We Finished Planting 2,400sqft of Spring Grocery Garden

She's getting along well with that. It's all that's left is Stud Muffin's leg. You gnawing on that? You taking your time on it? Is there a more beautiful sight? That's a good idea, you just put them on the roof. How do you get that off? All right, you just get it off. How'd Vanilla do today in the stanchion? Good. Did you have to tie it? That collar work good for tying it? They've got it to where— oh, that's perfect. You can strap it together with that, and then it's a much more narrow— Sam, where were you yesterday? Oh, are you a giver? Where are you guys going? Why are they all coming back? Who knows? Hey, man, he's not sure if he's interested in the ladies yet. You know, he says some interest in the ladies, not full-on yet. Oh, just wait till one of them comes in heat. He-Man, say, I'll go when I want to. This is the excitement of my day. I'm gonna enjoy it. Guys, we're missing the gas cap again. Hey, my wild man. Hey, my wild man. You know what Joel Salatin says about you? Yeah, you're an entrepreneur. You know how you do that? Because you've got your own ideas. Where y'all going in 25 minutes?

Home.

Home to do what? School. All right, what's the school today? I guess I just need to practice my speech for today and study vocabulary, and then I have my class later. All right, you want to practice your speech on me? Um, morning! What you up to?

Oh, horses.

How do you get that to them in the field?

Their buckets.

Yeah, but how do you get it to where the cows don't bother them?

They don't bother them.

Let's see, peaches. I'm afraid has become too much for Lily. He's not been behaving and riding. It's developed into a bit— the trainer wouldn't call it a full-on buck, but it's a little bit of a buck. We're going to be looking at our options for Peaches. One is a vet today to make sure there's nothing like wrong wrong. That one's Peaches, that one's Blaze. Blaze doing fine?

Yeah, except wind sucking.

Yeah, he wind sucks. They call that wind sucking when he gnaws on this, or cribbing when he gnaws on the stall door. Although I'm afraid he might be gnawing on the milk sled. We're hoping him being out in the field moving every day with the cat, you get— give him more something to do and not so bored.

Now if it was alfalfa pellets, they would be bothering them. I know I do feed them soaked alfalfa.

I think the cows haven't caught wind of this yet. Or are the horses dominant?

They're dominant. They control everybody.

And then that's why. They're all the bosses, huh? Okay, they're there. They're fine. They're cuddled up under the light.

You know what's really ticklish? When you put them in your shirt.

Can you get them some cut grass? I got a splitter. I want that heat over their food, and then I want them to have a brooder. We got caught off a little bit surprised yesterday with the chicks. I'm gonna give them a little dab of apple cider vinegar. They're a little chilly this morning. That's a little too tight. You got them some grass? That's critical every day, some grass. Or laying birds, so we want to make sure they get a good foundation. Another thing we can do, take some of this feed, put a little apple cider vinegar in it as a starter. Soak this feed. Not only does this break down the anti-nutrients, making it easier to digest, we've added that probiotic. It's going to ferment, give it that extra boost. 5 left. She ate another one. Now, did you eat it after it died, or did you kill and eat it? Yeah, and he caught her eating it. Hopefully she's not killing it on purpose. There's 5 left. Yeah, we wanted 4. I think we'll take 5. We were gonna sell a pair, but you don't want to sell just one pig. They, they need a buddy. Skin milk in that feed. She has all she can eat. In here, but I like to see her get some of that skim milk. Look, these little guys are experimenting a little bit with it. Coming. He's been in there playing with the chicks. Ate down a good bit, huh?

Yeah.

Or did we not fill it up as much?

I think we didn't fill it up much.

Bring the net out. It can even come out more this way and then go all the way around. We got to give them as much room as we can. The chickens will scratch that down. Hey, Gideon, let's measure this. Come on, stay focused, man. Oh, over 80. It's heating up fast. The wet helped. We got a transplant today, but we also got a weed. We've been meaning to do our gardens at the top of the week, but we end up— seems like third week in a row doing it on Thursday, which is kind of the end of our week, end of our vlogging week normally. So normally we're posting Sunday through Thursday. Sometimes we have extras, so those might go up on Friday and Saturday, but right now you can count on us usually 10 AM Sunday through Thursday. Lily, go ahead and put the tarp up. We'll plant. Becky weeding a carrot, laying down your life for the carrots right now. Okay, Lily, you pull up the tarp. We're gonna plant the rest of this in cabbage. And then is this all we did of cabbages? Yes, one half row. Oh, sorry, I said what's next to the carrots. I meant what's down the line from carrots. And what's their, uh, measurement? What's their—

not remember.

Fish fertilizer and a lot of water. Rebecca's still weeding carrots. 55, 60 feet of cabbage planted. Rebecca, hopefully we have enough to go all the way to the end, but I think you counted probably 18 inches and we've been planting it every foot.

Yeah, I know. Well, we'll see, we'll see.

Dumping sand in the garden. You just sacrificed some of the garden for the chiddlers. They're here, they're with us. We're not growing cabbages, we're growing chiddlers. Oh, that's perfect. We may— I mean, I set out the cabbages. Yeah, and we're gonna make it perfect. Y'all got the carrots weeded?

Yes.

Okay, let's plant. Let's get— did you figure out spacing on peas?

Um, 4 inches.

How many in a row? How many rows?

I think it's just one. 14 inches, so I guess maybe we could do two.

That's too dark. Okay, what do you want me to do, Rebecca, for the peas?

Um, do a T-post on either end, both rows.

Okay.

And then you can get the plastic trellising material.

All right, we'll do it. How are those Silly Seeds working?

They're actually working really well, those planters. I'm really I'm really happy with first year trying them.

Yeah, easy to get stuff out. Just poke your little finger in there.

Yep. I like that they're like squishable, so like if I wanted to squish it, oh, and it helps get them out. Yeah, they're reusable and they're reusable, and I like that. I like— you know me, I like that have the stainless steel tray with them.

Ah, you know me, crazy stainless steel.

You know me, the crazy stainless steel lady. Like the fun colors.

Yeah. Yeah, you would. I would. Just mowing around the edges. We like these, we're giving them the thumbs up back. We're not going to promote anything we don't like, but affiliate link to Silly Seeds down in the description. Look at those alien potatoes. This was underneath the silage tarp. I guess that's what happens when there's potatoes in the ground. There's a potato attached. We might can plant it somewhere. Every 18 inches of broccoli in each row. Henry, you can— well, not really. Henry can maybe do these ones. We are half a row short on broccoli. We need 16 more broccolis. Oh, we got a whole row of cabbage, half a bed of peas. There's little holes been poked through that, some big ones. Instead of having to buy a whole new silage tarp, let's try the, uh, It's like a big wide roll of electrical tape. I bet that's what it is. Just say we had some holes. Still going. Silage tarp and tape from Farmer's Friends. Looks good, Josiah. The old Chickshaw 3.0. Oh, the hitch is off of it, so you just— can y'all see that? You just put a chain around it. Can y'all fix that door? Look at all the butterflies. We've moved on to Chick Shaw 5.0, and I believe we've perfected it. Try to pull it together before you tape it. Annie, shall we flip it? Becca has gone to the horse with Lily, the vet. Annie, do you want to— let's put the, uh, trellis up. Saggy. So we're gonna get 2 T-posts for the middle. So proud of that Chickshaw 5.0, what it has become. One person with 36 birds by hand or with a machine. You have the optional hitch. We're good. Now we need to string these up. Try a little, uh, how many gauge you think this is? I like it. I like it. Annie's getting concerned about the plants in this hot weather. I'm getting concerned about my white, very white skin, my clear skin.

I'm so pale. You're on it. Today's snow is crippling.

I found a long sleeve, but did find some sunscreen. That'll help. Annie has watered. Does seem better. I'm gonna finish this other trellis. Annie's putting up our, uh, Quick Hoops. You know what, guys, let's have another shout out right here. I'm gonna leave a link to all the things down in the description. Be your first year trying them. They're supposed to be to where you can put the top material on and off easy. Did it come with the material too, Annie? I did. You know how to use this? I looked at the instructions. Oh, okay, good. But that doesn't mean I know how to use it. What is it? You guys having a snack in the shade? All right, you stay cool. Key to growing brassicas organically: bug net. Bug net. Bugs love, love them. I'm gonna work on this other petrel as well. Annie figures out the quick hoops. Starting to shape up nicely. Here's some hammer drilling. It's getting it nice. Won't the sander get the glue up? I mean, yeah, it should get the glue up. Hey, that worked, didn't it? Yeah, but you didn't want to do it. I got these out of a dumpster 10 years ago, and now look at it. Can you fit that many in this Yeah, how much more room you got in there? Here comes— here comes your buddy. Johnny might help him. I bet that's heavy, like 60 chickens, 6 pounds. Is that 360 pounds? That's a Chickshaw Mini Me, folks. That's the 4x4, the 4-foot by 4-foot version of the Chickshaw. All right, chickens, go to town on the pile. Compost needs water, oxygen, which the chickens help get it the oxygen by turning it, and nitrogen— that's the cow's manure— and carbon, which is the hay and the wood chips. Here it is. I eat vegetables sometimes.

Why don't we eat outside?

Okay, thank you. You eat. I can name on one hand how many vegetables I eat. Asparagus is one of them. Cabbage is another. Gideon, if you're gonna get rice, you have to get vegetables. Rebecca is actually— if you look at portions, it's balanced. I'm meat heavy. Are you grain-based? You're balanced like Mama. Josiah, what are you? Meat and rice? Dude, you gotta get some vegetables. You are balanced because somebody else made your plate. What the vet and the pro said. So the vet—

well, the pro feels like it is probably probably like a more naughty, bad attitude, and she knocked it right out of her.

Did you film that at all?

I didn't film right away because I didn't think it was gonna happen so quick, and then I did film, but I was filming vertical. She's like, darn it, they're on to me. I was not filming when we got to the trailhead because I was just trying to keep up. He's on— he's a horse, I'm just a person. She did really good, and she felt like it was behavioral because Lily is just a 12-year-old and isn't a pro, and she doesn't have the— the— she just doesn't have experience. So then the vet came and he looked at him, looked at his teeth, felt like everything was okay there, didn't feel like he had ulcers. He said obviously we cannot know for sure he doesn't have ulcers if we don't scope him, but he didn't feel like that was necessary. The one thing Though he did not think that that was a problem. Oh, that was one thing that the pro did think is that Lily's legs were not long enough and strong enough to get him to stop doing—

okay, we'll eat your meat first.

I did. Felt like maybe her legs weren't strong enough or long enough to, to kick him where he needed to be kicked when he was acting naughty. So that was one thing. And then, so on his right quarter, he has a scar?

No, it's just the back— it's just the back quarters.

Okay, so on his re— on his right quarter, he has a scar, and so there could maybe be some tightness causing from that into his right rear hock because they trotted him and they were like saying like, look at this. And I mean, I'm looking, but I don't know what I'm trying to tell. It's like a little off, so it was a little bit off. So he did think that there could have been some soreness So he did give us some medicine to try on him. So Lily just went to her lesson and we— I talked to her trainer. She said, um, okay, I have this other supplement that might— she said, I have this one horse, it was like a completely different horse when I gave him the supplement. And then the pro also recommended a spur, like a children's spur, and she also recommended having a pro ride him regularly. So he was a lesson pony that had a pro riding him regularly before he came to us. So he's used to that where like on— so because when they're lesson ponies, Justin, they are just, um, like ridden by children and then they pick up bad habits because the kids aren't pros, right? So that's why they have the pro get on them to do that. But we haven't had that, so I guess we need to talk. Yeah, you and I need to figure out what we want to do. Okay, maybe talk to Miss Leslie. Lily's doing a lot, doing a show on Saturday. We have a different horse for that, so I guess this just leaves us with more talking and figuring out what we want to do and then just go from there. All right, happy day, happy day, happy day!