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My kids tell me I’m a hermit. I just love to be at home. I can sit on the back porch swing or the front porch swing. Listen to the birds or just play music. Dorothy had it right, “There’s no place like home.” Have a good week.

I have two grandkids... five year old granddaughter and three year old grandson. One thing for sure... grandkids fill the nooks and crannies in our hearts that we didn't know we had!

I came back over to rewatch this episode so I could learn a little bit more about the raised beds you put together. You have no idea how much I appreciate both of you, all of you. No drama, or pretense, just good people. Some of us live alone and it’s great to watch your family and pretend we are a distant relative coming for a visit. God bless you.

I've heard that we don't love our grandchildren more than our own babies. It's just that we're getting a second chance to love our own babies again.❤

My Appalachian father had the unmitigated gall to look me right in the eyes and say “You think you love your children until you get those grandchildren. It’s a different kind of love.” 😂

The grand boys being 3 months apart. It will be like having twin boys for Matt!!!

I don' .t think that we love them more . It's more that we truly realize how fast their childhood goes by , henceforth we treasure and appreciate them more fully !

We have 16 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. They are all a blessing from God. So excited for all of you. 😊

Tipper you are going to surprise yourself when that first grand baby fills up your arms when you realize that you do seem to feel the love for that baby is very strong and special ♥️

Grand kids are something special in your heart you will know it when it hits you. Just yesterday out to dinner with mine and our 1 1/2 year got off her chair got her blanket put her pacifier in her mouth came over to me (Nana) and looked up and me with her wide eyes and held her arms up. Si I picked her up and held her just our heartbeats together was something else. She laid her head on my shoulder and gave a big sigh of relief. What a heavenly feeling like no other. I have a great idea your Christmas gifts could be used for yard toys for the boys lol. Blessings to you all ❤️🙏❤️

Matt smiles so big when talking about the babies

We are hermits too. I don’t step off the place for weeks at a time and I love it!

Matt takes care of his girl.

What a good man. He said Whatever dear. Aaaaaaah so sweet.❤

You are a fine, fun woman, Tipper, with a beautiful combination of a sense of humor, love of God and family, common sense, and faith. We are fortunate to get some of your recipe for a satisfactory life. Thank you🙏

Prayers sent to Granny!!! Cancer is terrible!!! My cousin Mary needs a lots of Prayers she is Battling Cancer. Very sick!!! Love your Christmas gifts. Congrats on becoming Grandparents!!! You are truly blessed!! Love your Family!!! I feel like I'm There with yall . My dad always Planted a Garden!!! I lost my Dad in 1994!!!

Love the close up of Matt’s working man hands. You got a keeper, Tipper. Of course, so are you!!! My mom is 90 and now has 86 grands, great grands and great great grands. The sad thing is she has Alzheimer’s so doesn’t remember most of them but knows they belong to her somehow.

When you walked in the woods and cooked noodles was that not a date. It seams to me you have a lot of special times together. God bless us all

We have only one daughter..and she is our whole world..but she got married, and had there first baby boy, and he became PopPop n grannys whole world..lol..4 years later, they had the 2nd baby boy..and them 2 boys are truly our world..she ask me n her daddy one day..what am I now, chopped liver...she was getting a bit jealous...lol..we have a few acres here, and we bought them a 14x70 mobile home, and put it here on our land..so them boys isn't far from us..we all are a very close n tight family..our 2 grandsons has already picked the peace of land that they want to build there own house on..both said they didnt want to ever move away from this area..lol..we just love it..our oldest one is 17,the youngest has just turned 14..I love my daughter with everything in me, but I really love our boys...lol..

My husband and I are parents of 65 year old twins boy and girl. Listening to your wonderful story’s bring back so many memories🥲 they have been such a joy all these many years ❤️🙏🏻

Still praying for granny. Love the new raised beds. Can't wait to see the garden getting planted.

My favorite part is always when y'all keep on talking after the video is over. Just always makes me feel cozy. 🙂✨️

I didn't get to be a grandma until I was 65 years old. I think it was more exciting than when I had my kids. We don't have to do all the work but oh boy! Those cute little outfits! Those precious little faces!

Matt and Tipper, now THAT'S a Stanley!! Who'dve thought that them Appalachians would be old school trendy? 😂 Y'alls garden beds are going to be overflowing with goodness. More to look forward to ❤

Just wait. Grand babies have real estate in a very special place in your ❤ that you didn’t know you even had. It’s so special. You will both do Great!

The best date is a walk through the woods on a beautiful spring or fall day.

Matt and Tipper hope you’ll have a great garden year with a bumper harvest!!!

I just love it when y’all sit and talk to us. ☺️

Y’all sound like my husband and I. When we were younger we wanted to go out to eat, but money was tight. Now that we have gotten older, and can afford to go out, we choose to stay home and eat. We have both retired, and have become hermits too.

I have 5 grandchildren. I Love them more than life itself! My 3 oldest ones are grown but they will always be my baby grandchildren!

It's important to plant for the pollinators ❤

It’s just a different kind of love. You won’t believe how much more love you’re capable of! There’s just no way to describe it. I’m so excited for the both of you. ❤

Maybe one of the round beds could become your compost bin. Fruit & veg scraps, grass clippings, leaves, etc, make a good compost.

My Dad said if I could find a poodle for $15 we could get it. Even back 55 years ago he thought that would be unlikely. Well determination paid off and I found what turned out to be our family dog that we all cherished. Sort of like you finding a horse under a creek rock I guess. Only I read every newspaper that came in the house. Happy memory.

That capnut is a safety measure. It is to protect your skin when working in the bed. That is, if the nuts are on the inside.

The round beds would be good for us and the bags you did some potatoes in. My husband brought I some onion sets and some slips. Some sets are already out in a wash tub. He puts a glass storm door over them on cold nights. Every time he pulls some up to eat, he puts more sets out. He is putting slips in a very small garden spot so we can let them grow and pull up to hang and dry for winter eating.

We had snow this morning, so it looks like it will be a while before we will be planting. 😊

You love your children,but oh my goodness I have 2 grandsons and 1 granddaughter you love your children even more and it doubles at least for your grandchildren God bless you all

It is peaceful sitting with u in the greenhouse. Thx for sharing.

The little "thingy" you put the beds together with is called an Allen wrench. They come in ALL sizes.

Just love u two! Nicest people ever!Thanks for sharing😊can’t wait until the babies come! ❤ & Prayers( prayers for granny)

Grandbabies are wonderful, the way they fill your heart, the baby of your baby……love on another level

Old crock pots with cheap veg. oil in them ( won't evaporate like water) is cheaper to use than an electric heater to heat the green house when it gets too cold.

I know you are getting excited for the garden, me too! Signs of Spring are everywhere! 😊

You two are going to have 1st full planting season together which will be nice, because there is no rush.

Those raised beds remind me of window wells you used to see around basement windows...

I'm so looking forward to seeing the flowers you grow! Thank you Tipper and Matt.

I’m so glad Granny is doing so well. Her story regarding her heart problems sounds just like my sister’s. She had strep throat when she was 13 yrs. old and it developed into rheumatic fever which damaged her heart. She had an artificial valve put in and did great until she was 27 years old. She had a hysterectomy then and a blood clot developed. The dr. said when the blood clot hit the valve it sent it to her brain. She was in a coma for about a week and then passed away. I know taking blood thinner is really hard but I’m glad Granny is able to take it and do well. She’s such a special lady.

There's nothing better than becoming a granny. I have 3.all girls. Lisa from Oklahoma ❤❤

I’m in the hermit club and home is where I love to be! Can’t wait to see those sweet little boys. Continuing to pray for them and sweet Granny. God bless your precious family. 😀❤️

We just got a Vego Garden modern bed this spring. Easy to assemble and it looks sharp in our front yard. We are slowly working to convert an ornamental yard into edible and pollinator gardens. We're city kids and surrounded by perfectly manicured lawns, so everything feels like a big experiment. It's fun and the feeling of growing your own food is incomparable. ❤

I could be wrong but I think the bolts are supposed to go in the other way. Then the cap nuts protect you when you're working in the beds. I can't find the directions for mine now. So either I did mine wrong or you did, oops! 😮

Thank you so much for sharing your life with us. ❤

I heard someone say once “ you think you can’t love anything more than you do your kids but then along comes your grandkids”.😀

Back when the kids we're a little we move to a property that was surrounded on three sides by woods. In the fall and as usual you raked all the leaves and put them in piles but we put them in piles in the woods. Great fun for the kids and the neighbors kids. We also went around and scooped up leaves further back in the woods and just made mounds of leaves here and there in protected areas. It was a lot easier than trying to put leaves in bags. We just pulled the leaves on the tarps and then pulled on one end until all the leaves rolled out into piles. Two or so years later I went back and checked to see how it was going underneath and there was already compost that I could dig out from underneath and start using here and there. About 5 years later I stopped having to buy gardening soil and just supplemented with that and dry grass and fresh leaves as in logs as you do and the bottom of the grow bags or bins. I still do that today as my holler is surrounded on all sides with trees with just a narrow driveway. The woods are also a great place to purposefully grow mushrooms. Compost piles are worth their weight gold and it's been my experience you really don't have to do as much work with them as people may think. Even if you just stack bagged leaves and go back to them even in 6 months you will see a lot of decomposition.

I'm so excited for the coming of your gbabies! You guys are going to fall deep in love with 2 babies all over again!

Nice Christmas present, Praying Granny stays Tough, 🙏💯 The grandd will bring more Joy than one can imagine.❤I can really see your round ones with flowers🌺🌷💐

I have a guy who composts the city's leaves. He rotates pile every year. I usually get two or three pickup truck loads. I use the compost, a little peat moss, 2 cups worm castings, 2 handfuls of blood meal and bone meal. Went the other day and got me 600 pound rabbit manure. Best fertilizer there is. All this goes in my 4'x8' raised beds.

The way Matt smiles at you 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Best job in the world being grandparents. I was a bit shocked when my daughter announced she was expecting, I didn't think I was old enough to be a granny. Soon changed my mind when Lauren arrived. I was there when she was born and when my grandson came along I was the only one there apart from the midwife so I got to dress him. Heaven.

Love your little chat sessions! 💕

Love these, just think do it once and done forever. Blessings ❤️🙏❤️

Children out grow things so fast so I think gift cards like to walmart would be the best gift. I am thrilled for your family. ♡

Springtime is almost here. New life will be here with all the new plants and especially the new grandsons. It’s exciting to watch the journey. I am so happy for your family and glad you’re sharing a glimpse of it with all of us.

I can just picture how pretty your flowers are gonna look in the nice round beds Tipper! So glad to hear Granny is doing well and I can tell you that grandkids are the BEST thing ever❤. You and Matt will be fantastic grandparents too❤️. I saw the cutest onesie that said CRAWL. RUN. HUNT!!!! Thought of Matt and his two lil mini hunters😀

You will love like no other. I couldn’t believe it till my first granddaughter was born. It’s crazy. Love y’all’s family can’t wait to see them grandkids. ❤❤❤❤❤

I agree since I retired and I don’t babysit my grandkids (the oldest is 16 years old then 11 then 9 )I have definitely turned into a hermit!

Y'all are SO blessed to be havin 2 grandboys from 2 girls! 🤗🙏💙💙

I found out last Wednesday I am going to be Great Grandma again, then Saturday I am going to be a Grandma again both are going to be here in October! I am so happy and BLESSED!!!

Gonna be in 20's here to night. I know that you and Matt both are glad to have him home!!! With this crazy world, I wanted to ask you to get prepared on whatever it may be!!!! Take care and stay safe!!

Those are really nice raised beds Matt put together for you. I’m so glad to hear Granny is doing so well! God is faithful in answering all the prayers on her behalf. Enjoyed the stories of the baby showers Matt had to attend for you. Now days in our area the husband is always present for the baby shower. They do it for wedding showers too. They call it a Couple’s shower. It was a little odd at first, but now I’ve attended so many over the past 15 years I think it’s odd when the groom/husband isn’t there. It is fun to watch the men because one can tell they feel a little out of place being in the center of attention, but after five or ten minutes they start to come around and seem to enjoy it. Tipper tell Matt to get a mini cow. Another KZfaqr I watch has one on his homestead and he ties it up all around his homestead to eat grass, weeds so he don’t have to mow those areas of his yard. It’s Brian on Next Level Homestead. Brian’s wife Emily is more behind the scenes working on the videos, but she makes an appearance once in a while. They live out west, but still very interesting to watch. Brian is the gardener and also has a channel on gardening called Next Level Gardening. Both channels are interesting to watch. Anyway, you might want to check out miniature or dwarf cows to consider. Great video as always! Thanks for letting us hangout!

One or two of the raised beds may end up being a storage bin for little boy’s toys …. and you’ll probably think oh, that’s better use of them than what I could plant. 😂

Same thing with my father, but he was in his 80’s when he had the valve replacement.

I like the raised beds And it was nice hearing you talking about the grandsons Our preemie great granddaughter is sixteen months now and was dedicated in our church yesterday We hope you will enjoy your grandsons as much as we do our eight grandchildren Praying for your mother

Some dirt suppliers will actually carry garden soil which is basically topsoil mixed with compost. Just thought I’d mention for anyone who is interested

A few years back I told someone that I had never been to Nashville and had no desire to ever go. Not too long after that a friend of ours wrote a children’s book and included my daughter as one of the characters. The book release party was held in Nashville and we couldn’t get there fast enough. It’s funny how things can change seemingly overnight.

I have 4 of the large round beds, 48" round and 34" high! They are much larger put together than I realized! We fill the bottom with logs, leaves, cardboard which the worms love to eat and compost from the chickens before adding extra soil. Last year I used one for bush lima beans and they were so pretty spilling over the sides. Another I used for potatoes. We also have 4 of the 6' long and 34" high beds that are filled with veggies. Yes, they are pricey being so big but I think over time I will appreciate not having to bend over so much to garden, even though I do have many other garden beds in ground! Enjoy your gardening this year!

I had seen garden beds like those in videos in other countries. I was trying to figure out what I could do to make some. checking prices for material an all. I woke up one morning and felt God saying you have the stuff in the back shed. When I first moved to this property there was a swinging pool. I had taken it down, and like I always have I saved it. So I went out, measured the length I wanted. Some I cut in half long ways some I cut in 3rds. I had kept the screws. I made round beds mainly to keep the spreading plants contained. Like mints. I have 7 or 8 different mints out there. I made 19 round beds. I had some friends bring me their pool metal. I made 5- 4x8 beds from that too. My final one I made from 3-8' pieces of corrugated roofing. The round ones are 36" across. Now to read how Matt did the greenhouse if I can find a place to put it. I really like watching your gardening area grow. I will send you my woodchuck. He loves my dill and cabbage. :)

I always enjoy going into our little greenhouse after work in spring just warm and quiet with little plants. Loved the baby shower story. Hope y'all have a blessed day.

Here in Texas last Sunday we had snow. Saturday our temps got up to 32. Today Monday is going to be 70. The gardening bug has hit hard, but i know it's going to get cold again. I found that with my grandbabies, as opposed to my kids, i realized that i wasn't so worried about the "spilled milk". Just so much more patience. I now have 3 great grandbabies. It's so awesome realizing the bloodline continues on. Y'all are gonna be in hog heaven when the littles get here!

My husband goes to a couple of the local nurseries in town and just loads up dirt in the back of his truck and brings it home.

Windwood Bulk in Ringgold Georgia has a wonderful soil mix called Black Gold, and it is a mix of animal compost, mushroom compost and garden soil. It is really good stuff! They sell it in bags as well. It is in a yellow bag and says Windwood Bulk if you see it in your area.

Hi Tipper and Matt, when you were talking about growing things in different ways I saw an old canoe,wheelbarrow,bicycle basket and paint bucket used to grow flowers and small vegetables in and they were absolutely beautiful.😊❤🙏🏻

When I go to baby showers, I always like to remember the momma.people seen to forget personal gifts for the momma

Enjoyed watching y’all. Matt talkin bout I DONE ALL THAT FOR A FLOWERBED?? 😂👍🏻😂👍🏻 Praying for Granny & all of y’all. 🙏🏻😇🙏🏻😇❤️🙌🏻

My fav couple ❤. Those are nice. I’m looking fwd to the garden this yr. Won’t be long and y’all will be fussing over your beautiful grand babies.

Oh I just love y’all’s videos …y’all feel like family can’t wait for the littles either! Hey sometimes maybe you could do a little video on your chickens 🐔 🐓!!!! Hahaha

Hey Matt and Tipper, I just love watching y’all do life! It’s just like mine and my honey. We use to do Date Night, but like y’all we don’t want to fight the crowd’s, and to be honest the food at places now just don’t have great quality for the price you have to pay for it, so we just buy what we want to eat and cook it our way and enjoy it at home!! I we love the raised beds y’all got especially the round ones!! So happy Granny is doing well! And Cori is showing now. It’s so fast how things change, we truly have to stay on top of everything these days! Praying each one of you, and to just keep blessing us with your Videos!!♥️

Tipper, I've always been a homemaker and these many years later happy to still be able to enjoy my home. My retired hubby (76 yrs old) is the opposite he's happiest when he's busy. This gardening season due to declining health he says he's downsizing his work load if it be the Lord's will. I enjoy you sharing your heart to heart talks .. you're my absolute favs on KZfaq. GOD BLESS Y'ALL.

I love having coffee with you guys. Matt's face when you mentioned the baby shower was so funny. I enjoy sitting in my greenhouse during the winter months. We're not as damp as you guys are in the winter, so there's no dripping, but I do have a 100 gallon stock tank in there with koi, so that keeps the humidity up.

Good work! From the picture it looks like the domed Phillips head should face the outside. I'd suspect the acorn nuts would face the inside top two rows just as decoration if not buried in the soil. I like the handcrafted tin roof ones. Come-on spring!

Tipper Love your Christmas present. Glad to see you both. Hope the family are all doing well. ❤️🕊️ Lord's Blessings All ❤️

In my area, we have a couple of bark and gravel companies that also sell garden soil. They sell by the yard (whatever that means - I can never figure the math of how much I need) and they load your truck or trailer with a tractor bucket. The price has gone up quite a bit since lockdowns, but it's still cheaper than bagged soil, which I also buy on occasion. Either way, I have to wheelbarrow it from the front to the back of the house. I also found that their bulk soil seemed a little lean and could use some amendments. Since my beds are mostly roughly hip-high, I too filled them with rotting wood, branches, lawn clippings, and even paper recycling in one. They do sink down every year by a few inches. It might be worth it to you to call around and see if there's a bark and gravel business that sells garden soil nearby. Another source for fill are horse stables. If you can find one that has hills of aged manure and that doesn't treat their fields with grazon, I've found that to be pretty fine fill, but can stay wet longer than I like. Works great as a mix, though. One near me fills my little trailer for free. Thank you, Miss Tipper, for another entertaining video! Prayers for the family and God bless!

You might want to fill the new raised beds with sticks and small logs as a first layer then you don't need as much dirt to fill the beds. As the logs and branches decompose, they enrich the soil.

I bought 2 Vigo kits last year: I made an herb bed out of 4 side pieces an then a long bed with 3 side pieces on each side and no side pieces on the ends (have 2 sides left: that'll be for the next kit!). Put the square one next to my back door for an herb bed and the long one is alongside the garage in the same grass strip as my blackberry bush that I'm going to try for beets and carrots and bush beans this year.

Thanks Matt. Pouring Thermos. Now I have go to the bathroom. 😅 In Australia we have Rock, Sand & soil companies that specialise in different soils & different rock sizes for gardens. Some waste & recycling centres have soils as well. Good luck.🙏❤️

I've studied and worked in horticulture and i want to tell everybody something about the packaged soil you buy. It has been heated to 160° F to kill the bugs and other organisms in it in order to be able to sell commercially. This also kills all the nutrients which makes it sterile. In order to grow stuff in it you need to mix in some good organic material like your peat moss, and indeed, your compost. It needs aeration like sand or vermiculite. I use a third soil, a third organic material, and a third sand. Then add a timed-release fertilizer. I use osmocote. This formula resembles the premixed Miracle-Gro soil. Good luck everybody! Time to get to gardening. The moon as i write this is on the increase and in the fruitful sign of cancer, so a good time to start seeds of any above ground crops. And flowers.

It would probably keep them from rusting out or cracking from the pressure of the dirt and water if you would leave that plastic on each piece and turn it to the inside... just a thought. I'm so excited for you guys that the grandbabies are coming soon. Prayers for both the mommies and the babies 🙏

The top bolts on the vego garden get a cap nut so you don't scrape your hands when you're digging in the top layer of dirt. And they're supposed to go on the inside.