Your Top Garden Questions Answered! (Pantry Chat)

[@marthasundquist5761]

Your kitchen aide mixers need to be taken apart minimum yearly and the old grease removed, and packed with grease again to keep them running well. Living Traditions you tube has a tutorial on that if you look in their play lists. I believe it's in the DIY and homestead hacks playlist.

[@annieg7348]

Thank you for this information. I didn’t know this and my KitchenAide is having issues. Very timely!

[@mariaallevato6121]

Great answers to so many questions! I use the MANY tomato cages I have lying around to hold up insect netting over my brassicas to keep away that irritating cabbage butterfly. Also to protect from the strong winds and hail we get here in CO.

[@brokeschlo8274]

Don’t forget to hit the like button! I like the Pantry Chats show, far better than any cable junk. Keep up the good work guys!

[@HomesteadingFamily]

Thanks for watching!

[@cynthiawhitcomb1780]

Keep laughing. Keep smiling. Joy comes from inside-glad to see you keep yours.

[@user-nw5cr1tl6j]

I look forward to your pantry chat videos every week. They are always informative and enjoyable. I have a kettle that goes on the stove or the wood stove and a French press as a backup for coffee when we don't have power or the coffee maker breaks

[@TuckedAwayHomestead]

This is so incredibly information! Thank you!

[@ashleywatson2003]

I haven’t watched y’all in a while. But as soon as I heard that music at the beginning, it brought such a sweet nostalgic feeling of when we started our homestead 2 years ago! Y’all were my “bible” of getting started ❤️ I still go back & watch older videos to refresh myself. Thank y’all for doing what you do!

[@ashleyporter9330]

Always love the pantry chats!

[@nancyplank1651]

Citrus peels make a wonderful citrus/vinegar multipurpose cleaner. Thank you Josh and Carolyn for all your hard work and sharing!! God Bless y'all!

[@Sue-ec6un]

The best investment I made was a metal framed cheap, cheap, cheap 'greenhouse'. The 'plastic' covering didn't really even last a whole season but...the frame, make sure it's metal and not plastic, has gotten me through 8 years of gardening. I use pieces of it as small arches to hold frost covering, I've used it as a trellising system, I've used it to make a shade cover for my dogs...that one frame, with all of it's movable pipes and connectors are great to just have around. I found out this year that you can buy separately more plastic connector pieces when those eventually break. I'll probably buy a new one this fall when the prices hit rock bottom, that is how useful the framing system is. Oh, and it was a pretty nice greenhouse while it lasted too! :) I also use it as a short coldframe when needed with heavy duty plastic that I have around. Happy gardening! :)

[@donnamoss7480]

You must not be in tornado alley or windy city

[@JoyceWolfe-tk7pr]

If your caffeine is getting to the best of you, put coffee in a pan with water bring to a boli drip through a paper filter in your cup. It will work until you get to the store:)

[@preppingmama]

I’ve been using them for 20 years since I bought my Bosch mixer. I’ve since added attachments. Love them!

[@victorenecahill9013]

I love your chats. As far as the coffee is concerned I always have a stove coffee pot just in case. I learned very early in my Homesteading journey that I always needed a none electrical back-up just in case and thank the heavens over the years i was not wrong.

[@kathleenredick275]

So interesting to hear what you do for growing everything as opposed to other areas. When I lived in Redding, CA, and here in AZ, things like tomatoes and a few other things that are supposed to be planted in "full sun" actually work best with corn on their western side to protect from the intense heat & sun in the afternoon.

[@Binelovestogarden]

Customer service a Pleasant Hill Grain is amazing! I had a grain mill that needed a new milling stone and I could not find one anywhere. After contacting Pleasant Hill I found out they changed mill stone style and mine wasn’t sold anymore. I was very disappointed and figured I would have to buy a new machine since mine was several years old, but they replaced it totally free of charge. That totally floored me and they won a happy customer for life.

[@HomesteadingFamily]

That is great!

[@kayrussell7535]

Coffee: the old fashion "cowboy coffee", toss coffee in a pot and bring to temp and let it simmer to desired taste or a French press? I can't image my mornings without coffee, but am trying some lovely herbal teas. Thanks for all the wonderful information.

[@rebeccabodmer5498]

Love your channel ❤ I've had my Kitchenaid mixer 20+ years😊

[@cyndisgreenoasis6571]

I have lived in North Idaho my entire life I would love to come see your homestead!

[@Kazwellian]

A morning without coffee can be stressful! 😊 Use your freeze dryer to make some instant coffee granules. 😮

[@kimberlybenienministries2715]

LOL Love your intro. Bless y’all from Texas.

[@louiseswart1315]

Not fair Carolyn! Don't tease us about gorgeous tulips, show us!

[@tamichristiansen387]

I love this! Seeing you on a "bad" day (without coffee) is so refreshing!

[@CreeksCrossing]

Invest in a pour over…to where you can sit on top of your mug put a filter in it and pour hot water no electricity needed…😊 good investment they’re about $10-$20 for a ceramic

[@100snyderm]

Need some redundancy in the coffee department! Lol. I have 4 ways to make coffee- pour over, French press, espresso machine and instant coffee 😅

[@dhansonranch]

If you are looking for a cheap alternative for garden netting - visit your local thrift store and pick up some old household sheers. You will need to support it, but it works. You can buy the material too and price works out similar to garden netting. The joys of the composting manure and stuff in the pasture - it keeps the soil cooler so it does not germinate as fast. Good chat!

[@jokersnighrmare19]

The most common part in your standard 12 cup coffee maker to go out is a thermal cut-off fuse. They’re about 10-50 cents each and a pretty quick fix to get your machine operational while still keeping it safe. I have a hardy almond and live in 5b in Canada. It’s only my 2nd year with the tree but it was the first to start waking up before everything else.

[@renamaemcdonald2075]

Thanks for all of the great information in this session. My relatives grew awesome walnuts in Creston, BC. We also found wild hazelnuts in Prince George, BC but it was challenging getting to them before the bears!

[@victorenecahill9013]

It's interesting you should mention fruit trees. When we decided to plant them I looked at our zone and won the fight with my husband about ordering trees good for zone 4 and after 2 years my darling husband came to me in the spring and said I was right about the tree zones. We laughed about it every year after.🤗

[@robertadunaway7030]

Good info

[@HomesteadingFamily]

Glad it was helpful!

[@karenholsopple6388]

For the cicadas, insect netting over any young fruit trees/bushes AND wrap for the trunks. We learned the hard way that they will destroy the trunks, too. Once the cicadas die off, they can be unwrapped.

[@lcm0578]

I would love to see pics or videos of your tulips!! Mine came in March (southern coast of Oregon).

[@kathleenredick275]

Spring in AZ has been weird, too. The snowbowl up at Flagstaff got more snow about a week ago and will be going thru May. 🤷‍♀️

[@trishapomeroy9251]

Oh my word! No coffee is just not ok. We have at least 3 ways to make coffee around here LOL We are in north central WA and have the same issues with the tomatoes in tunnels. We put shade cloth over the top of the plastic in the heat of summer, then take it off when the heat of summer has passed in order to get full light for ripening.

[@GeorgiasGarden]

Gotta have the coffee. We keep a backup, lol and have an old fashioned percolator. We have to have coffee. My pantry is FULL of coffee. As is my freezer.

[@Magpir-un8ff]

hula hoops from the dollar store are what im gonna use for my hoops for insect cloth

[@madinamuhammad6921]

Hello family yes weather were I am is just like yours

[@kathleenredick275]

Cicadas crawl up from the ground. This area had a horrible grasshopper problem 2 years ago. They ate EVERYTHING--leaves, shoots, grapes. The next year, everything came back just fine.

[@kendrick.e.williams]

Which vegetable do sailors hate the most? Leeks.

[@russellstraker8040]

Weve had a -4.5 to -8° celsius in Christchurch Nz this week very early as its still autumn and our predicted annual lowest is about -5 ° celsius. Still warm compared to your lows though eh.

[@vikikirby3850]

My kitchenaid mixer is over 40 years old and still going strong. It mixes 2 loaves of bread a week, all the cookies and cakes, makes meringue and shreds chicken for chicken salad and barbecue with ease. Perhaps it is just the newer models that you find so bad?

[@mcbeed2770]

Hey,your supposed to be self sufficient. What gives? No coffee? Gotta make it the old way Lolol! 😆

[@TuckedAwayHomestead]

Oh my! I didnt know botulism starts in dirt! 😮

[@juliemaines9556]

It is always helpful when you utubers would tell us what part of the country you are from

[@teresagmail4213]

32:10

[@kathleenredick275]

They are in N Idaho.

[@lindabuice1756]

Do you have a video on how to do long term storage?

[@HomesteadingFamily]

More on that here: homesteadingfamily.com/building-up-your-long-term-food-storage-supply/

[@eyvonneking4618]

Pictures of what you are talking about would be very helpful

[@sheliaheverin8822]

Why does the coffee maker only break in the morning??? I feel like I'm behind in getting my garden out. It's been raining so I can't get out there, then it's 90 degrees, then cold, then rain.....it's crazy.

[@RoadKillsRanch]

You mentioned the glyphosate issue. Any updates you can share would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[@HomesteadingFamily]

We will let you know as we find out 😊

[@madinamuhammad6921]

Grass is like a forest

[@thebhn]

Kitchenaid used to be great, I'm still running my grandmother's (and I'm GenX so it is pretty old). I've also burnt out at least two new Kitchenaids since then.

[@elizabethsmith6952]

How do you deal with aphids on your brasicas?

[@SaifAlshkeili-r6o]

Where did you buy your freeze dryer?

[@HomesteadingFamily]

Here it is: homesteadingfamily.com/harvest-right

[@pennywillis8895]

🇦🇺Companion Planting for beginners by Brian Lowell

[@stevewilliams8559]

So weird. Must be a conspiracy. Our Coffee make broke yesterday too.

[@shannonsikes1032]

Cicadas don't eat plants. Grasshoppers or locusts would be terrible, but cicadas are just a noisy nuisance. No need to worry about your trees or gardens.

[@karenholsopple6388]

They lay their eggs in them. Scratching lines into the stems/branches/trunk, damaging the bark, to lay. When the eggs hatch, they crawl down to the ground. It's the egg laying that can kill young plants.

[@deborahtofflemire7727]

Trouble with radish ,turnips … grow tops not much root .no turnips or radish,food.

[@Ididitonce]

It's very comical the things you two do, and neither one of you could figure out how to make coffee without a coffee maker.😂😂😂

[@NewPioneerFarm]

Acronym to remind you of food poison is FATTOM Food Acid Time Temperature Oxygen Moisture! You need all these things for food poisoning!

[@Boringcountrylife]

If you cancel coffee completely it will improve your health for sure.

[@nicoleheppner4397]

My old Bosch is way better than my KitchenAid.

[@kathleenredick275]

What? The preppers aren't prepared with a percolater or camp, pour-over drip coffee maker? 😂

[@Ididitonce]

You could just boil water on stove or over a fire. It's very sad they can tell you so much about everything else, but the common sense stuff is not there.

[@kathyadams1766]

Your health minded but drink coffee?