Are These Garden Tools Worth It? We Empty the Shed to Find Out

Happy day! Today we are transforming our chaotic garden shed. It's a rainy day and spring is coming before we know it. Let's see what tools we've got. Let's see if they're worth it. Let's turn this chaotic garden shed into a dream shed today. Before we get to our important garden stall project, we're gonna train Harriet to freestyle milking. I don't think it's going to go so well, but Josiah seems to think otherwise. Let's see who's right. Josiah had the idea that we should start milking Harriet. She's so crazy about alfalfa. Out here, freestyle. Okay, where do you want me to put this? All right, now let's try to get Harriet out here. More than what we've been doing. We've been getting her in the stanchion. We're hoping she's crazy enough she'll let me milk her freestyle. Hopefully she's crazy enough for the alfalfa. She ain't gonna let me milk Josie. Nope, she's not ready to milk freestyle. Maybe. Where? Oh, maybe. I don't think she'll let me approach her. What we need her to do, because we need to eventually milk her like this in the field, is just eat. And no, this one isn't even tied up. Now the good news is Josiah Vanilla used to be even wilder than Harriet. Watch this, Josie. Hold on, hold on, we might be able to do it. What? Okay, tire up. See, the flossy comes out, you know. She's gonna kick Vanilla. No, she knows Vanilla's there. Hey, look, we're doing it! Wow, I did not expect this. I did not. You knucklehead. I'm just gonna milk her into the ground. We've having huge success right here, whether we catch the milk or not. Now she's just letting me milk her like normal. Might as well be the side-by-side out in the field. Milked onto the ground, but I would still say it's a huge success. Come on, get in, get in! Hurry, hurry! She knows this is empty. Whoa! All right, this is what happens when you put cats out of routine. Gotta train them to a new routine. So now that we've done that, we need to do that every day now. Lure her back peacefully with alfalfa. They're the best. New Country Organic alfalfa. These are alfalfa pellets. It's not a grain, so we're still grain-free. It's crazy. Here she comes, she comes running. All right, I'm gonna let you see that it's in there. Okay, now let's go, let's go, let's go. Come on. Alfalfa is like Coffee to you guys, okay? It's like crack cocaine. Come on. Especially sheep, they're the biggest crackheads we've got. And next to sheep, she's number 2. Good thing because she's half wild, you can get somewhere when nobody's around. She don't need no more, she had plenty. Yeah. Next up, chickens. This might be a Great day to kind of herd the rogue ones in, the ones that were never in. As you know, it's us versus the chicken. That's enough, that's enough, that's plenty, that's plenty. Stop, stop. Leave some in the bottom and listen, and it ferments. And then our soaked feed is fermenting. Oh, see, I told you that chicken was gonna die, bro. There it is. Take it, take it and give it to the pigs. Round 2, us versus chickens. Gotta get everybody in, gotta get everybody cooped up with no way to escape. There it is, there it is! We got one in. Okay, we can't let more out while we're getting some in. It's okay. All right, nothing goes to waste on the permaculture farm, not when you got pigs. That's how our chickens are getting out. If this blows, that's our wall around this fence. They're getting out, huh? Okay. Oh yeah, look at this. This blows. What knocks this up? There's no way they're not getting out right here. Once again, my kids are right and I am wrong, and I am happy about that. Also, before we go, the Burn It Up Cooking Show. We are making easiness. We are having guests for supper, and I want this to be so easy, so delicious, but yet from the farm. So low stress, making this at 10 till 10, searing our chuck roast. We're gonna do this meat stock soup style. Fill it up halfway up that meat with water. It won't be bone broth because it wouldn't have gone a long time. I'm not sure there's even a bone in there, but it will be meat stock, which is even easier to digest. That's farmer's— not fast food, convenient food. Get it going. Now we can go work and then come in and eat it. Henry, you going with us? Come on, Josiah, you ready? Let's make the impossible possible. You guys want to work after lunch? Nope. Okay, well then we have an hour and 20 till lunch. That gives you one episode of Heartland. Despite what it looks like, she's not working all the time. She does have plenty of free time too. Her and her mom are addicted. What season are you on? Unfortunately, it's the never-ending show. What? You're on season 9. Wait, wait for it. How many seasons are there? There's 19, but I think more are gonna come out. You wanna go watch it with him? Come on, Henry, let's go. Alright, put the timer on, Austin. We have an hour and a half. Go. Come on now. Please, come on. Come on, you wanna be a man. Let's go. I mean, he doesn't technically need the raincoat. That's why we're doing this job. It's an undercover job. We're not going outside. You don't need a raincoat. Clear out front. Let's assess the damage. I can't believe I'm about to show you guys this. Okay, yeah, Josiah says this is not too bad. Let's get everything out of here that does not belong in the garden stall. Let's get everything out so we can see what we're doing and then bring things back in in an orderly fashion. And then let's showcase to you guys— here's the payoff for you guys watching this with us. I'm going to show you a dozen, 20 of the coolest garden supplies and tools we've got hidden in here. Good to know we have that, man, because remember we needed a little short piece the other day. We may need it again. We don't use those frequently. Let's keep this as a frequent Garden stuff. Garden stuff. Get in. Put these next door. They're not, you know, just go grab them. Yeah, put them in here. These can help keep animals out of the gardens. We're gonna use the everyday-ish kind of things in here. We use none of this every day. Uh, okay. Okay, we've made some headway. We're having some differences. Are we having some differences, Josiah? He has a good idea. He wants— I was going to put stuff in the other stall. He said, hey, let's just make it work in one stall. That's good. Then we can use the stall for some other things. You don't want to go through this stuff, but we ought to go through this stuff. See, that's for the hydrant weights. Will we ever use those again? I don't know. Sandbags. Is that all sandbags in here? It is. So let's, let's make a pile. Let's get these sandbags organized nicely and put in here. See, these are bolts. These should go to our shop. These are kind of our fabrics right here. Is this a silage tarp? I didn't know we had brand new silage tarp. No, the weed fabric. Let's make that the, uh, weed fabric. And let's— here, let's make the bottom shelf— let's make the bottom shelf all the drip, drip stuff down here. All right, now get us any of our weed fabric and put it over here on this stall. This will be so refreshing when we come in here. It's spring, we're feeling rushed, and our stall is all nice. Whoa, we're making progress! We should probably hang our hoeing type tools over here. Can we make this our tool thing? Josiah, what about that? I don't want to just— those we rarely are going to use. Yeah, this piping, should we hang all those right there? I wonder if you should do— okay, all right. And then let's get this out of here because that's gonna— you're gonna take up that whole thing with those and they go right here. We're getting somewhere in here. These are the things— it's not sexy. It's raining outside. What are you gonna do? But when spring comes and we just want to get planting, we're going to be very happy we did this. We're also getting an idea of things that maybe we need. We're getting low on tomato clips. We might be good, but we're getting close. Now we have the relocation program. Some interesting things of note— remember this? This is a milking stool. It's quite cool. You can walk around, and I think it's broke. It's not doing it, but it sticks here like a bee sting, and you just go to sit down And you got a bench for milking. Concept's good. Concept's real good. And it's on one peg, and so you could milk on a slope out in the field, but then you're keeping up with one more thing. So I just squat, but that's kind of interesting. We also found this huge pipe wrench. Oh, tell me, drill. In case we, uh, the apocalypse, we can drill. I don't know, might not work. You can drill by hand. A reel mower. R-E-E-L. Remember that? Mechanically cut the grass. I'll spare you the bore of picking this all up and putting in its proper place. Time lapse! We are done. With 4 minutes to spare. Josie, shall we get a tour? Shall we show some cool tools? You guys wanna see some cool tools? Austin, count 'em as we go. I don't know how many we're doing. Here we go. Seedtime gave us this. I think they just ordered it from Johnny's. This is a bed leveler. It's nicer than just a regular boat, hard rake, because it's wide enough for a 30-inch garden bed. My favorite tool. Hoeing, one of my favorite hoeing tools. Yes? Lunch is ready. Oh, we're out of time. Okay, I'll wrap this up real quick. Can you keep it warm for 4 minutes? A DeWitt hand gardening tool. This is if you need to get down and just kinda see things a little better and go around a little plant. It's easy for getting around stuff. I put it up high so the kids don't run off with it. Two in case the kid runs off with one. Absolute favorite hose, stirrup hose. I also bought these at Johnny Seeds, I don't know. Glacier. Probably, I don't know. They make small ones for getting in between little plants, bigger ones all the way up to, this is probably what, 3.5, 4 inch? They make a 5 inch, they make even bigger ones. We have them somewhere. Kids have run off with them. Neverstink gritter for putting it on a, Josiah says this is the only one we use. The fine gritter, go over our garden beds and it marks where we're gonna plant our plants. You can change it out for bigger ones. All this game-changing from last year. Forgetting this— broccoli, cabbage, collards. We literally planted under this weed fabric, put— well, we put down, um, drip tape, put down the weed fabric, put the bug net over it, and basically walked away. Walked away, walked away until harvest time. Turned on the drip every once in a while. Overhead sprinkler if we need. I don't think we used it last year. We might be getting away from that thingamajigs hanging up in the greenhouse and pulling this down. We have trellis What are some other cool tools? Look, we found this. I'm glad to know we have this silage tarp repair kit from Farmer's Friends. Our silage tarps are some of our best friends, covering the garden, keeping it weed-free all winter until we're ready to plant in it. Jang seeder— only thing we use that for now is carrots. We basically only direct plant carrots and potatoes and garlic. Everything else gets started into seed trays and transfer it out. Broadfork, Meadow Creatures broadfork. We've destroyed some broadforks. It's hard work putting it down into the ground, levering it. Sometimes you're dealing with new ground and it's hard and compact, but you could basically take a sledgehammer to these Meadow Creatures broadforks and pound it in and then pound it up. So those are some of the tools of note. It's good we did this. We're good. We take inventory. It's not a fun job, it's not sexy. But it has to be done, and our spring selves will thank us. Now let's go eat. And 7 hours later, supper time. Supper time. How does it look, Mom? Delicious. Friends over. That is a happy day.