This post and video show the Channel Catfish in the Farm Pond as well as the blue gill. These were incorrectly identified as Bullhead catfish initially. They are indeed channel catfish. Sorry for the inconvenience.
How to Make Onion Powder and Minced Onions shows how to dehydrate cut up onions and then how to mince them to make onion chips as well as onion powder.
0:00 Intro
0:32 Peel, Chop, Slice
1:24 Dehydrate
2:48 Remove from Trays and Jar
4:12 Onion Powder
5:58 Finished Products
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How to Control Japanese Beetles While Feeding Your Chickens is a video I shot in 2021 showing a cheap way to help control Japanese Beetle damage. I'm doing an experiment this year with traps combined with the method shown in this video. I'll have the results out in a few weeks.
0:00 Intro
0:44 Best Time to Catch Them
1:08 What to Catch Them In and How to Catch
1:47 Night Hunting
2:51 Chicken Feeding Time
3:57 Why You Don't Hunt in the Heat of the Day
4:48 Day Catching with Soapy Water
5:49 Population Control
6:13 Freezing for Later Use
6:37 Modifications to Next Years Beetle Season
7:37 Outro
#bugs #pests #pestcontrol
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This video shows you how to install a lazy Susan in an existing cabinet. It is based on what has become my spice cabinet. It is a corner cabinet and just had 3 shelves. I found an aftermarket Lazy Susan for sale online at Lowes.com, so I ordered it and this video shows how I installed it.
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Flying Dragon Trifolate Orange Flowers and Fruit shows the progress of our cold hardy oranges through several years.
0:00 Intro
1:12 Early April in USDA Hardiness Zone 6
1:38 Mid April
2:37 End of April
3:13 Latter Part of May
3:57 Mid October
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Plant Walk - Perennial Sheet Mulch Garden shows many of the plants in our garden.
#garden #gardening #farming
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This video is about How To Propagate Nanking Cherry Prunus tomentosa. We talk about how to take softwood cuttings and use them to propagate these plants. First, we will cover some basics about nanking cherry.
Nanking Bush Cherry Basics
The Nanking Bush Cherry, Prunus tomentosa, is another unique edible plant, in bush form, that is showy in the spring with flowers and in the summer with the bright red cherries clinging closely to the branches. It can be used as an ornamental, fruit producing shrub or as a wind break in a hedge row.
The Flowers
In mid-Spring the bush produces white or pink flowers that are fragrant and attract beneficial insects. They are partially self-pollinating, but do better with another variety around.
The Fruit
The red fruit is sweet and tart and taste like a cherry with a pit in the center. Since there are not a lot of named varieties in the US and most are propagated by seed, the flavors of the fruit seem to vary greatly. You can also find some plants online that have yellow or pink fruit, as I just did (and purchased.)
The fruit is very close to the stem on a very short stalk. The stalk usually stays on the branch leaving an opening on the fruit that will cause it to leak juice. This causes the fruit to not store well. The fruit can be used for fresh eating, dried fruit, fruit leather, preserves, jams, jellies pies, tarts, and fruit juice.
The Basics of Propagation
Propagation is done by seeds, layering, and cuttings. For seeds, clean the pulp off the pit and stratify for 2-3 months. Laying involves burying a portion of the tip or mid branch until it roots and then cutting it away from the main plant. Cuttings can be done with hardwood in the fall/winter or soft wood in the spring. This past summer I had a 75% success rate with softwood cuttings in a mist bed.
Softwood Cuttings
For this post we are going to take softwood cuttings. Softwood cuttings are this year’s growth that started in the spring. This wood is usually just slightly a different color and last year’s wood just looks a little more worn and older.
Make the Cut
Cut the softwood branches off of the plant. Then cut the branches down so they have four internodes. Internodes are any place a branch or leaf comes out. I usually go with four for nanking cherry. Leave two leafs at the top and remove the bottom leafs.
Rooting Hormone
Dip the bottoms of the cuttings in rooting hormone. I use dip and grow liquid hormone because I only need the one product and I can mix it as strong as I like. Softwood cuttings does not require very concentrated rooting hormone, whereas hardwood cuttings require more concentrated solution.
Cuttings in the Planting Medium
Now it is time to place the cuttings into the planting medium. Push them into your
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The Best Plant Labels and Markers - 4 Month Update - The 4 month update on my year long experiment with different plant labels and markers to see how well they stand up to the elements and sun.
Here is a link to a previous plant tag video I did a few years ago: https://odysee.com/@GreatEscapeFarms:4/plant-identification-tags-plant-labels:4
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Winter 2019 Pasadena MD Homestead Update goes into some of the projects I'm getting into this winter on the homestead at Great Escape Farms.
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This post is Permaculture and Homesteading Q and A Series No1. Topics covered include transplanting trees, cell phone relay, winter propagation, planting paw paw seeds, building a cheap greenhouse, and red wiggler compost bin.
Permaculture and Homesteading Q and A Series No1
This is the first in a series of Q&A sessions that I will be holding over the next few months. These questions come from our YouTube channel, email, blog post comments, Facebook and even a few face to face questions. If you would like to submit a question you can do so in the comments section of any of the above medium or you can email your question to me directly. My email address is Todd@GreatEscapeFarms.com.
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