Garden Plants Yellowing! No More

We have some yellowing of our leaves, so after talking with our buddy Casey Ostwich, Honey Tree Farm Master Gardener, he said, well, start by picking off the leaves. But check it out, we spread that mulch yesterday. This looks super nice. This is the key if you're gonna need chickens in one place all the time, to give them a run with deep bedding. They will manure on this. It's like a carbonaceous diaper, as Joel Salatin would say, and eventually the stuff below turns into compost. So it's healthier environment for the chickens, it doesn't stink, and we end up with compost.

Yes, I found— I found almost red strawberry.

Oh really? Where?

Give it to Mama. Yeah.

Okay. Oh, on our old strawberry patch.

There's one here.

Oh, nice.

Come back here.

Nice. Think it'll be ready by tomorrow for Mom's birthday? What? Look. Okay, you did, you did. Okay, let's save that and you guys can surprise Mom in the morning. No, don't pull it yet. Let it ripen a little bit more. You do have one, bro. Give it to your mom in the morning, okay? Yeah, don't let— no, he loves, he loves fruit. Get him out of here. Let me grab the scissors real quick. Josiah, the garden is gonna have to wait. We gotta get chickens out. I'm coming for you, my lovely. Good morning! How are my cage fighters doing? Good. I want you guys to notice something here. You don't think this ground is going to be So much better. Sheep poop, chicken poop, cow poop everywhere. Mucho everywhere.

Imagine a person coming in here barefoot.

I know, you probably don't want to do that, do you? Yeah. Gideon, will you carry my kickstand? Thank you. Well, hey, our rooster got out yesterday. I wonder if it has something to do with that. The fence is down. Josiah, will you carry our waterer? Yeah, it's just a beautiful morning. Yellow leaves in our garden are most likely a sign of, well, lack of nitrogen. Besides just ripping off the yellow leaves, Casey said to put a foliage, uh, fertilizer on them. Parked it here to get some water. Josiah has our water. Do you know where Josiah went? We were going to clean it out. I bet he went over there. Hey, you're over here cleaning it. Good deal, good deal. You're gonna— okay, you got it. Yeah, so Casey uses like a I think it's a seaweed. So I asked the beautiful one, well, can we use urine, the fertilizer mix, the, the 1 part urine, 20 parts water? Can we do that? Well, the beautiful one talked to Mr. Google Pants a little bit. Here, let's, let's work and talk. And she, she found out maybe it's— maybe urine gold, gold, uh, liquid is very close to commercial fertilizer. And it's sterile, but it's maybe not the best foliage spray. Foliage, guys, meaning, uh, it's— it goes on directly on the leaves as opposed to the roots and the soil. They said it's better for that, and it's a little— it's better for putting on the soil, and it'd be a little hard to not get it on the leaves at this stage. So we'll err on the side of precaution and we'll keep my liquid gold for the strawberries and asparagus. You got your water ready? Okay, let me throw this to chickens. I'll bring the coop around. So it makes me wonder though, why, why is it really kind of just this, this kale? My kale down in the Instant Garden Miracle is doing good. My lettuces are doing good. Spinaches, the cabbage is doing fabulous. No yellow leaves. Well guys, this is the highest spot of my garden, I can imagine. So it's— I think probably most— my guess is most of the nutrients are further down this way, and this is maybe in need of more. Like, if when the chickens were here, this is not where their manure is going to end up. It's going to end up somewhere down in there, you know, some compost washing down. So that's my best guess. And what they won't eat eventually turns to compost. Beautiful system. We're down here. Josiah, where's your feed? Oh, we still have it. Okay, um, you got it ready though? Okay, I'll put that up if you want to run get your feed. One big scoop. All right, what's, uh, what's the scissors for? Well, the rooster, now that I look at it, probably just walked over the fence, but Casey didn't. Casey flew over. Oh, really? Shoot, he's got one full wing. You sure the other one's clipped? Yeah, okay. So he probably didn't fly over, he probably walked over. We were going to clip his wings in case he's jumping over the fence, but I guess he's— he's not. I guess he walked through. All right, piggies, good work there. Hey, Rebecca, we planted seed just in time. A nice light rain last night put down our hay mulch. That's just gonna explode. Seed explosion!

Yay!

They're letting me pet them straight off the bat. Did you forget that day I caught you? Maybe not. Still remember it a little bit. You'll get used to me. You'll get used to me. What's the plan in here today, honey? I'm just gonna, um, what do you plan today?

I don't think anything.

Oh my gosh, call the Inquirer!

I'm just This, um, this tray got knocked over last night. So when we were putting them in.

Yeah, so one of the problems with not being able to transplant out is, well, we had the pot up and you got to put every single one of these out.

Oh yeah, and like—

and then you got to put them all back.

Yeah, twice a day, and then the mishandling of them, like you run into the doorframe and they fall or whatever. It's just a pain.

You were never afraid of a little hard work though.

No, we have never been afraid of hard work.

All right, you want to help her, Lily, while I go get the— I realize the cows are not here, and I realize I forgot the filter. I left— I brought the filter down. I need to take the filter back up. Lily, you about ready to do that? Just one second. What I would have done if the beautiful one would let me— look, we've got— I've measured out 15 parts water. So we need to see about where that is so we don't have to measure it out every time. So it's about an inch over the warning, and I put 15 parts to this water. So you do 1 part urine to 10 to 20 parts water. So let's go in the middle with 15. Oh, this is human and cow manure, which we have plenty of. There we go. Let's put 1 part in there. There, that's our Liquid gold.

What is it for?

Well, it's a fertilizer for plants that are in the ground that you can put on the ground, on like around the roots. Uh, it's a long time till we eat these. Let's continue to use it on our asparagus and strawberries. Jonah, where's the blue water bucket? Watering can. Okay, thank you, Grandma. Okay, let's put this back. She gives us this gift about every day Aunt Phyllis does. And manure.

We got our trio.

Aunt Phyllis is ready. Uh-oh, what's going on here? Let's check our chicks real quick. Donuts, an explosion! All right, how are they doing? You know what, if you're not testing, you're guessing. It's their 2-week-old birthday, Lily. That means they go to grass in, uh, 1 week and our freezer in 6 weeks. But we need, we need to weigh them. We— it might be time to start restricting feed at night. They're just 2 weeks old. It looks like they're huge. Huge. Just 2 weeks time. How are the pulps doing, my girl? Yeah, they're actually— the chicks are actually bigger than the chickies. Nice, they'll grow big. Yeah, they're taller. They're about as tall, aren't they?

Oh my gosh, look at those feathers.

Has anybody died?

No, I don't think so. Nice.

What are you doing?

Sifting grit.

Oh, I like it. Let's get the, the fine, the fine rocks.

All you have to do is just get a shovel load and you can get— you're gonna have gravel.

Really? Yeah, that's nice. And that's full of minerals. All right, good deal. Hey Jonah, when you get done with that, will you go get me the scale? It's under the silver thing in the kitchen. We're gonna weigh your chips.

My lesson's after that. Papa, here's some good grit.

Oh my God, that's like perfect grit for those little guys. Give some to the turkeys too.

Oh yeah. Oh, here's a potato.

Thank you guys. All right. Whoa, okay, okay, okay, Lily. Can you come get her off, Alpha? She's got a protest. Okay, we'll get it, we'll get it. So yeah, Jonah reminded me, yeah, he's got his online— he's got a special online homeschool lesson today, so he won't be able to weigh those chicks. We got to weigh the chicks, we've got to, uh, deal with those yellow leaves, we got to milk the cows and go on about our lives. Spring, you gotta really learn how to prioritize.

I gave her 3 scoops.

Okay, good. Give her— go ahead and give her all of them and mix in the supplements.

Thank you.

Come on, ladies, milking time's over. Let's go. Come on. Come on, pit stop. Come on, you got water. Where are you going? We've come from the barn, walking them through this lane all the way to the pasture across the street. Jonah got them this morning, so I'm not sure what they— what— how it's set up. How you guys doing? Happy? Very happy. Okay, he left this open, which is good. Okay, good. And this Look, she's just waiting. She knows exactly where to go. All right, go ahead. Hang on, guys, I got some more coming for you. And the spring grass is growing fast, so we're moving the animals fast. Big paddocks. That's probably why you guys are giving me 2 and a— 2 gallons and a quarter each, huh? Like 4.5 gallons now. So we're even moving them twice a day, the cows. We're gonna try to get Hamburger out, but that's— there we go, there we go, there we go.

Is that Moose?

I know, I'm not— I'll block Moose, I'll block Moose. There we go, there we go. All right, we got Hamburger back up with his mom. He can have her all day, separate her at night, we get the morning milk. All right, I got our milk up. What are we doing? This is the show of the day. Grid is here. They had one pole that got kind of washed out in the creek and they're having to replace it. Hip hip hooray for the grid! Although we will be out without power for about an hour and a half today. That's where a nice generator would come in. Soon, soon, we got it covered. Soon. Until then, this is our emergency generator. I don't think we'll need it though for an hour and a half outage. But we're gonna need something a lot bigger than that. It's coming. Is this a good show or what? They're putting the pole in. Wow, right next to the road. Okay, breakfast. Where are the boys? They still watching?

They're in the tree.

They're in the tree watching. Oh, this is an exciting homeschool lesson today, isn't it? Big trucks working everywhere. This is a little boy's dream. I know. One. 1, 2, 3. 3 big trucks, cherry pickers. 100 days of growing food, Rebecca. These potatoes will— this is what, day 5, 6? These potatoes will soon be from our land. But the yogurt and eggs, soon to be onions, cultured cream from the land, soon to be cabbage sauerkraut. Oh my gosh, we're doing good. So right now— oh, spinach, spinach. So right now I'd I'd say half-ish, a little more than half. And there's a broth. Is this not amazing? This is the cut. Guys, when we eat whole foods, when you eat whole foods, at some point you realize that's what you can grow on your farm easy. I mean, it's hard to grow mac and cheese. Hard to grow noodles. Rice. It's easy to grow this. Well, easy, that's a very strong word. It's not easy, but it's possible and fulfilling. So how is it, Jonah? Worth our work?

Yeah.

Okay, they're about to cut the power. Thankfully Rebecca's got me this battery backup, so we'll actually still be able to work on the computer. It's official, we're out of power, and this is where the generator would just automatically kick in. And we'd still be rolling. Bad weather, certain, uh, people servicing the grid, whatever.

We're stuck to the grid.

Yeah, but not forever. We're gonna get us a generator. Okay, so, um, we got our work done inside. Let's do it. Let's measure. Let's weigh these chicks. All right, power came back on and then they went— it went off again. They're working on— now they've got a huge hole in our driveway, and they're, I guess, attaching the stuff to that pole. Hey Jonah, have you checked on these guys in a while? Oh, their light's out. So hey, we're gonna have to leave the top door open since the power's out, and hopefully one day put a panel in this roof and we'll have natural light in here. Hey, does this mean they've eaten all their grit already?

Yeah.

Goodness. What about the turkeys? Check. Are they still good?

They're still good on it.

Okay, okay, grab me a chick. Do you think it'll actually stay on this? Let's try it. Oh good, it's staying. Okay, 7.2 ounces. Okay, Lily, bring the next one please. Put it on. Put him on there. Or we don't know. 6.6.8. All right guys, give me one more. Hold on, hold on, Josiah. All right, 7.1. Okay. All right, this is where I want to be today. This is going to be my happy place. Lily, this is our happy place together. We're getting those yellow leaves off. Okay, we're gonna put them in a bucket and feed them to the chickens. Okay, that didn't take long. That was very fulfilling. We'll see how it goes. Hop out of the bucket, Mr. Brown. Come on, come on. There you go. Okay, let's go. We gave the— your posse some greens. Let's give Jonah's posse these. Thanks to Fresh Wood Chips, we've got some wood chips in our run, which makes it a lot more comfortable for these guys. Here you go. There you guys. Some grains. The boys just got the cows on new grass right here, right outside our back door, back window. Perfect length, recovered but not yet gone to seed. We hit this one just right. All right, you ready? Is that your tool of choice?

Which one?

Well, that's, that's whichever one needs it the most. Maybe those onions on the left. All right, we're gonna have to call it for right now. It looks like it's gonna rain and we really need to make sure the boys get the sheep move, so I'm gonna go help them make sure that happens. Things like this can wait. Sheep move cannot wait. Hi, how are you guys doing?

Good. Could you carry this?

Are you gonna set that up? Yeah, for a lane.

Yeah. Okay, I'll show you where you—

looks like you got the net up. We just have to get them across the road. Are we gonna run them back into the lane or are we gonna walk them up this? I think we're gonna walk them up this. All right, Josiah, we got that lane up. Let's put up a quick fence. Josiah, you open that up pretty wide and I'll get this quick fence up. All right, we got our quick fence up. John, are you gonna open it up and call them? Okay. All right, Josiah, you stand right there to make sure they don't come back down the lane. I will. How peaceful. Look at those Guys, gals, good. You're getting in the routine, aren't you? And it is— he is a very beautiful calf bringing up the rear.

They're feeling saucy.

It's a storm coming on, just the right weather. to feel a little saucy. Beauty and her sheep.

This is Belle.

What's the shot glass, Beck? You having a party?

I brought the Basic H. Okay. To put it in. So it's 1.5 teaspoons to 5 gallons.

Nice. And that's a natural dewormer?

Yeah.

Preventative?

It's a stomach dewormer.

We learned that trick from Joel Salatin, but for cows. I need to do the cows too, but it works for sheep. It does. And it works for dogs. You got to use the Basic H, like the original Basic H, not that modified one. Oh look, I just saw her so quick.

She calls it— I can't remember what the other one's called. And then, um, it's only available in a 5-gallon bucket.

Yeah, so that's how you got the right one. If you found Basic H in a 5-gallon, you're good. Um, so how often are we gonna do that? Joel does his cows every 2 months.

It'll be, um, I can't remember what, what it said, but it won't be every 2 months.

Every 3 months maybe.

There's mint growing around here.

Is she eating it?

No, but she's just Maybe she'll eat it, I don't know.

Oh look, they're done! Looks like they're done. Yep, just in time for supper. Okay, there's what it's all about. Now that is beef in there.

It is.

And we are moving them every day now. Now that's a good reminder. Every, every day, twice a day, we get reminded of why we're doing this, don't we? Oh, and the lettuce. And soon-to-be tomatoes and onions, cilantro. Oh my, yep, poor the beautiful one, she's got to make her own birthday cake for tomorrow. But nobody like makes them like you do, do they?

Well, I was gonna do it earlier, but we had the electricity issues.

Yeah, so are you doing the yellow cake? I'm doing from Celebrations.

I'm doing the yellow cake but with my, my spice nut in it.

Okay, that's your custom.

That's our birthday cake at this house.

Okay, all right, good. So it's her birthday tomorrow. And another quick announcement, I've been working on some projects. Uh, I'll give you one example, like I'm putting more into the member area. I just posted in the group on how I can help people design. Uh, do they have any design questions, and I'm doing really thorough answers. But because I'm working on these projects, uh, I freed up our time, so I'm shooting simpler films and other people are editing. Rebecca has stepped up to the plate. Thank you, Rebecca. Jonah has stepped up to play. He did the rough edit on one the other day, and we've hired our friend Dan Omen at you guys might know him from the Grass Fed Homestead YouTube channel, to edit some as well. So moving forward, I feel like you guys should know who edited it. We'll give proper credit, so we'll at least leave it in the description of the video. Maybe we'll embed it in the video itself, we'll see. Uh, but just thought, being fully transparent, just to let you guys know that. Uh, and that frees us up for more farming and more special projects and more info about that very soon. So you guys have a good day. We'll see you tomorrow for this one's 41st. So you're not gonna let me pee on the plants? Did you get us our fertilizer today?

No, I'm actually gonna go to a nursery because I want to get some plants to put out and kind of like decorate the Okay, flower up the chicken area. So I need to go buy some pots and some plants. Um, not tomorrow, but maybe Thursday.

Okay, it's the Neptune fertilizer.

Neptune Harvest. Okay, that's what he recommended.

Okay, because people be wanting to know, I'm sure. And I got info on our chicks. I weighed them. They're supposed to be, uh, 8/10 of a pound. So that would be 4, uh, 4/5. 0.8 pounds. They're supposed to be 0.8 pounds. They're a little over a half a pound, so we're a little under right now. So we're just going to keep on feeding them, uh, 24/7. Sometimes they can get eaten too much. We have to monitor it, and then you have to restrict the feed. So we're going to keep socking it to them and catch up.