FULL September Garden Tour | Large Family Northern Garden | Zone 3

Today I wanted to take you on one of the last full garden tours on the 2019 year. We've been really lucky this year and haven't yet had a frost, which is really unusual for us in our Canadian Garden.
Powdery Mildew Spray
1 gallon of water
1 tsp dish soap
2 tbsp Baking Soda
1 tbsp Olive Oil or other vegetable oil
Mix well and soak down both sides of the effected leaf
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[@LittleMountainRanch]

Hi friends, I wanted to let you know that if you want to see more content from me, I'm over on Instagram and I post there almost daily. This time of year it's mostly gardening content, but I also do Instagram Stories (short little videos) on whatever topic comes to mind. I'd love to have you join me there. You can look me up under Little Mountain Ranch or click the link in the description box above. Wishing you all a wonderful day.

[@kfc4007]

Love your videos, would like to follow you on instagram but the links to instagram and facebook don't work. It only says "littlemounta"

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I'll look into it. You can also look me up under Little Mountain Ranch.

[@christinefletcher6939]

Hi there, really enjoying your videos. I'm in Zone 3 , Chestermere, Alberta & cannot believe you can get such a harvest!!.. put an urban garden in this year on a total 150sq ft...so far so good 👍

[@cwbrownCaroline]

Onions are also handy for first aid. When we had a deep cut my Mom would cut an onion, and peel the thin membrane from between the layers, the wrap that over the cut. She would change it daily, and it always healed very well, without scars

[@madeleine363]

I mainly follow Californian and other hot climate gardeners here on KZbin, so it's nice to have a colder weather channel to follow and learn from! Sending love from Ottawa

[@onlyintime9914]

👍 strawberry blight plant produces leaves that taste like spinach. To get bigger onions cut off their leaves before they flower... They will then regrow leaves and produce a bigger onion. Female asparagus plants make round orange seeds that hang off the leaves.

[@edieboudreau9637]

So the hardy kiwi & scarlet runner beans are happy companion plants. What a happy circumstance that you planted them together.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Yes, it is! 🙂

[@drrussdc]

Definitely as a nitrogen fixer it got a boost. A great way to grow hardy kiwi is along the branches/trunk of an alder or honeylocust for the same reason.

[@jenniferhealey566]

We grew chickpeas and 4 kinds of drying beans for the first time this year. It has been a huge success shelling the chickpeas can be a family project!!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

So exciting! I feel like a whole new world has opened up for me... now to make the garden bigger. lol

[@gratituderanch9406]

When I got tired of harvesting green beans last year I just let them go to “seed”, we stored them and cooked green beans like dried beans and they were scrumptious!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

That’s awesome! I’m borrowing that idea.

[@alishadw22]

Your channel gives me such hope, we are likely moving to Montana in the next 6 months and I was so worried about being able to garden (I live in Utah where we have a fairly long warm growing season). Thank you for sharing this with us!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I'm glad it brings you hope - I moved here from the Okanagan where you can grow pretty much anything, and, I'll admit it was a challenge at first, but I love it now. That being said, I do miss growing tomatoes outside.

[@katechurcher4830]

Amazing! Beautiful garden.

[@lindacooper4542]

You have a beautiful garden and a wonderful place to raise those beautiful children. I love to hear and see them playing in the back ground.

[@HHeirloomIA]

Such goodness from your gardens this year!! Love the onion tips too.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Thank you so much! 💚

[@Thisisit120]

Your garden looks wonderful. So blessed to have that extra nice weather to extend the growing season

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Thank you! Yes, I'm absolutely loving it - hoping for at least another week.

[@mountainsidefarm8357]

I love nasturtiums!! Faiths rabbit loves the leaves and flowers. One of his favorite treats.

[@sylviabradley7355]

Beautiful garden and harvest.❤️

[@lindakell6854]

Your garden is spectacular! What a blessing your warm weather is. Please consider sharing more harvesting videos. Blessings 🌻

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I will, for sure! 🙂

[@jenniferhealey566]

Thank you for your very helpful and lovely videos!

[@sandyoklahomatransient8557]

Anazing how full your garden looks Chelsea. I can only imagine the harvests you'll have in your underground storage.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I can hardly wait to get it all filled up - tour to come for sure. 🙂

[@heartforthehomestead6649]

What a beautiful abundant garden. I am so impressed and hopeful about what kind of production you have in your climate as I will sorely miss our year round growing season here if we move to BC. Looking forward tinkering the progress on your food forest next year

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Year around growing would be amazing, and if I think too much about it I might cry. lol But, there are some serious perks to growing up here that I didn't expect, such as the lack of pests. It's also a really rewarding challenge when it goes well.

[@kellyharbaugh9391]

It’s beautiful great job !!!

[@lindas.8036]

Thank you for the great videos. I do not do any social media, so I appreciate the KZbin posts.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Thank you and I'm glad you can access my videos on this platform. Social media isn't for everyone, that's for sure.

[@Gigi-fv9ky]

Wow! Amazing how much growth the food forest put on kn such a short time. Lots of sun and warmth even if a shorter time, I guess. Your tomato harvest looked so pretty. Sad about the puppy, hope she loves her new home.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I’m so happy with all the homes the puppies have now. It was hard, but I feel good about it.❤️

[@robertschroeder1978]

Thank you for the video. Such an amazing garden and harvest. Looking forward to knowing more on how to live and garden in the mountains. Blessings, Rob S. (Rockford MI)

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Awesome! I’m so glad you enjoyed it.

[@casicase5514]

You are such an inspiration! I don't know how you do it all! I only have seven and one with special needs and just never seem to have time to tend and harvest on top of keeping my house clean. It's either inside or outside for me. Watching you just shows that there is hope. You are a queen!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

When I had young children I found it really hard to do anything outside. Now my youngest is 4 and the rest are mostly teens so it’s so much easier. So many things still fall to the wayside around here, though, and I’ve just tried to come to a place of letting it go so it all doesn’t drive me crazy. Lol Hang in there - it’ll get easier.❤️

[@wendyweddell2782]

Looking gorgeous

[@chelemichele1524]

Beautiful garden tour Have a wonderful day 🌻🌻🌻

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Thank you!

[@LifeGoesNorth]

Glad you’re getting a little extension on the season this year!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Me too! xx

[@margiesteininger3344]

add basil to that tomato soup - divine

[@LittleMountainRanch]

YUM!

[@jendyson6729]

beautiful gardens and so much interesting information too. Plus, that puppy.... :)

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Puppies make everything better!

[@tammielewis2438]

Awesome as usual. I wish I could visit and help with the harvesting. So I'll help in spirit. Hugs & Love.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I would LOVE that! xx

[@sajmt1414]

Beautiful garden. I live in the southern US. It's so cool how y'all garden. Love it.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

And I LOVE how southerners say ya’ll.❤️

[@joannewilson6847]

Aww Chelsea, you a a the true mother of nature. Love your garden and know how much work has gone into the making of your garden. So informative. Unfortunately here in Australia and where I live ! we are wanting rain desperately. All around is so dry and bushfires are a constant threat. The wind has become almost unbearable and temperatures are already soaring and it is only spring. We have our second level water restrictions and the dams are so low. Your videos bring joy and allows me to visualise what a true vege garden is like. Thankyou. Take care and enjoy those beautiful children xxxxxx

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I am so sorry to hear that you are heading into another drought year. I can so relate to the dread of that and you have my prayers. So much love to you, dear friend, xx

[@TruthAndLight4995]

Thx for the onion tips!! 👍🏽

[@pamperedchickenmama]

Your garden looks great

[@johnnymayo8534]

Beautiful garden!! Just throwing this out there....I really like homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches!! 😋

[@LittleMountainRanch]

It's the best!

[@oneproudnana3315]

Beautiful. I love your gardening videos.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Thank you!😊

[@rusty1850]

Thank You for Your Video. Entertaining Informative

[@annfetters1849]

AFTER dehydrating kale, I put dried kale in my little food processor my Bullet, grind some into a powder and add the powder into the homemade noodles I make. I have considered using other dehydrated veggies too. Squash comes to mind! Beef and noodles and chicken noodles become tasty and are just another way to add veggies into your meal. Love your videos they are beautiful. While you were discussing and showing those great onions an unusual bird that was chatting chirpy bird was in the background. Could it have been a whippoorwill? It is a bird I am unfamiliar with. Learning is so exciting and along with watching and learning from what is presented this darling bird was adding to the beauty of your video! If you could share that would be lovely. Thank you for sharing your harvest...it is beautiful!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I’m so glad you’re enjoying my videos. I really enjoy making them for you all. The bird in the background was a male turkey chirping away. Most people think they just gobble, but they also make that chirping sounds, sometimes as a sign of aggression, but in this case he was just chatting with his mate. 😊

[@loraineleuschke4186]

Lovely, thank you.

[@billherrick3569]

Wonderful! I can appreciate your efforts being in zone 3 myself. BTW; grass clippings have 4lbs of N / 1000sq ft. so it makes a great mulch through out the season. We also make Tomato soup and freeze it as one of many ways to put tomatoes up for winter.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I’m planning on mowing and using the bag before it freezes and mulching what I can with them... great idea to use on the onions mid season! I’ll have to remember that for next year.

[@mountainsidefarm8357]

I love the name Forest Garden as well!!

[@robinmcmillen7917]

I really love your videos, your garden is so beautiful

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Thanks so much, Robin!

[@akiglesias]

Love that you came back to KZbin without me knowing! I GET TO CATCH UP ON A PILE OF VIDEOS!!!! WHOOP! WHOOP!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Hey there!😊

[@pamwooten404]

Love your garden tour

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Thank you!

[@annemetz9749]

Love... your garden video...! Great job...love all your videos...

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Thank you so much.😊

[@mountainsidefarm8357]

It took my elderberry bushes two years to bloom, but by the time we left I was getting gallons of elderberries every year! 😊

[@numberonecomputergee]

Great harvest! I would love to have your tomato soup recipe!

[@BoldlyGrowHomestead]

I have had a terrible time with deer this year, I guess I need to expand my nasturtium planting!

[@minute_hat8069]

Wow Chelsea I can’t believe how many of your veggie crops grew the same as mine this year, very similar success and fails!! We probably had similar weather patterns!! I also did spinach fall crop and so glad I did!! I am so looking forward to the tomato soup vid as I have a whole bunch of tomatoes coming ready and would LOVE to make soup!! 💚💚

[@LittleMountainRanch]

It's so good - you'll love it, I promise. 💚

[@minute_hat8069]

Can’t wait!!!! 🍜💚

[@craftysquirrel2958]

In other videos I've watched people cut the squash/pumpkins from the vine either side of the neck of the fruit, so that your left with a sort of T shaped piece. This stops the fruit from rotting from the top where the stalk joins the fruit. They also say they store theirs in a cool place that is t damp or touched by frost. Good luck with storing. By the way what an abundance of great looking harvest, well done. 👍🤓 wood chips or straw might help with the weeds !?

[@LittleMountainRanch]

That would probably work well. I have a cold room in my house where I store them once they’ve cured. Yup, dry is the key.

[@mountainsidefarm8357]

Comfrey is also a great medicinal plant!

[@ldg2655]

Thanks for the tomato soup recipe.. You are right, that and a grilled cheese sandwich is just about the best thing ever! I always make that meal when i am sick, or just need some comfort food. My mom always made it for us when we were kids and weren't feeling well. I have quite a collection of tomato seeds and need to add black cherry to it. I also watch a homesteading channel from Sweden and he was talking about what he called Homesteaders Black Cherry tomatoes. They were truly black, though. I've seen some in different seed catalogs, but winder if they are the same thing. I love cherry tomatoes! I learned to cut them in half and dehydrate them and they are SO GOOD as snacks. The flavor is very concentrated in them when dry. I truly enjoy every one of your videos. Your are living the life that i WISH i was..

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I've seen the really black ones, too. These ones are more a purplely colour, but either way, the flavour is awesome! Next year I really hope to have a larger greenhouse so I can grow enough tomatoes to dry. Heavenly in mid winter.

[@wilmagregory8967]

Sure wanted to see you fix the tomato soup. Maybe next time. Everything looks amazing and colorful. Mine was a bust this year. N.J. was not the best place to grow anything that you wanted to keep.

[@TheBahamabob]

Your garden reminds me of something very important I’d forgotten or just not connected. Then two of your comments brought up what is good news for people moving further north. That is that the further north of the 31st Parallel the longer summer days are (likewise the shorter winter days.) So we have a 14+ hour day at summer solstice and and 10 hour day at winter solstice. Your growing season is much more intense because of the extra long days. The abundance shows! In fact check with your seed supplier on the varieties you’ve not succeeded to grow because some varieties say of onions need long days and others are graded as “short day” meaning short summer days. My farm is almost dead on the 31st Parallel which is the border line for Alabama/Florida and Louisiana/Mississippi. I’m always fascinated by all the intense growth. It’s gorgeous. Also that orange squash is kin to a variety that grows extremely well in the Deep South. We call ours “Seminole Pumpkins” although they are squash in fact. Seminole Natives and others grew them in antiquity as they store fir months and taste delicious. Wonder if squash have long and short day bias? Thanks for your contributions on KZbin. Bob

[@maryjemisonMaryjay1936]

Beautiful onions

[@susanjones2949]

What a great tour. Your hardy kiwis look quite healthy. When you transplant the smaller one in spring I would encourage you to plant it 20ft away from the other plant. These plants are quite vigorous and require a strong trellis to grow on. Don't give up on them if you don't see fruit for several years. It took mine 4 years to fruit here in my zone 7 location.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I’m wondering how well they’ll do here. I’ll take your advise, though, better safe than sorry.

[@susanjones2949]

@@LittleMountainRanch I'm wondering that as well. I planted mine entirely too close together and they eventually crushed the trellis I had them on. It could be they won't get so huge in your area. I sadly decided to take them out last year as it was becoming too difficult for me to take care of them. There is much more information on caring for them now than there was when I planted mine. I'll keep watching to see how yours do.

[@musiclover-tf6fu]

*Thanks for sharing with us ....... And particularly those of us in Britain with* *our similar weather patterns! 🌿🍅🍃🍈🌱🍠🌿🍒🍃 🌽 🌿 🍇🍃🍓🌿*

[@LittleMountainRanch]

You're so welcome! xx

[@grannianni7681]

New sub here, loved your video, some very nice veggies and flowers. Blessings from East Tennessee.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Welcome, I'm happy to have you here. 🙂

[@pamstout]

My hardy kiwis are doing really well. I have other things growing around them this year.

[@rough-hewnhomestead5737]

Great video! I grew onions for the first time last year and this year my onions were even better! I grew Red Zeppelin variety and they are awesome! Isn't it exciting to grow them?!?! I, too, have just been enlightened on growing beans to store as "a bag of dried beans". I am HOOKED! Who knew?! It never really occurred to me to try it, but now I want to grow fields of various beans. Happy fall! God bless you!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

We sound like gardening kindred spirits. lol

[@rough-hewnhomestead5737]

@@LittleMountainRanch Yes! I'm so grateful for YT and such, so that we can all share our experiences and info, even though we live in various far flung places.

[@safepethaven]

I love your home and gardens etc but admit I would not get much done because I'd spend all day every day with all the animals especially the gorgeous dogs! I am not naive though -- your beautiful home involves a LOT of work!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

It is a lot of work, but many hands make it pretty light. I find that my role is often in organizing and delegating, rather than hands on with every aspect of the work that is required. The farm really only takes around and hour a day total of chores divided up among us all. Where I spend most of my time is in the house teaching, cooking and cleaning.

[@deno.520]

THANK YOU for inspiring me yet again! I literally paused your video at the part where you were showing your fall crop of spinach to run outside and plant some. I have a tiny strip of garden along the side of our home (the only sunny spot) and I'm hoping to now get a nice little crop of spinach thanks to you. I tried to grow some in a shadier spot this summer and it never worked, along with the kale I attempted to grow. OH and thanks for showing your kale drying technique. I'm going to go buy some seeds today in hopes of growing some before winter. If my garden could grow from your radiance alone, I'd have more abundance than I'd know what to do with.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

You are always so generous with your kindness. Thank you so much, my friend. Kale is super cold hardy and will last well into the winter, so plant some for sure! xx

[@deno.520]

@@LittleMountainRanch You're generosity is far greater than mine. You're sharing so much with this community.

[@deno.520]

On a personal note, I feel like I know so much about you and that's very one sided. If you're so inclined to get to know me a bit better, here's my website: www.thedeniseoliver.com - this is not self-promotion as there really isn't anything in my career that can be of benefit to you (haha). Just a safer way to introduce myself to you online.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Ok, I can honestly admit that was not what I expected. I thought maybe a therapist, nurse, or something like that, not an actor! Love when my preconceived notions are challenged! I always wanted to be an actor. xx

[@deno.520]

@@LittleMountainRanch Surprise! haha! Oh and it's never too late to pursue a dream! You become an actor and I'll become a homesteader. That being said, you're already ahead of the game as a camera operator, producer, director, set designer, post production coordinator, editor and on-air host. ;)

[@margiesteininger3344]

you might want to add some basil to that tomato soup

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

Yes! grow drying beans!! Long lasting food for storage and a good protein source. I am trying drying beans for the first time this year too. I am happy with the result. Drying kale.... I would like to know what you do with the dried kale. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I’m excited about the potential! I use Kale for smoothies, soups and stews.

[@BoldlyGrowHomestead]

Wonderful tour! New Sub =] I just harvested a sugar pumpkin today!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Welcome to our channel! I’m glad you’re here. Please feel free to ask any questions or request videos. I really try to stay on top of comments, so if I don’t respond right away, I’ll get to it ASAP.😊

[@athyvandenberg289]

Hi Chelsea, great garden. Eveline

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Thank you, my friend.

[@denisescull4227]

I've always wanted to grow asparagus but don't know how. Please show us how you clear it out this fall and then when you harvest- All of the asparagus things, please! Thanks for sharing!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

You got it!

[@vickiulrich6694]

Hey there Chelsea girl! Have you missed my long drawn out ramblings about all things Little Mountain Ranch...I highly doubt it but its always a nice warm feeling to think you may have:). That orange red and yellow flower is Gaillardia(blanket flower) just for your future reference and they were always one of my daughters favorites in my gardens. Oops...I hit the wrong thing and wasn't done chatting so I guess this will be considered edited. Your gardens have done super this growing season of that you can be very proud of your growing skills. I think your Swiss chard is worthy of a framed wall print its so beautiful with color...tastes great too I'll bet. I'll have mine with a pat of butter, some black pepper and a healthy dose of vinegar just for all those healing properties I always try to keep in my diet to give my sad back a boost. I've been following you right along all summer but been busy about the business of all things Jack. Hunny got quite sick and spent some time in the hospital so we are playing catch up on all our pre-winter buttoning up. All is good now so I thought it time to reach out and tell you I'm still here!!! I just finished up 6 bushel of tomatoes, a bushel of peaches and a 1/2 bushel of beets that I pickled. So I'm glad I'm not the last of the home canning Mamas out there. Asparagus is a real challenge but well worth the effort. I used to plant it as a young girl..as a job...for the local farmers and trust me I can eat it all day long but planting is NOT my fondest memory...just sayin'. I hope you will have many a good meal from all your growing efforts this summer...look forward to seeing "some cook with me" vlogs this winter. Hope that all is well with "the Moms" and Farmer Dan too. Those kids with all their shrieks and giggles in the background just melt my heart, I tell you it is something I will NEVER tire of. Happy gardening and mostly happy harvesting my Up North friend!!!:):):)

[@LittleMountainRanch]

VICKI!!! I always miss you when you don't comment, although i totally understand how life can get busy. I'm sorry to hear about Jack, but happy that he's doing better now. It's quite a trick to film a video around here without lots of background noise so it's good to know you don't mind. Lots of love to both you and Jack from your LMR family up north. xx

[@KoalityofLife]

So I have followed you for a few years and just decided to pull out a notebook and take notes on things like homemade powdery mildew spray. So much information here my brain cant remember it all. lol Cant wait tell next spring when we can start a garden. :)

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Which reminds me, I need to add the recipe to the description box!🙂

[@stephaniecorporandy7018]

Great idea...I need to remember the hardy kiwi squash and scarlet runner beans

[@mamahatch783]

I love watching your videos so I can see what else I might grow as our climates are very similar. This year we had a colder summer, so my tomatoes did not put out much and only a handful have actually ripened so far. I don't have a greenhouse yet. My spaghetti squash exploded this year. I have harvested about 70 and there are many more coming along. I also had a stellar green bean harvest. I have put up 88qts so far with more beans to pick. Where do you get the Cinderella pumpkin seeds from? I have grown the orange smoothie pumpkin from T&T seeds and it is a smaller sweet pumpkin. Mine have yet to start turning orange, I will wait till the frost kills the plant before picking. I am hoping the frost hold off till at least next week so things get just a bit more time

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Your garden sounds amazing! 88qts of beans!! That's so awesome. A subscriber sent me the seeds, so I'll have to ask her where she got them and fingers crossed I can get them. I'll make sure and let you know when I find out.

[@joannahart1604]

I think strawberries are great around asparagus plants.

[@MsCaterific]

Craving tomato soup and grilled cheese.

[@BioGartenReich]

Great, I love your garden and I always wonder how you get everything done with your kids, homeschooling, gardening and the animals. We have started this kind of lifestyle three years ago. I love it but I see now how much work it is and that you have to be consistent of all things. Nice greetings from Germany :)

[@LittleMountainRanch]

I keep a pretty tight schedule around the things that are most important, like the homeschooling schedule, cleaning and cooking and I let the things that don't matter so much go, like, weeding the garden. lol

[@BioGartenReich]

@@LittleMountainRanch Great, thank you :)

[@KoalityofLife]

Looks like your last puppy wants more camera time. :)

[@codedesigns9284]

That is an amazing garden! Considering you are from zone 3, as we are, and love tomato soup, have you considered dehydrating a quantity of tomatoes and powderizing them for the winter? When you like some tomato soup, just add water, rice, barley, or your favourite herbs and veg. Just subbed! 👍😊

[@grounded7362]

Just today I dug up what I was told was smooth sumac. Only to come across your video this evening and you showed your elderberry bush and it looks exactly like what I just ripped out of the ground. I had no idea what elderberry looked like till your video. I looked up elderberry and what the spring leaf blossom looks like and what I found was images of bud red elderberry. They are exactly what my spring leaf blossoms look like. My one bush was over seven feet tall and the other two were around four feet tall, and I just ripped them out. I am just sick that I was given wrong information from the University of Minnesota about what it was. Fortunately I have more growing from the upturned root mass of a box elder tree. I had the elder berry come up after a box elder and a pine tree were up rooted in a storm a couple years ago. I don't know of anyone in my neighbourhood with elderberry, so I assume they were dormant in the soil until the trees were uprooted. So much for trust the University to help me identify plants in my yard Thanks for the wonderful video. I too live in a zone 3 growing zone.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

That’s too bad! I can understand the mistake, though, the leaves are super similar. Relieved for you that there’s more around. I can’t wait for mine to produce! Now to get them through the winter!

[@grounded7362]

@@LittleMountainRanch You should have no trouble with them coming through the winter. Mine came through last winter with no winter die back at all. We had temps drop into the -50 range last winter and they blossomed out earlier than any of my other trees. The ones I pulled out yesterday I am going to cut way back and try putting them back in the ground to see if they will take again and also took some cutting to try to propagate. Keep up the nice work on your food forest. I am slowly getting my yard converted to all eatables.

[@debbieb.8708]

The second flower you touch in the video is called "blanket flower"

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Thank you! Love it.

[@onthehillfarm]

Just found your channel. Thanks for the garden tour. I am in Zone 3 in Alberta. You have a lot of different types of squash. Do you ever worry about cross pollination?

[@metamud8686]

15:05 uchiki kuri :-)

[@educationofkarma6418]

Hi Chelsea, I really like you and your videos...so I just wanted to ask if you eat the pumpkin and squash leaves too...because in South Asia we do...and they are delicious! :)

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Really? I've never heard of that. How do you prepare them?

[@educationofkarma6418]

@@LittleMountainRanch As you might know we eat a lot of curries so we make fish/prawn curries with these leaves or just plain mixed vegetables. You can also just fry tender leaves after boiling/steaming them a little...fry with oil garlic and dried red chillies! We sometimes also steam marinated fishes by wrapping them in the big leaves! 😊

[@tonimitchell9930]

If you remember I would like to see a video on harvesting asparagus. I have never grown it before and would like to know more about it. Your garden is so awesome and since I am in the same zone I want to try some of your techniques.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Absolutely!

[@marthalucia6941]

What an incredibly beautiful garden! Do you not need to irrigate in Canada with all your precipitation?

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Yes, usually we have really dry summers and I have to irrigate all summer, but this year I hardly had to water at all due to the extra rain. And, thank you so much, that is very kind.

[@Lifefunmaker]

👋👋🙇

[@stephaniecorporandy7018]

Lots of good info for me...also in zone 3. I'll rewatch and take notes.... Question....can the tomato soup be canned?

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Yes, it could be canned as long as you don't add the cream and use a pressure canner according to the manufacturers instructions.

[@edieboudreau9637]

Stephanie Corporandy tomatoes can be water bath canned for 55-60 minutes as long as doesn't have anything that requires pressure canning in the soup.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Because this recipe calls for butter it needs to be pressure canned, but yes, that's right for many tomato recipes. It's advisable to add 2 tbsp of lemon juice to your jars to bring up the acidity to safe levels when water bath canning.

[@edieboudreau9637]

Little Mountain Ranch very true.

[@leftfieldfarmgirl]

Hey Chelsea, when do you plant your onions and what varieties do you plant?

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Early May and usually just storage red, yellow and white from West Coast Seeds and I usually start sets.

[@debc8402]

Can you show us how you make tomato soup from fresh tomatoes please

[@LittleMountainRanch]

For sure!

[@irwu8860]

very surprised that you don’t have much damage from bunnies and rats in this very open space! Could you please share some ideals of the good cultivars of heirloom tomatoes. And please share some information of where do you get your seeds? Do you have and seeds for sale please?

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Hey, you can find links to my two favourite seed companies in the description box above. We don’t have a big rabbit or rat issue here. I’ll do a seed video on tomatoes coming up soon!

[@garden333]

How is the Hugelkulter raised bed doing???

[@LittleMountainRanch]

It grew well, but has settled too much and is pretty much level with the garden now. Next one will be built differently. Video to come.

[@janecannon5567]

So what is the red seedy looking plant that Just came up automatically came up, edible or what and all of it? Thank You

[@LittleMountainRanch]

That video was made awhile ago, but I think you're referring to the strawberry blight weed.

[@janecannon5567]

Do you have trouble there with apple worms and bugs? If so what do you do for them?Thank You

[@LittleMountainRanch]

No, thankfully, we don't.

[@tammyhanson7843]

How long did it take you to get the current amount of asparagus?

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Around 10 years.

[@Brownbarnowl]

I planted blueberries for the first time this year and they have some reddish leaves also. I was concerned but is that normal?

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Here's some information for you - red leaves in the fall are normal, but outside of that can indicate problems. homeguides.sfgate.com/leaves-blueberry-plant-turning-red-splitting-spring-88843.html

[@teeshastutzman2717]

Thanks for the hardy kiwi update!! Im going to try growing it next year. And i really love those Cinderella pumpkins!!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Me too! I’m on the hunt for them and will let you know when I find a place to buy the seeds.

[@mountainsidefarm8357]

I have actually put them in the compost and had a horrible time the next year..... learned not to do that again!!! Shaking head

[@aslhavardhomestead155]

I planted two female and one Male Hardy kiwi this year. Females grew much faster than my Male. I wonder if that is normal

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Hmmm, I'll have to go see if that's what the difference was. Quirky little plant, but hoping it does grow in the end.

[@pocketchange1951]

Spiffy