hey guys I'm Angela with Green Acre Homestead
yesterday I started a project and today I finished it what was I doing I was
taking up some strawberry beds you might be wondering why am i taking up the
strawberry beds when it's the beginning of spring and we're getting ready for
gardening well we're going to go into more of that on the next video
but for this video let's just get some work done the strawberry beds behind me
have to go but we want to keep put strawberries are alive in them so we're
going to get them out and put them in buckets or little planters whatever we
can find and then take out the dirt that's in the others we'll put those in
a five-gallon bucket because we'll use those buckets to plant our tomatoes in
this year
if you want to get the rest of the gravel out of the bottom of the ease
with your hands you are more than welcome to
that's what I was able to get with when I get down to the bottom I can't get
just
when I did these strawberry beds last year I put a handful or two of gravel on
the bottom of them and then dirt on top - let there be some drainage in the
bottom well now since it's everything's been packed down it's like literally
packed in the bottom so instead of having to scrape everything off of the
ground I just picked up the whole cinder block and it was stuck in the bottom the
dirt and gravel together so I just pushed it out into the bucket to make
easier work you guys wonder where I've been I've been hiding per se I've been
down there working on my truck trying to get the battery alternator charging the
situation figured out there's not gonna be a video about it because I think if I
like doing a video on that one and Angela had the camera and this is a lot
more cooler than what I was doing so I'm not per se hiding necessarily just
strategic relocation while the work is being done
so out of that bed we ended up getting about the equivalent of 30 gallons worth
of potting soil dirt and another five gallons of dirt and gravel mix these
will all be repurposed and put back into the garden which is a really good thing
because right now nobody wants to go out and get any dirt and it's hard to find
before I can tear up the other strawberry bed there is a bunch of tea
posts that we had from the garden that we had pulled out I need to get them out
of the way so I can get to the strawberry bed and disassemble
well that allows us to see how many t-posts we have which is a lot actually
the really tall ones we're going to reuse and because we're going to do more
beans this year and we'd like to have the really tall poles for those so they
can keep going the shorter ones we use for the garden fence and we'll need to
be putting it up again to keep the groundhogs out so here's the only
strawberry bed that actually grew something or should I say kept growing
it all of these strawberry plants we actually got from our other Strawberry
Hill that we used to have but we wanted to put them up here so they were easier
to take care of and that type thing the other strawberry bed I had didn't grow
anything we had bought some of the bare roots from Lowe's last year we actually
bought a lot of them and none of them took they just died I kept watering they
had plenty of Sun nice soil it just didn't work so I don't know it was up
with that I was really disappointed and I guess that's one reason we are taking
up the strawberry beds we will put these in another container for right now and
eventually we may try to do one of the strawberry gutter systems or something
like that to see how that goes but right now I guess they'll just go in some
planters
that would be forward a little black when she is
I got some pretty good roots on them
it's held everything together one down quite a few more to go
I don't know how much you can see of me this is the box I'm putting them in they
were only in here for a year but a lot of the runners that they sent out the
little baby plants actually made quite a few more so I'm having to separate them
but that's probably good so they have more room to grow and breathe
it's easier to grow in dirt that was hard we got most of the dirt out of the
second strawberry bed and all the strawberry plants they're all safe and
watered now so now I need Sam's help to move the blocks out of the way stack
them up so we can keep moving forward it is all up it is completed we're gonna
leave some of the dirt and gravel and stuff and just kind of smooth it out
right here then we need to mow some of the grass down get it flat and move on
look how good this looks it's all clean there's no junk there's no anything
really there's a chicken that's cleaning up some bugs so it feels really good to
get this done it did take two days but hey we were able to save the
strawberries and we were able to regain back some of the potting soil which is
really hard to get right now so all in all it was a success thanks for coming
along stay tuned next time for a new big update our new project we're going to
reveal what that is and if you can leave a comment we'd love to read them and
otherwise we'll see you guys next time bye
you