Watching this again as inspiration, April 4 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis, while so many of the plants are small in the garden. A great reminder that in less than 2 months, the garden will really be ready to pop!
It sounds like your congested. Take some Cayenne pepper, raw honey and apple cider vinegar mix and take a tablespoon. Then later in the day take yellow onion skins and make a tea out of it and drop a garlic clove in it. These two make you feel so much better.
I so enjoy going back and watching these older videos. This was one that I had started watching at one time and hadn't finished. I got a good chuckle out of your ending.
@roots and refuge My wife and I made kale and eggs with kale from the garden for the first time because of your recommendation! We have had it twice now and hope to get a couple more rounds before our kale bolts from heat! So grateful for you branching out to share your kitchen with us!! Your channel has enriched our life and faith - keep gardening to the glory of God!
Devon Snikeris same! I sat down to watch, paused it halfway through, went out to my garden and weeded and sowed some more seeds, and then came back to finish the video! 😊😊
Jess, you really inspired me to start my garden in a space I thought I'd never be able to grow anything in. I thought of you as I picked my ripened tomatoes and peppers from my greenstalk this morning (zone 10b) and how blessed I was to have come across your channel at the time that I did. Thank you for being the inspiration to thousands. Blessings to you and your loving family ❣️
1) Gabe is killing me with his cuteness. I just wanna reach through the screen and and snuggle into his fluff. He looks so soft!!! 2)Ah, that's what's happening! I usually do my gardening in the early morning, and I'd noticed some bug activity on my Zucchinis, so I was spraying some neem oil, but then they were getting these weird brown spots on the leaves (that were otherwise a very nice green). But the oil scorching the leaves in the sun would make sense-- noted, I'll only do that in the evenings, if needed. 3) I really appreciate the weekly updates. I always get anxious when things don't immediately get huge, and I start worrying that I've somehow stunted the growth of *everything* in my garden. But seeing the weekly progress of your garden, I start to realize that I'm just being an impatient and demanding, lol. 4) Hope you're feeling better, sweet Mama! :D
I was pruning tomatoes this morning and cut off some nice larger stems. I decided to plant them and put them in the shade to see if they would root and grow. Experiments are fun in the garden :)
I always do stuff like this :) I hope they grow roots for you. I stick pieces that break off of plants all over the place. And sometimes they survive! :D
Yes! Do that video - the one about having tasks to keep your hands busy and your mind free for the sake of your mental and spiritual health. I would watch that video for sure. I love how much you love the garden and nature and your family and music! I love all those things and I have not met anyone who gets as giddy as I do about the sights and sounds of the garden in the early morning etc.
I love seeing the end of one of your raised beds where you've used a bed headboard. It makes me think fondly of my mom (rest her soul) using old curtain rods to stake her tomatoes or how a friend of mine grew cantaloupe one season and as the fruit got heavy, because it was a rainy season, she rigged up some of her old nursing bras along her fence and nestled the cantaloupe in them so that that they wouldn't be lying in mud as they grew. Re-purposing in the garden is awesome.
Great Garden tour. Can't get into my garden today Enid Oklahoma getting kicked in the butt with storms. I keep looking out my front door at my garden making sure its still there. Thank you for putting your tour on today that made me feel better. also gave me some good ideas. your the best. Its nice when every one throws around ideas and we all can catch and use what we want. God Bless. Glad your feeling better.
I drink a glass of fresh green juice almost daily 💚 I typically do a bundle of kale, a bundle spinach, a bundle of dandelion greens, one whole bundle celery, one whole cucumber & a half of a small apple. It makes enough for all five of us to have around 14 ounces. Sooooo good!
Hey Jess, we've been following your garden and homesteading adventures for a little under a year now and have learned so much already. The spicy green you mentioned looks and sounds to me like "Wasabi Arugula"... "Kick in the mouth of horseradish" sounds about right... I love it to bits, but my wife and son aren't big fans. Also want to thank you for the tips about the bugs, we're dealing with lice mostly so far, and last year we had our carrots all ruined by rootworms/beetles.
I absolutely LOVE that you're doing tours earlier while the plants are still young! I've learned a ton from your tours and seeing all stages of the plants really helps the planning process for my own garden. You sharing everything from talking about the seeds, planting them, greenhouse and garden tours, to harvest and uses...seriously... Just thank you so so much!! P.S. I was giving my Mamo my own garden tour and everything is in baby stages, so she asked me how, for a new gardener, I knew what everything was... I said research.. and a whole lot of Jess! ..she responded "oh I just love her!"😂
I just finished watching your live from last night. Glad you are feeling a bit better. Kiddy pool looking good! I am a cook/chef not a gardener but Super excited I just got my first baby cucumbers and thanks to you have planted a few tomato varieties.. crossing fingers my thumbs become more green! Thank you Jessica for always sharing and teaching this old lady !
Wow, you already have squash almost ready to harvest 😯 mine are just getting started. By the way I enjoyed the blooper lol, looks like something I would do 🤣👍
I have recently been told that also. My sister said that she pours boiling water on them, but that wouldn't be good in a garden. We have always just taken a shovel and completely messed up their mound. It makes them mad and they leave to make their mound somewhere else.
I watch everything 'gardening', and I keep coming back to you, Charles Dowding and Liziqi. My garden is under my landlord's bedroom window, so touring your garden until I can tour mine...glad I did, I learned 15 things before 9 a.m.!. GARDEN SIGN SUGGESTION: Gardening will save the world!
T-Posts in.. check... cattle panels up...check. An arch up for Cantaloupe...check! I am so excited about this new and wonderful way to grow my garden! Planted on Mother's Day so we are ready to watch the garden grow. Calendula's volunteered from last year so they're the main event right now because they are beautiful! Picking some blooms to dry because I love making the oil from them Thanks so much for sharing your world with us.
Hello from Vancouver Island Canada's West Coast. Our weather certainly a little different from yours but your garden tips are always fantastic love to watch your vids thanks so much for sharing
We're in zone 7b and we often do a second wave of tomatoes that start from seed in early May. We keep these plants going under shade structures through the summer then remove them when temps go back down below 95. We've had a lot of success with that.
I’m glad you’re feeling better! I’m in central Ohio (zone 6a) so I haven’t harvested anything other than a handful of perennial herbs, but thanks to your videos I now have 11 tomato plants in the garden and three more hardening off. I also binged your 2018 garden tours and, from there, learned about Wild Boar seeds so even though I had plenty of tomatoes and it’s a little late in the season to start from seed, I put some Gold Berry and Chestnut Chocolate seeds in peat pellets and have them in a mini-greenhouse on a heated mat. I’ve got about 170 square feet of raised beds so that’s a crazy number of tomatoes, but I couldn’t resist. Thanks for bringing out the Crazy Tomato Lady in me!
To some of the folks looking for ways to eat okra... Have you ever tried fried okra? It's about the only way I'll eat okra personally. Not slimy at all. Harvest on the young-ish side, if you can, then slice off the ends, cut into 1/4" slices, batter 'em up like you would fried green tomatoes, and fry. Simply Amazing. Several variations exist for those who like different things of course. Just an idea.
You are just one sweet family!!!! Your magnolia peas make me excited for my little plants that are not only a few inches tall to grow nice and big. Thanks for showing us no one is perfect💖
Looking good Jess...Glad you're feeling better...I am in my garden in the far north of Canada and so excited getting stuff in the ground ...getting the greenhouse up today for my tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers ...In zone 2b/3 best way to grow them...But with the sun staying longer every day our growing season my be short in days...But long in hours of sunlight getting close to the 20 hours of light a day
I planted those purple dove beans last year so I can tell you that they definitely will climb...not like pole beans but they will def need a teepee. They are beautiful so I planted them again. Weirdly, my noodle beans have been the slowest to get going but are finally taking off. Oh, I picked my first ever patty pan squash yesterday and a lemon squash today...so exciting! And I have an amish paste starting to turn red...YAYYY! Thank you for showing us your weeds and all...this realness is one of the reasons yall have blown up the way you have. Than and the fact that you're both charismatic and passionate about what you do. And those sweet kids ♡
I hand water my garden as well and it's a great time to really just slow down the mind and listen to the birds singing and the bees buzzing...to really feel thankful for all of our many blessings.
I am madly in love with marshmallow....I love petting soft fluffy stuff, and the leaves on marshmallow fits the bill! It makes me happy to just stand there and pet the leaves, LOL, someone that doesn't know me might think thats a bit nuts! LOL, don't care. Love it....
I am SO SORRY that you have been sick. The bug visited me as well! The garden is looking great and I cannot wait to see it all filled out! Thanks for being my garden inspiration!!!!
Thanks for showing your "in process" garden. I learn more when things aren't perfect cause it tells me I don't need to have perfection to have a garden.
Inspiring and encouraging Jess, thank you. Don’t take this the wrong way, but it’s comforting to know that spotty germination, pests and weeds are an issue for you too occasionally. Wonderful tour 😊🌱
Thank you for your effort to share... It's a joy to watch you gardening. When the weeds, bugs, or heavy rains batter my seedlings,I remember what you said, ' It's ok to fail ' that's how we learn. ☺ Paz
I can appreciate your comment about seed mixes. We got one the year for bell peppers, and one of the plants was not a bell pepper at all. Fortunately, since i found i really like them, i learned through internet identification that it is a sweet cherry pepper. They are cute and delicious. I'm going to save the seeds and grow them again next year.
I have watched enough of your garden videos to know that your gardens become a work of art. It is refreshing as a new gardener.....fumbling my way through with some successes and some "never do that agains"......to see you be so transparent. I might would have asked you a few short days ago, "what do you do if you get sick and can't pamper your garden" Now I know...... Thank you for another great video!
Zone 9 low desert of S. Calif. In June, I'll be starting a few determinate, cold tolerant, and cherry tomatoes for a Fall crop and Winter storage. We can get mild frosts by mid Nov, and so I'm targeting Sept and Oct harvests, with green tomatoes being pulled early Nov for storage. I don't can or freeze a lot of produce, so I try to have a crop rotation going on to help have some fresh food almost all year. I put some things in the garage in crates for Winter though: Winter Squash, onions, green tomatoes... and hopefully this year I'll have some mature (hard rind like a squash) Armenian cucumbers too. Also experimenting with various melons and hope some will store well. This year has had unusually mild Winter followed by a cool (but welcome with extra rain) Spring. I'm at the point I'm not sure Summer will come... but I go through this every year.... I plant more lettuce and the heat arrives full blast and it all bolts.
Thank you so much for posting these garden tours! This year I was unable to do my garden due to crazy life things not under my control and its killing me. So I am getting my garden fix thru you. You guys are awsome!
Radish flower buds are delicious. I snack on them while walking in the garden and add them to salads. There is a variety called “rat tail” (or something like that) that is grown specifically for the spicy buds. They’re huge.
One of the great things about tomatoes and observing the trellising systems is that you are able to support a great deal of tomatoes while bing more cost effective.
I absolutely adore you. I have your videos playing in the background when I do things like paint and crochet. 🖤 i can listen to you talk about your garden all day. (Sometimes I do
Hi lee here from Nevada! I love your garden , and my husband and I put up some of your cattle panel trellises, I will send pics when it all starts climbing 🤗so excited! Also a great quote I have painted on the wall of my cow milking station, heaven is within, thine own backyard. That quote gave me the courage to garden and raise cows in the high desert 15 years ago, it takes some doing but you can garden in the desert! And milk cows, we even found a Paiute orchard grass to grow on a pasture for our cows to graze that uses very little water.any way , keep on keeping on , love your site so inspiring. Much love to y’all from pahrump Nevada.
Awe! Sweet mamma :) your garden is looking lovely. So happy your feeling better. Thank you for your dedication to bring us these videos :) the ending was a nice little giggle. I've been watching your devotionals lately again as our family has experienced some loss recently..they are so encouraging and I look forward to your other devotionals.. I know your busy.. good things take time haha :) just here patiently waiting lol bless you!
Thank you thank you thank you for including the video of you bumping your head on the Wind chimes. Not that I enjoy laughing at your expense but I appreciate that you can laugh at yourself. You are wonderful and the videos are equally as wonderful.
I hand water the majority of my garden too... I have over 50 plants in containers plus several beds. Though we have soaker hoses in the beds(early morning watering) everything still has to be hand watered in evening. I’m in zone 7b also. It’s hitting the 90’s and staying.... though we haven’t had much rain in the last week. Your garden is looking AWE-mazing!!!!💕
I'm SO excited for garden tour videos!! These are honestly what got me hooked on yalls channel!! I hope you are feeling better Jess, I hear it in your voice :(
The more I watch your channel the more you remind myself🐝 I've been gardening for about 6 years now..🌸 Your growing so many things I am which is exciting and our techniques are so much alike too🌻I can't wait to learn more from you, you have so much knowledge🐞 Great channel! Thank you so much for sharing. I use neem oil like crazy here in Central Florida zone 9b, it's so tough to grow a lot here in the summer heat of 95° and 75-80% humidity (like we've had for almost a month now). I still seem to keep a healthy garden using neem oil 😁 Its my go to product since I first started. My zinnias are starting to get really big and beautiful! I love walking around my garden. I get busy and can't get to things for a few days but spraying right away helps so much😁
I love that we are a longer start season that way you are a few weeks ahead and kind of prep me for my garden season. I also LOVE those kitties in the garden!!
Thank you for the imperfect garden tour, it was so encouraging! To me it still looked great and beautiful. People need to see how it really is so our expectations of our own gardens are realistic.
I love y'all! So inspired to grow ALL the things! I live in West TN so I am so glad to learn something from someone with the same miserable, humid, southern summers.
I'm so sorry Jess, but it did work! I've got a cramp in my right side, eyes are streaming tears and my cheeks feel like their stretched out of shape!! What makes it even worse, is the fact that I do the same thing all the time! I always say, "I'm gonna give myself a heart attack one day! Tysvm for sharing the ending, I needed it super bad. The garden is looking great! I'm so glad you're feeling better. Thanks again and God bless.
Thanks for talking about the tomato that was cut off at the top! I went to your Facebook group yesterday about that. We are in the same zone, but I’m just to your east in Middle, TN! I appreciate your content on what to do in your “waiting for your garden” period. I only planted tomatoes this year, because they are my favorite fruit/vegetable... However it’s all thanks to you saying, “JUST TRY!” ❤️
What an amazing garden Jess! While you may still be learning you've taught me so much. I love how Ben loves gardening as much as you. Gabriel is a cutie patootie! Hugs
I am following you from England, I have a small garden but have dreams of having a homestead one day...problem is you have inspired me so much I have planted almost as many seeds as you lol, I somehow need to plant out 14 summer squash, 30 tomatoe plants , loads of courgettes, a million Nasturtiums...xxxx Thank you xxx
That juice sounds super healthy! 8 oz of that a day would keep someone super healthy. You could honestly dehydrate most of those greens to add to soups or really anything . Almost like a powder nutrient boost
Hope you keep on feeling well.😏Thanks for sharing. Everything looks good. No such thing as everything going well all of the time. Thanks for sharing the REAL garden. LOVE IT.😍
I live in 7b also, but in Tennessee. A few years back I ended up direct sewing tomatoes in the middle of June because some animal came through and took all my tomatoes out. I planted Amish Paste and Abe Lincoln, and they went crazy. They did take a little rest in August, but put on more blooms and fruit in September and we were still picking in November. Every year in the garden is different, but the person you mentioned should go ahead and throw those seeds in the ground, it can't hurt.
You can also dehydrate the greens and powder them, then add them to your smoothies!! So happy to be seeing garden tours again!! I missed them over the winter💚💚💚 and the flea beetles are terrible this year😭 my poor eggplants
There is nothing better than after a long day at work to come home and just have a sit down at my favorite place my garden..
Watching this again as inspiration, April 4 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis, while so many of the plants are small in the garden. A great reminder that in less than 2 months, the garden will really be ready to pop!
Love his expression when you call him sweet Miah. We all choose to be the sun or the wind. I love seeing you shine on him.
It sounds like your congested. Take some Cayenne pepper, raw honey and apple cider vinegar mix and take a tablespoon. Then later in the day take yellow onion skins and make a tea out of it and drop a garlic clove in it. These two make you feel so much better.
that was so funny
your awesome! keep up the good work jess
I so enjoy going back and watching these older videos. This was one that I had started watching at one time and hadn't finished. I got a good chuckle out of your ending.
“Sweet momma” made my eyes well up instantly. Little boys are the best.
Spray the ground around the eggplant before you spray the plant. The flea beetle jumps to the ground as soon as you spray the foliage. Double whammy!
@roots and refuge My wife and I made kale and eggs with kale from the garden for the first time because of your recommendation! We have had it twice now and hope to get a couple more rounds before our kale bolts from heat! So grateful for you branching out to share your kitchen with us!! Your channel has enriched our life and faith - keep gardening to the glory of God!
"Hands busy but your mind free" I love that phrase
Agreed, would love that “other video” ☺️
Aaron Simmons
Would i give to feel like that
Well here I am watching ❤😊
You light a fire in me every time I see you in your garden
Devon Snikeris same! I sat down to watch, paused it halfway through, went out to my garden and weeded and sowed some more seeds, and then came back to finish the video! 😊😊
Devon Snikeris I absolutely agree, she inspires me every time I watch her! Thank you Jess!
JESS, BLESS your heart for recommending SINGLE DAD HOMESTEADING. I LOVE THIS.
Jess, you really inspired me to start my garden in a space I thought I'd never be able to grow anything in. I thought of you as I picked my ripened tomatoes and peppers from my greenstalk this morning (zone 10b) and how blessed I was to have come across your channel at the time that I did.
Thank you for being the inspiration to thousands. Blessings to you and your loving family ❣️
You could probably use the spicy greens in with tomato, celery, carrot kind if a spicy V8 juice.
1) Gabe is killing me with his cuteness. I just wanna reach through the screen and and snuggle into his fluff. He looks so soft!!!
2)Ah, that's what's happening! I usually do my gardening in the early morning, and I'd noticed some bug activity on my Zucchinis, so I was spraying some neem oil, but then they were getting these weird brown spots on the leaves (that were otherwise a very nice green). But the oil scorching the leaves in the sun would make sense-- noted, I'll only do that in the evenings, if needed.
3) I really appreciate the weekly updates. I always get anxious when things don't immediately get huge, and I start worrying that I've somehow stunted the growth of *everything* in my garden. But seeing the weekly progress of your garden, I start to realize that I'm just being an impatient and demanding, lol.
4) Hope you're feeling better, sweet Mama! :D
I was pruning tomatoes this morning and cut off some nice larger stems. I decided to plant them and put them in the shade to see if they would root and grow. Experiments are fun in the garden :)
I always do stuff like this :) I hope they grow roots for you. I stick pieces that break off of plants all over the place. And sometimes they survive! :D
I put mine in a glass or bottle of water in the shade for about a week and they sprout roots, makes that transition a little more successful👍🏻
Oh! I'd love to see menu planning ideas concerning what's fresh in the garden!
Awwww! Baby Gabriel!! Loving your old vids. Neat to go back, and see how your garden grew
Yes! Do that video - the one about having tasks to keep your hands busy and your mind free for the sake of your mental and spiritual health. I would watch that video for sure. I love how much you love the garden and nature and your family and music! I love all those things and I have not met anyone who gets as giddy as I do about the sights and sounds of the garden in the early morning etc.
I love the tip on mental and spiritual health through keeping busy ...great point. and I thank you
I love seeing the end of one of your raised beds where you've used a bed headboard. It makes me think fondly of my mom (rest her soul) using old curtain rods to stake her tomatoes or how a friend of mine grew cantaloupe one season and as the fruit got heavy, because it was a rainy season, she rigged up some of her old nursing bras along her fence and nestled the cantaloupe in them so that that they wouldn't be lying in mud as they grew. Re-purposing in the garden is awesome.
Oh my goodness, going back and watching your older videos now and seeing baby Gabriel, he was SO TINY!!! Sweet puppers :)
Dehydrate and crumble the Kale. You can throw it in soups, sauces and stews.
Kathryn Gagne
cool thought
Great Garden tour. Can't get into my garden today Enid Oklahoma getting kicked in the butt with storms. I keep looking out my front door at my garden making sure its still there. Thank you for putting your tour on today that made me feel better. also gave me some good ideas. your the best. Its nice when every one throws around ideas and we all can catch and use what we want. God Bless.
Glad your feeling better.
I agree, I have gotten so many tips and ideas from viewers also.
I love this community 😊🐦
I drink a glass of fresh green juice almost daily 💚 I typically do a bundle of kale, a bundle spinach, a bundle of dandelion greens, one whole bundle celery, one whole cucumber & a half of a small apple. It makes enough for all five of us to have around 14 ounces. Sooooo good!
You're so inspiring! Love you, sweet miah and the boys. And I appreciate the way you treat your animals ❣️❣️ thanks for sharing with us
You can put the Okra on the grill whole do not cut just wash it ....will not have the slime if cook that way....
Thanks for that little jewel. Will try Okra on the grill.
Thank you, we will be planting okra for the first time this year. I have been looking for recipes for minimal slime😁
This is such a neat idea! Thanks for sharing!
How long do you cook it for? Do you wrap it in foil? What heat temperature do you cook it at? I am very interested in trying this method!!!
Also I have the Vulcan chard growing and that is the green leaf with purple stem you asked about Jess ;)
Hey Jess, we've been following your garden and homesteading adventures for a little under a year now and have learned so much already.
The spicy green you mentioned looks and sounds to me like "Wasabi Arugula"... "Kick in the mouth of horseradish" sounds about right... I love it to bits, but my wife and son aren't big fans.
Also want to thank you for the tips about the bugs, we're dealing with lice mostly so far, and last year we had our carrots all ruined by rootworms/beetles.
You remind me of how my Dad treated our animals....they were so loved. Thank you for that, sweet Jess! xo
We are in the 90s the next 8 days...watering my babies like crazy...loved the video!!!
Baby gabe! and baby boys! Love seeing how the plants grow. Can't wait for this growing season's garden tours, and soon building tours!
I absolutely LOVE that you're doing tours earlier while the plants are still young! I've learned a ton from your tours and seeing all stages of the plants really helps the planning process for my own garden. You sharing everything from talking about the seeds, planting them, greenhouse and garden tours, to harvest and uses...seriously... Just thank you so so much!!
P.S. I was giving my Mamo my own garden tour and everything is in baby stages, so she asked me how, for a new gardener, I knew what everything was... I said research.. and a whole lot of Jess! ..she responded "oh I just love her!"😂
I just finished watching your live from last night. Glad you are feeling a bit better. Kiddy pool looking good! I am a cook/chef not a gardener but Super excited I just got my first baby cucumbers and thanks to you have planted a few tomato varieties.. crossing fingers my thumbs become more green!
Thank you Jessica for always sharing and teaching this old lady !
Wow, you already have squash almost ready to harvest 😯 mine are just getting started. By the way I enjoyed the blooper lol, looks like something I would do 🤣👍
remedy for fire ants: put used coffee grounds where they are - tip my grandma gave me ☺️
I have recently been told that also. My sister said that she pours boiling water on them, but that wouldn't be good in a garden. We have always just taken a shovel and completely messed up their mound. It makes them mad and they leave to make their mound somewhere else.
I watch everything 'gardening', and I keep coming back to you, Charles Dowding and Liziqi.
My garden is under my landlord's bedroom window, so touring your garden until I can tour mine...glad I did, I learned 15 things before 9 a.m.!. GARDEN SIGN SUGGESTION: Gardening will save the world!
T-Posts in.. check... cattle panels up...check. An arch up for Cantaloupe...check!
I am so excited about this new and wonderful way to grow my garden!
Planted on Mother's Day so we are ready to watch the garden grow.
Calendula's volunteered from last year so they're the main event right now because they are beautiful!
Picking some blooms to dry because I love making the oil from them
Thanks so much for sharing your world with us.
Hello from Vancouver Island Canada's West Coast. Our weather certainly a little different from yours but your garden tips are always fantastic love to watch your vids thanks so much for sharing
Bless you for working so hard for us while you were sick!
I just started a tiny garden. And they are getting ravaged by bugs , so im glad you mentioned things for bugs. Thank you!!
We're in zone 7b and we often do a second wave of tomatoes that start from seed in early May. We keep these plants going under shade structures through the summer then remove them when temps go back down below 95. We've had a lot of success with that.
I’m glad you’re feeling better! I’m in central Ohio (zone 6a) so I haven’t harvested anything other than a handful of perennial herbs, but thanks to your videos I now have 11 tomato plants in the garden and three more hardening off. I also binged your 2018 garden tours and, from there, learned about Wild Boar seeds so even though I had plenty of tomatoes and it’s a little late in the season to start from seed, I put some Gold Berry and Chestnut Chocolate seeds in peat pellets and have them in a mini-greenhouse on a heated mat. I’ve got about 170 square feet of raised beds so that’s a crazy number of tomatoes, but I couldn’t resist. Thanks for bringing out the Crazy Tomato Lady in me!
Haha! Love the blooper 😆
Also loving how you tell us what you'll be doing with what you grow. Meal inspiration 🙌
U could dehydrate the greens store n mason jar and add to smoothies or soups
Your garden was beautiful in Arkansas. I'm grateful for this video as I'm longing to get outside on this stormy day.
To some of the folks looking for ways to eat okra... Have you ever tried fried okra? It's about the only way I'll eat okra personally. Not slimy at all. Harvest on the young-ish side, if you can, then slice off the ends, cut into 1/4" slices, batter 'em up like you would fried green tomatoes, and fry. Simply Amazing. Several variations exist for those who like different things of course. Just an idea.
You are just one sweet family!!!! Your magnolia peas make me excited for my little plants that are not only a few inches tall to grow nice and big. Thanks for showing us no one is perfect💖
Looking good Jess...Glad you're feeling better...I am in my garden in the far north of Canada and so excited getting stuff in the ground ...getting the greenhouse up today for my tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers ...In zone 2b/3 best way to grow them...But with the sun staying longer every day our growing season my be short in days...But long in hours of sunlight getting close to the 20 hours of light a day
The chime accident was HILARIOUS! Thanks for the laugh. Your garden is beautiful as always! Keep up the amazing work!
I planted those purple dove beans last year so I can tell you that they definitely will climb...not like pole beans but they will def need a teepee. They are beautiful so I planted them again. Weirdly, my noodle beans have been the slowest to get going but are finally taking off.
Oh, I picked my first ever patty pan squash yesterday and a lemon squash today...so exciting! And I have an amish paste starting to turn red...YAYYY!
Thank you for showing us your weeds and all...this realness is one of the reasons yall have blown up the way you have. Than and the fact that you're both charismatic and passionate about what you do. And those sweet kids ♡
I hand water my garden as well and it's a great time to really just slow down the mind and listen to the birds singing and the bees buzzing...to really feel thankful for all of our many blessings.
I am madly in love with marshmallow....I love petting soft fluffy stuff, and the leaves on marshmallow fits the bill! It makes me happy to just stand there and pet the leaves, LOL, someone that doesn't know me might think thats a bit nuts! LOL, don't care. Love it....
I am SO SORRY that you have been sick. The bug visited me as well! The garden is looking great and I cannot wait to see it all filled out! Thanks for being my garden inspiration!!!!
Thanks for showing your "in process" garden. I learn more when things aren't perfect cause it tells me I don't need to have perfection to have a garden.
Inspiring and encouraging Jess, thank you. Don’t take this the wrong way, but it’s comforting to know that spotty germination, pests and weeds are an issue for you too occasionally. Wonderful tour 😊🌱
Oh, and I LOVE radish seed pods 😋
Thank you for your effort to share... It's a joy to watch you gardening. When the weeds, bugs, or heavy rains batter my seedlings,I remember what you said, ' It's ok to fail ' that's how we learn. ☺ Paz
Meanwhile in Duluth... it’s snowing while you film this.
I can appreciate your comment about seed mixes. We got one the year for bell peppers, and one of the plants was not a bell pepper at all. Fortunately, since i found i really like them, i learned through internet identification that it is a sweet cherry pepper. They are cute and delicious. I'm going to save the seeds and grow them again next year.
I have watched enough of your garden videos to know that your gardens become a work of art. It is refreshing as a new gardener.....fumbling my way through with some successes and some "never do that agains"......to see you be so transparent. I might would have asked you a few short days ago, "what do you do if you get sick and can't pamper your garden" Now I know...... Thank you for another great video!
Zone 9 low desert of S. Calif. In June, I'll be starting a few determinate, cold tolerant, and cherry tomatoes for a Fall crop and Winter storage. We can get mild frosts by mid Nov, and so I'm targeting Sept and Oct harvests, with green tomatoes being pulled early Nov for storage. I don't can or freeze a lot of produce, so I try to have a crop rotation going on to help have some fresh food almost all year. I put some things in the garage in crates for Winter though: Winter Squash, onions, green tomatoes... and hopefully this year I'll have some mature (hard rind like a squash) Armenian cucumbers too. Also experimenting with various melons and hope some will store well.
This year has had unusually mild Winter followed by a cool (but welcome with extra rain) Spring. I'm at the point I'm not sure Summer will come... but I go through this every year.... I plant more lettuce and the heat arrives full blast and it all bolts.
Thank you so much for posting these garden tours! This year I was unable to do my garden due to crazy life things not under my control and its killing me. So I am getting my garden fix thru you. You guys are awsome!
I get so inspired every time I watch your videos!
Radish flower buds are delicious. I snack on them while walking in the garden and add them to salads. There is a variety called “rat tail” (or something like that) that is grown specifically for the spicy buds. They’re huge.
One of the great things about tomatoes and observing the trellising systems is that you are able to support a great deal of tomatoes while bing more cost effective.
Hah! Running into the chimes....priceless! You are so funny! Thanks for the info!
Sorry you've been sick! This is definitely an inspiration. Looking forward to all the developments. 😀
I absolutely adore you. I have your videos playing in the background when I do things like paint and crochet. 🖤 i can listen to you talk about your garden all day. (Sometimes I do
Hi lee here from Nevada! I love your garden , and my husband and I put up some of your cattle panel trellises, I will send pics when it all starts climbing 🤗so excited! Also a great quote I have painted on the wall of my cow milking station, heaven is within, thine own backyard. That quote gave me the courage to garden and raise cows in the high desert 15 years ago, it takes some doing but you can garden in the desert! And milk cows, we even found a Paiute orchard grass to grow on a pasture for our cows to graze that uses very little water.any way , keep on keeping on , love your site so inspiring. Much love to y’all from pahrump Nevada.
Awe! Sweet mamma :) your garden is looking lovely. So happy your feeling better. Thank you for your dedication to bring us these videos :) the ending was a nice little giggle. I've been watching your devotionals lately again as our family has experienced some loss recently..they are so encouraging and I look forward to your other devotionals.. I know your busy.. good things take time haha :) just here patiently waiting lol bless you!
So happy to find a long forum gardening channel 👏🙏
I've done a lot of garden planning this weekend and am using your garden tours for inspiration. Thanks for everything!
Thank you thank you thank you for including the video of you bumping your head on the Wind chimes. Not that I enjoy laughing at your expense but I appreciate that you can laugh at yourself. You are wonderful and the videos are equally as wonderful.
I hand water the majority of my garden too... I have over 50 plants in containers plus several beds. Though we have soaker hoses in the beds(early morning watering) everything still has to be hand watered in evening. I’m in zone 7b also. It’s hitting the 90’s and staying.... though we haven’t had much rain in the last week. Your garden is looking AWE-mazing!!!!💕
wow, things are looking great. We are still waiting on the weather before we can get things in the ground. Beautiful
I'm SO excited for garden tour videos!! These are honestly what got me hooked on yalls channel!! I hope you are feeling better Jess, I hear it in your voice :(
The more I watch your channel the more you remind myself🐝 I've been gardening for about 6 years now..🌸 Your growing so many things I am which is exciting and our techniques are so much alike too🌻I can't wait to learn more from you, you have so much knowledge🐞 Great channel! Thank you so much for sharing. I use neem oil like crazy here in Central Florida zone 9b, it's so tough to grow a lot here in the summer heat of 95° and 75-80% humidity (like we've had for almost a month now). I still seem to keep a healthy garden using neem oil 😁 Its my go to product since I first started. My zinnias are starting to get really big and beautiful! I love walking around my garden. I get busy and can't get to things for a few days but spraying right away helps so much😁
Sweet Mama!! Oh Ben!! :) And Gabe is growing like crazy!
The first R+R video i ever saw. Still rockin wit you Jess and i love my Beulah coffee Yah bless and keep you and yours
Her: excited to harvest squash
Me: excited my kale is sprouting
Suchnothing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same 😅
Yup!
Throughout the growing seasons, I would love to see the ways that your family eats and what all comes from the garden!
I love that we are a longer start season that way you are a few weeks ahead and kind of prep me for my garden season. I also LOVE those kitties in the garden!!
Hahahhaa! You are the sweetest! You should add little bloopers like that at the end of your videos!
Thank you for the imperfect garden tour, it was so encouraging! To me it still looked great and beautiful. People need to see how it really is so our expectations of our own gardens are realistic.
Having so much to do in the garden really is a labor of love. Your garden is beautiful both before and after 💕
Looking great! And thanks for the giggle at the end! Glad I watched all the way!,
I love y'all! So inspired to grow ALL the things! I live in West TN so I am so glad to learn something from someone with the same miserable, humid, southern summers.
I'm so sorry Jess, but it did work! I've got a cramp in my right side, eyes are streaming tears and my cheeks feel like their stretched out of shape!!
What makes it even worse, is the fact that I do the same thing all the time! I always say, "I'm gonna give myself a heart attack one day! Tysvm for sharing the ending, I needed it super bad.
The garden is looking great! I'm so glad you're feeling better. Thanks again and God bless.
The blooper put a smile on my face xx
Thanks for talking about the tomato that was cut off at the top! I went to your Facebook group yesterday about that. We are in the same zone, but I’m just to your east in Middle, TN! I appreciate your content on what to do in your “waiting for your garden” period. I only planted tomatoes this year, because they are my favorite fruit/vegetable... However it’s all thanks to you saying, “JUST TRY!” ❤️
Beautiful as always!
I really like the blooper at the end. I hope that becomes a new part of your videos! ❤
You should get some paw paw fruit “trees” if you can! They are the bananas of the south!!!
Hey Jesse, you can also mix 1 tsp. Of mild organic liquid soap with 1 liter of water to spray on flea bettles.
What an amazing garden Jess! While you may still be learning you've taught me so much. I love how Ben loves gardening as much as you. Gabriel is a cutie patootie! Hugs
Thank you so much for sharing your garden. Michigan is still cold and dreary, so you are proving my "garden fix". Send some sunshine my way, ok?
I am following you from England, I have a small garden but have dreams of having a homestead one day...problem is you have inspired me so much I have planted almost as many seeds as you lol, I somehow need to plant out 14 summer squash, 30 tomatoe plants , loads of courgettes, a million Nasturtiums...xxxx Thank you xxx
Also love that now we have Sweet Miah and Sweet Mamma 🥰🥰🥰
That juice sounds super healthy! 8 oz of that a day would keep someone super healthy. You could honestly dehydrate most of those greens to add to soups or really anything . Almost like a powder nutrient boost
Don't forget to save the juice pulp for your worm farm. Can't wait for an update on it. Hope your feeling better!
Thanx for being real!!! Praying you feel better by the second! Blessings
Hope you keep on feeling well.😏Thanks for sharing. Everything looks good. No such thing as everything going well all of the time. Thanks for sharing the REAL garden. LOVE IT.😍
I live in 7b also, but in Tennessee. A few years back I ended up direct sewing tomatoes in the middle of June because some animal came through and took all my tomatoes out. I planted Amish Paste and Abe Lincoln, and they went crazy. They did take a little rest in August, but put on more blooms and fruit in September and we were still picking in November. Every year in the garden is different, but the person you mentioned should go ahead and throw those seeds in the ground, it can't hurt.
You can also dehydrate the greens and powder them, then add them to your smoothies!! So happy to be seeing garden tours again!! I missed them over the winter💚💚💚 and the flea beetles are terrible this year😭 my poor eggplants