Seeds, Sneezes, and the Weed Barrier Debate (Plus a HUGE Giveaway!)

We are back in the dirt for Part 2 of our gardening saga! This week, we’re diving into the logistics of saving last year’s seeds and Addi gives us a rundown of her extensive list of allergies. Plus, we tackle one of the most polarizing topics in the gardening community: do we absolutely love black weed barrier, or do we utterly despise it?

🎉 BIG NEWS: We are hosting a huge giveaway in this episode! Tune in to find out how you can win 2 tickets to the Farmwives Club EVENT. You don't want to miss this!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Because if we go into like a zombie apocalypse, I need to make sure that I can sustain my life.

SPEAKER_02 0:04

You would think that way.

SPEAKER_00 0:06

And so, Brady, I have a question for you. What's it like when the corn is high, but the chaos is higher?

SPEAKER_02 0:11

It's a lot of things, but it's never boring. This is the Farm Y Files, life between the rows. Okay, we're back with a part two of our gardening talk. I didn't really think this would go into a part two, but you know we are because we're yappers. Okay, so anyway, with your seeds. This is something you started last year.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Yes. So last year with us just growing a bunch of things.

SPEAKER_02 0:38

Well, this was mostly for your zinnias, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_00 0:41

Mostly for zinnias. I did save a few marigold seeds and like some um, I'll get into the vegetable seeds, but for the most part zinnias or just flowers in general. And I was just like, okay, I really, really liked these. And so when I got to the point where I wasn't really gonna cut any more flowers, but I wanted them to kind of die. So I let them um dry up on like on the plant. I didn't cut them off, or as as much as I could, let them dry. And then I cut off the heads and then I let them dry a little bit more inside, and I harvested the seeds from them.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:23

I wanted and I strategically chose specific plants that I really liked. So in the previous like part one, I talked about how I really liked the really big ones with the larger stems. So I saved those. I did do like a different variety of zinnias too, that's called like peppermint or something like that, where it was like this like speckled peak white. Yeah, it was super pretty, just super small, and so they kind of didn't really get seen in a bouquet. And so I did save some of those, but for the most part, the larger ones is what I saved, and I put them in airtight containers to let them kind of sit, and then those are the seeds that I'll end up using this year. And some of them are starting to come up, but okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:05

So that's interesting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:07

So I guess we'll see what if you've liked that method, or I mean, I don't know why it would be any different than going out and I did buy some seeds of variety or yeah, just different variety that I didn't have already, or that I really, really like, so I wanted like a bigger bulk of those. So that was um interesting to do, but also super easy to do as well. Yeah I didn't have a ton of success with the seeds that I saved with I tried doing that with the peppers and the tomatoes that I cut up, and just they just didn't last.

SPEAKER_02 2:45

Did you have issues with them molding?

SPEAKER_00 2:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:47

Because I've heard that is you know, they don't get dry enough and then they mold.

SPEAKER_00 2:52

Yeah, that was really the issue that I had there. But again, I had extra seeds, plus I saved some.

SPEAKER_02 3:02

I know I used so many seeds from last year.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

I know. The thing with seeds too is I am also the type of person where I'm like, I need all the seeds and I need to like keep them because if we go into like a zombie apocalypse, I need to make sure that I can sustain my life.

SPEAKER_02 3:18

You would think that would be.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

Well, I have like a seed binder.

SPEAKER_02 3:26

Oh, is it? Yeah. I'm talking like, you know, like the little recipe, you know, where you put all your index cards in the recipes. Is that what you have? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

But it's a binder instead because the little tiny book that I had just wasn't like corn, for example. You can't fit anything in there, so I just put them in.

SPEAKER_02 3:45

Or even like seeds for cosmos, like they're just not a seed. They're like a little dot.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Um so I did that. And then I also have like I think they're actually meant for like tackle boxes. Oh, okay. Or like craft boxes. Yeah. And so I I have those as well. And that's how I saved a lot of my last ones is I'd put them in there.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

That's a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 4:13

Excited to see what all comes up from there.

SPEAKER_02 4:16

But okay, so then between your garden and your flowers, do you intermix? Like I know we talked about doing marigolds with you do them with your tomatoes. I plant marigolds everywhere. And then I also implement like basil and rosemary. I will plant like by my peppers or um by strawberries to, you know, kind of like as a deterrent for bugs.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Which I don't know. I don't feel like I uh wait before I had the dog red where it is. Remember, I used to have my big garden there. Okay. So we had dogs, which would seemed like a much better. I'm not a dog person, so I'm that seemed way better, but whatever. I always had my zucchini plant in the same spot, and then oh my gosh, the last year I never even got a zucchini off it because the bugs were so bad. But they say to rotate that one. But have you seen as much having race beds? I haven't seen as much bug problem.

SPEAKER_00 5:14

In my race bed, I haven't had that many problems in my vegetable garden. So I have a vegetable garden where I don't do a ton of flowers unless it's the Marigolds with the tomato plants. I don't really do any vegetables in the flowers. Correct. Okay. Um last year I did a little bit of I did in like a lick tub, I did a tomato a few tomato plants, actually. A few tomato plants that were just like extra, and a pepper plant here and there for in my raised bed as well. This year I have my onions in the raised bed because of the loose soil aspect. Same with the carrots. But that's only in one of the beds, and I'll probably put some flowers on the back end of it just to see how that all occurs. So there's that, and then all the other things are f the flowers are gonna be enraised. I don't do any like in-ground flowers. Yeah. Unless it's peonies, for example, like things or lilac bushes or something stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 6:25

I can't ever say peonies. I always want to say peonies.

SPEAKER_00 6:29

Peonies? But I don't know why. This is one of those birds that gets me. It's my favorite flower.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

Yeah, I have two of them out back, and they're starting to get big, and I always just get such pretty flowers on there. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 6:39

Yeah. I was really sad when we sold our house in town. Those flowers were huge.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

Yes, and you probably had like what four bushes there on the stairs.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

Yeah, they were beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

They were beautiful. So hopefully the person that lives there appreciates those.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

I know. Well, and they're gonna they're obviously coming up right now, so I hope that she doesn't do something with them. But I think it's a but yeah, so I was sad about those. But the ones that I had on the farm have been there for over a hundred years because the previous owners, so that's nice. And the previous owners still come down every once in a while. Oh, really? Yeah, and they they came down a few months ago, and they've never seen the inside of the house. Oh so they gotta come through. What did they think? They were like, This is not the same house. Yeah, but I actually learned a lot when they came down too. Of course, Cody he calls me, he's like, Hey, Mike, that's one of the who we technically bought it from, but it was his he lived there as a child. So he came down with his other brother, but he go and his wife, and he goes, Yeah, Mike's gonna be down in like 10 minutes. And I'm like, Excuse me, what? Like, I have a meeting in five minutes. So um, so I just was just like, I'll just not go to this meeting, and everyone was fine with it or whatever. And they came through and they were like, This is not the same house. Like, you guys did so much good work, and so it was nice being able to like be like is a crazy difference, yeah, yeah. And then I learned that house has been added on three different times, and that house is so small.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

Yeah, so what was it just a room?

SPEAKER_00 8:11

So it was obviously when you walk in the front entry, yeah, the porch don't that wasn't there. Right. So the original front entry house was into the kitchen. Okay, and then it was the kitchen and the pantry and the what now is the office slash dining room. Yep. That's that that was the house. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

And then the They were really minimalist back then.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

Yeah. So then they added on the two bedrooms, which is now just one bedroom, and then the living room, and then years down the road they added on that front porch, which is now the bathroom and like the front entryway. So three different times.

SPEAKER_02 8:53

That's insane.

SPEAKER_00 8:54

Well, I guess two add-ons, but three like original. Because then like every single time they would have to add something on, they would have to add it on because like plumbing became a thing. Yeah. So they added a bathroom. There was no working bathroom in the house when it was originally. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

Well, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah, that is interesting to learn that kind of stuff about where you live. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

I like the history and whatnot about places, but so yeah, they came down and but that's when I also found out about the PE bushes, and she was just like, uh, the wife of the guy that we bought it from was yeah, weren't those planted like when grandma, so it was like their grandma, so like four or five generations ago. It was it was nice, like to just be like, okay, wow. Like these and the the bushes out there are pretty, pretty big. Yeah. Now knowing that, I think I'll appreciate them a little bit more. Yeah, you do. But yeah, I planted some more and Nancy actually gave me some.

SPEAKER_02 9:57

Oh, did she?

SPEAKER_00 9:58

Yeah, yeah. So Nancy probably gave me like 10 bushes. Well, not bushes, but like 10 like little spots. So I did get those planted.

SPEAKER_02 10:07

Um, haven't seen Did you get some daylilies from her?

SPEAKER_00 10:10

No, but I'm not really a huge daylily person.

SPEAKER_02 10:13

I'm not either, but they come up very nicely. They're very hearty flower.

SPEAKER_00 10:16

Yeah. The other thing is, is I don't really have like a good place to put them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:21

So I don't really like them as fillers.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:26

Just some extra color and I'm not going to be able to do a lot of stuff that comes up. Oh, I love tulips too.

SPEAKER_00 10:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

Okay, but anyway, bugs.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

So you see a lot more bugs in your garden or like your like why am I drawing a blank? Like planting straight off the ground rather than in raised bits.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

I saw more bugs on my on-the-ground things, but primarily more bugs with the pumpkins. I had squash. Really? Like the squash beetle things. Oh, and those just tore apart my pumpkins so quick. But I now know like how to get ahead of them. And so once I see them, there's this spray that you can spray on them. I can't think of what it is, but I sprayed it way too late.

unknown 11:13

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

Like they already did the damage because they were like in the vines and that stuff. So as soon as, and now that I know, like I recognize what they look like, I can totally get ahead of them. So I'm excited that I know that now. The other thing, I didn't have super bad things with them, but I had a lot of the caterpillars, not caterpillars, but the uh hornworms. Like the tomato hornworms. That's what I was gonna talk about. I can't, I can't, I can't.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

Um, I know.

SPEAKER_02 11:43

I was literally like prepping myself for having to talk about this because I'm not a sissy when it comes to this kind of stuff. I'm not.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

Well, they're just huge.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

Yeah, and it just like And you have to kill them. Yeah, no, I couldn't. I made Tyler pluck them off. I couldn't touch Maddie.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

Well, I oh no, I won't touch them. I just pluck them off. I like cut the leaf. Yeah, I cut the stem, but I'm just gonna make you like also squirm.

SPEAKER_02 12:13

Living people listening in your vehicles because I just blew your eardrums out with my squealing.

SPEAKER_00 12:19

No, it's the the thing that's gonna make you like crumble in your skin is oh man, I use tempo like it's shampoo. Huh?

SPEAKER_02 12:27

I use tempo like it's shampoo. Oh no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 12:29

This is more of like the feeling or the sound of something. But so how I would get rid of them is there's two ways. One, before I get into like the actual killing of them, go out at not when it's pitch black out, but use a black light and they glow in the dark.

SPEAKER_02 12:50

They do. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

So if you use a black light, I just had like a flashlight, black light, and I just looked at them because they're the same color, like they're hard to spot. They are, and so I would just go out. Well, and I had so big tomato plants, and so um I would just take a black light and I would see them, and then that's when I would just literally take my snippers and I would snip the leaf or the stem that they're on. And at first I just started throwing them over into where the bowls are. Okay, but then I'm like, they're coming right back.

SPEAKER_02 13:26

So then Cody's like, might take them a little bit, but they're coming back.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

You you have to you have to kill them, and I'm like, okay, but I can't do that. And he was just like, just give it to me. And then when he did it, he just snipped them in half, and it's so I did that that one time, and I was just like, I get it. And so that is one thing. Same with spiders, do not like spiders.

SPEAKER_02 13:51

I cannot do spiders, I literally can't. The amount of times I've been like hunting and walk into a tree stand or we talked about that one time. There's like that one like strand of like you walk into a a spider web and it's probably just like an old spider web. There's probably not a spider in it, but what I'm telling you, I fling every piece of like bow gone, backpack gone, hat gone, just beating myself trying to get this spider that I think is on me off of me. Oh, I just can't. No, it's just like my I just have like my feet the fears that I have are such phobias that like literally thinking of spiders can make me throw up. Or like another one, it's very rare that I'm walking out or walking to a my tree stand pitch black because I'm a sissy, like I know there's things in those woods that are gonna get me. I know it. Like the few times that I have, I do really good. Like it's pitch black. I'm walking back to the truck from the stand. I do really good, and then I get about 10 feet from my vehicle, and I can't get there fast enough for whatever reason.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

It's like not the last 10 feet. I'm like opening it. Like, I know something's gonna get me.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

I don't know why, but it's always like going down in the basement as a little kid, and it's like something's following me, I gotta sprint up the stairs. Yeah, literally. Like nothing has ever happened in my basement to make me as scared of it, but there's sorry. Oh yeah. But no, yeah, I can't do spiders, and there's so many spiders out there. And I my phobia with spiders is brown recluses. Like, I really could care less.

SPEAKER_02 15:31

I don't think of it like that. Like, I know those are like deadly, but I just like the creepy crawly eight legs, man.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

I just yeah, get them out of my house. Cody sprays tempo, and that has helped.

SPEAKER_02 15:43

Um I was kind of thinking about that before we did this episode. Do they grow immunity to that? Are we supposed to spray something different?

SPEAKER_00 15:50

Well, I don't know. That's a Cody problem.

SPEAKER_02 15:51

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

Well, it's gonna be a my problem when they start coming into my house. But um, yeah, no, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 15:59

I just know that speaking of bugs, I wouldn't count this one as a pest. I'm like a big advocate for these bugs. But bees.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

No.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

You don't like bees.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

I'm allergic. I will die.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

Right. Oh, we need bees.

SPEAKER_00 16:13

Yeah, just not around me.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

I tried to tell Tyler about this because he's all big about killing bees.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

Oh, I'm not good on I don't want to kill the bees. Just get them far away from me.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

But and he doesn't want to like go after them, but but if they're around him, he's like, you know, swatting them with his hat or whatever. But I was like, Tyler, we have to keep the bees so we can keep pollinating stuff, keep farming. And he's like, Brady, it's all self-pollinating. We don't need the bees for the corn. And I'm like, okay, but for the flowers and for the gardens, we need the bees, so get over it. But I have actually planted it's called a butterfly bush, and it's that big purple one that comes up in the back of my flower bed, and they really do the butterflies. Like, it's insane. Like, it's just funny how they've found flowers or bushes or whatever in certain bugs like them, but yeah, no, that was just my add-on.

SPEAKER_00 17:07

I can't do bees. There's people that have like the bee like houses, hives. I mean, they like build the hives. Yeah, I'm just gonna again like I know that as long as I don't provoke them.

SPEAKER_02 17:22

Yeah, they're kind.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

Yeah, and I usually when I see a bee, I just we have freak out and walk away.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

Yeah. Are you like deathly allergic?

SPEAKER_00 17:33

Yeah, like I I need I need a bee pen. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:37

And I think it's because why are you allergic to so much stuff? Well why do I not know this? As good of friends as we are.

SPEAKER_00 17:42

With bees, I think it's because as a kid at daycare we would hunt bees.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

Oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

And I got stung like every other day. Oh, I think like developed a yeah, and same with like allergies to apples. Like I ate an apple every single day.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:58

For lunch, and then well, my mom would pack an apple for me for lunch, and then I just started like one day I was just like, the apples are making my throat itch, Mom. I don't want one. And she's like, uh, that's an allergy. We should go get you tested. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:12

So are you allergic to anything else?

SPEAKER_00 18:14

I mean, besides seasonal allergies, like just pollen. But bees and apples. Apples I just get itchy. Bees I haven't been stung in quite some time.

SPEAKER_02 18:24

So there's something in alcohol.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

Yeah. I I forget about that one. And that's more of like the hops in it. But that's beer specifically. Yeah, it's it's weird. It's just a but good thing I don't really have the desire to drink.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

Um so I was gonna say it's not like you're drinking all the time.

SPEAKER_00 18:47

Yeah. Yeah. Um, the one thing that I wish I saw more of down on our farm is snakes.

SPEAKER_02 18:54

You do like a good snake.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

I love snakes.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

I don't not like snakes. I just don't like when I'm cleaning out flower beds and the jump scare me.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

And that's the thing, is like I will have a jump scare every once in a while, like, oh, what is that? And then I'm like, oh, it's a snake. Like, hi.

SPEAKER_02 19:08

My dad had a six-foot bowl snake at their house the other like yesterday. Really? Yeah, I have to show you the video. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

Um, I chased Peyton with a snake.

SPEAKER_02 19:16

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 19:17

Um, there was they're redoing their house and or like the house out in the country, and they I'm excited to see that. They have some snakes that are like fine getting into the basement somehow. They're trying to figure out like how to. It's been a thing. And so when I was there last, I went downstairs with Erin, and I said, How many snakes are gonna be down there? She's like, I there's some on the glue traps right now. Well, we get down there, and there's probably a five-foot one slithering on the ground. And it actually it could be like four or three.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

Isn't it so cool and like damp down there that they I think so?

SPEAKER_00 19:49

It was a green racer, and so I grabbed it and I walked back up the stairs. And Aaron's like, here, Peyton, Addy has something. And he freaking oh, he hates them. So I'm just here and I'm like trying to like chase him around the house with it, but he is not letting it happen.

SPEAKER_02 20:07

Yeah, I don't mind snakes. Like, I'll pick them up, and I've had a lot of like little baby ringnecks, and so I'll just come out to the field behind the house or whatever. But yeah, and everybody's like, oh my gosh, how do you just pick up a snake? I'm like, girl, watch me see a spider the size of a quarter, and I'm gonna lose my crap.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

You almost cussed me. I didn't be proud of you. But yeah, now the snake that we found down at the Ozarks walking back up.

SPEAKER_02 20:34

Oh my gosh, like the copper head was so like explanation of Tyler. But like the lake, he's yeah, you were inside. I'm inside.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

Well, it he wasn't even drinking at that point.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

Oh, he wasn't? No, we were down fishing.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

No, it was Tyler, Cody, and I fishing down on the dock. And you were trying to get Taylin down or something like that for nap. Yeah, and so that's why you were inside, and he Cody goes up to go grab like more bait or another hot dog or something for bait or something like that. And Tyler follows up a few minutes later. And Tyler, oh, I just stepped on a snake. Howdy, are you good on snakes?

SPEAKER_01 21:17

Yeah, you're so clueless.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

Yeah, so I said, Yeah, I I feel like I'm pretty good about snakes. I come up and I look at the rocks and he's like, Here it is. I I stepped on its tail, and I'm like, What are you looking at? I can't see it because I'm like 20 feet from it. And he's like, right here. So I walk up and I'm like, Tyler, take a step back right now.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

Yeah, he has no idea.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

No, I said, That's a venomous copperhead. Uh he's like, Really? I said, Yeah, I'm not keen on killing snakes, like But that one needs to die. But I was just like, that is one that I would be fine with it being dead. I said And I only say that because of the fact that there is a toddler and they don't know right from wrong at this point. Especially when I know that there's snakes in your guys' backyard.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Obviously, even just with so many you could not see that thing.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

No.

SPEAKER_02 22:11

I mean you guys took pictures and videos and like if it's not moving, you could not see it. It blended in so well with those rocks for that path.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:19

Or on that path.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

And it ended up we ended up not killing it. But Tyler goes up and into the garage and gets a two by four practically. And I'm like, Tyler, what are you gonna do with that? Well, I'm gonna hit it. No, if you're gonna kill it, you just kill it one time. You don't need to torture it. Just kill it. And no, so that's why it just wet. And then here's Renee just coming down.

SPEAKER_01 22:43

What did she do?

SPEAKER_00 22:44

She was like, That thing needs to die. Go kill it. I think she was more of like freaking out because Taylor was around, but no, it was all good. But I'm like, Tyler, you are so clueless. Here you are stepping on a copperhead.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

Oh my gosh. And like they're not.

SPEAKER_00 23:04

I know. And they're s they are really like a nice timid snake. Like they're now cotton mouths, they're gonna come after you. Are they venomous? Yes. Okay. Those are also down in the Ozarks, too.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:16

Those are like they'll swim at you.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

Oh yeah. Um.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

Yeah. So.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

Yeah, I mean, I don't want anything venomous venomous. Like trying to attack me or anything. That's not a good feeling, but okay. Anyway, what else do you think? What are your thoughts on do your um do you have to do a lot for weeds or does your black weed barrier really help you?

SPEAKER_00 23:43

Black weed barrier is amazing.

SPEAKER_02 23:46

You love it. I just have never had great luck with it.

SPEAKER_00 23:48

Love it.

SPEAKER_02 23:49

I've got it in all my side little beds around my house, and I've got it in my flower bed in the back here, and I yeah, I just don't love it.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

Um the good thing about them is I don't mulch anything on top of it.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 24:03

It's just black weed barrier. Like I have nothing on top of it.

SPEAKER_02 24:06

Oh, okay. I don't do that.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

Mine's mulch on top.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

Yeah, no, mine's just black weed barrier. I burn a hole or I cut a hole and I plant the plant in there.

SPEAKER_02 24:15

Okay. That would make more sense.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

And that's it.

SPEAKER_02 24:19

How do you keep it down? Stakes?

SPEAKER_00 24:21

Yep, it's staked down.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

Yep. The I mean there's pros and cons to it. Obviously, for the garden aspect, it's great.

SPEAKER_02 24:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

Like it does its job.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

Yeah, you could never do that with flowers.

SPEAKER_00 24:32

No. No. And you have to water it pretty consistently and it's black, so it gets heat, but at the same time, like a lot of those things that I plant back there enjoy heat.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

Well, I'm gonna try that preen. Hopefully that helps this year. Um, I also like to do straw once I get everything planted and it gets pretty like established and grown up. I do a lot of straw around stuff. But man, I mean, as far as like other than just weeding, there hasn't really been anything I've found that works great.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

Yeah. But I will say the idea of planting. I'm just trying to think of like how to say this. With planting the stuff out in the garden with the weed barrier there, it does decrease the amount of weeds and that stuff, but I almost wonder if part of like I would have better success or not as success if I planted other things with it. Like if I did do some flowers back there, would it pollinate better? I never had any issues with pol like the pollination because the wind hits a lot of them. Right. So like the tomatoes self-pollinate and so I d I don't know. It's always it's always a work in progress. I'm also gonna try different watering patterns this year.

SPEAKER_02 26:02

Okay. Tell me about that.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

So last year I did soaker hoses.

SPEAKER_02 26:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

I didn't like it. No, they would always kink. And so like the front of my garden got really good, but then the back of it wouldn't. Yeah. Because it would kink and wouldn't do anything. So I think I'm gonna take up the soaker hoses and I'm just gonna do like a rotating sprayer. Yeah. And we'll see how that works.

SPEAKER_02 26:25

I have found because I just have, you know, the raised bed, so it's easier for me to just go in once a day, which does seem pretty tedious.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

Like oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 26:36

I get it's only once a day, but still it's like getting out there with the two kids and actually standing out there for a significant amount of time and like standing and watering stuff. But that just seems to be the best as far as like them actually getting the water that I want them to get.

SPEAKER_00 26:51

Yeah. Um, I have mine on the like smart timer. I have like the connecting thing that I can control it for my phone, and that has been you love that. Oh, love it. Good to know. Love it.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

I just like with those raised beds with watering too.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

I don't know what the best like if you just get one of those, like I did the oscillating ones for the raised beds with like the zinnias and that stuff, and that worked out really, really well.

SPEAKER_02 27:19

Um, so I flowers are a little easier too, as far as like forgiveness as far as water and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

Yeah. I will say, like, once they're established, they're pretty well. I mean, they're not gonna you can go out there and be like, okay, yeah, this is this is limping a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Yeah. But okay. What else do you think?

SPEAKER_00 27:42

I know in previous episodes we brought up like Bible verses and just like how we really are like trying to not really trying to, because that's not the right word, but No, I would say that. Yeah, like we're trying to implement like Christ and just our way of doing life a little bit bringing Christ into it more and more.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

And so the past few episodes we did a well, and I think mine is more about like since I'm so far along my faith journey, I want to like expand and spread the word. Yes, I think that's that's what God calls us to do. Yeah, yeah, I found a verse for this one that is extremely fitting. It is from let me look here. I have a screenshot of it. It is Isaiah 58, 11, and it says, The Lord will guide you always, he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. So just fitting for gardening season. For sure. But I really believe you grow where you water, and I think we could talk that into you into ourselves. Yeah. So we do have an announcement though. Yeah. So be on the lookout for our socials. What in the next week? Next Monday that's gonna hit the socials. Um, our giveaway that we had talked about recently is finally actually happening. So, what do we have? Two tickets to the uh farm wives event. It is a weekend event, a Friday through a Friday through Saturday night.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

Yep. Or the tickets at least.

SPEAKER_02 29:33

Do you have the dates on that?

SPEAKER_00 29:34

It's April, or not April. Wrong. Um, it is going to be Friday, August 28th, and Saturday, August 29th.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

Okay. And that is in Boonville, Missouri. Addy and I will be there. And we're probably, I don't think we're quite sure on what we want to do. We're gonna have some sort of social engagement. Um, so it's probably gonna be a like, share, and I think I would like to hear like maybe some ideas on stuff you guys want to hear us talk about. Yeah. Or maybe we have talked about it and you want to hear more. So maybe we'll ask for a comment, but yeah, make sure to get entered into that, and hopefully we'll see you in Boonville in August.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:17

But I think that kind of wraps up this episode. Good luck gardening this year, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 30:22

Yeah. Let us know how that goes for you.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

Bye.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

Bye.

SPEAKER_02 30:30

They say a farmer's work is never done. Well, neither is ours. Come back next week for a new episode of Life Between the Rows.