Vegetable Garden in the Forest, July Harvest

[@antoniocoutinho511]

It is not easy live in this place. It is the price paid for freedom, for the pure pleasure of living and living with nature, only the daring are successful in this environment. Stay safe and enjoy every day, keep going.

[@blackrosary]

Wow😍. Veggie garden in the forest. You don't have to go to the grocery stores to buy veggies. They are just in your backyard. How fulfilling it feels to harvest the fruits of your labor. You have the lake where you can fish. You can hunt for wild fowls and animals for your meat. Tranquility, self- reliance, fresh air, fresh water, farming and carpentry as physical exercise, lake where you can swim...Oh my gosh! So admirable.

[@jerrystark3587]

When you said that there's always work in the garden, I was reminded of something my grandmother told me --"You have to water a garden with your sweat." That, too, has been my experience. All the best. Thanks!

[@retiredusmc9090]

Every year I underestimate the amount of time it takes to keep our garden productive and not becoming overgrown and wasteful. There is nothing better then enjoying the fresh vegetables from the fruits of your labor.

[@lauramarti7548]

Every time you show how far your garden has come along, I am amazed at the progress. I think back to when you were clearing the space of trees, and making the mounds, and now everything is lush, and your soil is incredible!

[@janetwithers7427]

Your gardens are doing so well. Glad you got a good harvest of red potatoes. Amazing how fast it all grew. Great to see a video today. Enjoy that swim. I miss seeing your wife around. Cali is always a star. 🐕💖

[@abelloachacoso1904]

A very perfect decision in life, peaceful place, no pollution, no hunger, wide & rich soil for planting❤❤❤❤

[@haywoodjablome6645]

What a great surprise on a Sunday morning, Shawn!! Be well and give Cali girl a scratch behind the ears from me.

[@melodytenisch6232]

😁👍

[@Tomhohenadel]

Thanks Shawn. Good to see the garden produce being harvested. All the hard work you put in and this is the payback. Can’t wait to see the workshop and cold storage being built.

[@Nannygoat]

I have been watching Ms Cali for a while.....and l notice how well groomed she is AND how and when you have time for her specifically personal grooming. So she gets as bath when you do...lol. Boom.....done. Love all your plans for the future projects.

[@daveyjoweaver5183]

Your hard work has produce a fine garden with beautiful crops Shawn! I do much enjoy your sharing it all! Indeed, hot and humid here in Pa. as well. It's like a all day sweat lodge! Fortunately my house and shop are cool. I have dehumidifiers going else the mold happens. And in the trees in my woods keeps things cool. As said before, I love seeing Cali in her new pool and the lake as well. She is so much like my yellow lab Molly years back, personalities almost identical. Kind Thanks on this hot and humid summer Sunday! DaveyJO in Pa.

[@Kathy_Is_Blessed]

Cali certainly is busy today guarding the perimeters near the garden. Bless her.♥️She works almost as hard as you do Shawn.😉Bravo on the garden!

[@izildamacielmosqueira9135]

Hi Shawn James! Good morning, your vegetables garden is amazing, it's the result of constant, hard and careful work! You are one with the nature! Your affection for Cali is a great lesson for many people! A kiss for her 😘🐕💖😊🤗...and an excellent Sunday for you. 🇧🇷

[@melodytenisch6232]

👵🌷😊

[@pamwineinger2764]

I am watching this video on my 75" tv and on my cell phone so I can comment. Lovely garden! I really love watching Callie having the time of her life. 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@young-soonkim6730]

Good Sunday Shawn & Cali🐕! "The fruits of your hard labour!" 👍🤗

[@ryantoemmes9685]

I have 36 fruit trees planted this year and fully expanded on my 1/2 acre garden plot... Huge pay off coming up this season in the Fall... You’ve motivated me to do more with what you accomplished solo Shawn 🙌🏻

[@melodytenisch6232]

Awesome! Very nice.😊👍

[@JaredEagles]

Has been quite hot here in Eastern Canada too. Our average temperature is usually somewhere around 22 celcius but this year has been closer to 28 average. There's a little seasonal spring in my backyard which usually stays full of water for most of the summer. But this summer it dried up early and never came back. I have a pair of Mallard that use to make their way from that pond, through the woods to feed on seeds fallen from my bird feeder. Over the past couple years I have been able to start feeding them out of my hand. And sometimes I would wake up and they would see me getting ready through the windows and make their way down to the back door for a little extra treat. They still stop by every so often, only the female once this month. But since they don't have the little pond to cool off in, they come for food and then take off. I set up a gravity fed bird bath, basically a bucket with a small pin hole at the bottom. The rest of the birds have been loving it. Strongly suggest! Especially with this hot hot weather. Cheers.

[@bobbynash282]

Goodmorning from alabama. Im glad things in the garden are doing well. Things can only get better. We all wish only the best for you an your family. Thanks for sharing.

[@mindyvaughn8217]

You always make me feel better. I was having such a good day right up until I went out to get in the pool. Then I lost my balance on the top step and grabbed for the rail which everyone has been telling me to get fixed. Then hit my low back on the edge of the wood and my head on the ground........yes I cried like a 3 year old. I could see my foot bleeding, I could feel my neck was wet with blood. Luckily I practice getting up from the floor just in case I do something stupid. So with blood and tears flowing I got to my knees and managed to get back into the house. I had been watching you in the house while I was getting ready to go to the pool and after putting Ice on my very painful back and dish towels on everything that was bleeding I blew my nose and turned you back on and watched you in the garden. It made me feel better knowing that this wouldn’t have even slowed you down.💖

[@abbasalaidaroos7108]

I congratulate you on this farm. The best thing is that you eat what you grow👍👍👍⁦🇾🇪⁩🌹🌹

[@sandragrimes5673]

Hey and people said you couldn’t do it. It looks good and you worked hard to get it. God bless you Shawn. You make us all proud

[@sandragrimes5673]

J F well everyone has opinions and you’re entitled to yours

[@sandragrimes5673]

IM I honestly don’t think he is doing anything wrong. Maybe he is going about it in a different way but as long as he gets it done what does it matter. To me he is doing what a lot of us probably would be doing if we could and because of how things are going we may have to regardless if we can or not. Just saying

[@antoniomorales2313]

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[@patriciabarnes7034]

Sandra Grimes... Only jeousy would cause people to sprout pessimistic opinion! Ones who would like to do the same thing but too lazy to even try! Jealousy is a chronic disease that eats away at them, stunting their growth.

[@skygerspacher6891]

The first 9 years of my life we lived in Farming country. We had fresh milk, cheese, butter and cream; fat fresh tomato's, corn out of the field, beans and cabbages, fish from the rivers. I did not realize how wonderful that all tasted until we moved and food just never tasted quite the same again. Even as a child I knew the difference.

[@chrissiecarr5721]

Good Evening Shaun, from Melbourne, Australia😘 ThankYou for sharing your fantastic life and providing me with the best dreams tonight😴🙋🏻‍♀️🦘🐨

[@clarabarraza6674]

Beautiful vegetable garden. You are very skilled and knowledgeable. Enjoy your fresh organic greens!! God bless!!

[@lindamitchell3332]

You are living my dream. I tried to talk my husband to live like this but this just wasn’t how he wanted to live. He had to many modern hobbies. He passed a few months back so now I have changes in my life. Glad to see you living the life you love in the wild.

[@patriciabeyer7824]

What a good surprise! It's nice to see you again. Your garden is doing really well. Nice work. 👍😊

[@margaretcarter517]

Congratulations on the garden. Amazing cropping for a first year from forest floor. You are an inspiration! ❤️ from 🇬🇧 to 🇨🇦

[@rlsingle00]

Wasn’t expecting you to release a video today. Wonderful surprise. Garden looks great. You will be overwhelmed with fresh vegetables. They seem to all come in at once. Thanks for sharing, I love your video content bless you and your family. Stay healthy and safe.

[@libbypotts7736]

I absolutely love your channels. I have been watching your progress and I am so amazed at what you have accomplished. Love your dog, and so happy for you guys now that your wife lives with you. You and your family are heart felt, fun to watch, and entertaining. I have always been somewhat of a tomboy, but I love to build. Keep up the good work. I am very humbled by what you believe and stand for.

[@Latina4Life]

Hi Shawn! Nothing tastes better than your own home grown veggies! I'm getting lots of fresh tomatoes and beans... and I'm so proud of myself for the time I've invested into my garden. Thanks for the motivation you give us!

[@blackrosary]

I think, if you'll go back to the city and have your vacation there, you'll be missing much the forest, the hill, the lake, your cabin, and of course your garden.👍

[@THardy.]

The garden is gorgeous. Your hard work is paying off in a successful harvest.

[@leticiaramirez7668]

I'm imagining living in paradise already just watching you, great job!!

[@Murphis55]

Ah my favorite woodsman. Wish I was 30yrs younger and I could have been your not so close neighbor. I was all into living the way your doing so I learned a lot of essential home stuff. Like canning and growing and foraging. Try drying your veggies and dry canning. I now have a vacuum pump that’s used for brake bleeding for a vacuum on canning jars. Works great and you don’t need electricity. Stay safe. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️💪🏻🖖🏻🐾🐾🐾🇺🇸

[@Bear-Ur2ez]

There you go, a great way to cool off . Getting in the water with mans best friend for a bath . Awesome idea on a hot day.

[@Karin6509]

Life should be a journey, not a destination. I think that's part of the appeal of self reliance and living life off grid. It's living on your own terms, and realizing that we are part of nature, we're not separate from it. You get out what you put in. And with solar panels it's even easier and more convenient to be less dependent on the system. I can't think of a more rewarding way to live.

[@petten33]

Jeepers, Shawn, you're starting to hulk out, man. All that work is making you buff.

[@StevePrimo]

Shawn, Such a great channel (including your other channel as well), I'd say one of the best out there. I have 3 little ones (11, 9, and 6 yrs old) so it's a little more difficult for me to take the leap of homesteading like you did, BUT every day I think about it. I hope to one day do it, but until then your channels help feed that homesteading feeling I get. Made it up to our family camp in the mountains of northwestern Pennsylvania this weekend, very secluded like you. Kids and I went fishing, catching toads, frogs, newts, crayfish, hiking/exploring the woods. It truly doesn't get any better. Keep the great videos coming, I'll be sure to keep tuning in.

[@Judy.LoveandLightAlways]

Your summer there, and it's our winter here. I'm dreading our summer here in Victoria Australia. Mr and Mrs James we your subscribers, have watched this garden thrive, from the first day you started to now. Just Amazing! you did it Shawn, all that hard work and knowledge has paid off. Those potatoes look perfect. Sending kindest thoughts to you, Mrs James, "cali" your beautiful daughter's from stage 4 lockdown here in Melbourne, Victoria Australia. I have learnt so much from your video's Shawn. Thank you

[@majcorbin]

excellent sound quality from the mic clipped to your shirt collar. it brings out the deep mellow resonance of your voice

[@PavlovsBob]

A beautiful garden and a bountiful harvest. Your soil looks and performs great. I've always put in the effort and amendments needed for a new garden as you did. What a wonderful payoff in produce and the pleasure of just being there. And, as you said, you've really given it a boost for next year. It's a joy to watch. Thank you.

[@mahalathacker6513]

I love our gardens, we are enjoying the tomatoes, cucumbers, okra, green beans and onions. Will be canning tomatoes next week, then green beans. Waiting on the corn to fill out to preserve it. Keep planting. Love your videos. Blessing to you.

[@Cryptotraderbr]

Garden in paradise or living in the garden of paradise

[@susanhamilton1822]

You must be really pleased with the garden. I was not expecting so much abundance so soon. The hard work paid off.

[@bigmamma6946]

Shelter, ice house underground food storage. Build time yes yes yes so exciting thank you for sharing your journey love watching love it yes mate.

[@Tidabre]

Im a fan of yours. Im here now in Israel but Im originally from the Philippines🇵🇭❤. Your in paradise. I love your videos, and im learning also. More Power💪💪🇵🇭🇮🇱❤

[@theresaosullivan9205]

Wow! I am impressed with the work you put into your crops Shawn, you are doing great. God bless you and Cali, peace and happiness. 🕊🙏🥒🥬🥦🥔🥔🥔🥔

[@CC-xk6cp]

Hi again SHAWN Wow! For the first trial year your garden area is really producing!! Nice going! Lots of delicious things still coming. Now all you need is some fish so hope you caught a couple of big ones!! Enjoy stay safe and healthy...

[@charleneking7078]

I am so impressed with your garden. Wow. Hard work is paying off. Get some beets in.

[@estaisadore6188]

Hello Shawn ,Was reading through the comments and lol they said it all...we me and my hubby have watched your channels for a long time ...and sure have a lot of respect for you..you inspire...and motivate...us here in Rural...Pa. We too have a Golden...named Arlo he is something else...Your and lol no.kidding he loves to watch Callie...Was super great to meet your family ...when you have all been together at the cabin....May God bless each and Every one...thank you for the sharing....It sure is beautiful there..

[@murrayandru7527]

Enjoy the fruits of your labor Mr. James you worked hard to get where your at ! God Bless !

[@bobr8410]

I picked up so many helpful concepts. Thank you for walking us through your reasoning behind the gardening decisions as you make them!

[@toneyjohnson8910]

Great harvest. I grew my potatoes in 12 5 gal. pots this year and I harvested 44 lbs 9 oz of potatoes it was my best year yet. Thanks for sharing

[@cuteshadow]

I love watching your videos! Also, you look much better than most bodybuilders.

[@JamesJohnson-yh1oh]

Elizabeth said, A learned a lot from this video; especially 'bout potatoes. Thanks. Mine are ready for harvest right now. I'm glad you explained about rotation, and also about composting and the heat in it. You said a lot I needed to hear.

[@katiea.584]

Lovin the progress. Thanks for sharing your journey and knowledge. Harmony, Happiness and Health 🖖☮❣🌱🌱🌱🛶🐟😷🇨🇦

[@wendy_g]

Cali is the real star of the show!!!! 😃 Stay safe guys

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , Shawn .

[@The__Respecter]

After all this time watching your videos I have to say it with this one, you are SO buffed now Shawn, wow. The outside work is paying of.

[@tamaragonzalez2227]

Nope we are having the coolest summer ever where I live. Only in the 80's F for last two weeks which is 20 degrees cooler than normal for July into August, and hottest so far only around 95F. Really enjoying summer here in Oklahoma for once rather than having to stay inside in AC. Enjoy your education on gardening a lot...I learn quite a bit from you so thank you.

[@jamesdevinaspre3182]

Shawn, you have a great sense of humor, I enjoy watching you work in your garden. Thanks for your video.

[@charlheynike9619]

I had a greenhouse a few years back and mulched with 2" of wood chips. The difference it made was amazing! It will lower your water usage by a lot.

[@tricarb01]

Hi. One thing I learnt the hard way when canning and preserving is never stack jars on top of each other when storing. The weight of the jars breaks the vacuum seal. This makes the contents go manky (rotten)

[@mimiso2522]

Ball & Ker say you can stack 2 high. What I do is stack 2 high on top of empties.

[@Neznisgip]

Good advice

[@melodytenisch6232]

@@mimiso2522 Great tip for those with limited space!😊👍

[@jacquelinehealy1797]

(From the midwest) when mom told me to take her jars into the basement she would remind me not to stack them on the shelves. I just realized that to this day I never knew why!

[@theresalero7039]

That is a beautiful garden, harvest and compost pile! I have a much smaller garden and that was plenty enough work for me. I admire your ability to can over a fire, I didn't know that was possible. Enjoy frequent water breaks with Cali.

[@retiredyeti5555]

Looks like the deer barrier that you and your wife erected has done the job! Great looking garden, now you're reaping the rewards of all that early Spring work!

[@mikefurness1598]

Not hot enough for you there! Come visit me here in Arizona is 5100 feet above sea level the last few days have been 100 degrees at the peak and nights are getting down to maybe a low of 60. Humidity gets up to around 40 or 50% at the High usually around 25 to 30%. I'm not built for this heat either coming from New Hampshire and Maine for most of my life so I know exactly how you feel when that Sun starts climbing above the trees. I really like watching your videos. If I had it to do over again and I was 30 years younger I might attempt what you're doing and Northern Maine or Northern New Hampshire. At 71 years old it's a little late for me to start doing something like that. LOL!

[@heru-deshet359]

Agreed. My son lives in Lake Havesu and it's been 120 there! No thank you!

[@LittleCountryCharm]

your garden looks amazing , when you get your chickens in you can us their eyes in the garden to help with the bugs,Using Eggshells in the Garden to the bottom of planting holes, especially for tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant. ..deter slugs, snails, and cutworms.

[@bgarcia4291]

Mashed potatoes, French fries, scallop potatoes and bake potatoes Yummy!!! Love the audio while working!

[@heru-deshet359]

I'm taking a relaxing break from the craziness going on around the world by watching this.

[@philnolan6430]

Your an inspiration Shawn,god bless from Dublin Ireland

[@mariannejohannessen9751]

LOVE the video so more of that and Love youre beautiful place you have built there for you and youre family x Blessings from Norway X

[@TheKerb10videosandpictures]

Hello from Port,-au-Prince, Haiti .At some point I had the same idea for Winter season.. I was worry for you..Keep up Man ,👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏽

[@user-jn4fn9od7u]

I recommend the books in the series The Ringing Cedars of Russia by Vladimir Megre. They have great planting advice.

[@elizabethhutson9767]

Love your videos Shawn. I know you work hard, but we all appreciate you sharing your beautiful, peaceful life. Can’t wait for your wife to rejoin you and Cali. God bless.

[@Ijusthopeitsquick]

Don't hold your breath.

[@MagdaRantanplan]

It is so awesome to see you getting veggies out of your garden. You worked so hard for it. Congrats.

[@barrywebber100]

Great job Shawn. Thanks for posting.

[@JamieKrause86]

That looks like a good harvest for a first year garden. It will be cool to see when everything is set in place like its own ecosystem!

[@ricoviselli]

I would replant the beds with collard greens. Pick the leaves large or small. Lots of calcium and fiber.

[@cherrydowns7745]

And Kale.

[@hkguitar1984]

To keep pests and insects out of her garden my Grandmother used to grind up dried Cayenne Peppers, boil the dried pepper dust in water and then spray her garden with the solution. You had to wash everything first however the hot pepper spray once dried discouraged pests from causing damage.

[@janethartwig774]

Absolutely amazing garden. Great job!! You’ll be canning for weeks.

[@claireleboucher4597]

happy to see the beautiful harvest after the titan job accomplished

[@mdmitrieff1]

Beautiful garden Shawn.. Have an awesome day. give hugs from me to beautiful Cali. she is a lucky dog to have a wonderful loving caring master. I love the way you spoil her with kindness, love & awesome great care...

[@RUSLexplorer2020]

Happy to see your plants are fully grown !

[@athollmcnicoll256]

Yes Shawn Gardening can be a fairly intensive exercise but done daily can build a regime that sees a worth while entertainment to be enjoyed and then after the ruts of ones labour have been satisfied, nothing beats a cooling refreshing swim or in Cali's case a wash and scrub, followed by her own way of shedding excess water - Shake it Cali !!

[@pennypoll8759]

I love to do all the things you are accomplishing. I feel so bad you are doing it alone again. I can’t imagine not being there along side of my husband, gardening, canning and everything. You have accomplished so much! Kudos to you!!!

[@evelynbarrow3419]

The very small potatoes are so good rinsed and boiled...no peeling needed! Raised on the farm,we always had a large garden.These were anticipated early each summer.

[@janelinley3624]

Garden and harvest look beautiful... lots of work.. love the videos🇺🇸❤️✌🏻

[@melodytenisch6232]

Thank you for sharing! So wonderful to see what you accomplish; looks like you've thought of everything. Lovely garden and little Cali's plume of a tail in the background is sweet! Just your visuals make people's days a whole lot better. You are so hardworking and gracious. Blessings.👵😊💖🐕🍃

[@Tina-fi2wy]

I need to see a dinner with all these wonderful home grown products! 😋

[@elizabethdunkelbarger8581]

Shawn, as far as building goes, when you finally got that screened in porch finished I was sooooo happy for you. I deal with mosquitos and other flying bugs all the time and REALLY appreciated that construct. Hope to see you do a door replacing that window soon. Your garden looks great... and for the pond I suggest a solar powered fountain. I have one small scale in my bird bath and it serves me well. But, you'll be in trouble with that water, and even Callie's health if you don't circulate that water somehow. it shouldn't take a lot of solar power to run a pump/fountain like that. You are an inspiration to me, as I started caring for this property to help my mom when my idea of home improvement was to call the office on the way to work and be greeted with a note on the door assuring me the problem had been addressed when I got home. My idea of gardening was to take the dead plant (singular) to the dumpster on the way to Kroger to get a new plant. 30 years later I no longer have my mom but this property is productive and beautiful thanks to the help and education from people like you. This Old House and Victory Garden were my teachers in the beginning.

[@carlross555]

Carl from Northeast Ohio I have been following you from pretty much the beginningyou never cease to amaze me it always gets better and better love what you doing Sean keep it up

[@wandamcknight786]

Enjoying these on my tv on youtube and had to get on computer to like. Have watched so many of your videos. Very inspiring!!!

[@anthonytheglazerdisandro8408]

Amazing to watch and be along for the journey , thank you for this extra more personalized content and channel. I’ve turned 50 as well recently and hope to be doing what you are doing within 5 years ! God bless Shawn

[@abbushcraft]

Thank you for the visit to the garden. Jim laughs and smiles... and is a little envious at the beautiful new red potatoes you are eating. I think that you will really like the root cellar that you are going to build. I was thinking... Rome wasn't built in a year... your homestead won't be complete soon. But, you are doing a good job. I sympathize in the heat. Good for growing things... but bad for working in. I hope you got a few fish. Forgive me for saying... but I like the life of Reilly you are sharing with us. I call it surrogate wilderness living. Living thru your experiences. I wonder if carrots would grow in your beds? I like that you are growing 2 crops. I will be very interested to see what you plant for a second crop. I wish you could keep more potatoes for the winter. I felt bad for you... having to make all of that cement for the foundation. I know how long it takes to make just one wheel barrow of cement. Let alone... probably 100... like you had to make. I was also thinking the other day... of how funny the relationship we have with you is. Never really meeting the guy... and yet seeing him twice a week. I enjoy it... it just struck me as unusual. Who would have ever thought tho... that we could get paid for sharing our experiences. You are doing a good job of it, and I thank you very kindly for it. Have another dip in the lake for me. Big smile.

[@gretchenhamlin4282]

COOL COMMENT ! TAKE CARE !

[@Grimes60]

Loving this heat, swimming in Lake Huron, I looked across wondering “ what’s Shawn doing” lol

[@melodytenisch6232]

😂rascal!

[@annapoole132]

You are an inspiration Shawn!!!! Love watching both your channels!!! Yes...it has been very hot and humid here in the states! I still get out and garden and work outside as much as I can. The feeling of being completely worn out at the end of the day and then cleaning up and relaxing is so worth it! And was thinking...you need some chickens up there!!!!👍

[@shirleygeorge6351]

Fruits of hard labour..always super sweet..pleasant surprise Shawn..Thank you..just peeped in to check out on the notifications after my Sunday siesta & there you are!! God bless you...beautiful bonanza of harvest.

[@Heithwald]

maan, sweat dripping at 15:12 +, I feel you... winters ftw

[@marianoy.mendoza5068]

I love nature and gardening😊

[@Skidly_Finley5879]

Great first trial brother. Lots of tatters for ya. Looks like the hard work is paying off. Keep up the great work. Always a informal opportunity to learn from you videos. Stay safe and as always 👍🏻👍🏻🇨🇦

[@Tina-fi2wy]

“If you ask, it will come.” Couldn’t think of a better example!