Whats the 2024 Garden Plan? (Zone 3 Gardening)

[@katechron]

I really appreciate this "before summer" garden tour. It was helpful to see the different types of garden spaces you have and how you utilize those areas. Thanks for sharing! Praying for peace and health as you anticipate the arrival of your new baby!

[@VenisonforDinner]

Thank you so much! I'm glad it was helpful

[@samanthalangley4859]

Oh my goodness Kate I love the ice you grew 😆 I am in the mud growing season!

[@VenisonforDinner]

My ice is lighter to walk in than your mud. hahaha

[@paulandtami2969]

Tip from my father-in-law about asparagus and weeds. Each spring as the snow melted and the asparagus hasn't peeked through the soil, he would put rock salt on the asparagus patch. It killed the weeds but the asparagus came up super happy.

[@judymcintire8061]

Love your homestead! It's so nice that you can sit & enjoy your kitchen garden! A great get a way!😊

[@VenisonforDinner]

It really is!

[@ghostpipe888]

Hey Venison for Dinner, your haskap needs a buddy of a different variety that blooms around the same time for the max amount of berries because it’s self incompatible. You have summer bearing raspberries that grow from last summers canes, your mom has ever bearing raspberries that grow from this years canes… from the sounds of it. Thanks for the tour!

[@VenisonforDinner]

Thank you for that. My mom just texted that my haskap bush needs a buddy! (She only just learned that at her garden club meeting haha)

[@bethreiners5568]

Hi I just came across your site and I subscribed. What caught me was “zone 3”. We’re zone 3 in upper Minnesota. Your property looks a lot like mine, but without the hayfield, so I love it. You’re a lot further than we are, we only have chickens, but we have a 50 ft x 150 ft garden (our kids next door) and a 40x50 ft fenced-in garden at our place. I loved seeing specifically what you grew last year, and how you separate your different gardens.

[@VenisonforDinner]

Yes I think we Zone 3 growers need to stick together!! It's certainly been a learning curve from where I grew up in Zone 7b.

[@belieftransformation]

Thanks for sharing your garden areas. Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦

[@VenisonforDinner]

Our pleasure!

[@TheSacredHeartHomestead]

😂 yes to the chicken harems! I have noticed this too and I love how accurate that description is.

[@VenisonforDinner]

Thanks for joining us here!

[@aessidhe6304]

Whats your rooster to hen ratio? I am thinking of expanding my flock and I’m worried my lone roo wont he able to service all his girls in his expanded harem; but I dont want roosters fighting either…..

[@JB-mc9qw]

@@aessidhe6304I have about one roo per 10 hens at the moment and that seems to be the ideal number for this flock. However, it really depends on the amount of space they have access to. In the winter, when they are stuck inside the coop, we need to reduce the amount of roos in order to avoid fights; in the summer when they are free ranging we can have more with no issues.

[@emarshalls2742]

I enjoyed your garden tour very much. Can't wait to see the plants growing and producing. Love your videos Kate!

[@VenisonforDinner]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@jessieswaningson6850]

Thanks for the video!

[@brandynash1409]

It’s amazing to me to see what others grow. Or can/can’t grow! We are in south Arkansas. Okra, purple hulls, tomatoes, peppers, corn, mellons, blackberries, peaches, mustard greens.... root crops don’t grow or store well for us. But, we do get 2 rounds of potatoes. For 5 years we lived above the frost line is the ozark mountains. We had wild raspberries. No one below the frost line could grow them. Only blackberries. So even in the same area, the micro climates changed so much!

[@VenisonforDinner]

So true about micro climates. Sounds like you're able to grow some amazing crops!

[@chelseafailla9887]

"cause winter be long yo" 🤪😍😂

[@designsbydriedgers]

Also zone 3 British Columbia I plant tomatoes like potatoes in the garden. Did 2 rows last year and got enough pizza sauce/ pasta sauce for a family of 5 to last all winter and still have 3 gallons in the freezer. Cuz I got prego and cudnt finish canning 😆 They don’t get red on the plant tho, I normally pick them in fall take them inside to ripen. So it’s a very late autumn project

[@VenisonforDinner]

Wow that's great you can grow them in the garden. Just doesn't work for most people around here and maybe we get an earlier frost as well.

[@amandaw30]

Your hay is so green!! We had a terrible hay year here last year and I'm jealous of that nice green hay.

[@VenisonforDinner]

We had a terrible hay crop last year due to the drought. Quality not so bad, bale count WAY down. Thanks for joining us here.

[@sarahschlosser1203]

So excited to see growing season

[@VenisonforDinner]

Agree! I love it.

[@aessidhe6304]

Some raspberry varieties produce fruit on 2 year old canes; so pruning is best staged a bit. After you pick fruit then prune those canes but leave the non fruiting canes because those will have fruit the following year.

[@VenisonforDinner]

That's how my mom pruned them but no fruit came. She also referenced the pruning directions from a book on growing berries in the north.....so who knows. What we do know works.

[@christileach4644]

Your ice “garden” is phenomenal! 😂 Thank you for sharing, Kate. As always… an inspiration to me! (@jealoushands)

[@VenisonforDinner]

Aww thanks for that!

[@judithbutler9695]

I hope you factor in some rest time when “our” baby comes! 😉🐣❤️

[@VenisonforDinner]

Yes, I will. I've learned lots along the way with my five kids...gotta keep the boat afloat.

[@curtgesch5171]

About the blue potatoes. . . The Blue Max is a 1966 war film directed by John Guillermin and starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Karl Michael Vogler, and Jeremy Kemp. I wonder if the name is an allusion to that.

[@VenisonforDinner]

I don't think so as the spud is called Blue Mac. Close though.

[@jennesset1102]

Oh man. We are NW Wa state and I can’t even grow ice. Lol

[@VenisonforDinner]

Oh mire that is dire hahaha

[@theonewhereshelivessimply]

Garden bed cleanup is overrated! I like leaving the nutrients in the ground as long as possible! So beneficial. At least that's what I tell myself haha.

[@VenisonforDinner]

I like the way you roll!

[@TheBabcocks]

Haha, motivation disappears for lots when you're pregnant!

[@VenisonforDinner]

Definitely!!