Life lessons learned through freezing rain in Houston. – Mittleider Gardening Method Video Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUgMVL1vbmE&list=PL2cLVMJ…
The off-grid homestead garden results are in. Can you believe 25 bushels of tomatoes from just 3 garden rows?! In addition bushels and bushels of other fruit…
Well done! Out here we’re just praying for rain, freezing or otherwise.
On an FYI note, we went up to the local LDS cannery a couple days ago and
they told us that they were no longer going to have the ‘can it yourself’
process available. They will still sell the food but only pre-canned. They
said the state was just piling on too many regulations for them to
continue. Yet another example of the government “protecting” us out of our
freedom. Sad when even a church cannot help their community without
breaking the law.?
Wow that’s cold for Houston isn’t? I am so glad your prepared! Cold back
here in Ohio too! burrrrrrrrrrr Great lesson!?
FYI cabbage can take a freeze, it actually improves the flavor. That is one
of the reasons they do so well here in the far far north; they extend the
growing season by keeping on after the first frost.?
Global warming is somehow to blame for all this cold.?
Nice!?
I am glad your garden did well !!?
About 6yrs ago bought $600 worth of flowers and garden starters for Mothers
Day. It took me 2 days to get everything planted. The next day after
that…..IT SNOWED and everything died. I learned a hard lesson that day. I
planted way too soon and the weather is crazy here in Indiana but these
days it looks like the weather is unstable all over.
I hope it warms up for you there. I know how it feels to lose all your hard
work. You have a nice set up for sure.?
What plastic did you use to protect the plants??
I imagine you have a pile of money in that plastic. Lol. But it is needed
for the plants to survive. Up in western pa Monday and Tuesday of next week
we’re expecting -10 to -15 as low temperatures. That doesn’t include the
windchill…… One word describes it Brrrrrrrr. Lol. ?
it hit us much worse in nj
i dont even have my plants out yet. snow is still on the ground. i hope to
build a greenhouse similar to yours?
Do you ever have issues with winds and keeping the plastic down. I am
having a hell of time keeping the plastic down, we get winds from 40-60mph
at times. Thanks.?
Very cool to see what to do in case of a freeze for the garden, I am new to
growing stuff so your videos have helped me start a little solo cup
orchard. We are moving to another apartment but it has a wrap around porch
facing south so we will have plenty of light and can do more 🙂 We had the
same freezing rain here in San Antonio but we use to live in the mountains
in California so it was no big deal for us.
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Glad to hear the garden & your family made it through. It got down to 0
last night here in Central AR. We don’t have a garden going, but it was
challenging keeping the chickens and rabbits comfy.?
How are the avacodo trees faring? Mine is in a big pot on wheels and its
inside during any temp below 40.?
Fantastic prep and video!?
Congratulations!
I live in Maine where mitigating winter conditions is commonplace. Glad to
know you took the time to prepare for a freeze.
Once it gets down to 20 below zero, I do put socks on, LOL.?
Way to be prepared! Nicely done.?
I’m not encouraging others to do what I did, but I left my garden
uncovered, and my onions and strawberries fared right through. I did a walk
around to see where the ice really settled. You have ice all over your thin
plastic that retains no heat. Was there ice on the ground? My wife has an
outdoor fish pond and it never even glazed over. It actually froze with the
Polar Vortex, but not with this little ice event we had. I too had some ice
on the tops of the beehives (see my video) but no on all hives. Some had
liquid water on top. I attribute this to the heat of the bees inside.
One other thing, I recall hearing that ice on plants can actually be less
damaging than a frost. But I never have read it to confirm it, just heard
it as a kid. Something to do with the insulating properties of ice vs
frost. Might look it up. ?
another great video. Thanks for sharing.?
10/10 Great Job!!?
Nice set up. I was in southern Utah and noticed a small green house with
what looked like some black material hanging inside, I assume to gather
some heat from the sun. Looked like a good idea.
Take care?
this is going to be a long hard winter. it is -30 here. do not plant early
unless you put it under green house structures and use heat lamps. cover
your fruit trees, as frozen buds do not produce fruit! again, it is going
to be a long hard winter.?
Glad to see your bees are doing ok, between the frozen hive thumbnail and
your title, I thought they may have died off. Glad to see your other stuff
is thriving too.?
Good job on covering and protecting your plants and bees. Who would have
thought you’d have that ice down in Texas!?
be aware, be prepared! from Canada TY :)?
More land in this garden than the average entire houseblock these days 🙁
What are we doing to people… trapping them into work and pay taxes I
suppose?
Love the clean look! Have a solution to question posted here. For fire
ants, get regular grits from grocery store and dust them with powdered
sugar. Generously apply around the fire ant hills at least three days
before it’s going to rain. They will feed it to the hive including the
queen and then when they drink water, the grits will explode to 5x it’s
size and kill them. Worked like magic in North Carolina. Black ants have
a purpose in breaking down soil, use with caution, don’t kill everything!?
Do you buy heirloom seeds??
Each 18″x30′ box with sawdust and sand costs about $100. The vertical
growing T-frames cost about $100 too. In each box you could grow 180 pole
beans (vertical) or 362 beets or 52 broccoli or 720 carrots or 92 corn or
41 cucumbers (vertical) or any combination of plants. To fertilize it would
cost about $0.66 per week. My neighbor has the hydro stacks. He wants his
money back. For an expensive hobby garden it is okay but you can’t grow
enough to feed a family IMHO w/o spending a fortune.
I use what mother nature gives me and ain’t gone hungry yet! just saying!
Baskets vary in size, bushels don’t. For more information please google
“bushel”.
Nothing. They have a well.
followed you’re progress from all of your vids, and what can i say, im
totally sold and prepped my garden for mittliner next season 🙂
thanks again for a great video. 46 30′ beds=2898 linear feat of frames and
needs $100.00+ of weekly feed at $0.50/pound of 16-16-16 + $13.00/mineral
packet.add screws,connection and stake lumber, sand and sawdust, and it was
a lot to lay out.about how much $ of produce per year figured for 13 week
growing season. what USDA Zone please? I use Sams club weed blocker on top
of 6+ layers of newspaper, topped off with outdoor carpeting. second season
with zero weeds.beds sit on cinder blocks.
What lifespan do the 18″x30′ boxes provide before having to replace them? I
live in the high Utah Mountains, too, so it is pretty dry here.
cool!
You needed to hand pollinate the squash. I found a youtube video that shows
how to do it. It’s not that the method didn’t work. Squash is one of those
vegetables that requires hand pollinating if you don’t have too many female
flowers. Hope this helps.
It cost 10 times more trying to buy all the vegetable that you harvest.
Most people don’t have that many grow box in their yard. Most people start
off with 1 or boxes and gradually add on to it. It really is not expensive
at all considering how much harvest you can get. Once you start, it truly
becomes addictive seeing how much vegetable you can produce. It’s well
worth it. You can literally slash your grocery bill by starting your own
vegetable gardening!
How much time did it take them to build all of this. What would you
estimate the cost of all the wood to be. I am trying to decide between
doing the Mittleider method or going with hydrostacker hydroponics setup
which will cost me $5000 to purchase for 45 towers.
how do you deal with the Imported fire ants in Hoston
Thank you for asking. It will dramatically extend your growing season.
Please use the links below the video for more information on the
in-the-garden greenhouse and view my videos on this in my “Mittleider
Gardening Method” playlist.
Can you tell me what they put down in the walkways!! I am so sick of weeds
and that looks awesome!
I live in Utah in a very rural small town.For the 6 summers I have been
here it has been a constant weed issue,the worst is bindweed! I am doing
Mettleider,but my beds are soil.The more I try the worse it is.We do have
hoes like yours, the weeds are pretty easy to pull from the beds,but not
from the walk ways.Bindweed is impossible to kill..I have tried to kill it
several different ways to no avail! If I could just keep my isles down it
would be great!The only way to get rid of it is to move!LOL
I don’t put down anything and don’t recommend you do. They put down some
kind of fabric. I’m not sure.
go to LDSPrepper’s youtube page. Also he and his partner have an awesome
facebook page called “Mittleider Gardening”. You should check it out.
Extremely informative an we all share our success stories and also get him
at any projects that is failing. I had a failure project that became a
success once I got help on the group. We also show-off our garden & it does
inspire all of us to push forward and joing in with all the success & pics.
WOW, this is incredible! I can’t believe (well I do) the results….simply
incredible. Thank you for running such an awesome channel. 🙂 Wayne
I called him. He said it is regular weed block fabric.
yeah I’ve known about about amonia for fire ant stings for over 25 years,
works sometimes . However that was not the crux of my question. Having
lived on the Texas Gulf Coast from Winnie to Lake Jackson to Alief and Katy
I know that if you leave it setting on the ground for any lenght of time
the Fire Ants will build a mound around it. How do you deal with the mounds
or nests Is my question.
The Mittleider method also works great in any soil bed. No need to build
boxes like he did. I have tried five different gardening methods. The
Mittleider method produces the most fruit and veggies at the lowest cost
per square foot. If you really want to know that you can feed your family
this is the method I recommend.