Draven Rock Homestead: Growing Freedom Series - Random Garden Talk

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[00:01:03] So today is gonna be another in our growing freedom series.

[00:01:08] We're going to discuss planting your garden based on what your family eats, maybe a few

[00:01:16] new things you'd like to try or haven't grown before, and planning where to plant everything and when the time is right. But before we

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[00:02:55] Okay, so quick homestead update.

[00:03:00] There's nothing major really to report.

[00:03:03] No chicken problems this week.

[00:03:05] Imagine that.

[00:03:06] Thank the Lord.

[00:03:09] We've been busy planting our little seedlings and talking about a new way that we can configure the garden this year.

[00:03:18] Hmm.

[00:03:19] Which has actually been put into action.

[00:03:23] And we have some new additions to the garden coming as well.

[00:03:28] And also we've been talking about what we want to plant,

[00:03:35] or what extras we want to plant,

[00:03:38] and where in the garden those need to go.

[00:03:41] We have started the, as far as reconfiguring we've started the daunting

[00:03:47] task of moving all of our raised beds 90 degrees. Hold that thought. Keep going. So

[00:03:57] that we can have more room to build more raised beds and and you know in turn have more space to plant more things.

[00:04:08] We've also built another huge, and I mean huge, raised bed. Huge to us.

[00:04:15] Oh yeah it is to us. On the backside of our garden it's back there by the

[00:04:23] backside of the chicken house.

[00:04:25] But still within the electronic fence perimeter.

[00:04:28] Yes, and I'll post pictures of that tonight or tomorrow. And I took my bucket garden apart

[00:04:37] yesterday, reconfigured it and reconstructed it into three separate sections of the same height instead of it being three levels

[00:04:48] That gives us more room in the garden as well to move around and

[00:04:55] I'll post pictures of that too

[00:04:57] So I also want you guys to know that

[00:05:00] She doesn't just tell you that she does this stuff and then I'm actually doing everything.

[00:05:05] She actually does all this stuff herself.

[00:05:09] Okay?

[00:05:10] I come out and help sometimes

[00:05:11] and I'll put some screws in

[00:05:13] or throw some brad nails in or whatever.

[00:05:16] Hey, we should try it this way

[00:05:18] or maybe you can do it that way

[00:05:19] and you're like, oh no, let me try it this way.

[00:05:22] I don't want you guys to think

[00:05:24] that she says she's building something and really it's me try it this way. I don't want you guys to think that she says

[00:05:25] she's building something and really it's me

[00:05:27] because it actually is her.

[00:05:29] The other thing I wanted to say when I said hold that thought

[00:05:31] is us turning those beds 90 degrees

[00:05:34] and getting them ready to plant meant that I had to dig up

[00:05:39] all of my winter wheat that I planted.

[00:05:44] Ugh. Yeah, it had to go, otherwise we wouldn't be able to use

[00:05:50] the three or four beds, well the three or four,

[00:05:53] something like that, beds.

[00:05:54] It was four.

[00:05:57] To plant in, they all had to go.

[00:05:59] I had read the information incorrectly on the winter wheat.

[00:06:04] I thought it was gonna be ready sooner than it would be

[00:06:08] due to our climate and I was wrong, you know?

[00:06:10] And that's something that I am,

[00:06:13] I'm okay with admitting, it doesn't bother me any.

[00:06:16] I'm annoyed that I don't get that entire wheat harvest.

[00:06:19] Some of it, you know, we were able to put into buckets

[00:06:22] and small planters and we'll see how that ends up

[00:06:25] but

[00:06:28] This is another example guys of us being gardening for what four years now something like that

[00:06:34] Yeah, this is the fourth year. Yeah, and we still make mistakes

[00:06:37] I mean, there's master gardeners that have been doing this 20 and 30 years that still make mistakes

[00:06:42] Yeah, or if they don't make mistakes,

[00:06:45] they still have problems as far as whether goes

[00:06:50] or pests or whatever.

[00:06:52] Yeah, that's what happened last year

[00:06:54] with the tomatillos and tomatoes.

[00:06:56] We got our butts kicked.

[00:06:57] Yeah.

[00:06:58] But I just want you guys to understand that

[00:07:01] it's something that me and her preach all the time,

[00:07:05] get this crap out of the way now.

[00:07:08] When we're not dealing with food crisis

[00:07:13] or anything like that, or I don't know,

[00:07:15] maybe China buying nine metric tons of grain every 10 minutes.

[00:07:23] And that's not an exact quote, but I'll talk more about

[00:07:27] that on my podcast later. Go ahead sweetie. I do want to talk today about

[00:07:38] practicing. You need to practice. I know we've talked about this before, but I cannot stress it enough.

[00:07:47] You need to practice gardening.

[00:07:49] You can't just buy your seeds and be like,

[00:07:52] oh, I'm just gonna keep this seed vault back here

[00:07:56] for a just in case situation.

[00:07:58] I was practicing growing wheat,

[00:08:00] and we saw how that ended.

[00:08:02] Because as I've said so many times before, your garden is not going to be 100%

[00:08:10] successful on that first run.

[00:08:13] It just won't.

[00:08:15] Our first run rabbits got ahold of everything rabbits and deer got ahold of

[00:08:20] everything tore everything up.

[00:08:23] And that taught us a big huge lesson

[00:08:26] Which is why our garden looks like it does now and why there's a bow and arrow next to the back door

[00:08:32] I'm just kidding. That's not even close to true, but

[00:08:39] You you have to keep in mind that your pants your pants

[00:08:46] Your plants are going to suffer transplant shock.

[00:08:51] Whatever you start in the house to be transplanted

[00:08:56] after that last frost date, it's going to suffer some shock.

[00:09:00] And not all of them are going to make it.

[00:09:03] Some of them are going to die because they just can't handle it.

[00:09:06] Also keep in mind, sometimes you might get

[00:09:09] a really good transplant.

[00:09:11] Remember when we transplanted all those tomatoes,

[00:09:13] we thought half of these are gonna die

[00:09:16] and they all lived.

[00:09:18] So we had the most crowded bed of tomatoes.

[00:09:22] It looked like a fricking forest.

[00:09:24] She had to keep going in there and trimming out the bottom of them to keep air flow coming through because it was crazy.

[00:09:29] Yeah, it was pretty crazy. But we had a really good tomato harvest that year.

[00:09:35] Yeah. Yeah.

[00:09:37] I got some really good salsa made from those tomatoes and some really good tomato sauce. And y'all, it's so cool to see the plants coming up.

[00:09:46] And then to see, y'all these little stages where, you know, it sprouts and then it's

[00:09:53] hardened off and then you plant it outside and then it grows more and then you finally

[00:09:58] see it start to set fruit and then you're finally able to see the fruit turning red

[00:10:03] if it's tomatoes and then you're finally able to see that the fruit turning red if it's tomatoes and then

[00:10:11] You're finally able to harvest it guys. It's really fun. Like I'm a I'm a freaking

[00:10:13] I'm a guy that doesn't Really get into that kind of stuff, but this you know, this is really cool guys

[00:10:17] The reason I'm into it is because I want to control my food. Yeah

[00:10:21] That's the reason I'm into it like prove. Okay. let me rephrase it before I wasn't into it.

[00:10:27] Now I am. Because I don't want someone else growing my food. I don't want someone else.

[00:10:32] Here, here's the word I'm saying. Someone else controlling my food. Yeah. Do you understand the word I'm saying? Controlling my food. I wanna know that I know what went into my soil.

[00:10:50] I know by what went into my soil,

[00:10:53] what was being fed to my plants and my vegetables

[00:10:59] and my fruits.

[00:11:01] Because if you know all of that, then you know what's going in your own body, right?

[00:11:07] Right. And if you have to use like the chicken manure for fertilizer, right? You let it dry

[00:11:14] out, make sure there's no pathogens in it. It fully dries and then you can use it in the beds and

[00:11:20] you can use it in your soil to fertilize it and we know what we fed our chickens

[00:11:25] Yep, unless they happen to eat a random bug here and there, but that's generally one of them tried to eat a black widow earlier

[00:11:33] Oh my goodness gracious

[00:11:35] That was to stop that from happening. Yeah

[00:11:38] Yeah

[00:11:39] But they got some they got a couple of really good

[00:11:43] Grumps. Grubs.

[00:11:45] Yeah, they got grub worms today.

[00:11:47] Only two and there's seven of them.

[00:11:49] So yeah, somebody got.

[00:11:51] I gave Yula may one of them.

[00:11:52] I don't know if Annie took it away from her or not, but.

[00:11:56] Yeah, they're like that.

[00:11:56] There'll be grasshoppers before long and they'll they'll be getting plenty.

[00:12:01] Anyway, so we control what they eat, which means we control what goes into

[00:12:06] our soil, which means we control what we eat again. If that makes sense. And how much we

[00:12:15] grow of any one thing. Yeah, we control that as well. That's another thing too. I wanted to talk about is growing what your family eats. Now you can grow bunches

[00:12:29] and bunches of things that you know that you buy a lot of the time from the store.

[00:12:37] Like tomatoes or potatoes or yeah, my best friend back home told me today that she buys a lot of zucchini and tomatoes.

[00:12:49] And.

[00:12:50] Zucchini, tomato and tomatoes.

[00:12:53] What about potatoes?

[00:12:54] Let me see what else did she say?

[00:12:56] Because I don't know the potatoes.

[00:12:58] Don't quite recall.

[00:13:00] I myself am a pretty big fan of potatoes in multiple different ways.

[00:13:06] Oh, squash.

[00:13:07] Oh, squash.

[00:13:08] Squash, zucchini and tomatoes is what she buys the most and that's what she's going to plant

[00:13:11] the most of.

[00:13:12] Okay.

[00:13:13] She said that she wants to plant broccoli this year, but it may be too late.

[00:13:20] Not quite sure what zone she's in.

[00:13:21] I'll have to look that up. Um, broccoli is kind of more of a cool

[00:13:28] weather, uh, plant. So, uh, yeah, we'll have to look that up. I have to look up what zone she's in

[00:13:40] and then we'll have to discuss it. So she's got one of the three sisters,

[00:13:45] the Native American three sisters

[00:13:47] that they talk about, right?

[00:13:49] The corn squash and beans, right?

[00:13:51] You remember hearing various peppers talk about

[00:13:55] growing those things in unison.

[00:13:57] You know, you can grow the corn

[00:13:59] which allows the beans to grow up the corn

[00:14:01] and the squash grows along the bottom and blah blah blah.

[00:14:05] Anyways, we eat a lot of zucchini and a lot of squash and use a lot of tomatoes

[00:14:17] for tomato sauce and salsa and just tomatoes in general in a salad or whatever. No

[00:14:26] problems with scurvy. No. But we also eat a lot of lettuces and cabbage and my

[00:14:41] mind went blank. Well we we lots of different types of vegetables

[00:14:46] We got all kinds back there. We can peppers all kinds of peppers hot peppers bell peppers

[00:14:54] Black peppers we eat a lot of herbs. Oh, yeah

[00:15:01] And we're growing too. Yeah

[00:15:04] You don't say Bobby we have I have this whole list I

[00:15:09] Think it's what three full pages front and back of what I wanted to plant this year

[00:15:15] Yep, and that includes flowers to bring in the

[00:15:19] The pollinators that's something else you have to consider too is is what flowers are to plant that's going to bring in those pollinators. And we've already

[00:15:28] started what at least just under 300 plants so far. Yeah. Just under 300. I

[00:15:36] think all of the first tray that I've planted was nothing but tomatoes. It was. Amish paste and romas and.

[00:15:45] Jubilee.

[00:15:47] Jubilee and I think some kind of cherry tomato or something.

[00:15:50] Yeah, yeah, it was a large red cherry.

[00:15:52] Every single one in that tray has come up

[00:15:55] and I'm so excited.

[00:15:56] Yeah, it's gonna be great.

[00:15:57] So excited.

[00:15:58] And a lot of them are multiple.

[00:15:59] Now, some of you guys might think,

[00:16:01] well, if there's multiple in there,

[00:16:02] you need to trim some off

[00:16:03] or you need to thin them out a little bit

[00:16:05] And we sometimes we do that if they're really close to each other, but sometimes we just separate them

[00:16:11] You know very very carefully, you know, and if we can make it work we do and if we can't we don't you know, but we try to

[00:16:20] Yeah, we usually put two or three seeds in every cell

[00:16:23] And we try to harvest all of it.

[00:16:26] Yep.

[00:16:26] You know, um, being that why would you waste it?

[00:16:30] Yeah.

[00:16:30] You know, if you can grow as much as you can.

[00:16:33] The thing is we have so many tomatoes growing at this point

[00:16:37] that we're not going to need one bed this year.

[00:16:40] We're going to need probably two or three beds this year for all the tomatoes.

[00:16:44] So that's going to be interesting. We could plant some of them in the buckets, too. That's true. Yeah, we could

[00:16:50] Because I do plan on building more

[00:16:53] Bucket gardens just the the single

[00:16:58] Ones that are the same height as the other ones that I took apart and reconfigured yesterday

[00:17:03] You guys want to see what she's talking about,

[00:17:05] she'll probably put a picture up on Instagram.

[00:17:06] Yeah, I'll post some pictures.

[00:17:09] Yeah, what a bucket garden is and what she's talking about.

[00:17:12] She might be able to show you the first time we made,

[00:17:14] which was the kind of bleachers configuration.

[00:17:16] It's already up there on my Instagram.

[00:17:19] So you guys will see how it was changed.

[00:17:22] OK, that works.

[00:17:24] I also want to plant a lot of beans this year. I want to do

[00:17:28] lime beans and more green beans and pinto beans and black beans. We found those last year. I want to

[00:17:35] plant those in peas. I think the coolest thing that we're going to plant this year.

[00:17:43] But we'll tell you about it. Don't give it away. We'll tell you about soon,

[00:17:46] fairly. Oh man. Don't give it away because I'm really excited about it. Okay, all right,

[00:17:50] fair enough. Um, I keep thinking instead of just saying what, what sees to start, I keep

[00:17:55] thinking it says wheat. I'm like, yay, you don't even have freaking wheat on here, really. It's

[00:18:00] a massive staple. You're like, no, tell me to yellow yellow squash pumpkins, you know screw we so just to I mean

[00:18:07] Cuz I have a whole lot of things on this list, but just to give you a rundown and we've already mentioned tomatoes and peppers

[00:18:16] Bell peppers jalapenos serranos

[00:18:19] habaneros kind you know all the all the hot peppers cuz

[00:18:24] He loves them. Those peppers are hot.

[00:18:26] But uh, dang girl. We also started some bunching onions

[00:18:31] And they're doing pretty good. They are bunching

[00:18:34] But when the time comes we're gonna plant

[00:18:37] uh pumpkins

[00:18:39] I'm really looking forward to that because there is nothing better than homemade

[00:18:43] Pumpkin puree. Well the thing is we've never had pumpkins successfully grow yet. That's

[00:18:48] true. We've had the the vines grow but we haven't had the pumpkins grow. Yeah. We

[00:18:53] almost had watermelon a few times and then went no I quit. We did get a couple

[00:18:57] of little baby ones. They were good though. Yeah they were alright. I just it just wasn't

[00:19:03] enough for you. Yeah like when I see water, when I think water on, I'm thinking like the big old, you know,

[00:19:08] ten times the size of a football kind of water.

[00:19:10] I didn't plant those.

[00:19:12] I planted like the little baby ones.

[00:19:16] Then they came out being really, really little babies.

[00:19:19] Yeah, and we haven't had cantaloupes do yet.

[00:19:22] Nope. What they tried, but no.

[00:19:25] Yeah.

[00:19:26] But we're going to plant more kale and spinach and cabbage.

[00:19:32] That not only feeds us, but that is also

[00:19:35] treats for the girls too.

[00:19:38] Because kale and spinach, they love.

[00:19:41] And it's got some really good calcium in it for them.

[00:19:47] You spelled tomatillos wrong.

[00:19:47] Sorry.

[00:19:48] Okay.

[00:19:51] Spelling beach amp over here.

[00:19:56] So, uh, I'm also going to do, like I said, zucchini and yellow squash.

[00:20:01] I'm going to do cucumbers because I love cucumbers.

[00:20:06] Dane loves to put cucumbers in his water, especially in the, in the summertime. It's very, it's like refreshing, you know, and for what it's worth,

[00:20:09] everything else spelled it correctly.

[00:20:11] Thank you.

[00:20:12] I love you.

[00:20:13] It's spelling problems.

[00:20:15] Trigger me.

[00:20:16] I planted some Brussels sprouts, y'all.

[00:20:20] They're really excited about it.

[00:20:22] Like I, I, I can't side rent.

[00:20:25] I can't date or marry or love a woman who can't spell.

[00:20:30] Okay.

[00:20:31] She might get one word wrong here and there, but she can spell.

[00:20:34] And it's really nice.

[00:20:35] She doesn't need freaking spell check.

[00:20:37] This is all handwritten.

[00:20:38] In my defense, I wrote this list early, early one morning.

[00:20:42] And you only got one word wrong.

[00:20:43] But my brain wasn't on yet you could you

[00:20:47] could also say that you were just kidding you were like oh Tommy T. O.'s Tommy T.

[00:20:52] O.'s okay anyways did I plant cauliflower I don't think we planted any yet maybe it time yet. Uh, haha. Herb joke. Um, we got some seed tomatoes in and my sweet potatoes will be coming next month.

[00:21:11] They're going to be shipped in April.

[00:21:16] Are they the strips?

[00:21:19] Yeah, they're the, uh, what do you call that?

[00:21:22] She had to, you had to say it.

[00:21:27] Slips.

[00:21:28] That's it.

[00:21:30] Yeah.

[00:21:30] So my slips will be shipped and delivered next month,

[00:21:34] and I'm excited about those too.

[00:21:36] So we've got seed potatoes.

[00:21:38] OK, we've got onion sets.

[00:21:40] Yep.

[00:21:41] We've got garlic ready to go, but we

[00:21:44] need to put that in the freezer so it can do is

[00:21:48] cold, I forget the name of it, strategy, whatever.

[00:21:52] Anyway, stratification. That's it.

[00:21:55] Spell in the Champ is lost.

[00:21:58] We also planted some ground cherries. I think those are tomatoes.

[00:22:04] Ground cherry? A type of tomato. Are they really?

[00:22:06] I was wondering if those were something like sweet or something more kind of savory.

[00:22:12] I don't know if I'll find out.

[00:22:14] I saw somebody plant some on YouTube a couple years ago.

[00:22:18] I bought some seeds last year.

[00:22:20] Planted them this year.

[00:22:22] We'll see what happens.

[00:22:24] We don't buy our seeds last year planted them this year. We'll we'll see what happens

[00:22:25] And we don't buy our seeds from Baker Creek because reasons

[00:22:29] Yeah

[00:22:31] So sad and I have a whole list of

[00:22:36] Flowers that I want to plant to bring in those pollinators now if you remember I

[00:22:42] Think it was last year, I did a show on different herbs and flowers

[00:22:49] and things that you can plant next to other specific plants that will help ward off pests.

[00:22:57] So you have to go back and find that podcast.

[00:23:01] I can't remember what the name of it was, but it was another in the growing freedom series. I was gonna try to plant some luffa this year. Yeah man,

[00:23:13] try to pay in form. But I'm gonna wait. We won't have the room for it. Yeah we

[00:23:20] don't have the room this year so we're gonna wait. We could probably build a

[00:23:24] trellis and kind of do it that way but I'd year, so we're gonna wait. And we could probably build a trellis

[00:23:25] and kind of do it that way, but.

[00:23:28] I'd rather wait.

[00:23:28] I'd rather wait, yeah.

[00:23:32] You got beets, and marigolds.

[00:23:35] I don't know if it's time to do beets yet.

[00:23:38] We also haven't had any success with strawberries yet.

[00:23:42] No, and I wanted to do blueberries this year, but that's a

[00:23:46] That's a that's a that's a two-year deal. You have to wait two years for those to

[00:23:52] And we're kind of waiting until we move to figure out you know when we're gonna do that

[00:23:57] So some the stuff that we're doing now is is a 90 to 120 days. That's yeah looking at and

[00:24:04] Then I have a whole host of herbs that I want to do.

[00:24:11] But point is we have a lot going and we're going to have a much bigger garden this year than we did

[00:24:21] any of the previous years. And we're going gonna have to build more raised beds to do that.

[00:24:26] Mm-hmm.

[00:24:27] And I am excited.

[00:24:29] So excited, y'all.

[00:24:32] Because that means I'm gonna have a lot of canning to do

[00:24:38] toward the end of the summer.

[00:24:39] Are you sure you can?

[00:24:40] Oh, yeah, I can.

[00:24:42] You have a steam canner, too.

[00:24:44] I do. Oh! Yeah. That's awesome. You have a steam canner too. I do. Yeah. Awesome. You have

[00:24:47] like three or four canners, don't you? I have three. Three. It's impressive. Um, I like a woman who can.

[00:25:00] Okay, so let's see. This is on my list over here.

[00:25:05] So if you remember from a previous show, not too long ago, a couple of weeks maybe, I did

[00:25:11] a show on how to get started, starting your seeds inside and direct sowing outside and

[00:25:20] all that. Dana and I have not only started a bunch of seeds in seed trays

[00:25:27] but we've also started them in other types of containers that I talked about

[00:25:34] on that show like solo cups and old water bottles.

[00:25:41] I even saved some of my cottage cheese containers.

[00:25:47] Like mom used to do old school?

[00:25:49] Yeah.

[00:25:50] Grandma used to save all the cottage cheese

[00:25:52] and sour cream containers.

[00:25:53] Yeah, but they were putting leftovers in theirs.

[00:25:56] I'm planting plants in mine.

[00:25:58] Yeah, right.

[00:26:00] But we've planted some, started some seeds in some of those

[00:26:05] and I'm gonna post up pictures of those

[00:26:09] probably within the next week or so.

[00:26:11] I need to wait for them to come up, you know?

[00:26:14] So that I can show you that it's doable.

[00:26:16] It's totally doable.

[00:26:18] Speaking of that, we've actually even just as a side note

[00:26:22] when it comes to planting,

[00:26:23] we transplanted some of that winter wheat that I'm shedding a small tear about

[00:26:28] into a cardboard box. Yeah, we're gonna see if that works. We're gonna try it. You

[00:26:34] know, we've we've seen people grow potatoes in cardboard boxes. Yes. So I

[00:26:39] want to try that this year too. Yeah, we've got boxes ready to go for it. So

[00:26:44] we're gonna see what works. We've also got some tires. Yeah, my old tires, oh they're huge. My old

[00:26:50] tires. Yeah, they're what 35, 1250, something like that. I think they come up to my hip.

[00:26:55] Yeah, they're big tires. You got big tires in your truck. But we also had two left over from

[00:27:02] when Dane got new tires this past

[00:27:07] When did you get new tires?

[00:27:14] Couple months ago. Yeah, so we saved two of those and those are in the backside of the garden too by that huge bed

[00:27:21] I just know they cost a lot of money. I'm gonna plant something in those and I'm excited about that too, but

[00:27:24] Okay, now it's time to talk about the new thing we're gonna

[00:27:26] try to grow this year that both of us are super excited about. Oh my gosh. Okay.

[00:27:33] Y'all, it's peanuts. I'm so excited. We're growing peanuts. I am so excited. I

[00:27:43] cannot wait. I cannot wait. It's not time to put them out there yet.

[00:27:47] Nope, not quite. But I'm so excited. We just can't hide it. I can't wait. I can't wait for them to...

[00:27:56] I can't wait. I can't wait to harvest them. It's gonna be crazy guys. It's gonna be great. This is

[00:28:01] the first time we've grown these. We're hoping they're gonna grow. We're hoping they're gonna grow.

[00:28:05] We need to do some research and find out the exact conditions that they need.

[00:28:10] Yep.

[00:28:11] And amend the bed that they will go into.

[00:28:14] And we also need to be able to protect them because, you know, we have field mice and

[00:28:19] we have ground squirrels and they can be jerks.

[00:28:23] Yep.

[00:28:24] Obviously. I mean, not really jerks. Yep. Obviously.

[00:28:25] I mean, not really jerks

[00:28:26] because it's not like you can tell,

[00:28:27] hey, don't get under these.

[00:28:28] Like it.

[00:28:29] They're just doing what they do.

[00:28:30] They're just doing what they do.

[00:28:31] So we were hoping that we can protect that crop.

[00:28:36] Which we may have to over build that particular bed,

[00:28:40] like a little tiny Fort Knox to keep out troublemakers.

[00:28:44] I'm not quite sure what I'm gonna grow them in.

[00:28:46] I've seen videos of people planting them

[00:28:52] inside like old feed sacks.

[00:28:58] So.

[00:28:59] Yeah, but they don't have.

[00:29:00] Or buckets.

[00:29:03] I don't know, we'll figure it out.

[00:29:05] But I'm excited.

[00:29:08] Yeah, it's gonna be amazing.

[00:29:10] I can't believe it, man.

[00:29:12] I also looked up how they grow.

[00:29:14] Have you seen that?

[00:29:15] How they grow?

[00:29:16] Okay, so what I saw was they grow up, okay?

[00:29:20] So they have their roots and they have their normal stem,

[00:29:23] right?

[00:29:24] And then the stem sends out, you know

[00:29:27] Lea branches right with leaves on them and then these branches

[00:29:32] Send down what look like roots

[00:29:35] Each branch sends down what looks like roots and at the bottom of that root once it goes into the ground

[00:29:40] It makes a freaking peanut. Oh, that's cool

[00:29:43] Yeah, and some I mean I think some of them stay above ground and some go below ground but generally

[00:29:48] they're just like these hanging things with peanuts. That is cool. I'm like are

[00:29:52] you kidding me dude? I'm gonna have to find a video of that. I think it I think

[00:29:56] it differs a little bit different ways but dude it's so nuts man the way that

[00:30:01] the peanuts grow and the way that they're set up. Well, don't don't look for it right now

[00:30:05] We're trying to finish the show

[00:30:10] Just gonna take that away from you, but let's see

[00:30:15] What else is on my list over here? Oh?

[00:30:19] Yes, I stopped using the seed to spoon app

[00:30:25] I mentioned that in one of my last shows, um, because it wouldn't let me put

[00:30:31] any more of, of a certain number of, uh, vegetables or whatever it was I was

[00:30:36] planning in my garden list.

[00:30:38] Yep.

[00:30:39] Um, it went from being a really cool app that was

[00:30:50] You know half free and half paid to mostly paid

[00:30:52] Yeah, and I don't

[00:30:57] You know you try not to have to pay for anything if you can absolutely

[00:31:04] Because some of them the prices are just getting really up there as far as apps go and they want you to pay that same price every month

[00:31:06] And I'm just not doing that. Well, and what it comes down to is it's a cost for convenience, right?

[00:31:11] You can easily keep track of that stuff yourself. You can easily look up the information yourself. Yeah

[00:31:16] It's not overly difficult to do that. Okay, it's meant as a convenience and there's nothing wrong with the app

[00:31:22] The app's great, you know, it's just that we just don't feel like it's something we need to spend money on. Yeah

[00:31:28] You know, really sorry now. Yeah, our electric bill is gonna be

[00:31:34] Really high in a couple of months. So yeah, pluses and minuses, right? Yeah

[00:31:39] But I did download and I started using this other app called veggie garden planner

[00:31:47] It seems to be so far seems to be pretty okay and the the

[00:31:54] It's a mostly paid app too, but the cost for it was like five bucks a year

[00:32:01] Okay, so

[00:32:04] Trying that one out. We're gonna see how it works

[00:32:08] Hopefully they keep it at five dollars a year. We'll see

[00:32:11] One of the other things that that we're thinking about too is expanding

[00:32:17] our

[00:32:18] Gardening area or setting up another gardening area

[00:32:22] So we can continue to grow more and more food. It

[00:32:25] may not be here but we're thinking either when we get moved or if we need if

[00:32:31] we need to stay here a little bit longer we may set up more area that we can

[00:32:36] grow stuff at basically. We're basically trying to prepare for any

[00:32:42] eventuality and how that might go down.

[00:32:45] You can stockpile food, you can stockpile seeds

[00:32:49] which are only gonna last a certain period of time,

[00:32:53] but if you need to stockpile food,

[00:32:56] there are some things you can stockpile, right?

[00:32:57] Like grains, grains are a great thing to stockpile.

[00:33:02] How long do grains last if they're stored correctly?

[00:33:04] great thing to stockpile how long the grains last if they're stored correctly uh indefinitely yeah didn't they find some grains in a

[00:33:09] in a Egyptian tomb or something like that that they were able to

[00:33:12] one of the Pharaohs yeah yeah it was like four thousand

[00:33:15] four thousand or five thousand year old grain still sprouted

[00:33:19] like okay um this is awesome yeah as long as they're kept

[00:33:24] in a cool, dry place,

[00:33:27] just like with anything else, they'll last indefinitely.

[00:33:31] It's crazy to think about,

[00:33:33] but if it's done correctly, it will last.

[00:33:37] Yep.

[00:33:38] So when you order grains,

[00:33:41] whether it be wheat or whatever it is,

[00:33:44] we like to order wheat from Azure Standard. order grains, whether it be wheat or whatever it is.

[00:33:45] We like to order wheat from Azure Standard.

[00:33:48] And that is, they have like a 50 pound bag

[00:33:52] of hard red wheat berries for $45.

[00:33:57] You can get two of those, $90 something dude,

[00:34:00] and free shipping if you're til we're a certain certain price and you're good to go

[00:34:05] they drop ship them wherever they need to be drop shipped you know generally

[00:34:10] pretty close to you you know ours are on my way to work so no big deal but that's

[00:34:17] something consider guys is what can you do to control your food supply? Right? So.

[00:34:25] Oh, I did want to mention to fish mocks, fish antibiotics.

[00:34:32] Yeah.

[00:34:33] Can't get those anymore.

[00:34:35] Nope.

[00:34:37] Thanks to the FDA.

[00:34:39] Yep.

[00:34:40] So if your fish gets sick, good luck.

[00:34:43] You're going to have to get them from an actual veterinarian now.

[00:34:48] You're going to take a $1 goldfish into a veterinarian.

[00:34:51] That makes a lot of sense.

[00:34:53] Yeah.

[00:34:54] And if you're a prepper, you know what you use fishmocks for.

[00:34:57] Yeah.

[00:34:58] But can't get it anymore online.

[00:35:00] Not very easily.

[00:35:03] Thanks government.

[00:35:04] Yep. it's

[00:35:05] grouse again. Won't let us control our own destinies at all. I know you've heard

[00:35:13] me talk about lab grown meat too and how I'm not a fan. We plan to when we get moved. We plan to raise our own chickens. Meat chickens. Yes, meat

[00:35:31] chickens to have our own meat. But I also want to learn how to hatch my own eggs,

[00:35:37] my own chicken eggs, so we need a rooster. You're gonna have to let me have a rooster. I'm also gonna learn how to raise and breed goats for dairy and for meat.

[00:35:54] I have bought a book on it and when I got it, Dane rolled his eyes.

[00:36:00] Yep, I sure did. I also want to learn to do the same thing with sheep for meat and for

[00:36:11] dairy and for fiber. And I want to learn about cows. I'm not sure if I want to do a dairy cow or not,

[00:36:22] but definitely would like to.

[00:36:26] And I've heard of people doing this and I really want to do it because it's

[00:36:29] going to feed our family for probably a year or more.

[00:36:37] But go to auction, you buy two calves and you raise one to slaughter and one to

[00:36:48] resell at auction and the money you get from that one you buy two more caps and you just keep the process going.

[00:36:52] That makes sense.

[00:36:55] Now, do we know what they cost?

[00:36:59] I don't.

[00:37:00] I haven't.

[00:37:01] I started doing the research on that and then I got pulled away for some other reason. I can't I haven't I started doing the research on that and then I got Pulled away for some other reason. I can't remember

[00:37:08] But okay, I got to do some research on that for sure

[00:37:13] And and and I do want to mention too

[00:37:16] if you decide to

[00:37:19] Raise your own chickens either for laying hens or for meat chickens

[00:37:24] Especially laying hens or for meat chickens, especially laying

[00:37:25] hens, you want heritage breeds.

[00:37:29] There are also heritage breed goats and heritage breed sheep.

[00:37:36] Those are the breeds you want.

[00:37:37] You don't want these hybrid breeds because you really want the heritage breeds.

[00:37:45] I know that a lot of the breeds period have been, like the brooding, this has been bred

[00:37:56] out of them because most people just have them for two years and then end it and then start with a whole new flock or they just

[00:38:07] Keep adding to their flock every year, you know, because that's just they're selling the eggs or whatever

[00:38:13] Maybe they have a big family

[00:38:16] but uh

[00:38:21] Heritage breed is what you want

[00:38:22] The heritage breed is what you want

[00:38:27] It's all as far as chickens and goats and sheep

[00:38:35] Yeah heritage breeds and it you also need to do the research on your particular soil type

[00:38:43] If you have goats or sheep because I have read and seen videos on there could be parasites in your soil

[00:38:47] that's gonna cause health problems for certain breeds. I found out that there's

[00:38:55] a breed called I think it's Gulf Coast something or. And that's what I'm going to try to get. Okay. Later on.

[00:39:08] Let me move. Right. When we have more space. Yes. We have an acre and a half, but it's, you know,

[00:39:16] it's a lot of it's covered with desert brush and scrub. There's nothing for a sheep to eat.

[00:39:22] Rocks. Yeah, they wouldn't be able to eat anything.

[00:39:25] It'd be silly.

[00:39:26] Yeah.

[00:39:27] Just for the sake of curiosity, I looked up,

[00:39:31] as of March 11th, basically, like tomorrow, the cost of a calf,

[00:39:37] if you want to buy a calf, it depends on factors such as age,

[00:39:41] gender, and whether or not they've been weaned.

[00:39:43] On average, calves can be obtained for between $200 to $300.

[00:39:49] The cost of a cow ranges from $2,200 to $5,300 depending on breed, gender, and the weight

[00:39:55] of the cow.

[00:39:56] Feeder calves are over $2 a pound at many auction markets due to the pandemic. The expected annual average cattle price

[00:40:06] based on a given heifer, steer, and slaughter cow,

[00:40:10] weights is $50 per hundred weight for a slaughter cow,

[00:40:16] that'd be a 1,200 pound cow,

[00:40:18] and $145 to $130 per hundred weight for steers and heifers,

[00:40:23] which are 550 to 520 pounds

[00:40:26] respectively according to that. Now I don't know what a slaughter cow is versus a

[00:40:31] steer and a heifer that's something we got to learn about. Yeah I'm not sure what

[00:40:34] hundred weight means. I'll buy another book. I'm guessing it like every 100 pounds I'm

[00:40:38] guessing but I could be wrong. We'll figure it out. I'll buy another book. You'll buy another book.

[00:40:42] But that's what that's what they're talking about now

[00:40:47] There's also studies you can do on cat calf cow profitability and things of that nature

[00:40:52] But again, we will do another podcast on that once we actually learn it. I'll start a new series

[00:40:59] Called holy cow

[00:41:00] called Holy Cow.

[00:41:03] Yeah, maybe so.

[00:41:06] Holy cow.

[00:41:09] We're dorks.

[00:41:10] Yeah, that's okay. We're a little dorky, but that's all right.

[00:41:12] I'm okay with it.

[00:41:13] Are you okay with it?

[00:41:14] I am.

[00:41:14] All right.

[00:41:15] Oh, for Christmas, I bought Dane the Perfect Pickler.

[00:41:20] Um, if you don't know what that is, it's, uh, uh, fermentation kit and it's sold by the

[00:41:28] perfect pickler.

[00:41:29] No, it's the, it's the son of a guy on YouTube and on rumble.

[00:41:35] His name is Zach, but at the name of his channel is an American homestead.

[00:41:39] Uh, Zach, if you're listening, thank you for the perfect pickler.

[00:41:43] Yeah, I like Zach. He's all right

[00:41:47] We we haven't made anything in it just yet we want to try to do some salsa some fermented salsa. Yeah

[00:41:57] But we'll have to report back on that too just waiting on the garden

[00:42:02] So we can have fresh stuff. Oh, no wait, we have stuff in the freezer. We sure do

[00:42:07] Maybe we'll do that

[00:42:10] Okay, so I

[00:42:14] think

[00:42:16] Now that's gonna do it for this show. Oh, we got to go eat dinner

[00:42:20] We have to eat dinner and we still have to lock the girls up to lock them up yeah it's almost seven o'clock here which means it's getting

[00:42:28] dark yep it's almost there getting dark so we will see you next time and thank

[00:42:38] you for joining us we'll either talk about more gardening stuff or as we keep

[00:42:43] moving our garden forward.

[00:42:45] Or maybe we'll talk about something else. Who knows?

[00:42:48] Yeah. Who knows?

[00:42:49] We'll see.

[00:42:50] Okay, so we'll see you next time.

[00:42:53] Bye everybody.

[00:42:54] Bye guys.

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