Assess Garden and Plan Season's Layout

guys remember gardening is about community this is a community so if you guys have any kind of comments or suggestions please put them in the comment section down there YouTube is our biggest gardening community hey there folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer welcome back to the farm today we're going to be working in the garden we're going to be prepping the garden for spring planting so we're going to go in we're going to take down all the old lattice work we're gonna mow down all of this debris and all this mess and push up the stuff that we can't tell into the soil we're gonna fill up the soil will rake everything up we're going to show you a little bit about deer fencing and how we keep the deer out of the garden we're going to talk to you about why our chickens are placed where they are close to the garden and why our honeybees are right there close to the garden and the gardens above the orchard all sorts of fun stuff today here on the farm blog so come along and learn a little bit and have a little fun in the garden with me all right woo [Music] [Applause] [Music] first things first let's show you what we've got going on in the garden so this is our okra and it kind of came in late last year the trellis system that you see back here we're going to show you how this is destructed and how it's constructed so we did gourds on here last year got a gourd hanging right here most of the gourds are sitting on top of the chicken coop drying so that we can build a Marten colony over by our pond to keep the mosquitoes down so really the first order of business is to get these trellises down to pull all those old gourd vines out of them there are some old gourds laying here basically we just got to take everything down and mow it to the ground this is our corn we're going to be using the tough cutting here on the ventrac tractor we're gonna mow all this stuff try to pulverize it put it back to the land if it cuts up and bust up good enough we'll run the tiller right through it if not we may put the landscape rake on and rake it up into a compost pile either burn it or compost it we also have to take down some of our deer fence I'll take you over here and I'll show you how our deer fence is designed and we'll do more videos on this later in the year but this will give you some good idea how to keep the deer out of your garden first thing this season so let's talk about our deer