In this informal vlog, Victor (Speaker A) and Rebecca walk through the end-of-spring garden cleanup and preparation for a fall/winter harvest on their small farm. They first clear the mature spring beds, feeding the plant residue to pigs and chickens instead of tarping it, and relocate the animals to a new paddock. They discuss the tight timeline for planting cold‑hardy crops before daylight shortens, noting they have until mid‑July to get these crops in the ground. The duo then improvises a mobile vegetable‑washing station using a turkey brooder cover, a sink, and hardware cloth, while simultaneously harvesting onions, garlic, and carrots. Rebecca uses milk crates and hardware cloth to cure onions and store garlic. The segment ends with a quick fried‑green‑tomato cooking demo, highlighting family involvement and the ambition to clear, prep, and plant the entire garden in a single day.
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What you saw there was me cutting our old garden. We need to use it for our winter harvest garden. Things have come into maturity. We're harvesting that. Instead of just harvesting it, tarping it, and getting it ready for the next— let's feed it to the pigs and chickens. Now that the spring garden's done, The timing is so that we don't have enough time to bring the animals in, clear it off, and then cover with a silage tarp for a couple of weeks and then plant. How satisfactory that is to clear a garden, give sustenance to my animals.
Let's get everybody up.
You're a little comfortable under that blanket, huh? Oh, you're up, you're up and at them, up and at them. That's where the pigs are. I want to show you where the pigs were just one week ago. I just keep on getting excited about this best guess. Can you tell? Look, grass, grass is coming up. Okay, okay, all right, all right, they're fussing at me. I gotta get them moved. I feel like they did a good till job right there. Can you dump that or do you need help? Oh well, good, good. We lure them over in the new paddock to feed, get them some feed, and then hurry up and, uh, move the fence. This wall can stay right where it is. Okay, so it's now open. Let's get the bucket here. He doesn't want to go through that, so go around that, buddy. That's pretty neat. He didn't even go through this when it was down. Okay, well, we made it all the way around. We've got them enclosed so we can Breathe a relief. We got to bring our fence, you know. No, you know what we can do, Jonah? Let's just run our excess that way and we can keep our Energizer way out there in the sun. We need to come in very soon, Jonah, and clear this out. It's going to be quite— these are some bigger trees. When Rebecca sat down to plan the fall garden, the frustrations were evident. Boom! Breakfast time. Eggs and sausage. Folks are knocking it out. No rest for the weary. Not this time of year. This is the new— summer is the new spring. You know that? Yep. It's time to plant the fall harvest.
Well, now that July 4th has passed.
Yeah.
And we're over that.
Yep. And that means we got to get on it, like planting this week.
Yep. I realized that we could have planted our spring garden earlier when I went to go plan our fall garden.
We basically have till mid-July to get all the— the cold hardy crops in so that they'll get to maturity by the time the light is short enough it's not going to grow anymore and cold frost comes and we'll They'll be grown up and matured and we'll cover them up, harvest them all winter.
Well, we're— right in the middle to end of fall garden planting and the garden still had our spring stuff in it, so we have to— pull all that out and we would like to use our animals to help prep the garden, but that's not possible now since— we're behind.
Now, we weren't gonna let that stop us. Stop us. We've never been one to give up very easy. This afternoon, what and how to go about dealing with this garden. Uh-oh, you know what, for sure, Rebecca, we gotta pull everything. We could certainly pull the onions. Yeah, like if you want something to pull the onions and put— we already have the drying rack.
Okay, um, we need to put the stuff on this, the top one. I bought it, the hardware cloth.
Oh, you do have hardware cloth?
I bought hardware cloth at Lowe's.
Yeah, well then we have stuff to make a, um, a washing station too.
I could probably, um, get the garlic and put it in just like a milk crate. Okay, because the bottom—
because you think the garlic's done? Oh, do you know where a milk crate is?
Yeah, I think so.
What if we cleared and prepped this entire garden bed and then direct seeded it all by hand? Well, with hand tools. I did— I think if you pulled up the garlic, you could put the onions where the garlic is, and that would be the— that'd be something we could do. We have what, maybe an hour? So yeah, um, so I'm gonna try to make fried green tomatoes. Okay, for these carrots, you're wanting to— I can get you the butchering sink, and I think we need to wash—
let me start with the onions. Yeah, and see how far.
Okay, okay. But then that— I'm— you're going to be doing that while I do something else, so I could be setting up a sink for you. Okay, because is that not a good idea that we would use that sink eventually, like especially with the 200 feet of carrots? Down there, right? But we harvested the onions that were in there and set them up to cure. This your crate?
Yeah, I gotta figure out how it goes. I hope it's big enough.
Yeah, how many do you have of those? Um, probably need two, but maybe—
oh, I think it goes, it goes like that, goes up.
Okay, like this. All right. And then I somehow managed to slap together a washing station. This will be good. Mobile. Take it on over there. I wonder if this sink will fit in the trailer. It's hanging— what, we on by— I don't know. Okay, no, that's not gonna work. This is as close as we're gonna get. All right, got our sink. I wonder if I should start working on a washing table, like a 1-inch wire mesh top washing table. Well, look at this. We have that broody— this was for the turkey cover— we could use as a wash stand. Yeehaw! That was an easy setup. A turkey brooder cover on horses. A big trough to soak it in. You know, I don't even know if we're gonna need this sink. I'm thinking dip it in this, put it on here, hose it down. That easy. Our slap-together mobile veggie washing station. Rebecca, we must have done something right, babe. You got fried green tomatoes. That's right, first time this season. Let's see you try one.
All right, what's the matter? Not as good as corn, but my favorite.
So what flour did you use for Gaps?
Almond flour.
Almond. You like fried green tomatoes, Grandma?
I'm gonna find out.
Oh, you never had any? No. Let's see you try one. Pressure's on. Camera's on. Oh yeah. Where'd you get all the garlic cloves?
It's ours.
Is it?
Yeah, we dried them out. Oh, that's delicious.
Wow. Big Daddy, have you had one?
I gave you one on your stack.
What do you think?
Here, take it. Lily, help me.
Kids love it.
Oh, that's good.
Mom and Pop love it. Grandma and Big Daddy love it. Now you'll want to watch tomorrow's video, the next video. We're gonna attempt to clear it, harvest it, prep it by hand, and plant it all in one day. Ambitious, I know, but it's in aiming for the impossible that we get extraordinary stuff done.
I can't believe we grew carrots. Like, it's just so exciting.
