A really good pest tip: Get yourself the cheapest beer you can find and fill a bunch of little paper cups half full, then burry them half way in the dirt near your plants. Space them about 4 to 5ft apart and the bugs love it so much that they go for the beer before the plants and drown themselves. I learned this from my 3rd grade teacher who is a huge gardener. I've done this and passed the knowledge to my mother in law and it works every time. She was able to get a good plant harvest that season. Even the slugs go for it.

I love that you are walking barefooted and letting your body soak up the goodness of the earth.

Watching this from an apartment, wishing that maybe 1 day .

Cody, you are very blessed to have such a industrious woman as your wife. You have found the needle in the hay barn.

Teaching your babies is such a blessing I wish I would have paid attention to my Great Grandfather when he use to garden...

"How the heck does she make her own barbeque sauce?!" My wife.

As a Grandma…I am really impressed with y’all and how you are on this homesteading journey! We need more young folk to follow your lead! Continue to follow the Lord in your decisions! Enjoying your vids.

FYI - Heritage raspberries are the only variety I know of that you mow down every year. Most raspberries bear fruit on second year canes. Best to find out if your berries bear on primocanes (1 yr) or floricanes (2 yr) and prune for that variety.

I did the best with cucumbers growing the vine varieties on a trellis shared with snow peas. It gets hot in summer here and the peas protected the cucumber perfectly

For carrot seed planting you could make a "gravy" with corn starch and water. When rhw gravy is still warm but not hot mix your seeds into it and put it in a plastic bag with a tiny corner cut off or reusable cake decorating bag with the tiny hole tip and make a striped in each row. It spreads the seeds out more evenly and you waste less seeds.

You will have less problems with pests in your raspberries if you dig up half to 2/3 of them and make 1 to 2 more rows planting the plants further apart. If you have the room. Otherwise, thin them out and sell the thinnings. With space you'll see an increase in production and less worminess. Don't do it until spring, when frost has passed. Raspberries and thornless blackberries should be planted 4 to 6 feet apart, depending on the variety. 6 is better if you have the space. They will fill in. As for squash, if you put down ag fabric, the good kind, not weed barrier, and cut holes in it and plant your squash in the holes, the leaves will not be touching soil ever. Makes a huge difference. For the tomatoes, once they get big enough, cut off the bottom branches for the first foot to avoid water splash up and you won't get as many issues. Also, trim out suckers so that their is air flow and you will have a healthier plant all around. If you want to grow actual zucchini, there is a kind called Escalator zucchini that is a climbing zucchini. It keeps the plants off the ground. I've had it climb as high as seven feet in a good year, but usually it is around five. I haven't had any problems with disease with those ones and it is very tasty, too.

A great cabbage recipe that your husband may love is steamed cabbage with bacon. Cook your bacon until your desired doneness. Remove. Add butter about 4tbs. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cook the cabbage until soft and add back bacon before the cabbage finishes cooking. Its finished! ❤

To help your cucumber, you need to pinch your plant after the fifth real leaf. That will help your plants to produce both male and female flowers… 🥒 For your tomatoes, remove the lower branch will help prevent mildiou from forming… 🍅 Thank for your tips! And happy gardening 😉

Perhaps in the future, you guys could do another garden tour, and box by box tell us how many plants you put in and what your yields are. It’s extremely impressive that you grow all your own veggies on 1/8th of an acre…but how much space do you allot to each thing to get enough to feed your family?

This is the best video I have seen till now. So simple and clear explanations. Perhaps I have a tip or 2 for small white worms in raspberries: We always put the berries in salt hand warm water after picking them. The worms will sink to the bottom and you can easily remove the berries from the water without the worms. Another tip for strawberries: if you seem to be allergic to strawberries: just wash them off in HOT water followed by COLD water. In that way the small hairs on the outside of the strawberries will fall of....the hair is what people are reacting allergic to, NOT the berry itself. Everybody can eat strawberries for they are kisses of the son : ) Namaste

I appreciate your comment about peppers and covid, my partner taste buds got very affected, particularly with eggs, cilantro, and fish. They did got enhanced with avocados. That was back in late 2020, it has lasted all this time, but he mentioned that finally this year things are improving a little. I love your video! Excellent and honest.

If you open that trellis up so it’s one huge square or rectangle, then place it down the middle of the bed. The cucumbers will grow up it on either side of it. My cucumbers get to be 8-10’ high. Much easier to see and pick the cucumbers too. You’re going to have a hard time seeing them inside the trellis and also getting to them once they’re huge.

King of the North peppers always beat the tar out of CA wonder. Many Grand blessings everyone everywhere and always

I also LOVE how you walk around your garden barefoot! There is very little better way to connect with nature than to feel it with our feet. ♥♥♥♥♥

My husband and I just found your channel, and after watching a few of your videos we subscribed to your channel. We truly enjoy your videos, very educational and enjoyable. It’s beautiful to see a wise young couple with a beautiful family, may God bless and keep you all!

We have a symbiotic relationship with Yellow Jacket Hornets. They tend to build in or around our garden area. We pay attention to where they are and do our best not to disturb them. The pay off is that we don’t get stung and the harvest the small green leaf eating caterpillars to feed their larvae. Win win!

For antifungal spraying, I recommend using a mixture of baking soda and water as a preventative measure. It alters the pH on the surface of the plant, preventing the formation of mold

My wife and I found your channel a few days ago, both of us in bed recovering from Covid. What a great way to spend the day! Learning from how you do your garden, preservation, etc. Wow! We’re so impressed and inspired. It’s a huge amount of work to do what you do, then adding UKposts and knowledge sharing with the rest of the world… wow. Above and beyond, but very needed for the new group of homesteaders (like us) starting from scratch. Thank you, thank you. ❤

I loved watching how enthusiastic your children were about gardening. A garden is great for everyone!

I’m not a huge fan of cabbage either, but Sarah (my bride) made some by chopping some into strips and fried the cabbage with some bacon and jalapeños… Soooo good!!!

Growing butternut squash on a fence will help with the fungus.

Have you thought about trying to trellis your tomatoes, (snip leaves about 6" up from the ground all so the wet leaves won't cause mildew) squash, zucchini, and smaller melons? keeping them off the ground helps with rust or fungus. Planting marigolds, keep slugs, etc. off the base of plants, and flowers that invite the good insects into the garden. Also planting herbs in rows between vegetables helps with beetles, bugs that want to crawl up the stalks to lay eggs.

The BOTH of you are doing phenomenal. The WHOLE process is the journey. So motivating. I look forward to watching your channel. 🌱🙏🏼🙌🏼😁🥒🥦💯

Loved the garden tour...and wow those carrots are huge. Very nice. Y'all Rock!

Something to try next year, if you get the 16 ft long cattle panels and then put the short end into one raised bed (where your cucumbers are) and the arch it up and over the walkway where you are standing, and into the other raised bed to your right, then the cucumbers can grow up and over making a really nice leafy tunnel to walk under and it’s very easy to harvest them this way. It works well for all type of vining plants and is really nice for squash.

It's amazing to see what you guys can do on 1/8th of an acre! This helps my brain with planning a garden that I always think needs to be an acre minimum.

Started watching you guys a couple months ago. Really impressed with how you guys film and the content you offer. We just moved to our homestead in Michigan last month (from Cleveland, OH). Moved right at the peak of spring/summer sowing so all brassicas will need to go in the ground next month for fall harvest. We haven't posted any videos lately because the craziness of moving but you guys are truly inspiring. Thank you for sharing your journey.

Hello from the UK, Having just found your channel it's great to see how your planning to live your life being self sufficient. All your hard work is great to watch.

I never had much success with cucumbers either. Took me a minute to figure out the process. First, I grow a pickling variety. I utilize a ton of fresh compose amended with castings & guano. Then I add approx 40 percent vermiculite. I also mulch with a good layer of hay. I allow the cucumber plants to hang over the edges and drape down. Cucumbers are heavy feeders and require heavy watering at the base, as water on the leaves with allow powdery mildew and mold to proliferate. Plus it is imperative to pick all fruits early and often. Once one fruit ripens on the vine , its game over and the plant will end its life cycle. Good luck and gappy gardening.

We've always burned off our asparagus in the fall without cutting any of it off and it's helped the patch get so much denser having the ash as soil feed.

Hi Michelle, thank you for all these tips. And yes i can definitly relate to the taste issue,nothing tastes the same.

You guys are such an inspiration. Thank you for the tips and for sharing your journey with us. ❤

Been gardening for decades yet you gave me so many tips, helped me understand why some just haven't worked out - just loads of tips all in one video! Thank you and I'm now a new subscriber!

I just wanted to say that I also have the pepper problem post COVID. I used to love bell peppers, now they just taste like straight dirt to me. I haven't found anyone else who has that issue, I'm sorry that you do, but I'm thankful that I'm not the only one!

You and your family is so much blessed with grace and abundance 🙏🏼God bless

I found your channel recently and am really enjoying your videos. Thanks for your effort.

Good Lord, y’all are amazing with the pure amount of learned knowledge you ooze out in this video. I’m here for it! ✅❤

I can relate to foods tasting different or off after having covid. I had covid 3 years ago and lost my sense of taste and smell. I have regained some of it back but many things don't taste the same. Romain lettuce, cucumbers, jalapenos, and onions, taste off or weird. Peanut butter tastes like there is soap in it and the smell of coffee now gives me a headache and the taste grosses me out. And that was that I was a 4 cups of coffee every morning person. You have a beautiful homestead.

An 1/8th acre?! Looks like so much more! I gotta plan out better 😂 EDIT: just watched one of your older videos, my mistake, your GARDEN is an 1/8 acre not the land! I was wondering how it all fit! 😂

I love growing squash and cucumbers on trellises. Amazing!!

Great info. Saw your live show yesterday, nice job to both of you! Keep up the healthy way of Farming

I love how educational your video is. I learned a lot and found it very entertaining! ❤

Hi Codi and Michelle, I just stumbled across your channel and love your content. I've learned so much by just watching a few of your videos. Love that you're following Jesus as well.❤

Yes ... Danver (Denver?) Half long carrots are good for storage because they don't break off when you pick them because they are short and fat. Stonehead cabbage is a good variety because it's leaves are tighter together and you get less pest problems.

Thanks for the great tour and tips!

If you have trouble with powdery mildew, try growing them up on a trellis. I use old onion bags as hammocks to support the squash. This has helped a lot with minimizing powdery mildew and pest hurting my garden

Hello from Texas! My family and I enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work 🌱🌱🌱

Your husband is so sweet to always give you compliments on the things you make! Love it! Good job and God bless you! ❤

I just found your channel and I absolutely love what you and your husband are doing. Blessings ❤

You two are amazing,keep growing and loving each other.

i would suggest winter sowing in jugs outside for the broccoli and cabbage plants. i started mine back in febuary and im zone 6A/ PA and they actually did the best out of everything i winter sowed. i think because they love cold weather but because of the jugs being mini greenhouse keep them just warm enough it really helps them have a good start in my opinion.

Excellent content. This has given me several new ideas for crop management. Can't wait to try hilling potatoes with leaves!

Thanks for sharing your tips on your farm. Very useful ❤

you guys are great! Thank you for doing an exceptional video! Tons of great information. Seeing your kids helping in the garden warms my heart!

Cut your raspberries in the fall instead spring . It will produce the same amount of fruit, but it will stay producing for a longer time. Early spring spread some garden lime (before first shoots come out) on top of your bed, to help with diseases.

You guys are awesome! Love hearing from your family ❤️ If you stick a cattle pannel between your beds in a arched trellis you can run the butternuts on them and save a ton of ground space and also keep the fungus and mildew at bay.

Beautiful!!

"and I dont do that because the effort isn't worth the reward" -narrator, basically Oh wow, respect added. Discussing success is easy, discussing compromises to get to success is much more difficult!

I also have a huge tip for anyone who has trouble growing a garden in general. No matter where you live, you can start a compost bin. First add soil (and you get this FREE from the ground outside), then add a layer of food scraps (INCLUDING meat scraps like bones), then add another layer of soil, repeat until you have a bin full (like the storage bins you get from Walmart or whatever), then throw some seeds in. You can add a couple worms to the bin that you dig up or rescue from puddles during rain if you want, they'll only help the soil. You'll likely only have room for one of each kind of food per bin, otherwise you can do a mass compost bed (like a giant raised food bed). Just water it every day (or less if you live in humid climates), and nature will do the rest and give you beautiful fruits and veggies. 💖🌾🪴🌻💖

I can definitely relate with what you said about peppers! I had covid in 2021, and for the longest time I could not handle the taste or smell of peppers. It was so bizarre.

Thanks for sharing your experience ❤

So glad I found your channel. I’m in SE Michigan and I’m hearing some new information that I’m anxious to try. Since Covid, I can’t eat store bought bread. I can smell and taste every additive and it’s awful. So, now Friday is bread day.

Such an inspiration! Thanks for the great tips.

One of the best videos on gardening ever!!!

Hey she has a Pretty smile . Give her the Love .

I love your gardening. You guys do well

thanks for the info. You guys have done amazing

Loved the garden tour, thank you so much for sharing. Love how organized and abundant it is! Right now we have raspberries, a persimmon tree, and I grow most herbs and some veggies and fruits, but the bulk of my tiny garden is flowers. This is inspiring me to aim towards more food!

Your white butterflies are cabbage moths. I haven't tried it myself yet, but I've heard you can make cabbage moth decoys to deter them. They're apparently territorial and won't lay eggs in a spot they believe to already be taken. Worth trying!

Love your green space 💚💚💚

Beautiful garden… nice job guys.

Y'all are amazing!~ So glad you're doing what you're doing, AND somehow taking the time and effort to share your new and growing wisdom with us. I found this video super easy and fun to watch and effortlessly learn tons of great gardening tips! Thanks y'all.

Wow! Thanks for the tour! What a beautiful job you guys are doing!

The trick to enjoying cabbage is the right dressing for when you make cabbage slaw, and when you get that right , your whole family will really enjoy it.

I too was a diehard heirloom tomato purist but got tired of losing tomatoes early to fungus and such. So this year I grew hybrid paste tomatoes and had the best crop I ever had.

Wow, this is amazing to see your healthy and beautiful garden. 😍🙌

This is so good! Thankyou for a thorough garden tour- keep ‘Em coming, we love them! ❤🇦🇺

I am very very impressed.😊

great vid..you guy's have an adorable family...keep up the good work!

You guys have it going on. We bought around 6 acres of overgrown land with a house that needs alot of tlc about 3 years ago. Slowly learning year to year. This year was our best year of green beans, corn, tomatoes we have ever had. Also added aji peppers to the mix and they did amazing.

Impressive garden! Great job you guys!

Absolutely inspirational!

Beautiful garden, thanks for sharing ❤🎉😊

Your garden looks awesome! I love seeing everything you are growing. -Cara

Such a great video! Thanks for sharing! COVID definitely messed with my taste buds. Oranges, tomatoes, chicken and beef taste off now. It's been two years now since we got sick. I was hoping my taste would return. One of my daughters has the same issue but the rest of the family have no taste issues.

Seems way bigger than 1/8 of an acre. Anyhow, great information! Thanks for sharing!

Wow! I NEED a back garden like this. Awesome!

I’ve started using ROW cover netting on my brassicas. It works great and no worries about keeping pollinators away since they don’t need to be pollinated. Awesome results for avoiding caterpillars. Also, if you avoid touching your squash leaves while wet with morning dew or newly irrigated, it may help against powdery mildew. Also, water below the leaves like trickle irrigation.

I really enjoy watching your vids! I love that you are so upfront about things how you do things and what you plant and/or don't plant anymore due to sensitivity to weather or the plant just being a general pain to plant cos they easily succumb to disease etc like heirloom tomatoes and zucchinis! Makes me feel slightly better despite failing at certain vegetables. I think part of gardening is accepting what works and what doesn't despite what we see in other people's gardens (which look so easy sometimes). Thanks for sharing your garden and tips!

Thanks for sharing 😊 Enjoy your weekend 💖

You Guys!!! What a beautiful garden!! And what a team❤ this video just made my day. I love seeing people doing what they love doing!

I grow all my cucumber's up a trellis. (and zucchinis, first time last year and worked a treat). Really high humidity where I live so it keeps them well aired and also ahead of any powdery mildew that generally hits the older lower leaves first. if at all. Good tip on the mint oil re white butterflys. I look forward to seeing if our locals white monsters here in New Zealand are also adverse to it! Nice garden!

Hey guys... here in South Australia we too have some trouble with mildew. We have found that opening up our plants as much as possible in how we grow them helps to cut it down. Also a spray of 50/50 milk/water on the leaves when you see it helps the mildew not grow on the leaves. Finely, when growing cucumbers, we've tried a few ways and found this to be the absolute best... 2 posts each end of the bed, 8' higher than the top of the bed... 1 x wire from the top of the posts over the bed... Then we put a string line (something that doesn't rot so use garden tie string for e.g.) from the base of the plant up to the wire, then grow the cucumbers up that. The string must be fixed to the ground (tent peg for example) and you just rotate it around the stem of the plant. It works the best and stops the mildew greatly. Thanks for your lovely informative videos - hope this might help you or others too.

Knowledge is true wealth. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and tips!

Love this area of Colorado. Very busy productive family. Thanks for sharing your life thru Trinity.