Fall Garden Contour Bed Update shows the status of the beds we put in last year. We discuss both successes and failures.
0:00 Intro 0:10 Bed 1 Success Growing - Failure for Use Case 1:17 Bed 2 Failure - Predator 2:06 Bed 3 Failure - Domestic Predator 2:38 Bed 4 Success Now of for Years to come 3:28 Bed 5 Huge Success 4:24 Bed 6 Another Huge Success 5:11 Bed 7 The Experiment with mixed results 6:28 Winter Plans 8:22 New Beds for Next Year
Fall American Persimmon Fruit Harvest shows how I harvested some of this wonderful fruit this year.
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Are These Pawpaws Ripe?? #Shorts is another video from Great Escape Farms showing some of the unique edible fruit we grow on our farm.
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How to Build a Home Made Deer Fence Extension is a detailed how to that shows all of the steps required to build a deer fence extension. If I did overlook something, please post in the comments section and I will add any omissions here in the description/show notes section.
The other videos posted in this series:
Deer Fence Extension Systems -A Comparison of DeerBuster vs Home Made: https://odysee.com/@GreatEscapeFarms:4/comparison-of-deer-fence-extension:c
DeerBusters Deer Fence Extension kit Product Review: https://odysee.com/@GreatEscapeFarms:4/deerbusters-deer-fence-extension-kit:3
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Planting in the Terraced Garden Beds shows the plants that we put in our 7 Terraced Garden Beds this year.
0:00 Intro
1:10 Bed 1 Chicken Feed
1:38 Bed 2 Vining Sweet Potato
2:02 Bed 3 Onions
2:38 Bed 4 Asparagus
2:58 Bed 5 Jerusalem Artichoke
3:31 Bed 6 Bush Sweet Potato
3:44 Bed 7 Old Seed Experiment
4:07 Making the Case for Cardboard
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The Square Foot Gardening and Drip Irrigation video gives an overview on how I set up my square foot gardening beds and the drip irrigation system that keeps them watered. For more information please visit: https://greatescapefarms.com/square-foot-gardening-and-drip-irrigation-basic-you-need-to-know/
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This is an End of Summer Sustainable Homesteading Update showing the status of the garden and farm in Romney, WV. This post includes updates on the sheet mulched garden, the drought, and harvesting grapes, apples, butter nut squash, and watermelon.
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November 2016 Sustainable Homestead Update
The November 2016 Sustainable Homestead Update is a split weekend update. By that I mean it covers projects from both the WV and MD homesteads.
Groundhog Update
The groundhog is still trying to get under the deck. He has been digging and trying to get in his old holes about twice a month since I buried chicken wire back in August. He is now trying to chew through the chicken wire and just this week started trying to chew through the lattice work.
Mowing the Fields
My goal was to mow the field behind the garden area as well as the filed in front of the mobile home next door. Once complete the plant was to remove the mower from the tractor for the year and attach the hay spear so I could move some hay. Well, I finished mowing the field behind the garden, but I bent a blade when I was mowing the field in front of the mobile home next door. I think I did enough to say I’m done mowing for the year, but I need to replace the bent blade before I disconnect the mower, so the hay spear will have to wait.
Hay and Wood Chips
I had three round-bales of hay delivered a couple of weeks ago. I need to move them a little to make room for wood chips. I got a hold of a wood trimmer and he is going to be dropping wood chips off for the next couple of weeks. I have hopes of getting ten loads in the next couple of weeks. The hay and wood chips will be used for mulch and soil building in the food forest area.
Free Pallets
I was perusing through Craig’s list and found a post that offered up free pallets. So I took my trailer out and picked up 14 pallets and brought them out to the WV farm. I’m going to use the pallets for some mushroom logs in later winter or early spring. I will cut down some trees and cut the logs into manageable sizes. Then I will inoculate the logs with mushroom spores. Time to do a little mushroom farming.
Cheap Firehose
I was doing a little more browsing on Craig’s list and found some trash pumps for sale. On the same page they had some firehose pretty cheap. So I went out and bought 700 foot of 2-1/2 inch fire hose and brought them out to the farm. I will buy the water pump sometime in the future. I will use the pump and the firehose to pump water from the stream into the ponds. The ponds have been quite low this year because of the drought.
Revamping the Garden
In preparation for moving to the farm and selling the MD residence, I am removing a lot of my garden beds. I will be digging up the herbs, strawberries, and some other plants and moving them to the WV location. I also dug up a lot of blackberry suckers this year and will take some to WV and sell some through the nursery. This weekend I did manage to get three of the beds cleaned up and ready to be removed.
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This video shows How to Remove T Posts with a T Post Puller.
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