hey in today's episode i want to talk about uh
i scored a an epic find at a thrift store on treasure hunting i got a viral video
and i'm gonna share with you guys what's going on in the garden stay tuned
so
welcome back to pine meadows hobby farm i'm your host jerry hansen i have uh i found a thrift store
uh treasure i mean this thing is epic i went to one of my favorite thrift shops
and found this for 25 dollars i picked this little creature up it's a cedar an automatic cedar it
came with six different cams to accommodate six different types of seeds and on the cams
is emblazoned the types of seeds that they will work on the cams go
in this little hopper that you fill up with seed and you roll that across your garden
and it plants the seeds it's really cool you can adjust the depth of the seed planted
and it also has an adjustable arm you can adjust the spacing of your seed rows perfect little thing
so i plan on taking the tractor out i've got that rear tine tiller attachment on the tractor and i'm
going to till this whole area up and this will be my father garden oh yeah you grow animal feed
like corn and sunflower seeds comfrey and some barley peas for animal feed so this will be my
father garden i'll show you my vegetable garden in a minute so when i was explaining to my wife about
my intentions of building the fodder garden there for the animals she got a little bit jealous so
she talked to me into tilling this up and growing some more plants in there and i'm gonna make her
a mudder garden anyway so this gem that i scored at the thrift store 25 bucks yep it's gonna help
planting my fodder garden and my mudder garden and especially the corn sunflower seeds and the
other peas that need to be spaced and at a certain depth this is going to make life so much easier
so now on to the uh the rest of the garden let's start in the greenhouse i'll show you what i've
got growing in here and what i just planted we had i woke up yesterday morning to a frosty morning so
luckily i did not take anything outdoors to ruin i'm going to wait till june before i move things
outdoors so let me show you what's going on in here lettuce two types of tomatoes hot peppers
zucchini with sunflowers sunflowers with yellow squash carrots in a bucket sunflowers
i planted uh what did i plant in here um cantaloupe did not sprout
over here sunflowers and another squash i can't remember what i planted there oh watermelon
sasquatch also known as sam squatch asparagus i started from seed i'll be growing those in the
raised bed out in the garden soon radish ready to harvest spinach gonna harvest
that and plant some more spinach mustard yep that's ready to harvest we'll plant some more
different type of lettuce in both buckets there yep plenty of greens here's my comfrey it's
coming along very well here i planted peas to get them started and i'll put them out in the
garden when they go after they sprout and get about three inches high corn did the same here
and cucumbers we'll be doing the same here and then of course i got the worms uh
for a worm tea or um oh the worm poop i put those with the plants and give them a fighting chance at
growing it really nutritious for them also when i get ready to go fishing i have bait right here
i also want to thank special thank you to marty randy misty randy matt rainey for helping us
build the tr uh this uh building yes on one of the episodes of um what was the episode where are you
homestead rescue honey i torched the homestead savage wilderness and uh homestead hacks
yeah so let's go to the garden radish in this bed with cabbage and cauliflower
got broccoli and brussels sprouts here as well as over there and more cabbage
i do have some root crops trying to grow up in here also and i planted a lot of seeds
out here a variety of vegetables oops this is the raised bed i was talking about i have some
asparagus that grew too big i'll just cut it down but we've got asparagus growing out here i already
made a meal with some of the asparagus i pruned my grape back this year and boy is it doing wonderful
got snow peas there swiss chard looking mighty healthy
i got a big bed of turnips i love turnips and here's some cabbage i started from seed
got some beets over here
and all this onion i started from seed curses i've got weeds so on my trellises back there
that's where i'm growing the peas on the front two trellises and pickling cucumbers on the back
uh four or the back two trellises anyway these right here are for my tomato plants i've got
i got a little tool to attach to my drill i can get get in there dig it up and cultivate the soil
plant the tomato with some worm castings and let the tomatoes go to town this area is for my string
beans i got two rows that i'm going to be planting because we love love love string beans when i
showed you the zucchini squash and melons and also the sunflowers we're going to lay them out here
i'm not going to plant them we're growing them in those great big giant buckets so i got an early
start in the greenhouse they're going to grow and we're just going to move the buckets out here
next year i might go a little bit more but last year i was fine with just two zucchini plants and
two yellow squash plants we got more than enough to make zoodles for our meals and freeze them
and that's the garden and now that viral video yeah this video uh seriously went more viral than
any video i have ever ever produced in the life of my show it doubled the last i mean it doubled
the last uh viral video so this especially retiring now and um having this happen this
is insane it's on pest control rats rodents so as you know i've been battling rodents in my house
in my barn and in my other out buildings especially they've taken up residence inside
the tractor barn so i came up with different solutions to try to battle them i've used snap
traps live traps sticky traps those ultrasonic sound things which don't work none of them work
those green bait blocks don't work the mouse bait traps don't work none of it worked snap traps do
uh the the sticky traps they the only thing i ever found in a sticky trap was a tail ew and uh
but i've been coming up with different solutions i tried putting ammonia around the house
to keep them away planted peppermint around the foundation of the house to repel them i'm
i'm trying everything in one video i did last year was on uh plaster of paris and flower yeah plaster
paris was the killer flower was the attractant i've tried a bunch of different attractants
i you know there's cement there's beer there's pop but i found the most effective killer was the
um baking soda and the most effective attractant i found was cornbread mix now cornbread mix does not
kill anything it's very nutritional it's very yummy anyway uh it's uh it's the baking soda
and i demonstrate that in that viral video on how it works in the rodents
now last uh this past week uh uh around may may 18th i think it was i reached out to the ceo and
president of the chelsea milling company that makes jiffy cornbread mix with honey he says
that's a fairly new product it's not available in all retail outlets but if you can find any
kind of attractant to work with baking soda it's good him and i had a really nice conversation
really nice guy family-owned business he's like eighth generation owning the business and running
the business so it's really neat company and a really cool conversation with the guy
um but with that said that video just absolutely for some reason just blew up this week i mean blew
up it went up into the stratosphere that video alone to be honest with you it's made me almost
three thousand dollars just since i uploaded it in february uh that's that's a godsend that really is
and if you guys are wondering how to make a video viral you don't you just make content and
it's like a crap shoot in las vegas you don't know which video is going to take off and get
anchored and get the views i've had another video a couple of other videos one of my top
grossing videos is how a poor man can buy cheap property that is the other video that went viral
twice when it goes viral it doesn't stay viral it goes back down then it hit another market
and went viral again as you saw in this graph but uh this kill rat's dead with cornbread mix
that thing is viral and it's effective somebody asked me did i just invent a news mouse trap
i just came up with a floor a formula that works i was desperate it's effective
and get this it not only kills rats and mice as a bonus it kills ants roaches food moths i think
squirrels and chipmunks and gophers moles and voles yes but it won't kill dogs and cats and the
little beast when it's dead is safe to eat because if you're using plaster and leaving plaster out
i worry about my livestock getting into it and meeting their demise also and as well as other
critters i've heard said it's also dangerous for birds i don't know that for sure but you know be
careful what you you know what you're using i keep this in a closed container put it in a location
where the rats frequent and the rodents frequent just to get them and not the other creatures and
livestock so i'm careful where i place it well i hope you guys enjoyed this content i'm your host
jerry hansen this is pine meadows hobby farm where a frugal homestead tactile in the cascade ranges
of the pacific northwest we're geographically located west southwest of crater lake national
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always be kind we'll see you guys in the next episode bye bye now
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