🐐❤️🐐Alert!!! Y’all make sure to stay ‘til the very end of the video! Spoiler Alert… Baby Goat Update!!! Preciousness Overload, Just Ahead!!! ❤️🐐❤️ Heather, you’re so very smart! I appreciate your common sense, realistic approach to your content! So much more valuable than ‘pie in the sky’ notions of grandeur I see on other channels! I learn so much from you! Thank You!!! ❤️❤️❤️
@@SageandStoneHomestead That IS a big Ditto > TaterFarm >> "Heather, you’re so very smart! I appreciate your common sense, realistic approach to your content!....etc.etc.etc." I could not have said it better.
Our girl is about to hit 40k ❤ This lady has worked hard! Well deserved 🎉 We’ve had a 2 frost back to back. My first time fall garden is hanging in there. Hoping slightly warmer temps (lows in the 40-50s) this week will result in bigger hardier plants for the next cold snap. Happy to report I got my first deer of the season - a buck that will provide lots of meat for the freezer. Wishing everyone successful harvests in whatever you’re doing!
I can't say enough how I love the content of your channel, learning from your experience and how you keep it positive. So many channels are turning to negative and fear mongering to get views and you are a breath of fresh air. Thank you!
Your videos bright my day up. Life is so hard rn, so many problems but you keep me smiling when i see your video. Thanks for giving me some relief. Much love from Norway.
Your garden is so lovely ! The fall garden looks great ! It's been the year of the pests this year in Texas so not much going on except my passion flower tunnel with my hammock in it . I highly recommend . Lots of fun bee activity. The baby goats are adorable
Wooohoo, celebration of getting all the beds built, filled, and planted before first frost and in time for a lovely full hightunnel! So happy to see them all laid out beautifully! Congrats Heather! Wonderful tour of all of the things, glad the frost didn't hit too hard this round, means just a wee bit more enjoyment before the switchover. Key Lime trees all nestled in nicely in the shed, looking great. Thunder and Lightning showing off their springs with Gollum, hopefully they'll all be bouncing around together shortly. Thank you for a great end to a super busy day, lots of smiles and happiness. 💚💚
Its nice when the winter comes in with ease. It doesn't shock everything too badly! If we go from hot down to a hard freeze even frost tolerant things can die because the change was not gradual! I love this gradual ease!! Wish it happened more often both going into winter and going into summer!
Thank you so much for sharing your garden with us! I was so shocked to see my tomatoes and pepper plants alive and well after the heavy frost. Especially the second morning, when the frosty fields looked like snow on the ground! I convinced myself the plants were just somehow protected by the house being so close by. I am glad to know I wasn't just imagining what I experienced!😂 Your new Fall garden looks amazing!! All of your hard work and preparation really shows! I wouldn't write off your lettuce mix just yet. Lots of the red variety look to be a bit camouflaged with your mulch. I think you may be surprised once a little more growth happens. Those babies are precious! Thanks for including a snippet of the cuteness! Have a great weekend and stay safe!!🙏❤🇺🇸
Another gardener in Elkton KY had the same experience as us! Frost all over the ground but the garden was fine! Kinda crazy, I've never seen that before.
Thanks for the great garden tour. I can’t believe all of the loofah that you got to grow! I’ve been trying to grow loofah for three years this year. I got the closest I’ve ever been because I got a flower! 😂 baby goats are looking amazing. They are just so cute when they play with you.❤
Everything looks great. Yea, I walked outside first thing this morning and noticed the frost on top of our vehicles, but didn't notice any damage done to the plants either. Also, was awesome to see the baby goats finding their springs and being playful with Gollum. So stinking cute.
Great garden video! It looks lovely. And those baby goats!!!! Oh my, bucklings always seem to be sweeter than doelings ( at least as kids and before they get stinky! )
🌬 > Talk about Bizarre > No Frost Yet! > in SSM > Northern Ontario, Canada > across the Bridge from the U.P. of Michigan > 807 miles North of you! Harvested the last of our Tomatoes, a week ago. Outside (no high tunnel) from our Greenstalk. Your Gardens / High tunnel looks amazing Heather. Thanks for sharing. ~ Lori
Wow, Heather! You still have a garden after two frosts. Amazing! The weather in southeast Texas has been bipolar! Two nights ago , the highest was 48 degrees. We still go up on the high 90th and it's driving me nuts , my peas are taken a beat over it ! I keep replanting, so is my carrots! I wonder 🙄
It happened again after a third night of frost! Crazy to me, I've never had that happen! We are heating back up too for a couple weeks so that's fun! So sorry the temps fluctuating is messing with your peas and carrots!
The greenhouse is looking fantastic! It’s so weird to me that we are just getting our first frost tonight. Our frost date was supposed to be the 5th. The babies are so cute! They look big beside their sweet mama! Gollum looked like he was trying to figure out where they came from lol.
Ok... Hear me out lol. I wonder if you could use the spinach berries to dye the rabbit fur you are turning into pom-poms. Special edition purple hats? LOL
We had a frost warning also on the 16th. We are also in a low spot of our homestead. So far so good the ladies didn't came back into heat from being covered my the buck they have been running with. One more to see then we are ultrasound next month. I can't wait for our babies to hit the ground mid February. Thank you for sharing. Till next time God Bless.
@@SageandStoneHomestead yes I thought boy I want to see you goat butchering video as I have talked my husband in keeping two for us to butcher if we have enough Bucklings born. Your welcome Heather it will be my pleasure being a member.
I'm not sure is you have frost fabric or a light garden sheet you could drape over the beds, but I have found that is the best way to get good germination with least effort. they hold the moisture in but still breathe, just a week or until I see them begin to sprout. just sow the seeds water them in and cover then wait.
yaaaay i saw my name finally on the list! what an awesome update an the boys are so hecking CUTE. i saw someone who used their lofa as a bedding in the nesting area for their chickens an they say it works super well! might be an idea too since you have so much!
That's such a smart idea about the luffa nesting pad! I think I saw Bre Ellis do that, she is awesome. Thanks so much for becoming a member, great to have you!
@@SageandStoneHomestead happy to be a part of the community you're the first person i ever did a memebership with! your videos are just fantastic an ive learned a lot with your garden stuff that i look forward to my next spring grow season (im cleaning out my sunroom so im not doing anything for fall/winter this year)
What a blessing to see a healthy green garden that didn't all die back as expected! It is one more reminder to just enjoy it while it lasts and maybe the seasons aren't quite as predictable, according to the calendar at least! And THANK YOU for adding in the new bucklings' "springs testing" and meeting Gollum! And by the way, that jar of multicolored cherry tomatoes is a work of art - What was thought to be the last taste of summer. One last thing I forgot to mention earlier - HOORAY to having ALL the beds assembled and amended AND planted before your 1st frost with lots and lots of frost-tolerant/frost hardy crops! Y'all might be "sick of brassicas" by the end of it all, but full bellies with home-grown food is the absolute best.
We usually start some brassicas around Christmas to put out in February and harvest in May, still deciding if I want to do that but we will just have to see!! We love cole crops so much.
I have not grown a lot of different kales but the dwarf curly kale has impressed me with its hardiness. in my large 20gal pots they were the only thing to get past -10c or 14f sustained for 3 days. I believe the variety is prizm. They will stay short too a good thing for pots like me or raised beds like you. highly recommend trying it.
All 3 babies being boys is sad. Stormy's baby with all the white really should've been a little girl. Sighhhh Great video as always Heather! 💜👍💜 Aunt Beth
I did a few let me see if I can link one where I do something like that :) A lot of the beds I layered bagged soil, then goat barn cleanout, more soil, some Trifecta plus fertilizer and mushroom compost. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pRqUWQ0IIns.html
I planted tiny Tim tomatoes about a month and a half ago I’m hoping they will produce before it gets too cold! They are in a small stackable planter and I guess I can move it if need be.
Oooo I wanna try that loofah trick! I wonder how helpful it could be in a desert climate. Edit: I wonder if you could mix in bits of wool to compost to keep soil wet Edit 2: yall really gotta look up using wool in the garden, its amazing
Yes they are! I have not grown this variety into the fall before but most peas will handle a good frost and freeze very well, some will bounce back from the teens!!
Hi Heather!👋 Do you happen to remember where you got those blue hoops that hold up your row covers in your raised beds? The only ones I can find on Amazon are the kind that you piece together and I’d worry that they weren’t very sturdy but those blue ones look like they’re all one piece.
@@SageandStoneHomestead Oh Wow I never thought of that. If I didn’t find out I was just going to buy a bunch of hula hoops to see if they would work😅 Thanks!🤗
The seed I saved last year was not stable and we did not get the correct melon consistently so next year I need to plant F2 seed again and far away from other melons!
I have these two kale plants in individual pots. I believe they're just some basic curly kale. They were given to me as seedlings. They have been continuously produced since February this year and continue to do so! I'm actually wishing it would go to seed so I can plant them next year, but I'm beginning to think they never will. Have you ever had a kale plant produce for that long and never go to seed?
Yes the kale variety I grew in spring was very heat tolerant, it was also a curly leaf kale! I never got to harvest seed because of bugs eating the plant but curly kale is a powerhouse!
@SageandStoneHomestead I've some how been lucky this year and the bugs have barely touched the kale and now that it's cooling off I see no evidence of any bugs happening at all. I'll take it where I can, lol.
I have never heard of this toxic squash you talk about. Weird. However there are 6 species of Cucurbita. Generally they cannot cross between species, but different varieties within a species can so you might get weird things that way. Rarely there are crosses between two species and in general they only happen because someone did the cross on purpose. .....Oh babies! You are so cute, they look about the same size as the stuffed animals at the store ;-)
Good Morning Heather. Are you willing to share 2 loofah seeds? Someone sent me some, but they weren't loofah. I'm in Coastal Georgia. Pls let me know your charge for the seeds, if you can send them. Thank you.
It hurts my heart to know you compost good produce. It could be donated to the food bank or shelter. Just to put it in compost pile is very selfish. Just my opinion.
This food exists because I planted it. Remember I run a homestead, homeschool four children, cook and preserve food from scratch, and this youtube channel is a full time job taking up 40 hours a week of my time to manage. I simply don't have the extra time to harvest food and transport it to other people, and having others here to harvest is an insurance liability. My contribution to community is teaching people how to grow food both in person and here on RU-vid. I feel great about that. It's completely fine to not completely stretch myself thin emotionally and physically to preserve every last bit. Composting our extra produce means we have to rely much less on outside inputs to keep our farm running. And we can use those extra funds, not spent on subpar compost from other facilities, to help support nonprofit 501C3's like The Ya'll Squad who bring much needed food and supplies to storm victims like with Hurricane Helene. We don't grow food for the public. We grow it for ourselves and what we do here impacts community plenty.
