The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Draven Rock Homestead: Spring Planting!!

Episode Date: February 26, 2024

The Mistress and Dane D. discuss everything spring planting and gardening...and also give a homestead update about the chickens.SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:If you have questions, or just need prayer, please email me at:[e-mail] Draven Rock Homestead Merch here:https://dravenrockhomestead.creator-spring.comFind our Locals community here:https://dravenrockhomestead.locals.comFind our Patron community here:patreon.com/DravenRockHomesteadFind me on Instagram here:https://www.instagram.com/draven_rock_homestead/Find me on Facebook here:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090222994092AFFLIATE LINKS:Nutrimill Grain Mill:https://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=437695&u=3797169&m=44804

Welcome to Dreamin' Rock, where we discuss homesteading, self-reliance, and unapologetic independence. Get ready for your host, the Mistress of Metal. Welcome to Draven Rock. I love you. Hey, rock stars. I'm the Mistress of Metal. Dane here from the Gun Metal Armory is here with me. That's me. If you're new to Draven Rock, welcome.

If you're a returning listener, welcome back. And seriously, welcome back, because I've been really slacking on recording these shows, and I apologize for that. But that's for various reasons. But I think I have a pretty good episode for y'all today. It's another in our Growing Freedom series. I haven't done one on gardening in quite a while, but it's that time of year, and spring

is fastly approaching, and we're going to talk about it. is fastly approaching and we're going to talk about it. But before we get started, if you want to connect with me, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook under Draven Rock Homestead. I have a Teespring shop also under Draven Rock Homestead if you're interested in some DRH merch. I have a couple of newer designs that I put up over there about a month or so ago. And I'm working on some more. You gotta like them. You should definitely check them out. So head on

over there and check them out. If you want to support Draven Rock well wait for a bit. I do have a Patreon and a Loc locals account um but it's been quite a while since i posted anything on there and i need to get y'all some really good behind the scenes content and some other awesome things too like recipes and which we are planning yeah um so i'll let y'all know when i have that stuff going and you can go check that out then.

Yeah. We're building the behind the scenes content right now. Yeah. If you want to contact me directly or privately, if you have questions or if you just need somebody to pray for you, you can email me at DravenRockhomestead at proton.me. And as always, all the links that I just mentioned can be found in the description of this podcast. I'm also trying to muster up the courage to actually record and post some videos to my Rumble channel. There's nothing there yet,

but I will let y'all know when that finally happens because I need to get over my fear of being seen, as it were. You work in the public, you know. Yeah, but not everybody sees me every day. And you dress like a ninja so nobody can see what you look like. Okay, so do any of y'all ever feel like you just don't have enough time? No.

I quit sleeping. There are just not enough hours in my day. Now, I've been feeling like that for the last couple of years, but here lately, it's been way more prevalent. There's so much that needs to get done to our house to finish the renovations. The garden needs work. We'll explain that here in just a little bit. Our yard needs landscaping of some sort or another because it's it's a hot mess not not a hot mess as in there's stuff everywhere because

there's not it's just a desert we are pretty much living on a foothill of a mountain and there's rocks everywhere and the ground is seriously uneven and drainage is poor and something needs to be done to the yard like asap but we need to make it to where the upper part of our property the water drains down and around our home. Under it. Yeah. I need to build storage shelves and other

tool storage type things for our garage so we can get that organized and looking better not to mention the fact that it needs to be finished out because it wasn't finished by the previous owner it's a hot mess too yeah one of the electrical outlets just went down i had to replace that yeah uh then there's all the weekly chores right so there's general house cleaning that you do once a week and laundry has to be done bread has to be made i take time on sundays to cook for us on the for the entire week because by the time i get home in the evenings there's not enough time to cook and eat and then clean up the kitchen and

you know whatever i know we don't have kids and and that's a whole other issue but god bless y'all that do yeah um and i have to take care of the the chickens there's things that i do in their coop and in their run once a week. And there's things that we do on a daily basis. And we're always looking out for sick ones. Yep. I'm also trying to read a whole bunch of books and write a couple of books. And I have to somehow find time to do those things.

Then there's all the things that I need to learn how to do. I need to learn how to cook in a Dutch oven with hot coals instead of an oven. Call some Dutch people. I've been needing to know or I've been needing to learn how to do that

for years, ever since Dane bought them for me for Christmas. I'm just interested because it involves fire. And we have to have a fire pit, which means landscaping has to be done so I can make a fire pit in the front yard. Or we can buy one of those, you know, metal fire pit things. But we'd prefer to do some landscaping and make it look nice. Yeah. we'd prefer to do some landscaping and make it look nice.

Yeah. I want to learn how to make my own soap and my own lotion and lip balm and deodorant. And I want to get better educated on chicken health because they fascinate me. But I want to be able to look at one of my girls that's maybe not feeling so well and be able to better diagnose or get close to a diagnosis just by looking at her and her symptoms what it could be instead of having to run in here and go through all of my chicken health books and grasping at straws you know with regards to deodorant god help us if the crap hits the fan and nobody knows how to make it. I want to learn how to care for goats and dairy cows and sheep. Because I want more animals in the future.

I think they'd prefer that. And on top of all of that, I have a pretty stressful full-time job Monday through Friday, 8 to 5. And I spend an hour to an hour and a half just traveling to and from work every day. It's all

very overwhelming to think about, especially when the list of things I need to learn are the things that I need to know so that I can pass them down to my kids and when I say my kids I mean our son because we only have one and my cousin's kids because she's like my sister so that's basically my niece and nephew just the kids in the family and um and then my nephew's friends who our family has just kind of adopted adopted them under our wings i guess but i need to pass that stuff down to them

so that they're not utterly clueless when shtf does happen because whether some of y'all choose to believe all of us or not it's going to happen something's going happen. It's just a matter of when and what. So as a prepper and a newbie homesteader I would much rather be ready and to have my family ready and

for all of us to learn those old time skills that we've lost over the decades due to all of our modern conveniences, then to not be ready and know absolutely nothing and be hurting when the time comes. Keep in mind that, you know, the people that had kind of seen the Great Depression coming or the people that had kind of understood that something was going to happen you know that we're putting back food and like okay I need to have a little bit extra this a little bit extra that the people that did what they could when they saw

something might be going down they had a much better time of things at that point now granted it hurt everybody and there's been multiple scenarios like that. That have hurt everyone throughout the years. But. That is one of those things. That you can keep in mind. That you look at and go. Okay. The people back then.

They adapted to the situation they were in. But the people that kind of saw it coming. And prepared ahead of time. They had it much easier. It's just something to keep in mind, y'all. You've heard me say this before. There's kids that don't know where their food comes from. There's kids that don't know where their water comes from.

If you ask them where it comes from, they say from the sink. you ask them where it comes from they say from the sink they don't know that there's like an entire process that water has to go through before it gets to your home they don't know where what water source it comes from or that it comes from a water source at all what's a well means you're doing good means you're doing good. But... What about that video? Yeah. Remember that video of that girl?

I saw this one video of a girl who had a lemon tree in her own backyard. And she had absolutely no clue that she could just go back there and pick the lemons off of her tree and she was buying bags of them from the store because she uses them in her cooking and in her water all the time her friends like why are you buying lemons? You have them right out back. She honestly thought that something had to be done to them first before she could consume them. I don't know what she thought needed to be done to them. But that whole idea, that whole thought process of hers is just sad all around.

All around. And even if something, this is the thing that gets me. Even if something did have to be done to them first, why would she not Google it and find out and then do that so that she could save money from eating her own lemons in her own backyard. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Like, why not figure out what it is that needs to be done and then do it so you can save money? Yeah, well, and some of them don't even think about that

as an option to save money. No, they don't. They just believe that that's the situation they're stuck with, and these younger generations are just there. I do not understand what is wrong. They have not been taught better. They haven't been taught that that's even an option. They haven't been taught where their milk comes from, where their food comes from,

where their water comes from. Now, I don't want to say it's the... It's not all of them. It's not all of Gen Z. Okay? Because there's parents that teach their kids, you know. Like Zach.

But it seems to be a growing number from what I can tell. And there's an upside and a downside to that. You know, the upside is, well, the downside is none of them are going to know what to do in an emergency. But the upside is those of us that do know what to do in an emergency might be a little bit lonely after a certain period of time.

They'll all be in a FEMA camp because they don't know how to find food. Gosh. Bless those babies. They're going to need it. My point is that sometimes it feels like time is running out and there's still so much to do in our personal lives and so much to do to help the younger generations and the future generations. And they all need to know how to survive or, sadly, they will die off. I mean, it's survival of the fittest, right?

Only the strong survive. I mean, it's survival of the fittest, right? Only the strong survive. They need to learn practical skills and skills that will help them get through life, whether it's pre or post, quote unquote, apocalypse, so that they're not dumbstruck when their lives literally depend on survival. Yeah, that's absolutely true. And some people might ask, you know, like,

why do you feel responsible for that? Well, we only feel responsible for our kin. We only feel responsible for our family. And by extension, each of us should feel responsible for our family. And by extension, each of us should feel responsible for our family. That's part of being a human being, is being responsible. I don't know that I only feel responsible for my kids.

I'm just saying in the immediate. I feel like somebody needs to be teaching them. And if they're not learning it from their own family, they need to learn it from somebody. And if I can be that somebody, then I'll gladly do that. And that's kind of the point of the podcast too, right?

Is if everyone kind of comes together and teaches what they know, and people can kind of go through a database of these things and go, okay, here's what i need like youtube university right yep you know we're able to find how to fix a lot of things on there you know vehicles house electricity all kinds of stuff so anyways moving on yeah so um that's enough of of that little rant but i do want y'all to think about what we said. Because time is honestly running out. Even if SHTF doesn't happen in my generation's lifetime, eventually we are all going to die.

That's the process of life. And eventually our kids will be left to fend for themselves. and eventually our kids will be left to fend for themselves. And I'd rather leave mine with the knowledge and hands-on experience that our ancestors knew so that they can pass it on to their kids and keep the family line going. We want our kids to be well-equipped. Yeah. So just give that some thought if if

you have kids or grandkids that don't know how to do these things and and you know a little bit of how to do these things please teach them even if they're sarcastic whiny babies and they don't want to go outside make them and keep in mind that you'll want to teach them things that are a a indispensable skill you know crap is to fan if you know how to garden you're going to be useful if you know how to blacksmith you're going to be useful if you know how to work on firearms you're going to be useful if you know how to work with animals you're going to be useful if you're a a doctor, so on and so forth. Okay? Yep. Now, good skills. All right?

Keep that in mind. Okay. So, quick homestead update. That's where we live. If y'all remember in the last episode, I told you that we lost our sweet little Norabelle. She was one of our Rhode Island Reds, and we lost her the day after Christmas while we were in Texas. Well, I have more sad news, unfortunately. We lost our little Noni, who was one of our barred rocks about a week and a half ago or so and yesterday morning I thought we were going to lose our Yulamay who's also one of our Rhode Island Reds

and I'll explain that in a second but back to Noni I knew that Noni was at her absolute end by the symptoms that she was exhibiting. So we just tried to keep her comfortable. Her tummy was really swollen, and she had pretty labored breathing. She was isolating herself from the rest of the flock. That's a big sign, isn't it? Yeah, it is. When they start to isolate. When they're not scratching around and moving and active,

and they're just standing still, and they're going to fall asleep standing up kind of a thing. But keep in mind that's not the end, because we did have that with Gladys, and we took her inside immediately and started to try to nurse her back to health. Right. And we did.

But with Noni, Noni was a different situation than Gladys. Yeah. Gladys just had really horrible diarrhea, and she was lethargic and isolating. Yeah. Noni, on the other hand, had hand had like i said the labored breathing um also isolating and lethargic yeah um a couple more symptoms but she had a very swollen tummy yeah um i want to say it's like it felt water belly, if you've ever heard of that term. But I don't know that it was actually that, because there's, I mean, that's actually an illness, a disease for chickens.

I can't think of exactly what it's called, but it's known as water belly. Okay. Okay. But we were about, she was inside for like three or four days, I think. Trying to keep her comfortable. And I, you know, she was still eating a little bit. She was drinking. She would stand up and sit down and try to move around in the little crate we had her in. And she was still pooping.

It was more diarrhea than anything else, but I was hopeful, you know. But we were about to euthanize her ourselves so she wouldn't have to suffer anymore. And that was something that neither of us wanted to have to do but we resolved ourselves that we were going to have to do it because it was the right thing to do for her sake yeah you never want an animal to suffer it's not it's not good stewardship um but while we were discussing what we were going to do and how we were going to do it,

so we'd have a plan in place, because the last thing I wanted was to make this already emotional situation even more of a cluster gem and make it worse for her. I didn't want her to suffer because of our stupidity, you know? Yeah, yeah. I didn't want her to suffer because of our stupidity, you know? Yeah, yeah. But while we were discussing that, the good Lord was incredibly merciful, and she ended up dying in our arms, and we didn't have to call her ourselves.

And I still thank God for his loving kindness and grace and mercy for that day. God is good, y'all. You got to believe me. He's good. So keep in mind also that this is not a, there's not a chicken that you just have out there. That's a meat chicken. Okay. That you don't have a name for that. You don't spend any time with, that you don't feed out of your hand, that you don't pet and hold and care for. And, you know, basically it's like a cat or a dog. It becomes a pet. Yeah. Okay. My chickens are my pets.

And I know, I know. Yeah. know yeah i mean you got to keep in mind that and you may think it sounds silly but unless you understand it you don't understand it basically what we were having to do was the equivalent of taking your own dog and and slitting its throat or taking your own cat and cutting its head off or whatever you would have to do it is extremely taxing on you emotionally. Yeah. Most people take their animals to the vet. We couldn't afford that. So it was up to us. There's really not a very good avian vet around here anyway.

Yeah. Not when it comes to poultry. It was going to be $300 plus for that. Anyway. $300 plus for that. Anyway, yesterday morning, Eula Mae, like I said, she's another one of our Rhode Island Reds. She had some of the same symptoms as Noni, but not all. So I brought her in, put her in the crate inside the house. I don't care what y'all say. So, so I could keep a very close eye on her and that separated her

from the flock. Um, she was isolating herself anyway. Um, and. If she was egg bound, that could have taken her very quickly. But I did check for that and she was not egg bound. She was very lethargic. Her feathers were all puffed out. She was acting like she wanted to fall asleep standing up and she wasn't eating and drinking very much and she just looked depressed and those are all signs that something's wrong but I'm not an expert obviously in chicken illnesses so the problem could be one of about a million different things because just like with humans symptoms cross over into a vast variety of different illnesses and so like if a human had a headache and abdominal pain and you you know, achy body. It could be a million different things, basically.

Yeah. It could be a flu. It could be a cold. It could be, you know, on and on and on. It could be COVID. Who knows, you know? Yeah. But she did not have the labored breathing like Noni did,

and her tummy is not swollen. So I'm inclined to think that it's not quite the same illness. But I could be wrong. She's under watchful eye. She's back with the crew. But she's being watched. This is a very weird episode

of Growing Things. Well, this is a homestead update. This is Growing Chickens. Now, do I know what caused Norville and Noni's illnesses and deaths? No, I don't. I have both of them in the deep freeze in the garage so I can do their necropsies later. But like I said earlier, there's not enough time in my days. And the weekends seem to go by faster than I can blink

but I will get them done soon and I will report back on those findings but if y'all can please say a little prayer for Miss Ulamay we would greatly appreciate you I love all of my girls

but she's really one of Dane's favorites because of how docile she is. Yeah, I like her. She's very chill. She does seem to be back to her old

self, though, this morning. I did put her back with the other girls last night because she perked up. She started eating and she started drinking and she started clucking at the cat. So... And she had

had some electrolyte water. So maybe that helped her. So we started to give her some of the antibiotics that we had from the last visit last year, last summer. And we'll continue her on those for about five days and we'll see how she does. She's back out with the flock and she seems to be just fine now. Okay, so let's move on to the main topic for today, which is gardening.

I know how to garden. Yay, gardening. Let's save on the grocery bill. As Homestead Heart likes to say, grow your groceries. Grow your groceries. Grow them. Let me tell you, it really cut down on our grocery bill last summer. Yeah, grow them and throw them.

So it's February, and I know it's the end of February. I know. We've already started some stuff. I'm behind on getting this episode out to y'all, but if you haven't already, you need to hurry and plan your garden and then get some seeds started. Now. Yeah. Right now.

Now. Today. Today. Go. She's literally pointing. You should see it. But wait. I want you to finish this podcast first and then you can go get with it, okay?

Oh. I walked away. Okay. Okay. So February is kind of a busy month when it comes to doing things inside and doing things outside in your garden. True. You need to start amending your soil and getting it ready for direct sowing.

Certain seeds, not all. Now keep in mind also, if you amended your soil last year, this year is going to be your second amendment. Oh, wow. Jeez. I'm so sorry y'all I think I'm funny yeah that's the problem

so yeah start mending your soil to get it ready for the seeds that you're going to direct so and then you also need to start your seeds indoors so that they can be transplanted outdoors in about six to eight weeks. February is also the time when you're probably going to start

the majority of your seeds, I'd say. That's whether it's direct sow or indoors. So let's talk about soil amendments and getting your garden ready. What's the purpose of soil amendments and what do you use and why? So you got to think nutrients for your plants and that's what these amendments are for is to give your plants the nutrition they need to grow. If your soil is too acidic for some plants, or if it's not acidic enough for others, it's going to hinder their growth.

And it's recommended that you test your soil every five years or so to make sure that the pH is right for whatever it is you're planting in whatever specific area you're planting it in. So like tomatoes are a good example of needing acidic soil. Right. And squash doesn't need so much acidity in the soil. You know. Okay.

So the types of amendments that there are uh i have a list here cow manure you can get it in bags at the big box stores um a lot of people use that uh i think probably more often than anything else just because it breaks down faster. Compost is a good steady food source for your vegetables because it takes several months to decompose. You can choose to make your own, but realize that it won't be ready for your garden until probably next year. Maybe you can do some rapid stuff, but you'll have to look that up online. Yeah, I'm not...

I've never been able to work it. I don't think I quite understand the whole hot composting thing yet. It could be part of our environment, too. That could be, too. Yeah. Or you can buy it in bags as well, again, from the big box stores. And then there's other manures like chicken, horse, sheep, goats, rabbits. Those are all good manure choices for your garden.

We obviously use chicken because we have an overabundance of it, and it works great. But keep in mind that it's going to have to be aged, or it could burn your plant's roots. Like when they say it's too hot, the soil is too hot, or the soil is, you know. Yeah. And also, be aware that different manures have different levels of nitrogen and phosphorus. So you'll need to know what your soil needs and then proceed accordingly. And of course, potassium and PK, right? Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. Yeah. Worm castings, which is basically just worm manure yeah

is also very good i've seen a lot of videos where people have amazing results with that but it's also very expensive um blood and bone meal are two really good amendments blood meal is high in nitrogen and bone meal is high in phosphorus and calcium so again you'll have to test your soil and see what it needs and then i read about something called kelp meal the other day which is apparently rich in micronutrients that help promote lots of growth but again it can be pricey so buyer beware and also do your research um when should you add amendments? If you have raised beds, you're going to do it in the spring before planting and in between plantings if you're doing successive planting. And what that means is, so let's say that you start some seeds in,

let's say March, and then you're going to start a whole other set of seeds of the same variety. Let's just say it's peas. You're going to start a crop of peas in March, let's just say it's peas you're going to start a crop of peas in March and then next month you're going to start another crop of peas of the same type so you want to do your amendments

before you plant the first set and then again in between before you plant your successive peas i think doesn't that also depend on like how successive you're trying to plant them like let's say you want to do cilantro and you're planting it every two weeks so like three months down the road you're getting a harvest of cilantro

and then two weeks later another harvest of cilantro and two weeks later another harvest of cilantro you know i'm saying yeah um we we understand that when it's growing in between there you can't really amend the soil unless you just put it on top you know and you can't really mix it in um well if you're planting in the same bed yeah yeah and it's really it's really close you know yeah right right um so just keep that in mind that there's different ways what what she's referring to is as successive planting there's different uh versions of that what she's referring to there's a close succession and there's obviously you know more spaced out succession so keep that in mind um also you want to add amendments in the fall once you've cleared out all your summer plants especially if you're doing

your own compost or your own animal manure you're going to want to put that in after all of your summer plants are gone and you've cleared out all the beds and you're going to want to mix that in and then leave it because it's going to need to decompose before next spring. If you're using containers like buckets or big flower pots or Rubbermaid totes or whatever you got, you're going to want to add your amendments in late spring before you transplant or before you direct sow. And it should have a good mix of mostly quality potting soil.

Mostly. And also something like compost to keep them fed all season. We'll probably just get some of that mushroom compost. Oh, yeah. Mushroom compost is a good amendment, too. Forgot about that. Yeah, that works good. So what seeds are you going to direct sow in February?

February. February is the time that you plant things like kale, broccoli, your lettuces, spinach, garlic, although you should have really planted that in the fall. It's got to go through a cold stratification. that in the fall it's got to go through a cold stratification yeah and if if you want to plant garlic now your best bet is to fake their uh cold stratification by um putting it in soil in bags inside another bag and then put it in the freezer for a few weeks. And then pull it back out and then plant it outside. Minimum three weeks, ideally four. I mean, you could probably get away with doing that now

and then, you know, plant them at the end of March. You could probably get away with it because you just need three months. And that would still give you April, May, June, which is perfectly fine. Yeah. and that would still give you April, May, June, which is perfectly fine. Yeah. Also in February, you'll plant things like your onion starts and your shallots and your cabbage. And if you want to give your cat a good time,

you can plant catnip in February. Hey. And all of those things are going to go direct so and just plant them outside set it and forget it right okay so let's talk about starting seeds indoors what equipment do you need you need containers to start your seeds in. Yeah. Seed starting mix, which is your soil. You need seeds.

You need water. And you need light. Okay. So what do you start them in? Do I have to have money, or do I have to spend money on those seed starting trays? No. In fact, there's a lot of things you can use to start your seeds in.

All you need is your imagination. Oh, yeah. So I have a list of things here that I was thinking of yesterday. You can buy the seed starting trays if you want, of course. You can get them at Home Depot or Lowe's or there's multiple, multiple places online. You can get them. You know, sometimes garden centers like nurseries, they'll just give them away. Yeah, so try that.

And you can get some of those and, you know, clean them out. You know, make sure there's no mold or any icky bickies in there and, you know, clean them out with a little bit of bleach and water. Make sure they're not busted on the bottom, I guess. Yeah, or if they are, put them in like a Tupperware thing or whatever. Yeah. And you can do those. Yeah, call around to some nurseries.

You can use Solo cups. The ubiquitous red Solo cup yeah oh wow doesn't have to be red but you get the point when you're not using it for beer pong uh you can use egg cartons that's a good idea um you can use the clear plastic containers that lettuces come in from the grocery store or the ones that are that come from the bakery section that have like the muffins in them or the cakes or the cookies or whatever. You can use those too. You know, something else, going back to the egg cartons, if they're paper, if they're the paper egg cartons, those are biodegradable. So once you plant in them, you could cut those up and just put them directly in the ground once they start growing, yeah?

Yeah, I mean, I guess you could. You might want to slice a few holes in the bottom so the roots can still get out. But yeah, by and large, they should work for that. Yeah. You can even use the clear plastic containers that Christmas ornaments come in sometimes. ornaments come in sometimes. You can use tin cans like soup cans or the cans that your vegetable,

your canned vegetables come in or canned fruit. Save your yogurt containers and your cottage cheese containers and use those. Even if it's just those little cups. Save them and use them

you can use k-cup pods if you go through a lot of those start saving them and you can use the coffee grounds from those too to put in your your garden soil as well as an amendment yeah and that's actually a really good one because those k-cups are tapered upward, kind of like a funnel, so they'll be easy to get out if you need to take the soil and everything out of there. Because it's plastic, so you're going to have to get out of there. But the good news about K-Cup pods is after they're used, they have holes in the bottom, so they're okay to drain. Yeah. You can use coffee containers, and when I i say that think those folgers tubs we used those last year for our herb garden and it worked great yeah um you can use milk cartons

still work and milk jugs you can use juice containers you can use water bottles juice bottles um you can use juice boxes like when your kids are done with their juice box save it wash it out and use that you could probably even use capri sun packages honestly if you did it right if you did it right. But try it. Let your imagination run wild. You can use the clear containers that berries come in in the produce department.

But you'll have to make sure that you set those on something else to hold the water because those have a lot of holes in the bottom. Yeah, they do. Sometimes on the sides. Yeah.

And you could even use small boxes from your amazon packages or when you order vitamins or whatever it is that you order if it comes in a small box you can use those you could even put several different plants in those. But whatever you use, like I said, just make sure that there's drainage in the bottom because the last thing you want is waterlogged seeds that won't grow. Or molded ones. Yeah. If the water can't drain properly, mold will start to grow, and that's not what you want to be growing. No, no, no, no.

It'll ruin the whole thing. Okay, so the seeds that you're going to start indoors are going to be your warm weather transplants. So things like tomatoes, all the different kinds of peppers, bell peppers, jalapenos, cayennes, serranos, habaneros, whatever kind of pepper you got. You're going to want to start that now. Tomatillos, basil, chives, Brussels sprouts. Okay.

I have a story about that in a second. Cauliflower and and celery bee balm uh those are what you're going to want to start we need to start inside now or in inside now um a really good app that you can use uh to help you to know when to plant certain things, when to transplant certain things. And so you can kind of keep track of what you have in your garden is called From Seed to Spoon. I'm not sponsored. It's just a really good app.

And you can get it on Apple and Android. So you should download it and check it out. However, I will say I haven't used that app. It's, it's on my old phone. Um, I haven't used that app, uh, since 2022 and I started using it again this year and I found out that a lot of their features are behind a paywall. But I do think you're still able to use some of the features for free, like keeping track of what you're planting and when. And then it kind of gives you an estimated date of when it's going to sprout and when it will be ready to transplant outside so kind of enough features to make it worthwhile

to use the free right okay however if you want to pay for it be my guest and let us know how it does yeah and and get all of those cool features because i think you've even got a journal feature in there where you can make notes of what worked and what didn't, if I remember correctly. And there's all kinds of different things in there now. And if the team from Seed to Spoon hears this and wants to sponsor us, give us an email. At the beginning, you'll find our email address,

and we'll talk about it see if it's possible yeah um I think that's gonna do it for me and for Dane yeah

that'll do it for me too for for today um we've got some other things that need to be done mhm like bread making

and a new garden bed that we've just set down yeah and I'll have to talk to y'all about that next time. Yep. And post pictures on Instagram and Facebook too. Instead of a raised bed, it's kind of a different

concept that we're using, but we'll show you guys and we'll tell you guys about it. Okay, so we will see you guys next time and hopefully it will be next weekend. Ideally. Ideally. And I'll have a new podcast out too. Pretty soon.

The Gun Metal Armory? That's the one. Hot Dog. No, it won't be anything about Hot Dog. I'm just excited. I'll have something else to listen to. Oh, excellent. Okay.

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