Plant These Veggies NOW + Have Food In 60 Days

Happy Sunday seed day! Today showcasing 4 plants, planting a couple of them. Yeah, see, peas, they need to be transplanted, but these plants can be ready to eat within 60 days. We have lettuce planted, that's like a 45-day crop. 2 packs of lettuce, a pack of bunching onions, plus carrots, one of the very few things— carrots and garlic, the only thing we don't start by seed. Austin, I don't have the carrot pack. I'm gonna hold my hand here. Put some carrots in my hand. Movie magic! And it's okay if it's corny. Carrots and peas going in the ground today. Beauty planting more. There is a pack of dogs. I am a bit concerned. Well, and hopeful. Winnie, there's dogs out there, honey. There's like a pack of dogs. You go check it out, girl. It's supposed to rain. We badly need rain. We have the Western North Carolina fires, we're in a drought, it's windy. We need that rain, but I also need to beat that rain because it's hard to plant seeds in it. Go see those. Go see, go see what's going on. Did they smell you and leave? Did they smell your, your tracks? What's your vision?

I just built a suppressor for it.

Nice. I'm having a hard time lining it up.

Yeah.

Shoot, it's just— it's about to explode in weeds. I need to get that covered. It's getting towards the end of the winter and we are running out of our homegrown veggies. I mean, we're still good. I mean, we're okay on tomato sauce, but we're— look, Okay, yeah, yeah, our acorn squash is gone. Potatoes are gone. Sauce is dwindling. Garlic is near gone. In here, this is like our veggie freezer. Oh, I mean, hey, we're still doing okay on zucchini, but all our broccoli is gone. All our— how are we doing on beets? We have beets left. Oh, we still got some beets. We're about out of our puree squash. We're actually doing better than I thought. But of course, fresh is gonna always be nice. Some zip ties, huh? Is that not even ever strapped? We don't want this lady getting out. But anyway, we're having to buy— God forbid— some of our produce. And having to buy our broccoli. There it is, get us home, bud. And we're having to buy our lettuce. Where did this even come from? I mean, that's a little rough, right? Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania. Doubt this happened in Pennsylvania this time of year. I think I got that secured. Hey, what are you doing this morning? Yeah, what are you playing?

Oh, I'm playing Star Wars.

Okay, can you help me plant seeds a little later? Just a bit. Let me see your knife. Oh nice, this. How'd you get out? She was down in the compost, Posse. She's found her buddy in the breakfast pot. One of the simplest reasons we want to grow it ourselves— there are 4. One is the money-saving function potential. That head of lettuce, I don't know, whatever, head of lettuce, not 3, 4 bucks. You can buy a pack of 100 lettuce seeds for 3 or 4 bucks. Look at these beautiful eggs, clean because they have all these fresh wood chips. And notice how they've spread them out themselves. We just dump them in here. The chickens don't have the internet, they're bored, they spread these themselves. That's their high entertainment. That's 100x money savings. That can go a long way helping us pay off our house. That can go towards hurricane recovery, anything but grocery store produce, right? Rush minute. Hey, I like your trailer. Good job building that trailer, Jonah. This is a fifth wheel.

Yeah, that can—

that's okay for getting in a ride that way. It's not as hard on the machine. Jonah, is this wheel supposed to be like this? Did that just fall down? You have a real talent for making something out of whatever we have.

Yeah.

Real quick, Jonah needs me to start Lucky, our tractor, for a project they're working on today. The second reason we want to get these seeds in the ground in our soil is for nutrient density. That's our main reason for doing any of this is for our health. And this is going to be some of the most nutrient-dense stuff. It's grown in our soil, it's going to have more vitamins, it's going to be fresher. These ones from the truck might not be long enough. Are you going to be able to fit through here? Yeah. Boys are spreading leaves today on our barren land from the hurricane. Always get the long cables for farm use. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Named Lucky because we got a 50/50 chance. Lucky if she— lucky if she starts. Okay, well it's probably not that. You might have had your PTO engaged. Are you making sure you're in complete neutral and your clutch is down? Key on? Nothing. Everything is on. Oh, here's your problem. This is a loose connection. We were reestablishing our connection here, tightening it up. It isn't going to do anything. We don't know. It's the extent of our skills, but we'll take it to the brink. What'd you find? That these the wires were disconnected. You think? What's this? I think that's the alternator, which— yes, which is what starts it— which doesn't work. The alternator keeps the battery charged and we just have a pack. We don't have an alternator. Plug this in, let's try it. Because the alternator would just— it doesn't help it start, I don't think. It just helps it— the battery charges the battery after I start. You think the battery is just that dead? Well, it should charge the truck. It could be still our connection's weird. Jiggle the battery cables while I try it. Hmm, I think it's above our pay grade. Try to get Mark out here. What do you think? Let's go. You gonna help feed the piglets?

Might as well see if they come up.

Maybe we should do the— later. Maybe we should do the carrots first because—

oh wow, look at these, they've grown!

I know, they gotta go out.

They like really grew overnight and even they— oh my goodness, but these were not this big. And then look at our broccoli, they're gonna go out soon too. They're gonna go out I think within a week. Look at these wasps, is this not wild?

Caught the wasps.

They're like trapped in here.

Maybe they'll eat the ones that get the brassicas.

So we didn't have some good germination, so we replanted. And so then they're little itty-bitty ones. You see them? Yeah, itty-bitty ones coming up. But that's good because we didn't have enough cabbage. We're planting is 1,800 seeds.

Okay, so it should be enough. Hopefully we'll have some put in the raised bed. Get in, get the, uh, janks. Get the jank seeder out. This is the trick for planting carrots. Get it out. Might still even be set up for carrots. Okay, I think these are the, uh, various gears that we could use depending on what seed we're doing, and they're all here. That's good. Elevate it on what? Starting to rot this metal. Lucky day. Okay, and it's got all the seat settings in it. That's all of them, all 5 trays. Are we gonna do peace first then?

Um, no, I was just getting them over here.

Okay, X24, the X24 wheel. How are you finding out what— which one to use?

I usually Google it, but I'm using Grok today.

Grok's the new Google.

It feels like it suggests It's easy to tell. It's just like a search engine, really.

Yeah, it is. What is that?

11 and a half. So this is sprocket 11, this is sprocket 10. So the rear one is 11, the front sprocket is 10, and we're using a 24-hole, right? Yes.

Yeah, the X24.

So that means that it puts them at 1.8 inches apart.

Like, well, like, use it like once a year. We use it twice, so you get rusty.

We use it twice because we use it for corn and we use it for which they should start. I'm going to start corn.

You shouldn't try— you shouldn't direct seed corn either. That gives us an inch spacing.

It gives us one.

And how many go in a bed? 4?

Yeah, I think so.

So we probably need to raise up our plow, our digger, because we probably need to raise up our digger because look how deep it's going. An inch. Casey Oswitch, Honey Tree Farm Master Gardener, told me plant those carrots shallow. 1 inch is not shallow.

Close to the roller but not so tight.

What's the sprocket supposed to be? Oh, we haven't even—

prepare the hopper, remove the guide plate if using mouthpiece. I don't know which sprocket to— is this the right sprocket?

I don't think you can change that out. Can it be adjusted?

Yeah, it goes up and down, so I put it down low.

Yeah, it has— I guess it has to be low enough to scrape them out of that, huh? See, the seed. I think so. I mean, we'll have to watch it and see if it's catching seeds. Or seeds fall down in this, this spins, and there's a brush that prevents the extras from falling through, and only the seeds that are in these holes to get through. I lowered the plow.

We might not have time to—

I raised it because it was low. Put it a half inch below the wheels. Rebecca, this This covers it back up when you're done.

Yeah.

Well, dude, how steep do you do it? You know, I don't know. You don't do it like that. I think that's a moving situation. Probably just lightly. How are we gonna make sure we go in a straight line? Just do the best we can. Okay. Scarlet Nantes, 6 inches between rows. Okay, so 4, you could do 5. Might do 4 so you can go in through there with a 4.

I think he does. And then, yeah, I feel like we only did 4 before.

Let's do that. He's the master. Yeah, that's 4. Our buddy Casey has really got gardening down. He is so good at it. We keep this on the carrot setting since it's the only thing we put in there. It'd be better. I think it is the only thing we I have the kids direct seed or transplant corn. Okay, what are you gonna try?

I'm just gonna push it and see if only one comes out at a time. Do you see?

Yeah, bunches are coming up.

Oh really?

Yeah, all the time. Now what are we gonna do, pick all those up?

So I guess it'll be fine.

That's right. I guess, I guess that's what it is.

This is what it's gonna be.

We'll just thin them out. Yeah. Hopefully you have enough carrot seeds. Wait, where'd you get those?

I had these. They're a different breed.

Oh, okay.

They're different kinds. So let's just do this and we'll go— this is lemony, and then we'll pour this in.

Okay, if we run out. Yeah, those are in your root cellar.

These are— yeah, yeah, I, I keep all my seeds in the root cellar. Okay, so, um, these are the Bolero and these are Scarlet Mantis. Okay, peas will go in this one, carrots will go in that one. I had originally flipped them.

Okay, okay.

Yeah, because then we can use that cover because to germinate—

after we plant carrots, we need to cover them up. Casey said for a week about this time, but if we want to play until they germinate—

but see, I had peas there. Okay, so I was like, let's just switch.

Yeah, yeah, switch them. We pulled this tarp up And this is new ground. It's done what it's supposed to do. It sprouted all these weeds. Look at this, look at this. And we're talking, if we go in and hoe like she did here, it just moved it. It's probably going to reseed. We're going to give ourselves extra measure. You hoe, we'll hoe, and then we'll torch it. Or should we torch it first? Oh, because they're all exposed right here. Let's torch it first. Okay, look at all these guys. And then hoe it. It's gonna be a battle no matter what because this is new ground. This is old beds that we're not gonna have the problems we had. I should have fried them, Rebecca. I did not do by the leaf pile because that could just engulf in the flame. The thing about torching I had to learn is they're still there, but they will shrivel. They're gonna shrivel and dry out, dehydrate. It's starting to drizzle. Rebecca's phone says 12:15. Well, it's only 12:45, a little early. It'd be nice to get the carrots in at least. We could probably plant the peas in the rain. Carrots, we would need to get done before the rain comes. We could get the carrots planted, Rebecca, and let it rain on it. Can you guys hear that? It's starting to hit that. It probably wouldn't take, what, 10 minutes to do the seeding with the carrots, Rebecca?

Probably.

And then we could let nature wet it. You're supposed to wet the carrots after, and then we cover it. Let's try it before the soil gets sticky. This is fine, it's not too wet. You want to— you don't want to wash out the seeds, but you want your soil to get wet.

Yeah, this nice little frame here. Look at this! Oh, this is so exciting! Carrots! Yeah, I know you don't like planting carrots.

I don't mind the planting, it's the weeding that's coming.

He's not excited. But do you want me to fix the—

it's not the planting, this is fun. It's the weeding that's going to come, especially in this new—

yeah.

We made it! We can keep this uncovered so long as it doesn't start raining harder.

Yes, so we're gonna— we'll keep— don't— you got it underneath the thing. Um, as long as it's lightly misting like this, lightly raining, we'll keep it uncovered. We'll watch the rain. If it starts really coming down, we're gonna come and cover this back up, and we will moisten it ourselves just You want it moist under the tarp. And, um, yeah, here's to— here's to a good carrot season.

Just a little tiny drizzle. Great for carrots, bad for the North Carolina wildflowers. Great for planting peas later. Let's have some lunch. Oh, and we found a fifth plant. That we can plant now, beets, that will be done within 60 days.

4 PM is heavy rain.

Okay, so it's gonna be light rain before that. All right, so I think I can get these other things planted then if it just keeps up like this. He's so much taller. Crazy. He's like 4 inches taller than you. Our firstborn. Why don't we go plant peas? Everybody plant peas. You really gonna wear a sweater out there? Okay.

I got cold.

Okay, we have a new deadline. It's gonna rain at 4, but the college basketball March Madness games are on at, uh, 2:20. We care zero about that really, but it's just fun.

We've been having fun.

It's just something different and we kind of have parties.

We don't watch basketball at all.

Hey, since you guys have gone old, you've watched Super Bowl and now basketball. I know, right?

Never watched any of that for so long.

I know, but it was fun. It's a party.

Stay home, stay home party.

Yeah, we're just our family. Okay, all right, so put the time clock on, Austin. It's 12:45. 2:20. So that's an hour and a half. You're getting distracted, bro. Ping pong, come on. Hey, we need to plant peas. Hey, what's the pea plan? Huh? Get me the T-post, bro.

There's like 9.

All right, come help me put them in. All right, Lily, T-post on either end. Hey, looky here. Here come the strapping young boys, and it might be a deluge at 4, huh? T-post on either end. If I put one on each end and then we draw our trellis, we put the other ones that way, we can get it straight for sure. The second reason for growing at home is it's chemical-free. Like, we're not even putting organic-approved chemicals or additives. This is like beyond no spray. Hopefully we have enough of this left. This trellis, it's folded. Let's just go with that, put it on there until we unwind it, and then we'll know where to cut it. Look at that, perfect! You kidding me? 2 inches spared. Hey, what— hey, people want to know what this trellis is.

Jute.

Jute.

Jute. J-U-T-E. Uh, trellis net.

Okay, we got everybody out here. Everybody's working together all at the same time. A rarer and rarer event, but we're all exactly working on the exact same project. Right, this might be soft enough. So 6 inches apart on either side, zigzagging them. Do one right here at the end. Yeah, yeah, you're gonna need a shovel. This is great. Forgot about our drill, probably also from Johnny Seeds. The trick here is to find the bottleneck. It's not going to be in drilling the holes.

They're coming out pretty good. I mean, the, this, the soil isn't super packed, so it's kind of coming off, but it's not nothing bad.

I see we're sticking with those Never Sink, yeah, reusable wind strip trays. Yeah, Lily's planting fast. Do you like peas?

Kinda.

Jonah likes gardening when it involves machines. All right, planted 50 feet of peas every 3 inches. Can't make this stuff up. We just finished and it's starting to drizzle again. This is great, just in time. And those peas need it, they're dry. I have to make this now. Nice. Look at this. We made it in time for the game. Looks like kind of a lame one. Tennessee 12, Houston 29. Come on, this is the Elite 8, shouldn't we be closer than that? And it didn't turn into much of a party. I'm the only one here and I'm cutting up the chicken for tonight's meal. But this is going to be a reflection of what we have to look forward to from the land. I mean, the chicken's from the land, but the veggies that we're about to concoct with this— wait till you see it. What is going on?

I'm not sure.

It's puffy.

They're really puffy.

Those onions?

Yeah, it's fried onions. So I am basting this Is that what they started out as? Yeah. All right, so I'm basing this on Zaxby's. I have not had Zaxby's in a very long time, so I looked it up, like a copycat recipe basically, and it said that they put red onions on it.

Oh my gosh! And I was like, oh, look at the nuggets. This— these are a couple of things we just planted today. I mean, these are boughten, but pretty soon not to be. This, it just lacks story. I mean, I guess that would be a reason, um, to grow it ourselves, certainly just for the story. But, uh, also I would say freshness, no preservatives. We're not worried about a pill being on the, the produce. These are all good reasons for growing it ourselves. And with these veggies, it grows fast and you're quickly in something fresh. How much more excited would we be when this is our lettuce and our carrots? I know carrots from the garden, they're just so good. I won't blow it up your butt, man. You can't— sometimes you can't beat the store for taste. Carrots, you can certainly beat the store for taste.

Tomatoes, I will say, when I buy store-bought carrots even in the bag in the springtime, they taste way better than any other time of the year.

Oh yeah.

Um, but because they're probably really fresh. Yeah, but homegrown carrots taste so good.

I guess that's the 5th reason. 5th reason, just taste. So we've made zaxbys at home.

Don't complain.

Homemade ranch. Hey boys, we're having vegetarian tonight. Onions are the base. Look at that. Boom. And that is a happy day.