mine to help with space though 😉 Garden tools are way too much fun! We get so excited about 'garden toys'. We are growing an Atlantic FI giant pumpkins this year, are you going to fertilize it to help it get big? My husband says we have to grow a massive one 😆 so I went to the local hydroponics store for fertilizer 😀. We are trying the woven fabric mulch in between the corn rows to help cut down our weeding this year. Great tour and beautiful property!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thanks for the tip on the pepper plants! I had too mine and I typically prune lower leaves when they get bigger, but maybe I will give it a shot while they are small. Glad to hear, because that trellis I made has fallen over even more now haha 😂 Did the farm ever have any problems with the peas getting soggy or rotting in the dirt? Garden toys are the best haha 🙌🙌 Thank you so much for watching! Hope you have a wonderful day 😊

[@bluebirdhomestead]

I also forgot to respond to your fertilizer question, sorry! We used compost and bio tone starter fertilizer when planting and we plan on using Garden tone fertilizer as the plants grow 😊

[@FlickerHill]

@@bluebirdhomestead no issues with the peas the leaves would get yellow onbthe underneath, I suppose if you are in a very wet climate that could be different they were in VT. Peppers, we prune ours typically very small, this year I was way behind, but I did post a video about pruning them when planting. I planted mine a week ago and need to go back out and prune more already.

[@FlickerHill]

@@bluebirdhomestead nice! We have some high 'P' (NPK) that we are going to try to get a fair size pumpkin 🎃 😉 should be fun!

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@FlickerHill That’s great! I am excited to see how it grows for you guys! 😊😊😊

[@iansallotmentdiaries4997]

Hello Cara and Ryan, just found your channel. That’s some garden you have! Do you guys not need to net your brassicas?

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Thank you so much! Thankfully we haven’t had to ever net our brassicas. Hopefully that stays true haha 🤞 Do you?

[@iansallotmentdiaries4997]

Yes, without netting, the wood pigeons would clear the beds in no time and anything left would be taken by caterpillars.

[@bluebirdhomestead]

@@iansallotmentdiaries4997 I guess every garden has some sort of critter always trying to eat everything haha. The deer and squash bugs are my struggle

[@zladatv]

*👍класс и привет от тренера по футболу2*

[@bluebirdhomestead]

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