hey everybody Sam here and Angela and Welcome to our Channel welcome to another fabulous wonderful
sunny day out here on the homestead I just drove the tractor over to what we're calling or what
are we calling a mulch Mountain I guess it's more like two and a quarter mountains so today
is going to be the first day we start working on our brand new Garden the New Garden that'll
be our forever Garden it's pretty much here on our Homestead very exciting it's one of those
things that I don't know it's like right after Christmas you kind of start thinking what kind
of seeds do I need to get what do I know what do I want to grow in my garden this year so
we've been thinking on it a couple of months and excited to get it started oh yeah I've been kind
of thinking oh my gosh groceries are expensive why are we buying that we should grow it I don't
go in the grocery store a whole lot it's kind of like I don't know maybe your cathartic trip
it is freedom away from the family but when I do go I'm like oh my gosh no I don't want
that I don't want that we don't need food well I guess I kind of do we do all right well our
plan of attack is with all of these bags of mulch we are going to use them to spread over right in
front of our greenhouse and right where our new Garden is going to be going we're going to go
ahead and break open the bags and put them in the bucket and then dump the bucket over there in the
garden that way it keeps all the trash right here and I don't know it just works better that way
so that was a dried by the Sun
yeah
ew it's slimy
I want four bags this will take a while
okay
I know I could fit like six to eight of these in the bucket what if we take
it over cut it in the garden okay okay we'll do this first one and then we'll change our tactic
foreign
all right
thank you
man it smells like cow feet too
you may be wondering why we got bagged mulch instead of having it truck loaded
in well it's actually cheaper here to do bagged mulch kind of weird but it's
also nice because we can actually put each bag exactly where we want it and
we're not going to have the Wasted Spot of where it was dumped out at
soon
so here's our purpose and our point of using mulch we are not going to be doing a back to
Eden Garden we're doing raised bed gardens but what we're going to do with this mulch is it's
going to be used to firm up and add substance and substrate to our soil it's a lot of s alliteration
going on there basically our soil is like pure clay when it rains and you've got any kind of
water sitting on it you sink and that's terrible for a garden it doesn't make anybody want to get
out there in it so what we're thinking is we'll use some natural pure hardwood mulch we will
lay it down we'll pack it in really tight and that'll give us a good base that we can level
but also give substantial structure and support so that we can walk on it drive the tractor on
it whether it is Muddy rainy sunny or whatever we are not going to be putting down any kind of
weed barrier because we want this to eventually break down and enrich the soil we're not trying
to stop any grass or weeds we have no problem Mowing and trimming weed eating all around our
garden beds that's okay we're not trying to create a pure English style Garden where we
completely segregate nature from this area we are just trying to give ourselves a nice firm
base so that our raised beds that don't sink get lumpy or we get stuck in the mud
thank you
foreign
thank you
foreign
there we go that was um I can't say it's fun but it is nice and fun to have this progress started
so what you see here while it looks pretty large and it is very large is probably only
half the size of our garden we're going to do this same exact size right beside it heading uphill a
little bit yep more mulch to do more mulch to lay down and hopefully we're going to have enough if
we don't that's fine we can get bag mulch pretty easily may not get like the triple palette mega
load we may just take my truck and load it up and do it at that point we'll see we gotta give
this stuff time to rest now it's going to rain tomorrow so that's fine it'll sit we definitely
are not gonna put the tractor on any of this tomorrow so it may be a couple of days until we
move on to the next mulch section but for now for today that was a pretty big accomplishment by far
the easiest way we found to do this was to put the bags in the bucket of the tractor drive it
over and then using my knife cut as many of the bags on the end as we could at that point it was
just a matter of Dump Dump Dump back the tractor up dump dump dump and so forth and so forth as you
saw Elijah's getting pretty good at driving the tractor this is the perfect kind of scenario for
him to build some skills and to get comfortable with it you know as comfortable as I want to let
him do stuff with it but either way it was great to have him here to help me and move the tractor
so I didn't have to go back and forth between the two as I dumped the bags Angela did as much as
she could before she kind of overdid it with her back and she's in the house now unfortunately her
back's not good and unlike me with my bad feet I can just put a pair of work boots on and kind of
get through stuff it's hard to put your back in a pair of boots or something to help you work so
hopefully you guys enjoyed this video I know it wasn't you know amazing and magnanimous but it's
the beginning of our garden it is the beginning of what will be a very very large garden for us
but hopefully a very successful one too so if you got any questions or comments you know what to do
leave them for us down below otherwise take care and we'll see you guys next time on the homestead
no pooping in the garden
yeah right
where our new Garden is going to be going going to be going does that sound dumb it kind of did you
sounded weird the soil here is very much depleted and very much full of well just don't move on
load up the tractor's bucket and then go dump it instead of Transport yeah
so don't sink get wompy or we get stuck in the mud is wampy a word I made it a word