EASY SECRET to GROW MORE & Get Rid of Weeds in the Garden

[@brendahogue5487]

May the lord bless and protect you and your family and the animals and working in the greenhouse

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... MIKE DICKSON and lacy thanks you for showing your video homestead keep it up bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍

[@kathycortez232]

You are a number one father in my book you always help with the baby and it gives Lacey a break we all know the mama needs a break too you and Ben Hollars always helping with the children I love that about y’all I pray God blessed your garden a 100 fold much love and hugs

[@gloriaa5060]

I use the heavy black plastic. Thumbs up to this video!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍🎇🎇

[@biddiemutter3481]

17:58 it's like watching the sea on a stormy day😅 well done on holding on!

[@margaretandjohnhall5594]

Mike if you guys haven't been to your place where you pick up your mail you got a package from me for Saleh. They sent me an email that they had delivered it there this morning. It was some things that I thought she would enjoy after I saw her get her ears pierced.She is such a sweetheart and helps you with everything. The boys do too but I had no idea what to get them. You have some great hard working children to help you do anything that you need done.If you could I would like for you to film her opening her presents so I can see if she likes them.

[@patshirey6190]

Love the way the kids are learning and having fun at the same time.

[@finleysmom6390]

Those giggles are the best💕

[@janetwithers7427]

Such an early spring and the garden beds look ready to be prepped. Your boys are lots of help. 💞

[@SimplyJanHomestead]

What a great idea to use the old chicken feed bags! It’s amazing how fast the children are growing. Seems like just yesterday they were babies! ❤ Every time we have to deal with tarps or ground cover it seems the wind is terrible! 😂

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

Every time the wind picks up. 😂

[@synthiahenson126]

Great job. I love watching the boys work with you.

[@codya8684]

Very good idea to do that to the garden....you have some great helpers helping you...wonderful family.. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@daughterofTheLion]

Your content is a blessing, and so are "all y'all."❤

[@g.cosper]

Excellent lessons today re. Care of garden beds, tarps, and children. Thanks for sharing your lives!

[@prizm63]

My late hubby and I would use tarps held into place by homemade anchors from metal coat hangers that were cut into v shape. This was all placed on a raised bed. To keep water use low we placed under the tarp a soaker hose on a timer. This worked for over 10 years of repeated use.

[@charlenefoster6779]

Tarps are such great garden tools! Thanks for showing and explaining how and why you should use them. The boys were having a blast helping you with them.

[@augeniasestokaite4674]

Your boys are growing into great kids!! You are such a great example!!🔔🤗❤️

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@allanbonnieguffey5634]

The boys are such good workers. So much work in the spring getting everything cleaned up and ready to plant. Looking forward to seeing Hezekiah out helping soon. They are all growing up fast

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

They are growing so fast. Thank you for being some of our most steadfast viewers. We appreciate you guys! ~ Lacie

[@ShannonStanley31]

Yes!!!!! 🙌 I've just started saving our feed bags for sand bags too! 😊 a great way to recycle and use resources at our hands! ❤ You just boosted my confidence with this video! Thank you! 😊

[@GrandmaGingersFarm]

I have in the past, but on our windy plains, it is really difficult to use them on large spaces, but then where we live farmers have whole greenhouses blow miles away on a regular basis in our wind storms. LOL so i have started using them in smaller spots along with shredded cardboard, but smaller plots with lots of weight on them

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

I bet it is hard for you to keep them on the ground with all you wind.

[@noraarico1313]

I've used tarps of mostly smaller sizes around my gardens. It's easier to move debris, leaves, or soil from one place to another just by dragging the filled tarps. This method cut down immensely on having to shovel stuff into a wheel barrel and then empty the wheel barrel with the shovel at the new location. I also took closed tarps filled with hedge cuttings, etc., to the town dump. Using tarps instead of sand bags for yard work was so much easier, especially with spring and fall cleanup chores.

[@debbeasher-k4764]

Your family is so great at working together as a team! They are strong & funny & a pleasure to see in your videos.❤🎉😅😊

[@sharronhouse6622]

Such beautiful weather you are having. It’s sleeting currently in the PNW! Enjoy!

[@valariecroslin1427]

Blessings to each and every one of your I never miss a video

[@rainerounduphomestead8942]

We’ve used billboard tarps for years. It’s amazing how we have fewer and fewer weed problems every year 🤠

[@dianacollinson2424]

The Yurt looks beautiful.

[@NovaBill6264]

Awesome video God Bless you and your family and yes I would use that tarp as well thank you

[@markbaumgardner3760]

I like your idea of using the feed bags for sand bags, I just don't have a sand pile.... Even when I go to construction supply places, sand isn't cheap anymore...

[@Heidi.lin...69]

I have not seen you lately Knowledge is power and you rock

[@elle1014elle]

🇺🇸👋How is your dog doing Mike? Can you do a update? 👋👋

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

He is doing great.

[@bluelilly22222]

This time show us your garden, last year you just showed after harvest n chickens picking the green... Love to see all from seed to table n harvest n preservations this year's❤

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

Because we didn't grow as much last year.

[@martharobinson7896]

You seem a little calmer this week. ☹❤😊

[@reneemelton9330]

Yes, I put down some black plastic that our son in law left here on our tomatoe & okra beds. Works great to suppress weeds & conserve water.

[@kaystanley5354]

We have used the heavy tarps for 30 yrs. But every other yr we take them up and till and fertilize and lime the ground. Not counting liquid fertilizer in each hole twice when weeding Then just harvest!

[@donnamanitu8673]

Was the new puppy inside the yurt ? I wanted to see how big he has grown.

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

No he is an outside dog. I'm sure you will see him again in another video.

[@mokaethuo3545]

Continue the good work. You inspire me and my girlfriend to practice homesteading.

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

That is awesome!

[@gailmarlatt8029]

The boys are growing so big. They are really a help I am sure.😊

[@lynnechilton5794]

Yes I just deweeded 2 garden beds doing this .Its summer 35+degree days I was suprised how quick it worked but its pretty hot here🌼🌺🇦🇺

[@missourigirl4101]

Mike your 5 ft is not the same as Micah’s 5 ft. So cute to see Micah walking heel to toe to space 5 ft. lol. Great idea to fold tarp in half and cut.

[@susanray6533]

I had to giggle when the wind picked up. Yesterday I was working with the woven ground cover and sure enough, here came the wind. It's a bit difficult for one older lady, but I got it done. 🙂

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

The wind always seems to pick up when you are working with a tarp. lol

[@stephencameron1709]

Great information! Thank you. Val C

[@valariecroslin1427]

I want to thank you and your family this channel is truly a blessing to me and I love the fact that you love the Lord just like I love the Lord Jesus

[@claudettehernandez3402]

My father always gave me trouble about pulling weeds when it’s muddy, raking wet leaves when it’s rainy and wet and the grass is going to ‘sour”. 🙄

[@megmills4798]

Always like learning and have from you😊

[@angelzhomestead]

I haven't found any tarps that fit my urban garden space that actually don't tear or fray.

[@markbaumgardner3760]

Also, I never use gravel anymore, when your bag breaks or wears out, then you have a pile stones in your garden....🙃

[@brendaheisner6085]

Anymore plans for adding to your yurt?

[@katelynnnguyen8787]

Hello Mike, Could you please include the link for the tarp you use? Many thanks. Love your family, farm, animals, and channel!

[@rebeccaplumlee9601]

Use newspaper. I go to local newspaper & get their extras. The shiny ads I put in bottom of pots to keep dirt in.

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

Good idea.

[@jodeesmith1685]

How to you keep ants out of the potato garden? Please if you know.

[@ericataylor1708]

Awesome job fam

[@roseeckstein6534]

I don’t think you put enough sandbags on it. I don’t think it’ll blow away, but I think it’ll blow off.

[@biddiemutter3481]

"Don't put me in the trash, dad!"❤😊

[@mrs.kittylarou4970]

Are there any fish in the pond? If not, are you going to put any in there?

[@gaylehewitt7762]

I'm laughing. I would of had a blast with the kids n that tarp....too funny

[@gardenarms]

I'm super curious, Mike. If you only gardened and farmed, what do you think would happen to your physique? Is gardening and homesteading itself a sufficient workout, or would you greatly lose your muscularity if you stopped training as well? I guess my question is really, to what degree do you see farming/gardening/homesteading's efficiency on fitness? God bless. :)

[@annphilbeck5174]

what fabric tarp is that??

[@megmills4798]

1year wow time flew

[@meloniegeorge3310]

Too cool!

[@cathiebenedum7198]

How is your new puppy doing?

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

He is doing great.

[@sharonaskew2873]

Corn does best by direct sow.😊😊

[@LGGGlove]

OMG fit Farmer. I recycle but I think u got me beat

[@theresatyree3904]

Those silage tarps are so very expensive!

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

We used the billboard tarps for many years so it was time to upgrade.

[@stalker137]

Was the new puppy???

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

He is doing great.

[@andreasanderlin3485]

Why is the baby outside with no winter clothes on? No shoes and s/no coat? A grandmother!

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

Because it was warm outside and he gets too hot with too much clothing on while he is on someone. ~ The Baby's Mother

[@sharonloomis5264]

Having trouble getting rid of weeds. Google edible weeds. Should really be called perennial veggies. Some are delicious raw and steamed.

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

You are totally right! We love wild edibles and have talked about those in past videos. Sorrel is one of my favorites. And plantain makes a delicious and healthful tea.

[@tracyzabelle]

🙂

[@carlam.9529]

Did you sell produce that was grown in the soil the painted billboards covred ? Did your clients think the produce was organically grown ? Did you feed the produce to your family ?

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

Yes we sold produce and ate the produce.

[@dpirene1]

Do I need to send the baby some socks?

[@valariecroslin1427]

Family

[@mariesheppard3750]

Where is the new dog??

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

Still here

[@roseeckstein6534]

I’ve never asked, How many children do you have? Just curious

[@marthaalward3740]

4

[@barrett3799]

Promo>SM

[@ERGA2016]

[@hubertwebb9869]

Mike it looked to me that the boys were having a blast helping you put the tarps in place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Jesus) Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; Romans 3:25-31 King James Version 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.