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- Ranch Wives: Okay. ⁓ this week we will talk about gardening. We had I have to tell a funny story because we recorded this episode like a lot. Two already. Yes. And so ⁓ We're also gonna be like, wait, did we say this or did we not say this? So if we say that, we we're sorry if we repeat something that we have said in the past. Because we don't know anymore. Because we don't get blurred. The lines are blurry. We don't know what's what. We don't know what's what anymore. No idea. ⁓ okay, yeah. So how are our gardens? Well, as you guys drove by, I'm growing quack grass. A lot of quack. My quack looks great. I've got some onions. And some potatoes ⁓ coming up. The rest of it You can see What you seen beets? Beans. You seen beans? Brie. Sick. They're like I didn't see them. Way past two leaves already. What? I don't know what you've been doing in your garden, but I don't remember what where what aisle I planted or what row. ⁓ my goodness. Somewhere in the middle. Okay, that sounds ⁓ Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah. I don't know. I had to call Helen, my mother-in-law, and say, Hey, ⁓ is this seed green beans? Because I normally like I bought them bulk. I bought all my beans and peas last year, like bulk. Actually, I think she gave me peas last year. Right. Anyways, whatever. But for some reason, I either switched bags or took the thing out of the bag that I wrote on with what was what? Yeah. I didn't know if they were green, yellow. I knew they were a bean. Yeah. Yes. What bean? Couldn't tell you. So she's yeah, those look like green beans. I was like, I'm gonna throw them in. We'll find out. Wait, do you soak your beans before you put them in? No. No, but I have heard of people doing that. Yeah, my mother in law told me to do that last year. My beans actually germinated. So that they germinate so that they germinated. So anyways, keep you posted. That's great that you've seen them, because I did that this year. So I should go check those out. Yeah. Yeah. After this. Did your ⁓ garlic how's your garlic situation? ⁓ I don't see any garlic yet. popping out. so what happened was I planted my whole garlic. Or my whole garden. Your whole garlic. All your garlic. The whole one. Okay, I did my whole garden. And then this was like so Lacey told me that garlic needs you need to store it in the fridge. If you're doing a spring garlic, you should store it in the fridge so that it has like a fr what was it called? It needs like cold strat. So essentially it needs to get cold or freeze so that it breaks open so that it can grow. ⁓ I didn't know that this was a thing. Did you know that this was a little yeah well ki kind of but not in the Like I knew that like garlic grows better in the like when you've wintered it, but I didn't like exactly know why. And then you explained it to me and I was like, okay this makes so much sense. So I put my garlic in the fridge. I plant my whole garden. You left the garlic in the fridge. And then I forgot about the garlic. So I found a spot Was it sprouting in your fridge? No, some of them were like kind of dying a little bit. And then so I planted this garlic probably a week ago. Yeah. So I don't know if anything's sprouted. What does it take for garlic to come up? It's pretty much up first thing in spring. Like if you planted in fall. If you planted in fall. I don't know. I haven't planted in spring So Keith's aunt gave me some garlic. They're ball bits, I think she called them. Yeah. They're very tiny. So you plant them, you pull them, they're they're the seed. They're garlic seed. Yes, you plant you pull replant essentially is what they did. So you plant the garlic seed. Yes. You grow the part bulb and then you could technically just leave it in. mine's gonna come maybe, ⁓ We don't know. ⁓ come volunteer this year because my husband just ⁓ trying to be helpful and tilled All of your garlic bulbs? Yeah. So it could still come up. You know what? I have my whole garden rotatilled this spring, and I have one random garlic that is growing from last year. Yeah, I had an onion come up. A whole lot more than one random garlic. Okay, that's like my mother-in-law's. She has a sea of dill and like a sea of spinach. And I think there's something else, maybe cilantro. Something else is like you let your lettuce seed out too. It does the same thing. Yeah. But like it's like thriving. It was all coming up before she is was even like in there. Walter, come here. Yeah. Our podcast kitty. Yeah, he's got no social awareness. And Lacey is not a cat person. No. Come here. You can just actually just him away. Just kick him. ⁓ sorry guys for the interruption. Okay, and so when I plant my gar garden, I keep on saying garlic. We need to stop talking about garlic. Okay. When I plant my garden, I write down on a sheet like exactly how many potatoes. how are friends ⁓ On a spreadsheet. On a yeah. ⁓ On a map or something. How many potatoes you put a map? It's a map. Yes. Not just like, this row is potatoes. You say I have fifty-eight potato plants. Yes. ⁓ Carrots I did not count because that would be unhinged. Okay. That? That's where you draw the line. That is where I draw the line. But like Do you beets? Beans? Beets? Beans? What do you have? Yeah, like beans, I'll count. Okay, no, I think this might be the farm. Squash I count. My Squash haven't even made it in. They're sitting on my steps. Like I'll do zucchini and pumpkins. I need to know how many germinated. That's a farmer thing. You were a farmer's wife through and through, because that ne not once would it have occurred to me. To see how many seeds you germinate. Germinate it. Really? No. Okay, so do you count your peas? Yes. Not like your pea pods. no. ⁓ little thing. You're out. You're out. You're out, buds. Okay. You're done. We tried. Didn't work out. Sorry guys. Go ahead. Anyways, yes, so I count because the plants that come up. Yes, because I planted six zucchini plants, which is a lot, but last year I didn't have any germinate, so I was like, I'm gonna overdo it. And then I have four that germinated. So two didn't germinate. So the success rates Where are you getting your seeds? ⁓ just like I do TNT seeds. Those are all my carrot seeds and then just like Dunvegan or Canadian tire Depends like if I'm ⁓ I need zucchini seeds and then wherever I'm I think But I do like T and T. I think they're going down in quality. ⁓ T and T and T. 'Cause I got some trees, like some other plants ⁓ they won't break dormancy and it's like fifty percent don't survive. ⁓ Really? Like they won't even come out of dormancy. What? What are you talking about dormancy? Well just close enough, I don't know. Like ⁓ when you get a pl plant. Like when you get a straw like a raspberry bush or a strawberry plant. Like from Canadian Tire and you buy that pack of strawberry plants, they're dormant. ⁓ Because you can like store them. Yeah. For how long. Like a dahlia tuber, right? You put it in yeah, or a potato. Right. Dormant. Got it. Yeah, to get them to break dormancy. You gotta put them out in the sun. Sometimes you gotta dumb it down for me because I just throw everything in and pray that it works out. Anyways, they won't break dormancy. And they're a skinny little sti twig that you pay you pay a lot of money for and then ⁓ I don't That's interesting. Anyway, so I have stopped. ⁓ so can we go yeah, c hold on can we go back to your garden map? ⁓ like y do you map it out row by row and then how many each So okay, say you planted six and only four came up for your squash. Do you go in there and say what four came up and like check it off? No. You just say I just know, like, okay. Only four. Only four came You report this to your husband? No. No, this seems like a farmer thing. I think you're But I'm sure if I did, Jorim would be like, ⁓ okay, like I think this fall, once everything's out, you need to take a photo of your black dirt. Yes. Okay. Then you blow it up, laminate it. Ooh. And then You take a photo of each of your specific vegetables and then you can make like a little grow chart, you know? Ooh. ⁓ your kids would probably really like your Yeah, you make like all your little potato plants. Yeah. And then you can tack them onto your little sheet. Yeah. And you can plant your garden. Ooh. And then when a plant doesn't come up, you just pull the sticker. I was like so invested in gardening. I love that idea. In like like two years ago, I went to like a there was like a gardening club in Fort St. John, like out at Charlie Lake or something like that. And I like, ⁓ they did like seed sharing, all this stuff. I like got this binder. I was like so on the ball. And that was a year that it froze three times. And since then I've And it just killed you. I don't even. The love of gardening has like, I don't know if it's the love of. I don't know if I've ever loved it. I was trying to be interested and and find enjoyment in it. Yeah. Because I can I think you gotta stop planting all the vegetables and start planting some flowers. I did ⁓ my tire out there is the only thing that's growing the flowers. I did try to plant some poppies. ⁓ They didn't I don't think they're coming. However, apparently they do really good if they freeze. Poppies. Yeah, poppies have to have they're like the same as garlic. I threw them in the freezer, in some ice cubes, then planted them. They still didn't really come up, but maybe next year They might they might come up. No, it's in a tire. They can't. They're safe. a tire might not work. What? Because it's they freeze too hard because the dirt is too high up so it can freeze the whole way around. Whereas when they're planted in the dirt. So any perennial can't get planted in a tire. What about a track It'll clear it'll freeze the rock the roots. This is good to know. I didn't know that. We live where it's too. Mint we don't think is killable. Mint is the it's such a weed. Okay. It's gonna take over everything. It is taken over like the whole way down my driveway. Mint and chives. Mm. I need some mint. So I had a girlfriend as a kid. We bring your basket. Like outside of their house had this rock and there was chives in there. She'd be picking and just eating fresh. Jorim does that. ⁓ He loves grab a whole handful of chives and just my word, in summertime my brother smelt like onions all the time. Yeah, that's Jorim The mosquitoes didn't like him though, so. ⁓ he probably had something going for it. That's interesting. I swear it's the onions. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Okay, so Lace, what's coming up in your garden? Everything and then some extra. Tell us more. Tell us all. So you do flowers and veg. And like all together. Just like here's a flower, here's a veg, here's a flower, here's a veg. No, I have like a strip on the edge that's flowers. Okay. Perennials. Yeah. I hate annuals. Wait, because then you have to plant them every year and it's annoying. I get that. I have a I have an issue with perennials though. Why? Because you gotta you gotta like thin them out and weed. Why? Well sometimes you have to pull bulbs If you don't thin if you thin the if you don't thin them, they choke out the weeds and then problem solved. Okay, I'm not gonna lie, I do like your point of view. I refuse to do a flower bed, quote unquote. Yeah. I don't wanna deal. The only thing that I would do is how often are you thinning out? What are you thinning out? No, I don't know. I was just told to those are things you have to check. To thin them? Okay, so I planted like tiger lilies and they're bulbs. Okay. And yes, they're like spreading. Yeah, but you don't have to thin them. Yeah, or if it gets too much you just pull the bulbs and give ⁓ to somebody you like. Maybe it's 'cause the family member who told me this maybe that they were overtaking other things. Maybe that's the It depends what you plant. Like poppies can overtake. Yeah. Mint can mint. Don't plant mint in a flower garden. Nobody ever plant mint. That's why people plant it in a tube. Yes. A tube tube or like a tire tube. ⁓ yeah, mine's in a tire sorry. Yeah. So I don't probably never coming Okay, so wait, mm, question. I pulled some of the mint that was com like some of the old mint. Mm-hmm. And just kinda like threw it by my greenhouse. Have I now just created a problem? Well, like Is it still growing? Is it gonna grow? Some roots. Are the roots in the ground? Are the roots? Yeah, I I just literally chucked them out. ⁓ I don't know. I'm telling you I I grabbed the mint and pfft. ⁓ it's fine. Kind of threw a by where they're It didn't seed out, did it? It wasn't seeded. No, it's like this spring when I went to plant the flowers in there. You're fine. I just pulled everything up. Plus it's probably not the end of the world. Yeah, because it would keep the mice away from your house. I want the mint to come into my lawn. ⁓ If you could just have mint like surrounding your house. So wait, one more question. Could you not plant mint by your bees then? Because wouldn't it keep I have mint by my bees. But ⁓ take over the lawn. I thought you said that you had a mouse in your bees. I do have ⁓ I just planted it this spring. ⁓ so still has to get established. To be determined. Gotcha. It's still gotta spread. ⁓ Okay. theory is that and if you if it took over in some of your lawn, right, you mow it. Every smell good. How often? And it would smell like mint and you get rid of the mice. So when you step on the mint though, bare feet, is it really pokey or is it soft? It's soft. Okay. Yeah, I've never had an issue with that. The only thing I don't recommend in a lawn is thistle. ⁓ yeah. I have a lot of that. It kinda hurts the toes. It's not great. I ⁓ Yeah, typically middle of May. Yeah, middle May. I got mine in May 30th, and this is the first year in the entire time Keith and I have been married that I wasn't rushing to get it in. We didn't get downpour on while getting it in. We just were like Which is funny because we've got more rain this year than every other year. Absolutely we have, which is, but we just like picked a Sunday and we just quickly went and did it. He did all my potatoes. He tilled everything? ⁓ oh when I said that he tilled my garlic. In his defense, I was the only one that knew where it was. and I did ask him to till that ⁓ there, but did not ⁓ what I wanted. So it was my fault. I'm gonna have to reach out to his aunt. She's That whole family. I need garlic from her too. She's she does like a red Russian garlic. Yes. Whew! She gave me some, which we traded some stuff for. I was like, I love a good horse trade. I'm a sucker for a good horse trade. Yeah. Like, anyways, she's a she's a green thumb. Like my mother-in-law is too, but they grow different stuff. Different things, right? Yeah. But her garlic's ⁓ just got hascaps from her. They're doing amaaazing. That's neat. From ⁓ Yeah. ⁓ Brea's aunt Yeah. ⁓ okay. Well Keiths and my neighbor. Keiths aunt my neighbor. Yeah. Small world. Small world. That's like we were when we went to this grazing. shout out Brooke, who seen me at this grazing conference. yeah. And was like, wait, are you from that podcast? And I was like, You're like Okay, anyways, shout out to you for being such such fun at that grazing conference and like shouting me out. I really enjoyed that. It was a little bit I did say when I jumped in the truck, I was like, I just got recognized in the wild. And Keith was like, what? And I was like, no, that's so weird. I've never like that's not normally why I'm recognized. I get recognized for other things. That's not it. But Anyways, the podcast. Shout out to Brooke. We love we love that you love to listen and we we appreciate you. That was good. That was fun. Anyways, back to that. No, I don't know where I was going to grazing tour. ⁓ yeah, we're this grazing tour. it was so I know we're digressing, this is not in the garden, but ⁓ was so cool because they they have a small processing plant out past Hudson Hope. They deliver all the way down to like the coast. They do like a and they do bison and beef. And each son has like their own enterprise. Like one son's in charge of like the slaughter, and butcher. Another son is like in charge of all the cattle. Okay. The other son is in charge of the pig. They don't do any grain. They just do I'm guessing they do hay, but they just do well, they do a very minimal amount of hay. But they're raising like quite I think it was 800 head cattle. What's the name of this farm? I can't remember the name of the farm, but it's like the bison guys. It's their butcher shop or their p processing plant. Okay. ⁓ it's it was W it was something W R T R I can't remember what it was. I don't anyways great people. Keith happened to know the family, sort of. Like his grandpa Lehmann knew the dad of that operation. ⁓ and his dad had been out like Keith's dad had known ⁓ the had been out there. So it was like such a neat way. But also I said to Keith, I said We need to become more efficient. They're running eight hundred cattle and three hundred and fifty bison and have like a bunch of other things going on. I said, I can barely get a fence going lately. Like I don't know. It's just in And how many do they have people working for them or is it? They do have two Like hired hands? Two hands, but only in from what I understand, two of them were in the butcher shop full time. They don't butcher during this time of the year. It's like fall all the way to s early spring. And then another one that comes in and he was doing a coffee roasting, and I think he helps the one son with some of the projects. But overall It's like five, six people. Maybe. Yeah. And like it was such a neat thing. It was really cool to see how their kids each he just let them run wild with it essentially. Because we were talking to the one son and how they like They do their cows when they calve out all this stuff. And I was that is that's one of my favorite things is going to other people's places to learn what's working for them, why it works for them. Yeah. What and they have like a buttload of what type of cattle do they run? ⁓ mainly black Angus. Okay. And then they had a couple Herefords and there was like a few leftover longhorns, like whatever. So they had some highlands, pretty much whatever they got a deal on. Yeah. You know, which is sick because they've actually grown, anyways, just their whole scheme of things was really neat to hear about. And it was very business orientated but also very family oriented. And I think sometimes farmers are really good at one or the other. Yeah. Whereas this family has done really good at at both. And again, this is just like a small snapshot into like their day-to-day. I'm sure there's things. But it was really cool to see how each kid had their own like different enterprise within within the business. Yeah, that's cool. And they all kind of worked off of each other. And I was like, that's that's really neat. I feel like you don't maybe you see it but you don't hear about it as often. So was a really cool tour. I don't know how we got here or why we got ⁓ Mainly I guess it's because it was a small family or so I can't remember where we're going with that. Anyways, besides the point. No, that's cool. One more question. On your potato scheme, both of you plant potatoes, yes? Yes. Okay. Are you all planting them by okay, like say you have red potatoes and you've got yellow potatoes and you've got rustic potatoes. Those are the only three I know. So let's go there. I'm sure there's other varieties of it. Yukon Gold. Yeah, there you go. So so they those are the yellow. ⁓ is that? I'm pretty sure you're That's like the official. I think they're one and the same, guys. So so so are you planting them like by variety? Like you throw them in? Absolutely not. No, I I grab my bag because it's whatever I pulled from last year. Yeah. I don't bag them separately. Okay. I if it's a red potato, a rustic potato, a yellow potato, I don't care. It's go going in the sack. And then when I plant it, just cut it up, grab the eyes, and throw them in. So I have no idea what potato plant is what, and I don't care. But this this has ruffled some feathers. Really? Not necessarily ruffled, but some people were like, ⁓ you don't know like somebody was like, ⁓ I would like to get the red potatoes. I don't know. Just dig up a hole hill and dig up three, maybe you'll have luck. I don't know. Yeah. Do you guys s squirrel potatoes? What's that? It's when you leave the plant in the ground, you dig a little hole till you find a potato and you Do you guys s squirrel potatoes? What's that? It's when you leave the plant in the ground, you dig a little hole till you find a potato and you Just pop your potato out and you can just steal them from like five different potato plants, but then they can keep growing potatoes. Just pop your potato out and you can just steal them from like five different potato plants, but then they can keep growing potatoes. Why don't you just pull a whole plant? Because then you have a whole little ones all summer. So then they can grow the big one the smaller ones bigger and you just take the big ones. No, I've never heard of anybody doing it. You just ⁓ dig the dirt away. Find a big potato. Nah I ain't got time. Cover back up. I ⁓ would rather pull a whole I'll pull it, yeah. But thankfully within my family, like my sister-in-law literally texted like a week ago, like, hey guys, I still have potatoes. ⁓ So I don't need to squirrel anything to like. Yeah, I still have potatoes too. Yeah. ⁓ yeah. See, we like it fresh all summer. So as soon as they get little, I start stealing. Okay. I'll just pull a plant and then replant if I want to. I've never we're not big potato people. Okay, on this topic. Okay, wait. Okay, go. Back to your planting here and there and everywhere. So it's like here, they're and everywhere. They're in rows. I just don't know what potato is what potato. Like I don't know what separate. Okay, so if I'm buying a bag from Canadian Tire of like Russet and then buying a red, then yes, they're separate. I will do a row of the russet and then a row of the reds. If you're grabbing stuff from last year and you just like throw it in a bag, no, I wouldn't. I would just leave it. Okay. I wouldn't do that. Not gonna lie, your answer is surprising me considering you have a spreadsheet of what germinates So thought for sure you were saying that. ⁓ But also don't so my mother in law cares about like, okay, these potatoes are for boiling. These potatoes are for baking. ⁓ I care about that. I use every potato for everything. Yeah, I do too. Yeah, me too. So on this of boiled potatoes. ⁓ Y'all grow eating boiling Boiled potatoes? Yes. Just just a straight boiled potato. Yes. No. Okay. Like a baked potato. No no no no. Just I mean just chop it up. Peel it, chop it up, boil it, eat it. So I grew up with like the bag of mashed potatoes that you can you can buy from the store it and you just add water or just add milk or whatever. Are they potatoes? I what amount of potato content is in this. I don't know and I don't like it and I don't like mashed potatoes now. Like it's ruined mashed potatoes for me. You gotta make we call them Brayden mashed potatoes after my brother, but it's cause he ate all the time. Anyways, it's like mashed potatoes with cheese, chives, bacon bits, yes, sour cream, everything all mixed in. I'm making mashed potatoes. It's half half cheese, half milk, ⁓ half Like it has to be all dairy basically and a little bit of potato for me. That's fair. Okay. So you did grow up just eating boiled potatoes. Yeah. Just like plo wait, you like do you ⁓ peel it or do you just plop in? Yes. You peel it and dice it into like chunks I don't know, quarter it I guess. I mean if you're And then you boil it. If you have like ten kids, like what else would you do? You don't have time to like chop it up and bake it. You just throw it all in and boil it. I respect it. Okay. So here's the deal. I like it, but I respect it. I never grew up that was not a thing in my home. Never even heard of it. I also think this is an English thing. Yeah, I yeah. I can see this as like an English thing. Anyways, so I did not know nothing about this at all. I was like, ⁓ okay, whatever. I liked them. Like whatever. It's not it's not my favorite, but they're not the worst. Yeah. I So Keith, not a big potato guy, but we we have like an ongoing joke about boiled potatoes because his household or his family did a lot of boiled potatoes. This is like funny. But there was once, I can't remember why this sticks out in my brain. When I boil a potato, I'm mashing it. That's the point of me of boiling it. Yes. I'm gonna go mash that. Yeah. Potatoes. There was once his mom was like, or somebody, I don't even know if somebody asked him to mash them or what. They were boiled and then he just went because he's like kind of the signature masher when we go over for like family dinner or something. He just went and started mashing it. That was a no-fly zone because they were like they were gonna eat a boil. Because they were like the fresh garden. Fresh from the garden. You can't eat that mash. ⁓ yeah, that is a that's a bad that's a big no-go. So and I was like, didn't think anything of it. And I was like, dinner felt tense over the potatoes. I'm not gonna lie. And it was so it probably was tension and it was the potatoes. But I think about that occasionally. So now, anyways, I always ask people if they eat boiled potatoes because I didn't know that was a thing. Like boiled potatoes in my household weren't going to mashed potatoes. Yeah, I gotta know. I just I'm curious about it. However, boiled potatoes got me introduced to this European thing, and it's called like Aromat. Have you ever heard of this? No. It's like a seasoning. ⁓ It's full of MSG. Probably don't eat it often, okay? It's probably a reason we don't get it here. Aromat Aromat yes. It comes in like a green container. You order it on Amazon. No idea how they I was given some from my mother-in-law. I think she found it in town, maybe at the European Foods ⁓ somewhere. Like it's been you're not getting it at your local grocery store. Boiled potato potatoes. ⁓ it's smashing. ⁓ it's so good. Anyways, I was like addicted to this Aromat for a hot minute. And then I was like reading what was there. I was like, well, I probably should not be. But it makes a boiled potato. ⁓ Does nobody get it so that you don't get addicted to it? No, yeah. I was like, this is really I was like putting it on my mac and cheese and stuff too. I don't It's so funny. Anyways, Aromat, look into it. I found that though. Like I find a seasoning at the grocery store and I'm like, I'm obsessed with this. And then it just goes in everything, on everything. And then it's like you find something different, and then you're like how this is my other question. How do you guys eat? I was gonna say potatoes. Potatoes andor rice. Do you put anything on it? Like on your on your just on your mashed potatoes, what are you putting on it? If you don't have gravy, what do you put on it? ⁓ salt and pepper, garlic seasoning. Okay, what about your rice? If you don't have anything like a sauce. Butter. Just butter. Probably just butter and salt. Okay, so my dad did this thing when we were kids. I I'm soy sauce gal. No. Okay, okay, yes, soy sauce. It's like a coconut aminos, but whatever. He always did his mashed potatoes and his rice with butter. And Greek, ⁓ not dressing, seasoning. Always. Okay, yeah. Anyways, I was like so against this as a kid. Started doing it when I was like 25. I was like, ⁓ this is life changing. I'm like, wow, dad, you're on to something. But I but for my entire life, I was like, that's absolutely not. ⁓ I would never do that. And my sister would eat noodles growing up. Like, she wouldn't have this spaghetti sauce, like the meat sauce. She would just eat like noodles in butter. I was like, you're so gross. Yeah, I know that's my bad. The meat sauce is the best part. Yeah, I agree. Like I would just eat the meat sauce if I could. Okay, back to this gardening thing. Hold on. I'm gonna just loop us back. You gave me tomatoes to plant. Do you wanna hear what happened to the? Yes, I do. What did you So I left them on the deck. Okay. I don't have a greenhouse. I started them from seeds. She started them. Whoa, nice. So I was gonna put them in the greenhouse. We didn't fix the greenhouse. So was like, ⁓ I'll put them in the garden once I get the garden in. My big dogs had come home from when we were calving. peed all over them. But it must have been hot because they were like shriveled seared. And I was like, I was like, what? What has happened? Like I could not, I could not figure it. One lonely tomato was doing all right. ⁓ And then then There was they didn't get my watermelon though. You also gave me watermelon. I was like, these probably aren't gonna grow outside of the greenhouse. But I was like, I'll throw them in a tire and plastic them, is what my thoughts were. Of course, I wasn't ready for that, but that was like kind of the plan. ⁓ no. The wind picked up one day. They were all over my yard. Like I was, you know, the little, they're like coconut fiber pots. Yeah. I thought. I left my gardening thing like out and I couldn't figure out where these there was like three or four of these pots. And I'm like, what the heck? And the dogs, my dog had like shredded them and I was like, I don't know what this like what this is. No, the wind had picked up and sometimes the way the house is, the way the deck is, it'll tunnel. Like it the wind kind of get like tunnels through. So needless to say, all the seedlings that you gave me to have a good home in are dead. I'm sorry, they didn't work out. I have to be honest, when I gave them to you. You knew. You knew that I was be. I gave him a fifty percent chance of life. I didn't give you my best. Don't ever do that. Never give Breanna your best. I'm not a good until I've done this for 15 years when maybe we'll come back and talk. Is it because you knew how garbage gardener or because why? Tell me, I need to know. You know. Well, I wasn't sure they were gonna make it into the ground. Valid. They didn't. Not due to my own decisions, but they didn't. I was very tender-heartedly loving them ⁓ their pots. Then the dogs loved them. Then the dogs really took possession of them. You see they're actually out that window. I tried to save them. ⁓ See if they would come back or they didn't. No. They did not make it come back. They didn't come back. That's okay. Anyways. It's fine. It's good. That's that's that's it. Yeah. ⁓ are you growing corn do you grow corn in your garden too, either of you? I have it in my garden and my greenhouse. In your greenhouse. Is it field corn or sweet corn? Sweet. ⁓ tell me the difference. I don't know. And I think his brother was like, Yeah, we planted the sweet corn and the field corn and I was like, I don't know what the difference is. I did two different kinds, but one of 'em's like a cream and like the field corn is the stuff that we just like literally plant in the ground and cows eat it. Yeah, yeah, you can eat it. But I don't think it's a I think it has less I think it has a longer ⁓ growing. Yeah. For the h cows because you don't actually want full on cobs, I believe. For cows. You don't want more than two cobs. Yeah. And you want them to be a little bit more tender. Whereas for eating, you want them to like big sweet Yeah. Juicy little balls. Juicy little things. Yeah. Yeah, no. So the my greenhouse ones are substantially better than the garden ones. Are they are they starting to like bulb out already or what do you No, they're like, I don't know, ⁓ just like four feet in the greenhouse? What about your field corn? The ones in the greenhouse or the ones in the garden are a foot, foot and a half. And then the ones for the cows are like Six inches. Yeah. ⁓ yeah, that's right, 'cause okay, let's talk about this. Seeding. Not just seeding the garden, seeding the fields. Yeah. This year's seeding? I was gonna pull my hair out. Yeah. You were over it. I was. Anyways, you then said that you guys got corn seeded. Yeah. How many acres did you do? Ten. So h what do you anticipate, how long do you anticipate that feeding your cows for? Probably until January. Yeah. That's what ours normally do. Putting putting them on when? ⁓ November. Yeah. Do you have to wait for a frost? What? Do you have to wait for a a frost with corn? No. You can put them on whatever. Just as soon as there's snow and stuff and they can st they have to stop as soon as they stop eating grass, basically we move them on. Okay. As soon as they stop grazing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we want to try it one year. We haven't. Mm-hmm. You should. Does anybody ch ⁓ plant has anybody planted field peas? Yeah, we do peas every year. But do you put your cows in your field peas? No. That's a gr that's a grain. Like that's something you're harvesting? Mm-hmm. Apparently you can get Field peas are disgusting to eat. What? ⁓ No. I don't know, all the ones we planted growing field peas. Like you're out there picking them yourself? Yes. Yeah, you'd instead of planting peas in the garden. No. Might we'd go pick the peas in the field. And they were short and they had like three peas per pod. And they were like dry. But you have to get them there's like one week. That you can eat. Probably. And then after that they're back. So you probably miss the window, but you need the window. Yeah. And corn too. The field corn, that's the thing. You need the window. Like you need the window. I think that's the difference too. Because we want it to you can pick it at any time, I think, and it's fine. Yeah. Whereas like in the field the purpose is to turn it into seed, right? Yeah. So it like matures and then dries out right away. Okay. Yeah. That's interesting. Thanks for hanging out with us today on Ranch Wives Unsupervised. If you've enjoyed the chaos, hit the like button, drop a comment with your own ranch story, subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts so you never miss an episode. And follow us on social media @Ranchwivesunsupervised for more unfiltered fun between episodes. We'll catch you next time. Stay unsupervised, ladies.