NEW STRATEGIES for Growing a YEAR’S WORTH OF FOOD for a Family of 6 (part 3)

I never noticed this before, but I really like how you don't show the kids' faces during the eating-breakfast shots. It's a good balance between respecting their privacy and safety and the realities of filming your lifestyle. I get a little uncomfortable with the channels that just tell EVERYTHING about their kid, like "this is Madisyn, she's six, she's in every video, we live in central X state."

We got some sweet potato eyes, mom said no but dad threw them under the house ,you can only imagine they went wild . We live in Florida and had potatoes for one and a half years.

You should plant your cucumber & squash seeds in paper cups & when you are ready to transplant them just cut the bottom open & place them in the ground. That way you won’t disturb the roots. The paper cups are biodegradable & feed for the earth worms. 😊

Just about to go to bed in Australia & saw you'd posted - can't resist watching straight away! Have a great day everyone!

Please consider using leaves between your beds. It’s worked very well for weed suppression for us. I like to garden barefoot as well and it was important to me to have something soft to walk on.

busy busy time of year !! and that's the biggest shoot of asparagus i've ever seen !! wow

I really like your channel, it sticks to the stuff I want to see and learn! It’s a humble diamond. :)

Great video. We live in Michigan and it's nice watching people who farm/homestead in northern states, with their challenges and successes. 😍

I ordered sweet potatoe plants from Steele, a family owned business in Tennessee that only does sweet potatoes and onions I think. I called to ask a question about my order, and the lady was so sweet. She talked to me for a few minutes and she was full of knowledge, giving me information for my area and soil conditions. It was so personal. I will let you know if we have sweet potatoe success, but I can already recommend the customer service😊

One year I planted seeds and seedlings for cukes and watermelon and found that yes, the seeds caught up with the young plants so I don't mess with starting seeds indoors anymore.

Suyo cucumbers are self pollinating, no bees needed. You could cover with a fine mesh bug fabric to keep the beetles out. Always look forward to your videos. ❤ your channel.

I got some old bricks from a building in my town that was getting taken down. you should be on the look out for something like that. It was all free and a great way to add pathways to my yard.

Thick cardboard and mulch iin walkways. I’ve done for years and works great.

Just an idea for the garden paths between the raised beds - white dutch clover. It usually stays pretty short, it enriches the soil, if you do want to mow it you can use the clippings as mulch in the garden beds, it tends to crowd out the weeds, it's nice to walk on, the seeds are cheap and it attracts pollinators. A local market gardener used it as a pathway between his non-raised beds, and because it enriched the soil so much he would alternate his beds. One year he'd use a strip of soil for a white dutch clover mulch, the next year it would be a planting bed.

Its super easy to start your own sweet potato slips. But a few if your old potatoes from last year in a jar filled halfway with water put root end down. You can put toothpicks in the middle sides of the potato to suspend it in the jar if water. In a few days the bottom will grow roots in the water and the tops will start producing slips. After slips are about 2" long pick off the potato and place in another jar of water, they will grow roots then transfer to garden. Super easy, hands off. I sit mine in window and I'm still planting potatoes from the two I started 4 years ago! Free potatoes that last all year!

So to install pavers properly, you would want a stone base, this would be a 2A gravel (this is 1-2" stone with fines mixed in). These fines will be hold the larger stone in place to form a solid layer. So if you are not ready to splurge on your pavers, you can always start the base in sections. Remove the grass, installing a geotextile and compacted the 2A stone. Between now and then, keep an eye out for bricks or other pavers that you might find through your favorite resell ads.

For vine borers try “SERPENTE DE SICILIA CUCUZZI” it’s a Sicilian gourd but when picked young it’s just like zucchini. I have been fighting squash vine borers here in Central Texas for years! I’ve tried every type of squash you can think of and had no luck until this year when I grew the cucuzzi. Ours grew up our hooped cattle panel and took over to make a nice bit of shade underneath. I got my seeds from Baker Creek ❤

Just my 2 cents; you'll love smothering weeds and grass in your pathways with arborist chips. The time and effort it takes to maintain chips is really low compared to weekly mowing or chopping with a weed eater each week.

You could put wood chips down this year in between the raised beds then next year use them in the beds and on and on. Or pour vinegar around the perimeter of the raised bed area. You need to reapply the vinegar after a big rain. That's what we do to keep the snakes from getting into the chicken coup

In Florida a lot of people use moth balls around the house and front and back door for snakes seems to help ? Worth a shot 😊 appreciate y'all sharing such a wonderful story 😊