June Garden Tour | What We Are Growing to Feed our Family of 4 | 2023

I've been an organic gardner for60 years, Way before it was popular. I believe it is the only way to garden to be healthy. I am 70 and I still have a full garden in town with corn, tomatoes, peppers, beans, cucumbers potatoes,carrots,flowers, herbs, squash, and okra. Just love what you are teaching your children. My grandfather taught me to have my own garden when I was 6 and I have had my own garden and chickens ever since.

Its great that your children have their own garden space and they are learning to grow their own food.

YES YOU GUYS!!! Way to garden!! Way to parent!! Yes!! Yes!!! Yes!!!!!!!! Way to go!! Sending tons of love to you real people doing the next right thing!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Hang in there! I just found you and I’m telling my family and friends about your program. I’ve really enjoyed it and just found out how to comment. I love it. ❤ 2:58

So nice to see a family working together in raising their foods. Too many just spend time on phones and computers.. Your children are blessed. Hope the rain helps!

I think it's awesome that you are teaching the kids to raise your own veggies and fruit! It's wonderful to know where your food comes from!

Thanks for sharing your gardens with us!!! Y’all are so inspiring. As a Ma’amaw I know your Mommas & Daddies have to be so proud of the way y’all are raising those babies. Your hard work & influence sure is showing!!! Well done!!!

It is wonderful to teach children life skills, there is much to be gained from knowing the things our forefathers did to survive. We may certainly be looking at a simpler life than we might expect normally, in a not too distant future. Bless your hearts, love and blessings.

Awww, he's so sweet giving the ripe blueberries to his wife.❤

Love that the kids have their own gardens😊

You guys have such a nice place. My father is from North Carolina and so I'm glad I found you guys. Love your videos, just pure down-home people. I learn from you guys all the time. Thank you for what you do. God Bless you all. My tomatoes are bushing out just like yours, I only planted three. Out cucumbers are doing the same thing. Our potatoes are bushed out also. So far I hope things produce really well. Chicken manure really helped our garden this year.

I can’t even get my peas in the house. The grand sons eat them as fast as we pick ‘em. And that makes my heart happy ❤

I love y'all's channel. I love everything about it, including you guy's and how down to earth y'all are. Beautiful garden and beautiful landscaping around your home. Thank you so much for your content and for opening up your lives for all of us to learn from.

Great garden tour, seeing your place is really inspiring. Your landrace experiments make perfect sense, that’s how my people grow stuff in the old country. If you ask them what variety something is, they look at you funny! I love how your kids are so into their gardens also. Precious family!

I let my mullein grow as well!! Hello from a 7th generation WNCer, west of Asheville ❤

I enjoy these videos. Good job Jacob and Maggie on yalls gardens.

This is incredible! I'm so grateful to have found your channel!

We recently took a trip to the farmers market in search of some green beans .we got surprised by a quote of $75 a bushel.

Nice. I'm 76 years old and living in an apartment building in Asheville NC now, but I had a garden in suburbs of NYC for a number of years and I want to have a garden again. Like the Lawsons, I depended on compost as much as possible. I always had at least three 20-foot long compost piles going; they were in 3 stages of maturity. I composted tree leaves from the trees on my 1/4 acre lot, and from my neighbors' lots, neighbors who collected their leaves, bagged them for town sanitation department to pick up roadside – or for me to pick up. My lot was near a bay off of the Atlantic ocean (can't remember the name of the bay offhand), and so I picked up lots of seaweed that washed up on the shore and added it to the compost. Seaweed was a really good thing in the compost. With mature compost spread atop the soil, or turned in, I measured the N, P, an K in the soil and like the Lawsons, I added 10-10-10 as needed, to make sure I got a good yield. I had books giving the N, P, and K requirements of various plants. Seems that many contemporary cultivars that people grow need high levels of nitrogen in order to be productive, more N than cultivars commonly grown many years ago . I believe that there are a number of reasons for that and I think I know what they are.. My lettuce got extra N from sodium nitrate I think it was. I also used cover crops and green manures, including nitrogen-fixing plants, which also produced edible beans. I grew collards on Long Island. Checked with Cooperative Extension for best plant varieties to grow in my area. Yes I have a web site with photos of my garden.

I could listen to this man read the encyclopedia. Wonderful voice.