In this vlog, Victor (Speaker A) leads a family‑wide effort to transplant hundreds of brassica seedlings—broccoli, collards, cabbage—out of their starter trays and into garden beds in a single day. The motivation is to avoid the shortage they experienced the previous year and to secure an affordable, health‑rich food supply for the household. The video walks through the practical steps: laying weed fabric for the first time, stapling it at regular intervals, installing and adjusting drip‑line irrigation, setting up bug‑netting for a zero‑spray organic pest strategy, and soaking seedlings in fish fertilizer before planting. Throughout, various family members and helpers (Lily, Gideon, Annie, Rebecca/Beck, Mark, Jonah) take on specific tasks such as stapling, machine servicing, and weed pulling, illustrating skill‑sharing and community labor. Time pressure is a recurring theme, with the narrator constantly checking progress against a lunch deadline and a promised tea celebration. Despite fatigue and occasional setbacks (missing staples, spacing concerns, insufficient bug netting), the crew plants roughly 400‑plus brassica plants, achieving the goal of a year's worth of harvest in one day. The vlog ends with reflections on the hard work now paying off, the satisfaction of home‑grown produce, and a light‑hearted note about earning a nap instead of tea.
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Here is a year's worth of brassicas. We got collards, we got cabbage, we got mucho broccoli. Hundreds of plants have got to go out today. They're getting too big for their britches here, okay? They're gonna get root-bound inside of those trays. I don't know if it's possible, but we've got to try. Aim for the impossible, extraordinary things happen. We got to do it. We have to do it. More important than ever to us for these brassicas to be a success. It's health for our family. It's— well, it's affordable health for our family, right? It's affordable, uh, whole foods, extremely healthy because it's grown from our land, extremely fresh, great soil. Soil that these cows helped us build. Secondly, we ran out of this stuff last year. This year we're planting, what, 300 feet of broccoli alone because we ran out of it— broccoli, collards— a couple of months ago, and we don't want that to happen to us again. Sure, this is a lot of work. Right now, but it's going to be no work until we harvest. Basically, I want to staple this as we go so that we don't have the problems we had yesterday. I just lost all my work. The wind's a little bit crazy around here in the spring. Time out. Mark's here to service the machines. Somebody needs to be learning how to do that. Mark's here to service the machines. Could you go learn how to do that? It's good work. It's important work, man. You want to know how to do it. So we're growing stuff, we can build things. Repair is where we're weak, and we're working on that. One weed fabric down. Let's pin it. Straightening up the neighboring zip line— drip line that's getting in the walkway. This is our first year using weed fabric. Been gardening 20 years. Hopefully this is a game changer. Whoa, hey, rock! Y'all supposed to do it every 2 feet. I don't know if I have enough staples for that. Do it every 2 holes. Which I think is every 3 feet because I think they're 18 inches apart. Look who's here, Lily and Gideon! We're going every 2 holes. Thank you, you're my staple man. Hold this, set them in the middle, Lily. Set them out in the middle and then we can grab them for the next. Okay, if you want to lay our staples for the next one, that'd be great. Of course we have to have one at the end. Uh, we're not going to staple these yet because we're going to put our next weed fabric down one side of a weed fabric up. It's not the cleanest. I think we're getting the hang of it. I'm honestly asking myself, is it worth it? Like, it's not that hard to weed between broccolis and cabbage. But then I remembered the bug net. It's very hard to weed. You got to pull it off, weed it, put it back on. Helps that Gideon's come. Come on, we gotta keep you on track though. He's been helpful. And we got Annie. Yay for the smiling one! She's uncovering things. Oh yeah. These 3 rows broccoli, that's the goal today. If we get planted, you can quit early. How about that? Okay, just don't lose any. A lot of times the rule is just come and be with us. I don't care if you're playing, just be out with us. And then the farm is just associated with something that's good. And he's grabbing some weeds, prepping for the next tarp. Lily's doing a great job stapling. Should we check on Jonah's progress learning how to service the machines? They got you greasing? Nah, I was just doing it. All right, you learning where all these filters are and what they are? Yeah. What's that one? The water filter. Oh yeah, fuel. And it's a fuel filter. Well, we've got 3 down, 2 to go. But we got to drip them, put the drip line in. Can we do this by lunch? I don't know, we might have to— I don't think we're gonna plant them. Oh gosh, we won't. I think we can get the beds. Well, we're gonna have to get on it this afternoon. Maybe if we hustle, just maybe. Got the tape down. That didn't take too long. I think might catch us here is this 3-foot gap between these Next bed. We have some solid stuff. Oh hey, what? Not only do we have some solid, we have some more narrow. That's all we need, I think. I think that might fit right in there. Lucky day. Let me see that monster root. Yeah, see, that thing ain't never gonna die, was it? Nope. Lily, you're making a big difference here, girl. Hey, we've only got one more, Annie. Hey, Gideon, don't work too hard. Gideon, why don't you start planting? When you go get the plants, get the fish fertilizer a little bit in a bucket of water. Yeah, and we'll dip— we'll soak them before we plant them. We might actually get this done by 12. If that happens, I believe there are literally 250 plants of broccoli. That's 3 of the beds, so another 2 beds, it's probably, what, 150? So we're probably planting 500 plants. A lot of homesteading is about working out hard now so you can enjoy it later. Let me tell you, there's nothing like homegrown broccoli from your freezer in January. It's amazing. Hey, Inspector, what do you think? It looks great. I was just thinking, bug netting— do we have 500 feet of bug netting? And if not, I don't know. We have got to cover brassicas fast. Bugs get in them, you want to protect them. Zero spray approach, beyond organic. Don't even use organic sprays. So we have 3 50-footers, uh, maybe only 2. That one might be a little smaller. Here's our These little ones. Is that all we have? And then this. Yeah, we have some ribs. If we did 5 in a row or 10 in a row, every 5 feet— oh, we might have this. Beauty's gonna go find out if we can— well, we'll start planting broccoli. I think we can at least get it covered if you can do that without ruining the plastic. Okay, that's enough. Don't hit the plastic drip tape. You got to move it out of the way. 126 plants in one bed. We may have a problem because she told me to do 5 beds. There's not enough plants here, so something's off. It's time for lunch. Let's figure things out. Did our broccoli spacing look good out there? Yeah, planting in every hole. Yeah, yeah. Well, there's like 126 holes. That's fine. And there won't be— okay, what are you gonna plant with the extra space? I don't know. Acorn squash. We could do flowers. Acorn squash. Do I ever underestimate it? No, overestimate a job. Yeah, does the job ever take shorter than I thought? It's a lot of work. Okay, I'm gonna reward our— myself if I can get done before supper. We get to have some tea. You don't think we're even gonna get some tea for supper? I want some tea. You think this is gonna take 5 hours? I hope not. Let's see what we got. We've got 3 trays. That was 2 and a half, and we had Annie. Now it's just you and I. 3, 4 more trays right here. Lily's supposed to come out here in a little bit, so maybe we'll get Lily. Are these drills? It's called— are you making them up? No. Or did you look him up? Are they a thing? Yeah, this is Grand Prix. He's my grandpa. Okay, you look good. Jenna's up there working on his cabin. Proud of him. Cool thing about that is when I was about his age, I did roofing on it, and now he's doing roofing on it. Got tea on the line, honey. We gotta get done, and then we can have some tea for celebration. Oh my gosh, 2 beds. It's 2:30. I may have bitten off more than I can chew. I'm getting so tired. 4 trays we've done. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Shoot, we're not even halfway done. Don't forget that tea. We gotta make sure we get done by supper. Okay, we hurried up there. I think— did we just plant a tray in 10 minutes? We kind of picked up the pace. Do you got water? That's kind of hopeful. If we can plant a tray in 10 minutes, we could be done in 40 minutes. All right, we got a new energy. Annie's here. Last tray. I don't think we'll have enough to get 4 complete rows, maybe pretty close. We'll see. Look who's here! Rebecca, just in time to finish, to help us in our collapse here at the end. We need that new energy. The home stretch. We got one more tray. I keep telling myself, working real hard now, minimum work. Yeah, this is a year's worth of rest just for us. Gotta keep telling myself. We did it! 3 and a half froze through 400, 400-something-odd plants. And that's a year's worth of brassicas in a day. Not bad, not bad. Hey, it's working! Her ingenious idea to keep this tarp down until we get more sandbags. She's filling up the aisles, the walkways, pathways with water. I like it, Beck. Oh, it's working! I did not get tea, but I did get a nap. Even better. Beets from the land, cabbage soon to be from the land, never from the land, and that's okay. We're still gonna get the kids rice. Which one you want, London broil or chuck roast? Which one you like? I made them both. Either one. If it doesn't rain tomorrow, Rebecca, bug net. Happy day.
