I've hunted rain for two days and that means it's a scramble to get everything
done so I did all of my housework I have a canner full of some more strawberry
pie filling and now I got to fix my hair quickly and get outside and work in the
garden now this would be an all day working in the garden temp something
that my mama always did when I was a little girl now my hair was never this
long when I was a little girl but my mother would always go like this she
would twist my hair like this and twist it so I'm gonna try to twist it a little
bit like mom I don't have the talent like my mom did my mom was really good
with fixing hair and so I'm going to try to twist my hair and a makeshift fun
because it is really really hot it's really hot out so the heat has come back
with a vengeance and it is still a lot of moisture high humidity and that's how
it seems to be for Pennsylvania haha so okay let me go get another hair twisty
you know it's just so not good at this kind of thing so I'm gonna write to the
garden and then I have lots and lots of herbs you will not believe how much
herbs I need to pick and need to harvest my granddaughter was can help me last
week but then she had a recital that we all went to so I didn't have any helping
hands and my other granddaughter is in gymnastics so it's left to me and let me
tell you what I'm really slacking with all this rain there's just so many weeds
there's so much going on I really love rototilling in my garden and I love the
dark loamy soil that it shows I just love it I just love that look of green
and in the dark beautiful soil as you know I cover my garden with about three
to four inches of leaves and the leaves are so decomposed and it makes a
beautiful garden I'm very blessed to have an extremely healthy and beautiful
garden and it's been about nine years constant working with it as you know it
was just regular sod grass so okay well I got my hair kinda like mama did not
quite and I don't know how to braid believe it or not I don't know how to
braid I think that's something in my heritage maybe I better learn hey so
this is what I got done so far so my green beans made tomatoes and my
potatoes my garlic and onions my carrots my red beets they're all up and all
these herbs need to be harvested so I'll harvest them about three times a year
I'm gonna do that when all my other work is finished so what i did is i tilled
the ground and now i need to go and plant my peppers the far edge of the
garden is way too wet so it's just way too wet for everything but let me show
you
so way down there it's way too wet and I had actually planted some mint down
there and I like having the mint down there now I am getting some deer again
so I'm going to have to use some of my deer repellent basically you just plant
stuff the deer can't eat there's a little patch there that has some weeds
those are actually cucumbers and I'm gonna have to go in my hands and knees
and pull the weeds out there on that row it's just there intertwine with the
cucumbers too much but I'm starting to be able to see down the rows I don't
think the camera will pick it up about my spinach and beets are up my lettuce
and all of that so they're where I tell it it's going to be peppers he'll plant
my pepper plants
and there is just some of the herbs they just went crazy with all this rain and
moisture good morning everyone and today I'm working on the back part of my
property as you've seen in the video before I showed you how we take a scrub
brush and we tied it to our rain barrel that way we are able to use it to clean
all kinds of dishes and things outside one thing I'm really noticing is seeds
that are like herbs that are hard to germinate germinate amazing in a
greenhouse so the one blue little container is some lavender these are
some white marigolds marshmallow root here is even some rosemary so when you
have a little greenhouse like this so much more can grow now majority of this
stuff will be planted today it's hard time to get this stuff out in the ground
I'm officially finished with canning of my butter so I'm finished with that and
I'm going to put them up top here because you can double stack your jars
if you had a lighter jar on top of a heavier jar so in other words I wouldn't
want to put a quart on top of a jelly jar but this is how I stack my jars and
it works out fine in fact I think they even came out with a new regulations on
it I think they said that you can now but I was doing it anyhow I like to what
they call wing it and so I do I do a lot of that I can't be precise and I can't
beat I may do things what people would call redneck simply because I wouldn't
have time if I do everything in the way that the book says you should do it
all right so what I'm gonna do is because I do get some light in here I
will cover these with a with a cover I like cover
tip enough money to stockpile 48 pounds of sugar now that's not a lot for a lot
of homesteaders but for me it's a start so what we're going to do is we're going
to open each bag of sugar and we're going to put it in a mylar bag sugar has
an indefinite shelf life that means if you keep it nice and cool and away from
rodents it will last you forever
there we go and that's one bag that's finished now we're gonna put on what it
is so sugar it's very important when you
are storing sugar long term do not use oxygen absorbers I repeat do not use up
oxygen absorbers they will actually cause your sugar to be very hard like a
lump sugar is best just stored as is being that this is Friday I just want to
give you a friendly reminder there will be no video tomorrow but if you're used
to seeing my videos every day could you go back and just watch a video that
maybe you missed by going back and watching a video you missed on a
Saturday it really makes a big difference thanks again and we'll see
you guys on Sunday once again it's time for Fanny's diary we are on may 31st
1943 the men are planting tobacco we got the plants at Howard's monikers
the ground was just a little bit too wet but it was a really nice warm day
you