Our zone 8a/8b home is located on one acre in the rural city of Orangeburg, South Carolina. We have been on this property for about a year and still have a lot of work to do everywhere. I am having a lot of fun learning and playing in the dirt! Hopefully one day, we will have a fully landscaped yard!
We love all things homesteading. Some of the things that you will see on this channel are organic gardening, vegetable gardening, flower gardening, cooking from scratch, animals (chickens, dogs, rabbits), DIY projects, home decorating, and just generally being creative. We have Labradoodle dogs. We are currently keeping Holland Lop and Mini Lop rabbits. I am looking into raising a specialty breed of rabbits that was developed especially for South Carolina. We also have Australorp, White Cochin, and Cuckoo Maran chickens.
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Hello, I did searched for Amaryllis seed growing on RU-vid. So I came to your video on RU-vid. I like your vision you share about Amaryllis. This year for the first time I did harvest seedpots from Amaryllis, next I did put them on a glas of water till they did coloured all yellow. Next I did pulled out the black thin seeds and put those in water. All seeds where floating, some people say those might not germs if they float. I let the seeds in water for 24 hours, next I did pulled the outside of those seeds and lay the seeds on a pot with potting ground, moisted and unther plastic in a shaded place. In a few days later the seeds became sprouting. Next I put the seedlings pot in a glas terrarium on the west-side near a stone wall of my house. Now the seedlings started to grow. I transplanted the seedlings to a deeper pot and kept them in the glas terrarium, warmed by the sun and high moisture air. I am excited what growing will bring this season. I want to share my experiance in this comment. Thank you for your information in your video. Succes with your next video's. Greeting, Marcel.
I used to snap the woody end like you, but recently found out that peeling the woody end, lets you save so much more of the asparagus. The purple passion asparagus I have in my garden has huge spears, so peeling saves a lot of the goodness.
Hi. I'm a very new Amaryllis fan, and I'm struggling for information, so maybe someone can help me with a couple of questions. Firstly, I'm in England, and Amaryllis don't grow outside here, it's too cold for them, so all mine - currently eight bulbs - have been growing in my bathroom initially, as the light, moisture and temperature levels seem to work best. I have one that has two seed heads ready to go, so this video is perfect for me, and another two with growing seed heads. As they both have more flower buds growing, can the stems with the seed heads be cut, and put into a vase in water, to give the buds more of the energy that they need? All I know is that the stems should be cut off and the leaves left to grow and feed the bulb; finding information about the seed heads themselves has been quite a struggle. I really would appreciate any advice! I've had some beautiful flowers, and each bulb is different, and I'd really like to try and grow my own seeds. Thank you.
I harvested some seeds, I put my seeds in a cup of water and they float and sprout in there them I transfer to soggy dirt and slowly acclimate away from the water. They don't sink either!!!
The answer is both yes and no. It's actually somewhat dependant between health and age of the plant whether or not it will bloom again; but just because the flowers are done doesn't mean the plant is dead, so keep the plant, take care of it, and eventually, when it's ready, it'll bloom all over again.
Thanks for the video. Have you ever thought about throwing the woody parts of the stalks into your salty water to get the nutrients out before composting? I've found, by watching videos like yours, that you can take sweet and yellow or white onion root ends and tops, along with the outer skin layer, as well as the roots and tops of celery, green and red sweet pepper cores and tops, carrot tops and all sorts of other "scrap" parts of veggies and boil them into a broth that is a substitute for chicken broth, just as you mentioned. Just save the scraps in a bag in the fridge until you have enough to work with. I assume there would still be some value as compost once you strain off the water.
I have hundreds , in and outside. They pollinate all the time without any intervention from me or "falling on the floor" Thanks for your great video, I've never grown from seed before.
I like them crunchy too. In that case only blanch them for 1-2 min. You may need to experiment a little to find the sweet spot for your family's tastes.
Hello this is awesome. So glad that you showed us how to do this. Funny thing with this sickness going on is my son and daughter in law brought a bunch of asparagus and with trying to get all the supplies somewhere we just stuck them in the freezer lol lol lol but next time we get some asparagus I am going to blanch them and then freeze them and I will definetly let you know how they turn out. Weird thing right now those asparagus that we get from Sam's Club are like 4 dollars now where they were 8 dollars over the summer. I love onions, raw, cooked glazed, caramelized you name I like onions and now another food item to put on my list... onion stock. Thank you for sharing, God bless stay safe and have a wonderful day
Hi we got your name off your post in the friends of roots and refuge page !! Thanks for sharing your videos! These ornaments are adorable! do you watch garden answer? she posts content that has great garden themed craft type things this time of year.
Hello, this is awesome. So many way to make great memories and to teach our kids how to live off the land. By the way we did not get any asparagus this time because none of it was good but we still look next week when we go shopping for the holidays. Thank you for sharing, God bless stay safe and have a wonderful day
Hello, how wonderful we started making our own Christmas decorations this year because we want to pass it down and it is fun. Wednesday I want to make homemade clay ornaments for my grand daughter to decorate. Bringing back some old traditions. THank you for sharing, God bless, stay safe and have a wonderful day.
Hello, wow this is cool. We buy the big bags from Sam's and freeze them but was never told to blanch them first. I have looked around and some people do and some people don't. My question is do they last better being blanched before being put in the freezer. Asparagus is one of our favorites also. Thank you for sharing, God bless, stay safe and have a wonderful day. ( oh i dont have a food saver but I wonder if we could do the same thing and put them in jars and use a break bleeder? mm just wondering.
Blanching first does two things. One, it cleans the veggies very well. Two, it stops enzymes which can make the flavor, color, and texture of vegetables different than we are used to.
@@GardenCityHomestead Cool. I am definitely going to try that the next time we get some. Here lately every time we cook the frozen asparagus it comes out all mushy and then no one wants to eat it lol lol lol.
Hi! I am a new sub that came over from Two Family's Monday Night live. It is wonderful how many mature fruit trees you have on your property. Lots of flowers and space for vegetables. When I saw the title of the video I had to watch. I live in Chicago so we still have snow or frozen ground in March. lol Best of luck with your homestead and channel. I will be looking forward to catching up on your videos and watching your progress. 😊Francine
That is going to look beautiful once those plants take hold ang grow to fill in the whole area. Also getting everything on sale makes it even better. Thank you for sharing.
