Garden & Fruit Tree Status

homesteading hey birdie Birds hey birdies so little chicky seem to be doing pretty good want to show you something guys we're in February here and February in North Carolina is not really the time for fruit trees to start blooming and I'll show you my Plum Tree here kind of a bummer because it'll get a freeze and I won't get any fruit this year so let's show it to you so all these are little blooms right here getting ready to flower out not cool uh this whole tree is just covered with blooms which would be totally awesome if we were in April but we're not in April so look out Frost Frost is going to get them guys Frost is going to get them well I've given you teaser after teaser after teaser about planting and marking the garden well we've already started marking the garden basically what I'll do is run a Mason string the length of the garden here and I have my rose spaced 42 in apart 42 in has been the magic number for me uh you could do 36 you could do whatever you wanted to do but 42 seems to be the magic number to me I can get my tiller through there and that way I till out the weeds I can also drive my tractor through there if I want to cultivate it and this is kind of a big Garden but I don't need to use every square inch of it so if you're gardening for square footage then this probably won't work for you but what we've already got planted here is some broccoli and cauliflower and cabbage these are kind of cold weather crops and we're also going to put our potatoes in the ground either today or tomorrow and that'll give them a little time to get started Ed so we can have some nice delicious homegrown potatoes so the way I mark this out is I take steaks that you can buy at any hardware store and take a measurement basically we measured off of the chicken co uh 3 ft and we took two different measurements off the chicken coop 3 feet and then we matched our string up to that measurement ran it all the way to the end of the garden okay the garden is probably I'm going to say 175 ft long something like that so it's a pretty big Garden but hey we're going to grow a bunch of vegetables and whatever we don't grow we feed to the chickens and hopefully we'll have some pigs soon too so we'll feed them to the pigs too got plenty of uses for old vegetables so can't waste it here's what we've got and basically I staked it all out I'll take you for a walk around the garden where I've got it marked out here so this is our marking system basically I just line up uh…