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Your husband’s always so sweet, kind and affectionate to you. Reminds me of my late husband.

I wish you would post more often...you are sooooo fun to watch and we learn so much from yall doing the work inside and outside!! Hope you are all doing well!! Hurry and come back healthy to us on here!! 🙂

I love all of your videos Valerie! Your family is so sweet and Tim is one in a zillion! However I have a request. I noted that you are going to start to feed the hummingbirds. This is wonderful! They will appreciate the nectar from he feeder in your beautiful yard! BUT…please note. Metal feeders like the one you chose are pretty…BUT the metal where the hummingbird sits can get extremely cold in inclement weather. Hummingbirds have literally had their little feet frozen to the area where they would sit, and some have had their beaks frozen to metal flowers. This means death. I have ONE metal feeder that I only put out when the weather is warm. All of my other 14 feeders are made of bird safe plastic with glass storage for the nectar. I keep my feeders impeccably clean, and refresh the nectar frequently. ALSO…PLEASE re-think purchasing and using the pre-made nectar solutions. I know they make things easier, but they really aren’t good for the birds! You can make your own! Use CANE sugar (NEVER beet sugar) like C&H at a ratio of 1 part sugar to 4 parts of water. STIR and BOIL on the stove for at least 15 minutes. Allow to cool overnight or when it’s completely cool to the touch. It is SO MUCH better than anything you could buy. And never add any type of coloring to the nectar. It’s not needed and could harm the birds. 🌺

Hi Valerie your such a lovely couple sharing all the work thats the way me and my husband have always worked 54 years and in our 70s thats still the case you have a lovely home and with all your hard work its all you deserve x

You should fill the bottom half of the bed with scrap wood and branches to cut down on the amount of soil needed.

Love a big porch with swings and rockers...adds another room to the home.

I have rheumatoid arthritis and I walk like you do and also have a lot of trouble getting off the ground so I can just imagine the pain you have,which makes the amount you do all the more impressive.❤

On raised beds I’ve noticed people fill the bottom 1/3 to 1/2 with biodegradable materials such as small logs, branches, cardboard, any materials that you can put in a composting pile. Then they use wood chips and mulch and then the soil. That is how my hubby does his. It saves on the amount of soil you have to bring in and it makes rich soil as that composts. Also if there are not any earth worms in your soil, you may want to buy some. They make great soil! I’m sure your boys can dig some up around the farm if they haven’t dug them all up for fishing already. I hope y’all’s garden produces an abundance of vegetables. I hope you can also have enough to can so you have homegrown through the winter. We do a lot of tomatoes for canned diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, pasta sauce, tomato juice to use in recipes or even drink and salsa. I make relish and pickles. God bless all of you!

It’s such a blessing that Tim loves gardening too. My husband always preps our raised beds and he is in charge of planting potatoes and carrots ( he plants them meticulously). I get to do tomatoes inside a hothouse and other crops such as zucchini and other squashes, peas and green beans, garden towers on deck with salad fixings, deck rail boxes with radishes and tiny carrots and peas…things that are fun to pick by grandkids. I also turned my flower pots into strawberry pots. They are attached to our deck posts. This keeps them away from our chickens and goats.

If y'all have seeds to put in ground use a PVC pipe to put in the ground..drop seed .it'll be easier on your backs.then cover w dirt water.

Wow that is nice and healthy pantcies❤❤

You should take some black and white photos of the barn and the mountains to hang in your home, it’s such a beautiful view.😊

The flowers look beautiful!

Hello Valerie and Tim and Family. It's the most exciting thing in my life that you are at the top of the mountain now. You are amazing and spectacular. I have enjoyed your videos along your journey I hope you are feeling better and resting. That's very important to get your strength back. I have MS and I'm 71 yrs old. But I always think positive since the day I was born. I want you to remember this, enjoy your journey it is a gold mine. Everything you touch in this lifetime you make it so beautiful for people to enjoy. your wonderful craft. You have a loving heart, and we wish you the best forever. Sincerely Jesse and Leslie Dias from Sacramento California. ps. We have a nephew called Rich Barber and a Niece Swirly Curly on RU-vid. They're Nigerian and Mexican and Indian. She worked for Snoopdog and Oprah. Please look them up. We are the great uncle and great aunt. God Bless, Take Care, Smile Get well soon.

❤ I enjoyed your a video. I always enjoy them because of the way you Show your property. It is so beautiful out there. Look, so peaceful. You and Tim have work together. Great. Looks like he loves you and you love him a lot. And you have the cutest little animals, dogs and cats.Great great video

Valerie Tim and the whole family. Happy Easter, I hope you'll have a blessed weekend. Thank you so much. Oh my goodness for everything. I really enjoy watching all your videos. I've been with you since the beginning.❤❤❤

Garden dirt looks great, great video!

Tractor and tiller time for Tim! Have a Blessed Resurrection Sunday!

I love Gardening!!!! there are so many options to Gardening .I have raised beds and do some in ground . Raised beds I have found way more manageable when it comes to weed control. My suggestion I would give to yall is come fall I would put a black tarp down over the ground you just tilled this will help kill all of the weed seeds in the soil.Also you could plant a cover crop. Just never leave your soil bare even in your raised beds . Always use some type of mulch to keep the soil moist . You can use leaves wood chips or straw

You did a fantastic job on assembling the windmill! I honestly don’t think I could have!😂 Glad to hear you are feeling much better and sad to hear that Tim is under the weather, praying for you all 🙏. Love your videos ! I’m always so glad when I see one pop up.❤

Third time to watch your new video. I am so tired after work, and I have fallen asleep and missed it. 🙁 I work twelve and a half hours a day plus travel time. I am definitely looking forward to retirement. January 2025. I want to work more around my property and do what I had at my previous home on a larger scale. Sixty-two dwarf and semi-dwarf organic fruit trees with the exception of the figs. They are big trees. I made sure that I had early, mid-season, and late producing of the same fruit tree. Different varieties. That way, it stretched the growing season, and it was easier to put it up when the fruit came. We ate a lot of fresh fruit, shared, and still were blessed with an over abundance. We had a ten thousand square foot organic in ground garden plus four or five large garden boxes. We also had herbs, berries, and grapes. I also composted. I was so grateful for all of our delicious food. Once established, it was easy. Ten months out of the year, we ate from our yard. We still had a lot of our acre left for our daughters to play on. Boys can eat a lot. I have three young grandsons who love to snack throughout the day. Boys sure are busy. You and Tim have three young men who will definitely benefit from all the yummy treats from your yard. Best wishes on your endeavor. Happy growing!

Hi val and Tim just so you know you can put cardboard leaves and tree branches in the bottom of the raised bed before soil it breaks down and is good for growing great job

I know you will sleep good tonight . Hard work makes hard sleep! Love

After having tons of dirt removed from under my house to get the house leveled, my garden and grass were destroyed. I'm just getting everything back together. Sod is coming this week. Just a suggestion, use the cardboard boxes at the bottom of the bed. The cardboard will biodegrade and keep the weeds down as it does. Or lay the cardboard between the beds and cover with wood chips. Same concept. Tim looked like he was sitting in a boat. So cute.

Hi Valerie, I’ll bet you both slept well that night. Lotta work!! Great job & Great video too. Thank you for all the very hard work you put into making them for us to enjoy. 😉 Watching from Michigan…Kim

I’d place your beds outside of your rich tilled soil. You won’t need that soil for the raised beds and it could give you more space for direct sowing. What a lovely piece of land ❤ I’ve grown the three sisters , corn ,beans, and squash. They are complimentary to each others growth, shade, nitrogen fixing, and ground cover for scorching summer sun. And I live on a city plot in Chicago . Happy planting.

Love the look of a freshly mowed lawn and a freshly❤😊 tilled garden...

I have come across your videos. What an amazing team! You both work so well together and make wherever you are a beautiful home ❤ I have been so impressed and inspired. 😊

Hi Valerie, just wanted to tell you I’m enjoying watching you and Tim working on your homestead and how well it’s coming together. I just want to wish you and your family a very happy Easter.🐣

I love how your husband and you always have a moment of a hug and kiss during tough work, reminds me of my husband in our younger years, now he's more I to dad jokes that aren't really all that funny but I still have a chuckle for him😅, but the kindness is so sweet, I love when he does come up for a hug and kiss just while I'm doing dishes❤

Valerie, You wanted ideas for veggies to plant. I plant bush type green beans. I put them into the ground of our very small garden. Make sure you get the type that are stringless. You have a whole lot of work ahead of you but you will love it when it's all done.

How excited

Valerie; you simply must watch Becky at Acre Homestead! She is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to planting, soil nutrients, etc. She will give you such great advice and help you from conception to harvest. I watch her consistently and I don't even garden :) Thanks for sharing your journey, I enjoy watching you and Tim make over your home.

when my sister lived in va she had hummingbird feeders out on the side of her porch and they were thick they would dive bomb us when we were setting out on the porch it was so great to sit and watch them and all the other birds

That tench at end of bed would be a great place for string beans.

Fantastic valarie to you a d Tim

Valerie and Tim, my late husband loved to plant squash and tomatoes, but our favorites were beans and corn. We only planted White Half Runners. He planted Sjlver Queen corn and yellow for me. We always planted the beans with the corn so it could climb the stalk....3 corn and 2 beans to a hole. I have the same bird pillows on my bed. Love them!

Looks great! Happy Easter to you all 💜

You two are such hard workers....and it shows! Things are really looking great! Just a little tip...when filling hummer feeders I only fill mine maybe about 1/3 full, especially when there are only a few hummers around. That way you won't be wasting so much since it has to be changed quite frequently. And make your own. Boil 4 parts water to one part sugar. Super easy🙂

Good morning Valerie , I just watched your recent video on the above ground gardening. I have done this for several years now, and I started out like Ya'll did. It cost so much money that my husband said that we've got to figure out a less expensive way or just get store bought😢. So this is what we did and saw a bunch of others doing it, too. In the bottom of your container, add sticks /twigs / mulch/ leaves /even that cardboard that the container was in anything organic ,about a 1/4 or 1/2 way to the top. Then add the dirt. Helps with drainage and add that Styrofoam crumbled up to the top soil so it can be aerated. I don't know if you'd already finished, but if you have, maybe next time you plant in container, it could be helpful. Also, add lots of Flowers around for gardening pollination. Friends in the Virginia Mountains.

I live in a mountainous region in eastern Kentucky and I love it. The fall season is so beautiful here. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.. your home place is beautiful..❤

We love seeing the garden coming together! Get some rest.

I enjoy your videos 💕 inside & out 💕 I think the both of you have achieved a lot in such a short time. You & Tim are such a sweet couple 💕 take some time to get feeling better Tim.

Valerie, I just love your channel. Your house, your garden and everything you and your husband do, and have done in it, is so beautiful! The new flores and bedrooms are fantastic! I'm already waiting for the kitchen remodel and the rest of your beautiful home. Seeing your garden is a gift, and step by step they are achieving wonders. Working the land is something that calms the soul. On the other hand, seeing Milo is my special gift, as are your dogs. One fact, cats are special! And only do affection on the head and neck, never on the back . Thank You for sharing your videos, told You thats ur channel is My relaxing place. I'm from Chile by the way. Good bless You and your family ❤

That is such a pretty humming bird feeder, and with the raised garden beds it will be easier on ya'lls back

Hey Valerie and Tim. I know this is very hard work. Great job. Working together is so fun.

When I was a Young girl my dad planted runner greenbeans an made a teepee with a tall wood with lots of string for beans to run up .. We planted carrots Cucumbers green beans Radishes Okra Peas Potatoes Onions Watermelon Corn

Good thing Milo sniffed and ok'd the plants. Now you know your flowers will be a success.

You can also fill part of the raised bed with logs, twigs and dried leaves. The worms like that. Plus less expensive. As the logs decay it creates more soil.

When planting tomatoes, plant basil near because they are companion plants. Basil keeps bugs from your tomato plants and also tastes good together in dishes.

Hi Valerie and Tim. I just wanted to say that you are doing a great job. If you fill the beds with brush and sticks and small logs about 1/2 way you won’t need as much of the mulch. It will all break down over time. This will safe time also. Just a suggestion. I’m looking forward for all of your videos to come 🥰 GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ❤

The raised garden bed is looking good and I can't wait to see what all y'all are gonna plant in it! The flowers, you gotten are pretty. I hope y'all had a Happy Easter! 🙂✝️🌷🐰🌷🐣

I love watching your videos! It’s wonderful living in a place that you love. We live in a small cottage style home in Louisiana. My husband calls it our finisher home. It’s nice and quiet and we have porches on the front and back. I planted tulips on the front porch yesterday.

Great video. The garden beds and the pansies look great. Pansies are one of my favorite flowers.

You could use pieces of tree stumps, branches etc for the base of the garden bed. Then add mulch and soil. Saves $$$

Valerie, please make your own nectar, so much better for the birds and easy (probably cheaper too ) 1:4 sugar/ water ratio. For instance today I wanted to make a small batch- boiled 1/2 cup water, added 1/4 c sugar til dissolved, added another 1/2 cup cold water… ready to go

So excited, I came in from my churches women's group and see one of my favorite RU-vid families posted a video..

The affection between you two always makes me smile 😊. Y'all are just so sweet!

Maybe add some gravel for drainage to your beds. Cardboard, leaves, tree branches, saw dust etc

Love you pets! Have you thought of putting up a high wire/rope between trees, that you could put a big ring on to snap you beagle to, so he could spend more time outside, but still safely controlled. They work great. We always used one when camping, even for our horses. Love the flowers! good luck with your garden! If I had land I would be doing some too.

Not sure you have all the beds built, but that cardboard could be used on the bottom of the beds before the mulch. Eventually it will breakup. The mulch is great for the garden. Get some peat moss to enhance your dirt. The plants will grow faster because the dirt won’t become hard. And of course you may have the beds done. I love gardening. Good luck.

I enjoyed the video very much … all the work the both of y’all done is as you know a lot of work and y’all are probably hurting in places you didn’t know you had … I can’t wait till y’all’s next video . From Georgia.

Hey Valerie and Tim put logs and twigs in the bottom of your beds to about 1/2 way up. The put in your mulch and dirt. You won’t spend as much money. Then each year you can top it off as the logs and mulch decay

Grab a container of some sort they don’t have to be big, but it should have lid on it so you can start saving seed all them mold produce a seed most of all the wildflowers produce a seed If you get some carnations, put them in a spot because carnations will come back every year. Also take a look at some of the great homesteaders like hollered home holler Homestead. I think he’s probably one of the best ones been holler. You can also try JASON from Southerland and of course there’s a lot of good RU-vidrs to teach you how to plant and how to do the potatoes in the onions in the garlic .🌱🌱🌱

Your videos are very motivating! Thank you so much.

You two are the hardest working people I know. Reminds me of my parents years ago.

Lovely to watch hard work but you will reap your rewards when your crops florish.God bless you& your family. 😊😊😊

What a very productive day you two have had!!! Your pansies are so beautiful 😊 I love the bird pillow on your porch!!! Is that from Amazon? Love watching you and Tim. I'll be making my first garden as well this year. My son has a lot of land and we'll be doing it together. At 63 and a cancer patient I'll need a little help from him. Not much though. It will give me such joy to work in the garden. I even ordered garden boots. They are so cute. Yellow with chickens on them !!😂 I'm in Maine and have a few more weeks before I can plant so I'll be watching you and getting tips. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Get some pallets and make some compost bins. They’re very easy and throw all your kitchen scraps your cardboard from Amazon toilet paper rolls I mean a lot can be composted. They don’t even have to be hot hot as usually when you have animals like pigs and cows, but you can compost Cold, compost all kinds of scraps from the kitchen pills from the carrots pills from the onions, the garlic all of that save it and make you some compost it’ll be the best thing ever I have three humongous buckets full of compost made already so I’ve been working the planners and the containers plenty. I have no grass in my backyard so I use a lot of big containers from like trees come in. When you know hotels put a tree in and I use some. I have two or three raised beds, but we made them and they’re deep because I need them to be deeper because I have one has carrots And the other one has a little bit of everything it has some potatoes carrots I have one bed for garlic. I need to make those two extra beds, one for potatoes for succession planting🌱🌱👎🏽

Hi Valerie, love watching your videos. It’s a lot of work but at the end is going to be worth it. Hope you and your beautiful family had a blessed Easter.

Fill the bottom with logs and branches. You won't need as much dirt. It works great.

Can't wait to see your garden done and growing your vegetables! Have a great weekend and Happy Easter to you and your family! 😊❤

You and Tim work so hard together but I love seeing the love between you two. Milo is so happy you found him.

Nice garden

Good job mom and dad 👍🤍👍

My dad was a super gardener...he always planted marigolds on the 4 corners of the garden, as well as in between the raised beds....this helps keep the deer away as they don't like the smell. I'm glad Milo approves of the plants!!! You have such a great place, I love watching it grow with each video. You and Tim are doing a great job!!!

Your porch is always so beautiful. You have inspired me to purchase some hanging baskets for my porch. It's always relaxing to get outside and play in the dirt. Also, the bedrooms look awesome. Hope you have a wonderful Easter. God bless you and your family.

Hi VA neighbor! Sure is pretty up in the mountains! Hope y’all had a great Easter and the homestead is coming along beautifully!

We cant plant anything in Wisconsin until Mother's Day or it could get frozen out. ❤

I have enjoyed this very much and thank you God bless both of you 🙏❤️

There is a small garden in a yard a few miles from my house.They have chicken coop wiring all around it and about 6 feet tall.We have lots of deer here.There are wooden boards at the bottom all around it too.

Your garden is looking good, can’t wait to see all of the raised beds up and planted! Happy Easter!

The flowers you planted look very nice. I can’t wait to plant here. It’s still too cold. We put in a small garden. Tomatoes ,cucumbers, green peppers and green beans . Happy Easter Valerie Tim Granny and the boys 🐰

The next three garden beds would be perfect project for all three boys dirt and mulch too. Tim rides, you direct. I Love where you live wish I was your neighbor. Your both doing a great job but, you must take it easy. Just Beautiful!

Love watching you both work together, you both always make time for a big hug!

Hummingbird food 4 parts water, 1 part cane sugar ..absolutely no honey or other sweetener. Boil and cool water..add sugar while still hot to dissolve. They may like it sweeter but it can damage them to have sweeter formula. No food coloring

Last year I had a major problem with weeds. So our daughter came over and put cardboard around the veggies and marigolds. The only weeds we had were between the cardboard and the wall of my flower and veggies plants. So I've been saving more for this year. It's amazing how much that cardboard helps. It also helps to hold the water when it rains. Never had any mold. I'm in SE Michigan, so my climate is very different than yours. Good luck with the garden, it looks like it's in a sunny spot! 🌞

Awesome video. Happy Easter, Happy Good Friday and Happy Spring to you and your whole family.

If your husband is retired, it sure doesn't look like it. God bless your next chapter!

That was a ton of work. I hope you had a fantastic harvest this year. What fun. We went with green stalk planters this year instead of raised beds. I looked at those planters and put them on my Christmas list. We have to remodel our front porch and build a back porch on our mobile plus have to paint the exterior. So I’ll live vicariously through you and watch to see how things go.

👍🏽🌱👍🏽🌱👍🏽🌱👍🏽🌱 You’ll enjoy eating from your own garden I know I do I’m in Texas, so we have a long season before we we really don’t even have a winner but I mean we have a slight winner so our season goes long I can plant my tomatoes all the way, and they’re good they’re still producing all the way till like December you know I’m not doing too many tomatoes this year I’m really focusing more on Poll green beans to grow up the pole and bush beans.. I haven’t canned any bush beans I do can dry beans, but I want to try to do my own pickling pickles and and green beans this year so I’m focusing on growing a lot of whole beans 🫘

I always had a pretty big garden when I was raising my kids and our favorite vegetables were potatoes, they’ll grow easily in hay boxes, just wooden boxes with chicken wire sides. You just add hay on top of the growing leafy stems, leaving a little bit exposed for sunlight. Cucumber we grew on homemade teepee type trellises that were wound with string, you should have about 10 inches between each line of string. Trust me you’ll be an amazing gardener after a few seasons. Best of luck with your very first harvest. ❤

Milo is the sweetest 😺🐈😺 the garden area is beautiful. I love an old fashioned yard with established bushes, trees, old fences.

In Canada, we love growing potatoes. They take very little care and gives you so much and are so easy to store in the winter. You use the lef over potatoes for the next year seed. If you lay cardboard like a floor in the bottomof your rasedbeds, the card board will stop the wild weedfrom growing up into your bed. The cardboard will break down in time and becomes dirt .

Build your compost system in that area. Looking good. 💕💕🎶🎶

Amazing vídeo can not wait to see sll finished I am sure it will be so so beautifull 😊

Enjoyed the video looking forward to y'all planting in raised beds

If Ya’ll use a layer of dead wood like logs 🪵 and branches then the mulch and topsoil…you will use way less topsoil and fill the beds faster ..we do that every year…

😊❤️🇨🇦 Have a safe and healthy Easter..

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