In these type of videos it shows the incredible love y'all have for each other and how much y'all enjoy spending time with each other and having seen y'all in busy busy seasons and this more of a relaxed season taking a year of rest it just seems so much like a year or rest and reconnecting and less stress it is lovely
Hi you two, and Happy Mother’s Day. Not to worry you, but Norway Spruce gets 25 to 30 feet wide at maturity, and up to 60 feet tall. Because they are one if the fastest growing evergreens, you would be wise to give your spruces plenty of room. It is really tempting to plant trees for the size they are today, not the size they will become. “Norway spruces grow to heights of 40-60 feet, with a spread of around 25-30 feet - make sure to consider the size of the tree and do not plant this tree in close proximity to buildings or underneath overhead utilities.” We planted one 20 years ago and gave the tree 15 feet from the center of the trunk to the edge of a shrub border, and it has grown to the very edge. Because what was sunny is now in shade, the shrub border needs heavy pruning now to allow the spruce enough sun. It is also next to an oak tree, and we need to do some pruning on the oak tree to give the spruce the sun it needs. Just FYI, so you can measure to make certain you have enough space for sun all the way around. I’ve always heard the best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago! Hugs to you and your trees.
Happy Mothers Day Rachel. We have pines that my husband planted. He likes pine’s because it’s the only tree that’s green in the winter. He feels that all the other trees look dead during the winter.
I love the topic "how-to" specific videos as well as these blog "what we did this week" or "dinner with Q&A" type videos, y'all are wonderful and happy to watch whatever you are able to share. Even with these blog style, it's both fun and informative. 💚 Hope Rachel and Todd's mom had a wonderful Mother's Day!
The very first video I saw from you guys was a couple of years ago and I subscribed immediately. The video was of Rachel walking through the yard early morning picking pears; no chatting, no fan-flare, just the simplicity and peace of nature. I loved it! This video, though a bit different, reminded me of that moment. It's the videos like these that keep me coming back. A couple of months ago, I commented that your videos had become a bit boring, but I am seeing the change. The spark is coming back. Thank you!
I love these videos where we just hang out with you guys! I’m so glad you are getting your plant/garden fix Rachel even though you aren’t doing a veggie garden!
I got flowers and plants too for my front porch for Mother’s Day. It made me so happy to be doing my annual porch clean up and potting of my spring and summer flowers yesterday. I am determined to fertilize and water them regularly and keep them alive longer than a month!
I wish you a happy happy Mother’s Day! Your children are so blessed to have such an amazing woman as their mama, confidant & friend. I hope you had a blessed day ❤❤❤❤
Lovely Mothers Day video, Todd and Rachel. Honoring the greatest Mother of all by planting trees as well as sharing the treating of Rachel and Todd’s mother. ❤
Todd if you want privacy, look up cedrus deodara. Incredible cedar that black walnut won't kill or sicken. Ours was about 40 ft apart between trunks. You stager the trim only on last two bottom rows about every 5 to 10 years. It saved our roof years ago from tornado winds. Just beautiful..
What a transformation of that area! Love seeing the before photos for comparison! Love the idea of perennials every year for Mothers day so that's becoming a thing round here....😅 great video!
Love watching you plant all the new trees, you are making your sweet homestead even more beautiful! The birds and little critters will be so happy. ❤️🌲🌳
I've been missing trees around my house, you just made me think, I'm gonna take a walk on my 12 acres & dig me up some saplings to plant close to home.
This is my favorite style of vlog. It was fun watching your time together! P.S. we live in Washington State and have 8 gorgeous Douglas Fir trees. I love seeing trees planted. It hurts me to see trees come down, even when necessary. Happy Mother’s Day Rachael! 🌲💗🌷
Beautiful Mother’s Day Video! Loved seeing all the tree planting! A lot which are native here in our Northwest! Beautiful flowers! So fun to buy flowers in the spring and to see the trees growing so elegantly! This reminds me of planting trees with my dad! Happy Mother’s Day!
When I was a child, we lived in France and they did grow fields of dandelions. My mother bought a seed packet of dandelion seeds to prove it. You should make some dandelion jelly. It is apparently the thing right now.
I planted a perimeter of Spruce and pines around my 1850 farmhouse as well. Privacy and protection from the weather outsiders are very important. Enjoy.
Our property was purchased new in 1853. Our relatives use to put old pottery and things down the outhouses. We thankfully know where the outhouses were so we aren’t digging that stuff out.
I love these types of vlogs. Makes me feel as if I can make this happen. Praying God will give me land because we promised God to never go into debt ever again. Want put of this city so bad. Thank you for sharing with us ]. God's blessing to you and yours
That groundcover with the light leaves looks like an ajuga. If you bought something to propagate, ohhh boy, that is a winner, lol. I bought 6 plants 3 years ago and it is now a hundred foot border on our fence, a 2 foot deep ring around 4 large trees, a spilling plant in pots, and solidly covers an area 3' x 10' where I dig it to transplant in my shady areas. If you want to cut down on the decorative mulch you have to buy, this fills in really nice.
Hope you had a nice Mother's Day!!! Eight planters and baskets full of flowers and ofc we have a frost warning tonight😢 Typical .. Hope you got spoiled🌷🌼🌻
Pines are beautiful and add visual interest and variety to the landscape. Plus they’re evergreen and green in the winter when everything else is brown and dormant. I don’t understand why someone would ask that kind of question 🤨
You can dry dandelion plants and make tea out of it. You can make jelly out of the petals and I'm sure there are more ways to use it. Eat the flowers in salad.
Happy Mothers Day Rachel! Nice to see someone else loves trees as much as us! I wonder if those clay shards were from very old drainage tile? If found similar looking shards here.
Hi Rachel and Todd. Love watching all your videos. We are empty nest, grand parents too. I garden in my yard in northern Virginia. My son’s family moved to Michigan about a year ago, and they just had another baby boy. So we are traveling to Michigan in June, We we’re hoping we could meet you while we’re there. I hope that’s not creepy, but we feel like you and Todd are friends already.
Boy have I missed you guys been taking a break & trying to get things done, haven't really accomplished much. I hope you had an awesome mother's day Rachel. Well time to catch up on your videos, guess I've only missed 2.
Such a great video! I struggle with planting perennials, not knowing where they should go. I love that you dig them up and move/divide them up, all over the property. I never realized it was just that easy to move perennials.
Love watching and you planting all the trees. I loved seeing your Shrimp Plant. I got my mom one for Mother's Day because my MawMaw used to raise them in Southwest Louisiana. They were her favorite. Happy Mothers Day to you.
I also have a jug of copper to spray my trees with. Unopened. Kept saying later. Then fall and winter just flew by. Perhaps you will remind me to make time this fall/winter. 😂 Most of what I watch on RU-vid, outside of how to fix machine part A entangled with item B stuff, is a few people doing their homesteading activities. Aka, vlogs. Whatever that happens to be for them, at whatever time in their year or life. It's like visiting friends, finding ideas, inspiration, and seeing other areas of the country. Or world. Such as random property soil, not garden soil, where a regular shovel just goes right in! All the way to the top! *Faints* (We use mattocks here.) Eating and reacting to spruce tips. Capturing bee swarms. Flowers or trees in various stages. Cooking, canning, livestock, and eventually back to include gardening. Possibly a fun summer during this year of garden rest (which is something I've not seen before), showing what volunteered. There are two main problems I've seen with people doing hodge podge, vlog videos. First is knowing what was in them, later. Or even if you want to watch that particular one. I've avoided videos with titles that didn't interest me, because I thought the title was all the video contained. Important to add all the backend tags for searching, and I adore what you all did with the segments. In case some part of that I just didn't have an interest or time right then for. Second issue I've heard is injury, or some other issue, causing a halt in lugging around whatever filming setup. Third issue I don't see talked about much, but can really drag down a good content segment, is certain microphones and livestock electric fencing don't always get along in recorded sound. Something to think about with the potential one day cows. Would have loved to see more growing glimpses on each of the pigs of different breeds you all raised, or even the chickens. Your goats, or your daughters goats were beautiful, and I think most people enjoyed seeing little tidbits of them. Like added at the end of say a produce canning video, or harvest video, as they eat the trims. Tripod segment so you don't accidentally feed the camera to the pigs. Not sure if your current mics would make that more of a chore to film and edit then it should be. Turning off the fence isn't always a good idea, or easy, before filming a segment. Music fill isn't as satisfying, but better than nothing if low volume music. A wired mic is supposed to get around that problem, but I'd look into any upgrade purchase carefully beforehand.
Pine trees need LOTS of water! The more water the bigger they get. We have many pines on our property and it’s AMAZING how big they have gotten 🥳🥳🩷 LOVE the video !! More please😁😁😁
We love spending time with yawl. We have been doing random weekend video's as well on our channel and it's fun to just show folks what we do. Love the pine trees. God Bless.
