How We Prepared For The Arctic Blast On The Homestead

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How We Prepared For The Arctic Blast On The Homestead

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Was it too cold on the homestead? I'll show you how I've prepared for the arctic blast of 2024.
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@markengelson9051 7 ай бұрын

It was -14 up here in Spokane wa during this cold snap. We have two 75w red bulbs in our coop. Water still froze over but not completely just had to break top layer off couple times a day and refill in AM

@sharonabner3156 7 ай бұрын

Put a thermometer in the hoophouse where you can monitor from inside the house.

@dagiang60 7 ай бұрын

Good job, Pete. Everything is frozen where I am at. All snow turned into ice now. Even my cat didn't want to get out of the house. Love the black kitty.

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

We put our kitties in our heated storage building for those three nights and one day. In the morning after they ate, I would put them outside thinking they wanted to run around but Ginger wanted to come back inside. 🙂

@dlyrag755 7 ай бұрын

I feel your pain. Here in North Texas, it was 8° two mornings. I had to move all my plants into the house for 3 days before moving them back out to the greenhouse. My swimming pool had 1 inch of ice. Last time we had ice on our pool was in 2021, the big freeze, and the ice was 6 inches thick then. Another cold night coming lows in the teens, but I think my heat lamps will protect my plant ok.

@robertabner1732 7 ай бұрын

Christmas lites in under the tarps will provide some heat. And straw around the bottoms. Also I have a fan that is charged by the heat coming up from the heaters to circulate the warm air in my 200 sqft greenhouse, all I had for heat was two camping propane lanterns, it saved my stuff.

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

👍

@Cowboy_Steve 7 ай бұрын

Howdy Pete! Looks like you fared a little better than last year. Nicely done. Thanks for sharing 🤠

@mickcharlesbeaver4331 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment on the other video. Really glad to hear your prickly pears survived! If you are looking to expand your fruiting cacti, may I suggest a few other varieties? I'm having decent luck with Opuntia robusta, O. orbiculata, and O. engelmannii. They seem to handle the cold snaps well enough. We got down to 14 degrees during that awful freeze. I covered the O. robusta with a comforter and it was fine.

@petebeasttexashomesteading 5 ай бұрын

Okay thanks, I'll look into them.

@erichodges2471 7 ай бұрын

I live in south east Virginia for the last few years the winters here is pretty close to yours .

@terriemorey6118 7 ай бұрын

Mr. Pete are you still happy with The Cube? Can you please do another video on The Cube? Freezing food and if you still like it. Thank you 😊

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

I'll have a video up Sunday on the cube. I love the cube because it hasn't given me any problems and just works. With my Harvest right on the other hand I've have vacuum leak problems, lost all the refrigerant and that took HR a month to fix and now I have vacuum pump problems. My oilless pump just died and my premier oil pump fogs up the entire room. Cheaper is not better.

@NIVLACTIBY 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the quick report .

@Happy2Run4Me 7 ай бұрын

I also live in East Texas- out east of Lufkin (if that helps) in the piney woods and we got down to 14 degrees Wednesday and 15 on Tuesday morning. Monday night was when most of the windy snow flurries came in and it got down to 21 degrees. I spent most of Sunday insulating water lines. Most of my plants did okay and I put some plants in overwintering in my greenhouse. They didn’t fare very well but they’re mostly alive lol. Also my pepper plants that were cut back to nubs seem to have done well also. My Swiss chard suffered as did the lettuce but my spinach didn’t even notice the cold. I hadn’t even covered them and they were out in the open! You never know what’ll survive. Surprisingly my carrots and celery took a bit of a hit and are quite wilted but they’re still alive as well. My Brussels sprouts, cabbages and broccoli did great. My onions and garlic didn’t even notice the cold either (in fact it seems like they liked it lol). I’m starting seeds this weekend on heat mats in the greenhouse for spring. Tomatoes and peppers and eggplant! Should be fun! P.S. So glad your plants did so well! Preparation does really help! 👍🏻

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

Every time these cold blasts come down here, we're all scrambling to cover and insolate everything 🙂

@TrixieJFerguson 7 ай бұрын

I am about 40-ish miles east of San Antonio and I have learned that you can NEVER trust the weather forecaster … especially in the winter time. I cover and/or protect everything as necessary if the forecast is below 40 degrees. It is my personal opinion that the weather forecasters can’t even predict yesterday right. 😢 So sorry about your plants.

@oscarherrera9049 7 ай бұрын

Pete get double layer hot air for the polytunel

@jamessheets7267 7 ай бұрын

That hot plate looks neat, it was rough here in east Texas getting my chickens fresh water. Neighbors pond froze over.

@davidward1259 7 ай бұрын

Pete, would a interior fan in the greenhouse help keep the hot air from those LP heaters from concentrating at the top of the arch, and help the heat stay on the plant level? The same front came through here (Georgia Zone 8A). We went down to 12.7 degrees at our house and we have another 14 degree and 17 degree morning predicted in the next few days. We went ahead and harvested what we had in the yard (no greenhouse for us). Weather is one of those things. If you don't plant, the weather will be warm all winter, if you do, the arctic blasts get you. Oh well....

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

Yep a fan would help circulate the air, maybe I'll do that if we gets any colder than what we've had. That's true about the weather and washing your car too. 🙂

@annalynn9325 7 ай бұрын

We prepped for the blast by putting a bale of grass hay in the coop, mostly was worried about the 7 week-old chicks more than the grown hens. A vet friend said they don’t need continuous access to water throughout the day, so I brought out water to them in the morning, thawed it out again around noon by pouring warm water over it, and maybe one more time around 4. Put a deep mulch of leaves on the herb bed, there was some die-back but for the most part they’re looking good. Watered the fruit trees, put a thick mulch on and hoping for the best. Didn’t think the black plastic bag approach would work for several days of sub-freezing temps?

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

That's good, all that hay in the coop will act as insulation especially if they lay on it.

@jeffcore7631 7 ай бұрын

Salad for dinner a few nights. Could of been a lot worse! Hallelujah

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

Yep very I'm very grateful we can still eat our salads.

@harryhatz9846 7 ай бұрын

When I was in NJ the old timers would use a tomato cage filled with leaves and wrapped in a blanket for their fig trees and they survived the cold winters and would leaf out inside. Might help your cacti

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

👍

@takeitslowhomestead5218 7 ай бұрын

I’m glad most things survived the freezes. Have you considered getting a solar-powdered electric heater for your greenhouse?

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

I didn't know they had them but you must need a lot of batteries for that and would probably be too expensive. 🙁

@riveryzen 7 ай бұрын

Do you think frost blankets would work better than the plastic pads for your cacti? Or maybe a combo of frost blanket with tarp over them?

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

I thought about blankets and tarp but I would have to make sure that I only use those blankets for the cactus because they would be full of thorns. 😮

@michaellaney5007 7 ай бұрын

Are you raising cattle? If so, I would love to see video of that.

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

I would like to but I just don't have enough property, I only have 20 acres and 7 of that is woods.

@Biffwellington4518 7 ай бұрын

11 degrees? Sounds like you are very close to us.

@wdwtx2.0 7 ай бұрын

And winter is not over yet. This is an El Nino year, so we may get more bad stuff yet.

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

I know, we might get another blast in February 😩

@sherrylato2826 7 ай бұрын

If u get that rouster out your hens won't look naked it is him that makes then look like that

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

Actually the hens were plucking the feathers off of the roosters and each other when they were roosting in the coop. 😩

@redbug75684 7 ай бұрын

What part of East TX are you in? I’m in East TX too. It got down to 4* here in Henderson!

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

We are a little over an hour south of you.

@texaswoody1 7 ай бұрын

You keep saying "we, down here", but you don't sound like you're originally from "down here". I was born and raised in East Texas myself, but you sound like maybe you're from a little further north. Nothing wrong with that. Have several Yankee friends. Was just curious where you grew up.

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

I grew up in Michigan but got tired of the cold. Moved down here to Texas 18 years ago.

@texaswoody1 7 ай бұрын

Well, welcome to Texas man! Looks like you've settled in perfectly, and have a pretty good handle on things! Nice place you've put together there.

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

@@texaswoody1 Thank you 👍

@genevelis6075 7 ай бұрын

What to do with water tanks in the cold climate (besides empty them)?

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

There might be some type of anti freeze but I wouldn't use that water for your garden after that.

@genevelis6075 7 ай бұрын

@@petebeasttexashomesteading Yea, the water is for us, livestock and gardening.

@user-jr3ul9hk2g 7 ай бұрын

Global Warming?

@annalynn9325 7 ай бұрын

Well they call it climate change now, so whether it is too hot or too cold, they got it covered either way 😂

@petebeasttexashomesteading 7 ай бұрын

The coldest day in Brownsville Tx which is sub tropical was 15 degrees in 1901, was that climate change? These are weather patterns caused buy water temperatures and caused by the sun.

@user-jr3ul9hk2g 7 ай бұрын

@@petebeasttexashomesteading How temp of deep well water ?