Appalachian Victory Garden: May Vegetables in Zone 7
Appalachian Victory Garden: May Vegetables in Zone 7
In response to the recent global situation, we planted an emergency victory garden to supplement our food supply and improve our sustainability through this event. In this episode we take you through the garden and show you everything we’ve planted and everything we’re using to keep it going.
Spring Vegetables we’ve planted:
Purple Potato, White Potato, Carrot, Bunching Onion, Lettuce, Daikon Radish, Kohlrabi, Garlic, French Breakfast Radish, Beet, Swiss Chard, Romaine Lettuce, Red Lettuce, Candied Onion, Sweet Onion, Patterson Onion, Cucumber, Zucchini, Sweet Meat, Squash, Sweet Potato, Pumpkin, Lima Bean, Dragon Tongue Bean, Jade Bean, Roma Tomato, German Johnson Tomato, Red Cabbage, Early Jersey Cabbage, Sweet Pepper, Jalapeno Pepper, Banana Pepper, California Bell Pepper, Eggplant, Broccoli, Brussels Sprout, Okra, Collard, Kale, Sunflower, Watermelon
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Guildbrook Farm is an off grid, modern homestead located in the foothills of Appalachia. We take you along on our journey to become more self reliant by growing an organic garden, raising heritage breed chickens and pigs, improve our skills in canning and food preservation, building off the grid renewable energy systems, prepping for events such as natural disasters, and learning old time skills. Join us as we build an off-grid cabin and homestead from raw land while remaining debt-free. Follow our successes and failures as we learn to live a more simple, sustainable lifestyle.
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Guildbrook Farm
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Hiddenite, NC 28636-0374
you really seem to be developing a touch for growing things , I’m from the old ways of just throwing seeds in the ground and hoeing at the weeds , always figure some of them might distract the bugs and never had much problem with em , other than on cabbage. you seem up on the pest control to some extent otherwise . the neem oil in your situation won’t hurt bees , they’re not coming to the plants yet . bt seems like it should be pretty safe ..
Good for you! 🙋🏻♀️💞
If you’re up to trying an asian green that can take some heat, tatsoi was a favorite of ours. You can eat it raw or cook it just like spinach. Very durable against the bugs, too. Garden looks great!
You might want to pick up some ladybugs they will eat aphids and other bug, There pretty cheap on Amazon
For the beets. Try using 3 inch pieces of 2 inch pvc. Until the beet is rooted in place. When we plant Geoducks we use a piece of PVC stuck into the mud and place the geoduck into the center. When the tide comes in and goes out. It helps to keep them in place.
i wish i had a sweet potato pie with some vanilla ice cream
YOU CAN PUT MOTH BALLS IN A MILK JUG WHICH HAS WHOLES PUNCHED IT AND HANG THEM IN YOUR FRUIT TREES,GRAPES,BLACKBERRIES AND RASBERRIES.YOU SHOULD PUT EPSON SALT IN THE SOIL AROUND YOUR TOMATOES AND PEPPERS.THE EPSON SALT ONTOP OF THE GROUND WILL ALSO KILLS SLUGS.ANY PLANTS THAT HAVE BUGS WORKING ON THEM YOU CAN SPRAY THEM W/A HOT PEPPER SPRAY AND A LITTLE DISH SOAP SO IT WILL CLING TO THE PLANTS.VINEGER WILL KILL WEEDS.LIME IS ALSO GOOD FOR ANY GARDEN.
Yahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! So excited to see the garden!💜🧡♥️. Beautiful job!!! I sent your canning how to video to my sister……..
Best wishes! Hope it goes great!
I’ve been watching your videos for hours today and I absolutely live your family! Such an inspiration!
I like Charles Dowdings way of no-til and requires no landscape cloth. Cool to see and can’t wait to see what you make and can with them!
THANK YOU!! I planted what I could for a victory garden along with you, I have never really gardened like this before, I was beginning to think I was doing something wrong, but my plants are about the same size as yours so I feel much better now! just doing what I can with no land.
I love green beans to!
It looks victorious 🎇
Never met a potato I didn’t like…
Great job
I love the victory garden. The bugs may not be June bugs. I had trouble with japanese beetles last summer. They are similar looking to junebugs.
Always fun to see new gardeners try gardening. So many mistakes but you have to start somewhere.
For beets – depends how big you want them
Put 3 or 4 seeds in a toilet roll insert with putting soil – once first "true leaves" stick the toilet roll insert into the hole in the landscape fabric
(soak em so the cardboard breaks down sooner) – it won’t "wash away" when it rains.
As they grow they’ll push each other apart, take the biggest and the others will grow larger.
(see Charles Dowding videos on multi sowing)
I love it! Plant as crazy as you like. I plant brassicas in a small high tunnel and after much loss to insects here in TN, we’ve been planting insect resistant varieties where we can. Sweet Meat sounds good, we plant Seminole, Tan Cheese, and Old Tennessee Vining pumpkins because they require little work and no pesticides. Tagetes Marigolds are great repellent plants and when the Japanese Beetles come in, they’ll eat them and make them sick.
Isn’t landscaping cloth kind of expensive?
Hope the straw you are using is Winter Wheat Straw.
Am 67 yo my mother told me about her planting a Victory Garden druing WWII. My grandmother came to this country with her husband from Ireland 1917 first thing my grandfather did was join the Army and got sent to France. She growed her a Garden then. My father got wounded during the Normandy invasion. My mother said if it wasn’t for the gardens we would have starved to death
The deer are going to love your beans and sunflowers lol!
I am kind of glad I just pulled this video up today. Reminded me I had to bring my potted plants indoors and cover my garden. We are expecting a freeze tonight….
Have you thought about using some ‘good pests’ to help control the bugs? – Praying Mathis would be a good choice as they eat June bugs as well as a ton of other bugs that will hit your garden.
I love DTE when the plants fruit, one of the other downfalls that you did not mention with it is that it becomes inert once it gets wet – but is great for keeping pests off your fruit – works great with drip irrigation.
Have you thought about using inexpensive seed trays to start your plants in a ‘safe’ location? I know your still in the caravan, so room is precious, but with the warmer temperatures you should be able to grow them on the back porch without the risk of them washing under the cloth or getting eaten by pests from the soil around the garden.
Last – no corn??? if this is not going to be the permanent garden, then soil ecology be damned… wheres the corn??? LOL
I hadn’t gardened in 6 years but I will be putting my garden starts bought from other individuals and from the nursery as well as grown from seed into the ground this week.
GREAT JOB – anything is better than nothing at all!
I wonder if you cut toilet paper or paper towel tubes into short lengths (maybe an inch or two), set them down into the earth through the hole in the landscape cloth, then planted your seed inside the tube segment if that would prevent the seed from washing out under the fabric?
Use pots for now.
I wonder if you could be more conscious of the environment whilst gardening. Those pesticides and fungicides are horrific and, not only are they deadly to pollinators, they are harmful to you… I grow vegetables and I know how incredibly frustrating bugs and slugs can be but there are many (much less harmful) ways to keep them from destroying your crop.
Dang bugs! maybe try starting beans in some empty egg cartons or whatnot and then transplant. Same with small seeds like lettuce. You can replant several times in a season too.
Looks great!! My Spring crops all bolted a couple of weeks ago when we got up to high 80s a couple of weeks ago in Durham. I had to give up and wanted to set out my tomatoes and peppers this weekend, but we have a frost warning for tomorrow morning. Joy.
Looks like you got it coveted for the most part. My garden is really small so can grow as much but I still get enough tomatoes and radishes things like that trying potatoes in the ground and in a growing bag. Thank you for sharing your story!
I put pest netting over my cabbages and when I went to check on the garden there was one of those dreaded white butterfly’s trapped inside trying to get out 🙄 Love your experiment, looks great!
Great job. Anything grown is a blessing. Great job.
Have you thought of using jiffy pots in the landscape garden spots to keep the seeds in that area instead of washing them under the cloth when it rains? The pots will rot away and become dirt and the seeds can sprout and go through the pots.
The best fungicide is baking soda. Use a hand vac for aphids. BT is for worms only.
I just watched your older podcast on the 10 mistakes you made with your previous home. It was awesome, I felt so bad for you. I’m so glad to see you have new place, and your able to realize your dreams. What an inspiration you are!
could also be mice…..had one or two in my greenhouse. boy do they LOVE my peas!
Good work use viniger to stop what’s eating the things
You could put netting over your plants and a small battery operated electric fence. I believe you could also get a solar operated one as well.
why not let your chicken and pigs till the land?
1:44 "This is very rudimentary" **door opens itself**
Plant cucumber all along the fence, either outside or inside, particularly straight 8 cucumbers. Also, onions and rhubarb along the fence. Anything poisonous to surround the edible interior. The vines are a huge deterrent to deer and wild hogs. The vine is poisonous to them. I have loads of ladybugs and assassin bugs that kill pests and I never have to use pesticides.
Ring the tops of the holes with the top couple inches of paper cups. Push them down into the soil, as deep as the seeds. This will prevent the seed from washing out.
if you plant onions along side of the plants it acts as a natural bug repellent.
TRY ADDING MOTH BALLS TO YOUR GARDEN IT WILL OR AT LEAST HELP KEEP THE CRITTERS AND SNAKES OUT OF YOUR GARDEN.THEY ALSO WORK AROUND AND IN THE OUT HOUSE AND BARN. BORIC ACID WILL KILL BUGS IN YOUR HOUSE AND AROUND YOUR PLANTS…
How are you chickens still have dorkings
Try Dixie cups with the bottom cut out in each hole after planting your seeds so they don’t wash under the cloth when it rains.
Another fantastic video! Love you guys. Started watching several months ago, first video with Jeromy’s long hair and Jaime’s tattoos, thought you’re a couple of hippies living in the hills. Ooops, sorry. (not that there’s anything wrong with that) Didn’t take long to appreciate your talents and dedication. My wife and I hope to follow your lead someday. Thank you for all your hard work!
Hello from Oklahoma. Started this quarantine re-shingling my house & garage, then built a gazebo, then a bridge. As boredom continued started a raised bed garden and built nine raised bed hinged hoop houses, still bored clear cut bamboo along back fence & hand dung and pulled all the bamboo rhizomes. Put up my trail cams and live inside the city and my backyard chain link fence didn’t even slow down the critters coming into my new backyard garden. Rabbits, possums, skunks, squirrels in my yard? When Bloomberg said anyone can be a farmer; just dig a hole & toss in a seed, is far from truth.