well my friends work has just begun what am i doing
come follow me today it's March that means telling the garden
it's time to plant my garden but first I have to wrote it till it I wrote it to
my garden the old-fashioned way I like rototilling I like seeing the dirt I
love seeing a black dirt that comes up we have four inches of leaves here from
all winter long these leaves now have to be ready tilt
in so we're gonna wrote it too because the corn for rain whole life revolves
around the weather so however the weather is that is what I'm doing so now
it's time to get started we have a lot of work to do but don't realize I have a
lot of garden work I do a lot of work outside in the summertime my life
revolves around outside and today is just going to show you the beginning of
March and what I have to do and from now on it's a lot of work but I'm ready
because I love being outside I love being able to be more active I look
different in the summer time and winter has been really rough on me this year so
I'm getting ready to get right back into shape you know at age 50 it is harder
but you know what with some muscle power you can get yourself right back into
shape and I'll show you how I can do that I think I like about naked girls I
have a lot of strength that is one thing I missed when I lost so much weight I
had no strength and I have strength that really helps me I have to do hard work
let's turn the rototiller on and let's see you see how she runs
now see about an elevator buddy all right
I did one pass of the garden I have to get more gas and then I'm gonna start
taking all the dead branches off my herbs because that looks unsightly it's
a lot of work there's my garden I have a huge garden the camera does not do it
any justice but I'm gonna get more gas we're gonna go a couple more times I
have to set up these leaves a lot better I think I'm gonna plant my potatoes in
these leaves try something different but I have to clean up my herbs now so I'm
gonna do some more work and see in another hour so I'm going to have to do
a voice over I'm sitting here editing this video but the wind was just too
loud and it was very annoying so what I'm sharing with you today is I am
working on the herbs and what I'm doing is I'm Dee heading them in other words
I'm taking all the D heads off of all these herbs what you're looking at right
now is mugwort and what I'm telling you is how the mugwort spreads in the garden
and so I have to pull a lot of it up but I'm taking all the dead branches and all
the dead sticks from all of the herbs that I have here and I want to clean up
this area so I'm cleaning up the whole area of all these herbs I do that every
spring when they start to come alive it's amazing how beautiful it looks here
in about another a couple of weeks so that's what I'm discussing here with all
of you but you couldn't hear it the wind was just so loud and that's how it is
when you film videos sometimes you just don't know until after you edit so if
you have an herb bed in the spring you want to go out and you want to pull up
all the dead branches and you want to do all of the flower heads they have
already receded if they were going to and that way it makes your garden look
so nice and it also really helps your herbs and when they start growing new
shoots so I don't have an onion sets but I think I might have some potatoes that
are sprouting then I'll start planning them
probably here in the next week or so back at it I go I'll show you what
everything looks like when it's done
right please excuse the way I look I've been working outside all day today as
you see I really tilled my garden and I worked on the herbs I D headed
everything out there time to work on my rain barrows it's really high time to
get them out and I'm going to show you how I set them up rain barrels and that
gives me a hundred gallons of water at my convenience and that pretty much can
sustain me if my laundry and all kinds of things we get a lot of rain here in
eastern Pennsylvania so we really don't have a dry spell like some places do in
other states so let me show you well it's quite a day 70 degrees out and so
I'm trying to get everything I possibly can do because it's supposed to rain the
next couple days to attempt something different this year
my daughter had all of these extra a
little bit higher we'll see how this works that gives me more water pressure
because the gravity flow is that much stronger what a rain barrel looks like
it has one of these this will help filter all your water but
I go even a step further than that it's dirty from storage but it's gonna
be alright it'll clean up after first rain all right that's what I add to it
now I use a watering can and that filters the water and the fresh clean
water comes out I'll show you window I also put the screen here as well then I
take a watering can
so the water goes in to the watering can all of the debris sinks at the bottom of
the watering can the fresh clean water comes out the top which then goes into
the rain barrel by the time I have the three filtration system the water is
pure crystal clear that comes out for me
and that is my rain barrel system it works really well I have plenty of water
so water is not an issue and you wouldn't believe in one rainstorm it
pretty much can fill this up really quick so there you go so this is how I
have my water system going right now so I have water that's coming out of the
well and it's going in this way as soon as I get my rainwater I'll be working on
that I'll be using the rain water and a hose to be washing my laundry but this
is working out really good I try not to use this water too much because this is
our good water but it's working out pretty good
so there you go I have the water drained into my wheelbarrow because I don't want
it just draining onto the ground then I take the wheelbarrow and I use it to
water my plants the soap that I use is not harmful for your plants I make sure
of that ahead of time it's my homemade soap and I do not use
borax because borax is known to not be very good for your plants and I reuse
every drop of water that I use here on the homestead however you use all of it
look at that it's the chicken house and this is some spouting I took and broke I
use this to collect the water in this rain barrel which I used to clean
everything off first real good from the winner everything's cleaned off real
good and we set up the chicken and we set the water just like we did at the
house I use some window netting some window screen I put inside this that
helps screen the debris as well
looks good I use the same window screen to screen for this one I need to replace
this for your screens pretty tore up that's okay it should work fine for now
I always keep this with me because out here this spouting needs cleaned a lot
so we're gonna put it right here because it's the summertime getting ready for
summer what I'm gonna do what I always do in the summertime is I will also put
some cloth here that I will show you when the time comes we're not ready for
that because we want to clean everything off really good first with the first
rain pretty much everything I do I have it down to a science what works for me
and I hope that you're learning something about all of this well my
friends there you go this is how I recession-proof my life by being a
little more self-sufficient and doing the things that I can to help me that I
don't have to weren't worried about the system so much if you like videos like
these I have lots of them in my playlist and here I'm gonna share with them with
you take everyone and we'll see you guys tomorrow