Acre Homestead

[aulty]

She's direct-sowing into the beds without weeding or preparing the soil. She'll do all that later, supposedly.

And that's why her soil is such poor quality. A lot of work should go into beds in the autumn, including burying some kitchen waste, especially in next year's pumpkin beds, or egg shells for tomato beds.
I think she isn't aware how long it takes for kitchen scraps to break down.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't it also be a smart idea to let the chicken roam the garden once harvest is done - as acleanup crew and for some manure?

I think her seed starting has never been that unorganised. And still, her onions look better than mine

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

Josh got her a Yorkie puppy for Christmas. I'm curious if she'll show it in a vlog

 

[SarahN]

I like watching LMR and her garden looks beautiful and healthy. The crops she gets like carrots and cabbages are huge.

Then I watch Becky and she walks around her garden which looks overcrowded and scraggly imo. She beams at how great she thinks it looks and harvests veggies exclaiming with pride how big her crops are but they aren't even close to the size LMR gets.

absolutely love Chelsea’s content. She’s great.

 

[aulty]

The mom is melting my head. I would never consider her, and the most impractical shopping list in living memory, a hosting expert. She probably hosts a lot - while that makes her experienced, it doesn't make her an expert.

Ghee is dairy free?
It's made from butter, it is suitable for people who are lactose intolerant (but so is butter), but it is not dairy free.

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

How many more vlogs should we watch of her organizing the kitchen? We've also seen plenty of pantry tours. The beans are still sitting around in paper bags. BORING.

 

[Scarlett Love]

If Josh fixes up the nursery at the same pace as he builds the new chicken coop, the child will already be in college by the time she has a own room.

I was wondering how many bedrooms they have on the lower level?

I hope she has an easier time with this pregnancy and also doesn't carry the newborn while cooking.

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

In the best-case scenario, the potatoes will overgrow the onion, and the onion will remain small due to a lack of light and nutrients. It's more likely that she'll lose most of the onions. The spacing is far too small. But Becky loves experiments – if I try something, it's on a small plot, but she'll make an entire raised bed.

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

So we can look forward to many vlogs about cooking with the Blackstone. Yeah. Josh is probably already trying to get a sponsorship. Probably just as unsuccessfully as with the chicken coop and the greenhouse.

 

[Catlady1]

Even a Yorky dog deserves its privacy I’m interested to see how it’s gets on with those other much bigger dogs that are used to having the run of the house

 

[aulty]

There is a notable shift since Josh (allegedly) joined the YT enterprise full time, and I don't mean the heavy breathing audio which is so distracting, there are more and more videos that seem too forced. Like cooking 4 different dishes that she 'gifts' to 'loved-ones' = she cooks more than her family can eat for content. Good on them for not just throwing it out (like so many other content creators do), but it slowly moves away from homestead garden to family table cooking content. The 'one pot wonders' were very easy Buzzfeed Tasty recipes, I think she even made a couple of them before, but make it x4 for a nice long video.

I watch This Alaska Life and Lauren is apparently a Becky fan, they met at a Youtube conference in Texas recently and took pictures. An odd crossover.

 

[aulty]

Her garden plan for 2025. Not the most inspired thing I've ever seen, but everyone should plant what their family needs. Apparently they aren't into brassicas or salad.
I expect this to change though. No wheat this year? No potatoes? (maybe they'll use that piece of land next to the house where they had the bees?)
And she isn't really using her vertical space, as usual.

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

Her last vlog about the trip to Greenstalk is right at the top of the list of worst vlogs ever. What the hell was that? I've rarely seen something so uninspiring. Aside from flooring and feet, there was little to see.

What's the point of bringing Josh on a business trip if he's obviously unwilling to film? It would have made much more sense for him to film Becky instead of her just filming coffee breaks and her shoes. She says how great she is meeting other YouTubers whose seed-starting vlogs she loves to watch. Where were they? I didn't see any. No friendly chat for the camera, as is usually the case when "professional colleagues" meet up. Apparently, no one was interested in cross-vlogging with Becky. Not surprising.

This was truly a vlog of missed opportunities. It was so obvious that outside of her own four walls, she's like a fish on a bicycle. Does she even want to go on such trips? The invitation came six months ago, and until she arrived, she hadn't even looked at the agenda.

And can we please talk about her semi-formal dinner outfit? What the hell was that? I almost spat out my dinner in shock. Note to myself: never look at Becky during a meal again. I was already thinking about her inappropriate dressing during her last shopping trip—leggings, white socks, and those ugly brown slippers—I wouldn't even take out the trash like that.

 

[Catlady1]

As I’ve said before Im not an expert gardener and I’ve never grown potatoes but won’t the green tops of potatoes push the onions out of the way?

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

She also seems to be out and about quite a bit. Who takes care of the dogs and the chickens when they are travelling? Her garden was also obviously very neglected this year. Without the irrigation system (the actual one seems quite unsuitable for the raised beds) she would not have been able to harvest a single tomato.

When she constantly trampled over the harvested beans in the cellar with her slippers, I almost felt like puking.

On the one hand, she almost seems to have a compulsion to wash (who washes peeled onions?) on the other hand, she has a questionable approach to food hygiene.

But it's all just for YT anyway. She doesn't enjoy gardening or cooking. The main thing is that everything is done the way Josh wants it and he is happy. When is child number 2 coming?

 

[Catlady1]

I mean I went to my local garden centre and bought my seeds. Can’t she go there? Pick up a packet of Roma tomatoes seeds. I don’t understand the drama

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

Salt in coffee ? What is the reasoning behind this ?

Watching them manage their garden is like watching the blind leading the blind. I think he's just doing it to pacify her and her shambolic ways.

A pinch of salt in coffee makes it taste less bitter. I'm not a coffee drinker; I hate the smell alone, and I can't even swallow the stuff.
To me coffee smells like a used cat litter.

But before I add salt to a drink to make it drinkable, I'll just drink something else. But that's probably too logical an approach to the matter.

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

What does he do??

nobody knows

 

[Catlady1]

She went to all those shops with all those things in them and ended up buying cushions that didn’t fit. I was literally shouting at her in my head don’t buy the green ones buy the first ones she picked. She procrastinates so much that she either doesn’t buy anything or buys the wrong thing!!

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

Didn't she say in a vlog a while ago that Josh quit his job and is now working for her "business"? There is no longer any talk of a hobby, this is a thriving business that two people can obviously make a very good living from. Who can afford to employ their husband to renovate the house? I think he does most of the work behind the scenes. She films 2-3 days a week and the rest she takes care of her child and her pleasure. I don't think that's a bad work-life balance, others have had it worse.

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

I do like that she keeps in her fails!! When she dropped her cinnamon rolls on the floor and smashed her dish. I’d have cried!!

You're definitely right. I would have cried too.