Thank you so much for making RU-vid videos! I don’t love social media but you are one of the few accounts I keep my Instagram for! I truly appreciate the effort this takes and adore your moming, Christian living and homesteading!
My dad used bushel baskets of sand for beets and carrots. in the root cellar. He would spray them with a bit of water if they started drying out. They lasted all winter....
When you harvest thru the summer, harvest in a way that thins out your carrots so they can have more room to grow wider and won't strive to grow longer...the wider carrots store better for the winter...
I sure enjoy your videos, thanks for posting them! I was in need of a "Homesteading with the Zimmerman's fix" and decided to check out some older videos. 😂I hope you see this comment, it may be of help to you (or perhaps not) & so I am taking the time to tell you. I live in Alberta Canada, so we have long & cold winters and there is not much I hate more than store bought carrots! Not even the organic ones taste good to me! I pickle a lot & do pressure can some jars as well. However, eating them fresh is my favorite way, so I have tried multiple suggestions to get them to last into the new year. I have found a couple of ways that work for my family. Although I try to stay away from plastic as much as I can, you have to pick your battles, as the saying goes:). I dislike store bought carrots even more than I dislike using plastic for long term storage. As I pull carrots from the garden, they are sorted & the keepers immediately go into cold water. They are cleaned and each end cut off with the scraps going to the horses. Then you can either place them into veggie or produce ziploc bags (these are large ziplocs with teeny tiny holes throughout) with 2 pieces of "select a size" paper towel & store them in the fridge. Or you can put them into clean 4L plastic ice cream pails & store in the fridge. I also add paper towel to the ice cream buckets to help with moisture, then remove the shelves from the fridge & stack the pails in the fridge. I was eating carrots from last years garden in June & July this year. They will often need to be peeled prior to eating, but most of them still taste great and are still crispy. You do get some that don't taste good and those go to the horses, but the majority store well. It's just an option for you, but I can't help but feel there are likely other reasons you are not storing over winter & that is just fine:)
OH after you compost the garden put tarps over it and let that stand over winter…Make sure to put some logs or rocks along edges to hold down….then you have fed your garden and will not have weeds. Blessings.
Hi Ruth Ann. I just found your channel and I love everything about it. Garden, Family, Farm, Animals & cooking. Thank you for all your hard work creating & sharing with us! QUESTION... if you don't mind sharing your secret to such gorgeous carrots. We are in East TN and have hard rocky clay soil. So I started trying to grow in our raised bed (Garden circle beds) I did put a little sand in the raised bed soil and some peat to keep it airy. Also, I used the method of covering the seeds after sowing so they don't dry out. I'm just not having any luck. I've seen your soil----I'm so jealous 😉😉🧡🧡 Thank you!
Just wondering for those of us who are heading impaired could you wear a mike 😁even with volume as high as it will go I couldn't hear most BUT I Truly enjoyed watching.. Blessings ❤️
Do you trim your raspberry plants down close to the ground after they stop producing fruit? Someone advised me to do that and I don't know if that was good advise.
You say that you posted your video early, but it is not what was supposed to be in the collaboration. Coleslaw is NOT JAM! And it was supposed to be a recipe using the jam in a different way. What about the gift cards? You make no mention of themin your video. I feel cheated.
