Building a homestead part 2 : Making the garden bigger, adding a fence

all right guys so i'm ready to upgrade this garden here so i'm going to flatten all this area out here and kind of replicate what i have here so it's going to double in size right now everything's growing so i'm going to borrow from this pile right here and i'm going to push it over here to raise the grade like 18 inches or so just so we can keep the water from sitting on it and i'm gonna flatten this out and then put another garden right in here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] so [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] here i hope this is like lining up because i'm just kind of i uh much to pick them i've been swimming all day [Music] hope [Music] all right so we more than doubled this garden we put another four rows in instead of three plus these are a little bit longer here maybe next year i'll do some more down there for for animals and stuff we're just going to plant some strawberries real quick so that'll be like the first thing we put in this new addition to the garden here so i guess we'll put them down here yeah we got ten things of them but we can you know we can do what we can dip them in chocolate yeah we gotta grow them first though yeah i know got your little dinosaur feet there caden that's good okay 18 inches apart there you go oh shoot some of it fell out that's okay all right next next let's keep these that's what he's doing you're good oh that was so close to hitting the ground wait i'm gonna keep the sign this is strawberries yeah that's fine you can keep it in there yeah all you gotta do is squeeze it a little bit and pop right out and bam look at that we're building it okay now which one is it we're making next baby we have no one who shorts them yeah you probably have it set on something in between or something here you shower shower huh hey i want to do it [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right guys so remember that pile that i had over here took that pile and pushed it over to here kind of took out the stuff that would burn left some of the other stuff here i still got that little pile over there but that's not much so this is uh burning pretty hot right now got it on my first try too because everything is wet just rained all day yesterday and everything is soaked so i wasn't sure if i'd even be able to get this going or not but even those stumps full of dirt are burning one thing that made quick work is getting this excavator back here too that's been gone for a while so now i have it back so this spot here is probably like 80 feet long and 30 or 40 feet wide i just cleared out that whole area so that's all usable space now instead of just storing this stuff some of this stuff is just so small what i'm gonna do is doze this all off once it gets a little bit drier now that everything is exposed it'll dry out pretty quick i don't know if these pigs look different from last time but they're they're getting a little bit bigger and uh let's check on these chickens and turkeys they're uh a lot bigger the turkeys are like ready to get out of here garden's getting there all right so here it is a week later you can see everything's getting real big so the pile is burned down pretty good there's still a few stumps left we've had a lot of rain so things aren't burning the way they should but actually even this morning i came here and there's some smoke coming out of this still and this is a week later there's this there's some smoke right there a week later i can still feel the heat radiating out that was a really hot burn at one point but the problem was it went overnight and i couldn't put this stuff in the middle so kind of burn a hole in the middle the next day i came back and i put some more stuff in but it was pouring out pretty good so anyways i'm just gonna bury these last couple stumps out that way because i don't have any plans for anything out there and then all this junk here i'm just going to doze this off flat there's a lot of wood and sticks and stumps and all kinds of junk in here just nothing like plastic or anything like that but it's all biodegradable so what i'm gonna do is bury the stumps flatten it out and then put this pile on top because this is actually good stuff that's not too much clay so so so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] all right so i flattened out this area and i let it set for a day and it's already starting to dry up but it's a little bit low so i got this nice pile of dirt here i'm gonna spread that all out with the excavator first just to kind of break it up and then push it with the dozer over that way so i'm gonna take the excavator over here i'm gonna take it and scoop it right in front of the dozer and then just push it that way so foreign so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] family [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so so that's a little bit better let this dry out and then i can grate it out a lot better it's still a little bit wet i need some more over there too so but i actually need the rest of this pile for around that sandbox i'm gonna bring up this whole level that way there's no pooling like this i'm gonna grate it all a slight pitch going into the pond but that's another day let me see if i can get this thing started i want to move it because i want to clear all that stuff right there and make more usable space [Music] so at least it's out of the way now i gotta fix that thing one of these days but there's a lot of other things that are a little bit more important right now so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] okay for some reason i came home and these things are in my house these are guinea hens i need to put a fence around this garden everything's been going pretty good except for this corn that a goose has been chopping up that goose is actually kind of like a permanent thing over here now just a wild goose can't really see it but it's right in front of the chicken pen right now just one goose but he just stays around here or she or whatever just stays around here but yeah i caught that goose tearing up the corn plants over there wow look at this thing that's not poisonous though we've also had two snapping turtles here too and they've laid eggs and there's some baby snapping turtles there might be one right there another one right there they're all over the place so i have since relocated the bigger snapping turtle but the smaller one i can't seem to find i i found it once but then it disappeared but i don't really want to relocate him but i also don't want my dogs to be caught up in one of them or the chickens or anything even my kids because the one snapping turtle was right here in the middle of the garden and i was probably within 10 feet from it before i even saw it it was sitting right underneath that sprinkler and until it moved i didn't even see it so that's something that we don't really want around here but that goose is welcome to stay here as long as it doesn't tear up my plants too much more so i'm going to go mill up some wood for this and i'm going to treat it by charring it because i don't want any chemicals in the ground i don't want to put motor oil or diesel or anything on it tar anything that's going to leach in the ground i don't want any chemicals in the ground because this is stuff that we're going to eat so i think charring is the best way and if i can get five years out of it that's great i have this assorted pile of logs and ideally locust would be the best post but i only have like one maybe two locus trees here so i have plenty of hemlock and i have some pine i really don't want to use the pine right now but all this is going to go to waste if i don't use it in a couple years so i'm thinking that piece right there is about 12 feet long i need 10 foot posts so that'll leave a foot on each side to cut off for checking so let's see if i can get to this i probably need two about that size that's about 16 18 inches [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so i got 16 out of the first log there and i got nine out of the second one and you can see they're not all perfect but i was using an old blade that needed to be sharpened anyways because i don't really care what they look like this is not the taj mahal vineyard this is just a homestead garden so this is good enough i think i have like two extra so what i'm going to do is some of this slabwood here it's a little bit wet but i'm gonna use it to make a fire and then i'm gonna take all these and burn the last three feet of them and i'm gonna do it in a way where i can burn them pretty much all at once or at least half of them at once so i'm not doing one at a time [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so now that i'm done with the post before i install them i'm going to take this little triangle area right here i got this tape to kind of represent where the posts are going to go so i want to use this space right here to put in some rows going this way so i got another three yards of this compost oil so i figured i'd better put it in there before i put these posts in because then it'll be blocked off because i'm gonna have a door here but it's not gonna be wide enough to fit a dump truck through so um it's kind of wet right now i might get stuck getting in here because it's been raining a lot but i'm just gonna dump it in there for now and then i can do whatever i gotta do and then i can always spread it out and put it in rows later once the post and the fence are up [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] so so so [Music] [Music] [Music] so back here there was an old stone wall i wasn't able to get any of these down deep enough so i'm going to take my mini excavator and bring it back here and kind of dig up because there was nothing but rocks here i couldn't get more than like a foot down so this is kind of like the quick and dirty and easy way to put some posts in i'm not even using a string i don't really care if it's straight it's not going to be rectangular this is going to be like a trapezoid type of shape so it is what it is i don't really care if they line up too well so right here i put them like five feet apart that way i can put a little door just enough to bring in a cart or something [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] these posts are nowhere near lined up with each other but i don't really care this is just a garden so the problem is with making things look nice if you start to do that then you got to continue to do that so i chose to just put them in as quick as possible by eye not even really by eye just kind of like putting them in i'm really just not looking for perfection here so anyways what i got to put in here is this seven foot fence it's a deer fence it's really thin so i don't think it's a good idea to put it up just on these posts here so what i'm gonna do is put a board on the bottom and the top of each one and fasten that fencing to the boards so i have a bunch of scrap boards here these boards are like left over from other things they've been sitting out in the weather for a while they were never intended to be like a finished board when you're milling up for post the first thing you need to do is make like a square rectangle and to get to that point you end up with a whole bunch of like one buys so you try to take off one inch at a time and then you can take them and use them for something else so that's kind of what these are right here these are probably a year and a half to two years old they've been sitting out in the weather you can see they got wormholes in them and stuff so again it's just stuff that i don't really care about i'm just using it up it's going to rot away if i don't so i don't really care if the width is consistent on them they seem to be about a one by twelve but i don't care if they're one by six i'll put it right next to a one by twelve i don't really care this is my garden so i don't really care what it looks like if i was getting paid for this this would be a whole different whole different scenario and a whole different plan for it but this is kind of like get it up as quick as you can as cheap as possible i expect these posts to last two years i'll be glad if they last five years so just wanted to tell you that right off hand i'm not expecting these to last a long time so remember that snapping turtle that i told you guys i found in there and then i couldn't find it again well it's in here [Music] so about every week and a half or so i'm changing this water out this is just for them to cool often this is not their drinking water we fill up the drinking water over there this is just for them to like cool off in the sun so the snapping turtle has been in here i have no idea how it got in here it definitely didn't get into the sides i checked all the sides there's no way that it came into the side so i really had no idea the only thing i can think of is when i was taking water from that pond and putting it in here maybe i scooped him up and put him in here i just can't think of any other way but watch he's in here you just don't know it as soon as i turn on this excavator he hears the rumble and he comes out of there it's kind of funny actually kind of like wondering what's going on see he's right there he's looking right at me so i gotta relocate him so i'm gonna get him out [Music] so he's about a 12-incher put him in his bin and bring him down the road i really don't want to relocate them but i don't want them around my dogs and stuff [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] all right guys so this is probably it for this video there goes that goose zoe what are you doing so on the last video about doing the homestead part one i got a lot of comments and questions about runoff from this pen into the pond so that's definitely not a problem they actually go to the bathroom in that corner and what it does is all go in the middle there and that middle is not for drinking so for right now that's going to be fine i was also watching this when it was raining and there was nothing getting outside everything is tipped in in all directions going into the middle so there's nothing going into that pond and with the chickens there's nothing going in from there because all the water goes actually back down that way and there's not a lot of water that goes actually through that chicken thing like it always stays dry in there so it's not washing uh waste into the pond so my plans moving forward here is to clear a little bit more back that way and then i'm gonna put some cows back there and i'm gonna put a big chicken pen big chicken coop so that's kind of like my next big project is to do that i want to clear around that tree right there and put a big chicken coop for all the chickens to go into because actually we had to take some out from there because they were getting overcrowded and we put them with the big chickens which is at a different spot in the property so i'm going to take all the chickens ducks and turkeys and bring them all into a pen over here so that's going to be half of the next video so the other part is going to be with that garden i'm going to keep going on that so that fence definitely took a little bit more work than i anticipated but i'm glad it's done now the goose can't get in there and a lot of other animals i guess if they really wanted to they could fly over and get in there but i think they'd have to be pretty desperate for that so i also put this gravel around the bottom of the whole thing and the idea behind that was that when i'm watering these the water runoff all comes to this corner here and then it goes back into the pond so i want it to be able to drain out and if i just put dirt there then it would just be stuck right where these rails are on the bottom and then it would rot them out quicker so i figured if i put some gravel in there it'll drain through the gravel and also it should keep some animals out what i did is went underneath this gravel with the mesh so that way animals would have a little bit harder over time getting in if they wanted to dig in so hopefully this will deter most animals from getting in here so the other half of the next video that i'm going to do is going to be drip irrigation i already have the parts but i haven't had a chance to put them in yet for right now i just have pond water that i'm pumping out into the garden and it's working really well but i might actually have to run a hard water line all the way over to the pump house which is like 400 feet away um for the drip irrigation because it's got to be pretty clean water this works pretty good but you got to keep unclogging the filters that i have on those sprinklers [Music] so i don't want to keep doing that i want something that's kind of automatic so i got all the stuff that i need to do that i just got to install it so doing this homestead thing has kind of been an adventure for me i'm not an expert at it but it's been fun and it's been refreshing so we'll end this here and i'll see you guys on the next video [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

Channel: Jesse Muller

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Length: 63min 33sec (3813 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 19 2021