I appreciate you Joe. I’m undergoing cancer treatment and your videos help me pass the time. I’ve been a fan for years. 😊
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
Thank you Chris and prayers for your recovery. I just sat down here at 6:25 pm on Sunday and am loading over 8 hours of video footage into my editing program. I hope to get it edited down to a 45 minute video. I will hopefully get it done and uploaded for either a 5:00 central time on Tuesday or Thursday. Stay tuned, this next video has quite a lot going on. Thank you for being a watcher for a long time. Get well soon.
@chrismelvin82004 ай бұрын
@@NorthernSeclusion love it!!! Woohoo!!!
@JustinHallowesOutdoors4 ай бұрын
love the garden videos
@ferraritrip4 ай бұрын
Joe HOW you both physically and moreover, mentally keep up with all your projects is to me a monumental task! God Bless you and Melissa!
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
Physically I do what I can. If something gets sore, I move to something else. Mentally is the bigger issue but I work best under pressure. You see me doing what needs to be done "right now." I get back to the other projects when time allows.
@pb9734 ай бұрын
"When my grandmother had to introduce new chickens into a coop where there were already others, she would put the same perfume on all of them, just a few drops. This way, the chickens would think they were all from the same flock because of the shared scent." yagog Yes, chickens and birds can smell. 😊
@tomzee37014 ай бұрын
i was watching the videos and my wife came by and said i look tired..."have you been watching the guy from from up north?" yes i have and it feels like i did a lot of work....bless you joe...you make my day.....
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
Lol. That is funny. I actually slept a full 6 hours last night and I did not wake up one time from the time I went to sleep until I woke up. That never happens. Lol. I get 5 to 6 hours of sleep but I usually am up scrolling my phone for and hour sometime in the middle of the night before falling back to sleep.
@carrielewis81533 ай бұрын
Kl@@NorthernSeclusion
@CutandShoot5x54 ай бұрын
Hello Joe & Melissa! The garden is looking GREAT Joe!!!! 👍
@1400craigger4 ай бұрын
Soothing! watching-hearing Joe work! Im addicted on both channels. Thanks Joe & Zachery something 😊
@wandaschmidt75484 ай бұрын
Watching you plant corn reminded me of my mom’s little rhyme One for the cut worm one for the crow and one to grow😊
@andyfreer84634 ай бұрын
Great video joe looking forward to your cattle arriving and the plants u sowed great enjoyed immensely with a few whiskies
@olddawgdreaming57154 ай бұрын
It's sure looking good around there Joe and Melissa. The garden is looking great and you all should have a big harvest if all comes in. Keep up the good work and videos and stay safe. Fred.
@wb9264 ай бұрын
How are you Joe .. I love what you doing to the new garden .
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
I am doing good, thank you. I am just running myself ragged like every spring trying to get the early season stuff completed. Lol.
@mathbrown90994 ай бұрын
Joe, your garden looks better with each successive video! That’s Joe for ya’.
@sandrasherritt97084 ай бұрын
Joe, my friend! Your garden prep is looking so so beautiful! As is your chicken tender lunch! Thanks for being there to keep me company at a lonesome time! 🙂
@frankcurley4 ай бұрын
Nice loam for soil, good water table level...looks like good basis for a prosperous homestead.
@robertmccullough48224 ай бұрын
Joe, I can see why you want the "Bobcat". Trying to grade the garden with a ATV snowplow works, but is the long way around to a solution. Hopefully your were starting the forklift to be able to sell it. Good Luck... The place is looking good!
@paulfedorisin9084 ай бұрын
You're lucky you can always dig a hole where you want to. Where I live in northeast PA, we have to blast to just plant a flower.🤣
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
Same at the tent. All rocks.
@TURBOooo304 ай бұрын
looking good Joe. kEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
@lotzoso4 ай бұрын
I love what you are doing with the garden. Melissa will love it
@MrLangDog4 ай бұрын
Projects looking great!!
@georgewilson91214 ай бұрын
were those wisconsin flying lessons lol
@trukklob22274 ай бұрын
Joe is playing Stardew Valley in real life, super satisfying!
@robertrockwell75814 ай бұрын
everything is starting to come together Joe and Melissa. nice work.
@kenhagen77184 ай бұрын
Your place will look so much better once that green trailer is gone.
@elizabethcopeman88604 ай бұрын
I love watching your videos ~ That lunch looked so delicious.
@calvinhakker56184 ай бұрын
Have you ever planted the beans in the same row with the corn? The beans climb up the stocks of the corn making there owns trellis as they grow. Works good if your limited on space
@marygordon30324 ай бұрын
Hey Joe you work harder than ten men, God bless you! 👏👏👏🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯
@debbiemcclure28744 ай бұрын
This garden is going to be awesome Joe!!!! I'd love to have a garden but my front yard is pretty much down hill and my back yard is all uphill n the back is pretty steep. Ima try to get some grow bags Tues and try to grow a few things. Loved the video!!!! Tyfs God bless you
@deemaroney43594 ай бұрын
You're always working by yourself
@CraigGrant-sh3in4 ай бұрын
I'm a career carpenter. Working by yourself is the best way to work. Sometimes you need help but, working alone you only have yourself to disagree with
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
And I never have to get pissed at anyone else. Lol.
@DeputyVanHalen51504 ай бұрын
@@NorthernSeclusion😂
@karlarrington53624 ай бұрын
It’s his meditation time 🙂
@irishheart47684 ай бұрын
Hello Joe, your garden is coming along great. 😊
@steveengelbrecht72714 ай бұрын
Reminds me of my Dad putting in his garden. He could harvest more off a 20 ft square patch than I could get if I planted the entire yard!
@marianfrances49594 ай бұрын
Gotta love a fresh-tilled garden!👍😎🇨🇦
@gwp1ohio4 ай бұрын
The hardest working man on youtube.
@bradedwards93494 ай бұрын
Joe we have Always done our beans 8 inches and the corn 14 inches but that is on a 100 acers of land tho.. If you can find a big corn filed some were near you take a tape measure and walk in filed and measure the stalk to the next stalk.. If you have any farmers near you that plant corn..
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
The directions on the package said 9 to 12 inches. I have done them as close as 6 in previous years but 8 seems better and it is an easy number to keep doubling in your head as you work down the tape measure. Bean directions on the package say to plant at 3 and thin to 6. I have planted them as close as 1.5 inches in the past but have found I get a great yield doing them at 3. Like you pointed out though, when you have huge amounts of land, you could change those numbers and still get enough plants in the ground for what you are looking for in a return.
@robmetcalfe89024 ай бұрын
Awesome video
@czynski34 ай бұрын
Joe, when working in the garden or fields with the 4 wheeler or tractor, make over lapping oval passes like the Zamboni does at the hockey rink. No need to use reverse.
@anoka1144 ай бұрын
Pounding those posts with a post ponder is one heck of a workout for arms and shoulders.
@cbluebeard4 ай бұрын
Joe! You gotta make a yard stick with dowel rods in it, spaced for width and depth, and give your finger a break.
@terryelston6854 ай бұрын
That is a lot of peas eww. 😂😂 Have you seen the seed planter a guy made with pvc? I wish I still had the picture it would definitely save on your back and knees. That’s gonna be an awesome garden and definitely can’t wait for the canning videos hint…hint Have a good day yall
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
Melissa is in the kitchen right now at 6:36 Sunday night making peach, strawberry, rhubarb jelly. She has been at it for hours. She is not filming but she will be filming again in the future. That is part of what is going to happen with the guest house. I will have to explain that in a video like I said I was going to do.
@jimputnam20444 ай бұрын
At 4:50 if you have a carb that is gummy with old fuel, fill the tank with new ethanol-free gasoline and add a few ounces of injector cleaner. It will clear a lot of the gummies out and save you a carb rebuild.
@sonjasleeper15114 ай бұрын
That is a lot of work. But it looks great
@steveengelbrecht72714 ай бұрын
I’d be done for the day after one of your lunches. At least I probably would have to do a nap. Lol.
@pamelar58684 ай бұрын
me too❤
@normfromhawaii11734 ай бұрын
Planting rows of corn near each other aids in the pollination/formation of the kernels in the ears.
@frank_III4 ай бұрын
So glad you are putting up fencing for cattle. All that grass pasture is such a resource. I grew up on grass fed beef that we grew. Nothing like it..
@SamuelKeala-j7q4 ай бұрын
Thx yu for sharing 😂❤
@SusanSanders-c2j4 ай бұрын
Thought you might like to know this. We have a 5 month old mini Aussie that loves to watch svengoolie. He sits thru the whole episode 😂😂😂
@pamelar58684 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂❤
@beckyumphrey26264 ай бұрын
Looking forward to the ceramic studio in action.. My brands and I love.doing our ceramic work.
@ThomasSmith-fz6wq4 ай бұрын
Nice job onthe garden. When are you going to discuss the work on the guest house? Have you decided on siding?
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
Siding will be simple to do. I know it will be vinyl, not sure what color. I want to get going on the inside again. Since the outside stuff is something I have constantly done for my whole life, I find it boring even though it needs to get done. No, I have not discussed it in a video yet.
@timmore14 ай бұрын
A old gas ice auger works great for making post holes it's hard on the cutting blade but does a quick job at making post holes
@lotzoso4 ай бұрын
I had to laugh at 16:42 into the video Melissa made peas when you just said how much you enjoyed shelling them.
@DeputyVanHalen51504 ай бұрын
I have feeling that your garden is going to do great where you've kinda moved it to. We did raised beds here, used landscaping timbers. Been feeding the dirt chicken manure. Everything's doing great. We've had things blooming early here in Ohio. Are you seeing anything blooming early in Minnesota? Have already picked strawberries and blueberries are almost ready. Never seen blueberries this early before here.
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
Fruit trees everywhere are blooming and just about finished. Soon they will start making fruit.
@nojnoj30694 ай бұрын
Woohoo!
@edlorette96924 ай бұрын
Thanks Joe
@michellejaggard96574 ай бұрын
I always fenced my corn in a square or rectangle to keep it from blowing over just 2 or 3 wires,easy to roll back. Nothing fancy. I live in a very windy area. Always worked
@TonyGeneseo4 ай бұрын
Looks like you’re doing good after the surgery and gettin after it like normal ! Any issues at all ? Take care Joe
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
I rarely have any discomfort down there now. If I do, I back off from what I am doing for the rest of that day.
@pamyoder61634 ай бұрын
I’ve been watching your channel and I just wonder Joe, do you ever rest?
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
In get 5 to 6 hours a night. 6 is always a blessing. Lol. My mind does not allow more than that.
@jakeschisler75254 ай бұрын
My neighbor behind my property has cows and he just runs barb wire but his posts are 6 feet apart. My other neighbor has many cows as well and sometimes they get out. But he is working on new fence all the time. My place is also fenced but with 6x6 for posts. Cows are pretty strong and so they will find a way out if that's what they want to do. It's better to over fence than under fence. You know with cattle going to the tent will have to be limited cause they need hay in the winter and plenty of water.
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
I usually only go to the tent once in the winter and one 1200 pound round bale will do 20 to 25 days for one cow. We will have 2 so 10 days at the least. I am never at the tent more than 4 days. Melissa can easily do the water.
@ToddChapman-m8t4 ай бұрын
👍👍
@unclemikessouthernoutdoors37834 ай бұрын
I bet you guys up north have chicken tossing season! LOL!
@darcydesmit71174 ай бұрын
You should buy a post pounder machine. it makes our fencing a lot easier.
@cherreellewellyn24214 ай бұрын
Hey Joe, a suggestion for you. Instead of burning your cardboard, why don’t you lay it down as a weed barrier and create a path around the fence live with cardboard and wood chips or gravel on top? Or get a border of weed mat around the fence line. Way easier to more and having to deal with weeds all the time
@pepifarms50094 ай бұрын
Joe I'm like you I am so sick of setting t-post I finally went into the barn and got a good pair of gloves and some ear protection. My hands were going numb the t-pose driver
@ernestkooistra15594 ай бұрын
👍
@CraigGrant-sh3in4 ай бұрын
If you need more hay you should check with retired farmers in the area. Many want their fields cut. The deal would be that you hay it for the hay. I know guy who did it for several old farms for heor his beef cattle and sold tractor tailers full to a mushroom former. You only need to find enough to handle what you need for your cows
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
We will need 20 bales to get us through the non grass months. We want to have 25 to 30 bales here prior to winter. 1200 pound bales of good hay, you can buy for 60.00 a bale from several places here. If I had the equipment I would look for something like you are suggesting but at 60 a bale it will be easy to be ready prior to winter.
@peewee.31384 ай бұрын
For the amount of subscribers from all your channels, it’s too bad you couldn’t get a sponsorship from one of the tractor manufacturers for a nice 35-50horsepower range with a cab on it or trade the telehandler for something with a nice loader, rototiller and different attachments. I know that you have probably heard this all before and you have your own plan so I will put my two cents back! Have a great evening!
@walteragentplummer70314 ай бұрын
❤
@rlwoods614 ай бұрын
I think you will need strong corners, no matter what, on the fence!
@robingreene81674 ай бұрын
When are you going to start a Shelter for the cows? You need a helper. Got a lot to plant. Well best of luck on it all
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
It will all be done by August.
@rt3box6tx744 ай бұрын
ATV's arent ideal for creating a flat, level surface. I use my lawn tractor for a much preferred result. I've stopped using the section of harrow too. I now use a set of bedsprings with a plywood platform for adding weights. I use anthing I find laying around. Cinder blocks, bags of fertilizer, railroad timbers, tractor weights...
@scottcross16664 ай бұрын
just was wondering why you didn't burn your post that you buried. so they don't rot.
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
They are treated lumber. Lifetime guarantee they will not rot. It would be stupid of me to use any other type of wood for posts except pressure treated lumber.
@stagemgr994 ай бұрын
Y’all Need to Invest in a post hole Drill attachment for your Tractor.
@johnpiland81424 ай бұрын
whatever happened to the guest house project?
@johnwood73724 ай бұрын
Joe, you should have dumped sakrete in the post holes.
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
I am deep enough so I do not need it.
@cheryldarke83244 ай бұрын
You have all kinds of equipment. Now with livestock coming, can't you invest in a post hole auger? That's so hard on your back!
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
I rather enjoy it. Lol. Non used muscles disappear.
@turkeyrunfarms4 ай бұрын
I’ve got a neighbor that will not stay off my property. First time he was running up and down our property in his tractor second time he planted 25-30 trees on our property- third time he just mowed with out asking.. would love some advice as he just doesn’t get it!
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
The first time I would have called the police for trespassing but not pressed charges. The second time I would have cut every damn tree down that he planted, seriously I would have. The third time I would have called the police and pressed charges for trespassing. Pardon my language but neighbors are not something I fuck around with. They have 2 choices, we can get along or they can have a miserable life. I make sure what I am doing is respectful and legal. I am a very nice person..... until I am not. You need to be the bigger asshole.
@DerrickSchantz-kr8uu4 ай бұрын
I totally agree with you Joe.
@richardchayer65974 ай бұрын
Hello Joe
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
Hello Richard.
@sonjasleeper15114 ай бұрын
The pea fence may need to be higher. My peas grew to 15 feet
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
This variety only grows to 26 inches. It says that no fence is required but I like having one anyway.
@jamestrowbridge294 ай бұрын
Damn
@coreyjohnson24184 ай бұрын
As an extreme animal lover it botherd me how you TOSSED THE BABIES into the chicken tractor==a couple hitting the light--they were sooo scared- I EXPECTED MORE FROM YOU
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
Oh well, I have been raising chicken for over 40 years. Some people hate it when people catch fish and toss them back instead of gently putting them back. The morel of this story is?? There will always be haters and no matter what a person does someone will find something wrong with it. I have found that just me being me is the only way I can do videos. I will continue tossing the baby chicks.
@susannepatriot62644 ай бұрын
I totally understand that it looked a little rough, but knowing Joe, I don't think he meant to be mean. He was working fast to keep them from escaping. If the door was bigger, he would've put the whole cage inside the tractor and let them get out on their own. A little more patience would've been nice to see. It was clumsy but not abusive. Right? Joe's a good dude. Let's give him a break. 😊
@georgewilson91214 ай бұрын
they were just fling lessons
@rickvollmer36464 ай бұрын
You've become a one man band , how long do you think you can keep this up with no help . It's not like you're 25 anymore and the amount of work you're taking on will eventually break you down.
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
I guess that is when I will be done then.
@TheDrPopEye4 ай бұрын
Are you going to build a barn for the cows?
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
Cows do not need a barn, they just need a shelter to get them out of the wind and elements when a bad storm comes in. Nothing heated. I have explained in several videos, including this one, where that shelter will be.
@briankobylka24994 ай бұрын
Concussion
@chris3m984 ай бұрын
Does Melissa help in the garden or chickens?
@susannepatriot62644 ай бұрын
Melissa is very hands on around the farm. She doesn't like to be filmed. This is Joe's channel. Honestly, I think their relationship works because they know how to give each other the right amount of space to do their own thing. You know what I mean? It seems to be working. They've been together for years. 😊
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
Yes but she prefers to not be on video very much. Luckily, I have the power to edit. Lol.
@bigk20804 ай бұрын
Before you know it will be time, too, harvest 😢
@mikeyoung52114 ай бұрын
I've nevered measured , just plant
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
Most people are like that. I realize that I am the weird one, but I see my garden as part of the yard landscape. I like things to be close to perfect.
@Chili4534 ай бұрын
I get worn out by watching your video !!!
@JDOGMACK754 ай бұрын
Joe you keep getting a bunch of anti trump ads
@NorthernSeclusion4 ай бұрын
People doing youtube videos do not have any control over what commercials are put in the videos. I simply click that the video is monetized so they can add the commercials. It is an election year, we go through this every 4 years.