Draven Rock Homestead: Spring Planting!!

[00:00:00] Welcome to Dreamin' Rock.

[00:00:19] Where we discuss homesteading, self-reliance, and unapologetic independence. is fastly approaching and we're gonna talk about it. But before we get started, if you want to connect with me you can find me on Instagram and Facebook under Draven Rock Homestead. I have a tea spring shop also under Draven Rock Homestead if you're interested in some DRH merch. I have a couple of newer

[00:01:43] designs that I put up over there about a the description of this podcast. I'm also trying to muster up the courage to actually record and post some videos to

[00:03:02] my Rumble channel. There's nothing there yet but I will let y'all know when that work. We'll explain that here in just a little bit. Um, our yard needs landscaping of some sort or another because it's, it's a hot mess. Not, not a hot mess as in there's stuff everywhere because there's not house cleaning that you do once a week and laundry has to be done. Bread has to be made. I take time on Sundays to cook for us on the, for the entire week because by the time I get home in the evenings,

[00:05:42] there's not enough time to cook and eat and then clean up the kitchen and you

[00:06:45] or I've been needing to learn how to do that for years ever since Dane bought them for me for Christmas. I'm just interested because it involves fire. And we have to have a fire pit which means

[00:06:52] landscaping has to be done so I can make a fire pit in the front yard. Or we can buy one of those

[00:06:58] you know metal fire pit things but we'd prefer to do some landscaping and make it look nice. Yeah.

[00:08:06] for that. And on top of all of that, have a pretty stressful full time job, Monday through Friday eight to five. And I spend an hour to an hour and a half just traveling to and

[00:08:13] from work every day. It's all very overwhelming to happen. It's just a matter of when and what. Yep. So as a prepper and a newbie homesteader, I would much rather be ready and to have my family ready. And for all of us to learn those old time skills that we've lost over the decades

[00:10:47] The people that kind of saw it coming prepared ahead of time, they had it much easier. It's just just something to keep in mind y'all.

[00:10:49] Um.

[00:10:55] You've heard me say this before. There's there's kids that don't know where their food comes from.

[00:11:02] There's kids that don't know where their water comes from. If could consume them. I Don't know what she thought needed to be done to them but that whole Idea that whole thought process of hers is just sad all around all around

[00:12:26] and

[00:13:22] even an option they haven't been taught where their milk comes from where their food comes from where their water comes from now I don't want to say it's the

[00:13:26] it's not all it's not all of Gen Z okay because there's there's parents that

[00:13:33] teach their kids you know but it seems to be a growing number from what I can I mean it's survival of the fittest right only the strong survive they need to learn practical skills and skills that will help them get through life whether it's pre University, right? Yep. You know, we're able to find how to fix a lot of things on there. You know, vehicles, house, electricity, all kinds of stuff, so anyways, moving on. Yeah, so that's enough of that little rant,

[00:16:23] but I do want y'all to think about what we said

[00:17:24] Sarcastic whiny babies and they don't want to go outside make them

[00:17:28] and keep in mind that you'll want to teach them things that are a

[00:17:34] Indispensable skill, you know crap is the fan if you know how to garden you're gonna be useful

[00:17:38] If you know how to blacksmith you're gonna be useful if you know how to work on firearms You're gonna be useful if you know how to work with animals you're gonna be useful if you're a doctor so on and so forth

[00:17:43] Okay. Yeah now good skills. All right, keep that in mind

[00:18:45] But back to Noni, I knew that Noni was at her absolute end

[00:18:49] by the symptoms that she was exhibiting.

[00:18:53] So we just tried to keep her comfortable.

[00:18:56] Her tummy was really swollen and she had pretty labored breathing.

[00:19:01] She was isolating herself from the rest of the flock.

[00:19:04] That's a big sign, isn't it?

[00:19:05] Yeah, it is.

[00:19:06] It's hard to isolate. I want to say it's like it felt like water belly if you've ever heard of that term. But I don't know that it was actually emotional situation, even more of a cluster gym and make it worse for her, I didn't want her to suffer because of our stupidity, you know?

[00:21:43] Yeah.

[00:22:41] No. Yeah.

[00:22:42] I mean, you got to keep in mind that and you may think it sounds silly, but unless you

[00:22:48] understand it, you don't understand it.

[00:22:50] Basically what we were having to do was the equivalent of taking your own dog and slitting

[00:22:55] its throat or taking your own cat and cutting its head off or whatever you would have to

[00:23:00] do.

[00:23:01] It is extremely taxing on you emotionally.

[00:23:05] Most people take their animals to the vet.

[00:23:07] We couldn't afford that. isolating herself anyway. You never know if she was egg bound. That could have taken her very quickly. But I did check for that and she was not egg bound. She was very lethargic. Her feathers were all puffed out. She was acting like she

[00:24:23] wanted to fall asleep standing up and she wasn't eating and drinking very much is not swollen so I'm inclined to think that it's not quite the same illness but I could be wrong she's she's she's under watchful eyes she's back with the with the crew but she's being watched this is a very eating and she started drinking and she started cl yeah right now yeah today go she's literally

[00:28:20] pointing you should see it but wait i want you going to direct. So and then you also need to start your seeds indoors so that they can be transplanted outdoors in about 6 to 8 weeks. February is also the time when you're probably going to start the majority of your seeds.

[00:29:45] I'd say.

[00:30:47] five years or so to make sure that the pH is right for whatever it is you're planting

[00:30:50] in whatever specific area you're planting it in. So like tomatoes are a good example of needing acidic soil.

[00:30:54] Right. And squash doesn't need so much acidity in the soil. You know.

[00:31:02] So the types of amendments that there are, I have a list here in bags as well. Again, from the big box stores. And then there's other manures like chicken, horse, sheep, goats, rabbits. And those are all good manure choices for your garden.

[00:32:26] We obviously use chicken because we have a over and see what it needs and then proceed accordingly. And then start another crop of peas of the same type. So you want your own animal manure, you're going to want to put that in after all of your summer plants are gone and you've cleared out all the beds and you're going to want to mix that in and then leave it.

[00:36:25] Cause it's going to need to decompose before next spring. February. February is the time that you plant things like kale, broccoli, your lettuces, spinach, garlic, although you should have really planted that

[00:37:41] in the fall.

[00:37:42] It's gotta go through a cold stratification.

[00:37:44] Yeah, and if you. Just plant them outside, set it and forget it, right? Okay, so let's talk about starting seeds indoors.

[00:39:01] What equipment do you need?

[00:39:03] You need containers to start your seeds in. Mm-hmm. They'll just give them away like they're so try that and you can get some of those and you know clean them out You know make sure there's no mold or any icky bickies in there and you know clean them out with a little bit of bleach And water make sure they're not busted on the bottom. I guess yeah, or if they are put in like a Tupperware thing or whatever Yeah, and you can do those yeah call around us and merschries

[00:40:22] You can use solo cups the ubiquitous red solo cup yeah

[00:41:29] ornaments come in sometimes. You can use 10 cans like soup cans or the cans that your vegetable your canned vegetables come in or canned fruit. Save your yogurt

[00:41:36] containers and your cottage cheese containers and use that. Yeah. You could probably even use Capri Sun packages, honestly, if you did it right.

[00:43:04] But try it.

[00:43:05] Yeah.

[00:43:06] Let your imagination run wild. will start to grow and that's not what you want to be growing. Okay so the seeds that you're gonna start indoors are gonna be your warm weather transplants. So things like tomatoes, all the different kinds of peppers, bell

[00:44:20] peppers, jalapenos, cayenne, serranos, habaneros, whatever kind of pepper you got. just a really good app and you can get it on Apple and Android. So you should download it and check it out. However, I will say I haven't used that app think that's gonna do it for me and for Dane. Yeah, that'll do it for me too. For today. I've got some other things that need to be done. Mm-hmm.

[00:47:00] Like bread making.

[00:47:01] And a new garden bed that we've just sat down.

[00:47:04] Yeah, and I'll have to talk to y'all about that next time.

[00:47:07] Yep.