You should start a compost bin, and rain water barrel. While you wait for your compost you can crush up egg shells and add them to your garden. It will add the nutrients your veggies need 😊
I think it would be lovely for each of the kids to have a garden they plant and look after as well. It doesn't need to be big just something for each of them.
I love your vlog! My dad was stationed in Fairbanks. He was in the army. He married my mom and she left Virginia to be with him. I was born in Fairbanks. They are passed on and your vlogs helps me to feel close to them. Thank you
My husband mowed the lawn yesterday about 2pm... we had 4 inches of wet heavy snow this morning. Here in Ohio we can have all 4 seasons in one day. I surely hope Mother Nature is done now.
Hello Happy Peop!les and Somers Family from a very sunny, dry and hot Macon, GA! It reached 72 today. Hope everyone is doing well. Sending you all love, prayers and blessings!
We were able to get an outside boiler a couple years ago. It has been much better than using our fireplace heater. Also, no use of our propane during the winter. Our house stays much cleaner too. So glad you are also seeing spring weather.
Yep, Jess you always have an extra pep in your step or extra cheerful when it warms up or you get to see your whole family. Definitely interested in seeing your garden process, from getting the soil ready, to what you plant & what it takes to grow things. God Bless!
Hello happy peoples...NE Ohio got 5-8 inches of snow last night! So fun to watch Somers family spread joy and happiness to all! Blessings to you and your family 🙏
Thank you for the videos. I love watching them because I’m from Fairbanks but my husband is military and we moved in December so it’s nice to see home.
Hi Bert, I married into a logging/sawmill family in northern Michigan. Spring thaw was always an iffy time to truck the logs to the sawmill. Usually trucked extra to stockpile before the thaw hit. The woods crew worked on cutting & piling oaks during that time. They had a harvester for the pines, but used a chainsaw to cut/trim the oaks during the thaw downtime.
Yes, please share all the gardening content!! I’m so fascinated by growing in Alaska with all that summer daylight! I do as much gardening as I can on our tiny city lot here in Seattle, and love seeing how others grow in their locale. Good luck! 💗🌱🪴🌷
Happy Wednesday, Somers. I hope you’re having a good, safe day. I see that the snow is melting a lot after having that record breaking snowstorm. I’m glad you’re having some warm temperatures. Just wait until Summer. I hope you Somers stay safe during spring. Continue on your road on getting that Giant Gold Play Button.💕⭐️💕⭐️
Must have been hot up there today, because we had snow in Central Kentucky this morning. 😂 I’d love to see you guys do some garden vlogs. It would be cool to see an Alaska growing season.
I live in Maine and heat exclusively with wood- have a cook woodstove for the main part of the farmhouse and a fireplace in my bedroom- takes about 10 cord per winter season- I love it- it's cozy and i dont have to worry about power outages- i love your channel- thanks for sharing!
We got 4 inches of snow here in indiana. We have had record cold temps. We were all complaining and I just kept thinking about you guys. I couldn’t deal with the weather like you guys. God bless
G'day from Melbourne Australia! As always I find your content interesting, informative and enjoyable. My mum had a huge green thumb and we had the most amazing fruit and vegetables growing up ... nothing beats homegrown vegies!
Would love to see your garden process. I have found that utilizing old tires work well for the gardening. They hold the heat and allow my plants,that like the heat, to produce sooner and longer in the season.
My husband is a trucker, in the springtime one of the provinces he goes to is Quebec, they have the "De Gel" , it is a period of time when their loads are cut in half because of the ground thawing from the the winter snow load, it is meant to help keep their highways in a better condition so that less road works need to be done in the summer months. In New Brunswick we have a similar seasonal weather pattern and snow load but don't have the same restrictions. It's interesting considering you can drive from the Quebec border through the entire province of New Brunswick in about 6 hours.
So glad that the snow is melting. I’m glad that there is progress on the new property despite the big snow storm. I’m excited to see what is going with Alaskan apparel.
Burt plowing... 😆😆🤣 yaaay for garden and new build progress! Gosh Audrey looks so grown! Yes, would love to see the garden process! Yikes - the heating bills... 🙁 and you two are so cute!
The most satisfying sight, is a full, stacked wood pile. The saddest sight is a nearly depleted wood pile. We still remember those days 15 years ago and don't miss them.
Yessss please vlog all the things about the garden. Can't wait to see it! Hope that the kids also will plant something so they can see it grow and then later eat. 👌🥕🥔🥦🥬🥒
I love hearing about your weather, snow and temperature. It is so different here in Melbourne, Australia. A very cold day would be 10 F. It would be the standout conversation about how cold it is. Our average hot day is 100 F. And can get hotter in different places, like 130 F. I’d love to know more about your daylight hours 😊
Great video Somer's LaFamilia!! As a fellow Alaskan, I'm right there with ya on the "WooHoo's" for Summer!!! 👗☀️😎⭐🇺🇸🎉🙌🌷🕊️🐶Soooo much to do, see, and explore, we just don't know where too begin!! Haha 😂 Yes please do some gardening videos, I'm all for it. The property looks FunTastic and ohhhhh boy did that " Soup 🍲 " look Yummy 😋 for the soul!! Great job in bringing your heating bill down, VERY nice!! The next one will be EVEN lower 😉 right? Loved the 26:49 minute video, it "still" went by fast!!🤔 I'm ready for 50 minute videos from y'all!!!👏😁 I didn't mind a bit!! Okie dokie... Well, I'm off to see my Grandkiddos!!! Y'all and all "Happy Peoples" have a beautiful, blessed day!! Ciao ciao 😚❤️
Number 1 thing you can do to lower the heating costs in AK is insulate and put in arctic entries. Even triple pane glass is no comparison to either cheap foam or duct board or even cardboard or a blanket over a window, especially up in Fairbanks!
I did a garden several years ago and harvested 2 $120 cucumbers and a $50 tomato lol. So I decided to do farmer market. Of course it was closed last year, so I did tomato plants on pots on my porch. And yes, would enjoy following the garden plans. Im not aware of any load restrictions here in Indiana. But you can go swimming in our potholes. Enjoy the movie!!
I feel you on the no ice roads! I rolled my Jeep Liberty on her side in February and totaled her! I hit black ice! Doing 20 miles an hour in North Iowa in white out conditions! I really hate winter anymore! And driving in it and Polar Vortexes!!!!!!!!! Just despise them!!!! I had just paid my Jeep off! Yes we sometimes have restrictions when it freezes too deep. Especially after polar Vortexes! North Iowa gets your presents a lot lately! It causes a lot of frost boils to our roads and land. Manure is good for gardens! And some sand helps too! Where you plant your potatoes! The sand.
You can save an insane amount on the heating bill with a wood burning boiler. With 5000 sq ft on 3 levels with all walls being brick it holds the heat. Gosh, wish I had a Costco here as well. All the best to you all from the Czech Republic
Central Florida our soil is sand, drains real well, but no nutrients. I decided to only plant local edible plants that grow in sand. Never knew there was so many different edibles in central Florida. HELLO HAPPY PEOPLE EVERYWHERE !!!
Moving to Alaska this summer and am unable to do my vegetable garden for the first time in years. I feel like something is wrong because my body and brain are used to doing it lol. Can’t wait for next year when I garden in AK for the first time! Looking forward to seeing you do it to get some tips!
You asked about road restrictions. We have them here in Maine. Trucks over a certain GVW are prohibited from certain roads and streets for 2-4 weeks every spring, depending on how quickly things dry up. The street we live on is one in our town.
I mix up some banana peel and egg shells with water in the blender. I add it to my soil and mix it up. My veggies seem to like it. Once, it even made a plant flower that had never bloomed anything before. 😃
I appreciate that you clarified load restrictions. The closest thing we'd have to that here in Houston, Texas would be on bridges. We're more likely to have load weight restrictions DURING a freeze, and when the weather warms back up we are back to normal.
Construction lumber costs have increased 180% since last year here in the Lower 48. It is a terrible time to build. Jessica are those new glasses? You look so pretty in them. Loved the video. God bless.
Put a can of sardines in water at the base of each plant you plant. Throw some ground coffee on top so that it drowns out the smell and does not attract animals. You've got some natural fertilizer. Have fun gardening.
the close out was priceless.. there was no beep at the end either. the spill threw everyone off script... priceless.. have a happy day HAPPY PEOPLES, God Bless
Hello somers family and happy peoples ,we tend to grow our own vegetables every year, always try and plant them by mid may at the latest ,still getting frost here at the moment . Great video as always .
I like your building project especially the septic system. We had sand mounds in PA. I had a bear living in it one winter and groundhogs in the summer. Sand mounds not a good thing yours seems better. Also in PA we planted after Memorial Day. Have fun my garden in MS is planted. I have flowers on my cucumber plants, roses blazing in bloom.
Same. Husband is a Jack of all, can do anything, from auto body work (won car shows with his paint jobs but retired from that ie paint is bad for you) pile driver business, install and manufacture gates and yet I remain without a good gate, siding for the house, yada yada. It’s okay Bert! Jessica you’ll get it.
Reflective mylar in your outside wall crawlspace would also help. Since you're in HVAC, you can get it wholesale and you'd get equal cost/return. Even aluminum foil would work.
I love any video you put out, you are my roll models in life and each time I get a notice of a new video I get a smile on my face each time thank you Somers for making a difference in our world 💗
I am glad you didn't have any sustained super cold days and the wood heat helps keep every comfortable! Time to start harvesting some of those trees to firewood from the new shop build.
Here in southern Michigan we are under a freeze warning for the 2nd night in a row but it's going to get back into the 60s this weekend. We had snow on everything this morning which was gorgeous! My mom lives across Ohio State line and she had 4in. Summer is on its way!
I do small gardens. I put fertilization soil peat most good soil and mix. You can use cardboard to stop alot of bugs plus in around plants do marigold flowers and basely and few herbs. They are going to keep bugs and mosquitoes away. I am in Texas .
It’s really hard to find firewood here, but then again it is central FLORIDA! My dad’s garden just grows 24/7/365 with only a few freeze worries per year that usually don’t affect a thing. You take your 50 degrees, I’ll enjoy my low 80s and occasional 90 with higher electric bills for AC.
im planning to plant a garden this year too! My folks always had one when i was a kid and still do, I'm not much of a green thumb person but want to give it a shot! starting small and simple too so hopefully that will benefit me as well. planning on Sweet potatoes and red potatoes, onions, cucumbers, roma tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, and possibly rabishes and herbs. waiting to plant after Mother's day, in Nebraska i think that's a save time for no more snow. since it's snow twice this week.
