Preparing Our Garden For Winter - Step By Step
Time to switch seasons. Here's what we did. Plus a few tips along the way.
Are you planting a winter crop or cover crop?
We'd love to hear how you switch seasons in your garden.
Thanks to @lifemovedbysteem for her hard and happy work.
If you want to see the great planting she did in this fresh bed, check her blog.
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Nice vid..nice property too! So @lifemovedbysteem is on steemit too? Gonna follow. Cheers!
Yes, we're both blogging on Steemit now. It's pretty fun.
We headed down to Davenport today to get some seaweed for the garden.
Nice, seaweed is great!
We just went out and picked up a bunch of seaweed for our garden. It's our first time using it, but we're pumped.
Plus it was a ton of fun going to the beach to grab it.
I know that technically all of that is "work," but it is so fun, isn't it? Great job guys!
Absolutely. It's the most fun "work" ever.
We've been trading as much job work for homesteading as possible.
It feels incredibly satisfying. I'm loving the process. Thanks for your comment.
Good reminder. I have to start cleaning for the winter. I think I will do my final harvest next week.
Oh cool. I will check out your harvest. The final harvest is really fun. I like composting everything and starting again.
Last night I got some starter soil from home depot and planted some hot chili plants. I have been growing the mother plant since May of 2011. And a friend just gave me some habanero peppers. I dried them and planted an hand full of those seeds. Looking forward to some new hot peppers. Post coming soon.
Yeeeee Haawwww. I love hot peppers. We just started a few plants this year.
Hopefully we get a plant to last as long as yours.
Do the peppers improve a lot over time?
Ours were pretty small and weak the first year.
When I neglect my peppers they get pretty hot. (not watering often enough) The habaneros are super hot. They crossed the line last night. I had a handful of dried out peppers and I extracted the seeds carefully. I wasn't wearing gloves. I gave a little piece a lick, and a smell. My lips were on fire for the next two hours. Not joking. The flavor is incredible tho. I really hope those sprout. That will be a feather in my cap.
They seem to get better and better every year.
Great info. I had someone give me some similar info about melons. They stop watering them the last two weeks before harvest and they get very sweet. Sounds like how you neglect the peppers for heat.
Thanks. I can't wait for our peppers to come through like that.
not everything is planning, but somehow got to be fine yourself, thanks for sharing.
Just be happy right where I am.
Do you get a lot of snow where you live? or this winter preping is more for the health of the soil ?
No snow. We get frost. Winter prepping is to rebuild nutrients in the soil mainly. Then we add some hoop houses so we can pull plastic on the nights it freezes.
Hey @happymoneyman
Nice video and wonderful property....and thank you so much start this homesteading contest....
I really like and respect your works...
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Cheers. Thank you my friend. I appreciate your time to watch and talk about the videos. Have a great day.
Tnx for all these tips @happymoneyman. I am not realy a green dude but i wil use these tips once my garden is done.
Cool. I only started gardening a couple years ago. It grew on me.
I look forward to seeing how your garden develops.
That is so magnificent. I am very grateful for that! Love it.
Thanks a lot. Cheers. I'm glad it made you happy.
Cool to see/watch a lovely couple doing garden works. :)
Thanks for such a wonderful compliment @zararina. Have a great day.