Carefully Collect and Transport Harvested Tomatoes

that so basically our garden has remained pretty much weed free since early spring and the reason it's remained weed free I'm gonna pick and talk by the way the reason it's remained weed free is because we came in we took care of the weeds early on with the hoe and then we came back behind and we lightly mulch the area and as you can see there are just no weeds in here to speak of maybe a little sprig of grass here and there but really honestly no weeds to speak of our garden is flourishing it's doing wonderfully it just takes that little extra touch that little bit of extra work to get it done right now if you're considering growing a garden I don't recommend you grow a garden this big for a family of four I recommend a smaller garden start small and go get yourself some double ground mulch from a local supplier and spread it down just very thinly around your plants early on in the year and you won't have weeds so folks a lot of planning and thought went into our garden this year and a lot of that planning and thought has been shared with you and it's really paid off I hope you'll watch all the garden series that we have here and stick with the channel we'll have a whole lot of awesome tips for you in the future about living in the country and clearing land and working the land and feeding your own family now we'll keep on picking our tomatoes and anything that's bad we'll toss right over to the chickens everything kind of has a symbiotic relationship here on the farm so if we're over here picking tomatoes and we see one with a bad spot we feed it to the chickens we don't pick them up off the ground and try and kin them it just gets bacteria from the ground in the tomato and it's going to set you up for failure later on in your canning maybe three weeks down the road all of a sudden you some stink and it'll be your cans going bad so we do not take them from the ground no matter how beautiful they are and try to can them we've got a lot of Tomatoes here probably 50 pounds of tomatoes today to pick when we only planted somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 or 60 tomato plants all right look at these guys even these guys that have just barely started to turn will go ahead and pick those now on this tomato we call this the stem or the pecker I call that the pecker and you want to get that pecker off before you put it in the bucket because if you don't it's going to stab right into the other tomatoes in the bucket and you just don't want that we've got a lot of…